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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-3, Page 3HARVEST SHADOW. TREY. DR. TALMAGE RELATES A 'TOUCHING BIBLE STORY. 'Ehe•Beanty'of Childhood—.Its Power Over the !Parental heart—Its Itllrafal Transi- ttinn Proal, Earth to heaven—TJae Loved and, Lost. \Wtishington, Aug. 30.—while the xeapers are busy „in many parts of the :Rand and the harvests are being gathered the enene brought before us in this sub. ,jest .is especially appropriate. •The text is 11. Kings iv. 18, 19, 20: "And when the ,child wns grown it fell :on a day that „• be went out to his father to the reapers. And he [said untu his father, 'My heed, my befall' And he said to a had, 'Carry him to his another.' And when ho had taken him and brought htrn to his another lie sab on her knees till noon and then .died." There is nt. least one happy home in Shunem To the luxuriance and splen- dor of a great house had been given the advent of a child. Even when the angel of life brings a new soul to the poor man's hut a star of joy shines over the manger. Infancy, with its helplessness ;tee and innocence, had passed away. Days of boyhood had come, days of laughter and frolic, days of sunshine and prom= Ise, days of strange questions and eurios- ity and quick development. I suppose among all the treasures of that house the brightest was the boy. Ono day there is the shout of reapers heard afield. A hoy's heart' always bounds at the sound of sickle or scythe. No sooner have the har- vesters out a swath aoross the field than the lad joins thorn, and the swarthy reapers feel young again as they look down at that lad; as bright and bean- tiful as was Ruth in the harvest fields of Bethlehem gleaning after the reapers. But the sun was too hot Tor Itim, Con- gestion of the brain seized on him. I see the swarthy laborers drop their sickles, and they rush out to see what is the matter, and they fan him, and -they try to cool his brow, bait all is of no avail. In the instant of consciousness he puts his hands against his temples and cries out, "My hand, my head!" And the father said, "Carry him to his mother," just as any father would have said, for our baud is too rough, and our voice is too harsh, and our foot is too loud to doctor a sick child if there be in our home a gentler voice, and a gentler hand, and a stiller footstep. Rut all of no avail While the reapers of Shunem were busy in the field there came a stronger reaper that way, with keener scythe and for a richer harvest. He reaped only one sheaf, but oh, what a golden sheaf was that! I do not want to know any more about that heart -break- ing scene than whet 1 see in just this one pathetic sentence, "He sat on her knees till noon and then died." Thotigh hundreds of years have passed away since that boy skipped to the harvest field, and then was brought home and died on his mother's lap, the story still thrills us, Indeed,ohildhood bus a charm always and everywhere. I shall ,now speak to you of childhood --its beauty, its susceptibility to impression, its power over the parental heart, and its. blissful ee transition from earth to heaven. The child's beauty does not depend upon form or feature or complexion or apparel. That destitute one that you saw on the street, bruised with unkindness and in rags, has a (Marin about her even under ber destitution. You have forgot- ten a great many persons whom you met, of finely mit features and with erect posture and with faultless complexion, while you will always remember the poor girl who, on a hold, moonlight night, as yon were passing late home, in her thin shawl and barefoot on the pavement, pnt out her hand and said, "Please to Rive me a penny!" Ah, how often we have walked on and said, "Oh, that is nothing but street vagabond- ism!" but after we got a block or two on we stopped and said, "Ah, that is not rights" and we passed up that same way end dropped a mite into that suffer- ing hand as though it were not a matter of mooed thought, so ashamed were we of our hard-heartedness. With what admiration we all look upon a group of children on the play ground or in the school, and we clap our hands almost involuntarily and say, "How beautiful!" All stiffness and dig- nity are gone, and yonr shout is heard with theirs. and you trundle their hoop, and fly their kite, and strike their ball, and all your weariness and anxiety are gone as when a child you bounded over the playground yourself. That father who stands rigid and unsympathetic amid the sportfulness of children ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemeble solitariness. The waters leap down the rocks but they have not the graceful step of childhood. The morning comes out of the gates of the east, tbrowing its silver on the lake and its gold on the towers and its fire on the clone, but it is not so bright and beautiful as the ;horning of life. There is no light like that which is kindled in a child's eye. no'color like that which blooms on a child's cheek, no music Iike the sound oC a • child's voice. Its face in - the ponrest picture redeems any imper- fection in art. When we are weary with toil, their little hands pull the burdens off our back. Oh, what a dull, stale, mean world this would be without the sportfulness of children! When I find people that do not like uhildren, I im- mediately doubt their moral and Chris- tian character. But when the grace of God conies upon a ohild how unspeak- ably attractive! When Samuel begins to .4r. scriptures, and Timothy begins to read the scriptures, and Joseph shows himself in- vulnerable to temptation, how beautiful w. the soenel I know that parents some- times get nervous when their children be- come piens, because they have the idea that good children always die. The strange questions about God and eter- nity and the dead excite apprehension in the parental mind rather than con- gratulation. Indeed, there aro some peo- ple that seem marked for heaven. This world is too poor a garden for them to bloom in. The hires of heaven are in the petals. There is something abont their fore- head that makes you think that the hand of Christ has been on it, saying, ".let this ono come to me, and let it come to me soon." While that one tar- ried in the house you felt there was an angel in the room, and yon thought that every sickness would he the last, and when finally the, winds of death did scat- ter the leaves you were no more sur- prised than to see a star come out..above the cloud on a dark night, for you had often said to your conpa pion, "Aly; dear, we shall never raise that child I But X. snout the idea that good children always die. Samuel the pinus boy became Sam- uel the great prophet. Christian Timothy (became a minister at Ephesus. Young Daniel, consecrated to God, became prime ]minister of ell the realm, and there are in hundreds of the schools and families of this country to -day children whe love God and keep his commandments, and who are to be foremost among the Chris- ' 'tions, and, the 'p}ii1anthrdpists, and the reformers of the next century. The grace of God never kills anyone. A child will Fie more apt to grow up with religion than it will be apt to grow up without it. Length of days is promised to the righteous. The religion of Christ does not cramp the chest or curve the spine or weaken the nerves. There are no mai- arias floating up from the river of life. The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of a child a supernal beauty. "Her ways are ways of pleasant- ness, and all her paths are peace." I pass on to consider the susceptibility of childhood, Mex pride themselves on their unohangeability. They will make an elaborate' argument to prove that they think now just as they did 20 years ago, It is charged to frailty or fraud when a man changes his sentiments in politics or in religion, and it is this determina- tion of soul that so often drives baok the gospel from a man's heart. It is so hard to make avarice charitable, and fraud honest, and pride humble, and skepticism Christian. The sword of God's truth seems to glance off from those mailed warriors, and the helmet seems battle -proof against God's battle ax. But childhood -how susceptible to example and to instruction! You are not sur- prised at the record, "Abraharn begat Isaac, and Isaac begat. Jacob," for when religion starts in a family it is apt to go all through. Jezebel a murderess, you are not surprised to find her son Jehoram attempting assassination. Oh, what a re- sponsibility upon the parent and the teacher! The mnsioian touches the keys, and the response of those keys is away off amid the pipes and the chords, and yon wonder at the distance between the key and the chord. And so it is in life -- if you touch a child the result will come back from manhood or old age, telling just the tune played, whether the dirge of a groat sorrow or the anthem of a great joy. The word that the Sabbath school teaoher will this afternoon whis- per in the ear of the class will be eohoed baok from everlasting ages of light or darkness. The home and the school de. (Ade the republic or the despotism, the barbarism or the civilization, the up - building of an empire or the overthrow- ing of it. Higher than parliament or congress are the school and the family, and the sound of a child's foot may mean more than the tramp of a host. What, then, are you doing for the pur- pose of bringing your children into the kingdom of God? If they are so suscepti- bie,aud if this is the very best time to act upon their eternal interests, what are you doing by way of right impulsion? There were some harvesters in the fields of Scotland one hot day, and Han- nah Lemond was helping thorn gather the hay. She laid her babe ander a tree. While she was busy in the field there was a flutter of wings in the air. and a golden eagle clutched the swaddling band of the babe and flew away with it to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs. It was two miles before they came to the foot of the cliffs. Getting there. who dared to mount the cliff? No human foot had ever trod it. There were sailors there who had gone up the mast in the day of terrible tempest. They did not dare to risk it. Hannah Lemond sat there for awhile and looked up and saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then site leaped to her feet, and she started up where no human foot had- ever trod, orag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root until she reaohed the eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle swooping in fierce- ness all around about her. Fastening the child to her back, she started for her friends and for home. Oh, what a dizzy descent, sliding from this Drag to that crag, catching by that vine and by that root, coming down farther and farther to the most dangerous pass, where she found a goat and some kids. She said: "Now X'11 follow the goat, The goat will know just which is the safest way down." And she was lett by the animal down to the plain. When she got there, all the people cried, "Thamk troll, thank God!" her strength not giving way until the resoue was effected. And they cried: "Stand back, now. Give her air!" Oh, if a woman will do that for the physical life of her child, what will you do for the eternal life of your boy and your girl? Let it not be told in the great day o: eternity that Hannah Lomond put forth more exertion for the saving of the physical life of her child' than you, 0 parent, have ever put forth for the eter- nal life of your little one. God help you! I• pass on to consider the power which a child wields over the parental heart. We often talk about the influence of par. ents upon children. I never hear any- thing said about the influence of children upon their parents. You go to school to them. You no more educate them than they educate you. With their little hands they have caught hold of your entire na- ture, and you cannot wrench yourself away from their grasp. You are differ- ent men and women from what you were before they gave you the first lesson. They have revolutionized your soul. There are fountains of joy in your heart which never wonld have been discovered had they not discovered there, Life is to yon a more stupendous thing than it was before those little feet started on the pathway to eternity. Oh, how many hope,, how many joys, how many solioi• Ludes that little one has created in your soul! Yon go to school every dray, a school of self denial, a school of patience, in which you are getting wiser, day by day, and that influence of the child over you will increase and increase, and, Brough your children may die, from the very throne of God they will reach flown an inilnence to your soul, leading you on and leading you up until you mingle with their voices and sit beside their thrones. Tne grasp which the child has over the parent's heart is seen in what the parent wit! do for the child. Storm and dark - 'wee end heat and cold are nothing to yon it buoy stand between you and your child's welfare. A great lawyer, when yeti unknown,one day stood in the court room and made an eloquent plea before some men of great legal attainments, and a gentleman said to him afterward, •• How could yon be so calm standing in that august presence?" "Oh," said Erekine, "1 fort my children pulling at day skirts orying for bread." What etruam will you not swim, what cavern will you rot enter, what battle will you not fight, .what hunger will you not en- dure Per n-durePer your children? Your children roust have bread though you starve, Yonr children roost be well clothed though you go in rags. You say, "My children ;hall be educated, though I never had any chanes." What to you are weary limbs and ach- ing head and hands hardened And cal- lous if only the welfare of yout children, can be wrought out by it? Their sorrow is your sorrow, their joy your joy,F their advancement your victory. And, oh, when the last sickness comes, how you .light back the march of ;disease, and it is only after trei;iendons ttruggle that you surrender. And than when the spirit has fled the great deep is broken up, and Rabhel will potbe comforted because her children are not, and; David goes up we palace stairs, crying, . "O Absalom, my son, my son, would to God I had (tied for thee; 0 Absalom, my son, my son!" There is not a large farily,or hardly a large family, that has not hent over such a treasure and lost it In the family fold is there no dead lamb? I have see% many such oases of sorrow. There is one pre eminent in my memory as pastor—Sco- ville Haynes. McCollum. The story of his death has brought hundreds unto God. He belonged to my parish in the West. A thorough boy nine nr ten years of age Nothing morbid, nothing dull about hint. His voice fondest and his foot swift- est on the playground. Often he has come into my house and thrown himself down on the floor in an exhaustion of boisterous mirth, and yet he was •a Chris- tian, consecrated to God, keeping his commandments, That is the kind of childish play I believe in. When the days of sickness came suddenly and he was told that he oould not get well, he said: "Jesus alone can save ire. Jesus will save me. Don't cry, ;Manama,, 1 shall go right straight up to heaven." And then they gave him a glass of water to oriel his parched lips and he said: "Mamma, I shall take a draft from the water of life after awhile, of which if one drinks he shall never get thirsty: I lay myself at Jesus' feet, and I want hien to do just what he thinks best to do with' me.'• In those days "Rest for the Weary" was a now hymn, and he had learned it, and in a perfect ecstasy of soul, in his last hour he oried out:— "In the Christian's home in glory There remains a land of rest; 'There any Savior's gone before ane To fulfil my snail's request, There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you. "Sing, oh, sing, ye heirs of glory, Shout your triumphs as you go! Zion's gates are open for you, You shall find an entrance through. There is rest for the weary. "There is rest for yon, papa; there is rest for you, mamma." And then put- ting his hands over his heart, he said, "Yes, there is rest for roe." And then he asked them to read "The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh Inc lie down in green pastures and lead- eth me beside still waters," and he cried out: "0 death, where is thy stingy 0 grave, where is thy victory?" Only ten years old, And then be said, "Now I wish you would jttst turn this bed so I can lank once more on the foil. age and see the sun set." And they turned the bed, and he said, "I do so wish that Jesus would hurry and come and take roe." They said to him, "Why, are you not willing to await the Lord's time?" "Yes," he said, "I am; but 1 would rather Jesus would come and hurry and take me." And so, with a peace indescribable, he passed away. Oh, there is nothing sad about a child's death save the grief in the par- ent's heart. Yon see the little ones go right out from n world of sin and suffer- ing tet a world of joy. How many sor- rows they escape, how many tempta- tions, how many troubles, Children dead are safe. Those that live are in peril. We know not what dark path they may take. The day may come in which they will break your heart, but children dead are safe—safe forever. Weeping parents, do not mourn too bitterly over your ohild that has gone. There are two kinds of prayers made at a child's sick bed. One prayer the Lord likes; the other prayer he does not like. When a soul kneels down at a child's sick bed and says: "0 Lord, spare this little one. He is very near to my heart. I don't want to part with him, but thy will be done" —that is the kind of a prayer the Lord loves. There is another kind of prayer which 1 have heard men make in sub- stance when they say: "0 Lord, this isn't right. It is hard to take this child. Yon have na right to take this child. Spare this child. I can't give him up, and I won't give him up." The Lord answers that kind of n prayer sometimes. The child lives on and lives on and travels off in paths of wiokednese to perish. At the end of every prayer for a child's life say, "Thy will, 0 Lord, be done." The brightest Rights that oan be kindled Christ has kindled. Let us, old and young, rejoice that heaven is gathering up so much that is attractive. In that far ]and we are not strangers. There are those there who speak our name day by day, and they wander why so long we tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families into the kingdom of hes. van, it would take ore all day to men- tion their names. A great multitude before the throne. You loved them once, you love them now, and ever and anon you think you hear their voices calling you upward. Ah, yea, they have gone out from all these • families, and you want no book to tell you of the dying experience of Christian children. You have heard it. 1t has been whispered in your ear, 0 father, mother, 0 brother. 0 sister. Toward that good land all Christians are bearing. This snapping of heartstrings, this flight of years, this trend of the heart reminds lie that we are passing away. Under spring blossoms and thrnngh summer harvests and across autuannal leaves and through the wintry snowbanks we are passing on. Oh, re- joioe at it, children of God, rejoice at it! How we shall gather them up, the loved and the lost! Before we mount our throne, before we drink, of the fountain, before we strike the harp of our eternal celebration, we will cry nut, "Where are our loved and lost?" And then how we shall gather them up! Oh, how we shall gather them upl In this dark world of sin and pain We only meet to part again, But when we reach that heavenly shore We there shall Enact to part no more. Tho hope that we shall see that day Should chase our p.•esent griefs away. When these short years of pain are past We'll meet before the throne at last. A Home -Endo Poinatmn. Pomatum may be prepared as follows: One pound of beef marrow, six ounces of lard; place these in the cool oven till dissolved, then strain through a piece of coarse muslin into a large bowl. Rave a large saucepan half full of boiling water on the fire, and stand the bpwi in it, add a pint of olive nil, and stir it for, an hour with a piece of stick. When cool, soont With essence of lavender or bergamot, and place in pots for use, • EIGHTH PARLIAMENT DEBATE ON THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE CONCLUDED. , Estimates Brought Down --Civic Service Employes and the Government--Abe:t•- deen Correspondence Brought Down THURSDAY. Mr. Dupont, the eloquent member for Bagot, resumed the debate on the ad- dress and completed the criticism of the Government which he left unfinished last night. He spoke in his native tongue, and it was thought that the political battles of Quebeo would be fought out again upon the floor of the House. How- ever, his speech did not elicit a reply from a Liberal representative of that province, and the debate relapsed into English. Mr. Craig, who in the last parliament opposed Sir Charles Tupper's ' coercion policy, but who now is seated behind the Conservative leader, came after Mr. Dupont. One of the reasons for the Con- servative defeat, Mr. Craig said, was the fact that the party had been in power so long. The idea seemed to per- vade the minds of some people, Conserv- atives as well as others, that a change would be good for the country. Tithes were hard and business dull, a condition -ceased in a great measure by the de- pression iu the United States. The idea that the protective tariff had produced this result was so constantly impressed upon the people that at last some who at first doubted it began to think that there was something in it. The next gentleman to take part in the debate was Mr. Morrison, one of British Columbia's delegation. He directed at- tention to the fact that British Columbia had not been justly dealt with by the Conservative Government le the matter of fisheries expenditure, and that the conditions of the contract with the Can- adian Pacific Railway aonepted by the Conservative Government placed that road beyond the control of parliament in the matter of freight rates. Sir Hibbert Tupper. continuing the debate, said that the thing which stood out' in his mind most prominently was the unpreparedness of the "wonderful Reform party for the responsibilities which so unexpectedly fell upon it in this year, 1690." This Government of all the political talents in Canada was not yet ready to present its slate or proceed with its policy of reforms. He criticized the vacancy in the (;overnthent, and talked shout the inconvenience which ensued from the portfolio of the Interior not being assigned. A number of Im- perial prenedent.s were cited to support his rritirlsnis. This helplessness of the Reform party when called upon to take ofi'ine had been shown in 187:3, At that time it was seen that the Reform party had not inen among its leaders with which to make up a Government. Of the names mentioned as having been stolen from the Conservative party was Sir Richard (;arwright. The same thing had been done on this occasion. Mr. Dobell had always been a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative. He ran as an Independent, and had refused to ride in a carriage with Mr. Laurier after hiselection. Then there was the Minister of Public Works (Mr. Tarte) He had never professed to a nhangn of heart on any of the princi- ples of poliny which he used to support. Yet there was that Uonservntive in this Reform (=overnmeut. The Minister, too, of Railways and Canals (Mr. Blair) had described himself in the Parliamentary Companion of 1879 as a Conservative. Thus, he said. had the poverty of the Reform party been again established. Air. Beausoleil spnke in French. Referring to the Manitoba Salient ques- tion, upon which he toted last session against his party and for. the Remedial bill, he said he was still of the same opininn as when he separated himself from his party chief. Bat if Mr. Laurier could obtain it settlement which would satisfy the rights of the minority he would support him. This ended the debate and the address was thereupon carried. Mr. Fielding laid upon the table the estimates, and gave the usual notice of the motiou to resolve the House into Committee of Supply. Sir Richard Cartwright moved that Mr. L. 1'. Brodeur he appointed Deputy Speaker of the House, or, as the official title is, Chairman of committees of the House FRIDAY. Having got rid yesterday of the address inoreply to the Speech from the Throne, the House settled down to -day to busi- ness. That, that business will be confined to the granting of supply was empha- sized this afternoon during an amicable discussion over a proposition by the Gov- ernment to take from private members a part of the time allotted to them by the rules of the Hnnse. '1'he first motion was made to go into Committee of Supply, and the day was devoted to a debate brought on upon it by Sir Hibbert Tup- per, dealing with the dismissal of certain officials in .Nva Scotia, which developed into a consideration of the question as to what penalty should attach to the °rinse of offensive partisanship. THE ESTIMATES. The male estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, were laid on the table of the Hoose. They are practically the same estimates as lairs on the table last session. The total amounts of $41,- 647,000. a decrease of $417,000, of which $83,000 is a decrease on account of con- solidated fund. The decrease from 1896 estimates is no less than $1,843,000. The amount of consolidated fund, or the ordinary expenditure, is $38,225,000, as- compared ccompared with $38.808,000 in the pro- posed estimates of Last session, Theprob- nhle amount required for superannuation is placed at $315,000, instead of $310,000. The militia estimates and railways and canals remain, the same. The public works estimates show few changes. In Ontario $13,000 put in last session for post -office {led custom house for Picton is ent nut. The item for publiobuild- ings, Ottawa, including salaries of at- tenelnnts, from $70,000 to $85,000. The item for salaries of engineers, caretakers end so forth of Dominion public build- ings generally is out down from $71,000 to 8(i5,e00. The item for eastern entrance, Toronto harbor, is reduced from $50,000, the paralyzed estimates of last ' ses- sion, to $25,000. The item of $10,000 for the improvement of the ship channel of the Fraser River is increas- ed to 825,000. There is a rrductien of $2•,000 in Mr. Tarte's department for salaries and assistance. The grant of $10,000 in hid of the meeting of the British Aseociation at Toronto is retained in the new estimates,. Airs, Noel Phelps,' wife of the Presi- dent of Grimsby Park, died at the park . Sunday. HAMILTON NEWS. Deathof an Old Itesident--Cold Stoma. Co.--want(a His looney. • Mr, T. H. McKenzie, ex•inspeotor of weights and measures, died at his'resi- donee in Du:pdas' at an early hour this. morning, • at the advanced age of. 85 years. Deceased was. one of the oldest and hest known residents of this part of the country. He was born in Inverness- shire, Scotland; in 1811, and came to Canada when he was 19 years old. He was appointed inspector in 1881, filling the position for fourteen years, when he was superannuated. He was, during his earlier years, a man prominent in mili- tary affairs, and also attained to the highest position in the Order of Canadian Oddfellows, He was a prominent Presby- terian, and a member of the Rev. Dr. Laing's church, Dundas. The funeral will take place on Monday afternoon, The latest proposition of the Cold Stor- age Company :is for the city to undertake to dig a trench from the Wanzer factory on Barton street to the bay, and fill the same in again, the company to lay its own water -pipe therein. The company wanted the city to give a water supply, but, In view of the limited supply on hand, this could not be agreed to. The present proposition was considered by members of the Council this morning, and favorably regarded. If this is agreed to there is no doubt. but that the company will go on with their storage arrange- ments here at. once, Riolrnrd Bowker, the Toronto insur- ance detective and informer, who has won several cases against local insurance men, was in the city to -day looking after his share of the fines collected. He says that be has received nothing up to date, while, aoording to the law, he should get half in every case. By an arrangement entered into be- tween the Grand Trunk and T., H. and B., passengers over the latter line from Brantford will be transferred by street oars in this city to the Torontn branch of the former line during the Exhibition at the regular rate from Brantford over the Grand Trunk. The arrangement is only. for Exhibition week. LORD ABERDEEN'S ACTION. British Comments on the Recent Corre- apoadenee--(1 rui•JI of the Constitutional question Involved, London, Aug. 30.—The Pall Mall Cazette,the property of Mr. William Wal- dorf Astor, of New York, is the only journal in London which cornments oft the Tapper -Aberdeen correspondence of which the Times alone pnhlished a re- port yestrrday morning. The Pali Mali Gazette treats the subject with its usual flippnney, and says the controversy is of the teakettle tempest order. So far as Sir Charles nipper is concerned, the paper pays, Lora Aberdeen would out have interfered had the deeigns of Tupper and Company not smacked of the pirarloal. The more serious students of colonial affair; admit the gravity of the Con et' tu- tinnaal question involved. The first im- pression seems to be that Lord Aber- deen's action in rejecting the advice of those who by English parliamentary practice were still his advisers roost have been based nn other and graver reasons than those named in the brief cable sum- mary. A person in authority says that Lord Aberdeen might have used influence to moderate Sir Charles 1'unper'e. demands for the appointments if he thought they amounted to an abase of power. The party quoted dwells on the fart that this was after the electorate, decided against Sir Charles. HIP concluded: "But we really do not know enough yet to form a final judgment. The details may show a very nine, a delicate point, is involved. It may he a matter that will serve a good purpose in finally. settling these questions of (Invernors-General's exaot lights of intervention at rest. It is a great pity, however, that the question could not be nrgned apart from personal invectives and suggestions of partisan- ship agninst the Governor-General." THE DEADLY TROLLEY. An Elderly Lady `;true* Donn on Yonge )1treet--Still Livia;-, hot There Are do Hopes for Her Recovery. Toronto, Aug. 80.—As a result of her failure to heed the printed warning posted in all street ;.ars, Miss Ellis, of Wood street, lies at the. General hospital in n dying condition. On Saturday she alighted from a trol- ley car at the corner of Yonge street and Roxborotrgh avenue, and; passing around the rear end of the oar, stepped on to the opposite track, to be instantly struck by motor number 500, which was rapidly proceeding smith. She was dealt a frightful blow on the head, and was carried to the house of Mrs. Andrews, 1,080 Yonge street,with the bloodstream- ing from her nose and month. Dr. Cook, of Yonge street, and .Dr. Johnson, of Bismarck avenue, and Dr. A. J. John - soh, of Bioor street west, attended her, and pronounced the case hopeless. Death was expected in a few moments, but at seven o'clock Saturday evening she was stili living. The ambulance was then nailed, and she was taken to the General hospital, where everything possible was done for her. At an early hour this morning she still survived her terrible injuries, but the doctors hold out no hope for her ultimate recovery, and say she may die at any moment. No blame caul be. attaolred to Motorman Robinson, of the sonth•bound car, as the woman did a most careless act in passing behind the car so heedlessly. Queen's New P.rofesso r. Kingston, Ont., Ang. :30. -- At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of Queen's, Mr. T. R. Glover, M.A., Fel- low of St, John's .College, Cambridge, was elected professor of :Latin; Professor Glover has had a most distinguished career. Some. of the honors taken by Min at Cambridge are as follows:. Fenn - dation scholarship, St. John's College, December, 1887 (residence beginning in Octnber, 1888); Sir Williaru Browne's medal for a Greek epigram, 1890, and again in 1891; honorable mention for the Waddington University scholarship, 1891; Person prize, .1891; first class, first division, classical tripes, part 1, 1691; First Chancellor's medal tor classical learning, 1892; first class (with special distinction in history) classical tripns, part II.,' 1802; fellowship at. St. John's College, November, 1892. • Illinois Steel Works. Chicago; Aug. 28,—The workmen em- ployed.in the Illinois Steel Company's plant, at Hammond, Ind,, have been Informed that the furnace fires will be drawn on Saturday afternoon, when the concern will close for an indefinite period. This will throw 400 mon out of employment. Depression in business is one of the causes assigned. 'rile :Lakeside Nail Company also will close its mill at Hammond. This wrki throw nearly 200 men and boys out of work. WHEN OTHERS FAIL.. DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS HE STORE HEALTH AN STRENGTH. A Well -Known Young Lady in Napanee Gives Her Experience ---So Weak That She Could Not Get Up Stalrs Without Besting—Her Friends Thought She Was is Cansumption---Scow the Picture of Health and strength. From the Beaver, Napanee, Ont. Among the young ladies of Napanee there is none better known or ;more highly esteemed than Miss Mary L. Byrnes. Indeed her acquaintance and popularity covered a more extended field, as she is a traveling saleslady for the Robinsop Cnrset Co., and has many cus- tomers on her route which extends from Oshawa to Ottawa. How this young lady happees to be the subject of this ar- ticle is due to the fact that she has re- cently undergone a most remarkable change through the use of those wonder- ful little messengers of health, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. When the reporter of the Beaver called to make enquiry into her cure, he was met at the [nor by the young lady herself, whose rosy cheeks and healthy appearance gave no indication that she had undergone a prolonged ill- ness The reporter mentioned his mission and found miss Byrnes quite willing to tell the pertiA:nlars of what see r+rnned 1 ! \� i (tl 11. 'an escs e from death." In reply to the query "what heti ... 1yi,ix Pills done for you?' ste replied, "why, they have done wonders. I feel like a new woman now. For eight years I was weak and miserable, and at times I could not walk. I was greatly troubled with indigestion and frequently could not keep anything on my stomach, not even a glass of milk. I had dizzy spells, severe headaches, and my enmplexion was of a yellowish hue. My kidneys also trotbied me, and in fact I was all aches and pains.' In going up a flight of stairs .I had either to be assisted np, or would have to rest several times before I got 'to the top. At times my hands and feet. would have no more warmth in them than lumps of Inc. - On oneoecasian while stopping at an hotel in Kingston, after waiting on a number of my customers, I fell down in a faint. The landlady found me in this condition and sent for a doc- tor, who after bringing me back to oon- sciousnsss, gave me medicine to take. He told me that any system was so badly run down that. it was imperative that I amulet have absolute rest. His medi- cine han no beneficial effect that I could see, and I tried a number of other don. tors, with no better results. I became so low that I cared for neither work nor pleasure, and my friend thought I had gone into ronsnmptinn, 7t was at this juncture that I determined to give Dr, Williams' Pink Pills a trial, and my ap- pearance today will ;how yon what a wonderful change they have wrought in me. I continued taping the Pink Pills for three months, a, before discontinu- ing them every ache and pain had disap- peared. I cannot speak to highly of this wonderful medicine, and I am eager to let the fact be known for the benefit of other sufferers." Mrs. Byrnes was present during the interview and strongly endorsed what her daughter said, adding that she be- lieved they had saved her life. The experience of years has proved that there is absolutely no disease due to a vitiated condition of the blood or shat- tered nerves. that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will not promptly cure, and those. who are suffering from such troubles would avoid much misery and gave money by promptly resnrting to this treatment. Get the genuine Pink Pills every time and do not be persuaded to take an imitation or some other remedy from a dealer, who for the sake of extra profit to himself, may say is "just as good." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure when other medicines fail. Iced Beds. In Florida and other parts of Amer- ica, where the heat at night is almost as unbearable as in the day, it is not unus- ual to ice the beds before retiring to rest. This is done in a very simple way. A vessel of metal, or pot, much in the form of the ancient warming pan used by our grandfathers, is filled with broken ioe, and after standing until the lee has completely cooled the vessel, it is placed between the sheets and moved to and fro over the surface of the sheets and pil- lows, until they are quite cold. The coolness of the bed clothes is very sooth- ing to the heated and wearied body, and invariably induces immediate sleep. Ice can now be obtained almost anywhere. and the wonder is that its use for the purpose herr indicatedhas not been gen- erally adopted in this country. Not only are ice -cooled beds found to he grateful and comforting to those in a healthy condition, but 1n cases of insomnia and a variety of complaints the use of ire for cooling Ohs beds of the patients is found to be of inestimable value and a great relief to the affiliated. now to Make a Hammock. Flammooks of linen canvas are easily made and are in decided favor. Get two yards of forty -inch -wide canvas, stitch a sleep hem in each end and make nine holes, evenly spaced, along each hem. Bnttnnhole the eyelets strongly, run strong cords through them, knotting them firmly into a; lanae metal hook, Run a steel rod or curved stick through the hem at the head and foot, and the hammock Is ready to hang. A valance With scolloped edge houndwith braid of a contrasting color is a pretty finish. LentonApple 'Erle. One tablespoonful of cornstarch mixed smooth in two tahleepoonftrls of cold water; add 0130 cupful of boiling water: , and leave on the stove until it thtekons.' Letyconl; add one cupful of sugar, yolks of two eggs, grated yellow rind and juice . of lemon and one oui-fnl of grated sweet apple. Frost with the whites of the eggs and add a tablespoonful ofcocoanut to. • • - the frosting.