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meet.
rtaaod their beet glories under the lentle
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gittl Thank Gad for the rune:
•emereoveren am sure that Solomon Was
right in saying that religion, or Madera,
le better than rubles, from the fact that
e thing hi Worth, what it will fetch. Re.
ligion will fetch mild happiness, and the
ruby Will not. xb, am ever observation
dM you ever find a person thoroughle
felicitated be AU oncrustment of jewel?
As
you know more of Yourself than any-
one dse, are you happier now with vvorld-
ly adornments and eumessee than before
, you won theta? Does the picture that
Brookire Feb. IX 1894.—In the Mahe
Meade !ties foinnoten, Rev. Dr. W-
. Waage preethed t a °Weeded andienee,
• that fined dm great battles to over -
owing, am subject of his semen being
—"Rabies Surpeesised"—and the text—
Broverbe, u: --wisdom is 'better
"than rubies."
You have all seen the predates 'gone
• neamde called the ruby. It is of deep
red color, The Bible makee much of it.
It glowed in the first row of the high
erreesde blew/l-plate. Under mother name
K etood in the 'wall of heaven. Are- ,
=tab (oarapares the ruddy clieek of the
bilazerite to the rutiy. Ezekiel points it
o ut in the robes Or the king of Tyre.
•Emir times does Solomon use et as a
emitted ay whicelh to extol wisdom, or
eeeligion, alweng sebting its value as bet -
ler than rubies.
world does not agree as to how
the precious Stones were formed. The
calderas thougiht that amber was made
ef eleven of petesperatioa of the geddess
• Ge. The thutuderstone wee euppesed to
e have dropped from a sborm aloud. The
emerald was said to have been rude of
the fire -fly. The lapis lazuli was thought
to have been born a the cry of an
giant. And moder,n mineralo-
„igtses say that the piceolous eito,nes were
rade of gases and liquids. To me the
ruby eeras like a spark from the anvil
of the setting sun.
The home of the genuine ruby is
Rummell, and sixty miles from it the cap-
• led, where lites and reigns the ruler,
•mailed "Lord of the Rubies." Under a
careful goverment guard are these vale
male •mates of ruby kept. Barely bee
apy foreigner visited them. When a
ruby at leame value was dist °leered it
Wes, brought forth with eleborate cere-
-many, a procession was formed, and
with all bannered pomp, militaam guard
. an& princely attendants, the gem was
brought to the' lases Palace.
Of great value is the ruby, much more
so than diamond, as lapidaries and jew-
a eters will tell you. An expert on this
subjece ,writes: "A. ruby of perfect color,
rweigthing five carats, is worth at the
; present day ten times as such as a die-
, aloud of equal weight" It was a disas-
• iter when Charles the Bold lost 'the ruby
he was weseing at the battle of Grand-
• eon. It 'was a great affluence when Ru-
dolph the Seemed of Anatria inherited
• a relay froan his taster, the Queen Dow -
a Or. It was ehougiat to bieve had inucb
• do with the victory of Henry the
tee as he wore it into the battle of
•Agincourt It is the pride of the nue-
. Islam court to own the largest ruby of
ell the eyelid, presented by Gustavus
Sie Third to the Russian empress. Won-
. deans ruby! It has electric chareeteris-
• tice, and there axe figh,tnings compressed
. In its double -sided prioms. What shall
I all it? It is ftozen fire! It is petrified
&nod! In all the world there as only
-one thing more valuable, and roe text
„makes the comparison: "Wisdom is bet-
ter then rubies."
But it is impassible to compare two
• thine together unless there are =me
-Points of sinalarity as well as difference.
I am glad there is nothing lacking here.
The ruby is more bes.utittui in the night
mend under the lamplight than by day.
It is tareferred for evening adorninent.
How Mae rubiete glow, and burn. a.nd
flash as the lights lift the darkness!
eCatherine of .A.remon had on her finger
a ruby that fairly lanterned the night.
:Sir Sohn Mandeville, the celebrated trav-
eler of four hundred years ago, I3aid
that the Femperoe of China had a ruby
• that made f the night as bright as day.
Ilhe imobability is thet Solomon, under
mom of the lamps that illumined • bis
-cedar palace by night, notioed the pecu-
liar glow of the ruby as it looked en the
kat of a. reword, or hung in some fold of
the uplueeteem, OT beautified the Bp of
some chalk* while he was thenking at
• the same time of the exceneney of our
tholy religion ors &Idly seen in the night
af trouble, a,nd he cries out. "Wisdom
• is better tharn rubies."
Ole yes, it is a good thing to bane
"reliigion,vrbille the sun of isecesperity rides
high and everything is brilliant in for -
Mame, in health, in worldly favor. Yet
•you can at Gael time hardly tall how
, ranch of it is the grace of God. But
, let the sun •sett, and the &mimes etval-
anthe the plain, and the thick darkness
,of sickness, or poverty, or penseention.
or mental exhaastiou ail the soul, and
he ;house, and fill the world; then
you nit down by the Tamp of God's
Word and under its light tee crease's-
• dons of the Gospel come out; the peace
. of God 'Which passeth all understanding
appeavs. You never fully appreclated
•them power until in the deep night of
trouble the Divine Lamp revealed their
.exquisiteness. Pearls and aniethests for
Mhe day. but rubies for the eight
All the .books of the Bible attempt in
scene way the assuagement of misfor-
tune. Of the one hundred and fifty
Psalms of David at least ninety allude
to trouble. There are sighings in every
• wind, and tears in every brook, and
, pangs in every heart. It was originally
, proposed to call' the president's residence
at Washington "The Palace," at "Ex-
.ecutive Mi
Mansion," but after t was des-
troyed in the war of 1814 and rebuilt,
it was painted white, to cover up the
marks of the smoke and fire that had
• blackened the stone walls. Renee it
was called "The White House." Most
•of the things now white 'with attractive -
mess were once black with disaster.
'What the world most needs is the con-
1:total:pry, and here it comes, our holy
religion, with both hands full of anody-
nes and sedatives, and balsams. as in
Daniel's time to stop mouths leonine; as
in Shadrac's time to cool blast furnaces;
as ni nzekiers time to console captivity;
• as in St. John's time to unroll an apo-
Mallypse over rooky desoletions. Rear its
soothing mike as it declares: "Weere
ing may endure for a night, but jey cow -
nth in:Einteternixem". "The mountains
shall de r anti the hills be removed,
unne oving kindness shall not depart
vette" rWhona the Lord loveth He
tenetle." "They shall hunger no more,
her thirst any More, neither shall the
1 light on them, nor any heat; for the
nib which is in the midst of the throne
11 lead them to living fountains of
,er. and aod shall wipe away all tears
their eyes." Tien meet ,ernolosime
a on oath Th rouble, if met lie
-
Ohlt-
apint. To make Paul what he was
ook ebipwreek; and whipping on the
e back, and penitentiare, andpersult
WIId mobs and the sWorti o decapitim
a To xnaire Devitt what he wail it
r all that Aletitophel and Stull trel
nein and Goliath and all the Philis-
hosts could de against him. It took
ert Chambers malformatioe of eeet
take hire the literary conqueror, tt
bereaverneed that brought 'William
inn a Weeniest thee, frObi wick-
s to an avangollem that won meny
ends for heaven, The work! 'Weida
heed knoete what heroic stuff Inn
as Made of had tot the fires bent
d about hid feet, and, not liking
tere worn he aloe, "I eantot in:
inn ente ZAN emineetheene'
oast you hundreds of thoesands of doe
lavs on your well bring you fl' fl'
satisfaction as the engraving aiat at afto
expense of five dollars, waa hung upon
the wall when yeu first began to keep
Lignite? Do all the cutlery and rare plate
that glitter on your extension dining
'table eurrounded by flattering gliesis con-
tain more of real bliss thin the plain
ware of your first table, at which sat
only two? Does a wardrobe crowded
with costly attire giye you more eatlafaa-
don than emir first clothes -closet, with
its lour or five pees? Did not the plain
ring set on the titled lingo of your left
hand on the day of your betrothal give
more gladness than the ruby that Is now
enthroned on ties third finger of your
right baud? If in this journey of life
we have learned anything, we have learn-
ed that this werld neither with its emolue
ments nor gains can satisfy the
soul,
Why, hwish to cl] exie
maay Zittesi;t:ttt3Oertfa
before high heaven and the world, in com-
panionship with Jesus Christ and a good
hope of heaven, they feel a joy that all
the resources of their vocabulaxy fall to
express. Sometimes it evidences itself in
ejaculations of hosanna; sometitnes in
doxodogy; sometimes in tears. A con-
verted native of India in a letter said:
"How I long for my bed, not that I may
sleep; I lie awake often and long but to
hold sweet communion with God." If no
mightyis worldly joy that julius the
Second hearing that his armies were
triumphant expired; and if Tatra hear-
ing that the Roman senate had decreed
him an honor, expired; and if Dionesius
and Sophooles overcome of joy, expired,
and if a shipwrecked purser waiting on
the coast of Guinea in want and star-
vation at the sight of a vessel bringing
relief, fell dead from shock of delight;
Is it any surprise to you tbat the joys of
pardon and heaven rolled over the soul
should sometimes be almost too much for
the Christian to ender° and live? ein
aged aunt said to ma 'DeViritt, three
times I have fainted dead away under
too great Christen joy. It was in all
these cases at the hole ii6DIEC111111011." An
eminent Christian man while in prayer
said, "Stop, Lord, I cannot bear any
more a this gladness; it's too much for
mortal. Withhold! Withhold!" We
have heard of poor workingmen or women
getting a letter suddenly telling them
that a fortune had been left theme and
how they were almost beside themselves
with glee, taking the first ship to claim
the estate. But, oh, what it is to wake
out of the stupor of a sinful life and
through pardoning grace find that all our
earthly •existence will be divinely man-
aged for our best welfare, and that then
all heaven will roll in upon the soul.
Compared with that a spring morning is
stupid, and an August sunset Is insane
and an aurora. has no pillaxed splendor,
end a diamond has no flash, and a pearl
no light, and a beryl no aquamarine, and
a ruby no ruddiness. My gracious Lord!
My glorious God! My precious Christ!
Roll over on us a few billows of that
rapture. And now I ask you as fair-
minded men and women, accustomed to
naake comparisons, is not suh a jdy as
that worth more than anything one ean
have in a jeweled casket? Was not
Solomon right when he said. "Wisdom is
better than rubies?"
There is something in the deep car-
mine of the ruby that suggests the
sacrifice on which our whole system of
religion depenrds. When thei emerald
suggests the meadows, and the sapphire
the skies, and the opal the sea, the ruby
suggests the blood of sacrifice. The most
emphatic and startling of all colors bath
the ruby. Solomon, the author of my
text knew ail about the eacrifice of lamb
and dove on the altars of the temple,
and be knew the meaning of sacrificial
blood, and what other preciou.s stone
could he use so well to symbolize
it as the rutty? Red, intensely red, red
as the blood of the greatest martyr of
all time—Jesus of the centuries! Drive
the story of the exurifixion, out of the
Bible and the doctrine of the atonement
out of our religion, and there would be
nothing of Christianity left for our
worship or admiration. Why should it
be hard to adopt the Bible theory that
our redemption was purchased by blood?
What great bridge ever sprung its
arches; what temple ever reared its tow-
ers: what nation ever achieved its inde-
pendence; what mighty eeori was ever
done without sacrifice of life? The greet
wonder of the world—the 1 riege that
unites these two cities—cost the life of
the first architect Ask the thipyards of
Glasgow and New York how many car-
penters went down under accidents be-
fore the steamer was launched; ask the
three great trans-oontinentel railroads
how many in their construction were
buried under crumbling einbankinents,
or crushed under timbers, or destroyed
by the powder -blast. Tabulate the
statistics of how many mothers have
been martyrs to the candle of sick chil-
dren. Tell us how many men sacrificed
nerve, and muscle, and brain, and life
in the effort to support their households.
„Tell rae how many mem izLEngland, in
Framee, in Germanyhin Italy, in the
United States have dm& for their 00110 -
try. 'Vicarious suffering is as old as the
world, but the most thrilling, the most
Startling, the most stupendous saerifiee
• enemy. was on a bluff
back of Jerusalem when one Belem took
upon, illniself the etas, the agomes, the
perdition of a great multende that no
man can amber, between twelve o'clock
of a derkened • noon and three o'clock in
the afternoon, pureatimet tbe ransom of
a rehired world, Dive in all the seas;
explore all the mines; &Towbar all the
mountains; view all tae crowned jewele
of ale the emperors mid find rae any
gem that can so ofetetheliniemig sym
bolize that martyrdom as . the ruby.
Mark you, there are many genie that
are somewhat like the ruby. So is the
cornellan; GO is the pellet; so is • the
spinal; so is the bares; go the gems
brought from au:Icing, the gravels of
Ceylon and New South Wales; Let there
is only one genulee ruby, and that comes
from the mine of titirtuah. And there
deseediult. (Thirst had no counterpart.
heaven. One Redeemer, one Ransom,
one Son of Goae, only "one Neale giveu
ander heaven among men by whale WO
caa be gavot" Ten thousand time.e ten
thousand 'beautiful link:Oleos of dm
ruby, but only [me ruby, Christ had no
tiescenditnt ()hint had no counterpart.
In the lifted -up grandeur este glory, and
love, mei sympetley of his diameter, he
is the Incomparable, the refinite One.
one Only Wise God, our Savior!" Let
ell iteetts, all houiese e all times ell
devoltiee bow low before Rim! Let Int
battier be lifted in all our soles.
•olden times, Scotland was disturbed
freebeoters and pirates. To rid the
seas and poets of theses desperadoes, the
hero, 'William Wallace, fitted out a nine
Oita vessel, but filled it with armed
men, and put out ,to sea. The airettea,
with their ilag inscribeda it death's
Weide thinkleg them would get am tesy
prize, bore dewn tepee the Scottish mer-
chantmen. When the Mimed men of Wal-
lace bolded. the Mart of the ;abates and.
then Pat them in clutine, end thou smiled
for port ender the Scottish ilag *inn
And eo our eoule • metaled of sin and
death and hell, through Owlet are ins-
etted, and the bite* flan of sin Is tore
deft and the Striped, flag of the Orem
is hoisted. Bleesen, be God for MY sign,
for ane signal, for SInOr precious- etone
• that brings to mind the peke paid for
such a rescue! '
I like the coral for it seems the solidi-
fied foam of breakers; and 1 like the
jaener, fov it gathers, seventeencolors
into ets bosom; and 1 like the jet, for it
compresses the shadows of many mid -
eights; and I like the chrysopres, be
manse ita meirpla is illtunined 'with, a small
heaven, of eters; and I like the chryso-
lite, for kis waxes' of color which seem
on fire. 13ut this morning uotthiug so
traitresses me as the ruby, for it depicts.
It ti pihess, it suggests, "The blood of
Swine Cluist that eleantseth from all sin;"
"Wit -bout the eheelding of blood than is
no rend:mime" Yea, Solorneu was right
when In nay text he sale, "Wisdom is
better than rubies.**
To briug out a eciatreet that will il-
lustrate my text, I pot before yoe the
bat earthly 40eneS, The one is in a'
room vitli 1111)10A. 1111.1' nn rel:eion; and
the caber in a mem with eligiou, but
no rubies. Yoe tie tee tee tirst room,
bere an Mit 11P111 p1 worthy man is
about to (mit this Iiro. Tho,0 ie n ruby
oa the Tillman tjbty c u g the
mutes. There Le u ruby itt the head-
dress of a queenly wife. On the litiger
• of die dying mac there is e ruby. The
neenses ee nen• -none lies new
sent* of *II Sat 111* *lams
walls are heirlooms, or the teapMeil
Europeaa tamel. The curtains
from foreign 100MS. The rugs are
Damascus cm Cairo. The sofas Are
stuffed with ease end quietude. Thel
rocking ahem roll backward and for.
ward o luliaby& ne, pillows are me
• quiskely embroidered. All the appobt-
ments of the room are a peroration to
a successful commercial or professioonl
life, I3ut the man has no religion ; Laii•
er b.as imd, and never prefeseed tot
have. There is not a Bible Of one re-
• ligious book in the room. The demote
• ing man feels that his earthly career
is ended, mad nothing opens beyond.
• Where he will land stepping off froze
• this life is a emstean, ar whether he
:will land at all, for it =el be anne
, beaten. Re has no prayer to offer,
' and he does not know how to pray.
.1.4o hope of meednes_again in another
'• state of existence. e is through with
this life, and is sure a no other. The
Iruby on the mantel and the rebe on
the wasted finger of the eparted ant
L wtor nothing lan She ransoming blood
' which_ they 1 so, ran/anti tante So fa* as giving GOMM or elimination by IL
departing spirit, they are a. dead fail-
ure. Midnight of n.tter, nopeleseneas
drops on all the scene.
Another roam of mortal exit Reli-
gion and no rubies. She amer had
money menet to buy one of these ex -
reunites. Sometimes she stopped M a
jeweler's show window, and nor a rem
ot them incarnudin,Mg the velvet She
had keen, taste enough to appreciate
those gems, but she never owned, ono
a them. She was not jealous or nee
heliPe because others had rabies while
she had none. But she had a. richer
treasure, and that eras the grace
God, that had comforted her along thii
way ainid bereavements, and tempta-
tions, and persecutions, and sicknesses,
and privations, and trials of till aorta
Now she is go.mg out of life. The room
• is bright, not with pictures or statues• ,
not with upholstery, not With any of
the genus of mountain or of sea, but
there fa a etrang,e aud vivid glow in
the room; not the light of chandelier,
or star, or noonday sun, but emnathing
that outsbiuos an of then. It roast be
the presence of supernatands. Prom
her illumined face I think she mast
bear sweet voices. Yea. she does hear
sweet voices—voice.s of departed kin-
dred; =ices apostolic and prophetic,
and evangelic, but all of them overpowt
eree by the voice of Christ, saying,
"Come, ye blessed of My Father, in-
herit the kingdom." From her illum-
ined face. I think she must hear rap-
turous music—now soft as solos, now
thunderous as orehestaus; now a saint-
ly voice alone, now the hundred and
forty and four thousand • in concert.
Lerma her illmained fac.e I think she
must breathe redolence. Yea, she does
inhale aroma from off the gardens
whose flowers never wither, and from
the blossoms of orchards, every tree a
which bears twelve manner of fruit.
Frons her illumined face I think she
must see a glorious sight. Yes. she
sees the well that has Saeger at the
base, and ainethest at the top, and
blood red rubies between. Good-byel
sweet soul! Why should you Unmet
key! Y oar wank all done; your bur-
dens all dieried; your team all wept!
Forward into the light! UP iuto the
joy! Out into the grandeurs! .And af-
ter you have saluted Christ, and your
kindredsearch out aim of the palaces
of Lebanon (edam and tell Hira that
you bave found to be gloeionsly true
what thousands of years ago Ile as-
serted in this morning's text: "Wisdom
is better than rubies." an those bur-
nished palaces ef our God may we all
meet. Leer I confess to you that nay
chief desire for heaven is not the radi-
ance, or to take the suggestion ,of the
text. not the rubescence of the scene.
My one idea of heaven is the place to
meet old friends. God oar best Friend,
anti our earthly friends already trans,
ported. Ayei to meet the atillioes whom
1 have never seen. but to whom I have
administered iu the gospel week by
week threuret Joni -ampere en nee .srien
or me enlist' ramougnout Christendom
and through many lands yet semi -bar-
baric. For the last twenty-three years
every blast of injustice against 'soh=
multiplied my readers all :ties wad&
ever, and the present malignancy pink-
ed end uttered because our church is
in financial straggle after having two
great structures destroyed by fire, arid
[ye onnpelled to build three largo
ohurches—T say the Present untrageous
injustice iti oome quarters, will multi- ,
ply my sadience in all nude if I can
keep in good burner and not light bank.
A gentlemoui tapped me on the shoul-
der sunamer before last on a Street a
Bdiuburgh, Scotland, and said. "I live
in the Shetland islands, North Sentland,
and 1 read your sermons every Sub -
bath to an audience of neighbors, and
my brother lives in (Jape Town, South
.e.frica, and be reads them every Sab-
bath to an audience of neighbors."
And I hear and uovr say be the forty
millions of the earth to whose eyes
these words will corm that one of tuy
dearest antieipations is to meet them
in heaven. Ali! that will be better
than rubies. Coming up from different
continents, from difterent hezinephotes,
from opposite sides of the earth to
greet each other in hely love in the
ineseace of the ghettoes Cellist who
naede it poesible for u,s to get there.
Oar sins all intedoned, our gorrows all
benithed, never to weep, eever Lo part,
never to die; I tell you diet will be
better than rubies. Others may have
the crowns, end the thrones, and the
Ai
dopters: gve us our old friends back
Linen, Christ, "the frie.ttd who eticketh
Weser them a brother," and all the kin
-
deed who hese gone up from our ber-
eft houeeholde, and ail our frienda
wham we have never soest yet, and you
may have all the rabies, for tlett wiui
be "bettor then -rubies." Instead of the
dying kiss witiEm they look, so pale Alla
svan and sick, it will be t.he Wee of
welcome en lips jubilant with song,
while etanding on dOorS pmed With
what empireiteness, under ceillege hong
with whet glom hennaed by wank
facing us ith whet splendor' amid
endue:se tolling over use elite*tat
leorology. -near bate', infinitely better,
,mineastingly bete& than rubies.
An inhuman took,: Kra Grotty (awoken
ing at a k. tbat yott, To is t Mr.
Coedit-eta:hale Mrs, Crabs $r —Well, esne,
eounon the untie of the flower you"vo
gob ou,
KIRSTY ArNAB'S AFFRONT.
The Trouble the Pair Body gad WP ger
Wadden Leg.
"Deed ay,' saidleirety Mantel, as she
dieplayed her wudden mevatter to the new
minittotee wife, "itt's a brew 103g,
mein—a substantive, ernanal, men
anical patent, prize -medal, spring leg
G the newest and midst approved
desorlpfeon, as the advertisement ned it.
Are it's vet,' genteel like, peateesite as it
dein, the advalettges o' a nein an' bane
aue, a green' imptovenent en the
amid lon seatakte Ili aae wi' the bream
(erne+ on the ewe
" No doubt," repited Mrs, Job, who had
reoenoly come to the cilstriote end was
endeemorin! to ingratiate heron' in the pita
graces o' her guldman's parishioners. "No
doubt. Bat a herchworklug woman like
you, Mrs. MoNab, musb find that even the
hest of artifiene legs aro poor eubstitubse
farnbIllme ereeh
igstn(islel
nshoot thet," said leirety.
°ye see; mem, folk that hae never haea
wuddeo leg dines ken o' ito advantages.
Yer innatin, 01501, but let me explain ray-
ed'. For instance, theren nibble Ise'Nenoh-
ten noise door. The Nein OWE hardy
wauohle we the inettreaticke. An' there e
my gateman, gammen Hee everientingly
hirplen we owns. Noe, there's neat e'
that.tiwdeaarewsauyd dtleottb,ho,g
':aid the ratealetera
wife, ouppreseing enaile. "Bab I'm Rimed
'tome folks would prefer the rheninatioe and
the °erne."
"Simply beeettrie they dime, bus ony
better," eeplied Keay. "I'm soupier el"
my vaueden leg tom some folk wi' their
twa ither eine* putten thegither. But of
morale they has their disadvantages. Like •
ither lega, they're liable to Decedents.
Damao me, III never forget the aectident
that befel thie ane, an' the esoapeefe it led
me intil in Mare. I see yer fond o' a joke, ,
mem, so Fil jest tell ye shoot It." I
"Aa nicht in the simmer time tilammaa
an' me were tidal' at the fireside, an' the
leiger was ben the heose trestint e,wel we
his whueole. He's ane te the Templates
Band, ye ken. Wee, he geed free as tune
to anither, blythe an' oheery like, vvhile
Tanamas an' me tab hobbit& en our °halm,
batin' tirae to the maisiok wi' oar feet. Alt
last he amuck up 'The Fleet% o' Embroa'
an' we and sit nee hanger. Up we sprang '
be our fest, like a lad an' less at a Mehra
fair, me we my wudden leg an' Damao ;
his steakin' Beim, an' amuck oet P the .
kitchen fleir. Corex! What an onoarry.
But it was is dear dance to me, though, for I
when Tammare wee wheelba' me roan snap
stop gaed seraethiug V the leg, dean I geed ti
likes hunner co' bricks, !Mammas slang we s
me, wi' is crash like to bring the heose doon.
Temmas was on him feet again in is
iffey, but, eh, sirs, me I My leg was :
broken. When Mammas set me en my per- ;
peudionlar the leg Muck one like the tram
te
is °eine an' it wad= bide dorm. tremens
grapple it we bailie hie hands, jammed
ib Mien on the ileir ; eat when be let it go
ie banged up again, striking him a cleure 1'
the nese that gar'd the Maui squirt like is
fountain, japp'n' a' the oheeny on the
drearier. That was the way he oudna ring
the kirk bell for two, Sabbath en en'. Weel
that leg took is threw, an' neither the lodger
nor rayed' oud put it richt, a& as ib had ieft
it's trade mark en Dammam neee he declined
to have anything further to dae wi't. I
took it along to Patio Grastare, the watch-
maker, thInkin' if he oud mete the eying o'
is olook he miolit cud sort the spring o'
leg. Pa& was rale sorry °wren, an' asked
if I and leave ib for is day to that he and
mak' is thorough examleation.
"Carder, hear the man," eald L "Div
ye mean ine toRang abseil on my ae file like
is lame juok ? Na, xis, I WWII get it hams
wi''Inele
'Ag's is gey Mettle thing for the like e'
me to tak' in pieces," he end. "nee evi-
dent ane o' the springs hie bean twisted.
Ye wad be bosh be gang into Embroe whaur
ehey mak' the lege, an' get is practical man
to look at it."
"Seeing there was needling else fen%
go i tee addrees fate Pate, and sat aff tee
neat morale' for Embree helpin' mysel'
alang the read aa bed I end wi' Tamnia'e
staff. I got, the areal a' richt, dub for the
life o' me I cadrea get the shop. Niter
wandering abooto for a while I asked is polie
man if he oud direr* me to the place whom'
hey mended the legs."
"What's wrang wi' yer leg ?" add he.
"Nae bhat wee name o' hie butiness, but
no' walling to be onolvii, I just telt hen I
had glen it a twist, are wanted it sorted.
Noe, I canna eay whether or na I Multi the
penman it was a midden leg, I was clean
hambalsod we the heat, fatigue ozone -
meat. Weel, what dere the dotted nettles
no' dee but &realm me ben is close an' up
fewer tang stairs to is doctor's platie they
wed Burgioel Institute. Nos, if I had teen
edification I wad haa kenb whenever I saw
the breeeiplate oa the deor that there WWI
inte'..ak' someway. Bat Someone Institute
'nicht hee meaub the Home o' Parliament
or bile pnirhoutte fee aa I Plena for I'm no
dieksioner slimly% However, I &dna,
think on that; at the eime, on' after I had
trailed up thee fow gang stairs I was just
fie for naething. Oa elegise the bell is bit
servant 1st& opened th' doer; an' enquired
my errant.
" net whaer they Sort the lege 1"
"Yea," mid she. "Come in."
In I gauge to is nice wee room wi' is
table i' the middle o' the flair, twa three
cbalre root' about, sofa in the corner.
"Just sie doen," said the lasele. "11
ger leg's seer jamb lie en the coach, The
deader It be hem in is meanie."
The denser! What on earth did oho
mein 1 Teen thinkinq hacks, heard her
(nicht, or that my ears had deceived me
setneweyel just ntade myna' aft comfortable
as peasible. Lytle dorm on the twooh, I
heippit myna' up w' is fine akin reg that was
yin' bandy, GrA) was jusb begiumute to enjoy
the rest when the door opened, an' is digni-
fied auld gentleman stepped in.
"Geed meriting," raid he. "Something
wrong with your leg, I believe. What
is it I"
" perfeekly ulnae, sir," said L "
think I've glen it is WOO
"There are no bonen broken, I hove?"
" Bones! There'd me banes ines."
Carlota," seed heiblinkhn we atnaze-
meet. " Leta hone is took at it."
I threw aff the tkini rug an' held up the
wudden leg. " died meneweer here abeet,"
eaid 1, ledleatiug wi' my finger wham the
pear was out o' order.
I with ye and has seen that mean face.
kte turned se the *eters ce the Wuhan, ati
doom ithero beside, ate, iakin' into a Ater,
he muttered something to htteeeP &hoot
igeoranee and audaeity. When I heard
him mention fgnorance) thinks I well he no
ken hoe to garb it. 1 &dna jut) like to be
owre oetspokert erP hint, to 1 enquired t
44 W6 is eeriotts affair, maister 18
44 BGTIOUG 1 1Ghtlald think it wee. Much
mere striouo then yell seen to think, , Who
Tient von hovel
"Retie Grometrb,"1 anowered.
"Assd who'd Paths Clossart 1"
" rale Weel, thank ye foe
an
"I mean whoe IS he 1" he yelled, evi-
donee' beside Meant Wn mossiest.
14 Hen a vvatchlnaket," I said ; " but be
admitted that he dittos, ken niuckio goat
artinelel legs. nnii sold ye Wad ;AO fit
richt In Umbrae
"The euprinalpled eccenterel," said ha,
"Weil When you Me him, yee mighb tell
hien im give no isOA the flab tit= hen
in Edinburgh. .1 should like to sob his neck
for him."
" An' id' thee he banged, oot at the deer
iu is fury, letsvive me hauf deft WP pen
plexibir. What did he mean 'I Au' what
hairm had Pe& Grereare doge him ?
Wae met in the aok o' followen hint to the
doer to demised an explanetters when the
servaub lasete entisred.
" This is a fine business,"maid she, "what
wey did ye no tell me its was is wudden leg!
Ye mined has pen Late the ;hop damn the
stair."
'Aa' what) for did ye no tell me that at
first, ye gaping !mosey ?" said 1, "makiu' is
fate o' haith yersel' an' me, ea' affronting
yer muster as wad. He'll think there' is
avow leen 1' my heid ea weel as my leg."
I ehuldnet wanner bat there el," ahe
ehowie me te the door, an' baleen' it
saint met afore I meld titter is word in my
ala defence. But time teen bodice, they've
nae [sympathy for ideas, folk—no a grain."
"0', ay, eaem, I gob is sheep doen the
stair A' richt, ah' they sortie the leg in nee
time, but itell be is hong time afere I forpeb
the (ampule I bed wi? um wudden leg. —
O. D. Graham, in People's Friend.
LEG ISL ATI VE REPORTS.
Gleanings From Documents Brought
Down. Yesterday.
EXPENSES OF GOUTY 00UNOILS.
Oae of the sabjeote which has frequently
eugaged the atteation of the Legiatmure le
the demand for is rodent= of the number
of County Oennoillere. To throw light
upon tide Dula ea a return wag ordered lad
Damien of the number of OeuntyLegielaters,
and the Indemnity they receive. Ib was
brought) down today, and ahem that in
1887 there were 1,b93 reeves in County
Ciumile, while in 1893 they numbered
1,149. The indemnity they drew in the
former year Mit $54,335, and in the latter
$55,456. Tale was at the rate of 138 mills
ia tee duller of the mamma value of the
martens counties, which in 1887 wee
91,816,006, and In 1893 was $601,457 158.
The twennymixbh annual report of the
Asylo.ms for the Iasi= and Idiotic thews
diet the betel number in these institutions
on September 301h last was 4,240. The
relative propertton of these classes to the
whole population for the pea two decades
thews a mullet increase, and is now .164.
Amordine to the lasb census bulletin ef 1891
the number of insane in the Dominion is
ghee to 13,355, of which Ontario tomcatted
with 5,855, el which 40 per cent, vera nob
()Mined in asylums. The stabilities also
show that the insane population is !norms-
ing in a greeter Ma° thE411 the total popula-
tion. Intimating compere:ilia are made
wish Gam Bribein and various States of
the Union. The annual mat
per patient ht Toronto Asylum
wesi $140, in London Amium 3141, to
Kings ea layturri $147, in Hamilton Atylum
$126, in Mires= Aterium $136, and in Orlin&
Asylum $118. The peroontage sf cures to
adtaiesions ie 26 43, Admissions ef earner-
ried parallel exceed thoie ol married per-
mute. By neationelitiee, Canadians stand
firet, and Irish aimed 31y religie113 denona.
Mations, the Churah ef England is first, the
Roman ilatitelle second, and Methodiet and
Preebyterian aimed equal for third place.
; The average weekly mot per patient after
deducting revenue is 1 67 in Toronto Asy-
Ilam, lese than that of any ef the other insti-
1 teethe. The revenue derived from paying
, patients, 661 in &umber, WW1 $73,415 last
iyear.
The twenty -mooed annual reporb of the
, Brantlard Imitate, tor the Inetruotion ef
I the Blind for the year ending September
30k, 1893, contains exteesive and osrefully
, emptied !afore:teflon, which gees to show
' that), compered with the Prevhices of Que.
• bee, Nova Beetle and New Brunewids,
°Mario has lees blind pemons per thousand
of population then they. In Oatarie the
proportion is ng per cane Ib 18 estimated
thee there are 1,227 blind people in the
Province, of whom 530 wore bern kt the
Province. Is Menitoba emai the Northwest
Territories the proportioa per thoutand of
blind perlone le oaly 2 4 and as realm-
tively, which mum bo show that the
bendency to snow -blindness( is more than
ceunteraoted by the benefioial effeets of
the greater mu bdoor labor. Brinell
Columbia, hoe the m [idea 'proPorbion of
blind pera too per thousand of popula-
te:et, being tee lees than 13. Canada hats
' 752 blind persons who can read and
write, 2.461 who omelet read or write, and
152 wee ten reed only. Actoording to reli-
gion 'Rouen Oabludies have 1,757 blind,
or over 150 more then the oorablueti Pro-
t emirate robglons. The moupetions followed
by the bead ere divided into groups, non.
productive, including children, females in
householde, leaked, no occupation given,
members of religieue orders, tempera and
andante, nun:Leering 2,492 I and productive,
including tame °imaged in agrioulture,
• Min end rniptne, 533: them mimed in
profisaional nervices, 53 ; those engaged let
detente and personal service, 98; these
engaged let made and transportation, 72;
and them engaged In mechanical pinnate
120. For the year ant dosed there were in
the Breraford Las itube 180 pupils'of which
73 ware make end 57 fetrusiete The pro-
gram made in literary and musical atudioe
has been reerked, while in industrial and
agrIcaltural gunman geod work hes been
done.
es ann Alone,
The Benkrupt 01 ce—e to ye y 411 f yea
self alone.
The Wealthy Widow—How much of a
con
" Itt aleveye pap a man in my bush:teal to
take plenty of time," murmtired the burglar
softly to himself, gently dumping the tray
of geld watehes bite him capaolone bag.
"If Theodore Thome; le is muotelane
meld Banks, 44why kit that nobody ever
GE4W hfrO play a carnet, for instance?" "He
dement beim to," said Rivers; "ho ean al.
waye find some subs to tea."
Soulptor Perk, mho hes jest boon sued for
divorce, le en admirable rebid, hub he pan-
tiots make is model of a husbattd.
An inelined plane—The homely but will*
log spinster.
A Correspondent writes to is medical re
view to claim that moat of melee demises
are due to the clothing he Wears. There
may be something in bine; the belied girls
never die.
0 verhetwet in the Treasury Vents.--
" There te no (Melte of in" renearkcid the
Selgrtiorage With is sigh. "No doubt of
What 1" said the Gold 'Reserve eaernfully.
44 That l'in ones of 'eras" "11 yOtt mean ono
of the biggest nuisances that hietoty eVer
developed, thatee no doubt &bone year
being atarreetin "And eet 1 relate:lent the
gain on a anew:dal tramittaatione"" YON lel
" Thene whets 1 tom ; Lark a preat Without
hetet la itri Own itestetty."---Finolifeettni
Sew,
oesawursvoirotorist.
TO Sootiatee come her darkest day,
et tbis be tru.o there end,—
The pads to beput away
That's tang ber manhood made,'
=ones.
Ohl keep lb bollint—ster et wed!
Ye'll naething lose, 1 wate
BY townie aye wi' saut ale meal
Your Mither'sParritoli Pal
now was wad Brum) or Wellace be.
Or Burns, were they to learn
Thee non there's noebt bet "dreg te toe
For Sootlen's gentile bairn I
Por laminas what can the reanpune do
They'd better ne'er been born
Than swaa for It, though ever tie.
The spacious spune ce horn.
Ye withers -wise, wbe'd mak' a man
Like hero that nurtured ypu
Rem pat preserve ; ere, wheel ye can,
0' parritch keep it tte!
Fele-folk, who, mean wi' Mina, trade.
May grow lean pig -tailed, ghost;
But muscled Sera shall ne'er be made
On trasby tea an' toast,
Oh I hear me, Heaven, as leaa a*, basal
Grant this ae prayer o' mine—
" The Parritth Pat o' Scotian' guant
Free Fashion's fell design!"
molars.
Gude! keep 11 boilitemstir it weal!
Praised shalb Thou be, I wat,
Sae lang's Thole keepse in same an' meet
Auld. Scotian's Fame ch Pali!
—Glasgow Citizen.
If We But understood.
Oniotherlove, it we but understood
Lifee deeper meaning and its greater goorl--
Were it more sweet
To watch the baby feet
Stray Mem the heart in that fair innocence:ear
babyhood
To find the pearly gate
Of Heaven: or trusting wait—
The deepening shadows of the dee
May sometimes eddy drift away,
Revealing to our faith a greater good -
0 mother -love, if we but naderetoodt
Dear mother -love, if long ago those tiny fee*
had gone
Forever from thy liearb to heavea—sweetst
were the dawn
To thee if thou shall softly greet
Again the dainty baby feet!
Or waiting, trust they lett upon thy barb the&
little empty shoe,
Dear mother -love, to come again to you
And heaven—whiter for the darkness they are
passing through!
He made, the darkness, too, that made thelight
Who made the day, 0 motheelove, tenderkr
haat wrought the night I
Fear not the heart were only dark
Whose wrong, alone, we mark
So bitterly; nor „dream there olingenoheavenar
purity of babyhood
Where now the tender feet, so white.
Must tread, a moment losb amid the night
Which blinds their footsteps to SOMO greater
good -
0 mother -love, if we buil understood!
O'er every gentle gift of earth, thee beautnenly
may endure
Which sorrow, darkly, as it burning metal,.
maketh pure!
There were no boon so sweet
To grace the baby feet
That kissed the dainty litele stookbee of his
gentle, fax -off bebyhood—
As that which darkly waits
Bruised and penitent, before the heavenkr
gates—
Through the darkness to the greater good.
At last -0 mother -love, if we but nudersteed:
A WOMAN'S AGM.
One lady Writer Who Thinks It is rot
Worth Lying About.
LB it tvorth is weman'e wade to he he-
acoursee about her age? Does she not
rather base newadeere by lemmening the men
ber of her years ? Assuming that her
object hitherto in eetting back , the hand of
Time has been to render hereelf more
attractive in the eyee et the eppesite [sex, it
must be ebvierm to close °heavers ol the
mon and manners et to -day 6110.6 ib is not
the maiden of " bashful fifteen" nor the
girl of eweet and twenty who finds favor
in the sight either of the gilded youth sr
the men of the world. The threshold of
womaitheed no larger invites them, sweet
seventeen Ls out of date, Mona
turity is nob [attractive. Ib is
nowadays oely the women who him
" arrived" wi o sin fasoinete the weary, pen
simistle gavel ef the period; it le oniy the
experiemed matroe wiie, understanding the
baits asad lollies of men, can render her-
self is euffiatentlyeremonable companion to
him when he COMMIS to yeers of diacretion.
The " breed -sal -batter ' miss, the com-
paratively inexperienced raeldeo, my, evert
the very y °nag matron, are Lopelessly "anti
of it " at the present. It is the hour of
maturity, end the woman hat triumphed
von the girl, She may now be anything over
30 to held swim pro videe elways beat On
keep) hereelf 30 in hetrb and face, Shama)
look attractive, she must have the power
to enema She must puma taot and judg,7
ment, and than she emu snap her
fingers at Time and boldly set down
what she likes on the emus paper. At all
events she need no longer [heed the attain-
ment of her third decade, for it is then that
her reign btgltse. Nat until then de= ehe
begin be understand the managameet of
man, He deee not want to be regarded as
a schoolgirla ideal, to live on blies and
Mesa and eternally play tbe jeune premier.
He wanto corapentonehip, he sweats to have
bis ameba recognael and openly discussed,
and he knows that with her ripened export -
eine the W01211512 will not °epee: too much,
of him nor invest htin with is hole ef ro-
mimicry, neither has ehe mere matrimonial
designs upon him. So hae ehe out -rivalled,
her younger sieterenytm her own daughters
and bhue need she no longer fear the tekini;
of the =tens and the revelation of her ago.
—Lady's Pictoria2,
Treadling by Steam.
Preaching by abeam ! It takea one's
breath away, to think of an irmelanged
steam preacher o ct tilair top of is Welsh
moento,in, making the air crack vet% his
disoordenb voice. Yet numb a monster waa
considered possible in the early days of the
stoma engine. A ViTelsh psper—the
Lambkin—offered a thousand pomade for a
steam engine table to epeak "i'Venh, French
and Eaglith 1 Stich an engine," sited the
editor, "could be placed o» the top of one
of the mountaine of Widen and battled to
rano its voice as en angel until the whole
of Wales should hear ft" There la is.
lamb -like sitnplieity about etski offer whiebt
thoroughly accords' with the tame of the,
journal. Peratuately for the penes of the,
principality, the destroying angel was never
made.—Zondon
Otto guturretith Wedding Annitversseye
If the fiftieth anniversary of a marriages
its a golden wedding, and the ementyeelth,
is a diamond, what IS the hundredth? Fitton
is wedding Was recently onebreted isa
Zroteboyl, ittattugary,, and the loon jeer -
collets are trying to fied is nainernegioal
attune for it, The venerable =utile are ente
and 115,7000 old roopeobively, and balm
long esjoyed is pennon in recognition of
theit gnat ago and their ddelity to ,etene.
Other.
inuman Nature RS InnitiektiVe.
"Greet Scott, Why dean you put up Se
:Sign tellieg maple that tine is fresh eakiten
'"Oatise 1 went it tit dry' before 1.10»
" Whet geed will it do then
44 Ib WOW() mane Off on their glOVOL"
Erich legitineete Wife of O. Turkish plebs
has is tieperate dwelling, her own oat*, tot
own notettMen, het oWit Operate hottathelL