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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-3-4, Page 3IYI/%B(qI 4, 11402 MEMO'S WOLF SONG, A Irtirt 1111111 Adventure on 8ittosstfte Menne. Peterk In stands thoughtfully listening 11 the thunder and roar of the waters, as fret. ful of restraint they have leapt from amnia. ity, and, with a 80111111 like the ranting of hungry wolves, flow onward under lilt 0la1313e8 ot1113, to the Aretie Ocean. The face of the lit thr lad grows less 'k5114 as 110 115. t011S j gradually tt, smile flits over the peh• featuree, f or the signilleonce of that sound is unmistakable. Spring hats oottio---010'i0g with all its power of sweetness over 0 isogon land—and Siberia, travmood with thsee thousand miles of river, will loso its look of desolation to blossom Into beauty as lie journeys southward, 0111)' (mayor to the gay eapital wherein dwells the Czar, Wonder. ful visions fill kb inind—ilini, half -remem- bered stories ni the great Cathedral of fati, Isaac's, wherein echoes tlicsweat-toned sing- ing of choristers in gorgeous tunics of hItto and gold, Nt Petersburg stands ant in his imagin• bogs with the dazzling britlianey of aperient sun at noontide, and ever toward this shin- ing good his childish feet shall journey. Tho one thought impelling to this doeision, through all the -pill and loneliness of the long, dark winter, has been that here, if anYwhare, will recognition be accorded Ins genimi, and, in steno undefined manner, a way be ripsned hy which ho may be taughl at one of the many schools of musk:. The stupendousness of the undertaking does not appall him. There ean surely beim greater (largess or privations to he encountered on the toilsome journey than are likely to fall to his lot as things now are. He is free to do as ho wishes; there is nought to hold him back—no cam in rill the great universe to stretch forth a lintel and battle for him with that unknown world lying beyond the qtriet lintel of his low-broweil :leeway and the 'realization of his dreams In the distant capital. Behind lies a life of toil and hard- ship ; below, a 1101V world great with possi- bilities, forgetfulness of tho pest, freedom from the monotony of the fiat, never- ending bogs stretehing on al I sides, without a break, against the leaden skies. Tho Russian lan- guage, with its harsh 501111110 and ninny per. plexities, holds for hint always, in bright, untarnished letters, the wont ''01l011008," There is nothieg to impede his footsteps by an added weight on that journey, for— beside the blackened, greasy bit of sheep - kin witrob he wears—his sole possesion 30 his dead father's violin slang across his shoulders in a quaint hag fashioned by the peimant moth Ws u nsk al ids. Thu sum, mons for 13311 mother had mole in the dark • ness of night, when quietly out, from the plaindilled and, up overtho frozen meadow; and glistening icevlogged rivers the weary heart saddened -with life-long toil leul /eased to beat. and entered into its rem, Potorkin "had kissed her and, 311 yoling heart quiek- ly beating &eldest the silent one, lied coiled her malty times, but ne 111/81003' came front the otte ;vim through all the homely toil that filled her days had been dimly ennsideus that 1101' 31118 11 Ot 1113 whets t that to him had been given genius. ibo Potorkin turns kis back upon the old life, and journeying southward, keeps liody and soul together as best he may. Prim- roses in their first pink flush of bloom, -violets, golden hearted daisies, and 1101)' a lielil blue as heaven with forget-me-nots greet him in their beauty and sweet•seent- ed bloom. Stnnetimes the blossoms aro gathered to sell 10 3310 market of the nearest village, and so it night's shelter or a crust of black bread is ol tabled. At first ho is disappointed to find else- where so little eliange from what he had left behind, for one Bossian differs little. in outward aspect from soother sem in 11.0 poverty and squalor. On either Mile of the long,. straggling street, detached houses are fashioned hastily for shelter, with rarely a touch of beauty, the second story of overlapping boards dovetailed to. gather at the corners rising above the un- lovely foundation of roughly oementod storm, This upper story, reached by a lad- der, is the nuttily home, from the centre nf which warmth is dinged by a large brick stove. Against thewhitewashed walls hang prints of the Imperial family, heads of aaints or family photographs. In the Imam story are horded whatever cattle the peasant may possess. Often the home 01 11(0 very poor is but a low -roofed, mud -plastered hut, wherein humun heings 01131 cattle huddle to - gather in a community of suffering. THE BRUSSELS POST. 1/16013406111=Ma=1:1411111.12.1 lathe tilt) loog year of patient ploddlog, eve southward, 81., Petersburg is altruist within Si,s11 1, Only thelourney of 111101 her day end 11,3131. lies 1101801)011 111111 and the loim.for gosh The 1(0(0(0 011010 111011. heads impatient for the etart, their manes, after the eurions la/Mimi of the countey, 310:1 like (4 horn be- tween the ears, and Timothy sits with oue hand holdingthe reins while the ether gritspit ' 14 311011, with leathern lush at the 01111, 111.1•Oi3l of mapper. Tide seem as it should lie to the bey elinibing to his place beside the driver, for 11(0 1(11111 slender whips of Western Russia, aro not used along the border country, and whip-erauking Nan un - 'mown (3111131(I 1(1 Siberia. As the clay advances, the snow, be - film to fall lightly 311 3(0(0>, Increases in Vio. lomat, and Timothy moves nneasily, urging the horses ahead, for only tho well does he know the danger ota heavy storm over the frozen steppes, where the toy blasts whirl it here and there in treacherous drifts. Delay even of single eight in safety at seine farm honse is 1101 101 be thought of, for the officer bears despatches of importance to the 050r, and bettor far it wore to bravo the foi'y of storm then risk the Imperial dia. aleasure, "Press onward at whatever cost," calls out the ; "01011 the next stranger if need be and boldly seize his losses, but at all havards proceed." Coact pain of banishment Timothy dare not dis- obey snot; orders, so muttering beneath his breath onward they go, almost blinded with the snow as the sleigh is jerked hither and yon by the plunging horses. The short day dies without a twilight, and Timothy knowing from boyhood every vont of 1110 way shakes his head in despair, trailing to his horses that their courage may not flag through the ever- increasing storm. Hark 1 What was that sound 30111011 11keen ears have been the first to hear l'itere—rtgain comes --he breathes a frightened whisper—. The wolves—they are upon us," Not a 181)0110 of the weather.beaten old face shows that the lad's whisper has been heard. as leaning forward the driver: calls to his horses Away I Fly, my beauties—my pretty fiutterieg 110000-00)'Ooloblci I Haste, my brothers, to thv stables in 81. Petersburg 1" The long, low howl 01 1110 oncoming foe sounds nearer, but unmindful of the (11183(00the (neer sits with his beide enveloped in furs, too (1111011absorbed to give heed to out- side events, They are out now 033 1110 track- less steppes, the horses, uncertain of their foothold, plunging with frenzied snort t hrongh the drifts whi le 1 he wolves speed in their reeks. Timot ity's voice riugsou again: " ! 1[i 3 Whoa there, iny beauties ! Simed onward, doves—an 0111114r of 1110 Czar rides behind thee. Fly quickly for thy lines. Onward ! Haste, my brothers !' Again thine sounds that long, low 11051, 111.01 the swiftly 1050I113(black mass gains steadily 333/011 11 now, running swiftly tn gain the sides, the whole yelping pack leap- ing up With gleaming oyes cruel, hungry illW5 Aroused from his dream of bliss, the 0111001' 80301 their peril and leaning forward tires right tied lett into the howling mass, Tho 11r) ((1 the wounded, seized upon and torn limb their is almost human in its agony, mid un the momeutary respite Tbnothy shouts "1131010. 111110 doves Sproul thy wings straight for St. Petersburg. Haste, and Heaven 11011) thee " The hungry demon which would have look od 110 ,3/1100 in the leader's throat drops be- fore the officer's unerring shot, and the 1101509 gallop onward. Peterkin sit:sawed by the night peril, but for all he is so quiet, there is no cowardly thonghts in the little peasant who, with each panting breath, is making a bold re. solve, bidding good bye, brave heart, to his eherished dm reast —he 3)03,1011V1810110 of fame in the great oily. Those two behind, the (nevi. and his bride whose sweet voice pleaded so earnestly in his behalf, have everything to live For, Willie ile—only those dreams and a soul full of unuttered 1011010, T110 0101111 is slung 000008 his back mutely waiting for the bow's light touch. Quick as thought ho will ittss it, wdl give it elle parte ng icaress of exceeding bitterness, 111)11 then-- A cry of terror smites the air as Potorkin rises to throw himself to certain death' and Imo turns to seo the officer's upliftedarm pointing straight at him the pistol. whose last shot has been reserved 101 11,101 purpose. In both minds, there has been the same thought. A 800011)1'O pulse as peasant and officer gaze into 0)3031 other's eyes, then Pet. erkin noting the detainhig hold of the day- old wife upon her husband's arm, ealls out : "Holt] I I will save thy life and -mine 3" Itrith a sudden powerful blow he smites the violin as he regains his seat, and strong and clear 1130 lirst discordant sounds are lost, 33) fthe loud, rapid movement of 13 Polish measure picked 11p somewhere upon that W0141`}' tramp. The effeet 19 mastoid, and the unacema timed sounds rise above the howling of the wolves, They pause, hold up their heads to listen as though standing danger, and slackening speed, almost halt, " 13ravo, lad, thy music cloth give good cheer to the horses. See how tho leader 011118 13103/0 ! 1( 111)' &goes grow not numb WO shm all ake the 1113)'.'The boyish figure sways adroitly with the motion of the shilgh, foe 1110 peasant 111103/0 thst the lives of ail depend upon 11 hi 01300055in keeping dry the strings, which vibrate with one lend note•strain after another, But 1t35 no 01103P thing, with tbe 0110W 0111. ting keen 131)51 chill, while the fearful oold almost paralyzes the widing fingers. 'Pim- othncr y Iathes aloud a ptayer to Heaven, for ahead a faint light grows upon the horizon —a light telling to practiced eyes of the 1105111048 of the oily. " Courage, brave fellows I Fly, doves, to thy hat on, the city is in sight. Reel), 1013, to thy music and 300 81311) bo saved." The wolves aro following close again with thoir long, swinging trot, 1 110 chase telling on the horses and upon Petorkin, to whom the strain is almost beyond his trength, stone -hearted and stout -armed as he is. His - oyes 1110511 with renewed coinage 1 he load not thought thus to enter St. Petersburg keeping death ab bay with that violin which 113(10311grant him the bearing of the Ruler of the Hussies. The City of the Czars, with its broad st reets and. massive, stove quays, risositew before their (v00,111111- (1.10.. drone 01)11spire cleaving the sky in a Mato of lighA t. little longer, and over tho 11,10011 Neva resounds the baffled yelping of the vanquished wolves, as Marie,. 'Along, tho Moaning steeds into 81. Peters. burg, and tho gallant leader under whose douga jangled tho merry bells, fails ly hirward,eritshiug to the eat th,stono dead And Peteri, in, 11,0 little violinist In the frozen lingers, blue 031,1 stiff, tamped en tight they may not move it, lies the violin close over the 10 are boyish 1101011, r mind, or in his 53813>11011)) the thou dot is given no place. Ile kuows that he um a not even tho wolves, those fierce, untamed beasts, Mattison ta Ills playing"; Why, then, should ho tremble la the 11'0 01300 of the Czar The 8153)111111,1)111,0 of the palace does 1811 1011101 1)130 1/011014111, 01100 in do far as all bean 113)11 things 101101 neeessarllyaffeet moth natured, About the apartment el ester the 00111') attendants waiting 10 110310 the 01.10113)0 111111 11111010 for their amusement, Near 1(103elands the °Moor'sbride, who, as tho 011143' 11'11000 1115 han(1, 301115)3010 in his 5111' "Courage, P0184110, Playas thou did'st to the wolves and 1111 will bo well." Quick to 3)51(01(11 110 master's bidding, 1135 bow quivers across the strings, and as the music trembles forth Poterkin forgets all also. Silence deepens through -out the great gilded apartment, as the waves of sound in melodtous 11101101110 sweep 0001' the tuneful 811'18g8. An unrest groWs. the 1nel- oily snaps asunder, away 1)1 the distance Beane louder than a frightened whisper, howl the wolves, villas through it all la the tangle of sleigh bells tossed by the leader in the quick measure of a Polish (Immo and on- . that 8)3331 gallop for life. A cry of 11113)01011,ward the bolls jangle in hot haste. Muffled hoofbeats sound as the flying steeds gallop onward, EL sob 80 11(0 leader dies, a few brief 110818 01 ootasy, and Perterkins, bow 113 1111181 is kneeling low before the Ruler of the Rosales In the gorgeous ehoir of St. Isaac's, clod in a tunio of blue an 1 gold, Ptiterkin is now installed, and his masters 0101311 great genius for the little Siberian peasant who, unmindful of oold or hardship, trareesed on foot more than 11/011911/111 011 11.01 111 01E41 land of snow mid lee where he will one day have a brilliant future, Spring deepens into summer, summer wanes, outrun by autturmai fleeting stride, and Potorkin journeys on, subsisting for the roost part on berries which Name, so nit, gard of her gifts in most things, hem strews broadcast. Yet 11033' and then whorl the boy's heart grows weary and Ito sinks for is while to scabby the roadside thore sparkles on the green, luxuriant grass a drop that ie far too salt for dew. Autumn's breath grows keen, and winter holds the land in an icy embrace, levelling the steppes with a drifting pall of whiteness over which rise treacherous fogs, when Peterkin crosses the border and enters the village through which loo most pass to the Russian °spit al. An unwonted stir and bustle of excite - maid; pervades the place, 11)3 111114 very oven- ing the only daughter of the riot land owner is to 10011 011 officer of the (Tsar, and the fiddler engaged for the occasion has fallen on the ioe, hurting his arm so that playing is out of the question. A sorry wedding indeed 11 will bo without music ; the bride is in despair 011(1 13(0318 with joy 110308 of the • little 3/058081 10)10 that morning entered the village and cleansed hie ability to draw musio front the old violin slung in a sack across his shredder. Hos, Potorkin says he can and will play, 11 111 return he be granted permission to 11110001 301131 the wedding party to St. Peters- burg, Tho curious proposition at first anntses the officer to whom it seornsa gopci joke, than noting the little fellow's persistency he contemptuously manses to have so sorry on object travel with them, Tho bride with ready wit, peroeiving Peter. kin's stolicl refusal to play for other eon - sideration, pleads with her lover until she gains a reluctant 001105111 for which 1101g 11013 soery in the end, simic with his violin the peasant wakes the lichees with Palish donee tunes set their poises throbbing and keep their feet in Motion. The boy (lushes vitt; pride when the officer calls out 111 praise 1 " Well done—well done little fellow ; who knows but the Czar may some day count you 11) 1110 Imperial band? " (ho wedding 331 10113)111 is over, good byes are said and three horses 'harnessed abreast to the sleigh dash forward on tho long journey, Tho bolls beneath the <longs ring out a merry chime to wine)) tho 11 ying hoof•bents mark the 0 rhythmic eitilenue, Beside the driver, sits l'etetkin, in place 1)1 11111 yiunritehlk or post - boy, (slow -crowned That covering the mop of yellow hair out straight from 051' 10 ear, Tho hoard 0101, is covered with loather (lush. ions While o large \ prOl 00LS their feet 311,d logs from the on, eold. Onward 11)31)' go, regime only 1011011 night falls to renew the Jennie), in the morning:, but to 1,161.0013in there is little rest, for now It in spring, and the world 10 waking (e)1)e again to laistity, when Petorkin sits up to hear 33,' wonderful IlOWN hat on the morrow 1111 will play before the Czar, lit his worn, 3)10111/ 31 1)1)11 111.0 of sheepskin the little peas. ant stands waiting, how in hand, hat, there is much 0, thing wit failure does 1101 031101' One Sentenoe in Twenty -Seven Ways. Every student of nouns, pronouns and verbs 11110300 the ilecessily of transposing language for the sake of ascertaining its grammatieal construetion. The following shows twority-seven diflerent readings of ono of Cray's 3001)' 111)0'1)'O poetical lines, yet the sense is not alfeeted:, The weary ploughman plods his homeward way. The ploughman, weary, plods his homeward liis leZecartl way the weary ploughman plods. His homeward way the ploughman weary plods. The weary ploughman homeward. plods 1161 W5Y. The 1110)33/)) 01)1113, 301ary, homeward plods hi W ily. His way the weary ploughman homeward sleds The ploughman homeward plods his WORry 10:;HIS W1:11:plouglon.to, homeward, weary 11:. His homeward, weary way the ploughman plods. Weary, the ploughman homeward plods his 1 Weary, ougtman plods his homeward 1,t1il 1.13)1,, Homeward, his way the weary ploughman Homeward, his way the ploughman, weary, plods. Homeward, his weary way, the ploughman The 1111101111010,11, homeward, weavy plods his way. The ploughman, weary, homeward 3/10115 1118 Way. 111S weary tray, the ploughman /mowers] plods. Rio weary way, dm homeward ploughman plods. His way, clic ploughman, weary, homeward plods. Homeward, tile ploughman plocls his weary way. Homeward, the weary ploughman plods his W Dy . The ploughman, weary, his way homeward plods. rhe ploughman plods his weary homeward w ay. The ploughman plods his homeward weary 11::WearY1t3tplonghtnan hais way homeward 01s Weavy,:1lomeward way the ploughman 10. • Long Neoks 01 Birds. " Bish " soya that. "birds having longlegs have to 111100 (0 twig neck." " How's thst, 1301h ?" "Why, you see, if they didn't have along meek they couldn't drink without sitting down," Well, Bish, some birds have long nooks 1 and short logs. How is that?" " You'll find these things axe all catenlat- ed out. The Muds havinglong itecks have use for them. Yon are thinking about the 1 swan. Well, he likes 10 bib 11013' 111111 then froin the bottom 01 1310 Witter, 011d his long neck is to enable hint to satisfy this taste ; besides, laugmeeked birds feed on food of a poor quality, so that to get any enjoyment out of eating they have to have a long neck to enable then; to taste Meng enough to make it enjoyable." " Row about snipes ?" " Snipes I Well, some of thorn haven't tt very long neck, to he sure, bu1 they have b what, amounts to tho same thing —a 101)3) 11)11 —and tltey IWO rigged so that they eon tip up Le make up for the' Pest, Now,' said f Biel', full of the long neck idea, "the ostrich i has the longest legs of any bird I know. Look itt his neck ! 11. easily reaches to the A ground." 01 Doesn't this prove my position ? Anda his legs are strong enough to 1101(1 033 an i elephant. Speaking of the elephant" continued c 133011, " 110 isn't a long-neckod bird—I mean animal. Ho hasn't any neck at all, and 110tl Is so heavy that ho can't sit down every 31 111110 1/0 10511 10 5 11011/11 00 10 monidiful of hay. e See how these things ore calenlated mit foe h him. Could anything he handier than his trunk 1" it " How about snakes, Tilsit 1" "Alt nook. They clan reach anywhere s for food end drink. Returnieg to 3,11 310," said T3ish, '' did it ever occur to you that t birds that roost, eitult fell et or back- t ward?" " No, indeed, How do you explain 11,111" 11 Well, uell, yosee, their claws remelt sinned the perch, so that when they begin to leas 11 over haeltwaril their 0111305 tig1,11,e11 liko 11, 31 pair of pipe t1(1113(11.tell you, , said Melt, these things 0,00 all calculated out." ft Ti0 N WORK OF !SAULT, 133/ (motley 111(111301),Tho hook of Isaiah is ramarkaliln 311(1)111)3 1110 1100k0 of the 1113,1,, for its interest and its value, The Bible is nurse up of a con- siderable 11 1110 1.101. of books11, 001110 ill WO ((ltd 501110 in poetry, tonne history, 3.11/1110 pro. verbs, 513(3(0 1011111'0 111111 001110 501(110110. The hook of Isaiah Wolin 10111)353) the 5011110115. The Naomi prophet, wo ought to keep in mind, means preaehor. You cam 111111 0>33 11)150 moaning 111 the tEetionury and in 00111' loon conversation. Tho eon] mon ion of Vetoes and .1113)1184 35 just nt/tv givingeeenpatien to what 13/5are auoustAined 10 mill nowadays the exercise of prophecy, Prof, Totten, of Yale University, is a prophet. But 11310 me of the W01.11 ill quite 71 recent definition, Tee idea of prothetion hes betel prominent in this old wield only 911100 001110 11(111, 11) the last 00111111')'. In the days when Jeremy Taylor wrote in defense of the ''Liberty Of Prophesying," everybody tinderidood that ho was wo")advocating the principle of from ap In the bible, the prophet is a preacher. We may read a good many of the writings of the Old Testament "prophets" without discovering any prediction at all. 'Pile prop- het 18 Da a fore.t eller, but a fere-tellee, Ho is the man who 0)10101380 for Cool. Anil that is the business of every preacher evon to. day. Thus (Ind appointed Aaron, Ave read, to bo tho prophet of Moses. That 10, he 30145 to speak foe Moses, he 100,5 to carry Most% messages. Isaiah was a pecacher. '1 he book of Isaiah Is a book of sermons, I want to say 00)11thing this morning about this prophet and his book, about the preach. 01' anil his sermons. 1 will begin with the preacher. Concerning the personal life of Isaiah we know little. Tho first, verse of hie book, which is 1011(11313) added by the men who gathered these sermous thgether into this volume, tells us that, be lived in the clays of 0001311,, lotham, Alias and Hezekiali, kings 01,1 fulfill. This means the eighth century 'afore Christ. eighth (motility before '11rist 30115 that day of m0111001 10011110Arnong the little provincss of Palestine which saw the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the armies of Assyria, and the fearful 11111133010 of the Southern Kingdom before the same great enemy. Amos and Hoses were the great mettehers in Israel during the youth of Isaiah. Isaiah preached h1 Judah, Isaiah was a man of edueation, cohere mad evident literary gifts. He belonged to it family of high social position in the 11(101,1.erotic circles of the capital. Ho belonged in Jerusalem, and me eh about, the court, and was a personal friend of the greatest of 1110 J030i011 sovereigns of his lifetitne, King 11810101111). Isaiah, like 83. Peter, was a married 31)1111, He had itwo sons. Is 111311'0wife was called 1110 prophetess, probably be- cause she helped hes husband 111 his work by her sympathy, by her wise advice. Nobody knows how much of the family history of Isaiah is hidden away under that ancient titlo. There is no 1)11101)1 of the indebted. miss of Isaiah. sod through him of all the religious lactic], to 18100110 0113011011b '13/1(5, Perhaps ho read to her the notes of these great 00l'1110138. 80010 of tho nri ti us, who are so much interested in nutking out that near- ly every chapter in the Ohl T0010100111 was written by two or three different persons, may some day (liftel :W' for us how many good things in Ismah's sermons are due to the sug- gestions 01 1115 wife. Isaiah's two sons had quite remarkable names. The Old Testament names have many of them a queer 0013)131 in our ears. Pothers and mothers do not often resort nowadays to the first five chapters of the First Book of Chronicles to of names for their children. But Isaiah's boys were bnrcleued with names which. even bo those days must have scented grotesque, angular and awkward in the month. One was named Shearlashub, the other was Maher- shalal-hash-baz I These names, we fincl, had meanings. That 10185 one advantage 30111031many of the old immeshed over OM' modern ones—they meant something. And the meanings of 111590 11511105 110(1 an intimate connection with the truths which Isaiah was preaching. Thus Shear-jashub means " a remnant will remain." That, 300 30111 see presently, was one of the most notable of the doctrines of Isaiah. Mither-shalal-hash-baz means " speedy prey, swif t spoil." That WRO what Isaiah saicl when tho politicians of Judah refused to follow his advice concerning tho foreign relations of the Government. Ho declared that the kingclont would speedily be destroyed. Thus Isaiah's boys had names that were condensed sermons. 'that shows how deep the prophet and tho prophetess had their marts in the great work, rh.y never tried to get away from it, even in their home, never shut the door upon it. It was the whole of their life, Every tnterest they lad, even their chile ren, Arne wrapped up and included in this deepest 1111(1 widest in er- test, Bide interest in the 0101311 and in the state. They gave their whole life to their eonntry. 11 10 likely that Isaiah continued p001313). 313) yeays. He event 40 years in one par - 011. Ile 30105 probably mixed 70 1/11111 he lied. His death, iteeording to old traditions, vas by mart) rotten in the reign of the bad <Jug Manasseh, when he is 003/003011to have eon sawn 1050,13100with it wooden sword. The eall of 180,111.11, the beginning of his ninistro is described in a °banter which, or some reason 10111011 no ono knows now, numbered in the book not one, but six. 111 1110 Shah 010431017 of Isaiah we learn what it was that made this num mintster. t was not because ho had tried two or three vocations and had ttot succeeded 1 ery wail n any of them, that he concluded to toy the haricot profession. Neither was it on 00. aunt of the persuasion of his friends, Nor was it even in consequence of deliberate acision mode at the end of a serious en - cover to discover his duty. This man was ailed to God, At least 3.1)111 10 what ho said unself, who 0)33)111 10 know. The prophets, indeed, aro all normirnons O the assertion that 0 od called them, They veto going on about their ord rim y business o they 033)3, 31.1111 somehow 1 here 00510 a voice. led called 3,110113. And hey obeyed, 00111133 lines unwillingly, having no sort of 111011110. 10(3 toward. that kind of work desiring 10211, earaeatlY ta 0111 01 33, 110111g, 01110 0( 3101)1, in a day when, as they say, a vise and prudent man will preservo a ohs. veer. silence. l'hey were semehOW impullva Ito this ministry by some sort of influence tom without. 'rimy were slopped, and suddenly turned bout, and sent o21 a message front 1 /oil. Iwo:same 1; I he weeds t hey speak are that's Thus Faith the Lord" is the pro. too to their sermon. 'I here is enmet hint; niable in this eonstant ttilirmation of tui Id preachers that (4od called them, In tho year that Ring died, heath intil vislint. Ilo teemed in a )1l1)4)1l to ho standing in the temple, only the temple was 30 lamilind times greater and fairor then im had over soon it. before. In the place of the nierey sent 71 great throtw moo; set. op, and upon thie throne sat, One hidden by the wide lolds of his impevial vestments, Bo. Well Mont But— " What a sweet. child 1" 0001011)10,1 the neighbor. " 0," replica the tnnther, " he a cunning little nese 7" " And sueli funny 1,11 Fbealis 3" ,‘ And a Ilarlitig. bald !" "ikl,,1 01141 pudgy fat hands 1" " \o, 1)0110)' 1111$151,214) ,boho, ilo you know I think the baby looks more like you every day 1" 3 Vgararatar.37514141.altailaaataaaatalant.1.124.1ilaaantnata:C.a4raaaMale.i.tati.ta.M..7.010 Sidi. the throne, 013 either 11(111,1, nOitted the air tilloirs of atigelie beings with the wings which 01'01' since have heal place 111 110 1(101U1'05, 11X11001 111111 ouch of them" had I 0311 30i11g5, 0Ori»g then faces and their feet slid tiptoed for flight, emlilouni of rev- erenee, of humility and of pr:01114 °beat. elem. Isaiah heard 1110 angels singing, now 11113) elosir and 11(31/ 010 011101', answering each other in melodious stmphe and anti. strophe, saying the words that are uttered still 114 one of the supreme moments of the greatest of our Christian sonde; 0 of adotta- tion, the holy mm1(111301331, " Ifoly, holy, holy, Lord God of limits, heaven and earth aro full of thy glory.' And then the whole great tetnple seemed to reel and shake, and a great mysterious cloud of smoke, 00 01 the incense of the prayers of heaven, descended upon it, And Isaiah, standing by the door, cried, " Woe Is Intl, for !have twen the King, the Lord of lIests ; and I 010 a man of unclean lips." And one of the angelic beings taking a coal from the flaming altar touched Ins lips, in token of forgiveness and of cleansing. And there 051110 V01.1'0, crying, " Worm) shall I 0011,1, and who will go tor 130 1" Anil Isaiah answered, " Here 0111 J, send 11/0 i" Ti1118 his work began. Isaiah may be thought, of as a statesman, (40 14 11401.111 Or, as a theologian, 11. 1,, notable that the first thing which this wonderful commissioned preacher ,1131 was to go into p013 l.bos, Isaiah was first of all a politicim. If e was a religions elan. Isaiah mode 110 separation in his 31,0111111 1>013000)1 the Church an 1 the 8t01e. It i5 1101 likely that he cared 11111011 for any institution as an hist itution, whether civil or eeelesiest teal. Isaiali's interest was alto. gaiter in the people. His highest desire 115 toliave 1110 land full of good men and women. Thus he cneeed imsf iwh Is ta constitutional r0'min1ot , 71 a 1 / Nems s , tiet cure of catarrh eraelealing the ftit- , : W111‘,11 1'11001'0 111111 promotes the 11,0aje. T)/01/8/10/3 of people testify to the 033)'l',.$5 01 Ilood's Sarsaparilla as 11 remedy toy ;,aurrh When other preprations had faied. ifood'a Sarsaparrilla alsobuilds up tho whole sysem, and makes you feelJClttl,u1 inhealth, Sai Sarsaparilla s . 001,1 br drusists311; for(1. Prepared onlyby 11000 eApotio•,,rie, Lou Oh 11 100 Doses One Dollar a se and therefore 1> enema R. mi,,d by too, applleations. it nsplires 11 1'0ll8li(1l3l3o31I3l remedy like Sarsaparilla, which working through the blmi, moms p,rnia White Eats. cage 01 110 111,. importance. It should he s largo 4.4 possible and with tumefies, and a little tree if there 111) 1011313for the redisits deary love to oiled. There sliiiitS1 Is, 1171', ,'k retiring-roorn with 10 nice morsel of the 301,001 of hay in it 3101)1 a bit to '".3 ,o1 100,11 in winter. This bed simeld feebeetly longed. If you want Lo go ii fanything especially fanciful, 3'01I may htve square tower to your 18371)', wit, tpiol sair up the centre awl 1,,130 '7)11 o he roof, where a flagstaff 0311,111,1 l,e. gr110 011,1 of fun, for ortihelnateversitting 011 0110 ,•11,1 11, l'', -doing sentinel_ concerned them, And the chief concerns a white rat leeks very droll. The nage of his thee were a politiall complexion. should ,1""1,‘10'1 a'1 111 a 1,111,00 of (Ilan, uninelitee were pending, end area, irgier on too homer, 11103003'. '11111 over tnia perils impending. Froin the Bast the As- "lee 17113'. '1.'6' 110 'Ng° down when Y°4 wast mums -mem , placing anything 0 raa 571131(110110 every day getting a little closer Nu, carry, frien ) ear sister's silver to the Wen. In the North Syria and 113)111101111 were Lolled again, juskb. The if she 1011 t to on apple, open your Ivo/A(0 wan orris), amid syria and ret's door and the fun will cottunence. Bah nefore a eat is really funny it must know Ephraim and were determined to ask the I and love yeti, so it must be frequently ours. allianee of Assyria, Isaiah W1413 opposed to that allianee. The people, howeve., 1.1 0,1. They lower bite if bundled as babies, their way. 13113. no 0001101' had they : liroLd anil milk, gritins, &little fruit such as apples 3,1141 green stuff'. Nothing themselves to Assyria than they repented and wished. Instead to join hands with salt or g00)1No1,001' Egypt. Isaiah was all the 1)1,10 00 the side of 115' ii07/111 independence. These were great questions. The supreme need of the time, as indeed of every time 11,10 Wi00 man and a good 1111011 10110 oould look at these critical questions from the religious .poiut of Vi0W—that is to say', from the potnt of view of deep 301,11 eternal principles. Isaiah was that man, Ho saw 110 end of abuses, political and social. And he 105.4 eunseious of his own personal responsibility, He felt that be had no right to stand by and see these things go on. St. who was a good :judge of relig- ious andavity, says (lint Isaiah was very bold., He was indeed, The boldest thing that a man can do is to denounce the sins of his own class. It is easy for the poor to (0. vile the rich. The poor man who abases tho Hell wins popularity among his peers, Bot when a rich man speaks his mind, and opposes lumself to the opinion of his asso- ciates, he becomes a candidate for all sorts of martyrdom. Social ties, companionship, business association, shut mon's mouths. This man stood in the midst of the court, 501513 man, it man of social mantling, 5 lay- man, too, with no allowance for professional zeal possible in his ease, and spoke his mind about the iniquities of priest and prince. This is a men worth knowing. I want to introduce some of my newspaper congre- gation to the prophet, Isaiah, of whom they have perhaps heard, but whom I am sure they do not know. A brave, good man, 11 patriot, 0 hero, not only the writer of one of the small number of supremely great books of the world, but a inan of action, whose splendid example ought still to bo art iaspiration to ns. So we (tome to the hook. There are thi chapters in this book. They fall into two quite distinct divisions. The first chapter of the second port is number -W. These two divisions are so different that a good many soholsrs think they were written by quite difTerens men. 01 1,310 :413 chapters of the first par", there may be made a three -fold division.' In the first division, 12 chapters ;iu the second, 113 ; in the third, 112 again. The first and third divisions are consecutive prophomes ; that la, connected sermons, Tho middle division is made up of isolated prophecies, single sermons. The single sermons begin with the thirteenth chapter ancl end with the twenty-seventh. They aro chiefly taken up with the affairs of other nations. The whole werld WU of interest 10 1031101. There was nothing narrow nr parochial about him. :Babylon and Egypt, nab and Diem, Arnbia and Tyre, hail their places in his sermons. The God 30110111 Isaiah believed 11) was the ruler of the roun,1 00311), tho movements of the no - thous 1001:0 113 tho ordering of his wide 3/00. '1'1,103100, The consecutive 511111008 of tho first twelve chapters begin with an ar• raignment of the Jo wish 71,111111) for their poi - i Heal transgressions.. Then follow Utopias. Lions which rose out of the war with $yi,dit and Ephraim, The consocntive prophecies of the third part deal with the invasion of Somiaelterib. How far away these old names sound 1 And yet human mature has 1101 changed much. The questions that Isaiah met eve even to -day contig up again for 01181003'. It ought not to be altogether wasted time, if WO go bulk with our distil. wrested and unprejudiced mi»ds and study them. Tho Hnglish soldiers in the Soudan were supplied with St. Jacobs 011. 'Partner's 130y.—" There's goin' 10 be a minstrel shotv Pinksrtown next week. Can 1—" Old Hayseed—" floe whittaltor I It 101101 10 month splice you wont to th' top of hill to see th' 'olipse of 111' moon. D'yull warder be always on th' go 4" Kitchen Maid (to Irish valor, who. has ;just returned from Italy with his master)— " Toll me, Pat, what is the lava I hear the master talking so meth about ?" Irish yalet (faiietiously) s" Only it drop of the (water, 1;413/." i1 ,, I To alt 01,1 Pipe ; 01i, fait Hui pipe, untoward is thy fate Fel 3 oft itt otIvring 01 1110 great ; Yet still inre most it sully fret That 111033,1a gritielma to the cigarette ! I IA +,101,,,,,t,r1.4VVITIVIII0 i66 F 11 99 Here is something fro n Mr.Prank A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt House, Lewiston, and the Tontine Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hot(2,1 men meet the world as it comes and goes, and are not slow in sizing people and things up for what they are worth. He says that he has lost a father and several brothers and sis- ters from Pulmonary Consumption, and is himself frequently troubled with colds, and he Hereditary often coughs enough to make him sick at Co nsum ptio nhis stomach. When- ever he has taken a cold of this kind he uses Boschee's German Syrup, and it cures him every time. Here is a man who knows the full danger of lung trait. bles, and would therefore be most particular as to the medicine he used. What is his opinion? Listen ! "X use nothing but BoscJlee's German Syrup, and have advised, 1 presume, more than a hundred different per- sons to _take it. They agree with me that'it is the best cough syrup saa the market." Vastness of Our Country. 11 appears that the Dominion census is riot complete yet. The figures from the 1100111- 0011 part of British Colmnbut were sent to Ottawa, lint the other day, and the Peace and Mackenzie sections will not bo heard from till dime next. The -work of ennmers ation iu these far-off districts is very labor- ious 11111.1 entails a lot of traveling. In tak- ing the wises of the Cassiar and Stiokeen river seetions of liritish Columbia the en - member hail to go to Alaska and travel in, land to the Canadian border, He found the natives in a state of almost private harbor - ism and entirely unenlightened as to Ohris- Gently, A few Chinese hail settled upon, elaims,but were tusking very little progress, In -numbers those peoplo will not add very much in the figures already given, and they will add loss to the sum of our aggregate wealth. A great many people who are crazy to got into the social swim am drowned before they can got out. It; is all very well for an engine to have 1111 eeeentado rod., bat it should not have an eccentric engineer. lirown—" Say, Jones, when yott oome 111 late tiight don't you always wake your wife 3" Jones (promptly)—" Never." Brown (surprised)—' Joehosaphat 1 How do you manage it ?" Jones (wi.th a sigh).—." I dou't have to." " Ho you got along well with your bus-, band!" kindly itosuired a friend who 01)0- p04t0.1 atoneable dillieulties. " Ugh 3" 00- 01013131011 the wife, with a snort of defiance, I guess I get along with him about as well as he gets along with 010." do Pt'111"I"%rfY YEARS nlx.. .1,......._ 144"'' Johnston, N. 130 March 10, 4/. I was troubled for thirty years with 1 pains in my side, which incroased and became very bad. I used _01 JA LL end it completely cured, 1eve it all praise." MRS. WM. ratmrt. Rif:WTI ST. MCODSVIL DID I2r,"