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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.