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8AL9VIE, THE DANGER, AND HER
DISTINGUISHED 'VICTIM.
* Winked Woman's evaltrenee-arae
guseinig Scenes at, Whet Mood IWO.—
Who Ball-roont Then and ToeittY—Or.
Talmage On Dancing and Its Con -
cowl tants.
Beroormew, September• 80, 1894.—Rev.
Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his
roundsthesworld, tour, has minted as the
aubjeot of to -day' e eermon, through the
press, " 'he Quick Feet," the text Ohm=
being Matthew 14, 6 : " When Herocrts
birthday wae kept the daughter a Herodias
danoed before them, and pleased Herod."
It is the anniversary of Herod's birth.,
day. The palace is lighted. The highways
leading thereto are all ablaze with the
pomp ef invited guests:. Lords, capts.ins,
merchant princes, the mighty men of the
lend, are coming to mingle in the festivities.
The table is spread with all the lexuries
that royal purveyors can gather. The
guesta, white -robed and anointed and per-
fumed, come in and sit at the table. Music !
The jests evoke roars of laughter. laiddles
are propounded. Repartee is indulged.
Toasts are drunk, The brain is befogged.
The wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy.
Whey are not satisfied yet. Turn on more
Light Pour out more win& Music I Sound.
all the trumpets ! Clear the floor for a
dance I Bring in Salome, the beautiful
and accomplished princess 1 The door
opensand in bounds the dancer. The
lards are enchanted, Stand back and make
room tor the brilliant gyrations. These
men never sew such "poetry of motion."
Their soul whirl e in the reel and bounds
with the bounding feet Herod forgets
crown and throne and everything but the
fascinations of Salome. All the magnificence
of him realm ie as nothing now compared
with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe be-
fore him. His body sways from side to side,
corresponding with the motions of the en-
chantress. His soul is thrilled with the
pulsations of the feet and bewitched with
the taking postures and attitudes more and
more amazing. After a while he sits in en-
chanted silence looking at the flashing,
leaping, bounding beauty, and as the dance
eloses and the tinkling cymbals cease to
clap and the thunders of applause that
shook the palace begin to abates, the en-
chanted monarch swears to the princely
performer, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of
me I will give it thee, to the half of my
kingdom.' Now, there was in prison at
that time a minister of the Gospel by the
name of John the Baptist, and he had been
making a great deal of trouble by preaching
some very plaits and honest sermons. Be
had denounced the sins of the king and
brought down upon him the wrath of the
females of the royal household. At the ins
etignation of her mother, Salome takes ad-
vantage of the extravagant promise of the
king and says, "Bring me the head of
John the Baptiet on a dinner plate."
Hark to the sound of feet Outside the
door and the clatter of swords. The exe-
cutioners are returning from their awful
errand. Open the door. They enter, and
they present the platter to Salome. What
is on this platter? A new glass of wine
to continue the uproarious merriment?
No. Something redder and costlier—
the ghastly, bleeding head of John
the Baptist, the death glare still in the
eye, the locks dabbled with the gore, the
features still distressed with the last agony.
This woman, who had whirled so grace-
fully in the dance, bends over the awful
burden without a shudder. (She gloats
over the blood, and with as much indiffer-
ence as a waiting -maid might take a tray
of empty. glassware out of the room after
an entertainment, Salome carries the dis-
severed head of John the Baptist, while
all the banqueters hout with laughter,
and think it a good joke that in so easy
and quick a way they have got rid of an
earnest and outspoken minister of the
GospeL
Well, there is no harm in a birthday
festival. All the kings from Pharaoh's
time had celebrated such occasions, and
why not Herod? No harm in kindling the
lights. No harm in spreading the banquet.
No harm in arousing music. But from
the riot and wassail that closed the scene
of that day every pure nature revolts. I
am not at this time to discuss the old ques-
tion, is dancing right or wrong? but I am
to discuss the question, Does dancing take
too much place and occupy too much time
in modern society? and in nig remarks 1
hope to carry with me the earnest convic-
tion of 6,11 thoughtful persons, and I believe
I will.
You will all achnit whatever you think of
hat style of amusement and exercise, that
from many circles it has crowded out all in-
telligent conversation. You will also admit
that it has made the condition of those who
do not dance, either because they do not
know how, or because they have not the
health to endure it or because through con-
scientious scruples they must decline the
exercise, very uncomfortable. You will
also admit, all of you, that it has passed in
many caees from an amusement to a dime.
nation, and you are easily able to under-
stand the bewilclerment of the educated
Chinaman, who, standing hi the brilliant
circle where there waa dancing going on
Lour or five houra, and the guests seemed'
exhausted, timed to the proprietor of the
bouse and said, " Why don't you allow
your servants to do this for you?"
The feet were not given for dancing, but
to walk modeetly, not to leap impudently
like oismele." One of the dogmas of the
atioient Cherch reads "A dance is the
&vita: posseseion, and he that entereth into
a dance entereth into his poseession. As
maty pacers as a Man makes in claning, so
many paces don he tneke to hell." Elm.
• where the old dogmas declated this
eveman that siegebh in the dame: is the
• princess a the devil, Med those that answer
are her Omits, aed the beholders are hie
friends, d,ncl the music is his bellows:, and
tho fiddlers are the ministers of the devil,
For es when hogs are ateayeds if the hogs -
heed 0,11 one ail asrannble together, to when
the devil ealieth Mae atomise to sing iu the
dance, of te play on 'wine musical instru.
met e troseetly all the &Meets seethe e tn.
eobbele" Tbis indieeriminete and uniVerael
denunoiation of the exercitie came front the
tot ensa utterly and ceinpletein
cl
But we are not to dieouss cuetorns of tire
olden times, bub cusemus now, We are
pot to take the evidence oi the ancient
fathers, but our own Oeuseleacep eeligbten.
edbythe Wora of God, is to be the sternit
erd, Oh, bring no hersh criticism report
the youeta, I would not drive out from
their tints the hilarities of life. I do not
believe that the inhabitants of anoient
Wales, when they seepped to the sound
of the rustics harp, went down to ruin, I
belie:re Gad intended the young people to
laugh and romp and. play. I do not be-
lieve God. would have put exaberance in
the soul and, exuberance in the body if he
had not inbreeded they should in sume wise
exercise ib and dew onstrate it. If a mother
join hands with her ohildron and cross the
fleor to the mend of music, I me no harni.
If a group of friends cross and recross the
room to the sound of piano well played, 1
see no harm. If e company, all of whom
are known to host and hostess as repu-
table cross and recross the room to the
sound of musical hestrument, I see no harm.
I tried for a long time to see harm in it. I
could not see any harm in it. I never
shall see harm in that. Our men need to
be leepc young, young fop many yeera
longer than they are kept young. Never
since my boyhood days have I bad more
sympathy with the inure:Kant hilarities of
liSe than I have now. What thougti we
have felt heavy burdens 1 What though
we heve had to endure hard knocks ! Is
that any reason why we should stand in the
way of those who, unstrung of life's mis-
fortunes, are full of exhilaration and glee ?
God bless the young ! They will have to
wait many a long year before they hear
me say anything that would depress their
ardor or clip their wings or make them be-
lieve that life is hard and cold and repul-
sive. It is not. I tell them, judging from
my own experience that they will be treat-
ed to a great deal better than they deserve.
We have no right to grudge the innocent
hilarities to the young.
As to the physical ruins wrought by the
dissipations of social life there can be no
doubt. What may we expect of people
who work all day and. dance all night?
After awhile they will be thrown on society
nervous, exhausted imbeciles. These people
who indulge in the suppers and the mid-
night revels and then go home in cold un-
wrapped. limbs, will after a while be, found
to have been written down in God's eternal
records of suicides, as much suicides as if
they had. taken their life with a pistol, or
knife, or strychnine.
How many people have stepped from the
ball-roomin to the graveyard! Consumptions
and swift neuralgias are close on their
track. Amid many of the glittering scenes
of social life, diseases stand right and left
and balance and chain. The breath of the
eepulchre floats up through the perfume
and the froth of Death's lips bubbles up in
the champagne. I am told thet in some
of the cities there are parents who have
actually given up housekeeping and gone
to boarding that they may give their time
illimitably to social dissipations, I have
known such cases, I have known family
after family blasted in that way in one of
the other cities where I preached. Father
arid mother turning their back upon all
quiet culture and all the amenities of home,
leading forth their entire family in the
wrong direction. Annibilamd, worse than
annihilated—for there are some things
worse than annihilation, I give you the
history of more than one family when I say
they went on in tha dissipations of social
life until the father dropped into a lower
style of dissipation, and after a while the
son was tossed out into society a nonentita
and after a while the daughter eloped with
a French dancing -master, and after a while
the mother, getting on further and further
in years, tries to hide the wrirkles but
fails in the attempt, trying all the arts of
the belle, an old flirt, a poor miserable
butterfly without any wings.
If there is anything on earth beautiful to,
me it is an aged woman,her whitelocks flow
inn back over the wrinkled brow—locks not
white with frost as the poets say,but white
with the blossoms of the tree of life, in her
voice the tenderness of gracious memories,
her face a benediction. As grandmother
passes through the room the grandchildren
pull at her dress, and she almost falls in her
weakness; but she has nothing but, candy
or cake or a kind word for the little dar-
lings. When she gets out of the, wa.gon in
front of the house the whole family rush out
and cry, " Grandma's come 1" and when she
goes away from us never to return, there
is a shadow on the table, and a shadow on
the hearth, and a shadow on the heart.
There is no more touching scene on earth
than when grandmother sleeps the last
slumber and the little child is lifted tip to
the casket to give the last kiss, and she
says; "Good -by, grandma 1" Oh, there is
beauty in old. age. God says so. "The
hoary head is a crown of glory." Why
should people decline to get. old? The best
things, the greatest things I know of are
aged. Old mountains, old seas, old stars
and old eternity. But if there is anything
distressful, it is to see an old woman
ashamed of the fact, that she is old. What
with all the artificial appliances, she is too
much for my graeity. I laugh even in
church when 1 see her coining. The worst
looking bird on earth is a peacock when it
has lost its feathers. I would not give one
lock of my old mother's gray hair for fifty
thousand such caricatures of humanity.
And if the life of a worldling,- if the life of
a disciple given to the world is sad, the
close of such a life is simply a tragedy.
You know as well as I do that the dissi-
pations of social life are destroying thou-
sands and tens of thousands of people, and
it is time that the pulpits lift their voice
against them, for I now propheey the eter-
nal rniefortizne of all those who enter the
rivalry. When did the white, glistening
boards of a dissipated ball more ever be-
come the road to Heaven? When was a
torch for eternity ever lighted at a chan-
delier of a dissipated scene? From a table
spread after such an excited and dessecrate
ed scene who ever went home to pray!
At the time of a relimotie awakening a
Christian young woman spoke to a man in
regard to- his aoul's salvation. He Bottled
out mita the world. After awhile she be -
evade worldly in her Christiati profession.
The MAU mid. one day, "Well, I am as
safe as she is. /' wee not a Christian ; she
said she Was a Chrietian. She talked with
me about my soul ; if else is safe,1 tun safe."
Then a sudden aecident took him off with -
rest am opportunity to titter one word of
prayer. Do yon tot realize, have you not
eoticed, young and old—have you not,
noticed that the diseipations ef social life
ate bleating and deetroying a vast multi-
tude 1 While the reasqtteritde ball of fife
goes on they trip merrily over the iloor,
gemmed hand is attached to gemmed hand,
and glemeing brow bends to gleaming
brow, On wits the dant:! Flush arid
trade and burgh ter of immeasurable Merry.
making. But efter awhile the languor of
(teeth domes oz the flash and Wires the
TILE .EJXB1R
TINES
•wet/eight. Light!: lower, Floor hollow
with, sepulchrel eche. Moto saddened
let° is wail, Lights lowers Now the meek -
ors aro only aeon in the dina light. Noer
the fragrance: of the Atswere ie like ehe
ackeohig edor that comes from garlands
• that have leas long in the vaults Of nine-
teries, Lights lower. Mists gather in the
roons. Glesses shake as though quaked by
esuldeu thunder. Sieis eenght in the
curtain. Scarf drops from, the shoulder of
beauty a ehrovid, Lights towers Oiler the
slippery boards its deuee of death glide
jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, despair
and death. Stench the lempswielre ehnost
extipeuished, Toro gerlenas will not ball
oover the ulcerated feet. Chokieg damps,
Chilliness. Feet still, Hands closed,
Voices huelied. -Eyes ehut. Lights out.
Oh, how many at you have floated far
away front God through eocial dissipations,
and it is time yen termed. For I reinein.
ber that there were two vessele ox the sea
and in the storm. it was very, very dark,
and the two vesselwere going straight for
eaoh other, and the captains knew i.b not.
But after a, while the man on the lookout
save the approaching ship, and he shouted,
" Har t1 a -larboard!" and from the °the,
vessel the cry went up, Hard a-lar.r
board, 1" and they turned just enough to
glance by, and passed in safety to their
harbors. Some of you are in the storm of
temptation, and yen are driving on and
corning toward fearful colli.sions unless
you change your course. Hard te-larboard,1
Turn ye, turn ye, for "why will ye die,
oh, house of Israel ?"
WHAT WE EXPORT.
Large Increase tit Exports of Cheese—The
Benefit of Spraying Apple Trees.
Our theme exports are steadily improv-
ing, whereas our butter exports appear to
be in a very unsatisfactory condition. Ac-
cording to The Trade Bulletin of Montreal
there have been shipped from Montreal for
the season up to Sept, 14 1,057,762 pack-
ages of cheese and 13,671 packages of
butter, as against 934,260 packages
of cheese and 38,454 packages of butter for
the same period in 1893. If the decline in
butter exports to'one-third of those of last
season be explained by the &Birth, we are
confronted by the increase of cheese ex-
ports by nearly 9,000,000 pounds. If the
explanation be given that butter has gone
into cold storage for speculative purposes,
then we may rest assured that the Canadian
butter industry will receive another set-
back, for John Bull wants his butter fresh,
and will use no other on his table.
The Canadian horticulturist for Septem-
ber contains two items that should be
placed side by side and examined by our
farmers. The first is an extract from an
Ingersoll apple -grower :—." I sprayed my
apple orchard five times this summer, and
I have, I think, the finest samples all
through I ever saw." Tke other is from al
report by a Chicago firm as to that mar- ;
keit :—" Fancy fruit, from $2,4e, to $2,60 ;
choice fruit, from $2,15 to $2,25 ; fair to 1
good, $1,15 to $2.25." Spraying the trees ,
at a cost of a few cents a tree will in many
cases make the difference of $1 • a
barrel. High quality 'generally means 1
high prices. I
The Corn Trade News of Liverpool in its ,
latest issue copies an article from The
Buenos Ayres Standard dealing with the I
question of the cost of raising wheat in
Argentina. The concluding sentence is
significant Yet the Santa Fe colonist,
owning his farm, implements and machines,
can make a profit off wheat at eleven shill-
ings per quarter at the railwey stetson."
The production of wheat in Argentina at
34 cents per bushel with a profit to the
grower is one 'cause of the present low
prices.
The United States Consular report ,for
September contains the statements of ex-
ports declared for the United States for the
quarter ending June, 30. 1894. The total
exports from Ontario were $4,013,151, as
against $4,704,903 for the same quarter in
1893. The principal items were the follow-
ing :—Lumber, $1,290,027„- logs and tim-
ber, 981,459, beans, $215,493; nickel matte,
$183,050; emigrants' effects, $166,459 ;
shooks, staves, headings and bolts, $153,-
032 ; fish, 8140,987; hides, skins and furs,
$122,858; lath amd shingles, $113,924. The
various products of the forest amounted in
all to $2,660,880.
• THE SUNDAY BOHOOL;
INTARNAvoNAL LESSON'. OOTOBER
14, 1894.
"Thii opauott of suseo,': Luke 5, 1.1.1.—
INOIDEN TEXT — Dark 1.17,
neeraleet, swelegei We,
Prom nnfriendly Nazareth jeaus deseends
te ()epeeists:2m, ou the shore of the lake,
where he reeeives a ready welcome. The
Sabbath day finds hies in the synagogee,
teachiag with power, The eiek are healed,
the devil:)ere met out, and the multitudes
gather around the wonderful propliet., As
he walks heside the sea, the crowd presses
s
so closely thee he takes • a ship for his
pulpit and teaches the throng upon the
shore. At his command the disciples puth
forward and drop their nets, which are at
once filled with a meltitude of fish. Over-
whelmed wieh wonder and awe, they- rec-
ognize him as divine, and, leaving fish,
nets, and boats on the eller°, they go forth,
followers of Jesus.
EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. Pressed upon him. His works
were so numerous and his words so laetrile -
tire that the multitudee thronged after
hire. (1) There is a hunger in human hearts
which only the bread of life can satisfy, and
the people will follow after those who can
bestow it. To hear the word. His message
was not the dry shell of rabbinical learning,
but the pine, fresh word of God, whieh at-
tracted the people. He stood -by the lake.
Ile had gone forth, nob to teach, but to
1 rneditete, to feast upon the scenery, and to
rest on the, pebbly beach. Yet when souls
came to him. for spiritual food he was never
too weary to supply their needs. (2),,Let
us always be ready to show to seeking
hearts the way oflife. (3) God's work mut
not wait on our feelings. Genneearet.
Also called the "Sea of Galilee," from the
province nearly surrounding it, and "Tib-
erias," from its principal city. It is of oval
shape, fourteen miles long by seven wide
and lying six hundred and fifty-three feet
below the level of the Mediterranean Sea.
The River Jordan runs through it from
north to south. On its eastern shore are
cliffs two thousand feet high, furrowed by
'ravines. On the west the descent is more
gradual and the hills more distant. Once
. densely populated, its shores are now alines t
I
without inhabitants. Its modern name is
•Bahr Turbitriyeh.
I 2. Two ships. Small boats or fishing
smacks, each carrying four or five fishermen.
I At that period, according to Josephue,
there were two hundred and thirty fishing
I boats on the lake. Now there isnot one,
Iand silence broods over the sacred sea.
Standing. Probably drawn by on thethots.
Fishermen. These were the two pair of
brothers, Andrew and Simon,sons of Jonas,
and James and John, sons of Zebedee.
They belong to the hardy ranks of toil,
out of which in every age God has called
some of his best workmen; (4) Christ cheeses
his disciples and messengers not fcrm the
idlers, but the industrious. (5) Fidelity
in humble vocation is the beat preparation
for a higher call. Washing their nets, Already
among the disciples of Jesus, these fishers
had beeu listening to his teachings by day,
and then workinglor the support of their
families by night, the best time for plying
their trade. (6) We must care for our
bodies as well as for our souls.
3. He entered. (7) Whatever belongs
to the disciple is honored by tha use of the
Master. Jesus expects us to hold our all
subject to his service. Simon. Afterwards
known as Peter. He had already become
acquainted with -Jesus (John 1. 40-42),
and was at this time recognized as his
disciple. He resided at or near Capernaum,
and was engaged at his trade of -fisherman,
not yet having gone forat as an apostle.
Prayed him. Asked as a favor. (8) He
who is Lord of all the universe, and can
ride upon the chariot. of the •whirlwind,
humbles himself to borrow the use of the
fisherman's boat. Thrust out. That he
might not be crowded, so -closely by -his
congregation that only those nearest mould
Ihear his words. Sat down. The usual
position of a speaker or instructor in the
IEast. Taught the people. He did not
deliver orations, but spoke as a teacher,
unfoldina, illustrating; and enforcing the
truth, so that the plain and uneducated
masses could understand 'it. Out of the
ship. Probably the boat lay in a little cove,
on whose sloping shores the crowd sat or
stood, as in an amphitheater, almost sur-
rounding the floating pulpit, (9) Learn
the advantage of adapting oneself to
circumstances. Christ was not limited to
the desk in the synagogue, but could
discoutle from a rock on the mountain or
the slippery seat, of a fishing smack, and
could find a text in a sheaf of wheat or a
tuft of lilies. (10) He whose heart is full
of a theme will be at no loss for words to
talk about it.
. 4. Left speaking. We have no record of
the discourse, but it was not lost, ,f,,ox its
results remainecl in the hearts and iofluenced
the characters of his hearers. (11.) The
tooth of time corrodes the inscription on
marble, but eternity shall only deepen that
written on hearts. He said. After his
discourse, though weary, be has no thought
of self, but only of his unsuccessful friends.
(12). Remember that Jesus ever feels more
for our burdens than for his own. He knew
their failure yet draws its ritory from their
•own lips. (13). So Jesus would always have
us tell him all our trembles and de:appoint-
ments, that he may comfort and relieve up.
Nets. 'Probably seines. The seine has its
lower margin loaded, so ea to reach to-
ward the bottom, and the upper fringed
with corks, go that the net forms a per-
pendicular Well in the water. Fastening
one end at the Shore, the fisherman lets the
net into the water, and fetching a semi-
circle, inclosing the fish within its compass,
returns to the shore at the , point •from
which he started."—Whedon.
5. Master. A title of respect generally
givee to religious teacher. Toiled all the
night. It is well knoWil that certaie kinds
of fishieg are generally carried on during
the nighttime more successfully than in the
daylight. Taken nothing. -(I4) Want of
esuccees is not always the result of tdlettem,
The Worker may deserve to succeed even
though he fail. (l 5) Soinetiines God delays
the hour t:f success.otly that he may make
ifthe mote siimal. Those who toil all the
night may yet obtain a more abutidaut
reward in the morning. (16) God rewards
nob only ban Who tiornes back bearing
trophies, but thee who fOught and failed
bo Wirt bli BIL At thy word I Will, NW`
has witnessed Christ's miraculous wetter,
and knows somewhat of his power. Though
*eats, and dinouragod, los is ready to re-
turn to Werk at his will, (17) Faith hi.
imitate over bhe flesh, and mit of weaktres is
CHARGED WITH COWARDICE.
Some of the Chinese °facers in Daimger Of
Losing Their Heads.
A despatch from Shanghai, dated to -day,
says :—The Chinese naval officers now at
Port Arthur and Tien-Tsin are squabbling
among themselves as to the responsibility
for the terrible Chinese losses in the naval
battle of the Yalu. A court of enquiry is
sitting and has already found Capt. Fong,
of the warship Tsi-Yuen, guilty of coward-
ice in the face of the enemy. He was con-
demned toi
it e beheaded, and s believed
b •
that other offieers will lose their heads.
A telegram from the Kung-Taotai at Port
Arthur, received by the commandment at
Wei -Hai -Wei, positively aocusea the com-
mander of the Chen-Yueo of taking flight
with his vessel before the battle at the first
sight of the enemy's stroke. Admiral Ting
who remains at Port Arthur, has oleo tele-
grapbed to Wei-liai-Wei making grave
charges against some of his officers. The
admiral declares that the Ping -Yuen the
Kwang-Ting and the Chin -Chung, together
with four torpedo boats, were up the Yalu
river vvhen the battle commenced. There
they remained until the fighting was over.
They then sneaked out and made for Port
Arthur. Two of these torpedo boats how-
ever, are said to be still •missing. The
admiral adds: " The Japanese developed
their Islam and delivered their main attaok
so suddenly that we diecevered ourselves to
be surrounded and attaeleed on all sides."
At a Summer Hotel,
Stayborne—`1Efow wad the weather where
you were this summer ?"
Oater—"Coel enough for blankets: every
nighb!'
'My ! My 1 I envy you."
"Y -es, but we hadn't the blanketa."
• Ptill Directions.
Guest (summer resort)--" The Water
bete rsii't, fit to tirttikas
Proprietor—" Yeu will find the bar et
the farther end of the hall, sir, down one
flight."
A Frencli physician reports a ease Of him 1
comeh succeriefully treated by taking snuff
tititii suede eg wusa provoked.
retele strong, (18) Faith prompt § to °bath,.
toe, even in the facie of reason and sight.
6, Tine done. Tbougli Jesus was MS
board, there was work for the fieherMan bo
do. • (19) Matt must drop his net, though
God alorie will make his efforts •4110888,
ful, Chriet will not do. fop us whet
we 0 en do for oereelvem Multitude of
fishes. (20) The same work which where
wreught on our own account fails, ender
(mainland of (thrift proves a success. Then
let ria tette him es cue partner and director
in all affairs of life. (21) Observe the
aboolute and may mastery of Chrieb oven
nature—meth, air, and water—ell the units
verse obeys him, The enly point of resise-
mace is when he I1108b8 a hUMaIl will. (22) -
It le &ways safe to obey Christ even whee
his commands seem unreasonable. Net
brake. Literally, "wee breaking," Tho
weight of the mass of fish began to break
the cordageemdengering the toes of the en-
tire haul. (23) The Master Would keep
us reminded that success and failure are
separated by only a narrow line.
7. Beckoned. Made signale without
speaking) from ast•nishment and awe, or
perhaps because their parents were too far
to hear their voices. Help them. -What
the fellow -workers can do by uniting all
their energies, Jesus will not do for them.
though all power is his. (24) Those who
work for Jesus must work together and
help each other, dr their labors will end in
failure. Began to sink. How clearly Chrise
would show his disciples that. (25) After
all there can be no true succese in fishing
for seals without absolute reliance on him.
S. Saw it. Peter had witneesed other
miracles and felt only wonder; now he
beholds something that touches himself,
and for the first time the convittion rolls
upon his soul that he is in the presence of a
divine Being, He feels, as felt Moses be-
fore the burning bush, "afraid to look upon
God ;" as fele Isaiah in the smoking holy
place, conscious of his own unworthiness.
(26) Every Twin in immediate presence of
Gocl is overwhelmed with the thought of
his own sinfulness, It is well if he can
find refuge in the assurance of pardon and
mercy. Depart from me. (27) The first feel-
ing of the awakened conscience is that of
dread and terror, often accompanied with
a desire to drive away religions impressions.
Many go no further, and quell the influences
of the Spirit. Sinful man. (28) He who
recognizes and confesses his own condition
is in the path of salvation.
9. Astonished. "Amazement wrapped
him round." (29) Somethnes, but not al-
ways, astonishment at God's dealings leads
men to seek his face.
10. James. One of three chosen diciples
nearest the Lord, and witness to most of
his miracles. He was put to death by King
Herod (Acts 12. 2). John. The beloved
disciple, anciprobably youngest of the twelve.
Fie died at Ephesus, aged nearly 100 years.
Zebedee. Nothing is known concerning
the father of these two disciples. He was
probably aged, and died soon after these
events. Fear not. Though Peter had
said, "Depart,'' Jesus did not take him
at his word, for he heard the prayer of his
heart rather than of his lips. His first
words are reassuring and comforting.
Catch men. A. call to leave his nets and
engage in the higher vocation of winning
souls. The miracle was au object lesson to
teach him how this should be accomplish-
ed.
11. To land. By drawing them upen
the beach. Forsook all. The boats filled
with fish and the nets which were their
only means of obtaining a living are
promptly abandoned as the call of Christ is
heard. (30) They left ALL, not in the hour
of failure,but of success. (31) Those who
would beChrista: workers must be prepared
to make some sacrifices in his service.
Followed him. Companions of his journeys,
learners from his lips, messengers of his
word. (32) Those who are to labor for
Christ need to dwell with him and learn of
him.
WAR FEELING IN FRANCE.
Possibility That the Chinese Forces may
Have to Face French Foes.
China may have to face two foes. France
is likely Co take up arms against
the Mongolians unless full reparation is
instantly made for the murder of the French
customs collector at Tonquin, says a Paris
correspondent. With two forces striking
at China, the French from the south and
the Japanese from the east, it is easily seen
what the end would be. Of course, both
England and Russia would have a voice in
the tnatter, neither nation wishing to see
France make any further inroadsinto Chine
then it has made in its ascendency over
Tonquin. But the French blood is begin-
ning to reacts the boiling point, The outrage
committed by the pirates of the Upper
Mehong on the family of Collector Chaillet
is being used as a text for ranguinary ar-
tioles in the newspapers. They demand not
only an apology and a money indemnity,
but also an absolute guarantee against any
more attacks on the Frenah in Tonquin. If
not, they cry, then war.
The deed of the pirates was most certain-
ly a brutal one. They swooped down upon
M. Chaillet's house at night and attempted
to kidnap his wife and daughter, the latter
an exceedingly pretty girl. M. Chaillet
had no aid in opposing them, and was
quickly beaten down and was cut almost
to pieces. He was dead when found the
rext morning and his wife and daughter
had disappeared, undoubtedly carried off
by the marauding ruffians. That they are
now undergoing the most awful kind of
slavery is certain, French officers in Ton-
tmin insist that the Chinese authorities are
In league with the pirates and aid them to
escape whenever pressed by the French. It
is this that causes France to ory out for
reparation or war.
ADatli De Luxe.
All have heard of the edition de luxe in
books, no doubt, but,uot everybody knows
about the bath de luXe, which is nesver
still. A good deal Of it is dotte in Phila.
delphise Compared with the.bath de luxe
the Turkish variety feint in it It starts
with heating, very much in the Terkiele
waywbut had electrical attachments, elec-
trical ourrents being sent through the water
and alto manieuring and other extrat."
A Small Boy's View.
Mother --4, There goes another one of
those dirty tramps. I can't see why they
don't keep °leen, anyhow."
Senall 8on—"Niebby ev'ett they was little
their mothers made them wash so often
they got siok of
A HUstler.
Old lady (proudly)—"My bog ie a hustler
all the time, bat ha is humpaig himself
here lately,"
Vieitor—'Xt thet so? What bieycle does
he ride?"
vvRAT, xs GOING ON IN THE FOUR
CORNERS OF TIM GLOBE,
Old luta New World Evellis Of Interest
Brielly—litteresting Bair
Penings or accent wee,
e‘ reArldininebwAess:Pricao°alli.einiseol7g:::: haarse bnel:a1:2isfe°ovidhor‘
conA
.)
• e3111042i.
of
tile w°r1,d's dried Plums
efrom
cttseafsitaius
nboralligra.ahave reoellblY proved
sue'
Te htiebelitbriceknebriani A
tlie4i.waorld,are made bY
thibofa
The present King of Siam has 46 uam es
but 118 48 called Chelalonkoru for ;short.
Tthhee SaiLar. of Persia will not sit at a table
on whicis either salmou or lobster appears.
The Queen of Spain never uses blotting
paper, but dries her letters by waving them
in
oriPckeerhtaer.ps the'most happily named an in
England is Thankful Joy, a Hampshire
embracing vegetarianism"wtilillabteiwco°mnieellmbeny
onAthaehjiundegmemeet:eb day.b11 ev
in
Among t inbohuernSionag.th, Sea Islanders black
ove
and white striped goods are even nworn
currtitiesye,esthimmalsteehdotld.
hat nearly 20,000 pounds
of bread are daily eaten ie the Sultan of
Sir Lyon Playfair's name is pronounced
tailt
s aif siotrf am
rtyomedwaintlai at alt. but he is not
Teresita Cauzio, the daughter of General
Garibaldi, is writing the story of his life in
its most intimate details.
Cartoonist, Thomas Nast has been engag-
ed by Editor William Waldorf Astor as
artist for his three London publications.
Only citizens who are able to read and
write have the power to vote in Bolivia, and
several other South American republics.
The British ship Berean, which recently
rounded Cape Horn, experienced the phe-
nomenon of a heavy cloud of dust at sea.
When a child dies in Greenland the
native parents bury 'a living dog with it,
the ot he
dogo else rw b ouo world,
a edby the child an a guide
t
India:furnishes a market for large num-
bers of white diamonds, as well as for
yellow or colored diamonds, or stones with
flaws or specks in them.
The highest viaduct in the world has just
been erected in 13oevin, over the River Lea,
9,883 feet above the sea level and 4,008 feet
above the river. s
Paderewski's hair has been falling out to
such an extent within the past few mouths
that his late photograph, it is stated, finds
no sale in London.
Old shoe throwing is done for many pur-
poses. In Ireland the election of a person
to almost any office is concludetaby throw-
ing an old. shoe over his head.
The will of the late Jose de Lavea,ga, the
Santa Cruz, Cal., millionaire, provides
$600,000 for a home for the blind, deaf,
diunb, paralytic and aged.
Japanese doctors never present bills to
their patients. They await the patient's
inclinetion to pay, and then thankfully
accept whatever sum is offered. t
The Prince of Wales says that "Robinson
Crump " was the favorite book of his child-
hood. Mr. tauskin's chief delight in his
youth was the "Arabian Nights." ,
Robert Louis Stevenson's estate in Samtia
includes four hundred acres Of forest land
and is situated at an elevation ranging from
six hundred to fifteen hundred. feet.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has made eighty
thousand dollars from "David Grieve,
eighty thousand dollars from "Marcella,"
and forty thousand dollen from "Robert
Elsmere. '
The most adventurous trip said to have
been taken by a woman was recently com-
pleted by Mrs. Littledale, who, with her
hesband, started from Constantinople and
crossed Asia to Shanghai.
Even to this day certain communities of
Buddhists and Mohammedans pray by the
hour before their favorite plant or flower.
In India this species of worship seems to
be the most prevalent
, In China the cobbler still goes from house
Vo honae announcing his approaseh wish a
rattle, and taking up his abode with the,
family while he accomplishes the necessary
making and mending.
As an indication of the thrift among the
working classes of France it is stated that
there are now 6,000,000 depositors in the
French savings banks with an accumulated
fund of 112,000,000,
• Two Italian ironclads bave been ordered
to Morocco, in view of the disturbed situ-
ation there.
The inhithite.nts of Munes, France, are
very indignant hecaese the Prefect has for-
bidden an announced bull -fight.
Mr. Louis Gothmann, the Chicago as-
tronomer, reaffirms his discovery of what
seems to be a sign of vegetation in the
nacon.
It is reported in Shanghai that the Em.
peror is dissatisfied with the coarse events
are taking, and that atrair8 are gradually
working towards a coup d'etat,
Admiral de Gama asserts thab there has:
been rioting in Rio de Janeiro, lasting eve
days, accompanied by outrages on Por-
tuguese merchante, instigated by President
Peixoto.
A feather merchant of Paris has recently
received 6,000 birds of paradise, 300,000
Indian birds of various spicier' and 400,000
humming birds. Another dealer has re-
ceived 40,000 birds frorn America and 100,-
000 front Africa.
A Suesex, (England) correspondent era
noancee on the mithority of his vicar, that
Mee out of ten of the humblest brides swear
to" love and honor cherries arid .0, berry,"
instead of the regular "cherish and obey"
of the marriage service.
Every year a Jewish girl in Frankforb,.
Germany, reeeives a dowry of $2,500, the
income 61 a bequest by Berms Rothschild.
Any respectable Jewess not younger than
17 or older than 36 may apply, and lots are
drawn for the prize.
The death of "The Blind Wonlan of
elieuzariares" hag ettracted wide attention
in Spain, where.ehe Was khown from one
end of the countias to the other. She wee e.
poet, atel had a tentarkable talent, foe writ-
ing beggieg verso, describing her misery,
She was tsaid to be 013.0 of the best recitme
In Speinmed Many of the most famous men
in the eountre made pilgritriageri to her
home tis hear het Queen Diabetics gava
her it pension yeare age, She left about
$60,000,
THE CORN SHORTAOE!
Wafture et Mc Cern oven in lite ironed,
staks mu Not Effect This Country.
Willie tile general husinees situation in
the United Steam: has merry cheering feat,
tures abeet it tbere QOM he uo question
thaiethe reported, failure of the core crop .
the west lias coneiderably darkened the
prospects, The Washington bureau, in ita
last report, calculeted the ehortege et the
enormous tubal of 600,000,000 buellelis.
Since the date wheat the retuens on whish
that report was based were ergeoted the
weather has been altogether fevorahle, and "
it is believed that the October mop report
will be more favorable as to the prospects
for corn. Indeed, some private authorities,
whose judgment and knowledge are worthy
of confidence, have propheaiecl that there
will be almost an average yield. • This is
probably over -sanguine.
If the shortage in the corn crop wee ,
anything like as considerable as b1e Gov,
.ernment report indicated, e severe check
would undoubtedly be placed on the hoped
for return of good times in the United
States. Not alone would there be the
enormous loss to the farmers many of whom
are in no. position to lima further dis-
asters, but there would be also- the lose of
traffic for the railways which have not re.
covered from the severe reverses of the past
twelve months.
It is but natural that we in Canadashodld,
be concerned to know what effect such a
failure of one of the great staple products
of theUnited States would have on our own
country. A carefurreview of the situation
scarcely leads to the belief that any leading
interest hero would suffer even if the short-
age is aa serious as the estimates of the
Government statisticians indicate. Our
chief industries, namely, lumbering, dairy-
ing and stockraising, will not be affeeted to r.
any extent whatever. If anything, the
grain -growers would be benefited. It is
well-recognized law that When there is a
failure in any particular cereal crop there is
usually a resort to some other which in
price and quality forms the best substitute.
The Northwest wheat crop this year is large,
and there can be no doubt that the grain will
supply the corn deficiency to a considerable
extent. Its present price would make it an
acceptable substitute for feed and for use
in many industries and processes where
corn is ordinarily employed.
The effect of a failure of the United States
corn crop would therefore in all likelihood
have a tendency to hold up the price of
wheat on this contineet, while the evil
effects on railway transportation will fall
almoat entirely on those roads which carry
the products of the coringeowing States.
So far as our Canadian roads are concerned
it is probable that they will be fully em-
ployed if the effect of the corn shortage
is to make a brisker call for wheat as a
substitute. Modern communities are so
linked together commercially thdt business
depressionen one is almost inveniably res.
fleeted more or less strongly in the others ;
but there seems nothing en the corn short-
age, even if as great as the most bearish
reports state it to be, to" cause Canadians
to take a gloomy view of the, commercial
outlook.
e,
ON TO PEKIN.
The Capital of china may Be in the
Bands of the Japanese Before Many
Days.
If the despatches that are received from
day to day from Eastern Asia contain some-
thing more than mere gossip and the fruits
of the imagination of a few bewildered news-
paper correspondents, the early indications
that Japan would wage an aggressive war
with her pigtailed enemies are being fulfill-
ed. By their recent successes on land and
sea the troops of Mikado have, got posses
sion of the Corean peninsula, have hemmed
in whatever Chinese forces are stationed
there, and have apparently got, almost van.
challenged control of the waters that separ-
ate the peninsula from the mainland. They s'
seem, r 'reeves., bent on availing themselves
of all ta; 'advantages, that
• Tun • BRILLIANT AORIEVEIVIENTS
have brought them, and are about to Carry
the war into the enernyai country and to
the very gates of their capital. Thirty-
four years ago a email army of British and
French troops encamped outside the svelte
of Pekin, and Prince Kling, the brother
of the Emperor, chose to threw open the
gates rather than have the city destroyed
by the invaders. Now another army it
attempting to earry old the same bold, yet
feasible, desigu, but the circumstances are
entirelychanged and the chances of success
enormously reduced. Although the Japan-
ese Officials are discreetly reticent, their
plan of campaign seems to comprise two
distinct movements. One large force is
advancing by land from Corea towards
Moukden, a city which, after Pekin, ie
perhaps the moat important in China for
purposes of conquest. It was planned and
built for the imperial capital immediately
after the ancestors of the present illmperk
overthrew the ancient Ming dynasty, butait
was afterward decided, to establish the
dragon throne at Pekinnowards which city
the other movement is proueeding by sea
with a degree of celerity and spirit that
bodes well (or the success of the under-
taking. The idea seems to be 'to put an
army ashore at the eastern side of the Gulf
of Liared'ong, which will proceed alotg the
coast to the mouth of the Peiho, where the
Taleu forts are situated ; at the mune time
a naval expedition • will cross the Gulf of
Pe -Chi -Li, and the Week on the forts will
be Made sitneltaneonaly
'
BROM LAND AND SEA*
In the eveht of suecess attending beth ot
therm movements, railway -oonimpnicatibn
mighteaeily be established between the tWo
it:Vatting armies, for a railway kiln opera.
tion from Moukden to Tien -sin, Which is
the port cpf Pekin, and is only a kW Miles ,
from the Take forts, It is almost oertain
thab this is the plan that the Japanese heve
been carefully devising, but it hi impossible
to 'calm from the despatches' just how far
they have proceeded with their opeeations,
The Chinese naval forte, it ie Safe to says
will be unable to Offer any effecbual resists
ance to the forte that, will ttack the Taku
forts ; hot as regards the. possibility Of tits
Chinese land force being able to 'cheek the '
advance linen Motikden it is impossible te
form an opinitm, for China's Streligth in the'
north is comparatively unknown,
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small tarns in the meunteine pi Wayne CO.
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