HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-17, Page 7ilEAVENLY CORN -CRIB
INACCESSIBLE WITHOUT THE DI-
VINE BENJAMIN.
No Hope of Getting Into the Celestial City
17niess Accompanied by the Savior of
i Mankind—The Reason Many People Do
Not Get Real Comfort.
Washington, Sept 13.—No one not
born and brought up in the oouutry
eould preach a sermon like this of Dr.
Tahnage, It is a pastoral and full of
scenes from country life. The text is
Genesis xliii. 3: "And Judah spake unto
bin, saying, The man did solemnly pro-
test unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my
face, except your brother be with you."
Nothing to eat! Plenty of corn in
Egypt, but ghastly famine in Canaan.
The cattle moaning in the stall. Men,
'women and children awfully white with
hunger. Not the failing of one crop for
one summer, but the failing of all the
crops for seven years. A nation dying for
41.1 lack of that which is so common on your
table, and so little appreciated; the pro-
duct of harvest -field and grist -mill and
oven; the price -of sweat and anxiety and
struggle—Bread! Jacob, the father, has the
last report from the flour -bin, and he
finds that enerything is out; and he says
to his sons, "Boys, hook up the wagons
and start for Egypt, and get us some-
thing to eat." The fact was, there was a
great corn crib in Egypt. The people of
Egypt have been largely taxed in alleges,
at the present time paying between 70
and 80 per cent. of their products to the
Government. No wonder in that time
they had a large oorn crib, and it was
full. To that crib they came from the
regions around about—those who were
famithed—some paying for the none in
money; when the money was exhausted,
paying for the corn in sheep and cattle
and horses and camels; and when they
were exhausted then selling their own
bodies and their families into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob gets
his family up very early. But before the
elder sons start they say something that
makes him tremble with emotion from
head to foot, and burst into tears. The
fact was that these elder sons had once
before been in Egypt to get corn, and
they had been treated sornewhat roughly,
the lord of the corn crib supplying them
with corn, but saying at the close of the
interview, "Now you need not come
back here for any more corn unless you
bring something better than money—even
your younger brother Benjamin.Ah I
Benjamin—that very name was sug-
gestive of all tenderness. The mother had
died at the birth of that son—a spirit
coming and another spirit going—and
the very thought of parting with Benja-
min must have been a heart -break. The
keeper of this corn-orib, nevertheless,
says to these elder sdns, "There is no
need of your coming up here any more
for corn unless you can . bring Benin-
niin, your father's darling." Now Jacob
iind his family very much needed bread;
nut what a struggle it would be to give
up his son. The Orientals are very de-
monstrative in their grief, and I her
a, the outwailing of the father as these elder
/ sons keep reiterating in Ms ears the an-
nouncement of the Egyptian lord, "Ye
shall not see my faoe unless your brother
be with you." "Why did you tel him
you hnd a brother?" says the old man,
complaining and chiding them. "Why,
father," they said, "he asked us all
about our family, and we had no idea
that he would make any suoh demand
upon us as he has made." "No use of
asking nie," said the father; "I cannot,
I will not, give up Benjamin." The fact
was that the old man had lost children,
and when there has been bereavement in
a household and a child taken, it makes
the other children in the household more
precious. So the day for departure was
adjourned and adjourned and adjourned.
Still the horrors of the famine increased,
and louder moaned the cattle, and wider
open cracked the earth, and more pallid
became the cheeks, until Jacob, in de-
spair, cried out to his sons, "Take Ben-
jamin and be off." The older sons tried
to cheer up the father. They said, "We
have strong arms and a stout heart and
no harm will come to Benjamin. We'll
see that he gets back again." "Fare-
well!" said the young man to the father
in a tone of assumed good cheer.
"F -a -r -e -w -e-1-11" said the old man; for
that word has more quavers in it when
pronounced by the aged than by the young.
Well, the bread party, the bread em-
bassy, drives up in front of the corn -crib
of Egypt. Those corn -cribs are filled
with wheat and barley, and corn in the
husk, for modern travelers in those
lands, both in Canaan and in Egypt, tell
us there is corn there corresponding with
our Indian maize. Huzza! the journey
is ended. The lord of the corn -crib, who
is also the prime minister, conies down
to these newly -arrived travelers,and says.
"Dine with me to -day. How is your
father? Is this Benjamin, the younger
brother whose presence I demanded?"
The travelers are introduced into the
palace. They are worn and bedusted of
the way; and servants come in with a
basin of water in one hand and a towel
in the other, and kneeldown before
these newly -arrived travelers, washing
off the dust of the way. The butchers
and poulterers and caterere of the prime
minister prepare the repast. The guests
are seated in small groups, two or three
at a table, the food on a tray; all the
hi:curios from imperial gardens and
orchards and aquariunes and aviaries n1.0
br011ght there, and are filling chalice and.
platter. Now is the time for this' prime
minister, if he has a grudge against
Benjanxin, to show it. Will he kill him,
aow that he has him in, his hands? 0
nol This lord of the oorn-orib is seated
at his oWn table, and he looks over to
the tables of his guests; and he sends a
portion in each of them, but sends a
Jaeger portion to Benjamin, or, as the
liiihh, quaintly puts it, "Benjamin's mess
was five Mines as much as any of theirs."
Do qnlek and send word back with the
swiftest eamel to Canaan to old Jacob
that "Benjamin is well; all is well;
lie is faring sumptuously; the Egyptian
lord did' not inean murder and death; but
ho Meant deliverance and life when be an-
nounced to us on that day, 'Ye shall net
OPP MY face unless your brother be with
you ' "
Well, iny friends, this world is famine -
struck of sin. It does not yield a single
zrop of solid satisfaction. It is dying It
is hunger bitten. The fact that it does
not, cannot feed a man's heart was well
illustrated in the life of the English
comedian, All the world honored him—
tild everything for him that the world
could do, Xie was applinaled in England
and applauded in the United States. He
roused up nations into laughter. He had
no equal. And yet, although many people
supposed him entirely happy, and that
this world was completely satisfying his
soul, he sits down and writes:—
"I never in my life put on a new hat
that it did not rain and ruin it. I never
went out in a shabby coat because it
was raining and thought all who had the
choice would keep indoors, that the sun
did not come out in it strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom I knew and who knew
me. I never consented to accept a part I
bated out of kindness to another, that I
did not get hissed by the public and out
by the writer. I could not take a drive
for a few minutes with Terry without
being overtnrned and having my elbow
broken, though my friend got off un-
harmed. I could not make a covenant
with Arnold, which I thought was to
make my fortune, without making his
instead. In an incredibly short space of
time --I think fourteen months—I earned
for him twenty thousand pounds, and
for myself one. I am persuaded that if I
were to set up as a baker, everyone in
my neighborhood would leave off eating
bread."
That with the lament of the world's
comedian and joker. Ali unhappy. The
"world did everything for Lord Byron
that it could do, and yet in his last
moment he asks a friend to come and Mt
down by him and read, as most appro-
priate to his case, the story of "The
Itieeding Heart " Torrigiano, the sculp-
tor, executed, after months of care and
carving, Madonna and the Child. The
royal family came in and admired it,
Everybody that looked at it was in
eostacy; but one day, after all that toil
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work as he had expected, he took a mal-
let and dashed the exquisite sculpture
into atoms. The world is poor compensa-
tion, poor satisfaction, poor solace. Fam-
ine, famine in all the earth; not for seven
years but for six thousand. But, blessed
be God, there is a great corn orib. The
Lord built it. It is in another land. It
is a great place. An angel once mea-
sured it, and as far as I can calculate it
In one phrase, that corn orib is fifteen
hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
miles broad, and fifteen hundred miles
high; and it is full. Food or all natinns.
"Oh!" say the people, "we will start
right away and get this supply for our
soul." But stop a moment; for from the
Keeper of that corn crib there conies this
word, saying, "You shall not see My
face except your brother be with you."
In other words, there is no such thing
as getting from heaven part= and com-
fort and eternal life unless we bring with
us our Diviee Brother, the Lord Jesus
Christ Coining without Him we shall
fall before we roma the corn crib, and
our bodies shall he a portion for the jack-
als of the wilderness; but coming with
the Divine Jesus, all the granaries of
heaven will swing open before our soul
and abundance shall be given us. We
shall be invited to Mt in the palace of
the King and at the table; and while the
Lord of heaven is apportioning from
His Own table to other tables, He will
not forget us; and then and there it will
be found that our Benjamin's mess is
larger than all the others, for so it ought
to be. "Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain, to receive blessing and riches and
honor and glory and power,"
I want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense 3/Ian will ac-
knowledge himself to be a sinner. What
are you going to do with your sins?
Have them pardoned, you say. How?
Through the mercy of God. What do you
mean by the mercy of God? Is it the
letting down of a bar for the admission
of all, without respect to character? Be
not deceived. I see a soul coming up to
the gate of mercy and knocking au the
corn orib of heavenly supply; and a voice
from within says, "Are you Monet" The
sinner replies, "All alone." The voice
from within says, "You shall not eee my
pardoning face unless your Divine
Brother, the Lord Jesus, be with you."
0, that is the point at winch so many
are discomfited. There is no mem from
God except through Jesus Christ, COM -
Ing with Him, we are accepted. Coming
without Him, we are rejected. Peter put
it right in his great serinon before the
high priests, when he thundered forth,
"Neither is there salvation in any other.
There is no other name given under hea-
ven among men whereby we may be
saved." 0,auxions sinner! 0, dying sin-
ner! 0, lost sinner! all you have got to
do is to have this divine Benjamin along
with you. Side by side, coming to the
gate, all the storehouses of heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul.
Am 1 right in calling Jesus Benjamin?
0, yes. Rachel lived only long enough
to give a name to that child, and with
a dying kiss she called him Benoni,
Afterward Jacob changed his name, and
he called him Benjamin. The meaning
of the name she gave was, "Son of My
Pain." The meaning of the name the
father gave was, "Son of MY Right
Hand." And was not Christ the Son of
pain? All the sorrow of Rachel in that
hour when she gave her child over into
the bands of strangers was as nothing
compared with the struggle of God when
He gave up His only Son. And was not
Christ appropriately called "Son of the
Right Hand?" Did not Stephen look
into heaven and see Him standing at the
right hand of God? And does not Paul
speak of Him as standing at the right
hand of God making intercession for us?
0, 13enjainin—Jesus! Son of pang! Son
of viotoryl The deepest emotions of our
souls ought to be stirred at the sound of
that nomenclature. In your prayers plead
His tears, His sufferings, His sorrows
and His death. If you refuse to do it,
all the corn cribs and the palaces of
heaven will be bolted and barred against
your soul, and a voice from the throne
shall stun you with the announcement.
"You shall not see My face except your.
brother be with you."
My text also suggests the reason why
so many people do not get any real com-
fort. You meet ten peoule; nine of them
are in need of some kind of condolence.
There is somethingan their health, or in
their state, or in s their domestic condi-
tion that demands sympathy. And yet
most of the world's sympathy amounts to
absolutely nothing. People go to the
wrong crib, or they go in the wrong
way. When the plague was in Rome, a
great many years ago, there were eighty
men who chanued themselves to death
with the litanies of Gregory the Great—
literally chanted themselves to death,
and yetat did not stop the plague. And
all the music of the world cannot halt
the plague of the human heart. 1 come
to someone whpse ailments are chronic,
and 1; say "In heaven you will never be
sick." That does not give you much
comfort. What you want is a soothing
power for your present distress. Lost.
children, have you? 1 eotne to you and
tell you that in ten years perhaps yen
will meet those loved ones before the
throne of God, But there is but little
condolence in that. One day is a year
with them, and ten years is a Mall eter-
nity What you want is sympathy now—
preeent help. I come to those of you
who have lost dear friends, and say.
"Try to forget them. Do notkeep the de-
parted always in your mind." How can
you forget them when every figure in the
carpet and every book and (leery pic-
ture and every room oalls out their
manse? Suppose I come to you and say by
Way of condolence, "God is wise."
"Oh!" you say, "that gives me no
help." Suppose I come to you and say,
"God,from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble." "Ahl" you say, "that does me
no good." Then I Bay, "With the swift
feet of prayer go direct to the corn-orib
for a heavenly support." Yoe go. You
say, "Lord, help nue; Lord, oornfort
me." But no help yet. No comfort yet.
It is all dark. What is the matter? I
have found. You ought to go to God and
say, "Here, Oh Lord, are the wounds of
my soul, and I bring with me the
wounded Jesus. Let his wounds pay for
my wounds, his bereavements for my
bereavemente,his loneliness for my loneli-
ness, his heart -break for my heart -break.,
Oh, God! for the sake of the Lord Jesus
Christ—the God, the man, the Benja-
min, the brother—deliver my agonised
soul. Oh, Jesus of the weary foot, ease
my fatigue. Oh, Jesus of the aching
head, heal my aching head. Oh, Jesus
of the Bethany sisters, roll away the
stone from the door of our grave." That
is the kind of prayer that brings help;
and yet how many of you era getting no
help at all, I or the reason that there is
in your soul, perhaps, a secret trouble.
You may never have mentioned it to a
single human ear, or you may have
mentioned it to some one who is now
gone away, and that great sorrow is still
in your soul. After Washington Irving
was dead, they found a little box that
contained a braid of hair and a minia-
ture and the name of Matilda Hoffman
and a memorandum of her death, and a
remark something like this:—
"The world after that wes a blank to
me. I went into the country, but found
no pexioe in solitude. I tried to get into
society, but I found no peace in society.
There has been a horror bangingover
me by night arid by day, and I am afraid
to be alone."
How many unuttered troubles among
you! No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. 0, troubled soul, I want to tell
you that there is one salve that can cure
the wounds of the heart, and that is the
salve made out of the tears of a sym-
pathetic Jesus. And yet some of you will
not take this solace; and you try chloral,
and you try morphine, and you try
strong drink, and you try change of
scene, and you try new business associa-
zions, and anything and everything
rather than to take the divine compan-
ionship and sympathy suggested by the
words of my text when it says, "You
shall not see my face again unless your
brother be with you." 0, that this audi-
ence to -day might understand something
of the height and depth and length and
breadth and immensity and infinity of
God's eternal consolations.
I go further and find in my subject a
hint as to why so many people fail of
heaven. We are told that heaven has
twelve gates and some peapie infer from
that that all the people will go in with-
out reference to their past life; but what
Is the use of having a gate that is not
sometimes to be shut? The swinging of
a gate implies that our entrance into
heaven is conditional. It Is not a mone-
tary condition. If we come to the door
of an exquisite concert we are not sur-
prised that we must pay a fee, for we
know that fine earthly music is expen-
sive; but all the oratorios of heaven cost
nothing. Heaven pays nothing for its
rnueic. It is all free. There is nothing to
be paid at that door .for entrance; but
the condition of our getting into heaven
Is our bringing our divine Benjamin
along with us. Do you notice how often
dying people call upon .7esus? It is the
ustua prayer offered --the prayer offered
more than all the other prayers put to-
gether --"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
One of our congregation, when asked in
the closing moments of his life. "Do
you know us?" said, "0, yes, I know
you. God bless you. Good bye. Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit;" and he was
gone. 0, yes, in the closing moments of
our life we must have a Christ to call
upon. If Jacob's sons had gone up to-
ward Egypt, and had gone with the
very finest egnipage, and had not taken
Benjamin along with them, and to the
question they should have been obliged,
to answer'"Sir, we didn't bring him as
father could not let him go; we •didn't
want to be bothered with him," a voice
from within would have said, "Go away
from as. You shall not have any of this
supply. You shall not see my face be-
cause your brother is not with you."
And if we come up toward the door of
heaven at last, though we come from all
luxuriance and brilliancy of surround-
ings, and knock for admittance and it
is found that Christ is not with us, the
police of heaven will beat us back from
the bread-housasaying, "Depart, I never
knew you."
If Jacob's sons, coining toward Egypt,
had lost everything on the way; if they
had expended their last shekel; if they
had come up utterly exhausted to the
corn -cribs of Egypt, and it bad been
found that Benjemin was with them,
all the storehouses would have swung
open before them. And so, though by
fatal oasuality we may be riehered into
the eternal world; though we may be
weak and exhausted by protracted sick-
ness—if, in that last moment we can
only just stagger and faint and fall into
the gate of heaven—it seems that all the
corn oribs of heaven will open for our
need and all the palaces will open tor
our reception; and the Lord of that
place, seated at His table, and all the
angels of Gnd seated at their table, and
the martyrs seated at their table, and all
the glorified kindred seated at our
table, the King shall pass a portion from
His table to ours, and then, while we
think of the fact that it was Jesus who
started us on the road, and Jesus who
kept us on the way, and Jesus who at
last gained admittance for our emit, we
shall be glad if He has seen Of the tra-
vail of His soul and been satisfied, and
not be at all jealous if it be found that
our divine Benjemba's mess is five times
larger than all the rest. Hail! anointed
of the Lord, Thou art worthy.
My friends you see it is either Christ
or famine. if there were two banquets
spread, and to one of them, only, you
might go, yon inight stand and think
for a good while as to which invitation
you had better accept; but here it is
feasting or starvation. If there were two
mansions offered, and you might have
only one. you might think for a long
while, saying, "Perhaps I lied better
accept this gift, and perhaps I hact bet-
ter accept that gift;" but here is a choice
between palaces of light and hovels of
despair. If it were a choice between
oratorios, you might say, "1 prefor the
Creation," or "I prefer the Messiah."
But hero it is a choice between eternal
harmony and everlasting discord. 0,
will yoa live or die? Will you sail into
the harbor oi drive on the rocks? Will
you start for the Egyptian csern-orib, or
will you perish amid the empty barns
of the Canaanitish famine?
EIGITTII PARLIAMENT
VARIOUS MATTERS CROP UP
WHILE DISCUSSING THE
ESTIMATES. •
A 'Lively Passage at Arms—Alien Labor
Law and Chinese Immigration,
THURSDAY.
When the estimates for the Department
of Trede and Commerce were reached,
Mr. Foster took some amusement out of
reminding Sir Riohard Cartwright of
the oriticisms which he used to make as
to the usefulness or uselessnes of the de.
pertinent which he now fills. Sir Rich-
ard, he said, had used all the strength of
English which he possessed in describing
the department in various ways, the con-
clusion of all beteg that the department
was like a fifth wheel on a ooaoh. Now
Mr. Foster wanted to know what Sir
Richard proposed to find for the six
officials in the department.
Sir Richard Cartwright replied in good
temper that he did not see what that had
to do with the item under disoussion.
He ventured to say that after a few
months' occupancy of the office he
would find work for the officials of the
department to do.
The subject here dropped, and the
committee passed on to the item of the
High Commissioner's office, which in
past sessions has been such a bone of
contention. There were laughing arias
from the Opposition side for "McMullen,
McMullen." In response the member for
North Wellington rose and said he hoped
that the expenses of the office would be
reduced. If hon. gentlemen wonld pos-
sess their souls in patience he believed
the present Government would consider
the office of High Commissioner as well
as other offices where the pruning knife
might be nsed.
Mr. Foster wanted to know how long
they must possess their mauls in patience
until these much -promised reforms
would be brought down.
Mr. Soinerville said that he did not
think it was so much that the salary was
too high as that the Commissioner was
too high. What was wanted was not a
man who mixed with the aristooraoy of
England, but one who would mix with
the masses whom Canada wanted to
reach. He thought such a man could be
found among the Liberals, and not have
to get an old fogy Tory.
Mr. Lister, taking up. the discussion,
soon had the chamber in a turmoil of
excitement. Referring to the uses of the
High Commissioner, he said that it had
been promised that he should negotiate
loans, and thus save Canada the broker-
age. Only one loan had been negntiated
by Sir Charles Tupper and there was a
rumor that he had received a large
commission for its negotiation.
Sir Charles Tupper' rising, declared
with great heat thatMr. Lister was
abusing most grossly the privileges of
the House by repeating such an utterly
false and foundationless statement. The
only man who had dared to bring that
charge outside had been brought to ac-
count for criminal libel.
An hon.niember—It was never brought
to trial.
Sir Charles, proceeding, said that the
Montreal Herald had made amends for
publishing the libelous statement. It
was a "foul lying slander" and the
"must unfounded falsehood, whieh any
gentlemen ever made in this House."
Mr. Lister replied that he accepted the
statement until the libel suit should be
brought to trial, but there was a matter
of commission on a loan in England
which was never satisfactorily explained
by the late Government. But he would
nob prejudice the cause until it was
brought to trial.
Sir Charles Tupper declared that he
had taken every opportunity to press the
suit to a conclusion.
Mr. Foster took a hand in it, and de.
dared that Mr. Lister had charged a
corrupt transaction. He could not stay
there; he must substantiate it or with-
draw his statement.
Mr. Lister said he did not propose to
be dictated t� by Mr. Foster. It was be-
lieved in the oountry that a certain loan
was never satisfactorily explained.
air. Foster—What loan? I was Finance
Minister since 1880 and I want the
hon. member to formulate hie charge.
Mr. Lister—The ex-Fintince Minister
will have an opportunity to reply to my
statement.
Mr. Foster (angrily)—But I do not
propose to lie under the ithputation, or
to allow it to go the country unquestion-
ed. It is a base thing to do.
Mr. Taylor declared that neither this
item nor any other would be allowed to
pass until Mr. Lister took back his state-
ment,
Mr. Lister took the floor, and inade
statement in which he act -anted the denial
of the leader of the Opposition unreserv-
edly and assured the ex -Finance Minis-
ter that he had made no charge of cor-
ruption against him.
Mr. Maxwell moved for copies of all
petitions or memorials presented tn the
Government on the subject of Chinese
immigration. He said that in the Prov-
ince of British Columbia there was only
one view entertained on this subject. He
thought that if the people of the east
had the Chinese problem at their very
doors, as the people of British Colum-
bia had,they wonld regard it in the same
way.
Whip Taylor's retaliatory bill to pre-
vent the importation of alien labor into
Canada under contract was again pre-
sented to the consideration of the House.
FRIDAY.
The Home of Commons spent to -day
chiefly in Committee of Supply,in which
considerable progress was made. There
were two rather lively debates, one of
-which arose from a criticism by Mr,
Beattie on the method of obtaining sup-
plies for the military camp at London,
and the other on the vote for the House
of 00[73113MM supplies, which gave rise to
a discussion on the dismissal of tempor-
ary clerks on account of alleged activity
during the recent elections.
flog Cholera in East llatitalo.
Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 12.—Hog cholera
:node its appearance in the East Buffalo
rattle yards yesterday. .A consignment
If between 400 and 300 hogs from the
Western States were afflicted with the
ii,t.,Lse, and the Health Board was at
ewe notifiad. Io -day the entire consign -
tient W119 slaughtered.
The Sultan of Turkey , is said to be
nmpneitateri by (itemise from governing
gniry, and his dethorneinent be
ns ni rt prnhtible every day,
tenca nal flint Ole Prince 'of Wales
a .meeting between the
.i2idLord" f.alisbury at 13alrooral,
, r, to Terkish question will be dis-
eseed.
MRS. NOLAN ACQUITTED.
The murder Trial Ends ha &Verdict of No
Guilty—The Judge Charges in Paver of
the raisoner.
Windsor., Ont., Sept. 14. ---In the trial
of Mrs. Hattie Nolan, the comely young
mulatto accused of having caused the
death of her husband by poisoning, mosl
of the testimony submitted by the prose-
cution was of a medical natnre, and all
the medical men °ailed by the Crown
agreed that the poison was phosphorus.
Drs. Ellis, Primrose and .Tohnson, of
Toronto; Parke, of Harrow; and Sam-
son, of Windsor, testified to finding evi-
dence of phosphorus poison. Dr. Ellis
found phosphors in the stomaeh and
the lining inflamed. Dr. Johnson did noi
base his opinion on the feet that phos-
phorus was found in the stomach se
much as he did on the condition of the
liver. To his mind no disease could pro-
duce such symptoms on the liver as it
showed. Dr. Samson agreed with him.
Dr. Knill. a lecturer in the Detroit
Medical College, did ,not agree with the
other medical men, and contended that
the liver instead of being abnarmal
would be smaller from the effects of the
poison. He did not think that the evi-
dence established the fact that Nolan
came to his death by poison, as there
were other diseases which would produce
the same symptoms. The fact that phos-
phorus was found in the storaaoh did
not prove the cause of deatii. Dr. Bell,
of Windson, sonourred with Dr. Knit!,
and thought that death was due to in-
fiammation.
In his charge to the jury .Tustioe Rob-
ertson directed most of his 'remarks to-
wards the expert evidence which had
been submitted by the Crown. He did
not think that much reliance could be
pliuied on it. The legal authorities stat-
ing that the business of the Crown was
to show a rnntive iitir the crime. The only
evidence submitted was that the husband
and wife had been separated. This was
no reason that she should be branded
with such a crime. There was no evi-
dence that the woman had administered
poison to her husband. There was no
complaint from the husband during his
illness about his wife giving him poison.
The medical testimony for the Crown
was completely offset by the evidence of
Dr. Kniff.
The jury rehired at 10 o'clook,and soon
after midnight returned with a verdict
of not guilty. The prisoner was discharged
and left the court roona with her mother.
TRADES UNION CONGRESS.
The Safety of Travelers and Railway Em-
ployes—Resolutions at the Closing Session
Edinburgh, Sepe. 13.—The British
Trades Union Congress opened its last
day's session yesterday, and adopted a
resolution presented by the Amalga-
mated Society of Railway Servants con-
demning "the practice of some railway
companies in subjecting their men to
scientific tests at the hands of officials
incompetent to apply them instead of
practical tests with day and night signals.
That we deplore the large number of ac-
cidents which clover annually nn our
railways, and call upon the Government
to snake a searching inquiry into the
calm of the same, with a view to compel
the companies to adept a more humane
system of working their servants and to
apply the most recent and effective appli-
ances for the better safety of the work-
men and. the traveling public. That, in
the interest of all railway men,an amend-
ment of the railway regulation act of
1893, fi xing a limit on the hours of la-
bor, is necessary, and that no measure
can be satisfactory which does not tlx
the maximum of eight hours per day, or
48 hours per week. That this congress
approves of the railway inquiries fatali-
ties bill introduced last session by Mr.
Chamung, M. P., and others, and re-
quests the Parliamentary Committee to
bring pressure to bear upon the Gov-
ernrnent to give facilities for having this
reforni made law."
The Gold -Beaters Trade Society pre-
sented resolutions, which were adopted:
"That this delegate meeting representing
the organized trades of the country, re-
grets that no labor M. P. has introduced
the merehandise marks bill into Parlia-
ment, although it has been unanimously
agreed to by the Parliamentary Com-
mittee at a conference held with them
on December 7th, 1893, by representa-
tives of the trades affected, in keeping
with the resolution adopted by the Bel-
fast Congress, in September, 1892, and
that it be again introduced at the open-
ing of Parliament next session, and that
the Parliamentary Committee, on behalf
of upwards of a million skilled artisans
directly interested in it, be urged to
press the importance of the subject on
the attention of the Government."
After several other minor resolutions
were moved and in turn adopted, the
congress adjourned sine die.
CANADIAN APPLES.
Arrival of Consignments at Liverpool-.
Prices Obtained.
London, Sept. 14.—Woodall & Co., re-
port that 21,871 barrels of apples arrived
at Liverpool last week, against 2,567 last
season. Only 5,500 of these barrels were
Canadian, of which the most recently
landed show a decided improvement in
quality and condition.
Sound fruit sold as follows; Graver -
stein, lis. 3d. to 15s. 6d. per barrel;
blueh, 9s. to 12s. 3c1.; Culvert, 8s. to
12s.; Jennetting, fis. to 9s.; St. Law-
rence, 95. to 11s.; Cahachaw, 12s.to 13s.
White & Co. report the arrivals on the
London market still small, but the de-
mand has improved, as the English sup-
plies are falling off. The bulk of the
Kent and Berkshire fruit will have been
on the market next week, which means
a splendid opening for good fruit for the
remainder of the season.
More Slaughter Expected.
London, Sept. 14. — The Plyrnonth
Mercury claims to have reliable informa-
tion that a massacre of Armenians re-
maining in 'Constantinople is fixed to
occur in ten days or two -weeks.' It says
that Armenians already deported have
been murdered by wholesale, the ships
on which they were sent out of the coun-
try having chutes from which the vic-
tims were shot into the water and
drowned in batches.
Struck 011 N'ear Comber.
Comber, Sept. 12.—While boring for
water William Keith, lot 12, con. 3, Til-
bury North, about three. miles from
Coxnber, struck a flow of oil. The oil is
of a fine quality, and the supply appears
to be unlimited. The well is only 170
feet deep and 30 feet in the rock.
Canadian L umber ilk Rond.
Washington, Sept. 14.—Acting Secre-
tary Hanalin has decided lumber may be
shipped from Canada to Syracuse, N. Y.,
in bond, and entered for immediate bran-
sportation, Syracuse having been recently
designated as a port of entry, with
immediate transportation privileges.
THE WORLD'S SWEETS.
Sugar was first cultivated in Made
In2ira
The sugar cane grows from to 20 feet
high,
Gpletioiousiecei! the sugar produced from
gra
ergot frsve.
eouseisa sugar Prudue°f1 from the
firunes.rcite is a kind of sugar found In
aco
manna.
L olaTu biaseni anf rni in ise utlgh7a5ar8t . 1:ille: YWofassliegrea:tef:nind
in
England
siungtir5wes first made in New
Galactose is that kind of sugar wbich
exists in milk,
"Butter scotch" and "barber pole"
can always be sold.
atoCmheictuaici:olli,
yoc.onsidered sugar is a
naSttutrgaalrsanadr°ardtilitviodlIldby
uberuists int°
Sugar is found in parsnips, mallows
and almost all vegetables.
Sorbine is the sugar found in the
berry of the mountain ash.
Painted candies are generally un-
healthy, and may be poisonous.
Before the discovery of sugar, drinks
were sweetened with honey.
The botanical name of the sugar cane
is Sacoharum offloinarum.
The sugar -maple tree is botanically'
known as the Aoer saocharinum.
The sap of the sugar cane produces
from 15 to 20 per cent. of sugar.
Ethaalyne is he form of sugar found in
the sap of the eucalyptus.
By the year 1770 sugar had become a
staple product of Louisiana.
The refining of sugar was invented ii
Antwerp, in the sixteenth century.
Sugar exists in the sap or leaves of
nearly 200 different kinds of trees.
Gibbon says that sugar was Bret
brought from Asia to Europe A. D. 625.
Some writers say that there is a va-
riety of sugar cane indigenous to Amer-
ica.
The word "caramel" is of Greek ori-
gin and signifies simply black honey.
Laevulose is that sugar most liberally
found in honey and various fruits.
The longest run in candy has been
made by chocolate creams and caramels.
Etymologists declare that the sugar
cane has 207 varieties of insect enemies.
Sugar is boiled, more or less, for candy,
aucording to the .kind to be made,
Maltose is that variety of sugar pro-
duced by the action of diastase oia
startisch.
Isaid
that the dark varieties of su-
gar cane resist disease better than the
light.
It is said that in France the produc-
tion of beet root averages eleven tons per
acre.
alone.
Candy
the delta of the Mississippi
1803 there were eighty-one sugar
estates in
Candy stores located in the neighbor-
hood of schools generally do a thriving
business.
The cultivation of sugar extended from
India to Persia some time in the ninth
century.
It is said by botanists that sugar cane
is not found growing wild in any part
of the world.
Preserved fruits, in a state fit to be
eaten, have been taken from the ruins
of Heroulaneum.
The sugar cane is now cultivated in
every part of Africa that has been ex-
plored by whites.
ABOUT DREAMS.
To dream of eating onions sigaifies
that you are to discover a hidden treas.
ure.
A dream of being at a fair means you
will soon he swindled by a pretended
friend.
dd.
Tream of picture cards indicates
that you will be married to a wealthy
person.
A dream about dice means a speedy
estrangement from some very dear friend.
If you dream that you have an ague,
the sign is that you will become a drunk-
ard.
To dream of eating oysters signifies a
large increase in your trade or bueiness.
A dream about a peacock betokens
that you will marry a very handsome
Persrd.
Tream that you are *entangled in
briers means that you will shortly fall in
love.
If you dream of a orown the token is
of political, social or ecclesiastical pre-
ferment.
Snakes always indicate enemies. To
kill one means sueoess over one's adver-
eerie&
To dream of gold rneans future diffi-
culties, but ultimate success in your un-
dertakings.
To dream that you are traveling in a
private carriage foretells poverty and
disgrace.
A dream of being in a heavy rain be-
tokens that attempts will soon be made
to rob you.
To dream of reading an entertaining
book is indicative of an increase in your
fortune.
Gathering flowers in a dream means
success in the undertekiags you are en-
gaged in
To dream of Abraham is favorable to
the dreamer, siguifying that he will he -
come rich.
A dream that you stick in the mud
means that you will shortly have trouble
about land.
IT 18 BETTER.
Not to let your sail be bigger than
your boat.
To let your recreations be Useful, not
sinful.
To bend the neok promptly than to
bruise the forehead.
To think before you speak than to
speak before you think.
To hold to your good oname, for it is
of more value than gold.
To put your foot down where you
mean to stand, and keep lb there.
To looli well to your feet when they
are likely to lead you into the paths of
sin.
To labor to keep alive in your breast that
Utile spark of celestial fire called content