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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1901-04-05, Page 70,45,14.0 d..01...10:009:444:44,11:44160:1+:4404,14:44•4:1,1:1 -d:•4;14:04* :te ?:::Uhseln sta,9sission* Et Cd ddi 71S. •Reiv. Dr. IreArnage Descants Eiocluently On Its Power For Good Or Evil A 'Weighing -tan report Says. In a new Prosperity or failure, their faith or way and from a pectinar text Dr. Taitheir unbelief, their purity or corruP- Men their heaven or hell. Sb.ow me mage diaeourses de good influences ' any man's library, great ar small, and brought to bear for the world's im- atter examining tbe books, finding proveraent. The text Is Ezekiel ix, 2: those with leaves uncut, but displayed • aerie one man among then', Was aloth- , ed with linen, with a writer's hnichorn by, his side." The poem from which my text is taken Is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It is more than Homeric or Dattesque. No one ever had such divine dreams as Ezekiel In a vision this prophet had seen wrathful angels, destroying angels each with a sword, but in my text he -sees a merciful angel with an ink- horn. The receptacle for the ink In olden time was made out of the born of a cow or a ram or a roebuck, as now it le made out of metal or geass, and therefore was called an inkhorn, as now we say inkstand. We * have all spoken of the power of the sword, of the power of wealth, • of' Use power of office, of the power of social influ- ence, but to -day, I speak of the power for good or eyil in the inkstand. It Is upon your tables, holding a black or blue or red liquid. It is a fortress, an armory, a gaintvay, a ransom or a demolition. "You mistake," says some- one; "it is the pep., that lies the pow- er." No, my friend. What is the in- fluence of a dr' pen? Pass it up and down a sheet of paper, and a Mayes no rnark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no in- telligenee. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inicecand that does the work. Here and there a celebrat- ed pen with which a Declaration of In- dependence , -or a. Magna Cnarta or a treaty was signed has been kept in literary museum or national archives; but for the •most part the pens, whether, as of old, made aut of reed' or later of wing of bird or still later of metallic substance, lia•ve disap- peared, wbile the liquid which the pens took from the inkstand remains In scrolls which, if nut together, would be large enough to enwarp the round world. For practical, for moral, for religious, for eternal purposes, I speak of tbe mission of "the writer's ink- horn." First, I mention that which is pure- ly domestic. The inkstand is in every household. It .awaits the epportuntty to express affection or 'condolence or advice. Father uses it; mother *uses It; the sons and daughtere ueedt. It tells the hoine news; it announces the marriage, the birth, the departure, the accident, the last sicknees, the death. That home inkstand, what a mission It has already executed, and what other missions will it yet fulfill! May it stand off from, insincerity and all querulousnesi. tat et tell only that which it .woula be well. to reaci after the hand that wrote it and the hand that receleed it can write' no raore. Dip out cif, that inkstand only that which is paternal, maternal, filial, sis- terly, ,brotberly. Saceed let it be 'not to what are • sometieeesn called the ahousebeid gods," but to' the one and the only one God who "setteth the sol- itary in families." DIP out.of it solace for parnoteen the descending oracle of yearsitd: encouragement for 'those who are' alimbing the steeps. The gervers ar.d glass blowere are ever busy making more ornate and skilful bowls for the ink; but not one of them will be so sacred as the old- fashioned inkstand out of which was dipped' the liquid for the malting of the family record on the blank leaves in the 131ble between tee ale eine the New Testaments not so many leaves now blank as before recent years made birthday or mortuary insertions. Prom tbat+home inkstand the child, dips out material for those large and awkward letters that one always makes when learning to write, and from it are taken the trembling letters that show the wrinkled hand is gradually forget- ting its. cunning. 0. ye who have within recent years Set up homes et your own, out of the new home inkstand write often to the old folks, if they 'be still living! A letter means more to them than to us, who are amid the activities of life and to whom postal correspondence is more • than we can manage. .They await the coming of the letter. Undertake no great thing in life without their advice. Old people for counsel; young people for • action. Even though through de- cadence they may be incompetent to •give valuable °Melons .on important affairs, compliment them 'by n.sking their counsel. It will do them good. It will snake their last days exhilarant. Make that home inkstand a source of rejuvenescence to those who arc near theterminus of the earthly journey. Domeetle correspondence is not at- tended to at once. The .newspaper, Joining with the telegraph, bears the tidings of -411' the neighborhood, inet swifteet revolving wheel of 'modern printing press and quickest flash along the electric wires can never do the sympathetic work of the home ink- stand. As the merciful angel of my text appeared before the brazen altar with the inkhorn at his side in Eze- kiel's vision, so let the hngel of that filial Wildness appear at the altars of the old homestead. Furthermore, tbe inkstand of the neusiness man has its mission. Be- tween now and the hour of your de- mise, 0 commercial man, .0 profes- sional man, tbere will not be a day when you cannot dip from the inkhorn a message that will influence temporal and eternal destiny. There is a rash yottng man rut:ming into 'wild ,Specula - don, and with as much ink as you can put on the pen at one time you may save him from the Nivearapids of a ruined life. • On the next street there is a young man started in busi- ness, who, through lack of patronage or mistake in purchase of goods or want of adaptation,is on the brink et eollapse. One line of ink from your pen will save him from 'being an un- derling all his life, and start him on a career that will vviri him a fortune witch will enable him to become an endower of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches, leurthermore, great are the responte- bllities of the author's inkhorn. Ail the people ser nearly all the people, lead, eand that ethich they read de-, °Mee their raerale Or imMorals, their for sake oe the binding, and those wor With frequent perusal, and withou ever seeing the man or knowlog hi name, I will tell you his likes and hi dislikes; his morals, good or bad or in different; his qualifications far buslnes or artistic or professional or inechan Mal life. The best index to any man' * character is the book he prefers abov all others. Oh, the power of a boo n t s s , s - s e k I - - s s n t d h , r - - d t - - - , 0 cl. d s k o r . the heavens offal pushing -Oh the ee7Ir 1 O of this life. enen who have se inuell , t right to live as you and I have: am ' lb asting homes in which there dwells a 1 ; as much loveliness as in our own! Would that the:merciful angel of iny text take the last weapon of war and /ling it off and fling it down *with such force that it shall clang on the lowest round of the perdition where the neat keen edge of human strife ler good or evil! Abraham Lincoln in early life read Paine's Ago of Reason, and It so in- fluenced hizn that he wrote an essay against Christianity, but afterward some Christian books came into his hands and gloriously changed his mind and made him a most ardent friend of the Bible and a man of prayer. While passing, as in paxentliesis, I advise: Read books of noetry, that the bells in your soul may be set a chiming. Read history, that you may know bow wrongdoing in time comes to defeat and righteousness to vietery. Read books of law, that you ma Y see that anarchy has no right in a world so precisely governed. Read books of Wit and humor, that you may experi- ence the healthfulness of laughter. Read books of religion, that you may appreciate how small is the vestibule of time cornpared with the palaces of eternity. Through books we sit down and talk with the mightiest spirits of all the ages. We accompany Tennyson on his springtime walk as he falls upon his k.nees in the meadows, cryleg to his nompanion: "Violets, man, violets! Smell them." Or we ride with Trajan hi his triumphal march, or stand with Godfrey at the taking of Jerusalem, or with arctic explorer hear the crash o the icebergs, or are received with Her nando Cortes in the halls of Montezu ma. or watch in the observatory a Herschel with his telescape capture another star, or the ink in the inkhor turns red as blood, and we are a 'Marengo and Arbela and ITylau an Borodino and Leipsic; or we sail wit Ido.milcar from Carthage to Palermo or we see Galileo fighting for the sole system, and around us gather for con verso.tion Aristotle and Plato and Rob ort South and Sydney • Smith an Chaucer and Paul Richter and Swif and Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and Tal leyrand and Burke and Edward Iry ing, while to •make music for us Han del and Moiart and Mendelssohn come in, and we watch Columbus landing and see John Harvard's legacy of E90 pafd over for the founding of Harvar university,. and Joshua Reynolds an David 'Wilkie and' Rembrandt tell u pf their pictures. Oh, the books! Than teed for the books, and thanks be t all the authors! May the inkborn eve be under divine inspiration! When a bad book is •printed You d well to blame the publisber, but mos of all biome the author. The malari rose from his inkstand 'The poison than caused' the moral or spiritual deeth dropped in the fiuk1 from the tip of his pen. The manufacturer of .that ink could tell you that it is made of tannin and salt of iron and nutgalls and green vitriol, but many an autho has dinped from his inkstand hyper criticisn and malevolence and Mande and salaciousness as from a fountain of death. But blessed be God for the author's inkstand in 10,000 studies sehich are dedicated to pure intelli- gence, highest inspiration and grand- est purpose. They are the inkstands Out of which will be dipped the re- demption of the world. The destroying angels with their swords seen in Eze- kiel's vision will be finally overcame by the' merciful angel with the writer's Inkhorn. Among the most important are the editorial and reportorial inkstands. The thick ink on the printer's roller Is different from the ink kite which the writer dips his pen and is compounded of linseed oil and lampblack and made thick by boiling or burning. But the editorial and reportorial pens are re- sponsible for that which the printer's" Ink roller impresses upon the flying sheets. Where one mat reads a book, 5,000 men read a newspaper. 'What change of opinion in regard to the printing presd since the day when the great A.dilison. wrote concerning it: "One cannot but be sorry that such a pernicious machine is erected among them," and when, under the reign of Charles II, only one newspaper, the London Gazette, was allowed to be printed, and that only on Mondays and Thursdays! Not until the judgment day, when the forces whieh have in- fluenced the world shall be compared and annoon.ced, will be known the power of the niodere newspaper. A wrong theory' is abroad that the newspaper impression ie ' epherneral. Because we read and east it aside in an hour and never see it again we are not to judge that we are parted from its influence. No 'volume ot 600 pages makes such impreesion upon the people as the daily news- paper. It is not what we put away carefully upon the shelf and .once In awhile refer to that has as close • re- lation .to our welfare as the story of what the world is now doing or has recently done. 'Yesterday hao more to do with to -day ' than soIneth occurring a century prerious. The en- gineers who now guide the rail trains, the sea eaptains who now command the ships, the architeets who now de- sign the buildings, the batons that now control the orchestra, the legislators who now make the laws, the generals who now march the hosts, the rulers Who now govern the nations, the ink- horns that now flood tile world with Intelligence -these are what we have most to do with. • , 'You hare all seen What Is called indelible inic, which MI a weak emit. - tion of silver nitrate, and that ink you cannot rub out or wash out. Put it there, and it stays. Well, the liquid of the editorial and reportorial inkstands is, an indelible ink. It mate upon the souls of the passing genera - times, characters of light or darkness thet thee caneet wash o'at and eter- nity cannot efface. Poreeer Be careful how you Ilse It, The inx- pressien made with it will be resplend- ent or repulsive on the day ter wlilob all other days were made. Ail Christendom /las been waiting for great revivals of religion to start from the pulpits and prayer meetings. I now suggest that the greatest revival of all time may start a concerted • and organised movement through the ink- horns of all Chrieteiniom, each writer dipping from the inkhorn nearest him a letter of gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warning, gospel instruc- tion. The ink Is already on a hundred thousand tables, and beside it are the 1mplement wlth whieh to dip it out. Why not, through such process, have millions of souls brought to God be- fore next summer? By letter you could make the invitation more effective thee by word of mouth. •The invitation from your lips may be argued back, malt' evoke'querulbui reply, may be answer- ed by a joke, but a good, warm gospel letten ' written in prayer and started with prayer atd followed by prayer, will he read over and over again and cannot ee answered in a frivolous way. It will speak from the table by daY and nigat, or, if pettishly torn up, will, In its scattered fragments, speak lead- er than when it remained whole. With- in arm's reach of where you sit there may be a fitrid that you may put on wing with message of light and • love. Oh, for the svelft flying angel of mercy which Ezekiel saw in vision "with a writer's inkhorn by his side!" The other angels spoken of, in my text were destroying. angels, and each had what the Bible calls a "slaughter weapon" in his hand. It was a lance or a battleaxe or a. sword, God hasten the time, when the lest lance shall be shivered and the last battleaxe dulled and the lest evvord sheathed, never again to leave the scabbard, and the angel of the text, • who, Matthew Henry says, was the •Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from the full inkhorn of hie mercy, give, a saving call to all nations. That day may be far off, but it is helpful to think of its coming. As Dr. Ra- leigh declared, that when 50 miles at sea off the coast of New England the cattle on board the ship, as well as himself, scentedthe clover on the nrnid • ✓ was sharpened! War 1 In the name - of Almighty God and of all the home- ✓ steads it has deter -ea and, is now destroying, I hate 1. denounce it. I curse it I If our Bible is tree -and no ether book that was ever printed Is as true as that book. which Moses be- gan and John enished-then the time will, come when all the weapons of cruelty will stop and the inkhorns of evangelisation will have their way. The red horse of carnage that St. John saw in a vision, and the black horse of famine, and the pale horse of death will be stabled, and the white horse of prosperity .and peace, mounted by the Ring of Rings, will Mad the great army with' banners. Through the convicting, converting, sanctifying power of the Eternal Spirit, may we all march in that procession ! Hail, thou Mighty Rid- er of the white horse in the final triumph! Sweep down and sweep by, thou angel of the New Covenant. With the. Inkhorn of the world's evangelisation 1 "The mountains mei the hills shall break forth into sing- ing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the lir tree, and instead of the brier shall come Up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlast- ing sign that shall not be out off." A Brutal Crime. mit •Brietal Assizes, Daniel Allpert, an unctuous professing Cerietian, who had taken a, prominent part In local evangelistic work, was sen tenced to 1.5- years' penal servitiele for attempting to murder one of bie children by the atrocious process of• gradual starvation: The prienner had lived with a woraan newel Chappell, who wee found guilty on the same cbarge, but escaped with the lighter punishment of five years, and the evidence showed that while the offspring of their . illicit union had been wen .fed and eared for, tbe two little boyS who were AllporVe legitimate eleldren by his wife had been the subject of systematic and diabolicalcruelty on the part of both criminals. Deprivation of food and constant expOstire to oold had reduced the strength of the two poor children to such a low ebb that the preservation of their lives was almost , a miracle, anil Allpert had a narrow 'and undeserved es- cape of being, hanged for ' Most fathers and mothers who re- tain the natural Instinct of parents vvili regret that it . was not Leval to hong the seoundiel, or to cloom him to a. more lingering form of death. The system that permits the ineuring of children's lives is alto- gether at Can't. 'Child Inger/once as it In practised .Puts a premium, 00 the deathof ehildren, rod tempts parents to forget the pelmitive in- stinct of ixerental love.-Weeton, Eng., Mercury.' George T. Blies, 'the well known New 'York retired banker, is dead, an the result of complioNtions devel- oped from the grip, SUNDAY SCHOOL eeseease. inarieltIVAT1Ole A .1.+ESSON Mee 7, 1001. The Resurrection of Jesus -Luke el:142 Connnentary.-It was of the•utauost iniportanue, though they knew it not at latelenze that the fact of Christ's dente etiteild be proved' boyond the pole-well:ter of cavil or doubt, for otherwiee distreet would be thro.we upun the fact of Ms resurreetioli. Ever.Y precaution was taken; not, by Its enemies, but by the enemies of eiems. The women who had remained near toe croes saw where the body wile laid, anti went home .to- prepare apices anol ointments ler the ciim- pietion 01 the erribalithig and thee meted oi er the Sabbath. 1. The fleet day of tee week-Chi:1st was •in the, teeth part of. Friday, all day eaturclay and part of Sunday, which was eallee three days twined- Mg- to Jewieli reckoning. Ile arose very earle in the morning on thelirst day of the Week. A.t the appeaSance. of tho angel the Roman guard' were eo frightened that they fell as dead men, and it wou.d eeem that tbey 11.e1 from t)je. tomb before the women came. • Very enelyen the morning - They eam.e a1 the earliest moment af- ter their Sabbath. John says, "Whee It WM? yet (lark," cometh Mary. :Mark elaye, -"rime came mato the sepulchre at tee resins of the eun." Bringing the epices-Powilered aromatic. sub- etencee ana fluid perfumes appear to • bliotT thoorbeneatereitiLin laying out the dead 2. The stone rolled away -,&s the women journeyed they questioned who should toll, away the stone,but when they reached the. tomb. :they discovered tee stone was rolled away. a. They entered la-Mitry Mitgdia lone eeems tc have. been in advance of the rest and only looked in (John XX 1); the others entered. Found not tan -leely-the linen grave clothes Wore there, but the tomb could not 'hold Cihriste The empty grave was leeboundary line between the old dimpeneation and the neve. 4. efuch perplexed -.-They did not know what 50 do ier where to go. Their thought was "They. have tak- en away the Lord, and we know not wherio they have laid Hine" TWO men -Angel's. Matt. ixviii. 5. -Matthew speaks of but one, the onb who. Old "the speaking, and Meek speaks of him its a- young man. Sinning gar-, ments-efattheivIS Lys les countenance was like lightning and his raireent -white as ,e,tiow. "The raiment was em- blematical of the glad tidings whieh the angels came to announce, ami also of purity and fellowship with Go.e" Rev. 111.4, 5. o. They were; afraid -It is no won- ex- that the woinen Were afraid. Mat- thew says that through fear the teepere "did shake and become as mill men." They -The angels, said - 'Why eeck ye the living among the •ead?" EL 111 is risen -He was crucified, bet S risen. Instead of anointing him OS dead they May rejoiee in his being alive from the dead. "Death hath •no more dominion over him." The reser- --ction morn 'VMS a ttime• of glad - pee to the disciples of ,jeene, 7. Saying -See chap. ix. 22, 44, 45,; Leo :11., 31-33 ; Matt. xvi. 21: Rise again 7,-,aoug bad tried to impress them 112,41 this truth hi order to comfort them en tlie hour of their great. sor- failed to comprehend from the sepulchre - the angel told thole and tell his disciples risen, and that they departed quickly with fear and great key, and • did run to bring the dis- ciples word. 10. Mary Magenlexte-" . re. was native of Magiciala, a town on the Sea of Galilee, and vvas foremost among the honorable women who ministered unto Christ and His die-, oiples,• being . especially devoted to Chriet for Ills mercy in vesting out from her seven, evil teerit.s. Mary, the mother of James -Called jaM(15 the Less to distinguish lain from James the brother of John. She was the wife • of Alpleeurs, who seems also to have been called Cleophae. 11. Believed them not - They thought they must surely be mistak- en ; they could not underatand or com.prehend their words. : 12. Then. arose Peter-ena'n went with himand reached the sepulchre nest. Zahn xx. 2, 3. They had heard the story from Mary Magdalene, be- fore the women returned. The linen cloth-es-Thit4 :was the fine linen in twithil:°bhodJoseph °f Arlinathea, wrapped Teachings. -3 -esus lay in the gra've during the Sabbath, whieb eignified that henceforth the Seevieli eln b - bath, Like all other Jewish Instate. tins,. WAS dead. The first (Word the week -the resurrection day, which was called by jobb the Lerd'e day, fleas alw-ays been observed by Chris - tins as the • Christine. Sabbath. The first day of the week was the first day of 11, new dispensation, Which NraS in every respect better and grander thla.nthe old. The resnrree- Von of Ohrtst gives assurainee of our own resurrection, with epiritual bod- ies like His 'glorious body. row, but they its meaning. 9. Returned Matthew says to go quickly that He was • PRACTICAL SURVEY. The resurrection of Christ 15 a doc- trine of revelation. The angels n.t the tomb attested tbe face: of his resarseetion. "He is not here, but Is risen." V. O. And the women re- ported the fact to the. "eleven and to all th'eSt." V. 9. an 1 Cor. xv, 1-4, St. Paul treats- of the resurrec- tion of Christ as a fundamental doc- trine of the 'Scriptures. He declares that Christ was crucified and bur- rng ditoand t hte"Setrilipeturroe7."again "ae"rd- - The doctrine of a general resurrec- tion is based on the resurreetion of Christ, St. leaul affirmed his belief Ili the resurrection of the dead ill un- mistakable terms. But he tuide, "If Christ be not risen then is our vpia-etanc„hing vain, and your faith is also • On tho doetriee of the reeurrec.- tam le revealed the Christian's hope of immortality and eternal tiro. 11. proves thee "death does not end all," but that th6"Sou1 lives after the body. le dead.' As Christ rose triumphant • over death and the grave, even So She bodies or those who dle In Christ Shall be changed and '"fashioned like unto Hia.glorlous body, according to the Working whereby he le able even to aubdue all things unto himself." Christ, the risen 'Savieur, lives to intercede for fallen man. Be died for our sins and rose for our Justification. f1hrou01 Xllm we approach the altar of mercy on lien Virn place: our :Wee - tone ;lil IIlzo we trust as our preeeet deliverer end ever-present helPer ; through Him we advance to ever -le - creasing Wields oe meral excellence ; and in Ills name we expecit to triumph over the last enemy and reeeive 0711' Spiritnal body that Can never die. Tide lefeeen teaches the possibility and eeceesity oe the ineral resurrec- tion. Those who are awl in via may be made alive in Chriet Bat death must precede resurrection. All men will rise again -Some to "glory and lemur" ; "others to elm= and everlasting contempt." Tim cep- talety of the resarkeetion, of the day of judgment, and the retributions of eternity, shoule lead nil to m dee it their great ()beet to "learn and do tile will of God e henrken daily to His 'eine heartily His declare. - 'lions, and obeying cheerfully and per- Reverinaly commen'le." Saell, end such only, eltell hn,ve a rr sarreetiori to everlastieg glory, std u I i el Nlidm VW • • Prominent Englishmen Seek Control of' Public Houses. TO LESSEN DRINK SALESI A London cable says: "Municipal sa- loons," conducted to cliseourage the sale of intoxicating drink, are about to be established throughout the United Renglone "Tee Public [-1 itien Trust Company, Limited,' under the direction of Earl (trey, Lord -Lieuten- ant of tlie county ot 1Norteumberl1u1d, purposes to leriso or pine:ilium the ex - toting aloons, acquire all the LIONV licenves, emu manage tile properties SO obtained tor the benefit of the local come -mettles. The company expecte to return five per cent. interest on its capital and to amete /1E3 4311111111F earnaigs to the construction and •Knaintmairtoe of ceurenes, scholes, parks, theatres, librarlee, hospitios an' baths. ea1ina zan interview teelay Lord Or•e'S eleo modern temperance advocate willing to take a. praetieal view of the liquor problem any longer believee In prohibition'. It hae.proved a failure Ili the, United Stater' ris well ae in Great Britain. Regulation is the only weapon wien which wo here in Eng - lane, at least, can suceesefully fight the, trade intrenchea behind £.10,000,- 000 ($100,01-0,000) of anutial net pro - !its. . 1 e figure thet so long as the peo- ple will and must drink th.elr spend - Inge Wands.' come baek to them in- stead of merely still fureher fatten- ing a gluttonous private monupoly. We aope to promote temperance, first, by r eve tienizing elle entire saloon atmospficsre, and, second, by pushing forward the sale of tun -in- toxicants. A third means Is by giv- leg tea aod coffee ane1 food promin- ence over beer, weiskey, and sell its. • "We shall optore.te in the beginning in the rural distriets, invading the cities by degrees." Among Earl Grey's associates in ehe new project are the Duke of Nor- thanoberlatee Veseuent form- erly Home Secretary; Sir Edward Grey, M.. P., and °tears. Laxly Hoary Somerset, President of the W'omea s Christine Temperance Union, .asked be eopinion on the scheme; wired to -night "T know Lore Orey to be a- most entheelastie risiri elf'votod phila nthro- pist ;- but if leis ince hoile were to Nue- coed he ought to beve began them two ituindral yeers ago. It is enlaces - Bible now for art or beauty to cleinge tee hereditary tendencies nequired by the Anglo-Saxon race. has 1.00 • long time:mated tim raen'e brain for them to kill these tendeneies in nny *other way than by the tote' abetiza once of _sevci_.ral_g_ere_ir_titione." SOLUTION OF fl CSTEHY, A Pit, a Post, Handcuffs and . a Skeleton, VENGEANCE OF ANGRY HUSBAND •'A Poultney, Vt. report: 'Workmen remoVing a yeller wall under a di- lapidated Melding just north of the bridge that crosses Fairhaven River, a quarter of a mile above Carver s leads, have ;1p1):trendy tmeartned eve deny* which soleas- tne myetery of a • murder wbielt oiieurred seventy years - ago. The discovery woe made by ay- eident, the I:teem-re having fallen inti a pit while, trying to lilt some heavy stories. The pit was 1111,111t olgitt feet deep, with a solid stone wall about twenty ineleas thick surround- ing It,. In the emcee of tan pit was set a &eel iron poet, attached to whie.h was. a hefty- iron chain and an 01d fashioned palr of handcuffs. Near by was a heap of human heave. Inquiry hair ditiCIO 4nd no faet that in 1881 Perry Borden a young Frenchman, brought his young wife Poultney to live in the house which the workmen are tearingolotve. She WaS witty :and yivaetotts and attract. ed considerable 'attention. Before long Borden beenme jealous of her ti and fOrbade her •visiting a eortain ; tavern.' that Was kept near by. The yoke* -and bigleteinpored wife would , not suhtnit to be dictated to by her ' husband. One night in Novembor, :ten she Was at the plaoe, when, about 10 o'clock, Borden called for her. SIM left the .01.•ice with him and , never was seen by lee! friends after ' that Borden wild his wife had de- 1 'eerie() him and fled to Canada. After a year Borden went (may, antl was not beard of again, until 1882. when 11.V. 5101(1:- n 1 y re -appeared in tovvrie He snal he lon.d been at sea for the fifty years he lied been away, His heed seemed shattered. He went- to tho littlo house and re- mained two years, neighbors slip - ' porting him with provisions. tee final. ly became sink and Abe towntook ellierge of him.. He 'died in .1887, and was bowled in the potters' field. • -• The' disco -Wee nrido by th». workmen hos- led everyone In the( vicinity to ibneltigerintitimertgirloolrincliceine„eilgnaendallrft'whiefre to die a horrible death. The dareage dole': to the T..iindnay Poet by fire n.Mounts . to about .V5,- 000. [he ik!arkt„ e•esieene eeenneeeeaseaneenesesseseeeeze Whtia 1 illarleyts. Following are tee elosing quota- -blow: at important wheat cen- tres to -day:. . Chicago 430%7063-0 idilvvaukee... .. -. 0 75 1-2 077-3 .7.8 St. Toledo .. 078 0 70 1-2 Detroit, red... e.. 079 . • 0 80.1.-2 Detroit, wilite 019 Duluth, No. 11 '07.6 4-6 herd- 70 3-8 Minneapolis, No 1 Northern... 74i 14 *A19111.ren,41 -Creeie and producee. Montreal, 'March 28, -Flour quota.- tious leatent winter, $8.8e- to $4; petent • 'spring, $1.10 iee •.$4.e0, sti eight rotlee $3.3e to e3.50 extra, pone suneefiee, -none.; eteoeg bakere", $13.80 to $4,,. Qat:alio bags, $1.5.0 tO $1.8e. . 001i.li..lieetkiet-2, ("4. 811)- Mtoglieil*., 7• 861 etoo . 78e.; oats, 32 to 3304 aarley, .50 to 51e.; rye, 57 to 58(e; butikwheat, 55 to eae. meanie'', $1.60 to $L70; corn, in al, LO e to. $1. Pork, eilleeo to $20.50; lard, 7 to Se.; Lenexa, 12 to 13e.; hams, 12 to 14e. Cheese, 0 to 10 butter, townships, 2120 too 12t., western 15 to 1004 ego, 1t1(11:1 P£1 ClnerS' el ark et. , 'Wheat•Deliverie, 1,10) Isushele ; micas 1$5”11.iiy i lime 30) bosh:els of white sold 1-2e. higlisr at 091-2c., and 800 of guose at 67e. Red was quoted at 69e., and spring at 70 to 72c. • Batley was ( as:kr : 1:0 ) b.:sheis sold. 1-2 to 1 1-2e. lower ite 451-2 to 40 1-2c. Oats -Steady; 100 bushele solid at 34 1-2.e.. • ilay and Straw -Twenty loads a? hay Fold 50e. to $1 easier at $14 to. $15.50 a ton. Three loada of straw!, sold at $0.50 to $10 a ton. Seed s. The feature of the market here is• She strength of red clover, the de- inand for which is actives Stocks( aro email. We quote for Yee lots here -P6.70 to $8.50 • per -bushel; red clover, G 7.3. VJ $7.80 per bushel; timothy, $2.10 to $3.25 pr bashei New York... , Manitoba Wheat Markets. • There is practically no change in the total market seem a week ago. At the beginning of Inc week, :with the advamee in the outside' markets, there atisse a stronger feeling, and prices were ••.nominaLy higher without eatenele any mere:toe in the amount 'of inartneee. This has been hat* eineeeleollers are firm, bat there is ne demand and bnyers are scarce. There 18 increasing eaution as re- gards tough wheat. Pricee et the yesterday were exaetly the aline as a week age: No, 1 hard, 840; No, 2 hard, 7e.* N. 3 -.tiara, Gee; No. 3 northern, 03 1-2e; tough No: 8 hard, (3 ; tenet No. 3 northern, 59c; all in store Fort Wlbliaus, boot or on route, Na. 1 hard closed at 84e and e et (3 -Se iu store Fort William. Basinese is very dull and inactive. The eountry wheat market is dell. The top price quoted to farmers.- is Ole per bushel for best grades otaf wheat, and from that prieme range down 5 50e, aceoeiling to quality, of grain and rate of freight -Winne, per Cominereiel. ast Buffalo ,1urkt. e :Sheep and .Laines-eefferings„. 40 loads ; active demand ; cameo to ex- tra lambs, ee.90 to $0 : good to oholee, 85.75 lo 5e.90 ; (emotion to fair, $5.25 to $5.541. &leap choice to extra, 85 to $5.:15 good to choice, el.75 to $5; apped '$5 to 15.35. elogs-euppec. Agee 14 loads; prieee 5e to 10e 'legit r, un -der active de- mand. Heave, e0.25 to $0.30; York - (as, eei-10 to e(3.15; pigs, $5.9ce to $1,05; roughs, 8.,.40 to$eap.. stage,. sings, ,$1.24 Closed firm. London Wuol elates. During the sevend series 218;000 vvere available of which 108,' 023 were, cat ii) teen Mil MP 00,11t mat: bought 02,000 bales,' the home teade 91,000, America 4,000 and 58,000 were carried over. Following are 10- (18y's•sales : New South Wales, 5,100 bales - Seoured, 1-2t1 to is 7 1-2d; greasy, 1-2d to 1011. QuE.,VIISIILIld, 3,000 balee-Seoured, 8e to is ; greasy, Od to 9-1-2d. Vietoria, 1,800 bales -- Scoured, 7 1-211 to Is 711; grertsy, 4,1-2a to . Is 1 1-241. South Australia, 1,200 belts Fecoured„ 0 1-241 to is 2 1.8:1; great/en 4-e to 8(1. • West Australia, 300 ))ales -Greasy, 4 1-2d to sd. Tasmania. 200 babes -Greasy, 5d• to 1141. . . New Zealand, 2,100 bale.s-Scoured, GI to 1s Gd; greasy, 4 34(.1 to 9d. •(I11P1 of Gore] Hope and Natal, Oe *00 balea-Sconred, is 'to 15 3d; greasy, 3 3-4t1 to 7 1-411. Brads( reets, on Trade. Business at .alsentreal has been only, fair this week.' Coautry romittantes, is might be expocted at thic. eeeetone me a little slow in some case.- • • • There is no reason for- complaint bont the amount of trade being done wholesale (.1,0es at Toronto. There .s a disposition apparent en t1ie. part of many retailers, however, to get heir ordersin the hands of jobbere in order to get the lime wanted and it current prices. Money- Is in good, hT)1111-aaldkel' at Winnipeg- lute bon ethein- . a.ted by utild weather.. The feeling ippears to ba that the coming see,* on will show a large improveinentl over last year. . • Rhe wholesale firms rtt• Hamilton • report (mother busy week. •Traveller on thevarious routesare reporting a steady increnee Iri business, and •tlie. general outlook for the : ePring. and summer trade le very encourngln Tbeeelute boon (mite en rtetive Mo•vemeet in the jiobbIng- trade -at : London. • Velnes aro flann for staple' . gcm1:311-(11.941iness at the Pacific Coast calms • isltO °P°ktitnifevn.up. Athe're lute been. eonsidee- nblo movement in tighter goods, and many orders for heavy lives for ship- mentlater are being heieked by the . Wholeeate •teade.... At Q,Itelene the leatheek for the spring trade, received from retabi epor oncouraging.„ 1 )