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Durham Chronicle (1867), 1 Nov 1900, p. 7

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God ch struck into the autumnal leaf a glance that none see but those who come face to faceâ€"the mountain looking upon the men and the man looking upon the mountain. One autumn about this time Isaw that which 1 shall never forget. I have seen the autumnal sketches of skilful pencils, but then I saw a page- ant two thousand miles long. Let art- ists stand back when God stretches his canvas. A grander spectacle was never kindled before mortal eyes. Along by the rivers, and up and down the sides of the great hills, and by the banks of the lakes, there was an indes- cribable mingling of gold, and orange, and crimson, and saffron, now sober- ing into drab and maroon, now flam- ing up into solferino and scarlet. Here and there the trees looked as it just their tlps‘ had blossomed into fire. In the morning light the forests seemed set up its crimson banner, the whole forest prepared to follow. If God‘s urn ' lours were not infinite, one swam that I saw along the Mnumee would have exhausted it for ever. It seemed as if the sea. of divine glory “(I dashedits surf to the tip top of the Allegh mies, and then it had Conle dripping down to lowest leaf and deep- est cavern. ost persons preaching from this find only in it a vein of sadness. t I have two strings t) this p--a. string of sadness, and foliage. we fade grad- ually. The ‘ es which, week before last, felt st, have day by day, been aha in tint, and will for many days,” to the bough, waiting for tth and to strike them. Suppose you is leaf I hold in my hand tooku‘ on ‘ toolouir in an hour or in a day or in n ' No. Deep- “ ill all the and bleeding away. ,um leaf, they an, enter branches. tn, - most hid- édon, until the lat ' ' of the gleamâ€" ling forge null mm quenched. while, leaf those on the ! It is no hflrd tor no to understand Ireligious tr th that God constantly reiterates. A: the schoolmaster takes a black-board, and puts upon it figures and diagrams, no thutJhe scholar may not only get his lesson through lth-a ear, but also through the eye, so Gull. takes all Uh truth. of bin Bible, and draws than out in diagram, on the natural world. Champollion, the the famous Frenchman, went down intu'h‘gypt to study the hieroglyphic: on monument; and templea., After much labour he decipherod them, and announced to the learned world the result of his inventigations. The wisdom, goodness, and power OtoGOd- are written in hieroglyphics all over the oath and all over tthe heaven. God grant that we may have understand- ing enough to decipher them! est cavern. THE AUTUMN OF LIFE. aa it they had been transfigured, and in the evening hour they looked as if the sunset had burst and dropped upon the leaves. In more sequester- od spots, where the frosts had been hindered in their work, we saw the first kindling of the flames of colour in a lowly sprig; then they rushed up from branch _to branch, until the glory of the Lord submerged the for- est. Here you find a tree just mak- ing up its mind to change, and there one looked as it bathed in liquid fire. Along the banks of Lake Huron there were hills over which there seemed pouring cataracts of tire, tossed up, and down, and every whither by the rocks. Through some of the ravines .0 saw occasionally a foaming stream a though it were rushing to put out the oonflagvrltion. If at one end of the woods a commanding tree would .‘ no gradually we pea. 'B'ay. From day to day we hardly" see. 8110 change. But the frosts have touched us. The work of decay i5 going on. _flow a alight cold. Now a season fl over- taticue. Now a (over. Now I stitch in the side. Now a neml‘io thrust. Now a rheumatic twinge. Now a fall. Little by little. Pain by vein. Lesa steady of limb. Sight not» clear. Ear not so alert. After a while we However beautiful the flowers you take a staff. Then, after much re- plant there, we do not want to make sistanee, we come to spectacles. In- our everlasting residence in such a stead of bounding into a vehicle, we place. _ are willing to be helped in. At last, We tall, but ,we rise! We die, but we the ug‘ugenarian falls. Forty years of live again! We mould“ lWGY: but gleeaying. No sudden change. , No We come to higher unfolding! As the fierce cannonading of the betteriel 01.19;“ w the hill A despatc from Washington says: -Rev. Dr. Imago took as his text "We all do . do as a leaf,”-haiah lxiv. 6. ’ Lastly : A; the leaves fade and fall 1,only to rise, so do we. All this golden ’shower of the woods is making the ground richer, and in the juice, and : sap, and life of the tree the leaves will come up Again. Next May the south lwind will blow the resurrection trum- lpet, and they will rise. So we fall in the dust only to rise again. “The Qhour is coming when all who are in :their graves shall hear His voice and tcome forth,” It would be a horrible Tconsideration to think that our bodies were always to lie in the ground. However beautiful the flower: you plant there, we do not want to make our everlasting residence in such a place. life; but a fading uwayâ€"clowlyâ€" gradually. As the leaf! A: the leaf! [ Again: Like the leaf we fade, to i make room for others. Next year": [or- ‘ests will be as grandly foliaged as ithis}. There are other generations of goal: leaves to take the place iof those which this autumn perish. : Next May the cradle ot'the wind will 3 rock the. young buds. The woods will l be all ll-hum with the chorus of leafy évoices. It the tree in front of your jhouse, like Elijah, takes a chariot of lfire. its mantle will fall upon Elisha. Again; As with variety of appear- ance the leaves depart, so do we. You have noticed that some trees, at the first touch of the frost, lose all their Beauty; and they stand withered and uucomely, and ragged, waiting for the north east storm to drive them into the mire. The sun shining at noon- day gilds them with no beauty. Rag- ged leaves! Dead leaves! 50 death smut-s many. There is no beauty in ”their departure. one sharp frost of sickness, or one Last. of the cold wa- ters, and they are gone. No tinge of hope. No prospect of heaven. Their Spring was all abloom with bright prospects; their summer thick foliag- ed with opportunities; but October came and their glory went. But thank God that is not the way peo- ple always die. Tell me, on what day of all the year the leaves of the wood- bi'ne are as bright as they are t-o-dayg So Christian character is never so attractive as in the dying hour. Such go into the grave, not as a dog, with frown and harsh voice, driven into a kennel, 'bfit they pass away calmly, brightly. sweetly, grandly! As the leaf! As the leaf! . will have had our good time. them come on and have their good time. There is no sighing among these leaves at my feet because other leaves are to follow them. After a lifetime of preaching, doctorinzo selling, sewing,-or digging, let us cheerfully give way for those who come on to do the preaching, doctor- ing, selling, sewing, and digging. God grant that their life may be brighter than ours has been? As we get ol:ler do not let us be at- f-ronted it young men and women orowd us a little. We will have had our day, and We millet let them have (theirs. Do not be disturbed as you see good and great men die. People worry when some important personage msses off the stage, and say, “His place will never be taken." But neither the Church nor theState will suffer for it. There will be others to take the places. When God takes one man away, he has another right back of him. There will be other leaves as green. as exquisitely vein- ed, as gracefully etched, as well-point- ed. However prominent the place we fill, our death will not jar the world. One falling leaf does ndti shake the Adirondacks. A ship is not well manned unless there be an extra sup- ply of handsâ€"some working on deck; some sound asleep in their hammocks. God has manned this world very well. There will be other seamen on deck when you and l are down in the cab- in, sound asleep in the hammocks. Again; As «with the leaves; we fade and fall amid myriads of others. “'0 die in concart. The clock that strikes the hour of our going will sound the going of many thousands. Keeping step with. 'the feet of those who carry us out will be the tramp of hundreds doing_ the same errand. London and Pekin are not‘ the great cities of the world. The grave is the great city. It hath mightier pnnpuluation, longer streets, brighter lights, thicker durkuesaes. Quasar is there and all his subjects. Nero is tlnere, and all his victims. It has swallowed up Tb‘nbes, and Tyre and Babylon, and willswallow allour cities. Yet, City of Sifence. No voice. No hsoof. No wheel. N0 clash» No smiting of hammer, No. clack of flying loom. No jar. .No whisper. Great city of Silence! SO. when we go, others take our spheres. “’6 do not grudge the fu- ture generations their places. We The French marines from Saigon followed the United States forces. They marched with a high step and proud air, but could not equal in ap- pearance the battalion of Kaiser Wil- helm’s big sons following behind, stamping the broad paving stones with their heavy boots as they pounded out the stately “goose step” to the strains of music sent up by the band which marched in a. compact squad at their head. The German marines who did such yeoman service in the recent siege also had a place in the column. Italy was represented by a bunch of. half a hundred bluejackets, nearly alhof whom saw siege duty. Last in the line were the Austrian bluejacketa from the cruiser Zenta. ' ‘ The commencement of a salute of twenty-one guns was the signal for the procession to start, so while the booming went on the Ministers and their secretaries singled themselves out from the throng of Generals and stnff officers and fell in behind a Russian band. The Russians were the marshals of the day. They saw to the opening of the Forbidden City gates and when the Ministers had started forward the Russian General Lino- vitch and his staff fell in behind. The Russian troops followed. All the gen- eral officers in the column rode their horses through the several outer gates to the inside of the Forbidden City and the-re turned them over to the care of the orderlies, proceeding on foot. Inside the Imperial city of Pekin is a walled rectangular space half a mile long, east and west, and a qwarter of a mile broad. A moat and three walls surround the collection of yel- low-tiled pagodas and buildings, it contains, and this collection of build- ings forms the royal palace of the Chi- nese Empire. It the outer precincts of the Imperial city are sacred to the tread of none but nobles of the pal- FORMAL ENTRY 0F PEKIN The gathering of the clans took place at 8 o’clock before the south gate known as the second gate of the ser- ies leading into the Imperial City. The space in which the column gath- ered was a big letter T formed by three long avenues leading to the second gate. The Generals,'their aides and their staff officers gathered at the joining point just opposite the gate, while their respective commands came up the long pave-d roadway and manoeuvred out of the way into the weeds at either side. There was band music, bugle music, drum music and bagpipe music as each organization ar- rived and took its station. The Min- isters, their secretaries, and attaches all the guests of the Generals on this occasion, straggled up afoot or on ponies. ROMANT IN B PAGEANT PARTICIPATE!) THE ILLIBD FORCES-L Seeing the Sight. of the Forbidden cayâ€" Gmn-xnw- JIM-hie Stairwaysâ€"Incense to pewter gothâ€"Dosecntlul of the Pal- The British, with representatives, irom their native India regiments, and the Welsh fusileers led off with a corps of Rajput bagpipera- and drum- mers at their head fiercely piping “ The Campbells Are Coming.” Next in line came the troops of the United States with a handsome silk flag waving above them. ace this inner city is doubly sacred. Only in recent years have any foreign- ere been admitted there and these only the foreign Ministers and their attachee when they came to announce formally their arrival or their final departure from, Pekin. There is the reception room where the Ministers are received, the throne room, the liv- ing apartments of the royal family. the apartments of the servants and various summer gardens, temples and pegodas, to say nothing of many barn. like structures which are apparent- ly of no use at all. In a large enclosure just inside the The Russian soldiers who partici- pated in the procession had evidently just had a busy wash day, for their uniforms were whiter than’ any be- fore seen on these soldiers in the field. The baggy white trousers were tuck- ed away in heavy knee boots, and the shirt-like blouses were gathered in at the waist by straps, making many of them set with all the fulness and frills of a woman‘s basque. The sea of white wide-topped caps bobbed in a pleasing unity as the Russians cross- ed the massive marble bridge and dis- appeared through the gate. The Japanese Generals Yamaguchi, Fukushima, and Manabe, in their tight white riding breeches, shiny top boots and black coats, now took the road- way with the gentlemanly looking members of their staff. There was a great volley of words which came from an important-looking little offi- cer on foot and the three hundred lit- the warriors of Japan, all looking as if chipped off the same block, swung into the column headed by a cute lit- tle bugle corps" The force was repre- sentative of the mighty little dwarfs who have won from the armies such praise in the campaign. armies was one of those demontara- tions intended to be simple, but through its simplicity one of those im- poaing occurrences which leave its [The formal entry of the foreisn min gate the officers abandoned their horses and proceeded elect across a heMely covered marble bridge and; I13 flizh'ts of marble stairs tram the‘ crevices of which grew weeds and grasses and indeed from between the paving atone- ot the whole court there grew rank weeds. The doors of the large building at the summit of the ,marble stairs had been thrown open. The place was in a' direct line with the gate so the column march- ed straight through. tramping over a heavy Brussels carpet full of the chute of months and even covered with bits of straw and debris. Faded grandeur was everywhere. A huge platform, with elaborate carvings, was covered with dirt and dust, as was the throne upon it. The bronze pillars were cracked and dusty. This was the reception hall for foreign Min- isters, but evidently no Ministers had called in recent months. The servants and a high official wrung their hands at seeing these wo- men enter and forever leave their curse in so doing on the apartments of their royal master.'l‘here were rich things to see in the royal apartments but for those who had stolen in they must be seen hastily. for already the gates of the Forbidden City were be- ing looked. Some before leaving had a good look at the richly bejewelled clock; some saw the table of solid clai- eonne and other: had a squint at a little German made piano. - The horses that visited the palace grounds were those of officers who had sent their orderlies hack to lead them through. that they might not suffer the inconvenience of walking around the walls to the point where they had left them. - wee on enthodutie reception ‘No opportunity was given during the march to continue along the ro- mantic pathway to the west and view the apartments of the Empress Dow- ager and the other royal personages, who so Unfortunately were not at home to receive their callers, but some per-eons turned back after the parade was over and seized the opportunity to peer into this corner of the royal city. Indeed, after the demonstration was over some of the most unperdon- able desecrations the palace could sus- tain, according to Chinese mum, took place, One was the entrance of for. eign women, and the other the taking of horses through the grounds. The wife of one of the Ministers and some women missionaries, each. with an es- cort of gentlemen got in during the general confusion about the outside of the north gate where troops were sending up cheers and Gene eels were going through the courtesies of the day. Here and there stood solemn groups of ennuchs, passive-1y horrified at the spectacle of foreign troops marching through the sacred grounds without so much as a bow. Almost hidden be- hind a stone column was a China- man of some rank and an officer. as his clothing indicated. He was deep- ly moved. apparently, for he looked straight ahead and now and then brushed big tears from his eyes. Diverging at Last from the straight line it had been following the column made diagonally across a huge paved court to a ga where a eunuch stead with outstretcied hand pointing the way like a statue. This gate led down to a long, narrow passageway, which seemed to be the main street of the inhabited portion of the royal city. Through open doors on our left we could see courts similar to those we had left and closed buildings on top of the various little hills reach- ed by the sets of marble stairs. There was one feature of each of these stair- ways, by the way, which made one linger, admire and wonder. The cen- tre of each stairway was occupied by A few paces further along, at the point where the route turned us west- ward, and back to the centre line stood what at onetime had evidently been a solid boulder of huge propor- tions. As if eaten out by the ele- ments and the ravages of time, this rock bore the appearance of an im- mense mass of coral. It had been hol- lowed out, and through a little door one could pass into ‘the dark interior and discern a little altar, and through the gloom see incense burning before great pewter gods. an immense marble slab, extending from the top landing to the foot, the steps being located at either side of this slab. The piece in each instance was covered with the most remarkable carving, Great dragons and serpents in bass relief extended from one ear- ner to the other, and besides these there were representations of moun- tains, flowers and animals. One of these remarkable stair slabs was ful- ly thirty feet long and a dozen feet in width. As we neared the end at the nar- row passageway, the natural beauties of the palace grounds came into View. We were marching on clean stone walks and passing through a beauti- f|l grove. One tree of this grove was evidently of great renown. It was dead, but its scraggly branches still reached into the air, for it was care- fully propped up by many strong supports. Many of these stau‘ways were fur- ther decorated at their tops by im- mense urns of solid brass. These held nothing but slimy water left by the recent rains. who. got as it on!“ In" the: north «to. When the Russians cot though thy established a battalion at tin portal with arms at “ present” and the Jam made haste to tol- low suit an the wt. side. The British stepped out to he met with the shrill cheers of the Russians and Japanese. The Rajpnt pipers had tak- en up on a stand and turned loose by the time France came along and a Russian hand was ready to greet them with; the Marseillaise. The Germans came goose-stepping through the DOT- tal with their own band spieling at a rate which put the Russian band and the bagpipe corps out of busi- ness. All hands had fresh cheers ready when the swarthy ,marines of Italy came along. and when the last in the line, the Austrians made their appearance, the enthusiasm was only at its height, but instead of remaining to parade and cheer all day each Gen- eral made his bow to the other, gath- ered his men, and took them off to camp. N, G. J. MoKECflNlE. Geniuses (one! be Drivenâ€"They Take Thclr Own Time. Few things are morevremarkable in the lives of great composers than the very varying conditions under which they seek inspiration and do their best work. “Well, what do you think of the Forbidden City and the palace?" a man asked a well known diplomat. “ It is the decayed headquarters of a decayed Government." he answered. The music of “Pinatore” was com- posed between the paroxysms of pain during what Sir Arthur calls a“cruel illnesa.” To quote his own words, “I would compose a few bars and than lie almost insensible from pain. When the paroxysm was passed I would write a little more. until the pain Rossini found his melodies [low most freely in bed; and it is said that every note of his first opera, “La Cambiale di Matrimonio,” was composed be- tween the sheets. 80 indolent, in fact, was this master of melody that when on one occasion he mislaid a few sheets of “L‘Equivoco ShraV'agante,” rather than take the trouble to search for them. he Wrote the score over again only to find when he had completed his task that the missing sheets were at the foot of the bed. Moat of Beethoven’s grandest works were conceived during his long, soli- tary tramps in the outskirts of Vi- enna, where, whatever the weather, the great composer, with the shabby clothes and downcast head, would plod many monotonous miles, every day weaving the melodies that made him the greatest musical magician of the world. Haydn, on the other band, could not have composed a note under such dis- mal conditions; for inspiration only came to him with powdered hair and lace ruffles and “all the glory of (ash- ionable raiment.” Sir Arthur Sullivan seems to find inspiration under the moat unfavor- able conditions. Many of his most popular melodies have come to him when travelling by rail. The man who thus can conjure sweet music from the rattling and jolting of a train, rusm ing over the country at fifty miles an hour, would surely perform prodi- g'iea of composition in a boiler tac- tory. ‘ M. J. McKechnie, SINGULAR METHODS OF WORK. We take this Opportunity of thanking our customers for past. patronage, and we are convinced that the new system will merit a cOntinuance or the same. We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that we have adopted. the Cash System, which means Cash or its Equiv- alent, and that our motto will be “Large Sales and Small Profits" Adopted by In theee day! of imitatione it in well for everyone to be careful what he buye. Ea ially ie this neoeeaary wh- e Inter of th ie involved. There are ac many imitatione of Doen'e Kidney Pills on the marketâ€"acme of the. absolutely worthlessâ€"that we eek you to be particular to see that the full name end the trade mark of the Maple Leaf are on every box you buy. Without this on are not getting the original Kidney Pi l, which has cured so many severe cases of kidney com laint in the United States, Australie and ngiand. as well as here in Canede. The Doan Kidney Pill 00., Toronto. The “Chronicle? in “I" only 2-.‘43‘0 Locus hewupnre" in Western «mm-lo. overwhelmed me again. Never wu music written under such dintroasinc conditions.” Gluok found inspiration in the soli- tude of field or forest. and the slight- eet interruption stopped the flow et once. Mucecni, on the other hand. has composed hie best music in the interval: of romping with his chil- dren and to the accompaniment 0! their prattle and play. But perhaps the most astonishing feature about composer: is the marvellous rapidity with which they can work under pree- eure. “That's the fellow we met It the funeral yesterday, who was telling the wife of the deceased to cheer lipâ€"that her husband was better off." 0 “\Vhat is the matter with him now!” “The doctor told him he was going to die.” Sir Arthur Sullivan has had few riv. ala in the art of rapid componition. The overture to “ The Yeomen of tho Guard,” was, it is said. composed and scored in a single night. and the over tture to “ Iolanthe ” occupied him only ten hours. At midnight on the very dey before “Don Giovanni" wan to be introduc- ed Mozart had not written 3 eingle line of the overture. but was enter- taining his friends at a supper party. When he returned to his room in the early hours of the morning and com- menced hie teak his wife found it impossible to keep him awake, and he slept heavily until five o’clock. “Who is that man over there with the white, scared face !" Then, at last, he began work in earn- est. and in two hours the overture was finished. The task of copying had still to be performed; and at seven in the evening. when s crowded theatre was waiting impatiently for the per. formance to begin, the sheets had not even arrived. At last at 7.45 Mozart made his appearance; the parts, of which the ink was not yet dry, wer. distributed to the orchestra. and the overture was played without rehearsal to the thundering plaudits o! the house. INCONSISTENCY.

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