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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1901-7-11, Page 7CONSOLER)) FOR T ILERS 'Comfort and Hope for the Trials and Disappointments of Life. A despatch. from Washington says: -Rev. Dr. Talmage preactidd froin the following text: -"So the carpen- ter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hanaraer, hira that smote the anvil."- Isaiah ech. 7. You have seen in factories a piece of mechanism passing- froni hand to band, and from room to room, and one mechanic will smite it, and an- other will flatten it, and another will chisel, •and another will polish it, until the work be done. And so tieites° the prophet describes the idols of olden times as being made, part of them by one hand, part of them by another hand. Carpentry comes hi, .gold -beating comes in, and three or four styles of mechanism are em- ployed. "So the carpenter encour- aged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer, him that smote the anvil." When they met, they talked over their work. end they helped each other on with it. It was ck, very bad kiwi of busi- 'ices: it was Malting idols which was on insult to the Levi of heaven. I have thought if men in bad work can encourage each other. ought not Men engaged ftn. tamest artisanship and in honest. mechanisui to speak words of good cheer. tleri see in their own work hardships and trials, while they recognize no hardships or trials in anybody else's occupation. Every man's burden is the Ilene lest, and every womanse task is the hard - OA. I think 1 will speak of some of, the trials of mechanics, and then of- fer micouragemente. One great trial that you will feel is physical exhaustion. There are athletes who go out to their worlt at six ox- seven o clock in the morn- ing and come back at night as fresh a$ when they started. They turn their back upon the shuttle or the forge or the rising wall. and they come away elastic and whistling. That is the exception. 1 have no- ticed that when the factory bell taps Lor six o'ciock, the hard-working man wearily puts his arm into his +coat shieve and starts for home. lie site, down in the family circle re- solved to maize himself tigreeable. "vet be the means of culture and educa- tion to Ws children; but in five min- utes be is round asleep. ITe le fag- ged out -strength of body, mind. and noul, utterly exhausted. lie rises in the morning only half rested from the teiii. Indeed,. lie will never have any/ perfect rest in this world uhtil here into one narrow ipot which Is he only perfect rest for the hu - tan body in this world. I think Vieth eall it a grovel Has toil trosled the color of your cheek? Has itttfiken the spontaneity from your laughter? Ilas it subtracted the spring front your step and the lustre from your eye, until it has left only half the man you were when you first put your hand on the hammer and your foot on the whee.1? To- morrow, in your place of toil, lis- ten. and you will hear a voice -above the hiss of the furnace and the groan of the foundry and the clatter of the shuttle -a voice net of maellinery nor of the task -master, but the voice of an all -sympathetic God, as he ewe: "Como unto nie, all ye who labor and aro heavy laden, aud will give you rest." Remember also, men and women of toil, that this work will soon be over. Ila.ve you not heard that there is a greet holiday coming? Oh, that home, and no long walk to get to itt Oh, that bread. and no sweating toil necessary to earn it! Oh, those deep wells of eternal rait- tura end no heavy bucket to draw up!. I wish this morning you would come and put your head on this pil- low stuffed with the down from the wing of all God's promises. There remains a rest for aU people of God. I wonder how many tired people there are in. the house today? A thousand? More than that. Two thousand people who are tired, tired out with the life, tired in hand and foot and back and heart. Ahl there are more than two thousand tired people here today, supposing all the rest to be in luxury and in. ease. If there are any people in this world who excite niy commiseration, it is the sowing womoa of our great cit- ies,. You say, "We have sewing ma- chines and our trouble is gone." No, it is not. 1 see'a great many wo- 'elitiewearing themselves out amid the hardships of the sewing machine. May God comfort all who toil with the needle and the sewing machine, and have compensation on those un- der the fatigues of life. Another great trial is privation of taste and sentiment. There are me- chanics who have their beautiful :homes, who have their fine ward- robes, who have all the best fruits and meats of the earth brought to their table. They have their elegant libraries. But they are the excep- tion. A great many of the working people of our country are living in cramped abodes, struggling amid great hardships, living in neighbor- hoods where they do not want to live but where they have to live. I do not know of anything muchemore painful than be have a taste for painting and sculpture and music and glorious sunsets and the expanse of the blue sky, and yet not be able to get the dollar. for the oratorio, or to get a. picture, or to :buy one's way into the country to look a,t the • setting sun and at the bright heav- ens. While there are men in great affluence who have .around them all kinds of luxuries in art, therneelves unftble to appreciate tbeei, itixurlea lpuying their books by the square foot, their pictures sent to them by some elitist who is .glad to get the. •miserable daub out of his studio- havink no appreciation of fine art yet the eapacity to get art and to getmusio, and eat everything that could ,chanta the mat, there tonneal- titudes of reflued, delicitee women who are born artists and will reign in. the kingdom of heaven as tists, who are denied every picture and every sweet song and every musical instrument. Oh, let ine cheer such persons by telling them to look up and behold the inheritance that God has reserved for them. The king of Babylon had a hanging garden that was famous in all the ages, but you have a hanging garden better than that. AU the heavens are yours. They belong to your Father, and what belongs to your Father belongs to you. But I have no time longer to dwell upon the hardships and tile trials of those who toil with hand and foot. I cenn.ot even dwell upon the fact that so often the reward is dispro- portioned to the amount of work, or that you. are subject, necessarily to the whims of -others. I will not mention these things for I must go on to offer you some grand and glor- ious encouragements„ and the first encouragement is that one of the greatest safeguards against evil is plenty to do. When men sin against the law of their country, where do the police detectives go to find them? Not amid the (hist of factories, not among those who belie on their "overelisi" but among those who stand with their hands in their poc- kets around the doors of saloons and. restaurants and taverns. Active eraPlenment is one of the greatest sureties for a pure and upright life. There are but very few men with characters stalwart enough. to en- dure consecutive idleness. 13 en- couraged by the feet that your shops, your rising walls, your an- vils are fortreeses in which you inay bide. and from, which you may fight againet the temptations of your life. Morning, noon and night. Sundays, week days. thank Coil for plenty to • o. Another encouragement is the fact bat their families are gotng to have the very best opportunity for devel- opment and miefulnese. That inav • newel strange to you, but the chil- dren of fortune are very apt to turn out poorly. In nine cases out of ten •the lad finds mit, if' a fortune is coming, by twelve year' of are - he finds mit there is no nereesity of toil, and be inaken no struggle, and a Wit without struggle goes into dis- sipation or into stupidity. There are thousands and tens of thousands of men in our great cities who are toiling on. denying themselves all luxuries year atter year, toiling and grasping and grimping. What for? To get enough looney to spoil their children. Tho father was fifty years getting the property together. How long will it take the boys to get rid of it, not 1m ving been brought up In prudent hat? Less than five years to undo all the work of fifty. You see the sons of wealthy parents going out into the world, insane, nerveless, dyspeptic, or they are in- corrigible and reekless; while the son of the porter that kept the gate, learns his trade, gets a. robust phy- sical constitution, achieves high morel culture, and stands in the front rank of church and state. They never had any luxuries until after awhile God gave them affluence and usefulness and renown as a reward for their persistence. Remember, then, that though you, may have poor surroundings and small means for the education of your children, they are actually startiug under bet- ter advantages than though you had a fortune to give them. 'Hardship and privation are not a. damage to them but an advantage. And the son of every man of toil may rise to heights of intellectual and moral power, if he will only trust God and keep busy. Again ir. offer as encouragement, that you have so many opportunities of gaining information. titiere are people who toil froin seven o'clock in the morning until six o'clock at night, who know more about auct, tomy than the old physiologists, and who know more about astronomy than the old philosophers. Oh, re- joice that you have opportunities of information spread out before you, and that seated in your chair at home, by the evening lamp, you can look over all nations and see the de- scending morn of a, universal day. One more encouragement: your toils in this world are only intended to be a discipline by which you shall be prepared for heaven. "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy," and tell you that Christ the carpen- ter of Nazareth, is the working -man's Christ. You get his love once in your heart, 0 working -man, and you can sing on the wall in the midst of the storm, and in the shop amidst the shoving of the plane, and down in the mine amid the plunge of the crow -bar, and on ship board" while climbing the ratlines. If you belong to the Lord Jesus Cbrist, he will count the drops of sweat on your brow. Ile knows every ache and : every pain you have suffereAdri: yyooutir worldly occupations weary, he will give you rest. Are you sick, he will give you health. Are you cold, he will wrap amend you tb.o warm mantle of his eternal • love. And behide that, ray friends, you must remember that all this is only preparatory. I see a great multitude before the throne of God. And the angels cry out, "Who are these so near the throne?" and the answer mane back: "These are they which came out of the great tribula- tion and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lanale" • WORTHY. • And did yOu find the Chinese a brav'e nation? we asked of the re- turned soldier: Indeed, ,he replied, casting a side- long glance at the wagonful of loot which was being unloaded, they were foemen worthy of our steal, , CHINESE As JoicEns. A. Writer Tells of Their Ideas of Honesty and Practical jokes. A writer in the London Sketch, who speaks of having spent several years in Chiati, writes of Chinese servants and their ideas of lioneety and practical jokes. • "The most ominous sign preceding the present outbreak," says the wri- ter, "was that the 'boys' in Tien Tsin left their masters, as they are also doing now in the south of China. A Chinese 'boy' is a faith- ful servant, and when he leaves his master for no cause there is sure to be mischief abroad, generally with a secret society at the bottom set it. if a. master in China trusts his 'boy' implicitly, the servant generally re- sponds by being absolutely honest ; but if the master thinks he can take care of his own valuables he ands that be is mistaken. I lied at Hong Kong a first-class 'boy,' whom gen- erations of subalterns had nieknamed 'Scampi' the only name I ever knew him by. 'Scamp,' if trusted with money, would always account for it to the utinost farthing. One day - it was just before the Chinese New Year, the only time at which the Chinamen snake holiday and spend their savings -I brought home some bask notes and put them in a draw- er. The next afternoon I looked in the drawer for the notes. but they had vanished. I -called 'Scamp, who appeared with an absolutely im- passive thee. Ile knew nothiug about the notes, and instead of el- bowing me to lecture him, read me it lesson. 'Master' he said, 'go this side, go that side; he no savvy what lie do with his money. Mare better next time. give Scamp take eare ofd I took his advice and never lost ANY MORE MONEY. "The Chinese 'boys' aro not at all averse to having a joke among them- selves at their master's expense, Sit- ting at dinner one day in the Hong Itoug Club, I noticed e. gentleman who bad come down from scene nor- thern port become excited. lie had been brought a. letter by a solernnt faced Chinese butler, and he saiw etnnething on the oviside of this let- ter which sent him clownsteirs two eteps a1 e. time to interview the hall porter. When he came baclz he tolcl us what was the matter. The hall porter had inscriled on the envelope in Chinese, for the information of the butler, 'This la for the old ba- boon with white turd Unfortunate- ly for the hail porter, the little gen- tleman was a first-class scholar in the Clam language. Ho diecovered later•a fine toile winch the chief sign painter of the island had played on the European residents. AU the of- ficial.; and the professional men had their names in English and in Chin - ate, inscribed on a board at the gates of their homes. The sign Painter had used his lugeneity to make the Chinese lettern which represented the sound of the itautileh name mean something Insulting. Thus, a. dimin- utive doctor's name was twisted to mean to a Chinaman 'Shrinip near the ground,' and so on. The finest joke of this kind was the historical one played on Lord Elgin. who, when he sailed up the Pei -Ho to Pekin as o. conqueror. was given sails, with on them so the Mandarins saki, an honorific inscription. What the io- scription really lucent was, 'A bar- barian bearing tribute.' " SAGE ADVICE OF .A. FATHER,. Counsel That AU Young Men Should need. "My son," said the fond but wise parent, "you are leaving me to go out into the world. I intve nothing to give you but advice. Never tell a lie. If you wish to put one in cir- culation, get it published. A li cannot live, but it takes one a blamed loug timo to fade out of print. "Always read your coat -ant. A man might consider he was getting a sinecure if he were offered a posi- tion. picking blossoms off a century plant, but, you see, he wouldn't have a remunerative occupation if he were paid on piece work. "Ito not overcritical. Even the most ordinary sort of a. genius can tell when the other fellow is making a fool of himself. "Remember that the young man like the angler's worm, is rather bet- ter for being visibly aline. "Be careful in the choice of your surroundings. Environment will do a great deal for a man. For ex- ample, flour and water in a china jug is cream sauce; in a pail on the sidewalk it is bilisticker`s paste. "Don't forget that there's a time for everything and that everything should be done in its proper time. Never hunt for bargains in umbrelias on a rainy day. "You may make enemies. If you know who they are don't mention them. Sileace is golden; it saves the money that might otherwise be stent in defending a libel suit. If you don't know who they are -well, abuse lavished on a concealed enemy is , like charity indiscriminately be- stbeeed. It's a good thing wasted." MARRIAGE LAWCI. Blessed is the bride on whom the sun. shines. Never reed the marriage service en- tirely ovee. • A bride should use no pinstin her wedding clothes. There • is an sold • superstition against May marriages. December 81 is a fa.vorite wedding p.ay in Scotland. A brido must weex nothing green -- that color is emblematic of evil. - To change the name and .not the tetter is cb.ange for worse and not for better. In Yorkshire the cook used to pour hot water over the .doorstep after the couple had gone . to keep the threshold warm for another bride. • Of a hundred Legit people' 24 are married, 59 unit -tarried, and 7 wid- dowed THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. •••••,..••••••• LESSON II THIRD QUARTER, 1/4 reR- NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 14. Text ot the Lessen, Gen. ill, 1.-14, Memory- Verses, 1.4, 1.0-Gelden Text, Ram, v,eo-ooinmeutary Prepared bn the Rev. Xi. Steaerts. 1-5. This is our ingoduction- to the great enemy of God and map, that old serpent, the devil and eaten (Rev. xii, 0; xx, 2), the prince of this world, the prim of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in tile children of dis- obedience (John xic, 30; EVIL U, 2). He would come between God, and mao, ho would break up their fellowsbip and rob man of his inheritance, and to do this he comes in the guise of a friend, using the wisest and perhaps the fairest of all the beasts of the field as his medium, for it is evident from verse 14 that it was something new, and the result ef the Curse, for the serpent to go meat his belly and eat dust. From thin chapter to Rev. ex we see tbe devil in confiiet with God and man, yet tolerated In, God until the time shall come to put him tit the pit and later in the place prepared for him -the lake of Ore. We are tatight to resist him, to give him no place, to stead against hint a Pet. v, 8, 9: Eph. iv. 27; Vt. 11) but we cannot well do this if we are igneraut of his devices. Therefore we are limn and elsewhere made tie- quainted vitb him and hie ways that we may recognize him and resist him and overcome him with the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit even as our Lord Hitaselt did in the wiltlerness. la his first recorded utterauee, "Yee, bath God said?" we see that he quostious the word at God, and wheu aoy one from tafil duaey itse ttohristher teitmlotets tteilinegwiourd velar service et the devil. Ile queetioes the love of God, suggesting to the %vowel that it (bed loved them He 'would net keep from them even the fruit cot one tree.e 0. In the company of and lietening 15 the adversime the woman quickly lite owes deceived and blinded and led astray. She adds to the word of God verso 8) and aetually seems to think that her evil counselor is right aut God Is wrong, and elle desires the fruit whieli now seems to her so pleaenat, end she took it and ate it end gave it she) to her hushatt& and be ute it. Thus by oafs num sin entered into the worth and death by siu ami by the disobeJieuee of Jae inauy were made shiners Chem. vi 12. 19). Their fellowship with God was breltem they were afraid, at Hire and sought to hide from Him, they lost their giorious garments of light tied maile for therascivea as a substitute apreae of tie leaves. As to their being elothed with light, they were made in the image of God, and Po. eiv, 2, says that Gul corers Himself with light as with a gerreirit. This don not maid with Gen. ib, 25, for as to putting on elothee they were naked. How seemingly small, but how great awl farreachlug, their sin, afften in- all mankind, for "ID Aden all die" (eCor. inn 22). 9. "And the Lord GoS called unto Ad- am and said unto him, Where art thotirr: The dm recorded question of Goa in Seriptuee shows Him to us seeking the lost that Ile zany forgive and restore them. It was evideutly His custom to evalk and talk familiarly with Adam and Ere io Eden, but n change came over man because of sin, and we have the and and sorrowful sight ef the creature seek- ing to Liao from his loving Creator. hltues sin only males more niaaifest the love and loveliness of God, and we see Him who afterward came to earth as God manifest in the flesh to seek and Savo the lost (for every manifestation ot God is through His Son, John 1, 18), lov- ingly seeking His erring ones, He is still doing this, and His question to each ono still- is, Where art thou? Happy are those who mut gratefully reply, In Christ, redeemed by His precious blood. 10-19. The man, the woman and the serpent each are brought before Him, and He pronounces judgment upon the serpeat, the woman and the man, but in His word to the serpent He tells of a (*mules deliverer. In this verse (15) we have the new birth (enmity with the dev- il), the conflict between the unrighteous and the righteous (thy seed and her seed), the hninauity of the Saviour (the seed of the Woman). His sufferings (thou shalt bruise Etis heel), His dirinitii and glo- rious victory (]ie shall bruise thy head) -at least a fivefold abundant statement Pf the great redemption. In the sentence upon Adam the earth is included, and thorns and thistles grow as a result ot the curse. Thus the creation was made subject to -vanity not willingly; it had no voice nor choice in the matter, and it shall yet be delivered and made to re- joice in the liberty of the glory of the children of God (Rem. viii, 20, 21), for our Lord wore a crown of thorns, and the curse shall in due time beereeerved from the earth (Rev. xxii, 3). As a re- sult of the work of Christ the whole earth shell yet be filled with righteous- ness and peace and the glory of the Lord (Num. sly, 21; Ise. xi, 9; Hub. it 14; Isa. xxxii, 1, 17). If we would see and share this glory, we must be able to say from the heart at least the first four clauses of Isa. !xi, 10, and we cannot do this unless we seethe significance of verse 21, of this Gen. ill and moat by it. See then the Lord God with His own band, by the shedding of the blood of the sacrifice, providing redemption clothing for Adam and Ere typical of the garments of sal- vation which He has provided for us by His great sacrifice, taking our place and dying in our stead. Adam and Eve, with their fig leaf aprons, represent all sin- ners in their sins, having nothing but their own morality, if any, or fancied righteousness, which if they cling to are like those in Rom. x, 8. The Lord God Himself without any help from mortals provides the righteousness He demands and fliers it freely to all who are willing to drop their fig leaf aprons (Rom, 24; viii, 1; x, 4). Eden was preserved after man was driven from it, and we have every reason to believe that it con- tinued till the_ deluge. Theg flaming Invold points onis Zech xiii- 7, Ens, hi6i" her -1.1;h 7shrordsaiTiNd and the wny opened to enter parahise. The cliernlia toll of tho future glory of he reilinent, When the whole earth shall 15 ne Eden, See theireong in Rey, Pi 9, 10, Since Adam was driven frothEden lie One hag been born la Eden, and the eilid Wen into It IS br Him against whom he ifiterd neigh, In chapter iv we have tile two rellgyeas set forth in Gain and. hhelhielletdahtne of Self eighteousriesd Arid hrlegiefe Whet he calls his best and God'e Way ot putting away sia by eacri- dee, Which letter way Abel accepted alebi ine ; ".WA-XtIoNdOW441WWAE.NE4)-3E4K4K•TOMEOWt4K40,1WWWWWWX 11 Canada Makes 4 A Hit • • , Ontario's Maim; Exhiblt at tt!tt I •;.; :.• " tri PiineAmeriedn, It is now generally acknowledged • UNITED STATES EXHIBIT. (Special by Martha Craig.) that the Ontario nainerel ezhibit is The various Departments of the the finest of that cease at the Pan- 'United States Government rank in Americau. Prein• iStateT er Ross, lion. E. , reasury, War, Justice. Post the order of their creation, viz: • Lands. and lit W. Gibson. of Toron- °Mee, Navy, Interior and Agri Jeul- . Davis, Conanaissioner a Crown he Bureau of Mines ture. The workings of the Depart - to, Director of tof Ontario, decided to show the eco- ments are shown in the space allot- ted o them n t tihe United States onaidi area and minerals ot Ontario Building. Many objects of histori- on. a. scale that would convince vis- cal and scientific value are displayed, itors of the real importance and which cannot fail to interest end in - abundance of those resources of the struct. Among the many bistorical Province. AU the ores have been and instructive articles in tbe Stnte taken from working mines and repro- Department exhibit are: The origin - sent the ordinary run of ore fnt roal draft of the Declaration of Lade- pendence written by ThOU3,04 erefier- those mines. Mri Frank N. Speller, B. A.. Sec., of Toronto, was ap- pointed superintendent in charge of the collection and. installation of this notable exhibit. Mr. Speller is the right man in the right place; he understands his work thoroughly and deserves to be congratulated on the rresults attained. The exhibits are well displayed and artistically ou es: gp Ocomying a prominent place is a largo map of Ontario. 1880 feet. It is geologically colored and was prepared by tho Bureau of Mines and executed by Elliott & Sons. of Toronto. The map shows the loca- tion of the principal mineral depos- its of the Province and has been pro- nounced by artists the finest piece of rtestie decorative r,orlc in the build- ing. A second map of Ontanio, 10 x lit. elsows in partieular the mineral and forest resources about the re- ters to tiongrese, the sword wtdeht WilAd IS THE PRICE:, glen of Sault Ste. Marie. The lines Washington wore during the war of 1 and it one is seiniog to pay °retie f communication are shown by col- the Revolution and other Souvenira I wishes can AIWays be met. oz -ed incandescent lights. The map of the Father of his country. Monti "It is characteristic of the Trans - was prepared by order of P. u. handsome, swords were presented toi veal Government's administration the First President, but it was this ! that it was only with endless difficule PuLaslinsea0tired lalwaldiecn whIeliettairWaeOluliir:iigitionnol etYpiraitem"two B:Prallihrisbitwthaa's wrtheestelialefro°M4 BRITISH IN THE =fit= Seandinavian Gives is Views of the Boera. A leading Danish provincial- paPer priats an interview with a Danish engineer who- has a long and intl.e inate acquaintance with the Boers. The following ere some extracta from his remarks: "No Tritlander whenoUgilhastolivuefindeilirstiltanadTtrhaenstv•eanallcolnodnil tions of things will ever dream a siding with. the Boers. When we Acknowledge their love of freedoin, wethy boafvthe emsai,d lavlhlenthaturiospeparnsai!ewarosrte and foremost the English, went into the Transvaal, it was so poverty stricken that it could barely pay the few hundred pounds the President had in salary. Then the energetie Englishman took up the matter, Pilh caPitnl, Machinery, and unbounded ability into the work, and raised. the country from poverty to affluence. son, with interlineatiorts in tlie ifideimviuds:ar otr company a single e use °, h asT,cgel.se handwriting of John Adams and fortune that all do so. There are Benjainin Franklin. including the old 9.• bow places where one must tall so fashioned desk on which Jeffersors hard as in the Transvaal -and there wrote it. d'hen. there is a small bronze equestrian statue of George ?re few places where there is se . ' mireable a, population. The Tranevaal- Washington by Ba.ron hlarchette from cussed a. Governra.ent. and so the originat study and model of his li Government has for example a mon- master, M. Minton. This was sent Hi the dynamite industry, and to America, from Paris when Thomas , 0P017 the ;theme are in the hands of Ofeles Jefferson was Minister to France, by Pani and tni:itlltsertleGooVe ernuentari41eeptyuitsserw. ed the prices of exploeivee up to such a height that many rainee •are lying unworked. Envy and greed have pieced every sort of hindrance In the path of the Ilitlander. E'er orable George Young of Edinburgh, the Piterd are greekr aft well as Scotland. Many relics of Washing- others. One can buy their officials ton are enhibited, including a (plaint Just as in Russia. When anything Pair Of eye -glasses given by him to goes weong. or when one desires any Lafayette, all of Washington's let.! favour, one has only to inquire 'louden, with the expectation of re- ceiving an order from Colvin's* to have it cast. in bronze. This was, however, deetroyecl when the Capitol was burned, and this statuette is the only survival. It WAS presented to the United States by the Right Hon- Clergue, General Manager of the . e. Lor ido SuperiPower Coumauy, of Sault SteMari of the Array, arid with which he ot. The Transvaal Government did Tee 14cl:el-copper exhibit shows -LAI!! fought throughout the king e frt.un the Sudbury regkul' It'in'' equal strngete. The papeisaall ritg: ii pnrootliwts.sh tToheirobdeim"anildlefliod: aQtretfeihrentir working mine IS represented here. jamin v1.014;1134 The weight ranges Trani 1.000 lo ailiiiet Mailldhli. l which would give tine Ititienders a 10,000 pounds per epecimen. T le and erusiaMirlottiseenreAleix-ennadlieor eitlilitiilttetdm. '!Ilsillieedp fat'layt.3.1tehe °'odiiimiruolltterantii°nuettiaonilds entire pile contains about 17 tons of A curions speeireere of a state Pal -this is the hernel of the war. They eec. riverY stage °I the °Perateitir! Per from the Emperor of China to denied the right of voting and of 0 the rethleti°R °J. llic4e1 and c°Pr" the President of the United States chime -lip for Vitlarsiers. and our Ples, The final operatiovi of the re - N. Y.. thus illustrating duction Process is sh°wilL frum sa"'" try. This letter. WhiCit nobody cane That is pretty tought pies from the Oxford Copper Co.. of from the ore is illustrated:Lies:: i„ sent stittus of What's in that coun-i , „ mid, was brought over by Li Hung Chang wrapped up i gl 'qt. is said that, England %visited to the .ceuritry, have not citizenship. derives special interest from the pre-hchildren even, born and educated in yards of yellow silk naoSzt elaborately i copper are extracted from the ore. the mariner in W11101 the nicliel M. embroidered. This "euvelope" is; Boers, after the conclusion. of the rcoebriatteolloetiorott of xthebierneinyteleptehriadtenteeho. Tho Nickel-Cpper Co., of Ontario, mho exhibited. have attractive exhibits ehowing the A number of historic swords are! war. which will end in favour of ton probably comes the sword of will be granted home rule, new French process in detail. The displayed. but after that of Washing- , bEuctaltainedy. average visitor appreciates the tails by the lucid manner in which it . de- ' General Andrew Jachson. The splen- le meted:lent bconao(lbulisigi:: taondaQckinv= is illustrated. Copper ores at the ,ditlly jewelled swords and presents re- i,e:g,e us as citiaens. England alone north shore of Lake Superior ere mind by Ill -lie ; to command admiration. Another i nut till:a:bee: alt envy l'Ireirietrie)isiSznagnioc General Grant. cannot fail I ibetillieli uoifgi.isid1e00:InvItypnertilesgiikenitinnitg?3:111..08scieeet;, einenleea0:111in ei rIyt, i tt oi 04t 1.1.00 f uttieteto othStatesan. niiav ecr,tsmar eon ft oir ha,. : plenalaeoalaiwn:etarrlaytab node:I:tut try to 'assault' spcal la nutliledtr: et iulaetlio_xfhteweirly0(3. 'weigh from 1.000. to 8.000 pounds, ;presented by the Sultan of Turkey Tile Pieced superb article exhibited is a medal raise and transport suck great mas-; rests in a. wreath of golden /eaves must be used in these mines to i diecovery of America. „mil Inged-eael din'rgaxisvaal. the huge country deelar- war on the little. But this is see. The Late Superior Power !that. glitter with diamoncis. There preparing utterly wrong. 'The Boers have been Company have collective exhibits .of ' is a fine. display of other medals sent for this war for many 'Sea"' "ICY have imported cargo to this country by foreign potenta- 155, some of them being very artistic after cargo of -arms, ammunition, and costly. Another -object of in -I hease nes' guns they have piled them terest is e. large silken flag woven; whet to ha.ve them at is °se Pieee' and given' t° the Mitt- 1 strike, and they have bad the brutal- . e- - • grulin time was ready to Iran ore from lifichipicoten. Copper and nickel ore aro also shown, be- sides building and ornament:LI stone and pig iron; also a large assort- ment of enlarged photographs show- ing the work and mills of this corn- . i -0. . ..... , !ity to build a fort in the very cen- pany. Ferro nickel made by the new Lyons, France, as an exptessioniof of our beautiful Johannesburg, electrolytic process is shown in the their sympathy when President Lin -I -e, 1 to ram the city at pleasured Per- form of bars, and is attracting the coin was murdered. There is a fine haps you will now see that no one that knows the actual state of af- fairs can sympathise with the Boers, I laugh when I hear of people in Deumark sentimentally moved with accounts of Boer piety and singing of Psalms, etc. One must search long and Inc after such systematic or unconscious hypocrisy. The day will attention of steel men wisp know the value of nickel -steel. As a. central point in the display eollection of foreign coins exhibited. The walls of the section are orna- mented with portradts of the Secre- taries of State and photographs et stands the most remarkable feature the buildinge occupied by the Depart, of the Mines building in the forin of inent of State with some of the hand- somest interiors. Portraits of all the Presidents are also displayed. 'there is a collection of maps show- , certainly come when Europe will ing the extent of the territory, thErsfor her work ir the United States from 1789 to. ank gland " 1901, including the dates 1808, South Africa. 1821, 2845, 1848, 1853, and 1867, at which dates new possessions were added, A large collection of letters from. the heads et foreign governments to the United States are exhibited. Among the most interesting of these are: One from Louis XVI Xing of France and another from represents, laves of the French people, including Robespierre, conveying the informa- tion of the formation of the French Republic. There are letters from Napoleon Bonaparte, from Queen Victoria, from the Czar of Russia, the Xing of Denmark, the Queen of Portugal, the Xing of Greece, the Xing -of Bel- gium, the Xing of Sweden, both. the Emperors William, and many others ineluding, one from a large collection from the Emperor and Empress of Brazil and the leading dignitaries and states/ren of our South and Central American Republics and Mexico. There are peculiar speci- mens of chirography from the Shah of Persia, the Xing of Siam, the Sultau of Zanzibar, the Queen of Madagascar, the King and Queen. of Hawaii, eta, etc. A fax -simile of the recent treaty with Spain is ex- hibited and is of special interest to the Spanish-Americans. The workings of the Diplomatic and Consular Burea,us, both of vast importance are fully illustrated by official documents, letters and photographs. Mr. William II. Michael, Chief Clerk of the Department of State, who is arranging the exhibit, has finished the compilation, of a brief history of the Department, from the administration • of George Washing- ton " to that of William .1VIclititley, which will be distributed gratis to all who desire the pamphlet. ,To add to ite attractiveness, portraits of all the Secretaries of State, begin- ning with Thomas Jeffereon, to the present incumbent, illustrate the book. • :From brief inventory of this, one of the e.inalle,st of the -United States departinentel displays, an idea 01 the educational value of the Government exhibit can be formed. • The revenue of Eurepean •nations has multiplied 55 times since 1689. 8. COLUMN OF SOLID GRAPHITE from the Black Donald Mine, Ren- frew County. It is made up of three large blocks, the lower one be- ing 5x5x4t feet in size. A base three feet high oflimestone of ex- cellent quality from Queenston quar- ry, St. Davids, Ont., was provided by that company. On this pedes- tal is placed a statue of Canada, executed by J. W. Banks, of Toronto. Its dignity of pose and excellent treatment have created universal admiration among exhibition sculptors and artists. The Canadian Corundum Conipany have the largest display of this mater- ial ever made and have also ft, com- plete line of abrasive material made from Canadian corundum. The fine exhibit of -the Crown Corundum company and Imperial Corundum company demonstrates the increased importance of this industry to Can- ada. The other and more prominent of the divisions represented are the gold, silver and iron ores, building and ornamental stones and mica.. The use to which this latter mater- ial is put in covering steam pipes and boilers is well shown on a. prac- ticid scale by the Nice Boiler Cover- ing Company of Montreal. The con- tract .for covering the boilers of His Majesty's ship Blake, one of the most modern battleships under con- struction, was awarded to this firm. There is a great field for mica in this and for electrical purposes. Talc, gypsum, salt, mineral water and' peat aro also in evidence. The Milton Pressed Brick & Terra Cotta Company are represented by an arch, which is an excellent saxaple of the progress made in artistic decorative Terra Cotte work. The excellent record made by the Province iia the Mines building at Chicago is well remembered and the progress made in Mining in Ontario since that date is evident by the greater variety and importance of the Pen -American display. It is the best yet prepared by the Ontario Gov -eminent. Those interested in Ontario • mineral resources can ob- tain lopies of the latest reports of the taireau of Mines, the descriptive catalogue ef the exhibit, and any further informationby applying to tee superintendent, Mr. P. W. Spel- ler, at his oilice itt the Mines buildIng -, 33R1TISli ARierY SURGEONS. The anomaly in the laws eoof Eng- land, which prevented colonial sur- geons Xrom obtaining positions in tho British army and navy, is about to be remedied. At the summer ses- sions of the General Medical Council, opened in London, Sir William Tur- ner, the president, referred to this matter. Ile held that as a. result of the important services rendered to the empire by the colonies, be the South African war, it was high time to remove the impediment to the ad- mission of colonial. surgeons to po- sitions in the army. Several sur- geons of high standing in Canada had applied to the War office but their services could not be accepted, because the Medical Act of 1.858 did not permit a surgeon of colonial qualifications to attend to British troops in professional capacity. General Laurie has introduced 'into the British House of Commons a. bill to remove this. qualification, • • OUT or HIS SALARY. The President of the United States who receives a salary of $50,000 a year, must pay for all the food con- sumed at the White House; and the expenses of getting up an elaborate State dinner are not small. •Cigars and wines the President buys, and they must be the best. He has to maintain his own equipage. The Government, however, Edlows him a valet, also a clerk., who opens all his letters. All other personal servants must be engaged by the master and mistress of the White House. THE MOST EXPENSI BOOK. Probably the most expensive book known is thanwhich the Amber of Afghanistan has presentedto the Shah of Persia. It is a manuscript copy of the Koran, the binding is of solid gold, 2finthielt; the carvings_ which- are the work of an Afghan goldsmith, are in:crusted with pre- cious stones -167 peariet. 122 rubies, and 109 diamonds ed the purest water.