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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-29, Page 3'TE CilURCil OF GOO CAMP 411 Interesting Gathering of a Strange Religious Body, THEY HOLD NO CREED. wee werformances et Converte—Itaning Holy leneada—The lensing Ceremony— Faith elle:Wing and Pact Washeng. HIS bright:Jen() weather under a cluster nee7 of goat tree% on an eminence, near Grand Jenction, Mich" a little village of teamontry hebitabion ha a been ten erectea, and hero the members of an earned, interedingcoramunioe, are holding t heir anneee catnpereeeting. They oat themselves the °Mace of Goa, er Saints of the g veming Light). One of their ,greee and dietinguishing articles of belief is that there thould be no church governmenti whatever, They are and at the name time are not a dot. They -don't believe in soots or denominations or ,aocieties of Christiana people. They build houses of worship, but never organza local sec:knee for Muir control. There ie NO FORM FOR ADMISSION BO their communion. Bernina—but that by inunersion—is an that ie required. They never preeerve n reoord of their converte nor ene.ke: lista of the naroes of their mem- bora. No one knows exectly how many of them there are. estimates bebeg variously .eet at from 20000 to 50,000. Their growth •during the past two years hap been something asbonishing. The maw Felled le a new one, the loca- tion of the meeting having been recently 'changed from. Bengernvichany. There are fourteen twontory oobtages of enplaned, anpeinted boards, about an equal number of canna teats. a /ow tebernaele, with soda for perhaps. 800 or 900, and a boarding ,holese of limited mud an iron pump of un- limited capacity. There are 55 preachers already on the gamuts, and holy men and women to the nunaber of 400 or 500. A YOUNG WOMAN AT PRAYER. As the tabernacle, where an afternoon meetingwas in progress, was entered, :slight girlish figure wee sem kneeling in an -open place in front, between the congrega- tion end the clustered preachers around the pulpit. She had changed her original kneeling posture, throwing herself back lentil the at upon her fed in a position that aeemed a constrained one. Her shoul- ders were thrown bath, and her face, ear - mounted by a cute' iLtide black sailor's hab, was turned upwerd. Oh 1 how earneat, terribly earnest was the shrill little voice ohe Intel up in prayer. Every sentence of her supplication was punctuated with "0 Lord 1 Oh, dear, dear, dear Lord 1" So earnest was she that it asemed complete exhausbion mud follow when she should SHE ROCKED BACK AND FORTH, third leap, and, in Coming down, fell over into te settee -full of preachere, One of them, caeghla heln hie cheek to hie ter O. moment end then release' him. "I was eating boron" ben the youtag Min in his loud veleee "and the Lord told mg to get up and. tell you thee..." Then he went off his feet, agents, end jereming [straights up into the air two or three times wad yelling "gory" aucl "blewp the Lord," he staggered, back. The young man didn't my SO, but those who knew him shispered that he had juin) been " saved." neeSers Tien mauve Beek on the barn wooden, benne from which the young man hod orlglnally arisen, an elderly man eat who laughed during al the gyration% At first it seemed that the eidiouleusness of the performance had eanused him, but afterwards it NvOaS BSOH that he laughed frotn a. great joyful happe nese As the young man staggered back, this one, who waa perhaps hi° father, eaught him. He pulled the younger mares head down on ele shouldee ween they eat again bends each other on the bends. Then he turned hie head and kneel wine two resoundieg smacks the young man equare in the mouth. It was 6 30, and the boarding -home keeper was awaiting supper impatiently when the tabernaole medieg was dismitased by D. S. Warnez. Then was dere an ex. emplideation of one of their strangest OHO - tome. They believe that the tenipteral command should be literally followed and that the saved should ab meetings for worehip salute cane other with the "holy niss." They are cereful to prescribe, how- ever, that each person la to strictly confine selueationti of this chartioter to the aaved of his or her own sex. For ten minutes the company eboocl about sleeking hands, and the sound of KISSING AT WHOLESALE a straiten of tears crept out from her closed eyes, fine she new waved her small bands 'before her and now brought them together with resounding force. When, afber a long time, ehe ended and the chorusing of 41 Amens" in deep, raesculthe volume and hysterical feminine wettings lied coaled, they had some ginging. It was a hymo of some dining qualities, and one curlew' nhementeristio of these people was seen as it went on. There is an injunobion some- where in Timothy about the reniug up of holy hands and also eoverai references th the Old Testament to the extension of the palms during worship. They, accordingly, believe that ib is a sacred, solemn DUTY TO RAISE THEIR HANDS went up. Hairy old fellows put shapalent mouths up to each other. One of the bright young editors of the Glove/ Trumpet, a college graduate and gentleman of appar- ent fastedioutinean in Mete, unhesitatengly surrendered his well -formed lips to hideoes- looking, wrinkled old men, smelling of cab- bage or °Mona, and either entirely toothless or with three or four projeoting foams which looked as though they had never eeen a tooth brush during the,entire terra of their possessors' long existence. For several dap on trains leallug to the campeneeting ground invalids et various degrees of incapacity had been encountered. A blind boy travelling entirely alone got off one day at the sign -board and a stranger led him to the camp ground. Several who 'WM HALT, DEAF AND SUFFERING during periods of religious exaltation, and It is generaliy during the 'singing thee they observe the supposed elongation. Hands went up ell over the congrege.tion--gener. ally the right hand, as the lefb WAS em- ployed in holding the singing book. Nob a ring, not even a wedding ring, was seen on • any of them, as golden cram:tante and jewelry, as well as anything more than the simplest trimming on dresses, are strictly forbidden. When greater enthu- siasm °pane with the chorus, a perfect forest of swaying hands, eagerly strebehed up- ward to their greatest extent, arose on all sides. A CANADIAN PREACHER'S SERMON. T. T. Clayton, a preacher of the word from Canada, read and expounded the esoripbures in a pleasant voice mad enjoined Christian vir thee " Oh, dear saints," he said, " hove many of you are there who delve to win Godn blessing by an alwayseolicitous attention to the divine command relative to the stranger within your gates 7 How many of you are there, when the traveller knooks by night en your home in the country side who, no in:otter what his condition, admit: him and ...share with him what you have—perhaps a ()rust, perhaps the contents of overflowing barns and granaries? How enemy of you etre there who do not rather say, and en disobedience to God'a positive and unmis- takable 00ml:rimed, "Oh, go on to Mr. Blank's, half a mile dowli the road ; he's gob lots of room and will &sap you ? " We hear a good deal about the tramp problem and are told then to feed them is encouraging these wretched apechnens of humanity in idleness. Beware, AT CHICAGO. Canada Makes a Good Show of Fruits and Vegetables, GRIMSBY MEN TO THE FORE. Now is a Good Time to Go to the Fair. COST OF BEDS AND IVIEA.L.S. WORLD'S FAIR, JACKSONTARK, Canada has broken out) in a new place the peat few dews, and ilA11 BOW an exhibition in the nortla ane e of the Horbioultura the only complete display of rode end vegetable) made by paw country. It csocapies a ptorninettb piece, and, vthile some of the other Provinces are well represented, °dare), as usual, lerees and fills about half the apace allotted to the Dominlon. Mr. Jame) Barclay, of Binbrook, well knoveu in Hamilton no deubt, who has hitherto been identified with the depart - meat of cereals, is now in charge of the vege- table exhibit, He is wielded by Mr, Ainoe Burkholder, of Barton, sod between them they have doceeded be making it exceed- ingly attractive and valuable. The Can- ada eeation, abed the firet thing seen as one enters the uorthern annex from the Sixtieth street entrance, seed one has but to ignore the eurroundings and imagine him- . men in one of the vegetable courts of the Central at Hamilton. It would each Friencl Pirie's eye at came, were he here to enjoy in The vegetables were collected, as were the fruittefrom leading growers in Western and Cobra Odarioe and placed in cold etorage here last fell. Being of tougher fibre, they fared better than the fruits), And aro in splendid condition, giving an additional proof of the with other afflictions were found in the vicinity of the tabernacle. One men who had lost the entire me of his lower limbs wee carried about the grounds in 8 chair. A lame woman—always a pitiful eight to a man—limped wearily around. These afflicted ones, gathered in numbers reoalliog scenes described in the New Teeth - meet, have come in the hope of being cured of their several infirmities. The 1` se.ints " are among the moat strenuous and emphatic believers in the doctrine concerning the healing efficacy of faith. Their voluminous literature Is filled with the narratives of well -attested oases of oures by faith, and there is one volume by E. E. Byrum devoted entirely to the sub- ject, with certificates of physicians as to the genuineness and completeness of the cures effected. features of the hornoultural deparienelan Orangee end lemons are here by the hundred theesond, and their delieloue hoer and :Arena le in most marked contrast to the ineipid stuff from the Meeiterreneen filet hact leitherte been the chief memo of eupply fen Cantedo, Te coitorpiEk people tell Me they Intend cultivating the Canadian neeeket, anti they will uneoubtedly poen control the trade that lodge for quality. THE OnOWD et the fair ie inoreaelng, and the daily a8. missions aro now auffieleini to ebow 0 bal- ance over operatireg exponent. There does net town any disposition as yet to being railway fareti down very low, hue 1 Would televise all who ORR possibly do SO not to wait too long, but to come now, when the Weather is nob oppressive, when everything Is et ibe best, and veben the ceowd is not excedive. The additional comfort of travelling by regular teethe will more than balance the eddibional fare. Accommoda- tions, too, are cheaper and more wally had than they will be later. There are thoa. sande of rooms In hotels and private Masse, Within walking dietetic° of the far, to be had at a dollen a day, and leas if occupied by more than one parson, and the prices of meals outside the grounds are as reasonable as in any oity on the continent. Lunde some of the tesbaurants are high in price, but some are moderate, Oontsiderixeg every- thing no one need be efraid of extortion who hes common, sense enough not to allow him- self to be imposed upon. -0, W. Yenrea. WONDERFUL RESOURCES OF OUR PROVINCE. The vegetable% exhibited include man. golds, turnip), field and table carrots and bean, parsnips, onions, radishes, etc., but most in evidence are the potatoes, of which no less than 182 plates are element, including 80 distemet varietiee. The 'argot exhibitor is Mr. W. Murray, of Algoma, who has 66 entries of potatoes to his tnedie. The exhibitors aro /515 follovve : S. Hunter Beverly ; A. Hoolmeaa, Ste George; P. Hill, Budge ; W. Marshall, Ammeter ; 3. Herrin Flamborol ; G. N. Barrie, Galt ; R. Welker, Ancestor; 5. Lee, ealtfleet • T. A. Cox, Paris; A Dattere, Harailbon ; W. B. Thorndike, Simone; F. Gage, Barton ; P. Hill, Onon- daga; W. P. Kidd, Shreve; J. Parker, Simooe ; Major Walker, Ancestor; William Murray, Lend, Algoma; T. McCormiele, &toaster ; P. Ottnan, Copetown ,• Allen Brae., Winona ; F. Book, Beam:villa ; E. Kitchen, Grimsby; W. A. Boybe, Rookbon ; B. Mann, Gads - dente.; E. Walker, Oneida P • P. Shapely, L. D. Wiener, Wellandport ; F. A. Nene!, Seneca; J. Hall, Sheridan; E. Hunter, Source; Wm, Leger, Burford; Ander- son & Son, DAMM50112 ; A. Guthrie, Wood- bridge ;fl. Peach, Coningsby; J. A.Briggs, Brod° •, C. Scott, Nelville ; 3. Adams, Smithville ; J. Blaine, St. Catharines; A. Chambere, Fairfield Plain; F. Clark, Harley; 3. Fulton, Erin ; E. Walker, Onondaga ; S. P, Bowman, Fenwiolt ; W. Kemp, Oakville; T. Teesdale, Conoord. The following are the different varieties of potatoes on exhibition: White elephant, red Dakota, white star, Chicago market, Canadian red, early aummit, early Puritan, early rose, viotor, red elephant, wonder of the world, Ind: cup, May Queen early, Genese seedling, prairie Dawson, Everett, Vermont beauty, early suntriee, red Clank, Clark No. 1, summit red, pride of the val- ley, white champion, Thorborn, beauty of Hebron, late rose, General Havelock, Therborn extra early, Moines eeedling, early frame, California ours rose beauty, daisy, Rosedale etre% morning star, Empire State, queen of the valley, rural New Yorker. new white star, Burpee's early, Canada wide, Dakota red, negro, Dean Mountale, early Zealand, Beeedele, white kidney, oroevn jewel, anew - flake, (lemmings, snowflake early, Chicago, Se Joss, polaria, golden flesh, Thorbonne late rose, Clark No. 1, Irish pink eye,. early London, esrlsr .potato No 106, Burbok seedlina, St. Patrick, wild Indian, Curpee's extra early, old red, inch blue, D. E. F. seedling No. 117, Lee's prolific, Napoleon, Corley's matchlees, Queen of the meadow, early favorite, 0. E. F. seedling No. 851, Pearce's prize winner, heathen exbra early, General Gordon, Menkattees, red elephant early :white elephant, echo, matchlees. Green Mountain, Finn CURE AND FEET WASHING. Before bhe end of the comp meeting, which le set for nexb week, one enbire day is to be given up to solemn prayer for the healing of these rinfortuns,tos who hove shown their faith by coming so far and re- maining; to the prolonged services night and day. borne day, too, there will be a grand cele- bration of the ordinance of fees -washing, which they believe to be as sacredly observed as the Lord's [supper, and from 600 to 1,000 pairs of feet win have a bane On another day, probably at the end of the camp -meeting, a company of the newly dyed, already numbering nearly 40, whl march down the rough path to the swim- ming hole to receive the solemn rats of the outward and figurative baptism. YOU SIAN WITH BROAD ACRES -end great barna and spreading peach ,orchards'weighed down with God's blushingfruit, beware! beware 1 how you turn one of the lead of God's raggeeesb, most deepieed creatures from your door lest you ram sometime the glory of an oppor- -tunity to entertain an angel unaware). Mn who have travelled sometimes talk to yeu gratefully about the heerbinese and cordia- lity of southern hospitality. Lets them know, that never was hotel:shanty like unto Ohrietiat hospitality, shich knows no north, no eoutle, no state and no confitry and ern - lames bhe stranger of every sort and 'condi- -don. Oh, clear ones, try to remembet it," Onee during the progrees of the speaking and when, in fad, the excitement) had for some moments been rather on the deoreerse, a tall, diin young man, with abnormally long legs, uuddenly appeared to vieier at one .flide and staggered forward to the open space about the platform. He winked. vigoroutily a pair of sleepy -looking eyelids, his eyeball) relied, his long lege webblen and his ehoulders swayed peouted alarrniegly •ma- threatened to go down, At every un- steady seep he :bricked "noR1t1 GLORY 1 GLORY 1" Bust to Make Little Boys. Walter's mother wee buoy cleaning house and undenialsly the little fellow was very much in the way. To get him oat from " under foot," aud at the Beate time make him feel that he was of some me, his mother suggested that he take a little switch teed whip the carpet that hung out on the line. Ile caught at the idea and for a minute or WO WAS very much emu - pied. Then he came running in and said: ' Oh, mamma 1 I got lots of dust cut of that carpet, and it went, right up to heaven for God to make ecnn.e more little boys out of 1" What Marriage Reaily Is. A disillusionlzed woman reports on her experience and obeervation of matrimony that "marriage is just this : You have a beautiful wreath and veil on your wedding day. The first week passes well. The second week you have your mouth full of clothespins. The third you are trotting two miles with a basket lookleg for cheap meat. .And after that you are looking ler cheap meat all the resit of your life." 10 ear-eplittiren tome, the exact counterpart of hoWlinge wfbh a "new wine" origin, "Bleu the Lord Bleu the Lord 1" he yollea, his melee tenting up 'far tete the falsetto. Stepping near .the pulpit, lie book a y g leap, a dtttatice of et least four feet) right up into the alt. He jumped again, enige gang his feeb free' .the time they left die deka until they came clown again. He took BIRCHING YOUNG MIDDIES' MING OFF LIRE TUES, Terrible Ravages et Mrinan Fever Follow !Roods:in the Transvaal. The Johannesburg correspondent of the Standard futhishea some details of the floods and fever which have devastated the Transvaal. He states that in Africa fever always followed floods, ane that the wave of sickness and death which hate swept a pert of the Transvaal almost clear of its native population during the present year is considered to be unparalleled. A couple of months since the Boers had an expatiate:se winch might well have given Pause to the hardiest settlers. There was, first, a week's steady rah:dale the culminating point be- ing reached on a day widen hes sham, with perfect) remonablemea, both given the name of Black Friday. During the night a great atone of wind and rain swept over a large end of the Transvaal. In the Orem- dile Valley the houses of at least forty Boer families were absoluthly swept away, and all traces of the former inmates have disap- peared. The fiood lefb behind it miasmic mud and rotting vegetation on all aides. In addition a good deal of soil has bean tutned over for railway purposes by the workmen of the Netherlands Company, and theta two ceases produced en outbreak of fever which outdoes all pre. vim) occurrences of the kind. The whites have suffered severely, pestion/arly in the Elands Valley and in and. near "the lone oity of the Keep," Barberton, and some heroic work has been done by the handful of doctors and nurses in that part of the Republic. As to the natives, the death roll has been incalcakbly numerous. The native population of the Transvaal is very large; and in a country of SO vasb an area it is impossible to obtain accurde details, 101 110 natives home died like flies. Whole kraals of Kafiri) mud Swazis have been do. populated, and certainly over 10,000 natives have been swept off. Spiritualism Worth, Basing. A special from Birmingham, Ala., states that "a visitor from the spirit world" mane to Frank Elmore in a dream and told him the location of a buried fortune of $20,000 in silver and $5,000 in gold. Mr. Elmore followed the spirit's direction and dug up the wealth. More practiced proselytIng of this kind would soon make spiritutelists of us all. Toothache Cured Quickly. A European defend is seed to have had great emcees in curing toothache withia five or sin minden and ofben ie leen time, by applying one pole of an electron:ate) mate= to bhe trouble:ono tooth and the other pole to the body of the petiole In seventy-six cues thus treated by him cagy three are said bo have boon uasatisfaabory. —Electrical Review, The Punishment Inflicted on Embryo British Admirals, Blake the heavy eletrincie gitee on the man deok, whicle are eeperobie by olteeed tar. betten are in °huge Of mtdehlpmen, Cenee mieshipmee to deigned to et berbette, with about 20 men under bun, ALL ARE SERVED ALIKE, How They 4.re itirched---Age Middiee— Term of Service—Blood Will Tell— Trained to 1tesponsibility-7A Middy in. Command. ALL New Yorkere who were shown over the bigflagship. Blake during her etay this port by the moll little midshipmen of thetvete, ael few, penmen, are aware, says the New York Times, that the embryo admirale who so politely guided them about are subjected to an epplicetion of the birch rod whenever their captain deems it neceesary. On board the Blake are no led than 24 midshiprmen, everyone of whom repreeents tiome old and renowned family. Yet, in accordanoe with British naval tradition, not one of the youngetere is deemed too good to escape the birch rod, should a punish. mad be ordered. To a reporter a British officer the other day said laughingly "Oh, yes ; we order an application of 10 or 20 strokea of the birch rod on one of the chaps whenever there is amuse, but, as matter of fact the birching is confined almost entirely to the first) two yeara of the course, when the youngsters are known as nava cadets. "This initial two-year period is served aboard the Britannia at Portsmouth. After the lads leave the Britannia they are known as midshipmen. When a birching is ordered the sehipia corporal officiates." A Cloeleneaeed nalentear. The calendar has astereed a new tempo, This time it het a hoe of white porcelain, round, like a elooke, ttdIliiVOr hands. Ie place of floret denoting the hours there are Iwo rowe—ene in red lettering, tellieg the name 01 110 month, wet an outer me in blue, heaving figeres front 1 to 31, The dock nice is hedily mounted in silver and seiteds init a eert of odd. kin Peter—Good mottling; vvoret you come itt ? filhade of Boston Git1,—How dara you epeek to me without leaving been introduced Mtn Phoebe Hee.rat has definitely de. elided to onset a museum in °Olden fl -ate Park Elan Foodeoo. The parienut to be , pieced to the dredib of the pork for the purpote etateil wW be $1,000;000. Meth of the, stiaterial hes bee% gathered by Mts. Rearef dialog extenelve trevela, TEE EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT BRANDON s well to the front with a beautiful exhibit of Northwesb vegetable products, and Quebec) and the Maritime Provinces also moupy.their apace to advantage. In the metre is a trophy of canned fruits, pickles, etc).imostly from Ontario, though a Veinni- pegfirrn shows pickles in glass equal in ap- pearance to the fined English. The "filled,* Shirt. There is a warm place in the hearts of his fellow -Americans for any statesman who shall ensure the adoption of a permanent in- ternel revenue tax of. say $10 a pound an starch in all forms not edible. A device of this sorb has driven the Louisiana Lottery out of bushman and it Is an open questioa whether starch, as ueed itt clothing—at least names clothing—is not a more subtle, pervading, and pernicious evil than lottery tickets. From an mathetic point of view it is, of course, a cardinal sin for which no penance is in Nile life adequate. From the moralist's point of view the offence is nearly as great, for the sum of wickedness saperian duped by starched linen through the irrita- tion of the nerves when the linen is stiff, and the utter lona of self-reepeot and selneontrol when the linen is "broken down" by the lufernal heats of our Inez - enable climate, is not easily caloulated. Add to this the proved hygiene° ills due to clothing the human form, and especially the in:portent organs of the thorax and the sensitive nerves in the region of the nook, in fabrics that alternate between rigidity and pulpy humidity, and the inherent unworthiness of starch for the use of intelligent) human beings ia estab- lished. If ever there was a case for dern repressioa by a potential government, this is one. If this sentiment seems a little heated, we admit that it is so, but we are prepared to sustain the argumenb severest all comers, with statistic% or by force and tome, ab any time previous to the autumnal. equinox.—Harper's Weekly. • 4 brece of barbobteesia igv(3n in obeege 01 a lieutenant, who euperintende the Waiting of both, But the detail charge of Oath her* betto is in to Made of One raidebilnnalle Communication between the barbette end the fighting tower, where the captain is, etationed, 41 had by speaking tube. All the magazine peeteigeWane are in the haredra of midshipmen, and one of these lards la a fight may, have as many as 59 mon u4 - ler hie immediete oontinantl. 11 ie becauee of the resin/Inability vedeee ilia midshipman that 'blue British exerolete suck great care isa the selection of lads. Not a tractional path of the eoientifio course giveto American, tiaval cadeti is °noted of the Ilritiale midshipmen. The naval anehoritiect of England aim more at obtaining practical men than Eden- tlaitl, and they exercise extraordinary care to gamin youngsters who have in them the blood of fighting men. The theory Men blood will tell obtains largely in the 33ritiele navy. onztaesnevrA.r.. oFercERS. HOW nne " linteleING" IS DONE. "How is the pemishmenb adminis- tered ?" was asked. , "Well, ahem 1" was tile laughing reply, "110 good old schoolboy fashion we think good enough, and before the ship's corporal has finished with his birching ib forma more than one grimace to the face of the little chem. Bat there is usually good blood in the young offender, and few, if any of them, will bawl, no matter how sharp the rod abill"g& course, though, the youngster has the satisfaction of seeing the ship's corporal eland at 'attention ! ' and with his band at his cap in made after the birching is ended, for the corporal has to bear stricbter in mind that he was birching a young eager and not an enlisted man." AN ACTIVE OFFICIAL. I am not sure whether I have alluded .in these letters to the excellenb work done by Mr. L. Woolverton, of Grimsby, Dominion Superidendent of Horticulture. The work of tb.e fruit men has been anything but enviableowing in a groat degree to bhe defective cold storage, hut Mr, censolverton leas managed to make and keep the Do- minion fruit exhibit one of the most attrec. tive on the grounds. It is no light temple- ment to any mate to be recognized in the white ciby as an authority in any depart- ment, whareexperta from ell the world are galleon timether, and I take a great deal of pleasure in recording the fact that Mr. Woolverton and Mr. A. FE. Pettit, oath of Grimsby, have beet! honored by being appointed Vice. President mad Secretary rear:Naively of the Columbian Pornological Association, formed among the fruit growera in attendanee at the Fein which hats already made Wolf felb in deuring the abrogation of a number of obnoxious regulations made by the central atithority, which would home made a inn poesible to keep up the empties of fresh fruit throughout the 013141011‘; The toddy will ad be the IlleariA of promoting good follotvehip among the emit growore of the world, and seourizig no doubt the inter- change of freitprodtede. simeraes O moan FRUIT. La %le connecbion I would again ergo en Ontario fruit) growers generally the import- sence,of ereoperetleg cordially with the coop tension itt sonateg eupplioa of froth fruit for exhibition dieing, the semen. Ilhe direct benefit may not ho apparent, but it the good leripreealen our fenit hal Made already le etuanined, the mega swot when) 11 is din tributed win be eneennettely inoretteed, abd every fruit grower will get Isle there The Government provides %)seikagea and peen expends of treneportation Canedirene ettelly mod to be bettor acquainted with the memos enures ne^ Onidroftwie., whieh are oe Of the moat goateed ONE RULE FOR ALL. Few officers of the British navy, it is said, have pained through the course aboard the Britannia and escaped eltogother a sound birching, and even jolly Admiral Hopkins, of the Blake, is declared to have received his share of the rod during his middy life, as have many other good officers. Of all navies tradition is perhaps the strongest in the British navy. Nearly all the principal powers educate their naval officera at a neva collage hub the Britith admiralty refuses to make any change in Ito present ayatem, deemiug 11 tne best in the world. At presents /ad must not be under 13e years or more than 14e years of age to be eligible for a nomination, which is made by one of the under -secrete -ries of the Board of Admiralty. Any lad of good parentage on receive a nomination, which enables him to appear in the competitive examination held in London and in Portsmouth every six months. There are natively 60 weetenoiee at an ex. eminent:en, and the member of applicants is seldom leas than 200, The lads are ex- amined in Latin, French, geography,Eng- lish history, Biblical history, arithmetic and some algebra. If an aspirant's father has served with diabinction in either the army or the navy, very few marks are necessary to secure for him a position. It le the un- known lad whe muse reaoh a high mark in order to be accepted. The boys are rigidly examined in biblical history, and a failure in it without marked emcees in other studiee is regarded as elf& dont for rejeobiou. Aboard the Britannia the boys are taught navigation, seamanship and gunnery, and • they see considerable service in the training • brigs entaehed to the Britaznits. The ex- sena:Won at the end of the two years' course fa of the same standard as ie re- quired of first matea in the British merchant service. THE TERM OF ennvia. Oartloads of Lilac In Paris. Cortloads of lilac arrive at the Paris market every morning, a,nd purchasers carry off annfu/s of these branches of green foliage and blue and white duatera of delis:tom perfume for the purpose of ornamenting their dwellings; The greater quantity of lilao which ia c -elected in the market is from Seine.et-Oise, owing to the soil beiog poor and unsuited tor all other vegetation. In the little village of Freese, says the Horticultural Times, the laud et almosb entirely covered with foroste oi lilac. Five acres of land will prodece 150 francs' worbh of lilac each year. The brancbes which have the most Modem are cute the largese of which are reated against ;leant of hay arranged for this purpose ; the more minute branches are tied up in dusters wibh water -willows around the bark or woody part of the branches and placed in vans. When. the Mash fleet landed 750 blue- jacket° for the recent shore parade it wee observed that one 13r1tish officer was In stole command of 100 men. TiliEl offiner, though, bed with him four midenipmen. The Penne number of men in the American naval bri- gade had HOS lees than three commissioned effiera, and in some inetonces six. "We find," aaid a British officer, " thatt the pleoing of our sentinel/men in reeponal- ble positions knocks out of the youngsters all cocky' ideas and maces them sober, thinking chaps, They early realize what responsibility mewls, and we think that) the early experience at command work makes better commodore and captains of them." During the stay of the Blake the major- ity of her midshipmen obtained two days' leave of deuce on shore, though none of them were permitted to sleep on shore over night. SURFRLSED MIDDIES. One party of middies was treated to an unpleasant surprise while ashore. After they had enjoyed au excellent roped, their hoot led the to the smoking -room, in wleich they speedily rats.de the atmosphere thick and hazy wibh the smoke of fragrant, but prohibited ongerettee. Suddenly through the fog of tne apartment loomed up the familiar form of Captain Hamilton of the idelipmen cannot to this.- Blake el 01 the m day tell whether they swallowed their eigaretten or dropped them and trod upon them. However, no birching followed then Infraction of rules. Possibly the captain could not Se8 through the smoke. Wherever the youngsters went while ashore they made a most favorable impres- sion. They caused nob a little surprise by their oldish ways. Ass one United Statee officer put it : 'Why, those youngsters on the Blake know ate much about ordinance and the handling of a slaip as de many of our old lieutenants, and I doubt if any of our naval cadets can teach them anything about the practical dense aboard a war- ship." British officers say that a midshipman in, the British navy is supposed to be frilly competent) to command a ship, and many instances were cited where, even in recent years, midshipmen have been suddenly placed in sole command. nducation. Edward Everebt's definitlen of a, good (adulation was: "Read the English lea. guage well, write with despatch, a neat, legible hand, and be master of the firse four rutes of arithmetic. so as to dispose of at once, with aocuracy, every question of figures which comes up in prectiets, and if you add the ability to weite pine gtam. Indica English, you have an excellent education. These are the Weld. You can do netclt with them, but you are hopeless withoub them. They are the fotindation ; and unlese you begin wibh thole, al your flashy attainments, a little geology, and all the sologlee and osephies, are odentations rubbish." " Mel yen hoer that Charlie had been jilted by MISS Moneybag() 2" " Yee • I told nine there were it'd no good fish in:the Sea," "But Charlie's hunting for gold fish." Impartial writhe; sees thet tho gold cons tattled in the medaineeseasels, cheins and other objects preserved le the Vatican would Make mete gold °dine than the whole of the present Eetopeen citoteletiote. " Are you, tared 1" ariked the poet, as. he othemed ih one of Lela eirtlfSIODS, 4‘ Telt me team "0b, 'reo," ahe 4liSiVOF040 4f I 104% jUlil bowl aeleep," THE BOYS HAVE NERVE. "During the great storm which swept over England oome three years &gecko Brit- ish Channel equadron was lying in an open roadstead on the west made said anefficere "Nearly all the principal antlers were on shore at a ball. Witte the exception of a few sub -lieutenants and a lot of midship- men, the Channel squadron—England's most powerful fighting fleet—was stripped of officers. "The storm came suddenly. Ail com- munication wibh the shore was out off i The waves and wind were coming abraight in, from the sea and threatening to drive every vessel of the fleet on to the rooky coast. Without the slighted hesitation, a sub-, lieutenant on the flagship signaled the vessels of the fleet to 'up anchor and go to sea,' and for the following 36 hours, untiL the storm subsided, many of the leviathan warships of England's channel squadron were steaming head on to the great seas, with no one of higher rank in command on the bridges than a midshipman. "Bub the channel squadron was saved, and the officers who Eterved with the great fleet during that exelod say that for the next two years and until every midshipman Who had been on duty during that storm had been gazetted the birch rod was rime pended in every vessel of the channel come mend." After leaving the Britannia the term o service aboard a sea -going deep is dependent on the excellence of standing on the Britain ilia. The usual period is three yearn but ill is peeeible for a eadet to eborten this midebsiprner: service by as much as seven menthe. " As the midshipmen period of the initiates aboard the Blake expires," said an officeer of that vessel, "the hens will be ex- emened before a Board of captains of the fleet in eeamenehfp and navigation. On passing this examination the midshipman who:se time is up is sent to the Royal Col- lege, at, G-reenwieh, where he takes a three- reenthre cearae in ship conatruction. "liEs then mesa to the gunnery ship Ezoolleat, ab Porbamouth, where he is given a three-monthen ecnerte eaoh in gun - :eery, torpedo work, and piloting. He is then ga,zatted a subeientenant. Under this system it is poecreble for a raidshiptnan to beacons) a duh-lieutenaut when but little more than 19 yeses old." BOYS OF BLOOD. ALTBOng Sho midellipmen en. the Blake are repreasennetives of some of the bed filghtieg blood of Ragland. nliclainpman liothana to a ewe of Aecoitee elobbene who at preterit aide the flag from the Werepite. Midship- matt Wein, is a non of W. IL White, chief eatectruefer of elm British navy. Midship- man G. Damn io the sea of A British tering officer who staved with morked dietinobion int the gyeeb Indian mtalny, and has given two other sons to the eetvice of the Qteen. Iliclehipmen Broke, of the Blake, is great -grandame of Capt. Broke, of the Shannon., who captured the ensiled States typeset) Chesapeake during 'the war of 1812. Intdshipmen Dawson, Wells hha Towneend are none of efficers of distinction With bardly an exception the emcee date - meet applies to all the other midshipmen oe the Blake. The ages of the roidehipmen of the Britian flagship tange front len to 16e, popes. The majority of the youegebers of that ehip Will servo ornt board of her lentil the eine. Mew of 189e, when they will be met to Etiglattd. Tents:roe me teteronenttetre. If. le the practice irk the British nav# to veab large etakority in the taidehipment, thereby wash log them, it le argued, keen ancl observing at art 'early- age. Aboard the Tolstoi at Rome. Nearly everyone) is familiar with s the details of the private life of Leon Tolstoi. There is nothing really extraordinary about it beyond the fad that Tolstoi is a very rioh landowner, who, instead of living liken Dives, exists as a moujik or RUSSiall peasant. He takes a bath every morning at.5 o'clock in his tub, then sips a cup of strong coffee, writes for a few hours, enjoys a nap before his first dinner, then takes part in agricul- tural or trade work, either on Tais own account or to assist a neighbor. He is vegetarian, a hydropot, and an anti -tobacco: man. He wears Immense boots, not greatied or blacked, but tarred like a ship's bottom; he wears no stockings, hey doers duty for these. He does not undress anti turn bete, bed, but passes the night in a long arm chair, as troopers would do on the ground. One is prepared for Tolstoi supplying alibis own wants but it was a little new to learn. that he made his own bubter and cheese. Admirers ought to present him with a creamer and an electric churn—the letter is common in Chicago. The Population of Poland. According to the official returns the popu- lation of the Kingdom of Poland is now 8,256,562, exoluding troops. As the area is 72,783 sentare railer:, the average amity of the popilation is 207 inhabitants to the Equine mile. Where ate 114 towns) in Pam& but only two, Warsaw arid Lodz, have e population of over 100,09p; one,. Lublin, ilea about 50,000, andthe remainder average frets 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants. Seventeen per mot, of the total population is urban. Ate Ostrich Tbat Alto a Fraser liOok. The cassowary in the plaint) of Timbuctoo had a cousin oeveral times removed in an, ostrich thee has jest died at the Intifton12:00. When the bircl was ditanoted the koat surgeons) found in int 'twine a 1)60.011 otele, tveo pocket-handkorohlefe and a prayer boon. A "Jack the Hugger," wiso squeeene P'hiladelphite maidens neer a lonely Owe- tery, le causing a great oommobion itt that Usually gent eity. He la ales eeneleg coin eiderable forlinthe travel in the dienebion of oga cemetery.. The diner who seed) to an editor " etery oibbsown oenepeeure " Alden tal Wit% to the odltern,etook at tranquility.