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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-1-3, Page 7"BURNI1G OF..TRE. DEAD," Aitotro.lattl.wonuo sunalerzs. Ba Bev, le De Witt 'ruin -lege. submerged by that whieh i tha oppoeite of term ales, After gots /ewe seen the gbata, the two greet thing e Beeares that you Must see are the (*Melee ttnd Noukey temples. Aleut the vest Golden Temple there is not as much gold as would maim an Neg- lent severeign, The air italf &espIsma.- mei, Her t we see seers makieg gods oat of mud tmathett putting- their hands to- e hem in worship of that which them- selves have made. Sacred COWB walk up and deem the temple. Here stood a Fakir wish a right eret upliftei. mod for so long a time that he eanal not take it down, and the ;mils of tbe hand had grown until they looked like serpents tvindirg up and around the palm. Tit God of the Glaciate Temple is Siva, or the poison god. Devils matt upon him. He the god of wareef famine, of peati- love . Be is the destroyer. He has aronxid his neck string of tokulls Be - fors him bow men whose hair never kasw a comb. They et carrioio. and that which ie worse. .Bello mid, drums here t up a racket, Pilgrims come from hurelrede of mike away, spending their last pima of money ad exbausting • their last item of strength in order to reitobethis Mold: it Temple, glad to die in or near ib, and have the ashes of their body tbrawn into the Gatiges. We took a carriage and went still fur- tht r on to eee the Mc nasty Temple, so called been,use in end Around the build- ing monkeys abetted end are kept as sat:red.. All evolutionists should visit this temple devoted to the family front whieh their semesters come. These monkeys Chatter, and walk, and climb, and look wise, and look silly, and have full possession of the place. We were &eked at the entrance of the Monkey Temple to take off our shoea bsoause of the esercrlaess of the place, but a small contribution placed in the hands of an attendant resulted in permission to enter with our shoes on. As the Golden Tem- ple is dedicated to Siva, the poison god, this Monkey Temple is dedicated Siva's wife, a deitess, that must be propitiated, or she will cli8ORSO, and blast ti.nd destroy. For centuties this spitfire hue been wor- shipped. She is the goddess of scold, and slap, ste.d tormagancy. She is supposed to be a supernatural Xentippe t hence, to her are brought Bowel's and rice, and here and there the flowers are spattered with the blood of goate slain in saerifice. • As we walk to -day through this Mon- key Temple we nrust not hit, or tease, or hurt one of them. Two Englishmen years ego lost their lives 'by the maltreat- ment of a monkey. Passing along eine of these Inaba streets, a monkey dui not soon enough get out of the way, and oue of these Englishmen struck it with his cane. Immediately the people and the priests gathered around these strangers, and the public wrath increased until the two Englishm: n were pounded to death for having struck a monkey. No land= the world so reveres the monkey as In- dia, as no other land has a temple calle.1 •after it, One of the Rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. A nuptial procession was formed in which ixtoved camels, elephants, tigers cattle ana palanquine of richly dressed people. Bands of mune smulded the wedding march. Dancing patties kept the night sleepless. It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their roand of attentions. In 11 o piece but India cottld such a carni- val have occurred. But, after all, while we eannotapprove of the Monkey Tem- ple, the monkey is sacred to hilarity. I defy anyone to watch a monkey one ute without laughter. Why was this creature roads? For the world's 811:11188- ment. The mission of some animals is left doubtful and -we cannot see the use of this or that quadruped, or this or that insect, but the mission of the ape is certain, all around the world it enter- tains, Whether seated on the top of this threple in India, or cutting up its antics on the top of a hand.torgan it stirs the sense of the ludicrous; Males the diaph- ragm into cochinnation ; topples gravity into play, and accomplishes that for which it was created.. The eagle, and the lion, and the gazelle, and the robin no more certainly have their mission than has the monkey. But it implies a low form of Hindooism when this em- bodied mimicry of humanity is lifted in- to worship. In one of the eities for the first time in my life I had an opportu- nity of talking with a Fakir, or a Ifindoo who has renounced the world and lives oe. alms. He sat under a rough covering on a platform of brick. He was covered with the ashes of the dead, and was at the time rubbing more of those ashes upon his arms and legs. Be understood and stooks English. I said to him, "How long have you been seated here?" He replied, "Fift,een years." "Have those idols which I see power to help or de- stroy?" 'Be said, "No; they only re- present one God. There is but one God." Question—When people die where do they go to? Answer—That depends upon what they have been doing. If they have been do- lma; good., to heaven; if they have been doiag evil, to hell. Question—Batdo you not believe in the transmigration of souls, and that after death we go lute birds or animals of some sort? Answer—es; the last creature a man is thinking of while dying is the one Into which he will go. If he is thinking of a bird he will go into a bird ; if he is think- ing of a cow he will go into a cow. Question—I thought you said that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell? Answer—He goes there by a gradual process. It may take him years and years. Question—Can any one become a Bin - deo? Could I become a Hindoo? Answer—Yee, you could. Question—How mould I become a rnn- do? Answer—By doing as the leindoes do. Bat, as Ilooked upon the poor, filthy wretch, bedaubing hiraself with the ashes of the dead., I thought the last thing on earth I would want to becoxne would be a Hindoo. I expressed to a missionary who overheard the converse - tion between the Vgkir eta myself my amazement at some of the doctrines the Fakir announced. The missionary said : "The Fakirs are very accommodating, and, supposing you to be a friend of Christianity, he announced the theory of one„God, and that oh:wards and punish - snouts," There ere, however, •alleviations for Benares. I attendea worship in one of the Christian missions. The Herraoa, thou le delivered inHindoostanee, of which I eova not anderstand amtemel, thrilled Me with its Gareesteess and tendern s o tone, capeeially when the missions, y told me at the close of tbe eerviee that he receutly baptized a man Wheattem tonvertea theoegh reading one of reer amulets among the hills of Wise Tate tortge of tbe two Christian aesem- ages 1 visitedee this city, although the Rev, Dr. 'Palmtop. Mimed the third of his series of '13, sundalleactrarle tiermons through the press, the subjeet being the "Burning; of the Deed," and the tout: "They beve hands but they beadle not, feet but they wellt not, neither speak they through their throat, They that make them are like lint:, them," • Psalm, 115: 7, 8. The life of the missionary is a luxuris ous and indolent life ; aliedooletra is a religioxt that ought not to be interfered with.; Chrietianity.is guilty of ea imper- tineneet when it Invades heetheadom; you must put in the same line of rover - eines Brahma, Baddlte, Mohammed and 'Christ. To refate these slanders and blasphemies, now so -prevalent, atta to spread. out before the Christian world the contrast between idolatrous and Christian countries, I preach this third eermon in ray " 'lloundetbe-World" series. In this tliseourse I take you to the very headquereas of henthendern, to the very capital of Ilindooism. ; for what Mecca is to the Mohammedans, and what Jerusa- lem is to the Christian, Benares, India, is to the Hindoo. We arrived there in the evening, and the next morning we stmt. ed out early, among other things to Bee the burning of the clead. Wo saw it, ere- tnation, not as many good people in Am- erica and Euglana are now advocating it, namely, the burning of the dead in clean and orderly and refined oremeetory, the hot furnace eoon reducing the human form to a powder to be carefully preserv- ed in an um abut, cremation as the Hin- doos practice it. We got into a boat and were rowed dawn the River Ganges until we mune opposite to where five dead bodies lay, bier of them women wrapped in red ger meats, and a man. wrapped in white, Our boat fastened, we waited and watchea. High piles of wood were an the bank. arid this wood is carefully weighed. on large seales, according as the friends of the deceased can afford to pay for it. Ite many eases only a few sticks can be afforded, and the dead body is burned, only a little and then thrown into the Ganges. Rat where the relatives of the deceased are well-to-do, an abund- ance of wood in pieces four or five feet long is purchased, Two or three layers of sticks then put oxi the ground to receive the dead. form. Small pieces of sandal -wood are inserted to produce frag- rance. The cleeeesed is lilted from the resting place arta put upon this wood.. Thenthe cover is rents -Ted from the face of the e.orpse and it is bethea with water of the Gan.ges. Then severaa more layers of woo 1 are put upon the bsdy, end other stickare pieced on both sides of it, but the head and feet are left exposed. Thole a quantity of grease sefficieet to make everythieg. inflammable is put on the wood, and. tato the taaatla oi the dead. Then one of the richest men in. Benares, his fortune made in dile way, furnishes the fire, and, after the priest has mum I bled st few words, the eldest son walks '‘three times around the sacred, pile, and then applies the torch, and the fire blazss up, and in a short time the body has be- come the ashes which the relatives throw into the Ganges. We saw floating past us on the Ganges the bay of a chila -which had been only part:1y burned, because the parents could lie afford enough wood. While we watched the floating form of the child a crow alighted upon it. In the meantime hundrees of Hindoos were bathing in the river, dipping their ht ads, filling their xnouths, supplying their forest cups, mut- • terMewords of so-called prayer. Such a mingling of superstition, and loathsomene,ss, ana inhumanity I had never before seen. The Ganges is to the Iliadoo the best river in all the earth, but to me it is the vilest stream that ever rolled its stench in'horror to the sea. I looked. all along the banks for the mourners far ths deal. I saw in two of the cities nine cremations, but in no case a sad look or a tear. I said to friends, "How is thie? rfave the living no grief for the dead?" I found that the women do not come forth en such occasions, but that does not account for tbe absence of all signs of grief. There is another reason more potent. -Mende not see the faces of their wives until after marriage. They take them on recommendation. karriages thus forneed, of . course, have not much affection in them. Women are married at seven and ten years of age, and are grandmothers at thirty. Such unwisely - formed family associations do not imply much ardor of love. The family so poor- ly put together—who wonders that it is easily taken apart? And so I account for the absence of all signs of grief at the cremation of the Indoo. Benares is the capital of Hindooism and Buddhism, but Hindooism has trampled out Buddhism, the hoof of the one monster on• the grizzly neek of the other monster, It is also the capital of filth, and the capital of malodors and the capital of indecency. The Hindoos say they have 800,000,000 gods. Benares being the headquarters of these deities you. will not be surprised to find that tbe making of gods is a -profitable business. Here there are carpenters snakingwooden gods, and brass workers making brass gods, and sculptors making stone gods, and potters making clay gods. I cannot think of the abominations practiced here without a recoil of stomach and a need of cologne. Although maeb is said about st the carving on. the temples of this eity, aeverything is so -vile that there is not eau& room left for the aesthetic. The dlimotees enter the temples nine -twentie- ths unclothed, and. depart begging. All that rlindooism can do for a man or woman it does here. Notwithstanding all that may have been said in its favor at, the Parliament of Religions in Chica- go, it makes man a brute, and woman the lowest type of slave. I would rather • be ti, horse or a cow or a dog in India than be a woman, The greatest disaster that an happen to a Hiudoo is that he was born at all. Benares is imposing in the distanee as yen look at it froth the other side of the Ganges. The forty-seven ghats, or flights of stone steps, reaching from the water's edge to the buildings high up on the banks, meek a place for the ascent and aeseent, of the subliraities. The eye is • lost in the bewildermett of tombs, shrrnes, minarets,palaces and temples. It is the • glorification of steps, the triumph of stair- • ways, But looked at dose by, the tern - •plea though large and expensive, are • anything but attractive, The seeming • gold, in many eases turns ottt to be bratia. • The precious stones in the wall tarn out to be paint. The mar ea it esteem). The slippery ndd. tea ima tunes were new, au d the sentiments Mit translated, Were Uplifting and ilielneina to the last degree. There was als0 a sehool of 600 &elm an institution eatate lished by a Rajah of generosity and wealth, a graduate of lefedras University. But more than ail, the ntissionaties are busy, some of them preaching an the ghats, some of them in churches, in eliapels and bazaars, Tbe London Mies sionary Society bas ht re its college ter youtog mem and it$ schools for children. and it$ house of worship for all. The Church Missionary Soeiety has its eight schools, all filled with learners, The evangelizing work of the Wesleyans avit the Baptists are felt in, all parts of ares, In In is mightiest stronghtad ism is being assaulted. , And now a$ to the induetrious realigse meat of missionaries: It has been said by Bono° travellers after their retire to America or England that the snissionar- it are living a life full of indolence and luxury. That is a falsehood that I would say is as high as heaven if it did pot go down in the opposite direction. 'When strangers come into these tropical di - mates the missionariee do their best to entertain them, making sacrifiees for that purpose. In the City of Benarcs a missionary told .me that a gentleman coining from England into one ' of the mission stations of 'Baia, the missions', ies banded together to entertain him. Among other things, they had a ham boiled, prepared and beautifully decorat- ed, and the same ham was passed around from house to house a.s this stranger ap- peared, and in other respects a conspiracy of kindness' wa s effected. The visitor went home to England and wrote and epolce of the luxury in which the mis- sionaries of India wese living. Ameri- cans and Englishmen come to these 'tropical regions and find a missionary living under yearns and with different styles of fruit on his table, and forget that palms are here as cheap as hickory or pine in America, and rich fruits as cheap as plain apples. They find here missionaries sleeping useler punkas, these fans swung day and night by coolies, and forget • that four cents a day is good. wages here, aid the man finds himself. Four cents a day for a coach- man, a missionary can afford to ride. There have been missionaries who have come to these het climates resolving to live as the natives live, and one or two years have finished their work, their chief rise on missionary ground being that of furnishing for a large funeral the chief object of interest. So far from liv- ing in iclleness, no men on earthwork so hard as the missionaries now in the for- eign fields. Against fearful odds, and -with 8,000,000 of Christians opposed to 250,000,000 of Hindoos, Mohammedans and other false religions, these mission- aries are trying to take India for God. Let the good people of America, and England, and Scotland, and of all Christ- endone add ninety-nine and three-quart- ers per cent to their appreciation of the fidelity and consecration of foreign mis- sionaries. Far away from home, in an exhausting climete, and compelled to send their children to England, Scotland er America, so as to escape the corrupt conversation andbehavior of the natives, these men and women of God toil on un- til they drop into their graves. But they will get their chief appreciation when their work is over and the day is won, as it will be won. No place in heaven will be boo good for them Some of the min- isters at home who live on salaries of 81,000 or $5,000 a year, preaching the Gospel of Him who had not where to lay His head, will enter heaven and be wel- eomed, and while looking for a place to sit down they will be told: "Yonder in that lower line of thrones you will take your place. Not on the thrones nearest the Ring; they are reserved for the mis- sionaries !" Meanwhile bit all Christendom be thrilled with gladnese. About 25,000 converts in India every yeaf under the Methodist Missions, and about 25,000 converts under the Baptist hlissions and . about 75,000 converts under all Missions every year. But more than that, Christ- ianity is undermining heathenism and not a eity, or town, or neighborhood of India but directly, or indirectly, feels the influence; and -the day speeds on when Hindooism will go down with a crash. There are whole villages which have given up their gcds, and where *not en Idol is left, The serfdom of womanhood in. many places is being unloosened., and the iron grip of caste is being- relaxed. Human sacrifices have ceased, and the last spark of the funk:re/ pyre which the widow emelt leap has been extinguished, and the juggurxtaut, stopped, now stands as a curiosity for travellers to look at, All India will be taken for Christ. If anyone has any dishearteninents let him keep them as his own private property ; he is welcome to all of them. But if any man has any encouragements to utter, let him utter them. What we want in the church ana the world is less croaking owls of the night and more morning larks with spread wing ready to meet the advancing day. Fold up Naomi and Windham, and give 11S Ariel, Mt Pisgah or Coromation I had the joy of preach- ingin many of the cities of India, and seeing the dusky faces of the natives il- lumined with heavenly anticipations In Calcutta, while the congregation were yet seated, I took my departure for a rail- road train: I preached by the watch up to the last noinnte. A. swift eerriage brought me to the station not more than half a minute before starting. 1 carne nearer missing the train than I hope any- • one of us will come to missing heaven. MAIWELENAlli aereeeete, --- A. antic Story of leefe in • Mexteo. New Mexico, who lived in ene of the tee - Wed housea and lead Spanish blood. in "seine, and was so beautiful that ber name was a alarm in her tribe, lnareelena had realised a figsett MeNiean Senors, the col- onel of a regiment stationed at Fort Bowie, and a half dozen of her own people. Then she met a dark, melaneholy man frora New England who had come there with the prinemal product a that ea/en- try, censuniption, ana expected to die. He had no right to fall in -love, lout lie did, and, what was more remarkable, his love was returned, Marcelena had lands and bemos and a tenement that was a 'wonder el arehitecture, ia her own right. and could a aye married aerlover off -band, ber people all being easement to her slightest wish,but the New England imam had a cansciertee. After winning the girl's love he decided that it would be wicked for. him to inerry her, only to make her a widow. , "But you will not die, Jainez"—his liame was jaraes—said Mareelena. make myself prayer to God en the thorn, that you live—I suffer; then he make you to be well." "No, dear one, you mistake; Goa does not ask that you shall lacerate your fair body with thorns that I may recover. If anyone did that it should be me. Promise me that you will never again go with the Penitentes— promise me, Mareelena, al- though I may not live to know that you keep your promise." So Marcelena promised, and the, brought her guitar and played sweetly to her lover, who watched her with intent gaze longing for a new lease of life that he snight call her Isis own. Threugh the interference of friends he became an intimate of the government hospital at the fort, and improved so rapidly that he sent for Mareelena to eome to him and be married by the post chaplain. "No," said Marcelena, in the proverb of her people, "that would be the haystack going after the sow. I marry at home, or not at all." Pretty Marcelena, controlled herself as best she weld, and in a moment of lone- liness consented to attend a ball with a former lover, Serum Filipe, who had sworn to himself that she should never marry another mate But of this the New Mexi- can girl was quite unconscious. She ar- rayed herself for the ball in an elaborate dancing skirt of gay striped stuff, em- broidered in many colored beads and sil- ver sequin in strings down the breaths. Her dainty feet were encased in soft kid moccasins, for this was an occasion when she wore her tribal dress, and she carried the castanets bequeathed to her by her Spanish mother. So accoutered she ac- companied Senor Filipe. That night Marcelena was as usual the belle of the ball. It was not at all sur- prising that she should accept the horn - age showered upon her, but her heart was not in it, and at midnight she stepped to the open door of the dancing hall, and looked far over the shining plain and thought of her lover lying in the weed of the hospital, perhaps dying under that same glorious moonlight. Bianca, her friend. had taken the last dance for her, and she stepped out to breath the welcome tonie of the night air. Someone was singing "El Borrachito," giving the refrain in English, badly broken TUB aiiIfilAN NOV, A ovement; to Improve Ms Status In Our 00040 Economise moveseenttis on fOOt to improve the 44/4diti011 of the human boy, Ile is to have permission to live ie the house en the same terms as Lis sister. To be 810rO he will have tp eoutinue to be the errana boy and to climb flare the cellar into the garret when his motaer calls ar him to go beck to the cellar axe feteh. a nail and he will have to eat at second teble when company comes, and submit to other pains and indignities, but it is conceded that he shoull have a room. In the prisent re- gime the by has no zoom, hecause lie has no righe to owe Be is only a boy, and his place is M the yera or woodsbed or et the neighbor's. The idea of civilizing a bey by means of a room will have the merit of novelty. Anythieg is gtdal enough for the hut man boy, and it is what ,he gets, When his mother's Mother cernes on a visit he sleeps at, the end of the hall on a cot. and at other times he shares a room with his four brothers and wakes the family at sunrise, fighting. There are vacant rooms that he 'might have, but one must be kept for the company that arrive$ cnce in two years and stays for a couple of nights, wloile another must be kept for storage, and the servant, of course, must have one. When the boy gets old enough to be con- sidered as a member of the family he got one of these morass, but seldom before. The new scheme for reformation sup- poses that the boy has tastes and occupa- tions and that he can cater to them and follow them in the privacy of his own apartments better than he can 171 the privacy of ths. dining -room, with the rest of the eamily at hand, dr the privacy of the street corner. Be has books: be has a chest ot tools, he dabbles in clay Sr stuffs deceased cats or collects minerals or shells, or is trying to Marx, something practical about chemistry and physics, or he is rigging up a squirtgun for expert - Inuit an the boy in the next street, orhe wants to practice for the minstrel show over in Jimmy Smith's basement. If he indulges any of these predelications in the presence of the family he is frowned. upon and scorned and tolC1 to get out of the way, and there is no place for him to get into; such is the inconsiderateness of fathers and mothers and sisters and elder brothers and grandmothers and servants —all of whom have rooms. ' The boy of the future is to iia,ve a chancie to keep out from underfoot. He is to have a place where he can make his toilet withobt using mother's best soap and his fathers Turkish towel and his sister's tooth brush. He is to have a spot where he can fix bent pins for presenta- tion to .his friends in school—unaware presentation, with point uppermost; where he, Mut hang his coat on the floor ; where hecan whistle' and, as he gets big- ger, where he can puthis feet on the man- tel while he is reading. He is to have a place where he can go and say things to himself and kick his second-best suit all around the room if his father changes his millet and decides to take him to the mis- ptt orrib e vis e altar be ateps lead you to , and t170 flowers their frageance "A Box of Matehes, please," 44 A. flays leetsporienee, and Gote what the dealer Pleamse Box of: EIDPY'S Matches, please, Says Eeperience, aa4 Clete whet pleases hire, NONA ; 'Via% you 'wrta good ASK FOR I. E. ,B. EDDY'S PATCHES. THEATRICAL GOOD': L. Wigs, Monetaelies, 'Paiute, Makeups, Clogs and Song and Dance Shoes, Ate - tights se:applied to order, &ameba:bee ex wire frames 85 cents. Send stamp Me price Att. Address CHAS. Cl.ARIN, 1 Biehrett rse St, We Torente LOCAL. EIVTS -tvlivIED for a profitable and pm mauent business at home. Elderly people of both eezes 'pre- ferred. Full particulars of VITA ORE sent to all enquirers. Agents' toms supplied only to 'those enclosirg 10 cents in starops and adoresses of five responsible references. 'Ibis is no Quack's invention, but a creation of roan's Clamor. looming- added or extracted. It chal- lenses the admiration of all who it et it and the inveatigalion of all honest people. A d dress VITAS OREilCallTORONTO.!, "And a passion for a woman caused it all 'wan' The Borrachito—"the man who is a little drunk"—was the cavalier Filipe who:had-bre-tight Marcelena to the ball, and who was now ready to take her home, swung to the same saddle, a mode of eon- veyance not only proper but popular among the Pueblos. He had. lighted her i cigarette and was kokng into her eyes with that dashing, daring audacity which was her ratted of homage. She curled her red lips just a little at his t,00 ardent gaze, but he was accustomed to that—only there was that in his mind to -night of which she knew nothing. The rest of the company were out watching the pair on the fleet Mexican horse. "Some day," says one of the rejected, "he will run away with her." "That fiery Filipe—n.d. She is too tame. Ile knows she will marry the Yankee schooltnaster—poor little one." The flash of silver on the girl's dress dazzled their eyes in the moonhght. She More enough silver crosses and strands of beads to buy a dozen pardons. Her handsome arms clasped the cava- lier Filipe, but not too closely, she was in a hurry to get home to pray for her "3amez." They dashed into the moenlight and across the plain, through the plain be- yond., over fields of cactus, startling the jack rabbits and the piping quail, and away like the wind, but in an opposite direction to the home of Marcelena. At fleet the girl did not notice it, but Filipe, flushed and fearless, called out: "To Acorna, Gazelle, to the country of Filipe, ana you will never see your puny American again." There was a wild cry of despair as the girl tried to throw herself from the flying horse, hut could not free herself for a moment from the pa,ssionaM grasp of the Mexican. &Tll kill you," she eaid between her teeth. • "Kill away," my pretty angel d' amor, "but you shall be myetife first." On an on, with the speed of the wind. went the fleet horse. and they were near- ing the little cenietery in the valley when Marcelena's arms relaxed, and her head dropped on the she -deer of Filipe. • lle believed she had fainted, and attempted to chaisge his position, when like a flash of lightrung, the steel poinard in hishelt cleft the air and descended—not in his treacherous heart, but in the soft breast of the beautiful and desperate Marcelena. At that inoment a company of United. States soldiers eaxne pouring out of an anelattlatice which was slowly passing on its way to Fort Bowie. They captured the ea-yelier Filipe, and took the apparently lifeless girl to the hospital, a temporary building then in New sionary meeting this evening instead of to the theater; he is to enjoy here the per- rogative of superiority to Bridget and ofter Els views on servants generally with- out care of consequences. And he is to be able to invite his friends into the house and carry them at once to his apartment, em that his parents will no longer be dis- turbed at their tea or reading or embroid- ery by reporte of fire crackers in the china closet or the fall of valuable furniture in the parlor, or the discovery of coal in the best plug hat on the rack, or the yells of a tortured cat or the hilarity of a stray dog playing with the bric-a-brac. There are to be clothes hooks in this room and one closet that is not to be oc- cupied by anything that does not belong to the boy—excepting, of course, his mo- ther's trunk and last year's bonnets and. a few of her dresses a,nd Bridget's Valise, and his father's winter clothes and fish- ing tackle, and his little brother's cast off toys and the broken bedstead and the dis- abled washstand. There is to be a 'beck - ease, and there is not to be a single copy of anyone's sermons, nor of the Book of Martyrs, nor of poems, nor anything whatever of an improving and -useful &exacter. ' Likewise there are to be pic- tures which represent soldiers and hunt- ing scenes and Indian massacres andship- wrecks and duels and real events—not flat landscames and smirking saints. In short, the room is to ee the boy's and is to representthe boy and .be like him. It • is to be a room where dirt will be swept up without any remarks, except by him- self when he finds that a handful of his rarest postage stamps have been gathered up with the dust and put into the stove. The boy has a ng needed' a rocra where he can meditate and pray and form lxis charaeter and put his hoots on the bed and paint his little brother's face so as to scare his mother and do his arithmetic lessons and determine to be a general or a polieemam and find out what is the easi- est way to test clocks tegether after he has taken them apart, and 'whistle "Sweet Marie," and hide the pennies that he is saving for his mother's Christmas and his father's birthday. In the privacy of the apartment that, is to he his he will en- • force the beauty of the saying,- : Oh. 1,, bat a thing of bubbling joy i8 to be a roartng human boy. It was at that, time of the year when the sky in New Mexico is as bine as the eyes of the girl you love, and the scant herbage reminds one of the Scotch heath- er, dry and vari-colored, but making an exquisite harmenes among the huge blood -red sandstone buttes, and plains di- versified by caves and canyons. And spread everywhere, the 'wonderful cacti, with their marvelous flowers, like the scarlet blossoms of sin. There in peace and plenty live a people who will always be picturesque, the 'uni- ons and interesting Pueblos, vrho have lost more arts than we ever possessed; whose men are brave., peaceful and do- mesticated ; who live mi terraeed hooses and build diffieult churches, and wash themselves without governutent interfer- ence ; and. who do not choose for them- selves Yankee sons-in-law, but are often compeliea to accept them as a penalty for haveng handsome deualters,eettele The Ittteblo girls, like Mites the world over, will marry only Where they love, and no man dare ISO.° with the affections of a Pueblo maiden. -rigspr.!, All of which is inmdental to the story of IVIttreelena Zenda, the prettieet giel in '411 ,40.01) It matters not whether you are r,oing t, work co the farm, in the workshop, or the aercestes or mat-Aurae- turer's office, you need a thorough Business Education, in order to sucteed well. Write for the Announcement of the Northern )3usiness College for full particulars. Address -C. A. Fleming, Principal, Owen Sound, Ont. ,..........••••4• $+•4. •••••••t •••••••••••••••••• SAN ITA MUM. Marcelena was not dead, nor even fatal- ly wounded. But she was a long time in the ward of the government hospital be- fore she •coulcl be removed to her home, and there was a pretty ceremony perform- ed there when she was able to sit up as a convalescent, It was her marriage to "Samna' 88 she called hira, the Yankee s&oolmaster, who in the generous cli- mate f New Mexico, had grovels° robust that he had snapped his fingers at the spectre -which had been a family banshee for es many generatious. ' They talk of the hospital roraanee to this day., and the professor, as the school- master is now called, lives suet across the valley front Senor Filipe, who married Bianstea asia made a model husband. Gold to the amount of riv,5o0io0o Was engaged for shipment from New York on Saturday. =.? - ONT. For the treatment and cure of Alcoholism, • The Morphine Habit, Tobacco Habit, And Nervous Diseases. NThe system employed a,t this institution 18 the famous Double Chloride of Gold Sysfem. Through its agency over 200,- 000 Slaves to the use of these poisons have been emancipated in the last four- teen years. Lakehurst Sanitariura is the eldest institution of its kind in Canada, and has a well-earned reputation to maintain in this line of medicine. In its whole history there is not an instance of any after ill-effects from the treatment. Hundred of happy homes in all parts of • the Dominion bear eloquent -witness to the efficacy of a course of izreatment with us. For terms and all information -write': THE SECRETARY, 28 Bank of Commerce Chambers, Toronto, Ont.'as What to Bead; Read history. It is the story of the pexrcnigrmvesof i: anabmstuimetiniatleisfet.0 eIntaetaevacohr.es by Read poetry. It enriches the =ilia with ideals that may become real. • Read romance. The example of its heroes are an exaltation, rood tend to the formation of noble Character. Read science. It supplies information that equips for usefulness and prevents the triumph of error. Read philosophy. it imparts 'wisdom to consider all things, knowledge to un- derstand all things, and fortithde to en- dure all things. Read the Bible. It gives promise of the futere and strengthens the soul. efaanedieetteeete'S 7ad'alaatit 0••4444444414/00410.400s,..**** GI ASO Rouses. One of the promised novelties of the neat 'great, exposition- will be a glass honse. The building will have a skele- ton frame of iron, ori which will he fast- ened glass eosts makinst a doeble wall, The roof will he of tinted ps,laes, and cor- nices, fotueletion, doorstep and stairweys will be of thiclt slabs of glass. Imitations of all sorts of lonilaing materiel will be Messiahs in the new houses. and the tops of pillars seta buildinge will be stamped itt arabeemeet and flowere. By impiteved methoas, glass tubing and pipes are mar.le that have a resistance equal to cast iton. When these pleas min be usedfor conveyine water, we will be sure of a much better gnalit,y of this article than at present, tee no peatiliarities of soil clue corrode there, end the water will acenire no unusual taste, A OTONATIC i uaritIERING NIACHENE -4-m- Steel Figures, Pei feet Printing and Amur- ateVirork. For priecA address T0RONT0T:2;PE FOIINDItli', Toronto and Winnipeg • viaternixo ltarroUs front one-balt Florae Jui Power up to EleVen Norse Power. Write forprieeet Stating Itower required, voltage of mirrent to be nitedandwhether supplied by *trig carline or °Me:Miele. I'OeteatTI:0 TYPE; FOtflWRTi • Tomato snd Winnipeg