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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-8-2, Page 6TIMBS II MINION• ITOBSEt Tfl PARLIAIIIENT ew FOURTH 8EASSION AT OTTANITA. ISION OE VOTERS' LISTS, Mr- Laurier Mid he noticed in the Mont. GaZette, 'Which lo believed wee a GOY^ eminent orgen, that the electoral. lists for the Dorninion were now undergoiug revieion arid that those who had not registered their POMO shoUld do so as early es possible, in Order to get on the lista before; they were Olooled, lie understood from the Premier, In a etatement made a few weeka ago, that •instructions had been given to the revising officers not to proceed with the revision in view of contemplated aniendmente, Sir John Thompsen said the paragraph could have no reference to the Dominion, Hats. Inetruotions had beeo given net to proceed with the reeision of the lists, The lists would not be revised until Parliament had passed on the Franchise bill. THIRD READINGS. The following billa were read a third time Respecting the Montreal Park and Island Railway Company. " Respecting the Atlantic and Lake Supe- rior Railway Company. sessoesner suemor. The House reeumed in committee on the bill further to amend the Act respecting ocean steamship subsidies, and reported the bill without amendment. RAILWAY DRAWBACIC Mr. Haggart moved the Etouse again into committee to consider the resolution re- specting the allowance of drawbaolc on certain articles manufactured ix Canada for use in the coustruction of the Canadian Pacifie railway. Mr. McCarthy said the proposal now made was to allow the railway 30 per cent drawback on steel used in the construction of original permanent bridges. This would represent an enormous sum more than $200,000. He was not prepared to alter the contract in any respect. He declared this was notthe original meaning of the con- tract between the Government and the railway, and he did not know why they ahould be called upon to interpret it in a mese it did not convey. The company had been able to float their securities, conetruot the road, and. pay dividends on no such enderstanding as was now proposed. He blaimecl. that the road was not entitled o the drawback, and that the proposition was wholly unjustifiable. Sir John Thompson contended that the resolution only gave effect to the agreement Which was known to exist. The point that be had found necessary to consider was the weaning of the words " original construc- tion." The bridges lied first been built of wood, but he contended this was a tem. porary construction, and that when the road was declared completed it was under- stood to mean veith the temporary struc- tures yet to be changed to eteel structures. Thd resolution ware adopted. o. P. B. LAND SUBSIDY. Mr. Daly moved the second reading of a bill respecting the land subsidy to the Canadian Pacific railway. The object wee to permit the Government to grant land zubsidies in tracts en bloc and not in alter- nate lots, as at piesent, in order that the railway mey get the full benefit of the irrigation which is necessary. Under the present arrangement the company would derive no benefit in alternate seetions. This bill was to apply only on that por- tion of the road between Medicine Hat on the east and Crowfoot Crossing on the west. Mr. Mills (Bothwell) said that the bill dld not define the territory within which it was to apply, and that it might proper- ly be held to apply to any part of tho road. Mr. Daly said he would have the clause amended to this effect. In answer to a question, be said there were yet over two million acres to be granted to the rail- way. The bill was read a second time, and re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole. QUEBEC WEST. Mr, Speaker read the warrant for the issue of a writ for the election in Quebec West. RAILWAY TICKETS. Mr. Haggart introduced a bill to amend the Actnespecting the sale of railway pass- enger tickets, which enacts that travellers who have purchased return tickets and who do not wish to return must sign a document affirming that they were purchas- ers of the ticket before they can obtain a rebate. The bill was read a first time. GOVERNMENT MEASURES. Sir John Thompson, in answer to Mr. Laurier aaid a resolution would be intro- duced this session on the subject of bounty for steel and iron, which was an extension of the duty on pig iron and puddled bar, as announced by the Finance Minister some time ago. The Government did not intend to ask. the House to preceeci with the Insolvency bill this session, but the time bestowed on it by this session would be so much toward its final settlement next session. MAIL SUBSIDIES. Sir Adolphe Caron, in answer to Mr. Beausoleil, said the amounts paid &wino the years 1891-02-93 for carrying the mails between Canada and Great Britain has been respectively $131,327,871,793,and $126,533. The money was paid to Messrs. H. & A. Allan of Montreal. It was not the inten- tam of the Government to pay a subsidy to the proposed feet line for carrying the mails over and above the annual subsidy of $750,- 000. The subsidies now paid to other steamers for mail service would be discon- einniecl after the establishment of the fast lirie. The Italie between Canada and Great Britain would not be carried exclusively by the fast line, because letters were often • marked, via a certain line, and wholesale houses sent duplicate orderby different &Lee. Woe URANCV1 ACT, • Sir John Thompson moved the consider. talon of the bill to amend the Insurance • Act. Mr, McCarthy said, the hill was a direct blow at the Canada Life Ineurance Com. pany, as it propoeed to restrict theneettrie ties of that company. Proceeding, he • sought at length to establish the stability of the weenrition Mr. Wood (Westmoreland) defended the prieciple of the bill. The bill wee read it thin.' time. RAtI.WAY SUBSIDIES. Mr. Daly moved the llotisra into care. Mittee to consider the rewolutioas providing for tho eventing of sabeidies in land to der rain ra way eerie nervit'gr $%r Iticleard Cart,"Nrivii r, Rotel Protested egelost the polioy of grantleg sii.bsidieri to Wildecot eclogues while vent traets of Wan - 47 he the IloethdtVetet Were eeill eeneee ed. The resolatiens were adopted. nelens ennleonnnlide- pluo Imo oa the fellowing reeelatioue were read a, Rot time:— Respecting drawbaerk op articles used in the construction of the Caoadiale Pacifie railway, Respeoting the deduetiou of the indein- nity of absent membere of Perliammat aod Senators. Respecting the Act respeating Dominion notes. "ruircP AKennzeS. The following bills were read a third time Respecting Ocean Steamship Compan- ies. Respecting Dominion Lands. NORTH•WEST TERRITORIES, Sir John Thempson moved the third reading of the bill to amend the Acts re- speotino the North-West Territories. The motion was oarried, and the bill read a third time. =tenon oommisseox. Mr. Foster, in answer to Mr. Bernier, said the translation of the report of the Commission on the Liquor Traffic had been suspended because the Parliamentary vote had run out. RAILWAY SUBSIDIES. Mr. Boggart moved the House into Com- mittee on the railway subsidy resolutions. Mr. Charlton, on the resolution to pay $108,000 to the St. Catharines and Niagara Central Railway Company, protested against the principle of subsidizing roads that were not needed when the country's finances were in so unsatisfactory a condi- tion. Mr. McCarthy said it was monstrous that the road should be subsidized, because not only would the Grand Trunk Railway be injured, but an extra burden was put upon the people. (Hear, hear.) He knew that the Grand Trunk were riot paying interest on their first preference bands. If the country could not support one road, it certainly could not support two. (Hear, hear.) The resolutions were adopted, 0. P. R. LAND SUBSIDY. The bill respecting the land eubsidy to the Canadian Pacific, Railway Company was read a third time. CITRRAN BRIDGE. Sir Richard Cartwright, in calling attention to the Curran bridge, reviewed the evidenae taken before tna Public Accounts Comtnittee, and asked what the House thought private employers would do to agents .who conducted such a work. The work was characterized as a gross fraud and extrovagance. He moved an amendment to the motion, "That it ap- pears from the commissioners' report, and from the evidence taken before the Public Accounts Committee with reference an the Wellington and Grand Trunk bridges, (1) That the said bridges were constructed during the first fou e months of the year 1893 by the Department of Railways and Canals; (2) that the department decided to have the work done on substruotures by day labor under a contract entered into by the departraent to carry out the work as laid out by the department and under departmental superintendence and direc- tion; (3) that the original estimate of the department of the cost was $122,000 for the substructure; that the com- missioners' report that any reliable con- tractor Would have excuted the same amount of work in the same time for 8160,- 000, whereas the amount charged to the department was $430,325, whereof $394,000 has been paid; (4) that the supply of timber end lumber certified to by the officers in charge of the work of the de- partment was over 1,000,000 feet board measurewnore then could have been used ; (5) that the cost of stone -cutting on the Wellington street bridge by piecework would have been $3,000, whereas the amount charged to the Government is $16,715, and the cost of stone -cutting on the Grand Trunk bridge was still more ex- cessive ; (6) that the prices paid by the de- partment to the contractor for labor were greatly beyond the current prices in some intances being as high as $12 for work for which the contractors only paid $4.50 and $9.20for other work for which the contract= ors only paid $3.75 ; (7) thatin many other respects the construction of the bridges was conducted in a wasteful and improper manner, and that in the opinion of this House the Department of Railways and Canals is deserving of tbe severest ceneure for inefficiency, neglect of duty, extravagance, and gross misma.nagement in connection with the said work. 4 Mr. Hreggart, in reply, reviewed the work from the beginning, and said the whole affair seemed to be one of fraud and collusion, and due largely to the ignorance and incapacity of Superintending Engineer Parent. He thought the Governmen t• time- keepers had connived with the contractors for the purpose of defrauding the Govern- ment. A large amount of the total ex penditnre of $394,000 consisted of money frairlulently obtained from the Government by parties e mployed in the construction of the work. He thought now that $253,000 ought to have fully completed and finished the work, and intended to bring the whole matter before his colleagues when they had an opportunity to consider it, for the purpose of punishing the perpetra- tors of these frauds. The amendment was defeated by 74 to 36. NOP.TH•WEST SCHOOLS. Mr, Beausoleil—" Has the Government taken into consideration the petition of his eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Que- bec, the Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops and prelates of the Dominion of Can- ada, presented, to His Excellency the Govern- or-General in council, the honorable, the Senate and the House cd Commons, praying for the intervention of the Federal Goven. ment on behalf of the Roman Catholic schools in the province of Manitoba and the North-Wese territories, and, if so, has it been decided to give effect to the said petition and grant the prayer thereof that Is to say : "1. To disallow the Manitoba, Act, 57 Vic,, chap. 23 (1894) intituled An Act to amend the Pablo School Ant; "2. To issue etic'n directions and adopt sach measures as His E >molten a3r the Govern- or-General in Council shall deem best cal. ciliated to %abed relief under the grievances sefferecl by the Roman Cetholics of the provinte of idenitobro in consequence of the eic8h4o0o;1 laws /seem' in their in'evieee iO 3, To communicate tvith the Lieutexa- ent-Governor of the Noreh-Weet territories to the end thee the ordinances may be so morlia<.(1 as to rernove the grievancee corn. plained o E by the Citholice of the North, seen and which are the result of ardtuance No. 23, sanctioned at Reginn on the 31st December, 1892 ?" Sir John Thomson replied that the Go- etnrfletit had taketi into consideration the petitien rafered to on this question. I/e was not in a poaition to azatoutico tO the Inouto the deckle:1 of the Goernnitnt, bowies° the advice: of the Gonerement had. not yet been tendered to His goalie:11.0y. inoonneineertion had benne had with the Lieuteetant-Governor of the North -week terri- tories on the allbject, as to the Modification of the orditonces, and the TeineteneuteGoes toner had been 'loaned of the petition of the Whop. IAA= stinsir,n$$ TO AAILWA're, The a0000 Went into committee on Han. Mr. Daly's bill to authorize the grauting of eidesidies of "mid to certiaio raliwitY cenln penties. The bill, was repeated and read a third time, Tern ankmAKE,notiot ZsMAZES, ' The Hone then concurred in the slap- plerrientery estimates. tinewootnes no TUE 0, P. 114 Hon. Mr, ',Taggart moved the secand reading of his bill to provide for the allow- ance of dravrbeeke on certain articles mtenu- factured in Canada for use be the construc- tion of the C. P, R. The bill was then read a second. time, Lam) annsIDY MILL. The bill te authorize the granting of eubsidiee in land to certain railway Qom - patties was read a third time, to. le et. DRAwn..401c. The bill to amend the Act to provide for the allowance of drawbacks on certain articles manufactured, in Canada for use in the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, was read a third time. PIG IRON BOUNTY. Mr, Foster moved the House into committee to consider the resolutions re. specting the payment of a bounty on all pig iron made in Canada from Canadian ore - Mr. Mulock said that virtually paddled bar had a botuate, of $4a ton, $2 on pig iron and $2 on puddled bar. Mn Foster.—Yee, it is the same mater- iel, The Customs duty on puddled bar, however, had been reduced from $9 to $5 a ton. The resolutions were adopted. ELECTION'S ACT. "The rAidoation of the treaty of cone ;Anne With Froinee will lend, I hope, to a large increioe itt. DPI' enports and an extols Oen of friendly reletiops with tnat country. "I trust that the arduous, work vvhiole loot engaged you in readeusting the duties cif Castello Will toemoneplish the desired reselt of adapting the tariff to the present con - 01 the various cleeees of our popination. "The stenutee of the session will show that the laws affecting looney neblio intonate have been revised and greatly improved by your efforts, and 1 °lemon that you have likewise Made generoes provieion for public improvements whichare deigned to inerease the fin:Meier* for travel and transportation throughout the country. "Gentlemen of the Houee of Commons; "I thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the services of the current year. "Honorable Gentleman, of the Senate: "Gentlemen of the House of Commons : "In relieving you from your present de - ties, I pray that your labors may be fruit- ful of benefit to the country, and that on reburning to your homes you will find that, a generous harvest is about to reward the toil of our farmers, and that the blessing of Providence has been likewiee bestowed abendantly on all the other interests of the people whom you represent." The Governor-General then left the Sen. ate chamber, and, re-entering his carriage, drove back to Rideau hall, with hie escort of Dragoons. TIIE 81111ilAY SCIIOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 5, 1894. The Baptism or Jesus.--1Hark.1 : 1-11. D. 27, early in January. Ti- berius Cmsar, Emperor of Rome ; Pontius Sir John Thompaon, in moving the House Pilate, Governor of Judea ; Herod Antipas, into committee on a bill further to amend Governor of Galilee. Jails was now about the Dominion Election Act. The Act said thirty years of age. See Luke 3: 23. Place. —The fords of Bethabara(Bethany), with respect to counties in which delays on the bill was intended to make provisions the Jordan, five miles northeatit of were provided for, and included the new Jericho. electoral districts of Nipissing, Algoma, The beginnings of the four Gospels.— Cariboo, and Gaspe. The bill also provided Matthew begins with the genealogy, so as for the use of an improved form of ballot to connect Jesus with the Messianic pro. paper. The form was patented, but could misee froin Abraham down. Mark breaks become the property of the Governcnent for at once into the story of the public: life of the sum of $2,500, it found desirable. ee Christ, saying nothing of his birth or of the practically rendered it impossible that bal„ thirty silent years. Luke tells the story lots could be spoiled under the system. The of the infancy and ohildhood, beginning Government thought it would be advisable with the annunciations. John starts back to adopt the system throughout Canada. It in the eternities,telling us of Jesus before had been tried in Ottawa in Parliamentary the incarnation,then identifying this divine and ly satisfactory. Word with him who became flesh and dwelt municipal elections and found extreme. among us. Mr. Belley suggested that the counties of Between the Lessons,—In the five preced- Chicoutimi and Saguenay be added to those ing lessons we have gone over all that is in which delays are provided for.. • recorded concerning the infancy and child. The bill was amended accordingly. hood of Jesus. Jesus lived in Nazareth till The committee reported the bill, which he way thirty years of age. His home -life was read a third time. INSURANCE ACT. was humble and simple. He attended the village school. There was nothing to draw Sir John Thompson moved that the attention to him as &precocious or remark - House do not insist in concurring in the able child. Only in his sinlessness and in amendment to the Insurance Act restricting the absence of the faults of childhood did the securities of companies established .he differ from other children, and in these before Confederation, and which was dis- regards his childhood was so beautifut as agreed to by the Senate. not to make him seem remarkable. At The motion was carried. • .- fee: twelve he began to learn his trade and THIRD usAraxas. • wrought as a carpenter until he was thirty. T:_hefollowing bills were read a third We may be sure he was a good carpenter. time Hints for Studyiug this Lesson.—Refresh To consolidate and .amend the Acts re. your mind on all the five past lessons. Get specting the duties of Customs. so familiar with the facts of the infancy and To consolidate and amend the Acts re- childhood of Jesus that you can give them specting land in the Territories. all in order. Read parallel accounts in To authorize the granting of subsidies in Matt. 3: 1-17 ; Luke 3: 1-23. aid of the constriction of the lines of rail. way therein mentioned. .HELPS IN LEARNING THIS LESSON. The Supply bill. 1.The beginning of the Gospel. —See note To provide for the payrnent of bounties on on "Beginnings of the four Gospels." irroe. , nandsteel manufactured from Canadian Mark's Gospel breaks suddenly into the o isr,EaronAm PnAnomsE. life of Christ at the beginning of his work and moves swiftly through the story in six. Sir John Thompson moved the second teen chapters. One of its key words is reading of a bill respecting the electoral "straitway" or "immediately." The Son franchise. • He hoped to present a bill of God. _.Mark tells us plainly and at once again next year containing all the funda. who Jesus is—the annointed Son of God. mental provisions dropped from the present 2. Written in the prophets.—See Ise. 40: •bill. In the meantime the provision which 3 ; Mal. 3: 1. My messenger.—John the he asked the house to adopt was an exten- Baptist. For the story of John see "Bible eion of tinae for commencing and finishing Dictionary." He was six months older the lists. The first and second sections than Jesus, and had been preaching about would bring into force the Redistribution that long beforo Jesus came to be baptized. Ace for the purpose of the revision. The third section provided for the delays and for the appointment of revising officers in the districts which have been altered by the redistribution. , Mr. Laurier said he noticed that the bill proposed that the revision should commence on August 1st He would suggest that Shat date be changed to the Ise of Septem; ber. . The bill was amended to provide for this change, for the completion of the prelimin• gins with his baptizing. In the wilder- ary revision on October Ise, and for the ness.—The wilderness of Judea. Mate. 3 : San) completion on February 28th, 1895, 1, It was a wild, thinly settled region in instead. of December 31st, 1594, and read a, the south of the Jordan valley. The bap. third time. nem of repentance. —Those Peptized pro- . THE PROROGATION. fessed repentance and pledged themselves Prompt on time on Monday the Governor- to pub away their sins. Remission.—For- General drove up Parliament hill in a four- giveness. See Luke 3 : 7-18. in -hand, with postilions and footmen in 5. All the latd of Judea, —All the peo- lieery, attended by a plume -tossing, sabre- ple. Evidently John's preaching made a clanking escort of the Dragoon Guards. great impression. Were all baptized. — The salute was fired by a detachment of the Crowd after crowd went oat to hear John Ottawa Field Battery at Nepean Pointand preach and were impressed and accepted lewd Aberdeen wee receiveu in front of the baptism. Confessing their sins.—Promising Tower entrance by a guard of honor from to repent. the Governel-Generans Foot Guards, the 6. John was clothed with camel's hair. — red coated bandemen of the regiment play- A garment made of the coarse hair of the ing, "God Save the Queen." camel. Locusts. —The Jewish law permit - The Governor-General, who was attended ted locusts to be eaten. Lev. 11 : 21. The by his seeretary, Mr. Gordon of Ellon, and poor still eat them. They are usually salted two of his aides-de-camp, Capt. Kindersley and dried and are cooked in various ways and Lieut. Um -plied:, all in uniform, pounded or fried in butter. Wild honey.— went to the Senate chamber, and took his Found in hollow trees or rocks. 1 Sam. 14 : place upon the vice -regal throne.surrounded 25 , Deut. 32 . 18. by the members of hie staff and Sir John 7. There cometh one mightier than I.— Thompson ann Mr. Mackenzie Bowell in Referring to Jesus'who was about to ap. Windsor uniform. Major-General Herbert pear. To loosen the sandals and carry and his aide, Capt. Streatfeild, were also them was the duty of the hamblest servant. present in uniform. To wash the feet was like lowly service. The Governor-General gave the royal John 13: 4, 5. assent to the hundred and thirty-six bills 8. With water.—Only an external wash - passed by Parliament during the seesion. ing. With the Holy Ghost. —Who had SPEECH PROM THE THROI4a power to renew and. cleanse t e heart. We The Governor-General then ,dismissed must always keep in mind this relation of Parliament with the following speech the outWard symbol to the inward work of frsm the throne in English and in grace. Pr'n9. In those days.--Durieg the time that .e‘weh: eee7;aose Gentlemen of the Senate : John was preaching and baptieing. • That "Gentlemen of the House of Commons : (Teens awn° from Nenareth.—Where up to "ln bringing to a conclusion this lebori- this time he had lived. It would be inter - oto Session of Parliament, I have to eseing to know more about his,manner of thank you for the nesiduity and zeal with of life in that Nazareth home. No donlet it which yots have atteeded to the various was beautiful, He was a cerpetiter. He matters whieh gave been brought before Wen faithful and diligent in all duties. He was withoat sin, y,et there was nothing in "1 eongratnlate you twin the no able hich that drew attention to him ae divene. facie that the levitation which my Gotern• He wrought no miracles. There ate epoch- ment extended. VS the Governments of the ryphal stories about him dtirieg those days other colonies to send representatives! 01 which tell of wonderful thing that he did, Canada to confer on nottere effectieg their but thew) stories are ally. fanciful. And mutual interests was SO promptly aceepted ;1 WaS baptized,—Of course, Jests had no and time her Majesty's Government also 1 sine to eonfev. Why, then, was he baptized? enhanced the dignity' and literalness of John himself raised this questietwand the the confereuce by Entitling a representative answer was, "Thus it beoometh us to fulfil tOankt ;it ite deliberetioen Teri -N,”.41,,,rt-,,,01vghteoneness. He accepted every or- ly hoped that the insults of the oe gal ttee,eeesn ereelegniernext were Decoked to encept, will be fund beneficial to the tellt3011 ee ,As hie eoneeeratiori te to the Empire generally, , Moro lelection TOitotilo, Jnly 80. , have been filed ngabiet Mane servative member for North len arde- Liberal ineniber for Easte boroiigh tl Gernian, 'Liberal Menlo\ ' •L Welland, Intile far ten ifrotests PI° beeti registered, eix egeindt Itefornie • 1.3 three againet Oonservatites, and Oln, 1444'6(166i or Wiss 3. The voice of one crying. —Eastern conquerors sent messengers before them to announce their approach and to call the people to prepare for their coming. So John cried before Christ to make a way for him. • Make bis paths straight. —John called the people to put away their sins and prepare hearts into which Jesus could come. 4. John did baptize.—Mark omits all the story of John's birth and training and be. leaa rs. ed IS LIFE WORTH L1VINif ? LET IT NOT DE A LIFE OF MERE MONEY MAXING, Waintage's Answer 0 the Question. "lis Life Worth Living ?"—Tatunbie Lessens Drawls trout the Text, " Whererore With aLtvftsg luau vompum?.• BROORLYN, Jbely 22,—Rena Dr. T4Irdnfle/ who is now towing in the Anatralian eities, has chosen as the subject for to -day's sermon through the press: "Worth Living." tke twee being taken from Lamen, tations 3; 39. " Wherefore doth a living man complain?" we leave to the evolutionists to glIeSS where we came from and to the theologians to propheey where we are going to, we still have left for consideration the im- portant fact that we are here. There may be some doubt about where the river rises and some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt about the fact that we are sailing on it. So I am not surprised that everybody asks the question, "Is life worth living e" Solomon in his unhappy moments says it isnot, "Vanity,' " Vexetion of spirit," "No good," are his estimate. The faot is that Solomon was at one time a polygon mid, and that soured his disposition. One wife makes a man happy more than Zane makes him wretched. But Solomon was converted from polygamy to monogamy, and the last words he ever wrote, as far as we can read them, were the words "Moun. tains of spices." But Jeremiah says in my text life is worth living. In e. book suppos- ed to be doleful, and lugubrious, and sepulchral, and entitled "Lamentations." he plainly intimatee that the blessing of merely living is so great and grand a bless- ing that though a man have piled on him all misfortunes and disasters he has no right to complain. The author of my text cries Out in startling intonation to all lands and to all centuries, "Wherefore doth e living man complain ?" A diversity bf opinion in our time as well as in olden time. Here is a young man of, light hair, and blue eyes, and sound digestion, and generous salary, and happily affianced, and on the way to become a partner in a commercial firm of which he is an impor- tant clerk. Ask him whether life is worth living. He will laugh in your face and say, " Yes, yes, yes ?" Here is a man who has come to the forties. He is at the tip- top of the hill of life. Every step hero been a stumble and a bruise. The people he trusted have turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made he has been cheated out of. His nerves are out of tune. He has poor appetite, and all the food he does Bet does not assimilate. Forty miles climbing up the hill of life have been to him like climbing the Matterhorn, and there are forty miles yet to go down, and descent is always more dangerous than as- cent. Ask him whether life is worth lin. ing, and he will drawl out in shivering and lugubrious and appalling negative, "No, noHow ars H, Ire we to decide this matter right- eously and intelligently? You will find the same man vacillating, oscillating in his opinion from dejection to exuberance, and if he 'be very mercurial in his tempera. ment it will depend very much upon which way the wind blows. If the wind blow from the north-west and you mar him, he will say, "Yes ;" and if it blow from the north-east and you ask him, he will say, "No." How are we then to get the ques- tion righteously answered? Suppose we call all nations together in a great conven- tion on Eastern or Western hemisphere, and let all those who are in the affirma- tive say "Aye" and all those who are in the negative cay "No." While there would be hundreds of thousands who would. answer in the affirmative, there would be more millions wno would an- swer in the negative, and because of the greater nernber who have sorrow and mis- fortune and trouble the" No's" would have it. The answer I shall give will be differ- ent from either. and yet it will commend iteelf to all who hear me tnis clay as the right answer. If you ask me "Is life worth living ?' I answer, it alI depends upon the kind of life you live. In the first place, I remark, that a life of mere money making is always a failure, because you will never get as much as you want. The poorest people in this country are the richest, and next to them those who are half as rich. There is not a scibsors-grinder on the streets of New Zork or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money as these men who have piled tip fortunes year after year in storehouses, in government securitiee, in te nemen t houses, in whole city blocks. You ought to see them jump when they hear the fire -bell ring. You ought to see them in their ex- citement when some bank explodes. 'You ought, to see their agitation when there is proposed a reformation in the tariff. Their nerves tremble like harp -strings, but no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall Street in the morning with a concernment that threatens paraly. Bis or apoplexy, or, more probably, they have & telegraph or a telephope in 'their own houee, so they catch every breath of change in the money market. . The disease of aecumulation has eaten into them—eaten into their heart, into their lungs, into their spleen, into their liver, into their bonen Chemists have sometimee analyzed the human body, aad they any, it is.. so rnuth magnesia, so mach lime, so much chlorate of potassium. If some Christian chemist Would analyze one of these financial behe- mot hs he would hnd he is made up of cop- per, and gold, and silver, and zinc, and lead, and coal, and iron. That is not a life Worth living. There are to many earthquakes in it, too many agonies in it, too many predictions in it. They build their cooties, and they open their pioterve galleries, end they summon prima donnee, and they offer every inducenient for happi- ness to Some and live there, but happinese will not come. Theo send foottnanaed ani pcistillioned equipage to bring her; she will not ride to their door. They send princely escort,: she will net take theft arm. They make their gatewrys triumphal arches; she will not ride under them, They set a golden throne before to golden plate; oho turns away front tbe banquet. They cell to her from upholstered beleeoPyr elle will not, listen, Mark you, Ode is the Whim of throe who have had lerge aocumuletion, Melted ttliheen eylooMtlin:asn: t"'ikd eeaillot; 1 i f()Qea smidoei lot; tion that the vent majority of those Who getting all far short of affluence. It is estimatedsthat only about two cut of a hundred barn/wee non have arty thing worthy ltibveinlea.ftme of eitecerge A man who spends hie life with the one dominant idea of fin. anoial accumulaeion spends a life not worth So the Wee. of a worldy approval. If that be dominant in a man's life he is mis4 erable. The two most unfortunate men in this coontry for the six months of next Presidential campaigo will be the two men nominated for the Presidency. , The reser- voirs of abuse and diatribe and malediction will gradually fill up, gallon above gallon, hogshead robove hogshead, and about autumn these tworeservoirs will be brimming full, and ab OSO Will be attached to eaohone,and it will play away on these nominees, and they will have to stand it, and take the 'abuse, and the falsehoods, and the caricature, and the anathemas, and the caterwauling, and the filth, and they will be rolled in it and rolled over and over in it until they are choked, andsubmerged, arid strangulated, and at every sign of returning consciousness they will be barked at by all the hound e of political parties from ocean to ocean. And yet there are a hundred men to -day strug- gling forthat privilege, and there are thous- ands of men who are helping them in the struggle. Now, that is not a life worth hying. You can get slandered and abused cheaper than that •Takelt on a smaller scale. Do not, be so ambitious to have a whole reservoir rolled over on you. But what you see in the matter of high political preferment you see hi every community in tiho. eostruggle tor what is called social posi- tTen thousands of people trying to get into that realm and they are under terrific tension. What is social position ? It is a difficult thing to define, but we all know what it is. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary but, wealtinor theshow of wealth, is absolutely indispensable. There are men to -day as notorious for their libertinism as the night is famous for its darkness,who move in what is celled high social position. There are hundreds of out-and-ont rakes in American society whose names are mentioned among the dia. anguished gueste at the great levees. They have annexed all the known vices and are longing for other worlds of dia. bolicism to conquer. Good morals are not necessary in many of the exalted circles of society. Neither is intelligence necessary. You find in that realm men who would not know an adverb from an adjective if they met it a hundred times a day, and who could not write a letter of acceptance or regret with- out the aid of a secretary. They buy their libraries by the square yard, only anxious to have the binding Russiah, their ignorance is positively sublime, making English gram- mar almost disreputable. And yet the finest parlors open before them. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary, • but wealth, or a show of wealth, is positive- ly indispensable. It does not make any difference how you got wealth if you only got it. The best way for you to get into social position is for you to buy a large amount of credit:, then put your property in your wife's nano, have a few preferred creditors, and then make an assignment • Then disappear from the community until the breeze is over, and then come back and start in the same lousiness. Do you not see how beautifully that will put out all the people who are in competition with you and trying to make an honest living? How quickly it will get you into high social position! What is the use of forty or fifty years of hard work when you can by two or three bright strokes. make a great for- tune? Ah, my friends! when you really lose your money, how quick they will let you drop, and the higher you get the harder you Will drop. A life of sin a life of pride, a life of in- dulgence a life ' of worldliness, a life devoted to the world, the fiesh and the devil is a fail. ure. I care not how many presents you sent to the cradle, or how many garlands you send to the grave, you need to put right under the name on the tombstone this inecription, "Better for this man had he never been born." • But I shall show you a life that is worth living. A young man says, "I am here. I am not responsible for my ancestry; others decided that. I am not responsible for my temperament; Godgave me that. But here I am in the afternoon of the nineteenth century, at twenty years of age. I am here, and I must take an acconnt of stock. Here I have a body which is a divine con- structed engine. I must pat V to the very best uses, and I must allow nothing to dam- age this rarest of machinery. Two feet, and they mean locomotion. Two eyes, and they mean capacity to, pick out my own way. Two ears,and they are telephones of communication with all the outside world, and they mean capacity to catch the sweetest music and the voices of friend- ship—the very best music. A tongne, with almost infinity of articulation. Yes, hands with which to welcome, or resift, lift or smite, or wave or bless—hands to help my. self and help others. " Here ie a world. which after six th ous- and years of battling with tempest and accident is still grander than any architect, human or angelic, could have drafted. bave two lamps to light me—a golden lamp and a silver lamp—a golden lamp set on the sapphire mantle of the day, a silver. lamp set on theo jet mantle of the night. Yea, I have that at twenty years of age which defies all inventory of valuables—a soul, wi th capacity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to leveeing. to hate. Plato says it is immortal. &Arc% says it is immortal. Confucius says Itis immortal. An old book among the family relict—a book with a leather cover almost worn out, and pages almost obliterated by oft perusal, joine the other bootee in saying I am im- mortal. I have eighty years for a lifetime --sixty years yet to live, I may not live an hour, but then I must lay out my plans intelligently, and for a long life. Sixty years added to the twenty I have already lived, that will bring me to eighty .f name remember that these eighty years are only a brief preface to the five hundred ebonite/id millions of quintillions of years whieb will be my chief reeidence and exietence. Now, undeintahd my opportunities and my reepohneite I itns. • . " If there iS any being in the utiiveree all mole and all beneficient who can help a man in such a juncture, I want him. The old book found arming the family relies toile me there is a (dod, and that for tho sake of His Son, cote J ma. He will give help to a inau. Te him 1 appeal. Glod help me Here I have yet sixty years to do for myself and to do for oteers. I must develop the body by all industries, by all gymnastic, , by 1111 suesiiirow by MI. fresh air, by all good lurbits, And thie mil 1 Mese Imo swept and Ler:tithed atal ilinia- ipad, and gloeified by all that I atm do for it It shall be a Luxenbog of fine pies three.' • It shall be an ereloetra of grand harmonies, ;Shell be at palace for God ; and righteousness to re)gn in, 1 Wender bow meny kind words 1 0311 utter in the nene 'linty years I will try, 1 wonder how many good deeds I can do in the tient sixty years 1 I Will try. Goa hop me 1" That young Mail enters life: He is bun feted, he is tried, be is perplexed, grave opens on this side and a grave opens on that side, 'He falls, bnt he rises again. He gets into a hard battle, but he gni the victory. The mein course of his life is in the right direction. He bleeses everybody he comes in contact with, God , forgives his miatakes, and makes everlasting record of hia holy endeavors, and at the oboe cif it, God says to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant ; enter into the joys of thy Lord." Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in olden times, there sits a mother. There are six children in the household—tour boys and two girls. Smolt farm. Very rough, hard work ecv coax a living out of it. Mighty tug to make the two en& of the year meet. The boys go to schocil in winter and work the farm in summer. Mother is the chief presiding epirit. With her hands he knits &lithe stocking for the little feet, and she is the roantua-maker for the bonn, and she is the milliner for the girls. There is only one musical inetrument in the house --the spinning -wheel. The food is very plain, but is always well provided. • The winters are very cold, but are kept out by the blankets she quilted, On Sunday, when he appears in the village ohurth, her children around her, the minister looks down, and is reminded of the Bible desorip. tion of a good house -wife—" Her children arise upend call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her." Some years go by, and the two eldest boys want a collegiate education, and the household economies are severer, and until these two boys get their education there is a hard battle for bread. One of these boys enters the university, stands in a pulpit widely influential, and preaches righteous. ness, judgment and temperaiice and thousands during his ministry are blessed. The other lad who got to the collegiate education goes into law, and thence, into legislative halls'and after a while he com- mands listening Senates as he makes a plea for the down -trodden and outcast. One of the younger boys becomes a merchant, starting at the foot of the ladder, but climbing on up until his success and his phil. anthropiee are recognized all over the land. The other son stays at home because he prefers farming life and then he thinks he will be able to take care of father and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters, when the war broke out one went through the hespitale of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheerihg up the dying and homesick, and taking the last message to kindred far away. So that every time Christ thought of her he said, as of old, "The same is my sister and. mother." The other daughter has a bright home of leer Own and in the afternoon of the forenoon When she has been devoted to her household, he goes forth to bunt up the sick and to encourage the discouraged, leaving smiles and bene- diction all along the way. te , But one day there start five telegrams from the village for these five absent ones, saying : "Come, mother is dangerously ill." But before they MI be ready to start, they receive another telegram, saying : "Come, mother is dead." The old neighbors gather in the old farmhouse to do the last offices of respect. But as that farm ingLeon, and the clergyman and the senator, and the merchant, and the two daught- ers stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look, or lifting their little children to see once more the face of dear old grandma, I want to ask that group around the casket one question : "Do you really think her life was worth living ?' A life for God, a life for others, a life of lin. selfishness, a useful life, a Christian life is always worth living. I would not find it hard to persuade you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper; making glue for a living, and then amassing a', great fortune until he could build a philanthropy which has had its echo in ten thousand philanthropies all inter the country—I would not find it hard to persuade you that his life was worth living. Neither would I find it hard work to per- suade you that Grace Darling lived a life worth living—the heroine of the lifeboat. You are not wondering that the Duchess of Northumberland came to see her and that people of all lends ask. for her lighthouse, and that the proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre in London offered her a hundred adoctleladr.s it night just to sit in the lifeboat while some shipwreck scene was being en - But I know the thought in the minds of hundreds who read this. You say, " While I know all these lived. lives worth living, I don't think my life amounts to much." Ab ! my frien ls, whether you Iive a life conspicuous or inconspicuous, it is worth living if you, live aright. And I want, my next sentence to go down into the depths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded, not according to the greatness of your •work, but according to the holy industry with which you employed the talents you really posseseed. The majority of the crowns of heaven will not be given to people with ten talents, for most of them were tempted only to serve themselves. The vast majority of the CL'QVJUS of heeven will be given to people Who had. one talent, but gave it all to God. And remember that our life here is introductony to another. It is the • vestibule to a palace; 64,03 who despises the door of the Madeleme because there are grander glories within? Your life if rightly lived is thel first bar of an eternal oratorio and who despieee the first note of IIaydn's symphonies? And the life you live now is all the more worth living because it °pew into a life that shall never end, and the last letter of the word "Mose' it ehe first letterof the word "eternity ' CHOLERA IN ILLINOIS, sicians Can mint ic cimicra. airs. :Nicol, Hatfield Dies or what ph*, A despateh from Carel:age I11 Ravi newhas reached here, that a Mrs. Joseph Hatfield has died at Oxville near Meredoeia, on the Illinoie with what physicians pronounce genuine Asiatic cholera. Mrs, Hatfield was ill only two hours. • It is • knowo that precautbm has been fak.en to prevent is spread of the disease,. The case hits %need eonshicrable excitement in the viefriity. Hen -"I wonder if there 15 muncher girl in the whole wide world. so sweet as my little sweel,iteart ?"' rAie—uW'hitt's that t How dare you think of another girt ? slon't speak bo yoe to:' a week." Iie—" Why are you forever reasting Charley Poriderson ? Sin: ply be- cause he isn't half 1 Alen "