HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-10-17, Page 7*Hi THE HEART RIGHT?
REV DR. TALIVIAGE lIA.RES A POINT
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Joliette teneatton to Jetionnelan—It Weis Not
et ore lip -preemie -0 Mr What Hour and
Peace When it is for This tio toe and Peace
—entelonetent tetteoerse,
Now Yong, O. EL—In his serreou to
teatey Rev. Dr. Talmege epeals direetly bo
the hearts of ell who hove not yet definitely
accepted the free offer of salvation in Chriab
Jesus. The subjhot Was "A Point Blank
Question," the text being Il Kings x, 15,
s'Is thine boa right?"
With mottled horees at full speed,for he
we,a celebrated for fast driving, Jehu,tho
warrior and kingmeturns from battle. Bub
seeing Johouadab, an acquaintance, by the
wayaide, he shotita "Whoa ! Whoa," to
the lathered epitet, 'Then leaning over to
tt, Johonadab, Jeho salutes hirn in the words
"-of the text—word a not more appropriatefor
that hour and that place than for thie hour
and place, "Is thine heart right ?
I ehould like to hear of your physical
health. Well myself. I like to have
everybody else well, and so might azik ;
le your' eyesight rieht,your hearing right
Are your nerves right,your lunge right ?
Ie your entire body right? But I am busy
to -day taking diagnoshe of the more import-
ant spiritual conditions. I should like to
hear of your financial welfare. I want
everybody to have plenty of illoney, ample
apparel, large storehouse and comfortable
residence, and I might ask is year business
right,your income right? Are your worldly
surroundings right? But what are these
fina n cialquestions oom pared with the inquiry
eze to whether you have.been able to pay your
deities to Ged; as to whether you °reinsured
for eternity; as to whether you are ruining
yourself by the long credit system of the
goal? I have known men to have no more
than one loaf of bread at a time, and yet to
own a government bond of heaven worth
snore than the whole material universe.
The question I ask you to -day is not in
regard to your habite, I make no inquiry
about your integrity or your chastity, or
your sobriety. I do not mean to stand on
the outside of the gate and ring the bell,
but coming up the steps I open the door
and come to the private apartment of the
soul, and with the earnestness of a man
that must give an account of this day's
• work,1 cry out,"0 man,0 woman immortal,
is thine heart right?"
I will not insult you by an argument to
prove that we are by nature all wrong. If
there be a factory explosion, and the
smokestack be upset, and the wheels be
broken in two, and the engine unjointed,
ard the ponderous bars be twisted, and a
• man should look in atid say that nothing
• wits the mattereyou would pronounoehim
fool. Well, it needs no acumen to discover
that our nature is all atwist and askew
and unjointed. The thing doesn'ri work
right. The biggest trouble we have in the
worIdts with our souls. Men sometimes
say that, though their lives may not be
tsaltenst, right, their heat% is all righa Irnpos-
eible. A farmer never puts the poorest
apples on top of his barrel, nor does the
• merchant place tibe meaneet goods in his
show window. The belie part of us is our
outward life. I do not stop to discuss
whether we fell in Adam, for we have been
our own Adam, and hese all eaten of the
forbidden fruit and have been turned out
of the paradise of holinees and peace and
though the flaming sword that etood at the
gate to keep us out has changed
position and comes behind to drive us in,
we will not go. •
The Bible account of us is not exaggerat-
ed when it says that we are poor and
wretched and miserable and blind and
naked. Poor 1 The wretch that stands
shivering on our doorsteps on a oold day is
not so much in need of bread as we are of
spiritual help. Blind ! Why, the man
whose eyes perished in the powder blast,
and who for those ten years has gone feel-
ing his way from street to street is not in
such utter darkness as we. Naked ! Why
there is not one rag of holiness left to hide
theshame of our sin, Siok I Why theaeprosy
has eaten into the head and the heart, and
the hands, and the feet, and the marasmus
of an everlasting wasting away has already
seized on some of as.
But the meanest thing for a man to do
is to discourse about an evil without point-
ing to a way to have it, remedied. I speak
of the thirst of your hot tongue only that I
may show you the living stream that drops
crystallites and sparkling trom the Rock
of Ages and pours a river of gladness to
your feet. 111 show you the rents in your
coat, it is only because the door of God's
wardrobe now swings open, and here is a
robe white with the fleece of the Lamb of
God, and of a cut and make that an aegel
, woeld not be ashamechto wear. If I snatch
from you the bleak, moldy bread that you
are munching, it is only to give you the
bread made out of the finest wheat that
grows on the celestial hills, and baked in
the fires of the cross, and one crumb of
which would be enough to make all heaven
a banquet. Hear it, one and all, and
tell it to your friends when you go home,
that the Lord Jesus Christ oat make the
heart right.
First we need a, repenting heart. If for
the last 10, 20 or 40 years of life we have
been going on in the wrong way, it is
time that we turned around and started in
the opposite direction. If we offend our
friend, we are glad to apologize. God is
one best" friend, and yet Row many of us
have never apologized for the wrongs we
Neve done him
There is nothing that we to miroh need
to get rid of as sin. It is a horrible black
monster. It polluted Eden. It killed
Christ,. le bas bleated the veorld. Men
keep doge in kennels and rabbits in . a
warren, and eattle in a pen. What a man
that would be who would shut them up in I
• hie parlor. But thee foul dog of ain, and
these herd e of transgression wo have p
ehtertained for many a long year in nue h
heart) which should be the cleanest and e
brightest room in our nature, Out with a
the vile hoed 1 Begone, ye bofoulers of an t
Immortal natura •t
Turn out the beasts and let °taut a
come in. A beathen came to an early t
Ohrietian who had the reputation of coring t
diseases. The Chrietian maid, "You must 1
home all your idols destroyed ."
The hoathen gave to the Christian the a
key to hie house, that he might go in and it
destroy the idols, He battered to pieoes r
all he taw, but still the man did not gee b
well. The Christiao said to him, "There h
billet be emote idol id yonr home not yet /11,
destroyed," The heathen confessed that fo
ts rata one idol of beaten gold that be a
could not beer leo give up. After awhile
when that idol was deetroyed, hi Weimer
to the prayer of the Christian the eiok
Man got Well,
Many a. Mem hate awakened in hie dying
hour to find his sins all about hiri6 The
clambered up on the right side of the hed,
and ou the left side, ao d over theheadboord,
and over the footboord, and horribly de'
vourea tete Bole',
Emmet, the voice celestial oriee,
Nor longer dare delay..
The vvretob that scorns the mandate dies,
Ana meets a fiery day, •
Again, we need a believing heart. A good
many years ago a weery one went up one of
the belie of Aaia Minar, end with twe logs
on hie beck ivied out to all the werld, offer.
ing to carry their sins and sorrows. They
pursued him. They Slapped hire in the face
They moeked him. When he groaned they
groaned. They shook their flee at him.
They -spa on him, They hounded hina as
though he were a wild beast, His healing
of the sick, His sight giving to the blind,
His rneroy to the oetcasb once:iced not the
revenge of the world. His prayers and
benedictions were lose in that whirlwind of
exeoration e "Away with hirn 1 Away with
hien I"
Ah, it was not merely the two pieoes of
wood that he carried. It was the trans-
gressions of the race, the anguish of the
ages, the wrath of God, the eorrows of hell,
the stupendous tuberose of an unending
eternity. No wonder his back bent. No
wonder the blood started from every
pore. No wonder that he crouched
under a, torture that made the sun faint,
and the everlasting hills tremble, and
the dead rush up in their winding sheets as
he oried "If itbe posaible, let this cup pass
from me." But the cup did nob pass. None
to oomfort.
There he "hangs ! 'Whet has that hand
done that it should be thus crushed in the
palm? It has been beetling the lame and
wiping away team. What has that foot
been doing thee it should be so lacerated?
It has been going about doing good. 'Of
what has the victim been guilty? Guilty
of saving a world. Tell me, ye heavens
and earth, was there ever such another
criminal? Was there ever such a crime?
On that hill of carnage, that suoless day,
amid those howling rioters, may not your
sins and mine have perished? I believe it.
Oh, the ranaom has been paid I Those
arms of Jame were stretched out so wide
tbat when he brought them together again
they might embrace the world. Oh, that
I might out of the blossoms of the spring or
the flaming foliage of the autumn, make
one wreath for my Lord. 1 Oh, that all the
triumphal arches of the world oould be
awung in one gateway where the King of
Glory might come in 1 Oh, that all the
harps and trumpets and. organs of earthly
music might in one anthem speak his
praise!
But what are earthly flowers to him who
wedketh mad the snow of the white lilies
of heaven? What were arches of earthly
masonry to him who hathabout his throne
a rainbow spun out of everlasting sunshine.
What were all earthly music to him when
the hundred and forty and four thousand
on one sidetend the cherubim and seraphim
and archangels stand on the other side' and
aallthe apace between is filled withthe
doxologies of eternal jubilee—the hosanna
of a redeemed earth, the hallelujah, of
unfellen angels, song after song rising
about the throne of God and of the Lambs.
In that pure, high place let hint hear us ?
Stop, harps of heaven; that our poor cry
may be heard. 0 my Lord Jesus, it will
not hurt thee. for one hour to atep out
from the shining throng. ,They will make
it all up when thon goest back_ again.
Come hither, 0 blessed one that we may
kiss thy feet. Our hearts, too long with-
held, we now surrender into thy keeping
When thou goest back, tell it to all the
immortals that the lost are found and let
the Father's house ring with the music and
the dancing.
They have some old wine in heaven not
used except in rare festivities. In this
world those who are accustomed to use
wine on great occasions bring out the
beverage and say, "This wine is 30 years
old," or "40 years old." But the wine of
heaven is more them 18 centuries old. It
was prepared at the time when Christ trod
the wine press alone. When such grievous
sinners as we come back, methinks the
chamberlain .-01 heaven cries out to the
servants "This iseinusual joy. Bring up
from the vaults of heaven that old wine.
Fill all the tankards. Let all the white I
robed guests drink to the immortal health
of those new born sons and daughters of
the LordAlmigh Lye" "There is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one sinner
thearepentethe'and God grant that the.tone
may be you!
Again to have a right heart it nauat be a
forgiving heart. An old writer says, "To
return good for evil is Godlike. Good for
good manlike. Evil for good devillike."
Which of these natures have we? Cheat
will have nothing to clo with us as long as
we keep any old grudge. We have all been
cheated and lied abone. Thore are people
who dislike as so much that if we should
come down to poverty and disgrace they
would say: "Good for him I Didn't I tell
youso ?" They do not understand -us. Llies
sanctified human nature says: "Wait till
you get a good (track at him, and when at
last you find him in a tight place give it to
him. Flay him alive. No quarter. Leave
not a rag of reputation. Jump on him
with both feet. Payhim in his own coin—
sarcasm for sarcasm, scorn for scorn, abuse
for abuse." But my friends 'Grime isnot the
right kind of heave. No man ever did so
mean a thing toward us as we have done
toward God. And if we moue forgive
others, how can we expect God to forgive
us 9 Thousands of men have been kept out
of heaven by an unforgiving heart.
Here is some one who says : "1 will
forgive that man the wrong he did me
about that house and lot, I will forgive
that man who overreached me in a bar-
gain. I will forgive that man who sold
me a shoddy overcoat. I forgive them—
all but one. That man 1 canna forgive.
The villain—I can haedly keep my hands
off him. If my going to heitvea depend
on my forgiving hito then I will ete.,y out."
Wrong feeling. If a man lie to me once,
am not called to &met hint again. If a
mom betray me once, 1 am not called to
ut confideoce in him again. Bat 1 would
ave no rest if I could no to flee &sincere pray.
r fdr the temporal an d everlasting welfare of
11 men, whatever motameasee mod outrage
hey havetinfliotee upon me. If you wittet
o get your heart, right, strike .a matoh
nd burn up all your old grudgesand blow ,
he ashes away, 'If you forgive tot men
heir trespaeses, neither will your heaven -
y Father forgive you your treepaseee."
An old Chtestiati bleak woman was going
long the streets of New York with a
asket of apples that ehe had for sale. A
ough sailor ran against her aitd upset the
asket and mood back, expecting to hear
er scold frightfully,but she stooped down
rid picked up the applee and mad, "God
rgive you, my eori, as I do." The sailor
aw the inearthess Of what he had done, and
elt in his pocket for his money, and, insisted
that she should toite it all, itough she
woe Idea, be Calle& her mother, and said:
"Forgive me, mother. I will never do
anything SO mean %pin." Aht there it3
power le e forgivneg spirib to overcome
ell hardneee. There is no way of conquer-
ing men like that of beetowing upon them
not.
your pardon Whether they vvill except it or
Again, a right heart is an expectant
boort. It is a poor businees to be building
oastlee in the oir, &joy what you have
now. • Don't spoil your omnfort in the
email house because you expeet a larger
one, Don't fret, about your mom when
it 18 3 or $4 per day, because you expecte
to have after awhile $19 per day, or $10,
000 a year becatuee you expect itt to be $20.
000 a year. But aboeb heavenly things
the more we think the better, Mamie
gaieties are not ha the air, but on the hills,
and we have a deedof theni in our
possession, I like to ime a man all full of
haven, Be talks heaven. He singe
heaven. He prays heaven, He dreams
heaven. Some of as in our sleep have had
the good plitee open to um, We eaw the
pinnacles in the sky. We heard the click
of the hoofs of the white horses on which
•the viotore rode and the (napping of the
(embeds of eternal triumph. And, while
in our sleep we are glad that all our
sorrowe were over and burdens done with;
the throne of God grew whiter and whiter
till we opened our eyes and saw that, it
was only the sm. of earthly morning
shining on our pillow. To have a right
heart you used to be filled with expectancy.
It would make your privations and annoy-
ances more bearable,
• In the midst of the city of Paris stands
a stabue of the good bun broken hearted
Josephine. I never imagined that marble
could be smitten into such tenderrese. If
the spirit of Joeephine be disentobernaoled,
the soul of the emprese has taken prism-
sion of this figure. I am not yet satisfied
that it la stone. The puff of bhe dress on
the arm seems to need but the pressure of
the finger to indent it. The figures at the
bottotn of the robe, the ruffle at the neck,
the furlining on the dress, the embroidery
of the satin, eh° oluster deity and leaf and
rose in her hand, the poise of her body as it
aiming to come sailing out the sky, her hoe
calm, humble,beautiful but yet sad—attest
the gentile Of the sculptor and the beauty
of the heroine he celebrates. Looking up
through the rift of the cornet that encircles
her brow, I could aee the sky beyond, the
great Imams where all woman's wrongs
shall be righted, and the story of endur-
ance and resignation shall be told to all
ages. The rose and the lily in the hand of
Josephine will never drop their petal.
Believe not the recent slanders upon her
memory. The children of God, whether
they suffer on earth in palaces or in hovels,
shall come to that glorious rest. 0 heaven,
sweet heaven, at thy gate we set down all
our burdens and griefs. The places will
be full. Here there are vace.ne ohairs at
the hearth and at the table, but there are
no vacant chain in heaven —the crowns all
worn, the thrones all mounted. Some talk of
heaven as though it were a very handsome
church, where a few favorite spirits would
come in and sit down on fine cushioned
seats all day by themselves and sing ptialms
to all eternity. No no. "1 saw a great
multitude theorize man could number stand-
ing before the throne. He that talked with
me had a golden reed to measure the city,
and it was 12,000 furlongs—that in, 1,500
miles—in circumference. Alt, heaven is not
%little colony at one corner of God's dom-
inion, where a man's entrance depends upon
what kind of clothes he has on his back and
how much money he has ire his purse but a
vast empire. God grant' that the light of
that blessed world may shine upon us in
our last moment.
• The first time I crossed the Atlantic the
roughest time we had was ab the mouth of
Liverpool harbor. We arrived et nightfall
and were obliged to lie there till the morn-
ing waiting tor the rising of the tide before
wacould go up to the oity. How the vessel
pitched and writhed in the water 1 So
sometimes the last illness of the Christian
is a struggle. He is almost through the
voyage. The waves of temptation toss his
soul, but he waits for bite morning. At last
the light dawns, and the tides of joy rise in
his soul, and he sails up and casts anchor
within the vale.
Ie thine heart right ? What question can
compare with this in importance? It is a
business question. Do you not realize that.
you will soon have to go out of that store?
That you will soon have to resign that
partnership; that soon among all the
millions of dollars' worth of goods that are
sold you will not have the .handling of a
yard of cloth or a pound of sugar, or a
pennyworth of anything; that soon, if a
conflagration should start at Central Park
and sweep everything to the Battery, it
would not disturb you ; that soon,if every
cashic;r should absoond and Avery insurance
cornpany should fail, it would not affect
you? What are the questions that stop
this ride to the grave compared with the
questions that reach beyond it? Are you
making losseti that ate to be everlasting 2,
Are you making purobases for eternity?
Are you jobbing for time when yet :night
be wholesaling for eternity? What ques-
tion of the store is so broad at the base,
and so &Weal:mita, and so overwhelming
an the question, "Is thine heart right ?"
Or is it a domestie question? Is it
something about father or mother or
companion or son or daughter that you
think is comparable with this question in
importance? Do you not realize that by
universal and .inexorable law all these
relations will be broken up ? Your father
will be gone, your mother will be gone,
your companion will be gone, and your
child will be gone, you will be gone, and
then this supernal qtestion will begin to
harvest its chief gales or deplore its worst
losaes, roll up into its mightiest magnitade,
or eweep its vast circles. What difference
now does it make to Napoleon III whether
he triumphed or surrendered at Sedan?
Whether he lived at the Tuileries or at
Ohiselherab? NI/bother . he WAS Emperor
or exile ? They laid hint out in his ooffin
in the dress of a field marshal. Did that
give hint any better chance for the next
world than if he had been laid out in a
plozn shrewd? And soon to us what
will be the difference whether in this
world we rode or walked, were bowed
to or maltreated, were applauded or
tined at, were welcomed in or,
kicked out, while laying hold of every
mornenb of the great future and 'horning in
all the splendor of grief and overarohing
and. undergoing all time and all eternity is
the plain, simple,practical, thrilling,agoni.
zing, overwhohniug question, "s thine
heart right ?" Have you within yeti a re.
pen ting heart, an expectant heart? Una,
I meet write upon your moul what George
Whitefield wrote upon the window pane
with his diamond ring. He torried iu aii
elegant house over night, but found that
there was no God reeognized in that house.
Before he loft hie room in the meening,vvith
his ring he wrote upon the vviudow pane
"Otto Wittig thou lackeat." After the geese
Was gone the houeewife owe and leoked at
the wiridew, and gem the baseription, stud
;lolled her huabond and her ehildren, and
Gad, through that ministry of the window
glees, brought them all toIfeetis 'a Though
you tney togday he surrounded by oomforto
and luxuriee and feel that you have need
of oothing, if you are not children of God,
with the signet ring of Christ's love, let me
inscribe opon year eoule, "One thing thou
hottest."
A WAR ON THE WEEVIL
HOW TO STAMP OUT THE UNSECT
GRAILDESTROYER.
CrOOS Worth MAIlicons of Doltsers leteetroyen
Every we:tit-The Tittle Pests Uv tn.
emcee int the Crain, and Nibble Away the
.1"ruels—New Itemeettee.
• The pernicious weevils are making
themselves so ohnoxioue that expertitere
now engaged in Mal,,,ing a special study
of them. Every year thee; destroy many
millicois of dellare worth of atored cereals
in granaries and elevators. In feat, the
qoestion how to fight them la one of serious
and growing economic Importance. Strange
to say, very little solentifio attention has
been directed to these insects up to date,
and not much is known about them.
There are about forty species of these
insects, some of whioh • are beetlea and
others moths. Nearly all ,of them are
assisted immigrants, having been imported
from abroad in cergoes of grebe In this
manner they have been distributed by
'Commerce to all parts of the world.
Three of the species actually live in the
kernels, while the others feed on the
starchy contents. Grain infested by them
is unfit for human consumption, and has
been known to cause serious illneas. It is
poisonous to horses, and is not wholesome
even for swine, Poultry, however, find it
palatable and nutritiota. The moths
especially are so prolific that the progeny
of a stogie pair in it twelve month will
aumber many thousands, oapable of
destroying
sovower, ,VONS GRA.T.R.
Fortunately, the increase of these pests is
checked to Seine extent bynatural enemies
among Which are spiders that inhabit mill,
and granaries. In the fields they areprey-
ed upon by birds and bars.
One uf the worst of theee insects is the
familiar "granary weevil," which is m50 -
biomed in the Georgics of Virgil. Its
ravages made it known long before the
Christian era. It is native to the region
of the Mediterranean. Having been
domesticated for so long a time it has lost
the use of its wings. The female punctures
the kernel with her snout and inserts an
egg from which is hatched a little worm
that lives in the hull and feeds on the
starchy interior.
Quite as bad as this beetle is a moth
that cornea from the Mediterranean region
a.lao. The larva, which is known as the
"fly weevil," does most injury to corn and
wheat. In six months grain infested by it
loses 40 per cent. in weight:and 75 per cent.
of its starchy matter. Inetaentally, it is
rendered totally unfit for food, and bread
made from wheat infested. by the insect is
said to have caused an epidemic: recently
in France.
Another wicked imported bug is the
"rice weevil." • It originated in India,
whence ithas been distributed by commerce
all over the world. At present it does aa
much harm as any other known insect. In
the tropics generally it does enormons
damage. Formerly, when long voyages
were necessary in importing grain from the
Easkitfrequently destroyed whole cargoes,
having plenty of time to multiply. The
adult beetles of this species cause much
trouble in' storehouses and groceries by
invading boxes of crackers, cakes'yeast
cakes.and macaroni and barrels andbins of
flour and meal. They can subsist for
months' on sugar, and sometimes they
burrow into ripening peaches and grapes.
A new grain -destroyer has recently
attracted attention, and has earned for
itself the title of "seourge of the flour
mill." It is the 4'Mediterranean flour
moth," The caterpillars, spin webs which
make the flour
CLOTTED AND LUMPY',
ao that the machinery in the millbecomee
clogged and has to be stopped fora consid-
erable time. The larvae prefer flour or
meal, but they flourish also on bran,
prepared cereal foods and crackers.
Farmers are informed that the best
remedy for such mischief is bisulphide of
carbon, which may be applied ha moderate-
ly tight bins by simply pouring the liquid
into shallow pans or on bits of cotton waste
and distributing them about on the surface
of the grain. The stuffrapidly evaporates,
and the vapor, being hea,vier than air,
descends and permeates the mass of grain,
killing all insects as well as rats and mice
which it may contain.
In France a number of machiees have
beea devised for theatreatment of infested
grain. Into these the grain is poured and
either revolved while exposed te heat or
subjected to a violent agitation, which hills
the insects. Frequent handling of grain
by shovelling, etirring or transferring from
one receptacle to another is destructive to
the moths, as they are unable to extricate
themselves from the mass and perish in the
attempt. The practice of storing grain in
large bulk is also recommended, as the
surface layers only become infested. Na-
tives in Indinstore their wheat in air -tight
pits to preserve it from the rice weevilmnd
condemn ventilation. • In Europe and
America, on the other hand, ventilation is
practised with decided benefit.
A Geological Find.
First Soientist—Eureka 1 What a find 1
Here is conclusive proof of all oer theories.
See this rook? It is as round as a bartel,
and just about the same shape and size. It
must have rolled for ages at tee bed of
some swift stream. Note how smooth it
18.
Seoond Scientist—It it unlike any rocek
in this vioinity. lb must have been brought
from a great distance, probably by some
mighty iceberg in the ages that are gone.
Third Soientist—There are mouritains
near heem It may have come down in a
glacier.
Fourth Scientizet—It is unlike any of the
rook on those mountaine, In fact, it is un-
like any rook to be fouted on earth. /t meet
have dropped front the moon, Here °mites
a farm hand, I Will ask him if there are
any traditions concerning it. See hore,my
good man, do you know anything about
tine strange rock. ?
Farm Hand—Tliat %teeter be a baerel of
cement,
1171ELY AUBIAi IEVf8
INTERESTING ITENS ABOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY.
Ceehered reels ',Mellow !Points from the
Allinatte to tbe entwine,
Typhoid fever le epidcorde at Renfrew.
Women at Bismarck aeeiet in eeeding.
Bunk's Falls haa not an eutpty house,
St, Jacobs is to be lighted by elootrioity.
Cedar Springs has the whooping cough.
St, Catharines has a typhoid fever scare,
• Tent oaterpillars are epidemic this sett.
eon.
• A Heaford man sells bicyclea at $40
etteh.
Canboro's new Baptist church ist coma
pieta&
Potato rot has appeared in North Mide
dlesex.
Partridges are said to be plentiful this
season,
Owen Sound is to have a beet sugar foe -
tory.
Novar is annoyed by horse and cart
thieves,
A new 3/lasonie lodge is being organized
in Sarnia.
All unmuzzled dogs in Tilbury township
are killed.
The opera house at St. Thomas le to be
enlarged.
One fifth of Kingston's taxes goes for
debt interest,.
A fine oil well has been found in Mersea,
Oxford county.
•A beer at Rosseau killed a fine cow the
bther day.
Bay fever is prevalent in some parts of
the country.
The Bolingbroke Presbyterians will
build a church.
Many burglaries are reported from the
country sections.
Bradford' e old drill shed and grounds
have been sold.
• An Ennismore farmer has a coin made in
the year 141.
Hamilton boys steal lead pipe and melt
it down for sale.
Woodstc.ok, N. B., has decided to abol-
ish the ward system.
Cows and horses pasture on tbe main
street in Weston.
Recently a Montreal Board. of Trade was
sold for $3,300.
Seventy St. Catharines citizens were ont
hunting last Sunday.
, The C. P. R. is building a bridge 2,200
feet long at Mattawa.
The Fenwick Fair ground is to be en-
large& and improved.
A large curling and skating rink is being
built at Goderich.
The G. T. R. will build a new bridge at
the Narrows, °rill's.
An attempt was recently made to rob
the Courtright post office.
A Muskolea farmer has a pea with four
vines instead of one.
A Wallace farmer has a stalk of corn
measuring 12 feet !I inelles.
A Mornington cow 12 years old has given
birth to 14 calves.
The water at Elora is so low that it no
longer furnishes power.
A green snake 3 feet long was recently
killed at Washago.
A Leamington man refused $5,000 cash
for 25 acres of peach land.
Last year Chatham spent $133,899 on
buildings and public works.
Norway Islend, Muskoka, has been
bought by a Chicago citizen.
The London and Port Stanley will build
a steel bridge at St. Thomas.
Victoria, B. C., has all milk inspected
that is supplied to consurnera.
The old American Hotel, Guelph, has
been improved and renovated.
The Centre Methodist ohurch,of London:
will have a $5,000 organ.
Dolmage's barn s,n ear G riinsby, have been
burned, at a loss of $2,000,
The Patrons of Industry will soon issue a
new paper, to be called the Era.
The corner atone of the Blenheim Pres-
byterian church has just been laid.
The level of Lake Huron is two inches
lower than it was two years ago.
Great quantities of stone are being taken
from the Longford quarries.
A London cider maker is charged with
having too much alcohol in his cider.
A Stratford man will spend 23 months
in the Central for stealing a bicycle.
Windle Wigle, Kingsville, bas just cele•
brated his 90th birthday anniversary.
Non-resident pupils are admitted to the
Sarnia Collegiate Institute without fees.
The Nanairno Y.M.C.A. ended lest year
with a balance of 12 cents in the treasury.
The barns on the Orr farm, near Lady,
have been burned, at a loss of $3,000.
The combined ages of six old men at a
St. Thomas birthday party was 490 years.
Tim provincial ploughing match will take
place at Owen Sound October 23.
Re -v. W. C. Beer and wife, of Ashburn -
ham, recently celebrated their silver wed-
ding.
A pear tree on o North Pelham farm is
60 years old, and has borne fruit 50 years.
Renfrew's rate for Protestants thia year
is 22 1-2 mills, and for Catholics 2R 1 e
mills.
A woman and a dog were seen -the other
day driving a herd of <tattle through Lis.
towel.
forward briskly ha northern
Preparations for the winter's lumbering
Ontario.
LttArthur McKilligan, Galt, was
scalded to death by felling into a pail of
boTileizner
i
gpw'astoenrs' it Stratford the oeher day
ate toadstools for mushrooms, and Suffered
acoordingly.
Twenty-five citizens of Sandwich recent-
ly stepped up and paid fioes for not having
their doge licensed.
It cost a Dundee hotelkeeper nearly $30
to sell liquor to a man who° wife had
notified him not to do eo
Oliver Oromvvell is responsible for a
number of dencendants among the arietom
racy of England of to.clay, as Lorda Ripon,.
Chichester, Clarendon, Cowper) Morley,
Lytton, Wolaingharn, and Ainpthill the
heir to the earldom of Darby, Lord
Stanley; the heir to that of Devon, Lord
Courtenay; and Lord Clifton (Darnley)
are deecended from him. &large nomber
of well-known women belong to the Noma
line of the commoner, and more than 1,000
altogether olairo the honour,
SOMEWHAT Curoovs„
Tahiti,in tbe South imets, is now lighted
by eleotric
Fully 1,000,000 people and over 70,000
veloolea enter and leave London each day.
In the famous Garden of Olives at ;rem'
Salem there are eight fiourieltiog olive trees
that are known to bo over 1,001) yettre old.
The largeat eheep melt on the North
Americo, continent is QUO of 400,000 mores
lying in the :mantles of Diromit and Webb,
TeXatt.
The largest aeon) shoveler in the world
le at work io the phosphate bede of St.
John Islend, near Oharleeton, S. 0. It
weighs 56 tons,
An Faiglish firm has built itt torpedo eatch-
er wlaich entailers throloth the water at the
rate ofh,e knots an bioShe is for the
Russian goverunoeiw ,
• The "Pilgrim's Prete was first pub-
liehed an the alst of Auguelt, 1678, and ou
the same date ten years later ite greet
author palmed to his roe
Prof. F. G. Plummer, of Tacoma, Wash.,
is authority for the statement that there
are hundreds of trees itt that victuity
upwarde of 700 $eet in height.
In Norway and Swedeo before any couple
can be legally married, certificates MUst be
produced showing teat both bride and
bridegroom have been duly vaccinated'.
Lilies of the valley in France are called
"virgin's tears," and are said to have
eprmag up on the road betvveen Calvary and
Jerusalem during the night following the
cruciexion.
A. Chicago man has invented a steel
spring tire, wheeh he believes will succeed
the pneumatic tire. Teel great Achievement
was ire respoose to a demand for a contrive
twee which cannot be punctured.
Only once in the last fifteen years has
the official income of the British attorney
general been lesa than mu® ;itt 1893.94
it, was over $100,000, though the salary is
$35,000 a year, The solicitor -general's sal-
ary is $30,000.
It is estimated that it man weighing 150
pounds, riding it. bicycle at the rate of Bev -
en miles an hour, has a momentum of 1,500
pounds, leaving out of the account the
weight of the wheel. This is euflicient to
upset a pedestrian with terrible force.
The alphabets of the different nations
contain the following number of letters:
Enelish 26, French 23, Italian 20, Spanish
27, German 26, Schtvoniam 27, Russian 41,
Latin 22, Greek 24, Hebrew 22, Arabic 28,
Persian 32, Turkish 33,Sansorit 50, Chinese
214.
One of the most singular peculiarities of
the floral world is the evening primrose,
which opens about 6 o'clock p.m. with an
explosion, not very loud nor formidable,
but still quite perceptible to any one who
niewhat.tll
ching the bud. It remains open a
ig
The families of Japaneee who fell in the
late campaign against China are most
anxious to possess some remains of their
dead relativez, however mutilated. In one
village „the friends of a deoeased soldier
solemnly brought back is paper man
fastened to a real leg—the only portion
which could, be found after the owner was
killed by a shell.
About a. million complete Bibles, and an
equal number of prayer beoks, are issued
by the Clarendon Press every year. There
are 76 different editions of the Bible and
90 editions of the prayer book printed..
The revised version does not sell one-tenth
as well as the older version of 1611, while
the revised New Testament, though it sold
rapidly when first published, scarcely sells
at all now.
WELL GUARDED.
The Money Iv. the Rank of England Am-
ply Protected.
Of the millions of pounds of treasure
stored during the year in the banks of Lon-
don, it is interesting to learn that, so care.
ful and thorough is the apse em of surveillance
that rarely more the._ a few thousands get
into the hands of thieves and burglars.
Modern locks, bolts and bars, aided by
electricity and other scientifie means, have
caused hundreds of would-be bank burglars
to retire or to spend many weary years
under a sentence of penal servitude.
Few great banks en the world are so
carefully guarded as the Bank of Borland.
The "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street"
keeps a good watch upon her treasures.
One room alone—the specie room—is
estimated to contain gold coins of the total
value of £5,000,000. lb is a large vault,
around whose walls are numerous iron
safes, containing bites of gold, each repree
Beating the value of -42,000. What the total
of the Bank of England's contents may be
it is difficult to say,but doubtless Z20,000,-
000 would be a fair estimate. Day and
night is this wealth rigorously guarded.
Even if a burglar were able to pass the
bank }guar& on duty during the night, he
would find himself face to face with un-
expected and insarmountable obstacles,
The safety of the Bank of England is
further insured by a magnificent system of
eleotrio wires. all which communicate witla
the quarters of the bank guard and else-
where, Ones a burglar touched these
wires he would set into motion hells whose
sound would alarm every one within hearing
distance, and the thief would fall an easy
prey. The difficulties in the way of opening
safes are also Homeric. hazy of them
made by Chubb, they will stand anything
e x cept dynamite.
Every bank and insuranoe company's
office in London has its own strong room
and safesan which may be stored valuables,
etc. The strong rooms of Coutts' batik are
a sight to see, and if their contents could
be revealed it would be found that more
crowned heads than the come deposit
their moneys and valuables in that old
establishment in the Strand. The newer
banks probably possess even safer strong
rooms, .f or in their instruction the latest
improvements are incorporated.
The safes and deed boxes used by the
safe deposit oompaoy feet, remarkable for
their seourley. Deeds and share eertificatee
representing a velem of hundreds of thous.
ands of pounds are stored in them, and
most of the boxes are fitted with oombina-
time keye so oonstructed as to prevent
anyone picking them or solving the corn-
binittionpuzzle,which is of a most intrecate
description,
In nearly every case the big batiks are
chary of speaking of the manlier in which
they leeep their treasures, One bank
permits only ite monagers and an assistant
to v kilt certain strong retnne,while another,
to guard against any tendency shown by
the watohmen to fall asleep, presents its
seevants with chairs on which they can sit
in a certain position. 11 otte falls asleep
and moves in the ohair, the piece of htt'tti.
taro closet; up and throws hitt upon the
door. The result is thet, unless the wateli-
noon can sleep standing or walking, the
employers of the bank are bouod to keen
their eyes opon.
4 Bird. reetlereel.
A Writer in Our ii.otineti Fzioado door
a festival that elle wibnesstd itt ChM%
She eene
Pewit -tool is, 1 utusb uzplaip, ono of the
moot lopular Ohineee gods, He IS FinppOtted
opo o to have livad on earth, to have been
land of bittis ond vary kind to thom. Every
year, in the month of Aprilt a celebration
ia held in his houor.
Thia festival, whiolt 1 saw
southern City of Canton, 'tote for 'est
doys. Shope are oiosed ond eervieste hold
every morning and afternoon in the god's
fins temple, On the second eveuieg
curious and brilliant procession passed
through the prinoipal streets.
Fiat manned the 1jaorers of hoge,whito
lanterns emblazoned with Peek barti'm name
mid titles, They wore followed by &boot
huadred boys carrying richly embroidered
banners. Thezv curie the history trays*
These were wooden platform (levered with
clay leguree erraegee to represent different
scenee 1tt Book- tani's life Ho was shown
feeding birdie, setting tiled; broken lege end
teaching them trielts.
The figures were alefilfully modeled and
beautttully dreesed and peintedtbut the 'his.
tory tritya were eollpeee by the Lima division
of teeproceesion. Thowiendsoflantertei were
borne aloft on poles. each being the life-sizo
imitation of soreebird. There were long-
legged storks, stately peacoats, gorgeous
golden pheaaants, "snow" pheasante, with
long jet black tells, great vultures and
eagles, then ae last glittering kingfiehers.
tiny tits and reedlings. All the lanterns
were lit,many covered with the real feathers
of the birds they imitated, and they suede
e very novel sod very pretty show.
After the birds rode boys of all ages,
mounted on queer little Ohinese ponies.
They wore fantastic dressee and load their
faces painted black, white and red, with
here and there a dash of gold. Some had
gilded <shine and eyebrows, others gold
noses and ears. Tbe older boys were en-
joying the fun immensely, vying with each
other in puffing out their oheeks and mak
-
tag all sorts of queer faces; hut many of
the little fellows were more than half
asleep and in danger of rolling off the back
of their steeds, lehen more lanterns, more
banners and a dreadful band of (so-called)
music ended this anuming pageant.
A Freneb Board and. Its Lesson.
Itt the country dietriete in France bowie
are put up telling people what animals and
insects whould not be killed and the reason,
and also which ones should be exterminated
in order to afford protection to the farmer
First on the board is this :
"This board is placed under the protec.
tion of the common sense and honesty of
the public."
And, of course, after that, no boy or man
would mar or remove the board. Then
follows these instructions :
"Hedgehog lives upon mice, snails and
wire worma—anirnals injurious to agricul-
ture. Don't kill a hedgehog.
"Toad helps agriculture, destroys
twenty to thirty insects hourly. Don't kill
toad.
ole destroys wire worms, larvae and
insects injurious to the farmer. Igo trace
of vegetablea is ever found La his stomach;
dees more good than harm. Delft kill
eggs. Ies. Kill tile cock chafer.
"Cock chafer and its larvae --deadly
enemy to farmers ; lays seventy to 100
"Birds—Each depart uent of France
loses yearly many millions of francs by the
injury done by insects. Birds are the only
enemy capable of battling veith themvigor-
ously ; they are great helps to farmers.
Children, don't take bird' a nests."
And ao on the instructions read. Among
the animals i hich need killieg on e. ,farm
are mice and rats, and the reason they in-
crease in spite of the constant warfare of
cats and dogs is because the 'boys on the
farm kill the animas that would deetroy
the pests if they li_ad_a chance.
A Monkey Fireman.
jocko and the children of the house where
jock° lives are boon companions, and of a
summer afternoon enjoy a frolic together
upon the lawn.
One day some one carelessly threw a
match down a,nd the grass ignited, making
a little blaze. ei
Jocko saw it and stopped and looked, then
glanced. all around, arid, seeing a piecee of
plank not far Oman for it,orept cautiously
to the fire,all the time holdiug the plank as
shield between himself and the fire'then
threw the plank on it and pressed it clown
and extinguished it. What child could he.ve
reasoned better and done more?
Although, perinea:am° danger could have
come from the fire,still no one knows what
the result might bays leeemand the monkey
evidently believed that prudence is • the
better part of valor.
Solid Shot Abandoned.
The use of solid shot in warfare has been
practically given up. The projectile of to
day is a conical shell of steel, hollow, and
sometimes loaded with powder so as to
explode, or by a time fuse. It is wonder-
fully different from the shell of twenty-five
years ago. In thoee days one could wen)))
vheerojectile as it sailed through the air
in a graceiul curve, at length bunting.
There wes even time to get out of the way,
under favorable circumstances. But the
new style of shell moves at the rate of a
little over half a mile a hewn& On striking
a ff.etal target its energy being trensformed
instantaneously into heat, it becomes red.
hot, and it flame is actualiy seen to burst
from the point struck. Snob aprojectilo.
Moves, one might say, in a straight lino,
and its impact at a distance of a mile
seems almost simultaneous with the dig.
charge of the gun. Sueli a shell, peeesing
Pear a man, would tear his clothes off,
merely from the windage. If it conies very
near. though NO th011t hitting him, it woulcl
kill hm. He drops deod without A sign of
a wound. ele heroes, an oldestyle ithell
would buret into a fow pieeeri, the modern
projeotile files into a myriad oit, small frog-
ments, each of them moving with troxneiid.
Sus velocity. It, may easily be intogioed
that half a, dozen £ Hotolikise shale
finding their way into o, vessel would
scatter death and destruction i11 ovary
direction. Protective armour, owing to i
great weight, ceo be placed only over the
abip's vitals—that is to say, along the mid.
ale part of the hull neat the water linei SO
as to cover the mitohiliery. In future
bottles gunters will direct their fireagainst
the unarrnorod ends of k opoming vessel.