The Exeter Times, 1894-5-17, Page 5TIIB
BTER T
T1111° GENERATIONS.
•TATelVIAGEIS TWE TH ANNI
VERSARY
'One Oefteration Paseeth ttedl deaoeher
Genewellon seeneeehte leweseer-EPee
Yeas% Yea, Tweitty,reve eeentellweeee
Have Net Changed litunitin leetetre
Particle.
Enema:3m, iday fie—This was a greet
day in the history of the 'Brooklyn Taber
oacle. The figures he flowers back of, the
plabform, 1869 and 1894, indicated Rev. Dr.
• Talmege's time of coming to Brooklye, and
• the preeent 'celebration, and was introdnot-
ory to the great Meetings in honor of Dr.
• Talmage'spastore,te to, take place on the fol.
• lowing Thursday and Feiday, preeided over
, by the Mayor of thia city, and eenSecretary
. of the Navy, General Tracy, and to be
nenticipateci in by &meters and Goveroors
and prominent men from ninthsouth
east and wean The subjeot of t the
sermon today was the G eneretions,„ the
text being Ecclesiastes 1 : 4 : "One gener-
ation passeeh away, and another generation
oometh."
According to the lengeviey of the people
in their lenticular century has a generation
been called a hundred years, in 'fifty years,
or thirty years, By common consent in
Our nineteenth century, a generation is
exed at twenty-fiveeyears.
The largest procession that ever moved
is the procession of yeara, and the greenest
army that ever marched is the army of gen
eratione. In each generation there are about
nine full regiments of days. These9,125
days in each generation march with won-
derful precision. They never break ranks.
They never ground arms. They never pitch
tents. They never halt. They are never
off on furlough. They came out of, the
eternity past, and they Move,on toward the
eternity future. They cross rivers without
any bridge or boas. The six hundred
im-
niortals of the Crimea dashing into them
cause no confusion. . They move as rapidly
at midnight as at midnoon. Their haver-
sacks are full of good bread and bitter aloe's;
clusters of richest vintage and bottle of
agonizing teare. With a reguler tread that
no order of "double quick" can hasten, or
obatacle can slacken, their tramp is on, anch
on, and on, and on, while mountains crum-
ble and pyramids die. "One generation
passeted and another generation comet."'
This is my twenty-fifth anniversary fser-
mon, 1869 and 1894. It is twenty-five
years since I assumed the Tabernacle pas-
torate. A whole generation has passed,
Three generations we have known: That
which preceded our own, and that which is
now at the front, and the one coming on.
We are at the heels of our predecessors, and
our successors are at our heels. ' What a
generation it was that preceded us We
,who are new in the front regiment are the
et only ones competent to tell the new gener-
ation justnow coming insight who our pre-
decessors were. Biography cannob tell
it. Autobiography cannot tell it. Bio-
graphies are generally written by special
friends of the departed, perhaps by wife,
or son, or daughter, and they only toll the
• good things. Ihe biogra.phere of one of
the first presidents of the United States
make no record of the president's account
book now in the archives of the Capitol,
which I have seen, telling how much he lost
or gained at the gaming table. The bee-
. graphers of one of the early secretaries of
the -United States neirer described the scene
that day witnessed when the secretary was
• carried home dead drunk from the state
• apartments to his own home. Autobio-
graphy is written by the ..man himself, and
no one wouldrecord forfuture times hisown
weakness and moral deficits. Those who
keep diaries put down only things that
read were No man or woman thee ever
lived would dare to make full record of all
the thoughts and words of a lifetime. We
who saw and heard much of the generation
marching jest ahead of us are far more able
than any book to describe accurately to
our successors who our predecessors were.
Very much like ourselves, thank you.
Hurnan nature in them very much like
human nature in as. At our time of life
they were very much like we now are. At
the time they were in their teens they were
very much like you who are in your thens,
and at the time they were in their twentiee
they were very much like e onwho are in
your twenties. Human nature got an awful
twist under a fruit tree in Eden, and though
tee grace of God does much to straighten
things, every new generation has the same
twist, and the same work of straightening
out, has to be done oyer ,again.
A mother in the country, diattict, expect-
ing the neighbors at her table on acme gala
night, had with her own hands arranged
everything in taste, and as she was about
to turn from it to receive her guests, saw
her little child by accident upset a pitcher
all over the white cloth and soil everything,
and the mother lifted her hand to slap the
child, but she suddenly remembered the
time when a little child herself in her
father's house, where they had always be-
fore been used to candleseon the purchase
of a lamp, which was a matter of rarity and
pride, she took it in her hand e find dropped
it, crashing it to pieces, and looking up in
her hs,
father's face, expecting. chastisement,
eard only the words: "It 19 a sad los
but never mind; you did not Mean to do it."
Ilistery repeats itself. • Generations are
wonderfully alike. Among that generation or
• that is past, as in our own,. and as it will i
be in the generation following us, those who
euopeeded became the target, ',hot' at by
threes who did notaucceed. In those tithes, t
as in ours, a men's bitterest) enemies were t
those vehom he had befriended and, helped. g
e Sleeps, jealousies anct revenges were just as t
lively in 1869 as in 1894. S Hypocrisy t
ed and looked riolernii thdn as now. • There i
wee just as inuch avariei among the Apple
barrels as now erelong the cotton bales, and
among the wheelbarrows aa among the o
locomotives. The tallow candles saw the a
same sins that are now' found under the i
• electric lights. Homespun Was just t
sw proud as is the modern fashion h
plate. Twenty-five years—yea, twenty, r
five centuries—have not changed humeri a
patine a parade. I say thie • fax the o
e'ficouragetnent of those Who think r
that our times monopolize all the b
• aloominations of the 9499. One minute af rev b
Adam got outside of Paradise he Nrea jest o
like you, Oman! Ono step alter Eve left
the gate she web just like you, 0 woman I 6
'All the faelte and vicee are many times t
centeearians. Yea the cities Sodern,Gorn- F
orrah, Pompeii, Iferculaneurn, Heliopolis a
and anolent Memphis e0ere inuchneoree b
thee due medern Meths ea you might ex- I
poet, from the fact that che Modem eitiettit
I Italie somewhet yielded to therestraint of a
, Cheistitinitygerbile therm readmit cities were In
' not lenitive in their abominations •6
Xml, that generation whieh Imitated off I
,7*•
within the last teitenty4ive years heel their
bereaveroents, their tetneeetiona, their
struggles, their dieeppointments, their elle-
oetteee, •their feileree, their gladness and
their grief, like these two geheratimis noW
in sight that in adearece and thet following.
But the twenty -eve yeeris betweeo 1869 and
1895—hew much they saw I How much
they discovered 1 How much they felb I
Withim that time have been pet:formed the
iniraclee of the telephone and the phono-
graph, Front the obsereateriee ether worlds
have been seen te heave in sight. $in
presedente of the 'United States have been
ineugueated, Trans-Atlantio veyego ab-
lereviated from tea days to tive and a half.
Chiang° and New York, once three days
apart, now only twenty-four hours by the
vestibtde limit. Two additional raileopele
have beeo built to the Pacific France has
• • .
paesed from monarchy to republicantem.
Many of theepities have nearly doubled
their populations. During that generation
the chief serviving heroes of the Civil War
have gone into the encampment of the
grave. The chief physicians, attorneys,
orators, merchants, have passed off the
earth, or are in retiremert waiting for
transition. Other men in editorial chairs,
in pulpits, in Governor's mansions, in
legislative, senatorial and congressional
halls. There are not ten men or women on
ths earth now prominent who were prom-
inent twenty-five years ago. The crew of
this old ship of a world is all changed.
Others at the helm, others on the " look-
out,'" others mlimbing the ratlines. Time
is a doctor who with potent anodyne has
put an entire generation into sound
sleep, Time, like another Cromwell, has
roughly • prorogued parliament, and with
iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers ex-
cept one Queen from their high places. So
far as I observed that generation, for the
most part they did their best. Ghastly
exceptions, but so far as I know them they
did clothe well, and many of them glorious-
ly well,' They Were born at the right time,.
and they died, at the right time. They left
ties world better than they found ie. We
are indebted to them for the feet that they
prepared the way for our coming. 1894
reverently and gratefully salutee 1869.
"One generation passed away, and another
generation cometh. "
There are fathers and mothers here whom
I baptized in their. infancy. There is not
One peraen in that ehurch's Board of Session
or 'Trustees who was here when I came.
Here and there in this vast assembly is one
person who heard my opening sermon in
Brooklyn, but not more than one person in
every five hundred now present. Of the
seventeen persons who gave me a unanimous
call when I came, only three, I believe, are
living.
But this sermon is not a dirge ; it is an
anthem. While this world is appropriate
as a temporary stay, as an eternal residence
it would be a dead failure. It would be a
dreadful eentence if our race were doomed
to remain here a thousand wintere and a
thousand summers. God keeps ns here just
long enough to give us an appetite for
heaven. Had we been born in celestial
realms we would noahase been able to ap-
preciate the bliss. It needs a good many
rough blasts in this world to qualify us to
properly estimate the superb climate of that
good land where it is never too cold, too
hot, too cloudy or too glaring. Heaven will
be more to us than to those supernal beings
who were never tempted, or flick, or
•bereaved, or tried, or disappointed. So you
may well take my text out of the minor
key and set it to some tune "in the major
key—" One generation Passeth away, and
another generation cometh."
Nothing can rob as of the aatisfaction
that uncounted thousands of the generation
just past were converted, comforted and
harvested for Heaven by this Church,
whether in the present building, or the
three preceding buildings in which they
worshipped. The great organs of the pre-
vious churellea went down in the memor-
able fires, but the multitudinous seems they
led year after year were not recalled or
injured. There is no power in earth or hell,
to kill a hallelujah. It is impossible to
arrest a hosanna. What a 'satisfaction to
know that there are many thousands in
Glory on whose eternal welfare this Church
wrought mightily 1 Nothing can undo that
work. They have ascended, the multitudes
who served God in that generation. That
chapter it gloriously ended. But that
generatien has left its impression upon this
generation. A sailor was dying on ship-
board and he said. to his mates, enylads, I
can only think of One passage of Scripture,
'the soul that sinneth it shall die,' and
that keeps ilnging in my ears. 'The soul
that sinneth it shall die,' can't you think of
something else in the Bible to 'cheer me
up?" Well, sailors are kind and they tried
to think of some other passage of Scripture
with which to console their dyiogecomrade,
but they could not. One of them said,
"Let us call up the cabin boy. teis mother
was a Christian, and I guess he has a Bible."
The cabin boy was called up, and the dying
sailor asked him if he had a Bible. Ile
said, "Yes," but he could not exactly find
it, and the dying sailor scolded hini, and
said,: "Ain't you ashamed of yourself not
to read your Bible ?" So the boy explored
the bottom of his trunk and brought out
the Bible, and his mother had marked a
passage that just fitted -the dying sailor's
case: "The blood of Jima Christ His son
cleanseth from all sin." That helped the
sailor do die in peace, SO one generation
helps another, and good things, written, or
said, or done are reproduced long after-
ward.
During the passage of the last generation
some peculiter events have unfolded. One tie
cley whileeresting at Sharon Springs,N. Y, to
I think it was in 1870, the year after my at
ettlement, in Brooklyn, and, while walking p
n the park of that place I found myself ge
asking the question, "1 wonder if there ie ac
any special mission for ,me to execute in er
his world? If there is, may God show it at
o rne 1" There soon came upon me a an
teat desire to. eireach the Gospel through at
he teaular printing press. I lealized that eh
he vent majoritygef people, even Chrlies se
an lands, neveteenter a church, and that it on
Would' be an opportunity of usefulness so
relit; if that door of publication elveete
pened. And so I recorded that prayer in ne
bleak book, and offered that prayer day to
n and day out until the atieWer Game, th
horigh in a way different from that which I we
ad expected, for it came through the leis- ga
°presentation and porseCtition of enemies, em
ad I have to record it for the encouragement ha
fall millisters of the Gospel who are mite, th
epreeenbed, that if the misreptesentatiori tn
e virulent enough arid bitter enough an
here is nothing that' go widens one's field me
f uselessdess hAtile attack, if you are th
tally doing the Lord' a work. The bigger th
he lis told ;thistle meth() bigger the demand pe
o eels and hear What I really as doihg. niy
tom one stege tettionie publicetion to: eon
nothet, the Word has gone oft, until week we
y week, and for about tWerity-thtee yetera sal
have had the world for My euclthine se
o man ever had, and Cowley, more go than de
t any other teeth. The syndieetes inform per
e then my sermons go now to abut free
wetity eye of people in all lands. eva.
mentioxt, this not he Vain boast, bet as a bet
testimony to the feat thee God atteWers
prayer, leVould God I had better occupy
the field and been more oonsecrated to
the work I May God forgive me for lank
of eervice in the pewit, end double, and
quadruple arid quintuple my work in future,
In this my gUarter-centUry sertnon,
record, the fact that side by side with the
procession of blewsings has gone enroceesion
of disasters, I am preaching tonley in the
ft:Ambit church building sinoe I began in Ode
city. My drat sermon was in the old
&moll Seherinerhorn street to en mud-
ience cheifly of empty Beate, for the ehureh
was ehnoet extinguished. That church
filled and overflowing, we built a larger
church, which after two or three years dia.
• appeared in flames, Then we built another
church, which also in a line of fiery succes-
sion disappeared in the same wey. Then
we put up this building, and may it stead
for many years a fortress of righteousness
and a lighthouse for the sthrm-toesecl, its
gates crowded with vast assemblages long
after we have ceased to frequent them.
We have raieed in this church ever one
million and thirty thousand dollars for
church charitable purposes during the
present pastorate, while we have given,
free of all expense, the Gospel to htuadrede
of thousands of strangers, year to year, I
record with gratitude to God that during
this generation ot twenty-five years, I re-
member bet two Sabbaths that I have
missed service through anything like phys.
iced indisposition. Almost a fanatic on the
subject of physical exercise, I have made
the Parks, with which our city is blessed,
the means of good physical condition. A
daily walk and run in the open air have
kept me ready for work and in good humor
with all the world. I say to all young
ministers of the Giospel, it is easier to keen
good health than to regain it when once
lost. The reason so many good men think
the world is going to ruin is because their
own physical condition is on the down
grade. No man ought to preach who has a
diseased liver, or an enlarged spleen. There
are two things ahead of us that ought to
keep us cheerful in our work—.Heaven and
the Millennium.
And now, having come up to the twenty-
fifth milestone in my pastorate, I wonder
bow many mere miles I am to travel? Your
company has been exceedingly pleasant, 0
my dear people, and I would like to march
by your side until the generation with
whom we are now moving abreast,and step
to step shall have stacked arms after the
last battle. But the Lord knows best, and
we ought to be welling to stay or go:
Most of you are aware that I propose at
this time, between the doge of my twenty-
fifth year of pastorate and before the begin-
ning of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent
for a few months, in order to take a journey
around the world. I expeot to sail from San
Francisco in the steamer Alameda, May
31st. My place here on Sabbaths will be
fully occupied, while on Mondays, and
every Monday, I will continue to speak
through the printing press in this and other
lands as heretofore. Why do I go? Td
melte pastoral visitation among people whom
I have never seen, but to whom I have been
permitted a long while to administer. I
want to see them in their own cities, towns
and neighborhoods. I want to know what
are their prosp,erities, what their adversities
and what their opportunities, and so en-
large my work, and get more adaptedness.
Why do I go? For educational purposes. I
want to freshen my mind and heart by new
scenes, new faces, new manners and cus-
toms: I want better to understand what
are the wrongs to be righted and the 'waste
places to be reclaimed. I will put all I
learn in sermons to be preached to you
when I return. I want to see the Sands
wioh Islands, not so much in the
light of modern politics as ' in the
light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
which has transformed them ; and Samoa,
and those vast realms of New Zealand, and
Australia, and Ceylon and India. I- want
to see what Christianity has accomplished.
1 want to see how the missionaries have
been lied about RS living in luxury and
idleness. I want to know whether the
heathen religions are really as tolerable and
as commendable as they are now represented,
by their adherents. in the Parliament of
Religions at Chicago. I want to see wheth-
er Mohamtnedanism andBuddhism would be
good things for transplantation in America
as it has again and again been argued. I
want to hear the Brahmins pray. I want
to test whether the Pacific Ocean treats its
rests any better than does the Atlantic.
want to see the 'wondrous architecture of
India, and the Delhi and Ce,wrepore where
Christ was crucified in the massacre of his
modern diciples, and the disabled Jugger-
naut onwheelecl by Christianity and to see
if the Taj whichnthe Emperor 'Shan Jean
built in honor of the Empress, really means
anymore than the plain slab that we put
above our dear departed. I want to see the
world from all sides: how much of it is in
darkness, how much of it in the light: what
the Bible means by the •' ends of the earth"
and get myself ready to appreciate the ex-
tent of the present to be made to Christ as
spoken of in the Psalms, "Ask of me, and
I shall give thee the heathen for thine in.
heritance and the uppermost parts of the
earth for 'thy possession," and so I shall be
ready to celebrate in heaven the victories
of Christ in' more rapturous song than I
could have rendered had I never seen the
heathen abominations before they were
compered. And so I hope to memo back
refreshed, reinforced and better equipped,
and to do in ten years more effectual work
than I have done in the last twenty -rive.
And now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary
rmon I propose to do two thins: First,
put a garland on the grave of the getter -
ion that has just passed off, and then to
ut a palm braneh in the hand of the
neration just now corning on the field of
teen. For my text is true : "One gen-
onion passeth.away, and another gener.
ion cometh." Oh, how many we revered,
a honored, and loved in the last genets -
ion that quit the earth. Tears fell at
e time of their going, and dirges were
ended, and signals of mourning were put
Onet neither tears, nor dirge, nor
inbrw v,eei told the litelf we felt. Their
ingleft a vacancy in our souls that has
ver been filled up. We never get used
their absence. There are timed when
e eight of something with which they
re associated—a picture, or a book, or a
rment, or a ether, breaks us down with
otion, bet we bear it simply because we
ve to bear iL Oh, how enowy white
eir hair got, and how the wrinkles
ultiplied, and the eight grew more dim,
d the hearing less alert, and the Atop
re frail, and one day they were gone out of
e chair by elle fireside, and from the plate at
e neeal, and from the end of the ehurch
w, where they worehipped veith Oh,
soul, how we ,this ti them, But it ue
+role each -other' with the thotighe that
shall meet them again in the lend of
etation and keurdon.
And :now I twist a garland for that
parted generetion, It need not be costly,
leepo eon a handful of °levet bicareotes
re the field through-Whiole they used to
lk, or ais Many stiolete es you could hold
*eon the thumb and forefinger, plucked
out, of the garden where they need to walk
in the cool of the day'. Pitt these old-
faeldoned flowere right down over the hone
that never again will ache, aod the feet
that will never again be weary, and the
• arm that hest forever oeasted to toil. Peace,
fether 1 Pertee Mother I Everlasting
peruse I All thee lot the generation gone!
And Mt fen us Who are now at the front,
having putt the garland on the grave of the
last generation, and having put the palm
braise's. ia the hand of the corning generation
we will oheer eaoh other in the remaining
yeare, and when we die we will be greeted
by the generations that have preceded us
and will have to wait only a little while to
greet the generations that will come after
us, Aad will not that be gloritees Three
generetious in heaven together. The
grandfather, the son and the grandson ;
the grandmother, the daughter and the
granddmighter. And so with wider range,
and keener feculty we shall realize the
full (significance of the text "One gener-
ation passeth away, another generation
cometh,"
HOMESTEADING IN AUSTRALIA.
The Manner or °nen tug the Public *Lands
There to Settlemen t.
There yet remain in Australia many
thousands of acres of public land owned by
the Government to be thrown open for set-
tlement as the growth of the country may
warrant. Portions of thie public domain
are settled every year, and the whole coun-
try is being gradually and systematically
occupied. The Australian method ef open-
ing laud for public occupancy has some
points of excellence and many of interest.
There is no weary waiting and wasting of
resources, no camping out on the border,
no wild dash and scramble for possession
and fight for retention, and the weak have
equal chance with the strong.
The lend is surveyed and mapped out in
allotments, varying in size with the char-
acter of the land, but rarely exceeding 600
acres. It is allotted to settlers first on a
system. of lease, at a nominal rental, usual-
ly about twelve cents an acre per annum.
The lessee is required to cultivate and im-
prove the land, and if these requirements
are properly complied with he may acquire
a clear title to the land at the expiration
of the lease. Persons desiring to settle
on the land are required to file an applica-
tion with the Government Land Office.
These applications are considered by a
local Land Board presided over by mag-
istrate, which investigates as to the suit-
abibty of the applicent, with the especial
object of finding oue, if he is a bona fide
settler and likely to prove a suitable one -
When all the Applications are passed
upon, or, if there is a rush for the land, at
an appointed time every allotmentie ballot -
ted for separately. Each suitable applicant
is entitled to a chance in the ballot or lot
rawing for every allotment, provided, of
course, he has not already been successful
in a previous drawing. Not more than one
allotment is granted to one person, and no
person is eligible to participate in the bal-
lot who already has an area of publie land
amounting to 640 acres. He may,however,
make up his holdings to this limit.
In the colony of Victoria the Govern-
rnent found work for many of the unemploy.
ed during the hard times of the last
Australian winter in clearing public land.
Some of the lands thus cleared were thrown
open for occupation a few weeks ago, and
successful applicants were required to pay
five shillings an acre on their allotments to
recoup the Government for its outlay in be-
half of the unemployed.
The tenure of the lease on these partic-
ular lands was set at nine years and five
months, and lessees were required to
"cultivate and otherwise improve their
land, and also to destroy all vermin there-
on." The latter provision referred mainly
to the ineradicable plague of rabbits that
afflicts Australia.
QUAINT OLD NEWSMEN.
--
They Blew Borns and wore signs on Their
hugar-Loaf flats.
In the days when the present century
was in swaddling clothes no ragged and
dirty -faced urchins dogged the steps of
London pedestrians howling, 1"Ere's yer
hextry 1 All about the 'orrible and hawful
news from Hamerica !" Persons of more
mature years, though doubtless of less ex-
perience than the present disseminators of
daily literature, were intrusted with the
sale of papers. They did, not ilepend solely
upon their vocal organs In announcing to the
public the happenings of all climes. Each
man armed himself with a copper horn
nearly two feet long, and at intervals- of
thirty seconds blew stentorian blasts upon
it. Then, fearing he would meet individuals
who were deaf, he fastened a big placard
on his hat, bearing the name of the
paper he was selling and the edition
thereof. So the newsy" of our
English grandad was prepared to do 'hese.
nese with all except blind people, and they
had no use for his wares. The costumes of
these individuals were almost as peculiar as
their methods of doing business. The hat
on which the placard was fastened was of
an abbrevie ted sugar -loaf pattern, the coat
was,long, generous in other dimensions, and
always of a bottle -green ; skin-tight knee
breeehes were just as certain to be a bright
yellow as svere the tuskins to bejust aboutas
white as it is possible for anything to be in
London. The wearer was often as unique
as his costume. He came from all walks of
life. The vending of papers was often the
only thing that stood between the broken
down small shopkeeper and the workhouse.
Indeed, from coutster to "newsboy" was a
recognized step in the downward scale of
lower class circles. With the advent of the
present era of newspaper enterprise thee
old and interesting characters disappeared.
Their places have been taken by gamins
every bit as sharp and every whit as bright
as theitCartadian cousin!.
Boys Quieker Than
Dr, j. A. Gilbert of the Yale psychological
laboratory has completed some teeth regard-
ing the rnetttal and physical developmente
of the pupils of the New Haven Publie
/school. Many of the tests are entirely new.
The teeth were made on 1,200 boys and girls
varying from 6 to 17 years of age He has
made a series of charts which show that boye
are more +sensitive to weight disorirnination,
that girth Oen tell the difference in color
:shades better than the boys, and that boys
think quieker than the other sex. AI.
together the chute shot, that boys are more
+susceptible to suggestion then girls. The
charts show alto thee both boys and girla
between the ages of 12 arid 14 years are not
so bright, quick, or strong in peopbrtion,
eor do they develop as feat as they do befo A
and after thoect years. The objeet of tbe cer
teati is to enable teachers to better under- use
Wend the Meatal requirements ef the pupils, the
T1111 DOMINION 1101J8E,
SEVENTH PARLIAMENT — FOURTH
SESSION AT OTTAWA.
nILLS 11,TtenOrdlCen,
The following bille were read a. first
time
Reepecting the St, Lawrence Insurance
Company—Mr, White (Cierdwell),
To incorporate the French. River Boom
Company—Mr. Coetswortle
To incorporate the Alberta Southern
Railway Compauy—Mr. Davia-
The Iloase again Went into Committee of
Ways and Means.
Snanizie.
Mr. Foster said the duty oc stearine was
Sc per pound under the old tariff. It bad
been ellanged to 20 per cent., under the
impression that it was not manufactured in
this country. There was, however, a manu-
factory of stearine in the city of Montreal,
itt which capital was invested, and
which had been in operation for some little
time. He believed the factory was a branch
of s New York firm, He proposed now,
Under these circumstances, to make the
duty 2o a pound.
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Mr. Foster said that the duty of 1 1-4
cent per pound on tomatoes and other
vegetables, including corn and baked beans,
was a drop from 2e in the old tariff. This
was thought to be too sweeping a reduc.
tion. He proposed the duty should be 1
1-2 cents per pound.
The item passed as amended.
• DEMIJOHNS.
Mr. Foster moved to change the duty on
earthenware and stoneware, viz., demijohns
or jugs, churns or crocks, to 3c per gallon.
This would, restore the duty to what it was
under the old tariff. The proposed duty of
2c Weald have destroyed the industry.
The item passed as amended.
AMENDED DUTIES.
The following items were amended to
read as follows :—Plaster of Paris, cal-
cined or manufactared 40c per barrel.
Slate pencils, 25 per cent. ; slates, roof.
ing slates, when split or dressed only, also
school or writing slates, 30 per cent.
COAL OIL.
Mr, Davies objected to the duty of 7 1-5
cents on coal oil. He contended that this
was a special tax upon the Maritime Pro-
vinces.
Mr. Foster said some relief had been
given this year by the reduction of the duty
on the barrels. The Government proposed
to give a still further relieve by reducing the
duty to six cents per imperial gallon.
The item as amended was carried.
CRUDE FETROLEcAL
Mr. Foster moved that the item of crude
petroleum, etc., 3 3-5 cents per gallon, be
amended to read :—"Crude petroleum feul
and gas oil, other than naphtha, benzine, or
gasoline, when imported by manufacturers,
other than oil refiners, for use in their own
factories for feul purposes, also manufacture
of gas, 3 cents per gallon."
The item as amended was adopted.
TERRITORIAL EXEMPTIONS.
Mr. Daly introduced a bill to repeal the
Homestead Exemption Act in the Territor-
ies, which gives the Territorial Assembly
full power to deal with homestead exemp-
tions, The provisions of the Homestead
Exemption Act conflicted with theprovisions
of the Real Property Act. Chap. 25 of the
ordinance of 1888 provided for exemptions
up to $1,500, but the courts had held that
this was not within the jurisdiction of the
Territorial Assembly, and it was desired to
'retain this power, The bill is to accomplish
this end.
The bill was read a first time.
FREIGHT RATEs.
Mr. Haggett, replying to IVIr. Bowers,
gave the following freight rates on the In-
tercolonial and connecting roads :—For
grain, by carload, per ton, to St. John, N.
B., from Montreal, $3.60; for export, $4;
local to &John, N.B., from Toronto, $4.30
for export, $4.50; local to Halifax from
Montreal, $3.60 for export, and $4 local;
to Halifax from Toronto, $4.30 for erport,
and 84.50 local; coal, per gross ton, from
Sydney to Moutreal,$3.51 ; from 'New Glas-
gow to Montreal, $2.80; from Springhill to
Montreal, $2.19.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Mr, Charlton, in moving the second read-
ing of the Act to secure a better observance
of the Lord's daymommonly celled Sunday,
hoped the subject would be approached free
from party or personal influences. He ask-
ed that elle measure be considered simply
upon its merits. On some occaaions the
promoter had been called a crank, a fanatic,
O Puritan, and a self-righteous man. He
disclaimed any pretensions save that he de-
sired to promote the welfare of the com-
munity.
The bill was read a second time.
TO DTSFRANCHISE BRIBERS.
Mr. Weldon moved the second reading of
a bill to diefranchise voters who have taken
bribes.
BALLOT IX NORTH•WEST.
Mr. Martin moved the second reading of
a bill to extend the ballot to the North-
West Territories.
Tee bill was read a aecond time.
• GRA.ND JURORS IN ONTARIO.
Mr. Edgar moved the second reading of
a bill to reduce from twelve to seven the
number of grand jurors necessary to find a
true bill in the Province of Ontario.
The bill was read a second time,
sienna, Mote.
Mr, Foster said the Government had to
consider first how to keep the protection
and encouragement which was necessary
for the iron industry as a whole ; secondly
how to reduce to the maker of iron meter-
ials the raw material, bar Iran • and thirdly,
how to induce the further working up of a
pig iron from the ore to puddled bars, and
bar iron. It Was proposed to encourage
i
the latter step by ncreasing the duty on
amp iron, !seeking the transition as easy
as possible by raising the duty by ' $1 per
ton to the and of the peesent year, and
thereafter having a uniform duty of $4 per
ton, This, it was hoped would induce
manufacturers to melte a better quality. it
would provide that refuse iron, of which
there was a greet -deal in this mnintry, and
Which should tot be allowed to go towaste,
would not go to waste.
Mr. Laurier %del he would like the Fin,
mime Minister to tell the IfoUtle about the
remonstraneee he had received from the
user,/ of sera re against inereeeing the duty,
Hove °Mild the Government defend the
policy of inereesing the duty on raw Mater.
lab and reducing it on agricultural imple.
Manta from 35 to 20 per sent. ?
Mr, Potiter maid his hon. friend Mint
tamly be mistaken, The implement men
a no ;lamp. They used pig iron, and
re Was no inerease on pig iron. They
used, ale°, her iron, on whieh there
reduetien of i$3 a ten. Qe nothing whieh
entered into the manufacture of agrionl.
tural implements was the duty inereaged,
The raising of the duty on merap could not
be urged as a hardship in this reopoot.
The item 'svaeeerried.
Zenit044.4,X0,41,1,1Iilg.
Mr, Pester moved to dump ferro-inen
puttee from 10 to 6 per cent, ad valorem.
The item es amended was eerried.
NAIL nom
Mr, Foster moved thet " &modish rolled
iron nail rode, not more than one-half inolt
diameter, for the menufaetnre of home
nails," be included in the item of '''Swedish
rolled iron rode under ?rieeli in diameter,
and of not leo then le of a oene per pound
value, 15 per cent, ad valorem."
The item es amended was carried.
BARBED WIRB.
Mr, Charlton thought barbed wire should
be placed on the free Ilse.
Mr. Foster sad a reduction of one.half
had been made in the duty. To place it
on the free list would destroy the work of
eight or nine mills engaged in the ienius
try.
The item was earried.
I
r. Barnard regre4AttDed
Mthee the Govern-
ment had not seen fit to inerease the duty
on lead, bars, block, and sheets, whioh was
60 cents per 100 pounds.
The item was carried.
zrzarnio APPARATUS.
Mr, Foster moved that "generators,
dynamos, and sockets" be included with
"electrie motors and aeiparatue, xee,s., 25
per cent. ad valorem."
The item as amended was carried.
SUGAR.
Mr. MolVfullen objected to the duty of
64-100 cents per pound on refined. sugars,
It was a policy devised solely to put a mil-
lion and a half dollars a year into the
pockets of the refiners.
LABOUR DAY,
Sir John Thompson introduced a bill to
amend the law relating to holidays, the
object of which is to establish as Labour
day the first Monday in September in each
year.
The bile was read a first time.
T.TIIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third
time:—
Respecting the St. La wrence and Adiron-
dack Railway Company—Mr. Baker.
To incorporate the Elgin and Havelock
Railway Company—Mr. Hazen.
To amend the Acts respecting the Clif-
ton Suspension Bridge Corcpany—Mr.
Coatsworth.
Respecting the Winnipeg and Hudson
Bay Railway Company, and to change the
name thereof to the Winnipeg and Great
Northern Railway Company—Mr. Ross
("eager).
Respecting the Montreal and Ottawa
Railway Company—Mr. Baker.
To revive and amend the Act to incor-
porate the Brandon and South -Western
Railway Company—Mr. Davin.
To authorize the purchase of the Yar-
mouth and Annapolis Railway Company
by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway
Company (,armited), and to change the
name of the latter company to the Do-
minion Atlantic Railway Company—Mr.
Kenny.
CHEESE REFEREE.
Mr. Daly, in reply to Mr. Casey, said it
was the intention of the Government to
appoint an Inspector of Weights and Mea-
sures at Montreal to act as a referee in
disputes arising between buyers and sellers
as to the weight of cheese.
SETTLERS FROM DAROTA.
Mr. Martin, in moving for a return, said
that some years ago a great deal was said
about immigration from Dakota, of men
who had failed there. Many of them were
brought to Manitoba one spring in special
trains. He moved to know the number of
settlers brought into the Yorkton and
Saltcoats district from Dakota, and into
the Calgary district from Chicago, with
tho nationality, and cost, and number re-
maining.
Mr. Daly believed the hon. gentleman
referred to the immigration Of a number of
persons from Dakota three years ago.
This was undertaken at very little expense
to the Canadian Government. They had
come over cm representations made by their
neighbours. The advance made to the
settlers to enable them to emigrate were
made by the Canada Settlers' Loan Com-
pany, quite irrespective of the Government.
Mr. Mara moved to have. included in the
return information respecting the immi-
gration from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
The motion as amended was adopted.
THE BABY CARRIAGE IN LONDON.
London Nurse Irma Fined for Obstruct
ing the Street With a Perambulator.
Throughout all England the desire to
punish the reckless bicycle rider who dashes
through crowded streets at break -neck
speed seems to be paramount. This desire
to inflict punishment upon those who in-
terfere with the rights of pedestrians came
to a climax the other day in the Eastbourne,
London, police court when a nurse was sum-
moned for persistently obstructing the
pavement. It appeared that she and two
others of her class, each with a perambula-
tor or mail cart, formed in line abreast in
front of a draper's in the most crowded
part of the Terminus road, turning all the
other foot passengers off the pavement.
When remonstrated with by a policeman
the nurses simply turned around and slang-
ed him. Two of them were eventually
prevailed upon to move, but the female in
question utterly declined to budge an inch.
Result, she was pulled up before the
"beaks" and mulcted in a fine and oasts.
The magistrates only made the former a
shilling, but they impressed upon the nurse
the information that, as a matter of fact,
she had no right upon the pavement at all
with a mail -cart or perambulator, bet was
only allowed there on sufferance, news
Which evidently astonished her.
•THROWN FROM ONE WAGON,
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Tthen Item Over by Another—A Water -
dell% Farmer Meets Tbentit.
Mr, Henry McCready, an elderly man
residing at Waterdo ten, Ont. was driving
htnne on, Saturdey nightewhen !levees thrown
out, relighting on his heed. Ile was etenned
by the fell and lay on the toad for over an
hour, when a farina named William Wilson,
who was driving past, felt his wagon pato
Over something and on alighting fotend IVIe-
Creadyleing in the road with awound on his
head. McCready did Sunday moreifig.
No interast in That Rind of Man,
Pr ofeasor Greyle eke-- " Yon do not appear
in be much interested in the study of pre-
historio man,"
Miss Golderthair,*'111terey, no 1 Hee
deed."
INTERNATIONAL,
20
e JI1ibbsoo& ef Illosert"
Golden Tent, realm
AL• OAT
1. ''And the went
holm of Levi and took to wife
2e e0e, et he ff,,et tehi .ennutWn. ullatArne mfl,r:1141.morhion, w4
signifies an exeltecl people, and that
wife' e name Was Jechebed, which signitie
Jehovah m honor, and that Ainrain iive
137 years. Their names are aloe given
Num. xxxvi, 59, with •tne fact that the
had three diddle n—Aarers and Moses en
Miriam, their sister, Levi was the third
span of Jacob and Leah, and his name gig
nifies joined (Gen. =car, 34). All theLft
Yam+ were afterward joined unto Aaron
the special minietry of the taberescle (Num.
xviii, 2). They were eepareted from exam
the children of Israel as e. special °inning „
mite the Lord inetead of the firet horn of all
Israel and aa a gift unto Aaron (Num. vii
2. "And the woman conceived and bare a
son. And when she eaew him that he was )4
goodly ebild elle hid him three month,,"
It in written itt Acte vil, 20, thet be wail
"exceedingly, fair," or, as in the margin,
"fair to God. He was the youngetie of the
three chi)dren, Miriam being the oldeat and
Aaron next. The testimony in Bob.
23, le, "By feitle Moses, when he was borne
was hid three months of hisperents, Ince-nee
they saw he was a proper child, and' they -
were not afraid of the kingee -command-
ment." Faith implies a promise on the part
of God—it is simply confidence in God. that
He will do as Be has said, God had tact
Abraham that He would bring hie seed out
of bondage in the fourth generation (Gen,
xv, 16).
3. "And when she could no longer hide
him she took for him an ark of bulrushes
and daubed it with slime and with pitch "
and put the child therein,. and she laid le in
the flags by tbe river's brink," This is the
second of tbe three arks raeritioned loBorip..
ture, each one being made for a like put,-
pose—viz, to preserve that which it con.
tained. Let any mother in her imagination
pass through this experience and say if she
does not want to see Joehebed and ask ben
Ifow could you do it? The river, like the
waters of the deluge, Tneant death. The
child is virtually put in the place of death,
and yet it is evident that the mother' like
Abra.ham, believed that God wouldgive
her back her child. There is no power for
God in our lives till we know the place of
death and resurrection. See John zii 24;
Phil. iii. 10.
4. "And his sister stood fax off to wit
what would be done to hirn." Let some
sister who has a little baby brother imagine
herself in the plaee of Miriam. We can
fancy the mother, leaving obeyed the
promptings of the Spirit of God, now giv-
ing herself to earnest prayer in the quiet of
her own home. She has obeyed even unto
death and now can truly say, "11!y soul,
wait thou only upon God, fax my expecte.
tion is from Him" (Ps. Ixii, 5.)
5. "And the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to wash herself at the river, and her
maidens walked along by the riv'er's side,
and when she saw the ark among the flags;
she sent her maid to fetch it." God
working. He is in it all, as he is in every I
thing that concerns His people, and oft. I
times we must juse stand still and tee I
what He will do. It is not till we are ;
our wit!? end, all our own wisdom swallow. I
ed up, that, wo can aee the wisdom and
power of tied (Ps. evil, 27-30, margin),
6, "And when she had opened it she
saw the child, and, behold, the babe wept.
And she had compassion on him and said„
This is one of the Hebrew children." See
how God works 1 He gave the daughter
of Pharaoh eompassion for the babe. He
made the babe to be pitied of her (Ps. con
46), How little she dreamed who vats
watching her and controlling her that day
or that she was looking upon a child choeete
of God to shake her father'a kingdom to its ,
very centre! Oid Simeon and Anna knew
that the little child in Mary's arms was the
Salvation of Israel, God's great Deliverer
(Luke in 34, 38), but this woman kneW
nothing.
7"Then said
his sister to Pheraoh's
daughter, Shall l go and cell to thee a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she
may nurse the child for thee ?" Can you
see Miriam standing afar off, and, while
she 'watched the spot in the river where
her brother lay lifting up her heart to the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that He
would save her brother? Presently she sees
the king's daughter draw near to the very
spot, Oh, now she prays!
8. "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her,
Go. And the maid went and called the
child's mother." Quietly till out of sight,
but then how swiftly sped she homeward. I
Did she laugh or ory, or both? Could she
speak when she saw hermother, or muse she
wait to recover breath while the mother,
with faith and expectation, waits to hear 2
Some day they will tell us all about it, for
it was a day never to be forgotten in that
home. Perhaps a mother who could an aa
she had done could restrain her joy enough
to say to Miriam, Let us give thanks to
the God of Israel. See, my friends how
God works. Blessed indeed are all who
yield so fully to Him that He van work in
them unhindered both to will and to do of
His good pleasure (Phil. ii, 13). ‘
9. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto
her, Take this ohild away and nurse it for
me, and I will give thee thy wages. And
the woman took the child and nursed it,'
Wieh emotions controlled she receives into
her arms her own dear child with e promias ,
of wages if she Will care for it. I veceader
if she heard that promise of wages or if
Miriam had afterward to reminciler thet
they might as well us not have tome money
that was due them from the king's
daughter.
10. "And the child grew, and she
brought him unto rearaoh's daughter, and
he became her son. And she called his
name Moses and she said, Becirethe I drew
him out of the water," The king who
ordered all the male children to be met
into the river is actually eheltering One of
thote very children Who "than be the itte
strument of God against the kingdom of
Egypt, Thus Re that sitteth irs the heavens
laughs at the vaiu plotting of eatau and of
man against Rim. "The Lord briegeth
the council of the heavene to naught. Ida
riereketh the &vides of the people of sons
effeeL 'The counted of the Lord etaedeth
forever the thoughts, of MS heero to all
*
generations,'I
'W'hile drinking from a Iirooks neerly
ye'ar an, Samuel Lennox, aged eix, of Mun-
eie, Iud., swallowed a Water bug, A poet.
inortem exarrdnation reveeled the feet; that
hie heatt had been. eaten \foamy by tin 14.
toot,