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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-12-13, Page 6 (2)IuTL!S AND COMMIINTS viret. eg treeteetitatee reside recentty tat Sie fleeter Caireelitelairounersotten the Fenno Kate:nee, end Me. Asti -anti, Cilan- .CaZ;)2 of tare idatettetitter, tittna seems Zo /2'0 1P40 tt:10 L74, tneetem- reetat Celeeneseta to ivo en feta Age Iteatiten ittheonett the flettete Ceni. dierelednn Vito ertieent Fare lientent. itcplyinn to a depatation of ntetaters og tale reitver 1101157 the Pre - neer entetraneed that the w,.-A,tor a old Q0 peneions would be tatten up as econ os tnnr . ona money sleould permit, ins enlittela objectton on •the Score a a lack of Weals would naturally be pressed most strenetly by the Chaucellor or the Eatehequer, the sante deputation re- garded as peculiarly encouraging Mr. Asquithis assurance thatianothing was nearer his heart than the desire to eult- mit a 'financial plan for 'suele pensions. He. added that the Alinistry deemed the question one of extreme urgency. -There are -moral, and 1.tictleqi tre"s°n, why the expediency of taking up the matter of pensions for euperannuated workmen should eoramend iteelf to the Liberal Covernmeet„ at this time. To glance at the reasoits in their edieler, it is evident that Engtond ca,nnot much longer afford to leg far behind Ger- many is regard$ consideration for that large section of the population which *tears, iteell'out in the service of capl- ial, She cannot afford much tongeit tto legislate on the egoistic principle taken tor granted in the query: "Ami 1 nay brotberis,Iteeper?" Especielly would an ettitude of indifference be inopportune dust now, when the remarkable results 411 Bismarck's peesion leglslatlon Nave teen given to the world on, the twenty- fifth anniversary of the termulation of his programme. The intention ems bodied in thot prograinme was, 4 will be recalled, that the Siete should sys- tematically assist working people by' accident, illness and eld eee insurence. Now it appears frOrn tae statistics 'published last month that no less a sum than .$555,000,604 has been paid out .in Germany, cluring the last twentyyears for fitness; .$282,000,000 for eccidente, and $13,504,000 for Old age. If the last amount seems comparatively small, we should bear in mind that the great ma-, jority -of the workmen 'insured have not yet reachedthe age 'limit at which pen- Olons begied If from the total expendi- lute, we turn to the *number of benefi- ciaries, we find that ,since the pension Acts becanie operative, two decades, ago, no fewer than 60,000,000' persons have profited by 13ismarck's iegislalion Of "eoerse, the Socialists criticise these re: ..sults, partly because in their opinion .Much more lin& be accomplished, and partly because they allege that by mak- ing any -move at all in 'this direetion the old Chancellor tried to steal their thun- der. Unbiassed onlookers, on the other hand, recegnize. the tranquillizing serd Vice rendered to the nation by the pee-. 'Mon leeislation, and credit ite with be- ing the principal cause of the measure of contentment with which the working population of Germany bears the griev- outs burden of :conscription. . In England recent events have =dee,/ plain to leaders of the old political parties that the working populatlon must be reckoned with, .and that 11 its discontent arid restlessness ark' -to be allayed they 'must take a. teal frdth rns Merck% book. Mr. 'Joseph Chamberlain awakened to the tact some years ago, 4rid he is personally committed to old oga pensions, while other 'conspicuous Unionists have said that they would riot oppose. pension' legislation but for the etrain to . which they feared it would eubject the imperial exchequer. It is, however to the Liberals that the neces- Sity of conciliating the working people of Great Britain by substantial and iea- pressive concessione has been brought. directier borne by the unexpected and cevere reverse which they encountered the other day at the munielpal elections, not only in Greater London, but all over England. The .reverse wane that the Liberals must postpone a dissolution of Parliament until they :can appeal to the , electoron an issue more iyelevant and telling than the Education hill, which only the Protestant Nonconformists favor in itstGoveremeritt form. • An Old Age Pension bill would be more papillae witle the toiling massee of the British people than any other bill that could be framed. Especially would this be the ease if Prime Minister leant terman should carry out his expressed intention of prapoeing a low freed from the eentributery feature of •the rBis mar/Irian celleme, to whielt derinen everlarieri have objected on aecourit of the inquisitorial machinery ittvolved. Cidenettely, the establiddinient old age pineiothe in Great Britain would give a able impetue to the aghttition for iilar legier ton in neaten land ,else re. tiesetetteansoineat ..jitike: °Why ore, you fee (leer bother- ing me about that blU I me you rr Aliehe "I nerd ,thintencyrt Jinke "Then etei ought to be aide to temps- tinett Atrial hie. 1 nced the inolie,y, too." HE SOURCE OF TRUTIfTlIE GREATEST MARKET N MI NOVGOROD FAIR IN ITS 0 GLORY TIIIS VEAIt. no;wledge of God Is the First Re qujsite of Virtue . reeve then the God of thsd gathers Dna eereediiim with an entire heart attel with a willing eoul.—Citronicles .9. . From a seriptueat .point ofeinew, /mow - ledge) eg God is the greatest “nd sub- limest virtue that man „should trive to possess. Prophet Isaiah looked forward to that glorious time "When the earth will be u'l of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," Prophet Hosea, expostulating with hie people, said to them: "Hear the word of tile Lord „ . for the Lord has.con- troversy with the inhabitariteeof the land, because there is no truth, nor kind - nese nor knowledge of God in the lands." • All the uncleitt prophets from Moses he Malachi -made -strenuous efforie to impress their People with the 'necessity of acquiring knowledge of God because awl' a knowledge Is the fountain from rvidch flows the highest attainments whicis make up- the sum and eubetance MAN'S SPIRITUAT. LIFE.% t A wise son who knows his father's integrity, bis good nature and charactet; his aelfeszicrificing devotion to Ins fain- ily, will never tire in the fulnliment of his filial duties; will prove his effeetion to his father by respecting, revering and obeying him and by acting up to Ills wishes and deaires. Se will he who knows ,his heavenly Fattier contemplate His wonderful works and the ways of 1 -lis merciful providence, the care and watchfulness which He has always ex- erelteed in behalf of Ills children, and, above all, the perfect good qualities which corstituto the eesence ef ilis be' ing, never cease to venerate end tuiore Hine to love truth, justice and itindnees and to live up to the teaehings which Ho has revealed tot us through.lias great and distinguished men. The knowledge of God as father ot mankind necessarily must lead to hu- manity and quality. Hence, when Moses addressed King Pharos& in th.e name ot the Lord to set the cbildren of Israel free front bondage, he arrogantly re- plied: "Who is the Lord that I should oberflis voice? I know not the Lord.'" IT IS A TRUISM . which cannot be gainsaid that those in- dividuals as well as. nations who know not the Almighty, yes, who form a wrong e and erroneens conception of Hini, are never exempt, froan prejudice, barbarism and tyranny. . Iring, David, therefore, very oppor- tunely at the time when his on Solo. mon via about to succeed him as ruler of israel, brought home to his heart a. wholesome lesson in the words: "Know thou the God ief thy father and serve Him." The God of thy father is the Creator ot all frustum beings, henee thou must not lift up thyself in pride and vanity ebove thy fellow men. The God of thy father loves all Idsehilaren so 'must thou treat all thy subjects' ato. The God of Thy father is the source of truth; justice and mercy, so must thou endeto vor to be just, truthful and gracious and by so doing thou will serve and worship Him faithfully and loyally, •ree*********: HOME. t SELECTED RECIPES. Tomato Soup—One Pint of beet broth, belt cup of sweet mill, half pup strained tomato, one tablespoonful butter rolled An flour, salt and pepper to, taste. , Dumplings—One pint of flour, two tea- spoonfuls baking powder, a little salt,. one scant cup milk; make a soft dough, drop quickly, and cook ten minutes without lifting the cove?. Orange 'Pudding—Six small, eweet- orahges cut up, one cup sugar poured over them and let stand. Make' a pus- tard of one pint of milk, a little salt, Yelkse„of three eggs.,, well beaten, two tablesporinfuls flour in a little cold milk add to bailing milk and pour over the oranges. -I3eat the 'whites of eggs to et Miff broth, add one 'tablespoonful pow- dered sugar, pour over the the custard; set in the ovento brown.. Eat cont.: • net Pudding—One cup suet, chopped line, ono cup raisins, half cup molas- ses, one cup 'Milk, half teaspoionfut eoda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, two eggs and salt: Stearn three hours. Cottage Pudding—One egg, one table- spoonful of butter, three-fourths imp of sugar, one-half cup of milk, two cups fieureshvo teaspoonfuls 'baking pow - dr; flavor with len-ion .extract and bake in a hot oven; serve with hot liquid sauce. Fried Cakes—One cup sugar, one cup sweet /Mike tvvo eggs, three table- spoonfuls; melted butter; two teaspoon- fuls baking powder, flour enough to handle well; fry in hot lard. . VanUla Cookies—One cup sugar, two- thirds cup butler, two eggs, one and .onedialf teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful vanilla, one tablespoon- ful.sweet milk, add flour enough to roll out. . , - Ginger Snaps—Put one teaspoonful af eocia and one of ginger into a teacup and fill with molasses, ant heat until very light, then put. three tablespoonfuls of lard Into a cup and pour three table- spoonfulboiling water over in ,Inix with enough flour to roll out well and bake in a quick oven. Drep Coolcies.—One—eup slider, half cup butter, one eup milk, One egg, two cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baldng powder, orie-fourth i nutmeg, drop in tins and bake in 4 quick oven. Cocoanut Pudding—Grate one cocoa- nut, three dried biscuits,rolled fine, or the eaine quantity in stale bread, eight egge, one-fourth pound butter, a littie salt, one quart milk to be boiled and poured on the dry bread, the cocoanut to be poured in the Iasi thing. if the pudding is dlairier, putin less butter and more bread and milk, eccording to your own. judgment. Rice and Apple 'Pudding—Core os many nice apple e as will till the diets, boil them in light, spun, Prettare ones fourth pound of rice in milk, with eu- gar and salt, put eame ot the rice in the dish, then put in the apple; and 11 up the ititervals with rice. Rake in the oven till it is a fine color. ' Boiled Leg of Lamb—Plunge the, joint into a pan of boiling water, and when it boils up, draw it, to the side of elle fire and let it cool a little. It the joint weighs ahout live pounds cook it gently for tut hour and a quarter. When cool:- eit pour white ,saueet over it and garnish i,vith boded carrots or cauliflower. - Delieieue codfish belle are made by taking 1 cupful of codfish, 2 cupfole of raw potatt3eli Ott. into sniall pleees, 1 egg, re„tdeessittionful of renter and a daell of pepper. !tut itlie rate, potatoes and cod. fish in boiling %tater and boil tilt the polatotie are teteler. Then drairi care- fully and math, adding the beaten, egg, butter and pepper. `rake a reunded tableepooeful of tlifs mieiture, and ptith cif Mtn ho , iIeji fat. , Friceeeti Steak. (it. the ciente from 1 the round or rump into small sqtiares, arid flour them liehtly. Put Atone drip. ping into a frying -pan. Slice into it a Spenielt enion, and mid svelte (looked tomatoes, if in teasel), (if not, half a tett- I cupful of temato pulp will do); lay it the pieces of eteak and fry them a niee brown. - put the pieces of steak into at Saucepan, strain the contents of e fry - Ing -pan over, add a teacupful of boil- ing Watt* and. stock, and simmer gent- ly for a good hour., Serve with boiled' rice, as it for curry. The slices of onion, can be left in with. the steak if liked. ; ,IIINTS FOR THE HOME. To Harden the Icing on Cakes—Stand them when ided in a dry place for four or five days. The icing should be mixed very stiffly ' and flattened with 4 knife dipped into boiling water. To Remove Stains from Flannel..— Take the yolk of a raw egg, mix it with a tablespoonfulof glycerine, and apply to the spot; let this soak in well before washing the garment In.a lather of boil- ed soap. • Make Celery Salt.—Procure some e,elt •.ery seed, dry at thoroughly on a baking sheet, pound it in a Mortar tin sante fine, and add two parts to one of dried stilt. •Scratehes In varnish will entirely dis- 'appear if a coarse cloth that has been saturated with einseed oil bo laid over them. This...simple yernedy is invaluable to those who have the care of carriages and 'other highly Wished furniture. To Make Boots Wear, Welleelldhen buying new boots, never wear them be- fore putting on the sole two coats et varnish. This treatment make* the boots last twice as long,. besides.rerider- ing them watertight. t Never throw away egg shellsi for they should be washed and added to the ,stoeltoot to clear the soup. .Clothes pegs boiled a few minptes and dried quickly about once a etton.th be- come more durable. On BruiseS:---When the skin is 'not lacerated, treat, them by applying a pad of lint in eau -de -Cologne and keeping the pad in position by a bandage. To dean plaster of Paris ornaments, cover them with a thick layer of starch and let it dry. Remove with a stiff b!'liSitlie.n cooking fruit, 'es'peC Wielly dried prunes, apples, ete.2 add a pinch of salt and you will be surprised at the ;xi/ - preyed flavor. A pinch of salt is stifil- cient for a fruit tart. When making stock never allow It to stand in the saucepan all night, but strale off into the besin' while still hot. Remove the fat before adding the meat and liquor to tthe banes again. To Clean a White Fur Rug.--Putet rug on to a firmtableand rub At vee -tenth bran moistened tvith hot wa Rieb next with a flannel till the fur is quite dry, then with a piece of book muslin applst dry brerrin the same man- nert Afteriwarche put 6011W magnesia beta a muslin bag tind well rub into the fur. It is an irnprovelnent to stretch the skin before beginning this process. To eecomplish Me, first sponge the hide with a mixture of salt, and water, OW) eare not to wet the fur,putthe skin, fur dertaiwards. on to a table, and, with the hand, stretchit as far OS possible. Keep it in desired position by nailing it with tin -tacks on to the table. To Make Paper SticIr to Metal.—lifip the metal into a strong hot solution cf washin eoda and wipe it dry seith ster. Theri apply onion juice to surface of the metal, when any ji1ft' will adhere so firmly that it vill be found difficult to separate them. To Restore Scorched Linen. - -Add to hall a pint, of vinegar half an ounce tef soap arul two ounces of fuller's earth, toil tilt thoroughly mixed. Spread ewe of the paste on the scorched article with Ti knife; let it dry on and the ecorch will divatepear. The inixture should bit kept 'hi a covered jar for use. For Chilblains—These two recipee have been sent me by a hind correspondent, who sive tilt/ are excellent: (I) For unbroken, chilblains: ono ounce of gly- cerine, one ounce of eulphurous acid (not euirthurie acid), and ttvo ouneo of roseweter. &fix all together thoroughly, end apply night and morning. 021 For broken chilblains: Locateliie baltam, ,four drachms; eitrine ointment, eme drachm: balsam of Pern, ten (trope. Spread; this salve on collet wool OP lint anti ripply night and ritornhig. lie -"You're getting your het ruintelA She its an old hat, and .1 do hate to wet toy new umbrella." emarkable Gathering of ussuhnans of the Great aussian Empire. • During the last two and a half yeas neither the German commercial traveller nor his wams. have lied mtich chance tn. get along the Siberian railroad. Now that the Wan line of steel, running for six thousand Miles 'rem Moscow to Vladivostok, is free from the conveyanee of troops, the Siberian, towns,, which have been starving for goods, are dee mending large supplies and speedy de. liveries. In the disturbed condition of the country, however, German firms have ShOWn no eagerness to, risk the lives of their travellers in a region, where the value of life is decreasingly regarded, nor to forwerd goods for which there is a very problethatic prospect of payment. Accordingly, Maliontet leas had to come to the 'maintain, and this year, write Foster Fraser in the London Standard, Nijrit Novgorod- is besklog in Its eld, glory. The fair has provided opportunity for a remarkabie gathering -ea eongress re- presenting twenty rnflhion Muesulman$ at the Russian Empire—Moslerns from South Russia*, men who have taken to the garb and castans of the Westeand who, with their hair cropped a, la Fran cuise and imperials, dark gray loitinge heeltets and patent.leather boots, might easily be mistaken for Parisians, Mos. lems from Morigolia and Itokbara, men slim and sellow Oncl-sO0Atp, with shaven, heads and 'henna dyed iitards; meal in long flowing and embroidered sheepskin coats, boots Of red and turbans of green, who, for sitting, find Ike floor more coin fortable.than chairs. • THE SHREWD TATARS, The Tatars are the cleverest mer- chants who come to Nijni Novgorod, Whether it be -in the selling of "over- land" tea—believed by the lMuscovite to have been brought by caravan front China, but which has been sent around by ship to Odessa and trained to Nijni— or in making a 'fuss with precious stories. which he hints have been stolen from the, mins, and therefore are to be obtained. at a bargain, but which are imitation, madein e. Parisian factory, the Tatar scores. ' ' He stands by his shed or stall, look- ing cold and grimy, his fur cap down over his ears, ant his hands hidein The sleeves of his skin coat, which is 'badly tanned and most 'unappetizing ire adore He has wondrous stacks of skins, from silver fax down to rat. "tou can walk the better part of a Mile past shops crowded with skins, most requiriog to be cured. For a year Siberia is hunted dor skins to supply the Mint Novgorod mart 3 The tribes .of the north Stalk in the winter; colonies of political exiles have tpmetnnes little other means of winning 'a livelihood than by getting skins. . ' • Over. hundreds of miles of trackless snow the skins are hauled till a 'river is reached. Then by boat they are brought to some place where the Siberian rail- way can be touched or are taken to some affluent of the Volga. The Tatar merchant has his buyers everywhere. In his slothful but still methodical Way he meets the skine at certain points and arrives at Nine' Novgorod with -perhaps a ceueple of thousand Pounds 'worth ,of. goods. • CONDIA;t1h16 A SALE. 'fhe market is core..,..zeceed on strictly entasterri "principles. Th-ae is na- fixed price. Everything is worth' what it will tetch. The Tatar asks twice as much as a thing, is worth, aware all the tirne that you know he is asking double svhat he will accept. You offer. half what the thing is worth, aware that he knowe that you intend to increase the offer. 'Se, much time is wasted by him regretfully lowering his price and you grudgingly raising .your offer, until at the end you come very near if .not actually to the price you both know to be about right. There are splashes of the picturesque about the people who attend the fair. They have come from all points of the compass, by the slow and dirty Russian traine, by the huge, cerennodious, shale low draughted, naphtha eleiven Volga boats—quite as big as the notorious floating towns on American- streams, - and by caravan. Iluseitme from the towns are dressed In the European style, on the German model; Ilus.sions from the country are in wide trousers and top hoots, flapping rest shirts and thiek belts; they are, bearded, while the hair Is cropped shoet, and the hack of the ,neck shaved; their wOrnert are plain, steut, fighreless, and hue shawls tied about their heads. There Inc the brawn eloalsed. sheep- skin hatted Persians from betoW the, Caucasus mounteles; there are almonds eyed Mongol's, ehrivet faced and wisp itv.hisketted; there are tarty Elltiats and gray robed Men from .13olthare; there are innuMerable Tatarsisome accom- panied by their Women f act fat, swad- dled, %veering collar box hats of velvet decorated with pearls. TIIE FAIR GROUND is a mod flat lying across the Volga /rem Mill Novgorod proper. There are rows upon rows of cheap, brick sheds, one storey bletrit yellow eehred, vvith pavement of eorts. The roadway, once Cobbled, is a rouse of disgustifig mire. Peasant eartem, i11. charge of incorise- (merit teams hauling- miscellaneous mert chandise, yell and bawl. A jolting (11(1. :Ly attempting to dash by espiaslies tbe uniforoit of a Russian officer with filth, and as the Itunsian nangutige is well Stored with expletives, there IS Violont cureing. Itusuian eoldiers, un- washed and in unkempt clothing, trudge sullenly inthe gutter, earrying big loevea of black bread tinder their arms. A cadaverous, long haired, black erowned priest pee hurrying isy. Old woinell ,e1,C$0 theineelves and young mien epit on theigroundS A bunch of Poreine fliinese in 'bit e jackete and with ewing4 ing Malin 'ie ''.r the bridge from Chinatowin where en the buildings have, eaved that ker. tihd en the dionel orr4, painted rampant drapeins of fearful de- mo, 10 0444411 AW:tty thieves —width they probably tiO. Tinkle, tin- _ itte and an ceehesesesl ?rave sect lairtip eteseireeteetenee 'M C'3 LmFLI43 sno 1VIC,1Curin aro geeing tap cast detetteing they look toweid Aliceca, vhih thty do not, and cm reivrridalg their dceeSieeein the etecel Moscow incr climate ere inces esijcineee cafe, and a geereeeltaise hlaees "I eveuein't Zewic iny Wllo, Mgt for yeet." There is MO constaot elicit* et the ate,- eus-eheade en wfres,on which we learned to count as children, and with,- dat which the Busetan, inheriting its use from Tatar ancestors, eaonot reckon Low many TWO AND 1..aEE TOTAL. A piaelsill on the nide cf rickety kiosk announces a performance—in flits - elan, of course—of "The deisbart No- where have I eeen euch a jastling of East und West. One likes to think Nijni Novgorod fair is Oriental. It is custamary to associate the Orient wait the dazzling. But there is nothing dazzling about the fair. The Eastern practice is followed of liaving all the shops selling particular wares in one dietrict. I toOked for old silver and found cartloads oft crude Austrian electroplate. I -ought antique rugs and got a heunacb.e looking at the vile, high- ly colored and grotesquely patterned mods manufactured in German Poland. The only enabroideria$ ,were imitation rubbish :roof- Switzerland, In a dirty cafe I did come across sorne melancholy Persians who had turquoise and °pet stones to sell, and wd spent a rairlY, afternoon in haggling. Yet there is a fascination in the multi- tude of articles. At tines one can line - gine that all the manufacturers of shoddy articles have dumped their things op Volga -side. Try to: picture a third of a mile or tombstones for sale --though, Hibernian like, most'nf t10 stones are of wood. Here the merchantefrom.the far interior may acquire a really striking monumentwhich will Troti{e him the envy of hie neighbors who bave never been to the fair. A whole street is de- voted to the eat° of ikons, pictures of ,saints set out in Byzantine style in flans- ing gilt, and to be found in every RUS- shin house in theeright hand corner at the upper end of the room.' There are 'streets. $ecred to the sate of Russian bootse-there must be mullions of them. Battalions of sacks laden with raisins block one thoroughfare; another road is a maze of bales of wool. A row of shops is giveen,up to TIIE SALE OF UMBRELLAS, and there 14 merriment watching the astonished countenance of a simple pea- sant VOIntin having an umbrella opened in her face for the first time. Miles upon miles of cotton goods are here, with no nonsensical half shades about them; but strong • and unmistakable reds and greens and blues and yellows. Half a street is given up to cheap dermal' toys. - -In the centre ot the fair is a large red brick arcade, with stops selling the usual tinsel and expensive things; with the usual band pleying in the -afternoon; and the usual row of wooden faced in- dividuals sitting on belittles and stolidly enjoying the music. There, is the usual pestering by importunate dealers. And there are literally billions of postcards. Lest evening at sundown- I dimbed the 'hilt of the quaint leaned 'fortress • which 'guards Nijed Novgorod. The falls Mg sun -was burnishing the domes of Innumerable churches, a hundred sweet toned bells, beateitewith wooden ham- mers, made „the evening melodious. There was the heavy tramp of hill kilted Russian soldiers mounting the 'hill to the *fortress; there was the distant babel of a city doing business at the top of its Voice; down below on the 'Volga, was the scurrying of tugboats hauling mam- moth cattle boats and snalcelikerafts lista place, and the coestant shrill warn - frig hootsikrdoe,elisetrset rensti away .eastward, Siberta.w ched a flat ;and lin- broken land to the very horizon, with a lowering purple sky deadening to Vlack. af...,rmtorWs• TRE SUNDAY SCIIOOL INTERNATIONAL LESS.O'N, DEC. 16. Leszon, XI. Jesus Risen From the Dead. Golden Text: rilatt, 28. 6. TnE LESSON "WORITSTUDIES'. teotee-The text of the Revised Version is used ris a „basis for these Word Stgh4?..s eliely Sepulchre',—In point of loco, - lion the narrative of John makes it plain that the tomb of Jesus must be identified with the place of his cruelfixion 'Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new toinb wherein was never man yet laid. There thext because of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb Was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus" (lolin 10, 41, 42). But the site of Calvary, de was pointed out to the Word Studies for last Sun- day, cannot be positively identified. Under the rounded knoll of firriestone reek juet beyond' the Damascus Gate thetsite known an Gordan's Calvafy and favored by some recent authorities -a there -is a cave tatled-3eremlah's Grotto which WO$ appahently once used OS a, place of burial. This inay have been the tomb in which the body of Jesus rested. The traditional site, however, which for fifteen centurles was not twee, Honed, is within the Church of he Holy Sepulchre, near th6 very heart of the present city, and in ell probability olso within the outer wall of the ancient oily of Ierusalern. In es,hint., of kind, the sepulchre of kens wris beyond question identical with the enore.e0M111011 rock - hewn tombs which the jews cut itt the perpendicular sides of the low, eon limestone ranges in which Palestine abounds.' Sometimes advantage was taken of the natural eaves end caverns of whieh there are ninny in the eoft strata of JUN -tame. These early Hebrew tOmbs ' were marked by their extreme .simplinity of honetruetion. and the ab- eencei of arelliteetural ornament, end in both a there respeete stood in marked -conteast with Etitui sepulchrel InOn- lafte141,K Frequently Intlividuels cheers to have, their last re ;ling pleas in their (an' vineyards like Jeseph of Arimtts flute, who had hie Oivn new leaden 1 tut niece et.'* 1-21;" leaces,er cereekaies eveee telehe like a, ino rnv-4,7titt, contained eseveral cpvrute elitoottert with riciehes .er iialciViA in or tL tile) wkiV, placed. A tarite Tar sleek whieh could be roilicit to and nein iis .pesee dieseltle lew tethO tendb. eltencitines in level Mucci raves were sunt: in We serface of tht roeln and etivtirea with a .eloseiy iittiite slab. Verse 1. 1. Late en the Sehiseth day—Ie reality, after the Falebetfl1 day, witieb closed with sunset en Saturday evenings had ended. Luke ts eareful to mention the fact that "on the Sahlaath day they the women who had come with him out of Galilee) rested according to the cone mantiment." Toward, the first day of the ward morning . of Sunday, "at early dawn" (Luke 24. 1). Matthew here uses the word "day" in the sense of the opo. cite of "night"; but counting the day of fwente-four bows tie beginning either, as the Jewish day did, at sunset, or as we now reckon, at midnight, it was "on the first day of the week" Mark, Luke, John) that the two Marys, with Salome, came to the sepulchre. Mary Magelalenea-Mentioned in Luke 8. 2 as one of several women who min- isterea unto Jesus. She woe villa Mag. dalene, probably because from Magclani, plaee in Galilee. (Comp, Matt, 15, 39). The other Mary—Mary the mother ot James, and Solome (Mark 16, 1) These three. women, baying conscientiously waited" until the Sabbath should end, bought spices. (Aftude 10, 1) andesperit'thet night In preparing ointments with which they intended to anoint the body of Jesus. Perhaps they were notaware of the action of Joseph or- Arimattgett and . Nicodernus, who had taken "the body et Jesus, and hound it in linen clothed with the spices, as the custom of thH. hleowp: hesw isto bury' 1niou " (0,oh4n1stoo 19 40), i r teeTic; mite also to the more costly and &thins ate gifts of these wealthier disciples, 2. A great earthquake—Not mentioned by any of the ether evangelists, Mate thew alone explains how the great stone, the thought of which heel worried, the women on thefr way from the -eltYa •Was removed from its place -at the -open, 'ing of the tomb. - An angel .of the Lord --Luke and johnl both mention tvira angels ; ITO) mew - stood by them in Shining garments " - (Luke); "Two angels in , white ..silting"h (John) Mark (16. 5) speaks of "a young man sitting on the ig1iL side" of' the place where the body ef Jesds, had lain "arrayed in a white robe," Theses ills. crepancies may be accounted for by the agitation of the . witnesses of-- Utz momentous, scene. 4„ The watchers—The Reman guard' granted by Pilate to prevent; the removal of the body'. by friends or disciples oi j°5s11, not ye—The original elearri. pitteee the emphasis on the' prortoure !'yeSs's. They had not,the same cause for fear as the, Roman soldiers. 6. Even as he eaid—Two distinct pro- pliecies of Jesus thet he would rise again.) from the dead are recorded by lelatellew (Comp. 12, 40e 16. 21) In Matt. 26, 3 also Josue refers to the fact of hiserese "urection, 7; Tell his disciples-Nafark adds Papa? Peteir." Into Galilee ---"But -alter 1 am 'raised:. U4 I will go before you intd (Matt. 26. 32} Jesus met them—Not, however, un- til after he had revealetl himself septte lately to Mary Magdalene, as -Mark ex- plicitly points_ out. We must also in- sert the events recorded in Luke 24. 8-12s, and John 20. 2-1.3 just preceding verse - 9 of our text. These „passages recozl? the harried visit of -Peter and john to. the tomb upon hearing the report of the women, • 11. The important testim,ony relating - to the bribing of the Rornantguards con. tained.in Ihe remaining verses of -our lesson narrative' are pet:lunar to Mat. thews , 13. While we slept—The penalty for sleeping at his post, inflicted upon a Roman soldier, Was death. The incident reveille the desperate straits to which the e Jewish authorities were driven in their attempt to coneeal facts.plain tO svhe cared to know the truth. ' la. We will' Persuade him—They had been successful in persuading Pilate te* pronounce the death seirtence upon art inisocent, prisdner whom they hated; and reasoned that it would be no more di cut in an emergeney to persuade hint to let men apparently guilty go free. , 15, This saying . oontinuoth until this .'day—Matthew, is \wiling for Jewe familiar with 'thtiefact which he cells to -their 'attention,. MAPPING OUT 'CITIES. itIonicipality' 'Should Ituy Land anti* Plan Suburbs. If new countries would learn from Ishon ultsisicaoknevsey°eidjh4°Itdbottmlottviueambelnetiesin. England ageinat jerry-building eand thti ,indiscrirninate• laying out ' of .streets without tiny general plarining by the „ local authorities. In Birmingham a few daye ago there was a rousing/eons ference to diecitss the drsgracefte esth1. dition of the Mums of that eilty. Mr.' Nettleford (Mr. Chamberlain's former ,partner) declared it was no more ri- diculous to build mte room at a time Without considering how all would fit, together, (heti it le to.lmild a town a street, itte (i lime, as the individual own- , ers 'might desire. This has been the elmotie procedure in London, lairming- hain, and all the great English cities, end pestilent slums are the result. in German towns the loeal eutIlituiritylt. s I)\\1'1' to borrow money andybui ing gretund 111 edvanee end plan the suburbs for the future inerenee of nee population.. It ie now sought tu get" that eystem for England, whose great eitiee are at the mercy of thp. specula« live builder. In Ilournville, the garden it sited* Birmingham', built by, Air. Cadbury, for his workpeople, the deeth rato is 11 •e than otuathied that of tee working OlaS$ SuburlA or Birmingham. One of the relingteri, goardinne, speek; ing on the questimi flf drainege, enid mit ix time We mit down, our fools. with t loud, voice .1"