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Commander Cheyne of the British Navy made a. very ela- borate plan for such an expedition. which wan to have been undertaken fifteen or sixteen years ago. and meet- ings were held in London to favor it. His scheme was to push far north with a whip and. then resort to three large balloons for piecing out the voyage. He expected to reach the pole through the air in thirty or forty hours. But the project as thus planned was cost- ly. since to the expense of the ship was added that of balloons weighing in all about three tone. as they were to carry seven persons. sledges. dogs, and proviafions and water for more than seven weeks. Finally the plan and? pre‘riafions end water for more than seven weeks. Finally the plan was reduced to one for ships and sledges, with ballooning as a. last re- liance; and then it was dropped alto- gether. Some year; later. about 1890, two Frenchmen. Beeancon. the aero- naut, and Hermite. the astronomer. reâ€" newed the project. with with improve- :xents. making it similar to the present one of Andree. Talley were to use a single hallo-3n. and to start from Spitz- bergen. while four large bags of hy- drogen gas were to be carried. some- what as in Godard’s project. to replen- i5h waste. They were to take eight dogs. asledge. a small canoe. and a. munth'c. provisions, while a. heavy rope and another anchor dragging along the ice or water would keep the The mining season promises to fur- nish a test of the long-cherished pro- not Of an air-ship voyage tonard the North. Pole. Andree's attempt last Simmer. it win be remembered. was “(led at. the decisive moment by un- favorable winds. whfixch continued un- til he thought it too late in the season to venture. But in June the is to pro- coed againnunder King Oscar's pa- tronage, as before from Stockholm to sPitzbergen. his old starting place. with; his balloon. his boa‘t, his sledges. and his precautionary supply of food for four months. His cafloulation is that a. favoring wind will blow him to the reighborhood of the pole within two‘days; but. assuming it to contin- ue. he must perforce cross the polar area. and it is for the exit. which may make it um necessary along 1:133 ice or war balloon at a regular President argued that all the infor- mation on the subject showed a. pro- bability that. instead of winds blow- ing steadiiy across the pole, there was a region of circm'lar currents, and a. balloon once among these would be likely to be mried about in them with- out power of esmpe. He also dwelt upon the difficulty of navigation through: mists and snows. and with: frosts upon the ropes However, this adverse opinion. as we see, has not dammed the Swedish aeronaut. He has had some experience. having cross- ed the Gulf of Botbnia from Sweden In these prevxous projects. as in An- drea's. it was clearly recognized That. the very mppositi'm of a. strong. fa- voring wind, implied the blowing of the balloon past the pole. and the ne- aessity of an exit on the oyposite side of the Arctic circle. But is this result to be relied upon? The French. Society of Aerial Navigation. after fully dis- cussing the subject. disapproved the project of Benmcon and Hermite. who were among its members. The President argued that 3.21 the infor- mation on the subject showed a pro- "Tm-T!" “W301- 5153-1 51B ‘PW'L'UL-l 03 current: is the plan of abandoning the balloon. if necessary. and escaping by sledge and boat. A glance at the map, which shows that the northern part of Spitzbergen reaches Snearly to the eighty-first parallel of latitude. shows that there would be a. clear possibi- lity of reaching the pole within two days if favored by a strong wind. And M here it is interesting to note that only a. few weeks ago a balloon ac- complished a. jmmney of 375 miles from Paris to Again in a. little more than Hfirtv hairs, its rate varying from VOL “3 NO 18 AOTES A ND COMMENTS. distance from the Some Evlclrnces That [he (‘hrlstlau Be- llzlun ls Anything But a Huge Blun- der-The Fruits of the Spun-God's Veraclly. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on Sun- day on "The Plague of Infidelity." tak- ing- for his text. Romans. 3.. 4.- "Let God be true, but every man a liar." KEV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE PLAGUE 0F INFIDELITY. of the creation is an absurdity large' enough to throw all nations into rol- licking guffaw; that Adam and Eve neVer existed: that the ancient flood and Noah’s Ark were impossibilities; that there never was a. miracle? that I the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy. of all forms of base crime: that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stnlti i-- cation; that the Bihle from lid to la is a fable. 3. cruelty. a. humbug, 8» sham. a lie; that. the [martyrs who died for its truth were miserable dupes. that the. Church of Jesus Christ is pro pe-rly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the sceptic, said: “The I Bible'is anoble. book." he wasdropping 5 i111:0 imbecility; that when Theodore] Parker declared in Music Hall. Boston. "Never a boy or girl in all Christendom. but was profited by that great book," he was becoming very weak-minded; that it is something to hrring a blush; to the cheek of every patriot, thatI John Adams, the father of American; independence. declared. "The Bible is: the best book in all the world," and! that lion hearted Andrew Jackson; turned into asnivelling coward when? he said, "That book.sir. is the rock out} which our Republic rests;" and that; Daniel Webster abdicated the throne : of his intellectual power and resigned! his logic. and from being the great); expounder of the Constitution and the} great lawyer of his age. burned into; an idiot. when he said. “My heart 35-? sures and reassures me that the Gos- pel of Jesus Christ must be a Divine ‘ reality. From the time that at 111311 mother‘s feet, or on my father’s knee. i I first learned to lisp verses from the ' sacred writing. thay have been my daily study, and vigilant contemplation. and if there is anything in my style or thought to be commended. the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the scriptures;" and that William E. $- auva Luuuu w .n. 'â€"._- .. of the grave; and. that your mother sat with afpack ot' lies on her lap while reading-yo the better country. and_o£ the ending of all our aches and pains and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her. but of the chil- dren she had buried “i h infinite heart- ache. so that she could read no more until she took oi'f he»: spectacles. and. \viped from them the mist of many tears. A.as! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and had it under their i.low when they lay a-dying in the ck room, and asked that some words from the old book might be out upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting-house. where they sleep toâ€"day waiting for a re- surrection that will never come. This book. having deceived them, and hav- ing deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must not be _a.llowed to de- ceive our larger. mightier, vaster. more stupendous intellects. And so out with the book from the court-room, where it is used in the. solemnization of it’s- timonyn Out With it from under the foundation of Church and. asylum, Quit With it from the domestic circle. Gather together all the Biblesâ€"the children‘s Bibles, the family Bibles. \those newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages almost obliterated by this fingers long ago turned to dustâ€"bring them all together and let us make a bonfire of them, and by it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn. under with the plough- share of public indignation and polluted ashes of that loathsome. adulterous. obscene, cruel and deathful book which is so antagonistic to men‘s liberty and woman’s honor, and the world's happi- guess. i Now that is thie‘substance of what infidelity proposes and-declares. and the attack on the Bible 13 accompanied by great jammy and “there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about the Bible. I like fun; no man was ever built with; a. keener appreciation of it. But there is a laughter whngch is deathful, there is a laughter which has the redound of despair. It ismt healthy to giggle about God. or chuckle'abou't eternity or smirk about the things of the im- mortal soul. First. I cannot be an infidel because infidelity has no.800d substitute for the congolation it “proposes to take A _- _3I‘I:-‘- ward. the diplomatist -of the century, only showed his puerility when be de- clared. “ The whole hope of human progress is suspended on me over- gmwing influence of the Bible;" and , LL-L 5.-“ __g ,â€" that in is xivis'est for us to take that book from the throne in the affections of unmanned muuiLudes and put, 1c under our feet, L9 be trampied upon by hatred and hissing contempt; and thuL your old tamer was hoouwinned. and cajoded. and cheated. and befool- ed. when he leaned on this as a. stafif after his hair grew gray. and hm hands were tremuJous. and his steps shortened as he cqmq up to the veme uuo wuwluvtv“ -- ,_V‘ W, away. You know they-e M9 millions of people who zed: theu' clue: camo- lation from this book. What would on think of a. crusade of this sort? 51333088 3. may should regolve that he (I orgamze §_c_onsp1§acy to de- ‘- A. W " LET GUI] BE TRUE." organize a conspiracy to all the medicines from all the apot-hccariasand from a1! the hespitala of the earth. The; work 15; dng._ The v1. - W Lu. v..- medicines are taken. and they are thrown into the river or the lake or_ the sea. A patient wakes up at midnight. in a paroxysm of distress. and wants an anodyne. “Obi." says the nurse. "the anodynes are all destroyed; we have no drops to give you. hutinstead of that I'll read you {book on the absurdities of all remedies. But the man continues to writ‘he in pain. and the nurse says: “I’ll continue to read you some discourses on anqdynes. the cruelties of anodynes. the indecenCies of anodynes. the absurdities of ano- dynes. For your groan I'll give you a. laugh." Here in the hospital patient having a gangrened limb am- putated. He says: “th. for ether. Oh. for chloroform." The doctors say: "Why. they are all destroyed; we don t have any more chloroform or ether; but i have got something a great deal better. I’ll read you a pamphlet against James ’1‘. Simpson. the disco?- erer of chloroform as an anaesthetic and against Doctors Agnew. and Ham- ilton. and Hosack. and Mott. and Har- vey. and Abernethy." “."but saysjh'e' man. "I must have some anaesthetics. "No." says the doctors. “they _are all destroyed. but we have something a, great deal better." "What is that? "Fun." Fun about mediunes. Lie down. all ye patients in Bellevue Hos- pital. and 5 your groaningâ€"all yo broken-hearte of all the cities. and stop your crying: we have the Catholi- con at last! Here is a dose of Wit. here is a strengthening laster of sar- casm. here is a bottle 0 ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up and take a spoonful of it after eadh meal. and if that does not cure you. here is asolution of blasphemy in_whmh you may bathe. and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton _ of death. with a reparteel Make the King of Terror; cackle! For all the agon- ies of all the ageS. a joke! Millions Of people willing with uplifted hands toward heaven to affirm that the G09- pel of Jesus Christ is full. of consolat- tion for them. and yet infidelity pro- poses to take it away. givmg nothing. absolutely nothing. except fun. a there any greater height or depth. or length, or breadth, or immeneity of meanness in all Godtspniverse”? ' Infidelity is a. religion of Dont know." Is there a God? Don't know! If we should meet each other in the future world will we recognige' each other? Don't knowl A .religion of "don't know." for the religion of I know." “I know in whom: I haVe Iieved." "I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Infidelity proposes to_ substi- tute a religion of awful negatives for our religion of glorious posnives show- ing right before us a world of reunion and ecstasy. and high companionship and glorious worship and stupendous victory. the mightiest Joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himala a of uplifted splendor awaiting all those. who. on Wings pf Christian faith will soar towards. it. Furthermore. I cannot be an infidel “‘1me vs an". .suv .nl-unv EEEZEifiéod honored monogamy. The [Bible not abroad. God abhorred poly- y. ; Another false charge which infidelity has made a. ai-nst the Bible is that it! isantagonis in to woman. that it en- ‘ : joins her d adation and belittles her {missmm Un r this impress on many. lwomen have been overcome of this :‘Plague of Infidelity. 'Is the Bible the jenemy of woman? Come into the pic- .ture gallery. the Louvre. the Luxem- bourg of the Bible. and see which pioâ€" i ;tures are the more honored. Here is , lEve a perfect woman. in 3.1 woman as could be made by a perfect 3 :God. Here is Deborah. with her woâ€"i .manly arm hurli 3 battle. .Israelitish orchestra on the Banks of: as perfect a. . _a host into the Here is Miriam. leading the: the Red Sea. Here is motherly Han- nah. with her own loving hand re- lenishing the wardrobe of her son .I- uel. the prophet. Here is Abigail.; kneeling at the foot of the mountain until the four hundred wrathful men. ' at the sight of her beauty and rowess. halt. haltâ€"a. hurricane stopp at the sight of a water lil . a. dewdrop dash- lilng back Niagara. {lore is Ruth put- ting to shame all the modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her , back on_ her home and her country, and faces Wild beasts and exile and death. that she may be with Naomi. her husâ€" : band's mother. Ruth. the Queen of the harvest fields. Ruth. the grand- mother of David. Ruth. the ances- ters of Jesus Christ. The story of her Virtues and her lifecsacrifices. the most heauiiful pastoral ever written. Here is Vaahti. defying the ba'cchanal of a. thousand drunken lords and Esther. willing to throw her life away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas. the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philanthropic needle. and the woman with perfume in a box . made from the hills of Alabastrom. pouring the holy chi-ism on the head of Christ. the aroma lingering all down the corridor of the centuries. Here is Lydia. the merchantess of Tyrian urple, immortalized for her Christian vior. [Here is the widow with. two mites. more famous than the Pea- 2 bodys and the Lexoxes of all the. ‘ages. while here comes in slow of gait! and with careful attendants andzwith es- pecial honor and highjavor. leaning on the arm of inspiration. one who is the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one. an old Christian Grandmother, Grandmo- ther Lois. 'Who has more worshippers to-day than any being that ever lived on earth. accept Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth! To reâ€" lieve the embarrassment ofa. womanly housekeeper at the falling short of a beverage. \Vhy did Christ break 11? the silence of the tomb. and tear of . the shroud and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose com~ fort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dying excruciationi For a Furthermore. I cannot be an infidel because of the false charges of infidelity 1!. all the time making against the Bible. Perhaps the slander that has made the most impression and that some Christians have not been intelli- gent enough to den isthat the Bible avers olygam. 095 the God of the Bib e uphold polygamy. or did He? How many wives did God make for Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you when God started the marriage institution He started as He wanted to continue? If God had favored polygamy file could have created Adam five Wives. or ten wives. or twenty Wives. 'ust as easily as He made one. At t e_ very first of the Bible God showsHLmself in favor of monygamy and antagonis- tie to polygamy. Genesis 1x.: 24 " Therefore shall a man leave his fath- er and mother. and shall cleave unto his wife." Not his wives. but his wife. How many wives did God spare for Noah in the ark? Two and two the birds; two and two the cattle; two and two the lions; two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a. multiplicity of wives. He would have s ared a plurality of wives. When God irst launched the human race He gave Adam one wife. At the second launching of the human race He spares for Noah one wife, for Ham- one wife, for Shem one wife. for Japhet one wife. Does that look as though God favoredpolygam'y} In ‘L‘exitious. ,h_ -R “ OH, WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US,TAE SEE OORSELS AS ITHERS SEE US.” God permitteu polygamy. Yes; 'ust as He permlts Loâ€"day murder andt eft and erson and all kinds of crime. He permxts these things as you well know. but He does not sanction them? Be- cause the Presidents of the United States have permitted polygamy in Utah, on are not, therefore, to con- clude t at they patronize it. that they approved it. when. on the contrary. they denounced it. All of God's An- cient Israel knew thgt the ng 9f the 3338‘.“ 36:? 21133315551315 fich‘ibition of more than one wife: uv 70,; i331; ‘Jéé'fig‘aifisi Folygamy, for in the four hundred and hirty years of their stay in Egypt there is only one case of polygamy recordedâ€"only one. All the mighty of the Bible stood aloof from polygamy except those who. fail- ing into crime. were chastised within an inch: of their lives Adam. 'Aoeron, Noah, Joseph. Joshua, Samuel. mono- gnmists. But on say: "Didn't David and Solomon avor polygamy ’3" yes, and did they not get we 1 punished for it? Read the lives of those two men and you will come to the conclusion that all the attribgtes of God's nature were a aimt their behavxor. David suffere for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Messada. in the wilder- ness of Manhanaim, in the bereave- ments of Ziklug. The Bedouins after him. sickness after him. Absalom after him. Ahithopel after him. Adonijah af- ter him. the Edomites after him. the Syrians after him, the Moabites after him._ death after him. the Lord God Almighty after him._ The poorest pea.- _‘I 1.1.. ....c.... m-.._:n,l $5 61.‘ polygamy. save as they .were pounded and. flailed and out to places for their insult to.holy marrlage. If the Bible is the frnend of polygamy why is it that in all the lands where there is no Bible itisfavared? Poly y all over China. all over Indxa. a1 over Africa. all over Persia. all over: heathendom. save as the mmsmnanes have done their work; while polygamy does not. “'â€"‘Qâ€" 7,, sant In all the empire married to the plainest Jpwess was happier _tha.n the king in his martial misbehavwr. How did Solomon gej; alopg with polygamy Read his waxmngs 1n Proverbs. read his self-disgust 1n Epclesiastgs. He throws up his hands In loathmg, and throws up his hands in loathing. and cries out: "Vamty of Vanities. all is vanity." His Seven {hundred wives nearly pestered the_ his out of him Solomon got well pad for his crimesâ€" well paid. I rep_ea.t that all the m' hty men at the Scnptuqus were aloof r9113 OMEMEE. ONT. THURSDAY, APRIL 15. 1897 exist in_E-n land andthe United Stafies. except m efianoe of law. The Bible abroad. God honored monogamy. The [Bible not abroad, God abhorred poly- the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one. an old Christian Grandmother, Grandmo- ther Lois. 'Who has more worshippers to-day than any being that ever lived on earth. accept Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth! To re- lieve the embarrassment ofa. womanly housekeeper at the failing short of a beverage. \Vhy did Christ break 11 the silence of the tomb. and tear of . the shroud and rip up the rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose com~ fort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dying excruciationi For a woman. an old woman. a wrinkle-faced woman. a. woman who in other days had held Him in her arms. His, first friend. His iast friend. as it was 4 very apt to be. His mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utter- once. ”Be’hoid thy mother." Does the Bike antagonize women ? u 7 __ â€"â€"-.â€" v«-uv v__.._ . .Futhermore. rather than invite I re- 9‘“ this Plague of Infidelity because ”5 has Wrought no positive good for {he World. and is always-_a hmdranceé ”“V "U1 M. ouu to china-Jo u. untuuâ€"â€"â€"â€"-~ I ask you to mention the names of the merciful and the educational inst}â€" tutionslwhioh infidelity founded and is supporting, and has supported ail the way: through; institutions pronounced against God and the Christian religion, and yet Pronounced in behalf of suf- faring humanity. ’What are the names of them? . There stands Christianity. There stands Infidelity. Compare what they‘, have done. Cotrnpare their resources. There is Christianity, a. prayer on her up. a. benediction on her brow; both hands full of help for all who want he.p; the mother of thousands of colâ€" legcs; the mother of. thousands of asylum for the oppressed. the. blind. the sick, the lame, the imbecxiefllhe mother of missions for the bringin back of the outcast; the mother 0 thousands of reformalory institutions for the saving of the lost; the mother of innumerabte Sabbath Schools bring- mg leions of children under drill to prepare them for respectabmty and usefulness to say nothing of the great future. This is Christianity. .Here is InfideJity; no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her brow, 130111 nangls clinchedâ€"what for? T9 £18123 C'hrxstianity. That is the entxre Ems:- pess. The complete mission of Infidel- Ity to fight Christianity. Where are her schools, her colleges, her asylums, °f_m§rc_y_' L,___:_.. 134‘ Is Infidelity so poor, so starving. so mean. so useless? Get. out. you miser- gble pauper of the universe! Crawl into some rat hole of everlasting noth- mgness. Infidelity standing to-day n_mid the suffering, groaning, dying _naâ€" tions and yet doing absolutely nothing, saye trying to impede tlhose who.are toning until they fall exhausted into their graves in trying to make the world better. Gather up all the mer-. eiful yvork that Infidelity has ever done. add it all together and there 15 not so much nobility in it as in the smallest head of that sister of charity who last night went up the dark alley of the‘ town, put a. jar of jelly for an: invalid appetite on a broken stand, and their1 knelt on the bare floor. praying the merqonCIhrist upon thedyrng soul.- r_ 6L- MIL/J UL v'uAAuv urn-.- -.â€"v â€".,'u infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded. bakes no bread for the hun- gry. shakes up no comfort. [or the sick. muses no comfort for the bereft, gi_1cs no grave for the dead. WhiI-e Christ, our Christ. our wounded Christ. the Christ of the aid-fashioned ‘ Bible- blessed be His glorious name forever! our C-hrist stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum, saymg, "I was sick and ye gave Me a couch; I was flame and ye gave Me a crutch; I was blind and ye physwianed My eyesight, I was orphaned and ye moth- ered My Soul, I was lost on the moun- tains and ye brought Me home; mas- much as he <_1_i.c_l if. #0 eyeinof theI least Miss Lower’oen (who does not intend to be put down in that style)â€"I thought you had, at one time; but never mind: Perha. s it my gather owned a big mm:- Eage actory like your father's, I'd be stuck up, too. . w-v Effie“, ye iii iâ€"t t6 Me." Miss Upperten (daugghter of; a rich manufacturer)â€"Pardon ma, mlss. but I have not the honor of your acquaint- TOO MUCH STUCK UP. ӣ134 CANADA. : Toronto Civil: Huliday will be held 4; Augmt 2. . The Sunday our vote will be taken ;1n Toronto on Saturday. May 15. § Hard coal has been, disooveredpn the northern shores of Lake fiVdnmnpeg. .Tihe Landon Council has imposed a lxcenie fee of $500 on cigarette deal- ‘ers. The Domininn Government has stop- ped the pracniqe pt g'uvx-ng pnsovners l~n tubes pe-nttentlanes tobacco for good W92 lum- About Our Own County. Great Britain. the United States. and All Puts of the Globe. Confined and W to: Buy Minx. The regular chartered insurgtnceoamr Dames toad $887,872,884 in fire risks In Canada, and there is $327,814,465 of life insurance in force. The Doherty Process Cowpany of Hamilton ham sold the patent. for man- ufacturing iron in Euro? to an Eng- 4'us'h company for £100, 00. ‘ 3 Congress_ has adopled a. resolution : appropriating $200,000 for the relief of i the sufferers by the floods. ; There are three thousand flood suf- ferers at, Helena, Ark" and the water is now in every house from Helena, to \Vhite river. ‘A Chicago 'tum-ywr-ald boy. in the absence of his mother on Wednesday, heated a poker and burned out the : eyes of his infant, brother. < Carter Henry Harrison. son of the lat‘e Mayor. has been elected Mayor of Chicago. and a great: DemocratiC‘tr-i- - umph was recorded. Walt.” Dmmrosch with C. A. Ellis ‘ W111 we grnnd opera. next; season in , New ork. in French. German and Italian. The. new firm has secured ' Melba. - » No trains hams entered Yankton, S. 1 D., for nearly aweek. audit! will prob- ' 3.ny bea month before railroad traffic ‘ is restored to its normal conditions. con duct: Three men: are reported at Vancou- ver. B.C.. to have been killed by a smotwsilide at the Chrinth mine. in the Slocan. Three hundred members; at the Six Nations Inuians have petltioned Par- hameut to cancel their electoral fran- cthe. : ' The mileage of railways iln; emeration In Canada at the end of the last fiscal year was 16,270 miles. an increase of 1,707 mfrles. Mr. Casey has a. bill before the Do- minion House of Commons compellmg railway companies to carry bicycles free as baggage. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. [HE NEWS Mac ken In the Dominion House of Commons the other day Speaker Edgar gave an authoritative denial to the statement made in the Senate. that liquor is be- ing supplied within the precincts of the House Of Commons. The Rev. J. Van Wyck. ‘tor of Gore street Methodist church. amilton. and president act the Ham11ton Conference died at his parsonage on Thursday night. of brain trouble._ fie ‘was 51. xegrs OE UL UAuA-u -. v--.... age. and was «dag-ed if fiifiister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1869. UNITED STATES. The floods in North Dakota. are doing- much damage. v ‘ ~ The Pennsylvania R_ailway Company has agree_d to carry blcycles free over their emtu‘e system. 7001. Dan Ilamom’tl. it i_s stated. is the newly-appoxnted presxdent ‘ of the Northern Pacific. James M. Williamson, fifteen years 01d, was on. \Vednesday given an in- jection of anti-toxins: at, the Christian Ox‘phuns' Home. in St. Louis. Mo.. and in forty minutes he was a. corpse. ampton. _M out of jaxl. Miss Caroline B. N eally, the fair gra~ duaLe amested for robbmg the rooms. of Smith__Coilege snugg‘nts at North- ,,,J__ LA:I_-l .By 1119- will of lthe late. Miss Winifred Martin. of Balturgore. nearly. if not quite half amilllon dollars is be- queathed-Lo vqrious Catholic churches andfih-anties Ln Maryland and Cali- fortma" " , Mrs. Ormiston 0mm, the London so- cial “former. and six nurses started for the Island of Crete. on Wednesday. Thle Archbishop of flante‘flbury will pewonafly deliver imo the: hands of Mr. Bayard the Mg of the Mayflower upcln hxs return to London. upcln his return to mnuon. Leiufiehantâ€"Governor Kirkpatrick 1-5 repented to be much better. and steadxly improving. He will saih from England for Canada on We 213‘: inst. A London 'ury awarded Miss Mar- ion Terry £5u0 damages in an_ action [or iibel which was braiughrg agalnst the St. James' Budget for statung Shh was to leavo the stage to marry her brother-inâ€"lazw, Mr. Morris. - vuv blowâ€"w-.. - _ suspended were Bfâ€" Emr-b a. natufire. that: they could not be repeated. Rresxdentt 3338?? had ”mentally cgpressed his Mir. Curzom, in the House of Com- mons on Tuesday. said that the insults to the Queen. for which Lieut. Eloft, the grapcbon of Pfesitd‘ent Krugernvas - .- _n6nwa hhoh \av-nv v -___,, GREAT BRITAIN chartered ipsuxgnce ogmr 'NII NUISHHU ‘ filming a question in the House; .of Commons on Wadnesdayu MT. Cur-s : 2011 said what the diplomatic relatlona} between Great Britain and' Venezuela. ; have not yet been renewem but ‘her‘ Majesty‘s Goveumnemlt was ready to take into friemd’l; consideration any pgoposa'ls from \ emez‘uevla ‘to remer ldflplomatic relatiotn. , _Befdre the Pm’lihmmrtary South Af- rica Inqunvry COmmi'ttee letters were; :read from Sir John Wi‘JIou'g-h‘hy stat-l mg that he understood the mid of the |;T.rap5va.ai was authorized by the 101-! [pawl authdrities. When questioned ‘ lob the aubjedt Six Jo'h'ln mad he qn-i lde’rstbokl So from conversations thhi Dr. Jamessotn. Although pressed very hard he refused do War further. GENERAL. Zanzibar: watan ‘haa issubd a decree abo’nis‘hfing slavery. The Kihg of Siam has started om his visit to EuIOpe and the United States. The insurgents in Brazil axe geport- ed to have gained some viotones re- cently. Thé Cm ig reparing for his vjsit, Lo Pans. (He wm spend two weeks xn' the French capital incognito. . {Herr Lueger. the anti-Smite. leader in Vienna has again been elected Burâ€" gomaster, this time by three-fourths majority. \ The Congress of Venezue‘xa has u-n- animously ratified the Guinea bound- ary arbitration treaty with Great Bri- tam whiqh was negotiated by the Uni-bed States. Turkey has issued a, circwigr to the powers to the effect that it'ls gettin my of the present condiuon of a - A bill will shortlybe laced before the French Chamber of ep uties ask- lugs: for 'Lxxo hundred million francs to buxld naval docks. 'Herr von Stephen. 1113 limp erial Post- Masterâ€"Genera. _of @{mny who was Twenty persons were ‘kifiled and may others_ were injured by an. exp-2051011 in a. fireworks factory at Lisbon. Evnéve been the chief refiretsentamive of Germany at the Washington Postal: Congress, is dead. . Queen Victoria visited the Prince of Wales' rad Yacht Britannia at Nice! and. confer! the medah of the Victor- ian Order upon Capt. Carter. the yacht's cotnmndem‘. M. Zajmis. Pmide-nt of the Boule. the single Greek legislative body, has sent to Mr. Gladstone a message of grati- tude: for the stand he has,taken- .on be- half of Greece and the Cretan Christ- Sono Pam About. the Tree and In Valu. able Fruit. The oocoemu‘t is one of the most valuable fruitfi knawn. It its native land it furnishes food. shelter, clothing and a pleasant livelihood. says an ex- The majority of the cocoanuts used in this country some from Central Am- erica, as far down as Columbia and the Spanish Main. The different islands of the West Indies. espec'ia-‘lly the Islands of Cayman and St. Andrew. contribute large numbers. The little Island of San Blas furnishes the nut of the heaviest meat. the handsomast nut and easxest to work. The number of them. holyever. is exyreqnely small. ,,,n-..‘.. .“m, The cocoanut is singularly worm- progf. There is. however. one worm. a kmzd of borer. which attacks the tree Itself. It starts from the grougm and works its way up through the mm- dle of the tree, where the sap runs. angi eventually kills the tree. The leaves of the cocoanut tree. are hke palm lgqves. fifteen} fleet; long. A 4-_L-.I rwAm gym-w»). LALUUV” - The blossoms and buds are treated by the native; to produce a liquid cell- ed arrack, which is very inltoxicating. The tree grown from fifty to 150 years. and ylelds every year about 100 nuts. There are on one tree at the same time buds..blr)ssoms and fruit ripe and green and_ 111 all stages of ripemn . The grunt dro off at. night. A pu led nut 13 worth age. The milk insxde of it turns sour shortly afterwards and be- epmee green. Brushes are made of the fiber of the trees. The coeoanut wood takes a. very fine polish, and :1: is large- ly used for floors. beimg pohshed wrth the husk of the nut and a. little bees- wax. The out in its native state is soft. tender and spongy. To take of! the sheu when the nut is perfectly H-obsonâ€"" Is Robson a .man _you can trust ?” Dobsonâ€""Yps; that Is. if you lend him anything; It's all you can do." ffesh. Is very easy. Freddyâ€"“ What is statesmanship. pa- pa?â€" Papaâ€""Statesmanship. my son, is succrssful politics. “ Mos’ men," said Uncle Eben, "talks 'bout de commones' kind 0' troublm like dey done 'scovered ‘em an' could git 'em patented ef dey chose." .“ Mr. Henpeck." said the doctor, after examination. " 1 fear your wife's mind is one.” ”That doesn't surprise me." sai the poor man; " she has been giv- ing me; 3 pi ace of 1t every day for ten "What do you think is the matter with her, doctor 2" "Appendicitis. I think.” " For Heaven's §ake. don't tell her. She would die w1th joy if she thought she had such a fashlo-nable dis- ease." Sometimes a man gets credit for thoughtfulness and generosity by bringing his wife home. a box of French wndy. and then eats four-fifths of it himself. a. constant stream of was s carrying away flies. probably to fee. the larvae in their nests. and returmng again to? the cows to catch more. In about. 20 minutes Mr. Barring-ton; estimated. that I between 300 and 400 £116 were caught ' on two cows lying close tq where he ; (stood. Perhaps thxs harratxve of good deeds. accomplished wull lead people to years." “Man a wasp catches a. fly ii. imme- diately bites of; both wings. sometimes a. leg or: two, and occasionally the bead. Mr. Harrington saw some of the wasps when laden with one fly catch anoth- er, without lettipg o the first. and the-n fly away wvth Ioth. There was rclleeds. aécarfipiished will lead peep]? to think more leme‘ntly of the vices of tfie W359- SPRING SMILES. VVAEP AND FLY THE COCOANUT. 9i clus. w. mums rum-1m a mmm‘ Em UPRISING IN mum. CHAZILAND REVOLTS AGAINST THE PORTUGUESE. Twenty-Five mound Knives In Rebellion â€"Grent III-[um Ila, lave Trouble. A despatch iron: Vryburg. South Af- riw, says that in an encounter with the Bechuanaland insurgents on Tues- day, near Kurumzn. the Cape volun- teers lost five men killed and had six men wounded. No further details have been received. A despatch to the London Times from Cape Town says that advices received there from Delagoa. Bay announce that the country bordering on and across the Limpopo river. forming for many miles the north-west and northern limâ€" it of the Transvaal. is in open revolt. It is added that. the position is serious. as troops are leaving for Delagoa Bay by the steamer Gan-narvon. .A further rising is expected in .quutqhnd. De: patches received in London from. Pretoria and Del agoBay announce Uhat the whole of Ghazilaland 23in o_pen revolt. Twenty -five thousand natives have rebelled yagainst the Portpguese Government. The principal rising. it. was stated. was only about forty miles from ThP Transvaal border It was. added than the Pbrtuguese troops were mobilizing rapidly. and that the sitw tion was regarded as most serious. Further advices regarding the en- mun‘ber with the Bechu-analand insur- gents om headay state that. the Brit- ish troops captured and burned the native town of (hmzef. at t_he foot of the Langeberg range of hxlls. The rebel leader. Galliskwe. who was to command pf the natives. made a des- perate rwstanoe. The loamy of tbs natives were heavy. One Brvtiah lieu- benant was killed. Gases and Compounds lately In Con-er- clll tee Placed Ender Beau-Imam. Several more or less dangerous art;- cles of chemical manufacture are be- coming so largely employed (or sur- iety of useful purposes now that some restrictions as to their sale. conveyâ€" ance; and storage. are, in the inter- est of the public safety, imperative. says the London Lancet. Certain substances that were previously regarded aeohem- ical curiosities. have ceased to be so. and are now important commercial commodities and made on a very large scale. Thousands of gallons of "liquid" carbonic acid gas in steel cylinders un- der high compression may now be seen every day being conveyed in cart: from place to place, and similarly other gases are stored under pressure in "tubes." as. for example. oxygen. hy- drogen. nitrous oxide. and so on, all of which may expose the public to dan- ger: Solid bricks of metallic sodium, agam, kept under naphtha. of course. are every day carried trom port to port as part of a. ship’s cargo. and very serious accidents have occasionally arit- en from the intermixcure of various chemicals on board ship by the dam- aging effect of a rough me upon the packages The trade in cylinders or compressed gases has clmdy been placed under ownLrol. Stxll anqther chemical substance of comparatnjely recent discovery is now so_extensxve- 1y used as to have given use to ghe peceselty of a Hpme Office grdex; hem; l in great good. issued. We reier to carbide of calâ€" mum. which on sunply becoming moist guns off the exceedingly inflammable gas acetylene. Carbide of calcium :5 useful for a venety of purposes, but chieflyfiecnuse on simply placing iym water it evolves pure acetylene. which peg-eases a remarkable high illumin- aung power. The employment of this method of generating a gaseoue illum- mam _£or optic lanLerna. for photo- graphic purposes, and for lighti pri- va.Le dwelling houses. has already een tried: It is quite obvmuzs tint some restriction should be plaqed u on the sale and aim-age of the su steam which is now being manufiactured on a. lerge scale. and which Simply in a moist atmosphere gives off an inflam- mable gas. which with eir forms an e;- plosive mixture. Carbide of culcium In now to be brought under. the unbuc- tion of the Petroleum act, 1871, and. after April 1, 1897. it, Wilhbo unlaw- ful to keep carbide of calcium except in virtue of a license to be obtained from the local authority under the Pet; roleum act. Doubnlelss the recent wo- cidents that have been reported from tune 7L0 time by the employment of ,L,’ L‘u‘w w w"... ‘._‘ ,, wetgllene in _this way have prompted the 0m Office to issue this order. to- gether with a memorandum showing the character of tbe. risks to begmard- ed against. and gwmg suggestions as no the nature of the precautions like- ly_to be most effectual for securing safety. A Government Communion to “an the Spot and Report. The Dominion Government has de- termined upon a step that. will base an important influence upon the devel- opme-n’r of the very rich gold fields of the Yukon country. A commission will be appointed to proceed up there as soon as travel permits and organizeagov- eminent for the territory and report upon the conditions at present existing. The reports of Mr. Ogilvie of the Geo- logical Survey. who is wintering there. will show that the gold fields of that country far sur ,ass in richness and ease of access any-t ing on the continent. The chief difficulty is not the winter cold but the trouble of getting supplies into the country. The Church of Eng- land bishop who lives there states that firequently he is unable to obtain a DANGER FROM NEW CHEMICALS. supply of the necessaries of life. in- cI‘udin'g food. The contemplated action of the government is the wisest step that. could be taken and will result YUKON GOLD FIELDS. i!