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1\-02'alS AND COMMENTS.
Views on bicycles of next years mo-
del are euroetteus. In 1897 the priee
attracted more attention than the
wheel, but in 1898 the money question
will be subordinate. Cycliets look lietee
the 4100 bicycle a,s goae, The standard
()flea wilt be somewhere, we suppose,
between $76 and. e50. Chainleis wheels,
Will .surely be prominent next spring,
proraising to put the greasy ehaia
wheels completely out a mind. Tub
Ln next 'ear will be about the same Ws
it is now. Gears a high, low, an& rated -
bine size will be on the market for
-choice, but during this season the lik-
ing for elge gears has developed great-
ly, probably as this result of the great-
er strength which practice ihas brought
to tee average leg, Tee radial gen-
twit who is being lieard from asserts
that the. 1898 bioyele will be operated.
In eta= the arms or legs. This sounds
mate csanky thaa interesting. The
vrheelts snost vulnerable point. its ttre,
is being studied and eiperimented with,
with ardent desire for its eamrovemetat
and with no little hope. It must be
poteihile to put into tbe. rubber some
.slemeat that would lessen its slipping
on wet pa.vementa; and. it seems ah -
slur& that wheels destixted to pass over
jagged roads ebould be left so punotur-
ebbe. 'A. less puaoturable tire end a
tire whice .ween inflated will remain
full in.definitely is gre,stly needed. In
spite ofthe promise of 1898, however.
owners of good bay cles needn't worry. A
good bictiniet to -day will be good next
you.
The west coast a Newfoundland,
kxxowt as the French Shore, is once
mor ethe scene of popular excitement
due to the obesing, by British warships,
of Sea lobster calming factories there
as have been built ea violation of treaty
righte. The oraisers seem to be act-
ing in accordance with their instruc-
tions, and these last are based on the
needus vete/mil eached by France end
England on the snbject. But the
grievance; is the chronic, one a the ex-
istence oif the rights that eta.ve, given
the aeons its na.me. Whets the treaty
a Utrecht in 1713 ceded Newtouadland
to England, tete xeserva,tion to the of them that have golden crowns and well as 1 that the great fret oft
I is that we want a surplus;. we want the
he w orld
crests showing them to be feather im-
Fren,ce. fishermen of the privilege '
of Iravens a to bring enough for fifty years.
fishing and. drying their fish on the Perials' And listen to tee humming earsroerclinicikenocie 1,14:1i the 't.Smtalish-
bird's serenade in the ear of the ington vb
honeysuckle. Look at the bolted. king- viz have in the royal bankofnorthern and we,stern waste was a con-
cessien to a worthy sad important in- ou, say; "All that Ls very pcetic, but
fisher, striking like a dart from sky i
clattery. Frame valued highly her
to water. Listen to the voice of the isae the maygore gtiliese:-
.fla.triat'avrietteGriTiee
American fieitteriee, as she does to this
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THE EXETER TIMES
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THE PROPHET ELIJAH ANLi THE
RAVENS THAT FED HIM.
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twit Famines - Talmage Discourses
oii the 154,4 Fitelkir Fed Daily Without
Fait by God the Father.
Rev. Dr. Talmage on Sunday preach-
ed from the text 1, Kings, xvii., 6, "And
the raveas brought him bread and
flesh in the morning and bread and
flesh in the evening."
The ornithology of the Bible is a
very interesting study. The stork which
knoweth her appointed time, the com-
mon sparrows teaching the lessons of
Godat providence; the ostriches of the
desert by careless incubation illustrat-
ing the recklessness of parents who do crumb that will be put in your mouth
not take enough pains with their ohil- in tee dying sacrament. It may not
be just thekindof food or apparel we
cone) out of bona° ote,ee cave. They did s disaster!" Then a black providence
not jutit happen to alight there. God comes toward us, and we say, "Oh teat
freighted thena, God leutached tilem, and 's disaster!" The white providence
God told them by what cave to awoop. comes to you and you have ga eat bust -
That the same God that is going to ness success ,and you, have 411100,000, and
suoply you. ao is your Father. You you get proud and you get independent
would have to make an elaborate calm- of God, and you. begin to feel that pray-
tki,tion before you, eould tell me how er, 'Give me this day my daily bread,"
many poen:ids oe food and hew many is inappropriate for you, for you have
yards of exiteing would be necessary made provision for 100 years. Teen a
for you and your family. But God blaok providence comes, and it sweeps
knows without any calculation. You everything away, and then you begin to
have a plate at Bus! table, and. you are pray, and you begin to feel your de -
going to be waited, ou, uelese you aot pendence and begin to humble before
like a, eaughty child and kick and God, and you cry out for treasures in
scramble and pouad saucily the plate heaven. The black providence brought
end try to upset things. you salvation. The white providence
God has a vast family, andeverything brought you rain. That which seemed
is methodized, aud you are going to be to be harsh and fierce and. dissonant
served if you: will only wen your turn. was your greatest mercy. It was a
God has already ordered all the snits raven. There was a child born in your
of clothes yon will ever need. down to hou.se. All your friends congratulated
the teat snit which you will be laid you. The other children of the family
out. God. has already ordered all the stood amazed looking at the newcomer
food you will ever eet down to tne last and asked a great many .questions, gen-
ealogical and chronological. You said
-and you said truthfully-. that a
white angel flew through the room and
left the little one there. That little
one stood with its two feet in thevery
sauctu.ary of your affection, and. with
its tw ohands it took hold of the
altar of your soul.. But one day there
came one of the three scourges of chile
dren-searlet fever, or croup, or diph-
theria -and all tint bright scene van-
ished. The clattering, the strange
questions, the Limning at the dresses as
you crossed the floor -all ceased,
As the great friend of children stoop-
ed down and leaned toward the cradle
and took the little one in his arms and
walked, weal with it into the bower of
eternal summer, your eye began to fol-
low Him, and you followed the treasure
He carried, and you have been follow-
ing them ever since, and instead of
thinking of heaven only once a week,
as formeT13`. you are thinking of it all
tile time, and you are more pure and
tender-hearted than you used to be,
and you are patiently waiting for the
daybreak. It is not self-righteousness
in you to acknowledge that you are a
better maii than you used to be, you
are a better woman than you used to
be. What was it that brought you the
sanctifying blessing; Oh, it was the
dark shadow on the nursery ; it was the
dark shadow on the short grave; it was
the dark shadow on your broken heart;
it was the brooding of a great black
trouble; it was a raven; it was a rav-
en. Dear Lord, teach this people that
welts providences do not always mean
advanceinent, and that black provide
ences do not alvates mean retrogres-
sion.
My friend, you have a right to argue
from precedent that God. is going to
take care of you. Hes he not done it
two or three times every. day? Tbat ia
most marvelous. look back and won-
der that God has given me food three
times a day regularly all my lifetime,
never missing but once, and then I was
lost in the mountains, but that very
morning and that very night I met the
ravens.
Oh, the Lord is so good thatIwise
all His people would. trust Him with tee
two lives -the life you are now living,
and that which every tick of the watch
and every stroke of the clock inform
you is approaching. Bread for your im-
mortal sates comes to -day. Seel They
alight on the platform. They alight on
the backs of all the pews. They awing
among the arches. Ravens! Ravens!
"Blessed are they that hunger after
righteousness, for they shall be filled."
To all the sinning, and the sorrotving,
and the tempted, deliverance comes this
hour. Look down and you see nothing
but your spiritual deformities. Look
back and. you aee nothing but wasted.
opportunity. Cast your eye forward,
and you lative a fearful looking for
judgment and indignation, which shall
devour the adversary. But look isp, and.
you behold the vamped shoulders of
an interceding Cerise and the face of
a pardoning God, and tee -irradiation
of an opening heaven. I hear the whir
of their wings. Do you not feel the rush
of air on your cheek? Revensl Rav-
ens I
There is only one question I want to
ask I How many of this audience are
willing to trust God for the supply of
their bodies, and trust the Lord Jesus
Christ for the redemption of their
iramortal souls Araid tee clatter of
hoofs and tee clang of the wheels of
the judgmettt ceariot, tee whole mat-
ter will be demonstrated.
dren; the eagle symbolizing solitude;
the bat, a flake of the darkness;, the
night hawk, the ossifrage, the cuckoo,
the lapwing, the osprey, by the cora-
mend of God in Leviticus, flung out of
the world's bill of fare.
I would like to have been with
Audubon as be went through the
woods, with gun and pencil, bringing
down and sketching the fowls of heav-
en, his unfolded portfolio thrilling all
Christeiadom. What wonderful crea-
tures of God the birds arel Some a
them this morning, like the songs
of heaven let loose, bursting through
the gates of heaven. Consider their
feathers, which are clothing and, con -
vertebrae of tee neek, th ethree eye
vertebrae of the neck, the three eye-
lids to each eye, the third eyelet an
extra, curtain for graduating the light
of the sun, Some a these birds
scavengers and some of them orthea-
tra, Titanic God for quail's whistle,
and. lark's °axon, and the twitter a
would. prefer. The sensible parent de-
pends on his own judgment as to what
ought to. be the apparel and the feed
of the minor in the family. The child
would say, "Give me sugar and con-
fections." "Oh, no," says the parent,
"You must have something pesiner
first," The child would say, "Oh, give
me these great blotches of color in tlae
garnaent. "No," says the parent, "That
wouldn't be suitable."
Now, God is our Father, and we are
minors, and. Hc is going to teethe us
and feed. us, although He may not al-
ways yield to our infantile wish for the
sweets and. glitter. Those ravens of
the text did not bring pomegranates'
from, the glittering Inattery of King
Ahab. They brought bread. and meat.
God had all the l heavens and earth be-
fore Him and. under Hina, and yet he
sends this plain food because it was
beet for Elijae to have it, Oh, be strong,
my bearer, in the fact that the sales
God. is going to supply you 1 It Is
never "hard. times" with Hine His
ships never break on the rocks. Hee
banks never fails Re has the supply
for you, and. Be has the means for
sending it. Hie.ha.s not only the cargo,
bee the ship. If it were necessary. He
wieuilkl swing out from the heavens a
flock of revolts reasihing from .His gate
the wren, called by the ancients the
tie Yours, until the food would, be
king a birds, because wisest the fowls Vilma down the sky frora beak to beak
of beaven went into a. contest ite to and. from ts.lart to . talon.
eagle swung nearest the sun, a wren to hoard, up a surplus. They tdhicatnexott
who should fly the highest, and. the thl'airlthleag,117 la itillitsi!tryalgw Elijah.
on the back of the eagle, after the bring enee,ge en Monday to last all the
higher, and so was called. by the en- luu -t. at" grife:tieggiii0n7
eagle was exlmusted, sprang up much hweierkeinelhteeelade'duen
' They ante twice a. day and brouget
ciente the king of birds, Cons/der those just enough for one tirae. You know as
day. and it woe then deemed wise to
grant this favor to those eagaged hu
them; but it has preyed a prolific)
source of trouble,, in. one way or an-
other, ever awe.
Tee lobster canning indu.stry haa
sprung up on; teat shore in the last fif-
teen or twenty years. The British col-
onists, besides insisting broadly that
the treaty privilege of Calling and dry -
Eng fish there is not exclusive, but con-
eurrent with, rights to be enjoyed 'by
others than French subjects, also urged,
in particular, that a lobster is ndt
owl, giving the keynote to all croak- corntent with just enough. If in the
ere And behold the condor among the +morning your family eats up ell tee
Andes, battling with the reindeer. , food there is in the house, do /lot sit
!down and cry and say "I don't know
do not know \stealer an aquariam or ' where the next mead is to come froin."
aviary is the beat altar from which to 'About 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning
worship God. 1 eitit look upend you willsee two black
; spots on the sky and. you will hear the
There is an incideut in my text that napping of wings, and. instead of Edgar
baffles all the ornithological wonders ; A. Poe's• !insane raven alighting on the
of the world. The grain crop had. chamber door,. "only his and nothing
been cut off. Famine was in the land, 1 more," you findElijales two rav-
ens, or two ravens of tee Lord, the one
in a cave by the brook Oherith sat a 1 bringing bread, and the other bring -
minister of God, Elijah, waiting for ; tag meat -plumed butcher and baker.
something to eat. Why did he not ' God issinfinite in resource, When the
go to the neighborst There were no city of Rochelle was besieged, and the
neighbors; it was a. wilderness. Why inhabitants were/ dying of the famine,
did he not pick some of the, berries ? the tides washed up eta, the beach as
There Were none. If there had been inever before, and as never since, enough
they would lieve been dried up. Seat- • shellfish to feed the whole city. God
is good. There is no mistake about that,
Hestory tells us that in 1555 ineengland
there was a great drought. The crops
failed, but Essex, on the rocks, in
a place where they had neither sown
nor cultured a great crop of peas
grew until they filled. a hundred mea,
sures' and there were blossoming vines
enough, promising as much more.
But wee go so far? can give you
a family mcident. Some generations
back there was a great drought in Con-
necticut, New England. The, water dis-
appeared from the hills, and the farm-
ers living on the hills drove their cattle
dew -a toward the valleys, and had them
supplied at the wells and the fountains
of the neighbors. But these after a
while began to fail, and the neighbors
said to Mr. Birdseye, of whom Isbell
speak; "You must not send your flocks
and herds down here any more. Our
wells are giving out," Mr. Birdseye,
the old Christian man gathered his
family at the altar, and with hisfamily
he gathered the sla.ves of the house-
hold -for bondage was then in vogue
in Connecticut -and on their knees be-
fore GOA they. cried for water, and tihe
family story Ls, that there was weep-
ing and great sobbing atethat altar
that the family might not perish for
lack of water and that the herds and
flocks might not perish.
fish, in. the treaty sense, and that can- ed one morning a‘t the mouth °fettle
'ling lobsters is not drying fish. The cave, the prophet sees a, flock of birds
Goverements at London and Paris in- approaching, 0e, if they were only
pertridges, or if .
he only had an arrow,
tervened, and tee result was an agree -
as
with which to briag there. down! But
they come nearer, he finds that
they are not comestible, but unclean,
and. the eating of them would be spilr-
itu,a1 death. Tee strength of their
beak, the length of their wings, the
blackness of their color, their loud
harsh, "crack, crack," prove them to
be ravene.
They whir around. about the proph-
et's head, and then they come on flut-
tering wing and pease on the level of
his lips, ante one of the ravens brings
bread and another brings meat, and
after they have discharged their tiny
cargo, they wheel past and others, come,
until sifter awhile the prophet has
enough and these black servants of
the wilderness tattle are gone. For
six mantes and some say &whole year,
morning and evening, a breakfast and
supper bell sounded, as these ravens
rang out on the air their "crack
cruck." Guess where they got the
food from. Tbe old rabbine aay they
got it from the kitchen' of King
.Athab. Others • say that the ravens
got their food from pious Obadiah, who
was in the habit of feeding the per-
seouted. Some say that the tavens
brought the food to their young in
the trees, and that Elijah had only to
limb up and get it. Some say that
the whole story is improbable, for
these were carnivorous birds, and the
food they carried was the torn flesh
of living beasts, and therefore, cere-
monially unclean, or it was cerrion
and would haw awn unfit for the
prophet. Some sky they were not
ravens at Fill , but that the word
translated "ravens" in my text
ought to have been traneleted "Arabs."
So it would heve read. "The Arabs
brought bread and flesh in the morn-
ing and brea,d aud Rate. in the even-
ing." Anything but admit the Bible
be true."
Hew awayeat this mirale until all
the miracle is gone. Go on with the
depleting procese, but know, nay' bro-
ther, that you iare robbing only one
man -and that man is yourself -of one
of the moat comforting, beautiful, pa-
thetic and triumphant lessons in all
the ages. I can tell you who these
purveyors were. They were ravens. I
cainetali you, who freighted them with
provisions -God. I can tell you who
leunched them -God. I can tell- you
who taught them white way to fly -
God. I can tell y,ou, who told them
at what cave to swoop -God. I can tell
you, who introdwed semen to prophet
end prophet to raven -Gad. There is
one passage I -will whisper in your ear,
for I woued not went to utter it aloud,
Lest someone should drop down under
its power, "If may man shall take away
from: the. words of the propheey of this
book, God shall take away Hie part out
of the book of life wad, oat of the Holy
pity?' 0
Whine, then, we watch the ravens
feeding Elijah, let the invift dove a
God's spirit sweep dowse the sky with
divine food, tend on oultepread wing
patese at tee of every. soul hunger-
ing for oaraf tt,
Notice, iti to
of
of my text, te, t
°ante te Aida!: •Op
"I foNo coarvartt.
meat legalizing only the lobster can-
ning factories erected up eo a certain
time, and provideng for the issue of per-
mits for the new ones alternately by
the English and. the Frenoh naval
conamainders oat the station', with a
view to making the privileges equal.
The first result was the closing of some
British factoriea, in the midst of great
indignation among, tee colonists. How-
ever, the British naval patrol held to
their instructions, and the regulatione
have bean continued ever since. The
current trou.bles undoubtedly arise from
a renewed, attempt to violate these re-
gulation& Meanwhile, as ithe case
stoma, the local feeleng is that the int
terests of the colonies are subordinat-
ed to the good underatanding between
France and; England in Old World af-
fairs. And this feeling is freshened
from time to time by such ineidents as
those tha,t have just occurred.
ELECTRICITY FOR SINGERS.
Aftestores the Prlitine qualities and Vigor
of the Singing Voice.'
If you have ever had a yoke and lost
it th.ere is hope for you in the dis-
covery of a physician in Paris. Dr. Mon -
tier, with the aesistance of M. Graaier,
of the French Academy of Music, has
devised a process of applying electricity
to the vocal chord e that restores the
pristine qualities and. vigor of the sing-
ing voice. It is even ,hinted that such
is the effect upon the vocal organs
that an agreeable singing voice can ate
tually be °reeked or built up.
That the electric current is capable
of strengthening and vitalizing the vo-
oal as well 0.9 other organs has been
knoeirm for some years, but it has re-
mained for Dr. Montier to discover net
by applying the -negative pole of the
battery to a person's throat the qual-
ity or timbre of the normal. voice may
be changed end improved.
The method of tre,atment is quite sim-
ple. The patient take e a seat in a
chair insulated by glass feet,. and the
negative pole of the battery us applied.
to the throat. The process is by no
means unpleasant and the effect is seid
to be truly remarkable. Instantly the
old musioel re,sonance returns, the voice
slips over the register with ease, and
power, and. after a few applic.stians the
change becomes feted end permanent.
Satisfactory results are only. obtained
where the failure of the voice is due
to relaxation of the chords and nerves.
In atese.s of lesions or disease the appli-
cation has no effect. In Parts this
method af tres.ting the voice hes be.
came quite ,general and is regarded as
the natural adjunct of a eoval career,
t Pitace in the story
*leered caterers
erten God..
the raven.s that
The family rose from the altar, Mr.
Birdseye, the old man, took his staff and
walked over the hills, and in a, place
where he had been scores of times with-
out noticing anything particular he saw
the ground wee very dark, and he took
his staff and turned up the ground, and
water started, and he beckoned to his
servants and they came and brought
buckets until all the family and all the
flocks and the herds were cared for, and
then they made troughs, reaching from
that place down to the house and barn,
and the water flowed, and it is a living
fonntain to -day.
Again this story of the text 'im-
presses me that relief came to this pro-.
phot with the most unexpected and
with seemingly impessible conveyance.
If it had been a robin red breast, or
a musical meadow lark, or a meek tur-
tle dove, or a sublime albatross that
had brought the food to Elijah, it
would not have been so surprising.
But, no. It was a bird so tierce and
inauspicate that we have fashioned one
of our most fckceful and repulsive
words out of it -ravenous. That bird
has a passion for picking out the eyes
of men and of animals. It loves to
maul the sick and the dying. It swal-
lows with -vulturous guzzle everything
it can put its beak on,. and. yet eel the
food Elijah gets for six months or a
year is from ravens. So your supply is
goin gto come from an unexpected
source. . I
lou think some great hearted. gener-
ous man will corne along and give you
his name on the back of your note, or
he will go security for you in some
great enterprise. No, be will not, God
will open the heart of some Shylock
toward you. Your relief will come
fro mtlae most unexpected quarter.
The providence width seemed ominous
Will be to you more auspiouous. It
will not be a chaffinch With brea,st
and wing dashed with white , and
brown and chestnut; it will be a bla,ck
raven.
Here is where we will make our mis-
take, Mel that is in regard to the color
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
OrMIP.11,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 5.
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' Gentiles Giving for Jewish Christians."
Cor, 9, 1 11. Golden Text, 9 Coy. 8:9.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. For. Here is one of mazy
cases where the division into chapters
an:d versals ectrifutses sense. This is the
closing part of the isentenee begun in
the last verse of tee preceding chapter:
"I beseech you to receive courteously
the, brethren. wherit I send, for con-
cerning the duty of oaring for the
temporal wants of the spiritually
mintle.d oues it is surely superfluous
for me to write to you.. who are so
Preetiet already." The persons sent
were Tithe; ase unnamed brother
"whose praiae is in; all the churches,"
amt whom it would, be, pleasnat if we
could, identify with Luke; and possi-
bby Er -Aldus also. Ministering to the
saints. "Caring for the holy ones."
Two opportunities to do this were about
to come to the Corineteare: first, Titus
and his companions; should be hospi-
tahey received, and, wooed, money for
the benefit of the otturch in Jerusalem
should be. generously given. "Saints"
ie con:money wed. aa st name for dis-
ciples of Obalet at both acts and, the
epistles. Ini Vele Bellee we are all
"saints;" setetpert erne; Peelde who
blame committed themselves to God. It
iS superfluous for me to write to you.
Here speaks the coerteous gen.tlenae,n.
They already understood and recog-
nizedethe duty of benevolence, but were
perhaps a little tardy in perforrairtg
it. Could a more delicate hint than
this be given/
2. The forwardness of your mind.
They had shown this "forwardness,"
or reediness, by beginning a. year be-
fore this to contribute, and the lib-
erelity of the Macedonian churcheshad
been. set in motion by their prompti-
tude. Nevertheless for tee time being
their plans were shelved, and little or
no money bad been sent to Paul, I
boast of you.. "1 a.m in the habit of
boasting concerning you." To them
of Macedonia,. "To Macedonians,"
among whom Paul Was now staying.
Titus had just returned to him with
news tbat the wally( zeal of the Corin-
thiaxes had begun to fail. Achaiaestas
ready, a year ago. "Rata been. pre-
pared for a year past." Admire in
popular phraseology, included all south-
ern Greet,e; Macedonia lay to the n.orith
of it. The apostle's boast had beenteuth-
fully made; their conduct at the out-
set had led him to believe that they
were ready to se.ad off the money as edson, Lihilio, or K.axneha. II. During leg te* the e eight adl, importance
A DUKE'S SNUFF BOXES.
The muff boxes presented to the first
Deka af Wellington, now in the pesz,
session of the present Duke at Apsley
House, are very numerous. At the be-
ginning of the, century a. snuff box was
She usual gift bestowed upon men of
distinction by potentates and publio
bodies, and they were showered upon
the heroofWaterloo on his return to
England. Several of them would ap-
pear to have .been greatly valued by
the Iron Duke, for they contain slips of
paper with the names of the donors
written in his awn somewhat peculiar
handwriting. The fre,edom of almost
every corporation of note in the king-
dom was bestowed upoa him, the -formal
parebment being inclosed in a hand-
some snuff box.
X-RAY SLOT MACIGNE.
Everything comes .t,o, the pennyain-
the-slot raaohine, sooner or later. Tbe
latest thing to be supplied to the public
is likely to be the X-rays. A member
of( thle French Academy, Monsieur
Vidal, &as patented a machin,e for sup-
plying pennyworths of this scientific
light. It is a small box, to which an
a,ppartus looking like an ordinary cam-
era is attached, the camera being on tee
era is attached, the camera beirog on top
oi the box,evehich is the storage place
for electricity. When the penny is
put into the slot the connection is force,
ed., and in the space which is left be-
tween nee camera and the box, the hid-
den substance be be investigated cam be
distinctly seen. Thus, a purse placed
in this space showed the coma, and the
hands and arms revealed their bones
just as lin the ordinary way.
WOMINI OF FINLAND,
The women of Finland are rapidly
becoming self-supporting. Three thous-
and have entered upon business careers.
Fifty-two Famish vvemaen are Super-
intendents of poor houses. There are
200 women completing their/ abudiee at
the Ilinivextete of iffeleingfors. One
thousand Finnish women are employed
in railroad, telegraph one pose offices;
900 are teachets and the denies are
managed exclusittely by the women.
Finnish women have organized two
large and flourishing clubs.
FRANCE'S ANARCHISTS.
There are • abont 2,000 persons in
France who are set dovrrt as Anarchists
and are under tlee.00nstant watch of
the police of the various European
countries -
gation. God toroth a cheerful giver.
God loves loving heart, a heart that
gives itdelf,
8. God is albee'to neeke all grace
abound toward you. Do not be afraid
that a large -hearted liberality . will
tend. to poverty. Give in faith and if)
tope as well as in love.- All youn, re-
souxces are in God.; he is youe real.
ba.nker, the giver and the conservator
of all your property, and all your earth-
ly possessions as well a stiour spiritual
ly poesessions as well as you,r spiritual
advantages are of hes abounding
"grace." He who lends to the Lord raa.y
feel sure of his pay, for God never dis-
honors a, loan. And "he that giveth
to the poor -or to the °emelt of God-
lendeth to the Lord." lifa.ving all safe
fieiency in all things. God abounds
to us that we may abound for oth-
ers,
9. As it is wirittent Here follows a
illuetateola tif Psalm 112, 9. He hate
dispersed. As seed is sattered abroad
without ainiciety.aa to where the grain
will fall. His righteousness remaineth
forever. Goodness proved by benefi-
cence, galantine goodness of chraraeter
and conduct, is eternal.
10. He bath ministered seed to the
sower. A very beautiful intimation
that the source of all our goodness to
others is God's goodness to us; that
every blessing we have is a seed which
God plaints, the proper harvest of which
is to be deeds done for the benefit of
others. Minister bread for your food.
Tbe Reviee,d Version, by inserting the
word "shall," changes this from a pray-
er in behalf of the Corito.thions to a
direet promise. Multiply. your sed
sown. Your seed for sowtnig, teat is,
the neonate which GM.1 gives you to be-
stow on others. Tea fruits of Yenr
righteousness. The reward of your
igoodaiess.
1.1. Beteg eeriebed in everything to
all boentifulness. Wealtia. is bestowed,
not for luxury nor display, but by ita
means to do good to others. Which
causeth through as thanksgiving to
God. Bringa about by our means
thanksgiving front these who are bene-
fited. The raaruey brought bat° the
hand of Titus in Corinth will cause
praises to Glad. to sound forth in eeru-
eaten'. '
WHAT THE TROUBLE IS ABOUT.
.1.1.1••••••
The iinwitUan Islands -Who Found Them -
Their illstory.
The. Hawaiian Islands were discov-
ered ist 1642 by Gaentan,o, a celebrated
navigator; ia the offieial record it la
given as 1555. This diseovery was lost
to the world. until they were re-dia•
covered by Pb Cook in 1778.
QUEER THINGS IN IHADA01,0
Strange ltevelstbiss at ttie Iltemonal
!Royal Itestanins-Weird Cerereentoo
Wild Music.
The aneient Kings of Madageecar a
the famous hely eity .3:13abohinuolgai
have been Wet subject of some Weak**
lion of late, writes a c.orrespondent.
A,raboheztaaiga is a few kilinnetrete
from Tenanarive Tee Heves *VA
their dynitaty bays made such it bad
use of the place welch is the hotbed
of steterstition and fauaticism that it
became .necessary to put an end to
their Continued fetish ceremonial),
which tarnished occaateets fOr aeon.
tioue outburst and ineurreetionary ape
Peale.
Gen,. Gallieni told the Hoven thet
it would be better to have their ale.
waters all. buried. in the palace Of
Tananarive with a guard of honor;
wad. the Zetaadralambo caste the only
men who have a right to touch the
bodies of princes, were Beet out un-
der the commend of Dr. Isscaze, the
director of native affairs, end, the
arolitect Jelly, assisted. by an escort(
of militia to remove 2,11 the royal
bodies from Amboluimanga. On the
way they halted at the city of elafys
0. Italf iaoly town, to move the bodlesoe
some other members of the royal Tate.
The convoy arrived at o'clock lie UP
morning, in tbo beautiful and eleaz
nthoelight. Me cortege had been in-,-
erea.sed, by a crowd of men from the
village. Monotonous- prayera and
responses of between four and. five
thousaad attendants were followed by,
prole/wed chants. Four or five
groups of musicians here and there
broke the long line ot tee weiee robed,
processioaistsi These musielans pier,
ed polkas, waltzes end queerillee whiehl
were entermingied with sad. and. sem-
eolent Alalgasy airs pheyed. by •
A MULTITUDE OF CLARINETS. ;
The clarinet, the product of Europeart ,,
civilization is 1$1 this country timber/.
°rite instrument for rendering all trdit1
impressions of th.e soul. Coesequently, •
it bans the highest place ia the or.
chesisas.
Those islands were governed by in- moos. 'l -he etatann aaletee et the ink"
long, wellies Reece:men that lookedlike
a line of sever in the raya .0
The deliciously pure night air, the
hdeampeenhtennt !hie: aeaggeraeeasigivaeleachesie. fee, aseaube: rinensettadiocorr at.enciti odtisvotheeniiin7orathenarivameaserfeird:
jugated all the islands in 1795-6, exoept tustl sp,,,t„,,iff
Menai. This island gave its allegiance points by from twenty-five to thirty,
enriched at certain!
to Ka.m.eliagneha a few years later.. Weafaiques at a. clerk red. color that
linatehemeha founded a dynasty, whic,h , retntebaed the remains of the King*
in 1819, he was saweeded by his adopt- es, 32, 91, iane even 120 men „accord-,
thuel laboadidaesgaa"werre. Carried pr..-
.
ruled over the Letan-ds until 1872, Dying i Thod-rae4t1T'
many. Your enthusiasm has stirred up ma missiorariee arrived. in. the islands, ihal:if ciFthe.m.eaheljvoNevererei6"nehpite, ciwsoas21110ov0seilrkve,litosri;is. ainlaWasse'h°1ellieeni.
that of others. ' the catafaieue. Almost all the cute.
soon as a.uthorized persons came to col- the reign a this king idoletry and the
lent it, Your zeal bath provoked very "tabu" were abolished.. In 182,0 Amerie
to be Titus, Duke ad Erastus. , affair bee et) be taken apart to facile-,
3. Sent the brethren. Whom we sup- wofhatit;enathtieony wiwtrIZedut toheraphizeoommennons
eat our boasting of you should be in tate the task of the eterriers who
vain in this behalf. "Our glorying missionDzi well • d b th i were staggering wader it9 great
es were we receive y e weigu.
t
about you et this respect be made void." natives and then the work of Christian -1 Nothing could be more fantastic then
izing them began in eitrneat. In less 1 tails march in the night between !the
There had been a stormy time in Oor- than 40 years the Hawaiians were , thin line of bayonets of the militia,
intle serious divisions among the breth- taught to read, write, cipher and sew. ' natives ef the country enrolled under
ren; and it is difficult to make elite- ' Eamehamelia, II. and. his wife visited the Frei:Mb Wag. There was not one
eral collection .for any benevolence dur- ' England where they died in July, 182e.. aeditious try or a single discordant
ing a church quarrel. Paul knew teat 1 Previous to 1838 the government was note,. At -2 a.m., the cortege moved.
though they were faulty. He had. boast- III.
these argumenta.tive men were good, ' a despotism, but en 1840 Ka.miammella slowly into the grounds of the Queen's
Palace as the last motes a the olarinets
"in this respect "--concerning their 1 GlitANTED A CONSTITUTION, i
I were expirtag. 'Me bodies were plac-
ed of their many excellent qualities, but 1
benevolence th the poor of Jerusalem ! This constitution con ; sisted of a king,' ace asad the supports before the
ed on tee sidewaaks a the Silver Pal-
-he was a little afraid after this con- l an assembly of nobles and a represeu- 1 tombs, to await the ceremonies that
fidence might prove to be unwarraand tittive, in weenie The United. States i were to be performed later. Sentinels
ed- Ye maY be reedy. Have the men- : recognized. the independence of the were placed here and there, and, 'car-
e. Lest haply. I.est by any means. If
they a Macedonia come with me, and e
I Ila.ivailaa kiartdom in 1842; the inde- , rying laaterns lighted with tallow can-
ey collecte,d on time.
find you unprepared. Paul was about ,
Ipeedence af the islan,d was recognized dies, the jinn:tease crowd dvrindled
.1..?start for Corinth from Macedonia. , y Great Britaiin end France in away without the least incident.
was protable that certain Macedon- 1843. This constitution. remained in 1 At 9 o'clock all the beads were
ian Chnstiast friends, would accompany - • aa
Iforce uritil 1861, wime it was made gleamed in teit courtyard, where they
him. It would never do to find the void by K shame& V. Another commenced their inter,oainable and
couastitu ion . .
Corinthian collection not yet taken' t -was promulgated in Its strange repertoire. While they were
such a 'discovery would reflect on both I
place, irapasiog qualifications on suf- ' pouring fourth. their floods of harraona
the Corinthian church and on Paul We '
frage and on eligibility to the aegis -1 Rae -anise the head. of the MalgasyGov-
ature• also centralizing the govern -1 erntnent, arrived, escorted, by a corn -
.1
a exquipite thot Iittese, appointed by Gen. Gallieni. The
'that we see not, ye) A stroke meet Lut° the hands eif the king. Re-
continge.no.y, and merely touches on
BeRe. empht„ menemeha died m 1873 arid was sue- old tombs of tee palace were opened
eeeded by his brother, Ltenalice who ivith
sizes his own shame in such a
the disgrace which the failure would
bring upon themselves. Should be as- was elected to the throne. On the 1
death of Lumalio in 1874, GRAND CEREMONIES
h,a.med. Wisely does Dr. F. W. Rob- ' ktiag'
David Kalakaua by name was ebesen i
a high chief- 1, to receive the remains of the ancea-
erteson advise. "Always appeal to the , tors Met were brought there eirly
highest motives; appeal whether they existing system demanded some mea -1
In 1886 the. state finances under the i that morning. Everything was ear-,
ried under the supervision of M. Jully.
where you do not find them, When 1 In the interior of the queer -shaped
Arnold at Rugby declared that he
for you -melte teem sure af reform. Tee king was called
upon. to dismiss the c,atinet and form mausoleum the first Kings of ,Mada-
be there or up,
believed what every boy affirrcted, and stitution was inaugurated, under fasten and open, as in the case at Aa32-
e• $10W constitution in 1887. 1111iS eon- boxes, when it was necessary ta '111 -
believed
repose in big rectangular zino
seowed by his conduct that he thor- which the powers of the government bonimaega and. Ilafy. I assisted at the
oughly trusted all his scholars, at-
were curtailed. and tbe popular basis of opening of some of these iarcopha.gi.
tempts at deceiving him forthwith
ceased." . government extended. In the autumn The bodies are campletely muxtunified
of 1890, Kalakaua went to California and enveloped in 100, 150 and 200 silk
5. I thought it necessary to exhort for his health. He died there 'neatly.- wrappings. All that was niecessary
the brethren. "To entreat the.." are of thei teed year. He was sun- ; was, tie =roll the first ores to an.ake
hasten so as to call the attention of wished to have a new constitution der the heads and under the feet,
i the. identificatioa perfectly clean
That they would go before you. Ho 'seeded by his sister Lilioikalani.
had urged Titus and his comrades to Quee,n Lil, eta gaining the scepter. Armed the bodies, above, below, uis-
the Corinthians to this • duty in time. made for the purpose of increasing her silks canines, raiment, ornamented in
Make up beforeland your bounty.
"Make up beforehand your aforepro-
raised bouety." As a. matter of bounty,
and not as of covetousness. A4 a vol-
untary spontaneous beneficence, not
as an assessment, grudgingly paid.
6. But this I say. Here Paul lays
dowil a. great principle, hinted at in
other places. Gal. 6; 7; 1 Cor. 9. el;
.3 -ernes, 3, 18; Prete 22. 8. Our thoughts
are seeds of tyletch eaoh shall erow to
the herveet. Soweith roaringly. Net
-by merely making small gifts, for, as
J aime declared concerning the Widow's
inite, some ot tee smallest gifts are
ha tee eyes of God the greatest; but
by giving little in proportion to tibility.
Soweth bountifully. lihe margin of
the Revised Versieln; tares the
phrase literally into English, " sow-
eth with blessings." God's measure of
bountifulness is not the quantity of
the gift, .but the spirit, of, the giver.
Shall reap. The harvest will be of
many sorts -secular advantage,. a de-
lightful consciousness of aicluag the
cease of Chaise an evetlasting re-
ward.
7. As he purposete in his Inert No
good deed is ever- done that ie not the
outflow either of one's "disposition "
or one's conscious decision. Giving be
-
cease the appeal is importunate, or`
because one has done wrong and wishes
his wrong condoned, or is ill sorrow
and wants his sorrow relieved, or be-
cause it is the fashion to give, ie all
wrong.What our moral sense leads
U s to give -that and that only is count-
ed by the heavenly book-keepers. Not
grudgingly. The margin of the RevLs-
ed Version, snakes it 'not of sorrow,"
or "from grief, as if half cryingover
the loss of tee money given."-Whedon.
Of necessity. By assessment OT &Ai.
power in the government. This high-
handed policy led to a rebellion in
which a single life was not sacrificed,
all these events happening in 1893. !As
result the monarchy was over thrown
and the Hawaiian repu.blic came into
existence.
ROBBERY OF BACILLI.
All Paris is in. a state of alarra owing
to the offic151 aninouncement that 50
rabbits inoeulated with virus of chol-
era, typhus, anthrax, oroup and Jock -
jaw have been. stolen from the mumi-
oipal ohesnical laboratory. In spite of
all tee efforts on the part of the police
to get on the track of the fleeting rab-
bits and of the thieves who stole them,
no clew has as yet been found, and an
uweanfortable impression exists to the
effect that in spite of the strict sup-
ervision to wee& the raarkets of the
metropolis were subjected on the theft
becoming knerivn, the virus-infected
bunnies heve ittreade been converted
tato teat so popular dish, "gibelottes
de lapin.," and eaten with gusto by un -
unsuspecting citizens.
REMARKA.BLE PIGEON FLIGHT.
Muth interest has been excited in
metropolitan pigeon flying circles by
the perfotananee of a Ned owned by
Brjr. Etiangelest, of South Tottenham,
*Lath has flown from the Shetland Is-
lands to Londoe, distant 591 miles, in
the recordtittle of 36 hours 54 minutes,
from whieh must be deducted the hours
a darkness during Which, the birds can-
not flry.
there tvas a oollectiou of laces nesele
gold and silver casquets, toys, money
bags filled with silver coins, etc., all
slightly tarnished, giving evidence ot
just a. little humidity, but without the
slightest oder af mustiness or of de-
composition.
The mast astonishing thing in this
atra,n,ge country is the marvellous skill
with which em.badmiug is carried on.
The skeletons are intact. The skin re- -
mitins like parchment upon the bowie.
The thick silk wrappings doubtless act
as isolents and comeletely repel all the
attacees of decomposition. Moreover,
the final interment is delayed by tong
ceremonies, during whioh the body, irt
its wrappings is exposed. and there
ougialy dried.
Respect for the dead in this colon'
try is so great, and. worship of an-
cestors is so lasting and so thorough-
ly blended with superstitious dread.
that net one of the thousands of tombs
teat surround Tananarive, •'was ever
robbed, notwithstanding the numer-
ous treasures that they all colutitill„
In extreme cases only the head bat the
family is permitted to take away the
coins with which the pillows 'of his
ancestors are stuffed -
THE ORIGIN OF THE TALE.
The Farmer -Yes; I know the spoie
It's about five tulles up the road, ant
they call it "The Lovers' Leap."
Summer Boarder --And there's ani
old tradition about an Indian giT1 who
sprang from it.
The Farmer-4E03'm; it's a pretty
016. tradition. I ticket) it mnst 'a been
started when folks around here teat be-
gan to take summer boarders.