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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-10-4, Page 2'THE. SAIL P. A STORIL. TALMAGE'S LESSON OF THE INCI- DENT ON THE SEA OF GALILEE,• Christ Bushing he %tempest —Necessity Ver Christ en the nano voyage or eare e-Netbing to Be nrightened Ale:wet—me World Moves. New York, elept. 2.9.—I2 his sermon for to -lay, Rev. Dr. Tannage discourses on a dramatics inoident during the Saviour life amorig the Gatineau fishermee and drawn from it a striking lesson for the men anti women of the present day, The subject was "Rough Seinen.," and the text Mark iv, 36, 37' l there"Anwere also with hint other little ships, auce there .itaostna great storm of wind." Tiberias, Galilee and Gennesaret were three names for the same lake. It lay in it seem of great luxuriance. The sur- rounding bills, high, terraced, sloping, gorged, were so many hanging gardens of beauty. The streams rumbled down through rooks of grey and red limestone, and. flashing from the biliside bounded to the sea. In the tune of our Lord the vat - lays, heaulands and ridges were covered thickly yeah vegetation, and so great was the variety of Militate that the palm tree of the torrid and the walnut tree of rig- orous climate were only a little way aparr. Men in vinenteds and olive gar- dens were gathering up the riches for the oil press. The !dile and valleys were starred and crimsoned with flowers, from which Christ took his text, and the din- eiples learned lessons of patience and trust. It seemed as if God had dashed a wave of beauty on all the scene until it hung dripping from the rooks. the hills, the oleanders. Op the back of the Leban- on range the glory of the earthly scene WaS carried up as if to set it in range with the hills of 'leaven. No ether gem ever bad so exquisite a setting as beautifulGeenesaret. The waters were clear and sweet, and thickly inhabited, tempting innumerable nets and affording a livelihood for great pope- 1ation. Bothsaida. Chorazin and Caper- naum stood on the bank. roaring with wheels of traffic and flashing with splen- did equipages, and shooting their vessels across the lake, bringing merchandise for Damascus an 1 passing great cargoes of wealthy produot Pleasure boats of Roman gentlemen and fishing smacks of the country people who bad come clown to cast a net there passed each other with nod and shout and. welcome, or side by side swung idly at the mooring. .Palace ana luxurtant bath and vineyard, tower and shadowy arbor, looked off upon the calm, sweet scene as the evening shadows began to drop, and Hernion,with its head covered with perpetual SAM, in the glow of the setting sun looked like a white bearded prophet ready .to ascend in a chariot of fire. I think we shall have a quiet night l Not a leaf winks in the air or a ripple disturbs the surface of Gennesaret. The shadows of the great Iteadlands stalk clear across the water. The voices of evening -tide, how drowsily they strike the ear—the splash of the boatman's oar and the thumping of the captured fish on the boats' bottom, and those indescribable sounds which fill the air at nightfall, You hasten 1113 the beach of the lake a little way, and there you find an excitement as of an embark- ation. A flotilla is pushing out from the western shore of the rake—not a squadron with deadly armament, not a clipper to ply with valuable merchandise,. not piratic vessels with grappliug hook to hug to death whatever they could seize, but a filotilla laden with messengers of light and mercy and peace. Jesus it. in the front ship; his friends and admirers are in the small boats following after. Christ, by the rocking ef the boat and the fatigues of the preaching exercises of the day, is induced to slumber, and I see him in the stein of the boat, with a pil- low perhaps extemporized out of a fisber- enan's coat, sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the looks of the worn out sleeper, and on its surface there riseth and falleth the light ship, like a child on the bosom of its sleeping mother. Calm night. Starry night. Beautiful night. Run up all the sails and ply all the oars and let the boats, the big boat and the small boats, go gliding over gentle Gennesaret. The sailors prophesy a change in the weather. Clouds begin to travel up the sky and. congregate. After awhile, even the psassengers hear the moan of the storm, which comes on -with rapid strides and with all the ter- rors of hurricane and darkness. The boat, caught in thn sudden fury, trembles like a deer at bay, amid the wilcl clangor of the hounds. Great patches of foam are flung through the air. The loosened sails, flapping in the wind, crack like pietols. The small boats poised on the white cliff of the, driven sea tremble like ocean petrels, and then plunge into the trough with terrific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder crack, and overboard go the cordage the tackling and the masts and the drenched disciples rush into the stern of the boat and shout 'amid the hurricane, "Master. caresu thou not that we perish?" Tbe great personage lifted his head from the fisher- inan's coat and walked but to the prow of the vessel and looked upon the storm. On all sides were the small boats tossing in helplessness, and from them came the cries of drowning men. By the flash of lightning I see the CallallOSS of the un- covered brow of Jesus and the spray of the sea dripping from his beard. He has two words of command—one for the wind, the other for the sea. He looks In o the tempestuous heavens and be mean "Peace!" and then he looks down into the infuriate waters and he says, "13e still I" The thunders beat a retreat. The waves fall flat on their faces. The extinguished stars rekindle their torches. The foam melte. The storm is dead, and wiele the crow are untangling the eon:l- oge and the cables, and bailing out the water from the hold of the ship, the dis- ciples stand wonder -struck, now gazing Into the calm sky, now gazing into the calm sea, now gazieg into the calm face of Jesus and whispering one to another, "What manner of man is thee, that even the winds and the sea obey Wm?" I learn, first, from this subject that when you are going to take a voyage of auy kind you ought to have Christ in the ship. The fact is that tame° boats would all have gone to the bottom if Christ had not been there. Now, you are about to voyage out into some new enterprise—into some new business relation. You ate going to plan some groat matter of profit. I hope it is so. If you aro content to go rilona in the treadmill course and plan nothing new, you are oot fulfilling your miseion, What you ean do by the atmost tension Of body, mind and soul, that yell 11V0 botihd tO do, You have no right to be colonel of it regiment If Gocl calls you to tirifiy".. 'Sou have no right tie be stoker in a steamer if God commands you to be admiral of theneve, You limn ue right to enigeeer it ferry boat front river bank to river bank. if God counnetacis you tu engineer a Cueartler front New York to Liverpool. 13ut what- ever Winterise you undertake. and upou whatever voyage yon start, be sure to take Christ in the sine). Here are nien largely prospered, The seed of a small enterprise grew into an accumulated and oTershadowieg success. Their cup of prosperity is running oven Every day sees it commercial or mochanioal tri- umph, Yet they are not miffed up. They acknowledge the God n•bo grows the harvests and gives them al/ their prosperity. When disaster comes that destroys inhere, they are only helped into higher experienoes. The coldest winds that ever blew clown from snow-capped Hermon and tossed Genuesaret into foam and agony could not hurt them. Let the winds blow until they creek their cheeks. Let the breakers boom—all is well, Christ is in the ship. Here are other men She prey of uncertainties. When they succeed, they strut through the world in great vanity, and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness of others. Disaster comes and they are utterly down. They are good sailors an it fair day, when the sky is dear and the sea is smooth, but they cannot outride a storm. After awhile the packet is tossed abeam's end, and it seems aa if she must go down with all the cargo. Push atm from the shore vvita lifeboat, longboat, shallop and pinnace. You annum save the crew, The storm twists off the masts, The sea rises up to take down the vessel, Down she goes No Christ in that ship. spsak to young people whose voyage In life will be a mingling of sunshine and of darkness, of article blast and of tropical tornado. You will have many a long, bright day of prosperity. The skies dear, the sea smooth. The crew exhilar- ant. The boat, stanch, will bound mer- rily over the billows. Crowd on all the canvas. Heigh, ho! land abead! But suppose that sickness puts its bitter cup to your lips; suppose that death over- shadows your heart; suppose misfortune with some quick turn of the wheel hurls you backward; suppose that the wave of trial strikes you athwart ships, and bow- sprit shivered, and halliards swept into the sea, and gangway crowded with piratical disasters, and the wave beneath, and the sky above and the darkness around are filled with the clanaor of the voices of destruction. Oh, then you will want Christ in the ship. I learn, iu the next place, that people who follow Christ must not always ex - peat smooth sailing. When, these disciples got into the Elwifl boats, they said, "What a delightful. thing this is! Who would not be a follower of Christ when be can ride 111 one of these small boats after the ship in which Jesus is sailing?" But when the storm °erne down these disciples found out that following Jesus did not always make smooth sailing. So you have found out and so I have found out. If there are any poeple who yea would think ought to have a good time in getting out of this world, the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever noticed bow they got out of the world? St. James lost his head. St.Pbilip was hung to death against a 'pillar. St. Matthew was struck to death by it halberd. St Mark was dragged to death through the street St. James the Less had his brains clashed out -with a fuller's 'nub. St. Mat- thias was stoned to death. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear John Huss in the fire, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters—did they always find smooth sailing? Why go so far? There is a young man in a store in New York who has a hard time to main- tain his Christian character. All the clerks laugh at him, the employers in that store laugh at him, and when he loses his patience they say, "You are a pretty Christian." Not so easy is it for that young man to follow Christ. If the Lord did not help 'him hour by hour he would fail. There are scores of young men to -day who would be willing te testify that in following Christ one does not always find smooth sailing. There is a Christian girl. In her home they do not hke Christ. She has hard work to get a silent place in which to say her prayers. Father opposed to religion. Mother opposed to religion. Brothers and sisters opposed to religion. The Christian girl does not always find it smooth sailing when she tries to follow Jesus. But be of good heart. As sea- farers, when winds are dead ahead, by setting the ship on starboard tack and bracing the yards, make the winds that oppose the course propel the ship forward, so opposing troubles, through Christ, veering round the bowsprit of faith, will waft you to heaven, when, if the winds had been abaft, they might have rocked and sung you to sleep, and while dreaming of the destined port of heaven you could not have heard the ory of warn- ing aim would have gone crashing into the breakers. Again, my subject teaches me nthat good people sometimes get very much frightened. From the tone and manner of these disciples as they rushed into the He is a man !" But when I see hien come to the prow of the boat, and the sea kneels in his presence, and the winds fold their wings at his command, I say: 'He is God! He is God I" The hand Shat set nP the starry pillars of the uni- verse wiping away the tears of an orphan 1 When I want pity and sympathy, I go into the back part of this boat, and I look at him, and I say, "0 Lord Jesus, thou weary one, thou suffering one, have mercy on nee." "Bee° home!" Behold the man l But when I want courage for the conflict of life, when 1 want some one to beat down my enemies, when I want faith for the great future, theol come to the front of the boat, and I see Christ standing there in all his omnipo- tence, and I say "0 Christ, thou who couldst hush the storm, can hush all my sorrows, all my temptations, all my fears." "Ecoo Deus!" Behold the God! I llsarn from this subeot that Christ can hush the tempest Some of yOu, my bearers have a heavy load of troubles, Some of you have wept until you can weep no more, Perhaps God took the sweetest child out of your house, the one thee asked the most curious (iodations, the one that hung arotind you with greatest foodness. The gravedigger's spade cut down through your blooding, heart. Ot perhaps it was the only one that you had, and your soul has ever since been like a desolated castle, whete the birds of the night hoot amid the fall- ing towers and along the mumbling stairway, Or primps it Was an aged mothei that was flailed away, You used to send for her When you had arty kind of trouble. She was in year home to wel- come your children lino' lila and when they died she was there to. pity you. You know that the old hand Will Miller de any More kindnees808 tor note, abe the Melt of arlItte hair that you keep se well in the casket ef the locket these not leek so well as it did on the eley when she moved it back from the wrinkled fore- head leader the old -fa saioned bonnet in the °Introit in the country. Or perhaps your property has gone. You: said, "There, 1 Ittree so moon ha bank stock, so mutat I have iu houses, so much I have in lauds, so much I have in securities." Suedonly it is all goue. Alas.i for the man who ouee had plenty of money, but wile has hardly enough now for the morntng »tarizettept, NO storm ever swept over Gonnesaret like that wbieh has gone trampling its thunders over your quaking soul, 13ut you awoke Christ ill the back part of the ship, cry- ing, "Master, carest thou not teat I perish?" And Christ rose up and quiet- ed you. Jesus 11 5151)51(1 the tempest. Theie is 000 storm into which we must all ruxi W1ta 11 usau lets go cf this life to take hold of the next, I do not care bow much grace he has, he win waot it all. What is that out yonder? That is a dying Christian rooked on the surges of death.. Winds that have wreck - stern of the vessel and woke Christ me, you know that they are fearfully scared. And so it is now that you often find good people wildly agitated. '40h I' ' says name Cbristian tnan, 'the infidel magaz- ines, the bad newspapers, the spiritualts- tie societies, the importation of so many foreign errors, the church of God is going to be lost, the ship is going to founder! The ship is going down 1" What'are you frightened about? An old lion goes into his cavern to take a sleep, and 1 he lies clown until his shaggy matte covers his paws. Mean while the e enders outside begin to spin webs over the mouth of his cavern and say, 'Mat lion cannot break out through this web," aud they keep on spinning the, gossamer threads until they get the mouth of the cavern covered over. "Now," they say, "the lion's done, tbe lion's done." After awhile the lion awakes and shakes him- self, and he walks out from the cavern, never knowing there were any spiders' webs, and with his voice lie shakes tbe mountain. Let the infidels and the skeptics of this day go on spinning their webs, spinning their infidel gossamer theories, spinning them all over the place where Christ seems to be sleeping. They say "Christ can never again come out e•the work is clone. He can never get through this logical web we have been spinning." The day will wine when the Lion of Judah's tribe will rouse him- self and come forth and sbake mightily the nations. WI:at then all your gossam- er threads? Wbat is a spider's web to an aroused lion? Do not fret, then, about the world's going backward. It is going forward. You stand on the banks of the sea when tbe tide is rising. The almanac says the tide is rising. but the wave comes up to a certain point, and then it re - Cedes. "Why," you say, "the tide is going back." No it is not. The next wave comes up a little higher, a,nd it goes back. Again you say the tide is going out. And the next time the wave comes to a higher point, then to a higher point. Notwithstanding all these reces- sions, at last all the shipping of the world knows it is high tide. So it is with the cause of atheist in the world. One year it comes up to 000 point, and WEI are greatly encouraged. Then it seems to go back next year. We say this tide is going put. Next year it comes to a higher point and falls back, and then next year it comes to a still higher point and falls back, but all the time it is advancing, until it shall be full tide, "and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God as the waters fill the sea." Again I learn from this subject that Christ is God and luau in the same per- son. I go into the back part of that boat, and look on Christ's sleeping face, and see in that face the story of sorrow and Weariness, and a deeper shadow comes over his face, and I think he must be dreaming of the cross that is to coma As I stand on the back peat of the boat looking on his face I say : "He Is a man! ed magnificent face, of pomp and worldly power come clown on that Chris- tian soul. All the .spirits of darkness seem to be let loose; for it is their last chance. The wailing of kindred. seems to mingle with the swirl of the waters, and the scream of the wind, and the thunder of the sky. Deep to deep, billow to billow. Yet no tremor, no gloom, no terror, no sighing for the dying Christen. The fact is that from the back part of the boat a voice sings out, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee." By the flash of the storm the dying Christian sees that the harbor is only just ahead. From heavenly castles voices of welcome come nver the vi eters. Peace drops on the angry wave as tbe storm sobs itself to rest like a ohild falling asleep amid • fears and trouble. Christ bath hushed the tempest. Tobacco Insoinia. Many brain -workers suffer from inabil- ity to sleep. This is frequently met with among those who work late at night. The sulierers complain that they feel inostlive- ly just when the time tor retiring has come,and that a long period of restlessness precedes a troubled slumber from which the slightest noise awakens them. This is very often caused. almost entirely by over indulgence in tobacco. They smoke just before going to bed, ignorant of the fact that not only may tobaceo prevent sleep temporarily, but that it may render it less deep, and consequently less refresh- ing. A grave responsibility attaches to those who lightly seek to relieve it symp- tom which is really a warning by recourse to a dangerous palliative. The inablity tit sleep is often merely the outcome of an unnatural mode of lie, and if this be cor- rooted the disability disappears of itself, Men who work late are commonly addict- ed to the tobacco habit, To them tobacco is not a relaxation after a day's wore, but a nerve stimulant which enables them to accomplish tasks which would otherwise be difficult of accomplishment. When the mouth becomes dry, alcohol in some form ot other is resentesi to as a fillip to enable the smoker to tolerate still another cigar or two. Tender these circumstances tobac- co acts as a cerebral irritantand interferes with the vasomotor (teeters of the brain to suoh an extent that the vessels aro unable to adjust themselves forthwith to the con- dition tequirod for health and untroubled sleep. Discretion in tobacco use would save many trona this distressing condition of chronic its-on:Mlle Smoking early in the day should be discountenanced, and it is equally undesirable within an hour or so of retiring to rest Tim best remedy for the tobacco habit, short of total absten- tion, Is to take a short walk in the open air after the last pipe. Under no Mecum-, Otances should dregs be used for this linen of nocturnal restiossnese. Don't ittteinp I., to win sat timing and diving elm nit ionshi ps, Bement ber tlait aloes 3,90 13 W110 /MVO sdodeeded itt winning tliui ire now dead by droWnittge OUR, OTTAWA, LETTER INTERESTING SKETCH OF HON. J. C. PATTERSON'S CAREER. Tile New InientaGovernera-natterson ea 1891,--Getsits portfolio—is Bonneted for West Huron—Goes to winnipeg-arlie Liberal tender. Returning to Ontario after having, afft bly greeted Thomas Greenway the omen of his whit= colleagues, Hon. J,C.Patter son has. bent hiniseif to the task of in gratiating bimself with the people o Manitoba. The Lieutenant -Governor ha been uusparing 01 encomium. To enquir ing newspnper men he luta painted with free hend and pennant oolors the prosPeri ty, the sobriety mid the industry of th worthy farmers of the land of Number 'Flaav.1(1); Honor is by way of being it demo Orate° governor. So he told me when I me him in King street, Toronto, this week "I noticed," said 1, "that you decline the escort of dragoons that was offered yot on your arrival in 'Winnipeg." ' "I did," replied theGovernor. "We are going to have it democratic adrninistra tion in Winnipeg. There's going to b mighty little gold lace in it." And Mr Patterson turned into the entry to th offiees of the Conservative Ansooiation. The New Lieut. -Governor. To that C nservative Association tit newly appointed Lieutenant -Governor o Manitoba well may be grateful. It was a ite president that he first achieved promi nenoe in Canadian politics. ale was alway what enthusiastic 'Conservative editors de soribed as "an ardent Conservative," bu it was not until he was elected chief office of the organization that controls the Gov ernmont's campaign funds in this provino that he evinced any political—or, more cor rectly—portisan ability. His talent for or ganization was remarkable, so was hi disceroment To his clear vision the schemes of understrappers were an open book 13efore his day money was spent like water in nonstituencies that needed little of the ready cash to bring them, into line, while in the other and extremely doubtfu riding, the organizers had difficulty in se caring financial aid. James Colebrook Patterson altered al this. He knetv Ontario pretty thoroughly and in doubtful localities he had always some reliable friend. With incredible nice. ty he adjusted the amount of financial aid that was to be given in elections He and Robert Birmingham, the Secretary of the association and chief organizer of the party, achieved a remarkable tritunph. The constituepcies were well provided for. Little money was thrown away on forlorn hews. Sir John Macdonald, after the elec. ions of 187, thanked. Mr. Patterson at a meeting of Conservatives held at the Al batty Club. And men who knew the Old Map said that F'atterson's future was made. Patterson in 1891. Subsequent events showed that a man may be a successful politician and a poor administrator. In the election of 1891 Mr. Patterson had for an opponent one William McGregor, a livery stable keeper, of Wind- sor,and an tincompromising Liberal. Pat- terson had knoen McGregor for years,and he underestimated the strength of his ad- versary He campaigned in other ridings, and left North Essex to the care of his friends. Ten days beim the election he was telegraphed to by his friends,who im- plored him to return at once. He did so, and found that McGregor had been work- ing amain. Such a campaign as his had never before been made in Western On- tario, said Patterson's friends. The mem- ber set to work to make up for lost time He soon found that his case was nearly hopeless. Even the French Canadians, of whom there are several hundred in North Essex, had pledged themselves to 'vote for the enemy. And, when polling day had come and gone, the livery stable keeper had been elected by a majority well up in the hundreds. It was then that came the troublous times for the Conservative uarty. The first Sir John had gone down before the enemy that yields to none. The cabinet was in the throes following reconstruction. Mr. Patterson journeyed to Ottawa and pressed Itis suit. He used no mild language. He had done much for the party; now, the party must do something for him. But, objected Sir John Abbott, the peti- tion against McGregor had been dismiss- ed. How was Patterson to get a seat in parliament? ' Gets His Portfolio. "I'll get the seat, and before I get it,I want a portfolio," returned Mr. Patterson the insistent. The Government complied After all, an active representative of Western On- tario was required. With Sir John Mac- donald's death Sir John Carling's chief supporter and friend had passed from the Council chamber, and the political death - knell of the kindly old man from London had sounded. Is Returned for West Huron. Patterson's demand had been made at an opportune time. He was gazetted Secretary of State. He aonouncea that he would contest West Huron, where M.C.Canteron, dui. bed by bis enemies Ananias, had been unseated. Money poured into the riding ram both parties, Conservatives and Lib- erals,sent their best stumpers up to addiess he electors. Patterson was elected by 15 votes innt riding that ordinarily gave a Grit majorit over a hundred. The wcets of office neve enjoyed by the now Secreting of State. His department gave inn little care, for its duties were easy. After Sir .101111 Thompson became Prime Minister, Mr. Patterson essurned charge f the 'portfolio of Militia and Defence. He travelled the country over, was dined m the offeens of our diminutive regular rmy, to d warred with General Herbert, r was /limit this time that the latter e issuea his famous report in which he ave the Car adian inllitia scant praise md more than their meed of blame. In- igtient 0011110 neing offices telto week to nil wires. They used the influetice of eir local inembers to make things un meant for the, General. Mr. Paterson vas made the retiipient of scores of coin - nines' against the Englishman. The i mister found that holding a portfolio was. tos what it was cracked up to be. To be ttro, the 86,000 salary was not to be seem- il at, but was there not something better o be had? Mr. Patterson cogitated, If What nien ay is true, he at first cast an eye on the upretne Court. The redatobed justices ave two or three months work it heir salary salary is ample. But &Mit inactivity ould not snit the ex -president of t le onservative Dation. He looked farther fleld,and hie gaze rested upon the ember. tatorial mansion at Wienipen Here Woe, A the land agents' say,an eligibly situated lenity tesidencie to be let, rent fremfot flee tiers or morce and carrying wail it en an - tad ealatnof $8,000. ClOee to Winnipeg, CoOld any Moderate minded and pa riotio gentleman wish for more Mr, Pat, 1• terson did not. While A. W,Ross,the mem bor for Lisger, W.13 Seerth, and other gen- tlemen publicly pursued the appointment, Mr, Patterson seid little. He told his friends that he was tired of polities, and, that hie health demanded a trip to Cali- fornia. He resigned his portfolio and started for the Pilate° slope with Premier liowell's promise et the Manitoba govern- orship in his pooket The other gentle- men, unwitting that the prize had been awarded, continued to beseech the Premier SO make them happv for life by sending them to Winnipeg. Sir Mackenzie smiled benignly and said nothing. The dine had not wine when the announcement should - be made. When Mr.Patterson returned the. f news had leaked out. Mr. Ross and Mr: s South had done swharing at their i 11 -for - tune, and the happy appointee received a the congratulations of everybody. There are several interesting moral les - e sons that may be drawn fuom the political 1 history of the Honorable James Colebrook patterson.. I thin!: it will add to the in- terest of the narrative to let each of my In- dulgent readers draw his own. • W. Maclean 'Uneasy. Another member of parliament who feels uneasy nowadays is W.F.Maolean„ of East York. Against him the Liberals have nominated young leranklance a ' drover, an alderman of Toronto, a,ntl. the 0 son et the well-known cattle exporter. lerankland is a strong man in the country • o sections of the riding,and in the First Ward of Toronto, which is East York for Do- minion purposes, fie is very popular. In the by-election in which Mr. Maclean was eleoted the graveyards groaned, and the tombs give 01 their dead to vote for the Government nominee. The Liberals say thab they will watch the polling next tine. If they do, and it the sinews of war are forthcoming, W. le. Maclean has a good chance of being elected to stay at home. The Liberal Leader. In good sooth, our esteemed friend Wil. Md Laurier has been having a fine time of it this summer. Onoe I heard him say Shat he was glad that he did not possess the unreasoning consistency of small minds. Which remark was cribbed from a French gentleman named Taine. The Liberal leader has acted up to his belief that the good man's mind often varies in its pointof view. He lives for the clay in the day; and is prone to forget his previotes incarnations. What has he done; what has he said, during the past few months? He went down to Bonaventime, and there told the toilers of the sea who live on the shores of the Gulf that he would praise Sir Mackenzie Boswell if he restored • Separate Schools to the Roman Catholics of Manitoba. He was cheered. Then he went into Chicontimeand thank- ed God that there was no such monstrosity as a Liberal Orangernan. Whereat George Dawson' the Grit member for Addington shiveredas though a goose had walked over his grave. And now this versatile and interesting gentleman has been speaking to the good French folk of Ste. Anne de Perade. He I a retrograded to his opinion of 1893 '.1.24S is what he says:— " White the Government has done noth- ing, all the party organs throughout all the Provinces have demanded what was my policy. le does noe belong to me to settle this question,' but I shall not wait until the responsibility is put upon my shoulders to outline what I believe to be the true way. Two years ago, when the question first came before the House' I said to the Government, which desiredto consult the courts to ascertain whether it had the power to intervene:— You have the power to intervene. It is written in the constitution. Tbe only question is a question of facts. Make an investigation: it is the first thing to be done.' But they said, Why an investigation, are the facts not clear?' I simply reply. These facts are clear to you and to all those who be- lieve in a system of Separate schools, but remember that there are those who do not think as we do on this question, and they are in the majority. I know that when I say that the first thing to be done in this question is to have an investigation, I do not perhaps express an idea that will be very popular in this province, but I hold to the same language in all provinces. Re- member that there are differences of opin- ion and profound differences on this ques- tion, and that to solve it we must enlarge our horizon, andplace ourselves on a basis that all Canadians without a distinction of raze or creed may accepe" Mr. Laurier's opinions on this school question should be dated like vintages. He has given us the assurance that he be - Heves, in the immediate re-establishment of Separate schools. Now he calls for an in- vestigation. What are the inquisitors to do? Greenway has told Howell that an investigation' into the sytem Will do 110 good. John S. Willison, the Globe's editor, writes from Manitoba that ninety per cent. of the people of Manitoba are well content with things as they are. The Chief of the Liberals should take his adherents into his confidence. They might give him much good eounsel and advice. It is not often that he says too much.' This summer he has given us an exhibition of variegated political opinion that woald have done credit to Peter Mitchell in his most vol- uble days. The wicked Grits maintain their as- seults on Sir Mackenzie Bowell. The old gentleman, revivified after his prairie trip, was interviewed by a deputation of Win- neteggers,who besought him to use his in- fluence Sowards having deepened the navi- gation channel of the Red river. Sir Mao. kenzie likes to imitate Sir John thterirst-- and he does not do it well. Instead of tell- ing the delegates that he would enquire into the matter, he essayed to send them away with a funny story ringing in their ears. The delegates did not laugh. The Conservatives smiled deferentially. The Grits frowned. And now Grit editors are filling columns with denunciation of the Ptemier. But even the ablest of edithts must have something to write about. fbere conies frozn Ottawa a rumor that Hon W. H. Montague seeks to exchange the headship of the Department of State for the portfolio of Agriculture. The statement is likely to be true. The Secre- tary of State has little or no patronship awl the office is scornfully known as ehe Sr Ming Wax Department. With the large t atronage which the Minister of Agricule tore controls the prestige of the portly ler. Montague would bo mach enhanced in political value. The (Mange would leave She State Department for the Frenchman who shall succeed Angets. This latter theatrical gentlernaw has abandoned politics for good anti all. He hat opened a Mee Office in Montreal and will make very short visits to OttaWa itt the future. Ile is still a Senator, ancl, if Ito so desire, may make himself a thorn in the side of the Government, ' That he will do so is not probable. He leeks tarengthof character and ability .4 His re- signation In July last was inspired by his strongest oharaoteristie—personal Vanity., • si 5 1 1 Damasks atnong the Fgenoh silks show Louis XVI. designs. Is ts ineari husband Whose heart Isn't softened by,a good dinner. ACHII-CeS QUESTIONS. How does the bread thee mother bakes Give strength when 1 ain weak, Make for my body dimpled fiesh, .A.nd scarlet for my cheek? How does the mllk that Daisy gives. White as drifted snow, Change to drops of crimson blood That through my body dew ? How does the air, the pure, sweet aIr, • Mowing gently by, Leugh right merrily in my voice And spiLlllevriyarmnl yititt,ete?, in 5. 5. Times. THE SPARROWS AND THE CHIPMUNK, Ian Accouitt of a Very Flare° Battle Be - .A. young natt‘uterealis7wiellino. is a close ob- server of birds tells this little story: "One morning last summer, While welking through one of our parks, I was attracted by a tremendous chattering from a chimp of bushes near the path- way. It soundecl as if a hundred birds were having t fight over their breakfast 104 —for sparrows think that a fat worm or , a juicy bug is worth making a great fuss about. "I 'walked quickly and stealthily up to the bushes and peeped in. It was not a.worm which caused the commotion, but something bigger. A large flock ot English sparrows were flying about, screaming as if they had gone mad and pecking savagely at intervals at some small animal, which was running about on the ground. It was a poor little red chipmunk who had excited their wrath. He was running back and forth. evident. ly trying to get away from his tormen- tors. It was of no use, for he was closely surrounded by them, and he evidently was getting weak in the unequal strug- gle. ''So I drove away the sparrrows and tried to rescue the miserable little squir- rel. When the birds flew away the chip- munk still lay upon the ground and seemed unable to move. I picked him up in my hands. He was in a pitiable condition. The sparrows had pulled nearly every hair out of his tail. One of his eyes was entirely pecked out and he was covered with cuts and wounds, where the pugnacious little sparrows had pecked and beaten him. "Poor little chippyl He was nearly dead and evidently in such suffering that he had to be put out of his misery. We had Mr. Chipmunk stuffed and put him up on the mantel -shelf for an orna- ment. He looks much more happy there than he did the day the quarrelsome little sparrows pecked his life away. But what it was that excited their wrath Mr. chipmunk never told." Paure's Unaltected Cordiality. Mr. Felix Faure continues, says out Paris correspondent, to win public favol by his unaffected, hearty manners. He refuses to be bound by the Protocol un- less on questions of international polite- ness and public ceremonial. The Presi- dent, he says, should be his own proto. col, particularly when he wishes to act according to the dictates of his heari and of common sense. Thus at the ball at the Hotel de Ville he left Alma Pou. belle, wife of the Prefect of the Seine, no be taken to the buffet by a Minister, and gave his arm to the homely Mme. Champoudry. This lady's husband re. presented on that occasion the town" council. The President thought that she, as hostess, should be treated as the highest lady present. This delighted all the Radicals of the town council, who constantly rebel against the tutelage in which M. Poubelle, the Prefect of the Seine, tries to keep them. The courte- ous instincts of the President were also shown in the way in which he received at the Elysee the old boys of the Pompee Technical School, khere he was educat. ed. Those who called on him were.his classmates and are now all business men, The senior old boy, M. Chapron, a civil engineer attached to the School of Arts and Trades, deliveredan address. When it was ended, let. Felix Faure said: "Da me the pleasure of making yourselves al home and puttimg away ceremony. Let us smoke a cigar in remembrance of our school days; drink a flagon of beer and have a chat. But I expect all of you to ase the old familiar 'thee' and 'thou' in talking to me; otherwise I shall feel on stilts, and I hate nothing more than that."—London News. The Grass Widow. According to recent researches the phrase "grass widow" is a corruption of "grace widow," which is a term frit one who becomes a widow by grace oi favor, not of necessity as by death. Il originated in the earlier days of Euro. pean civilization, when divorces wen' but seldom granted, and then only by authority of the Church. When such a decree was granted to a woman the rescript stated: " Viduca de gratia," which interpreted is "widow of grace." A woman receiving such a divorce wa . commonly called "a grace widow," an • the transition to " grass widow" was easy. This latter toren is in the United States applied to a woman whose hus. band has been away' from her for con. siderable length of time, or who hat deserted her. In England it is applied ' to an unmarried woman who has bornit a child.—San Francisco Call. Horses Fed on Potatoes, In the first issue of the Planter We gave the experience of Mr. W. G. Hine eon. of James Island, in reference to feeding horses and mules On potatoes. We have since found two farmers, Mr. J. C. Larapley, of Darlington County, and Mr. W. D. Harries, of Florence County, who are utilizing their potatoes in the same way. These gentlemen are not doing it from necessity, but as a matter of farm economy, and are well pleased with the experiment. Accord. ing to the estimate of Col T. W. Wood, ward, of Fairfield, it takes three bushels of potatoes to equal in nutriment elle' bushel of corn, but even if it took font She cost a feeding on the potatoes would be far less. It is well known that a dry surnmer is very favorable to potatoes and just the opposite for corn, and this fact ought to be Steffidient to induct every farmer to plant them more large. —Carolina Planter.