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loti oy a -cOurv 'Omcïn[ tri -had to psieostrt-ehibïuselt on the fl.oor bt>hind a- scre( tho mîght nol gaze upoz;i'- face ef tie gpeatlldy.- timy-were cavea upuil te jjiv-jue -' vldence, sud. w,oe beti-de t1emilf h - $as not irneediately ortlcoing -and failed Vo substantiite Visir oral -Qucen Victoria,' - lad the, Tines ,reîad te ber, anai, articles-doaling 'witb personal mat-- --tens were oarcfullY eut - eut 'onai paated un volumes bound ln royal bluie.- *Tier e 'are scores e! thèse un the library "o! Winds6r,. andAh ley have proveai oîthé greatest use ýt ý-KiMg Edward was net fend of- --reading, but tbe latest foreiga te1e- grains w-er al*ayê-- pisced befo6;re " 4in-and, èxtracts !rom impçrtaitý spe~eches' delivered i m-tise bouses, o!- pai-liamùent were cut -eut sa -P asted on siseets o! paper for his, perusaL. As i; well 'lnwar thse- late King teck- a keen interest in .sport,'and lie was always kept sup- plied wthe*tl'atest information on thattoi4.7-Spacial ar4icles un, the- foreiga magazines anld'rvew ere "boîled down".- ud oniveyed te hm generally at dinnei. *Thiis wasl ti- great occasion wbé en Vs day's doings were-revie-wed. -/King, George in a frm believer ilàs dom-g things himseW-, and- lie per- -sonally' neada the leadiug newis- --papets. Ris majesty' private sec- retary savies s certain Smourft o! turne and- trouble,'liowever, by usarking, articles aud item,% cf uews of!. epc'calintenert. The,.King-often jots clown notes wbulehie is readi i ng. -Sorne of Vies. notes take thse shape,,c! ques'ie askiug 'for furtiser information on some pa-ticular stebiect, andIithe t"' 'daVy of -thé private secretary: t e eethat 1V'ill supVd. Rs aj hts a r.'- maîkably -keen mnemry, and is thexefore able te o xwnereon & --y wide range o! ïubjepts. In this aspect lie refembleo flic Kaiser, whe le a, very 'hungry read- er, and is Ê ble te absorb, -a, vt- quantity. of. information-un a vesy - , liec Reads thse Papers Quiekly,- ansd is etpecially intereatcai ii tecis- nicîîl andi engineering- papers andi in -i1ju-nals, deallug witis shipbuild- î sng, -guanery, gnd ether warlike - matters. - lichalialoc s sense o!'hunier andi- always gl&uces at the lcading comie papers. 'Shoulai any suliject appeal - articulariy te hli hlias experts -tisereoun summo-neai Vo tise 'pslaée, And o-ver cigarsa sd beer lie fires - -cff.bis questions sud expeets'te ne- -celve the fulleet informpation. The aunual cruise whicli ho takes -on the'impesial yaelit is tise great occasion for these cross-examina- tin.A distinguissea cosnpany e! niaval,- milltary, * scicutifie and husi- ~nesse me n accompanies hum, anai if any <eetails lie is i'searco ocannot -- h supplicai uc time is lest ini tele- graphine to someone who is in a - position te give them. Tise1 Empesrr i Austnia vesy~ . taeyresds, hitusel!. He la read 'e.The aged znonirdh stili take. tise keetiest possible intereast in the polîtieàl*,,,movements uin bis cwn oountry; h. -aito likes te keepv' -- brest -of thse timies ln military - subjeots. - Literture and tVie arts do net, bo*wever appeal te him. - Tise 'Czar lias a paper o!f is own, spcciîlly"'printedoaci mo rning. It îs tise nict exclusive paper un the wonid-, for only two , piee are sup- ,pIîed, cné for thse Czar , and thse otVIer for bis private 6ecrets4ry. IV ia a two-page siseet- containing s -digest e!fVise newa o! tise world coMpresseai inte ýtabIloid -form. Needless te aay, everythii'g calcît- latea te disturb bis majesty's peaee of ! mmd is carefully omitteai. -Th'le Kilig of Italy, h~sa,- *lîterary ieaniug andi is fond of 'rewuing magaîine? articles, s taste -,hanea by the Kiing o! Don- mark, wiso la thoroughly inforîcai -on thse literary movements o! Vhe day snd wel.l able 1te conyèrse on Tise King o! Spain las s great -ambition for e verything Englisis, and Englisei papersansd magazines' figure on lis 9tuaiy table.- Ris mna-' jésty la more a'worker tisu a road- er,, iowiéver, and,-it is tise quen -who supplies hlm witb snuel- e! his -Detaits Sencerning'hus own 'king- deom -ar'empplied hy hie secretaripcs, -n sun offiiai wis iolaistIe" poat -o~f court Inewsmssn and les uppsr '110W NATURE PRUNES 3ýWO0DS of etee-Cased Forest. Nature- lias -many ways o! t hin- -uihg and pruning and timming ber fresta-ligh.tnîng ' .sres- eavý -6now, and stor'm wi*ls Vo shatter 'and. blow down 'wbele treeÉ'-here and there, or bre4k off branees as required.. - The resita of theslU iaet 'hods I have obser'e4l i-differ- tnt foreae, but on1!ý once have 1 seen pruning by r iwitcs Johni ,Muir iu the Ain~e~n.l."h ,aii' froze on the treecalasife, anid grew se tbick and heavy that' .,uiiy of themlo'st a third or mo~re o! their branches.11 The view o! the 'woà& safter fic -rm'" bad passed-' an-d the àun -honie forth --,vas .oinethiug, neyer vo beé "'fergotten. Every twig and btanch and rugged trunk'wa-s» en- oeed iu pure Ciî'stal >ilce, and each oak and hickory and'willow became afàiry 'cry 1a palace. Sûcli-daz- zling brilliance, iflth effects of white Iight and. irised, light, loWii'g 'ýdflashing, t-had4.aever -sean, uer- hiave I since. l'hi1s sudde'n chanje lof the lea0lesÉ woode tç glowi-nig'eiver was,, like thé gre&t _- aurora., - s pe6kein'-o fer years, and. W one of the mosfr'beau- tiftul cf' the Ïany pi-cturps that en-i ricli my. life. And besides the great shows there were tlhouo»ands- o! others, eve.a n'the coîdest weatlier, nianifesting the utrnest fineness and tendernese. o! beauty. and affording noble compensation fer bardship and -Pai.u LUUD.SPEA-IiIN-0 TELÈpHiONFJ Ar~e Now f7qcd te Afinouniee Arrivai -Deparfure o! Trains. A special applicatioti e! the tel.'- phione hias ceme intoi usè in thean- noun-ci.ng -o! the depaxture and' an- rival cf trains iii Arerican 'railway s-tations. The offi'cià.l wbh> anno-unces the outgoi'g, trainýs speaks inte a special- - 'water-coled te1ephonf. tra-nsmitter installed in. a* boo>th conveniently placeý, an-d f rom wbkih his vçice is' telepheQnieally transmit ted auJ repr-odniced in nio less than Ir. loud-speaking re-ceiv- er&-vwith amplifying borna con-nect- ed in mfitipk - a-l distnibuted throughout< the, waiting-ro-ers. In- comning_ trains, are a.nnouneed f rom the saine trai'emittr-bvl throwing a switch to*coinnect -a separa-te- circuit of. 10 o! the Ioud-speaking receivers install6d on tseý traek levels below the waiting-roemot floor. By this 'direct teîephone metbod a single. ahnnuncement serves for all - the waitîng-rooms. The. articulation is simulta-néously reproduced. With equal volume, o! sound. in ail the- receiver., and by in.talling several receiver& at equal distances in ea-ch e! -tbe large inclosed -spaeds which make 'up the waiting-rooms, the eonunciati in exact unison net only fuls- the spaze, -but obviate6 tée Confusion o! echoos. Eseort for the Êaly Carpet. As ie weli known te Meliamme- dans, but to fcw Europcaus, the lîoly catpet aiwsys' travels witli an- esconrt te anai f nom Vhe holy cities cf Medhina andi Metca. Tisis escont- consista tso! 300 to- 350 mon cif one o! tise Egyptian infantry regimen-ta witb' two small fieldi pieces aud two quick-fining gung, and- about fcrty uounteai men, together mwitb thoir herses. The object o! aucis a i-t r<iig e-s-oi-tis to proteot Vise qaored oh- ject frem falling inte tise hands cf tise Bedotuin tnihes. tbnougb whli4se couintnies ÎV mu-st ps-sa at va-nous, stages o! its joîîrne *v audJ wh4., ii-o aIseo on tVle look<jît foýi- it, as thse carpet is worth a fine ran,-sorr' - De.- perate attack-s are noV înfreqi-ntlý- mnade upon. the holy carpet by t-be Bedo6ui-ns o!fVise desert. -BRuetise strengtli o! the escort.-Egyptian Gazette.- Benevolent. Employer-" Jane s, you aeserve more salary." Clerk-"Thank yqu, sir." - Eiployer-"Se l'Ilgive- you a1 week -teo p eut and geV somebodyE else -te give it te yon, for I can'V. - A marrisai ian is nevenràt s ai,!s Vo kuow -wiat te do with bis nope>'1 AUtE 1)(>IN1 Blairmore bas a populoti6n of. ICamloops is to- have & refrigera- tor facto îy. - A city reservoir bas been Ieeated in New HaÎQ;ton. - 1The -0.P..R'. has buiît a ne-w round-bouse ait Nicela. B. C. apples are finding a «re'ady market in Australia. -A first-cIa.,ss botýl will be opened in South~ Hazelte n this sp:eing. Last year thg minera] output of B. :C. Was worth over $30,00,000. The shippixýg of coal from- Prince- ton Îs hampered tbrough lçk of cars. - The Do minion Governm4ut will put Up &a-public building i-n Port Alberuï. ]4urig the last yoar there were 271 cases in'.the police court at -Pi>- ticten. AtMerriîtt the ptoce lihas. mvdtenew -quarteré in tTe. Ba.nk, efM Mentreal building. - In Hedlày.- for supplyfixg liquer Lo anintêrdiet, Walter MeDonald' was fine&d'$100 and coats. 1It ýa&téhewan mo-ving pictu-re ehowa' jare -limited Vo one for ever'y litOOO inhebitants. The' grading-of the C.N.R. be- tween -Yale -aud Kamloops is almosi finished. A few bridges have yeit te hbe built. ,-A, nèw formation showing gold iii every' -buceket -has ýrecently beeii 5tyu1- i ConklWns gulch near Bar- A large Poultry farm wiil be eos-' tablished -near' Penticton. It wili be largely stocked 'witb birds from Belgium.'0 The. farmers up tfie. Skeena Riveî want the f reigItt rates redueed f ror pointé on the G.T.P. te Prince Ru 'pert. La.st y'ear thue Koonteniiy Jali -Comnpany of Mission City put ur1 eighty-fivc carloads o! ea-nned goS. 0f this anl-ount there were, 32;o,00 gallons cof apples. The com- pany also put up thirty-fiVe car- loads of ja-ms. jellies and chocolafie. Du ring- the paet year a co-mpany h-as , been drilling for coil ýon the Pîtt Mead.;ows, not many miles.s f rom Varicmver. The h-oIe is d-own 1,600 feet. The last 500 fee-t was drilled through whit-e granite.1 No oil has yet been &t.ruck, but the experts think it will yet be fou nd. Lew Roberts, well-known along the ,Cariboo Road, wa-s recently killeà at Bear Lake. He was lift- ing a gun f rom a sieigh with the muzzle towards him when the wea- pon was discharged un some way. Roberts livPd only a short time a!- ter- being taken to the ho-tel. H. 'Greenston went f rom the coasit te buy herses in Chilliwack. and put up at the Commercial Hotel. The lock on his door was defective, so he put his ciothes contalning $432 under lis pillew. Ho weas sick when lie awoke in t-he' morning and his cîothes were gene. It is thought that while &asleep lie wais chioro- fermed. Bis clothe8 wthout the xnoney were aft-erwards fz>urdid n an unfinished building about a -bock away frein the hotel. ip riz-. oI 'isaniu'stors, uncu ho-mage te ail relations eider himseîf. No ordi-nary viands censumeai at 'breakfast. Tise must b. made frein water di frein tise well as tise first rays c New 'Year's sun atnikes it. i-v+r abeitur4,&s ~a r,- ac , ray, covered with beaves, andi support-îng e ling, a lobster, enani mnous, cstnunts, dnieda. herrng root; allVisese scssng an aliegonicals This meal ia tise start of ies, wsiieh are continu teen days, business h. entirely suspweicikr week o! the ycar. everg: a rie J ies, per significat ), tis. fes umeai for eung aIr r ,the tlan i are tesa irawu f tise On querf ;reen ump-r and s sti-vi-è six- meet J An-Incident. -lu the xaking ôl a Great tan'lidiau Railway,.' A treacherous covering knolwz> to ,woodsxiïen as sluish >frquýbù1y forms over the Canegian lakes ,in -winter. At the firà Îcol4 _ eathe - the waàter #"mees, 'but before ýtho0 ije -hM lbe' cone very thic hev#Llonow cornes. Under "the -Weightofth sno ~h ic slwlysins blowthe ïVater. .the blanl<et of -ànow be- cornes saturated, kid setties loôwer end iower. a~s sncegive blizzards add to it~s weight. The coveri ng of, snow above preventà the slushfromý freezing,. and it rýffiain.s in a sei - liquid- stàte throùhghout the winter. To fail into slush is like being e '- gulfed- in a quicksand-the strug- gles of the victim only plunge bim in more' Ieeply. It-is the more dan- gerous becau-se the presence of it cannot be detected frorn the shore ; the'lake,'eems to be covere.d witb a ftrm mantlè of ice and snïow. Net -antii the traveller lias gone some distane from e hore does the inse- cûre -surface -give -ws.y. -Thus mis- leid, _qany ýtrapp»eand Hudson Ba.y voyageurs§"have metthr death. "in >'ýÏThe .Making; cf -a Great Cani- eùdi&oi Railway;"ý,Mr. F. A. Talbot relate an epience that, befeil party o! surs'eyors who were push- ing their way with a eledger-load of prôvom , ansd inetvuxnents to a camp one hundred miles nefthwest of Nipigon., A sturdy half-breed boy. "m>r- panied them -as gýuie, and ev1ery- thin-g wepti wkNj Wt# ahe5lake 01j3 try w-as reaeëbed, enaterfic blizzard broke. Theý? sno*_ fell so thickly that they couId not see a var4 beyond their faces. Suddenly. a peculiai- e-risp sound- beneath their feet gave warning; that they were making their way over the treacherous slu&h of a lake. Before they had time W- t uri' baek., there wa.s an ominous sinking, and the slèdge begpgn te sink. A frantlc rush bo the shore saved jt, but not before' ail of the men were drench- ý_d. On flrm snow again, they ex- -imined the sledge, and found, to their utterý dismay that the transit- 'ýompass had slipped off into the slush. To go forward now was use- ess.; without the transit the sur- ve.vors cou-Id fot accomplish the qb- ject of thoir trip. At tihis moment the half-breed boy came forward, and offered to recover the transit. Hie i-an back to the point wh're the accident had occurred, an-c the rest. of the partyj followed cautiousi'y behind to see wthe, an d ito. Here doh heandowldo He mre adoth plunged into the freezing mass. Some time passed. and ho did not reappear. Then there was a coin- motion, and bis-matted head s hot up. He had fa'i1'd! Three turnes he repeated his 'dive withotut suc- cess, but -on the fotirth' ýatte.mpt, as he emerged, he was seen to be dragging some heavy obWet with al bis strengt.h. A rope was thrown to him, and hie was hauled out of the slush with the lbst transit safe in bis grasp. IV was bitterly cold. The shiver- ing men'-hurried ko gain the protec- tion of the forest. and there un the hrat of a i'oaring fire dried their icyv clothes and warmed the_ half-%rozen. lad, w.bo- was soon-none the worse for bis bath in the slush.1 Copenhagen. Frein an entry un "Lady Shelley's Dianies," it appeans Visat Copeù-ý bagen. the- famous war charger o! tise Duke of Wellington, isad soe.- tbing o!flice const4tution o! bis m-aa- ter.1 Thse da-y hefore, t-he Battie of Wa- terloo tise duke rode Copenisagen to tise Prussian heaquarters te asg- certain whetber le nigît depenai iipof olai Bluicier' a co-operation. Tise diîke 'rode- Copenhagen on Jime 17tb -over sixty miles. On tise lBtis ho rode Copenisagen flircugs- out tise entire hbattle, aud Vthe next day rode hlm te Bru-asels. Whei' tise duke dismeunteai, Cco- peuisagen "kiekeai up lia lieds aud scampereai la-If -oeves tIse tewu ho.. fore ho waas caýuglit." Oi'e day in' Paris Lady- Shelley rode witb tise Juke-,; who offereai te' iount lier -on Copenhagen. ",But,"ý ase confesses, ilî founai Co.p£n- ba-gou-tise moÉt difficit,,'horse teasit, o! Funir I lied'eveur' niidon.'. Ifthe duike --shd net'ben tisere . I soulai have heen fnigistesed.. -- c'q1 helieve,' lic sali, 'you think *te r-lory gi-ester-Vian Vi. ,pleaeure- in ridinug ilm.'" 'kee enggedtoeW rdthse -shoals of heeriug in oth iat port-fortle bene- fit.6 e! tifisierenn-and the-plau -lia metwitb- -sucli, Succes tbo.t, wlialed are Vtoi e ua&I h4reTafer 1a« > .the '5s)eep-dogs-' cf tise sesà at the., nortlieru terminal.-- .The two wlinles, dîsplsy a lOrdly indifference te . eveirything,-exeept1 isersing, witli-'tise resuit 'that -big-. ,catclies' aie-,being nmade.- - -Mesrs. E. Mortim-er, McDk>néld and PRobin-,, 'son are said iVo hàve' firet observed -thc efforts -6! the leviathans, VoCoer- ner the berriuig zmarket iu a rocky' cove ýiear Prince, Rupert. >' The whales drove the .hcrring close te sisore asud' alter openg their mouths Vo a wide angle tliey, went tVireugli tise aoal o! -fis- at isigl ispeed. -witl tise reésult. tbAt many of the herriug were nsoig f ri the shoal. Tise gtlls fiîng ,over r'the whales- loetiste, levia- saking .long trips' !o]iýtheir cah,I are DOW folî]owiqgl thse ulîs, -with the rèsult that big isauj6- are the rule. Ilow No Preveuted the Beiloui nÏ Vrom HeIpi&g.Turkey.ý, -ýJordKitcheuer*, Itit la said, _de not always use the fti1ed fist.- un rjiling tise 'Oriental.,auJ that ie lias leariaea soie of the native cràft was sliowi by tise weiy un whicis le prevenfeai'tise Egyptian Bedouins .frein joiniug- their bretbreu in Tri- poli. - The Egyptian Bedouin is net cempelled Vo psy taxes or te ren- der thse ord-inary obligations o! citi- i~hiu~ w i n l gypf includes jnilitary ËéVÀ-. c &Lar-~.- outbreal e! tise war between Tür- key- andi Italy s delegation o! Bcd- ouins approacised Lord Kitchener sud toldi hi that tliey wanted'te go across tise border te tise asis tance of tiseir hard-presscd fellows in Tripoli. The Englisb genraîadmitte-d with iinexpeçted reaili-ness that 'their requiesit was rea-sonablË. but lie ne- .mindeai them that by grantJng it ho, would bc- crsuating a precedent wliçh would make themn liable for Military servi-ce with the Egyptian armi,. The dele-gation withdrew, and Lord Kitchener was-net trou- bled any ,more with requcats for leave te cross tise border. Rock City lu Fraise. Uncaiuy. XIn the' dosaste lookÎng plain o! La . Camargus, near Aries, in France, stands tbe stra-nge rock City O! Le-s Baux. If you ca9, fancy a giant gene mad, taksng up a quai'- titY Of cuniou-sly-sha-ped rocks and boulders, hurling tliem about at nandom oven a plain, aud then hiew' ing caves in theni, you inight have emfe.. ides o! this uncarmny looking place!l . Dwellinigs ef every age are hewn.-eut un the rocks, beginniug with '~toefo!the anclent <'cave- dweiiler," anud ending'witli a7smali modern village. On -tie opîcest point je the ruined castle -o! tise loi-eo! Les Baux, of tise middile ages, who had s star in tiseir Ccaist- of-arnis, fr they calîed tbcmselve descendants o! the wise men of tise eaet. Smolting and Rats ln Churcis. Moen aVili wep 'ar their hats uin dhurchi l n auy parts ô! Hollandi. Morcver'. smoking in cdurcis la mnot consiclereai irreverent hy tIse Dutcl wben service is not in progress, -sud the mainisters tîensselves inydiîlge un thia practice. Altogetiser, a-c- coi-ding te -a recent visitor, "Dutch ci'usrdl-geing la a very com!cîrtablc - ferin o! religion. You kcep youtr bat on un churcis, and- tiat savels yeu inany a chili; yen- alk freely, aud lnu en stural-voice, iloV lun s wisper; yen uiave s neat 'bouse- maId iu wite'cap anud apreh (aud notliing i8. more çleanly and clarm- ing tisai's Dutcl servant maid) te slow yen te your, seat-or to effer' you s, chair; yen lhave nice drab,- pews o! painte4 deai al 'arquud yeu, said achefiVw-krpul- pitabove."-L.ouden CIsrcnio1e. Inquisitive Old- Gent-And .what are yen 'dlggiug for, my 'grocdan 1'I Kuight of'-the -Pick-M(oney. i. 01. G.-7eu oP,1n'V sy 1 -Anmai w.n do ý7ôu- expect te -ana'i IV1 K; of P.7,- - ît iuikair rçcexitly a& numbei-of dog~s, s&ycraL1:ef theju -of great va-, ue,/liaeëbéen poiseni'ed. -Mr.' James * L;otliau, fhorary 'treasurer cft'he bua-gli of (ampbelL towii, las been eleëted pro-vost. Tise down platforra 'at Grceu'ock West Station isbeiug unproved, by the layiug o! cément bleka. - irkonnel School B-osa have1 de- cided toe r-set an 'addition.t.O-their schoo at acot of $177O. 'An siudeËgrouud' telephene,, cable is beinglainla Ducba1 Street, Kil- malcolin,-'sud ,vil hebeO'ntinued'-te, Coatb ridge Town Council have agreed te erect as ptal cf 22 berds for' the treatrnent "of tubprculoasis at acost o! s85,825.- Notices are te lie placed in,. the tramicare at Gla-agow to the effect that the -points o! ladies' batpiua mnust lie gurdeai. - - -'Colonel Mùnro, 'Aberfieldyý bas been pr esented wyith 'a soli-d'silver eper re on retiriug f rom the, town clerksip -after 25 years' service. -Tie d ash-aoccurred-i'! rs., Turnbuil o! Horsley Hill, better -know àaM "Nanny Glen;" snd -more often simplÎ as "Nauny." -Tebody"o! George Butler,. whe haa been a wandering musician fer é*ër 2ù years, was found on the Avoubriaige and Sîsmann-an Road. A xsew picture bouse js te lie' busi-It at Greenock. The site chesen Il tie feu at the east corner o! ýest Stewart and Argyle Street. Truhthe kindncss o! Mrs. urray, o! Rockfort, ovq.r 200 o! he oldest residents lia Milugavie ere entertaiped te a treat in the - rgli Hall. 'James'- Farquiar, farm servant, i4nd his wife, were seuVenced at the ,4anff Sberiff Court, te one rntb's .,np.~flent for -i1-treating a Messrs. Easten, Gxibb and Son' are to proceed with the ection o! buts for their ýorkmen àt 'osytb. The site granted by the Adrniralty is fully 12 acres. At the annual. meeting o! the Glasgow Savings -Bank it was stated tînt the'-number o! new ac- 42,224, the highest on, record. Lanarkshire, the mee' t populous cotinty un Scotland, is sisown by tlie census te have a population pf* 1,440,034, which is 30 per cent, o! tbe total of Scotland. .YOUNG OLI) MEN. liard lVorkers Far Paat the Thrc. Spore and Teji., This i-s pre-eininently the age o! "young olai men," it bas -been sai by a student o!f modern Englanai, anda it is certainiy wondcrful as w look' rond te note isow mucli o! the. motenergetic wrk in this country have already exceedeai the Biblical span, eays tise -bondon Mail. - Ljord Stratheona, mliose activity- in business continues unabateai, andi whose' appetito for bard meu- -tai exertion is as insatiable as o! olai, is 92. Lord Wemyss, tlougli 94, alI-flwemodern polities with- ail the zest cf youths anai is la redoubtable ontagoniat - W'th bis 1 Dr. Atkinson, Vise master o! Clare College, ýCaîubridge, is 98, and is fa'st.,approaeising tise record-of Dr.. Routis, the fa-mou- president of IMagdaicnýCollJege, Oxford, w-ho liveai iunte ha lotis year. EarlNel- son, tise Nesteor o! tiseflouse o! Lords, is 89. If tiser.' is 'nny slackness in tis -counitrv' it is to hob found in tise ris-- ing generation, net in ciii olai me. 1 Eai1-l obertspIniti n)ul-youtis t shame hy the slendid vigor and cause o! national de! ciice. Lord JIaisbury, for ail bis 86 years, je on.'-o! Vhe strongest force in- his ýarty; lu lis, green olai age' lis ardor !eT combat lias rather deepeued tissu. decreaaed.' Our greateat figure in literature la Tisemaas Hardy, who at '7 2 eau Sit produce poetry tisat Nusd1 1iue. Tise cojtrast ' with tise iBti cen- tury is, certainiy extraordinàry. Tien, lu the da.yâ cf Pitt aud Fox, i onn were,,eounted olai at 49 and sank te valetudinarianàsm at thiat ago. Now thqy ret-m tiseir hosîtis and -streugtis- sud are y>unga' 90 Thi. s -nt sngges;t any losa. o! -vgo n îtiserrace.:J wsth Noahs'-.and h s,- >desceudant-- that, Ged ow entirs iuto-cpvexusnt - e 9. 1 estabjishin m-ioveInant-4c- cording 'o tii.'he promis gwen in Gén. G, -18. Thse'though't-oet oed'a covenapt relations-to hisp'--PIei-s of ce tr-af importance in tise.Old-Tes' - Znt.'Inifsoriià,1 !o*in, how- ever, asbore reprèsý'nted,tis-0ev- enant is - -noV, as un ister times, conceived o! as a:defluitý agree-, ment or, co rpact between two, par- - ties, bùit -raViser as a declaration or promise or wle 'part o! God, set- ting forth. Us purpose- toward lus - Your BSei.-Desc'endants,- here referringteil-mknd< 10. Andi with -every. living crea- ture--Tse divine .prqnise wiid fol- r4ws expresses.-God's purpose that neyer again sisaîl ail. auumà1-3ife b. -blottexI eut'by a' flood, isud'thoie- forehis promise.la lun a -se nse-V.o tise birds, tise cattle,. anai every:hest cof tise earts, as well as te Noaisaud-- bis descendants. -- I.L I will establisis my coven-ant --Seal its tersas witis a specifie agg or token. 12. Thsis is tise tokeu-Thbe.extèr- ual aigu or seal by. which. ma i. s te b. perpetually rejnindeai cf God's promise. Compare Gen. 17.-il, where tise "teken" is ,Somethiug te be done by man, wisereas lier.' it ia sometbung appointeai by' Gai For perpetual generitieus-For ail generations to coin.. 1~I4 dýo set-Tse lreWperfeot, be innguôùà, sud inay aigus- fy eitiser I have - set (that is, long. ýLo rmtii. be{1ugffl 'Iav juat set, 1 -ut new. Tise, rainbow, - whichis f ormed by the. refraction ,andi - reflection o! light, must havýe been seen before tise time o? Noahi. If -thc writcn knew this .tise pro- bable meaning istbat tise rainbow - should tiscreafter lie given'"uew sig- nifleance-be regardcd as a aigu or symbol o! Mercy. My 'bow in.tise cloud--Other bib- lie-al references to tise rainbow are found in Ezek. 1. 28; 11ev. 4. 3; 10. 1. -' i - 15.I 1 llré'nember-Tlie impli- cation tisatI'Goàii iîighV ýotberwise forget nenreÊents oneo! tise few in- stances-in whieh, tise priestly narra- ton ,attnibutes- te 0 odthse carae- tenistica and !railties,'lif imn. -16. Everlasting ceveusutý-An ex- pression occuring frequently (comnpare 17. 7, 12, 19; Exod. ai. -16; Lev. 24. 8; Nuin. 18.,19). Xi' verse 16 and 17 the tisought 'o! verses 13 te 15 is dwelt upea-and partiaIly repeateai, a familiar forin of empisasis. Gallaut Unto Dèath. -Wlien Sir Ralpli Abercromby wae mortally wounded un tIse ?Ba.tle of Aboukir, le 'as carrisai ou a litter onboard thse Foudroyant.: Toeee hus pain, a -sodier's blauket ,usas piaceai under bis heaci. fe'azked w liat iV W-as.-- o I' nly a soldier's'biske, lie wau Vtolai. e, -'Wisose hlankèit is it?" lie pçr- sisteai, lifting himsclf Up. "Only one' o! tise-nen'a." "I wai'V te knelw tise naffle o! tise man wbo<se blanket ti is," tie dy- ing commander insiateai. "It is Duncan R1oy'a- of- tise 42nd,. Sir RalpI, " aaid -lIa -attend&ta la-st. s~tstDna ata ThenseýëthatDuncn ey get.e lis blanket this very night, cin mrna-ded tise- brave -m«c,-Who-,did ,pot, fong-et. even in bis last agonies tise cnniqfort anai welfare o! lis men. Of-is nselflsli stuf! are true fsoL dueis madle. -Faet. - Thnere would lie better things- iii store Iu Vhs fltsiatwo live If we wôuld neyer .. aàk for- more Thani- we'd h glad teo givo."- <'1eere was' louai applause at thi- conclus ion e!f Your speech,'- "Yes," repied ,Mr.',-Longbreth, "A lot o! men applâuded , so - -vgor ously ýthat- they woke up evèrybody - - - ' - - - - i I