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The Clinton News-Record, 1898-10-20, Page 2a I_ — k '7� _ . r ;a .� . p 1 MARCH Off' UOD S PEOPLE, theirs; the bird -songs that drop on their drop and thing, and all the assortment to be made day V You east• "'It have very large windows, extending mound will on yours; then, tri starless winter nights, when within one a hundred and fifty men go into 'a Subjects. the wind comes howling through the place of evening entertainment, sled THE REV. DR., TA 11IAQE PRF,ACHES gorge, you will be company for each leave their hats aAd overcoats in the AN INSTRUCTIVE SERMON. other., The child close up to the hall, whan they come back it is almost and figures, and groups of animals, to bosom of its mother. The husband and impossible for them to got the right ..,.., wife re -married; on their lips the sac- ones, or to get them without a great rmq the heavenly l�ohul -A A Cluster F ro rament of the dust. Brothers and sia- deal of perplexity, And yet you tell pthe a Cluster of Prc Cluster tars, who' used in sport to fling them- me that myriad myriads of spirits in spects, a Cluster of Christian Cousol- selves on the grass, .now again re- the last day will tome and find my- atlon-Departed Friends -No Sympathy clining side by side in the grave, in riads, and myriads, and myriads of With Modern 8pirituall6m-There Will flecks of sunlight sifting through the bodies." Have you any more questions Be a Resurrection, long, lithe willows. Then at the trum- to ask? any more difficulties to Bug- . A despatch from Washington says:- pet of the archangel to rise side by aide, shaking themselves from the dust gent(? any more mysteries? Bring them on? Against a whole battalion Dr. Talmage preached from the follow- D of ages. The faces that were ghastly of scepticism I will march these two Ing text: "And they Dame unto the and fixed when you saw them last champions: "Marvel not• at this, for brook of Eschol, and out down from all aflush with the light of,incorrup- the hour is coming when all who are thence a branch with one cluster of tion. The father looking around on his children, and saying: "Come, come in ahet2 graves shall come forth." 'Tho Lord shall descend from beavers grapes, and the bare it between two Y my darlings, this is the morning of with a shout, and the voipe of the upon a staff." -Numbers xiii. 23. the resurrection." Mrs. Sigournoy archangel, and trump of God, and the The long trudge of the Israelites wrote beautifully with the tears and dead in Christ shall rise first." You across the wilderness was almost end- blood of her own broken heart: see I stick to these two passages. Who ed. They had come to the borders of "There was a shaded chamber, art thou, oh, fool, that thou repliest against God ? Hatb' he promised, and the promised land. Of the six hun- A silent watching band, shall He not do it,? Hath he com- dred thousand adults who started from On a low couch a suffering child manded, and shall lie not bring it to Egypt for Canaan, how many do you Grasping her mother's hand, pass? Have yd'u not confidence in His omnipotence? If He could, in the first suppose got there? Five hundred thou- But mid the grasp and struggle, place, build my body, after it is torn sand? Oh, no. Not two hundred thou- With shuddering lips she cried, down can He not build it again? sand, nor one hundred thousand, nor Mother, oil, dearest mother, I Bury me by your aide.' "Oh," you say; "I would, believe that if you would explain it. I am lift nor twenty, nor ten; but only Y+ y+ two men. Oh, it was a ruinous march Only one wish she uttered, not disposed to be sceptical, but ex - plain how it can be done." My brother, that God's people made; but their chit- As life was ebbing fast, As by my side, dear mother, you believe a great many things you dren were living and the wore on the g y And rise with me at last.'" cannot explain. You believe your mind acts on your body. Explain the pro - march, and now that they had come Oh, yes, we want to be buried to- cess, This aeed planted comes up a UP to the borders of the promised land, gather. Sweet antetype of everlast- blue flower. Another seed planted they were very curious to know what ing residence in each other's compan- comes up a yellow flower., Another kind of a place it was, and whether it ionship. When the wrecker went down into seed placrted comes up a white flower. Why I Why that wart on your fin- would be safe to 0 over. So n scout- s the cabin of the lost steamer, he found ger? Tell me why some cows have Ing party is sent out to reconnoitre, thj mother and the child in each other's horns, and other cows have no horns. and they examine the land, and they arms. It was sad, but it was beautiful, Why, when two obstacles strike each cone back bringing specimens of its and it was appropriate. Together they went down. 'Together they will other in the air, do you hear the per - cussion? What is that subtle energy growths. T was some time ago, in a + rise. One on earth. One in heaven. that solves a solid in a crucible? luxuriant vineyard. The vine -dresser Is there not something cheering in all What makes the notches on an oak - bad done his work. The vine had clam- this thought, and something to impress leaf different from any other kind of bered up and spread its wealth all over upon us the idea that the departed leaf ? What intakes this orange-bios- the arbour. The sun and shower had are ours yet -ours for ever? But I console you again with the som, on this platform, different from that rose? How can the almightiness mixed a cup which the vine drank un- fact of your present 'acquaintanceship which rides on the circles.of the hear til with flushed cheek it lay slumber- and communication with your departed ven, find room to turn its chariot on ing in the light, cluster against the friends. I have no sympathy, I need not say, with the ideas of modern the tuft of a heliotrope? Explain these. Can you do it? Then I will cheek of cluster. The ri ds of the !? . spiritualism; but what I mean is the not explain the resurrection. You ex - grapes seemed almost bursting with theory set forth by the apostle, when Plain one half of the common myster- the juice in the warm lips of the aut- he says: "We are surrounded by a ies of every -day life, and I will ex - great cloud of witnesses." Just as in the ancient amphitheatre there Plain all the mysteries of the ingur- rection. You cannot answer me very had to do was to lift a chalice towards were eighty or one hundred thousand Blain questions in regard to ordinary the Cluster and its life -blood would be- people looking down from the galleries m1faire. I am not ashamed to say that gin to drip away. But, my, friends, upon the combatants in the centre, so, says host of says Paul, there is a I cannot explain God, and the I" ment, and the resurrection. I simply these rigorous climes, we know noth- great. pour friends in all the galleries of the accept them as facts, tremendous and ing about large grapes. Strabo states sky, looking down upon your earthly infinite. ..., that in Bible timers and in Bibles lands struggles. It Is a sweet, a consoling, Before the resurrection takes place, there' were grape -vines so large that a scriptural idea. With wing of angel, earth and heavgn are in constant som- everything will be silent. The mau- soleums and the labyrinths silent. The it took two man with outstretched munication. Does not the Bible say. ora've►ards silent. The cemetery .h- arms to reach round them, and he says "Are they not sent forth as minister- ant, save from the claahitgg of hoofs there were clusters two cubits in ingspirits to those who shall be heirs and the grinding of wheels as the last length, or twice the length from the of aalvation?" And when ministering spirits come down and see us, do they funeral proceaaion comes in, No breath of air disturbing the dust where Per - elbow to the tip of the long finger. not take some message bac,l[ I It is tin- sepolis stood, and Thebes, and Baby - 1o8. No the long And Adhaicus, dwelling in those lands, Posisble, to realize, I kno`v, the idea winking of eyelids tells us that during the time he was that there is such rapid and perpetual intercommunication of earth and hear closed in darkness. No stirring of the feet that once bounded the hill -side. smitten with fever one grape would ven ; but it is a glorious reality. You No opening of the hand that once slake his thirst for the whole day. No take a rail train and tl;e train is in plucked the flower out of the edge of wonder, then, that in these Bible times full motion, and another train from the wild wood. No clutching of swords two men thought it worth their while the opposite direction dashes past you so swiftly that you are startled; all by the men who went down when Per - sia battled and )tome fell. Silence to put their strength together to car- the way between bare and heaven is from ocean beach to moutrtain cliff, ry down one cluster of grapes from filled with the up trains and the down and from river to river. The sea the promised land. trains -spirits coming -spirits going- singing the game old tune. The lakes But this morning I bring you a tars- coming, going, coming, going. That friend of yours who died this summer- hushed to sleep itr the bosom of the same great ,bills. No hand disturbing er cluster from the heavenly Eschol do you not suppose he told all the fam- the gate of the long -barred sepulchre. -a cluster of hopes, a cluster of pros- ily news about you in the good land to All the nations of the dead motionless pects, a cluster of Christian consola- the friends who are gone? Do you in their winding aheets. Up the side tions ; and I am expecting that one not suppose -that when there are hun- dreds of opportunitio every day for of the hills, down through the trough of the valleys, far out Yrs the caverns taste of it will rouse up your appetite them in beaven to hear from you that across the fields, deep down into the for the heavenly Canaan. During the they ask about you? that they know coral places of the ocean depths where past summer some of this Congregation your tears, your temptations, your struggles, your victories? Aye, they 1 Leviathan sports with his fellows - everywhere, layer above layer, height have sono away never to return. The do. Perhaps during the last war you above height, depth below depth - aged have put down their staff and had a boy in the army, and you got a deadl dead' deadl But in the twinkl- taken up the sceptre. And the dear pass'and you went through the lines ing of an eye, as quick as that, as the children, some or tnem, have been gath- and you found him, and, the regiment coming from' your neighborhood, you archangel's trumpet comes pealing, l m'ling, reverberatifig, orashin� across Bred' in Christ's arms. Aa found this , knew most of the boys there. One day I continents and seas, the earth will world too rough a place for them, and you started for home. You said: i give one fearful shudder and the door so He has gathered them in. And oh, "Well, now, have you any letters to 1 of the, fsmily vault, without being un - how many wounded souls there are- send?" And they filled your pockets with letters, and you Btarted home. locked, will burst open; and all the :graves of the dead will begin to throb wounds for which this world offers no Arriving home, the neighbors came in, and heave like the wavey of the sea; medicament, and unless from the Go&: and"one said: "Did you see my John.?" the mausoleum of princes will fall pel of our Lord Jesus Christ there shall and others: "Did you see George?" into the dust: and Ostend and Sebas- come a consolation, there will be no "Do you know anything about my I topol, and Austerliz and Gettys- consolation at all. Frank?" And then you brought out the letters and gave them the mes- burgh, stalk forth in the lurid air; I. and the shipwrecked rise from the deep, I have thought, therefore, I would not be doing my fluty unless from God's sages of which you had been the bearer. Do suppose that angels of God, their wet locks looming above the bil- I low; the land all the Word I brought a cluster of Christian • condolence to the people. Oh, that the you down to this awful battle -field of and .11 and sea i become one moving mass of life - all God of all comfort would help me of sin, and sorrow, and death, and meet- ing us and geeing us, and finding Out generations, all ages with upturned 'countenances; - some kindled with while I preach, and that the God of all comfort would help you while you all about us, carry back no message to the skins? O, there is consolation 1 rapture and others blanched with ,despair, but gazing in one direction, hear. First, I;conao]L3 you with the Divine- to it 1 You are in present communi- cation with that land. They are in l upon one objfct and that the throne of resurrection! 1 sanctioned idea that Y your departed friends are as much yours now as they sympathy with you now more than they On that day you will get back your ever were. I know you sometimes get ever were, and they are waiting for the moment when the hammer -stroke , Cbristain dead. There is where the I comfort comes in. They will come up the idem in your mind, when you have this kind of trouble, that friends shall shatter the last claim of your 1 with the same hand, and the same your are cut off from you, and they are earthly bondage and your soul shall spring upward; and they will stand tool, and the same entire body; but with aerfect hand, and a perfect no longer Yours; but the desire to have all our loved ones in the same lot on the heights of heaven and see you come; and when you are within hail- . foot, and a perfect body; corruption having become incorrupi ion, more, in the cemetery is a natural desire, a Ing distance your other friends willVitality hiving b.come immor;a'i;y. And universal desire, and, therefore, aGod- implanted desire, and is mightily sug- be, called out, and, as you flash through ol,, the re -union; oh, the embrace after gestive of the fact that death has no the pearl -hung gate, their shouts will make the hills tremble: "Hail ! ran- so lop an absence. Comfort one in- 1 other with these words. power to break up the family rela- tions. If our loved ones go away from somed spirit, to the city of the bless- I While I present these thoughts this our possession why put a fence around ed.,, T' console you still further with the ,morning,does it not seem that heaven comes very near to us, as though our our lot in the cemetery? Why the ga- , thering of four or five names on one idea of a resurrection, I know there are a great many people who do not friends, whom we thought a great in the distance but family monument? Why the planting of one cypress -vine so that it covers accept this because they cannot un -!close, wa off, are not 1 by? You have sometimes come all the cluster of graves? Why put the derstand it ; but, my friends, there are two stout passages -I could bring a down to a river tit night -fall, and you I have been surprised bow easily you husband beside the wife, and the chil- dren at their feet? Why the bolt on hundred, but two swarthy passages are enough -and one David will strike I could hear voices across that river. l You shouted to the other side of the the gate of our lot, and the charge to the keepers of the ground to see down the largest Goliath. "Marvel not at. this, for thq hour is coming river, and they shouted book. When d ' in that the grass is out, and the vine attended to, and the flowers when all who are in their graves shall was a little, while chaplain the army, I remember how at even -tide e planted? Why not put our departed friends in come Eort.h." The other swarthy pas - sage is this: "The Lord shall descend rho I could eaairo hear the voices just across the Potomac, just when one common field of graves? Oh, it is because .the are ours. That child, O y from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and the trump they were using ordinary tones. And they w stricken mother I is as much yours this morning as in the solemn hour of God, and the dead in Christ shall arise first," Oh, there will be such a as we come to -day and stand by the river Jordan that divides us from our . when God put it against your heart, and said as of old: "Take this child thing as a resurrection. you ask me a great many questions friends who areone, it seems to me g we stand one bank and they stand and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages.' It is no mere whim. I cannot answer about thin ros,,If on the other, and it is only a narrow stream, and our voices go and their It if; a Divinely -planted principle in the a tion. You say, for instance,: If a man's body is constantly changing, voices come, 'Hark) Hushl I hear dis- are tinetly they "These are soul, and God certainly would not t' plan& lie, and He would riot culture and every seventh year be. has an en- tirely new body, and he lives on to what say: they who coma out of great tribu- a lie I Abraham would not allow Sarah seventy years of age, and so has had tion, and they had their robes washed and in the blood of the to be buried in a stranger's grounds, although some very beautiful ground ten different bodies, and at the hour of his death there is not a particle of made white Lamb." Still the voice comes across 'Vire was offered him a free gift; but he pays four hundred shekels for Mach- flesh within him that was there in the days of childhood -in the resurrec- the water, and I hear; hunger no more, we thirst no more; neither shall the cave and the trees oversha- Sawing dowing it. That grave has been well tion, which of the ten bodies will come the sun light on us, noF}' any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the kept, and to -day the Christian travel- up, or will they all arise?" You say : "Suppose a man dies and his body is throne leads us to living fountains of oler stands in thoughtful and admir- ing mood, ,gazing up Mabhpelah,where scattered in the dust, and out of that dust water, and God w!Ig eth away all tears from .our eyes." Mny God, by His in - Abraham and Sarah are taking their vegetables grow, and men eat the vegetables, and cannibles slay finite grace, soothe you with an om- long aleep of four thousand years. these men and eat them, and cunni- nipotent comfort. Your fattier may be slumbering und- bale fight with cannibals until at last er the tinkling of the bell of the Scotch there shall be n hundred men who --" ' ` `" `­ kirk. Your little child may be sleep- shall have within them some particles ' AT DINNEIR6 Ing on the verge of the flowering western 'prairie; yet God will gather that started from the dead body first named, coming up through the Vega- Mrs. Hashley-What is the matter ith your spring chicken, Mr. Star - them all up, however widely the dust table, through the first man who ate boa.rdeiry may be scattered. Nevertheless, it is pleasant to• think that we will be bur- it, and through the cannibals who af- terwards ate him, kind there be more Starboarder, wearily -Nothing; only it seems to have lived through an un - fed together. When my father died, and we took him out and put him than a hundred men who have rights in the particles of that body -in the usually long spring. down in the graveyard of Somerville, resurrection how can they be assorted •+�� it did not seem so sad to leave him when these particles belong to them A* ;APPALLING RISK. there becaus° right beside him was Chris- all I Who will be all 1 You say : "There my alear, good, old, beautiful, is a missionary buriod in Euddy--Kwdverfull, they say, Is mar- tian mother, and it seemed as If she "I tired 1 to bed Greenwood, and when he was In China tied again. Thia is 41a fourth wife. be said; was and Came he had his arm amputated -in the re- Duddy-Itwivorfull'd batter care - a little early. f am glad you have surrection, will that fragment of the full. He'll get caugght some day. come; it seeing as of old." Oh, it is to feel that when men body fly sixteen thousand miles to Buddy--0et caught/ Duddy he'll a consolation join the rest of the body 1" You say: ' -•-Yen: uW,ry, a ,w-oman come, and with solemn tread carry "Will it not be a very difficult thing who will )Ivo. „ you otlt to your resting-placo, they for a spirit coming back in that day, will open the gate through which some of your friends have already gone and to find the nigqriad particles of its own body, when thisy may have been scat- "" " t 110* gE TOLD TRIM TIM. through which wally of your friends Sleeping the tared by th6 witfds or overlaid r�y - "he , Husband, in the early .morning --It will follow. tinder same roof, at last sleeping under the same whole generations of doady-loop- in -g for the myriad particles of its own st be time to et u . , g p mWIfo--Why sod. The autumnal flovael's that drift body, while there aro a thousand mil- 4 Hugband—Baby's fallen saleop. across your gri tl will drift aeroas lion other spirits doing tbo aalne Tflh - SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 28. Isaiah Veined to 8 ro "ue."' Is&. Y. 1.14 Wpplt?aen Text. Ina. 6.8. ACTICAL NOTES. L Verse 1. In the year that king IIs• ziah died, The death of Hing Uzziab whose grandeur had so dinpressed the nation, marked an era in Jewish his- tory, and, as we shall see, in Isaiah'e personal experience. I saw also the Lord. In vision. The tradition of the Hebrews was that no man could look upon God and live. When in ans• wer tot urgent prayer God revealed h1E glory to bioses it was only a partia; revelation. Sitting upon a throne, higl and lifted up. The thrones of the East were greatly elevated, and their heighl above the courtiers in attendance war a sign of the unapproachable dignit3 of the Hing. High, indeed; must b' the throne of the high and holy Orsi who inhabits eternity. His train fill ed the temple. The skirts of his robes The word for "temple" might be trans lated "palace," It is not plain whe Cher Isaiah was physically in the tem ple at this time, or in bis own chain bar he may have seen a vision of thi temple, or, as some recent scholar have conjectured, the temple that hi depicts was that not made with hands eternal in the heavens. 2. Above, it stood the seraphim. Th, flaming ones, an order of beings stmt lar to Jewish traditions. Whether thes stand for an actual order of createL beings we can only reverently con jecture. Each one had six wings..Lik everything in the marble and gold en temple of Jerusalem as well as ev erything in the temple, were not mad with hands, eternal in the heaven: each Beraph was a symbol, or type, an each of the six wings had its meaning With twain. Two. He covered hi face. Shutting out the divine gran deur which he was unworthy to behold With twain he covered his feet. Tha the tarnish and soil of everyday lif might be concealed. It was an instinc Live, action, and runs in close barmon, with the story of the foot -washing b; Jesus Christ on the evening of the las supper. With twain he did f13 Flew, and yet remained stationary poised on his wings. This is the mean Ing of the word "Stood" in the firs part of this verse. Reverence, hu mility, and obedience are shown b, these three attitudes of wings. 13. One cried unto another. Not tw seraphim, but two choirs of seraphin: As temple choirs of priests used t chant to each other in turn, so di, Isaiah hear and see this choir of bea venly musicians perform. Holy, ho13 holy, is the Lord of hosts. Holiness is the sense of purity is one of the quali ties most essential to God. The con ception of holiness was always key before the minds of the Hebrews, an, though in the earliest days they coup not understand much more than furor aI' separation of certain persons an certain vessels for holy purposes, th meaning increased and intensified dui ing the ages of revelation until th fullness of the thought was develope in the New Testament. The whol earth is full of his glory. In ever, way nature reflects the glory of Go( Men, so far as they submit to his wil. help to swell the chorus of thanksgiv Ing. But there is doubtless a nine fuller sense. God's glory is to be dh played on earth and his characte made known bare in a very peculia way. 10 4. The posts of the door move(. "The ba --as of the doorway shook. And remember how massive was tb construction of Solomon's temple. A the voice of him that cried. As ea.c one sang his song of gladness a free tremor ebook the palace. Tb house was filled with • smoke. God has revealed himself as a God c absolute purity.. His attendants wet living flames,.and everything else i the temple was in the vision Consume because of the unapproachable flan Ing holiness of God, Hence the stook bence, too, the prophet's confession ( sin and his mortal fear. 5. Woe is me. "Here," says Dr. Ter ry, "is revealed the whole philosopb of conviction and repentance," an Dr.Uughes well adds thattheonly ret son any sinner has a moment's rest that sin obscures the faculties of N soul. I am a man of unclean lips. Tl angela in the splendor of holiness ha sung a song, the truth of -which Isaia deeply felt. But his poor lips wet dry and black with sin. I -low could I join 'in that song? I dwell in the midE of a people of unclean lips. He felt a this moment that many of the thing he had been accustomed to regar with the greatest reverence were ho low, and the holiness of the holieE People seemed to him now to be staine with sin. "As with the disease of tl body," says Dr. Ge,(rgo Adam Smit] "so with the sin of the soul -each o ten gathers to one point of pain. (sac man, though wholly sinful by nal un has his own particular and local cot sciousness of guilt. Isaiah, being professional talker, felt his mortt weakness inost upon his lips." Mir eyes have seen the King. And thea fore, according to Jewish tradition, l was doomed. 6. A live coal. A glowing stone. I the East there are no stoves nor grat fires, but stones are heated on chat coal fires and used for baking cake anwarming water. Taken with tt tongs from off the altar. The golde altar of incense had upon it alone heatecl to a glow. ,When heated thea stones burned the incense and cause it to smoke. One of them now w€ Put to -a better 'use -that of sanctifyin the lips of the young prophet, 7. He laid it upon my moutl Where he had felts his sin. Thine it quity is taken away. ' That is, the mi itself was cleansed. The angel coul not cleanse it, however; it was the fit from the altar that, did that. S. I beard the voice of the Lor' Isaiah's vision ,may be analyzed int what he heard and what he sav Whom shall I send. The Lord cal. for volunteers, That call was not at dressed , to Isaiah merely bt to the millions of Judal but only Isniab heard it, or, hearin it, responded with the rapture of obed Once. Here am 1; send me. His 0o life was changed. He no longe mourns impotently over his sin. H whole nature is eagbr for service. 0. Go, and tell this people. It is message of absolute purity, and on] a man of pupae lips can deliver it. ' is a strange message; hardly a me sage At all. But mote a prophecy t how the?people would treat him. Heat ye indea , but undoratand not. Lister and hear not. Bee ye indeed, but pe; ooive not. Look and nee not. Gc knows that the people In their Phar sale godliness will attend to the mei sage and understand the words, bt ignore the inward meaning. To for( tilts timaning upon them Ispiah is d rooted In grave irony to tell them t do what he is trying to keep them frog doing,, 10. 'Make the boart of this people fa and make their cars heavy, and shu their eyes. Literally, this mean make them impervious to holy spiritual influencea, • But the force of it to the minds of those who beard it would be, as we have said, ironlo, and exhortation to do the exact opposite to what was said. The mdssage also was a prophecy to Isaiah to keep him from discouragement by letting him know how dull the moral sense of his fellows was. Conurt. Turn around from sin to' God. 11. Lord, how long I How long will the, hardness of heart endure, and how long will be the punishment of it? Until the cities be wasted without in- habitant. Until the nation is taken away intol exile. Isaiah need not hope 'for the thorough moral regener- ation of his people, but It is his duty to preach whether they bear or whe- ther they forbear. The land be ut- terly desolate. The soil become a des - PA. 12. Tha Lord have removed men far away. To Babylonia and Media. For- saking. Depopulation. - 13. But yet in it shall be a tenth. If even one man out of every ten be left in .the land. It shall return, and shall W eaten. Rather, be burned up The very dregs and refuse of the na- tion left in Palestine shall be destroy- ed, As a toil tree. A terebinth tree. (Both the terebinth and the oak shoot up again from the old stock after be- ing out down. So the holy seed shall become a stem or stock from which the future glory of the nation shall grow. . 110111111111" �* IN A DUTCH SpHOOLHOUSE, '•+... , 1111611 Partitions and bhl,tln: Cleanllue.•L -mountain of IVO041011 Shoes. At Naaldwyk, thanks to the courtesy f a school inspector who accompanied as, I satisfied my desire to see an ele- aentary school, writes a correspond - lit. T,he'seboolhouse stands alone, and Las only the ground floor. We enter - d a small vestibule where there was . mountain of wooden shoes belong - ng to the scholars, and which they esumed when tbey went out. In school hey sit with stockings only, and the tockings are very thick, and the choolrogm is warmed thoroughly. When we came in the scholars rose, end the master ohme forward to meet he inspector. Even this poor village uhoolmaster spoke French, so that we ould enter into conversation. There vera about forty scholars present, half nale, half female, and the Boxes divid- A ; all were blonde, and plump, with )road, good-natured faces, and with a Certain precocious air of fathers and pothers of families that made one 'mile. The building is divided into `dve rooms separated one from the ether by a glazed partition; so that MONARCH'S INCOMES. La u OLVL VL LLIU LIUU1"05L VLtl UUM VVVL— see it. All the rooms are spacious and "— have very large windows, extending Not Such a very threat Burden on Their from floor to ceiling, so that it Is as Subjects. light as in the street, The benches, The thrones of Europe require every walls, floors, stores and glass partitions year for their maintenance a sum of were all as clean and bright as in a £0,000,000 sterling, or three times the ball room. On the wall of the rooms there were small pictures landscapes annual income of the richest man in and figures, and groups of animals, to the world, says London Tid-Bite. Even which the master referred in his teach - this stupendous sum could be comfort- ing; maps in • vivid colors, with the names printed large; sentences, gram - abl packed in three large trunks, nl- ably P g matical rules, and moral precepts in though the constituent sovereigns large characters. would form a pathway of gold nearly I I said "poor schoolmaster," merely a yard wide, on which the kings and as a common mode of expression, for I learned that he had a stipend of queens of Europe could walk in state- more than two thousand two hundred ly procession. from Charing Cross to francs, 8440, and a home in a good St. Paul's. , house in the village. In Holland i he IIn view of this display of old it car- minimum for the headmaster of an ele- mentary school is eight hundred francs. tainly seems scarcely credible that it But there are masters who have the only represents a yearly contribution salary of the professors of the univer- of 36-8 pence for each subject through- sities in Italy. out Europe,• or the cost of an ordin- ary packet of cigarettes. HUSBANDS AND WIVES. As might, perhaps, be expected, the "It all depends upon the way in sultan is the costliest of monarchs, but w,hEoh married life is commenced as to even in his case a contribution of 2s whether a couple have or have not any 5d, from every subject would furnish secrets between them " says a writer, his annual exchequer. "There are, no doubt, occasions on The kings of Belgium and Greece which it would be far better for the rank next to the sultan in costliness, wife's happiness and peace of mind but at a great interval. Fivepence a that alie should be kept in the dark, year is all. the claim they make on each for a time at least, during her hus- subject's loyal generosity, band's season -of anxiety. Austria ranks next, with a contri- "It is easy to see that it is ; not bution of 4 3-4d. each toward main- wise to make a rule of always being taining its imperial throne; Italy is quite open and communicative, for if fitfh on the list with 4 12d.; Sweden silence is only fallen back upon in sixth with 4d,; then come Russia, with times of •calamity or misfortune of a modest 3 for the "great white 'for some sort it will be tantamount to a czar;" Germaanyny,, with 3 1-6d. its confession that something very un - almighty emperor, and the United toward has ha happened if ever the per- Kingdom, with an individual 2 1-3d. usal of a letter or the answer to a Between the cheapest of sovereigns question is denied the wife. and the dearest of presidents there is a great gulf. A penny from each "My own opinion -,after a twelve Frenchman would meet the yearly cost years' experience of married life -is that it is fax better to start of three presidents, and each Swiss with from the commencement, not by being the same modest coin +could secure the mysterious -and secretive, but by being, services of twenty presidents. in all save purely personal and family England's queen is thus the cheap- est of all European sovereigns, if the I matters, cautious and not over-com- tax be levied on the United KingdomI munica.tive. The change from busi- ness and its anxieties to the peace of alone ; if, however, we distribute it over ; home life will be far more keenly ;ap- the whole of her empire, the tax would preoiated• if shop' is not talked at amount to a farthing for each of her home, and this may be the excuse any subjects. J As Victoria is the least costly of husband can offer should be wish to put his wife off an Inconvenient monarchs she is also among the poor-itopip. eat. Her total income available for pri- vete purposes not much more than "And here, too, arises a much discus hour -a rev- £200,000 a year, or £23 ev- , sed question:.- Sheuld_.mxrried fol open each other's letters? There can enue less than same of her subjects en- a to my thinking, be no two answers t °y Her entire private fortune is, rough- this question, the only reasonable on being that they should not. edly, £2,000sovere00-a capital which, convert- ed into sovereigns, might be stowed ••There are hundreds and thousand I which away to a trunk 6 feet long and 8feet of remarks a near friend o husband or wife might make quit in height and width. casually which might give offence an Compared with these modest sums, pain to one for whom the communioa the czar's income and fortune are tion was not intended. There may be alike stupendous. His private fortune, letters coming which, if read by both including his mines, forests and his 1,000,000 acres, may safely be estimat- would open up some old sore, or re a deal of explanation and ed at £40,000,000 and his total yearly quire raking up of past history, which wa revenue at £2,560,000, or £4.15 shillings long over and done with, and if ever. a minute. The Emperor of Austria is " pagsing particular- letter, which, if read b wife or husband when intended for th rich" on £1,500,000 a year. His daily allowance is £4,110, or a pile of sov- other, should be suppressed by the ad dressed, vague suppiBion, if nothing ereigns three and a half times as high w,oree, is awakened, and it takes a lop as himself. time to allay it. The ' unrivaled' William, German "Let husband and wife trust each emperor has £500,000 a year less than his imperial brother of Austria, but other thoroughly, and then they may keep their even this limited allowance admits of own -which probably may be other people's -secrets from an expenditure ever two days, of as Pe y first to last with impunity. " firs many sovereigns as a strong man could carry to his palace at Potsdam. All these incomes, however, look fool- GOOD ADVXM FOR BUSYBODIES ish and small when compared with the £('(.,000,000 a year which the sultan is A clergyman, addressing those wb credited with spending. This sum, by go to church to stare about them an the way, is more than ten times as much na his official income, a fact then complain that others stare a I them, lately said: When I was a bo from which some idea may be gleaned of Itie vastness of his private fortune.I we had a schoolmaster who had od ways of catching idle boys, Says be This extravagant monarch contrives one day: Boys, I must have closer at to spend twice his own weight in sov-''te.ntion to books; the first one of you exeigns every day. For pocket money I that sees another boy idle I want yot he allows himself over three hundred- I to inform me, and I will attend l weight of sovereigns a week, and the the case. ; Ah, thought 1 to myself same amount for delicacies for his there's Joe Simmons, th Lt I don't like acres of tables. Four and a half hun- I'll watch him, and if 1 see him too dredweight of sovereigns vanish ev- off his book, I'll tell on him. It wa ery week in presents, and the some not long before l saw Joe look off hi weight of gold is required to clothe I book, and immediately I informed th the many beauties of his barem. Com- master. Indeed, sand lie, how did you pared with this lavish expenditure, it I know he was idle? I saw him, wa is really wonderful how the poor man the reply. You did,; and were you contrives to clothe himself on a pal- eyes on your book when you saw him try £1,500 a week, to which sum he I was caught, but I didn't watch fo rigidly limits his tailors. the boys again. HASTY BACKING OUT. FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE. Miss de Boney, school teacber-1 a informed that you loudly spoke of m A despatch from Quebec says: -Mr. on the public streets as an old matid• H. 'Allan, of Montreal, was in the Bad, Boy,+ mue,h scarred - N�-n-p, city to -day, and had a conference with ma'am. I said y'r mother was an of Sir Richard Cartwright in reference maid. - --_ to steamship matters. Tenders for the WINK'S I1R,ITTA LITY. two years' mail service, commencing May 1st next, are not due until the Mr. Minks -Poor Winks is having 21st inst., and when the contract has good deal of trouble with his wife, been awarded the Government will lose Mrs. Minks -Huh I It's all hi no time in endeavouring to arrange own fault, for a fast service to be inaugurated Mr. Minks-Nonsensel All the wort by May lat, 1001. knows his wife is a born devil, Mrs. Minke—Yes, and be, like brute, expects her to act as if wasn't. A COMMON LACK. Unsuccessful statesman •—I don't IRIS HCnny. eoem to get along very well. What is Things not to be amileil at In them It I laok.ir. His Wife -humor. solves many take on a humorous aspoe through the their Humor) Huh I Suppnae Iliad L keen,sten. manner of expre An I>.ngllab paper says sense of the ridiculous, what good would that do t An old country nextob, in showing You would we your own ah'ortoom- Inge. visiting round the churoLlyard. used t otopp at a co rtltiin tombstone and bay 'Oo bbof Tummas Thane Now foe wolves. LONDON'S ORIUMAL VALA00, On one 6o6a6lbn a lady said, Elsven riser tike I that's anther a lot, isn't it It rLsgniries 0tl61' 1,p�p aw year to her liavel - ',fills old . looked at g 'Wbll, run the Clryllthl Yellaoe in X.o1Gtftu, IMa alld 'replied- Mum, ler see, it baron+ Vette tide. you all 'olt+jy of 'le'tn. . k, , . , « � . r y o- -,y, ,. �. .Y,.. _ 11x- _ y. t' r r. • 1+.Y . - dajgft FALL FUN. . d Tom Innit-What did that telephone - girl say to you whets she broke the en" gagement ? Jack Potts -Ring off, Did you enjoy the oathedrals abroad, Miss Shutter ? No; the horrid things were too big for my camera. A Possibility. -Ethel -Do you really think the Czar wants to disarm Eur- ope ? Tom -Well, perhaps he only wants td disarm suspicion. Wonderful. Child -That is a n' •e lit- tle boy of the 6miths. RamerYcatl Even the neighbors like him. Go it Alone --What do you think of the human race, Mr Silverberg? Mr, Silverberg -Voll, mine freadf, I t'inld der Hebrew vine by a nose. Precooity-He was a very precocious boy, Indeed? Yes, at sevep years of age he read Greek, and at ten he had mastered the rudiments of college yell- ing. The Grand Vizier was ambitious. I think, said he, that my head will be on a medal some day. Ha I said the Caliph, Good idea 1 I'll have it struck off at once I Aline -Isn't it sickening the way Miss Up -to -Date tries to put on man- nish airs] Anna -Perfectly I Pretend, ed to lose her collar -button this morn- ing when she knew all the time where - it was. • Tommie -Hullo,. Jimmie, what kep' you ? Jimmie -Me and the of man had an arg'ment. He wanted me to haul some wood into the back yard. Tommie -How did it end I Jimmie -In a draw -I draw - ed it. As to Cblor.-Once a book accosted a newspaper, although they were by no mentis in the same set. You are yel- low with age, remarekd the Book. No, replied the Newspaper, it's not so much age as competition. Dolly -Papa, do they get salt out of Salt Lake? Papa -Yes, my dear, large quantities. Dolly -And ink out of the Black Sea? Paps -No; now keep quiet, Dolly-Yessir.-Are there any women on the Isle of Man $ She -Do you know, that kitten there reminds me Of you d He -I'd like to know where the connection is? She -- It seems to have just about as much success in catching its tail as you do , in finding your moustache. Papa, said the beautiful girl, George and I are two souls with but a single thought. Oh, well don't let that dis- courage you, replied her father kindr ly. That's Dole more than your moth= or and Iliad when we were married. It is quite an honor, I'm sure, said the mosquito, in reference to the bar at the window, that this slapiuld be put up solely on my account. The gall of the creature! exclaimed the fly. I'd like to know where I come in? No Happy Medium. -Miss Hichureh-, we have a dreadful time with our cler- gymen I Visitor -What's the trouble? Miss Hichureh-Well, the last one was so religious that he neglected social matters, and this one is so social that he neglects the church I After the Correction. -Papa - Now, Johnny, I have whipped you only for your own good. I believe I have only, done my duty. Tell me truly, what do you think yourself? Johnny -If I should tell you what I think, you'd give me another whipping. Gillings-You said the kerosene was perfectly safe, and that it could be used without the least danger. I took your word and what is the result? The stuff has exploded and made a ruin of our kitchen. Dealer -1 said the .oil was not dangerous, i did not say •anything .at a.11 about the servant -girl. ttr Fable -Once upon a time 6� Peasant k had a Goose which laid golden eggs. Of course the Peasant killed Ti Tie Hoose, f in consonance with the agrarian pol- o icy of the times. AlaeI exclaimed the a hapless fowl, with its last breath, if f I• only hadn't been such a goose I This e fable teaches up not to be too benefi- cent lest we undermine our health. Hoc•; did the charity dodge work last terw'l was asked of the university stu- dent. who is packing up his traps with a a view to another go at the classics. s Did it add much to your allowance? a Fizzled clear out. I wrote the gover- nor that I wanted some money to help e a poor family that was in an almost starving condition. Inside of forty-eight g hours he sent me a barrel of flour and two hams. Ethel -Mother, can I take my wax y droll to heaven with me when I die? y Mother -No, Ethel you cannot take m your dolls to heaven. Ethel -Can't. I take these little bites of dollies? Moth- er -No. Ethel -Well I can't I even take my rag doll ? Mother -I told you� o Ethel, that you could not take any of" d your dolls to law yen with you. Ethel - Well I thew I'll take the whole lot and y go to the bad place. d HE OR SHE. t u The word "ship" is masculine in I o French, Italian, Spanish and Portu- guese, and possess no sex in Teutonial and Scandinavian. Perhaps it would snot be an error to trace the custom a back to the Greeks, who called all e ships by feminine n•tmes, probably out u if deference to Atbene, goddess of the a sen.. ,But the sailor assigns no such r raesons. The ship is to him a veri- ? able sweetheart. (She possesses a r waist, "collars, stays, laces, bonnet, ties, ribbon, chain, watches and dozens of other feminine valuables. 705 NO ONE HT6E, SURELY. ' e Princess street, sir, said a atebbli outside a Yorkshire street railway e station to his fare. Why, that's only half a minute's walk from 'ere. Never mind, drive away, answered the gentleman. But I can't charge you less thorn 18 L pence, Pit ; that's the legal fare. All right, my Rood man ; only start a quickly, and I'll give you a couple of fares. d Cabby jumped upon the box with a beaming face, flicked up his arse and n shouted jocosely to an imagi ` she Don't wait dinner if I'm late, Mary; Ann 1 I'm takin' the King o' Kions dike to bis bimpbrial hgbode I VICTORIA'S WEIGHT. t jQueen Victoria, tbou,gh sligbtly un'- a- un' - dot five feet In 'height, is close upon 12 stone weight. -' ° AN AiVFAUGE RM"'TIDLtd. ' P� Returned Traveler -What became of Bom Mulbooly, the notorious boodlert 1 Citizen He died in the penitentiary. 1 Served him right. And what be. came of Mr. Goodsoul, the reformer, t who exposed him I ;Ho died in the poor-l'ou6e. , 0 .. .