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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-6-25, Page 2St'liDAY RE.ADING. noteborz by agreement. about small points but hristis test treete such things as A Yinoes Pouderings Concerning the Revished Veraiont. ia rather late in the day to grumble at the Revised Version ; but 1 can t help it—I must relieve my mind. In preeariog for e Sunday's wor/r, Tread over the 2n3.eveniug Iesseae S. John xx. in the IT. ; it wade alO "Mad." That R. V. always ri- 5z.tes e. It must make anybody niad--- who is a lover a hts New Testament, who hes (and there Are thousands of such) mauy pesseges "by heart" —to lieu thine dear old familiar seutences, with their sweet rhythm, altered and disfigured, for uo earthly use that no clue CAO. SOO. It jars ellen =ryes, 5 rubs each- mind the wroug Way, likO 00E10 atroeious variation tbruee into some lesloved old. tune. That R. V. 5 responsible for neatly outburets duly wrath. Here 5r instance 5 the 19th verse„so famils ler to every church -goer ; for 5 5 the open- ing passage a one of the Goepels for Eastertide. The old Bible reads " The senie day at evenieme beipg the first day of the Tree, when the doore were shut where the disciplea veree assembled her fear #the dews." The R. V. thus puts it "When therefore it Was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shim where the disciples were, for fear of the JOWS.." NOWA in the 144V40 of Q014E1011 SOUS% what ia the -me of ell this changing 4144 shifting stud ruffling up ef verde? What is gained by it, textually, exegetleally, ItnihgodieallYi or otherwieel It will be replied : "It is a more literal transletion." Yee, to ba euro; " aa if one trimilletingfrorn the Frenelt were to render " OW/374W Mad portererousr" by" Row ymerself carry your end 1V4VO it et that Wt eee I was a ,telicell-boy in Englend, trenslatiug from the cloesien, I had of coulee to do so " literally" tirst ; but, that donee the master would alwar say " ,Now put that into gooh Engliah. if And I left the eentence at Int as some of the eentences aro left in R. V. 1 think should, have had what we used to call, in echoohboy elaug, "lichiug," Take, for instance, S. Faure quotation from the Old Teetemeut in 1 Coe u. 9, benui ging "Eye heth not seen -;" aud, compare the Ohtani], uew versions. I grant the pas,sage is (halm* to render irito good zranunatie Euglith. But et any elite the OM veraioa makee sense. The R, V. turas it tat) a mere jumble of word% Whet is the =hied? SN'hat is the predicate To return to our chapter aud verse "Whon therefore it was evening." 1 abject to that word " therefore It le "Mere'," to be sure ; but it is more than "literal ;" it is literallem of a debased mechanical cher. aeter, that defeats own purpose% It le true that the little Greek word our means " therefore "—so:manic% betnet always. It is 4 monosyllable which S. John very fro. quently Uses; it often enhances the rhythm of hie sentences. In argumentative discoure it should no doubt be rendered" therefore. But in uarrative, especially 5 such vivid, picturesive,cof/contaluarrative aaS. John% it serves teat the same purpose as our little monosyllables, " now," "so," 44 then," etc. It is epertiele to indicate tranteition of ideas, amigo of eabject, sequence of events—it is used in repetitions after a parenthesis, ete., just as we use those littie words. But the Revisers make it always" therefore," with Chineee stiihness. Now I hate that word " therefore " stuck in everywhere. It's a lone word ; it takes along time to pronoun ce ; it's a edit, formal word ; it's a formidable word ; it bristles with logia; it suggests premises and eonclusions and Euelidia Pro- positions, and all that sort of thing. it is go different them. our friendly little words "then ," " so," " UOW," ° yet," " and," or the Greek out: and 6c. Let anyone read the two versions, the old and the new, of the 1801 chapter, and notice how irritetiugly tbae " therefore" is reiterated in the latter, and he will surely say, as of old wine com- pared with new, The old is better." (S. Luke v 39.) By thc way, I think I have caught tbe Revisers napping. Out of the twenty tunes the wad oheeh tiesi"Otifif in tleiS ItirePteth 1,11 'three Zeta the Revinterehtetelorgotten their own stiff rnle of always translating "the same Greek by the same English word." In verse 3 they have left the old rendering "then ; he verses 12 and. 16 they have changed "then, " into "so." In all the other seventeeu instances that horrid " therefore" occurs. I do not know why these three places should nave escaped the inilietion of their rigid rule. Doubtless it was au over- sight. In sores few places the R. V. emendations are valuable from a doctrinal point of view; for instance, in the distinctions between the Aorist and Perfect tenses; as in Gal. 27 : "For as many ot you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ" (e g., then and 13 there, atyour aptism). Bet these places are very few, and by no means _compensate us for the ruthless carving up of the old sen- tences, spoiling the rhythm and beauty of the style. I wonder at the bad style so ofteri display, ed in R. V., especially when the English literature of to-da.y abounds in such excellent models. In word-atchitecture the present age seems to be a golden one. It is refresh- ing to turn from the turgidity of some of the old learned authors to the limpid and yet vigorous writings of our own times. We have, too, all, " styles"ofword-a.rehitecture. There is the pure stately Gothic, graceful and strong, of Professors Huxley, Gold win Smith, Fred. Harrison, or the "Decor- ated." of Lord Macaulay, or the "Flamboy. ant" of Archdeacon Farrar, or even the "Gargoyles" of Carlyle, to select from. But under what style are we to class the R. V? I should say, eszly English, debased. The .Rectory, Almonte. GEO. J. Low. Religion Alive and Dead. " When any faith has got to rely 011 deified symbols and pompous claims, it is dead. It needs a resurrection; it needs a new Pentecost. And the Christian Church has had many resurrections. The work of Benedick, and Wycliffe, and Huss, and Francis of Assisi was but a re- kindling of dead or d.ying flames ; so, too, it was when Luther disinterred the true lospel from the heapea clegris of priestly ..Aehood, and preached Christ instead of Chumh, and the Bible instead of the Fathers,' and faith insteed of the magic efficacy of sacraments. So, too, was it when George Fox, wandering about in his shirt of leather from town to town, made teen believe once more in the living power and presence of the Spirit of God in every human soul, So, too, was it when Wesley and Whitefield awoke the full -fed Church of Englandin theeighteenth century from greed and sloth into spirituality. And so it would be now if, among the many echoes, God would send us one voice ; if among the 20,000 priests he would send us but one prophet, but one man with his soul so electric with the fire of God that he would make us feel that God is face to face with every one of us, and that the Kingdom of seed is n Rhin us. Men are always testing t'seir own religioniam and. that of their of isrted belief, or varient ceremony ; supremely insignificant, and. hesa.ys : "By their fruits ye shall know them," The real (-Jewett= to ask aboot any form of religions belief is, Does- it kincile the fire of love Does it make the life stronger, eweeter, perer, nobler I Doee rim 41;01%11 the whole soeiety like a eleausiog flame, burn- uiJ up all that is mean, Ana base, and isa. seJlssb, and impure? If it stands this test is no heresy. There is but one Miro1s of the true ehildren of Goh, and en - faithfulness 5 the only infidelity,' I am so coovinced that there is zee error more fatel than the notion that correetbelief of Church meetherehip is of any value whetever in eornparison with that righteousness of life which is the be-all aed endsall of true re- liglon, that I say plainly --and if I could and words to say it yet roore would rather that any man should be A BOMAUiSt or a Diseeuter, or 4 BUddhiSt# or hfahoineten, so that he were a holy asaa godly man, than ten times over a memner of the most Catholie Church that ever ex- Lsted, and be a sly betrignen or A rancorous slenderer, or au unclean liver, ora professed liar, or in any one form of coueelmas "wicked- ness, a, hypaerite and a had man."---EArele deacon Farrar. 1 IlEALTR, 00ategioneOees of Dieeeses, Amelia the practical .queetione connected with the .sobjece et contegiOne diseases is onewhieh relates to the length el the period of speeial exposure, The Boston _A/edit:et and Surgice lornal says that the coutagi- cetteess of measles, mumps and whoopingcouglidisappearevith the Patient'a reeoVerY; that there is probablyno danger Of hie cooveying the disease to othera-for about a week after he himself was exposed to it— that is tosay, duriegthe stnealtect period of incubation ; 'and that the contagioueness of measles does oot extend beyond, A fOrttOght ,Stauo authorities affirm that the eonteg- teatelleMel WhOODiag^OOugh eeaeee After six weeks, however long the Coughiug may con- tinue; others (bade itprudeet to isolate the patient until the paronyMns are over. In eeertet fever and diphtheria the period et incubation is briefTa few derhs ordh andtturing this periodthere is 11000MAgiOu. it LS very important to knoiv that in scar- let fever the period rif :greatest danger is after .the disappearanee of the fevers the period of heequeneation or peeling. Fr4tO ignorance of this tact teeny lives have been. lost. Porous have gone into soeiety hefore he peeling WAS complete& and Almost of eourstt true communteined the disease, The MII$OW$ AND IdANNFiRS. fact 5 'het every partiele of the ecales eon - I tains thousands of reiel °hes, est riSXX SON, M. D. Ws who WM eeeovering from seerlet - Levin DAY fever wrote 4 letter ne 4 diStallt friend As Thew evhogo througltlife with a pleasant she eneie ee, ' tee smile end a kind word nuke teeny frienals. e"t „mei eiehA fer°1..Tee-ish*liapautre'rehe Worde are mare th411 deek14, and mhtmers letter. eeuveyhdlhe -friend axul than merits, in all etmerticiel contain with her little daeritter, end the daughter died our fellow creatures, tided words ars havels beyond price, and more precions to servant nursed a starlet fever patient heal the wounded heart and to make the and Q" ving ine Pladd psst lxer el°tbing into a trunk. A yea afterward elle /anima. weighed -down spirit glad than all other phleirainnlige otshahet mtiahos IvenorhileaCmalnic,i2idei.0 fuTui,:f etoilokihtehteridiziek,agvan.(1 a tittle girl who good by gezxtle Ihethee end eetheee tee virtue et In diphtheria the virus reeides in the felve manes ; for 40 eheerful courage that :Beim membrane, and for that town 10 leralikely perpetual wend:line is the ant come of a, to he earried to 4 distauco ; but the particlee masterly eelheoetrol that is not born iu a I 1903 retain their Power of infection. The day, but only after battle and conquest. , coznagibuenese of consumption lime in the Manne5 are all-important. Our place iu lAtleaL's exPeetorations and discharges. If life is ofteu more dependent on them than these are carefelly received in a dietnfecting it is on solid merit. They are the first thing fluid, there is almost TIO danger to attend. that strikes the etrauger, the key whielt ants and frieutle, lochs or unlocke the doom of good coelety, the begionime of charm, the innocent awl Sanitary SCienC0- uncommon cause of repulse, the sulitile I meek: of fortuue anitarY sienee, is a es nOt and entrees% the irreeietible SeaeirrleO that do mace ef heei ood ereeeio tee eiaehteeee relete to the eerth eve live Oa or to the er rejeetion by the world. Oftelniuma they# lit:Wet:4 WO WO taaler. but to the conditions are more than talent, more than beauty., I of the hemII s WO Vi O n. We eau liva an mare then wealth, than birth ur whelom. 11 the earth or under the lieuena without They are the best- letter of introduction, the imorrind much nitont them, hut to live beat foulest cement of bieueeelp and item They 215 OUr hOrag'i we meet know them well. erown virtue, mid give the lag touch to ' 13cologr cannot chiloge the conditions wisdom and genteel, of the erth beneath us, or astronomy Good mamma are a passport to the fever those of the liCAVelii aliove 13s, lint of rieh and poor, teemed and ignorena 1 eanitary silence can change from un- arietoerat and plebeien alike. As self.: heeltliy to healthy the conditions of the respect and respeet far others 5 the keynote homes we live in. Is is not then a acience of goad behavior, good manners are sorely r worthy of study? It touches the highest COM children. But aey do not come by 1;, the present generation, end will strengthen nature, like reading and writing according and will glorify posterity. The eilheta of to Degberry's theory. hienners are largely obedience to ita laws ere not remota but im physical, end there tutEst be a definite die. mediate. They touch the everyday life of ctpline of the body to insure the happy all, and enter into all the relations of life. 'way of doing things. .And that diecieline They give strength and vigor to whatever must train the muscles, the joint% the 1 chtpacity in which human endeavor 5 put leet, the expreseions of the eye, the attitudes, the breath, the play of the face, I torth, tones of tbe voice, the pronunciation of wards, the heering of the head, the style I The Diphtheria Baoillus. (MO Qt. the Wee horn:ems possilee to leave Intervale of man ind, cleanses and purifies 1•••••••••••••• of walking, sating', reclining, he 5et every- thing i» tho bearing and ilopertment ot the 1 eauteeee The ardoorfecvlistpilittehvehritenh itlabse hdithulahyrnfuhtild(cii„,ae,.‘sall, .m1,01 ready cash as they are able to body:. There is much, indeed, besides all , among t hose who aro engatted 5 thee branch 1 h*."'"'v"y a forcetI and hurried. sale of this in the beet mariners. But this discip. ,. of meelea e„:„nee oes bean oi. i i , h i i their eflects, having bean extortell by the lime is the foundatiou and basis of au the ,., b 1 ci-• -," f i eAt. las rdnar !' 1 Itiehianpolice and nutter officials for forgeh A. :FAIMS.' Qom 4,1174saflerAsi Subterranean, Chamber on the Wend orCersteat A grotto, coltifidered on account of inlmenee length, width and depth the mos remarkable in the NVQ4.4# 114S rOOOUtly b se dish:A-erect. the Wand of Ooreice. It 5 great wait 25. pude high and meny reuis wide, extendbig ever (liataacO ef 40 milee end opeoing tieto the seashore. Throe& erevmes to the reeks overhead the ligh5 peeps 5 here and there end gives the mo .plorereedtpipeeof thetnteriorewhich5aseene Of eechantingbeeuty, riveting (bepictures of .the mythic homes of the faimes. Ie is stud- ded with great lichen .covered teethe of stone, the spage between which. are covered with ferns and ivy and strange subterranean growtha and flowers. BranChing from the veult are narrow p.aseaghe thee wind and turn, now aod thee 5 steep acelivity, or le rapid descent, presenting, dime:pie view: of .a most varied and pictureemee nature. Geologis5 are of °pillion, in regard to this geological pheuontenon„ that the con, formation of the iaa.ea corsim bzwing been the result of an Alpine upheaval, fol- lowed 1Mer by an Appeitine .disruption, the Ore Got% zet the first instance overflowed. tote the Gen of Calvi, and fleet the 45- ruptiou which followed eeneed the river to devette and flow in 411 oppesite direction toward the sea. Consequently the grotto would be the primitive bed el the river Gel° eutetequently overeined geelogical revoltetion, The Wettest Place la the World. In papo recently. reed by Me. Slone gfoorNide,rulmateentinofetienotiolt:eotAxeagh xrehpeerRteaeintieanthaet, Oberr2„ Pontee„ Um Kiwi Hills of Assam," the rewrite complete from 1871444 -partial Ihavaackdesewfoeursetsralt8p3a2 tett;tterteotoeiri era oiv,eoruiseaoutslvise probably the heat outhrelle, markethe the World, or r.athee that it would be if Ohilita- ti011 WOOS advanced there sufficientiO to .bring the umbrella .demand. There WAS . no evuleece that the average annual ram - fall on any part of the pleteae eves as high as 600 inehee, elthough it, may havamitount- ed to thee in wet years, but frequently front May to Septemberthe. fell for aeingle neenth raeged froin 100inclies to goo inane. In August, 1841, a rainfall .of 264 inches (22 feet} was registered, 30 inches. of rain per day lieviogfellea for Ove SUOOOSSille days during the month. In %Lily, 1865i the. fall WAS 00$.4 lactlea$ but since 1870 the liergest rainfall. any one month was 184.8 inchee, For the. purpoeee of comparison y be stated. thee the average aeotial reinfallie.Cani 44.4 AO the States 29.6. inches, ter less inc wisole year than fell 5 atty .one of the are successwe days'in Auguste. 1841, at Cherre Ponjee. Naeurally enough such a lecality Is svpgit.ro.yoltahvionwrablfoauto4 lartegxte impocopnwsclatliruss,, ly to hilOSOlf. VAAU Ram 'rule -pee where there lAa5te:hoonivghn tbnyintafelblesanvdnebozarebtyhatnh:l= OVESUataSi011Orm thtOO persOM Oat of every five in this vountry live where the anuuel raidall 5 from 30 to 50 inchea. per annum In the United States, where the annual rain- fall between 40 and ro inehes, the lotion is 09 to the square mile. The bwiell The ietlignation of Weeterie Europe at Rutsie'e bereerie expuleioe of the Jaws is beginning to he untontiortably mixeci with itolieltucle pass the exiled hordes over to somebody else. Side by side with orgaelea- (ion to befrieuti and succor them lielpleee refugees aro everywhere springing up other ergeensetions, largely wimp -wed on the eame pereone, charged with the duty ef aceing that they will not moiety Roger, hot with re. fresh ed 45=05 mad rep leuitilled puma will continue their journey to scitnewhem el,se. Enghsh appreheneion pecollarlyst irred up on thie point There are probehly oot mane then 100,000 Jews in Great Britain. Or one. seventh et the number Anetrie,limigery, but in the letter countries they are epread all over the laud, whereas here they ore almost wholly massed in the east end of London. The great bulk of these work in whet aecicalled the tweeted trade; mem- ly aria to the peeduction of cheap and infamoneleobed clothing, hate, boot% cigar% etc, man they live upon almost a. themes° ecate of wages end outlay their competitien ie bitterly resentedby Englieltworkinen. The fact that they ime now coming into the port of Louden at the rate of Mout 100 per week elevatch by eeme of the afterneon papera into au abuse of the kat linguae:le and Perliamentary interference 5 heme, demaittl. ed voeifeneuelv. The. nations aeons the channel mho less cutely) butthey are all doing their beee to coatence tins advance wave of the aeW MAIM that realty the UiCeat place in the world to live m 5 the United $5tes. I should not be amprieed if au inveitigation showed that ravage hats to Americe formed a vety largettern 5 the expense accounta of tho various or. ganieatione and committees which have been termed to look out for the comfortandsafty of the Jews alter they lea.ve Ruesia. A very large propertion of these tvrotcheti people reach Berlin and Vienna with:nit any money rest, P his, peeeports and permits to leave the eountry. How 5 stand it one of the eSSeittiAlS of 1 goal ineeeteen et is always evrong mom The most eminent barn:etiologists in the We3tera Infitteace la the Dug, the bone etracture do most of weige, ! world WAtil gent unitnimity anuounee the t The new problems which the new eon. keeping the bogy upright. The muscles !', fact. should hold it in position. The greater Dr. Klein, the eminent English bacteria. -; ditions of modern life aro forcing ulnae differ. ent nations aro due very lergely to the short. number of muscles reed, tbe greater the : logist, has published all elaborate report in , ening of distimeebotween deferent countries, strength, agility, and grace. The correct ! the Ninethenth .Annual aelmr6. °' the the breakiug down of loupestablished burl. position in standing is when the lips, eldn, ' Local Government, in which he caters into ors, arid the growing freedom. ofintereourse, chest, and toee come upon one lino, and the i the details of his methods of investigation It is possible now to leave NOW York and feet are turned out at an angle of sixty 1 mid his tests. netieli damp 5 two weeks, or to go to the dc greee& AI Welting' -WO c e924,12.3:s ',eget) His peper eontain several facts of prime Oen:belch Islitnds iii the eaelio thno, ana the bee and chest well Alt the a Sdancect foot, importance, a knowledge of which should he • fact that the journey from Yokohama, to and preserve the habit of rifting the body generally known. Among the211. are the fol- London across the Dominion of Canada with the xnuseles and by (lie inflation of the lowing: Some of the lower animals, perticu- can now he made in twenty.one days has lungs. tarty caws and house cat% are susceptible drawn OM ti, good deal of comment m Eng. ]?roper breathing is elle fundamental es. to this disease, and instances tire cited in land. This practically reduces the distance sence of grace, as 5 is of health end which the domestic cat has communieateel . . . , between England end the farthest East by strength. The lungs have their own TrAllS the infection to the family to winch it be- about one the former time, and this cubs power, and. this should be fully exer- 1 lon ed, with fatal results, inettns, of course a speedy and ihunensely cised. While standing or sitting, with the I ehas alsodemonstratedthepresenceofthe increased tide of travel 5 both directione. chest free take 5 a slow, long deep breath, infection 5 the milk of cows previously in- Western influence in the Bast is already until the lungs seem full, being careful not ; (=hated with diphtheria bacilli. , very great, but when the East is brought at to strain in any way the lungs or muselee. 1 Be takes occasion to emphasize another Hold the breath thus taken for a second, I fact which is of great practical impedance our doors it must be very much greater On the other hand, Eastern influence in the and then Id t it out slowly. In all lung ex- and should always be borne 5 mind by West 5 likely to be vastly increased, and ercises endeavor to inflate the lungs upward. 7 health officers, to wit : The contagion of one question which we may perhaps be call- a.nd outward. Carry the chest and lungs as diphtheria is to he classed with those -tvhich ea upon to meet -with will be the vast inane 5 the inflation were about to life the body ! ean existand thrive outside the human body. of Oriental immigrants. An occasional Arab off the ground. This gives a feeling of i "It is &matter of common belief," he says, is sometimes sten in our streets, and a small buoyaney that is genuine, and will add . "that a room may retitle active and diph- nutnber of 8yrians have already come to grace to all the movements of the body. I , theritio contagion for a very long period; this country, but so far we have been largely Manners, it will be seen, are largely an that milk may be not only the vehicle but free from Oriental immigration. The time is not distant when some wise and humane policy with regard to immigration must he adopted. affair of muscles and their use. The muscles , even the multiplying ground of the diphther- must be trained for manners. This trainingi itie contagion; and that sewer air and sew - should begin early, in the nursery, among ; age may contain and be the means of distri- little children, during the plastic age when . buting this contagism." practice can makeperfect at compare.- I These points are of much import 5 in- tively little cost. In importance this branch vestigating new outbreaks of this disease. of education is second to none, for it is a I large factor in human advancement, and , adds greatly to human happiness. A little Coffee au Excellent Medicine in Its thought will show how much our pleasure Place and a Mental Stimulus. depends upon the way others carry them- I selves—how they stand, sit, speak, and how , Coffee owes its stimulating and refreshing they do things. Address and accomplish- qualities to coffeine. It also contains gum ments—trained muscles—give to their happy and sugar, fat, acids, casein, and wood fiber. owner the mastery of the best things of life. I Like tea, it powerfully increases the respir- ation; but, unlike it, does not affect its Sin Things. I depth ' By its use the rate of the pulse is increas- We are told in the Youth's Companion ed and the action of the skin d minished. It six things which a boy ought to know: lessens the amount of blood sent 5 the First—That a quiet voice, courtesy, and organs of the body, distends the veins, and kind acts are essential to the part in the contracts the capillaries, thus preventing world of a gentleman as of a gentlewo- man. Second—That roughness; blustering, and even foolhardiness are not manliness. The most firm and courageous men have xis- nilbeen the Most gentle. Third—That muscular strength is not the waste ef tissue. It is a mental stimulus of a high order, and one that is liable to greet abuse. Carried to excess, it produces ab ormal wakefulness, indigestion acidity, heartburn, irritability of temper, erembling, irregular pule,heli a kind of intoxication ending in de - mom, and great injury to the spinal func- tions. Unfortunately, ther,e are many coffee tipplers who depend upon it as a drunkard upon his dram. On the other hand, coffee is of sovereign efficacy in teling over the nervous system 5 emergencies. Coffee is also, in its place, an excellent medicine. In typhoid fever its action is frequently prompt and decisive. It is indi- cated 5 the early stages before local compli- cations arise. Coffee dispels stupor and lethargy, is an antidote for many kinds of poison, and is valuable 5 spasmodic asthma, whooping - cough, cholera infantum, and Asiatic cholera. It is also excellent at a preventive against infectious or epidemic diseases. In districts rife with malaria and fever the drjnklnu of Fourth—That a brain crammed only with feats is not necessarily a wise one. Fifth—That the labor impossible to She boy of fourteen will be easy to the man of twenty. Sixth --That the best capital for a boy is not money, but a love of work, simple tastes, and a heart loyal to Ins friends and his God. The first battle between the church iso tions wiU be fought on Creed -moor. Bread that is to be kept for a week should be kneaded longer thait that to be eaten soon. „ The Newfoundland Legislature on Tues- day night passed the Aet to the end of 1892 giving power to enforce the Feench treaties, the London delegates hoping thereby to pro- cure the withdrawal of Lord Koutsforche hot coffee before passing in the open air as enabled persons living (loch places to permeettera escape twntegion. James McDonald, a sailor, was indicted at the London Sessions for having wounded his father, James McDonald. The prosecutor etated that on May 5, when he weans a state of intoxication, he took a 45 note oat of the prisoner's pocket. In the evening the pris- oner asked for some money, struck him sev- eral tunes and kicked him. He then felt a cut at his throat, but did not see any knife or razor. The prisoner was drunk. Dr. Williams stated that the prosecutor's throat had been out on the left side, and the wound was a rather deep one. The prisoner after the occurrence went to the I oplar Police Station and gave himself up after stating that he had cut his father s throat. His de- fence was that he asked for his £5 note, and his father refused to give it up. He had a razor 5 his hand at the time'and in the struggle the prosecutor must have run up against it. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to one day's imprisonment. • How to develop a spirit of patriotism without at the same time fostering a war- like spirit is the problem that confronts those entrusted with the training of the youth of our land. We want patriots,men whohove theireountry and its institutions, men who consider no sacrifice, not even life itself, too dear for the land they call their own. But we do not want men of blood, men who delight 5 war for its own sake, or who can contemplate the carnage of the battlefield with any other feeling than that of horror. Care should therefore be taken on all occasions, especially when memorable battles, such as that of Ridgeway, are being eommemerated, that the battle itself be not invested with a glamour that shall at- tract the fancy of the youth and make him long to shoulder leis musket and march to the front. Let our boys be impressed with the tamed duty they owe their country 5 times of danger, but at the same time let no effort be spared to make them feel that the nation which fights and wins does well, but the nation which by peaceful and con- ciliatory methods secures its right:, does 5- Qnitely "Come up liigher," A celehreted lawyer mice edvitied yoneg aspirant that, there wee "room et. the top" is; the profeesioo, and the saying might Ite well paraptiresed and applied to all kinde of farm procluction. The top 5 where whetever of profit there is ie farinieg 15 to be found. Stook growere hue teemed the leaven pretty well that early maturity" essential to profitable marketing and that they cannot afford to board and lodge a hog or steer an extra air menthe or a yeer just for the Ealce of 'teeing Ids company. Eighty bushels of corn raised on oue acre ef ground tekee leee pleivinee harrowing, (Red, ing, feneing, harveatice, intereet, Mice% etc., than dams eighty lmehels ea tWQ acres, and therefore 4 larger -pertIon of the value of the erop profit. The moit eeuerelly aucteeefal corn growers are -Om who uever let the ground enet from the time the seed m until the corn is so big that they can no longer get tete and thin thorough eul. tivation. implies that twa urea eleould never be eeettleh when the labor evadeble to cultivate it could have hem put on on% To feed, zoilit and care for the cowa that only do (le inueli work when brought to the crucial test of the churn that one good milk. er will do is manifestly a waste of feed and labor, aryl yet many fanners are gailty of it, although 55 a point which the grow- ing Ma of milk testing apparatn ineprese- Ing upon the owners of dairy cattle to an extent undreamed of only twoorthree years ago. Thefarmer who has but a single mercer tenni of werking mares 5 growittg more and more particular as to the horse he breeds to, because Ile realizea that while there are colts and colts, the good one( cost no more to refs° thau the (meal% eml they will return a. profit when the sclubs will net a loss, All along the line and in all kinds of products roam at the top" becorn. ing recognized as the mile, awl 'those who learn it latest and apply it least broadly ere lucky.. The constant effort should be to "come u r " Tintrnstwertlin. The seminary where Mrs. Langitands (laughter was a, pupil one night give a re. eeptton, at which that lady was unable to ect present. Her husband, however, was there, and solenudh promised before he left home to bring back information regarding the prettiest dressee worn by the girls, "New," said Mrs.Iren,gliam, when he re. turned having left the &welter to spend the night with a schoolmate, 44 what was the handsomese dress there? Did Edith look as well as any of the girls?" '0!i yes, yes; better than most," said Mr. Lmighain briskly, " What did Jenny Sears wear" " Well, I should think Jenny- had on a green sleek, orsomething, and a kind of blue cape over her shoulders." " A cape and a sack, and at a reception 1 My dear, do think again 1" "011, rm quite sure of it ? noticed her particularly. Andthenthere wa.sl3elle Smith. She hada light blue dress, if I remember rightly, trimmed with purple" Mrs. Lanham regarded her husband 5 sortie scorn. She then deliberately set a trap for him.. "My dear," said she, gently, "what did Edith ivear ?" "Oh, Edith That black and white cheek, to be sure, that she wean to school." That proves it," said she, "After this I shall know exactly how much to depend on your knowledge of dress. Edith wore a new white muslin. Never mind, dear! We can't all be clever 5 every direction 1" The Meet of Sudden Restoration of Sight. The blind, upon being suddenly restored to sight, have very strange sensations. Them are several accounts, one being of a woman, who, being born blind, had her sight re- stcred late 5 life. When the bandage was removed at the close of the operation, she started violently, °Heil out with fear, and for a moment was .quite nervous from the effects of the shook. The first thing she noticed was a flock of sparrows, and on be- ing asked what they were, said she thought they were tea cups, but upon being shown a watoh, she immediately knew what it was --by its tick. The blaze from a lamp or other artificial -light 5 every instance has always excited the keenest interest and an inclination to pick it -up. But on the ap- proach of night, on the first day of recovery, an expression of intense alarm pervades the countenance from the fear of again losing the sight so wonderfully found after a life- time of darkness. Although a hen-pecked husband may not be very smart, he is generally a shewd man. It appears iron, the announcement made by Mr. Balfour in the House of Commons the other day that the Crimes Act has realized the purpose of adoption San ex- tent greater even thaa its friends could have expected. The Chief Secretary intimated that so greatly had crime decreased that the government had resolved to suspend the operation of the Act everwhere m Ireland with the exception of a few places where the ashes of the plan of campaign still smouldered. Whether or not the improved condition is altogether or mainly due to the operation of this repressive measure, many will be glad to hear that the unrest has so largely passed away and that contentment 00 generally prevails. Flt$sING EvEffirs,, -- Seuator Powers basintroduced a bill tle. clering that no fishing boat is to set 00 without 4 compile% two quarts of drinking water ;sod two pounds of Solid i0Qa for cae man in the beet Sea fieldeg ie et bezardon business et the best, and 5 la too bad that ite risks should be enhanced by the wane of the very ordinary precautions which the bill requires. itlie Spanish Govereeneut owes publia school teachers $700,000 for back salary, and the caes is cited of QUO man who has not re. ceived a cent front it tor seventeeo years. Seine of the unfortunates itre sostained by charity, wbile others are foreed teemed them childten out to servic% anti in many reef* the selemls have been closed altogether. Fub15 echool teechere 5 this couotry are wretchedly paid as a rule, hue they may he thankful ehat they don't live 5 Spain, If err Israel, the Berlin banker Who, with other passengers, was recently seized by brigands on A railway train between Con. steatitic:pie mid Adrianople, and who was sent to th 0 fernier city to secure a ransom of $40,000, has, by order of the brigands, deposited the ransom with the Austrian Vonsel at Kirk-Kileitiai The brigaede. have refused to treat any further for thekelessse of the prisoners untree the troope Cease to menece communicateme between the bri. geode and the friends of the prisoner*. Only 4 tOW days since the PA NOR Oileeft complimented Canada upon the excelleoce et Iter educatiogal eysteno NOW it DAVOS how the *Meta can lie so fine when the teacher% lot is whet it is *Aid te he. The 04,74tO Tiptoe au instauce given by a elergyinanin Mentreel ef female teachi era who get wily dd Ws.) a mouth uutl boinal thernelree. " Seinetimee theytieve to live in the loft aver the school," hlowever the 44 inatance" may lee, and eve do not vouch for it, there gen he Act 4(.4115 that teachers 5 this canutry work arduously mid 611 4 inOet dinportent office for a eelery which ehould be higher, but they ar0 not worse off than tviehere nearly all the weld over. The Rochester Denxisrot-Ohroniefe ewe het millions of dead fialt me floating on the Mee of lake Ontario, rending i 5 waters and causing 4 atelech along tta aborea and aUggeSta that their death may be due to the pollution of the water by the *wage frem large eities. The dead, Ash do not seem to be as numerous an Ode side of the water but a ceneiderable number of muall QMS three or four inehee len, may be at011 ROM: ing about the waters of the Humber Bay. A fewheara ago, when a einfilar pheutnnenon was observed, it was suggested that the fiell bad been attificielly lettelied out, and that the water of Lake °Merle was not their ele- ment. An exernivation of some of the un- fortunetee would probably solve the pro - Mem. J nles Rechard, a noted atadent of hygien.e, estimates in tide way the loss involved m the nonsumption of aloha in France. Vane of algae! consumed (exclusive of duty paid). 128,9'28,384 francs; lone of labor, 1,340,174,- 500 frames ; mama treatment end stoppage of work, 70,812,000 francs; cost of mein. tome of 145#4110/ 2.652,912 fiance; euicidba Id denthe from. aceidente, 1,922,000 kneel cost of repression of crime flue to alcohol, 8,. 804,500 francs; total expreesed in dollar% $311,151,459. The corresponding loss 5 England is estimated at $081,420,015. Lie, Ida prohibition dna Mr. Foster made it aimilarcalculntion for Canada, in which Inc estimated that he spent Annually U0,000,000 an liquor, and that its manufacture levolced the loss the labor *1 1200 men. There are evidences of a. fine command of laeguage in % prohibition tenet reeled by Mr. Demorest. of New York, hinder the auspices of the National Anti•Nuiseuce League which has reeently come into ex- htence.' There aro also ultimo in it that the prohibition feeling is {vowing in strength and m aggressiveness. hake this excerpt for example : "The purposes of the National Anti -Nuisance League aro to prove before the court by suits in equity, ipinnetions and for damages that the faseinifting, iterld and deadly poison of alcohol 5 the most. jlangerous enemy of our health, homes and country; a public nuisance, and as such to he abated. Every sentiment of humility and patriotism calls for itoutter proldbition as a beverage, and the °lily safe and just treatment of this colossal evil is 5 outlaw the manufacture and sale of it as a crime to he punialied with the utmost rigors of the, Gold. coinage in the London mint leads to comparisons. If we add the Australian and Indian coinage for 1890 to the £7,680,000 - coined 5 London we have a total of nearly 413,000,000 of British gold put into circula- tion 51890, The other nations of the earth put together coined gold 5 that year to the value onlyof 417,000,000. The United i States, for nstance, coined e.14,000,000 gold, and £7,000,000 silver. The other nations,. who have lots of giver and not enough gold coinea no silver whatever. The returns - show a remarkable difference between the policy -which they have followed and the policy ot the republic of the United States which is shipping its.geld out of the country - anal piling up silver m its treasury. When Britain shall hold all,or nearly all, the gold, and the United States nearly all the silver, there will surely be trouble for the United States, the price of silver being very un- steady, with a downward tendency. Aecording to the report of the British. mint tor 1890 the metal castintobars during that year consisted of 192 tons of gold, 388 tons of giver and 74 tons of copper. These bars were in turn transformed into 88,000,- 000 coins, of which 17,500,000 were rejected or deficiencies in weight and otherwise. 1 The gold coins turned out were of the value. of £7,680,156, the silver coins £1,694,088. and bronze 490,285. These figures areinter- eating: Gold only is "money," strictly - speaking, in Britain, silver and bronze pieces. being but tokens. In minting the supply is. regulated by the demand. The gold passing out of circulation seems to be a very large - amount. The " token " money is up to the average, but not in excess. Britain is the only country in the world whose ". dney " f basis on gold is absolutely secure, nd yet they go on laying it by making "sto kingt, 't while other nations pine to get-soment it in. exchange for their silver. "The greater the truth, the greater the - libel," is a legal proverb passing current in regard to the' interpretation of the English law of libel. In the United States courts,. however, the axe has been laid' to this legal' theory lately. In a recent political campaign , in New York State a Utica newspaper at- tackeda candidate for the office of district attorney on the score of his subserviency to. o " gang " which was seeking to gain con- trol of the criminal administration of tha. county, and which by a system of packing caucuses and conventions had secured con- trol at one time or another of the various boards. During the campaign the Utica, journal, though refraining from, attacking the candidate's private character, charged that he was the instrusnent.of these politi- cians; He was badly defeated at the polls, and entered an action for libel against the paper, fixing his damages at $42,000. The truth of Ile charges was established by evidence, the judge, in handing &own his decision dismissing the asSSions 4.161ared Shat "55 tressh is oot libec" ,