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The Exeter Times, 1895-11-21, Page 3CURRENT IVO7VS. "It scents to me," eels 3Yirs, Tom ChuMb, efeo for tbirty.five years as been a faMiliar mite in the world, and all tbat time bas leept her eyes open and her brain going, "t Seems to me that it is not the developing of the new woman we want so much an the refor- motion of he old man." There is the whole matter in n nutshell. Nothing ails the fair sex. It is jufit about as near to perfeetion now as it need, be. The trouble is with the other aex, whiele has been steadily deteriorating ; and the ferainimi cuthosiasts who are wasting their time erying to improve something which. does not need im- proving should devote their time and attention to the problem how to re - Store the men to their former posi- tam. It is hard to understand why any- • body wants to develop a new woman. 'Nile women cif the presenb day is all aright. She has plenty of brains and the knows how to employ them in that part of the world's work which is al- lotted to her. She has become skill- ful in marketing. She has made a • science of cooking. She sews better than ever before, She shows more taste in making her home beautiful and more ingenuity in making it com- • fortable, She takes better ears ot her Children, educates them better, clothes them with greater attention to hy- giene, She cares better for berself. ' -She is more beautiful because she has • learned how to be beautiful in natural • ways, She studies harder ancl knows better how to please and cheer and comfort t/3e breadwinner,whose life • and fortune she shares. Besides all this she has improved her mind and •fitted herself to be the intelleotual as well as the physical companion of her husband. She has explored the lands of literature ancl art and science and •seized 0., share ot their treasures. Al- • together she is an admirable figure. Why should anybody want to alter her? Alteration could not be im- provement, Ji BANQUET OF 81 , REV. DR TALMAGE'S NEW LESSON FROM THE FEAST OF BELSHAllAR. Wei:nice ill tho petal:ice and Voand Want, tne—The anddennexe arnoirs Judg- ment—a Inionget as to Fenno or rower—Loon end aive, Washington, Nov. 10.—Siuce his com- ing to Washington Dr, Talmage's Pul- pit experience ba,s been a xemaricable one. Not only has the church in which he preaches been filled, but the audi- ences have overflowed into the adjoin- ing streets to an extent that has ren- dered them impassable. Similar scenes were enacted at to -day's services, when the preacher took for his subject, "Handwriting on the Wall," the te.xt thosen being Daniel v, 30, "In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, Night was about to come down on Babylon. Tho shadows of her 250 tow- ers begaxt to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled. on, touched by the fiery splendor of the setting sun, and gates of brass, burnished and. glittering, opened and shut like doors of flame, The hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, been to poux from starlit flowers and. dripping leaf a fragrance for many miles around. The streets and squares were lighted for dance and frolio and promenade. The theat- ers and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the city to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail were mingled in every street, and godless mirth, and outrag- eous excess and. splendid wickedness came to the king's palace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A. royal feast to -night at the king's palace 1 Rushing up to the gates are chariots, upholstered with precious oloths from Dedan and drawn by fire eyes horses from Togarinab, that rear' and neigh in the grasp of the chariot- eers, while a thousand, lords dismount and women dressed in all the splendors of Syrian emerald; and tbe color blend- ing of agate, and the chasteness of coral, and the somber glory of %anion purple, and princely embroideries brought from afar by camels across the desert and by ships of Tarshish across the sea. Open wide • the gates and let the guests come in. The obaraberlains and eupbearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the silks, and to the carol of the musk I See the blaze of the jewel% Life the banners. Fill the cups. Clap the cymbals. Blo wthe trumpets. Let the night go by with song and dance and ovation, and let the Baylor -A tongne be palsied that will not say, "0 King Belshazzar, live forever 1" Ah, my friends, it was not any come mon banquet to which these great peo- ple came. All parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets and chandeliers flashed their light upon tankards of burnished gold. the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let silver, intwined with leaves plucked from royal conservatories. Vases, in- laid'with emerald and ridged with ex- quisite traceries, filled with nuts that were thra.shed from forests of distant lands: 1Vines brought from the royal vats, foaming in the decanters and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts of cas- sia and frankincense wafting their sweetness from wall and table: Gor- geous banners unfolding in the breeze that came through tbe open windows; bewitched with the perfumes of hang- ing gardens. Fountains rising up from haelosiunt of every, in jets of crystal; to fall in clattering ram of diamonds and pearls. Statues of mighty raen looking down from niches in the wall upon crowns and shields brought from subdued empires. Idols of wonderful work standing on pedestals of precious stones. Ernbroidenes stooping about the windows and wrapping. pillars of cedar, and drifting on floor Inlaid with ivory and agate: Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of sym- bols, and the 'blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall and. breathing among the garlands and pouring down the corridors and thrilling the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is • given, an d the lord s and lathes, the mighty men and women of the land, come around. the table. Pour out the wine. Let foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every one his cup and drink to the sentiment: "0 ICing Bel- shazzar, live forever 1" Bestarred head band and. carcanet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices, as again and agaln and again they are exaptied. Away with care from the palace. Tear royal dignity to tatters! Pour out more wine! Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles to captain. Goblets clash, decanters rattle. There come in the ob- scene song, and. the drunken hiccough, and the slavering lip, and the guffaw of idiotic laughter, bursting from the lips of princes, flushed, reeling, blood- shot; while mingling with it all I hear, "Huzza, huzza, for great Belshazzar 1" What is that on the plastering of the wall? Is it a spirit? hs it a phan- tom? Is it God? The musks stops. The goblets fall from the nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. There is a start. There is a thousand voiced shriek of horror. Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing. He comes in. He read it— " Weighed in the balance and. found wanting." • Meanwhile the Modes, who for two years had been laying siege to that city, took advantage of that carousal and came in. I hear the feet of the eonquerers on the palac.e stairs. Mas- sacre rushes in with a thousand gleam- ing knives. Death brusts upon the scene, and I shut the door of the ban- queting hall, for I do not want to look. There is nothing there but torn ban- ners, and broken wreaths, and the slush of upset tankards, and the blood of murdered women; and the kicked. and tumbled carcass of a dead king. For in that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Mrs, Tom Thumb is right. If any- body needs the thought and improv- ing' endeavors of humanitarians it is the old, man. He could stand a deal of improving without serious injury. It isenot to the credit of Vienna that its municipal electorate should have yielded to fanaticism against a class whose persecution in. Russia ceased:from sheer inability of the government to keep it up. Dr: Leuger, who has been elected Burgomaster of Vienna, goesin- • to office on no promise of reform in municipal administration, but merely as a representative of a mania as brutal as it is senseless. The Jew-baiters have now entwo-thirds majority in the municipal ()canon of the Austrian capi- --teledthey are liable toeuse their power to the grevious injury of the business and other interests of thfe city. The imperial government under the consti- tution has a right to dissolve the coun- cil or to ,substitute its own nominees for the elected members. Both the emperor and the prime minister are op- posed. to the fanaticism which has re -ap- peared with so great violence where it was believed to have been suppressed as a acelitical power. A peculiar feature of the jevv-baiting frenzy of Vienna is that a considerable- section of the fran- tic party are social democrats and that the government will hesitate to inter- vene in municipal politics lest the con- • sequent disturbance should be worse than to permit a temporary reign of anti-Semite fanaticism. As the muni- cipal council has, however, only narrow powers, and their exercise may be re- • viewed in whole or in part by higher • authority, the ixtost material effect of the new outbreak of Jew -baiting in Austria cannot be more than the dis- grace of those implicated in it,. SOCIAL LONDON. Mug Carlos of Portugal. the Leading At- • traction—house Party at Sandringham. A despatch frOm London says :--King Khania, of South Africa, after supplant- • ing Na.zrulla Khan, of Afghanistan, as the lion of the hour, has in turn taken a back seat, and. King Carlos of Por- tugal now has the lead in attraction in Royal and other circles. His Majesty was the guest of the Prince and Prin- • cess of Wales at Sandringham, where they are entertaining a large party, since shortly after arming in London from Germany on Tuesday last until ' lepiday evening, when, after enjoying a -• day's shooting on Tb.ursda,y, King Car- -• los started. for Balmoral in order to visit • the Queen. • The Secretary of State for the Colo- nies, Mr. Cbanaberlain, and Mrs. Cham- berlain, formerly a Miss Endicott, of Washington, D. C., started. for San- • dringham on' Friday night, where the Earl of Rosebery, the Duke and Duch- ess of York, and Prince Charles of Denmark, the affianced of Princess "Harry" of Wales ate also guests. The Prince df Wales' birthday was •celebrated, in this city, at Windsor, and • at Sandringham, with the customary Royal honors, and at night the west end • of London was illerainated. The Prince • was born November 9, 1841, Confident Of It. nady of the house—I should think you would he afraid to Come around, in the teek yard. 1 notice you didn't do it last week on aceoant of our big dog. Tramp—Note. Bat I kaew that dog wasn't here no more. Lady of the house—How did you know / Tramp—I let, hina have that piece of pie you gave me. A despatch to the London limes from Raffle., referring to the gra,vity. of Turk- ish affairs, says that Italy is in perfeet genera with England, end that the Ital- itia flee( is ready to co-operate with the English nese whenever the interests of Bunyan piece may demand it. ance to a Man who was a vietirti Of bad appetites, of judgment to corae to xnan who was unfit for it. So we must always declare the message that bappens to some to us. Darnel, must reed it as it. is. A minister preached before James L of England, who WAS 34MeS VI. of Scotland. What subject did he take? The king was noted all over the world for being unsettled and Wavering in hie:ideas. What did tne minister preach about to this man who was James L of England and James VI. of Scotland/ He took his text Tames .I., 5: "lis that waveretle is like, a wave of the sou driven with the wind and tossed." Hugh Latimer offended tlie king by a sermon he preached, and. Me king said, "Hugb Latimer, come and apolo- gize -12. I will," said Hugh Latbner. So the da was appointed, and the leing's chae, +1 was full of lords and dukes andI, ie mighty men and women of the °matey, for Hugh Latimer was to apologise. tle began his sermon by saying, "Hueh Latimer, bethink thee! Tbou. arim in the presenee of thine earthly king, who can destroy tby body. I3ut bethink thee, Hugh Lati- mer, that thou art in the m'eseeme of the king of heaven and earth, who can destroy both body and. soul in hell fire." Then he preached with appal - ng distinctness at the king's crimes. Another lesson that comes to us to- night: There is a great difference be- tween the opening of the baugaet of sin and its close. Young naan, if you bud looked in upon the banquet in the first few hours you would have wish- ed. you had been invited there, and could sit at the feast. "0b. the grand- eur of Beishazzax's feast 1" you would have said, but you. look in at the close of the banqu.et and. your blood curdles with horror. The king of terrors bas there a ghastlier banquet: huraan blood is the wine and the dying groans are the music. Sin. has made itsele a king in the earth. It has crowned. itself. It has spread a banquet. • It invites all the world to some to it.It bas hung in its banqueting hall the spoils of all kingdoms, and the banners of all na- tions. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn, from its wealth, the tables and floors and. arches. And yet how often is that banquet broken up, and. how horrible is its end! Ever and anon there is a handwriting on the wall. A king falls. A great culprit is arrested. The knees of wickedness knock together. God's judgment, like an armed host, breaks in upon the banqu.et, and that night is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, I go on to learn some lessons from all this. I learn that whenGod writes anything on the wall a man had better read it as it is. Daniel did not mis- interpret or modify the handwriting on the :wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the gospel to preach al- ways things that the people like or the people choose. Young men of Wash- ington, what shalt I preach to you to- night? Shall I toll you of the dignity of human nature? ,Shall I tell you of the wonders that our ram has acco.m- plisbed? "Oh, not" you say. "Tell rae the message that same from God." I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall eb is this lesson: " Repent 1 Accept of Christ and be sieved! " Might talk of a great many other thing's, but that is the message, and so t declare it. Jesus never flattered those to whom he preached., lie said to those who did. 'wrong:, and who were offensive in his sight, 'Ye generation of vipers, ye whited sepulchers, how can. ye escape the denenation of hell 1" Paul the apostle preached. before a man who was not ready to hear him preaelt. What subject did, he take? Did he say, "Die you are a good man, a very fine matt, a very noble man? " No; lis preacheui of righteousness to a man who was anrigbteous, of temper. - Here is a young man who says: "I cannot see why they make such a fuss about the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating 1 It makes me feel well. I oan talk better, think better, feel bet- ter. I cannot see why people have such a prejudice against it.' A few years pass on, and he wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of an evil babit which he tries to break, but cannot, and be cries out, "0 Lord. God, help me !" It seems as though God would not hear his prayer, and in an agony of body and soul he criies out, "It bit- eth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." How bright it was at the start 1 How black it was at the last! Here is a man who begins to read loose novels. "They are so charming," he says. "I will go out and see for my- self whether all these things are so." He opens the gates of a sinful life. He goes in. A silentl sprite.meets him with her wand. She waves her walla, and it is all enchantment. Why, it seems as if the angels of God hadpour- ed out vials of perfume in the atmos- phere. As he walks on he finds the hills becoming more radiant .witsh fol- iage and the ravines more resonant with the falling water. Oh, whet a charming landscape he sees! But what sinful sprite with her wand • meets bini again. But now she reverses the Wand, and all the enchantment is gone. Theutlal stst e cup po 18fullof exoison. The fruit All the leaves of the bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents.- The flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool stenchful with cor- ruption. The lurking songs become curses and screams of demonise laugh- ter. Lost. spirits gather about him and feel for his heart and beckon him on with "Hail, brother Hail, blasted spirit, hail 1" He tries to get out. He comes to the front door where he en- tered and tries to push it back, but the door turns against him, and m the jar of that shutting door he hears these words, "This night is Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Sin may open bright as the morning. • It ends dark as the night! • I learn further from this subject that death sometimes breaks in upon a ban- quet. Why did he not go down to the prisons in Babylon? There were peo- ple there that would like to have died. I suppose there were men and womert in tortures in that city who would have welcomed death, but he comes to :the palace, and just at the time when the mirth is dashing to the tiptop pitch, death breaks in at the banquet. We have often seen the same thing illus- trated. Here is ayoung man nest come from college. He is kind. He is loving. He is ,enthusiastic. He is eloquent. By one spring he may bound to laeights toward which many men have been struggling for years. A. profession opens before biro.. He is established in the law. His friends cheer him. Emi- nent men encourage him. After awhile you may see him standing in the Amer- ican Senate, or moving a popular as- semblage by his eloquence, as trees are moved in a whirlwind. Some night he retires early. A fever is on him. • Delirium, like a reckless chariot- eer, seizes the reins of his intellect. Father and mother stand by and see tbe tides of his life goingout to the i great ocean. The banquet s coming to an end. The lights of thought and mirth and. eloquence are being extin- guished. The garlands are snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. Death at the banquet! We saw the same thing, on a larger scale, illustrated in our civil war. Our whole nation had been sitting at a national banquet—north, south, east and west. What grain was there but we grew it on our hills." Whitt inven- tion was there but our rivers must turn the new wheel and. rattle the strange shuttle? What warm furs but our traders must bring them in from the arctic.? What fish but our nets must sweep them for the market? What music but it must sing in our halls? What eloquence but it muse speak in our Senates ? Ho, to the tional banquet reaching from moun- tain to mountain and from sea to sea 1 To prepare that Inttentet the sheepfolds their best treasures. The orchards piled up on the table their sweet fruits. The press burst: out with new wines. To sit at the table came Me yoemanry of New Hampshire, and the lumber- men of Maine ane the Carolinian from the rice plantation, and. the weetern emigrant from the pines of Oregon, and we were all brothers—brothers at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended, What meant those mounds thrown up at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Get - those golden grain fields turned into a pasturing round or cavalry horses? men of Maine and the Carolinian from with tbe wheels ot the heavy supply train T Why those rivers of tears— those lakes ot blood? God was angry I , • :EIXET7411 TIVIEL4 the wall! ine uation hail been weigh -1 BitITISII GUIANA,' Justioo laxuat come. A bandwritiag on ed and foundwanting,. Darkness 11 Darkness Woe to tile uorth i Woe to the south 1 'Wee to tne east,' Wus ton ONE PLACE IN 8OUTII ANERICA the west 1 Death at the banquet. WHEREEDON REIGNS. have also to learn from tlee subject the!: the destruction of the victims, • end of those who despite God, will be TIbute of a rutted *twos cettuen to Great very sudden. The waves a mirth had dashed to the highest point when the Winne" and Hie Cowl eovernment invading army broke through. It was lifainfatned ey tile teoloniats-nree teem- UnexPeeted- SlidderilY, almost always, lira Scented Litre iteneyaind to nun, sidential pronunnamentos, the ouly peered to leave more to sa., about tile afiners of his native town t au we vet - ens of New York. England, it is true, sends a Governor and a few crown officials, but, these do not acorn to leave modified the local powers of the citizen to any inatexial exteut. In fact, we must open our eyes to the fact that in all South America, there is but one republic), and that is Withal Guiana. On a yast continent of crazy - quilt constitutions and patchwork pre - God end defy the laws of men. Ifow comes tile doom of these who despise pou.- e - - . . body of people that conserve to -day the •Tiew York Tiraes: • traditions of doll liberty and loeal self - it ney Bigelow thus writes in tbe was it at the deluge? Do you suppose goverrunent are the few thousands of it came through a, long northeast When I first, stepped ashore in Bri- elalglo-Saxons who bave storm, so that people for days before tish Guiana it seemed as though 1 bad were su're it wamornings cominbright g T No. I sup- . pose the was ; that some ult.° fairyland* It was only a few near the mouth of the Orintere for now calmness brooded on the waters ; that winters ago—it seems like yesteday. nearly 300 Tears. HELD THEIR OWN beauty sat enthroned on the hills, We had crossed the mouth of the vast This is a ng history for so small a country—a country ja,mmed in be - when suddenly the heavens burst, and Orinoco—so muddy and big that we ween the Portuguese Brazilians on the mountains sank like anciaors into the sea that dashed elear over the had no- diffeuity in telling where our one side and the Spanish Venezuelans Andes and the Himalayas. ship had brouglit us to—and at last we on the other. So smell is the little col - entered. the Esequibo and into tbe jurisdiction of Great Britain. Every one has tasted Demerara sug- ar. and Demerara is part of British Gui- The Red Sea was divided. The Egyp- tians tried to cross it There could. be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through, Where they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was such a beautiful walking place 1 A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water—solid. There can be no danger. Forward, great host Of the Egyptians I Clap the 'cymbals and blow the tram - pets of victory I After them I We will catch them yet, and they shall he de- stroyed. But the walls begin to trona- sure that I should. bave been treat- Ible. They rock I They fall! The rush- ed coldly for bot knowing the differ- ony that we can afford to loin the Duteh one to it without materially al- tering the statement. For one col- ony sapplements the other, Before our Puritan ancestors laud.ed upon Lae sbores of New England, in aria. The whole colony seemed to tnat dreadful November of 1620. a me one huge sugar plantation. The colony of Anglo-Saxons, bearing the first questions asked. eoncerned the Bible of Martin Luther and tbe tradi- price of sugar, and, had I not been for- times of liberty, had conquered for them • on the cont titled with letters of introduction from selves a foothold. continent par- tioularly dear to Spain. While the ap- a New York sugar ruercbant 1 am ostolie soldiers of Castile and Leon were burning at the stake such natives as chose to remain beatheia, the Pro- testant settlers at the Esequibo dug canals, planted sugar, and cultivated good relations with their native popu- lation. At the close of the great Na- poleonic wars in Europe, Dutch govern- ment gave way to British; but there was no more break in the continuity of republican practices than when one resident relieves another at the White ouse. At the Georgetown court house I found. that Duteh law, based upon Roman law, prevailed throughout British Guiana, and. that no disposi- tion was shown to force upon the col- ony any such system as in the Czar's dominion would. be called " Bassifica- tion." As in Canada the Frenchman is secure with his priest and his "pa- tois ;" as in India Hindu and Mohana- madam enjoy equal rights, so in British Guiana the white colonists enjoy as much personal and political liberty as any man upon Broadway or Piccadilly. Of course, we may differ as to what liberty means; but I am talking, I sup- pose to such as believe that the best government is the one that is the least obtrusive and the least expensive— the one under which you and I may most freely cultivate such powers as God has given us, so long as we donot thereby disturb the public peace. i In this definition s British Guiana, and whenever I shall be exiled to South America, that will be the port to which I shall paddle my canoe. in waters! The slinele of drowning <mice between centrifugal and. some oth- ux vain for the shore! The strewing er kind of process. of the great bost on the bottom of the sea or pitched by the angry wave on the beach—a battered, bruised and loathsome wreck I Suddenly deatruotion came. One-half hour before they could not have believed it. Destroyed, and wethaout jurseem sdia rmteng forth a fact which you here iaotic,ed as well as I. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says, "011 you sell the land for so much?" He says "Yes.' It was a lie. Dead, as quick as thatl Sap hire, his wife, comes in. "Did you se 1 the land for men! The swirdraing of the war horses 1 Theecapital of this little sugar colony is Georgetown—I had almost forgot- ten the name. Here I found a most excelleut hotel; a club house equal to any in New York so far as comforts are concerned. There was a building devoted to lectures and literary gath- erings, where I was shown a fairly com- plete library and a museum of rare value, particularly with reference to South America. There was a most for - so much ?" " Yes." It was a lie, and raidable array of huge snakes, the very thought of which makes me to -day feel uncomfortable. They were alive, in great glass cases, and flattened their murderous scales upon the glass with every desire for escape naanifest. This town has also a. beautiful botanical gar- den, in which the citizens stroll in the cool of the evening, enjoying the pleas- ant sea breeze that brings refreshment, no matter how bot the day may have been. There are also many carriages to be seen bearing well-dressed ladies and gentlemen—all white people, it is a cosmopolitan colony, where all comers enjoy the proteetion of EQUAL LAWS. quick as that sh3 was dead! God's 'judgments are upon those who despise hira and defy hien They come sud- denly. , The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was commg? Did they hear the flap .of bis great wing? No !Not Suddenly, unexpected- ly he came. Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird standing on a sprig near by. If they are skilled, thev pride there - selves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and he loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Oh, flee to God this night! If there be one in• this presence who has wandered far away from Christ, though he may not tare heard the call of the gospel for many a year. I invite him now to come and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the gospel! Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Good night, my young friends! May you have rosy sleep, guarded by Him who never slumbers 1 May you awake in the morning strong and well! But, oh, art thou a despiser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou. 'be awakened in the night by something thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, and a handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fainting at the heart, and a tre- mor in the limb, and a catching of the breath—then thy doom would be but an echo of the word of the text," In that night was Belshazzer, the kliag of the Chaldeans, slain." • 011, that my Lord Jesus would now make Himself so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist Him, and if you have never prayed before or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mother's knee, then that to -night • you might pray, saying: 3nst as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for rne And that thou bidet me come to thee, 0 Lamb of God, I come] • And that Thou bidst me come to Thee prayer as that I will give you a short- er prayer that you can say, "God be merciful to me, a sinner I" Or if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that I will give you a still shorter one that you may utter, "Lord, save me, or I perish 1" • Or if that be too long a prayer you need not use any word at all. Just look and live! After Fifteen Years. Canada's justice may sometimes be slow, perchance, but it is always inexor- able and sure retribution as a rule fol- lows in the wake of every evildoer. A notable instance of this was demon- strated in Montreal the other- day. High Constable Bissonette was peram- bulating along Si. jamas street in the afternoon when he met and instantly recognized a man who has been a fugi- tive from Canadian justice for the last fifteen years. That man was George Provencher, who, on August 12, 1880, was fined for selling liquor without a license on St. Lawrence street, and in default was condemned to go to jail for three months. Provencher neglected to pay his fine and managed to successfully elude the lynx -eyed agents Of the law all this tune. 33e was taken to the Police Court, however, on Tuesday, and sent down to the common 'jail wheve be will pay the penalty of his offence. A Magnificent Donation. The largest donationever made to an educational institution at one time by one man the other day became the gift of the Chicago University, when Mr. F. T. Gates, representing Mr. John D. Rockefeller, announced to the trustees of the institution that the eastern capi- talist had determined to add $3,000,- 000 to his already magnificent donations. Mr. Rockefeller's generosity to the uni- versity in past years is well known. Not only was he its principal founder, but his interest in its wefare has been constantly on the increase. He had al- ready given the institution. $4,400,000, and tho additional endowment announc- ed will swell the notal amount to $7,- 100,000. She Remembered. The simplicity of ehinlhood is one of the sweetest things in the world, but sometimes it is impossible not to smile alfgrits manifestations. Little Betty was at her first evening entertainment, where everybody was strange to her. She grew homesick, and with tears in her eyes begged her hostess to send her hotne, • - As she was starting, a smile shone through her tears, and she said: e . Good -by, Mrs. Smile Maxims, told Mc to be sure and tell you. 1 had, a nine time. The Englishman of Denierara differs from tue American colonist only in that the Amencarr can reap all the benefits of trade and need share none of the burdens of governing. My host in British Guiana was a man who had contributed largely to the literature - of this country and whom West In- dians genefally esteemed as an auth- morning we invaded the Crim- oroitnys. inal court and heard the English judge, assisted by a full-blooded neg- ro clerk, dear the doeicet of several painful eases in. which the aceused were invariably negroes arrested. for gross crimes—suet crimes as, even men do no speak of. I nave attended many a trial in vew York, but it would be difficult for me to name a criminal court in our great metropolis wnere the achniniscration of justice proeeed- ed with so much dignity and cuspatelt as in this little out -matte wa.ycoiony, only a few aegrees trom the equator. We must bear in mind that the white people are few and that the overwhelming majority are negioes and Indians, who are either savage or inclined to lapse into savagery. If I recollect engin, there are snout 300,000 colored to 1u,u00 whites. The problena. of the wilites is to govern this coiony without soldiers, Wil..11 few police, with the smallest possible expense. ' It is only the Angio-eaxon ram that is capable of solving the questions whieh each day, are presentee to a small white colony m the midsb of the barbarous or hoseile surroundings. As compared with eouth American repub- lics in general, British Guiana is like an oasis of civil 'merty in a wilderness of monkey raonarcines, I wandered. about that happy Georgetown at every hour of the day and night, feel- ing as secure as on Broadway. Tidy NEGRO POLICEMEN patrolled the principal points, appar- ently having a very easy life. The streets were so clean that they seem- ed like those of the latter-day New York; not a driveway in Central Park is kept better rolled and trimmed and sprinkled and brusned than the average t.uoroughfare in the capital of British Guiana. In some of these thoroughfares are sluggish canads, wherein are seen to- day the Victoria liegia, whose leaf is so big and strong tnat a child may stand upon it, at least so people say. Each leaf seemed to me big enough to form the roof of a. buggy, and a cool bit of shade indeed for a tropical wood nymph. There was evidently a very good Board of Health in Georgetown, fox. 1 saw no refuse about the streets; I smelt nothing offensive, anut this is strange, for there were many China- men and Hindus, negroes, Indians,and all. sorts of mongrel races besides, who made a, living in this prosperous town. White people thrive in the tropical Guiana—so J. was assured. At first I would not believe this, but, after a while I had to, for, on making euquiry, I was reterred to xuany Anglo-Saxon families whose ancestors had borne children here for many successive gen- erations and apparently with marked success. From an American point of view this colony forms part of the British West Indies, in so far as the Amerlean who trades to the mouth of the Ese- guile) has equally precious interest in Barbados, Trmichid, St, Kitts, Antigua, and the rest. of that marvellous island chain hung like a NECKLACE OP CORAL aboat the Caribbean Sea. • It is of vital importance to the white ram to know that at this one point of South' America, almost under the equa- tor, and in a region where water chan- nels comma us with vast sugar plan - talcum and gold deposits of fabulous extent, the whits inan feels' happy and promises te carry the language of Shakespeate to the base of the Andes as surely as he one fought with it to the Alleghenies and the Rockies, • 1 was much struck in British Guiana by the public spirit of the colonists, which has produced there a "home rule" or local self-government much like that, of Canada or Australia. In- deed, the citizens of Georgetown, ap- DOI( RANT 1111 AUSTRIA, HOW TEE DRUNKARD IS TO DE TREATED IN Tao coma. Ile) Will he nixiseuea ewoeteern east nine Tenn May be Ittoewedenteie Viettin te be Treated /RCM as a Priaener atilt so a t—A Great VIetory for Mene, The first thatanne i whioh a legis„, lative esserably Ilan treated the driniii• habit as a disease rendering its Iriall* 4 source of danger to the state, b(14 just been provided by a 411 now abtrat to be introduced to the Austxian ],Cl-' clisratb. The bill proposes to treat the persistent drunkard as a person who is mentally incapable and. likelY SHIPYARD STRIKE. A I, oat out on tile Clyde in Sympathy With. Belfast—A Very Gloomy Slate or Affairs. London, Nov. 3.—It would not be easy to exaggerate the calamitous nature of the shape that the shipbuilding crisis of Great Britain has now assumed. Continental politics, especially when they are boiling, as at present, have such a fascination for the British press that up to now small attention has been given to this really • serious domestic matter. This week, however, it, will be certain of its full share of notice, for, with the lockout ordered on the Clyde for Tues- day, the most important industrial fight that the British have known will be in full blast. In the number of men involved the deadlock will not compare, of course, with many others of recent times, but in value to the nation of the interest involved, and in the danger of irrevocable damage to the country, it has no parallel. The great builders of the Clyde and of Belfast say that ' they are forced to stand together, because if one began to cut the other in wages or other mat- ters it would be impossible for either to maintain themselves against foreign competition. Hence an agreement of masters, under which the Clyde firms now shut out their men because the Belfast men are on strike. It is sus- pected that three Clyde firms, which got the A.tinairalty contracts, will with- draw from the association and keep their yards open, but even if they do this will affect the situation only sligb tly. ANOTHER ASPECT of the matter is the immense impetus that this northern trouble.will give the Tyneside yards, where the order for three big Japanese warships was placed; but enterprising as the Newcastle men are they can accommodate only a frac- tion of the work which the Clyde and Belfast send 'begging, and already im- portant contracts bare gone to the German yards at Stettin and Dantzig, and others are reported to be trans- ferred to America,. The experience of London shows that shipbuilding is the most difficult of industries to get back once it is disestablished, and the possi- bility that the enormous business of the Clyde and. Belfast, incomparably the greatest in the world, is to be ruined and dispersed may well fright- en the whole nation. As was obvious it would happen, the English Conserva- tives are beginning to write to the papers, pointing out bitterly that it was for the sake of these Belfast strik- ers that the Unionist pasty waged a ten -years' war against Home Rule, which they now repay by. doing the best they cau to destroy Irretrievably the greatest and most vital of British industries. Efforts at mediation are still proceeding en Belfast, but both sides display the characteristic TJIster obstinacy, which gives small hope to the peacemakers. to infliet injury upon the community, not only by aetual violence), but by hisdtos hpteLai oxtognhan aetia:Paooluie, tklbe. 000 rmtIht tt cedi stsi xe rust nb It: 17g:1:0°e:re:a:I a nilb el a:s P:vwn :0] and, for such alonger time as in the serve to wean him from his -craving for The bill is the result of a long cosia tinned series of efforts by the medical profession of Austria, The ground has been taken that the position of the drunkard 'in social life has riot' been hitherto properly estiraated. It is argued that he should be regarded more as a luuatie tbau is at present the case, and that he should be treated accordingly. There has always exist, ed a feeling that the craving tor drink, with its consequences, ouglat to be treated as a mere bad babit, o tempor- ary and recoverable error, not really a. form of mental disorder. This, there can be but little doubt, is 4 FALSE REASONING, for evidence has multiplied in recent years that the victim to alcohol is sub- ject to a disease, just as much as a raareeeniivaeedoralla slounrtastiocf. naTmhees,disebuatseashtaos its nature it seems agreed that it con - will power coupled with a craving for ssisthrttsuloafnats.weakening or decay of the The restrain which tbe Austria,n Reichsrath proposes to put upon the drunkard may take the forni either of voluntary or compulsory detention in especially appointed retreats. In cases where the confinement is compulsory provision is made for a regular trial m which witnesses, both lay and medical, will be heard. The justification for de- tention will consist in such facts as repeated previous oonvietions of drunk- enness, proof of danger to life, and other evidence strong enough to leave no doubt that the alcoholic passion las become ungovernable and has rendered its victim morally or physically a source of danger to himself or others. The terra of detention will be two years, and this terra is liable. to reduc- tion or renewal, as the occasion may require. The drunkard will therefore be made to feel that he is not merely care- mitting a misdemeanor wlsen he tipples to excess, but a grave crime, for wbiele the state will lock him up and treat him as a person who ought not to be allowed at 'large. There is a vast difference between tide mode of treatment and that in practice ixi other civilized. countries, where a drunkard is looked up for a few days as a extmishment for his offense, no ef- fort being made either to BETTER HIS CONDITION or to prevent any injury he might possibly inflict when under the influ- ence of alcohol. The danger in the latter case is, of course, much greater , if the period of alcoholic excitement is a hong one. In case the bill passes (and there is but little doubt of this), the Austrian citizen will have little op- portunity to go on a hong spree. The bill may be taken as fairly repre- senting medical opinions on this sub- ject. Modification in detail may, per- haps, be found advisable as time goes on, but the professiou will probablyap- prove the bill on its general outlines. The attempt to repress the excessive drinking habit and to treat it as an ingrained vice,. which has absorbed all traces of a resisting will, certainly de- serves a fair trial. Every precaution will be made to render the preliminary, investigation as searching as possible, and no personal privileges will be lost by detention. It is ratlaer the purpose of the bill to protect the state and improve the condi- tion of the victim. than to inflict pun- ishment. The patient's own interests will be served m a degree at least ergiuenalds.to that of his relatives and f It is probably true that some such measure will be adopted in all eiyilized countries in the course of time. A treatment such as this one here out- lined would eartainly result in the bene- fit of the patient, and the confinement fwaomiluldy, not be much lamented by his A SIIBNA_R_INE BOAT. The Wen or Jules Verne Carried 'Ont—A. Bronze Boat Controllable Ender Water. A despatch from Paris says: .A. sub- marine boat has just been completed by M. Goubet, on the Seine, for a foreign Government, which, it is. declared, solves the problem of marine locomo- tion. It is eigar-shaped, 26 feet long, and. nearly six feet broad, constructed of bronze, and weighs ten tons. It is divided into three portions, and every- thing is arranged. so that heavy. arti- cles can be kept in their places, so that no risk will be run of distributing the balanee essential to stability, the craft always keeping parallel with the sur- face. It is the iramobility claimed for the boat which ogrestitutes one of the most apt featurescer a submarine craft. Hitherto these boats have been bent only to be sent down or brought. up while in motion, but this boat, the in- ventor maintains, on he manoeuvred in one spot by the skilful working of pumps and arranging of water ballast so as to meet necessary requirements. A weight of 2,500 pounds is attached to the keel in sueh a matinee that it can be got rid of at any moment. In the event of a sudden rise to the surface being imperative, the boat would re- spond to the eel' with th'm lightness of a cork. Compressed air contained in steel tubes is supplemented by caustic potassium and chlorate of chalk, tor ths removal of vitiated air. Thus, it is c,alculated that a erew of three per- sons might stay under water from twelve to fifteen hears without danger. It will be propelled he a one-horse poteer eleetne motor, at a speed of nine knots. For a beet capable of accommodating 100 passengers only twenty-five horse -power would be re- quired. The boat has been e.instrucand for naval purposes', and material for letting oft torpedoes by means of com- pressed air through the simpis pulling of a. trigger is provided, Trials of the boat were made in the, Seine a few days ago, A Reminiseenee of the Crimea, Admiral Druitmond, a most charm- ing old gentleman, was a most intimate friend of tlae Duke of Cambridge. When the Duke. fell into bad health after Inkerman, and was invalided home, he went on board the Retribu- tion, then commanded by Captain Jam.es. Drummond. She was at that, date one of the finest; steam vessels in the Navy. She lay outside Balaclava Harbour, and on November 14, while the Duke was on board, a most awful hurricane arose, Steaming head to wind at full power the frigate was able to take some of the strain off her anchors, but not to make any headway. If the cables had parted it woulct have been certain destruction. At length the storm abated, and when the anchors were got inboard it was found that. the two cables had crossed, and from the friction raused by the ship's riding• the thickness of the links had been redueed by nearly one hall; so that, had the hurricane Imbed an hour or two longer, in all probability the ship and all an board of leer would, have been lost.