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•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
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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
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✓ 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,
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•
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.„
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