Exeter Advocate, 1902-2-6, Page 3ALL THINGS ARE MEL
schools and caurehee and theological
seminaries
Alas, there are ix:massages before
thousands of people -called to do
work that it is impossible or them
te de, called to bear,burdens that it
With God Impossibilities May Ba. Turned is impossible icr
to endure sufferipg that it is impoe-
..ar,
rib le for them to endure. Read ell
4 4
into Pos.sibibties.
eloarof otoroolate to act ot be seratenene or rept tben; in perteexiti' as to which
coeters. to pnr 4,ite nonsand Nine mak, , .
wok., 444 tooe:10 wan 4,8y, og Toronto, nt at many geaments wits appropriate
setemestie erne *Wm. Otzatilli ter the weather that day were worth
It **Patch front iVasninatott eaye: tu the world eoehing 0104 and have
-Rey, er„ etetettee preeettee been worth to the world eething
the following ktp04-,--1.1„ jxjAas visinee. Whine the emote men in eoi-
"The iren. did swine" lege Who had to economize three
A theulogical seminary in the val- nt°nths In order to get nuule net*
Ie e of Value% near the river Jordan. the7 needed and who eel" hardly
had eeemoe popular le the ewe raiee mone,v for their diplenue. have
O f Ellehe, the proeeete oust were Siheneetrsiivarob7thurnn
tmiiv:gittthileri
y tfroorOdlodipsag
accommodetions were everted for the t
students, elle classrooms and time down because it was wrong Mae up,
initories mest he enlarged or an en_ ' Ig studpts
thinly new building constructed- What raiala by the Jordan had a Physical
will they do? ttill they send up to strength and harclthoud that trenhl
Jerueelem and sulicit eoutributions p help there in their teentel and spirit -
for this undertakilig? Wilt they send 1n311 nehletrennents' We who are t°11'
out aputs to raise the etooey or a .ing for the world's betterment need
ttew tbeologicei itetnineezie leaeing",lirewn 4$ well US brOJa. Strelhg
Lc-
relent tee eteney will thee eyed toe dies 48 well as illumined minds and
cedars of Lebanou anti ina"rble front ! crenseern'tegl souls^ l'IrtlY the
the whirrim where 4thio) got the whe are now doing the nest work
stones or the Pillers and wane of in church and state got muscle and
his /wawa? not the steeeete pre,. power of endurance from the fact
pow to build it theeeseeree. ehey that in early life they were conte
were rugged (VS. WhO hired teen pelted to use an or mow or flail
brought up in the eintntry and wiwo or hanimer. while limey whe were
had never been wieteenne ey the one brought up in luxurtee of life glee
wive ef city 111e. MI they ask is get
that Eliehe, their pro easor mut BN00111) THE DATTLB 18 WON.
prophet. go along with then; to the They are keen and Sharp of mind,
woods and boas the job. They hteirt but. have WI physical ClIOUronCe.
for the work. Elieha and hie stue Thee have the ex heed. but net the
dents, Plenty of itindier in those re- handle, The Wady la the haudie of
glens ;thing tha Jordan. The syea- the ninth
more Aii a ut
Mo. etrong tree and Notice, Alen; how Clod suPgrior
gooe for timber.Gl
Mr, adatene aake to every law that he bee made,
ed me it I end seen in Palestine any even the etrongest law *Feature. the
sycamore tree more beinitiful than law of grevitetion. The sleek that
the ono we- :stood under at. Reward- Elleha threw into the Jordan float -
en. I told him had non ed. but the an head sank. Irey
'Me sycamores neer the 'Jordan exoreble law, it must go down into
are new Attaeled by leilehith; etieo the depths of the Jordan, yet
dents. for they mast have lumber without so much as a touch the
for the new theoeveieni Rent/awe bard, heavy Metal Nought the snr-,
sr -pose come of the stadetall Alade face. "ii here it is, inc flocaing nir
on ewhwael Welke, toe* ghee net* bead. What a, rebute to those who
extemporizwom
ed en. reteet miraelea on Me ground thet
STAND VR0111 UNDER: they are contrary to nature, as
Crash goes one of the
tbough the maw were stronger than
ll'eea
end another and whither, that SQUIQ the una who ma, the inn' l Agelln
Um firtiti ;Mail% in Ilitee times was teat
iloW betokens Wonderini 1.1101 law revokednitness the ereee on
-tne UCC t4., eto tat. NO 4.11CUI46104 tho bonko of the sritee Jordon.
of the gge.,„, worolerfol that, mew where. in after thee, the ax head
etill think It never happe unk and roe°. Elijah steed there,
One Vette titleattee, not able to own 'caring vette of eheepskin, when
bet st2g. thoU.s OU there was a mighty Mir In the air
remember that while the an of olden and aas
ghin, equipage deseended.
thne "°""nell our Inellern Enid' steppe" into it, and on
-it thilered M the taw. that Malted of wheels of' fire. drawn by Immo of
the helve or hendie hong thrttnt int* fire. he rose. Fifty men for three
coelete in the iron lead the head of days searched the mountains to see
ne
the ax was ilaned on Lite handld if the body of Elijah had not been
"tiler th"nE4 imtli 60 ithe dropped among trocks and picked
slip the teivo. ,A ateident of the men-
innrS wnn 6wingIng his ax egelUSt e s o prey, but the
Ward! was in vain, The law of
At nue nf these ttee""t• ""d whher etft"gravitation had been defeated.
wao at the lament. be made his first g
FEEL
stroke anti Lite voile* new or was 1.!1) NOT LONELY
af- I
ter he hud cut the tree from all sides hecatlee your nearest neighbor may
so deep that 11. wits ready to tall Le admit becaute the width of
we are not told, but. tile (LX head ,, the continent May separate you from
end Lite handle parted, ming, neat., the place where your cradle was
the riecreide, the ex head dropped 'ruched und your father's grave was
into the river nod sank to the mud- dug. Wakened thotgli you Ailey be
tly bottom. tirreat was the student's by lion'a roar or panther's scream,
diemay If it hail been his own men God tvill help you, whether at the
ft would have been bed enough, but time the forest. around you niece In
tite ae. did not. belong" to hint. Be the midnight burricane or you set-
tled leo means to buy another for the fer from something quite itisignifl-
Lind man tvito bud loaned it to iihu, aunt, like tlie' loss of an as; lieud.
is
but ned hetes the 110)1m. and Ile Take your. Bible out meter inc treete
generally helps through somo good if the weather will permit. and after
nail empathetic soul, and in this you Jewel listened to the solo of, a
case it was Eli:ilia, who was in the bird in the treetops or the long
woods and On the river "bank at the meter psalm of the thunder, read
time. tie did not see the ax head those words of the Bible. which must'
fly Win and so he asked the student have been written out of doors :
where It dropped. lie was shown 'Ike trees of the Lord aro full of
te hplace where it Went down into sap. The cedars of Lebanon which
the river. Then Elisha broke off a he Molt planted, where the birds
branch of a tree and threw it into niake their nests : as for tile work,
the water. aril the ax head rose from the fir trees are her house. The high
the depths c' the river and floated to hills are a refuge for the wild goats
the bank, so that the atudent had and the rocks for the conies. Thou
just to stoop down and take up the entakest darkneste and it is night,
restored property: Now you see the .wherten all the beasts of the forest
-meaning of my text. do creep teeth. The young lions
**THE 111.0N DID SWIM."' roar after their prey and seek
Furthermore. in that scene or the their meat from God. The Sun
text God sanctions borrowing and
arisalt, they gather themselves to-
setsf rti I 4 gether and lay them clown in their
ing. ;to not think there would have dens. Mart goeth forth unto his
been any miraele performed if the work and to his labor until the
young man had owned the ax that .
evening. 0 Lord. bow manifold are
lipped the helve. The young nee, thy works 1 In „wisdom Mast thou
cried out in the hearing of the pro- made them all. The earth is full
IMO., "Alas, master, tor it was bora et riches." }DM do you like that
rowent" He had a right to borrow. importance of keeping our chief inn
There are times when we have not plement for work.
only aMy subject also reminds us of the
aright to borrow, but it is a
duty to borrow. There are times
when we ought to lend, for Christ in
nis sermon on the mount declared,
-From him that would borrow of
thee turn not thou away." it is
right that one borrow the means of
getting an education, as the young
student of my text borrowed the ax.
It is right to borrow means for the
• forwarding of commercial ends., Most
of the vast fortunes that now over-
shadow the land were hatched out of
e borrowed dollar. .
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrow-
ing implies a return. For what we
borrow from Clod we must pay back
in hearty thanks and Christian ser -
vi cee in improv,emeat of.ourselvei and
helpfulness for others. For what we
borrow in the shape of ,protection
from good -government we must pay'
back in patriotic devotion. For -what
we .borrow.from our parents in their
good example and their hard work
wrought for -us in our journey from
cratilehto Manhood or womanhood
for all the ages to 'come we ought'to
be paying back. The halleluiahs of
heaven will be returned for ,
t he gospel promisee, rally all your
laitleand, while you will a1Waa'f,1 he
called to worship tee God of hope,
toeclay, -with all the coneentxated en-
ergiea of thy soul, I implore you te
bow down and wersinp God who
can turn the impossibles Jae pos-
it was, eit thinl perpose,
but for grand and glorious uscs
have :Token to you o f the
borrowed, eed lost and restored ex
heed,
iliE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
IQNL LESSON,
x.r:B. 0,
Text Of the Leeman, Acts too 02 te
to v., 11. Golden Text, Eph,
in., kr*.
02, al, "With great power gave
the apostles, witnees of the resurrece
Mtn of the Lord Jesus. and great
grace was neon them all." le Aimee
e
days wen oscarcely imagine envetal
thoueencle of believers of one heArt
end one soul to eery() the Lord. no
tine dinging to bis own things, but
each loving the other as himself and
1;11 wl laa: ill t40 'Pliolwtell:415311P14C1=14eca.tiOlur
thee. did this, they must have enown
something that few Mum te-datir
M-87 . Poeeeseora of lands and
honeys Sold their property and Put
the prorecile, in the common fund
that the need of each ;night be sup-
plied and thee no one might have
any lack. There Wan no eollIslinees
and no self-seeking. 1 lee seems ail
the more rerearkahle when we eon
-
sifter the strife for pre-entinclice that
wee root More Ohm ono 441.. 44 thA
tWelVe ' Were JeEVIS died: ye*, even
at the paesover on the night before
Ms resurrotion. but now they were
nil tilled with the spirit, ond hence
*hie great dillertaiee. A Spirit, filled
people will manifest tite life of
Chrlst and not the life of self. Jose
es. surnamed Minutiae, son of eon"
solation. a. Levite, teed evidently a.
true one, is mentioned as ono of
those eta havinre, land eold it and
leid the itionee at the opwitles' net,.
Levi sionifice "joined." and he illus.
*rated the truth. "ITe that is joined
to the Lord la one Spirit" (1. Cor.
vi, 1,7). Our Lord Jesus not only
gave up all Ills, riches and berante
poor to snake us Wen, but Ile actual-
ly gave ITIniself for us, taking the
place of the guilty that we might be
joined to Illin (II. Cor. viiii, 2; (Ini.
Be 20).
v, 1, 2. "But Ananias And Sep.
Iplilra." The tares mid the wheet
will grow tegetiter until'the harvest.
t'ntU Jetnttt volute again Many a
birdllil lodge in the branches, but
nobi
ovr ' a Wviuteh. 'rhe
commands. "Wall; before Me, and be
thou eineere" and "Thou shalt be
sincere with the Lord thy God" (Gen
xvii, 4. margin; Deut. nett!, 18), are
always binding and "Cursal be he
that, &wiz the work of the Lord de -
e° t, u ly (Jon xlviii, 10), seems to
. be always a uccessary waining.
i
When nbrion and Saraagreed to ant
' a. lio and Ica,ac and Rebekah did the
same ((iem xii, 11-18; xx, 2: xxvi.
7), which of us "an say that the
eyes as it flame of leo :nay not see
some deceit in our Inmost hearts?
We aro not our own, but bought.
'' 1 JIle preeiousbloud,
8, 4. "Wby hath Satan tilled thine
heart to lie to the Holy ahem?
'Thou hese lied unto tied." Se the
oneness of the Father mot the Spirit.
for in lying to the Spirit they lied
unto God. See also Gee oneness of
the Spirit and the believer, for in ly-
ing 1.o Peter and the others they lied
unto the Spirit.. Notice idea that it
was the work of the devil, the father
of lies, in Ananias, the tame adver-
sary who in the stardeo of Elden lied,
to Eve and bltS ever slime been prac-
ticing his ungodly wiles Conttast
Peter filled with the Spirit -And An-
anias tilled with Satan and the high
priest and others 11111 with indigne.-
tiou Or envy (chapters iv. 8, 31; v,
3, 1/). If tilled with the Spirit, evil
can rind no place in us. The Spirit
of Truth and the father of lies each
desires us, but neither can fill us un-
less we welcome them.
CRUCIFIXION AGONY.
Furthermore, lee us admire these
young men of Elisha's theological
seminary for the fact that they were
earning their own way. The most
of those tp-day who are successful in
the professions, medicating the sick
or advocating the law or preaching
the gospel, fought their own way on
and up. Those are the kind of men
wbo know what education is worth
and know how to use it. Many of
us remember that in college days the
sons of affluent fathers, with plenty
of money to spend and horses to
drive and libraries crowded with
books never read and wardrobes that
importanse for work
s IN GOOD ORDER.
I think that young theological stu-
dent on the banks of the Jordan
was to blame for not examining the
ax before he lifted it that day
against rt,- tree. Ile could in "
moment have found out whether the
helve and the.heaa were mama. fas-
tened. 'The simple fact was the ax
was not in good order or the strong-
est stroke that sent the cage into
the hard sycamore would not have
left the implement headless. So God
has given every one of us an ax with
which to hew. Let us keep it in
good order, having been sharpened
by Bible study and strengthened by
prayer. The reason we sometimes
fail in ouaawork is because we have
a dull ax or WO do not know how
aright to swing it. The head is not
aright on the handle. the tirrie
we want the most, skill for work and
perfect equilibrium we lose our head.
We expend in useless excitement the
nervous energy that we ought to
have 'employed in direct, straight-
forward work. Your ax may be a
pen or a type or a yardstick or a
scales orsia tongue which in legisla-
tive,hall or business circles or Sab-
bath class or pulpit is to speak for
Clod tied righteousness, put the ax
will not beworth much entil it has
been sharpened on the grindstone qf
affliction. People whit have had no
trouble do not amount to mueh for
usefulness, but God puts their ax on
the hard circle of the grindstone, and
betrayal gives it a turn, and pain
gives it, a turn, and poverty gives it
a turn, and disappointment gives it
a turn, and bereavement gives it a
turn, and now it is sharp enough
FOR SUCCESSFUL WORK,
and how it cuts down evil a,nd'builds
u( fret") e j,z.lat.t) 18e etnettseritx at)d yTeth care eels_ t
eeon, warning in this great truth. I
Row Awful j thia eeene before ins i
She is for the firet time teld of her•
husband's ;teeth and at *,he semef
time told that she meet die, and ,in
a monteut sne is gore. In the morn-
ing they are in bealth, but. united MI
a lie to God Viet they may a.ppeari
before men to be very religious, but
before night they are mune out
(Note. xxxii, 28), and are dead and
buried. Two liars in one grave. But
thew souls- If Pot saved ga by the,
the Luke xvi, 23, first clause. Veils
their fate. .11 wae tbe-band of God,
and the Judge of It '*e earth deeth
right ((len. xviii, tie; Bev, xv. 3)
Se also Acta heti, 23: Jer- ;mail*
1.0, 17, and yet believe firmly that
"God Is Love" and "pot willieg
that arw shoeld perish" (X Jona iv,
8; II Pet. lin 0).
11. "And greet fear came upon
all the church 1.,,nd 'upon ne mallY as
heard teese Rungs. wes 4 need-
ed lesson for the times, and. al-
though ITO does not alwaYS
4 thus swiftly owlish sinners. ITO
always hates sin and tells us that.
ho that telletb Ilea shall not terry
in 1s sight (Ps. el. 7), We cannot
but think of the swift jUdgruent
upon Aaron's sons at tee beginning
of Coins dealings with Israel (Lev.
tx0,_4va11m
11a,2). iliaorisstiernstbouseechurei
strange fire were tittle sommarilv
;leet with, there -wined be na end of
funerals. And a truly great feer
'upon many. Altbough God stems to
:keel/ $1441C4 concerning the eorrup-
tio»s mid abominations in Ris pro-
fessed People. Re nestiree ;to that
Pe MI not, always Prep silence-,
that Judgment meet leein at the
house of God (Fa. II, 3; I Pot. iv,
17).
SMALLPDX'S Warm).
Neglect of Vaccination the Catsez
says 1)r. Sizraay,
Physiefees agree One widespread
146 mitallnen in, and not only lu this
country het h. England and
itt
France Re well. there is no danger
of its ;mewing the ecourge-like form
it owe did, N'aceinetion has re-
moved *het danger. Speeking on
this entlect Pr. George F. Minnie!.
Of New York. veld :
"The Cont.e of the present spread
of mellow; is not Inc to cede For
yeGrG we etehnred a. comparative litne
rnunhty from the dieveee. Out of
tins irnesueity grew careleesnese and
eegligence.
"Maple forgot what gave them the
immunity and quit gettirg Van -
ciliated. A largo population thus
existed that, WU8 open to smallpox
coutagion.
1 "It runs Ulm wild fire in dry grass.
emallitox does when once it starts.
All that it needs is the fuel and then
the lire sprentdtt, „t seems now that
" there is a !ergo amount Of =IMP=
fuel.
"01 course it will he stamped out,
for people will ',creme awakened to
the neceseity of getting vaccinated.
ut Itt the incentive° there will he it
great number of persons who will
safer from the dleanse
"Ignorance and the anti-vecelna-
Gen erankery have their share of
the blame to bear in providing tlie
large nmount of material there now
seems to be for emultpon to work
upon lint sheer reglieence, born of
immuoity from the disease. is re-
sponsible tor a great tient of in
4 "In England the anti-vaechintion
propaganda has had n gond dent of
effect of late In preventing people
from mnking themselven immune
from smallpox. The same propa-
ean a tare Ms dante utiliont s -
thief. It is wliolly enwarranted.
"With proper vaccine mutter and
with proper cleanliness and aseptic
conditions, vaccination is entirely
withont risk.
"There is, I am afraid, a good
deal of popular mieapprehensioa as
to the length tif time a person who
has n vcieclnated
smallpox. `rhere is absolutely no
means of determining this.
It varies
with every individual. '
"There are sonic people who are
immune to smallpox even though
they never have been vaccinated. On
the other ho.nd, there are those who
are not immune even it. year or less
after vaccination. I know one phy-
sician connected with the Eisalth De-
partment. who vaccinates himself
,evertteuronth. Many physicians are
vaccinated every year.
I"It you are vaccinated and the
!vaccination takes you may be sure
that had you been exposed to smell -
pox a.nd irk a receptive condition it
would have taken also. There is no
safety, except in vaccination."
, 6. Dend and buried irr a few
hours ; gone from the earth and
from his possessions, but gone
where ? To the true child of God
death is gain and Inc better than
sojourning here. But what of Ana-
nias ? I -lis name means, vJehovah
is gracious." But clidehe know the
seating grace of Jehovah.? We Know
'that there is such a thing as being
saved as by lire, that Otacajt ratty
destroy the flesh and yet the spirit
be saved, that some of the members
of the church were sickly awl Some
dyingbecause of
are told to judge nothing `' before
the time until the Lord Come (1
Cor. iii, 15; v, 5; xi 30; , iv, 5),
yet -Rev. xxi. 8; gives us little hope
for Ananias. I
7, haPit was about. the space of
three hours after when his wife, not
knowing what was done, came ins"
Three hours a.widow, but not -aware
of it. How long they had journeyed
together in these mortal bodies we
'do not know, but his joarney has
ended; and hers is about to, though
she is all unconscious of it. Perhaps
she had come seeking hire, wondering
why he delayed to return home. It
is a sad story and &holed teach us
to be sincere with God: who desiree
truth in the inward parts (P5-:
If we did not know that Peter was
filled with the Spirit, we reight'feel
like questioning his way with her
and might wish that he had sought
to lead her to repentance, but per-
haps her heart was fully set ip her
to clo evil (Ecel. 111, 11).
9, 10. "Row is it that ye have
agreed together to tempt the
Spirit of the Lord ?" So 011e wiLh
God are His people that wbee we
touch them we touch Rim, and as we,
deal with them we deal with Htnt
WE GROW OLD IN PIECES.
The general impression is that the
body grows old uniformly ; from
tirth till the age of 25, it grows in
.si e t nd weight, front. 25 to 50 it
ranaies stationary, ernd from that
pei .d it decays, tiessevations of
ex; e. t physiologists show us that
this impre, siert is uot a correct
one. Each organ teelas to age in-
degendentl3r, each has its period for
the chane, and these periods differ
ai.h the various organs ana ao mit
take plate coincideetly, as we may
h•ve supposed. The body- attains
ite greatest dee during the third
decade ard remairs in about the
serne condition during the fourth and
Lith d cedes, that is true 4 but the
blade 3e ch s its greatest site in
the second, decade," tne kidneys reach
their maximum size during the third
decade the musch,s, skeleton and
intestines cluririg the fifth, the heart
ani luns in the eighth decade. In.-
, ci ease or decrease in the size or
weight of the bed)' consequently, is
not due to simultaneous increase or
decrease in all its parts.
11 anyone were casually to state in
company to -day that his father' was
born some way back in the reign of
George 11, the remaek would na-
turally startle those who hoard it.
Yet such is the case -With the pre -
'sent Earl of Leicester, whose father
was born in 1752; so that 1.13e two
lives of father and eon have cov-
ered ,150 years.
HOVELS SHEllta 11111
TaA,B4, FIELD 11 cANADA x'og,
TILE Rica COLLECTOR.
Valuable Pieces t 914 unen, oat-
lery 4344 Fierniture Are to
viirichold
de seltie C L nY
ewesr L.41 Ottawa, Was oz i a§.1 b:11
Ecttied in great part. by tetageae iroui
iretand, who left, the old sod at, the
time of the nRibbon men" oisturte
notes- tinoY of these were ol 3000
tracing their deeceet Lack
through geuerutieus, end broutelit
With them Itch -too= wnich wetted
uow be of great value to antiquate
iiins could their deeeendunes be in-
duced to part with them.
One aged cooing inhabiting ter-
ribly oet ellanty in the Isownsitip of
Low, with not a carpet or a bit of
pottery in the Memo, sat down with
their visitor to dinner, at a table set
with it 'wonderfully snowy damask
tablecloth I kid with silver fii$11 COV.,
CM end ettlimy ot unitenistielly great
value, And eon eepery and silver
was elegantly traced an earl's cordate
et.
"Behmged to nty own old mother,,
so kt did, explained the denote
though
":itelr'elatunIl4:e
rjspoeseslon:idnotPPeor4ld
rentemtering several things about
the ups and downs of feetelles end
lioeses in the diFtreSsful land, it, did
not seem Whitt LE) push the inquiry
very far.
At total -her house in the sue.e
tome:kip the good wife WrIS exhibit-
ing' the fine Irish linen her grund.
mother had woven with her own
hands. But dainty though it un.
doulitedly wee, she could net there.
with .win the attention of tier Arrest
froornkttnitynli:idil,,niald tebinet of alleient
t
WHEREIN IT WAS icErT.
"it's a bit of an helrloota
satars.." she eaplalped; It %Vila' Jim's
greedfrither gave it to WM when be
died, and a Meg, or maybe It was 4
big Lord, 1 don't know, had given le
to the old Marl to keep his papers
ler him, when he Conte over to Am-
erice to rght for Col. Washington
agan the dirty old Parlienuatt. Ile
Got. auy of the Repent") No. but I
got tin dollars for a big bundle or
the old etilth from it wee Blip Of rt
,•oung chap as wanted to Print a
book about them, the thee the rail-
road was building,. Tin altars.
Tin dollars. Whet do ye think of
that now?"
oAlt, It aloog„" she !alight...4 when
told that her cabinet wee worth it
good many ten:. "it's just it fine
elteet, it notices for the linen, and niv-
el, it bit will I ever part with It.
anyway. Maybe 191 le after leaving
R. to ye, when I die."
The greatest trenaure in another
hnootur terneteentriedillYy 1H:tits:eV on undated
a pogo
torn from a note book mill signed
"Wellington." In It some soldier Is
thenked for ”venturieg amidst con -
enterable danger" to perform a cer-
tain service for him, and he express-
es regret for an Injury received which
it, le to he hoped "will not Prevent
Your vowing our King and country”
in the future. Thol the note, Proba-
bly written on a battleeeld, borne a.
celebrated, say a Waterloo date. the
old man who treasured it would hove
been able to make reinly and Itera-
tive sale of the fatuous general's au-
tograph. its owner insisted thatellie
paper "smelts strong of powder." but
his visitor Otought it was only it.
faint odor of stale tobacco, which
lieng about the refit.
Speaking of these antieuities one
nielit to an intelligent Scotch settler
in Masharn, an toljoining township,
led to his „producing a tiny trunk full
of musty old papers and curiosities.
soma of them of greet value from an
archaeologiettl point of view. There
were old guild and borough tichete
bearing fumous names, admitting the
heads nf the family to certain „rights
and privileges in the city of Glas-
gow, running back over
TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
One newspneer of 1707 contained
an account of the eXectition of some
of the mutineers of the Nore, and
despatches from Admiral Jervis -and
others describing their success
abroad in the bitter war which was
then raging. Bereand there it. name
had been enderscored giving the rea-
son, doubtless, for the preservation
of the paper. • The light of some
home had probably gone out when
that now tattered old newspaper
had brought to the house the brief
mention of the death of father, son
or husband.
There were sangrias coins in a good
state of preservation principally
from eastern cotmtries. Noticeable
among these were some of the old
coinage of Siam, lumps of silver
about the size and shape of the first
*joint of the thumb, with an odd of-
ficial stamp at one of the ends. And
OE number of cowry shells strung to-
gether showed that there had been
some connection with the African
coast, where suet shells were until
receet years the only currency.
Bet, the most"precioue find to one
of a literary tura was mede while
turningover Clarge bundle -of re-
ceipts from tradesmen in Scotland,
which, with true native thriftiness,
Mr. Presentee preserved among his
family papers. This was an unpub-
lished letter from none other than
Robbie Boras himself, showing the
famous poet at his best, as a sympa-
thizing; kindly Man of heart. Fol-
lowing
elo:vi.6d
neis a
'n exact copy of ,the pre-
cious document:
R. Burns, Dr., to G. Turnbull, for
fie copies f his poems at 2s. xt.--
Is
Dear send you bY John
Gleefer, carrier, the above amount
Par Mr. ,Turnbull, as I suppose you
have, his address.
I would fain offer, ray dear sir, a
word of sympathy with your misfor-
tunes, but it is a tender thing„ and
I know not how to touch, it. .pt„„ia
easy to flourish a set of high-flown
sentiments that welled give great sat-
isfaction to "a breast quite at ease"
but as one observes -whohwas seldom
mistaken ilt the theory of life, "The
heart kilowatt its own sorrows en.d
a stranger internieddletb not there --
with." Among creme ,distrettsful ewe
ergeaciee that I hese• exeerienced. I
ever laid this down as my founda-
tion of oemfort, "that he who hoe
lived the life ef an boxiest ma.n beet
by no Means lived in vein.'"
With every wish for your welfare
and fueure success, I am. ayear
eir, Pineerely yours, J
Robert Burnie:
Eiletdeed, May 28. 17$9-
tir. Hamilten, Grocer,
n rerga W Gnsgow.
After eiglaieg sech a treasure as
h is the sigt atures of -Argyle,'"
"Bennie" toid, or other noblea wio
toolt-fer themselves the mattes Which
teteng to altole sectionS of the coml.
try did not sOatl worth netieing, al-
though the little trurat Contained
many of them. The poet's letter le
worth more than stacks of themtor
time proves the inttnenee truth the
peeserit poet wrote in the lines;
a be rank is hut the guinea StaelP2
The must's the gewd for a' that.
CBANI3FRRY FA VORITES.
cranberry Piolling-Beae together
1 cup sugar end a tablespoons Jenne*
and add 2 beCtteti eggs an,Ll. fttp
Milk, Sift 8 cups flour 2 t%tanattila
baking powder together, one 13 culla
erenberries. Four into a battered
!wadies; dish, and nake la a feeder -
ate oven, Servo hot with a liquid
sauce.
Cranberry Wine-eScald qte bee.
ries, until they are scat And Orokeet.
Strain through it cloth. MAIM Li
e,voup of 2 ilia sugar and 1, qt water.
Mix with the stramed juice wnile bot
ond add water enougk to make 4
tits. ilottle end seal,
Creneerry Pie-Ihree cups chopped
cranterriee. 3 cups sogar. I table.
spoon coinstereh wet in it, little Wats,
er, und lill up the eup with boiling
water; mix together end hatte be.
tWettit two cruets. This :tutees two
pies.
Canadian Cranberry Pudding -Sift
Into a large bowl 2 cups flour and *
teaspoon Faits mix into this 4 cup
molasses ard en3 cup sour milk. In
which I leasPoon sono has been die.
solved. Add 1 beaten egg And 1•11
cup.s eranherriee, turn into a butter*
ed pudding dish and steam 1-4
hours. anti serve with it eweet
Cream Seecce-To mike a bowlful'',
taheit piece of butter Klee at nnutli
egg and beat it with 4 cup powdered
eugar until It is a light. errant, Ftlt
1 cofree cup water le a mien tin
,Eaurepan. arid add 1 teaspoon !Iola
rubbed in it little cold water. Cook
,until it is :hie a thin starch. Pour
, ft slowly lino tee creamed butter. If
the heating he not :lowed, the
whole sauce will rise and he foamy
as sea froth. Flavin, to liking.
Another Cream Melee -One eup
powdered sugar. 1 egg. 2 clips whip-
,' red ;Team. Beat the white of the
!egg to a AO: froth. add the yolk rind
segue apd heat well. Flavor 'sett
vanitia, lemon or wine, and add the
cream last.
CARY.?
LehlOrl Poll 'hree ee'ers, 1. etIP due
gar, 1 tablespoon inlIk, 1 cup flour,
•
1 tearpoon taking powder. Bake
quickly In n. small dripping pan.
Turn out and spread an the cream as
coop. as possible after baking.
Cream for Lemon Roil -One cop
sugor, 1 lemon cnt fine. 1 egg well
beaten. Cook all together until
dome and set it to cool while you
mix the rate.
Sunehine Cake -One cup huger, 1
cup flour. 7 eggs, 1 teaspoon cream
tartar and it. piuth of salt. Beat
whites of eggs very light, add pinch
of salt, then the cream tartar. then
the yolks well beaten. then the flour
and one teaspoon. vanilla:
Fogless Cake -One and one-half
cups huger, 1. cup molasses, 4 cup
butter, 1 tup sour milk, 1 tenspoon
soda. 8 cups flour, 1 clip raisins and
spices to taster
Roxbury Cake -One and one-bAlf
cups butter. 2 cups sugar, 1 cup
ruisins. 14. cups milk, 3 eggs, 4 cups
flour, 2 teaspoons baking rowder,
salt and nutmeg
Raised Doughnuts -One pint sweet
milk, e pt lard, 1 pt sugar. 8 eggs,
Mix soft at night, using the milk,
half the sugar nod lard and pt
least. In the morning a.dd the rest
of the turd and sugar with the eggs.
1 nutmeg and a little soda. Xnead
well and raise; when light roll out
thin and after- cutting let rise again
before frying. One-half beef suet and
one-half lard is better to fry them in
than all lard.
Aiwa Cake -Three fourths tumbles
gegen i.iannbler flour, * teaspoon
salt, * teaspoon cream tartar, white1
of 4 eggs. Mix salt and Meath tars
tar with the 'flour.
Snow Cake -Two cups sugar, 4. cult
butter, 1 cep sweet milk, 8 cups
tlour, 8 teaspoons baking powder and
whites of 5 eggs. take in deep,
square tins. The following day eat
in two-inch squares, taking off the
outside, and leaving it all white. Talc(
each piece on a fort,, frost upon all
sides and roll in freshly grated c,ocoar
nut.
•
SNOW DEFeenCES,
Snow is a substance which otters it
most surprising resistance to pene-
tration by a rifle bullet; far mere
indeed, than wood. Experiments
made in Norway have shown that a
snow wall four feet thick is absolute-
ly proof against the Norwegian ar-
my rifle; which; byethe Way is el
quite exceptional piercieg pe)vee; end
ahat at all ranges front fifty yards
Lip t,o, hale a mile. This at:go-eels a
now means of daience in winter cam,
p i. nlng, ancl scow is far more easily
and quickly handled than earth or
sandbags.
EGGS AS CURRENT COIN.
In seine parts of Peru -ter example
in the Province cif Jauja-hen's eggs
ate circulated es small seine, forty
to hitY being cbunted for a dollar.
In the inarlet places and in *he
shops the Indians snake most -of
their purchases with this brittle sort
of money. (inc will -glee two or
three eggs -for brandy, another for
indigo itrid a, third for cigarse These
eggs are packed in boxes by the
shop -keepers and sent to Lima, From
Jauja alone several thousand loads
of eggs are anntially forwarded to
the capital.