The Exeter Times, 1895-11-14, Page 3•
THE UNAPPRECIATED,
REV,»7LTAI,,MACIE SPEAKS IN BE.
HAI.IF OF HUMBLE EFFORTS.
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Washington,. Nov. 3.—Dr. Talmage
toalay preached ilie seemiel sermon slum
coming to the national capital, If pos-
sible tae audience was even larger than
feet Suaday. The stilejeet was " The
Disabled," the text seleeted being I.
Samuel xxx, 24, "As his part is that
goetn down to the battle, so sball his
part be that ta,mieth by the stuff."
If you have never seen an army
change quarters you have no idea of
t he amount of baggage 20 loads, 50
Made, 100 loads of baggage. David and
Ms army were about to start .on a
double quick march for tbe recovery
o their matured .feeiallies from the
ma:lekites. So they left by the brook
Besor their blanket's, their knapsacks,
their baggage and their carriages. Who
shall be detailed to watch this stuff ?
There are sick soldiers, and wounded
soldiers, and. aged soldiers, who are not
able to go on swift military expedi-
tions, but who are able to do. some
workatnd so they.are detailed to watch
the baggage. There is many a soldter
who is not strong' enough to march 30
miles in a dey and then plunge into
a ten hours' fight, who is able with
drawn sword lifted against his shoald-
er to 'pace, up and clown as a sentinel
to keep of an eneney who might put
the torch to the baggage. There are
200 of these crippled. and. aged and
wounded. soldiers detailed to watch
the baggage. Some of them, I sup-
pose, had bandages across the brow, and
same of them had thear arms in a
sling, and some of them walked on
crutches. They were not cowards
shirking duty. They had fought in
many a fierce battle for their country
and their God. They are now part
of the tune in the hospital and, part of
the time on garrison duty. They al-
most cry because they cannot go with
the other troops to the front. While
tbese seatinels watch the. baggage, the
Lord we/seal the sentinels.
...Jame a ,PIa different scene bemg
ek; .`„Ale distance. The Amale-
kie g ravaged and ransacked
atioj whole countries are cele-
braie success in a roaring ca-
roti, elle of them are dancing on
the .a, aith wonderful gyration of
heeln oe and some of them are
the spoils of victory—the
fingeie eengs and. earrings, the neck-
laces, bee wristlets and tlae coffers with
coronees and caraelians and pearls and
sa.pphires and emeralds and all the
wealth of plate and. jewels and decant-
ers, and the silver and the gold bank-
ed up on the earth in princely profusion,
• and the embroideries, and the robes,
and the turbans, and the cloaks of an
imperial wardrobe. The banquet had
gone on until the banqueters, are
•raaudlin and. weak and stupid and in-
decent and loathsomely drunk. What
• a time it is now for David and. his
men ta swoop on them! So the Eng-
• ISO aost the battle of Bannockburn,
ase the _night before they were
*Assail and bibulous celebration
• re the Scotch were in prayer. So
' the Syrians were overthrown in their
carousal by the Israe,lites. So Che-
dorlamer and his army •were over-
thrown M. their carousal by .A.braham
• and his men. So insour civil war neore
than once the battle was lost bemuse
one of the generals was drunk. Now
is the time for David and his men to
swoop upon those carousing -.tamale-
kites. Soroe of the Amalekitees are
backed to pieces on the spot, some of
them are nest able to go staggering
'and hiccoughing off the field, some, of
them crawl on camels and speed oti in
the distance. David and his 'men
qather together the wardrobes, the
eewels and. put them upon the backs of
camels and into wagons, and they gath-
er together the wardrobes, the jewels
had been stolen and start back toward
the garrison. Yonder they comet
Yonder they mime 1 The limping men
• of the garrison come out ana greet
them with wild lruzza. • The Bible says
• David. saluted them—that is, he asked
them how they all were, "How is your
• broken arm?" "How is your fractured
• jaw?" Has the stiffened limb been
unlimbered 1" " Have you had another.
?" " Are you getbing better ?" He
saluted them.
But now same a very difficult thing,
_the distribution of the spoils of victory.
Drive up those laden camels now. Who
shall have the spoils ? Well, some
selfish soul suggests that these treas-
ures ought. all to belong to those who
had been out in active service. 'We
did all the fighting while ebhese men;
staid at home in the garrison, and we I
ought to have all the treasures." But .
David looked into the worn faces of
' these veterans who had staid in the
garrison and he looked round. an a saw
how cleanly everythinag haa been kept I
and he saw that the baggage was all !
safe, and he knew that these wounded ,
and, crippled men would gladly enough:
•have been at the front if they had
been able, and the little general looks!
up from under Ms helmet and says; I
"No, no, let as have fair play," and
he rushes un to one of these men and I
• he says, "Hold your hands together,"1
'anti the hands are held together, and
13 fills them with silver. And be rush-
es up to another man who was sitting.
away back and had no idea of getting
any of the spoils, and throws a T3aby-;
• lonish garment over him and fills his '
• hand with gold. And he rushes up to
another man, who had lost all his prop- '
erty in serving God ancl his country
years before, and he drives up some ,
of the cattle and some of the' sheep
that they had beought back from the
Amalekites and he gives two or three
of the cattle and three or four of the'
sheep to this poor man, so he shall t
always be fed and clothed. He sees a '
• man so emaciated and worn and. eick
be needs stiniulants and he gives. him '
a little of the wine that he brought '
from the Areialekites. Yonder is a man !
• who has no appetite for the rough ra-
tions of the army, and he gives him. a!
ram morsel from the Amalakitish ban- '
gnat, and the 200 orippled and maimed'
• and aged soldiers who tarried on gar- I
tlson duty get just; as mach of the
spoils of battle as any of the 200 men i
that event to the front. "As his part •t,
is that goetle clown to the battle, so
• Shal his part be that Varrieth by the t
0
The. impression is abroad that the
eh -detain rewards are for those who t
clo conspicuous service in distinguished ,!,1.
• places --great patriots, great prom:Imre, a
great --phIlanthropists. Pat my text a
sets forth the idea that; there is just as 1
math reward for the man who stays s
does Ins evliole duty . just where• he is.
Garrison duty is as impoetaeet and as
rein (ulcerative as service the front,
"As his part that petal down to the
battle, so shall par be that tarrieth
by the staff," e
The Earl of Kintore said. to me in an
English railevaa, "Mr, Tannage, when
Yoa get back to America, 1 want you
to preaeli a serinon on the discharge of
ordinary duty in ordinary. places, and
dam send me 4), et:Ty ef it." Afterward
an English clergyman coming to this
land brought frone the Earl a Kintore
tae same request, Alas that before 1
got ready to ao what be asked, me to
o the good Berl of Kintore bad de-
parted, this life I But bleat man, sur-
rouuded by all palatial sureoundings,
and in a distinguished. sphere, felt syea-
pathetic wibh• those who bad. erdiaa;rY
duties to peeform in ordinary places
and in erdinary ways. A great Many
Peolele are diewuraged when they bear
the story of Moses, and of joshua, and
of David, and of Lusher, and of anha
Hnox, and of Deborah and of Flor-
ence Niglitingale, They say: "Oh, that
was all good and right for them, aut
I than never be called., to receive the
law on Mount Sinai, I shall never r be
called to command the sun and moon
to stand still, I shall never preeeli on
Mars Hill, I snail never defy the Diet
of Worms, I than never be callea to
make a Queen trexuble for her mynas,
I shall never preside over a hospital."
Them are women who say: "af had
as brilliant a sphere as tbose people
had, I should be se beave and as grand.
but my business is to get children off
to school and to hunt up things when
they are lost, and to see that dinner
IS ready, and to keep accoutt a the
household expenses, and to hinder the
all:Jaren from being strangulated. by
the whooping cough, and to go through
all the annoyances and vexations .oa
•houseleeeping.. Oh, my sphere is so in-
finitesimal and so iesignifica,nt I am
clean discouraged." Woman, God
Places you on garrison duty, and Your
reward will be just as great as time
of Florence Nightingale, who, moving
eo often night by. niglat, with a light
in her hand through hospitals, was
called by the wounded the "lady of the
lamp." Your reward will be just as
great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who
built and endowed theological semin-
ary buildiags. Ymer reward will be
just as great as that of Hannah More,
who by her exeellent books* won for
her admirers Gerrie*. and Edmund
Burke and Joshua Reynolds. Rewards
are not to be. given accordin to the
amount of noise you make in the world,
nor even according to tbe amount of
good you do, but according to whether
you work to your 'full capacity, accord-
ing to whether or not you do your
duty in the sphere where God has
placed you.
Suppose you give to two of your
chilthen errands and they are to go
off to make purchases, and to one you
give al and to the other you give $20.
laio you reward the boy that you gave
??20 to for purchasing more with that
amount of money than the other boy
purchased with al? Of course not. If
God give wealth or social poeition or
eloquence or 20 times the faculties to
a man that he gives to the ordinary
man, is he going to give to the favorad
man a reward because he has more
power and more influence? Oh, no. In
other words, if you and I were to do
our whole duty and you have 20 times
more talent than I have, you will get
no more divine reward ehan I will. Is
God going to reward you because he
gave ,you. more? That -evould not be
fair; that would not be right. These 200
men of the text who fainted by the
brook 13esor did their whole duty- ; they
watched the baggage, they took care
of the stuff, and they got as much of
the spoils of victory as the men who
Went to the front. " As his' part is
that goeth down' to the battle, so shall
his part be that ta,rrieth by the stuff."
There is high encouragement in this
for all who have great, responsibility
and little credit for what they do. You
know the names of the great commer-
cial houses of these cities. Do you
know the names of the confidential
clerks—the men who have the key to
the safe, the men who know the com-
bination lock? A distinguished mer-
chant that goes forth at the summer
watering place and he flashes past and
you say, `lVho is that?" "Oh," re-
plies some one, "don't you know? That
is the great importer, that is the great
banker, that is the great manufactur-
er."
The confidential clerk has his week
off. Nobody notices whether he comes
or goes. Nobody knows him, and after
awhile his week is done, and he sits
down again at his desk. But God will
reward his fidelity just as much as
he recognizes the work of tbe merchant
philanthropist, w-bose investments this
unkuown clerk so carefully guarded.
Hudson River railroa,d, Pennsylvania
railroad, railroad, New York at:
New Haven railroad—business raen
know the names of the presidents of
these roads and of the proxablent direc-
tors, but they do not know the names of
tbe engineers, the names of the switch-
men, the names Of the flagmen, the
names of the brakemen. These men
have awful responsibilities, and some-
times, through the recklessness of an
engineer, or the unfaithfulness of a
switcbraan, it has brouglat to mind the
faitbfulness of, nearly all the •rest' of
them. Sorae men do not have recogni-
tion of their services. They have small
wages and much complaint. I very
often ride upon locomotives and I very
often ask the question, as we shoot
around some curve or under some ledge
atrocks, "How much wages do you
get ?" And I am always surprised to
find how little for such vast responsi-
bility. Do you suppose God • is not N
going to recognize that fidelity? Tho- c
mac Scott, the president of the Penn-
sylvania railroad, going up at death to I
reeeive from God his destiny, was no
better known in that hour than was o
know t last night the brakeman who, c
on the Erie railroad, was jammed to I
death amid the ear coupliiags. "As a.
his part, is that goeth down to the bat- o
tie, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff."
Once for 36 hours we expected every t
moment to go to the' bottom of the s
ocean. The waves struck throtgla the
skylights and rushed down into the c
hold of the ship, and. biesed against c
the boilers. It was an avvful time, bat t
by the blessing of God and the faith- d
Ail/lees of the men in charge, we came t
oub of the cyclone and are arrived at, g
iome. Each one before leaving the b
ship tbanked Cate. Andre.ws. I do not
thiale there was a man or woman that t
went off that ship without thanking t
Capt. Andrews, and when, years after, tx
heard of his cleath, I was impelled tie
write a letter of condolence to his Jam- t
13r in Liverpool. Everybocly recognized ei
he goodnese, the ootirage, the kind- e
hese of Cape. Andrews., but it mews
o me now that we never thanked the t
egineer, He stood away down in the a,
larknese, athid the Masai tunacee, 0
oing his whole duty. Nobody thank -
d the engineer, hut • God recognizecl 0
'beroism, and his e continuance, and s
is fidelity, and there will be just as a
iigh reward for the engineer evho I t
verleed -oat; of sight ae the eapain'
'l f tr 1.1 t t„ As'
ole part is that goeth dawn to the bat- I tr'
le, so slier his part be that tarrieelij h
y the. stu.f." c
THE EXETER TIMES
A Christian womaa Wa$ Alegre geinat
- married am and you healed eny father
aloxig the edge of a wooa even- even
and •mother and sisters," 'Ob, yeti,"
r says, "my eyeeight isn't tie good as
a it ased to be." %Imre are in ell mer
e thurcates—ehe hen:we of 1820, the limes
- 188a, the heieee a 1857. By the long
ti• grave treneh that elite through. hall a
- century, they bave stood soul:Ming the
elm says, "you baptized nee and you
tide, and tbe neighborhood in the Wuxi
try did not understand leow a motile
with so many earee and anxiebte
sliould waste eo mime. time as to b
idly eauntering eat evening' by even
ing, It was found oat afterward tha
she went there to pray fox' her home
w e ere one evenine eli
wrote that beautiful leynen, -famous i
all ages for eheering Otristrian hearta
I love to steal awbile away
From every ournberbne care
And spend the hours of setting day
In autahle, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no re‘ward for such un
ayetencting yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is
boy who wants to go to college an
get an edueatioxi. They eall him
bookworm. Wherever you find him—i
Mac barn or in the hou.se—lie is media
a book. a Wlaat a pity it is," they say
"that Eci mama. get an • education,'
Ris father, work as bard as he will
can no more than supriort the famit
by the product ot the farm. Oe nigh
Ed had retired to his room and • ther
is, a family conference about him. Th
sisters say: "Father, I wish you woulc
send Ed to college. If you will, we
will work battler than we ever did,
• and we will make our old dresses do."
Tbe mother says; "Yes, I will get
-
along without any hired, help, although
I am not as strong as I used to be. I
think 1 min get along without any hir-
ed help, The father says; " Well, I
think by bucking corn nights I can get
along without any essistance." Sugar
is 'banished froin the table, butter is
banished from the place. That family
is put down on rigid—yes, suffering --
economy that the boy may go to col-
lege. Time passes on. Commencement;
day has come. Think not that I men-
tion an imaginary case. Gott knows it
happened. Cominencemene day has
come and the professors walk in on
Mac stage in their long.gowns The in-
terest of the occasion is passing an
and after awhile it comes to a climax
of baterest as the valedictorian is to be
introduced. Ed has studied • so hard.
and worked. so well that he has had
the honer conferred upon him. There
are rounds of applause, sometimes
• breaking into vociferabion. It is a great
day: for Ed. Bob away back in the gal-
leries are his sisters in their plain hats
and their faded shawls, and the old-
fashioned father and mother—dear me,
she has not had a new hat for six
years, he has not had a new coat for
six years—and. they • get up and look
over on the platform and. they laugh
and they cry, and they sit down, and
they look pale and. than they are very
made flushed. Ed eaets the garlands,
and. the old-fashioned roup in the gal-
lery have their full share of the tri-
umph. They have made that scene
possible, and. in the day when God
shall inore fully reward self sacrifices
made for others, he will give grand
and glorious recognitions. "As his part
is that g.oeth down to battle, so shall.
his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."
e reeurreetion. They beve been in more
o Balaicla,vae and have taleen. more Se-
: bastopols than you ever heard, or.
Sometimes they get a lieLle fretful, be-
cause they caeniob be at the froat,
They bear tae sound, of the bade and
Mao old war horse champs bis bit. But
Mac 60,050 ministers of religion this day
- staading M the brunt of the fray shall
heve no moreareward than those re -
a tired veterens. "My father, my father,
d the theriots of Israel and the horse -
a men thereof," "As Inc part is that
n •email aown to the battle, so saall his
g part be that tarrieth by the etafr."
, Cheer op men and women of unap-
• predated serveces. You will get your
, reward, if not here, hereafter. When
y Charles Wesley comas up to judgment,
t and the tbousaaids of seals whicla were
e wafted. in to glory thrown -1 his soma
e shall be enumerated, be will take his
1 throne.,, Then John Wesley will curiae
up to judgment, and after Inc name,
has been raenlaoned caanection with
Mac. salvation of the millions of souls
brought to (Inc through the Method-
ism waieb he founcled, he will take his
throne. But between the two thrones
of Charles Wesley and. Joh ri Wesley'
there will be a throne higher than
either, on which saell sit Susannah
Wesley, wao, with maternal censecra-
tam in Epworth rectory, Lineolashire,
started tbose two seals theer trium-
phant mission of sermon and song
through all following ages. Oh, what
a day that will be for raany who rock-
ed Christian era,dMs with weary foot,
and who patched worn-out garments
and darned. seeks, and ott of a sraall
ineome made the °bib:Iran comfortable
for the winter. What a day that will
be for those to wawa the world. gave
the cold shoulder, and. called them no-
bodies, and begru.ciged them the Mast
recognition, and who, weary and worn,
and. ,sick, fainted by the brook Besor.
Oh, that will be a mighty day when the
son of David shall distribute among
them the garlands, the crowns, the
• scepteirs, the chariots, the thrones.
And then it shall be found out that alt
who on earth served God, in inconspic-
uous splaeres receive just as much re-
ward as those who filled the earth with
uproar of achievement. Then tbey
shall understand the height, the depth, ,
• Mac length the breadth the pillared
and domed magnificence of my text,
As his part is that goeth down to thc!
battle, so shall his part be that tar -1
• rieth by the staff."
ABOUT 1311ITISII UOLUIBI
A DECIDED IMPRO VEMEN T IT
FARMING AFFAIRS.
,
'
tt
A distant from Vernon, a Ib -riving place
of some thousand or tweive hundred.
people. Of Lbe number oa the popula-
tion aria not sure; in face, aearly every
huddiaa Nem, in the West, even before
xt floureshes late a blooming Plane, is a
city with • a prospg,tive popelation
few thousand larger. than the reelden-
Oat one, •But Coldstreena is a beautifkil
place, More than 100 pares are planted
with fruit tree, nearly vviaeh are
ajusi tht ocuogmhinngoti atimase olfinagn. e'xapo airy freuyiett,
grower, excealent foupdation work bas
b ' e
Y raneh are hop calture and tae raising
- and feedbag of cattle. At the Guise -
dean estate, some 40 miles further down
tbe Oka.pagor valley, the plan includes
Mac joining 01 dair,ying to trult culture,
Some 30 or 40 of the neighbouring farni-
aert3 tgliaetilGelUeidsateoh ean all/relax' rte thaeaehaQiuriaRe"
and there, as well as in other parts, I
leernect tbat British Colambiaas are
! watching Lord Aberdeen's &arias as a
i farmer with a ke.ener interest then they
follow his movements as Governor -Gen-
, eetel. tlis place has math power of ser-
• vice for the encouragerneiat and guid-
ance of other farmers, as well as great
opportunities for a consistent and
waolesome edverti eme t f r -
C cultural resources and possibilities of
Mac province,
_ MEETINGS OF EAR1VLERS,
Columbia
byioaul come direct from British.
e No, I stayed there for the Agricul-
e tural Extibition at New Westminster,
• and then stayed off at Calgary. went
✓ up the Calgary and Edmonton line and
addressed meetings of farmers at Red
, Deer and Innisfail. At eaeh place there
n is a co-operative creameryaand farmers
e are aenerally going into the kand of
farming whieh enables them to feed
• their crops to some class of live stock.
d The altitude of the land—over 3,300
a feet above the sea level—and the dis-
a tance from the seaboard make the
growing of grain for sale risky as to
Mac ripening of the crop, and unprofit-
able in the price that may be realized.
With the raising and feeding of cattle
and swine, the c,ase is quite different.
In these, joined to dairying in co-opera-
tive creameries, they can de very well.
Peed costs very little; and, not more
than leper cent. of the value, of butter
is absorbed by transpertation charges
from Calgary to Liverpeol. I stayed
over one day at Moose Taw, where we
have a branch experimental dairy sta-
tion. Travellers who pass the place by
railway call it a bare, dry, inhospitable
district. It does not look particularly
promising as a dairy country, but our
creamery there will turn over $10,000
worth of butter tlais summer, a0nd from
reports wbich I received I am confid-
ent that the output next summer will
reach 100,000 pounds of butter.
Then you have confidence hi the fa -
tare of what is now Western Canada?
Certainly; wherever a cow thrives,
there men will do well. That is one of
Mac best means of diagnosing suitabil-
ity of climate and soil for a prosperous
agricultural conanunity. The fine crop
of grain throughout Manitoba and the
West is late en being harvested and
threshed.. Perhaps less fall -ploughing
than. usual is being done; but the fre-
quent rains of the fall have put more
moisture into the soil and eubsoil than
for several years. That is one very
promising factor in the outlook for next
year. -
What kind of weather aid you have
in the West?
• Fine, warm, and. agreeable nearly
the whole time. I met only two wet
days, and one of these was when I had
a chance of a holiday to go fishing on
a lake in the mountains. It rained as
only a British Colurabia sky can rain.
Never naiad how many fish I caught.
It rained hard enough to drown some
of the trout that slipped off the hook
into the bottom of the boat.
tuterestwo taterview -With Prof 'Hobert-
ZIffrk er kot r rt:i$1 al;r—ve."Plhime>v reY0 lid
t,411.1t4troloet. *mike or the Fruits nest
Professor Robereson, Dominion Thar
Comraiseloner, returned to the Experi
mental farm at Ottawa on Tuesday
• afternoon, after being absent for eix
eaealsa M British Columbia aad the
Nerth-West Territories. To a prees
repeeeentative he said that he found a
decided improvement in the _termitic
and business affairs of the Western proe
vinees since the time of hie former vis-
its. On the Pacific, meat, where every-
thing except floods have been discour-
agingly pacific for alew years, things
have taken a turn, and the better
tunes ana hopeful spirit which pervaa
Vancouver, Viotoria„ and New West-
mtuirnasitearisastriee:sp.reading into the agriaal
I Row do you account for it? Well, th
travelling' dairy has been abroad in tla
land, and the people are getting bettea
butter to eat and more of it Did you eVe
notice what an antidote to depression
ed)ezuoins idteeni yg, Gaon: bpuetstsei i s Nrao laTerheenis y 01
need to eat more of it on bread from No
I hard, and find. that it is naaterialise
, sunshine, The newspaper writer an
every other goocl man should the
iattriezaeacl sitter:ash:Met. as humanized' mater-
iinAtrhee youdoingany special dairy work
! Yes; one of our travelling dairies has
been visiting nearly all the agricultural
districts in British Columbia. The
imeetings have been well attended by
Ifarmers and their wives, and great in-
terest has been shown. As yet there is
joaly one co-operative creamery in the
Pacific Province, and two comparative-
ly small cheese faotories. The dairying
has been carried. on chiefly in home
dairies, similar to the practise in Great
Britain. The farmers of the province
do not produce enough butter, cheese,
There is high eneourage,ment in this
subject, also, for those who once
wrought mightily for Christ and the
church., but through sickness or col-
lapse bf fortune or advanced. years
cannot now go to the trent. These 200
men of the text • evere veterans. Let
tha,t man bare his arm and show how
the muscles were torn. Let him pull
aside the turban -and see the mark of
a battle axe. Pull aside the coat and
see where the spear thrust him. Would.
it have been fair for those men, crip-
pled, weak and old, by the brook Besor,
to have no share in the spoils of tri-
umph? I was in the Soldiers' Hos-
pital in Paris, and -I saw there some of
Mac naen of the first Napoleon, and I
asked them where they had fought
uii-
dat their great zomaaa,nder: One man
midi "I wasa at Austerlitz." Another
man said, "I was at the Pyramids."
A.notber man said, "I was in the awful
retreat from Moscow." Another- man
said, "I was at the bridge of Lodi."
Some of them were' lame ; they were
all aged. Dicl the French Government
turn off those old soldiers to die in
want? Na; their last days were spent
like princes. Do you think my Lord
is going to turn off his old soldiers be-
cause they are weak and worn and be-
causce they fainted by the brook Besor ?
Are they going to get no part of the
spoils of tlae victory? Just look at
them. Do you think those crevices in
the faces are wrinkles? No; they ,are
battle scars. They fought against
sickness, they fought against trouble,
they fought against tbey fought
Inc God, they fought for the church,
• they fought for the truth, they fought
for heaven. When they had plenty of
money, their names were always on
the subscription list. When there was
any hard work to be done for God,
they were ready to take the • heaviest'
part of it. When there came a great
revival, they were ready to pray all
night Inc - the i,mdous and the sin
struck. They were ready to do any
,work, endure any sacrifice, do the
most unpopular thing that God dee
mended of them. But now they can-
not go farther. Now theer have physi-
cal infirmities. Now their head trou-
bles them.. They are weak and faint
by the brook Besor. Are the to have
no share in the triumph? Are they
to get none of the treasures, none of
Mao spoils of conquest? You must
think that Christ has a very sbort
memory if you think he has forgotten
their services.
Fret not, ye aged ones. Suet tarry
by the stuff and. wait for your -sbare
of the spoils. Yonder they are conaing.
I hear the bleating of the fat lambs
and I see the jewels glisten in the sun.
It makes me laugh to think how you
vill be surprised wheu they throw a
halm, of gold over your neck and tell
you to go in and. dine with the king.
see you backing out because you feel
unworthy. The shining ones oome up
n the one side, and the. shining ones
ome up on the other side, and. they
ausb,. you on and they push you up
nd they say., "Here is an old soldier
Jesus Christat and the shining ones
Will rush out toward you an'd say,
' les, that naan saved my soul," or
hey will rush out and say, "Oh, yes,
he was. with ,me io the last sickness."
And then the cry will go round the
irele, "Come in, come in, come in,
ome up. We mw you away clown
here, old and sick and decrepit and
iacouraged because you could not go
b the front,. but "As bis part is that
°dal down to battle, so shall his part
e tit tarrieth by the stuff,"
There is high consolation, also, in
his for aged ministers. I see some of
hem here to -day._ TIMY sit in aews,,
our churches. They used tO Stand
n pulpits. Their hair me white with
he blossoms of tbe tree of life. Their
ames matked on. the roll of the gen-
re' assembly, or al the curia:dation,
• Emeritus," They sometinaca hear a
ext announced whicb Mange to mind
sermon they preached 50 yea,ra ago
n the same subject. • They preached
more gospel en. §400 a Year ,tban sonee
their suceessors prettea on .$41000.
orae Suuday the old minister is in a
handl and. near by iti another pew ;
here is a husband and wile end a mw
ehildrein And 'after the benediction,
e lady comes up and &lets, . Doctor,
ma don't, know me, do you?" "Well,"
e says, "your faee la familiar, but I
annot call yea by name" "Why,"
at holm and minds ins own 'business
itnd who, crippled end rumble to go
forth and ad in great moremeins t
and in tbe ‘itligh places ,of the ertrth b
aeeetaealeee e, teela
A WATERY BED
Suicidal's the Rapids A hove Niagara Fails
—Mae 'Sealy Caught on a Iteeli—lt Can be
Seen by the Moonlight.
A,despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont„
says ;---" There's my bed," said an elder-
ly man, a stranger, attired, in a long
military overcoat, to Peter Muldoon,.
Mac well-known hack driver on Monday
afternoon, pointing to the whirling,
seething rapids of the Niagara above
Mac American falls. This repealk was,
brought out by a number of hackmen
soliciting the man to hire a hack. He
told them that he was penniless, and
had no place to go, and wound up Inc
short history by his dramatic utterance,'
and pointing to the wild rushing waters.
The hacknaen yeported the matter to
State Reservation Officer Jacob An
thony, who followed the man and aapre-.
henctect him. The stranger laughed,
an explairted his statements by saying
he was just joking with the lackmen
who were soliciting him. He gave his
name as Ja•raes Hodges, and his home as
Philadelphia, where he was a member of
the Fourth Battalion. He claimed to
have been stopping in the city several
days, and was registered at the Hotel
Imperial. 'Under the mpresentations
Officer Anthony permitted the man to
go, but kept him under surveillance. He
was evidently an old Grand -Army man,
as he gave John Barlow, the old guide,
Mac Grand Army salute, and. they had a
short talk about the scenery and points
of interest. I
Hodges, or whatever his name
sauntered out on to Bath Island bridge.,
Officer Anthony stood at the end of the
bridge, when, suddenly looking back, the
man put one foot on the railing, of the
bridge and jumped. over. He went down
head first, with his hands extended,
striking the water with a splash. • The
rushing waters carried Ids body along
towards the Araerican Falls. By a turn
in the current it was carried over to-
wards Chapin Island, just above Luna
island, where it caught fast in a rock.
There is little cloube that if the body
could have been secureclthene main
could aresuscitated,but
was death to anyone to venture out to
the rock. There the body rests, and
can ha distinctly seen under the moon-
light to -night. It is liable to slip off
any xiaoraent or remain until the next
west wind-xaises the water in the river,
and it is washed over the falls.
If You Would Like to be Popular
Don't find fault. -
Don't contradict people, even if you're
sure you are right. t
Don't be inquisitave about the affairs
of even your most intiraate friend.
Don't underrate anything because
you don't possess it.
eggs, bacon, and other concentrated
foods to supplythe demands of the po-
pulation. Thi
e mports are mostly from
Manitoba and the North-West Terri-
tories. In the spring of the year and
early stammer, low-priced and mferior
butter is sent in in considerable quanti-
ties from California and other States,
notwithstanding the duty. Next season
I expect tcasee much enlargement of the
production of butter in the province.
'EXCELLENT leRT.TIT.
Did you stay with the travelling dairy
in the Weet V
Only a short time at three different
places. I visited the Agricultural Ea-
hibitions at Victoria, Mission City, Chi-
liwhack, Kamloops, Vernon, and New
'eVestreinster. I also addressed meet
ings of faraters et several other places
At these exhibitions I had excellent op
portunities of seeing the quality of the
farni products in the different locali
ties. Potatoes, carrots, and other aege
tables were imsurpasse.d by any I had.
seen loetore, and the appearance and
quality of sorae of the fruits were most
ereditable. An impression prevails—it
certainly had clung to me from its fre-
quent expression—that while the fruits
of British Columbia, were nice -looking
in colour, shape, and size, they were in-
ferior in quahty, coarse-grained, and de-
ficient in fine, agreeable flavours. I am
convinced that the prevailin opinion,
current eastward of the Roc moan -
tains, is an erroneous one. In - esh and
lia
in flavour, the apples and plums were
particularly good, while the brilliant
red and the lustrous, wax -like gloss on
the skins of the apples from orchards
in the interior of the mainland gave
them a superb appearance. The like of
them. I had never seen before.
Where will they find a market for
their surplus fruit?
In Manitoba . and. the North-West
Territories. The supply for the people
of that vast area comes mostly from
California and the other States, but the
superb)l quality of British Columbia
fruit and the reasonably low rates of
freight—last fall it was 411.12 1-2 per
109 lbs. ---which the C.P.R. are ready to
offer will enable British Columbians
to capture the markets. Some seven
carloads were shipped this year.
Owing to the higher freight rates
earlier in the season, defects in packing,
and other causes, which can be over-
come by experience, some of the ship-
ments worenot profitable to th grow-
ers. The fruit -growers, as well as the
butter producers, need inaprovement in
Mac means which have been in use to
reach the consumers with their pro-
duct in its best condition. *
INTERPROVINCIAL TRA.DE.
A large interprovincial trade should
speedily be developed, with mutual ad-
vantage to the mountainous province
on the Paretic slopes and the prairie
province lying in the geographical cen-
re of Canada. For several years, per -
laps for all tirae, there should be a
arge exchange of butter and other pro-
ducts from IVIenitoba and the North-
West Temitories to British Columbia
or fruits and other products. This in-
erprovincial trade woulci greatly pro-
mote the prosperity of the people in
oth provinces, and would benefit the
Dominion of Caaadas, 118 a whole.
Is the area suitable for the culture, of
ruit 10 British Columbia, suffieient for
he great plains of the West ?
think so, with a great deal to spare.
Emetic and other conditions make the
eople living on the plains crave SUC-
ulent, fruits, and they will become
arger and larger consumes of fruit
er head as they get better off ; but
he yield per tree a,nd per acre in 13rit-
sh Columbia is enormously large, and
here ate. thoutands and thoasands of
ores evhere apples and plums can be
TOW31 SUCdOSSfUlly. The Experimental
arra at eegassiz has given an impetus
fruit-groeving and much intormation
nd guidance to fruit -growers ia the
roviace. Mr. Sharpe, the, saperiaten-
eat there, is playing a most impoetant
6 ' • p g proince ,
ad the general plan and equipment a
his braneh farm are another tribute to
he comprehensive skill of Director
autiders in devising and adopting
ane Srhereby cach el! Mac branch gi.-
erimental farms earl best servo the m-
enses of the fanners in the wiclely dif
rent and distant parts of Canada
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Don't believe that everybody elm in
Mac world is happier than you.
Don't conclude that you have never
had any opportunities in your life. I
Don't believe all the evil you hear. '
Don't repeat gossip even if it does
interest a crowd. I
Don't go untidy on Mao, plea that
everybody knows you.
Don't be rude to your inferiors in
social position.
Don't over or leader dress, ;
Don't' express a positive opinion unless
yon perfectly understand what you are
tanking about.
Don't jeer at anybody's religious be -
/ter.
Mao's Weak Poirit. • a
p
Mrs. Newed—Are you sure you love d
tee as math as ever ? •
Mr. Neeved—Perf.cetly.
And you will never, never love any t
one else? s
Never.
A nd there isn't anything you wouldn't
do tor my happiness ? ;
Nothing, ll'hat Is, of course, aot,hing ee
hen they are situated,
LORD ABERDEEN'S FARM.
Did you visit the fruit farm of the
within the houtids of reason, w
Hum! I thought so, You are just,
like all the rest. You've begun to retie!
son.
G
Of the total leneth of the groat Siber-
ian tonal, 1,700 mules, rails are already a
laid ma over 1.,000 aii1Csr
overnor-Goneral in British Columbia 1
Yes, I spent several days in the Okana
ROTI saflcy }tis Exeellency'a main
and. is Coldstream about foar miles
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GLADSTONE'S MARRIAGE.
An Old Clipplug:Whieli Gives an ACCOlaat
orae Affair.
The following paragraph appeared in
a Chesshire, England, newspaper of
the yea't 1839: For some time past the
little town of Hawarden has been in
a state of excitement in consequence of
the anticipated nuptials of the two
Misses Glynne, sisters of Sir Stephen
Glynne, Bart. M. P., who have been en-
gaged for some time past to Lord Lit-
leton and Mr. William Ewart Glad-
stone. Tuesday *as fixed as the date
when the ceremony should take place.
About 10:80 a simultaneous rising of
Mao ,large assemblage, accompaniecl by
a burst. of melody from the organ, an-
nounced that the fair brides had arriv-
ed. All eyes were turned toward the
door to witness the entrance of the
brides and bridesmaids with it he rest
of the bridal party, and the slow pro-
cession up to the comnaunion table. In
a few minutes all had. arrived, and the
imposing ceremony had commenced. At
this moment the spectacle presented
was an extremely interesting one. The
large bridal party exhibited every ele-
gance of costume, and the dresses of the
ladies belonging to it, as well as those
of many among the spectators, made up
a very brilliant and attractive scene,
lit up, as it was, by splendid sunshine.
The ceremony was performed laY Hon.
and Rev. G. Neville. At its conclusion
Mao newly wedded couples and their im-
mediate friends passed out amid the
felicitations of t/ae throng.
Dutiful Daughter.
Old Moneybags—And can you earn
enough, young man, to support my
daughter m the style to which she has
been accustomed?
Young Man (proudly)—I should not
think of such a thing, sir ; but I can
show her how to spend your fortune in
much better style than you know how
to do it.
• A Misun d ers ta.n g.
Suiter—Beg pardon for interrupting,
but I—er—have. just come—er—that is,
I have just been • speaking to your
daughter, and she has referred me to
you.
Old Gentleman—Gee ericketsl I won-
der if that girl thinks I am made of
money. You are about the fortieth bill
collector she has sent in to -day, If she
doesat marry pretty soon, 11.1 :be bank-
rupt',
• Reassuring,
A tourist in Switzerland, who was
about to make the ascent of a moun-
tain, thought best to ask some ques-
dote as to the capabilities of his gaide.
Is he a thoroughl7 skilful climber ?
be asked ot a hotel-iceeper,.
I should say 801 exclanned the inn-
keeper. Ile leas last two parties of
tourist:a down • the xaouritainside, and
escaped without a Scratch both times 1
• The Ileir.at-Law.
Daughtora-These English novels are
always spealeirig ol an hair -at -law.
What does it mean?
Old Lady -1 s'poso it's the same way
over there 08 'tis here. The heir always
has to go to law before he can gat any-
thing.
THIS IAN JUIIIPS ON
ligNARKAI3LE FEAT Or AN iNGLISF1
zriot:E:gweasoeilitioele:rtuttitmAkiett:ii,,ttioe It.'itel‘areral.ea
Codir4d$ ON ROO Like a 41,valioW On Cab
There is ati Engliebri.an nxcmed jean
Higgins at, Lae Orplieum 'riteatre who
jampe into a, basket, ot eggs every niKht,
says the Sea Francisco Exan'ilner; That
fact alone is streage enough to arouse
conlMeot, but it is not nearly so strange
as the farther f.act tbat Higgins does
nob break even one ega in Mac baeket,
though he lande P4 them with both feet.
They are sure eriangb eggs, for the Ilona,
warrants them to be hen fruit of good
quality, but why they don't breek when
struck by the feet of the aleirig ffigaina
is one of the peculiar things about the
performance. It was thought when tbe
trick jumper gave his first exhibition
that he had brought the eggs to tbe
city from London with him, and that
with advancing age they had become
sufficiently powerful to hold him on
their shells without danger of fracture.
Higgins, however, declares this state-
meat to be a libel cireulated by the ath-
letes who are envious of nina.
THIS LITTLE MAN
certainly gives a wonderful perform-
ance, lie elainas to be the caexcipiou
standing and trick jumper of the war141
and the distances he has covered in her
particular games make the recordis
his line of sport. His trick junving is
far more interesting to the spectators
than the long-distance exhibitions, for
in the former be illustrates the pex‘fect
control an athlete may gain over his
body even while in flight. The egg
jump, though one of the most popular,
is by no means the hardest of the Mats
of Higgins. It is no harder, Inc in-
stance, than jumping on a mansface,
which, strange to say, is one of the best
known feats of the men of springy mus-
cle.
The basket of eggs is placed on the
stage upon two canapstools. The eggs
are piled up even with the rim of the
basket, which is about two feet from
Mao floor. Higgins stands upon one
side, looks at the treacherous white hen
products for a few minutes, and theYil
with a sudden spring he is in the air.
He jumps at the basket, and just as hip
body reaches a point over the eggs lilts
gins seems to lower hbnself, his feet
touch the eggs, and. then, like a swat. -
low on the wing, he is up again and over
the basket. It is a very pretty trio*, •
and always evokes applause, for to the
spectators it seems certain ' that the 11-,
jumper will sink through a sea ot
SCRAMBLED YOLKS •
and fall, sticky, to the stage.
Higgins bad a very narrow escape
from a bad accident last Saturday night.
He was so convulsed with laughter at
that the athlete nearly made another
mess of his next trick
pretty exhibition. To show his ability
Mac athlete :frequently has the bucket
soles of his shoes, and then clears the 1,
to eontrol his body while in Mac air, and
to raise from the surface of the water,
sudden slump in the egg Market, and
the frantic efforts of his manager 10scoop the spilled. eggs up in his hands
Just as he leaped. at the egg basket his
which the basket' rested. There waa a
jumps over a bucket of water, and in
his flight drops to the water, wets the
obstacle without a splash. It Is a very
toe caught the edge of a boa,rd. upon
•
the stage was covered with omelettes.
difficult effort than the first. Higgins
This was the water jump, a far more
1 -il
only half full. The difference between ,
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this jumpand the first is very marked. li
The egg jump is made by lowering the
toes while na the air. The eggs are ; '
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thus touched very lightly, and the, •
trick is clone. In the water jump, how- 1 `,/,•1
ever, the whole foot has to be placed ;
, kl
squarely on the surface, a far more clif- , 3,
fioult matter than merely tripping : '
with the toe. A number of local jump- . '
At'
ers are able to do the egg trick, but 1
I
none have yet performed the water
jump. ,
One of his turns which is greatly ad-
mired is that known. as ;
An ordinarycallcaBlIBIbelL13iUs l‘prIPace. d on top
of a: chair, which is on top of a table.
Higgins clears the obstacle and rings
the bell in the flight. This is done by
planting a foot on the nob of the bell
as he jumps over it. In all his triclr,
performances he keeps both feet to-
gether, so that if one should miss the
object, be it egg, water, or bell, the
other may reach it. The little English-
man thinks it nothing at all to 'vault
over two horses, each sixteen • hands
high, or to jump over a stone matchbox
as large a.s an ordinary brick, and clear
a chair over nine feet away. In a hop,
step and jump he goes about half way
down the block. Sometimes he forgets
his powers of flight. This happened the
other day when he was running for a
Market -street car. When at about 30
feet away from it he took a hop, step
and jump, and such was his velocity
otiahatthheeotwheenrt siocviee.rMac car and landed
Higgins says he is willing to meet all
comers at any and every kind of jump-
ing for love or money, the latter pre-
ferred. His records are as follows:
One spring jump, 14 feet; 11 1-2 inches ;
two springs juinp, 28 feet 5 inches;
Marco springs jump, 42 feet 2 Melees; two
hops and a jump, 038 feet ; one hop and
jump, 25 feet 3 inches; stand hop, two
strides and jump, 18 feet 6 inches; three
strides and jump, 45 feet 41-2 inches;
run, one cross and jump, 51 feet; stani
hop, stride cross and jannp, 52 Ieet 0 in-
ches; two back jumps, 20 feet 7 1,2 in-
ches; four hops and jump, 08 feet.
Higgins always jumps with Weights,
and the greater the distance to be eoV-
ered the heavier are his 'weights, For
ordbaa,ry occasions he uses ten -pound
dumbbells. He is a native of Bleck-
burn, 1,ancashire, England, is 23 years
old, stands 5 feet 3 8-4 inches and weighs
245 pounds. Higgins would make a star
waiter in a big restaurant, for a man
who can cover half the room in two
jumps; evho can walk on water without
8plashing it, and jump on eggs without
breaking the& is a long -felt, want in
busy hotels.
A Powerful Sermen,
suPreapick—Plievy clidn't ye go to chorch,
Bridget—Oi had other tlauge to do.
Patriek—If yez had gone and heaela
that sermon on "Abe inteeism" ye
wotticl have been ashamed of y'veli fur
not bein' there. .
Mr. 1,ive8wPe°111—tillelag.:11.a—erGe"Z.es; t•he cook
go every evening
Airs, Livewell--Ghe is attending an
evening zehool, so as to learn to read.
Mr. LitieWell—Ilorrors 1 140011
be making up things trent the cook
books
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