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Exeter Times, 1896-11-19, Page 3CURRENT NOTES IVIctiter.s in Madagascar are bY flO MNUIR i pletteant or promising eon, ditien from a Freneh. point of view. The deeliion to make the island a French poseeesion rather than a Pro- teetoratP bas not" proved so easy a ao- eempliehment as \vacs entieipated, Great Pritain and the United States hose not yet eongente-i to the abrogation of the ighte -scoured to their citizens by treatiee concludea with the formerly in- dependent Malagasy kingdom. Bu,tthe difficulties from withiagreatly exceed those from, withou.t. The maintenance of order on the great interior plateau whioh is the seat of the Malagasy semi- eiellization, devolves on the Rove., offie cats, who, in spite of the su.pport of a small French force at the capitol, are proving unequal to the teals. Meanwhile the vs.4' central region, two hundred miles iffbreadth anti almost four tiraes as many rolle.s in lengtb, c.alled by the natives Imerina, is overrun with ixiar- enders. These named Faleavalos, are composed of three eta:sees; first, the old banditti, reinforced by some Ilova soldier% who deserted their leaders in the late war; eecnadly, the old heathen • party, mho never adopted Christianity, even if en the queen's account they nominally accepted it, and thirdly, tbe etrong anti -foreign clement. These cora- bleed coestitute a majority of the pop- tela,tion, and bold tbe country at their rticren,excePt at Antananartvo and a few isolated pointwhere oompanie.s French soldiers are stationed. The the - otic state ot affairs leave, even affect- ed. that peat of tbe plateau whieli lies immediately north of the capital and whicle used to be distinguished for the orderly behevior in its inhabitants. Here open ineuxrection now prevails, Tne rebels have passessiou a many at the towns. Their method of procedure is to burls the eburch in every place they take. and seizing the peetore and teachers, offer them liberty if they will anjuxe. Christianity and revert to idol worship. It is said that two hundred churches have been destroyed in this portion of the island alone. In the south the rebel chieftain, Rain- ibetsimisaraka, is made himself mas- ter of the Betsileo province, south of Antananarivo, and communica- tion between this exteneive tract of eountry and the capital is at an end. A. few taionths ago this chief commenc- ed a raid against the stations of the Norwegian Lutheran Missionary So- elety, sta a result, about fifty of tleeir churches -neve been burned. The town e of Antsirabe, famous for its mineral eprings and frequented by invalids on that account, has been almost entirely deetroyed. The leper asylum was one le object of .ettack, and being set on fire, severaleefn the inmates were burned to 'death. As, stone mieeion house -with tiled roof withstood Use attack of the rebels, and the sixty persons within, among whom were twenty-fous• white men, WOMell and children connected with the mission, were rescued by a relief party of 260 'soldiers under the French resident of the district. Relief came none leo soon, h'oevever for food, water and ammunition were neare ly exhausted. In tbis instance the re- lieving party put the attacking rebels . to the rout. The French have so far chiefly attempted to keep up a line of communication two hundred miles long, of which a part lies througb pestilen- tial swamps and another part through heavily wooded mountains. To main- tain this a stronger force is needed, and. to subdue the rebellious elements ,all over the 'island still more troops are in demand. What tbe gain to France will be, even if UM island. is finally subdued, it is bard to surmise, tor the French people need no colonies for their own surplus population, know - •beg no suchproblem, nor is there any other preseing reason for their posses - Mon of such a country. OfIANT CO? TIE ENIBli. music WAS THE THEME OF REV, DR, TALMAGE'S SERMON. A Prediction That untrmony Sean earls- tiessize the World—Sacred Sumo Arc laisteuine the Triumph—Tee Universe win Again Be In 'rune. Washington, Nov, 8.—The musical resoerces of all natives seem drawn epees by Ilx. 'rah:nage in this sermon to illustrate a most practical truth. His subjeot was, "The Chant of the Stars," and the text job xxxviu, 6, 7, "Who aid the corner -stone thereof when the morning stars sang togeth- er?" We have all seen the ceremony at the laying of the corner -stone of churcb, asylum, Or Masonic temple. Into the iloilow of the stone were plac- ed sorrels of history and important documents, to be suggestive if, 100 or 200 years after, should the building 1* destroyed by fire or torn down. We re- member the silver trowel or iron ham- mer that smote the square piece of granite into senotity. We remeraber the venerable man who presided, wield- ing the trowel or hammer. We remem- ber also thia rausie as the chair stood on the scatterea stones and timber of the building about to be constructed. The leaves of the notebooks fluttered in the wind and were turned. over with a great rustling, and, we remember bow the base, baritone, tenor, con- tralto and soprano voices commingled. They had many days been rehearsing the special program that it might be worthy of the corner -stone laying. In ray text, the poet of trz calls us to a grander ceremony—the laying of the foundation of this great temple of a world. Tile corner -stone was a block a ligat, and the trowel was of celestial crystal,. All about and on the em- bankment of clouds stood the angelic choristers unrolling their librettos of overture, and other worlds clapped cymbals while the ceremony vseist on, and God, the Architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with mountains for pillars and sky for Ire - teed ceiling and. flowering fields for a floor and, sunrise and midnight aurora for upholstery. "Who laid the corner -stone thereof, when tbe morn- ing stars sang togetherr INDIAN MAIDENS. In many parts of India,*especielly among the Hindoos of certain tastes, the women wear neither shoes nor sandals. Around the ankles silver, gold, brass and bronze circles ore hung. They are all of beautiful. workmanship. Even the • poorest peasant woman can boast a pair of artistic anklets, with quaint beads nanging from them. Toe rings arerierzi, too, and are mane of metal befikitTag the wearer's rank. Onlyethe rich wear ornamental chains and instep pieces, winch make the feet look pretty. Over the great toe is - slipped a slender ring, with a long mar- quise setting, made of gold and silver filigree, and tipped with perhaps a tur- quoise, jasper or ornamental ball of the *lb *lame metal from winch the ring is nide, The second toe is adorned with a similar ring with a setting of bee:Of- fal workmanship. The top of the ring is made to cover the entire top of the toe. The third tend fourth toes are cov- • ered likewise with oddly feshionell rings. he little toe is graced with one which resembles the back of a turtle a.nd flur de lis combined. • Bach ring is held. in place by e chain • of unique design, which passes up over She instep and is attaehed to a, bend- earaely Olive(' piece of metal. This is in turn fastened to a massive anklet, which haieg,s loosely about the ankle. almost concealing the joint. Above this are soaaetimes worn two, three and even tour anklets. • THE HUNTER'S STORY. Tbe guide had been telling Bobbie tbe Most thrilling Stories of big ex- periences in tbe woods, ending with a graphic aecount of how he had once Laen lost upon Bald Mountain. My 1 It roust have been awful, said. Bobbie, And did you get back all right •s again No, Bobbie, returned the old fel- low, solemnly, Nevar, leaot is, my boy, I'm out ;bar yit it is found that the cuckoo sings in the lea,. of D and that the corniorant is a basso in tee winged ehoir, yet sportsman's -gun ad autumnal blast often leeve, them ruffled end bleedbeg or dead in° meadow or •forest. Paul was right, for the . groan in nature drowns mat the priraa donnas of the sky. • Tartan, the groat musical composer, dreamed one night that he •made a, contract wine sataa, the latter tebe • ever in the composer's eervice. But one nigat he banded to eaten a, violin; on 'which Diabolue played each sweet mus1c. that the composer was awaken ed. by the emotion and tried to repro- duce the sounds, and therefrom was written Tartine's Most famous piece, 'The Devil's Sonata," a, dream in genius, but faelltes Ler all melody descends from heaven and only dis- oords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds, controversies, backbitings and revenges are the devil's sonata, are oialsolie fugue, are demoniac phentase, are grand march of doom, are allegro Of Perdition. But if in this worlid things in general aro out of tune to our fraii. ear, bow. much more so to beings angeale and delfic It takes a skieled artist to fatly appreeiate disegreement of sound. 'Many have no capacity to detect a de- fect of musical execution, and though there were in one bar as many of - lenses against berate -ay as eoulel crowd in between tbe lower V of the bees and the higher G of the eoprano, would glee theta no discomfort, while on the forehea,d, of the educated artist beads of prespiration would staod out a,s e result of the harrowing disson- ance. While an amateur was perform - 02 a piano and bad Just struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian Bach, the immertal composer, entered the room, and the amateur rooe in epabaersee- ment. and Bach rushed past the host, wlie stepped forward • to greet, him, and before the keybeard had stopped vibrating put his adroit hand upon the keys and changed the painful harmony into glorious eadenee. Then Bean turned and gave salutation to the hest. But the worst of all discord. is moral diecord. If society and the world are paean:1y discordant to imaerfeet man. what must they be to a perfect God 7 People try to define Whet SiX1 18. It eeenes to me that sin is getting out of barzaony with fitod, a dieagreement with His holiness. with His purity, with His love, with His c,orruriande, ‚our will olashing. with His will, the finite dash- ing. against the infinite, tbe frail agamst the puissant, the created against the oreator. If 1000 musicians, with flute and cornet -a -piston and trumpet and. violoncello, the hautboy and trombone and all the wind and stringed instruments that ever gather- ed in a Dusseldorf jubilee, should re- solve tbat they would play out of tune and put concord to the rack and naake the place wiki with'shrieking and grat- ing and rasping sounds, they could not make such a pandemonium as that which rages in a sinful soul when God listens to the play of its thoughts, passions and emotions—discord, life- long discord, maddening discord. The world pays more for discord than it does for consonance. High prices have been paid for musie. One man gave 4225 to hear the Swedish songsi tress n New York, and another 4625 to hear her in Boston, and an- other $650 to hear her in Providence. Fabulous priees lave been paid for sweet sounds, but far more hasbeen paid for . discord. The Crimean war oost $1,700,009,000, and the Anaerieen civil, war over $1,500,000,000, and the war debts of protessed Christian na- tions are 'about $15,000,000,000. The world pays for this red ticket, .wbich admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones and death agonies and destroyed cities and plowed graves mad crushed hearts, any amount of money eaten asks. Discord 1 Discord 1 But I have to tell you that the song that the morning stars sang together at the laying of the world's corner- stone is to resound. again. Mozart's greatest overture was composed one night when he was several times over- powered with sleep, and artists say they can tell the plaees in the music where he was falling asleep and the places where he avvakened. So the overture of the morning stars spoken a in my text has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by the evening stars of the world's existence than by the morning stars'and the vespers will be sweeter thanthe matins. The worknof all good men and women and of all good churohes and 'all reform aseociations help to bring the race back to the angina.: harmony.. The rebellious heart to be attuned, social life to be attuned, commercial ethics to be attuned, in- ternationanty to be attuned, hemis- pheres to be attuned. In olden times the choristers had a tuning fork with two prongs, and they wouen strike it on the back of pew or music rack and put it to the ear and then start the tune, and aa the other voices would join. In raodern orches- tra, the leader has a complete instru- ment rightle attuned and he sounds that, and all the other performers tune the keys of their instruments to make them correspond and draw the bow over the string and, listen, and -sound it over again until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch, and the discords melt into one great symphony a,nd tbe curtain hoists, and the baton taps, and. audiences are raptured. with Schumann's "Paradise and the Peri," or Rossines "Stabat Mater," or Bach's "Afagnificat" in D. ' Now, our world cell never be ettun- ed by ain imperfect instrument. Even a creinana would not do. Heaven has ordained the only instrument, and it Is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, ca,tatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenad- ed the earth with "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good -will to men." Lest we start .too far off and. get lot io generalities, we had 'better begin with ourselves, get our own hearts and lives in baarmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for His int mighty spirit to attuae us, to chord our will with His will, to modulate our life with His life and bring us into unison with. all that is pure and self- sacrificing and heavenly! The strings of our nation are ail broken and twist- eds and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything inelliflons. The in- strument made for heaven to play on hasbeen roughly twanged. and struok by influences worldly and deationiac. 0 master hand of Christ, restore this split end fractured and despoiled and inn strung nature until first it shall wail out Lor our sin and then thrill with, divine pardon 1 Tbe whole world Must also be attun- ed by the same power, I was iu the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike I Com- plete barmony 'between labor and cap- ital, the operatives of scores of years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturere, whose invention and Christiat behavior made the great enterprise. SO, ale tbe world. over, labor and. capital -will be brought into euphony. • You' may have heard , what /s oalled • the "Anvil Chortle," eemeased by Verdi, a tune played by The fact is that the Whole universe was a, ccanplete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a toluene polliolio. The great sheet of iranaensity lied been spread out, and written on it were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of them sustained notes. The meteors marked the staccato passages, the whole heavens a gamut with all sounds, intonations, the space between the worlds a musical interval, trembl- ing of stellar light a quaver, the thun- der a base clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That is tbe way God made all things a perfect. harnaony. But one tday a harp string snapped in the great orcibestra, One day a voice sounded. out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious antiphon, It was sin that made the dissonance, and that .harsh discord has been sounding through the centuries. Ali tbe worls of Christians and philanthropists an reformers of all ages is to stop that discord and get all things batik into the perfect harmony which was beard at the laying of the corner -stone when the morning 'stars sang together. Be- fore I get through, if I am divinely helped, 1 will make it plain that sin itahadtisir adsmanerdalr=1:i•lirsoutaanfidn is as plain as to a musician's ear is the unhappy clash of clarinet and bas- soon in an orehestral rendering. Tile world's health out of tune; weak lungs and the atmosphere in collision. disordered eye and. noonday, light in quarrel, rheumatic, limb and damp weather in struggle; neuralgias, and pnenraonias, and consumptions, and epileptics in flocks sweep _the neigh- borhoods and cities. Where you- find one person with sound throat and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and sup- ple limb,. and prime digestion, and steady nerves, you find 100 who have to be very careful because this or that or the other pbysical function is disordered. lehe human intellect out of tune ; tbe judgment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the -will weak, or the temper inflammable, the well bal- anced nund exceptional. Domestic life out of tune; only here and there a conjugal outbreak of in- eumpetability of temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father's will through the sur- rogate's court, or a case of wife beat- ing or hieshand poisoning through the criminal courts, but thousands of fam- ilieswith June outside and January within Society out of tune; labor and capi- tal, their hands on eachother's throat; spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale wbo are struggling to get up, and petting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come clowe. No wonder the old pianoforte of society is all out of tune, when hypocrisy, and lying and etibterfuge, and double-dealing, and sycophancy, and cbarlatanism, and revenge have for 6000 years- been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. I suppose you -have noticed how waxnaly in love dry goods stores are with other. dry goods stores, and how highly grocery men think of the sug- ars of the grocery man on the same street,- and in what a eulogistic way allopathic and homeopathic doctors speak of each other, and how ministers will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking instrument which the English call a spit—an iron roller with spikes on it and turned by a crank before a tot fire --and then if the minister being roasted cries rout n inst it, the men who are turning him say, "Hush, ray brother; we are turning this spit for the glory of God and the good of your soul; and you must be quiet, white we close the ser- vice with: Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts In Christian love. Paul says, "The: whole ceeation geoaneth." And while the nightingale, and the woodlark, end the canary, and the plover somethnei3 sing tilo sweetly that their notes haee been writteu out in musical rotation, and ao---eitease 717717'., EXETER TIMES esees haninaere, great and small, new with mighty' stroke and. now itb heavy stroke beating a great iron anvil. Th,at is whet the world. baa got to came to—anvil chorus, yardstick chores, shuttle chorus, troweloberuse crovebas oh,ortue pickax chorus,. gold none chor- us, rail track aortas, locomotive aor- ta. It can be done, and it will be done; so all social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There will be as malty classes in so- ciety asnow but the 41asses will not be •regulateeby berth or wealth or ac- cident, but by tbe sale of virtue and benevolence, and people „will be as- signed. to their plaees• as good or very good or most excellent. So also mere raercial life will be attuned, and there will be 12 in every dozen and 16 maces in every pound, and, apples at the bot- tom of tbo barrel, will be as sound as tbose on the top, and' silk goods veill not be cotton, aid sellers will not lave to charge lemeet people more than the right price because others will not pay, arid goods win come to you coe,- respoading with the sample by whiclo you purohased them, and coffee will not be cleiceried,, and sugar -will not be sanded and milk will not be chalk- ed, and adulteration of food will be a state prison offense.. ,ye, aLt things shall be attuned. Elections in England and the United States wt no more be a grand carnival, ot defamation and nein-lay,but the elevatien origbte- ous mi en n a rigloteous way. In tbe sixteenth century the singers called the Vischee brothers readied the lowest bass ever recorded, and the laghest note ever trilled was by La Sasterdella, and Catalini's voice had a, compass of 3 1-2 octaves. But Chris- tianity is snore wonderful, for it runs all up and• down the greatest heights and the deepest depths of the world's reicessiey, and it will compass every- tb:rig and bring it in accord with the song whieh the mooning stars sang at the laying of the world's cornerstone. After our dreadful civil war was over, in the summer of 1869, a great national peace jubilee was beld in Bos- ton, and as an elder of my tharch bad been honored by the selection of some of his music to be rendered on that occasion I accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty taousand people sat and stood in the great coliseum erected for that purpese. Thousands of wind and stringed instruments, Twelve thou- sand trained 'voices. The masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour after hour and day after day—Handers "Judas Maccabaeus," Splices " Last Judg- ment," Beethoven's "Mount of Olives," Haydn's " Creation," Alendelssolm's "Elijah." Meyerbeer's " Coronation lVfarch," rolling on a.nd up in surges that billowed against the heavens. The mighty cadences within were accompanied on the outside by the ringing et the bells of the city. Paxepa Rosa, with a, voice that will never again be equalled on earth until the arcbangelic voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose above all otber sounds in her renderinaof our na- tional air, "Tbe Star Spangled Ban- ner." It wa$ too mush for a mortal— quite enough for 04 immortal—to hear. And wbile eome fainted, one evoroanly spirit, released under its power, sped away to be with God. 0 'Lord, our God, quickly usher in the whole world's peace jubilee, and all islands of the sea jein the five con- tinents, and els the voizes and all the musical ineenunents of all nations combine, and all the organs that ever sotioded requiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joe, and all the bells that tolled for bnrial ring for resur- rection, and all the cannon tbat ever hurled death across the nations sound forth eternal victory. And over all ac- claim of earth and ministrelsy of heaven there will be heard one voiee sweeter and mightier than any human or angelic voice, a voice once full of team but now full of triumph, the voice .i Christ, seeing, "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." Then, at the lay- ing of the top stone of the woeld's his- tory, the same 'voices shall be heard as when, at the laying of the world's • corner -stone, "tbe morning stars sang together." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 22. • "Remarks of Obedience." Fray. 3. 141^ holden Text. Prey. 0, 0. GENERAL nTATEMENT. Whatever &inference of opinion there may be as to the aathoe of the naiddlet and closing portions of the Book oe Pro- verb, very few scholars lave tiou.bt- al that tha first part et it, from which the beautiful lesson of to -day las been eeleeted, comes to us erten Sblemon's svise mind. Tbe Leeeson Conatoittee /save enriched our lessons greatly by recommending all, teachers and scholars to read carefully Prose 3, 1-35. This is the discourse of theeariental, sage to the youths whom he expects to follow him an the stage of life and take up he their tarn the responsibilities he is shortly to lay down. In each sentence is corapacted and condensed the dom- of a life of wise reflection and virtuous energizing. We are first ex- horted to obedience. verses 1-4; then to reliaaee On God, Verses 5, 6; we are warned against eelf-sufficiency and self dependence, verses 7, 8; we are exhort- ed to seld-sacrifice and devotien to God. verses 9,10; to patient submission to God's afflictive diepensations, verses 11, 12; and the discourse concludes with pointing oat the gain of wisdom, ber incomparable value, and wherein that value c,onsists. In eaca case the ex- hortation is accerepanied with. a cor- responding promise of reward. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. Forget not. Neglect not. My law. My teething; my doctrine. Let thine heart keep. Obeyirig with the "heart" is the only true accent - able obedience. Matt. 15. 7, 8. My com- mandments. "My son, remember, love. obey." A CEYLON BABY. s 11.•••••• Born in London and Baptized in the Native Fadden. The Cingalese baby who was born at the India Exhibition at London, -was named in the presence of a large num- ber of spectators. The ceremony, which book piece in the Empress Theatre, was very picturesque, and was so far re- moved from the solemnity tbat usu- ally marks such occasions that spec- tators did not scruple to applaud the performances of the "devil dancers." A richly draped altar' adorned with the figure of Buddha and with vast* containing flowers stood in the center of the stage. The ehorns having chanted an ode, a procession entered. At the head of it were two Buddhist priests. Behind these canae a boy car- rying a gilt bowl of rose petals that served. for a sprinkling. Beneath' a silver canopy walked the mother, clad in a rose-colored skirt, with a loose white robe over her shoul- ders, her sister-in-law, who carried the baby, all in white, and another Cin- galese laceworaan, Devil dancers, stick cancers and other performers brougbt up the rear, chanting and whirling about in a mariner familiar to all who have visited _Earl's Court. These squat- ted in two diverging lines near the altar, in front of which the mother took her seat upon a stool. Tbe oth- er two women sat upon cushions before the altar, while the priests anounted the stools and recited an ode in Sans- krit. The head priest then rcioveti to the front of the altar, and from the tie - ration of his stool proceeded to sprin- kle rose leaves upon the mother and child, reciting the while in Sanskrit. Then carne the invocation, in Sans- krit: "Buddha wishes the child health, wealth' and . prosperity, hoping she will bave no enerams and plenty ot good luck, and be a comfort to her parents to a great age. As pare and -tte love- ly as these flowers are May she he, and 1, the headman of the Cingalese here present, according to the onstora of our country, name the child, after the town in watch she was born, London Rami." Rose leaves were sprinkled over the cbild; the mother, handing her baby to the eleteren-law, re- ceived froixt the priest a scroll, bowed thrice, and then resuming ber tseat wit- nessed the performance of the dancers. Carolina 1ami, the mother, ie a ,Cin- galese lacewoman, aged 25, and her daughter, Londoti Barni, 15 said: .to be the first Cingalese" baby born in the Matropcilis. 2. For length of days, and long life, and peace. A long and peaceful life is the reward of walking in true wisdom. For a wise life obeys God, and therefore refrains from vice, dissoluteness, intem- perance, and other sins which create disease and hasten death. "Paul's as- sertion in the midst of all his sufferings is still, as of old, that 'godliness bath the Promise of this life, as well as of that which is to c.omea Tim. 4. 5."— Plumptre. 3. This verse shows us at once that wisdom is not merely knowledge," or prudence, or shrewdness; for two es- sential elements of moral character are here presented. Mercy is the opposite to selfishness and hardness toward oth- ers; it te the kee.ping of all the com- mandments of the seoond table; it is DISAPPOINTED. He—Dia you like the Rocky Moun- tain regions, Madge? She—Never so disappointed in ray life. Couldn't see anything for the hills. helpfulness, forgiveness, sympathy; it is, m feet, love which is "the fulfilling of the law." Truth is character, sta- bility, uprightness; the 'opposite of all deceit, hypocrisy, and vantlation. Bind them, the mercy and truth, about .thy neck, as ornaments, necklaces; write them upon the table of thine heart. "The 'table' was the tablet expressly prepared for writing, being polished. corresponding -to the writing table of Luke 1, 63, which, however, was covered 'with wax. The inscription was made with the stylus."—Deane. 4. So shalt thou find favor. Find grace, acceptance. Verse 3, then, gives us the seeret of success in this world as welt as eminence in spiritual life for the "favor" is to be in the sight of God and man. 5. Trust in the Lird with all thing heart. Absolute consecration to Jeho- vah. Lean not unto thine own under- standings "In this trust in a Will su- preme, reghtemes, loving, is the secret of all true greatness.' —Plumptre. 6. Acknowledge him. Recognize him as Lord and Ruler, submitting thy will and way to his guidance and control. He shall direct thy patios. Literally, "smooth thy paahs. Guide thee rightly'. '7. Be not wise 15 thy own eyes. et °tuition against self -wisdom, which is only.. a proud self-conceit, Rom.. 12.16. On the other hand, fear the Lord; cherish a reverence for bis authority and will as wiser than our wisdom. To be "‚wise in tlaine own eyes" is to be a fool.. 8. As the word. rendered navel lit- erally means "a cord" some sup- pose that it should be here ren- dered. "sinews," "muscles," or "ten- dons," to stand for the fle.shy parts of the body in distinction from the fiamework of bones. Marrow mewls "moisture," being antiently supposed that in illness the bones were dried up. So the verse means, The fear of the Lord will nourish. your life in the most comprehensive sense. 9. Holier the Lord with thy substance. By an easy transition the words for "honor" in ancieet languages came to mean "give." Reverence for kings and all hi autherity was always expressed by'gifts; and the gifts advised in this verse were. to be expressions of loving reverence. 10. Barns are `granaries. Those that honor God by the oonsecratiors of their wealth '15 will honor by a large pros- perety, that they may do more good with it. le. Chastening and correction, the ob- ject of which is diecipilime and instruc- tion, may come by illness, bereavement, losses, and calamities of various kinds. We are 205, 0.2 the one hand, to despise it, to regard it lightly, or as of no ac- count; nor, on the other, are we to be weary of it, faint, under it, and sink into raureaues and gloom. • 12. For. See Bela 12. 5, 6. All afflic-' dons come from God. His discipline ehould be taken as proof of his love. Learning to recognize God in aal our troubles, and so being led to greater holiness, is a, great gain. la. Wisdom mute be I found; there- fore It must be sought for. It includes ael that pertains to the noblest man- hood and womanhood. ll 15. Athe things thou canst desire are not to be coraparecl unto bar, There is nothing, neither silver, gold, pre- cious stones, nor anything arectous, which is an eqaivalent to wisdom in value. • 10. The truly wise man, other tbings being equal, has the most. likelilmed of seeing long life, riches, and honor; for b the oraely virtues all fatter earthly prosperity and happiness, as well as the formation of a sperituel. character. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasant - tees, She retie/free nothing that is un- leeasant to rightly disposed minds, and gives abundanee of true pleasure. Ways and pablic mods; pollee are byways. In aLteareemetances a life, semi' and great, tree *asthma will make its pots- eessor happy. Peace—noth in the fmal restilt and in tlae .way. to ; peace of soul and peace With Cded. The Lord gradousily. takee care of this. PERSONA.I. POINTERS. ---e Interesnag New e About Some of the Great Folks et the World. Mine, Adelina Patti, duriag the ocurse of her operatic career has earned $5,- 000,000. John Gordon has written a life of Christ for the Youog, eptitled "Three Children of Galilee." The crown prince of Germany oho is now a military cadet at Hon, has 'be- come such a proficient oycliet that he regularly turns out with the military eye/lists' section of Ws corps. Dr. Nansen is a lover of bright (*l- ore. His snip, tbe Frara, was painted green, gray, scarlet and wbite, picked out wit/s gold—a bright dash of coke among the everlasting winte of ths Axone seas. Lady Ulric Duncentibe, after tasting the triumphs of the soeial whirl in Lon- don, has entered Girtou College as an under -graduate and will devote herself hereafter to plailosoplay and istory. • Mlle. Cavignac, daughter of the French minister of war in the last ca,b- inet, is to marry M. Paul Dubois, son of the sculptor of the same name. Her brother recently married the clauglater of Tains. -Willie Li Hung Chang was in Am- sterdam be bad an expert value the diamonds and other gems he wears in his official attire, and be is said to have been greatly disa,ppointed by the low price sat on them, Prof. Mcanenrick, Glasgow university, showed at Use meeting of the British assoeiation, a new apparatus, prepared by laimself and Lord Kelvin, by which the deaf might be enabled to enjoy the rhythm of music,, It is not widely known that Queen Victoria rules over snore alobanimedans than the sultan of Turkey, over more Jews than there are he Palestine, and over more nergroes than any other swir- ereign who is not a native of .Africa, An English expert deelares that he knows of at least 600 counterfeiters of the old masters which are now hang- iog 1.2 tile private galleries of the 'Unit- ed States, and all of which were origin- ally purchased in Europe at very bigh prices. Amelia , the numerous wedding gifts of the Princess Helen of Montenegro is a splendid. bicycle which the Queen of Italy has ordered from a firm in Milan to present to tier future daughter-in- law. The princess is an ardent and ac- complished cyclist. Li Hung Chang is an object lesson for early risers. in China, the expense of artificial lights is so great at is thought the better way to make all possible use of daylight. The great man of China, therefore, rises with the suri, and goes to bed when the shades of night have fallen. A. German young woman named Eliz- abeth Optiz has Just married a Japan- ese noble, Viscount Seistro Matsudara, son of the last feudal lord of Schimad- ara, near Negasaki, and a pupil ill the forestry school at Eberswalde. This is the first marriage between a German and a Japanese of princely rank. BATHS OF NOTED WO' Accord's% to the Figaro the Prince of Wales is accused of having an "evil eye." His right eye is the offending one, and "02C0 in every miuute and a half or so the lid drops completely over the eyeball," The eye remains closed for O short time, and then opens again to its fullest extent. After Gladstone made his recent Liv- erpool speech. in denunciation of the sultan, he returned directly to Hewer - den, went to bed, staid there for a cou- ple of hours, then rose thoroughly re- freshed, and appeared- at the dinner table as bright and lively as though he bad undergone no unusual fatigue. ilOW PROFESSIONAL BEAUTIES PRE* SERVE THEIR 1,9011$, Ike Honey Rath if the Fad of l'avin-ilati Sarah liAnten iss Tek--Tbe link a • nraventer or Wrinkles—A lionedy fat Staunton. There is a depressing Salnenesti about the hatory of aU errofeesionat beauties, They rise, they reign and they are sup- planted; and that is a compendium Ot their lives it a. nutshell. Since the beginning of time tbeY have been divided into two classes— tboee who fretted to get fat and tlociee who straggled to get thin. The better fortune of the former mod not. be dwelt upen, since the eotton crop, bits of woven wire and inflated rubber pads have gone a long way toe wards 'supplying pseudo -curves, Again, the slender beauty may ea,t, drink, and, be merry, waereaa torture and priva- tion seens to be the lot of ber fleshy rival, Bu,t the bath has invariably been the chief medium employe:I to teach either coveted goal. And men baths) Tat fad a the moment in Parts is tbe "boner bath," winch is reecemnemied as a skin feeder and is very PePulaT' with women 'who are troubled with "ealt-cellars " in the region of the col- lar bane. Ninon de Isnclos tried its vixtnes when Site was at tile zenith ot ber power, awl waa abundantly satia- fled its results. The honey batb of to -day is but ie • revival. of Ninon's old recipe; and there is no reason willy the faithful familY, tub, should not be used and, slender dane- seis disport themselves. a la Lenclos„ Rain water as the proper foundation for the !honey bath, but if that le use obtainable an excellent substitute is a tablespoonful ot ammonia to an ordin- ary bath of thirty gallons of water. Inn, to this throw a handful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of bicarbonate of soda and three mounds of honey. T.he bath must be tepid and the "in- gredientswell mixed," as the cookery- boolr bas it. This bath should be talr A. NEW DIVING DRESS. The Australian papers describe a new diving dress invented in Melbourne. The Buchanan -Gordon diving dress—so nam- ed after its inventors—clainas to have conquered the two great difficulties of the past—how to withstand the trem- endous pressure at great ocea,n depths arid how to give the diver -while down there a normal supply of air., At the preliminary trials the diver remained below at a depth of close on thirty fath- oms for the full period of twenty min - en on retiring, and the bather ought - to let ber Wain feed at least fifteen minutes. Sarah Bernbardt'a seeming gift el perpetual yoath fs said to be due te tea bathing. The firet thing ailme.Bern- hardt does on arriviaig at a strange ba - tel is to order a gigantic tea bath, Sec- eral pounds being necessary to give tbe mixture its proper streiagtlx. • "The effeot on tbe actress," saYs tbe authority for the story, "is known to all the world; but the effect on the Landlord is a secret between bimeelf, the plumbers awl the recording angel." As a. skin food and a preventor of wrinkles, the milk bath es said to ,be unsurpassed. It has been popular with, famous beauties from time iremortal.. AN the beauties of George 1V's tune, when they bathed at an, ba,thed 12 milk. Bathing was something of an eccentricity then, and. .those who batli- ed. aid so to be beautiful rather thin clean. Recamier lathed let m'ilk. So did Mme. Taalien; but the letter had twenty ponnds of strawberries ana two pounds of raspberries added. to her bath:when the fruit was ta season.' /sabelle. ef Bavaria bathed act a,ss'e miilk. Ceti** ire II, of Russia, bathed, ni. sank as het as she could staid to keep down her flesh. The same receipts for flesh -re- ducing was said to be popular with the Marquis of Queensbury, ''Old Q." • A milk bath at tlie preset time would. cost about $10, which might be an im- pediment to trying the experiment. An exeelie,nt substitute for the milk bath may be made with: Hata-pound. marshmallow flour. Quarter pound hyssop herb. Four .pounds bran flour. • Put into a. cheeseoloth bag and. add, to ordinary loath of thirty galena. Mrs. Langtry has never divulged the secret of her bath, but it is popularly thought to be milk. Some other se- crets of her toilets hose leaked. out, how-',, ever, and every one knows that she binds strips of raw veal on her faces et least twice a week to feed. the tissues. It is also reported that she sloughs ber sltin once a yeer by Means of chemicals. She certairda "bears her years well," ae She French say. The judgment of Paris (France) was divided regarding the greater beauty possessed. by Cleo de Merode or Liane bbs 'Pongy. Liana was beginning to drop behind in the race, when Paris was startled. by the news of her attempted suicide- Fear of assassination was ihe reason she assigned at the time, but since then Mme. de Pougy's maid las been teeing tales out of school. Liarie's chief beauty is her lithe, de- liciously slender figure—the sort of fig- ure that a certain class of nebelists al- ways describes as "leopards -like in its movements." A little over a year ago Liseie be- gan 50 grow stoat, and. the rapidly ac- cumulating tissue refused to yield to ordinary methods. It was then that she determined to resort to the horrible system of torture prevalent enough in Paris and St. Petersburg. Sloe tighten- ed her corsets to the utmost capacity of the laces and went to bed and ate nothing. .After twenty-four hoursof this regime she found they could be tightened a little more., This system she foltloeved for days et O time, eating just enough food. to SUS- taill life. and varying the corset &lash- ing With Oolcl &eat betbs and dancing./ But alit to no purpose, for after the smallest little supper up went her weight. So the sorrowing Lime deter- mined to quit this vele ot tears while she was stile slender. • Let the average woman think for one moment of Lime dancing to keep down her flesh while she planned. suisade, end then be thankful that she does not have to live up to the ideals of a pro- fessional beauty. Lillian, Russell, it is repealed, has found thesecret of preserving her beauty, if not her youth, in a scented bath. She tubs herseef morning and evening in water that lia.s a refreethe tug and vivifying effect upon the skin. Tbe famous stage beauty preserves the secret of her bath carefully, end the recipe tor it is kept Locked up in a pri- vate draever in her deanty desk. Ada Rebate whose complexion is as brilliant, and whose skin is as soft as it was when she was youthful, enough to play ingenue poets, is a believer in the bath as art ereservative ce beauty: - Like Miss Russell, Miss Belem b,ast 155 dischned the secret of her beauty -ire - parting tub, but, it iS 111Mod to be as' eastly as it is effective: utes without having any air pumped down to him. The great merit of the invention seems to be that the diver carries his own air SUpply down with him. The dress is described as practic- ally a suit of armor, which defies all assaults'siyet eeables the wearer to move about yth the utmost ease. The in- ventors are confident. that they can reach with ease a depth of thirty-tbree fathoms, and. if so they will be in a position to eaplore the wreck track of the English, Channele But the greatest possibilities before the invention are as- sociated with the pearl fislaeries. Hith- erto the pearl divers in Austreliari wat- ers have not been able to exceed a depth of. twenty fathoms, arta not a fe.w of them have been hauled up dead from that distance. • • ELECTRIC SHIPBUILDING. Many notable improvements are being made in England in shipbuilding, especi- ally in electrical shipbuilding. Ina New- castle yard immense steel structures have been erected. over the berths oc- cupied. by two large vessels in process of constructian. These structturesavhen finished,are to be roofed over with glass and their sides inclosed., By means of electricaaly driven ensues, material can be carrie& rigitt over the largest Tee- se'ls end deposited at anypoint. Port- able drills, wood deck planing machines, punehing machines and fan beasts are also driven by electricity. In another yard where a complete electric driving plant has been pat down, a separate motor is fixed to each machine employ- ed. By this means the weekly consump- tion of coal has been reduced from 72 to 38 tons. GROWING OLDER. Thanksgiving days come and go. We are growing elder every year. Some of us have turned our faces toward the fule shining of the western tun.; We have beautiful memories of 51* old days of our childhood, end the nearer days of our raaturer yearc. We love to sit the twiligat and think of them We marvel at God's wondrous grace, which enabled as to travel so safely and with. so few toil marks on our garments,wben we consider the danger of the shadowy passes through whith we have came We thank alma that He hare brought me out upon the beautiful' table lands, from whoste heights we can catch glimp- ses of the Beulah -land which lies about the city of our God; The total selectee paok that year IS estimated at 680,000 cases. No person tinder sixteen years ol ie peemetted to eater a thee te or tavern in Heligoland.