HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-12-31, Page 7THE MASK OF DECEIT.
"WHY FEIGNEST THOU THYSELF
TO BE ANOTHER ?"
alley. Dr. Talmage Draws Some Startling
;masons Prom a, Unique Tcxt—royalty
in. Disguise—Tile Accuracy of God's Pro-
vidence in the Universe.
Washington, Deo. 20. -In this sermon
from rr Bible scene never used in ser-
monic discourse Dr.Talmage draws some
startling lessons and tears off the mask
of deceit. The text is I Kings xiv, 6,
"Why feignest thou thyself to be an-
other?"
In the palace of wicked Jeroboam
there .is a sink child. Medicines have
failed; skill is exhausted. Young Abijah,
the prince, bas lived long enough to be-
come very popular, and yet he must die
'aimless some supernatural aid be afforded.
Death comes up the broad stairs of the
palace and swings back the door of the
sickroom of royalty and stands looking at
the dying prince with the dart uplifted.
Wicked Jeroboam knows that he has no
right to ask anything of the Lord in the
way of kindness. He knows that his
prayers would not be answered, and so
he sends his wife on the delicate and ten-
der mission to the prophet of the Lord in
Shiloh. Putting. aside her royal attire,
she puts on the garb of a peasant woman
and starts on the road. Instead of carry-
ing gold and genie as she might have
carried from the palace she carries only
those gifts which seem to indicate that
she belongs to the peasantry—a few
loaves of bread and a few oacknels and a
cruse of honey. Yonder she goes, hooded
and veiled, the greatest lady in all the
kingdom, yet passing unobserved. No
one that meets her on the highway has
any idea that she is the first lady in all
the land. She is a queen in disguse.
The fact is that Peter the Great work-
ing in the dry docks of Saardam, the
sailor's bat and the shipwright's ax gave
him no more thorough disguise than
the garb of the peasant woman gave to
the queen of Tirzab. But the prophet
of the Lord saw the deceit. Although his
physical eyesight had failed, he was
divinely illumined, and at one glance
looked through the imposition, and he
cried out: "Come in, thou wife of Jero-
boam! Why feignest thou thyself to be
another? I have evil tidings for thee. Get
thee back to thy house, and when thy
feet touch the gate of the city the child
shall die," She had a right to ask for
the recovery of her son; she had no right
to practice an imposition. Broken heart-
ed now, she started on the way, the tears
falling on the dust of the road all the
way from Shiloh to Tirzah. Broken
hearted now, she Is not careful any more
to hide her queenly gait and manner.
True to the prophecy, the moment her
feet touch the gate of the city the child
dies. As she goes in the soul of the
child goes out. The cry in the palace is
Joined by the lamentation of a nation,
and as they carry good Abijah to his
grave the air is filled with the voice of
eulogy for the departed youth and the
groan of an afflicted kingdom.
It is for no insignificant purpose that
I present you the thrilling story of the
text. In the first place I learn that
wickedness Involves others, trying to
make them its dupes, its allies and its
scapegoats. Jeroboam proposed to hood-
wink the Lord's prophet. How did he do
it? Did he go and do the work himself?
No. He sent his wife to do it. Hers the
peril of exposure, hers the fatigue of the
way, hers the execution or the plot; his,
nothing. Iniquity is n brag, but it is a
great coward. It lays the plan and gets
some one else to execute it; puts down
the gunpowder train and gets some one
else to touch it off; contrives mischief
and gets some one else to work it;
starts a Ile and gets some one else to
circulate it. In nearly all the groat crimes
of the world it is found out that those
who planned the arson, the murder, the
theft, the fraud go free, while those
who were decoyed and cheated and hood-
winked into the • conspiracy clank the
chain and mount the gallows.
'Aaron Burr, with heart filled with
impurity and ambition, plots for the
overthrow of the United States Govern-
ment and gets off with a few threats
and a little censure, while Blennerhas-
sett, the learned Blennerhassett the sweet
tempered Blennerhassett is decoyed by
him from the orchards and the laborator-
ies and the gardens and the home on the
bank of the Ohio river and his fortunes
are scattered, and he is thrown into
prison, and his family, brought np in
luxury, is turned out to die. Abominable
Aaron Burr has it comparatively easy.
Sweet tempered Blennerhassett has is
hard. Benedict Arnold proposed to sell
out the forts of the United States; to sur-
render the Revolutionary army and to
destroy the United States Government.
He gets off with his pockets full of
pounds sterling, While Major Andre, the
brave and the brilliant, is decoyed into
the conspiracy and suffers on the gibbet
on the banks of the Hudson; so that
even the literature—the marble tablature
that commemorated that event — has
been blasted by midnight desperadoes.
Benedict Arnold has it easy. Major
.Andre has it hard. I have noticed that
nine -tenths of those who suffer for crimes
are merely the satellites of some great
villians. Ignominious fraud isa juggler
which by sleight of hand and legerdemain
makes the gold that 1t stole appear in
somebody else's pocket. jeroboam plots
the lie, contrives the imnosition,and gets
his wife to execute it. Stand off from
all imposition and chicanery. Do not
-consent to be anybody's dupe, anybody's
ally in wickedness, anybody's scapegoat.
• The story of the text also impresses
me with the fact that royalty sometimes.
passes in disguise. The frock, the veil,
the hood of the peasant woman hid the
queenly character of this woman of
'Tirzah. Nobody suspected that she was
a queen or a princess as she passed by,
but she was just as much a queen as
though she stood in the palace, her
robes incrusted with diamonds. Anti so
all around about us there are princesses
and queers whom the , world does not
recognize. They sit on no throne of roy-
alty, they ride in no chariot, they elicit
no huzza, they mals no pretense, but by
the grave of God they are princesses and
they are queens; sometimes 'n their pov-
erty, sometimes in tihef :f denial,
sometimes ie their • brat uggies of
Christian service—God ki they are
.queens. The world does e recognize
them,`
Royalty passing in disguise, kings
without the crown, . conquerors without
the palm, empresses withoutthe jewel.
You saw her yesterday On the street.
You saw nothing important in her ap-
pearance, but she is regnant over a vast
realm of virtue and gopdness--a realm
vaster than Jeroboam ever looked at.
You went down into the house of desti-
tution and want and Buffering. You saw
the story of trial written on the wasted
hand of the mother, on the pale cheeks
of the children, on the empty bread tray,
on the fireless hearth,on the broken chair.
You would not have given a dollar for
all the furniture in the house. But by
the grave of God she is a princess, The
overseers of the poor come there and
discuss the case and say, "It's a pauper."
They do neIerealize that God hasburn-
ished for her a crown, and that after she
has got through the fatiguing journey
from Tirzab to Shiloh and from Shiloh
back to Tirzah there will be a throne of
royalty on which she shall rest forever.
Glory veiled. Affluence hidden. Eterna
raptures hushed up. A queen in mask.
A princess in disguise.
When you think of a queen you do
not think of Catherine of Russia, or
Maria Theresa of Germany. or Mary
queen of Scots. When you think of a
queen, you think of a plain woman who
sat opposite your father at the table or
walked with him down the path of life
arm in arm, sometimes to the. Thanks
giving banquet, sometimes to the grave,
but always side by side, soothing your
little sorrows and adjusting your little
quarrels, listening to your evening
prayer, toiling with the needle or at the
spinning wheel„ and on cold nights
tucking you up snug and waren. And
then on that dark day when she lay dy
ing, putting those thin hands that had
toiled for you so long, putting them
together in a dying prayer commending
you to that God in whom she had
taught you to trust. Oh, she was the
queen, she was the queen! You cannot
think of her now without having the
deepest emotions of your soul stirred, and
you feel as if you could cry as though
you were now sitting in infancy on her
lap, and you call her back to speak your
name with the tenderness with which
she once spoke you would be willing
now to throw yourself on the sod that
covers her grave, crying, "Mother,
mother!" Ah, she was the queen! Your
father knew it. You knew it. She was
the queen, but the queen in disguise.
The world did not recognize it.
But there was a grander disguising.
The favorite of a great house looked out
of the window of his palace, and he saw
that the people were carrying heavy
burdens, and that some of them were
hobbling on crutches, and he saw some
lying at the gate exhibiting their sores,
and then he heard their lamentation,
and he said: "I will just put on the
clothes of those poor people, and 1 will
go down and see what their sorrows are,
and. I will sympathize with them, and
I will be one of them, and I will help
them." Well, the day came for him to
start. The lords of the land came to see
him off. All who could sing joined in
the parting song, which shook the hills
and woke up the shepherds. The first
few nights he has been sleeping with
the hostiors and the camel drivers, for
o one knew there was a king in town.
He went among the doctors of the law,
astounding them, for without any doe-
tor's gown he knew more law than any
of the doctor's. He fished with the fisher-
men. He smote with his own hammer
in the carpenter's shop. He ate raw corn
out of the ileal. 1•le fried fish on the
banks of Gennesaret. Ha was howled at
by the crazy people in the tombs. He
was splashed of the surf of the sea. A
pilgrim without any pillow. A sick man
without any mealcament. A mourner
with no sym iathetio bosom in which ho
could pour Lha tears. Disguise complete.
1 know that .eicastnnclly his divine roy-
alty flashed t ,.t as when in the storm on
Galilee, as in the red wine at the wed-
ding banquet. as when he freed the
shackled demoaiao of Gadara, as when
he turned a whole school of fish into the
net of the discouraged boatmen, as when
ho throbbed life into the shriveled arm
of the paralytic, but for the most part he
was in disguise. No one Saw the king's
jewels in his sandal. No one saw the
royal robe in his plain coat, No one
knew that that shelterless Christ owned
all the mansions in which the hierarchs
of heaven had their habitation. None
knew that that hungered Christ owned
all the olive groves and all the harvests
which shook their gold on the hills of
Palestine. No one knew that ho who
said "I thirst!" poured the Euphrates out
of his own chalice. No one knew that
the ocean lay in the palm of his hand
like a dewdrop in the vase of a lily. No
one knew that the stars and moons and
suns and galaxies and constellations that
marched on age after age were, as com-
pared with his lifetime, the sparkle of
a firefly on a summer night. No one
knew that the sun in midheaven was
only the shadow of his throuo. No one
knew that his crown of universal dom-
inion was covered up with a bunch of
thorns. Omnipotence sheathed in a hu-
man body. Omniscience hidden in a
human eye. Infinite love beating in a
human heart. Everlasting harmonies
subdued into a human voice. Royalty en
masque. Grandeurs of heaven in earthly
disguise.
As near as I can tell, looking over the
calendar of the world's history, more
grand, bright, beautiful things have
happened on Friday than any other day
of the week. They would not for the
world go back to the holm for anything
after they had once started. Such people
are ready to be duped. Ignorance comes
ainng perhaps in the disguise of medical
science, and carries them captive, for
there are always some mon who hat
found some strangs„and mysterious wee,
:n some strange place and plucked it i
the moonshine, and then they Dover tht
hoard fence okith the advertisements n.
"elixir" ane panaceas" and "Indian
mixtures" add "ineffable cataplasms'
and "unfailing disinfectants" and
"lightning salves" and "instantaneous
ointments," enough tb stun and searift
anti poultice and kill half the race. They
are all ready to be wrought upon by such
impositions. Ah, my friends, do not be
among such dupes! Do not act the part
of such persons as I have been desnrib
leg Stand hack from all chieanery, from
all imposition. They who i,raetiee such
ilnpu.,itiin shall be exposed in the day "i
God's indlination. They may. rear great
fortones, but their dapple grays will be
arrested on the road some day, as whr•
ter; ass by the angel of God with rrawe
sword. The light of the last day wil
solus through all such subterfuges nor
with a voice louder than that which at
costed this imposition of the text: 'Con.'.
in, thou wife of Jeroboam. Why feign.
thou thyselfto be another?" With a voia.
louder than that God will thunder dove.
into midnight darkness and doom an
death all two faced men, and'all :thavli.
tans, and all knaves, and all jockey.,
and all swindlers.Behold how the par,
pie put on the masks, and behold hoe
the Lord• tears them off l
My subject also impresses me witL
how precise and accurate and particular
ars God's providenoes. Just at tie n e
meat that woman entered the pity th,
child died. ;rust as it was prophesied, s
it turned out, so it alwaysturns out
The event occurs,the death ,takes p'ace,
the nation is born, the despotism is over-
thrown at the appointed time. God drives
the universe with a stiff rein. Events
do not just happen so. Things do' a,t
go slipshod.. In all the book of God's
providenoes there is not one 'if." God's.
providences are never caught dishabille.
To God'there are no surprises, no disap-
pointments and no aooidents. The most
insignificant event flung out in the ages
is the onnnecting link between two great
chains—the chain of eternity past and
the chain of eternity to come.
I am no fatalist, bat I should he com-
pletely wretched if 1 did not feel that all
, the affairs of my life are in God's hand
and all that pertains to me and mine
just as certainly as all the affairs of this
woman of the text were in God's hand.
You may ask rue a hundred questions I
cannot answer, hut I shall until the day
of my death believe that I am under the
unerring care of God, and the heavens
may tall, and the world may burn; and
the judgment may thunder, and eternal
ages may roll, but not a hair shall fall
from my head, not a shadow shall drop
on my path, 'not a sorrow shall tranflx
my heart without being divinely ar-
ranged—arranged by a loving, sympa-
thetic Father. He bottles our tears, he
catches our sorrows, and to the orphan
he will be a Father, and to the widow
he veil be a husband. and, to the outcast
he will be a home, and to the most mis•
arable wretch that this day crawls up
out of the ditch of his abomination cry-
ing for mercy he will bean all pardoning
God. The rooks shall turn gray with
age, and the forests shall be unmoored
in the last hurricane, and the sun shall
shut its fiery eyelid, and the stars shall
drop like blasted figs, and the continents
shall go down like anchors in the deep,
and the ocean shall heave its last groan
and lash itself with expiring agony, and
the world shall wrap itself in a winding
sheet of flame and leap on the funeral
pyre of the judgment day; but God's
love shall not die. It will kindle its suns
after all other lights have gone out. It
will be a billowy sea after the last ocean
has swept itself away. It will warm
itself by the fire of a consuming world.
It will sing while the archangel's trum-
pet is pealing forth and the air is filled
with the crash of broken sepulchers and
the rush of the wings of the rising lead.
Oh, may God comfort all this people
with this Christian sentiment!
MARIE MAGNIER'S DIAMONDS.
How the Preach Actress Secured a Couple
of Dazzling Gents.
Mine. Marie Magnier, of the Gymnast:,
has the two largest diamonds now in
Paris, and this is how she got them. Ono
day she received from her jeweler a tele-
gram asking her to come at onto to his
shop. There she found a tall woman
thickly veiled, who hold in her hands a
ease with two superb diamonds in it.
Big drops, almost as largo as the dia-
monds, were fast falling from her eyes.
"Mademoiselle," she said, "Mr. F. tells
me that your fancy is to possess a pair
of exceptionally beautiful earrings. These
are all that you can desire. Could you
pay down on them before 5 to -night the
100,000 francs which I ask for them?"
The belle Magnier was startled. "Hum,
ma bonne lemma,•' she said, in her
brusque manner, "you are very cool over
the master. You ask for 100,000 francs
just as you would ask for a bushel of
onions:" • The jeweler put his fingers on
his lips and nodded deprecatingly. "Oh,
very well," said Magnier, "if she is a
queen." "She is a queen," answered the
lady proudly, shutting the case with a
clap. But Magnier had been touched by
the sad voice, and also, let me say, by
the blaze of light which had just disap-
peared from her eyes, sn she said,
meekly: "All right, I will drive hack
to my banker and in an hour I shall be
back with the money, madame." ' This
is how she possessed the most marvelous
jewels which ever adorned a first night
in Paris. • She likes to tell the story of
her bushel of onions, but to this day she
never knew who was the woman.
Tomatoes and Cancer.
The "British Medical Journal' has
entered uron a crusade to destroy the
popular notion that tomatoes are pro-
ductive of cancer. It might be a good
thing if some of the American medical
journals would enlighten the public upon
the extremely small percentage of danger
which is incurred by the eating of fruits.
Since the aggravated appendicitis scare
set in some time ago at least every other
person has been afraid to enjoy raspber-
ries, blackberries and grapes, owing to
their dread of the disastrous internal
lodgment of one of the numerous small
seeds. The truth is that such danger is
so rare as to be almost nihil; and it is
well for the people to appreciate this
fact,now that the season of fruits is here.
Be Ye Grateful.
If a follower of Christ is truly con-
secrated and his life truly given up to
God it will not be bard to do His will.
Even all the commands of Jesus to his
disciples will be done out of pure love
for Him and not done as a sense of duty.
Can we say Ido this all for the glory of
God or do we do it that we ourselves may
be benefited thereby? Each Christian
should examine his own life, and when
he is wont to say "it is a hard life," to
think of what Christ has done for him.
Scheme for Reviving Exhausted 011 Wella.
A scheme is on foot to restore the pro-
ductiveness of exhanted oil wells by elec-
tricity. It is proposed to lower an eleo-
trio heater into the well, turn on the cur-
rent, and by the heat generated melt out
the refuse matter which is clogging the
pores of the stone, and thus allow the
fresh upward •flow of oil. It may be ex-
plained that the generally accepted idea
in regard to the giving out of oil wells
is not that the supply of oil in the well
is necessarily diminished, but that the
flow is arrested by the stopping up of
the exit. The stone, through which the
oil passes is of a very porous nature, and
as the liquid is in a crude state, the
dregs become thickened and settle in the
rook near theadages of the bottom of the
well. The common practice has been to
disperse the block at the bottom of the
well by torpedoes, but this wasfound
expensive. The machine by which it is
claimed the dead springs of the deep can
be again made to .give up their wealthof
oil is described as about three feet long
and resembling an iron cartridge. It con-
tains chambers packed with carbon, and
so constructed as to radiate intense heat
in all directions. Such rejuvenation of
the dry wells of the oil districts of the'
United States would mean a fortune to
many a man who had been beggared by
the failure of his well, and would add.
millions of barrels, of oil 'to' the annual
production of the country. If a sufficient
quantity of heat can be generated and lo-
calized by the new invention the plan
would appear feasible. but it has yet .to.
be proved whether thatis possible. ' The
invention is said to be in the bands of a
powerful oil monopoly, who are to test it
thoroughly
OUR OTTAWA LETTER
THE TARIFF COMMISSION GETS
POINTERS IN MONTREAL
The Axe Still at Work—Siften aud.the C.
P. Il.—Tho Patrons Sold out --Election is
Cort, wall---Aiten Labor Law.--I'iariiaiuent
Not to fleet Until march..
11'r'oni Our Own Correspondent.]
Ottawa, Deo. 21. --Clearer and clearer
is it that the gentlemen of the Tariff
Commission will have a most difficult
task in store when they shall begin to
draft their report for Council. It is easily
to be seen that the Prime Minister ap-
preciates this fact, for he is beginning
to undergo another of las frequent
changes of opinion and now oasts a
favoring eye towards the Imperial Prefer-
ential Trade soht le. But Sir Itiehard
Cartwright is ether against this plan..
He still believes that our natural market
is to the south of us. So perspicacious
a gentleman must know well that we
have little chance of getting free access
to that market. If we make to the
Americans threefold conoeesimes they
May allow us to have a miserably small
share of their market. There is nothing
more that we can hope for. In Montreal,
where the Tariff Commission has been
'sitting for some days past, sundry wit-
nesses testified that American manufac-
turers cf wall paper, of nails, and of
several other articles, have of late been
paying the duty and underselling Cana-
dian manufacturers. I can imagine our
Free Trade friends saying: " Thera is
nothing to object to in that, The people
get the benefit." It is true that some of
the people get the benefit as things are
now, but it also is true that these United.
States manufacturers are selling goods
more ohearty in Canada than they sell
them in their own country. Their object,
notably so in the case of the wall -paper
men, is to .drive the Canadian manufac-
turer out of existence. This end attained,
the National Wall. Paper. Company, the
huge trust that controls the whole trade
in the United States, would immediately
advance prices, and compel Canadians
to pay through the nose for the cheap
goods, which they had obtained while the
killing.of operation was in progress.
Now this has'a very strong bearing on
the tariff question. If the Ottawa Gov-
ernment gave the Americans free wall-
paper the process of exterminating the
Canadian concerns would be attained
withuut three months delay. The manu-
factories at Toronto and at Montreal
would be closed down; the operatives
discharged to shift as they could for
themselves and the people of Canada
would be sending their money across the
border to make American capitalists rich.
The same conditions of affairs obtains
in scores of cases. The Ministers, if they
are honestly desirious of doing their best
by the people of Canada must recognize
the strength of these arguments. But
what can we expect of Mr. Fielding,
whose object seems to he, like a latter-
day Judge Tefferies, to hold a Bloody
Assizes at which the unfortunate manu-
facturer is to be convicted before he is
tried, and to be harassed and brow
beaten while making his defence. I say
that Mr. Fielding deserves the strongest
denunciation on account of his course
daring`the sittings of the Tariff Com-
mission. He is by way of being a judge,
or, more properly, an arbitrator. Will
any of his admirers have the temerity to
say that he has shown any evidence of
having an open mind on the questions
that have come before the Commission?
He has sought, he has gone out of his
way to browbeat manufacturers and to
create a feeling of unrest amongst the
men engaged in the same business. You
remember the case of Mr. F. W. Fear -
man, Hamilton's great pork -packer. Mr.
Fearman prejudiced his ease, so far as
Mr. Fielding was concerned, by proving
absolutely that, were it not for protection,
there would be no Canadian pork -pack-
ing industry, and that Armour, Swift
and other Chicago and Cincinnati firms
would make Canada a slaughter market
for their goods. And , what had Mr.
Fielding to say in reply to this? Noth-
ing, save to inform Mr. Fearman that if
he were in Mr. Fearman's place he would
feel considerable apprehension as to what
the future might bring forth. I submit
that the Government made a serious
error in permitting so prejudiced and so
unreasonable a man to represent it in. its
efforts to obtain the sense of the country
on the tariff question.
The Axe Still at Work.
Here in Ottawa the good people of the
city daily see new faces in the streets.
They are those of Grit appointees to
places in the civil service. Israel Tarte,
like ono of those "recurring decimals"
of our school -days, is continually bobbing
up with a different value each time. In
the present case, the Minister of Public
Works is at the lowest_ value possible. I
find that he has discharged, since his
installation, seventy-two employee and
has appointed sixty-eight, with every
prospect of adding to the number. He
began his adhninistration with a high-
faluting proclamation to the effect that
he was going to clean out the Augean
stables situated in the Public Works De.
pertinent. He 'has done so. He has
'cleaned out some scores of faithful serv-
ants of the people, and in their stalls he
has lodged a collection of knock-kneed
and spavined party hacks. As a Hercu-
les Mr. Tarte is a distinct failure. He
more nearly resembles the Minotaur that
the original Baronies slew, and that
spent itstimein seeking for and devour-
ing victims. Torte's promises areoast to
the winds. As Canon Kingsley says in
the Water Babies they amount to "Noth-
ing at all, and puio bosh and wind."
Sifton and the C. le- Be
Clifford Sifton, heavy with promises
and pompousness, comas to Ottawa to
show the¢pople of Canada just how a
department should be run. Already he
has'had' several, interviews with Sir. Wil-
liam Van Horne, of the C. P. R., and
has arranged what ho modestly terms "a
magnificent. immigration scheme" with
him. Sifton, when in the Manitoba Gov.
ernment, always 'was the firm friend of
the C. P. R. Ho recognized the desirable-
ness of "standing in" with the company,
and he enlisted their, aid in his pursuit
of the Interior portfolio, A few years ago,
when the Conservatives were In power,
injury by fighting the. C. P. R. in its
efforts against the construction of. the
Red River Valley railway. Martin at
that time made for himself some lasting
enemies, and the C. P. R. magnates,
who are now hand in glove with Laurier.
and Blair, were delighted to have an
opportunity to aid in thwarting Martin's
Cabinet aspirations. They worked for
Sifton, and now Sifton is to aid them in:
the work 'of selling their vacant lands in
the Northwest. "flit , Government of Can-
ada and the railway company are to go
halves in paying the salary of Mr. John
Scully, of Toronto, who is soon to go to
England as an immigration agent. Any.
immigrants who may be secured are to
he settled on the C.P.R. lands. It is net
hard to see Who hes the best end of the
bargain. Canada will' get the immi-
grants, the C,P.R. will get the immi-
grants' money now and will get their
money hereafter, when they ship wheat
east. It is not often that Van Horne
gets the worst of a bargain; in this ease
be has almost all the advantage. Of
course, there will be an uproar when the
country hears that the people's good
money is being spent to get the C. P. R.
out of the financial .hole in which it now
is. But the Administration will smile
and say: "It is all right; we have some
years to run yet." What with this deal,
and with making the C. P.R. a present
of the Crow's Nest pass, the Government
is a veritable Lord Bountiful — with
money and value that belong to the peo-
ple.
The Patrons Sold Out.
As was anticipated, the bye -election
in Cornwall -Stormont, rendered neces-
sary by the death of Dr. Bergin,
resulted in a victory for the Government.
In ,Tune last there were three candidates
in the field, Conservative, Liberal and
Patron. Although elected, Dr. Bergin
was in a minority of over eleven hundred
votes when the Patron and Liberal
ballots were counted together. In last
Saturday's polling the contest was be-
tween representatives of the two old
parties. Mr. Adams, the Patron was got
out of the way by means of an agree-
ment arrived at between the Government
and J. Lonkie Wilson, the Grand Secre-
tary of the Patrons. Wilson, who poses
as a farmer, hut who is a professional
politician of the most undesirable type,
ran against and was defeated by Major
McLennan In Glengarry in June last.
Wilson, before he joined the Patron
movement, was a Liberal, and with the
incoming of the Liberal Government lie
renewed his association with his old
political friends. When Dr. Bergin died
it was Leckie Wilson who announced
that Adams would be in the field, no
matter who else entered it. Having
made this proclamation, Mr. Wilson inti-
mated that, if he were paid his price, he
could induce Adams to retire. And the
price of Adam's retirement was to be
the conferring on Wilson of the Govern-
ment patronage in Glengarry. The Gov-
ernment fell in with the proposal and
Adams dropped out. Henceforth. Wilson
is to be the dispenser of Government
sops to Liberal and Patron alike. What'
do our friends who were Conservatives
before they were Patrons think of this
deal? In the hands of men like Wilson
their interests are liable to be bartered
at any moment.
Election In Cornwall.
The Administration was determined
to win Cornwall at all costs. Twenty-
five thousand dollars and a horde of
Liberal workers were passed into the
riding. Nine Ministers of the Crown
visited the county, using threats, cajoler-
ies and promises with unsparing hands.
Mr. Blair was there. Of course he_had
recourse to his peculiar methods. He told
the people that the continuance of work
on the Cornwall canal depended upon
themselves, that is to say, if they voted
Grit and returned Mr. Snetsinger the
Government would reward them, while
if they should sleet Mr. Leitch they would
be punished severely,: The Dominion
Government employes on the canal were
given to understand that their course
would be watched, and shot dismissal
would follow any manifestationof
independence. With the Dominion ballot,'
adopted by the Conservative Govern-
ment, secrecy Is obtained, and it would
have been found difficult to ascertain
how many mon voted unless the return-
ing officers were false to their oaths.
But in this case suspicion would have
been held to be good and sufficient ground
for the dismissal of any Dominion
employe. Doubtless, before long, the
Laurier Government will adopt Sir
Oliver Mowat's numbered ballot, by the
use of which the returning officer is
,enabled to find out, if he so desires, how
any one of, or all of,' the voters marked
their slips. Sir Oliver found the numbered
ballot very useful in keeping in line Con-
servatives who were interested in the
lienor trade, His colleagues at Ottawa
will find that the numbered ballot will
serve the same end in respect of the
Dominion Government employes.
Allen Labor Law.
Mention has been made in this corres-
pondence of the small -soiled actions of
the Americans in deporting Canadian
workmen. Not satisfied with this, the
Buffalo authorities the other day expelled
from the country eight Canadian young
ladies who were engaged in the noble
work of hospital nursing. The Americans
assert that they must protect themselves
against foreign labor, and tell us that
if a Canadian desires work in the States
he must become an American citizen. It
is in respect of this petty business that
Canada stands pledget to retaliation.
Mr. Laurier has said so, but between
Mr. Laurier and "some of his colleagues
there is a serious differ nee of opinion on
this as on other phases of politics. We
all know that there is a certain section
of the Liberal party -a small section,. I
hope—that possesses an inexplicable
sycophantic fondness for the United
States: They lick the hand that smiths
them; they glory in ' taking the part of
door -mats for Uncle Sam. Mr. Blair,
the Minister of Railways, hates Conserva-
tives, but loves Yankees. It hasbeen
proposed that we compel American
miners entering our gold fields in Brit-
ish Columbia, to become British subjects.
To n reporter the other day Mr. Blair
expressed the utmost horror at such a
proposition. Ho dial not believe, he said,
that the Dominion Government would
ever fall in with the idea, What does
Mr. Blair want? 'Does ho think Cana-
dians are a nation of jellyfish,, lacking
in the backbone necessary. to the defense
of their rights? He objects to "reprisal. "
We are a long suffering people, . but,
when milder methods fail, we should not
be fearful of easing the same weapons as.
our opponents. This continual toadying
to the United States on the part, of Blair
and Charlton, and half a dozen other
prominent Grits, is .nauseating. T do not
believe that it is a question of politics
at all. It is nothing but a question of
manhood. and. self•rospect. Let none
make the mistake of thinkingthat we
Will conciliate the United. States by.
Joseph Martin, thought to do them an °meekly submitting to, the indignities that
have been put upon us. If we stand UP
for our rights, and keep a stiff upper lip
We will secure the esteem of the Ameri-
cans. Many of, us know them and admire
them. It would be good for Canada if
our rulers possessed some of that self-
reliance or gall, or whatever you like to
gall it,that is so dominants characteristic
of the Americans. The senile benevol-
ence and amiable platter of Blair should
not be allowed to influence us. His
acquaintance with the iniquities of the
alien labor law is shadowy. Many of ns
in Ontario could give him some valuable
ieformation as to the manner in which
Canadian workmen are harrassed while.
we annually have thousands of Ameri-
cans earning Canadian money andtaking
it home to spend.
Pail iauten t Net to fleet Until March.
I am informed in good authority that
the next session of 1)g/element will not
commence before the first week in March.
The revision of the tarifa, is expected to
occupy the, months of January and Feb-
ruary. Beyond the revised tariff, there
will be little important legislation
advanced by the Government.
Mr. Israel Tarte, having closed his
royal progress in the Northwest and in.
British. Columbia, has planned another
trip. He is to go to Paris—at our ex-
pense—to finally (lose up the French
treaty, Half a dozen letters exchanged
between our Government and the French
Administration would settle the few de-
tails that remain. But Israel wants the
trip, and Israel is going to get it, What
he wants he gets nowadays. Let us hope
that he will not take a fancy to the
Parliament buildings, for Mr. Laurier
could not refuse them to his friend Tarte
the King -Maker,
MEASURING CANDLE POWER.
The Primitive Method alas Not Lost Ito
Effectiveness.
For measuring the lighting power, the
most. reliable results are obtained by
means of a grease spot. In its " most
simple application the experiment can ba
tried easily at home. A sheet of white
paper with a grease spot In the center
is put into a frame and placed between
two flames of different lighting power;
for instance, between an ordinary candle
anti a lamp.
When the frame is equally distant
from the two unequally bright flames
the grease spot can be seen plainly on
both sides, By moving the frame with
the sheet of paper slowly toward the less
brilliant light, that is, the candle, it will
arrive finally at a point where the grease
spot has apparently disanpeared on both
sides of the paper. This deception must
always occur when on both sides of the
paper an equal brightness prevails and
no side light exists. Having reached this
point it can be ascertained how much
stronger is the light of the lamp than
that of the Dandle..
If the candle is twenty inches distant
from the paper and the lamp sixty inches,
and yet the brightness on both sides of
the paper is the same, then the light of
the lamp will be as strong as that of nine
candles. The calculation is based upon
the distances, the figures of which are
multiplied by themselves and then
divided; here, for instance, sixty multi-
plied by sixty and divided by twenty
multiplied by twenty equal nine.
This, of course, is the most primitive
method for measuring light, but it is the
principle for all the delicate instruments
used he the laboratories.
Tides or the pacific.
The tides in many parts of the Pacifla
are so irregular that each run differs
from the one preceding. The tides at
Hoi-hau, in the China Sea,are as hopeless
a puzzle as ever. Though the customs
authorities have four years' records,
there is absolutely no rule to be deduced
therefrom, and the Hoi-hau tides elude
the wit of man to account for their con-
tinuous irregularity; the best explana-
tion given being that of a Chinese naval
commander, who says that it is owing to
the conformation of the land, and that
the water has diiuoulty in entering the
creek and is greatly and variably affected
by different winds. The consul adds that
at times the winds are as irregular as,
the tides, now and again appearing to
blow from all directions at once. Ia the
harbor of Tonquin there is only one tide
in the twenty-four hours. This irregu-
larity is explained by the formation of
two straits, through which the tidal
wave has to enter into the harbor. The
situation and constrnotion of these two•
straits are such that the tide flows
through one earlier than through the
other, the difference of time ,being
sufficient to entirely do away witone
ebb and flew.
Courage in Battle.
There can be little doubt but that the'
character of modern warfare and modern
weapons develops the highest types of
personal courage. The terrible destruc-
tiveness of the quick -fire Maxim guns,
the long and deadly range of the newest
rifle, and the awful devastation of the
torpedo, all call forth a moral courage
which was unnecessary in the days of
fierce hand-to-hand conflict. The courage
required to coolly work machine guns
amidst a hurricane of bullets, or to dash
across an uncovered tract of country
where every inch is ploughed with shot,
and the mathematical possibilitiesof
escape are infinitesimal, is of a much
higher type than that requisite in a hand-
to-hand struggle with knife or spear,
sword or lance. The first calls for moral
courage, the second only animal courage:
When the lust of flg,bt and the heat of
battle makes man's blood run riot, he
will struggle with his fellow -man with
all the pluck that is in his nature. Two
dogs will do virtually the same. Seize
one of the dogs, he will turn on you
pluckily. Stone him, the probability is
lie bolts.
ANiobebyNecessity.
"Dear me---"
Tho hard, stern looking female scarce-
ly suggested one who felt much sym-
pathy for the Woes of her fellow creatures.
—"It jest nat'rally ''makes me 'dry.,
hut—"
She put aside the volumeto weep
afresh.
—"a woman that knew enough to
write a nook book oughter hey arreceipt
for peelin' onions dry eyed!"
Conning it again, she resumed the
concoction of the kidney, sieve.
That Let film
Rev. Mr. Julyjur Isis ' ne, come
my little man, don't yen it is very
wicked to fly that'kite.on r.. _.day?
.Tamsey Badunne—'Taintno harm,
neither; dat kite is made of de Chris-
tian Union and de tails is made from an.
old catechism, see?
Fills a Long' Felt Want.
She -What have you there, George?
He—Oh, it's the new adjustable en-
gagehneat ring—fits any finger. I have
found it a Teat.'thing, I assure'yod. Will
you try it on? L