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SUNDAY READING".
Golden Thonghta Per Every Day,
hloud(iy--
'Pen•h ane, O Lord, 'I'hv holy way.
A1111 1.010'1' 010 wa 010411011 1111111,
Thal 111 Thy ,011 0.0 1 pure find
:',0311'0,1011001 front tiny to day.
Cful'0 nu`, 1) Saviour, with 'Thy !rind,
.113311 ...ont en! Illy 11, 30)hls nod 4100119,
'1.1(131 1 may I rend 101. pot h O'hu•Ip lauds
ltlght onward to the 0.8.,1'11 land.
ibdpme, (1.Savio11',here In fw,v
'I'h0;nrrod f„ol,Iep' 'Thou hest trod,
AIM meel(10 %velllm: wit 11 °n' 1
'1'o grew hl goodnes9, truth end grace.
Guard 100, 1) Lord, that 1 may neer
remake the right. true the (110ng:
A ahnl,t Icmpintian 01/1.911 1110 strong,
Anil room' leu sprs111'1'hy 9helt'ring en('((,
^:1 I(O(trJilOnnt
Tuesday—
!smallest, trace of the faintest purpose to
!follow what the abutter raid. At the best,
he lard an intellcetual interest in L'hrisliau-
ity, nothing more.
!here wits n (10(11111(1' in Now York, who
Igot
tutho
new pap'rsthlyday,t,itshohs, had for yeitenlela('n(1rtha
ser V1 OD every Sunday. 110 never knelt down,
be said, nor annwerwl ' 1 Amon ” to any of
1he mrny01'8, lie lead never joined the
uhureh, nor 11111 he neer made nu dilro'oneu
in hi, evil Iivin'•, Ile Said 1401 Ino w0111 1.0
Oat 011111.00 be,vt.'se he liked the prelehet
he eoushlered Wel the 1111001 pi•eaehof in the
city of Now York 1 There IWO people not
0, had as that in all the ohms:hes, They
Show an interest in religion by their eon.
stal(1 pr09Cpee, 09 this lawyer showed his
iot00001 by his presence and hie questi00,
ie e like n(
And they l(1. n, 1 k the lawyer, to 011 rho
praying and the preaching. Ara thou they
go away, a hundred Linea a year, and one
year after 0untlea', and never make as uhange
In their living, Hover get any closer than
But according to the deetrineof tcchurch they were at the beginning to ChrLatal
human life, the supremo good that. 0.8 pos. dinctpleship. A t least, so for 110 wo ern see.
8008, is but a very small portion of another
life of which (('0 aro deprived for a season.
Our life i0 not the life that (led inteurled to
give ns 00 ouch as 10 0111' clue. Our life is
degenerate and fallen, it more fragment,
mockery, compared 1t nth the reallifo to
whioh wo think ourselves entitled. The
principal object of lifo is not to try to live
this mortal lite conformably to the will of
the Giver of life ; 01 to render it eternal in
the generatiou8, as the Hebrews believed;
m• to identify otlr0eh•e0 with the will of God,
0s Jesus taught ; no, it is to believe that
after this unreal life the true life will begin,
--Anongn(ons,
Wednesday—
:Mere things aro wrought by prayer
Than Oils world dreamt of, 11 herefore, let
tiny VOICe
Mise like a fountain for ane night end day-,
For what are mint better than sheep 00 goals,
'111111. 110110•1911 a blind lib within the brain,
If, 000willg1:10(1 they lift 1101. hands or prayer,
Both for 111001901908 and those Lytle call thein
friend 1
For so, the w110:0 round earth is every Iva'
Bound by gots chains about 4110 feet. or Clo(1.
—Lova Tennyson,
Thursday—The style of Bunyan is de.
lightfel to every reader and Invaluable as
n study to every person who wishes to ob.
tain a wide command over the English
language. The vocabulary is the o0cabul.
ary of t(0 common people. There is not
an expression, if we except it few technical
terms of theology, whioh would puzzle rho
rudest peasant. Wo have observed several
pages which do not contain a single wind
of more than 1140 syllables, Yet no writer
has said mow exactly, what he wanted to
say. For hmgnificence, for pathos , for
v3110010111 exhortation, for subtle di0qui0i•
tion, for every purpose of the poet, the
orator, and the divine, this homely dialect,
tho dialect of the workingmen, was per-
fectly sufficient. There is 00 book in our
literature on w111011 we Ivo111d so readily
stake the fame of the old nmpoh11ted Eng-
lish language, no book which shows so well
how rich that lang'Inge is in its own proper
wealth, and how little it has been improv
ed by all that it has boiro0'od.—Lo•di
Macaulay.
Friday—
'flits thing on which the hone) O119 set, this
thing that eon ooh be,
T1110 Wray. 11 l'.111Iloio1 111(1 day that dawns,
my friend, for thee --
Bo comforted; God 1noweth best, the God.
001)0.0 nano is Love,
Whose tender care is evermore our passing
lives above,
He sends the disoppoinlinonts1 0%oil, tako
Ws from 1113 tmutl
Shell God's appointments 00001 less good than
what thyself had planned ?
roarer Sangster.
Saturdaly—It seems but yesterday when
my face 1008 as young and fresh as y0u08.
It seems but as yesterday when I began any
race. I am near the end of it; and I bear
witness that with a heart es open, anti on as
many sides, to pIoaslr0 and joy as any nnan'3
can be hero, and having been on the whole
under favorable circumstances in life, and
tasted of almost all the lawful things that
aro portnitted to mankind in a respeotablo
ambition, I testify that there is nothing in
all the earth that is not rendered more sweet
and bright by having that communion with
God that lifts anil refines and strengthens
the soul itself. ---Henry ll'artl Beecher,
The First of the Lawa,
1(0 0111)11(11( 1100009.
We aro all clients of the lawyer who Dame
to Christ with that deep question : " Which
is rho groat commandment in the law?" He
represents ns when he asks that. We all
wont to know that.
It is (rue that the lawyer asked the ques-
tion, according to his legal habit not for his
own information, but, as wo would say, for
tae information of the jury. The jury was
the crowd of citizens and countrymen who
were gathered about the 111(813)' in the
temple. Some were on His side, some were
against Eine. There was a great disoussion
going on about Him, The Sodueeea had
had their turn at gnostioning Him, thinking
to bring discredit upon His teachings, and
His wisdom had put them to 0110031'. And
now came tho Pharisees with the lawyer at
their head, " tempting " Him, the record
tolls us, that is, putting Hinn to test, setting
Him of trial, trying to catch Him in His
answers. There 0'0.0 no religion in the gees •
tion of the lawyer. Hero wa0 no eager dis-
ciple running to the blaster, demanding
(('1101 he 0hould do to 10110011 01011101 life,
There was no thought of discipleship in the
lawyor'0 heart.
There is always this possibility of wide
distance between theologyanlreligion, The
discussion of doctrine, the determination of
duty, may bo no more religions than rho
tr0nsaotions of the Stock Exchange, The
distinction between the sacred and Lilo seen•
m' does not depend on the subjects that mon
talk about, or of the profession and positionof
tiro debaters. An election is not made snored
by the foot that the people aro voting fur m
bishop, nor is it mode se00larby the fact that
the people are voting for a member of par-
liament, Agood mealy political speeches have
boon molly more religious than elan ysermnons,
We must not think that people aro religious
—Dither ourselves or others—because they
tall( a great deal about, religion. They may
be just 0s lnilcl1 opposed to that whioh hs
best in religion as this questioning lawyor.
Tho difforduco between the snored and the
secular la altogether a difference in spirit.
That is what God looks at and cores tor. We
read that one cloy at the Feast of Pont000st
the Holy Spirit passed by the splendid
temple altogotho' and overlooked tho High
Priest hi his gorgeous vestments, anal 31(000
father to visna common house soreeW4100r0
111 the oily, just an ordinary house, with a
Hat roof anal a courtyard, and a pots of stairs
on the outside like 0(thon0and °there, and.
to grant His epeeial benediction to 0 omit -
pony of common people, there assembled in
theis smelting clothes. Itie the heart that
(1101100 mol worthy or unworthy in the
sight of God, and not the pious lips.
This is it significant figure, this lawyer
standing in Christ's presence, looping
straight into Ris face, questioning :Rim,
listening with respoolful attention to His
answer and having within hint not ono
Nobody knows what God sues,
And yet thereat% tinges in every life when
tato lawyers question is asked in eerno01,
not as the lawyer asked it. The " groat
onmmnndnlent,' what is it but the Divine
ideal of that which is the first and chief
08901101141 in human character? 1Vhot we
learn it we know what God cares the most
for in the temper and disposition of His
children. We discover what one heavenly
Father most of nil desires to see in us, And
wo all want to discover that, That is the
discovery of dis:ovories. For wo aro all of
us honestly discontented. The better we
are the loss a0 we satisfied with nureelve8.
Not ono of us but has solve sort of vision of
a higher life, and is aware of the distance
between that vision and the every day
reality. We lu(ow what kind of Wren and
women we would like to be.
13nt our ideal changes. Sometimes it is
but a low achievement that Ivo find our.
solves striving of tor. IVo think that money
may perhaps content 113 ; we will be antis'
Pied if we 0011 but gain some sort of worldly
prize. It is evident enough that some peo-
ple scent to have no higher ambition than
this. They bend all things this way. They
appear to be willing any day to trade a
heavenly man0io11 for good storehouse on
0 salable corner. On the other hand, In
proportion as !011 and women keep the will
of God, so their ideal of right living is Inor0
and more uplifted. Character is seen to be
the richest of all treasures.
Now what we watt, with our ideals going
up and down like the mercury in 1a thee.
mmnleter according as our zeal 'ia 1101 Or
cold, 18 to know what the standard is. We
want something to measure by. And we do
not need anybody to teach us that the one
accurate judge of human life is He who set
human life ageing in this world. That
alone is best which is accounted best by
God. And so we tomo in good earnest to
the lawyer's question.
When we are honest with ourselves, when
we stand tip and look out into the intermin-
able sky, when wo contemplate the curtain
and of this life and the Inevitable beginning
of another and realize that 111 spite of all the
noise and jostle of the busy day we aro still
alone with (Ind, and must give account of
ourselves to God—than we ask in all sober-
ness what God thinks about this human life
of ours, '10 hat is the Diving standard of
map's behavior ? What is of value and
worth while in the sight of God ? 1,171101
is the great commandment in the law of
God ?
And who can teach us that? Surely tate
great spiritual Master. No man ever spoke
nor will speak like this man. Christ knows
more than we do about God. Who will
deny that? Christ knows more thou all the
preachers and all the philosophers, and
all the magazines and the hooka about the
mind and the will of God. Christ the(nani-
festetion, the speaking revelation, the actual
incarnation of God. Even on the lowest
ground, the holiest man is always the wisest
in spiritual things. Any man ought to know
most about that which he studies most. And
knowledge of spiritual things, above all
other knowledge, etopeudsupon sympathy of
spirit. Tho pure in (heart shall see God ;
that is one of the essential axioms. To whom
shall we go ; who olse has the words of
eternal life save, the spiritual Master, the
one ideal, pure, perfect saint and hero of all
time?
I emphasize that because the answer which
Christ gave to the lawyer's question
is not the commonly accepted answer.
" Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy, heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind," That, He said, is tho first
and areae commandment, But• we are in.
clined to doubt that. Ask any dozen mon
their• real opinion and wo will find that ten
of then will hold that the best tl•at man
Dan do is to do right, to live honestly, to
help his neighbor, and to do his daily duty,
Tho best of life in tho judgment of a large
roportion of tho readers of this 000010n, is
morality rather than religion. Is it bettor
that w0 should love our neighbors the( that
we should love the Lord God Almighty?
One of the best men I know said to me
the other day in a letter : " You know that
I belong to a f0011ly that is more noted for
their honesty than for their religion, and
personally, while not 310101in(1 much of the
former, I frankly admit to you hating little
or none of rho latter,"
And, evidently, the difference here in-
tended between honesty, and religion is that
honesty looks toward our fellow men, while
religion looks first of all to God, Now, the
most important fact anywhere in the whole
circumference of truth is the foot of the ex-
istence of God. The most important boing
—incalculably the most important -111 the
whole universe, in the range of life is God,
God mode us 1 God set us in 0117' places in
the greet brotherhood of men ; God gave us
all that we hove. Of heart, of soul, of mind,
of strength, God twenties in being ; to God
th0 go at the last. No man macre himself.
And no man has lived long in this world
without becoming aware that ho is sot in
the midst of vast) mysterious, uncontrollable
forces. Nature Is but the garment of God,
All motion is but the movement of God.
Boa of every fact in nature, in history and
in human experience, we oomo to God. And
after death is God. The first stop in the
argument is the human soul ; and that
means rho divine soul, God ; and God antler
ho immune, Over all and in all is God.
Chri01 Bald the most important thongh0
that anybody can think is a thought about
God ;and that the supreme hue on duty is our
duty toward God. Whoever leaves God out
of his reckoning goes adrift inevitably. It
is more important immon0urahly to rover,
once, to fear and to love God duan it ie to
toll the truth, to 008(10011 al honest hush,
nese, to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, or to hoop Duo's self un8pot.
toil from the world. No amount of obedience
poid to tho last six ooinnlandments eon make
up for any mat's negla01 of the first four,
No amount of devotion to the socond of tiro
two Commandments of the Gospel can take
the place of disregard of the first. No than
18 living a right life, no matter how upright
or holy honorable, who lays the emphasis
of Ilia endeavors upon honesty and is 00n.
(01110d to 1e1, religion go, .You may think of
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your neighbors all day long and spuud your
whole ohne In the effort, to he a helper, a
uplifter, a bringo' of good into the (her
places of 0 bad world 1 you (nay lie the bee
of bulufantm's, 111,1 must 11110101•81)1/1 00.1 0
r ! confine° to be numerous in Paris, .liter M.
IS
l 091(10,1 t11101010 cases 3.11 1110 1101,0 0 ('(11(119
fl A Paris Onrtsicipmele1t nays:- \1 v•1 elite;
0111011/0 the most devoted of all 111011 111 yu❑
1o'ulory'ourfaulily, perfectlysiraightorwar
immaculately 11on,rnbl0, the said of virtue
the mitre' of all hlumtn r. 0. :bat i1,
leave (sod nun, do not 11(11111 of Oral, do no
pray to 111in nor worship Him, do not Inv
and, you have, after all, loft out aha
element of human life that gives it value
Yon0 life is like a chick without an lion
hand ; all that busy ticking, swinging doe
not count,
MYSTERIOUS DEATUS.
i I'1'ilavh who WW1 110110 10 death lust week,
i and lir. Bergeron, 101(0 succumbed topoi000
(1) 'l'llnl'e,l(0y ('(‚00(11(1 or Pride), morning, the
death of 31. Acetifies a dislingnlilted lawyer
o
tamt high Government olricinl, 10 now 0(1
pounced, According to some, M. Atpolies,
' ; despite itis (14 year's, 0'08 madly in love with
a young 11u1y to whom ho acted AS guardian.
Deputed and dl0cons0lnte because his word
0400 about to marry, 11, A00olla3 took a
0I strong dose of poison, and died Orn Friday
night at his suburban residence 111 Asnieres,
e
!night
stuff Swallowed by the deceased is sup.
posed to have been cantharides.
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That is a hard 0ayhh(1, But you kunw 111
emphasis that in laid intim Bible upon faith
Again and again in various wage wo as
earnestly assured and wan
reel that within'
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faith it is intpnssil/le to ploa0e God. Aud
faith—svha1 is faith ? Not an acceptance
of the statements of the theologians. No t
faith finds a good definition in the " gr00t
0nnnland111e1(t.'' That is what it is ; to do
that—to love God with all the heart, and
soul, and mind. Faith, whatever meaning
we attach to it 1s pre-emiucntly concerned
with (1otd. That is perfectly evident. No-
body will say that faith Ilnd morality are the
same thing. faith is the heart of religion,
It is, of coarse, as plain as clay, that the
fruit of faith is all manner of goorl living.
Nobody can possibly believe in good and
love God without desiring in everything to
please (loci. And God has left its in no doubt
that there is no way in which we can please
Him better than by keeping Rio command
(11Ont0, by doing His will. And the supreme
commandment which follows that which
sots out' love toward God, prompts 110 to love
our neighbors as ourselves- It is Indeed
impossible, in the nature of things, to love
God without loving our neighbor, to have
faith without works. Tho very 0igu end
(proof of Divine love is human love. No mai
19 a godly man unless he is a good man, So
strong is the bored, indeed, between faith
and works, between goodness and godliness,
that we hope that the first is a proof of the
planting of the right seed, that the good life
indicates a good heart, and that the man
who really loves his brother loves his heaven-
ly Father also,
But the difference between the second of
the commandments of the Gospel and the
first liesjustin this: That God looks at
the heart rather than the hands, accounts
the motive as the part of the treed that de-
termines its value, and cares supremely for
man's love. The distinction between two
good deeds, which seta one immeasurably
above the other in the estimation of God, is
that one good deed is done for the pleasure
of the doer what) the other good deed is
done for the pleasure of Clod. One man did
this good deed never thinking about God at
all, leaving God altogether out, as if there
were no God. The other tli(1 his good deed
desiring to please (rod, because it was tho
will of (nod, ont of love for God.
That is not hard to understand. Every
father and mother knows the difference be-
tween 011 obedience which is meant to please
them, and an obedience which disregards
them altogether. The parent desires the
love of the child, wants the heart of the
child, 1nea0urea the value OF obedience by
the lovo that lies behind it. And so dons
God.
That is why the love of God is the subject
of the great commandment, Because God,
as Jesus Christ revelled Rim to us, a re-
lation of whioh that between aparent and a
child is but a faint symbol ; God loves us
every one unspeakably, Aud God wants us
to love Him. Nowonder that without faith
it is impossible to please Him. God is for-
ever looking for our love. God foreverfimis
a lack in every deed which shows no love.
Out of all that we can give Him, this He
sets highest, that we love Him.
Do not think that God has no love for the
unloving, that Heturns in the least away
from any man who looks out and not up,
and loves his neighbors more than he loves
his Father. Do not think that God does
not take account of every good thing that
Ho eau possibly find in the remotest corner
of the most forgetful heart. God knows the
whole soul of every mai that breathes. God
alone can toll—better even than the man
himself wan—how much real love for Him is
hidden away in the deeds of a man's life.
But do not think that God will ever care
more for a man's money than He does for
his motive, diet Ile will ever loop at the
outside and not at the inside, that He will
ever exalt a mal'9 love for His little circle
of temporary neighbors above the love which
Ho Himself asks of the heart, and soul, and
mind of every man, that 1-11e will ever re-
verse the order of the two great command.
meets, and set morality in the place of re.
ligion,
Wonder of wonders, that God should so
love us 1 What is there in the world 010re
wonderful—except the faintness of our love
to Him
A Novel Owe,
St. Ceoilia's ancient soothing system of
healing the sick by music has had a success
as marked as unexpected. The encomia of
the late experiments has been indorsed by
even The British Medical Journal, whioh
says : " So far, the virtue has been tested
ohio(ly in cases of in0omnia ; and dt moot,
WO think, be admitted with decidedly sat-
isfactory effect. That a whole ward full of
patients 0hon1(1 hove been soothed to sluni-
bar by 0 lullaby, that even the medical man
who watched the proceedings should have
felt it hard to keep awoke, are striking
testimonies to the soporific power of tine
performance. The results would doubtless
have been bettor butt for the disturbing in.
1111011000 of ono or two ooridents, and wo
oongratnlato Canon Harford and his devot-
ed band of fellow -workmen on the success
they have achieved, hoping that they will be
encouraged to push their mnsioolhe'apeltio.
al conquests still father. The medical pro-
fession would hail with satisfaction any-
thing that promisod to deliver the victims
of insomnia from the 8ltnger0 and degrad-
ing thraldom of morphia, chloral and the
whole catalogue of drowsy syrups."
A Mean Man,
r 1 noticed," said a hoary headed sage,
addressing a youth who was arrayed as
Solomon 110001• 1000, in a tennis jaoket 0,11(1 a
pair of tuned up bottoms 'with pantaloons
attached to them, " that the waiter swept
the tip yon laid down for hhn into rho crumb
pan."
r Yes," replied the gilded, but mot too
heavily gilded youth, with a regretful sigh,
" I "saw 111111, and twill never a and waste a
tip on one of that ungrateful class,"
" What did you give him ?" asked the
hoary heeded sago,
" A 1100,1 10iclt0).''
" I thought I observed a largo holo in
it,"
" There was 011011 a 11010,"
" now came you, so gulok to see such
things usually, to lot anybody pass a nnht-
latod coin on you 1"
'* 1 didn't," replied the gilded youth, "no
mat can swindle me. 1 pouched 11101 nolo
iu rho niokel myself, I always punch tato
eohl I lay aside for a tip."
Tho Birds aro Going,
A few evenings ago 1 took the stoatner,
with a party of naturalists, to Bedloo's
island, as the electric lights at the top of the
statue are known to attract multitudes of
birds every spring and fall. There had been
cold went ler for it few days before and
millions of birds were hastening south. We
obtained a permit 01111 went 00 the topmoet
gallery of the statue and wailed, says Harp.
oro Weekly. '1`ho night had not far advanced
when all the heavens seemed to bewmo full
of wings, whioh produced n tempest of
whirring sound.
Then came the calla of the leaders, and
they rang out en olearly that they could be
heard for half a 0111e through the storm.
The responses were (winter than the signal.
in Dries, but they were quite definite, The
obJoct of the oallo, of course, 04as to keep
the flocks together, for, as could be seen
through strong glasses, birds of a hundred
species were driving along the breast of the
storm.
All that came near the statue ]hovered
around the tight in large circles, but some
of them struck ngainat the bronze or stone.
There were sandpipers of every kind, "pints
ing, peeling," as they went; 'olden whine
and other woodpeckers, with tllir loud and
rather hoarse cries; warblers of every kind—
and their signaling ran through awi(le gamut
of sound—thrushes, robins, meadow larks,
netllatchsrs, and congregations of bobolinks
that filled the air with hurricanes of lovely
music asthey swept by.
Sometimes a huge blank cloud passed
along, and the glasses showed that they
were blackbirds, but they did not chatter
as they do on the odgo of the forest. The
leadot'e made all the noise and preserved
order. I know not holo, many flocks
wont by of teal, wood duck, black cluck,
mergansers, curlew, snipe, plover, pewees,
phoebe birds and what not, but none could
mistake the kingfishers as they went, with
their scolding laughter, through the dark.
Wo caught a more or so of the births in
nets and in our hats, and kept then till the
morning, after whioh we released them.
And all through the night bats chased and
feasted upon the silly moths that gathered
aroundethe spikes of olectrio Home.
A largo number el birds lay dead upon
the grass in the .morning, having struck
the statue. Ono morning shortly after the
statue was put tip, over it thousands birds
were picked up ; but latterly they seem to
be aware of the danger, and not nearly so
mashy are killed against this tall obstruc-
tion.
What Salisbury Thinks,
Lord Salisbury,itis said, has decided that
the leadership of the house of connlnons shall
devolve upon Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,who
is BOW president of the boa'd of trade. Sir
Michael is a happy medium between \Ir.
Balfour and Mr. Goschen, and will do very
well until after the general election. Lir.
Goschen is too much of the university pro-
fessor to be a popular leader, while it has ap-
parently been agreed that bar. Balfour
ought not at the present crista to leave
the Irish office. Sir 511011ael Hlaks-Boach
tmiteo in himself the genial qualities of the
lite leader, and considerable of his aptitude
for business. Ho does not obtrude himself
very much on the house, but when he speaks
his statements are lucid and convincing.
Whether he will be able to stand the strain
is doubtful, as not very long ago he was
reported in bad health. The leadership of
the Irish party is causing much discussion.
ahem sloes 1100 088)11 to be one of the present
parliamentary representatives who will be
successful as a leader, owing t0 jealousies
anti heartbnrnings over the fate of her. Par-
nell. 13ut there is one man at whole both
factions would probably unite, and while
not a brilliant ratan he is one who would
inapire confidence. Thls is R'illiam Shaty,
a Protestant, on whose shoulders the mantle
of Isaac Butt, the father of hone rule, de-
scended. Mr. Show is now living in retire.
ment, in the enjoyment of good 1(ea1111 and
aleple fortune. He gave way to bar. Parnell
and has done much for his country. It is
believed that Mr. Show would be willing to
step into the breaoh and save his unhappy
country from the continuance of the 1111a0en1-
ly quarrel now existing.
Abolition of the Grand Jury,
Sir John Thompson, the Dominion Minis-
ter of Justine, solve time ago addressed a cir-
oular letter to all the judges in Canada
and the attorney generals of 000h province
relative to the expediency of abolishing the
futotlons of rho grand jury. Forty-eight
replies favored abolition, 41 were against,
and 13 had no opinion to give. Judge
Hughes of St. P11001as, who has been
County Judge of Elgin for 37 years, voio08
the abolitionists' 0111080 briolly, He eve 1,
"ln speaking with men of long experience,
as well 110 those belonging to the legal ppro•
Cession and other men in positions allrordhng
opportunities for observation and ref -103110n,
I have, with very few ex0eptious, found an al.
moat unanimous conclusion that the func-
tions of the grand ,jury, are (011 expensive
relic of tinges which have now no parallel,
and that there exists not the semblance of a
necessity for the continuance of a system
whioh WAS 0000 a useful one.
" Tho abolition of the system would neces-
sitate a wide change in Oho present condi.
bion of affairs, ,Should it result in the aboli-
tion of the magistrate appointed for hie
political influence aid who is p0id by fees,
one goodresnit at least would bo effected,
Tho agitation has boon in 10001011 for some
years and notion i0 likely to be taken very
soon, if at all."
An Indiscretion.
Tape.—I hear you've been fired.
Mezuro.—Yeo.
Tape.—What for 1
11•Iozuro,•—Polling the truth,
Tope. -180e. You told some customer
Mutt those French silks were made 111 Now
Jersey?
hlozure,--No, Ono of too now sales nen
wanted to know what kind of 0 man old
Parker was, and I told ilius Parke' was an
old fool.. Parket' heard 1110,
Tape,—And ho discharged yon? Didn't
you explatu it?
Moznre,—Yes, I told him 1 didn't know
that it was a trade socrot.-1Pnok,
The house of Lords,
8,0(0(1 prominent I11'I1 in 1;8(1111011 110
lately referred to abolishing ilia 11on00
Lords, end there ere not wait ling indicative
that a eer1aul seeliol of the Radion
V ARTATIONS IN THE LAKE LEVELS.
of They are Outsell Entirely the the t►IA'er.00p,
eee 1/t JIOl001(1014.
1110
The tntriatienr in the levels of the great
etirnesty 11 sire the gne01(oh of 110 111(01101,
tun -(101' rho plane of 1101110 1'010. Mr. Glu
010(10 11i1n.ve1f really 111111011 at 1101 11/11 Ino
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than 0011001 of that body, and has deelar
morn than 010110 that any smelt step ruquir
doh,I1.00 deliberation( owl tho !writ esti,
jn(1gnnent, .11.seen lsfntilctotalk of abolfsl
10(1 the Howie (11 Lards, and those wl
clamor fur arch ra 1ha1ge little know whet'
of they speak. 1 he if nvie of Jamie,. In 01( o'
• cannot. he aladieho(I, Have wi 011 1110 001001
of a majority of1leown nhembe'a, and itwi
1 be 0 strange day when the proud peers
l
l:uglnd, forgetful wf their traditions an
history, will 1•oluntarily vote for their 0'
extingulohmeot. Any such 003t'00 Implied
indica change net oily in legielatton but i
the forces controlling human nature, 1't
House of Lords will never do this 0x00
under 0 reign of torror and h1 the 11000en0
of a commotion 0inlilar 111 that which estate
in the reign of Charles I. No rani
Parliament will probably ever make a mor
Sweoptng declaration regarding the peer
than Cromwell's Parliament did in 1(id'
when it passed a re00h1ti0ustating " a hour
of peers 10 useless, dangerous, and ought t
L0 al olf0hed," But this resolution, thong
temporarily dispensing with their function
and passed in a time of tumult and iliarrde
dirt not abolish the Lords, They bows
before the storm for the time being and
retired to their country castles, but. they
neither aesem1iled in Wastminoter nor
abrogated their hereditary legislative lmm0-
t)on0, and itis safe to say that in any such
contingency they would pursue some aimila
0onrse again,
It Inns( not be forgotten that thesauetio
of the house of Lords to oily measure orig-
boating illthe Commons is necessary befcle
it becomes a late The 1louse of Commons
could homes and humiliate the upper house,
it could unjustly tax then( and confiscate
their estates, it coal I refuse supplies, make
the hereditary legislators pay (0' rho veldt,
lotions and lighting and sweeping of their
own chamber, hilt it could out abolish then(
nor send op any measure to the sovereign
for that purpose till 11 had d heel engrossed
on the 'words of both houses of Parliament
and sanctioned by both. It is in the power
of a prime minister to so increase the num-
n' of peerages 00 to give him a majority in
the Lords upon 011)101' questions. But open
n g1001ton of their own abolition no persons
accept1lg the dignity of a peerage would go
into the douse of Lords for the purpose of
effacing or abolishing it, and 08 the emotion
of peerages is always the specialprerogative
of the crown no sovereign could be found
who would tins eat ry out the designs of the
minister, since by so doing, the throne it.
solf would be removing the lost bulwark
which protects it from popular clamor and
from politeal assaults. The pests would
never consent to thele awn etrace.,lent, null
the sovereign would steadily refuse to in-
crease their body for the purpose of effecting
their abolition. The abolition of the House
of Lords is therefore a cry to tickle and.
please the nhas0es, and, like that beautiful
theory of perpetual motion, something which
can 1150 be realized in practice. Tho con-
stitution of England must be violated or
repealed before any radical change takes
place in the functions of the House of Lords,
or before anymore than hat Gladstone hints
can be done respecting the limitation of its
authority.
101(00 10100 1)e011 1110 9ul,jeo3 of study for
(I, ninny years p 110), and various theories have
re been adt'an0e(1to account for thorn. 'Thirty
c yoara ago ail available rlatu 00gardiug the
Ih(etuutions WI re compiled, show(11g the
mom impn0111(1. chau1100 in the lower lakes
botwom 103'01111(1 1017. 54!111 a few facto,
a0 to crr0111ional ph00 lmin;t fn el011(01' years,
in 18;!) the t'niterl States Engineers began
oy01ematie;1(u(ge readings, and the worn( is
o1111 OOutf0UOd,
'1.1e highest known level occurred in 1835,
when hlichlgan atltl Huron ruse twenty.six
Indies above ordin(u•y high 0ta�n, and Erie
anti Ontario eighteen 11(011es, 1 h° lowest
level was in 13111, waren Erie fell about, three
and a half feet below its usual plane. The
1111111uatie00, apart Hemp those which are
annual end those ,10used by the (010(10, are
of periodical oocnrrenc0, and are character- .i
izeil by a remarkable approach toregul urity.
Since the highest waters of 1:9138 there have j
been alternate periods of de0ceneion and 1(9'
()elution of the levels, either live, seven, or
eight years in length the 500111 -year period
being the most frequent.
As we have 801d, various theories have
been advanced to account for these uhalges,
The winds, of course, cacao temporary and
local tlectuation0. L•'rio, the shallowest of
the takes, has been known to have its level
raised seven or eight feet at one end and
equally depressed at the other by a gale
b101010g east or west for several (day's. Ir-
regularities and vaiatinns of atmospheric
!treasure also 001100 changes of level, and
there ere lidos on the lakes as well as ou the
ocean, the highest known spring tide rising
111 about three inches. Sun -spot influcnees,
too, have been assigned us a cause of the
fluid 11x110110.
It 08Om9, however, to be wail established
that the periodical aur general fluctuations
aro due to the variations in rainfall, 'rho
curves showing the secular variations of lake
level approximate au closely to those of
rainfall as to show conclusively that the
rise and full of the lakes by periods of years
are dependent on the cycles of rainy and
dry years which 010111arly coincide with the
curves showing temperature cycles. A sue,
cession of wet years produces exceptionally
high water, a succe0+ion of dry years ex-
tremely low water, There is a limit, how-
ever, to such cumulative effects, for when
the water is high its overflow is more rapid
than when itis low, and an automatic check•
is thus provided.
Simulation of Death in the East'
The powers of the fakirs, or fa use's, of
Indira and Persia of simulating death aro
marvellous, and almost incredible. Several
sects in these countries regard the art of
apparent death as a part of their religions
rima'„ and practise it assiduously. In their
ancient books itis described as puranayam,
or stopping the breath. Many cases in
which these Indian fakirs have allowed
themselves to be buried alive for long periods
have been verified by 1301tish officials in
India, and attested by evidence whioh die -
pots all doubt of their truth. This persona-
tion of death continues for as long oasis, and
even ten months. The way the fakirs go to
work to produce this condition, is to leave
the little ligature under the tongue cut,
whereby they are enabled to stretch this
organ out to 0 great length. Then they
turn it back, inserting the end in the throat,
and closing up at the stone time the inner
nasal apertures. The external apertures of
the no0eand theearsl(reolosed with 0'10x, and
the eyes covered to exclude the light, Long
preliminary (.0000100 is, however, needed in
holding the breath, and a long eolira0 of
fasting before burial. The fakir then sinks
into a condition resembling death, and the
body is wrapped In linen, placed in a box
and buried, When the box is taken up, at
the expiration of the long•conttnuel death-
like sleep, and opened, the fakir is found
cold and stiff; no pulsation wan be felt; the
heart, the wrist, the temples aro still ; the
body Is not cold as a corpse would be, but
is colder than that of other living men, ex-
cept over the seat of the brain. All the
secretions are fully stopped, the nails, hair,
and beard have ceased growth. After being
resuscitated rho fakir feels great dizziness,
and for a few hours cannot stand up with-
out support, but gradually he recovers
strength, and enjoys amazingly the weeder
he has excited,
The World's Largest Orchard,
In the wild district between Anna and
Hoiku, in Honolulu, during J111y and August
the most beautiful and largest (apple orohards
in the world '10(1 be seen. Tho Wilderness of
Koolau, as the district is called, contains a
forest of native wild apple trees, countless
in number, stretching from the sea far up
the mountain sides. The trees vary from
forty to fifty feet in height, and in tho har-
vest 0000011, from Jnly to September, ore
loaded ,town with fruit, 0omo white, but
molly rod, x\ person standing in the midst
of this orchard can look around him for
utiles, up the nhoutltoin and toward the
road, and tho only thing in view will be one
vast grove of apple trees literally rod with
ripe and ripening trait, the blanches of the
trees bending to the ground with the bout).
town harvest. The crop of this extensive
apple orchard which 'latero planted in the
solitary waste woad fill a fleet of trent
steamers, The orchard etrotohos o•or a
country frau five to ten miles wide by
twenty miles long, and many of the lamer
treeeboar at least tditybarrels opie0c. The
fruit is ,lcliolons for table n0o od will ap.
peon both thirst and hunger, but 118 yet
no one has taken the trouble to moire sly
commercial Also of the apples. When ripe
they will not keep more than a weep, hitt
they malts excellent jelly and jam, 0nd
simply for the lock of a little American
enterprise (01111080 of barrels of apples aro
permitted annually to fall to the ground
and rot,
It you tvombl abolish avarice, you must
r"
tho taut (i It nx 1 •1
abolish pa , 1 nay--lGiteu,
Wodding gowns of tempos, introducing
many silver threads, aro about the most
expensive 80011.
An Elopement Prevented.
"As you won't consent to my marrying
the mal of my choice, Pin going to elope
with him 1" declared Clara Rawson, doff.
anty, to her father, with a toss of her head.
"Are y„u, my dear?” said her father—
who by.enc bye, was; he editor of the "IYeek-
ly Rover,'—quietly. "Well, it's not at alI
a had idea ; it'll make a splendid article for
my pale•. Just think how well the head-
line will read : 'Elopement of the Editor's
Daughter 1' Why, the circulation will go
ftp by leaps and bounds:"
"You don't Wrenn to say, pa, that you'd be
such 0-11 brute as to publish our private
affairs to the world?" asked his daughter,
with n horrified loop.
" \lost assuredly 1 w001d,"O`.y0 the reply.
" I never miss a chance of increasing the
circulation of my paper. Lot me 00v, Josiah
Stubbles is the eau of your choice, isn't he?
What a pity, it is he has red hair, because
there's nothing romantic about red hair, and
" He hasn't red hair !"interrupt;,d Clara,
angrily. " It's a beautiful alburn."
" Oh, auburn, is it ? I knew there was
something ' burnifled ' about it, it looks so
warm. Of course, 1 shall have to give a per-
sonal des0riptionof hint, ondlshould like to
say something as follows : ' When all the
world was asleep, soya the two loving hearts of
this romanticelopement, the soft moonlight
revealed the stalwart form and handsome
fano of—Dear ale I what a shame it is he
bears such a horridly 000mouplace name as
Josiah Stubbles I 13at it'll have to go in—
' and handsome face of Josiah Stubblcs, as
he cautiously approached the window where
his lady -lore, with palpitating heart, and
love welling up in her beautiful eyes, an-
xiously awaited his arrival. All went welt
until--"
Do bo quiet, pa 1" exclaimed Clara,
with a pout.
' Let mo finish, dear. I say, I should
like to write something after the style of
the foregoing but how can I? Josiah
Stubbles hasn't a stalwart forte ; he's only
about five feet without his high -heeled
boots, and he's anything but handsome. He
has—or—auburn hair, a crop of freckles all
the year round, and altogether is really a
most uuwholesomedooking young man.
Again, you can't elope from your window,
cdoal', for its at the back, and Josiah couldn't
got road that way. You'll have to borrow
the maid's roost for the eventful night, and
even then Josiah will stand a good chance
of being "run 111"; and, proppeylyspeaking,
Josiah ought to have a mach anti -four or,
at the very least, a carriage -and -pair, O'ait-
lugat the mud of the lane. But I don't think
Josiah's means will run to a carriago•ahll-
pair—ho gnly gets thirty shillings a week,
yon know—end, besides, there isn't a lane
nearer than ten miles, That would b0 too
far for you to wall, dear ; you'd get lhorrt-
bly tired, you would, really ; and J00i0h isn't
strong enough to carry you, Personally
speaking, if I were a girl I wouldn't elope
with 10 101011 who wasn't strong enough to
carry me."
"f m not making fun, defer; it's a scalene
matte', buten for you and my paper. I 110
wish 1ha1Josiah were 1110111 like a man
than a monkey-, but I suppose I must mako
the neat et It, I've got an old horse -pistol
111light fire at Josiah—of course, I wouldn't
hit hint, at least, not intentionally—jnst
ay you're staking oft flow does this
sound? ' The broken-hearted 1)41180,
worked up to a state of frenzy at seeing
his daughter carried off before his very
oyes, seized a rorolver, (bettor call it a re•
solver, it sounds more romantic) ' and fired
at the retreatingflour: '
1.g ua tint sought 611 rob
him of his most precious jewel—his only
child 1' 1)o yon think—'
" Pa," asked Clara almost solemnly,
"do you mean to say that you really would
pet all that in your paper'("
" Of course, dear. I tell you, it will be
a splendid thing for--"
Toon I shan't elope I I know you watt
leo to, just to increase the side of your vile
pennyworth 1 I3nt I wont 1 811 there I"
And Clara Rawson bonged out of the
011'' 1 folio Pro 1n001el all that elope.1100111, immunise out of her 1"1010ntic lnea(1 "
murmured the editor of the "1Veekly
Rcvor" to himself, with a 0mllo, as lie wont
into his study,
'Cho next time Josiah Stultifies came
round, Clara Howson took .0 calm pt•(0e110(01
view of him and 001110 to the conclusion that,
his hair 0Vi00 really reel, and that the frock•
les had taken a lease of Ids face ; in foot
that he wasn't the sort of young man for a
good-looking girl to elope with,
Ws all over between them,