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."