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Exeter Times, 1897-9-16, Page 3pemieeemmeeemeeemmer— NOTES' 4NlCOMh—„,, TR. I EVE'S FATAL SOWING News of the progrees of the struggle In Brazil Is meagre and somewhat con - but it is evident that the Md- eral los.ses in the great battle at Cocor- obo, near Ca,nudos, though sufficiently ilerious, were considerably leas so than at first resorted. Canudo,s, the strong- hold of the fanatics, was reported to have been occupied by the government forces, early in Tune, after a desper- ate battle for its possession, bet later news indioates either that it was not taken, or that it was subsequently re- covered by the rebels. For it was the advance of General Savagit, with 5,000 men to the supPort of General Oscar yeho, with a force of 6,000 men, bas for the past four months been conducting Military operations against the fana- tics at Careolos, which brought about the recent disastrous engagement. Gen- •eraa Sayegh advanced from the east, and. the rebels, in order to prevent his - ' junction with the main array, under General Oscar, with a view to a corn- hined attack, concentrated at Moore - ho, a barren field hedged in with rocks on the only roa•cl to Canticles. From tbe rocks on either side the rebels pour- ed. in a withering fire upon the advanc- ing troops, and. it was only by a bay- onet charge executed under the most difficult conditions Met they were fin- ally dislodged, and. the field and pass heyond it cleared. The official re- ports state that the federal loss exceed- ed 500 killed and 600 wounded, and that of the fanatics about 1,000, but unof- Siegal advices place the former at 2,000 and. the latter at less than 1,000, which iseenas more probable. The federal forces had, at last ac- coutits, effected a junction at Cana - dos, and it is hoped hat with the cap- ture a that stronghold, the revolt may be quelled, as, indeed, it must speedily be if it is not to become so formidable as to jeopardize the safety of the re- pubaio. The government is taking !steps to strongly reinforce the army 'under General Oscar, but as Canudos is in the Sierras of the state of Bahia, and. distant 700 miles or more from the , seaboard many weeks must elapse be- fore the new battelione will be avail- able for aotive operationIn the field. Meantime, the fanatics, who now num- ber from 10.000 to 15,000, are quite cer- tain to be also considerably reinforced, and as they are said to fight with the utmost deterraination and impetuosity, and. believe their leader, Antonio the Counsellor, to be in.spired, suppression of) the revolt will not be an easy mat- ter. The movement was started os- teosibly for the restoration of relig- ion in Brazil, the counsellor declaring that the government had. become irre- ligious, but it is suspected that its real purpose Is the restoration of monarchy, the monarchical part backing it and the old royal flag being u,sed. In any event, with a weak army, am imp0v- oriahed treasury, a president in ill - health and so discouraged as to con, template assignation, a revolt which tor more than six months has defied the power a the governrment to sup- press constitutes a serious menace to the republic). It is the more serious because of the many disaffected ele- ments in the country, the monarchists, the ecelestiastics dissatisfied with the loss of influence under a republic, and the political Malcontents, who may make use of it, to attempt the over- throw of liberal institutions. STOREHOUSES ON STILTS. Among the numerous hardships of living in Alaska is the difficulty about aupplies and provLsions. It is hard en- ough to obtain sufficient food to sus- tain life and after provisions have been procured it is just as difficult to keep them. The native doge and bears eat everything they can had; and they dis- play a remarkable amousat of intelli- gsnce and slyness in locating something to eat. The miners have tried many, methods of protecting their stores and are now resorting to melees or small houses built on stilts. Here they keep their food with, some degree cif safety, and the dogs and the bears miss the eleasuree of stolen meat. ORM COSTLIEST PICTURE FRAME. The most valuable picture frame in the world is that of the celebrated painting, "The Virgin and theChild," at the Milan Cathedral. It is very massive, and is richlychased in gold and studded with precious stones, with beautiful mosaic work pictures of Bib- lical scenes at each corner. Ellis wonderful frarae is said to have cost upward of £25,000. A QUEER SIGHT. A queer sight was the ladies' night of a London microscopical club, where the guests sat around 104 microscopes listening to a lecturer. One of the euriosities shown was a chapter of St. joihn written on the two thousa,ndth part of a square blob, on which scale the whole Bible would cover just one square inch of vitae. I BLIND INSURANCE. !insurance against blindness. is an act - nal feet in England. Those between the 7ge. of 16 and 45 can insure Mr 3sper rnnura, Should they go blind they re- ceive £52 a year, by quarterly Metall - meats for •as long a period. as suell blinidne,ss shall continue. A SUEDIYED HUSBAND. There's Perkins—you know Perkins? —entered into an agreenseut with his wife soon after their marriage, twenty veers ago, that whenever either lost homer or stormed, the other was to keep silence, Arid the toluene worked?! edmirably. Perkins bee kept sil.. ( Tice or ihentyl years WHICH HUMANITY HAS BEEN REAP- ING EVER SINCE. 915,291 The Calamity in Paradise — Fruit That Does Not Belong to Es Rust be Held Sacred—Bev. Dr, Talmage's Picturesque Perinea Oli Fatal shams. On Sunday Rev. Dr. Talmage preach- ed, from Genesis, ill. 6: "And when the woman saw that the tree was good, for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, a,ncl did eat, and give also unto her hus- band with her, and he did eat." it is the first Saturday afternoon in the world's existence. Ever since sunrise Adam has been watching the brilliant pageantry of wings and scales and clouds. In his first lesson in zoo- logy and, ornithology and ichthyology he has noticed that the robins fly the air in twos and that the fish SWIM the water in twos and that the lions walk the fields in twos and in the warm re- dolence of that Saturday afternoon be falls off into sbunber. and. as if by al- legory to Mule all ages that the great- est of earthly blessings is sound. sleep, this paradisaical somnolence ends with the discovery on the part of Adam of a aorre.sponding intelligence just landed on a new planet. 0. the mother of all the living, I speak—Eve, the first, the fairest and. the best, roake me a garden. 1 inlay the paths with mountain moss, and. 1 border them with peerle from Ceylori and. diarbencla from Golconda. Here and there are fountains tossing in the sunlight and ponds that ripple under the paddling of the swans. 1 gather me lilies from the tAmazon and orange groves front the tropies and tamarinds from Goyaz. There are woodbine and honeysuckle climbing over the wall and. starred. spaniels sprawling themselves on the grass. 1 invite amid ibese trees the larks. and the brown thrushes and the robins, and all the briglatest birds of heaven, and. they stir the air with in- finite chirp and carol. And, yet the place is a desert filled with darkness and. death as compared with the resid- ence of the woman of the text. the sub- ject of my story. Never since have such skies looked down through such leaves into suet' waters! Never bas riv- er wave had such curve and sheen and bank as adorned tbe Pison, the Havilah, th Gihee and. the Hiddekel, even the rabbles being bdellium and onyx stones! Mat fruits, with no cumuli° to sting the rind I What flowers, witb no slug to gnaw the root! Wbat atmosphere, with no frost to Wit and with no heat to consume I Bright colors tangled in the grass. Perfume in the air. Music in the sky. Great scenes of gladness and love and. joy. , Bight there under a, bower of leaf and. vine and shrub occurred the first mar- riage. Adam took the hand of this im- maculate daughter of God and. pro- nounced the ceremony when he said: "Bone of lay bone and flash of nay flesh." A forbidden tree stood in the raid,st of that exquisite park. Eve saun- tering out one clay alone, looks up at the tree and sees the beautiful fruit an& wonders if it is sweet and wonders if it is sour and. standing there says: I think I will jolt put my hand upon the fruit. It will do no damage to the tree. 1 will not take the fruit to eat, but I will just take it down to exam- ine it." She examined the fruit. She amid: "I do not think there can be any harm in my just breaking the rind of it." She put the fruit to her teeth. she tasted, she allowed Adam also to taste the fruit, the door of the world open- ed, and. the monster sin entered. Let the heavens gather blackness, and the wind. sigh on the boson of the hills, and cavern, and desert, and earth, and sky join in one long. deep, hell -tending howl, "The world is lost 1" Beasts that before were harmless and full of play put forth claw and sting and teeth and tusk. Birds whet their beak for prey. Clouds troop in the sky. Sharp thorns shoot up through the soft grass - blasting on the leaves. All the chard; of that great harmony are snap- ped upon the brightest home this world ever saw our first parents turned. their backs and led forth on a path of sor- row the broken hearted myriads of a ruined race. Do you not EN03 in the first place the danger of a poorly regulated inquisi- tiveness? She wanted to know how the fruit tasted. She found out, but 6000 years have deplored that unhealthful curiosity. Healthful curiosity has done a great deal for letters, for art, for sci- ence and .for religion. It has gone down into the depths of the earth with the geologist and seen the first chapter of Genesis written in the book of na- ture, illustrated with engraving on rock, and it stood with the antiquarian while he blew the trumpet of resurrec- tion over buried Herculaneum and Pompeii, until from their sepulcher there came up shaf I, and terrace and amphitheatre. Healthful curiosity has enlarged the telescopic vision of the estrenotner until worlds bidden in the distant heavens have trooped. forth and have joined the choir praising the Lord. Planet weighed against planate and wild,est coinet lessooed with replend- ent law. Healthful curiosity has gone clown and found the tracks of the et- ernal God in the polypi and the star- fish under the sea and the majesty of the great iTebovah encaxnped under the gorgeous eurtains of the dahlia. It has etudied the spots on the sun, and the larva in a beeoh leaf, and the light under a firefly's wing, and the terrible eye glance of a condor pitching from Chimborazo. It has studied the my- riads of a,nimalculae that made up the phosphoreecence in a ship's wake and the mighty maze of suns and spheres and constellations of galaxies that blaze on in the march of God. (Healthful euxiosity has stood by the inventor un- til forme that were hidden for ages come to wheels, and levers and shafts and shattles—foroes that fly the air, or swim the sea, or cleave the mountain until the earth jars and roars and rings and. crackles and booras with strange ineohanism and ships with nostrils of hot steam and yokes of fire draw the 'continents together. I say nothing against healthful curi- osity. May it have other Leyden jars, and other electric batteries, and other voltaic piles, and other magnifying - THE EXETER TIMES glasses, with which to storm tbe barret castles of the natural world until it shall surrender its last secret. We thank God for the geological ouriosity of Professor laitelicock, the mechanic - el curiosity of Liebig, and the zoologi- cal curiosity of Cuvier, and the inven- tive curiosity of Edison, but we must admit that unhealthful and irregular inquisitiveness has rushed thousands and tens of thousands into ruin. Eire juat tasted the fruit. She was curious to find out. how it tasted, and that curioeity blasted her and blasted all nations. So there are clergymen in this day, inspired by unhealthful inquisitiveness, w,ho have tried to look through the keyhole of God's mysteries —mysteries that were ba.rred and bolt- ed froni all human inspection—and they have wrenched their whole moral ne- t -are out of joint by trying to pluck fruit from branches beyond their reach, or have come one on limbs of the tree from. whieh they have tumbled into ruins without remedy. A thousand trees of religious, knowledge from which we may eat and get advantage, but fro'm certain trees of mystery how many have plueked their ruin! Elec- tion, free agency, :trinity, resurreo- tion,-fn the diseuesion of these sub- jects huadreds and thousands of peo- ple raise the soul. There are men who actually have been kept out of the kingdom of heaven because they could not understand who eleichisedeo wad not I Oh, how. many have been destroyed by an unhealthful inquisitiveness It is seen in all directions. There are those who stand. with the eye stare and mouth gape of curiosity. They are the first to hear of falsehood, build it another story high and LIND WiDge to it. About other people's apparel, about other people's business, abouti other peop•le',s fie.enciel condition, about other people's affairs they are overanxious, Every 'dee eistie of gos- sip stops at their clear, and they fat- ten and luxuriate in the endless round of the great world of tittle tattle. They invite and suniptuously entertain at their hawse Colonel Twaddle and Squire Caitehat and Governor Smolltalle. V , hoover bath an innuendo, whoever hat.h a &candle, whoever lath a valu- able secret, let hirrt memo and saeri- flee it to this goidees of splutter. Thousands h. Adams and. Eves do no- thing but eat fruit that does not be- long to them, men quite well known as inathematietans fulling in this corn- pu.tatiou of mortal algebra—goot sense path good breeding, minus curiosity equale minding your own affairs I 'Mete how rua.ny young men through curiohty go through the wbole reelm or French novas to see whether they are really as bad as maralists have pronounced them. They coma near the verge cif the precipice just to look off. They want to see how fer it really is down, but they lose their bal- ance while they look and fah into re- x:mail/he ruin, or, catching themselves, clamber up, bleeding and ghastly on the rock, gibbering with curses or or groaning ineffectual prayer. By all means encourage healthful inquls- itiveneiss ; by ell means discourage ill regulated curiosity. Thissibject else impresses mesvith the Met that fruits that are sweet to the taste may afterward. produce great agony. Forbidden fruit Mr Eve was so peasant she invited her husband also to take of it. But her banishment from paradise and 6000 years of sorrow and wretcbedness and wax and woe paid. for that luxury. &n may be very sweet at the start, and it may induce great wretchedness afterward, The cup of sin is sparkling at the top, but there is <teeth at the bottom. In- toxication has reat exhilaration for alivilele, and it fillips/ the blood, and it makes a man see five stars where oth- ersecen see only one star„ audit makes the poor manrich, and burns checks whieb, are white red, as roses. Rut what about the dreams that come af- ter when he seems falling from great heights or is prostrated. by other fanci- ed disasters and the perspiration stands on the forehead—the night dew of everlasting tdarkness—and he is ground under the horrible hoof of nightmares shrieking with lips that (hackle with all-cansulming torture? "Rejoice, u youag men in thy youth, and. let thy heert cheer thee in the days of thy youth. But know thou that for all these things God. will bring thee into judgmen,t Sweet at the start, horrible at the last. Go into haill of revelry, where usagodty mirth staggers and blasphemes. Listen to the sause..ess gabble. See the last trace of intelligence iinshed out from faces made in God's own image, "Aha, aha 1" says the boistering inebriate, "This is joy for you., ell high your cape, my boys. I drink Lo my wife's misery, and iny ehildren's rags, and any God's defiance." And he knows not that a fie•nd stirs the goblet in his hand and that adders luseoli from the dregs and thrust their forked tongues hissing through the froth on the rim. The Philistines jeered and laughed and shouted at Samson. Oh, they wanted him to make eport for them, and the made sport for them! How bright and gay was the scene for a little whit& Alter awhile the giant puts one hand against this pillar and. the other hand against that pillar and bows himself, and 3000 merry -makers are mashed like grapes in a Wille press. 8in rapturous at the start, awfue at last. That one Edenio aransgression did not seem to be much, but it struck a blow which to this day makes the earth stagger. To find mit the hensequences of that one sin you svou,d have to compel the world to throw open all its prison doors and display ,the crimes, end throw open all its hospitals and display the disease, and throw open all the insan,e asylums and show the wretchedness, and open all the sepul- c.hers and show the dead, and open all the doors of the lost world and show the damned. That one Ethnic trans- gression stretched chords of misery across the heart of the world and etreck them with dolorous wailing, and it has seated the plagues upon the air and the shipwreoks upon the temptest, and fastened, like a leech, faroine to the heart of the sick a,nd dying na- tions. Beautiful at the start, borne has at the last. Oh, how many have experienced it I Are there here those who are vota- ries oa pleasuire? Let me warn you my brother. You pleasure boat is far from shore, and year summer day is ending roughly, for the winds and the waves are lou,d-voiced, end th,e over- coming clouds are all awrithe and a- gleam with terror. You, are past the Narrows, and almost outside the Hoots, end if the Atlantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt never get to shore again. Put back, row wittily, swifter, swifter! 'Teems from, the shore cast- eth a rope. Clasp ib quickly, now or never. Oh i are there not some of you who are freighting all your loves and joys and hopes opon it vessel which shall never reach the port of heaven? Thou. nearest the I...walkers. One heave hilion the rooke, Oh, what an awful crash was that! Another lunge may crush thee ben,ea,th the spars or grind thy bones to powder amid the torn timbers. Overboard for your life, over- board! Trust not that loose plank nor attempt the wave, but quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking on the waatera pavement shouting until He hears thee, "Lord safe me or 1perish I" Sin beauti- ful at the start—oh, how sad, how dis- tressful at the last! The ground over which it leads you is hollow. The frith it offers, to your taste is poison. The promise it makes to you is a he. Over that ungodly: banquet the keen award of God's judgment bangs, and there are ominous handwritings on the wall,. Observe also in this subject how re- pelling sin is when appended to great attractiveness. Since Eve's death there has been no such perfection of womanhood. You. could not suggest an attractiveness in the body or suggest any refinement to the manner. You. could add no gracefulness to the gait, no lustre to the eve, no sweetness to the voice. A perfect God. made her a perfect woman, to be the companion of a perfect man in a perfect home, and her entire nature vibrated in accord with the beauty and song of paradise. Bat she rebelled against God's govern- ment, and with the same hand with which she plucked the fruit she launch- ed upon the world the crinae, the wars, at.thlevattutimnugl.ts that haves set the universe, • A. terrible offset to all her attractive- ness. We are not surprised, when we find men and women 'suturally vulgar going into transgression. We expect tbat people who live in tbe ditch shall have the manners of the &tell, but how shocking when we find sin appended to superior education and to the refine- ment of social life I The accomplish- ments of elary, Queen of Scots, make her patronize of Darnley, the profli- gate, the more appalling. The genius of Catherine II. of Russia only set forth in more powerful contrast her unappeasable ambition. The tamale.- , hoes from the Greek arid the Latin by I Elizabeth and her wonderful qualifieo, i hens for a queen' made the more dis- gusting her caprunousness of affection , and, her hotness of temper. The greatness of Byron's mind makes the m.ore alarming. Byron's eensuality. I Let no one, think that refinement of !manner or exquisiteness of taste or seperiority of education can in any wifie apalogize for ill temper, for an oppres- sive Writ, for unkindness, for any kind of stn. Disobedience Godward and t transgression =inward can give no ex- cuse. Aceomplislunent heaven high is not apology for vice hell deep. , My subject also impresses me with 'the regal influence of -women.. When :Isee Eve with this powerful influence over Adam and over the generations that have followed, it suggests to me the great power all women have for , good or for evil. I hav eno sympathy, nor have you, with the hallow flatteries showered upon women from the plat- : form and the stage. They mean no- thing, they are 'tempted as nothing. Woman's nobility consists in, the exer- ' eise a Christian influence, and when see this powerful influence of Eve up- , ma her husband and upon the whole human race I make up my mind. that , the frail arm' of women can strike a. A blow which will resound through all et- ernity down among the, dungeons or , up among the thrones, (hi course f am not speaking of re- presentative women—of Eve, who ruin- ed the race by one fruit picking; of Jael, 'who drove a spike through the head of Siserae the warrior; of Esther, who overcame royalty; of Abigail, who stop- ped a host by her own beautiful prow- ess; of Mary, who nursed the world's , Saviour; of Grandmother Lois, immort- I alii zed n her grandson Timothy; of Charlotte Corday, who drove the dag- ger through the heart of the assassin . of her lover, or of Marie Antoinette, wbo by one look from the balcony of her castle quieted a mob, her own scaf- fold the throne of forgiveness and wom- anly courage. I speak not, of these ex- traordinary persons, but of those, who, unambitious for political power, as wives and mothers and sisters end odriatgebsteorihsaorae attend to the tbousand sweet When at last we come to calculate the forces that decided the destiny of nations, it will be found that the might- iest amd grandest' influence came from home, where the wile cheered up ele- spondency and fatigue and sorrow by ber own sympathy, and the mother trained her child for heaven, starting the little feet on the path to the celestial city, and the sisters by their gentleness relined. the manners of the brother, and the daughters were diligent in their kindness to the aged, throwing wreaths of blessing on the road that leads father and mother down the steep of years. God bless our home! And may the home on earth be the vestibule a our home in heaven', in which place naay we all meet—lathe; mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather and grandmother hnd grandchild, and the entire group of /precious ones of whom we must say Wrestleyzords of transporting Charted One family, we dwell in Him; Our church above, beneath, Though now divided by a stream— The narrow stream of death— One army of the living God, To His command we bow, Part of the host have erossed the flood, Part are crossing now. AN ANCIENT DEED. The librarian of St. Paul's, London, has in his keeping many very interest - lag documents, among others a deed of gilt from labia Ethelbert of a farm in Kent, which lie made over to St. Pool's at a time when: the cathedral was but am insignificant structure of wood. Ilhe rent from the land is received to this day. EXCUSA,BLE DELAY'. Goad Minister—It is hours since you left the dealer's with that parrot, and you are just getting it here. Messenger Boy—Please sir, I noticed that the parrot said swear words; so me an' the other good little boys got up a pretreated naeetire to con.vert hun. He's all right now, sir. A STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE. Plinks—By the way, I must introduce you to my friend Winks. He's one of the best /allows en the world, a noble fellow, glorious fellow. He's had a great many up and downs, Winks has. Jinks—Judging from your enthusi- asm, he is now on one of the ups. --.-• LOW-NECKED BOTTLES. 1V1unnysacks (sterely)—,Tames, after this, please uncork all of the •bottles in my presence. 1 notice that when you draw the corks en the pantry, the wine is extremely decollete, James ,(the butler)—Extremely de- collete, Munnysacks—Yee, James; wary low an the nook. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 19. "Paul's Address to the Bliffealitu Aids 20. 22-55. tioldett Text, Acts 20135." PRACTICAL VOTE& Verse 22. And 130W, behold, I go bound in the spirit. Yielding ',obedi- ence to the inward impulse which be recognizes as preceeding from on higb. Not knowing the things that. shall be- fall me, The prophetic voices fore- warned him of coming perils, but left uhrevealed their precise nature and their final result. 23. The Holy Ghost witness- eth. Probably by direct re- velation ansi through the lips of prophets. We have no record of these predictions, which must have been giv- en at Corinth, Philippi, and Treas. But ii,441, 15, 30, 31, written just before this voyage, expresses anxiety as to its re- sults. Bonds and afflistions abide me. "Await me." In mercy God hides cozniug clouds of sorrow frorn most men but Paul's was one of those rare souls that only grow stronger in ihe foe° of approaching afflictions. 24. None of these things move me. "I make no aecount of these things." Dan- gers are not to be seasoned when duty lies in the way. Neither count 1 ray life dear unto myself. Most of usmost of the time regard our lives as our most precious possession, but Paul's hfc was Of ne e count compared with his ministry. That 1 might iinish ray coarse. An illustration ivhich Paul frequently employed, derived tram the foot re*. With joy: The trihu'ations of his life brought him, frequent grief, but, its completion with faithfulness to - weal God svould work out eternal joy. The ministry, weal). 1 lave received of the Lord Jesus. Summoned to so noble a work by sixth divine authority one might well persevere through opposi- tion. The Gospel of the gone of God. The work of the pre•teilver is "to bear witness to the good. news of God's mercy." 25. I know. He felt eonfident, that his work in Arida was ihropleted. Prep. -11111g, "Heralding." The king- dom. of God,. For the coining of which W6 pray night, and. morning. Shall see my face no more. This was not pro - piney but expectation. He knew not what might result from tht• corning per - Muttons and. if preserved, througb them he proposed to turn his facie to- ward. new fields in the west. Whether or not his words were verified is uncer- Min. Some think that about ten years leter period between his first and his final imprisonment, he visited the oburehes of that section. There -are several allusions, for examplee 2 Tim, 4. 13, 20; 1 Tim. 1., 3,0 which seem to imply that Paul revisited Trues, Mile- tus, and Ephesus. 26. I take you to record. 1! oaU You to bear witness. Pure from the blood of all mem. His conscience, at- tested by the consenting yoke of his People, acquits him of negleet. No soul that his efforts might have saved has been lost. Read. Ezek. 33. 27. I have not shunned. "I have kept back nothing." The se.= phrase in the original appears in verse 20. It is easy to suit the Gospel to tbe de- sires of the hearers, and to dwell light- ly on the unwelcome truths; but such preaching will not satisfy God's call nor save souLs. 28. Take heed, therefore, unto your- selves. Those who are charged with the care of other souls must first watch over their own. To all the flook. The church is the fold for Christ's sheep. The Holy Ghost, The presiding spirit of God. Hath made you. We "elect" and "ordain " but even when we little only things that are aeeded. To tbera that were whit Ma He cc, red not only for himself but for others also. 35. So laboring. His industry .help-, ed society and belped the Christian Church. And as he had heaped, those who were weak he desired that they might follow his example. They were urged to labor, not that they might gain, but that they raight give. It is more blessed to give thao, to receive. When Jesus said this we do not know. It is not found, in the Gospel, but "it is in perfect accord with all his teach- ings: ...••••••••••••••••..... SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE. Terrible Effects of au Earthquake in Japan —011:1zirarlieudn. dred People 'Were Drowned Oriental advices state that a great earthquake occurred in Japan August 5. It lasted eight rainutes and was followed by a tidal wave, which swept up rivers flowing into the sea, and . moiling great destruction. Up to August 10 it was known in Yokohama that over 5,000 houses lied been. inun- dated or wasbed away. Between 200 end 80 people ware known to have been drowned or serioualy injured. It was reported from Hosoku that coal mines tbere were overflooded by a.ri overflowing. river, drowning over 100 miners. The earthquake shocks on the no.orn- ing of August 5, varied frame. four to sixteen in nomber in venous pieces, the movexuent 'being from east to west. ± Less than an heur afteriverd, the tidal wave was felt in the tewns aloe the (heat. Raitl had fallen almost aloes- : stet:tatty,: aiiiecelt tiba,iegter:v.ers were. already he SP many, minutes from twelve to eue The tidal wave raised.theca The governing of Nigara prefecture repcuts that the Araka.wa river rose twenty feet. le Nooyetzu, 1,500 houses were floe led d tih t o le killed or injured. The waters rose so rapid- ly that over fith people were Moat in their houses Leforei they knew what • hal happened. They were reamed with beats. Farther down the sam,e, ' river. twenty boats were swept away, meet of them having people aboard., At l'alcata severe., scares of bous.es iierei • washed away or wrecked aad haat were filled with water. Nearly 700 houses ' were wrecked and inundated in other towns in the same prere, tune At Omigrari one-third of the city is fif-, teen feet under water, and rice fields all along the Aneanx river are 'flooded. Bridges and embankments were swept away by the score. Reports from the province of 13iku- zen state that, immense waves rolled in forty-five minutes after the earth-, (make and heeded eighteen fishing villages. All of the official buildings', aria every station at Maeaydiza were ± filoodeili Hera many persons were droaned. Nine railway officials were , (healed down stream to sea in their . houses. A steamier rescued them, but ± many smaller boats were swept away. ; Mx. Hobson. British commissioner of customs at Yatung, Tibet, writes to Japan that a severe earthquake was experienced in Thibet in ,Tuly. think of it hod's will is bang worked out through our decisions. Over- seers. This is a direct translation, of the Greek word. The word itself is that from which "episcopal." was de- rived, and, a little circuitously, the word. "bishop" also. The ecclesiastical order to which the phrase now is confined came afterward in the providential development of the Christian church. In Paul's day the word meant simplywhat it is here translated, as meaning over- seers. The Methodist Episcopal bishops are " superintendents." which means precisely the same thing. The Church of God. Not necessarily an organized body, such as we now refer to by the use of that phrase. but an assembly of those who love God. Purchased with his own blood. The more costly the flock, the closer should be its care. 29. Grievous wolves. False teachers from abroad, bringing in false doctrine and corrupting influence. 30. Of your own selves. Ambitious members, claiming pre-eminence, and forming parties within the fold. The most dangerous foes of the church are those who have drawn their sustenance from its bosom. Dr. Gloag says ; "Men- tion is made of no fewer than six here- siarchs belonging to Ephesus: 'Hym- eneus a,nd Alexander, 1 Tim, 1.20: Phy- gellus and Hershogenes, 2 hem. 1.15: Philetus, 2 Tim. 2, 17; and Diotrephes, 3, *John 9." Here were the Nicolaitans, Rev. 2. 6, and here C'erinthus arose against the apostle John. 3L Three years. Apparently a few inoriths less than this, in fo.ot, but moss nearly three years than two. I ceas- ed. not. His whole life was given to the work. 32. The weed of his grace, which is able. No dead Gospel, but living and endowed with quickening power. Among all them which are sanc- tified.. The word of God brings purity, peace and, power here, and et- ernal glary hereafter. 33. 1 have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. The genuine self-sac- rifice of Pool is &town by the fact that wbile he ordinarily refused to receive aaay return for his labor as founder and pastor a ohnrches, he eteadila maintained for all other laborers that the laborer is; worthy of his hire. 34,. Ye yourselves know. They had seen his sign hanging out in thestreet as a tentmaker, just as we remember So-and-so as a grocer. These hands have ministered unto my necessities. How, is shown in Ads 18, 3, and there are frequent references M his manual !abor at the very time when he was making spiritual conquest. Paul's 'ea' ii always that necessities are the INOM,EN ADMIR,E HIS CLOTHES. Chang Yen Haan, the special Am- bassador Who was seat from Ohl= to bring gifts frcen the Emperor and the hanpreas to Qu,eein Victoria. and letters of congratulation upon the Jubilee. has left for Paris on his homeward journey but be will visit several of the Euro- peen eities en, route anel encircle the earth, from west to east, as Li. Hung Chang did from east to west when le attended the coronation of the Rus- sian Czar. Mr. Chang has received a great deal of attention in London, and has created a decided sensation at the balls, diallers and garden parties that have been given in honor of the !royal guests because of his dehaified demea, nor end. his magtaificeut raiment. Mr. Chang is known in Asia as the laden- dy" of the Orient. None other of the mandarines wear such, beautiful bro- cades ax' such costly jewels. And it is said that since he has bee,a in (Landon Inc has not warn the Balite costume twice, and has seldom appeared with the same jewels. His diamaads, rubies and emeralds are marvelous, but his jade ornaments are the most expen- sive and valuable in China, where that stone is prized more thma any other jewel. At the first dinner given by the Qteeen Inc wore it necklace of green jade, which is said to be more khan 3,000 years old and to have eost him more than $50,000. It woeld Inc impos- sible to diplica.te it, Unfortunately the Ambassador does not possess a yellow jacket, but he wears the red button, of the first meek with it peacock's feather, which is next as a ba•dgo of honor. FLOWERS NICE TO EAT. irrami The Nasturtium Candled and the Chrysan- themum as Salad Are Approved. The use of flowers, such as rose leaves and violets for making confections is well-known. Now the nasturtium is treated in a like manner. and the pro- ducts are received with much fahor. This flower and its pungent leaves are said to possess valuable .dietetic pro- perties and are classed among the most approved additions for salads and sand- wiches to vary the menu. The latest accession to the dietary list is that favorite fall flower, the chrysantherome. Those that have tried this flower food prochtixa it to he as pleasant to taste as it is beautiCtil to look upon. Chrysanthemums are serv- ed as a salal with a Frenth dressieg, or clopped fine with a nicely seasoned cream sauce poured over them. The flowers have a flavor somewhat simi- lar to the cauliflower, but more deli- cate. • A flower salad that the French con- sider a great delicacy is made from the young pink and white elover.blossoms. CLOCKS. THAT TURN OUT LIGHTS, In these days .at elettrieity it isnot esserttiaa to have somebody turn out the lights. Time switches are made which ean± be attached to a clock and made to turn oat electric lights at any desired hour. Suppose, for instance, the lights are in a show window, and it is deeired to put them. out at mid- night. At, that hour the °look elegies a cheese peenatalag the passing of an electric current tcl bc8Witelly which thus released, cuts off tile electric light current end so puts out the lights. SPEEDING TRE011ill SI1011 NEITHER BRIDGES NOR FRESHETS CAN STOP IT. Aerial Electric Travel—Proposed Line To Be Built Between Chicago and St. Xenia— Balloons Cut a pikture. " Within the life of the present gen- eration people will be travelling over aerial railways, la cars propelled. by el- ectricity at enormous speed., accomplish- ing great distances isa time, tbat now, seams incredible." This predictioa was made by Thomas A. Edison at a ban- quet raore than tem years ago, andmay now be realized. If the present plans of a number of oapitalista and engi- neers are carried out an aerial railway wial soon be running between St. Louie and Chicago that may reasonably be expected to achieve the reputation, of being one of the wonders of the world., as it will be a railway having neither locomotive nor roadbed. No grading will be necessary, and there will be no Lies, no rails, no bridges and no fencing in of the track. No ob- structions or blockades can interfere with the running of this roma and tbe wear and tear on lee meeolutnism are olaini.ea by the inventor to be the min- imum. He further claline that the cost of constructing a,nd maintaining it will be le.ss by oneetalf than that of any other kind of a railroea. The striking feature of Mr, Stewart's plan is a huge CIGAR SHA.PED BALLOON. that will support the car. This balloon will Inc about 150 feet long and 100 feet la circumference, at its central point. It will Inc inflated, with gas sufficient to amply sustain the weight of the oar, Over the top will boa network of ropes and interwoven with there, fore end aft are tivo memmothehable belts at- tached to a steel girder, which will nut along the roof of the car. The car itself is to resemble an or - dietary railroad coach, utinue trucks, wheels and running gear. It is to be large enough to comfortably seat fifty persons, which Mr. Stewart estimate* to Inc the maximun lifting capacity of the balloon. In the bottom of the car will be placed eleetrie motors connect- ing with a propeller in the rear. From each end. of the ear will drop a cable, the lower end of wheals tieing attached to a. set of wheals, svhieb revolve free- ly between two parallel lime a wire, constituting the track and che.rged witb electricity. These wbeels will catch up the, current passing through the wires, the same as the pole and wheel on an ordinary trolley car. The cur- rent will vans up the guide cables to Ilia motors, anil by the simple pressing of a buttoa the propeller call Inc eat in motion. GREAT SPEED POSSIBLE. Th.e speed at which the ear wall trav- el is practically unlimited- The balloon being pointed. at each end will cut through the odr like a knife, se the point of atraespherie resistance is brought down to a minimum. When flying through the air at a high rate of spee& no vibration will be felts as this car will Inc moving through space only and. on an air line. All the jerks and jar felt on a railroad train will be done aleph with. The only limita- tion to speed. above the rate of one hun- dred and fifty miles an hour is the Possibility of the machinery being un- able to stanni the great strain. Mr. Stewart believes that if the motors will stand. the high tension a speed of two hundred miles an hour is within the bounds of possibility. When whirling through space at this tremendous speed the car Will be tightly closed, and no inconvenience will be experienced by the passengers from the rushing air. Num- erous smell holes, protected by an in- genious system of covers will extend. along the top of the, car, and, by a me- abanical arrangement, open and close alternately, admitting just sufficient air for the comfort of the travellers. The "wires," as Ur. Stewart terms them, will 'in reality Inc huge cables. They will Inc of suffiiiient sttength 10 hold. down the baleen), under all con - &hone. When the car is light," or empty, the buoyancy of the bahoon will naturally cause it to pull heavily upon the cables but Mr. Stewart does not think the strain will be great enouga to in any way separate them from this pole. Should it any time become tog severe it ca.n be QUICKLY REDUCED by simply turning a. valve knob, which will release a portion of the gas. Neith- er is there any danger of the trolley slipping off in the event of the oar low- ering, as this is guarded against by the invention of a special wheel which grips the ea.ble tightly a,nd cannot be shaken off. Should the balloon lower to an.y alarming degree it can instant- ly be raised by increasing the speed.. The higher the rate of speed the more buoyant beoeraes the . balloon. By these devices Mr. Stewart believes the car can always be kept at the saa:ae distance from the earth. The mater- ial of which the car is to Inc made is wood, interlaced with e light steel framework. The chief aun isa ibs con- struction will be to have it as light as possible consistent with the load. it is to carry. It may he a surprise to some to learn that aerie' railways are to -day in oper- ation in several far away parts of the' svorld. Two thousand miles of these railways are now in working order in Spain, Italy and Ohina. It is true that they are very crude affairs in comparison with Mr. Stew- art's plan, but they are aerial rail - Stewart's plan ,but they are aerial rail- way's nevertheless, and, demonstrate that aerial navigation is by no omens mythical REAL DIVERSION. Well, Golightly, did you, hive any furs wearing a red lantern, on your wheel, Yes; about fifteen men thought was a drug store and cbased me ten blocks. ± PUBES -M-1 WATER. • The purest water in the world is said to be that of the small. Swedish river Lokae which imi 100,000 parts contain only 434puts of mineral subetance,s. THE F/NEST c0lvIPLF4I01gs The fisaest complexion's ie the world are said to be en the Bermudas. Title is accounted for by the fact that the inhabitants live chierly on onions, of which they expert ever 11000,00h petal& annually,