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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-1-31, Page 3SUBJECT: ISLE OF PALMS: 'ROUND - THE • WORLD SERNON$, BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. BpoogLys, Jan. 20.—In continuing his aeries of 'round -the -world sermons, Rev. Dr. Talmage to -day preached in the New York Aeaderay a Music. Hereafter the doctor will occupy the Metropolitan pulpit in the- Academy, Be to -day chose for his subject, Ceylon, the "Isle of Paling," the text being, "The Ships of Tarshish First," Isaiah 60: 9. The Tarsbish of any text by many com- mentators is supposed to be the island of Ceylon, upon Which the seventh sermon of the " 'Round -the -World" series lands orchids so delicate other lamb must keep them Under conservatory, but here defi- ant of all weather, mid tiowen3 more or less akin to azaleast and honeysuckles, and fioxes, and fuchsias, and chryeantine mums, and rhododendrons, and fox-glo-ves and pansies, which dye the plains and mountains of Ceylon with heaven. The evening hour borne incense of all styles of aromatics. The eonvolvulus, blue as if the sky •lead fallen, and butterflies spangling the air, and arms of trees sleeved with blossoms, and reeks up- holstered of mossncommingling sounds, and sights, and odors, until eye and ear and nostrel vie with each other as to which souse shall open the door t� the most enchantment. A struggle between music, and perfume, and nideseence. Oleanslers reeling in intoxication of color. Great banyan trees that have been &ring- ing their mind for centuries, each cen- tury carrying out a new plan of growth, attracted our attelation, and saw us pass in the year 1894, as they saw pass the generations of 1794, and 1694. Colombo is so thoroughly erabooverecl in foliage that if you go into one of its towers and look down upon the city of one hundred and thirty thousand people you cannot see a house. Oh, the trees of Ceylen ! May you live to behold the morning climbing down through their branches, or the evening tipping their leaves -with amber and gold! I forgive the Buddhist for the worship of trees until they know of the God who made the trees. I wonder not that there are some trees in Ceylon celled sacred. To me all trees are sacred. I wonder not that before one of them they burn camphor flowers, and hang lamps al ound its branches, and a hund- red thousand people each make pilgrim- age to that tree. Worship something man must, and until he hear of the only Being worthy of worship, what so elevat- ing as a tree ! What glory enthroned amid its foliage ! What a majestic dox- ology spreads out in its branches! 'What a voice when the tempests pass through it How it looks down upon the cradle and the grave of centuries! As the fruit of one tree unlawfully eaten struck the race with vice, and the uplifting of an- other tree brings peace to the soul, let the -woodman spare the tree, and all nations honor it, if, through higher teaching, we do not, like the Ceylonese, worship it I How consolatory that when we no more walk under the tree branches on earth, we may see the "Tree of Life which bears twelve manner of fruit, and yields her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations !" Two processions I saw in Ceylon. within one hour, the first led by a Hindoo priest, a huge pot of flowers on his head, his face disfigured with holy lacerations, and his unwashed followers beating as many dis- cords frem what are supposed to be musi- cal instruments, as at one time can be in- duced to enter the human ear. The pro- cession halted at the door of the huts. The occupants came out and made obei- sance end presented small contributions. In return therefor the prist sprinkled ashes upon the children who came for- ward, this evidently a form of benedic- tion. Then the procession, led on by the priest, started again; more noise, more ashes, more genuflexion. However keen 0110'S sense of the ludicrous, he could find. nothing to mite even a smile in the movements of such a procession. Mean- ingless, oppressive, squalid, filthy, and. _Returning to our carriage, we rode on a few moments, and we came on another' procession a kindly lady leading groups of native children, all clean, bright, hap- py, laughing They were a Christian school out for exercise. There seemed. as much intelligence, refinement and happi- ness in that regiment of Chingalese as you would find in the ranks of any young ladies' seminary being chaperoned on their afternoon walk through Central Park, New York, or Hyde Park, London. The Rindoo procession illustrated on a small scale somethingof what Hindooism can do for the world.The Christian pro- cession illustrated on a small scale some- thing What Christianity can do for the world. But those two processions were only fragments of two great processions eyer marching across our world ,• the procession. blasted of superstition an.d the procession blessed of Gospel light. I saw them in one afternoon in Ceylon. They are to be seen in all nations. ors. Ceylon . was called by the Romans Taprobane. John Milton called, it "Gold- en Chersonese." Moderns have mailed Ceylon "The Isle of Pahns," "The Isle of Flowers," "The Pearl drop on' the brow of ' India," "The Isle of Jewels," "The Wand of Spice," "he Show Place of the Uni- verse," "The Lund of Hyacinth and Ruby." In my eyes, for scenery it ap- peared to be a mixture of Yosemite and Yellowstone Park. All Christian people -want to know more of Ceylon, for they have a long -while neen contributing for its evangelization. .As our ship from Australia approached this island there hovered over it clouds thick and black as the superstition -which have hovered here for centuries; but the morning sun was breaking through like the Gospel light, which is to scatter the last elond of moral gloom. The sea ley along the coast calm as the eternal purposes of Gerd- toward all islands and continents. We swing into the harbor clf Colombo, which is made by a break -water huilt at vast expense. As we floated into it the water is black with boats of all sizes, and manned by people of all colors, but chiefly Tanlils and. °haggles°. There are two things I want most to see on this island; a heathen temple with its devotees in idolators worship, and. an audience of Cingalese addressed by a Chris- tian reissionery. The entomologist may have his 'capture of brilliant insects; and. the sportsman his tent adorned with rmtler of red deer and tooth of wild boar; and the painter his portfolio of gorge three thous- and feet down, and of days dying on even- ing pillows of purple eloud etched with fire ;and the botanist his camp full of orchids, and crowfoots and gentians, and valerian, end lotus. 1 want most to find. • out the moral andreligious triumphs, how many wounds have been healed, how many sorrows comforted, how many en- tombed nations resurrected. Six William Baker, the famous explorer and geograph- er; did well for Ceylon after his eight years' residence in this island, and Iro- fessor Ernst Heckel, the professor from Jena, did well when he swept these waters, and. runmeed these hills, and. took home for future inspection the insects of this tropical air. And forever honored be such work; but let all that is sweet in eythm, And graphic 071 canvas and. imposing in monument, and imenokal in memory be brought to • tell the deeds of those who were heroes and heroines for Christ's sake. Many scholars have supposed that the Island of Ceylon was the original Garden. of Ed.en, where the snake first appeared on reptilian mission. There are reasons for belief that this was the site where the first homestead was opened and destroyed. It is so near the equator that there are not more than twelve degrees of Fahrenheit ,difference all the year round. Perpetual foliage, perpetual fruit, and all styles of animal life prosper. What luxuriance, and abundance, and super-abuude,nce of life! What styles of plumage clo not the birds sport! What styles of scale do not the fishes reveal! What styles of song do not the groves have in their libretto! Here ou the roadside, and clear out on.the beach of the sea, stands the cocoanut tree, saying : "Take my leaves for shade. Take the juice of my fruit for de- lectable drink. Take my a.ecbariue for sugar. Take ray are for the cordage of your sbips. Take any oil to kindle your lamps. Take any wood to fashion your cups and pliChers. Take my leaves to thatch your roofs. Take my smooth sur- face on which to print yourbooks. Take my 80,000,000 trees covering 500,000 acres and with the exportation enrich the world. I -will wave in your fans and spread abroad in your umbrellas. I will vibrate in your musical instruments. I will be the scrubbing brushes on your floors." Here also stands the palm tree, saying, 4'1 ean at your disposal. With these arms I fed your ancestors 150 years ago, and. with these same arms I will feed your de- scendants 150 years from now. I defy the centuries !" Here also stands the nutmeg tree, say- ing, ."I am ready to spice your -beverages, and enrich your puddings, and with my sweet dust make insipid things palat- able." Here also stands the coffee plant, say- ing, "With the liquiS boiled from my beriT.I stimulate the nations morning by morning." Here steads the tea plant, saying, "With the liquid boiled from my leaf I soothe the world's nerves, and stimulate the world's conversation, evening by evening." Here stanch the cinchona, saying, "I am the fee of, malaria. In all climates my. bitterness is the slaughter of fevers "' What miracles of productiveness on these islands! Enough sugar to sweeten .all the world's bevereges ; enough ban- anas to pile all the world's fruit baskets; enough rice to mix all the world's pud- dings enough cocoanut to powder all the world s cakes; enough flowers to garland all the world's beauty. islend, bat know this : Ceylon will be taken for Christ I Sing Bishop geber's hymn: What though the spley breezes Blow soft o'er Ceyion's Isle I Among the first places I visited was a Buddhist College, about one hundred men studying to become priests gathered around the teachers. Stepping into the building where the high priest was in- structing the class, we were epologetie and told hiin we were Americans, and would like to see his mode of teaching if he had aao objections; whereupon he be- gan, doubled up s,s he was ea a keingel with his right hand playing with his foot. In his left hand he beide package of bam- boo leaves on which were written the words of the lesson, each student holding a similar package of bamboo leaves. The high priest first read and then one of his students read. A. group of as finely - formed young men as ever saw sur- rounded the venerable instructor. The first word of each sentence was intoned. There was in the whole scene an earnest- ness which impressed me. Not able to understand a word of what was said; there is a look of languarge and intona- tion that is the same among all races. That the Buddhists• have full faith in their religion no one can. doubt. That is, in their opinion the way to heaven. What Mohammed is to the Mohammedan, and what Christ is to the Christian, Bud- dha is to the Buddhist. We w ited for a pause in the recitation, and then express- ing our thanks, retired. Nearby is a Buddhist temple, on the altar of which before the image of Bud- dha are offerings of Rowena As night was coming on we came up to a Hinder) temple. First we were prohibited from going further than the outside steps, but we gradually advanced until we could see all that was going on inside. The wor shippers were making obeisance. The tom-toms were wildly beaten, and shrill pipes were blown, and several other in- struments were in full beng and blare, and there was an indescribable- hubbub, and the most barbarious style if worship I had ever seen or heard. The dim lights and the jargon, and the gloonas, and the itti ng figures mingled for eye and ear a horror whieh it is difficult to shake off. All this was only suggestive of what would there transpire after the toilers of the day had ceased work and had time to appear at the temple. That such things st ould be supposed to please the Lord, or have any power to 'console or help the worshippers, is only another mystery in this world of mysteries. But we came away sad tenni with the spectacle, a sad- ness which aid not leave us until we ar- rived at a place where a Christian mis- sionary was pi eaching in the street to a group of natives. I had that morning expressed. a wish to witness such a scene, and here it was. •Standing oaniren elevation the good. man was addressing. the orowd. All was at- tention, and silence, and reverence. A religion of relief and joy was being com- mended, and the dusky faces were ill -am. - ed with the sentiments of pacification and reinforcement. It was the rose of Sharon after walking among nettles. It was the morning light after a thick darkness. It was the Gospel after Bindooism. thousand six hundred pillars with carved capitols are standing eentinel for ten miles. Yon can judge somewhat of the size of the city by the reservoirs that were required to slat e their thirst ; judging the city Warn the size of the eup out of *Well it drank. Cities crowded with iuhabit- ante, not like AmexicanZor English cities, but packed togiather as only barbaric tribes can pack them. But their knell was sounded; their light went out, Giant trees are the only royal family now ocoupying those palaces. The groad of wild beasts where once the aflaw of wassail Ascended'. Anuradhapura and Pollonarna will prayer be rebuilded. Let all the living cities of the earth take 'warning. Cities are human, having a time to be born and a time to die. No more certainly have they a cradle than a prave. A last judgment is appointed for individuals, but cities have their last judgment M this world. They bless, they curse, they worship, they blaspheme, • they suffer, they are rewarded, they are overthrown. Prep( sterous ! says someone, to think • that any of our American or European cities which have stood so long can ever come through vice to extinction. But New 'York and London have riot stood as long as those Ceylonese cities stood. Where is the throne outside of Ceylon on which 165 suecessive kin, s reigned for a lifetime ? Cities and nations that have lived fax longer than our present cities or nation have been sepulchz ed. Let all the municipalities of this and other lands ponder,. It is as true now as when the Psalmist -wrote it, and as true of cities and nations as of individuals: "The Lord kno-weth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Nothino- is of more thrilling interest than the °Christian achievements in this island. The Episcopal Church was here the National Church, but disestablisln ment has taken place, and since Mr. Gladstone's accomplishment of that fact in 1880 all denominations are on equal platform, and all are doing mighty work. America is second to no other nation in what has been done for Ceylon. Since 18l6 she has had her religious agents in the Jaffna Peninsula of Ceylon. The Spauldings, the Ho %viands, the Doctors Poor, the Saunders, and others just as gooci and strong, have been fighting back monsters of superstition and cruelty greater than any that ever swung the tusk or roared in the jungles: But pas,sing, up and down the streets of Ceylon you findall styles of people with- in five minutes—Afghans, Kaffirs, Portia- g.uese, Moormen, Dutch, En.glish, Scotch, Irish, Americans; all classes, all dialects, all manners and customs, all styles of salaam. The most interesting thing on earth is the human race, and specimens of all branches of it confront you La Cey- lon. The island of the present ia a quiet and inconspieious affair compared with what it once was. The dead cities of Ceylon were larger arid more imposing than are the living cities. On this island are dead New Yorks, and dead Pekins, and dead Eclinburghs, and. dead Londons. Ever and anon at the stroke of tbe archeeologist's hammer the tomb f some great municipality flies open, and there are other buried cities that w 11 yet re- spond to the explorer's pick -axe. The Pompeii and Herculaneum underneath Italy are small compared with the Pena- peiis and Her oulaneums underneath Cey- lon. Yonder is an exhumed city which was founded five hundred years before Christ, standing in pomp and splendor for twelve hundred years. Stairways up which fifty men might pass side by side. Carved. pitars, sonie of them fallen, some of them aslant, some of them erect. Phi- diases and Cluistopher Wrens, never heard of here, performed the marvels of sculpture and architecture. Aisles throgh which royal processions marched. Arches under which kings were, earned. City with reservoir twenty miles in circuum- ference. Extemporized lakes that did their cooling ancl refreshing for twelve centuries. Moine more suggestive than Melrose and Kenilmorth. Ceylonian Kar - necks and Luxors. Ruins retaining much of grandeur, though wets bombarded them and Time put his chisel on eveoy block, and. more than all, vegetation. put its anchor; and pries and svrenches in all tbe crevic.es. Dagol;as, or places where relics of saints or deities are kept. Dago- bas four hundred feet high, an their fallen material burying precious things for the right of which modern cariosity has digged and blasted in vain. Proces- sion of elephants in imitation, wrought into lustrous marble. Troops of hones in full run. Shrines, chapels, cathedrals wrecked on the mountain side. Stairs of moon -stone. Exquisite scrolls rolling up more mysteries than ever will be -unroll- ed. Over sixteen.square mlies, the ruins of one city strewn. Throne rooms on which at different times sat one hundred and sixty-five kings, reigning in author- ity they inherited. Walls that witnessed coronations, assassinations, subjugations, ;triumphs.. Altars at which millions bowed. ages before the orcheatra.s celes- tial woke the Shepherds with midnight overtare, WESTERN DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIA- TION OF ONTARIO. Progress Made Daring the Year 1894. In spite of its former growth to enor- mous proportions during the past year there has been, if not a rapid,at least a steady and healthy, expansion of the cheese making industry in Western On- tario, as well as in many other parts of Canada. This extension is seen not only in the erection of new factories, but also in the number of patrons at the older factories and. in the average number of cows kept by each; also, I believe, in the average results achieved. The growth of the dairy is further evidenced in the pro- gress of winter butter making in connec- tion with cheese. While the dOnversion of cheese factories into winter oreamexies has not gone on so rapidly as anticipated, still some progress has been made in a di-, rection from which good, if not extraor- dinary, results may be expected. It is just possible that the unusual interest— not quite yet a craze—excited in this and other countries by the success of our dairymen may lead to the expansion of the industry to the point of danger; and that from influences already in motion here and elsewhere we a ay see a marked fall in the price of cheese as in other pro- ducts of the farm—a 'contingency which our dairymen should not lose sight of. However this may be, it is clear that all our efforts, especially all governmental efforts, should now be directed to raising the standard of quality, to the holding and improvement of the position we al- ready have in the markets of the world, rather than to the extension of the area of cheese making operations. In butter making there seems to be an unlimited field for the production of a gilt-edged article. While the foreign markets just ow offer little stimulus to the develop- ment of this branch of the dairy indus- try, it is gratifying to note that the im- proved taste of the Canadian people has recently given a great impetus to the pro- duction of good butter, eUher home dairy or creamery, for the local markets. The clear demands of the home trade'are an intimation to makers that the day for poor butter at a profit is past. But here is a fact that should not be forgotten. In spite of individual, co-operative and ee- partmental effort—and the power of the press- during the past few years, the shipments of butter from Montreal in 1894 were less than one-third of -what they were in 1892, and less than a sixth of those in 1880. During the first period the shipments of cheese rose nearly 80,- 000 boxes; during the second or longer period they increased considerably more than three -fold. ' But this startling fact should not discourage us in the produc- tion of good butter, or in the extension of winter creameries. It merely illustrates a fact which we should never lose sight of in this or any other industry—that the Canadian trade is net ,entirely dependent on our own efforts. We are affected by the efforts and success of dairymen in other parts of the wor d, whose product meets ours in the common market. The condition of both the cheese and butter making industries suggests that every poseible effort on the part of the trade and of government may be beneficially exerted to increase facilities for the quick and cheaper transportation of our goods to the British market, and to the enhanc- ing of their reputation there. The pro- blem of handli g our butter and. placing it fresh and in perfect condition in that market is clearly not yet solved.. This problem is one which affects the cheese industry, in these days of winter cream- eries, as well as those engaged exclusively rn tke production of butter. ---From the annual address of Andrew Pattullo, Esq., president of the Dairymen's Association of Western. Ontario. Had Faith in His Father. The American missionaries in Ceylon have given special attention to medieal instruction' and • are doing wonders in driving baa the horrors of heathen sur- gery. • Cases of suffering were formerly given over to the devil -worshippers, and ouch tortures inflicted as may not be de- scribed. The patient was trampled by the feet Of the medical attendants. It is only of God's mercy that there is a living mother in Ceylon. Oh, how much Cey- lon needs, doctors, and. the medical classes of native students under the care of those who follow the example of the late Sam- uel Fish Green are providing, them, so that all the alleviations, and kindly min- istries, and scientifie acumen that can be found in American end English hospitals will soon bless all Ceylon. in that island are 82 American schools, 210 Church of England schools, 284 Wesleyan schools, 284 Roman Catholic schools. Ah! the schools decide most everything. How suggestive the inoident that came to me in. Ceylon, in a school under the cam of the Episcopal. Church two boys were con- nerted to Christ and were to be baptised.. An intelligent Buddhist boy said in the school, "Let all the boys on Biffidlia's side come to this part of the room and all the boys on Christ's side go to the other Part of the room." .4.11 the boys except two ovent oulluddha's side, and when the two boys who wore to be baptised were scoffed at and derided, ono of them ;yield- ed and retired to Buddha's side. But af- tetword that boy was sdry that he yield- ed to the persecution, and -when the day of bapthen came stood up by the boy who remamed film. Someone said to the boy who had 'vacillated in his choioe hetveori Buddha and Christ, "You aro a eovard, and not fit ler either sidc," but he replied, "t was overcome or temptation, but T re- pent and belieye," Then bothboys were baptised, and front that time the ,Angli- ean Mission moved on more and more vigorously. 2 will not say which of 'ajt the denominations of Chrie.tiens is dein the most for the evangeliection 02 thr CUINVIDEKE Alit) AMORAL. • e-vr 0,011181'S are often biam(d for a too fregut at nee of coincidence in their works • of fiction, yet in real We nothitg is eo common as co- nk.• ineid) nee. Ilere is a little one that happened to me last week, and it armor d me somewhat while it lasted. And this reminds me that if )aovelists are perfectly justified in using coincidences in their books, they are not justified in telLng what is not true about the actions of an innocent or guilty man, You have doubtless read a thousand times that a man who is in- nocent is as bold as a lion, and he looks you straight in the face, and generally acts as if he were the reverse of guilty. How often have we se n it on the stage, that the hero smites his breast and ap- peals to heaven, whereupon everybody in the gallery knows that he is Innocent, and applauds loudly. The guilty person, on the other hand, is supposed to shrink, to stammer and, to tell awkward lies, which nobody would think of believing. My experienee is that in real life the cases are exactly reversed. It is the lion that looks you straight in -the fake. It is the innocent men who blushes and Call - not account for his actions. • Now, the coincidence in this little true story, which I am about to relatehap- pealed thus: any other time in the week a telegraph messenger might have mine and gone without my being troubled in the least, but it just chanced that at • the moment he did come the one person in the world to whom his message seem- ed hhaky, and to whom 1 was bound to give some reasonable explanation, was in my office, tired out after an afternoon's shopping. A. telegraph boy rapped at the door, and I shouted "-Come in !" He came in. Now, a telegraph, messrnger looks im- portant. He costs more than a postage stamp. .A. letter might have been handed in to me, and it would have created no comment, but when this messenger boy handed in his yellow envelope the person who sat in ray room naturally wanted to know what it was all about, and I, being perfectly innocent, opened the envelope. But in the evening, riding through a cinnamon &rove, I font tasted the leaves and bark at that condiment • so valuable and delicate, that, transported on Ships, the aroma of the cinnamon is dispelled if placednear a rival bark. Of etch great value is the cinnamon shrub that years ago those who injured it in Ceyloxt were put to death. But that which once was a jungle of einnenton is now a park of gentlemen's residences. Tho lonn, white davelling-hoeses are bounded. with this shrub and ell other styles of growth con- gregated there make a botanical garden.. Doves called einnamon doves hop among the bramehes, and crows, more poetically styled ravens, which never coulcl sing, hot think they can, fly across the roord giving full test to their vocables. Birds which learn their chanting under the 'very eaves of 'heaven overpower all with their grand inerch of the tropics. ne hibiscus clabbles the scone with its senrlet Ousters, All shades of 1-rown Dna emer- ald., and saffron, cad brilliance ; melons, limes, m n gri r s teens, oua bard - apples, geneses, pmoapples, Jeannine so leclen with Arrowthey have to hold feet to the wail, and begonias, glorieerts on fire, and There dropped from it one of my own cards, and across the face of the card 'was written the address of the office, evidently in my own handwriting, I dimly remem- bered having given a card to somebody SOIrie days beiore, but to whom I could not recollect. As the messenger boy stead tbere wait- ing, I turned the card over. The person, who might have been somewhere else, but who was there, was looking over any shoulder. On the other side of the eard was written in a neat, delicate feminine hand the words, "Please call before 4 this afternoon. Everything, is all right." This was signed 'C. K.," and that was all. There was silence in the room for a mo- ment. I knew that a look of guilt was creeping over my fae,e, along with the perplexity that had been there from the beginning. I turned. the card hopelessly over andoverin my hand. "Yes!" said the person at my elbow. "And who is that message from? What's going to be all right ?" "Upon my soul," I answered, "I have not the slightest idea." "It is your card," was net asserted. "Yes," I answered, still bewildered, and looking hopelessly at it. "And you wrote the address across the face of it?" "Yee," I admitted. "It certain' ly as' my writing." "And you don't know from whom 13 13? Think a moment. When did you give her youiddard ?" "Her!" I cried indignantly. "I don't know now whether its a 'him or a "Oh," said the questioner, with a smile. "It is quite evidently a 'her.' (Then to the messenger boy.) 'Who gave you this card, my bay?" The boy, who evidently knew some- thing of the world, instead of replying, look'Z'd at me as one who would say, "I'll nob speak unless you want me to.' This gave the finishing touch to the situation. I cried out angrily, "Why don't you answer the question, boy? Who gave you this card ?" The boy answered promptly, "Miss Kennibeck, sir." 'this was a knock -down blow for me. I had never heard of Miss Kennibeck, and was perfectly prepared to swear to that fact, but the time for swearing, except in one muticalax was past. I saw that I would iiot be believed now on my oath. Nevertheless I eried in rage "Who the Obi Harry is Miss Kennibeck?" • The boy answered : "She is the money clerk at the Surrey street postoffice " Then I flung down the card with a great sigh of relief. I remembered all about it. I must now go to a row I had with the postoffice department of Great Britain. An author in the United States wrote me a letter, inclosing a postal order for four shillings and two pence. He asked me to be good enough to buy him Eng- lish postage stamps to that amount and send them over to him. He had found out, what many American authors have apparently yet to learn, that American postage stamps are no use in England, and, as he wished to try some MSS. on a number of British publications, he wished to be able to inclose English postage stamps for their return. I went to the postoffice named on the order, and the clerk there took down from a pigeon hole a sheaf of papers, and has- tily looked them over. "We can't pay this order. The notice has not yet been received." "Well," I said, somewhat hastily. "I can't run backwards and forwards from ray office to this place. When is it likely to arrive ? ' "I don't know," was the answer. "But you can. pay the order into your bank, and it will be cashed." "Then why can't you cash it now ?" I said. "If you can cash it for the bank, you may list as 'well let me have the money. It's only a small sum." Nevertheless 1 mould not get the money, and I left, making setae renaarks deroga- tory to the postal order system. Three deys later I returned to the post - office, and whatever doom:ilea it was that should have arrived, had not yet come in. was somewhat annoyed., and did not make any attempt to ccameal My opinion of th.e state of things. .Again that irritating remark was made tb at I could pay it into my banking ac- count. "Bub, hang it," 1 said, "sapposing I haven't a baking aceaunt. Suppowng this money was sent to keep me from starvation, should I have to starve to death because some stupid °Metal neg. leeted hit lausiness ? Your doeument should havearrived at least at the same time as mine did." When Lieotenant Skinner in 1882 dis- covered the site of some of these cities he found congregated in them undisturbed assemblages of leopards, porcupines, flamingoes and pelicans ; reptiles sunning themselves on the altars; prima -donnas rendering ornithological ehant from de- serter' music halls. One, kin& restored much of the grandenr ; rebuilt fifteen hundred residences, but ruin soon resent- ed its sceptre. But all. is down; the spires doNvia; the pillars down.; the tablets down; the glory of splendid arches down. What killed those cities? *Who slew the New York and London of the year MO B.C. `2• Was it uthealthied with a host of plagues ? • Was it foreign armies laying seige ? Was it whole generationt weak- enedby its own vices? Mystery sits amid the monoliths and bleak duat. Pin ger on lip in eternal silence while the centuries guess and gapes in vain. We SU m 1)13,r know that gemus planned those eities, and immense sopulations inhabit - ort them. An WM:IMO writer war:antes their a pile ot bricks in one rain of Ceylon would be enough to build a wall ten feet high from Erloubtiegh to London, Otto If you mus draw the line at and have, like thousands of other people, to avoid all food prepared with it, this is to remind you that there is a clean, delicate and healthful vegetable short- ening, which can be used. in its place. if you will USE i=tco.:1 of tard, you can eat pie, pastry and the other " :1 rrood. things" which other fsilks enjoy, without fear of dyspeptic coascquences. De- liverance from lard has come. Buy a pail, try it in your ovin kitchciti and be con- vinced. Cottoletic is sold in 3 and 5 pojlnd pails, by all grocers. 4; Masai ma tor bn N. K. Fairbank Company, wenanocon ono Ann SM. But the beauty of the English postoffice department is that it does not care a hang for anybody, and I suppose that every- body there thought it rather funny that I should imagine that the department ex- isted for the convenience of the public. Anyhow I pulled out my card, dashed my address across it, flung it on the counter and said "I am not going to fool away any more time coming here. When you have that money ready for rise send me word, and I'll come and. get it." The moral of this true story is, that a man should never lose his temper under Any circumstances, even when he has dealings -with the anoney order offio,e of Great Britain, for if I had not left that card, I would not have spent. an 1311C0111- fortable ten minutes when the telegraph messenger brought it in, atter I had for- gotten all about it. Four Gmerations or Royalty. Above is the title of the 1895 annual of Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., of Brookville. On the cover are portraits of Qtmen Vio- toria, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Yorkand the infant Prince Edward of "York, the great grauds n of Her Majesty. Any of our readers who desire a copy of this book can. Beware. one by sending their address written plainly on a postal card to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville. Also menthol this paper. Cold in the Read and. .HoW to Cure it. One of the most um leasant and danger- ous maladies that afflicts Canadians at this season is cola in the head. Unpleas- ant, because of the dull, heavy headache, inflamed nostrils and other disagreeable symptoms accompanying it; encl danger- ous because if neglected, it develops into catarrh, with its disagreeable hawking and spitting, foul breath, frequent loss of • taste and smell, and in many cases of ultimately developing into consaraption. Nasal Balm is the only re -reedy yet dis- covered that will instantly relieve cold in the head. and cure in a few applications, while its faithful use will effectually eradicate the worst rase of catarrh. ,Ca,pt. D. H. Lyon, president of the C. P. 11. Oar Ferry, Prescott, Ont., says: "I used Nasal Balm for a prolonged case of cold in the head.. Two applications effected a cure in less than twenty -lour hours. would not take $100 for my bottle of Nasal Balm if I could not replace it." Sold by all dealers or sent by snail post- paid at 50 cents per -bottleby addressing G. T. Fulford & Co., Brockville, Ont. The faith which children have in their parents is not often better illustrated. than by a story which was told recently by a fond relative of an almost precocious boy. Ile is about three years of age, and his fond mamma thought that it was about time that she impressed upon his infantile mind some on.e of the first les- sons in Christianity. This took the forte of a prayer, which she repeated whilst the boy lisped the words after her. It •happened by chancathat the head of the house was absent from home, and among the petitions for spoeial blessings was this: "Please God, bring papa safely home." With ell the dignity -which can be crowded into the being of a. three-year- old boy, and a precocious one at than, Master Robert stood up and said proudly, "My papa, 05 11 come hisself." There were no triozas prayers that night. ----- To Temper Knife iltado. Pocket-kali:ye blades are verfunevenly tempered. Even it so-called standard cutlery some bladeo are hard and some are soft. Per the latter there is no rem- edy, but the temper of hard ones can eas- ily be drawn slightly, Take a kitehen poker and heat it red hot. 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