HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-1-24, Page 2CEYLON EDEN SGAIADEN,
WHY PR. iALMAGE. GIVES CREDENCE
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alinge pot lex noweri on ros reFa, nes meal etie urlrig clues. ou. tiria isiaua are dead
disfigured with noly lecerations and his New Yorles, euel dead Pekinge, and detwl
Eclinburgba, aud dead Teoudous, Everand
anon at the stroke of the archasologiat's
hammer die tomb a Sense great neunicie
pality flies open, and there s,re other bur-
ied cities that will yet respond to the ear-
plorer's pickax. Tile Pompeii and Her-
oulaneura underneath Italy are small
oorapared with the Porapeiis aud Heron-
lantiunas underneath. Ceylon. Yender
'unwashed followers beetang ass many dise
genie from what are supposed to be rane
sical instruments ae at one time case be in-
sluced to enter the human ear, The pave
Cession halted at. the doer of the huts, The
attires rfuguriance Adds Weigh.t to This occupants came out and made obeisance
I and presented small contributions, In re-
nr1111"t wora fcture or tho turn therefore the priest sprinleled ashes s.
140 ot Palitus—ancient Civilizetioxed lepon the children who oaane forward, this
Religion% Contraated, (evidently a forra of benedletion. Then the am exhumed oity which was founded 500
procession, led. on by the priest, started years before Christ, standing in pomp road
Biloolet-rel. Jain 13.—In continuing lila again—more noise, more ashes, more gen, splendor for 1200,years. Steirways up
fi Von However keen one's sense of whieb lirty men might pass side by Ode;
$0SQ1 round, the world serraoris 01re/ugh
elil press th
Rem Dr, Talmage today chose e ludicrous, he could filo, nothing to ex -
for his subjeet "Ceylon, the Isle of Palms,"tate even a smile in the movements of sueh
the text selected. being, serbe t steps a a procession — rneaninglese, oppressive,
Tarshishfirst" (Isaiah squAlid, filth)", sal,
Tdie 'Ilarshish of my text by many cone. , Nothing is of ore thrillmg interes
gaentators is supposed to he the island of than the Christian. achievements in this cessions marolaed: arches under whioll
Ceyloto ot land. The eptscopal cliurth was hir
ere the i kings were carried; city with reservo
upon which the seventhsermon
oey. national church, but disestablishment lias twenty miles in oirouruference, extempore
the round the world series lands us.
lon y the Romans Taprobane. ; takett Plasev and since Mr. Gladstone's izeol lakes that did their cooling and re -
was called b
,Tohn Milton called it "Goltien oherson, accemplishment of that fact in 1880 all freshing for twelve centuries; ruins more
." Moderns have called Ceylon "the denominations are on equal platform, and suggestive than ltfelrose and Kenilworth;
ese
11 dolt int hty worls America is CeOlonian Kerslake and Luxors; ruins re -
carved pillars, some of them fallen, sorne
aslant, some erect; Phidiasee and Chris-
topher Wrens never heard of here per.
formed the marvels of thuipture and are
chiteeture; aislestlarough which royal pro.
isle of paling"' "the mle of flowers'" the
second to no other nation. in what has been
pearl drop an the brow of Indies.," "the
tale of jewels," "the island of spice," "the done for Ceylon. Sin.ce 1816 she has had
show place of the universe," "the land of e
agentsi the Jaffna peninei '-
I' i
hyacinth and ruby." Lamy eyes, for seen- sula a Ceylon. The Spauldisags, the titian put its anchors and pries and
erg it ' liodflatids, Vete Drs. Poor, the Saunders wrenches in all the crevices.
appeared th be a mixture of Yoseme
and others just as good and strong have
Its and Yellowstone park. All Claristian Tiagobas, or places where, relics of saints
people want to know more of Ceylon, for been fighting bitek raonsters of superstition or deities are leept—clagobas 400 feet high,
they have a long while been contributing and cruelty greater than any that ever and their fallen material burying precious
t
Ceylon things for the sight of which modern curie
osity has digged and blasted in vain, Pro -
or its orsoilehostiorh As our ship from The American missionariswung the tusk or roared. in the tiengles.
Australia approached this island there ' es in
ever be unrolled.
have
hovered over it olouds thick and black as aiven special attention to medical in- into
cessions of elephants in iraitation, wrought
the :superstitions which have hovered here struction, and are doiug veonders in driv- lustrous marble. Troops of horses in
for centuries, but the morning sun was ing back the horrors of heathen surgery. full run. . Shinescathedrals
r. chapels,
breaking through like the gospel light Cases of suffering were formerly given verecked in the mountain side. Stairs of
which is te scatter the last cloud of mor- • over to the devil worshipers and Mall tar- moonstone. Exquisite scrolls rolling up
al gloom. The sea lay along the coast tures inflicted as may not be described. more mysteries than will
calm as the eternal purposes of God to- The patient was tranapled by the feet of Over sixteen square miles, the ruins of one
ward all islands and continents. We the medical attendants. It is only of God's oity strewn. Throneroonts or which at
different times sat 165 kings, reigning in
awing into the harbor of Colombo, xerhich in.eray that there is a living mother in
..- Ceylon' Oh, how much Ceylon needs, authority they inherited. Walls that wit
is made by a breakwater built at vast exe
s fldoctors and tb.e medical classes of students nessed coronatione, assassinations, subjug-
pense. Awe oatea into it the water is black with boats of all sizes and manned under the care of those who follow the . ations, 'triumphs. Altars at which Mil -
by people of all colors, but chiefly Tamils example of of the late Samuel Fish Green , 11.0719 bowed ages before the orehestras
Cingalese. i are providing them, so that all the allevi- celestial woke the shepherds with mid-
end,ations, and kindly ministries, and. scien- night overture,
on this island—a heathen temple, with its tific acumen that can be found in Araeri- 1 When Lieutenant Skinner in 1832 dis-
There are two things I want most to see
can and English hospitals will, soon bless covered the (lite of soma of these cities. he
enee of Cingalese addressed by a Chris-schools,all Ceylon. In that island are 82 American found. congregated in them untlistutbed
ti3 votees in idolatrous worship and an. au.-
-
310 Church of England schools, assemblages of leopards, poreamines, tiara -
/wire Ids capture of. brilliant insects; and. 231Wesleyan schools, 234 Roman. CatholiO ingoes and pelicans; reptiles sunning
themselves on the altarsprima donnas
• ;
don missionary. The entomologist may
the sportsman his tent adoined with ant- 1 schools' An, the schools decide most
rendering ornithological chant from de-
b= of rad deer and tooth ot wild boar, and everything1 serted music halls. One king restored
the painter his portfolio of gorge 8,000 feet How suggestive the incident that came muck of the grandeur; rebuile 1,500 rest -
down and. of days dying ou evening pil- to me in Ceylon! In a school under the
deuces, but ruin soon resumes its scepter.
lows of purple cloud etched with. fire and. care of the Episcopal church. two boys But all is down, the spires down, the pil-
the botanist his camp full of orchid's and were converted to Christ and were to be lars down, the tablets down, the glory of
crowfoots and gentians and. valerian and baptized. An. intelligent Buddhist boy splendid arches down. What killed those
lotus. I want most to find out the raoral said in the school, "Let all the boys on
cities? 'Who slew the New York and Lon -
and religious triumphs —how many Buddha's side come to this part of the don of the year500 B.C.? Was it =health -
rot= and all the boys on Christ's side go
rows comforted, how many entombed an -to the other part of the room." All the ed with a host. af plagues Was it foreign
wounds have been healed, how many son -
armies laying siege? Was it whole gen-
tions resurrected. Sir William Baker, the boys except two went on Buddha's side, erotic:am, weakened by their own vices?
famous explorer and geographer, did veell and when the two boys who were to be
Mystery sits amid the monoliths and brick
for Ceylon. after his eight years' residence baptized were scoffed at and derided one of dust, finger on Bp in eternal silence, while
in this island, and Professor Ernst Heck- theta yielded and retired to Buddha's side.
the centuries guess and guess in vain. We
el, the professor from .Tena, did well -when. But afterward that boy was very sorry simply know that genius planned those
he swept these waters and rummaged that he had yielded to the persecution, and
cities, and. immense populations . inhabit -
these hills and took home frir future in- when the day of baptism came stood up be- ed them. An eminent writer estimates
spection the insects of gas tropical air. side the boy who remained firm Some one
that a pile of bricks in one ruin of Ceylon
And forever honored. by such work, but said. to the boy who had vacillated in his would be enough to build a wall ten feet
let all that is sweet in rhythm, and. gra-. choice between Buddha and Christ, "Yon
high from Edinburgh to London. Sixteen
an.d imposing in =nu- are a covvard and not ilt for either side " thousand pillars, with carved capitals, are
phio on canvasLeyeese ea memory, be but hereplied, "I was overcome of temptia-
standing sentinel for ten miles
mutat, and ae.
brought to tell the deeds of those who tion, but I repent and believe." Thea
You can judge somewhat of the size of
were heroes and heroines for Christ's both the boys were baptized, and from
the cities by tbe reservoirs that were re -
sake, that time the Anglican mission moved on
quired to slack their thirst, judging the
more and more vigorously. I will not say
Many scholars have supposed that this size of the city from the size of the cup out
which of all the denominations of Christ -
Island of Ceylon was the original garden. of which it drank. Cities crowded with
lens is doing the most for the evangeliz-
of Eden where the snake first appeared OE inhabitants, not like American or English
ation of thatisland, but know this—Cey-
reptilian 111ISSi011. There are reasons for cities, but packed together as only barber-
lon will be taken for Christi Sing Bishop
belief that this was the site where the first lc teibes can pack -therm But their knell
horaestead was opeaed and destroyed. It Heber's hynan:
was sounded. Their light went out.
Is so nea,r the equator that there are not What though the solar breezes
Giant trees are the only royal family now
Blowsoft over Ceylon's isle.
niore than twelve degrees of Fahrenheit Amo • occupying those palaces. The growl of
ng the drat places I visited was a
wild beasts where once the guffaw of was-
difference all the year round. Perpetual
Buddhist college, about 100 men studying
to become priests, gathered around the
teachers. Stepping into the building
where the high priest was instructing the
class, we were apologetic and told him we
were Americans and would like to see his
mode of teaching if he had .no objections,
whereupon he began, doubled up as he
was on a lounge, with his right hand play-
ing with his foot. In his left.laand Ile held
a package of bamboo leaves, on which
-were -written the words a the lesson, each
student holding a similar package of bam-
boo leaves. The high priest first read, and
then one of his students read. A group of
as finely formed young men as I ever saw
surrounded the venerable instructor. The
last word of each sentence was intoned.
There was in the whole scene an earnest-
ness which impressed me. Not able to
understand. a word of what eves said, there
Ls a look of language and intonation that
is the same among all races. That the
Buddhists have full faith in their religion
no one can doubt. That is, in their opin-
ion, the way to heaven. What Mohammed
is to the Mohammedan and what Christ is
to the Cb.ristian Buddha is to the Bud-
dhist. We waited for a pause in the reci-
tation, and them expressing our thanles, I An Artificial Paving Black.
retired. 1 An artificial paving block, which has
been tried. hi Munieh, is, according t� the
Gestindheits-Ingenieur, composed of fine-
ly -ground serpentine, compacted together
with a small quantity of binding mater-
ial, the process being patented. It is
moulded into blocks and fired in porcelain
kilns at a high temperature to a state of
incipient fusion. Each block is I inches
by 7 inches by 7 inches, and. can be used. on
all four faces. The price of the pavement
is stated to be about 16s. a yard, and it is
said to have been laid in Hamburg, as
well as in Munich.
-Wiling much of grandeur, though wars
hombardep them and time put his chisel
on every block, and, more than all, vege-
ORIENTAL ILLIONAIRES,
MEN ENORMOUSLY RICH FOUND
FROM ROYPT TO JArA}L
Sometimes They Lead the Simplest lives
44415"othitee IMO Watt to MagflHt
eehee-Oladit Cessaves Seem,.
"One bears much talk of milliouairesin
America," them an Englishman that has
liVeci in the East Indies, "but there • is a
good deal lase of suoli talk in the Went,
though there are many enormously rich
men all over the East from Egypeto Japan.
I men speak more pertioularly of Bombay
where I knew a few repotted millioneires,
and met them in a somewhat different re.
lotion from omits usual relations vvith
eleswhere. I don't meal tbe
native princes, but business men that, have
made great fortunes in trade.
"The Oriental millionaire of this sort is
commonly a Irma of eimple life at herne,
though the famous Chinthe millionaire of
Penang, Wain Pas, lroewn to all travellers
in the East, maintaine magnidoene gardens
and throws them open as a publimperk
One of the raorst remarkable men 1 have
ever known was a reputed millionaire of
Bombay, who was at the :same time the
chief bueiness man of Aden. Everybody
making any stay on the Isthmus knew this
man. I met a naval officer here some years
ago who had stayed at his house. At cer-
tain tines of the year my millionaire et.
quaintanos lived in great luxury at Paris
or London, but when he returued to Bombay
he melted into the, brown see of
foliage, perpetual fruit and all styles of
animal life prosper. What luxurianee and
abundance and superabundance of lifel
What styles of plumage do not the birds
sport! What styles of scale do not the
fishes reveal! What styles of song do not
the groves have in their librettol
Here on the roadside and clear out on
the beach of the sea stands the cocoanut
• tree, saying; "Taleemy leaves fox shade
Take the juice of iny fruit for delectable
drink. Take my saccharine for sugar.
Take ray fibre for the cordage of your
ships. Take xriy oil to kindle your lamps.
Take my wood. to fashion. your cups and
pitchers. Take my leaves to thatchyour
roofs. Take my staooth surface on which
to print your books. Take my 30,000,000
trees covering 500,000 acres, and with the
exportation enrich the world. I vrill wave
In yofir fans and spread abroad in your
umbrellas. I will vibrate 10 your musical
instruments. I will be the scrub in
• brushes on your floors." Here also stands
the palm tree, saying: "I am at your die-
. posal. With these arras I fed your ances-
tors 150 years ago, and with these same
arms 1 will feed your descendants 150
years from now. I defy the centuries,"
Here also stands the nutmeg tree, saying,
"I am ready to spice your beverages and
• enrich your puddings, and with my sweet
dust make insipid things palatable."
The evening hour burns incense of all
(etyIes of aromatics. Greta banyan trees
Vett have been changing their mind for
centuries, each century carrying ont anew
plan of growth, attratted our attention
and saw ns pass the year 1894 as they saw
• the generations of 1794 and 1694. Colombo
• is so thoroughly embowered in fcdiage
that if you go into one of its towers and
look down upon the city of 180,000 people
yell cannot see a house. Oh, the trees of
Iheytonl May you live to behold the morn-
ing climbing down theough their branch-
es or the evening tipping their leaves with
amber anti gold! I forgive the Buddhise
for the worship of trees until they know
ef the God who made the trees. I wonder
eiot that there are some trees in Ceeribie
tailed sacred. To me all trees are sacred.
wonder not that before one of them they
burn damphor flowers, and hang lamps
around its branches, and 100,000 people
oath year make pilgrimage to that tree.
Worship something man must, and, until
he hears of the only being worthy of wore
ehip, what so elevating as a tree! What
glory inthroned amid its foliage! What a
*ado doxology epreads out in its
ranches! What a vides when the tem-
pests pass through, lel How it looks &ant
upon, the cradle (mei the grave of cent -dries!
As the frtit of oat tree unlawfully eaten. was addressing the crowd. All was atter- , been attached by a e Met- iver
struck the race with woe and tbe uplift- Mem and sileiace and teverence. , diver whe descends by himself not in a
ing of another treebringe peace te the soul, But passing tip and down the streets of diving bell.
Iet the woodman spare the tree, and all Ceylon yenthid alt abylespeople
nation honor it, if, through bigher teach- five minntes—Afghans, Kaffirs, Porta-
ing, we do not, like the Veyloneee, War- guese, Moo5ien, Dutola, Eng1islc Scoteh,
ship iti How emsolototy tend', whim we Irish, American—all claasea, all dialectic,
no more walk under the tree branches on all niantiers and custatila all styles of se-
mi& we may see the "tree of life which Mahe The meet interesting thing on
ears; twelve manner of fruit, and yields earth le the human race, and speohnetss of
her fruit, every month, and thes leaves all branches of it ooneront you in Ceylen.
of the tree are for the healing of the aa- The island of the present is a quiet and
timer incoespioaceis affair coiriparea with what
Two prooesalaha 1 saw In Ceylon withits it °toe Was, The deed eitiee Of Ceelon
or hour, the brit led by a 1.1,1xidoo priest. Were /eager and More IMPOSing_ titan are
TELE NATIVE QUAaran
that Kipling has so etrikingly described,
and lived the simple life of his People-
" The Sesames, an immensely wealthy
Jewish family of Bombay, long preserved
the native costume, and lived in most re-
speete the life of the people about them.
The younger representatives of the fondly
now live in much luxury at 'London, but
.1 have no doubt that you'll find the older
Sammons at , Bombay in eative (matures,
and marked with the strong characteristics
of the true Oriental Hebrew. Nobody can
guess the wealth of such people, and I have
taken care to „say `reputed millionaires'
because of that, very feet However,
there Oall be no doubt about the Sessoons.
Their reputation has reached America.
I knew one remarkable instance of the
sudden dissipation of a large Oriental
fortune. The father of the faauly, a tnan
long conspicuous in the trade of Bombay,
died and left his wealth to his sons, and
the young men, contraty to Oriental
precedent, at once plonged into European
extravagance, set up racing stables,
lived in reagnificence, and soon -ran
through with their patri ony.
"My faithful old friend Hadji Cassim
is an interesting type of
sail ascended. Anurajahpura. and Pollen:
arna will never be rebuilded. Let all the
living cities of the earth take warning.
Cities are human, having a time to be born
and a time to die. No more certainly have
they a cradle than a grave. A last judg-
ment is appointed for individuals, but
Melee have their last judgment in this
world. They bless, they curse, they wor-
ship, they blaspheme, they suffer, they are
rewarded, they are overthrown.
Preposterous, says some one, to think
that 507 01 our American or European
cities which have stood so long can ever
come through vice to extinction. ButNew
York and London have not stood as long
as those Ceylonese cities stood. Where is
the throne outside a Ceylon on which 165
successive kings reigned for a lifetime?
Cities and. nations that have lived far
longer than our present cities or nation
have been sepulchered. Let all the great
municipalities of this and. other lands pon-
der. It is as true now as when the psalm-
ist wrote it and as true of cities and na-
tions as of individuals, "Tbe'Lord knoweth
the way of the righteous, but the waY of
the ungodly shallperish."
11 ear by is a Buddhist temple, on the
altar of wbich before the image of Buddha
are offerings of flowers. As night was
coming on we came up to a Ilineloo tem-
ple. First we were prohibited going far-
tber than the outside steps, but we gradue
ally advanced -until we could see all that
was going on inside. The worshipers were
making obeisance. The tomtorns were
wildly beaten, end shrill pipes vrere blown,
and several otb.er instrunientstwere in full
bang and Mare, and there was an inde-
scribable hubbub and the most laborious
style of worship I had ever seen or heard.
The dim lights, and the jargon, and the
gIoorcts, and the flitting figures mingled
for eye and ear a horror which it is diffi-
cult to hake off. All this was only sug-
gestive of what woald there transpire
after the toilers of the day had ceased
work and had time to appear at the tern.-
pls. That suck things should be supposed
to please the Lord or have any power to
console or help the worshipers is only an-
other mystery in this world of mysteries.
But we came away saddened with the
spaded°, a sadness whieti did not leave us
until we arrived at, a place where a Chris-
tian missionary was preaching in the
street to a group of natives. Deep Diving.
I had this morning expressed a Wish to It is said that while 150 feeble the limit
witness such a stem, and here it was, at, which diving Work can be carried on
Standing o0 an elevation, the good men safely under water, a. depth of 201 feet hat
Tbe is First,
A Scotch laird. recently invited an Eng •
lish friend to stay with him for some fish-
ing. One day the Englishman, who was a
novice at the sport, hooked a line salmon,
and, in his excitement, slipped and fell
late the river.
The keeper, seeing that he was no :infirm.
mer, hooked on to biro with the gaff, and
was &boa to drag him ashore when thei
laitd called out: '
"What stir ye about, Donald? Get hand
ce the rod and look to the fash. Ma friend
can bide a wee, but the fash vrinnal"
A Gentle Itint.
"The wind blew my old bo net off to-
,
do,"
Pre—Ah?
Sha -'es; t was an Easterly Wind.
A. Grovoreal Cr',
Oth, vred sonm poWer
The gift% gie isa
To tiee Our °red/tote
• idefOte they tee 015
wont of dignity anti intelligence; throne,
polite without eervility,lamiese to tlae
Most petum—I verily believe one of the
best meet 1 ever knew and yet of the sim-
plest poseible lile. Hie home was In the
rear of a dark wereliothe sore of struceure,
where he kept a few bags of rice and
quantity of ghee, or raimict bUtter, an Ma
portent article of native diet, He was
clad all in white, with a white turban but
oocaeionally he oompromieed with Euro -
peso attire by weeriuga long bosomed outer
wet
"I am not sure that he eould write, and
am sure that he kept no athounts,though
his business was namexase and greatly
varied. He knew all about the rice market,
and had. a like aoquaintance with every
other sbeple thet was dealt in speculetive.
ly. He took no iotereet in public affairs
He kept the observe:wee of Ins own religion
with conscientious striotnese. His main
business when I knew him was that of a
duhash, or cornpra.dor es the term ie in China
that is, he undertook, among other con.
treats, to eupply all the fresh meats and
vegetables to the stearnehip conmaniee
from Europe. At the same time he owned
steamers mining to Gm.' and with a fine
impartiality he earnedIndo-Portuguese
to that thered Catholic city. He was a
type of the rieh man peculiar to the East
and his virtues were characteristically,
Oriental. What his vioes may have been
1 know not, for I never discovered the
He escaped the envy that pursues the West-
ern millionaire, but doubtless he maintain'
ed swarm of poor relations. '
ran ORIENTAL mumuneteran.
I don't know his.parenthge; only know
that he was a devout Mohammedan, and
that, as his title Radii implies, he had per-
formed the hadji or pilgrimage to Mecca,
thus making himself sure of everlasting
blies in a future world. He began his
business life as a boxwailah, or peddler, on
the streets co Bombay, and he sold suspen-
ders, shoe laces, or whatever else in Oriental
attire corresponds to there,to the Europeans
of that city. I doubt not Lis counterparts
are to be found by the score to -day
one the streets of London, save that
they lack his dignity of character
and devout faith. From peddling on the
streets he took to peddling in the harbor.
He would go out in a buenboat to meet the
snail ships eighted off Apollo Bender and
follow them down the harbor. Ile came in
Lime to know just what were the wants of
officers, men, and passengers aboard these
vessels, and they depended upon him for
everything. He was alwitys ready to buy
or sell, Like all Oriental merchants he
knew web the value of jewels and precious
stones, sad it happens that the sailors orten
pick up such trifles. He alvveys had ready
money to give in exchange for what officers
and men had to offer. Graduelly from
buying the caadod clothes of the offithrs
he came to buy the oast -off ships of the
compisay. The lifetime of an ocean steam.
ship is shorter and shorter becanse -of the
strain put upon moil ships, and it its n prob.
tem with every Ineat company how to get
rid of its superannuated ship.. Radii
Cassini was ready to buy, and
ilit GOT THEM AT A BARGAIN.
BARROOMS IN NORWAY.
Observations of the Workings of What Is
U.11101Y4 4$ the Gothenburg System.
Dr. Moxom explains, in a lecture, the
Gothenburg or Norweign system in „detail,
giving as its vital print:Apia that the State
shall melee the liquor Meatuses an absolute
monopoly, and put ib into the control of
responsible men, whose motive is to reduce,
instead of inoreasing, the per capita con.
sumption. The effect is also to reduce the
number of saloons to a marked degree. The
profits accrue not to the 4;ompany, but to
the people, in the shape of publio institui
tions, amusement hall, &a
"I saw something of the workings of the
system in Swadea and Norway," said Dr.
eloxone "I visited more slaloms lett sum.
"Although Hadji Cassiin was a devout
Kohaanmedan he was not above turning an
honest penny out of the superstition, shall
I say, of his fellow believers. He had made
the hedji, and he need the still aeaworthy
old steemers to help his fellow Mobernmed-
sae to -perform the same pious -pilgrimage.
There is an elaborate system of tickeb sell-
ing for the pilgrimage all over India, and
thepilgrimscomedownfrom the hill eountry
by the thousand. They swarmed on Hadji
Oassines ships and were carried to Jedda,
the port of Mecca, to go thence to the saored
city by caravan. The English dfficers of
one of the pilgrim ships were in a terrific
funk becalms the engines threatened to
give out, and it seemed likely that the pil-
grims would each Jedda too late for the
lath caravan to Mecca, a misfortune that
would probably have resulted in the inas-
there of every Christian on board. It le
one of the jokes of the ninetiainth century
that the pilgrimage business is run in the
hands of the beat known totrist &gender on
earth.
"When I knew Hadji Cassie- hie terbium
was made, and he had ceased even to go
out to meet the ()tweets unless perhaps
'When be expected old Mende, He was
still, however, the samekeen busitess man.
He knew, as he had alWays knoWn, vvhat.
ever waft going on in the haziness of the
atertatiship company; could tell what
Capteies were traneferred,whoveas married,
Who deal, and who promoted—knowledge
thab used to Make him peculiarly welcome
to inoomittg hipa. He would get fol- me
whatever 1 needed. When 1 set up a tent
foe the hot theson he broughti ray whole
ootfit of
TOTE AND B.ETTLES,
Pie WOnla get Die a tieektisie e hitter What-
ever trifle I needed, charging ao extrava-
garib commithion, and dobig all faithielly.
This too, at a tithe When he weld have
baught ell my poesesssone xi, thousand times
*wet. Re located then ae he mud hair°
looked fat a 'matinee 31018ts, the embed:a
mer than 3. had seen before in my life. I
examined the liquors carefully, found out
what kinds were soldund how meny glasses
a man can bug. In Bergen there are in the
neighborhood of a dozen places where liq-
uor is sold by the glass or by the bottle.
Each is &plain roam, pe featly clean, with -
Mt even a pioture on the wall. There is
not even a chair in the room except a stool
behind the counter for the official in charge.
He is a respectable man probably a mem-
ber of the church, On the walls are printed
the rules of the company, which all must
obey. If a mart asks for aqua vita he lays
down .his coin—there is no credit—and
pure, undrngged spirit is poured out for
him. He is not allowed to remain in the
room, and if he wants another glass, he is
told to come back in three hours. The
glass is so small that he might take a glass
every three hours in the day andnot get
drunk. A workingman cannot take a nip
on his way to work, for the ealoone do not
open till eight, nor at noon, for the saloons'
close from 12 to 1130 o'clock. The hour for
closing in winter is half -past seven and in
summer eight o'clock, The day before a
holiday they close at noon, and. they are
olosed before the workingmen are paid off.
"No man can make a cent from • the
business. The Man behind the counter is
employed for bis personal character. He
gets a fairly good salary, but not a cent
from the business, If he deviates from the
rules of the company he is bounced at once.
He is promoted for making as smedl sales as
possible. The policy of the whole system
is to crowd down the consumption et
alcohol. In 1876 the per- capita consume-
tion,was. 3.8 quarts ; in 1892 it was reduced
to 3.3 quarts. Noway and Sweden were
the most drunken countries in Europe;
now Norway is three times as sober as this
country. It is the exact reverse of a license
system, under which the licensed dealers
stimulate trade as much as possible to get
back the money they have paid for their
licenses, I thiuk 10 veould be better zo have
feee whiskey than such licenses as we have Johnston, who as found almost aaphyxi-
in our cities, The difference between that ated ba the Kirby House, Queen and
and this is as great asthe diffeehme between William streets, on the morning a Friday,
day and eight.The Norwegian system. gee g
eliminates politics entirely. It he.s been.
argued that it makes drunkenness respect- Joseph Johnston was a mill owner and
RIPE FOR REVOLUTION,
•
THE FRENCH CRISIS MAY END IN
CIVIL 'WAR
Intense Excitement to Voris over the
litesignattort or the President �t ler4440
orleaulet Pretender Oarcruliy
Watehing the Course of Events.
despatolx from Paris say:he-Although
the regulations forbid vendors goiug out
with their wares before 8 O'clock be the
morning, an ordinance which inotuiee
erehillef, • •
tion of the sale of newspapers by
criers, the neweboye were allowed on
Thursday • morning to begin their sales
before daybreak. The a treets were early
filled with yelling boys, whose (vies in-
formed many persons for the first time • of
the resignation of the President. The
announcement came like a thunderbolt to
thonsands of persons, and everyone was,
asking the reason for the President's sud-
den and seemingly unneceseary &Mien.
Various TaaSQUS were given by the
newspapers, bub none of them
seemed to satisfy any, great Penh
bee of the people. Some newspapers de-
clared that: Casimir-Perier had become
physically unable to resist the impulse to
resign. He has, it is alleged, been subjeot.
ed to most exbreine nervoils tension ever
since he became prominent as a candidate
for President, and it is asserted by (several
papers that after his election he flung him-
self upon a comb, completely giving way
to the intense nerirous strain put upon
him. When M. Burdeau, the President of
the Chamber of Deputies, Wad, Casimir.
Peries was deeply affeoted, and it is said
he has not since recovered from the shook,
which the .anuouncement of his friend's
death gave him.
BRANDS WORLD BREESE ROYALTY.
A despatch, from London says—The Pall
Mall Giheette says: France is now in the
throes of her moth menu:hag crisis since the
downfall of the Second Empire. We do
not blame Castrnir-Perier. The republie
has proved sterile and futile. If has pro.
&iced administrative flabbuitsess. France
would prefer an effective autocracy, but
where la the pretender? The Napoleons
are invisible, the Count de Paris is dead
and the Duo &Orleans is very young and
deplorably indiscreet.
ROYALISTS ON TOE
The Duke of Orleans, chief of the French
pretenders, left London with his suite on
Wednesday for -Dover, where he will hold
himself ready to start for France in case
political developments favor his cause.
• THE 311/PIJBLIO fl neateuta.
The Berlin newspapers reflect clearly the
apprehenaion telt by the people. The
Reichsbote says: The Socialists have
achieved their purpose. They have over.
thrown Casimir.Perier. They are ripe for
revolution.
The Post; The assaults of the revolu-
tionary parties upon the ministers, were
part of a conspiracy to overthrow- Casimir -
Peeler. The Boersen-Courier Casimir-
Perieres resignation must influence the
economy situation powerfully, for it shows
the absolute instability of politiona condi-
tions in France. Netieste-Nachrichten ;
The political confusion in France has reached
the danger point. His tory shows no
similar situations. All things are tending
to precipitate the death .struggle of the
bourgeoise republic. It will be only good
luck if no dintator appear to give it the fatal
blow.
SUFFOCATED BY GAS.
Amodeer at the Kirby mune Toronto, as-
phyxiated—This Man also °coupled
noom No. 12.A despatch from Toronto says :—Coroner
A. J. Johnson will hold an inquest at 9 8t,
Patrick street, to inquire into the circum -
(stances surromuling the death of Joseph
able, but its effect he.s been to elevate the fernier at Spry, Bruce County, and cisme
pubsarith,acsd array it against drunken- to the city Fraley moralog to visit his son -
nese: The system has been recognized as inaate, William Wilson, 9 Sb. Patrick
street. Not knowing his son-in-law's
address, Johneton (lid not locate him until
the evening, when Mr. Wilson and his
famJoillUteorne billets went over to the Kirby
House and engaged room 12 for the night.
During bhe evening he fell Into conversadon
with Police Constable Beatty, to whom Inc
told hie mission to the city, and related the
difficulty he had experienced in finding his
Bonen-law. He retiree at the usual hour,
and asked the manager, Mr. Cuthbert., who
conducted him to his room, to oall him
sharply at 6 reelook.
lotion IINOONSOIOAS fitS BOOB.
working against the monster of drink, and
it has become less respectable to patronize
a saloon.
"Many people maintain," Dr. Moxorn`
corminued, in taking up the objections pre-
sented, "thab having auything to do with
lamer in any way is a sin. The position is
abeolately untenable. There is no basis in
ethies that willjuscify tbe propoeition that
per se the taking of elcohol ie a sin. It
certainly is a sir, to take it in totems, but
the abstract question cannot by any possi-
bility be based on this ground. If we can-
na kill the evil at. a blow, it le the part of
righteousness to conquer it by degrees. If
men will not do that they are not only un.
practical, but, unrighteous, incense they
hinder the welfare of the aommunity. It
THE SUI\ DAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 27
"The Greite Confession." Matt 16. llaite
Golden Teak Hatt MK
oeuemee StaratMTT,
Seven maths had passed ninth the Sere
asou from Peter's boat an the iteashore. The
!lowish leaden, had (Mined their (attitude
toward Christ, from soarrifel criticism to
open opposition, aAd the ardor of the
mashes had cooled as they saw hirn making
no preparatiozn for revolt from Rome. Ile
had journeyed through Galilee once again
teething hie Gospel, but the crowds of the
earlier daye ao longer followed bins, The
shadows of the cross were (stretching toward
him. It was needful thab his a
(should receive higher instruotion comiern-
ing his nature and. his plane of redemption.
Be led them away from the scenes of his
minisbry to a city tar in the north of Gall -
lee, oa the foothillof Mount Henan,
where they could find opportunity for quiet
conference. Here he asked the twelve so
tell him, what he knew already, the drift
of popular sentiment concerning himself.
They gave various ailaWera, but none could
say that the people regarded bine as the
Messiah. Then he asked the more itnpore
tent question as to who they themselves
deemed him to be. Peter, the spokesmen
of the twelve, at once declared, "Thou art
the Messiah, the Son of the living God 1"
Thus was the foundation principle of Chria.
tianity prooleimed. Now that their faith
iu him ia assured, he forewarns them of the
scenes of trial awaiting at Jerusalem. But
Peter, (so forward in (mates:don, is unwill.
log to surrender his visions of a temporal
kingdom, and receives a rebuke, 'While all
are warned that the path to the crown lies
only through the moth, and that earth is
not for one moment to be weighed against
heaven. They are encouraged to believe
that, despite the dark fixture near at hand,
some of them shall yet live to witness the
full sucoess of Christ's kingdom on the
earth.
oreetatesonx AND PitAinT/OAL NOTRE.
Verse 13. Coasts. The borders or viain.
ity. Ctesarea Philippi This plaoe is to
be distinguished from another Caesarea
(Acts 10), which was situated upon the
seashore. Caesarea Philippi was the ancient
Dan or Laish, the northern limit of Pales-
tine; afterward called Ponies ; enlarged
and beautified by Herod Philip, who named
it Omens, in honor of the emperor, It
stood on the side of Mount Hermon, near
the source of the river Jordan. It is now
oalled Banias. Asked his disoiplelhoHe '
had gone to this secluded place for ..nd
retirement before entering upon the closing
events of his ministry. Whom do men any.
He wished to lead the disciples up to a con.
axiom of their faith in him as the Messiah.
The Son of men. A name applied by Christ
tohimself, and isnplying the perfection of
his human nature.
les
ist At that hour a messenger went to the
room, and receiving no answer to his rap.
is ale° urged that in iny temperance people pingsahought Johnston woes in an unusually
are opposed to ib. But unfortunately tem- sound sleep. Mr. Cuthbert made a (mond
permute sentiments are not always a guar-
antee of wisdom, There are many temper-
ance people whose sentiments we respect,
but whose ideas are puerile. It is also
true that people who derive gain from liquor
are opposed to the law, and we had the
specteele of the liquor dealers and the
Women's Christian Temper:thee Uniou
fighting aide by aide to defeat the measure.
It wes a thing to make angels weep unless
they had EIO strong a sense of humor that
they could laugh. It is also objeoted that
the system is not adapted to our uses. BO
it is the principle we with to apply, and
the principle can be applied auywhere.
Norway end America axe not so unlike
but that they eats be applied here, It is
absurd and cowardly to say that we cannot
do (t." At the cloth of his lecture Dr.
Moxonri gave a brief quesdon box, answer.
Mg doubts end difilculeies in the practicel
•(implication of the system as they were sug-
gested by his hearers,
• Where Jurphert are Weleome.
comer—"I am taking subseriptionst for
the Deily ---"
Baker—"Don't vent id. Ileople read ea
dose neivibiapers dot wheae is vay down in
brioe, uxid dee day pine here und kiek
because breat 10 vay sop. 1 haf to use von
tustomere vat readte uewebemere."
•
The hilk Weateces of Lyons, Frame, are
Os fitrille against 8 tedootion of wages,
attempt to rouse his guest, without succese,
and he became alarmed. A growing smell
of gas increased his fears, and he forced the
door. The room was filled with gas, the
. stop was turned half on and Johnstou was
lying in a semi.cometose condition in the
bed.
Dr. 'Vlacdoneld, Simcoe sweet, was sum-
moned and did his besb to relieve the
unfortuuste man's suffering end save his
life. Johnston had told none of the hotel
PeePle who he was, or where his friends
could be found, and nothing was known by
them until Senday, when P. C. Beatty,
hearing of the incideat, made enquiries and
informed Mr. Hoskins of the identity of his
guest. The ambulance was Othilea ansi the
unfortmate man removed to the home of
his son-inelaw in St. Patrick street, where
he lingered until 4 p.m. Thursday, when
he died. without onoe having regained
eciousness.
Soelologieat
14, 15. John the liteptist. This weerthe
opinion ot the conscience-stricken Herod,
by whose command John had been slam.
Elias. Elijah, who was expected to re-
turn in person et the coining of the Megalith,
Jere:Male The people were ready to
regard Jesus as one of the old prophets
risen. out of his grave, but not as the pro-
mised Messiah, since he 104 fheaOtatinted
their expectations in not aferhnee toyalty
and castieg off the Rome. h paetto ,Whom
say ye? In the original, e
whom do you oall me ? "
16. Simon Peter. °rig
Simon, but called. by
" a rock " (Hebrew,
Professor.-" Marriage is a very close re.
lotion."
Mies Oldie—" Indeed t r have found it
to be quite a dietant owe"
y named
st Petros,
ephas or
Kephas). He was a fisherman on the
Sea of Galilee; perhaps the oldest, as he
was one of the earliest called, of the dis-
ciples; a man of impulsive and ardent .
temperament, a leader though not the
ruler of the apostles. Thou art the Christ
"The Anointed One." Not one of God's
sons or followere; but the Son, possessing
the divine nature of his Father ; a conies-
sion of Christ as King and God. (1) If Jesus
be not a deceiver, he must be divine.
17, 18. Bar -ions. Hebrew for "son of
Jonas." Flesh and blood. An expression
designating "man" in distinction from God.
Rath not revealed. (2) The knowledge of
Christ is not the result of human study,
but of divine revelation. Thou art Peter.
Literally, "Thou art a Rock, and on this
rock I will build my Church." Among the
many views of this much-disouseed passage,
tbe following seems prefereble ; that by
"this rock" is meant the great truth of the
Messiahship of Jeanie which Peter heel
just proclaimed for the first time, and
which is indeed the foundation stone
of Christianity. Gates of hell. Rather,
"gates of death." Representing death as
a city, through whose gates armies march
forth, the gate being the plate of rule and
authority. (3) Death, whicls conquers all
the earth, is overcome by the power of
Ch
lri
s
t
,
9.Iwill give. Notice that the Promise
is of the future, "I will give," implying
lif
that Peter should have special privilege '
the new dispensation. This was ace
plished in his leadership on the day of Pe e
tecost (Aote 21, and on his • opening the
door of the Gospel to the Gentiles. The
keys of the kingdom. • Oriental keys were
largo and heavy, carried upon the shoulder
and regarded as the symbol of authority.
Whatsoever thou (shalt bind. This does
not refer to pereons to be excluded from or
admitted to the kingdom et Peter's will
(according to the Romanist notion) but to
things. It was simply a warrant given to
•Peter, and afterward to the eporgles donee.
tively (Matt. 18. 18), to enact laws for the
government of the Chureh, (4) Not even
Peter, but °helot alone, Lite power to for.
give sins or admit to heaven.
20,21. They ehould tell no roan. Be.
cause the people were not yet prepared to
receive this teeth, the proclamation of
which might lead to polibical results far
different frem Christ's plan. (5)Those
who preach the Gospel must exercise wis
dote in preeenting its truths. From that
tines forth, lie •hed pteviously given
obscure intimations of hie proseioo and
death (Matt, 10, 38; John 8.14), hut sow
he began to epeak plaitly on the subject.
This was neeessary to give the dithiplee a
true understanding of his kingdom, end to
guard them against JeWielf errors. ' Must
go. Not by the e.ompulsien of eirounistanoeff
but by his own will, to suffer as raenti
substitute, Elders. A general term for
the leaders of the Jewish people. Chief
prieeta The betide of the priestly order,
Scribers. Rabbis or teachers of the law,
Theca three olaseee eonatitutecl the Sanhe-
drin before which death wet tied and by
which he was tionclemned, Killed...reised,
st ?fissowithisetfrogentepwh ohvieerowdnea,tahthtlimforseo-
the diseiple Amy look beyond the grave
ante the tesurreotion.•
• Test of Style,
Mothered" Theb notepaper is oortainly
very quaint, but are yon thee it le lathier,.
(1.1)1( '2"
Thmighter—"Oh, it mutt be, It's &Comet
its:peas:ale to write 011