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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-10-17, Page 7NOTES AND COMAtENTS. corporations are popularly sup- posed to be greedy monsters, devour- ing the substance of the people. Of- ten, however, private enterprise 'im- proves the condition of the /flosses by undertaking some work to which the nation, thinking it a risky specu- lation or of doubtful policy, is un- willing to commit itself. The Can- adian Pacific Railroad, for instance, has been a tremendously active agent in the making of Cauada. It has served a good purpose ,in ex- ploiting the Pacific slope with its wealth of gold, fish and timber, the fertile wheat -fields of Manitoba and the ranches of the . intermediate prairies. And now, having aided in the devalopment of our national in- dustries, 'the C. P. R. stands, as a military highway, for a Perpetual in- eurance that Canada shall always be painted rset on the map of the world. To make the desert, bloSsom as a rose is a task which the C. P. R. has under consideration at 'peesent. ,An authority on irrigation has been in- specting the barren lands immediate= ly north of the railway line between Calgary*, and Medicine Hat and he re- ports there is nothing twpretent the successful irrigation.of three million barren acres. It is understood that as an experiment three hundred thou- sand acres only will be irrigated at first. In this district every alternate section belongs to the cOmPany, so, of course, it is acting in its own in- terests in making the land feetile and valuable. At the same time it is hardly probable that it intends to keep this land forever to its own use and the settler,who buys it froth the company will have to thank the C. P. R. for combined fertility and ship- ping facilities. Benefit will accrue to the country at large from the in- crease of its food -producing area. • Besides aiding our interior develop- ment this energetic company is en- deavoring to assist the expansion of Canada's trade. Its directors are • considering the feasibility of estab- lishing a _line of steamers between Vancouver and Vladivostock. They have endeavored to ascertain the trade requirements of Russia, to dis- cover what field there was open to 'Canadian commerce, and if it was sufflciently promising to establish the steMners, and thereby encourage and develop Canada's commerce with Russia. Vlailivostocle is the coming port on the Pacific. Russian enter- prise is developing it with strenuous efforts, and a line of Canadian steam- ers to ehat place would connect with the immense districts of Russia in Asia, with their millions of people, the possibilities of which are enor- mous. Those who advocate extending our commercial relations with Russia make a strong point of the heavy duties levied against all United Stat- es commodities, excepting. /mining machinery and agricultural imple- ments, thus leaving open an immense field for Canadian enterprise. It is now. a question whether our people would take _ advantage of this state of affairs,and endeavor to produce articles required in Russia. Surely, with native Canadian ''get up an' git" if we once managed to obtain a commercial foothold in Asia we would not rest content till even the conservative Chinaman was eating his rice with maple chop- sticks. , WILLING TO 'OBLIGE. An Engleshatan at a dinner once .told a tale of a tiger he lia,d shot which measured twenty-four feet , from snout to tail -tip. - Everyone was astonished, but no one ventured to insinuate a doubt of the truth of the story. PresentlyScotchman told his tale. Be had once, caught a fish which he ,said he was unable to pull in alone, managing •only to land it :at last with the aid of six feiends. It was a ' skate, and cobered two acres. Silence followed this recital, dur- ing which the offended Englishman left the table. The host followed. After returning, he said to the Scotchman: Sir, you have insulted my friend. You muse apologize. T dinna insoolt him, said the Scot. Yee, you did, with your two -acre fish story. You must apologize. 'Well, said the offender, slowly, with the air of one making a, great concession, tell linn if he will take to feet off that tiger 1 will see what I can do with the fish. LEFT 131.7IIIND HIM. Pat Arurphy had bCC11 Out of work for some Gine, and was a few Weeks in arrears with his payments to his landlady. Finding no other empl 07-• mem, Pat determined to enlist, con- ,. ElINAL seo did not invite you dOWn into collar,but up on a throne; net in- to the graveyard, te which all ma- terialism is destined, but into a gar- deht all a -bloom with everlasting re- al nfoxribraace. The frown of my first text has become the kiss of the sec- ond text. Annihilation has become coronation. The wringing hands of a great agony have become the clop- ping hands of aegreat joy. The re- quiem with which WO began has be- come the graod march with which W e close. The tear of sadness that rolled down our cheek has struck the lips on which sits the laughter • of eternal triumph. Heavenly Satisfaction in Every Good Thing You Did on Earth. A despatch feom Washington says : Re. Dr. Talmage preached from the following texts, Job xxiv, 20, "He shall be no more remembered," and Psalms cxii, 6, "The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance." Of oblivion' and its defeats i speak to -day. There is an old monster that swallows down"everything, ITt crunches • individuals, families, coin - In unities, states, nations, continents, hemispheres, worlds. • Its diet is made up of years, of centuries, of ages, of cycles, of millenniums, of eons. 'Pilot monster is called by Noah. Webster and all the other dictionaries '`Oblivion.'' It is a steep down whieh everything rolls. lt is a conflagration in which every- thing. is consmned. It is a dirge which tell orchestras play and a period at which everything stops. It. is this cemetery of the human race. It is the donmin of forgetfulness. Oblivion s! At times it throws a shadow over all of us, and wouitt. not pronounce it to -day if I did not come armed in the strength of the eterrial God on your behalf to at- tack it. to 'rout it, to demolish it. ',in some old family record a de- scendant studying up the ancestral line may spell our name and from the faded ink with great effort find that some person by our -name was born somewhere, in the nineteenth century, but they will know no more about us -than we know about the color • of n. child's eyes born last night in a village in rata - born last night in a village in Pata- gonia. Tell me something' about your great-grandfather. What did he do 71 What, year was he born ? What year did he die ? And „your grdnt-grand- mother ? Will you describe the style of the hat she wore, and how did she and your gpeat-grandfather get on in each other's companionship ? Was it March weather or June ? Oblivion ! That mountain surge ROLLS OVER EVERYTHING. Even the pyramids are dying. Not a day passes but there is chiseled oil a piece of that grahite. Why, there is only a crust between us and the furnaces inside ragnig to presence Of those whose breath is in their nostrils, what are unread bio- graphies in the alcoves of a city library, compared with the IMPERISHABLE RECORDS you have made in the illumined mem- ories of. those to whona you did such kindnesses ? Forget them '? They, cannot forget them. Notwithstan - \ d ,ing all their might and, splendor, there are Some things the peorified of heaven eannot do, and this is one of them. They cannot forget an earthly Icinciness done. The kind- nesses you do to others will stand as long in the appreciatfon of others as the gates of heaven will stand, as the "house of many mansions" will stand; as long as the throne of God will stand. • Another defeat of oblivion will be found in the character 'of those whom we rescue, uplift, or save. Character is eternal. "Suppose by a right -influence we aid in transform- ing a bad man into a good man, a dolorous man into a .happy Man, a disheartened naafi into a courageous man, every stroke of that work done will be immortalized. There may never be so much as one line in a newspaper regarding it or no ,mor- tal tongue may ever 'whisper it into human ear, but wherever that soul shall go your work on it will go, wherever that soul rises your work on it will rise, and so long as that soul will last your ,work on it will last. Do you suppose there will ever come such an idiotic lapse in the history of that soul in heaven that it shall forget, that you invited him to Christ, that you, by prayer or goSpel word, turn- ed him round from the wrong way to the right way ? No such insanity will ever smite a heavenly citizen. It is not half as well on earth known that Christopher Wren plan- ned and built St. Paul's as it will be known in all heaven that you were the instrumentality of building A TEMPLE FOR THE' SKY. We teach a Sabbath class or put a Christian tract in the hand of a passel -by, or testify for Christ in a get out. Oblivion ! The wmaOscl it;iprayer meeting. or preach a sermon self will roll into it as easily I and go home -discouraged as though school -boy's India rubber ball rolls down a hill, and when our world nothing had been accomplished, when goes it is so interlocked by the , law of gra,vitation ' with other Worlds that they will go too, and so far frothehaving our memory perpetuat- ed by tlie monument of Aberdeen granite in this world there is no world in sight of our strongest tele, scope that will be a sure pediment for any slab of commemoraLion of the fact that we ever lived or died at all. Our earth is struck with death. The axletree of the constel- latfans will break and let down the populations of other worlds. Stel- e face of a loved one before lar, lunar, solar, mortality. Obliv- after ' marriage. This custom of ion e It' can swallow and will eaval- t0artooing is almost as old as the s ./ world, It is some colored liquid punctured into the flesh so indelibly that nothing can wash it out. It may have been there fifty years but when the man goes tato his coffin that picture will go with him on hand or arm. Now, God says that He has tatooed us upon his hands. There can be no other meaning of Isaiah, where God says, "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands !" It was as much as to say : "I cannot open My hand to help, but I think of you. I cannot spread abroad My hancls to bless, we a been character building with a material that ne frost or earth- quake or rolling of the centuries can damage or bring down. There is 'a.notheg and a more com- plete defeat for oblivion, and that is in the heart of God himself. You ha-ve seen a sailor roll up his sleeve and show you his arm tatooed with the figure of a fortress where he was garrisoned, or the face of a dead geoeral under whom he fought. You have seen many a hand tatooed low whole galaxies of words as easily as a crocodile takes dewn Yet oblivion does not remove or awallow everything that had boiler not be removed oe swallowed. The old monster is welcome to his meet This world would long ago have been overcrowded if not for this merciful removal of nations and ge)lurat 11%04. What if all the books had lived that ware ever written and printed and published ? '.The libraries would by their immensity have obstructca in- telligence and made all reseaech im- possible. The fatal epidemic of BUTsI THINK OF YOU. books was a merciful epidemic. navies to -day are only morgues, Many of the state end national Hist; vWeliiiesr,evieit.aIkegouulepseaitiNdvadopwientutlheeslteoa-f some one to come and recognize into which does]. books are waiting for you Wilktfiy1 Mbee.ingThetyhtaltreIsocailliinwortoulgoshet them. What if al) the people that ,thein. As long as My hands last the had been born were still alive ? We memory of you will last. Not on the would have been elbowed by our an_ back of my hands, aS though to an- cestors of ten centuries ago, and flounce you to others, but on the people who ought to have said their Palms of ‚my bands for myself to last worcl 3,000 years. ago would look at and study and love. Though snarl at us, saying I hold the winds in My fist, no cy:- nWITAT ARE YOU DOING IIERE?" c "' lon ehell uproot the inscription of of your name and your face, and There would have been 00 room to though I hold the ocean in the hol- turn arouud. Some of the past gen- low of My hancl, its billows sliall orations of nnankinct were not woveli not wash out the reused . of my°'re- reinembering. The 'first useful thing inembrance. ''Beholci, I have.graven that many People clici was to. die, thee on the ,palms of ,niy hands !" their cradle a misfoitune end eheir„ What joy, what honor, can there grave a boon: riThie world was hard- be eel/mai-able to that of being re- ly a comfortable plaee to, live in be- membered by the mightiest and fore the middle of the eighteenth most affectionate Being in the isni- century. So many things have come verse ? Think of it, to hold an ev- iota) the world that were not fit to erlasting. place in the heart of God ! stay in we ought, to be glad. they The heart of God '1'he eripst beau - were put out: The. waters of Lethe, ttful, palace in the universe. Let the the, fountain of forgetfulness, are a archangel build a palace as grand healthful,draft. The,liiF3tory :we have as he can and then you enter this of the *coed in ap„.es past ' always palace of archangelic construction one sided and cannot -be depended on. and see how'r poor a ,nalace it is History, is. fiction illnstrated by a compared with the greater palace few straggling facts. that some .of you have already found We may build , this "everlasting he the heart of a loving and par- , l'ii1110111111',11,4Cel,Y 118 niy text styles it, d.oning God 'and into which all the into the superrial existence of those music and all the' prayers and, all to whom we do kindnesses this the sermonic considerations of this world. You mast; °:renicinber that clay are- trying to intrecluce you this infirm and treacherous faculty throtigh the blood of which we now cell memory is in the THE SLAIN LAMB. future state to , be complete, and per- fect "Everlasting gemembrance C h where is oblivion now ? From the •clark and overshadowing word Nothing Will elip the. stout ggip :of that celestial .inculty. 'Did you help „ that it Seemed when r began it has become sOmething which no man Or a widoW pay her 'rent .?' Did you ,Sind. for .that,inan released from pris-' woman or child who lovee the Lord on 4 place, to get honest, work ?' 110 need ever fear. Obliyion defeated, you picic up n child fallen on the Oblivion dead. Oblivion sepulchred.' ow,sstoue and 037, a stick of candy -But I muse not be so hard on .that put in .his hand stop the 'suet e0, devourin,g monste,, for into its grave scratched Did yon aesure go all our sins when the Lord for buSiness man swamped' by the. stars- Christ's sake' has forgiven them, geney pf,,4410 money market that Just blow a resurrection trumpet gimes would after, a, wink,. be setter ? over them ween once oblivion has Some Did you jowl 11 eirssaalen of the simPried theta down."' Not One of e'artil st 'net into a midnight missien, them rises• Blow Not:a Stir \Ville amid all the pandonecl iniquities of King coodshin shoo. Go and see a lifetime. ploW again. Not one of 9; th more., Did , you tell a man them; moves in the deep giatve trench- vii,.. r diseouraged in his waYwarcl- es, But to this powerless roe/urea- 27, ,I and , hofieless and plotting sui- tion trunipet n voiee respendS, half can i that, for' i011. W0.9 110'41'. by a human, half di -vine, and it must be this 1.111565n graveyards, what are eulogiums in for this 1.1esSed ohliVioin, SO you laiencisoh THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Oct. 20. ----- Text of the Lesson Gen. xli 38-49 Golden.'Text I. Sam. ii 30. Patiently co/Ili/ming in well doing in his prison life, the time came when he should be delivered, God's time, and therefore the best. rl'he King of Egypt 'dreamed two dreams, or a dream that was clouhled to him in a little different form, but none of his magicians or wise men could inter- pret for him the dream, How like the story in Dan. ii., 10-27; iv, 7; v, 8; for the wisdom of this world is utterly at fault M the things of God; only the Spirit of God can tell us the things of God (le Corelf, 11-11). The chief butler, learning of the ICing's • difficulty, remembered his ingratitude to 'is prison friend, and told the King how Joseph had interpreted their dreams in the prison. Joseph, the young Hebrew, Wals hastily sent for, giving God alt the glory, (verse .16), interpreted the dream, assuring Pharaoh that God had by those dreams shown him what I -Te was about to do, that the events would surely come to pass and that Phar- aoh would de well to profit by the revelation (verses 28-37). 38. "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?" Thus spake the King to his servants when he heard the words of Joseph. The man who could inter- pret such drearns and give suck ad - Vico must be the man for the occa- sion. God had been all the while Preparing Joseph for this occasion and, this occasion for Joseph. He purposes in Himself that which He works out according to the counsel of His own will (Eph. 1, 9-11), and hap- py are those who are in His will. 39, 40. "Only in the throne will I be greater than thou." From a prison to a throne, and so suddenly, and what wonderful words from Pharaoh, '"rhou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall my people be ruled," the second ruler in all Egypte and because God had spoken through_ him. According to the golden text, God honored Jos- eph because Joseph had honored Him. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west, nor frOm the south; but Clocl is the judge. He put- teth down one and setteth up anoth- er" (Ps. lxxv, 6-7). 41, 43. "And I Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See I have set thee over all the land of Egypt." He confirmed it by transferring the ring upon his hand to Joseph's hand, by the ves- ture s and the gold chain and a place in the second chariot in the land. It seemed to Pharaoh that he did it, but it was the Lord's' doing. • Ile permitted Pharaoh to do it and thus accomplish His pleaetwe. Nebuchad- nezzar probably thought that he toot Jehoiakim captive, and to human vision he did, but it WaS th0 Lord who gave Jehoialcim into his hand (Dan. i, 1, 2). 14, 45. "Joseph went out over a e land of Egypt." No one 'nigh aught without him; as in th ison so now in all the land i ght be said of him. "Whatsoeve ey' did there he was the doer of it. mpter xxxix, 22). There is no be - ver who may not be so yielded to rist that what , is done in or -ough them He will be the doer of as Paul said concerning, himself, live, yet not I, but Christ, liveth (Gal., ii, 20). Since our rd Jesus lia,S said, "Without me C011 do nothing" (John xv, 5)., y should we think of doing any - ng apart. from because how - ✓ it may look acceptable in the s of others, it.is"nothing" unless does it? Lis new' tfame signifies, according the margin, '`revealer of secrets,'' he receives as his wife the (laugh - of the priest of On; here again have a two -fold suggestion of, our d Jesus, for 1 -Te is the great re - ler of secrets, making known to the great mystery of godliness, of the church, and of Tsrael's (bless, and of the kingdom, for Father loveth the Son and show - Him' all things that Himself do - (John v, 20)., . "And Joseph was 30 years old n he stood before Iniaraoh, King th do pr mi th (cl lie Ch tin it; "I, in Lo wh ye thi eve eye He to and ter we Lor VeLl US and blin the eth eth 46 .whe of Egypt." Our Lord was 30 years 11 /I old when He began Iris public min- istry (Lulteiii, 23); so likewise was John'the Baptist and Ezekiel an,c1 this was the lige, when the priests began their ministry (Ezek. i, 1; Num. iv, :3). Joseph began to rule at the age of 30, but our Lord be- gan His public humiliation, for 7.vhile 1 -le went about doing good, anooint- eci with the Iroly Ghost it was to be despised and rejected and crucified ae an evil -doer, and He still waits for His kingdom. 47, 49. "And Josephsathered corn as the sande of the ,s0a, Vesy much, until he left numbering; for it was w i thou t, itumber ' ' This he did d (11'- ing the seyen plenteous years, for • the earth brought forth by handfuls, and Joseph. diligently nnade ,pr'ovi- sion for the time to come. When there would be great' diStress. The:phrase "as the sand of the seas° 'or, as it is times; • "as the chi of th a figure signifying ' that h cannot bb ceunted: See s .iii, 8; iv, 20-29S II ,Chron. I, enesee also Gen. xxii, 1.7; Judge 12; Sam, xiii, ,5; Ps. Sexeiii, -Tow great is our God that He le.au:11til(p,1111.y? things and peoPle 'after In due time the fitinibe CI:0110. all .1.,:lgypt cried to T.5baraoli, e said, "Go unto ,Tosepli; what ith to you, do,". This remiridS -.soling himself with the thought, that Noe , the life of a soldier; would . not „be thei than being . . worse than being in loclgings. 00 All went Welt till. Pat 'was in the elect ranks for drill, "when the 'sergeant nn came up and called out, Here, Mur- oid6, 1.°0 the Lorcl said ti ; "Nei- plly, thl'OV out your Che,5.3t, 1 ctveq. in whic• h 110 michi wElsji and part eneri and part God, saying, Sorry, eir, L 0;.1:11e1, rePlied Pat, a coro.net of eternel. blessecinesS lic Philu ili6 and their iniquities will en n't! VVIly? weer ? What ale epitapins111 1 remeniber 110 i/tore."Thnnk Gocl 13.e1atzse lfiticlittcly has it, sits, us"Noolfv, thtehesua, Avillgiat0sfeeY 'Teta' c°6'Gosdwliivaetsh, said unto the, do," (Gen. xxxi, 16), al eo of the saying of Mary to the servants at the marriage in Cana, "Whatsoever Ilo saith unto you, do it" (John ii, 5). Our, great and on- ly question cooceenlng the • thinge which are eternal, the things of the kingdom, should be, "What,hath the Lord spoken?" for He only has the bread of life and all must come to Hini who would have life. Not only all Egypt had to come to Joseph, but, all countries (57), and, we shall see in the next lesson, all Israel, too; and the sons of Israel found that their beneraGtor was their, brother. Israel shall yet see that 'their deliv- erer is the same one whom they cru- cified and to Him shall all flesh come. All who now receive Hini shall learn or may learn in their experi- ence the true meaning, of Manasseh and Ephraim for God will make them iorget their toil, and will make them fruitful where they have been afflicted (verses 51, 5.2). The 'field, which is the world, in which iire are now the reapers, belongs to our Boaz and in the inorning of our marriage to Him the ^whole field will be ours, and We will then, if not before, for- got our toil and see the true 'mean- ing of fruitfulness (TUtom. viii„ 18; Isa. xx-vii, 6). Being redeemed, let us be willing and obedient. PALACE OF THE POR'T.E. Full of Secret Retreats for Him Who Hourly tSeleiks Assassina- io. The Yildiz palace at Constantinople is e monument to fear. • It is asses - e sm-proof, bomb -proof, earthquake - proof, fire -proof, microbe -proof. Ar- chitects and engineers are building and rebuilding incessantly. Some new secret retreat is always under: way. The entire domain is surround- ed by an immense wall, thirty feet high, and the choicest troops" of the Empire stand guard around it. An inner wall, twelve feet thick, with gates of iron, incloses the private re- sidence itself. The walls of the Sul- tan's dwelling are filled with armour plate, in case of projectiles. It is said that a mysterious passage: con- nects with ten secret bed chambers, forming an intricate labyrinth. No one but his body attendant knows where the Sultan may sleep during any particular night. He has electric lights and telephones in his own a- partments, but forbids them in Con- stantinople. Telephones might prove handy for conspirators, and he be- lieves that a dynamite cartridge could be sent over a wire into the palace. He fears electric explosions, so Constantinople still gets along with gas light. He hates\ the word dynamo, because it sounds like dyna- mite. Balloons are tabooed, lest one should pause over him long enough to drop a chunk of explosive. As to the regal luxury of the Yildiz, that is a matter of course. The domain is a small world in itself. Five thousand people live within the outer wall, not .counting a small army of workmen and the 7,000 imperial guardsmen. There are shops, factor - lee, arsenals, stables, a museum pic- ture'gallery, theatre and even a men- agerie: The monarch loves trees, hut he keeps their branches well lopped off, so that he can see to the further- most corner of his park. MAID'S OR NURSE'S APRON. Every housewife likes to see her maid neatly and appropriately dres- sed, and many careful housekeepers find it WiSO to provide the aprons and caps which they prefer, Tiie tasteful apron shown is correct in every way and has the merit of be- ing becoming to the wearer at the same Gine that it is satisfactory to the mistress, and that,it conforms to the requirements of good form. , To clit this apron for a woman of medium size, 44 yards of ma,terial 36 inches wide will be reqiiired when sash is used, 8jl yards without, with yards each of edging and inser- tion to trim as illustrated, A NEW FUEL GAS. AttiCh interest iS felt in Engerted in the Mond fuel gas,which is made from ehe cheapest' class of small coal and dust, known go "bittiminous `slacks'' 'ThIS 4111, which is intended for furnaees and gas'-erigiiies,' can, i is claimed, be supplied at a' coot of four 'C'entS per thousand .ctibfe feet. 171 i.s net a lighting gas, as it. burns 'with pale blue (tame, and its heat- ing' valee is Rjwee than. that of 11.- lumietitin4' ,gas, bet greater than that of mast ether "prodacer 4'1s - t1.10 • P1ddo.1s 01 atra f a Nei r e 'a very large,preportion of the Mixes gen of ,the, -coal isgeecovered in the form 'Of eelphate of ammonia„ woeth nearly ,twe dollars for every ton of sla.ek gasified. TAXED TITLES AND TIGERS BILLIARD - TABLES THAT PAY , FOR WARS. Stamps That Support Crov n.- ments--Taxes in Different Coulitries. On a licence costing fifteen dollars you can shoot as many pheasants as you please in Great Britain. BuiS before you can put a bullet into al, single wild aninial in Britain's new Soudanese province, a payment of. 8125 is necessary. The $125 wilt, entitle the sportsman to shoot font' buffaloes, isvo elephants, one giraffe,. six hippopotami, and two rhinoceri‘, besides such small game ,as antelope, and buck.' But there are additional payments of 370 on each elephantj killed, $80 on each giraffe, $.5 on. hippos, $25 on rhinoceri anci 880 on; buillelb. So the inan who kUls his limit will be called upon to enrich; the Khartoum Treasury by no less` than 8885. Every Finance Minister in the world to -day is hunting for„ some- thing on which it will be possible to plaster a fresh tax or duty, so, as to pay for that 110W ship, newer( guns, or 1,110 National Debt. The Aitgentine Republic has put is tax of fifty cents a month on all bachelors, to be paid monthly so long as they shall remain unmar- ried. Siberia has followed the example of the Soudan in the matter of game licences, and it now costs 825 to shoot one of the long -furred, taw- ny tigers, which haunt the 'Southern Siberian mountains. To pay for her tussle with Spain the United States charges $5 a year for every hilli d.table in her limits, 310 for a bowling -alley, while eir-r cuses /mist pay 8100 for each separ-I ate State they visit. Certain znembers of the American Congress are trying hard to put a' stiff tax • on the dowries of those heiresses who are unpatriotic enoug/a to MARRY FOREIGN TITLES, The latter—in France and Germany, at least—threaten to become expen-r sive luxuries. Out of Italy's .400,- 000 titled persons, less than half have any claim at all to the titles they assume. So the Government proposes that each shall pay in ac- cordance with his rank. Princes will be assessed at $500 a year, dukes at $400 a year, and so on down to barons at $100. The Australian Federal delegates might have returned home with the privilege of writing K.,C.M.G. after their names. But they very respect- fully declined the honor. " I , don't. want to risk a title'," said one of them. " When the Commonwealth gets into full swing, they will prob- ably put a tax on titles." • I You may be a cripple or. invalid but that, in Switzerland, does no bring exemption from militei'sy ser- vice. If you are absolutely incap-I militerY exemption tax of 320 a able of service, you muet pay. thel year. And if you neglect t'5 settle; your tax -bill, you are absolutely) prohibited from entering any beer' garden or place of public entertain- ment until you have done so. Bicycles may be taxed M Englandt next year. In France they have been eso for three years past. Thel two most unpleasant French taxes are the door -and -window tax and / THE FURNITURE TAX. By the former you pay sixty cents, a year on every' door and windowl in your house, 'while the latter is devised to catch people who live flats or apartments. Everyone who' owns so much as a table and chair is liable. France succeeds in raising 3140,- 000,000 a year out of stamp duties., Your hotel bill comes to you with ai stamp on it. Every cheque drawn,' bears an extra receipt -stamp, across which the drawer must write hie mune. Theatre tickets must be stamped....Even the very bills posted on the hoardings are stamped, the value varying with the size of the, poster. To show how strictly this; law is enforced, a country advertiser, was foolish enough to put on one of' his public advertisements a stamp worth six cents instead of one worth' a cent only. This breach of law cost him a $25 fine. ' Towns, like countries, are also driven to all sorts of expedients to raise money for municipal expenses., Every morsel of food, drink, and fuel which enters into any French town pays a tax. Paris, last month, pt ten cents a bottle extra on all spirits, especially English whisky and gin. She has also taxed land-, lords 2e,-. pee cent., and tenants 1 per cent. • A CITY OF ZINC. This is Beira„ on the coast of Pois tuguese East Africa. Every utensil is made of it. If you \vase to break your leg, you would be taken to the hospital o11 a steetcher made of zinc; and when you arrived at the 7,1_11u handing, you would be laid on 1104 - ding resting on a zinc framework. A dead man lying in a zinc coffin; the latter resting 011 SettiCS of the seine metal, is not an eXtraordinary The body is carried to the zine church, and. it may rest in a zinc - lined. 'grave, if the rela,tives so 'des sireand are willing to pay ! Zinc S0C11.18 to be ;the only cheap material , that Will withstand for a 'reasonable length of time the •effects of the hue mid climate, and it is accordingly employed i11 every possible way, Mr,' Bridal (at lull 011 000)"-: lTs thia the best, 'salmon you could get? Mrs. Bridal.: Yes; the grocer showed me Several kinds, but I took this tin.. :Mr. DridOl: Did he say this was the, best he had? Mrs. Bridal: No; but 11 Thotti.cilolthergere it)toist1 I.zstebrevl is in a , wret ched co nd tiO . ri end Never' noticed it.' Well, 1, have, Peeing. lase month T sent, oise hundsed and` eighty sta,tements of 1100000 1: with' requests for iiiimpdiate p,as.nct and, so far as 17 can learn, not more than two of my tustomees received their lettere.