HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth Sun, 1901-06-07, Page 7Amusements of Life
Talmage Commends Elevating Sport and Rep-
rehends That Which Is Debasing
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Washington report ; !Mit discouree
of Dr. Talmage is rin• accord with all
innocent hilarities, While it reprehends
amusements that belittle or deprave;
text, 11 Sameel ii, 14, "Let the young
men novir arise and play before us."
There are, two armies encamped by
the pool of Gibeon. Thetime hangs
heavily on their hands.' One army
proposes a game of sword fencing,.
Nothing could 'be more healthful and
Innocent. The other army accepts the
challenge. Twelve men against twelve
'
nen, the sport opens. But something
;Went adversely. Perhaps 'one of the
swordsmen got an unlucky clip or in
Some way had his ire aroused,•and that
:Which opened in sportfuinese ended In
violence, each one taking his contest-
ant by the hair and with the sword
thrusting him in the side, so that that
,e-vbich opened in Innocent fun ended in
the massacre -of all the twenty-four
eportsmen. Was there ever a. better
Illustration of what was true then and
Is true now -that that which is Irmo-
' cent'onay be made destructive?
What of a worldly nature is more
important and strengthening and in-
nocent than amusement, and yet what
has counted more victims? I have no
sympathy With a straight -jacket re-
ligion. This is a very bright world to
me and and I propose to do eel 5 pan to
, make it bright for others. ' I never
could keep step to a dead march. A
book years ago issued -says that a
Christian man has a right to some
amusements. For instance, if 'he
comes home at night weary from his
work, and, feeling the need 02 recrea-
tion, puts on his slippers and goes into
garret and walks lively round the
' floor several timee there ran •be no
harm in it. -1 believe the church of
Godmade a great mistake in trying
to suppress the sportfulness of youth
and drive out from rnen their love of
amusement. If God ever implamted
-anything in us, los implanted this de-
sire.. But instead of providing for this
remand of lour nature the church of
. God has for •the main part ignored it.
.•:!As in a riot the mayor plants a bat-
tery at tee end of the street and has it
,fired off, so that everything is cut
down that happens to stand in the
range, the good as well as the bad, so
there are men in,the church who plant
• *heir batteries of condemnation and
lire away indiscriminately. Every-
thing is condemned. But Paul the
apestle condeinne those who use the
world without abusing it,, and in the'
natural world God bas dime everything
to please and amuse us. In poetic
figure we sometimes speak of natural
objects as lieing in pain, but it is a
ettere fancy. Poets say the clouds
weep, but they never yet shed a tear,
and that the winds sigh, but they
• never did have any trouble. and that
,the storm howls, but it never lost its
temper. -The world is a rose and the
eal.eatierset a garland. „,
a And I am glad to ltnow that in all
teur cities there are plenty of places
avhere we may find elevated morel
.entertalionent . But all honest men
:and good women will agree with me
the statement that one of the
avoret things in these cities is car.
,rup t amusement. Tvlultitudes have
'gone . down under the blasting fella-
-a -nee never to rise. If we may judge
, pee what is going on in many of the
places 02 amusements by the pictures.
On board fences and in many of the
show windows, there is not a Much
'tower depth of profligacy to reach.
At Naples, Italy, they keep such pic-
!tures locked up frotn indiscriminate
enspection. Those pictures were ex-
humed from Pompeii and are not fit
for public gaze. If the effrontery of
eoad places of amusement in hanging
'out Improper advertisements of what
they are doing night by night grows
,worse in the same proportion, In 50
years some of our modern cities will
beat Pompeii.
1 remark, in the 'first place, that
;you can Judge of the moral charac-
'ter of any amusement by its healthful
result or by its baneful reaction. There
are people who seem made up of hard
pgacts. They are a combination of mull-
etiplication tables and statistics. If you
'show them an exquisite pletere they
begin to discuss the pigments in
M the coloring. 'If you show
dtbem a 'beautiful rose they will submtt
It to a botanical analysis, which is only
the post-mortem examination of a
flower. They have no rebound in their
nature. They never do anything more
than smile.' There ars no great tides
of teeling surging up from the depths
.of their souls in billow after billovvof
reverberating laughter. They seem QS
if nature ha' built thern by contract
'and made a bungling tob out of it. But,
..blessed be God, there ate people in the
world who have bright faces and whose
life is a song, an anthem, a paean of
victory. Even their troubles are like
the vine that erawle'up the side of a
*Teat tower on the top of Which the
sunlight sits and the soft airs of
• summer held perpetual carnival. They
are .the people you like to have come to
your house; they. are th'e people I like
to have come to my house. If you but
touch the hem of their garments you
ere !healed. '
r. Now, 11 18 these ,exhilarant and sorra-
. gps.thealc and vOarrn-hearted people that
are raost tempted to pernicious amuse-
ments. In proportion as a ship is awift
it wants a stroag helmsman, in pro-
portion as a horse is gay It wants a
atout driyee, end these people of ex-
nberant nature will do well to look at
tithe reaction of ail their amusements. If
an amusement sends Yeti home at night
, nervous, so that you gannet sleep,
,and you rise up in the morning not
because you are elept out, but be-
cause your duty dregs You from your
elembers, you have been where you
ought not to have been. There are
amusements that send a man next
day to his work with hie eyes blood-
shot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and
they are wrong kinds of amosement.
They are entertainments 'that give a
man disgest with the drudgery of life,
with tools .because they are not swords,
vllh everking aprons because they are
not robes, with cattle because they are
not infuriated bulls of the arena. If
any amusement sends you home long-
ing for a life of romance and thrilling
•
adventure, love that takes poison, and
shoots itself, moonlight adventures and
hairbreadth escapes, you may depend
upon it that you are the sacrificed vic-
tim of unsanctified pleasure. Our rec-
reations are intended to build us up,
and if they puti us down as to our
moral or as to our phyrecal strength
you may come to the oonclusion that
they are obnomient. •
'There is nothing more depraving
than attendance upon senueements that
are full of innuendo and low sugges-
tion. The young man enters. At first
he sits ear -back, with his hat on and
his coat collar up, fearful •that some-
body there may know him. Several
nights pass on. He takes off his hat
earlier and puts his coat collar down.
The blush that first came into his cheek
when anything indecent was enacted
comes no more to bis oheek. Farewell,
young marl! You have prObably start-
ed on the long road which ends in con-
summate destruction. The stars of (hope
will go out one by one, until you will be
left in utter darkness.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you, into expendi-
ture beyond your means. Money
spent in recreation is not thrown
away. It is an folly for us to come
from a .place of amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money and
time. You nay by it have .macie an
investment worth more than the trans-
action that yielded you hundreds Of
thousands ot dollars. But how many
properties have been riddled by eostItc
amusements.
X saw a .beautlful home, where the
bell rang violently late at night, The
son had been off ie sinful indulgences.
His comrades were bringing him bome.
They carried him to the door. They
rang the bell at 1 o'clock in the more -
lag. Father and mother came 'down,
They were waiting for the wandering
son, and then the eomrades as soon as
the door was openecIthrew the prodigal
headlong into the doorwa,y, crying:
"There he is, drunk as a fool! Hal
ha!" When men ge into amusements
that they cannot afford, they first bor-
row name they cannot earn, and then
they ioteal what they eannot borrow.
First they go' into embarrassment and
then into lying. and then into theft, and
when a man gets as far on as that he
does net stop short 01 the penitentiary.
There is not a prison in the land where
there are not victims of unsanctilled
amusementi.
Merchant, is there a disarrangement
in your accounts? Is there a leakage
in your money drawer? Did not the
cash account come out righteast night?
I will tell you. There is a young man
in your store wandering, off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, but not
• the sinful indulgences in which he has
• entered, and he takes by theft that
which you. do not give him in lawful
How brightly the path of unrestrain-
ed amusement opens! The young' Man
says: "Now I am off for a good throe,
Never mind economy. 511 get money
• somehow. What a fine react! -What a
beau:Wei. day, eor 0 itieel, tdrink Ibe
whip, and over the -turnpike! Come,
boys, fill bige your glasses. Drink!
Long elfe, health, plenty of rides just.
like this!" Hard-working' men hear
the clatter of the boots and look ulo
and say: "Why, I wonder where those
fellows get their money from. We
• have to toil and drudge. They do noth-
ing." To these gay men life iS a thrill
of excitement. They stare at other peo-
ple, and In teen are staree at. The
watch chain jingles. The cup foams.
The cheeks flash. The eyes Bash. The
midnight hears their guffaw., They
swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take tloe name of
God in vain. They parody the hymn
they learned at, their mother's knee,
and to all' pictures of coming disaster
they cry out, "Who cares!" and tothe
counsel of some Chrietian friend, "Who
are you?"
Your sports are merely means to
an end. They are alleviationa and
helps. The arm of toll is the only
arm strong enough to bring up the
bucket out of the deep well of pleas-
ure.. Amusement is only' the bower
where business and philanthropy rest
while on their way to stirring achieve-
ments. Amusernents are merely the
vines that grow about the anvil of toll
and the blossoming of the he,mrnere.
Alas for the man who spends his life
in laboriously doing nothing, his days
in hunting up lounging • Name and
loungers, his nights in seeking out some
gaslightecl foolery! The elan who al-
ways has on his sporting jacket, ready
te hunt for game in the mountain or
ash in the brook, -with no time to pray
or work or read, is not so well oft as
the greyhound 'that runs by his side or
the fly bait with which he whips the
stream. A man who does not 'work
does not know how to play. If God
had intended us to do nothing but
laugh he would not have given us
shoulders with which to lift and hands
with which to work and braine with
which to think. The amusements of
life are merely -the orcheetra playing
while the great tragedy of life plunges
through its five acts -infancy, child-
hood, manhood, old age and death.
Then exit the last earthly opportunity.
Jenter the overwhelming realities of an
eternal world!"
I go further and say that all Neese
amusements are wrong which lead
into bad eampany. If rat go to any
place where you have to associate
With the intemperate, with the un-
clean, with the abandoned, however
well they may be dressed, in the name
of God quit it They will despoil your
nature. They will undermine your
.moral character. They will drop you
vveen you are destroyed, They will
not give one cent to sapport your chil-
dren when you are dead, They will
weep not, one your your burial.
I was surnin6inicrtd the deathbed of
a friend. hastened. I entered the
room. I found him, to my surprise,
lying in fulf everyday dress on, the
top of the couch, 5 put out my hand,
He grasped it excitedly and said, "Sit
down, Mr. Talmage, right there." I
sat down. He said: , "Lest night I
saw me mother, who has been dead
twenty years, and she sat just where
you sit now, It was no dream. I was
wide awake. There was no delusion
in the !matter. I esaw her just as
plainly as I see you. Wife I wish you
would take these strings off me.
There are strings spun all around
my body. I wish you would take
them off me." I saw it wee delirium.
"Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, there
is nothing- there, there is nothing
there." He Wertt on and said; "Just
where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my
mother sat. She oiled to ree 'Henry, I
do wish you would a. better,' I got
out of bed, put my arms around her
and said: 'Mother, I want to ao bet-
ter. I have been trying to do better,
Won't you help me to do better? Yoe
used to help me.' No mistake about
it, no delusion. I saw her -the cap
and the apron and the spectacles, just
ag the used to look twenty years ago.
But I do wish you would take these
strings away. They annoy Inc so! I
can hardly talk. Won't you take
them away?" I knelt down,and pray-
ed, conscious of the fact that , he did
not realise what I was saying. I got
me 5 said: , "Good-bye, I hope you
will be better score" He eaid, "Geed -
bye, good-bye." ,
That night hie 00111 Vent Up to the
God who gave It. Arrangements were
made for the obsequies. Some said:
"Don't bring him to , the church; he
is too dissolute." . • "Oh," I said, "bring
him. He was a, geed friend of mine
while he was alive, and 5 shall stand
by him now that he is dead. Bring
him to the chureh."
As I sat in the pulpit and saw his
body coming up through the aiele
felt as if I could weep tears of blood.
I told the people that day: "Title
man had his virtues, and a good maroy
of them, He had lois faults, and a
good many of them. But if there is
any man in this' audience who is with-
out in, let him cast the first tone at
this coffin lid." On one side the pulpit
sat 'that little, child, rosy, sweet faced,
55 beautitul as any little child that at
at your table tine morning, I warrant
You. She looked up wistfully, not
knowing the full sorrows of an orphan
child.
• Oh, her countenance haunts me to-
day, like some sweet face looalng up -
bio us tarough a horsed dream. On the
other slde of the pulpit were the men
who had destroyed him, There they
sat, hard visaged, some of them pale
from exhausting dieease, some of there
flushed until it seemed as if the fires
ot iniquity flamed through the cheek
and crackled tbe lips. They were the
rnen who had done the work. They
were the mea who had bound him hand
and foot. They had bloodied the fires.
They had poured the wonnwood and
gall into that orphan's cup. Did they
weep? No. Did they sigh repentingly?
No, no; not one bloated hand was
lifted to wipe away a tear from a
bloated cheek. They- sat and looked
at the coffin like vultures gazing at
the carcass of a lamb whose heart
they had ripped out. I cried ih their
ears as plainly as I could: ''There are
a God and a judgment day." Del they
tremble? Oh, no, no. They .went back
from the house of Gad, and teat night,
though their victim lay in teakwood
cemetery, I was told that they blas-
phemed, and they drank, and they
gambled, and there wag not one, less
customer in all the houses of Iniquity.
This destroyed man was a Samson in
physical strength, but Delilah sheared
him, and the Philistines of evil com-
panionship clug his eyes eut and threw
him into the prison ee evil habits. But
In the hoer of els death he rose up
.and Molr hole of -the ,two. 0+118001
• curses of God. against drunkenness end
uncleanness and threw himseli forecard
until down upon blm and his Com-
panions there came the thtmders of an
eternal catastrophe.
Again, any amusement that givee
you a distaste fey domestic life is bad.'
How many bright domestic circles
have been broken up by sinful amuse-
ment! The father went off, the moth-
er went off, the child went oft. There
are to -day fragments before me ot
bleated households, Oh, if you have
wandered away, 5 would like to charm
you back by the sound of that one
word, 'home." Do you not knew that
you have but little more time to give
to demeetie welfare? Do yeti not see,
father, thee your children are soon to
go out into ehe world, and all the in-
fluence for good you are to have over
them you must have new? Death wilt
break In on your conjuga.1 relations,
and alas if you have to stand over the
grave of one who penished from your
neglect.
Ah, my friends, there Is an hour
coming when our past life will prob-
ably pass before us in review. It will
be. our last hour. If erom our death
pillow ere have to look back and see
a life spent in setae amusement, there
will be a dart that will stelke through
our soul sharper than the dagger
with which Virglnius slew his child.
The memory of the past will make us
quake ,like Macbeth. The Iniquities of
rioting through which we have passed
will eorne upon us, weird'and skeleton'
as aleg-Merrilies. Death, the old Shy-
lock, will demand and take the re,
maining drop of flesh and the remain-
ing drop of blood, and upon our last
oppertenty for repentance and our
last ehance for heaven the curtain win
drop forever.
• A HORRIBLE CRIME.
_
Tramp Brutally Assaults a. Six -Year-
, Old Child.
Soren ton, • Pa.. June C. -Thomas
Brennan was lodged in the county
Jail yesterday ohafr,ged with assault-
ing a, six-year-old girl at alloosic last
night. 'Ithe cell -del name is Gertrude
cliRriolertli.ng rued .n
shet• Ls 1,. a. critical con -
Brennan had a nerrow eecape from
lynching, Ile is a, tojam of about 85
years of ago, and eppears to be a
tramp. He says to is from Mauch
Cheek. He arrived in itfloosic yester-
day, and loitered about the town.
In the evening the little girl was
sent by her mother to a etere for
bread. The child had to pass a
lonely road. W11110 On her way sloe
was seized by the brute and carried
to an adjoining barn where she wag
brutally, treated. A' man earned
Schoonover arrived ail the barn with
.his horses and made the horrible dis-
covery. The cl 'le was unconscious
steel her moire s uf ed with dirt to
prevent an oetct
pon the man
ecl. tuchgnatio run bighere ahe it-
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Schoonover Po. 1
and ihelcl him u tit esistance aerie -
Ole town and( it wag ithetheigr t
est difficulty the con. We' kat bl
prisoner teboafrcl a train and lo
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTBRNATioNAii alfISSO,N NO. X.
JUNE 9, 1901.
Jesus Appears to neut.-Acts 22: 6-16
Comonentary.-The elders of the
church at Jerusa,lem desired to have
Paul eho w eo the ems that lie ob-
erved the law. Four men had come
to Jarusaleno to,eomplete a NaZalitie
VOW. Paul i'eluotmtly. agreed to pay
their neceseare expeuses, and tier a
week to live with them in the temple,
and then to stand with them while
their head& were shaved, and while
they took ,their hair to burn it "under
the sacrifice of the peace -offerings."
Certain ifews who had been Peeler
opponents at Ephesus were in the clty
and ,were watching hen. They at
once stirred up a howling mob against
Pane charging hino with baying pol-
luted the temple. He was dragged by
tae crowd down the steps through
the'.gate Beautiful into thef court of
Ole Geortilee. Ile would ha,ve been
killed but for- thio arrival of the Ro-
man guards trotu the Tower of An -
St AO I made my journ.ey-Paul,
whose Hebrew name WAS Saul, Wee
oU d110 Way to Dainescus, with letters
from the high prieet granting him au-
thorety to areept the Chrletlans and
bring them bound to Jerusalem. Dam-
asous--The oldest city in the world,
situated one hupdred aed forty miles
northeast of' Jeremiah. In Paul's
time it contained aboirt forty Jewiell
synagogues, and between 40,000 anti'
50,000 Jews At present it is under
Turkish rule, and has a population of
about 150,000, elliefly Mohammedans
Abetet noon -When the bent was shin-
ing so tbere couki be no deception. A.
great lightIt was "above the
brightheas of the Sum"
7. Fell tentci the ground -The whole
coeupa,ny fell to the earth. Acte xxvi.
14. • Heard a Y0100 -to the Hebrew
tongue. .The voice Witte) clear and 515 -
tint to Sane but to tboae with lam
It was catty a myeterlotts eaand. See
ate v. 9. Why peaesecuteet thou me -
Mutat thou give any good reason for
10 ? Meet 1 afrese be crucified by
8. Who ;Art Thou -Jesus knew Saul
before Saul Icnew awes. Lord-tleed
to denote reepece for some ueknown,
august pereoma-Binnete. I am Testis -
He takes the name which was the ob-
teat ot hate.--Ilarlbut. Thy
enmity le ngainet nos and my religion.
-Clarke. Be Whom yoa pereecnth 10
the Lord of life end .giory ; not dimply
poor fugitive cliersiples.-Bib: Mus. et:
wale et this -lint that Jesus add to
hen, to rd for thee to kick
agalnot the goad." Acts terve 14, 10,7.
9. They heard not the voice -We are
told by Luke (Acte ix. 7) that these
with him heard the voice. "Whet /8
meant le that, they did not hear the
Worde • as werds-could attach no
Meaning to the sounds."
-10. What Shall I clo-Wbere is now
Ole fury- of the oppreesor ? Convinced
that lie load in reality persecuted
Christ. the Lord; and thee his rellg-
Ions views and character were wrong;
and knowing not what the future
held in stort . for lilm, Ile submits him-
s.elf tothp will of Him who had
arrested lam le hie 'blind career ; as
though he 'week] entreat Rim to be
hie guicleettrel
that he week/ be 'abediefitated all 'hie
directions+. Which are aorpoInted--iSaul
was a chosen vessel unto the Lord
(Acts ix..15), arta throngli him the
gospel was to be Carried to the Gen-
tiles and to kings, 05 Well as to the
ehilcIrep QZ Iseael, et
. 11. Could net gee -He was blind for
three clays (Acts ix. 9); 'during that
time Winn so frilly absorbed about his
apt -ritual condetion that Ile fieither
nte nor drank, but spent the thne In
fasting and praying.
12. One Anareae-We know nothing
about this man except what we' find
• In tide 'verse and in chapter ix. 10-17.
1.3. Came ante me--_Amanlas had re-
ceived explicit directions in nvision
Iran the Lord. Saul had also seen
In it 'vision a man named Ananias
coining; in and restoring his sight.
0rother Saul-Xnowing to waat ea:
oral office the Lord had choaen Saul
(verse 15), Ananias felt a respee,t far
lam, Bureau Interest in his seleation.
Receive thy sight -"And immediately
there fell from hie eyes as it had
been. ecales." "Tide shows that the
blindness its well as the awe was
supernatural." At thie time Sant
also received spiritual sight. Looked
up upon hint -The verb signifies not
merely to look up, but to recover
sight; the clause Might be trans-
lated. I received sight and looked
up on him.-Whitalaw.
• 14. Hath chosenthee-"Hath ap-
pointed thee." -11. V. Gold chose and
appointecl Saul because Saul had
ebosen the Lord. Saul nelght hate
rejected Christ inetead of acoept-
Lag, Him. Tinow His will -Was Saul
favored above others ?
15. lets witnees-The preaching of
the gospel must be backed up by the
expertance of the preacher en order
to be really effective. Godee people
are a, witnessing people. They are,
ready to testify In behalf of the
One who hag saved them Unto all
no.en-To th.e Gentiles, to governors
and kings. '
,16, -Baptized -He was baptized by
Ananias.- Wash away thy Siris -In
Lukeia account before Saul was bap-
tized Ananias said that the Lord had
sent him. that Saul might receive his
sight and "be filled with tire Holy
Gltoet." Calling on ...the Lord -rt is
the. Lord, and the Lord ortly who
can -save the Soul, and every stoner,
should call mightily on. Him for com-
plete deleveraeocei team all sae We
Phould trust to no outward ordle-
ande for salvation,. ,
Teachengs-The Lord le able to
save the worst. What. Jeeus speaks
be Is der duty to Obey. When, Christ,
reveals itieneelf to .tee seeking soul,
earthly joys are lost to 'view. If we,
Would help people and lead them
away from their slas -to God, we
must go to them weth tenderness
!nod love. .
PRACTeCAlt SURVEY.
deans represented in His followers.
The inquiry from Heaven addressed
to the fallen and astonished zealot
wag not, Why persoeueest thou ley
church, or IVfy followers, but "Why
Persecutest thou Me, 9" Thocoloseions-
ly, but none the Icies truly? Saul, in
persecuting the followers of jestis,
wee perseeeting tee aerie!: Himself,
for whom the metion had been looking
for 'generations, and oteehose coming
their prophets had' foretold - arid their
bards had sung; but who, wheal He
appeared, "came mita His men .and
His own received iilm not." "But to
t1.9' MainZ 0.2 roceivea Ulm, to' them
gave He the' power to become the
sons of God.". ^
The pereeoutor enlightened. Pro-
ceeding hastily on els mad mission,
"armed teeth anthority," deternaued
to make "havoc." of the infant (March
at Damaecue as. he heel done at Jere-
foalene and with Me coveted prey, al-
most wildan Lite grasp, "suddenly,
there shone from Heaven a great
light about him" "above the bright-
ness of the sun.", Jesus declared Him-
self to be "the Light of the World.e
Jelin Said of Nina 'Timt is the 7.-aue
Light that lighteth every man tbat
cometh Into the world." It was this
• "aerate of Nazareth," who, meeting
Saul, shone upon 'him, and in that
blinding fleet disclosed to the man
les own mistaken zeal, and the dig-
nity and glory of Him against whom
Ole 120,5 ignorantly. striving. .
. A seneere inquirer. "Who are Thou,
Lord V- was the atatonksbed inquiry
of the Overwhelmed and hoOnlble
Pharisee. 'Tim response, ani Jesus
of Namaretbe annouuced the authori-
tative source of the eudden and unex-
pected eireeet. This settled, "What
welt thou has ine to do?" camo as
tate loyal and sincere inquiry of the
trembleng and astoaished persecutor.
Immediately there came directioue
euffideetly explicit for the present
A timid disciple encourag,ed. The
unenvitoble fame of Saul of Tereus
had preceded hem. The havoewroaght
at Jerusalem had become known
through all that region and bad
doubtless reached Damascus. The
ohurch trembled at the approacla of
tale manothe puipose ot whose com-
ing they knew only too well.
A ehresen vessel. Seca was the cla
vine purpoee, though the subject
seemed so unlikely. God's inetru-
notate have usually been those whose
natural qualleleceione or dispoei-
teens avould have caused. the "wis-
dom of men to pees them by." Here
was tee one oleeeen of God to fill
the ranks of the apostles depleted
by the treachety and suicide of Ju-
das 'scarlet ; and having received
title revelittn of Jesus Chrise he
wile "not a whet behind the chiefest
of the apo.selese- Deep in the lower
etreta of Iranian conditions are jew-
els of resplendent lustre, only wait-
ing to be touched by a. loving heart,
• wakened by Wadi -less, and restored,
by the grace of God to deck forever
the coronet cif the Savlour.-William
el. Clark.
SPIllITDALIMI1IS.BANE,
Wife Victim of a Medium's
Cunning Trickery.
SHE BATTERED HUBBY'S TILE
New York, June 3.-Mitua Hate, the
wife of William Clifford, the vaude-
ealo eOneedian, apparently forgot
yesterday aftereoan that she had
agreed to a &alteration from Clifford
and proceeded to hammer les coun-
tenance and smash hie elik hat as
though_ still happily mated to Lira.
Site ineleted ou exercising all the pre-
rogetives, of a wife, alehoega the itas
agreed to forego them. Mr, Clifford
coneequently feelquite hurt at Miss
Huth's, eendupt and will welcome the
divorce decree that deprives her of
tizeocIght to tam, per esith his feta
t
Soma time ago Mies Huth inform-
ed Mr. Clifford that althouge, they
had been pleasantly married for 55Y.
eral years and load as a soavener of
that association a seven-year-old son,
ole wee neverteees Goat -Weed that
their union was a inietake. See had
dereded that it Wain best to dissolve
the bond,s that united them.
The Tdedium in tt.
Mr.- Clifford etranae ea say, had
many objeetions. He did not ap-
prove of Mass Ruth's spiritualistic
views and did not look favorably
upon anyone intermeddling. cier-
tate medlum'a act in transmitting
to. Mese Huth mesenges from her first
Inusbatel advising her to leave Clif-
ford and maery the comedian waS
looked upon by Mr. Clifford
with something of suspicion. He
even halted that the- meesages were
bogus, walla so incensed Miss Huth
that she would hardly speak to bar
They a.greed to finish the vaudeville
season together, however, and re-
mainea in the same company until
last • Saturday night, when they
closed in Montrieel. /dies Moth then
signed an a.greement permitting Mr.
Cfiffera to ere hits boy once a week,
and they parted 00 a very friendly
fashion. Mr. Clifford, It le true, felt
eornewhat piqued when he went into
Mies Huth's apartmentat the Au-
dubon recently and found the elect -
111111 there In partial undrese and per-
fectly at home, but he bet Ide rules
ferecely and eseetrolled himself with
masterly attempt.
Then Sbe in Turn Objected.
'Yesterday Miss Huth was passing
the Opener of Thirty-fifthl street
when. she saw Mr. Cliftord talking
to a very beautiful young woman,
not iof the profession. Nebo balls from
Baltimore. Miss Euth halted tee cab
and sailed Clifford to her. Theo slhe
epolke Savagely to her. anti told him
that sloe had elteng,ed her meld and
would pot permit him to see the son
at all at any time and that she dis-
approved of hts condnot ia talking
to women more beautiful tha,n her-
self in open daylight on crowded
Broadway. ,
It was not the way for- a lfusband
tweet, sloe told himi as stile beat him
wildly in the face and clawed at
him with leer nicely manieured nails.
Mr. Cliffoed remarked that her con-
versation was decidedly irrelevarlt,
whereupon fine struck Men With nee
parasol, breaking lois silk hat and
Injuring hie topionoPo. ,
feave the Driver Orders.
30,v this tione 21 lane crowd load
gathered and was applauding the
bent, Mr. Clifford, who naturally
shrinks frompublicity, except when
noonthe etage, insisted that • Miss
Huth tobould cease eler punching bag
exercise and eailed to the driver to
"Drive Cite wOhnown to the East
Riverand dropher In," he said.
"Ay, ay, Sir,", Raid the cabman,
ariving ea/oldie' away. .
It is not known, however, that he
carried out his inetruetione.
Hen, at el. Gibsee attended the
an.nual meeting of the West Elgin
Liberal Associatien and spoke. ,
Leading Wheat Markets.:
FolloWlag fere the clueing quota-
tionoht important,tylcieatcentre:wto-
am
daY: i..s
Ohica.go ••• $0 78 3-4
MiNerwaIukC)reke 0--75 00 779a 511
80'. LOUIO
Dgtrott, red 000 77 00
7625 1:8. 0 777540, 83-1
DDueletluitt, 'Teloca.lt neo..i..th". 076074 -
5-8 07-4 7-8
leuinluntmlepNoloio,N
.1 hard,o1 0 77 5-8 -
m
northern ... ---- 072 3-8
Toronto iritrnteSS' Market.
Ditty 30. -The street, market here
t o -day woes very quiet, with small
receipts. Tee Wet Weather aud poor
roads were reeponeible for a portion
of the dulneos, a,nd the blaming oper-
ations teroughout the country doubt -
•leas kept etternere away from the
maaket. Only four loads of grain were
received. One load bf tallith wheat
sold 1-20 lower at 72 1-2e 'teethe',
One load of red 1-.2c higher at 72 1-2e,
and 100 imehels of goose unchanged
at 68 1-20. Two loads of bay sold
about Steady at $18. per ton, Other
Produce Wafir 20111 en..c1 nominally un-
• changed. Wheat, white, 72 1-20 ; red,
72 1-2c; goose, 68 1-2c; spring, 710;
pb aear ey6, 6:6; i15
ll ay,$
; ,s t 5r Isiwl $
e s; ;b bu eakt --
wheat, 55 1-20; Mote, 36 1-2 to 1370;
tar. 14 to 17c ;I eggs, 11 to 14c.
Toronto 1:lve.StoeeMo; k e: e.
ptoptt1a,0hoi0a,parcwt.ot$5 30
d7.caiim... I
70 to 6 00
Export cows I- 00 to 4 50
Betalien cattle. picked.. 1 75 to 5 15
Butahere' cattle choice 4 55 to A 75
Butchers' cattle fair.
do cows 9 00 to 1 25
3 50 to 4 00
do
ulls, export, heavy, per owt3 75 to 25
Builaexporalight, ear cwt390500 lo
33 6750
f3
Feedere.ebortkeep 505 CO 75
Stockers, 100 to 600 lbs
off -colors and heifers
stihdillish78:0o0wwkes0., cap: re .cw t, 3003°00i Ltet: 1°01
4:3 5705 1100 45 0000
Lambs,grain-fed, per cwt 2 50 to 3 00
do barnyard, per cwt 4 00 to 1 50
Etoadog.go0:Siciphgrohlitlig,ep,.praw
eeaorhorb 72 0020 tow 05 0005
Calves, per head. 1 00 to 8 00
070 to 0 00
0 75 to 0 00
• 4 00 to 4 50
STIoors: ;tar to, we te r 0150
Stags 2 00 to 0 00
Toronto Dairy Markets.
Butter -Receipts are raoderate, and
prices nnehanged. Pound rolls sell at
18 to 14o; new, 01 tubs, at 121-2
172. ;Ipie,fleorelo.t., 10 to 12ce
boxes, 17 1-2 to 18c, and
tettrometaniliclese. rlYYle:Sr
Eggs -Market is steady at 10 1-2
to 110 pee dozen, in large lots, and
occasionally 11 1-2c for case lots.
leo. 2 chips, 81-2 to 90. 1
Cheese -Market quiet. Full creams;
September, 91-2 to 9 3-4c ; nen, Be.
....-...
Cheese Markets.
Napanee, May 29e -At the Cheese
Board here to -day there were -1,577
white and 40 colored boxes' boarded.
Nearly all sold at 8 1.2e.
Platen, May 29. -At our Cheese
Board to -Say eta:en-teen faetortes
boarded 90 colored fund 1,138 white;
total, 1,228. Highest bid, 6 11.16c;
.90 colored and, Seta white, °sold.
Woodstoek, Ont., May 211, -To -clay's
Meese market was stronger than us-
; 14 factoriee boarded 1,724
boxes -920 wiulte and 804 colored.
Two sales were made -59 hintes white
at 8 0-1.6e and 83 boxes colored at
Reeeell, Ont., May 29. -On the
Cheese Beard, held here to -night,
4,25 white were boarded; 86 sold at
8 1-2englif
EslLive Stook Markets
Liverpool, May 29. -Here and at'
London cattle are strong at from
10 3-1 to 521-40 per Th., dressed
weight; "tops" are quoted at 12-
-2a; refrigerator beef is quoted at
91-2 to 100 per lb.
Manitoba Wheat Markets.
The market for Manitoba wheat,
says the Winnipeg Commercial of
Saturclae, keeps dull rend quiet, al-
though at the beginning of the week
theme Winn a spurt ifn prices, especial-
ly on No. 3 hard, bat part of it has
Sibtleie been last. 'nate demand is light
andithe supply Ls also light, and hold-
ers are not pressing their wheat on
the market. Oats -Dement Is steady
an.d confined to current requirements.
ONVialg to high prices being offered
for northern Alberta, pate at the,
coast prices have advanced at ship.
piing polets and receipts have fallen
off as prevent quotations are con-
midered to. be too high. Both Alberto
and Manitoba oats ere lc per bushel
higher than a week ago. We quote
Ontario oats', No. 2 white, 460 per
bushel.; Alberta oats 42 'to 440;
Maratobe grades, 40 to 42c in car
lots on track here.
Bracistreete' on Trade.
A fairly good eorting trade has been
done at Montreal this week in eeasOu-
able linee, although the weather
-through the country has not been
each as to encourage purchases at all
twines. Tee lateness of the season,
llowever, makes it inoperative for re-
tailers to sort stocks. ,
1.1: Quebec businese le generally re-
ported favorable. Fall ordero continue
to come In. Large quantities of graini
continue to arrive over the Great
Northern. The latterie resources are
being heavily taxed. Trade at Toron--
to hao been a little more active this
weelc in spite of the wet weather.
'Owing to the lateneste of the season
retailers beve been ['meal to send in
eortine, orders, because they expect
increased activity in summer goods
as! soon as the weather gets loot.
Travellers out vvitli fall samples are
reporting a fair amount of business
for title time of the seiteon. Trade at
Hamilton this week lets shown some
expenelion. 'Travellers are sending in
come nice orders for the current sea-
son, and fell business is already being
beaked Ili coesiderable volume. Re-
tailers have been, fairly busy and
aave been replenieleng stocks to meet
the immedette tvante of customers.
Labor le well employee and well paid,
tall the faetorlea and mills are run-
ning full time with orders in suffi-
eiehe volunoe to keep them buoy- for
some months, Country remittance
are fair for tble season.
Beeiness at Winnipeg has assemed
a more cheerful aspect, owing to the
encouraging reports of the growing
tenure :ma the large estimates of
the caw nerensly nmdc. There has
been a fair amonnti of trade passing
at London thil3 week. The' bright out-
look for the crop W reassuring and
traders ere jubilnet over the pros -
peter toe, truzinese.,
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FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEAR
THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND
LARGEST SALE IN CANADA.
LOSS BY
BEICIITION
Of Machinists' Officers Foot •
Up to $83,429.
NOW BONDS WILL BE ASKED.
Toronto, June 3. -The couvention of
the Dite,omational Machinists' Union ,
was opened this Morning- with 1,50
delegates flout the United States,
Mexico rend Canada in attendance.
The union Is growing fast, per capita
clues from 80,000 members having
beee paid in connection with the con-
ventlien. The delegates e,era wel-
comed by the Mayor and members of
the Council, and afterwards the con-
vention went into executive session.
Many Important matters will coma
up In addition to the questions arts -
low from Ole strike.
During the last two years through
defalcation of offizere $88,429 ilas
been embezzled, end It 10 proposed to,
require that all local ana general
()fritters Inindling Panda shall provide
boucle for the proper performance ot
their duties.
The convention will else "vo00 on the
nueetion of abblishing pteca Work, and
Merensing the dues ot unions to 75'
cents a, month.
13Ig &french (event.
Peale, ,Tune 3. -The Prix tin jockey
Club (France' Derby), of $27,540, for
8-year-olcie, dista,noe 1 1-2 miles, wile
00111 ou Sunday :at Chantilly, anel won
by Saxon, Seam Bart IT. being eve -
on aloe elbere third. Thirteen horses
ran. The 'victory of the favorite wag
very popular.
2510 Leminence is Sold.
Chicago, Ia., ;lune 3. -me Eminence,
winner of the Kentucky Derby, anti
a prominent Amerione Derby candi-
date, west sold yesterday by Freak B.
Van Meter for a reputed price of $18,-
000. Mr. Vat Meter eefused to give
Ole mune of the buyer, but gold he
wale a New Stove ma n.
Tern -fleas lat of American.
'Chicago, June 3.-Tanninus vv'ai not
be etarted in the American Derby'.
1110 trainer, Ed. Moore, Moe decided
that he canoct win much in the west,
reul nas sent his string 00 10 the oest,
where Terminns has a nrenber Of
stake arrangements. TernilIMS was
well pla yea in the winter beaks. .