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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-09-21, Page 2TIIE SENSE OF THE IINSEEriIOME. **`? *:iii: The Earth is the Lord"s and He Gives it ***********> to Those Who Have Eyes to See "While we look not at the things tt1ich are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things weich are seen are temporal, but the thine,: which are not seen are eter- nal.-- 11. Cor. iv., 18. Looking on things not. seen. That souut;s like either fantney or fully. 'Vet. it is plain fact, practical, and certainty essential to any sucecss. Ile is blip i who can see only unit Lis eyes, and he only is sensible who knows there aro many Viings be- yond his senses. Practical men con- sider all the factors ta every prob- lem, and things aro not loss real to theta because they may chance to be intangible. 'The unseen things are imminent to us always. There are many things not yet pigeon holed t y our science nor catalogued by our philosophies. You can dissect a daisy and (numer- ate its parts; but you never know a daisy until you have seen .ho un- seen things thereof, until you havo felt the subtle nppeal of its beauty. ilobbie Burns saw more Of the daisy than the greatest botanist without his spiritual eyes. The danger is that in our hard wc•rkaday we shall forget the reality of the uneven, we shall get to think that gold and steel and land are the only real things, and we shall shape ourselves by the Iliad and base creed of gold, and steel, and land. How catty it is to measure every ' man. by his possessions IN TANGIBLE THINGS. Ifow easy to make these our chief end in life, to slight the reap prizes, the unseen wealth that lies so close at hand or already posses. ed. while tee rush and strive for the rainbow of riches. Deep within us we know that he is rich, and he alone, who has wisdom, love, patience, who possesses friends, who creates kindly thoughts, whose life with simple joy abounds. Once again and often do we needs to see Runyan's picture of the man bending over his refuse. gathered with the muck rake, and heedless of the an- gel holding the crown that only waits his taking. A man is wealthy according to what is within him. His greatness is of the things that are unseen. '1`here are limits to the possession and the use of the things that are seen; but who shall set a Ihmit to u mat's possible wealth in love and honor, in w•isdumn 00(1 integrity, in all the things that (sake ap the soul of roan? Fate are the things that. n WOO Illny held for his own uIl the days of his life, and fewer still are those he may grasp with pleasure when the hands are fulling helpless by his side. 'tut litany are lite riches he may have to hold for- ever in the pings of the .unseen. Many u mon walks through rho fields penniless and yet rich •r far than their owner; to biro the birds sing, for hint the flowers blown, to his eyes there are beauties in the blue boyend all words. and all the 'steeliness of the fair land lifts his heart within hits. The other man who holds the title deeds sees no - thin;; beside thein. Possession ds ,wholly a matter of appreciation. It is the eye to see the unseen that gives wealth to the unseen. VALUES DEPEND ON VISION. Appreciation does not prevent pos- session; it. stakes the possession ac- tual. stual. And the vision of the realties behind things keeps a mean from the sense of destitution where all things are taken from hhn. Ile cannot be destitute. Ile may lose alt his fel- lows, but he cannot be friendless; the Father of Spirits cannot lose him, nor can he be cut oft from fellowship with those who die no more. The string eye is the stimulus to the worth while endeavor. The in- ventors who have enriched the world endured derision seeing the things invisible to others. The truth is that it is the unspiritnal world that makes the least progress in things material. The ►nen of faith and vis- ion are back of all advance. They have endurance, patience, and strength. Tho sense of another world where motives are rightly measured, the sense of a great cloud of worthy twitnesues to other eyes in- visible. the sense of reward in the very service itself, rewards intang- ible yet most real, the joy of sacri- fice and service, these all enable one to push on, to toil, to endure. Then. long afterwards, the dull eyed world sees and understands. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 24. Lesson XIII. Third Quarterly Re- view. Golden Text, Pita. 121.5. AN ANALYSIS OF T111: QUAR- TER'S LESSON. I. The Lessons in 'I'inte. During the past threw months we have had twelve lessons on the (!e - cline and fall of the kingdom of Ju- dah and the exile. Our lest leeson front (ho Old Testament, December litalchinh that was in the court of tho prison, to the gate of Benjamin where the king sat, unci back to the court of the prison. Lesson X des- cribes the exile from Jerusalem to Itnbylon. Lesson X1 is in or near Tel-abib, on the river (licher, in Babylonia; and lesson XiI in Baby- lon. 11I. The Teachings of the i, woes. Tho Golden Text for the Qunrter contains the gist of all teachings, "The Lord .is thy keeper," the keep- er of all those who trust in hint. The overthrow of Semmcherib, the cure of iteruMiain the promise of the Saviour and his gracious lnvi• at ien. the forgiveness of even such a hard- , 1(d sinner as Manasseh. lh.t irro'• i 11, 11104, a study of the Captivity, •'once winch preserve, the book •d of tho Ten 'tribes, eras dated about the law in the ruined temple and 721 B. C. Lesson 1 of the 'Third' reproduced the burned roll, the lov- Q►'arter, aennacherib's Invasion, we ing-kindness manifested to the ro- may date about twenty( years later phet in the dungeon, the exiles' jeur- than that, perhaps 11. C. 701 or 1((w across the wilderness, Dais 1 in 699. liezekinh's Sickicss and Pray(r linbelon, the tt inn of the life-giving (Lesson 11) ca1ne shortly after 11. stream with its promise's—all these C 701, and perhaps three , r four indicate that .Jehovah in the kee)'er years curlier than the prophecies of of those who trust in hint. the Sufh'ring Saviour (Lca::ott 111) 1111(1 rho (Gracious Invitation (Leeson IV) hal been spoken. Manasseh (L•s0n V) reigned lifty-live years. (runt about Ii C. 694 10 I1 (' 6•110 ♦ -- THE SKIN OF THE '1'i:r'rtl. speaking of 1110 somewhat. popular IturiIg the month of .1uly, when nil lack of familiarity with the Bible, these lessons were studied, we come •i4iency is not conlin4'd to unlettered passed perhaps sixty historical years it deserves to be SAM that this de - In 1.eeemis VI and VII Josiah's reign people, in n recent nrtirle on the chute under our survey. lie reigned political crisis in England Justin thirty-one years,prohnhly from It.' McCarthy quotes the expression, "by C. 639 to 608. in the thirte. nth the skin of his teeth," and paienthi- ycar of his reign .ler, mirth began to 1 culls n apologizes ologitre.p}u n8e. or using h0 lroxprcn- at he prophesy. The book of the law twas' Cion ds quite commonly rated as (lisrovered in the eightecu1h year et S1011 by very intelligent people. A his reign, 11. U. 621. leawnn9 't111 i cynical cu ,•hint rll on this expres- nnd IX give its glimpses of the long sion calls it nu Uzism, for the ren - and heartbreaking r trot g;le of 1110 4 sort that .lob us Iglnally mn(10 use of pruphct Jerminh against the bitter I. in his jailing;s, Saitti .101) in his opposition of Josiah'r: wicked and I nineteenth chapter. twentieth terse. f( n)hnrdy successors, The burning .,I am escaped with the skin of my 11. of the roll n .leholnkirn is dated , teeth."—Iluston Herald. C. (101, and .lorentlah's cenGne- fnerit in the dtunge•on ur cistern of + llfalehiuli 11. C. 58£1. Thee fuer les- TIM LINGERIE 141.(►t?tiI:. s( 1(9 wcro studied in the mnonth of 1 August. `:ctrtenth•r brought us 'Ik•spile 1()p consideration of seneon thr.e 1.' sons: Leeson X, the over- and satiety, the lingerie blouse throw of Jerusalem, and the exile of shows no sign of abdication. but is .11141811, 4otered 11. (', 5117 to ;86. etret•gthening its rule with nil man - The prophecy from 1-..ktel to which err of new enticement of eitihroi- w4' give the title '' 1'110 Life-giving; dory, of Ince. and of f,hniueie. ')lie Stream" was spoke 11 nl.out 11. C. shops are showing it ugh the sue_ l'.70. And if an historical date is to ce 8 of a no,elty. 'The only `uigt:.'s- be Ind to the 'I'cngmrti1100 Le's'(o11 it tit-eness of tinftttiess lies in ilii uhvi- 11ill not rrobahly 1 o 'cry far trent 1005 siemeprtlibilily with nee) under - R. l'. 14. .4. garteet ts. A ntcrine or et011 spun II. The Lcssene in Place..silk shirt sl rte r. vented Ihnnit:.h i` j Iwasoms' 1, ill 111, 1V, V. l'1, 1.11, :lrnnspnrrnt weaving is undeniable Vlld. IX, and X nee all date 1 f rain .1('1.11salein. with other es e.;.:edit 111 CO!! 11111 iota, however. Lesson I re-; fern to the siege of 1,nehi'h 1•y See- eia.':et ib. The sceee of lessen 11 is 11, I<irege palace•, .1..ees'1• stn. lied of t, Leesene 111 and 1\' probablein the I resid.nee of the pr l•:•.t Isaiah. Iles - soy. V htgi: s In the r(•yitl patine in • .1,ra=nl/m tial brings to tiew horri- Ile• tiles in the valley et the son of llinro 11), the t14 -Ing of ylanttseeh fetters ncruss the desert to llalr,lnn, his penitence elle:,', amid his ti• n to Jtrusat,•nn. in le s•en \ 1. we lour t;% with Je : fah from the', rI gal palace 1hro"g 11 pill .1edith and' the clefs of \l;,r. s.ch, 1'itl;rnim. flim^an, an:! \:;phi •:'. 83a128 \ If and 1. III shier se the 1,ene .• r. .111'284t1/r'1 ns tt• 1! r ' the u-oy'nl nee in 1.'YYo11 1X t•.e cr.n(lucte•l trete Place to p'le ••• t'. it' 4:1 tt.e 1 (- Meier' Meier' city (,f Jere Mem to the ►ing's palace, to the d.:n•,taon of disastr•mes to PRect. The thin „ilk or mull flip the I nlerlcen women wears is the only solution to the problem. 1\11hnut it 1110 lingerie waist for winter clear is impossible. i(I:Lleill ;a 1•'111 VAN .1t. Artichoke Pickle—Scrap: and soak artichokes two hours in brine made of one teacup salt and one gallon cold water. Season with cloves, mustard seed, coriander seed, mace, allspice and black pepper and enough apple vinegar to cover artichokes. Place artichokes in jars, and pour over them the t inegar, cold. It will be ready to use in one month. Green 'tomato Soy—Slice 4 quarts green tomatoes without. paring. and chop six unions very fine. i'ut the whole into a preserving kettle with one qt. vinegar, 1 lb sugar, one tablespoon 0001 of salt, ground • tard and black pepper, and halt teaspoon ground cloves and all -spice. Add two tablespoons celery seed, stir thoroughly and piuee over a slow tire. Ilring skittle to the boil and stew gently until the tomatoes are absolutely tender and soft. Taste, and if necessary add a little more salt or seasoning, then pack into jars while still hot. Close tightly and store in a cool, dark place and When hanging meat In thef blarder ries d one teas adpuunful o Griot, which not only keeps things cleaner, but puts a nice gloss on them. Paraffin can I•,• used the second time to cover i ' esti(' jam if it is 114 shed clean and boiled lee '.u'e being turned over the fruit again. When hanging meat in the larder 1t is well not to put the metal hook through the meat itself, but through a loop of string tied on the joi t The short ends of candles are satisfactory to start a lire since they burn with a steady till the kindling 811(1 wood is ignited. - .tellies etre of a liner flavor when Ole sugar is mot boiled long with the juice. Unpainted wire netting not only makes a good rest for flatirons when several thicknesses are used, but is most effectual to clean them on. Sleeves made of rubber sheeting • with elastics at wrist and elbow are convenient to tai) on schen washing the dishes, if ono is dressed for the afternoon. The label on a glass jar will keep clean and in place Lunger if pasted on the inside. Of course, this oule applies where dry materials are used, such 88 rice, tapioca, etc. It is said flies will not congregate on the outside of a screen door if the woodwork is rubbed occasionally n. m1USt with, flame well let stand six weeks before serving. with kerosene, the odor of which Chili() Colorow—'Phis is a most ap- seems to be offensive to them. petizing pickle. Peel, slice and put Leather that has become dull and over the fire in a preserving kettle j shabby looking may be very much the following good things: Four improvtel in appearance by being rub - quarts tomatoes, 1 pint fresh pep- beef over with the white of an egg, pers or 1-3 pt. dried ones without well beatem seeds, and 1 pit. onions; add brown Add a little vinegar to the water sugar, 14 pts. vinegar, quarter oz.. in which stockings are rinsed after each ground cloves and cinnamon, , icing washed, then dry then) wrong one-eighth oz. each ground ginger `lett'- out, and neither black nor and mtace, and 2 o4.. salt. Boil fancy stockings will fade or lose their gently for three hours, stirring often lustre. enough to prevent burning. just ns' The southern laundress ties a lump catchup would be boiled. When the est arrowroot in a thick cotton sauce is done cool it and put it up i cloth, and boils it with the line like other pickles. white pieces to give theme a dainty Chow-Chow—'this chow -chow is de -i odor more deligtful than that from licious. To make a moderate quare -1 sachet powder. tity, allow 1 qt. large cucumbers, 2! To revive patent leather first rub qts. small gherkins, 2 qts, small , with a linen rug soaked wtth olive button onions and 6 green peppers. oil or milk and polish with a dry, Slice the large cucumbers and chop:soft duster. Cream and linseed oil in the green peppers and soak all the equal parts are a good polish for ingredients together in salt water : patent leather boots. ilefure beginning to sweep see that no food is left uncovered in the roost. Sweep from the edges of the room toward the centre. Sweep with short strokes, kecpittg the broom vinegar, 2 cups sugar, 1 oz. turmeric, close to the floor. and 1 cup flour mixed to a smooth Never attempt to do anything that is not right. .Just as sure as you tin you will get into trouble. If you /ten suspect that anything is wrong do nut (lo it until you are wire your suspic' .• aro groundless. 1Vhen washing dishes or glasses which have contained milk or milky puddings, rinse the receptable in cold water before (lipping it into the usual warm water for washing, and the curds of the milk may be readily removed. 'Those with tender feet may be glad to know that a hole punched on eith- er side of patent leather boots or shoes just at the Instep, about one inch from the sole, will, in walking, i•urnp in the air and tend to keep the (••et cool. This recipe for removing stains from table )hien comes down from old Puritan times. liold the linen up to tl:c light to snake sure that et cry stain is 100(1(0(1. With a needle drew a colored thread through each spot, if there are ninny, to snake sura that none are missed, or place n pin in the spot. Itub each stain in sweet milk. removing the colored thread before welting. The smaller and paler stains will disappear quick- ly. Coffer, tea and cocoa, when a whole cup hits Iwen spilled, are the most stubborn, but keep dipping, squeezing and rubbing, until the ar- ticle is perfectly white. Change the milk as it becomes discolored. Fruit. vegetable. meat or drink stains can bo completely ('redicatell by this course. Nor 11111 it Injure colored embroidery. for 24 hours. Then ttttsh well in fresh water and let stand for a few hours to drain. To 1 gallon vinegar add 24 tablespoons English tllustard, mixed to a paste with a little cold paste with tt little cold water. Place the vinegar over the fire and stir continually until it has boiled for five minutes. Throw in the pickles, let scald up thoroughly, then remove from the lire and stand over night. In the morning drain ell the vinegar, add 1 teaspoon curry powder, again bring. to a scalding point and pour over the pickles. 1.47t• gland until cold, pack in small jars and seal tight. Stuffed Peppers To make thor- oughly delicious stuffed peppers after a famous southern recipe, choose green peppers of an equal elect and to each dozen allow one small cabbage. 6 onions, 1 oz. mnstnrd seed, half or.. ground mace, 1 oz. turmeric. 1 gal. vinegar, to which has been add- ec1 2 tablespoons salt and 1 each of ground cloves and allspice. ('ut the i cabbage and onions into quarters, pour boiling brine over thein and let stand for two days, and then drain and dry in the sun. Core the peppers and put therm In Urine for 24 , hours. 11'hen the cnbl age and onions are quite dry, chop them very foe and add app the other ingredients with the exception of the vinegar.: Heat the vinegnr until boiling hot, pour ever the mixture until it is well covered and stir thoroughly and let stand for n few minutes. Wipe the peppers free of moisture. inside .t and out, then fill Then with the hot mixture and lie on the covers or tops. which ?mot be saved when the peppers are cut and cored. Pack they peppers in a stone jar and cover with colt' vinegar. They will be ready for eating in n month's time, but are improved by standing still longer, and will keep through the winter. Pic'kkel Gherkins—Select 5110111, first gherkins, put them in a 810110. jar and cover with a strong brine, placing a 1 into on top to keep them ! from floating, and stir them up well from the bottom every two days until the expiration of two weeks.' At the end of that time drain off 11.' brine. throw away any of the gher- kins that may have become soft noel corer the remainder with fresh wa- ter. i.et Bland for 21 hours, change 1 the water, and let stand again for another day. Gnth'r fre-h. green grape knees and with theta line the', preserving kettle. 1 ern in the gher- kins free of water and place them in the kettle. sprinkling each layer t'lth a tiny bit of alma. (Sage the gher-, kims with cold tet11 • • s• rend - two, inyers of grail' 11 ter, , •• ..0 the top end (211144' Onto over ;1 t:..lierate (ire. • Let Iitem In•al hloul1 toad 9inurei' gently for five bourn. Then throw them into very cold water and !et stand %%bile the tine. nr is in pre-: pnrat 1,al. ?,li :1enre vine 110 enough to ; cover the gherkins, and put it into a 1 I/1ITOaiII line (1 kettle. Fill a lin ling with n !urge 1upful of mixer) I spices—whole clunes, nllsplce. 1 (eel percents. stick eh -meteor. nnietatit • seeds and it few Endes of mace. strop the hag into the vinegar and pet it holt for two minutes brain ell the. wntcr or the gherkins, pack theta in • jars, and pour over them the hot • i vinegar. Cover And store in cool, Ctll'Ft•:1: Ill{1\fit\(G Si'ANIARDS. Even of wine, so chca;• and nben- dant in Spain, the not ices seem 1,1 use very little. They are frightfully intetnpernte. holteter, in their use of tobacco nn(1 ride0. '11•e clerk who t:•kes his morning cup 1(t 0 hits an- other at his (leek en neer later, pur- eha.tsI from n street ten ter '1he lusinees men. paeeicg thro'gth the .tae. is, pause while a fellow who carriert hot corals, het intik, sugar and epeons berme -feel upon hive •.•rues them on the sl:ewnll:. 1f th • Spaniard does not rninke in 1 is sleep it Is his t••,'y re: !rite from the habit. Clark piece. They should not le (lie- ttirhe(1 for six the. test coins when silver vas called in. 111\TS FOit iiOMI•; i.ii'1'. A SIMI'f.l: MAN. It takes a neighbor to disentangle n man from n handsome setting. A good nanny years ago, when Wordsworth was poet laureate of England, a worthy Cumberland yeo- man walked ninny miles, 11) response to 11Idely scattered notices, to hear the "poet laureate" address n meet- ing. When he discovered who held the high-sounding title, he left the hall in indignation. "'Twits nobbul oil Wadsworth 'o itydal, ester awl" he said, scornfully, un his return to his funnily. With:It E. HAMill Nt4 COM I' (•'ICOM. The greatest of the world's manu- factories of hairpins is at. Pains - wick, a village hititatcd in the Stroud Valley at the foot of the Cotswolds, i•:lighted. 'i'11(re are no ��+o+c�♦�a+�i+o+o+�a+�♦�►+o+�a+o+o+o+�a+o+o•0+>6�+�a+� CANADA'S PROGRESS Great Development in the Past Thirty Years. G+ +<t+tt+44))+Ki+D+0+tt+o+IR+0+Ut♦40+G+o+0+c4+*N+ Exhibition time 45 a periud of steels -toting. We think, then, of ear progress in the past, and we re- flect cflect upon the outlook for the fu- ture. Can it bo that we have made great strides? Is it probable that we shall go forward in the. years to conte as rapidly as etre have hith- erto advanced? The question as to the past is answered by the statis- ties relating to the business of the country. Here we bud that in thir- ty years—that is, (rete 1871 to 14101 —we have increaser) the area of land under eultitntion from 17,000,000 ; acres to 30,000,000 acres. 'Phis !means that 130,000 hundred -acro farms have been made productive, anti that roost has been found for 050,000 more dependents upon agri- culture. THE MONEY Tiller' MAKE. It is not possible to estimate how much tuoney the farming industry snakes compared with what it earned thirty yenrS ago. But the export figures show that it sent out of the country $98,000,000 worth of pro- ducts in 11.04, whereas in 1874—thir- ty years earlier—its sales were but $19,341,000. A jump of $80,000,- 000; in round figures, is an enorm- ous increase in tete business. But of course, the agricultural interests do not derive all their income from foreign sales. There 1s a great and growing home demand, which is most veil:able to the farmer. The details of the exports show some marvelous facts. 'rake, for example, the case of cheese. In 1874 we ex- ported $3,523,000 worth; but in 11904 the exportations were $24,- 184,000 worth. Take, again, bacon and hams. in 1874 the quantity sold abroad was 20,237,000 pounds; in 1901 the quantity was 127,943,- 000 pounds. Once more we have la remnrkable revelation in the cat- s le• sales. We sold 2021 steers to Great iritain, valued at 814,200, in 1874. But lasy year—thirty years later—our sales were 148,301, and the value was $10,046,000. stere is n business that has been ':rented during the period mentioned. MiNERAL AND O'l'IIER PRODUCTS Outside of farming; we have made !great progress. Our gold produc- ' t ion has jumped froth $2,000,000 in 1874, to $16,400,000 in 1904. Of this latter suer the comparatively newly discovered Yukon contributes $10,000,000. Our coal production has jumped fron 1,000,000 tons in 1874, to 7,500,000 in 1904. Our fisheries have doubled in value. They yielded 311.000,000 worth of fish in 1874 and 823,000,000 worth past year. The forests have also brought us greater returns. The exported output netted e27.:08,nn0 in 1874, whereas the figure for 1904 is $36,- 725,000. One of the circumstances contributing to this increase is the utilization of spruce for paper wink- ing. The pulpwood dev,'inpment has be:n very great and very important. Passing from the producing depart- nlents to other branches, some curi- ous and interesting facts are to be found. One is in (he postal ser- f ice. Thirty year.; ago 39,358,000 letters and postcards passed through the post -office. in 1904 the :number of letters and postcards handled was 286,368.000. This indicates tre- mendous augmentation of gets•ral hmsinesg. Everybody is writing about something now -a -days. iIANKING Di:Vili.OI.Mi:I'. Very marked has been tho develop- ment of the !milking interest. In '1874 the banks were lending to the people fur the purpose of trade the 8(1111 eof $131,000,000. Thirty years later the discounts amounted to $509,000,000. =Iltis points to a vast increase in the business et the coun- try, and to the development of es large Humber of new undertakings. While the banks have thus increased their accommodation to the public, the people havo added to the facill- tics of the banks, for the deposits pato grown wonderfully. In 1874 the public had confided $77,000,000 to the care of the banks, but in 1904 there was no less than 8170,- 000,000 on deposit. Ilere is on ad- ditioof $-100,000,00(1 to the finan- cial n resources of the people in thir- ty years. But this figure scarcely does justice to this side of the question. because there aro deposits In the Post -office banks and in tho loan companies, and these havo' grown proportionately. WHAT INSURANCE COSTS. An idea of the rate r,t whish the property values are growing can bo gathered from the fact that the in- surance against lire has greatly aug- mented In 187.1 the value of pro- perty covered, or the amount at risk, was 8806,000.000. At the pry sent time the figures is 31,218,000,- 000! 1,18,000;000! The amount of property In- sured has multiplied by four. to 1874 the public paid $8,522,000 for this insurance against fire. In 1904 the amount paid for such insurance was 813,000,000. But life insur- ance exhibits greater strides than does fire insurance—probably because It is a later -day necessity. The amount for which Canadians were insured in 1874 was $85,000,000. In 1904 Canadians were insured for 1587,000,000! We paid 12,844,000 for life insurance in 1874, and $19,- 969,000 for the same servlce, ex- tended, in 190.1. Few people can realize the fact that for all sorts of- insurance—fire, life, marine, and so forth, we paid $37,500,000 in 1904. The interests that cull for this pro- tection are by no [Weans insignifi- cant. RAILWAY PROGRESS. Very remarkable Is the railway progress of the country, as exhibit- ed by the official figures. In 1874, we had 4,85(1 miles of railway. By' 1904 the mileage wns 19.431, exclu- sive xclusive of electric roads, which were already numerous. The railways earned $19,470,000 in 1874, and ex- actly $100,219,000 in 1904. Here is an ir,crense of $80,000,000 in tho revenues. There were 5,190,000 pas- sengers carried in 15►;4, and 23,610,- 000 itt 1904. Of freight, the rail- ways carried 5,670,000 tons in 1874 and 48,000,000 tons ht 1904, Tho growth of business Indicates that the trade of Canada has extended, and that the movement of popula- tion is more marked. Of course, much is to he attributed to Ole de- velopment o-vclopment of the West. That coun- try has called for facilities for it- self, and it has increased the de- mand for travel in the East, CANADA IN '1'111: FUTURE. We have made great progress. But we have merely commenced. Canada is really but at the beginning of a' history that tells of agricultural, in- dustrial and commercial advance- ment. The Canada that is to 137 will be a country of great wealth, and of vast opportunities for all. With our fast developing West aid- ing 118, the achievements of the past are as nothing compared to those that are yet to bo experienced. OPIUM FROM THE POPPY. How the Drug is Extracted and Made Into Dells. The preparation of "raw" o, nen in North India is, nc•curding to the 'Tropical Agricu`luriet, carried ot,t as follows: - In -February, es n rule, the Ji•ice is gathered, the 1 et !4' plant hen, .; then in hull flower mat of a heleht of three or four feel, each sl• 111 1•u • e 1, from two to five cal soles vi the : 1 e of a duck's ogg. Before the ca.:. Its aro pierced, the fallen pi tals of the flowers are carefully gathered and sorted according to condition, in three ggrndes, and then are heated over a slow fire nn(I formed loco thin cakes, to be used for the covering of the drug ellen toilcctcd. The piercing of 11,0 pools requires great skill, and upon it largely de- pends o-pends the cit id. The (Titan farmer and his assistants each carr;: a smell fewer thin jinn pr•rse,o4 employe(1 in lanrrlike` tont, tvl1- 1) has (line or ,-wcr four s turning out these trines of the bon- short, !Atari) prongs and with doir, end hu11rin d� of uul'tmatie nun- this a half (hien pet-pee:II afar cuts chine me in constant eperrtt ion are made 1n each eideeile er s; (•d pod of tate poppy. T1 a juice hegira to 1rnnsft'r►ning utile.; of wire into tuns flow at once, bet quickly 4e(tg eels. finished Pi - SILVIat COIN 1NS('It1I'T1O'ti. To read nn inscription r.1( a lilyr cunt, which by touch weer has 1,e - come oiliternted, hi at a poker red- hot and place the coin upon it. The Inscription will plainly appear, of a greenish hue, but will disappear ns the coin cools. This method wag formerly prnctheel 0t the Mitt to A little lemon juice added to the; venter when mixing will make the, '1tli:".A1.1, 110Y, lie knows nee• !et steer Coii.tth Or 41' •1 r i ra ei.s twee fell, rot- tiro esio pit hies ore over And Christnu8 trees ntv (dived. g 4 A 1111111'St 4 !. ai W4alifle i•t rl\t•.1;: s married to sour' o!! •'t• feltntt•. Time mayh•' • t tenet, 4"7 '!:';• e • time in jai! ire': a relnee•:,Ili•e cup'nt ion. ',wary light. Buileel caelleotter tt111 be much whiter if placed in the saucepan head •luau• to insure their 8ubinersiun. When eggs are to he kept. for any length of lime they should be stood on 0.0 small end, not on the large. :\ 00e41 way of cleaning oilcloth is t(1( s;ten1e it well with stun milk, 08 it brig,htens end presence the color. Thay , Uro hckend js carefudlly temalterpered, th^ii,k scer0pui,1 d0 oi'i withe n 11 iron trowel, and the mass (bus gathered is put into an ea 1 hien v/•s(•) and Lest (nrchilly stitrcil for a month or more, grutt care h.•ing taken to I ate it well aired, but net exposed to the sen. The materiel is now o`nir.i :cel by expert 1''sIer•u, who (let.-rmi' a its grade ..r quality, and then the thole Is put into a large 1,o'.', where it is worked %ery tn';ch In the sans fash- ion as baler's dough, to give it the required consistency. 'I he opiton is n( w• merle into balls fir expert. 'lite natives % tele about in the lnrgc vats contnitd:or the pn•te lite (Ire; and hand it mut to het 4' -eels of hall - makers sitting around the room. Every men hug n sp:icri(•al braes cup, pined with the potter flower Tetals, hcfe•re him. Into this is preseed the re;uletion quantity (f onium. front this 1•rnes cup, when properly pre= -e - /;I the oplttlltt bell is trat:sferre(I to onothtr man. ho civ s it n coating cf clay. This gives the drug, when ready for shipment, the appearance of a fair sized cannon ball. When well prepared in this manner, opium will keep its properties for fifteen years or more. Before it can be used, the opium balls have to bo broken up and further treated. NEW 1(!'l AS'1'1'LA'I'l . The Russian Government has bought a new breastplate. 4141111th is impenetrable to ritle-bullets and swords, and it number of the officers gone to the front In the Parr fast have leen equipped with this new protectit:gn against Jupasese 1ullc•t9. 'The breastplate, which is the inven- tion of an Italian, 0ior•ginno, is made tit soft, elastic material, lvheet one-fourth of an inch thick, and weighs 4 lbs. Experiments tend4' at St. Petersburg show that bullet freed at the breast/4181e 011181ned in it, and here flattened, with tut pene- tratin:: 11./ '!,pier surface, though a di?tinctiy felt by 2 . t•., ,,r.: 0. hen :hots were tired at it -f• rt dlietetic°. r ! + '1'111: MON i:Y-i.1:N DE US. 'There are ninny examples of Lord t'ntntersten's ready wit in Sir M. E. Greet Du9'►, recent book, ":.:ales From a Dinry," inn debate about the ,Jews an or - (tor rather bored the House by enumerating tunny of the things which the English owed to Ilchre(/' initiative. Lord Palmerston iu reply gave the discussion n eprlghtlic•r turn. "1 quite agree with the honorable" gentleman," he remarked. "Many!! of us owe a great deal to the Jew's." .rte ..1-.--_--.- 3(.tll,\CAY Wi'T11)'l''l' A CUi(\ E. 1'he long*eet perf(ct ly straight math of railwny is claimed by travellers to he that of the Argentine Pacific Rail- way, from Buenos Ayres to the (clot of the Andes. For 211 tnite.e i1. 19 %%Wield a curve, and has no c':14Ing or embankment titterer lhre .w0 or three feet.