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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-2-27, Page 6T AND BAUTIFUL At the Eventime of the World It Shall 13e Light, Mti4s,43titalet3 OceO ValaitAO ISW,Agral4;101,7b=.14t4' 4 A deg/Patch front Wit,shington says: —Bey, Dr, To -linage preached item the following teocti—Zechnrials 7, "At evening' tittle it gibal. be While "Mght" im all, lalignagegi is tho eymbol for gloom and suffering, it is often really oheerful, bright and Impressive1 speak not of such nighte as come down with no star pouring ligist from above or silvered waVe tossing up light from, beneath' ,---murity, hustling, portootious, but ouch as you often see whets tho xsomp and untgetificoace of Heaven turn out im night parade, and it emits as though tho song which tho morning stars began so long ago Were chiming yet among the conistel- lotions and the 80118 1./1 God were rtheoting for joy. Such nights the sailor blesses from the forecastle, and the trapper on vast Prairie ancl the belated traveller by tho road- side, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts gazing open heavenly and shepherds guarding their Cloaks afield, while angel hands above them set the silver bells a -ringing, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth PeaCe; good will towards mem" What a solemn Bad glorious thing is night in the wilderness! /Night among the mountains! Night on. the ocean! Fragraut night among tropical groves! Fleshing night anild arctic severitiesi C1/1111 night on Roman campagnal Awful night among the cordillerael Glorious night mid sea after a, tempest! Thank God for the zughtl Tho moon 'and the stars which rule it aro light -houses 011 the coast to- ward which 7 hope we are sailing, and blind mariners are we if, with so many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us, we caanot find our wey =TO THE HARBOR. My text may wen suggest that, as the natural evening* is often lu- minous, so it shall be light in the evening of our sorrow% of old age, of the world's history. of the Chris- tian life. "At the evening time it shall lie light." This prophecy will be ;alined in the evening of Christian sorrow. leor a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rides high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousani arms, and the pickax struck a mine, and the battery made 0, Oiscovery, and the investment yielder' its 20 per cent., and the bouk came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden for- tune hoisted to high position, and children were praised, and friends Without number sivarined into the family hive, and prosperity sang in the music and stepped ht the dance and glowed in the wine and ate at the banquet, and all the gods of tousle and ease and gratilication ga- thered around this Jupiter bolding in his hands so many thunderbolts and the briglitest day must have its of power, But every sun must set, twilight. Suddenly the sky was ! overcast. The fountain dried up The song hushed. The wolf brae into the family fold and carried GI the best lantb. A deep howl of woe came crashing clown through the joyous symphonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster, the hamstrings all broke. Down went . the strong, business firm! Away went long established credit! Up ikw' a dock of calumnies! The new rook would not sell! A patent could not be secured for the invention! Stocks sank like lead! The insur- ance company exploded! "How much," says the sheriff. "will you bid for this piano? How much for this library? Ilove much for this family picture? How much? Win you let it go at less than half price? Going—going--gone!"' Will the grace of Gnd hold one up in such circumstances? What hoe become of the great multitude of God's ehi/dren who have benn pound- ed of the nail and CRUSITED UNDER THE WHEEL. and trampled under the hoof? Did they Ile clown in the dust, weeping, wailiag, and gnusiiing their • ith? Did they when they were afflicted Dice Job curse Coil and want to die? When the rod of atherly chastisement struck them, did they strike back? Because they foutai one bitter etip on the 1.111110 of God's supply did they upset, the whole table? I/id they kneel down at their empty money vault 01,1.1 Kay, "All 111Y lounger& are gone?" Ind they stand by the grave of their dead, saying, "There never will be a resurrection?" Did they bemoan their thwarted Plone earl say, 'erne glossa down; 'would God J wero (Imo - 1110 the night of their disaster come open them moonless, starless, (larlc atid howling, sinotherbur and lag their life out? No, nol At eventideit was light„ The swift promises overtook them. The eter- nal constellations, front their dr- ' cult tebout God's throne, poured down an infinite lustre. 'Under their shining the billows of trouble took on crestA and pinnies of gold and jesper and amethyst and flame. All the trees of life rustled in the midsummer of God's iove. The night blooming assurances of Christ's sympathy filled all the at- mosphere with heaven, The sonl atevery step seemed to start op from its feet bright winged jOys, warbling heavenward. "It is good that 'I have been allictedl" cried David. "The Lord gave, and the Lord nath taken 'away!" oxalates job, "Sorrowf ul, yet always re- joicing," says. St, Paul, "And tiod • • ivige away ali teare from their eyes," exclaims John in apocalyptic ✓ ision. At, eventide it was light, LIGHT PROM THE CROSS! Light irons the promisee! " Light frein the throw/I Streaniiiig, ,olOna outgushing, everlasting light!' Assnin, tho text shall iind fulfill- ment in the time of 010 age, It is a gsanci thing to be young, to have the sight clear guid the hearing 0.011tO arid the step elestio, and all our puiees marching on to the drununing of a stout heart, Wildlife and old age will be denied 1110113, OS 110, hat youth—we all know what that Is, Those wrinkles \yore not always on. your 'brow; that snow was 'not ale waye on your heath that braany munle did not always bunch your ulna; you have not always worn Sisectaeles. Grave and dignitied as you aro now, you once went &met- ing down the hillside or threce off your hat for the race or sent the ball flying sky high. But youth will not always last. It stays only long onentgh to give us excellent spirits and broad shoulders for burden car - eying and on arm with which to bot- tle our way through difficulties. Life's path, If you follow it long enough, will cool° under frowning crag oncl cross trembling causeway, Blessed old age, if you let it come naturally I You cannot hide- it. You may try to cover the wrinkles. If the time has come for you to be old, be uot ashamed to be old. The !grundest things In ell the universe 'are old—old mountains, old rivers, / old seas, old stars alai old eternity. Then do not lie ashamed to be old I 111110.90 you are older than the moun- tains and, OLDER THAN THE STARS, Again, my text 5111111 find ful- 1ffilment in the latter day of the !church. Only a few missionaries, a 1 few ellUrelleS, a few good men, com- pared with the institutions leprous and putrilled. It is early yet, in the history of everythieg good. Civil- ization and Christianity are just getting out of the cradle. The light of martyr stakes, flashing up and down the sky, is but the flaming of the morning, but when the evening of the world shall conic, glory t0., God's conquering truth, it shall be I light. War's sword clanging back in the scabbard; intemperance buried under ten thousand brokeo de- canters; the world's impurity turn- ing its brow heavenward for the benediction. "Blessed are the pure in heart;" tho last vestige of sal-'! fishness submergedin heaven dose' cending charities and China worship- ing Dr. Abeel's Saviour; all India believing in Ifenry Martyn's Bible ; aboriginal superstition acknowledg- ing David Brainerd's piety; human bondage delivered through Thomas Ciarkson's Christianity ; vagrancy coming back from its pollution at the call of Elizabeth Fry's Redeem - 00 ; the mountains coming daft; the! valleys going up;"holiness" inserib-1 ecl on horse's lid!, and sill worm's 1 i thread, and brown thrasher's wing, and shell's tinge, and inaitufacturgr's shuttle, and chemist's laboratory, king's scepter, iand nation's Magna Charta. Not a hospital, for there are 110 wounds; not an asylum, for there are no orphans; not a prison, for there are no criminals ; not an almshouse, for there nre 130 paupers; not a tear, for there are no sor- rows. Tito long dirge of earth's lamentation has ended in the tri- umphal march of redeemed empires, the fovests harping it on VINE STRUNG 13RA.NCHES, the seater chanting it among the gorges, the thunders drumming it among the Mlle, the ocean gliang it forth with its organs, trade winds touching the keys and Euroclydon's foot ou the pedal. 1 51.118 a beautiful being wandering U p and clown the earth, She touched the aged, and they became young, she touchea the poor, and they be- came rich. I said, "Who 111 this beautif ul being wandering up and down the earth?" They told me that her 1101110 Will/ Death. What a strange thrill of joy when the palsied Chris- tian begins to use his nein again, when the blind Christian begins to see again, when the (leaf Christian liegins to hear again, when the poor pilgrim puts his feet on such pave- ment, and joins in 50111 cempany and has a 1ree seat In such a great tem- ple 1 Hungry men no more to hun- ger, thirsty men no 11101'e to thirst, wteping nigg no more to weep, dy- ing men ncrssmore to die. Gather up all sWert wards, all jubilant expres- sions, all rapturobs exchonatioes ; bring them to me, marl I will poor epon theni. this stupendous theme of the soul's 105001113') 111)01)1 ! Oh, the joy of the spirit. as it shell mount Up toward the throne of God. shout- ing 3 "Free 1 Free 1" Your eve 11118 • Pahl 10111(7 be afiarIL Tha Minting OW be heartreinling, Yet light in the evenings As all the ideal Of the night sink their artehOra of pearl 1» lake and river and Sea, elo the Waves of Jordan shell be ilhintinated With the clown peel -dug of the giory 130 come, The (lying soul Woke up at the constellatiOns, "The LOrd igt my light and my ealvittion ; Whom Anil I feat ?" "The Lamb Which is in the midst al the throne shall lead thorn to living fountains Of Water, ((ltd God 411511 wipe nwny oli tears from their eyes." Olo.eo the wee of the departed one; earth would seem tame to its • en- chanted Vision. Fold the halide life's work ie ended, Veil the face it bag been trnnsligured, THE S. S. -LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 2, Text of The Lesson, Acts vij,, 54 to viii., 2, Golden Text, Matt, vs, 44. 54, 55. "Bet he, being full. of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven." With great posver arid boldness, being filled with the Spirit, StePhen had spoken the truth and, like Peter, had accused the council of being the murderers of Jesus Cbrist. They were so cut to the heart that, they were lined with fOry awl gnashed their teeth at liow suggestive 117115 their conduct ol tho place to Whieh they were journey- ing, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth not egainst, others $o much as because of their own tor- ment! (Matt. xiii, 42, 50; xxii, 18). 56. "And said, Behold, 1 see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of (1 6(1." This is one of the seven times that we find the phrase in Scripture "hea- vens opened." The passages are Ezek. i, 1; Matt. iii, 16; John 1, 01; Acts vii, 50; x, 11; Rey. iv, 1; xix, 11, and they will repay a careful study, tor the Lord Jessie is always the central person, and the more we !look into heaven the more heavenly we become, and there is so much , room for improvement in that direc- tion, fi, 58. "Then they cried out with a loud video and stopped their ears and ran upon him with one accord." This is the first of the four "one ao. cords" of the devil's followers in this book ot Acts, the others being xii, 20; viii, 12; xix, 29. The num- ber four suggests the four corners a the earth (Rev. 1711, 1), or the whole earth, and reminds us that the whole earth lieth in the wicked one (L John v, 19, 11, V.), and the wicked one will never cease los hatred of Cod or of the people of God. We are wise when we stop our ears as David did and intim to hear the ode- ehievous things that evil people speak (Ps. xxxviii, 12, 13), but to stop one's ears from hearing the things of Gocl is truly the devil's work. Refusing the truth, they were believing a lie (It Thess. ii, 10, 11) and believing that Jesus of Nazareth was all impostor, they judged Ste-, pherl. to be guilty of blasphemy, and M stoning hint they thought they were obeying their law (Loy. )ociv, 16), while they themselves were, be- fore God, the blasphemers and guilty ones, but they were blinded by the god of this world (II. Cot. iv, 3, 4). 1This is our first introrruction to the iyoueg znan named Saul, unless, as some think, he is the same yotuag man wbo went away from. Jesue one day sorrowfully because he loved his possessions. 50. "Lord Jesus, receive any spir- it." Thus said Stephen as they were stoning him to death, for he knew whom he believed and saw Hint ev- en before he went ont to be seith Dim. When our Lord Himself was dying, Bo said, "Father, into Thine hands I commend My spirit." And similar words came from David by the same spirit long before (Luke scant, 46; Ps, XXXI, 5), for he also could truly say: "I trusted in Thee, 0 Lord." "My times are in Thy han(1" (Ps. xxxl, 14, 1)1). These dying words of Stephen and of the Lord Jesus give no eneouragement to the belief that between death and resurrection the spirit iS asleep and unconscious. If any aro not Tully persuaded concerning the life and bliss of the believer apart from the body, let them read and believe Luke xvi. 22; Xxiii, 43; IL Cos. v, 8; Phil, 1, 21, 28; Rev. vi, 9-11. 60. "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." Like his adorable Lord and Nester he prayeu for his murderers (Luke xxiii, 34). Our nstructions arc, "Love your en - miss; bless them that curse yam ; o good to them that hate you, anci may for them which despitefully se you and persecute you" (Matt. , 11). And while this is impose ible to the natural tuan, if any nan be in Christ he is a new &m- um, born from above, a temple of lie TIoly Spirit, a mansion in which he Father and tho Son have mine dwell (II Cor. v, 17; 1 Cor. vi, .0, 20; John :ay, 23), and Christ n us can do what Ile did when here 111 earth ill the body prepared for lim. It is our privilege to yield fully to Him and take as our motto, "Not I, but Christ" (Gal, ii, 20). viii, 1. "And Sata Win/ 0011Se11ti0g 111110 his death," Ilear hisown ac- count of What he said to the Lord Jesus long afterward. "And 1 said. Lord, they know that I imprisoned and boat in every synagogue them that believed in Thee, and when the blood of Thy martyr Stephen was shed I also was standing 1,37 :tad consenting unto his den 111 and kept the raimen13 of them that slew hint" (Acts xxii, 19, 20). Before Agrip- pa ho siticl, "I verily thought with myself that T ought to de many Wogs contrary ,to the name of jesus of Nazainth, which thing 1 also did in Jertufalem7 (Acts xx)i, (1, 10), And thea he went 011 1,0 tell how riot only in 30!'131.0 111(1, bet in other cities, 1101 CM'oeitingly Mad against the saints, he was the moans of their imprisomnent, pun- ishment, and death. Our lesson tells of the greatoee$ of the persecution in Jerusalem after the death of Stephen and how all the believers except the apoetles Scattered • 1 17 guzed upon the garniture of earth e and heaven, hot eye hath not igen i it : your ear has caught harmonies , unwonted and in desert I tabl e—calight them from harp s frill and bird s carol 01,1) Ullterfall'S dash and ocean's doxology—but ear bath not heard it. How did those bleseed ones get up into the light ? What hammer knocked off their chains ? What loom WOVO their robes of light? WHO GAVE, THEM WINGS ? Ah, eternity is not long enough to tell it, seraphim have not capacity enough to realize it—the marvels of redeeming love I Let the Palms wave ; let the crowns glit- ter ; let the anthems as- cend; let the trees of Lebanon clap their hands --they &mita tell the half of it. .Archangel before the throne, thou falest I Sing on, praise on, ye hosts of the glorified, and if with your sceptres you canna reach it and with your songs rile cannot ese press it then let all the myriads of the saved unite In the exclamation : "Jesus I Jesus I Jesus I" Ah, do you wood& that the last hours of the Christian on earth aro illinninated by thoughts of the COM.. ing glory Light in the evening. Tho ineclicinee may 'be bitter, The throoOlt 3u11og and SaInarine • The lova% commanci wag tO "go lute U tile world and preach the gespel to eseery creature," "TO be His Wit- oesses lotto the uttermost porte of the earth" (Mark :xvi, 15; Aats 1, 8)1. but up to this tinie they seen) te linve 0011111)5d their testimony to Jerusalem, and It required a 310)50" 0111,1021 to Scatter them that they 41101 oboy Hie eortlittand. Thus He maketh the wrath of man to praise Itim and restralna What He (1000 11Qt 850 013 to uee (Ps, ixxvi, 40). 2, "And devont MOO earriad Ste. phen to his, burial and made great lemente.tion gVer him." Well, they did not bury Stephen, but they buried all that wee left 0(7 11101 on the earth, the house in Which ho had sojourned. Stephen himself was "ab- sent from tile body, present with the Lord," but his body was asleep, oven as Jesus had said ol Lazaree when speaking of his death, "Our friend Lazarus sieePeth" (John xi, 11-14).. There ems no oceadon to lnment for Stephen, far to him it WaS a great gain, hut it'seemed that the thumb coati ill ogord to lose such a witness. We still think when the faithful witnesses are called home that it is stettoge when there seems to be such a great need of them here and there are seemingly $0 few, but we must remember that the work ie His 10110, 01 1111CliStUrbed majesty, is at God's right hand, LOORS LIRE MURDER. Death Rate in Montreal io Deuble What it Should Be. " There is no ond matter which ccui come before the 11015 011y Council as important the publin heafth, says the Montreal Star. The existing conditions weuld bo terrifying If fam- iliarity had not made lllallY appar- ently callous to them, Ilere we have a delightful climate, a beautifully sit- uated city, without greet extremes of either heat or cold. The pesition of the city .is such, on 0 hillside, that drainage iti simplicity itself. Why, then, is it that 'Montreal bas such a terrible dean list every yea"? Assuming the Population of Mont- real at 250,000 (though it is really more, and making a comparison with other cities of about the same popu- lation, or in aher respects fairly comparable with Montreal, we find the number a deaths per 250,000 of population to be as follows: . Deaths per annum. Montreal ... . 6,250 Buffalo,. ... , 8,547 Detroit— ... .... 3,735 jersey City.- ... .... 5,125 Louisville, Ky... „s' 4,005 Milwaukee.. . . 3,389 Minneapolis... ... ... , 9,870 Newark, N. J... ... .... . .. 5,085 Pittsburg .. . 4,730 Providence... .. ... 5 227 Rochester.. ,. .. 8,492 Toledo... ... ... .. 8,502 ' 2,877 San. Francisco...... When we find that the public health is treated as a matter of such su- preme indifference, that when an out- break of a contagious disease which is now ravaging the world arrives in Montreal we are without hospital accononodation; when we find scarlet fever and diphtheria patients being hurriedly carted into dwelling houses hired at the moment; when we know that the wane of a suitable hospital for contagious diseases has been im- pressed upon the authorities for years without effect, when we Icnow that the other cities cited here are provided with modern, well-equipped hospitals for handling contagious dis- eases, and "Montreal is without such, then it ceases to be a surprise that WO llaVe a ghastly precedeace among the cities. QUEER 515018 131 RUSSIA. A now sect, baying the most re- markable tenets, is making striking progress among the ignorant Rus- sian peasantry in the valley of the middle Volga. They call themselves Popolniki, or "dwellers under the earth." They bind themselves to care for all fugitives from justice, vagabonds, deserters from the army and other miserable beings, whom they hide away in clefts or holes in rocks. Those 1)11)00(1 their own peo- ple who siall sick are treated in the 5011.10 way, but are left withciut food or drink of any kind. Every two or three days they visit the sick. Shoat.' any be deed they cuse buried secretly, but not before. the corpses arc baptised Etna have received a 11C18 11)11110, ht &dee that the sold may appear spotless before the throne of Heaven. NO COZY CORNERS. Tom—"I begiit to believe in this fiat earth theory." Dick—"Why?" Tom --"I can't hide from my credi- tors to save my life." • TOO DISTANT. "Tt, looks as though we might ev- entually have wireless telegraphy," said Spykes. "Perhaps, but T. don't suppose we shall ever have Noiseless polities," commented 'Spokes. 834,000 veseels 'of as combined ton- nage of 06 millions of tons Order British ports in the course of a Year, end 298,000 clear. Robinson—"just send me up a dozen of oysters, Scatty, will you? Mrs, Robinson's not very well, and the doctor ordered her oysters, Mind you pick out line ones. You gee she can't swallow more Chan a, couple nt the outside, naul Im obliged, to eat the rest myself," Judge—"Do you expo& me to send your husband to gaol whets youscon- fess that you threw a lamp, coffee- pot, two fhtt-irons, and four plates at him; wilt:eerie 1300 1)137 throw a tea- cup at you?" Wittiosa--"Yes, yor worship. 'Cos, yet see, the oun he Ulm/ tit mo hit am." satisfactory. THE WBSTIEN 11411WIE8 PDREeBRED STOCH PRODUC- TION IN 18B rrogazwzn, Arinnel SPring ShoW arid Anotien $ale Will 'be Held at Gals garY May 14 and 15, - It 1$ a well-known fact that thous- ands of dollars are annually sent out of the Territories for pure-bred 110135, for use on Western. Ranchos, end that this demand could 1,i leaSt. be partly supplied from locol &surges, if a larger minibur, of eicilled breeciera would acquire purcabred horde.8 Su- perior individunls of nearly 911 re- cognized isreetle of cattle and other live atm& ago being produced in the provinee of 'ffitoltebe, hz inereasiog litlinbara, and it has been amply de- monatrated by actlial eXperience thee Many portionof tbe Territoriee Present a most favorable MOO, from every point of view, for the success- ful breediog and raising of purebred live stock. What the Territories now lack is 1110r0 1101110 and niore breeders, It hos been estimated that to pro- vide for the breeding of th? natoral increase of the cattle stoek 110117 in the Territories; no less than 2000 to 2500 bale per annum ore required. It is safe to sny that scarcely five per cent .01 otlial, rininber aro to..daY produeed in that country. There is, therefOre, 110 practical danger of glutting the beano market with pure- bred. bulls. But strange as it may appear, in spite of excellent Terri- torial outrket conditions, the inost favorable presented anywhere on this continent, brooders have not always been able to readily dispose of their bulls at remunerative Prices. This apparently paratIoxical state of af- Mfrs, is due to a variety of influenc- es. The tendency on the part of Territorial cattlemen in the past has been to rather under -rate the quality and merits of pure-bred animas raised at home, particulnrly if the breeder haPpened to be a near neigh- bor. They 'moo always been willing to pay a higher price for an inferior individual if it could be shown he was bted M Ontario, Manitoba or seine other distant locality, This prejudice exists in all places and more or less in every line of stock - raising, and the breeder is, there- fore, face to face with the necessity of seeking markets away from his own immediate neighborhood. In a sparsely sett:loci country, with limit- ed transportation facilities, this is a Particularly difficult problem, even if it did not involve extensive adver- tising, which the breeder of limited means, and with a limited number of animals for sale annually, could NOT POSSIBLY APPOI.W. What individual breeders of limited resources cannot undertake to do single-handed, an Association can of- ten accomplish successfully, hence the organization of the "Territorial Pure-bred Cattle _Breeders' Associa- tion." Through the efforts olthis association, in the direction of bring- ing puee-bred stock, raised locally, to the front, Western ranchers are, even now, beginning to express a, de- cided preference for home bred and acclimated bulls. In order to assist in this work, an "Annual Spring Show, and Auction Sale" WaS 1051 year inaugurated at Calgary. The object of these 1 1111011t - 'Lions is two -fold, (1) To clevolop home breeding of perebred cattle, and to afford a remunerative cash mar- ket for such stock. (9) To facilitate the exchange of pure-bred 'sires. It. Is found that farmers and ranchers on a small scale often experience dif- iletilSy in disposing of a bull which has been in vise m a neighborhood for some years. The sale furnishes a. convenient medium for selling clis- carded sires, and buying others. It may be taken for grantell that the Annual Sale system has "come to stay" in Western Canaclo. Last year's sale proved beyond a doubt that this is the most prontrtble, 0012- vonient and satisfactory method of buying, scaling and exchanging pure- bred stock. Everyone of the breed- ers who entered stock foe Sale 111 1901 is enthusiastically in favor of these sales as a permanent institu- tion, ancl there has not been a single objection or complaint recorded by any of the purchasers. Last year's sale was an untried and entirely new 'venture, and was organized in very hurried manner, and consequent- ly WitS insuilleiently advertised. It is expected that the forthcoming auc- tion sale and. cattle show to be held at Calgary on the 1.4th and 1511) of May, will be a vast improvement on the last, and that each succeeding year's sale and show will witness a marked usivance in popularity and efficiency of management over the previous win. The homes of the followieg gentle- men are a guarantee es to the sue- eess of the venture:— Chairman, Jno, A. Turner, Calgiuy, Alta.; Salo faup't, Peter Talbot, Lacombe., AlLas Director, D. 11. Andrews, Crone Lake Asa.; Sec-Treas. & Man. Director, C. W. Peterson, Deputy Conon't •of Agriculture, Regina, N.W.T. Lt is evident that the Western licese 'breeclers are no whit beitiod the cattlemen in energy and business ability. 111 September, 11100, a, Dum- b& of representative breeders of hors& formed the "Territorial Horse Breeders' Associntion." The most important objects of this Aesocia- tion are to further the interesta ol breeders in every honorable and le- gitimate way, to develop the HORSE RAISING INDUSTRY, Mal new and profitable markets, and to improve the various breeds of hesses raised hi the Teeritories. The Association has already inter» ested itself considerably in finding 11018 markets for its, members, nota- bly in connection with the South Af- rican demand fot military remounts,' and now de,eites to move vigorously in the direction of the improvement of the voricres breeds of' horses re- presented in the West. As, a. first stop it Juts limn decided to hold an 'Annual Spring Stallion Show ope# to the Territories, MI the Aseocia- tion 111 0111410t1S to be thoroughly "Territorial" in. its char- aoter ancl scope, an attempt is to he IMade to place all etallien eavnere in. the ',Territories on an equal feistillO, by offeriog free traneportatien te enuntrierefir,Trov°IdtgarrYarlr°e.,1;tirellInesitIllicoans be glade to g'ather oarloesie, or even half carloads along' the litle of rale WAY en relsto to Calgary, An hue Pertant feature ef tide show will be the facilities offered loss the purehatio, sale and exclutlige of atelliene, pars ties mooing stud horses that have stood for service in acY partioulai, distrieli 0( 134132 Territories for a num, ber of years), will thus be able to ei- feet; exeliongue in a convenient, sat- isfactory and inexpensiVe manner. Any transportation areartgementS made will admit of this being' done if possible, with the payment Of 110 extra, charges for the -return trip, At a meeting 05 tho Executive DCTeueldmeletst'" AosfsoticratiPoen"ithelalatIlOmas1G- gary on Nov. 18th, 1901, the follow- ing' resolution was carried:— "'flint this Assooiation, having MI ' its prMeipal object the improvement of horses In the 'Tereitoriee, fools deeply indebted to the Hon, Moister of Agricidture, and the Dominloo Government for generous Ontmcial as sistance accorded the d'erritorial Live Stock A.Ssoeintions, and pagticolooly desires to express its obligation to 150'. 1P. W, Hodson, Dominion Live Stook Conon/galena', for his value, - tile services. and untiring erforts in the interests of Territorial breeders." (Sgcl,) 0. W. Peterson, Sec. The , Calgary Council of Met year agreed to grant the freo use of Vic- tories Park and the public bediclings therein, for the approaching show and sales, and also decided to teem - mend that, in view dt the import - :moo of said show and sales to Cal- gary, as well as to the Territories at large, it would be wise for this year's council to assist theth with a reasonable grant. A.TAMINTT ,,YOLDSi Seine Ninte 'IOW Yon Hay, Treat Them, O Tide ie A Plibjeet of perennial in. tOreflt AO 0/10 117101113 317114011 1)111011 has beert writtee, but with restate dise prOportionAtely small, considering the eensuMption of ink, The truth is that a cold is due to nn almost; inflate variety of causes ; 801130 10- 0(1.1, some genera 1 seine inadily avoidable, (scene practically 1110111- etaeholtve Oltt111041 / 414 01 se 001410lsn.011100 }Via Pi'PVQ rf Very few one the fortunote indi- vidualti wile never have wide, and most of those living in our uortimen eliznao must be reeigned to having one Or two in the course of the win- ter ; but one who talcos eold readily and often is not In a bealthy cone dition, and !Magid seek medical ad- vice. The cause in such a 0080 Mal be local, consisting in same mallet, - motion in the interior of the nose which keeps the mucous membrane its an irritable state. This fault in anatomical construction mut usually be rolinglied by an operotion whieh is seldom severe. But before resort- - Ing to this the general system shouici be questiened in order to determine whether or not the Sault lies with that, Often We ie the case, even when a nasal deformity also exists. One of the chief predisposing causes of a cold is a disordered cli- geation, especially intestinal diges- tion, as a result of 01700013134og or the use of aloohol. It has been said that. an underfed man cannot catch cold, Nvhilo an overfed one can scarcely avoid it. Whether 131)03 15 strictly, true or not, there is certainly some close relation between the digestive organs and" the nose ; and inaction of the bowels is a frequent forerun- ner of a, cold. The adage that ono "must stuff a cold and starve a fever" is pernic- iCillS—a cold is a fever, and 0110 Of the surest moans of cutting it short is to take a laxotive, abstain almost entirely from -food for twenty-four hours, and drink two or three quarts of cool water. Another "popultu• remedy," which Is really on aggravator, is a "hot toddy" at bedtime. A hot drink, hot lemonade, for excunple, is good, and the subsequent sweat is good, if the sleeper does not throw MT the bedclothes the minute lie drops off ; but the alcoholic addition is oot merely superfluous but injurious. Al- cohol in ally form predisposes to a, e•oTidytulpcilasreeittinirds the cure of ono al- tCool bathing, deep breathing, daily exercise in the open air, fresh air in the house at all times and especially in the bedroom at night, abstemious living, and not letting waste ma- terials accumulate in the body— these are the best means of remove 1 ing one's "tendency to catch 01l(1." -- Youth's Companion. LABOR 15' SOUTH AFRICA. The British Propose to Solve the Great Problem. A 13lue Book just issued in London gives details of the plans of Lord Milner, the British High Cannils- sioncir in South Africa, for 'dealing with the troublesome question of native labor, The blacks of South Africa outnuraiser the whites seven to one, and. are practically the sole dependence for Mbar in the 11111108 anci fqr all kinds of rough outdoor work. Coe great trouble is that, most of them do not care to work after they have earned money en- ough to buy a wife or two to till their garden patch and support, them at home. Another difficulty is that their efficiency is half destroyed if they get hold of liquor. Lord Milner says that it will be a tremendous undertaking to solve the native la- bor Problem, but by hook oe crook the difficulties in the way must be °vett:nine, for "the whole credit of the adininistration is at, stake." He proposes rigidly to control the 'Igoe'r traffic among the blacks., The great trouble at Johannesburg be- fore the wEtr was that the Boer Gov- ernment insisted on giving licenses to sell liquor to anyone who WOUld pay the high price they demanded. The number of Kalb's employed at tbe Johannesburg 11111305 WAS Elbe/at 100,000, and before the ivar 440 3111(10 owners had 110 011d ollizrouble 111. keeping their large gangs of WOrk- 111011 501101', the facilities for getting drunk in that region being unsure Pal -9318:1 lab—or is absolutely neces- sary at those mines, for white meo cannot take the place of the Kaftirs. The blacks are willing to work for fifty cents a clay and boEtrd; 1vhi1e men would, of course, charge several lames as much, cold owing to the low grade of the ore, which is .not worth over 810 a ton, the mines could not be worked at a profit were white labor employed. Lord Milner does not say how be proposes to keep liquor from the black miners; but perhaps the labor will be hedged around as it has been for years at, the Kimberley- diamond minas by a high fence. After a negro hes signed a con -tenet. to work in the diamond mines he iii kept in the, ..s.--. BULLS OP JOHN BULL. 'Ireland Does N—ot Hold a Monop- oly of Them. . In the making of bulls Ireland has without doubt attained preeminence, but she has by no means established a monopoly. Indeed, John Bull is not often able to poke fun at her up- on that score without being prompt- ly reminded of 111S O11'11 Selli0V01110/11S in the same line. A recent newspa- per coaroversy has called forth some i hino 000019105 0)1110. 1, 13 ' •' I I! bull, of which two were contributed by members of parliament. altholigh not within the walls of the House. ' eTlulerse peoefthourreca diigneluti lTpva.ever, ilettilel: o which admitted the speakers to its precincts. "Expenditure on so vast a scale," proclahned, one of them who was urge hog national economy, "will in time empty evert the inexhaustible coffers; of Britain, and convince her reckless legislators too late, when the mare is stolen, that they must close that 1 barn door through which for years the flood of extravagance has been • poured tiochocked." 'Pho second speaker clid °yea better, although it is fair to allow some- thing for a man who, hooted dow11 by a derisive oppcisition, is natural- compotind all the time that he is not at work in the mines. He is Bleached under guard from the com- pound to the mines and back again. The British are very anxioes to open the gold lanes again and re -1 mune the industry that before tho war wns producing the larger part I of the wealth of South Africa. :RI probably take a long lime to collect the 10�,C107( Thaffire who will be needed to dig out the 7,000,000 tons of ore required Et year 15 the output is to be worth Els much as it was before the 11/111'. TREATMENT 1:/vI1' DRUNNAllDS. Drunkards in Germany will for the future be sternly looked aft& by the ,State. Each town went keep a. re- cord of all the bard drinkers, and the city medical men are booncl to report those who habitually imbibe to excess, so that the authoHties misy weed out the black sheep and subject them to a strict course rlf Is, CORONATtos.T. treacitousenit,.(;1p rrn It is estimated Oa, the expenses or the (101011017 1011 will reach Ole 8/3/11 of Z4,000,000. Over 119130,000 will Le spent on gold lace, , miniver, court swords, silk stockings, artilleial cal - yes, coronation coaches, and red seal- ing wax. The cost of windows, eor- °nation parties, and entoviainment by Government of Princes, chiefs, and envoys of all shades of black, brown, white, rod, ancl yellow wi31 approximate 11850,000, while ban - (Mete all over the country will con- sume no lees than 11709,000. COUNTY COUNCILS ACT, Dr, Darr (Dufforin) introducodo,bill to emend the County Councns A It provides that tho County Council shall bo composed of tile reeves of the townehips end villagee and the Mayors of towits in the cottnly. Eve cry tewnship or village. having mean than 800 etcetera is entitled to elect O deputy meg°, Who shall bo a mom - bee of the County Council, Each mimicipality ellen bo entitled to Ono representalve fer attery 800 17013000, ly too excited and indignant to care - fully consider his words, "Gentlemen, gentlemen!" ha pro- tested. "'Oho cry of the eat, the crow of the cock, and the hiss of the gamier are uot argument. True, they may tor a time overwhelm the feeble voice of ono man in their roar- ing tide; but not all their leaguerod forces, howsoever armed end (strayed itir combat, shall avail finally to ex- tinguish that beacon torch of Exper- ience, still gripped fast and hold high in his urdaltering Muni to guide sure- ly through the breakers the strain- ing eyes of Posterity!" THE KING'S CUP OP 'TEA. The King of England can be cut- ting as well as courteous. For ex- ample here is an incident which oc- curred before the King came to the throne, At a, huge bazaar the prince, being tired, had enteved the refreshment roan. Ire asked a well known so- ciety beauty, 18I10 was performing the role of Waitress, for a cup of tea. This WaS 80011 1)0011(1111. to him, and smiling, lie netted her how much he owed her for it. ',The price of the cup of tea, your royal highness, is half a crown or- dinarily, but (taking a sip from the tectoup) • ivhen I drink Mom it the price Is ono guinea." ot see," replied the prince, quietly, placing a guinea on the table. Then putting a half-crown beside it, he sad 2 "The guinea liquidates my first debt, aral now might I trouble you to bring me mis ordinary cup of teas as I esn thirsty 7'. The• society beauty ,wae so over - 001110 With mortification that sho could not bri»g ti,o .seeond cup of tett,' but got a friend to 1111 tho or- der foe her. Alphonso—"Gsvendolyn, :why Etre you so cruel as to keep nie waiting for an a»swer? It ie noW ten m 1 11-, utes since 7 asked yon 16 ba my Gwoodolyn—"Oh, pardon Inc, I forgot, .I was Simply choos- ing my bridesmaids."