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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,
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