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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-11-1, Page 73, AUTUMN IF LIFE tv. Dr. Talmage on Our Transition to the Life Elysian. despaten from Weehiagton ohs; Dr. Talmage took as his text 11 do fade, as a leaf,"—Isaiah 6, IS so hard for us to underatand Wits truth that God constantly rates. Asi the•solumbno,ster takes ek-board, and puts upon ia figurea iaarams, eo that the Seboar may uly get las lesson through r, but also tarough the eye, so es all the truths a his Bible, rawthem out in diagram, on atural world, QbapoUiQx, the mous Erenehman, went (town yjL to study Uwe literoglyebice numents and temples. After labour he decipbered them, and ced to the learned world the reuit o iria iuveetigations, The goodneeti, and power of God are writteu be biermelypleies elf over the eerie and AU over ttbe beaven, God grat that we may base Anderstaud- Lag enough to decipaer them! 'Acne JQW bat little of the meaniug of the eatural world who leave looked at it througn the sees ot ethers, aud front book or minas takenthel,r impree- :don. Tne fan if Nature has suck fuleh, and aparkle, and life, taet human description eau gather them. There its to -lay mere glory in oe branch of sumo] t than a, pntar otadd Put On. A whole forest of maples. God nath struok Into the autureeal leaf a glance tleat noon see but thene wto come faee to fano—the inountein lookiug upon the men anti the man lookiug upon the mountain. One autumn about this time laaw that which I aball never forget. I have acme tlie autumnal aleetches akilfal pencils, but then 1 sawn page- ant two taousand miles long. Let art. ista stand bailie when God stretches his convae. A. grander epectacia WAS never kindled before, mortal eye. Along by Ow rivers, and up and down „the sidee of the groat hills, and by tbe iteake a tua lakes, there was an indese oriba,ble mingling of gold, and orange, and crimson, and saffron, now sober- ing into drab and maroon, uow flam. ing up into solferino and scarlet. Here tined there the trees looked, as if jut tbeir Ups had blossomed into fire. In the morning light tae forests mined as it they /aad. been, transfigured and n the evening 'hour they looked as if terunset, tan- burst, and dropped pan the leaves. In mare sequester.. ?spots, where the frosts bad been hindered in their work, we saw tbe first kindling of the flames of colour in 1 isprig; then tliey ruhed up from branch to branch, until the glory of the Lord submerged the for- est. Here you find a tree just mak- ing up its =qui to clitinge, and there one looked as if bathed in liquid. fire. Along the banks of Lake Huron there were hills over which there seemed pouring cataracts. of fire, tossed up, and down, and every whither by the rocks. Through some of the ravines we saw occasionally a foaming atream as though it were rushing to put out the conflageation. If -at one and of the woods a commanding tree would sset up its crimson banner, the whole forest prepared to follow": If God's urn of colours were not infinite, one swamp that I saw along the Maumee would have exhausted it for ever. It seemed as if the seai of divine glory had dashed its surf to tbe tip top of the Alleghenies, and then it had come dripping down to lowest leaf and deep - tat cavern. Most persona preaching from this test find only in it a vein of sadness. I find, that I have two strings to this Gospel harp—a string of sadness, and &string of joy infinite. " We all do fade as a leaf." First, like the foliage. we fade grad- ually. The leaves which, week before last, felt the frost, have day by day, been changing in tint, and will for many days yet cling to the bough, waiting for the wind to strike thorn. Suppose you that this leaf I hold in my hand took on its colour in an hour or in a day or in anweek ? No. Deep - r arid deeper the flush, till all the -inee-ofdibt".life now seemed opened iad bleCing away. After a while, leaf after len, they fall. Natw those on the auger enranches, then those most, hid - a den the 1 4,1-. park of the gleam- , ing forge shall have been quenc,ben. So gradually we pass away. From day to day we hardly see the change. But the frosts have tonclied us. The work of denay is going on. Now a slight cold. Now a season of over- fatigue. Now a fever. Now a stitch in the aide. Now a rieuralgic thrust. Now a rheumatic twinge. Now a fall. Little by little. Pain by pain, Less steady of limb. Sight not so clear Ear not so alert. After a white we take a staff. Then, after much ie- sistance, we come to spectacles. In- etene of bouncing into a vehicle, we are willing to be helped in. At last the ,octogenarian falls. Forty years of denying,. No sudden- change. No fierce cannonading of the batteries of life; hut (ening away—slowly— gradually, Ascthe leaf I As the leaf 1. Agebai 14ke the leaf we fade, to make room for others. Next year's ter- ents will be asgrandly foliaged .aa this. Tlaere are other generations of oak leaves to take the Plan of those whieh this autumn perish Next May the cradle of, the wind will rock the young bads. The woods will be all a-littut with the ohoros a leafy voices. If the tree in trout of your house, like Elijah, takes a chariot of fire, its mantle 1%111 tall upon Ensile. So, wheo we go, others take our Ranges. We de oot grunge the fue tura generations their Places, We will 1a.a.ve had our good time. Let tem come on and have their good. time. There is no sighing among these leaves at ray feet benuee etner leaven are to follew them. After lifetirae of preaohing, doctoring,. selling, owing, or digging, let us cheerfully give way for tbose wile !come on to do the preacbing, (teeter., bag, selling, sewing, and digging. Goa grant that their lite may be larighter than ours hen been'? An we get older do not let us be at - treated if youug men, and women ns a little. We will have had oar day, and we muse let them have theira. Do not be diaterbed as yen see goad and great men die. People worry when amaze important personage passes oft the atage. and say, "Hie Plena will lleVer be taken." Rut neither elm March nor the State will :miter for It. There will be others 1 to tune the place,s, 'Men Goa takes- tme ntan away, he hes auother right bee4z of lare. There will be other leaves as green, as exqui.sitely vein- ed, as gracefully etched, as well -point- ed. However prominent Om place We fill, our deatb. will not jar the world. One falling teat does not shake the Adirrnidecks. A. ship is not well manned 'unless tnere be an extra sup- ply of hands—some working on deck; some sound asleep in theta: lima:mocks. God has manned this world very well. There will be other seamen on deck wben you, end I are down in the celn sound ueleep in the hammocks. Again; As with the loaves, we fade • and fall amid inyriads of others. We ; die in gannet. The.olock that strikes ; the hour of our going will aohnd the going of many thousands. Keeping step witk the feet of those who carry us out will be the tramp of hundreds doing the same errand. London and Pekin are not the great cities of the world,' The grave is the great city. It hath mightier population, longer streets, brighter lights, thicker darknesses. Caesar is there and all his subjeots. Ner,o is there, and all his victims. It has swallowed up Thebes, and Tyre and Babylon, and will swallow all our cities. Yet, City of Silence. No race. No noon No wheel. No oleah. No smiting ol hammer. No clack ,of flying loom. No jar. No whisper. Great city of Silence! Again; As with variety of appear- ance the leaves depart, so do we. You have notioed that some trees, at the feast touch of the, frost, lose all their beauty; and they tand withered and anceraely, and ragged, waiting tor the north east storm to drive them into the mire. The sun shining at neon - day gilds them with no beauty. Rag- ged leaves! Dead leaves! So death smites many„ , There is no beauty in their departure. one sharp frost of siekness, or one blast of the cold wa- ters, and they are gone. No tinge of hope. No prospect of heaven. Their spring was all abloom with bright prospects; their summer thick foliag- ed with opportunities; but October earns and their glary went. But thank God that is not the way peo- ple always die. Tell me, on what day of all the year the leaves of the wood- bine are as bright as they are to-dayr So Clirietian character is never so attractive as in the dying hour. Such go into the grave, not as a dog, with frown and harsh voice, driven into a brighely, sweetly, grandly! As the leaf! As the leaf! Lastly: As the leaves fade and fall only to rise, so do we.. Alt this golden shower of the woods is making the ground richer, and in the juice, and sap, and life of the tree Likeleaves *111 come up again. Next May the south wind will blow the resurrection, trum- pet, and they will rise. So we fall in the dust only to rise again. The hour is corning' when all who are in their graves shall hear His voice and come forth," It would be a horrible consideration to tliinle that our bodies were always to lie in the ground. However beautiful the flowers you plant there, we do' not ,want to make our everlasting residence in such place. We fall, but we rise! Wff die, but we live again i We moulder away, hut we cone, to higher unfolding -I As the, leaf 1 As the leaf PHOSPHORUS AND MATCHErn A, pound of pho,Splios us heads 1,- 000,000 matches, THE S S. LESSON. ••••••••7 INTERNATIQNAL LESSON, NOV. 4 TJ� ISttittSt Steward, Luke le. I -IS. Golden re cannot Serve COS alla 3iti11114011, Ltidie XS, I& PRACTICAL NOTES. Vern 1, Pie said else mite his dis- ciples. And, apparently. in the Pres - teen of Pharisees, To get the full spiritual meaning we mast assume tla,e binding obligation of the Ten Come mextelments„ Here is oot a, ieo'Sen hL morals, strietly speaking, but ke lesson spiritual acumn and sanctified com- mon ,sense. The lofty moral teach - ions of other portions of the Bible are not ignored, but aasuneed. 'The par, able was direoted againet the Phari- sees and eoribes, wbe as a °lass Were "ohildronof tbis world;" bee it bas deeper meaning, and applies to all at us. A, steward, "A hound dispenser," a. supervisor and paymaster, probably carried nis roaster's signet iug Itia ()Mee was familiar to the. diseiplem who ball before this been tempered: by their Lord to faithful and wise etewards, Luke 12, 42-4t. The same was accused unto aim that be bad wasted bis goads, Or, "that he was waatiug them al tbe worst tieettea. time that could be made against nouse dispenser, for "it ts regained in stewards that A man be fined faith - full," 1 Con 4, 2. 2. Haw is it that I hear thie of thee. "What ts tale that I hear ot your The steward's master is uot only indignant,' he is astaeletted, for he had thoroughly trusted this man. Give an account of thy etewardsialp. Literally, "(live back," that is, "Hand me. back siat ring." Tama. mayest, Rev. Ver., "thou must" be no longer steward. It wae not a nueatien waether he bad wronged his employer; it Was a mere question how rauch he had squaudered, and ho bis urther employment as stewartl was mat to be thought et, Here is a text whieli might well be applied to the final judgmeut of every human soul. It also appliee to the close of any period of treat and proba- tion. Every unfaitbful steward, cc- cleaintical, national, and individual, iain God' providential /war deprived of his privilege, The Pharisees were theeaselvee fast approaching their day themenive,s test approaohing their day 0C indOntent and doom, though they dreamed. it. Our neird now Iturns &era a consaderation of tne vice a diebreneaty to the mil - 1 'adoration of another class of faults. I 3. What shall I dot for my lord taketh away from me the steward- ship. The original is, "Is taking away," and tyltat follows shows that he had not yet been fully "discaaeged," This bad. man bad evidently made no pro- = vision for this overthrow, which he might have expected, atia must have dreaded. Me fruits -of his wrong dealings had not been stored for his own use, but he had spent his mas- ter's money day by day as he stole it. 1 oannot dig; to beg I am as,ham- ed. Of skilled labor there was not much in that nation and age, and it was not to be expected that tide man would have skill in manufa.oture or commerce. For mere labor his luxuri- oua life had unfitted him. From beg- gary he revolted. 4. I am resolved what be, do. "I know what I will do." When I am put out of the stewardship. His dis- charge was a toreseen certainty, only postponed until his amounts should be rendered to his master. They may receive me into their houses. "They" means the debtors of his master. He wall now so ace as to make his, lord's debtors debtors to hianself. 5. He called every one of his lord's debtors unto him. Tenants, appar- ently, who, according tg Eastern fashion paid their rene at al money, but in a propartiot of the fruits of their plantations. How much owest then unto my lord,/ Although ac- counts are not kept irn the Orient with anything approaching the strict- ness of our business methods, and al- though the steward had evidently 'been an unusually careless man, we need not assume that he had no ac- count a the debts himself. His pur- pose now is no work on the emotion of these debtors so as to make them grateful' to him, and he must not miss the effect of having them fig- ure up their own debts. 6. A hundred measures of oil. One hundred baths, hut how much a bath was is not certainly known. ler. Edersheini says that there were three' kinds of eneasurenieuts -used. in Poles-: tine; the 'ancient Hebrew, which, was the same as the Homan measurement; the, Jerusalem; and the Galilean. If the ancient Hebrew measUre was tak- en the debt was a very large One in-; deed. Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and • write fifty. That is, "Take your document, 'Your lease,' as we would say; the contract which epectfien the rent, and quickly, so as to prevent discovery, change the estimated yearly 'value oC your plan- tation." Here was cunning, for if these met consented to be partners tb,e fraud their mouths would be lightly closed. 7. Another. The original implies "of another class,'" and this explains the different ratio of hie 'discount' A leundrad meesures of wheat. The , word Imre Ls not bath, but °or, which as a dry meaenre, neariy ten times as large as that liquid measure. 8, The lord ameamende4 the want steward. From thin Phrase, by which our Lord gives his eltiniea of tne, transaction, we get the title of our lesson. Be sure that no pupil aseumes that this reters to the tne Lord Jesus. It is the rich Mon, tbe employer. Not eernmelone hina- nit, he nas been oatwittetn but he is large enough to Admire the sharp- Sa of his swindling steward. Be- cause he, had done wisely. ;Saga- ciously, The children of this world are in tneir generation wiser than the ehildren of light, Not that wicked ram are sbrewder than good niete but in reference to their own kind, their own age, their we, circumstances they are wiser. They are children et this world mere., ly, and adapted to this world; not fettered in the use of tbeir intellect by all mariner of moral, that s often "nonintellectual," restrictions. The and of light is not apt te listen to cruel or unmoral euggeettorie, do:meet employ faleelioad when feleehood would be convenleat don not detect falsehood promptly if it is plausible. The very tact that be la a child of the other world makes it impossible for Ulna to be as nueerupulaile as Ode world expecte. Oer Lord is bore mak- ing a cOmparisine whioli has both commendatory and a contientnatory bearing. 10 woutd have Clarietiane "baroaless as doves but al$0 "wise as serpents„" 2. 1 say unto you. Here comes a emphatic command. Mane to your- aelyes Imo s of tne raammou of righteousness. Or, as We have it in the eleventh verse, "the unrighteoua raaninaen." The word "ma mown," is Clialdato, and means "riches." To maize friends of it is, Recently, by menus of it," The mammon' o " wealth of unriniateousness" refere to worldly wealth; but we are not to jump to Um conclusien that it Is 1 wrong to be wealthy. Our Lord is here aistinguislang between the wealth of the other world, treasure laid an in heaven, and the wealth of able world, the characteristie awl representa- tive °Wept and delight and doeire ot the ealtiali and uarighteous." Tbe love of this is the root of all evil; but while we aro not to love it, we are to make Unmade by means of it. Wben ye fail, When the wealth fails. They naay receive you into everlasting baln Rations. " They " are the friends that have been made by tbe right use of the mammon. " Everlaeting habitations" becomes in the Revised Version Inner - nal tabernacles," "unwithering booth's" We rauat remember that Jerusalem every year turned its life into a festival of bootha, a Feast of Tabernacles, when on every hone - top, and in every open space ,and all over the surrounding hillsides, tem- porary little houses were made of teeny branches, These withered shortly, and their tonants went, back to distant horaes, and the whole festival showed itself to have been but a transitory joy. But the habita- tions of the New Jerusalem are ever - but a transitory joy. But the habita- lasting homes of festivity. ae that is faithful in that which is beast is faithful also in much, etc. Poor people as well as rich peo- ple may use money wisely or foolish- ly- ,selfishly or nobly, and character is tested by the an of a ten -cent piece as really as by the use of a million dollars. 11. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? If the spiritual bless- ings, the grace of God, have not sane- tified the dollars that have passed through your hands, how can you expect the true wealtb oZ peace, par- don, - and wisdom—the unsearchable riches of Christ 1 12. If ye- have not been faithful in that which is another maer's whb shall give yon that which is your own? Everything we have in this world is another's. It is primarily God's and the needs of oar fellow- men Make very much of it really theirs. If we, are just and loving and Christlike in the distribution of what has been intrusted to us in this world God will give us wealth of our own in heaven—not otherwise. 13. No servant can serve two mas- ters. That is, two rival and antagon- istic masters. If they were in unity they 'would lie but one. A ROMAN AQUEDUCT. A short time ago, during, some dig- ging operations in CI:tester, Eng- land, an interesting relic -of the Rom- an occupation of Great tritain was unearthed. This was a section of lead piping, supposed to have been laid about the year 79 A.D., and Was utilized for the purpose of carrying water to the Roman canip. About twelve months ago a similar piece of piping was unearthed near this same spot, but its originj was disput- ed. The new discovery, howeveie sats a 11 such controversies at rest, since tmon tbe piping are plainly inscribed the words "Gnome Julius Agricola." This relia is additionally interesting since it is said to be tbe only inscription ,extant. bearing the Roman governor's name; LONDON'S FLOWER lART, A SKETCH OF CONVENT GARDEN AND ITS SURROUNDING& -t Belonged reroserly to ins Order or B4BIB —nee 'ken tu6 Re3ert or Olio:nee er soiseceseges Neer '1'Lge. bl t'0,5ter4 and Anowee ones. Just at nine in the morning. every day except Sunday a retearkeble change -Mime place in Covent Garden Market. Ton couldn't exaotly eall it transformation seene but you could II it a transformation smell. Up t ita odors are Own of milady's iltaw- ing oom on a fete day—only 4401"C so. The air is laden so Inavily vdth the pe fume of flowers that the atraos- pbere is fairly oppressive. Aud then at e roses, and tile nemeiuths and all rbs otber posies eniett to make "Lei preseneo felt, and al/ earls of vegee tbtes, ripe end decayed, that have Limn the background of °dem rash for- ward with their more robust rane, and Coveut Gerden'e romance deet. beceuee of the eeeistrio by the Coveut Carden lower anorket, the greatest in the woild, It shuts up shop for tbe day nt 9 in the morning, just as leisure- ly tradesmen on the. near -by Strand are opening their 000rs, By that time etietilly every flower 4ealer in Laadoss, from the fashionable firms on Regent etreet and Piccadilly to the I picturesque unkempt flower girl at Usa cura., has stooked U for the day,i ul thousands of dollars' worth of' biomes have changen hands. I Thl pine or:gine/1y was nnowil as "Convent Garden," for it belonged to a nelety of mono, but even in the oldest recorded times vegetables seem I to 'lave beea sold there. Historic char - by the etere knew the old place; and its telehboarhoo4 well. At the tier of limy street. now known to fame only for its police court. Mira Coffee Ifouse, stood, a gathering place Lor several generation of famine wits.' and sharing with the old Chcahim Cheese the distinguished patronage, when they were in funds, of Gold - :Jeanie Between,. Garrick and Dr. John- son. The whole district, !even aore.s in 311,0,11Cagve esmtaor of.'tluiebiyaretsbCrown,entlauketoofBter- ford about the time Columbus Was di/wavering America. It Was just a modest little token a regard for the rent of the whale property was only 030 a year at that time, about the same as the cheapest stand in the cheapest coruer of the' flower mar- ket to -day. The Duke of Bedford, by wisdom or by hick, clung to his seven aores, and to this day a large part of them belp to make the present Duke of Bedford one of the richest men in England. The flower market made a small be- ginning nearly seventy years ago as a few humble booths crowded up against' St. Paul's (Munn, the queer little plan or worship tucked away in one corner of the market, and whose only claim to interest is in the fact that the author of "Hudibras" and the composer of " Rule, Britan- nia" lie in its burial plot. The ramb- ling booths begun there throve so fast that at last the thrifty Dake built a sort of ehed for therm It was sup- erseded finally by the present build- ing,, which has been enlarged two or three times and now boasts a separate branch for French flowers. Visited in the early morning, at first sight, the floor of this great hall deems to be heaped np 10 feet high with one mass of flowers, apparent- ly every bloom on earth. The flowers prove to be ranged upon dozens of little separate stalls, presided over by tired -looking men and women, each of the stalls bearing its owner's name on a neat sign above it, Every well- known flower is here, flowers haugh- ty and flowers humble. and tbe lit - tie knot of buyers swarming before each of the stalla is as diverse in point of caste. The flower market wens for busi- ness at 4 o'clock in the morning, and when you have to bring a new stock a goods to the shop fresh every day, it seems an extraordinary amount of toil, even before that strop is opened to the'customers. The 200 dealers who carry on business in the flower mar- ket begin work anywhere from mid- night to 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn- ing, and long before dawn the pro- oeSsion of hooded arays, tracks, and huckster carts bringing the flowers from the various railway stations seems like a circus making its steal- thy entry into a little country town Most of the flowers come from jest outside London, and their gardener venders hale therc,k, Leto the city over deseeted roads tint a fevv- hours af- ter will be erowded with omnibuses la- den with gaping humanity. The rest of ntbe blooms have grown in almost every part of England and Scotland as well as on the continent, and come in by the eaellest trains and boats every morning. - Their .wares run from the modest mignonette to the pnehful orchid be- loved of Joseph Chamberlain, and they affirm thatethere is no businese whore prices fluctuate more, and whioh is less certain frem day to day, Maseet of troutroses Eandneve,i°1:11 ero:d it is not uncommon fer from 1240 to 2000 baskets ef them to errave of a. morn - bag, A stormy ninat on the onetieel ofLan means A need Ins to tne flowar people. All tbe oareissos tlewers come from the Scilly Islands, whose innab- itants have made a. specialty Of geowe leg them, For the rental of tboir stalla the tradeemen inside the bali PAY from sixpettee to two shillings a morning; outside tbe coeter-florist, with his bumble donheY, ants up leis stand, at a reetal of 12e a, Oay. From hie more ProsPerone neiglibours within, he boys their second -day flowers, and it is mbim taat tbe Loieden flowex-girl lays in her stook in trade, to be sort- ed into nosegay, impaled en a sharp, geed stiek, and eold from laer basket on the street corner. These flower aide are keen as 'nate bledes and stainless as eorniorants wben helpmeet and farthings are queetteu, Moat of them are everan their "barsket trade" is no great thing, bat, there are aristocrats among them. Three or four of them beva pro-. etupted the edge tat the fountain in Pic. meanly Cireue, and tliey and the cab - or little coterie's that "work." the her - tier of St. Paul's churchyartt and the ntrance to the Steck xchauge in the city do bltailleaa on a larger scale, eEj buying every enoeuing ever 1U worth of flowers and nines', tame again t the "toffs,' who are quite willing pay a SiXpellee ter a fetehing bud, Naturally, the collmtion of casters tbat encamp about the deArli of the Floral 'nail is not witleou.t its odd members. The odelent of tliera all is "Dummy Kelly," a poor creature, Who OaA neither speak nor hear. He doesn't kuow that te 1. "peer," how ever;isa is abundautly obee,rful mad. In epite ot his defect*, manages some- how te do business with a big circle of customers. They say he has one at the best trades outside Um flower market building. All attempts "work" him LAPS) proved Alta!), as be bas taraehed several bigger men, who tried it. His botteat twat playtutly known as the "Gamer Man," from Ws plentiful supply of carroty hair. They say he "wasn't quite bak- ed through on top," but he baa been doing business there for ton years %beadily, MOTELEIR'S BIAS. It eves in tbe Grand Palate des, Bea.ux Ants, says the writer, that I witnessed is bit of something more beautiful than statues, as Ann warm, palpitating living thing is more beantital than sculptu.red represen- tations. A man and woman plainly dressed, and evidently from a "far country,' stopped, before a Oupld, dainty us a lily, graceful as a sea -gull, one knee bent beneath isbn, his bowstring dis- terided, while he looked. straiglit along the pointed arrow. "0 Sam," exclaimed the woman, "dela he look just like Jaok when he is firing off arrows from t,hat bow you made him? Although," -reflec- tively, "be aint so good-10°1nm' as Jack," 'Wight look like jack," drawled the prosaic father, "if he had red hair 'n' freckles, 'se' a jacket buttonea up wrong, 'n' stubbed -toed. shoes. 'You women are great on liknesses any - Ivey." The woman said nothing, but she lingered near t,he statue for a mom- ent, and I saw her surreptitiously pat its cheek, dou.btless for "Jack's" sake. ALWAYS CIRCUMSPECT. Mrs. McStinger—Do you. mean to say you've been married ten years an' never had it quarrel with your hus- band'? Fair Stranger—That is true, mad- am. And you always let him have the last word'? Yes, madain; 1 wouldn't for the world do anything to lessen my husband's love for me. He might get careless. Careless Yes. We are ju.gglers by prates - skin, and at two performances every day I stand against a board while be throws tht3 knives. INCREASE IN HORSE POWER. The modern demand for bigh-pow- er nenchinere is shown by a compari- son of the machinery exhibited the last bons world's expositions at Paris. In 1867 there were eXbibited and, dperated fifty-two machines with an aggregate of 85e barse-power; in 1878, el machines, aggregating 253.1 horse-powern in 1889, 32 machines, with 5220 horae-owa, and in 1900, 37 machines, -with 38,085 horse -power, The average horse -power par naechine exhibited in 1867 was 16; in 1878, 62; in 1889, 170, and in 1900, 973—a most startling increase, HOW IIE CAUGHT COLD. Harry I dreamed of planting sweet peas last night. Oh, yes; of course, you dreamed you made me dig up the ground for you, and that's' the way I got thi, awful cold. 003.11leeDES. Affable Aristoorat--The fact is, nay nano: is not Gibson. You see, I'm traveling incog. There's my card. Tuppings—Glad to hear it. traveling in plokles. Here's mine, THE FIERCE LIGNT. starniee Revelation concerning niehatest renew. "Lord Salisbury's condition 134' proved a little yesterriar. Ile was ordered to take a bran -mash and some sliced careen], and this morning was abee to eat a little chopped, beet His tenver has not Tann improved by Ins Mune, and be reeeniey kicked a boy so severely that the pea], had to he reinevea to the nospital.' The above paragraph, which appaar- esI e.cently in an evening paper, did pot refer to the Consoreattve Pram - ler, but to one of Lord Saliaburyai four -recited namesakes, '"330bS" 33 a ekinny, undersized caTie dictate at the best, soka has vexy few reelly good points. It is true be centrives to win favour wherever he gCseS, awl ether and better competi- have to give way to leirra; int is %layered that this is more dee o infernal wire -million than hop, - est merit. We bops be will score be helveda• 7105 Is not ono Of Br. lomle OM" ign announcements, but it ci ith sea of A Piteous prise ram e bleb wept the board at a VAMP allow. and Captlireel the prino:pai medal& Igoe Obaraborle.n rat down to table at 2.15, end wallowed the Met 111 - team eggs with wonderful rapidity. The potmen timed him carefully, anl the audience, etho were raestlo ngi- 1it, evetebed the perioromece with great interest. The fleet fifteen be- ing diepoecti of, Cbavenerlain 100k minute's reet, and then tell gran tlaa remaining eggs, wainh were friea Letter. He in:veered, them at a ter - rifle rate, :mei eventueny won ths. puree od alent for elinieurdrar, forty cooked canen tweuty WAWA", go seamed none the Nver;Fe, ansI110`.7.ar., od beneelt still bungry." negro, who posed as a elioneptaa "Joe Cliaildeer:ain OASe was egg -swallower. The arniouueement cawed a emetic% and was tephad, with additions, Into aewe,papers an over the country. Itteny people in eve mote duatriets einually believed that the famous politician wee reterred to. The following appeared in a big untry paper: "The Prince of Wain a satin -like and ereamy-yellow and mauve complexion, were, an the whole, the most noticeable features. trilei Prtu- eess was a bright orange colour, Nita* violet :note, and was much admired; bus the artistic] droop of the Prince, and the bright -green germent of leaves which encircled him, drew more attention." It took a good deal cat searching in the context to show that this was an acconnt of it flower show, and that some new dahlias bearing the above names were being described. "Compensation is being olaimed," ran another' paragraph recently, "on account of the misdeeds of Lord Rose. bery, On Saturday night. the park gates. being open, Lord Rosebery rush- ed out, and, tearing down the street in a paroxysm of excitement, seined one of Mr. Harker's hens by the ne k, and kilted it He then bolted the greater part of the fowl, feathers and all, and continued his headlong illeht, stopping at the cross-roads to kill a cat. Finally, he bit a little boy rath- er severely', and was taken home by the kennelman." The above concerns a well-known greyhound named after the great Liberal leader. "Lord Wolseley's hair is coming cut badly, and his nose is very hot. Drugs have beeen administered wiz hmt mu,b result, and drastic treatment seems necessary. He was much admired at the display on Saturday, but it was noticed that his eyes watered a gcod deal.' Thi oes not 15:e5 to the Commanat er-in-Chief, but to a prize Persian tom -cat who was cut of sorts. /Taut Kruger ran riot when he found himself free, and tore round and round in a circle, finally upset. ting a judge, and ending with a rough-and-tumble fight with Mr, Gamp. They were separated with difficulty, boih being rather badly mauled, and Kruger, eseaping aga.n, ran completely round the field, pet- ting up all the game and killing a aa ryoungTlfehiael,lsab_ri astait,bui abrofiett.. fc'o' rns too1 Oom Oeua rs va.g- pointer dog at THE LOVELY FLOWERS. Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goociness.—Wilberforce. Flewere are the sweetest things that God ever made aria forgot to put a soul into.—H. W. Beecher. What a desolate place would be a world without flowers I It would be a face without a smile, or -a feast without. a weloome. Are eget flowers the stars of the earth ?—and,'ere per stars the flowees of beavcia l—Mrs, l3alfoure ORDERING HY TI -IE CARD. Diner, to restaurant waiter; What lave Toll for dinner? Waiter: Eoastbceifricassec1chic.. ,kenstewedlambhash baked and fried potanoeseollegpuddingnailk tea andcof- Diner : Give 1:4C, th'e thied, fourth, (i-1th, sixth eighteenth, On.:1 nieetrenth syllables.