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Over two thousand persons attended the ball given on Friday by the English naval officers at Portsmouth to the officers of the visiting French fleet. Liverpool is to have the first elevated rail- road in England. It is to be run parallel with the road along the docks for 6% miles, with a station at every half mile or less. Electricity will be the motive power. The British Government has signed an qgreement with the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company providing for the transporta- tion of troops via Halifax and Vancouvers Island in the event of war in India should the Suez Canal become blocked. Patrick Galley, a noted character of Bel- fast, has been fined 40 shillings for hailing a constable as " Balfour’s minion." In a Welsh coal mine a. frightful explo- sion took place on Monday. Many miners were killed. The Pall Mall Gazette says the Prince of Wales is taking great interest in the case of phe persecuted Jews in Russia, and in the condition of the emigrants who are coming to England. He has given much assistance to the Anglo-Jewish committees. Mr. Gladstone averages about a. thousand dollars pay for every newspaper or maga zine article he writes. Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes, the English Post master-General, died last Week. He was 53 years of age. If Prince Albert had lived until Tuesday he would have been 7‘2 years old, the same age as the Queen. Crop prospects in England are poor. From Westmoreland and Leeds reports of grain destroyed have been received. Right Hon. John Inglis, LL. D., Lord Justice General, died in England last week. Messrs. Dillon and Parnell are having a bitter newspaper war. A letter has been received at Victoria, B. C., from Sir George Baden Powell, British sealing commissioner. Writing from Priby- lafl’ islands, under date 5th August, he says : “ We have inspected all the rookeries on the Pribylofi” islands. Fifty schooners have been warned and several arresbed.” The 1VIoncton, N. 13., Times gives the fol- lowing :â€"â€"In 1887 Nova. Scobia. built 87 ves- sels, 12,300 tons. In 1888 Nova. Scotia built 116 vessels, 1’2,900 tons. In 1889 Nova. Scotia. built 100' vessels, 16,645 tors. In 1890 Nova Scotia. built 148 vessels, 33,- 746 tons. Same“ the vessels lately turned out of Nova. Scotia yards are among the largest and finest. wooden ships afloat. Fifteen thousand acres of grain were laid low by a hailstorm in Minnesota on Monday. A mountain of coal in Wild Horse Vailey, Wyo. , has been burning for more than thirty years. Sir Donald Smith, who returned to Mont- treal on Monday from England, speaking of the rumours regarding the amalgamation of the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific railways, said that such a thing had never been even thought of. A. F. Moore of Moore’s Station. Que.,died in the Montreal General Hospital on Friday from a wound caused by the accidental dis- charge of his gun while he was driving along a. rough road. An application has been made to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for several thousand copies of their new pamâ€" phlet, entitled " The New Highway to the Orient,”for use in the public schools of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr. McEachren. Dominion veterinary officer, was married on Monday in Montreal to Miss Margaret, daughter of the late Sir Hugh Allan. The late Lieut. COL Bedson had endorsed a note for Hon. Thomas Howard, and at \Vinnipeg the other day his effects were sold to satisfy the debt thus contracted. There Was a loss of 121 head of cattle on the tramp steamer Loch Lomond, from Montreal to Aberdeen, the largest; loss of cattle on any one ship from Montreal that has ever occurred. The Macdonald Memorial Committee of Kingston, will require one hundred tllOllS~ and dollars to early out. their scheme. The monument is intended to resemble me A1- bera memorial in London, England. It is reported that, four white men, while returning to Victoria, B. C., from the gold mines, were drowned by the capsizing of their canoe in the River Skena. The Victoria (B.C) Telegram says than a. party of observation will be sent out this season to obtain information as to the Alaska boundary, with the View to an ad- justment of the question. “Old Hutch” is credited with having made $600,000 on the recent rise in wheat at Chicago. The Minister of Agriculture for Ontario has purchased a number of Dorset horn sheep in England to bring to this country. A cablegram from London says that the slaughtering of United States cattle at Three Rivers is likely to cause Canadian cattle in Great Britain to be less highly thoughtof. Another party of Jewish refugees from Russia, numbering one hundred, arrived in Montreal on Tuesday by the steamship Sar- ma. The b3, are of the hibits 7 The apple crog in Prince Edward county is abundant, an itis estimated mama),- 000 barrels will be marketed this year. The Immigrantion Department of Manito- ba. are sending out agents to various parts of the province to obtain agricultural ex- hibits for Eastern fairs. The first train from Calgary to Edmon- ton under the Cmadian Pacific railway management left Tuesday morning. The McLeod extension is now being graded. Sevent English farmers arrived in \Vinni- peg on ,Aonday to settle in Manitoba. The hay crop in New Brunswick is mag- nificent and is being secured in prime con- dition. It, is stated that the Quebec Legislature will be summoned to meet on the 28th Sep- tember. Canadian eggs properly packed bring the highest price in the English market, viz, SS. per 10 dozen. THE WEEK’S NEWS GREAT BRITAIN. UNIT ED STATES CANADA. There is always, amid the formal sectari- anism of the most formal and sectarian body of people, one who is “a man of the Phari< secs, named Nicodemus." That is, by rea- son of his being called upon to teach and being in some way a leader among his col- leagues. he has found himself unconsciously concluding that there are finer meanings and deeper intentions in religious precepts than he has been taught. Mind always puts Out tendrils and lays hold on new meanings if it is not willfully set to prejudice. The mind that makes God its theme will sooner or later meditate much on Jesus Christ, unlessit is the mind of one determined to gratify bodly passions. Jesus Christ draws the mind that thinks on God as a magnet draws a stell filing. “ No man cometh unto me save the father that is in me draw him.” \Ve are drawn to those who have a quality akin to something within ourselves. So Nicodemus was'drawn to Jesus. an audience 0! three to hear him where he had been publicly announced to preach. In- stead of shutting his mouth he opened it and preached so earnestly that one of the there, a youngr man. was converted, and was afterward called the “ tongue of fire,” because he was so fervent in spirit. Jesus Christ waived the personal praise. He never received it from anybody who re- garded His being among them as another man with just a few points of ability, per- haps, above the usual rabbi. Praise of H55 teaching He received. Praise principle, not person. Do right because it is right, not through fear of somebody or love of some- body. So He drove straight to the need of Nicodemus, “ Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.” “ Nicodemus, except a man look into the spirit only, utterly refusing to call any man of flesh, or any earthly circumstances, his environment as help or hindrance, he can- not set his home life, his health, his afl‘airs. or his neighbor’s health affairs into her- “313%” May be the young Jesus was right. He would go and see. He had been nmoralist, Nicodemus had, and taken pride in his morality. So he came to Jesus. High moral conduct, coupled with thoughts of God, is liable to stlike the heat of goodness as Christ quality. Jesus Christ preached his most stupendous doctrines to audiences of one and two. He taught. over and again not, to despise the smallest. circumstance or opportunity. “ The situation that hath not its duty, its ideal. was never yet occupied by man. James Holmes found at Custlebar an audience of three to hear him where he There is some great idea that your mind has been meditating upon. some principle not definitely understood by you, but which _it is possible for you to understand perfectâ€" ly. You ought to get acquainted with that idea. You. notice, don‘t you, that in all the pauses of the business or conversations of the day the vague but great idea comes up? So Nicodemus had for days been looking toward the idea of the power of faith as the prophets of the past had demonstrated it, and as the young man traveling about the country was demonstrating his principles. How did it happen that Elijah raised to life the Zarephafh child, was fed by ravens. had such prophetic powers? How did Elisha raise the boy to life, heal the waters, cure leprosy? “'as it not by the presence and working of the same God that he, Nico- ,demus,worshipped'l Why should not this God work miracles now as in the old days ? Surely God had never departed as the health of His people, the strength of their life, and the answerer of thmyers. yet nothing was done as in days past. Why not ‘3 The Empress Frederick of Germany is colonel of the Second Guard Hussars of Ber- lin. The Berlin Tagbiatb says England's in- terest lies on the sida of Germany, as should France and Russia defeat the Dreibund. the immediate Consequence would be the expul- sion of England from Egypt. The fight between President Balmaceda's forces and the insurgents in Chili has lasted three days. The killed and injured on both sides are said to number 3,000. Owing to the support the Pope has given Lu Cardinal Lavigieriein his democratic ro- paganda. of sympathy with the French e- public, the Comte de Paris has stopped the ayment of his regular contribution to the apal treasury. The convention of the Irish National League of America. will be held in Chlcago next, month, instead of in Baltimore, as at first arranged. Frederick K. Rindge, of Cambridge, Mass, has within the last, three years given to charitable, religious, and municipal institu- tions more than $3,000,000. He inherited his money. Latest advices from Martinique say that, 340 persons perished in the recent, hurri- cane. The steamshily Teutonic has beaten the ocean record. imeâ€"5 days 16 hours 31 minutes. Miss Susan M. Dunklee has just resigned the treasurership of the Newton (Mass.) Bank, a. position which she has filled for seventeen years without once having :0 justify herself before the board for errors. Mrs. Anna. Gosoworski and Mrs. Catherine Schmidt, of Buffalo, suicided in Buffalo jail on Sunday within an hour. Hanging Was the mgthod, and bed sheets torn into ropes and tied to overhead water pipes furnished the facilities. A bulletin issued by the census depart- ment at \Vashington gives the assessed value of all property in the United States as $24,249,589,804 in 1890, an increase since 1880 of $7,346,596.36]. The absolute wealth of the United States is computed to be $62,6l0,000,000, or $1,000 per capita. BY EM .\l A (‘UY- Nile Tlurhi IN GENERAL. .TIS HOPKIN as of (‘Iu'lsl The second washing we must do is the speaking of the positive wort} of rejecting the belief in another substance than spirit. If God is omnipresent spirit, then indeed spirit is the only substance present any- where; so the rejection of the supposition of the realty of matter is a. necessary process. Matter has no reality, or, there is no matter. This word of denial has the effect of cleans- ing us from as much experience of the hin- derance or burden of matter as the law of the word bringa spoken as an experiment or in faith. You certainly (lofind the hard tumor, the stiffened joint, or the heavy in‘ debtedness grow less. This second washing is very, very eflieient in making hard ways easy and heavy burdenslight, exactly as the personified word of truth promised that it should. The third washing word (remember that Jesus Christ was always leaching words and thoughts and states of mind by material terms). is the denial of our false notion that there is any life substance of intelligence in matter, for if there is no matter surely God is the only life, spirit the only substance, omniscience the only intelligence. An en- chanting freedom comes with the third washing enjoined by Jesus Christ. The mind throws off the ugly nightmare of its third delusion by boldly announcing that there is no life, substance, or intelligence in matter. The heart rises with quickened hope. The friendship and beauty and good- ness of living we see. The mind is clear to understand what is reasonable and right. Knowledge of truth is freedom. Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ both said so and proved it. There Are many who 'ook at their acquaint ances and friends and all circumstances, through jealous ideas of some sort. They unconsciously or consciously wonder how much of their own rights, or position, or possessions, the other will get away from them. So they havelost one or more of their faculties, for jealousy is cruel and lops of? from us our loudest hopes. Such should deny themselves of looking and judging through jealousy. Let them say, “ There s no jealousy in spirit.” Notice that this lesson reads that we must he cleansed by water and clothed by spirit. Jesus gave the idea that we should take the house, swept and garnished, andfill itwith good “ spirits.” Can spirit be diseased or die? Since God is spirit, the only substance, the speaking of this washing word of denial is the sure setting free from sin, sickness, and death. These five cleansing waters are suitable and essential for all the world. There are two special ones applying to each man, woman, and child, besides the five for all the world. You can easily find out what two you ought to make for yourself. There was once a. woman who loved money so much that she saw everybody through her thought of money. If she looked at you she thought first of how much you were worth, or how much she could make out of you. You see by her looking at everybody and everything through money eyes, she got blind~~quile blind. Money is blinding. If she wanted to see clearly she should deny herself of looking through money. It would be well for her to say much, “ There is no money spirit. ” “ Sflirits” aré words spirit.” There are seven words of affirmation that are the hot glory of God over and through all who make them. Ye came forth from God. “ No man upon earth is your father.” Thus these words are the shining forth of your own nature with which you were en- dowed from the great forever without be- ginnjng of years or end of days. The fith washing is a. severe one for some of us to take, but there is no escaping the metaphysical meanings of Jesus Christ. Sin, sickness. and death are delusions. This does not make a stealing or a. slaying good, but announces that they are delusions, without power to hurt 01‘ hinder. The temptation to falsehood, the inclination to transgression, are unreal. To know this sets us free from them. Sickness and death are a myth. Take the fourth washing boldly. Nea- man hesitated and was petulant. We will press boldly forward for the mark of the high calling of regeneration which is the subject of this lesson. 'By this time you see that regeneration means giving your spirit perfect freedom. The fourth word of self-denial states that as matter is not a. reality its sensations are fallacious. There are no sensations in matter. This word will cause pain to falterandfail;will cause sen- sual appetites to fall away. We have no taste, sight, or hearing but for spirit. “Taste and see that the Lord is good." “ Feel after him." inn-easement of loaves and fishes. The Rosetta. Stone to this birth of water and spirit is the statement, “ If any man will come after me, let him dgny himself.” Now, He never taught that we should deny the good in ourselves; certainly He meant that we should deny the evil. He gold His hearers that it, was His words of Which He was speaking and the power of His words, so we know that the baptism of water of which He spoke to Nicodemus was the use of the washing words of denial, whereby the mind that has thought Lhings not. true is cleansed of its errors, as a. body is cleansed by water. There were certain errors or mistakes call- ed profitless and nothingness and useless- ness by Him, serving to hide the power of the spirit. To deny these errors is to call them by name and reject them. This is the water baptism this great metaphysician meant. Now Naaman’s seven washings in Jordan were typical of the seven denials every mind must. make to be cleansed of er- ror. By looking them over we know exact- ly what errors to reject, what to eschew. The first washing we do must be the rejection of the belief in another power operating in the universe besides omnipresent, omnipo- tent, omniscient goodness. There is no power of evil. This denial is the washing away of evil imaginations, so that we do not any more believe in the possibility of any cruelty or greed or crime coming nigh us forevermore. According to the law of mind action, we find that. it sets the world {rep from evil also. ‘, as My wofds are Woman‘s Righls in Australia. “ The revolt of woman,” as lately exemp- lified in our law courts, has now spread to the Antipodes, where a wife has just admit- ted to the magistrate of Goulburn that she had thrashed her husband with n whip. Her action was commended by the magistrate, especially as the whipped husband was of drunken disposition, and, continued his worship : “ It would have an excellent effect if all wives of drunken husbands did the same, instead of appealing to the court for protection.” He said he knew several instances where the commended course of treatmenthad resulted beneficially, though the whip should only be used when the recognized head of the house had abrogated In the last days of July the atmosphere was beautifully clear, and for many miles the grand pyramids of Mount Baker and Mount Ranier could be seen, rearing their splendid cones high above all their surround- ings, and showing their great sides covered with the snow that never seems to melt. Three days later a gentleman was within ten miles of Mount Baker, and he could not distinguish the grand mountain, for the air was oppressiver heavy with smoke. It did not take long to find out who started these fires. Here and there in the timber through which the train sped across \Vnshington were little clearings, and farmers and their men could be seen felling trees and setting fire to the branches. It is the only way thev have of removingr timber, so that they may plough the. land. They have no means of getting the wood to market, and the only thing they can do is to reduce the enormous growths to ashes and then pull out the stump, and thus add a little to their tillable area. They are fortunate men if they are able to clear more than an acre or two a. year, for the work is enormous: but when an acre is finally freed of its heavy burden of timber it is found to be magnificient farming land. But it seems a terrible waste to see these mighty forests reduced to nothing butsmoke and ashes. Now and then one sees a. more cheerful picture in these woods. At a side track he will find a large number of flat cars, loaded with big logs all ready to be taken to a sawmill. This is a lumber camp, and through the timber may be seen the little pine or canvas huts of the lumbermen, who are felling the trees and trimming the logs ready for shipment. Then again the travel- ler sees a sawmill, where lumber is being turned out in great quantities ;but probably fifty times as much timber is destroyed without profit to a living soul as is now be- ing utilized in the forests of British Colum- bia and Washington. It is a terrible waste, but there is no present prospect that it will be stopped. his Fight to rule by An Immense Quantity ofthe Finest Timber Now Being Destroyed A melancholy sight in British Columbia and Washington is the enormous areas of forests through which fires have swept, leaving only blackened trunks. Theforests of the Pacific slope are going a good deal like the bison of the plains. The people of this continent do not realize how many hun- dreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of fine timber in that region is being annually de- stroyed. Through the Rocky Mountains, along the Canadian Pacific .Railroad one may travel for many miles and see hardly a. bit of live timber, though the blackened trunks standing quite thickly together show that only a few years ago the mountain sides Were covered with spruces and hemlocks. A good deal of this devastation is wrought by hunters and locomotives, and the fires are accidental. In some parts of British Colum- bia, however, and in \Vashington the farmers are destroying a. great deal of timber to clear land for agricultural purposes. So Nicodemus rallied his faith. He had entered the presence of Jesus with hope. Hope isonly the left, hand ; faith is the right hand. “ Hope thou in God.” Have faith in the good. Your faith will show forth ; your works of good faith wi‘d be good when you have learned how to be born of water and of spirit, according to this meaning of Jesus. ness in a neighbor, but now we know that since vanity and deceitfulness are nothingness and profitless that it is a wast of time on the insubstantial. That Which we see of good is our own thinking or our own shining forth of ourown spirit. \Ve learned by last Sunday's lesson that every- thing has the potentiality of goody ready to increase itself by our praise and blessing. The second word of spirit is : “ I am the idea. of God and in God I live and move and have my being.” As God is omnipresent, we move safely and boldly on. This “ spirit” or word of the I Am makes us bold and joyous. Allis joyous in spirit. The third is : “ I am spirit, I am mind ; I shed abroad wisdom, strength, holiness.” Such a fire baptism as this word radiates or reflects fom us over the world to make people wiser, stronger, holier where we are is only brought to pass by this affirm- ation, or “yea, yea,” of Chirst. The fourth baptism from above is our announcement that God the Spirit works through us to will and to do all things well. This is our word from above, or birth from spirit. that makes us efficient in healing and helping all with whom we come in contact. The old ways of depreciating our words and our works are done away with. We now rejoice in our eflSciency, since we know it as God the Good doing all things. _ I {:11 governed by the law of God, and can not sin, nor suffer for sin, not fear sin, sickness, or death. As spirit we cannot swerve from our orbit any more than astar in its course. To swerve and falter would he sin, but spirit cannot sin, for God is spirit. “ He’ll surely guide our steps aright. ” There is the safe walking of all who speak thesewords through all the thorny ways of delusion. Then the two “other spirits” or words of affirmation which belong to each of you, you must find out for yourselves. Notice that Paul says that in his greatest weakness is his strength. So you can see that if you have believ- ed yourself inefficient or ignorant you must let the spirit of truth drop down over you with the bold aflirmation: ” I am strong and efficient. I praise the spirit that now works with me and through me and by me and for me to do all my work faithfully and well. I am wise with the wisdom of spirit.” This is the full potency of tbetreatment Jesus gave Nicodemus. “ Marvel not." Only the carnal intellect marvels, wonders, asks ques- tions. Spirit knows. Thuere is the“ fith word from above that secures our immunity from sin, sickness, and death. and that makes all the people secure when we come near them. Like the fifth denial, the fifth affirmation takes strong rising “ to do the will to prove the doctrine.” BI'RVIVG THE PACIFN‘ FOREST!) course of y, though when the abrogated uct. There is a story told of an unregenerate old sinner in Hamilton who doesn’t go to church as often as he should and thus pre- vent the possibility of stories. On thencâ€" cztsion in question he was snoozing comfort- ably in the corner of the pew and the minis- ter, somewhat of a. sensationalist, was mak- ing a. touching appeal to those who were still out of the fold. ‘ “ Which road will you take?” he almost shouted. “ Which road will you take 7” The old sinner stirred uneasily, half sat up and responded : “ It don’t make a bit of difference to me ; but be sure you get tickets for the sleeper.” His wife had him awake before he could go further and it embarrassed the 001‘ W0- man so she left the church.â€"â€"â€"[Free lgress. The right arm is always a. little larger than the left, but the left foot is almost al- ways larger than the right, presumably be- cause, while nearly every man uses his right arm to lift a. weight or strike a blow, he al- most invariably kicks with his left foot, while the lounger stands on his left leg and lets his right fall easily, because he has learnei by experience that this is the best attitude he can assume to prevent lassitude and fatigue. This constant bearing of the weight on the left foot makes it wider than the right, and it often happens that a. man who tries on a. shoe on the right foot and gets a. close fit has to discard the shoes al- together because he can not endure the pain caused by the tightness of the left. If when riding on a. street car you will take the trouble to notice, you will see that in laced shoes the gap is much smaller on the right foot than on the left, while with button shoes the buttons have to be set back ten times on the left shoe to once on the right. “I am in great distfess husb9nfl aim! 13y only chi_ld. “ I don’t believe afword of it. If that, is so why ain’t you in mourning? Where are your jet ornaments ‘2” casting a. scornful glance at the supposed impostor. “I believe you are an adventuress.” A story is told of Byron’s wretchedness when his play, “Dearer Than Life,” was produced. At the end of the second act there was a. long delay and the audience grew very impatient}. “ \Vhib in the name of goodness are they doing?” asked a. critic of the author. “ I don’t know,” moaned Byron. At this moment the sound of a saw ab work behind the curtain could be distinctly heard. ““VVhat are they doing now, my dear Byron ?” said the critic. Here the author’s keen sense of humor came to the rescue. “I think,” he said, “they must be cutting out the last? act 3” Smoking jackets should always be worn with puffs. A beggar woman,who was in rags,met Mrs. Lordly Pompous and holding out her hand, saifl}o the.lady in an‘ imploring tong: : The lecturer advanced to the. desk and responded as follows 2 ” I am not; half so big a. tool as Dr. Vin- cent ”â€"Iong pause and loud laughter;- “ would have you suppose.” The Rev. Dr.UVincent, who is somewhat of g. lag, introduceql him thps : Mrs. Snobberly, a. very aristocratic lad _, received a visit from a friend, who, amo g other;gossip,_sa.id : V ” We'are now to have a. lecture on fools by one "â€"long pause and loud laughterâ€" “ of the wisest map of thy coun_try._” _ “ Uo yoix know that your son has be p seen several times in company with a. sea" '- stress ‘? Everylcdy is talking twenty.” __ _ “ Hofrible'! Horrible !” exclaimed tge agonized mother, “ He may bring disgrace upon our family by marrying her.” “ How is your father coming on ‘2” asked Col. Percy Yerger of a. darkey. “ He am dead.” “ Dead, is he ! He must have reached an advanced age '5” ” He did dat, for a. fac’. He was libin’ up ter de day ob his defl'.” The Rev. Dr. Hanson recently lectured, higfiubiect bgingjw“ F0919]: Tommy : “ Did you do much fighting in the Egprian war, pa. '3” Pa. : “ I did my share of in, Tommy. ” Tommy : “ Did you make the enemy Tommy run '2” " Oh, that doesn’t: amount {0 anything,” replied Mrs. Snobberly, smiling. “ But I am told that the young lady is perfegtly respectable.’i ‘ Mrs. Doleful (mournfully) dest when I sing.” Mr. Doleful : “ So are thl Pa : ” Ay, indeed, my boy.” Tommy : “ Did they catch you, pa. ‘1” My neighbor’s babe is fair and sweet, With dimpled hands and soft, pink feet, With all the Summer in his eyes, \Vhile in his lips what honey lies ! My neighbor’s baby loves me so, His glances follow where I go, And when his clinging touchI feel, Mo words my pleasure can reveal. Ah, yes, a treasure rate is be, A jewel without flaw to me; For, I adopt this custom wiseâ€" I bear him homeward when he cries l My neighhor’s babe brings back the joy That stirred my pulses when a. boy : His breath, more sweet than flowers re, Blows from my brain the webs of CM ' Wait for the End of the Sentence. The Right Arm and Left Foot. Sawine‘ Out the Last Act. He Knew H15 Father. The Baby Next Door- The Road to Take. Extreme Old Age. An Adventuress. TIT-BITS. A Society Note. Fashion Item. Sure Enough. “ So are the neighbours. T’ve lost my ‘m sad-