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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-10-3, Page 3SAIL 3 .11. STORM, REV. DR. TALMAGE'S LESSON OF TE INCIDENT OF THE SEA OF GALILEE, Christ Mashing the Teninest—Necessite,' for Christ on the Cough Voyage or letfe. The fect iei that Ovate beetil Would all hoe gone to the bottom if Ohritit had not been there. Now, you are about to voyage out into some neve eitterpriee—into some new Mistimes relation. You ere going to plan soixie great matter of profit. X hope it is so. If you are °enema to go along in the tread. will course and plan nothing new, you are not fulfilling your miseion. What you can do by the utmost teneion of body, mired and soul, that you are bound to do. You have no right to be colonel pf a regiment if God cella you to command an army. You lave no righe to be stoker in a sterner If —Nothing to be ihrlahaeued stbaat—T" God command's you to be admiral of the iVe rid at eves. navy. You have no right to engineer a ferryboat from river bank to river bank if New Yuen Sept, 22.—In his sermon God commands you to engineer a Cunarder for to -day Rev. Dr. Talrnage disaourees on a dramatic Moident during the Saviour'a life among the Gelilean fishermen and draws front it it striking lesson for the men and women of the present day. The eubject waa "Rough Sailing," and the text Mark iv. 36, 37. "And there was also with him other little ships, and there arose a great storm of wind." Tiberias, Galilee and Gennesaret were three names for the same lake. It lay in a Beene of great luxuriance. The surround- ing hills, high, terraced, sloping, gorged, were ao many hanging gardens of beauty. The etreams rumbled down through rooks of gray and red limestone, and -flashing from the hillsides bounded to the see. In the time of our Lord the valleys, headlands and ridges were covered thickly with vegetation, and so great was the varlet), of • climate that the palm tree of the torrid nd the wa lnut tree of rigorous climate were only- a little Way apart. Men in vineyards and olive gardens were gathering up the riches for the oil press. The hills and valleys were starred and crimsoned with flowers, from which Christ took hie text, and the dieciplee learned lessons of patience and trust. It seemed as if God had dashed a wave of beauty on all the scene until it hung dripping from the rooks, the hills, the oleanders. On the back of he Lebanon range the glory of the earthly scene was carried up aa if to Set in range with the hilla of heaven. No other gem ever had so exquisite a setting as beautiful Gennesaret. The waters were clear and sweet, and thickly inhabited, tempting innumerable nets and affording a livelihood for great populations. Betheaida, Chorazin and Clapernaum stood on the bank, rearing with wheels of traffic and flashing with splendid equipages, and shooting their vessels across the lake, bringing merchandise for Damascus and passing great cargoes of wealthy product. Pleasure boats of Roman gentlemen and fishing smacks of the country people who had come down to cast a net there passed each other with nod and shout and wel- come, or side by side swung idly at the mooring. Palace and luxuriant bath and vineyard, tower end shadowy arbor, look. ed off upon the calm, sweet scene as the evening sbadows began to drop, and Her- mon with its head covered with perpetual snowin the glow of the setting sun looked like a white bearded prophet ready to ascend in a chariot of fire. I think we shall have a quiet night! Not a leaf winks in the air or a ripple disturbs the surface of Gennesaret. The ahadowe of the great headlands stalk clear across the water. The voices of evening tide, how drowsily they strike the ear; the splaeh of the boat- man s oar and the thumping of the captur- ed Bah on the boat's bottom, and thoee indescribable sounds which fill the air at nightfall. You hasten up the beach of the lake a little way, and there you find an excitement as of an embarkation. A flotilla is pushing out from the western shore of the lakh—not a squadron with deadly armament, not a clipper to ply with valuable merchandise, not pirate vessels with grappling hooks to 'hug to death whatever they could seize, but a flotilla laden with messengers of light and mercy and peace. Jesus is in the front ship ' • his friends and admirers are in the smallboats following after. Christ, by the rocking of the boat and the fatigues of the preaching exerciees of the day, is in- duced to slumber, and I see him in the stern of the boat, with a pillow perhaps extemporised out of a fisherman's coat, sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the lecke of the worn. out sleeper and on its surface there rieeth and falletithe light ship like e. child on the bosom of its sleeping mother. Calm night. Starry night. Beautiful night. Run up all the mile and ply all the oars and let the boats, the big boat and the small boats, go gliding over gentle Gen- nesaret. The sailors prophesy a change in the weather. Glenda begin to travel up the sky and congregate. After awhile even the paesengers hear the moan of the storm, which co:nes on with rapid strides and with all the terrors of hurricane and dark- ness. The boat, caught in the sudden fury, trembles like a deer at bay, a.midthe wild clangor of the hounds. Great patches of foam are flung through the air. The loosen. ed sails, flapping in the wind, crack like pistols. The small boats, poised on the white cliff of the driven sea, tremble like ocean petrels, and then plunge into the trough with terrific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder crack, and oter- board go the cordage, the tackling and the masts, and the drenched disciples rush into the stern of the boat and shout amid the hurricane. " Master, careet thou not that we perish ?" That great Personage lifted his head from the fisherman's coat and walked but to the prow etS, the vessel and looked upon the storm, e all sides were the mall boats toseing in 'nelplessness and from them carne the ories of drowning men. By the flash of lightning I see the calmness of the uncovered brow of Jetus and the spray of the sea dripping from his beard. lie has two words of command—one for the wind, the other for the sea. He looks into the tempestuous heavens and he °Hee, "Peace 1" and then he looks down into the infuriate waters and he says, "Be still! The thundere beee a retreat. The waves fall flat on their faces. The extinguished atare rekindled their torches. The foam melba. The storm is dead. And while the crew are untangling the cordage and the eables and bailing out the water front the hold of the ehietthedietiples stand 'wonder- atruck, now gazing into the celin eee now gazing into the calm face of Jamie and whispering one to another: " What manner of man ie thie, that oven the winds and the tom obey him ?" I learn, tiret, from this aubjece that when you are going to tisk° i voyege of any leinci you eught to hs7e Christ in the ship. from New York to Liverpool. But what- ever enterprise you undertake, and upon whatever voyage you start, be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here are men largely prospered, The seed of a small enterprise grew into an accumulated and over. shadowing Emcees. Their cup of prosperity is running over, Every day sees a com- mercial or a mechanical triumph. Yet they are not puffed up. They acknowledge the God who grows the harvests and gives them all their prosperity. When disaster comes that deetroys others, they are only helped into higher experiences. The coldest winds that ever blew down from anow.capped Hermon and tossed Gennes- aret into foam and agony ()could not hurt them, Let the winds blow until they crack their checke. Let the breakers boom— ell is well, Ohriet is in the ship. Here are other men,the prey of uncertainties. When they Succeed they strut through the world in great vanity, and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness of others. Disaster comes and they are utterly down. They are good sailors on a fair day, when the sky is clear and the sea is smooth, but they cannot outride a storm. After awhile the packet is tossed abeam end, and it seems as if she must go down with all the cargo. Push out from the shore with lifeboat, longboat, shallop and pinnaee. You cannot save the orew. The storm rises up to take down the vessel: Down she goes 1 No Christ in that ship. Iipeak to young people whose voyage in life will be a mingling of sunshine and of darkness, of arctic blast and of tropical tornado. You will have many a long, bright day of prosperity. The skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew exhilaeltnt. The boat, stanch, will bound merrily over the billows. Crowd on all the oanvas. Heigh ho 1 Land ahead 1 But suppose that sit:knees puts its bitter oup to your lips ; suppose that death overshad- ows your heart; suppose misfortune with some quick turn of the wheel hurls you backward ; suppose that the wave of trial strikes you athwart ships, and bowsprit shivered, and halliards swept into the sea, and gangway crowded with piratical disasters, and the waves beneath and the sky above and the darkness around are fined with the clamor of the voices of destruction. Oh, then you will want Gimlet in the ship. I learn, in the next place, that people who follow Christ must not always expect smooth sailing. When these disciples got ineo the small boats they said : "What a delightful thing this is 1 Who would not be a follower of Christ when he can ride in one of these small boats after the ship of Jesus is sailing ?" But when the storm came down these dieciplea found out that following Jesus did not always make smooth sailing. So you have found out, and so I have found out. If there are any people who you would think ought to have a good time in getting out of this world, the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever noticed how they'got out of the world? St. James lost his head. St. Phillip was hung to death against a pillar. St. Matthew was struck to death by a halberd. St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St. James bhe Less had histbrains dashed out with a fuller's club. St. Matthias was stoned to death. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. John Huss in the fire, the Albigenses, the 'Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters—did they always find smooth sailing Why go so far? There is a young man in a store in New York who has a hard time to maintain his Christian character. All the clerks laugh at him, and tbe employers in that store laugh at him, and when he loses his pati- ence they say, "You are a pretty Chris- tian." Not so easy is it for that young man to follow Christ. If the Lord did not help him, hour by hour, he would fail. There are scores of young men to.day who would be willing to testify that in follow. ing Christ one deed' not always find smooth eailings. There is a Christian girl. • In her home they did not like Christ. She has hard work to get a silent place in which to say her prayers. Father opposed to religion. Mother opposed to religion. Brothers and sisters opposed to religion. The Chrietian girl does not always find it smooth sailing when she tries to follow Jesus. But be of good heart. As sea - facers, when winds are dead ahead, by setting the ship on starboard tack and bracing the yards, make the winds that oppose the course propel the fillip forward, so opposing tronblee through Christ,' veer- ing around the bowsprit of faith, will waft you to heaven, when, if the winds had been affaft, they might have rocked and sung you to sleep, and while dreaming of the destined port of heaven you could not have heard the cry of warning and would have gone crashing into the breakers. Again, my subject teaches me that good people sometimes get very much frightened. From the tone and manner of these disciples as they rushed into the stern of the vessel and woke Christ up, you know that they are fearfully scared. And so it is now that you often find good people wildly agitated. Oh 1" eays some Christian man, " the infidel magazines, the bad newspapers, the spiritualistic societies, the importation of so many foreign errors, the ohuroh of God is going to be lost, the ship is going to founder 1 The ship is going down 1" What are you frightened about? An old lion goes into his cavern to take a sleep, and he lies down until his shaggy mane covers hie paws. Meanwhile the spiders outside begin to *min webs over the mouth of the cavern and say, "That lion cannot break oub through this web," and they keep on spinning the goss- amer threads until they get the mouth of the cavern covered over. 'Now," they say, " the lion's done, the lion's done." After awhile the lion awakes and shako himself, and he walks out from the cavern, never knowing there were any spiders' webs, and with his voioe he shakes the mountains. Let the infidela and skeptics of this day go on spinning their webs, spinning their infidel gossamertheories epinting thein aleover the place where diniet seems to be Sleeping. They day : " Christ oan never again come out ; the work is done, He can never get through this logical web we have been spinning," The day will oomo When the Lion of Judah's tribe will rouse himself and come forth and shako mightily the nations, What then all of your gossamer threads ? What is a epider's web te an thronged lion ? Do not fret, then, &limit the world's going backward. It is goiug for- werd. Yon stand on the bank of the sea when the tile is rising. The almenec eels the THE TERRIBLE CRIMINAL Is NOW tide IS risng, but the wave coulee lip to a eertaiu peint and then it recedeti. "Why," CONFIN RD IN A NAD HORSE. you say, "the tide is going back," No, It is not, The next wave comes Op a little higher, and it goes beck. Again you say the tide is going opt. And the titre time tbe wave comes to a higher point, then M higher point. Notwithstanding ell these recessions, at last all the shopping of the World know it is high tide. So it is with the cause of Chriet in the world. One year it comes up to one point,and we are greatly encouraged. Then it seeing to go back next year. We say this tide is going out. Next year it comes to a higher point and falls back ; and next year it cornett to a still higher point end falls back,bue all the time it is advancing, until it 41141 he tide, "and the. earth shall be full of the know- ledge of God as the waters fill the sea." Again, I learn from this subject that Christ is God and man in the same person. I go into the back part of the boat, and I look on Christ's sleeping face and see in that face ehe story of sorrow and weariness, aud a deeper shadow comes over his face, and I think he must be dreaming of the cross that is bo come. As I stand on the back part of the boat looking on his face, I say 'He is a man ! He is a man 1" But when I see him come to the e,row of the boat, and the sea kneels in his presenoe, and the w;nde fold their wings at his com- mand, I say, "He is God 1 He is God 1" The hand that sets up the starry pillars of the univeree wiping away the tears of an orphan! When I want pity and sympathy, I go into the back part of this boat, and I look at him, and I say, "0 Lord Jesus, thou weary one, thou suffering one have mercy on me." "Erica homo 1" Behold the man! But when I want courage for the conflict of life, when I went some one to beat down my enemies, when I want faith for the great future, then I come to the front of the boat and I see Christ standing there in all his omnipotence, and I say : "0 Christ, thou who couldst hush the storm, ean hush all my sorrows,all my temptations, all my fears. "Ecce Deus Behold the God 1 I learn from this subject Oat Christ can hush the tempest. Some of you,my hearers have a heavy load of troubles. Some of you have wept until you can weep no more. Perhaps God took the sweetest child out of your house'the one that asked ehe most euriousqueetions,the one that hung around you with greateet fondness. The grave- digger's spade out down through your bleeding heart. Or perhaps it was the only one that you had, and your soul had ever since been like & desolated castle, where the birds of the night hoot amid the falling towers, and along the crumbling stairway. Or, perhaps it was an aged mother that was called away, You used to send for her when yoh had any kind of trouble. She was in your home to welcome your children into life, and when they died she was there to pity you. Yon know that the old hand will never do any more kindnesses for you, and ehe lock of white hair that you keep fro well in the casket of the locket does not look well as it did on the day when she moved it back from the wrinkled forehead under the old-fashioned bonnet in the church in the country. Or perhaps your property has gone. You said, "There' I have so much in bank stook, so muchI have in houses, so much I have in lands, so much I have in securities."Suddenly itis all gone. Alas ! for the man who once had plenty of money,but who has hardly enough now for the morning marketing. No storm ever swept over Gennesaret like that which has gone trampling its thunders over your quailing soul. But you awoke Christ in the back part of the ship,crying, "Master, carest thou not that I perish ?" And Christ rose up and quieted you. Jesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we must all run. ,When a man lete go this lite to take hold of the next, I do not care how much grace he has, he will want it all. What is that out yonder? That is a dying Christian rocked on the surges of death. Winds that have wrecked magnificent flotillas of pomp and worldly power come down on that Christian soul. All the spirits of darkness seem to be let loose, for it is their last chance. The wailing of kindred seems to mingle with the swirl of the waters and the scream of the wind,and the thunder of the sky. Deep to deep, billow to billow. Yet no tremor, no gloom, no terror, no sighing for the dying Chris- tian. The fact is that from the back part of the boat a voice sings out, "When thou pastiest through the waters I will be with thee." By the flash of the storm the dying Christian seea that the harbor is only just ahead. From heavenly castles voices of welcome come over the waters. Peaoe drops on the angry waves as the storm sobs itself to res v like a child falling asleep amid tears and trouble. Christ hath hushed the tempest. ABOUT SACK THE RIPPER,I • AFTER FORTY YEARS. A Husband and Wife are Happily Re- united. A despatch from Winimas, Ind., says By the accidental dropping of a diamond ring at the station here, the other day, a husband and wife, who had been separated for forty years, were reunited, and they left together for Boston. Dr. Charles Mott, of Boston, stepped from the train to leave a dispatch. As he walked toward hie oar, a lady leaned from the window of another car, aud asked the doctor to hand her a diamond ring which had juat slipped from her finger, and was lying at his feet. Dr. Mott picked up the ring and the inscription on the inside read, "Charles Mott to Veral Burns." She cried outCharles my husband." Dr. Mott recognized the wife, who had fled from him in anger forty years before. In 1855 Dr. (!varies Mott was a well known young physician ot Boston. He fell in love with Miss Veral Burns, of South Canter- bury, Conn., and they were married. Mrs. Mott was jealous. One stormy night, when her husband had been detained very late by a woman patient, the crazed wife determined to stand it no longer, and packing a few personal effects, she started out into the storm, leaving no trace of her vvhereabouts. For years the doctor soughs for his wife. He gave up hie business, and travelled, seeking Crane of the woman who had fled from him. At Met he gave up the aearch, and Bought fortune and forgetful- ness in Montana. He became very wealthy, and was on his way to New England, to revisit the Scenes of hie childhood, when the happy accident ooeurred, which reunited him to his long- loet wife. Worn Out. Mr, De Rieh—What ? Another new street dress ? Where is the lasb olie you gob? Mrs, De Itioh—I have worn it oat. It isn't a week since you got it„ X Wore it out last Thursday, ter. Forint* eVinelo w First Cave the clue to itis linearity—Ito Was a Weinto.no Man Suleiman: Front neat:Ions Mania —A Remarkable Trileate to the Seim - Ile Stiffly of oho insane. In a long interview with a New York reporter, Dr. Forbes Winslow, the eminent Englishman now visiting that city, tells the story of the identification of the infamous Whiteohapel murderer. The doctor held the theory bleat the easatistn was a well -to do men suffering from religioua mania, Many theories had been etarted, and diet with more or less favor. The general opinion was that the murderer was a cattle butcher visiting the slums of Whitechapel and commitLing a, murder every time hie ship came in. On the body of Mary Ana Kelly, who was murdered on Nov. 9, 1888 a woman's bat was found in addition to her own. Everybody then said that the 'Ripper' yeas a Weinee. Nothing was proved however, and the pollee were still at fault, though working TROBG assiduously. The first definite clue was obtained on Aug. 30, 1889, when a woman with whom Dr.Forbes Winslow was in communication (for he had never stopped working on the murders) came to him and said thee a man had spoken to her•in Worship street, Finsbury, who wanted her to go dowu a court with him. She refused to do so, and together with some of the neighbors,whom she told, followed him, walking at a little distance behind. They sew him go into a house out of which she had seen him coming some days before. On the morning of July 17, she saw him washing his hands at the pump in the yard of the houses referred to. He was in his shirt sleeves. She par- tioularly,rernembered the occurrence 'a- patite of the very peculiar look on his faoe. When the house was searched the man had gone, nothing being known about him except that the description of him given by the other tenants tallied with that given by a lodging house keeper, with whom he lived a year before. This lodging house keeper, whose name was Callahan, called on Dr. Winslow several days afterwards and gave him soine most important infor- mation. A QUEER LODGER. " He said that in April, 1888, a gentleman- ly looking man called in answer to an advertisement. He took a large bed and sitting -room, and said thee he was over there on business, and might stay a few months or perhaps a year. Before he came there he told them that he had occupied rooms in the neighborhood of St. Paul's Cathedral. The proprietor and hie wife noticed that whenever he went out of doors he wore a different suit of clothes to what he did the day before, and, would often change them three or four times a. day. He had eight or nine suits of clothes, and the same number of hats. He kept very lath hours, and whenever he returned home hie entry was quite noiseless. In his room were three pairs of rubbers coming high over the tenklee, one pair of whieh he alweeys used when going out at night. ten Aug. 7,the date of the second murder, the lodging -house keeper was sitting up late with his sister, waiting for his wife to return from the country. She was expected about four a.m., and the two sat up till then. A little before four o'clock the lodger came in, looking as theugh he had been having a rather raugh time. When questioned he said that his watch had been stolen in Bishopsgate, and gave the name of a police station at which he had lodged a complaint. On investigation this proved to be false, as no complaint had been lodged with the police. The next morning when the maid went to fix his room, she called the atten- tion of the proprietress to a large bloodstain on the bed. Flis shirt was found hanging up in his room with the cuffs recently washed, he having washed' them himeelt. A few days later he left, saying that he was going to ainada, but he evidently did not go, because he was seeu getting into a horse car in London in Septemlier, 1888. While he was in the lodging -house he was regarded by all as a person of unsound mind, and he frequently would break out into remarks expressing his disgust at the number of fallen women in the streets. He would sometimes talk for hours to the pro. prietor of the lodging house giving his views upon the subjeoe of immoral women in the streets'. During his leisure time he would sometimes fill up fifty or sixty sheets of foolscap, writing upon religious matters connected with morality. These he would sometimes read to the proprietor, who says that they were violent in tone and express. ed bitter hatred of dissolute women. " THAT'S THE At eight o'clock every morning he at- tended service at St. Pauls Cathedral. All this information Darorbes Winslow gathered privately, and added to the clues he had already obtained. As soon as he heard the description of the habits of the man who. had lived at Callahan's, he said instantly " That'a the man." If he had constructed an imaginary man out of his experience of insane people suf- fering from homicidal religious mania, his habits would have corresponded almost exactlywith those told him by the lodging - house keeper. . The conception that the doctor had formed of the way the entire series of murders had been committed was cor- roborated almost exactlyby the evident propensities of the mysterious lodger. Dr. Winslow had said that thamurderer 15 000 and the risme person; that he has committed the crime suffering from homicidal mania of a religious description, and laboring tinder the morbid belief that the delusion entertaitted by him has direct reference to the part of the bodice removed. That under that delusion and desiring to directly influence the morality of the world, and imagining that he has a certain destiny to fulfil, he has chosen the immoral clue of society to vent his vengeance upon. Just as soon as his clue became dettaill Dr. 17yine1ow told the police all he knew and euggested a plan whereby the lunatic could be captured upon the etepsi of St, Fade Cathedral. tILE POLIO; REVHSE TO60.0PERATE, To his great surprise the police refused to 00 operate The rabbet' shoes, =Which he dried poege() ei ill od.T of, were hadeovered wibh httlttb been behind by the marderer in his rapid de. parture from the lodging house, Ie addition to the rubbers three palm of Mee shoea were left behind and a quantity of bows, feathers and flowers suoh as ere naually worn by women of ehe lower elms. Setae of the latter were stained with blood. Dr. Winslow was severe,ly oriticieeel for informing some of the London newspepers of hie clues. The pnhlication of the doctor's information, showing how closely hemmed in the murderer was end how dangerous if not impossible any merdere ould be, evidently frightened ',Teak the Ripper.' No more murders were eommitted after the news of the doctor's researches. The specialise says that the manioc Driest probably left the country for a time. THE QUEER LODGER INSANE, The murderer was described as tieing or slight build, active, with a rather small head,delicate fetetures ands, wealth of light brown hair. He frequently boasted of his knowledge of anatomy,s.nd said that he had achieved considerable diatinotion at college. Several months after the pablioation of Dr. Winaloev'e discoveries a young man vette arrested for attempted suicide, aud when examined by the polioe surgeon was proved to be hopelessly insane. He was committed to a Government asylum, and the asylum authorities noticed that his desoription tallied with that given as 'Jack the Ripper' in Dr. Winslow'a publiebed statements, His complainatwae a despondent madness breaking out at times into violent homicidal 1114Illnilt.,testigatione were at once set on foot, resultinebin the dieoovery that the mysteri- ems lodger, 'Jack the Ripper' and the unfortunate inmate in the asylum were one and the same man. He was found to come .f& well-to-do and respectable family, and evinced considerable ability in his college career. His specialty was anatomy,and he studied so hard that his mind, never very strong,grive way under the strain. Always of a religious turn of mind, he became afflicted with religious mania. THE LIINATIO IS ,TAOK THE RIPPER. Dr. Winslow says that lunatics often act up to the Scriptural maxim, `If thine eye offend thee pluck ie out.' This was the murderer's idea, and he iu,agined that it was his destiny to wipe a, social blot from the face of the earth. His name or the asylum in which he is confined, the doctor refuses to divulge. The police, however, admit that the lunatic now in the asylum is 'Jack the Ripper.' Now that the facts concerning his me- thods are known, much of the speculation concerning the marvellous way in which he escaped arrest ta set at rest. He was a young man of quiet appearance and not likely to attract any undue attention, while his constant change of clothing would pre- vent the remote contingencies of anyone beoorning familar with his appearance in Whitechapel. He was extremely active, and when shod with the noiseless rubbers, could make his escape where another man less adapted for the work, would have failed. Dr. Winslow says that a sane man, how - THE HOW TifitimED 1 sMALL FARMS GREAT SUCCESS OF TIM 'tqm AUTOMOBILE VEHICL4E. wagons neve With 'noir Own 'flower—h. Trint In New Vern City.-OrirabilitY Iltiteh The utilization of horselese venom! by retail enerchents of New York is pilaf& bility of the ieear future. Reoenb experis ments in this. line by Bilton, Oughes one of the largset retell dry goods bowies in New York, with an automobile vehicle of the type now in general use in Paris and menufactured in thab eity, have demonstrated their practicability. One ot the wagons was purchased by the firm from Emile Roger, the inventor, ad arrived in New York recently. It is about the size of a. small delivery wagon, and a public test was given it August 29. Since then it has been run for many miles on the streets of New York without mishap of any kind. Its move- ments were as noiseless as that of the bicycle and its speed rapid, The active power is obtained from rectified petroleum possessing a density of 700 degrees. From the combination of air and oil a steam is obtained whioh is stored in a oylinder through which A OITRRENT OF ELECTED:1M' is couduated, causing a rapid sucoeseion of explosions and creating a force which makes the work of the motor. The speed of the wagon is regulated from the driver's seat by means ot a wheel placed in frout of the driver. On each side of the underbody runs a steel -linked bicycle chain which connects with a sprooket.wheel on the front axletree. It has an independent four horse power horizontal petroleum engine and the oil is exploded by she eleotricity at each stroke of the piston. The cost of the wagon was $1,500, and is the first of its kind ever brought to America. Two thousand of its kind are seid to be in use now in Paris for pleasure and business, and the demand for them is so great that orders ate not filled under six months. One curious feature of the wagon is the fact that the front axle does not tarn, nor do the front wheels turn like the hub wheels, being joined to the axle. ever active, would have been caught yeen-) ber of the leading retail merchants in the soon. Constant experience has convinced him that the lunatic's cunning andquickness of action cannot be equalled by a man in the full possession of his mental factulties. After the authorities had convinced themselves that the men they had was the actual perpetrator of the terrible deeds of the preceeding year, they decided to make no public statement. The man was violent* ly insane and could not be punished,there- fore it was considered best to quietly con- fine him in the asylum and not resopen the harrowing details of the murders. He is still living in the asylum, and is subject to ocsasional outbreaks of homicidal mania. Neither the police nor Dr. Winslow can be said to have actually rim the mania to earth,but he was undoubtedly frightened away by thepublication of the doctor's clues showing what his habits were, where he had been and where he was likely to be. The identity of the man's disease, for it was really nothing else'with the diagnosis formed after the early murders by Dr. Forbes Winslow, is indeed a remarkable tribute to modern science of criminology and the scieneific Bendy of the insane. THE INVENTOR MAIMS a speed of fifteen to twenty miles an hour can be obtained. The cost of operating is less than one cent per mile, and the reser- voir tank has e. capacity of fifty quarts of oil, which would be sufficient for operating purposes for five days of ten hours each. The machinery in the wagon occupies a small space. The teat was concluded by the inventor and his brother, M. Roger, before a large assemblage, including a num- DIRECTED AGAINST CANADIANS. Ord ors From 5E.aslsliigton Which Will nit Pretty nerd. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y. says :—Some recent orders frotn the Treas- ury Department at Washington hairs% been directed against Canadians, and will hit pretty hard. First came the order thee all baggage of through passengers on Grand Trunk or Michigan Central trains, whether in bond or otherwise, had to be examined. Now comes an order which will be a severe bless, to the Maid of the Mist Steam- boat Company. The new law, which it is said went into effect on July 1 last, re. quires that every foreign boat doing ferrying between international points shall pay a fee of 20 cents every time it touches an American port and file a manifiest with the United States Customs officer. The fee of 20 cents -will have to be paid to the Government whether there is one passenger on the ferry or fifty. This will certainly lessen the receipts of the Maid of the Mist Company if it keeps up its helf.houriy trips, as it would entail a cost to the company of $4 to $5 a day. This order will also practically prohibit the owners of rowboats from teking passengers across the lower river at Queenston and Niagara-on-the•Lake to Lewiston and Youngston, The making out of a manifest also a nusiance, but the Customs officers at all the landinge have been notified to carry out the provisions of the law. "1AM NOT ABLE TO DO MY WORK.' The Reason Given to Illis Son by T. 15. Pratt of Toronto for Taking Ms Own tire. A despatch from Winnipeg, Mao. says :— There is more pathos than reproach attach. ed to thaatory of Thomas H. Pratt of 103 Sussex -avenue, Toronto, at Carberry on Wednesday. Be came to make an inde- pendent living by working in the harvest fields, but finding his strength unequal to the task, took his life rather than be a burden to hie family. The motive for his acit is explained in the following letter to his son, T. G. Pratt, Otterburne, Man,: My Dear Tom,—My strength has failed me and I am not able to do my work, so have to thrive it. I have no intention of being ti burden so either you or the girls. You Musa do your best for your mother and the Childten noW that 1 win taken fro le you, 1 that thee Goa will help and pre., serve yon. I hope that your health may not fail in this eountty as mine has, I remain your loving father. (Sighed) T. Itt PAAVe. —he were much interested in the • experiment. 11.w.were greatly pleased with its success. The ivegrio can be turned around and in and out among t t: on the crowded streets as easily as if &Riven - by horses. Hilton, Hughes & Co. he,ve not determined as yet to do away with horses, because one reason has already' presented itself against the adoption of the vehicle. A representithive of the firm said the durability of tha wagon had not been duly tested, and this was an important matter taken in connection with the cost. DURABILITY IN QUEstioN. "These wagons," he said, "were .built for the streets of Paris, and not for New York. I am afraid that they will not be able to stand the strain of our rough pave- ments. We must make a, thorough test before we decide on their adoption. You can say, however, that the scientific practicability of the vehicle has been duly determined beyond a question, and I firmly believe that within three years you will see the principle generally adopted among certain merchants of this city for the de. livery of goods. It will take the touch of the Yankee mechanic, however, to make the vehicle serviceable for at least New York, where the streets in many sections are in a wretched condition. Constant jolting over some of our pavements would soon shake the machine so that it would be constantly getting out of order. The wagon we are experimenting with stood the teat satisfactorily so far. If these wagons can be made serviceable and operated cheaper than horses we will adopt the system. "There are several American patentees of horseless vehictes whose inventions we will teat before making up our minds. The French, however, were the first to put their product in this line in general use." A Point in Daily Hygiene. It is not fully appreciated by the public ghat the article we carry as an everyday ad necessary pert of our attire may become charged with elements of infection. If it were there would be shown much more care in the use of handkerchiefs and in their cleansing. Especially should this be the case in the families of whom any member is troubled with cold or with an influenza One person with a catarrhal affection may impart the trouble to an entire household. This fact should make it common practice to isolate the handkerchiefs of an individual who is affected by au " influenza." The handkerchiefs used by such & person, too, should be treated in the following manner: They should be placed under water into which a quantity of kerosene oil has been poured and there remain for as.y two or three days ; then the water is to be heated by pouring on boiling watenand when this is cool enotufh they may be washed, soap being used, of course. Another washing in oil and soap makes the disinfection sure, and completely removes all stains and ef. feets of nasal appropriation. Then rinse the handkerchiefe carefully in warm water; and if possible, hang upon a line to dry iu the opeu air. Let them remain out on the line over night. When handkerchiefs ere treated in this manner, disease matter is robbed of its danger, a fabric of delicate charm:ter spared the sacrifice occasioned by hard rubbing and washboard penalty, and the luxury of a soft clean and white appliance may be had for the Buffering nose, which ia liable to be for a time very setisitive from effeet of "blowing and excoriation." If the best quality of kero- seine oil is und,the handkerchiefs are freely rimed after oil and soapy water has oleans. ed and disinfeoted them, and there will be no odor of kerosene diseoverable after in the neatly folded end ironed handkerchief. Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich. -- Tact tus. Inenguei At. the reoeut twit:0 outers' League in Lon imareceive iwatewe CotraUvivuovtgW:u7 N',4041,hocitt,t49 ocgIaraisoztaant:i. mi:broe44: Is* IC the League.. The Ma* a member of the ac o°°t ol lbf nej :rn°:fo:t°i4rfopenrhelbeY:s ieltnnwetrYace e*Gi9k; '41 rthn land, with respect to ran It appears that the total in England and Sootland hol of a quarter of an aefii or 200,000. This means apart tr. ing and its appurtenant 1. t1 opinion in rural distriotuap if a man follows some stea y eve cannot do justice to more than one. of an acre of land in hie spare WHO thee this, if properly utilized results notable addition to the modest ineonte farm laborers, besides keeping them oa possible mischief. There has been a great discussion the sabjeot of email farms, With the r that the leading authorities agree thA,B IN CERTAIN 1.004.LiT1ES*' in some branches of farming, and also market -gardening, it paysj but thwil ot h orcases large frfnst u f eaire: the;bheeb. s01 iau() de. ;;::4:. Councils have the legal power to buy 111: where landlorda are willing to sell, A j, then either to reSoll,ihe same in lesser heit or to let it in small holdings. One gre difficulty in the latter orates e putting up extra ham build • this, the stumbling block with great -. - wue anxious to benefit workingmen, bat going to that cost—if thinge go wron their outlay may be wasted. The Mariana as a member of the Cabinet. Spoke guar edly; but his reference to the Governmen advances to Irish tenants to enable tho to purchase their farme—a scheme bleak ura.ted by the Conservatiges—evidenhey points to the likelihood that some endeev4 our will be made in a similar direction tar the benefit of English tenants And tOtint laborers. The main difficulty so far as Great Britain is concerned is that in Eng- land there is no unavowed organization— ea in Ireland—to practically prevent thnt land -owner from selling at the fall Value. -• Iy In awbeidairnglitrchag324;:ea:butinaWin- fetolh25-a s' owing to insecurity—only 17 yeare,.a , practically teevernrnent is the only buyer, Butt, the first Horne Bute leader, Iseforee' the era of hewleasness, estimated Irisk laud at 22 years' purchase; ea Since his' valuation it has diminished one-fourth '- number of years, •and also about one» fourth in actual rent. If Home Rale had h been granted both would have fallen further. But ib exceptional cases—Witti small holdings in England—the GoVerne meat could safely imitate what has been • DONEDr IRELAND, .T.11; Marquis pointed out at sinoe 18 el6,6100-..tiksr"-tavanar-Vir the Irish farmers to enable them to buy their farme, sand that the total arrears ottly amiehnt to £7,000. The following instance illustrates what can he Sons: In 1888 Sir Robert Edgeumbe bought a farm of 343 acres in Doreetshire for £5,050. He then outlaid an additional sum of -.S1,092 in improvements, making the total outlay £6,142. He out it up into tweng holdings, ranging in size from twot three acres, and offered the purchasers to pay one -tent • and the balance with instalments. To the ge• the lots were immediate of the buyers being agrt and now out of the 136,14 for agriculture in England. 13euri mind that on the average of years,' soil produces about one-third. more per acre, no reason for despairteene. balance of £500 owing. Unr,C: and the letting value has almost double continental Europe, and that the farmers have the best market in the world, there is evidently originally it was m This shows that there are vast, possibilit es than is the case in France or ,the rest of of things there were—inclu —only four families employe age ; now there are twenty. ve Variety in Diet. A number of facts conspire to throw a somewhat new light on questions el diet- etics, or at least to show that these probleme are more complex than they have been by some supposed. It has been usual to speak of a "mixed diet," meaning thereby Otte composed in part of animal and in part of vegetable food, one oneheintageepeeritei fats, and carbohydrates, approximately 10 such proportions as they are required by the organism ; but when we see the effect upon disease produced by 'eery email quantities of certain selected portiene of animals commonly used as food, such as thyroid glemd, suprarenal ghoul, and hone marrow, the suspicion arises that thane are but the more pronounced expreseiono of a wide -spread principle, and that such mark- ed differences in therapeutic efieet between certain organs may be aseoeiated with similar differences in nutritional value between the various portions and kinds of meat which we consume. We may surmise, too, that the modes of preparation may Ineve considerable innuence,and that while good cooking may be) as it should be, a prepara- tion 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 physioal properties, the hardness, toughness, etc., which they produce. The destruction of the anti -scorbutic: propett' of milk by °widen ' sterilization is a ea mend to the Britie question whether a freezing of meat finer nutritional v have a greet rose can derive nutrim but for people of diet must mean Substance exists o se we as yet know man, by taking pie he wants, but tint than we do of the'v end different modes least aflord variety protece them from whieb may perchane from the one thing nee tion.