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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-21, Page 7NOR I eitting-roont, mad the parlor—the wearing -InEFXCITED GOVER 1 economy of trying to meet large eepensee 1401. TALMAGE'S SERMONIC DIS- COURSE THROUGH THE PRESS. "*'hu Voice of Business Drowna tlxe Voiaa ser the Eternal Spirit, and, So the Pre - garotter' for the Advancing iTudgment Day is Postponed. BROQIELYN, June 10.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now speeding across the Pacific) to Honolulu, on his round -the -world journey, bss seleoted as the subject for sermonic aliscourse through the press toelay, "The Suited Governor;" the text being taken ' from .e.ots 24, 25—"Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season I will call for 'thee," .A. city of marble was destine—wit arves -a marble, houses (If marble, templee of marble, This being the ordinary archi. eteeture of the place you may imagine esomething of th,e slhendor of Governor Pelix's resideuce. In a room of that palace, oor tesselated, windows curtained, ceiling i,frotted, the whole scene affluent with lyrian purple, and statues, and pictures, -And carvings, sat a very dark -complexion - man by the name of Felix, and beside Aim a woman of extraordinary beauty, whom he had stolen by breaking up another lomestie irole. She was only eighteen _years of age, a princess by birth, and un- wittingly waiting for her doom—that of being buried alive in the ashes and scoriae ^eif Mount Vesuvius, which in sudden -eruption, one day, put an end to her abominations. Well, one afternoon Dru seated in the palace, weary with the •magniecent stupidities of the place, says to Felix, "Yon have a very distinguished prisms; I believe, by the name of Paul. Do you know he is one of my countrymen? I should, very much like to see him, and I 'should very much like to hear him speak, for I have heard so muoh About his eloquence. Besides that, the other day, when he was being tried in an - 'other room of this 'palace, and the windows were open, I heard the applause that greeted the speech of Lawyer Tertullus, as be denounced Paul. Now, I very much wieh I could hear Paul speak. 'Won't you let me hear him sneak?" "Yes," said Felix, "I will. I will order him up now from the guard-rooin." Clank, clank, games a chain up the marble stairway and there is a shuffle at the door, and in comes Paul, a little old man, prematurely old through exposure—only sixty years of age, but looking as though he were eighty. He 'bows very courteously before the Governor and the beautiful woman by his side. They say, "Paul, we have heard a great 4eal about your speaking; give us now a opeoimen of your eloquence.' Ohl if there ever was a chance for a naan to show off, Paul had a chance there. He might have barangued them about Grecian art, about Oho wonderful water -works he had seen at Corinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight, about prison life in Philippi, about "what saw in Thessalonica,' about the old mythologies; but "No 1" Paul said to Mineola 'I am now on the way to martyr - , em, and this man and woman will soon ttie dead, and this is my only opportunity to talk to them of eternity." And just there and then, there broke in upon the ecene a peal of thunder. It was the voice af a ladgment day speaking through the 'words of he decrepit apostle As that grand aid missionary proceeded with his remarks, the stoop begins to go out of his shoulders, and he rises up, and his countenance is IHuminecl with the glories of a future life, mid his shackles rattle and grind as he lifts his fettered arm, and with it hurls Upon his abashed auditors the bolts of God's indignation. Felix grow very white obout the lips. His heart beat unevenly. He put his hand to his brow, as though to stop the quickness and violence of his thoughts. He drew his robe tighter about bira, as under a sudden chill. His eyes glare and his knees shake, and, as he ellutches the side of his chair in a very paroxysm of terror, he orders the sheriff be take Paul back to the guard -room. ,"Felix trembled, and said, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient sea. son, I will call for thee." A young man came one night to our services, with pen- al in hand, to caricature the whole scene, and make mirth of those who should ex- press any anxiety about their smile; but I pet him at the door'his face very white, tears running down his cheek, as he said, "Do you think there is any chance for see?" Felix trembled, and so may God grant it may be so with others. I propose to give you two or three reso sons why I think Felix sent Paul back to the guard -room, and adjourned this whole aubject of religion. The first reason was, ,tte did not want to give up his sins. He looked around; there was Drusilla. He hnew that when Ile 'became a Christian, he must send her back to Amiens, her law - len husband, and he mid to himself, "I will risk the destruction of my immoTtal Noel, sooner than I will do that." How gaany there are now who cannot get to be Christians because they will not abandon their sins I In vain all their prayers and all their church -going. You cannot keep these darling sins and win heaven; and taow some of you will have to decide be- tween the wine -cup, and unlawfnl amuse - extents, and laseivious gratifioations on the L'310 hand, and eternal salvation on the ether. Delilah sheared the locks of Sam - . on; Salome danced Herod into the pit; prusilla blocked up the way to heaven for Felix. Yet when I present the subject wow, I fear that some of you will say, "Not quite yet. Don't be so precipitate in your demands. I have a few tickets yet 'that I have to use' I have a few engage- ments that I mustkeep. I want to stay a -Iettle longer in the whirl of oonviviality—a elm more guffaws of unclean laughter, a Sew more steps on the road to death, and then, sir, 1 will listen to what you say. 'Go thy way for this time; when I have a sonvenient season, I will call for thee.'" Another mason why Felix sent Paid hack h3 the guard -room and adjourned this sub, jeet was, he was so very. busy. In ordin- eery times he found the affairs of state ab- sorbing, but those were extraordinary times, The whole land was ripe for in- -laureation. The Sicarii, a band of asses - • were already mewling around the •,/ealace, and I suppose Ite thoueht. attend to religion while I am so pressed by aftaire of state." It was Milanese, among other things, that ruined his soul, and 1 • suppose there are thousands of people who are not children of God beoanee they have se much business. It is bosiness in the itore—losses, gains, uafaithful employees. It is business ia your law office—sub- poenas, writs you have to write out, papers you have to file, arguments you )ave to make, It is your =diced profeseion, with its broken nights and the exhausted anxi- eties of life hanging upon your treatment. It is your real estate ca°, your business With lancllorde and tenahts, and the failure men to meet their obligatione with you. Ay, with some a those who aro here, it it 'ihot IlihneYADSO .of the kitchen, and the with a small :meow. Ten thoosiind voices of "business, businees, beshesse," drown the voice of the Eternal Spirit, silenc- ing the voice of the advancing jedg- men t day, overcoming the voice of eternity; and they cannot hear, they cannot listen. They Fan "Go the' way for this time." Some ot you look npon your goods, look upon your professiore you look upou your memorandum books, and you see the demands that are made this very week upon your time and your patience and your money; and while I am entreating you about your soul and the danger of procrastivation, you say, "Go. thy way for this time; when I have a con- venient season, I will call for thee." Oh, Felix, why be bothered about the affairs of this world so much more than about the affairs of eternity? Do you not know that tvlien death comes yon will have to stop business, though it be in the most ex- acting period of it—between the paynaent of the inone,y and the takingof the re- ceipt? Tee motneut he comes you will have to go. Death waits for no man, how- ever bigh, however low, Will you put your office, will you put your shop in corn - poison with the affairs of an eternal world? Affairs that involve thrones, pal- aces, dominions eternal? Will you put two hundred neves of ground against ire: mensity? Will you put forty or fifty years of your life against millions of ages? Oh, Felix! you might better postpone every- thing elseFor do you not know that the upholstering of Tyrian purple in your palace will fade, and the marble blocks of Cesarea will crumble, and the breakwater at the beach, made of great blocks of stone sixty feet long, must give way be- fore the perpetual wash of the sea; but the redemption that Paul offers you will be forever? Arid yet, and yet, and yet you wave him back to the guard -room, saying, "Go thy way for this time; when I have a couvenient season I will oall for thee." Again, Felix adjourned this subject of religion, and put off Paul's argumeut, be- cause he could not give np the honors of the world. He was afraid, somehow; he would be compromised himself in this mat- ter. Remarks he mails afterwards showed him to be intensely ambitious. Oh, how he hugged the tavor ofmen? I never saw the honors of this world in their hollowness and hypoorisy so much as in the life atid death of that wonderful man, Charles Sumner. As he went toward the place of burial, even Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, asked that his re- mains stop there on their way to Boston. The flags were at laalfonast, and the min- ute -guns on Boston Clowanon throbbed after his heart had ceased to beat. Was it al- ways so? While he lived, how censured of legislative resolutions, how caricatured of the pictorials; how charged with every motive mean and ridioulons; how all the urns of scorn and hatred and billingsgate emptied upon his head; how, when struck down in Senate Chamber, there were hun- dreds of thousands of people who said, "Good for him, served him right!" how he had to put the ocean between him and his maligners, that he might have a little peace, and how, when he went off sick, they said he was broken-hearted beeause he could not get to be President or Secre- tary of State. Oh, Commonwealth of Massachusetts! who is that man that sleeps in your public hall, covered with garlands, and wrapped in the Stars and Stripes? Is that the man who, only a few months before, you denounced as the foe of Republican and Democratic institutions? Is that the same man? Ye American peo- plie• ye could not, by one week of funeral eulogium and newspaper leader, whielit the dead. senator could neither read nor hear, atone for twenty-five years of maltreatment and caricature. When I see a man like that, pursued by all '.the hounds of the political kennel so long as he lives, and then buried under a great pile of garlands, and amidst the lamentations of a whole nation, I say to myself: "What an un- utterably hypocritical thing is all human applause and all human favor! Yon took twenty-five years in trying to pull down his fame, and then take twenty-five years in trying to build his monument. My friends, was there ever a better commen- tary on the hollowness of all earthly favor? If there are young men who read this who are postponing religion in order that they may have the favors of this world, let me persuade them of their complete folly. If you are looking forward to gubernatorial, senatorial, or presidential chair, let me :Mow you your great mistake. Can it be aid there is any young man saying, "Lot me have politioal office, let me have some of the high positions of trust and power, and then I will attend to religion; but not now. 'Go thy way for this time-' when I have a convenient season I willeall for thee.'" .And now my subject takes a deeper tone, and it shows what a dangerous thing is this deferring religion. When Paul's chain rattled down the marble stnire of Felix, thee was Feliree last chance for heaven. Judging from his character afterward, he was reprobate and abandoned. Ana so was Drusilla. One day in Southern Italy there was a trembling of the earth, and the air got blaele with smoke intershot with liquid rooks, and Vesuvius rained upon Drusilla and upon her son a horrible tempest of ashes and fire. They did not rejed re- ligion; they only put it ofE They did not understand that that day, that that hour, when Paul stood before them, was the pivotal hour upon which everything was poised, and that it tipped the wrong way. Their couvenient season came eiheii rani anti nis guardsman entered the palace; it went away when Paul and his guardsman left. Have you never seen men waiting for a conven- ient season? There is such a great fascin- ation about it, that though yon may have great respect to the troth of Christ, yet somehow there is in your soul the thought, "Not quite yet. It is not time for me to become a Christian." I say to a boy, "Seek Christ." He says, "No; wait 1111I get to be a young man." I say to the young man, "Seek Christ." He says, "Wait un- til I come of mid-life. 1 meet the same man in mid-life, and I say, "Seek Christ." He says, "Wait until I gee old." I meet the same person in old age, and say to him, "Seek Christ." He says, "Wait nn 111 I am on toy dying bed.' I am called to his dying couoh. His last moments have come. I bend over his couch and listen for his lase words. I have partially to guess what they are by the motion of his lips, he is so feeble; but rallying himself, he whispers, until I catt hear him say, "/ —am—waiting—for —a —more— eonven- ient—season"—and he is gone. I eau tell you when your convenient !wa- wa will come. I tan tell you the year— it will be 1804, I can toll you what kind of a day it will be—it will be the Sabbath day. I can toll you what, hour it will be —it will be between eight and ten o'olock, In other words, it is now. Do you tent me how / know thin le your conveniehe season? Ithow it because you are here, and be, eau. the Holy Spirit is here, arid became* the elect eons end dangletere of god are praying for your redemption. Ah, I know it is your oonveniene season bonnie*, some of you, like Felix, tremble as all your paet life 'comes upon you with he sin, and all the future life .00mes opon yon with ita terror. This night air is aglare with bamb- oo to show ) ou up or to show you down. It is ruselieg with wings to lift you into light, or smite you into despair, and there is a rushing to and fro, and a heating againet the door of your 60U1 as with it great thunder of emphasis, telling you, "Now, now is the beat time, as it may be the only yOid lneA." MyG1mighty forbid that any of you my brethren or sisters, aot the part of Felix and Drusilla, and put away this great anbject. If you are going to be saved ever, why not begin to -night? Throw down your sins and take the Lord's pardon. Christ bee been tramping after you many a day, An Indian and a white man be. earne Christians, The Indian, almost as soon as he heard the Gospel, believed and was saved; but the white man struggled on in darkness for a long while before he found light, After their peace in Christ, the white man said to the Indian, "Why was it that I was kept so long in the dark- ness, and you immediately found peaoe?" The Indian replied, "I will tell you. A prince cornea along, and he offers you a coat. You look at your coat, and you say, 'My coat is good enough,' and you reense his offer; but the prinoe comes along and he offers nee the coat, and I look at my.old blanket and I throw bleat away, and take his offer. You, sir," con- tinued, the Indian, "are oliuging to your own righteousness, you tidal,: you are good enough, and you keep your OW/1 righteous - nese; but I have nothing, methinkt, and so when Jesus offers tne pardou and peacie, I simply take it." 2,Iy reader, why not now throw away the worn-out blanket of your sin and take the robe of a Saviour's righteousness—a robe so white, so fair, so luetrous, that no fuller on eerth can whit- en it? Oh, Shepherd, to -night bring honto the lost sheep! Oh, Father, ecenight give a welcoming -hies to the wan prodigel 1 011, friend ot Lazartts, to -night break down the door of the sepnleare, and say to all these dead souls as by irresittible fiat "Live! Live!" TOSS THE COINS YOURSELF. what Aro the Chances of Threes Pennies Fall/tux An needs or All rause Supposing a nom to toss three pennioa in the air, what are the chance.; of their coinine down all heads or tails? That is a gneetion diseuased iu a recent number of Neture by Francis Galton, of the Royal sec ety. .Fre upsets a popular delusioti re- garding the laws of chance. It is obvious that tit least two of the coins thrown in the air must turn up alike, for when the coins are on the ground there must always be either two heads or tails showing. The question then is as to the chance of the third coin turuing up a head or a tail. It is, of tonene, an even chance whether a third. coin turns one side or the other. Is it, therefore, an even chance that all three coins will be alike. Mr. Galton says it is not an even chance, and that the man who bets his money on such a theory would lose in the end. He says the relative chance of all three coins turning up alike is two to eight, and he figures it out in this WttV: There are two different and equally probable ways in which a coin may turn up; there are four ways in which two coius may turn up, and there are eight ways in which three coins may do so, Of these eight ways ono is all, heads and another all tells. VT/elle it is an even chance whether a third coin is heads or tails, it is not an even chance that the third coin will tarn the same as the other two. In order to test the matter, Mr. Galton tossed three coins eight times. Only twice did they come up all alike, while the third coin was equally divided between heads and tails. Mr. Galton then made 120 throws of dice, with three dice in each throw, the odd numbers counting as heads and the even numbers as tails. The 120 throws were divided into three groups of forty in each, and gave the result of all alike, 8, 12 8, total, 28; as against not all alike, 32, 28, 82, total. 92. This seemed to settle the matter, and indicated that the most probable expectation in the case of the dice was 30 to 90. Dootructivo Inseota. 11 18 well for the cultivators of the soil to know how ranch they depend on de- structive and beneficial insedts for the suc- cess of their various crops. They may sometimes be able to meet and lessen the disaster which threatens them, Dr. Lint- ner states in one of his reports to the Coun- try Gentleman that in a late year while the fruit insects were most abundant, grain crops were almost entirely free front their usual enemies. Much valuable informa- tion is given in their reports, which may sable owners to save large sums a money by giving attention to Blain. The benefit which such knowledge has enabled culti- vators practically to apply in the deetrue. tion of the evesteris grasshopper, the potato beetle, the codling worm, the currant worm and curoulio, and other destractive ioseete, has already resulted in the saving of many millions of dollars. Prof. Smith of New. Jersey estimates that at least ten per tient. of all crops are destroyed by insects. IfItietalcos in Roma Ureeding. Farmers make a mistake in breeding when they raise horses to please them- selves. They must breed to suit the mar- ket. The outlook for breeding is better now than it has been, because the knife is being more freely used on poor stallions every day and quality and individuality of horses is being 0i:instantly raised M' 001100. quenoe. People Who are fond of driving want stylish animals, and it will pay the farmer to breed for that standard. Then after they are bred it will pay to bit them thoroughly, match them up, accustom them to sights and sounds in city and country and condition them so that they will be ready for work as soon as sold, — Troy Times. Future of tho mutton Industry. If there is one feature of farm life that gives promise of a most excellent and promising future it is that of the mutton industry. To this there is no possibility of damage for a score of yenta( to come un- less it is done by those who are the most interested in promobing it. There is ho more luseiotta or tasteful bleat known to mate and we except none, than well -led, early -matured mutton; and the American people aro very fast finding it out. They will pay more for it as the years pas* than less, but it must be as deeoribed, well fed, young, tender and luseioute —Colman's Rural World, A Point to Remember, Too eloSe inbreeding is sapping the foundation oE health, hardiness, gtowth, vigor and fecundity in breeding stook. In some cases inbreeding to scone extent it advisable, htit generally the Matsui phin to avoid it, .NI,7117.SY OAiU)IAN ITEMS. TI1E RAPPLIVINOS0 Interesting Itents andl inoKote, bilvort. nut aria Inetiomove, Gathered. front the Various lerovene,es from the At- lautte to the Pacific. Wallaeoburg has a bicycle olub. Oil City has a now cheese faotory. Holland Landing has a Fishing Club. Brookville has only one lady bicyclist. Smith's Falls is to have it race traek. Presoott's band has been re -organized. The Jessopville shingle mill has elosed. Scarlet fever still hangs on to Cold- water, St, Mary's ships away a great number of hogs. Ottawa gardeners deprecate the killing of toads. Albion township lost 21,000 by the re- cent floods. A new:hotel has been opened at Rent - villa, N.S. A new orchestra has been organized in Strathroy, The repairs on thefehorribury where are cam -elated.; Donekl McKenzie, pioneer settler of Durham, is dead. Sheep -shearing and washing is the rage in conntry planes. Mrs. Margaret Love, an old pioneer of Dunwieli, is dead. A Templer of Temperance hall is being built in Cornwall. A consignment of Ingersoll cheese went to japan last week. Distemper is prevalent among horses in the Bellevillce distriot. A branch of a chartered bank is to be established. at Alvinstore A colossal bank barn is being built by James Shaine of Gladstone. It is reported that the G.T.R, will ereet an elevator at Owen. Sound. Daring the month of April Manitoba received about 1,088 settlers. An experimental fruit station has been established near Leamington. Surveyors are outlining the proposed waterworks system at Ayhner. Omer Roy, a resident of Sudbury, has boon drowned at Wahnapitae Lake. A 82 pound trout was caught in Lake Simms recently by an. Orillia man. During the month of May 932 horses were shipped from Montreal to Britain, Collingwood streets are watered fax $25 a year. One tender fax $65 was received. A. woman at Fredericton, N.B. was fined $100 for selling liquor to an Indian. Michael Landry, an explorer'was drowned near Rat Portage last Wedn.es- day. It is said the water in Lake Simcoe has risen six inches as the result of the late rains. There is a good demand fax farm lands in Manitoba and the leTorth-westi terri- tories. It is said that 15,000 people are home- less as the result of the ;Fraser river floods, Sylvaiiites complain that the cemetery is too close to the soh.00l fax the health of the pupils. The fee fax admission to the Mechanics' Institute of Thornbury has been reduced to 60 cents. Le Manitoba, the organ of the French- speaking people in Winnipeg, has ceased publication. The assessment of the county of Simcoe is over nineteen million dollen, and the debt 8128,857. ' Jas. P. Shannon, a Petroleo oil driller, cliea in Australia recently. His wife re- sides in London. Nearly two hundred maple trees have lately been planted itt Bradford's new agricultural grounds. Dr. 3. W. Lawrence, of Montreal, has been appointed house ,stergeon of the Win- nipeg general hospital. A Dresden. woman horsewhipped it town constable the other clay for passing re- new:les about her reputation. Ex -Mayor McEvoy, of Amherstbmg, has had. one of his feet badly smashed. by it piece of timber falling an it, The Winnipeg jobbers' Union has wired Governor Dewdney $1,200 fax the British Columbia flood. sufferers. One thousand, seven hundred and thir- ty -live carloads of cattle passed through Si. Thomas itt bond during May. Tames Barnette aged about 42, drowned himself at Howard's Station, Ont., on Friday. He is said to have become demented. Petrolea firemen prese.uted. ex -Chief W. et. Fraser with e valuable clock last week ita recognition of his long services bit the brigade. Medieel inspeetors limos been stationed th.e government at fifteen points alone the iuternational bounclry to prevent tge entrance of smallpox. Oxford produced. 2817,000 worth of cheese last year. This stun represents over 8120 for each family in '610 rural eections of the demean'. ,Tohn. Martelre billiard hall at Waelace- barg, Out, was burglarized on. Friday eight and. about $75 worth of tobacco and cigars stolen. No clue. Mr. .A. E. Lavoie son of tho warden, has resigned his position as assident elec- trician at the penitentiary, and will enter the Methodist ministry. On Saturday morning' burglars 'blew moms the safe of T. 3.. Gould & Bros. private bark itt T1xbridge, Oat., and got away with 84,000. .No clue. One of Port Huron's most respected catizens, Henry Idmevaaci, died in that city loceutly, aged 61 yeevs. 1 -To was in the lomber business fax 85 years, The -wife of Nam Ganda -tin the chem - pion oarsmen, died very soddenly on Sat - erecter night at Orillia. Deceased was highly reepeoted by all who know her, A. Vence:Inver despatch say e all Domin- ion day celebrations in British Columbia will be abandoned and the money elicited fax that purpose given to the flood suf- ferers. At the annual meeting of the' Brother- hood. of ImeomotivePaiginetere atSt. Patti, Minn., Mee Calvin Lawrence, of St. Thomas, was elected first grand. assistant engineer, 'Winnipeg.special says aceid.ent oeeurred on Teed ay night on the Canadian Pacifie road at the =ming of Mattawe rieree, Omit 15 miles west Of Port Wilt liam, Fires had eetveekenect the bridge arid as the train was okossing the cooter of time showier= it gave way. Forglin end oars were piled Into the river. The diner, one of the firet-elass ears and the sleeper remained on the traele. The wreaked cars took fire and almost the entire train was burned, Ma's, Barker was drowned. She was it first-class pas- songer en route to Elkhorn, Men., from Ontario. Express Messenger Mort Brown, of Toronto, is Missing, and is bellevecl to be at the bottom a the river, The ia- jured axe; Fireman Whitehead, may not recover; Engineer Elms, slighely injured; Mrs. Bielcie, of Middleville, Mieli., en rant° to Bed Deer. Several °there were slightly injured. The train was running at it higb speed when the aocident occur- red. The body of Mrs. Barker was found smile distance dowo the river, All the mail matter, inoluding that from Mont- real and Toronto posted on Thursday was burned, as was also all express matter and baggage, A. serious shooting affray occurred at jordait Tuesday evening. Train No. 79, local freight, pulled into the siding at that place to allow the Pacifle Express to pass. Five tramps were stealing a ride 00 tb.e local, and Conductor Turner, who was in charge, attempted to put them off but they refused to leave. The gang fol- lowed the conductor into the caboose, where one of them drew a revolver and began firing., hitting Taylor in the head once and teviee in the shoulder. Brake- man Lynch immediately gave the alarm' and the tramps made oft to the woods half a mile east of the station, The vil- lage constable was immediately sum- moned by telephone, and he arranged a posse, who started after the desperadoes. Theposse surrounded the fugitives i . n Honsberger's woods. The tramps began firing at the men as they advanced and the constable and, his men returned the fire. Seeing that the constable's party were not to be scared, they surren- dered, A boy, one of the party of 'temps, identified the man 'who shot Turner. The man with the revoivee gave the boy aold ring as a bribe to hold his tongue. Th.e doctors think Turner will recover. H.M.S. Blake narrowly escaped. collid- ing with an unknown ocean steamer in the Bay of Fundy on her way from Bos- ton via St. John's. About 1.80 o'clock Thursday morning, when the fog was thick, the lookout on the Blake noticed the lights of the steamer. The latter was bearing down on the Blake, and it looked as though a collision was unavoidable. The order to reverse the engines was eteiven, and this avoided what might have been a terrible catastsxmhe, as th.e other steamer shot past, just grazing the bows of the Blake. The name of thosteamer could not be aseertained. Had she not been noticed when she was she would have struck the Blake amidships. It is supposed the steamer was bound to New York or Boston. The following -witnesses were heard ab the Hooper trial Friday afternoon.: Dr. Clarke, of Rockwood Asylum, /Kingston; Dr. Marsolais, of the Notre Dame Hospi- tal, Montreal; Rev. Mr. Mail, priest of Notre Dame church, Montreal, and the steward of the steamer Corinthian, Mx. Holden. Nothing new was elicited, the evidence was similar to that given at Hooper's previous trials. It is not thought the case can be ended. before Friday next, as the testimony has to be translated and a number of new witnesses are to be heard. Lieutenant -Governer Dewdney of Brit- ish Columbia has telegraphed to Lord Aberdeen that the effects of the flood have been over -stated; that the greatest loss is in the season's crops; that no lives have been lost, and that at the time of telegraphing little or no lICIVS of stock having been destroyed had. been received. About seven o'clock Thursday morning itt Petrolea Albert Phillips, aged 19, while going down the Michigan Central rani:owe tracks to work, dropped dead. It seems that he had been troubled with congestion of the longs and. was not 1 eel - Mg very well. Mr. Charlton's Sabbath observance bill was given its third reading in the House of Commons Monday evening. As passed it prohibits the sale of newspapers on the Sabbath, and provides fax the closing of all canals on Sunday from six a.m. to nine p.m. The pleasure steamers Visitor and Leroy Brooks, seized about four weeks ago at Amherstburg fax infringements of the fishery laws, have been bonded and left fax Sandusky, the home of the owners. The number of head of high grade fat cattle which have been shipped from Oxford county to the old country already this year is probably laver than the imisther shipped in any previous year. The assessment roll for Petrolea just returned,_ shows the following e—Realty, $1,096,42o ; personal, 854,800; income, $78,250 ; grand total, 81,228,975; popula- tion, 4,S5; horses, 421 ; dogs, 141. Rev. Father Goareau, of North Bay, baptized a pair of children—twins —of an Indian woman. named Seymour from Klook's Mills, recently. Stich cases are not usual among Indian races. The Paton Woollen. Mills. at Sher- brooke, wallab were established thirty years ago, have been obliged to close, hard times throwing seven hundred peee sous out of employment. The Congregational Union. ooneloded its proceedings Monday. The most inier- esting incident of the day woe it reeolu- tien which was carried by a large major- ity practically aimed at the P.P.A., and condemniug its principles. Gale has fourteen miles of watermains, 700 water -takers and. 109 hydrants, be- sides floe hydrants put in by private parties, since the introduction of the sys- tem three years ago. Portions of the flag that played the im- portant part in the episode at Se. Thomas on the Queen's birehdhy are treasured by it number of Dutton juveniles who wit- nessed the event. Mr. Alex. Henry, an old-time Napanee publisher, has been appointed (levity of the Snpreine Chief Ranger anct oilloial valuator of the Independent Order of Pciilhsotearsrc. lt1 Kens, a farm laborer at Newe tonbrook, in West, York, committed std. cide Satin:any evening by taking Paris gret eeeil;Iorriston Monday a three-year.old daughter of john Fahrner fell beneath a heavily -laden wagon and was crashed to aba Mrs. J. H. R. Molson has made 0, furs ther girt ot $10,000 to the Protestant .st.sy- ltun for the insane et Montreal, et. six-year-old eon of D. MoDonald, storteeuttet, fell into the canal at Perth Mon clay and was drowned. Chid of Police Carton of Darham,Prit., hes errested it man believed to be it noto- rious confidence man and horse thief lvatted by:the Gorloric‘h allthOlitiAS( line given different names—McLean, Goer. nedoele, Hunter, Griffith, etc. Chief ,Ieteiice Sir Matthew Heinle Beg - lie, of British Oolurabio, is dead. There ie talk of running Sunday boats from Houlihan to the Bea oh, The London Ocinferenee will meet next year in Strathroy on the first Tuesday in june, Rev, Canon Houstoo has been appoints ed arohdeacon of Niagara, suoceediog the laie Archdeacon MoMueray. Near Essex, Ont., Tuesday, G. 0. 'Young was killed by his horse shying and throw- ing Mr. Young from Lis buggy, breaking his neck, Reports from the floodc.d district of the Fraser -valley are very encouraging, The waters are receding and funds are coming in rapidly, H. Mercer, of the British Colonial Office, has been appointed delegate to the intercolonial conference at Ottawa con- jointly with the .Earl of Solvay. Charles H. Fairweather, of St. John, N.B., at one time president of the Do- minion Board of Trade, and it well-known publio man, died Tuesday evening. Messrs. Provost and Larose, whose ar- rest was ordered by the Haase of °om- inous, were placed in custody Monday at Quebec by Deputy Sergeant-abearms Bowie, of the House, and High Constable Gale, of Quebec. The inquest on the death of Mr. Caleb Hartley, of New Durham'was resumed on Tuesday morning, the defference to the wishes of the family, but in direct %/posi- tion to the public, Coroner Herr excluded the general. public. The physician in at- tend -once at the time of Mx. lefartley's death testified that the symptoms were those of poison by arsenic, audthe analy- sis of the stomach showed the presence of the same poison.. Ling, the hired man, testified that Mrs, Hartley offered Ithn 81,000 to keep quiet ancegave other dam- aging testimony. The verdict of the jury was that Caleb Hartley came to his death from poison administered by Mrs. Hartley, and im- plicating Ling. Constable Allem who arrested Ling, said that he offered him $500 if he would get him out of the serape. The London (Eng,) Echo says: At the present time the Grand Trunk Company is most assuredly not earning the interest on its pre -guaranteed stocks, and the time has come for some drastic change itt the management. Nothing less than the establishment of a courageous board in Canada can now do any good—a board which is pledged to respect no interests but ehose of the company, and evhich will rigorously- overhaul every post, both in the office and on the system. It is ab- surd to suppcse that Sir Henry Tyler, by merely taking a business trip across to Canada now and then, can manage an. important railway effectively and econ- omically. 'What man ever treated his ownproperty itt this manner, or expected if he did so that affairs would not go from bad to worse? A shocking; occurrence happened at the residence of Samuel Jepson, Quebec street east, London, Tuesday morning. Mrs. Jepson, in a a of insanity, drowned her babe, only a feve months old, and at- tempted to drown her oldest 'boy, six years old. It was her intention to also dispose of her two other children and then of /aerself, but a freak of mind, as puzzling as the one which prompted the strange deed, saved the rest of the fam- ily. .For some six months past, almost ever since the birth of her babe, the un- fortunate mother has given evidence of insanity, but she was supposed to be re- covering, and it was expected that she would soon. be well. This morning Mr, Jepson Ieft for leis work as usual, and it appears that very soon afterward the in- sane woman set about her work of de- struction. She took up the baby in her arms and led the boy by the hand to the cistern at the rear of the house. The baby was lowered into the water and sank, but the boy, when he discovered his mother's purpose, straggled frantical- ly for his life, and, owing to her weak condition, proved. too strong fax the mother and. got away. The mother then crossed 0701: 10 a neighbor's place to get advice upon the best course to pursue to complete her work, and stops were at once taken. to take care of her. When rescued the baby was desd. The mother main- tained a perfectly cool demeanor, and ex- plains when approached on the subject that she was simply carrying out the will of God. Words of Wisdom. In business throe things are necessary —knowledge, temper and time, Manners 'are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature and noble Mind. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the tem- per of the sufferer, He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also how to put it stop to the seeret plans of the wicked. "For who knows most, his keg at time most grieves." The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at re5Attrue poet is what his poetry is. Gen- ius speaks through what it creates. Fell luxury—More perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, povezty or hainse You women regard men just as you buy books; yea never care what is in them, but how they are bound and lettered. Pew persons have sufficient -wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them to praise whieh deceives them. Now the advanced women, vant children to give up their fairy tilos, Good heavens why not give up the childrett and he done Iihit:note oopiously and ell requires tvasiow e, tudgment and erudition, a feeling fax the beautiful, an appreciation of the noltlo and it sense of the profound. A journalist is a oirtuabler, it censurer, it giver of advice, it regent of sovereigns, • it tutor of nations. Four hostile news. papers are more to be:feared than a th.ota. sand. bayonets. Old ago is at our heals, and youth ret turns no more. When, the daguerreotype was it new int volition the face of the sitter for a pert trait was dustee with it white powder. The devil delights iitt the primrose path of dalliance. Pablie sentiment is a manufactured produet. Over 600 now CMOS of leprosy eve ally registered in Russia,