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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-4-28, Page 22' 6 iivp00.JiareArTS evident that unlees the Liner - e JeaPeetta China, and. saneee leader aepliare able to nearehal ighting teibea in her detence, the great empiee is doomed to fall a prey to grasping foreign powers, The last power to make demands tiport her is Brame, and the extent of the °moos - alone required and. the peremptory wey whieb. they are pite aorward, netkes them seem the mese sweeping of all. The demands are that Unita, Quell not alienate any portion. of the provixices of Kwangetuag, Kevetegaii, Yavel-Cleate, and Yunnan, that Prance shell have the right to extend her Ton - ;luta railroad. across the border into rinunaan, and be granted a Pealing sta- • tion at Lei -Chau -5', oxi the Han Chau Pentnsula, immediately norta of tne T.slana of Hainan. These territorial concessions are supplemented by a de- mand that the direoton tate Chinese) postoffiee, now under control of Sir Robert Haat, an Englishman. who is direetor of. the Chineee maritime ova toms, shall be a Orenobraali, the ob. jeat evidently being the diminution of British influence at Pekin. Eight days are given Ciehaa in which to make reply, apparently with the penalty ot • the Prencli occupation of Hainan in case of refusal, and as the Pekin Gov- ernment seems incapable of doing any- thing for itself, its compliance is ex - petted, unless England interferes. -- Thet as respects the Brenele terra- torial demands England wall interfere is, however, improbable, for although that for the preservation of the bate- geity of the four southern provinces of Chine is clearly meant to cheek Bri- tish territorial expansion eastvrard from Burma'', it does not. conflice ith the BrUisit claim, which is that Chinese territory shall not be ceded to any one. It is true that itt England Yun- nan has for some years been regarded as the hinterland of British Burutv.h, and that negotiations were begun some time ago for the acquisition of a por- tion of Kwang-tung Province, in order to safeguard Hong -Kong against for- eign attack.. But the latter point could doubtless be easily arranged, while as to Yunnan, France has as good a right as England to a share of the trade of the province, and the too other provinces would be readily con- ceded to be within the French sphere of influence. In sh.ort, France has de - minded in Southern China only what England has demanded in the Yang- tse-Kneng Valley, their demands being practically identical, and their effect being to pre.serve the larger and more populous portion of the Empire to the free corameroe of the rest of the world. •••••••••Ime.• As to the demand for a coaling sta- tion on the Chinese naainland, on the saute terms as th.ose on which Kiao- Chau Bay is -ceded to Germany, France would secure by it only the same pri- vileges enjoyed by Germany, by Eng- land at Hong -Kong, and by Russia, at Port Arthur and Talien-Wan. The de- mand that the Chinese postotfice shall pass under Enna. control is, as a dir- ect blow to British influence in China, quite another matter, and is pretty certain not be be granted without, at least, a long diplomatic struggle. 'What attitude Japan will take in the prerais- es has yet to be tletiown, though it is reported that she is showing a strong disposition to retain her hold on Wei - Hai -Wei, the fortification a which she is repairing, but her final demands, with. those of England, will determine the issue of the present complications. Meanwhile, despatches leave little doubt that the demand of Russia for a lease of Port Arthur and Talien Wan and the right of extending the Siberian railway to these ports,will be gra.ated, the Pekin Government being power- less to refuse. CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. Cruet Treatment or the Peer Cabaret by the Spanish captain General, Not less than four hundred thousand men, women and children were taken from their farms and homes by the decision of the Spanish general to re - concentrate the agricultural popula- tion of Cuba within the Spanish lines. Spain hoped to starve met the Cuban rebeLe by driving the peaceful workers in from their fields. Suck a military measure was perhaps not meant to be inhutrum, but the cantain-general was shriply regardless of consequences, and the consequences to these four hundred theusand miserable "recon- eentrados" have been simple, appalling. It is estimated, and the estimate has not been contradicted, that two hun- dred thousand men, women and chil- dren of the reconcentrated agricul- tural population of Cuba has perished by starvation. A population of 1105- more than equal to the total, population of Toronto, has been simply starved to death. Cabe is riot so far away as Armenia, but Canadians will have an ides of how well justiiied is war against Spain, if they would stop to think of what is meattt by the Starvation of two hun- dred thousand web, women and chil- dren. imagine the suffering of the helpless ehild.ren ; the anguish of the mothers unlit fathers -who look out from thee paine of their own starvetion on the hungete of their famished babes, and then who en fait to sympathize with President afcreaztley's decision to put an end eo the system under whieb each a high oritne against humanity is paseible If121rESTIBULE OF WS SOULS, uAT wo DERFUL MECHANISM) THE HUMAN EAR. .4. Very Item 4ar Strength awl epeackeee, nal Cate Or satka Initiate hlieety et tt'onetmtellett That it 11.8. 'Wide (Open fe the Velvet or tied antral or Solana. lien ler.eratenige cm Nearing. Vrashington,Arfl 17.—Rev" D. Tale Mtge preacbed this mornin,g from the text; tamales xeLv, 9, "Be tbeet planted the ear, stunt he not hear?" He aaid: Atrohltectitre is one of the most fascin- ating arts, and tbe steely of Egyptian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Reaaiseenee styles a building tees been to many a, matt a sublime life- work. Lincoln ana York cathedrala S. Batan ana St. Peter'a and arch of Tittes aad Thelma temple and ,alham- bra and Partheatin are the monument's to the genlim of those who built them. But more wonderful than any arch they ever lifted. or any transept win- dow they ever Lliumined or any Car- inthian °column they ever crowned or any Gothic cloister they over elaborat- ed is the) human ear. Among the most skillful earl assie duous physiologists a our tirae have been those who have given their time tc the examinatio,n of the ear and the stady of its arches, its walls, its floors, its canals, its %viaducts, its galleries, its int cies, its convolutions, its divine maohinery, and yet it will take anotber thousand years before the world oomes to any adequate apprecia- tion a what God did when he planned and executed the infinite and ever - mastering architecture a the huznan ear. The most of it is invisible, and the microscope breaks down in the atberript at exploration. The cartilage which we- cell the ear is Daly the storm tioor of the great temple clear down out of sight, next door to the iramortal soul. Such scientists as Helmholtz and Conte and De Blainville and Rank and Buck have attempted to walk the Ap- plan may of the human ear, but the mysteriou,s pathway has never been fully trodden but by two feet --the foot of sound and the foot a God. Three ears en each. side the head—the exter- nal ear, the middle ear, the internal ear—but all connected by most won- derful telegraphy. The external ear in all ages adorned by preciou,s stones or precious metals. The temple of Jerusalera partly buUt by the contribution of earrings, and Homer in the "Iliad" speaks of Hera, "the three bright drops, her glittering gems suspended from the ear," and many of the adornments a modern times were only copies of her ear jewels found in Ponmenan museum Etruscan vase. But while Lhe r ear may be adorned by human the middle and the internal ears adorned and. garnished only by and a the Lord Almighty. The e of a key of yonder organ the air vibrating, and the external. caches the undulating sound and s it on throu.gh the bonelets of incite ear to the iaternal ear, and 000 fibers of the human brain take he vibration and roil the sound to the soul. The hidden machine f the ear by physiologists called e names of things familiar to us, he hammer, something to strike; he anvil, something to be smit- ike the stirrup of the saddle with we mount the steed; like the , beaten in the march; like the trings, to be swept with music. like a "snail shell," by which f the innermost passages of the actually called; like a stairway und to ascend; like a bent tube eating apparatus, taking that enters round and round; like a inth with wonderful passages in - Loh the thought eaters only to t in bewilderment. A muscle cting when the noise is too load, the pupil of the eye contracts the light is too glaring. The al. ear is defended by wax which ts bitterness discourages insec- vasion. The internal ear ire - in by what is far the hardest f the human system, a very roek ngth and defiance. ear so strange a contrivance y the est:it:late of one scientist catch the sound a 73,700 vihrae n a second. The outer ear in all kinds of sounds, r the crash of an avalanche or of a bee. The sound passing inner door of the outside ear ntil another mechanism, divine ism, passes it an by the bone tbe middle ear, and, coming to er door of that second ear, the has no potter to come further neither divine mechanism passes hrough into the inner ear, and O sound comes to the rail track brain brat:millet and rolls on until it comes to sensation, ere the curtain drops, and a d gates shut, and the voice of ins to say to all human in.. "Thus far and no farther." veatibttle of the palace en I how many kings of thought, eine, of physiology, have done of lifelong study and get no than the vestibule! mysterious reverberation and echo, Grand depot of sound. Headquar- which there come quick dis- part the way by cartilages, way by air, part the way by rt the way by nerve—the slow - Bach planging into the ear at d of 1,000 feet a second. Small ent of music on which is play - e music you ever heard, from deura of an August thunder - the softest hrea,thixtgs of a, Small instrument of music, uarter o an inch of surae thinne55 Of one-two hundred ethpare a an inch end that divided into three layers. In musical staff, lines, sPaceta rest. A bridge leading from. (he eaturat world to the in - tura world; we Booing, the anc tato and. cute art, are the h strok sets ear c passe the an the 3, up t on in Grp by th like t like t ten ;1 enuch drum harps Coiled one o ear is the se of a 11 which labyr to wh be los contra just, as when extern with. i tile in bedded bane o of stre The that b it can tiens i taking whethe the hum to the halts u raechan lets of the inn sound until a it on then th of the and on and th hundre God. see spection In th the sou. of medi P050500 farther home of Central. ters to patches, part the bone, pa est disp the spee bast:rata ed all th the gran storm to flate. °ray q and the and fifti thintess thee ear bar and the outsi eitle spiri abablient et Una end the bridge, ebut the fog ea an urillifted mystery hidiag tbride ;01iittnipbtiele3meriatlige •ergtehirevriol the soul. The htanten votee is Goira one legY the ear' That toine capable of Prodnelate rraftle(014,4115 souuds, and all that variety made, not for the re- itgaamleznaxrete;f. Newt or bird, but.for the About 15 yeara ego, in Venice, lay down in, death One wiann. Many consid- ered the areateet musicei composer of the century. Struggling on up foul 6 years, of age, velum he was left fath- erless V)tagner eose, through the oblo- 40tY of the world, and °Mimes all na- thane seemingly against hien until he gained. the favor of a king and. won the enthusiasm. of the opera houses of names and Araerioa, Struggling all the W ay ola to 70 years a age to conquer the world.'s ear. In that same attempt to master the human ear, and gain su- premacy ewer this gate of the hamar-- tai semi, great battles were fought by afozart, Gluck and Weber, and by Bee- thoven, and Meyerbeer, by Rossini and by all the roll ot German and Italian. and Preach composers, some ol them in the battle leaving their blood on the keYnotes aad the musical scores. Great battles fought for the ear—fought with baton., with organ iaipe, with trumpet, with cornet -a -piston with all ivory and • brazen and silver and golden weapons of the orchestra; royal theater and ca thedral and academy of music the fortresses for the contest for the ear England and Egypt fought for tbe =- Pt:Malay of the Suez mud, and the BPartans and the Persians fongat for tbe defile at Thermonylae, but the tels161;71;:se °era atlhleaignimes tso°11:1111;afnodr the Thermopylae of atruggling cad - the mastery of the auditory canal and strugorvtiehde erzirresetsreoilethgee reraert Illawhyedrne en hautiatilTheuinthdeerr thtotnelqrgfreeeattL neenrveoencel strain of hearing his own oratorio of the "Creation" performed he wee car- ried. oat to die, but leaving' as his leg - Hay to the world 118 symphonies, 163 tueoes for the baritone, 15 masses, 5 oratorios, 42 German and. Italian songs, as canons, 365 Englisb and Scot& songs With accorap,animent and 1,536 pages of libretti. All that to capture the gate of the bode. that swings in from the tninPanum to the "snail shell" tying monerttehei berucla of the ocean, of the im- To conquer the ear Handel struggled on from the time wben his father would nob let him go to school lest, he learn the gamut, and become a musician, and from the time when be was allowed, in the organ loft just to play after the audience had left to the time when, he left to all nations his unparalleled ora- torios of "Esther," "Deborah,"e"Sam- stlzh'' "grePhthah," "judas Maccabae- Tsrael in Egypt," and the "Mes- siah,' the soul of the great German composer still weeping in the dead march of our great obsequies and tri- ;taemrprahingorn.in the raptures of every Bee - To conquer the ear and take this gate of the immortal soul Schubert composed his great "Serenade," writ- ing the staves of the music on the bill of fare in a restaurant, and went on until he could leave as a legacy to the world over a thousand magnificent compositione in music. To conquer the ear and take this gate of the soul's castle Mozart struggled on through poverty until he came to a pauper's grave, and one chilly, wet afternoon the body of him who gave to the world the "Requiem" and the "G" Minor SYnnehony" was crunched in on the top of two °thee paupers into &grave which to this day is epitaphless. For the ear everything mellifluous, from the birth hour when our earth was wrapped in sweddling clothes of light and serenaded. by other worlds, from the time when 'label thrummed the first harp and pressed a key of the first organ down to the music of this Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the com- ing overtures of laeaven, for whatever other part of the body may be left in the dust, the ear, we know, ist to come to celestial life; otherwise, why the "harpers harping with their harps ?" For the ear carol of lark and whistle ea quail and chirp of cricket and, dash of cascade and. roar of tides oceanic and doxology of worshipful assembly and minstrelsy, cherubic, seraphic, and archangelio. For the ear all Pandean Pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all haut- boys, all bassoons, all bells and all organs--Luzerne and. 'Westminster ab- bey andFreiburg and Berlin and all the organ pipes set across Christendom, the great Giant's Causeway for the raonarchs of music to pass over. For the te‘r all chimes, all ticklings of chro- nom.eters, all aiatheras, all dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lulltibys, all orchestration. Oh, the ear, the God honored ear, grooved with divine sculp- ture and poised with d— g.. dnierssineand upholstered with curtaainesu . embroidery and eorridored b wine carpentry- andtpillared with di - vim architecture and chiseled in boae of divine nmsonry and conquered by processions of divine marshaling. Tae ear 1 A perpetual point or interroga- tion, asking, Etow? A. perpetuat point of apostrophe appealing to God. None but God could work it. None, but God could keep it. None but God could un- derstand it. None bet God could ex- plain it. Oh, the wonders of the hu- man earl How surpassingly sacred the human ear! You had Letter be careful how you let the sound of blasphemy or un- cleanliness step into that. holy of hol- ies. The Bible says that in the ancient temple tbe priest was set apart by the putting of the blood of a ram on the tip of the ear, the right ear of the priest. But, my friends, we need all a us to have the sacred touch. of or- dination. on the hanging lobe of both ears, and on the arches a the ears, on the eustachian, tuts of the ear, on the mastoid cells of the ear, on the tympanic cavity of the ear, • and on everything from the outside rim of the. outside ear deer in to the point where sound steps off the • auditory nerve and rolla on down bato the, un- fathomeble depths of the immortal soul The Bible speeks of "dell ears," and of "unclecuencised ears," and of "itching eters," and of "rebellious ears," and of "open ears," and of those who have all the organs of hearing end yet who itseeea:nto be deaf, for it cries to them, "Ile that; bath ears to hear, let hzm To show how much Christ thought of ebe human ear, he one day met a Matt who was deaf, came up to him and pat a finger of Hs right hand 111 - the orifice oft the left ear ot the pa- tient and led a finger oa the left the orifice of tbe right ear ' of lam retain and. agitated pantie% and startled the 1701 with, a voiect that ratig dear L5 to the Menai soar ate& atha 1" and the polyphold grow 'any, and the lafleaued :antic Ma and that man tette had ni a sienna for many years tha heard the Wanti of the waves o tinniest the liruestote slielvi allow bow neaoh Christ tho the human ear, wben the epos •got Mad and with one slaeh sword dropped the ear of Male the dust Cbrist ereated a nee nal ear for Malchus correspond the middle ear and the Wei that no sword eoald olip aNTI1 And to show" /stelae God thiale ear we are informed of the ft in the milennial june which sh ate all the earth the ears of t will be unstopped, all the growths gene, all deformation Itetening organ cured, correote ed. Every being on earth will hearing apparatus as perfect knows now to make it, and a ears will be ready for that gre PbenY in which all the ratteica,1 =tents of the earth shall play eompaniment neatens of eart empires of heaven mingling tbei together with the deep baas of and the alto of the woods, an • tenor of the winds, and the bari the thunder,. "Hallelujah!" aura meeting tbe "Hallelujah!" desee Oh, yes my friends, We ha,v looking for God too far away i cif looking for line close by our own organieen 1 We go u the observatory and look thrall telescope and see God in Jamit God in Saturn and God in Mars, could see more of him throng microscope of an Diarist, No king isCied with only one residence, France it nas been St. Cloud an seines and the Tuileries, and in Britain- it hao been Windsor an moral and Osborae. At ruler do always prefer the larger. The X earth and heaven may have 1 castles and greater palaces, but not think there is any oue more ously wrought than the human The heaven of heevens cannot tain him, and yet .he says he room to dwell in a contrite hear I think, in a Christian ear. We have been looking for God in the infinite—let us look for him in the infinitesimal, God walking the corridor of the ear, God sitting in the gallery of the human ear, God speaking „along the auditory nerve of the ear. God dwelling in the ear to hear that which comes &ono: the outside, and ao near the brain and the soul he can hear all tbat transpires there. The Lord of hosts encamping under the curtains of membraue. Pieties of the Almighty in the human ear, The rider on the white horse of the Apocalypse thrust- ing his foot into the loop of bone which the physiologist has been pleased to call the stirrup of the ear. Are you ready now for the qu.es of my text? Have you the endur to bear its overwtheliniag sugges !less? Will you! take hold of same ar and balance yourself under semiomnipotent stroke? "He pleated the ear, shall he not hea Shall tbe God who gives us the app tus with which we hear the sound the world himself not be able to c •up song and groan and blasphemy worship? Does he give us a faculty w he has not himself ? Drs. Wild and Gra- bar and Toynbee invented the accoum- eter and other instruments by which to measnre and examine bhe oar, and do these instruanente know more than the doctors who made them? "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ga Jupiter of Crede was always represented in statuary and painting as without ears, suggesting the idea that he did not want to be bothered with' the affairs of the world. But our God has ears, "His ears are open to their cry." The Bible intimates that two workmen on Saturday night do not get their wages. Their complaint itastantly strikes the ear of God. "The • cry of these that rea,ped hath entered tee ears of the Lard of Sabbath." Did God neer that poor girl last night as she thieve herself an 'the prison bunk in the city dungeon and cried in the midnight, "God here mercy?" Do yon really think Giorl could hear her? Yes, just as easily as when 15 years ago s'he was sick with scarlet fever, and her mother heard her when at mid- night she asked. for a drink of water. "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" When a soul prays, Gad. does not sit bolt urigtht until the prayer travel immensity and ()limbs to this ear. Th Bible says be bends clear over. I more than one place Isaiah said he bow ed down his earr. In more than on place the psalmist said he inclined hi ear, by Which I come to believe tha God puts his ear so closely down 1 I _ your lips that he can hear your faint - 02 est wthisper. ft is not God away off the tym- waits and t hrough "Ephth- ths gave le cooled ot heard t night f Galilee ng. To ught of tis Peter of his bus iuto • exter- ing with 'ual ear s of Om tot that all rose - he deaf vaseu lar of the have a as God 11 the at sym- instrue the 50 - and r voices the sea d the tone of ing up nding, e been nstead and in P into gh tbe er and. but We h the is sat - and in d Ver - Great d Bat- es not ing of arger I do c,uri- ear. con - finds t, and tion awe tivee pill - the that r ?" ars- 8 of etch ta eleareh, to philbarmonie. Better pia that tier imaer the blesSod teueb "tiaileat 11Yennology. Better eon- searatte for time end, eternity be aim who planted tlie ear. Itonseeatt, the in- fidel fell asleep amid his skeptical Man- usoripts lying' all arouna the room, and en axis dream, he entered betiven and tbeera the song of the vvorshiperS, and MS SO sweet he asked an atileat what it meant. Ube augel said, "Pins IS the paradise of God, ana the Stella youtatter is the anthem of the redeem- ed.." Tinder another roll of the cel- estial musie Bousseau wakened and gat 111) 1.113 the eakbeight and., as well as he could, wrote down. the sereius of tete music, that he bad. heard in the wond- erful tune palled "The Songs of tha Redeemed." God Grant that it may not be to yam and. to me an infidel daeatzt but a glorious reality. • When we, come to the night oe death and we lie down to our last sleep, may our ears really be walrened by the can- ticles' ref the heavenly temple, and. ea°. wags itncl. the anthema and the carols and. the doxologies tliat shall cline)) tate musical ladder of tba't heavenly ganiult. AS TO EA.RLY MARRIAGE. It depends upon a nuraber of things, To make one rule fit all oases would be impossible. Indeed, the numerous and excellent; answers to this question received by Siamese, differing so wide- IY ba their import, have, like the ver- deot of the travelers concerning the chaeneleon, "all been right, and all been wrong." There are occasionally men to whore home restrabats and home require - manta would be exceedingly irksome, even detrim.ental, They are, by every implication of their being, free lances —free to roam from land to land, from city, to city, &outhouse to house, or to bury themselves in laboratories, or lit- erary dens, or other places where they can be let absolutely alone, Their wanderings, and the things pertain- ing) to there, or their experiments and burrowings, are eel tb.ey care for. Love would be to them only a secondary son - sideration, the care of a family a nuis- ance. For men of this type to marry, early- or late, would be a hindrance, because their natural inclinations and habits would cau.se friction and un- happiness; things which are utterly demoralizing to success, There are, on the other hand, many young men, and perhaps more women, vvb.ose hearts are, by isolation, want of syrapathy, loneliness, end lack of com- fortable living, so dissatisfied that brains and hands refuse to do their petential best; and, in their restless- ness, these people spend money need - 0 11 many things which have in them a possible, temporary satisfac- tion, or which render thought impos- sible far a time. People of this type, if rightly mated, find in marriage their and highest happiness and most efficient hich natp. To a majority of people a feeling of being settled is necessary to success. Very few men can. have this feeling without a home. The stu.dent orelerk bas his room or his den; the niilitary officer has his quarters • the sea cap- tain, his cabin; the herdsman, bis ranch.; associated men have their clubs, societies and lodges; but, without a woman a home is practically un- known. Few single men save their earnings. During their bachelor days, they are liable to forra expensive and careless habits, a,nd to keep bad company-, all of which means not only a scattering of dollars, but a dulling of the brain power and hand power by which dollars are earned.. Such men need a neutra- lizing influence, countermagnet, which will draw and keep them away from demoralizing laa,unts. This mag- net is usually found in a wife and home, "I should, never have saved a dollar had I not had a wife's trust, encouragement and counsel and the hope of home before ray eyes," sa,id a young man to the writer. 'A young man who takes a wife be- fore he is able to support her puts him- self in a very claubtful position as re - e gards great success in life; for, unless n he is extremely fortunate, his family demands will increase faster than his O ability te meet them. Most self-made e rich men say the first thousand was t the hardest of alt their wealth to ac - o cumulate, so that a young man on an ordinary salary, with a family on his hands and no surplus earnings, will find it very difficult to get this first thousand ahead. Again, while one husband and wife find stimulus and happiness in build- ing up a success bachby inch, another couple would be constantly dialed and irriteted by poverty and its deprive- laons, and $o wreck life in an endeavor to procure the wherewithal to live. II; is worse still when only one of a married. pair feels this impatience of conditions and the irrita,tion froni. cur- tailment of expense. We anusb, then, conclude that whe- ther early marriage hinders or helps success depends upon three things—the mental and material needs of the in- dividual, his ability to provide satisfac- tory home conditions and his ohoice of a mate. These conditions being prop- erly met early marriage is undoubt- edly, in a, large majority of cases, not a hindrance, hut an immense help to suecess. tete yonder; it is God away down there ase ue. so close up •Lthat when you pray to hina it is not mare a, -whisper then a kiss. Alt, yes, he hears the cap - titre's sigh and the splash of the orph- an's tear, and the dying syllables of title shipwreeked sailor driven. tin the Skerries. and the infant's "Now I lay me down to sleep," as dIstinctly as 'he hears the 'Fortissimo of brazen, bands in Me Dusseldorf ESetival, as easily as he hears the salvo 'of artillery when the 13 8i:enures of English troops ore hloeou.e. Ile that planted the ear can enjaulsittaeir batteries at once at Water - just asas sometimes an eneranoina strain of music will linger in your ears beard. while passing through Bellevue hfoosrpditaaysi after you, have heard it, and a sbaep cry of pain I ance clung to my ear for weeke, and Aloe as a thorrid blasphemy in the street soraetimes taunts one's ears for wbduao:r:lh:hisf, Gcdthe in)loatsp that 100 bolds not only the words you m'yvouweuhttaevre,, very tones of your voice, go 0:elmeyhears, but holds the, songsaehe prayers, the groans, the all wondered at the pthanog‘raph, Nvhigh years erten nowt that inetrue bunt turned, the very words you now. wirtilleheand the very tone of your voice reprodueed. Amazerta phono- graph! But more wonderftel is God's letogtetreuiboi hold, to retain. Ah, whet de- etneouragement for. our pray- ers/ \What at 'awful fright for our hand speeches! 'What aesurtutite griefs fthae plattted the ear, owhattrilmaLlieneorttedheaisrygra,,pathy for all our 021 e:iinte:r take that organ away from Better pne it under the best sound.. Better bake it atvay from all gossip, from ell slander, from. all in- usndallsoeta°1ionz°a1. Baeleltebad influe*ieo of avilr P111 11 1 11(0 1 IN TAHITI. "In Tahiti," says Sir John Lubbock, "a person not properly tattoed would be as much reproaebed and shunned as if with us he should go about the streets naked." The Papuans of the southwest cicalae of New Guinea think that clothing is fit only for women, In the Andaman Islands the women think the same thing aboet the men. WATERPROOF PAPER. Pegamoid paper awoke used in Eng- land is said to be absoluitely erproot, without presenting, the appettrance of glaze. or varnish. Stains, dirt, ink, ac- ids or infeetion cannot petietrate the surface, SWAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON) MA Y 1 *The Illinumbat lentry'" nate ela a 10 Conte* Text, aeon 11.9. PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 6. The disciples went, an1. did as Jesus coutratinded, Tb.e Sabbath of the Jews began .eie Friday evening and. lasted till atuadovvn Saturdep On Saturday evening, Aprit 1, A.D. 34 —at the olose of tlie Sabbath—a feeet was given in our Lord's honor, Oe Sanday meruizig be sent two disciples to the entrance to Betlia-ge, where an ass's oolt stood war its tethered moth- er. That it had never been used for riding, Mark 11. 2, would give to this eat in the eyes or arientale a, certain symbolic value. The Eastern donkey is a mock handsomer animal Limn the donkeys et Europe and America, and is held in high esti/miaow "Warriora always rode on horaes, but judges end kings in' time. or pea,ce rode on asses. When the disciples loosed the oolt and. its mother they were, of course, challenged by the owners, and their prompt answer, "The Lord bath need of them," was satisfactory which leads us to infer that; the own- ers were believers in, Jesus, This in- oident leads Matthew back to the pro phetio writings, with which he was so familiar, to find prophecies wallah it seemed to fulfill, ft seenis plain that our Lord planned to fulfill Zech. 9.9, nd so to °all the attention of the multitudes to his alessialithip, 7, Brought the assu,nd the colt, it vould have been difficult to bring one vithout the other, Put on them their lothes, Their outer robes, instead of • saddle. This was an act of enthusi- sm, loyalty and reverence; but it was ore. We shall be helped. to under - Land it by referring hack to the story ft John, who, when he was proelahrted lag, was made to stand, and. ta sit on. hreienTrims eau xteegeiofialloief symbols; people here express quite as much by what hey: do as by wbat they say., 8, A very great muleitade, realer part of the crowd. Spread thTeitet.: armenta in the way. Not only was bis done to jeleu ancient times nd to Jesus on this occasion, but re- atedly eminent 'Jewish rabbis had, een similarly bettered. It will re - tad the,modern reader of Sir Walter aleigh's courteous act toward Queen tridzeatabrieetea,hart:tioxenou.htndolnys tn:Inatimhestrfereosm.,, reeed the/et in the way. An equally 9. The multitudes then went. before d tbat followed. A compete -ism of narratives of the evangelists shows at our Lord timed his approach to e city so as to come immediately in ranee of the great caravan from lilee, most et the members ofewhich ieved (to some degree at least) that Prophet of, Nazareth was the Mes- h. These pilgrims to the feast were t by a great ronititude from the city, ta 12,, 12, 13. 'The annual approach the passover was (ale of the great hits of Jerusalem. Oried. Sang or tilted. Rosanna. A Ifelrew parase sing "Save now„" which begins lm 118, 25. This ,wease was annual - sung at the Feast of Taberniteles- it was sung now, also, is an evid-' of the popular Teoognitien of s as the Messiah. The Son of Dam- n, kerm was as full of mean- ie the Jew as "a Sbuart" became Scotland or a "Bonaparte" in nee; a sort, en recogration of a m: to the orovvm. Suppose tihe pres- Emperor oa Germany to be (tepee - °thing could well deprive his /loa- f its political importatnee; and hie descendants wouid Inevieality be anized as "pretenders" to tate -e, whether they aspired to it er There never was a royal family traditioned claim. stronger than of David, Rlessed is he that com- e ehe name of the Lord. "He that th" was anothee Measianie title. the excited crowds did not stop Mark and John give oth- er. theta, calls: "Blessed be kingdom, of our father David!" "Blessed be the King of Israel!" also says they referred to Jesus ing aad praised God with a loud . Their voices bridged the valley be Kidron and awoke the erhoes r the nuirble porches of the tem We lose the full significance of- riuma.phal entry if we do not re- ze it as, on the one hand, the tutting outburst ofan enthusiasm O common aeople which amid. no r he restramede but, on the elle ride this enthtesia,sei was par - used by our -Lord—turned into of a:tted elarable; a unique pro tiou bis alessiahship. In the- a La heaven. All the city a as Moved. The word d" in the- original is one Used thqua.ke shocks and wind -storms re not likely to overestimate thiS otion. The 'city was excited as hnz been recently excited, only so, for orientiels are more de rative than even Frenchmen: lem, by ancient standards, was t city, and at the Passover seas - overflowed in a (way to whicli Tern city presents a parallel. k ars- later than this a care- imate made of the people pras- e passover in .Terusalem reach - mi 1 lien seven hundred t hoes - Who is this? is a question which es general discussIon of oar character and claims, ie multitude. The pilgrims. jes- prophet. Note the Revised Ver.-, re. His followers &dare him the great :Prophet foretold by and zet such lead in triumph. O city, a a 0 P0 11 Et the St ty an th th th *141 Ga bel the sia Me ksh to sig eta mea Pea ly the, ence Sem id. Era - plat eatt ed. n Uy o male reeo thrall not. with. bhat etth come But here. ars the and Iecke as K voice of undo pia. this 1: cavil oulmi of th longe er ha, posely O sort claima. highes 10. "move of ea,r We £1. comm. Paris more inonst Serusa a grea on it no leer few ye ful eet ent at ed two and. indicat Lord's 11. T1 u.s {hr sion he Lo be Moses, into th an. With this verse we abruptly.. step from Mleueday fain Tuesday,. for "When Jesus haa looked round about at all :things in the temple, the even - Lela having came, he went ,back et.,, 13e- „ thany", Mark 11. 11. On Tateday ) 'tueen morting he returned. Jesus want into ' sae fare the temple of God, wlhkrb was the very herself a heart, or the Ihrobbing life f ed. in the temple service wen eold. One wontiere theeti ereders prainia- ly obeyed Joe= and. left, Why dal they net laugh blot to etiornt the morel force emu/tolled obedient:a, et a eViaent a divine inajeety sat la his eye, The downleill eliti soldiera 'Abet Dame (1,0 arrest: hiM Cr'el.hoemane, the effect of. bie glaue,a upon Innitent l'eter, and the effeet ee his silence on Pilate, among Many in- ,stenms, prove tale. Then, too, theee tradere kw that their bueiness int the temple was unlawful and was populerly regarded as wieked, B sides, the aaexeected show of strengt as Sunday—the eathusitiatic support the Dell:teens and et many j udeans wls bed witneesed the • resurreotion 04 Leaartes—impressett these men. Fiveu the prieses deemed it unwise naw to attempt publicly arreet Jesus, 'Ile tables oe the mo(ney changers. Th temple tithes might be paid telly i Hebrew coin. This restriction ware harm}ny with the prejudioes th people, who hated. the atamp of_th operaseors. Idolatroue symbols VOA) ofbee fixed foreign colas, .ane smell symbol Catlin be used ia the purek worship of Tebovith. To exchange this money was therefore a neoeseity, bah to exact a fee for thes exchange was lealaweele and as in that den there was 50 monetary standard, abundant opportunities for fraud were offered. 13. It is written. In Ise. 56. 7. A/ den of thieves. A highwayman's cave, See Ter. 7. 11. From the days lee tbe judges till now Palesbine has beer. rioh field for banilite; even Herod the, Greet could not repress them.. 1.4. The blind end the lame came t',04 him in the tetaple. It aaa been eaide but, the authoriey ie questioned, that deforraed and °rippled people were nee allowed within the "eacred inolosuree• which surrountled lhe inner courts of the temple. If that were so, then the rules of the rabbis were broken on, this day. 15. The ohief priests. There were at least thirty of these—including the high priests, present and past, and the hearts of the twente-four priestly te courses. Scribes. Expoutders of the C law. The wonderful things that he did. His assurriptioia. of royal power. The children crying in the temple. The boys and girls who lied heard the ory of the day before recognizing Jeans, had begun again to eing "'Hosanna." They were sore displeased. They were themselves under condemnation for the profanation of the temple. 15. Have ye never read. Psalm. 8. 2. The thought of the verse of the Psalm- ist is that a little ehild's ory, just as muchl us the stars of heaven, indicates the power and providence of God. And by quoting this verse Jesus says in substance: "The song of these chil- dren is as true an attestation. of ma • as was my oven. raising of the dead Lazarus. Their u.tterzinnes of praise are a perfect answer to tile adversaries of truth." He thus publiely aceepts and senctions the words of adoring hom age. 1-------'111Tel FRIENDSHIP. How often is this phrase abused and bow seldom do we see the full meaning of it exemp'ified. If there is one trait; more than anal er that eboald be assiduously eu I live a ed bite woman, who wishes to make herself popular, that one, is loyalty th her friends. That trait exultocibm many and other estimable ones, and is the basis of a lovely said noble character. To begin with, the woman. who is truly loyal never thinks evil of those whom she has tihosere to closely assooi- ate herself with, mire less will she ex - Press sentiments that might be con- strued into appearing derogatory, backbiting and unfriendly gossip nev- er find plaete, among tee nabural fail- ii)olissgseitilsesat.; even the. /nest perfect being When a woman" has been tried and has stood the test, there. should well nip iti the heart of the fortunate one possesSing so sta,u,nolt a friend, a great fountaba of tbenksgiving. Petty jea emeies, sus' Hone—whether well grounded or not, envy', and eVert malice are more apt to /nuke thenaselv- ee visible in tbe attittele of one wo- man toward anotlter then is ever felt in men's deaeings with inan. The hard- seertsceexn.sure and severest judgment at - ways emanate from critics of the gent. - The woman, therefore, who has prov- en herself loyal through good and ev- il. report alike, has shown laerself to be a rara eels that should he highly priz- ed by those so fortunate as to call her frNieoliting is so eositively injurious to iaiteat, jormneat, 1, as the intense friendships almost as ehort time. They tend to that are born in an hour and die in guerrilla/me or a friend—doe-s not cell yflafiroricki ctettelei alt)ywnyliso th3ie,,t--opalusinyalfaot, leiealak:cec.ithenostze,,ec:. agararbrneeyectitalviierrli:ris:-asrsoelyfroatlettennaeast::_ A lady, no matte.r how much she may mIlitetaltri.ineteoill.:ieghee 02 plit.toislemieatnye;u,gthhatlo jonorwe dom, iteren hy too netieh regard for good that friendships are preserved by a, too al11011 free - Great care eauntid be taken in tba se/Elton of one's friends; and those of • whom. we are going to make confi- mtkdoe;eutlene;.'svcn:linea)ri;natirlitte:teth;neha'atioifwtfbtit3ini:ra::eifItt:;eitui:;:11;:est!ti:il.rtettli):87- in one's own beert. Trite, friendship la frsendsbip, QUEEN NATALIel Natalie or Bolivia is about 1,0well to the world and hide 11(1 her troubled liee in a eon. Her 'husband, ex -King Milan, is a moral monstrosity, and ter son, for wbotri the father, betting made himself totally unbearable, abdicated his throne, lis shown decided (traits 01 it4a becili by, ABOUT THE SIZE OW IT. Little Nephew Elmer—What is am. el lbusLand, unele? Old Unele Gront.—One that alert lets his wife have her own waY, ther it is good fox' her o' uat • USa eni. The seminary ttealf no man eauld enterbut the re/teats., but the spaeious courts about It were patees of general resort, and unde.r the sbadow of its noble porticoes many a rabbi besides Jesus was accustomed, to Lead. Gast, stet all them that sold and eought. Those who sold requishiss for sacrifice. stalls had leen erected in the .0eart of the Gentiles, for which,doubtless large ren.tal was :paid. to the priests, In (these stalls wtne, oll, sell., doves, eheep, oxen, and other conanortiLies us ofhe by on ey ere ry al the W in bee ell end nt. ar- nes. pie- ties 1*13 ere - an. pro- iigh 1011big (0