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SON FROM THE ARK.
t of Salvation Trough Cheist-a Sure
Verence in "Rime of Ifeouttle-Anie Loads
atone or God Dearing, T,ife•--Brina our
Loved Ones at the Rona
New York, IViaroh. 31,--A1though his
Oratory is at all times magnetise and elo-
quent, there is one theme with which,
whenever he makes it the groundwork of
Ina sermon, Dr. Talmage never fails to
communioate to his auditors the entlausi-
aren he himself feels, That theme is the
gospel invitation, and when, this after -
neon, he took for his subject "The Gospel
Ship" the great audieoce that crowded
the Academy was in full syntpathy. The
text selected was Genesis vi, 18, "Thou
shalt come into the ark, thou. and thy
pone and thy wife and thy sous' wives
With thee."
In this day of the steamships Lueania
and niajostio and the Paris I will show
you a ship that in ome respeots eclipsed
• them all and which sailed out, an (mean
• underneath and another ocean falling
npon it. Infidel scientists ask us to be-
lieve that in the formation of the earth
there hay e been a half dozen deluges, and
yet they are not willing to believe the
Bible story of one deluge.
In what way the catastrophe game we
know not -whether by the stroke of a
comet, or by flashes of lightning, chang-
ing the air into water, or by a stroke of
the hand of God, like the stroke of the as
between the horns of the ox, the earth
staggered. To meet the catastrophe God
ordered a great ship built. It was to be
without prow, for it was to sail to no
shore. It was to be without helm, for no
human hand should guide it. It was a
vast structure, probably as large as two
or three modern steamers. It was the
Great Eastern of olden time.
The ship is done. The door is open.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in.
The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly
in. The invitation goes forth to Noah,
"Come thou and all thy house into the
ark." Just one human family embark
on the strange voyage, and I hear the
door slam shut. .A. great storm sweeps
along the hills and bends the cedars until
all the branohes snap in the gale. There
is a moan in the wind like unte the moan
of a dying world. The blackness of the
heavens is shattered by the flare of the
lightnings that look down into the waters
and throw a ghastliness on the face of
the mountains. How strange it looks!
Row suffocating the air seems? The big
drops of rain begin to splash upon the up-
turned faces of those who are watching
the tempest. Crash go the rocks in con-
vulsion! Boom go the bursting heavens!
The inhabitants of the earth, instead. of
flying to housetop and mountain top, as
men have fancied, sit down in dumb,
white horror to die, for when God grinds
mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip
its cable there is no place for men to fly
to. See the ark pitch and tumble in the
surf, while from its windows the passen-
gers look out upon the shipwreck of a race
and the carcasses of a dead. world. Woe
to the mountains! Woe to thesseal
I am no alarmist. When, on the 20th of
September, after the wind has for three
days been blowing from the northeast, ,
you prophesy that the equinoctial storm
is coming, you simply itate a fact not to
be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist
when I say that a stemu is coming com-
pared with which Noah's deluge was but
an April shower, and that it is wisest and
safest for you and for me to get safely,
housed for eternity. The invitation that
went forth to Noah sounds in our ears,
"Come thou and all thy house into the
ark."
Well, how did Noah and his family
°epee into the ark? Did they climb in at
the window, or come down through the
roof? No. They went through the door.
And just so, Lf we get into the ark of
God's mercy, it will be through Christ
the door. The entrance to the ark of old
mast have been a very large entrance.
We know that it was from the fact that
there were monster animals in the earlier
ages, and in order to get theni into the
ark „two and two, according to the Bible
statement, the door must have been veep
wide and very high. So the door into the,
mercy of God is a large door. We go in,
not two and two, but ba hundreds, and
by thousands and by millions. Yea, all
the nations of the earth may go in 10,000,-
000 abreast.
The door of the ancient ark was in the
side. So now it is through the side of
Christ -the pierced side, the wide open
side, the heart side -that we enter. Aha,
the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear
Into the Saviour's side, expected only to
let the blood out, but he opened the way
to let all the world in. Oh, what a broad
gospel to preach! If a man is about to
give an entertainment, he issues 200 or
800 invitations carefully put up and
directed to the particular persons whoria
he wishes to entertain. But God, our
Father, makes a banquet, and goes out to
• the front door of heaven, and stretches
out his hands over land and sea, and with
a voice that penetrates the Hindoo
jungle, and. the Greenland ice castle,
and the Brazilian grove, and the English
factory, and American homes cries out,
"'Come, for als1 things are now ready I"
It is a wide door. The old. cross has been
taken apart, and its two pieces are stood
up for the doorposts so far apart that all
the world can Wine in. Kings scatter
treasures on daye of great rejoicing. So
Christ, our Xing, conies and scatters the
jewels of heaven. Rowland liril said
that he hoped to get into heaven through
the crevices of the door. But he was not
obliged thus to go in.
After having preached the gospel in
Surrey ohepel, going up toward heaveri,
• the (gatekeeper cried, "Lift up your heads,
ye everlasting gates, and let this man
• eeme in!" The dying thief went in,
Richard Baxter and Robert Newton Went
ln. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
South America stay yet go through tide
Wide door Without croSeding, P`o, every
one -all conditions, all ranks, all people• !
Luther said that this trUth. was Worth
•aarryiag aix otte's knees from Rome to
Jerusalem, but I think it worth berrying
all around, the globe and all around the
heavens -that "God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son; that
Whosoever believeth 1x Kim should not
perish, but Meets oVerIaeting life."Who,
soever evill, let hixn eome through the
• large door. Archimedee 'Wanted a ful-
• arum on which to place his lever, and
then he said that he eould move the world,
Calvet"' is the etilertem, and the etesS Sif
(Theist is the leer, end by that power All
eartatedeeefteall. etet bet
Tatther. 'it a 'dder that swiugs both
wars. I do not irltaw Whether the doot
of the aneient ark was lifted or rolled on
hiliges, but this deer of Christ opeus both
Ways. It swtngs oat toward all our woete
•It swings in toward the raptures ot
• heaven. It syringe to let ue in, It swings
out to let our MilliSteriDg OneS Conte Ont.
All are oue lix Cartst-Christiaus ou
earth and salute in heaven.
One army of the living God,
At hie command wral)ow,
Part Of the host have oreseed the flood,
And part are massing mew.
Swing. In, 0 blessed door, until all the
earth shall go in and. 'eve, Swing oat
until all the heavens mime forth to cabs-
brate the victory.
Bat, further it is a door with fasten.
Ings, The Bible says of Noah, "The
Lord. abut him in." A. vessel without
bulwarks or doors would not be a sitfo
vessel to go in When Noah and his
family heard the fastening of the door of
the ark, they were vary glad. Unlese
those doom were fasteued, the first heavy
surge of the sea would have whelened
them, andtheyenight as well have perish-
ed outside the ark as inside the ark.
"The Lord shut him in." Oh, the per-
fect safety of the ark! The surf of the sea
and the lightnings of the sky may be
twisted into a garland of snow and are -
deep to deep, storm to storna, darkness to
darkness -but once be the ark all is Well.
"God shut him in."
There comes upon the good man a
• deluge of financial trouble. Be had his
thousands to lend. Now he cannot box -
row a dollar. He ouce owned a store in
New York and, bad branch houses in Bos.
tan, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
He owned four horses and employed a
man to keep the dust off his coach phae-
ton, carriage and ourricle. Now he has
hard work to get shoes in which to walk.
• The great deep of commercial disaster
was broken up, and fore and aft and
aoross the hurricane deck the waves
struck him.
But he was safely sheltered froin the
sterna.
"The Lord shut him in" A. flood of
domestic troubles fell on him. Siokness
and bereavement came. The rain pelted.
The winds blew. The heavens are
&thane. All the gardens of earthly de-
light are washed away, The mountains
of aria are buried fifteen cubits deep. But
standing by the empty crib, and in the
desolated nursery, and in the doleful
hall, once a -ring with merry voices, now
silent forever, he cried: "The Lord gave;
the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be
• the name of the Lord." "The Lord shut
Ilfin in."
All the sins of a lifetime clamored fox
" his overthrow. The broken vows, the dis-
honored Sabbaths, the outrageous profani-
ties, the missdemeanors of twenty years,
• reaching up their hands to the door of
the ark to pull him out The boundless
ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howl-
ing like a airaoom, raving like an euro-
clydon. But, looking out of the window,
he saw his sin sink like lead into the
depths of the sea. The dove of heaven
brought an olive branch to the ark. The
wrath of the billow only pushed him to-
ward heaven. "The Lord shut him in."
The same door fastenings that kept
Noah in keep the troubles out. lam glad
to know that when a man reaches heaven
all earthly troubles are with hira. Here
he may have it hard to get bread for his
family. There he will never hunger any
more. Here he enety have wept bitterly.
There "the lamb that is in the midst of
the thione will lead him to living foun-
tains of water, and God will wipe away
all tears from his eyes." Here he may
have hard work to get a house, but in my
Father's house are many raansions, and
rent day never comes. Here there are
deathbeds and ooffins and graves. There
no sickness, no weary watching, no chok-
ing cough, no consuming fever, no chat-
tering chill, no Wilzig bell, no grave.
The sorrows of life shall come and knock
at the door, but no admittance. The
perplexities of life shell come up and
knock on the door, but no admittance.
Safe forever 1 Ail the agony of earth in
one wave dashing against the bulwarks of
the ship of celestial light shall xtot break
them down. Howl on, ye winds, and
rage, ye seas! The Lord -"the Lord shut
him in." Oh, what a grand old door!
So wide, so easily swung both ways and
with such sure fastenings. No burglar's
key can pick that lock. No swarthy arrn
of hell can shove back that bolt. I re-
joice that I do ,not ask you to come
aboard a crazy craft, with leaking hulk
and broken helm arid unfastened door,
but an ark fifty cubits wide and 300
cubits long, and a door so large that the
round earth without grazing the post
naight be bowled in.
Now if the ark of Christ is so grand a
place in which to live and die and
triumph, coine into the ark. Know well
that doer that shut Noah in shut others
out, and though, when the pitiless storm
came pelting on their heads, they beat
upon the door, saying: "Let me in! Let
me in!" the door did not open. For 120
years they were invited. They expected
to come in, but the antediluvians said:
"We must cultivate these fields, We
must be worth more flocks of sheep and
herds of cattle. We will wait until we
get a little older. We will enjoy our old
farm a little longer." But meanwhile
the storm was brewing. The fountains of
heaven were filling up. The pry was be-
ing plated beneath the foundations of the
great deep. The last year had come, the
last month, the last week, the last day,
the last hour, the last moment. • In an
awful dash an ocean dropped from the
sky, and another rolled up from beneath,
and God rolled the earth and sky into one
wave of universal destruction.
So men now put off ,going into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty years
first. They will have a little longer Mtn°
with their worlcUy associates. They will
'wait until they get older. They say;
-you cannot expect a man of lily attain-
ments and of my position to surrender
myself' just now. But before the storm
comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I know
what I ani about. Trust " After
awhile, one night about twelve o'clock,
going borne, he passes a eca,flolding just
as a gust of wield strikes it, and a plank
fans. Dead, and outside the ark, Or,
riding in the park, a reeklees -vehicle
crashes into hint, and hie horse becomes
-unmanageable, and he ithentS:. "Whoa!
Whoa 1" and takes another twist in the
mins, and plants hle. feet against the
dashboard, and pulls back. But no use.
It is not So mt1611 doWn the avenue that
he flies as on his way 'to eternity.
Out of the meek of the tresh his body
is drawn, but his soul is not pleked up.
It fled behind a swifter enamor into the
groat fame. Deed, arid outside the ark 1
'Dr a0M0 night he Wakes up with a dia,
tapes mar reOraennernia lpOreleses lalall he
ehrteks out with RP), The doctors come
in, and they give hint twenty drape, hut
ne relief; forty drops'fifty arops, sixty
clrepst Inet no relief. No tinie for prewar,
No time to read. one of the promithe.
No time to get a single sin pardoned. The
whole home is =used in alarm. Tbe
ohialren airman The wife Wats. The
pulses fall. The heart stops, The 00111
flies. Dead, and outside the ark!
I have no doubt that derision kept many
people oot of the ark, The laughed to
see a man go in and said: "Here ie a
man etarting for the ark, Why, theae will
be no deluge. If there is one that miser-
able ship will not wether go-
inginto the ark I Well, that is too good
to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard
the news? This man is going int the
ark." Under this artillery' of scorn the
man's good resolution perished.
And so there are buralrode kept out by
the fear of derieion. The young man
asks himself: "What would they' say at
the store toonorrow morning if 1 should
become a Christian? Whew' go down
to the clubhouse, they will shout: 'Here
comes that new Christian. Suppose you
will not leave anything to do with us
now. Get dovne on your knee, and let
us hear you pray, Como'now, give us a
touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Clues-
tia,n you are.' '1 Is it not the fear of bo.
ing laughed at that keeps you out of the
kiogdoin of God? Which of these scorn-
ers will help you at the lest? When you
lie down on a dying pillow, which of
them will be there? In the day of etern-
ity will they bail you out?
My friends and neighbors, oome
right away. Come in through Christ, the
wide door -the door that swings out to-
ward you. Colne in and be saved. Come
and be happy. "The Spirit and the Bride
say, 'Come.' Room in the ark.
Room in the ark.
But do riot come alone. The text in-
vites you to bring your fanilly. It says,
"'Thou and thy sons and thy wife." You
cannot drive them in. If Noah had Wed
to drive the pigeons and. the doves into
the ark. he would. only have scattered
them. Some parents are not wise about
these things. They snake iron rules about
Sabbaths, and they force the catechism
down the throat as they would hold the
child's nose and force down a dose of
rhubarb and maenad. You cannot drive
your children into the ark. You can
draw your children to Christ, but you
cannot drive them. The cross was lifted.
not to drive, but to draw. "If I be lifted
up, I will draw all men unto me. "
the sun draws up the drops of morning
dew so the sun of righteousness exhales
the tears of repentance.
Be sure that you bring your husband
and wife with you. How would Noah
have felt if when he heard the rain pat-
tering on the roogof bhe ark he knew that
his wife was outside in the storm? No;
she went with him. And yet some of you
are on the ship "outward bound" for
heaven, but your companion is -unshelter-
ed. You remember the day when the
Marriage ring was set. Nothing has yet
been able to break it. Sickness came,
and. elle finger shrank, but the ring, staid
on. The twain stood. alone above a child's
grace, and the dark mouth of the tomb
swallowed up a thousand hopes, but the
ring dropped not into the open grave.
Days of poverty came, and the hand did
many a hard day's work, but the rub-
bing of the work against the ring only
inade it shine brighter. Shall that rine
ever be lost? Will the iron clang of the
sepulchre gate crush it forever? I pray
God that you who have been raaaaied on
earth may be together in heayen. Oh,
eby the quiet bliss of your earthly home,
by the babe's cradle, by all the vows of
'that daet when yen started life together,
I beg you to see to it that you both get
into thceark.
But tliis does not include all your
family. Bring the children too. God. bless
the dear children! What would your
homes be without them? We may have
done much for them. They have done
more for us. What a salve for a wounded
heart there is in the soft palm of a. child's
hand! Did harp or flute ever have such
music as there is in a child's 'good-
night?" From our coarse, rough life the
angels of God are often driven back. But
'who comes into the nursery without feel-
ing that angels are hovering around/
They who die in infancy go straight into
glory, but you are expecting your child-
ren to grow up in this world. Is it not a
question, then, that rings through all the
corridors and windings and heights and
depths of your soul, what is to become of
your sons and daughters for tam and for
eternity? "Oh," you say, "I mean to
see that they have good manners!" Very
well. "I mean to dress them well, if I
have to go shabby." Very good. "I shall
give them an education. I shall leave
them a, fortune." Very well. 13ut is
that all? Don't you mean to take them
Into the ark? Don't you know that the
storm is coming and that out of Christ
there is no safety, no pardon, no hope,
no heaven?
How to get them in? Go in yourself.
If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose
that his sons-Shem, Ham and Japheth
-would have staid outYour sons and
daughters will be apt to do just as you
do. Reject Christ yourself, and the prob-
ability is that your children will reject
him.
On one of the lake steamers there were
a tether and two daughters journeying.
They seemed extreircely poor. A benevo-
lent gentleman stepped ap to the poor
man to proffer sorne foien of relief and
said, "You seem to be very poor, sir."
"Poor, sir," replied the man. "If there's
a poorer mau than me a-trotibling the
world, God pity both of us." "I will
take one of your children and adopt it if
you say so. I think it would be a great
relief to you." "A what?" said the poor
man. "A relief! Would it be a relief to
have the hands chopped off from the body
or the heart torn from the breast f A. re-
lief indeed! God be good to us 1 What
do you mean. six'?" However many child-
ren we have, we have none to give up.
Which of our families can we afford te
spare out of heaven? Will it be the oldest?
Will it be the youngest? Will, it be that
ono diet was sick sonio Mtn° ago? Will
it be the husband? Will it be the wife?
No, tol We must have them all in, Let
Us take the children's hands and statt
now. Leave not one behind. Como
f at her Come, mother! Conte, sofil
Come, daughter! Como, brother Come,
sister! Only One step, and we are in.
Christ, the door, swings out to admit us,
and it is not the hoarseness( of a stormy
blast that you her, but the voice of a
Loving and. patient God .that addresses
yoin saying, "Come thesu and all thy
house into the ark." And there may the
Lord shut lie inl
THE
•SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APR. 14.
Easter Lesson.1 Ca1, 55. 3-14, golden 're
Cur. 15. 20.
1,
Oessenat, SUrittgEsr•
Our Easter lesson is not rio muoh an
account of the resurreotion as an argument
coneerning it. That resurrection rests on
the evidence of many eyewitnesses, inolucl-
!iv in a very true sense Paul bimself, and
la the great face preached as the ground-
work of the Gospel. They who deny the
resurrection in general must deny that of
Chriete and the consequences of the latter
will be that Ohrietian preachuig and faith
are vain. The accounts of the resurrection
by the four evangelists should be very
carefully obudied, and a mote made of the
ten reoorded appearances of the risen
Christ. The letter or epistle from which
this lesion was extracted was written aboue
Easter, A. D, 57, from Ephesus, to the
church in Corinth, whioh wee torn by
schismatic oontentions, and deny membeis
of which denied the general resurrection of
the eaints. It was inevitable that Paul
should try to outroot heresy before it had
gone far, and the vigorous chapter from
which this eirtract is made le his effort to
lead them back to the true dootrine. The
force of this passage is greatly increased
when we remember that it was written
about twenty-five years after the resurrec-
tion of Jesus.
EXPLANATORy AND PRACT/CAL NOTES.
Verse& I delivered unto you. Those who
fancy thegorimitive Churoh to have been ela-
borate in ts ritual aike the modern ritualistic
Churches, are far from the truth ; but it
would be as false and mistaken to believe
that they were, even during the lifetime of
the apostles, without a formulated creed. It
would be hardly possible to preaoh the
new doctrines without summarizing the
articles of faith, and that a profession in
creeds with this summary was required of
candidates for baptism may be inferred from
eats. 8. 37. This verse and the next form the
nucleus of the so-calledApoetlessCreed. The
Greek wordtranslated "deliver" carries with
it this thought of formal instruction and
creed. Compare 2 These. 2. 15 and 3.6. First
of all. lereaning, primarily. First in import-
ance,not neccessarilyfirstin time. Literally,
among the foremosdpoints. That which 1
also received. Doubtless in many ways.
In his early Christian life he was taught by
the Christian aisciples in Damascus and in
Jerusalem; then, too, his great mind was
open to the Holy Scriptures, whiah he
carefully examined with prayer, and which
revealed to him truths that had never
been plain before ; and, added to all the
rest, we must believe that he received
special and unmistakable revelations from
God. See Gal. 1. 12, 16, and 1 Oor. 11.23
Chritst died for our dna Literally,he died
from our sins. tie died for the taking away
of our sins; in behalf of them, as we
might say. According to the Scriptures.
At the most, probably the only part of the
New Testament written at this time was
three epistles, . and therefore the term
"Scripture" must refer to the Old Testa.
men t.
4. Be was buried. Referred to as an
added proof of his actual death, though it
is probable that none doubted that Jesus
was slain on the cross. What they doubt-
ed was that he was the Messiah. Rose
• again. Hath risen. The resurrection was
not a past fact; it continued and continues.
According to the Scriptures. Isla. 53.
10-12 fairly implies the resurrection of
Christ. It is a noteworthy fact, to which
Bengal directs us, that Pa.ul puts the testi-
mony of Scripture above that of those who
saw the Lord after his resurrection.
5. Seen of alphas. Peter (Luke 24. 34--
36), The twelve. This ,is probably an
allusion to the appearance in john 20. 19.
Thomas was then absent, but " the twelve'
had come to be a sort of technical term or
title.
6. Five hundred brethren at thee. Of
this gathering we know nothing, It prob.
ably was in Galilee where his most solemn
and public appearance occurred and his
special promise was given (Matt. 26. 32;
28. 7, 10, 16). The greater part remain
unto this present. This shows the youth-
fulness of many of the early adherents of
Jesus. Paul refers to these living witnesses
as men who can be seen and their evidence
cross-examined. Fallen asleep. In tbe
sure hope of awaking at the resurrection
(Acts 7.60)." -Jamieson.
7. Seen of James. The brother of our
Lord. (Gal. 1 to 19.) It has been conject•
ured that this appearante of Jesus after his
resurrection led to the conversion of James,
for a short time before his death,
and probably at his death, the Lord's
brothers did not believe in him. All the
apostles. This is probably here used as a
getieric phrase to include all who had seen
the risen Lord. "Apostles" originally had
a much wider use than when applied to the
twelve only
8. Last of all. Up to the time of this
writing: he yeas afterward seen of John
(Rev. 1 18.) Seen of me also. Oa the
way to Damascus.
ft The least of the apostles. See Eph.
3. 3. The name "Paulus" in Latin means
"last." An, • not meet to be , called an
apostle. Not fit to bear that honored
name. I persecuted the church. God
has forgiven him abundantly, and Paul
cannot forgive himself.
10. By the grace of God I ani what I
am. Paul's work, as Lies says, was only
Paul's so Mr as God's grace and favor enable
him to perform it. Hie grace. . . was not
in vain. Having less fitness, he tried harder
than the rest.
11. We preach. The word iii used in a
much broader sense than now. 7t means
proclaim, not necessarily take a text,
12. If Christ be preached that he rose
from the dead, how say some? The force ot
this question id : Do you discredit us who
are witneesea of Christ's resurrection 1 and
if not, do you not see that the general
resurrection is a necessary corisequence of
Christ's resurrection
13. If there be no resurrection . .
then is Christ not risen, Here is the same
truth turned around. Christ died to raise
us front the dead to eternal life, but if he
had hot power to raise himself he cannot
raise us. But if the resurrection be an ism
possibility, at oleo of you teach, then, of
course, he had not power to raitte himself ;
if you deny either, you must deny both.
14. Our preaching vain, and your faith
s . vain, All Christian doetritie" is
intertwined -in a sure sense rooted -in the
doctrine of the resurrection ; all Christian
hopes group themselves about this precious
teeth. "Now is Chrust Aden from the
dead t" Uproved) by the unbroken testi
-
Men), et Osseo Who Wete its jertuntlein at
the tint° (2) by a direct revelntion to
Peel ; (3) by Christ's islifillseent of his
promise to Bann the Holy Ghost; (4) by the
Power whieh hat( Attended the Chureh
through tts trinumhanteareen Tberesurrees
Dion of Chrjetfrom thedead;therepureeotion
of our dead friends from the grave; the res-
urrection of our souls from the death of sin;
the resurrection of the great family of
hUnaanity to (fluster about the throne of
God forever -these are all vital parts of the
stupendous etheme of everlasting life re-
vealed by Ofirist Jeet10-
BRITISH RULE IN AFRICk.
.Justice is Dispensed With Due Regard tog
the Habits and Customs swum Feeple.
Among the African countries to which
England fell heir es the result of the Egypt
tian twat:motion of the Soudan, was the
strip of coast opposite Aden, in Arabia,
extending for some three hundred miles
along the eastern bulge, or horn, of the
aoatinent. The aecesegity for its occupation
lay in the fact that it serves as a base of
food supply for Aden, in British hands, the
danger that thie supply might be cut off by
the appropriation of the territory by France
or Italy, and the desirability of preventing
the near approach of other powers to this
part of ehe British road to India. A pro.
tectorate of the ooast was,therefore,formal.
ly proclaimed some ten years ago, placed in
charge of the resident at Aden, and agents
tient to acisniuister the country, with the
support of Berne companies of Indian troops,
An article in the London Times, from
which we condense, gates some of the re-
sults accomplished during the decade of
occupations and leaves little doubt that the
change from Egyptian to B rash rule has
been beneficial to the Somalis and satisfao
tory to the English. Administration has
been wisely adapted to the conditions of a
people hardly yet emergiug from barbarism
and] ustioe has been dispensed both in civil
and criminal cases With due oonsideration
of their habits and customs and their
initial stage of civilization.
The result of these methods and the
further fact that tbe settlement of religious
questions has been left to the loettl Moham-
medan leaders, is that the people appeal
freely to the British courts and to the
British officials in the settlement of tribal
disputes, and that throughout the entire
country there is a fair degree of peace and
contentment. Along the immediate coast
law and order is sternly enforced, the pre-
datory habits of the natives being held in
check by the aid of the Indian troops, a
• native police and camel corps, while schools,
hospitals and dispensaries and employment
of Various kinds has served to promote the
well-being and prosperity of the people.
With all this has followed a considerable
development of trade,though in the heated
wants of the natives it, may be doubted
whether trade s ever likely to be large,
unless minerals are discovered,or the coun-
try becomes the outlet for the traffic of the
interior. The district contains the best
port on the coast, that of Berbera, and it
is -probable that with increasing traffio
through it, the natives may realize the
advantages of the larger market, and so
concentrate a trade there which now flows"
through many small ports by many caravan
routes. Meantime the British hold on the
country has been assured by treaties under
which the principal tribes bind themselves
not to cede their lands to any other foreign
state,to suppress the slave traffic arid afford
protection to British travellers, while
boundary questions have been settled by
conventions with both France and Italy.
Altogether, the ohances for the peaceful
and orderly development : uf the` couittry
seem exaellent, the results of the ten years
of British oneupation going to prove anew
the flexibility of British rule,and the readi-
ness With which it is adapted to the needs
of even the least civilized peoples.
. e
• Sells His Wife for Money.
A despatch from Anderson, Ind., says: -
According to the terms of a trade consum
mated in this city, Joseph Mir disposes ce:
his wife and all his household effects to
Joseph Badgely, a farmer. About two
years ago Mix married Laura Clearwater,
who, previous to the *marriage, had bene
the housekeeper for Farmer Badgely. Since
the wedding Badgely has lived the life of a
lonely man. On Tuesday morning Badgely
drove up to the residence ot Mix and going
into the house, Inquired how much he would
take for his wife andall the household accts.
He replied promptly that a $5 bill would
buy what Badgely wanted. rit just make
it $25 said Farmer 13adgely, so the terms of
sale were agreed upon. Badgely, brought
Mrs. Mix to the oity and together they went
to the law office of Kittenger & Reardon.
There terms of the deal were fully explained
and the law firm retained. to bring divorce
proceedings for Mrs. Mix. As soon as the
divorce is procured Badgely will make Mrs.
Mix his wife and take her to his home,
'Fear the Big Ditch.
• A despatch from Washington says :--
Some eminent engineer has suggested that
the Chicago drainage canal, when it Is run-
ning in full blast, may lower the level of
the great lakes. The people of Cleveland
have taken great fright at the possibility
of this calamity and have made a protest
to the war department. General Thomas
Lincoln Casey, chief of engineers, would
not say, on the spur of the moment,
Whether the drainage canal would make
any noticeable reduction in the lake level.
He was inclined to look lightly_ 'on the
statement of the engineer who had set the
people of Cleveland in turmoil. Accordiug
to the Clevelaud view of the matter the
drainage canal will let nide inches of water
out of the great lakes when the flood gates
are opened, The harbor at Cleveland
could not spare this water, e.ndsit is quite
probable that none of the harbors on the
lakes could. The war department has not
yet given the matter serious attention,
A Peculiar Affliction.
Beanie me, said the truthful traveler
when the flask was passed round, but
catinot join you.
Why not? inspired the company.
It distorts my counteno.nee.
In what way ?
I never take a drink of whisky wiehout
making a rye fade.
Madge--"Oh,dear,it's so hard to deal. de."
Alice-- 'What ?" "Why, whether Charlie
ought to ewe° his money to build tie a home
in the apring or take the money to go
sleigh riding thee this winter."
IT CONOIJETIS THE FLANK
WHAT BALI; IN THE NOZZLE OF
A FIRE HOSE WILL DO,
No Longer NeCeaSity. for Loss of Itin
Either from Sufrocatton or Dire -A1)
instance orfts EgIcieney-A Solid Wel
of Weller PietWeen the Firemen an,
the smoke and riatue.
It Was ie August that Charles Y. Polloek,
while experimenting with an ordinary 'awl
sprinkler, discovered a secret of natm
which promises faareaching results in our
domestio ecionorny. Mr. Pollock found
that a ball placed loosely in a bellahaes
tee-
selleaa
TIM SEW DOzgiA.
nozzle, without anything to hold it 11
position, would resist all pressure of watei
and oreate a spray, and that no possible
pressure would dislodge the ball. Follow.
ing it up and searching out, the preotical
usesao which his discovery might be appli
ed, Mr. Pollock has found that it will serve
many purposes of human necessity, most
important of which is that of adding to the
present fire equipments a spray of suoti
powerful effeot that it is doubtless not
claiming too much for it to say that in
every case where fire departments are
prompt in reaching fires there will be no
longer necessity for loss of life either from
suffooation or fire. •
It was found that by using a large bell
and ball and applying such a nozzle to fire
hose it would create e solid sheet of water
and give out the same quantity of water as
given out through a straight nozzle without,
creating any back pressure on the hose.
Careful study was given to developing the
ball nozzle for this purpose, and after ex-
periments extending over a period of
several months the best form pt bell was
found and a new appliance was given to
fire departments vvhich ia certain to increase
to a very large extent their efficiency.
The ball nozzle was immediately adopted
her the fire department in Des Moines, Iowa,
the home of the inventor, and since Re
adoption the record of the fire department
has been a marvellous ono; not a single
serious loss has occurred, and the chief of
the fire department testifies that he has by
the use of the ball aozzle saved many lives
BALL NoZZLN CONQUERING TUB rIRE DIMON%
and thousands of dollars' worth of property.
In one particulat instance, when one of the
largest lumber yards in that city took fire.
and for a few minutes threatened a valuable
portion of the city, the timely arrival of the
department and the use of the ball nozzles
averted a most disastrous conflagration:.
As is generally known, the most diffi
cult thing to coutend with in the early
stages of fires is the smoke which quickly
fills the entire structure, making it impos-
sible 'for firemen to enter, and for. this
reason it may besaid that thousands of
lives have perished and millions of dollars'
worth of property have been destroyed.
Efforts have constantly been made to pro-
duce an effective spray with sufficient
power to drive smoke, and quench flames,
but up to the time of the discovery of the
ball nozzle alai important result had not
ben accomplished. The difficulty has
been to secure &spraying device that would
permit the flow of a sufficient amount, of
water to give it driving power and at the
same time to overcome the back pressure
of the hose, but the ball nozzle accom-
plishes these important results, and is
withal more easily handled than the ordin•
ary straight stream. Indeed, while it
take e two or more men to handle a straight
stream, one man can easily handle the ball
nozzle, which creates a solid wall of water
between the firemen and the smoke and
flame, enabling him to pursue the fire to
its 15011ree, no matter where it is in a
structure, cover a large areit quickly and
rescue people, if there are any, who might
otherwime perish. Where a powerful
straight stream is used it is otten the coste
that as much damage results from water
as from fire. The ball nozzles obviate this
to a very large extent, as the foroe, while
great enough to quench flame, is not suffi-
cient to cause unnecessary destruction' of
fragile interior property.
His .Occupation.
A negro wee oa the witnese stand -one
of the old fashioned kind, tot impudent
but plain -speaking. The lawyer got along
fairly well until he asked the witness what
his occupation Was.
I's a carpenter sir.
What kind of a carpenter?
They call me a jaek.leg earpenter, sah.
What is a jack -leg carpenter
He hi a carpenter who is nob a fietitailaes
carpenter, sah.
Well, explain fully what you underetand
a jack -leg carpenter te lie, insisted the
laWyers
Boss, I deolar' I dune° how to niplain
any irio' 'cent to say hit am if:fa de tonne
&dunce 'Mixt yeu ati' er firet•olame
IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.
In4fleations Point let a 'revival la Dual-
pesa-WheatIs Scarce and Flour Going
Wheat is the barometer rf Outariont
anci within the present low range ,
,here ie now an upward tendency. The
miters see offeriug but little-seareely
nough to sepply the Millen of the Pro.
since. Everetinoe the opening of the year
:eliveries front the OW hands have been
mall; and the priowt ere now higher than
hey have been for many months. Flour
i( going up, and titers Is no doubt this
tendency will continue, as it 18 several
years since the stooks have been so email as
st preeent. The infiueoces which tend to
itiffen the market give every evidence of
uontinnance, It will Ds but a few week
most tiil the country roads become
almost impassable ; and, although this may
temporarily interfere with other lines of
business, it will further strengthen the
inarket for oountry &educe. The snowfall
has been unueually heavy, and..hrs messy
teetions farmers have found the drifts im-
passable and have been driving over the
adjacent fields, When the break-up comes
tt will be all the more prolonged, and for
some time the delivery of grain will be
in possible.
. With this bregkom in view and the des
eland for flour strong, it 13 fair to conclude
that prices will range still higher than at
presexit. The opening of navigation will
.loubtless have a, stimulatiog eu'eot, as it
will faoilitate the movement toward points
ef shipment. The leather trade is also re-
porting a marked improvement. For some
time it bas been demoralized,svith prices a.na
!exalts extremely uncertain. But recent
developments have caused a marked change
toward stability and a general otiffening of
prices. This cannot be attributed entirely
to the'efforts of the trade in the Province
En the westeruStatesa a strong demand for '
tildes has sprung up, and shipments are
Low made from Canadian points to Chicago.
This has had Iv:narked effect on the price
of hides in 1°09.1 markets. At the same
time there has arisen in England. a demand
for Canadian loather. And this combina-
tion of influences has been advantageous to
he Canadian tanneries. Their business is
now in a better coadition than tt has been
for many years. While there are always
avo opposite points of view from which a
rise in prices may be viewed, these natural
advances in Cauada s staple products invar-
iably, make for the prosperity of all our
business • in terests.
CONDITION OF FOREIGN CROPS.
Cold Weather Ras Caused M melt Maniac
• to Winter Seedinas.
The report of the European agent of the
United States department of agriculture tor
February has beea made public. It treats
of the conditions reepeoting the crops pro.
veiling in most of the turopee.netteountries.
In Great Britain the month has been one
of continued frost and low temperatures.
No field work has been done in any part of
the country for five weeks. From Scotland
the report is of violent snow storms, con.
tinued frosts, impassable roads, gailway
bleckadea and suspended agricultureawork.
In France it is believed that the sudden
alterations of temperature in the early part
of the month before there were heavy enoW
falls have injured wheat -and rye. In Geie
many no anxiety is felt as to the condition
•of winter wheat or seeding. In Spain very
cold weather has continued throughout the
whole of February, but the great falls of
snow have protected the crops. in Italy
the winter has been of ueprecedented se•
verity, but much snow has fallen and re.
Mined on the grounds° that no evil effects
are anticipated. In Austria winter seed.
ings have been protected by the snow, but
in Hungary the situation is not quite so
satisfactory. In Roumania, after an die.
usually mild January,the suceeedihg month
was ushered in with the severest storme
teat went over all Europe. Greece is the
only country of Europe that has escaped
February of remarkable • severity. It '
Russiaseports made by officials state that
the area under wheat ana rye 15 diminish-
ed this year by no less than 25 to 30 per
cent.
•, The Wife Should Know.
In a neighboring city,very lately, a man
dropped dead in • the street, killed by a
sudden spasm of the heart. After the fun..
nal and slight recovery frorn the shock of
her husband's death, the widow began an
investigation of his affairs, confident that
a comfortable provision for the family re.
trained. There was, firsts she was sure, a
considerable life insurance, for the' matter
had been spoken of by her husband, but no
trace of the • policy or designation of the
company could be.tound. Investnaente,too
that business friends knew of, and the wife
could recall references to,could not be veri-
fied; no papers substantiating them being
found, and from a oondition bordering on
affluence, with every confidence for its con-
tinuance, the family in a month was reduced
to abject poverty because property helong.
Mg to them could not be traced. Theenji
a question of conjugal obligation involved
in this and similar cases, all too commoti.
Every man is under a moral obligation to
keep his wife informed approximately, et
least of the condition of his financial affaite
it is not necessary to nave a man eternally
talking "shop," and preaching needless '
economy, to bring this ahoutahe ebould,
though, let his wife understand fully what
way of living his income permitted, and,
above all, she should have a knowledge of
any provision for the future which he may
have made.
Bloom ers Shock Victorians.
The Victoria, B. C., polio° have decided
that bloornere are not suitable for ladies'
street wear, even when worn as a bicyoling
costume, and heve taken steps to enlace
this deoleion. Miss Ethel Delmont 13an
enthiadastio evheelwoman, pretty and
graceful. Last week she made her appear-
ance in the bloomer osstume and if Leda
Godit a had herself essayed a repetition of
her famous ride the serum tion could not
have been greater. The town mane forth
to gaze and for the tnornent the policemen
were petrified With • areagement. Then
they roused to action and-14nm Ethel
received an official vesitor who ieformed
her that a repetition of her appearance in
the objectionable costume wOuld mean a
polio court summon* oe the charge of
creating a diettirbortoeson a public street.
Mies Delrnont's 'Autumn* ess diseeisierl