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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-9-6, Page 2EITE1LA8TING LIFE, THE AROUSING irfWI HEAT OF THE PROPHET MICAH. 9044 World Is One in widen to Work-- Itettu "No Kest" the illittvereal nry of eleinitInd-Sorrow Indeen Cometh paint the Night. Brooklyn, Aug. 20. -Re, Dr. Talmagei whe ie now in Auseralin on his globe gird- ling tour, has selected as the sebieeit his sermou for to -day, through the prees, the words "Everiestieg Life," the text being from Miceli. 2:10, "Arise ye and • depert for this is not your rest." This was the drum -beat of a prophet who wanted to arouse his people froiat their orpreased and sinful condition; hut it may just as properly be uttered now as • then. Bells, by long exposure and much ringing, lose their clearness of tone; this rousing bell of the Gospel strikes in as clear a tone as when it first rang on the air, As far as I can see, your great want and mine ite rest. From the time we enter life a great many vexations and annoyances take after us. We may have our holidays, nod ovr seasons of recreation and quiet, but where is the man come to middife who bas found entire rest? The fact is that • iG-oddid not make this world to rest in. A ship might as well go down off Cape Hatteras to find. smooth water as a man en this world to find quiet. Strom the •way. that God has strewn the thorns, and hung the clouds, and sharpened the tuslontirom the colds that distress us, and the heats that smite us, and the pleurisies that stab us, and the fevers that consume ne, 1 know that He did not make this world as a place to loiter in. • God does everything success- , fully; and this world would be a very different world if it were intended for us tolounge in. It does right well for a few hours. Indeed it iarnagnificent. Nothing but infinite wisdom and goodness could bave mixed this beverage of water or hung tip these brackets of stars, or trained these voices of rill, and bird, and ecean-so that God has but to lift His hand, and the whole World breaks forth into orchestra. But after all, it is only the splendor of a king's • highway, over which we are to march on to eternal conquests. • You omit have seen men who tried to • resb here. They blinded themselves great stores. They gathered around them the patronage of merchant princes. The voice of their bid shook the money markets. They had stock in the most suocessful rail. • reads, and in "safety deposits" great rolls • of government securities. They had. em- blazoned carriages, high-mettled steeds, footman, plate that confounded lords and senators who sat at their table, tapestry on • which floated the richest designs of foreign loomssplendor of canvas on the wall, ex- quisiteness. of rnu sic rising among ped. esteds of bronze, and dropping, soft aslightl on snow of sculpture. Here let them rest. Pat back the embroidered curtain and shake up the pillow of down. Turn out the light 1 It is eleven o'clock at night. Let slumber drop upon the eyelids, and the air float through the half -opened lattice drowsy with midsummer perfume. Stand back, all care. anxiety and trouble t But no 1 they will 7aot stand back: They reale the lattice. They look under the canopy. With rough touch they startle his pulses. They cry out at twelve o'clock at night, "Awake, man 1 How can you sleep when things are so uncertain? What about those stocks? Hark to the tap of that fire -bell; it is your district 1 How if yen should die soon ? Awake, man 1 Think of it I Who will get your property when you are gone ? What will they do with it'? Wake up ! Riches sometimes take winga. How if you should gee poor? Wake up 1" Rising on ono elbow the man of fortune looks out into the darkness gf the room, and eviperethe damp- ness from his foreheed, and „says, "Alas For all this scene of wealth and magnifi- cence--norest 1" I passed dOW3:1 a street of a city with a merchant. Ile knew all the finest houses on the street. He said, "There is some- thing the matter in all these houses. In that one, a dissipated son. In that, a • degolate father. In that, an idiot child, In that, the prospect of bankruptcy." This world's wealth can give no permanent sat- isfaction. This is not your rest. You and I have seen men try in another direction. A man says, "If I could only rise to such and such a place of renown; if 1 conld gain that office; if I eould only get the stancl and have my sentiments met with One good round of baud -clapping applause; if I could only -write a book that would live or make a speech that would thrill, or do an action that would resound 1" The tide turtle in his favor.. His name is on ten thousand lips. He is bowed to, sought after and advanced. Men drink his health at great dinners, At his fiery words the multitudes hueza 1 Prom galleries of beauty they throw garlands. From house tops, if he pasties in long procession, they :shake out the national standards. Here let him rest. It is eleven o'clock at night On pillow stuffed with a naton's praise let himlie down. Rush 1 all disturhant voices. In his dream let there be hoisted, a throne, and across it mark a coronation. Hush 1 Hush 1 "Wake up !" says a rough voice, "Politieal tie:nth-emit is changing. Hovr if • you should lose this place of honoe? Wake up 1 The morning papers are to be full of denunciation. Ilearken to the execrations of those who once caressed you. By to- morrow night there wilt be multitude, etweting at the %verde which lont night you expecteel wonld be universally admired, • How on yea sleep when everything de - ponds upon the twat tern of tha great tragedy? Up, Irian I Off of this pillow 1" l'ke mare with his head yet hot from his ant oration, stung up suddenly, looks out upon the night, but aces lothing except the flowers than lie 011 his • Oen& or the Orel1 frorn which he read hi•e !Speech, or the book e from which he quoted Lis authorities, end goes to his deek to finish hie region& eorreepondence, or to pen an indignant lint to some reporter, or eltetch a plari for 0. pubile defame &ohm the sesaults of the peeple, Happy when Ito get his firet lawyer's brief; exultant when he triumphed otter hie tont politieal riVel; yet, ilitting on, the very top of all that this world effete of polite, he exclitimit "No rot, no rest 1" • The very World that oow epplaude will 20011, hi23. Tbet Werla iaid of 'the great Webster, " What a great ',statesman t What a weaderful expesition of the eensti- tution ; A man iit for any position.?' That same 'world said after awhile, "Down with him t He is an office,seeker ! ite is a got! He is a libertine I Away with. hIlin I" -awl her is no peace for the man nail he litY8 down his broken heart in the grave P.b Marshfield. Jeffery thonght that if he could only be judge that would be the making of him ; got to be judge) and Mused the day in which he WAS borA. Alexaudet wanted to submerge the world with his greatness ; submerged it, and then drank hinnielf to death beeause he could not stand the trouble. Burns thought he wonld give everything if he °meld win the favor of courts and prince' s won it, and, amid the shouts of a great entertainment, when poets, and orators, and duchesses were adoring hie genius, wished that he Could creep back into tha obscurity in whieh he dwelt when he wrote of the . Daisy, wee modest, crimson,-tipp ed flower, Napoleon wanted, to make all Europe tremble at his power; made it tremble, dwindling down to a pair of military boots which he insisted on having on his feet when dying: At Versailles I saw a picture of Napoleon in his triumphs. I went into another room and saw a. bust of Napoleon as he appeared at St. Helena t but oh, what gnat and atigiiishin the face of the latter 1 The first Was Napoleon in triumph, the last was 'Napoleon with his hear. broken, How they laughed and cried when silver-tongued Sheridan, 41 the mid- day of prosperity, herangued the people of Britain, and how they howled ab and execrated him, when outside of the room where his corpse lay, his creditors tried to get his miserable bones and sell them. This world forever? "Aha !" cry the waters,. "no rest here -we plunge to the sea." "Aha I cry the mountains, no rest here -we crumble . to the plain." "Aha !" cry the towers, "no rest here - we follow Babylon, and Thebes, and Nine- veh,into the dust." No rest for the flowers; they fade. Norest for the stars; they die. No rest for man; he must work, toil sufferer and slave. Now, for what have I said all this? Just to prepare you for the text, "Arise ye, mei depart ; for this is not your rest." I am going to make you a grand offer. Some of you remember that when gold was discov- ered in California, large companies were made up and started off to get their forbune. To -day I want to make up a party for the Land of Gold. I hold intoy hand a deed from the Proprietor of the estate, in which He offers to all who Trill join the company ten thousand sharee of infinite value, in a city whose Streets are gold, whose harps •are gold, whose crowna are gold. You have read of the Crusaders -how that many • thousands of them went oft to conquer the Holy Sepulchre. I ask you to joia a grand- er crusade -not for the purpose of conquer- ing the sepulchre of a dead Christ, but for the purpose of reaching the throne of a living Jesus. When an ermy is to be made up the recruiting officer examines the vol- unteers ; he tests their eyesight ; he sounds their lungs; he measures their statureethey must be just right or they are rejected, But there shall be no partiality in making up the army of Christ Whatever your moral or physical stature, whatever your dissipations, -whatever your crimes, what- ever your weakness I have a commission from the Lord Almighty to make up this regiment of redeemed souls, and I cry. "Arise ye, and depart ;for this is not your rest." Many- of you have lately joined this cronpany, and my desire is that you may all join it. Why, not ? You know in your own hearts' experience that what I have said about this world is true -that ib is no place to rest in. There are hundreds here weary -oh, how weary -weary with sin; weary with trouble ; weary with bereave- ment. Some of you have been pierced through and through. You carry the scars of a thousand conflicts, in which you have bled at every pore; and you sigh, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest 1" You have taken the cup of this world's pleaaures and drunk it to the dregs, and still the thirst claws at your tongue, and the fever strikes to your brain. You have chased Pleasure through every Talley, by every stream, amid every brightness, and under every shadow ; but just at the moment when you were all reedy to put your hand upon the ro y, laeghing Sylph of the wood, she turned upon you. with the glare of a fiend and the eye of a satyr, her locks adt dere and her breath, the chill damp of a grave. • Out of Jesus Christ no rest. No voice to silence the storm. No light to kindle the darkness'. No dry dock to re- pair the splib bulwark. Thank God, I can tell you something better. If there is no rest on earth, there is rest in heaven. Oh, ye who are worn out with work, your hands calloused, your backs bent, your eyes half put out, your fingers worn with the needle that in this world you may never lay down ; ye dire couraged ones, Who have been waging a hand-to-hand fight for bread ; ye to whom the night brings little rest and the morning more drudgery -oh, ye of the weary hand, and of the weary side, and the weary foot hear the talk ab011t TPSt • Look at, than company of enthroned (men Leek at their hands look at their feet ; look at their eyes. iv citnnob be that those bright ones ever toiled ! res ! yes 1 These packed the Chineae tea -boxes, and through nuntionary instruction escaped into glory. These sweltered on Southern plantations and one night, after the cotton picking, • RESTORED TO HER FATHER. then died, his entice:military achievements THE to be brottee ? Is the cemetery to hear no sound bot the tire of tho beerse- wheel, or the tap of the bell et the gate as the long processions come in with their awful burdeoe of grief? Is the bettozn of the grave gravel, awl, the to duet? No ! no ! ne I The tomb is only a plane where we wrap our robo ahout us for a pleasant rINP- on our way home. The swellings of Jordan will only wash off the dust of the way. From the top of the grave we cateh a glimpse of the tower glinted with the Bull that never eete. • Oh, ye whose looks are wet with the dews of the oight of grief ; ye whine hearts are heavy because thew well-known footsteps sound no more at the doorway, yonder is your net 1 There is David triumphene ; but once he bemoaned Abealom. There is Abraham enthroned, but onoe he wept for Sarah. There is Paul exultant ; bet he once sat with his feet in the stooks. There is Peyson radiant WIth immortalhealth but on earth he was always sick. No toil, no -tears, no parting, no strife, no agonizing cough to -night i No storni to ruffle the crystel eon No 'elarre to strike from the cathedral towers, No dirge throbbieg from seraphie harps. No tremOr in the everlasting song. But reste-perfect rest -unending rest. - Into that rot how many of our loved ones have gone 1 The little children have been gathered up into the bosom of Christ. One of them went Out of the arms of a widovied mother, following its father who died a few weeks before. lain last mornenb it seemed thaee the departed father, for it said, look- ing upward, with brightened countenance, "Papa, takerne up'!" ' Others pub down the work of mid-life feeling they could hardly be spared from the office, or store, or shop, for a day, but we are to be spared from it forever, Yeur mother went. Having lived a life of Chris- ten consistency here, over busy with kindness forther children, her heart fall of that meek and quiet spirit that is in the sight of God a great price, suddenly her countenance was transfigured, and the gate was opened, and she took her place amid that great cloud of witnesses that hover about the throne 1• Glorious consolation I They are not dead. You -cannot make me believe they are dead. They have only moved on. With more love than that with which they greeted us on earth, they watch us from their h gh, place, and their voices cheer us in our struggle for the sky. Hail, spirits blessed, now that ye have passed the flood and won the crown 1 With weary feet we Press the shining way, until in everlasting reunion we shall meet again. Oh! won't it be grand when, our conflicts done and our partings over, we shall clasp bands and cry out, "This is heaven 1" NATIONAL INTOXICANTS. The Whole world. is Given to Supplying DLtlflcd Sidrits. It may be of some interest to our read- ers to know that almost the whole world is given to supplying distilled spirits to satisfy the appetite of mankind. To give an dea of a few nations supplying the intoxe icants, with their names and from what made, I herewith submit a. few: - Aqua ardiente, made from the, agave tree, in Spain. Arrack, made from the coarse sugar, in India. Mahwah arrack, made from juice of palm, in East Indies. a Arraka, made from mare's Milk, in Tar- tary. Arraki, made from dates, in Egypt. Arika made fromcow's milk, in Iceland. Brandy, made from grapes, figs etc., in Europe and America. ' Frustung, made from alpes, in South of France. Gin, made from barley and juniper, in Holland. Gin, made from barley and turpentine, in England. Goldwasser, made from barley and anise seed in Dantzic. ellirchwesser, made from cherry berries, in Switzerland. • Lau, made from rice, in Siam. Marasehino, made from cherry berries,in Zara.. Caracas, made *from oranges, in West Indies. • Plante, made from cactus, in Mexico. Raked, made from husks of grapes, in Dalmatia. Bassi:olio, compounded in Dantzic. "Seskis kayavodka, made front fruit, in Serfakavia brava, made from sweet grass. in Ita.mschatka. Schowcho, made from rice, in China and Japan. Rum, made from sugar cane, in West In- dies and Amereca. Tuba, made from palm, in Phillipine Is- lands. • Whiskey, made from molasses and grain, in Europe and America. Woohrth, made from herbs, in Africa. Y-wena, made from the rot t of the tu- root, in Sandwich islands. Yrostir, made from grapes,on the Rhine Yung, made from rice in the East Indies. This list does not eomprise all the spirits distilled by the different countries. A thonsand or more coine under the head of maziufactured or compounded. E)CETBR TIMES LOVE AND GOLD. She stood alone upon, the introit, "in the molten, golden meionlight"-a women whoee face' Was a dream of be:tenet Her wealth of dark hair, waving backt fiorn her white brow, was wreathed with tetvels ; het' robe of gleaming satin was doll totl costly. Otte snowy hand resting Lightly upon the railiug Of- the porch, held a epray of forget -me -mon ; her daek eyes tepee gas. ing listlessly upon the fair scene sttetched out before her in the moonlight floochog the spacious grounds which, surroonded, her gaud home, whither she had come -a bride -teet three short menthe before. Within the mansion a blaze of light, twit strainstof sweetest music, and groups of richly-dreesed p.epple, for it was Mrs. Earle's roeptiun-night, and her great drawing- roeme were thronged, But the beautiful hosteontood alone for a brief time, wrapped in reverie. 1, crouching outside in the shadow of a hugh tree, watched that still figure, with its bowed head, and the look, of sadness upon her face, and I would have been willing to give years of my •liitt to know thee her thoughts were of me. Yet in the eyes ofthe world, such thoughts -- tender and loving -were sinful ; for She Was the wife of Ilichard Earle, 'bound • td him with shackles of gold. He was old and ugly ; she eras young and fair; it was horrible sacrifice. And once she was mins -all mine. When I had left her only a year ago, her -heed had 'rested .upon my breast, and her tender eyes gazed into Mine while she murmured softly: "Cecil, I love you; I will wait for you!" I went away the •next day to the West, where I had my small means invested. The sum was not much, but it was alt; and in this case, as in other, the adage "Noth- ing venture, nothing gain," came true. The wheel of fortune made a revolutioc and I found myself on top. Within a year after 1 had gene away, I returned home a rich man. Returned, home3. and the first news that confrorited me was Enid Gray'e marriage with old Richard Earle. At first I was stunned by the shock; then I rallied, and declared that it was false. But there was tlw indisputable evidence ; and all my • mad ravings were in vain. To -night, when she held her eourb -of fashion, I determined to be there, too. I would see tier with my own eyes, mid judge if she was happy. So I had entered the grounds of her beautiful home, and, all un- seen from emy hiding -piece, watched the -woman I loved. 'I saw heitenitieher society mask off, and I knew that .sheeieneutterly, miserable. Had she forgotten me, or had she only ceased to care? Even as the thought flitted through my brain, the sweet, •rad lips parted, and I heard her =min -Lin, a low, trembling voice : ' "Cecil! °bi-:Cecil ! Truly, my punish inent is just I" -; • hexet leaped madly. It was my name that he was speaking -Cecil Faulk ner. Temptation assailed me. I stole close to the porch; and in the moonlight she saw me standing there. • • " Enid 1" I murmured. "Oh, Enid, why did you forsake mel" ' • S'he put up one white hand to her throat, as though she were choking; the dark eyes dilated; the forgetnnemots -fell from her hand, anvil:tattered to thy feet. I stooped and picked them up, and pressing a kis. upon them, placed them over my heart. I have them still, faded and dead long ago, but my love is as fresh and pure to.day as it was that night in the moonlight, when .1 • met my false love once more. "Cecil," she faltered, "is it you? Olt, why did you come here? If he -if Richard Earle should see you, he would kill you Cecil! Cecil ! truly you are avenged; for though I have been his wife but three months, I fear him as the slave fears its mester-a cruel master. I have always hated him, and I fear him, too 1" " Why did you not wait a little longer ?" I demanded, fiercely. "You sold yourself for gold; and I-1 have come back with a fartunet Enid!" She bowed her bead with a low moan. "I was mad, I think," she said, bitterly. "1 was poor -so very poor -and utterly friendless and alone. Your letters ceased to ggynwer, wrote youidI-e-v"e'• ry ;reek ig int4,rrupt. ed, wrathfully. • "There has been treachery here, Enid." , "There was tie ono to blame but— Yes, I will tell you the truth. After I became his wife, I discovered that' he had inter- cepted your. letters. My life is a scene of misery, and if you were to be found here now, we would both be made to suffer. Go, Cecil, go! for at any moment Mr. Earle may miss me and come here 1" . "One moment 1".4 whispered, madly. "You love me still, Enid ?" • For answer she gave me one swift look, and if ever a Inotten heart looked forth horn a woman's eyes, then Enid Earle'i was broken thatnight. • "Heaven help us both rr. I groaned, and the,n I turned and plunged' into thedark. nese, where the moonlight did not come, and hurried away, just as I must turn away forever from the brightness and glory of her love into the, gloom and darkness of deepair. - I left the grand home of the Earles; but hardly had I closed the gates behind me When there crone the 201111(1„ of hasty toot - steps, and a moment later 1 was cehfroht. ed by a man -an old man, with a coulee, red face, small eyes, and A bald head. 1 -re wore a stubby iron •grey beard, and his entire appeatancie Was not prep022e2Ellilg -Richard Earle, "Stop, , if you please!" he commanded, sternly. 'What right have yOu to trespass upon my grounds, Mr. Cecil Faulkner?" I gazed full into the angry face, flushed' crimson, his breath coming in thick, labor- ed gasps. "I had no stety particular bus- iness there, " I returned, nenchakintly. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Earle . for the ietresion. It shall not occur again!" "So that it does not!" he said, in a thick, choked voice loaning heavily upon his cane for support. "See here Cecil Faulkner; I know 1l about you, and your foolish paseien for ray wife, She Sates tothitig for you now; ehe has chosen me, and She is mine, fifte never loved yon.' -do you lion me? Sheinever cared for you!" "I'lietiS falriel" tI returned, quietly. "But Mr. Earle, telie is your wife, and went up as white as if they had never been black. 'Those died of overtoil in the Lowell carpet factories, and these in Matchester milia; those helped beild the Pyramids, and these broke away from work on the day Christ was hounded out of Jerusalem. NO more towers to build ; ,heaven is.done. No more garments to weave ; the robes are finished. No more bervese to raise ; the garners are full. Oh, sons and daughters of toil 1 arise ye and depart, for that is your rest. Scovihl M'Callem, a boy of my Sneday sehool, while dying, said Us his mother, " Don't cry, but sing, sing, There is rest f or the weary. Thero is rest for the vveany." Then putting hie wanted hands over hia heart said There is rest for me." But there are some of you wile want to hear about the land where they never have 'any heartbreitke, and no graves are dog. Whore are your father and mother 2 The most of you are orphaes. 1 loele around, and where 1 see one man who has patents living, 1 see ten wile are orphane. Where are your children? Where I. ase one family • circle that is enbroken, I see three or four that have been desolated. One lamb gone mit of this fold ; one fitiveer plucked from that garland; one golden link broken from that chain ; here a bright light put Out and there another, and yonder another. With such griefs, how aro yen to rest? Will there ever be n power that oen attnie that, eitent Voiee, or kindle the luetre of thet 6)8E4 eye, or put spriog and choice into that little foot 2 When we bank up the (bast Over the headis the eod hewer , 71, . t 31Uss Lewis, Stolen by Glypsies When t.111111, node tier Parent. A despatoh from London, Eng., says :- A young woman named Florence Ruth Lewis, until recently in the service of a family at Sincup, has been discovered to be the daughter of a gentleman. She was abducted by gypsies about fifteen years ago at Clinton Downs, neer Bristol. The gypsies, having taken some of the little girl's clothes, abandoned her by the road- side. -She was fotmd by a lady named Clark, who took her to New York, and adopted her, forbidding any reference to her home at Clifton. 'Priv ten years or so the girl lived with Mrs. Clark as her datighter, but never forgot her own home. Subsequently she made the mayor of Clifton acquainted with her history, ;and in conse, quenee Was found a passage home to Erietol, ottly to find, however, that her parents, after making most exhaostive endeevore to traee her, bed gone away from Clifton and left, no address behind them. She than went into serviee and now, after another two years'her father hag been found living at Cardiff, her mother having died heart- troicen at the mysterious loo of her ably child. Never lotus be discouraled with our. Iour faults that we Ars the moos VOR0i0110 , selves, It is net when we are co:melons 0 there ie no more to be eaid. I nee on4nect 1.0 itee her itgainl" "Oh yott dool!" his wrath rieing, tile face growing scarlet -With paseion. "Listen to line °eon Paolltuar, I saw the parting between you two! Yemen° not going away. YoetrIewwijill1bonn b:tifganerkedn ti"s°°n°rr• r ° late th • Tip topped short, too overcome by exoite meat to utter another word. I remeiried silent, tor I had made up my mind, for her eake-least the breath of soandal should assail her fair natue-to control my temper, end endure any insele rather ,thait have an altercation with the man whose mono she here. t, So I stood, silently before him, while he exhausted his select Vocabulary of epithets open , my defenseless head, •At leen weary Of it; 'I turned alowiy away, "Stop!" be commended, as though he was addressing a servant. - "I have come out here to give yeu the punishment yon deserve, you villain 1" And he lifted the heavy cane high above his head, infehdine to bring it down upon' my shoulders. 1. sprang swiftly aside, and as I did SO, the cane descended upon the empty air, and with a luroh forward, 'old Richard Earl fell upon his face. Common humanity prompted me to go to his aseistance. I lifted the heavy head ,iftilelteave thee he was unconscious. Leaving him on the road -side, I entered the gate a,nd soon found assistance to carry the in- sensible form, back to the stately mansion. • The frightened guests hurriedly departed, and left Enid and me alone with the dead. For Richard .Earle was dead. Apoplexy had done speedy eXecition upon his weak- ened frame. He was buried with princely honors, and. after that, I •returned to the West. ' Oneyear later I 'game back to claim my bride. Richard Barks' fortune was donated to certain worthy charities; We wanted none 'of it -Enid and, 1.We had learned a lesson in life, and we knew tliat lova- pure love -is far better than geld. , • CATERPILLARS -- Form in Procession and march Long • Distances. The extensive pine forest which covers the 'dunes in South-western 'Fraiace, stretching frome the Bassin' d'Arcachon, on the north, for many miles southward toward Biar- ritz, is the home of a curious caterpillar, Bombyx pythiocarripa, of the same family as the silkworm. These insects possess a few -interesting characteristics. They pass the winter in nests at the pine three top - very snug nests, woven around a bunch of pine needles, 'and large enough to aecom- modate a family of from 50 to 200. Spring having arrived, each community leaves its winter home and prepares to set out into an unknown world. On leaving the nest they form a procession in single file, each caterpillar in immediate com- munication with the one preceeding and the one following it. In this manner they descend the tall pine and reach terra firma. From this habit they acquire the litteal name of " Chenille Prooessionnaire," or processional ,eaterpillar. Their princi- pal object -now is to bury theme& ves in the sand; and, to achieve this, some dist- ance has often to be traversed beforea spot suitable • for •the purpotie can be ...found. • Especially is this so when the pine trees happen to be 'situated in the streets or gardennof Arcachon ; and in such a case an interesting and rather amusing sight may be seen, when a procession consisting, of some hundreds of. the insecteamenlltter. haps fifteen or sixteen yatdri in length, wends its way rawly along the road. Let us detach two or three from the middle of the line -thus dividing it into two parties -and watch the result. The last of the foremost portion, feeling the loss of his neighbor, immediately stops, and this action is communicated all along he line until- the vanguard is at a stand- still. Meanwhile the leader of the rear .portion redoubles his speed, and in a.short thne has caught up to the foremost party, and the touch being communicated the whole procession resumes the march with as little delay en possible. When a suit- • able place has been found the party forma into a group, and by a gentle wriggliug inoticat digs a hole in the soft and in which the chrysalis state is attained. ' fir WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. Novel, method or remote; in the Foundat lions Inc a antge warehouse. In erecting a large vvarehouse in Welling- ton, New Zealand, recently a rather neyel method of putting in the foundations Was followed. The buildingnevas 'a wholesale drug 'store, 100 feet long by 40 feet wide, With three stories above the, ground, the walls being of briek on a concrete founda- tion, vehielrin turn was made to rest on concrete piles. The plant necessary to put down these piles consisted of two steel 03:1inden's n feet long and. 12 inched in dia. meter inside, Et wooden beam fitting loosely inside the cylinders, an ordinary derrick and a hammer weighing about 250 pounds, used to drive the piles. At the bottom of each pile there was a east -iron shoe weigh- , ing 72 pounds, which formed the base on, which the concrete rested after the pile was driven, and for that matter while it, was being sunkinto its final position. After excavating for the concrete footings of the walls the shoe of the pile was put in posi- tion, and the steel cylinder lowered on to a little sand was then thrown in to form a eushion for the beain, and a ring of rope wee placed betweeh the top of the beam and the cylinder so as to pre- vent the parte from being injured. The whole pito was then driven in the usual way iuto the ground to the required depth, after which the beam was withdrawn. The cylieder was then pumped dry and filled with concrete. Meanwhile a second cylinder had been seek, so that by the time the first had been filled with concrete the second was ready to be similarly filled. As soon as the second cylinder was in this condition the steel eovering of tbe firet Was withdrawn, leavine the semi-solider:lass of concrete in the :hape of a pile. • This method Was followed where the piles could be' spaced about 3 feet apart, but where they had to be Closer together they were left in the ground.,with the steel covering on.It should lie noted t hat as the con- crete had to spread out as the cylinders were withdraWn, a 12 -foot .eylinder Wes required to make a 10400t pfle. The reason for withdrawing the steel' eytiotier of the firet pile only after the second hild been genie. was thet otherwise the soft eoncrete vvuuld be eoriously damaged. Learn to check and rebake the dette.ct- ing tongue by showitig that you do not POETRY. , All Old IVInit'S Dr04111, Olt terah heur of youthfill .1031 Give back my' twentieth I'd rather laugh a laright barred ooy Than reign a gray haired king! ON with the wrinkled spoils of aF(e Away with learning'egrown 'I'ear,out life's wisdom, written page Ana dash its trophloWdewal One•snoment let TIThk lifeblood etrcaun _ From boyhood's fount of flame! Gave me one giddy. rooting dream Of life all love and fame ! My listening angel heard the Prayer, And calmly -smiling , aid: _ It 1 but touch the silvered hair, Thy hasty wish had sped. "But is there nothing in thy traelr In bid thee fondly stay- - While the swift, seasons hurrSa back • 'To find the wished for day 7° • Ah. truest soul et womankind, Without thee what were life? One bliss I -cannot leave behind, l'll take -my -precious -wife 1 The angel took a sapphire pen And wrote in rainbow dew. "Tho man wonld be a by again And be a husband too." "And. is there nothing eetnnsaid ,Before the change appears? Remember, all their gifts bave 114 With those dissolving years." Why, yes, for mernery would recell My fond paternal joys. I cou'd not bear to leave them alb rn take-my-giri-and-boys. The imiling angel dropped his pen, "Why, th it will never do, The snan would be a boy again And be a father too." .• ..A.igiesohIoulastesiglholtderw-intyiltaBungohisteN_YOk0 A To wpite-oatsee tnhsg getraryigira.ireevaliebnoynsioning broke • WeridellHohnes. •t• A Little While. Yet a little while to be Here, where few have love for met Yet another cross to bear -- Journeying through the darkness here.! Day by day are nearing home! Aching heart midi eat that roam. yWrochtteaarnieoittubblileeerdwsahqrnkilegntitogohsbitene5fg;ows mei • Yet another broken string - Then, the restin roses given, And the sleep that Wakes in heaven -Frank L. Stanton. •0011111=41= • , Trials of a Twin. Inform and feature. face and limb, • I grow so name- brother That folks got taking me for him. And each one for the other. It .pmzzled all our kith anal kin, • It reached trfearful pitch, For one of 'us was born: a twin 'a,' And not a soul,knew which.; . 'One ask, to make the Matter worse, , Before our names *pre fixed, As we worebeing wa.shed by nurse We got completely mixed. And thus, you see, by fete's decree, Or, rather, nurse's whim, .My brother John got christened me And I got christened. him. This fatal likeness ever dogged Our footsteps when'at school, Anal was always getting floggen When John turned out the tool. I put this question fruitlessly , • To every one I knew: . "What would you do, if you were nie, To prove that you were'you 7' Our close rest --itren-elftii-ficoll'the tide °taw .dbinestie lifoi fir 'Somehow my intended bride • • Became mybrother's wife. In fact, year after year, the same Absurd mistakes went on, - •.&nd when I died my neighbors came And buried brother John, The Middle of the Road. Never mind how the wild wind blows; • ' 'Keep in the middle o' the road:" Never mind' how"the old world goes: "Keep in the middle o' the road!" Time is a-flyin' ; No thno for sighin' ; Hurry along with your load! Never corn plain in' Shinin' er rainin', "Keep in the middle o' the road!" Never mind if the way is rough; "Keep in the middle o' the road!" 'When you reach the end 'twill be smooth enough; "Keep in the middle 0 theroad!" I3lowin' or snowiu', World keeps a-goinc Goinl. along with its load; Nights may be dreary, Days may, be weary. Hut there's rest at the end o' the road! Measuring Flow of' Steam. Some time ago it became necessary •to estimate with fair accuracy the cidantity of steam consumed by tenanb in a inanufac: toring building, who used it in some indite. trial processes which did not admit of the condensed steam being meaeured. The quan- tity used Was far from constant and varied nob only hour from hour during the day, but also from one day to the next The determietation was made by one of Boston's leading mechanical engineers, George IL Barton in a manner which he describes in a letter to a recent issue of the Engineering Record. Steam was supplied to the tenant through an ^ independent "2 -inch pipe which led from the boiler room to the tenant's premises. To arrange for the desired measurenients, a section of the pine in the boiler room was fitted with a/pair Of flanges containing a plate having a eeritral hole about elevennexteenthe of an inch in diate- eter. It was through this hole that the steam was supplied, the obstruction offered by the plate to the flow of tfteam being practically negligible. In the steam pipe beyond the orifice was a stop valve and be- tween the stop valve and the orifice wag a drip pipe. A steam gauge was attached to the steam pipe on each eide of the orifice, so that the loss of pressure due to the plate could be detertnined by the difference between the reedinne of the two gauges, thagreeter the gensitity of steam pitseing the greatet the reduction pressure. The gauges were fitted with an apparatus to record eutoniationly the preeeures, so that the dinerence between the two sets of readings could be determined very closely. Then the plate in the Meant pipe was re- moved and experietitnte made to determine- tto quantities of steam which vvould pass through its orifice under various differeheee of pressure tni the two sides. It was found that with (Veil:noes of from 0,3 to 11,04 pounds per square inch from 118 to 702 pounds ef steam would pens through every hour. This method of measuring the flow of steam is SO very eimple and conveni- ent that it is worth remembering. 011 1 inany a she% at tandem sent, finds mark t he archer little meant ; and many a word, at rand in spoken, may soothe or 'wound a heart that's hroken..... TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL L2SSON XL -SEPT. 9,1894, SESOS AND NIOODEDIUS.—JOliN 3 : 1,16, • Time.--A.D. 27, during passover week, , and soon after Wet lesaon ; Tiberius Ccoar, Et parer of Rome ; Ponties Filen, Govern- or of Judea; Herod Aneipas, Governor of Galilee and Peres. thethePh:icet .y..-Jerusalent in a guest -chamber, upper room of the house of a friend in Between the Lessons. -Outi Lord's cleans- ing'of the temple and his miraclee called much attention to him. Many believed on him, we are told. Among them was Nieo- denaus. a prominent man among the Jeweit A member of the Sauliedrin, - Our 'ellen describes an interview between Jettiletiid , Islitiodetins. - • Hints for Study. -There are no parallel accounts in other gospels, Find the other passage in which Nicodemus is mentioned, so'as to coznplete theestory here begun. See ,tolin 7 : 50 ; 10: 39. NEVES IN LEARNING TUE LESSON.. • I. A man of the Pharisees. -The stricteet sect of the Jews, orthodox in belief and Nocafiretehordeuel jrneinwnes,t.haer observance of ceremonies. member of the Sanhedrimthe highest court ruler of the Jews. -Fie was a 2. Came to Jesus by night. -Probably he had beeti impressed by what he had seen and heard of Jesus clueing the days he was at Jerusalem, He earne by night, perhaps, because hetwate occupied during the day,and „ could pot get the time, or because the night was the best time for a quiet talk with Jesus, or because he preferred to make his inquiries and invettigittiona privutely. A teacher come front God. -Some think he believed Jesus to be the Messiah. Pro- bably he thought of him only at a teacher divinely sent. -These nitraclos.--" Signs.' See chap. 2: 23. ., 3. Jesus answered. -Answered the thoughts of Nicodeinus before they became words. _Except a man be born again. - "Born anew.", It is a change in the na- ture which isao great as to be like a now beginning, a new birth. He cannot see the kingdom of God. -As a blind man , cannot see the things of nature until his eyes are opened, no man can see the things , of God until be becomee a new crea.ture. 4. How can a man be born when he is old? -Yet the old man must become a little child again in a spiritual senae. . , .5. it• Except a man .be bora of wetter and of the Spirit.--.-Wetenis the outward syln- ' bol, and the Spirit is the real power which changes ()lie intim-life. The outw rd change ii is important, but the retewin of the heart is the real conversion. Ca ot enter. --There's no' way into God's family but by having God's Spirit in us. 6. Than which is born of the flesh. - Even if a man could be born again in a natural way, he woulii not be any better - he would still be the same. Of the.Spirit. e -If be is born of God he will, be lilt God , 7. Marv'el nob, -Evidently Ni yeaggreatly astonished. • He thou wa Bub he is told plainly that-eiller born anew. Must be.. -Notice t there is a necessity which ev8eldeilie wind bloweth.-No one wind, or know whence it comes it sweeps. Thou headest the 1' Voice. The effects of the wi seetrees swayed, waves tos everyone.-4Ws cannot see the describe his methods, but we a life, the changed character. 9. How can these things , demus could not understand. 10. Art thou s, master of Thr teacher." The words of Jesus i Nicodemus ought to have knewn spiritual truths, occupying such a p he did. ' 11. We. -Jesus speakti for himself; he undentood what lie taught. That we have seen. -He had come from God, and had seen the things of which he bore witness. ' Ye receive not. -He t is speaking of the e Sews in general, not iroiftti al: itcrouatehms:sh i oi oi particular. 12. Earthly things...sp are revealed on the earth. He evidently referred to what he hadiaeen saying about ' the new birth. Heavenly things --Things which cannot be seen in their effects. If Nicociemas and. others had not believed these things which were simpler, much less would they believe the higher truths. 13. No man he.th ascended. -To eo for himself, to learn what Was ill heaven and return again tp earth to tell us. But he , tha.t came don,-" Descended out Of'•., , heaven." Christ had been always in heave:), and knew all that is there ; he had COMO down_to revear it to °tints. Which is in heaven. -Though on earth, he is also in 3.e. As Moses lifted up the serpent.-- , Read about this in Numbers 21: 4-9. The people were bitten by the aerpents. The bite was incurable. Moses Was told to make a serpent, 'of brass, and put it el''ig p. pole where all could see it. W h °see er, when bitten,wouicl look on this serpent was cured. Even, so must the Sou of man be • lifted up. -On his cross, and then held up in the gespel, Note again the word "must, ' and compare Luke .24 : 46. Lifted up. - See also chap. 8: 28. ' ' • .15. That whosoever bel inveth. -Showing • _ how wide is the otter of salvation ; "who. ' soever"-aaid how simple the way of re-- ceiving it---"believeth.", Hath eternal life. "May in him- have eternal lite." It is in Christ that we -find this blessed life. . 16. For God so loved the vrorld.-This , veree gives the reason for the great salva- tion. It wee because God lovedebe world. Every word of this wonderful verse to rich ; with meaning. The, little " 20" ie one of , the brightest of them all. God loved the world,the Wicked, guilty tvorld. He lovint tho World so shat he gave hie Son. What - this giving meant We know. Are all the people of the world, then, saved ? "That Whosoever believeth." .Latther called this verse a " little gospel ;" ehe way of being Aaved is all here. It speaks highly for the bravery of cer- tein young English doctors that they have determined to go to'Hong Kong to -.study the pletgue Which jest now puzzles medical meri extremely. Not only have these Meth to face the horrors of the 'plague, which many liken to the "great plague' of Charles the Second's times, but the diaturbed cow dition of the eountry reedered the danger of the visit doubly great. The ukoment an ill can be patiently horns it is disarmed of its poison, though Pot of linter' to it but With plerienre.--elerente,Scbt. i ite pain, - Becoller. :