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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-6-22, Page 5THE .TIMESEXETE ..• 11707'ES eIND COMMENTS. 14 an interview Made oublie last tetternai. the Czot proposed es a part et hie SDheitne to avert war, the deter- ation beforehend what %Leh pow - Wold, do if menaced by another ,P9wer. This was, a course, einanlY arnposal for .arbitration, for a eefer- enee of the °Daises of dispute to a third party, who ehould examine them and decide oa whieh eide juetice lay. This proposal has been embodied in the prograonnee for discussion. at The Hague couference, tlae first seetion dealingwith the restriction of arma- ments and 'unitary expenditures, and the second with the laws governing 'etvilized. warfare. It will thus be Within the power of the conference to greatly promote the application of the principle a arbitration to internation- al differences. Indeed, should it fail to further it, at least: so far as to provide for resort to it in, minor dis- putes, the hollowness of the present professions of peace will he ma,ni- Lest. There le no doubt that there is a growing disposition nmeng,the govern- ments to resort to arbitration, and that it is confirmedby every new ap- i plication of it. Rings and stateernen do not want war, knowing too well how incalculable the liabilities are, and what imperfect instruments their own judgments are for the guidance of the huge masses of men which war will now set in motion. The minor 'states would welcome the establish- -raerenof an international babooni for e adjustment of all differences. What the great powers are yet unwill- ing to do is to bind themselves to any general and permanent scheme of ar- bitration. And that Unwillingness will doubtless continue until the come .eive power of public opinoin is as great in international affairs, as it is in the affairs of tne individual state. For war and. the progressive growth ,of armaments are due primarily to the fears and conflicting interests of the different peoples.- It is the masses who in their fears and jealousies, and .greeds, urge on the rulers. And the latter are unwilling to tie their hands against what may be a clear demand -of the people. The arguments they ad- vance against any universal scheme of arbitration are strong ones. The ver- dict might not be accepted. Ind na- tions always act upon aoramon sense, and were the issues arising always those of fact, reference of differenas to a court would be possib/e. But na- tions are not always sensible, and the - nuestions arising between them are nt not those of fact.. Would a grealt , power in the last resort accept the ad- verse decision of any tribunal in a case ' where national honor was involved? ould it not say: "That is a •matter bout which I will accept no interfer- ence?" Again, would a great power acquiesce in an adverse. verdict which deprived. it of any considerable por- tion of its own territory? Italy, it is understood, wouldhave declined to participate tn the Peace Conference • had there been any intention to raise the question of the temporal power of the Papacy. And the confen ace was only made possible at all by beefing • out questions relating to territorial rights. • Obviously there are at present ser- ious difficulties in the way of a univ- ersal and binding scheme of arbitra- tion. Not only would any definition of questions whiele the great powers would agree to submit to arbitration be difficult', but there would. be the further difficulty of determining how to enforee a judgment should it be re- sisted. True, a state refusing to ac- cept an adverse verdict, or declaring war on another state, might be occu- pied by the armies of the remaining powers. But there is little probabil- ity that such an agreement could now be carried. out. For the adoption of any general system of arbitration the world will have to wait until the thoughts of mankind, at least of civi- lized_mankind, have been concentrat- ed upon the maineenantte of peace. It ia the Value Oftsuch conferences as that at the Hague, .that they du thus con- c,entrete thought and organize feelings and 'eenvictioets in favor of proposals tng peace+ for their object and aim. In time the, force of the opinion thus created may, be staang enough to oone trol intethational affairs, ana to give the world a fixed tribunal of ar- bitrationlVfe.antim.e, there is hope thal. the proposals for a limited form of arbitration, to be roade by the Am- erican and British delegates, may be adopted, and thus mark the tient step in: the evolution oa sueh a dominatiog curreat of •Conviction el HE HAD LEARNED HIS LESSON ' ,Mamma—Johnny, what .do you mean by paying No, when: I 'asked you if. you went in bathing, • when you knew you woke telling a wrenstory? teehnny--Didant •• you tell me the ether, day to, be a man and leant to alp no/ LIGEITNING'S STRANGE, 1,V0/3,K. ;heavy etreke of lightning in the. Guy ea, Lyrae. Mess, on the eVening of May" 1, ennead the breaking on many welet ninesA 3.1114 0087..? NOV. DR...TALMAGE SPEAKS OP THE HEAVENLY MANSION. To Are nought Wltk a Price," and the rriCe Watt Paid in Different Instal - 1111011 04—The Ignominious Birth of Christ Ile Weal to Think Pray— The Saviour's' Shaw Trial—lite Dr Eictures the Death or Christ on the Crosal A despatch from Washington, soya; —Rev. Dr. Talmage preaohed from the following text:—"Ye are, bought •with a priee."—I. Corinthians vi, 20. - Your friend tees you through his valuable house. You examine the etches, the fresco, the grass -plots, the fish ponds, the conservatoints, the parke of deer, anct you say within your- self, or you say aloud: "What did all this cost?' You see a costly diamond flashing in an earring, or you bear a costly dress rustling across the drawing -room, or you see a high -mettle ed span of horses harnessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value. The man who owns a big estate cannot instantly tell you •what it is all worth. He says: "I will estimate so neuch for the house, so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so naUch for the barn, so much for the equipage—added up in all making •this aggregate." y Orient's, I hear so much about our mansion in heaven, about its furniture and the grand surround- ings, that I want to know how nauch it ia all worth and what has eel -teeny beatpaid for it. I cannot complete inee month nor a ypar ate magnificent calculation; but before I get through to -night, I hope to give you the figures. "Ye are bought with a price." With some friends I went into London Tower to look at the crown jewels of England. We walked around, caught one glimpse of them, and being in the procession were com- pelled to pass out. AI wish that to - nig I could take this' audienee in- to the tower of God's mercy and , strength, that you raight walk around Ijust once, at least, and see the crown jewels of eternity, behold their bril- liance and estimate their value. "Ye are bought with a price." Now, if you have a large amount of. money to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but you pay it by instalments—so )3111011 the first of January, so,much the first of April, so much the first of JalY, so much the first of October, until the entire amount is paid. And 1 have to tell this audience that "you have been bought with a price; ' and that that price was paid in different instalments. • ,The first instalmeut paid for the clearance of our souls was the igno- minious birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never be carefully Looked • after afterward, our advent into the world is carefully guarded.. We come into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and silence are afforded when God launches an im- raortal soul into the world. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand back.* But 1 have to tell you that in the village on the side, of the hill, there was a very bedlam of uproar •WREN JESUS WAS BORN. In a village capable only of accommo- dating only a few hundred people, many thousand people were crowded; and amid hostiers and muleteers and camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts ofburden, the Messiah appeared. No silence. No privacy. A. better adapt- ed place bath the eaglet in the eyrie —bath the whelp, in the lion's lair. The exile of heavbu lieth down upon the straw. The first night out from the palace of heaven spent in an outhouse. One hour after laying aside the robes of heaven, dressed in a wrapper of coarse linen. One wceuld have eu.pposed • that; Christ would have made a moie gradual descent, coming from heaven first to a half- way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar's palace, then to a merch- ant's castle in Galilee,, then, to a pri- vate home in Bethany, then to fisher - ma n:a hut, and last; of all to the stable. Nol it was one leap from the ttap to the bottom, Men have come to a precipice and leaped off hun- dreds or thousands of feet; but the most daring deed of all eternity was when the Son of God came out on the battlements of heaven, and looked off into the great abyss of suffering and sin and death, and while all the throngs in glory stood in dumb amaze- ment looking upon it, sprang' a mil- lion fathoms down! One ot the most exciting things on the •sea is to hear the cry: "Man overboard!" The sailor leaps into the wave. aVithi one hand he clutches the drowning mart, and with the other he beats his way back to the ship, setting down the drowning. man on the deck, amid the wild hoz- ea,s of alt the passengers. Beet in the counoils of eternity the cry was heard: "World overboard!" and. Jesus came to the rescue, and leaped into the depth of man's sin, and caught the drown- ing woad by the locks, and, beat His way beak again to the throne of God, amid the shouting of the angels. 0, the distance between the starting end the. lauding! Let as open the. door of the caravan- sary in Bethlehem, and drive away the camels. 'Press on through, the group of idlers and loungers, What, 0 Ataxy, no light? "No light," slat says "save that which ,comes through the door." What, Mary, no food? "None," She says, "only that which al brought inathe, sack on tho, journey." Let: the Belleleaene woman arleo has come lit hero with kindl.V attentione, put back tie, covering from the bane that, we Meer loolr upon it. Loelei tobal Irneetret your toad, Let us keeel, • tot all voices be bushed. Son' of Mary' Son of God! Child of a nay -- MONARCH OF ETERNITY! In that eye the glaace of a God, Omni- potence sheathed iti that babe's arm, That voice to be changed • from the feeble plaint to the tone that shall wake the dead. • titisennal alosainettl • Glory be to God that +/Win °eine frone thl'011e to Manger that we might rise from atanget to throne, and that all Lbs gates are open, and that the door of heaven, that 'once ewuner this Yva•Y Lo let jeans otut, now, swings the oan er way to let is in, Let all the bell" MU of heaven lay hola o tile rope and. ring out the good mews: "Betelch bringa j you glad tidings great ay whinh shall be to ell people; for to -day, is born in the eity of David, a Saviour, which is Oiliest: the Lord!" The emend instalment paid for our soul's elearanee was the scene in Quar- aataina, a mountainous region fall of caverns, where there are to this day pantherand wild beasts of, alt sorts; so that you 'must now, the traveljer says, go there armed with knife or gun or pistol, It was there' that Jesus went to think area to pray, and it was there that this monster of hell —more sly, more terrific,: than anything that prowled in that country— Satan himself, met Christ. The rose in the cheek of Christ—that Publius Lentul- las, in his letter to the Roman Senate, ascribed to Jesus --that rose tad: scat- tered its petals. Abstinence from food had thrown Him into emaciation, The longest abstinence froni food recorded in profane history is that of the crew of the ship Funoe fon twenty-three days they had nothing to eat. But 'this sufferer had fasted a month and ten days before He broke fast. fl -auger must •have agonize(' every fibre of the body, and gnawed on the stomach with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread( or meat must; have thrilled the body with some- thing like ferocity, Turn out a pack of men hungered as.Christi was alatm- gered, and if they had: strength, with one y.ell they would devour you as a lion a kid. It was in that pang of hunger that Jesus was accosted, and Satan said: "Now chenge those stones which look like bread into an actual supply of bread." Had the teraptation °erne to yon and. me, under those cir- cumstances, we would have cried: "Bread it stall be!" and been almost impatient at the time taken for mas- tication; but Christ with one hand beat back- the hunger, and with the other hand beat back the monarch of dark- ness. 0, ye tempted ones, Christ was tempted. We are told that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail made; but he was not quite certain that it was im- penetrable, so he said to the manu- facturer of that corte of mail: "Put it !on now yourself and let us try it;" land with shot after shot from his owo pistol, the eneperor found out that it was just what it preeendece to be— A GOOD COAT OF MAIL. Then the rrua.n received a large re- ward. 1 bless God that the same coat of. mail that struck back the weapons of tem.ptation from the heart of Christ, we now all wear; for Jesus comes and says: "I have been tempted, and I know what it is to be tempted.. Take 'this robe that defended me, and wear it for yourselves. I shall see you through all trials and I shall see you through all temptation." "But," says Satan still further to Jesus, "come, and I will show you samethang worth looking at," and after a half -day's journey they came to Jer- usalem, and to the top of the Tem- ple. Just as one might go up in the tower of Antwerp and look off upon • Belgium, so Satan brought Christ to the top of the Temple. ,Some people at a great height feel dizzy, and a strange disposition to jump; so Satan comes to -Christ with a powerful temp- tation in tb,at very crisis. Standing there at the top of the Temple they nook off. A magnifieent reach of. country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests and streams, cat- tle in the valley, flocks on the hills, and villages and cities and realms. "Now," says Satan, "I'll make a bar- gain. Just jump off, L know it is a great way from the top of the Temple to the valley, but if you are divine you can fly. Jump off. Itwon't hurt you. Angel's will catch you. Year father will hold you. Besides, I'll make you a, large present if you will. I'll give you Asia 'Vitt:tor, I'll give you India, I'll give you China, I'll give you Spain, 111 give you Germany, I'll give yen Britain, I'll give you all the world." What a temptation it must have been! Go to -morrow morning and get in an altercation With some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar. "No," you say, "I would not bemoan myself by getting into such a contest." Then think of what the Karig of heaven and earth en-. dured when He came down and fought that great wretch of hell, and fought him in the wilderness and. on the top of the Temple. But I bless. God that ne_that triumph over temptation Christ gives us the assurance that WE ALSO SHALL TRIUMPH.. Havihg Himself been tempted He is able to sweeter all those who are tempted. In a violent storm at sea, the mate told a boy—for the rigging had become entangled at the mast --to go up and riglit it. A gentleman standing, on the deck said: "Don't send that boy up, he will be dashed - to death." The mate said: "I know what I am about." The boy raised his hat in reoognition of the order and then rose hand over hand and went to work;. and as he swung- in the storm, the pas- sengers wrung their hands and expecte ed to see him fall. The work done, he oeme down in safety and a Christian men said. to him: "Why did you go down in the forecastle before yore went up?" "Ah," said the boy, 'I went down to pray. My mother always taught me before I uhdertook any- thing great to pray."' "What is that you hove in your vest?" said the man. "0, that as the New Testament," ,he sain; "I thotight I would carry it with me if I rettlly Aid go overboard." How Well that •boy was protected. I care not how great the height or how vast the, depth, with Christ Within, us and Christ beneath us and ,Christ above us and Cnrist all around us, nothing shall befal up in, the way of beam. Christ: Himself leaving bun in the tempest, will deliver all those vtleo put their triest in Him. „Blessed be His glad - °tie name forever. •' The third instalment paid for our re- demption was the 'Saviour's sham trial, Whet, they hustled hian into the court room at two enlock in the morning. They gave Hien' no time for counsel. Then- gaVe Mtn no opportunity for sub- poenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight, of coulee they saw the arrest man went into tate eourt-rooni, But jesiesa. friends Were sober men, Wererespeobable.reen tend at that lentne intro onlonle in the morning, of course they were atehonee asleep« Con- secede/lily Menet entered the court. room with the taffttne. Of loOk atlairol No one to speak a word tot Himt lit the lantern Until I eau look luto Ilia facia and SS MY heart' beats in ittaniPa- thy for tlia the best friend the. werld, ever had, Himself now utterler ariend- less, an officer of the coutt-rocipa,calnefi 40 and, t SMITE S SI1VI IN THE MOUTH, 1 and I. see the bloodstealing from gni= It andtep. 0, it was a farce a tatloal lasting only 'wimps an bo , and then t -be.. judge aisee for the se ' e. St$01 Lt Is against the law to gi •serntence unless there has been an adjournment of the court betwenn conaemnatton and sentence ; but Wee/nit ecares the judge for the law? "The *tan has no friends -- let Hine die," al says the judge andi the a ruffians DU tede the rail cry: 4 that's what we want. Pas a Him Out 1.10.1 ahal bere to u�. Away with Hininetway with Hine." 0,. I bless God that anaid all the injustiee that may be inoted upe on us in this world, we may ave a di- vine sympathizer. The w d cannot Ile about you nor abuse you as much. as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to -day in every coo t -room, in every -borne, in every store, , nd says: " Courage! By all my houts of anal - tree tzident and abuse, 1 fill protect thosewho are trample on?* And when, Christ forgets that weego'clock morning scene and the str keZof the ruffian on. the mouth and the howl- ing of the unwashed crowd, then He will forget you and me in the injus- tices of life that may be inflicted up- on us. Further, I remark: the last great in- stalment paid for our redemption was the demise of Christ. The world has seen manyt, dark days. Three or four summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch and. we felt a gloom as we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with nocovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faoes were taken in open carts and. duraped in the trenches. It was a dark day evhen the earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the darkest day since the creation of the world was when tlie carnage of Cal- vary was etiacted. It was about nom) when the curtain began to be drawn, It was not 'the corning -on of a night that soothes ancl refreshes; it was the swinging of a genet gloom all around the heavens. God hung it. As when there is a dt3ad one in the house you bow the shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon shut the WNDIOWS OF THE WORLD. As it is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the coffin as it passes along, SO it.was appropriate that everything should be sombre that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpse of the King. • A man's last hours are ordinarily kept sacred. However you may have hated or caricatured a man, •when you bear he is dying silence puts its hand on your lips, and you would have a loathing for the man who could stand by a death -bed making faces and scof- fing. But Christ in His last hour can- not be left alone. What, pursuing Him yet after so long a- pursuit? You have been drinking His tears. Do you want to drink His blood? They come up close- ly, so that notwithstanding the dark- ness they can glut their revenge with the contortions of His countenance. They examine His feet. They want to feel for themselves whether those feet are really spiked. They put out their hands and touch the spikes, and bring them neek wet with blood, and wipe • them on their garments. Women stand there and. weep, but can do no good. It is no place for tender-hearted wo- men. It wants a heart that crime has turned into granite, The waves of man's ,hatred and of hell's vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and. pain and torture clutch at: His holy heart. Had He not been thoroughly fastened to the cross, they would have torn Him down and trampled Him with both feet. How the cavalry horses arched their necks, and champed their bits and reared, and sniffed at the blood. Had a Roman Of- ficer called out for a light his voice would not have been heard in the tu- mult; but louder than the clash of the spears and the wailing of womanhood and the neighing of the chargers, and the bellowing. of the crucifiers, there comes a voice crashing through, loud, clear, overwhelming, terrific. It is the groan of the dying Son of God! Look! What a scene! Look! 0, World, at what you have clone I lift the cover- ing from that maltreated Christ, to let you count the wounds and ESTIMATE THE COST. 0 when the nails went tbrough Christ's right band and through Christ's left hanel—that bought both your hands wita all their power to work and lift and , write. When the nail went through Christ's del t foot and Christ's left' foot—that bought your feet, with all their power to walk or run or Climb. When the thorn went into Christ's temple, that bought your brain:, with all its power to think and Plan. When the spear cleft Christ's side, that brought your heart with all its power to love and repent and pray. 0 sinner, come, come back! If a man is in no pain, if he is prospered, if he is well end he asks you to come, you take your time, and. you say: " I can't come now. I'll eorne af- ter a while. There is no haste. But if •he is in want and trouble you sly: "I must go right away. I must go now." To -night Jesus •• stretches out before you two wounded hands, and He begs you to come, Go, and you live. Stay aevity, and you die. 0, that to Hine who bought us, we might gine all our time and al/ our prayers and all our slimes- seS. 1 would we could think of no- thing. else but come to Christ. He is so fan.. He is so loving. Ile is so syrn- pethialeg, He is so good, I wish we could put out arms around His neck and say: "Thine, Lord, will I be for- evet." 6, that to -night you would be- gin to love Him, Would, that,I could take this aanienee and. Wreathe it around the heart of My Lord jesus Chrian • I eannot put my head to the pillow to -night until I have once more invit- ed you to Chriet. I feol a hardezi like a monntain on my seal, Must I meet thinaudience at the judgment seta ot Cbxist ? Must we all be there? They shall came front the East and from the West and front the North sancl trona the South, host above host.' gallery abovn gallery, ten theustind times ten thou- sAnd., AIM Will be there,, arid ,will you be there, ana oittst we gate are see count for this night's eonfronting this work 0 Lord Jesus, ),ay hold of their routs this /moment by Thy Sant*, awl if I never preaela again, now let me oall them to Thyself, and implore them with tears to seek for the SALVATION OF THEIR SQ.411,3, "Tnts nignt thy soul may be required ebefle., tthwheoleiti htynaoesurit ripWoriato vonsi aeoewsdh?aault,lt. eot: Faye. itotbi inotthfac: things of yew:. so? Snail n'oi this he the menTeut when your &Ovation ahnil be -reported in heaven? For many 01 you, how mealy peayers have -been of- fered. Father prayed for yeu. Moth- er prayed foa you. Your Chalet/nu wives /lave been praying for you. Per- haps your Christian children have been praying for you, and yet you have not found the mercy of the Cross/ 0 Lord, save that man. Now is the accepted IiensthneroNnowo eiheartrahe indahyeaovfege?livIesetahnecre, e no horror in hell? Is there no loveli- ness in: the Cross? Is there no gran- deur ih the judgment, that your eoule are not moved? "Ho, every one that thirstenn come" and look at the foun- t tin barsting from beneath the Rock of Agate Though you have heen wan- dering a great way off, though d ring this past week you have been place of which kou would not to toll your hest friend, though yo ave wasted your estate of blessing, 11 ough you have been wandering on these ten or fifteen years with your back turn- ed to all early Christian influences, ybool.0may t d.Nylloinsnight accept Christ and wandered these many years, why so many people come to hear the Gospel as I preach it. You know I have not smoothed over anything. I believe they want to be saved, and. I believe yoa. h•tve been sitting and standing to-nigna anxious after Goll and heaven. Though I tell you these plain truths in a plain way, with no possible earthier charm, you know what I tell you is true. You are an immor- tal soul, bound to the bar of God, and there is a heaven and. there is a hell, and there is only one way of escaping the darkness, and there is only one way of wtnning a crown. May God Al- mighty, by His Spirit, raise in power what to -night has been, soevn in weak- ne,ss, and when all these scenes have passed. away, and you no more sit un- der the sounding of the Gospel, and it is no longer my joy to preach. it on earth, May we enter into the blessed assemblage that stand around about the throne of God. No sorrow there. No sin there, No death there. Sing- ing the eternal doxologies of the re- cleetned-0 may that be our happy lot. God forbid that one of you should miss heaven. •MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA. Distinguished. Enallslintatt Says There is No Doubt That the First is Intimately Connected the Second. Major Ross, I. M. S., lecturer in the School for Tropical Diseases, in Liver- pool, recently in a lecture gave in- teresting data on the subject of raa- aerie. The disease, he said, was not so dramatic a disease as cholera —it elid not kill so quickly, but it killed far more people. • In India it killed about 5,000,000 a year. It was also a politically important disease, because it checked the progress of civilization in districts th.e richest in the world, killing more of our Army than the enemy. Malaria has been found to be clue to a. parasite in the blood. Of this he was absolutely certain, having studied the subject for ten years in the tropics. The lecturer explained with considerable elaboration how a parasite gradually developed, destroy- ing a corpuscle of the blood, and leav- ing it a mere shell, When fully de- veloped it scattered, and, attacking other corpuscles, destroyed and pois- oned them. likewise. Even if not so numerous as to cause fever, tbey bred in comparatively small nurabers, causing an indifferent condition of health. The treatment was quinine, but this did not help them very much. What they wanted to know was how malarial fever was produced. To do so they must find the parasite in ex- ternal nature, and tne problem had been solved. by Sir Patrick Manson. Besides these forms of malarial para- sites which had been described, other forms were found. Describing how in watching a drop of blood drawn from a malarial patient there took place in eleven minutes the remarkable effect of snake -like forms wriggling; away and disappearing, Sir Patrick Man- son came to the conclusion that the life history of the malarial parasite when it left the human being was carried on in the mosquito, and therefore that malarial fever was propagated by the mosquito.. Major Ross graphically and racily explained how in the tropies he followed out Sir Patrick 1VIanson's the- ory beyond the point where he left it. The mosquito, whioh was not an ephe- meral tnseet, but would live for months undo: favoralale conditions, he found famished in oertain species with au internal process which developed the parasite and its poison, and lodged it into a poison gland opening into the creature's proboscis. The mosquito, in puncturing the skin, was thus the means of inoculating a human being with the malarial poison; It was hop- ed that this epeoies a malarial mos- quito might be exterminated in cer- tain districts, but this, he mentiened, would be the subject of a future lec- ture, •MULCHING IN GARDENS In :Mall gardens matching after transplanting, is often profitable. The best mulch, is two or three inches of kept loose and retellow by frequent sttrring, but straw or eleaff may be used, Crops well natilched'are altrtost free from, weeds.• SWEDEN'S MUSICAL IlIONABOH. .1 0,:„. ' Xing Oscar of Sweden is the mot musioal of reigning monarchs. In his young days lie Was regarded. as the , , most aceomplished •tenor inEurope, and 'conl,d have made a fortune out of Voice on tile stage. TEE WORLD'S MODEL CITY MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP HAS IAD) GLANGOW SO. Necessities of Lite Are 'Very EitealitY rtiro• nished—The Death Rate Detitteed Near. Tivo-Titirds—Street Runway, Water, :1):':‘,:lted141711V114tihlkeleileoltlitl. CW144" 11181$ 1 ApT0pOs of the agitation for mann cipe.1 owneeehip a few facts concern- ing the mach talked of Glasgow will doubtless be of interest. Eignty years ago Glasgow was a file thy little fishing village, situated on a muddy ditch. To -day she stands sec- ond in point of population, entl ;Ara- meme io the British Empire, and in matters of sanitation and murficipal goivaernEmarsteent rival.aeetury in advance of he Till 1845 tb.e corporation levied no taxes. The whole of its revenue was derived from duties made on all arti- cles of food broognt into the city, Every year this revenue waA in exoess of the expenditure, and the surplus was put aside, and in 1845 they in- vested this acouraulated money in the purchase of ground right in the heart of the city now known as the "COM - mon Good." That purchase was the foundation of Glasgow as she stands Lo -day. At first the income from the " Common Good" was only a little over $75,000. It now arings in over $170,000 yearly. ' OWNED BY THE PEOPLE. Glasgow is owned by her population. They own the ground, the street rail- ways, the gas pleats, the waterworks, the parks and gardens and concert halls. And although ever, one of these institutions is worked more • cheaply than in any other town, each one is made to bring in a greater yearly pro- fit: to the coral:employ. the total pro- fit Per annum on municipal undertak- ings being $374,500. The corportion of Gfasgow has spent over K50,000,000 on making their mud ditch into a river up which the great- est ships afloat can sail, ancl in rais- ing their town to its present position. And yet' its public debt is, taking into consideration its size, by fax the small- est of any city in the world. The key to its prosperity is that every common improvemenie everything has been done by the corporation. Take, for 'instance, the poorer dwell- ings. In 1844 a Royal Commission was sent in reply to a cry that the poorer districts were unhealthily overcrowd- ed. The report of the commission was that the death rate was over al in every le000 of the population, and that typhus fever was as well known as • the face of the eldeet inhabitant. The corporation took up the matter, and co -day Glasgow's model dwellings are the very best of the kind. CLEAN BEDS P011 SEVEN CENTS. To build these, of which there are now five, capable of housing 2,000 per- sons every night, the foul rookeries, which are still the curse, from every point of view, of nearly all other large towns were swept away. Any one, man or woman, can get a thoroughly clean bed for the sum of seven cents. And although over $450,000 of the public money wee spent on erecting these houses, a good. yearly return is paid on it—nearly 6 per cent. And the death rate has been reduced to 19.9. Insteaci of the city being supplied with those necessaries of life, -wet:el- and gas, by those private companies, the people, through their own corpor- ation, supply themselves at the nom- inal rates of, in the first case, 12 cents, and in the second 37 cents, as against 17 and 64 wten formerly supplied by companies. And it may be added that not only is the charge for water the very loweet of any town, but the wa- ter itself is acknowledged by experts to be the very purest supplieci to any city or village. Yet Glasgow reaps from the water supply alo e an annual profit. of $210,- 000. At the same time as Glasgow pur- chased the Ccmmon Good property the markets were also bought. A.nd al- though the lightest tolls are levied, so that the sellers are able to dispose of their goode to tlae inhabitants at less price than in any other town, the city garners in a yearly revenue of a16,500. And $147,500 ii also gained ,from the gas supply. • THE GREAT PARK SYSTEM. Working on the good rebates of their former enterprise in these directions, they have now taken over the electrical liglniag of tte city at a yearly pro- fit of $10,070. With this money tin Corporation has looked to procuring public recreation parks, with the re- sult that, in the matter at "lungs," Glasgow steeds first in the metric'. It has some 700 tteres allotted. to this pur- pose, which works out at one acre of public grass -covered. ground for every 800 of the population, During the spriog and summer bands play in each of these parks, ancl there iS no collec- tion. They are paid by the Corpora- tion, which put" aside §8,500 for this purpose. • In one matter Glasgow stelae alone. All laundriee are public property. By alas, means the inhabitants are able to have their clothes washed in the very best manner at the von, lowest price., Lila mid elm feel, when indulging in an extra clean shirt, that any profit. tni)(102, .0w it, goes to the public welfare, STILIe HAVE ATNI1g, SMOKE •NtraSe • noun 15 orte great Soaree oh evil whien, up to Lbe proseaL, Glasgow has not ,been able to cast off, 1Vaillions opoh millions of tone of coat are con- sumed yearly, and the black, suffoont- het; smoke hangs. ecntinually aver the 61tY, like a death pall. But it 'is not GlIi;sgon."s kult thai.t. cn not: been removed, Tilt, 1:orb5iia.tiani ate 'will- ing 'to pay any one $10,00D,000 who will naslitit eWey, • tli,a130y:bezituegmmithue,oieorowthheistteetlewtrx rii- waYsgite Plants and watetworka, anti they have been able to Lanni OlasgoW, at praoticallano cost to thenentelneee And not only this, lay improving their city they have reeved every Year an av- erage of over 1,200 lives, end eemerge Ina diseaees are known no moan It must not be thought that WO, gow never rests, She was one of the first to enforce Sir John itubbook'e Houes Act, wherein it is set down that no one under 18 shall work for more tban 54 hours a week. WAGES IN RUSSIA,. The Laud of the Czar Is a Vast Threat to All Europe, Western Europe is beginning to feel alarm. lest Russia shall enter the field of manufaetnre as a rival. Ruesia has left from agriculture 0,- 000,000,000 working days per annum -- the steady labor of 15,000,000 people -- which could ae made available for fao- tory labor 'without hurting farming operations. Here is "a table of daily wages in Russia, complied by a London Times correspondent: Cotton weavers. . • ,20 to .60 Dyers . . . . . .24 to ,50 Weavers and spinners .72 Papermakers, . .25 to ,54 Shoemakers. . . . .20 to .46 Brewers. . . . ' . .82 to .42 Two things are notable in these prices; they vary greatly, men in thee same trade sometimes getting twice or three times the pay of others. And the highest wages, even, are low. Russian workmen are accustomed to working in bodies. It is usual for theni to form in groups and elect one of each group as its "starosta.," or fore-, man, and he makes bargains for the labor of the group. Of course, as Rus- sia is still a rather mediaeval coun- try, the factory laws are strict—quite as strict in the restraint of the mas- ters as the men. ....For instance, fines must be paid ie- ' to a fund for the benefit of the work- men, and are limited in quantity it is forbidden to reduce wages during the period for which workmen are en- gaged, and any infraction of the fac- tory laws which causes a disturbarioe by the workmen renders the employer liable to fine, or even imprisonment. Nearly all manufa.ctuhrers provide .barraeks for their workpeople. In three barracks there are three sets of damn- tories—one for the married men, a eec- ond for the unmarried, and a third for unmarried women and. children, a gen- eral dining -room and a kitchen, •The stoves serve to neat the building in winter and to cook the workpeople's meals. These are provided for eacb group by the staeosta, each member contributing. Very often the starosti of several. groups unite to purchase provisioas at wh.olesale. The food, con- sisting mainly of cabbage soup, rye bread and a small quantity of meat, rarely exceeds 2.50 a month—or at most $3. When the peasant workman is for- tunate enough to be clothed from the homespun produce of his village hold- ing, even those low wages often leave him a balance of pp or $35 e year, as savings banks statistics prove. WIDOW'S MITE. minus Easton Observed in an Oid LOU. • dOit Churchyard. There is still observed in an out -of - way London churchyard aeue of those ancient customs, the obsnevance of which gave so much delight to Charles Dickens, and whose description of whielt has done so much to endear to all who read the night little, tight; little islartd. Twenty-one ladies, either past the age of self-support or unable by reason of disease to make a living for themselves, have gathered for centuries in this same churchyard, on the same day, to receive the same gifts from the benefieence of the same lady, now, of worse, long sinee dead,. Priory Church of St. l3,arthoioniew the Great Ls well worth a visit from the tourist in seacrch of that evhich is arn dent. Hidden away behind the great postoffice building of St. Martin'sne- Grand, next door neighbor to the old hospital that bears its patrou's name, and within a few yards of the quaint courtyard where the bluecoat boys, hatless and in yellow stockings, play their games. Founded in 1128, it still retains its heavy Norman pillars and rounded arches, which ' hate been carefully restoreul whore the stone has crumble& through centuries of decay. Its narrow churchyard is bordered on two eines by houses ,whiolx: have- ex- aggerated. their architectural tendency to overhang. The gravestones ere so old that most of the inscriptions are worn off, and, they are only to be reached by climbing a sent of portable stage oortch ladder froni the pathway. Here gather on the appointed, morning the 21 old Ierlites, for, as a rule, they are old, and very old. The distribu- tion of six ponces, hot -cross buns, shawls and two-shillin,g plecee takes place in accordance with legendary eastom after morning service, It is not quite certain to a few centuries •whelk the thing was first started, but it bas been going on now for several hundred years. The enlooleers, as a rule, are a few free/a-complexioned nurses in pretty bonnets mad cloaks, and half a dozen residents of Little Britain, Atter Rev. Sir Berradatle Savory, the preeent rector ef "St. Bart," has con- ducted mortitng protean the tn. aged. (autos menet the stagentoech ladder, and make their way to the partite -tiler gravestone on evitith the 21 new ponces lay, and ea,611 old lady, having pi:dited up her six pence, is then pre- sented with the florin, .the bun and and thea croehet skean. ' • LARGEST BRONZE STATILE', In St. Petersburg is, the largest bronze. statute in e.xistence--that of Peter the Great, which weighs 1,060 tots. STALL1VIL T ?DAN. • Visi torr.-Wh. t lovely fUrnitnte r • Toenny—ties ;•1 gneas 1-15Mtn borne/et it from., 15 sorry Vow he .sold it; he's always, coining to look ,*.:t it, •