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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-3-15, Page 3nee lentenee PE LIGHTNING OF THE SEW • 'Od1h0SreleitESSMINVE XS !MTh OCEAN TUANSIPIOITAAWON, t SifiendOr ard irasoluation in the Wake ' • of ft Ship Analogous to tho Sparkling. . Plashing, ltiliowing Phosphorescence of a Christian t2f0-Inilueuces For Good ' or Evil are 1).1easurc1ess. • Brooklyn, Feb, 18, 1894. -In theBrook. 15[11 tebereacle this forenoon Rev. Dr. almage preached an unusually attract- Ve and eloquent Gospel sermon to a owded iiudience, who listened with apt interest. The subject was, "Te ' ghtniug a the Sea," the text select - 'ha being Job xli, 821 "He maketh a path to shine after Him." If for the iext thousand years minis - ters of religion should preach from this . Pible there will yet be texts unexpoand- •ed, and unexplained and unappreciated. What little has been, said concerning this cluipter in Job, from which my text is taken, bears on the controversy as Ito what was really the leviathan de - aerated as disturbing the sea. What reatpre it was I know not. Some say t was a whale. Some say it was a croc- e. My own opinion is it was a sea ouster now esti-net No creature now iffaating in Mediterranean or Atlantic [waters corresponds to job's description. 1 What most interests me is that as it moved on throng -le Vie deep it left the waters fistshing and resplendent. In the Words of the text, "He maketh a path X e shine after Him." What was that Ilurained path? It was phosphorescence. You flied it in the wake of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather. Phosphorescence is the lightning o/ the sea. That this figure a speech is cor- • ect in describing its appearance I am i certined by an ncident. After crossing the Atlantic the first time and writing from Basle, Switzerland, to an Ameri- , an an account of my voyage, in which nothing more fascinated me than the •nhosphoreseence in the ship's wake, I ealled it The Lightning of the Sea. Ro- thman to my hotel I-- found a book of Sohn 1uskin, and the ,first sentence my ;eyes feIl upon was this descriptien of miaosphorescence, in which he called it elThe Lightning of the Sea." Down to e postoffice I hastened to get the man- uscript, and, with great labor and ex- ec, got poseession of tb,e magazine *tide and put quotation marks around Mei; one sentence, although it was tus orfginal with me as with John Butikin. suppose that nine -tenths of you living near the sea coast have watched this tha-rene appearance called phosplaores- •.t.etee, and I hope that the other one- tenth mayesoine day be so happy as to dtaess it. It is the waves of the sea onded; it is the inflorescence of the ilIows the waves of the sea crimsoned, las was the deep after the sea-fIght ot ifeepaiato; the waves of the sea on fire. e are times when from horizon to orizon the entire ocean seems in conga, kration arith this strange splendor'as g changes every moment to tamer co kiztre dazzling color on all sides ef you. Zion sit looking over the taffrail of the Valeht or ocean steamer -watching and Pelting to see what new thing the God fof beatity will do with the Atlantic. yt. is fhe ocean in transfiguration: it is lam marine world costing its garments Ogory in the pathway of the Almighty e walks the deep; it is an inverted rnmament with all its stars gone dawn Pdth it. No Rioter° can present it, for photographer's camera cannot be suc- cessfully trained to catch It, and before K the hand of the painter drops its pene eil 'overawed and powerless. This phos- arescence is the appearance of mar- • of the animal kIngdore rising, fall- irignplaying,. flashing, living, dyingerhene ' Menueotte animalcules for nearly one lean - deed and fifty years have been the study. Of naturalists and the fascination and. leolemnization of all who have brain, enough to think. Now, God, who puts in His Bible nothing trivial or useless, mils the attention of jabt the greatest ientist of his day, to this phosphores- nee, and as the leviathan of the deep weeps past, goints out the fact that He maketh a path to shine after Is that true of us now, and will it be rue of us when we have gone? Will exe be subsequent light or darkness? all there be a trail of gloom or good atheer? Can any one between now and • the next 100 years say of us truthfully . as the text says of the leviathan of the deep, "He maketh a path to shine after tam?" ' For we are moving on. While we live in the same house, and transact ' ;business in the same store, and write -.NI the same table, and chisel in the 'same studio,and thresh in the same barn, . aid worship in the same church, we are in motion, and are in many respects Moving on, and we are not where we were ten years ago, nor where we will' he ten years hence. Moving on! Look . at the family record, or the almanac, or ; lerto the mirror, and see if any one of .3mo is where you were. AU in motion. Other feet may trip and stumble, and • halt, but time feet of not one moment, for the last sixty centuries has tripped, . or stumbled, or halted. Moving. on! So- • leiety moving on! The world moveng oni /Heaven moving on! The univeree mov- , Png on! Time moving on! Bteraity mov- •ing on'. Therefore, it is absurd to think idiot we ourselves can stop, as we must . move with all the rest. Are we like the creature of the text, making our path to shine after us? It may be a peculiar, •osestion, but my text suggests it. What • refluence will we leave in this world af- • ter we have gone through it? "None!" Deemer hundreds of voices, "we are not , Of the immortals. • Fifty years after we . ere out of the world it will be as though ere never inhabited it." You are wrong ne saying that. I pass down through this audience and up through these galleries,. Mad I am looking for some one veleom; I cannot find. 1 a,m looking foe one, •vein have no influence in this world: Years from now. ' But I have • und the man who hes the least influe •Ienee, and I inquire into his history and' W lind that by a yes or a no he decided Isome one's eternity. In time of teraapta- lben he gave an affirmative or a negative to swine temptation which another, hear. lug of, eves induted to decide in the thane way. Clear on the other side on elen next million years may be the first etele her of the lougereaehing influence •cif that yes or no, nut hear of it you ,erill. Will that fether make a path to enine after him? Will that mother make a path to shine after her? You will be vralking along atom streets,or along et country toad, 000 years from now, •rt the character of your descendants. tuiey will be affected by your courage •lor your cowardice, your purity or your Itlepravity, /aux holiness or your situ &nu will make the path to shine after tau or lblitaken after you. Why shcaild they point out to us on some Mountain „two rivulets, one of which passes down eat° the elvers winch pout out into e Pacific ocean and the other rivulet owing down into the rivets which pails tettt into tho Atlantie ocean? Eivery male nherY woman, stands at a point where iniords uttered, ter deeae done, or 'Mayers ieffetee, decide opposite destinies and op. afte eternities. We SOO a man plautitigi tree, tmel treading the sod firmly on either side of it, and Watering it in weather, and taking a great dare • 0 its culture, and he over plucks any ttfault from its bough; bet his chilaren. 111,. m& are all rilantine femur thee. veal LIV1 roue mut atirilredie of after we are dead; orehards of golden truth or 'reeves of deadly upas. I am oci fas- cleated with the phosphorescence in the track of a ebb that have sometinees watched fer a long wile, and hove Been. nothing ,en the feat of the deep but blackness. The mouth of watery 01018044 that lookee like gaping jaws of hell. Not a spark as big as the firefly; not a wine° scroll a surf; not a taper to in laminate the 'nighty sepulchres of dead ohms; darisness three thousand feet deep; and more thouseride of feet long and wide. 13:hat is the kind of wake that a ibad num leaves beniud him as he ploves through the often of this life toward nee aster °coal). ot the great tuturee Now, suppose a man seated in a corner geocety, or business 011100 among clezilne, gives himself to jolly scepticism', He laughs at the 331b1e, makes sport or the' miracles, speaks of perdition in jokee, and laughs at revivals as a frolic, and at the passage of a faneral procession, whieli always soleamizes sensible people, Baas, "Boys, let's take a drink." There is in that group a young man who is making a great struggle against temptation, and rays night and morning, and reads his ible, and is asking God for help day y day. But that guffaw against Carle tianity makes him lose his grip of sacred things and he gives up Sabbath, and church, and morals, and goes from -bad to worse, till he falls under dissipations, dies in a Meer house aid is buried in the potter's field. Another young man who heard that jolly scepticism made up hia mind that "it melees no difference what we do or sae., for we will all come out at last at the right place," began, as a con- sequence, to purloin. Some money that came into his hands for others he applied to his ovva tises, thinking Perhaps he would make it straight some other time, and all would be well even if he did not make it straight. He ends in the peni- tentiary. That scoffer veho uttered the jokes against Christianity never realized what bad work ho was doing, and he passed on through life, and out of it, and into. a future that I am not now going to depict. I do not propose with a search- light to snow the breakers of the awful coast on et'hich that ship is wrecked, for my business noni is to watch the eel after the keel has plowed it. No phos- phorescence in the wake of that shill, but behind it two souls struggling in the wave; two young men destroyed by reck- less seepticism, an unilluaained ocean be- neath, and ow all sides of them. Black- ness and darkness. You know what a gloriously good man Bev. John Newton was, the most of his life, but before his conversion he was a -very wicked sailor and on board the ship Harwich instilled infideLity and vice in the mind of a young man, principles which destroyed him. Afterward the two met and Newton tried to undo his bad work, but in vain. The young man became worse and worse and died a profligate, horrifying with his profanities those who stood by him in his last moments. Better look out what bad inflaence you start, for you may not be able to stop it. It does not re- quire very great force to ruin others. Why was it that many years ago a great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans? A crawfish had burrowed into the banks of the river until the ground was sat- urated, and the banks weakened until the flood burst. But I find here a man who starts out in life with the determination that he Will never see suffering, but he evill try to alleviate it; and never see discourage- ment but he will try to cheer it; and never meet with anybody but he will try' to do him good. Getting his strength from God, he starts from home with high purpose of doing all the good he CUE possibly do in one day. Whether stand- ing behind the counter, or talking be his ofdeh with apen behind his ear, or mak- fing a bargain with a fellow trader, or mat ies. the fields diacussing with his next neighbor the wisest rotation of crops, or in the sheemakee's shop pounding the sole leather, there is soraetlaing in his face, and in his phraseology, and in his manner that demonstrates the grace of God in hiti heart. He can talk on re - !talon without 'awkwardly dragging it in Ly the ears. He loves God and loves the souls of all whom he meets, and is Interested in their present and eternal deathly. For fifty or sixty years he lives that kind of life, and then gets through With it and into heaven a ransomed soul. But I am not going to describe the port into which that ship has entered. I am not going to describe the Pilot who met him outside at the lightship. I am not going to say anything about the crowns of friends who met him on the crystaline wharves up which he goes on steps of chrehoprases. For God in His wends to tab calls me to look at the path of foam in tne wake of that ship, and I tell you it is all a -gleam with ;splendors .of kindness dope, and rolling with Ilan:tined tears that were wiped away, and a -dash with congratulations, tend clear out to the horizon in all direc- tons is the sparkling, flashing, billowing phosphorescence of a Christian life. "He maketh a path to shine after him." And here I correct one of the mean notions which at some time takes pos- session of all of us, and that is e.s to the brevity of human life. When I beery some very useful man, clerical or lay, )n his thirtieth or fortieth year, I say, "What a waste of energies! It was hardly worth while for him to get ready for Christian work, for he had so soon to quit it." But the fact is that I may insure any man or woman who does any good on a large or small scale for a life on earth as long as the world lasts. Sickness, trolley ear aecidents, death itself can no more destroy his life than thee* cap tear down one of the rings of Saturn. YOU can start one good word; one kind eon one cheerful smtle, on n mission that will last until the world becoepes a bonfire, and out of that blaze Et will pass into the heavens never to halt as loilm• as God lives. :There were in the seventeenth cesteri, men and women whose names you never beard of who dre to -day influencing schools, colleges, churches, nations. You ean na more measure the gracious results lef their lifetime than you could measure rhe length, and breadth and depth of the hosphorescongte last night following the hip of the White Star Line 1,500 miles ant at sea. rldoW the courage and cense- exation et others fmspires us to follow, ins a general in the American army, cool, emidthe ilyifig bullets, inspired a trem- tiling soldier, who said afterwo.rds, "I was nearly scared to death, but I saw the old taan's white moustache over his aloulder, and went on." Aye, we are ell following somebody, either in right or wrong directionsA. few days ago good beside the garlanded casket of a gospel minister, and in ray remarks had eccasion to recall a snowy night in a farmhouse when I was a boy, and an evangelist spending a night at my fathe er'e house, who said something so teas der, and beautiful, and impressive that it led me into the kingdom of God, and' decided my destiny for this World and the next. Yoe will, before twenty-four hours go by, meet SOMe man or woman with a big pack of care and trouble, and on may say something to him or her that will madam until this world shall have !men so far lost in the past that uothingl bat the stretch of angelic memory will be able to realize thet it ever existed a ell. 1 anti not tenting of remarkable men and woreen, but of what ordinary fence eau do, 1 am not speaking of the phospleereseetice in the Wake of ti Cam - pendia nut of the phosphorescence en the traces of a Newnoundland &Able& somelen God makes thanderbolts out oe nutlike, iind Otit of the small words and deeds ecf mi Mika life Ile Oen Meath o. paver that well flash, and burn and thunder through the eternities. How do you like this Prolongation of your (teethe, life by deathly influence? any a babe that dist aLtiith months of nnre by, the - ansamy created the parents 'wart to meet •that child in rftinee •seraptite, es Bailie yet la the tranefoimed heart and life 92 these Parente, and will lire on forever in the history of that famuly. If this be the oPPortilleits of ordinary (mule, what is the opportunity of those who have especial intellectual, or social, or mouetary equipment? Efalre yoa gay arithmetic capable of estimatingthe influence of our good and gracious friend who a few demi ego wdnt up to rest - George W. Childs, of Philadelphia? From a newspaper that Was printed for thirty yeare without one word of defa- mation, or scurillitY, or seandel, arid hutting chief emphaels on virtue and caarity, and clean ietelligence, he reaped a fortune for himself, and then distrii buted a vast amount of it aroong the poor and struggling, putting Ids invalid and aged reportere on pensions, until his name stands everywhere for large-heart- eduess, and sympathy! and help, and highest style of Chrietian gentleman. lir an era which had in the chair of its Journalism a Horace Greeley, and a Henry J. Betymond, and a James Gordon Bennett, and an Emotes Brooks, and a George 'William Curtis, and an Irenaeue Prime; none of them be longer re- membered that George W. Childs. Staybige'etway from the unveiling of the !monument he had reared at large ex - Pease in our Greeuwood in memory of Prof, Proctor, tee astronomer, lest I should say something in praise of tae man who had paid for the monument. By all acknowledged a representative of the highest American journalism. If you .would cali culate his nfluence for good you naost eount how- many sheets of his newspapers have been •published in the last quarter of a century, and how many people have read them, and the efeeel not only upon those readers, but uPoe all whom they shall influence for all time, while yoa add to all that the worle of the churches he helped build, and of the institutions of mercy he helped found. Better give up before you start the measuring of the phosphorescence in the wake of that ship of the Celestial line. Who ean tell the post-mortem in- fluence of a So.vonarola, s Winklereld, a Guttenberg, a Marlborough, a Decatur, a Toussaint, a Bolivar, a Clarkson., 4 Robert Raikes, a Harlan Page, who had 125 Sabbath etholaes, See of whom be- came Christians, and six of them mine isters of the gospel. •With gratitude, and patience, and wor, ship, I mention the grandest life that wan ever lived. That ship of light was launch, ed from the heavens nearly 1900,years ago, angelic hosts chanting, and from the celeetial wharves the ship sprang ento the roughest sea that ever tossed. he bellows were made up of the wrath ot men and devils, Herodic and SanhecIrli mic persecutions stirring the deep with red wrath, and all the hurricanes of vied smote it, until on the rooks of Golgotha that life struck with a resound of agony, that appailed the earth and the heavens. But in the wake of that life evliat a phom phorescence of smiles on the cheek oi souls pardoned, and lives reformed, and nations redeemed. The millennium Retell is only one roll of that itradiated wave of gladness and benediction. Imi thei sublimest of allisenses it may be said ol Him, "He maketh a path to shine after Him." Bus I cannot look upon that luminosity that follows steeps without realizing bowl fond the Lord is of life. The fire of the deep is life, myriads of creatures all a -swim, and a -play, and a -romp In parka of marine beauty, laid out and parterred, and roseated, and blossomed by Omnipo- tence. What is the use of those creatures called by the naturalists "crustaceans' and "copepods," not more than one out of hundreds of billions of which are evei seen by the human eye? God created them for the same reason that he oreatet dowers in places where no human fool ever makes theta tremble, and no humae nostril ever inhales their redolence, and no human eye ever sees their charm. DI the botanical world they prove that God loves flowers, as in the marine world the phosphori prove that He loves life and He loves life in Play/ life In mink ancy of gladness, life in exuberance. And so I am led to believe that he loves our life if we fulfil our mission fully as the phosphori fulfil theirs. 434 Son of God came "that we might b.ave life, and have it more abundantly." But ,I am glad to tell you that ova God Is not the God sometimes described as a harsh critic at the head of the univezse, or an infinite scold; or a God that loves fuller als batter than weddings; or a God that prefers tears to laughter; an omnipotent Nero, a ferocious Nana Sahib; but the loveliest Being in the universe, lovinn flowers, and life, and play, whether of phosphori in the wake ol the Majestic, or of the htenau race keepina, a holiday. But, mark you, that the phesphoresi cence has a glow that the night mos nopolizes, and I ask you not only whoa kind of Influence you are going to leave in the world as you p.ass through It, but what light are you gouig to throw Remo the world's night of sin and sorrow People who am sailing on smooth sea and at noon do not need much sympathy, but what are you going to do for people in the night of misfortune? Wil you drop on them slta.dow, or will you kindle for them phosphorescence? At this me meat there are more people erying than laughing; more people on tho round ,world this moment huagry than well fed; more households bereft than homes un- broken. What are you going to do about It? "Well," says yonder soul, 'T world like to do something *toward ineunining the „reheat ocean of human wretchedness, but I cannot do much." Gan you do rie much as one of the phosphori in the mid- dle of the Atlantic ocean, creatures smaller than the point of a sham' pin? "Oh, yes, ' you say. Then do that Shine! .Stand before the looking -glass and 'experi. ment to see if you cannot get that scowl off your forehead; that peevish look out of your lips. Hae nt leatt one bright ribbon in your boanet. lilmbroider at least one white card somewhere in the midnight of your apparel. Do not any longer impersonate a funeral. Shine! Do say something cheerful about society), and about the woeld. Put a few drops of heaven into your disposition:, Once be a While subetitute a sweet orange for a sour lemon. Remembet that pessimist:a is blasphemy, and that olhiraism Is Christianity. Throw sortte light on the night ocean. If you cannot be a lantern! swinging in the rigging, be one of the tiny phosphori back of the keel. Stand "Let your light so shine before men that others seeing your good works may glorify your leather which Is in heaven." Make one person happy every day and do that for 20 years and you will have made 7,800 happy. You knove a man whet has lost all his property by an unfortunate investment, or by melting his name on the back of a friend's note? After yom have taken a brief nap which every man; line woman is matinee to on a Stinney1 afternoon, go and eta tip that man.. 'You can, if, Gad helps you, say somethetai that rill do him good after both of yote have been dead a thousand year. Shinie You know of a family with a bad bon.' who has run away from home. Go be fore night and tell that father and mothea, the ratable of the prodigal eon, and that', some of the illuotaiens and useful mem blow in cherele and state lead a silly pas- sage in their lives and ran away froze home. Shine! Toil know of a namilye that lute lost a WM, and the onetime et the toieriery gloores the veliche house freene cellar to garret. Go before night and tell, Omen bow much that (Send has happily es., cape% eleree Me snag notosperous l±fe tue exilih is a etregglo. &duel Yon know of mane tievalidewho is dying for lack a air Minetite. Me Minot get well he- eding she Mentiot eat, Adroit a ebitken and take It to het befOre blights and cheat her peer onset/tie into keen relish: ffeu knee* of sotto ono who liken mote and you like hire; eon let ought iv be a Christian. Go mad tell him 'what Xe. Onion hen clooe for you, and ask hive If heti. oil Pray fee' him. Shine! Ole, foe a4:dat, dion so chanted prith rrweetne rel and I ot that We cannot kelp but shinee Remember if eent cannet be a leviathan inviting the wean into fury, you can be one Of the plmsphore doing your par§ towards making a path of pbosphorese cam% Then 1 will tell you what impress Alen mon will leave as you pass through thle We and after you are gone. X wild tell you to your -face, and not leave It fon the minister wh,o •offielates at your thee- quies. The failure in all oulogram of the deleattee is that they cannot hear it. All hear it except thre one most intereeked. This, 13 tiubstance, is what 1or someone else will oan of yea ou a anallar occasiour "We gather for ofEen.s of remora to that deParted one. It is impossible to tel./ anew InanY tears he wiped away; how, many burdens he lifted, or how mann' monis he was, antler God, instrumental Id His ineluenoe will oeve.r cease. riiiee are all better for havingncnown hirn4 That pdlow of dowers on his casket Was Jena:rented by his Sabbath aohool class, all of evlhom he brought to Christ. That cross of flowers at the head was .presenre ed by the orphan asylum which he be - attended, Those three single flower. - one was swat by, a poor woman for whew he bought a ton of coal, and one Was trona mi waif of the street whom he res. cried through the midnight mission, and; the other was from a prison cell which hel had ofteu visited to encourage repentance in a young man who had done wrong., Piton three looae flowers mean quite ass much as the costly garlands now, breathing their aroma through this sad- dened home, crowded with sympathizers. ¶flfessell are the dea.d who die in the' cni; they resit from their ltsbons, and their works do follow them.' Or if Armed axe the more salmis burial at Naafi let it he after the sun has min down, =Mks Cantaltotras read the appropriate' iltardY, and the shifds boll has tolled anti you are let down trom the data of thi of the' vessel into the re/iplendent plans phoresconce of the wake of the slain Then let some one say, in the Words 01 my text, "He maketh a path to shins after Him." MORE MINERS BURIED. Seven Men Entombed in Boston Bun Oolliery. AN EXONSIVE OAVE-IN, reeesoommm4 A Band of Begetters Big for Their Lost Com- rades and Find Thema Unhurt, Ent Can: not Beach Meru. A Seenendeah despstoh sayi; Tide In:Im- munity Was etertlect this taboo:teen when it was annetineed the!) a greab fall of oral had hurled eleven mlnere in the Banton Run Colliery. The fete of the thirbeen en- tombed men at Plymouth added a new ter- ror to the aeoidente Men and women and children rushed to the mine and ab once a large force of rehears set to work to dig out their lost comrades. Mho vioblms of the oave-la are: Joseph Meckes John Mookee, Lewis ' White Charles kohen, Elwood Mingle, jamesKremer and William Ervine. It was 3 enolook when the catastrophe 000urred. Heroically, almost breathlenly, the rescuers tailed for two honer:. Then they were pertially wad and greatly encour- aged by finding the Meokes brothers un- hurt. With renewed vigor the band of mitten set to work to save their other oompenlens. Au hour went by and no signs of the lest ntinere. Wemeu and children crowded at the head of the shaft to hear ef the program made in the black pit below. The falling mass brought with itt a rash of water, and alao daramed up the water in the lower gangway so them the Mookes brothers, who were working in the lower gangway, had to swim through nix feet of water to a free part of the gangway flat enabled them to finally get enb of the mine. The offielala decided that, by metering threugh adjoieing pillars for a dietance of frortier or fifey feet, bhey could reach the im- panned men, and Cale work was at onoe begun with a Mit force of employees/. Fer hours the restorers hammered away at the barrier thea lay betweera them and their oomradee, Ab lad they hoard noises from the vioinity of where the miming men wore supposed to be, and the joyful 120W0 was soon posed about that the !nee were safe, and, to all appearancee, jelly and hopeful in their imprompta tomb. lithe fail of to -day doom nob extend and become gene - kali the officials capon to release the im- p/Mated men before morning, but; if another fall shall ewer their destruotion is inevit- able. Provincial Expenditure. The estioleisse for 1894 for a total expen- diture oi $3,415,663, by the Ontario Gov- ernment, aro an follows : Civil Government Legislation Administration of Justioe Education , • . . Public Institutions maintenance.... Immigration Agriculture Hospitals and charities Maintenance and repair of Govern- ment and Departmental buildings Public Buildings - (1) Repairs- . 14,100 (2) Capital account 207,290 Public Works - (1) Repairs14,090 (2) Capital account 22,302 Colonization roads 104,370 Charges on Crown lands 125,309 Refund account 23,314 Miscellaneous expenditure. ...... 179,190 Unforeseen and unprovided 50,000 Current expenditure for 1891 • 3,058,386 On capital account • 333,962 Other purposes • 23,314 Amount of estimates • 83,415,663 The new Qualms en publio buildings whieh the est:imago foreshadow amount:I to VO7,290. Of this the amiume for the !n- one repave the following: Toronto, 9.400; Mintloo, $15,100; London, $15100; Hamilton, $24,830 ; Wageless, $28,080. Oa the Central Paean the Govern- inent proposes to woad $26 000, and en the Belleville Deaf and Damn Iestitute, $10,050. 51he dietriot of Nipiesing is to hey° $11,500 in public buildinge. As ilia session is to be followed by an deaden the estimates for colonization made preen Reheat intereet. Who Government mike for $104,370 for this purpose, of which Mae North Division in to get $23,170, the Wed Division $19,600, and the Bad Division 04,300, while $27,300 is for geeenn hoe. pone. 244.005 124,300 414,322 655,142 770,523 8,225 177,775 176,159 75.246 One Angers Busy Hour. SI. Peter -How beautifully these angels float in that) erange-binted (deed out) yon- der 1 Reoording angel -Yes. yaii ; Imb don% in. terrupt me please! 1,s1 tenthly buoy. Millions: of the moat tearable cuss Wordil °enable in every :legend. St. Peter -What? Why, WM IS early Snaday morning, and neatly all the people of earth, wearied with the Week'work, are asleep. Rewording angel -They were %sleep ; hub the °tunas belle have begun to eing. We are willies to beb that the devil is a Married math •PlE...liff.',.BRITI.S11;. MODER. Skold, .of Ihe.•.P.0.410...."...Gitieer of tha Nw Liberal ..Logior... • CHOSEN IVO SUCCEED GLADSTONE., Efie Houry.Penoonhy, the Queen'e Private Secretary, wetted Lord Regebery In London yesterdey • efternoon, and bold isbn ef the ttelp.xordltolieber eea's,wiehtht abyam e weooetwittingeP70give e ; Any immediate deolsion. Ile rembeered at length with his colleague* in the Cabinet, end delayed his sneseptance until the even- ing. The Quart will come from Windier to London tonnerrOw, and will give Lord Resebery an audience) in Buokingbera Pelage. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Cheneellor ef the Exchequer ; Berl Spencer, Vied Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr, Herbert A.scassith, Home Seoretery, called upon Lord Rosebery today. to. Gladstone attended the Chapel Royal, St James, this morning and took 130 part in the Cabinet- maSkinf irrohibeld Philip Primrose, Knight el the Gerber and Palmy Coursollior, is Berl Rosebery in the peerage of &Oland and Baron Resebery In the peerage of the United Kingdom. The Primrose family acquired distinction in the beginning of the seventeenth century through James Prim- rose, a lawyer of note, who beeeme Clerk of the Privy Council of Seothend in 1602, and not lea through hie eon, Arehibald Prim- rose, who bemuse aim Clerk of the Privy Council, and subsequenbly Lord Clerk Register; and who received from Charles L the title of a Bareneb of Nova Bootie. Whit Sir Archibald Primrese drafted the celebrated Remoissory ikon which sst aside as invalid the legloistion of the Scots Par- liament during the Commonwealth. The son of Sir Archibald Primrose was ennobled in 1700 lender the title of Bann Prim- rose and Delmeny, Viscount Rosebery, and later was created Earl of Rembery 13 1701 The preeent Earl ef Rosebery is the fifth, having succeeded his grandfather in 1868, Lord Rosebery was born in 1847, and is thus in bit forby-seventh year. He mar- ried in 1878 Hautteh de Retheohild, daugh- ter en Baron Meyer Amsohel de Rothschild. Lady Resebery died in 1890, leaving Imo eons and two daughters. Lard Bombay attained his majority and euneeded to the °Mates almosb simultaneously, and almost immediately thereafter entered nubile life. His slight, boyish figure, and far, round, heirkes f ems came to be familiar on political platforms about 1870. He did not and does not now look him years, and his ingenuous youth, coupled with an agreeable yoke and an unusual facility of epigrammetto end humorous expression, wen Inc him at once a popularity which many men of greater but lase attrachive gilts have tolled after fruitleeely. He was not rich, se he m tarried money and regretted blurt he was nob a Commoner that he might try his skill in debate with more worthy antagonists than he found in the sleepy ecoupents of the hereditary benohes 13 113 Chamber to which the wfortunate aocident of his birth had. am/Called him to go. Lard Romberg made his Perliznentary debut iu 1871, when he seconded the addreas 13 rtply to the Speech from the Throne In the Reuse ef Lords. The evident moans of his firsb appear- ance secured for him much fitttering atten- tion from his party, and the appointment' at 25 years of age to a meat on the Sootell Educational Eadowmeats Commission in 1872, But the defeat of the Liberals in 1874 prevented him from even the opportu- nity of woupying any poet until the Liberals re -attained power In 1880. When Mr. Gladstone formed his Ministry in 1880, Lord Romberg did not at Sret find a place. In August, 1881, ho mover, ho became Under Secretary Inc Home Affairs, Sir William Vernon Harcourt being Lome Secretary. In 1883 he Omitted office, on the ground, as etated at the time that in Si: William Hare surds 'dew lb wee Inexpedient that the Under Senetary for Home Affairs should be a member of the House of Lads. Daring tbe years of free- dom from responsibility Lord Rosebery developed rapidly as a public speaker, and was so bold in memo of his oritioisme of the industrial male:a that he was dubbed Inc a time the " coronetted Socialist." In Feb- ruary, 1885, his claim to a• prominent perth ton In his party was fully vindicated and he because a member of the Cabinet with the sinecure office ef Lord Privy Sem. The fall of lelr. Gladetone's Government in June, 1885, closed Lerd Rosobershe brief tomme of (Mdse. But in February. 1886, he returned aa a member of Mr. Gladatone's Cabinet) with the greatly Improved position of Fweign Secretary. In March of the same yea there occurred the spilt in the Mora1 ranks when dlr. Chamberlain and he:friends broke away Item their panty. Lord Rene- bery remained with his chief, and left °fan with him et mid -summer, 1886, He becesme a member Inc the London °aunty Connell tis 1889; he was eleoted the First: Chairman, with general public) am- proval. Lord Roseberfa clam to the Premiership undoubtsdly rests very largely upen his work an Cheirmara of the London County Connell. ille thme years' career in thab capacity has earned far him mi reputablon Inc ahrowdneee, Inc eleilfulness in managing men and for groat eapaeley in grappling with cemplleated detail, which are all re- cognized to be medial graaliblea in the aureola cant of edam. When Mr. Gladstone resumed office in 1892, Lord. Rosebery naturally became Foreign Secretary ; no other appointment was pliable. Certain indefinable algae hs.ve appeared that he has oonducted affisire at the Foreign Office with a firm hand. Even hie politiosa opponenta, and perhaps ;none ef ell these, have recagnized this to the full. Ittla a Wean diffieult, front any apeatEe acts of his, to justify fully the pre - venire; conniption tbat he is an ideal For - ohm Secretary, yet the pest twe years have been olaaraoterized by no blunders, and, in the one of Egypt end otherwise, he hes been suffiolently emphatio to please even the ji ego teatlenoin that still remain or perlodiaelly revive in Eagland. PERVIOUS APPOINTURNTS. After hie debut in politioal life, Lord Inseeleiry fitted a nueober of appointmentes, which, In their graduated scale of im- portance, give a plot:ire of his gradual rise in the political world. Is the same session tie that ID which he made his first speech he made his firet important political 11010V0 proposing sanemendment 13 113 Government Education Bill for Sootland, whit& mimed at the smelteries% of odechionne from Pablie &hook, thus eerier ehowlog hie strong Knead epee the %motion ei national education. Ho spoke su the same eiendoa on Lord Rus- sell's motion regerditeg the Alabama treaty, and wan appointed to serve on the Commis - don bo ingniee into endownserste in Scotland. Its the eeeelers of ).873 he moved for and (Moaned a oemmattee of inquiry en the ;supply of home in the cletantry. The reedit of the tioneminteens Inveetiga- Vette was the namieelots of the texom bonen Daring the earniene sif 187413 moved foe and wee made°01se1rmen 02 113 Cestmeitine eat Snatch end Irish Hee preeentetive Noma. In 9914011, 107 Is. Acted as Peeeldent of tho fioahd CtOngiroto, whiah *net Glat_gaw, Oe�v• 10008Z8. he wax elected Lloth Rector olf laAhtoerMd"r,4W17.434171Frieta9te. Ilit lauc,1138e840tdiutieborlt 1up 7:012 e 4Y e r rut tny,tuo7Nn of :or: etrh (14 bah: ail 8e 8 :a nIon); Wulf Inetigaral leeture not being riso 1881, he was wad° Uzider floorotary of SW* for the Er9100 Department, fa ettooemslon tes Deenerei Courtney, whe was teeneforgest to the Colonial Offices, a resiged 13fEfen just°, 1884, and InNevember, 1884, besmear First Commissionerof Work;, in a aaatealwate Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, who bemoan Poetmastere Genoessl, In 'accession be Mr. Feweatt, 1884 he moved for a seleob oomMittee to Inquire into the beet ensue Of improriag the einoloney of the aeutie of Peens, De 1886 Lad tteriebery became Seeretary °Sir: 4trri gtE°34r1gaGlaAdgeg.toilluee'gkilladhoririt try. irtsktra- In 1888 Cembridge nonfeered upset hira the degree of LLD. Oa January 17,, 1889, he wise,. With Sir John Lubbock*, ideated member for the oity division of the. newly earnitibUted LAtindoti (Iontg unelln and on February 12th he was eineeited°13hate. men of thet body. He held thie Oats° till June, 1890, tvhea he realigned, and was wee ended by Sir Sohn Lubbock, He made am ideal chairman, and the limitation of speeches to 15minutes and content applicar time of *Imre under his careful guidance assaulted, in an ouormous amount of work being done. In 12 menthe he prodded oven 44.public meetings of tbe Connell, and at- tenden 280 regular committee rneetinge, bee skims nearly as many informal meetings. On November 19, 1890, Ledy Rosebery mod of typhoid /ever. Isa Novembor, 1891, Lard Reseberfa monograph en 'William Pitt ap- peared. LORD 1108E3EE7 IN CANADA. Mang Canadian publio men will remember Lord Rsseberyte visit to Canada in 1873, at, the time of the Paoitio Railway seandaL Who radio exatement ovor. the revelations was at its height, and the Opp:mitten in the Dominion Parliament were maisliestIng much impatience over Lard Daffreln't course in refusing to dissolve Parliaments upon the 3/finietern refneal to recommend diroolution. Ss serious did the situation seem in England that) Lord Kimberley, the Colonial Minister, neleatecl Lard Rosebery to semi en a anoret 0110/11100' which really WAS to sound the feeling ofthe Canadian publio upon Lord Dafferin's condo. In the coaree oi this piece of ser- vice he was Introduced to Mr. E& - ward Bleke and Mr. Madame% by Mr. J. D. Edgar, who, ao chief Liberal whip, was reticle with Lind Rosebery. So fan- preseed was &fr. Edgar with the brilliant qualltdee of the young Peer -then 26 years of age -that he remarked to is friend "that 11 1131 young man lived he would bs Prime Minister of England." The acquaintance formed than with Mr. Blake ha/ a sequel, for provieus to the &esti Home Rale Bill Lord Rosebery brought Mr. Gladetoue and Mr. Blake together at hie owe oenittry scab ab Dalmeny Park and the two statesmen Eaglish and Canaelane there &leaned the details of the Home Rule scheme, which was than just being matured!. welcome to ee. Onselontally there °onion a reminlimence- ef the runaway darky whioh shown net only his humor, hub his ferepreseible longing Inc the boon of freedom, Baforo the war there come into the public room of a hotel in Cnneda, near the frontier, one day s. bright-Is:eking negro. I thiese piano a runs, way slave," old ews of tue men in the roam, looking sharply at the new -comer. Feeling that he was pretty well away from bondage, the darky responded in the affiramtive. Well, we're glad enough that you've gob away; hub you don't seem to look very poor. Mao good clothes down Sc'utiti3hat" tingly, salt ; same °lathes as my mrgal it; yon got a geed many thrashing., eh?" " Nether had e. whipping in my life, lah." "Never thrashed I Well, 1 ouppeae yo den% always get enough to eat, de you!' " Alwaya bird enough, gemmen ; nebbe wenitIhulerl a ." iVirhrild the persistent into:Toga- tor. " Geed olethes, no punishment, plenty to sat? Now just think of it," he said, ad- dressing a group of loungers. " This fellow haa left a persition where he enjoys all these privileges, Inc an uncertainty." " Gammen," replied the darky, " all l'se got to say reopectin' dem privileges is dat if any armee) you wants th even bisself oh ern, de situation am still open.-Youthes Conopronion. Monica. A welt -known 'Literati= nob long age. delivered a lecture before a Buffalo oliata, and lar, the course of his talk he had eon- - eine to gaete Shakepearela lines about uusassr lime the head that weans a crown," etc, At the conaluslon of hie address he wee approached by a Soetchmset, who expreased his pleasure at the telk, but took 00:1112i011. 'Di) may Mutt ids ripprobatIon of Shakapeara vvao treeRe limited. "There's that bit you field about the un,eley head end the orown. I dime !Ike it. Ith innekle feellsh. Now our Robbie Burnt would na ha' writ Kroh Muff." Illhe katurer weel a trifle ourprieed, brit inquired poliboly why the Scot bhoughb as he did. "Oh," said the Scotehman, " there' ma, mom 13 Scotland, king or anybody elatie see foolish es to go to bad wi' a crown en. Any mon e' 0$060 wnd hang it over a chair before turning in r, A nerd of Cattle*. WilRiann Weaver, of Darbln, N. D., haa arriven here with a number of " cattlemtd which he will exhibit at the Midwinter Fair. Then animals are the progeny of re buffalo mut a polled Angus cow. Mho cress giveaisa eadmel lerger than the buffalo, and the kins are much superior eo those of the fall -blood baffelo, the fur being finer and longer end of the uniform seal -brown colon They are worth from $100 to $150 &plan, but elm akin was eo fine that he got .3250 Inc it. The meat is at leen 50 per cent. finer aunt buffalo, too, partaking of the ntsidve wilidneas ef that animal and the high blood of the polled cettleo.-San Francisca Numbered Tee Illdsb. "Faker bib the Scsddleberr.y reeeption in a huff," ItDid 13 i What was the matter 2" "Me hat cheek wee 502. Parker In ones of the 400." An Wand in Saone Bay le inhabited only by a peak of re/venout dogs which havo almesb degenerated into waved. Mimele very swift and busy; but 1 salways 0601131( to have the leisure) to pub a venial& or two in every Rix -dollar; allevoel emit ol olothere Chtertes hotel men complain and their hoincee site deported. A, home thab had 3),000 getoste a month ago now hes but 300; end ea it Matt