Exeter Times, 1901-5-30, Page 3enene
WEIGHING SPIRITS.
LORD'S BALANCE FOR THOUGHTS,
EMOTIONS, HATRED, ETC.
'WEIGHING SPIRIT OF CHARITY.
',371r, Tabling° Gives a Telling illustration
of tha Wards ofWs Tea); Lord
"WeotI tlie Spirits'; Vitlue of a
Noble Resolved ti:raced, in tin, Life of
tha 'Mon.
Washington, May 26.—In this dis-
•course, from a symbol of the Bible,
eke inalumge urges the adoption of
aI unusual mode of estimating deer-
-enter and shows how dillerent, is the
elivine way from melte human way;
text,. Proverbs Keit 2, "The Lerd
weigheth the spirits."
The subject. of weights and mos -
ewes is discussed among all nations,
es the subject of legislatiou and as
mud' to do with tbe world's prosper-
ity. A system of weights and meas
ures was invented Ly Maori, ruler
f Argos, about 800 years before
iporist. An ounce. a pound, a ton,
:Were different in different lands. Hen-
ry ILL decided that an ounce should
be the weight of 640 eried grates of
wheat free), the Middle of the ear.
From the reign of William the Con-
eineror to Henry VW. the English
pound. wits the weight of 7.6S0 greens
eif wheat. Queen Elizabeth decreed
that a pound Should be 7,000 grains
-of wheat taken from the eeiddle of
the ear. The piece of platinum nein
ett the °nice of the exchequer in Eng-
land lu an atmosphere of 62 P. de -
des for all Great Britain °Meat a
vounil must be. Scientific representa-
tives from all lends net in Infie in
Paris and established interue.tional
standards a weights and measures.
You all now something of avail.-
elupois weight. of apothecaries'
weight, of troy weight. You are fee
xailiar with the different eines of
Weighing Mach'ties, Whether a ItoMan
teatime. which is our steelyard, or
the more usual lustrtunentconsisting
af a. beam supported in the inidelle.
haviuie two basins, of equal
'weight otisPouled to the extremities.
Scales have been invented to weigh
substances huge like mountains. and
-others delicate enough to weigh in-
nnitesighals. But in all the universe
there has only been one balance that
eould weigh thoughts, emotions, af-
fect -Lena, hatreds, ambitions. That
balance was fashioned by an Al-
mighty God and is hung up for per-
petual service, "The Lord weigheth
the spirits."
This divine weigher puts into the
balance the spirit of charity and de-
-cities bow much of it really exists.
It may g0 for nothing et all. It May
'be that it says to the unfortunate,
eeletke this and do not bother me
any more." It fluty be an occasional
impulse. It may depend upon the
condition pf the liver or the style of
breakfast, partaken of a little while
before. It may be called forth by
the loveliness of the solicitor. It may
be exercised hi spirit of rivalry,
which prosaically says, "My neighbor
aas given so much; therefore X must
give as much." It. is excidental pr
.occasional or spasmodic. When suea
spirit of charity is put into the bal-
Alice and weighed, God and men and
Angels look on and say there is no-
thing of it. It -does not weigh so
much as a dram, which is only the
one-eighth part of an ounce, or a
.scruple, which is only the twenty-
fourth part of an ounce. A man maY
give his hundreds and thousands of
edalliu-s with such feelings ttnd amid
such circumstances, and he will get.
no heavenly recognition.
But into the divine settles another
,Inan's charity is placed. It starts
from love of God and man. It is born
in heaven. It is a lifelong character-
istic. It may have a million dol-
lars or a penny to bestow, but the
manner in which that giver bestows
it shows that it is a, divinely im-
planted principle. The one penny giv-
en nifty, considering the limited dr-
„cumstances, attract as much angelic
and heavenly attention as though the
clieck given in charity was so large
it staggered the cashier of the bank
to cash it. It is not the amount
given, but the spirit with which it
is given. "The Lord weigheth the
_spirits.”
Perhaps no one but God heard
that good man's resolutions,. but it
_amounted about to this: "From this
present moment to my last moment
on earth, God helping me, I will do
all 1 cart to make this world a purer
• world, a better world, a happier
•world." But the resolution shines
out in his face, sweetens his conver-
,sation, enlarges his nature, controls
his Me and shows itself as plainly
in the contribution of $1. as though
he had the means to contribute
.$500,000. When that charity is put
into the royal balance, the heaves
watch the weighing and invisible
• choirs chant from the clouds, and I
-catch one bar of the music, "Now
ninetieth faith, hope, charity —• these
e• three; but the greatest *of these ` is
'charity." ,
• So also in. the celestial scales is
placed the spirii. of faith. In. most
.eases faith depeode on. whether or
.not the sun shines, and the man had
;sound sleep last night, and whether
the first person he meets in the morn-
ing tells him something agreeable or
edisagreeable. Some day the sales in
his store 'de not'amount to so much
as he expected, and he goes home
with enough complaints to fill the
house as eoon es' he enters it. An-
other day the sales are 20 to 40 per
cent. larger than usual, and as he is
• putting the key into the door lock
his family hear him whistling a tune
Most jubilant. He has , faith that
everything in his own affairs and in
the affairs of church and state are
- tending toward better conelitions
til something depressing happens e. in
is own pereonal experiences or un -
_der his- own observation.
• But there is another man who by
• repentance ,and prayer has put him.
tide into allience with the Almighty
God.. Made eh" right by the Santee/es
grade, this -man goes to efore
• enalte the World right. He Saye tro
• himself: e'G lausickete tiets wet,
eandbe often eanselted ei •
The garden of Eden was a useless
morass compared, with, what the
whole world. will be when it blossoms
and lea,ves and lashes and re unds
with its coueng glory. Goa will
saveht anyhow, with me or without
me, but I want to do my share. I
have some equipment—not as mien
as some others, but what I have
will use. I Vane power to frown,
and I will frown upon iniquity. I
have power to smile, and I will smile
encouragement upon a.11 the etnuggl-
ing. 1 bave a. vocabulery not 30
opulent as the vocabulary of sonie
others. but. I beve a storehouse De
good words, end, I nseau to scatter
them in helpfulness. I will ascribe
right motives to othees when it is
Possible. If X can say anything good
about others, I will MAY it. If 1eon
say nothing but vile of them, I will
keep my lips °el -rut as tight as the lips
of the sphinx, which fore3,000 years
has looked off upon the sands of the
desert and uttered not ote Word
about the desolation. The schenie of
reconstructing this world is too great
for me to manage, but I am riot ex -
peened to boss this job. I have faith
to leelieve that the Plan is well laid
olit and. will be well executed. Ohre
rne n. brick and a trowel and I will
begia now to bons build the wall. I
ant not a. soloist, but I can sing
'Rock of Ages' to a side pauper.
gannet Write a great, book. but I con
pick n inder out of a child's eye or
a Splinter from under his thumb nail.
I now enlist in this ariny that, is go-
ing to take the worla tor God, and
I defy all the evil powers, bunion
and satanic, to discourage me. Count
me into the service. I cannot play
upon a. musival instrument, but I van
polish a cornet or striug 4 harp or
applaud the orthestra." All through
that man's meperionee there rims
faith that will .e�p hmni eheerful and
busy and triumphant.
Put also into these royal scales the
ambitions spirit. Every healthy men
and WOlilart has ambition. Tin' lack
of it is a sure sign of idiocy or
in-
moraflty. Tbe only question is.
What shall be the style of our ambi-
tion? To stack up a stupendous for-
tune, to acquire 0, resounding moue,
to sweep everything we can reach
into the whirlpool of our twit selfish-
ness—that Is debasing, ruiritets and
deatbful. If in such 4 spirit we get
what we start for, we only secure gi-
gantic discontent. No man was ever
made happy by what he got. It all
depends upon the spirit with which
we get it, and the spirit with which
we keep it, and the spirit with which
we distribute it, Not since the world
stood. has there been any instance of
complete happinees from the =aunt
ef accumulation. Give the Plan of
worldiy ambition 60 years of bril-
liant successes. Ile sought for re-
nown, and the nations speak his
name. lie sought for affluence, and.
he is put, to his wits' end to Mad out
the best stadia and bonds in which
he may make his investments. He is
director in banks enough and trustee
in enough Institutions and, president
of enough companies to bring on
paresis, of which he is now dynag.
The royal balances are lifted to
weigh the ambition which has con-
trolled a lifetime. What was the
worth of that ambition? How muck
did it yield for usefulness and hea-
ven? Less than a scruple, less than
a grain of sand, less than an atom,
less than nothing. Ila.ve n. funeral a.
mile long with, carriages, hit the rich-
est, robes of ecclesiastics rustle about
the casket, caricature the scene by
choirs which client "Blessed are the
dead that. die in the Lord." That
man's life is 4 failure, and if his
heirs setae in the surrogate's court
about the incapacity of the testator
to make a last will and testament it
will only be n. prolongation of the
failure.
73ut look into the dream of that.
schoolboy who, without saying any-
thing about it, is planning his life-
time career. From an old book part-
ly written in Hebrew and partly
written in Greek, but both Hebrew
and Greek translated into good Eng-
lish, he reads of a great farmer like
Amos, a great mechanic like Aholiab,
a great lawyer like Moses, a great
soldier like Joshua, a, great Xing
like Hezekiah, a great poet like
David, a great gleaner like Huth, a
great physician like Luke, a great
preacher like Paul, a great Christ
like no one on earth or in heaven be-
cause the superior of all beings ter-
restrial or celestial. He has learned
by heart the Ten Commandmeuts and
the sermon on the mount and has
splendid theories about everything.
Between that fair-haired boy and the
achievement of what he wants and
expects there are obstacles and hin-
drances lenewn only to the God who
is going to discipline him for heroics
magnificent. • I have no power to
prophesy that different experiences of
his encouragement and disappoint-
ment, of his struggle or his triumph,
but as sure as Glad- lives to make his
word come true that boy who will
sleep to -night nine hours without
waking will be final victor. I do not
know the intermediate chapters •of
the volume of that young man's life,
but I know the first chapter and the
last chapter. The first chapter is
made of ' his high resolve in the t
strength of God, and the last chapter
is filled with the rewards of a noble •
ambition. As his obsequies pass out ;
to the cemetery the poor will
weep becauee they •will lose
their • best friend. Many
in • whose temporal welfare
and, eternal. salvation .he bore a part !
will hear of it in various places and '
eulogize his memory, and God • will
say to the ascending spirit, "To him 1
that overcometh will X give to eat of 1
the tree of life which is in the midst
of the paradise of God." ,In the 1
hourof that soul's release and en-
ehrenement there will be heavenly ac-
clamation, as in the royal balances
"the Lerd weigheth the spirits." 1
Other balances may lack precision. !
and fail in counterpoise. Scales areI
afieeted by conditions of atmosphere
and acid vapors. After all that the I
mations have done to establisbean in- (
variable,standarcl, perfeation lees nev-
er yet nieen reached, and never will
be reached. But the royal balances '
• of which,' speak are the same to. heat
and cold; in all weather, in an
lawn end in all the heave/in-111g- and
true to the last point of justice and,
ertnit. The reene
id the tempted spirit of Adaln under
hie fruit. tree, and the spirit of Cala
the first aesessieation and the.
spirit of courage-. in Joshua, during
the prolonged daylight, and the sPie^
it of cruelty M Jezebel, and the spir-
it of grief in Jeremiah's lemmata -
tion, arid, the spirit of evangelism in
haul between, the read to Dereasenh,
where he first 'sow the light, and the
road to Ostia, the Place ot his be-
lwaelneent, is weighing tiU and nev-
er yet has varied from the right one
milligram, whicli is the one -six,
thousandth part of a grain. The only
perfect. standard of weights and ineas-
tires ever ,eetabliehed was established
in the heavens before the world Wag
melee and will continue to do its
work after the world is burned up.
o Memore the time WO ban Cal -
dans, To measure the ligateting we
have the electrometers. To measure
the eeat we have the thermometers.
To measure the atmospheric pressure
we leteve the baroneeters. To measure
wins Ivo have the royal balances.
"The Lord weigheth the spirits."
In the setae divine scales the spirit
of netions end eivilizations is weigh-.
ea? Egyptian civilization did its
wok. but it was cruel and supersti-
tioue and idolatrous and defiant oe
the Almighty. It was cast out and
cast down, The touriet finds his
chief interest leek in the generation
that now inhabits the regiops water,
ed by the Nile and spriolelea by ber-
caseation but in the toriplo that are
the skeletons et aricien4 Pride and
pomp and power—her obelieks, her
eatacombs, ner mosques, the colossus
of liameees, the dead, eitio of Itiern=,
obis NIA Thebes, the temples of Lux-
or and Karnak, the museum contain-
ing the mummified forms of the
pha,raolut. It is not the Egypt of
to -day that we go to see, but the
Egypt at many centuries ago. Her
spirit has departed. Her doom was
sealed. The Lord weisbeth her spir-
And so the spirit of the American
nation is put into the royal balaece,
and it will be weighed 44 certainly as
all the nations of the past were
weigbed and 48, all the 'nations of the
present are being weighed,. Mien we
go to estimate the wealth of the nee
lion. we weight its gold and ailver
and coal and iron and copper and
lead, and all the steelyards and all
the balances are kept busy. So many
tons of this and so many tons of
that, a. mountainful of this metal and
another mountainful of another met-
al, That is well. We want to now
the seining wealth, the manufactur-
ing wealth, the agricultural wealth,
and the bushel measure and the
scales have an important work. But
know right well there is a divine
weighing in the country all the time
going on, and I ean tell you the
country's destiny if you will
tell me whether it ellen
be a God honoring nation, rever-
ential to the only book of his au-
thorship, observing the "Shall note"
of the law of right given on Mount
Sinai and the mw of love given on
the Mount of Beatitudes, ono 'any mit
of the week observed not in revelry,
but ifs holy convocation, marriage
honored in ceremony ai51 in fact,
blasphemy silenced in all th.e streets,
high toned systems of morals in all
parts of our land, then the institu-
tions will live, and all the wondrous
ProsPerities of the present are only
a faint hint of the greater prosperi-
tias to come. Richer harvests will
rustle in the ilelds„ a higher style of
literature will teen its leaves in the
eibraries, nobler men will adorn the
state and national legislatures.
The wish of this sermon 'is to em-
phasize the invisible—to show that
there are other balances besides those
of 'brass and platinum and aluminium
end set in earthly storehouses; that
the spirit is the most important part
of us; that the scales which weigh
your body are not as important as
the scales which weigh your soul. De-
pend not °too much for happiness
upon the visible. Pyrrhus was king
and had 3arge dominion, but was de-
termined to make war against the
Romans, and Cineas, the friend of
the king, said to him, "Sir, when
You have conquered them, what will
you do next?" "Then Sicily is near
.at hand and easy to master." "And
what when yo 'u have conquered Si -
"Then we will pass ever to
Africa and. take Carthage, which can-
not long withstand us." "When these
are conquered, what will you next at-
tempt?” "Then we will fall in upon
Greece and Macedonia an -d recover
what we have lost there." "Well,
when all are subdued, what fruit do
you expect from all your victories?"
"Then," said the king, "we will sit
down and enjoy ourselves." "Sir,"
said Cineas, "may we not do
now? Have you not already a king-,
dom of your own, and he that cane,
not enjoy himselee with a kingdoni
cannot with the whole World." I say
to you who love the Lord, the king-
dom is within you,: make more of the
invisible conquests. Study a peace
which the world has no bushel to
measure, no steelyards to weigh. As
far as possible we should make our
balances like to the divine balances.
What 4 world this will be When it
is weighed after its regeneration
shall have taken place! Scientists
new guess at the number of tons oiee
world weighs, arid they put the Apen-
nines and the Sierra Neyardae and
tChiniborazo and the Himalayas ii
the. sceles. Bet if weighed tie to its
niorals nt the pineent time, in ' the
royal balance the heaviest things
would be the wars, the international
hatreds, the crimes mountain high,
the moral disasters that stagger the
hemispheres on their way threagh im-
mensity. But wlieri the gospel ' has
gandeedied the. earth, its it , will yet
gaedenize it, and the atmosphere
shall be universal beim and the atel
will produce universal harvest and
eruitage and the last cavalry horse
shall be unsaddled and the last gun
,carriage unwheeled and tepelast Tort -
rose turned into a museum to show
nations in peece what a homed. thing
. war once- was, then tne world ,will be
weighed, and as the oppoeite side of
the scales lifts as though it was light
as a feather . he night sale of the
scalc,s will come down, W6igh'itIO more
than all else those tremendatis values
that at, Peter euuineraied faith,
virtue, kiowied ge, temperance, pa-
t lento, godlinces, brotherly landeees,
"Ttieleille is eanried on to an astonishing
• eeteut, and we see whole suits Where thie
is the Only trimeainge leeeldes this It
ellatees the dress to the Ague by the way
Jo which the tucks are made. Tuelet
• reament waists and trim jackets, end
many of these garments are made ot
tenial eutirely tucked in fate Mae% But
the Most letrieete arran,gemente of snele
trninaing Was teat on a dress seen. resent -
let Tee skirt is cut into something film
• 10 or 12 narrow gores, and these are
slightls flared at the bottom. Ali the
breitethe are tucked in 4 elaginial way
awl then are eewe d together so (Mt the
tueke Meet auti form what is called obey%
Ma lines. TIM effect is at eine and the
Paine time handsome and dressy, and all
there is to it is the amount ot WOria
Wore lieW WAISTS.
Tees° Chevron tuelce reach to the OM
at the highest point and they make the
skirt set out In the regulation way. An, -
other queer use is made et this way of
adding to the beauty of a material. There
Is a gown with an empire bodice ot mossy
green ceslimere. The bodice hn a row
of mirror black velvet ribbon all around
; and a few motifs at black lace here and
there apparently without any set design.
Prom it bangs a skirt tucked in fine tucks
almost to the bottom. The tucks are nar-
row at tbe top, but close, and they grad-
ually aprend as they lengthen, so that the
skirt hens full enough. Atthe bottom
they are loose and flow out in the proper
way. The sleeves to thie are long, reach-
ing quite to the knuckles, and there they
Bare out widely and are filled In with silk
muslin undersleeves. Tbe dress, aside
from the yoke shaped bodice, is of a deli-
cate salmon pink albatross cloth.
I As to tucks on waists, there is no possi-
bility of doing the subject justice. So I
shall speak of other things, and one of
them is the curious indecision as to what
styles in the making of dresses shall pre -
'rail this coaling summer. There seems
to be no stability, some of the largest of
the stores being decidedly in favor ot the
Empress Eugenie styles and others just
as assertive in favor of the Josephine
modes.
Then, again, other and more conserva-
tive houses are keeping on. in the same
old rut and producing beautiful gowns
and garments, containing all the best
points of all the others. One might add
that there is also an eclectic school or
cult ot costuming.
, In one of the most conservative and ex-
• clusive stores I saw the other day one im-
, mense window full of silks, laces, hats,
gloves and parasols, and all of these were
either black or white or both. The silks
were in pretty designs, such au scrolls
and fine lines forming arabesques and all
sorts of light and intricate patterns.
Where the silk was all white, or •where
the white predoraloated, the lace with
•A• TrlICAL EMPIRE GOWN.
which to trimit was black aed vice versa.
All white taffeta is' to be ',Bade up into
very, pretty dresses, and elegem designs'of
black' chantilly; made -hi waved Hues
from two to six inches wide, are dreefia
across tbe silk to ehretv how it will loehr
when made up The metent Ono it to
Dave the waists V slinovd or cut setae,'
ils what we oall pompadour shape. This
is extremely becoming anti even when
worn in the daytime is not too remarka-
ble.
Lace, chiffon and veleet ribbon are all
favorite trimmings, though braid, pertie-
ularly that ot the Persian design, le reuelt
liked. Lote of applique and featberboue
serollworn 'ere seeo. Very rich blaelg
moire is now offered to make into One and
stately costumes, and when it becomes
necessary to have facings or revers they
are suede ot white satin, This is overlaid
with heavy black guipure. Several mi-
ned/ gowns iu this silk hare beeu made
up. every one iu empire etyle. liftman,
ed tor afternoon, dineer or tea gores,
all In the black moire. One has the front
open in V shove and basewide rtevers axed
collar lying leer OU the shoulders, and this
is et white fiatia overlaid with black silk
guipure. Tee front is elled km with a
kind of guirepe of white tissue plisse,
with narrow Idea velvet ribbon run in.
The sides were Shaped to the figure and.
the back bed one deep fold, whicb, Woe -
ever, was held close to the figure and not
lett In watteau folOs. In front there were
two box plaits reaching front the bust to
the bottom. The sleeves were of the
moire and long.
Another moire, blaelg aud glossy, woo
=Ile in the same way in every respect
save thet the waist was eut out in pompa-
dour, not tee NW. and JIISt the same in the
bads Aerosa the bust was n wide band
entele tit Smocked black silk mail, hero
aucl there set with a black spangle. The
long eleeees were of the mull mid tied
puffs et the same at the sboulders and
elbows. At every two lashes around the
erm WAS a row of black velvet ribbon
only as wide as cord. Between the rttNS
were set a few spangles, just enough to
ebow that there was an attempt to Lave
them all around. Around tbe bottom of
the skirt was one line of black spangles.
(me overlapping the other. Little Win -
ming, but that of the finest, is the present
fancy. I think I never saw any other
pompatiour where the back was cut
square as well AS the trout, and the
black moire against the white shoulders
is a sight for those wbo love beauty.
I came across a dainty orgaudie dress
essentially one for the bottest days o'
summer. and It is too pretty to regleet.
The waist Is a plala blouse with four per -
row tucks at each side In front, The
Darters ORGANDIE DRESS.
back is plain save for a few gathers at
the center. The sleeves are unique and
will best be understood by a reference to
the picture. At the top in front is an ar-
rangement of insertion, very effective.
The skirt is tucked. ruffled and bus five
lines of lace insertion around it. The de-
sign is one that can be made suitable for
any wash dress, except duck or pique, by
a suitable difference in trimming.
A pretty tennis suit is of striped dimity
or linen, and the skirt is short and entire-
ly plain save for a few rows of stitching.
The waist is an open blouse with a sailor
collar and tie and pipings of dark blue
linen. The underwaist is white, and so
is that of the other very dressy waist be-
side it. This is of the dainty lansdowne,
in a pale frosty blue, and is overlaid with
white applique. Even the jackets muet
have their quota of lace. They have it on
the inside, like a lining, so that it shows
only when tbe garment is tbroeia open.
Fancy buttons are coming into favor end
•on jackets may be seen such buttons. On
some they are square and on the other
quite round. The ball shaped buttons be-
long to the Empress Eugenie days.
The Art of Stalnleg Floors.
Ip staining or in painting floors the
mistake is often made of hurrying the
work. To be well done the woek must be
very slowly done, allowing plenty of time
for every coat of paint to dry thoroughly
before another is applied. It is a very de-
sirable thing, if possible, fo have tee floer
untouched for at least 12 hours after the
rubbing on of the final application of oil
or Wax. The 'fibers must be allowed to
set and harden without disturbingejers if
you are desirous of having them present
a thoroughly satisfactory appearance.
•, ,in'tijoe Days of Noah.
It must have been a great snap to
.have lived it the days of Noah. A man
wae' well posted then if- he ltnew the
tribe living over the'next motintaie aid
hed ell the history- of the world at his fin,
ger elide iS he cue <1 rts.tno• nii g n
thiats.--AtahtsnO ItitobV.
THE MANITOBA Uni
Onvernrnent Took Over Northern
PeCifi0 on Satgrday.
ACTION WAS HURRIEDLY DONE,
It WM DeCTor*t*4 for *Few PapiA pi:g-
imps a Trew weeite, ey eite etolein
Government, VnU1 tite CallniUnn
,:`,7ortherti needy to operete
the T.ines—Why Haste WA*
Made.
Winnipeg*, May 27.—Tite Nc71tioril
Pacific lines were hurriedly teeten
over by the Menitolett, GOVereme
en Saturday, and tem Province 13,
has a railway of its own. It will
• operated for a. few days, perhaps tWo
or three weeks, by tile Roblin Got
eromeat, until the. Canadian. North.,
ern is ready to opera.to the linene
President Mellen of the Northern Pn.-
eifie will issue a circular Monday,.
notifying all employes of the elianof.
It is believed that the baste was ole
to the recent action taken fin th4,
courts,. and 'to escape a probable Me
junetion.
roUgE oes
tat Officer Senile the Governer-Oen-
eret tbe eartleularre
a, elay 27. ---Ills Excelleacee
overeor-General has received
the iouowing from the Coloielsol
Ofileeconcerning thk visit of Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke aud
Duchess of Cornwall and York to
Canada. The members of the Royal
Fonsil,y are:
the Duke of Cornwall asel
York.
I1.It.11. the Duchess ot Coruevall
and York.
Capt. ILS.IL Prince Alexander of
Teck. K.C.V.O., 7th Hussars.
Lady :Vary
• Lady Catharioe Coke, lady-in-wait-
ing: the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel,.
• ing.
Lord Wenlock, G.C.LEo
Iord-in-waiting and bead o tbe
household,
Lient-Col. Sir Arthur Dime,
' V.O., C.M.G,„ private secre-
tary,
Commander Sir Charles Cust,
Bart., R.N., equerry.
The lion. Lord Derek Keppel. 1.
V.0.. equerry.
The Rev, Canon Dalton 0
• *.M.G.,
•11
domestic chaplain.
Sir John Anderson, K.O.M.G.. re-
presenting the Colonial Office.
Sir Donald Wallace, X.C.I.E., as-
istant private secretary.
Commodore A. L. Winelee. R.N.,
commanding ILM.S. Ophir.
Commander B. Godfrey Pausett, R.
N., A. D. 0,
Major j. 11. Dor, Ronal Siarine
Artillery, C.M.G., A.D.C.
Capt. Viscount Criehton. Ineyal
Horse Guards. A.D.O. '-
Lieut. the Duke of Hoxletirglee,
newel Horse Canaels, M. V. O., A. D.
0.
Chevalier E. Dellartino, M.V.O.,
Marina artist.
Dr. A. Manby, M.D.
Mr. Sydney Hall, artist.
MACHINISTS TO GATHER,
Tito TnternatIonal Association :Sleets in
Toronto Jima 3, and Tresident O'Con-
nell Has Alreadr Arrived
Toronto, May 27.—This week To-
ronto becomes the headquarters of
the Association of Machinists, and,
owing to the strike of thoueatids of
machinists in the United States fer
a shorter day, much interest will
naturally eentie in the movements ca
the executive officers of the associa-
tion the next few weeks.
Mr. James O'Connell of Washing-
ton, D. C., President of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists, ax -
rived in Toronto at 10 o'clock last
night, and registered at the Palmer
House. He is here to assist the Ex-
ecutive Coinmittee of the associa-
tion in preparing for the annual con-
vention of the association, which
opens IA Toronto on June a.
President O'Connell found a large
batch of mail waiting for him when
he arrived last night, and, until he
gets well established in his new
headquarters and has time to open
the accumulated correspondence, he
will not be thoroughly in touch with
the strike situation. In speaking of
the prospects of a favorable outcome
of the strike, Ter. O'Connell is san-
guine of success. The men in vari-
ous centres are already getting to-
gether and conferring with their em-
ployers, Which is an indication that
the cause is progressing. He be-
lieves that next week will see the
strike in the United States practical-
ly wound up. Ahaady employers ref
40,000 ma.chietists have conceded the
demands of the strikers, and in many
centres the men have gone bock to
work.
One of the important questions
which will be decided at the forth-
coming convention will be with re-
ferelice to the sbortening of the day
of labor for railroad men. A date
will be set when the railwaye will
be asked to grant a nine -hour day.
Supposed to Have Been Drowned.
Magnetetyan, May 27.-3. H.
Nicholson, a very highly re-
spected resident • of- ethis vil-
lage, is supposed to have
been drowned by the upsetting of a.
email caeoe while crossing Ahmie
Lake in a still Wind last Wednesday
.1norning. ills canoe wes foural on the
attire capsized, and hie coat nearby:
Parties have been dragging the lake
in the vieinity of the accident, bpt
so far without success. Mr, Nichol-
son leaves a wile and two chlIctraii.
A Mill Hand Drowned.
•
- Ottawa, •May 27.-.-egeOrge leous-
seaa, a millhanei, eeas drowned- iu
Desehene Hapide, near Hull, on Sat-
urday 'eneeing. Ho *as !gathering
drift wood and Sell off tesieboona He
was 26 yeats of age tend leanes
widow, but no faintly.
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