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THE WEEKS' NEWS MMHML Joi>eph Pagnet of Ste. Blnudme County, (Quebec, was run over and killed on the In- tercolonial on Tuesday. Three brotben, son* of Farmer Poinerleau, of the parish of St. Victor tie Tring. Vuebec, have ju*l mimed three sisteis, daughter* of Farmer Fortin, of the name loathly. Two leper* who arrived in Vancouver, with the inu-u'.ion of proceeding to China, but were refuied passage on Hie City of Japan, have been isolated, aii.l will be sent back to New Vork. The trouble in the church of Ascension, Hamilton, continues Tliel.''est move ii a resolution to cut off from the church the coal, gas, water and other supplies. The rector s party propone to hold the fort. It is feared that the steam tug Lady Kllen with a crew of six men, lia- been lout off Long Point in Lake Winnipeg. Alexander M. l.iddell, a well-known traveller in wholesale groceries, wa* found dead with his throat cut at Windsor Jim. linn, N. S., on Sunday morning. Mr. 'George A. 1'urnhani, <; Toronto, haa Ucn appointed Postal Inspector at Hamil- ton. The great St. C'lair tunnel was auspicious ly opened on Saturday. The tunnel has cost & 1,460,000. \\ A. Miller, late of Stratford, was killed while braking on the Montana Central Rail- read. Jerome Rancour fell from a church spire at St. Come, Que. , a few days ago and broke his neck. The Karl and Countess of Aberdeen will not Tisit Toronto and Hamilton until after their return from the Pacific coast. Captain W. Power, of Kingston, lias com- pleted design* for a grain carrying steamer which U claimed to ne an improvement on the whaleback. Simeon Gunyou. while being drawn from a well by means ot a. rope the other day al Tamworth, wa* overcome by ga*, loosed Ins hold and fell 'JMf-t . breaking hm neck. Mr. Clarke, (i. I. K. baggageman, whose 'amily reside in Ixindon, went in bathing at Kincardine last work and wan drowned. At noon on Samr.lay while the bookeeper wa* at lunch the otlice door of Burr Bros. ' furniture factor), in (Guelph, wa* broken open and $l,Ksi, intended 'or payment of wages, stolen. Dr. Well*, for '-1 years American Prenbytcrian chun. and exploded a jug of dynamite, which blew up the house but killed no one. York's premises wa* a headquarter! for anan-nut* tnd will be searched for bomb*. Ralph B. Stanley wa* killed at a baseball game in Carson, Nevada, on Sunday, by being struck on the neck by * ball. The rain-maker* in Texas have failed to induce showers in the El I'aao district of ' Texas. l-'ive person were drowned at Low Point on the II mlnon river, near Newburgh, N, Y., on Monday through the upsetting of a row Ixial. Rev. IV.her Miiluiney, pastor of the Roman Catholic church at Granville. N. Y., dropped dead on the altar while saying maa* on Sunday. Fred Kanimeier, a wife murderer, over- come with remorte, ami goaded on by the certainty that he would be hung, took Ilia own life in the county jail al Cleveland on Monday. Col. Frederick A. Conkhu, brother of the late KOMI,,- Conk Ini, tiled m New York last week of cancer of the stomach. A Virginia, City, Nev., despatch says a cave. m occurred at the Alt* mine lail week ami H\e men were imprisoned. Their fate ! ia unknown. United States Secretary Rusk reel* con- fident that within a short lime Kugland will admit American cattle on the aame term* Canadian cattle are now admitted. The A m- rf an AgrieMltttralitt ha* IMMMI studying up the world's food lupply, and calculate* that there will be a deficit of i JUO,000.0<JO bushels of wluai and rye. Fulger A. Bigelow, a younir artisl, wa* in- stantly killed m his lather i> residence in Chi- cago, Wednesday evening by the accidental di*churg of a revolver in the hand* of An- ' thony Courtney, a I'uuipnnn M. John Tongaag, of Cel:n:i, Ohio, who wa* given a life sentence two \ r ago for the iiipposed miiricr of a boy, "ha been proved uiiioi ent by the reappearance of the boy, . who had run away and knew nothing of the trial. A pet i*l from St. Paul Hay* ruinon cur- rent there point to a ,0111111110,11011 into one I M -inn of the (Great Northern, theCanudian Pacific ami the Soo railroads. A prominent vine grower of California, who recently vim led the grape countries of Europe, i* of opinion that, owing to the ravages of phylloxera in Europe, within leu years the Old World will have to rely upon America almost entirely for it* supply of ' tint class wine. I C. T. Jenkins, a middle-aged and proim r- .. Lent member of the Fint Presbyterian' . >ii 'icul. w H t i NkUL*IM* JKA.18. ha* announced In* intention o: i .) call from the Plymouth < ' ' Ii... h u' Minneapolis. Sli; ' U irglar* armed with axe* l>rke into < > if-i.l -n.-e of Noble Titfford, a farmer living l.'i mile* from St. Thomas, the other night. "ink S.Vlfrum his pants pocket. When '. M ->t '.,- burglar* fired an axe thio !.:! t i- ' *' at the inmate*. Mia. I'll., i.. '' Hi km, aged *'nut l.'i. while going alonn, V '>!. ;if< t ... -Mi.r.ford one day. last wi. k, tfilUcd ..',.--ii... tcilly on ti. railway jit*ing and wa* struck by ihe iwo motive of the <'otlri> h exprcsa. There i* little hope of her recovery, a* her skull in fractured. l-'niley Clark, son of (Gilbert Clark, of South Maryborough, s'lpped when stepping rum a mow on Thursday, and his right leg went into the cylinder of a threshing mach- ine, The leg wa* pulverized up to the groin. Amputation wa* rewrtea to, but the mau died. A correspondent of the Marine AcrMic ays that during the month of August '2,'MO,- (NJU biuhels of grain were transhipped al Kingston, Onu, by the two forwarding ompanie*. Notwithstanding tho rush, heiewa* little complaint and ve**els had little or no delay. Kingston's imjiortaiice * a transhipping point i* growing. K. Metaelt, of Seaforlh, a man 7'< year* of uge, wa.* tried at CGoderich on Saturday, barged with the abduction of Catherine Kennedy, a girl of twelve, and was allowed to go on suspended sentence. The prisoner ended marrying the girl. The tramp cattle ship Moudego, which . ft Montreal September 10 for Dundee with . '.'i head of cattle, i* reported to be a total wreck on the bank* of Newfoundland. Th* crew and cattlemen were, it i* *aid, saved. Tne vessel wa* chartered by the Keford line, and her cattle and cargo were insured in Knglish companies for 1 120,000. I.HK.AT BRITAIN. Kugland ha* selected a site at the World's Fair. A furiou* gale has done great damage to Hluppiug and senoualy injured crop* in North Britain. Sir James Ferguuon, political secretary of ihe Foreign Office, has been appointed to ucceed the late Mr. Raikex a* Postmaster- (General of Great Britain. A very large amount of money has been atolen from the Ixindon aud Westminster Bank, and London banking circle* are startl- ed. The sum u placed at |7">0,000, but the olice officer* and bank officials are very re- I -ent. -hurch in St. Louis, has been arrested, .4 a i'iarged with embr/rl.Dg nearly #14, '"O from -nal j his en plovers. Armstrong, C.ilbert &. Co., 4J. I cork manufacturer*. whose trusted cashier Twenty horse* were burnt to death in ( 'hicago on Monday night. Owing to tht intense heat in St. Paul, Minn., the city schools, including the High tchool, have been closed. The recent fire on the Sioux reservation in Minnesota made a clean sweep of the . rops, and the reservation is now a blacken- ed waste. Scientists al Ualesburg, 111. . are excited over a find ot elephants' teeth, tusk* and vertebra 1 , The largest tooth is ten inches long and weighs six pounds. S.V. White & Co., of New York, have assigned. They say their assignment is doe to tie " coiner " in the corn deal, and their nterest in the stock or board market U very limited. Fully 40,0X10 people were engaged in the mad scramble for town lot* and claims at 4 iuthrie, Oklahoma, on Tueaday. There was .tome fighting and several persons were kill- I Many ladies secured claim*. Whiskey Mowed freely. Lewis York, an auarchisl of Logausport, i nd. , had Mveral youag ladies visiting at his i oiue and the other evening two young men called to see the laelie*. York did Dot like this and went ito his cellar, lighted a fust and bookkeeper he ha* been for seven yean. Jenkins speculate! in uniting Hocks, and this caused hi* rum. l> i.F^KFUI. A French mi**'. H in !VrUiyuc<<: I. I.I.IH has IM.-CU a*'Hckcd liy n'.,,-* ,mi >*-n a* i icht-s killed. 'eneral Ituotli of thoSalvation Army, ad- i ii '.! tii'L! ol ir>,M"i persons in Mel- uouiut., A,: i .1 ..i. i>n Sunday Uight. The Austrian Cabinet ha* decided to in create the military budget by 6,000,UUU florin*, and to strengthen the peace effective force of the Kinpire. An analysis of the bread aold in many parts of Russia shows a mix lure of seventy per cent, of earth and sand and thirty per cent, of refuse of farinaceous product!. Lord Lauidowne i* creating much discon- tent in India by interfering with native custom*. A.o|i Pasha, formerly Turkish Minuter oi Finance, was thrown from a horse last week ami killed. Thirty-five cases of cholera and eighteen deaths are reported on board British men-of- wtr in Bombay harbor. Km pei or William ha* offered a (German squadron, with or without the aid of British or French \e*sel, to enforce a diplomatic representation on the Chine** (Government. A riot occurred at a Mar*eillea bull fight on Sunday and great destruction of property reiulted. Further damage was done in the Hooded districts of Spain on Sunday by a severe hurricane. An epidemic of influenza has broken out. A man was killed in a tierce fight between Parnellites and anli-I'aincllilc* al Ncnagh, Ireland, on Saturday. The steamer r uerst Kismarck, from New Noik to Hamburg, arrived last week at Southampton, breaking the record by a pannage performed in six day* twelve hour* aud fifty eight minute*. Owing to the rise in the price of flour, the baker* of Segier/., Poland, increased In* price of bre.nl one kopek a loaf ; but the next morning soldiers head el by a drummer paraded Uie town anil warned Ihe bakers that, anyone charging the extra price would be impriioued. < iiMi4i. in, u. r Tn-f. The oiimat* o: a country i* undoubted ly greatly influenced by tree*, by their abundance or scarcity. A deuaely wooded country i* almost invariably a wet country, while thow portion* of the earth's surface wholly devoid of tree* are usually arid dea- erl*. The tireleu and deiert region! of th* earth are found in Africa, Arabia, I'ersia. ami North America. The sultry atmosphere and dreadful drought* experienced in the Cape de Verde Idand* ar* attributed to th* destruction of tree* on them ; whilst a re- markable improvement ba* taken place in the climate of the Inland of .Ascension lince trees have been planted on it. Th* heat of the day i* more evenly distributed in coun- tries which are moderately covered with vegetation than in iho*e which are not. The climates of Italy and ( Germany have been immensely improved in late vear* by the removal of the luperabuudance of tree* and the cutting down of some of the dense for- est* of tho*e countries. In several district* of Sweden . where large tract* of foreii have been cut down, th* 11 ring commence* about fifteen days later than wa* formerly the cue. When th* land i* cultivated, the lore*t* partially cleared away, and the soil broken up and expoced to the sun and the wind, the diminution in thn exoeuiv* num- ber of tree* rave* the temperature and im- prove* the climate. That ii why many part* of Europe now enjoy a mitter cluitate than they did m the time of the Roman*, or even at period* more recent. i rHwr>oii DAVID wi!fn. Blessed arc (be meek, /or the> ihall inherit the earth. - Mai In n r.. . Among the .|iifstioiik which composed the Christian child's rat*< hmiii fifty years ago Hourmhed th is inquiry, 'Who was the meekest man? The honor of the answer fell upon Modes. This replv rested upon the remark made in the book uf NumlMirii that ' the man Moses was very meek, even above all the mm which were upon the face of the earth. Uur book making father* ought 10 lm\e remembered that many great aud uoblu per- sona have lived in thin world miice that e*ti- nia'e wan made of earth'-, meekcHl men, and that the fact of ( hn-i and His apottles and of million* of St. John > and St. Mark * ..nd similar worthies anil marlym ought 10 have instilled some later estiniuu- anil appraise mentof sucli moral worth, Thenieeknetsof Moees now seems quite eclipsed by thai of Jususor St. John or St. Paul. The entire Mosaic age, with all it* manhood, woman- hood and childhood, staudx related to the Christian era i: uch a* the moonlight rank* with tin! great outpouring from the sun. But it was the misfortune of our fathei-a that they ould not find any im- portant diffeicnce between the book of Numbeni ami the sermon on the mount, nor find in Christ and St. John any moral lieauty which they might not find in the l>allle fields of Moae* and Joshua. There was manv a moral charm in Moae* : hut it would he. doing a great injustice to I hrmu anity were he declared meeker than Sir loaac Newton (George Fox. or more aoft of footstep than Henry Benin. We are all bound to'-uuieM that Christ has crossed our world : and that after Him there Has sprung up a moral excellence which did not How widely or deeply before He came. Think what each may of the nature of ( 'hrist, all seem compelled to confess that He gave a w onderful impulse to a very high type uf human -Intruder. Here and there ha* come some genius who has created a new era of painting or sculpture ; or some genius under whose touch music ha* become a thousand fold more rich and iwcel : or some mind which has driven forward the golden chariot of i poet ry and of literature; or ionic mind which | lius amtenibled words and thought* into elo- quence ; and into a planet liable to be thu* norm tossed. Christ eamc to set new fashions for the soul, and to make art and eloquence find a rivalry in hun.an character. Against a beautiful statue or a beaulilul ' picture or a beautiful poem there came a ' genius who could delineate an attractive I soul. " Whoever would appreciate this single utterance must repudiate the word ' meek.' 1 1 no longer tells us what Christ *aid or meant. It probably never did contain more than a small part of the Palestine import. ' In the day* when the Bible was rendered into Knglmh the ideal Christian wasdescrib- ' ed as a itnop shouldered, melancholy, com- i training creature always wondering that he .. ;. i milted to exist, always confessing > ..4 l.y right he ought to be suffering pun- -i -i. >nt for both natural and acquired de- pravity. All this self debasement was called 'meek- Hi-US. Il certainly was nol the intention of Chricl to glorify *ncli a quality of mind aud to proclaim a time when lucb a dullne** would inherit the earth. The oldest manu- script of the text is written in Greek and it say* : ' Bleated are the mild-mannered, the gentle.' Plato and \enophon both use the term to exprem the softening of a character or an age. It i* u*ed by Xenophon toexpres* muwc when il sinks into it* lowesl aud sweetest tone*. The term was used to ex pre** the calinne** of a heart which had con iiueied paasion. It implied halcyon days Jays not of self-reproach hut of a serenity ' in both the world and in (God. The Latin equivalent which for centuries lay alongside ' the < Greek term Mood for nil that was gent- Icr in not only the mind hut also in nature ; ; stood for nations which were becoming - refined, ami for grape* which were sweetening in the aulumn, and for an ora lor whole bitter words were changing into ymuathy anil patho*. This m the term ' whic i in our century finds no translation in i In- word ' meekness. The word ' meek j ii oulyapriaonin which ihebird from 'Greece and Palestine die* without plunmgeand with- out *ong. Oftentimes i translation is only the transfer of a leaf i n.- lead of the t ree, as girl* visiting a prairie bring back with them ome flower or fern preased in a Iraok. These white, jeweled hands are kind, but they can nol iranslate for us the immensity of the Went. A preened flower will not nay much of that vail arena where the sun ha* poured out its heat and color for a million years. If w would read peiieclly tin* beatitude it would be occewary for us to use all thos* Knglish leruui which have slowly risen up among then claanic original. As the single grain of whwtl when sewn in rich ground produces not a single stalk but a cluster, so each great classic term ha* in the deep soil of Kurope aud Knglaud become a cluster of idea*. The single plant which once grew at the feet of Christ bax become a garden full oi trmU and beauty. When the word* " Bleaced the meek are pronounced there shiMiU rile up before the imagination all those who have carried in their hearU the higltt wisdom, the tenderect juitice, the deepest love, the kindest voice* known U> our race. The memvry may recall, if it choo*e>, a multitude ol mind* all colored wilh one lint of character , and the roll need not end with the Kenelons and theCowper*, but i' may admit into lU grouping lach being* a* Helen Hunt and Kmerson and Longfellow and the Lowell whoee grave is till fre.h The roll must not admit only perfection, for admitting only the perfect it would con- lain but one name. It mull claim all thoee who have pointed society toward all the glories of humanity. Blessed all thoee who in all their years stand by the great nver of human being to purify and sweeten itai it flows. Some affirm that in his later dajs Mr. Lowell did not walk a* lovingly among men as he had strolled along in his early manhood ; that he became Jauled by the externali'ie* ot wealth and rank : but if such charge* were true they would leave the name (till wonderfully blened on account of that long period of National cloud and toil through which hi* harp tounded only mercy, love, and justice. Once to every man and luuio* come* the mo- ment to decide In the utrife of truth and fHlMhoou for I he irood or evil aide. I run hour came to Mr. Lowell, and hi* de- cision assumed an eloquence more powerful than gun*. More uobly iban Lord Byron he " Touched nil harp and nations heard en- tranced. " Old aa the world is, and active a* it na* been, it has not produced a good average human character. The only omolation m found in the thought that the great and gifted workman is null toiling over the talk. It i* comforting to know that the human heart is more attractive now than it wai when the centuries began the tremendous vork of making something good out of man. It i* wonderful that when the ancient* aat down to invent twelve great labom for Her- cules to |n--form they did not conceive the idea o! unking the giant ! make *omt- wlie-i a p- 1 fed town, or village, or hamlet for all the p.iwing and future age* to behold in ill. inn wonderment, a plaoe where th? mind mioiiM In liroad and honest ami ihe hear! penile. I. real reformi were dreamed of, for when llic lions closed their month* in the intellectual and moral side of the uai- vene. We may be aa -natural a* thow anu of Ovrrl which traveled only toward granaries full of oorn. Our eye* are not xpintual enough to be able to see the (tore* oi learning, wisdom, love aud beauty which Hand along every path. To Una blindness both the church and the stale have contri- buted, for while the church has denounced the idea of being aaved by a noble character, the state ha* educated its youth for oaly a career of tiusines*. Salvation and education have both lieen purely " busiuean transact ion*." The moral power of man hu* eicapeu notice. Such an aphorism a* 'uleHSed are the meek' wai suffered to sink in import until it became able to recall only thai kind of 'umble persou who figures in a most popular novel. Thu* a contemptible Uriah Heep illustrates a text which in fact contain* the presence of Daniel, when the wild beait* the outlines of a moat noble manhood. Only and even the tree* were mipireil by the IIIUHIC of Orpheus, when the dog Orberni grew mild ami genlle over the honeyed cake Hung to him by the daring traveler, each a inatchlett* geatnesv can interpret the words of Jewis: 'Blenaed are they who step softly upon the great planet made by a God, feel the presence of other besides self. who who story hinted at the existence of a power of ! coufe** the right* which enoompa** all life from that of man to that of the beaut of the field. Bleaaed the geutie !' A little utter- ance ; but the eighteen Christian centurie* have failed to fathom lU depth. It can not be doubted that our public and love before which brute fom would turn into weaknena. The burden of each legend wa* that gentlenen* *ill be blessed forever. " Kut while all these stone* contained a dream of better things lit tit effort was i schools ought to educate the heart a* well a* made in ibe direction uf developing and ' the intellect. How far have all the great perfecting the human character. Often art and cruelty ran alcng d by idt for a thousand years. It seemed impoanble for na nes of the world wandered away from the cnool-hooee The Whituera, tne Holmes- e*, the Teuny* the Max Mullen went from the Mrhooi-uoiue back to tiod'i great world of Mntiment and reread society, not beauty to paai over from marble aud bronze to the spirit. The Phoenician* led the old world in commerce, art and all gemui, but ' through text- book* alone but through human they sold their own children in Unit very as smile* and human tear*. If ihe Bible shall With ith the modern* sell the horae or the ox. i in- Spartan* tear* were a weakness i lie Hebrews, revenge and deep curse* were worked up into poetry and kong as fitting flementa m line worship of 'God. To create a good manhood seemed a hopeleu ta*k. It i* estimated that the Niagara River wai a certain number of age* in cutting it* channel from Lake Ontario to the present cataract ; it il conjectured that our planet was certain million! of year* in elaborating ilasoil, it* rainfall, it* climate, ililree*. ana it* bird*, but it i* not known how long it ha* taken man to eliminate the toni of iron and i>ra* from hi* character, nor is it con- jectured lioir long it will yet be before he will reach the <nu of his historic meannett*. The mind may well infer from the general progree* of the earth that man also is advancing. In that awful forward movement which aatronomer* detect man i heart 11 involved. If the uuiverae advance* it must not go back into the schooli, at leat the human heart should be invited to some ban- take man along. If the terrific unmal* have died to make mom for the bird* of long, if ' crown ' Is cruelly ever to become a Ihe lark make* her nest in toe bloSHoming j end of being Is an ironlike selfishi quet spread for :i divine appetite. Religion is making some advance, for one mnit not eeteem lightly an age which .s placirg the word A mo above the word Crtdo, for all bwtory illuitratee the fact that to love n belter than to believe. Kducation and religion might so live and so act a* to cauce human character to part with much of its iron and flint in the yean ju*t before u*. They mint first abandon Ih* idea t bat hardness is power. In the realm of metals and stone* hardness i* ability, but in the kingdom of the mind the phenomenon is reversed, and the aoftne** of the sou) has been the mc.it titanic force known to our race. This power of love and refinement mult have been assumed in the declaration that the meek would inherit the earth. What will inherit tun great domain of man? Will bloody war ever wear a perpetual noble i e\tr grasses where serpent* once hu*ed, if sweet! to become the chief end of humanity * No apple* fall where sour, bitter frun once i one of tneae nams* i* worthy of a final em- covered the September ground, the infer- pire. The oeming conqueror i* a much ence ought to be thai tne human race i* rentier spirit. What spirit ii that which moving away from it* own hiwmg serpent I has made the literature and wildoni and art and i* being changed by and along with the and learning ot all time*? Mark well the changing scene. hand which ha* touched the harp of letters. 'o tin* argument of inference one may add the argument of fact. The spectacle of the time* i> thai of a soft en ing heart. Human- ity ha* not become reformed, but it ha* been touched. It ban not become colored with great deep, red low like that which Christ See it m Athens or Rome, m Italy or 'Ger- many or France or England. It has al way* been a kind hand. Philosophy ha* always been kind as a woman. Confucius and Plato wrote an kindly a* wrole the Nazarvne . Newton mid Sir William Hamilton and Stuart Mill made philosophy a* gentle ai a ong. The greatest kindness ha* always <tn wore ; bul it has become tinted. The modern character is not black. Often it reveal* i many traces of beauty. Kach republic nil- I the greateit power. ing where de*pots once ruled 11 a triumph There is a kind of meekntu which w ill of kindlier* ; each new law enacted in tne | surely inhcril Ihe earth. It will lake pot- nanie of justice and beuevolenoe is a newiieaiiouui the name of the higheal right, blush of color on ihe human fate. Kach T ~~ new institution to promote happmea* is a smile on the lip* a tear of sympathy. If any one will read the satires of the classic* the reader will find them lee* true than they were in old Com. and Alhens. Character ban ruwn above them. Juvenal assailed even the scholar* and statesmen of his day and painted picture* which would be false in all the great nation* of our tuna*. No modern poet would perhapi take toe pains to write or publish a ' Tristia like that of Ovid. Such ' *<ad Thought*' have been made falie by the xmenitieiof a high- er cmli.ttiion. In < \ id lament come the** word* . "While you are in prosperity you will be able to count many friends, but if sad days come, you will be alone. v "' how the doves build in the ntw towers, while the old roof has not a single bird. You will never see the an is filing along to a amply storehouse nor friendship journeying toward one who has lo*t hi* wealth. As the shadow atlends only when the sun is shining brightly and goes away althe coming of a cloud, thim the crowd will follow while one's day is bright, bul when clouds come ihey will disappear. Kxcept upon a small scale theae wordsare true no longer, for our whole age IH moved deeply by the desire to hleiw those upon whose sky some cloud ha* come. The burden of all the modern thought of the stale, the preen i* the welfare of those who have long been unhappy Many of our chuch, and the ] who have long b great men are poor in money. When an explorer discovers an island or a continent he raise* upon ite shore the flag of 111* nation. Hi* nation found it, reclaimed it from *o4itude and from monster* and thus owns it, Thii i* tho law which shall give the earth to the gentle soul*. They have discovered our world ; they have sailed to it* shore* : they have made the earth with their own tender but creative hands: the> found it a wild region, they have rnveied it with their miuic, with thoughi, with uii ment, with art, with philosophy, with friemlthip, with piety : and now in jiintioe and Iwauly their flag wave* over it. Meek- new ought to own the world it . real en. In the bla/ing light of these thing* we In ..ill) aa*ily that Buciety i* wailing fora belter character tu i.-ome i* waiting f<>i Ihe human heart to be freed from its old iron and rock In these yean of waiting all who can mult run on in advance of their day . It u well to be fully up to one'* age when one thinks of the nbame found in being behind it, but wheu one think* of the power and splendor possible to man it i* alinosl dn- graceftil to lie only up to one'* country. Th* nen soul must run far ahead of it* period, becaiite the age mut walk but ihe *oul caa fly. When tliv slave* were *ei free the most eloquent of ihe old abolitioniiU said : ' Thirty years ago I threw my heart forward to this hoiu . To-day I have caught up with it. Thus must all tho*e who read most deeply tin- need* and powers of mail fling their hearts toward the future and then en- joy ihe iiapvineu of seeing society creep along towaroT the new goal. The greatest aid : ' I do <<'rek drauiatul I The _ do not write play* _ but they are rich in honors and friends. There m indeed still too much of rock in the human character, but a great clmnge for the better ha* coui lino* Ovid and Dante poured out their tear* in bitter ami uiuuit exile. There i* a slow drifting toward the idea : Kleased are the mild and merciful. foraUUtoM who will Chrut- like leave the " The greatest problem which has ever |age far behind anil drag it onward by nin been before our race or which is now before niag *i*oj^in beauty before it. Fling your it is how to create the b**t and meet uuiver- ' aal human character. It ha* always beeu deairable to know how to produce the moet wheat to the acre, how to exact tin moet heat from the least fuel aud how to make a small salary meet the molt want*, bul the foi man a* he i* but tor man as be should be. Out of thin principle came hi* sub- limity, and there remain* a sublimity Mill hearts forward thirty year* ami you will in great ioy overtake them here or elae in heaven. mo*l tremendou* problem of all has how lo create the greateit society. been Thi* proble-i. ha* Dot been the moM icen or the i "-hi kuov It ha* been hidden behind Uic field of wheat and the gallery of art, but is ha* been on hand in all time*, and here it is to day in all its measurelessneu. The ques- tion how to create gi~eat men and great wo- men belittles all other inquine*. " We should all die of despair could we not look back and see a time when the dead man was only a warrior, valuable on account of hit bow and arrow and club, and when woman wa* valuable because she could lake care of the lighter food and clothes. W >- man had no value of her own. Her reaaon of existence wai found in her ability to cook for a being which could tight. A ungle glance backward makes us all love the nine- teenth century, for in it* fairer fields we can see man and woman alike ffreal in men- tal and moral nature, each a diitinct soul, neither soul being greater because each M infinite. But the problem bow to create a better public i* still weighing heavily upon all ' " ' ' It I*. ' thoughtful mind* i probable that our public ideals an still too low. It U almost certain that we do not *ee clearly enough - *rlM Ten* HUH tea*." 'Ihe term " high seas," so frequently made u*e of in naini<-al parlance, mean* th* open tea, or that part of it which il free to ail, aud include*, therefore, the whole extra* of every ooean M far a* it is not ihe exclu- sive property of any particular counuy. The rule of international law i* tJiat every country bordering on the sea ha* the elusive sovereignly over inch sa to the ex- tent of three mile* from it* shore* : bul all beyond, and not within thiee mile* of the coail of am other cmiirix. in open or common to all con tries. The pail of the eu within the three imii litm e is generally called the 101 1 .i..i ml sea of the particular country M hose ''OKStx it borders, or man <YatMi<;n. Tl>r nMiinclion han little effect on the riulrs t,. navigation, but with nehermen it is iln'i . ni . foreign hihermen have no right i :i -n within three mile* ol the British coani n . ; h..nt a license from the Crown, unlem HOIII. - IM riitl treaty ha- laid down some other arrangements High aeat, like high-ways, means for the public IIM, and all the *ea, therefon, that is so open te th* Buhlic generally come* within the meaning of the term. The limit of territor- ial waters was fixed a* three miles, becauM that was iuppo**d to be tie utmcet duhancc to which a oanuou ihot could reach.