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THE 1301111110N 'IOUS&
SEVENTY, PARLIAIVIENT 'FOURTH
SESSION .AT OTTAWA.
SURMA!.
Mr, Costigan introdueed a bill further to
amend Acts respecting the Civil Service,
The object of the measure was to merle&
the Act of 1802, which expired the first o
this month, and whieh provides that any
person in the employment of the service oi
the first of July 1$92, and who has sinc
been continuously engaged therein, may b
promoted without passing the Civil Servic
examination since prescribed, but subject t
certain regulations.
The bill was read a first time.
QUEBEC sonsiraXS,
Sir John Thompson moved the thir
reading of a bill respecting certain snbsidie
granted to the Government of the Provinc
ni Quebec by chapter 8 of the statutes o
1884.
Mr. Laurier said the bill should oontai
etipulation as to what purpose the money
weref,to be applied to. He therefore move
in Amendment that the bill, be referee
back to the Committee of the Whole wit
instruction to amend it so as to provid
that the said sum shall be paid accordin
to the provisions of the statutes of the Pro
vinee of Quebec, 49 Victoria, chapter 2
namely, into the fund created for th
redemption of the loan effected under th
provisions of 37 Victoria, chapter 2, an
shall be applied to the payment of so muc
of the loan made in virtue of that Act, an
shall form pert of a sinking fund created fo
the redemption of that loan,
Sir John Thompson said the Province o
Quebec was about to make an arrangemen
by whioh this money shall be paid for th
redemption of the debt. The Dominic,
Government considered that the paymen
was properly safe.guarded, and the pattiou
lar portion of the public debt to which th
money shall be applied was a matter th‚a
they thought was in the care of the provine
itself. No charge has been made that th
province meant to misappropriate anyof th
money,and for the Dominion to say that th
money should be used only in a certain wa
would be most offensive to the province,an
would intimate that the province migh
not apply the money for the benefit of it
creditors.
The amendment was lost on division
and the bill was read a third time.
SHEIK'S DA111 CONTRACT.
Mr. Laurier moved.. in amendment t
concurrence on resolution to vote $4,50,00
for the Sheik's Island dam Cornwall canal
a resolution censuring the 'Government fo
their action in cancelling the contract o
the Gilbert Blasting and Dredging Compan
for $125,000 and substituting other work
without the sanction of Parliament, as un
constitutional and dangerous to the publi
interest, and for inflicting an extra loss t
the country of $30,000 damages, awarde
to the firm for such cancellation of th
oontract. r6 view of the wide discussio
on the subject at the last sitting of th
House, he would say nothing in support o
the resolution.
The amendment was defeated by 85 t
The resolution was concurred ir
THIRD READINGS.
The lOilowiug bills were read a thir
:—
Respecting the utilization of the water
of the North-West Territories, and fo
e ther purposes.
Respecting the common school fund.
In restraint of fraudulent sale or mark
▪ Respecting the inspection of eleotri
GRAND JURIES.
4 The House went into Committee on th
bill to amend the Criminal Code.
Mr Edgar moved a clause providin
that in all provinces where the jury pane
has been reduced to thirteen, it shall b
lawful for seven to find a verdict ;
provision to come into force only on pro
cle,mation by the Governor-in•UomiciL
The motion was carried.
`4'
CARON CHARGE
Mr. Edgar, on motion that the House go
into Committee of Supply, moved an
amendment to the motion, " That from
the public trial and conviction of Thomas
McGreevy and N. K. Connolly for conspir-
acy to defraud, and from evidence and
papers already before this House, it appears
that large portions of the moneys which
were found upon the said trial to have been
criminally received by the said Thos. Mc-
Greevy from Government contractors were
so received by him for the purpose of being
axpended in elections in the interest of the
Conservative party and for distribution
by Sir Hector Langevin, M. P., and Sir
Adolphe Caron, M. P., for the election of
themselves and of other supporters of the
Government at the general elections held in
February, 1887. That it further appears
that large portions pf said moneys, together
with other large sums collected by Sir
Adolphe Caron, from those interested in
Governmental railway subsidies, were ex-
pended and dietributed by Sir Hector
!Angevin and Sir Adolphe Caron and in
lavish and illegal amounts to assist in the
election of themselves and other supporters
of theiSovernment in the district of QUe•
bee e,tztip general elections of 1887. That
the said Sir Hector Langevin and Sir
Adolphe Caron were then and now are
members of this House and on the roll of
her Majesty's Privy Councillors for Canada,
and the said Sir Adolphe Caron is a Cabinet
Minister and Postmaeter.General. That
in the opinion of this House the said Sir
Hector Langevin and Sir Adolphe baron
are deserviog of the severest censure for
their connection with the said transactions,
and that it is a poblic scandaLand injury
to the reputation of Canada that Sir
Adolphe Caron should continue to hold the
position of a Minister of the Crowe.
Sir Hector Langevin on arising was greet•
ed with Conservative applause. He said that
when he was tried before the Committee of
Privileges and Elections in 1891," he had
OtOne of his own free accord, not wishing
the statements to go to the country unchal-
lenged. He had given his evidence under
oath, and the report of the House had been
In his favour. The hon. gentleman who
had juat %paten wanted to try him again,
That was not jiistice. (Hear, hear.t It
was for the House and the country to say
whether he was to be singled out and tried
in this way. This was the first time in this
country, and he thonght in any British
country, that a man in hit or the most
humble position had been tried second
thele—(hear, hear)—iand when he gave his
ioidenee Withant or with an oath, he did
te the heal Of his ability, an d if he made
,
Mistakes it was not wittinlYt hut because
hie 'memory tailed hira' lie knew ne4hing
' iati:loveuats l'entt,yltrneveli14 oloti:P tioQintinTpher be4:0kI•f
When he drew on McGreevy for leerier, he
, , .
*as deawing on money he , bid depositen
With him, The money was not for the pur-
pose of buying votes. • Withont' going into
details. he left the male in the hands of the
Hotiee. It knew ' hock the case stood in.
.1891, and to -day the charges were broughti
to try him a eccond time. He bad no doubb
,
the verdiet cif the House would he !sanction;
ed by the .eountry, ' (Appatuse,) .
The ;Intendment was defeated by 102 te
65.. . ' - ,
sustettree atto 'OnAwatwO. •
Sir Charles H Tupper •
e . .* , Pa ansWer te Mr.
Grillies, said .the Government had entered
, into a convention with the United States
which: though not dealing sPecieeallY with
the subject of puree seining and trawling
beyond the three•mile limit, Contemplated
a toint inveitigation, Which was now Pro-
. needing, and which would deal with those
subjeets. No action would be taken until
1 the commissioners bad reported. •
LAKE illtill FISHERIES,
Mr. Tisdale, on motion to go into supply,
read. oorrespondence between the Lake
Erie fishermen and the Department of
k Fisheries, and quoted statistics at length
: to show that the the regulations of the de-
[ partment respecting fishing in Lake Erie
were. unduly severe and etringent. He
i •
contended that there was no reason for
,
I issuing regulations for the reduction of the
?, number of nets. About August last, year,
, seven American tugs, with about 30 miles
' cif nets, had been fishing within the . Cana-
' diau limit. There was no sufficient reason
, foreprohibiting whitefish end salmon fishing
3 in 'November. Not only were many fisher-
3 men thrown out of employment, but coin;
, natinities suffered in consequence. The
1 tctal number of men employed on the Can•
i adian side of the lake in 1889 was 465,
I and on the American side 2,181. In the
r same .year the value of the appliances on
• the Canadian side was $116,000 and on
f the American side $851,000. The quantity
t of fish caught on the'Canadian side in 1S93
3 was 9,000,000 pounds, and on the American
i side 63,000,000 pounds. '
t Sir Charles H. Tupper said that absolute
. ruin was staring the United States fisher-
3 men of Lake Erie in the face, while the
t Canadian fishermen were making money.
This was due to the fact that the Canadian
: fisheries were protected, and showed thati
3 the restrictions were highly necesiery. He
: was prepared, however, to give due eonsid•
" eration to the representations made by Mr-
i Tisdale. -
• CANAL STAFFS.
Mr. Bergeron called attention to the de-
lay in the payment of the wages of the
, employes of the canals. On the erd of July
the paymaster was paying for the month of
May., Sornethingehould be done to prevent
, a recurrence of' this. . , • •
k Mr. Gibson argued that there should be
, an established pay day.
. Mr. Haggart said he found that the pay
rolls were received on the 5th of the month.
, Before the 7th they were sent to the Audi-
, tor-Generars department. If any cornplaint
. was made there, they were all returned
, with tho request that they be separated and
objectionable accounts held back. This
i sometimes took six or seven days. ' There
, was no delay except what was caused by:speed
the system of auditing. •
' CATTLE TRADE.
! Mr. Melo& said he proposed. to trace the
history of the scheduling of Canadian. cattle
I by Great Britaiti, and point out where the
responsibility for it rested. It was promised
that the cattle would all be inspected be-
forethey entered Canada. That, undertak-
, ing was eliberately ignored by the Govern-
' d '
, merit. Another representation made to
England was that cattle trains would be
1 under the control of Dominion Government
' officials, who would accompany them on
their journey across the country, yet never
once was this regulation enforced. The
' pledge was grossly violated. The inspection
was absolutelyineffectual. The Government
' sanctioned the inspection of whole train
loads of cattle by night. Thousands and
thousands of cattle were imported into
I Canada from the infected districts of the
United States in open violation . of these
reculations. He moved in amendment that
the Government was, deserving of censure
for negligence in not taking measures to
convince the Imperial Government that
proper•precautions were taken to inspect
American cattle in transit through Canada,
and thus remove the scheduling.of ,Ce.nadian
cattle. '
Mr. Ives said the hon. gentleman had
not shown that the Imperial authori.
ties were dissatisfied with the transit
regulations adopted by Canada. Never
had the Imperial government written a
letter on the subject complaining of the
regulations, so there was no ground for
the charge of the hon. gentleman. The '
only case of pleuro-pneumonis. ever known '
to have existed in Canada was an animal
imported from Great Britain in 1886, and i
discovered at Levis. Ifsymptoms of that
disease was ever found in Canadian, cattle
after crossing the ocean, there was no trace
of it on leaving Canada. Respecting the
inspection of cattle at the ,border, it was
impossible to tell whether an animal was
affected from an ordinary inspection. An
animal sufferiog from pleuro -pneumonia
showed no outward evidence of it until in
the last stages.
The amendment was defeated- by a vote
of 99 to 59. •
EXCESSIVE FREIGHT RAZES.
. Mr. McDonald (Assinibolanon the motion
to go into supply, asked the goYernment
what action they Proposed to take in regard
to a largelysigned petition helhad presented,
from the community he represented, pro- I
testiog against the exeessive . freights '
Pri
the Canadian 2acific railway and asking for '
aid for the immiedate construction of the ,engine
Hudsion Bay railWay. (Opposition cries of
"Hear, hear.") It ' was imp?ssible for ,
farmers to pay the rates in view of • the
, prevailing low prices for grain: Fte asked
the Government to appoint a commission' to
fully investigate 'the matter.
Sii. 'John Thom eon said the etitions
prepented to the ouse on the su ject by
the people of the North-West were very
numerous, and had been coneidered to the
Minister of Railways and other members of
the GoVernment, and the ,,complaints con-
' tallied therein had been transmitted to the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company. • The
company, had Set out their defence in a
letter dated Juno 14th last, and directed to
the Minister Of Railways. Freight rates
on different sections of , the road in the
NertluWestwere qiioted,, aod varied from 'I'he
PI oenta to 29 cents per hundred/Unlade. is
. .
The "directors , believed, these rates , were
lower than those of any railway in any other
part of the 'world operated under similar'
ctitiditionsond considetiog that four-fifths
of the cars engaged in the grain trooper-
lation had te ,be hauled back emtity,gnd !ij-
also the high epst of fuel, they did not think •ae
the rates coVered more th,an the actual
. •
coat of transportation. They 'Vete Unable
to. tee how the rates ethild be reduced. ,
The company altoo said that ' Considering think
the unklet atid unreasenithiti .olinior in
time quartere &bent the high ratite, they'
would he glad if the GOVernMent Woilld
muiertake au ind d t " ' t4 at' f
the freight .eliarge?aennd eollorel'pr704 eiglear wIlitlt
those f th '' • , a ''• t -'
, 0 0 er Vain -pro getng Coon,rie4.
The Ho W t ' ' t C' It f
use ,en In o meaner ee o
Supply. .
• cer,, rewEr4 .
te . t '
' Mr. Laurier, 'on the item ter the Militia
DepartMent, asked if Col. Walker Peviell
is discharging the duty of Adjutant -General
. . . ,
of Militia.
lVfe. Patterson (Haron)—I have no official
information 'upon the subjeet• •
Mr. Laurier—I thought ehe hon. gentle.
man was head of the department. '
Mr Patterson (Huron) -1, am 'asking for
. ' . - • . . • • .
informatton on the subject, which I will
shortly be able to furnish to the House, .
, ottooeet mtwou.
Sir Richard Osatwrightion the resolution
to vote $11.804. to pay salaries and expenses
IR connection with the corn miegion of en,
quirv into the Lachine canal expeuditure,
asked what- was the intoition of the
Government with respect to the outrageous
freed committed on the people of the
country. Over and above the grossest
extravagance there must have been , fraud
of a criminal character in connection with'
the Curran bridge.
Mr. lieggart said that for his department
he could say that wherever a fraud had
been committed in misapptopriation or
otherwise he would recommend • the
'
prosecution of the guilty parties by the
Department of Justice.
The resolution wat adopted! •
,
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PARENTAL' ATTAORMENT
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hir, Otee'ege titlitiee the OVereltelletttg•
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1S" . Dramatic Incident to Show That
' the Cord or Attaennteut 'Between the
what „eta toe Deo, is Never ss,,,,,
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BAOOKLYN, July 8, --Bev, Dr. Talmage,
Who is now nearin the Anti odes, 'an his
• g ' P
round.the-werld jouraey,' heti selected for
the subject for his sermon through•the press
to -day, " The Ithetie 'in the Palace," the
text being taken from Gen. i5.28, " I will
go and see him before I die." •
Jacob" had long since passed the hundred
Year mile•Stone. In these times peopl
• • ' • 1 h
were distinguished for longevity. m a
Centirriee afterward persons lived to great
age. 'Greene the most celebrated physician
of Ids time, took so little of his own medi-
• •
ne that he lived to one hundred•and forty
m ,
years, A man ot undoubted veracity on
the witness -stand in England swore that he
remember d t f b el al d fif
,, e an even o a un ra an ty
.
years before. Lord • Bacou. speaks of
Countess who had cut three sets of teeth,
and died at one hundred and forty years
'
doeeph Crete, of Pennsylvania, lived one
hundrod and forty 'years, In 1857 a book
. . .
was printed containing the names of thirty
seven persons who lived one hundred and
f. t .
d the names of eleven per-
or y years, an .
ions who lived one hundred and fifty years.
Among the grand old People of whom we
. .
have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the
x u o oys. ey were
te t. B t he had a lot f b Th
jealotis and ambitious and in every
way unprincipled. Joseph, however,
seemed to be an exception: But he had
.
beea gone many years and he obs.b
, t Pr di
ity was that he was dead. As sometimes
now in a house you will find kept at the
. .
table a vacant chair, a plating. knife a fork
'
foe some deceased member of the famil so
. y,
Jacob kept in his heart a place for his be-
1 ed Jose h ' There sits the old man th
ov - I" '
flock of one hundred and forty years in their
flight having alighted long enough to leave
the marks of their claw on forehead, and
cheek and temple. His long beard snows
, .
d e b' ch sa His e
own ov r Is : e . yes are some,
h t dim and he can 'see furt er
wee- , . - h when they
are closed than when th ay are open, for he can
ee c'ear back into the time when beauti-
s'ul, B,acb 1 h• 'f livin and his
e ae , is wi e, was g,
children shook the Oriental abode with.
their merrinient.
g reaming over
The centenarian ia sittin d '
- .
the past, when he hears a wagon rumbling
up to the front door. He gets up and
goes to the door to see who has arrived
d h' 1 b 't f E t
an is ong-a sen sons rom gyP come
• • ‚ ‚
in and announce to him thattJoseph, instead
of heing dead, is living in an Egyptian
Palace, with all the, investiture of Prime
Minister, next to the king in the mightiest
empire of all the world. The news was
too sudden and toe glad for the old man,
and his cheeks whiten, and he has a dazed
I I d 1,' t ff f 11 t f h' '
oo t, an is s a a s ou o is hand
and he o Id have d
w u ropped had not the
sons caught him and led him to a lounge
d t ld t h• f d f
an pu co wa er on is ace, an anne
him a little.
In that half delirium the old man mum-
bles something about his son Joseph. He
says e" You don't mean. Joseph; do yee
""
hh b dd
y ear son, w o as een ea so long.
, •
You don t mean Joseph, do you ?" But
after they had fully resuscitated. him, and
the news was confirmed, the tears begin
win ing way .own crossroads of
their ' d' 0 - the
wrinkles, and the sunken lips of the old
man quiver, and he brings his bent fingers
together as he says : " Joseph is yet alive,
I will ge and see him before I die." .
It did not take the old man a great
vehile to get ready, I wareant you. He put
on 'the best clothes that the shepeeraa
wardrobe could afford. He got into the
wagon, and though the aged are cautious
and like to ride slow, the wagon did not
get along fast enough for this old man
and when the wagon with the old man met
Joseph's chariot coming down to meet him,
mad Joseph got out of the chariot and got
into the wagon and threw his arms around
his . father's neck, it was an antithesis of
• •
royalty -and rustIcity, of simplicity and
pore-, ef
p filial affection and paternal love,
which leaves us so much in doubt, about
whether we had better laugh _,or cry, that
we do both. So Jacob kept the resolution
of the text : " I will go and see him before
ie.
I d' "
What a strong and unfailing thing is
Parental attachment. Was it not almost
thne for Jaoob to forget Joseph ? The hot
suns of many summers had blazed on the
heath ; the river Nile had overflowed and
receded, overflowed and receded again and
again ; the seed had been sown end the
harvest reaped ; stars rose and set ; years
of plenty and ' years of famine had passed
on, hut the love ef Jacob for Joseph in my
text is overwhelmingly dramatic. Oh, that
is a . oord that is net snapped, thought
Pulled on by many decades. Though when
the little child expired the parents may
not have been more than taienty•five years
of age, and now they are seventy.five, yet
the vision of the cradle, and the ehildish
face, andtthe first utterances of the intern-
tile lips are fresh to -day, in spite of the
Passage, of half a century. Joseph was as
fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though
at seventeen years of age the boy had dis-
appeared from the'old homestead. I found
ia our family record, the story of au infant
that had died fifty years before, and I said
to my parents : What is this record,
and` what does it mean I" Their chief
ansWer wait a long, deep sigh. It .was to
them yet a very tender sorrow.' What
doee aa that mean ? Why, , it means our
children deParted are Ours yet, and, that
cord of attachment reaching aeross the
'
yeare will hold tit until it hrings us to;
wither in the palace, as 'Jacob and Joseph
were brought together, Twat is one thing
makee old people die ha it Th '
• - pp , ey
realize it is 'reunion With those from Whom
have long been separated, ' '
every
I am often asked as pastorL;•and. '
. • ' .
peter ii asked the reiettion--" Will my
be ehildren in Heisirezi, and forever
?" Well, there was no doubt a
. . -. ep _ t, , . ,._
re t h ag
a c a a en Jos h from he time Jacob
.
es .. lit an . t 0 time When Jacob, tonna'
1 t hi 4 h —
1 Iiim—,between • tne boy seventeen. yeare of
' . ' .
age and the Man in midt.lifet ' his forehe. adt
developed with the fe th les + eat
roe ,lie, ii it O.,. „. -el
but Jacob was gla to get bee . Jo eph
4 Jr. s
' ' ' ' ' '
anyhow., and it did not make Much differ.
•en e o ,
c t . the old man whether thebey looked
.
older or looked younger, And it Will be
,
enoogh . toy for that parent if • lie oan ge
• hack that eon, that daughter, at the gate
of HeaVen, whether the departed loved.ene,
sball collie a, obernh oe in full grown Angela
hoe& There must be a Change wrought by
that Pelestial 'climate and by those supernal
years, but it will only be from loveliness to
more lOvelinese, and .from, health to More
radiant health. 0 parent, ,as you. think
l . . • . .
0i the dar ing panting, and white An mem-
braneous croup, I Want you to. know it
will , be gloriously bettered in that laud
where there has never been a .death,
and where all the inhabitants will live on in
the great future aft long as God I Joseph
waa Joseph notwithstanding the palace,
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and your child will be yoUr child isotwith.
standing all the rainine splendors of ever,*
e .
lastIng noon. What a thrilling visit was.
e at o t e o shepherd to the Prime
th f h Id •
Minister Joseph I I see the old countryman'
seated in the palace looking around at the
mirrors and the fountains and the carved
Pillars, and lot how he wishes that Rachel,
h• 1
is wi e, was alive And she could have
come there with him to see their son in
his Mat house. " Oh," says the old
man within himself, " 1 do wish Rachel
could be here to see all this I" I visited
a at the farm house of the father of Millard
,
Fillmore when the son was President of the
.
Untted States, and the octogenarian farmer
• entertained me until eleven o'clock at night
a
telling me what great things he saw in his
son's house at Waehingtop, and what
Daniel W8bster said to him, and how
grandly Millard treated his father in the
White ,Ilouse. The old man's face was
•
11 ' d ' h •
i umine wit the story until almost the
midnight. He had just been visiting his
son at the Capitol. And I suppose it _was
something of the same joy that thrilled the
heart of the old shepherd as he stood in
the pelage of the prime minister. It is a
great day with you when your old Parente
come to vi y . r children
'sit on You little '
And around with reat wide -o en eyes
81' d • 1 g P '
won ering low anybody could be so old.
• The parents cannot stay many days for they
are a little restlesa, and especially at night-
fall, because they sleep better in their own
bed ; but while they tarry you somehow
' feel there is a benediction in every room in
the house. They are a little feeble and
,
you make it as easy as you can for them,
and you realize that the will robabl not
e ' • y 13 y
t you very often—perhaps never again
vlsi . •
You go to their room after they have
retired at nieht to see if the lights are'
properly put out, for the old people under.
stand candle and lamp better • than
the modern apparatus for illumination
In the _mottling with real interest
in their health, you. oak them • how
they rested last night. Joseph, in
the historical scene of the text, did not
think any more of his father than you do
of your parents. The probability is, before
they leave your house they half spoil your
children with kindness. Grandfather and
grandmother are.morelenient and indulgent
to your children than they ever were with
yo u. And what wonders ot revelation in
the bombazine pocket of the one we'd the
eili
: leeve of the other ! Blessed is that home
where Christian parents crime to visit !
Wi t
. la ever may have been the style of the
architecture when they came, it is' a palace
before 'they leave. If they visit you fitter
times, the two most memorable visits will
be the -first and the last. Those two yOc-
tures will hang in the hall of your memory
while memorY lasts, and you will remember
just how they looked, and where they sat,
and what they said, and at what figure of
the carpet, and at. what door sill they part-
, ed with you, giving you, the final good-bye.
Do not be embarrassed it your father come
to town and he have the manners of the
d shepherd, and if your mother come to town
and there be in her hat no sign of Costly
' millinery. The wife of the Emperor
Theodosius said a wise thing when she said,
"Husbands, remember what you lately
, were, and remember what you are, and be
• thankful."
By, this time you all notioe what kindly
provision Joseph made for his father Jacob.
Joseph did nOt say, "I can't have the old
man around this place. How clumsy he
would look climbing up these marble stairs,
and walking over these mosaies I Then he
would be putting his hands upon some ot
these frescoes. People would wonder where
that old greenhorn came from. He would
shock all the Egyptian court with his man-
ners at the table. Besides that, he might
get sick on my hands, and he might be
querulous, and he might talk to me as
though I were only a boy, when •I am the
second man in all the realm. Of course, he
must not suffer, andif there is famine in his
; country—and I hear there is—I will send
him some Provisions ; but I can't take a
a man from Pademaram and introduce him
into this polite Egyptian Court. What a
nuisance it is to have poor relations !"
If the father have large Property, and he
be wise enough to keep it in hia own namee
he will be respected by the heirs ; but how
often it is when the son finds his father in
famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine,
the young people makeIt very hard for the
old man. They are ao sur ' d h
prise e eats
with a knife instead of a fork. They are
chagrined at his antediluvian habits Th
. . ey
are provoked because he cannot hear as
w en e as s 1 over
well as he used to, and h h k 't
again, and the son has to repeat it he baWls
in the old n3an's ear : " I ho '
pe you hear
that !" How long he must wear the old
coat or the old hat before ahoy get him
a new one ! How' chagrined they are
at his independence of the English
grammar I How long he hangs „ i
Seventy years and not gone yet. Seventy-
five years and not gone yet I Eighty years
and not gone yet I Will he ever go ? They
think it of no use to have a doctor in his
last sickness, and go up to the drug store
and get a dose of something that makes
him worse, and economize on a coffin, and
beat the undertaker down to the last point,
giving a note for the reduced amount, which
they never pay. I have offi.ciated at obe
sequiee of aged people where the family
have been so inordinately resigned to Pro-
videnee that I felt like taking my text from
Proverbs : " The eye that mocketh at its
father, and refuseth to obey its mother, the
eavens of the valley shall pick it out, and
the young eagles shall eat it." In other
words, such an ingrate Ought to have a, flock
of crews for pallbearers ! r congratulate
yeti if you have the honor of providing. for
aged parents. The blessing of' the Lord
God ef ,Jodeph and Jacob Will be on yam
I rejoice to remember that though my
father lived in a plain hoists the meet of his
days, he died in a mansinn isrovided b" the
iit p.e y o a eon w o a ao ieve A or.- .
fir l 4 6 f h h d h` • d yf
tune, There the octogenarian sat, and the
set -Sante waited On him, and there '' -
were
1 t ' f h d - '
p eit y o Galles an .earriagee to. convey
hitt, and a hewer in Which to ;sit on long
stinenier afternoons, dreamin Oyer th .1" . '7,
and there 'was not ts, oteng ' th eh "6'
h . . .r , in e Ilse
w ere he was not Welcome and there era
0
roneical inatrentente of all sorta te regale
him • and When life had passed the neigh.
' - ' ' ' ' t ' '
•61ittrie, Cataie 01417:6114 ez1), rehee.ed al:. hono: P°14.
ihl n
4-0, a._dcarried him tO. the trillage atkoh.
pelaha an put Monde n Weide the Itaehel
' 4. w
' ' ' . ' ' ' . '
With Whore he, had iivcd More than half ei''
, e n $ ' o s tth the olel
e ne. ry, hare y ur eucce See Vrt , .
people. .The ptobability Is that the prin.
ip es h y taellifie,ted ao ieved , our fertune
Give thenutbeOlerifitian percentage of kind-
1Y cansideration•
And here; I would like to sing the praises
ef the, sieterhood whe remain unmarried
that they•might administer to aged parents, '
The brertat world' calls tbese eelfeeacrigoing
tines peculiar or angular ; hut if yeti had
had aa many annoyanCes as they have had,
. • . .
Xauttppo Would have been an angel corn-
pared to yolt. It baeasier to take. care of
five rollicking, romping ehildren than of
one childish old man. Among the hest
Women are those wile allowed the bloozn of
life to pass aWay while they were coring for
their parents. While other maidens' *ere
sound asleep, they were soaking the old
man's feekor tucking up the covers around
the invalid mother. 'While other ' maidens
'‘ ' . ..
analog
were in tne cotillion, they were d '''
attendance upon iheumatism, and spreading
plasters for the lame back of the septeaa-
roam and heating catnip tea for insomnia. ,
In almost every' circle of our kindred
there has been aome•queen of self-sacrifice,
to whom jeweled haudafter jeweled handwas
offeredbarnarriage,butwhostayed on the old
place because of the sense of filialolaligatien,
until the health was gone and the attra.O.
tiveness of personal presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such a one by a
nickname. God calls her daughter,. and
heaven cells .her saint and I call her
. f '
domestic martyr, A half dozen ordinarY
women have not &simile]) nobility as could
.
be Mond in the smallest joint of the little
finger of her left hand. Although the world
has•stood six thousand years, this is the
rst spot eosis of maidenhood, although in
fi h '
the long line of those 'Who have declined
marriage that •they might be qualified for
some special mission are the names of Anna
Ross, and Margaret Breckinridge, and
Mary Shelton, and Anna Etheridge, and
Georgians. Willets, the angels of tho battle-
fields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain
2 2
and Chancelloraville; and though single life
has been honored by the fact that the three
grandest men of the Bible—John and Paul
and Christ—were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at the
maideu aunt, but God has a throne buenish-
ed for her arrival, and on one side of that
throne in heaven there is a vase containing
e
two jewels, the one biighter than the Kon-
i-noor of London Tower, and the other
1 • d' d •
arger than any remand ever foun in the
•
districts of Golconda—the one jewel by
the lapidary of the palace cut with the
words, "Inasmuch as ye did to father;"
the other jewel by the lapidary of the
Palace cut with the words 'Inasmuch as
ye did it to• mother." "dver the hills to
the poorhonse't ' is 'thee exquisite bailed of
Will Carleton, Who found an old woman
who had been turned off by her p.rosperous
sons; but I thank God I may rind in my text
"Over the hills to the palace."
As if to disgust us with unfilial conduct,
presen s us e story o ica ,
the Bible t th f M' h
who stole the eleven hundred shekels from
his mother, and the story of Absalom, who
tried todethrone his father. But all history'
is beautiful w ith stories of filial fidelity.
Epaminondas, the warrior, found 'his chief
delight in recitine to his parents hisvictories.
There goes eEneas from burning Troy, en
his shoulders An chises, his father. The
Athenians punished with death any unfit.
ial conduct. There goes beautiful Ruth
escorting venerable Naomi across the desert
amid the howling of the wolves and jackals.
J ohn Lawrence, burned at the stake in
Colchester, was cheered in the flames: by
his children, who said: "0, God, strengthen
Thy servant and Thy promise!" And Christ
in the hour of excruciation provided for
His old mother. Jacob kept his resolution,
"I will go.and see him before I die," and. a
little while after we find them walking
the tesselated floor of the palace, Jacob
and Joseph, the prime minister, proud of
the shepherd.
I may say in regard to the most of yon
that your parents have probably visited you
for the last time, or will soon pay you such
a visit, and I have wondered if they will
ever visit y ou in the King's palace. "Oh,"
you say, "I am in the pit of sin I" Joseph
was in the pit. "Oh," yousay, "I am in the
prison of mine iniquity I" Joseph was once
in prison. "Oh " a "I didn't have
, you S y,
a fair chance ; .t was denied maternal
kindness !" Joseph was denied maternal
attendance. "Oh," you say, "I" am far a-
way from the land of my nativity I" Joseph
was far from home. "Oh," you say, "I
have been betrayed and exasperated V' Did
not Joseph's brethren sell him to a passing
Ishmaelitish caravan ? Yet God brought
him to that emblazoned residence ; and' if
you will trust His grace, in Jesus Christ,
you, too, will be empalaced. Oh, what a
day that will be when the 'old folks come
from an adjoining mansion in heaven, and
find you amid the alabaster pillars of the
throne room and with the loving King !
They are coming up the steps now, and the
epauletted guard of the palace rushes in
and ea,ye, "Your father's coming, your
mother s coming!" And when under the
arches of precious stones and. on the pave -
ment of porphyry you greet each other, the
scene will eclipse the meeting on the Goshen
highway, where Josenh and Jacob fell on
each other's neck and wept a good while.
But, oh how changed the old folks will
be ! Their cheeks smoothed into the flesh
of a little child. Their stooped posture
listed into immortal symmetry. Their feet
'
now so feeble, then with the sprightliness
of a bounding roe, as they shall say to you,
"A spirit passed this way from earth and
told us that you were wayward and dissa
pated after we left the world; but you have
repented, our prayer has been answered,
and you are here ; and as we used to visit
you on earth before' we died, now we visit
You in your new home after our ascension."
And father will say, "Mother, don't you
see Josephts yet alive ?" and Mother Will
say, "Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive."
And then they will talk over their earthly
anxieties in regard to you and the midnight
supplications in your behalf, and thay Will
recite to each other the old Scripture pas.
sage with 'which they used to steer their
staggering faith : "I will be a God to thee
and thy seed after thee.", ' Ob, the. palace,
the palace, the palace! ,That is what
Richard Be.xtet called "The Saints' Evee.
lasting Rest." That is what John Bunyan
called the "Celeetiat City." That lel oting's
"Night Thoughts" turned into morning
exaltations. That is Gray'S "Elegy irt a
Churchyard" turned to resurrection spec.'
,
taole. That is the "Cotter's Saturday
Night" exchanged for the Cotter's Sabbath
Morning, That is the Shepherd oi Salts-
hury Plains zutild the floe:Its oft • the hills of
/leaven That is the fam' in • .k I' el '
, • .; . , lee' lue 6, 60R*
ram turruict Inte, tT: rtoh pasture fielue of
Goshen. •That is aclob visiting ' lose h at
P
the Erne Id C • ti
. ra , as e.
- • ' Allia- - -
, „ , ,
B :
I T 11 . AL as
— QN '' '
i 894. '
:a,
, ,
4 4 , ,
MO t Into l'Igtrpa.—/
• :
Timm—B. 0, 4.• .Aggins
peror of Rome, Herod ebb
.. ,.
, ere • le . , .pr,
Judea II d d" el A '
- ‚ . .
.Arehelaust his sent reigns
plAeoe.--13ethiehete eic
‚eayatt Neeareta in Goal,
. et
• tte ween the Lessons .-
t ' '
lows. immediately after th
Men having ' found the •
_ e
whom tuev sought, and i
ee , „, - a e g
"eir g" 444 aomage'' re
, ftom God la . a dream
Herod, They returned,
.•
°ther 'war to their 'ewn 1
' f - of the
in ortnin,g Herod
search in Bethlehem., T
bear of these wise men ix
h ' b ' f vi i
tory, but t eir zee e
remarkable resnits, aa ou
had se
They muat have , , .
they went homeward.
! for St el y —Th
Htots - 4- •
allot passages, as' Matthet
incident. A careful ret
• h'
lesson witll prepare: fer t .
naves weetretutzwato •
,.
a 3. When they,—The
last lesson. Were dew
way homeward, as direct(
Behold.—This doubtless
after the wise men *ere g
--" An angele, Recall t
ministries about Christ's ii
after his birth. Egypt.—
about three htindred milei
p It was a safe place
ma-.
roads led there. Many
Egypt. Thus it was a . a,
place tor the holy family t
out of danger and weri
Herod will seek...—Men's,
are known in heaven, and
own. Wicked men never
nem and the folly of plott
See Psalm 2.
14 When he arose -•-•01
' ' •
By night.—Almost certain
,, • •
of the angers appearing
ti e to be lost. We learn
m
that we should always
. •
Wahl:Mt questioning eve
a , . • '
°
ei d.
x Until the •death —
le. •
before the Passover, in Al
Jesus was only a few rnon•
of the holy family in EgYll
not have lasted more the
R oken of the Lord. by tin
-I)
P rophecy is found in Hos
originally written of Isra
the bondage in Egypt, r
but as a historical fact thi
centuries before. Israel so
1 • 22 23) typified the c
• ' • -
weeds have a fulfillment ir
called out of trouble, out o
promised land and his gre
prophecies of the Scripturc
one fulfillment. ,
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16. Mocked.—Outwitt
Wroth.—Furious in his rs
"Male children." The come
the places around the vitt
old and under.—Herod eu
limit would certainly it
King- Bethlehem was onl
and the number of those' t
of age could not have bee
in his wicked cruelty, no
had now put an end to t
Jews and effectually pot
the rival whose birth '
him.
17. Jeremy.—Joremiah.
(Jen 31:13) was first spoke
carried off by Nebuzaradai
five orsix miles north of Je
buried near Bethlehem, i
looking forth from her gra
her infant children there a
Rachel is spoken of as we
bitterness over the childre
lehem, unaware of the fa,
infant in whom Israel's ho
been saved. The heart (
ways very tender—a hut
the heart of God.
19. When Herod was r
and note. An angelappeaa
carefully heaven watched
Angels watch over every ors
children's friends. Godis a
defender and keeper.
21. He arose. --Joseph's
beautiful. He had a sac
keeping and 'was faithful t
2 h 1 f tl
. 2. Aro e aus.—A.ter :
his kingdom wixs'divided
an d given to his three a
was made king of Judea, ,L
ia Archelaus wade of a a
ar- ' .
1die even surpassed.his fa
He began his reign by a wh
.
of his opponents and eneine
to mitke his own pctwer sec
go tluther.—Knowing the
em warned of
new ruler. B g
to Bethlehem. Galilee. -el
'nee of Paleitine
ern prow .
23. Nazareth.—A villea
north 'of Jerusalem. It is ,
It hes a present popnlation
thousand. It has notar a '
established by the Sultan.
bably intended to•inakeBee,
but in obedience ao the eliv
returned to Nazareth, his
abode. Here our Saviour i
time until he began his pli
the age of thirty years,. T
fulfilled—God's purposes i
pass by God's 'providen,ees.
Prophets.—No one prophet
so many words, but the ev
the subetance of a nuniber
respecting the lotelineee 0
Nazarene.—One bumble,
cooveys the Sense of the
Christ as lowly, and deepise
Psalm -22 :, er. , , The jews tl
thing could ceme gut of Na
46., A Nazarene was.% co
conteinpta To say that Je
rene Was•eqUivalent to say
as lowly in condition'ita th
predicted he Would be, P.
Men are often henored of 'E
'
,
200, MILES AN HOUR.
'
'
The Calculation or Enthusiastic 'Electric
Engineers Eenswered.
. .
It is evident that electrical science is yet
in its infancy, and marvellous will be the.
revelations that will disclose themselvei by
the close of the t B t h 1
cen ury. u w en e ed.
. .
tricity has to act in conjunction wrth mech.
anism, in other words, when electricity is
the motor and mechanism of the vehicle, the
. action resulting must fall within the pur-
d h ' 1
i view of mechanical law, , an mec anica
action has nob that lightning -like character
[that we associate with electricity. • In dis-
cussing forthcoming electrical railroads,
j some of the projectors, with more enthus-
j mem than mechanical knowledge, allow,
' themselves to be sanguine that a speed of
trains ()an be obtained of 200 miles an hour!
•
This would be a speed of a little more than
293 fest per second, and a four -inch trolley
y sys em were o e use ,
wheel, if the trolle t t b d
•
would be required, to• torn at, th,erate of 293
‚revolutiOnsPer tecond'• It Will at once be
seen that no such velocity eould be applit
e
' cable on authing more than an ahnost Ma .
i - '
preciable curve, but, of course, a train
could be " slowed " in rounding these:
I But there is not in the present time any
known principle of construction for wheel
rotation; involving the necessary weight,
in which the centrifugal tendency o f suoh
would be compatible with safety. of
I course, it is. well understood that, *tier,
j e reversi e ea ure o pis on. an cran
'th '1)1 f t f ' t d k
action can be dispensed with, higher
' mechanical motion can be secured, and it
is true that electrical .action far exceeds
steam action in quickness, but a law goy-
' erns mechanical rotation, and the safe
limit is passed a considerable time prior to
obtaining a speed of 290 feet per second.
Even with the yresent speed of railway
trains hot boxes are a frequent and an an-
n ,
noying as well as dangerous feature, a d
as stated, unless some radical change for
the better in the rotary principle is dis-
covered, it will be found that the maximum
of s d • b h d ' f
pee nes. een reac e in some o our
fastest steam express trains. At all events,
it might be well tor a time to aim at a speed
of 125 miles per hour, as, more than likely
'
the practical meceanical limit will be found
not far beyond the 100mile gauge.
I At a speed of 200 miles. per houracarmd
wheel having a diameter of 30 inehes would
per secon —a
have to make 39 revolutions d '
I speed of rotation that may be set down as
entirely beyond the practical limit. It
; will be understood at once that these high
train velocities demand absolute perfection
of roadway, no compound curves, no depres-
' mon or elevations, save the most gradual,
involving miles of distance ; for this pro-
' posed speed is to excel anything in the
material line, safe such bodies as move as
projectiles by explosive propulsion. There
are no winged creatures whose movement
reaches the 200.mile-an•hour limit, and the
severest hurricane 'does not attain a 100-
mile•an-hour movement. While the pro-
posed speed is attainable theoretically,
practically it is outside of physics, '
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KILLED ON THE TRACK.
__a
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An Oie Man Horribly mangled—Dragged
10e Yards.
A. Toronto despatch *says :—A horrible
accident causing the death of an old and
'
crippled man, ‚occurred at the foot of Yonge
street on Thursday night. G.T.R. yard
engine No. 27, in charge of Engineer John
y freight cars
R s s h ling ab t t t- '
as- ' wa' au u au well t
eastward, when a man suddenly stepped on
the 'track immediately in front 'of the en-
gine, The eugineer and spectators yelled
to warn him, and Jas. Henderson, night
watchman in the G. T.R. freight sheds, at-
tempted to pull him off the track, but the
struck him and ran over him, Hie
foot became caught in the ash box and he
was carried between the bottom of, the Are
box and the roadbed to the foot of Scott
street, a distance of over 100 yards, before
the train could be stopped. The patrol
waggon was summoned, end after fif-
teen minutes' 'work 'the horribly mangled
body was got clear of the engine and taken
to the morgue. , Nearly every bone in the
body *as broken, and ode side was badly
burnt. The man must have been killed
almost instantly, He was about 55 years
of age, with a full beard and a club foot,
but his identity is uncertain.. It is said
that his name' was Samuel Archer, but a
letter which Was found in his pocket, dated
il Oehester,'Decem her 14, 1893, was 'signed,
((Your affectionate 'nether, Mary BrOwn."
only Samuel Areherliving in thie city
en.emplo • f tl*' D • B ' i C '
yes .o „e aviee , sew ng o.,
and'he Was ' seen ' at ' his. house, , 7 Suniaah
Street. .
'
• J 'e.
., ,, Call t. ue 'ROI
ltdoktkeeeer--•" S'X' itio
' ' ' ' 1 ''°
letters haVo beewreturee
Lettee.offieti, Lula, postage
ea teeth e - -
-sto s---, '4 ',. -
,ailor.--, /t can't be bel
" 11 , , - . o .
yoor, envelopes, e 1st,
and addrets they Would b.
' ' ' '
out "Pence.°
' " Ves, but then the, pet
theta vio . '
uldn t Open that",
--
The, Bombay officer of health, protest. that
' kind 'the 'de:Whalen' of the :or • '
. . . '' ocodiles.
saye they are thrtbeet and only, spavens • they
gers poseibw• et the- water, reserVeirs. in
which they dWelL • . • •
- - - . '
Lovers love to tell each ether what they ohildren
of each, other, So do married pee. children
plea, sonsetiesesand they do it, too.. g
' ' .
' clabdrivers and eninibus conductors last
year toOk te Scotland yard 26780 •artielee
iotind by thern iti. their V ' ' '
ehteles. •
'att.
1);
e Greet,' AirAg
11* 00 1, and
4 ha his stes.4.,',
"Idea, eruaalent
This lessen
last. The Wise
nfant Ici.hgs for
a•rig preaeu tea
ceived a Warning
nooututtroy,re:itirthnoutot
therefore, hy an -
114i7 iceetah2eolfaett!lweter
tfh• erseos doGnu set1 le el ll emh not sse tas
ions thoughts as .
re are no par -
alone gives this
iew of the lailt
8,
THSTISS:300.
wise men„ Se
rta —On their
d by the angel -
as immediately
ne, The angel.
e different angel`
fancy before and
This country was
away. See the
of refuge. Good
Jews lived in
fe and pleasant
o go. They were
among friends.
purposes of eviI
God watches his
learn the useless.
ng against God.
eying prouiptly.
ly the same night
. There was no
from Bible saints
obey instantly,.
ry command of
erod died juen
ril, B. C. 4, when
he old. The stay
t, therefore, may
a a few weeks.'
prophet. —This
a ii It was
el's exodus from
ot as a prophecy.
t occurred many
a a son (Exodus
ivine Son. The
Christ, who was
f Egypt, to his
t work. Many
s have more than.
ed,made a fool of
ge.
ts.--The borders,.
ge. Two years
pposed that this,
elude the infant'.
y a small village,
nder two years
great. Herod,
oubt felt that he
he hopes of the
ad so troubled
out of the way
n nTfhtihsepereoppthievceys
when at Ramah,
rusalem. Raeb.el
s represented as
ye and bewailing
lain. Now again,
eping with like
Blain at Petti-
t that the onal
pea gathered had!
f a mother is el-
an revealing of i
ead.—See v. 15
ed.—Notice hovr
over this child.
die. They are the
Ise the children's
obedience is very
ed trust in his
it.
e death of Herod
into three parts
ons. .A.rohelaus
amen, and Sam-
icked character.
thee in cruelty.
olesale slaughter
s, thinking thug
ure. Afraid to
character of the
God.—Not to go
he most north.
e sixty•six mites
beautiful spot.j
of three or four
elegraph office
joseph had pro.
ilehenthis home,
Me command her
former place of
pent most of hid
tic ministry at
hat it 'Plebe be
re brought to
Spoken by the
speaks, thue
ngeliat sums up
of predictions
the Messia.h.
despise d. Title
prophecies oft
d. Tea, 53 : 2,3 ;
ought no good
zeroth. John 1
Inman term of
sus watt it IXO.Ett*
ng that he was
prophets had
aces despised of
cid.
ed.
0 of otia" dunning
Otte the Dead
hit'a ,et ‚ be paid
• ofIt'
hied your name
returned with.
lifh
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