The Brussels Post, 1892-4-15, Page 66
THE BRUSSELS
POST.
WI?DOIL IN EARLY LIFE,
lit' i`nnl I:e tOII PAN -10 I4OINn,
The verso °nu+oless 8111111 leo( corm. Preis
amyl„ :I.
It would seem 0 defect of uatnro that
man's wisdom conies after he is too old to
make use of it Ho can use it front the day
of its arrival to the day of hie death, but it
seems a uaIunlity that many of the young
y(ar0 roust pass along without the help of
that friend they so 01111 need, Reason is
man's guide, his king, his queen, his North
,
Star, but 10.1111 a tiguro does the youth make
le all these ,)inters and summer, whish pass
before his guide puts in on appeaanee !
a pair of brothers are now 111 Atlleeiea
lecturing to toning mall on the blessedness
of an honest life, on its peace, its beauty,
its infinity reasoneblenese, aunt en the fatly
and hardship of all awls et wil'k,-dne58 ; but
these brothers are not lads of I5 who see
Otis pleasing moral landscape in their ad.
083118, they are gray-haired then, and have
just finished sevouteeth or more of years etch
in an Snglish prison, The young wife of
one of these mon had kept up the home for
seventeen yeas, planting each spring a lot
of flowers, plucking them each summerd
e ducating the little children while the hus-
band and their father was in an English jell
learning wisdom. Reis ";longe again from
a foreign shore " and a wise mag but with
his intelligelee fastened to the wrong end
of his life. These brothers when young
men. made money by forging drafts upon
the Bank of England, One of them, at the
age of 50, feels sure that such a mode of mak-
ing money is very defective.
']'hese mortals illustrate the condition of
all those members of society whose wisdom
cones late, Nearly all persons who '8,1211
old age lied wisdom just before death.
S hakeapeere speaks of 0 "swan -like end,
fading m music ;" t110e 111011, being about to
. tie, sings the song of wisdom. He fades
away into honesty. Life will never be of
much value until it shall begin with moral
baanty. If nature's plan is that we 8111111
all live in extreme folly and at last die WISP -
the plan mart be confessed poor. Our
physical globe would soon become a desert
if the sun del nothing except set dear. A
bright sunset after a day of eland is \ cry
beantif'll, but our Held.: eann0t live upon
such evening spectacles. \'hey ask for
many clear mornings and cloudless noous.
If nature has arranged for man to be foolish
all through vonth and to die a profonud
philosopher she has made a pour arrange.
went.
Such aconelnsion leads to the thought that
all young minds are to he cared for by older
minds and are thus to least upon reason from
the cradle onward. Thus nature when she
denies reason to the child compensates for
the denial by aokirg tho parents end society
to be to the child soul and brains. Thus
God's plan is complete. No day is to be pas-
sed away front the care of rea8e11 ; let in
the first years the reason is to be that of !
the parents and of society, in the seuond
group of years the reason is to be that of
the indivrjnal himself. In the first eight
years of this world the child cannot earn its
own hi end. It is fed by its elders. Thus it
is let along by the reason of its enders have
ing but little light of its owns The child is
to shine by honored light, the home
of society bei"g its son ; but in the
course of a few years this satellite becomes
itself a sun. Thus the law of mature is0lnn-
plow, and no human being ought ever take
a step in derku888. Its path is till to
have light. This perfect theory of no -
tore is shamefully neglected in hallow
praetiee. Neither the parent nor society
acts as 'rains and souls for children.. Few
are the parents woo deliberately and kind-
ly teach a child to reason. The children
are perhaps knocked over for speaking
while the father is attempting to speak, or
is screamed at for making a noise nnull less
painful than the parental seream ; and after
the child Inns yielded to this tremendous
authority it is sent out to bring for its
pholosophicel parents a paper 1't tobacco rr
a nag of beer. " Long as the lamp halls
Out to 1,11111, the 011001011(1101' may return."
Yet he maty return to God, lint ho can not
o the penitential end of lifo return to
youth 110:1 society. They are gone.
In higher life the cultivati10 of 'mason is
only t little deeper, for the parents possess
little '..me for long and kind talks over the
best ways to wise ends. Often the parents
themselves Pave never travelled over such
roads and know little about the therms of
the route, It would seem amazing that
George t, ashiugton drew tip a set of life
rules did we not know that Mary Washing.
ton was a kind of divine moralist sod pour-
ed into young George's heart more sweet in-
cense that he could ever shake ant of it.
The forty -eine laws of emitted which tie
young (teorge dr.tfted had their origin 1,
that >'Iau'y Washington whoso p'etv'was a .
rationnlisul of the finest quality. The qual. i
sty of Alary's nature may 1,e inferred )room
the fast that her faivorite book was the
"Contemplations" of Sir Matthew Iiale;
and the fact that Sir Matthew Bale wits
the most snow-white cihltraeter in all Eng•
fish history. flits Mary Rall possessed a
gentleness, e. spirituality wlltdl made be'
almost an embodiment of that Christ -like
equity whieh treated the fame of the, old
Jurist, and whieh made her the very person
to hand onward to her son in the eighteenth
century the splendor which shrine ie the
seventeenth. nue Mattew Hale, Mary
Ball, and George Washington are all bound
together by a wisdom which, like a chain of
gold, linked together more that a hundred
scattered years. Some of these years lay
in one part of I?ngland some in another,
while sono lay in Virgiia, but they were
all fastened together by one moral beauty.
The young George Washington was only
the America, ending of a long, rich drama
of virtue. It is a time of low, cheap novels,
of low dramas, of widely diffused vanity
among young people, of gambling, of drink•
ing, of scheming for money, of irrororeaie
toward not only Ood but toward tie wis
don of humanity. Itis indeed an age of
reason but it is an age of so
touch else that reason remains only one
of many possible paths, When 'young
Washington lived reason had but reu0011,y
appeared. It was a groat blight star which
had just arisen out of that horizon in which
Bacon and Descartes, Kepler, Isaao.`ewton
Adam Smith, Voltaire, 'Johnson, and Hume
had gone down in each splendor. This
star was s0 bright that all Other guides
were made dun, Under the influence
of that new eta) the church cast
aside its superstition and its hor-
rors and rho State flung away its despotic
kings. As nester arose the radiance sproad
and the warmth increased until all the
g
re
at
writers, front John Stuart Mill to John
Ruskin, made meson their oompanio end
all the greet 0(3A0m011 aetred her to pout
out to then the happiness of mankind, The
oburch.for a time thought rea01111 its most
insidious foe, Heide 41,1 any moment to nn•
dormino the filmic based upon revelation,
but she was at last touohod Icy the now ora
and asked reeeen'to boas hind to her to she
bad boon tri the sohnlars aid the otatrsmo,.
Great were those yearn 111 whir." rea003, wits'
00 11010 aid 80 alo110 in its attraofveneoo,
Tile path of reason is only one nit of a great
multitude of roads, The older minds are
too busy to point the young to the one Baro
path, and aue010 111 its organic form can
give to the young (Ally 11 srmtil fragment of
ite heart. rho very fullness of the ago bo.
cantos its wenkuoss. Its gnautits. eontuees,
The young foot is tnrnhd from Ito path by
the profusion of (lowers on either hand. 1t
ntlghtdaslt forward the better if the right
and left were more of a desert. It requtres
a Paul to he blind to all objects except the
one that 1s 5)001381, 35101 to press inl•\t'Ited
toward the one prize of a high calling ; it
requires the heroism of a saint to tear every
" idol from the throne and worship only that
which is mostworthy of man's life," 'Cho
young men of to -day are much like those
children whieh wander oll'at tunes into the
o 'e, etre rill to hill
,s udlu from tree 1
woods a u f
u h obs, until a' ttst the auu sod.
blossom t 1 tis tt t 11 tl
denly 88t8, stud hungry, weary, and Inst they
fall helpless in a dangerous forest, which on
being entered in the morning seethed it para•
died. The profusion of Aineriea makes it n
rich, dense woods for all the young men.
Unless their earl teat years are spent under
the daily reasoning of home they enter the
rich woods with little else before them titan
to become suddenly lost. The discipline of
the rod is a vain hope. A half-hour each
day of reasoning with a child is aphilosophy
which shames the rod cut of existence. Com.
panionehip between parent •Intl children is
that chain which carries the goodness along
from the older to the younger. When, in to
dark room, electricity 's passed into a
certain kind of chain, the light is delayed a
little so that the eye sees the links grow
bright, ono by one, until all are huuitions.
Thus goodness passes from the older to the
younger until all are revealed in tine light.
But not much of this reason will pass along
the roil ot Dither the parent or the school-
master, '\'lie electricity ot re110011 passes
along the beet among human beings where
friendship joins many hearts in one chain.
Reason noel. preside neer all the first half
of life, and t hue life will run reasonably to
the end. M.tny felt that dames Mill went
to extremes in teaching his little gifted son
to reason at all lours upon all platers, the
least and the greatest. It was as enmpahion•
ip of love std the lad. John Stuart, loved
all these intellectual 0010151000 With his do
voted father. All would have been well
enough only it happened that the devoted 1
father possessed no joyousness, no power to
romp and play, no poetry, no romance, but
only the monotonous eole iiity of an (seep
ebopedia. This was indeed 11 misfortune for
both father and child, for reason no more
excludes laughter end joy than the ocean
excludes the uolers of the sky at sunset or
excludes the smiles made by the winds and
the light ; or than the 11188150 stone wall
excludes the vines and the blossoms. Reason
has nothing to say or do ageinot ornament,
its task being to determine whether we
shall walls amongbeantitul thins as drunk-
en men walk, or walk as nlindafull of honor
and pence. It assumes the matchless beauty
of God's world, and simply raises the goes•
tion whether man shall rush along through
the world like au intoxicated foul, or shall
step along as being full of the truest thought,
blended with the sweetest emotion. Stuart
:Mill's father taught all the heights and
depths of reasoning, int lie forgot to lead
that reason out into the empire of beauty.
In this the father failed fully to bless his son,
No moue ever surpassed John Stuart Mill
in the department of pure reason. His
books remind one of those fields ie Italy
where it was fabled that snme earthly giants
fought against heaven and the tipper dietios,
reboot stones dotty on the wicked men until
all the terrestrial warriors had sunk ; and to
this t'a'i no plow can pass through the Held
so 1')1111 lie the masses of rook. Thus lir.
Mill flung reason's rocks down upon our
half crazy world. But here the comparison
ends, for his reason acted in perpetual kind-
ness. and instead of crushing 1nntanity it
healed many hearts that were half broken.
It is probable could the whole truth be
known that Ode passing generation is so full
of all kinds of allurements that the culture
of reason is am so popular as it 1)111 a gen-
eration ago. In the rapid advance of wealth,
amusement has assumed enm•nhous proper.
tons : the appetites have inercased 111 num•
her and in power ; many new pleasures have
been invented; literature has become not
solid but delightful ; novels are the 1,0010
which sell best. The philosophic life has
Leen displaced by the gay life or tho vague,
dreamy life. If these appoa•ances are real
they form a dark cloud over the heads of
our young men, for this philosophy, this Yea -
son 's a friend which no generation and an
individuitl has ever slighted with impnuity.
When his soldiers feared that Ulysses
would forget reason and listen to the
sirens they tied hint fast to the ship.
moat until the vessel had sailed beyond the
islands of blind passion, Int those
shrine sang around the boat of Ulysses for
only a few hours, hitt here they sing around
our youth for more than tw'e11y years. If
in all that time they once part company
with reason their ship is wrecked. Roasmt
is no beautiful thing which we may admire
or dislike as we may choose, It is not a song
whirl]. we may hear or sing or leave unsung.
Reason is man's breath ; it is his soul, hie
heart; he meet possess it or die. 1' nhappy
day for any youth when he sonic other
hand than reason to guide hint 1 God being
Himself invisible and intangible. ITe asked
reason to comp to elan in His stead, The au b.
011 til to for the Alnighty will leaf thorough the
great forest all who put their trust in these
delegated halide. A few mistakes will be
nada, some will reason falsely but of all the
truth upon earth there is no thought to bo
compared with the dictates of philosophy.
0 -eat nations, great men, great ages have
piled out of its gales. Matthew Arnold in.
troducod the term " The sweet reasonable
ness" of Christ's teachings, and we may be
thankful for the term, because it reminds
us that the Man of Nazareth did nothing
but make philosophy more divine. When
be said; Love your neighbor; love
your enemies; blessed the peacemakers
blessed the pure ; he dill not come into con-
flict with reason, he only pointed out 00010
of the paths of the triumph. He cane to
show us how near to heaven Ise, wise earth ;
how near philosophy wallas to the gates of
pearl. Christ stood rolatd to reason ,jest
a0 a harp stands related to sound. For, as
the harp points out to ns the harmonies
whieh are contained in the air around us,
BO Christ points out the reason and wisdom
mwo•0n into one life. He tolls whet mu0io
is hidden in the wincle,
But Christ did not pass over the whole
realm of philosophic thought, He dl(1 not
write out the details of all these mortal
years, He )did not spring forward into the
nineteenth century acid tell 00 what to do
with our shores, how to educate the ohilOren,
hole to pursue old ho to
t to 1 w use distilled
P g
t ° 1 tilt rl
liquors, how many years to give to amuse-
ment, how to treat dihmh hrttos, when to
make wee and p0aoo, what wagon to pay the
laborer, what rights to grant to woman,
what literatnra to study most, what arta to
lova, )herefore the most devout•Christian
mist, like mStaid Mill, espouse reason and
ask it to speak some good word for each day,
of all the 'throe 00010 and ton yams, Thai
f'1t is1itl ought to differ fron 'Mr. Mill,iri6
in the wimple preemie of reasoning but in the
realison of love and in fooling that the path
of such high thought is only the pitth of
God and of 00 ilnn1ortal lifo.
In former tines the Christian ohurolt
roared reason as though it were the enemy
of the clohe') and of faith. Children were
reared to believe without reflection. Faith
00110 through the rod, The words "I tell
yon" made the tenet's " I shall explain to yon"
almost umltt0WD. The youth 100.1' not
taught to reason. Soon (here wee 50 rea-
miners, beeaat0,, there wets no demand far
saeh minds, A wooden plow 051(0 50011
enough : peer soil wits not. eu'ichod ; Loud 1
roads were sufficient ; education was for a
feu' ; a great war need not have at great 1
cause ; a king, if insane, was 81111 a good
ruler; if he did wrong the wrong was all
right ; amused persons were triad not by a
jury but by water or fire or the torture ;
Whitt had been wits Oust whieh should be.
Reason being thus despised, all great nliuds
turned away from tho philosophy of human
life, and this ted up to the creation of ten
thousand Voltairee and at last, to the French
revolution. The ohuroh can never again
govern the youth by eimplo command. It
must reason its way along and make the
sanctuary and all its faith and works rest
upon the greatest arguments acoessihle to
mankind. It stands to -clay old stands re-
spected because it speaks to society in the
name of the greatest causes for the best ef-
fects. What Cicero said so long ago rises
up to -day not a new brilliancy : " Reason is
the Queen of the World." Each motion 0f
the people toward happiness, eaoh great
mind like Newton or a Mill, each nation
which passes from despotism toward equal
rights, emelt ohnroh which moves out into
simple piety and equity adds a new jewel
to the crown of this reigning queen. Heavy
at last will be the diadem on that forehead,
It Is said that, not many young men are
in these days snaking 0 public profession of
religion ; that church doors stand open in
vin ;that the youths look toward the titter
but neve' bow, in prayer, In country and
city this allegation seems true. It ,,not be
confessed a great loss to a young 111a11 not to
early in hetet some great faith in Cod, Inc.
this loss would be softened if these young
sten would vow allegiance to that reason
which must be respected and loved if the
heart would escape the hell in this life.
As to reason the young 111ett poeees0 uo op.
tion. Itis with them philosophy or death,
" The curse causeless will not come," If the
heart follows sweet reason 00 seen every-
where emblazoned no enrse will come. ROa-
son loves all pleasure int it tells how far to
pursue it ; it loves beanty but it separates
beauty from sin ; it loves money but not
the money which pnrclm0es a vice.
The youth of to -day is un1 0011ed upon to
choose like the past tiles between a wood-
en plow and one of bright steel, between a
stage coach and a flying train. He stands
amid much greater questions 1 Whether he
must burn 00p his body with whiskey, soil
his lips with Vulgarity and profanity, live
in stupid ignorance, make his words false,
his body a wreck, his beautiful earth a ruin
at every compass point? Those see groat
and-solenn inquires. If any young men
have mind and soul in their bosom let then
espouse the divine philosophy of human be-
ing. They may call it the soienee ot God,
or Jests Christ, or of humanity, it will hold
them above shame and high up in honor
until the grave shall conte.
Reason 1s not a distinct life. .11 is not a
rival of religion or pleasure. It is not the
block of marble, but the sculptor. It sepa-
rates the hidden image from the chips. It
eliminates all else and leaves only the idoal
beauty. It is ono of God's messengers of
lore sent to ala). When 1110 artist has
done its perfeot work m the heart of early
manhood or early wo.nonhood thet soul thus
touched is not far from the kingdom of God.
THE EARTH'S MOTION.
11 is 0(1180.11 that Oar - Poles In saving
Desrt'Iht' Circles.
One of the most curious inquiries of a
scientific nature now under way is the in-
vestigation of the fixity of the earth's axis
of rotation. It appears from various astron-
omical obset•t'ations that the latitudes of cer-
tain obseevat mice in Europe and the United
States are slowly changing. The changes
are exceedingly slight, so that only the
most delicate measurements can reveal
them ; but In many branches of science itis
the small things that count most, since they
giro the investigator his ol,sest acquaint-
ance with the operations of nature.
Yet, although the variations of latitude
Oust seem to have been detected are very
small -amounting, for Mei-fume, in the
case of the observatory of Pulknwa, in Rus-
sia, to a motion away from the North Pole
of six inches in 0 year -very interesting
deductions may he drawn from then, Mr.
lt. C. Comatoolc has suggested, in a careful
discussion of the subject, that the change
in the position of the poles, which is indi•
cared by the variations in question, might
possibly be the result et a slight motion
still remaining over froln a great shifting.
of tie earth's ax's in long past time, by
which the North Polo was brought from
the center of Greenlaud to its present posd-
tiou.
The idea that the North Polo may 000e
have been in tlroonland,at•isos from the fact
that Greenland was the center of the area
which was covered with ice during the glaci-
al epoch, Such ashifting of the pole would,
then, serve to explain the dlsappoarauce of
the ice sheet that o,00 covered North
America as far south 00 the latitude of New
York.
• Mr, S. C. Ohaudler, after studying the
results of the observations that have been
made as to variations of latitude, has de-
duced the conclusion that all the changes con
ho accounted for by supposing that the North
Pole revolves in a circle sixty feet in dianeto'.
er, on00 in every four hundred and twenty-
seven
wentyseven days.
To maty persons sttolc inquiries may not
appear to bo of much practical importune°,
but is it not worth while to learn every-
thing we can about this great ship of spate
wbicll is bearing us on a wonderful voyage
through the ocean of infinity, and every
peculiarity of whose motion has some re.
1at10n to the forces that control the appar-
ently endless journey?
Oh 1 Yes They Had.
Once ata little dinner party in New York,
one of the guests, the younger brother of tel
English noi)leman, expressed wit11 common -
triable freedom his opinion of America and
Re people.
" I (lo•not altogether like the country,"
said the younggentlonan, " for one reason,
became Y01' have no gentry hero."
" What do you moan by gentry entry Y' asked
another of the company,
" Well, you know," replied tho English.
man ; " well -obs gentry ala these who
never do any work th,mselvee, and whose
fathers before theta neer dirt arty," •
1' All 1" exclaimed his interlocutor,
',thou we hove plenty of gentry m Ameriatt:•
Blit we don't pall them gentry. We earl
them tramps." A laugh 18011 round the
i, able, and the young 11151ishnnal turned his
oorvorsati di into another channel,
LATE CABLE NEWS
The Date ot the General .Elootian-The
Duke of Cambridge Doffs lite Moura-
ing--Saokville West and lits Neigh
bora.
Yesterday Mr. Lnbottohere made another
attempt to extract from rho t,ovet•nmoht
801110 definite declaration as to the date of
the genot'al election, and 'Mr, Balfour imine
a very careful reply, whieh seemed to afford
little information, bot it evidently convey-
e,l 80011 thing satisfactory. to .lilt Gladstone,
for that wily old strategist spoke honied
words to A1). Balfour, and advised Air. Las
bonchere not to press the Government
farther for the present. It has since become
known that Mr. Gladstone is of the opinion
that Mr, Balfoutrs statement contained a
virtual promise to dissolve Parliament be-
fore August, probably early in the sunnier,
Mr. Glatlstone's belief may be due to in-
formation which has reached hien front tine
Tory ,comp quite as much as to the sub•
stance of Mo. Balfour's gnarded statement
in Parliament.
A couple of weeks after Prinoo Albert Vic-
tor'e death the Duke of Cambridge, presid.
ing at some military gathering, sponte with
a voice broken with emotion, as the news -
papo) reporters recorded at the time, of tate
malty virtues and endearing qualities of itis
beloved young rotative. All the members
of the royal fancily, of course, are still in the
deepest mourning, including the Delco
of Cambridge: but the Duke seems
to have strange ideas its to the man-
ner in which he should comport him-
eelf during the defined period of grief.
He has talon part in official ceremonMeaand
private festivities, Mit he had refrained until
the ether day from attending places of
public entertitinulelt. On Thursday even-
ing, however, Mlle. Violet te, a vat -
gar French chanteuse, was put into
the progranme of the Alhambra Music
hall to sing Ta-ra-ra Boom -de -ay and the at-
traction proved irresistible to his Royal
Highness Duke George of Cambridge, wile
doffed his mounting and went to the show
accompanied by Lord Randolph Churchill,
Sir Henry 3lunes, Sir George Wombwell,
end Gen, Bateson. Tito mourning Duke
thoroughly enjoyed hfn1001f and the royal
party was altogether uproarious. People ime
now saying that this visit to the Muslu Hall
constitutes an outrageous violation of good
taste and showed a lack of proper feeling
which would be shameful in the ease of a
common person and is nothing less than in-
famous on the part of a royal:Duke. Vhat
the Queen and the Ptence of Wales will say
to the Duke when they meet him will pro-
bably not be recorded.
Earl Delaware, formerly Sackville West
of Washingtonnotoriety, has got into hot
water again, this time with the people of
Bexhill, He has arbitrarily blocked a pub-
lic footpath because it enabled vulgar villa-
gers to walk near his house, and tie servile
local vestry has not had the courage to pro-
tect the people's interests. There Is a
plucky minority at Bexhill, however, and
without assistance they are about to defy
the noble filcher by pulling down his fences
and marching along that loot -path despite
the bailiffs and gamekeepors.
Tho Beauty of Apology.
Scarcely a day passes but each one of us
is guilty, through carelessness, ignorance,
or perhaps'nten1ton, of some unkind, hasty,
word or act against another. We misjudge
another's word or deed, and, 10'11, angry
motives, we try to right mnrsolvee and as-
sert one injured dignity. When our better
nature is restored we regret that we were
not slow to anger. Weetaro mortified that
our own porceptiols were not keen anew')
to see the word or deed froman unpartial
point of view, and often w'o feel true con-
trition that we have cherished unjust sus-
picious, and voiced 0111 lhosghts indignant-
ly and harshly. nerd is an uneasy tug-
ging of our conscience and a hurt spot in en -
other's heart -Iwo discords whew all might
have been harmonious. Or 1ve acre so busy
with our duties, so wrapped up in oar 0r -
forts to got what we 10(0)1, that wo harry
along lough -shod over anything or person
that cheeks our hasty pace. We are not un-
kind, but careless of another's share in the
daily dafngs. We are self-aasertivo, anlwe
imagine eery one else equally able to main-
tain himself. We are surprised to find our.
solves charged with indifference and self-
fishuess, nut 10 sea another indignant at
one self- eve teyed course 1 or wears ignorant
014101 trmicr .put, the sens'tivo 110108, in
our neighbor's more high-sla•meg mature, and
will idle or bo,t•lmentioned chat, we press
clumsily the place we should avoid.
All this is tum ioyitlg, and wee who 00110 1•
enbionely live to do good rather then evil,
feel discouraged with our taetlrss selves,
and oftell ,jaetlyWith those 0(11000 feelings
are apparently " always on draught." Rut
how many of ns are 0.11 Hug to apologize 1
How many ohceffully use this, the first
means of righting wrongs 1 ,lust why
should false pride succeed in eonvinein5 us
that In aasnre another that we ('egret the
wrong, told are minded not to repeat it, is
humiliating ? The humili sting part of the
matter is our own shortcoming in tact and
thoughtfulness, not the fact that we say we
see our blunder. Tho offense is twofold -
our part and our neighbor's -and it is not
enough to be mentally resolved that the
troubie shall not arise again. The neighbor
should slier° this resolve, this mental epol-
ovy. Not that apology is the whole of re-
pentance, genuine turning front past acts,
but it is the first shorn that leads quickly,
naturally back from discordant keys to past
or higher harmonies,
The Fisheries of Lake Snpozior,
At Port Arthur alone rho figures of the
fishing industry foie market are astonish -
Mg. In 1898 the lashormen there caught
100,000potulds of whito'fish,100,000 pounds
of lake trout, 43,000 pounds, of sturgeon,
00,000 pounds of pickerel, 30,000 pounds of
other fish, or more than a million pounds in
all. They did this with an investment of
53900 in boats and $.10,000 in gill and.
poundnets, This yield nearly all went to
a Chlaage packing company, and it is in
1110 main Chiragoand Oldveland capital that
is controlling the lake's fisheries, The
white -fish is, mi the opinion .of most gout,
Inds, the most delicious idelt known to
Ame'ioans. The lake trona aro mere food.
told y
l amto that they aro rather ther related to the
aha' than to the anlmou. They arsean-
lia• to err intend waters. They average
five to ton pounle 1,1 weight, and yet grow
to weigh 120 pounds ; but whatever their
weight bo, it is a nacre pressure of hard dry
.Iles'), calculated only 1,0 appeto hunger,
q'ruo dignity dors met depend on 1110 piece
w1'
occupy in iife, ')tit of the 8p ril mid man,
11110 in whieh the duties of the place aro ao•
(j It od.
The Sabbath (Jhime.
Remo, thou Alnilghty King,
11)11) 110 thy 101110 10 811,14,
Pot her all Working, ,f
tree ell rietorions,
('ani' and reign 0001' 08,
Aliment of days.
(emus, (tum imamate Word,
(lied on thy mighty i.e. :
One prn,)1')1• attend
('ulna, aim I hey poi 1 de 1110.0 ;
Come, give Illy (11 1 snrre•.w ;
Spirit of ')olio•,,,
On 11, descend
Come, holy comforter,
Thy snored wit 11x, bear,
In this glad hour;
'I'hu•I, who almighty tu•t,
Now rule in ovary heart,
And Ito,'r 31,111 us depart,
' •
,It•it al wet•
I l ,
TO 1100, grant One In Three,
Tho highest praises be,
Wore evermore:
Thy ,nli'rei,.'ll 1tia)esty
>1ny Wo 1l( glory see,
And to eternity
Levu and adore.
Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
Monday -it is n vain charge that men
bring against the divine precepts, that they
are rigorous, severe, 11Hiked t 1 when, besides
the contradiction to our Savior, who tells us
His "yoke is easy" and His "burthell
lightason
and j"they
t. Is there not mehir own retdifliculty
to be vicious, eove(on0, violent, cruel, than
to be virtuous, charitable, kind? Doth the
will of God enjoin that that is not o0nfortn-
abie to right reason, and secretly delightful
in 1 he exercise and i8su0 1 Aad, 011 1110 con-
trary, what doth Satan and the world en-
gage us in, that is not full of molestation
and hazard 1 1s it a swept sol comely thing
to combat continually against our own con-
sciences, and resist 0'1'. 0811 light, and enm-
mence a perpetual q ieerol against oto salves,
as we ordinarily Ito when we sin
Uharneck.
Tuesday -
Thr man I aught enough by life's dream, of the
rest to 10/1110 80 re,
liy the paln-thruh, triumphantly winning Inten-
sified bliss,
And the next world's reward and repo,', by the
straggle In this,
IRobert Browning.
Wednesday.. -The practice of n,on holds
not an equal pace: yea, and often runs
counter to their theory : 10'0 ltarurelly lutow
what is good, In,1 mutually pursue what is
evil ; the rhetoric wherewith 1 persuade an-
otia' cannot persuade myself, time 10 a de -
prayed appetite in as that will 1)11s patience
hear the learned instructions of reaseu, but
yet perform no farther that agrees to its
own irregular hnl810r. In brief, Oro all aro
monsters, that is a coillpOei tial 1't 111011 and
boast where'll we must endeavor l0 be es
the poets fancy that wise mel ('hire], that
is, to have the region of the mal above that
of beast, and sense to sit out at Ole fent of
reason. Lastly, 1 do desire with I;Oa, that
all, but yet affirm with men, that fete
shall know salvation ; that the bridge, is
narrow, the passage straight unto life : y t
hos(' who do n0l co,fiue the Church of (sod
either to particular 11013000, churches, or
families, have made it far narrower than
our Savour ever meant it. --[.5)r'1', Browne.
Thursday-11'1th our sciences and our
oyelop edias we are apt to forgot the diol ne-
neao In those laboratories of ours. \Ve
ought Dot forget it. That once woll fol gotten
I know net what else were worth remem-
bering ! Most sciences. I think, were then
a very des 1 thing -withered contentions,
empty - a thistle in late autumn. The test
science, without this, is but as O tdoad (be-
lies; it is not the growing tree,,nd forest -
which gives ever11ety timber among other
things ! Man can not know either unless
he can worship 111 some way. His know-
ledge is a pedantry and dead thistle othe'•
wise. -'Phomas Carlyle.
Friday.. -
.And I have ,ocn thoughts in the valley --
Ah 010; 1118' 1111 spn•it wlix0l rirrt'd1
And they wolf, holy veil, 011 their fares -
Their foot -steps rn a see r1•111y b:• !Ward:
They pass t.h rough the v11 ley like 110011,,
'I'0o pure lir 110 touch ore 5(0,11.
--I.\ 10011y 111.,111.
Saturday -The si:,plieily of agent' and
Lustful instinct looks not in vain to Cod.
"That little fellow," said Luther of a bird
going to roost, " has (110100 his shelter. and
is quietly rocking himself to sleep, without
a care of to -morrow's lodging, calmly hold-
ing on his little twig, and leaving (nod to
think ot them." And thus, what Christ
would tell us that the flowers, by the divine
hieroglyphics of they ephemeral beauty,
teach us that God loves use is and the birds,
by their ;Remaly (11plxnted instinct $01'01111-
000 trust, in every 5a eying light upon their
plumage, end in every bent of their quiver-
ing wing, oil in every \vu dded melody of
Choir natural joy, say to us ; " Fear not ;
be not anxfons. Your heavenly Father
ferdeth Ile, and are not ye of 11111011 more
value than w0 arra-lf more value than many
sparrows? -[H', W. Farrar.
A Sy::tpathetio boy.
"Young Hopr''ul-" Papa, it worries mo
awful to think hate mull trouble I give
Manana.,,
' l aptt-" She hasn't complained,"
" No, she's rete patient. lint she often
sonde me to the stores for things, 01111 the
stores is a good ways off sometimes, and I
know sho gets most sick wait's' when she's
in a hurry."
"Not often, I guess."
1 Oh, she's most always in a harry. She
gets everything all ready for bread, an'
nds at the last minute she hasn't any yeast
or she gots a pudding all fixed, and finds she
hasn't any nutmeg or sonetiling; and then
she's in an awful stew 'cause the oven is all
ready, and maybe company oomin' and I
can't fun a very long distance, you know,
and I feel awful sorry for poor mamma."
" Humph ! Well, what can we do about
it ?"
' I was thiekin' you might get ole a bi-
cycle." _--
A orippled man is helpless ; frost'bitos
cripple and St, Jacobs Oil cures frostbites
promptly and permanently. A feet without
(Repute.
Senor Del Antonio del Castillo says
3,000 10110 of meteoric stone fell from the
moon in his part of Mexico recently.
APRI1. 15, 1S92
11 a constitutional and not n. local disease,
and Iherefnro it cannot hie oared by 100(11
mm11(1 0on8, It requires a consteutlonal
remedy 10(0 1110010 Nnrs;tpnrilla, Wh'eh,
working through the blood, Onsets a peones
Pent cure of catarrh by 0rudlentiug the lin•
purity which causes and promotes the tllseose.
Thousands of people testify to the 8u00ess of
Hood's Satemp trllla 110 14 remedy for catarrh
when other preparations had failed, Il ood'e
Sarsaparilla Ulan builds up the whole system,
and snakes yeti feel renewed in health.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all drurgiats, y11; alx for e1. prepared only
by 0.1.1(001) ,t 00., Apothornrios, Lowen, 100,1.
100 Doses One Dollar
HOW THE SULTAN EATS.
lie itinu;rll' Lives Slmplr but reeds 1,55-
Iohl,t' Slx't711glsand ['arsons.
The author of " The Sovereigns and
Courts of Europe" deo:vibes the present
Soltan of Turkey as load(ngavery simple life.
Ho crone to the throne in 1870, without any
agency of bus own, and almost against his
own will, after living for many years in re-
tirement, and no doubt finite his trappings
of royalty something of a burden.
When it 1s said that he lives simply, how-
' ever, the word mast bo unde'stao 1 a8 ap-
plying to tis personal habits rather than to
his official turrooudings and expenditures.
Thus it is e•ttim,.trd that more than 11000
pers.-me are fell 1'0 14.y day at. his Heinle
11 gtche palace when he is there. The tteus-
e's:I' of the household has 14 pretty heavy
bur len upon hie shoulders.
There Is 0 regularly organized force of
buyers, each aha -get' with the purchase of
certain supplies for the enlace. One Ulan's
duty is to buy fish ; and to do this for 111)00
pe'sous is no light undertaking in a city
whieh las no great 111:1 1'k0t8. About 1111
tons a week are regeired, and to 1401,110 thio
801110 (1x11113' men :ire kept busy.
That therein enormous waste and extrava-
gance in th( kilrheus is almost 0. natter of
course; it 18 said that enough is thrown
away daily to feeds hundred families. Itu1
such ',vast .0 is not oollhnelt to Li Turkish
royal hmla'hthl, and might be 1•nunl in
kitchens nenrur hone. The surplus is
gat tiered 1'p I ly L (1 e I,,.gg.11's, \vi t h w hon Colt,
staltino io abounds, ;old \vhtt still remain
is eaten 1t• tl:u s, ;1•; ell5'r dogs,
rm n
rup
G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown,
Wis. This is the opinion of a man
who keeps a drug store, sells all
medicines, comes in direct contact
with the patients and their families,
and knows better than anyone else
how remedies sell, and what true
merit they have. He hears of all
the failures and successes, and can
therefore judge : "I know of no
medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat,
or Hoarseness that had clone such ef-
fective work in my
Coughs, family as I3oschee's
Sore Throat, Gennan Syrup. Last
winter a lady called
Hoarseness, at my store, who was
suffering from a very
severe cold. She could hardly talk,
and I told her about German Syrup
and that a few doses would give re-
lief; but she had no confidence in
patent medicines. I told her to take
a bottle, and if the results were not
satisfactory I would make no charge
for it. A. few days after she called
and paid for it, saying that she
would never be without it in future as
h!< few doses had give" her relief." Ct
99 E,
They R1V3 T,teir Habil 112o11a i.
A 1301)0)10 eighteetil 11 .30111111y (nnstont has
leen revived by the leading Paris coill'ures,
of having models made of the heads of dis-
tant chants, ie order tv study the effects of
new styles of hair chossi15 and keep the
ladies posted on the newest and most becom-
ing fashions. A Russian ggl'a d° datlle, for
' exempla, sends 81 a considerable expense a
fee -simile of her head and face, copied per-
fectly ie every detail, to her hairdresser in
Paris, leo experiments freely, and when a
satisfactory result is obtained he nails a
photograph of it, with minute directions for
1 arrangement, mull month 11' the St. Peters-
! burg bolle,nnd thus enables her to look up
• to ditto in the matter of coill'ute. The inital
exponse'e not small, for the wax modeller
must be in his way a true artist.
A New Business for Women.
A now profession is open' to tvomei
in large allies. No special qualifications
are romnried beyond good looks and good
taste, The profession is that of
window gazing. The duties aro light
and the pay is good. All that is re-
' quit ed is to stand in ttonto your patron's
sbroot windows during the fashion Ethic hours
of th0,s(ternoon 111111 in auiiiotently enthug.
oalie touts Maw the attention of your com-
panion to the merits of the latest sweet
thing In bonnets or that perfectly ideal thee,
ter cloak for the benefit of the genuine shop-
pers who are passing; The professional win-
dow gazers must go in couples in order to bo
able to start a oonvesatiel,
to WITHOUT AN EQUAL.
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