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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-23, Page 31•••••••••••••1•Ir," T EXETER TIMES IN MERRY ay ENGLAND, NO2749 4ND CONIVENTS. Since its opening early lest Month, tne British Parliament; has been largely engaged in diseussing the side Issues of politics, for which the debate on tne address alwaya affords an ex- cellent opportuatitY. That as the Queen's speeth, while giving no 'lint of possible foreign complications, out- lined an ample prograaame o domeetie ingiSlation, with this beating of the political bush, the serious work of the ;session has been taken up. Among the tails to be submitted, consideration of which is certain to occupy much time, IS ,'that providing a new system of government for London, or rather, for so much of it as lies outside of the cite proper, by dividing it into fifteen districts and establishing municipali- ties therein. Each of the latter is to have a mayor and all the powers per- taining to municipal government, save those reseived to the imperial government, or to the London County Council, such as control of the pollee and fire departments, the administra- tion of justice, etc. Among other measures included in the government programme are those for the creation.• of a board for the ad- ministration of primary and secon- dary technical education in England and Wales, enabling workmen to buy their dwellings, for the organization of a department of agriculture for •Ire- land, and for the prevention of 'usury. As to the policsy of the opposition, un- der the leadership of Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, formerly eleeted to mimed Sir William Harcourt on eve of the opening of the session, the, speeches of prominent Liberals in the debate on the, Adresss make two things clear. The first is that although dis- establishment is the end toward which the radicals on, both sides of the Eng- lish Church are aiming, that question is not likely to be made at once a party teens, and the second, that the limi- tation of the veto power of the House of Lords will be kept at the front. The reason why the Liberals decline to iaterfere in the -ritualistic con- troversy is obvious, theparty being largely made up of Nonconformists, who, while earnestly desiring disestab- lishment, believe that it will be more speedily reached by permitting the ;quarrel to go on than by legislation intended to allay the strife. As the English Catholics and the Irish Nation- alists, who, it is expected, will be re- united at the, national convention this month, and whom the Liberals will endeavor to conciliate, are also not -.likely to favor legislation for the ad- justment of differences in the Eng- lish Church, it will be difficult to make of the question a party issue; though in the present state of public feeling any forecast is hazardous. On the other hand. the vote ddur- ing the debate on Sir H. Campbell- Bannerrean's declaration, that the veto power of the Lords, as preventing Lib- eral reforms demanded the attention of Parliament, showed that the• Lib- erals have an issue on which appeal can be taken to the electors in the next campaign with fair promise of success. For if the Liberal leader's de- claration is true as there is no doubt that it is, the government has ceased • to be truly representative, and the easiest remedy is to make the veto • of the Lords merely suspensory, thus A0 at, givingthat body only advisory power. With respect to the foreige policy of the Conservative government, criticism of which by the Liberals is promised, It is difficult to see just what ground of complaint can be found; though the Nonconformists, may, from a religious Point 'of view, justly attack the pro- position to make the Gordon College at Khartoum virtually a Mohamme- dan institution, and to tolerate poly- gamy in the Soudan. HE WAS A KLEPTOMANIAC. A man has just been put in jail in Camara, New Zealand, who had made in the course of thirty years this unique collection of other •folks pro- perty; Forty hedge -knives, 2 garden - hose, 1 wire serainer, 11 gorse -cutters, . 11 crowbars, 1 pair leggings, 6 Soy the stones, 1 door mat, 6 balls twine, 1 horse rug, 2 choppers, 14 adzes, 14 -a...brushes, 3 tape measuree, 3 rules,. 12 shirts, 1 tent, 2 surveyor's chains, 21 pinks, 8 tomahawke, 98 spades, 20 •shovels, 35 garden foeks, 31 hoes, 17 rakes, 26 hammers, 18 saws, 1 spoke- shave, 15 axes, 2 squares, 1 plane, 5 trowels, 1 dish, 7 door -handles, 2 chisels, 400 books. A BOOMER, SENTENCED. Judge, severely—You have been foetid guilty of stealing the people's money, and you are sentenced to ten years in the peniteatiery, and to pay a fine of five hundred thoueand ' Great Doodler -a -Yes, yr honor, Judge --But as you will never be able to pay the fine, the fine is remitted. Doodler—Thank you, judge. Judge—And if you conduct yourself properly the law will allow time for good behavior, and you ean Vet out hi ebout a year and a half. :flood! er--Thaeke, judge. Sedge—And, by the way, if you her pen to feel ill in a• week or two, Ihe nourt will lame an order allowing you to go home to die. Boa I er—Tha nks, jeclee; but sup pose I don't die 1, ,ftidge—Dont 'Mention it. Carl the cext ease. "THEY SUNG it NEW SOW' REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE ANTHEM OF HEAVEN,' o C04414110n In the Song ter Many Ages - "God sieves in a Mysterious Way." - Praise Cod on Stringed Instruments anti Organs-lleavca nos ,hist Iegup the New Song --A Heaven Large En. onto for Ten Thousand eneverests. A despateh from Washington says: —Bev, Dr. Talmage preached from, the following text—" And they sung a new song."—Rev. v. 9. Nearly all the cities of Europe and America have conservatories of mimic, and associations, whose object it is, by voice and instrument, to advance the art of. sweet sounds. On Thursday nights, Exeter Hall, of London, used to resound with the music of first-class perforMers, who gave their services gratuitously to the masses, who came in with free tickets, and lauzza.ed at the entertainment. At Berlin, at ele- ven o'clock daily, the military band, with sixty or one hundred instru- ments discourses at the royal opera - house for the people. On Easter Sun- day, in Dresden, the boom of cannon and the ringing of bells, bring mul- titudes to the churches to listen to the organ peals and the exciting sounds of trumpet and drum. When the great fair -day of Leipsio comes, the bands of music frorn far and near, gather in the street, and bewilder the ear • with incessant playing of flute, and horn violin, and bassoon: At Dussel- dorf, once a year, the lovers of music assemble, and for three or four days -wait upon the great singing festivals, and shout at the close of the choruses and greet •the suecessful competitors as the prizes are distributed—cups and vases of silver and gold. Those who can sing well or play skilfully upon instruments are greeted with vocifer- ation, and garlanded. by excited ad - There are many whose most ecstatic delight is to be found in melodies; and all the splendour of celestial gates, and all the lusciousness of twelve man- ner of fruits, and all the rush of floods from under the throne of God, would not make a heaven for them if there were no great and transporting harmonies. Passing along our streets in the hour of worship. you hear the voice of sacred melody, although you do not enter th,e building. And pass- ing along the street of heaven, we hear, from the tenaple of God, and the Lamb, the breaking forth of the mag- nificent jubilate. We may not yet en- ter in among the favored throng, but God will not deny us the pleasdre of standing awhile on the outside to hear. John listenen to it, a great while ago, and "they sung a new song." • Let none aspire to that blessed pmee who have no love for this exercise, for although it is many ages since the thrones were set, and the harps were sung, there has been no oessation in the song, excepting once for about thirty minutes; and judging, from the 1 glorious things now transpiring in 1 God's world and the ever -accumulat- ing triumphs of the Messiah, that was the last half-hour, that heaven will ever be silent. I. Mark the fact that this was a new song. Sometimes I have in church been floated away upon some great choral, in which all our people seemed to min- gle their voices, and 1 have, in the glow of my emotions, said, Surely this is music good. enough for heaven. In- deed I do not believe that "Luther's Hymn," or "Coronation," or "Old Hun- dred," or "Mount Pisgah," would sound ill if spoken by sainted lips, or thrummed from seraphic harps. There are many of our fathers and mothers in glory who would be slow to shut heaven's gate against thesa old-time harmonies. But this, we are told, is a new song. Some of our greatest anthems and chorale are compositions from other tunes—the sweetest parts of them gathered- up into the har- mony; and I have sometimes thought that this "new song" may be partly mule ap of, sweet strains of earthly music mingled in eternal eheral: But it will, after all, be a new song. This I do knew, • that in • sweetness and posver it will be something that ear never beard. All the skill of the old- est harpers of heaven will be flung into it. All the love of God's heart will ring from it. In its cadence the floods will clap their hands, and it will drop with the sunlight of ever- lasting day, and breathe with odours from the blossoms of the tree of life. "A new song"—just made for hea- ven. Many earthly songs are written by composers jusi for the purpose of making a tune; and the land is flood- ed with note -books in which really valuable tunes are the exception. But once in a while a man is wrought up by some great speetacle, or moved by some terrible agony, or transported by some exquisite gladness, and ,he sits down to write a tune, or a hymn, in which every note ot every word is a spark dropped from the forge of hie own burning emotions. So Menclelssolan wrote, and so Beethovern and so Charles Wesley. Cowper, de- pressed with misfortunes until almost insane, resolved on suicide, and asked the cab -driver to take him to a cer- tale place where he expected to de - troy his Own life. The cab -driver lost his way, and Cowpev began to think of his sit, and wont bath to bis home, and sat down and wrote -- "God Moes in a neysteeious WRY, His wondets to perform; He plants his footsteps in thdasea, And rides upon the storm, `Ye fearful.saints, fresh courage take, 'he clouds yoa SO touch dread, . Ave big with, mercy, and. shall break, In blessings ea your head," Mozaet composed his owe Vegetem, anti seid to his daughter Entity, 'Play • hst ;" and while .Emily was thiying the requiem, lVfozartes soul went up on the wave of his oevn music into glory. Emily looked around, and het father was dead. This new song of heaven was not uomposed became heaven had nothing else to do, but Clarist, in memory of erose and crown, of manger and throne of earth and heaven, and wrought up- on by the raptures of tlie great eter- nity, poured this from his heart, made it for the armies of Insaven to shout in celebration of vietory, for worshint per to (theta in their teinnle sterviees, for the innumerable home Pirates at heaven to sing in the house of many mansions, If a new bane be started in church, tnere is only here and there a Person, that ean sing it. It is some time before the eongregation learn a new tune. But not so with the pew song of heaven. The children who went up to -day from the waters of the Ganges are now singing it. That Christian man or woman, who, a few minute e ago, departed from this very street, has joined it. t know it -- those by the gates, those on the river bank, those in the temple. Not feel- ing their way through it, or baiting, or going back, as if they never before had. sung it, but with full round voice they throw their soul into this new song. If some Sabbath day a few notes of that anthem ehoulci travel down the air, we could not sing it. I'd organ could roll its thunder. No harp could catch its trill. No hp could announce its sweetness. Transfixed, lost, enchanted, dumb, we could not her it—the faintest note of the new song. Yet, while I speak, heaven's cathedral quakes under it,- and seas of glory bear it from beach to beach, and ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, sing it -- "the new song." IT. Further: It is a commemorative 'song. \are are distinctly told that it makes reference to past deliverances. Oh how much have they to sing about. They sing oft the darkness througla which on -earth they passed, and it is a night song. That was a Christian sailor -boy that had his back broken on the ship's halyards, and with him it is a sailor's song. That one burned at Smithfield, and with him it is a fire song. Ohl how they will sing of floods' waded, of fires en- dured, of persecution suffered, of grace extended! Song of hail) Song of swordi song of hot lead! song of axe! As, when the organ -pipes peal out some great ha.rnaony, • there comes occasion- ally the sound of the ,tremulante, weeping through the cadences, add- ing exquisiteness to the performances, so amidst the stupendous acclaim of the heavenly worshippers shall come tremulous remembrances of past en- durance, adding a sweetness and glory Ito the triumphal strain. So the, glori- fied mother wUl sing of the cradle . that death robbed; and the enthroned spirit from the alms -house will sing of a life -time of want. God, may wipe away all tears, but not the memory of the grief that started them! 111, Further. It will be an accom- panied song. Some have a great pre- judice against musical instruments; and even among those who like them, there is an idea that; they are unauth- orized. I cannot share in suc,h pre- judices, when 1 remember how God has honoured them. I love' the cym- bals,. for Israel dapped them in triumph at the Red Sea. I love the harp, for David struck it in praising the Lord. I love the trumpet, for we are told that it shall wake the dead. love all stringed instruments and organs; for God demands that we stiall praise him on stringed instrunaents and organs. There is in such music muoh to suggest the higher worship; for I read that when be had taken the book, the four -and -twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them "harps," and "I heard the voice of the harpers harp- ing with their harps," and "I saw them that had gotten the -victory from • the beast standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God," Yes, the song ia to be accompanied. You say that all this is figuratiye. Then 1 say, prove it. I do not know how much of it is literal, and. how much of it is figurative. Who ' can say but that from some of the prec- ious woods of earth and heaven there may not be made instruments of celes- tial accord. In that worship David rnay take the harp, and Habakku the shigionoth; and when the great mul- titudes shall, following their own in- clinations, take up instrementseweet- er than Mozart ever fingered, Or'Schu- tnann ever dreamed a, or Beethoven. ever wrote for, let all heaven, make ready for the burst of stupendous minstrelsy, and the roll of the eternal orehestral „ IV. Further: it will be an anticipa- tive song. Why, my friends, heaven bas hardly begun yet. If you. had taken the opening piece of music this evening for , the whole service, you would not have made so great a mis- take as to suppose that heaven is fully inaugurated. Festal choruses on earth last only a ,short while. The fanaous musical convocation at/ Dussel- dorf ended with the fourth day. Our holidays last only eight or ten days; but heaven, although singing for so many years, has only just begun "the new song." If the glorified inhabit- ants recount past deliverances, they will also enkindle at glories to come. If, at six o'clock, when, this church opened, you had, taken the few peo- ple that were scattered through it as the main audience, you would not have made so great, a mistake as if you ,supposed that the present popu- lation of heaven are to be its chief ei tizenship. Although ten million the inhabit:tints are only a hendful compared wiLh the future populetione. All China is yet to be saved. All India is yet to be Saved. All Borneo is yet to be saved. All Switzerland: is yet to be saved. All Italy is yet to be sexed. All Spain is yet to be saved.. All Russia: is yet to be saved. All ranee is yet to be saved. All England is yet te be saved: All America is yet to be saved. All the world is yet to bb masted. After that there may be other worlds to conquer. • I do not know but that every eter that glitters to -night is an inhabited world, and that from all those spheres a mighty host are to march into our heaven, There will be no gate to keep, them out. We do not Want to, keep them out. We will rid want to keep them out. God will not want to keep them Mit, I ,have sometimes thought that all the millions of, earth that go into glory are bet a very small eolony eompared with the influx from the whole uni- verse. God tould build a heaven large enough not only for the universe, but for ten thiStisanci universes. I do riot know juat how it will be, but this know, Hutt heaven is to be eonstattly augmented.; and thet the song of glory is rising higher and higher, and the peoccesion is being maltialied. If heaventeang lalmn Med went up—the firet ebul that ever lett earth for gitn7—bow Mast it sing now when souls go up in flocks from all Christen- dom, hour lsy hour, and )eaoment by moment. Our happy gatherings Oli earth are chilled, by the thought that eoon We (mot separate. Thanksgiving and Christmas days come, and the rail amine flying thilber axe crowded reunions take place. We have a time of great enjoyment. But soon it is "good-bye in the hall" "good-bye" at the door, "good-bye" on the etreet, •"good-bye" at the mil train, "good. bye" at the steamboat wharf. We meet to -night in church, It is good. to be here. But soon it will be nine o'clock. The doxology will be sung, the benediction pronounced, the ligbts will lower, and the audience will be gone. But there are no separations, no good-bys in heaven, At the door of the house of many mansions, no "good-bye." The song will be more pleasant, because we are always toeing it. Mightier song as our other friends °erne in. Mightier song as other gar- lands are set on the brow of Jesus, Mightier song as Christ's glories un- fold. If the first day. we ,enter heeven we sing,well, the next dal we sing better. Song anticipative of more light, of more love, of more triumphs, Always soniething new to hear, something new to see. Many good people suppose that we shall see heaven the first day we get there. No! You can not see London in two iveeks. You can not see Rome in six weeks. You can not see Venice in it month, You cart not see the great' city of the New Jerusalem in a day. No.'it will take all eternity to see heaven, to count the tower's, to examine the trophiese to gaee upon the thrones; to see the hierarchies. Ages on ages roll, and yet heaven is new I The streets new! The temple new! The joy newt The song newl I stayed a week at Niagara Falls; hoping thoroughly to, understand and appreciate it. But on the last day they seemed newer and more incompre- hensible than on the first day. Gazing on the infinite rush of celestial splen- dors, where the oceans of delight meet, and pour themselves into the great heart of God—how soon will we exhaust the song? Never I Never! The old preachers, in describing the sorrows of the lost, used to lift up their hands and shout, "The wrath to 00E151" "The wrath to come!" To- day I lift up rely hands, and looking to- wards the great future, cry, "The joy to come!" "The bliss to come!" Oh, to wander on the banks of the bright river, and yet to feel that a little further Own we shall find still brighter floods enteriug into it Oh, to stand a thousand years, listening to the enchanting music of heaven, and to find. out that the harpers are only tuning their harps. V. Finaily, I remark, that it will be a unanimous song. There will, no doubt, be some to lead, but all will be expected to join. It will be grand con- gregational singing. All the sweet voices of the redeemed!. Grand music it will be, when that new song arises. Luther sings ,it. Charles Wesley sings it. Lowell Mason sings it. Our voices now may be harsh and our'ears uncultivated, but, our throats cleared at last, and our capacities enlarged, and you and I will not be ashamed to 'utter our voices as loudly as any of them. Those nations that have always been distinguished for their capacity in song will lift up their voices in that melody. Those who have had much opportunity to hear tbe Germans sing will know what idea I mean to give, when I say that the gi•eat ,German nation will pout their deep, full voices into tie new song. Everybody knows the natural gift of the African for sing- ing. No singing on this continent like that of the coloured churches in the south. Every body going to Riob- mond or to Charleston wants to hear the Africans sing. But when not only Ethiopia, but all that continent of darkness lifts up its hands, and all Africa pours her great volume of voice into the new song—that will be music for You. Added to this are all the sixteen thousand -millions of child- ren that are estimated to have gone into glory, and the host of young and old that hereafter shall people the lea.rth and inhabit the stars. Ohl the new song! Gather it all upt 13.dultiply • it with every sweetness! Pour into it every harmony! Crown it with every gladne.ssl Belt it with every sptendourl Fire it with every -glory! Toss it to the greatest height of Majesty I Roll it to the grandest cycle of .eternity! --and then you have but the faintest conception of what' John experienced when, amidst the magnificence of apopalyptic vision, he heard it—the new song. God grant that at last we may all sing it. But if we do not sing the praise of Christ upon earth, we will never sing it in heaven. Be sure that your hearts are now attuned for the heavenly worship., On this Christmas eve, I forsee the time when the whole earth shall be brought in eccord with the Gospel ---"Glory to God in the high- est ; on earth, peace, good -will to men! There is a cathedral in Europe with an organ at each end. Organ answers organ, and the music waves backward and forward with indescribable effect. Well, my friends, the time will come when earth wad heaven will be but different parts of one groat accord. 11` will be joy here and joy tberel Jesus here and Jesus there! Trumpet to trumpet! Organ to organ! Elsille- lujah to hellelujahl 1 "Until the day hreale and the sha- dows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Betherl'' ‘41. "BOOK OE THE DEAD." An Egyptian • papyrus which for many years had. been lying among the manuscripts in the Royal Library at Brnssels, unappreciated and covered with dust, has lately beer deeiphered by a young Egyptologist, It is stfrag- ment of the "book of the dead" of the twentieth dynasty, 1500 13. C., deposit- ed 10 the stamp -bagels of a. priestess; of AraMon named hon Sang, "The Livities." A picture of the vestal offer- ing sacrifice to the god of the nether world illirtninetes, the manuscript. A SURE 'RAIL:E. .De Canter --I8 there any sure vvay to "fell the age of a horset Do Trotter-e'res, Ask the dealer atid imiitiply her one-half. DOINGS PF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE RECEIVED BY MAIL. I Record or tee levees,' 'raking riace In the Laud of the nese Interesting Omer" lessees. Englisb cotton operators are asking it higher rate of wages. ' The trade unions of the 13ritieh Is - Lan(Io have 1,6)0,0)0 members. Aixilulynasto:I.IllongigishLh.Petrish°e"Ltsultmlymdb8eealnmseana" Lady Basing has been fined 15e, by the Chertsey justices for cycling on the footpath, - The cost of building in Lender' lase increased from 30 to 40 persent. with- in ten years. Tb,e twentieth' century fund of the Wesleyan Methodists has reaehed 500,- 000 guineas. ' The Church of England has raised :n,1100,0t0h0e forsendinga bishop to Egypt A. party of London soeiety people are tfaorni:Ke haait'otuouna tour of the Nile Valley as The appropriate name of Ferrett is borne by one of the detectives of the London, Eng., police. Mr Chamberlain is urging a bill giving English workmen facilities for. the purchase of their houses. The Duke of Connaught is a player loinnistth.e flute, and the Duke of Saxe- Cobourg-Gothe is an accomplished vie - .A. Bee Betted was found comfortably settled in a cash register which had been shipped from the United States to London. Most of the chairs in Mme. Pattre boudoir at Craig -y -Nos are draped with ribbons taken from the number- less bouquets thrown to her. Lord Salisbury, it is stated, will pre- side at the next annual dinner of the Railway Benevolent Institution, which will be held at the Hotel Metropole on May 17th. A wealthy company is going to work tile Mona and Parys Mountain oopper mines in Anglesey, Wales. This en- terprise will give employment to hun- dreds of men. Queen ITictoria is conservative in the matter of carriages. Her favorite ve- hicle is of a 'shape in vogue twenty years ago, and one is made to do duty for several oceasions. • Anthrax has broken out on a farm. near Doncaster. Some beasts have died, others have been killed, and buried, and others removed. Every ef- fort is being made to prevent. the dis- ease from spreading. Investigation shows that more than half of the sixteen Cambridge dairies which supply milk to the colleges, as well as to the public, at large, send out product containing tubercle bacilli in sufficient quantities to cause tuber- culosis. When an undertaker called upon the wife of a laborer at Poplar, to ar- range for the funeral- of her still -born child, the woman suddeniy thanged colour, and died almost immediately. Death was due to shock on seeing the man enter the room. The year 1810, in which the late Duke of Northumberland was born, seems to have produced a long-lived race, for there still remain four peers who date their birth from it—Lord Tankerville, Lord Gwyrdyr,Lord Mex- borough and Lord Armstrong. The ritualisits controversy winch has existed for some time at St. Agnes' chureh, Liverpool has resulted in the vicar giving six months' notice to leave to the two curates, who refused to obey the vicar's request to abstain from advocating confession in their Sern1011S. Lord Wolseley, the Commander -in - Chief, has written a letter even:lily supporting the British Brigade Coun- cil, of which Lord M%Lth is president, and the purpose of which is to bring aboat the teachingofmilitary drill to all British lads between the ages of 13 and 18. It is a rule at the well-known bank- ing house of Coutts & Co., London, that none of the bank clerks wear moustaches. It has long been consid- ered a point of business etiquette that all the gentlemen employed at the bank should wear frock eoats during business hours. The Guardians of the Poor for Is- lington have issued a notice offering rewards for information respecting the whereabouts of 96 nien who have deserted their wives or ohildren, ren- dering them chargeable to the poor rates. The wives thus deserted num- latir 17 and the children 88. Before leaving for Italy en Saturday the Empress Frederick presented to Chief Inspector Sweeney, of Scotland Yard, who had been in attendance on her Majesty, during her vieit to this country, a ntagnificent gold wateh and chairs, upon which was engraved the Imperial coat Of arms, and monogram, Details concerning the successful proseoution of the search of Sir George King and Mr. Robert rattling, of Ainwick, for orchids in a prolific dis- trict of the Himalayas have just reaeh- nd England. Ile enthusiastic savants, who have been engaged in the search for several years httve discovered and classified almost 8,000 new apeeies, • Further developments in iron and steel manufaeture at th'e Tredegar works, Wales, are in contemplation. It is the intention of the company, by the use of specially sclectiod coke. of great puritY and Stiehl& ores, to pro - dime from a new furnace a hematite pig iron of exceptionally high grade, needy or quite esetiel to the west coast, pig iron, of whieh at preeent large 0tinnhiies are iinported into South Walea. Atyoutb named Brookes, residing- at Netherton, near Hadley, has met with a painful death as the] result of giute bony. He was employed at lbs iron works at Woodside, and after bolting his dinner lae eganplained of violent pains, arid immediately expired. A post mot tern exaoiixxaLioO elareved, th t deeeased had we -allowed lumps of meat tWo inehes long (tensing' the stormedh 10 beeome dietexided.a a he heart was prevented from acting, and death fol- lowed. The Rev, S. S. Stone, ,M.A„ rector oil All Hallows -on -the -Wall, London, Wall, has deeicled to open his church from , hatf-past six to eight o'clook in the morning so Hatt working girls and women who are compelled to travel 1;0 town by early workingmen's trains maY have a place of shelter and rest until the various shops, alc„ open. A brief service is It> be neld every morn. ing at seven o'dock. Books—not omit religiou.s, but works of general inter- e.st are to be provided, • As a result of werking ia the china and earthenware factories of Stafford- shire twelve people became blind last year, thirtet-three paralyzed, eighteen suffered from wrist drop, five became insane two lost speecb eleven died, and eighty-four were treated for acute colic, epileptic fits, etc. The total num- ber of recorded cases of lead poisoning among women and girls engaged in the manufacture of earthenware in two and sa half years is 528 women and sixty-three girls. There is an agitation n.ow in favour of non -poison - NORTH -WEST IMMIGRANTS. 1. Ragpay onietare nenecteons *Upon the English Ours. A large party of English immigtants were forwarded from Montreal to the North-West by the C. P. 11., the other day. Among these were groups of second -cabin pas,engers bound for Brit- ish Columbia. These were admirable specimens of the English national type. The men were strong, well built, and confident; the woraeu had that fresb color, and, that elasticity of movement, combined with perfect ease and complacency which always ex- cite notice. "Do you know," said an of- ficial, musingly, "that the ease and con.idence whicb these people express is the secret og empire. Talk as you like, the British are destined to con- quer the world. I mean the world is bound to yield at last to the mould- ing and conquering spirit of this peo- ple. We handle thousands of every nationality every year. Except the Englith, all are as dough in our hands. We treat them well, of eourse, we treat the Chinese well, too; but we direct them all, except the English. The English won't be directed. The Englishman wants his own way, and will have it. We have to appear as though we attempted no guidance at all. The Englithenan wants to go where he pleases. He objects to being loet in a party. Be objects to being sent among a lot of immigrants. The moment he lands he wants towander aboub at his own sweet will. He is not discomposed at all. He is always sure of hienself. It is this confidence which makes empire. It is this obstinacy which helps him to get the better of inferior races. The gentle races which you can lead, from which you can ex- pect obedience—these do not make way in the world. irhis well-built Engliehrnan, there, standing six feet, perfectly confident in himself, in no way disconcerted at finding himself upon strange soil -that ix the type which is bound to win the world. It may not be a gracious type; the gentler races of the European Con- tinent do not like it; but it persists; it marks the map, red; it bends every- thing to its purpose, and conquers largely because it is aggressive, and selfwilled. ...••••••• TIMBER ELECTRICALLY SEASONED A. New System Which Makes Valueless Woods Available ror Structural Work. The process of seasoning and pre- serving wood by electricity, which has of late attracted much attention, has many points of advantage which are likely to go a long way toward in- suring the ultimate success of the method.One great recommendation of the new system is ;that certain woods which are at present used only for fire wood, sine,e they will not stand seasoning in the ordinary way, can thus Poe rendered available for structural work. Among the speci- mens exhibited to illustrate this qual- ity axe, some species of larch, very common in France, but litherto quite unusable in carpentry, owing to the extent to which shakes developed in seasoning. The specimens were per- fectly sound, and both heart and sap wood could be planed with equal ease and effieiency. The treatment makes the wood absolutely impervious to damp and prevents its decay, other advantage of the method is that, so far, none of the large,class of wood - destroying or wood-winicturing in- sects have been known to attack wood eleotrically seasoned. Evan now mom than 25 cable feet can be eared for and the precess is of the kind that will naturally be clieripened. The wood to be treated is placed on rests in a tank containing a solution of 10 per cent of borax 5 per cent of resin and 6 per cent, of carbonate of soda, A laeavy current is 1 urned on, which rauees the solation to be sacked from the bottom to the top, and i he whole mass of wood is permeated by the cosn- bioed borax and soda, through electroeapiIlary attraction, The resin seals the fibers of the wood after cool- ing, and the borio aid acts as an an- tieeptie, The sap dieplaeed from the wood 'rises to the surface of the bath (biting the operation, and the resin in ii mixes with that in the solution, The time Vequired for the operetion varies from five to eight hours, according to :he rtatetre and state of the wood un- der treatinent, green evood being esul- ar treat than wood nearly dry, Tim vigg TEST FOR ORES. now tb. A4sayeri De0.0,00,0 vslue or Swamies Front New Mmes. The Prooess of escertaiding the vatne of a piece of mineral -bearing rock is :nteresting. The ore is first 'miser - teed in a rusher or mortar. It ite itsh e ono tqaui naretdersemd oar en guhn tfiolr a soantnv epol ient handling. A "split" is a series of troughs; alternating with a series of elite equal in number and size to the troughs. Half of the sample is re - retained in the troughs every time the ore is passed through the split. T'bis iiiroscuelsefietripyreateedduouednt.hem il thTegusaatiteiflY se time obtained is spread upon a "back- ing board," a metal plate fastened, On a firm foundation. It is then reduc- ed. to powder by roiling it with a "mut- ter " which is a heavy iron sledge with a smooth convex surface. The sample is usually pulverizea until it will pass throuieh a sixty Mesh, or sometimes even an eighty -mesh sieve. In this condition the ore is called pulp. The assayer uses weights which are proportioned to the commercial weights an assay ton, consisting of 29,106 grams, representing a bit of ore. The re- sult of the assay is weighed in milli- grams. If an assay ton of the pulp is used, each milligram in the result re- presents an ounce of THE PRECIOUS METAL to the toe. Usually half an assay ton of the pulp is used, and the result is then multiplied, by two to get the num- ber of ounces to the ton. A half assay ton of the pulp ie weighed carefully on the pulp scales, and put into a crucible, togetherwith a flux. The flux consiets of carbon- ate of soda, borax and litharge, or pro- toxide of lead; sometimes flour is add- ed. The proportions of the ingredients in the flux vary according to the na- ture of the ore. Some heavy lead or galena ores require very little litharge. Other ores which contain little or no lead. require litharge m larger quan- tities. The pulp and the flux are thoroughly mixed and covered with salt or borax. Borax makes a clearer flux, but has no other advantage over the common salt. If there is an excess of sulphur in the ore, iron nails are added. The crucible is then placed In whits the fuheatrnactoreceivee,whichhitasb.een heated to • The furnaces contains a fireclay oven called a muffle, which is made with an opening at the back to permit the fumes from the crucibles to eseape. IJsuallyehalf an hour or forty minutes is required, to reduce, the contents of the crucible to a volatile state. When the action in the crucible has ceased the contents are poured into a metal mold and allowed to cool. • The slag is broken off and a lead button is found at the bottom of the mold. This lead button contains all the gold and silver in the ore. To separate the gold. and silver from the lead the button is plae.- ed in a cupel, and a small dish made of bone -ash, and replaced in the muf- fle: The lead is melted and part of it passes off in fumes, while part of it is absorbed, together with any cop- per or other substances which may be in the button, by the bone -ash, leaving o small silver button in the cupel. If the ore is known to contain much sil- ver, the lead button is placed in the oupel just as it is taken from, the slag; but if there is very little silver in the ore, a known quantity of pure salver is added, so that there may be a heavy excess of silver in the button obtained in the cupel; This is necessary in or- der that the button may be PARTED WITH ACID. The silver button is weighed. on the button balance and is then parted by immersing it in nitric acid. The acid dissolves the silver and leaves the gold in the form of fine black dust. The parting is done in an anealing cup. Tbe gold is washed and dried and the cup, is placed. in the muffle and beat - ed to a red heat, which anneals the gold, bringing it into a comiect mass and giving it its true gold color. , The gold is transferred to the tray on the button balance and weighed. The weight of the gold is deducted from the weight of the eilver button, giving the weight of the silver. The button balance is an exceedingly delicate piece of mechanism. It is kept in a glass case, and the weighing is done with the case dosed, in order that the air currents in the room may not affect the beam. The balance is so delicate that the vibrations caused by a person walking across the room near them will affect the result. A strand of maiden hair will turn tbe balanee as if it were a young man's head. The gold and silver are weighed to milli- grams, arid even to hundredtbs of a milligram. The weights and the but- tons are placed on the balance with' smelt pincers, in order that the hands may not come in tontact with the parts of the scales, for the temperature or the hand is sufficient to destroy the aecureoye If the gold obtained in the assay just described weighs 100 milligrams, the ore carries 200 ounees of gold to the ton, which is good enough for any ordi- nary mine. ONE AGAINST TIIE OLD MAN, Ile was the son of a worthy di izen. end be had just returned from college, His father was a brusque, Matter-of- fact man, who had no liking for any- thing pronounced, and be noticed with sorro-w that his son returned with the latest thing in eellars, and various other insignia of fashion. The old gentlemari eurveyed him critically when Isa eppeered in his office, and then blurted out; 'Young man you look like an idiot," , Juni. at that tuonie,nt, and nefore the yoUng man had time 'to. Make ti fitting reply, a friend welkeri "Why, halloo, Billy! Have you to- tirrneal?' he asked, "Dear me, how math you retemble your tat horr. "So he has been telling me,' replied l3ilIy And, froze that day to thin tho old gentianaen has l)ad no faulb to find with his eon.