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—Bev. Dr. Talmage preached from
the following texte--Pealins Xxxiii, 2
"Sing unto Efine with the pseltery and
an instrument of ten strings."
A musicien as well ati poet and
conqueror and king was David, tact
author of my text. He first mimeos -
ed the Sacred rhythm and than play-
ed it upon a harp, striking and pluelc-
, ing the strings with Ws fingers and
thumbs. The harp is the oldest of
musicel instruments, jubal invented
It, and he was the seventh descend-
ant. from Adam. Its music was sug-
gusted by the twang of the botv-
strieg. Wexner 'Were to the harp in
the "Iliad," It is the most consecra-
ted of all instruments. The Bute is
inore mellow, the bugle more mar-
tial, the cornet more incisive, the
trumpet more resonant, the organ
more mighty, but the harp lias a ten-
derness and sweetness belonging to
no other instrument that I know of.
It enters into the richest symbolism
of the Holy Scriptures. The. captives
as their sadness "hung their harps
upon the willows " The raptures of
heaven are represented under the fig-
ure of harpers harping upon their
harps." We learn from coins and
medals that in the Alaccabean age
the harp had only three strings. In
other ages it had eight strings. Dav-
id's harp had ten strings, and when
his great soul was afire with the
.theree his sympathetic voice, accom-
panied by exquisite vibrations of the
chords, inust have been overpowering.
With as many things to complain
about as any man ever had David
wrote more anthems than any other
men over wrote. He puts even the
frosts and hailstorms and tempests
and creeping things and flying %eel
and the mountains and the hills and
day ancl night into a chorus.
ABSALOM'S PLOTTING.
and Ahithophet's treachery and hosts
of antagonists and sleepless ffighte
and a running sore could not hush
Ws psalmody. Indeed, the more his
trouble the mightier his sucred
poems. The words "praise" and
,`song" are so often repeated in his
psalms that one would -think the
typesetter's case containing the let -
os wlth which these words are
spelled would be exhausted.
In my text David calls upon the
people to praise the Loed with an in-
strument of ten strings like that
which he was accustomed to finger.
The simple fact is that the most of
us, if we praise the Lord at all, play
upon one string or two strings or
three strings when we ought to take
a harp fully °horded and with glad
fingers sweep all the strings instead
of being grateful for here and there
O blessieg we happen to think of, wo
ought to rehearse ael our blessings so
far as we can recall them and obey
the injunction of my text to sing
unto Him with an instrument of ten
strings.
Have you ever thanked God for de-
lightsome food? What vast multi-
tudes are a -hungered from day to
day or are obliged to take food not
toothsome or pleasant to the taste.
What millions are in struggle for
breacll Have you appreciated the
fact that on most of your tables are
luxuries that do not come to all?
Have you realized what varieties of
flavor often touch your tongue and
how the saccharin and the acid have
been afforded your palate? What fruits
what nuts, what meats, regale your
eppetite, while many would be glad
to see the crusts and rinds and peel-
ings that fall from your table. For tion day, but last in all matters, of
the fine flavors and the luxurious vi- useful and successful life. It would
ands you have enjoyed for a life- be amusing to see how much child -
time perhaps you have never express -
great, prima donnas like Lind and
Patti and Neilson, and the eound
inetrnments like the Violin of the
Swedish perfovmer, or the cornet of
Arbueke, 01the mightiest of cell 'in-
struments, with the hand of Mogan
ou the keys and hie foot on the pride
al, or some Sabbath tune like "Core
()Melon," hi the acclaim of which
you ecnild hear the erowns of heaven
coming down tee the feet, of Jesus?
Many of us hove never thanked God
far this hearinge apparathe of the,
soul, That Is 6110 of the ton strings
of gratitude that we our! •
to thrumb ef ter hearing the voice of
a loved one or the lest strain of an
oratorio or the clang of
A "CATHEDRAL TOWER.
Further, there are many who never
recognize how much God gives them
when he gives the sleep, insonoila
le a calamity wider known in our
land then in my other. By midlife
vast numbers have their nerves so
overwrought that slumber has to be
coaxed, and many are the victims of
chloral and morphine. Sleeplessness
Is an American disorder. If It has
not touched you and you can rest
for seven or eight hours without
waking—if for that length of time
In every twenty-four bours you can
be free from all care anci worriment
and your nerves are ietunecl and
your likabs escam from all fatigue
and the rieing sun finds you a new
man, body, mind and soul—you have
an advantage that ought to*be put
In prayer and Song and congratula-
tion. Sleep is a. gratuity from him
who never sleeps. Oh, the felicities
of slumber ! Let all who have this
real benefaction celebrate it. That
is one of the sweetest strings in all
the instrument of ten strings.
Further, let us gratefully acknow-
ledge the power of physical locomo-
tion. To be able to go where we
wish and cal uneided—what o. kind-
ness 1 What multitudes have to
call in the aid of cane and crutch
and invalid's chair, and their whole
ife is a hinderment ! How hard to
get about with lack of strong and
healthy and supple limbs ! Con-
gratulated ought you all to be if
you have the usual physical endow-
ment, and sympathized with ought
all those to be who can neither walk
nor climb nor enter upon any great
activities. That is one of the thous-
ands of reasons why I hate war with
a complete hatred. It takes off with
[bullet or shell or surgeon's knife the
capacity of men to achieve their
own livelihood or do the work for
which they would otherwise be fully
qualified. Brave men, self sacrificing
men, for the rest of their life are
Ant on the limits and straugely suf-
fer in stormy weather 'from limas
amputated.
Further, on the instrument of ten
strings celebrate the possession of
our reason, A severe stroke upon
the head or a sudden calamity or
any one of fifty kinds of 'accidents
might dethrone our reason and leave
us worse off than the brute, for the
brute has a. substitute for reason
In what is called instinct, but a
man's brain shattered, and he has
neither mind nor instinct. The asy-
lums for the insane, though all the
time multiplying, are not enough to
shelter the demented. Through the
cramming system employed in many
of the schools of this country there
are
TElliS Or THOUSANDS
of childrea having their brain de-
pleted. Philosophers at ten years of
ago, astronomers al; eleven years of
age, geologists at twelve years of
age. They will be first on examinee
M to God a word of thanksgiving.
That is one of the ten strings you
ought to bave thrummed in praise
to God, but you have never yet put
It in vibration.
Have you ever given thanks for
two eyes—media between the soul in-
side and the world outside, media
that no one but the infinite God
could create? The eye, the window of
our immortal nature, the gate
through which all colors march, the
picture gallery of the soell 'Without
Lhe eyo this world is
A BIG DUNGEON.
I fear that many of us have never
given one hearty expression of grati-
tude for treasure of sight, the loss of
which is the greatest disaster possi-
ble unless it be the loss of the mince
Those wondrous seven muscles that
turn the eye up or down, to right or
to left or around. No one but God
could have created the retina,. If we
. have ever appreciated what Clod did
when Ile gave us two eyes, it was
when we saev others with obliterated
vision. Alas, that only through the
privation of others we came to a
realization of our own blessing! If
you had hare in bend and swept all
the strings of gratitude you would
have struck this, Which is one of the
most dulcet of the ten strings.
Further, notice hose many pees
through life In elleme because the
ear refuses to do its office. They
never hear music vocal or instru-
mental. The theinder that rolls its
full diapason through the heavens
does not startle the prolonged sil-
enco. The air that 'has for us so
many raeloclies has no sweet sound
for therm They live in a quietude
that Will not be broken until heaven
breaks in upon them With Its har-
monies, The bird voices of the
opringtime, the cheater of the child-
ren, the sublime chant of the sea,
Otto solo of the eantatrice and. the
Melody of the great worshipping as-
eemblies mean nothing to them. Have
e we devoutly thanked God for these
two weeders of our hearing, evith
Which we cam now put oureelvee
der the chalet' of sweet sound and
also carry 111 our memories the in-
fantile song with vehich our mothers
put, tie to sleep, and the voices of the
ren are expected to learn and know
if it wore not connected with the
tragedies- of damaged intellects which
follow. Amid the increasing de-
mentia of the world let us appreciate
the goodness of God to us if our
mental faculties am in equipoise.
Another string of the instrument
1 now touch—friendship, deep and
abiding, by which 1 refer to those
people who, when good or bad mo-
tive may be ascribed to you, 00-
01-112e the good ; those concerning
whom you do not wonder which
side they will take when you are
under discussion, those who would
mare gladly serve you than serve
themselves ; those to whom you can
tell everything without reserve, those
who are first in your home by per-
son or by telegram when you have
trouble. Oh, what a blessing to
have plenty of friends 1 Aye, if you
have only one good friend, you are
bleesed in that glad possession. With
one such friend you can defy the
world. But he meet be a tried
friend. You cannot tell who ere
your real friends till disasters come,
As long as you collect vast dividends
and have health and jocund and
popularity unbounded you will have
crowds of seeming friends, but let
bankruptcy and invalidism and de-
formation come, and the number of
your friends will be 95 per cent.
off. If you have been through some
great crisis and you have one friend
left, thank God and celebrate it on
tho sweetest harpstring.
So far 11 have mentioned some of
the ten strings of the instruments of
gratitude. I now 10100 to the tenth
a,ncl the last that it may be the
more memorable—
HEA'VENLY ANTICIPATION.
By the grace of God we are going to
move into a place so Much better
than this that on arrivitig we will
wonder that we were for so many
years so loath to malce the transfer.
After we 'have seen Chriet face to
face and rejoiced over our departed
kindred there are Some Mighty spir-
its we will want to meet soon niter
we peso through the gatee. We Wont
to see and will eea David, a mightier
king in heaven than he over was on
earth, and .we 58111 talk with him
about MialmodY end get from him
eecee114 whet he Menet wbon he talk-
ed about the imerement of ten
strifees, We will eonfront Moses,
whb sell' tell of the law giving on
reeking Sinai and of his mysterioun
burial, with no one but 000, preemie.
We will see Josima, and lie will tell
ua of ehe eoming down of the walla
of Jeritho at the blast 01 the ram's
horn and explain 00 um that miracle
—how the seri and mom eould titand
title withotre demolition of the phew?,
May system. 'We will see 1151011 and
have her bit of the barvost field
Of Boaz, in whiell sho. gleaned r
fo
afflicted Naomi, We will tee Vasil -
ti rind bear from her own lips the
store of her banishment from the
leesitte palace by infaucom Ahasua,
Notice bow many more fair days
there are than foul, how many more
good people then bad you meet. Set
your misfortunes to music, us David
pened his "dark SIL; "
intim." If it has been lotv tide here-
tofore, let the surges of mercy that
are yet to roll le upon you reach
high water mark, All thiegs will
work togethee for yonr good, ana
heaven ie not for ahead. Wake 11P
all the ten strings. 'Messing and
honor and glory end power he unto
him that sitteth upon the throne and
unto the Lamb forever. Amen 1
THE S S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEB. 23,
Text of the Lesson, Ants vi, 1-1f1
Golden Text, Matt. x., 28.
1, 2. "It is not reason that we
should leave ehe word of Goa and
serve tables." This was the decision
of ehe twelve when there eegan to be
some murinuring among the disciple
concerning the daily ministration of
things temporal. As the inanuer of
the disciples multiplied it could
hardly be expected that in these new-
born babes there would not be mani-
fest some phases of the old nature,
some of the works of the flesh, such
as wrath, trife, surgings and melt
like (Gal. v, 20). Even Peter,
James and John miglit, rementber
quite a number of things in their
own lives, even after they heel been
a year or two with Christ, which
were of the flesh cued not of the Spir-
it; so it is to be hotted that while
they determined that they could not
take tame to see these unepiritual af-
fairs they were patient with the mur-
murers.
a, 4. "Wo will give ourselves con-
tinually to prayer and to the minis-
try of the word. They would not
servo tables, but they would pray
and search and teach the word. They
recognized the iinportence and the
difficulty of attending to the daily
ministration, for they saw the neces-
sity of a conunittee �f honest report,
full of the Holy Ghost and. wisdom.
5, 6. "They chose Stephen, a man
full of faith and of the Holy Ghost,
and Philip." The other five are not
mentioned again after this verse,
which is not necessarily anything
against them. Philip is mentioned a
sixteen times a,nd Stephen, who be- e
came the first martyr for Christ, Is e
mentioned seven times. If the inind
of the majority is a correci guide, e
then the appointing of this commit-
tee was the proper thing for tee ee
suggestion pleased the Whole multi-
tudo. There was something in those w
days in the laying on of hands (I.
'11m, iv, 14; II. Tim. i, 6), out it
was not confined to the hands of the -et
apostles (Acts ix, 17; xiii, 1), The 11
laying on of hands in our clay is not
-unlike the shaking of hands; some- c"
times there are life and inspiration
and sometimes a chill. Darnabas,
the son of consolation, was like Ste -
e
phen, a man full of the Holy Ghost hi
and of faith Zchapter xi, 24). There
is no reason why each believer should a
not be so filled.
7, 8. "And Stephen, full of faith
and power, did great wonders and e
miracles among the people." The "
word of God increased, or, as in an,
24, "grew and multiplied," and in
xix, 20, "grew mightily and prevail-
ed." The number of the disciples
multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and
a great company of the priests be-
came believers. I0 was truly a gi•eat
and mighty work of the Spirit of
God and was not confined to the
apostles, for Stephen, willing to
serve tables, was greatly used, God
working wonders and miracles by
him. The gospel is the power of
God unto salvation to every one that
believetle (Rolm i, 16), and as the
word is preached the Spirit works,
convincing of sin and righteousness
and judgment. When a servant of
Christ preaches the word of God, he
has a right to believe that it vvill
accomplish Ills pleasure nell rmll ne-
ver return to Him 'void Hsa. lv, 111
We may learn a lesson of assurance
from the devil in this matter, for
when he sewed his tares he teems to
have had no eaxiety about their
growth, for he went his wey, sure
that they would grow (Matt. xiii,
25). Let us bave faith in God that
He will take care of Hie own word
and that no word from God shall
be void of power (Lake 1, 87, Il.V.)
0, 10. "They were not able to re-
sist the wisdom and the spirit by
which he seetke," The Lord Jesus
had promised a mouth end wisdom
which no adversnry could gainsay or
resist (Luke xxi, 15), and this was
a fulfillment of His promise. The
wisdom was the wisdom of Cod and
the spirit was the Spirit of God. As
with the Lord Jews the worde end
works were all the leather's; so in
these Spirit filled men the words
and Wol-lcs Were all the Lord's (John
xis, 10; xvii, 18). We think of the
night in Gethsemane when, in reply
to their towing that they sought
Jesus of Nazareth. He :dimply said,
"1 am," and they wont backweed
and fell to the ground. It Was the
same word that healed the leper,
at out demons, rebuked fevers and
all manner of disease, stilled the
storm atol, iteeay back in the be -
glutting, °ratted all things. What
do we know of the power of His
Word in us or throogh ve, or ol the
eXperielme of Paul in these 'weir& :
"Seriving aceording to His Working
14)11011' Worketh In leel mightily ?"
(Ool. 1, 29).
11, 111, "They caught 111115 and
brought ,hien to cottneil." The ied-
versary cen stead tea thomend or-
dircary believere Of the Lac/climax
ettunp ttnii be net a, Wide afraid. of
them, but lot 4 Peter or a Stephen,
tilled with the Spirit, stand boldly
lent ond the reserreeeion, and
the devil will do his best to stoe
thelo. Teo power of God in Stephee
WAS 211ere than HELtELEI 001111 put up
with, end en lie eeirs up the rulere
and eho people to lie about, blin and
00 arrest
18, 14. "And Set up false wit-
nesses," So Jezebel did to Neboth,
and so, those scone rulers did to cnee
Lord Jesus. 10 was Written WM-
corning Him, "False witnesses did
rise ; they laid to My charge
things that I know note' "Tbey
that bate Ale without 10 cause are
none than the hairs of Aline head.;
they thee would deatroy 111e, being
Aline enemies wrongfolly, are
mighty" (Ps. xxxv, 11 ; laix, a).
We must, if we follow Him fully, ex-
pect 1.10: same treatment Ho re-
ceived, for "all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus shall sutler perseou-
tion" (II Tim. 011, 12), and He Him-
self said, "If they have persecuted
Mrohtox,
lteyv2w01)1,1 also persecute you"
o
13. "And all that sat In the coun-
cil, looking stectrifastly on bine saw
his face as it had been the face of an
angel." lie was no doubt thinking
of the Lord Jesus and all that Christ
bad endured for him. By faith he
saw Christ and not these wicked
witnesses or rulers, and the glory
of Christ \vas seen -upon hint lee are
apt to think it very hard when peo-
ple wrongfully accuse us and 13.y to
our charge things We know not, but
we :Mould consider it os blessed fel-
lowship with Christ, remembering
Els own words, "Blessed are ye when
num shall revile you and persecute
You and shall say all manlier of
evil against you falsely for My sake •
rejoice and be exceeding glad, foie
great is your reward in heaven"
(Matt. v, 11, 12). Some associate
this angel like appearance„of Stophon
with the. time of his martyrdom, but
it was before he gave his address to
the council. May 501 ever so see
Jesus that we shall reflect His
glory.
. —.4.
VETERINARY INSPECTOR.
Dr. J', C. Rutherford Has Been
Appointed Chief.
The Minister of .Agriculture for
some time back has bee21 finding con-
siderable inconvenience in the aelmin-
stration of the veterinary branch,
owing to the fact that the Chief
Veterinary Adviser, Or. AlcEachren,
.oeided in Montreal and was not re-
yun-ed by his appointment to give
his whole time and attention to the
work of the Department. Many inci-
dents have occurred of a purely' do-
mestic character within the Derain -
Ion, which indicated difficultiee in
this regard. Lately one or two ques-
tions of greater importance in con-
nection with outside matters have
also arisen. The situation became so
difficult that the _Minister took the
question vp with Dr. Meleachren, and
came to the conclusion that it was
bsolutely necessary for the future
indent working of the branch that
he Chief Veterinary should vesicle at
eadquarters, and devote his whole
ime and attention to this work, as
ther Government employees are re-
uired to do.
In consequence of his connection
1111 the Veterinary College of Mc -
ill University and the many large
nterprises in which he is engaged,
r. McEachren felt he could not ful-
1 these conditions. Inc thereftwe
ended in his resignation. When ac -
opting this resignation, the Minister
elt that recognition was due Dr,
cEachren for services rendered in
he past. Ile therefore appointed
in honorary Veterinary Adviser to
emu nten of Agile
ulture.
Dr. J. 0. Rutherford, of Portage la
ranee, who was in the employ oi
he Department during the last sea-
son, for the purpose of testing- with
tuberculin animals in the United
Kingdom for export to Canada, has
been appointed to succeed Dr. Mc-
Eachren as Cliief Veterinary enspec-
tor for the Dominion, it being under-
stood that he shall make Ottawa his
headquarters, and devote his whole
time and attention to the work of
the Department. Dr. Rutherford's
well known reputation as a veterin-
ary, and his experience in all public
matters, are guarantees of the effi-
cient workieg of the Department
under the DOTY arraegement.
LARGEST INCUBATOR.
According to EL Sydney paper, Aus-
tralia, has the largest duck ranch in
the world, and has just completed
with most excellent success the larg-
est incubator in existence. The incu-
bator has a capacity of 11,4.40 duck
eggs, or 14,800 hen cgge. Tho Ma-
chine is built on the hothouse prine
ciple, end, in fate, is a hothouse, 11
stands in the open and is construct -
051 of ordinary pine weather boards,
with corrugated iron roof. The egg
trays each bold 130 duck or 160
Ion eggs, and there are four of these
end to end in 11 tiers, one above the
other on each side of the room, mak-
ing a total of 88. Moisture is sup-
plied in pans beneath the bottom
tier of trays. The heat is supplied
by mums of steam pipes from a boil-
er, which is kept constantly going
to furnish motive power for the va-
rious works in conneetion with the
establishment. The incubator is
said to be working well nnd bringing
out a large percentage of ducks,
This season the machine has brought
from 10 to 80 per cent, anl the
proprietor has about 5,000 duck -
Tinge.
"Why, Bridget," said her Mistneas,
Whe wished tee rally her for the
amusement of her company upon the
fentastie ortaineritIng of 0 huge
pie, "why, Bridget, did you do
this?"
"Thrlade, it Wes inesself thee 101
It," replied Bridget. "Don it pret-
ty, mum? 1 did it with yer false
teeth, nium.''
3TREN1TH OITHE BOERS.
Deele0E11, Or umpAsmo ram -
camas ON X'441.(V,E.
enterestfng Figures IVhieb. Show
the Enemy Keeps Up 00
VOree in the Field.
If the Britiele had retained ate cape
thee all the Doors taken priseners
during the war, there would not hen
been e fighting form of any cense-
.deotioenciltioef,t. in the ileld, seem a Lon -
f r 0T1111.11stbsoton, tett% ohi;eys rboeiropnoorseittieerapteeod,
ple, but, the weight of the opinion
has never been backed by e line of
figures to urge its poteney. It is
doeletful 11 the flguree leave hitherto
been obtainable, so closely have sta-
tistics of prisonerS of war peen eept,
But beteteen the statement of the
Government last year, and the re-
cord of Lord Kitchener's) despatches
since that utterance, the number of
burghers 01 captivity is recorded at
something under 80,000„ That 1
ought to have been far in excess of,
this total, but for the philantleropie
policy which placed thousands of
prisoners back on commando in 1900
is common knowledge.
Having lecumed by experience how
little the average burgher values an,
oath of neutrality, or his parole, it
might have been expected that the re-
cord of 1001 would be clear of the
fatuous folly which made fresh inva-
skins of our colonies poosible. But
is this the actuality? The query na-
turally brookets itself with an offi-
cial compilation of figures, which
thews that since the first burgher
fell into our hands in 1809, to the
end of December, 1901, about 16,-
000 prisoners of war have been trans-
ported from South Africa to St. Hel-
ena, Bermuda India, and Ceylon.
The transportalion total leaves a
balance in South Africa, of consider-
ably over 10000 to account for.
W.FIF.RE ABE THEY?
The question arises: "What has be-
come of the balance. It is feared
that a very largo number of men are
being allowed to remain on the land
who have the possibility within their
roach of i•ejoining the commandoes.
The camps at Green Point end
Sienonstown do not, account for any-
thing like the balance in paptivity,
and if these men are in custody up
countay it is both dangeous and an
%cumbrance to the field army, while
if they are not the alternative is
parole, and that is more serious still
in view of the increase in the Boer
forces which has been from time to
tine reported. .
Appended are the details of the
shipments of prisoners from the Cape
up to the end of 1901:-
1900. Officers: Burghers,
March... 22 189
— 29 808
98
July— 227
1,046
250
420
881
September... .11
October... -.—
December— —
1901.
2,188
1,500
1,542
51e
609
August.................— 952
September..,.,,..., — -.31 1,717
aTovember... —.39 1,678
1,284
—
159 16,412
During 1901 as many Doers were
accounted for as were officially pone-
puted to be in the field at the begin-
ning of the year, and as we are still
fighting large coinmandoes it is clear
that the revised estimate of the Boer
forces was 20,000 short, and the or-
iginal intelligence twice than number
below the actual strength. TM
Doors have been recruiting to some
substantial extent, and it would be
interesting' to lenoW what has become
of the captives over and above the
total transported mid in the mast
camps.
A CONSTANT DANGEB.
Advlces from South Africa aro con-
stantly referring to Boors on parole,
and if all the burghers are not being
treated as prisoners of war the exiles
have a jest reason far complaint. The
presence of pr./Si:MOTS or parole men
in South Africa, is a constant dan-
ger, for even when ih captivity and
removed from the clanger of active
assistance the presence of a body of
prisoners in the theatre of war is Ela
incentive to conimandoes and others
to effect their release, and a fruitful
source of prison plots..
The discrepancy between the num-
bers of the captured and the trans-
ported may be due to excessive' in-
dulgence—a mistaken policy, for the
lighting 'Boers only lay down their
arms when Pressed, a,nci any act of
indulgence is barren of effect, since
the curriculum of the slim excludes
such niceties as moral obligations to
an enemy-. There is only one way of
securing neutrality in the individual.
When you catch a Doer, keep hint.
Whether this has been done Miring
1901 is a subject of dtebt with a
very largo number of Britons, which
the figures quoted do not dispel.
YOUNG WOMAN FARMER,
The Hon, Lilah Constance Caven-
dish, the seventeen -year-old daughter
of Lord Chesham, is the owner and
manager of a black eel% near her fa-
ther's estate in Buckinghomshire,
England. Here she keeps black cat-
tle, black horses, black sheep, black
goatee blaek dog, black cat, black
rabbit—black everything that is to be
seen pie a farm. ,She had black
chickens, and used to sell eggs to her
mother, Lady Chesheen, but one
02-ght a marauding fox came along
and cleared the hen -coop, Of course
In a hunting country it ie °Hine tin -
Speakable to kill a fox, so Miss Cav-
endish took the opposite course tend
gave up keeping fowls, for her black
farm must not make a roOncitary
lose: Tho country people aro amuse
ed and intereeted in her hobby, and
the standing joke is that Miss Cox-
endish WM everything black except
her dairymaidill
DISINFEGTION OF ROBE
VOA THE FREVErnON
017 TUBERCULOSIS,
How the Ravages of the Greet
TheWhirotoeliu:loacvgeoutInertiolgocuie, ybleoe Porebo-rou.
knee patient ehould be thoroughly
disinfeeted at remain, intervals, einee
le is possible even with gnat eare
the furniture, 00018, ealls, etc,, new
eave beou infected. Leven the Dom -
alone' disinfection of the personal ef-
feeies of the patient is .advisable. , en
case pf decease it 10, of course, sell -
evident that everythiug the Mee
sun -wave might lia,ve mine in con-
btrdtc14,"' cloPtalige",14v1YboollcuZniteutte'e.:
shoeld be thoroughly clieinfected. Ep
iw
manyiocamtntd
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so 871;he
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health. Whore the aid of the healien
beer(' cannot be secured the foliose-
ing direeelons will enable one to
make a thorough disinfectien by
formaldehyde gas: 1. All eraelcs or
openings in the plaster, or about the
doors and windows sbould be caulk-
ed tight with cotton or strips of
cloth, 2, The linen, quilts, blankets,
carpets, etc, 8110011 .00 stretched out
on a line in order to expose as much
surface as possible to the disinfec-
tant. They should not be thrown
into a heap. Books should be sus-
pended by their cove's, so that the
pages will fall opm and he freely
exposM. 3. The walls and the floor
of the room and the articles con-
tained in 10 should be thoroughly
sprayed with. water. If masses of
matter or sputum are dried down on
the floor, they should' be
SOAKED WITH WATER.
and loosened. No vessel of water
should, however, be allowed to ree
main in the room. 4.- Ono hundred
and fifty cubic centimeters (live
ounces) of the commercial forty -per-
cent. solution of formalin for each
one thousand cubic foot of space
should be placed in the dietilling ap-
paratus and distilled es rapidly as
possible. The keyhole and spaces
about the door should then be Pack -
M with cotton or cloth. 5. Tho
room thus treated should remain
closed at least ten 'hours. Tf there
is much leakage of gas into the sur-
rounding rooms,' a second or third
distillation of formaldehyde should
be made at intervals of two or
three hours.
To be sure that the work is well
done it is always best to have it
supervised by a physician. To man-
agers of hotels and boarding houses
in health resorts, this. method of
disinfection is particularly to be re-
commended, and tho disinfection of
rooms occupied by consumptive
guests -should always' take pin,ce im-
mediately after their ,removal.
In some cities and -villages tuber-
culosis seems to cling to certain lo-
calities and houees. The disease ap-
pears in a veritable epidemic form,
that is to say, it is always Present
there, either from the fact that care-
iess tuberculous patients have 3ived
for years in these houses, or owing
tcl the equally important fact that
the soil on -which they are built, or
the manner in which they have been
constructtxl, is such as to favor the
retention of the tuberculous infection
indefinitely. When a thorough san-
itary- overhauling does not snflice to
stamp out these sources of infection,
the deserve:Lion of such dwellings
seems the only remedy.
BAD NUTRITION.
The causes of insufficient and bad
nutrition, while they have often to
be sought in the economical and so-
cial condition of the connnunitY,
which we cannot discuss here, are
are just as, and perhaps more, fre-
quently to be found in ignorance
and inexperience. To make a good,
plain, healthy, tasty meal with rola-
tivoly little expense is an art which
must be taught to the yming wife;
leaving the factory or the position in
the store to enter open the duties of
a housewife. . Hero is a field for
nobleemindc-d and experienced' women
who have made the tort of cooking a
study. By Imparting their exper-
ience to their less fortunate sisters,
they will make a new household last-
ingly happy.
Of courSe, the establishment of In estimating the value f a
public eneing-houses, where especial- mummy its medicinal quallieies are
by the unmarried people of tho work- no longer appraised, and thus the
Mg classes can obtain good and problem is easier of solutiott. Its
plain meals for 0 1101110101 priee, is value must have been greater when
also a necessity. iti connection with it formed a regular part of the nue.
the subject of malnutrition, see wish eerie medico,. Until /ate in the
to say one move word concerning eighteenth century iumninies entered
poor school children, especially in into a great variety of drugs, balms
large eities. The majority of them and other inedicamente. As the
very rarely go home for luncheon, genuine 1111,1X1111Y WEIS then expensive,
arid the Provisions ti recipes were given by many ancient
bring along from hoinw
are often of the most meagre kind.
In some citioe of Geemany the ex-
periment has been made to provide
these poor children with a lunch of
good meat sandwiches and a gtess of
milk. The result of this inost praiSe-
worthy work among childreu badly
fed at 1102110 has been aimply nur-
prising, Nearly every one of them
geinecl 111 weight within a month's
tine, and all of them were certainly
made happier and capable or doing
better work at school.
KLONDIlip NINER
sumo TUE oQvniolvEATT roxi,
*20,000.
The Iteuriantle Story of the Sm.
Mes oe Creerge W. Oar -
meek.
George ele Oarmaele, the man whee
first Struck geld 111 the Klondike, is
in Ottewe smog the Government for
the return of about $20,000, Whiee
he claims the gold commissioner o'f
the 'Yukon wrongfully,colleeted from
him as royalty on the Output of We
now fainoue claim, known ea "Dise
°every," on Bonanza Oreelc. AS a
discoverer, Carmaelt we.s entitled,,
under the milling laws to exemption,
ls defiance of Whioh, he says, the
full royalty of tea per cent. wee Col-
lected on hie first peewit's output, of
nearly a quarter of e million dot-'
1s.
MILLIONAIRE ONCE A GUIDE.
A romantic story is the history of ;
this Yukon millionaire. When Wile '
liam Ogilvie first went into tile Yoe
kon country 15 years ago, he met a
white men named George Carreack, a
prospector and hunter, living with
the Tagish Indians. He employed •
t111$ 1111111 as guide during his first
season's work in exploring the then
'midtown country, drained by the
Yukon river and its tributaries, and
learned from him nmeh -valuable in-
formation concerning the Italian
tribes with whom Carmack had
traded. It %vas through frieedship of
these Indiens, in fact, that Oarmack..
became a 'millionaire.
DISOBEYED ORDERS.
In 1896 William. Ogilvie was oie
clered to return to Ottawa, but es
gold had just been discovered in
Canadian territory he wrote to the
Department of the Interior that he
had concluded to disobey orders and
remain in the Klondike to survey
claims for the miners. As Mr.
Ogilvie explained in his letter to
the Minister of the Interior the new
name of the river was a misPrie-
nunciatiOn of the /ndian word Thron-
dak, meaning "plenty of fish," the
stream being so named because it
was famous for its abundance of
salmon.
OARMA.CK IellIST
Mr. Ogilvie's report continued :—
"As I have ah•eady intimated, rich
placer mines of gold wore discovered
(in 1895) on the branches of this
streaan. The discovery was due, I
believe, to the reports of the In-
dians. A white man named George
W. Carmack, who 'worked with me in
1887, was the first to take advan-
tage of the rumors and locate a
claire on the first branch, Whier was
named by the miners Bonanza, Omelet
Carmaelc located late in August, but
had to cut some logs for the mill
here (Fort Cudahy, 60 miles dis- •
tant) to get a few pounds of pro-
ViSi0119 to enable blin to begin work
oil his claim.
81,200 IN EIGHT DA.YS.
"The fishing at Throndak having
failed hire, he retureed with a few
weeks' provisions for himself and
two Indians with him on the last
day of August, and immediately set
about working his claim. As he was
very shoit of appliances he eould
only put together a rather defective
apparatus to wash the gravel with.
The gravel itself he had to carry in a
box on his back from 80 to 100 feet;
notwithstanding this, the three men, •
working very regularly, washed out
81,200 in eight days, and Cammack
asserts with reason that had he had
proper facilities It could have been
done in two days, besides having
several hundred dollars more gold
washed out in the tailings through '
defective apparates."
OTHER lielleh'RS SUING.
Such is the terse but telling o111 -
dal record of the Mae who is en,
doavoring to vindicate his rights as
O discoverer. Two other cases 441111 -
Ulu in their legal aspect are now
being heard in the Exchequer Court.
James Tweed iS claiming 87,548 as
O refund of royalty on clainat on
Eldorado and Bonanza Creek, and
William Chappell° is suing for the
return of $12,066, which ho' holds
was illegally collected upon the out-
put of his claim on Hunker Creek.
VALUE OIe 'MUMMIES.
ONE G1,EAM LEFT,
A certain philanthropist takes a
cheerful view of life, but he has a
helpmate who is apt to be "troubled
by many things," mid who takes the
smaller affairs of the poor folic she
-visite too much te heart.
Ono day she entered her husband's
study in a state of disquietetcle. She
began, efele I have heard sueli
Manning move of Mrs. Ile—. Her
teiglibore say that she only washes
her childrenel faces when Sho hae
company. isr0{4, what, can YOU hope
ler of a woman like that ?"
"Well," said the other, slowly,
stroking his thin, "I auppose eel we
ean hope her is that she entertales
good deal,"
The average strength of a Woman
compared with a Man is as 137 10
10%
writers for converting human flash
into mummy, Usually only (imitate
portions of the body were used, and
these were beaten, dried, macerated
and spiced out of all likeness to
their natural condition ; hence "beat-
en to a mummy." Numereus al-
lusions aro made to the pretaiee in
ancieet literature, arid in an old
play, "Bird in a Cage," aro the 11-
rections : "Make mummy of my flesh
and sell me to the apothecaries."
Ilenry—"lf I were 'loll, claeling,
woela you love me more 0115525 yon
do ?" Clara—"1 might hot love yoil
any more, IlenrY, but 1 know I
Would look forward to our wedding
day with a degree of impatience that
never seems to possess mo at Pre'
sent."
MANY A LONG SHOT,
Blobbs—"Ifow 5111 yew., friend, thi
weather prophet, lose all his Mo-
ney ?"
Slobbs—"Iletting Oh his own inie-
dietionS."
Portugal's Custom duties are the
heavieet of any European eaten)),
nmenting to $4.50. n bead of her
population, illngland'S are, about
'$2,75 a head.
One of the 'teenagers of an hospital
asked an Irish nude evItith he con -
thieved the 'met dangerous of tho
ninny eases then 111 the Yospitel.
"Thee, eille" said Potrick, EIS ho
pointed to a Can of surgicol
strumente lying on the tellek,