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"
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