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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-10-22, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES CURRENT NOTES, DIVINE •PENMANSHIP. A steamer will leave England next --- summer to bring home the jack,son Hermsworth Arctic expedition, which is now spending its third winter in Franz Joeef Land. All who are interested in • Arctic endeavour will await with, much • interest tb.e result of Jackson's efforts next spring and summer; for he intends, if fortune favors him, to surpass Nan- sen's furthest north, and. to recover for England the record she lost when Gres- ly's party, in 18,32, wrested from. Mark- ham the laurels a the neaxest ap- proach to the North Pole. Jackson has done notable tinge in Franz Josef Land He has proved that the hurried. explorations. of Weyprecht and Payer in 1873-74 gave us erroneous notions of that. region. His journeys have swept away the great bodies of terra firma which figure on Payer'a map as Zichy Land and Wilczek Land. neyer gave us the idea that Franz josef Land was at least as large as Spitzbergen. But Jackson has found his Queen Victoria Sea where Payer placed land. He has substituted for Payer's largEi land masses a consider- able number of small islands and a large sea. He believes he has traced the archipelago to its most north-west- ern point ana that his work, with that of Nansen, has fixed its northern and north-eastern limits. The climate and ice movements ale° seem to prove that there is no ktrge northern extension of kind, and the drift of the Pram cen- time this belief. Franz Josef Land, after all, ia nothing but a compara- tively small arehipelago. Jackson expeeta, this tall, to complete his mapping of these islands, and next spring he will set out an the iceor the waters of Victoria Sea, where Payer placed Ziche Land, and tempt any fate that fortune May have for Min in the fax north. "I look upon Queen Vic- toria Sea," he wrote, "as my most favor- able route northward next year. When the sun returns next spring the mapping of Franz Josef Land will be practically complete and nothing should prevent my attempting the open water or the orust of ice of this sea." Mx. Harms- worth, who is footing the entire bill for the costly enterprise, says that this opportunity of reaching the highest lat- itude ever attained will not be allowed to pass, and. that Jackson will strain every nerve to beat Naneeaa's record. There are some things in Jackson's favor. There is no doubt of his fitness for Antic leadership, or of the excel - kat iteality of his men. e also receiv- ed, last summer, an entirely fresh aqua:extent of sledges, reindeer, port- able boats, tents, and food of all kinds sufficient for several years. His right - band man, Lieut. Armitage, his phy- 1 nn, Dr. Kettlite, and Mr, Hayward ein with, him, though their agree - t was that they should return home at the end of the second year. It is an advantage, too, that he knows just what Nansen has done and what he must do to surpass the record; and. dee will do some big things if his hopes are fulfilled, While his equipment for EL boat and sledge journey is probably better than that of iNansen, it must be borne in mind. that he will bave to travel from his camp, due north, about 240 geo- graphical miles before he attains the latitude at which Nansen left tbe Fram and started north on his sledge jour- ney; a.nd he must advance about 375 geographical miles due north before he c.an get nearer the North Pole than Nan - sen has attained. Whether Jackson can acconaplish tbis great feat in small boats on an Arctic sea. or by sledging over the roughest of ice that may be drift- ing south, remains to be seen. eit any rate, he will deserve success. He has the acid to himself, and if he has good luck he may make an unequaled record. INFECTED CLOTHING AND BEDDING. Mose or Destruction in modern unspitais. However opinions znay be divided as to the utility of refuse destructors as an auxiliary source of power, there can be no question at all as to their absolute necessity, from a sanitary point of view. There is one class of refuse so danger- ous that it cannot be carted even to the municipal destructor without risk to the public, and especially to the em- epleyes. This class includes infected teething, bedding and other dangerous Materials that give rise to a constant risk of a complication, of infectious dis- eases. These things can only be render- ed harmless by fire, and should on no account be taken away from the hos- pitals, To meet this necessity a, de- structor for hospital; use has been de- signed on a somewhat smaller scale than the ordinary destructor. • A forced draught secures the rapid. destruction at a high temperature of whatever is put into the furnace, and as the gases pass away tlaroagh a num- ber of small holes just over the hottest part of the fire, they are necessarily completely consumed in passing the red hot briekwork. The open door of the furnace is sufficiently large to admit of mentress--probably the largest article that will eves need to be put into it— without cutting or unnecessary hand- ling of it. The heat thus generated pro- vides a constant supple of ha water, or maintains the flues heating the wards et a proper temperature during any particular part of the day when other means of beating can be dispens- ed with, and an economy of fuel is time effected. •TEMPER1ANCE IN POVERTY, Clerk • (in ten -cent lodging house) -- That feller in bnnk 40 naus' be a reg- ular prohibitSonist., Proprietor (amazed)—Ye don't say so? Clerk!—No doubt of at. He says there's bugs in the ae&h.rcane pf our other genets ever sew. -anything but snakes. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON CELESTIAL CHIROGRAPHY. ite First litscusses litumnu liandwriting and men lie, Proceeds to the itinpet•- riirteC.0 or the Writing in the nosh of Washington, Oot. 11.—We send. out this week one of the most unique ser- ' mons Mr. Talmage ever preached. It • is as novel as wide, sweeping and prac- tical. His subject is "Divine Chiro- graphy," the text being Luke x, 20, "Rejoice because your names are writ- ten in heaven." Chirography* or the art of handwrit- ing, like the science of accoustics, in a very unsatisfactory state. Willie constructing a church and. told by some arceitects that the voice would not be heard in a building shaped like that proposed, I came in much anxiety to this city and consulted with Pro- fessor Joseph Henry of the Smithson- ian Institution about the law of ac- coustics. He said.: "Go ahead and build your church in the shape pro- posed, and I think it will be all right. I have studied the law a of sound per- haps more than any man of mY time, and I have come tio far as this: Two auditoriums may seem to be exactly alike, and in one tlae acoccustics raay be good and in the other bad." In the same unsatisfactory stage is chirography, although many declare they have reduced it to a science. There are those who say they can read character by handwriting. It is said. that the way one writes the letter "I" declares his egotism or modesty* and the way ane writes the letter "0" de - sides the beight and depth of his emo- tions. It is declared a cramped hand means a. cramped nature, and an easy, flowing hand a facile and liberal spirit, but if there be anything in this science there must be some rules not yet an- nounced for some of the boldest and most aggressive men have a delicate and. small penmanship, while sorae of • the most timid sign their names with the height and width and, scope of the tame of John Hancock on the immor- tal document. Some of the cleanest an person and thought present their blotted and spattered page, and some of the roughest put before us an im- maculate chirography. Not our char- acter, but the copy plate set before us in our eohoolboy day, decides the gen- eral style of our handwriting. So also there is a fashion in penmanship, and for one decade the letters are exag- gerated, and in the next minified, now erect and now aslant, now heavy and now fizie. An autograph album is al- ways a surprise, and you find the pen- manship contradicts the character of the writers. But, while the chirogra- phy of the earth is uncertain, our blessed Lord in our text presents the chirography celestial. When address- ing the 70 disciples standing before Him, He said, "Rejoice because your names are written in heaven," Of course, the Bible for the most part, when speaking of the heavenly world, speaks figuratively while talk- ing about the nok and about trum- pets and. about wings and about gates and about golden pavements and about orchards with twelve crops of fruit— one orop each month—and. about the white horses of heaven's cavalry, but we do well to follow out these inspired metaphors and reap from them cour- age and sublime expectation and con- solation and. victory. We. are told that in the heavenly library there is a book of life. Perham there are many vol- umes in it. When we say a book, we mean all written by the author on that subject. I cannot tell how large those heavenly volumes are, nor the splendor of their binding, nor the number of their pages, nor whether they are pictorialized with some excit- ing scenes of this world. I *arab, know that the words have not been impress- ed by type, but written out by some hand, and that all those who, like the 70 disciples to whom the text was spoken, repent and trust the Lord for their eternal salvation, surely have their names written in heaven. It may not be the same name that we carried on earth. We may, through the incon- siderateness of parents, have a name that is uncouth, or that was afterward dishonored by one after whom we are called. I do not know thet the 70 en- trances of the names of the 70 disci- ples correspond with the record in the genealogical table. It may not be the name by which we were called on earth, but it will be the name by which heaven will know us, and we will have it announced to us as we peas in, and we will know it so certainly. that we will not have to be called twice by it, as 'in the Bible times the Lord called some people twice by name: "Saul, Saul I',"Samuel, Samuel I" "Martha, Martha!" When you some up and look for your name in the mighty tomes of eternity and you are so happy as to find it these, you will notice that the penman- ship is Christ's and that tbe letters were written with a trembling hand— not trembling with old age, for He had only passed three decades when he ex- pired. It was soon after the thirtieth anniversary of His birthday. Look over all the busirusss accounts you kept or the letters you wrote at 30 years of age, and if you were ordinar- ily strong and well then there was no tremor in the ohirography. Why the tremor in the hand that wrote your Inane in heaven 4 Oh, it was a com- pression of more troubles than ever smote anyone else, and ail of them troubles assumed for others. Christ was prematurely old. He had been exposed to all the weathers of Pales - time. Ile had slept out of doors—now in the night dew and now in the tem- pest -hale had been soaked in the suxf of Lake Galilee. Pillows for others, but He had not where to lay His head. Hungry, He could. not even get a fig on which to breakfast—or have you missed the pathos of that verse, "In the nam•reing as He returned unto the city, He hungered, and when He saw a fig tree in the way. He came to it and found nothing thereon ?" Ob, Ile was a hungry Christ, and nothing makes the hazel tremble worse than hunger, for it pulls upon the stomach, and the storatieh pulls upon the brain. and the brain pulls Upon the nerve% and the agitated nerves make th.e hand. quake, On the top of ell this exaspera- tion came abuse. What sober man ever wanted to be called a drunkard! But Christ was called. one. What re- specter of the Lord's day wants to be called a Sabbath breaker. But Ile was called owe. What mad careful of the oompetty be keeps, wants to be called the associate of profligates 4 But He was so called. What loyal man wants to be °halved with treason? But He was ehergeci with it What man of de- vout speech wants to be called a blas pbemer ? But He was so termed. Whai man of self respect wants to be strucb in the mouthf But that is where they struck Hira. Or to be the victimof vilest expectoration? But under that He stooped, Oh, He was a worn out Christ! That is the reason He died so soon upon the cross. Many victims of crucifixion lived day after day upon the cross, but Christ was in the court room at 12 o'clock of noon, and lie had expired at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. Subtracting froxn three hours between 12 and 3 o'clock the tims taken to travel from the court room to the place of execution, and the time that must have been taken ingetting ready for the tragedy, there eould not have been much more tlaan two hours left. Why did Christ live only two hours upon the cross, when others lived 48 hours ? Ah, He was worn out before He got there, and yo a wonder. oh child of God, that, looking into the volumes of heaven for your name, you find it was written. with a trembling penman- ship—trembling with every letter of your name, if it be your earthly name, or trembling with every letter of your heavenly name, if that be different and more euphonious! That will not be the fixst time you saw the mark of a quiv- ering pen, for did. you not, oh, man, years ago see your Daale so written on tlae back of a letter, and you opened it, anYing, "Why, here is a letter from mother le or "Here is a letter frora father I" and after you opened it you Lound all tie words, because of old age, were traced irregularly and un- certain, so that you could hardly read it at alt? 13ut, after much study, you inane it out—a letter from home, tell- ing yon how much they missed you, and how much they prayed for you, and how much they warted to see you, and it it might not be on earth that so it might be in the world where there are no partings. Yes, your name is writ- ten in heaven, if written at all, with trembling. chirography. Again, an examination of your name in the heavenly archives, if you find it there at ala you will find it written with a bold. band. You have, seen many a signature that because of sickness or old age had a trenaor iri it, yet it was as bold as the man who wrote it. Many an order written on the battle- field and amid the thunder of the can- nonade has had. evidence of excitement in every word and. every letter and in the speed with which it was folded and handed to the officer as he put his foot in, the swift stirrups, and yet that come mender, notwithstanding his trembling hand, gives a boldness of order that shwa itself in every word written. You do not need to be told that a trembling hand does not always mean • ccnvardlla bead. It was with a very trembling hand Charles Carroll, of Car- rollton signed his name to the Declare - titan of American Independence, but no signer had. more courage, and when some one said, "There are many Charles Ca.rrolLs, and it will not be known whicb one it is," he resumed the pen and wrote Charles Carroll, of Cer- ro/11ton. Trembling hand no sign of. timidity. The daring and defiance seen in the way your name is written in heaven is a challenge to all earth and hell to come on if tbey can to defeat your ransomed soul. The way your name is written there is as much as to say: "I have redeemed him; I died for him; I am going to crown and en- throne him. Nothing shall; ever happen down in that world where he now lives to defeat my determina,tion to keep him, to shelter him, to save him. By my Almighty grace I am going to fetch him here. He may slip and. slide, but he has got to come here. By my om- nipotent sword, by the combined strengtk of alt heaven's principalities and powers and dominions, by the 20,- 000 chariots of the Lord Ailmighty am going to see him through." Bold handwrittragl It is the boldest thing ever written to write my name there and your name there. He knows our weak.nesses and bad propensities bet- ter than we know them ourselves, He knoavs ell the Anollyonic hosts that are sworn to down us if they can. He knows all the temptations that will as- sail us between now and the moment of our last pulsation of the heart, and yet He dares to write our name there. Boldness! Nothing at Saragossa or Chalons or Marathon or Thermopylae to equal it. Nothing in the sank of gun powder which one English soldier carried under the blazing artillery of the Mohammedans and blew up the gate of Delhi! Can you not see the boldness in the penmanship that has already written our names there 4 Apes- ble Peter, what do you think of it? And he answers, "Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation." ()Ii, blessed Christ, what dost Thon mean by id And He an- swers, "They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." "Your names are written in heaven." Again, if, acceding to the promise of the text, you are permitted to look into the volumes of eternity and shale see your name there, you will find le written in lines, in words, in letters unmistakable. Some people have some to consider indistinct and almost un- readable penmanship a mark of gen- ius, and so they effect it. Because ev- ery paragraph that Thomas Chadmers and Dean Stanley and Lord Byron and Rufus Choate and other potent men wrote was a puzzle, imitators mate their penmanship a puzzle. Alexandre Dumas says that plain penmanship is the brevet of incapacity. Then there are some who, through too much de- mand upon their energies and through lack at time, lose the capacity of m,a1- bag the pen intelligible, and much a the writing of this world is indecipher- able. We have seen piles of inexplic- able chirography, and we ourselves have helped augment the magnitude. We have not been sure of the name signed, or the sentiment expressed, or whether the reply was affirmative or negative. Through indistinct penman- ship east wills and testaments have been defeated, widows and orphans robbed of their inheritance, railroad trains brought into collision through the dim words of a telegram put into the hand of a conductor, and regiments in this wigs, mistaking their enstrue- tions, have been sacrificed in battle. 1 have sometimes been tempted to think that there will be so many of us in heaven, that we will be lost in the crowd. No. Each one. of us will be as distinctly picked out and recogniz- ed as was Abel, when he entered frOni earth, the very first sinner saved, and at the head of that tong procession of sinnem 'saved in all the centuries. My dear beaxers, if we once get there, I do not want it left uncertain as to whether we are to stay there. After you and. I get fairly settled there ha our heavenly home we do not want our title proved defective. We do not want to be ejected from the heavenly premises. We do not want SWIM one to say: "This is not your room in the home of many Mansions, and you .„ • have on an attire that you ougat not to have taken trona the heavenly ward- robe and that is not really your name on the book. if you had more rare - fully examined the writing in the re- gister at' the gate, you, would have found that the name was not yours :at all, but mine. Now, move out, while 311,0Ve LI." Oh what wretchedness, after once worshipping in heavenly temples, to be coznpelled to turn yeux back on the mush, and after hatang joined the society of the blessed. to be foxoed to quit it forever and after having clasped our long lost kindred ua heavenly embrace to have another separation. What an agony would there be in such good -by to heaven 1 Glory be to God on high Oaat 0ex naraee will be so plainly written na those volumes that neither saint nor cherub nor seraph nor archangel shall doubt it for one moment, for 500 eterne- ties et tbere were room for so many! The oldest inhabitant a heaven can read it, and the thild that left its mother's lap last night for heaven can read it. You will not just look at your name and close the book, but you will stand and soliloquize and say: "18 it not wonderful. that my name is there at- all? ROW much it cost my Lord to get there? Vnwerthy am I to have it in the same book with the sons and daughters of !martyrdom and with the choice spirits of all time! But there it is, and so plain the word and so plain all the letters!" Again, if you are so happy as to find your name in the volume .of eternity you will find it written in- delibly. Go up to the state department hi this eational capital and seethe old treaties eigned by the rulers of foreign nations just before or just after the beginning of this century, and you will find that some of the documents are so faded out that you can read only here and there a word. From the paper yellow with age, or the parch- ment unrolled before you, time has effaced line after Inc. You bave to guess at the name, and perhaps guess wrongly. Old Time. is represented as carrying a scythe, with wbich lie cuts down the generations, but he carries also chemicals -with which he eats out whole paragraphs from important documents. We talk about indelible ink, but there is no sucb thine as in- delibly ink. It is only a queen= of tines, the complete obliteration of all earthly signatures and engrossments. But your name, put in tbe heavenly reeord, all the =Ilea -animus of heaven cannot dim it. After you have been so long in glory that did you not possess imperishable memory you would beve forgotten the day of your entrance your name on that page wall glow as vividly as on the instant it was traced there by the finger of the Great Atoner. But there is only one word. on all this subject of divine chirography in Leaven that confuses ale, and that is the small adverb whieh St. John adds when he quotes the text in Revelation and speaks of some "whose names are written in the book of life of the Lamb slain." Oh, that awful adverb "not!" By full submission to Christ the Lord, have the way all cleared between you ttnd the sublime regis- tration of your name this moment. Wby not look up and see that they are all ready to put your name among the blissful inunortals? There is the mighty volume; it is wide open. There is the pen; it is from the wmg of the "angel of the new covenant." There is tbe ink; it is red from Calverean sacrifice. And thexe is the divine Seribe—the glorious Lord who wrote your father's name there, and your mother's name there, and your child's name there, and svho is ready to write your name there. Will you eonsent that he do it? Before 1 say "Amen" to this service ask Him to do it, I wait a moment for the tremendous action of your will, for it is only an action of your Avila Here some one says, "Lord Jesus, with pen plucked from angelic wing and dipped in the red ink of Golgotha, write there either that whicb is now my earthly name or that which shall be my heavenly =me" I pause a second longer that all may consent. The pen of the divine Scribe is in the fingers and is lifted and is lowered, and it towhee the shining page, and the word is traced in trembltmg and bold and un- mistakable letters. He has put it down in the right place. 'Tis done! The great transaction's done! I am my Lord's and He is mine. FLOOR -SCRUBBING MACHINE. Judging by the rate at which inven- tors are busying themselves in devis- ing appliances for saving domestic la- bor, there will soon be little left for the housemaid to do. "Housemaid's knee," at all events, is a thing of the past, and the floor scrubbing of the fu- ture es to be done by machinery. In course of time, the scrubber will un- doubtedly be connected up to the elec- tric motor which does the rest of the household work, but in houses unpro- vided with the electrio plant the ma- chine will in the meantime be operated by hand. It is something like a lawn mower, and runs on four wheels. Above the two front wheels is a tank, which contains clean water, that may of course, be heated, if necessary. The water is supplied. to rotary brushes at the bottom of the machine, and these, revolving in art opposite direction, to the motion of the machine itself, scrub the floor. The dirt and water are carried into another tank over the two baek wheels. The wiping apparatus consists of an endless band of absor- bent material, made specially for the purposes. This band is pressed on the floor by rotary brushes, so that the cloth accommodates itself to the ine- gealities of the floor. The cloth is rinsed and squeezed out automatically as it leaves the floor and passes through the tank at the back. It is not neces- sary to sweep the floor before scrub- bing. !ANOTHER MATTER. Oixcumsta,nces alter cases, says the proverb, and sometimes the metarritor- suddenness. ' Two amateur hunters in the noethern woods, not long ago, saw a deer, and both fired at once. • That is my deer, said A, 1 shot it. No, you didn't, hotly replied B. It is nny deer, because I killed it. A. third party was approaching. from the, opposite direction,in with fury his eye and a dub in his hand. Whioh of you two reseals shot my nee ? roaxed the farmer. ' That fellow just told me he did it, said A. And B, now thoroughly alaancied for his personal safety, answered: He lies. He shat it himaelf. 1 saw bira do it, and rn swear to it. SHE'LL NEVER WIN THE TITLE. I don't mind riding the bicycle and wearing the costume, but I should hate to be ogled a wheelwation. Don't worry, dear. Nobody will ever seal you that. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 25, "The ProGYoreSuOirretoti.enit.701;: if'.,;(7. 140. GENERAL STATENOINT. The Book of Proverbs presents the priaciples of heaven in their application to the affairs of earth. It contains pure gold, coined in the divine mint, and bearing the image and superscription of the King, for use in the mints of mem Three centuries before the "wise men a Greece" appeared, the wise King of Israel uttered these marints, wbich embody more sound. wisdOM than may be found elsewhere in the ancient world They do not soar into the lofty spiritual atmosphere of the Psalms or the pro- phecies; they move on the earth; but they lay the foundation of character in the fear of the Lord and the principles of righteousness. Ile who walks in the liglat of these commands wile tread a sure path, will inherit true riches, will be led into high knowledge. As Col- eridge says; "The Book a Proverbs is the best statesman's manual ever writ- ten ;" and we might add, that it is the best collection of counsels in political economy, in social science, and ha prac. time ethics. One remarkable fact con- cerning it is, that its author lived to illustrate both its counsels and its warnings, the one in his brilliant easlier years, the other in his ("loaded later life. But not a sentence of the book Is art excuse of its writer's sins. It (kale truthfully, boldly, rebukingly with the very crimes which its euthor comraitted. As Dr. Areot has said: "The glaring imeerfectione of the man's life has been used as a dark ground to set off the luster of that pure right- eousness which the Spirit has spoken by his lips," !Warned, then, by the fall of the writer, let us ponder well his utterances, that we may avoid. his example, while following his precepts. PRACTICAL NOT.ES. • Verse 1, The Proverhs of Solomon have not very close relationship to the proverbial lore of Gentile nations, to those pithy statements of homely truth which pass current ha modern times such as, "118 an ill wind that owe nobody good," "Many a little .es a mickle," "A bird in the hand LI vorth twain the bush." The word "pieverb," in its biblical use, includes parable and condensed wisdom in every forma. While there are doubtless, especiaLly in the latter part of this book, "proverbs" in the modern sense a that term, most of its wise sayings show signs of having been la,boriousler condenent from long - continued individual thought— the very reverse of modern literary composition. If a modern poet, esseyeat, or painter has one clear-cut "original" conception, he has stock in trade for a acti- vity, He presents his cane 'thought. in different forms, with different associa- tions, and. calls it by different names; and the most successful man is often he who can sprand his thin thought farthest. Most an= ring many changes on few hells. But the ambition of the ancient sage was to gather many har- monies of truth into one note. He sat down with the deliberate intention of condensing into one verse the findings of his whole life of wisdom; some of these sentences doubtless represent each the lifework of some good man. Of Solomon. Solomon WAS the mas- ter of proverbial wisdom among the Hebrews. as David was their master of song. Even after David's death the psalms of the nation were collectively called the "Psalms of David," because he set in motion the tide of song and gave tone and character to the singing of his people. In like manner the pro- verbs of the Hebrews were grouped to- gether as "Proverbs of Solomon," be- cause Solomon made proverbial litera- ture a living fact among the Hebrews, though there were doubtless runny "pro- verbs" in existence before his time, and many were added t o the national collection after his death. There is little doubt that the first portion of the Look comes direct from Solomon's pen or tongue. "When he set himself seri- ously to instruct his people, to train them in sound views of life, and. in the practice of virtue.. wed ri.ligion, ha natur- ally embodied his views in terse and pichy sentences, charming the imagin- ation and easy to be remembered,"— Deane. But many minds and many ages were concerned in the entire col- lection. It reflects the wisdom of Israel froin the golden age of its mon- areby to that decadence which Hezekiah souglat to offset. There is in the Book of Proverbs a. series of titles or super- scriptions dividing Hint° several 1ttle books; for instance, "The Proverbs of Solomon." here and at ohapter 10. 1; "The Wards of the Wise." 22.17; "These Things also Belong to the Wise," 24.23; "Proverbs a Solomon, which the Men of Hezekia,h Copied Out," 25. 1; "The Words of Agur,e 30. 1; "The Words of Lemel," 31. 1. It is well for the teacher to call attention to the "parallelism" of most of the proverbs; that is, the balancing of one thought against an- other, which sometimes affects the very sound of the verse. 2. Verse 1 may be regarded as a title and verses 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, as a sort of preface or contents, a kind of epi- tome of the book. Wisdom throughout' Proverbs may- be defined almost as vir- tuous choice; imstruction is literally "chastisement," moral training. Un- derstanding stands for what we would now better express by the word "dis- cernment," the power of distinction between right and wrong. 3. To receive. This is a part of the sentence begun with the beginning of the first verse: "The purpose of Sol- omon's proverbs is to enable him who studies them to receive" the four ex- cellences mentioned here. Wisdom. Faithfulness. Not the same word in Hebrew a.s the "wisdom" of verse 2. justice. Righteousness, uprightness, Judgmen.t. Fairmindedness. Equity. larmomy with the law of God. The student of Proverbs, therefore, should a,cquire, by their help, habits of prud- ence in personal conduct, of morality among hes fellows, and reverence for God. 4. Subtilty. Sharpness, shrewdness. Simple. Impressionable, susceptible, easily influenced. Young man, When these proverbs were coined it would J38,178 been thought fantastic to furn- ish similar helps to the young woman; she had neither mental ability (so it leas believed) noir social opportunity to take advantage of them. But to -day these maxims of wisdom came to our young women with equal appositeness and force with our young mere Dis- cretion. Discernment, 5, A wise roan will hear. Of course. ft is the Musical roan whO most delights in concert of sweet sounds it is the artistic man wiaalooks with greatest pleasure on painting and sculp- ture; so it is the wise xuan who pats bighest valuation an wisdom. Will ie - crease learning. Hem again, aoMiNala- son with other activitiea may matte Plain the conditione of the study .of wisdom? How does Paderewski acquire and develop facility as a pianist? By daily, hourly, practice. Do you know what, Sir John Millais gave as the see - ret a his suceess in art 4" " Caestant study." What then will die "wise man" do to " inorease learning?" Be will "hear"which includes "heed ;" study and practice. Wise counsels. Lit- erally, "clever statesmanship." So the wisdom which Solomon des'ires his pu- pils to attain is not the useless learn- • ing of a bookwerm; it is a practical "up-to-date," wholesome shrewdness; but it begins (verse 7), not with selfish craft, but with "the fear of the Lord." 6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation. Here we have another purpose of this collection. Ancient, pro- verbs and parables usually needed inter- pretation; otherwise, why should the w ise utter their wisdom in dark say - legs? Much of the wisdom of the en- ment world was recorded in terms m- teetionally obscure. Common people were not to be trusted with it. Solo- mon's teachings, carefully studied, fur- nished a key to unlock the enigmas of other sages. 7. The fear of the Lord is the begin- ning a knowledge. Vela is the essence at Hebrew philosophy. (See Prov. 9. 10; Job, 28. 28; Psalm 111. 10; Eccles. 12. 13; Prot. 16. 33.) "Fear" stands for loyal reverence. On such reverence all sound character and reason are found- ed. Fools despise wisdom and instruc- tion. Better "wisdom and instruction fools despise." He is a. " fool " who is slack and easy in Ids moral aotivities. 8. My son. Words spoken by the teacher to the pupil; by the wise roan to the world at large. Hear. Heed. In- struction. Disciplinany education, For- sake not. A negative, meaning the at- ftrmative obey. Law. Perceptive teach - 9. An ornament of grace unto thy head. Jewels upon the brow after the fashion of oriental women at least; probably kings and courtiers similarly ornamented themselves. Chains about thy neck. Golden necklaces. Better thin all acquired graces, than all wealth or accompleshments, is that wholesome character which a pious another and father seek to develop in their children. 10. If sinnere entice thee. All sin, as well as all goodness, is infectious. Con- sent thou not. Ile who parleys with • temptation doubles its danger. 11. Come with us. Nine tenths a the sins to tabich youths of both sexes are liable come forsvard at first =der the guise of social and friendly enjoyment. Let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily, Such a tenaptation as this in modern life would he borrible, and would repel Many even who are not pronouncedly virtuous, but in the life of the ancient Orient such sins were as much justified to the public con- science as " cornexs" .ba markets are to our raedern public conscience. Hon- est and pure -minded people felt their exceeding sinfulness, but the multitudes glorified the successful bandit, just as they now glorify more conventional but equally wicked men who achieve suc- cess over the innocent without cause, that is, those whose innocence does not protect them from evil. 12. No violence was shrunk from by such, determined sinners as tbese. There is a claim to bravery which outlaws like Jesse James sometimes make, and which much of our "yellow -covered lit- erature," maintains, which is itself an inducement to sin, and therefore sin - 13. We stall find. Too suddenly ac- quired riches tempts most men madwo- men from the middle of the kieig's bigh- way, Not highway robbers alone do this; he who has accepted a bribe fox his vote, he who has made an unjust bargain is as corrupt a spoilsmaxt as the bandit. 14. Let us all have one purse. An ap- peal to the emend° sentiment peeve - lent among the young; to admiration of frank and openhearted generosity. 15. Walk not . . . refrain. " Turn from it and pass away." 16. For. The simple reason for the wise man's in,junction is that what he reproves is wecked! Avoid sin because it is sinful. 17. In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Birds see the mare and fly away; so do you fly from temp- tation. 18. They fay wait far their own blood. A man who seeks to destroy oth- ers is really, though he thinks it not, seeking to destroy himself, He who plans the murder of a victim may be said to be planning his own gallows. He W)30 seeks to ruin others is really ruining himself. 19. Greedy of gain. "The love of money is the root of all evil." Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Greed for gain ruins those who have it they "pierce themselves through with many sorrows." A LIVING MEAL A Fish That Watches its 014,11 Dement el Is a Japanese Delicacy. The most dainty dish to the Japanese epicure is none other than a living fish. This horrible delicacy is served as follows: Resting on a large dish is a mat formed of rounds of glass held together by plaited threads, on whieh is a living fish with gills and mouth moving regularly; at its back rises a bank of white shreds resembling damp isinglass, bu.t in reality a colorless sea- weed, waire the fish itself rests on damp green algae. In front is a pile of small slices of sa,wfish garnished. with a radiating tuft of variegated bamboo leaves. A. portion of the raw fish from the pile in front of the living victim is now placed on a saucer and passed to one guest, and so on with the rest till the pile is consumed. Then the car- ver raises the skin (which has been al- ready loosened) of the living fish, and proceeds to take slice after slice from tdes upper part. The creature has been ciirved while still alive, the pile a flesh first served consisting of the lower half of the body. Tbis has been done with such consummate skill that no vital part has been touched; the heart, the liver, the gills and the stomach are left intact, while the donne seaweed on whiel the Mesh rests suffices to keep the lungs in action. The miserable via- tito looks on witb: lustrous eyes while its awn body is consumed, probably the only instance of a, living creature as- sisting as a spectator at its own en- tombment. AN INFANT PHENOMENON. John y --They must have an awful big baby over at Meeker's house. Papa—What makes you tnink 504 jobamy—Why, 1 heaasl ma say to -day that every one m the house was wrap- ped up in him. FACTS REGARDING THE PROORESS OF TRE zanier. E 'cMalte1 and oaeit Under the heading "%mum District." the Rowland Record, la its latest issu,e. gives a. few interesting items which are well worthy of the perusal of all con - milled ha mining in that vioinity. Tb.e record states tbat the first shipc remit of ore from 4Cariboa creek was made lest week, some 220 seeks behalf shipped to the Trail smelter from the Pomestura. In view of 'file fabulous assays whieh have been made froze thahiavepsznopeeszpeelaity, ±10 lintsinereelat.r return s wiuZ The va,Ine of the ore, bullion, and matte shipments from Southern Koo- tenay, Billee last week's report, were obtaieecj from the Cuatom-bouse at Nelson and front data furnished by the seeretary of the Columbia, end Kootana,y Steam Navigation Company: Build= and Matte.-- Pounds. Trail Smelter ... e. 342,420 Siloam Star, Sandon . . Ta°1AnsOOPP;;Vx14117'l Oreati Ore' -' • ROI. Rowland . . 560 28,080 Idaho, Sloan . 40 0,000 Washington, Slooan • • . 33 2,390 Ruth . * • . . . 43 2,083 Wonderful . . • . • . 30 4,347 Surprise, Sloe.= . 16 2,106 Last Chance, Slooan,. . 18 2,379 Haack Fox, Slocan 00 2,462 0,••••••••••••••• Total . . . . . 1.042 086,531 Total so far for 1896, 22,247 $2,437,608 STOCK SOLD IN TORONTO. A good. deal of sympathy is 'being wasted by =informed people npon the investors of Toronto.. Teen. elaira. that Toronto is a dumping -grow.- for Trail Creek stooks which are unsaleable at home. A few foots and figures will die, pel any illusion of that kind. Josie Wa4 absorbed by the Toronto market at 49 cents; the closest quotation ba Ross - land to -day is 61 cents. Monte Cristo was largely bought at 18 cents; it is now at 20 cents. Evening Star was listed first in Toronto at 23e it is now quoted at 30 on a rapidly rising mar- ket at. Elmo was sold at 11 tents; it is now 15 cents. Poor Man sold at 111-2; it would take a se.a,reh warrant to find much. dock under that in Ross- land,4 Deer Park was unloaded at the Tomato market at six cents. It is now quoted here at 16 cents, mad the corn - Paw will not sell treasury under 25 cents. Crown Poent was heanily bought at 20 cents, and is now under heavy selling quoted at 48 cents. None of these stocks have advanced on a speculative basis. It is the intrinsic, merit of the properties whicb bas sent them. up. Of course when a company is floated ba Toronto, and stook is sold at a low figure, investors must wait until developments justify an advance. But out oe every. stock of a workient property listed. m Toronto investors have made money. In one or two cases, through circumstances which had no connection, with the intrinsic merits of the stook, the eastern lavestors have been let in at a higher figure than was justifiable at the time, But those re- gretta.ble incidents, for which no leg- itimate mining operator in Trail Creek was responsib, hesdly detract appre- ciably from the splendid results the To- ronto people have obtained. from in- vesting m Trail Creek stocks at rook - bottom prices, and there are lust as gpod opportunities to-day.—Mining Re- sw, Rossland. A TURKISH LADY. Every woman, rich or poor, with the least regard for her character, must be in her house by sundown. Only think of the long, dull winter afternoons and evenings when no friend ca,n come near them, as all their female friends must be in their 014711 houses, and. male friends they can not have. Even the men of their awn family associate but little with them. Let us hope that with the increase of intercourse be- tween Europeans and Turks the life of the women must change, and that as the men have dropped their oriental garb the women will in time part with the yashmak and ferejeh, and that with them their isolated lives will cease. Young Turks who have been educated in Berlin, Paris and Vienna before they marry have been heard to declare that their wives shall be free, and. yet when 11 comes to the point they have MI yielded to tbe tyranny of custom. Nor is there any chance of change during the. reign of Abdul Haanid, whose views on the seclusien of women are very strict, scarcely a year passing without fresh laws on thicker yash- maks and more shapeless ferejehs. On the Bosporus their calques are a great resource to the Turkish ladies, but in Pena those of the upper oloases can only go eel, in closed carriages, to the Sweet Waters, occasionally ac- companied by their husbands on horse, back. But they ana,y speak to no mice while driving; their own husbands and sons c,an not even bow to them as they. pass, and no one would venture to say *a word to his own; wife or mother when the carriage pulls up—the police would at once Interfere. The highest mark of respeet is to turn. your back on a. lady and this is de riguer when any ,member of the imperial bar - ern passes. We were drinking coffee one day at the Sweet Waters, at the part which flows by the grounds of a country pal- ace of the Sultan. All at owe Sadik Bey jumped up and ran behind a tree, with his back to the Sweet Waters.,1 Two or three closed carriages of the imperial harem were passing along the road in the gardens on the other side of the river, tbe blinds so far drawn down that it was impossible to see if any one was inside, and yet all along our aide we saw the Turks, whether officers or civilians, going through the same absurd. ceremony, and only when tbe carriages were out of sight did they return to their coffee. Form- erly a man never sew Jibe face of his intended till after the marriage cere- mony, when they withdrew into a. room and the veil was lifted far the first time. Now it is generally contrived that the bridegroom elect shall see his future -wife frr a, moment unveiled. • Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore, the editor and publisher of the Duluth Press, weekly paper, is said to be a sister of "Buffalo Bill."