The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-29, Page 3A WORD WITH WOMEN
REV, DR, TALIVIAGE CHOOSES AN
INTERESTING TOPIC,
alls Views or the New Woutan—s•pirituat
and:Physical Health—A. Word for moth-
ers—Their Unto:nee and COMIsel---41-
Strong, :Peroration.
WaShilintell, Nov. 170—Rev. Dr. Tal -
nage touk for the subject a to -day's ser-
mon "A. Word With Women," the text for
'the occasion being the following letter rt-
eeitfed by the distinguished preacher:
Reverend Sir—You delivered a discourse
in answer to a letter from six young men
of 'Fayette, O., requesting you. to, preach. a
sermon on "Advaie to Young Men." Are
we justified in asking you to preaoh a ser-
mon on "Advice to Young Women?"
Letter Signed by Six Young Woinen.,
r Christ who took Ms text from a flock of
birds Dying overhead, saying, "Behold the
fowls qf the air!" and from the Bowers in
the valley, saying, "Consider the lilies of
the field," and from the clucking of a
barnyard fowl, Saying, "As a hen gather -
ell her chicks under her wing," and from
at crystal of salt picked up by the road-
side, saying "Salt is good," will grant us
a blessing, if, instead of taking a text
from the Bible, I take for my text this
letter from Cincinnati, whioh is only one
of many letters which I have received from
young women in New York,New Orleans,
San Francisco, London, Edinburgh and
from the ends of the earth, all implying
that, having some months ago preached
the sermon on "Advice to Young Men,"
I could not, without neglect of duty, re-
fuse to preach a sermon on "Advice to
Young Women."
It is the more important that the pulpit
Ibe beard on this subject at this time when
we are having suoh an illimitable discus-
sion about what is called the "new
woman," as though some new creature of
God had arrived on earth or were about to
arrive. One theory is that she will be an
athiete,and boxing glove and foot -ball and
pugilistic encounter will charaoterize her.
Another theory is that she tail1 superin-
tend ballot box* sit in congressional hall
and tnrough Unproved polities bring the
millennium by the evil she will extricate
and the good she will install. Another
theory is that she will adopt masculine
attire and make sacred a vulgarism posi-
tively horrific. Another theory is that she
will be so aesthetic that broom handle and
rolling pin and octal scuttle will be piotor-
ialized with tints from soft skies or sug-
gestions of Rembrandt and Raphael.
Heaven deliver the oh uroh and the weed*
front any one a these styles of new
woman! She will never come. I have so
much faith in the evangelistic triumph
and in the progress of all things in the
right direction that I prophesy that style
of new woman will never arrive. She
would hand over this world to diabolism,
and from being,as she is now. the miglitie
est agency for the world's uplifting she
would be the mightiest force for its down
thrust. I will tell you who the new woman
will be. She will be the good woman of
all the ages past. Here and there a differ-
ence of attire as the temporary custom
may command, but the sarne good, hon-
est, lovely, Christian, 'all -influential
being that your mother and mine was. Of
that kind of woman was Christian Eddy
who, talking to a man who was so much
of an unbeliever he had named his two
thildren Voltaire and Tom Paine, never-
theless saw him converted, he breaking
down with emotion as he said to her: "1
,cannot stand you. You talk like my
mother." And telling the story of his con-
version to 12 companions who had been
blatant opposers of religion they asked her
to come and see them also and tell them of
Christ, and four of them were converted
and. all the others greatly changed, and
the leader of the band, departing for
heaven, shouted: "Joyful! Joyful! Joy -
full"
If you know any better style of woman
than that, where is she? The world can-
not improve on that kind. The new
woman may have more knowledge, be-
cause she will have more books,. but she
will have no more common sense than
that which tried to manage and discipline
and educate us, and did as well as she
-could with such unpromising material.
She may have more health than the woman
of other days, for the sewing machine and
the sanitary regulations and added intelli-
gence on tho subjects of diet, ventilation
and exercise and rescue from many form s
of drudgery may allow her more. longev-
ity, but she will have the same character-
istics whoh God gave her in paradise,with
the, exoeption of the nervous shock and
moral jolt of the fall she got that day
when not noticing where she stepped
she looked up into the branobes of the
fruit tree.
But I tnust be specific:. This letter be-
fore me wants advice to young women.
Advice the first: Get your soul right
with God, and you will be in the best atti-
tude for everything that comes. New ways
of voyaging by sea, new ways of traveling
by land, new ways of thrashing the har-
vests, new ways of printing books—and
the patent office is enough to enchant a
man who has mechanical ingenuity and
knows 0, good deal of levers and wheels—
and we hardly do anything as it used to
be done; invention after invention, inven-
tion on top of invention. .But in the
matter of gettina right with God there
has not been an invention for 8,000 years.
It is on the same line of repentance that
David exercised about his sins, and the
same old style of prayer that the publican
used when he emphasized it by an inward
stroke of both hands, and the same faith
in Christ that Paul soggested to the jailer
the:night the penitentiary broke down.
Aye, that is the reason I bave more con-
fidence in it. It has been 'tried by more
millions than I dare to state lost I come
far short of the brilliant facts. All
-whom through Christ tried to got right
with God are right and always tvill bo
right. That gives the young woman who
gets that position superiority over all ri-
valties, all jealousies, all misfortunes, all
Meath failings all social disasters and all
the combined troubles of 80 years if she
shall live to be an octogenarian. If the
world fails to appreciate Mut she says,
"(30d loves me, the angels in heaven are
in dynipaths, with me, and loan afford to
be patient until the day when the imperi-
al chariot shall wheel to my door to take.
tee up to any eoronation," If health gotta
she says, "I can endure the present dis-
tress, for I am on the way to a olinutte, the
first breath cf which will make me proof
againsb oven the slightest discomfort." If
she be jostled with perturbations or social
life, she can say, "Well, when I begin my
life, among the thrones of heaven and the
kings and queens unto God shall be my
associates, it Will not ,inake inneh differ -
61100 vvlio on earth forgot me when the In-
vitations to that reception wore made out "
Advicie the second: Make 11 a matter of
to take care of your physical
health, I do not wonder that the Greeks
elefieu health and hailed alygioa as a god
-
clip. 1 rejeloe that there have been so
many in odes of maintalni ngand restoring
yormg wointinly health invented In our
time. They may have boon known a long
titne back, but they have been Palmittll'ac,1
In our day—lawo tennis, croquet and pit
and the biuyele. It alwaysseemed strange
and inSerittahle that our loaman reefs
should be so slaw of locomotion, when,
°natures of loss import:nu:ea/We powers Of
velocity, wing of bird or foot or antelope,
leaving us far behind, and while it seems
so important that we be in many places in
it Short while we aro weighed down With
incapiteities, and most men, if they eun
Mile, are exhausted ex dead from the ex-
haustion. it was left until the last &cede
Of the nineteenth eentury to give the speed
which we see whirling through all our
cities and along the country roads, and
with that speed mines health. The 'woman
of the next decade will be healthier than
at any time since the world was created.,
while the invalidism vvhieli has so often
characterizes womanheed will Doss over to
manhood, which by its posture on the
wheel, is coming to curved spine and
cramped °host mid a deformity for which
another 50 years wili not have power to
Make rescue. Young man, at up straight
when you ride. Darwin says the human
race is desponded from the monkey, but
the bicycle will turn a hundred thousand
Men of the present generation in physical
eonclition from man to monkey. For good
womanhood, I thank God that this mode
of reereation has been invented. Use it
wisely, modestly, Christian**. No good
woman needs to be told what attire is prop-
er and what behavior is right. If any-
thing be doubtful, reject it. A hoydenish,
boisterous, masoulino woman is the de-
tostation of all, and every reaolution of
the wheel she rides is toward depreciation
and downfall. Take care of your health,
0 woman: f your nerves in not reading
the trash which makes up 99 out of 100
novels, or by eating too many ccattueopias
of confectionery! Take eare of your eyes
by not reading at hems when you ought
to be sleeping,. Take care of your ears by
stopping them against the tides of gossip
that surge through every neighborhood.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. It is the al-
mosti universal testiln on y of young women
Wao have lost mother that they did not
realize what she was to them until after
her exit ficnn this life. Indeed mother is
In the appreciation of many a young lady
a hindrance. The maternal inspection is
often considered an obstacle. Mother has
oo many notions about that which is prop-
er and that which is improper. It is as-
tounding how much more many girls
know at 18 than their mothers at 45. With
what an elaborate argument, perhaps
spiced with some temper, the youngling
tries to reverse the opinion of the °idling.
The sprinkle of gray on the maternal fore-
head is rather an indication to the recent
graduate of the female seminary that the
oireumstanees of to day or to -night are not
fully appreciated. What a wise boarding
school that would be if the mothers were
the pupils and the daughters the teachers!
How well the teens could chaperon the
fifties! Then mothers do not amount to
much anyhow. They are in the way and
are always asking questions about postage
marks of letters aud asking, "Who is that
Mary D. ?" and "Where did you form that
acquaintance, Flora?" and "Where did
you get that ring, Myra?" For mothers
have suoh unprecedented means of know-
ing everything. They say "it was a bird
In the air" that told them. Alas, for that
bird in the air! Will not someone lift his
gun and shoot it? It would take whole
libraries to hold the wisdom which the
daughter knows more than her mother.
"Why cannot I have thist" "Why cannot
I do that?"
And the question in many a group has
been, although not plainly stated: "What
shall we do with the mothers anyhow?
They are so far behind the times?" Permit
me to suggest that if the mother had given
more time to looking after herself and
less time to looking after you she would
have been as fully up to date as you in
music, in style of gait, in aesthetic taste
and in all sorts of information. I expect that
while you were studying botany and
chemistry and embroidery and the new
opera she was studying household econo-
mies. But one day, from over work, or
sitting up of nights with a neighbor's sick
child,or a blast of the east wind, on winch
pneumonias are horsed, mother is sick.
Yet the family think she will soon be
well, for she has been sick so often and al-
ways has got well, and. tbephysician cornes
three times a day, and there is a consulta-
tion of the doctors, and the news is gradu-
ally broken that recovery is impossible,
given in the word, "While there is life
their is hope" And the white pillow over
which are strewn the looks a little,tinted
with snow be:Ionics the point around
which all the family gather, some stand- '
mg, some kneeling, and the pulse beats
the last throb, and the bosom trembles
with the last breath, and the question is
asked in a whisper, by all the crowd, "Is
she gone?" And all is over.
Now come the regrets. Now the daugh-
ter reviews her former criticism on mater-
nal supervision. For the first time she
realizes what it is to have no mother and
what it is to lose a mother. Tell me, men
and women, young and old, did any of as
appreciate how much mother was to us un-
til she was acme? Young woman, you will
probably never have a more disinterested
friend than your mother. When she says
anything is unsafe or imprudent, you had
better believe it is unsafe or imprudent.
When she declares it is something you
ought to do, I think you had better do it.
She has seen more of the world than you
have. Do you think she could have any
ercenttry or contemptible motive in what
she advises you? She would give her life
for you if it were called for. Do you know
of any one else who would do more than
that for you? Do you know of any one
that would do as much? Again and
again she has already endangered that life
during six weeks of diphtheria or scarlet
fever, and she never once brought up the
question of whether she had better stay,
breathing day and night the uontagion.
The graveyards are full of mothers who
died taking care of their children. Bet- '
ter appreciate your mother before your
appreciation of her will be no kindness
to her, and the post mortem regrets will
be more and more of an agony as the, t
years pass on. Big headstones of polished
Aberdeen and the best epitaphs which
the family put together could compose
and a garland of whiteat roses front the
conservatory are often the atteanpt to
atone for the thanks We ought to have
uttered in living oars and the kind words
that Weald have done more good than
all the calla lilies over piled upon the
Tho World makes applauditory ado
silent mounds of the cemeteries.
over the work of mothers who have raised ,
boys to be great mon, and 1 coraci turn
to my bookshelves and find the names of i
50 distinguished men who had great ,
Mothers—Cuvier's another, Walter S'oott's
another, St. Bernard's mother, Benjamin
West's mother, But who praiseil mothers
for what they do for daughtera Who
make the homes of A.MoricaP I do not
know' of an instanee of such recognition
I (bolero to yon that I believe I am Utter,
ihg the lira word that has ever been
Uttered Iu appreelation el the self-denial,
et the fatigues and good SehSe and prayers
WJiich those mothers go through whe
navigate a family of girls treat tbe aatte
of the (Nadi° tu'the schoolhouse door and
frOM the sobeelhouse door up to the mar-
rlage altar, Teat is an aehlevoinent
whiell the eternal God celebrates high up
In the heavens, though for it human
hands so salaam Clap the faintest ap-
plause. My! My! What a time that
InOther had with those Youngsters, liald
it she had relaxed care and work and
advice aud solicitation of heavenly Ilea)
that Moct generation would have landed
in the poorhouse, idiot asylum or peni-
tentiary. It is while she is living, but
never while she is dead, that some girls
call their mother "maternal ancestor"
or "the old woman."
And if you have a grief already—end
some of the keenest sorrows of a woman's
life come eaely--roll it over on Christ
and you will find him more sympathetic
than was queen Victoria, who, w hen
ber children, the prince and princesses,
came out Of the scheolroom after the
morning lesson had been given up by their
governess,, and told bow her voice had
trembled in the morning prayer because
It was the anniversary of her mother's
deuth, and that she had put her head
down on the desk and sobbed, "Mother 1
Mother" the queen went in and said to
the governess: "My poor child 1 dm
sorry the ohildrn disturbed you this
morning. I will hear their lessons to-
day, and to show you that I have not
forgotten the sad anniversary I bring you
this gift." And the queen clasped on
the wrist a mourning bracelet
with a lock of her mother's hair. All
you young women the world around who
mourn a like sorrow, and sometimes in
your loneliness and sorrow and loss burst
out crying, "Mother! Mother I" put on
your wrist this golden clasp of divine
sympathy, "As MO W110111 his mother
comfortoth so will I comfort you."
advice the fourth: Allow no time to
'Pass without brightening some one's life.
Within live minutes'. walk of you there
is some'one In a tragedy oonapared with
which Shakespeare's Ring Lear or Victor
Hugo's Jean Valjean has no power. Go
out and brighten somebody's life with a
cheering word or smile or a Rower. Take
a good book and read a chapter to that
blind man. Go up that dark alley and
inake that invalid woman laugh with
sante good story. Go to that bouse from
which that child has been taken by death
and tell the father and mother what an
escape the child has had from the winter
of earth into the springtime of heaven.
'For God's Bake make some one happy for
ten minutes, if for no longer a time.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on a big scale, whether you are a farm-
er's daughter or a shepherdess among the
hills, or the flattered pet of a drawing
room filled with statuary and pictures
and bric-a-brac. Stop where you are and
make a plan for yourlifethue. You can-
not be satisfied with a life of frivolity
and giggle and indirection. Trust the
world, and it will cheat you if it does not
destroy you. The Redoubtable was the
name of an enemy's ship that Lord
Nelson spafed twice from demolition, but
that same ship afterward sent tbe ball
that killed him, and the world on which
you smile may aim at you its deadliest
weapon.
Be a God's woman. This moment make
as mighty a ()hawse . as did a college
student of England': He bad neglected
his studies rioting at night with dissipat-
ed companions and sleeping in the class-
room when he ought to have been listen-
ing. A fellow student came into las
room one morning before the young man
I am speaking of had arisen from his
pillow and said to him: "Paley, you are
a fool. You are wasting your opportunit-
ies. Do not throw away your life."
Paley said: "I was so struck: with wbat
he said that I lay in bed until I had
formed my plan for life. I ordered my
fire to be always laid over night. I arose
at 5 and read steadily all day—allotted
to each portion of the day its proper
branch of study and became the senior
wrangler." What an hour that was,
When a • resolution definitely placed
changed a young man from a reckless and
time -wasting student to a consecrated
man who stopped not until all time and
all eternity shall be debtor to his pen
and influence!
IYoung woman draw out and decide
, what you will be and do, God helping.
Write it oub in a plain hand not like the
letters whin Josephine received from
Napoleon in Italy in writing so scrawl-
ing and scattered that it was sonaetimes
taken as a map of the seat of war. Put
the plan on the wall of your room, or
write it in the opening of a blank book,
or put it where you will be compelled
often to see it. A thousand questions of
your coming life you cannot settle now
but there is one question you can settle
independent of man, wonian, angel, and
devil, and that is that you will be a
God's woman now, henceforth and for-
ever. Clasp hands with the Almighty.
Pythagoras represented life by the letter
Y, because it early divides into two
ways. Look out for opportunities of
cheering, inspiring, rescuing and saving
all the people you can. Make a league
with the eternities. I seek your present
and everlasting safety.
David Brewster said that a comet be-
longed to our systein, called Lexell's
contet, is lost, as it ought to have appeared
13 times and' has not appeared at all.
Alas, it is not only the lost cornets, but
the lost stars, and what were considered
fixed stars. Some of the most brilliant
and steady souls have disappeared. The
world wonders at the charge of the Light
Brigade, immortalized by Tennyson.
Only a few of the 600 got back from the
charge, under Lord Cardigan, of the
Muscovite guns, and all the havoc was
done in 25 minutes, the tharge beginning
at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock, and closing
at 85 minutes past 11, and yet nothing
left an the field but dying and dead men,
dying and dead horses. .But a smaller
proportion of the men and • women who
go into the battle of life come out un-
wounded. The slaughter has been, and
will be, terrific, and we all heed God, and
we need Him now, and we need Him all
the time. And let me say there is a new
woman, as there is a new than, and that
is the regenerated woman, made such by
the ransacking, tralisforming, Imbuild-
ing, triumphant power of the Spirit who
is so superior to all other spirits that he
has been called for ages the Holy Spirit
Quicker than wheel ever turned on its
axis quicker thaif fleetest hoof over
struck the pavement; quielter than Mg,-
zag lightning ever dropped down the sky,
the ransoming power kepeak of will rev-
olutionize your entire nature. Then
you can start out on a voyage of lite
defying both calm atid cyclone, saying,
With Doan Alford:
One who has known in storms to sail
I have on board;
Above the roaehig of the gale
hear My Lord, 0
OUR OTTAWA LETTER
FORECASTS PROBABILITIES OF
IMPENDING BY-ELECTIONS IN
ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
Tenors of Partisan :Stories-401in 4- l'art"
for North Ontarmataroepeet for
the Government at aardwe11---Not to be a
'awe -sided eon test—Myers Bears a Stigma
,--Landslide in Montreal Centre—Minis-
tmrs Renew !['heir JourneyIngs,
These are the days wben original news -
;
paper writers are sadly pet to it to give
their readers political truth. I3eoause
the man who acoepts a stipend to advance
the cause of his partisan friends may
find little fact with whieh to enlighten
his paper's readers, he is compelled to
stray into the realms of fiction. Often
his inventions are interesting; Mere
frequently they give us cause for amaze-
ment. Only within the last week have
we seen the gentleman who acts as Ot-
tawa correspondeut for the,Montreal Wit-
ness, playing the part of commentator
and of deviser of policy for the wicked
Tories. This journalist has told the good
people of Montreal that there is red war
in the Council chamber. The Ontario
Ministers, he says, have become involved
in internecine strife with Sir Mackenzie
and the other members of the Cabinet.
Haggart, Montague and Wood are said
to have prosecuted a most vigorous cam-
paign against remedial logislatiOn,
Tellers of Partisan stories.
The story lacers the element of truth.
Had it been better told, it might have
gained oredence. Would that have injur•
ed the Government? Would it not have
profited Sir Mackenzie to have bean
held up to the French as the man who
was battling for the minority of Mani-
toba in their attempt to regain Separate
Schools? With the people of Ontario,
too, the story would have had an effect
directly contrary to that desired by its
Inventor. The Ontario Ministers would
have been held to have done their best to
thwart the majority of the members of
the Cabinet- in their attempt to truckle
to the Catholics of Manitoba, Thus,
as I have said, the effect of the promul-
gation of the rumors of dissension in
the Cabinet would have been directly con-
trary to that desired by the Witness °or-
respondeut. It is well for the man who
manufactures a report to look far ahead;
so far as to anticipate all, and not one,
of the effects which itanay have. In this
case, if good has been done to any party,
it has been to the Conservatives. Which
was not what the Witness correspondent
desired.
John A. McGillivray for North Ontario.
We have it from Toronto that North
Ontario will be tae first vacant riding
to have a by-election. John A. McGilli-
vray, Q.C.,is likely to be the Government
candidate. Mr. McGillivray lives intUx-
bridge and is a Conservative of long
standing. Though be is one of Her
Majesty's Counsel for Ontario, the affairs
of litigation concern him little. The
time came when he embarked in a more
lucrative business, that of a High Court
&Boer in the Foresters. There he draws
a good salary, and, should he be eleoted
as the representative of North Ontario,
he will doubtless be able to give much
time to his parliamentary duties. His
candidature is favorably looked upon by
the party managers, and, with a major-
ity of 280 to be pulled down, the Patron
or Liberal who shall oppose him will
have no easy task.
Prospect for the Government at Cardwell.
Not so favorable for the Government
are the indications in Cardwell. Last
wsiek Robert White journeyed to his old
riding, there to attempt to close up the
gaps in the Conservative ranks. Dissen-
sion has lifted its head amongst the Gov-
ernment supporters, and young Mr. Wil-
loughby, the Toronto lawyer, will be
fighting no easy battle when the cam-
paign opens. To offset the MoCarthyites,
Mr. Willoughby has written to Secretary
Jackson, of Orangeville, *pledging him-
self to oppose remedial legislation if a
bill to that end be introduced at the
next session of parliament. Just what
the Government will think of this is hard
to say. It nray be that Mr. Willoughby
has taken this course by the advice of
his leaders; or, he may have used his
own judginent. If the latter be the
ease, it is hard to see hew he justly may
claim to be a Ministerial candidate at
all. Bob White felt himself compelled
to stop down because of his pledge to do
just what Willoughby has promised. If
the Government has sanctioned Wil-
loughby's pledge, why did White resign?
White's course, premising that Willough
by has been acting under orders, shows
that the statement that he had resigned
in a flt of anger at the Government's
procrastination regarding his appoint-
ment to the Collectorship of Montreal
was hardly unfounded.
Net to be a Two•Sided Contest.
Mr. 'Willoughby's pronouncement on
the question of the Schools has not dear -
ed the atmosphere. Stubbs, the Mc-
Carthyite standard-bearer, would like to
be assured that the Grits will not bring
out a candidate. With only one oppon-
ent, Mr. Stubbs would have a good
chance of eleotion. lie would have the
active aid of D'Alten McCarthy; for that
gentleman knows that his political
future in large measure depends on the
result of the coming election. He will
give much of his time to the advance-
ment of his candidana's interests, and he
will send into the riding his most cap-
able stumpers. He fears the Liberals, not
so much as he does the Conservatives,
but, like Stubbs, he wishes for a twe-
sided Contest. His desires will not be
gratified. For the Liberals to neglect to
nagaluate a candidate would be to give
the Conservatives of Quebec a very valu-
able campaign cry. "The Grits stood in
with McCarthy and with the anti -remedi-
al Willoughby," these French Ministeri-
alists would say. And they would be
right in so saying. It is beeause of this
that Farmer Henry will he the candiatate
of the Liberals. Doubtless he will be
asked to give his views ou the School
question. If he is reasonably discreet ho
will get the great majority of the six
hundred Catholic votes in the riding.
In an interview the other day Bob 'White
Said that he had. Dever pofled moro than
fifty of the Catholic vete& The state-
ment is hardly credible, When, in 1891,
Elgin Myers, the annexationist, ran
against White, the Catholics were almost
solid for the Conservative candidate,
Myers had antagonized many of them,
and they vented their wrath at the polls.
Myers Bears it Stikine.
! Same of the more indiscreet of the
Cardwell Liberals have proposed that
Myers shouldbe given the nomination.
No greater tactical blundet could be
Made. 4 The stigma, of being an annexa.,
would blUrakitrlitit,oailildliii)nan(Y)10asclorreet:
Would bc alienated, Mr. hlyers ie a faithful
Partiatint hut he ie a poor politiciao, He
1188 4i eOntidenee in bitneelf that is not
ehared by his greatest frieede, And, in
addition to this, lie is a lawyer, 111 au
agrieultural riding, lawyers do not meat)
the hest candidate. Farmer Henry
sbould poll nutoy it Patron vote, and in
Cardwell the Patromi are strong. None
of them may vote for Willoughby, for to
the Patron the lawyers are Isinnaelites.
Wherefore, considering all of these thlogs,
it may be said that the Liberals belie
been singularly well-advised in their
choice of a candidate, , To elect him they
will need both men and money. r.is'ie
Goveronamt is prepared to make a HoM-
eric liglit, for the moral effect of Card -
well's loss would be bad indeed.
Landslide in Montreal Centre.
Though we are a demooratic _people,
we love a title. It is because of this
that Sir William Hingston, of Montreal,
is being implored to become the Govern-
ment candidate irt the Centre distriet of
the commercial metropolis. Judge Cur-
ran Used to roll op tremendous major -
ides in this constituency, hut there was
a landslide three weeks ago that is still
sliding. If report be true, the oleo -
toes of Montreal Cettre are not so large-
ly Conservative as they once were. They
showed this to be the ease when they de-
feated Mr. McDonald, the Government
candidate for the local legislature. Sir
William Hingston is no politician, but
he is a respected citizen and an honest
tnan. James McShane, who is the Lib-
eral candidate, knows everything in the
game of politics. He was an apt pupil
in the school of Honore Meier. Mr,
McShane has liberal ideas as to what
justifiably may be done in political con-
tests. Without capable advisers, good
old Sir William Hingston willbe a child
in the hands or McShane's perfect or-
ganization. Moreover, McShane is a
Catholic and a faithful son of the Church.
Sir William is a Protestant. At this time,
in it riding that has thrice as many
Catholic as Protestant voters, the son of
Mother Church will enter the contest at
a distinct advantage.
Ministers Renew Their anurneyings.
The Ministers have renewed their
journeyings up and down the province.
At Smith's Falls the other night Hon.
George E Foster, Hon. John Haggart,
Whip Taylor and other Coeservative
lights talked to the electors. Mr. Foster
aniinadverted on the School question,
spoke of "basic principles," and said
nothing new. John Raggart was hailed
as the future Prim e Minister—a saluta-
tion which must have amused the Min-
ister of Railways. Not six months ago
the stolid Haggart had tbe premiership
offered to him by a clique in the party
that was disgusted with Sir Mackenzie.
liaggart would have nothing to do with
the plot. "I wouldn't do for the posi-
tion," said he. "There are too many
things that might be said against me. I
don't say that they're true, but the man
who is Prime Minister must be above
suspicion. Bowell is, and, when his
time comes, Foster will be my nominee
for the place. He's honest and he's cap-
able."'
Foster Only Second -Rate.
And now Foster and Haggart are the
greatest of friends. I for one should not
agree with Haggart in his estimate of
his colleague. Than Foster there is no
more capable administrator in the Cab-
inet. He is a fair debater, and a good
finance Minister. But when all is said
and done, he is a second-rate man. He
Is not as a politician the equal of Tup-
per, of Haggart Or of Caron. He ass
never been able to rid himself of the
prejudices of the schoolmaster, or of the
temperance lecturer. Between Foster,
the efficient Minister, awl the man who
should be the captain of a Government,
Is a very far cry.
Greenway and the Catholics.
Sir Frank Smith, Toronto's only Cab-
inet Minister, has been a frequent visitor
to Ottawa of late. There still exists in
Sir Frank's mind a hope that an under-
standing may be arrived at between the
Governments of Canada and of Manitoba,
Premier Greenway, Sir Frank points
out, has allowed religious instruction to
be given in schools that are in Catholic
districts. In other words, the Premier
has winked at infractions of the Martin
Act. Sir Frank hopes that Greenway
may be induced so to amend the School
Act as to admit of religious teaching
under; certain conditions. I fear that the
hope is unwarranted. Greenway has
shown himself to be unwilling to make
any concessions to the Catholics. Were
he ready to accommodate them, he would
be fearful of aiding Ms political enemies
at Ottawa. If any glory is to be obtain-
ed from an adjustment of the matter it
will not be a Conservative Government
that will be given it. So lately as last
August Mr. Greenway said this when he
told a newspaper man that he would be
pleased to receive any suggestions from
Ottawa, but that he fancied the provin-
cial Government knew pretty well what
the people of Manitoba, wanted.
"warships" on the Great Lakes I
Not long ago, Commander- Wakeham,
of the Dominion Government's fishery
protective steamers, furnished his an-
nual report to the Minister of Marine.
In this report Commander Wakeham
made an imidental mention of the two
guns which are carried by each of the
pair of cruisers on the upper lakes.
Word of this reached the States, and now
the American newspapers are filled with
columns of denunciation of the Domin-
ion Government for maintaining "war-
ships" on the upper lakes. By the treaty
of Ghent, in 1817, it was provided that
neither nation should either build or
equip warships on the great lakes. The
Anieriean newspapers see in the four
guns on our fishery cruisers a menace to
the safety of the cities on the United
States' shores of tlie hikes. Doubtless the
minds of the brilliant journalists who
preside over these nervous newspapers
are filled with fears of it bombardment
of Chicago, a sacking of Cleveland or a
raid upon Milwaukee by a horde of
thirsty and beer -desiring Canadian
Sack 'Pars. So seriously has the State
Department at Washington taken the
matter that Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British Ambsassador, has been asked to
infoin his Government that the United
States asserts that the agreement of 1817
has not been liVed up to.
Another Imbroglio in QUOIN,.
No sooner has the family squabble
between Mr. Laurier and Editor Beau -
grand pasSed out or mind than we have
word of another imbroglio in turbulent
Quebec. It Walla tis though our French
fellow -countrymen are never entirely
happy unless they have their fingers in
each othev's hair. Tnis latest quarrel is
between the French Conservatives of
the Quebee and the Montreal districts.
Senator Angers, the ex -Minister of Agri -
Mauro, When he resigned his portfolio
In lune last asseverated. his intentiOn
to abaodoe politica At that time 'no-
body paid ninob attention t0 Wbat Mr,
Augers eaid. It was what he had done
that exulted eelnenent. Now we are
paid that, when Mr. Angers einAoonoed
his retirement from polities he had hi$
eye upon a Sopreme Court eppeinlanent.
In plaoe of thee's-Minister, Mr litrOvard,
Jaefilles Cartier, was "given the judge-
ship, wherefore Mr. Angers is infariated-
It is impossible that lie wiil h0Q0ine
Liberal, but, 11 110 so desires, he may de
the Government a certain amount of in-
jury in Quebec's kb e has the Conserva-
tives of the district for folluwers, and he
bus )1104 many enemies au Montreal by
'renewed tionueelation of the Govera-
mont at a tame when unity is highly de-
sirable, What with Angers angry and
Chapleau unwilling to give his Ma ti1
them the Government are certainly gain-
ing little strength from their se pperters
in Lower Canada.
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WHOLE WHEAT BREAD.
A litecipe That lias Been Tried and Found
Good.
A tested recipe for whole wheat bread
winch we are glad to note is becoming a
part of the diet of every well-nourished
family, consists of one pint of boiling
water poured Into a pint of milk. Cool
the liquid and when lukewarnx Add one
coke of compressea yeast dissolved in
nalf a oupful of warm water. Add a tea-
spoonful of salt and enough whole wheat
to make to batter that will drop easily
from a spoon. Beat thoroughly five
minutes, cover, and stand in a place
that is moderately warm for three hours.
Enough whole wheat to make a dough
should, then be added gradually. When
stiff, knead on your board until the mass
Is soft and elastic, but not sticky. Make
the dough into loaves, put in greased
bread -pans, and, after covering, stand
aside one hour. The time for baking will
depend on the size of the loaves. If long
French loaves, bake thirty minutes in is
quick oven. If large square loaves, bake
one hour at a moderate heat. When
crusty bread is liked the dough may be
made in sticks and baked in pans made
for that special purpose. Another tested
recipe that requires hiss handling and
that is used by Miss Johnson is made in
the following way: Scald one cupful of
milk, add a teaspoonful of butter, tha
sense quantity of salt, a tablespoonful of
sugar, and one cupful of water. When
lukewarm, add one-half of yeast cake
and enough wheat fiour to make a thin
batter. This should be done in the
morning, as the bread rises quickly.
After making a smooth batter let it rise
until very light. Add whole wheat
gradually and beating continuously until
as much has been added as you can stir
conveniently. If the flour is not added
gradually and well mixed the bread will
be coarse grained. Turn into greased
tins, and when light bake one hour on a
moderate oven. —New York Evening Post.
Premature Burials.
We have an interesting letter from Dr.
Albert M. Blodgett, of Boston, front
which we publish the following:
- "In a recent number of Our Dumb
Animals it was stated that in Munith the
body of every dead person, without dis-
tinction, is carried at once to ae Mortuary
Chapel, where it is placed under observa-
tion of competent watchers for a speci-
fied Unman order to prevent the possibil-
ity of premature burial, and also, what
is of almost equal importance, to prevent
the spread of infectious diseases among
v
the survivors—from the retention of the
body in the home until the time of buri-
al, as is the custom in our country. This
is not °Ely true of Munich, but of many
other places in Europe,and is an undoubt-
ed advance upon the custom in America.
"There are many signs which indicate
death, but the inost of these cannot be
employed by unskilled persons. There
are one or two which are absolutely reli-
able under all circumstances, and which
may be employed by any person, however
unskilled he may be, and to the accuracy
of which no doubt can be attached.
"One indisputable proof of death is ob-
tained by simply keeping the body under
observation until the skin begins to
show chauges of color and the softening
of texture which indicate the commence-
ment of decay, so-called mortification.
"When this has commenced, there can
no longer be the slightest doubt of abso-
lute death. This test is so easy of appli-
cation and the source of suoh innnite
relief to the friends, that it would seem.
that the knowledge or it should be more
general,"
The Horrors or the Stoke Role.
A merciful and apparently practical
method has been proposed for reducing
the sufferings of the stokormen in sea-
going ships. The terrors of the hign
temperature of the stoke -hole are con-
veyed to the imagination in the occasion-
al attempts of firemen on the liners to
throw themselves overboard. It is said
that in the Yalu fight firemen were per-,
=Ineptly blinded by the frightful tem-
perature to Whiell S03110 of the fire meens
rose. It is proposed, as a remedy for this
blot on civilized marine practice, to
make the body its own refrigerator by
directing a stream of wartn, dry air upon
-
% while the 131011 drink freely, prefer-
ably of cool barley water. The body
should. be as nearly nude as the radiation
from the furnace will permit, The the-
ory is that the true objeot is to cool the
man's skin and not his lungs. and that
for the former purpose the itlkoduotion
of cold air is not only useless, but, (let*
mental. On the other hand, if air
warmed in it close conduit, where it re-
ceives 310 moisture, is thrown upon the
men, and they drink copiously, the dry,
hot air will give them much more com-
fort than cold, moist air. The present
objection to the plan is that the number
of pipes required in the fire -room would
trench unduly on the limited space avail-
able and at the saine time, the men in
the bunkers would: be unprovided for. Is
is, bowever, suggested that warmed air
could be turned on by moans of a pipe
containing an electric fan. Electric
refrigeration and heating hate been
brought to such perfection that soma
such device would unquestionably be
forthcoming if the demand for it were
miale.—Neve York Herald.
Coal in alasita.
It is belleVecl that an extensiVe field of
valuable ooal has been diseovered within
fifty miles of juneau, Alaska. If this
proves to be go it will, of cotirse, Mean
very ninth for the development of that
region, It is known that excellent coat
exists in many parts of Alaska, but the
diSeoveries hitherto have boon remot.e
from the settled regions, A Hoonait
Indian brought into Juneau 'some three
*Weeks ago several pteees of extelient
anthracite coal whith be Said he found at
a place fifty anileg trona the WWII, and
from its deseription it wee thought that
there is a vein several feet thiekereppir.g
out on a hillsicle, --Milwaukee Sonata.