The Exeter Times, 1894-12-13, Page 7B .47tEorla
IVANTS 10)000 OUL,
"An4LNAGE SAYS HE WILL BE AsaAra.
ED TO MEET OOD WITH FEWER,
Taming Against Revivais—The Sin Agitinet
She Mole Gisestmiteligieue Excitement
ealhatere—The Gecat Itevivallee or the
Mast—Who Stormy Sea or We,
BaOOKLYN, Deo, 2. —Dr. Talmage obese
* 4' for the subject of his sermon to -day, "The
.
Objections to Religious. Revivals," from
• the text Luke v, 6: "They inolosed a
great multitude of ashes, and their net
brake."
Simon and his comrades had experienced
, the night before what fishermen call "poor
luck." Christ steps on board the fishing
•4 smack and tells the sailors to pull away
e from the beach and directs them again to
4 sink the net. Sure enough, very soon the
• e net is full of 'fishes, and the sailors begin
to haul in,.' large a school of fish was
taken that the hardy men begin to look
red in the face as they pull, and hardly
have they begun to rejoice at their success
when, snap goes a thread of the net, and
snap goes another thread, so there is dan-
ger not only of losing the fish, but of losing
the net.
Without much care as to how much the
boat tilts or how much water is splashed
on deck, the fishermen rush about, gather-
ing up the broken meshes of the net. Out
yonder there is a ship dancing on the wave,
and they hail it, "Ship ahoy, bear down
this way I" The ship comes, and both boats,
both fishing smacks, are filled with the
floundering treasures.
"Au," says some one," how much better
it would have been if they had stayed on
A shore, and fished with a hook and line,
and taken one at a time, instead of having
e this great excitement, and the boat almost
upset, and the net broken, and having to
call for help, and getting sopping wet with
the sea 1" The church is the boat, the
gospel is the net, society is the sea, and a
great revival is a whole school brought in
at one sweep of the net. I have admira-
tion for that man who goes out with a
hook and line to fish. I admire the way
he unwinds the reel and adjusts the bait
mie hook in a quiet place on a
"mare catches one and
also a big boat, and a
net a mile long, and
stout sails, and, stiff breeze,
ultitude of souls brought, so
altitude that you have to got help
aw it ashere, straining the net to the
utmost until it treake here and there, let.
ting a few escape, but bringing the great
multitude into eternal safety.
In other words,I believe in revivals. The
great work of saving men began with 3,000
people joining the church in one day, and
it will clommtvith 40,000,000 or 100,000,000
people saved in 24 hours, when nations
• shall be born in a day. But there are
objections to revivals. People are opposed
/ to them because the net might get broken,
• and if by the pressure of souls it does not
Iget broken then they take their own pen.
1- knives and slit the net. " They inclosed
*. a great multitude of fishes, and the net
ligieni Of the one ten years et ego than ene
one forty years of age. Why The one
who profeasee at forty years of age has
fortY years of impulse lel the Wrong die
motion to correct ; the child has only the
years in the wrong direction to correct,
Eger times ten are forty* Four times ten
religions prospect fele the lad that comes
into the kingdom of God and into the
church at ten years of age than the man
at forty,
1 am very apt to look upon revivals as
connected with certain men who fostered
them. People who in this day do not like
revivals nevertheless have not words to
express their admiration for the revivalists
of the past, for they were revivalists—
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George
Whitefield, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os.
born, Knapp, Nettleton and many othere
whose names come to my mind. The
strength of their intellect and the holuiess
of their lives make me think they would
not have anything to do with that which
was ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to talk
against revivals.
A man said to Mr. Dawson "I like
your sermons very much, but the after
meetings I despise. When the prayer
meeting begins, I always go up into the
gallery and look down, and I am disgust-
ed." "Well," said Mr. Dawson, "the
reason is you go on the top of your neigh-
bor's house and look down his chimney to
examine his fire, and of course you only
get smoke in your eyes. Why don't you
come in the door and sit down and warm?"
Oh, I am afraid to say anything against
revivals of religion, or against anything
that looks like them, because I think it
may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and
you know the Bible says then a sin against
the Holy Ghost shall never. be forgiven,
neither in this world nor the world to
come I Now, if you are a painter, and I
speak against your pictures, do I not speak heaven. What does all that mean?
against you? If you are an architect, and I do not suppose that the telegraph was
I speak against a building you put up, do invented merely to let us know whether
brake."
• It is sometimes opposed to revivals of
"Ohfr" Yell say, "it is too vast an enter-
prise to be conducted in so shert a timer
De you know how long it would take to
save the whole world if each man would
bring another? It would take ten years,
By a caleulation in compound intereameaeh
man bringing anothermnd that one another,
aud that one another, in tea years the
whole world would be saved. If the world
is not saved in the next ten years, it will be
the fault of the Church of Christ.
It is too mach to expeot each one to
bring one? Seine of us meat bring more
than one, for seine will not do their duty,
I want to bring 10,000 souls. I should be
ashamed to meet my God in judgment if,
with all my opportunities of commending
Christ to the people, I could not bring 10,-
000 souls. But it will depend upon the
revival spirit. The hook and line fishing
will not do it
It seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrieian gave
me a telegraph chart of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the continents
and the cables under the sea looked like
veins red with blood. On that chart I
see that the headquarters of the lightnings
are in Great Britain and, the United States.
In London and New York the lightnings
are otabled waiting to be harnessed for
some quick despatch. That shows you
that the telegraph is in possession of Chris-
tianity.
It is a significant fact that the man Who
invented the telegraph was an old-fashioned
Christian—Professor Morse—and that man
who put the telegraph under the sea was
an old-fashioned Christian—Cyrus W.
Field—and that the president of the most
famous Of the telegraph companies of this
country was an old fashioned Christian—
William Orton—going from the communion
table on earth straight to his home in
religion that those who come into the
church at such times do not hold out. As
long as there is a gale of blessing they
have their sails up, but as soon as strong
winds stop blowing then they drop into a
dead calm. But what are the facts in the
case? In all our churches the vast ma-
jority of the useful people are those who
are brought in under great awakenings and
they hold out. Who are the prominent
r men in the United States in churches, in
prayer meetings in Sabbath schools? For
the most pert they are the product of great
awakenings.
I have noticed that those who are brought
# into the kingdom of God through revivals
I not speak against you? If a revival be
the work of the Holy Ghost, and I speak
against that revival, do I not speak against
the Holy Ghost? And whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible
he shall never be forgiven, neither in this
world nor the world to come. I think
sometimes people have made a fatal mistake
in this direction.
When I am speaking of excitement in re-
vivals, of course I do not mean temporary
derangement of the nerves. I do not mean
the absurd things of which we have read as
transpiring sometimes in the church of
Christ, but I mean an intelligent, intense,
all absorbing agitation of body, mind an
soul in the work of spiritual escape and
spiritual rescue.
Now I come to the real, genuine cause of
objection to revivals. That is the coldness
of the objector. It is the secret and hidden
but unmistakable cause in every case, a low
state of religion in the heart. Wide awake
coneeorated, useful Christians are never
afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead
who are afraid of having their sepulchre,
molested. The chief agents of the devil
during a great awakening are always un-
converted professors of religion. As soon
as Christ's work begins they begin' to gossip
against it and take a pail of water and try
to put out this spark of religious influence
and try to put out another spark. Do they
succeed? As well when Chicago was on
fire might some one have gone out with the
garden water pot trying to extinguish it.
The difficulty is that when a revival be.
gins in the ohurch it begins at so many
points that while you have 'doused one
anxious soul with a pail of cold water there
are 500 others anxious souls on fire. Oh,
how much better it would be to lay hold of
the chariot of Christ's gospel andlhelp pull it
on rather than to fling ourselves in front of
the wheels,trying to block their progress I
We will not atop the chariot, but we our-
selves will be ground to powder.
But I think after allthe greatest obstacle
to revivals throughout Christendom to -day
is an unconvertedministry. We mustbelieve
that the vast majority of those who offi-
ciated at a seated altars are regenerated,
but I suppose there may float into the min-
istry of all the'denominations of Christians
men whose hearts have never been changed
by the grace of God. Of course, they are
all antagonistic to revivals.
Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews.
Pulpits aflame will make pews aflame.
Everybody believes in a revival in trade,
everybody likes a revival in literature,
everybody likes a revivla in art,yet a great
multitude cannot understand a revival in
matters of religion. Depend upon it,
where you find a man antogenistic to
revivals, whether he be in pulpit or pew,
he needs to be regenerated by the grace of
God.
I could prove to a demonstration that
without revivals this world will never be
converted, and that in 100 or 200 yelirs
without revivals Christianity will be prac-
tically extinct. It is a matter of astonish-
ing arithmetic. In each of our modern
generations there are at least 32,000,000
children. Now add 32,000,000 to the
world's population, and then have only
100,000or 20,0000 coaverted every year, and
how long before the world will be saved?
Never—absolutely never I.
You are a dry goods merchant on a large
scale, and I am a merchant on a small scale,
and I come to you and want to buy 1,000
yards of cloth. Do you say "Thank you
I'll sell you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to -day, and 20 yards to -mor.
row, and 20 the next day, and if it takes
me six months I'll sell the whole 1,000
yards. You will want as long as that to.
exatnine the goods, and I'll want as long as
that to examine the credit, and, besides
that, 1,000 yards of cloth is too ranch to sell
at once." No; you do not say that. You
take me into the counting -room, and in ten
minutes the whole transaction is consum-
mated. The fact is we cannot afford to be
fools in anything hut religion.
That very merchant who on Sabbath
afternoon sold me the 1,000 yards of eloth at
one stroke the next Sabbath in church will
stroke his beard and wonder whether it
would not be better for 1,000 souls to come
straggling along for ten years, instead of
bolting in at one service.
We talk a good deal about the good times
that are coming and about the world's re-
demption. How long before they will
come? There is a man who says 500 years,
one who says 200 years, and one more con-
fident who says in 50 years. What, 60
years? Do you propose to let two genera -
titers pass off the stage before the world is
converted?
Suppose by some extra prolongation of
human life at the next 50 years you should
walk around the world, you avradd, not in
all that wa,11,{ find One person that you re-
cognize. Why 1 All dead or so clanged
you would not know there. In other words,
if you postpone the redemption of this world
fot 50 yeere, you admit that the majority
of the two Whole generations shall go off the
stage unblessed, and unsaved, I tell you
the clutch of 3eaus Christ cannot consent
te it. We must pray and toil and have the
revival spirit, and we meet struggle to have
the Whole world eased before the men and
women no* in middle life nos oft',
e have more mire...tone° and more determin-
ation in the Christian life than those who
corns in under a low estate of religion.
People born in an icehouse may live, but
they will never get over the cold they
caught in the icehouse. A cannon ball
depends upon the Impulse with
which it starte for how far it shall go and
how swiftly, and the greater the revival
force with which a soul is started the more
far-reaching and far resounding will be the
execution.
But it is sometimes objected to revivals
that there is so much excitement that
people mistake hysteria for religion.
me --We must admit that in every revival of
religion there is either a suppressed or a
demonstratelLexcitement. Indeed if a man
can go out of a rimers of condemnation into
a state of acceptance with God, or see
othertemo, without any agitation of soul, he
is( wan -healthy, morbid state and is as
repUlsive and absurd as a man who ahould
boast he saws oluldsnatched out from under
a horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw
a man rescued from the fourth storey of a
house on fire and felt no acceleration of the
pulses.
Salvation from sin 'and death and hell
into life and peace and heaven forever is
such a tremendous thing that, if a man tells
me that he can look on it without any
agitation I doubt his Christianity. The
fact is diet sometimes excitement is the
most important, possible thing. In case of
resuscitation from drowning or freezing the
one idea is to excite animation, Before
conversion we are dead. It is the business
of the church to revive, arouse, awaken,
resuscitate, startle into life. Emmitetnent is
bad oe good according to whet it makes us
do, If it makes us do that which it bad,
It is bad excitement, but if it makes us
agitated about our eternal, welfare, if it
make us pray, if it make us attend upon
Christian serviee, if it make us cry unto
God for mercy, then it is a good excitement.
„,bijs ornetinaes said that during rsylvale
of religion great multliudts of cihildreti
and young people are brmight into the
s. (Month and they do not know what they
e about. It hes been my observation
t
the etylier people come into the king-
() Of Go the Mem) tieeful they are.
eII eteeleg a lefflotel lio ereens present
themselves as eandidatet for the ehureln
epd the one it ten years of ago and the
ether ie forty Y'ears of age, I will have
Ciro (Maddened in the profession of re•
flour is up or down, or which filly won the
race at the Derby, or which marksman
beat at Dollymount. I suppose the tele-
graph was invented and built to call the
world to God.
In some of the attributes of the Lord we
seem to share on a small scale—for instance,
in his love and in his •kindness. But until
of late foreknowledge, omniscience, omni-
presence, omnipotence, seem to have been
exclusively God's possession. God, desiring
to make the race like himself, gives us a
species of foreknowledge in the weather
probabilities, gives us a species of omnipre-
sence in the telephone, givee us a species
of omnipotence in the steam power. Dis-
coveries and inventions all around about
us, people are asking, What next?
I will tell you what next. Next a stupen-
dous religious movement. Next the end of
war. Next the crash of despotisms. Next,
the world's expurgation. Next,the Christ.
like dominion. Next the judgment. What
becomes of the world after that I care not.
It will have suffered and achieved enough
for one world. Lay it up in the dry docks of
eternity, like an old man-of-war gone out
of service, or fit it up like a ship of re-
lief to carry bread to some other suffering
planet or let it be demolished. Farewell,
dear old world, that began with paradise
and ended with judgment conflagration!
One summer I stood on the Isle of Wight
and I had pointed out to me the place
where the Eurydice sank with 200 or 300
men who were in training for the British
navy. You remember when the Makin,"
ship went down there was a thrill of horrir
all over the world. Oh, my friends this is
only a training ship. On it we are training
for heaven. The old ship sails up and down
the ocean of immensity, . now through
the dark wave of themidnight, now through
the golden crested wave of the morn, but
sails on and on. After awhile her work
will be done, and the inhabitants of heaven
will look out and find a world missing.
The cry will be: "Where is that earth
where Christ died and the human race
were emancipated? Send out- fleets of
angels to find the missing craft," Let them
sail up and down; cruise sep and down the
ocean of eternity, and they will catch not
one glimpse of her mountain masts or her
top -gallants of floating cloud. Gone down!
The training ship of a world perished in
the last tornado. Oh, let it not be that
she goes down with all on board, but rath-
er may it be said of her passengers as it
was said of the drenched passengers of the
Alexandrian corn ship that crashed into
the breakers of Melita, "They all escaped
safe to land."
We's TW1111110A,
Roger and I,
We'ti Twinnies I
Wheno en
t oGoedloi opened
ehy. an
en edo bitag of blueby, shy
Ti
There was two slipped met, and that's ilia
why
We'a Twinnies
Roger has blue eyes, and 1 has black.
Papa was going to send me back;
Mamma cried me when he took iet tusk,
We's Twinuies
More little drosee had to be made,
Two little chairs set out in the shade.
Two little children to be afraid,
We'o Twinnies
Papa come home quick every night;
Roger's is left knee, mine is right;
We squeezes him up most awfully tight.
We's Twinnies
We puts our arms around his neck, just so;
He says he don't want to see us grow;
Won't be so cute when we're men, you
know.
We'o Twinniesl
THE LOSS Of AN IDEM.,
tereeting Nice ROM could Ming° tety.110
wee nice? Be had not twe ideas ; he
chatted liken ape, and was quite es Ugly;
his eyes were not in the learit like Ferem-
and's. De was an impostor; he bored her;
she wished he would go. He and ho aunt
had all the talk Se themselves; Miranda
sat by silent and glum, and old she had a
headache. She Was only half oonsoieue that
Charlie Was babblingand bragging of hi
ie
exploits on the ice n Canade ; she only
half heard what he said, when be asked her
aunt if she had ever got the photo he sent
her a year before.
Miranda was only seventeen and very
romantic, or she would never have fallen
in love with a photograph. She discovered
it by chance one day while rummaging
about the house of her aunt in London,
whither her father, the rector, had sent her
on a visit. It was in what her eccentric
relative called her third room.
II) was the portrait of a young man,
handsome distinguished looking, who real-
ized exactly her ideal. She called him
Ferdinand.
Perhaps (she sometimes fondly conjectur-
ed) the original was some young poet, hid-
ing himself from fame, holding himself
aloof with proud fastidiousness, far from
the madding crowd and free from strife.
The portrait had probably been obtained
by stealth by some worshipping amateur
photographer.
Thus she dreamed in her cosy country
home.
Miranda passed the Winter in trembling
expectation, half hoping, half dreading
that her aunt Would in some of her letters
allude to the missing measure, and at the
same time tear the veer from its mystery ;
but no such enligeeS nment came, and in,
May Miranda wg, o go and stay in Lon-
don with her father's sister.
Meanwhile only two things happened to
her at the rectory. One was her eighteenth
birthday, the other an offer of marriage
from her father' curate, which it need
scarcely be said that she refused, affianced
as she felt herself to her ideal.
Simple Enough.
A man went into the laboratory of an
analytical chemist one day, with a bottle
containing an unwholesome -looking mix
Sure.
"I bought this of a traveling man," he
said, "and I feel sure it isn't what it ought
to be. I'd give five dollars to know what
would make the water and oil in this prep-
aration separate."
The chemist looked at it.
"Very well," he said, 'give me the five
dollars, and I will tell you."
The visitor promptly handed him a five
dollar bill.
The chemist took it gravely, and then,
removing the cork from the bottle, quietly
dropped into the liquid a pinch of common
salt. Instantly the water and oil separat-
ed.
The man's face was a study. He had got
what he wanted, and had paid his own
price for it. The chemist evidently felt
that he was well paid by his visitor's aaton,
ishnnent, however, and returned the five
dollars with a laugh.
Pith and Point.
While you are waiting and
die of old age.
Some men work modesty too
are generally disliked.
A man often pretends to change his na-
ture, bet he never does,
, A man doesn't like to have a woman use
his love for her as a club.
As Soon as it does no good a man is
willing to take care of himself.
Before some people wear a thing they
seem to put it away and wrinkle it.
A woman is enthusiastic over being mar-
ried, not over the man she is going to
marry.
When a man marries a Recent] time he
always makes an excuse of some kind to
hie friends.
A man will do more from motives of
stubbornness than from motives of patriot-
ism or religion.
hoping yo
hard and
Removing the Cause.
Mrs. Strongmincl--" Something mutt be
done. All over the country the men are
rebelling against whet they call ' petticoat
government.'"
Mrs. Rightem—" Then we must remove
the (muse."
Mrs. Sweetie— 0' lent hoW
Mrs. Hightail*" Wear bloomers."
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTSRNATIONAL LESSON, DEC, ie.
"The Twelve tient Forth," lttett; Ao, 6-5e
ateltden Text, Nutt,
The apoasntl:EellAL
werSe=mi::::'forth on a
preparatory mission to the people of IOW.
So many now followed Jesus that he could
personally come in eentact with few of them,
so he sent forth his disciples, and they were
able to do great good to others wlaile they
gob great good themselves, This was part
of the "training of the twelve."
)4,1 eLANATon3t AN» PRAOTV4T4 Mores.
"Nine of our skating olub and the—,
what do you call it ?—you know"—
" Oh, yes," said her aunt, "I got them
and put them all into a photograph screen.
It used to stand on a table in the third
room upstairs. I dare say it's somewhere
up there. Let us go and look for it."
"Photograph screen !" The words woke
up Miranda like a pistol shot. At last—
at last ! 'And what was going to happen?
Was her sin to find her out? No, eh
would never confess; but she felt very
guilty and shook in her shoes. However,
she managed to walk upstairs in them be.
hind her aunt, with Charlie at her heels.
In the third room her aunt pulled the
drawer of a cabinet. " Here it is," said
ehe, " folded up as fiat as a pancake," and
she gave it to Charlie, who unfolded it.
" et," cried he, with his wide laugh,
"here we all are ! But, I say, where's Sue
-= the — combination— composite, what
d'you call it? Nine of us blended into one,
you know—the new dodge. What's be-
come of it? Awfully handsome fellow we
made, too. Bit of Brown, bit of Jones, bit
of me. By Jove I What's the matter?
Are you ill? Here, sit down. Where's
the eau -de -cologne ?"
Miranda sat down. She did feel a little
faint for an instant, while she realized the
truth, and Ferdinand melted into space;
but then the suppressed fun in her "lower
nature" jumped tip like a jack-in-the-box
on the phantom heels of the vanishing
Ferdinand, and she went oft into peals on
peels of inextinguishable •laughter. They
were rather frightened; her aunt slapped
her hands, Charlie emptied the bottle of
eau.de-cologne over her, and I am afraid
she slapped him.
"Me poor child," said her aunt, "she's
hysterical."
"I'm nothing of the sort," gasped Mi-
randa, trying to stop laughing, going off
again, and speaking in spasms. "Oh, oh,
oh I its too, too, too funny I Oh, oh, ohl
that I could have fallen in love—with nine
men—at once! No, no, no! with nine—bits
of ment shallI ever, ever, ever stop laugh-
ing?" *
Verse 5, Go not into the way of the Gau-
dio, Our Lord's kingdom must be estab.,
Hailed in Israel first. "Jesus lived pea Jew
under the law until be had fulfilled that law
in his death, and then he left it nailed to
the croes."—Wakefield. Into any city of
the Samaritans, Jesus did not neglect the
Samaritans, however. The prejudiced
young Jews whom be now sent forth as his
heralds would have made sorry epodes to
the Samaritans. When they did meet a
few of them they sought to call down fire
from heaven to destroy them. Besides, the
Samaritans were not yet ready to receive
the Gospel, nor was the Gospel yet ready
to receive the Samaritan support. Nothing
could have been more ruinous to Jesus'
plans and purposes.
6. The lost sheep of the house of Israel.
See Matt, 9.36.
7. Preach. Proclaim. The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. It was not there, but it
was at hand. The phrase "kingdom of
heaven" had doubtless an accepted meaning
in that day, for it was frequently on the
lips of the more spiritual Jews. The apostles
were not told to instruct the people in what
the kingdom of heaven consisted, but rather
to seek to awake in them a spirit of expect-
ancy.
8. Heal the sick. By special miraculous
power. Freely is here equivalent to gratu-
itously.
9. Provide neither gold. The whole of
this prohibition was temporary, only for
that journey, no more. See Luke 22. 35s• 36.
Y our purses. Your belts or girdles. Ancient
orientale had no pockets.
10. Nor scrip for your journey. Leathern
bag or haversack for carrying food.
11. Inquire who in it is worthy. "Fit"
to entertain such messengers ; not in point
of rank, of course, but in congenial dispel;
Bitten.
13. Let your peace come upon it. Luke
10. 5. Say, "Peace be to this house."
Make the tenderest return to the hospital
ity of your host.
15. More tolerable for . . . Sodom.
This would seem to prove that in the world
to come there are different degrees of
punishment. The cities in the plain of the
Dead Sea had been terribly destroyed.
Jesus always taught that men would
be held accountable according. to their
opportunities.
16. Sheep in the midst of wolves. So
wonderfully was, this dreadful prediction
fulfilled that in our present time with full
historic knowledge it would be still more
impressive if he had said, "Behold I send
you forth as Johns and Peters in the midst
of Herods and Neros." Wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves. Be at once cautious
and peaceable in simplicity.
In May Miranda (and her ideal) wen'
to London, where the pretty country gin
was a good deal admired, and enjoyed her
self very much. Indeed, she was pronounced
bewitching. There was no monotony about
her, and there was a touch 'of innocent
coquetry. Truth to say, her ideal faded a
little from her thoughts at this time, as
photographs are apt to fade. Still no gilded
youth had pushed him from his place.
Soon after she reached her aunt's house
Miranda had gone into that third room ;
but everything there was differently ar-
ranged and the photographic screen had
disappeared. She dared ask no questions
about it.
One day at breakfast her aunt read a
letter that seemed to give her considerable
pleasure.
"My dear," said she, "Charlie's com-
ing."
" Who is Charlie?" asked Miranda, who
had never heard of him before.
"Me dear," replied her aunt, rather
solemnly, "Charlie is the son of me first
and only love • the man I should probably
have married if he hadn't preferred some
one else."
"Oh, poor auntie I" said Miranda, with
ready sympathy.
"Not at all, me dear! I should have been
poor it I'd married him, for he would have
spent all me money. He married a richer
woman, and spent all hers."
"And he is alive now ?"
me dear—doth dead long ago.
He got himself killed by a tiger out in
India, and it killed her, too. Not the tiger
but the loss of her husband. Indeed,then,
she was far fonder of him than I ever was.
Some well-off uncle looked after their bon
and got him into the F. O. He's oeen in
Canada these three years, and now he
writes me word he's coming home, and will
be in London next week. So sit ye down,
Miranda, child, and send him a card for me
dance next Thursday."
Miranda did as she was bidden in a little
flutter of agitation. An exquisite pos-
sibility had occurred to her. Could this
be the original? Could Charlie be Ferdi-
nand?
"If—is he nice, auntie ?" she asked,
tremulously,
"Well, me dear, you'll see for yourself.
Oh, yes I Charlie's nice enough, but not so
nice or handeome as his poor father, me
first and only love."
Thursday came, the guests came—more
than Mould ever get upstairs. Charlie
arrived` early and did get upstairs. His
hostess, glorious in green velvet and dia-
monds,pounced on him,took both his hands
and kissed him before the assembled
multitude.
Presently Miranda made her appearance
and, being effusively introduced to each
other, they went off to the ball -room to-
gether. Miranda's heart beat is little faster
when they met; for one moment she had
seemed to recognize the beautiful dark eyes
of Ferdinand. But ah, no, no ! That round
foolish fade, inclined to be chubby; that
nose, inclined to be smibby; that wide
mouth, forever widened by a schoolboy
grin 1
;Miranda went to bed that night vaguely
disappointed and unhappy, and had a pain.
fol dream of a distorted if erdinand photo,
graphed on a spoon. Charlie came to
luncheon next day. Miranda was tired and
a little arose; alio found him horribly, unite
Miranda went home in Julma merrier and
a wiser girl. In October she married her
faithful curate, whose only rival had been
Ferdinand.
THE FIELD OF CONNER
Some Items of Interest Qe the Duel
nose men.
The amount of wheat pflqit to tempo is
26,968,00o busheie, an iuereese, of 88,0110
for the week. A year ago the amount
afloat Was 82,720,000 beebelfi.
The British Board of Trade reteims for
Ootober show that during the month the
im9:78 increased 310,000, and the e4"
ports inareaoed £970,000, es compared with,
those for the corresponding month. of
18
A London deopatch says: The Baring
liquidation virtually has °lased. The trust
formed to take over the entire couorn
will issue first and, second ten year mort-
gage debenture bonds for £1,500,000. This
will, repay the amount owing to the Bank
of England and complete the liquidation,
and will have a good effect on the mar-
kets.
Te late attempt of the • individual
anthracite operators to make is uniform
price for coal at tidewater and at marketti
on the lines of the road has further demons.
lized the coal trade, but many of the reports
of nutting of prices and of excessive pro-
duction are grossly exaggerated. The stove
coal that is being sold in New York harbor
at $3.10 per ton is old coal of an inferior
quality, that has been in Mock more than
two years.
Although the list prices for both raw, and .
refined sugar remain at last week's position,
A SPEEDY CURE:
--
A Yonne; Girl's Self-Controi—flow She Was
Restored to 130118001181LeSS—Tite Part
Played ay the hod.
A despatch from Omaha says :—The
other night Dr. Towne was called to attend
a girl named Hart. From the urgency of
the telephone message the doctor thought
the ease was an urgent one, and hurried
with all speed through a biting storm. He
arrived at the house indicated, to find his
pedant, a girl of about fifteen, lying on
lounge in night dress and wrapper, appar-
ently unconscious. tie examined her
closely, but was unable to find any trace of
disease. Her pulse and temperature were
normal, and there was nothing to indicate
hat the fears of the father were well
grounded. He administered a stimulant,
but it appeared to have no effeet. Some-
what puzzled by the queer symptoms of
the case, he questioned the rest of the
family,and finally they reluctantly admitted
that earlier in the evening the girl had
manifested a vigorous disposition to set
aside the parental authority, and that
authority had been upheld by a vigorous
application of a very severe rod of leather
thongs, administered in the old-fashioned
way.
Somevrhst settled at having his rest
broken on account of a girl who had de-
termined to get even for a chastisement
by frightening her parents into a belief
that she had gone into a mortal syncope,
he concluded to get a little even, and cure
the patient at the same time. Assuming
the most grave anxiety he made another
examination of the patient, and assured
the trembling father that her condition
was indeed serious, and nothing but heroic
measures could afford relief. Watch-
ing the girl's face closely while he spoke,
he noticed a momentary expression of sur-
prise, whieh was not noticed by the fam-
ily, and was confirmed by his diagnosis of
the case. As apreliminary measure he order-
ed a tub of hot water,in which the feet of
tkiepatien6 were placed. He saw that the
liquid was about as hot as any mortal
could stand, but the girl was game, and
beyond a slight start as the hot water
touched her akin she retained her sem-
blance of unconsciousness.
The physican shook his head, anddecided
that more decided methods must be em-
ployed. There was evidently a serious
condition of the bowels which necessitated
the use of the knife. bowels,
the patient held
her ground, but a close observer could see
that one eye was slightly opened enough to
she could observe the surgeon as he opened
his instrument case, and laid out half a
dozen of the most formidable weapons at
his command. Picking up a huge dissecting
knife he advanced toward the patient, but
this was more than she could stand. With
a, yell that could be heard for two blocks
she sprung from the lounge, and, grabbing
a chair, she stood at bay, in the further
corner of the room. The girl's father Was
at first astonished, but his surprise quickly
gave place to anger ; and before the physi-
man could paok up his instruments, he saw
his patient extended on the lounge while
the father was applying the rod in a
manner that elicited the most convincing
soreams ketestify that the leather thongs
were getting in their work.
A CABLE MAGNATE'S OPINION.
the tone of the market is much firmer in
the United States. The demand for raws
is perceptibly better as engagements for
melting/ on old orders boome exhausted and
pew orders commence to arrive. Refiners
are not able to secure much new business,
as jobbers evidently intend to work off all
the old stook before giving new orders. The
trade feels confident that purchases of
refined will increase shortly, however, and
consequently the situation is rather brighter
than when previously reported.
, France, by her Chamber of Deputies, has
ratified the treaty with Canada. The wines
embraced in the agreement can scarcely be
said to come into competition with Caned.
ian ; they have a place of their own in public
estimation. But is is necessary that care
be taken to see that wines are genuine'et
a time when spurious fabrications have be-
come common, and a question about their
exclusion is sure to arise. On the ground
of public health, false wines ought to be
excluded. The chief mischief in the case
both of wines and spirits, is done by adul-
teration, or, what is still worse, wholly
false articles. Presumably the wines Of
the treaty are genuine -wines, though no
direct provision is made for the exclusion
of fictitous. Spurious wines were not
excluded under the old duties, but under
the old treaty by which certain kinds of
wines are favored, care must be taken to
see that they do not get a preference; if
admitted at all there will be discrimination
in their favor, for some of them profess,
falsely, to be of the clam covered by the
treaty.
Coal plays so important a part, not only
in every avenue of the industrial arena,
but is indispensable to the comfort and
happiness of a very large proportion of
mankind, and therefore anything threaten-
ing the placidity of its production and
distribution, whether it be the danger of
getting into the hands of a few organized
monopolists, as was feared in the United
States two years ago when the general
outcry was raised against the, "coal bar-
ons," or whether a general paralysis of
commerce is threatened as in the ease of
periodical strikes on both continents, the
coal situation is never devoid of interest.
For, some months now the situation in
the anthracite coal business has been rather
se-ious to the dignitaries who praetiaally
controlled the markets of the greater part
of the United States and Canada two years
ago, and were able to exact inordinately
high prices for all grades of hard coal.
Through a series of causes they seem im-
potent to stem the tide of falling prices and •
the abnormal decrease in the earning of
"the coal roads," which are doubly afflicted.
The difficulty is chiefly attributed to the
temporary inability of the roads and opeerme
tors to establish equitable and pert -element
rates
A better trade is reported ,at Toronto in
winter goods this week. The more season-
able weather is probably the reason for the
increased demand, but generally trade is
not so satisfactory as merchants could wish.
A great deal of caution is displayed, and
purchases are made only from hand to
mouth. Dealers in holiday goods report
an increasing demand. Stocks of this class
of goods are large and the assortment
varied. In groceries the trade of the week
has been light. Sugars rather dull, but
sales of dried fruits and nuts have improv-
ed. The exporters of apples have suffered
heavy losses of late, sales in Liverpool
being made at ruinous prices. Proper care
in packing is the real cause. The stock
deteriorated greatly en route. . . The
feeling in speculative circles this week has
been somewhat unsettled. Some improve-
ment is expected in Canadian Pacific.
Latest returns are more favorable to Cana.
dian railways, and the net increase in Oath.
her earnings of 0.1.3.1t. is a surprise to many
holders of the stock. The gross earnings
for that month were $2,190,968, and the net
$1,010,248, or an increase of $63,821 as
compared with net earnings of October
1893. For the past ten menthe the, net
earnings are $5,019,208, or a decrease of
$1,223,998. The late economies practised
by the management will materially ins.
prove the net reeelt for the year. The
new United States loan is considered &
great success to those capitalists who were
the successful tenderers, and no wonder.
The bonds bear Spur cent, interest, and
at 117,077, the price paid by the syndicate,
the intevest will be a shade under 8 per
cent. These bonds have since sold at 110
to 119e, or at a profit of over $1,000,000.
Even New York city with its big bonded
debt, borrowed money a few years ago at
a low rate, British commie have been
selling the past week at prices that will
not net over 2# per cent, to the investor.
To the United States Government the
floating of this late debt issue cannot be
said to be satisfactory.
Sir John Fender Thinits the Pacific Cable
Would Not Pay.
Sir John Fender has expressed the opin-
ion that a Pacific cable joining Canada and
Australia would not pay. He ought to
know. No man has had more experience
of the submarine telegraph business than
he, having been prominently identified with
it ever since there was such a business. But
though he is capable of forming a just
estimate of the commercial value of the
proposed Pacific cable, he is interested in
publishing a low one, just or unjust as that
may be. The construction of such a line
would be a heavy biow to the Eastern Ex-
tension, Australasia' and China Telegraph
Company, of whichhe is chairman. The
whole cable "trust," in fact, of which he
is the head, would suffer from the competi-
tion of a Pacific line. The want of such a
line enables the Eastern Extension Com-
pany to levy exorbitant charges on the
Australian colonies. Having the Eastern
business to itself, it has been able to keep
Its dividend up to 7 per cent, on share
capital that is watered, and to swell its
reserve at its last half -yearly meeting by
the addition of more than
HAVE. A MILLION DoLLAnS.
To the chief director of this great cor-
poration it would naturally seem a pity to
spoil the earning power of so rich a property
by exposing it to competition. He is aware
that the Australian agitation for a Pacific
cable has its origin in a desire to escape the
excessive tariffs his company imposes. He
has every reason for being antagonistic to
it. His opinion, therefore, will be less
likely to put a damper on the enterprise
than to boom it, It will be taken as an
indication that he considers the Pacific line
likely to be a formidable rival for Eastern
business. However the line might turn
out in the end, it is probable that at the
outset it would not pay, and that so far it
would bear out Sir John Fender's views.
He knows that even the lines belonging to
the flourishing monopoly over which be
presides did not pay in the first years of
their operation. Discouraging returns, as
a rule, seem to be the first experience of
ocean telegraph companies. But if a Paci-
fic cable would not return a profit on the
eapital invested in it, the cables of the
Eastern Extension Company would hardly
continue to yield big dividends. The
failure of the Pacific line would be due to
tariff -cutting on the Eastern Extension
Company's lines.
In Pawn.
At the Paris Mont de. Piete, the officio
pawnbroking establishment, a wedding
ring pawned in )867 hat just been redeem-
ed. Only 17 franca was lent upon it origi-
nally, but the ticket war renewed thirty-
six times and the owner paid 60 francs in
interest. The tickets are till renewed
every year for a pair of cotton curtains
pledged for 4 francs twenty.tveo years ago,
and. for an umbrella pawned in 1840.
Henry Y. Bryant, the Nevada silver
king, while stopping at the Fifth Avenue,
signed his check regularly every week for
$3,000. 'Ithis weekly stun paid the board
of himself and hie family for just deVen
days.
Patient Waiting No Loss.
Friend—" You have been engaged for
the past two years, and dan wall afford to
marry. Why don't you do it 1"
Mr. Einem (gloomily)—" I am waiting
for her pet dog to die:"
A reputation for goodItulginenit, fair
dealing, truth adrectitudeile rtielf,
fortune, --II. W. Beecher.