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Exeter Times, 1898-7-28, Page 7" Nom AND COMMENTS In Italy ministerial crises follow eseh otleer in tepid succession, th BuliuiCebinet lieving resigned lee week, the second time within a month The first aisagreement grew out of the measures talen for the suppression of the Nay tiota and to be taken to pre- vent their reourrence, and judging from the cliseussion in the Chamber et - tending ita announcement, the second may fairly be attributed to the same cause, That the downfall of the pres- eat administration would be one of the ioanaediate eequences of the ecent rioting was te be expected, tor although BO long as the army obeyed, the restora- tion et external order was assured; it was inevitable that the eutbreak must seriously affect the internal position of Italy. Disaffectinn has, in fad, only been given a keener edge, and the feeling in the minds of the mass of the peopte that the Governsia.ent is identi- fied with heavy taxation, dear food and lack of remunerative enployment, aas taken deeper root. The policy- ,af the Radini Government, though nonainally opposed to, is virtually that of Crispi, and so long as it is maintain- ed, disaffeetioe will smoulder un tit another opportunity is afforded for open outbreak. What is needed in Italy is etatesmanship, not force, the origin- nality and courage to reduce expencla, ture and taxation until they cease to oppress the people, and international is- olation until the kingdom has time to recover somthing of its proeperity. Since the disappearance of the grcup of etatesmen who made Italy a free a ed United kingdora, it rulers hav•e largely lost sight of the welfare of the -people in futherance of their schemes of ag- grandizement -the creation of a huge army and navy, the maintenance of al- liances, the development of colonies, and the assumption of the position of a great power. TlfEY 310BBED 0 ABliEL, REV., DR, TALlYIAOE PREACHES QN HOW TO ESCAPE PUNISHMENT. . g -04.010 was a Very eseetied City -tot Acle vieed to Eseaoe for flus trefe-Itengerte nejeettog christ-To-liteee Nat T47110'' *OW, is the Tante to Aecent-Once Started on the etoad DO VOA 11,008 Rack IrZteiriee A despatch from Washington, says: -Dr, 'Talmage preaohect from the text: "Escape for thy life; look not behind the, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, le,st thou be c,onsuined."--Gen. xix, 17. For the most part, the lakes of the earth' are the darlings of the :noun - tains --their necks garlanded with wild flowers and their foreheads flashbag in the sun; but there is one lake loatla- some and Ged-forsaken, and exiled from all that is beeutiful. The mod- ern traveller finas it. It lies clown ac- cursed; no tinged shells adorn its bank -s; no ash live in its stenelifui waters, Tbe waterfowl, for the most part, do not fly anywhere neer its surface, and. Use bather comes up ote of it encrusted with the salt and sick with the ta.ste of the water. Bitter, brine, sulphurous, dark, it seems as if the shadows of past desolation chas- ed each' other across it, and the traveller, struok through tei Eh mei- auchelY, hastens from its presence, erhaps taking a few pieces of nitre ncl sulphur to show the barrenness of he place. Where that lake now preads out, thirteen cities once stood among them Sodom. It would benn- araonable if, in this presence, 1 m- ounted the crimes of that city. Suf- ice it to say that the citizens were o had they mobbed an angel that came own on an errand of mercy. lase re - 'red to leave the city, but did net ake much haste. He had miles to avel, and, at the rate at which he as going, death would have dashed pon hina belere he got to the neoun- ins. And so the angel seizes him, she him on, pulls him out, urges m forward, crying, in the words of y text: "Escape for thy life; look t behind thee, 'neither atay thou in the plain; escape to the mountain, t thou be consumed." Well, THE FATAL DAY CAME. e morning as bright as ever, pee - :s; the citizens, as usual, reckless, clean and blasphemous. What do y care about their coming doom? are is no God, or if there be, who rs him ? Suddenly there is a flame the sky, and the volcano rocks and eaves the bitumen that undetlies that „region of country, throwing up to the surface, and this come tible naciterictl earning in the pre- ce of the fire immediately ignites; amid the falling flame, and up - ✓ ing asphaltum, and the suffocate stench of the brimstone, and the sting thunder, and the roaring, kling, all-consummg hurricane of 's wrath, Sodom shrieked its last O and died! y friends, God hates sin just as h now as Ile did then, and it be- e you, and it behoves me to leave transgressions, and start, not with Ps pace, not with deliberate walk, at the top Of our speed, for res - the angel that: helped, Lot out of ble meantime taking us by the and crying in our ears: "Escape thy life; look not behind •thee, er stay thou in all the plain; es- te the mountain, lest thou be con - d.". What is the sin -that we basten from? Sin is just one e The legislature makes an en- ent; a man offends against it, he is incarcerated. You make- a n your household; your child wil- disobeys, and punishmeut fon God. nukes a law; we have all n it, and hence we are all sinners; in consequence of that sin we be punished unless there be pardon offered -unless there be door of escape set before us. d be God, there is one text in the first place, suggests cy on Lhe part of all those who induce people out of their sins,' was not the angel more polide? did not he coolly and formally Lot and his wile to leave that, 'The angel, so -far from that, hold of him, pulled him out, him oa TH IRRESISTIBLE FORCE. f so tr ta pu hi ra no all les Th hoe un the ,Th tea irt uph all Id bus •sen and hea ing bur orac God curs mu° hove our erica but cue; trou arm, for -neith cape sume must thing actm and i fully lows. broke and must some some Meese My urgen would Why Why invite city ? seized pulled WI Tbe result of it all has been to im- pose upon the country a burden of taxa- tion it is wholly unable to bear, and to deprive the people of the surplus ac- cumulations necessary to their content and tranquility. Weighed down by the expense of supporting a great modern administration maintaining costly al- liances and demanding public inaprove- ments, discontent is naturally most bit- ter, and the field ready prepared fax the hand of the Socialist propagandists. To make mattere worse, the Italians, eith- er because they despair of gaining any adequate reward from their industry, or because they lack commercial wis- dom, fail so to prepare their products as to get the best value for them; while those portions of the kingdona sahich :night attract pleasure -seekers, are ren- dered unprofitable by social disorder. To secure content and prosperity, the annual expenditure of the State should be reduced by fifty millions a year, and the standing army to one hundred thousand men, reforms which can only he effested by a minister of the dictator - premier type. For such a, man must not only be able to root out the corporation vehich exists everywhere, but courage- ous enough to dismiss, and so incur the enmity Of, a great army of useless of- ficials, and strong enough to command a majority of the deputies, who will ap- prove his reforms in general, but will want their own districts excepted. Such a man may yet be found, as he ' was thirty-seven yeas ago, but look- ing at the present group, of Italian statesmen, the prospect is most dis- couraging. NERVES 011 TEMPER ? Few people realize how very un- pleasant they are in their own harness and how seldom they give a soft answ- er, or, indeed, even a polite one.•Often the hostess, who is doing much for her guests' comfort, has not the remotest idea that her nervaus, irritable manner about all household affairs, her snap- • py replies to her husband and children, and her severity and fault-finding with her servants, spoil utterly tor her vis- itors their otherwise good time, and do away vvith all the kindness lavished up- on them. "We are sure," says tbe charitable person, "that it is nerves, not temper," but, alas 1 when one's nerves get the better of one, and reaults in continued irritability, It is quitom e hard to disting- uish such an attack frwhat aux grandmothers were pleased to call • 'teznper." „ It is hard, we admit, in this age of eoristant rush and hurry to be always amiable and self-eontrolled, and yet if we would only try, something :night be accorapliehed, and at least we could surely, by taking many things easier, and. not; fretting and nagging, get just as much one of life and give far more joy and pleasure to those around us. For it is a weal known fool;thatthe, • or 1170re particularly she, who goes quietly about her svork without fuss and flurry, in the end does inuch bet- ter end is far mere beleved than one who, in her aim to do all and More than her share, fails ignominiously. THE -"BIRINGIST" CITY. • The Irish capital haa long ceased. to be the, "eardeivingist" town in the kingdom; indeed, the Very exietence Of the once famods Trish oar le strongly' threatened by the corning system of electric: tram ways and the. 'bicycle which has already tome. That the eeseets may become the "bikingeet" in - the kingdom eeeIns probable, for Ires hind LS mecontl to no country for the unanimity With which all eorte and tarAtii liens of Inman ity have adopted the Wavle,• The angel was in `earnest. Oh, does not the world, looking upon us and seeing our coldness, come to the con- clusion that we do not believe what sve say? tf unpardoned men were in such peril. as the Bible says they are, and we believe it, would we be such precisionists, so cold, and stolid, and unemotional? Suppose a blind man were on a rail -track, and, you saw a train coming, would yob. go lie to him and say: "My dear friend, '5 maelaine commonly ealled a loconaotive, invented by James Watt, is making rapid xevolutione towards the ,pla.ce where you. are, and unless yo a change your course of podestria,nisne it will be soon decided which of the two is the stronger ?" Would you do theta Ah, no; men are not so stolid about tera- poral peril. 'You would cry:' "Get out of' the way. The cars are eaming!" And, yet when it is spiritual danger we hee so tnueha eircutriloeution, and so Lona eaution, and come with so titaid a tread towards the plaee where men ere imperilled, that, they actually don't -believe we thiek there is peril, although there are spiritual and eternal disas- ters coming on in long trains, flying as swiftly as the hours, swiftly as the seconds, ready ,th 'mush for .eve,. we realized. it, would not we stanep our f.00t, and cry Man, leaniertal, loth oatt th for eternity!" fere be•tio dan- ger in rejecting Christ, we might as well drop our ctexiety ; Wit if tbeir 18 danger, let us cry the alerra. • The Wcerld knowe at this deo that we who profess 'the -faith of Chrzet, etancling in our prayer -meetings, Sundesoschoole end pulpits act as if religion Were a • TIIE EXBTER TI1VIVS en Oh for eotnething of the a gennt Of the angel that °tune to Lo not 000lly dieoUssing witla him th eheteklal.PrOPerties of the etoete the was coming, bat leting' bbld of bi with beth hande, him o4 pushing him oat, and orying with e culPhaeut that mast have sent him a the top of his speed; " Valcana fe'r th life; look not behind thee, neither sta thoe'. in all the plain ; eseape to th MOuninine lest then be eonetnnecl." MY subject also suggests that th rs there are SQPiO AOSTA too lazy for this t, /ire 444 tO0 to Win heaves:, lf e we get to ite.ctven it will be by gather - t• leg lap all the energies Of Our souls and In hurling them ebead in one persistent , direction, I have eeee. 'within the past n week Or two people in tine church elart t for heaven, but they. loitered Isy the y way, SO taat ten thaneendyears would y not lie long enough for them to get e tilers. • So it is a bad sign when raea voyaging toward heaven stop heltsway. e 16 is sign of infinite, peril, don't exactly know WhY ot and his wife loitered by the way. I think Lot's wife looked haek because she thought atter all, it might be a hoax --that there might be no deetruetion ef thee city, and she said to herself: "Wouldn't we feel silly if our property ehould, be confiscated and the city stand undamaged?" Just so there are men now who say it is all talk aboue a judgment and a long eternity; • mere STARTING GIVES NO SECURITY, Lot bad started out of the city, hut lie might Lave perished half -way before he got to the mountains, Men start fox heaven, bat do not always get there til my 'lease be burning, and 1 take a bueket of water and put out the flames in thin, and that and yonder room, while 1 leave the flames iu another room, I might as well have wasted xi° strength and brought no buckets oa water at all. Thewhole thing will be consumed. And if a man is only half saved, he is not saved at all. 'Ten thou- sand men start; for the kingdom of Christ, but do not get there, They either start too late, or stop before they get there. The Le Bourgogne start- ed for France, but was loot with near- ly all oh board. There is such a thing as starting for a piece and not get- tiag there, There was not one inch of safety anywhere between Sodom and 'the mountain of refuge, Lot might as well have stayed in • bis own home and perished there, as to have perish- ed outside the city, Last; Sabbath night, there were men here who started for the kingdom. Have they got there? Let me say to all such ashave not reached that plane: there is :ao reek of shelter where you are; no promise of safety where you are: overtaken Dy the storm here you perish. A man has been very siok, doc- tors leave attended him carefully, and he comes ap to life again, begius to walk out; but he takes a eeld, has a relapse, and in twelve hours he is a dead men Ther€ are men who have been alnaost cured of their sin; they begin to get well, the heavenly Phy- sician stayed day after day by their soul, they had almost recovered, but not quite; there came on than a cold draught from tile world, there came a rela•pse, and they were gone. I hear raen saying in the audience: "Lord, I will believe, I will be e Christian." Varill you, now? If not now, to -mor- row will take , you, into the whirl of business and gaiety, and you may nev- er think of these things again There is a. man, who, forty years ago, became almost a Christian, but not • quite. What would have become of the Pro- digal Son if he had stopped half -way between the swine trough and bis fa- ther's house? Why, he might better not have started, but stayed down where he was. The carrots that the swine eat are better than nothing at all, Oh, to have started for heaven and th get there! If there are any In this house who are in this position I now describe, let me say I hat you are no more sate in this half-and-half experience than you were in the time before you began to think, and so I sound the tocsin: "Escape for thy life; look not behind the, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." The text suggests further, that a man, after bein,g persuaded out of sin, SOMETIMES 'LOOKS BACK. Lot's wife looked back and perished. Lot himself would have lobked back had it not been for the warning of the text. It is very natural. that they should. It was their home. AU her friends were there; all his friends were there. We bra ecoe attached to the city of mit residence, notwithstanding all its sins. Still it was wrong for them th look back. God forbade it. But are there not persons in this day who start out of their sins yet look back wistfully for occasional indulgence? Here is a. man who started for heaven a year ago. He had been given to dissipation; he has looked back. You. are drinking too hard. I believe a moderate drink- er may get into heaven, bat a hard drinker, never! "No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.'' The snake catches the eye of the bird on the limb; it begins to tremble, and soon slips from the tree branch and begins to fly down toward the serpent, and soon it is caught ine the terrible folds and is gone. The -wine cup has been your fascination. You have by it been brought down from the circles in walch you once moved, and conae dawn nearer and nearer to the day of your destruction, and after awhile you will be caught th the coils of that which "biteth like a Aerpent and stingeth like an adder. " Oh, man, give ma drink- ing, or give up heaven le There ie your choice. A man stood on the scaffold about to be executed, and the sheriff pulling out his watch, said: "You have fire minutes to say what you have to say. The dying man said: "Rum ruinect me. I had a little brother. I loved him very much.' He was a bright-eyed lad. I came home one day intoxicated. My little brother was picking berries in the garden, and for some reason I got mad at him, and 1 took up an iron rake and with one stroke I felled hien Now I am to die for it, and you ask me what t have to say. It is this: never, never, never touch anything that can intpxicate " Alas, if onee you start for heaven and look back Ito your early dissipations! Itere is another who has made ship- wreck in a,nother direction it has been ' TEm nousg OF SHAME. That Sodom will he the eternal dam- nation of your soul unless you (edit it. "As an ox •goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correetioe of, the stocks; till a dart strike through his live,r.'' So says God in Ptoverbs, than be the doom of a1t the impure. Another man is captured by the con- vivialities of life. Ile has ohoeien bet- ter ibeeoeiates, bat says: "I guess I Wil! go down to the room and see the boys a, little while." He goea down, and ie there one or two .hours, and in' those two hours he leeee all his good resolutions and all Serious impreesems. They are witty, they ate brilliant, they are sMart theee; but they ere bad, and they ruined him. Oh, how nearnr have etarted out ot associates, and IoOked bale, Oh, be not areong them, "Eseape for thy life." lity text soggeets that some trien, honing started, loiter by the wale They tarry Ili the Plain. They al% tee lagy to get on. Yon know that inen, na' Order to get on in thie world, neuet alehY theMseleete and work hard; meet go through drudgery, that efter they May haVe Inaterieee But IT IS ALL ,A II0A,X. doe'wonder that a men aeys that who does not believe the Bible; but if a mazt believe the Bible, 1 don't know howhecan say that, bee:Luse this Bible declares God will then into hell all the nations that forget Hie, and sweep with the hail of Hie vengeance the refuges a lie. In the peroration of His ser- mon on the Mount, Christ told how some homes are on the rock and; stand, and other houses are on the sand and fall. Sodom must perish; sin must be crushed and the whole world acclaim the justice of God. • Perheps Lot and his wife thought there . was no hurry. They may have said: "Th,ere ie no sigu in the heaven; there never was a more beautiful day thee this. We suppose that when the time eon:lee, there will be some signs of it.° There -will be a rumbling in the earth, or tnere will be an ominous sha- dow on the hills." They were inietaken. I suppose it eame ia an eye -twinkle. One moment mirth and. song, the next volcanio eruption and bursting cloud, and hbrrible obliteration. Men now tarry in the plain of sin and say: "There is no hurry. 'What if your breath should stop? Whe re would you be? Where would you go? I don't ask you to take my poor words about the brevity and uncertainty of life. Ask any commercial man whose kind. of business necessitates that he calculate the lengtb of human life -ask bins in his business what he thinks of the uncertainty ef human existence. "Oh" says some mane "I shall repent on my sick bed:' Will you.? The last sick- IleU, as far as I have observed it, is generatly divided into two parts. The first half of that final sickness is spent in the • expectation of getting well, in the discussion of doetors and different etyles of medicines; the last half in delirium, or in stupidity, or a consternation which prohibits religi- ous thought. So that I take it tor granted that THE POOREST PLACE ON EARTH tar a man to repent of sin and pre- pare for heaven, 1.s on his death -bed. In the first pert of that sickness he will expect to get well, and in the last half of it he will not be fit to think. What a foolish thing it is to tarey in the plain, when .more people perish be- tween Sodom and the mountains than actually perisli inside the city. A gentle- man was telling ma a night or two ago; evalking up the street,' of a lady who said: "I will repent and turn th God in six months. I have, made up my mind deliberately to that, and when 1 make up my mind I stick to Id. in six months I mean to be a Christian." Three of the six months passed along, and one evening, at the expiratioze ot the three months, she :said to sorne one who was talking on serious subjeets: "Just, three months more and I will attend to it." The, next morning they knocked at her door. She gave no answer. They went in. She had passed up th reckon with God. Ob, xnan itnmortal woman im- mortall tarry not in the plain. If it were a mere matter of temporal peril, I could not help but be intereeted in ,you, Tf I saw your house kindling with flame, I could not help but cry out: "Fire, fire!" If I saw you smitten with some terrible disease, I would run for medicament; but when/ find it is the soul that is in disease and. in peril, I feel like coming, and with almost; a violence of earnestness crying: "Why will you die ?" Itjhe c,rje oyo loss jt w the the p caond ns sylao they ankdnhe Lo could is th side i hide. tains you t etilte make race. may to th look n ttin, inalt t and his wife were in peril. If stayed in the city, what would me of them ? Would it be the of an arm,, or foot. Dr eye? Oh,no; ould be death utter; and before disasters passed from that city eople had perished In their homes, in the streets. "Lest thou be umed," the angel cried out. They die in their sins are consumed; are struck down with none to er. t started for the znountains.' He if he got there, all would be safe. storm could not take him there, not destroy him. Jesus Christ e mountain of our crefuge. His s the cleft rock in which we may To the mountains 1 to the. moun- rm t No stoof death can chase here. Everlastingly safe are all who put their trust in MM. Ott• haste! lighten thy girdle for the Lay aside all impediments, and God give the speed of lightning y feet! "Escape fee thy life; ot behind thee, neither stay thou the plains escape to the haoun- est thou be cdestuned." EMPlatOR AND POLICE. 14 honor of the fiftieth a,nniversary of the eetablishatetit of the Berths po- lice, the Emperor William the, other day invited the whole force to a spec- ial service in the Palace Chapel. lit an address which he delivered to them at its eonolusion, the Emperor called them the helpers, defenders, and counsel- lors of the oitizens, and the tertor ef evildoers, They were taxaetti 'which lie needed th enforce obedience, if nee ceesa,ry. He hoped that they woula de- vote themselves to their duty in the same spirit of the truest self-saerifice as hitherto. The reward of gratitude would then never be withheld, The Emperor -eonfeestea upon the officers officials, and men a number of de- corations, 'and 'granted Ithe ferce , new helmet badge, with the motto, 'alma6 Pidelita," With the years "1.8.48-48118." The force were finally in- vited together with their fanailiee to a. banquet, to be given in the Castle yard in a few days' time, lay 86e:v:1,y, what is a perfeet goat? A perfect gent is an inaperfeet gentle - :etch A MARVEL IN TELEGRAPHY. Expertmente lertot the Atmeephere as a elo,ettger Have Proved sot:cc:Nein The experiments have gone on quiet- ly, howeven and now aayone svho wish- es to tratvel to Bournemouth', in Eug- land, can eee the wirelese telegraph system in aetuel operation at tini ex- perimental station establiehed theee by Prof, .0,1arconi. The principle of telegraphing across pace without the aid ot intervening' wires 111(12 art apt illustration in the responsive actieu of two taxiing forks. If we place a couple of taniog forke which aro tuned, to exactly the same nOte, a short: distsnee from one an- other, and then by drawing a violin bow; or hy ,striking one ot them, cause Id to sound a nete-whieh is aoother Way of saying that we cause it to emit sound --the second taxiing fork wUI oatch up these vibratioos and be- gin itself to vibrate eyrapathetically, 11; will give evidence of its vibration by echoing the sound of th o first tun- ing fork. Within certain limits, and with slight differences th practiee, this is the way in which electric waves by being sent by one electric: instrument, and being received on /Another, trans- mit Bast vibrations and thence MESSAGES '11.1R,OUGH SPACE. th This was a raeod of signalling which was known and 'experimented, svitb by Prof. Nikola Tesla, of New York; by Prof, Oliver Lodge, in Eng- land; by Dr. tawaby, in Berlin, and,by Dr, Brownlees, in France; before Prof. 11.7inoni, who up to a recent period used a Bthsvialees cohener to aid him in getting distinctness of messages - was heard of. Prof. Marconi, however, claims have been more successful in the pra tical transmission of messages tha any of his forerunners. One of t greatest, diffieulties in sending me sages, is, of course, the difficulty getting instruments sufficiently sens tive to record the Hertnian waves whe they are sent. If the two tuning fork wbich have been suggested as an illu tration of electrical raethods, wer placed half a mile apart, the instru. ments which would detect syrapatheti vibrations in the receiving tuning fax would have to be extremely sensitiv and some difficulty would be found i disting•uishing sympathetic vibration from. those due to extraneous causes So it was with the electric tunin forks,Hertzia,n electric waves like ligh waves or sound waves, do not run b paratlel lines straiglat from the start ing point; they radiate in all directions like fragments of a bursting shell Prof. Nikola Tesla, therefore suggest- ed some years ago that AN ELECTRIC SCREEN should be added to the apparatus of the reeeiving station in order to catch as many or the waves as possible. This suggestion Prof. Marconi has ad - to c- 11 he s- of s, s- a In the case of the instrument at Bournemouth he has supplemented the receivers and by the addition of a mast 100 feet high, and from a ring near the dopa narrow- strip of wire netting runs tothe receivininstrument and acts as a collector ofhe tvibrations from Alum Bay, where the second station is locat- ed. So satisfactory ha.t-e been the ex- periments conducted by Prof. Marconi that he is about to extend the distance between his stations, carrying the sec- ond one to Cherbourg, sixty miles away. The experiments are at present in a very elementary stage. It has been found that the sound waves travel -much faster and better in foggy, rainy or windy weather than when the air is clear and. the weather fine and still. As the elever man who can telegraph without wires cannot make weather to order it is necessary to overcome the atmospheric conditions that influence the system, and Prof. Marconi is bend- ing all his energies to bring this about. Broadly speaking the success of the experiments is assured, inasmuch as messages are sent and clearly inter- preted without the aid of wires. Though much remains to be done, wire - Less telegraphy will surely be in gen- eral use before long, and people who marvel at the idea of 'sending messages between widely separated points with- out intervening wires will then look upon it as a matter of course, as they now do the telephone. A PRIME MINISTER AT CRICKET. Sir Ceoree Turner of Australia Tries HIS Ifilltd. Al the flood Ohl thune. Tile annual cricket match betw-een the St. Kilda City Council and the lo- cal. tradesmen's club took place on the St. Kilda ground in the presence of a large number of spectators, says the Melbourne Argus., The municipalities V4-0/1 the doss, and after thecustomary inspection of tbe wickets decided to bat. Sir „George Turner was sent in --or, to be more correct, went in early; but he proved a dismal 4ai1ure aa he ordy scored nine, after giving about 0.8 nia,ny chances as he made runs. The second ball he was clean bowled, but ae refused to yield his bat on the ground that it was only a "teal], ball" that toolc his middle stump. On anoth- er occasion the Premier went out to meet the ball -which he, of course, missed -and the impetus given to his :rely When making the stroke impelled th roll over Pull length on the ground. It happeried, also, that the veicket-keeper Joel; his balance and the all at the same time; and the epee- atle wa.s vvitnessed of Sit. George 13r- ing full length on the grouted, with he wicket-keenei.' in a similar position alobseside of htm, shaking the latter covitally by the hend for failing to tump him, The Premier eves soon ale 'e tweeds eleae bowled in a Manner tiSfad.Ofy tO himself, and en his te- urn th the patrilioxi he explained, that Et got otit throtieth a fly alighting la o:a i spectacles as t e ball was being de- livered. Through his glasses the aly beeethe ontgeified, and thielcing it Was the hell 6 stritek out, and did not flied .out his inietake till he saw his o1!± -stamp lenbeltea veer, TO CURE A COLD. Long lirraiirl Drite it AltaY Whelk first lirgins, A cold, as eparly every intelligen person knows, is the aneult of a ,sto page eomewhere of free circulation, the blood, to which oae is first sem tive through a fooling of chill. So slighi,1 the chill oftentimes tlaa not until Wee prelionnery Sneeze come is the vietim aware lie or she has bee in the track of a draught, or that th temperature has changed. The usual notion Is going indoors, b ehanging to heavier clothing or re treating from the moist atmosphere th danger is avetted. These peecaation are all well enough,. but the fiast and most effietteious measure shouldbe te restore the quick flow of warm blood through every vein, and: so by heat in- stantly counteraet 111. 11886 chill. One, and peehaps the simplest, meth- od of doing this hes been learned by men who stand on sentinel duty, who are obliged. to suffor more or less ex- posure in winter, or who scorn the com- forts in cold weather of overshoes, overooat axed tunbsella• Their method is, when the tempera, tore of the, body or extremities is low- ered, or a sudden chill or quick change from warm to cold atmosphere is en- dured, to inhale three or four deep breath,, expand the lungs th theiir full- est extent, holding every time the in- haled air as long as possible and then slowly letting it forth through the nostrils. - In doing this the inflation. of the lungs sets the heart into such quick motion that the blood, is driveri with unusual force along its channels and so runs out into the tiniest veins. This radiates a glow down to the toes and finger tips and sets up a quick reac- tion against the chill. The whole ef- fect is to stir the blood. and set its motion as from rapid exercise. Let any -woraan who goes to a din- ner or ball in a low-necked gown, where the rooms are chilly and her wraps not accessible, try this little cure, or, better still, this preventive - against cold and enjoy, its merits. Let her try it when taking a, cold drive or when condemned, by accident, to sit th wet garments. Let the maxim of a victim to colds be always: Keep the blood in rapid action, use the deep hold, breaths where a first chill is felt. MAKE YOUR OWN FILTER. one wham. WM tare as Good Results as Any of the Patent Filters. • Everybody knows, or ought to know, that at this time of the year it is the height of folly to drink water that ba,s not been previously purified. in some' way, either by boiling or by fil- tration. Boiling is an effective way of free- ing the water from impurities, and should certainly be done where no better methods exist, but &useful fil- ter can be made so easily at home, at an almost nominal cost, that there is scarcely any excuse for a household not possessing one. The home made filter consists simply of an ordinary decanter, a lamp glass such as can be purchased anywhere for a few cents, by way of a funnel, and a piece of sponge or cotton wool. Some people Prefer cotton wool because it can be thrown away after a time and renewed at a nominal cost. If sponge is chosen it ought to be taken out often, cleaned ba hot salt water and afterward rinsed in cold. The sponge or cotton wool is placed for the distance of an inch in the lamp shade. This is then covered by a lay- er of fine white sand, which has been washed very clean, and placed in a fine lawn bag. This must be packed. through the top of the glass, and spread out to fit morose by the aid of a long pencil or a. skewer. On top of the sand must be placed a layer of animal charcoal which has been previously thoroughly washed by putting it in an earthen vessel and pouring boiling water upon it. This layer should be at leant an inch deep, and should be well pressed down Upbn the layer of sand. The filter is now. ready for use. 'Water is poured into the lamp sbade and allowed to percolate slowly through to the decanter beneath.Aft- er a little time the charcoal will get clogged ,and a little must be taken from the top and boiled a few min- es and then spread out before the nno,, mete fire. It will then be xis good as ever a:ra" and. can be thus cl eansed indefinitely, ,m' From time to time, also, the whole ap- I A her m paratus will want cleansing, and ly to reckl e direct basin duced Ir de tharg Je,zele crime, tasy f the er and d (hotet the re 15. ' Enjoy *refuse bi tin r thie ezi dead. hnsban Naboth 16. A the an have a the ' ne brcmgh ror an that he vineyea tine les rement scended tuid,Tez pan' tiO antfal p has these carry o flll SUNDAY SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY SI. “tvanones vtneygru.., Atings .214 4-18. Coltien Text, Ex:0d. 20, Tf. PRACTICAL NO'TES, Verse 4. II* houee. Prolsebly at Sae maria, laossitny tha "ivory honee" 3 Kings 22,39 and Amos 3. 15, Heavy and displeased. That is, sullen and angry. Naboth. From his reference to Jehovah (veree 3) he was probably one ef the eleven theusand, faithful pees N(1110.:inbetsSd1940180). tghaeciasitet'linde. Hialvas rt°Nfliusnaa! 36, 7). He refused, beeauee it was wrong'. Efis bed. The couch upon which he re- clined at the tale. He ley clown flat, turned away . from the table, and owtoutilld_tennioptereaist.evSeuricahowa oinhaanrifa:testraitsite; of oriental moaarchs. 5. jezebel his wife. Hex charaoter as a strong, unscrupulous, and. aenbitt- ous evorrian is clearly brought out In this narrative. "A Prudent wife * from. the tenet" (Prov. 19. 14), but Ahab did riot seek his from that source, Rim merriage was orte of his great shis (1 Kings 16, 31). 6, Give me. Ahab had offered the ful value in money, or abetter vine- yard. for Naboth's. He could not, le- gally take it by force, (See Reek. 46. 18.) His avaricious heart oould, not see why another should not do wrong for gain, and his petulance was part- tly chagrin at Naboth' s iraplied, re- proof, 7. Dost thou not govern. jezebel'e contempt fax her weak haeleand, is evi- dent. Ed:mated under a more despotic, rule than even Ahab dare aseume, she - has no sympathy fax his want of spirit. I will give. Quick to conceive a plan, and knowing her power, she heeitates at no wickedness to accomplish her pur- pose. 8. Wrote letters. These had all the authority of the king. The inepress of his seal upon them, not to seal vas by his permission, and thus the crime was shared by him- Seal. Sig - et rings are very aticient, as Shown y Egyptian and Chaldean reractins. Iteraoh's ring, Gen. 41. 42, was one. udah's is mentioned in Gen. 38, 18, he impression was probably made in lay. See Job 38, 14. Elders . obles. Doubtless the -eity tribunal, ent,. 16, 18, His city. Naboth was n inhabitant of Jezreel, the letters -ere written from Saanaria. See bags 20, 43. 9. A fast. To atone for some sap- osed disgrace, and thus create a pre- etlioe against Naboth when he is ac - used. It is also a seligious cloak to ver crime, not used alone by Jezebel. ' n high. Not in honor, but in the ght of the people, to be tried. for 10. Two men. Two witne,sses were ne- ssary to convict. Sons of Belial. Ha- ew, Beliga,al. Not a. proper name, t signifies worthlessness, lawless - ss -hence " worthless, lawless fel- w." In the New Testament it appears a name for Satan, or all that is bad, Cor. 6. 15. _Blasphemed God. jezebel ew the people would not stone Na- th for blaspheaning Buil. Even in eh- idolatry they respected the hon' - d Name, and would punish the con - ted blasphemer with death., The g. So that his possessions, as those a traitor, might be forfeited to thel g, verses 15, 16, 19 and 2 Sam. 16, 1. Elder: and . . . nobles . . . . Their alacrity M carrying out infaanous designs of their wicked en shows how low they had fallen. ike king, like people." Oriental jus - is little better at the present e. How much naore noble the Chris - standard, "We ought to obey God er than man." Acts 5, 29. . There came two, men, Sata,n is al - s ready with tools when they are ed by his workmen. So when st must be convicted. Matt. 26. 6, Stephen, was to be stoiaed Acts 6. Carried him forth out or the city. Lel punishment always took place of the city. See Acts 7.28; LeY. . Stoned hien. A punisbmerit corn - with mobs Exode 8. 26; Num.. 14. tc., and inade the lawful mode of uting blasphemers, saortficers to th, wizards, Sabbath -breakers, ide- s a -ad enticers to idol. - rebellious sons, and „adulterers. rang to 2 Kingst 9.26 his son suf- with him, as' was not uncommon 7. 24. Sezit to ,Tezebel. Having imbued: hands in blood to plea,se her, they n to send her, word, hoping to re - some reward. 'Their readinees th Id the crime anci send her word, anner of receiving it and telling and his in proceeding immediate - profit by it, all show an utter ssness and, hardness of heart, the outcome of the infamous ahd de- g idolatry which she had intro- . fs dead. In verse 19 the mut der is ad. In verse 19 the Murder is ed upon Ahab. He, his house, and. el were condemned for the kte was guilty because his ape's - rem the Lord opened a way for tine; he could have prevented it id not; he willingly lent his aas y to it, end he gladly /tempted Sul 8. rake poesession ot the vineyard. the results of crime, Which he d to give thee for money. The epielt of the tyrant is showtt eer. Naboth is not alive, bat, She 'is oontemptuous of her d xis of the poor corpse of • hob Tose 'up. • Septuagint, dent Greek version which vve 'treacly quoted says that when eve of Naboth's murder was t to Ahab he latest out into hot - d remorse, It was from this "thee up," To go doset to the •al of Naboth, No one can etUdY son and its ceeneetion evithont leering that ae the chariete Of and his bodyguards dee the elopes between Slinatiria, reel theta:, were 6 the cont., hu and HidItar who heard the tophet erohounce Ix eoom whi61 wo mdii were 'destined to help nt. 11 a .31 co 0 si er oe be. ne lo as 2 kn bo th ore vie ,kin of kin 14. 1 did nluEt the 'L tice tins tion rath 13 way need Chri and 13. Capi out 24.14 mon 10, e exec Melo later atry, Acco fered. Josh. 14. their o1.e of the charcoal, as well as the bag of sand and the 'cotton wool, or sponge, will have to he taken out and thoroughly boiled, or, better still, re- placcsd with new material. Provided the filter be thus kept thor- oughly dean it will yield as good re- sults as any :el the patent filters on the market costing many Limes the value of this eimple apparatus, COINCIDENCES. Flist Stranger, on railway train -So you, are selling Prof. Blank's new book, ere you? Strange cobicidence? I am Prof. PIa.int. Second. Stranger-arhat so? Then you weete the very book 1 am ageet for? Y68. The hardest -work I ever did wee wilting that book. ' Well, well 1 That's another strange coincidence, The herdest work 1 ever did eves trying to sell it. •awe NAVAL CON-KU:CM In modern naval confIict,s opposiug of each othet uttil the vanquished Yes - eel e3 veesels seldom come within ten miles trikee her et:lore. LIKE It Hobbe a uiixtn Of Adel ' Inn iheIinod 'fifth; wife.