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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-3-12, Page 2• EEOUSBEEOLD. The Sittling Reom Window. Be asenre L. „TACK. I think the Carenlien homes 'where this pkper it at visite-, will find it a perfect aud pleasaut encyclopedia a 'useful kitowledge, 'wend% if the reeder can uncleratand the Immenee amount of htbor regnired to write the ere' thoughtfed aucl varied editorWs. and to select and compile so large a paper, tO rejeet what la uasnitable and to select the beet to suit all tastes. I ani often surprised bow Setae half forgotten poem or reading find}, its way to the columne of Tinerincwaing out as if new to my reading and always gQtA. Wil4t up -hili work—what a steady rouuti of dutiee. There is no change—no respite, it is truly "all the year round," and yet we lay it en our table end seldom think a or appreciate the care that hes been given to bring it there, as we are willing to receive The days are leugtherting, and eveniegs for reading are shortening in coasegoeuce. Soon we sitail wooder where the winter has gone and the children will repeat the rhyme of which they never tire in the breaking up of the wards: ewaeren the if Inter ruder the now Were a tbe seam t time loeg ag,O, Where did it goto t Into be river, Met but it made ail the itqies shiver. And we, like the ashes may well " shiver " thiuk how little we Ilene accomplished in its lengilieued evenings, how we have uo nelao the best of our opportanitiea, or en- joyed our time as we might have delle. The 4' but for this " =el " but for that " always seems to be in our way, and so life glides en 0 the uukuown. sea elf eternity. Already 1691 is an old friend though I can hardly yet make the stroke of I instead of 0 at the heading of my lettere. Old years with menv ef us are like past friendships, and old loves they eeetre never to have been when we know them lest. Who Las not felt this, and tried to it hie mind end eyes to the tide that the years ase passiog ze essiftlysand as we grow older they plea more flee:lug aim The rannil of duties that fall to our ehare so SU the lengtheialug days that we beeeree used to the burdeue. And bye auel bye the epilog raiee and summer aun will change the whole aspect of nature, and EO we ilay of this season with Mr. Whitney, "Will winter never be over? Will the dark days never gal Meet the buttercup and the clover Be alweye be bid under the snow? 011, lend me your little ear love, Hark, 'tie a beautiful thing The weariest month of the year, love, Is skr1est and nearest the spring." The Progress of Woman. One Inunlred years ago ghds were not allowed to attend any et the public schools of the country. When the first high sawed, for girls was opened in Boston in 18e25 there was such an outery againet the innovation osul :ea many girls applied for admiesion that after a year or so thescheme was aliendoned and was not again attempted unti11853. In 1774 the first academy for women was open- ed by Moravians in Pennsylvania, ; in 1789 the hrat seminary for women in New Eng- land was ieaugurated in New Bedford, Mass., and Mary Lyon in 1836 founded a college for women in that state on the broad - vet basis over before attempted. Oberlin College was opened on the co-educational plan in 1833 and Antioch College in 1852. But these were innovations 'which met with much discussion and opposition even among women thems.elves. To -day, however, this prejudice against the scientific education of women has newly disappeared. Even the older and more conservative institutions, like Harvard and Columbia, are, if not opening their dront doors to women, at least making side entrances, called annexes, whereby they may enter. Almost every college has already one or more women professors or assistant pro- fessors. Even Harvard has admitted women 1,s assistants in its astronomical department, while women, as Dean Rachel Boffley of the Pennsylvania Woman's College and Alice Freeman Palmer of Wellesley, -have held the positions of heads of colleges. Women scientists are being given state and national government appointments. One woman is assistant mycologist at Washington; others are engaged in taking meteorological obser- vations. Missouri's state entomologist is a woman. Michigan University has several women professors and assistants in the departments of microscopical botany, ana- tomy, bacteriology, pathology and obstetrics. In other colleges can befound women at the head of departments of botany, chemistry, &a. and the principal of the Denver School of idines is a woman. In ethnology and arelneology dine such bright names as Alice Fletcher, Errainie Smith and Amelia B. Edwards. Many of these have received higli college degrees and are " fellows " of distinguished scientific societies in this country and Europe. Many women here and in England are acting or qualifying themselves to act as druggists and dispensers of medicine. Choosing. the Better Pant, Men have early 'awned the lavr of self- preservation. Theysecializa They choose that pursuit and that recreation which best suit their natures a id their needs. Does not the artist steadily efuse to be a mer- chant? Does not the bteker refuse to paint floor e t Does the histo elan expect to be equally learned in arceronorny ? Does the want of knowledge de experience in any business or study prevent appreciative and respecting intercourse between men? Let woman then realize that She cannot compass the universe. Let each woman quietly take account of her stock in trade, of her mental endowments, her capacity, and her strength, and from these let her select what is best for her to do and, to be. Whatever is wisest for her home --that trinity of husband, children, and self—is her better part, which can never be synonymous with mere plea- sure, self-indulgence, or stagxiation. Let her then resolutely turn her baelt upon all those ambitions foreign to this purpose, for no thoughtful woman will find her aims too narrow, even when she has restricted her in- terests as ROYAL as possible. Let her not be deneived into spasmodic efforts in other directions by other women -whose aims are not like hers. Let her no attempt to reach for their successes, or loot eopon lier own as ffizigeifintait or ineuffacient, for she will soon fwa ,ns tirleeely ordered, tranquilly lived lidos happffiess and strength "which shallnot be tthen. away.' Preotical Pemtere. It is said that te, drefie sweet milk after eating onions will.purify the breath so that no odor will remain A cupid of strong coffee is also recommended. To arrange fruit he china bowl's, the leteat favourite clishee for the breakfast table, crumple lap some blotting paper for the bottom of the bowl and cover it with the gray Florida moss, setting the fruit on this. A few beaue of coffee will serve as a de- odorizer if burnt on cents or paper. Bits of • charcoal placed around are useful in absorb- ing gazes and other impurities, .A. celebrated physician in an essay oa ventilation says ; Never stop up a fire- place in whiter or summer, where any liv ing beiug stays, night or day. It would be about as absurd *co take a piece of elegantly tinted court plaster and stop up the nose, trusting to the aecidented opeamg and shutting of the mouth for fresh air." To cure a felon mix equal parts of strong ammonia and water and hold your finger ut it for fifteen, minutes. After that withd.raw it and tie a piece of cloth completely sat - swaths/ with the mixtere around the felon aud keep it there until dry. Fells or other articles of white lace may he cleaned by putting them in a strong lather of white soap and, cleen water. Let them eirnmer slowly for a geerfer ef an hoer. Thea take thern out and squeeze them well, but avoid rabbiug them. Rinse them in two cold waters, adding to the last a dro of liquid blue,. Rave reedy some clear wee TILE OETIT.A.UN IN CANADA. Bow He glacles The 'Vigilance Of The Cus toms. Offintalts. Every Chinaman who leaves Canada talees a certificate which shall serve as his pass- port whoa he returns- $0 may take out a eertificate when he does, not mean to leave the county. He may take one when he is merely gomg to smuggle himself ever the border, and, never means to go back to the Dominion. Or he may take a certificate when he has made all the money he needs, and is onhis way to China to end bis days there, after years el that luxurious idleness which the average laborer counts upon oh -- tabling in Chine from the judicious invest., meet of 82000—the coolie's plum. Of course it is fair to persume that in many cases the certificates, are denaancled by men whiz; mean to return. At all events these certificates, which are passports to CLada, and indirect- ly to theUnitedStates, have a Melley value. They are sold in China. They cen be pur- Owned openly to -day in the streets of Hong- 1Coeg, like ducks or chopsticks. There they possess a fluctuating value, mad have been known to fetch as high as $65. Sometimes they are let go at a lees price than the te50 they are expected to save in the avoidance of the pen -tax, the flactuelions being goy- eritedby the demand of the time of the de- parture of a vessel, because only so many =certified Chinese laborers may take pass- age on the steamers raider the Canadian lew—one to every fifty taus of the ship's burthen. Of these who gamy. certificatee amd of those net ef the laboring elesa as many SS eb0040 may come. It is to guard against trickery with the ertificatee that the customs officials at Vic - ern Arab= water or seine thin starch or tutus, and Iratteaurer hare all they can man. rice water. PaSS the articles through it raid clean them by clapping, Then stretehth l age' Wheu a Chiueresu euters the °111"of an sie collector to Apply for a certificate, sev- then: out even and pin them to dry eral men are called in—the interpreter and linen cloth, making the edges as evee se,„er s„ or s„ 11,,, ej 1,ne. ,„„„ eleee possible, openieg out all the wallops fastening each with piu,„. who, es, laysiheme, age, P1840 ef birth. and ether parte- n-.iss, lidera of value in identifyiug Ile is thin snuelin smoothly over 13/ them, I asked to step upon the pletforen of a mem- on the vsrong shle. luring machine, such as is in use in taw army A sand bag with a plush cover is a Most one (hives much -and elsewhere—an upright pole marked off useful present to any in wintry weather. A caavas bag eontains jute feet awl ine/les' anu Sed with a slid" the sand, whmh should not be paeked too g rod that gives the man's height when it rests upon gis head. Au this tho ciduamso ire"otre.1337anuatifhwen s"/;p`"ecvit 4741'1 e"re_v_44,‘, perfectly compreheilda ; but what he does net know is the deaeriptiou of himself that which la a P1'2814 ur'.velvetl,busag VILItabainucitt: the men aroma(' him aro goingto write dow like a child's school bagn k alter be basgoue earrage t'z' sleigh will retain the heat a leegialudtesbCrblipiiigoZeevraliimeleut tatkbwee time and give great comfert. jpearance, ti eptenliarities of hia feeturea and Ilimbe and. shape, with uotea of every scar or Profits On Sheep. !pit or mark upon his hands, neck, face, =a Some farmers doubt whether it would pay keep sheep for muttou alone, but . 'lead - to And yet, in spite of these precautious, ex pert:mute reeently made at the Canadian Chinamen who go Away from Canada looking Agricultural station demuntrate thatebeep at least forty years of age, return appearing may be kent for mutton alone, with profit, to he ° twenty-four ; end *there who but as wool is a necessary adjuuct to the sdepart, come back in a tow months several five feet end nine inches when sheep, a source of profit is in that direction , e atm, several inches ehorter or taller than when In the experimeuts made accounte wereltbeY sailed for Chinas They aro new - kept of all the items of coot, including the .emners, with the certificates of other allepherd's care, originel cost of animals, i reeusef emrse.' Tim silent scanning of the eflfeatures of applicants for certifiretea does the tise of the mother ewes and the value their fleeces, as -well as of food, shelter andluet Pess unnoticed by these shrewd end in. interest of capital, untilthe Sheen were over telligent people. The manner in which they one year ow, chsmice and 11,111400de were endeavor to tr,alte themselves e. pear like used for experiments. A half-blood South- the persona whose certificates t ley carry down cost 0. and sheared aig pounds of wool thews this. They frequently go as far as to valued at 82.40. Its careass weighed 147 disfigure themselves for life In order to say. pounds live weight, which sold at six and the $zo, o.nd to hear out what they judge aludf cents per pound, or 810.20, which must be written In the oustomsbook against shows a profit of e6.60. A half-blood Shoop- the numerals that mark 0144 of the certifie cates—which, by -the -way, contain no word shire cost $7 and ateared nine pounds of wool, which sold for $3,40, the carom weigh- of the descriptions of the men who take them out. While I Was in Victoria one of these tricksters arrived with a great scar burned in his forehead, a cutelisfiguring one cheek, and a deep pit burned in his neck. When questioned, and provertto be a fraudulent fellow„ he confessed that he had never been to Canada before. The cross-examination each certificated Chinaman must undergo in the British Col- umbian custom -houses before Jae is allowed to pass into the country without paying the tax is very searching. Ile is asked what city he worked in while in Canada, and then he must name the principal Streets in that city, some of the names of the merchants there, and also the notable peculiarities of the town; what sort °iterating things drag the railroad cars ; what kind of machmes are used to put out fires—a hundred questions cleverly devised. In spite of all this, the customs officials fre- quently have to admit that they cannot tell whether they are being imposed upon or not in especial cases. Doubless many Chinamen slip through without attracting suspicion. The men who sell the certificates accompany the saleswith descriptions of themselves, and with &great amount of the informatiouthey •acquired of the localities they were familiar with. As to the general facts about Caucas- ian life, tbere are plenty of men in China and on the ships to post the immigrants fully. Every three weeks, when a ship arrive, the Chinamen with certificates are question- ed, and several are found to be thepurchasers of the certificates of others' but not one Chinaman has yet been sentback on this account. All that Canada wants is her tax, and if any Chinaravaa caught at this trickery lacks the $50, he finds his countrymen in Victoria or Vancouver willing toady= ce the money to him.--Warper's Magazine for March. How to Have Pretty Band. A ladyshouldhave beautifully white hands and no mistake. If the skinbenaturally white very little care is required to preserve it. A good soap, aided by a pinch or two of crack- ed oatmeal, may be used for a thorough cleansing twice a day ; and, if needful to still further cleanse them, warm water—not hot—will do the necessary work. Once a week they should be rubbed front arid back between the fingers, and all with a slice of lemon. If these exquisitely white hands are in- clined to chap, camphor ice may be applied at night and white gloves worn to increase the softening effect. The best camphor ice is a home-made preparation of pure white wax melted and stirred to the consistency of cream with the addition of several drops of spirits of camphor. Holes should always be cut in the palm of the gloves to allow ventilation. For distressingly red hands, equal parts of glycerine, lemon juice and rose 'water may be applied nightly under gloves. Daily applications of lemon juice are sure to produce a whitening effect. Tight sleeves and snugly fitting finger rings are a frequent source of recl hands, and the only remedy for this is to remove the irritating cause Smooth white hands may be difficult to acquire, but they are certainly within the reach of all who care for them sufficiently to make the eftort re- quired to secure them. The King of Spain is a very strong boy ugly, but bright and good-tempered. Slight help thee is for what is fixed by fate, - And much of danger to forsee the blow; If it must fall, detense is then too late And he who most forestalls does most fore- know. Hard law. Stern rule. Dire fact to con- template. • —[Calderon, nag 160 pounds, etrixtet profit for mutton and wool being 89.32. A Italeblood Oxford weighed 187 pounds and sheared eight pounds of wool, it giving a total profit of $6.02. A half-blood Cotswold weighed 100 pounds, butasit istotastrictlymuttoribreed only five cents a pound Was obtained for it, Its wool weighing nine pounds, thenet profit being only $3.11. The common native cost only 83, sheared five pounds, of wool, weigh- ed 150 pounds, and gave a net profit of 83.17. The sheep paid well, even the native showing a. fair record; but, had wool been the object, a loss would have resulted. The cost of the native being but 83, is the only advantage in its favor ;but the next smallest cost and largest profit was with the South- down. The experiments show that mutton pays far better than wool, but they also de- monstrate that a half-blood sheep will give nearly twice as much profit as a native, and that tat raise mutton for the market profit- ably the best breeds must be employed. ,-••••••••••-• Most Petal Hours. "Have the hours moat fatal to life ever been ascertained ?" was the question most recently asked of a prominent Philadelphia physician by a Pittsburg Post reporter. to a certain extent," was hisreply. "I have the date here of some very interest- ing conclusions ascertained in 2880 instances of death at all ages. The examples are taken from all conditions of life and. during a, period of several years. If the deathe of these 2880 had occurred indifferently at any hour during the twenty-four 120wouldhave occurred each hour, but this was by no means the case. There are two hours in -which the proportion was remarkably below this—two minima, as it were -namely, from midnight to 1 o'clock when the deaths were 81 per cent below the average, and from noon to 3. o'clock, when they were 20/ per cent. below. From 3 to 6 o'clock in the morning inclusive and from 3 to 7 in the evening there is a gradual in- crease, in the former of 2,3i per cent. above the average, in the latter of 5i per cent. The maximum of death is from 5 to 6 o'clock ID the morning, when it 18 40 per cent above the average ; the next during the hour be- fore naidmght, when it is 25 per cent. in excess. A third hour of excess is that from 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the morning, that hour being ln per cent. above the average. From 10 o'clock m the morning to get'elock ID the evening the deaths are less numerous, being 16i per cent. below the average, the hour before noon being the most fatal, From 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 6 o'clock ID the evening the death -rate rises 5 per cent. above the average and then falls from that hour until 11 o'clock in the evening, when it averages 6e below the mean. Dur- ing the hours from 9 to 11 o'clock in the evening there is a minimum of 6t below the average. Thus it will be • seen that the greatestmortality is during the hours from 3 to 6 o'clock in the morning, the midday hours, from 10 to 3 o'clock, furnishing the least average hourly death -rate." Opportunity. IVIaster of human destinies am I Fame, love, andfortune on rnyfobtsteps wait Cities and fields I walk I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! 11 sleeping, wake :11 feasting rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortalii desire, and conquer every foe Savo death : but those who doubt or hesitate Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, '-'eek me in vain god uselessly implore, - s return no more! .Thro. JTheam.s. JEWS AND PEASANTS IN AUSSIA. BY A maul EXILv, Por a long time, but especially during the last dece,de, attention has been muck attract- ed ut ell parts of the civilized world to the condition of the Jews in Russia. Prominent writers and travellers have written of their wretched state, telegraph deepatehes of anti- Sentitie riots are frequently published amd the tales of the Jewisk refugees are con - Armed in all eeseutialpoiree by disinterested Observers. Ab pre,seut despotism biuds Russia In its most galling boeds called laws it twines harshly round all the various membera of the political whole of the nation. But Jews and peasants are the only classes who have to bear the sufferings of all other 015MS in addition to their own. The previous and later outbursts of verse, cation the Jewieh subjects of the Czar had to suffer have aroused innearly every civilizt ed country feelings of the deepest indigna- tion, If people of this continent can be aroused by the starvation of Ireland should they not as keenly feel for the wrongs in dieted upon the millions of highly gifted intellecteal, ancl, on the whole highly en - dewed literal, but defenceless'Jewish racet It iney be questioned whether Russia eau claim a plaee among civilized nations, The Russian nation though nominally Christian is for the ino.st part without morality. 'Their eivUzation is bet a thin film ineuZcient to etemeal a hatharien and cruel nation and though many of them are capable of inimens hies fortitude and of almost aupernetuml devotion to a genet; or ton leader, yet for the Mass of them, the ten eounnaudniente have no exigence, RUSSia, by her treatment of the Jews, has belated herself from the eivilized world, One nifty say that Jew as atraugera had to suffer in a eel:Wry of politleat ability. But the Jew in Resale are not strangers there ; they. priucipally Lithunie, White RUSSM, Little Reeldie, gen- ereily those regions which anciently forM- ed part of the Polieli Dominion, and where they established themselves under the Folnikprotectorate aud were employed by the Polish nobility in alinoet every pesitien of responsibility. They are excluded frora Russia, proper, with eertain exc9tions. In many of the towns and provineee where they catinot remain legzsfly they do live but are liable atany time to be ordered to remove at whatever loss er damage to their property. When Poland came tinder the dominatiou of Reale, the Jews Weenie ortt The strietsst law were enacted to limit their righte. Under the boa grasp of Nisholas and hie general, Muraviete, called at that time "the hangman," the limited rights of the Jewa were trameled under foot. Nicholas wanted to convert tbe Jews anfl the Poke to the Greek Church, He did not suceeed in converting the Ant. The Russian police then made more proselytes to the Greek Church than the missionaries and the people. This explains why 'at the present day half of Russian Poland is con- verted. It was a question of life or death. Under the Emperor Alexander II., some Atria, law against, the Jews were removed. The Jews began to breathe more freely. Such new hopes however,as they may have begun to indulge, fell with Alex - nu oleo assassination. Justice seemed to liaae teen also ass:minuted. The Jew have seen chained in the abominable laws of the eaharian Count Ignatioil, the favourite of the retrogressive despot, Alexander TM The cruelties perpetrated upon this. people seem incredible. The ohargee egaanst the Jews in Russia are lacking the basis of truth. The Iowa have fought in Russian wars, they have laid down their lives for her. Liko the rest of the population, they are liable to con- scription into the army, but unlike them they are not allowed promotion. Their condition is most deplorable; debarred from pursuing legitimate vocations, oppressed by heavy special taxes, confined to over -crowded districts and harassed by many entioyances, they are even persecuted when they try to make a living by the only few means lett to them. In an address delivered in Philadel- phia by Coroner Fred Levy, of New York, the speaker said: The situation of the Rus- sian Jews is becoming so horrible and un- bearable that they would probably all. leave Russia ifpermitted. Their choice is between baptism and suicide. Numbers cboose bfee- tism, others deathinescapingacrossthefrone- iers, and how many select suicide, theworld outside of Russia, will never know. Remon- strances would not be apt to produce much influence gpon the Czar who would regard them as imprtinent interferences. The great meeting in the Guild Hall, London, was answered by a decree increasing the severity of anti-Semitic law and therefore it is believed that the Czar is personally deter- mined to break the race down in Russia. Though apparentlythe Russian Government seems to be quite impervious to foreign in- fluence or foreign remonstrance, yet foreign opinion is a power dreaded by the despotic Government. The more cruel the laws en- acted. and the stricter their enforcement the clearer is the proof that the Government does not feel secure; a Government that is strong need not have recourse to such bar- barities. Are the Jews the only class who seffer ? No. The iron despotism and the degrading tyranny of Alexander III. and of the sordid group that surromads him, harshly threaten all classes and compel them to smart under the Russian knout. The state of affairs going on in Russia is most deplorable. Look, what a Russian weekly paper, Hedelya, wales of the great mass of the people, the peasants: "The most respected students of Russian life bear witness to the fact that so far from the people becoming as in West European countries, better fed, better housed, betterinstructecl, and more civilized year by year, it is painfully evident tlaat the unmistakable process of decomposition has set in among the Russian peasantry, the drying up of the material and moral sap, the process of demoralization. Neither in Europe nor in any civilized country of the whole world is a people to be found poorer than the Russian people, more grossly ignor- ant than the Russian people, who dwell in more primitive dwellings than the Russian people, or who till the ground with more primitive implements. Even such pagan countries as China and Japan; with their well-informed inhabitants and high standard of agriculture, have far outstripped our RAISPian people. Our peasant with his rough and wooden harrow, that seem to have been handed down from the age of Bronze, and with his benighted ignorance and carelessness losesthree-fourths of the possible harvest. Among the peasants, epidemic diseases are continually raging to such an extent that competent medical authorities declare that they carry off as many lives yearly as if cholera were perpetu- ally in our midst. The terrific mortality among children is accounted for in tirc custom of giving infants sour black bread wrapped up in a rag to suck—a barbarity not practised even by the non-Russian tribes on the Volga. The astonishing lack of elementary education manifests itself with the friglitful spread of drunkenness and de- grading disease. It is notorious that these two scourges were the main causes of the degeneration of Australian and other savages. In Russia amoug our own people, painful though it be to make the ad- mission, sereething extremely Suggestive of this process is now taking place. We will say aothing of drunkenness, in Whieli, to uae an expression of Dostoieffskey's, our people "is rotting away." Things more hors mble still may be in store ler aur people from such disease. Spread throughout the length mei breadth of Russia, it has in many places infected ehe whole population. Dr. Maslovilty, for, instance, writes from the Government of Tambov "In some plaees every man, Wareall and elaild, or nearly everyone, is infected, aud itis impossible tO prevent its spread by any coneeevable mea- sures," How can you cure a disease so catching when all the members of the peas- ant family eat out of one platter, sleep in one bed and where tbe seine coat and the same felt boots pass from see - member of the family to another. Tin zemsky doctors of the Government of Kiwale at the fourth medical congress, resolved that ; "Recognizing the fruitlessness of the efforts mide to stay the spread of the ells - ease, the Goveroment zenistvo be requested 'LP release all zemsky doctors from the obligation of making any." From the effects of drimiceuness, insuf- ficient nourishment, heavy work ont of all proportions to their strength, and disease, even the physical type of the Russian peas- • ant is obviously degenerating. More then ten years ago, Prefessor Jepson, in hie "ConaparativeStatistics,"calledattentionto the lameetable fact that thegreat Russian race was degenerating, even if compared with the lieu -Russian tribee of the Empire. And thia the or:awhile powerful gifted breueli of Slavonic colonists, the foundera el the mighty Empire, are degenerating into a weak effete rae0 of beings, devoid even of the capacity for progresa" Such a etate caencia however, last for ever : nay, not even for a long lepse of future time; more eepecially now, When the people become more awake to selkozmoieuaneas aud are thus wounded to the quick by the (liven mime that opprese and grind them. hat may be the future of revolution in Russet It will bear a merle of ita own, as does everything conttected with this people. If aroma day the socialist propaganda," says Emilia l3azan, "shall make itself heard in the country villages, and the peasant lend isa eer to thous who say to him: Rise make the sign of the Cross and take thy hatchet with thee,' Then Ruesia, will show you a moat formidable iosurrection, end Oust world of country folk, patient cattle but fenetieal and overwhelming in their fiery, once let low, will sweep everything barer° its Nothing will appease or imager it. The constitutiona of Weatern Wads they have already torn to pieces without perusal. Now one cau perceive a :mouldering team among the people manifesting itael casionally ID conflagration,anti-Semitic outbreaks I4nd frequent agrarian edam." M. Review. 68 Pearl Se, Toronto. Golden Thonghte Ear Every Day, Monday -- When the stranger asks a home, All his toils to end; When the hungry eraveth food, And the poor a friend; When tho sailor on the WAD!) BOWS the fervent kriee „• When the soldier on the field Lifts his beart to Thee; Boar then, in love., 0 Lord, the ern In heaven, Thy awaiting -tame an hien; --feenonymous. Tueadaye-"No man's enemy but his own" happens generally to be the enemy of every- body 'with Whom he is in relation. The lead- ing quality that goes to make this character is a reckless imprudence, and a selfish pur. suit of a selfiah enjoyment, independent of all consequences. He runs rapidly through his means; calls in a friendly wey on lais friends for bonds, bail, and securities ; in- volves his nearest kin ; leaves his 'wife a,beg- gar, and quarters his orphans upon the pub - lie ; and, after enjoying himself th his lest guinea, entails a life of dependence -upon his progeny, and dies in the odor of that 111. underatoodreputationofho.rmless folly evhich is more injurious to society than some pos. itive crimes. The social chain is ao nicely and delicately constructed that not a link snaps, rusts, or refuses its proper play, with- out the shock being felt like an electric vi- bration to its utmost limits.--EAnonymous. Wednesday— Ever blessed Trinity, Source of life and purity, Hear us, while welift Thee Holy chant and psalm. With the beams of morning shine, Lift on us Thy light Mainz, And let charity benign Breatbeon us her balm. - When around us falls the even, Let it close on sin forgiven; . Fold us in the peace of heaven, Shed a holy calm. Ever blessed Trinity, Dimly here we worsbip Thee; With the saints hereafter we Hope to bear the palm. —[Gilbert Rorison. Thursday --Prayer was never meant to be a substitute for labor—an easy way of throw- ing our responsibilities upon God. The old classic story of the teamster whose cart stuck ID the mud, and who fell to crying to Her- cules for help instead of using every effort himself, and was told by the god heinvoked to put his own shoulder to the wheel, shows that even a heathen mind could see that faith wasnever meant to exclude works. --[Anony- MOUS. Friday—Life is beautiful, life is grand. To make the conditions such that life can mani- fest itself is right. To make two blades of grass grow where only onegrew before is bene- volence. To turn a fertile land into a desert is a sin, To render a fertile farm unfettile is evil. Sin and rightness begin not in our dealings with rnen, but with the humblest form of life. It is a, crime to torture a, worm; it is a crime to destroy any form of life ex- cept as by doing so we advance some higher life. A man who ruthlessly switches off the roses that nature swings on a. stalk, or with which she covers a rock, is sinning. Life is sacred, for the sum of life is God. God is sacred because he is the sum of life. As a mere potentate, no being is sacred. Life is holy. It is the I Am, the Being of the Uni- verse.—[E. P. Powell. Saturday -- God hath His solitude, unneopled yet, Save by the peaceful life of bird and flower, Where since the world's foundation He hath set The hiding of His power. Year after year His rains make fresh a,nd green Lone wastes of prairie, where, as daylight goes. Legions of bright -hued blossoms all unseen Their cavern petals close. • How was it that the judge granted your divorce before even reading petitition "He was my wife's first huslaand." It is sometimes quite enough for a man to feign ignorance of that which he knows, to gain the reputation of kneeing that of -which he is ignorant. The feudal systera still prevails in Hyder- abad; and met hold their land in return for military eerviaes rendered , In this respect, the State us probably ')17' Tia CATTLE TRADE. wonderful, tenveasenewatt of the Trade 140 *wean Gieat BrAtain Caisadik, The crusade of Mr. Plimsoll *ale* the American live cattle trade bids le* ie turn out, so far as 'Canada is concerned, quitetha opposite of what wa.s tit firse contemplated by this honest but mfetalten eeSriend of the sailor" There is now little probableity Vett the bill to prohibit the exportation of live stock from America whiels was intreduced last session into the'llritith Rouse of Com mons, but held over until inventigetion sheuld be made, will be pressed dune% the present session, nein that Mr. Plimsoll, its author,has, through the knowledge ab - tailed during his recent visit to Canada, sontislerebly changed. hie' viewa on the eube pea The Canadian Gazette, publithed ID Liendon (Eng)., and, an advocate ef the trade as favorable to all concerned, says: "It is gratifying to knew that Mr. Plimsoll's visit to Canada baa reSaltea ID his modifyiug ith§ "Mtn tO the extent of believing that tean eattle might with safety be shipped from the St, Lawrence. Such an adinisskiai Will be considered tat.*upiounttosayingtblipt the Dominic% trade is carried on nnder condi, time perfectly satisfactory, and a reason- able logical eenclueion to be drawn there - is tbat, if lean cettle a= be shipped without danger, est cattle can also be sena In the turning awy el this threatened dan- ger Canadiane may well eetoice. The ihre stock industry is amineetiomibly the chief agricaltural interest of Ontario, end hedged oz theDominion, In 1859 Ordarkea live *Wile was valued at .$105,731,288 ; and the Wee of live stock and their produeta amounted to $23,804,707. In th, same year the eetire farm property of the province, including live stack, was estimated at $982.210,604, aud the sales from the farina, aside from the Ivo stock, amounted to $13.414,111. In other svorde, the live atoch of Ontario amounts to nearly 11 per cent, of theprope,r, ty of the Ontario farnaers, while the menet derived from the eele of all other Wm pro. ducts, ineluding trait, was only 66 per cent, of Hutt derived from live stock and ha pro- ducts. An to the sale of the cattle them selvea, apart from their producte, the ire* with England last year amounted to aye $5,000,000. avonderful developmeut luta 'largely taken place duruig the past tweuty.three years. In 180, the Ortil pier of Confsxlere atien, the wile ef live atoek and produote amounted to $6,893,167 and of all other agrieultural predueta to $12,871,055. In le89, as badiceted above, the ales of the former amounted to 23,894,707 end of the hitter to $13,414,111, that is,the relative in. crease in the revenues derived from live atoek during that pee-iosi lano leas * au 241 per cent. Whet the trade in cattle would be more profitable atill to the Qin:Adieu faruier if he wouldjirepare, or "finieh " hie own cattle for the British market,inateed of shipping them in lean condition to be fate tared by the British importer, certain heti :Wawa by the Canedian Gasege would seem to :show. According to this journal one dealer bought seven Canedien bulloeks for ;6120, 15a, end alter fitting them up eold at an, edvance of 471. Another deeler re- ported the sale of 27 Cauadiari cattle at an average of 420, We. lie heel bought them lean and found them kindly feeders that paid better for four months' keep than others for twelve months. The Gazette submits, that with a little more attention to feeding the Canadian femme may so "finish" his fat atock as te secure a share of the profit reaped by the Euglieh ema Scotch dealers who handle Canadian at -tak- ers. Certainly the preparing of our cattle for the British Market would involve the feeding of a much larger quantity of ewe° se grains than are now consumed by the Ceua- dian farmers; would, indeed, require that the present annual yield of these webs should be largely increased. Tshia raises the question whether, in view of 'the cattle industry, it would be more advantageous for our farmers to raise more coarse grains than at present, or to ask for the removal ot the duty on lora in order that this grain might be profitably imported to make up the de- ficiency. Poseibly some will object to the re- 1210Val of the dutyon thegroundthatit would interfere with the price of coarse grains, though it is plain that the reasons which ex- isted thirteen years ago for the imposition of the tax have largely, it not altogether, pass- ed away. Last year we imported notwith- standing the duty, 31,266,910 worth of corn which is within$283,139 of theamonnt receiv- ed for the combined export of peas and oats, the grains with which the corn would prin- cipally come into competition. _Members of the Congregntion. Oh beautiful sunbeam, straying In through the wldo church door. I vvish I was with you, paying Down there on the cool stone door: For I tun so tired of eittin Upright and stiff and st 11, And you, yon go dancing. flitting Ga3r]y,wherever you will; And you've nothing to do but glisten, And no one is ever vexed Because you forget to listen Or can't reme neer the text. Dear sunbeam, I'm pondering, pondering, Were they all fast asleep, the flowers When you oa.me on your bright wings wander.. ing. To earth in the morning hours, And where have you since been roaming Tho long, long, hot day through I Will you nolcome the purple gloaming That means going hOirie to you Have you been to the river, I wonder ? The river, shining and wide, Where coots dartflashingly under,. And water weeds rock with the tide. Did you see the big daisies bobbing I Wore the speedwells like bits of sitY/ Did you hear the sad grasses sobbing Whenever the winds went by? Dear sunbeam, hese lonely When yo a have gone quite away, And oven now yen are only .A. faint gold splash on the gray, .Ah I ablest the sermon is over; I know the text God is Light; Wait a minute, sunbeam, you rover, And let me bid you good night. FRANOES IMRE The Sabbath Ohime. Now, my soul, thy voice upraising, Toll in sweet and mournful strain How the Crucified enduring Grief, and wounds, and dying pain, Freely of Ills love was offered, Sinless was for sinners slain, Scourged with unrelenting fury For the sins which we deplore By His livid Stripes Be heals Ink Raising us to fall no more ;1 All our bruises gently soothing. Binding up the bleeding sore. • Sce ! His Hands and Foot arefizttened; Se He makes HiS people free; Not a wound whence Blood is fl'owing But a fount of grace shall be ; Yea the very nails which nail Him Nail us also to the Tree. Throughllis Heart t h spear is piercing, 'though His foes have seen Hint die; Blood and Water thence are streaming hi a tide of mystery. Water from our guilt to cleanse us, Blood to win us crowns on high. Jesus, may those precious fountains Drink to ,thirsty souls afford Let them be, our cup and beeline, Andat length our fultsa'=.r.v_ ard; So a ransomed World ohUt ever Paisa Thee, its redeetill*t lord.