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The Exeter Times, 1895-7-18, Page 6USINESS TROUBLES. Y. bee TALMAGE PREDICTS GREAT GENERAL PROSPERITY. $oya We Axe iet tlie Opening 110or of Ciood ittmes-Why So Maus Nem Pali by the Wriestde--The Value of a Iliemee soul, New York, July 7, -In his Sermon for to-claY TalMage. who is still absent pn his western lecturing' tour, chose a eubject of universal interested' viz, "Business Troubles" -the text selected being Boeitiel xXvIi, hi, 'These were thY nierobants be all sorts oftthings." • ening deor of re We are a,,t the OP Willies- national prosperity, The corn- • ing crops, the re-establisliment of pub- lic ceninlence and, above all, the bless- ing of Ood will turn in upoa all sec- tions of America the widtet, greatest prosperity this country has ever keown. But that door of success is.net yet fully open, and thousands of butine,s men are yet suffering from the distressing times throng's which we have been paseing, Some of the best men in the land have faltered, men whose hearts are en- listed in every goad work and whose hands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to ex- tend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The sebools such men have established, the churches they have built, the asy- lums and beneficient instituti:ns they have fostered, will be their eulogy long after thelr banking institutions are for- gotten. Such men can never fail. They have their treasures in banks that never break and evIll be millionaires for ever. But I thought it would be appropriate to -day, and useful, for me to talk about the trials and tempta- tions of our business men, and try to offer some curative prescriptions. In the first place I have to remark that a great many of our business men teel ruinous trials and temptations corning to them from small and limited ea.pital in business. It is everywhere understood that it takes now three or four times as much to do business well as it once did. Once a few hundred dollars were turned into g,000s-the merchant would be his own store sweep- er, his own salesman, his own book- keeper; he would manage all the affairs himself, and everything would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come; costly apparatus, extensive advertising, exorbitant store rent, heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only parts or the demand made upon our commercial men, and when they have found them- selves in such circumstances with small capital, they have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of moral and financial destruction. This temptation of limited capital has ruin- ed men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the tempts: tion. They have yielded the battle be - tore the first shot was fired. At the first hard dun they surrendered. Their knees knocked together at the fall of the e.uctioneer's hammer. They blanch- ed at the financial peril. They did not understand that there is such a thing as heroism in merchandise and that there are Waterloos of the counter and that a man can fight no braver battle with the sword than he can fight with • the yardstick. Their semis melted In them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unsalable goods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger. The gloom of their countenances overshadwed even their dry goods and groceries. Despondency, coming from limited capital, blasted • them. Others have felt it in a different way. They have said ; "Here I have been trudging along. I have been try- thg to be honest all these years. I find it is of no use. Now it is make er break." The mall craft that could have stood the stream is put out be- yood the lighthouse, on the great sea of speculation, He borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who dare not refuse him, and he goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons in this way: Perhaps I may succeed, and if I don't 1 will be no worse of than I am now, for $100,000 taken from nothing nothing remains." Stocks are the dice with which he gam- bles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts of western land. Some man at the east, living on a fat homestead, Meets this gambler of fortune and Ls persuaded to trade off his estate for Its in a western city with large avenues and costly palaces and lake steamers smoking at the wise -ryes, and railroad trains coming down veith lightning speed from every direction. There it is ail on paper. The city has never been built, or the railroads con- • structed, but everything points that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. Well, the man goes on, stopping at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid equipage he dashes past, while the honest laborer looks up and wipes the sweat from his brow and says, "I wonder where that man got all his money." After a while the bub- ble bursts. Creditors rush in. 'The law elutches, but ithde nothing in its grasp. The men who were swindled say, "I don't know how I could have ever been deceived by that man," and the pic- torials, in handsome woodcuts set forth • the hero who, in ten years, had genius enough to fail for $150,000. And that is the process by 'which many have been tempted through lim- itation of capital to rush into laby- rinths from which they could not be extrthated. I would not want to chath • honest enterprise. I would not want to Meek up any of the avenues for honest accumulation that open before young men. On the contrary, I wouId Bete to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but when there are such multitudes of men going to ruin for thie life and the Ilfe that is to eon10, threrth wrone notione (if whet are soneres � enierpriTse.. It tlet ate • duty of the denials of God rind the min- nitere of religion. and the friend,: Of all • young men to Utter_ h srphalle inisoletelste5i mutts -et. 1,hehe art• ). sin• fi• tterin'es"' that clastruc- tion and perdition. • Again, a great many of our bueinees men are tempted to ever alaxiety and ttere, Yeti know that nearly ali ttie icenernerdial hUstileaseit are ofierdone In thii0 firnittele Wifid the thee at ittutok hetea, our detest are erowded with •ittten Afftettired to be rich at all host. ehlitgasee' THII EXETER TIMES Ards), They do not care how money *ernes, if it only comes, Our best nor - (shanty are thrown into competition with men of more means and less eon. science, and if an opportunity for ac- euMillatiOn be hegiected one hour some one else picks it up, ?rein January to December the struggles goes- on. Niehe gives noquiet to limbs tossing in restlessness nor to a brain that, will not stop thinking. • The dreams are har- rowed by imaginary loss and tiusheil Wna Irnae,thary gains. :Oven the Sab- bath =net dam backthe tide or ante- lety; for this wave Of worldliness desh- esclear over the church etutl leaves its foam.on Bibles and prayer books. Alen who are living an salaries or by the cul- tivation of tbe soil cannot understand the wear and tear of the body end mina to which, our merchants are subjected when they do not know but that their livelibeed and theer lets:nese bee= are deperatent ham the uneerteintits uC the next hour. This ex:Atte-item of the brain, tine eurroding, rare itt the heeet. ni..ttrutn L.r effort teat at:eau:its the spirit, and sends a great meny ui eller best men, in middle life, into th:.- grave, their lire daslitd out etmene, money safes. They go with their stere on their backs. Theytrudge like camels., sweat- ing, frolia Aleppo to Damascus. They make their life a crueifixion. Stant-1- j Ing- behind desks and counters, ban- ' ished from the fresh ate, weighed down by carking cares, tr.tey are so 1 many suicides,4,0h, I wish I could to- day rub out stanti uf these lines of care; that I could lift some of the burdens from the heart; that I could give relax- : ation to some of these worn muscles. It is time fur you to begin to take it a little easier. Do your best, and then • trust Gad for the rest. Do not fret. God manages a.11 the affairs of your life, and he manages them tor the beet. • Consider the lilies -they always have robes. Behold the fowls of the air- ' they always have nests Take a long breath. Bethink betimes that God did not make you for a pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among the hogs- heads and shelves and in the light of • the holy Sabbath day resolve that you Will give to the winds your fears and your fretfulness and your distresses. You brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain that you can carry nothing out. Having food and raiment, be therewith content. The merchant came home from the store. There had been a great disaster there. He opened the front door and said in the midst of his family circle "I ara ruined. Byerything is gone. I am all ruined." His wife said, "I am left." And tbe little child threw up its hands and said, "Papa, I am here." The aged grandmother, seated in the room, said. "Then you have all the promises of God besides, John." And he buret into tears and said : "G-od forgive me that I have been so ungrateful. I find I have a great many things left. God forgive me." Again I remark that many of our • business men are tempted to neglect their horne duties, 'tow often it is that the store and the home seem to clash, but there ought not to be any collision. It is often the case that the father is the mere treasurer of the family, a, sort of agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of the family government he does not touch. Once or twice in a year he calls the children up on a Sabbath afternoon when he has a half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, and In that half hour he disciplines the chil- dren and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them aegreat deal ef good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children do not do better when they have the wens- derful advantage of that semi-annual castigation. • The family table, which ought to be the place for pleasant discussion and Chet fulness, often becomes the place of perilous expedition. If there be any blessing asked at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the hands on the • carving knife. He counts on his fin- gers, making estimates in the inter- stices of the repast. The work done, • the hat goes to the head and he starts • down the street, and before the family have arisen fromthe table no has bound up another bundle of goods and says to the customer, "Anything else I • can do for you, to -day, sir ?" A man • has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting com- petent instructors over his children an giving them a drawing master and a music teacher. The phy- sical culture of the child will not be attended to unless the father looks to it. He must sometimes lose his dignity. lee must sometime:3 lead them out to their sperts and gimes. The parent who cannot forget the so- vere duties of life sometimes, to fit' the kite and trundle the hoop and ehase the bah and jump the rope with his children, ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unrottem- abie r t _Lep your children away from places of sin, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may pretteh ser' - mons and advocate reforin, arei de- nounce wickedness, and get your chit- dren will be captivated by Inc glitter- ing saloon of sin unless you can make your home a brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh, gath- er all charms into your house If you can afford it bring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But, above all, teach these children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day, teach them that religion is a great gladness, that it throws chains of gold about the neck, that it takes no spring from the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," 1 sympathize with the work being done in -many of our cities, by which beautiful rooms ,are Set apart by our Young Men's Christian fieteciatione and I pray God to pros- per them in all things, But 1 tell you there Is someting back of that and be- elep that -we TAO nine tialopY, pone' eecrated, oheerfui 6hr1st1an hornets' eV* eiywhere. Again I remark that a great mealy of enr busliess-p.re TelriVreci &Vika firtaiC2 kria sthove the value of the soul, It Is a grand thing to have plenty of money. The more you get of it the better, if it comes hon- estly and, go inanity. For the look of it siokness' „dies witilbut medicine, and hunger finds Its coffin In the empty bread tray, raid netkeeneeers ShiVera for leek of clothes anel Jiro. • Whenj hear a manie"""`"*"1 iffrades egathint Merle -Christian man -as though It had no Poasible use on earth and be had, no interest in it at all, I corns almost to think that the heaven that would be appropriate for him would be an ever- lasting poor house. While, my friends, We admit there is suck a, thing as the lawful use ot money -a prolita.ble se of money -let us recognize alSO the fact that money =mot satisfy a mares soul; that It cannot glitter in the dark valley; that it mullet pay our fare across the Jordan of death; that it can- not unlock the gate of heaven, There are men in all occupations who seem to act as though they thought that a pack of bonds and mortgages could be traded off for a title to heaven, and as though gold would be a lawful ten- der in that place where it is so common that they have paveineuts oe it. Sal- vation by Christ is the only salva- tion. Treasures in heaven are the only incorruptible treasures. Have you ever ciphered out In the rule of loss and gain the sum, "What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" However fine your apparel, the wings of deatil will flutter It like rags, Homespun and a threaabare coat have sometimes been the shadoer of coming robes rnaue white in the bloodf the Lamb. The pearl of great priee s worth more than any gem you can bring trolls the mean, than Australian or Bro.eilian mines strung in one careanet. Seek after Gild, rind his righteousness, and all shall be well here; all shall be well her.after, Some of you remember the slapwitck of the Central Ameriem That noble steamer had, I think, about 500 1.13,s- sengers aboard. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges trampled the decks and swung into the hatches, and there went up a hundred -voiced death shriek,. The foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer as though it were leaping a. mountain. The dismal flare of the :aerial rockets, The • long t ough of the steam pipes. The hies or extinguished furnaces. The waking of God on the wave. The steamer went not down without a. struggle. As the ; passengers stationed themselves in rows to ball out the vessel, hark to the thump of the buekets, as men unused to toil, with blistered hands and strain- ed muscles, tug for their lives. There 1 is a. sail seen against the sky. The flash of the distress gun is noticed; its voice beard not, for it is choked in the , louder booming of the sea. A few passengers escaped, but the steamer • gave one great lurch and wasegone • So them are some men who sail on pros- perously in life, Alns well; all's well. But at last some financial disaster comes -a euroclydon. Down they go. The bottom of the commercial sea is strewn with shattered honks. But be- cause your property goes do not let your soul go, Though all else perish, save that; for I have to tell you of a more stupendous shipwreck than that • which I just mentioned. God launched this world 0,000 years ago. It has been going on under freight of mountains and immortals, but one day it will Stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. Then God shall take the passengers off the deck and from the berths those who have long been asleep in Jesus, and he veal set them far beyond the reach of storm and peril. But how many shall go down will never be known until it shall be announced one day in heaven; the shipwreck of a world ! So may minions saved! So many millions drowned. ! Oh, my dear hearers, whatever you lose, though your houses go, though your lands go, though all your earthly pos- sessions perish may God Almighty through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save all your souls. CHILD MURDERS. The Cruel Crimes of a L91%11011 Fiend - Little Girls Outraged nod Strangled. .A despatch from London says i -A series f ontrages and mnrders of little girls of ages ranging from four to seven years has created great excitement among the work- ing classes in the district of Watham street, seven miles uorth-eaat of London. Within two months five little ones have been decoyed from their homes and vanished • eornp:etely. Searching parties have failed to find therm Their dead bodies have been found lying in the fields and giving evidence of the most outrageons treatment. In every case the victime have been of the same type of children who have bee o playing aloog the toseiside or other way in the discharge of seem errands. Inc immediate cause of death in every • cam: has been etrangulation. The police inquiry points to a well-dressed man of thirty, but here tbe clue stops. Only one cf the many victims of this monster, who- ever he may be, has succeeded in esca,ping tdeeth-a little girl four years of age. After having been subjected to most hor- rible treattnent she was found lying in a field by persons whose attention was at - reacted by her oriese The child was unable ci describe her assailant. Several men have been arrested on simpleton, but they have been able to establish alibis and were lib- erated. The miscreant usually hides the bodies of his victims in a secluded place in the fickle and under hedgete and covers then) with leaves. Japanese Armor. An accidental but: important discovery is announced, writes a correspondent at Yokohama. "It must have ocourred to many of your readers that, although the fights in Manchuria have been called very severe, the Japanese losses have invariably been few, and those of the Ohinese were heavy. Much of this dieparity has been due to bad marksmanship on the part of the Chineee,but a part of the immunity has been oaring to the fact that to keep out the cold the Japanese wore a quentity of floss ailk under their clothes, This is a very light and flexible material, and in many eases has acted as a bullet-proof shield. It is important enough to deserve attention at the hands of the British military autht eritiee." Remains of an Exploring ?arty, • •e• YI• The sk°hi eletene et nt:Den Men, apparent- ly members of an ill-fated exploring party, were diaeovered in April last in a small olive in a wild and desolate pert of the southwest of Greenland by Uptain Andersen of the Bark Sereneywhiob arrived, at Philadelphia on Monday frern Ivigtnt. All powerful souls have kindred With eaoh other.e-Ocrieridges THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, July 21. Nadal.) and annum" nev, 10.11-11. Golden • Text, nev. 10.0. OBereeel. STATEUENT, The taberintole with all its sacred fermi ture now stands complete epoa the plebe in the center of the camp of Tamen Before tt in the open court the great brazen altar mesa smoking with the fleet morning sae& foe and bright) with the fire which on that day has fallen from the beavens. Bub ere the sun eats over the crown of Sinai the joy of the people has been turned to sorrow by an aot of sacrilege, followed by a judgs meat of wrath. The two eldest sons of Aaron -young men who awhile ago tabula ed the steeps of Sinai and stsve the sapphire pavement under Jehovah's feet, who have received the high privileges of the priest- hood and entrauoe into the saactuary- diaregard the express ow/mend of the Lord. They fill their censers with common fire, inatead of lighting them at the altar of burnt offerings, and iu a tumultuous man- ner, perhaps excited by strong drink, they prees towarti the curtained sanctuary. Itt a moment the lightning of God's anger flashes, and the tsvo priests fall dead at the vestibule of the holy place. Their aged father, standing o.t his post by the altar, is forbidden to show the customary signs of grief, svbile their relatives bear forth the bodies, clad in their priestly vestments,and bury them outside tbe camp, Thee God's majestyie vindmated,and his honseis ehown to be sacred in the presence of all the reo- ple. EXPLAXAToltir AND TRADT1WiL NOTES. Verse 1. Nade,b and A bible The two eldest sons of Aaron, who had been per- mitted to meet with God in the mountain (Exod. 24.9), mid have just been consecrat- ed to the priestly office. (1) The enjoy - mane of privilege adde to the weight of responsibility, and makes sin all the more Hia censer. A bowl in which frankinceuse lied other gums were mingled with coals of fire, making a fragrant cloud of smoke. Incense. This was offered twice a day, at the hours of morning and evsnitig sacrifice, the latter being about three p.m. The incenee was to be lighted with therefrom the altar of burnt offerieg, and then placed upon the golden altar in the holy place_ , close bythe inner vall. Strange fire. • Probably, instead of using the fire on the altar of burnt offering wbich fell from heaven at the consecration, they took common fire and conducted the service in a disorderly way, perhaps being intoxi- cated with wine, and certainly showing the spirit of irreverence and disregard for God's command. (2) God's orders are to be obeyed faithfully, even though we may not fully understand the purpose. Com- manded them not. Rether, "which the Lord has forbidden them," (3) Whoever enters upon God's worship lightly and carelessly follows in the path of these otfeuders. 2. Fire from the Lord. Perhaps a flame darting forth frees the Shekinah in the hol y of holies, or a lightning stroke from the heavens, though the preciee manner of the event meat be unknown. Devoured them. That is, "slew them." Their bodies and even their garments remained. uninjured. Their penalty was (1) Sud- den ; (2) Deady; (3)• Pubiic ; (4) Super- natural ; ((1) In the line of their crime; as they sinned 1.y fire, mo they died by fire. Died before the Lord. That is, in or before the tabernacle where God dwelt, Perhapa reasons for this sudden and terrible event may be given : (1) It was necessary to vindicate the majesty of God, which haa I been affronted by their irrevereet acts ; (2) To impress upon the Israelites the sanctity •of God's house and service ; (3)Being the first oannse,to administer a penalty which would deter from its repetition. See the instances of God's visitation upodfirst offenses with Adam, the sabbath -breaker (Num. 15 32), Achau, Ananies, etc., (4) How careful should we be to deal reverently with God'a holy name since those who affronted hie honor received such punishment ! This is it that the Lord sps.ke. ,This may mean, not that God had said this in form, but that it was the spirit of hie instruction. The precise words are not found elsewhere. I will be sanctified. That is, if men will not honor and recog- nize Ged, he will aeoure his own recognition by their deetrurtion ; either he will be honored by them or upon them. Before all the people. As their sin had been public, so was their penalty. Held his peace. In the eilence of grief, yet submis- sive to Godas will realizing the justice of the event. "Rebellion speaks; • resignation holds its peace." 4, 5. Mishael and. Elzaphan. Cousins of the two slain priests; and without the special command of Moses, not permitted to enter the sanctuary. Out of camp. For burial, that the living might not be defiled nor infected. In their coats. They were buried with their priestly vestments, for theee would be regarded as profaned. The dead bodies in the robes of their order, borne throagh the camp, must hare formed an impressive leason of the danger in offending God. 13). 7. Uncover nOis your heads. By taking off of priest's miter or disheveling the hair, whioh were common signs of mourning. Neither rend your clothes. By tearing them open in front, ape of the common tokens of grief. The genmeate and the persons of the priests were both saored. Lest wrath come. They were to ac- count the service of God, which they per- formed on beholf of the nation, as More important than their own private griefs ; and they were uot to oat as if repining against God's dealings with their relativism. (5) God's cause should lie nearer to our hearts than any family ties. Let . . the whole home of Israel. The people might well mourn over the event, that it Might make the deeper impression upon them. Shall not go out. To a000mpany the dead bodies to the grate. The tinoirtting oll. They had received the anointing Which oonseorated them to the SerltioA 01 00dt 8, 0. Unto Aaron. Since this was a pre. sept relating eapeoially to Anion's ib wee given to him in perm, and nOt through Moses, Do not drink wine. It may be implied the% the two priests ens* witted their (gime while tindee e j Liu. eliee of li hor Iona° the prohlblbloai. Strangdrin1e. A term for intoltiOabing drink othot than wine, and geterally referring to stronger Vatiotice. Lost ye dlo. By rem() Wit 40namitted while Intexioated. (0) See kers', the dihgers 'Alto whlcit strong drink Made tittn, 10, 11, Differeuce between. That they may keep their miude hi condition to know the difference between thitga holy and unholy. (7) One is held teSPOOSible for laok of kneWledge if he has the power to obtain knowledge. Teaelt the obildren of Israel. Stacie they could nob teach the laws of God unless they kept themselves in a state to oomprehend thero. JAPANESE FRA,YER BAGS. ):vicenees et tilelatrY PoUnd On a Lot or Cootie& The immigration inspector's at San Fran- cisco examined a loti of Japanese oeolies few dentine and fOnn.d, that eaoh one had strung about his neck a kamisama or pray ing bag. These bags contain prayers written on silk or stout paper and are apeoielly addressed to • the poeseesor's household god. The Jape pay their Buddhist and Shinto prieate frorn 1 to 2 cents for these prayers, which eerve the double purpose of being lucky oharma as well as prayers. The JAPANESE PRAMNO Bata priests bless the charm upon receipt of the ! cosh. The possessor prays by sliding the ; little pouch up and down the strings and ' saying something similar to "These are my sentiments." He is very particular that these prayer bags end charms shall not be profaned by the toil& of a Christian fore. finger and resists the deputy's efforts to find letters neat the little sacred, pouch whichreposes on the stomach of the faithful. For this reason the intelligent Jap does not carry letters near the bag. When the :rap is particularly anxious to have his god answer his prayer he removes the oover from the top of the pouch and prays with the paper in his hands. Still another evidence of Japanese super- stition is shown by the lucky stones they nearly all (professed Christians as well) carry in their pockets. In Japan the wo-nen place locks of their hair and the men place smooth atones the size of walnuts at thif feet of their idols. After a certain • time these looks of hair and the stones become sacred and are either (tarried in their garments or worn suspended around their becks as charms to protect the wearer from evil and halm. The Japanese immi- grants wear and carry the prayer bags and the sacred stones until they reach the missions, when they are hidden, so as to prevent white Christians from discovering these evidences of idolatry. FINE FARMS. Many in the Olt1 Provinces for Sale at a Cheap PrIee. A considerable number of immigrants have arrived in Montreal during the past fortnight, destined chiefly for the North- West, For the most part these are from the Old Country, and of the farming class, which is so desirable, as it is the unoccupied lands of the great previa:mei west> whioh make a serious problem for Canada. Prod - tical farmers from the Old Country are dis- posed to stay on the land, which is not the cage with Italians and Poles, who gravitate to the towns and cities, and, forming inde- pendent colonies, become a menace rather than a source of strength to the country of their adoption, as bas been abundantly proved in the United States, A much greater volume of this class of immigration is desired. On the other hand, while the rush is for the North-Weet, the older provinces offer first-rate opportunities for betterment on their fine aoils, tbe cultiva- tion of which would make for independence. in many parts of the Provinoes of Oistario and Quebec there are fine farming lauds which could be had for nominal prices, and which have been deserted in the hope of speedier fortune urion the newer soils. In the Eastern Townships and the Ottawa Valley there are fine opportunities for men with a knowledge of farming, and a little rnoney to turn their backs npon the city and commence, not the old fashioned farm- ing, whioh does not pay under present conditions, but fruit and poultry farming, whioh, in the instances in which it has been i tried n any of the older provinces, has proved a wonderful success. Eggs, poultry, and fruit -this trio, with intelligence, with scientific methods, can be .made to pay splendid profite. In the 'Nature of a Warning. Elderly Relative (with meana)- Alfred this young Miss Peduaole you want to marry -what kind of a girl is she? Young madwith expeetationo oontingent on elderly relative's lent will and testament) -Aunt Raohel, she is the beat girl alive I She plays the plane beautifully, she clan pluton china, speak French like a native, and-. Play tennis, rsuppose ? 0, yes, Shea a capital tombs player. Rides a hioyole ? To iSeefeotion. Irin-wears bloomer? Er -sometimes, (Grimly) Yon had better atia out if she cnn COOit. Thereat° some people who glye with the alr of refincal.-Queen Ohrietiatias CONSIDER THE DOG. Sitts's 17atthrat, Friend Would He Better Treated If Mau Knew Mtn Metter. So great is the popular dread of hydro.. phobia lamb a alight derangement 'of the doges nervous eyetem is often MiStaken for symptoms of rabies, while a dog in cOnitilli," slogs, in an epileptic) fit, or atrioken with Apoplexy may be shot) as mad -particularly if it be hot weather -before there isa chance of determining the nature of his dioeese. The principal centres of the nervous system are the brain and the spinal cord. These Stonehenge compares to the eleotrio telegraph. The brain he calls the central office. From that station are issued mess- ages to all parts,of the body, and the wires which carry those messages are the nerves of motion, the nerves ot sensation, and the nerves of organic life, all of which have their aeparate ganglia, or the lesser station maeters. The normal movements of the body are the remit of harmonious co-ordin. ated functional activity of the neuro - 'muscular mechanism, i. e. of the nerve ()entree, nerves,and modes, 'In convulsions the movements are purposeless and irregus tar, and are, of (mum, watesful of the animal energies, A dog may have a fit from overexertion in the heat of the sun, from neuralgic pains, or from toothaohe, from meningitis, exoessitre fright, parasites in the nose or brain, • ante ear disease, or from the distress of being lost in a large city ; or if a female, of being deprived of her whelPs. Recently it has been shown that mental distress has the power to give a dog diabetes. It stands to reason that so sensitive an animal should never be unduly excited. On no &cement allow one dog to see an other in a fit, MBE SUFFERDTG DOG should bave bin head web, and should be kept for a time in a dark, quiet place free from all excitement. In most oases of convulsions a small dose of bromide of potassium will do great good. Hydropho- bia, conaidered as a canine disease, is decidedly a misnomer. The proper term for canine madness is rabies. The rabid dog has "no fear of water." On the contrary, he craves it, and, unless paralyzed, he has no difficulty in swallowing it. Rabies is a specific disease of the nervous system. In all oases there is an intense inflammation of the brain and spinal marrow, ending in a toes of function, vthich is a result common to inflamed glands. The mucous glands of the atomach and bowels, the liver, the pan- creas and the kidneys are allmore or less injected with blood; but the salivary glands are especially affected, and the secretion of saliva is greatly increased. There is thefurions or maniacal form of rabies and the paralytio. The paralytic is known as dumb rabies. Abeolutely typical i cases of either form are as rare as s the disease. Death, however, usually result in from two to ten days in the furious form, while in dumb rabies the period is much ahort owl or bark of a mad dog is very eerh. remarkable. It is totally unlike his ordin- ary voice, and is sonorous and melancholy to an extreme. No oue need mistake ie. The dog's appetite is so preverted that he will wallow stead, sticks, straws, and almost any filth. His biting and snapping are reflex actions tahey should not be re- garded as deliberate. It is then that he is really dangerous. Irritability is an ad- vanced stage of rabies. In the earlierstages the animal is sullen and inclined to bide away in corners. His eyes grow wild and suspicious. If at large he vill roam over wide tracts of country at a jog trot, with his head down and his tongue out. In dumb rabies there is an entire absence of excitement. The muscles of mastication are paralyzed so that the lower jaw is dropped; there is no maniacal stage at all. BPILEPTIOAL CONVWLSIoNS are due to an irregular discharge of the nerve cells. They occur unexpectedly, are of variabie duration, and the spasms are of two kinds. A prolonged muscular contraction is called it tonic spasm. Fel- lowing the tonic spasm are the °Ionic sPasms, which consist of alternate contrac- tion and relaxation. The dog, like tbe human subject, will froth at the mouth and bite the tongue. Epilepsy may be hereditary, or muy be due to teething and worms. polexy differs greatly from epilepsy. The convulaions are not prominent; the pupils of the eyes are either contreeted or dilated ; there is long continued unoon- sciousnese and more or less paralysis. • Meningitis, so often mistaken foto rabies, is yet very different. The temperature is very muoh elevated, which it is.not in rabies'; the dog snaps, but shows no tendency to bite, and there is no particular bark and howl combined, althhugh the dog's voice is high pitched. Phrenitis is a simple inflamtnation of the brain, It is sometimes a complication of distempers and ia the only disorder which resembles rabies. It generally occurs in the hotteet weather. The dog cannot propagate phreni tie by salivary inoculation. "Hydrophobia in human beings," says a writer, "results from accidents of a nervous order, sometimes mortal, sometimes curable according as they derive from disorders analogous to tetanus (lockjaw) produced by O. wound or from purely Mental dis- orders." According to Dr. Gaffe, "spon- taueous rabiform hydrophobia is the only rabies that exists, and that is a moral rabies." Before M. Pasteur's system was invented about nineteen persons annually were officially reported to have diod of hydrophobia, Now, strange as • it may seem, the number of persons who annually report themselvea bitten by rabid animals averages from 1,600 to 2,000. Rabies is 4 rare dieemos rarer tceele.y. than in the past, and hydrophobia is more or loss a form of bystetia. Were there less talk abont it it would be better for the community. A. little more knowledge of our own nervous system, a Mere les* ignorence of the dog's, and we shall be far more likely to escape hydrophobia entirely than to die from it or be seved by inoculation. A Great Mind. Restful Reagan -Say, that Happy Hogan'e gob der intelleck, I tell yer wet I Saturated Sant-Wotta 6 bin doin' new? Restful Reagan -He wos robbne it bee hive an' hie hand got stung an' melted ; au' he lays down an' hollers bee enake bit, and den (in an unetteouti whisper) a orowd of jays come runnin) and made iim drink a quart 0' whisky. Accounted for. Lady (to butoher)-See here, I thotight. otdered sGall toogue of you. Look at thia; its as long as 5 beet tongue. Botcher -Beg pardoo, madam, that is a cattle toogue; yea Mee it Was a ittnale calf RIVAL RACES IN INDIA,, SOME GOOD ADVICE GIVEN BY THE, MOSLEIVI CHRONICLE, viiargea its People wlth fteiag Them, seivca to Wattle for Ail the Sivil 'MO Has overtaken Titem-The secret of tise success of the atudetee. The rivalry between Hiadoo and Moslem has recently taken a turn thee is not with- ouD promise aud which, moreover, invites comparleon with some rivalries of our own. The Mobarnmedans have long shown jean ouey ole distribution of state aid,including. Government berth, which they considered more favorable to Hiudoos than to theme actives. They, the anoient masters of India, have. had the mortification to aoe the descendants of the people whom their forefathers conquered and governed tak1i4 precedenoe in school and college, in oom- meths and, industry, in society and politica, The Iiindoos are in the van of progress,. while the Moslem lag behind. They have been supplanted by a race that they despie. ed and the success of their rivals is a8. eyesore to them wherever they look. Suoh hate been the complaint heard in every mixed community where Bindoo competed with Moslem for the good things, of life. But now the Moslem Chronicle, whioh is the chief organ of the Mohammedan population in Bengal, charges its people with being THEMSELVES TO BLAME for all the evil that has overtaken them. The seoret of the success of the Hindoos lies in the fact that they availed themselves of the educational advantagesthat the Government held out to them. They adapted themselves to the changed oireumstancea. brought about by British institet ions and the general progress of our taine. They learned whatever Anglo.Indians learned. and thus attained, go far as intellectual cultivation could enable them to do so, their standard of intelligenee and their feints of view. They •set themselves diligently to aohieve sueoess and to a large exteat they had sucoeeded. Some of them overcame traditional prejudices and sent their sons to British universities. A Brahman nosh had a railway built by Bengali eapitaltsand engineers -a captain of industry worthy of his age. A Brahman cox steered the Italliol eight only afew weeks ago with acknovvIedg. ed steadiness. A Brahman took the lead. for years in the Indian congresses. If Breit - mans made their influence. felt in those ways, it was because THEY RECOGNIZED PAOTS and adapted themselves to their surround. ings. But there is another point on which • strati :is :laid. The Moaletn, rapt up in their glorious peat, look in the Kiranther the precepts that should rule their lives. In the Irlostem sohools half the pupils' • energies are given to "religious instruction of an archaic type." They are taught to cook with contempt on mere secular knowledge, while the pooreet father of a household will starve himself that hie Noel may become learned in the mysteries dif the faith. The careers that attract • the the modern-rainded Hincloo have no oharm for him. Yet he complains because he seeti the Hiudoo advancing along those forbidden worldly paths to the goal of his ambition. Thus their training,their habits of thought, the sentiments with which they regard Ecritish energy and progress, and the dull, ptissive resentment which they oherish for the Eindoos-deseendants of wretches on whom th.eir victorious enamors used to trample -all tend to unfit the Moslem for a race in which they see obhers outstripping themselvea. The drat step -.towards re. generation. ;says the Moslem Chronicle, is to be e CORMOUs or DEGENERACY. Let the Mussulmans of India reaoh this stage of consciousness, so that they me.y not only feel their wrongs, their decay, their shame and disgrace, but that they may_also realize the source of them all. Then let hope inspire them with courage for their new life. Then they can fit themselves for the task which the exigen- cies of their time demand of them. Let them learn, and think and act and strive, and the old racial energy that conquered before will conquer again in thia intelleo- tual and industrial battle.Then they will have their share of political influence, of the prizes of commerce and industry, of positions of honor and trust and of the wealth which is a power for good as web as for evil. This the brighter, abler, more ambitious Moslem of India, e.re already doing, and some of them have shown that they need not shrink from the conflict on this bloodless field. But the multitude still lags behind, and to the multitude the Chronicle's appeal is ad- dressed. • German Village Life. Heidelberg is in naturallocation a curiously situated place. The town is built at tho point where the Necker River, shortly before it erripties into the Rhinesk, emerges from a winding defile in the mountains. The river abuts so close to the mountain edge there is scarcely room for a. town,so that the houses have been stretched out along one principal street, This is the scsoalled Eauptstrasse, or Main street, which is, of cours,e, neither wonderful nor beautiful. It is simply a winding roadway, where one May observe various phases of German village life. The shops are nearly alt located here, where not only the natives trade, but where are found all those varioua. novelties and souvenirs whioh are distlnetly of the plaoe, and which tourists are so addicted to "tarrying borne with them, The other leading street, and the one most fro, quonted by foreigners, is the scscalled Anlage, a broad es.rth path beneath a double line of trees, adjoining at one end lt smell park. This is the aristoeretio quart- er, where nearly all the hotels art situated. In COMIT1013 with all German towns and oities the soldier life on this street and elsewhere is very numb io evidence. A regiment with its stirring mesic goeS march- ing through the town once or tveiee it day to keep Mire the marten NAM d thepe opt et and to impress them with the power, of the Governrnerie It would seem that; there might be in Germany one or two 'tattle elderly pretty little townie, such as Wile iv, -perhape excitided from _the military juris, diction, where those people ?eight resort Who are nob 80 ftind ,of the attest, The Gerniati OVernmelit, however, misto the ihnate goodnem and reliability of the individual that inieh it ()muse has never (lona:tended Woolf et to