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The Exeter Times, 1895-9-26, Page 3VTIRUNP NOTZS, Intee Balliagton Booth, the avteet even. gel of prectioel religion, who has charmed NO many hearere with her paebetio recital of the old, old story, and who haa taken the menage of the lowly Nezerene into homes where the apoble a tbe institu- tional thumlx go too seldom, has given her opinion of what le popularly °ailed the "new- vsomse." It is uenecessary to say that her °beery:Alone are as °haste and boai. ful as they are pertinent and proper, for what Mrs. Booth nye is always spoken with he elegance of (Benoit that becomes a cultured woman end with the oirouraspeo tion that becomes a woman who hae seen a great deal of the world. Mrs. Booth nye; The revolting oreatore, gaudily attired in man's clothing, posseased of etre-age no- tions about, he home, wifehood and motherhood, scorned and shunned by men, is not my idea of the new woman. The new woman, encircling to the popular ao. oeptation, speaks of children as 'brats," says they tire and aggravate her, and so she bestows all her love upon some ugly little pug-nosed dog, whioh she carries in one ot her mannish pockete. She is aleo e man-haters and in going forth to seek emancipation and a world-wide rule for her sex she declares it to be her mission to down and belittle him. As for religion, it is too simple for her strong mind. She is entirely independent and a free think. ' However releotant we may be to accept this characterization of the new woman, as popularly understood, we must admit that Mrs. Booth hes described a certain type of development which is altogether too pre- • valent. Mrs. Booth deolares that the new W01110.11 she has described is not her ten of a new woman, That his type of the new woman is no credit to her sex is a proposi- e tion that has the hearty concurrence of the -real friends of advanced woman- • need. Mrs. Booth says she believee in the advanced woman. We all believe in her. To be trained in work in the industrial callings and to enter into competition with man in professional attainments when driven to it by the necessities, of sociologi. oal or enema° conditions need not mean a renunoiation of the highest ideals of womanhood. Education and industrial training are not incompatible with a high conception of wifehood and motherhood. trhe new woman we all believe in isnot the man-hater and the man imitator who talks loudly and coarsely in the language of the street and disdains the polite refinements of the home and its hallowed environments. We believe in Mrs. Beetle* new woman, in nee -whom is centered the hope of emancipated womanhood. • A BAY 'Off STEPHEN. -- BEV. DR. TALMAGE PRESENTS FIVE LIVING PICTURES. Stephen Gazing into Ileavenneteniten Looking at Chrlat-etephen Stoned - Stephen in Ills Dying irenr-Sleplieu Asteep-e riciuresgne sermon. NEW "roux, Sept. 15. -In his sermon for to -day Rev. Dr. Talmage has ohnen a theme ap pictureeque as it is iipiritually inspiring. He groupe his die:mune into "Five Pieturea." The text selected wan "Behold, 1 see the heavens opened"-Aote Yin 56-60. Stephen bad been preaching a rousing eermon, and the people could not stand it. They resolved to do as men sometimes would like to do in this day, if they dared, with aome plain preaoher of righteousness -kill him. -The only way to :silence this man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Stepben out, of the gates of the oity, and with curse and whoop and bellow they brought) him to the 'oliff, RS was the custom when they wanted to take away the life by stoning. Having brought him to the edge of the cliff, they pushed him off. After be had fallen they came and looked down, and seeing that he was not yet dead they began to drop stones upon him, stone after stone. Amid this horrible rain of mi.:miles Stephen olambers up on hi a knees and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples, and then, rising up, he makes ewe prayers, one for himself and one for his murderers, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit," that was for himself. "Lord lay not this sue to their charge," that was for hie murderers. Then, from pain and lose of blocrd he swooned away and fell asleep. I want to show you to -day five piaures -Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen ib his dying prayer, Stephen asleep. First look at Stephen gazing into heaven Before you take a leap you want to know where you are going to land. Before you climb a ladder you want to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it was right that Stephen, within a few moments of heavenathould be gazing into it. We would all do well to be found in the scene posture. There is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A man of large wealth may have statuary in the hall, and paintings in the sittiug room and works of art in all parts of the house, but he has the chief pictures in the art gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glass and ever increasing admiration. Well, heaven is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe is his palace. In the lower e room -where we Atop there are many adornments, tesaellated floor of amethyst, and on the winding cloud stairs are etretch- ed out canvases on whioh commingle azure and purple and eaffron and gold. But heaven la the gallery in which the chief gloriee are gathered. There aro the bright. eat robes. There aro the richest crowns. There are the hightest exhilarations. St. John says of it, "The kiege of the earbh shell bring their honor and glory into in' And I see the procession foimiug, and in the line come all empires, and the stars spring up into an arch for the hosts to march under. They keep step to the sound of earthquake and thepitch of the avalanche from the mountains, and the flag they bear is the flame of a consuming world, and all heaven turns oat with harps and trumpets and myriad voiced acclamation of angelic dominions to welcome them in, and so the kings of the earth bring their honor and glory into it. Do you wonder that good people often stand, like Stephen, looking into heaven? Wen have many friends there. There is not a man here so isolated in life but there is some one in heaven with whom he once shook hands. As a man gets older, the number of his celestial acquaint- ances very rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them good -by and they went away, but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when some of our friends go :Lorna the sea we stand on the dock or on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhile the hulk of the vessel disappears, aud then there is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon that is gone, and they are all out of sight, and yet we stand look- ing in the same direction, so when our friends go away from us into the future world we keep looking down through the Narrows and gazing and gazing as though we expected that they would come out and stand on some cloud and give none glimpse of their blissful and transfigured fans. While you long to join their companion- ship,. and the years and the days go with such tedium that they break your heart, and the vipers of pain and sorrow and be- reavemant keep gnawing at your vitals, and you will stand like Stephen, gazing into heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you sew them last. You wonder if they would recognize your face, now, so changed has it been with trouble. You wonder in amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they gave youm helping hand and put their shoulders under your burdens. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes in the evening bide, when the house is all quienyou won dor if you should call them by their first name if they would nob answer, and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one bub God and yourself are there you distinctly call their names and linen and sit gazing into heaven. Pass on now and see Stephen looking upon Christ, My text says that he saw the Son of Man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in thie world, jun how he looks in heaven, wo cannot say. The painters of the different, agar: have tried to imagine the features of Christ and put thom upon nuns, but we will have to wait until with our own oyes we see him and with our own ears we cat hear him, And yet there is a wily of :mein' him and hearing him now, I have to tell you the t unless you see and hear Chrieb on oath, you will never see and hear him in heaven; Look 1 There he is! Behold the Lanni of God I °an you not see him ? Then ptay to God to take the scales off your eyes. Look thab way -try to look that way. Hip voioe comes down to you thie day-oomea down to the blincleete to the deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved, for I am God, and tbere is nono • We may be toe feeble to eraploy either of else," Proolamation of universal eme,volpa. them) familiar forms, but tint prayer of tion for all sieves, Tell me, ye who know ! Stephen le aa there, in 40 conoiliais SO earn. mod of the world's heitory, what other en, is so comprehensive, we eurely will be king ever naked the abandoned and the for. able to say thaa "Lord Jesus, reoeive ny ern, and the wretched, and the automat to I epirie." Oh, if that prayer is answered, come and sit beside WM? Oh, woederfin ' how sweet will it be to dm 1 rl'his world is olever enough to int. Perhaps it has treated us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated, but if on tbe dying pillow there Cra,eking of Boiler Plates. The cracking of boiler plates, says a writer in the Locomotive, frequently starts erom the edge of the plate opposite a rivet hole, in the girth joint that comes over the fire. Such cracks are often due to dietress at the joint, arising from an improper ar- rangement of the feed. pipe, for if the cam. paratively cold feed water is discharged on or near the fire sheet it chills the shell in that vicinity and produces a powerful local contraotiou of the metal, this being quite sufficient to start the joints, or even,under some oironmstances, to crack the solid plate. Appearing thus at the edge of one of the fire sheets, they extend gradually inward, though they are often stopped by running into the rivet hole, and do not extend further ; frequently, hovvevemthey run past the rivet hole and progress into the sheet on the further side of it, the necessity of the matter being checked, be- coming, of course, very important, this being oftentimes practicable by drilling a small hole through the sheet at the very extremity of the crack, this hole to be afterward filled with a rivet, or it may be tapped end filled with a screw plug. - Why Two Ears. It was a saying of a wise man that we have one mouth and two ears in orderthat we. may listen twice as much as we speak. A teacher once quoted this remark to her pupils, and not long afterward to see how well her instruction was remerabered, she asked: Why is it that we have two ears and only one mouth, Prances? Prances had forgotten the philosopher's explanation, but she thought the question ant a very hard one. Because, she said, we should not have room in our face for two mouths' and we should look too crooked if we hadonly one ear. No, no, said the teacher, that is not the reason. You know, don't you, Rosy? Yes, ma'am, answered Rosy. So that what we hear may go in at one ear and out at the other. After the Summer. Kitty -Well, the summer is very nearly over and rm not engaged. jane-How you talk, Kitty. You know you are engaged to a dozen mere Kitty -But I tell you I am not. I've broken them all off to get a good start for the winter. L'Enfaut Terrible. Mr. Courtney (flatteringly) -I had the blues when I came here to -night, Miss Fisher, but they are all gone now. You are as good as medicine, Mies Fisher's little brother -Yes ; father himself says she'll be a drug in the market if she doesn't cateth on to some fellow some . The Coming LoVer, Shalt I speak to your m,other, "Ethel, ttboat our engagement? Yes, George, deer, and don't be afraid of her, She isn't half so dreadful as she looke, Mae. Zabbe-nt I met tvith one of thb etra.ngesb experience:1 of my life bo•day." Mr. Zebba---" You did I What) was it ?" Mrs. Zabbs-" This 1 eves getting on an open oar and the man on the end seat moved • and let ma have it." nvitation 1 You cate take it to -day and. stand at the head of the darkest, alley in all this oity and say ; "Come 1 Clothes for your rags, salve for your sores, a throne shall break the light of that better world for your eternal reigning" A. Christ that I we iihall have no more regret than about talks like that and aots like that and par. 1 leaving a smell, dark, damp house for one dein like that -do you wonder that large, beautiful and capacious. That dying Stepheu stood looking at hum? I hope to , minister in Pniladelphia some years ago speed eternity doing the same thing- 1 I beautifully depleted it when in the laat must see him; 1 muse look upon that face • moment he threw up his bends and cried onoe clouded with my sin, but now raclient Dee t "I move into the light I" with my perdou. I want to tottoh then hind Paso on now, and 1 will show you one that knocked off my shaokles, I want to more picture, and that. is Stephen asleep, hear the voice that pronounced my de- i With a pathoe said simplietty peouliar to liveranoe. Behold him, little children, for the Scriptures the text says of Stephen, if you live to three sore years and ten you "He fell asleep." "Oh," you sae,"what a will see none ao fair. Behold him, ye aged place that was to sleep 1 A. hard rock under 'ono, for he only min shine through the himntones tailing down upon him,the blood dimness of your fading eyesight. l3ehotcl him, earth. Behold him, heeven. What a moment when all the nations of the Bayed shall gather around Christ, all, faces that way, all thrones that way, gazing on Jens ! Hie worth if all the nations knew Sure the whole earth would love him tom I pass ou now and look at Stephen stoned. The world has always wanted to get rid of good men. Their very life is an assault upon wiokedness. Out with Stephen through the gates of the city. Dowu wtth him over the precipices. Let every man mime up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselvea. Every stone rebounded upon them. While these mur- derers are transfixed by the scorn of all good men Stephen lives in the admiration of all Christendom. Stephen etoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pelted. "All who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution." It is no eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes him. Show me anyone who is doing all his duty to state or church, and I will shove you scores of men who utterly abhor him. If all men speak well of you,it is beciause you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around it. Brave soldiers of June Christ wiU hear the carbines click. When I see a maxi with a voice and money and influence all on the right side, and some caricature him, and some sneer at him, and some denounce him, and men who pretend to be actuated by right motives conspire to crip- ple him, to cast, him out, to deetroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned." When I see a man in some great moral or religious reform battle against grog - shops, exposing wickedness in high places, by active means trying to purify the church and better the world's estate, and I find that the newspapers anathematize him, and men, even good men, oppose him and denounce him, because, though he does good, he does not do it in their way, I say, "Stephen stoned." But you notice, my friends that while they assaulted Stephen they did not succeed really in killing him. You may assault a good man, but you can- not kill him. On the day of his death, Stephen spoke before a few people in the san hedrire; the Sabbath morning headdresses all Christendom. Paul the apostle stood on Mare hill addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as a modern school girl. To -day he talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of justification and the glories ot resurrection. John Welsey was howled down by the mob to whom they preached, and they threw bricks at him and they denounced him, and they jostled him and they spat upon him and yet to- day, in all lands, he is admiGted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated tho presidential chair, but from that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the box of Ford's theater there sprang up the new life of a nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. • Pass on now and aee Stephen in his dying prayer. His first thought was not how the stones hurt hie head nor what would become of his body. Hie first thought was about his spirit. "Lord Jesue,receive my spirit." The murderer standing on the trapdoor, the black cap being drawn over his head before the execution, may grimace about the future, but you and I have no shame in confessing some anxiety about where we are going to coma out. You are not all body. There is within you a soul. I see it gleam from your eyes to -day and I see it irradiating your countenance. Sometimes am abashed before an audience, not be. cause I come under your physical eyesight, but because I inalize the -truth that I stand before so many immortalspirits. The pro- bability is that your body will at last find a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries that surround this city. There is no doubt but that your obsequies will be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow your head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or tee cypress, or the blossoming fir, but this spirit about which Stephen prayed, what direction will that. take? What guide will escort it ? What gets will open to receive it ? What cloud will be cleft for ite pathway? After it has got beyond the light of our sun will there be torches lighted for it the rest of the way? Will the soul have to travel through long deserts before it reaches the good land? If we should lose our pathway, will there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city ? Oh, the; mysterious spirit within us? It has two wings, but it is in a cage now. 11 is locked fast to keep it, but let the door of this cage open in the least and the soul is off. Eagle's wing could not eatah it. The lightnings are not swift enough to coma up -with it. When the soul leaves the body, it takes 50 worlds at a bound. .And have I no anxiety about it ? Have you no anxiety about it? I do not care millet you do with my body when my soul is gone or whether you be- lieve in cremation or inhumation. I shall sleep just as well in a wrapping of sackcloth as in satin lined with eagle's down. But my soul -before I close this diecourse I will find out where it will land. Thank Goa for the intimation of my text, thab wben we die Jesus takes us. That answers all questions for me. What though there were maseive bare between here and the City of Light, Jesus could remove them. ev hat though there were great Sahara!, of darkness, Jesus could illume bhem. What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift me on his ensile. potent shoulder What though there were obtains to cross, his hand oould transport me. Then lot Stophetne prayer be my dying litany, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit." Ib may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. It may be in that hour we ,will bob be able to say the Lord's Prayer, for it has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be too feeble even tosay the infant prayer our mothers taught; lis, whioh John Quietly Adams, 70 years of age, said`every night when lie pub his head upon his pillow ; Now Ilay me down to sleep, 1 pray the Lord my souI to keep, streaming, the mob howling. W hat apiece it was to sleep!" And yet my text takes that symbol of slumber to describe his de. parture, so sweet was it, :to contented was in so peaceful was in Stephen had lived a very laborious life. His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves of bread he had distributed, how many bare fen he had saudaled,how many oots of sickness and distress he had blessed with ministries of kindness and love, I do not know. Yet from the way he iived,anol the way he preached, and the way he died, I know he was a laborious Christian, But that is all over now. He had pressed the oup to the last fainting lip. He has taken the last insult from his 0110111i0S. The Ian stone to whose crushing weight he is ousoeptible has been hurled. Stephen is dead 1 The disciples come 1 They take bim up 1 They watiii away the blood from the wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush bac k the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the calm countenance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep! I have seen the etia driven with the hare Hoene till the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and weve rising above wave seem- ed as if about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen the temptest drop, and the waves crouch and everything become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So have I eeen a man, coming down at last, to an in- finite calm in which there was a hush of heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep, I saw such a one. He fought, all his days agaiest poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name, They rattled at the door knob while he was dying with duns for debts he could not pay; yet the peace of God brooded over his pillow and while the world faded, heaven ditwned and the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the opening twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh. N ot a tear. Not a struggle. Hush 1 Stephen asleep. I have net the faculty as many have to tell the weather. I can never tell by the setting itin Whether there will be a drought or not, I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether ie will be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I can prophesy, and I will prophesy, what weather it will be when you, the Christian' come to die. You may have in very roughnow. It may be this week one annoyance, the next another annoyance. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereave- ment, But at the last Christ will come in and darkness will go out. And though there may be no hand to close your eyes and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no candle to lift the night, the odors of God's hanging garden 'will regale your soul and at your bedside will halt the the -riots of the king. No more rents to pay, no more agony because flour has gone up, no more struggle with "the world, the flesh and the devil," butpeace-long, deep, everlarting peace. Stephen asleep I Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep; A. calm and undisturbed repose, Uninjured by the last of toes. Asleep in Jesus, far from thee Thy kindred and. thy graves may be, But there is still the blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep You have seen enough for one day. No one can successfully examine more than five pictures in a day. Therefore we stop. having seen this cluster of divine Rephaels -Stephen gazing into the heavens, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep. THE CHINESE RIOTS. The Leader of the llEtt•Cheng Outbreak Arrested. A. despatch from Hong Kong says :-Th ° leader of the Ku -Cheng riots in which a number of English and American mission- aries were killed, has been arrested. An attempt was made by the Chinese soldiers to kidnap this person, in the hope of securing the reward which had been offered for his delivery to the authorities. The total ;lumber of arrests thus far of those concerned in the Ku -Cheng masseere is 130. Twenty-three of the number have been °or vieted, but up to this time sentence has not been paseed upon any of them. The Viceroy of Fu -Kien demanding the right o review the evidence adduced at the trials A Steamboat Attacked by a Shark. A despatch from Vancouver says c -The Blonde, a small steamer, was oeught in a violent storm in Queen Charlotte Sound on her last trip north. While the waves were eweeping over the boat and the Captain feared that they might never reach port alive, a shark, over thirty feet long, made its appearance directly in front of them, and appeared to be -preparing to theme the steamer. Capt. Beck could not resist a shot from his rifle at the huge fish. His aim was true and a rifle ball was imbeded in the head of the man eater. The shark, furiously lashing the water, retreated several yards and, turning on its back, charged directly at the little steamer, The shock was eo severe when the boat and fish met that those on board said it felt as if they had struck a roan, The boat quiver- ed from stem to stern and swayed even more fiercely than in the storm. The shark, however, had had enough, and retreating, sank out of eight. Too Suggestive. We don't buy our meat at Dioker'a any more. Why not? He hes a horeeslioe nailed over his atall. Prightened Away. Is it true that the old Jones place is haunted It toed to be, but they have a baby there now, THE VAN FROM CUMOlifi UT GUAM AMYX. Sir Theophilus Ivirney has always seemed to me a most extraordinary person. As you know, he is president of the Authropo metric Soctety,and his power of distinguish ing different physical types and assigning their origin almost borders C10 the niiraeu- lolls. I didn't know what anthropometry meant myself till 1 men Sir Theophilue iu a hotel at Oben, Before we had been talking ten minutes together he observed to me abruptly: "Of course you conic from North Somerset, 1" Now, I natter myself I haven't a shadow of Zurnmerzet aecent, sol answered at once. "Well, I am a Clevedou man, if tt 0011108 to that; but how on earth did yon know it 2" "0, by the shape of your ears," he an. mend, "and by the ourve of your eye- brows. Those eyebrows I find are distinc- tive of North Somerseneastward of Bridge- water. But you've Welsh blood as well ; Glemorganshire, 1 sbould fancy." "This is wonderful 1" I exclaimed. "My mother was a Swansea woman. Whet made you guess that ? Whae Welsh trait do you detect in me ?" • "Your lip and chin are South Ws-les,"Sir Theophilus replied, "and the shape of your skull shows Silurian affinities. Your ancestors on that side, I imagine, but have come originally from the Peninsula of Gow- er." Well this was a lucky guess, as it hap- pened, but I hardly thought it more ; so to teat him I asked: "What do you make of my wife then?" Ile looked fixedly at her for a moment. "Mrs. Wallis," he replied, "is a little more difficult to place quite accurately. She might be from Cumberland, but I think it more probable she comes from Dumfries - "You are a wizard!" my wife cried. "I was borne in Dumfries, and my father be- longed to the county by origin, but my grandmother on my father's side Came straight from Keswick." After that everybody in the room want- ed Sir Theophilus to guess where he or she came from, and be did it in most cases with wonderful accuracy. One old clergyman, he said, had an Aberdeenshire head and could get no hat to fit, him except in Aber- deen, And this turned out to be so, for it. seems some Aberdonians have bigger skulls than any one else in Britaut, and apecial hats have to be made to fit them. Another man he instantly detected as a Gallowegian, and a third as an East Anglian. Ho was equal- ly successful with two young ladies from the Isle of Wight, though he failed over a Devonian, and not quite unjustifiably, took an Orkney man for a Shetlander. et appears there is some slight local difference between these last two types, for the Orkney man is a farmer who owns it fishing boat, while the Shetlander is a fisherman who owns Ei farm. For the next week, as chance would have it, we saw much of Sir Theophilus. Re went with us round Loch Lamond, and stopped three nighte at the same hotel in Glasgow, So we got quite friendly, and at the end of that time we decided to go up to London together. When we stepped into our carriage at St. Enoch Station we saw a tall and mor- ose looking man very comfortably seated in the corner opposite us. He was appar- ently absorbed in his local paper, which he held before his face somewhat ontruaively, as if he desired to escape observation. But Theophilus, who has a perfect mania for observing faces and heads, determined to get a good look at him, and I could see him staring hard with all his eyes at our neighbor whenever he moved the paper on one side. This evidently annoyed the 'stranger, but Sir Theophilus was not to be balked. After two or three good long stares he turned round to me and murmured enigmatically, "Hexagonal l" Than I knew he was referring to the shape of our neigh- bor's skull, for it was a word I had heard him apply more than once before to heads we had met in the hotels or elsewhere. After a while he tried to make the atranger talk. But the morose -looking man was clearly one of those unsociable people who won't be dragged into conversation on auy terms. "You mind your business and I'll mind mine," his demeanor seemed to say as plain as words ccruld say it. " Pic - ash!" Sir Theophilus muttered briefly once more. "The Pict can be recognized by the squareness of the knuckles.' This was whispered in my ear, but I rather think the man opposite heard it. At last Sir Theophilus could stand it no longer. 1 could see he was positively itch- ing with desire to identify our vis-a.vis from a racial standpoint. lie leaned over towards him blitudly and observed, with his most engaging smile -be is a polite old gentleman-" Excuse me, but I think you come from the Island of Cumbrte." A most singular expression broke sud- denly over the stranget s face. He knitted his brows and looked extremely angry. It seemed to me, too, that he was alarmed or frightened. "You are mistaken," he said, curtly, raising the paper once more so as to soreen his features. "I come from Stirling." Sir Theophilue glanced at me pursed his lips,and shook his head. The stranger, behind his newspaper, could not see this little i antomime. "Won't do," the man of science murmured gently in my ear. "Try again; must fathom 11, Excuse me once more, you may come from Stirling, but your fattier and mother must surely have been Cumbrae people." The man opposite replied,without looking up from his paper, "ely mother and father were both of them from Pertshihre. I never In my life was nearer Cumbrae than Gies - gown Sir Theophilus was not to be beaten. "I should have thought myself," he said, beaming through his spectacles, "you came from Great Cumbrae or Little Cumbrae,and not, as the saying goes, from the adjacent islands of Great Britain and troland. But, of course, you know best, though I ntust say" -he spoke most deliberately --"you have an the marke of the Cumbrae physion. nomy. The shape of your ekull, the peculiarity of your eyebrows, and the unusual texture of your hair die tinatly,-,-ae The stranger glared at him, 'Good Heavens sirlhhe cried,"are you a detective or a madtneunhat you can't let a peaceable fellow -traveler alone without cross -guess tioning him in this way ?" Sir Theophilus amiled blandly upon him. " Neieher, my dear sir," he answered, Iwith this ciourteous deference, endeavoring to soothe the stranger's ruffled feeliuge, "1 Ate the President of As Anthropome. trio Soolety, and I merely. desired to ask you this question from a setentifio interest in the ranee of Britain." The tanager, who had turned deedly white at first, seemed molitied for a me. meet. But though Sir Theophilus explein. en to him at some lentil in. hie very luoid way the nature and meaning of tile eaten°. of anthropometry, it was clear he desired no further conversation. Sir Theophilus tried again once or twice, and when luneh time canoe offered him Boma of our Pend grouse and claret; but his wiles were in vain ; the men from Cumbrae -or from Stirling, if you wine -refused to be mimed by them. Sir Theophilua deftly appreaohed the subjeot of Cambrae once or twice, bat whenever he got a.pywhere near the mouth of the Clyde the strangeret wrath and indignation grew visible, When at; last we reethed Carlisle and the morose -looking man descended from the °urine, Sir Theophilus turned to me with a meaning smile. "E pur si muove," he murmured "hall to himself; he did QOM from Cumbrae. I could swear to that type of skull among ten thousand." He leaned out ot the window and watohed the retreating figure. "Hi 1 what's this ?" be cried. " The fellow's going across the line. He's left all his things here and he's going to the booking °ffi'c'ePjechaps," I suggested, "he's going no farther than Carlisle," "No, no," Sir Theophilus answered; "as sure as my name's Ivimey, there's some- thing up. He had a first-class through ticket from Glasgow to St. Pancras, I saw it myself when I paned it to the guard just now to punch it, And didn't you notice how angry he was when I spoke about °umbrae ? Depend upon it, for nine reason or other, he wants to avoid us." In another minute a porter crossed the line and came over to our tannage. "Beg your pardon, gentlemen, but will you please show me which of these thinge are not yours? The passenger who was in with you has sent me aoross for them," "Then he's not going auto St. Pancras?" Sir Theophilus asked, eagerly. "No, am; he's changed his mind, and he's going on by Northwestern." Sir Theophilus looked hard at me. "This is queer," he said, "very queer. I don't half understand it. Why on earth should he take it as an imputation on his character that he comes from °um- brae? Never met such a singular cinema stance in my Iif el Here boy, have you got any London papers?" The paper boy handed him up the Times. Sir Theophilus took it. I bought a Daily Chronicle. The train went on. For a while we sat silent, and buried in our respective prints. Suddenly, Sir Theophilus gave a long, low, "Whew 1' "What's up ?" I said, looking across at him. "Why, now I see what Mee fellow meant by denying Cutn.brae," Sir Theophilus cried clecisiveiy. "But he won't escape me ! His head betrayeth him. Just look at this paragraph and you can see the whole truth of it," Re handed me over the Times with his thumb on one column. I looked where he pointed, and this is what I read : "Balla - abolish Shooting Case: It has now tran- spired that the missing man, Hudson, who is supposed to have fired the fatal shot, is a person of the name of Reuben Plummer, a nath e of the Island of Great °umbrae, well known as a bookmaker at Newmarket and elsewhere. The strictest search has been made for him in the neighborhood and the police believe he will soon be eap- turedOl "Picie be blowed 1" Sir Theopdilus murmured pensively. "I'll back myself to recognize a °umbrae head against any detective in the adjacent islands 1" "Bat there's a portraitof Hudson in last night's Pall Mall," I said, "and this man isn't really the least bit like him. He has a bushy beard and whiskers and is describ- ed as recishaired." .Sir Theophilus glanced at it. "Shaved himself and dyed I" he exclaimed in reply. "Nothing easier than to disguise himself. One doesn't expect much from a hasty woodcut in an evening paper; but even there I can see the same ears and forehead. However, we shall be up in town before him. I'll communicate with the police and see the copy ot the photograph- they have of the man before he reaches Boston." That very same evening I accompanied Sir Tbeophilus to the Marylebone Police Station and went round with him and the Inspector to await the man from Cumbrae as he came in by the Northwestern. And that's how Reuben Plummer was really arrested. Crocheted Edge. 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AvouT OWN CGIINTH Gathered from Var-li:te Paints fro Arlenele te the Piteine, 011 Sprioge has Trilby parties, Wesley College, Winnipeg, is at:owlet ed, Cooketowine favourite game is quoits, There are 490 inkier:* ou the Athebetens Port Dalhousie ia badly in neett of houeee. A large grain hone° is being erected at Inwood. Miee Fay, of Tilbury, is heiress to $10,000. The St, Thomas *nen house is to be enlarged, • A Sarnia man has christeued hie bull pug Fitzsimmons. .A. census jnet taken ahem it population of 900 on Walpole Wand. aAoaanatnainne,gfactory is in prospeot at Hwk Teaaphepeuabed.lialibrary of Winnipeg has just, be aSat.aJaoiam. hrna'sohuroh, Wyoming; is bitildin a if h A new hall at Maple Grove leas just been dedioated. A number of fine residence:* are going Up in Goderioh. Petrolea has borrowed $12,000 to meet trump expenses, Alvinaton has been abandoned by the Salvation Army. The Leamington High Sohool will not be opened until January. Fire burned 300 cords of wood at the railroad traok near Angus. Kingston barbers talk of closing their shops every evening at eight. Daniel Coyle, of Thorold, has had. his foot out off by a G.T.R. train. The new Presbyterian church at Washago has been formally opened. A ledge of gold 14 miles in extent has been discovered at Donald, B. O. There were more tourists atSparrow Lek° this season than ever before. The affairs of the Berlin Athletic Club have been satisfaatorily wound up. The St, Thomas Car Wheel Company will establish a branch in Austria, Brockville has just paid $1,325 to a woman injured on a bad sidewalk. Wm, Knott, of Watson's Corners, badly injured himself by an exploding gum Bloomers are worn by female °erotism in a number of Canadian einem and towns. Mexico Bay is to be deepened and an outlet will be out through the sand bar. Great deposits of manganese ore have been found in the Cypress Hine, N. W. T. Mr. Simpson's barns, Ballantrae, have been destroyed by fire ex a loss of $2,000. e Peter Pilkie has been appointed principal of the Fort William Collegiate Institute. At Auden, Man., a farmer found 125 small potatoes growing from due large one. The Central Anethodiat :thumb, of Stret- ford, calls Rev. Dr. Hannon, -of Ste Thomas. Claud Moore, aged 13, ran away from his home in Galt and was caught in New York city. • Charles Snake, an Indian boy on the 141uncey reserve, was killed by the kiek of 9, horse. The Woodstock Hospital has beeu presented with a fine ambulance imported from Scotland. Montreal has a committee to raise $25,000 for a monument to the late Honore Mermen Mr, J. W. Treleaven, Listowel, has been appointed classical master at the Clinton Collegiate Institute. The residence of Dr. Torrance, Guelpb, was recently robbed of a quantity of ' valuable jewellery. In a quarrel at Kansas City William Seeker, formerly of Guelph, was shot and, disfigured for life. Mr. J. Irwin, tinsmith, fell 35 feet at London the other day and immediately went to work again. Rev. J. B. Green, of Reading, Mass., has been called to the pastorate of the Unitarian church, St. Jon, N. B. A Tilbury firm recently shipped the largest elm raft that ever crossed lake St. Clair, there being 3,253 togs, oontaining 700,000 feet in the float. Mrs, Graver, of West Lorne, who is about 90 years of age, lately pieced a quilt containing 2,592 pieces. The work was done without the use of glasses. Levi Wigle'ex-M. P., ot Leamington, has gone in tor water melons as a field crop. He has 20 acres of them and expects to realize $3,000 from the product. The Presbytery of Guelph recently celebrated Rev. Dr. Wardrope's 50th anniversary of his ordination. He has been pastor of Chalmer's church, Guelph for 23 years. There are now in Manitoba 34 cheese factories, against 15 last year. Their probable output for the year will be 1,350,000 pounds of cheese and 600,000 pounds of butter. Walker & Sons want the Essex County Council to locate the proposed new county building in Walkerville and have offered a tree site of seven and one-half :wren worth $7,000, free gas and water and $35;000 iu oash, • Sir Donald A. Smith, of Montreal, ier erecting a summer residence on the historic) Glencoe estate, in Argyleehire, Scotland, which he purchased lest year, It is the scene of the "Massacre of Glenne,' situated amidst the wildest and moat picturesque scenery of Scotland. In response to an advertisement for the principalship of the Dutton Public school 107 teachers applied for the situation, the applicants residing in all parte of the pro* ' vince, and some of the letters bore Uncle Sam's post mark. Among those who applied were ex -high school teachers, univeteity greclue,tee and even a graduate ona medical college. Thomas Lancaster, of East Zorra, was summoned before a Woodatook court to show cense why he should riot pay for two sheep belonging to his neighbours which were alleged toheve been killed by his dog, "3. made what I oonsider a fair prolamin tion," said Lanoaster, "1 offered to kill the dog and if there was mutton inside of, it I wail to pay halt the value of the sheep killed, and 11 11 was proven thet the dog was innocent then they were to pay me 1510 for the flog."