HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-7-11, Page 7T110IJIJLES OF THE MASSES.
and Opportunitie.
A despatch from Washington says:
—Rev. Dr. Talmage preach9d from
the followingateses—"Se the carpen-
ter encouraged the goldsmith, and
he that smootheth with, the hammer,
hi m that smo te the anvil. Iaiah
xli. 7.
You have seen in factories a piece,
of 'mechanism passing from hand to
hand, and from robin to room, and
one mechanic vilt smite it, ancl an-
other will flatten it, and another
Will chisel, anti another will polish
it, until the work be done. And so
the praphet describes the idols of
olden timee as being made, part of
them by one hand, part of them by
another hand. Carpentry comes in,
gold -beating comes in, and three or
fOur styles of mechanism are em-
ployed. '''So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and lie that
siamotheth with the hammer, him
that smote the anvil." When they
met, they talked over their work,
and they helped each other on with
it. It was a very bad kind of busi-
ness; it was making idols which was
an insult to the Lord of heaven. I
have thought if men in bad work Can
encourage CaCil other, ought not men
engaged in holiest artisanship , and
,honest MeChaniSM to speak
:words of good cheer. Men see in
their own work hardships and trials,
,while they recognize no hardships or
,
trials in 'anybody else's occupation.
Every man's burden is -the, hew% iest,
and every woman's, task is thehard-
est. I think I will speak of some of
the trials , of mechanics, and then of-
fer encouragements. •
One great trial that you Will feel
is physical exhaustion. There are
athletes Who go out to their work
at .six or seven o'clock in the .morn-
ing and come back at night as fresh
•as when they started. They turn
their back upon theshuttle or the
forge or the rising wall, and they
Come away elastic ,and whistling.
That is the exception. I have no-
ticed that when the factory bell taps
for six o'clock, the hard-working
man ' wearily puts his arm into his
coat sleeve and starts for home. He
sias down in the family circle re-
solved to make himself agreeable, to
be the means of culture and educa-
tion to his children; but in five min-
utes he is sound asleep. He is fag-
ged out—strength of body, mind, and
soul,, utterly exhausted. He rises in,
the morning only half rested froni
•
the toil. Indeed, he will never have
any perfect rest in this world until
he gets into one narrow spot which
is the only 'perfect rest for the hu-
man body in this world. I think
they call it a grave! 1 -las toil
frosted the color of your cheek? Has
it taken the spontaneity from your
laughter? .Has it sub tracted the
• spring from your step and the lustre
from your eye, until it has lef t only
half the man you were when you
first put your hand On the hammer
and your foot on the wheel? To-
morrow, in your place of toil, lis-
ten, and you will hear a voice above
the hiss of the furnace and the groan
of the foundry and the•dlatter .of the
shu t e—a, voice not - of machinery
nor ,of.the task -master, but the yoke
of an . all -sympathetic God, as he
says: "Come unto me, all ye who
labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give.,you rest."
Remember also, men and women of
Loll. that this work will soon be
over. Have. you not heard that
there is a great holiday coming'?
Oh, that home, and no long walk to
get to it! , Oh, that bread and no
sweating toil necessary to earn it!
Oh, those deep wells of eternal rap-
tireand no heavy bucket to draw
up! I -wish this morning you would
come and put your head on ilds pil-
low stuffed with the down from the
wing of all God's promises. There
remains a rest for all people of God.
,
I wonder how Many tired people
there are in the house teclay? A
thousand? .More than that. Two
thousand people who are tired, tired
out with. the life, tired in hand arid
foot and tack and heart. Ah! there
are more than two thousand ,tired
people here today, supposing ail the
rest to be in luxury and in ease. If
there are any people in this world.
who excite my commiseration, it is
the sewing women of our great cit-
ies. You say, "We have sewing ma-
chines and one trouble is -gone." No,
it is not. I see a great many wo-
men wearing themselves out amid
the hardships of the sewing' machine.
May GO comfort all who toil with
the needle and the sewing machine,
and have compensation on those un-
der the fatigues of life.
Another great trial is privation. of
taste and sentiment. There are me-
chanics who have their beautiful
homes, who have their fine ward-
robes, who have all the best fruits
and meats of the earth brought to
their, table. They have their elegant
libraries. But they are the ,exeep-
tion: A great many Of the working
people of our country are living' iu
cramped abodes, struggling amid
great hardships, living in neighbor-
hoods where they do not want to
live but where they, have to live. I
do , not know of .anything Much more
painful than to have a taste for
painting and sculptore , and /angle y
and glorious sunsets and the expanse
of the blue sky, and yetanot be able
to get the dollar for the oratorio,
or to get a picture, or to buy ode's
• way into the country to look at the
setting sun and at the bright heav-
ens. :While there are men in great
• afflueece who have around them all,
kinds of luxuries in art, themselves
unable to appreciate efiesesaegoeles,
bilging their books by the scluare
• „ ,
their pictures sent to them by
some artist who is glad to get the
miserable daub out 01 MS Studio—
Laving no appreciation of fine art
Yet the' capacity to, get art and to
,
get music,„ and get .everything that .
could charm the soul, there are mul-
titmice of refined, delicate women
who are bora artists and will reign
in the kingdom of heaven as artists,
who • are denied every picture and
every sweet song and every musical
instrument. Oh, let me cheer suck
persons by telling them to look up
and behold the inheritance that God
has reserved for them. The king of
Babylon had a hangieg garden that
was famous in all the ages, but you
have a hanging garden better than
that. All the heavens are yours.
They belong to your Father, and
what belongs to your Father belongs
to you.
But I have no time longer to dwell
upon the hardships and the trials of
those who toil with hand and foot.
1: cannot even dwell upon the fact
that so often the reward is dispro-
portioned to the amount of work, or
that you are eubject necessarily to
the whims of others. I will not
mention these things for I must go
on to offer you some grand and glor-
ious encouragements, and the first
eacouragement is that one of the
greatest safeguards againet evil is
plenty to do. When inen sin against
the law of 'their country, where do
the police detectivesego to find them'?
Not amid the dust of factories, not
among 'those who 'lave' on hen
"ovei ails," but among those who
stand with their hands in their .poc-
hots. around the doors of saloons and
restaurants and taverns. Active
employment is one of the greatest
sureties for a pure and upright life.
There are but very few men with
characters stalwart enough to en-
dure consecutive idleness. Be en-
couraged by Me, fact that your
shops, your rising walls, your an-
vils are fortresses in which you may
hide and from which you may fight
against the temptations of your life.
Morning, noon and night, Sundays,
week days, thank God for plenty to
Another enconeagethent is the fact
that their families are going to have
the Very best opportunity for .devel-
opment .and usefulness.. .That may
sound Strange to you, hut the chil-
dren of fortune are very apt to turn
out poorly. In Line cases out of ten
the. lad : finds out, if a fortune. is
coming, by twelve, Years of age — he
finds out there is no necessity of
toil, and he makes no ,struggle, and
a:life' Without struggle goes intO..die:-
eipation or into stupidity. There
are thousands and, tens of thousands
ofe men in one great Cities who- are
toiling on, denying themselves .all
luxuries year after year, tolling' and
grasping and grasping. What foe?
Toget enough 'money to spoil their.
children. The father was fay. years
getting the property together. How
long will it take the boys to get rid.
of it, not having been broUght up in
prudent habits'? Less than five
years to, undo all the Week .of 'fifty.
You 'see the sons of Wealthy parents
going out into the world; insane,
nerveless, dypeptic, or they are in-
corrigible and reckless; while the San
of. the porter that kept the gate,
learns his trade; gets a robust phy-
sical constitution,achieves high
moral etilture,•. and stands in the
front rank of church and state. They
neVerehad. any luxuries until after
.awhile God gave them affluence and
usefillness .and renown as a reward
for their persistence.' Remember,
then,' s that - though you may. have
poor surroundings and small means
for the educationof your .children,
they are actually starting under bet-
ter advantages than though you had
a fOrtuke to give them. 'Hardship
and privation are not a damage t�
them but an advantage. ' And the
son of every :man of toil ;may rise to
heights of intellectual and moral
power, if he will only tenet Gd
God an
keep busy.
Again offer as encouragement,
that you have so many opportunities
of gaining information. There are
people who toil irom seven o'clock
in the morning until six o'clock at
night, who know more about ana-
tomy than the old physiologists, and
who know more about astronomy
than the old philosophers. 'Oh, • re-
joice that you have opportunities of
information spread out "before you,
and that seated in your chair at
home, by the evening lamp, you can
look over all nations and see the de-
scending morn of a universal day.
One more encouragement: your
toils in this world are only intended
to be a discipline by which you shall
be prepared for heaven. "Behold, I
bring you glad tidings of great joy,"
and tell you that Christ the carpen-
ter of Nazareth, is the working -man's
Christ. You get his love once in
your heart, 0 working -man, and you
can sing .on, the wall in the midst of
the storm, and in the shop amidst
the shoving of the plane, and dawn
in -the mine emid the plunge, of the
crow -bar, and on ship board while
climbing the ratlines, lf you belong
to the 'Lord Jesus Christ, he will
count the drops of sweat on your
brow. He knows every 'ache and
every pain you have suffered in your
worldly ' occupations. Are you
weary, he well give you rest, Are
you sick, he will give you health.
Are you cold, he will wrap around
you the warm mantle of his eternal
ove. And beside that, ray friends,
ou must remember that all this is
only preparatory. I see a great
multitude before the throne of God.
And the angels cry out, "Who are
these so near the throne?" and the
answer came back: 'ales.° are they
which came out of the great tribula-
tion and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the
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WORTHY.
• And did you find the Chinese a
brave natiOn? we asked of the re-
turned soldier.
Indeed, he replied, casting a side-
long glance at the wagonful of loot
which wtte being unloaded, theywere
eeemen `worthy of our steal,
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CHINESE AS oKE s.
A Writer Tells of Their Ideas or
EonestY and Practical Jokes.
A writer in the London Sketch.,
who speaks of having spent several
years in China, writes of Chinese
servantand their ideas of honest),
and practical jokes.
"The most ominous sign preceding
the present outbeeak," says the wri-
ter, "was that the 'boys' in Tien
Tsin left their masters, as they are
also doing now in the south of
China, A Chinese 'boy' is a faith-
ful servant, and, when he leaves his
master for no cause there is sure to
be mischief abroad, generally with a
secret society at the bottom of it.
If a master in China trusts his 'boy'
implicitly, the servant generally re-
sponds by being absolutely honest ;
but if the master thinks he can take
care of his own valuables lie finds
that he is mistaken. I had at Hong
Kong a first-class 'boy ' whom gen-
erations of subalterns had nicknamed
'Scamp,' the only name I ever knew
him by. 'Scamp,' if trusted with
money, would always account for it
to the utmost farthing, One day—
it was just before the Chinese New
Year, 'the only time at which the
Chinaman make holiday and spend
their savings-aI brought home some
bank notes and put them in a draw-
er. ' The next afternoon I looked in
the drawer for 'the notes. bat they
had vanished. I called 'Scamp,'
who appeared with an absolutely 'im-
passive face. He knew nothing
about .the notes, and instea,d of al-
lowing Ine to lecture him, read inc 0.
lesson. ',Master' he said., ,`go this
side, go that side.; he'no,SaVVy what
he do with his money. More better,
next time, give Scamp take care of.'
I took his advice and never lost
ANY MORE MONEY.
"The Chinese 'boys' are not at all
averse to having a joke among them-
selves at their master's expense. Sit-
ting at dinner one day in the Hong
Kong Club, I noticed a gentleman
who had come down from some nor-
thern port become excited. had
been brought a letter by a solemn -
faced Chinese butler, and he saw
something on the outside of this let-
ter :which sent him downstairs two
steps at a time to interview the hall
porter. When he came back he told
US what was the matter. The hall
porter had inscribed on the envelope
in Chinese, for the information of
the butler, 'This is for the old ba-
boon with white fur.' Unfortunate-
ly for the hall porter, the little gen-
tleman was a first-class scholar in
the Chinese language. He discovered
later a fine joke which the chief sign
painter of the island had played on
the European residents. All the of-
ficials and the professional men had
their names in English and in Chin-
ese, inscribed on a board at the gates
of their houses. The sign painter
had used his ingenuity to make the
Chinese letters which represented the
sound of the Elig,lish name mean
something insulting. Thus, a dimin-
utive doctor's name was twisted to
mean to a Chinaman 'Shrimp near,
the ground,' and so on. The finest
joke of this kind was the historical
.one played on Lord Elgin, who, when
he sailed up the Pei -Ho to Pekin as
a conqueror, was given sails, with
on them, so the Mandarins said, an
honorific inscription. What- the in-
scription really meant, was, 'A bar-
barian bearing tribute.' "
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SAGE ADVICE OF A FATHER.
Counsel That All Young Men
Should Heed.
"My son," said the fond but wise
parent, "you are leaving me to go
out into the woied. I have, Roth:rig
to give You but advice. Never tell
a lie. If you wish to put one in cir-
culation, get it published. A lie
cannot live, but it takes one a
blamed long time to fade out of
"Always read your contract. A
man might consider he was getting
a sinecure if he were offered a posi-
tion picking blossoms off a century
plant, but, you see, he wouldn't have
a remunerative occupationif he were
paid on piece work.
"Be not overcritical. Even the
most ordinary ,sort of a genius ca,n
tell when the other fellow is making
a fool of hiniself.
"Remember that theyoung' man
like the angler's worm, is rather bet-
ter for being visibly alive.
"Be careful in the choice of your
surroundings. Environment will do
a great deal for a man. For ex-
ample, flour and water in a china
jug is cream sauce; in a pail on the
sidewalk it is billsticker's paste.
"Don't forget that there's a time
for everything and that everything
should be done in its proper time.
Never hunt for bargains in umbrella.s
on a rainy day '
• •
"You may make enemies. If you
know who they are, don't mention
them. Silence- is golden; it saves
the money that might otherwise be
spent in defending a libel suit. If
you don't knOw who they are—well,
abuse lavished on k concealed enemy
is like charity indiscriminately be-
stowed. It's a good thing wasted."
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MARRIAGE LAWS.
Blessed is the bride on whom' the
sun shines. •
Never read the marriage service en-
tirely over.
A bride should use no pins in her
wedding clothes.
There is an old superstition
against May marriages.
Decembe • 31 is a favorite wedding
day in Scotland.
A bride must wear nothing green—
that color is enablematic of evil.
To change the name and not the
letter is change for worse and not,
for better.
in Yorkshire the cook used to pour
hot water over the doorstep after
the couple had gone to keep the
threshold warm for another bride.
Of ,a hundred Irish people • 24 are
marele,d, 59 unmarried, and 7 wid-
dewed,
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LESSON II, THIRD QUARTEFl, IN TER -
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 14.
Text of the ',canon, Gen, 1'1, 1-15.
MeleerY Terrsello, 14, 15--Ge1dea Text,
Rom. v, 2P—Gommentary Prepared
by tile Rev. D. 51, Stetarnis.
1-5. This is our introduction to the
great enemy of Goa and "eau, that old
serpent, the devil and satau (Iter. xii, 9;
xx, 2), the prince of this ,world, the
prince of the power of the air the spirit
that now worketh in the children of dis-
obedience (Jana xiv, 80; ELM. ii, 2). Ile
vouhl COMe betiveen God and man, he
would break up their fellowship and tob
luau of his inheritance, and to do this he
comes in the guiee 'of a friend, tieing the
wieest and perhaps the fairest of all the
beasts of the field as his medium, for it
issevident from verse 14 that it was
something new, and the reseit or the,
curse, for the serpent to go 11500 his belle'
"and eat dust. From this chapter to Rev.
xx Re see the devil in conflict with God
end man, yet tolerated by God until the
time shall come to put him in the pit
later in the place prepared for hinh
lake of lira We are taught to resist
tlinnto give .higi no place, to stand
against him (I l'et. V, 8, 9; Eph. Iv, 27;
vi, 11), but we eanoot, well do this if we
aro ignorant of his devices. Therefore
we are here and elseevliere made Ac-
quainted with him and his ways that we
May recognize him and 'resist him and
overcome him withthe shield of faith
and the sword of the Spirit even as oer
Lord Himself did in the wildei•ness. In
hiS first recolded utterance, "Yea, bath
• God said?" we see that he questions the
word of God, and when any one from
that day to this questions the word of
God he is for the time being .in the
service of the devil. Ile questions `the
lore of God, suggesting to the 'woman
Cat if God loved them Fle,would not
keep from them even the fruit of one
tree.
6-8. In the company of and listening to
the adversary the woman quickly be -
tomes deceived and blinded and led
astray. She adds to the word bf God
verse 3) and actually seems to think that
her evil counselor is right and God is
wrong, and she desires the fruit which
now seems to her so pleasant, and she
took it and ate it -and gave it also to her
husband, and he ate it. Thus by one
man sin entered iuto the world, and
death by sin and by the disobedience of
inc many were made sinners (Rom.
v, 12, 19). Their fellowship with God
was broken, they were afraid of I-Ihn and
sought to hide from Him, they lost their
glorious garments of light and made for
themselves as a substitute aprons of fig
• leaves. As to their being clothed with
light, they were made in the image of
God, and Ps. civ, 2, says that God covers
I-Iiniself with light as with a garment.
This does not conflict with Gen. ii, 25,
for as to putting on clothes they were
naked. IIow seemingly small, but how
great and farreaching, their sin, affect-
ing all mankind, for "in Adana all die"
(I Cor. xv, 22).
9. "And the Lord God called unto Ad-
am and said unto him, Where art thou?"
The first recorded question of God in
,Scripture .shows Him to us seeking the
lost that 'Ile may forgive and restore
them. It was evidently His custom to
walls- and talk familiarly with Adam and
Eve in Eden, but a change -came over
Irian because of sin, and we hve the sad
and sorrowful sight or the creature seek-
ing to hide froin his loving , Creator.
Dlau's sin only makes more manifest the,
love and.doveliness of God, and we see
Him who afterward came to earth as
God manifest in the flesh to seek and
save the lost (for every manifestation of
God is .through His Sou, John i, 18), lov-
ingly seeking His erring ones. He is still
doing this, and His question to each one
still is, Where art thou? Happy are
those who can gratefully reply, In Christ,
redeemed by His precious blood.
10-19. The man, the woman and the
serpent each are brought before Him,
and He pronounces judgment upon the
serpent, the woman and the man, but in
I-Iis word to the serpent He tells of a
coining deliverer. In this verse (15) we
have the new birth (enmity with -the dev-
il), the conflict between the unrighteous
and the -righteous (thy seed and her seed),
the humanity Of the Saviour (the seed of
the womap). His snfferings (thou shalt
bruise. His heel), His divinity and glo-
rious victorY (He shall ,bruise thy head)
—at least a ..fivefold abundant- statement
of the great redemption. In the sentence
mon Adam the earth is included, and
horns and thistles grow as a result of
he curse. Thus the creation was made
ubject to vanity not Willingly; it had
o voice nor choice in the matter, and it
hall yet be deliVered and reticle to r&
°ice in the liberty of the glory of the
hildren ,of God (Rom. viii, 20, 21), for
ur Lord ,wore a crown of thorns, and
he curse shall in due time be removed
rein the earth (Rev. xxii, 3). As a re -
tilt of the work nf Christ the whole
arth shall yet be filled with righteous-
ess and peace and the glory of the Lord
Num. xi,v, 21; Isa. xi, 9; Hale ii, 14; Isa.
xxii, 1. 17). If we would see and share
his glory, we must be able to say from
he heart at least the first four clauses of
sa. bee 10, and We cannot do this unless
-e see the significance or verse 21 of this
len. iii and ,profit by it. See then the
,ord God with His own hand, by the
hedding of the blood of the sacrifice,
roviding redemption clothing for Adam
nd Eve typical Of the garments of, sal -
111100 aid& He has provided for us loy
lis great saceifice, taking our place and
ying in our steed. Adam and Eve with
heir fig leaf aprons, represent all sin -
in their sins, having nothing but
teir own -morality, if any, or fancied
ghteousness, which if they cling t� are
lcc those In Rom. x, 3. The Lord God
irnself without any help from mortals
rovides the righteousness He demands
tul offers It treelY to all who are willing
drop their fig leaf aprons (Rom. 111,
4; viii, 1; x, 4). Eden was preserved
!ter mah was driven from it, and we
aye every reason to believe that it con -
'toed till, ,tbn, delege. The flaming
Viord points on to Zech xiii 7, and to
Golgotha, where the sword was satisfied
and the way opened to enter Paradise.
The cherulLn tell of the future glory of
he redeem -6E when the Whole earth shall
be an Eden. 8ce their song in Rev.. v,
10. Since Adam was driven from Eden
no one has been born fri Eden, and the
only way into It is by Hitn ngainst whoni
Ito sword aWoke. In chapter iv we have
the two teligions set forth in Cain and,
Abel—titan's way of self riglateousneed
snd brittging what he calls his best and
God'S Way of putting itIvay eini,by
floe, which latter way Abel aecepted
(Hob. 4.22;
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Ontario's Mining
Exhibit at 'Lim
Pan.American.
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UNITED STATES EXHIBIT.,
The various Departments of ' thel
United. States G overnmeat rank in
the Order Of their CreatiOM
State, Treasury, War, Justice, Post
Office, Navy, Interior and Agrieul-
ture. The workings of the DeParte
ments are shown, hi the space allot,
ted to them ,in the united States,
Building afany object'of histori-
cal and scientific value are dieplayede
which cannot to interest and in-,
struct. Among the many InStorical
and instructive articles in the State
Department exhibit are: 'ffie origin-'
al draft of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence written by Thomas Jeffer-
son, witla interlineations inthe
handweiting of John Adam e and
Benjamin Franklin, including the old
fashioned desk on Which Jefferson
wrote it. Then there is a small
bronze equestrian statue of George
Washington by iiarOn Marchette from
the original study and model of ,his
Master, M. }louden. This was sent
to America from Paris when Theamis
Jefferson was Minister to France, by
Houdon, with the expectationof re-
ceiving- an order from Congress to
have it cast in bronze. This was, ,
however, destroyed when. the Capitol
was burned, and this' statuette is the
only survival. It was presented to
the United States by -the Right Hon-
orable George Young of Edinburgh?,
Scotland. Many relics of ' Washing-
ton are exhibited, including a qua,inti
pair of eye -glasses given by him toi
Lafayette, all of Washington's let -e
• tors to Congress, the sword which/
Washington wore during the war of
the Revolution and other s,ouvering
of the Father of his country. Maxi*
handsome swords were presented to',
the First President, but it was this
plain old blade which Washington:
unsheathed when he took command
of the Army, and with which he'
fought throughout the long, and un -
(
(Special by Mertha Craigs)
It is now generally acknowledged
that the Ontario mineral exhibit is
the finest of that class at the Pan-
Amerlcan. Peemier Ross, Hon.. E.
J. l)avis, Commissionee of Crown
Lands, arid F. W. Gibson, or Toron-
to, Director of the Bureau el Mines
of Ontario, decided to show the eco-
nomic area and minerals of Ontario
on a scale that would convince vis-
itors of the real importance and
abundance of these resonrces of the
Province. All the ores have been
taken from working mines and repre-
sent the ordinary run of ore from
those mines. Mr. Frank N. Speller,
13. A., Sec,, of Toronto, was ap-
p oi a ted superi nten el en t 111 charge of
the, collection and installation of
this notable exhibit. Mr. Speller is
the right man in the right place; he
understands his work thoroughly
and deserves to be congratulatecl on
the results attained. The exhibits
are well displayed and artistically,
grouped.
Occupying a prominent place is a
large map of Ontario, 18x30 feet.
It is geologically colored and was
prepared by the Bureau of Mines
arid executed by Elliott & Sons, of
Toronto. The map shows the Mee.-
fion„ qf the Principal, 'mineral depos-
its Ofth'e Province and has been Pro-
nounced by artists the finest piece of
artistic decorative work in the build-
ing. A second map of Ontario, 10 x
15, shows in particular the mineral
and forest resources about the re-
gion of Sault Ste. Marie. The lines
of communication are shown by col-
ored incandescent lights. The map
was prepared by order •of F. H.
Clergue, General Manager of the
Lake Superior Power Company, of
Sault Ste. Marie.
The nickel -copper exhibit shows the
ore froth the Sudbury region. Every
working mine is represented here.
The weight ranges from 1,000 to
10,000 pounds per specimen. The
entire pile contains about 17 tons of
ore, Every stoge of the operation
of the reduction of nickel and copper
from the ore is illustrated by sam-
ples. The final operation of the re-
duction process is shown from sam-
ples from the Oxford Copper Co., of
N. Y., thus illustrating completely
the manner in whicli the nickel and
copper are extracted from the ore.
The Nicicel-Cpper Co., of Ontario,
have attractive exhibits showing the
new French process in detail. The
average visitor appreciates the de-
tails by the lucid manner in which it
is illustrated. Copper ores of the
north shore of Lake Semerior are
shown on a similar scale, every mine
being represented. The pieces
weigh from 1,-000 to 8,000 'pounds,
the pile weighing 18 tons in all. It
isevidentthat modern machinery
must be used in these Mines to.
raise and transport such groat mac-
ses. The Lake Superior Power
Company ,have collective exhibits of
iron ore from Alichipicoten. Copper
and nickel ore are also shown, be-
sides building and ornamental stone
and pig iron; also a large assort-
ment of enlarged photographs show-
ing the work and mills of this com-
pany. Ferre nickel made by the new
electrolytic, process is shown in the
form of bars, and is attracting the
attention of steel men who know the
value of nickel -steel.
As a central point in the display
stands the most remarkable feature
of the Mines building in the form of
COLUMN OF SOLID GBAPHITE
from the Black Donald Mine, Ren-
frew County. It is made up of
three large blocks, the loWer one be-
ing 5x5x44 feet in size. A base
three feet high of lialiestone of ex-
cellent quality froth Queenston quar-
ry, St. Davide, Ont., was Provided
by that company. On this pedes-
tal is placed a statue of
Canada, executed . by J. W.
Banks, of Toronto. Its dignity of
pose and excellent treatment have
created universal admiration among
exhibition sculptors and artists. The
C anadi an Corundum Company have
the largest display of this mater-
ial ever made and have also a com-
plete line of abrasive material ma.de
from Canadian corundum. Tlib. fine
exhibit of the Crown rOorundurn
company and Imp or i al corundum
company deraonstrates the increased
importance of this industry to Can-
ada.
The other and more prominent of
the divisions represented are the
gold, silver and iron ores, building
and ornamental stones and mica.
The ese to which this latter mater-
ial is put in covering steam pipes
and boilers is well shown on a prac-
tical scale by the Mica DoilerCover-
ing Company of Montreal. The con-
tract for covering the boilers of His
Majesty's ship Blake, one of the
most modern battleships under con-
struction, was awarded to this firm.
There is a great field for mica in
this and for electrical .purposes.
Talc, gypsum, salt, mineral water
and peat are also in evidence. The
Milton Pressed Brick & Terra Cotta
Company are represented by an arch,
which is an excellent sample of the
progress made in artistic decorative
Terra Gotta work.
The excellent record made by the
Province in the Mines building at
Chicago is well remembered and the
progtees ina,de in mining in. Ontario
sinee that date Is evident by the
greater variety and importance of
the Pan-American display, It is the
beet yet prepared by the Ontario
Government. 'Those interested in
Ontario mineral resources can ob-
tain copies of the 'latest reports of
the Bureau of Mines, the descriptive
catalogue of the exhibit, and any
further information by applying to
the superintendent, Mr, P. W, Spel-
ler, at his office in the Mines build-
ing.
equal struggle., The papers of Benet',
jainin Franklin, James Madisene,
James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton
and many others are also exhihitechi '
A curious Specimen of a state 'pal
per from the Emperor of China ta,
the President of the United Statet
derives special interest from the pre-;
sent status Of affairs in that coun-
try. This letter, which nobody can
read, was brought over by Li Hung:
Chang wrapped up in alecut two
yards of yellow silk most elaborately,
embroidered. • This ''envelope"
also exhibited.
A number of historic swords aro
displayed, but after that of Washing-
ton probably comes the sword of. -
General Andrew Jackson. The splen-
didly jewelled swords and presents re-
ceived by General Grant cannot fail:
to command tediniration. Another(
superb article exhibited is
presented by the -Sultan of Turkey,i
to the United Staes'in commemora-1
tion of the 400th anniversary of theo
discovery of America.. This medall
rests in a wreath of golden leaves
that glitter with diamonds. There'
is a fine display of other medals sent'
to this country by foreign potenta-
tes, some of them being very artistic
and costly. Another object of in-
terest as a large silken ilag woven
in one piece, and given to the Unit-
ed States by 25.000 WeaVel'S Of
Lyons, France,' as an 'expression of
their sympathy when :President Lin-
coln was murdered. There is a fine
collection of foreign coins exhibited.
The walls of the section are orna-
neented with portraits of the Secre-
taries of State and photographs of
the buildings occtmied by the Depart-
ment of State with some of the hand-
somest interiors. Portraits of all
the Presidents are also displayed.,
'rhere is a collection of maps show-
ing the .extent of the territory of
the United States ,from 1789 to
1901, including the dates 1803,:
1821, 1845, 1848, 1853, and 1867a1
at which dates new possessions Were.
added.
A large collection of letters 'from,
the heads of foreign governments to,
the United States are exhibitedd
Among the ,most interesting of these
are:. One from Louis XVI King of.
France ancl aTIOLher from representa-
tives of the French people, including,
Bohespierre, conveying the informa-
tion of the formation of the French!
:Republic. ,
There are letters from Napoleon
Bonaparte, from Queen Victoria,,
from the Czar of Russia. the King all
Denmark, the Queen of Portugal, the,
King- of Greece, the Kingt'of Bel-
gium, the King of Sweden, poth. the
Ehnperors William, and many othersl
including One from a large conectiont
from the Empeeor and Empress of
Brazil and the leading dignitaries,
and statesmen of our South and',
Central American Republics and;
Mexico, There are peculiar speci-',
mens of chirography from the Shah
of Pctsia, the King, of Siam, the
Sultan, of Zanzibar, the Queen of
Mticlegescar, the King and Queen of
Hawaii, etc., etc. A fac-simile of
the veceet'treaty with Spain is ex-
hibited and is of special interest to,
the Spanish -A mericans.
.The workings of the Diplomatic
and Consular Bureaus, both of vast
importance are fully illustrated
by official docannents, letters audi
photographs.
Mr, William FL Michael. Chiex,
Clerk of the Department Of States'
who is arranging the exhibit, has
finished the compilation of a brief
history of the Departmeat, from the,
administration of George Washing-
ton to that of Wiliam McKinley,;'
which will be distributed gratis to
all who cle,sire the pamphlet. To add'
to its attractiveness, portraits 01
all the Secretes/434; of State, beg'in.
ning with Thomas ,Teffersoe, to the
book,rresh
present incumbent, illustrate t
e
From brief inventory of this, on
of the smallest of the United' States,
departmental displayS, an idea of th(
educational value of the Government
exhibit can be formed.
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