HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-11-10, Page 7WALING TN TIE POLAR SBL.
Perils Entountered by the Norweaalns to
gapturtug the f tie Mi ian.
Beerysummer' the Polar Sea,' oil' the
out of Finmarkeu, Norway, is alive with
whales and their ohasers. The "principal
game of the Norwegian whaler is the great.
bine whale, attainiug alength of some 00
to 100 feet. 'ilia mammoth champion of
the Polar Ocean possesses, immense strength,
and the whaler's "tackle" must necessari'y_
be solid. When killed the whale sinks to
the bottcm, anti the „anter is apt to lose
his game, To prevent this Mr. Seend Foyn,'
the pioneer of the whaling industry, 'leas
invented a eery harpooq whereto is.. affixed a
self -exploding komb filled, with a gae•pro.
duping composition. When the whale is
harpooned the bomb buried in the flesh of
the animal explodes, and the gee produced
permeating the veins and cavities of the
leviathan prevents him from sinking.
rperilous and hazardouswheling is,
ev ,fith the most perfect of a lianoos
and
capons, : is
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well 'll
l i ustrat 1
et b
p �the
following narrationrelatedby an eyewitness, :
"It was a June day, with rough weather,
rougher even than usual on a summer day
at Vardo, The little fleet of small, yet
strong, whaling steamers must try their luck,
owever, end o fi'they gointhe early morning,
steering to and fro, battling with the high sea.
To no avail. Not a whale was to be seen
anywhere, and the'sea increasing, and the
wind developing almostinto a storm, they
turned end steamed homeward one after
another, all but one. He must try a little
further. The waves tossed the plucky craft
like a shell ; the harpooner on watch must
take .care not to be thrown headforemost
into the frothing waters. Yet no whale ;
nothing to be seen or heard but the white
mountains and dumb thunder of the rolling
waves and the shrill whining of the storm
through the steamer. The Captain at last
found the search fruitless, and turned home.
ward. The vessel arriving at the mouth
of the harbor, a big whale shot up its front,
almost touchingthe bow of the steamer.
The harpooner, surprised at first, was, how-
ever, up to his business. A flash, a roar,
and in the very moment the harpoon was
buried to the handle in the big whale.,
But, strange, the bomb didn't explode, and
the animal, suflering intense agonies, shot
out to sea, towing the steamer after him.
Against the towering waves, against the
raging storm, the whaler went with light
ningspeetd, though its engine was reversed.
For eight miles the terrible race went on,
only the masts andthechimney of the steam•
er in the mean time being visible above the
waters. The vessel was strong, however,
and the crew tried men, who did not pro-
pose to let go.
" But what's that ?A fishing boat with its
keel npmost, and two men clinging for life
to the wreck 1 To cut the line and save
the men was the harpooner's first thought.
Then we will lose the whale, the line, and
the harpoon, thousands of crowns' worth, was
his second. It must be done, and in a few
minutes we can be back and save the men,
was his conclusion, and on the vessel went.
Hallo, there, what is up ? The line burst,
the whale sank out of sight, the steamer
tossiriBless on the rolling waves. There
was ndlRfing more to do. The captive was
free,, sinking slowly to the bottom to die.
But two human lives were saved, and the
whalers considered themselves richly re-
warded for their terrible race and the loss
of their game as well."
Pope Leo's Inoome.
A foreign•diplomatist accredited to Rome
gives the following account of the Pope's
revenue and of the way in which it is spent.
It is derived from three sources. 1. The
interest' �e�E�do enormous arm left by Pio
Nono to�3-pontifical treasury and invested
in 'the R glish public fonds. This interest
amounts to about 3,000,000 lire, or abotit
£125,000. Leo XIII. is a great speculator,
and subscribes to the Italian loans in order
to sell when the value rises and invest the
profits in the English consolidated fund.
2. The proceeds of Peter's Pence. This
branch of the revenue has suffered greatly
in recent years, but nevertheless, the ave-
rage amounts to about 2,000,000 lire, or
about £83,f00. There two sums, whick re-
present £208,000 per annum, constitute the ,
ordinary income of his Holiness. It is dis-
tributed by the Chamberlain among the
Cardinals residing in Rome—about £1,050
per annum for each Cardinal—among the
prelates of the Papal Court, the Secretaries,
the nuncios, the guards of the Pontiff's
body, etc. 3. The extraordinary part of
the Papal revenueis derived from the
receipts of the Apostolic Chancery. The
items include the sums received for titles of
nobility,. Papal decorations, benedictions in
the article of death, privileges of the altar, i
private chapels, dispensations, ecclesiastical
titles, and many other things. This de-
partment yieldsabout 2,500,t 00, lire, or
£104,000, per annum. The whole annum
income; of Leo XIII., therefore, reaches the,
enormous sum of about £300,000.
The Star to Every Wandering Bark.
BY aoRA LAUGHER..
Thou dear little star,
So twinkling and blight,
Look down from afar
In silence of night.
Ohl look down on me
In: this world of; woe.
life, a poor wanderer,
With nowhere to go.
Pity me, love me,
Oh, bright, little star,
No one to help me,
Thou --art so far.
Canatthou bean eye
To guide me nriubt
Out of this darkness
Into the true light?
- I will have no fear,
--,
Thy bright tight I nee
So silvery and clear
Thou'rt sent to save me:
Crime in Pea11e8•
The Oliee of the French Ministry of Jus,
tice bee receutly published a series of stat.
bates) which tend, to show islet crime has
been gradually dimbeiehing in the French
Republic,
The figures cover the period of ten years,
between 1875 and 1885. During that per,
iod, the population of France increased by
more than a million, yet the crimps commit-
ted were less in actual number than they
Were in the preceding tee years:
Dividing, too, the ton years between 1875
and8
1 r
85 into two
arts 't ie
parts, i found 'that
more crime was committed in the first five
years than in the last. In the former per-
iod, crimps against the person and against
property combined were committed ,on an
average ey twelve of every ono hundred,
thousand inhabitants; in the latter the pro-
portion was eleven only.
Of these crimes, the greater proportion
were committed aainst p
roperty; only
forty-one per cent,gbein directed against
persons.
It is interesting to note that the violent
crimes, such as murder and assault, are
more frequent in the Southern than in the
northern regions of the Republic. The hot-
blooded people of Corsica and Provence are
quicker to yield to sudden anger, and to
nourish the spirit of revenge. The Corsican has
his feuds and vendettas, which the son in-
herits from the father, and which often in-
volve whole families for several genet ations
in deadly quarrel.
In the cooler climate of northern Franco,
the chief offences against the criminal law
are those directed against- property.This
is especially the casein the larger eities and
towns, where the authorities are constantly
busy following up burglars, incendiaries,
and petty thieves.
Another feature of the facts given by the
Ministry of Justice is, that while the aggre-
gate ot native crime has decrease, that of
crime committed by foreigners in France
by Englishmen, Italians, German—has
largely increased, the increase being from
seventeen thousand in 1881 to twenty thou-
sand in 1885. Paris receives new foreign
recruits to its criminal class every week.
Many of the most startling crimes commit-
ted in that city are committed by Italians
and Germans.
It does not necessarily follow that because
the statistics of crime, extending over a
period, of years, shows a decrease in number,
therefore the French population is becom-
ing better and more law-abiding. In the
course of time the tendency is to make
the laws -milder, and to lessen the number
and pneishment of offences against it.
The statistics of the prison population of
England during the last thirty or forty
years shows a diminution, compared with
the total population ; and this is to be partly,
at least, accounted for by the fact that the
old severe laws, which punished small of-
fences with heavy penalties, have in many
instances been either relaxed, or done away
with altogether.
The French system of trying andpunish-
ing criminals is very different from that
used in England. On the one hand, the ac-
cused is questioned and cross-questioned in
the French courts, and every effort is made
to induce him to commit himself. In. the
English courts he is protected from this.
On the other, French juries are apt, even
in a case of proved murder, to judge the
criminal guilty " with extenuating ciroum-
stances ;" that is, to give judgment that,
while he ought to be punished, he ought
not to suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
It follows that the executions of murderers
in France are less frequent than in Eng-
land.
It is also notorious that President Grevy
is ° very averse to signing death "warrants ;
and will, if he possibly can, commute the
death sentence of a criminal to imprison-
ment,. But there, are cases of murder so
brutal and flagrant, that ev n the mildtem-
pered. President cannot always prevent the
extreme penalty, and so the guillotine con-
tinues to do its work.
African Adventure.
Captain Lindley gives a lively account of
an auventure which befell a member of his,
party in Kaffir -Land. The party had halted
for breakfast' on the bank of a stream, and
Thomas, a negro, had gone down to fill the
kettle with water. Suddenly all hands were
startled by hearing him scream violently,
and looking after him, saw kettle and buck-
ets flying in one direction whilst he went,
in =another, and fell flat on his face as if he
had been :hot.
"Take to your arms, mein boys!" shouted
Mr. Van Meyer. "Perhaps some. Kaffirs
have been shoot the man with assegais." And
the hardy old bush -fighter w•ae ready for the
fray, with his formidable roer poised, and
his finger on the trigger,
Meantime the extraordinary conduct of
Thomas continued to alarm us. He remained
flat on the ground, moving his legs and arms
as though Ise really had been, shot, but at
the aame'time continuing to yell as no shot,
person ever did.
Gun in hand, revolver in belt, keenly scru-
tinizing every surrounding bush, we moved
forward to where the unhappy negro lay
howling.
No blood was -to be seen upon him, no as-
segai sticking up from a bloody wound.
We questioned him, but in vain. He did
nothing but yell and howl for at least a
quarteit of an hour. • Then; in answer to our
reiterated inquiries, he at; last` sat, tip,, relied
his eyes wildly about, and pointing to a
Tittle pool of water near by, and hugging one
of his feet with both halide, be said, ' De
debbil De debbil, massa 1 De debbil ketch
me by de leg in dat water l"-
It was long before we could elicit any fun
ther information from him, but finally we
managed,to make oat that something had
- C,I!
THHE ANGEL OF SLEEP.
BY ROBERT BURNS WILSON.
Dear angel Sleep,
Where lies thyworld which et hath not beenseen
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By waking eyes, though they be charged with light
Filched from the undyin, nun, and pierce the night
With eagle gaze ? The veil doth intervene
Which hides thy tnystie land. ° Thy noiseless wings
Afar up bear the en thy distant flight
1 h
• bile watt we keep.
Still doth t thyha d aholdlips forbid,
t thybid
hw
The strange half -parting into blies which brings
Some touch of solace craved by every breast.,
Till softly to the cheek the fringed lid,
By,weaxineas or sorrow hath been pressed
And all -save lifewithin the heart—et rest.
Then from the airy corridors which wed,
The shadowed halls where Death and Silence dwell,
With velvet foot -falls on the lonely floors
Through closely bolted and unfriendly doors,
Thou—friend of frieedlese souls -with hastening
tread
Dost come to kneel—by cot and costly bed ;
With juice of herbs from many a dreamland dell
Caught up and pressed betwixt thy soothing palms
To cool the eyed that weeping hath made red,
And plants plucked from the fragrant earth, which shed
Their priceless drops for thee, and poppy balms
That breathe elyaian airs, whose touch restores
Lost happier visions of sweet days, long dead,
To hungering hearts that feed on sorrow's bread.
Across the deep
Unguessod abysses of etheriel space
Bridged by wide arches of the glimmering stars,
Through darkling distances -on wind -reaped moors-
Beside dim rivers on whose soundless shores
The countless journeying years have left no trace
To tell Time had been there, thy friendly hand
Leads forth our spirits to that shrouded land
Beyond the vague impenetrable bars
Which _.hedge this conscious life—a world that beams
With other light than this—in which the soul
'Scaper' for a little from the harsh control
Of tyrant circumstance, and oft it seems
We almost have cast off our chains and stand
Freed from the reach of care and earthly dole,
So far we wander in thy land of dreams.
But while life bides, the binding tie inuat hold,
We must return to earth. Tears that were shed
Beforethine arms closed lovingly around us
Scarce have grown cold,
When to the scene in watch thy coming found us
We wake ; once more recalled, once more, as when
We laid life down we take it up again
And trudge beneath our burthene as of old,
Thou. and thy fair fantastic world being fled.
Yet, evermore in happiness or sorrow,
In health or sickness, trusting thy strong wing
To bear us to the threshold of the :morrow ;
From Night's still unaccompliehed hours we borrow
The comfort of new hopes which dawn may bring.
Thus safe across the dreary gulfs that sunder
The realm of Day we pass, by thy kind care ;
And if some cloud, lit by the lightning's glare,
Or rent in pieces by the crashing thunder,
Wakes the deep -slumbering Earth to trembling wonder
And frights thee hence, how anxiously we stare
Out through the gloom, aghast, not knowing where
Thy startled flight hath left us ; for a space,
Held by the lingering spell we have been under,
We see a world in which we have no place;
As though both Life and Death by some strange blunder
Had fallen away and left us lonely there.
The soul thus dallying on Life's farthest edge
Not having stepped across Death's wavering line,
Leaving its house with Life as if in pledge
Of sure return, slips down the shimmering ledge
Whose yielding sands with unknown jewels shine,
And out upon the sea—which like, a wedge.
Divides two worlds and far oat -flowing laves
Oblivion's shadowed coast with soundless waves.
There with thee drifting, in thy shallow boat
Beneath thy up-stretched,wings, wbich fan the air
With fragrant downy plumes, once more we float
Forgetful of this life that is so fair, •
Brit where each blooming path by Death is haunted,
And where the burning hopes so often vaunted
Soon smolder in the ashes of despair,
And if they live again, some other -where,
No heart, however fearless and undaunted,
Can surely know ;—No mortal hand may dare
Point out the road by which we shall come there.
But when upon thy tranquil breast reclining
No more we care if life hath used us ill
Or if for rain the summerfields be pining
Or if fierce winter scourge the naked' hill';
Nor if dark clouds have quenched the moon's fair shining
Nor if the heart which loved us loves us still.
And when at last Life will no longer stay,
But turns aside all heedless of our calling,
And we can go no farther on the way,
Because the great abyss, deep and appalling,
Gapes widely in the darkness for its prey—
Then, whether night be come, or—slowly falling—
The twilight shadows of the evening gray,
Or some last dawn our swimming sight forestalling,
Or if the time be some fair anmmer day
It hinders not thy coming nor thy care
Kind first, last friend, thou wilt not leave us there.
Nay, lovelier seeming then, dear angel Sleep,
From thine abode,—where Death and Silence keep
Watch on thygoing,—down the clond-built stair,
On thy last journey thou dost softly creep :'
Thy cup, of balm clasped in thy hand, to steep
Our anxious spirits—as of old -in rest,
Once more, upon the pillows of the, breast.
But from his gloomy hall the black -robed king -
Steps hastily and halos thee in thy flight.
And while bis presenee overawes thy sight :
The poisoned jeweldropswithin thy cup.
And when we drink, ourfainting spirits yearn
For thy soft bosom where we fain would cling
To rest forever from our wandering :
Once more thy strong-arms lift ns gently up,
Once morethe world fades out, and soon the light
Of .worlds unknown and fabled suns that burn
Far off beyond the farthest star of night, '
Breaks on the plumes ofthy apace -cleaving wing.
So, we go hence and never more return.
either struck or seized his foot with such A Boom Exploded.
violence as to knock him down.More than Another big'boom has gone the witty of
this it wile impossible to discover, as he pre- many of its predecessors. During the past
ferred'rollingonathe ground and groaning, year or so what is known as the Go tibia
"Miningi ama
gaqubal mininga gaqucavtha/ oe 'region, on the south -'shore! of . Lake
mina ; jeele 1 , (Too much pain 1 - too much
a
Su ei•ior
has been puffed so extensivelya
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Count Tolstoi Sane and Healthy.
There is no truth in the story that Tolstoi
the great Russian novelist is out of his mind.
A Russian journalist, who has just paid him
a visit, describes him as perfectly healthy
and perfectly sane. The statement that he
had renounced literature and set to work to
earn his living in some other mechanical
pain 1 I am dying') f to create a craze among mining capitalists
With the inquisitiveness for which his' and miners almost equal, to that of '4
compatriots are famous„oar Yankee friend is ear about 100 cpm' antes were -
was the first who thought of goingto inves- i �t t Y P
g ed to work the range, the capital represent-
tigato the little pool, to see whether the ed being over $200,000,000,. the majority of
nigstePy could thus be, elucidated. ; them being of the class known as "wildcat”
from the 1
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He went oil circle about the un- '
e •
i that
thorn aro per
-
doubt,
The fact a
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happy Thomas very quietly, intending, no lisps ten good paying mines in the region,
doubt, alone and unaided, to achieve what I spine of diem roduefn hematite ore in
or glory might result from possible discov- . i spine
large gitautattiea The ninety other s
cries. rpby resented the companies exist only on
Seroeral of us followed him, Ifo gazed paper:
' In some cases the intention of the
into the pool, suddenly darted down Iiia eft o r.
P, , Y , P g, organizers was good and large gums of
hand into the water, and drew forth m mens.' were 'sent in trying to find ore, but
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trade is equally baseless. J e' is busy writ- ev
ing es series of tales and sketches for' the en-
tertainment of the less cultivated class of
Russian teaders.
When he first took up his pen those of his
his compatriots who 'could read and write
were, he remarked to Me visitor, to be coon' • in
ed oy the thousand. They now number ha
millions ; but Russians possess no light lit. th
erature within the reach of the capacities of a
the great majority of them, Tolstoi is now
employed iti supplying this want.' It is his to
fondness for agricultural pursuits, he believes, so
which gave life to the storyof his having:
engaged in some branch of manual industry. pa
He spends two or three hours a ds in field
Valor of one sort or `another. Guiding the w
Guiding
plough
Is h.e
a t e fent i h heloves beet,
rmofit he
w
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and he pronounces of
p napes it the most. T
earthly ocenpatione. to
triumph a rather large,; flat fieh. fie wee the majority of the orgnaizatiops were
the act of tutning to us exultantly, and.. formed only for the purpose of 'selling out
d just ejaculated, ".Dere-it is 1 "fere's y, P 11
J J the stock while the craze lasted,
o debbil 1" when be dropped the fish with
loud ell and criers, " An electric fish 1" —� °
Y ;t>! tugging
and ; + t gg ing With His Melllory:
So it proved, . d very dangerous ens.
. have no doubt that were ` Bobbi was spending the afternoon at his Art Anxious Wife.
mar, for 1 ha were a per Y P g ,
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n to touch ones in crossing a twee, he aunt g, end fol sono liromonts had been Charley, Saida youngwife,"is there
ouldreceive a shock powerful enough to gazing out of tate window in it painfully really an such person the fobl•killer?"
g"Oh,. Y P ; ' a i-
Iguess not, I dont know,"said
Charley, who was reading the morning. pa-
per. '
" Well, Charley, all T wanted to eV
lease dont
til you find otit."
Mrs: Murphy's Sarcastic Way of Putting It.
Mrs. Moorphy, ye certainly are no Lady.
The way yez jumped into my bey Dinny.an'
all fur just hollerixi';' Rats 1' shows to me
moind that you aro, a dangerous cherack
1
then
'
a Be aisy wid yer tongue, there Mrs.
Riordan. . , Oi'm uathrally' as peaceful- as e
goat, but don't you say another !wound av
an, oncomplimentery nature.- It's bad
enough to ha?e to own yez for a neighbor,
so it is, widont Navin' to shtand an' be talk-
ed to by yez,"
"Niver you moind that. It's an honor
ye don't deserve. An' Oi'm thinkin' very
seriously of` puttin' the police on to your
theack."
" ij?ell,as for that Mrs, Riordan I niver
had any •dalin's wid the police but av I
wanted an intrednction to em I don't know
av any wan'. that would be better uelified
bylongacuaiutance to give it than
q g v t your
own self, Mrs. Riordan, Good day till
yen
ral ze and disable him when the current thoughtfti sort of way,
y r
paid carry him away; " What mdkea you so serious, Bobby ?"
asked hie aunt,
""""'""""�'•"'rte` `" " Why, m1a told me that I must remember
ailorimarle'writps are as fashionable as not to?ask for anything to eat and I'm try
ilei' gowlsa. ing to. remember it,"
A GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE,
iRi^iuurlCablo Ascension JudelIr
rtrldtit:ltort Tears Ago,
" I see," maid a veteran aeronaut
other day, that the parachute jump
Baldwin,. has Already got a nurnbar
imitators, and that one of them had a
shave the other day. It is only a quest
of not a very. long time before Baldw
breaks his Hack if be keeps on. He h
demonstrated only what waa demonstra#
a
th
o and at is that i
d f n nitre case
years $,
out of tett a man can get down all right
a arachitte if the most minute a
k
out
tb
e
o
dos
to
i
a.
e
1
inn a pains ar
to en to see that every detail is perfect,
But the tenth is sure to' come. Mr ships
are treacherous things at the best, and,
even with all the care you may take, they
will play you a scurvy trick some time or
other. And their tricks never mean but one
thing when you are up half a mile or so.
" I have been up over fifty times, and I.
used be 1
to filled with enthusiasm on the
subject, and went half crazy trying to invent
steering gear and trying tc- make nyeelf
believe that a balloon was something more
than a gas bubble with one or more fools
dangling on it. But it is no use. Ballooning
has made no progress whatev: r. Take the
achievements of the entire century in balloon-
ing, and what do they amount to ? Just
a few improvements in valve tackle, a
contrivance for ripping up the side' of the
balloon' and letting the gas out all at once
when advisable, and some less clumsy grap-
pling hooks. That is every blessed thing.
The balloon remains just where it was -an
irresponsible bubble.'
" And then the balloon voyages of now-
adays are noshing like so long and adven-
turous as they used to be. Why, I`remem-
ber one that occurred up here in Bridgeport
35 years ago that was one of the best on
record. The balloon attained an altitude
which, I believe, has not since been reached.
That was 23,543 feet—over four miles : in
fact, but a little under four miles and a
half. The ascension was made. Sept: 6, 1852.
Tho aeronauts were three Frenchmen—
Gustave Reynard, Mon, Petin, and Joseph
Dufour. Prof. Such, a teacher in a private
school, went along to make scientific ob-
servations. Petro and Reynard were profes-
sional aeronauts. They could not speak
English, and Dufour acted as interpreter
between them and Prof. Such, Dufour is,
I think, now living up Bridgeport way
somewhere.
" The dimensions of the balloon were
160 feet high and 72 feet in diameter at its
equator. Instead of a basket, there was
attached to it a 12 -foot boat called the
Fancy. I have forgotten the name of tee
balloon. When they first went up they
drifted off to the westward about twenty-six
miles, until they got over Greenwich. Then
they shot up higher, and attained their
highest altitude, when they struck another
current of air, and went off to the eastward.
They landed—or, rather, they struck water
—about 61 in the evening. They came
down six miles out to sea off Hampton
Beach,
Now, that is as good ballooning as
there has ever been before or since, or as
there will be for many a year to come."
Plain Talk.
At the late church congress held et "Wol
vet hampton, and presided over by the Bieber'
of Lichfield, there was a goo l deal of franks
e outspoken talk. The .Bishw o£ Derry, tri
r, the course of ap address, said ::—
t Socialism only exists in Christien com-
e tries, We find it under every form of gen-
e, ernment, Republican as well as Monarehs-
n eel, in Germany, le Prance, in America,..
s But there are no hiindoo, no Ivlahomrnedan
d 510 Buddhist Socialists, or if there are they
s have furtively; lighted. their tapers at saran
n Christian flame. Thus the spirit and espir-
e ation of Socialism has a Christian aspect,.
But, further, one leading demand' of Social-
ism is by anticipation granted in the Gospel
—first iyrauted in it. A respectful view ofr"
the working classes—of the " masses," who.
are sometimes so recklessly opposed to the
" "•
c]asses, is one great demaadof Socialfsza,
The Christian teacher may practically Bay
to the masa a -"With e the advance of a
de-
mocracy you have come in for your fortunes';
Long ago you were surfs—pawns upon tine
political chess -board, or less than pawns
Now, at an election vote by vote you silent-
ly build up the 'whole political reef. Con-
sider calmly who were your friends before
you came le for your fortune. Two classes
assuredly were not, The philosophers were.
not. "Mechanics,•' cried Aristotle, " are
incapable of true philosophy. They artier
but slaves to the public, Anything which
curves the body or stains the hands is ple-
beian." 1-Polit. III:, 4, 5.) Times haver
changed. You now keep whole schools of
philosophers. Nor were politicians your
friends. Who,'then, were your' first true
friends ?" The message' of good news' tin
those who labor and are heavy laden carne
from a carpenter's shop, and was proclaimed
by a company of fishermen, among whom a
tent -maker of Tarsus ens enrolled by a call
from Heaven.- This;:respectful view of the
working classes naturally; hid its origin fr xis
' the Gospel.
1 Another speaker, nett her a Bishop nor re
clergyman, said : What was the main canter
of the iexistence of low wages, long hours;
and; uncertainty of employment, of baa
'houses, bad food, bad clothes, and lack of
leisure, education, and employment, in tt-
community so wealthy as the British na-
tion ? First, the possession by individuals
of the means of producing all wealth
i second the consequent unlimited power of
those individuals to fix the conditions under
!which alone the propertied class would al-
low
l low to the masses access to- the' means of.
satisfying their needs ; third, the self -re--
' garding instinct in man which promptede
, those propertied individuals to deny such -
access unless they were to gain by it ; and
fourth, the fact that the'non-properties
class were compelled by their necessities to
accept whatever conditions were offered to'
them. England had emancipated black:
slaves that worked as a rule for 45<hours a
week for a wholesome living, spent wealth
111 e water' to send the Bible to the heathen,..
yet bought female labeler in the cheapest
market ; subscribed thousands' to aid a few•
score suterers by earthquake or flood,: yet,
allowed railway servants to be killed: by
the hundred and maimed by the thousand
every year, through accidents that could b
prevented by an outlay of a quarter pet.
cent. on the capital (loud cheers) ; spent,
i £15,000 upholstering Westminster Abbey in
order to thank God, who lived in
temples not made with hands, that one wo-
man had not died.
Some were inclined to cry out against
this, but the speaker was heard to the
close, even though he sail further. a
There was among the poor a strong bend'
in the simple doctrine of the Gospel, but n.
great disbelief in the sincerity of a Church
that many of them, rightly or wrongly,
thought had turned that doctrine into•
Christless creed that spits on Christ.". Les;
them put themselves in the place of a tramp'
when he reads, " Come unto Me, all ye that
labour and are heavy. laden, and I will`givc-
you rest," and hears that the Primate, witfo
his 1115,000 a year and two palaces, speak-
ing of the lot of some wretchedly paid tea
era in East London, said that it might .bt
" alleviated by spiritual consolation." Let
then remember the scourging of the cordo
in the Temple when they found in English.
churches seats sold as in a theatre. Thom
might be hard sayings, but he asked them
whether they could not see, their way to do-
ing what a Socialist, a demagogue, and an
agitator conceived to be the plain duty of
all Christian men, especially representatives
ot the Established Church, in,:a time; at
which all men acknowledged the approach
of a period of social danger and disturbance;'
Time was when such talk at such a meet-
ing would not have been listened to.
eee
AnPushing Fellow.
" What's become of Bill Dikes, Sam ? .Ile-
Blo-
used to be, when I lived here, one tof the
wildest and most worthless young fellows in
town."
"Olr, Bill, he's settled down since Igen..
He's got to he a pushing business man."
" You don't say ! What business is hn•
in ?„
"Pushing a baby carriage and keepin,
books for his wife ; she iakes in w•hshiig. -
0
Business Training•.
Business men are often heard complaining
of the education which has been given to the
boys who in due time go into business. They
say it is of no use whatever. It does not
help, it only hinders. A boy goes into the
entry desk or into the' counting room of a
large establiahment, what is the first thing
he has to do ? To unlearn all that he has
been taught about book-keeping' or even or- j
dinary arithmetic. 'The merchant has to
begin at the very beginning and what a
drawback this is ! The Germans have a
different and a better idea. They have
thorough mercantile schools in which are
taught such `things as the following : Mod -
dem languages, book-keeping, commercial
science, mercantile arithmetic, counting
house work and correspondence. The
scholars are drilled in such matters as the
cost of produce, business customs, raw ma-'
terials, duties, tariffs, markets, rates of ex -1
change and so on for the chief countries.
They are also trained in the knowledge of
the different articles of commerce, and as a
consequence,' instead of doing as they have
to, both in this country and Britain, taking
theverylowest positions with little or no ,
salary, they can step ae once into good po-
sitions with good. incomes. What is the re -1
suit'? " London merchants," said a direc-
tor of a Vienna academy, " often apply to
us for suitably trained men, as these are not
found in Britain." There stress is laid on
the mercantile bearing of every study.
Thus in geography, distances, railways,
roads and routes are carefully studied so
that while an English or Canadian lad will
have the vaguest idea.of where-
abouts most places are, his foreign
competitor will be ableto discuss the merits
of various routes a% tithe cost of send-
ing goods by them. Tar' this way the Ger-
mans are actually supplanting their Engiish
eompetitors. Then the most of English
speaking lads have no knowledge of any lan-
guage but their own. What little of French
or German they learned at school is a'mere
farce. Trey could not read or reply to a
foreign letter for their life., It is saying
little to affirm that the knowledge, the real
practical knowledge, of French or German
would have been all the difference to many
a lad in business between success and fail-
ure. There' are some Toronto merchants
who have to send their travellers to Paris
and Germany. How many of these or of
their clerks know a wordeof either French
or German ? And what a difference it would
make if they had a practical, not to say
profound knowledge of both. How many.
could do business with a Frenchman or
German ? Scarcely any. Now this will
never do. if English speakers don't tape
flare they will be entirely distanced in the
race of life,
A•
Man of ManyOgees.
At Laberan, a British possession in North
Borneo, the only English officials are Cover
nor Leys and.Lieut. Hamilton. The latter
' gentleman combines in himself the offices of
master attendant,ostmaster, colonial score-
P ,
Itary, treasurer, magistrate, inspector of
police,. inspector of the prison, chief cervi.
missiouer of; woods' and colonial engineer,
In all these capacities he corroapontls Lein
ipeself to himself and careful( copies an
registers his letters. i Y P i d
r pis s t In wr ting official let-
ters from himself to himself he adopts a
dignified and stately style, and subscribes
himself,:" Your obedient servant,"
The Best Thing He Could Take for a Starter.
" I'm going to get married," said a youres
travelling' man to a bachelor friend.
"Indeed ? Well, I wish you much jay►,
and trust that you realize the responsibility*
you are about to undertake."
" Yes, sir ; I think [ realize the respon-
sibility, I have settled down and changed'
my habits very much."
•' That's 'right. Spend your evenings afi
home' and read good solid books."
" What would you recommend?"
"I think' Paradise Lott' would be thee
best thing you could take for a starter."
Sure Enough.
Wife—What absurd nonsense, that te-
reiae an nmbrelIa in the house i
o e is an omen of
ill luck l
Husband•—Not' at all: Didn't Mrs. I3eb--
son, to whom you lent your umbrella
couple' of weeks ago, open it in the hallway?'
Wife—I believe she did.
Heaband—Well, have 'you seen the nm-.
rel hl since?
The Three Mile Circuit.
The mackerel have evidently entered into
a ,rlombination to make it appear that the
Canadian inshore fisheries are of !cane value
to the Americans!, They have kept so Well
,:, Y P
within the threo•tnile limit during the past
season that the New inglendmackerel catch
bag only 'Nulled 67,349 barrels, whereas in
1854 that catch was 389,437 barrels,
p go out after dark any more ma. •.the, -cash in the C7. S. Treasury now
, Miaow:Its to 058,734,680.
All on Account of a Dropped "H•'
There is a family in Toronto who have an::
servants au Irish girl es cook end art eeng-'
lish one as seemed' girl, The latter stns been.
but a short time in this ooautrY, and hat R.
particular aversion to the family cat, whip...
the feline pet has the good fortune to beetle
in the sunshine of the cooks favor. For
two or three days the cat was missing; audi
the cook, after ' hunting everywhere silo
thought it possible for the animal to be,,,
asked the second girl : "Louisa, you eaves.
' ,
n t done anything to the tint, have you . ?
" Done anything with the cat ?" repeated
the one addressed, " I 'ate it" "Ate the::
cat t" Dried the cook in horror, "Faint,
then, I'll give notice to lave immediately.
I'll not bo under the same roof with a hay --
then, soh won't 1"