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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-3-26, Page 6FIRES PEARLS OF TRUTH. •"""f. If eoraebody — ,. would write the his - [OW MILES OF FLAMES SrHE tory of the harm that has been done in the riarkis OF 1 World by people who believe themselves to be virtums, what a queen edifying book it teens rsedin subaning Ithens—TbeFires iId °31.' asse !sow Gene Ent neon nenennow The secret of suceess in life is for a an uves, Memory oelloneer nays. ; to be ready when his opportunity comes.— afisraelie A predrie fire when viewed under proper If we are ever in doubt what to do it te a eireareetances is en interesting and beautiful g t when, a fierce gele drives end rule to ask ourselves what we shall sibu ght to inhold, wish on the morrow that we bad done— ti its ay, consuming ProPont7 d e- [Sir Joins Lubbock greying life in its path its grandeur be- . coulee an object of terror, To the early The world is in our eyes, not objective, settlers of the plains of tbe Wet pram, but subjective. Yon see what is in yous Ares were a familiar spectacle, yet ;heir re. oot what is out of you.—Ejohn R Paxton. corroaee never robbed them of the interest-. Certainly thoughts are prayers. There swakeoing sense of danger with which they are moments when the soul is kneeling, rio were invested. The prairie fixes usually . matter what the attitude of the body may began in October, soon after the first frosts , has—Meter lingo, had Ofteu the first intimation a sets A man bas no right to be inferior in bis made a wild stampede. During the day the tier would receive of in approaching fire profession, or rather he has no right to be 1 cettleweregiven small quantities of the hay, would be given by felling ashes of the burnt in a, profession in which be is Inferior. 1 but when darkness came on, and the sharp, grass that a strong upper current of air had Every an. who can be a first rate some- piercing wind lashed the poor dumb brutes earried a long distance. In the hazy sky of thing,—as every man can who is a man at Inchan summer the smoke of tbe he, whoda all, --has no right to be a fifth rate some - might be miles a,wa,,y, could not yet be dis- thing ; for a fifth rate something is no bet- ceraed. The falling ashes might, not be ter than a first rate nothbagn—V. G. Hon noticed onless one chanced to look upon the land. smooth surface of still water, where their presence was easily discerned. Wish the Pear of danger is ten thousand times consing.ot the first shades et evening, ablush more terrifying than dang,er itself when at a lama en the distant horizon would in- apparent to the eyes ; and we find the bur- dicate the Pon-ale:a of the fire. If the nignt den of anxiety greater by much than the were cloudy the brightness of the florees evil -which we are anxious about. —Defoe. There are some pains Run sorrows would be reneeted above. It required QX. That by feauap are expressed,perien:e to teL by the appearattee of such 4' illuminatimis how far away a fire was, but Better *ban wl" words 3r° spoken —Palderon, Glory and, curiosity ..are tbe scourges of our eoule. The latter Induceth us to bate an oar in every ship, and the former for - bide es tee leave anything unresolved or uns decided.—nniontalgue. Hee mau a right no tlirow away his own happihess any =Ora than that a anotherl— A TRIMBLE SCENE. Frightful Chsee0,-,e of 5,000 Starving Cattle en a Hay Stack. Title year is the worst that cattlemen in Nevada have ever experienced in their btu Mess. Recent estimates of the loss of cattle laet winter run the number up to 20,000 and examples are numerous where out of a herd a 2s000 three score or less were alive in the spring. The buoiness ae- tivty of the entire State has been seinewlaat hamyered by these losses. John Bradley VMS one a the heaviest losers, and he had an experience with some of his eettle tbat he will never forget. One night in January last 5,000 of his choicest, whieh had been driven close to the head- quarters of the ranch, where there were be- tween 500 and 1,000 bales of bay stacked together in one huge pile and guarded by men armed with stieks and pitchforks, an •" 4--2d-tmez of the pries coold thus aceurately late the fire, and tell by the teem of the wind how loug, it would be ta reseshieg a given point. A mann; Flint -RR AT !STOUT. SouletimeS during. still weather a fire Weald appear tobura tu almost tbeeameloean sty for eeveral dense The sameappe,arence would result whea the fire barnedagametthe nt 4J, wied or was " boelelpg up," as the eettlers Abject flattery and indiscriminate aSSen. termed it. Under such eirenmetances z tenon degrade, as much as indiecriinieate =Away, a small stream, or even aCowpath contradiction and noisy debate disgust. -- across the prairies might stop the progress Mester/tea of ilia fire. That kind of are formed a A young lady who can have male friends pretty picture at slight. The long stretches as well as frieuds of her own sex is not of /lame reaehing across the level plain or usually pressing and secret in her coadences exteading over the uudulatioue of bill awl possiWy heeaneo sue)* a, young lady is not vaie suggested to the observer a line of always nursing baby -passions and does not soldiers meas./slog with unbroken front upon require her sees ceddliug and posseting an Vbenty. The menssant it.1$11 and fading , keep them aliee,—sasove al/smash, of the flames added to theirlifedike appear- J Whiter Ends out svhat summer lays by.— .sEsop. ewe. seed it required not the most creative eetinetliniste transform them intoniviog met:urea, tads armed with a. sword ef fire anti a torah -et nestruetion. The tongues Prof. Keciie Prestige on the Wane. they grew restless. Two hours before mid- night the wind increased to a hurricane with the thermometer below zero, anti the rest- lessness of the cattle increased. Those in the rear, in a vain attempt to getaWaT from the cruel wind, struggled wildly, residue forward and nontiog to oust those in front; until the whole herd took alarm and began moving toward the hay. Suddenly with one accord they bellowed loud and long, as if instinct told them death was near, and then in mad career rushed blindly and' fun. ously toward the fence. The guards, bar. ihg no avenue of escape., but on top of the ptle of hay, swiftly. climued the Ione() and scrambled on top, 3ust as the hungry herd made its mad charge. It was a grand and terrible scene as the cattle rushed sip tia the fence, those in the front beving their brains dashed out and others being traMpled en and ltilledby thoee cnarging, on behind. The fence gave nway and around and up the pile of hay the herd. moved on, so elosely peeked. together that some bebind were forced on the backs of those in front, while here and there were large piles of dead animals, from the to of winch cattle stood, franticallygrabbing their food, only the next moment to be savagely attacked by others for a favored place. For an hour the guards on top, with bated breath and frighteued looks, watebed this weird. sight, and then yells for help, an the cattle pushed oue another up elo.se to the top, made Bradley and others who had ran out of the house when the cattle bellowed, think that the guards were being mangled beneath the hoofs of the enraged beasts. For two hours they labored, to dnve the cat. d Came were oast min ore deinstve to the von Taberculine is just now at a discount, and tieback to rescue the guards, and finally line - It= were the dark shadows that harked ' professor Rodeo prestige is a depreci„„„a„a inating gettingau9kelugg for them to netween them. One Wile WaS unaceu.etom. quantity: The Paris physicians consider the esea4' ;(1'' un the cattle tims e h the hay pile el to seeing prairie Ares was almost certain 'mucit-prized remedy a raxdc poison, and re- ,„ wee' later alt were (lerA' from eel" and to ilea .c. upon viewing one at night, fuse to administer is to human bolas's. Many hunger. did the ehuslows ran up and down the ail that was claimed for it. A rival cure for along the line of lire," so like living beings doubts as to its efficacy or its ability to do Ta—hdevilorlourntion " There are men running back and forth , German doctors, too, have expressed grave briabt, ragged.eaged ribbon of flame. All tuberculosis by Prof. Lichrich, of Berlin Latest SouthabiliAm.erieri In. n great (liege that the revolution in Chilihas grown nielit long the flames would stend like sea hasjucit bee announced,d t gs "tiltelS waving signal torehes, or lite giant are eaid to have been already accomplished toseriousproportionsand that the Insurgents fire -flies play hide aud seek along theslowly. by it. According to the deSpatches, this new have succeeded in capturing the city of advancing. line. But, much to the early remedy is administered by systematic in. Iquique which was defended by General settlers' misfortune all pinkie fires were not jectioos under the skin. Prof. Liebrich 80001 the Commander of the government of this type. Sometime% driven by a fierce claims for it, that it deep nob briug an are- forces. A dispatch f rom Buenos Ayres says; gale et whirlwind wbiels their ONVII heat action or cause fever, Viet it is perfectly "The bombardment of Iquique by the inns.- created or d doubly intensified, they would harmless, and a certain cure for tuberculosis gents was produetive of great loss of life and lespforward with anirresistible impetuosity. ' of the laEynx, if not for phthisis. He says:t teary damage to property. When the rebels Within a few hours after 5 settler discover- "1 hs.veinjectedpatienta afflicted with tu er entered the city they Attacked the stores ed such a tine on the distant borizon to the Wogs of the lerynx, and have positively and residences on six of the principal squares windward it would be upon him, and woe to cured them. Some of them were sufferers to and completely wreckenthem. The huilnings him And Ids if he had not provided his boos° ' Mich an extentthattheyhadbecome aphonic. bad afforded shelter to a large number of against such cakunities. 1 tinder my treatment they recovered their women and children, but the insurgents, heedless of the rules overning civilized Frankel, at the Ro al Clinic for diseases waniann ave them no c lance to escape and FETUS DENIAL OE OUR LORD.. 1 ernor. Again the servants have been assail- ing Peter. Again one and Another -have accused him of being of Christ'a company. Finally the terrified apostle breaks out with oaths and imprecatioes declaring that he has never So unleb as seen before this cons vined bla.sphemer of Nazareth, And Christ passes by 1 Outside, the day begins to break, A second time the cook crows, Peter looks up, startled at the memories whiela that sound brings him, and here is the Alas - ter passing by, and hearing it all. Peter looks into the face of Jesus. Jesus turns and looks upon Peter. Here is the apostle who had declared that though all should be offended he,cause of Christ that night, yet would he never be offeeded. Here is the apostle evho had cried out, "Though I die with. thee, e et will I not deny Thee." And all that show of bravery hod come to this "Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to haye you that he may sift you like wheat !" "And the Lord, turned and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he bad said, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out and wept bitterly." It is only an apostle that can betray his master, It is only an apostle that can deny his Lord. It is only one who loss been In Christ's company than can forsake Him. Others may be hostile. Others may do their WOIlit against Him. One may, strike Kim in the face, another may revile Him, (soother, may spit upon Rim. But, who does notknow that all this brutality and derision and in- sult fell but lightly upon the soul of Christ as eompared with tne betrayal of Judas, and the denial of Peter, And the forsaking of the rest ; that hurt uespeanably. It is Cbristiane who to -day can grieve Chen unspeakably. There are deuysugs and bla,shonung outside ftmong.those wile have never taken Christ's allegiance upon them. But it is our disloyalty, who are numbered among Ris ow o disciples, which hurts Christ most. When we betray IBM, Betting ourselves upon the side of His cue - Dales ; when we deny Rim in slime and fear, declartng that we know Him not and are none of Tris ; when we forsake Riene go - lug away into the pathti of sin,then we repeat the scenes of that night. Judas, the betrayer, Peter, the denier, it to -day in Christian congregations. "Lord, is it I1 ' let us each ono ask our - !wives. Trials come, testing ourloyalty and love. It is so hard sometimes to be a Christ- ian 1 So hard to gay a wattle word, when an angry word demands our utterance 1 So hard to forgive when we are despitefully entreated, when malicious injut7 by deed or speech is visited upon us 1 So hard to be faithful in our Christian service when temp. tattoos assail us, and the path of allegiance is encumbered with difficiiity 1 So hard to be a. real believing Christianan an unbelieso big generation, to listen to the words of those who speak against our Master, and to show ourselves openly upon Ilia side ; So easy to keep cowardly silence! "Lord it is I1' Am 1 in Judas' pima or Peter's?, BY GEORGE HODGES. Out of Gethsemane goes the band of ser- vants and soldiers back into the city, Christ bound in the midst of them, They take him first to the house of Anoas, Annas sends him, still bound, to Caiaphas. Caiaphas is the high priest. Peter and john follow afar off, John goes in when they come to the house of Caiaphas, and presently, knowing somebody in the high priest's house, gets admission for Peter, Jesus is in the inner court, standing before Caiaphas. Outside in the outer court is a crowd of servants. The soldiers have gone back, their errand. done, return- ing to theirnnarters. These are the servants who had gone out with clubs and. staves to the arrest Thy are cold and the night "n chill. They have lighted a fire of char- coal on the stone floot and stand about it talking over the events of the evening, John stands apart beside the door which leads into the inner court where Jesus is. Peter stays with the servants beside the fire and warms himself. The red light flickers upon the bearded faces of the eager talkers, and the long, shifting shadows fall upon the walls. Somebody chances to notice tbis stranger in their company'. Who is this male with the 'unfamiliar face and the Galilean aecent? Where did he corne from?, The maid who kept the den, end bad let Idea in, charges him with Leing a disciple with jeans et Nam, reth. Peter's heart sinks with fame All eyes are turnesi upon him, What wM these rough fellows do with him if the truth be known? Ile hides behind, a lie. He denies, sa 'lug; "I know not what thou slyest." Bat now the exemination begins. Caen pints questions Christ. He °aka Him about Ilia disciple? and His doatrioe, And in the midst of Ras answer an officer strikes Kim, strikes Him the fun ,Again there is a pause while messengers go for witnesses and to summon the elnef priests and seribee. Again, they begin to leek at Peter out there beside the fire, and to wender who he is. Again somebody accuses/um of being A friend of this arrested malefactor, end again be makes his andel, sealing it We time with an Oath. And in 0. space of silence a, sound is bear4 without—a coon crows, But Peter pays no hoes". ETANDING \VEERS TEX VIRE HAD BEER. 1 'voice, an are now completely cured. Proles - Many stories are told. of the speed. of such fires, the truthfulness of some of which is I e'in."1,m 1°174'9 Dr. Rermann, at his private well founded. Wolves and deer have been ; etn"e' met with similar success." Whatever pursued by fire until they nought safety hi I may be the final judgment of the scientifie "world in respect to this latest discovery, settle& barnyards, and in andt an ex/mese 1 onthing is certain that the excitement ed condition that men on foot, armed with; n'''''na"„r, y the announement of Prof. IKooh's club% easily overtook and. dispetehed 1 them. Emigrant trains in the early days( consumption titre will hardly be repeated had many thrilling enapes from the file ( over Prof. Liebrich's remedy. At the same I time wbile not aeleve were overtaken and destroy- me it must not be inferred, notwithstand- ed by the prairie conflagrations, The tray- 1 ing the attitude of the Paris physicians, that eler possessed of presence of mind and Dr. Koch's remedy is absolutely valueless, reaches fearen no such fate. When no other ' and that it has failed. to make good any of Means of escape from a coming gre offered . its claims. It was the misfortune of tuber- ,/ as : euline *et itattracted to itself friends whcse itself he would set fire to the grass, au enlarged he wou the burnt area, would extinguish enthusiasm ran away with their judgment. Prof' Koch has always been more modest in the flames oil the aide of it toward the point ! from which the wind was blowing, and once his claims than many of those who assayed inside the burnt district he had nothingth to praise his discovery. fear. The harder the wind blew the easier it was for him to subdue the Ere that was "backing up” and get inside of the haven of safety. -Settlers protected their farms by fire- , the present situation. The fact that although breaks nea.de by plowing up two strips of sod ' two decades have passed since their armies several rods apart around their farms and, t met on the field of battle, and the provinces on a still, favorable day, burning the gra" `in dis` pnte changed masters the feeling of between the strips. The same results( were : hostility should be so general, gives little sometimes obtained by cutting two strips of ' encouragement to the hope that so far as grass and burning it as soon as dry, and these two nations are concerned the time strips when the frosts had ripened it. At 1 for beating "'their swordsinto plough shares then burning the grass between the burned i and their spearsintopruninghooks' will soon times all of suclayrecautions were in -vain. t arrive. In view of the trouble the question Weeks of scorching sun and hotwinds wouM ! arises Does it pay Germany to retain Alsace render the prairies dry as tinder. Then, i Loraine when their possession costa her when the flames came on the wings of a I so much? It is notorous that the population /strong gale, they seemed to feed upon the 1 of the province is greatly disaffected to- wards their present masters so much so that in the event of war between the two nations Germany would need to employ as many troops in watching them as she could draw Tumble -weeds, which grow abundantly ( from them. It is true that at present the on newly broken ground, are great fire !province constitutes a "scientific frontier" carriers. They are often much larger than , which however in time of war would be of a bushel basket and almost round in shape. 1 doubtful advantage. 14 18 therefore a ques- Sometimes these, when ignited by the fire, t tion which German statesmen might well would be rolled a long distance by a fierce consider whether it is not worth while to wind before they were consume,s1, scattering forego this advantage for the greater ad - their paths. Fighting fire • vantage the surrender of the province would the blaze along be in averting war, especially was one of the liveliest and most memorable , lly if the cession of the early settler's experiences. The were accompanied by stipulations that ordinary two -bushel grain sack, made ofI would make them unavailable to France hard, closely woven material, and a bucket ; for offensive purposes. For if by the cession of water to moisten it in, were the best . of the province the spirit of hostility and revenge in France cou means of subduing the flames when their could be allayed Germany mildness would permit one to get within I would not only win over an enemy, but striking distan ae. Sometimes the whole would at the sane time remove the occasion family would turn out and fight until they ; for keeping up to its present dimensions her could fight no more, only to see their pro- i huge military establishment, whose support perty consumed by the meroikss flames. hampersindustry, diminishesproduction,and Prairie fires have almost become things of past, except in the extreme West and North- west. The plains and hills over which they France and Germany. Lovers ofpeacewho deplorethereign ofwar will derive no pleasure from contemplating air and fire -breaks availed nothing. In in- stances of this kind back -firing was the set- tlers' only hope of immunity from the flames. VIRE oARRIERS AN» FIGHTERS. lessens the ease and happiness of life. Lighting Watches with Eleotricity. used to leave their blackened trans are now A novel electric watch lighter is being cultivatedfields, andthesweet-scented clover manufactured in ngland. It resembles an blooms where once the curlew bid her nest enlarged. open-faced watch case, and 1 -as in in the wild grasses. Where once the smoke its rim a minute incandescent lamp and re - of the prairie fires darkened the skies are now busy, bustling cities. The flames no more charm nor make afraid the farmer boy who searched the belated kine on the bound- less sweep of prairie. The fires have gone out, but in the memory of the "oldest set- tlers " their afterglow remains, one of the brighten memories of the pioneer da,ys on the prairies. Papa Was a Cynic. Miss Chine --Do yon know, they are able to trans nny. dear Charlie's ancestry back elmost Li.3 INF Louis XVI. Miss Sapphire (admiringly)—You don't say 1 sta.4 tsuitt they stop there? Aliso Olnace--Yes. Papa says the detec- , lives probably test thes elew. fleeter. On placing the watch in the case and pressing a small stud the face of the watch is brilliantly lighted. A dry battery supplies the current, and may be placed in a closet, with a flexible conducting cord leading from it to the head of the bed or stand on which the watch is placed. The pater-familias is thus enabled th retire for the night in the serene consciousness that the wakefulness of his spouse is likely to lead to no more disastrous consequences than the touching of the button, handy to his pillow, which controls the battery, and which causes the light th be shown on the face of the watch at any moment when the, time of night is deeired. The battery will lastefor this purpose for gears, and no ebernicale are required. pursued t unr work of destructionregeadless of the frantic endeavors of the helpless occupants to seek a place of safety. It is known that 200 women and children perish- ed. in the ruins of the sacked buildings. Tim insurgents seized. the custom house and then pillaged all the principal houses in the city. Alter Gen. Sotto had surrendered the city, the rebel leaders lauded more troops from their vessels for the purpose of holdieg the place and despatched a force into the coun- try with the object of mooting and engaging the Government troops." But hese axe hurrying of feet, and there is riding to and fro across the courtyard. The witnesses begin to Mlle, liere is a company of scribes and eldere. Again the exeintnetion.proceeds, Witness after wit. 008218 eXanntled, bat RA two agree together. Out they go across the outer court, stopple: to answer the questions of the crowd o servants. And Peter listens. nVituess after witness ie examined, Jesus answers nothing. No wrong is proven against Rim. At last up rises the high priest, and calls the accused, to witness against Himself. "1 adjure Thee by the living Gad," he says, "that Thou tell us whetter Thou be the Christ, the San. of God." That was the supreme question, And Christ unswers "yes." It 15 the end 1 There is no more need of witnesses. The high priest sets the matter before the council, "Yo lieve heard his blasphemy," he eays, "What think ye?" And they answer is guilty. of death." The sentence accordingly is sworn Christ must die. Jesus Christ was crucified for blasphemy. Mire is the trial—so far as such a tragic mockery of justice can be celled a trial— and here is the sentence of conviction at the end of it. He is to die for blasphemy. He. being a man, they say, makes Himself God. And that was the honest truth about His claim. They were quite right aboutit. Jesus Christ did actually, as His accusers assorted, make Himself equal with God. It is in a hun- dred places in the gospels ; nonv by impli- cation, now by clear affirmation. We may take awayall the miracles; still, this asser- tion of divinity reMains. We may take away first one gospel, and then another, and then a third, it matters not which one is left, Jesus of Nazareth is seen claiming equality with God. No question of documents enters into this conclusion; no positions of mod- ern criticism touch it. So long as any his- tory of the Prophet of Nazareth is left, still may be read this extraordinary claim of His. It is not from the theologians that we learn the doctrine of Christ's divinity. He teaches it Himself. The purest soul that ever need: so holy that the holiest in all the centuries since have been content to fall in humility and reverence before Him ; so wise, so clear- sighted, so true in judgment that after all these ages of progress, after all the profound thoughts of the philosophers, and the teach- ings of the saints, we are still behind Him. The ideal of the worthiest manhood, -the one immaculate and supreme saint—what said He of Himself 2 He said such words that again and again men took up stones to stone Him as a blasphemer. He saiki such words that the high priest in horror rent his gar- ments declaring "Be hath spoken blas- phemy." He asserted his equality with God. In these days, when so mueh faith is of Peter's temper—slinking, afraid, easily pass- inginto denial, let us make it perfectly plain to our own hearts what we do honest- ly believe. Jesus of Nazareth was either divine, or else he was not good or not sane. "Eternal Jesus'it is Thyself who hest bidden us either despise Thee or worship Thee. Thou wouldst have us despise Thee as our fellow man, if we will not worship Thee as our God. Gazing on Thy human beauty and listening to Thy words, we can- not deny that Thou art the only Son of God Most High. Disputing Thy. divinity, we could no longer 'clearly recognize Thy human perfections. But if our ears hearken to Thy revelations of Thy greatness, our souls have already been won to Thee by The. truthful- ness, by Thy lowliness, and by Thy love. Convinced by these, Thy moral glories, and by Thy majestic exercise of creative and healing power, we believe that Thou hest the words of eternal life. Although in un- veiling Thyself before Thy creatures Thou dost stand from age to age at the bar of hes- tile and sceptical opinion, yet assuredly from age to sge, by the assaults of Thine enemies,no less than in the faith of Thy be- lieving church, Thou art justified. in Thy sayings and art clear when Thou art judged. Of a truth Thou art the King of Glory, 0 Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father." *God, manifested among men, stands here before the judgment seat of Caiaphas. The judgment is given. It is a sentence of death. Now Christ is given over to the hands a anybody who chooSes to insult Him. Blind- folded, and with hands tied behind Him, the servants and menials of the high priest's court make Hire the victim of their brutal merriment, striking Him. with the palms of their hands and crying out as they dance about Him, "Prophesy now, thou Christ; who is he that sinites you2" And they spit in His face. And when they are weary at last, and have no more breath for insults nor strength for blows, they lead Him out across the out- er court that they may take him to the Gov - A Commission on the Labour Question. The British government, influenced it may be suppond by the recent serious strikes that have taken place in that country, have decided to appoint a. commission to investi- gate the labor question and the disputes which grow out of it. The commission, which will be given great attitude and. will include in its scope almost every branch of tbe labor question, will consider especially the questions, how best to avert strikes, and what regulations should be adopten in respect to hours of labor. The personnel of the commission has not yet been announced, but ibis expected that the Prince of Wales, Lords Churchill and Derby, or Sir John Gorst will be chairman, and that Mr. Morley will be one of its members. It would be a pity to pass Mr. Morley by, seeing that he has made a special study of she labor question and will, no doubt, be prepared to furnisia the commission with much useful and important information. All parties are said to approve the idea of the commission. Indeedit is reported that the Liberals had intended to move for such an investigation 40 15 appointed and that they were fore- stalled by the government. Great benefits are expected to result from the investigation which, it is hoped, will conclude its labors during the present year. The British in Australia. A writer in the Century for February mentions some inteiesting facts concerning the island -continent of Australia, which, owing to the present movement in favor of the federation of the different colonies which divide the island, as well as to the rapid de- velopment that has taken place there dur- ing the last decade or two, eas attracted to itself the eyes of the whole civilized world. Says the writer: "Of all the countries which have been originally settled as offshoots of Great Britain, Australia has the population which is most exclusively British. No other European nation has ever held any part of of, nor has the drift of continental emigra- tion been directed to its shores. No weaker race has got, or is likely to get, such a foot- ing there as will enable it to confuse the forms of national growth. Australia is more Anglo-Saxon than the United States, with their negro millions and their steady inflow of continental emigrants ; more Anglo-Saxon than Canada, with its considerable fraction of French population; than South Africa, with its Dutch Boers and native races ; than nry country save Great Britain itself. 'Un- der the sunny skies of the Southern hemi- sphere an almost purely British stock has a continent to itself as an unftled sheet on which to write the history of its develop- ment. If you have found some one who knows how to scratch your back just where it itches you have come pretty near finding affinity. Rpm of at. Berner& Jesul dulls memoria. Daus vera cord& gaudia Led super mel et omnia Few (snick eremitic:4 Jesus! Thy sweetness binds ust In bonds of love to Thee 1 But sweeter idsve.ye, is the thought, Thy Paco, we soon Shall soot Jesus 1 sublimest memoryi To Thee we render praise! Thou art our "AliinAfl " of bliss! The daystring of our days! Jesus! Thy nalue,—IVIelodia! Worthy art '1'hou of praise! To Thee, Thysaints—above—belew I: rriuniphant voices =doe! Tottossro, For Rest. 'Will Mahe long?. she said, Inman weary, duties eenle With willing Imelda I strive weenie to know, And to be strong, But night its silence brings, thee should be rest And my soul goes in sad and eager quest To live the palit again. There is no sorrow there, In that far heaven we all may hope to gain, We than be done with headache, done wigs pain, And be at peace., Got. gra:lathe time be soon, I faint with winter cold and summer eneen And only ask for rest. The Postal Guide. ()WAWA, March 23.—Tho official Postal Guide for MI has been issued by the Post - office Department. Ihe volume is a little less bulky than tbat of 1800, by reason of tbe absence of the superfluous alphabetical list of postmasters. It is one of the valuable publications issued by the Government, and reflects credit ozt the aecretary of the depart- ment, Mr. W. D. Lesueur. Special Wens tion is directed to the following chaneee :— Insufficiently prepaid registered matter aa, dressed to Canada and the United States may be forwarded. Sealed ems of staple articles of use or consumption may be sent at fifth -class rate. Insufficiently rad meter of all classes, except transient newspapers, may be forwarded conditionally. News- papers containing lottery advertisements are refused delivery to the United States, Blank forms and printed stationeery may pass at the rate of 1 cent per two ounces. Torouto is the only city in the Dominion of -whose streets an alphabetical lists given in the Guide. A, 15, aA. Soul Kisses. soft twilight, burnishing the brink Of streams that splash and tell. Ifas often made me pause and thinii That angels kland my soul, lint now 1 feel a golden thread Trausrnittine sweeter thrills. Than ever in my soul was bed By glowing sunset rills., That thread's your thought, that thrill:. your lore; reel it in my soul, For now like you bright sett above, Its jasper d waters roll, Wby then dear ileart, the distance fear, Since thus thens thrills of blies. Can draw our absent spirits near, Yeat near wieugh ea kiss I The Piantmg of Seed. N. J. S. writing in the " Prairie Farmer* says : No set rule CAR be given, as with nearly or quite all seeds more or less depends up. on the fertility and lay of the soil AS well as its conditions. With grass and snual grain crops it is usually necessary to use mare seed. on What mo.y be considered thin land than that of good fertility. In nearly all cases it will be better to use mare seed on land not well prepared than when in better condition. With all crops it is quite an item to secure a goad, even stand, and this cannot be done without using plenty of eeed. It is, as a rulo, more econommal to sow plenty of iseed at the start than to fail in securing the best result by not mains enough. With all kinds; of grass seed this is an important item, Less seed is =tally needen seller° the soil is well prepared so st will pay to take time to do this and better gormulation will be secured than if the soil is not in good filth. Cloves., orchard grass, timothy, red top and, blue grass are the 4rst seed usually sown in the spring. Many prefer to sow these seeds the latter part of this month if the 'mealier will permit. From ten to twelve pounds of red clover is sufficient if sown alone, and less. if sown with orchard grass or timot .y. Two bushels of orchard grass is the average quant- ase - sty needed, and the same quantity of blue rasa From six to ten pounds of timothy will be suffieient and about three gallons of. ., red top. These are for what may be consid- "k erodaverage conditions of land and fertil- ity and the quantity should be varied ac cording to condition and fertility. Two bushels of oats is considgren the average quantity, but in a nutiority of cases it is better to use rather more than leen le is nest to use plenty of seed as it is often the ease tbat oats are more or less trashy. Five or six peeks ot flax is a fair average quan- tity, using more or less according to condi- tions. About six quarts of corn m hills is sufficient for an acre, and a neck will plant an acre in drills if not too thick. Itis better to use plenty of seed than to be obliged to re -plane It is usually more economical to thin out than to re -plant. Ten or twelve bushels of potatoes will plant an acre in drills if cut into reasonable sized pieces, dropping one cut in each hill. More or less will be required, according to the manner of hilling and planting. It is quite an item to get the seeding all none in ,good. season and care should be taken to have the seed on hand ready to sow or plant when needed. Speaking of "Germination." INT.J.S. says : Heat and moisture are the two conditions most essential to the germination of seeds. Contact with the soil is necessary if the plants are to grow and mature a crop, but the sends -will germinate with heat and mois- ture on a cloth, or board or hi other places. The amount of each required will vary considerably with different varieties of seeds, and to some extent with seeds of the seine kind but of different degrees of vitality. Seeds of a strong vitality will gerrainte un der much less favorable conditions than those that are weaker, and when planted under what may be considered favorable condi- tions will start to grow in a less time than those of a weak vitality. Care should be taxen to plant under as favorable conditions as possible, so as to secure a quick germina- tion and a vigorous start in growth. As a rule, seeds planted and remaining in the ground for any length of time withou ger- minating lose more of less of their vitality, and although they will germinate after the conditions become more favorable, the plants they send up will be less thrifty than when such conditions aro supplied as will secure a quick germination of the seed. Some seeds will germinate at a much lower, temperature than others and some than will require more moisture an Othere, ace If may be planted much earlier. 7/ Some seeds, ander unfavorable ,Adi- tions, will remain in the ground for some time without germinating,. but will finally start to grow, while tethers will rot if left in the ground. With all seeds, so far as pos- sible, extremes in planting should be.avoid- ed. Care in this respect may prevent much loss. With good seed planted in a rich, well prepared soil in a good season, the risk of failure is reduced to a minimum. Gener- ally it is better to plant a little early than a little late, as the conditions are liable to prove less favorable for at planting. The safest rule is to plant as early as possible when the conditions seem to be about right as regards heat and moisture. A Famous Church to be Destroyed. The Jewish community in London is very much excited by the revival of a proposition to demolish the synagogue in Bevis Marks, which has the distinction of being the oldest place of worship in England, and in which the Spanish and Portuguese Jewshave wor- shipped for generations. It is situated in a part of the eity where land is very valuable, and the aristocratic Jews are too far away to attend services there. The birth of Ben jaminDisraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, is record- ed in the church's book, and it was through a quarrel between its officers and bis father that the secession of the latter from the com- munity took place, which led later to his withdrawal from the people, 05 15 had from the place in which his forefathers had wor- shipped for very many years. What Microbes Are. Two sons of the Emerald Isle sat in the depot the other day running from one cur- rent topic of discussion to another. They finally reached the subject of the groat pre- valence of sickness. Are'n't yez afraid of typhide fever ?" said Denis. "''is, I am," replied Pat. "Pat ?" "Yes, Disney." "What are these mierobys and germs the docthors are talking about ?" "Waal, I'll tell yez my idee, Dinuy. Them germs and microbys are peculiar things. Flannigan was tellin' me about them. He SOS they reside in the wather. He was fishing through the ice last Monday and he pulled up his line, begob, and found a microbe on it. He sez it luked a good dale like a bullhead, but it had a peculiar face. He sez he threw it back afther he got over bein' wart Me own opinion is, DinnY, that microbies are a peculiar kind of fish." -- [Albany Argus. A Well -Dressed Woman. The woman who is always well and neatly dressed is able to exercise a greater influence for good than one who is the reverse. Tbe weIndressed woman is attractive to the eye, ancl the eye is one of the main avenues to the heart. Other things being equal, her influ- ence is more potent than her neighbor's whose reputation of dressing " just as it happens " at home in some indefinable way casts a shade over whatever virtue she may possess. A woman neatly dressed is ready for emergencies. The chance caller and the unexpected guest find her ready to recei ve them. But perhaps the greseest necessity for looking well at home exists in the home itself. To the members of our own family we owe the first duty. The Empress of Austria who suffers much from rheumatism, has a lady doctor in at- tendance. .An eye to the future. "1 don't see how you can be pleased anthe idea; of your brother marrying her. She's so fast and harum- scarum. She'll never make a good wife." "Oh, but She'll make such a delightful When two souls have but a single thought they should stop spooning and take np study. e George Bancroft, the distinguished his- torian, has come to his ninetieth birthday with a gradual loss of physical strength and powers of memory, but still a recarkably well preserved body and mind for 0118 50 old. He continues his reading and inierest in leading events of the day, and is not in tny sense " on the shelf.