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The Exeter Times, 1895-8-29, Page 3xiiiiit .4 s USES OF AFFLICTION: TALIViAGE FINDS OONSOL.ATION IN 0004,S W0146. A J$ermon From the veer Appropri t Text, 'ewe Dad Shall Wipe Away AU Te;tr.$ Free& Their Byes "—Th e eonaforta of' Religion. New York, Aug. 18.-1en, Dr. Tal - Mage could. net have Seleeted a more appropriate subject than the one of to -day, considering the bereavement that has come upen him and his house- hold, He had already prepared his ser. 'Mon for to -day, selecting as 13. topic "Comfort," and taking as his text, "And God shall Wipe away all tears from their eyes," Revelation vie 17. Riding &gross a western prairie, wild flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long distance from . evy'shelter, there came a sudden show - el, and while the ram was falling in torrents the sun was shining as bright- ly as I ever saw• it shine, and I thought What a beautiful spectacle tees is! Se , the tears a the Bible are not midnight istorm, but 'rain on pansied prairies in God's sweet and golden sunlight, You remember that bottle which David la- beled as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's _ tears, and the harvest a joy that is to spring tram the sowing of tears. God mixes them, God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God ex- hales thenie A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they are born and as to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept, Alex- ander in his eoreow had the hair clip- ped from his horses and mules and • made a ,great ado about his grief, but in all the vases of heaven there is not one of Alexander's tears. 1 speak of the tears of God's children. Alas, me, • they are falling all the time! In sum- mer you sometimes hear the growling thuiader and you see there is a storm miles away, but you know from the drift of the clouds that It will net come anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around about you, there Is a shower of trouble somewhere at - the time. Tears! Tears! What is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all, the peohle are well and eternal strangers to pain and a,ches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor'wester? Why, when a family Is put' together, not have them all stay, or if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then havethem all live, the family re- nd ot er rd g - n; o- • s. tear, A. chemist will tell you „that it igwoode up or salt and lime and ether component parts; but he misses the chief ingredients ---the acid of a. soured life, the viperine sting of a bitter mem- ory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will ten you what a tear is; it is. agony in solution. Hear then, while I discourse of the uses of trouble. First, it is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too at- tractive. Something must be clone ;to make us willing to twit this existence. If it Were not for trouble this world would be a good enough heaven for me. You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred mil- lion years if there were no ' trouble, The earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared and chandellered with such expense, no story of other worlds eould enchant is. We would say, "Let well enough alone. If you want to die and have retie body disintegrated in the dust and your soul go out on a celestial ad- venture, then .you can go, but this world is good enough for me!" 'You • might • as well go to a man 'who has just entered the Louvre at Paris, and • tell himeto hasten off to the picture galieries of Venice or Florence. "Why," he would say, "what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrar dts and Rubenses and Raphaels here that • I haven't looked at yet." No man, wants to go out of this 'world or out of any house until he has a better house, To oure this wish to Stay here God must somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall he do it? He cannot afford to deface his horizon or to tear off a fiery • panel from the sunset, or to subtract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot ex- ag5ect a Christopher Wren to mar his m St. Paul's Cathedral, or a Mich- el Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgment," or a Handel to disoord hL • "Xsrael 1 Egyet." and you cannot ex- pect God to spoil the arehitecture and 'hinge of his own world, How, then, are we to be made willing to leave? • Here is where trouble comes in. After a man has had a good deal of trouble he says: "Wen,I am ready to go. • If there is a house somewhere vvlaose roof doesn't leak, I would like to live there. If there le an atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lnxigs, 1 woeld like to breathe it. If there is a society somewhere where there is no tittle tattle, 1 would like be live there. If there Is a homecircle somewhere 'where I can find ray lost friends, 1 would like fo go there." He ueed to read the first part ok the Bible chiefly, now he readsthe last part of the Bible chiefly. Why has he ehanged Genesis, for Revelation? he used to be en:della chiefly to know I` ggeologicel eonetruction. Now he latthis werld was made and all about Is cheifly aiixiOus to know how tne next • world was made, and how it looks, and who lives there, and hqw they dress. He reads ReVelatiOn ten times now where he reads Genesie once. The old utterly, "In the beginning God tweeted the heavens and the earth," does not • thrill hint half as muela as the other • story, "I saw a new heaVen end a neW earth," The e Id man's hand trembles • es he turns oner this apocalyptic Iefee, and he has to take Out bihandker- ehlef to wipe his eisectacles. That book eteveiatioe te a Oroeseeetus lamer ot 4 the country irate wheel's be is aeon to immigrate, the Country in Whiole he ha e lots already laid out and avenues opened and mansions built. Yet there are Peoele here to wbenl this world 15 brighter than beano. Well, dear souls, 1 do not blame you. It is natural, leet after a*hile you will be ready to go, It was not errata Job had been worn out that he wanted to see Goa. It was not until tile prod- igal got tired of living among the hogs that he wantecl to go ta his father's house. et Is the • ministry of trouble to make this world worth lehe and heaven worth more. Again, 11 is the use of trouble to make us feel our dependence upon God. Mao think that they can clo anything until God ehows thern they ean nothing at all. We lay our great plans, and we like to execute them. It looks big,_ • God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy, whexa the lance struck Min it openea a great swelling that lead threatened his cleath, and he got well, So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon Grod until we get trouble, I was riding with InY little child along tho road, and she asked if she might drive, I said "Cer- tainly," I handed over the reins to her, and I had to admire the glee -with which she drove, But after awhile we met a team, and we had to turn out. The road was narrow, and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over to me and said, eI think YOu had better take charge of the horse." So we are all children, and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one :meth an appearance of superiority and power. It look e big. But after awhile we meet some ob- staore, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides, and then we are Trilling that God should take the reins and drive. Ah, my friends, we get up- set so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. After a man has trouble prayer is with him a. taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help. I have beesed earnest prayers on two or three occasions that I remember. ace, on the Cincinnati express train, going at 40 miles the hour, the train, jumped the track and we were near a chasirs 80 feet deep, and the men who, a few minutes before, had been swearing and blaspheming God, began to pull and jerk at the bell rope, and got up on the backs of the seats, and cried out, "04 God, save us!" There was anoth- er tine e about 800 miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kind- Ili- wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear people, in recit- ing the last experience of some friend, say, "Be made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard?" What makes it beautiful? It is th.e earnestness of it. Oh, I tell you, a man is in earnest when his stripped and naked esral wades out in the *soundless, shoreless, bottomless ocean of eternity. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependece upon Go& We do not kow our own weakness or God's strength until the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in us when there Is nothing else to take hold of that we catch hold of God only. Why, do you not know who the Lord is? He is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace from which he emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No. But a Father willing at our -call to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I tell you what some of you busi- ness men make me think of. A young man goes off from home to earn his fortune, He goes with his mother's consent and benediction. She has large wealth, but he wants to make his own fortune. He gbes far away, falls sick, gets out of money. He sends for the hotel keeper where he is staying, ask- ing for lenience, and the answer lee gets Is, "If you don't pay up Saturday night, you'll be removed to the hospi- tal." . The young xnan sends to a oomracTe in the sarne building. No help. He writes to a banker w'ho was a friend of his deceased father. No relief, He writes to an old sehoolmate, but gets no help. Saturday night comes, and he Is .moved to the hospital. Getting :Were, he is frenzied with grief, and 'he botwows a sheet of paper and a postage stamp, and he site down and he writes home, sayingt "Dear mother, I am sick unto death. Come." It is ten minutes of 10 o'clock when she gets the letter. At 10 o'clock the train starts. She is five miutes from the depot. She gets there in time to have five minutes to spare. she won- ders why a train that can go 30 miles an hour cannot go 80 miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says: "My son, what does all this mean ? Why didn't you send for me ? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward 1 get for my kindness to you always ?" She bundles him up, takes him home and gets him well very soon, Now, some of you treat God just as that young man treated his mother, When you get into a financial perplexity, you call on the banker, you call on the broker, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel, yea call upon everybody, and when you cannot get any help,' then you go to God, You say: "0, Lord, X corne •to thee! • Help me now out of my per- plexity," And the tord eoznes, though It is eke eleventh houn xxe weer's: "Why did you not send for rare before? As one whom his mother comforteth, so Will X comfort you." It is to throw us back upon God that we have this min- istry of tears. Again, it is the use of trouble* to eapacitate us for • the office Cif sym- pathy. The prieets, Under the old dis- pensation, Were Set apart by having water sprinkled upon their hands, feet and head, and by the springling of tears peope are now set apart to the office of Synipathy, When eve etre lu prosperito, we like to have a great nanny young people ateund us, and we laugh when they laugh, and we romp where they romp, and We sing Wheh they sing, but wheh we have trouble we like plerity of' old folks around. Why? They lenow how to talk, Take an aged mother 70 years of age, and she is almost omnipotent in eomfort, Why? She has been thretigh It all. At 1' o'clock it the morning she goes over to edinfort a Ming mother Who 1108 jutit lost her babe. Grandmother knoens all abotit that teehble. Vitae' Years ago She felt it ekt 12 o'ciook of that day she kroeo Oval' to comfort a widowed soul. She knows aP aberiet that. She has been walking In that clerk valley 20 years, At 4 ceolock in the afternoon some one knoolte at the door, wanting bread, She hoowa all about that. Two or three times in her • life she came to her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she goes over to set up wear sortie one severely Wok. She knows all about it, She Isnovve all about fevers and pleu- rises and broken bones, Sire has been doctoring all her life, spreading plas- ters and peering out bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows and contriv- ing things to tempt a poor appetite, lers, Abernethy and Rush and Hossack and Harvey were great doetore, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw is an old Christian, women. Dear me: Do we not remember her about the room wirers we were sick In our boy- hood? Was there any one Who eould ever so touch aesore without hurting It? Where did Patti get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? Where did David get the ink to write his cornforting• Psalms? Where did John get the ink to , write his cone - forting Revelation? They got it out of their own, tears. When a men has gone through the curriculum arid has taken a course of dungeons and im- prisonments mid shipwrecks, he is qual- ified for the work of sympathy. Wehen'T began to preach my Sermons on the subject of trouble were all Poe etie and in serniblank verse, but God knocked the blank verse out of me long ago, and I have found out that I can- not comfort. people except aa I myeele have. been troubled. God make xne the son of consolation to the people! I, 'would rather be the means of soothing orte perturbed spirit to -clay than • , to play a tune that would set all the sons of mirth reeling in the dance. I am an herb doctor. I put into the oat-I:mon one etoot out of dry ground, without form or comeliness. Then I put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys Then I put into the caldron some of the leaves from the tree of life, and the Branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marsh. Then I pour in the tears of Bethany and Golgotha. Then I kindle under tile caldron a fire made out of the wood of the cross and one drop of that por- tion will mare the worst sickness that ever afflicted, a human soul. Mary and Martha. shall receive their Laz- arus front the tom. The damsel shall rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning, and God will wipe all tears from their eyes. . Jesus had enough trial to make him sympathetic with all trial. The short-. est verse in the Bible tells the story, "Jesus wept." The scar on the back of his either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair, will keep all heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just the one,. to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all the stains of earthly grief. Gentle! Whys his step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not be a tyrant bidding you to hush up your crying. It win be a Father who svill take you on his left arm, his face beaming into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand he shall wipe ,away all tears from your eyes. Friends, if we could get any appre- ciation of what God has in reserve for us, it would snake us so homesick we wornd be unfit for our everyday work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa university, put In my hands a meteoric stone, a stone thrown off from some other world to this. How suggestive It was to me! And I have to tell you the best representations we have of heaven are only aero/ites dung off from that world which rolls bn, bearing the multitudes of the redeemed. We an- alyze these a.erolites and find them crystallizations of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven! "God shall Wipe away all tears from their eyes.", Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in heaven? How different It is when they get news there of a Christian's death from what it is here: - It is the difference between embarka- tion and coming into port. Elvery- thing depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christian's death. If you stand on this side of the river, you mourn that they go. 1! you stand on the other side of the river, you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a funeral on earth and a jubilee in heaven—be- tween roquiem here and triumph there —parting here and reunion there! To- gether! Have you thought of it? They are together. Not one of your depart- ed friends in one land and another in another land, but togetheo in diff- erent rooms of the same house—the house of many mansions. Together!" I never more appreciated that thought than when we laid away in her last -slumber my sister Sarah. Standen there in the village cemetery, I looked around and said, "There is father, there is mother, there is grandfather, there Is grandmother, there are whole cir- cles of kladred,"and I thought to my- self, "Together in the grave—together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanaticism when some one is go- ing from this world to the next if you make them the bearer of dispatches to your friends who are gone, saying, "Give my love to my parents, give my love to nisa children, give any love to my old comrades who are hi glory, and tell them I am trying to light the good fight of faith, and I will join them atter awhile!' 1 believe the message will ae delivered, and I believe It will increaee tbe gladness 'of theeee Who are before the throhe.• Together are they, all their tears gone. My friends, take this good cheer ment that course your cheek, and of Persecution, aarl of trial, are not al- ways he be there, The motherly harid of Gen will whit them all away. What Is the uee, on the way to ouch a cone aummation--what is the use of fret- ting about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to be in Chris - tiara work! See you the phiria,clea eg,ainst the elty? It is the city of our God, and eve are a,pproeching it, Oh, let us be busy in the days that temain eor us! I put this balsam on the Wourids of your heart.. ReJoice at the thought of what your witparted friends have got rid of and that you have a. erospect of 00 50021 maltirig yoor oeeit ceeape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of team end sit - nit at the thought that soon: it 1 to ise Att., PALM. Variety in Diet. A number of feat' oonispire to throw a eoznewheb new light on questions of dietea or at leaet to show thet Otese Problem° 51.0 more complex them they have been by some supposed. It may be usual to speak of0 "mixed diet," meaning thereby one CoMposed in part of animal and in part of vegetable feed, ope tiontaining proteids, fate mad carbobydratee, approximately in such proportions as they are required be the organism ; but when we see the effeot upon dinease produced by very small quan- titters of certain aelected portions of 50121154 corranonly used as food, such as thyroid gland, suprarenal gland and bone marrow, the suspicion arifieS that, these are but the more pronounced expressions of a wide- spread prinoiple, and that such marked die. ferenees in therapeutic) effect between certain organs may be associated .with similar differences in nutritionel value - between the varioueportions and kinds of meat which we consume. We may surmiee, too, that the modes of preparawon may have a coneiderable influetwes and that while good cooking may be,as it should be, a preparetion for and an aid to digestion, certain processes in cooking may do much more harm to the nutritional value of our food than is explained by the mere change in its physical properties, the hardness, toughnese, etc., which they produee. The destruction of the antisoorbistio properties of milk by condensing, overcooking and sterilization is a case in point, and we commend to the British farmer the interest- ing question whether and how fee- the prolonged freezing of meat may interfere with its finer nutritional value. Healthy men, who have a great reserve of digestive power, can derive nutriment from almost any food, but for people of feebler frame a mixed diet meet mean one in whioh variety of substance exists of whose tater° and of whose differences inter se we as yet know nothing. The healthy Men, by taking plenty, finds among it what he wants, but until we know much more than we do of the value of different food e and different modes of cooking, we must at least afford variety to our invalids, and protect them from a monotony in diet which may per- chance be debarring them from the one thing needful for their nutrition. Injuries to the Head. Injuries to the head may be divided into three classes : those which affect the scalp alone, those by which the skull is fracture ed, and those by Which the brain itself is damaged to a greater or less degree. Inasmuch as the records of the Civil War, in which are accounts of thousands of cases, are in favor of titian:aisle all sealp wounds, tbey receive a doctor's care as soon as possible. As a rule, injuries to the scalp, if care- fully looked after, will repair at once, but if neglected they are exceedingly diticult ofmanagement If the injury is extensive, the hair should be removed for a short distance around, and a clean cloth soaked in icewater should be placed over the part while waiting for the physician. Since ehook may acoompany the slightest iejury to airy part of the body, it is dia. cult to say at once whether a patient, in a condition of collapse from a head wound, is suffering from a 'fracture of the skull, with presaure of the fragments upon the brain,or has sustained simply a concussion. As a rule, however, oases of extensive fracture are attended by a more profound degree of collapse than those of simple concussion. The patient is totally insen- sible to everything, even to the utmost efforts made to arouse him, .Fractures of the base of the skull, which are almost ievariably fatal, may be at- tendedwith bleeding from the ears and nose or mouth. In all injuries to the head, the pabient should be kept in a state of complete quiet. Iced water should be kept con - saintly about the head, and the room should be somewhat darkened. The 'diet `should be low in proportion to the severity of the case,but always nourishing. The bead should be elevated, placed upon rather firm pillows instead of soft ones. The dressing about the head should be just enough to support and protect the wound from draughts of cold, without being heat. ing. ' No injury to the head, however slight, should_ be regarded as unimportant, since almost any such injury is liable to be corn - plicated with mischief to the brain. For this reason every wound of the head should receive careful ettention at the hands of a competent physiciaii. A Strain on the Eyes. One of the common causes of pain above the broweis the overuse of the eyes and She strain of aocommodation in coestantly looking at near objects. In its traneient form it may •be familiar to some as the result of a visit to a picture gallery e 11 18 even more readily excited and permanently established among the children at the board schools, and the girls at the high schools, Seventy-two per cent. of the children of to -day are said to be sufferers imp defective eyesight, • generally in the direction of diftioulty in seeing near objects clearly, Readaohe is almost always present in the oases of the poor little creatures, whose bodies are starved while their minds are overfed in the acramble for e de oaenti000naila r grants. The headache is often co -existent with the anaemic headache, especially in growing girls; here we find frontal or surpraorbibaI pain, due to eye strain associated with the vertical pain felt all over the top of the head, which is char- acteristic ot bloodlessness. Plenty of wholesome food ,fresh air, and out-of-door exercise will help to cornbet the anaemia ; while the practice of lookieg at distant objects, mid, alas I the use of appropriate spectacles, may relieve the headache of eye -tamer ; but reading, writing, and awing will permanently damage the sight, toi that for the sake of edimetien, and in the struggle for life, the coming moo is gtowing up purblind. A LoOker.On in Gotham. aflre. Meadow—I don't Weeder there is SO inueh poverty hi the eity, I seen the cause of it all the other day whe 1 was therei Neghbor—What did you netioe ? Mrs. Meadow--Idlenees. Never saw such idlenees, ellnut half the people was loaflir) os the earners loOkin' at the ther- moieeteta and the other hell Was tushire around battli'. for etandin' room neer some other therrnoineter. A SHO BLACKING CA -EINE This Bendy awl ("beep (*Moat l*ou1d 150 lit Ever," Hoene. This cabinet can be eesily made by anyone who eau haradle tools at all, is very ;met in eppearamie and handy in eppliofte teem and eosin almost nothing to build. As will be eeen in the illustratione, it folds against the wall of the kitchen, when nos in use, being fastened in position by an ordinery spring bolt, When it is to be ueed it opens out as shown in the illustra- tion exposine the banal, blacking and delther, and making. a platform on which the foot taste while an moo The eabinet is SXG 1. READY POE USE. built of I inch pine or whitewood, and stain, d to match the finish of the roona which is usually the 'Kitchen or lodgiqg room. Cut out two pieces 8 by 16 inches for the platform. and He support two pieces le by 16 for the aides of the box at She back, a piece le by 6 for the bottom of the box and one 3 by 8 for the top. Nail the bottom piece between the sides,as seen in Fig 1, and nail the top on flush with the baok of the side pieces and pro- jecting in front. Fit a pair of le by le hinges to connect the front of the best to the platform, by cutting them into the face of the wood until level with the surface, and cut a familia- pair of hinges into the top of the upright supporting piece and the other end of the platform on the u 'der. side, and screw the hinges on with I inch FRI. 2 FOLDED. screws. Buy a small spring bolt and attach to the front after ibis folded, as shown in Fig 2, and nail a block of wood on the front of the platform, to bring the foot a little above the surface so that the brush can be used conveniently. Place the open cabinet against the.wall at such a height that the platform iselevel, and fasten it with 2 -inch screws through the sides of the box. When in working order take it off to be stained and varnished to suit. Driye nails or screws in the wall at the back for hanging the utensils, leaving room for the foot-blook. If used in a young man's lodging room at will afford an extra seat when he has com- pany, A NEW OPENING FOR THE BLIND. It Has Been Blecovered that They Are well Adapted to Performing Message. As Japan comes more closely in touch with the rest of the world many of its customs are being adopted. In Japan the art of massage is widely practised, and al- most exclusively by the blind. It is a very lucrative pr ofession, and the most skillful operators gain large sums every year. The reason for its being a profession particularly adapted to the blind is readily understandable. Every one knows that when one sense falls its absence is supple- mented by the increased acuteness of others. So with people deprived of .sight the sense of touch becomes highly cultie vated. The blind men and women of St. Petersburg and other Continental cities have not been slow to grasp this idea, and the number of them who are mas- seurs is constantly increasing: The head of that profession in the Russian capital is totally blind, and he has a large class of pupils, whom he instructs daily in the ni yateries of massage, who are likewise deprived of sight. Thinks He is an Engine. There is now in the county jail at Ann Arbor, Mich., awaiting a vacancy in the Pontiac asylum, a young man who imagines he is a train of care. He was brought from Mich.,and gives his name as Walter Rogers. Re says his home is in San Fran - ciao°, whence he made a remarkably fast run, often attaining a rate of ninety miles an hour. He spends uearly all his time in imitating the noises attendant oar atartin up and, stopping a railroad train. Every sound and movement he produces with startling fidelity and details. When the officer found Imo he was on the railroad traelt, end from his actions was juat getting up steam, Soon he said it was time to start, ordered the fireman to fill the tank with water and the tender with coal, imi- tating every aot perfectly. Then he pulled out the lever and etarted the train, running eo fast that it was necessary to head him off with a horse, Rio whistle for "down brakes" can be heard a mile, tie is about 17 years old. It is believed tbat the name and address he &Yee aro both false, and the officers are 'undoes to know from what section, he comes. Flowers distilled,though they with winter meet, lose but their ShoW ; their substance still lives sweet.. -Shakespeare. LOAn AB:..111)BiTGA-44 BUSINESS OF LOAN AND INVEST. zziaT COMPANIES IN ONTARIO. Report of the tomato, or fluinstrice—Seenr• en Loans $190,400,000, and eitenilitiee •Nearly if,S7,000,1199-4'he liteeerd 0: ree'e" elosures-dliattel Mortgagee en 1000r8 —eInotrzt rzaxiiixorftlr i:eAre Deglttered Ar The eanual report of the Bureale of ndustries, giving stististics of ehaetel mortgages and the bueiness of loan eed leveetineot oompaides in Ontario duriug 1804, lias been issued, by the Department of Agriculture. There ere 89 companies making reports to the departarient for that year, Four new companies came Mae exiatence since the matelot were made up Lor the year previous, and one eatablishecl company ceased to do business. The secured loans of these companies, outstand- ing at the end of the year, amoant to $120- 229,818, and their total liabilities to the public, chiefly deposits and debentures, are 686,058,820, About two-thirds the total loans and three-fourths the totalborrowing, are reported by companies having their head offices in Toronto. The total pith - scribed capital is $94,047,711, and the property assets $17,311,923, In each of these -totals there has been, a steady iporease during the past eeven years, The stook fully paid up, and the partial payments on took, amount to.$35,867,755, the other items, under liebilities to shareholders, being : Accumulating stock, $1,567,S79 ; reserve fund, $10,741,666; dividends declared and unpaid,$943,6b8 and coating 4en6t9f3u3, fund and unappropriated profits, $1- - TEE TOTAL ozrosers, $18,352,607, are more than at the end of the previous year, bueeess than at the end of 1892. The debentures payable in Can- ada, $9,789,799, and debentures payable abroad, $51,014,502, show a steady in- crease since 1887. During- the year com- pulsory action ass taken on 1,061 morte, gages, against 1,037 in the previous year. This record of more than three foreclosures or other proceedings a day 18 rather heavy for the Province, considering that it takes no account of similar actions by private lenders. The amount involved in these mortgages is 82,792,189, a proportionate increase compared with the previous year. There is property worth $5,04,902 held for sale, the amount claargeable against it being $5,314,629. The amount loaned during the year, $19,571,518, shows a decrease of more than $2,,000,000 comparee with the previous year, and of close on $40,000,000 compared with the returns for 1892. There are $115,692,809 loaued and seour- ed by mortgagee, while the total loans to directors, caldera, and shareholders, eartly secured by stock, are $871,210. This amount, coirmaratively trilling, is a healthy aign that the business of lending to directors and shareholders does not receive any encouragement with the loan companies. The annual dividends declared amount to $2,478,215, the average rate being 6.62. The returns relating to CEATTEL atonee.eaeS give the number and total amount of such instruments on record and undischarged at the end of the year 1894, but do not set forth the yearly loans, seizures and sales under that forra of security. It is pointed out that more than hay the chattel mort- gages are registered against farmers. At the end of the year there were 21,759 chat. tel mortgages on record amounting, to $11,220,205. Of these 21,276, representing $10,603,393, were issued to secure existing indebtedness. The chattel mortgage is generally regarded as a. sign of impecunious borrowing, and the fact that the returns for 1894 exceed those for any previous year is not a matter for congratulation. It is well known, bowever, that such instru- ments are often drawn chiefly for the pur- pose of securing the fee for the drawing. A man who has neglected to be prompt with his payments is often required, on threat, of a more wetly legal action, to give col- lateral security in the shape of a chattel mortgage on his cow or horse. Such a chattel mortgage is often obviously of little or no use, the sole object of the demand being to secure the fee for drawing the in- strument. Thisis one of the many reasons why the official returns of chattel more. gages may receive an unfavorable interpre- tation not warranted. by THE ACTUAL FACTS. The record of such instruments against farmers ill made the subject of a special table in the report. At the close of the year there were 11,687 mortgages, repres- enting $3,446, 884, recorded against them, the record for the previous year being 10,684, representing $3,059,857. During the two preeious years that number and amount varied but slightly. The returns by occupations show that the merchants rank next to the farmerin issuing that class of security, their total chattel mortgage debts being slightly above $1,000,000. Rotelkeep• era and liquor dealers come third, with a total of $836,587, and lumbermen next with $833,413. It is noteworthy from the returns that the source of supply for loan companies is the buyers of debentures rather than the small depositor. Liability on debentures has shown a steady and Substantial increase, wbile deposits have remained comparatively stationary. How Stambuloff Was Slashed. The body of M. Stambuloff lay in state says a correspondent With that mediaeval fierceness which characterized Sontheaste t n Europe, the wounds were fully displayed in order that, those who viewed the body might be appealed to by the "dem mouths of which Antony spoke to tire Roman mob. The bandages were removed from the head, aud the terrible wounds with which it was covered expooecl to view. "One great gash," says a correspotident, "extends from the left cheek aoroesthe nose and over the right eye to near the right ear, Another passes Iron; above the left eyebrow to the top of the head. A third exteude from the left temple to behind the ear. There is also a out on the left cheek and a long evened destiende behitid left ear to the nook. The oociput is literally covered with a network of fearful gashes, and there aro three or four punetured wounds on the side of the head, A t the foot of the bier steeds a glass lar, filled with apirite, containing the mutilated hut& • The flet and seeond fingerof the left hand are wanting," A loving heart inoloses within itself Unfailleg and °toenail Edem—Peoliter. SOUND ADVICE. oh V, SIAtte is «tittle ter lie ephW l7sous mauttonn—lintrormielitem Slieulsl i,e ot USOtoliOtte,(Eralate, Mr, Jaeob Y. Shaeita, Who is now 11* Manitoba, has written a letter 40 his xis ew, residiug Pear l3orlin,Oeleario, who has beets somewhat carried ,trway by an Alabama. fever whioh emeain iaterested parties have been trying to work lite 0,04 lately visited that State. The ietter is writtee from Cannata, Mares eed is as fol. lows "Dear Nephew, --,As treirsage only twice a week frons bore, I have te wait another day, era writing le somewhat 015 pastime, ft juat tonnes to roe mind whet you told me of Alabama,. Taking for granted that all is true that you wad you saw, lo conneetion with what others told you whion could not be seen at the time you were there, I still think there is need of caution, The raising of two or three crepe in a year on the same piece of land will eertainly take much at- tention and hard work the year roteld. Banging and shipping Tegete,blee take aloe) attention, and the wetchingof the marker, Besides, this paying aix or eight dollars pee acre stumps to be taken oeb, manure to be put Du tbe land et the very start, is no small undertaking to face, • - "In thinking over this matter, 1 nst. wish you and Ur. Schaaf would go through Ibis oountry (M anitobe) 2121(1 080 the oropeaud the easy way of formieg, all work done in about six months of the yeer ; see the pro - green of the country, the rising of the value of land. Taking all things into considera- tion, I cannot see how you could decide favour of Alabama, an eId slave State. "I have been through the Mennonite settlement, which was started eighteen or . twenty years ago. Nearly all were poor and had to be helped with a large loan of money, which was all paid up seven years ago. Now they are very prosperous. They have the best improved implements, fine horses, large stables, and stooks of horses, cattle, etc., that surprise everybody. Un- improved prairie land iu -Wale locality sells at from $15 to $20 an acres Then coming across the country thirty-four miles to Carman, where I am now, it is mostly all settled by Canadians. The crops and land are equally good, though settled only about fourteen years. This is a nice town, with a school with five teachers, Ave churches, end other things in keeping. Unimproved prairie land around here is worth $12 to $20 per acre. I find it about the same throughout the greater part of Ma13lotbsaid "Cering that you can get in the North-West Territorma where the land and climate are fully as good, free home- steads with much better conveniences thaa the first settlers bad here,get a comfortable home and have the benefit of the risingen the value of the land, I cannot see how you could decide for Alabama, the State yoa mentioned. "Your affectionate uncle, "Jacob Y. Shantz." THE ROMANCE OF THE TELEGRAPH. stance/ the Odd Difficulties of Operating 'a tone Through Queer Countries. • A good deal of romance hovers oround the means by which the world's news is gathered. The speed end accuracy with which telegraph messages are transmitted between the uttermost parts of the earth is marvellous when the conditions under .which they are sometimes transmitted ere considered. The Indo-European telegraph line offers a good illustration. It runs from London to Lowestoft on the east coast of England. It then dips under the sea to Emden, on the Germany coast, whence it passes through Germany to the Russian frontier. From -this point the wire passes by way of War- saw, Rowno, Odessa, the Caucasus, and Tiflis, to Persia, and by Taurie to Teheran, the captial of the Shah's queer domain. There it joins the Indian Government line, which runs from the Persian captiai to gleuehire on the Persian Gide Thence the wires run through Belooi chistan and complete the route by connecting at Rut- racbee, in northern India. The opera- tion of thisimmenseetretch of line, passing through countries of such varying climates and general characteristics, is obviously one of much difficulty. On the snow -swept steppes of Bessie the wires are sometimes snapped like thread by the rapid flight of flocks of wild geese. The poles ere out down and made into firewood by the maned tribes of the Caucasian districts, and the cunning inn keepers of Georgia seek to boom their post -horse trade by deliberately creating faults in the wires. In certain parts of the mountainous regione of Asia the maintance of the solitary line involves no little per- sonal risk and hardship to the staff hands. Communication is often cut off by simian,. ches in the mountain distriete, and the work of repairing after a snowfall of five or six feet is no light mietter. These mountain staticers are provisioned with several months' supplies before the winter seta in, as the staff will be in touch with the rest of the world by the wire only until the spring weather operas out the passes. In these supplies are always included a liberal allowance of books and games wherewith to relieve the monotony of the tedious winter exile. Friendless and KoneylesS. A despatch from Woodetock, Ont., says: •'--A rather sad case came under the notice of the Grand Trunk authoritiee on Thane day night. & man, woman, and obild, bound east from Chicago, were put off the 9.40 aceomodation from the West. They were absolutely penniless, andetheir poet - tion was made wore° by the alarms of the woman. They were trying to get to Roeheeter, and had run out of money be- fore their journey was half completed, They ertived at ingersoll on Wednesday tight, and stayed around untie the mixed train came in,when they were Set* Woodetock. Leriendiesa and moi.eyleao they stepped o(1 the train, • the mother °tarrying her baby in her eons. They applied to the stetion authetitieti, for shelter for the night, wbich request woe granted, and the family ley down on. hard benches of the general welting -won't/ until morning, when they were sent on to Paris. Ibsen WAS seen reoently at a court bali in Norway, and hie small figure fairly blazed with stare, orossee, oollare, pendants end other decorations of all kiwis from o.1,1 2ouroog.