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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-30, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES NOTES AND COMMENTS. 'One has otily to follow the newspaper reports for a Mid vane to realize the (More:toile developments of trusts or eoinbinatioes for ,trade purposes now ,going ou. It is estimated that eine- hale the capital employed in industrial enterprises in ate United States, is noNv controlled by these monopolies. The amount is, moreover, inereasing by leaps and bounds, se that it seems safe to say thee at the present rate of progress, a few years Neill see by far the greater pert of Anaerican indee- try under this system. Not otily are the great industries, steel, sugar, pet- roleum, etc., in the hands of trusts, but their control of the production and handling of all minor commodities, sixth as paper, chemicals, eilverware, and even bananas, is being rapidly es- tablithed. The aggregated capitai em- ployed in this process is oe course, en- orraoue, a single motiopoly having a capitalization of nearly a Waxed mil- lions, while the effect is to virtually close the inenstries involved to outside conipetnlen. The method by which these industrial ruonopolies, are built up, is a compara- tively simple one. A. certain number of large producers combine to secure control of the market, for a particu- lar article, placing their several in- terests in the hands of the combina- tion, and receiving certificates there- for in propoetion to their value. The trust thus formed then buys up the produoers outside of it and merges them in the federation, or undersells them in the market, and so forces It is this form of the rtust, the trust is strong, heavily capitalized, and dis- posed to be unscrupulous, it is practic- ally impossible for individual enter- prise to stand against it. It must be said, however, for many of the asso- ciations that they are not thus un- scrupulous in securing a monopoly and that they maintain their suprem- acy .honestly by permanently low charges to the consumer. But the ef- fect is in all eases the same—to swell the volume of business and to dimin- ish the nuraber of separate business enterprises. Not only is the latter re- melt true in the lines of bueiness di- rectly affected by the trusts, but of American business as a whole. Chicago, for example, is seed to have fewer sep- arate business firms to -day than it had in 1870, despite the enormous growth of the city. As with nearly everything else, there are two sides to the trust question. One is that the trust is the inevitable sequence of the tendency to associa- tion shown alike in society and. politics, as well as in industry, and that where a real competition exists, labor and the consumer reap substantial advan- tages therefrom. Nothing is easier than to abuse a corporation which brings a whole industry within its grasp, even though it produces a- good and cheap article, as inconsistent with the highest ideals of humanity. But there must be something to be said for a system which diminishes the cost of living for labor, and so leaves it a margin for modest enjoyments and the cultivation of the intellect. When trusts are competitive in any true sense* that is, when they retain their monopoly by victim of low prices, are net protected by legislation, they are in the way most immediately and dir- ectly felt a public benefit. For they not only make life easier for all con- sumers, but while reducing the necee- eery expenditure of labour, increase its vrages. SOIVFOLIJ TO THE TEMPLE. REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS THIS IS WHAT THE EIBLE IS, wommet 'When ilbo Itatidtiog la Rowe There WIU Be No Ilse for Mt Seatfolding—Chriset Love, CompastIon, Worn, 141re* neotht Resurrection—The rroThIctlec Or God -- Profound Ilytderles of Providence. A despateb from Watsbiegton saysi-e Rev. Dr. Tannage preached from the following text; "For now we see through a glass, darkly; bet then face to face." -1 Cor. xi% 12. , Tbe Bible is the most forceful and pungent of books, While it has the sweetness of a mother's hush for hu- man troubles, it has all the keenness of a scbmitar, and the crushing power of a lightning -bolt. It portrays with more than a painter's power, at one stroke, picturing a heavenly throne and. a judgment conflagration. The 'string of this great harp are fingered by all the splendors of the future, now sounding with the crackle of eonsum- ing worlds, new thrilling with the joy of the everlasting emaneipated. It tells how one forbidden tree in the Garden blasted the earth with sick- ness and death ; and how another tree, though-leaflese and. bare, yet, planted on Calvary, shall yield a fruit which shall antidote the poison of the other. It tells how the red -ripe clus- ters of God's wrath were brought to the wine -pea, and Jess trod them out; and how, at last, alt the golden chalices of heaven shall glow with the wine of that awfal vintage. It daz- zles the eyes with an Ezekiel's vis- ion of wheel, and wing, and fire, and whirlwind; and stoops down so low that it can put its lips to the ear of dying thild, and say, "Come up high- On the other hand, trusts support- ed by legislation, or allied with inter- ests so supported, must, as a rule, be regarded as detrimental to the public welfare. For they do not secure and maintain through low prices, but by legislative prohibition of competition. In seeking such prohibition, the bin - plication is fair that their object is to maintain production at high prices. It is this form of the trust, the trust that prevents competition, and exer- cises a tyrannical supremacy over a whole industry, paying large profits on an enormous capital, that arouses the discontent and anger of the mass- es, and gives ground for the charge that the country is drifting toward an oligarchy of wealthy corporations. The relief objection to all trusts is, how - their teedeney to erush out individual enterprise„ and so to large- ly augment the already great army of employes, For no man can now- setup an independent business with any as- surance that when he has developed it, ids trade will not be seized by one of tnese great corpoetttions. As the latter earinot possibly see all the thannels for trade °peeing out frora the besiliess wasich the individual toeight diocover, not only are opportune Hee for , legitimate ieduetry lost, but the deeelopment of individual skill and ability nampered. er.' • And yet Paul, in my text, takes the responsibility of saying that it is only an indistiuct mirror, and that its xais- sion shall be suspended, nthink there may be one Bible in heaven, fastened to the throne. just as now, in a mus- eum, we have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look' at it Nvitti great interest, and say, "How poor a light it must have given, compared with our modern lamps I" So think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lie near the throne of God, exciting our interest to all eternity by the con- trast between its comparatively feeble light and the illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the build, ing is done there will be no use for the sceffolding. The idea I shall develop to -day is, that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory but nevertheless is introductory to grander and more complete elem. This is eminently true in regard to our view of God. We hear so much about God that we conclude we under- stand him. He is represented as hav- ing the tenderness of a father, the firmness of a judge, the pomp of a king, and the love of a mother. We hear about him, talk about him, write about him. We lisp his name in in- fancy, and it trembles on the tongue of the dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about him. Take the attribute of mercy. Do we understand it ? The Bible blossoms all over with that word—Mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mercies; of the mercy that en- dureth forever ; of the multitude of his mercies. And yet I know that tee views we have of this great Being are ' most indefinite, one-sided and incom- plete. When, at death, the getee shall fly open, and we shalt look di- rectly upon him, how new and ser - i prising 1 We see upon canvas a picture of the early morning. We study the, cloua in the sky, the dew upon the grass, and the busberelman on the way to the field, Beautiful picture of the morning/ But we rise at day -break and go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to us. 'While we Look ihe mountains are insfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and. shut, to let pass a host of fiery splendors. The clouds are alt abloom, and hang pend- ent from arbours of alabaster and ame- thyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon; and there is morning on the sea. The crags uncover their sacred visage; and there is morning among the moun- tains. Now you go home and how tame I Your Picture of morning seems in cone I trast 1 Greater than that shall be the I contrast between this Seriptural view of God and that whith we shall have when standing face to face. This is a pielare of the morning; that will be the morning itself. I Again; my text is true of the Sav- iour's excelleney. By image., and sweet ! rhythm of expression, and startling antitheses, Christ is set forth—his love, his compassion, bis work, his life, hie death, his re,surreetion. We are dial- lenged to measure it, to compute it, to weigh it. In tbe hoer oi our brok- en enthrallment, we mount up into high experiente of hi o love, and shout , unid the countenanee glows, and the blood bounds, and the whole nature is exhausted. "1 have found him!" t And yet it is through a glass, dark- ly. eVe see not half of that compas- sionate ewe. We feel not. half the warmth of thee loving heart. We wait for death to let UR rush into his out- spread ems. Than we sbab be fec,e to fare, Not shadow then, but sebstanee. Not hope thee, but the fulfilling of till Prefigurement. Thal will be a naagni- Actin( unfolding The reshing out in view Of ell hidtiett eeeel1enee' the ooril- ing again or a leng-aneent TM1,te meet us—not in rags, and in penury, and death, but amidst a light, toad 'and outbureting joy slick as none feat a, glorified intelligence Oiled ex- perience. Oh to gaze hilt upon the brow that was laeerated, upon the side ibat was leered), upon the feet that were nailed; to dant] elese up in the DISCAIttinit) rErE eloRSET. Ifollowing the exemple of her niotb- en fleeted, Vietoria, Princess Beatrice has discarded the utie of tbe corset, but so well and becomittgly (lees she dr('Fig ,thet very feet, people would guess teat she has no recoerse to that titrnele et Xettainine attire, presenee of Him who played foe iw on the mountein, and thought of es by the mea, and agoeized for us in the garden, and died for aa in harriele crestifixion; to feel a Iglu; to embrace WM, to take les hand, to kiss his feet, to run our fingers along the scars of a.neient sufferings; to eitYi " This iS my jesus I He gave himself to no I shali never leave his presence. I than forever behold lea glory. I shall eter- nally hear his wide Lord ;Jew& now I see thee UX behold where ,the blood sterted, lettere the tears cured, whel'e the face was-. distorted, I nave waited for this emu% I shall never turn neY Lath on thee. nit) more looking thronglx imperfect glas.see. Na mote studying the.ei in the darkness, Bet. as long as this throne stands, and this everlasting river'flows, and those ger- lands bloom, and these arches of vic- tory remein to greet bones heaven's conquerors, so long I shell see thee, Jesus a ray choice; jesus of my song; jeesrasoafooraytotriumph—forever p, ple—forever and for- av—fThe idea of tbe text is just as true Nehen applied to God's providence. Who has not, come tol sortie pass in life thoroughly inexplicable? You say, "'What does this mean? What is God going to do with me now? He tells me that all tillage work together for good, This does not look like it." You continue to study the dispensation, and after awhile guess, about what God. means. "He means to teach me this. I think he means to teach ine that. Perhaps it is to humble me pride, Perhaps it is to make me feel more dependent. Perhaps to teach ine the uncertainity of life," But after all, it is only a guess —a looking through the giass darkly. The Bible assures us there shall be a satis- faotory unfolding, "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter." You will know why God took to himself that. only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. Why not take one • from that group,. instead of. your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beating res- ponsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all, if he meant to take it aevey? Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming, if he meant to dash it down? Why allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that object, and. then, when every fibre of your own life seemed interlocked with the child's life, with strong band to tear apart, until you fall, bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose thati God -will explain that? Yea. He will make it plainer than any mathematical problem—as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne you will see that it was right—all right. "Just andtrniusreare all thy ways, thou. Sing ofsai Here is e. man who cannot get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and to sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries this en- terprise, and fails; that business, and is disappointed'. The man next door to him has a lureative trade but he lacks oustomers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his fainily are sick; and the profits are expended in trying to oure the ailments.' He gets a discouraged look. I3ecomes faithless as to success. Begins ,to expect disasters. Others wait for semething to turn up; he waits for it to turn down. Others with only half as mucb, education and char- acter, get on twice as well. He some- times guesses as to what it all means. He says, "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps poverty hi necessary to keep me bumble. Perhaps I might, if things were otherwise, be tempted into dissipations." But there is no complete solution of the myitery. He sees through a glass darkly,. and must wait for a higher unfolding. Will there be an explanation? Yes; God will take that man in the light of the thorne, and say, immortal, hear the explanation! You remember the failing of that great enterprise—your misfortune in 1837; your trial in 1857; your disaster in 1867. This is the ex- planation." And you will answer, "It is all right," I see, every day, profound myster- ies of providence: There is no ques- tion we ask ottener than Why? Hospi- tals for the blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic and insane, alms -houses Lor the destitute, and, a world of pain and misfortune. that demand more than .human solution. Ala! God. veil) blear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne, no dark mystery ette Things now utterly inscrutable will he illumined as plainly as though the an- swer were ,wri leen on the jasper wall, or sounded in the temple anthem. llarthneus will thank God that he was blind; and Lazarus that he was cover- ed with sores; and Joseph that be was cast into the pit; and Daniel that he denned with lions' and Paui that he was hump -backed; and David that he was 'driven from Jerusalem; and that sewing -woman that she could get only a few pence for making .a gar- ment; and that invalid that for twenty years he could/ net lift his lead from the pillow; ed that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. You know that in a song different voices tarry different parts. The sweet and over- whelming part of the balielujah of heaveo will got be carried by those INtho rode in legh; places, and gave sumptuous entertainments; but pauper children will sing it, beggars will sing it, redeemed hod -carriers will ,sing if, those who were owe the off -scouring of earth will sing it, The hallelujah win be all the graneler for eareles weeping eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted hands, and scoo rged backs, and mar- tyred a gon i es. Again: the teought of the text, is just , when applied ' to ihe e njoymen Is of the righteoes in haven. I think we have but little idea of the number of the righteous in heaven. 'Infidels say: out hetivene,will be a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for aceoeding to your Letithing, the majority of men will be destroyed," 1 deny, the charge. I auppose 1 h il t he multitude oe the fin. - ally lost* as compared with the multi- tude of the tinnily saved, will he a handful. I suppose tbat the few skis people in the Brooklyti City Hospital teeday, tie compared with the hundreds of theustulds of well people in the city, would not be smaller thanthe num- ber of tbose who obeli have imen Client the health of heaven. I'd we are to remember that we are living in only the begirinieg of the dispensation, and that this whole world is to be populet- ed mid redeemed, and that ages of. ligbt and love are to flow on, lf this be So, the multitneles of the saved will THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. be 131 vast majority, ' Tal) the congregations that have io-daYake assembled for worship. Put INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 2, them together, and they would, make but a small audience compared with the thousands awl tens of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand that shall stand around the throne. Those flashed up to heaven in martYr fires; those we torn limb from limb by Rumish inquisitions; those tossed for many years upon the invalid-couchl those fought in tbe armies of liberty, fa 1nodm rho le:n as os oe lard fell; otri a so isiep ptsuamfbrloeood the natiet, or were washed off Vito the sea. They came up from Corinth, from 14nodnieestir,oftrwtaisvee,RELSea bank iand and Gideons house, and, calling lefary secretly, said, brick -yards, ' threshing - floor. Those, thousands of Years lig?, "The Master is cable, and ealleth for slept the last sleep; and these are this thee" verse 28. Mary rose quiekly and went forth to meet bine Wilde Jesus was. He was not yet come into the town, verse 30, but etaeed where the enemy stands on a hill and looks Martha had met him. Saw him, A flood throgtfe a field -glass, and sees, in the 01 tender emotions, some half hopeful, great istanoe, multitudes eepreath- ing, but has no ide,a of their numbers, Perhaps some hall reproachful, swept He says "I can not tell anything oi er her agitated heart at sight of the about tam. I merely know that there Master elle loved. She ion down at are a great nuamber." And so John, Ms' feet "Where she had been wont without attempting to count, says, "A great Multitude thet no man can num- atels:itanaseinddohlaiiejlis towoermd,oet—ioCliiluartomont; We are told that heaven is a place have called thoroughly -.oriental, and of happiness; but what do we know others thoroughly . feminine but we ah6at. haPPhfeas? RaPPhissa intill: must regard it as thoroughly human. world is only a half -fledged thing; floweey path, witli a serpent hissing Lord, if thou hadse been here, My MelWed. "The hhalla t f+aaaru$." John 11.3t45. Golden text. Obit 11. 1)11 ACTICAL NOTES. Verse 92. When Mary was come. Hee sister Martha had gone forth to meet Jesus, leaving ,Dlary sittipg in the house, verse 21a, absorbed in her grief. After a brief conversatien witb eases verses 21-27, without careful study of whieb the rest of the story cannot be understood, Martha returned to the moment having their eyes closed, and their limbs stretched out for the sepulchre. A general expecting an attack from across it ; a broken pitcher, from which brother had not died. Clerysostona notices how reach of heavenly wisdom there was in the subdued sorrow' of both these holy women—a perfect ree verenee ior a Teacher whose nature- ankpower they did net yet fully un- derstand. True Christian faith is sure that the overthrows and agonies of life are as really,parts of God's benign providenoe as its smiles and prospere ties and sunshine. 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping. "Passionately lamenting." But in verse 35, where we are told that Jesus wept, silent tears are in - <Boated. He groaned in the spirit. Dr. Marvin R. Vincent calls attention to the word here translated "groaned." It occurs three times elsewhere; Matt. 9, 80; Mark 1. 43 ; and 14.5; and "in every case it expresses remonstrance and dis- pleasure. It is not plain whether OUT Lord's indignation was at the hypo- crisy of the Jews, or at their unbelief, or at the sisters' misapprehension, or at the temporary triumph of Satan, who had power over death." Perhaps there is a measure of truth in each of `atlas° explanations. Was troubled. "Troubled himself ;" showed bis deep emotion to the bystanders. 35. Jesus wept. Silently shed tears. See note on verse 33. When our Lord lamented over the fall of Jerusalem, as he descended the Mount of Olives, we are told that he wept aloud. ' 86. Said the Jews. "Some of them," but face to face. The orphans left as we shall see tram the next verse. poor, and in a merciless world, kicked The clique which is forming to 'bring and cuffed of many hardships, shall about the destruction of Jesus ts join their parents, over whose graves henceforth referred to as the Jews," they eo long wept, and gaze into the This use of the phrase "the Jews" glorified countenances forever, face' strikes one oddly, as if in a story of to face. We may come up from differ-' Toronto or Montreal, a set of the ent parts of the world, one from the heroes and heroines were galled "the land and another from the depths of Canadians." The explanation is two - the sea; free° lives affluent and pros-: fold: 1. John was a Galilean, and could porous, or from scenes of ragged dis- baldly help making running comment tress; but we shall all meet in rapture on the difference between our Lord's and jubilee, face to face. *reception in "Jewry' and among the Many of our friends have entered Galilean hills. 2. This book was al - upon that joy. A few days ago they most certainly written after the oth- sat with us studying these Gospel er gospels, and for readers who did themes; but they only saw through a not well understand jewish-prejudices glass, darkly—now revelation bath and roamers. Behold bow he loved come. God will not leave you'flound- bim. e'bee how he used to love him." ering in the darkness, You stand , Or, as Dr. Watkins phrases it; "How wxinder-struck and amazed. You feel be must have loved him in his life, as if all the loveliness of life were dash-. when he thus SOTTOWS fOr his death." ed out You stand gazing .into the I 37. But some of them were not as open chasm of the grave. Wait a Bi-! charitable as the speakers of verse 36. tie. In the presence of your departed, They foresee that this miracle will and of Him who carries them in his greatly add to the power of Jesus with bosom, you shall soon stand face to tbe people; and in as has been sug- fece. Oh, that our last hour may gested, this saying of tbe Jews was kindle up with this promised joy May uttered in hate .and ironically, it we be able to say, like the Meridian throws light on the " groaning " of not long ago, departing, "Though a verses 33 and 86. pilgrim, walking through the valley, 38. Theeefore conneetstlais new man - the mountain tops are gleaming from ifestation of indignation with what Peak to peak!" or, like my dear friend the Jews had just said. Again groan - the water has dropped before we could drink it ; a thrill of exhilaration, fol- lowed by disastrous reactions. To help us to understand the joy of heaven, the Bible takes us to a river. We atand on the grassy bank. We see the waters flow' en with .ceaseless wave. But the filth of the cities are emptied into it; and the banks are torn; and unhealthy exhalations spring up from it; and we fail to get an idea of the River of Life in hea- ven. We get very imperfect ideas of the reunions of heaven, We think of some festal day on earth, when father and mother were yet living, and the chil- dren came home. A good time that 1 But it had this drawback—all were not there. That• brother went off to sea, and never was heard frone—That sis- ter—did eve not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, never more in this world to look upon her? Ab! there was a skeleton at the feast; and tears mingled with our laughter on the Christmas -day. Not so with hea- ven's reunions. It will be an unin- terrupted gladness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. "Ah 1" he says, "can it be possible that we are all here —life's perils over 1 The Jordan pass- ed, and not one eventing? Why, even the prodigal is here. I almost gave him up. How long he despised my counsels, but grace bath triumphed. An here! all here! Tell -the mighty joy through the city. Let the bell ring, and the angels mention it in their song. Wave it from the top of the walls. All here!" No more breaking of heart -strings, • Lord of tbe Munediate presenoe and power of the divine Fether, 42. I 'mow !led; thou hearest me al- ways. Quite aside from the Mysteri- ous neee of prayer which our Lord felt, and which we may reverently in- quire into, but must find it difficult to explain, we see from these words that 'he prayed for our example, Heb. 5. 7, and algo to instruct those who steed by" concerning his mission. Ie. Bound hand and foot with grave - clothes. The Taws did not use coffins, but swathed their dead in bandages of linen. 45. Here, in a single sentence, the evangelist meetions a quicit increase of PUT Lord's disciples, which so impress- ed' the ecclesiastic and civil authorities as to bring about our Lord's death. See our introductory note. tied brother, Alfred Cookman, who re- cently took his flight to tbe throne of God* saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian classics, "I am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of the Lambt" BEALTH NOTES. Fainting fits are due to imperfect circulation of the blood, which may be due to nervous affectionsor to dys- peptic trodden Mane who are troubled by them can be cured by a eimple course of treatment for the lungs. Coffee, when -too strong, is an active poison. When used as a stimulant it is almost as objectionable as alcohol. lb is especially bad for pale -faced. or bilious people. If one feels that he must have breakfast coffee, it should be made after the French plah—tevo- thirds hot milk. Lemon juice is a powerful germicide. Strong hot lemonade is an excellent drink for one suffering from colds in the head, pip and kindeed ailments. , Bad teeth are more frequently due to imperfect digestion than to any other cause. The teeth of a child should be regularly examined and, treated from the time it is two or three years old. The, head should be watibed frequent- ly for the sake of cleanliness, but ibis well to tub the weep briskly with bay rum afterward, The alcohol causes it to evaporate more rapidly then water which, if allowed to remain, catches dust and germs, IVIost people who lead Etedeetary livea eat too mach pepper, too much salt, and especially toe*" much meat. A good Arabian borse can canter in the desert for twenty-four hours in stinanaer and forty-eight bours le win- ter Without drinking. ing in himself. See note on verse .33. Cometh to the grave. Which, as we are immediately told, was not a hole in the ground, but a: sepulcher, a cave, probably a chamber or cell cut out of the rook, like the place in which his own body was shortly to be laid. This ownership of a private burying place iedicates family wealt b. 39. Take ye away the stone. He who could call the dead to life might well hinaseff have rolled away the stone. That hq depended on human help sug- gests 4ocys method in the salvation of the, lynrld. It helped th.e helpers to increased faith, and, as Dr. Gebel has beautifully said, it brought noble 'testimony to the reality and manner of this miracle; for in later years, doubtless certain Christiana of Beth- any were able to say, "i helped to roll the stone away from the door of that tomb." It is always a Christian duty and privilege to 'remove hind- rances from before the Saviour. BY this time, etc. Martha's faith in the Lord was not strong enough to expect an immediate resurrection; and her sisterly feeling shrank from anything that would make her beloved brother repulsive to the senses of others. The Jews wrapped the remains of . their toyed ones in perfunme, but they did not embalm after the manner of the Egyptians. He hath been dead four days. Our Lord did not start on his journey to Bethany at once after hearing of Lazarus's illness, and two days would be required for his jour- ney. 40. Said I not unto thee, We have no previous record 51 these words, but they are in full harmony with our Lord's teething. See Mark 9. 23. The glory of God. See verse 4; where our Lord save "This sickness is not unto death, that is, although Lazarue may die he shall be raised to life again, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby"— weeds that speak of the glory of the, leather and tbe Son as the same. 41, leather, I thank thee that thou hest beard me. Words of gratitude which every one of us would utter ev- ery morning and evenieg of our lives le we, were only as conscious as was our THE IRISH VICEROY. Ile Outranks Even ranee!, of the Royal 1101150 or Great Britain. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as the representative of the Queen lives in splendid state in Dublin. He entertains more people, ana in a more sumPtuees style, than the queen her- self or the Prince of Wales. When he is in residence at the castle or viceregal lodge, metres of liveried servants are in attendanee upon nine handsome carriages are provided for his guests. He idrives out himself in an elegant coach behind four horses; he Ileitis receptions at, which guests are presented to him in great state, and. entertains a tundred or more guests at a single banquet. At what is known as "a drawing - room" military guards are posted at time entrances, as though a prince of the royal blood were in residence, and presentations are made to the viceroy with as mlich ceremony as would be employed at Buckingham Palace in an audience with tbe queen, 'Ile guests make a low bow to him if they are men privileged to shake hands with him. Ladies who are pre- sented to lains for the first time make a courtesy and are kissed. by him on the cheek. Every one makes obeisance to him wherever he appears, and eti- quette requires every guest to walk backward in leaving his' presence. These honors are paid. because he is an official substitute for royalty. The Prince of Wales is the first gentleman in England, but if he were to visit Lord Cadogan, the viceroy in Ireland, he would have to take the second place. The viceroy, as the queen's direct re- presentative, outranks even princes of the royal house. At the drawing -rooms and banquets of the lord lieutenant the guests as- semble before he has taken his place. A flourish of trumpets is heard, and in will come the viceregal party in state, preceded by functionaries in gold lace and retainers in gorgeous liveries. The viceroy is received with all the distinction which can be paid to royalty itself. He is surrounded with every circumstance of power. The pageantry of the viceregal court is splendid in form, but it lacks the best element of popular government— the sympathy and respect of the mass- es of the Irish -people. They are in- different to everything that takesplace in the castle. Only the privileged few of noble birth or official position take interest in the viceroy's public appear- ances. Tbe common people look upon him sullenly, as the gilded puppet of foreign rule. THE WEDDING RING. • In Germany the Continentn1 custom prevails that wives should give their husbands a wedding ring at the nup- tial !Service in return for the one they receive from the man they ha.veaccept- ed. Married women being generally superstitious as to the removal of their own wedding rings, it will surprise no- body to learn that Teuton daraes.nre very touchy as regards the respect paid bytheir espouses to the token of bondage they have accepted. If it be removed from the wedding finger and earned about in the waistcoat pocket or purse.—as Under certain circumstan- ces it is—woe be to the husband should he ,be unfortunate enough to be dis- covered. The inference is invariably drawn that Jae has been guilty of an act of infidelity of some kind. A steady going lithe:her Of Meissen, where se- ceded "Dresden" china is manufactur- ed, unwittingly discovered himself re- cently in th.s predicament. • "You wicked, faithless monster l" said the furious wife. "What disgrace- ful conduct have you been up to 1 You must have slippecl it off one day Lao your waistcoat pocket, and it fed out and was lost !" Denials of the most solemn kind were of no avail, and for some days the do- mestic peace of that home seemed to have been destroyed. Threats of a divorce were muttered, and the. hapless butcher was beside himself as to how he could prove his innocence. Patience in this case, however, brought its own reward, and a few days ago Mr. Bones, the falsely accused butcher, was able to vindicate his guiltlessness in a most brilliant manner. His wife was receiving the money at the till, jealously, casting furtive glances at her bard working lord and master, when a female customer from the country walked into the shop. "Rave you lost your weading ring ?" said the stranger to the, butcher. lhe hitter, fearievan outburst from his wife, but fortified by the sense of his innocence anent the latter's in- siimations, boldly replied in the af- firmative. "Well," she said, with a knowing smile on her lips, "here it is. I bought • sausage here the other day and while I• was cutting it up for supper my knife came upon this ring. 7 presume it, fell eft your finger while you were making sausages," The brawny Mitchel' was on the point of falling on hie deliverer's neck and embeattieg her, bet his wife interven- ed just an the nick of time. "No," she. said, "I will let you kiss inc again now, but take care you don't Id the, ring fall off. again. This time I will believe you." Mr. Bones insisted, however, on pre- senting the finder ee his treasure with a very bulky sausage of the setae qual- ity tie a sign ot his prefoune gratitude, and as soon as he could find Lime to walk out proceeded to a jeweller's to have the, ring made a size smaller. THE JAILS 01? OXTAIL REPORT FOR 1898 PRESENTED ' THE LEGISLATURE, The central. prison Report and the 1ilereft,4, Reformatory — Commllmentooir rallc-tto , The common jails, prisons, and rde formateries report has just been pre- sented to the Legislature. The report says that considerable Improvement has been made in the jails through- out the province. The report cottunente upon the feet that so many county homes have been estabiished during . the past year. As to tbe deoline in the number of prisoners committed, the report says:— 'There has been quite a large de- cline in the number of prisoners come mitted during the past year, namely,, 628, the total being 8,256, as tempered with 8.884 in 3897. The number 01 adult males committed was 559 least than last year, while the number of adult females showed a decrease of 100. Of boys under sixteen years of eke, Mere was an increase of 49, and of girls under sixteen years of age a decrease of 18; The number committed for crimeis against the person was considerably less than in any previous year fo.r twenty-two years; while the commit- tals for crime against property, the number was slightly more than in previous,years, with the 'exception of 1838 The committals for crimes against public morals and public decency were less than they have been. for the past five years. For offences against public. order and peaoe the dereease is about twenty-five per cent, as compared with previous years. All other causes show a smaller number than in any other ' year since 1877. The committals for drunkenness were less than forlle past seven years, being 1,707. The total number of pri- soners in the jails of the province at the end of the year was 644, an in- crease over the previous year of sc, The total jail expenditure of the province uring the past year was aboux $5,000 less than In 1697. The cost el rations amounted to $50412; salaries, $80,9155 and repairs, $5,982; or a total of $137,310. e, CENTRAL PRISON REPORT. With the report is the Central Pri- son report. The report says that the committals during the year were 57e, . which with 891 in custody at the dom. mencernent of the year, lst October, and one re -captured, makes the total number 966, as ceimpaged with 979 the previous year. The committals direet nuvnber 529, and to common jails and transferred therefrom, 45. Never sinee 1880 have the committals been so few in number. The average population for the year is 385, and the average period of sentence eight months, fourteen days, as compared with 898 population and, nine months' period of sentence the previous year. There has been a large falling off in the yearly average of vagrants. The falling off in this class of comnaitments largely accounts for the reduction in total commitments already referred to; and likewise for the increased average length of sentence; as vagrants are usually sbort term prisoners The uneducated represent seventeen Per cent. of the total number commit- ted as compared with 14.35 per cent.. in 1897. The intemperate constitute sixty-four per cent; those reported temperate thirty-five and two -tenth per cent., and only three in number strictly temperate of the total commit- ments. Of the whole number 318 were thirty years of age and under. The total stay of prisoners was 1e0,614 days, O reduction of 4,823 days, The gross per capita cost per diem for mainten- ance is 44 1-7 cents. The total cost ot maintenance outlay- for the year is 062,088.42, -as against $56,806.21 the pre- ceding year. In the report of the Mercer Re- formatory the number of commitments to the Reformatory were shoNyn to be 101, against 97. of the previous year. Of the number committed, 58 were in- temperate, 20 could neither read nor evrite, and 73 were under 30 'years of age. The neither of commitments to the Refuge were 17, against 22 the previous year; all except one were over 13 years of a,ge, and nine been] neither read nor write. The average population of the Reformatory is 55, as compared with 59 1-2 in 1897, and of the Refuge 41 7-8 as against 43 1-4 the previous. year. Combined the average is 97, against 106 in 1897. The per capita cost of maintenance is e208.82, as earl:geared with $206.62, and the net cash revenue e1,013.34, as corn - pared with .$1,126.99 for 1897. THE FIRST DOMINOES. econee iiOir1 ILlated to "Douthatio" RSA Were Invented by Blonks. Two monks, who had been' conimitte, to a lengthy seclusion, contrived to be, guile the dreary beers of the confinement vvitbotit breaking the Mite of silence which had been iniposed on tbein„ by showing each other small net donee marked with black dots. By a preconcerted arrangement the winner would. inform the other player of his ye:toryby repeating in an un- dertone the first' line of the vesper prayer. In proeese of time the two monks managed to complete the set oe stones, ond to perfect the rules of the game, so that when the term of incar- ceration had expired, the game wait so interesting that it eves generally adopted by all the inmates of the mon- asiery as a lawful pastiine, It very eoon spread from. town - to own a n .1 became popu.1ar th roughou Italy, and the first line of the weenie wee reduced to the single work Domioa, by which name the (nrt hes qv ex since been known. A new illustreted weekly has bed darted in Lohdote Palled tor& am. COmmoria. ft will tenti eepticialle with matters relathig toeeeerliarneut, 4ishea