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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-8-5, Page 3.4‘eneterMoll01 LITTLE INIQUITIES. DR, TALMAGE ON SINS THAT NIB. ieLE AT THE HEART. Glimh! i 1,g• is a Vice That Begins With Lit- tle Si arid Gvows to Fearful Enormities —Severe Arraign men t or G1Lt Enterprises and Stock Gambling. Washington, AVM.` —Dr. Talmage in this sermon depiets the insidious modes by Whioh evil babit gains supremmy anti shows bow splendid men are cheated to ruin. Texelsairth v, 18, "Woe lento them that sin as it were with a cart rope." The are some. iniquities that only nibble at the heart. After a lifeteme Of their work, the man still stands upright, reeletottei and honored. These- vermin have not strength enough to gnaw • through a man's character. But there are other transgressions than lift them- selves up to gignutio proportions and seize hold of a man and bind him with thongs forever. Theme are some iniquities tbat Man sueli great emphasis of evil that he who commits them may be said to sin As with a oart rope, I suppose you know how they make a great rope. The stuff out of which it is fashionedeis • nothine but tow which you pull apart without any exertion of your lingers. Tbis is, spun into threads, any of which you cottle easily.snap, but a great many of these threads are ipterwound. Then you have a rope strong enough to bind an ox or hold a ship be a tempest. I speak to you of the sin of gambling. A cart rope in strength is that sin, and yet I wish more eepecially to draw your attention to the small threads Of influ- ence out of which that mighty iniquity is heisted. This crime is on the advance, so that it is well not only that fathers and brothers and sons ee interested in such a discussion, but that wives and mothers and sisters and daughters look out lest their present home be sat:rife:ea or their intended home be blasted. No xnan, nc, wnmen, can stand aloof from such a subject as this and say, "It has no practical bearing upon my life," for there only be in a sbort time in your bis - tory an experience in which you will fled that the discussion involved three worlds —earth, heaven, hell. There are gambl- ing establishmeuts by the thousands. There are about e,500 professional gam- blers. Out of all the gambling establish- ments new many of them do you sup- pose profess to be honest? Ten—these ten professing to be honest because they are merely the antechamber to thoae that are acknowledged fraudulent, .A Gilded Den. There are Arst class establishments. You step a little way out of Broadway, New York. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. TM liveried servant introduces you. The walls are layender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are "Jephthains Daughter" and Dore's "Dante's" and Virgil's "Frozen Region of Hell," a most appropriate mite -lime this last, for the place Imre is the roulette table, the finest, °tattiest, most exquisite piece of furni- ture in the United States. There is the banqueting room \Micro fres of charge to the guests, you may find the plate and viatuitt and wines and cigars sumptuous beyond parallel. Then you come to the second ohms gambling establishment. To es it you are introduced by a card through '1 some "roper in." Having entered, you must either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dim loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed with more poor drInks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with stacoato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watoh you as you come in. Does not the panther squat in the grass know a calf when he sees It Wrangle • not for your . rights in that place or your body will be thrown bloody into the street or dead into the river. You go along a little farther and find the policy establishment. an that place you bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called a "saddle," betting on three numbers is called a "gig," betting on four numbers is called a "horse, And there are thousands of our young men leaping into that "saddle" and mounting that "'gig" and behind that "horse" riding to perdition.. There is plways one kind of sign on the door, "Exchange," a most appropriate title for the door, for there, in that room, a xnan exchanges health, eace and heaven for loss of health, loss of home, loss of fam- • ily, loss of imnaortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough. The Inclination to Gamble. Now you acknowledge that is a cart rope of evil, but you want to know what are the small threads out of which it is tnade. There is in many a disposition to hazard. They feeit a delight in walking • near a precipice because of the sense of danger. There are people who go upon . Jungfrau, not for the largeness of the prospeot. but for the feeling that they have of thinking. "What would happen if I should fall oft?" Teem are persons who have their blood fillipped and accel- erated by skatiug very. near an air hole. There are melt .who find a positive de- light in driving within Mee inches of .the edge of aebridge. It is this, disposition to , hazard that finds development in gaming prat:Aims. Here are t500. I, may stake them. If I stake them, I may lose them, but I may win $5,000. WItiohever way it turns, I have the.excitement Shuffle the cards. Lost I Heart ahtunps. Head :dizzy, At it ngain—just to gratify this, desire for hazard. . Then there are others- who go into this sip through sneer desire for gain. It is especially so with profession gantblers. They always neep cool. They never drink enough to unbalance their- judgment. Theydo not see the dice so mach as they:see the dollar beyond the dice, and for that they watch as the spider in the • mem looking as if dead until the fly passes. Thousands of young men in the hope of gain go into these nraisticee. 'They say: "Well, my :salary is bob enough to allow this luxury. I don't get enough from my store, office' or shop. I ought to havinAner apartments. e ought to have better wines. I -ought to -have • more riobly flavored cigars. I ought to be able to enteetain my friends more ex- pensively. I Won'testand this any leaver. I can with one brilliant stroke make, a fortune. Now, here goes, principle or no priociple, heaven or bell. Who, cares?" When a young man makes up his mind to live beyond his income, satan has bought him out and out, and it is only a question of time when the goods are to be delivered. The thing is done. You may plant in the way all the battteries • detrital and righte.ousnese—that men is bound to go on. When a men makes •$1,000 a yeti]: and emends r$1,200, when a young man ntaltes $1,500. and spends $1,700, all the harpies' of darkness cry out, "Hce, ha, We have him!" And,they have, How to get the extra $500 or the extra $2,000 is the question. He says: "Here is my friend who started out the other day with but little money; and in one night, so great was. his luck, no rolled up hundreds and thousands of dol 'ars. lie got it—why not I? It is such dull work. this adding up long lines o Agures in the wonting Mune; this pull Ing down of a hundred yaree of good and selling a remnant; this always waiting upon somebody else, '3"hen could put $100 on the race and pion lip $1)000." An int:idiom; Sin. This sin works very insidiously. Othe sins sound the drum and flaunt the flag and gather their recruits with wild huzza, but this marches its procession o pale victims in dead of night, in ailment, and wben they drop into the grave there Is not so much sound as the click of the dice. Oh, how many have gone down under it I Look at those men who Were MOO higbly prospered. Now their fore- head is licked by a tongue of flame that will never go out. In their souls are plunged the beaks which will never be lifted. Swing open the door of that man's heart and you see a (mil of adders wrIgglieg their indescribable horror until yon turn away and hide your face and ask God to help you to forget it. The most of this evil is unadvertised. The community does not hear of it. Men defrauded in gaming establishments are not fools enough to tell of it. Once in awhile, however, there is an exposure, a when in Boston the police swooped upon a gaming establishment and found in it the representeeives of all classes of vitt- zens from the Arst merchants on State street to the low Ann street gambler; as when.Bullock, the cashier of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was found to have stolen $108,000 for the purpose of carry- ing on gaming pretences; as wheat a young: man in one of the savings banks of Brooklyn many years ago was found to have stolen $40,000 to cum on gam- ingpractices; as seem a man mertneeted, with a Wall street insurance company was foend to have stolen $180,000 to carry on his gaming practices, but that is exceptional. Stock Gambling. Generally the money leaks silently from the merohant's till into the gain- ster's wallet. I believe that one of the main pipes leading to this „sewer of iniquity is the exeitement of business life. Is it not a significant fact that the majority of the day gambling Muses in New York are in proximity "to Wall street? Men go into the excitement of stock gambling, and from that they plunge into the gambling houses, as, when men are intoxicated, they go into a liquor saloon to get more drink. Tho agitation that is witnessed in the stook market when the ohair announces the word "Northwestern" or "Fort Wayne" or "Rook Island" or "New York Cen- tral," and the rat, tat, tat, of the auo- tioneer's hammer, and the exoitenient of making "corners," and getting up "pools," and "carrying stock." and a "break" from 80 to 70, and the 43301t13. ment of rushing around in curbstone brokerage, mid the sudden cries of "Buyer three!" "Buyer tent" "Take 'em!" "How many?" and the making or losing of $10,000 by one operation, unfits a man to go home, and so he goes up the eight of stairs, amid business offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden shut - terve room, gayly furnished inside and Mites his place at the roulette or the faro table, But I oannot tell all the prooess by which men get into this evil. A man went to 'New York. He was a western inercbant, He went into a gaming house on .Park place. Before morning he had lost all his money save $1, tied be moved around about with that dollar in his hand, and &Lifter awhile, oaught still more powerfully under the infernal infatua- tion, he came up and put down the dol- lar and cried ont until they heard him through the saloon, "One thousand miles from home, and my last dollar on the gaming table I" Visit to a Gambling* Den. Many years ago for sermonic) purposes and in company with the chief of police of New York I visited one of the most brilliant gambling houses in that city. In was night, and as we came up in front all seemed dark. The blinds were down, the door was guarded, but after a whispering of the officer with the guard at the door we were admitted into the hall, and thence into the parlors around one table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed, all the work going on in silence save the noise of the rattl- ing "chips" on the gaming table imam parlor and the revolving ball of the rou- lette table In the other parlor. Some of these men, we were told, had served terms in prison; some were shipwrecked bankers and brokers and money dealers, and some were going their firsb rounds of vice, but all inteot upon the table as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh, there was some- thing awfully solemn in the silence, the intense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the players. No one looked up. Tbey all had money in the rapids, and I have no doubt some saw as they sat there horses and carriages and houses and lands and hem° and family rushing down into the votes. A man's life would not have been worth a farthing in that presence, had be not been accompanied by the pollee, if be had been supposed to be on a Christian errand of observa- tion. Some of these men went by private key, some went in by careful introduce tion, some were taken in, by the patrons of the establishment. The officer of the law 'told me, "None gets in here except by police mandate or by some letter of a patron." While we were there a young man came in, put his Money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down on the roulette table and 'lost; pub more money down on the roulette table and lost. Then feeling in bis pockets for more money, finding none, in severe silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. White we stood there men lost thele property and. lost their souls. Ole merciless place! Not once in all the history of that gaming honse has there eeen one word .Of ,syrupethy uttered for -the losers atthe game.. 'Sir Horace Walpole said that a man- deopped dead in one of the clubhouses of London. His body' was carried into the clubhouse and the members of the cleth beganimme- diately tie bet as to • whether he were dead or aliveoand ,when it was proposed to test the matter by bleeding him it was only hindered by the suggestion that it would be ,wifair to some of the players. In these gaming house e of our cities men have their property wrung away from them, and then they go out, some af them to drown their grief in strong arink, some to ply the counterfeiter's pent and so restore their fortunes; some resort to the subside's revolver, but all going- down. And that Work, protteeede day by day am night by night. "That cart rmie," says one young . man, "has never:been wound around rny soul." ieut have not some threads of that cart rope been twisted? , s Girt En termites. - arraign before God the gift enter- prises of our cities weich have a tendency ' f to make this nation of gamblers. 'What • 'ever you get, young man, in suoh 9. piece as that, without giving a: proper equivalent, is a robbery of your own soul and a robbery of the community. Mt Met we are appellee to see men who have failed in other enterprises •go into gift mitnierts, where the ohief attraction r is not music, but prizes distributed among the audience, or to sell books where the chief attraction is not the f book, but the paokage that goes -with the book., Tobin:co dealers advertise that on a certain day they will put money into their papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco in Cinainnati or New York may unexpectedly come upon a magnifloent gratuity. Boys hawking through the oars pacItages containing nobody knows 'what until you open them and find they con tain nothing. Christian men with pie tures- on their wall gotten in a lottery, and the brain of comiteunity taxed tofind mit some new way of getting things without paying for them. Oh, young men, these are the threads that make the cart rope, and when a young man con- sents to these practtces he is being bound hand and foot by a habit which has already destroyed "a great multitude that no man can number." Sometimes these gift enterprises 'are carried on in the name of clarity, and some of you re- member at the close at our civil war how marry gift enterprises' were on foot, the proceeds to go to the orphans and willows of the soldiers and sailors, What aid the men who had charge of those gift enterprises care for the orphans and widows? Why, they would nave allowed them to freeze to death upon their steps. I have no faith in a charity which, for the sake of rellevieg present tuffering, opens a gaping jaw that has swallowed down so much of the virtue and good principle of the community. Young man, have nothing to do with these things. They only sharpen your appetite for games of chance, Do one of two things —he honest or die. I have accomplished ray object if I put you on the lookout, It is a great deal easier to fall than it is to get up again. The trouble is that when roen begin to go astray from the path of duty they are apt to say; "There's no use of my trying to get back. I've sacrificed my respect- ability. I can't return." And they go on until they are utterly destroyed I tell you, my friends, that God this montent, by his Holy Spirit, can change your en- tire nature, so that you will be a differ- ent man in a minute, The Path or safety. Your great want—what is it? More salary? Higher soda' position? No, no. 1 well tell you the great want of every man, if /le has not already obtained it— it is the memo ot God, Are there any wiio have fallen victims to the sin that I have been reprehendlngt You, are in a prison. You rush against the wall of this prieon and try to get out, and you fail, and you turn around and dash against the other wail until there is blood on the grates and blood on your seal,. You will never get out in this way. There Is only one way of fretting out. There is a Rey that can unlock that prlson house. It is the key of the house of David. It is the key that Christ wears at his girdle. If you well allow him to put that key to the hick, the bolt will shoot back and the door will swing open and you will be n free man 1n Chriet ensue. Oh, pro- digal, what a business this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands in the front door, straining his eyesight to catch the first glimpse of your return, and the calf is as fat as it will be, and the harps of heaven are all strung and the feet free! There are converted gam- blers in heaven. The light of eternity flashed upon the green baize of their billiard: saloon. In the layer of God's forgiveness they washed off all their sins. They quit trying for earthly stakes. They tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hand from heaven toward the head of tho worst offender. It is a hand, not clinched as if to smite, but out- spread as if to drop a benediction. Other seas have a shore and may be fathomed, but the sea of God's love—eternity has no plummet to strike the bottom and immensity no iron bound shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of in- finite compassion. Its waves are the hosannas of the redeemed. The argosies that sail on it drop anchor at last amid the thundering salvo of eternal victory, but alas for that man who sits down to the final game of life and puts' his im- mortal soul on the ace While the angels of God. keep the tally board, and after kings and queens and knaves and spades are "shuffled" and "cut" and the game is ended, hovering and impending worlds discover that he has lost it, the faro bank of eternal darkness °latching down into its wallet all the blood stained wagers. Seeking Solace. . It was one of tho sulteiest days of the season when the unhappy looking man went into the physician's office. 11 was a heavy, sullen heat, in which every twig and leaf hung absolutely motionless. "Doctor," he Said, "I want you to re- peat something that you told me last year." • "Some advice that you have forgot- ten?" "No, I haven't forgotten it I simply want to hear it over again. You re- member early this spring you warned me that I would have to take better care of my general health." eyeee, "And. you. especially pointed out to me that I 300sn't sit in a draft." "I recall thee." "I can't rementher your exact lang- uage, but you were very eloquent in impressing the risks a ma,n ran when he sat by an open window without any coat On and permitting tho zephys to 'mime against his chest." "I—I don't believe /used exactly those wbrds." "No. That Is one reason why I want you to say it all over again. I'm willing to pay tho regular coesultation fee to have you go through with that speech. The only way I oan get comfort out of this weather is to be reminded with all the emphasis that rhetoric clan oominnitd of how dangerous it would be to sit in a dreft if there was any draft to sit in."— Washington Star. Blaming the Superiorl The frequent dismal failures of Frenoh vessels of war are chiefly due to changes ef naval administrations, each new one having its particular hobbtt to ride. The blame for overweight, unseaworthy ships is therefore not to be laid to the con- structors, but rather upou the superiors. OFR OTTAIVA LETTi,111, TARTE, THE MAN WHO GUIDES THE SHIP OF STATE. • Dr. Coulter Gets Ills Deward at a Party I-feeler—sir Wilfrid a, u Contortionist— Lan vier and Px•efercittlail Trade. (Prom OW.' Own Correspondent.] Ottawa, July:27.—Onee more have we heard front ear este .ned friend Hon. et Israel Tette Ti' little man who is at the head of the Depertment of Public Werke, h Mei many an unplemant Mum Ilia one-tim,, associates in the make of the teatime Libereis have Inman to "round" on him. They have become convince.' that his peculiar enetbode will Minna their perm, and, what they care more about, tile:man net. And now Mr. Tarte has t emit the bit feirey between hie teeth. Let made a notable declaration last week, when he tole a newspaper xi= th he didn't care how things went "If 1 g down." said Mr. 'fart% "the rest of the ship at Ottawa- will ge down with me." What does this prove but the truth of wbat has bean stated in tixis corremendenee many 0 nine 0,0d —teat Israel Tarte is the potential Pre- mier of' Minaillt. It is certain that Ile has many 0 cord miens slelme. He knows all about the peculiar methods used by his party' in Quebeu during the last Federal oampaign. He is quite capable of splitting on his old associates. He is fOUC1, of says ing that at one Mine he wet a Conserve, MY°. lie never was a good Conservative Before Mel he was regarded with sus- picion by Sir John Macdonald and the other Conservative leaders. When he an- nounced that he Was going to show up the late Thomas McGreevy the men who knew him were convinced that he weet after something for himself. Mr. McGreevy swore before the Privileges Eleotione Committee here in Ottawa that Tarte had imituated that it was possible to "equate" him. In other words, this patriot WitS ready to conceal all he knew if McGreevy was ready to naake it worth his evil: .. The House of Cononona led by Si: John Thompson, insisted upon a complete investigation, and It was the Constavenve majority in tho committee thut tweette the resolution declaring McGreevy to have merited expulsion Prone the Houte of Common. And the House of Cixmnwns, with an overwhelming majority of Coneervatives sitting therein, expelled McGreevy. Ever since than Turte has done his best to make people believe that he is an upright man. His efforts on behalf of Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier at the tIme of the last campaign resulted in hie being rewarded texth the most imputant mirtfollo in the Government of Canada. He was not satisfied with this, but must needs streteh out for noire -cash. He got Mr, Greenshields, am of the most prominent Liberals of Quebec, 'to go into the Drummond County rail- way deal with blin, and be made Mr. Greenshields hand over the cash necessary to purohase the Petrie, the newspaper which bis sons now run. The Tarte boys have made no striking success with their newspaper. Tarte himself writes most of the editorials. Be wrote the erliterial threatening the Stnate with abolition if it did not sanotion the Drummond County deals Uf course, everybody who knows anything knows that the imperial authorities are the only ones who could do away with the Senate. Ana the Im- perial authorities would think several tines before doing so. The honest Lib- erals are disgusted with the actions of the Government. The Simme Reforzaer hes protested, and The Globe announces that Editor Dente,. is a traitor to his party. Mr. Donly has not the capacious gullet possessed by The Globe's editor. He is not ready to swallow everything and anything at the demand of the party. But, mare than ' the action of the Re- former is the stand taken by the Revell and The Huntingdon Gleaner smnifi- cant. Julius tioriver, the veteran Liberal who has represented Huntingdon in the House of Commons for many years, speaks through the Gleaner. He is an honest old gentleman, who is aghast at the turpitude of the Administration. He has not the oratorical gifts necessary to his attacking the Government on the stamp, but he does as good work through the Gleaner, winch reflects his views. The Conservatives even are amazed at the many indefensible actions of the Government. In oases where. it would have been better policy and just as easy policy to keep straight, the Administra- tion has gone crooked. What inust be the iuference? That the Ministers of the Crown prefer devious ways. Sir Oliver Mowat, who is an honest old Mall, is given little or no say in the deliberations of the Government. He spends his time in liberating from penitentiaries vitriol throwers,forgers and burglars. Sir Henri .7oly, the distinguished friend of Li Hung Cbang, has got his department— that of Inland Revenue—into such a glorious muddle that inercha,uts doing business with it are wild with indigna- tion. Sir Louis Davies, who is suffering from a severe attack of enlargement of the head, is away on a trip to Engeand, the ountry paying the shot. Messrs. Sifton and Fisher haye gone on a jaunt to British Columbia. Tarte is the xnan in possession and he says that if things do not go his way the whole business must close up. Coulter Gets His Reward. La his later campaigns in North York Hon. William -Mulook has been aided by Dr. Coulter, a young physidian who hes —ur had --political aspirations. neat was in the days when the Conservatives were in power. In the last campaign Dr. Coulter worked faithfuly for Mr. niulock- and now lir. Mule& has rewarded him. To this none of us would inake any ob- jection were it not for the fact than, al- though Mr. Mulct* rewards his henoh man, the country pays the bill. Lieut. - Col. White,' the Deputy , Postruaster=tien- nal has been superannuated, and Dr. Coulter has been placed in his positioo., Men who have 'spent their lifetime in the Post -Office Department are passed aver in order that a Liberal heeler shall. be rewarded. The Post -Office Depart- ment is one .needing the management that only a skilled man, an ,expert, can give it. Col. White possessed these quell- ticatioes. Mr. W. D. Lesoeur, the .Seere- Pary or the Department an efficient and industrious efficer, weteld have made an excellent se mess-) r - to Lieut. -CAM Wh ite. But men like Mr. Lesoeur are not liked by the members of the Adinintstr teen. They lutVe never doe anything for the Lieeral tarty, and the camp followers mum be remodel. Mr. Mulmtk's eettlect of the duties of the PostametertGeneval has become notorious to the Capiate Col. \Visite, however, inecie it possib.e for the work, of the department to go along witbOUD serious intereeption. Now thee Col. Waite retires, Ins suocessor Will eave to spend months in beconaing acquainted with his duties. The Adolfo - Maranon could have secured a man who would have been able to begin work on the day of hes entering the Deputy Post- master -General's office. rhe reasons why the Government did not do so have been set forth. The Globe, of course, tries to defend her. Mulock's action, and in ad- dition to making out a weak case, delibt erately insults hardworking members of the civil service. The apologist of the Crow's Nest Pass deal say that the reason that Dr, Coulter was given this plum was that the Postmaster -General sus- pected the loyalty of some of bis subord- inates in the departments. The unevoid- able Mference is that Mr. Lesoeur, who would have been most affected by an adherence to the system of promotion, IS not e faith -MI, employe. Any man who has spent much time in Ottawa knows that Mr. Lesoeur is far from being a politician, and is wrapped up in his work. By means of SOUla abstruce pro- mise, The Glebe Is able -to axmounce that Dr. Coulter will nutke 0. Patent:story offieer. jjs cities will be as much poli- tical Its administrative, for he will still be expected to keep North York in line for his beuefactor, Mr. Mulook. Sir Wilfrid as tt Contortionist. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been giving a fine exbibition of the contortionist's art in Britain, It is not so long since, in Ot- tawa the Premier was addressed by an admirer as "Sir Wilfrid." "Sir," said Laurier, "I am no Sir Wilfrid. I am a demoorat up to the bilt " Whereat The Globe and other Liberal newspapers, publishing the story, slopped over with admiration for the idemoorae up to tho hilt" Mr. Laurier, as we all know, shortly afterward went to Eng, land aud was knighted. His privilege was to receive an honor from his SoV- ereign, and DO sensible xnan would object But Ids political friends in Quebec do object. The Liberal papers are enraged because he, a French-Canafflan should have aecepted honors at the hands of the Queen. The malice of the French Liberal prets is well known. Sir Wilfrid,though, cannot afford to remain silent. His French fonowers thought for years that his great desire %MS fax Capadian indet pendsnoe. Doubtlees the Premier goes not know now tvhat his reel views are. But his friends said to each other: "He will show them in England that he is no Pmhape he will repeat his re- mark that Cenada and itnaland must Some day "partite." Their indignation when their udored protagonist accepted knighthood was terrific. And Sir Wilfrid Ms been compelled to make an explana- tion. He announces to his French-Cana- dian supporters thab he did not know that he was to be keighted until the morning of ettnallee day. "And," he says, plaintively, "could I have thrown the Queen's message into the waste -paper basket at that late dam?" The inference is that Sir Wilfrid was knighted against his will. Nothing could be more mislead- ing than his explanation, which is too much like an excuse fax the average loyal Canadian to accept. Sir Wilfrid knew for days before the .Tubilee day that ho was to be knighted. He had to make arrangements for procuring the necessary uniform, and those arrangements were made days before he got the notice that he was to receive the accolade. Nobody objeets to Sir Wilfrid's accepting knight- hood. The honor that a Maodottald and a Cartier were glad to accept should be prized by the present Premier. He is not noting ingenuously though in trying to excuse his action. It needs no enema He knows that Tarte, Choquette and the other French Liberal leaders have no love fax British connection, and he knows that they will sway a large section of the Liberal vote in the Province of Que- bec. And so tbis First Minister of the greatest British Colony has to apologize to a parcel of demagogues for accepting an honor ab the hands of the Queen. If he really beld the democratic principles which he olaimed to possess his abandon - big non was weak. But his letter of apology was much weaker. It was mean. Had Laurier been a really big man he would have told his followers that his action did not concern them. But he is not that kind of man. lie has ability but no firmness. In the hands of Tarte he is as clay in the hands of the potter. Laurier and Profer,n Mal Trade. From fax and near we hear that the people are dissatisfied with the Prime Minister's anxiouncement that Canada does not desire preferential treatment at the hands of the Imperial authorities. The anti-Cobdenites are growing in strength, ami the time will surely come when the colonies will be invited to join a zollverein. At preseot if Britain gave Canada an advautage of five cents a bushel on the wheat of the Dominion, tbe people of the Northwest would double in numbers in five years. There Would be an exodus from the Western States to our N'orth- west, and business would boom here in the East Population would flow into the country. Britain would have a market of eight or ten millions assured to her. And we should have the pleasure of get- ting back at our unfriendly neighbors to the south of us. But Sir Wilfrid tells the Imperial Ministers and the other Colonine Premiers that we want no fa,vomcl treatment. Be has nott told them that the American Congress has passed the higbest protective measure known fax many years. 'Whore is Canada to get her market? The United States is closed. Sir Wilfrid on our behalf declines to discuss what is a very great concession for us to receive. It all shows that the Govern- ment does not know what it is going to do. For years the Liberals told us that, if they attained power, they could nego- tiate a reciprocity treaty with tbe Yan- kees. Those of us who made bold to doubt that they would be successful were denounced as hide -bound partizans. Well, what has happened? Sir Richard and Sir Louis Davies went to Washington. They were roet with scant courtesy, and were sent holm without receiving any satis- faction. Congressman Dingley remarked that the Americans had something more inaportant than Canadian reciprocity to think of. The ambassadors returned home, rebuffed and angry. They had found out that the Conservatives who laughed at their pretentiens did not do so without cause. Where the Oovernment will turn now nobody knows, Their evil days are coming. The Jubilee eakes and all have been consumed, The day of no- koniug is not Om off. PURE OXYGEN FOR MINERS. Ingenious Device of Tiro Vienna Scientists, to Grorcome 1c4xitius Gates, A highly ineenious apparatus, celled "Pneemetoelsor," tor enabling xnleere, tireento arta others to breathe when sur- rounded by after-danip, smoke from Ares On board ship or ashore or other noxious fumes, has been invented at Vienna by Chevalier de Walther-11mila' and Dr. Gartner, professor at Inc university, Ib (musters of ttn air -tight In.ila rulii,er bag containing first a steel bottle hoisting (iO liter of pure oxygen at a preestme of 100 atmospheres, and emend's% a gliss bottle protected by a metal one containina 4e5 OUbio centinwrers of 25 per -0001molotton of caustie sada. By means of a h:tna-screw outside the bag the oxygen can be let into the bee at intervals ILA reeuited for breathing, while the turning et' another havid-senew breaks the gime bom1 . inside end MI we the caustic $0111 to 'kW Ott, end I, tee rbeti by the network of Itnii. e- stm in the bag. Then the are mi inn tub- er breathing tele, moth 0 mom plece and two nese ceips, one a epee- Dna. After stemming the amtararus 0.., .0 his chest neor lot," ,Onto tty,yot•rt HIV) the bag, breaks the eau- lie _soda buttle, takes the mouthpiece Letween bis lips, and puts on a bose clip so as re breathe only throngh ins mouth He inhales pure' oxygen, while the caustics so:ia ebsorbs the cartentio amid he exhales and thue sets the oxygen free to be rebreathed. This makes ir euffIce fax more then half 00 nour if he is moving, and about: an hour and a half if at rose In its attchel ready for use it weighe four end a ealf ' kilograms and costs only it few pounds. Numerous tests recently earriect out by the Vienna Are brigade and in the Silts- ian coal mines have proved its absolute efficieney. The Hight to Work. The uglien fact that confronts us un- der our preseat industrial organization ie the fact that, ut almost any green ince mane, there are in this country hundreds of thousands of able-bodied and honest men, with woinen and children de- pendent upon them, wbo would be glace to work st-ndily every day, yet evlaose one great anmety in life is because their employment is lumen:sin, interrupted, or wholly prmarious. The olcientehioned economists have hated nothing so much as the doctrine of the "right to work." But it is just possible thee this deetrine may make ite way, not only as a theo- retical tenet, I ut as no insistent practi- cal propositten that rennet be put down. The inequality of condition between the very rich num and the ordinary' citizen, -who has the opportunity to work steadily for standard paot iea matter of slighe concern, conmeratively speaking. The seriously ditturbing Motor is the exist- ence of a shifting tett ueverolinappearing element of mon unemployed or only half - employed. The sieuetion of the greab army of workere in the clothieg trades who live in the east side tenement dis- trict of New York and who have just brought to a :successful end no enorinoue strike, has been uistressful enough to win a dewreed public sympathy; for these men here worked almost 'incredib- ly long hours for an almost. Incredible pima -nee. Nevertheless, most of them, even under them hard conditions, are more comtortaele than they were in the Polish towns that they came Main, and their children are vastly better off under - American conditimis. The street -car em- ployes of Vienna were last MOtite Oil strike against the prevailing sixtemnbour day; and they are in ease; luck when conipared with connnen laborers in dm Polish provinces. It es only a qeestion of time and of improved organization when more reasonable honrs and more reason- able wagewill obtain in such trades as those which are now lergely monodized by thes) Polish Jews of recent Ironalgra- tion.—Prom "The Progress of the World," in American Monthly Review of Reviews. Made Miserable by "13." No more firm believer in . the pro- verbial bad luck associated with the number 13 is to be found in the clef than Conductor Samuel Sharp of a Gei mantown local train, says the Phintd 1 phia Record. His parents had thirte n children of whom he was the youngest, and none of them ever prospered. As the thirteenth child, however, Samuel It as had more troubles than any of his broth- ers and sisters. After countlees methane during his school days he stamed in to earn his living as a newsboy on the ems when he was thirteen yams of age. One Friday, the 18111 day of the month, not long after he entered the eervice, there was a wreck on the road and he was Led up In a hospital with a couple of broken ribs fax thirteen weeks. Some years later, when a brakesrnam, his 'uncle died and left him $1,81)0, but just as he was about to get married on the money the bank failed and he lost it all, feeling, of course, more disappointed than if it had never been left to him, Gradually he -worked his way up and be- came baggage -master, and then he did marry. 'Unwittingly, however, he went to housekeeping at No, 1813 South 18th Street and his young wife died within the year, leaning hint broken-hearted, Since he bas been °conductor Lis train has run over thirteen men, and be hopes that he has now reached the limit It is an utter impossibility to get him to punch the thirteenth trip on a commute - tion ticket, and when hard pressed he hands bis punch to the passenger, with the request to do it fax hint. To Make Englisli Tomato :Mustard. Slice a pint of ripe tomatoes and boll for three-quarters of an hour with a small piece of chili. Press through a heir sieve and boil up again, with pepper. all- spice, pounded cloves, ground ginger, mace and salt to taste, When cairn stir in two or three teaspoonfuls of mustard worked into a smooth paste with vine- gar, add the same quantity of curry pow- der and enough vinegar to naake all the consistency of made xnustard, thee bottle for USG. Exact quantities of spices tor this recipe are not given, fax tastes vary so Much and some like a larger quan- tity of one spice than another, me. This sauce will be found deffloious with cold meat For a Radiant mete. Ali, radiant rose„ with your grace so demure, • Yeur beauty the eye and the spirit cohtents; But there still lurks the thorn. Nene tevould guess, I am sure, That :,ou cost me a dollar and twenty - flee cents