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FROM THE CAPITAL
Prot: E. Stone Wiggixis Predicts a
Great Storm.
HE EXPLAINS HIS METHOD
Of Foretelling the Disturbance --The Grad
ing of Whoat—Controiller Wood Ex-
plains the Action of llis Depart-
nnent as to Mixing Wheat --
The Seizure of Stetuners.
Ottawa, Sept, 6.—Professor E. Stone
'Wiggins, who predtreted the great storm
that passed over the Atlantic and Pacifico
in March, 1883, predicts a storm of equal
violence between the 17th and 21st of the
present month. Asked to -day his reasons
for predicting the storm of 188a and the
one he promises as for this month, the
professor said :—"My reasons were these:
The sun and moon wore in the same aro
of right asoension, almost in the same spot
in the heavens, and were near the celestial
equator, and at the moment when our
Nothern Paoiflo was turned towards the
sun, Their united force was increased by
the moon's perigee being at her nearest
orbital point to the earth. Furthermore
she was in conjunction with Venus on
March 5th, with Mercury on March 6th
and with Mars on March 7th. On looking
over calculations of the March storm of
1888, made in September, 1882, I find ref-
erence to a sister storm on September 21st,
1895, twelve years afterwards. On the 18th
of the present inonth the moon will pass
over the sun's disc a few degrees west of
San Francisco, causing a solar eclipse, the
moon herself being in perigee, and two
hours later on the celestial equator, Mars
and Venus will both be in conjunction
with her on that day. A great storm will
therefore sweep the shores of all the con-
tinents from the equator to the poles as
early as the 17th inst., but on the east
coast of North America will reach its cli-
max with high tidos by the afternoon ot
Saturday, 21st inst. There is danger of
volcanio upheavals on the meridian of
Japan and of ' earthquakes in South
America and Mexico."
Grades of Wheat.
The following grades of wheat have been
established by Order:in-Council:—
Spring wheat, extra Manitoba hard
wheat, shall consist wholly of wheat grown
In Manitoba or the North-West Territories
of Canada, and shall be sound and well
leaned, weighing not less than sixty-two
pounds to the bushehand shall be compos-
ed of at least eighty-five per cent. of hard
red fyfe whoa..
No. 1 Manitoba hard wheat shall consist
'holly of wheat grown in Manitoba or
the North-West Territories of Canada, and
shall be sound and well cleaned, weighing
not less than sixty pounds to the bushel,
and shall be composed of at least two-
thirds of hard red fyfe wheat.
No. 2 Manitoba hard wheat shall consist
wholly of wheat grown in Manitoba or
the North-West Territories of Canada, and
shall be sound and reasonably olean, weigh-
ing not less than fifty-eight pounds to the
bushel, and shall be composed of at least
two-thirds of hard red fyfe wheat.
No. 1 hard white fyfe wheat shall con-
sist wholy of wheat grown in Manitoba or
the North-West Territories of Canada, and
shall be sound and well cleaned, weighing
nee less than sixty pounds to the bushel,
and shall be composed of not less than six-
ty per cent. of hard red fyfe wheat. and
shall not contain more than twenty-five
per cent. of soft wheat.
No. 1 Manitoba northern wheat dial'
consist wholly of wheat grown in Manitoba
and the North-West Territories of Canada'
and shall be sound and well cleaned,
weighing no less than sixty pounds to the
bushel, and shall be composed of at least
fifty per cent. of hard red fyfe wheat.
No. 2 Manitoba wheat shall consist
wholly of wheat grown in Manitoba or the
North-West Territories of Canada, ana
shall be sound and reasonably clean, of
good milling qualities, and fit for ware-
housing, weighing not less than fifty-eight
pounds to the bushel, and shall be compos-
ed of at least, fifty per cent. of hard red
fyfe wheat.
No. 1 spring wheat shall be sound and
well cleaned, weighing not less than sixty
pounds to the bushel.
No. 2 spring wheat shall be sound and
reasonably clean, weighing not less than
fifty-eight pounds to the blithe'.
No. 8 spring wheat shall comprise all
wheat fit for warehousing, not good
enough to be graded as No.2,weighing not
less than fifty-six pounds to the bushel.
Rejected spring wheat shall comprise all
wheat for warehousing, but too low in
weight or otherwise unfit to be graded as
No. 8.
Goose wheat No. 1 shall be plump and
well eleaned,weighing not less than sixty-
one pounds to the bushel.
Goose wheat No. 2 shall be plump and
reasonably clean, weighing not less than
fifty-nine pounds to the bushel.
Goose wheat No. 3 shall comprise such
as is not good enougb to be graded as No.
2, reasonably clean and weighing not less
than fiftYolve pounds to the bushel.
Winter wheat, extra white winter wheat,
shall be pure white winter wheat, choice
In color, sound, plump and well cleaned,
weighing not less than sixty-two pounds
to the bushel.
No. 1 white winter wheat shall be pure
white winter wheat, sound, plump, well
cleaned, weighing not, less than sixty
pounds to the bushel.
No. 2 white winter wheaeshall be white
Winter whoattsound and reasonably clean,
weighing not less than 58 pounds to the
bushel.
No. 1 red winer wheat shall be pure red
winter wheat. sound, plump and wel
cleaned, weighing not less then 62 pounds
to the bushel.
No. 2 red winter wheat shall be rod
winter wheat, sound and reasonably
clean, weighing not loss than 60 pounds to
the bushel.
No. 1 mixed winter wheat shall be white
and red winter wheat mixed, sound, plump
and well cleaned, weighing Ma less than
60 pounds to the bushel.
No. 2 mixed winter wheat shall be white
and red winter wheat tnixed, sound,
plump and well cleaned, weighing not lege
than 59 pounds to the bushel.
No. 8 winter wheat shall include winter
wheat not clean and plump enough to be
graded as NO. 2, weighing.not less than 57
pounds to the bushel,
The Mixture of Wheat.
Controller Wood has replied in the
following terms to a letter he has received
eriticising the recent actions of lois depart-
ment as to the mixing of Wbeat;—
" With regard to the poetponorneht of
the decision as to the Vexed qttestion of
Mixiter, I have only to say that the depart
ineht has to consider tho intOreetS of the
producers, and of those who invest theiv
oapital in Moving the Western Orate as, well
as those of the eastern millers, who reelly
use but a trifling proportion ot the growth
of Manitoba wheat, and who laet year,
am oredibly informed (exoept in one ease,
whiett happened through inadvertence)
did not receive a single bushel of wheat
from the Port ArtMir elevators. Apart
from the case alluded to, every bushel was
either exported or purehased direot from
Port Arthur elevator as 'cleaned wheat.'
It is important also to determine what
Would be the ed cot of too restrictive
legislation on our great transporta-
tion routes. Our great competitor
is Duluth, and so long as our prairie
wheats are mainly sold side by side
with the products of Minnesota and Dakote
in European markets, our methods must
be assimilated to those of the controlling
export markets. If we initiate restrictive
legislation which does not prevail there,
will not our produots seek a foreign route
to the sea rather than submit to the exac-
tions demanded when shipped from our
own port?"
Seizure of Schooners.
Several despatches passed between Ot-
tawa and St. John's Nfld., regarding the
seizures on the coast of the Canadian Lab-
rador. The information which the Govern-
ment received from a leading Newfound-
land firm confirmed in part the press de-
spatches regarding the seizures. It is as-
serted tht Captain Howard, who was ap-
pointed a preventive Customs officer in
April last, had seized several Newfound-
land fishing vessels because their clearance
papers were defective. The incident seems
to have oteused a good deal of irritation in
the island colony, but in the absenee of the
preoise details it is imposeible to determine
whether or not the seizure was justlfied.
The opinion in official circles is that if
Capt, Howard has taken advantage of a
mere technicality, he has done what is
nothing short of a blunder. So far no word
has been received from him, only the other
side of the case is to hand.
To -day the owners of the vessels wired
the Department of Customs guaranteeing
the payment of any fine that may have
been incurred, and they were immediately
notified by tho Custoins Department that
the release of the vessels had been ordered.
It appears that the hero of the Gatling
gun has acquired important interest in the
locality. He has gone extensively into the
lobster fishing and canning business, and
consequently some critic's see interested
motives in the a .pposed attempt to har-
rass the fishermen, but the Newfound-
landers are after cod, whereas Howard is
interested In the lobster. It is also stated
that this official is an American citizen.
This is equally erroneous, for Howard was
naturalized sometime before his appoint-
ment, otherwise he could not have been
appointed. It ,is worthy of mention, how-
ever, that he receives no salary save his
share of the seizures which he lawfully
makes. Howard is under the supervision
of the Customs officer at Quebec, but in
the present instance has been ordered to
report direct to the department the particu-
lars of the seizures, and to release the ves-
sels.
Land S peculators.
Two American capitalists visited the
Department of the Interior to -clay for the
purpose of securing the co-operation of the
Government in a speculation which they
have in hand. The spokesman, Mr. W.C.
Morton, of Minneapolis, stated that they
desire to acquire a large tract of land in
the West, to which they will bring settlers
who will purchase the property from them
ID smaller parcels. The speculation, they
contended, was in the interest of the Do-
minion, since it will bring settlers to the
country. They pointed out that the good
land of the Western States is now practi-
cally occupied, and that the next expansion
will be in Canada. But the proposal to
place a large tract of land at the disposal
of the speculators was not favorably en-
tertained. The visitors were told that the
Government has no lands in the West to
sell in blocks. The policy is to place tht
laud freely at the disposal of actual set-
tlers, and hence is unfavorable to specu-
lation. It is possible, however, that a deal
will be made with tloe Canadian Pacific
railway, which has land for sale in the
Territories.
Notes.
The Canadian Railway Accident Insur-
ance Company has been licensed to carry
on the accident insurance business in
Canada.
The Ocean .Amoident and Guarantee Cote
poration has been licensed to do guarantee
insurance and aceident business in Can-
ada.
The Controller of Inland Revenue bas
given instructions to have the flour board
established at once. The date of the
meeting will rest with the chairman.
BURNED 1-11S SOLES.
Horrible Brutality of Burglars Near Park-
hill, Ont.
Parkhill, Ont., Sept. 8.—About one
o'clock on Saturday morning three men,
two of whom were small and all of them
young, went to the house of Mr. John
Bullock, about four miles from Parkhill,
on the town line between McGillivray and
West Williams, where Mr. Bullock and his
aged mother live. They tied Mrs.Bullook,
who was sleeping downstairs, but she fled
to her son, who was upstairs. Two of the
burglars went upstairs, and bound Mr,
Bullock also before he was able to defend
himself. They demanded money, and took
matches and burnou the soles of his feet
until he told them, where what money he
had was. The robbers procured about 835
and his watch. Then they went to the
stable took a horse and buggy, and left.
Mrs. Bullock, after great difficulty,
loosened the rope whioh bound her, and
went to the house of Mr.Ellis, a neighbor,
and informed him of what had happened.
air. Ellis went over and unfastened the
repo which bound Mr. Bullock, and found
the burglars had completely ramsaoked the
house. The burlgars were traced for about
four miles north, where they were lost
track of. The horse stolen was five years
old, about 15 hands high, and weight
about 1,000 pounds, black mane and tail.
with white spot on each hind foot between
the fetlock and hoof, and never was shod.
The buggy was an old open one of a dark
color.
College Students Strike.
Alliance, Ohio, Sept. 8.—All the girl
students at Moutit Union , College struck
agailist obeying the order vvhich required
them to visit ?he gymnasiem daily. They
objected to exercising before a male in-
structor. A conamitee was appointed to
call upon the faeulty. After a discussion
they decided to aeoede to the demand, and
the committee Was notified that a female
instructor would be einployed.
A Meeting of the Finance Clointnittee of
the City Council of Hamilton was held on
Saturday night, Ween the peojeetore of the
Toronto, Hatnilton, and Buffalo talIWay
submitted their requeSt fer a fttether bends
of $200,000. The eciminittee deelded by an
unanilnous vo,te refuge' the otanpanyat
rattiest •
as. ' ea.•.•
VEGETABLE EXCESS.
Deaver:ma Effect et a Vegetable Diet 11,
leetrated.
The dangerou's (some Wottici say deadly)
effect 01 a vegetable diet is well illustrated
by a story width comes froin Bainbridge,
Michigan. The tale in question was writ-
ten, NO We are told, by a strict vegetarian
to show the hovrors of meat -eating, but, as
recently observ,ed by a'Chicago orator in
the course of seine remarks on another
subject, "it has, like the inurderous boom-
erang, come home to roost." The name
of the vegetable -feeding author of this
story seems to be lost; the important
name of the fleshatevouring here is extant
It is Thomas Foote, and the mifortunate
Young man bearing it has just been out off
In an interesting prime,of swum by meat,
though indirectly. In the first picket), it
mut be understood that he was an ex-
tremely snapoptible youth, not, perimps,
the "endearing elegance of feinale frienil
ship" (though no statistics axe obtainable
on this point), but in other ways, lt is
fair to presume that one glance of the por-
celain eye of Svengeli would have trans
formed him into something quite differet
from what he was—say, for instance, hire
a gridiron for broiling meat. For till ex-
amples given of his transformation wi b-
out a Svengeli are almost as extreorainney
as this.
Young Foote, as we said before, Ives s
confirmed meat guzzler, but instoaci of
simply being rendered obtuse to the fiher
things of life, as the vegetarian tolls ns.,,
the usual tuition of meat‘he was highly ei-
eited by it, and in a different way I y
each kind. Thus when he "indulged in
beef" (we quote from the offleial amount
prepared by the vegetable pen of the un-
known writer) ho would "become restless,
wander out and bellow like an ex, going
down on his hands and knees to eat
grass." The reader will observe that he
was a peculiar youth, If he "partook of
mutton" he would "Neat like a lamb."
It would seem that if he ate the ordinary
mutton he should have butted his head
against a stone wall instead of bleating
like a lamb; yet this is neither here nor
there; the point is to oall the reader's at-
tention to the fact that he was not as other
young men. But to proceed: When he
regaled himself with (thicken" he would
rush out excitedly to the garden and
"scratch feverishly for worms," we sup-
pose throwing back first his left foot once
and his right three tim es, after the mannor
practised by the hen when. scratching ever
since she lacerated the surface of the Gar-
den of Eden. But though these peculiari-
ties made young Thomas Foote the object
of m ore or less remark in the neighborhood
(especially when he got into somebody
else's gardeb ),they never brought him any
serious trouble until his father, in a
thoughtless hour, fetched home a "fine
mess of squirrels," on which young Thom-
as "did not hestitate to satisfy his liking
for meat."
The result was disastrous, as might have
been foreseen. He scampered up the near-
est tree and began "jumping from limb to
limb," all the time "barking like a squir-
rel." His father called to him, but this,
of ()curse, "only'seemed to make the boy
want to escape the more." He attempted
to jump from one tree to another, "missed
his footing, fell to the ground," and, alas,
was killed. As we intimated by our
quotation from the Chicago speaket, this
story becomes striking for reasons other
than those intended by the author. It
shows the inflaming and stupefying effects
of a vegetable diet, inflaming as to the im-
agination and stupifying as to the con-
science.. No one whose mind is not dis-
mantled, so to say, by the exciting potato
and the inflammatoryear of green corn eau
for a moment believe that any such youth
as Thomas Foote ever existed, at Bain-
bridge, or elsewhere. He was born of the
fumes of boiled vegetables la the brain of
the unknown writer. Heated by the
Graham "gem," with his nerves unstrung
through over -indulgence in oatmeal, his
shattered mind conjured up the picture of
Thomas Foote bellowing, bleating, scratch-
ing and jumping from limb to limb. It
ought to serve as a terrible warning to
those who indulge in these unnatural
foods. It should, in fact, as our Chicago
friend would say, stand like the light-
house upon the rock-bound shore, warning
the hardy navigator with its honest bark.
Dogs Can Bead Character.
Wonderful tales have been told of the
marvelous instinctive intelligence of dogs
but the idea of consulting a canine oracle
when a man is contemplating matrimony
is a new one. A French writer, bowever,
says that before committing himself a
man should note carefully how she whom
he loves conducts herself towards her
parents and friends, and, above all, how
she treats ordinary domestic animals.
"Beware of a person whom children and
dogs dislike," he says. "Dogs may be
our inferiors, but their instincts rarely
deceive them, and a pronounced antip-
athy on their part may well be consider-
ed a danger signal. No compassion should
be felt for him who marries a girl whom
dogs snarls at and dislike, for he has had
fair warning of domestic storms."
Puzzling the Angels.
In a prominent Sunday school recently
the teacher of a class of small boys was
elling the story of the angel of death
and of the slaying of the first-born of
the children of Israel. One little youngster
was greatly impressed with the story
and sat with his eyes directly on those of
his teacher. The young lady expected a
question from the boy, and she was not
disappointed, for the little chap was al-
ways keeping her in hot water by his
inquislive turn of mind.
"Well, Johnny," she replied to her
name as it was called by the boy, "what
Is it you don't understand?' '
"I was wondering what the result was
when the angel came to the place where
there were twins."
The Cause of Man's Pall.
Prof.. Wiggins has a theory that man
originally came from Mars on the tail of
a comet. There is, in addition, tbe pro-
fessor says, overwhelining evidence that
Eve found her way here in the same
manner.
"I have no time now to enter into a
detailed disussion on this point," said
Prof. Wiggins, "but I believe that the
serpent that begeiled Eve and caused all
our woe was a comet "
Werke the other way.
"Do you think there is much sentiment
in btisineass?" ventured the gentle old fel-
low who writes the stories for the chil-
dren,
"Not Very much, I fear," the staff poet
replied. "l3ut," he ridded, more cheerful-
ly, "there's a good deal of business in
sentiment''
We know a nice, compact little bull
terrier that Will Insert a Whole set of
teeth for nothing and be glad of Cho job.
Each tooth warranted sound and good.
We make this announceniont in the ie.
terest of our readers without fee or re.
Ward,
THE OPEN WINDOWS,
A SERMON OF CHRISTIAN CHEERFUL-
NESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
Rey, Dr. Talniage Daniel% Devotions
Before the 'Window Inlet Vaeed Nis Na -
ti 0 Jerusalem—me :nettle With Sin and
Deach--whe Victory.
Now York, Sept. 8, —In his sermon for
toqlaY, Rev, Or Talmage bas chosen a
till MO overflowing with Obristan cheer.
fulness and encouregemoet The sale-
ject is "Open Windows,'' and ill° text
selected was Daniel vi, 10, ''His windows
being open in his cbamber a:mart" Jeru-
scountirelly princes of Persia,
wand on by political jealousy against
Daniel, have sueeeeded In getting a law
Paned that whosoever prays to God shall
be put, under the paws and teeth of the
lions, who are lashing themselves in
rage and hunger up and down the stone
Cage. Or putting their lower jaws on the
ground, bellowing till the earth trembles.
But the leonine threat did not hinder
the devotions of Daniel, the Coeur de
Lion of the ages. His enemies might as
well have a law that the sun should not
draw water, or that the south wind
should not sweep aoross a garden of mag-
nolias, or that God should he abolished.
They could not scare hino with the ma-
llet furnaces, and they cannot now soare
him with the lions. As soon as Daniel
hears of this ennotment he leaves lois office
of secretary of state, with its upholstery
of crimson and gold, and comes down the
white marble steps and goes to his own
house. Ho opens lois window and puts
the shutters back and pulls the curtain
aside so that he can look toward the
sacred city of Jerusalem, and then prays.
I suppose the people in the street
gathered under and before his window
and said: "Just see that man defying the
law. He ought to be arrested." And the
constabulary of the city rush to the police
headquarters and report that Daniel is
on his knees at the wide open window.
"You are my prisoner," says the officer
of the law, droppino a heavy hand on the
shoulder of the kneeling Daniel. As the
constables open the door of the cavern
to thrust in their prisoner, they see the
glaring eyes of the monsters. But Daniel
becomes the first lion tamer, and they
Usk his hand and fawn at his feet, and
that night he sleeps with the shaggy
mane of a wild beast for his pillow,while
the king that . night, sleepless in the
palace, has on him the paw and teeth of
a lion he call not tame—the lion of a re-
morseful conscience.
What a picture it would be fOr some
artist! Darius, in the early dusk of
morning, not waiting for footmen or
chariot, hastening to the den, all flushed
and nervous and in disbabille, and look-
ing through the crevices of the cage to
see what had become of his prime mtnis-
ter I "What, no sound?" he says.
"Daniel is surely devoured, and the lions
are sleeping after their horrid meal, the
bones of the poor man scattered across
the floor of the cavern." With trembling
voice. Darius calls out, "Daniel!" No
answer, for the prophet is yet in profound
slumber. But a lion, more easily awak-
ened, advances, and with hot breath
blown through the crevice seems angrily
to demand the cause of thik interruption,
and then another wild beast lifts his
mane from under Daniel's head, and then
the prophet, waking up, comes forth to
report himself all uuhurt and well.
But our text stands us at Daniel's
window, open toward Jerusalem. Why
In that direction open? Jerusalem was
his native land and all the pomp of his
Babylonish successes could not make him
forget it. He came there from Jeruealem
at 18 years of age, and he never visited
it, though he lived to be 85 years. Yet,
when he wanted to arouse the deepest
emotions and grandest aspirations of his
heart, he bad his window open toward his
native Jerusalem. There are many of
you to -day who understand that without
any exposition. This is getting to be a
nation of foreigners. They bave come into
all oceupations and professions. They
sit in all churches. It may be 20 years
ago since you got your naturalization
papers and you may be thoroughly
Americanized, but you can't forget the
land of your birth, and your warmest
sympathies go out toward it. Your win-
dows are open toward Jerusalem. Yonr
father and mother are buried there. It
may have ueen a very humble home in
which you were born, but your memory
often plays around it and you hope some
day to go and see it—the hill, the tree,
the brook, the house, the place so snored,
the door from which you started off with
parental .blessing to make your own way
in the world, and God only knows how
sometimes you have longed to see the
familiar place of your childhood and how
ID awful crises of life you would like to
have caught a glimpse of tho old
wrinkled face that bent over you as you
lay on the gentle lap 20 or 40 or 50 years
ago. You may have on this side of the
e risen in fortune, and, like Daniel,
have become great and may have come
into prospe,rities Which you never could
have reached if you had staid there, and
you may have many windows to your
huuse—bay windows a,nd skylight win-
dows and windows of conservatory and
windows on all sides—but you have as
least one window open toward Jerusa-
em.
When the foreign steamer °times to the
wharf, you see the long line hf sailors,
with shouldered mailbags, coining down
the planks,carrying as many letters as
you might suppose to be enough for a
year's correspondence, and this repeated
again aria again during the week. Multi-
tudes of them are letters from home and
at all the post -offices of the land people
will go to the window and anxiously ask
for them, hundreds of thousands of per-
sons finding that window of foreign
mails the open window toward Jerusa-
lem. Messages that say: "Whon are yini
coming home to see us? Brother has
gone into the army. Sister is dead
Father and mother are getting very feeble.
We are having a great struggle to get on
hero. Would you advise us to come to
you, or will you ootne to us? All join in
love and hope to meet you, if not in this
world, then in a better. Goodbye"
Yes, yes. In all these cities and amid
the fiowering Western 'prairies and on
the slopes of the Pacific and amid the
Sierras and On the banks of the lagoon
and on the ranches of Texas there 18 an
Liz:mounted multitude, who, this bour,
stand and sit and kneel with their win-
dows open toward Jerusalem. Some of
those people played on the heather of
the Scottish hills. Some of them were
claivon out be "reel,. famine. Some of
them, in early life, drilled in the Gor-
man array, SOMO of them write aeons -
tented et Lyons or Marseillea or Paris to
See on the street Vietor Hugo and Gam-
irerk: ": 1:r:" niaReggliliatt,
betta. Some chased the chamois among
rthipee4011uPbaStecIrsProiltiieet:liA4SnovniineeyPal urritegootnh:
lifted their faces under the midnight sun
of Norway. It is no dishonor to Our land
that they remember the place of their
nativity. Miscreants would they be if,
while they have some of their windows
oven to take in the free air of America
wad the sunlight of an atmosphere whieh
no kingly despot has ovei• breathed, they
forget sometimes to open the window to -
Weed Jerusalem,
No wonder that the son of the Swim
when far away from home, hearing the
national air of his (=Wry sung, the
malady of homesiokness comes on inin so
powerfully as to cause his death. You
have the example of henna Daniel of my
teXt for keeping early memories fresh.
Forget not the old folk at home. Write
ofteu, and, if you hove surplus of means,
and they are poor, make practical contri-
bution and rejoice that America is bound
to all the world by ties of sanguinity as
Is no other nation. Who oan doubt but
it is appointed for the evangelization
,of other lauds? What a stirring, melting,
gospeliziner theory that all the doors of
other nations are open toward us, while
our windows are open toward them!
But Daniel, in the text, kept this port-
hole of his domestic fortress. unclosed be-
cause Jerusalem was the capital of sacred
influenees. There had smoked the more.
floe. There was the holy of holies. There
was the ark of the covenant. There stood
the temple. We are all tempted to keep
our windows open on the opposite side,
toward the world, that we inay see and
hoar and appropriate its advantages.
What does the world say? What does the
world think? What does the world do?
Worshippers of the world lastead of wor-
shippers of God. Windows open toward
Babylon. Windows open toward Corinth.
Windows open toward Athens. Windows
open toward Sodom. Windows open to,
ward the flats, instead of windows open
toward the hills. Sad mistake, for this
world, as a god is like something I saw in
the museum of Strasburg, Germany—the
figure of a virgin in wood and iron. The
viotim in olden time was brought there,
and this figure would open its arms to
receive him, and, once enfolded, the
figure closed with a hundred knives and
hinces upon him, and then let him drop
180 feet sheer down. So the world first
embraces its idolaters,' then closes upon
them with many tortures, and then lets
them drop forever down. The htghest
honor the world could confer was to make
a man Roman Emperor, but out of 63
emperors, it allowed only six to die peace-
fully in their beds.
The dominion of this world over mul-
titudes is illustrated by the names of coins
of many countries. They have their
,pieces of money which they call sover-
eigns and half sovereigns, crowns and
half-crowns, Napoleons and half -Napole-
ons, Fredericks and double Fredericks,
and ducats and Isabellinos, all of wbich
names mean not so much usefulness as
dominion. The most of our windows open
toward the exchange, toward the salon
of fashion, toward the god of this world.
In olden times the length of the English
yard was fixed by the length of the arm
of King Henry I, and we are apt to
measure things by a variable standard
and by the human arm that in the great
crises of life can give us no help. We
need, like Daniel, to open uur windows
toward God and religion.
But, mark you, that good lion tamer
Is not standing at the window, but
kneeling. while he looks out. Most
photographs are taken of those in stand-
ing or sitting posture. I now remember
but one picture of a man kneeling, and
that was David Livingstone, who in the
cause of God and civilization sacrificed
himself, and in the heart of Africa his
servant. Majvvara, found him in the tent
by the light of a candle, stuck on the top
of a box, his head in his hands upon the
pillows and dead on his knees. But here
is a great lion tamer living under the
dash of the light, and his hair disheveled
of the breeze, praying. The fact is that
a Tnan can see farther on his knees than
standing on tiptoe Jerusalem was about
50 statute miles from Babylon, and the
vast Arabian desert shifted its sands be-
tween them. Yet through that open
window Daniel saw Jerusalem, saw all
between it, saw beyond, saw time, saw
eternity, taw earth and saw heaven.
Would you like to see the way through
your sins to pardon, through your
troubles to comfort, through temptation
to rescue, through dire sickness to im-
mortal health, through night to day,
through things terrestrial to things celes-
tial, you will not see them till you take
David's posture. No cap of bone to the
joints of the fingers, no cap of bone to
the joints of the elbow, but cap of bone
to the knees made so because the God of
the body was the God of the soul, and es-
pecial provision for those who want to
pray, and physiological structure juins
with spiritual necessity in bidding us
pray and pray and pray. In olden time
the Earl of Westmoreland said he had no
need to pray because he had enough pious
tenants on his estate to pray for him,
but all the prayers of the church uni-
versal amount to nothing unless, like
Daniela we pray for ourselves. 0 men
and women, bounded on one side by
Shadraoh's red-hot furnace and the other
tilde by devouring lions, learn the secret
of courage and deliverance by looking at
that Babylonish window open toward
the southwest! "Oh," you say, "that
is the direction of the Arabian desert I"
but on the other side of the desert is God,
is Christ, is Jerusalem, is heaven.
The Brussels lace is superior to all
other lace, so beautiful, so multiform'so
expensive -400 francs a pound. All the
world seeks it. Do you know how it is
raade? The spinning is done In a dark
room, the only light admitted through a
small aperture and that light falling
directly on tho pattern. And the finest
specimens of Christian character I have
ever seen or ever expect to see are those
to be found in lives all of whose win-
dows have been darkened by bereave.
recut and misfortune save one, but under
that one window of prayer the inliarlac.
ing of divine workmanship went on
until it was fit to deck a thronea a celes-
tial embroidery which angels adniired
and God approved.
But it is another Jerusalem toward
evhich we now need to open our win-
dows. The exiled evangelist of Ephesus
saw it one day as the surf of the Icarian
sea foamed and splashed over the bowld-
ers at his feet, and bis vision reminded
me of a wedding day avhen the bride by
sister paid maid was having garlands
twisted for her hair and jesvols strung
for her nook just before she puts her be-
trothed hand into the hand of her affirm°.
ed. "I, John, saw the holy city, New
jails:tie/la, coming down from God out
of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for
her husband.' Toward that bridal jeru.
salem are our windows opened?
We Would do well to think more of
heaven, It is not a mere annex of earth.
It is not a deNolate otitpost. A$ Jhrue
Salem, was the eilpittil of Judea, ead
Babylon tlie capital a the Babyloaian
• monarchy, and London Is the capital of
Great Britain, and Wastaagoaa is dm
capital of our own repUblie, the New
Jerusalem is the eapi trit'of the universe.
The King lives thew and the royal
farnily of the redeemed have their palaces
there, aud there is a OrdlareSS Of many
nations, and the parliament of all the
world. Yea, as Daniel had k.indred in
Jerusalem Of wholn he often thought,
though he left hotne.when a very young
man, perhaps father aud mother and
brothers and sisters still living, and was
homesick to see them, and they helonged
to the bigh circle of royalty, David hints
self having royal blood in his veins, so
we hese in the New Jerusalem a great
onzuoy kindred, and we are sometimes
homesick to see them, and they are all
princes and princesses, in them the blood
imperial, ancl we do well to keep our
Windows open toward their eternal resi-
dence.
It is a joy ter us to believe that while
we are interested in them they are in-
terested in us. Much thought of heaven
Makes one beavenly, The airs that blow
through the open window are charged
with life,,and sweep up to us aromas
tram gardns that never wither, under
skies that never cloud, in a springtide,
that never terminates. Compai:ed with it
all other heavens are dead failures.
Homer's heaven was an elysinin which
he describes as a plain at the end of the
earth or beneath, with no sn ownior rain-
fall, and the sun never goes down, and
Rhadaananehus, the justest of men, rules.
Hesiod's heaven is what he calls the is-
lands of the blessed, in the midst of tbe
ocean, three times a year blooming with
most exquisite Bowers. and the air is
tinted with purple, while games' aud
music and horse races occupy the time.
The Scandinavians' heas-en was the hall
of Walhalla,where the god Odin gave un-
ending wine suppers to earthly heroes
and, heroines. The Mohammedans' heaven
passes its disciples in over the bridge Al-
i.rat, which is finer than a hair an 1
sharper than a sword, and then they are
let loose into a riot of everlasting sensu-
ality.
The American aborigines look forvvard
to a heaven of illimitable hunting -
ground, partridge and deer and wild
duck more than plentiful, and tho
hounds never off the scent. and the gees
never missing fire. But the geographer
has follovved the earth round and found.
no Homer's elysium. Voyagers have
traversed the deep in all direetions and
found no laesiod's islands ,of the blessed.
The Mohamandedans' celestial debauchery
aud the Indians' eternal hunting -ground.
for vast multitudes have no charm. But
here rolls in the Bible heaven. No more
sea --that is, no wide separation. No
more night—that is, no insomnia. No
more tears—that is, no heartbreak. No
more pain—that is, on dismissal of lancet
and bitter draft and miasma and banish-
ment of neuralgia's and catalepsies and.
consumptions. All oolors in the wall
except gloomy black; all the music in
the major key, because celebrative and
jubilant. River crystalline, gate crystal-
line and skies crystalline, because every-
thing is clear and without doubt. White
robes, and that means sinlessness. Vials
full oE odors, and that means pure re-
galement of the senses. Rainbow, and
that means the storm is over. Marriage
supper, and that means gladdest festiv-
ity. Twelve manner of fruits, and that
means luscious and unending variety.
Barri, trumpet. grand march, anthem,
amen, and hallelujah in the same or-
chestra. Choral meeting solo and over-
ture meeting antiphon. and strophe jOin-
ing dithyramb, as they roll into the
ocean of doxologies. And you and I may
have all that and have it forever through
Christ if we will let him, with the blood
of one wounded hand, rub out our sin
and with the other wounded hand swing
open the shining portals.
Day and night keep your wiudovv open
toward that Jerusalem. Sing about it.
Pray about it. Think about it. Talk
about it. Dream about it. Do not be in-
consolable about your friends who have
gone into it Do not worry if something
in your heart indicates that you are not
far off from its ecstasies. Do not think
that when a Christian dies he stops, for
he goes on. An ingenious man has taken
the heavenly furlongs as mentioned in
Revelation and has calculated that there
will be in heaven 100 rooms 16 feet square
for each ascending soul, though this
world should lose 100,000,000 yearly. But
all the rooms of heaven will be ours, for
there are family rooms, and as no room
in your house is too good. for your child-
ren so all the rooms of all the palaces of
tbe heavenly Jerusalem will be free to
God's children, and even the throne -room
will not be denied, and you may run up
the steps of the throne and put your
hand on the side of the throne and sit
down beside tho King according to the
promise, "To him that overcometh will I
grant to sic with nie in iny throne."
But you cannot go in except as con-
querors. Many years ago the Turks and
Christians were in battle, and the Chris-
tians were defeated, and with their com-
mander, Stephen, fled toward a fortress
where the mother of this commander was
staying. When she saw her son and his
array in disgraceful retreat, she load the
gates of the fortress rolled shut, and then
from the top of the battlement cried out
to her son, "You cannot enter here except
BS conqueror" Then Stephen rallied his
forces and resuined the battle and gained
the day, 20,000 driving back 200,000. For
those who are defeated in battle with sin
and death and hell, nothing but shame
and contempt, but for those who gain
tho victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
the gates of the Now Jerusalem will
hoist, and there shall be an abundant
entrance into the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord, toward which you do well to
keep your windows open.
A Bouquet of Plower Notes.
Try potting freesia bulbs in August for
enrly flowering.
Try nipping baek the larkspur for a
second crop of flowers.
Try turning over and mixing the com-
post heap in readiness for the fall potting,
Try cutting the gladiolus spikes when
they are in bud and letting them flower
in water.
Try brightening the rooms with fresh
blossoms, and strengthening the plants
by free picking.
Try planning for the fall shrubbery and
sending in orders early, even if the
shrubs are not to be shipped until
0 oltytrober.
baking time by the forelock by be-
ginning preparations in early August ,for
the winter blossoms. Sieve every promis-
InTgrsytohipanbdocgtliny
tting;tir flo wer-growin g
career on oommOn.sense principles, and
Success is sure to follow; don't be too
easily disoouraged if you are an ainatetit.
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