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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-08-03, Page 7;,•-1 7' ' a""eee. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ony GN OAS IN TOE WILD. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG, "The New Menet," &no not inl-31, laside" Text. Seek. 114. - PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 24, Theo. In the glad days of national reatoratien, which are to invi- tee:I the preeent eays et Pincer*/ re- Peatetice. Will I, God. Sprinkle clean viniter Upon you, and ye shall be clean. %ogling 14 aread,y figure for. moral °Ienneingi it was conetantly timed in. 4 symbolic any in tbe Mosiao See NUM. 19. 1749; Pea.5, 7. Eze- kiel, as we have eeeu, was e priest, end the types._ ot the temple service ware Voaetantly to his mind. Fop* all your tilthiness. Moral filtbinese; what- eyer is splritually ugly or defiling. From ait year idole Will I Cleanse You, When thia propnetio.promise was tate teed there' were probably in oolbe ;Mode honest doubts as to its realize... titnn 110w eneh a ohmage ot national ....character tamed 60/might to Pass woe net clear. But the ebonite oarne• Frcan the days of Jacob down the obosen, PeoPle had been tempted by eertain nngun 'superstitions, but now their • -Penitence was so profound that the old temptations rewind to affect them ; and after their restoration to Palestine they never lapsen into idolatny. All tan, including idol -worship, is in ea- . mice either the immoderate love 'of an innocent objetit, a love ao great as to alienate the tiota frata God, or else the • love a what is ementialte wrong.; and sin begets sin. The cleansing trora sin - here...promised %mines free forgiveness; not enlY actlitittal from the **ergo of offending God, but the canceling of the Pilnislament of past offense and restor- ation .to the divine favor. 20. A• new bean . . and a new spirit. ,Perhaps ho deep distinetion should here be made betweli "hearth "epirtt," "Heart" is used, as we often use it, as a symbol of tbe source of. moral vitality. As the health and . strength , of physical hearts, no tbe spiritual heart is regarded as the cen- ter or spirituat life. Now, the moral and religious condition of the Jews during centuries had shown that spiri- tually their heart was wrong; they adored Baal, not Jehovah; tbey • wrought evii, not good.; they depended on Egyptian horses, not on Providence. • With moral perversity Ehey loved what is wrong and hated 'what is right. he bad spiritoof the nation hastened. t dreadful climax of their history - t e •Babylonian exile, God, recognize .ing them repentencet promises te. °image all We. Forgiveness is not nnonifil an erasure of the -record is not • enough; it is. not enough for them to . return to the Holy Land, erect again a temple for the living God, and begin a Parer worship than the nation had ever known. The people Nebuchada -nezzar-dtagged-away-from-Palestine, had they, been restoredunchanged, would soon slide back into the sinful habits which hen .brought about their .captivity. Dr. Chalmers used for the title of one of his greatest serotons, "the Expulsive power of a New At - faction." This is exactly; what God stony wnyheart n promiseesn.i wiltLake nt.....ourtakeawaythehones to paron on a waterless planet, The Antaectie polar ice cap has been flesh. • Hardheartedness is' a I growing thicker and heavier for. un- familiar plias°. physical hard- counted ages.- the distance from the South Pole to the edge of this ice cap is 1,400 mileinne-the-ice- rises steadily from the edge to the centre. • At that centre it cannot be Jess than twelve miles in thickness -- twice as thick as Mount' Everest is high. •Suppose it splits. Imagine the gigantic mass of water and. ice that will come sweeping up north over the oceans ,and contin- ents of the minis. Where, then, will the list nian breathe his final gasp? Eiigh up in the snows of some great range he will perish miserably of cold and starvation, looking. down.. on a Muth shallow- sea beneath whose toss- ing Waters will lie the whole of the Faces of the world. Or last, and perhaps dreariest fate of all, the .human race May outlive other Mammals and last until the Hun, some day it must, grows dull and cold and vegetation dies from the chilled earth. The miserable remnant of earth's people must then slowly die out after ages of an existence to which that of the Eskimo of to -day is a paradise, epeeinetlea It Whet MAY Re Die nate efTliet Ws nom Aatrouomere tell us that the day Must come wheu the earth will, like the moon, wheel throng/4 the 'novellas It ahouid be tee aim of -every man dead and barren ball of matter ...air. oWoing and operating a farm to itlee leap, waterlees, lifeleea. Rut len% Prove It to 4=0 way, writele John 1,1, long before that time man will be ex, 'jareison. Formerly, when these farms tinet, vvill ----- ------ Agricultural ha't'e diaaPPeared an utter- l)f ours ware in the hande et the ori- ly that not 00 anuell as the laleaelaed. owners, improvement meant alceleton ot a human being will be visH something very different from what !net CM all the raillioUn ot square Miles a the eurface of tills planet. • Wean by game huge and universal cataclysm the whole race is swept at once into eternity, it is but reasonable' to suppose that man, like any other race of ardinals, will disa.ppear slowly; aoci that eventually tbere will be. but a single human being lett -, roma old .man-grayeateaded and beard- ed, Mut left to wander alone in a soli- tude that nifty be imagined but net deserltead. Row will he die, this last relio of the teeming milliolia tbat (one transform- ed/ the fece ot the globe and ruled un - Wonted. miters of every other living thing? Thcare are Many fates that may befall him. He may go slad t with the horror of loneliness and himself end his own miserable existence. He MAY be eaten by the vast reptiles or giant bisects widen will then probably in.1 feet the solitudes. ' BM. hie fate may be far wierder and more ereadtul. Soientista say • that as Wo burn the coal and. tiittller we. are still so richly eupplied. with we let loose into the atreieg,phere an ever in - °teasing voluniie of carbonic acid gag. Much of this is taken un lay -plants; but not all, It must increase aild evi- dently poieon tbe breathable air. - • _FILLING THE VALlatlYS. and intimating slowly te the hilltope, vthere •the last remains of animal life are Ettriving for exietenee. • The last nian will clinnt bigher and. higner. but eventually the suffocating invisible flood, will ration at drown him. it is said. that the earth as it gets older inaeracking like dry -mad. These cracks -will increase until at last they will let the fiery ceotre of the •they •wilt let the waters of the Mean and rivera sink into it tneana now:. Then the effort woe to get the land in condition to be cul- •tivated, and to ereet such Windings as tbe farmer Must bave to ehelter WM- self luta family. No thouglat was had looking to the Improvement of the aoil. Then a farmer's akin, in a great mea- sure, was accredited to his ability to 1 th b ild a ear and fence land, and e u loge put up added to the vale at the bolding. Improvements in the way of bidldings, In newly -settled • section, alwaYs add Mach to the vane of the land, In the improvement of new land, raueele originally counted for more than brains, Now, a new order of things& must rule in the old sections of the country. Original fertility --in the nualia-hae been exhausted, • or al- • lowed to escape. With the.careful ter- mer, the buildings on land to be por- cbaaed are only vaitied aceording to tbe Minot' use to be made of tnem, If he does not expect t� occupy thetu binte mete he will not attach much value to them, even if they are costly' struce tures, When lands thrpwn on the market are bought to add to pasture areas, thorn's:hailer, in inost cases, pre- fers -tbe imnoovisinents to be in some other form than fine handbags. Clean fields and god fences please him more. One fact Stands very much against the improvement of farms in the hands of Malay owners; this is theasx- oeetatien Of so many ,to leave , the farm some time, and have a here in the village or town. attach more inter- est would be taken in the improvement of farm. homes, if every termer fullY expected to spend his days on the farrn. There is much nifference between the the , tory' centre of the globe improvement that loons only to corn- Tben will occur an explosion. met -Wel velum, when selling is the only object, and improvement made for the so terrible as may startle the inhabi- comfort and happiness of . the owner. tants of neighboring worlds. The last thiffies considered as improve - man in this ease will probably be soine Many Arctic explorer or Eskimo.' whom the meats in this direotten by some have no commeroial value whatever in tile vast Plains of ice around will save from ineaiit death and leave to grill a eyes of others. The improvement aad- few. moments till the ice continents are ed to, the farm by the owner, who swallowed by redhot gases arid, steam. Must make his living from it, will Suppose these earth cracks develop often differ very much from that of raare slowly, they must suck away the the owner who has en income from otto water. without devastating explosions. et °nurses' When the farmer earns the Then the last man's fate will be the imPreventents. as be goes along, they woret describable. Fleeirill die of thirst. are osually noticeable fer their utin The „me of hio d_ooth_ww_prailaigy_ ity, and ere fully_ritpnantnd, Bute if Atlantic Ocean off .the I3razilian coast; plentiful, they too Often become a hur- Fel""fie great Talley in the bed ot the 'Milo, tor snow, or eon 1.6.Efi4 half way between Rio Janeiro and the den* In the elder sections of the country, rape w/iere now six -miles of green wa- the abyssraitl slime beneath. Tbere, land itself, the other improvements fol. - the lira IMProvement •should be in the ter lie betvireen the steamer's keel and hopelessly digging in the ever -drying lowing in "'Arne Of time, as the Pm" mud, he must perish and leave his duets of the soil prove able to support thena It is the pert of wisdom to im- prove the soil first, rather than put on Surface improvements in the way of buildings and fences. :The former when once started is cumulative, and in the hands of a farmer able to make the Mart, the improveraent is rapid and profitable. The surface %sprays - meats are not cumulative, in value, but rather in expense. Ine pay • taxes on soil improvement only as the vol- ume of crops is increased; on build- ings erected, as soon as they can be placed on the tax duplicate. It is not unusual that these become a cum - Unitive source of expense. Farmin;g will rest on bettet basis heartecinees brings on by painful stages premature death; the harden- ing of the Moral heart alao has. fatal .results. .1 will. give you a heart of • flesh. A 'healthful heart; normal:de- • sires. In other passages . a "fleshy heart," is used as a symbol of carnal- ity, but here it is contrasted with it bean of stone.. "This change ot heart," says Dr. Cowles. "is the great doctrine of the New Testament, taught. forcibly by our Lord bimselCin his steeements respecting the new birth, and everywhere presented as primari- ly the 'work of the Spirit of God." 27. / will put my Spirit within you. 'With God's Spirit in the hearteright ' actions inevitably result. It is not- able that; Paul ciotie not refer to ' the • works of the Spirit, bue to the fruits of the Spirit, when he tabulates love, joy, peace; and the other delightful re- sults of a life animated by God. Cause • You no walk in ,my statutes. As anew, causes a locomotive to go; put isarou a new moral force. MY jaaigs ments. -to the Hebrew mind • this would naturally recall the Monte rit- ual and the ,proplietio teachings. But it has a-brow:ter meaning 'alio, and in - eludes all Godni laws, and decisions. . 28, Yeshall dwell in the land that I gave your fathers. Nothing more un- • likely could well have been. promised, 29. I will call for the corn, and will increase it. -FeW sentences- even in• tbe Bible are more majestic than this. As if corn, and. the, fruitage of fertile valleys, the disemie of the jungles and ' the• winds of the semi also, all forces of nature. were servants of God, ready to rut; any whither at his direction. Days, of prosperity will come as a result of righteous living, because God. will call. • for hia servant, Corn, to minister to them. Titers shall be no famine in the land, but a wholesome ple,nty. 30. I will multiply the fruit of the tree. An amplification of the thought of twee 29; there .shallbe /Amity of fruit. the increase of the field. An added "specification." Ye sball re., calve no more reproach of fanaine among the heathen. Wben the heathen had heard the exiled Jews ex- ult in Jehovah they "reproached.them," asked them why such a nod as he could nob have kept his °beam people from famine and captivity. Poor Hebrew/31 Well they knew that these calamities were the result of their own bed deede. But in the good time coming there can be no more isuch reproach. 81. Then shall ye remember your Own evil ways. Glad *ill blot out the ° record, of their sing, but they them- selves can never blot it out. Memory of pod sine and blunder, however, so long as they have been fore given, ehoutd aot be allowed to discourage ns; only ' to remind us that each doings were not good. Loathe yourselves io.your °aro eight for your iniquities. This is the feel - Ing of every genuine Christian. Even a sinner hates sin in other people, and almost • every etarair hates certain kinds Of sin; but the hating of sin be- calm it is gin argues a change of heart. , 32. Not for your sakes do I:tlfts, You de flot deserve this. Be Ohara - ed and ecefounded for your own ways. It is good to remember the hole of the pit Whorled tve were digged, to recall out infirmitlee and wrongdoings with itufficient distinctness to keep clear and vivid in our minds the thet that Vile are not saved by our own right- eousness. 33, 84. X Will alao cause youto dwell in the cities, and the wastes be builded. Witon the trumpet of Cyr- us was blown, and the thousands of Hebrew's were invited to return to -their lend, one burdensome fact kept many hack -the walls of the great tattles had been broken down, so that after the defeat had been crossed there was no certainty that the new- .00Datire Weida be Weiconied or 'kept MU; Jerusalem was in ruins and the outly- ing farms' lay unprotected and waste. But all this desolate land shall be tilled; the region impoverished and de- populated by Nebnchadnezzar's army shall again sinmort a thrivitut popu- FINLAND'S STRUGGLE. nesem'a aViee Palley of 'Nome Ride Mot GiVeik Place to Severe and nianisi taws. • The Ruesians, after conquering Fin- land early' in the present century, Succeeded in reconciling an alien race of the Proteatant faith to their rule. The tr did this.by adroitly making con- cessions to local pride. The Emperor of all the Russias be-' came the Grand Duke of Finland. His power was absolute elsewhere in ids empire, but he governed. Finland with the conseut of the Estates of the Diet, which assembled, in, the capital, Etel- singfors, and, sanctioned new taxes and. laws. Finland *as the only pro- vhice of the empire which enjoyed any a the privileges of self-goverhment. Finnish money . was distinct from Russian currency. There was even a separate Finnish' customs line regul. ated by local 'officials. The best sys- tem of primary education known in the empire was estalished. ' Vinland moreover, was not igarrisoned by Rus- sian troops, but by its own soldierb. There wen a general. system of cow scription, but the province waa scot dee graded to the level of coriquered ter- ritory. In consequence of the tularemia and practical wisdom with which it was governed, Finland bars remained the quietest and best -ordered province of the empire. Ite tension and. 10041 liberties w4are respected. lis capital. waa rebuiltite pens were improvea, and the province spade steedy ad- Va.1300 in proaperite. Nihilist agitetors were powerless there when uorest seething everywhere eige. Klifortunately for Finland this wise and ealutery peliey of home tole has been changed. A month before the Mara Peace Resitriot leaned the Finnish Diet Was convoked to eonsider new army bill, and thie was followed by a numifeeto which virtually de- prived; the province of home rule. The Weal army Wad tO Rusaisnized, tak- en tonne& the province and greatly hi - crewed atrength. The Russian. Council. of State weals! reserve for Ito own decision et all queatioas relating to the interests of the empire, and tile Finnish Diet, which had previottely Se:tenoned miens law' was to be allow- ed merely an expteekon of opinioil in such mateere. • Finland is now honeycombed with disoontent, The Diet has rejeeted the new laws, and the people have failed in seeking redress from the tear. The Mar as the author of the Peace Iteaoript Is one Of the world's begefac- tore. Throughout Christendolh theta virill be dieeppolutment lf it is. found that this invasion of Vinland's rights hea hie approval, when every man farms for the love of it, and aims truly to leave the soil better than he found it; when the farmer blinds the borne on the earra, with 'the sole intention of occupying it while be lives. Most farmers strive Lo have a bank account to draw on 'when the infirmities of old este over-, take them: This is commendable; but too often in this effort their farins are .robbed of fertility, Soil improve- ment is entirely forgotted in the ef- fort to sebure the bank account. Thus the poverty of the farm or the son of the farm sometimes makes strong inroads on these expected accumula- tions, with a resulting failure of tbe expected bank account, We find tbe • farmer with a poor farm that • will not sustain him, 'end with no bank ac- count. He has robbed .the soil with im effort or thought to add to br sus- tain its natural fertility, and when he most needs help from the ion it is a robber in turn, (hawing from him the declining strength of old age in his efforts to make it 'Clete him a sus- tenance. This is oneof the unfortunate results of failing to understand the necessity of improving the coil, a feature of bur agriculture that forces itself bn the attention of thinking men, and one that will not change for thee better till farmers recognize,the necessity of making don improvement the basis of their farm operations. One of the saddest scenes to me is to behold an aged farmer's life close on Luta that has, beed his lifelong home, and has coasted to give him comfort and sus- tenance, simply because the land haa always been robbed, and never fed or improved. The eovery of such men is the most distressing, and is at the lame time a lesson to young inen who have ..the opportunity to farm on a more in- telligent basis. the question is tohanci them understand the necessity of start- ing in the right way. • STRAW, IN THE ORCHARD, It often happens that the farmer is in doubt as to how to dispose of his aurplus straw. He frequently coinee to the copelusiond that he should Reread It in the orchard, under the irnpres- 81011 that it Will act as a mulch, then decay and become available to the roots of his trees. Thin is a three -fold mistake. First, the straw, though theoretically worth about 83 a ton as manure, loses maul ot, its nitrogen when It is compelled to decay as slow- ly as it noes when spread in this way. Second, ja:itecomes a harbor for Mice and other vermin, which, particular- ly if tha orchard is a young one, may render great damage by gnawing and perhaps girdling the trees. Third, it keeps the tipper layer of son motet and thus encourages the growth of roots near the Surface. This is dan- gerous to the of the tree *since should the mulch be removed sit any time, or shottlil an unusually dry spell emir, the rocas could not exchange their then dry position Mr a deeper one aumilied with water. It would be better to part with the grew at a tom than to jeoperdize the life of the orchard. Hut the 'tardier can buy and feed a feve eXtriostock to eat part and trample down the rest of the istraw, and thus form good man- ure with no tom. of the litrawas nitro- gen. He should gain indeed of lose upon the investsnent to nay nothing o preventing a poealble lose in his orchard; Clean cultivation with a har- row to maintain a looae autfam, will element thin trouble by making the roots go deeper into the We for their Mod and moisture. • . COMINO CELESTIAL SPECTACLE 35, They Mall Isar. The diaterning At ads lookIng ones of the wotld, Who sometimes are 8 r8188M8r8 . are a re nuleker to see the movement? of God's forward with keen interest to the exe providenee than some of his own 411- peeted realiPbarabab of the aalebrate4 draft 'This hula that was desolate le Leonid meteore next November. These become like the garden of Eden. The meteors,' whom teeppettranee es it J'udee and Galilee, but in every Mate. about yews, Made a epeetecular reference is primarily to the hands grmt etwarta wears at lotervals of 006.1•••60. REST Bnonns or CHICHENS. The diffieultles 'of nottltrY rattling tnny be overeorne in a meaeure by the ti community the Itilillinent of this display in ieta and were 41110 IfArY j(14101011A otiOn of a breed of fowls trY and egg* emusuread. in this country. , The farmer, as a rule, keep* one flhek we 0, farm with lem satisfaction then be who take a care of one in outline* meot. The beat egg records are froM those Cooke whit* have been kept Ile yards instead eof having an altogetb- er tree romp. More Mbar IS re- gOired, of. (loam to manage floOke in confineelent, yet tine. is Made up for in aka nacreased egg yield and, saving In the ooat of the range. Tieghorse, Homburgs, Minocras, Pol- ish aod Houdans are true rangers, and an extra. degree or pare is needed to tad th litt r forting). ing to satiety their restless natures where their rouge a sMall elle. The Plymouth Reeks and Wyandotte% be- long to the middle cleats, ail it were, and will give great reatiefection eithe er for confinement tn, on a free range. Tile Bre.hmaa and Cochine are strictly fowle for confinement and will natur- ittlY do better under that Collation than any other eirseth A WEALTH ROMANCE, Prom e Benet or swans or oeiNeote000 "Soave day, Aleerblialiriglide* some time when I am a man, want to be worth 100,000 dollars. And. I'M go- ing te be, toa-some day." It is lesa than. fifty years since a young farmer's. son made this half- Irtimo.:do,aultioalrfia-pgrottupd .droceinaimaidenac; these flia6. tura with a boy -fried, as poor as himself, says Londen His father farmed ninety poor acres on the ehore ot Owasso Lake, and honight UP his too numerous family bit a' small, brown -painted shanty, in which it would have required dexter.. ity to swing the proverbial cat. • To-daa the boy, who fit& years ago WAS glad. to lioe potatoes for a abi.t. data• and wno dared scarcely breathe to his most intimete boy- friend the dream. of a day when he should have 426,000, is the ricliest Man. the world has ever knowife-so rich, in fact, that he himself dose not kno* • within a feW million dollars nova mach he is worth, and mut and does win ar .live a, million pounds sterling without a sralle or a sigh. He is so rich .that if le were to throw away a sovereign every iniri- ute of his life,. night and day, ins .Ythene'rerYeaitrome 'Would, still be aufficient TWO NEW afiLLIONA.IRES every year. He might give away his ovin Weneht in sovereigns every work- ing day of the yealt and still his in- nome for fitty-two Sunclays would place hini among the men whose en- nual reVenue runsinto six figured. Every threis dm_ his ineoma,,,Alene eXatietg—tre--£20,000 Of bus boish dreams, he ' wakes • every morning more inan £2,000 rither thee when he retired to :bed; while he is smok- ing cigar £200 is pouring, into bis xtheq,uer, ; and white he is sipping his tti1bttgain of eisffee he presents him3elf with five £5 notes. three hundred horses would . find their strength rained to araw.the 400 tons of gold he bas aenumulated in hirty-five short years; and eight re. giments of soldiers would find it diffi- ult to carry them away. With his sovereigns he eatuld make sixteen Piles, each as high as Mont "Blanc; or he could make'. a golden footpath, a itot. wide, along Whic.h be might Valk from Charing Ctose to Brighton. • As recen.tly as 1$70 John D. Rothe-, eller had only made half of his - dreamed of £20,000. Five years. later his £10,000 had become £2,00,000; in 1 835, it had grown to £10,000,000; in 1890, to £20,003,000,000; and this ear it exceeds £50,000,000. Between 870 and 1875 Mr. Rockefeller's wealth grew at ' tho. ante of nearly twenty thousand pounds a year, dur- ing the next ten years the annual in- crease was nearly one milliola pounds; between 1885 and'1890 it progressed at the rate of 42,000,000 a year; and eince 1890 it has added to itself over £3,000,000 sterling every .year.. 01 this f.,50,000,-000, thirty mil- lions are invested in oil, five millions emit. m iron mines and railway Ise- cunties, more tban three millions in real estate n1,600,000 in bank stock, a million eacb in head and na- tural gas, and nearly five millions in steamships, minueipal gas, and other securities. '• IT WAS ON OIL however, that Rockefeller first float - d his fortune, and on oil the bulk of t still floats. In his oil industry lone the multi -millionaire emplieys n army of 05,000 men, to whom he aye three and three-quarters of a xi:anion pounds every year in wages, .one of his men earning less than ight shillings A day. His oil -wagons n.umber 7,000; he has 200 steamers for L1 -transport, woo miles of pipe -lines nd uses every year 4,000,000 barrels and 400,000,000 five -gallon cans. , The nursery of this colossal fore line, the eighth wonder of the world, vvas a smair warehouse, which bore n a modest sign -board the names 'Itookefeller and Hewitt." An old riend. of the millionaire still reealts the days when he used to find R.oeke- eller sorting barrels of beans with as Much zeal as he now displays in managing his millions, / have put in my spare time, day and night, for the, past few vreeks," the coming Crowing said, "in sorting them over, and picking out the black beans. Now they are extra quality and- ,we shall sell them at an extra price.' It was soraii years later, when the Pekinsylvannin oilefieltis began to Yield their treasures, that Rockefeller and Andrewe started a smell refinery, and by a gradual proeesa of eaten. Mon land absorption laid the founda- tion on which was built the world's record tortuoe. From a barrel of beans to a fortune of 00,000,000 a great Putney, and only one man laus Made it. an DINING IN JAPAN. At the close of formai dinners in Ja- pan the guests are presented with any - portion of the Meat they may fail to eat, However greet, Of small the moonlit they may fail to eat, it Moore - fully wrapped up for them, and they are expected to take it here° with them. The unique custom was follow- ed at official diner; until a short Lime ago, when It Was 'discontinued, but the withdrawal of government ex. Maple has riot materially atfected the practice. -The plait haii been (Wowed for many Years, and in is, difficult to trace its origin. Peculiar as the ours - tom it is not without its attractive features-, The Indulgent fa- ther or mother can pass the BWOAtA sand ;starry them home to their obit - drum Half a dozen satisfactory com- bitiations can be worked on the pIan. There may be all kin& of elaborate Bourses at a dinner that one does not care for, but the Mental struggle of 1 ailing no is not half so bard when you know you will get a chasm to earry the food off, and either give it te /air children, feed it to your doge ansi r cats or distribute it among your that could be expeeted. Each kind of friends. The japtnese praetors le all !ftahr 111:tt In 111 separato relleik tt 6,0E6 t r each ;peat Is made up in a neat and artistic bundle, WII0 SENDS Tun HILLS rNf New -Wed, trying to be bright -- There seem* to be a many mom- quitota bete. Are t Inaluded itt theltrabil.INfotot .twhist,a_retiNtleh 30)113. the toot. quitom eeltd thstr own Wilt ih.• • protrdse. is possible.; vat, in evety numerous in 1666 and 11137, Reeent; best suited to your surroundings. If Yoe 86, The heatheo that are lett round met the earth the, IAA tithe it has belie have nut a limited area told your !look eelealateens ehow that sham the swarm Chrlatlan heart. about yoti: shall know that I the Lord pertne6nd by the dttritationa of Juritet must be enabled moat of the titan, with the He raves included the inform- *bowel this year will °mar on the- may be kept in °enterers's/it with best *troll of the hetthen round *bout that marina/ of November Itith, nutted of Itihotith Welshed sin and rewerded the 14th It will be ha both regalia. The euburbah residents J' The typos° of Glad's dealings and &tarn, and that the Middle o the yon thouid choose those bresds which REAT: 1 MINE ORIGINAL THEORIES AND METHODS OP EASINO PAIN. Cliniese Milken; powder,* sense and Thor neare-nuseine peewits nom never mid Agee WM* naupewiler neld name • Tbere are timea when evtin the moat healthful of men get the blue*, and wonder whether anytbing be worth the trouble after all. It may be, when the egrat is all added up, tbat a man bus 801 llartch to be thankful for as the positive way; hut wbert we cenaider the lot of many People in the world their daily Itvea awl. hopes, and ten- dereess, we see that in a negative wee, At least, the aveisge man bas much IQ be congratulated upon. If there Is any time at which be should be peel*. lerly complacent it is when ha is oblig- ed to pat bimself uoder a doctora care. The ways of the pioturesqur savage, . when it becomes necessa i huroan altroalife are truly wonderful, parent oryotoia wore touod la the i apd although the heathen maims 4004* tithe, ;moon nen all the.,,obeinioat, awl northwest 004in 01 Lake Nyasa, has An Old native at Ramage, on the genial pbyaioian, it goes in witb cive • — enjoyed for some yearn A great reptt- lain:: nitro:087 bion enneueirde daft 0 tehwea ir a' fortunately1)1314Pr°PtehInti:rsyosft allath a wdlearale°:od.mUinn: dried eentipede or a powdered rattle- /gao tUoltafthetiyitei'lliaociallry crixonelreiretteIanwtuaeo' cloubtediy much more knewledge than tatton As a MiraOle worker, He hoe a great deal of slirewdneria ad un - the people around him Ev n the MA.NI/PACTUEINO PIAKONOL same Exeorimentisx wit)* the °Magian", by 1400114, 4VAessist. Counteereit diamonds are made of • crystal, zireon or palate. Rut esti real - Manmade be Manufactured? Recent climoveriee would lead us to believe imam. OF 1111111011 HOW THE FETICH NAN IN AFRICA. Patroams xi/Wilms thietteyrill se Armor et Lemont Plante eel a fiteitioleom Mita Mow INEOREISTINO ITEMS AlliOrr ,OUR OWN COUNTRY.. that the prOblent Is not insoluble. v#0444::::::1: pavionestay ta:ablailaso:14peeirsossin.* elti aro made whieu have the name „jetee anlong the barbarous tribes; of Africa Artificial rubies, sapplairea and. sP111- • pertlea as natural specimens. Spluel owzhtobieleoeakberaiglhitvitnegnolowystlaacrier tweittia4Souldooe. for exanaple, is compoeed ot alumina Mag"1" and ir°14" 4 cellibining 4316a° troy% ,csrilirngie (Lilt: tblfettilheriirniti)ItZat:i; • elements in the proper proportion and the natural me. crystallizing them, a Obeallat oau pro. all tmomanzi,raitfcithfolarg: ite;goired09.bzidnetrealr, inearlog copious rainfall when • duce a real gem, ladiatinguishable bona • juSmoorodeulzursaraaglasorionvegr;tgltibsaht cwhbeeranl eat warttht cropsowanebicil t hthei re t;0, morerteitgahrtya rt on aro the earbon compound le neeted under great mangling. Great is their reuown Pressure With an alkali inetal carbon whim the oballea are attleabibuth Hut nation doctors are not a bit embarras- is depositedIn the foem ()Elmira flealea, sed When the medicine fails to work, After heating lithium with a mixture for they bave plenty of plauelble eit- of nine -tenths bolter -oil and. ione-tetnbth i i °Mies to relieve theta from all tee Paraffine spir ta a closed real u e Po ry to treat a eibilita, ter .foarteen hours some nerd 'trans. • ' LETTING OUT THE PAIN. The identical 'feeling of weakness, which we term that tired feeling," is a characteristic eoraPlaist of the • heatiaen °blues. His remedy is eqUallY characteristic. The patient has lost strength; therefore strength naust be brought to him trout elsewhere. Con- segoeotly, he Is forced to swallow a Pill Made of powdered tiger bones, af- ter which is considered 'that eitY further refusal • to get well muet be Prhnarlly due.% his own obstinacy. The connection is as clear as me- tal to the Celestial, at any rate.. He sees tnat tile strongest living thing knowat to hire is the tiger, and the stroogest part et the tiger is his Mas- sive backbone. Hence, ii only a small portion of this be administered to the patient, 'in 'the form of a.powder or haisaaattrear °oungmhtnuneterst.ainly to be oaly Even this shnple train of reationin must, however, go down before the rough-and-ready methods of the South Sea 'glanders, . With them tbe appear - awe of a pain is invariably regarded as a sign that some evil huntonts try- ing to work its way through the flesh. The remedy is simplicity, itself; it eon - sista of a good. deep jab with a spear dheeradtoiniethteitssoalitt.e.fc thn .paio-•"..in or - Should, however, the pain lin:need from a -spreading sore it is usual to a» .41tAtazault,_limb. This Spartan -like operation is performed with a sharp clam shell, and, needless to my, with- out the employment ,of any anaesthe- tic. Should the unfortunate patient. be suffering' from dethetia he is prompt- ly buried alive --a striking. contrast to the praatice obtaining with 'most of the African tribes; aritong whom the. 'Mane are generally regarded in the light of inspired prophets, whose per, aons moet be held sacred at all costs. °Rim OF THE FAITIX .CURE. Many years ago it. used 'to be the fashion among witches to make wax figures.,of those they wished to in - nue; and to pierce these narraless lieies with needles in whatever direc- tion they wiebed the subject of their spells to -experience especial 'Inconven- ience, A curious Adition of this 'dee exists to the present day among tae Dakota Indians. A model of the sick mares disease is fashioned from soft wood, and placed in 'a pool of water. The banks of the pools are then lin- ed by sympathetic, "braves," who vie with each ether in their efforts to shoot. the offending model to pieces. Simul- taneously .with the disappearance of the model the original' pain is mil/ - Posed to vanish. At any rate, all that iii left of it after this drastic proceed - Mg is believed .to exist only in the imagination of the victim, a pleasant little fallacy that must be exceedingly cosnforting to a bean with ' raging • toothache or a gouty toe. Another 'curious, but certainly effec- tive cure that used by the, Laps and , flung for thew:natio .afteetions. Hav- ing caught whale, they dig an open- ing in his side and immerse the • suf- ferer up to his neck in the warm blub- ber. The oil thus absorbed into the system is said not only to colinteract the acidity- of the blood, net to actu- ally •replaeti the missing lubricant in the patient's joints. Be.that as leraay, the cure is ,certainly an accomplished fact, not the least curious aide of.which lays in its extreme simplicity. INFALLIBLE CHINESE REMEDY. It is from the Chinese that we prac- tically borrowed that system of die= pensaries to which the poor man looks for hts.suecor ita time of sickness. Here in this coulatry the richer' people may pay the doctor only when they con- sult him in ease of sickness, whilst the poor man pays .so moth a week whilst in health for free medical at- tendance wheo be fails ill. It is the same in China. There, however, every- body, from the highest in the land down to the pooreet collie pays the :doctor a fixed salary so long as the patient is well. As soon as his healtb dfaeolitsorthheassaltarifirait4riagtAPP6agdatnu-ntallootrobe- mon-sense practice thet might with ad- vantage be extended. to our own. deal- ings with the faculty. That the patient ever doee get well after a course of native doctoring will probably be a matter of considerable surprise when the wonderful nature of some of the remedies is examined. Here, for instance, is an infallible Chinese remedy which •is always erne pioyecl when the patient is suffering from diseimes, such as scarlet fever, blood miinoniog or smallpox, the lead- ing aymptents of which are bad skin eruptions. The apothecary ernehes•sev- eral preciotte genie, such as rubies, pearls and emeralds, into a fine pow- der. He then adds various earths and n areal' quantity of musk, and knelt& the whole inte it paste, with the, aid of vegetiible gum and rose water. The resto is neat rolled into pills, Mated with gold leaf and swallowed. Beside' this treatment faith healing sinks into nothingness. RUSSIAN FEVER TREATMENT, RUSSIA is also interesting in the ,Matier of ettrious cures. Needless to say, the upper classes are not involv- ed In the inettincee given. The most common form among the Russien pea- santry generally takes the shape of (event and agUe. The various typo - of these afflictions are rxmularly be- lieved to he attributable to the %eel- tation of 12 invisbile Meters, eaoh of Whom represents a different degree of seriouimess. The precautions Adopted lit order' to ward off these dread visi- ;ante are the least original, and mea. atonally even hernia. h t P makin veasel Strong enoug o withatiind the enormous measure and bitch tenaperature, wrought iron tubes of half inon bore and 4 Miguel' thick be- ing bunt in nine oases out 01 len. More recently Mope study has been made ot the probable conditione under whith diameocisetre formed by nature. • In , the farimus lairalierleY mutes of • South Africa diamonds are found in the ..neighborlicael of volcanic pipes, through which, at some remote epooh, they were evidently erupted, together, with all the other debris of a thud volcano. The will in which they are found ia rich -itt iron. From these eirounastances the the- ory bas been advanced that &amends were formed from carbon liquefied by enormous heat and pressure and dis- solved in iron, from which. they crys-. Utilized out in cooling. By calculation It was towed that this ivould require a temperature of About 4000 degrees.cen- tiiirade, 7282 degrees Fahrenheit, and a pressure ot fifteen • TONS TO THE SCItJARE INCH. LI Acting open this ,hint 3tIolasan, of Faris, recently packed bad a pound of pure iron in a graphite crucible, to- gether with some pure charcoal pre - wed from sugar. He placed the cru- cible in an electric) .furnace, and turn- ed on a current of 800 amperes at forty volts pressure, producing a beat above 0 -degrees centigrade. 'Aftet a few minutes the current was stopped, the crucible plunged into cold water and bad there until it sank to a red heat. The sudden cooling solidified the outer envelope Of iron,. holding the `Molten core in a tight grip. When finally the inner liquid .cooled it enpooded In solidifyingenaffentroducen. gt'a1 pres- sure. ,Under this pressure the dissolved carbon :eepareted out in. crystalline form, that is to say, a diamond. But here again the cryittals were too smell and imperfect to have any value as jewels. Some other prase:in nutst be discovered whereby carbon aad iron can be subjected to enormoutz beat and pressure before Weben hope to produce „diamonds on; 13„ 'commercial kale, In 'this eanneetiOn Prot. Crookes hes sug- gested to the Ronal 'inanition thai "in their researches on the gases from fired .gunpowder and cordite Sin Fred- erick Abel and ..Sir Andrew Noble ob- Mined in closed steel cylinders pies - sures as greet as ninety-five. tots to the sipiere inch, and temperatures as high* as 4000 degrees centigrade. Here, then, if the .observations are °enact, we hate •aufficietit teraperature and enough presstire to liquefy earben; end if the temperature could only be al- lowed to act for a sufficient time on the carbon there is little doubt, that the artificial formation of diamonds would soon pass from the -microscopic state to a scale more likely to satisfy 'the' requirements of 'science, industry and ilersonal &covalent, . . "Diatdonds made by dynamite" woad be a queer sign on it jeweler's window, but queer things are bound to happen mn all. age of electric furnaces on the one hand and liquefied hydrogen m. the other.--ae • A CAPRICIOUS NORARCH, ne Ives Bribed •by coopem ride ritr MS Portrait. • M.'die la Neziere, Who is just back • from the west coast of Africa, has been ereinaing Renee months in laborious attempts to paint the por- trait of Samorya the venquishedaking, under coasidetable difficulties. The I I goodfteal. lame 'end the United :hetes. three 6 large proportion 01 the pew - , The teMediee are directed ageing the supposed Antipathies of the algal,. hood. For illAtAllee, Sister No. 1 is greatly afraid of eating herself ;there- fore the patient's bed mutt be sur- rotanded with evexy availeble scythe, adee,°411661„ khife end saw that the relatives min Imerow or otherwise gain poeeession of. The exorelam of Sister No. 2 is a far more photo/ant procees, consinting as It does of dosing (he patient with a peculiar feria of alco- hol. Another sister objects to cold, and is expellee by giving the patient, a fever patient, mark you!' a cold hath, while yet. another can only be shifted by the patent swallowing s lerge dem of gunpowder. THE WHOLE STORY. dethroned potentate has the greatest , objection to a.rtists general, and in particular deemed it, a piece of gross . impertinence on the part of M. de la Neziere to visaed to catch hie likeness. Bbs dusky majesty had .tt. be coaxed with innumerable 'gifts of cigarettes, h raatches, and coppers nate giving the paintea- a sitting. Among all the pre- 0 gents showered upon him, small change o which' he USed.-promptly to put in his ; mouth as a precaution against pick- pockets, was whatelni. liked beht, IAA 69.14Ory WO.B mollifietic -began to eall de la Neziere by the only t French word. that he knew ."eanla- rade," and graciously consented to ; sit, The unfortunate artist's difficut. end, Whet Simony saw de 'royal 8 features being drawn upon the can- vas, he was suddenly taken with a bashful fit that lasted on and off for weeks. Ile need tient now and then to hide bis cam 'hence beneath bus turban and reeolut lyreftfse to uoveit, E Whenever it happened that Samory's feelinge of modesty were thus unac- countably. Mut, the sitting had invar- iably to be given up for the day. At other times the fallen, bun atilt cap - rickets monster used serioualy to disturb the painter'a work by spank - ling him and his octavos with water. At last, however, M. de le Neziere succeeded in getting a few sketches of &morn, whieh he has brought back with him, and from whit% he 'Mende painting it finished portrait of the dethroned Xing, white men open tht3ir eyes in auxprise at, the apparent result or his mysteie bus doings, and hie fame bee spread throughout the region between the Lakes Nyasim and Tanganyika; One of his •miraeles a while ago wail of ocinsiderable advantage to the whites, and this is how it happens that Capt, I3oileau, who crossed the Nyassa-Tan- ganyika as a member of the Anglo - German Boundary Commission .and a eivil•engineer by protease/la thought It worth while' to tell some things about the blank wonder. • • kts FXRST ATTEMPT, at working e mil -mile was a great Boo- tees and made him famous in a day. Some:six years ag,o the people far and wide around the north end 'of Lake oNialoniaoaatwoerewhiaofhtliwetemede weaittlaii•ma..upolagthuee crops. gamine stared. the country in the tace. The old man gave notice mai daY that the s irits were oi Opnened frost Veda** Petite Amos tbo AtIsoths to Om POW, Halt Public. !shoots are te have a gamble inatructpr. E. Lang, Brantford, fell from * seat - fold and was severely injured. W. Ilya'', prominent as an 046. follow in LeamiAgton, le dead, The deaths in'"Galt during the firet • Ede months. of 1899 nuMbered 65, James has been appointed leader of the Eranteord Citizens' Rana, IlfVjor Walters haa declared age.inet tele one inondnaly ig Liodsay, Guelnir Fat -Stock Club hita received a donation of a ;250 silver elna grain elevator with a, capaoity for 80,000 }melons will be built at Al - menet) Mrs. Attalla KA1111, A former reel - deet of Weadinotik, died recently Ip ebt•Til"e".P'ciirt' monion plate and dralierY Police Magistrate Crease, of Nelson, 0R7.00.,ahmasoubtahd hie ;salary Increased to of St. James' Cbureb, Vancouver, haa been stolen. • Miner Sweet; ot .foyndburst, hes been 114P:0Ln:1114e potillicefilifoareev.acan" 04 tbe Woodstock trustees (object to games beher prayed on the sthool grounds during vaseation„ tie% Poi 1;ri iteiY4 lb aosf re:0811'9;4411141c% b13°11:1; Public achool. Knox church, $t, Catharinee, will Iiirely eateed a call to Rev. D. Smith, of 'Thamesford. Rev. George W, Dickey, of Amherst- borg, bad accepted a call to a Chicago Baptist church, Misses Gray, Hanwell and Matheson have graduated as nurses from the Woodstock Ilespite.l. . . During six months 88,357.25 • were paid in fines in Roseland Police Court; 225 -'cages being tried, Woodetook police are making a raid on fanners, who, it is alleged, sold dis- eased xneats in the town. • Belleville hoolfeyista are in arrears to use him in destroying the pests and finogr rtinnknureenttinanddeltilinequpetnotptor.ietor IP go - save the crops, and after he had retir-• R cowling principal of the Weston cd- from publio view fora few days Public •schoot has received en iippoin- he would be able to tell the people ment as railway mail Week. what to no to sive their growing food supplies, ' It was necessary far him to, climb the Viraali Hill and pray 'Owe for a hong time. So be Oct out for this eminence, which rises about „.8.70Oafee1aabove-theasea. fift ecu ranee west of the large lake. He was not seen again for several days, and when he reappeared reappeared at the village he pro- iluced .a large amount of powder which he distributed among the na- tives+ telling thent to Mix it with wa- ter and sprinkle it over their fields. His instructions were carefully ful- filled, and the, next thing that occur- red was very gratifying. The locusts began to die by hundreds of thousands and 'they have not since been aeen in that region .in sufficient numbers, to do any damage. • Capt. Boileau does not suggest,what seems plausible, that the Old man may. have discovered that his powder would kill the locusts, and to •iiittke a name for himself astonished the natives by adding a supernatural element which, was the fraudulent pare on nis pro- ceeding. The Capinin seems to think 'that the miracle worker was merely favored by the appearamee emong the insects, of a disease at the very nine his joggling ' was going- op. What-• evert it was, the remit was all right. The plague was abated and the mir- sole worker had the credit of bring- ing this blessing to pates. THE 'WHITE MEN, t thenorth otthe lake were the eneficiaries of the second miracle, nd Berne of them were considerably rapteseed by it. One day the steamer Donlira tan ashore in a fog, and be - ore she was floated again her crew had about given her up as lost. For ays with the assistance of hundreds f the natives, they dragged and haul- dabut could not budge the vessel an nth. they were at their wit's end, and work for a time was suspended while tbe white men held a council on he shore and tried to form some new plan of rescue. They talked the met- er over for an houror so without reaching any definite idea as to the next proceeding. just then the old worker of miracles came sauntering down to the beath and .said he had omething to tell the white man. Ole went on that if they would. let him try he was sure he could save tbe teamboat. Be declined to tell what he would do, but said he would not Arra the vessel in any way, as the whites Would see, for they. might look ni While he was engaged m the work f salvation. The white mai laugh- ngly told him to go ahead if he bought be could do any good, and he t once stepped briskly about his busi- ness. ale had to if the miracle was ;ohne, performed to, daylight, for the a no ttvilight in that tropical te- nni was only •an hour high and there Up to the village Inahastened and oon reappeared with A WHITE HEN tinder his arm. hia'request a boat took him and his hen out to the stratided vessel, and he climbed up he side to ,the deck, Then he held the hen aloft, recited a few prayers and tossed the fowl into the lake, where the was drowned. The pro- ceedings essential to save the vessel had teen corepleted. Darkness was falling as the old man reached the shore. lie told the white men the problem had been solved. They need tea no IlAW plan. All they need to do was. to. give another pull at the vessel next Morning and alai would vont° off without any difficulty. Sure enough, next day the steamer was floated, and required only a little pulling to get her out of the clan into clear water, , The whites', who had b en so nobly re-inforced by an old negr and a hen, kept, up a good deal of hard thinking that day, and. some' of them thought at last that they had fathomed the secret of the Man's mysterious, gift. In the five days they had been pulling away at the eLeatiaer the wind had been bloWliag strong off the, lake. On the sixth day, when they got' her alma, the wind Was blowing a half gale off the shore, and the men were of the opinion that the vessel was thereby loosened sufficiently to Make ib easy to puff her, out into deeper water, They also concluded thet the °la num was a pretty sliek pion of goods, and that unusual pow - erg of observation and a very fertile brain are the balms of his success as A Mittiete worker. Their explanation is that the old man had Joked up a good deal of raeteorologica knoveledge end that his experience told- him that the wind was going to change that night end bIow fiercely in the oppo- eite direction. Ile thought the change of wind would aid the work et rescue, ittogolikarethire Genhattthece6eLaan.ci bit the nell However this may be, there Is se - cording the native *Lew, not the islighteist Dave in the old fellow's gift an a 'attack, worker. They believe Nyaesa would beeome dry load if be should speak the lord, arid he doesn't jeopardize his fatae by perpetratiha little Mirth** day or two. Oniy a great omasioia brings him out, and • the maehteet for evolving minuets la never set motion unless he feels certain be a sure, thirig. It'AD a7irrnuir—itmst. ties were not yet, however at an WHERE HE BELONGED. • It may seem a novel idea that a plan owes his Whig to the place where he happens to have made hitt growth as well ite to the Piece where he was botn, but such Was the view of a Scotch witneos. Are you a native of this parish ?ask- ed the sheriff of a man called to tes- tify in a ease of distilling. .lefaistle, yes, honor, was the reply. / mean, Wat8 you born in this. net- ish No yor honor, / watina born in this but Pm maistly a native for a that. You mune herd when yonawere ehild, 1 aupp,se you mean? said the theriff. No, air; here Just thotit SAX year noel. Then how do you come to be Most- ly a native of the wish? Weel, ye see, when I CAM' here, sg,g, year, synth I just weighed eight steno an' I'm fully seventeen thane noo t, sae ys me, aboot nine state te me belongs to this perish, an' 1 main bit maistly it native o't. 9 - • DAILY VISITORS TO LONDON. .If the number Of people deny enter. ling the City of London weed ha be dee- patched front day given atatioa by train, 1,977 Mine, each oonreying 800 persons, would be required f�r the purpose. Moreover, If all these trains were arranged In a *treight line, they would cover lel milts of rallwaY. • You ate, he said 1 Was a fool, STYLISH SHOES. Yep, And then T soaked hire. • Wino. And that was where /' proved R. • Belleville City Council . Was . 'Men ow to provide for the nureing of the city poor in thecity hospital. • During' the first six 'months of tbe year there Were 82 births, 61-deitthe -enarnl-arriages in Owen Sound. Prineipin stnart of Stratford Pub - lie schocile eays the Truancy Act is not very effective in that totyn.• J. B. Dannenet oe Guelph, has been • appbinted asaistaiitin the department of botany at Harvard Univetraityi • The directors of St. Catharines Pub- lic Library, protest against tbe City Coancila notion' in recluolog the grant. . • Te is rumored that Hon. la, Rose, of the Northwest Territorial Cannon, smieanYer.be _appointed :Indian . -CoMmie- • Wedeesday halt -holiday in Vaneou- ver is 'only °interred by groceria and butchers; the others not being unit- ed. Galt wants gm a year for supplying water at two stations for the G.T.R., , bub the' big torporation only. wants to PaY 3300. Owing to Ine rembinfraffine-t D. S. O'Connor, has resigned b i - tion as Separate Reboot trusts itta,„ Stint.ford. • aninineeansen Lieut -Col. Carlisle, was • banqueted by the officers of the 19th Battalion, nt. Catharines, on the occasion of his yearn:neat, - E. IL Bissett, of Brookville, will re- ceive, a Royal Humane Society medal for rescuing a boy from.drowning at Gananoque. • • Illeredithason of W. A: Sudwortte of Ingersoll, wee shot in the face by a companion, who was handling re- volver carelessly. • Messrs. Aldridge, McKee, Kincard and McGrath, have been appointed as - moors for the town of Peteritione at it salary 01 9150 each. Rev. W. b. Caswell. rebuked some Members 011ie eonitreteation in Wood - atonic for talking too freely when service was in progress. • Paris PreEibytery hastaustained the call given by St. A4iirew's church, Brantford, to Rev. MiaScott, of Hes, peter. The salary offered, is 91,200. Andrew tdindlenaissanotreerly in the employ of the Traders' Be but lat- terly engaged in the Unite es, died at his mother's home in soli. • Mr. Abreyl, a recent graduate of Queen's University, has been called to the Pre,sbyterian °hurdles of Hum- phrey and Logan in the Stratford Presbytery. • • . • During June the receipts at the•In- land Revenue office in Owen Sound were $0,244.90, an fncrease of nearly 8800 Mier 1898. • MOUTH OPEN FOR 1$ YEARS. Novel Operatton Performed on 0Wan Who ilex Not nosed nt* meats tar lryto Delzdem.- 110VAI operation was performed at the .Cleveland General ,Hoepital last week on Edward Klotz, who, iafter- eighteen yeare, is now able to close his mouth. 'Wben Klotz, 'Who is, now twenty-one yeare of age,, was three nem old, he AVAA burned about the face and neck. Little ittention was paid to the child's wounds and the raW surface of the chin and cheat were allowed to comae in contact with each: other. In the course of time the chin grew to the sternum, or breast, bone, The burns were kept wrapped in eloth. (When the wrappings were taken off the chin was firmly grown to the cbest. 4'o eighteen ,etters young Motes Mouth has been wide open, he being nnts'bre-td clime it even the smallest fraction of an ineh. His lowee teeth grew out of his mouth like tueke. Dr. George W. Crile undertook to Ina - prows ICIOtZ'S appearance. The young man was literally Aba- ted alive, as far an hie breast was concerned. An ineleion watt made et the lower extremity of the breast, and the skin peeled all the entite surface of the breast, fleck and chin. Tile skin WAS peeled upward. The flesh - was laid bare on the aides to the Abe. The blood veseels, nerves and deep muscles Of the neck exposed. Then the chin -was out away from the cheat. .4 portion of the large sheet of• sklo wee cut out and replaoed on the body in snob a way that it will grow to the parte. Motet can now elbee hte mouth, and says he hardly dares to *ler open It, • again. CONFUSiNG. • Them ehatages itt the weather ar• e - bothering ma to (loath, said the ama- • tour singer. Why t When have a mid Poo bassi and 'j'bje 0011 irtYli#h *Wog far (Whig' ,Pfattikre & mood time yesterdayt some r Netv;Pl!l_Ptq.. 1114 01111: bicycling and the street are MO, Lteee....Good7thare ?Old boy, tees Ewer tell , Irtner 14° With the "bulldog toe." twee ftt. Diverai Selly in 00