HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-9-19, Page 2THE OPEN WINDOWS
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New YORK, Sept. 8.-1e his eermon. for
SpAay Rev, Dr. Talmage has onoeen
.elne overflowing with Christian oheerful•
se and encouragement, The aubjeet is
, /pen Wiedows," and the text selected
,s Daniel vi, 10, "His windows being
en in his chamber toward Jetusalem."
,The sootindrelly Pritices of Persia urged
on bet noliticel jealousy against Daniel have
Succeeded in getting a law passed that
,whosoever prieya to God shall be put under
Ine. Soma them, in Minty lifes, drilled he
the Gerineety entity. Sono) of them were
eocustorned tee Lyons or Marseillee or t'eria
to (see me the Street Victor Hugo Ann
Gambette, Some abased the chamois
among the Alpine preoipicee, Some pluoked
the ripe °Witten; from Italian vineyerds".
Sonia lifted their faces under the midnight
aim of Norway. It is no dishemor to our
land that they remember the place of their
nativity. leautoreante would, they be if,
while they ha,ve settee of their windows
open to take in the free sir oi America and
the suuliaht of an atmosphere which no
kingly depot has ever breathed, they for-
got aometimes to open the eviadow toward
Jerusalem.
No wouder that the sou of the Swiss,
when far away from home, hearing the
natiouel eir of his country sung,the malady
of hornesickuess comes on him so powerfully
as to (stellate his death. You have the ex
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temple a heroic Daniel a my text for
keeping eerly mernoriee freele Forget not
the old folks at home. Write often, and if
you have surplue of means and they are
poor, make praotical oontribution and
rejoice that America is bound to all the
world by ties of eanguinity as in no other
nation. Who can doubt but it is appoint-
ed for the evaegelization of others lands?
Wbat stirring melting theory that all the
doors of other nations are open towards us,
while our windows are open towards them,
lthe paws and teeth of the liens, who are 1
themselvea iu rage and huuger up 1
Id down the stone nage or putting their
neer jaws on the graund, bellowing till
he earth trembles. But the leonine threat
lid nee hinder the devotions of Daniel, the
Coeur de Lion of the ewes, His enemies
might as well have a law that the su4han
uld not draw water or that the south
wind should not sweep across a garden of
magaolites, or that God shoeld be e.boliehed.
They could not scare him with the redhot
furnaces, and they cannot now scare him
with the lions. As soon as Daniel keens of
this enaetment he leaves his nffice of Seore.
attry of State,with its upholstery ot crimson
and gold, and comes down the white
rnarble steps and goes to his own house.
He opens his window and puts the shutters
back and pulls the curtain aside so that he
can look toward the sacred city of Jerusa.
lem, and then prays.
1 atippoee the people in the street gath
ered under and before his window arid
aaid : "Just see that man defyino the
aw. He ought to be arrested." A.nd the
/constabulary of the city rush to the police
headquarters and report that Daniel is on
his knees at the wide open window, "You
e.re my- prisoner," says the officer of the
law,dropping a heavy hand on the shoulder
of the kneeling Daniel. As the constables
--open the door of the cavern to thrust in
theirprisoner they see the glaring eyes of
n the monstere. But Daniel becomes the
ett
first lion -tamer, and they lick his hand and
fawn at his feet, and that night he sleeps
with the shaggy mane of a wild beast for
his pillow, while the king that night,
sleepless in the palace, has on him the paw
and teeth of a lion he cannot tame—the
lion of a remorseful conscience.
What a picture it would be for some
artist 1 Darius, in the early dusk of morn-
ing, not waiting for footmen or chariot,
hastening to the den,all flushed and nervous,
and in dishabile, and looking through the
crevices of the cage to see what had
become of his prime minister ! "What, no
sound ?" he says. "Daniel is surely devour.
ed and the none are sleeping after their
horrid meal., the bones of the poor man
shatternd infoen"the linen M nhe cavern."
With trembling voice Darks calls out,
-elnanioi I" No ansvver, for the prophee is
yet in profound slumber. But a lion,more
easily awakened, advances, and with hot
breath blown through the crevice, Beetles
to demand the comae of this interruption,
and then another wild beast lifts his mane
from under Daniel's head, and the prophet,
waking up, comes forth to report himself
all unhurt and well.
But our text stands as at Daniel's
window open toward Jerusalem. Why in
that direction open? Jerusalem was his
native land and all the pomp of his Baby-
loniale successes could not make him forget
It. He came from Jerusalem at 18 years
of age, and he never visited it, though he
lived to be 85 years. Yet when he wanted
to arouse the grandest aspirations of his
heart, he had his window open toward his
native Jerusalem. There are many of you
to -day who understand that without any
exposition. This is getting to be a nation of
foreigners. They have come into all
occupations and professions. They sit in
all churches. It may be 20 years ago since
you got your naturalization papers, and
you may be thoroughly Americanized, but
you can't forget the land of your birth and
your warmest sympathies go on toward it.
Your windowe are open toward Jerusalem.
Your father and mother are buried there.
It may have been a very humble home in
which you were born, bat ymir memory
often plays around it and you hope some
• -day to go and see it—the hill, the tree,
the brook, the house, the place so sacred,
-the door from which you started off with
parental blessing to make your own way
in he world, and God only knows how
sometimes you have longed to see the
familiar places of your childhood and how
in awful crisisea of life you would like to
• have caught a gimps of the old, wrinkled
face that bent over you as you lay on the
gentle lap 29 or 40 or 50 yeare ago. You
may have on this side of the sea risen in
fortune, and, like Daniel have become
great and may have come into prosperities
which you never could have reached if you
had staid there, and you may have many
windows to your house—bey windows and
akylight windows and windows of censer.
vatory and windows on all sides—but
have at least one window open toward
Jerusalem.
When the foreign steamer comes to the
wharf, you see the long line of sailors, with
shouldered mailbags, corning down the
planks, carrying as many letters as you
might auppose to be enough for a year's
correspondence, and this repeated again
rind again daring the week. Multitudes of
them are letters from home and at all the
poptoffices of the land people will go to the
window' and anxiously ask for them, hum,
tire& and thousande of palatine' finding that
Window of foreign mails the open window
toward Jerusalem. Messages that say
When are you doming home to ;see us 1
• Brother has gone into the army. Sister is
dead. Father and mother are getting very
feeble. We are having a great struggle to
get on bete. W ould you adie us to come
to you, or will you come to us ? All join
in leve and hope to meet you, if not in this
world, then in a better, Good -ley."
Yes, yes. In sll these cities and amid
• the dowering western prairies and on the
elopee of the Penal° and andel the Sierras
estid on the banks of the lagoon and on the
latialtes Of Texas, there is an uncounted
inultitude
he this hour, atand and sit end
kneel with thine windows open toward
Jerusalem. Some of these people played
on the heathens of elm Scottish hills, Some
of them were driven out by the Irish fain.
But Daniel, in the text, kept this port-
hole of his domestic fortress unclosed
because Jerusalem was the capital of sacred
influences. There had smoked the sacrifice.
There was the holy of Wien There was
the ark of the covenant, There stood the
temple. We are all tempted. to keep our
windows open ou the opposite side, toward
the world, that we may see and hear and
appropriate its advantages, What does
the world say 1 What does the world think?
What does the world do? Worshippers of
the world instead of worshippers of God.
Windows open toward Babylon. Windows
open toward Corinth. Windows open
toward sethens. Windowopen toward the
flats, instead of windows open toward the
hills. Sad mistake, for this world as a god
is like something 1 saw in the le-mem= of
Strasburg, Germany—the figure of a virgin
in wood and iron. The victim in olden
time was brought there, and this ague°
would open its arms to reoeive him, and,
once enfolded, the figure closed with a
hundred knives and lances upon him, and
then let him drop 180 feet sheer down. So
the world first embraces its idolaters, then
closes upon them with many tortures, and
then lets them drop forever down. The
highest honor the world could confer was
o make a man Roman Emperor, but, out
of 63 Emperors it allowed only mix to die
peacefully in their beds.
The dominion of this world over multi-
tudes is illustrated by the names of coins
of many countries. They have their pieces
of money which they call so vereigne and half
sovereigns, crowns and half crowns, Nap -
leans and half Napoleons. Fredericks and
double Fredericks, and ducats and Isabel -
lions, all of which names mean not so muoh
usefulaees ae dominion. The most of our
windows open toward the salon of fashion,
toward the god of this world, In olden
times the length of the English yard was
fixed by the length of the arm of King
Henry 1, and we are apt to measure things
by a variable standard and by the human
arm that in the great crisis of life can give
us no help. We peed, like Daniel, to open
our windows toward God and religion.
• But, mark you, that good lion tamer
is not standing at the window, but kneeling
while he looks out. Most photographs are
taken of those in standing or sitting pos-
ture. I now remember but one picture of
a man kneeling, and that was David
Livingstone, who in the ;muse of God and
oivilization saorificed himself, and in the
heart of Africa hie servant, Majwara,
found him in the tent by the light of a
candle stuck on the top of a box, hie head
in hie hands upon the pillows and dead on
his knees. But here is a great lion tamer,
living under the dash of the light, and his
hair disheveled of the breeze, praying.
The fact is that a man can see farther on
his knees than standing on tiptoe. Jere.
;velem was about 650 statute miles from
Babylon, and the vast Arabian desert
shifted its sands between them. Yet
through chat open window Daniel saw
Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw beyond,
saw time, saw eternity, saw earth and saw
heaven. Would you like to see the way
through your sine to pardon, through your
troubles to comfort, through temptation
to rescue, through dire sickness to immor-
tal health, through night to day, through
things terrestrial to things oeleatial, you
will not see them till you take Daniel's
posture. No cap of bone to the joints of
the fingers, no cap of bone to the jointa of
the elbow, but cap of bone to the knees,
made eo beoauee the God of the body was
the God of the soul, and especial provision
for those who want to pray, and physio.
logicel structure joias with spiritual neces-
sity in bidding us pray and pray.
In olden time the Earl of Westmorland
said he bad not need to pray because he
had enough pious tenants on bis estate to
pray tor him, but all the prayers of the
church universal amount to nothing unless,
like Daniel, we prey for ourselves. 0 men
and women, bounded on one side by Shad-
rach's redhot furnace and the other side by
devouring lions, learn the secret of courage
and deliverance by looking at that Baby-
lonish window open toward the southwest
"Oh," you say "that is the direction of the
Arabian desert !" Yes, but on the other
side of the desert is God, is Clhrist, is
Jerusalem, is heaven.
The Brussels lace is superior to all other
lace, so beautiful, so uniform, so expensive
—400 frances a pound. All the world
seeke it. Do you know how it is made? The
spinning is done in a dark room, the only
light admitted through a small aperture
and that light falling directly upon the
pattern. And the finest specimens of
Christian character I have ever seen or ever
expect to see are those to be found in lives
of all of whose windows have been dark-
ened by bereavement and misfortune save
one, but under that one window of prayer
the interlacing of divine workmanship went
on until it was fit to deck a throne,acelestial
embroidery which angels admired and God
approved.
Bub it is another Jerusalem toward which
we now need to open our windows. The ex.
iled evangelist Ephesus saw it one day as the
surf of the Icarian sea foamed and splashed
over the bowlders at his feenand his vision
reminded me of a wedding day when the
bride by sister and maid was having
garlands twisted for her hair and jewele
strung for her neck just before she puts her
betrothed hand into the hand of her
affianced, "I, Jobn, inter the holy city,New
Jerusalem, eotning down from God, out of
heaven prepated es a bride adorned for her
husband." Toward that bridal Jerusalem
are our winnows open 1
We would do well to think more of
heaven. It is not merely an annex of
earth. It is not a dennate outpost. As
Jerusalem was the capital of Judea, sod
Babylon, the csapitel of Babylonian mortar
ohy, and London is the capital of Great
T 11
Britain, and Washington is the merited of
our own republie, the New Jerusalem is
the capital of the univeree. The King
lives there, and the repel family of the
redeemed have their palemes there, and
there is a congress of many nations and
the perliement ot all the world. Yea, as
Dante' had kindred in ,Terusalem of whotn
he of eim thought, though he left home
when a vary youzig man, perhaps father
and mother and •brothers and sisters still
living, and was hoineeick to see them, and
they belonged to the high eiroles of royal-
ty, Daniel himself haviug royal blood in
his voiles, eo we have in the New Jerusalem
a greet many kindred, and we are some-
times homesick to see them, aud they are
all princes and princesses, in them the
blood imperial, and we do well to keep our
windows open toward their eternal rest.
dance.
Homer's heaven was an elysium which he
desoribes as a plain at the end of the earth
or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and
the sun never gotta down, and ethedeman,
thus, the justest of men, rules. Hesiod's
heaven is what lie oalle the islands of the
blessed, in the midst of the ocean three
times a year blooming with most exquisite
flowers, and the air is tinged with purple,
while games and muaio and horse ranee
oocupy the time. The Seandinaviau's heaven
was the hall of Walhalla, where the god of
Odin gave unending wine suppers to earth.
ly heroes and heroines. The elohamme-
daunt heaven passes its disciples in over the
bridge AnSirat, whieh is liner than hair
and sharper than a sword, and then they
are let loose into a riot of everlasting sen-
suality.
The American aborigines look forward
to a heaven of illimitable hunting ground,
partridge, and deer and wild duck more
than plentiful, and the hounds never off
the scent, and the guns never missing
fire, But the geographer has followed the
earth round and found uo Homer's elysium.
Voyagers have traversed the deep in all
directions and found no Heeiod'a islands of
the blessed. The Mohammedan's celestial
debauchery and the Indian eternal hunting
ground for vast multitudes have no charm.
But here rolls in the Bible heaven. No
more sea,—that is no wide separation. No
more night—that is, no insomnia, No
more tears—that is, no heartbreak. No
more pain—that is, no dismissal of lancet
and biteer drat and miasma and banish-
ment of neuralgias and catalepsies and
consumptions. All colors in the wall
except gloomy black ; all the music in the
major key,beeause celebrative and jubilant.
River orystalline, gate crystalline, and
skies crystalline, because everything is
clear and without doubt. White robes, and
that means einleeeness. Vials full of colors,
and that means pure regalement of the
senses. Rainbow and thatmeans thestorm is
over. Marriage suppereand that means glad-
dest festivity. Twelve manner of fruits, and
that tneans luscious and unending variety.
Harp, trumpet, grand march, anthem,
amen and halleluiah in the same orchestra.
Choral meeting solo and overture meeting
antiphon'and sirephe reining dithyremb, as
they roll into the ocean of doxologies. And
you and I may have all that and have it
forever through Christ if we will let hint,
and with the blood of one wounded hand
rub out our sin,and with the other wounded
hand swing open the shining portals.
Day and night keep your window open
toward that Jerusalem. Sing about it.
Pray about it. Think about it, Talk about
it. Dream about it. Do not be inconsolable
about your friends who have gone into it.
Do not worry if something in your heart
indicates that you are not far off from its
ecstasies. Do not think that when a
Christian dies he stoles, for he goes up.
An ingenius man has taken the heavenly
furlongs as mentioned in Revelation and
has calculated that there will be in heaven
100 rooms 16 feet square for each ascending
soul, though this world should lose 100,-
000,000 yearly. But all the rooms of
heaven will be ours, and as no room in your
house is too good for your ohildren so all
the rooms of all the palaces of the heavenly
Jerusalem will be free to God's children,
and even the throne -room will not be
denied, and you may run up the steps oi
the throne and put your hand on the aide
of the throne and sit down beside the King
according to the promise: "To him that
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne."
But you cannot get in except as conquer-
ors. Many years ago the Turks and
Christians were in battle,and the Christians
were defeated, and with their commander,
Stephen, fied toward a fortress where the
mother of this commander was staying.
When she saw her son and his army in
disgraceful retreadshe had the gates of the
fortrees rolled shut, and then from the top
of the battlement cried out to her son,
"You (menet enter here except aa conquer-
ors I" Then Stephen rallied his forces and
resumed the battle and regained the day,
20,000 driving back 200,000. For those
who are defeated in battle with sin and
death and hell, nothing but shame and
contempt, but for those who gain the vic-
tory through our Lord Jesue Christ the
gates of the New Jerusalem will hoist,and
there shall be an abundant entrance into
the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord,
toward which you do well to keep your
windows open.
SAVED BY HER CORSETS.
George Caplinger Shoots His Wife and
Then Sticuseir.
A despatch from Clinton, Ile, says:—On
Sunday morning, while people were going
to church, a tragedy was enacted on the
west side of the town. George Caplinger
attempted to kill his wife by firing two
ahots at her,and the ri he placed the revolver
to his owu right temple and sent a ball
into his head. Caplinger was an inmate of
the Soldiers' home at Quincy. He came
home a feve deys earl on his way to the
National encampment at Louisville. Cap-
linger and his wife and six children did
not live harmoniously together before he
entered the home at Quincy, and his visit
here at this time was to effect a reconcilia-
tion so that he could come baok home,His
wife and children would not cement to his
reburn. On Saturday night he got on a
drunk, and about ten o'clock returned to
the home of his family. One of the daugh-
ters heard a noise outside, and, opening the
door, she saw her father standing by the
fence. He at onoe raised a revolver, eed
the young woman sprang back into the
house. The older sous went out and got
bit to accompany them down town to an
hotel, where they put him to had, On
Sunday Morning between 10 and 11 o'clock
he returned to his wife's house to entreat
her to take hirn back again into the family.
Ile suddenly drew a revolver from his
pocket and fired, the hall entering her right
shoulder. He fired again ett her bank, the
ball striking a eteel in her corset, winch
saved her life, Then he sent a ball into
his own head. Mrs. Caplinger is not
dangerously wounded. Caplinger will pro-
bably die,
R, Timus
THE FRIULI REVOLUTION
SCENES ON THE SCAPPOLD DUELING
THAT TERRIBLE TIME.
Tumuli:: Experiences or the Headsman
38. pc rarls--Oeath or chariot°
cortiay—n. 18, nohespierte and Gunton.
Witness the Vrorit or the Geti)lettate—
Terrible Scenes at the t'xecittleti et a
Young Itation Girl.
Sans= for several yeare held the office of
publio exeoutioner in Paris. It is said that
his aristooratio bearing fireb earned for this
French headsman the sobriquet of
"Monsieur de Paris." His book is full of
interesting detedla about noble figures and
events in French history,
Charlotte Corday was one of the famous
persons whom Sanson sent out of the world.
Hie account of her death is as follows :
nen MAGNIFICENT CocRAGE.
"On this day, Wednesday, July 17, first
year of the one and indivisible Republic, r
executed Charlotte Corday. On reaching
her cell in the Conciergerie we found her
writing. She looked in my direction and
aeked me to wait. When she had finished
she took off her cap and told me to out her
hair. Since ta, de la Barre, I had not seen
courage equal to hers. We werenu all, six
or seven men, vrhose profession was any-
thing butt softening, and yet elm was less
moved than we were. When her hair was
cropped she gave part to the artist who had
taken her portrait and some to the jailer's
wife.
HELD OUT HER HARED HANDS.
" Ineave her the red skirt, whine she ar-
ranged herself. As I prepared to pinion
her she requested to keep on her gloves,
because when she was arrested the cords
were's° tight that the skin was broken. I
said she could if she liked,but that I would
do it without hurting her. She smiled, and
saying, "To be sure you ought to know
how to do it," held out her naked hands.
SAW ROBESPIERRE AND DANTON.
"There was thunder and ram u when we
reached the quaynbut the orowd was thick.
At a window in the Rue St. Honore I saw
Robespierre, Comae and Denton. They
looked attentively at the culprit. I myself
often looked at her ; not on account of her
personal beauty, great as that was, but it
seemed impossible that she could remain so
calm and courageous. I said : You find
the way long, I fear." No matter ' replied
she ; we shall reach the scaffold sooner or
later.'
HELPED eetz EXECUTIONER.
"When we reached the Place de la
Revolution I tried to hide it from her by
standing up. But she said I have a
right to be curious ; this is the first time I
see it.' She ascended the steps nimbly.
One of my men suddenly snatched away
her neckerchief, and she stretched out on
the weight-plaok of her own accord.
Although I was not ready I thought it, was
barbarous to prolong the poor girl's suffer-
ings for an instant. I made a sign to my
man, he pulled the rope."
Even more shocking is thee account of an
incident of his -work.
CASE OF CONVICT LAROQUE.
"A very uufortunate accident happened
to -day. Only one convict remained, all
his companions having been executed. As
he was being strapped down my son, who
was attending to the baskets, called me,
and I went to him. One of the assistants
had forgotten to reraise the knife, so that
when the weigh -plank was lowered and
the convict Laroque strapped upon it his
face struck the edge of the knife, which
was bloody.
THE HOB HISSED.
"He uttered a terrible shriek. Iran up,
lifted the plank and hastened to raise the
knife. The convict trembled like a leaf,
The mob hissed us and threw stones at ue.
In the evening Citizen Fouquier severely
reprimanded me. 1 deserved his blame,for
I should have been in my usual place.
Citizen Fouquier saw I was very sorry,
and dismissed me with more kindness than
expeoted. Thirteen executions."
During the revolution S'anson's services
were in constant requieition. He tells of
his revulsion for hie bloody work as fon
lows :
HIS STRENGTH EXHAUSTED.
"Prarial 29,—A terrible day's work 1
The guillothie devoured fifty-four victims.
My strength is at an end, and I almost
feinted away. A caricature has been showe
to me in which I am represented guillotin-
ing myself in the middle of a heath covered
with headless bodiee and bodylesa heads. I
do not boast of extraordinary squeamish-
ness. I have seen too muoh blood not to
be callous,
TROUBLED WITH VISIoNS.
"For some time I have beea troubled
with terrible visions. My hands tremble
so that I have been compelled to give up
cutting the hair of the doomed prison-
ers. I cannot convince myself of the
reality of these weeping and praying vie.
time. The preparations are like a dream,
which I strive to dispel. Then comes the
thump of the knife, which rerniuds me of
the horrible reality. I cannot hear it now
without a shudder. Forgetting my own
share in it, I abuse the people who look
on without rinsing a finger in their defence.
I abuse the sun which lights the scene. I
leave the scaffold to weep, though I cannot
shed a tear.
POOR LITTLE NICOLE.
"Never were there sensations more
violent than to -day. We went to fetch a
number, among whom was an actress of
the Italian theatre and her eervent, Nioole,
the latter ouly eighteen years old, and so
thin and delicete that she did not appear
more than fourteen. When the poor little
girl held out her hands to Lariviere he
turned to my head assistant and said :
Surely this is a joke?' The little one,
smiling through her tears, answered :
'No'monsieur, it is serious.' Nicole
asked to be in the same carb with her
mistress. The crowd was very large, and
when the poor child was seen there was a
roar of indignation.
HER EYES HAUNTED HIM.
" Cries of 'No childrea I' were nutnerous
and loud. Women in the Fabourg St.
Antoine were wee -ping. Nicole's eyea
awned to say to me, You will not kill
me ?' And yet she is dead. I had to
struggle with an inspiration which urged
Smash thia guillotine and do not allow
this child to die.' My itseistent pushed
her toward the knife. I turned away ; my
legs trembled. Martin had donee of the
execution. He ;mid. 1 are ill. Go
home and trust to nee for the ewe' I left
the soatfold. A woman begged of me in
the ittreen. I thought the little girl was
before ate. This evening I fancied 1 isente
spate of blood on the table sloth AR 1 was
sitting down to dinner."
TITLED NEGROES.
Members or the inacit knee who Have
Been Knighted by European Save.
reigns.
There have been many negroes in Europe
and the West Indies who have reoeived
distinguiehed considerations in the way of
decorations front the crowned heads of the
Old World. The Black Resents—Ira Ald-
ridge—who created such a furor in Europe
me.ny years ago as a tragedian, and who
was frequently carried from the theatres in
which he performed upon the shoulders of
his enthusiastic auditors to his hotel, was
loaded down with medals, the insignias of
variotis royal orders, the gifts of kings and
queens whom he had °harmed and delight.,
ed by his magnincent impersonations of the
characters he assumed.
A ldridge was a Maryland negro, end dre t
went to Europe time time in the forties in
the oapaoity of valet to a dietiuguished
Ameroian tragedian, who, discovering his
talents and bent of mind, encouraged him
to become an aotor. He preformed in the
principal cities of Europe, and it is recordeil
of hirn that when he played lams in the city
of Moscow, in Russia, e, number of students
who had witnessed the performance un-
hitched the horses from the actor's carriage
after the play was over and dragged him in
triumph to his lodgings. In nweden and
Germany aud England his name was a
household word. He stood in the front
rank among the greatest, actors of his day.
Ira Aldridge gave no performancesin Europe
which were not wituessea by one or more
members of the royal family of the country
he was in, He was very dark in complex-
ion, with a full, round face. He was
nearly six feet in height. He had large,
lustrous eyes, and resonant voice which he
kept under perfect control.
As Adron in "Titus Andronicust and as
the Moor in "Othello," he eatablished his
fame as the most realistic actor who up to
that period had ever essayed those roles.
The newspapers of that period showered
unstinted praise upon this remarkable
negro, and he was lionized in fashionable
society and
FETED BY THE NOBILITY ;
the King of Sweden knighted him,and the
Emperor of Russia conterred a decoration
upon him. His medals and decorations
from other personages were estimated at
the time of his death, 1867, to be worth
over $250,000. Aldridge owned nine villas
situated in various parte of Europe, and
each of them handsomely furnished. Elis
principal residence was in the city of
London, England, where he entertained in
a royal manner the legions of friends who
sought his company and that of hie charm-
ing wife, a Swedish baroness, by whom he
had three children. He died in 1867 as Sir
Ira Aldridge, K. C. Al., and ehost of other
titles given him at various times.
Queen Victoria has recently conferred
the Victorne Cres upon the coal black
negro, a coeporal in one of the West India
regiments, for having saved the life of hie
commanding officer by throwing himself in
front of the latter and receiving in his own
body the bullets that would have other-
wise found lodgmentin that of his Captain.
There are few better lawyers anywhere
than are to be found among the educated
blanks of the British West Indies. The
Attorney -General of the Island of Jamaica,
some years ago was a negro, by name
Burke, who was said to be as eloquent of
speech and as formidable in argument as
his great Irish namesake, Edmund Burke,
who, it will be remembered said on one oc-
casion "Great men are the guide posts of a
nation."
THE BLACK BURNS
was famed not alone for his oratory, but for
the soundness of his legal judgment and
the fairness of his decisions, while acting as
Attorney•General. He was knighted some
years ago by Queen Victoria,
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, there lives a
very ordinary -looking little black man who
has the regular negro features and hair. In
stature he is less time five feet in height,
Like the immortal Richard III, shrugs his
shoulders when he walks, but un -like
him he cloee not sing out, "Shine on,
bright sun," etc. Ile is Sir Samuel Le vain
and was knighted by Queen Victoria about
four er five years ago. He is one of the
ablest lawyers in Sierra Leone and repres-
ents the interests of some of the wealthiest
firms in England. Sir Samuel was receutly
offered by a firm in England £9,000 per an-
num to looete in that city and attend to its
legal business, but he declined the offer,
preferring to remain among his people in
Sierra Leone, with whom he is a great
favorite.
The Lord Chief Junkie of Trinidad, W.
I., Sir Conrad Reeves, is a negro scholar
and a cultured and refined gentleman,upon
whom Queen Victoria some years ago cou-
ferred the order of knighthood; he is a K.
G. As Lord Chief Justice of Trinidad he
wears the wig and flowing robes with lowly
grace an dignity. For many years he was
Queen's Counsel. He is greatly esteemed
for his urbanity, his learningiend hia great
ability as a lawyer. He is one of the most
polished and finished gentlemen at the Eng-
lish bar. His name is the synonyme for
probity and integrity. He is a man of great
weal th.
Doubtful Arrangement.
In his desire to use fine language, the
darkey sometimes allows his ideas and
tatements to become a trifle confused, as
well as oonfusing.
Some years ago a handbill announcing a
"oolored piano" to be held hi a grove near
a Southern city was freely circulated.
After various highly enticing announce.
ments relative to the delights in store for
the partakers in this entertainment, the
bill eoncluded with the following puzzling
notice, printed in itelice
Good behavior will be strietly and re•
servedly enjoined upon ell present, and no-
thing will be left undone which will tend
to mon the pleitsere of the company.
A Hero.
She—There is nothing heroic about you.
1 ordered you to do something brave, be.
fore I could consent to love you, and you
ain't do it.
He—Pardon, but I did.
She—What did you do?
Ha—I disobeyed you. Don't, yoa think
hat required courage?
The man who feels himself igncraet
P1111111(1- at, letagt. IAN ttinriAvth u-SAhtiqnri
YOUNG FOLKS.
Before the Mast.
A, college professor sometirans remarks
playfully bhat lie worked his way into
school before the meet. But when be tells
tile story he makes it clear that be began
by threatening to run away from school
it he were not allowed to try a roller's
life.
He lived in aa inland town on the Great
Lakes, and was pessessed with a boyish
infatuation for a ship. Unable to take lay
interest in his studies as Eichorn, he prevail
ed upon bit relatives to allow him to drop
his books aud to thip on board a lake
steamer.
You will be glad enough to go back to
eohool in two or three weeks," his uncle
rernarkeCI to him,
But that was a mistake. The boy smiled
up and down the lakes for two or three
years betore he was weary of life before the
mast. Even then he had no desire to return
to ;whoa When he left his 8hip he enter•
ecl a tinsmith's shop and worked away Nt
his trade with a heavy heart, for a sailor's
life had made him restless aud discon-
ten ted.
At last the tinsmith's apprentice came to
himeelf. He had deliberately negleated
his education and was ashamed of hie
ignorance.
" I'll go beck to the water," he said to
himself, "and earn enouele money to carry
me into college."
Returning to the Lakes he shipped as
mate of a, vessel, attuned during his leisure
hours, and saved every dollar of his season's
earnings. He had a. motive now for his
occupation, aud he was the happiest man
afloat.
" I am sailing into college before the
wind," he told his fliewis. I shall come
to anolior by and by, and enjoy my stay in
port."
At the end of another season he passed
hia examinations and entered college. With
the disadvantages of an inadequate prepare -
tion he had at first a low standing in his
oiaanbue so resolute was hia determivation
to succeed that he outstripped all his com-
panions and was valedictorian at the end.
He made several lake voyages during
vacation seasons to replenish his savings,
and by prudent management paid his way
throngh college. His brilliant record
btought a tutorship within his reaoh, and
before long he was a college professor with
the promise of a eseful career.
A ship was a strange training -school for
a professor's lecture -room, yet it served the
purpose when preeious years of his youth
had been wasted in an employment for
which he was unsuited, although it had
exercised a potent fascination over his
imagination. The professor's experience
was an exception to the rule that a boy's
caprice for sea -life ought not to be indulged
when it involvesacrifice of education and
sheer waste of opportunity.
What Not to Say.
"Stopping" for staying ; as "He is
atopping with us," for "He is staying with
"Some for about or probably. "11 is
some five miles to towa" should be" It is
about five miles," eta,
"Storms," for rain's or snows. Storm is
an atmospherical disturbance and has
eferencie to air and wind. •
'Nice," for pretty, good. "That is
nice, he is a nice boy,, isn't she nice ?"
Something nice is delicate, exact, aa a nice
point in a discussion.
"Try and come," for" Try to come,"
" to do so," " to write." 0 •
" Posted," for informed ; as "He is not
posted on that matter ; post him on the
subject," Post nieans to put up a sign or
to drop a letter in the postoffice,
" Guess," for suppose or think. " I
guess this is right," should be I think,"
Guess means to " hit at random," as " I
can't guess how many cents you have."
"Party," tor periwig Party is a gathering
of people, not an individual. ' Who is
that party ?"should be " Who is that
person,"" that man," or " that woman?'
" Funny," for odd, strange. As " It
seems very funny to me that he does not
come," should be " It seetns very strange."
Funny is something amusing, fell of fun.
Stop a moment and think before using
the words "ought" and "should." Ought
implies that we are morally bound to do
something. Should is nou quite so strong
a terve. We ought to be honest ; we should
be tender toward little children.
Mrs. Pietzel at Indianapolis.
A despatch from Indianapolis, says :—
Mre. C. A. Pietzel has arrived here from
Galva, Ill. She will look over all that re.
maine of her boy Howard and see if there
is anything she can identify, and will
testify before the Coroner's jury. The loss
of her husband and three children has told
upon the woman. She appears not to have
long to live. She was in need of medical
attention when she arrived. Dr. Wright
was before the Grand Jury on Monday.
Dr. Wright testified that Holmes came into
his drug store one den last fall and bought
prussic acid and chloroform. With him
was the black whiskered men known as
Hath. Dr. Wright has identified the
picture of Holmes. Holmes will he indicted
here. The Coroner and the prosecuting
attorney sought to find the motive which
led Mrs. Pietzel to go, at Holmes' bidding,
froin city to city, "He told me I would
see my husband," said Mrs, Pietzel, with a
quaver in her voice. "He told me L would
end Ben. First it was one thing and then
another to put ma off. He would tell me
that Ben had been drinking and I could not
see him. In Toronto he gave as an excuse
that someone had watched nim when he
rented a house, and that it would not be
safe for me to meet, my hnsbend there,"
She thought the children were in Indiana-
polis.
Unaccountable.
Why did that lady scream when yea
served her order?
Dunno, sah. I just done tell her the
steak was as tender as a little mcuse,
•Their Way of Thinking.
Mrs. Bighead—Women do just as much
thinking as men.
Pertly—Yes ; but they dilute their
thoughts terribly with words.
The usual fortune of complaintie to exoite
contempt more than pity,—Juhreion.
The terror inspired by the Japanese
armies in the east was greatly enhanced by
the feet that they made no noise. They
march with no bands, no drums beat re•
veille or betto, and in tattle the Japanese
utter no ("beers.
SPANISeATROCITIES.,
Rwor.,
AL Slaughter et (Innen non Women; and.
Children -Mental Torture or et
Girl. Peeing
Atrocities by Spaniande as revolting at
those committed by the Japanese et Port
Arthur have juat been reported to the
Cuban revolutionary peaty in Now York.
Eurique Trujilio, editor of El Permit',
has received a letter from Juan Maepons
FranCo, ohief-ofatteff under den. Maximo
Gomez, the oommanderein•ohief of the
insurgenb •army, which sends dandle of
the capture and recapture of the eity of
Baire, and the masseur) of bliirty-eeven
iuoffensive Cubans, mostly womeu and
children, by the Spaniards under Com-
mander Gerrido. ,
On Tuesday inorntng, according to Col.
Franoo's letter, a company of ineurgenti
under Jose Ran surprised the Spanish
mermen in the fortresa commanding the
oity of Baire, killing more than ;seventy
men and taking fifty-six prisoners. They
captured a large quantity of arms, and
persuaded the prisoners to enlist in the
insurgent ranks, An hour later three
companies of Spanish troops, under com-
mand of Garrido, oame up, aud after a
short but sharp resistance the Cubans lied,
leaving the fortress again in the hands of
the invaders, Soon after the fort had
been regarrisoned with Spaniards one of
the companies broke loose, and began to
pillage the city. Commander Garrido
himself, Franco states, led the uniformed
Franco describes graphically the
u
of horror that. followed. The Speeen
asr ciroedctseoelrs,s,
w
ere wild for the spilling of blood.
Every human creature who came in their
path was ruthlessly slain. Within five
minutes the streets of Baire were deserted
by the panic-striken natives, but the
Spaniards followed them into their houses,
and killed them in their own rooms.
",ege, sex and °audition were wholly
disregarded 'by these liveried butchers,
says Col. Franco. "Old and young,women,
children, even infants, were slaughtered
one atter a/meteor. Shocking indignities
were offered to the unfortunate victims be-
fore and after death. The Spanish soldiers
stamped on the bodies of those whom they
had slain, and grouud their heels into the
faces of many who were still living.
"Senorita Dolores Madera, a beautiful
girl of 18, betrothed to one of Captain
Rabiti lieutenants, was seized. on the street,
cruelly beaten, repeatedly stabbed with
bayonets, e.nd brutally insulted. Com-
mander Garrido was in the neighborhood
while this outrage was perpetrated," says
Col. Franco. "One of Garrido's captains
commanded the girl to renounce ber Cuban
sweetheart and swear loyalty to the
Spanish Government. She saornfelly re-
fused, whereupon the captain struck her
across the face with his sword inflioting a
terrible gash. With blood streaming down
her face she taunted the Spaniards with
their cowardice. Thereupon the maddened
soldiers seized her, bound her hand and
foot threw a noose around her neck and
hanged her to a tree. The torture of
Senorita Madera was prolonged as much
as possible. She was drawn up slowly and
allowed to strangle by degrees,
PROGRESS IN QUEBEC.
The Province Is Malting Great Strides in
Progressive Agriculture.
Mr. Andrew Pattullo, has just made a
tour of Quebec. Giving his impressions,
he says:—"The fact is that the people of
Quebec have been making enormous strides
in progressive agriculture. Their method's
and their results will compare very favor-
ably with those of this province or of any
other part of the world. And a striking
fact in this connection ia the enormous
influence which is being exerted by the
Church in teaohiag the people new and
scientific methods of farming,and in urging
them on in the line of progress. This is
especially true in the field of dairy farming.
Prof. Robertson tells me that the Choral)
has perhaps done mere than any other
agency for progressive agriculture. The
clergy have been his moat active, intelli-
gent, and influential allies in all his dairy
work. There is to -day activity and en-
thusiasm all over Quebec) for improved
methods, not only in cheese and butter -
making, butin every branch of agriculture.
In addition to the special work of the Dom-
inion Government in the province, the
provinoial authorities, amd,es we have seid,
the clergy, and representative men and
societies everywhere are doing a vaet
amount to educate the rather conservative
farmers of the province to new and progres.
sive methods, by which alone they can
hold their oven and win success in a climate
that offers some difficulties at least to
profitable farming.
T211 INHABITANT
is not easily changed. He is conservative
in his ideas in almost every sense; and
perhaps the most conservative class among
the French-Canadian people are the far -
mere. Therefore this new awalrenieg to
the theories end progress of modern agri-
culture is all the more interesting. It
illustrates what can be done among such
people, when the :meet paten t influene,es are
secured in favour of progress. I had some
slight opportuuieies of seeing several parte
of the country away from the beaten track
of tourist travel For instance, between
Montreal and Sorel, a little back from the
river, there is an excellent farming district,
where an almost entirely French-Canadian
population exhibits the usual results of
frugality, industry and intelligence. In
the flame way in the direation of 51.
Hyacinthe, in going into the Eastern Town-
ships, as far as Danville, one realizes how
much good land there is, and how much
excellent farming is done in the province.
Of COuree; the County of Richmond belongs
to what are kuovvn as the Eastern Town-
ship, where the population is more largely
English, and where good farming. ie looked
for, as it is with us in Ontario, But wide-
spread evidences of progress and intelligent
application of modern ideas are also to be
seen in sections purely Frenoh.
The New Way.
Upperton—How do you manage to get
Fowl) perfect -fitting clothes?
De Style—Buy them ready-made.
In a sound eleop the soul goes hones to
recruit for strength, which oonld not else
endure the Wear and tear of life. —Rahel
Physie, for the MOOG part, if nothinn
else but the substitute of exereise or tow
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