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Exeter Times, 1896-11-12, Page 9ART1111,11 'rREV. DR. TALM OTHER SEASO We AU Ito Fade et the Weeds - Our Ltro—A jr.leaves--Frava Washington, N the year adds Dr, Talmage's ite out to-cley. Uis geantry of the lxiv, 6, " leaf." It is so amid religious truth reiterates. Asa t a blackboard and and diagrams so not only geikii ear, but alstr 11 God takes all t and draws them natural world. ou.s Frenchtnan to study the hie ments and tempi he deciphered th the learned work vestigations. T a•nd power of Go glyphics all ove over the heaven. maY have -under deeleber them passages, like tn be' ottulded in tb natural world. Habakkuk says like hind's eans nothing s knows that the or hind, are pec that they can rooks without fact, we enderst kuk says, "Thou . hind's feet," he eterristian can dangerous and el falling. In La that "tbe daug cruel, like the erness,"9 passag ing save to the the ostrich leave to be hatebed ou the young °stria ed by any mate ing this, the p "The daughter like the ostriche Those knew bu ing of the xi-eit iooked at it throe Alta from book impression. Thee mobile that phot lien. and the fa andnepa eaman descrietio No one knows i voice unless be evening tide at and listened to There is to -da brarieh of sumac put on a whole bath struck into glance that none come face to face ing upon the ma ing• upon the ram For several aut tour to the far w about this time. -ehall never forge autumnal sketeli other skillful pe I sew a, pageant artist stand back His canvas! A g never kindled b Along up the rive the sides of the the banks of th indescribable min orange and minas flaming into solfe and there the tr their tips hed lel the inarning lighll as"' if they had 19 in tbeevening h tihe sunset bad b tbe leaves, In mo weere the frosts Weir work, we e of the flames of sprig, then the branch to breech the Lord submerg yoa would find a; its mind to than kicked as 11, wo it stead bathed 111 banks af Lake H ever wthich there racts of fire„ tosse every whither by seine of toe_ ravi 1111 ally a fon g st 1 were rushing to p tion. If at one cammanding tree erimson banner, t pared to follow. were not infinite, along the austed it orev 1; e se.a. of &Vine mar to the tiptop and then it had e the lowest leaf a Most persons text fine only in find that 1 hav gospel therp-a st a string of joy i "We all do fade First. -Like the gradually. The before !est felt th day been changing many days yet elin ing for the fist of there. Suppose 3r Ieaf that you Eel on its color in an or in a week? N the flush, till all ,now seem opened After awhile, leaf Xow tnose on the those most hidden, of the gleaming f gaetched, So gradually we day to day we be But tibe frost -s ha work of decay ie ;el igh t eel d . Now fatigue Now a f in the iide. Now N ow a illeamatio t Little by little. THE EXTRE .. . . . , PAGEANTRY , . • . eteadY of limb. Sight nOt so , clew. - Ear not so :alert. After awbale, we take a; staff: Then, after' mueh ree sistance, WO. came te soectecees. In- stead of bounding into tee. vehiele, we l• are willing to he helped in, At last the octogenarian fells. Forty years of decaying. No su.dden divange. NO fierce • cannonading of the batteries of. life, but a fading away- all. As tbe leaf, a,s the leaft gain, like the leaf, we fade. to make room, for others. Next year's forest will be as grandly foliaged. as this These :n atone of iet oak.- alre other er leaves to take the ace of those welch this autumn ' : N t May . eerie . . ex ., the candle oe the wind will eoele the Yau-ng buds, nese woods wee be all athum with the chorus of leafy voices. If tam, ta•ee in front of your house, like Elijab, takes a chariot of fire, its mantle will fall upon Ensile. In in the blast of these autumnal batteries so many ranks fall, there are reserve forme to take their peace to defend the fortress of the hiels. The beaters of 'gold leaf will have mitre gold leaf to beat The crown that drops to -a-0 t : . . from the bead, of the oak tell), be pick- ed up and hended down for other kings tit wear., Int the blasts come. They only'maike room for other.. life? So, when we go, otheirs take our spheres, Wenn not grudge the future generations their places. We will nave had our - good, time.. Let them 04Me on and bone their good time Theee is no sighm• g among t.hese lea' ves to- day becatese other leaven are to follow them. After a lifetime of preaching, doetering, 9Ol1ing,0 sewing Or digging, let us cemealully give lean for those mem came on to do the preaching, doe- toring, &ening sewing and digging. Gad. grant 'that their life may he brighter than ours has been. As we get older do not let us be affronted if young roen and women crowd us a. lit- tie. We will have had our day, and we must let them have theirs. 'When, our voices get eracked, let. us not Marl at those wbo can warbles When aux knees are stiffened, let us have ritience with those wbo go fleet as the 's fading do esaue leaf 1 , noeetv' letBus eenueed time th,e unfrosted. Autumn must not envy the spring. Old men niust be patient with boys. Dn. Guthrie stood up in ecotland. and, said; "You need not tiahak I am old because ray .hele Is white,1 never was so young as I am now." I look back to . ray childhood doge and remember n w en in winter nights in the sitting room the cluldren played the bilthest. and the gayeet of oll the comPanY were father and /mother. Although reaching forescore years of age, they never not oed - ' " Do not tie disturbed as you see good. and t di P 1 la great men e. eope worry w en some important personage passes off the stage and sax, "His place will eever , be taken. But neith . er the church nor the state witl suffer for it. Th ere will be others to take the places. 'When God. takes one man. away, He has another right back of Ilim. God is so rich in resources that Ile could. s 5 00 S f• Id 1 S • _pare , 0 ummer na e enc aurms, If there were 60 many. There will be °tem leaves as green, as exquisitely ed, as gracefully etched, as well pveolinnted. However prominent the place we fill, oux death will not jar the world. Our fallieg leaf (lees not. shake the Adironda.oks. A ship is not well manned unless there be an extra supply of h '' ' ands -some woriung on deck, some sound asleep in their hammocks. God has •manned this world very well, There will be no other seaman on deck when you and I are down in the cabin sound asleep in 1.19hammocks. Again, as with the !eaves, we fade and fall amid myriads of others. One cannot count the number. of plumes which these frosts are plucking from the hills. They will strew all the streams, they will drift into the cav- erns, they. will soften the wild beast's lair and fill the eagle's eyrie All the aisles oi the forest' will be covered with their carpet and the steps of the bilis glow with a, tvealth of color and shape that will defy the looms of Axminster. Wbat urn could hold tee ashes of all these dead leanest Who could. come; the hosts that burn on this funeral' pyre of the moue tains? So we die in concert. .The cleok that strikes the bour of. our going will sound the going of many thousands, Keepeng step with the feet of those who carry us out will be the trap of nutalxeds doing the same, errand. Be- tween 50 and 70 people every day lie doyen in Greenwood.. That place has of the dead. I said to the over 200,the gate, "Then, if there are ma,n at so many here, you must have the large eat cemetery." He said thereiare two Roman Cethelic cemeteries in the city each of which had more than this. We are all dying. London and Peking are not the .great cities of the world. The geave is the great city. :It hath mightier population, longer streets, brighter lights, thicker darknesses. ' sa Caesar 19 there and all his subjects; Nero is there and all his victims. City of kings and paupers! It has swallow- ed. up in its immigration Thebes and Tyre and. Babylon and will swallow all our cities. , Yet city of silence. No voice. No hoof. No wheel. No clash No smiting of hammer. No clack of flying loom. No jar. No whsPer. Greae city of silence! Of all its mil- lion million hands not one of them is lifted. Of all its million million eyes not one of them sparkles. Of all its million million hearts notone plusates. The - lining are in small minority. If, in the movement of time, some great question between the living and. the dead should be put and God called up all the dead and the leaving to de- cide it, as we lifted our hand, and from all the resting places of the dead they lifted their hands, the dead would outvote us. Why, the multitude of the dying and the dead are as these autumnal leaves, drifting ander our feet no -day. We march on toward eternity, not by companies of 100, or regiments of 1000, or brigade.s of: 10,000, Ina 1,000,000,000 abreast! Marching on ! Nanking on Again, as with variety of appearance ebe leaves depaet, so do we. . You bave noticed that some trees at the first touch of the frost lose ail their beauty. They • stand withered and tincomely and ragged waiting. for the northeast storm to drive them into the mire. The sue shining at noonday gnds them with no beauty. Bagged leaves. Dead leaves. No one stands to study them They, are gathered in I10 vase. They are hung on' no wall. So death smites many. There is no beauty in their departme. One harp froet of sick- nese or one blast off the cold waters and they are gone. No tinge of hope. No propheoy of heaven. Their spring was all abloom with knight prospects. Their summer thick foliaged with op- portunities. ' But October came, end their egloiy went. Frosted! In early autumn the feasts come, but da not seem to damage vegetation. They are lig.b.t frosts. But some ro.orning you look out of the window, and sae, "There was, a black frost lest night," a,nd neu know tha,t from that day everything will wither. So 'men *mem to get along without eeligion axaid the annoyances and vexations of lye tbat nip them slightly bore and nip them there. But: after ,awhile death cones. It is a black frost and all is ended, Oh, '"'"eshat withering and scattering death makes amongst those not prePar- ed to meet It ! They leave everything .pieasent behind, them -their house, their farailies their friends, .their , books, their pictures, and step out of the ;sunshine into the sha,dow. Theysey, quit the presence a bit& and bloom and. wave to go imbeckoned and Ant welcomed.. The bower in whicb they stood. and sang and were olaaplets and made , themsel yes merry has :gone down under an awful equimactical. No bell can toll one-half time delefulness of " • • their condition. Froetedl e But, thank God, that le not the Way 1d• Tell h 'ti pep1e always le.me on w a day of all he year the leaves of the woodbine are as bright as they are to -day. So Christian character is neve e attractive Ws .in the dying hour.' Such go into the grave, not as a dog, with frown and harsb voice, driven ;lit° a. kennel, but they pass away calmly, sweetly, grandly. As the leaf I As the leaf I ' Why go to the deathbed of distire guished men wIten there is hardly a house on this street but from it Christian -- °' has departed? Wlaen your baby: died, there were enough: a,ngels in the room to have ohanted snore- nation, - on, When your father died, -Yon sat watching, and. after awhile felt of his wrist, and then Put your hand upon his arm to see if there „were any any warmth and placed tne nairror to thy e mouth :to eee ie there were an sign of breathing, and when all was over you, thought how grandly • he slept -a. 'giant resting after a battle. Oh, there are many Christian death- bees 1 The °beelne iat God, come to take His children home, are sPeeding every whither. - This one lilts at tbe gate of the almshouse, tbat one at the gate of prunes. The shout of captives breaking their chain ;s • comes on the morning air. The beavens ring again and again with tbe eorona eon. Tbe l2 gates of heaven are crowded with the ascending mgeteaus. I see the aceu-' mutated glories of a thousand Chris- tian deathherls-an autumnal forest II- hunineted by an autumnal suntet. They (redworkings I not in shame, but in triune- ph. As the leaf 1 As tbe leaf I Lastly, as the leaves fade and fall only to rise, so do we. All this golden shower of the. woods is making the ground richer, and in the juice and san • and life of the tree the leaves Will come a * Next M h th p Again. May t e sou wind will blow the resurrection trum- pet, and they will rise. So we fall in be dust only to rise again. "Theevex hour is coaling ellhen all in their grave.s shall bear His voice and come forth." It would be a horrible consideration to think that our bodies were always to lie in the ground, How - ever 1 t f 1 ti fl plant nau i u le ower you there, we do not want to make our everlasting residence in such' a place. 1 bave with these eyessettler:, many ese - _ nd of the glories of tbe natural world an the radiant faces of my friends, that I do not want to think that when I close them in death 1 sball never open them again. It is sad enougla to have hand foot'amputated I h aor a, n a os- pital„ after a raoldier had had his hand taken off, he said, "Good -by, dear old hand, you have done me a great deal of good service," and buret into tears. It is a more atvful thing td tiaink of having the wilole body amna --- - - tated from the soul forever. I anust have my body again to see with, to h' li - ' ' With this ear wit , to walk with. is hand I must clasp the hand, of my lovesi ones when I have Incased clean over jordan and with it wave the triumph's of ray King, Aha, we shall rise again! 'We shall rise a'gain I As the leaf I As the leaf 1 Crossing the Atlantic the ship may founder and o bodies be eaten by t our , the sharks, but God taxneth leviathan, and we shall come again. In awful explosion of factory boiler our bodies may be shattered into a hundred frag- ments in the air, but God watches the disaster, and we' shell come again. He will drag the deep and ransack the tomb, and upturn the wildernese, and • • torture the mountain, eut be will. find us and fetch U9 out and up to meg- meet to victory. ,ped • We shall come u.p with pertect eyg, witlf perfect hand, with perfect foot and with perfect body. All our weak- 'nesses left behind. We fall, but we rise, we ale, but we live again I We molder away, but we come to higher nefolding 1 As the leaf 1 As the leaf 1 • Mrs.Conan . t's Scheme - ' • • ---- "Mary this coffee is unusually mud- dy," exclaimed her husband, Henry Huse - stnewnt at the teame vigorously time -the contents of the °up eefoxe bina. Seated with d the ful- via them a-roun e care ly set breakfast table ieas .. . Mee nenant Henry Hussey's any eieter. ,. At her hustiend's remark, 'young Mrs.. Hussey flusees1 'visibly. , "Perhaps you got some of the grounds, deer. Let me give you en- other cup" ' "No, 111 make this do now -probably. 'tis all just alike, I'd give a good deal to have a MP' of ' motber's* 'coffee ' morniengs Hers is whet you can call coffee; isn't it Belle'?" addressing dais sister. . 'No more than this, I think," reprov- ed his sister quietly. •After the eeti doer 'dosed; and her , brother had entered a "downetown car," .... ears. Coeant renaarked thoughtfully gl "Mary." "Yes,reepondee her sistereinelaw lite . • : in • quirgly "Is He.nry 'accustomed to findeault with yeller cooking by malting that odi- ous eo nem te • "Sotrietimes," retuened Mary, relue. tautly. • - 'Tie just as I thought, Many. But I have a• scheine that will put a stap, I haven't a doubt, to his disagreeable habit before it becomes chromic." "What" • said Mary, wonderi.nele. "Nothing harmful, I hope," she continan ed, laughing. "Perfectly harmless, but a sure cure," replied her sister. "Mother ns the one t to administer the medicine, and she al- ways believes in giving good doses." "I think I don't understand, Belle." "Wliye 'tie just this -you know moth- • • -week t keep house , er is cornIng next o f for you, while you atteaad the musical 1 c v 1 m - eteme is to have on en 10)3, Now s se . mother give Henry enough of her cook- ing to satisfy hina-of coarse, for the time-beiee cooking will be a lost art - - with her„ You must have a. few eboice w bits blob, mother must sa.ndwich in with her food, just for contrast." "Do you. tree es • ume mother will agree to any such thing t" asked Mary. "Certainly, and be delighted, over the idea. It's an extreme case of necessity, Mary." Mrs. Conant noticed during the next few days how often her brother refer- red to his mother's way -which was in every instance superior to that of his wife's -of cooking this or that dish. "He'll a.ppreciate Mary when she gets back I know," she th lit , oug . The elder Mr H ' d 'tile T s. Hussey entered with spirit into her daughter's plan. ex ha , • • ven t forgotten my own expert- . . ence," she deekeed. . 'I have an idea Nary, Henry won't want my cooking again in a hurry," she added resolute- ly. 1 The next morning .after Mary left, her husband found the coffee for break- _ _ . Last wily lukewarm, and tile gra.ham baked t bee vn roilso a. hard t, . "Mother didn't use to 'cask this way," was his mental soliloquy. He seemed not to relish lisk brea.k- fast, and ate only the inside of the rolls, aying e crusts y s p . p - 1 ' thb bis la.te He si his coffee once, twice; looked across the table, and then poured out a glass of milk. "I thought you liked the cruets of my rolls " suggested Mrs. Hussey, as 'she watched her son place the fourth crust in the bone dishs "I made these Puerposely for you -and took great pains with. teem,- she honestly added., "I hope you are not feeling ill, at re- ' ' Th minds me, , Mary left some excellent jelly in the closet; let me get you some?' Henry made no remonstrance, and helped himself twice to the temptu1)00 •eg delicacy. "Mary's a natural housekeeper, 1 think, Henry.. You were certainly very fortunate in getting suck a capable wife." "She's one .in a thousand," declared Henry warmaY' Mat noon as was his custom, he took ,his lunch at' a "down -town restaurante He came home to his usual six o'olockt dinner, worn out with the extra ha,rdt, work of the day. ' 'e Though Mrs. Hussey declared that she bad taken unusual care in preparing her son's dinner, he left his potato untouch- dl more than hal ed as it. was bee y . done; while the eine was entirely cook- ed out of the roast. . "Have same cake, Henryt" asked Ws mother in a 'disappointed tone, as she passed a, plate of fruit cake towards hem, "Mary left a loaf; she said you were particula•rly fond of in as thougie • , 1 didn t remember how my fruit cake never went begging when you were enounne "There's one thing on the table worth eating," he •thought gloomily. "Seems as though I'd like some of your erust coffee -same as you used to make, mother," he said as he folded his napkin. "Would it make you too much trouble 1" "No trouble at all," answered hie mo- thee quickly. "Another chance," she mused. 0 : That niglit she wrote Mary a card. "The schexne's working splendidly." When Henry entered the breakfast room next morningem found his moth- er already there. . "I've- had splendid success with my crust coffee," she remarked looking up. - He noticed small lumps of burnt bread floating on the surface of his coffee. He set down the cup after •tak- ing one swallow', which Mrs. Hussey ap- p egged not to notice. . . ' 'Does it taste as it used to?" she asked anxiously. ' ene_est» he replied, 'at the same time removing a crumb from bis mouth with ,obstacles his napkin. ' "I•rn sorry the (Amps got burnt so- is morn_ing,Mary , some s ice tie ' but Ma left 1' ' ' ed bam; will you hew some e" He was only too gla.d to assent. "Here, let me fill your cup anent, there is plenty a( it," and she lifted the coffeepot from the: mat.: "I made en- ough to heat ' twodays." ''.- • 'No MOM' this morning, mother. I must, hurry to catch, my car." While puttbag on his gleves he asked, care- "How long is that couventiongo, ing to hold V' ' l 1 'It closes to -morrow, but I wrote Mary last night, she'd better visit:Uncle Williara's while she's so near. I thought she'd never have a. better clia,nee, -end," it's a delightful : la"e t: ,ie't I 1 ]d , iateu ur 11:r''''"4-11 were gcli4g 'nli clelig z re, 'eo s e needn't worry. " Henry made an inandene' reply. "'Tie working like a eha•frn° and lie uspac :8, g, ug • s. doerget s tthin " le. bed Mr ' Hassey to herself, Mary remained avvay two weeks_ weeks long 0 .y her l therememberedbh husband. • - "This seems 'like living again," ex-, elaimed d Ef radiantl e aime enry , y, a re t the h ale- fast table the morrang following his 'This. : . b .: wife's eeture. c,offee s the est. . I've drank for years, and I'd rather iievea, plate of your grahremrolIs, Mary, than dine in a palace!" ' .. . • . L ns THE SUNDAY. SCR . . 00 • • . . .... . .. . a... eee,.....-, • " taa-------- . INTERNATIONAI., LESSON,' NOV. 15• — e e genes s Gears stessing teem seromon. e 9 1 9 -.---. noisiest next. Prey -1012. - GENERAL STATEVPINT, R 'is Probe/re that this sec.end 're- vention of Jehovah' to Soberien lie "Gib- e - • - , ... , , _ ,e, - o ' a's de. thi •teer, yeats dtte,. (me e a 'v.' ma I prayer studied by us last Sundae., On lthe high and, holy day a the eedicatim Solomon had petite:seed Jebovele that -his ineiniebtain. in the di,ivdin44e'oprreet. ovapra.oey erlay mightand .. , .., Beaked for :thirteen genese and now. when. the splendors of Itexury were weak- • theeninygprthegesealrateo.draaseerriofseinvireigs. 41:433.171tpet, . .. a . , titions; Imre is GM'S answer- The ees- . sou wens emphasis to the priaciples laid doWn everywileare.be the Bible, tha.t all a od blessin s are conditional that el ---'s g • ' evert' threat and. warning presupposes colitinuarice in wrongdoing, while every ., e pronese of blessing presuppeses bely' . living- In a true sown Snueon meet, leis awn destiny, God placed liira where he was and endewed Ian with wrestled i. talents; but nis career was his ownand s that he wars followed by a weakling on _ the throne, that the preud "empire, he inherited from his fattier was broken into fragments, tba.t the very wisdom he which was hie highest g'im-Y was --- disco ' 'record. daubed ' a,nd united by the of Ins moral failare-all these results were due to himeelle, Our own cases are similar. God not csalr selects • our f a 1 • almees and. our sturouridings for us, Jae makes us. We are the result of the of his providence through centuries, But we have, ebe greatest and weakest of us alike, the petver to carve out a noble ..,,„ destiny or to late` into dishonor. PRACTICAL NOTES, Veree 1. When, Soiliemon had finish- ed. . .ale Solomon's deerire. Solomon was a great builder. He built reser- voles, aqueducts, st r cities fortresse% e 'e • ' chief f naorectcbih::enehylepaareplla:iespaesseandd,sincescue‘. ale, thengreat teraple of Jehovah. Twelve omon offereel his dedicatory prayer, studied. last Sunday. (See General State- mead 2. As be •bad appeared. unto him at Gibeon. "These two appearances to Sole 1 onion marked two memorable points in Ibis career, One, given him the sun- ' in Plieity of Ins youth (1 Rings 3. 7), lift- ed him into wisdom and. favor with both Gad and man; the other, given be the b'aze of his worldly was, alas! - die' gierY• . soon followed by shameful idolatries. - " Terry, 8. Mine eyes and mine heart shall Per•Petda• Y. . .P . be there el Solomon's: reiterr_ had. been that Godes eyes might be ected toward the temple perpetually, el Ringe 8. 29). God's answer is, "Not Mine eyes only, buyt inineeees and mine heart." was curedly promise N ,.• kept; the terapel was left. "desolate" at last only when it had ceased to be a token of Israeli's Dove, and God's heart lingered about it long atter Israel's heart had deserted it. 4. Da.vid, with ail his faults, was con - spicuous for integrity of heart and up- rightnees, in that he never wavered. in ?his loyalty to Jehovah; be never 00- quetted with idolatrous practices; he never faltered in his allegiance to the truth. Solomon never "walked before God," as David. had dune. 6. But if ye sbal al all turn from foelowin me. The Authorized Version . ,,„ . g en(ire! misrepresents 'the meaning b re. It is literally, if to turn ye shaat turn; that is if ye shall altogether completely, and permanently a osta,tize. 7. Ties house which I have iallewed ' ell I east out of me' for my e e, wt sight. This is Ibe very opposite f wbet t Ki had prayed for and must . Ise ng . &aye carried. with it to Solomon's mind. the idea of utter destructions A pro- verb and a byword. "The very name of Israel: willbetome a b' 1 - prover ,a ex- praesion significant of disastrous fail- ure. nay more a byword, a pointed, sar- •. . . castle term ever suggestive of scorn and meek ,,. ir - eery., 8. This house which is high. Bette; "this house shaft be high or conspieu- outs." It has been notable in its glory, it shall be notable in iLs ruin. Shall be astoniehed And le to . una „e express their 'horror at the digester. 9. This verse, as wen as verse 8, is remarkabey parallel to the language of 7.- leteuteronom (See &epecialay Deut. 29. ..1-26.) Salomon m his great dedicat-• ore- prayer, had reerre 'f d repea.tedler to the great deliverance from e g Egypt. ..,....... P SONAL POIN' ,..- , Notes; About sonic of gee 4 - .- ' ' ' tee weetah Daniel Campbell and wi county, lel:brick, are saie nen .7 i, y, 1t ad lie years The iteriperor oe Gen t•werityftirst in the clieee oession to the British tie , 4,4:lina Patti has rerei done tof the town of Bret' • ut re urn or her benefa t f h be f Lord Salisbury is daily hundreds of telegrams' a Of• the United Ringdeanb intervene' in beim,If of the ..i.31Tztenoeditetoere,e_of Artabeon en- have been eente teen inoethe' imprison/me for libelling the Queen. ITeicsa.hte tocernoettree'.ey•Rceold:enlilligEemilnapi from Portemouth. to al built at Copenhagen at eluding: furniture .and der wards of 42,000,000, princess Beatrice is 1 photograph collector in ban 800 pbotographs plac vexicies goconanwhile sh, sands safely stored aw g been an assiduous coliecio grapbst ' ever since she , child BagPiPes are heeoinin.g insteeneent for ladies In : emheg-r°°Theem%* oltdeYngyBnisPen git who is a, skilled perferrne troduced the fa thien. 1 parlour use axe richly d ee' Ily toiled 59- "..a ,' is a.curezeis fact that ladies, of sovereign rank ' erased. an influence on e t centt lone during the birth, nam of non -Royal be pre,SS jotiep him, during . 'cif the eentury, and the . . genie, fifty Years later. Queen Victoria buys al /Amin a. grocer la. Cannes. t G Majesty was a mese so she was struck by the eXe c,offe•et and finding it had at a loc;ai English. trade she - promptly mad ---e Ilim- 3 "The Sultan oe Turkey evretehed, pinched -up littl saw,' writes a corn moat unhappy -looking u complexion, with a kok marrow in bisiargeEaete Pie sa_ ythe is nervous, an; 00.13aL erIng fate 0 d • thefl sor." ' In view of the troublow iritual domain, the S 1ublin, the Archdeacon a moderator of the Establ of Scotlatel, George Mulls Bev. Thomas Spuxg•eon, ) Carnbridge; Dr. Thomas others have united ba is 1 t ' th differ t Chu o a e . eit for for a new Cerok of Pra The marriage of Mr. a: read of Minnea.pOlis re caid . .. g pubacation in a leadmg all article by- Miss Yates Model: Husband." The ; , up by Miss Yates interes id caid, who began a camel her, and last week they a The groom is 7a and. the 1 old. : Wieni the Czar was a; he received from France tive there, Poem de °az: two gifts on behalf of Men, including President the same number of 1 These presents were origi ed to be offered to the . the • e bis e oceneaon o ma afterweeds on his Majesty but they were not. reedy first consisted of a table Sevres porcelain, 111e a z1 '' 1 d• hand -p austed plates ador arms of the various Peer The second. was an albu; severity water colour pain tim uish d F renc h ar is t • t g e 8, natures of the 8.000 wom - mg. — . iGE DELIVERS AN- NABLE SP:RMON. ----. , as a tear "-The Glary Is' eine the tear is •eat Voriety or Dead outh to Age. . v. 1. -The season of inch appositeness to mon, which we eezel sabject is " The Pea- Voods," and his text We all do fade as, a or us to understand that God constantly e schoolmaster takes Puts 'Von it figures that the scholar. may ; lesson through the rough the eye, so i truths of His Bible ext in diagram on the Chan:4011ton the fam- ent down into ElgyPt, roglyphics on moral- 's: After flinch labor ina and announced to t the result of his in- te wisdom, goodness , are written in hiero- ; the earth and - all God grant that we needing enough to Shore are Scriptural ' text, which need to ; very presence of the : "Thou makest my eet," a passage which ave t° the man that feet of the red deer, snarly constructed, so valk amon'g slippery tiling. Knowing that nd that when Habak- makest my feet like sets forth that the alk amid the most every places without lentations we read ter of my peaple is striches of the wild- 0 that has no mean- man who knows that a its et13' in the sand by the eun, and that goes forth unattend- mai eh:Iciness, Know- 'ssage is significant, 1 InY People is cruel, s of the wilderness." t little of ethe mean- ral world who have gh the eyes of others. r canvas taken their 1 are some faces so ographers can't take of nature has such kle and life that no a can gather them. 10 pathos of a bird's has sat at summer 1,be edge ee a wood he ory of the weep- r more :glory in one than a painter could vest of maples. God the autumnal leaf of see but those who -dm mountain look- I, and tbe man look- uatain. umns r have made a est: and one autumn, saw that which I L. have seen the Les of Cropse and icils, but tha week 2000 miles long. *Let when God stretches ander spectacle was efore mortal eyes. rs, and eup and down great bills, ' and by lakes there was an gling of gold and en and saffron, now ino and scarlet. Here es looked as if just seemed into fire. Ds the forests seemed en transfigured, and ter they koked as if •st and. dropped upon re sequestered spots, ion been hindered in' w the first kindling color in a lowlg il rusbed up ., from until the glory of ad the forest. Here tree juet making up ge, and there one tried at every pore. carnage. Along thel Iron there 'were hula teemed pouring cake d up and dawn and the rooks. Through es we saw occasion.. eem, as though it a out the Conflagra- and of the woods a; would set up its ie wliole forest pros 1 God's seen of colors one swamp that 1 Eauftnee wciuld Ilene ST. ,It 'seemed as if( glory had dashed its .of the Alleghenies, me dripping down to d deepest cavern. preaceing from this t .0, vein of sadness, ; two strings to this ing of sadness and, /finite. as a leaf,',' foliage, we fade leaves -which week a frost have day by hi tint and well for g to elle bouglawait- the wind to : strike ea. that the pictured , in your hand took 'hour, or he a elegy i; deeper and deepet the veins of its life and bleeding away. aftee leaf, they fall. eller bea,nchee, then until the last spare, lege shall leave been pass away.' Front 'dly (we Me change. re toweled use The going on. New a: a season of over- ?Nen Now a etiten neuralgic thrust, winge. Now a eall, eain be plain, Less . • HEROISM IN MIRES. -- Installers WhereBrave nen Dave' Risked Their 'Wes te Save Others. ' • ' • Never was there a, minind disaster of any rnagnituck witheut several in- - • . • .. --• • stances of individual gauentry in save ing boys alone. As an English colliery . "there manager stud the other d•ae, ere Mar a a score of cases of that kind. after a g • b accident and nobody e ,asay en wiser. the wiser," "A boy told me once," lee Proceeded, "tiaet after the explosion, one of the nen h • b. b nt. h. w o was with un roug im ' along a considerable distance in the workings. Ae last they met tbe af- ter-darap. The lad was so tern•fie d . so Anxious to get out that he wanted to rush through and make his way to the shaft. If he hen gone on he car tawy voule have dropped but the man would ,, e not let hirn-he stopped him by force, and 'though the lad hit and fought like a little demon, he stuck to him and laela him near to tbe ground, so that u. think they could breathe. How do yo . he calmed the boy at last? Sang comic songs to him! 1Vell, they had to keep where the fabout f• h y were or Live ours, and then, when the air got better, the man started off and brought tbe ungster out safely, thougla once he i'vnas "-newly suffocated by the after- damp. Now, there's a case that not body would have heard of probably if the lad hadn't happened to bane told me about it." • As an inet ee of heroism in tbis direction that is known, however, e reeall a story I heard near the bank s e_ 11.8hel.lydt pit after the eeplosiondln la ' _ that tbe sligbee t Jay in flying for the shaft may mean death. In the neighborhood of Bole ton, some few years ago, one man out of a party of cotliers stopped behind for a minute or/ so to look for his son, a boy of 14, wen was working close by. The two met, but, alasi they per_ ished there together, and found clasp- ed in each' other's arms. And Paternal devotion thus manifaeted has cost many a brave fellow his life. Well, on the oceatsion referred to a man named Haslaen brought from the workings, or met as he was sourying along to the pit mouth, a youth about 16; and. througbout the terrible jour- ney he stuck to the lad with the most heroic determinatiou, Twice the lad stumbled and fell, but the noble eol- liet dragged hire to his feet and urged him to push on with all speed. 01This ter mishaps befell them, yet both, I re- joice to say, gained the surface alive d ' well. an comparatively RAILROAD PASSENGER BUSINESS. , --- more or it none In nrrat Britain. Than In the ITulted Slate& • t The total length of railroad in Great ' ' g Britain is 21,-84 miles. In the 'United 't i States 1 s, or was at. tbe last compu- teem, 179,821 miles. There is more -than six times as much railroad mile- . age, therefore in the United States as there is in Great Britain, and the pop- i ulatien of the United. States, it .ought perhaps, to be added is more than _, .. _ omen the population o . " ' f Great Britain The area of the Ten ited States is 3 000- ' ' 000, and tba.t of Great Britain 121,000 square miles, and Amexicans, it is well greater known are travellers than English people aaad have larger means for men purposes. Yet, notwithstand- - ten these advantages it is a fact that the raileoads of Great Britainwith , - smaller mileage and a smaller term- ory to draw from do considerably more passenger business than tJae railroads of the. United States combined Comparing the figures et hand from Great Britain with these 'last at hand. from the railroads of the Unite& States, it is seen in the first place that whne in a year tbe number of passengers car- ried in the United States is 543,000,000 t.he number carried. in Great Britain forprovisi the same period. was 929,000,000, It is true that there has been during the last two ears a decline of passenger . y ... traffic on the railroads of the United States, and particularly so since tae receipts of American railroads were ephemerally and abnormally swollen by the business of the World's Fair, But at t,he highest point the number of pas-. sesagers carried on American railroads was 600,000,000, or less then two-thirds of the slumber of passengers carried on British railroads. Again, there was on all the Arraerican railroads collectively 34,310 passenger ears in use or avail- able for use, whereas, for the same ser- vice cal British railroads there were 58,- 738. There are twice as many locomo- tives in use on An:lexicon ranroa,ds as there are on British railroads, but this disparity in the United States is ex- plamed by 'the fact that American loco- motives draw chietle freight trains, or as they are called va England, "geode" trains:- The freight or 'goods" bust- nese of American raltroads, is twice as great as the business of British rain roads in the same line. In the last year correputed the total nmnber of tons of freight moved on: American ranroacts was 743,000,000. The year previous it was 700,477,000„ The average move- ment a "goods." or freight, in Great . Britain m a year is, 220,000,000' or less than one-third. • British railtoads as a rube are inuen more substantially constructed then are American railroads. The geographical are less, capital is more read- ily'obtaine ,c1 labor is elmaper, amtemore- over, British railroads canneot well -es- a , w e is TIC S OT t lor li. cl dee • tcities instead of being constructed on the tentative Ani - erican plea ender which clistrietsu grow up about a eailroad. Many new lines extensions, spurs, and connections of American roads are put up 1 41":6 li 'W---'-'° reasonalblaexpectat• f imanediate re -'e uni ° turn, and these, , while adding to the railroad mileage of the country, . in- crease, but slightly, its earning capac- tty, Nevertheless, the business done by American railregids is far in excess of that done by Britieh, raileoa.da thougla in respect to the nulaber ot pa,seengers etieried the egeroade .0e, the united States are very far behind. 'Many Eng- liAmen travel short. distanees THE FAMILY R( — Glasgow comes to the Fret' charitable Idea, Which Imitated In Otber titles. A notable niunicipa.1 se h 1 started in Glasgoe, vthere - orities have erected a seri • houses which combine cleanliness with cheapness mumicipatity had. provided quarters for the t grea ma r who are dependent upon houses for shelter, it wa; there was still one class • - on had. been made, owe and. widowers with c are. compelled to be absen during the day and have assuring themselves of the ehildreaa during this perk( this want a "family hone d 'eh erec e . wen both for and management stands Watery of modern mune prises. The home is sii poorest section of the cie meet conveniently situated it is intended to reaeh. 9 commodations for about families. In addition to bed and living rooms, the smoking, recreation and d For : the children there a: nursery and roof garden. is in ctharge of a, specie, nurse who has several, othE direction. Hot and cold and specially constructed ens far the preparation of are distributed throughout With all, these, comforts , ences, the cost bee 'been lowest ppssible leveL A : one child pays 78 cents pe. two children 94 cents, an children 98 cents. • A lath and pays. 93 °erste per we: children, $L19, and. with ren $1.23. The charges fo Adults per day, breakfast diener, eight rents, and t For children, per week, 4 sin:1,es child, 39 cents ea,ce afamily and 33 .cents ea, or more in a faraile. : Al home has been open but a the difference in appearer the. children living there ; the :helm'ediate: netehlooehet appa,rent Another advant ' ' en not to be ignored is eihe 1 low charges act as an ineer er and mother to support,1 and' ireep them With them have them beconie a charg lie or private chatity., It that the Family Home eve to have a 'permanent piaci atitutions. of the, cities of .1 lin. . ::" LIEUT. DAN'. GODFREY. , The Vall11010; Band .uaster Must itetlre tinder igic Age clause. Aft 1 and faithful Alter long a service ex- tending over thirty -•three years, Lieut, Dan. Godfrey of the Grenadier Guards, bandmaster of the same regiment, is . abou,t to be placed on the retired list, coning under the age ellainse, as he is now sixty-five., Dan. Godfrey was one e • • • • : • o a hne of distinguesheamusaciansehes father, who was pre.seaet at W'aterleo, having joined the band of one of the e. a Guaras regimen . es in 1814 Dan. Ihim- self joined. the service at a very early age, and beeesee bandmaster af the Grenadiers- in 1863. On the occasion of Her Majesty's jubilee, having. been then band/muter for twenty-four yea.rs, he was raised. fron the rank of a - non commissioned to neat of a conunission- ed afficer, and was gazetted Hon. See- ond Lieutenant of the regiment. Some twenty-four years ago, the band of the Grenadier Guards, -with Dan. Godfrey at their head, treated the United States, wbere they delighted the citizens of Boston with their renditions of the "Star-Spangled Banner,"and other na- tional airs. The enthusiasm was great when they marolaed. upon Boston Com- mon, in their scatelet tunics and gold. lace, and pla,yed "Yiankee Doodle.' Lieut., Godfrey is deservedly poPular witth. ael reeks in the regiment, and it is said that the Qiieen herseefthas en- deavoeed to cause emitters to be so ar- ranged tfhat his services can be re- ta,ined as bandmaster for some few years longer. r WOlerelle OF ICELAND. From the earliest period the Ice- landic women has enjoyed distinct in- dividuality. The wife has always held the place of aa equal with her bus- band in matters .pertaining to the house. h In the old dat es she wore a . . bracelet from which hung the nisigma of office -her keys and purse. Now, that she bas laid aside the gold wrist- band,t h had these significant ouse ac- coutrements are carried in the dress pocket; but they are hers, nevertheless. Icelandic omen Vote in all cburch w and palish matters. They also have full. municipal suffrage, but as yet can- not vote upon matters pertaining to commerce, nor for members of Parties me.nt, though there is a strong senti- meat in favour of giving thein these additional advantages. Women take part in many political meetings:, and talk upon all political isubjects. During the Athling „ sere sions great numbers of the most Intel,- ligent women of tee capital cite are in- constant attendance. For Some years there has existed -a political secietY of women, and when momentous quest times affecting their interests' ere be- fore the legislative body, large meet- tugs are called and addressed ., by women, getting forth -their elaims. . e• : FIREPROOF PAPER ' A; valuable fireproof paper is lure: • ' made of 95 parts of asbeetos fiber the ,,,,,., ..„144..,,, • • unet gee"`ee w - - in a solution of Penmatiganate of ealcluan, and then treated with sulphuric acid. After the rise li. been th treated,five rt 1 r as , n us, na - ' 5 f round wood pulp are added and, ° 'g p _ . ' the entire inass is placed in an ,agitat- ing box, . with SOMA time water and borax, After a thoro•ugh mixing the material flows out into an endless wire cloth, whence it enters the -usual pa- per :making machineeyeraper imoduread in this way will resist even the direct nelluence of a. flame, and may be placed in a white heat with irnPunitY:- ': ' - STATION. SOLA ED 'WEATHER S I ., T . , ' Rockall., a desolate granite rock rig. • e nag cm -le 70 feet abovthe sea ' between Iceland and the Hebrides, is to be made an 'English meteorological station. It lies 250 miles from land, the nearest . . : .t i e oint to it being the 10. t e Island o d itself • Hilda, 150" miles ewer; an e neareY 100 miles from the Main group&shed of the Hebrides. . Iti:toleatal is: tn. le Path oe the orelome di air ewes on t e th - Atlantan and the station 'ere would give timely warning of sternas approaching :the British coa.st. t .. _ NOT AT ALL NEW. ' ti • i • t 1 how wat lessly, A, sewn fic wr tei e Is . er can be boiled in a sheet of -writing pa- per. -We don't doubt it. We have tf ]ines known a man :O. write aheWk 2te-qh, .ion a siaiset .of wreing-paner t at opt la' in hot water for three years. gee( l'otes01 e, of 'Vealtott to, be respeo- old." any Wanda line of enc. me. vel 1.lie free4 on, in Wales* teens. in receipt ot on all nartat gging him to Armenains, comic papers saced to elib-. t and a fine rial yaoht. ror and Em - o Leith, and rbourg, was a coat of (in- ations) up - he greatest England. She d about he has thou - y. She has or of pboto- vas littlei a fashionable ritish. draw - Campbell. anddaughter, r, having in he pipes for rated and the only twe ho have ex- minine babe y have been ly, the Ein- e first half Enaprees Eu - 1 her coffee When ber ae years ago Donee a the been height oP er purveyor. is the post e sovereign poxident. "A an, of dark of absolute n eyes, Peo- 1. no wonder, us pre:clews- tinks in the chbisboe, of London, tbe ished Church r, of Bristol; . Moine'ot Gibson, and uing a dee:a- rches calling yer." d Mrs. Ret- ort of the magazine of , entitled "Al standard set ted. Mr. Kin- ondence with ere tweeted. ride 61 years 1. Copenhagen, s representa- o de la Bove,. 8,000 French - Faure, and renehevomen. ally intend - Emperor on: riage, and 's coronation, in tinie. The service of g thirty-two ed with the de provinces, °ante inua tings•by dist and the sige en contribute t With a New: . Will Soot. be me bas been the city sathe s of lodging comfort and When the comfortable 01 119 poor the lodging found. that or -which no viz; the wid- bildrem, who t from home no means of care of their . To supply " nee been arrangement ilione in the ipal enter- uated in the , and. thus for the class laere are ac - 165 small e ordinary are reading, inivag rooms. e a spacious The nursery ley trained rs under her water baths, small kitten infants' food, the building. tud convent - kept to the other with week; with with three er with one k; with two three child - board are: , five cents; a six cents. 5 cents for , for two in for three though the few months ce between ed those of d is already age which is et that the tive to fatia he tchildree rather iht4AP, e is beiteVed: I peon Avitt 191.19 rem glee