The Exeter Advocate, 1898-10-21, Page 7•
FOOTSTEPS OF GOD
std hailstones giving tbe finishingin
g
touches, and after all these forces of
nature had done their best in our century
the curtain dropped, and the world bad
a new and divinely inspired revelation,
the Old Testament written on papyrus,
the New Testament written on parch-
ment and this last Testament written on
Rev. D..r. Talmage Finds His Divine Imprint the rooks.
Everywhere..
The Beauties of Nature Furnish a Theme For a Powerful Sermon
--would Abolish All Greeds and Denominations.,
Washington, Oot, 16. --Dr, Talmage in crowd into as small a place as possible
bis di-, arse takes us with him on a some of the most stupendous scenery ott
journey to the I`aeifre and finds "the foot- the world. Some of the cliffs you do n
steps of the Creator" everywhere, as
Hugh Miller found them in the old red
sandstone; texts, Isaiah xxxv,6, "Streams
in the desert;" Psalms civ, 32,"$e
tombs h the bilis, and they smoke."
::est text meairs irrigation, It
means the waters of the Himalayas or
the Pyrenees or the Sierra Nevadas
poured through canals and aqueducts for
the fertilization of the valleys. It means
the process by wbieh the last anile of
,American barrenness will be made an
apple orchard, or an orange grove, or a
wheat field,or a meters plantation, or a
vineyard " streams in the desert." 3iy
second text means a solean + like Venn
villa or Cotopaxi, or it means the geysers
of Yellowstone Park or at California:
You sea a hill calm anti still and for ages
inemoveble, but the Lord out of the hast•
vena puts his finger on the top of it. and
from it rise thick and impressive vapors.
"He toueheth the bills, and they smoker"
Althoagh n:'e journey across the core
Uncut this an umor was for the eighth
time, more a ed more ant I impressed
with the demo hand in its construction
and with its greatness and aran1eur.
A. Vast domain.
I supposed in my boyhood, from its
size on the map, that California was a
few yards across, a ridge of land on
Which one crust walk oautiously lest he
bit his bead against the Sierra Nevada
on one side or slip off into the Paeifio
waters on the other, California, the tbin
slice of land, As 1 supposed it to be in
boyhood, I have found to be larger than
all the Rates ot New England and all
Now York State and all l'onnsylvania
togotber, and if you add theta together
their square miles fall far short a Cali-
fornia. And then all those newborn
states of the Union, North and :south
Dakota, Washington, Uantalra, Idaho
and Wyoming. Each state an empire in
Size.
"But," says some ona, "in calculating
the immensity of aur continental acreage
you must remelt ber that vast reaches of
our public domain are uncultivated heap.
of dry sand, and the 'Bad Lands' of
Montana and the (treat American Dee -
era" I ata glad you mentioned that.
Within 25 years there will no be between
the Atlautio and Pacific coasts 100 niiiea
of land not reclaimed Dither by farmers'
plow or miners' crowbar. By irrigation,
the waters of the rivers and the showers
ot heaven, in what are called tho mitre
season, will be gatburoa into great reser
voirs and through aqueducts let down
whore and when the people want them.
'Utah ie an object lesson. Some parts of
that territory which were so barren that
a spear of grass could not have been
raised there in 100 years are now rich as
Lancaster county farms of Penusylvania
or Westchester farms of Now York or
Sornerset county farms of New Jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten acres
of ground irrigated from waters gatherel
in great hydrological basins will produce
as much as 50 notes from the downpour
of rains as seen in our regions. We bave
our freshets and our droughts, but in
those lands which aro to be scientifically
irrigated there will be neither freshets
nor droughts. As you take a pitcher and
get is full of water, and then sot it on a
table and take a drink out of it when
you aro thirsty and never think of drink-
ing a pitcherful all at once, so Montana
and Wyoming and Idaho will catch the
rains of their rainy season and take up
all the waters of their rivers in great
pttohets of reservoirs and refresh their
land weenever they will.
The work has already been grandly
begun l.y the United States Government
Over 400 lakes have already bean officially
taken possession of by the nation for the
great enterprise of irrigation. Rivers that
Mee been roiling idly through ;hese re-
gions, tieing nothing on their way to the
sea, well he lassoed an 1 corralled and
penned up until such time as the farm-
ers need ahem. Under the same processes
tbe Ohio, the Mississippi and all the
other rivers will be taught to behave
themselves better, and creat basins will
be made to catch the surplus of waters
in times ot freshet and keep them for
times et drought. The irrigating process
by which all the arid lands between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans are to be
fertilized is no new experiment.
Jehovah's Throne.
It has been going on successfully hun-
dreds of years in Spain, in China, in In-
dia, in Enssia, in Egypt. About 800,000,-
000 of t eep.e of the earth to -day are kept
alive by ,tied raised on irrigated land.
And hare we have allowed to lie waste,
given up to rattlesnake and bat and
prairie cog, lands enough to support
whole nations of industrious populatim
Tbe work begun will be consummated.
Here end there exceptional lands may be
stubborn and refuse to yield any wheat
or oorn from their bard fists, but if the
hoe fails to make an impression the min-
er's pickax will discover the reason for it
and bring up from beneath those unpro-
ductive surfaces coal and iron and lead
and copper and silver and gold. God-
speed the geologists and the surveyors,
the engineers and the senatorial commis-
sions, and the capitalists, and the new
settlers, and thehusbandmen, who put
their brain and hand and heart to this
transfiguration of the American contin-
ent. "Streams in the desert!"
But while I speak of the immensity of
atop to measure by feet, for `hey are
literally a toile high, Steep so that nei-
ther foot of man nor beast ever sealed
them, they stand in everiaeting reliance.
If Jehovah has a throne on earth these
are its whits patient. Ste=ering down in
this great chasm of the valley, you look
up, and yonder is Cathedral rock, vast,
gloomy whetter built for the silent wor-
ship of the rn irntaine Yeutter is Senti-
nel wen :• cin fret high, told, solitary,
standing guard among the ages, its top
seldom touchee until a bride one Fourth
of July mounted is and teemed the na
tionai standards, and tho people down in
the valley loused gap ed saw the head of
the tuountein turbanett with stars and
snipes, Yeutter Mreathe :three Brothers,
4,030 feet bleb; C'loud's rest, North and
South Domes, and the heights never cap-
tared save by the fiery bayonets of the
thunderstorm.
lie Tauchetrt the Rabe,
No pause for the eye, no stopping piece
for the mind. 'Mountains hurled on
mountains. Mountains in the wake of
mountains, Mountains flanked by m01111 -
tains, Mountains stilt, ;lieuntaina
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant, As though Mount Diane and
the Adirondaels and Mount Washington
were here uttering thernsalves in one
magnificent chorus of rook and precipice
and waterfall. gifting and dashing
through the racks rho watet comes down,
The Bridal Veil falls so ehiu you can see
the face of the anountain behind it. Yon-
der is 'Yoselnit.e falls, dropping $,634 feet,
16 tittles greater descent than that at
Niagara, Tbese waters dashed to death
on the rooks so that the white spirit of
these slain waters a+eending in robe ot
mist soaks the heavens. Yonder 1s Nevada
falls, plunging ;Oil feet, the water in
arrows, the water in socks, the waver in
pearls, tbe water in amethysts, the water
in diamonds, That cascade flings down
the reeks enough jewels to array all the
earth in beauty and rushes on until
drops into a very hell of • waters, the
smoke of their torment ascending forever
and ever
But the finest wonderful part of this
Ainerlean continent is the Yellowstone
park. My two ela]tx there made upon me
an impression that will last forever. Go
in by the Moneitia route ne we did this
summer at,d save tele utiles of railroad.
ing, your stagecoaeh taking you through
a day of :emery a' tap• ivating and sub-
lime as the Yellewstnne park itself,
Atter all poetry has rtihausted hetet con-
cerning Yellowstone park turd all the
Martine and Blersi;i its and tho other en-
obanting artiste haco completed their
canvas, there net be ether revelations to
make and other stories of its beauty and
wrath, splendor and agony, to bo recited.
'She Yellowstone park is the geologist -s
paradise, 13y cheapening of travel may it
become the nation's playgrounds In
some portions of it there seeing to bo the
anarchy of the elements, Fire and water,
and the vapor born of that marriage,
terrine, Geyser cones or hills of crystal
that have been over 5,000 years growing.
In planes the earth, turobbing, sobbing,
groaning, quaking with aqueous parox-
ysm. At the expiration of every 65 min-
utes one of the geysers tossing its bolling
water 185 feet in the air and the deseeud-
ing into swinging rainbows. "He touch-
etb the hills and they smoke." Caverns
of pictured walls large enough for the
sepuloher of the human ratio. Formation
oe stone in shape and color of callalily,
ot heliotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of sun-
flower and of gla'iiolus. Sulphur and
arsenic and oxide of igen, with their deli-
cate pencils, turning tbo hills into a
Luxemburg or a Vatican picture gallery.
The so-called Tnanatopels geyser, exqui•
site as the Bryant poem it •was named
after, and Evangeline geyser, lovely as
the Longfellow heroine it commemorates.
the continent I must remark it is not an
immensity of monotone or tameness. The
larger some oountrles aro the worse for
the world. This continent is not more re-
markable for its magnitude than for its
wonders of construction. Yosemite and
the adjoining California regions! Who.
that has seen them can think of them
without having bisblood tingle? Trees.
now standing there that were old when.
Christ lived l These menarche of foliage
reignedbefore Caesar or Alexander, and
the next 1,000 years will not shatter their
scepter. They are the masts of the contin-
ent, their canvas spread on the winds,
while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages.,
That valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long and a half mile wide and
A, Hall of Judgment.
Banging over one of the eines, I look-
ed off until I could not get my breath;
then, eetreating :o a loss exposed place, I
looked down again. Down there is a pal- with gospel influences all the waste
lar of rock that ba certain conditions of places of this continent. Lit us be prayer
the atmosphere looks like a pillar of and contribution and right living ail
blood. Yonder are 50 feet of emerald on help to fill the reservoirs. Yon will carry
a base of 500 feet of opal. Wall of chalk a bucket, and you a cup, and even a
thixnbletul would help. And after awhile
God will send the floods of mercy so
gathered pouring mown over all tae land,
and some of us on e:arth and some of us
in heaven will sing with Isaiah, "In the
wilderness waters have broken out and
streams in . the desert," and David,
"There le a river the streams whereof
shall maks glad the sight of God." Oh,
11
i and t to do what
Will testament than
R f0cr,
r ua l e
M.aq nd did, for Brook vn when h
;rade the Young Men's Christian r•ince
possible. These institutions will get our
young men .all over the land into a stam-
pede for heaven. Thus we will all in
some way help on the work, you with
your tea talents, I with five, somebody
else with three. It is ostneated that to
Irrigate the arid and desert lands of
America as they ought to be irrigated it
will cost about $100,000,000 to gather the
waters into reservoirs. As much contri-
bution and effort as that would irrigate
Sunrise and sunset..
Vide reaches of stone of intermingled
colors, blue as the sky, green as the foli-
age, crimson as the uahiia, white as the
snow, spotted as the leopard, tawny as
the lion, grizzly as the bear, in oiroles,
in angles, in stars, in coronets, in stalac-
tites, in stalagmites Here and there are
petrified growths, or the dead trees and
vegetables of other ages, kept through a
process of natural embalmment. In some
places waters as innocent and smiling as
a child making a first attempt to walk
from its mother's lap, and not tar off as
foaming and frenzied and ungovernable
as a maniac in struggle with his keepers.
But after you bave wandered along
the geyserite enchantment for days and
begin to feel that there can be nothing
more of interest to see you suddenly Dome
upon the peroration of all majesty and
grandeur, the Grand canyon. It is here
that it seems to me—and I speak it with
reverence—Jehovah seems to bave sur•
passed himself. It seems a great gulch let
down into the eternities. Here, hung up
and lot down and spread abroad, are all
the colors of land and sea and Sky. Up -
bolstering of the Lord God Almighty.
Best work of the Architect of worlds.
Sculpturing by the Infinite. Masonry by
an Omnipotent trowl. Yellow I You never
saw yellow unless you saw it there, Red i
You never saw red unless you saw it
there. Violet! You never saw violet un-
less you saw it there. Triumphant ban•
ners of color. In a cathedral of basalt,
sunrise and sunset married by the setting
of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals
and Egyptian basilicas built before hu-
man architecture was born. Hugo forti-
fications of granite constructed before
was forged its first rcannon. Gibraltars
and Sevastopols that never can be taken.
Alhambras, where kings of strength and
queens ofbeauty reigned long before the
first earthly Drown was e'npearled.
Thrones on which no one but the King
of heaven and earth ever sat. Fount of
waters at which the hills are baptized,
while the giant cliffs stand around as
sponsors. For thousands of years before
that scene was unveiled to human sight
the elements were busy, and the geysers
were hewing away with their hot .chisel,
and glaoiers were pounding with their
feet d It seems as if it had
bcold bummers. and hurricanes were
3,000 ee deep.
resting on pedestals of•baryl. Turrets of
light trembling on floors of darkness.
Tbe brown brightening into golden..
Snow of crystal melting into fire of car•
buncle, Flaming reit cooling into russet.
Cold blue warming into sadiron. Dull.
gray kindling into solferino. Morning
twilight iiusbing midnight shadows.
Auroras crouching among rooks.
Yonder is an eagle's nest on a shaft o' ' fill up the r.serv,ira. America tor God'
basalt. Through an eyeglass we see
among It the young eagles, bus the stone,
est arm of our grout* cannot hurl a stone
near enough to disturb the feathered
domesticity. Yonder are heights that
would be billed with horror but for tbe
warm robe of forest foliage with whioh
they are enwrapped. Altars of worship at
which nations might kneel. Donees ot
chalcedony on temple, of porphyry, See
ail this carnage of color up and dawn the
airs. It meet have been the battlefield
Cif the war of the elements. Zero are all
the colors of the wall of heaven, neither
the sapphire, nor the chrysolite, nor the
topaz, nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst,
Um the jasper, nor the 12 antes of 12
pearls. wanting, It spirits bound from
°arta to heaven could pass up by way of
this canyon, the dash of heavenly beauty
would not be so overpowering,
Christ's Dominion.
Oh, the smolt of the American ocntin.
anti Sailing up Puget Sound, Its shores
so bold that for 1.500 miles a ship's prow
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom; On ane ee my visits
I said, "This is the Meliterrauean of
America." Visiting Portland and Ta.
coula and Seattle and Victoria and Port
Townshend. end Vancouvor and other
Melee of the northwest regions I thought
to myself, "Those are the Beatons, New
Yorks, Charleston and Saeannebs at the
Paetfio coast." But after all this sum-
xner's journeying and by my other Jour-
neys westward in other summers, Ifound
that I had seen only a part of the
American continent, for Alaska is as far
west of Sal, Francisco as the coast of
Maine is east of it, so that the central
city of the American continent is San
Francisco.
I have said those things about the
magnitude of the eont-neat and given
you a few specimens of some of its won -
errs to let you know the comprehensive-
ness of Christ's dominion 'when ho tapes
possession of this continent.. Besides that,
the salvation of this continent means the
salvation of Asia, for we aro only 80
miles from Asia at the northwest. Only
Behring straits separates us from Asia,
and these will bo spanned by a great
bridge. The 36 Hailes cf water between
these two continents are not all deep son,
but have Throe islands, and there are also
shoals wbicb will allow piers for bridges,
and for the most of the tray the water Is
only about 20 fathoms deep.
The Americo -Asiatic bridge whioh will
yet span these straits will lnakoAmorica,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So, you see, America evangelized, Europe
taking Asia from ono side and America
taking it from the other side. Your chil-
dren will cross that bridge. America and
Asia and Europe all one, what subtrac-
tion from tbo pangs of seasickness and
the propheoies in Revelation will bo fol.
filled, "there shall be no more sea." But
do I mean literally that this American
cantleent is going to be all gospelized? I
do. Christopher Columbus, when be went
ashore from the Santa Maria, and bis
second brother Alonzo, when he went
ashorefrom the Pinta, and his third
brother Vincent, when he went ashore
from the Nina, took possession of this
country in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Ghost. Satan has
no more right to this country than I
have to your pocketbook. To bear Lim
talk on the roof of the temple, where be
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms of
the world and the glory of them, you
might suppose that Satan was a great
capitalist or that he was loaded up with
real estate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acro or an inch of ground on
this planet. For that reason I protest
against something I beard and saw this
summer and other summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have given
devilistic names to many planes in the
west and northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone park
or California you have pointed out to
you plaoes cursed with such names as
"The Devil's Slide," "The Devil's
Kitchen," "The Devil's Thumb," "The
Devil's Pulpit," "The Devil's Mushpot,"
"The Devil's Teakettle," "The Devil's
Sawmill," "The Devil's Machine Shop,"
" The Devil's Gate," and so on. Now it
is very much needed that geological sur-
veyor or congressional committee or
group of distinguished tourists go through
Montana and Wyoming and California
and Colorado and give other names to
these plaoes. All these regions belong to
the Lord and to a Christian nation, and
away with such Plutonic nomenolature.
But how is this continent to be gospel-
ized? The pulpit and a Christian print-
ing press harnessed together will be the
mightiest team for the first plow. Not by
the power of cold, formalistic theology,
not by ecclesiastical technicalities. I am
sick of them, and the world is siok of
them. But it will be done by the warm
beartod, sympathetic presenta;iou of the
fact that Christ is ready to pardon all
our sins, and beal all our wounds, and
save us both for this world and the next.
Let your religion of glaoiers crack off and
fall into the Gulf stream and get melted.
Take ail your creeds of all denominations
and drop out of them all human phrase-
ology and put in only scriptural phrase=
elegy, and you will see how quick the
people will jump after them.
On the Columbia river we saw the sal-
mon jump clear out of the water in differ.
ent planes, I suppose for the purpose of
getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for men we could only have, the
right kind of bait they will spring out
above the flood of their sins and sorrows
to reach It. The Young Men's Christian
associations of America will also do part
of the work. They are going to take the
young men of this nation for God. These
institutions seem in 'better favor with
' God and man than ever before. Business
men and capitalists aro awakening to the
fact that they can do nothing better in
the way of living beneficence or in last
p: cleaving with their lightning been the meaning of Omnipotence to strokes,
The presence of a arm
Aen
material, h 1 P.. a t
lumber manufacture encourages ture
stimulates these allied industries, such
as carriage and wagon building, furni-
tura manufacturing, paper mills, she
.making ,of pails, barrels and xoodeuware
genoraUy, sash, door and blind factories.
When there are industries in which the
coarse lune er and the refuge of the lum-
ber will oan be worked up to actrantage
whioh ought to have been more generally
pursued than bas been the case. Now, if
our province is tobecome merely a 49=4
of exploatatien for those wbo, having
reoklessiy used up tnr;r own rase mater -
1a:, cotne here to supply themselves, all
these other subsidiary industries will be
pursued at a disadvantage and develop -
Mont in this direction will be checked.
tn•luatrial Absenteeism.
The C aae-d'an lumberman. whether of
native or foreign birth, who esteblisbee
himself here permanently has an interest
in the general prosperity of the country.
The entailer who merely comes here to
take out logs pot only bas no such con-
cern in Canada's Nvelfare, bus is interest.
ed in building up a rival country. It i,as
been the object of the Uovernmene to get
the lumbermen to co•cperate with theles
In econotnizing tee forests, and so to
establish the industry on a lasting basis.
A Canadian mill owner who as a citizen
and a large in.ester of capital has the
future well -beano of the country at heart
will far more readily fall in with the idea
of forest preservation and the careful
ruanegeineut of his Peeling as a perman-
ent investment than the American who
cares nothing for our future and merely
wants to get all he eau out of the conn.
try as quickly and with as little outlay
as potsiblo. The atsenteo lumber lord. Is
as great au incubus to prosperity as fila
absentee landlord.
Canada Controls tl,e ,Situation,
SA"NM-OS "X 'ORTiNG.
Herr the Question Affects Our National
krevperity.
The question now before the Quebec
conference which west vitally concerns
the people of the Province of Ontario is
that of the retention or abronatdan of the
axillas provincial statute requiring all
sawlogs, cut an the Crown domain to be
sawn into lumber betere exportation.
Tho passage of this enactment, with the
practical approval of the whole country
irrespective of party lines, bas been bit-
terly resented by the largo and influential
Mese of American lumhornten and mill
owners to whose influence the imposition
of .a duty ot $ i per tboustnd on Cana-
dian lumber exported to the tLeited
States was due. The ro•opening ot inter.
national questions by the Quebec confer-
ence offers theta a wished for opportunity
to bring to bear the resources of diplom-
acy wIth a. view to the abolition of the
unwelcome restriction in return for some
inadequate concession or simply as a
make -weight ;o carry through some in-
teruational agreement et far less import•
antra to the Canadian people than the
principle involved in its maintenance.
Forest ,Preservation.
The subject of preserving the facets so
as to provide for the timber supply of
the future and at the Marne time retain
those conditions of climate and moisture
essential to agricultural prosperity bas
for some years occupied the attention of
the Government. Same important ad.
vancis have been made in the direction
of forest preservation by tbo establish-
ment et a system of fire -rouging winob
bas greatly diminished the.frequency and
destructiveness of bush fires, and reserves
have been sat apart—notably that of
Algonquin Dark—wboro land which will
grow profitable nothing else than trees
may be permanently devoted to that pur-
pose, the recently eonetituted Forestry
Commission may be expected to make
further recommendation for the extension
of the pollee of regarding our woodlands
as a perpetual source of supply and pro -
venting the premature exhaustion of the
timber by reckless cuttlug and lack of
duo precautions to seoure a future crop.
The American people, like ourselves, had
a magnificent natural heritage iu their
pine forests, whioh, if judiciously pre.
served, would Imo yielded an ample
supply for many generations to come, if
not for all time. These bane boon do-
stroyed by wasteful methods of nutting
and the negleot to take the most obvious
methods of providing foe their roproduo-
tion. Teo principal sources of the supply
of white nine remaining to them are the
forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Min-
nosota. In the former State very little
remains. and rho timber of Wisconsin and
Minnesota is so rapidly approaohing the
point of exhaustion that, if the present
rate of cutting continues, a very few years
will witness its total disappearance.
As the supply in Michigan failed the
lumbermen of that State bave been in
increasing degree supplementing the
deficiency by securing Ontario timber
limits and rafting the logs across to their
own mills. They have largely furnished
the supply of pine lumber required in
increasing quantities by New York State
and New England, while the other North-
western States find their principal market
in the West. To secure the Eastern
market for themselves the Miobigan lum-
borers succeeded in baying a duty of $2
per thousand feet imposed upon Canadian
lumber—at the same time that they were
becoming more completely dependent
upon us for their raw material. Under
the circumstances, to permit them to con-
tinue to strip our forests, giving the very
least possible retuen in the way of in-
vestment of capital or employment for
labor here, would be simply to give them
every inducement and incentive to keep
up their tariff on our lumber.
No doubt the maintenance at the pro.
hibitian an the export of lags enurils
saute temporary loss to 550 Si)virliu4—OA
asrei uruent whioh in view o" alt tare facts
ought not to weigh an instant. Suppos-
ing that under the pressure of a vastly
increas=ed American demand suck as is
sure to follow the final dlsappeerauco of
the American white pine, the whole of
our pine timber coul•I be cut and shipped
all in logs inside of ten years --or one
Tear. Tile gala to the revenue while the
process lasted would be enormous --batt
at its eloso Ivo should be stripped of the
natural wealth which, rightly busbendod
anti judiciously utrilzed, would have made
us permauontly prosperaus and built up
our industries upon an enduring basis.
In a very few years tbe Americans must
look to us both ter lumber and woad
PAP, and if tbey choose to continue their
policy of imposing an import duty they
will have to pay it themselves, as they
will have no native product to keep down
the price by competition. It we should
pormit them to import hen; the continued
supply of American stwu lumber welch
hail paid no duty would be an argument
in favor of their keeping up the duty on
Canadian lumber. Tho growing American
demand must be supplied by the Cana-
dian forests in ono form or other. It la
to our interest to see that it should be
met in the way that will give Canadians
the utmost pos,ibio advantage in the
manufaotnring of the article with all the
expenditure of capital and employrnen
of resident labor involved, and not sacri-
flco our future for the very trifling and
temporary benefit of an iuoroased revenue
fora tow years.
Pioneers of Settlement.
Our saw mill industry bas done ranch
to build up the bank country. The lum•
barman bas done the pioneer work, and
where mills and factories have been built
labor has found permanent employment,
merchants have established themselves
and farmers have found a home market
for their produce. Many prosperous com-
munities acknowledge the lumber trade
as the main factor upon which their wel-
fare depends. Let conditions be changed.
Let the mills be closed down or removed
aoxoss the line, and no money be spent
in the manufacturing branch of the in-
dustry, and many towns and villages will
be ruined. The American limitb.ilder
whose interests are all in Miobigan will
simply aim to exploit the timber on bis
holding as quickly as possible, and it
will not take him long to do 15. Then in
plane of busy, thriving communities there
will merely remain a wilderness of
stumps and scrubby timber or a fire -
devastated waste. Tho labor will have
followed the logs over the line. The
numerous other branches of industry and
commerce whioh are dependent upon
]umbering and in their turn furnish em-
ployment for labor and investment for
capital will also have taken their depar-
ture.
Our Wood -Working Industries Affected.
A wise and judicious polioy of encour•
aging homy industries demands that our
forest produots should be given to the
world in as complete and flniehd a state
of manufacture as possible. Wa ehall not
be prodigal of our raw material if we
have profited by the warning conveyed
by the importance of our neighbors—for
we now know that our forests are by no
means "inexhaustible," but can be very
easily used up unless carefully husband-
ed. What we should aim at is to develop
not merely the lumbering industry but
the further and finer processes of manu-
facture for which lumber or wood in.
some form furnishes the principal raw
AS ENGINEER'S STORY
SITEVERED THE PANGS OF HMIs
AUTISM FOlt; YEARS,.
'Was Reamed. in iiieight From 180 t
130 Founds -111s Friends *reared That
Recovery Was ImpoSStbie—NOW dot-
holy Attending t!1 His Buttes.
From The Midland Free Press,.
Alexander McKenzie is one of the
well known residents. of Brookholm,
Ont., where he has lived for many
yearn. , few years ago it was thought
that an early grave would be his; on
the contrary, however, he is now stout
and strong, and the story of his recov-
ery is on the lips of almost all the
citizens of that burgh. The wi iter,
while visiting in the village, could not
fail to bear of his recovery, and with
the reporter's proverbial nose for news
decided to put to the proof the gossip
of the village. The reporter visited
s1r. MMeKenzie's home and was intro.
duced to Mrs. McKenzie. Enquiry
elicited the information that Mr. Mc-
Kenzie was not at kine, but when in-
formed as to his mission the lady free-
' ly c assented to telt the reporter o'.' her
husband's case. Her story run's like
this: "Mr. McKenzie is 40 years of
age, an engineer by profession, and is
riots ora a Goat on the lakes. About
the years ago he began to feel twinges
of rheumatism in ditaerent {,arts of hie
body and limbs. For a time he did
not thins: much of it, but it gradually
got worse until the pain was such that
he was unable to work, and could not
get rest at nights. 1 would have to
get up two or three times of a night,"
said Mrs. McKenzie, "to try and re-
lieve this intense suffering. Of course
he consulted a physician who pro-
nounced his trouble sciatic rheuma-
tism. The doctor did what he could
for him, but without giving any per-
manent relief. This went on for sev-
eral years, sometimes he would b,
some better and try to work, then the
trouble would come on again and be as
bad as ever.
He was pulled down from being
stout roan of 180 pounds to abut ,
and was so titin and miserable that all
iwire knew Lima thought it would be
only a :matter of a short time until he
would be in bis grave. For four years
did he thus drag along a miseraiide ex-
istence, until in the beginning of 1897
some one recommended Dr. William's
Pink Pills. Tired of medicine, with
some reluctance he procured a box and
gave them a trial. Almost at once a
change was perceptible and as he kept
on taking thelia, the improvement con-
tinued, and he was soon able to be
about. By the time he had taken
about a dozen boxes he was free from.
the slightest twinge of rheumatism,
and as stout and strong as he had been
before his affliction. So great is bra
faith in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that
when he left home reeerrtly to go up
the lake iv: the suxtiw• r, he took three
boxes with him as a preventative
against a possible reeurrence of the
trouble."Mrs. McKenzie was quite
willing that this story should be made
public, and believes that she owes her
husband's life to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People.
Rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia,
partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia,
nervous headache, nervous prostration
and diseases depending upon humors
in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic
erysipelas, etc.. all disappear before a
fair treatment with 1)r. Williams'
Pink Pills. They give a healthy glow
to pale and sallow complexions. Sold
by all dealers and post paid at 50e. a
box or slat boxes for $2.50, by address-
ing the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co..
Brockville, Ont, Do not be persuaded
to take some substitute.
FAHRENHEIT THERMOMETER.
Concerning. the Man Who Invented ThiS
Measurer of Heat and Cold.
In September, 1786, Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit died in Holland, probably at
Amsterdam, in whioh oity he bad settled
many yearn previously, and where he found
more suitable scope for bis soientifio re
searobes than at Dantzig, the great sea-
port in northeast Germany, where he was
born on May 14, 1686. Till just before
the seventeenth century mon could esti-
mate the temperature by their paraoral
feelings only, but several attempts were
then matte to measure the degree of heat
or cold by tubes containing spirits of
wine, oil and other substances. Instead
of the first and all of these, Fahrenheit
in 1714 substituted mercury, or quick•
silver, whioh is a metal naturally fluid.
Ho selected for Lis soale as zero (a name
derived from the same Arabia word as
"cipher," and signifying "nothing") the
lowest temperature observed by him at
Dantzig during the winter of 1709, which
be found was that produced by mixing
equal quantities of snow and salammon-
iao, or common salt, and the space be.
tween this point and that to which the
mercury rose when expanded by the heat
equal to that of boiling water. or plung-
ing the thermometer into boiling water,
he divided about the year 1720 into 212
parts. Doubtless the selection of the
freezing point of water as zero, whioh
was made about 1730 by Rene Antoine
Ferohault de Reaumur, who lived from
Feb. 28, 1638, till Oot. 17, 1757, was
simpler, readier, more familiar, and
natural. The system was adopted also in
1742 by Anders Ce:sius, the Swedish
astronomer and physicist, who lived from
1701 till 1756, and whose thermometer is
divided into 100 degrees between the
freezing point and boiling point of water,
as Beaumur's is divided into eigbty. It
le therefore generally distinguished as
the "oentrigrade" or of a "hundred
steps," and is the one employed in other
parts of the European continent, and for
international purposes.
Weeds as Food.
What is even regarded as a vile weed
can, with a little stretch of imagination,
be turned into an ornamental plant or
delicious vegetable. This is espeoiaily the
ease with the common burdock, Lappa
major. School boys all know it from
gathering the burrs and compressing
them together by the curved points of the
floral involuore. This is all they know
about it. It is difficult to see anything
more to be despised in the burdook leaf
than et the leaf of the rhubarb.It ap-
pears that it is largely used in China for
food. But it is stated that if the stalks
be out down before the flowers expand
and then be boiled the taste is relished
equally with asparagus. The leaves when
young are boiled and eaten as we eat
spinach. In Japan it is in universal use.
Thousands of aures are devoted tT `&s
culture. But in this case the root is the
object. It requires deep soil to get the
roots to the best advanbage.-Meehan's
Mon thlv
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Secret Order.
"Did you ever hear of a successful
secret order," the youngest boarder
asked, "that was run .solely in ;the
interest of women?"
"They do say," Asbury Peppers said,
"that in the department stores the.
women oan order cocktails served in
teacups.''—•Cincinnati Enquirer.
Yonthfal Ideas.
Here are some sentences written by
the pupils in one room of one of the
schools:
My sister's hair is lurid.
The man's coat was brief.
The lady put on a brief, sententious
style.
They made many indigenous remarks.
The doctor gave the baby epitaph.
The girl coincided to go home.
God is superfluous being.
The man's porous was open.
The moist was dry.
"Sam, is there any writing in this
book':" questioned the teacher.
"No ma'am, there is no writing there
except the dago writing," lie said, as
he pointed to the italics.
Here are some questions and answers
in a recent examination:
What causes day and night and the
change of seasons!
The sun causes day, moon causes
night and the weather causes chaelge of
seasons -
How 5s a river formed?
A river is formed long and narrow.
A volcano throws out sand and smoke
and hot bricks.
What key in music has no signatueee
Door key.
eiVhat does D. C mean in music?
District o2 Columbia.
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What - is a note? J
Short communication:
In a physiological examination were
these answers:
It is not safe to take the first glass.
because it leads you, and the mean with
you, to the habit of alcoholic drinks.
By the law of heredity we understand
that it teaches us to use one muscles
and that alcohol deadens the nerves.
Opium and alcohol have similar results.
This is called God's law -
There are eases of consumption so far
advanced that Bickle's Anti -Consumptive
Syrnp will not cure, but none so bad that
it will not give relief. For coughs, colds
and all affections of the throat, lungs and
chest, it is a specific which has never been
known to fail. It promotes a free and
easy expectoration, thereby removing the
phlegm, and gives the diseased parts a
chance to heal.
Big Figures.
J. A. Bente, an Englisch statistician,
has calculated that it would require a
10,000 horse -power engine abort 70,-
000,000,000 years to lift the earth one
foot in Height, and that to do this would
take ten septillion gallons of water, to
convert which into steam would re-
quire four sextillion tons of coal. '
TO .CURE A COLD TN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists ref and the money if it fails to eure. tae