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Exeter Advocate, 1901-9-19, Page 3OUT FUTURE Bev. Dr Taimage Says You Will• More Than Conqueror. At-despatc,h. from Washington says: -ation of these pine branches of the • -Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from gospel arbor he evill find it buoyant, the following text: Nehemiah eau, 15, "Oo forth, unto the mount and fetch olive branches and seine branelleS and myrtle branches of thick trees to make tooths." It seems as if -Mount Olivet wets; umnoored. Irlie people „have gone into the mountain and have cut off tree broaches and put them on their shoulders, and they come forth now -`-into the streets of Jerusalem and on the house tops, and they twist thee tree branches into arbors or booths, Then the people come ferth feom their comfortable homes and dwell for seven days in those bOOthS or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal time. It is feast of t,aheritacies, and these people are going to celebrate the desert travei of their fathees and their deliverance from their trou- bles, the experience of their fathers whea, traveling in the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths,also becamee highly suggeStiere -1 will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive ---of our march toward heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here, as it were, in booties or arbors, ori our way to the Canaaa of eternal rest. And what was said tO the Jews literally may be said figura- tively to all this audience. Go forth unto the mountain andfetch olive ,branclies and pine branches and myrtle branches anS palm brosiches 'and branches of thick trees to make booths. Now, if we are to -day going to exuberant, undying, namoi , But my text takes a step further, and it says, Go into the monntain mid fetch olive branches anal pine beanches and palm branches, Now, the palm tree was very much honor- ed by the ancients. It had 360 dif- ferent useS. The fruit was coneerved the eap was a bevevag•e, the stems were ground up for food for camels. The base of the leaves was turned into hats and ma tS'aucl maskets, and tree grew 85 feet in height sonic - times, and it spread leaves four and from the root to the top of the high- est leaf there was usefulnass. The five feet long. t meant utef and it meant victory - usefulness for whet it produced and -victory be- cause it was brought into celebra- tions of t,riumph. -And oh, how much we want the palm beariehes in the churehes of Jesus Christ at this time ! A great Imlay Christians do not anmunt anertaing. You have to shove them oh the track to let the L,orcPs' chariots coine along. • 'Usefulness is typified by the palm tree. Ah, we do not want in the church any More people that aro inevely weeping wilivws, sighing into the water, standing and admiring their - long lashes in the glassy spring. N o wild cherry, dr opP jug bitter fruit. We want palm trees', holding something for God, some- thing for angels, something for man. I am tired, and sick of this flat, tame. insipid, satin sappered, nam- bypamby, hightytighty religion It is worth nothing for this world, and it is destruction for eternitY. Give me 500 men and women fully ''i WC. aS Ot SiCk, li , they ave beaten me, Tilif s s LE ., ' • I felt it not, lVhen shall I awa,ke ? s . , 0 0 . . ., I Will Seek it yet, again," just, a, INTERNeeler/oaTAL zussoN agivation 0i the thoughtS of the : heart of man is only evil eon - SEPT. '24, tinually (Gen, vi, 5). They re,gard C01150- 1. of the Lesson, Prov, 29-35. Golden Text, Prov. xx, '1. 29. "Who hath woe ? Wil0 hath sorrow ? Who hath contentioas ? Who hath. babbling ? Who hath Wounds without cause ? Who hath redness Of eyes " The committee have again asked us to meditate up- on this familiar portion as a temper- aace lesson, which is certainly a bet- ter eelection for Such a lesson than the story of the new earth which they suggested as 0 teraperaace ton- ic last quartet... The only cure for intemperance, which is self-indul- gence, is to be found in self-eontrol WIlieb Call be accomplished in us only byethe Lord Jesus Christ, who is able to subdue things unto Himself (Phil. iii, 21). In this leSemi, as in all lessons on sin, we may see riot Only the sianer, but the siaabr'S SI b S tut,e, -who", though he knew no sin, yet was made sin for us .(II. Oor. v, 21). We know that the drunkards end also some other einners are apt- to have quite a full share of the sis forms of suffering here enumerated and no one can deliver but He Who was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, who so patiently endured tile contentions and 13 abblings of His enemies who was wounded. for our transgre•esions, and who after Ills weeping in G ethsemane must also have ha,d redness of eyes. See I -Din, 0 sinner, as the one who ,loves yoa LLS you were nes'er loved by even father or mother or dearest on earth, great as their love may have been, for He suffered before Gocl for vain- . sins and oilers you full salvation from the consecinences of your sins and deliverance from the power of them if you will only receive Him (Isa. liii, 5, 6; Hein v, 7; I. Thess. i. 10 Math. i, 21 ; L John i, 9; before the deluge, so novh The lin- not the work of tile Lord, neither consider the operatioa of His hands (Isa., v, 12). They become dead or indifferent to all the Lord's plead, ings, and their one thought is how to gra,tifY their deeirLss. A lather has been known to beeorne so inhia man as to take his ehildren's .elota- ing with which to obtain that which his cravings desired. A mother May forget, nature may fail. Man left to himself is cmly a beast (Ps. xlix, 12) and often worse than many ; bis great thought is himself and how to gratify" himself, When Christ takes posses.sioa of a heart, He who on earth pleased not Himself x.v, .3) • will live again in that soul His own life, making the person more and more like Himself until they awake in His likeness (II. Cor. 18; Ps. xvii., 15). +- ROYAL TITLES. • ,r* 4.) 0;,, 40:4 4,* 4i it:* t: It:* *to IIQIISE TALK' V After washin, the stains of man - r r) ure from a white horee and -he /MS ONTIRE ranlvi dried lett) him with a -Piece of -chalk: ••• reinove them without waehins• lf t,he stains are light the chalk ‘vill •,,,,***:44:44:+4,..."0.:4+,,,••••••0:4#4,.......4•••••••,,..•1•••••**.e...***,:oo..4•,:* If your horse paWs 111.,stable buckle a strap around the leg just BEEF MNGS. 11, above the knee, to whieh a, at • t , s.applyings the farm home with 1,:,,ialieesctill,i11,!en.iii•SsVliesahliliet, 01)115 1110 eiliiiatiiiLl,i cult task, hence salt ,pork lias be- ofot),,i,liieliPuugili-sserlillfillecnatusIlee c\oviiliel.stIotp.iS a fresh neat has always 'been a diill- 001110 I'“)verbial as 1110 0ne hie,at di- habit hard to cure -when reatlY forme et of the ' farmer. It may be 0000.- ed, but eun be pi,eaentea if neeticea sional y varied by a little Salt beef at the very 1)egirinirig, , 01' a. leg oi mutton, but the o Keeu 111 a box stall with. sinoo . • fare is neoasteous on many sides, 1,e., no projections ‘, a, farm. Fat -pork, in some form or egn ge,,t hold 'or, cold feed on 10 other, three times a day in hot 'von- flow% Another plan is to , buckle A Very Curious and Unique Col- lection. The change now being macle in the King's title so that it may conipre- hend the whole of the ,British Bile' p100, and not merely, as 'before, Great Britain and Ireland and India, marks an interesting stage in the slava and gradual development• of the Royal ,address which has taken place since the time of Edward the Elder, son and successor of Alfred the Great, who was the first Sovereign of this recline to call himself Kling of the Eeglish, and whose present day successor and namesake is to be de- scribed in the sonorous and swelling phrase: "Edward VII., by the grace of God, of the United R:ingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the -British Dominions beyond the sea, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." The Edwards of our history have been especially associated with alter- ations in the Royal style, for it wae Edward HI. who incorporated with his title that of King of France, and quartered the fleur-de-lys on his coat of arms, this practice being main- tained until the reign of George III., when, on the Pa.rliamentar3r union of Great Britain and Ireland a century ago, the claim was finally abandoned. It is worthy of note that the com- plimentary distinction of Defender of the Faith, bestowed by the Pope on Henry VET. foiahis tract on the Se- ven Sacraments in' opposition te Martin Luther, has since been so prized by England that the two -shil- ling piece of 1819 had to be recoined because of the omission of the letters F.D. (Fidel Defensor), the coin now being a great rarity and known among collectors as the ''god- less florin." Li1 e the English style of Defender of the Faith, the FrenCh and Span- ish Kings also obtained religious ti- tles as a reward for services to the Church of Rome. elated to Christ, and we evi a , Jude 241). city for God in three years, 30. "They that tarry long at the e e „ , we must go into the mount of Clod's I and eehatea01, else we must .haae we Give me 10,000 meri and women fully wane ; t,hey that go to seek mixed blessing and fetch the olive branches, this . . must have a,t least two olive u -P to the Christian standard. In ten i wine." These are the people who Ibranches, peace with God and peace years 10,000 of them would take the experience the sorrows of verse 29, whole earth. for God. But when are but let Wi 110 suggest all the plea - with man. When I say peace with we going to begin,? We all want to sures this world can offer, and they •Gari as an anga:,. caleftan, having a be useful. There s not a man in are very many of their kind. A God, I do not mean to represent grudge against us, but I do mean to useful.' When nre ere going to be- .them all vanity and vexation of the pews that does not, want to be great king tried them all and found .eflirm that there is no more antag- . succeed in building this gospe t strap tiglitly- around the t ir o t ther is not conducive to the best 01 1 to saY tile least (;) it In Give plenty of exercise tOile up the digestion. „A horse's feet can be kept from coining hard and dry by sinipl,y.f,k.- ting them. every morninga.eu. WIL1. teir-illeig.\vill soon ex•r,':;,-'0C-and 1111 10s foot i•eady to be 'dipped in the pail. 11 has beeu proved beyond doubt that too heavy shoes are used on the average horse. I.,ighteshoes tire 'inuch rnore satis- factory on farm. horses as they can do inore work with less wear and tear. The shoe is made to protect, the hoof, and the lighter it can bo made and serve iLs purpose the bet- ter it i$ fpr the horse. ' Lighter shoes --fewer leg weary horses, move humanity and tuora profit. early years it could not be helped very well, put of late years the farmers oi3Ontario have found n me- thod of getting over the difficulty. As a rule, a farmer likes to provide everything he can for the table of his own raising, but of recent years farmerF. have been getting away from that. In some places enterprising butdhers have begun regular rounds through. the country, selling fresh meat during the summer moaths; in ()thee places the farmers have taken the matter of the sumraer supply of meat into their own hands aud have formed what are called beef rings. The growth of these beef rings has been very rapid and in some places they have been in euccessful. opera- tion for fully ten years. onism between a. hound and a, hare, gin • spirit (Eccl. ii, 1-11), and what can between a hawk. aud e, -1.3.ee „le„.'Itt_t the palm branch ei,lso meant the man do that cometli alter the vmsery You all know that. In all king ? But see what the same king tween elephant a,ncl swine, than there Is hostility between holiness and sin. ages, in all lands, the palm branch learaed to say : "Thy love is bot - And if God is all holiness and we moans victory. Well, now, we are ter than wine. We will rejoice and are all sin there must be a, treaty, 1)3' nature the servants 01 satan• He be glad in thee. We will remember stole us, he hasshis eyes on us, he Thy love more than wine" (Song i, there must be a stretching torth of olive branches. wants to keep us. But word 'comes 2, a), 011, it does not make much differ- , to break loose from this doing of Wine when it is red when it give th ifrom our Father that if we will .IY 81. "Look not th* upon the • •euce a -hat the world thinks of you, wrong our Father will help us, end his calor in the cup, when moveth but come into the wenn, intimate, owinsome it we rouse up, and we look itself aright." Commands to 110 011" and everlasting relation- the black tyrant in the fece. and 10.0 saved person to do right are only provoking, for all Ids nature is against the right, ; the carnal mind is enmity against God, is not sub- ject to His law and c.eamot be (Rom. H Viii, 7). God gave no law to Is- rael till He 1111(1 reileern.ed them. from Egypt. The only one thing He asks the sinner to do is te accept His salvation, receive His Son. Then, and only then, does Ile give com- mands to be obeyed. Notice in verses 15 and 26 and so often in this book the,, command is to " My Son," and we are not sons of God till we receive His Son. as our Sav- iour (John i, 12 ; I. John v, 12). Having .become children of God and partakers of the divine na- ture (II. Pet. i, 4), we are to let Him possess our whole being, look through our eyes, hear with our ears, work with our hands, walk with our feet, speak by our mouths. In this way He will, not look where 1 -Te should not, and when tempted .we must, like sinking. Simon, cry, " Lord, save me 1 " 32. "At the last • it biteth like a serpent, ancl, stingeth like an adder." There is a last of all things sinful ; they come to an en(1, and then there iS ;the eternal reaping. Those who sew to the flesh reap corruption, 1)1)11 those who sow the wind reap the whirlwind .(Gal. "vi, 8 ; 1-los. 7). There may ceene a time when Prov. 1, 24-31, shall be the ex- perience of many, when because they would not listen to God they shall call, but Ile shall not answer, and finally they shall ha-ve to hear Him say, "Depart from Me, ye 4cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels 1" i(Alath. xxv, 41.) In the case of those who are redeemed by His precious blood, in whH om e has come to live, the last on earth is only a step to greater glory, to die is gain, to depart. and be with Christ is far better (Phil. i, 21, 23). ship with the God of thm whole uni- verse! That is the joy that makes a halleluiah seem stupid. Why do we event to have peace through onr Lord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on hi 10,000 years of war against God we could not have cap- tured so much as a sword or a cav- alry stirrup or twisted off one of the wheels of the chariot of his om- nipotence. But the moment We bring this olive branch God and all heaven come on our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ, and 11+0 other kind of peace is worth any- thing. But then we xnust have that other Olive branch, peace with man. Now, it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There are gunpowdery Christians all around us, and one match or pro- vocation will set 1110110 off. It, is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But, my brother do you not think you 'had better have your horns saw- ed oft? Had not you better make an apology?.., Had not you better sub- mit, to a little humiliation? "Oh," you say, "un -til that man takes the first step I will never be at peace With him. Nothing` will be clonC-un- tit he is ready to take . the first stepls" You are a pretty Christiaa: Whoa -would this world be saved if eChrist, hod not taken the first step? We Were i01 the wrong. Christ Was in the right, all right and forever right. And yet he took. the first step. And instead ofegoing and get- ting a knotty scoarge with which to whip your antagonist, your enemy, you had better get up on the radi- ant mount ' where Christ -suffered for his eneirdes 'Nand just take au olive fly at hnn, and we wrestle lenn (10101 and we pat our heel on his neck, ancl we grind himin the dust, . and we . say; "Victory-, victory, through our. Lord Jesus 'Christ l" Oh What . a grand thini g t is to have sin- un- derfoot and, a -wasted life behind our -.backs. -"Blessed is • he whose tranagression is forgiven and whose: is covered." . My text brings us one-step furth- er. It, says, "Go forth iato the mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick. trees." Now, you know very well -I. make this remark under the head of branches of thick trees -that a booth or arbor made of slight branches would not stand. The first blast of the, tempest would prostrate it. So then the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up thee arbor or booth, and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches.; of thick trees. And so it is in the gospel arbor. Blessed be Go,d -that We have a brawny Chris- tianity, not one easily upset. The storms of life will come upon us, and WO want strong doctrine ; not o11137 . . love, but justice ; not only invita- tion, but . warning. It , is a mighty . gospel ; is an omnipotent gospel. These are the stout branches of thick trees. Well, Day friends, you see I have omitted one or two points not be- cause I forgot to' present them but because I have not, time to preseat them. I have shown you - here is the olive branch ofpeace, here is the pine branch. of evergreen gos- branch, not stripping off the soft, • pel consolation, here the palm tree cool, fragrant leaves, leaving them all on, and then trY on them that branch di usefulness and of victorY, gospel switch, It win met am.t, and here are the stout branches of them, and it will save you. Peace with God, peace with man. If you cannot take thesetwo doctrines, you are no Christian. But my text goes further. It SayS "CIO up into the mountain and fetch olive branches, and pine branches." Now, what is suggested by the pine branch? The plue tree is healthy, it is aromaticit is evergreen, How often the physician says to his in- valid patients: '`Go and have a breath of the pines. That will invig- orate yon." Why do such thousandS of people go south evevy year? It is not merely to get to a warmer cli- mate, but to get the influence of the pine. 'Phere is 'health in it', arat this `pine branch of -the text suggests the Vielpfulness of one holy • religion. It is .full of health -health for all; -ilealth for 1110 mind, health- for the soul . I knew an oged man Who had no capital of physical health. Ire had had all the diseases you could ima- gine. Ile did not eat, enough to keep a child alive. T -Te lived on a beverage of hosannas. 110 lived high, for he dined evely day eiit'a the King. He was kept alive simply by the force of our holy religiou. 11 is a healthy religion healthy for the eye healthy for the hand, healthy for the feet, healthy for the heart, healthy for the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy fer the whole limn. 11 gives. a 010111 such peace, stich quietness, such independerice of circumetainces, ch holy eqtapoise. ,011, that We 1111 If a farmer were to'kill a beef for his (Iwo house he could not use much of it fresh and would have to salt down a lot, but if a number of farmers club together and kill an animal each in turn, dividing the carcass properly between them, they can all have fresh meat all sum- mer. So a, beef ring is simply an or- ganization of farmers whose object it is to furnish themselves with a quantity of fresh beef at least week- ly dining the summer months. The working of the ring may be varied to cover a period of sixteen to forty weeks, .or event more. There can be no doubt of the ultimate success of the plan where once introduced and thoroughly carried out. In order to get a ring organized many methods may be adopted. Like most good things, the first attempt may not succeed, hut if one, or two, or more, become thoroughly interested about the matter, no great difficulty should be experienced in organizing a beef ring. A few suggestions along the line of organizing are here offered which have been raostly gained from prac- , ticar experience. Usually in a neigh- borhood, if one or more persons talk the natter over, then call a meeting sending a postal card to twenty or thirty residents Stating the time and place of the meeting' and that, the objebt is to form a beef ring, no difficulty whatever need be appre- hended but that the results will be satisfactory. thick trees. `The gospel arbor is done. ,erhe air 18 aromatic of heaven. The leaves rustle with the gladness of God, Come into the arbor. Come into the booth I went out at dif- fereut times with a fowler to the mountains to catch pigeons, and we mettle our booth, and NV sat la that booth and watched for the pigeons to some. And we iound flocks in the sky, and after awhile they dropped into the net, and we were succebsful. 5001 come now to the door of this gospel booth. I look out. I see flocks of souls flying hither and fly- ing thither. 011, that they might. come, like clouds and as doves to the wind0Wo, COMO into the booth. Come into the booth. -ma+ possessetl it, that we possessed it . . . • now ! f niean it is hetilthy if a, man e gets enough of it. Now, there are Mid 105 lawyers were engaged by.' some people, svlio get just enough the heirs to dispute certein lacquasts. religion to 601110) them, just enough The ,crise liaS just been settled ; 1110 religion 10 'melee thein sick,. but -if lateyers have got $2,000,000 and a. inilla 1030 a full, deep, eetind iiilial- the bell's have shured tile vonlainder^ THE RING OF FRANCE was thus the Most Christian King, as well as the Eldest Son of the Church, while the Spanish Monarch. had the -honor of being known as the Most Catholid Ling, Similarly the ruler of the Austrian Empire is ad- dressed as His Apostolic Majesty, his full address being His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, and Apos- tolic King of Hungary. Among Mohammedan Princes relig,- ious titles are also greatly venerat- ed. The Sultan of Turke3r, as the succesSor of Caliphs, affects the -style of Commander of the Faithful; the Sultan of Morocco is the Emir-al- Mum:min, otherwise Prince of True Believers; and the Ameeik of Afghanis- tan termsehimself Zia-ul-Mitatiwadin (Light of Union and religion.) 13a these. are modest in compari- son with the Emperor of China, whose loft3r title is the Son of Hea- ven. The claim to be King of Kings is made by both the Shah of Persia (Shah-in-Shala) and the Emperor' Menelik of Abyssinii,(Negus Negust). The Emperor of Japan has a very curious arid unique appellation: The Mikado or Honourable Gate; and a stately and splenidid title is that of the Great White Czar, who is Em- peror ofAll the Russias. - The formger PortuueSe Emperors ef Brazil were atyle'd. • Constitutional Emperor and Perpetnal Defender. But the most sublime and high-sounding title of any ruler must, surely bo the following, which was possessed by the'. ex -King Theebaw of Burma, whom 10deposed in 1885: His Most Glorious Excel;ent Majesty, Lord of the Is- haddan, King of Elephants, Lord of the Mines of Gold and Silver, Rubies Amber, and the , noble Serpentine, Sovereign of the Empires of Thuna- paranta, and Tampadipa ad other Great Empires and Countries, and of all the Umbrella Wearing Chiefs, the Supporter of Religion, the Sun -De- scended Monarch, Arbiter of Life and Great Righteous King, King of Kings end Possessor of Boundless ' Domin- ions and Supreme Wisdom. a PNEUMATIC_ CLOCKS. , FAT YEARS IN EGYPT. Britain. Has Turned a Land o Waste Into One of Plenty. Egypt, the land of the Pharaoh's, once the storehouse of the Mediter- ranean cold the centre of the highest civilization, after Warcls a howling wilderness, is now again a garden and place of delig,ht. If it does not flow with milk and honey, it bearsr Iwo crops of grain a yea, and in some parts five crops in two years, and that is a' record of which any country in modern ,times may wall be proud. Its redemption gives evi- dence of the fact thn.t territory tak- en ie' nto theinbrace of empire, though apparently a barren ewaste, may, with the application of British. honesty and energy., not only become quite capable of maintaining its in- habitants in a measure of comfort and content, but may be profitable to all concerned. The process of re- generation began in 1886, when the wonderful series of irrigation works - known as the Barrag,e was taken is hand by Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, and converted into a really seevice- able work. At a subsequent period two weirs were constructed below the Barrage, with the result that the cotton • crop of Lower Egypt WaS doubled. This alone was equal to a gain in 'the 110011111 of the country of £5,000,000 a year. A number of miscellaneous works have since been constructed which have been of great' service. The system is now practic- ally complete, and its utilit.y may be gauged by the fact that the land left without water after the flood of the river has gone down --called the Sharaki area welich in 1877 am-, °tinted to 800,000 acres, was reduced in 1899 to 261,000 acres,,,, A. CURT!, FOR SWEARING, Curse ' cards are being used in Switzerland and Gertria/ty to Cheek .profanity. People go 'about' with the cards in their pockets and, whenevee they hear' bad lauguage, present one to the swearer to sign. The card has printed on it a pledge to abstain from swearing for a spe- cified time or to pay a, small fine' for each oath to some charity. Nearly 40,000 of these cards have been distributed in Switzerland alone. A CJOE.-lTLY DT,SPIJI`E. „ , There was a inercnant ox Milan rIo 1 ft a fortune of $3,000000 33• "Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perveese things." Woman represents the woest as well as the best in Scripture. The true Church is the bride of Christ and is espoused as a chaste virgin to Christ, while the false church is compared to a harlot xix and xvii and Col... xi, 2).. If drunken with Wine, ,we behold the evil, but if, filled with the Spir- it we shall see Jesus only (Eph, v, 18). The heart is the great center from which- evil pr good proceeds. See in this chapter verses 15, 17, 19,,' and then verse 26 as the only way to be fright. 34, "Yea, thou • shalt be as he that. 110111 do Wri the midst of ' the sea, or as he that lith upon the top of a mast." This certainV suggests the saying of David, "'Truier as the Lord liveth there is but a "Step be- tween inc and death" (I. Sam. xx, 3). Inasmuch as life in this Mortal body is so uncertain how foolish it is to continue a moment longer in sin when God is beseeching us to be reconciled to I-Iim. and to accept the redemption which He has so fully provided and which Ile, beetows so freely ! (Isa, 1, 18 ; Math. xi, 2811 ; Cor, v, ; Rom. iii, 24.) The God in whose hand our breath is and whose are all our ways (Dan. v, 28) is Very gracious, Ile is slow to an-, ger and ilot willing that any should perish (II. Pet..11 1, 0), but Ile will by no means clear tire guilty traless the,y accoPt Ehn1, , 35. "They have 'Stricken Inc ; the: cage and let it fly: away. The ' only .hindrances to be feared are one- or more obstinate personS. such as are to be fdund :hi ,almost all neighborhoods, who • won't join nor let others- if . they criri. help it,. and the ever-present passibility of 'an. objector Who will ,not have • anything to do with itaunless he can have it all his own: way and who .takes most of 'the time o2. the meeting -to discuss other opinions. There is no room in a beef ring for a crank. At , the initial- meetiag discuss a general outline'efthe plan, then ap- point a- cOmmittee: of three or four to draw up rules,. which should be considered- and adopted at a future meeting. , Those only who intend joining the. rings Should- have a right to vete anddiscuss sthe 'rules of the ring. At the adjourned meeting ad- opt the rules, appoint a, president, secretary • and committee of manage- ment. The esSentials : to success 'are a :strict observance of the rules by all members of. the ring. It will not do for oae member to put in a lean animal while: others put . in first- class stock. ,'The rules should give a name to the ring, should state the limi1 of dressed weight of the animals sup- plied, also that they are to be sound, in good condition, and not over three years of age, a heifer or sther. 'WITH A LOWER FLOOD----------. In continuaticm of this work. two, large dams are still in progress atl- ,Assouan and .Assiont;" the3r will pro- bably be completed and ready' "for 1 use by the midclle"of .1902, at a cost1 of £3,000,000. The Assouan dam`, will store up water after the flood is past, and increase the supply of the river in the surnmer, which will lead to a transformation in the ba - 5111 lands of Middle Egypt, which at preseht raise a flood crop only.* In future they will be able, as in the case of Lower Egypt, to raise least, two crops a year. In addition, a 'considerable area of land in the Fayoum Province and in the Delta will be brought under cultivation. On the completion of these dams 8,- 000 to 4,000 million cubic yards of water are etill required, and it is with a view to showing. the practi- cability of meeting this final require- ment that, Sir. William Clarstin, wine was sent out for the. purpose. has reported. He reviews the mei•its of the various lakes forming the sources of the Nile, and he selects Lake TSalla aS the mo.et, likely to be of use for the ,purpose in view, If the.Negus of Abyssinia-cen be made to look favorably upon the project it will 1110011 the raising of the level of the lake by means of barriers and clams, the construction of can;11s, and, last, but not least, the con- struction of a railway from the Red Sea to the Sbucian. Sir AVilliara G arstin proposes, as alternati ve schemes for investigation, similar . treatment of the Dahrs-el-Gebel and Zeraf. or the construction of a stor- age reservoir at Lake Albert Nyan- za. Whichever scheme is adopted, it Another rule should adopt a basis of settlement for balances of beef. some rules provide for a dressed weight of 400 to 500 ths. Between those limits a member receives 6c. per 16. for the dirierence between the weight of beef he puts in and. the weig,ht of beef he receives. Those who put in less than 400 Ihs. pay 70. for the difference, between that supplied and received Those who put in over 500 lbs. receive 5c. for the difference. The object is to keep within limits, 'The penalties received in this way usually amount to $2 to $5 and remunerate the iaspectors. The rules should state the day of the week the animals arc to be kill- ed: Each member lias to furnish two cotton bags, so'that the butcher always has one on hand. Each mem- ber in our ring gets, or arranges to get, his 01011 beef. Some rings kill twice a week and deliver to or near each member. Where animals are killed twice a week there should be at least . forty members in ,the ring, so that only about 10 to 1.2?,- 165. will be received at any one tiine. The C.Aty of Paris is being rapidly supplied, with a, system of public clocks worked by compressed air under electrical' control. The entire area of the city is divided iato sec- tions abou,t a mile and three-quarters , , in radius, and in the center of each section. is' a 8tation provided with a reservoie df caniptessed air, from which aie-pipes extend to all the clocks included in the section. I3y means of electro -magnets, energized every minute With currents from a commutator controlled by a,. rmistee- clock at the central station, the air pipes are intermittently conaegted with the reservoirs, and. thus the compressed air, once every minute, drives forward the 11011168 of the clocks. There's that girrsinging A Bird in a Gilded Cage! said the nervous Yes, answered t,tie 1)oarcliiig iiriuse wag. If I had a, bird that couldn't " an better than that l'cl open ' In several cases one Share is sub- divided between' two, families. The butcher follows a rotation in cut- ting. Ile lays the cuts on a 'broad table, exactly in the same order. Then he starts member No. 1 at first place on table, next time he starts No. 1 at second place on ta- ble, and so on throughout the term. This gives each member a complete. animal. during the twenty weeks, The rides should proVide for a com- mittee of management With powee to arrange all details and to inspect aaimals. or another coMmittee may be appointed for that purpose. The rules should bital members to observe them and should be signed by each. The order in which. to furnish ani- mals should be decided by lot. Put twenty cards With 1 to 20 on them in a hat, then let first, signer (Imlay, and so on. Suit the rules to the lo- cal conditionS. is gratif,ving to find 11 prospect that as British administration has brought to the oppressed fenaheort of Egypt a free and just government, 'so Beitish enterprise is likely to bring to tbe whole Nile Valley the means Of great 'material' prosperity, so that the desert shall indeed liter- ally rejoice and blossom like the rose. • WORLD'S LONG -EST IlL11-0011l. The longest bridge 03 the 'world is tt 15 TOcorded, the Lion J3ricage, near Sitegang, in China. extends. 51 miles over an arra of the, Yellow Sea, and is semported 1)y 301) stone. arches. 11.‘he roadway is 70 feet above the water, mid is inclosed ia an inert network. A 111101)111 lion 2311e long, rests 011 the mown of „ 0)011 pillar. The bridge was built, at; the coinmatici of the Emperor 1:e1113 Long. ' 4 - There are five tines as matey ballet explosions in the United Stot,es ae 11) greet Britain. ituraber last yeav was 303. more then 0118 ot dey.