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IA despatch from Washingtou says; tale word, "hypocrite." He may think
Talnaage, ehose as his text, he has been ucoessth ini the deeep-
I, Sam. Xv. 11; --"And Samuel said, `time but, at the most unfortunate mo -
have slain the most unpopular of their
trttngressionrs and saved those which
are most respectable, It will 'not do.
Eternal war against ali •the Anaale-
kites; no mercy for Agog..
I learn, further, from this subject
that it is vain to try to defraud God.
Here Saul thought be had cheated
God out of those sheep and oxen; but
he lost his crown—he lost his emPile•
You caonot cheat Goa. How often
it has been tlaa.t Christian men have
had a Large estate, and it has gone.
Wlaat meanah then 'this bleating of „ 'pent, the sheep will bleat and the Thn Lord 00'd ' Game into the ,counte
the sheep in mine ears, and the low- oxen will below. Oh, my dear friends, 'rig -house, and said; dal have allowed
Ing of the oxeo which 1 hear?" let us cultivate simplicity of Chaistian Y°11, to have all this property for ten
The Amanakites thought they had character. je.eus Christ said; "tinles fifteen, Or twenty years, and you have
conquered God, and that He woold you become as this little ohuld, you not done justioe to My, pooe childeen
carry into execution Hie threats Gonna entar the kingdom . God.„ fasorrlehneltph,eyboeuhad no mercy. I onlyggar mood aaan you, you
against them. They hacl murdered We may play hyaneesso suaaeaseony hounded him off your steps. When
e Israelites in. bat tie and out of LOW,, but the Lord God will, after a my children appealed, te yeti
al
aattle, and left no outrage untried. while, expose our true character. If
For four hundretnyears this had been 'we are really kneeling to+ the world asked a6r so much, or so much; but
going on; and tisay said; "God either while we profess to be lowly subjects you did not give to Me, and now
dare not punish us, or He has for- of Jesus, Christ ,the screen has already I Will take it all," God asks of us one
gotten to do so." Let us see. Sam- beenremoved and all the hosts of seventh of our time in the way of
eel, God's prophet, tells Saul to go heaven are gazing on our hypecrisy, Sab•bath. ,Do yoit suppose , we can
down and slay all the Agnalekite,s, net God's universe is a very public, plaee, get an hour of: •that time successfull.v
leaving One of them' alive; also to and you cannot hitle hypocrisy in it. away from its true object? No, no
destroy all. the bea.sts in their pos- Going out into a world of delusion and God has demanded one s,sventh of
session—ex, sheep, camel, and ass, shame, pretend to be nomore than your time. If you take one hour of
The .Am.alekites and Israelites meat; you really are. If you have 'the grace
the trumpets of battle blow peal on of, God, profess it. Profess, no more
13e.al, and there is a death hush. Then than you have. But I want the world
there is a signal waved, swords cut to know that whe•re there is one,
apd hack; javelins ring on shields; hypocrite in the church, there are five
arms, fall from trunks; and heads roll hundred, outside of it, for the reason,
into the dust. Gash after gash; the that the field is larger. There are.inen
frenzied yell; the gurgling of throt- in all circles who will bow befere you,
and who are obsequious in your pre -
tied throats; the cry of pain; the
laugh of revenge ; the curse hissed f sence, and talk flatteringly, but who,
all the while they are in your conver-
bet ween clenched teeth—an army's
sation, are digging for bait and an-
death-gtroan. Stacks of dead on all
gling saes imperfections. In your pre-
sides, with eyes unsbut, and mouths
se.nce they imply that they are every -
yet grinning vengeance. Iluzza for the '
Israelites! Two hundred and ten thing friendly, but after a while you
thousand men wave their plumes and I find that they have the fiereenes.s of a
catamount, the slyness of a snake, and
clap their shields, for the Lord God
hath given them the victory. f the spite of a devil. , God will expose
such'. The gun they load will burst
Yet that victorious army of Israel
and oxen. in their own hands: the lies they tell
are conquered by sheep
will break their own teeth; and at the
God, through the prophet Samuel, told
Saul to slay all the Amalelsites, and [very moment they think they have
been successful 111 deeeiving you and
to slay all the beasts in their posses-
sion; but Saul, thinking that he knows Ideceiving the world, the sheep will
more than God saves Agag, the Araa- 'bleat and the oxen will bellow..
I learn, further from this subject
lekite king and a fine drove of sheep
how natural it is fro- try to put off our
and a herd of oxen th.at he cannot
i:
beasins xpou other people. Saulwasr to kill. Saul drives the sheep ,
tharged with diSobeying God. The
and oxen down towards home. He has
inan says -it. was not' him; he did not
no idea that Samuel, the prophet, will
save the sheep, the army did it; trying
find out that he has saved these sheep
to throw it off on the shoulders of
and oxen for himself. Samuel comes
, other ,people. Human nature is the'
and asks Saul the news from the bat-.
samsein all the ages. You ,cannot
Sael Puts on a solemn face—far
throw off the re.sponsibility of any sin
there is no one who can look more
ti -c41
To the shoulders of other people.
solemn than the genuine hypocrite—
Here is a young man. who
. and he says: "I have fulfilled.' the
say's: "I know I aim 'doing wrong,
. commandment of the Lord. Samuel
but I have not had any chance. Ihad
listens, and be hears the drove of
, a father who ,.desarised God, and a
sheep a little way off. Saul had no
met
idea the prophet's ear would be so her who was a., disciple of..GocIless
acute. Sa.muel says to Saul: "If you fIshion. I am not to blaane for my
ns—it is my bringing, up." ,Ah', no;
have done as God told you, and slaintba ,nee
gnleanworldhbeen out long
the Arnalekites and all. the beasts in
their possession, what mea.neth the
-in-ths to see what is
rightand i
tosee what is'
bleating of the sheep in mine ears, i anal. n the day of
great
and the lowing of the cattle whieh I "
eterni.t he cannot thross his
hear ?" Ah, one would have thought I sins -upon his father or mother, but
that blushes would have consumed the will have to stand for himself and an -
cheek of Saul. No, no. He says,. the 1 ewer before God. You have had a
army—not himself of course, but the conscience, you have ha.c1 a Bible, and
army—had saved the sheep and oxen the influence of the Holy Spirit. Stand.
for sacrifice; and then they thought for yourself or fall for yourself. Here
it would be too bad anyhow, to kill
Agag, the Amalekite king. Samuel
takes the sword. and he slashes Agag
to pieces; and then he takes the skirt
of his coat, in true Oriental style,
and rends it in twain, as much as to
say. ; "You, Saul, just like that, shall
be Loan away from your empire and
torn away from your throne." In
other words: " Let all the nations of
other words: "Let all the nations of
earth hear the story that Saul, by
disolseying God won a flock of sheep
but lost a kingdom."
I learn first, from this subject that
God will expose hypocrisy. Here Saul
pretends be has fulfilled the Divine
commission by slaying all the beats
belonging to the Amalekites, and yet,
at the very trionaent he is telling the
story and practising the delusion, the
secret comes out, and the sheep bleat
and the oxen bellow.
A hypocrite is one who pretends' to
be what he is not, or to do what he
does not. Saul was only a type of a
class. The modern hypocrite looks
awfully solernn, whines when he prays
and during his public devotion shows
a great deal of the whites of his eyes.
Ile never laughs, or if he does laugh,
he seems eorry for it afterwards,. as
though he had committed some great
indiscretion. The first time hs
a chance,' he prays twenty minutes in
public; and when he exhorts he seems
to imply that all the race ate sinners,
with one exception, his modesty for-
tbirlding the stating who that One...ie.
There are a great many churches that
have 1W0 or three ecclesiastical hypo-
crites in it. When the fax begins to
pray, look out for your chickens, The
more genuine religion a man has, the
more comfortable he will be; but you
May know a religious imposter by the
fact, that he pride!, himself On the foot
that he is uncomfortable. A man of
that kind is of immense damage Co
the Church of Christ. A ship may out-
ride a hundred storms, and yet a
hanclfui of worms in the planks may
sink it to the bottom. A. man may,
through policy, hide his real charac-
ter; but God will after awhile tear
open the White sepulchre arid will
expoee bini just as thoroughly as
iasOugb E1e brande1 upon his forehead
Ls a business man. He says; "I know
I don't do exactly right in trade, but
all the dry goode men do it, and all
the hardware men do this, and I am
not responsible." You cannot throw
off your sins upon the shoulders of
other mesclaa.nts. God will hold you
re.sponsible for what you do, and them
responsible for what they do. I want
to quote one passage of Scripture for
you. I think it is in Proverbs; "If
thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for
thyself; but if thou soornest, thou
atone shalt bear it."
'I learn, further, from this subject
what God meant by extermination.
Saul was told to slay all the Amale-
kites and the beasts in their posses-
sion. He saves Agag, the Anatilekite
king, and some of the sheep and oxen.
God ohiteticses him for it. God likes
nothing done by halves. .God will
not stay in a soul that is half His and
half the devil's. There may be more
sins in our soul than there were
Arnalekites. We must kill them. Woe
unto us if we spare Agag. Here is
a Christian who says; "I will drive aut
all the Amaleltiles _of sin from my
heart." Here its jealousy, down goes
that Amalekite. Here is backbiting,
down goes that Amalekite. "And
what slaughter he makes among his
sine, striking right and left. What
is that out yo.naler lifting up his heaci?
It is Agag--it is worldliness. It is an
old sin he cannot bear to,strilte down,
Oh, ray brethren, I appeal this morn-
ing for entire consecration.. With-
out Sapidness no man shall see the
Load. I know men who are living
with their souls in perpetual commun-
ion with Chriet, and day by day are
walking within the sight of heaven.
How do I know/ They tell Inc so. 1
believe 'thorn, iChe' would not lie
about it. Why can we not all have
this conseerationa, Why slay some
of isise sins in our soul and leave others
to blea.t and bellow for exposure and
condemnation. Christ will not stay
in th.e house with Agag. You must
give up Agag or give iip Christ;
jeans stays; "All of that heart or
none." Saul slew the poorest of the
sheep and the meanest of the oxen,
and kept some of the finest and tit(
fattest; axid there are. Chriellani who
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 28.
rite 1.1.0110:1ki SOH, Lahe 15. 11,24. Gtail,`11
4 Win Ai'1,0 and Go 10 A‘y
n. I.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
'Verse 11. A certain man had two
eons. Tile man represents our Father,
the sons two sorts of his children.
The whole story should be careliully
read. It, has gone into literature un-
der the title of "The Parable of the
Prodigal Son." Many careful '-stodents
believe that the emphasis of the story
is on the portion that is omitted from
this lesson, and tisat if a title be given
to it at an it should be the titde of
"Thc jealous &other." Another sag-
,
gestion quite as profound is that it
is "The Parable of tile Bereaved
Father ;" emphasizes our heavenly
Father's eagerness to save his lost
children and his rejoicing over the
saved. All three vie,vs should be kept
10 mind as we proceed with this mar's
velous story,
12. Father, give me the portion of
goods that falleah to me. Really, no
time that is to be devoted to God's P'ortihn fell to him. 'He was the
service andinstead of keeping, His Sals- younger son, and would, according to
Jewish law inherit only one third of
the patriarchal property, and that
only at the death of his father. It
was a eeifish, and unreasonable ,de -
mend, tot justified by the law of
the country or its customs. Be want -
bath use it foir the purpose of writing
your accounts, or making worldly
gains, God will certainly bring you
into judgment for the abuse of that
time. Let a « man attempt to do
that which God forbids him to do or
In our Lord's time and now, vast
populations are packed together, ond
dependent for food on what they
raise, these famines cannot be eVeitl-
ed, This fan -line stands in the Par-
able for the painful hunger of the
soul, tile heart craving for divine
thins,,s. Thai land. The far country,
the region farthest away from the
benign Father. He began to be in
want. The larger a sou.1 is the same
it hungers and thirsts, and if it, doee
not return to the Fount of every
blessiog, who only can appease the
cravings of the homa.n heart, it must
pine and suffer with famine.
15. Joined himself. He glued hiniself.
He stuck against the man's •will. He
was hungry, starving, and did not
care how much of a bore he made
himself to others. All his riotous liv-
ing, which 'doubtless included many
a banquet and many a spree, had been
unavailing to win him a single friend.
The freedom of sin 'had been turned
into slavery. He sent him into his
fields to, feed swine. The most cora
temptible work that the ancients had ia
to do, and especially loathsome to a ,
Jew. Jesus is here pieturing a ma.n
who was as wicked, and wretched as
the publicans and sinners whom them
Pharisees hated, and it would see
by thus associating him with the pigs,
whicb were a detestation to the na-
tion,„ he would emphasize the degrada-
tion to whiah the young man went,
se as in turn to make plain the alaund-
ER, HUSBAND
A Lady Who Cures er Husband 01
g!s Evhfiging Habits Writes
FiCt? Struggle te
Sue Her HOElle.
A PATHETIC LETTER.
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ant welcome of his father.
Y place, solar° Goa ed. this special favor for the worst of
to get ou.t into
tells him not to go—the natural Nvorld PurPoses—criminal indulgence. Ile 10. He svould'iain have filled his bel -
aa' well as God is against him. The divided unto them his living. Which 1Y wita the husks that the swine did
lightnings are ready to strike him; he had no right to do. fie could not eat. He was eager to quiet the pangs
ths fires to burn him; the sun to set aside the responsibaities of life of hunger with the carob pods that
'smite him; the water to drown him;
and the earth to swallow hina., 'those
whose princely robes are woven out
of heart -strings; those whose fine
houses are built out of skulls; those
whose springing fountains are the
tears of oppressed nations—have they of the wayward boy and kept control
of -the docile and obedient one, for he
successfully cheated God? The last
evidently retained his own authority
day will demonstrate." If will be
over the elder son's share.
13. Not many days after. He who
craves indulgence and sees it within
'
His own rgihts, and the rights of His reachcan never have patience. The
sooner he "couad rid hinaseif of Isis
Clvarch, and the rights of His oppress_
father and the synagog,ue and the
ed chil leen. It will be seen in that
Sabbath the better. The younger son
day, that, though we may have robbed
OUr fellows, we neverhave
gathered. all together, and took his
fully robbed God. esuccess-
!journey. 1 This sentence might stand
My Christian friends, as you go out as a emacise biography cd every sal-
.,
until he died, and he could not proper- were even to the p' 3. They are of
ly meet those responsibilities after he the color of choeolate and the shape
had divided his resources between his of beans ; they have a sickening,
sons. Furthermore, he does not seem sweetish taste, but are no good for
in the strictest sense to have done this,food, at least not for human food.
Practically, he merel...a
y -gave up control' No man gave unto him Because no
man cared for him. This was perfect-
ly natural, though, it was very wrong.
Jesus does not utter one word in this
parable, svhich justifies otherwise good
men in holding in contempt their fall-
en brothers and sisters. Every soul
that it was worth while to make it
ES worth our while to save, and you
cannot save a man by scorn. Satan
eares not to alleviate the distress of
LiS victims. Sin is selfish. It is in.
Christian lands, by Christian people,
found out on that day that God vin-
dicated not only His goodness and His
mercy, but His power to take' care of
into the world, exhibit an
fish soul. Into a far country. No
open-
hearted Christian frankness. ba matter how disposed he was to engage
not be hypocritical in .anything; you in' "riotous living," he would be re -
are never safe if you are. On the
restrained so long as he dwelt in Pal-
most.inopportune mosnent the sheep cestine, for ,though Gentiles lived in
will bleat and the oxen bellow. Drive large numbers anaong the Jews,
.out the' last samalekite of sia from especially in Galilee and Perea and
though heathen practices were fami-
your soul.' Have no mercy on Agag.
liar to most of the Jews,:anci though -
Down with yOur sins—down withsyour
the aew,s themselves by their 1re-2
pride—down withyour vvprldliness. I
know you, cannot achieve this war quency of divorce and their bad habits .
"I had fora long time been thinkings
trying tho Tasteless Samaria PrescriPti
treatment on my husband, for his debsag, e
ing habits, but I was afraid he would dis-
cover that I was giving him Mettieir10,
and tho thought unnerved mo. I hesita-
ted for nearly a week., but one day when
Ito came hoMe very 'much intoxicated anti
his week's salary nearly all spent, I threw
oft all fear and determined to make an
effort to save our home from the ruin Isaw
coming, at all hazards. I sent for your
Tasteless Samaria Prescription, and put
it in Ins coffee as directed next merino
and watched and prayed for tho ram
At noon I gave him more and also at sups
per. He never suspected a thing, and I
then boldly kept right on giving it Tegtl-
larly, as I had discovered something that
sot every nerve in my my body tingliog
with hope and happiness, and. I could see
a bright future spread out before me—a
eaceful, happy home, a share in the good.
things of life, an attentive, loving hus-
band, comforts, and everything els.s clear
to a woman's heart; for my husband had
told inc that whiskey was vile stuff and he
was taking a dislike to it. It was only
too true, for before ha a given hins the;
full course he had stopped drinking altoa
gether, but I kept giving him them di.
eine till it waggon°, and then sent foe an
other lot, to have on hand if he shouldrod
lapse, as he had done from promises boa
fore. Ho never has and I sin writing yore;
this letter to tell you how thankful
I honestly believe, it will cure t110
cases." -NFm's
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T REE To Ann.—A. sample packag
of '... asteless Samaria Prescriptiongladly
SENT FREE with full particulars plains!
seale-if crlVelepe. All letters considered
sacredly contiential. ddress The Se -
maria Rensecly Co., 33 Jordan atreeta
Toronto, Canada,
that charities are founded and main-
tained. FREE FROM TAXATION.
17. Came to himself. He had been ,
In Ssveden is a town whose example
laving to Satan; now his better sense
might be followed with advantage by
again tries to rule. The first step to -
any c,ommunity that desired eventual'
ward salvation is to realize the
Id om from, taxation. This is
wretchedness of sin. Hired servants
Orsa, which, 40 years age, covered all
The humblest' ,saint is happier than
available town lamas with plantations
the highest sinner, Enough and .to
of titnben trees. Orsa's Town Cours-1
spare., ,Those 1aok for, nothing, who eil
now Sells timber at the rate of
labor for God. I perish. Even in this
$150,000 a year,and with the,Procaods,
' iY b tat's-
had greatly lowered moral standards, fying recompense; and What of the pays the bills .for all municipal ex-
isby your own a.rm: but Almighty grace
there was, nevertheless, a control- life to come? The first. motive which penoes, including street railway and
suffieient—that which saved Jossph sohoolang. ' n
ling sense of propriety„whica made a prompts the sinner to repentance is
On the seventy-seventh deg ,a.tat
in the pit, that which delivereLa Dan-
iel in the den, that which shielded
Shadeach, aleshach, and Abednego,
that which cheered Paul in the 'ship-
wreck.
ST. PAUL'S NEWLY RODDED.
The Word: Of 3ell..1111.111e itignining nodules,
011 lite 'rent Ldidoia 10,41Ledra1.
A total'rearrangement of the sys-
tem of lightning conductors on St.
Patil's Cathedral as now virtually
complete. It is interesting to 'learn
from Kiilin.gworth Hedges, M.1.E.E.,
the electrician under whose superin-
tendence th,e work has beeu carried
out, that the ond idea that the erec-
Ulan of a lightning rod on the highest
point of a structure protected an
area all round it is quite illusory. Tim
safeguarded area was supposed to be
the space within a circle whose radius
was equal to the height of the light-
ing' rod. This theory, we understand,
is now discredited, and the cathsdral
has been protected by a system of
cooductore, perpendicular and hori-
zontal, comprising over a mile of
cables on which at various prominent,
points are placed about. fifty ."aigset-
tes"—groups of solid copper spikes
radiating upward, and effectua.ly con-
nected at the base with the cables.
The old system ot joint snaking by
"junction pieces," o,r splicing and
soldering, has also been abandoned,
it having 'seen found that if, surfaces
were merely screwed together they
were apt. to. oxidize and set up re-
sistance, and if the,' were soldered the
soldering sooner or later would be
very likely to become loosened and
'‘etached by the natural expansima
and contraction of the metals.
A new method of running to earth
has also, been adopted. The usual
plan is to connect the conductors with
plates of copper embedded deep down
in the moist earth, and these piatee,
to be effective, miast be of consider-
able DiZe. It is often difficult to get.
them down low enough, At St.
Paul's Cathedral they have trio.dL
earth emaneo,tions by means of iron
pipes perforated at the bottom and
drivtin into the ground by specia,
laCkle, thus affotding a passage down
which the conductor is passed' to the
necessary depth, and by xneans ea
which, if necessary, the earth below
may be watered., The svhole work has
been carried out by the cathedral
surveyor's Staff under the pereonai
superintendence of the electrician,
heavy line of demarkation between the sometianes the lowest one, the pees -
Hebrews and other nations. The places _sure of -necessity. Any motive is
to indulge 'unrestrained in pleasing worthy that leads to the abandon -
vice were the centers of the pagan ment o,f sin and the search after God.
religion, and it was to Corinth or to 18. I wall arise and go. It is a
Ephesus, to Rome or to Aleiandria, great, good. deed to form a good re -
that this young man wen( away. "The solution ; it is a greater, better deed
far country" represents estrange- to carry it out. Put all your good
ment from God. Wasted his substance I resolutions into action at once. It
with riotous living. He recklessly ' is better to make a good resolution
scattered his opportunities like one of and break it than not to make a good
the abandoned ones. There iS no such resolution. But why make it and
waster as a sinner who wastes time, break Lie One prompt step out on
opportunity, physical vigor, mental the road to virtue will lead to count -
power, holy character, neighborly in- less others and give you a lasalthiul
fluence. impetus toward goodness. I have sin -
14. When he had spent all. And that .ned against heaven. "Heaven" stands
time came soon. The four scenes fol- for the God of Heaven, the goodness
low each other quickly: 1; Impatienee of our Father who is in heaven. He
with restraint; 2, Opportunity to in- had sinned against Providence
dulge self; 3, Self-indulgence; 4, against every revelation and every
Want. A naighty famine. Famines appearance of good. It is well for
.
him to acknowieclge this first of all.
have been common through all history
Nothing wen becomes the sinner
until the last century or two, and as humble confession. But the words
are now frequent in the East. We may mean, "I have sinned as high as
would have them in our own corm- .heavens" Before the. He had great-
ly his father, and felt that
try were it not for the Modern ienTen.. lY
tions anal methods of trade which
make every part of civilsz,ition de-
pendent on every otlaer part and a
dirainution of pressure on any single
locality; but where, as in the East,
hemust derectly confess the wrong
he had done. ,
19. No more worthy to he called
thy son. One, of . the tokens of true
repentance KS deep conscionsness of
unworthiness. Wel said Mr. Moody,
"Repentance is right -about, face."
The Yourw
Before ThefrTime
When youth shows infirmity, when
old ago creeps in before its time,when
the days that should be the best of
manhood and womanhood are burden-
ed with 'aches, pain and weakness, we
know that the nervous system is wear-
ing out and thnt there is imminent
danges of nervous prostration, para-
lysis, locomotor ataxia or insanity.
flow we admire the old in years—
=owned with silvered heir, yet erect
in stature, faculties retained with vi-
gor necessary to the declining years
—cheerful, bright, grand old age. How
lamentable 1.9 youthful infirmity,
middle-aged enfeeblement, paeting of
the ways too soon, told lay restlessness,
starting up violently during eleep,
merning languor, tired, fagged, worn-
out; trembling limbs, worried brain,
mind winless and depressed. ,
"Whateser the indirect cause, the
condition ig lack of Nerve Force—nerve
wa,stalias hot been repaired. It won't
I repair itself. Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve
'Food furnishes in condensed p111 form
the nerve nutriment which repaire
nerve waste, There rests the secret of
the wonderful cures made by this
great nerve -building medicine.
Mr. A. T. P. Lalame, railway agent
at Clarenceville, Que.. writes: "For
twelve years I have been ron down
with ne,rvous debility. I nsuffered
much, and consulted doctors, and used
medichiee 51 ,vain, Some months ago I
heard of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, used
two boxes, and my health improved SO
rapidly that I ordered twelve more.
"I can say frankly that this treat-
ment has no agile] in the Medical,
world. While using Dr. Chase's Nerve
Food I could .f.eei my system being
built up until now I. am strong and
healthy. I cannot recommend it too
highly for weak, nervous aeoplea*
Dr. Cha -e' s Nerve Food.
_ _
Is prepared in condensed pill, form and on every box is found the por-
trait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase. Insist on having the genuine,
&Jets, a box, at all dealers or Edmanson Bates & Co. Toront,24
latitude, on the icy coast of Greets -
Land, is a tiny town of 231 inhabitants
which enjoys the distinetion of, being.
the most northerly town in the world.
Its inhabitants pay no taxes of any
description, for the simple reason
that in.oney is absolutely unknown.
Towards the extremity of the other
hemisphere is another town, the peo-
ple of which are moneylass, but not
poor. This Ls the Communist colony
of Cosine, in Paraguay. All intend-
ing Coame settlers must alasolutely
accept Communistic principle's antd be
total abstainers. Tthey must, too, de-
posit a sum of money sufficient to
pay th.eir return ticket. En the esslony
all property is common, and money
is not use.d. Wiliam Lane, an Aus-
tralian, was the found.er of Coeme,
hich IS one of the very few Conamun-
iet settlements which have not, prov-
ed absolute failures.
A BOTANICAL EXPERIMENT,
In the botanical garden of Becks
is to be seen a cactus svhich has grown
for seven years in a glass flask
ed by fiasion ; it was presented lay A
Gorman pharMacist, Ludwig Rut. He
explains tae growth of the plaint bY
the fact that the, soil in whin 11
grows contains a cortatri quantity oi
spores of fungi, which gernainaCatiorn
time to. time and cov,eol the 131.m ol
the flask with a greenish layer. Theo; ,
in dying, furnish the carbonic acid ne.
cessary for the life of the cactus.
explanation appeared satisfactore.
first, but it was theo asked faisir
whenee castle the ca,rbonie acid for t114
fungi; again, the ph,einornena ef
trition which take place in the gseesa
paqe, of the plant require' an ;apical
of carbonic mad. 'This seems, in fact.
to be funrialsed by the process of psa,
refaction which takes place in ths Soil
A.110ther' giseation which is RIOT* dia
fieult Lo anssver iS the origin of
water which is neoressa's'Y to maintaig
the life of the plant ; this may hi
cle,rived ftosn the decomPoSitioll
cellulose. Howe,ver, theee
may be answered, the fact re171{,Villi
that the plant lives and develops
a liesone,tically cleaPal medium. Tam en
pe,riment is not dhticult to carry out
and its study man lead to intereetana
in'an explosion of haslavaiseri
It's, a well ltriown feet that tlh
average pig-headed man is a bore,
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