HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-12-27, Page 6e eubliaiiee The eye la lest la the he
wilderment of stombe, ehriues, tultierete,
pelenee and temples. It is the glorifloation
stemis the teituripli of etairways, but
01.9147 MAN CONVERTED BY 11DADING looked at close by the tereplea, though
ONE OF DE, TALMAGE'S SERMONS- large and expeusive, are anything but at.
-nee tra olive, ,The seeming gold in many oases
turns out to be brim* The precious stones
leivIne (Sivas Vie Murree- in the wall turn out to be paint. The
be City ot eteneves. Intent, marble is Stucco. The slippery and dia.
Ile Cates the Mecca or leinetem sleeting steps lead you to images of horrible
isms en the sautes or the Gauge% visages, aad the flowers put upon the altar
00eers, Dem 16. —Itev, Dr, 'Talmage have their fragrance submerged by that
to day delivered the third Of his series of which kJ. theoppoeite of isroineeics.
After you have seen the ghats the two
round the woad sermons threugh the press,
great things in Bonaree that yea must flee
the suhject beieg the "Burning of the are the Golden cud. Monkey temples. About
death's and the text* "They have hands* the vast Golden temple there is not so
but they handle not, feet hams they, Much gold as would niche an English Bove.
but they walk not, neither speak they reign, The air itself is asphyxiated.
through theit throat. They that make The god of the Golden temple is Siva, or
the poison god. Devils wait upon him,
them are like unto them."—Psalm oxv,7,8. He is the god of war, of famine, of pesti-
The life of tne missionary is a luxurious lenee, ele is the destroyer. ele has around
and indolent life. Hindooiran is a religion his neck a string of skulls. Before him
bow men whose hair never knew a comb.
thet ought not to be interfered with. Mee- They eat carrion and that which is worse.
tianOir be guilty of an hnPertanenee when it Bells and drums here set up a racket. Pil.
Invades heathendom, You must put in the grime come from hundreds of miles away,
same line of reverence Brahma, Buddha, spending their last piece of money and
exhausting their last item of strength in
Mohammed. and. Christ. To refute these order to reaoh this Golden temple, glad to
headers and. blasphemies now so prevalent, die in or near it and have the ashes of their
and to spread. out before the Christian bodies thrown into the Ganges.
We took a carriage and went still farther
' world the contrast between idolatrous and
on to see the Monkey temple, so called
Christian countries, I preach this third
because in and around the building monkeys
iiermon in my round. the world. series, abound, and are kept as sacred. All (mole
In this discourse I take you to the very utionists should visit this temple devoted
to the family from which their etticesters
headquarters of heathendom, to the very
came. These monkeys chatter and wink
capital of Iiincloolem, for what Mecca
and climb and look wise and look silly and
to the Mohammedan, and. what jethealem have full possession of the place. We were
is to the Christian, .Benares, India, . is to asked at the entrance of the Monkey temple
the random We saw it, cremation, not as to take off our shoes because of the sacred.
ness of the place, but a small contribution
many good people in America and Eng- placed in the hands of an attendant result.
land are now a,dvoeatirig it—namely, the ed in a permission to enter with our shoes
burning of the dead in clean and. orderly on. As the Golden temple is dedicated to
• Siva the poison god, this Monkey temple
and refined. crematory, the hot furnace soon
is dedicated to Siva's wife, a deitess that
reducing the human form to a powder to must be propitiated, or she will disease and
be carefully preserved in an urn—but ore. blast end destroy. For centuries this spit.
• mation as the Hindoos practise it. fire has been worshipped. She is the god-
dess of scold and slap and terme.gency.
We got into a boat and were rowed down
She is supposed to be a supernatural Xantip
the river Ganges until we came opposite pe; hence t her are brought flowers and
to where five dead bodies lay, four of them rice, and here and there the flowers are
women wrapped. in red. garments and a spattered with the blood of goats slain in
saerifice,
man, wrapped in white. Our boat fastened, As we walk to -day through this Monkey
we waited sad watched. High Piles of temple we must not hit, or tease or hurt
wood were on the bank, end this wood one of them. Two Englishmen years ago
is carefully weighed on large scales, am, lost their lives by the maltreatment of a
cording as the friends of the deceased can monkey.l.onkey. Passing along one of these-In-
a,n streets, a monkey didnot soon enough
afford to pay for it. In many oases only a get out of the way, and one of Memo Eng.
few sticks can be afforded, and the dead Batsmen struck it with his cane. Inunedi-
body is burned only a little and then ately the .people and the priests gathered
aroundthese strangers, and the public
thro ese th a .s. But,. where.. tee
.rathincreased until the two Englishmen
. es of the deceased are well to do an wee.) pounded to death for having struck
abundance of wood in pieces four or five a monkey. No land in all the world ire re -
feet long is purchased. Two or three veres the monkey as India, as no other
lard has a temple called ofter it. One of
• layers Of sticks are then pub on the ground. the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in
to receive the dead form, Small pieces of the marriage of two monkeys. A nuptial
sandalwood. are inserted. to produce free procession was formed, in which moved
camels, elephants, tigers, cattle and pa-
grence. The deceased is lifted from the
lanouins of richly dressed people. Binds
resting place and put upon this wood. of -music sounded the wedding march.
Dancing parties kept the night sleepless.
It was 12 days before the monkey and
mookeyess were free from their round of
gay attentions. In no place but India
could such a carnival have occurred; but,
after all, while we cannot approve ol the.
head. and. feet are left exposed. Then a Monkey temple, the monkey is sacred to
quantity of grease suhilarity. I defy any one to watch a monkey
one to make every- one minute without laughter. Why was
thing inflammable is put on the wood and this creature. made? For the world's
into the mouth of the dead. Than one of amusement. The mission of some animals
the richest men in Benares, his fortune is left doubtful, and we cannot see the use
of this or that, sinnP
elset ed, or this or that
made in this way, furnishes the fire, end insect, but the mission of the ape is certain.
after the priest has mumbled a few words All around the world it entertains.
the eldest ' son walks three times around Whether seated on the top of this temple
the sacred pile and then applies the torch, in India or cutting up its antics on the
t
and the fire blazes up, and in a short time top of a hund organ, it stirs the sense of
has become the ashes which the I the ludicrous, tickle e the diaphragm into
h-eiv
cachinnation, topples gravity into play and
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relatives thro into the Ganges. accomplishes that for which it w e aped.
We sew floating p qt ns on the Ganges The eagle, and the lio d the gazelle,
the body of a child wh?t?4 had been
cootunellyd and it'he-29•13
more certainly have their
partly burned because the.
nliesn'T than has the monkey, but it
not atiord enough wood. WM ,m4.4-"v'timplies a low form of Hindooism when this
ed the floating form of the chil-- row embodied mimicry of the human race is
alighted Upon it. In the meantime hun-
dreds of Hindoos were bathing in the river
dipping their heads, filling their mouths,
supplying their brass cupsnnuttering words
of so called prayer. Such a mingling of
Then the cover is removed from the face of
the corpse, and it, is bathed with water of
the Ganges. Then several more layers of
wood are put upon the body, and other
sticks are placed on. both sides of itebut 'the
lifted into worship.
In one of the cities for the first time in
my life I had an opportunity of talking
with a fakir, or a Hindoo Who has renounc-
superstition and loathsomeness and inhum-
ed the world and, lives on alms. He eat
anity I had never before seen. The Ganges under a rough covering on a platform of
is to the Hindoo the best river of all the brick. He was covered with the ashes of
earth, but to me it is the vilest stream that the dead and was at the time rubbing
more of those ashes txpon.his arms and legs,
ever rolled its stench in horror to the sea.
I looked all along the banks for the mourn. He understood and spoke English. I said.
w
era for the dead. I saw in two of the cities to him. "Eo long have you been seated
nine Cremations, but in no case as ad look here ?" He replied, ".Fifteen years."
"Have those idols which I see power- to
help or destroy ?" He said, "No; they
only represent God. There is but one God.
Question— When people die, where do
where do they go to?
Answer—That depends upon what they
have been doing. If they have been doing
good, to heaven; if they have been doing
evil, to hell. tj
Q—Bui do you et believe in the trans-
migration of souls, and that after death we
go into birds or animals of seine sort?
A—Yes. The last creature a man is
thinking of while dying is the one into
which he will go. If he is thinking of a
bird, he will go into a bird, and if he is
thinking of a cow he will go into a cow.
Q—I thought you said that at death the
soul goes to heaven or hell.
A—He goes there by a gradual process.
It may take years and years.
Q—Can anyone become a Hindoo? Could
I become a Hindoo?
A—Yes, you could.
Q —How could I become a Hindoo?
A—By doing as the Hiudoos do.
But as Ilooked upon the poor, filthy
wretch, bedaubing himself with the ashes
of the dead, I thought the last thine on
a profitable bueiness. Here there are earth I would want to become would be a
carpenters nuking wooden gods, and brass Hindoo. I expressed *o a missionary who
Workers making brawl gods, and sculptors overheard the convereation between the
making stone gods, and potters malting fakir and myself my amazement at some of
clay gods. I cannot think of the abomi- the doctrines the fakir announced The
nations practised hate without a recoil of missionary said., "The fakirs are very ac.
stomach end a need of cologne. Although commodating, and supposing you to be a
munch is said about the carving on the friend of Christianity he announced the
temples of the city, everything is so vile theory of one God, and that of rewards and
• that there is notmuch room left for the• punishments."methane The devotees enter the temples
There are, however, alleviations for Ben-
nineteeretatentiethe unclothed and depart ares. I attended worship in one of the
begging. All that Islindoolena can do for a
man or woman it does here. Notvvith-
Christian missions. The sermon, though
standing all that may have been said in its 1 delivered in Hindoostaneemi which could
• not understand a word, thrilled me with
hector at the parliament of religions( In
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Chicagoit makes man a brute and woman its earnesbnese and tenderness of tone, es-
,
the lowest type of slave, I would rather
be a home or a cow or a dog in India than
be a woman. The gresitest disaster that
or a tear. 1 said to friends: "How is this?
Have the living no grief for the dead ?" I
found that the women do not come forth
on such occasions, but that does not account
for the absence of all signs of grief. There
is another reason more potent, Men do
not see the faces of their wives until after
• marriage. They take them on recommend-
ation. Marriages thus formed, of course,
have not much affection in them. Women
are married at 7 and 10 years of age and
are grandmothers at 30. Such unwisely
formed family associations do not imply
much ardor of love. The family so poorly
pat together,. who wonders that it is easily
• taken apart? And so I account for the
absence of all signs of grief at the cremation
of the Hindoos.
Benares is the capital of Hindooism and
Buddhism, but Hindooient has trampled
out Buddhism, the hoof of the one monster
en the grizzly neck of the other monster.
It is also the capital of filth, and the
capital of malodors, and the capital of
badeeency. The Hindoos say they have
300,00U,000 gods. Benares being the head-
quarters of these deities, you will riot be
• Burp/rimed to find, that the snaking of gods is
peciaily when the missionary told /Tie at
the close of the service that he recently
baptized a man who was converted through
reading one of my sermons among the hills
can Iseppen to a Etitdoo is that he was
of India. The songs of the two Christian
born at in. assemblages I visited in this city, although
Beearee is imposing in the distance as the tunes were new and the sentiments
you look at it from the other side Of the not translated, were uplifting and inspir-
. (;!auges. The forty-seven ghate, or flights I beg to the last degree. There wee also a
i
of clone steps, retiehing from the water's school of nnative
6mo nat.,girls, an institution es.
edge te the buildinge high up on the hanks, eablished by a rajah of generosity and
merk a pleee for the Recent and descent of wealth, a. graduate of Madras university,
But, snore than all, the iniseionaries are
busy, some of them preaching on the
ghats, some of thorn in churches, in
pule end Wears. The Loudon missionary
siomety has here its college for young men
and its schools forchildree, and its houses
of worship for all, The Church Missionary
somety has its eight eehools, all tilled
with learners. The evangelizingwork of
the Wesleyens and the Baptists is felt in
all parts of Banana In its mightiest
stronghold Hindoolein is being assaulted.
And now as to the industrious malign -
mut of missionaries. It has boot said by
some travellers after their return to Amer.
ioa or England tient the missionaries WM
living a life fall of indolence and luxury,
That Is a falsehood that I would say is as
high as heaven lilt did not go down in the
opposite direction. When strangers come
into these tropical olimates,the missionaries
do their best to entertain them making
sacrifices for that purpose. In the city of
Benares a missionary told me that, a
gentleman coming from England into one
of the mission stations of India,the mission-
aries banded together to entertain, him.
Among other things, they had a hams boiled,
prepared and beautifully decorated, and
the seine ham were passed around. from
house to house as this stranger appeared,
and in other respects a conspiraey of kind.
ness was effected. The visitor went home
to England and wrote and spoke of the
luxury in which the missionaries of India
were living.
Americans and Englishmen come to
these tropical regions and find a missionary
living under palms, and with different
styles of fruits on the table, andforget that
palms are here as cheap as hickory or pine
in America, and rich fruits AR Cheap as plain
apples. They end here missionaries sleep.
ing under punkas, these fans swung day
and night by coolies, and forget that four
cents a day is good wages here, and the man
finds himself. Four cents a day for a coach-
man, a missionarycan afford to ride.
There have been missionaries who have
come to these hot climates resolving to live,
as thenativealive, andone or two years have
finished their work, their chief use on mis-
sionary ground being that of furnishing for
a large funeral the chief object of interest.
So far from living in idleness, no men on
earth work so bard as the missionaries now
in the foreign field. Against fearful
odds, and with 3,000,000 of Christians
opposed to 250,000,000 of Hindoos,
Mohammedans and other false religions,
these missionaries are trying to take
India for God. Let the good people of
America and, England and Scotland and
;f all Christendom add 99 3-4 per cent to
their appreciation of the fidelity and conse-
cration of foreign missionaries. Far away
from home, in an exhausting climate and
compelled to send their children to England,
Scotland or America so aseto escape the
corrupt conversation and behavior of the
natives, these men and. women of God toil
on until they drop into their graves, but
they will get their chief appreciation when
their work is over and the day is won, Gait
will be won. No place in heaven will be
too good. for them. Some of the ministers
at home who live on salaries of $4,000 or
$5,000 a year, preaching the gospel of Him
who had not, where to lay his head, will
enter heaven and be welcomed, and while
looking for a place to sit down they will be
told: "Yonder in that lower line of thrones
you will take your places, not on the
thrones nearest the King. They are re-
served for the missionaries 1"
Meanwhile let alI Christendom be thrill
ed with gladness., About 25,000 converts
in India every year under the Methodis
missions, and about 25,000 converts tmder
the Baptist missions, and about 75,000 con
verts under all missions every year. But,
more than that, Christianity is undermin-
ing heathenism, and not a city or town or
neighborhood of India but directly or in
directly feels the influence, and the day
speeds on when Hindooism will go down
with a crash. There are whole villages
which have given up their god,.eadsse
not an idol is left. Thoseerenenwereen.
hood in nt,,,.....erany'lleeSgriseing unloosened, and
theemtergelp of caste is being relaxed.
Human sacrifices have ceased, and the last
spark of the funeral pyre on which the
widow must leap has been extinguished, and
the juggernaut, stopped, now stands as a
curiosity for travelers to leek at. All India
will be taken for Christ. If any one has
any disheartenments, let him keep them as
his own private property. He is welcome
to all of them. But if any man has any
• enconragements to utter let him utter them.
What we want in • the church and the
world is less croaking owls of the night
and more morning larks with spread wing
ready to meet the advancing day. Fold up
" elaomi" and Virindham"and give us
Ariel" or "Mount 'Pisgah" or ," Corona -
Mon." I had the joy of preaching in many
of the cities of India and seeing the dusky
faces of the natives illumined with heaven-
ly anticipations. In Calcutta while the
congregation were yet seated I took my
departure for a railroad train; I preached
by the watch up to the last minute. A
swift carriage brought me to the station
not more than half a minute before starting.
I came nearer to missing the train than I
hope any one of us will come to missing
heaven.
Decline of Farm Lands in England.
A recent rental of a farm in the County
of Suffolk, England, illustrates in a practi-
cal way the surprising decrease in the value
of farm lands in England. A few weeks
ago a farm consisting of 130 acres was put
up for rental at auction in Ipswich. The
auction system of lease was resorted to, as
the proprietor had been unable to obtain a
tenant by any other meanie The auctioneer
announced his upset price, and asked for
bids. He received £10 above this figure,
and the farm was let for £60, the landlord
undertaking at the same time to do certain
repairsewhich brought the net rental down
to £35 a year. For twelve years previous
to 1879 the farm brought the owner $200
clear yearly, after all expense had been
paid. The decline in prices, therefore,may
be gauged by 4200 in 1879, as against £35
in 1894. We have nothing to parallel this
in Canada.
Happy Innocence.
"Johnnie," said hie mother, the °thee
day, catching the young its
in the
ad of propelling pebbles m the direction of
neighbor Jones' windows; " johnniet do
you know that it is very wrong for little
boys to throw stones? Never let me see you
do it again."
Johnnie looked into his mother's face
with that calm assurance which comes of a
sense of innocent intent, and said
Mamma 'sposing David's folks had
been so particular, wouldn't it have been
a bad thing for the Israelites ?"
When terrified, the ostrich is said th
travel at the rate of twenty-five mill it
hour, and clears tvrelve be fourtee
a
Maw Does tlVfatter?
It mattere little where 1 was benOr,
Whether they shrank at the old world'e
ifut9itty.up,arents were rich or poor 1
Or walked in the pride ef wealth smoure,
Bat whether I live an honest man,
And hold my integrity firm in my clutch,
I tell you, brother, plain AS fain,
matters, much 1.
It matters little how long I stay
In a world of sorrOW, sin and care ;
Whether in youth ham called away,
Or live till my bones and pate are bare,
But whether I do the best I can
To soften the weight of adversity's touch
On the faded cheek of my fellow man,
It matters uuwh
It matters little where be my grave,
Or on the land or on the sea,
By purling brook or 'neath stormy wave ;
It matters little or naught to me,
But whether the Angel ot Death comes
And marks my brow with his loving tough
AO one that shall wear the victor's crown,
It matters mach
Her Colden [la
Miss Jessamine kept boarders. "It 'was
none of your common boarding-houses," she
was in the habit of telling those who came
thither seeking a home. No ; Miss Jessa-
mine aspired to selectness and exclusiveness
in the extremest degree.
I have but six boarders," said Miss
Jessamine, "with a nod of the lavender cap
ribbons vehieh she always wore after the
Mock had marked the hour of noon. "Mrs.
Pouncer, a good, genteel window lady, liv-
ing upon an income of her own, occupies
my second floor, My third is let to young
ladies, Miss Markham occupies the front
room; Miss Markham teaches in se select
school in Citesbury Square, The two Miss
Applefields, at the back, are in Stopford's
fancy store on Sixth avenue—most respect-
able and nice young persons. Miss Sara
Everett, in the hall bedroom does the
fashion articles for the City Recorder.
And the extension -room downstairs ie oc-
cupied by my brother, Mr. Gerald Jessa-
mine, who is in the office of the Commiss-
ioner of Chimney tops, downtown. You
can see for yourself, ma'am, how genteel
and refined my oirole is. A piano in the
back parlor, ice-cream for dessert twice a
week, and select readings from the poets
by my brother, Mr. Gerald Jessamine, in
the parlor every Thursday evening."
And it was in this establishment that
Sara tverett lived when Mr. Jackington
fell in love with her. Mr. Jackington
boarded just around the corner. Mr.
Jackington was tired of "life,in a human
menagerie," as he facetiously called axis.
tence in a boarding-house.
"A housekeeper -can't 'be got for less
than $20 a month," said enn Jackington,
counting up expellees on. his fingers. "And
Mr. Jackington reale up ene day, in the
then she'd want a ficullery meiri under her.
Costs too much 1 I'd better get martied I"
omnibus, and was pleased At the ',valiant
manner in which Miss Everett conteatea
a dubious 25 -cent piece with 'the driver.
The driver was an old band at thee:me-Meese
but Miss Everett was too much for him
einnd routed him with great slaughter. ' Mr.
Jackington watched her get off and enter
the Jessamine establinenseenereeeftemt.
_ -
"I know Gerald jessamint," thought he.
"Paktum chimney -top tax to him only the
other day. A good fellow, but cracked A
little on Shakespeare and Tennyson. "I'll
call there and get an introduction. I think
she'd suit me. By George I how she did
double up that omnibus driver I"
Mr. Jackington hugged himself and
chuckled at the recollection. •
That was the way in which Miss Everett
became engaged to Mr. Jackington. It is
quite needless to say that all the other
boarders w,ere insanely jealous of her. The
Widow Pouncer, who was "fat, fair and
forty," thought a "maturer female" would
have suited Mr. jackington's years so much
better than a chit like Sara Everett ;
"though, to be sere," she added viciously,
"she was five and thirty if she was a day."
The Misses Applefield were sure she
painted and wore false hair. Such a bright
complexion and such glimmering gold.
en hair couldn't be real, they were quite
certain. And Mies Markham, who feigned
to be intellectual, remarked grimly that
"no man could long respect a woman who
thought only of dress and fashion.",
But Miss Sara, having got the ineide
track, could afford to look down on them
with supreme superiority, which was more
aggravating than any other system of treat-
ment could have been. She thought herself
safe, but she did not reckon on the
thousand little under -currents of the streams
of true love.
"I say, Jack," said Mr. Gerald beer'
mine, one day, as he met his friend on edlenee
street, "the girls at our house are reree,see'
odd things about your young woman
demanded Mr. Jackington.
"Odd things What thingoiti:thilarrPoy13:
jt isn't my fault I didn'Le... ,ney
blue eyes,
the 'fi"esraciedsMo iarl I aetsisonnit folif:ho frf ftdiso' '11:1
" Will you have the
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ington, butte h
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Witti enfortit , 'dlerk
of oh 4°
, y B. I. doe% cackle
,tvOmen, I ask you 'what all
erect, the 'votary of Tennyson
'muses was forced, to explain him'
ore explicitly.
" It isn't me, I've no !atilt* to find, and
I've seen nothing," said he, " But they
do say there's is is Man comes to see her,
''A man I"
"Goes right up to her room twice a week
4. fellow with long, black whiskers, and
a coat of black tabby velvet."
• "It's false l" said 1\tr.Jackington, grinds
lug his teeth.
"Pm afraid it's true," said Jessamine.
'My sister Barbara him seen him slinking
up the back stairs, rip hos Mrs, Femmes.
He'd bribed the cook to let him in on the
sly; but ?mincer was down there making
rose salve for her complexion, and she saw
him large as life."
"Can I believe my ears ?" said Mr, jack
ington, clasping hie hands tragically
together,
'Cornea every Wednesday ana Saturday,'
added Mr. J eathinine,
"This is Saturday I" exclaimed the
lover.
"At 5," supplemented Jessamine.
"It is a quarter of 5 now," said. Mr.
jackington. Seizing his friend' e arm.
"Come I We will see for ourselves 1"
"You'll not do anything rash ?" pleaded
the exceedingly peaceful natured Jessa-
mine.
"T will pledge myself to nothing," aplut.
tared IYIe. Jackington: "But if I find my
Sara false, I will henceforth abandon all
all trust in womankind."
A man with a black velvet coat, highly
perfumed locks, and rather dirty hands,
was just ascending the back steps as they
came up to the front dome Mr. jessamine
let himself and his friend. in with a latch.,
key, and they stood back in the vestibule
as the black velveted serpent crept up the
stairs. He knocked a peculiar double
knock on the panel of Miss Everett's door,
and—was admitted.
Jessamine turned to Jackington.
• "Can you ask more convincing proof
than that?' he whispered.
"Open the door! I will confront her!"
hissed the lover, turning purple.
"Knock first," said jessamine.
"I won't kneels!" said Jaokington, in
a furious tone,
But Jessamine reached the door first.
It was opened a very little way by the
housemaid.
"Oh, my I" squealed she, banging it to
l
the table.
Oh, Lor 'I" exclaimed the housemaid.
adoig bottle end a hair -brush, was prepar-
held a tray of pomades and combs close by.
MiniEverett. "Why am I thus intruded
lug to annoint the same with some rose -
smelling fluid, and the little housemaid
black velvet coat tumbled backward over
over her shoulders, and her lovely golden
hair all floating loose, sat -he fair Sara;
while the velvet -coated individual, with
again. "it's him, miss!—it's himr
presence of his lady love.
Mr. Jackington and he burst into the
- "What lime this mean?" demanded
eMiss Everett started up; the man in the
There, in a chair, with a towel spread
"Let me in! I will come in!" bawled
1 Manbeth-like finger, to the
indivielual.
n Solomons, at your service
this 1"
deuce are you doing
cried her betrothed,
here ?" roared'J- clIttlgetre
sir er . ttor,,td and scraped the stranger
„ Of Nat 2tz-h eine street."
"And :whatth
"Miss Etteeee, of my patrons,
1, Ali. Solomon% feeling
said the obsegoto
olMsofrbm.byJed&beak:ire'n,rgadt,eoanr13,e;c4.4re:Ittl:set;::::154°V; I kiww;
there's nobody in es,
burnish like .Mr. 4616h16 - And, to
would out. " It'
' Si
e ou ateen. *aye SO proud
il 1 q' ielet en18* ,t' ofh, liar): it ohi „tvehneet Hair,i08tnrutht'he'
for his profession
"It's Golden
a ,blericie recess, and
but what's expense' ,
con-
cerned. ?" ,
Teen sere three,/ herself, weeping, on
Mr. Jackington' s 4
, shoulder. He looked
the assembled crowd
around inclignentier at t
Peile!'esin
blittikerseate
"Mee:Stile.
of spectators.
" And you c4bth
irswould fain have
be believe that kieseraph was false!" said
me.
Mr. denenwreen married Miss Everett,
after all. All
lee, boarders said he Was a
great fool, 'aft, finding her out. s° corn'
" If we're
business," m
p le te I y ; b ustnido juega, hosita,st enuochbocdryiticeirnses,s.
k ing tore '
ot !think, reader, there was ea
reeemeDpaoryittiu_eriserent of philosophy in this
ales' Journal.
et,
.1! ISSing of Stones.
entre of Jerusalem, where
Amend
the rattoesde ygrowths of centimes gather
like orY16011! around a rod, a half -sedentary,
halefiol. li population is to be found,
whose. ohief object is the pursuit of
piety
, lid the veneration of the traces of
the Nazarene, says a writer.
jesu
Her dm mm world within a world
..6firiatian picture in a Moslem
In this city, where the religion of
esen 'Seemed, thirteen centuries ago, over -
"ease -that of Uhrist, and where at present,
,erds lbilowers prevent the rival Christians
from fighting for the possession of the vane.
rated spots, we have a little area of ground
Which has been arranged by the soots of
Christianity to suit the brief descriptions
of the Testament, but in which no single
place exists that can be proven to have
been the scene of the events ascribed to it,
All things which are offered for venera-
tion are venerated in this place of faith,
Where both native and European Christians
bedome seized with what I am constrained
to term a lithophilematio mania since they
are teen to be constantly engaged in kiss-
ing enshrined stones of the most doubtful
authenticity.
A Cruel QUestiOn.
He—"Did you hear of the dreadful thing
that has happened to Willie Saphedde
• .No. What?"
Ho—" They say he has lost his Mind."
She—" How de they know it?"
There are 14,000 ,miles of rabbit -proof
fencing in Australia.
SHUT THEIV1 OUT,
nolt For ProtereritIounteler.er The elmendian
A news item from Ottawa states that
there are a number of printers out of work
in that oity, and that they have nothing
to look forward to in their line daring the
present winter. Now this is a most unfor.
tunate state of 'abase, and one that should
not and would not exist if all the Money
spent on reading metter by Canadians
went into 'Canadian publishing houses.
Instead the greatest portion of it crosses
the lines cud helps to enrich the Yankee
publisher, who is forbidden, by law, to
engage a Canadian printer and take him
into the United States to do the work that
is paid for by Canadians, The money that
should be giving employment to the unem-
ployed printers is taken out of Canada in
two ways. One is through the reprints of
English books, the American rights of
which carry with them the right for Canada
also. Our government has long been doing
all in its power to remove this injustice to
the Canadian publisher, and there is no
doubt that its efforts will eventually be
crowned with success. But there is another
drain, and an even more serious one of
which the Canadian Government has not
taken any notice. I refer to the very large
number of Yankee sensational weeklies
that are shipped into Canada and sold on
the streets of every city and town in the
Dominion. These papens take out of the
Dominion annually more than $300,000.
One publioation alone, of which I have a
personal knowledge, lied, and probably
still has, an annual income from the Do-
minion of over $50,000, and there is fully
a dozen of these publications coming into
the Dominion. These papers compete with
the local press, and while they do no good
to anyone, they do a great deal of harm to
the Canadian publisher whose lot is not
the brightest even without this foreign
competition. I hold that it is the duty of
our government to take this matter up,and
protect the Canadian 'publisher against the
Yankee sheets, and I believe that every
editor in the Dominion will back me up in
this. A duty of a cent it copy placed on
these publications when, sent into the Do-
minion to be pie ed on sale would shut
them out effectually, and the Canadian
publisher has a right to expect that it will
be done. If he orders the clean white sheets
from the States he has to pay duty on teem,
yet these Yankees can ship them across in
bundles and not pay a cent. And more,
than that, they do not pones in the ordinary
way of a newspaper passing from a publish-
er to a subscriber, bet they come as mer-
chandise, pure and simple. They are sent
to be sold, and if they have a right Income,
then, I claim, there is Ito justice in tsxing
the white paper.
Of course, it is neither possible nor desir-
able to shut out American papers altogeth-
er, but that could easily be avoided. All
papers coming direct to annual subscribers
that is all single cdpies need not be inter-
fered with. Such papers as Harper's Week-
ly and the great American dailies would
not feel the advance of one cent per copy,
for the class of people who read them are
well able to paythe extra cent ; and besides
the price of thete papers is sufficiently large
to enable the publisher to make a diecount
to the Canadian dealer if he wishes to re
tain his Canadian circulation. However,
the question is not zee of helping the
Amerman publisher, but one of justice to
the Canadian who is compelled to compete
with him on unequal terms. I say unequal
terms for it is well knot& that the cost of
paper and type is much less in the United
States than it is in Canada and it is not
fair to compel the Cana Han publisher
to pay a d.'sty on his material,
and. then allow a foreign pub-
lisher to flood his market. Besides the
printers' side of the question ought to be
considered. The enormous amount of
money taken out of Canada by these
Yankee weeklies would give employment to
a large number of them, and they have a
right to expect that it will be preserved for
them. The whole matter is one that calls
for the mations attention of our government,
and I trust it will be looked into at once.
I feel sure that it only requires to bn pro-
perly laid before the proper authorities to
be remedied, and I think that every news-
paper publisher in the country ;Mould press
it upon them. Let us have Canada for
Canadians and not permit the Yankees,
the most selfish person on the face of the
earth, to carry off the cream. I will be
pleased to give spate to the views of pain-
ters and publishers on this subjeck—Tor.
onto Earth.
WHERE OUR CHEESE GOES.
The South and West of England Take the
Largest Quantity.
Dealers in Bristol, England, who handle
Canadian cheese, are interesting themselves
in the enquiry regarding the proper brand-
ing and inspection of our great native pro-
duct. This directs to the fact that much
Canadian cheese now goes to the south
an.4 west. of England, as well as to the
manufacturing districts of the north via
Liverpoet In a summary of the season's
operations The Montreal Gazette lately
gave some interesting statistics to illus-
trate the direction of shipments from that
port. London holds the leading position
now, and Bristol leaves Liverpool away
behind in the contest for second place. The
figures for the past three seasons are :
1892. 1893. 1894.
London 537,577 691,674 681,666
Bristol 448,926 :388,922 536,925
Liverpool 428,257 46e, eel 379,798
Glasgow183,593 119,039 99,124
Belfast..............,.,.,.., 7,627
Aberdeen . . , . .. 7,577
This wouldindicate the growth of a direct
trade with Belfast and Aberdeen, while it
alto raises the reflection that Liverpool, the
convenient depot for the manufacturing
counties in the n oath, is not holding its
own in this particular article. A strong
argument for making Liverpool the English
port of arrival for the Canadian fast line
was its position es distributing centre for
freight. So fat as cheese is concerned this
is evidently not so, although it heads the
Hat among possible ports for the new line.
Using the Water.
Governess—"I gave you a glass of water
to wet your sponge with." ,
Little Boy-e"I'm using it."
"But you aro spitting on the sponge."
"Yes'm. drank the water so' s to have
it handy,"
The smallest tax paid in Somerville
Mass., is paid by a man who owns a mon-
key. The monkey is estimated to be worth
$5 and the tax on it 12,7 Mints,
Pious 110.ssianS do tot eat pigeons becaas
of the sanctity conferred oo the dove i
the Scriptures -
Epl Or CO Eltaili
$ome Items ono:Wrest to the Bast.
Dees 1Wart,
India shipments of wheat the past week
were eop,000 ianshels, all to the United
Kingdom,
The President of the United States has
ei el seT.0 he de aanmooliieln: ro othaepeansts iargee intote;nuati
f whmd.t
ope is 29,496,000 bush .
els, an increase of
ago the amount afloat, Was 33,040,000 bush.
creivvielnsueervsiecrevilcaeunder the provisions of the
1,200,009 bushels for the week, A year
Paper indestructible by fire has been
invented by M. Meyer, of Paris. A sped.
men of it Was subjected to a severe test—.
/48 hours in a potter's furnace—and oaine
out with its glaze almost perfect.
A minimum estimate of the world's cotton
crop by the Textile Mercury places it at
9,850,e00 bales, while a maximum estimete
by the same authority says 10,250,000
bales, Is it not little wonder that prices
Of cotton goods are lower than they ev-cirA ,
were before?
The December report of United States
Government, just issued, makes the aver-
age farm price of corn 45.6o per bushel,
which is 9.10 higher than the correspond.
iug price of last year, The average prim)
of wheat is 49.8o per 'bushel, tht lowest
price in the past 25 years,
The United States Postmaster -General
reports a deficit of $9,243,935 in his depart.
merit for the current year, He does not
favor the taking over the telegraphs of the.
country by the Government, urging against
it the enormous expense that would be en-
tailed, and citing the fact that in England
their operation involves a loss of $2,000,-
000 a year,
At the sale of skins in London,Eng., last
week, there were sold 128,470 North-West
Coast skins,16,030 from Alaska,27,3000 from
Copper Island and 16,030 from the Lohoe
Islands. The condition of the skins which
were offered was not first-class. The open.
lug demand was directed exclusively
to North-West Coast skins which de-
clined 20 to 25 per cenemt which figures
the competition was active. The collection
of Alaska skins brought the usual prices, .
Copper Island and Lobos shins sold at.
a decline of 18 to 20 per cent.
„A new system of telephony which the
subscribers' batteries are dispensed with
has been devised by Senor R. Roderiguez
Merino, who has placed his invention before
the Madrid Telegreph Department. The
old system has, he says'many inconveni.
ences, and it would be better to have all
the batteries at the exchange, where they
could be easily controlled, Instead of send
lug the current from the battery through
the microphone and the primary wire of an
induction coil, while the telephone is deo.
nected with the secondary wire of this coil
and the line, he connects the line conduct.
ors with the microphones and the primary
wires of the induction coils, the telephone
being connected with the secondary
wire of the coil only,
General trade in Toronto ,has been dull m
the past Week. The mild and unseasonateesR
weather has militatedagainst the movement
in merchandise, and the next six weeks are
nob likely to see any improvement in
wholesale departments. Many of the riier;
chants are now engaged in. stook taking.
The season's trade has not been prolific in
large profitsmIthough many houses express
themselves • as eatitfied with results.
Leather dealers have not succeeded in put.
ting up prices in accordance with their
wishes. Thera is apparently too much
competition between dealers, many of whom
are only too anxious to reduce stooks. At
current prices of hides, however, it is
difficult to see where the profits are in
leather. . . The cheap money offering
on choice collateral accounts forthe strength
of securities dealt in on the Stock Exchange.
There is said to be a good deal of British
money offering on choice properties, and
the outlook is favorable for a continuance
of the low rates. . . Although small it
is pleasant to note the increase m earnings
of the tvvo railway systems of the Dominion
for the first week of December. This
increase in traffic is a favorable feature, as
indicating Borne improvement in domestic
business. While the earnings of Canadian
Pacific increased $2,000, those of the Grand
Trunk are auguinented by $7,000 for the
first seven days of the current month. In
the United States the earnings of the large
railway eyetem still continue to report
heavy decreases. The financial and buse
nese crisis in Nevsfoundland came unex-
pectedly, although those in a position to
know had been expecting trouble in the
Commercial Bank for some time past. The,
bank's resources were freely used by its
directors who were all engaged in heavy
business and speculative trarteantions. The
enormous depreciation in values of property
and general merchandise, and the carrying
of too much sail, with comparatively small
specie reserves are the reasons for its col.
lapse. Whilakespadian banks are prone to
sound the prabiesndf their system and escape
from disaster, itewould be well for those
that carry comparatively small immediate-
ly available reserves to take the lesson to
themselves and fortify their specie reserves: ---
At this season of the year the trade of
Canada with that of Newfoundland is
comparatively small, and the climax in that
colony has Sot disturbed business circles
here to any extent. Our chief exports to
that country are flour and provisions, but
of late the flour trade hasbeen monopolized
by the Western States millers.
A GIGANTIC BATTLESHIP,
To be the Most Formidable of Alt of
'Britain's War Ships,
A despatch from London, says 1—A first
class batbette ship, the largest,an I design-
ed to be the most magnificent British
battleship, was Winched at Chetham on
Wednesday afternoon. The voted was
baptized by Coenteas Spencer, wife of Earl
Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Lord Rosebery and his daughters and
many other distinguished persons were
present. The length of the ship over all
Is 420 feet, and. her displacement 15,C00
tons, The omit of her hull was £627,,
500.
The bones aad muscles of the human
body are capable of over 1,200 differeet
motions.