Loading...
The Exeter Advocate, 1895-10-25, Page 7LESSON OF A liEsct TE Bematifig and loving, and yet to die 'under my own juspd, 0 God, is eherb not i eonle Other sacrifiee that will do? Take MY life and spare his I Pour ont iny blood and save Isaao for hi's mother ad. the 1 World !" But this was an inward strugs gle, The tattier controls his foolipgs and looks into his S011's Pane end says, "ls Lae, 31113st / tell you. all?" His ' son kaki: "Yes, father. I thought you bad eonie- thing on your stiind. Toll it" % The father said, "hly son Isaao, thou art the 1 lamb I" "Oh, you say, "wily didut that ' Yining Man, if Ile was 20 or 30 ' years of age, sinite into the dust his infirm father? He could hey° dello it," .A.1, Isaac knew by this time that the scope Was typical of a Messiah who was to come, and, so lie matio no struggle. They fell on ,eatill other's nooks and wailei out the parting. Awful and matelness soene of the wilder- ness. Tile rocks echo batik the breaking of their hearts, The Out "My son! My son ! Tile answer : "My father 1 My fath- er Do not oompare this, as some people have, to Agamemnon, willing to offer up his daughter, Iphigenia, to please the gods. There is 1 o birig oomparable to this won- derful obedience to the true God, You know that victims for sacrifice were al- ways bound, so that they might not strug- gle twee.. Rawlings, the martyr, when he was dying for Christ's sake, said to the blacksmith Who hold. the manacles, "Fast- en those chain.s tight now, for my flesh /nay struggle mightily." So Isaao's arms are fastened, his feet are tied. The old snan rallying all his strength, lifts him on to a pile ot wood, Fastening a thong on one side of the altar, he makes it span the body of Isaac, and fastens the thong at the other side ot the altar, and another thong, and another thong. There is the lamp flickering in the wind, ready to be put under the brushwood of the altar. There is the knife, sharp and keen. Abra• ham—struggling with his mortal feelhags on the one side and the commands of God on the other—takes that knife, rubs the flat of it on the palm of his band, cries to God for help, comes up to the side of the altar, puts •a parting kiss on tho brow of his boy, takes a message from him for mother and .hoine, and then, lifting the glitterng evdapon for the plunge of the death stroke—his muscles knitting for the Work—the band begins to descend. It falls! Not on the heart of Isaac, but on the arm of God, who arrests tho stroke, making the wilderness quake with the cry: "Abrabam 1 Abraham! Lay not thy hand upon the lad nor do him any harm!" What is this souncl back in the woods? It is a crackling as of tree branches, a bloating and a struggle. Go, Abraham, and see what it is. Oh, it was a ram that, going through the woods, has its crooked horns fastened and entangled in the brush- wood and could not get loose, and Aisne - ham seizes it gladly and quickly unlooses Isaac from the altar, puts the ram on in his place, sets the lamp under the brush- wood of the altar, and as the dense smoke of the sanitise) begins to rise the blood rolls dawn the sides of the altar and drops hissing into the lire, and Ihear the words, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Well, what are you going to get out of this? There is an aged minister of the gospel. He says: "I should get out of it that whets God tells you to do a thing, whether it seemsreasonable to you or not, go ahead and do it Here Abraham couldn't have been mistaken. God didn't speak so indistinctly that it was not certain whether he called Sarah or Abimeleteh or somebody else, but with divine articula- tion, with divine intonation, divine em- phasis, he said, 'Abraham.' Abraham rushed blindly ahead to do his duty, know- ing that things would come out right Likewise do so yourselves, There is a inystery of your life. There is some bur- den you have to carry. You don't know why God has put it on you. There is sone persecution, some trial, and you don't know why God allows it There is a work for you to do, and you have not enough grace, you think, to do it. Do as Abraham did. Advance, and do your whole duty. Be willing to give up Isaac, and perhaps, you will not have to give up anything. labovahsjireh'—the Lord will provide." REV. OR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE SACRIFICE OF.ABRAHAM. eephelieurnb of' God Who Takes A.svay the Sins of the Worid"---Beertarkame, POW. creul and Clear Bible Story—.A.brahans and Ditto°. New York, Oct. U. —In his sermon for to -clay, ',telt, Dr. Talmage obese for his, Subject Abraham's sarnetne trial et faith td the 'augulio rescue ci/ Isaao from being offered by his father as a sacrifice. "The text was Genesis =di, 7, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb?" 'Here are Abraham and Isaac, the one a kind, old, gracious., affectionate father, the other a brave, obedient, religions son. errant his bronzed apparanoe you Can tell that this son has boon much in the fields, and from his • shaggy dross you know that he has been watching the herds. The mountain air has painted his cheek rubicund. Re is 20 or 25, or, as seine suppose, 33 years' of age, nevertheless a 'boy, considering the length of life to which people lived in those times, and ;Pt the fact that a son never is anything but a boy to a father. I remember that my :father used to cense into 'the house when the children were home on Seine festal occasion and say, "Where are the boys?' although the "boys" were 25 teed 80 and 35 years of ago. So this Isaacs is only a •boy to Abrehani, and this father's heart - is in him. It is Isaac here and Lase there. If there is any festivity around the father's tent, Isaac must enjoy it. It Is Isaac's walk and Isaac's apparel and Isaac's manners and Isaac's prospects .a,ncl Isaac's prosperity. The father's heart strings are all wrapped around that boy, and wrapped again, until nine -tenths of the old mari's life is in Isaac. I can just -imagine how lovingly and proudly he looked at his only stn. Well, tho clear old man had borne a ,great deal of trouble and it had left its mark upon him. In hieroglyphies of .wrinkle the story was written from fore- head to chin. But now his trouble seems ,all gone, and we are glad that Ise is very soon to rest forever. If the old man shall get decrepit, Isaac is strong enough to wait on him. If the father gots dim of eyesight, Isaac will lead him by the band. If the father becomes destitute, Isaac will earn him bread. How glad we .are that the ship that has been in such a !stormy sea is coining at last into the harbor. Are you not greatlyrejoioed that glorious old Abraham is through with .his troubles? No, no! A thunderbolt! From that clear eastern sky there drops into that father's tent a voice with an Announcement enough to turn black hair white and to stun the patriarch into in- stant annihilation. God said, "Abra- ham!" The old man answered, "Hero I sm." God said to hina, "Take thy son, thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and get thee into the ;and of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering." In other words, slay him, out his body into frag- ments, pus the fragments on the wood, leant fire to the wood and let Isaac's body Jr4be consumed to ashes. "Cannibalsm I Murder 1" says some one. "Not so," said Abraham I hear him soliloquize: "Here is the boy on whom I have depended. On how I loved thins! He was given in answer to prayer, and now must I surrender him? Oh, Isaac, sny son! Isaac, how shall I part ' with you? But then, it is always safer to do as God asks me to. I have been in dark places before, and God got me out. I will implicitly do as God has told me, .although it is very dark. I can't see my way, but I know God ina,kes no mistakes, and to Him I commit myself and my 'darling son." Early in the morning there is a stir -around Abraham's tent. A. beast of burden is fecl and saddled. Abraham makes no aisclosure of the awful secret. At the break of day he says: "Come, swine, Isaac, get up 1 We are going off on s two or three days' tourney." I hear the ax hewing and splitting amid the wood until the sticks are made the right length and the right thickness, and then they are fastened on the beast of burden. 'They pass on—there are four of them— Abraliam, the father; Isaac, the son; and two servants. Going along the road, I see Isaac looking up into his father's face and saying: "Father, what is the mat- ter? Are you not well? Has anything hap- pened/ Aro you tired? Lean on my arm." 'Then, turning around to the servants, the son says, "Al, father is getting old, .and he has had trouble enough in other days to kill him l' The third morning has come, and it is the day of the tragedy. The two servants are left with the beast of burden'while Abraham and his son Isaac, as was the cus- tom of good people in those times, went -up on the hill to sacrifice to the Lord • 114TAInd you and you will be hoisted with a glorious lift beyond all, wearinestiond all straggle. May the God of .Abrahem and Demo be with you until you see the Lewis on the hilltops, Now, that aged minister has Made a suggestion and this aged womtie has made a suggestion, I will make a Sag' gestione—Isaac going up the hill makes nia think ot the great sacrifloe. Isaac. the onlY son of Abraham, Jesus, the only son of God, On those tvvo "onlys" I build a tear ful emphasis. 0 Isaac! 0 Jesus! But this last stiorifice was a more trentenatsus one. When the knife was lifted OVer vary, there woe no voleo that cried "Stop!" and no hand arrested it. Snarp, keen and tremendous, it out down through nerve and artery until the blood sprayed the fame of the executioners and the midday sun dropped a veil of cloud over its face because it could not endure the spectacio. 0 Isaac ot Mount Mortals! 0 ;Jesus of Mount Calvary! Better could God have thrown away into annihilation a thousand Worlds than to have sacrificed his only Son. It wasesot, orte of ten sops—it was his oislY San If he had not given up hull, you and I would have perished. "God so loved the world that he gave his only"—I stop there, not bemuse I have forgotten the quotation, but because I want to think. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SOD, that whosoever believeth in him should not per- ish, but have everlasting life." Great God, break 3ny beart at the thought of that sac - Isaac the only, typical of josus the only. You see Isaao going up the hill and carry- ing the wood. 0 Abraham, why not take the load off the boy? If he is going to die so soon, why not malse his last hours easy? Abraham knew that in oarrying that wood up Mount Mortals Isaacs wasto be a sym- bol of Christ carrying his own cross up Calvaty. I do not know how heavy that crosa was—whether it was made of oak or acacia or Lebanon cedar. I suppose it may have weighed 100 or 200 or 300 pounds. That was the lightest part of the burden. All the sins and sorrows of the World were wolmd around that cross. The heft of one, tho heft of two, worlds—earth and hell were on his shoulders. 0 Isaac, carrying the wood of saorifiee up Mount Moriah. 0 Jesus, carrying the wood of sacrifice up Mount Calvary, the agonies of earth and hell wrapped around that cross. I shall never see the heavy load on Isaac's back that I shall not think of the° crushing load on Christ's back. For whom that loaa? For you. For you. For me. For me. Would that all the tears that we have ever wept over our sorrows hest been saved until this morning, and that we might 1 now pour them out on the lacerated back and feet and heart of the Son of God. You say: "If this young man was 20 or 30 years of age, why did he not resist? "Why was it not Isaac binding Abraham instead of Abraham binding Isaac? The muscle in Isaac's arm was stronger than the muscle in Abraham's withered arm. No young man of 25 years of age would submit to have his father fasten him to a ' pile of wood with intention of burning." Isaac was swilling saerifice, and so a type I of Christ who willingly came to save the world. If all the armies of heaven had. resolved to force Christ out from the gate, they could not have done it. Christ was equal with God. If all the battalions of glory had armed themSelves and resolved to put Christ forth and make him come out and save this world, they could not have succeeded in it. With one stroke be would have toppled over angelic and arch - angelic dominion. But there was one thing that the omni- ' potent Christ could not stand. Our sor- rows mastered him. Eta could not bear to : see the world die without an offer of par- don and help,and if all heaven had armed itself to keep him back if the gates of life had been bolted and double barted, Christ would have flung the everlasting doors from their hinges and would have sprang forth, scattering the hindering hosts of heaven like chaff before the whirlwind, as he cried: "Lo, I come to suffer! Lo, I come to die!" Christ—.a vvillingesacrifice. Willing to take Bethlehem humiliation and sanhedrin outrage and whipping post maltreatnaent and Golgotha butchery. Willing to be bound, Willing to suffer. A capital lesson this old mimster gives us. Willing to die. Willing to save. Out yonder in his house is an aged wo- How does this affect you? Do not your very best impulses bound out toward this man. The light of heaven in her face/she is half way through the door; she has her Painstruck Christ? Get down at his feet, 0 hand on the pearl of the gate. Mother, ye people. Pat your lips against the what would you get out of this subject? wound on his right foot and help kiss "On," she says, "I would learn that it is away the pang. Wipe the foam from his dying lip. Got under the cross until you in the last pinch that God comes to the feel the baptism of his rushing tears. Take relief. You see, the altar was ready, and Isaac was fastenecnon it, and the knife him into your heare, with warmest love g was lifted, and just at the last moment e - and undying enthusiasm. By your God. broke in and stopped proceedings. So sistance you have abused him long enough. Christ is willing to save you. it has been in my life of 70 years. Why, Aro you willing to be saved? It seems to sir, there was a time when the flour was all out of the house, and I set the table at me as if this moment were throbbing with invitations of an all compassionate the noon and had nothing to put on it, but live minutes of 1 o'clock a loaf of bread Gad, I have been told that the cathedral of came. The Lord will provide. My son was very sink, and I said: 'Dear Lord, Si. Mark stands iu a quarter in the center of the city of Venice, and that when the you don't mean to take him away from clock strikes 12 at noon the birds from the me, do you? Please, Lord, don't take him city and the region round about the city fly to the square and settle down. It came in this wise: A large hearted woman passing one noonday across the square saw some birds shivering in the cold, and she scattered some crumbs ot bread among them. The next day at the same hour ehe scattered more crumbs of bread among them, and so on from year to year until the day of her death. In her will she be- queathed a certain amount of money to keep up the same practice, and now,at the first stroke of the bell at noon, the birds begin to come there, and when the clock has struck 12 the square is covered With them. How beautifully suggestive, Christ comes out to feed thy soul to -day. The more hungry you feel yourselves to be the better it is. It is noon, and the gospel clock strikes 12. Come in gooks I Come as doves to the window! All the air is filled with the liquid chime: Come! Come Com e ! away. Why. there are n9ighbors who have The wood is takeu off the beast's back, three and four sons. This is my only son, and pus on Isaac's back Abraham has in this is my Isaac. Lord, you won't take one hand a pan of coals or a lamp, and him away from me, will you?' But I saw in the other a sharp, keen knife. Here he was getting worse and worse all the are all the appliances for sacrifice, you time, and I turned round and prayed, say. No, there is one thing wanting—. until after a while I felt submissive, and there is no victim—no pigeon, or heifer I could say, 'Thy will, 0 Lord, be done!' or lamb, Isaac, not knowing that he is The doctors gave him up, and .we all gave to be the victim, looks up into his faher's him up. And, as was the cost= in those face and asks a question which must times, we had made the grave clothes,and have cut the old snan to the bone—"My we were whispering about the last exer- father The father said. "My son Isaac, cises when I looked, and saw some per - here I ans." The son said, "Behold the spiration on his brow, showing that the :lire and the wood, but where is the fever had broken, and he spoke to us so hanila?" The father's lip quivered, and naturally that I knew he saw going to get leis heart fainted, and his knees knocked well. He did get well, and my son Isaac, together, and his eutire body, mind and whom I thought was going to be slain and sou., shiver in sidkoning, angnish as he consumed of disease, was loosened from stlggles to gain equipoise, for he does that altar. And, bless your souls, that's not want to break dowu. And then he been so for 70 years, and if my V3ice were looks into his son's face, with a thounaed not so weak, if I could see better, I could rushing tendernessos, and says, "My son, preach you younger people a sermon, for God will provide himself a lamb." though I can't see much I can see this: The twain are now at the foot of the Whenever you get into a tough place, and bill, the place which is to befamous for a your heart is breaking, if you will look a a noet transcendent occarrence. They little farther into the woods you will see, caught in the branches, a substitute and a gather some stones oae of the field and deliverance, 'My Son God will provide build an altar three or four feet high. 'Then thcy take this wood off Isttac'S back himself a Iamb.' " Thank you, mother, for that short str- and sprinkle it over the stones, so as to mon. I amid preach back to you for a help and invite the flame. The altar is minute or two and say, never de you fear. done—it is all clone. Isa,ao has helpect to build it. With his father he lute discus- I wish I had half as good a hope of heaven as you have. Do not fear, mother. What. :sod whether the top of the table is even, and whether the wood is properly pre- ever bappens, no harm will ever happen to pared. Then there is a pausa The son you. I was going up a long flight of stairs, Looks aroeind to See if bliere ie not some and I saw an aged woman, 'very decrepit end with a cane, creeping on up. She liviug animal time can De caught and butchetod for the offering. _Abraham made but very little progress and I felt very exuberant, and 1 raid to her, "Why, tries to elsoke down his fatherly feelings mother, that is no way to go Op stairs," sand suppress his grief, in otder that he and I thtew my arms aroused her and I anay break to hie son the terrific news carried her up and mit her deem on the that he is to be the Victim. Ali. 1 Isime never looked more beautiful than on -rank you, thank you, I am very at the top of the stairs, She said: that day to his father, As the old man ,IfiTh thaukfal." Oh, mother, when you get van his einaciated Angers through his sot' s through this life's work and you want to :hair, he Said to himself : "Hew shall givo him hp? What will his moths, say go 'up Stairs and rest in the good oleo that God has provided for you, yeti Wili not when X come back without nay boy? have to climb up --you will nob have to theught he Vectuld have boon the comfott mesa up painfully. The tevo arms that f d Units tia thte I t- I the otie will be flung homes,• Would have been the hope of ages to °nee, were stretch°d On or Looking Upward. The following active, given to a young married woman who was visited by an- other older ahd experienced one, may be helpful to sortie of our readers: When the visitor rose to go, the hostess came with her to the door, end out upon the pleasant piazzaewhich, however, look- ed a little dusty in the corners. "Oh door!" said the young wife, hove provoking servants are! I told Mary to sweep this piazza thoroughly, and now look how dusty it is!" "Grace," said the older woman, looking into the disturbed young face with kindly, humorous eyes, I am an old housekeeper. Let Die glVe you a bit of advice: Never direct people's attention to clefeote, Un - lose you do so they Will rarely see them, Nolv, if I had been in your place and no- ticed the dirt, I should have saia: How blue the sky is,' 'How beautiful the clouds are!' 'How bracing the air is!' Tbeh I should have looked up at thet as I spoke, and should have gotten you Wel, down the stops and out of sight withealt your seeing the dust." The diplomates of a nation ape in it. OUR OTTAWA LETTER LAURIER'S ONTARIO TOUR AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREET. No New Pronouncement by the Libeeat header en the Aebool finefition --The Pion, Knight a Trasty Ade-ellsongler Seicceeds Nir Richard. At 'eat, with the apping and eager October winds whistling through the. arill Aluids and rinks wherein he bolds his meetings, Wilfrid Laurier has 0°111mm:w- ed his mission to the Ontarioaus. It was at Morrisburg that tbe fueile e'renolisnan made his first speech to some four thou- sand sturdy dwellers, in Dundee. Though the eounty sends Hugo Ross, a Conserva- tive, to represent it in parliament, it has many Liberal voters. Consequently Mr. Leurier's greeting was hearty. No New ',roe o uocemen e. None of nis hearers who shivered in that draught -swept drilkshed could have hoped to hear any new pronouncement on the ever-present question of the schools. The panacea for any &erns that may ex- ist was stated, firstly, to be au luvesti- gation, and secondly, an adjustment of the difficulties, Thu. audience seemed to be satisfled—as what audience would not, when the persuasive Laurier has its ear?—• ana the meeting was pronounced by the Liberal press to have been an entire suc- cess. The tiara Sir Richard Cartwright was present, and, by way of contrast to his leader's mild and good-humored pleadings, the Liberal knight protsched battle, war and sudden death. The good people of Hondas must have enjoyed the taste of Sir Richard's quality. There are no mild measured words with this de- nunciatory olcl man. His shibboleth Is "All Tories are rascals. Turn them hut, on ram you." Upon this text the old man forever harps. There is no per - 10 his oondemnations. He waxes as inaledictory over a five hundred dollar bridge as he does over the whole Policy of the Government, Wherefore his speeches often lose in effectiveness. Sir Illobard a Trusty Aide. It was a particularly wicked trick of the Tory newspapers some years ago to hint that there was little love lost be- tween Laurier and leis leader. The Oxti.w correspondents of the Government orgens used to toll how Sir Richard had declin- ed to attend tee Grie caucasos, and how he refused' to consult with Laurier on questions of policy. Some part of these stories may have been true. Sir Richard never was tractable under the party whip. He is by way of being a free lance. For the moderate Grit who believes that there may be some good even in a Conserva- tive, he almost has contempt. To Sir Richard the name of Conservative is anathema, I have said that there have boon rumors of want of accord. between Sir Rithard and his leader. These stories have been set at rest by Mr. Laurier's statement at Morrisburg. • There the leader of the Liberals told his audience how sleuth the Grits owed to Cartwright's good counsel and advice. "I have had in him a trusted aide " said Mr. Laurier, "one who has served under me as will- ingly as I should have worked under him." Whereat the olcl knight showed his white teeth in a smile of acquies- cence, and the assembled Grits showed their approval. Doubtless Mr. Laurier's anxiety to deny the stories of ill -feeling may be taken in some sort as a proof that at some time all was not harmony in the Liberal caucus room. But, have there not been times when the Minister- ialists have had their internecine bicker- ings? One's memory has not to range very far back to point the day upon which Ministers of the Crown were shak- ing their fists in each other's face. Thorougbly happy families are as rare in political as in private life. Enthusiastic young gentlemen—some of whom are old enough to know much bet- ter—are becoming vastly eicited over tw8 mimic campaigns in Toronto. The Young Liberals and the Young Conservatives both have their annual elections next week, and money is gloriously plentiful r hp budding politiciens who Imndle the funds' The Conservatives have nominat- ed tickets headed respectively by Richard Armstrong, ex -president of the club; and C. C. Robinson, a middle-aged gentle- man, who is a son of Ontario's ex -lieu- tenant -governor. I am told that one of these cliques, or parties, or whatever you please to call them, has a campaign fund of no less than three thousand dollars, evens the other has nearly that amount. New members are being enrolled in large batches, their fees being paid out of the aforesaid funds. The Robinsonians charge the other fellows with having basely and unpatriotically drummed up recruits amongst ,the Grits. The .Arm- strong men answer that their rivals are already acknowledging defeat. And thus the little conflict goes on. Mr. Armstrong Is known to fame as the gentleman who, ithen he was president of the Young Conservatives some few years ago, stated In his salutatory speech that "Canada's young men were being exported in job lots." At which a good many old Con- servatives—if any such there be, for everybody of that political uult in To- ronto is a Young Conservative by this time —said that Mr. Armstrong was a traitor to his party and to the men in power at Ottawa. The Young Liberals, though fewer, in numbers'as they needs must be in To- ronto, that hot -bed of Conservatism, are indulging in a similarly exciting war- fare. With the Young Liberals there is nee such a plenitude of money, but there is no lack of funds wherewith to pay the fees of and to provide cheering libations for the irresolute voter. And so, one night next week many a cab will be fly- ing through the streets he search of absent "electors," and two public halls will be thoroughly filled with gatherings of temporarily insane young gentlemen who will sing ohoruses, light, make speeches and raise pandemonium until they are whirled honievvard through the s'eoping city on the recl plush cushions of the welcome night trolley car, .Accompanying Mr, Laurier on this,' his Ontario tour, is the Hon. John W. Longley, Attorney General of Nova Scotia, Mr. Longley is given to "star- ring, to Use a theatrieal phrase. Nothing pleases him better than to snake speeches, or, which is next best, to publish articles in magazines or neWspapers. To be stu,e, Nova &miens say Oust in his own prey - ince Mr; Longley bas to play seeond fiddle to Mr Fielding, the Premier and the brains of the Proviheial AdMinistration. But out of Neve Scotia the persevering Longloy never tires oi exploiting hitnsel,f, Ie days gore by he was a bosom friend of the tamest forgotten Er/Whig Winutm bbs was suapected of, and 710 \j'd17 001)10d, pos- sessing annexationtstic proclivities. An- nexation IS aselead no Witean—who, to do him juseico, always opposed any 1000100 Welting that wets. SO Mr, Lange ley bad to Wander ferther afield prpporly to exploit himself, He crossed to Rog - Land, and, Wontlerfel to relete, appeared In one Of the Midlaral constituencies ou the pletforin of a Vniouise candidate. The verbose Nova, Scotian wee booitiea "an enlinent Canadian stetesMals"— wince) he Le not—anu was introtheced as 'one of the most noted public: spekkerS in Canada" --which be is. ` Nothiee but death or lockjaw will ever stop the cease- less flow of john W. Longley's oratory. Dowp in Nova Scotia when lie reaohes a town tlic windows are all taken out of the hall in which lie speaks, so thee the popes fluty not be fractured by the air- waves produced by his turbine -wheel jaw and eitizons suffering from insomnia are conveyed to the auditorium in ambu- lances. John W. Longley is able to pros dace sleep where poppy, mandragora, Opium and hypnotism all ansi. sevemlly have failea Mr I r weer has announced that Mr. Lengley will accompapy him on bis Ontario trip. Sir Richard hes re- turned to Kingston, and the Nave Scot- ian human phonograph will clenounce tbe Conservatives and all their works to slumbrous audiehoes. Quiet At Ottawa. We hear little froui Ottawa. The gentlemen in power oonfine their labors to drawing their salaries and to attends in,g seml -weekly meetings of the Cabinet, The school question seems to hove escap- ed from the minds of the sixteen wise 311(311 of the Privy Council, and they sleep well o' nights. True, the 'tireless Tarte tells them iiu his Cultivateur that he will snake them announce their policy with- in tbe next ten days after the opening of the next srAsion of parliament. But that day is a good three mouths off, and, moreover, it would never do for Tarte, the untained, to usurp his leader's func- tions as interpollator ot the Government New Pranssviels Election. , Down in Now Brunswick Hon. .A. G Blair, the leader of the Coalition Govern- ment that has been in power for the past four years, is figheing for a return to power. The campaign ,is being run on partisan lines. Alfred A. Stockton, M. P. p,, leads the Conservatives, while Mr. Blair has the Liberals behind luim.The &Wines from the province indicate that Mr. Blair runs a strong chance of being defeated. Against him it is charged that he is an opportunist, that he is in poli- tics for what there is in it, and that he formed the Coalition Government because he coula not retain power in any other way. Mr. Blair answers in effect that he is a high-minded patriot, •and that Dominion polities should not enter into provincial matters. The New Brunswick Ministers in the Dominion Cabinet do not seem to be worrying very much over tho result of the electior. In the House of Commons fourteen otie of the sixteen New Brunswicit neembers are Government supporters. By the re -distribution of 1892, New Brunswick loses a seat, but the A.daninistmtion acted judicously in combining Charlotte and Sunbury. Gil- mour, a sturdy olcl Grit, sits for Charlotte- town, and it will be between hulun and a Conservative tbat the fight will be when the war -drums sound. No Need of a Connnission. Our esteemed friend, Thomas Green% evay, has been shown a report of Mr, Laurier's speech at Morrisburg. The Manitoba Premier, as is his habit, bad little to say. He promises any Commis- sioners a cordial welcome in his province, but he fails to see where any benefit can be gained through a commission of in- vestigation. It is evident that the astute Greenway is convinced that he has Sir Mackenzie Bovvell in a very tight place. Assuredly, the Dominion Premier gives scant signs of perturbation. It cannot be denied, though, that he has the worse part so far. How About the Patrons? A significanu remark was that tnede by & Western Ontario M. P. -and a Lib- eral at that—the other day. "The Pat- rons are dead," said this legislater. Doubtless Messrs. Mallory, Haycock and company would deny this most strenu- ously. The fact remains tbat the mem- bers of both parties affect to believe that the third party—or the fourth party, for must not the Prohibitionists be reckoned? —is cleacl. The wish is father to the thought. At (Wawa a moderately strong Patrod contingent could make its pres- ence felt, dici it possess a capable leader. Joseph Haycock, honest man, was as clay in the hands of the potter when he came to deal with Sir Oliver Mowat and the Wicked Partner Hardy. At Toronto there was little that the Patrons could do save to urge their demand for elective county officers. At Ottawa their field would be much wider. They clamor for Free Trade; they demand the abolition of the Senate. The fact of the Dominion Parliament's htiving no voice in the creation, the maintenance or the annihilation of the Second Chamber is of leo account to these enthusiasts. They still shout for a second Pride's Purge. and the unterrified Mallory is to be the revolutionary who shall expel the con- script fathers from the sacred and rest- ful Red Chamber. As far as Free Trade goes the Patrons are in advance of the Liberals. The Agrarians call for the total demolition of the tariff wens; the Liberals have a somewhat nebulous 'policy or policies concerning the question of revenue iaising, There is many an old party oandidate in Ontario who would welcome the news of the decadence of the Patron power. To both Grits and Tories the new organization is a menace. They will do almost anything to nullify the power of the Patrons, and, to this end, several "understandings" have already been arrived at between prospective can- didates in this province. Nothing has as yet been done in the direction Of advaucing the portly Monta- gue to the portfolio of Agriculture. It Is known that the Secretary of State in - stets upon being given this ,riels piece of patronage, but the other members ot the Cabinet have told the xnats from Heidi - mend that he must bide bis time, For the Frenchman who shall succeed .Angers there Mast he reserved something more important than the Sealing Wax depart- ment, and it may be that Montague will have to content his soul in patience until the next general election has come and gone. Perhaps by that time there Will be other Cabinet positions vacant I (I rett's Children's hair requires more attention than an WW1 in the way of cloning and Washieg, The best Way to Wash a child's head is on a rainy day,for then, they have to star in the honse and can be many kept in a Warm mem until the heir le perfectly (ley, so as to he free from a chanceof talcs big cold, The hest shempoo is a lather of Warm soft water and pure (instil° .soap. A ihtilo alooliel rubbal into the the scalp na gets the diyleg, nati is a good atinittleisti tut Weil foe the hair, After' washing the hair should be a!' )(cod to dry thoroughly Worts toriehing elee comb or Welsh to it. FALL. AND WINTER HATS. Smolt Beneeto are MAI in tee Black is the sularteet color for autumn gear, although brown—a very dark brown —le much worn also, Blue, gray end parthcolored straws have had their day, and at this time ot the year are rarely seen. With the bite* straw thio trimneings may be of any 00,10r, the different shades of red. and yellow preferred. English pheasants' wings and breasts Were seen on two or three of the srnart heti last spring, and will this aottrtnn be the Very latest thisig, They are top expensive ta ever become very common Now that women Shoot so well and the parteidge season has begun, it is Sat%) to StirnliSe partridge wings will be - coma the fashion as trim mings for autunen hats. Palmy gauze ribbons must be banished now, as looking quite too cool and sum- snery,and heavy zatin' moire or velvet must take their place. The Wine' of a bow successfully is quite an art, but an art that can be learned, anti if a bet is to be retriMilled the bows that have 1000C1 SO smart all summer may easily be copied in the heavier ribbons if care is taken to follow the pattern very closely, The small bonnets never ga out of fash- ion, and after a etunneer one van do duty Lox autumn and even winter theater wear, providedIt is not of setite straw, The combinsitions of net, gauze, ribbon and ,flovvees which constituue the bonnets of to- day are such trivial little affairs of no par - toter style that they are suitable fax any season, and can be worn in most oases without having to be retrinamed. "A rose and a pair of strings" was the bonnet ot long ago, and there is very little more to the fln de siecle bonnet—scarcely so much, for the strings are lacking. The flower bonnets have run their race, served their time, excepting for theater wear, afid it is a pity,too, for they are such dainty, pretty creations, The jet and fancy little affairs are precisely the same as those worn In the spring—a fraine-work, on which Le put an aigrette or a bow or two, the whole com- bined in a most unexpectedly smart little head-dress. Young and old alike wear these bonnets, and there is surprisingly little difference in the styles. For older women the shapes are larger and come down to the ears, but the trimmings are the same. The butterfly effects will be worn until the winter fashions bring some decided. change of style. Until then the bows, which apparently have no referenee to anything, particularly to the heads they supposedly adorn will be in vogue. With Iight, puffy hair these ecoentrio ideas look picturesque and becoming, but the majori- ty of women would do well to &insult their mirrors very closely before starting out with some of these absurd confections perohed coquettishly at one side of thei heads. r The so-called French bonnets are the most convenient things for autumn wear, but are hard to find. They always fit the head and hair to perfection and have a neatness of finish and style which is nohi too prim a -ad demure, but at the same time has a smart look. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who is universally cantieded to be the best groomed woman in the eountry affects these small hats and bonnets, and certainly they suit her beauty to perteo- tioni With the parted and smooth hair, bon- nets must be worn much further off the face than where there is a fringe of hair. to soften the forehead. Often a bonnet that seems ver t unbecoming will prove exact- ly rightee, put on in the right place on the head, and just as much care should be taken to choose a well fitting hat as swell fitting shoe. Curious, Isn't It? Mr. Joseph D. Weeks explains the increasing activity of English Iran mine as a result of the inability of America mill to fill orders. They eau an.ff„did.osell as cheaply as the English mills, but they have more business than they can handle and are obliged to refuse contracts. This is a curious way of being ruined by a "free trade ., When Baby was stoic, we gave her camel-Ia. When she was a Child, she cried for Cintoria, When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria. When. she had Cltildron, sho gave them Oastoris. A _ 4;%1 ' • " T H MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR MAN ON BEAST. Certain in its Weds and Timor bilitors. Read proofs below KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE Box Oa Barman, Beinlerson 00, 111., Feb.24, '14. Dr, 11.3. RtiNnAtm Co. &at. Sirs—Please send mo ono of your Bono nooks slid oblige. I have u Sod a groat dcal of your RendalPs Spavin Oure with good moms It sVondorfal medicine. I 01100 110(1 a mare that had ail °milt Snow In and fiVe bottles cured her, I keep a bottle es hood thetinio. Yours truly Cake. POWSLt. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE Dr. D. 3. BnonAm.. 00. °A1'601'; Ito,, t1r 1, It "Kezidall's Spavin Care /, With mita, emcees. Dear Sh's—I have 'need iiereral bottles of your think it the beet Liniment 1 e'er Wed. ilitrie re- MOVeti OM Climb, olke Blood SpOiU Ond kilted ttOo lione enarina. Pare recommended ft to several of tiiy friendWho tiro 10100 pleased with and keel it. RespeelfRidil ly,icr v.. 0. not us For Salo by all Druggists, or address Lir. 13. eT. ICEArDAZT, fil>1111,411.11 EsoseUeos FALLS, Vv.