IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /, ^ .^'4f. 1.0 I.I 11.25 ■ 50 '"^" m u 2.5 M 18 L4 ill 1.6 Photographic Sciences Corporation 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 873-4503 \ •s^ :\ \ % V 4 ^>. ;\ 'L^^ ^'.i^^ ^ ,V Hi Honors I ill MMtliemaiics >V was rili IX I M K AC( 'KSSIT for tlie Trinity ( ',,l|ej '§ I'Vllo |ir>.\iiiici'Vf.'SKit I SHIP -i iiiul shippeil on luiard IIMS Canada ^"^■"'^ "''^ v.n- f,„„, „,. , ' " also liii,,!,. 1 ■ ■ « ' "' ^'"•'"-'- '-.W ,,,,.,. W(LL "■inc\- I,;, , ' "'-^ Im.,i,.s Ii,, I,,,,,,, ... iiinis,. ''"- ''"'-'"^ ins Iff,. ),,■ ■■'"'•I' lie wa.s 'i'''l ,ls Ji,, '■'■"'v-'li.r.r,. ,,.,1 '>'. I. /'. ^.f-^- ^««, K. „ ,■.. - '" /""IIS A 'A "'lijiiis "'^'"' "'"■■'"- .VJ.i.sI.,,,,, "'"■^'■'■'^""^il'ru-n,, I,, HmI 3R fiURjESSS l.II.H.M CAXADI'XSI ' luiiiioilal vi)irf. ) ^^ /' KARl St XT liO.M I I'ew are tlif hones i Is this all we an> Id coine to? I TROW \oi'. l^S'l •fil ' " ■ Ki'MioIds i::o.sl vitall ■Sue "^ II Chcilllsl. • "'•^iK-'MSIIli, Is OATS. ■ Tin- Oiils an. liki^ a tnuipr of .i.irls lau,t;liiiiM an,l .laiu-iii- tvv,.. C( '., i,S,<). Is there ikjI an inliiiitc joy in ilusi' i i i i ..• And is not all that's infmilu IMMORTAI,? I 'SIC ! -i 11 •^'i.tffls and '''"""■^' '•'■■'- '•■'»- wo,.,,! „,,„„. ''""'^'•''■•.V«-.o,|s, "■'■ •■'•'eii.l „s ,11 tf " '"i.v si-iiiioiis This is a Lie. Tlic iiuiulu'riii<4- of tlie l)a,i;('s and cliaptcrs in this l>(M)l< aiv tlie result of a most interest iiin' expei'i- ment of tlie N\()rlt' tlie lunnaii brain under unusual eircumstanees. It was left to my Printers deaf eel. He is sucli a vigorous teatotaller as to be h drunk all the time off Strong tea and Airds (linger beer. Practising for a eircus. the rest of the tiuie he s})euds standing on his head. The result surpasses my utmost iuiaginatiou ! ill / I I IMMORTfllilTY PROVED Ifl 6 WORDS. 9f^ 9f^ V^ %^ ^^ ^^ My Ih'aii t'ririid Mu. L O. Aiimstkonc ,,t' Hi,. (MM;, in whose JiiduMiK'iil 1 liavc (•uiiiplele uiid uticr CDiilideiice a,<,'ivo.s with me ihfit mir liiiinnrulily ciui he pioved : iieLitally, in six (0) words : thus; . I'.eeaiise It I'AVS, iiiiiiallil To ItKI.lKVK IT. l)iit tlie other i)roofs in this hook iiiav ho more convinciii'' to some minds. Tiiat il pays to l)elieve it, is, as .Mill has .shewn, the only |ironf of the e.\i.stence of malter. And yet no one ilonhts the e.xistence of matter. I met a .saint of (iod in Miince Stre !t, IMontreal tliis week. Siie .said :— " Immortal '. Of conr.se I know I am Imniorlal Xo one can help Iving certain of tlial." Perhaps when 1 am a Saint of (iod, I may kmnv it. Mean while I try to do kindly a.\ — without <;iinding any axe tlioreliy. 1 often ask (iod what to do and Sonieth-ng silentlv an.swers nie, and for 20 years has ni:i;:r answered me wrong. And I leave all tiie resi lodod. And 1 am, meanwhile, as iiappv, inexpressibly happy, when well, as the dav is lon<-- BW'^ "^nc r \ ^ WHITK AT ONCK FOH IMMORTALITY PROVED TO ¥.C. EMIIEKSON, MA , I!ox 2381, Montrkai.. Illuitrnted by Deibnrats & Co.'s unrivalled Photo-gravurei from designs by A. a. R.iccy nnd tho Author, Testin^otiials to H[r. lmber8or\'8 last book, Tlje Lovesick Jap. "Magnificent." HknRV Dai.i.v, i:'' ^^^ ^H wheels 1'vcll...t-l.,„„.. The pic'T ' '"" '■"'J» f'"'" a ■■^"-vancc ,„ ,,0 ,J"'^^ '" <" "-'^ I')' arl„,„,i„n. ""' ■•■■"-« a, ,,„o,ut:;,,::;:;'^''-'"'-™i..o 10. Proli:l)ition of il,,. „ 1 , • "*- "I'l'Hifactiire sil,. • 1 fc of alcohol. '^'""^■^ co„ta,ning more than 11- All S.hools to he bi-lin.-ual • Fn r , ■"■""■"- "-nc, (..t',;, ; t .r,f'° "'*™ ■■■■ '^= ^"uncl to be tried by the Co.,rts ^ ^"^^"'"'"ent or P-"tentiary. and in gross ca ,'.• ^"""'^'-'^ ''^ ^'^^ ^■i-'-e - "o greater c^ " '^ '''' ""Pn^onnient. 13. The penalty for all f betting on races. ^"c'To be fZ^'"'' '""-^"-ngenng. of fine. ' ^' '«il»'«onment without option he results ofthe voting to p p P '°^'-"' '^»d forward 8 1 's to helj) lawyers tc 'til, and so made that -"""fy, by all wh,els s fair judicial rents. '"Ill I.-claiui? - ai),'u to ^'xjjropriate '00 yards from a xed by arbitral i,);,. ^^' '^^-y to original '"> '^'ft the earth to 1? ' ''"portation ana taining more than f^e sj)oken in the (L'rnoon. - <^overnmcnt or punished by the 'e imprisonment. I attery-mongenng, It without option earnestly invited te, and forward ^■■'^ , Author of ^'fico, Montreal, 'yes -or 'no" ^ '^ tlie same 3 101 Chapter I. HOW FLOWERS PRO VE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. " And why should I be afraid to die. Death can but bring mo nearer to God. And if there be no Rod, what is it to me to live in a world witliout God. But there is a God and He careth for us His children.— "MarCUS Aurelil-s. [For sale by W. Drysdale & Co., ;«c.J As I showed in my delightful little book "Gold and Silver," knowledge is only desirable for two reasons : — 1. Firstly, in so far as it tells us something that concerns ourselves ; 2. Secondly-, in so far as it tells us something that con- cerns God ; And what concerns God touches us far more vitally than what merely concei-ns ourselves. The study of flowers is therefore the most desirable of all studies, in that by it may be proved, for the lirst time in the history of the world, " THE EXISTENCE OP GOD." Spinoza thought he had proved it. And everybody else thought he had proved it for about two centuries. Then some big swell said his proof was a petitio pri.icipii. And then 11 $'i: iii 102 everybody said with scorn that Sn' Pi-oved it at alJ. '^•'' ^P'"^^'* was an a,s« and had,, 't Then my fWend Afansell ih^ ■ 0^ro,.d w,.otohi«..Ct^\^^^^^^^^^^ '^'^'^ Oo,ie,e ever understood. Eut it^vaTL ^^"^«'' T'""« "obody jf'' the Germans to hide the;,., """ ^° ^^^ orthodox a1 - all orthodox feiioll ! 'ofr'T •" "'' '^ -«^^' thi f ' WeJIJet usseeifDowp... „ ence of God, and go i on! , ""' '""''^^^^^^^y prove th ■ m together. ^" ^"^^ ^^^^ ^han Spinoi'lT'Crn (In the Figure Ba r'BooF I. ""ARA, known to I Everything made must h.. '^" '^^ '^ "^-'0 ^JoM-ers are made '" '""^«'•• God Therefore FJovvei's have u ■ • Thei-e is a God. ^f^ke'-, and if ««, Hi.s A, amo is 12 .«f St. John's College ■;'«•'' This uobody t: .« be orthodox, 'a, ;^;twasall,,ght. Anl d'-iysaid ManseJJhad '« ""orthodox feI,o„,s '«n 't was mentioned. ^«"owofOrieUegan «^h,s,eadin^, party, ^ere seized with a l^'the fi,,t tir.0 for ^ Katnne the follow. ^'^^y prove the exist. P'"«^a and ManselJ f '^. 8o that everr ">'« 'ogic^not that »ot be able to gain- 'est of all.) SO, His JVa mo is io;j PROOF II. [In Uiirbiira.] The thing designed must have u designer. The (phyllotaxy of) Flowers was designed. Thoiefore Flowers have a Designer, and Ilis Name is God. PROOF III. [In Ikrbara.] Everything mathematically designed has a mathematical designer. Flowers, as is shown by the mathematic law of phyllotaxy are matiiematically designed. . • . Flowers have a mathematical Designer. The phyllotaxy of Flowers is the arran-rement of their parts round a central axis. It was ordered in the form of a frac- tional algebraic series, which always strikes me as havin<' an element of the comical in it. Just as the shiipe of Cacfuses and monkeys and the habits of some animals (including man) are distinctly comic. The phyllotactical series I mean is : f T' r a' i' ¥' TJ' ^^^ In this series it may bo observed that each Numerator is the sum of the two prccoeding Numerators, and each Denomi- nator the sum of the two preceeding Denominators. Colors are arranged in the same series. The rainbow con- tains 3 parts of red, 5 parts of yellow, 8 parts of green. i;; Th,8 order is continued ri.^^, • '"^^^ '^"'^'''t. U ! ''^^'"' "-''on tho .ai„. f ° '« "'an, Win bo '«ft. «o that it will be- «thenumber of times '••'.'^"e leaf is o.xactJy ^'"•0 tho number of '0 fi'actioris '^ -i i . I — "■'< r call 2 tJio cone 44 times ;»ver another, and like circuit. 'lo nn-an^iroment of ^ t''« pistil, ovary 't ill tJio world at- f the star., and he female persua- into apart. ^'e'T «sti'ojiomer '^•ei-y thoughtful 105 and metapbysically-inclined astronomer knows— as Pythagoras did— tliat tliis mind had a peculiar pleasure, just as Isaac Newton and home other men have had, in "dabbling," so to speak, in mathematics. There is another curious series, methinks, in the primal scheme after which the creation of the Plant World was ori- ginally blocked out. 1 Flora brought out her works in three Volumes : The tirst has no seed leaves, The second has 1 seed leaf, The third has 2 seed leaves, Tho parts of the flowers in the 2nd Vol. are in threes, or multiples of three, ..... Those in Vol. II. are in multiples of 4, 5 and (in the Eanunculi) "i or &c., i.e. an indefinite number. Hence we have the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c., which I com- mend heartily to the Lucretian and other " fortuitous concur- rence of atoms " theorists. Let them put it in their pipe and smoke it. It may have begun in ray brain smoke. Let it end in theirs. Xot onl}- do flowers prove the existence of God, but they give us some hints as to His character. PROOF IV. [In Barbara.] The character of the work smacks more or less of the cliar- ticter of the worker. Flower-work is beautiful, beneficent and happifying. . • . God has in His character an element of Peauty, Bene- ficence and Love. ?! ! 1(»6 Tl.c wl.olo a.Tunffemonts of Pk i''loi- is lioavon'!. TROOP V. 'f, llicn, Flowoi-« oi,»„„ „„,] ,„,„,, . „ , ,. who „„„lo i|,e,„ ,„ ,. I,,, J "". '■J '-loanlines,, il,c ()„,1 "therwfso .,l|,l,,,b„,i,,,| |i,i „f ,,„ ^ ,V '"""'' '" P"' •' ■<" n.y promote ono another. " ' ''" '""dually aid and Hence He who has willed thm •l.o™. .ntcnded .hat „„ , "t^'of' ,""''' """" °"° °' -Billy Pringle's Piq. 1 16 iii'ooi-doretl'nftor strict I'lvv," as is oxompliCod liiivUl Cop|(eiliol(]. F'K'OOF VI. TOHACCO. B'-^H. ThGv are self- i'l-om i\uy ortJinai-y "hI incessant move- '« in them. •leanliness, the God lio proverb " Cleai!- tend to put it ii, my if' 'ny forth-to-come Is." caltii, happiness, a mutually aid and oiil'l onjoy one of 'lem. As God gave e. )i'omote life, God swim daily, and to 'ving thoughts as "Ovent, that iirt nu rank and mriOll'st mi fair!" Ilaion'a (ithcllo >i.;;i;,i of a cli^ar. "Nlcotlaiia aflliils ! The iioor iiian'H vin ,rt, and the rich lauii's Joy." —Miiiiireiil WitHeti. Who made tobacco ? Tell me, pray, Now w.-\H it Uod or Ifevil ? If God, then •v.io shall Ja>\- to say JUS workmanship is evil. O noble (lower that lower'st above Thy sisters of the Held ! Whose iietals, steeped in endless love, Such rare aroma yield. The only leaf whose texture fine Can form the light cigar, Which those who whilT" ask not for wine, Nor feel what sorrows are. Beneath thy glow my troubles pale, Ah earthly troubles can, And thrills of grateful rapture hail God's thoughtfiilness for man. K. C. Emberson, M.A. Author of « The Love-Sick Jap," &c. Byman's Ciijar Store, St. James St., Montreal. 17 ANMillLATIOMSM IS Kmmi MderccJ a r.g.dly logical disproof." FIRS'I' PKO()F._Tk NNVSON. " My -nvn . Ii,n Ii,o shouM teach ,,,e this. -- ^or It not;_thcn, .. ''';''";""'sda.knessat thecore, Ami ,|„st an,l ashes all that is" Which IS absurd, •■• I^'fe shall live for evermore. Q. E. D. SECOND I'ROOF.-Tkn NVSON. Again,-If lia. shall not live for evermore. The world, is ""^ """""' ^'-"- "--^ of ,w," "••■antastic beauty; such a,sh„le hope whereto so passionatelv Clin. The dream.ng generations from of old ' Could the fmmortality of the Snni i would be no credit in believing" I s wl '"''^ ''''''>'' ''-- to prove without doubt the .ttilt of 1 " ^""'^unistances seem stancy of the Sweet Heart .; ij, 7"' ^^ ''' ^"'^ C""" glorious crown. "uieves in hnn, wins its most To prove the immortality of ti,e so„l , , tamty of it as felt by truthful men n, T^\ ''"'''' ^'>' ^'^« ^^r- bythe wicked. <' The w cl^^^^^^ 1 ^'^' »''« ^'^l^elief in it felt doesn't want one,' as a::; :t2:^ ^'--^-Ood, because he heart, < There is no God."' Jf he L. ,JJ^ ^^^^ ^ath said in his have r,aid it. VVe have (3) th' i ? , "" ^°"' ^^« Wouldn't certainty of immortah'ty varvin. rnf n 7 ^'^^ '^'^''^ «f 'he ness of a man's heart ^ ^ °"°'''^ ^"'"^ "^« ^^uth and good- 20 31 32 WAIORTALITV L. ■ and cold, cling rove lesire retire, above Ifad sire Iiis love. ■' 'y Old friemlE.r, ditto.) ^oved rigidly, there circumstances seem tliat the True Con- lim, wins its most '>a^e, (i), thecer- e disbelief in it felt God, because he ^1 hath said in his a fool he wouldn't 2SS degree of the le truth and good- This would seem to satisfy Bacon's and Mills' three tests of Inductive Certainty, which are 1.— Agreement ;— " Instantice Convenientes." 2— Disagreement;— " Instantice Negativii'." 3 — Concomitant Variation ;— " Instantiue Secundum majus et minus." and to prove by /-/(.-/V/ induction the Immortality of the Soul. But man naturally looks to the Natural World for indications of the laws of the Spiritual World. The more I observe, the more startling I find to he the simi- larity, amounting almost to identity, of the laws of 1 — Tlie Material World. 2 — The Mechanical and Mathematical Worlds. 3 —The Moral \Vorld. Now those who will not willfuliy shut their eyes to the Aict that there IS such a thing as Duty and Goodness, cannot but see that there is a Spiritual World. They will find that many of thj laws of other worlds apply to this. As for instance the Pendulum and the Grand L.iw of Pulsation ; the Law that excess is followed by reaction : the Law of Compensation, that all loss is accom- panied by some gain, and vice versa ; the Law of Fverlasting Conservation of Energy, and many others. Now as to flowers ;— what can " high instincts groi)ing about in a world not realized," infer from llowers as to the immortality of that fraternal fish which, to judge by fishmongers' siiops always swim about in pairs, white side to white side and brown side out, 1 mean of- course that amphibious shell-fish and little h'animal which can't live on the land and dies in the water,— The Hu.m.\x Sjle. 21 33 '^*^:i^;^^rr, -i^'i^t^^^^ -"owe. ,, .: -•■tality Learn Uy helrt '1 e " o C^?!; f ^^ ^'^ ^ '^'i- "^ I- '^"'ng. It is an J^./,ua/,),u in ./• /^ . Memonam," as I am J^^ides the sleep " e " d J T' "• ' T" '"^'^'^ >"^" ^hi.s. every winter. TreJs do not mJr J" " ^'^ ^^^"^' ^^-'/^ «^ ^-es They ,,^, dead. "°' '"^'"cly .,,,,, t„ ^ie. They do die. 'i;'ie only hVe parts ofa tree are nwi , camb.um layer. These in winter ce 1 '' "' '"'^ ^"'^ ^''« tree comes to hYe again in the S^nCr ""' ^'"' >'^' ''- "-t.3:i:4^r'"^^'"'^^^^"^'-^-^'^pi-.rootsup^ of. had scarlet fever eve ;l^H^>"""'7''^'^-^-^ thought tered over in this way and / ? '^"'"se-shoe geraniun.s win- S.-.".-lar,y. my frie;d/;, ;;;::; '^^^^--'^^^--P'anted , o'-fish in an outhouse fro noH^^^ "■" '''"' '^ '^^^ a tank nate h-ttle fish all Jived to . "^ """'"'"• ^"^ yet these t'-t glorious hymn, ""^' '"""^'>'' '" '^e joyous sparing s^^ *■ Kevive us again." Florists have an expression- '< ri • , th.nk I can '^..^..y ,, , .'f/°' , ^ .^'"^ P'-"t is dead. But I This reminds :ne of 1 beautl P ' f '" ^°' went to ask after my dear f iend 1 uT "^""^'°"- ^^''-^ ^ -ho was slowly dying of old a" ettllr^'"" '"'"^ ^'^'-ite, ters of Providence, Montre d t1 e fl rf ''" """^« "^'l^^ Sis- -e s.e at Convents are alwa^^s nAT'"' ^'" '""''^^^'-^^^^ -e freed from such a temptat o^ to "a f T "" °^'"^ «'^'-«. d.nnnue toujours -' and methinks j ,7'"'^>')' ^^'^ of her " Kile "ursed the --ll-pox patien if a ^"1"^^'""^'^'' '"^"^--^'o one small.pox scare-growin ' e.V .. ^°'^"^^' '^^^'"' through - ^He mounted to he^n. '2^^^ ^^^^^^^ " ev^, "Sl'e melts in .air ancnu,,idlig,,t.. " ' 33 'y sleep followed l.y the takenasa typeof j,„. ['iMemoriam,"a,sla,n 'ill teach you this. e actual death of trees ■o die. They do die. '-' leaves, and (2) the exist. And yet the ry Jilace, roots upj)cr. evive. And the ear- houses were thought -shoe geraniums win- re they were planted ! tliat he had a tank er. And yet these joyous spring sun It is dead, liut I do. pression. When I ise Sa'ur Nativite, • House of the Sis- (the fair portresses the other Sisters, said of her " j;j|e inted friend— who pital<7/(7,;^ through liminishing " ever lark, 34 The seed, like the egg, has always l)een tr.ken as suggestive of immortality. That is why eggs are eaten at Easter— another form by the way of the word Yeaster, or the Feast of Yeast-rising— of which potato emptyin's and my friend Fleishman's Patent Yeast, are, I think, the best varieties. Those who wish for other proofs of the Immortality of that amphibious, and too often selfish, shell-fish— the human sole- amphibious, because, if immortal, it lives on the land and cannot die in the water, should buy my startling novel " The Love-Sick Jap," from my friend Mr. Wm. Drysdale, 232 St. James street, Montreal. The inhuman soul is, I think, mortal and dies with in- humanity. " The wages of sin is death." What can " death " be but " Cessation of life," as says W. W. Robert-son. " Who can believe in the immortality of beef?" said my friend Dr. S. B. ■■ /atson, pointing to the gluttonous eyes of one of my fellow-patients, as he wolfishly eyed the sujjper coming in on a tray one evening at Beaconsfield I Practically \-\o man can deny that the Soul is immortal. For if it be not so, it certainly pays to act and speak as if it were so, which is all that concerns us. And as to what becomes of us after death, why need we be anxious so long as we keep our hand in God's and have daily, nay, hourly, proof of his loving leading and constant doing us good. If a child, taken by its father on a tour in a strange country, receive every needed comfort from a father's hand, and, almost daily, some fresh pleasure and surprise, irrelevant would it indeed be for it to keep fretting its gizzard into fiddle-strings by worry- ing about what the father would do with il, after taking it " Home." "Tlice is no place like Home.'' Certainly I find my home, at the Hospital at ^'erdun, pleasant e:iough. 23 I,. 49 (Jhai'tk.k- .\. THE parsp:e SICKKXS. '' Tlie ile\ il was sick ; the devil ;i monk woiil.l he : Tlie devil got well.— the devil a monk w.is he." —/■oUuon One morning after our usual sparring l)out and du!nb-I)el! and club exercise was over,— for lie always kept luniseif as gaunt as a greyhound and in trim for a lightweiaht rliam-iionship, and as happy as a pilot-signal. Well, one ni(jrning, sez Itohim-sez-1 :— " Are you afraid to die ?" "Wilyam!"sez he, "do u kno what that witty prophet of yours, Paul sez, when he wants to say, ' Mind you, I am only boasting.' " " If you had thort I knew, sir," sed I, "you wouldn't hav askt me." " Well, Willum," sez he, " He sez, ' T speak as a fool.' ' To boast,' with Paul, was 'to speak as a fool.' '" " To say, ' I am not afraid to die,' is to boast. ' The ])roof of the pudden is the eating,' and 'Lt not him that sharpens liis boarding cutlass for a cuttingout party, boast as him who gives it up to the armorer after the fray.' ' " When I am dead, Wi'yam," sez he, with a wicked twinkle in those litde almond-shaped eyes of 'isn, " When am ded.Wilium, then you can say if I was afraid to die. But rem.TOber Will,"sez he, " If I di, remember no man is dead till he's berrid. And don't you frel your gizzard one hand's turn, till you see the Union Jack 1^0 r^ 60 «l'Ot tied to his petitoes - "^ Purpendicoolar, with a That's it, Bill, sezhe "Theriri, i • ■ -•th the humerous, and ihe iZ^s t]n T' ''"' 7""^'^^ h^ve strained my forearm in trvin.fn V, ''™' ^"^ ^ '""^t oryourn, When we .ere a^ b^S^t^irm"' ^^^^^ ^"^ "- "Bill!" sezhe, "send for the doctor" Andhep„,h,s.ar,ohisbackandhi.righ,side. people put on a lot of side. ' ■"' " "''>' "" ""nr And,he„,hedoc.o,sed..h=had.dig.„„,.a'htaa.,as... » '^sn^i'i:^ t oir^i'rLt' f "■- * ■' "-^^ 'vaters. And he took Vm7 T , °''°'" ^°°^' "'^^ strong 2(i 'athom of water. For that's "ig purpendicoolar, with a iiething different. And a cplain later on. 'efire, andachuckh'n'and 'key show, for nearly arf- '■ery ivell thisnjorning?" I^e suthin mity curious a is mity close connected in the arm, and I must ich that there snub nose ■ning. ilse, and sed it beat mity f sorts. And then the Jungs, front side. right side. side. And if the little lade hini so. nside and topside. For rhaps, is why so many wsed'himatlast." for the sole is always -tor took, was strong 'ed. And he had an >ng medicines in the 51 wrong bottles. And so we always dnicked 'em out of the nearest port hole, soon as they were served out. And so when some pills for him to gargle himself with, and a jar, labelled lunar caustic, foi him to swaller, and a blister the size of a skys'l, cum, for the in- valid to sit upon, we just wrapped up pills and jar in die blister, and heaved 'em overboard. And if that was done with ail medicine the world wouldn't need any. Well, that day he ate nuthin', tho' he rattled out such a suc- cession of jokes in an ever-weakenin' voice, that I didn't know wether to larf or cry. But I just kejit busy and cheerful as he told me. For of corse, I knew that if there was a 'even, that he like Nelson, would walk slap in. ' And the next morning he sent and asked the captain's 'eaf saying as 'ow the doctor had sed that he mite one day di o' short- ness o' breath, and that so he would like to have a Symposium of the fores 1 mess, as it was mostly composed of old fishermen, on the Immortality of the Sole." For the Sole is the king of fishes cos it always swims in pairs. ' And we nun of us nu wat a Sympo-ium was, so we cum to the conclusion it was summat to eat. 5S Chapter XI. THK NO.X AM.KOS,..VN. „,■ ,„, ,„,,,,, ^,^^^^ "•^"'•M'a.tty nH..s.stl,ey„,a,leon,.-. ^VelJ, as four bells struck w.> .ii *;, ^ • forcs'l. up the fore-ladder, alon'g the mnil'^' r"^''"'"^' °"' '^'" 'l^^ the chains, there was uL Ohv .t J • ' '"'^ '^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^^ knowin- as she must ha' found out t u ft"r' ■' '' "■'"''^'- ^"^ wether our little passenger kicked ■""' "''^ '"^"^ tuck shown „.ore feeling, for she lar^ t ,1 sheTho L'T-^' ^'"^ '^''''' ''' our procession parss. "^'^ ^" "^e--, as she saw andi:kr.:^' dL^iri^rir^ "^^ t;^^ -^^^^^ -- ^-'^ havin-, as I sed, cun. to the co. dul; TT^ '^ ""^'^^'^ »--' suthin to eat. All but Tom Pla „ " ■ V ', '"" '^° ^>'-" »•- elusion the directest hoppo itrjf w ' 7 '"'^'^ ^"'" ^"^ ^"°"- He smoked it over and cu „ o\h : T^" , ^^-^'-^y else's was. sort of Japanee-Parsee funeral re ea 1 T t '™ '" ^^°" ^^'^^ ^ meetm' Methodis' shore-togs all bhrk „^'"'^ ^"'» '" his go-to- tail white hat with crape or'slu i,,' b il^: '''/"^ '''"' ^"^ ^ as a mute at a black-berryin'. '^''"""^ '^- '-»« solemn ^Vell, I had rigged uo thp llff i„ -e to. He had had a , e c b "h"" "'"" ^"' ^^ '^^ '^^ told and all lights hid. And hammn i r "^ ''"'^ ^'^*^ ^^'"'^^^ blinds, -as slung around th table Tor T ?'' '"^'"'^^ °^ "^^ ™es article simn^yposium and d^; ^^n ;f I^^. -r together the Antiquities." he had among al the ne' T' " ^-^^on.ry of S the pile o- boox. that made up 5;^ 54 HE FORCS'L MKSS. lade of it.'' ed, single-tile, out of the deck, and as we passed orisons as usual. And t was jnst nijj and tuck - I tliort she might ha' ook all over, as she saw s and carried our knife ead by another mess, t a 81 ni po syum was o always cum to a con- verybody else's was. 't a Sim po syon was a o he cum in his go-to- foo big for 'im, and a around it, as solemn 'in just as he had told h blac winder blinds, member of the mess' d over together the lith's " Dictionary of boox, that made up I the main heft of his luggage, and we had found that the ainshunts ailuz iied down at their vittles, and pretty 'ard work they must er had a swailerin' of the same. And as for the vittles, he had a big pile of sea-biscuit, just what we had been a priming ourselves with, in case a simjiosyum wasn't nothink to eat after all. And at the tother end of the table was the ornerest mess of rojie- ends of mess beef you ever clap'd i's on. Now, as all the world knows, the beef for all the men o' war, all the world over, is made of old Bristol cab-'orses. That's a coz the 'orses are worked the hardest there, and the pavements are fanged with the most murderouscst stones you ever see. And so he hr,d a little signal card stuck in the junk o' beef, on which he had made me rite in print letters, the first two lines of the shanty we mutter as we hook up the beef out of the meat cask. I mean of corse: — " your eyes .iml your bones, That rattled long o'er liristol stones.'" For he had told me to blank out the swear words, as it was A SOLEMN OCCASION. And dacency forbids my tellin' wat he had stuck up as a mixin' bowl, a crater he called it, becoz, I suppose, it originally cum from Veshuvius. Well, he had a little cup round at the bot- tom, so that the drinker had to empty it hen-tirely, and set it on the table, mouth down, like a hooked shark on a main-deck. This, he said, was the original shape of a tumbler, which was call- ed a tumbler coz it tumbled down when u tried to set it up. And what the mixture he put in that there mixin' bowl was I never nu, for he crawl'd out o' bed, and did it hisself wen I was out of the room. 29 p 55 •said it was wcrry good .„d ,.' "'' '° ^'" '"'^'- '^'^ "'^'^-. and arore, and then he 'Itt d t a h'e n"'" ■ '"''' "^^""■"^' ^'■''^- '• '■ke it agi,, but a. each swa ut . , h''^ T"^ '"^ ''''' -^^''"ne feijer who had just been .sin' 'ft '°° l' ^"''>' '"- ^' the :f '- wished to as assassinat 'h ^', V^ ■ ^"'^ '" ''' «"">' ^ J/'st turned n,y hack on the companv nd'" " '"? '" '"^ '""^- ^ '^'"d my heily-band, and clu,ck X .; '^""'''^ '^ ^""" ''- rerd a skull frou) Mr. Racev he M 7 ^"'"■'- ^"^' '^^ '^^^ ^or- "I> in his cabin to .study hc!r tea T '"'r"' ^'''"'^ ^''^'^" "^"''^d t'oa Of the science o' dr^or!:.^!' 'e^s'^Jr' " ''' ''' ^°""^- ''-^io:ri:'T:;:::::f-i^-hata.erteait teeth, of that 'ere idelticrst,,. '"""'" ^"^ "^ ^---^i^ '^e - :it::s.!^::;;f :; :';^::- --^ ^'-. ^^ .ced "I TOLD YK. I i. .v.s; , 1) And I ups and sez : — »P|.ly » .he |,oe,,s do, X I '^ "'"' '" '" '" ''=l'''">''>s that don'c your idee 0„ ,„„ •,, li.Ue sar:;,::,VL:* "" °""""'- " ''" ' " Well " \r ...^ ' "^ '''■ ^^^^y-'-'^d '^e spoke quite seriously. deducti'on'roln iT'odn' °' 'r.""' '°"°"^' ^^ ^" ''"'"^d-te -e!l known to lo ''c ans whiT °' "^r'" '''"^ '^ "^ '^^S"--' '"o'cians which runs thusly •— "" """ '" """' "'" O" « "-"'s l.«d ihan tea are ™„ 30 f 55 drunk it do^vn, a„d smile,] n'etofillforhisnabcr.aucl ever tasted anything Jike it •ver oped to taste anythine 'e looked luity i,iac at the "-;^"d f'^lt for his gully as t wlicn It cum to my turn,! and poured it down I,'e- iienjus. \nd' he had bor- cian, which he kept nailed y from, to lay the founda- 'ofses. Tanjd so that after tea it 'se-oles and the grinning e-s on the show, he faced :ock ; — . -TNERAL PRACTIS." ^ 1 Hadmiral of the hole in Japanee. •aisins and flo er sole, e identical amphibious' ' in hepitbets that don't ain occasion. " Wat's uite seriously. lows, as an immediate 'here is au argument id than there are men 5(5 in the world, two men at least have the same number of hairs on their pericranium. " Now, if a man sees this, he s-jcs it, and you can't persuade him to the contrary. If he don't see it, he don't see it, and ifs a little use trying to make him see it. For it has never yet been re- duced to a series of syllygisms. To me the Infinite and Kternal Life of the Soul follows as a direct inference from the g.jodness of God, from the existence of such an infinite delight as music, and such infinite beauty as is to be found in (lowers, and every pure-minded and innocent woman. Here we all thought of Miss O'ive. "All the really great forces in the world," he added, "are in- visible and not to be touched, tasted, handled or seen. Such are Electricity, Heat, Light, Moral IntUiences, such as enthusiasm and panic. Character, which is as identical with the Soul as con- cave is with convex, is just such a force. " For these forces are known only by their effects, and the effects of Character are more i)otent than them all. Character, as Ruskin has shewn, moulds the gross form as well as the exact unit of the angular degree of a crystal. Character raises most dogs above the average moral level of humanity. Character will ass- imilate to itself the very shape of a man's or woman's boots. No so sure test of anyone's character and breeding as his boots." " Especially if he goes bare-foot," growled Plainsailin, "And even if the Soul were not Immortal, which it certainly is, it is our plain duty to assume that it is, and act on the assump- tion. It makes us wiser, happier and better men. "And then again the reductio adabsurdum has always been ac- knowledged to be a rigid, logical proof, and it must therefore be acknowledged as proven, that the Soul is immortal, because the idea that it is not so, leads to absolute absurdity, to utter self-in- dulgence, utter listlessness, recklessness and suicide." 31 Tennyson has shewn this i„ his •■ /. .,/,.,,,,,„.. "Life shall live for evermore.. " If It were nut so. ^^^•■•••.;;t^rt..were.ar.„..„,,,,,^ '"•" 1^ (w.ro) "(liistnml.ishes." "n-isro,,,,,! ..fgreen, this orl, of name •antastic heauty, such as h.rks In some Wild |>oki. (,. , > , , Witlu-utanoWectora „ :r'''"'"'''''^^^-''^ "I"! (KX.Tl,t,„„U«lMHl,l.,„olf) -mi, .iei.e. ,vh,o„ is .,.,„„;"' ,■.;;,;—: (;;f ^|_--) -.<. "Ufe shall live for evermore. - and spun his yarn J ^'' ■'"'"'"'^ <"" »' l'» l>«nmock 'As to the Immortality of the Snni •' ji am strictly a Methodis'.-here he scc^vl T '"' ' ^°"'' ^^"^ ^ I- strictly orthodox, „d ai tlu ( ,'' '"'-""'' ^'^'^^^^- eterodoxy is sun.hody elsj^ do T\ T' ''■ '"^ ^^y- -^ ^--'erin.itaeo;;t"tj;.:;;-::^---i--^^^ and it's rank nonsense to u^ s H'e^let"" V' '? °' ^°'^^' made 'em. As soon as «•> ,^ ' ""^ " ^"^ 'e' '-'m di after he'd a -ie. and hecome, ' e^ c tatL" If" '"", ^""'^'"^^ ^'-'^ speaks of becoming a new c"et:r^ "' '"' ^'^ ^''^'^ '^^'^ Here he looked triumphant. 57 87 '// Meworiam." •crmorc." less at (he ci)re, ii^t and ashes." if H.itiie, iiks •on) whtii he works SX<'l|>tHlllll»l||g|,|„m,,f) tho 1 .500,001 persons in peace (and i)iece.s) and erefore it i.s so, that more. "' Q-li. I). ainsailin', being used to >i^^d out of his hammock scd he, " I don't deny I i at me-" and therefor 5do.xy is „,y doxy, and > tlie strictly Methodis* ^rtah'ty of tlie Soul, J. Ve the less difficulties vord of it. 5f the matter, w/iic/i is J made a lot of soles, !et 'em di after he'd a s into somebody eLst's ^s and the Bible itself "As for puriishment, the i-unishment comes on as the nun is acually engaged .n sinnin. As he is a drinking, as he is a in- clulg„,g h.s.se f to exces. in any of the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the h. and the pnd. of life, the punishment is a being stored up m the see s of a edache the next n.orn.n'. or even of a rottin of tlie whole body later on when the dev ,1 forecloses his m .r.gage As a],pend to a messmate of mine, wl,ose very llesh turned black and dropped n> p.eces. from 'is bones in that Jolly place, the ■cneral Hosp.tal, Montreal, Canada, where we're a .LhV to. I ut he was a bad un he woz And when a man is a lyin' or a ci|eatm,he,s just a lowerin' of hisself in the scale o' creation which .s worse still. Wdl, wiien we di, of corse, we don't di. anv' fool knows that, we just turn into another animal, or hentity, ier o'r lower m the scale o' creation, aecordin' as we raised ourself i-er or lower m life. Here Jimmy Plain-sailing. Presbyterian, jumped up, and with threatening forefinger e.vtended, (• ' J a;vj said :— " The Allegation is f,' ud tl.. Alligator knows it." " No man can b. ,-. cd unless he holds-hard and fast-stem r.nd stern-back-sta> and fore-stay-by the AVestminster Cate- chism, as I do." "And what it teaches, I don't know and I don't care • " This is good, true, plain sailin' by the compas, and anv man who sails different, don'l know nothin' o' navigation, o, anythin' else. ^ " But as for the stiff, sound, orthodox Evanjelical doctrin on this and all other subjecs, of course, I believe that too. every word of it, tho' as I said afore, I haven't the least idea what it is." "And now, Mr. Drysdale," gasped my master. "What r -e your high dears on this ere jubjec' ? " " My ! deers," said Drysdale, "are the plain common sense of 33 I ' I 59 - wood be ; fe uy fu 'i^ ,t'str ^'^ ^T °^'^' '^'' ^' ^'^ -"■ for Logix?.. Eh ?" '^°'" ' '^™'"°"^'- Howse tha; /^^liSiv th^"::^' ""T"'^' "^^ "^^^^^'■' " I^ --bines the "H'lts a jam," roared I, "Of thp r;*;^ c • •• , -. bacc,.hnu. and the ,L,£:Z Ilc;^:;::.?^ ^^""^"■ Then," sez he triumphantly, "It must be right " ^^J_Besides,"se.he,"amanaintgotonesou,.he'sgoteight P-^^^^^^ilShfr^-^^^^^^^ less ;nd::Lr tr::::: -'t -'-'' ^^-'^ ^■■^■^^ '-■"■^- - or land-lubber knows ^n a mL o"' W ' H '■"'"'""^^^ ''^"^■'-^-) more and no less. I mcaV ' ''' ''^''' ^"i^"^^' »« 1- The Man-rope. 2- The Tow-rope. 3- The Foot rojie. 4- The Bell-rope. 5- The Bucket-rope. "And we'll throw in 3 for luck Th . , 34 5!) ;ree with me' is a fool and mmortal Part of the man, himmortal. Howse that naster, >' It combines the »m and tlie ar^^,,;,icu/um tio Scipii, the hargimen- cyerassininum." ■iT be right." "le soul, he's got eight "Take that you him- :n." aih'n hurled the tea jjot i poured hisseJf out a t on : — y ship eight bells, no id-lauper (land-loafer) e are eight ropes, no ikes 8." ' eight soles and no TnTpea" ."" '" ""' """' "'''" '" '^^^ ' -'^^-'-^^- °'- ^^ " First he's got a sole, that we'll call A Sole. Then, if he eats a biled sole and has it inside 'im that's a B Sole." "Biled sole," muttered Plainy,who had once shipped as ship's cook. You means a briled sole. If you bile 'em you sp e ' m You should lie cm and brile 'em." "Then "went en Drysdale, "if he has a inner sole to his boots that's a mner sole, and closely connected, I suppose with what they call the Inner Consciousness and the ' In: r'^'i^e^^ which that snob Tennyson speaks." For Drysdale had once got so hard up as to hire out as a bookseller's apprentis and was an eddicated man. "This "he went on, "we will call the I Sole. Then if he wears rubbers there's his rubber sole, this we'll call his R Sole bole No. 2. This makes eight soles, throwing in . for luck fnr There, luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'^Iore.' For 'tt !Z And he sat down happily triumphant, and the rest sat mum staggered, but, alas ! not convinced. ' "And now, passenger," sez I to the Parsee, " you look a mitv s.ght too 1 1 to speak,- here tears almost .um to my eyes! and my voice trembled in spit of all he said about keepin' my pecker no and so forth. So just give us that little treatis, u must hav been a ritin on this ere subjec, or you wouldn't er asked us to this 'en. confabulation. And 'e winked with one eye and pulled out a little " monner grarfs as he called it, which will appear word for word in the next chapter. ■jO And I served round a con/ nf ti ■ . ' ^' done up in a big envelope, and di e ed T-'^^""''^^^'-^' "^^''y '"^■"ber of the Mess, and one o v r ^1 ' ''T ''""' '" ^^^'^ corner of it. And. if you'll beHev ' Z i^ "J '°^ °"'^'^' '" ^f- was a five-pun note. ™^' '"^'^^ each enverlope And I speaks up and sez, sez I .-. "And now, gentlemen, this is the hn,, i r ., • -ent, and u ,uay as well report for dut v."' " "^ '-"dtertain- Them's was mv w^ nr «,„ j should I deceive youT'"'" """"^^"^ ^'^^-ent, for w„v 3G 'I re monnergrarf, neatly ■' '« ou-n 'and, to each "> O fcr Olive, in the nside each enverlope u- fth 's ear hendtertain- S different, for m-hv Chapter XII. IParsce iproofs of tbe llmmortaUt^ of tbe Soul. to give cK...r cUreitS'io: ^"^"' ""^ '^ ^^ '"""^^'^ ^"^ ■ a old question:-" Which was made first, the egg or the g rn..hen a^Vtrr "7 '' "^^'^ ''^' ^'^ ^-m-egg'^as germ iien. and the germ-hen was the germ egg. The nucleus of an a to, o protoplasm divides. It starts a nL and seco d eel Th wo cens subd,v,de and make many cells. These assume t ape of a bag or stomach, and L. : we have the first two stages of the human, and all other animal, embryos. If the cells orde themselves without forming a stow-muck, we have plants tide'mlk^s't^rrd '''' '''' "' ^"^'""^'^•'^^' -^" ^^- E-'- " • • • Keliglitedly believe Divinities, heiii;,' itself Divine." facis thlr "" '''""'"' °^ ''"''"^' ''^ ''^^ ^S'^'"- The I. In it the wings are seen beneath the cerements ; that 2 The Indo Germanic instinctive adumbration of truth invests angels with wings ; and that 3 Proceeding from a "worm," it passes through a practical death to a winged most happy exis- tence that seems to need no grosser aliment. 37 I These three facts have always seemed to quick imaginations' as much matters of Preternatural as of Natu/al, H^.o^y U^lor^'so^uV'^rV^^^^^^^^ a butterfly," was used by philosoThies ' "^ '" ^'" ^^'"' ^"^-^^ '"^^ -- of their ._^^ n I.as been said before that Analogy cannot prove ; can only obie'cts'rdTL'rT '^ ""' '""^" ^'™''"^''- •^^^-en two oojects, and if a certam circumstance produces i knn.vn «• . upon one of them, we are more or less ustS in . ' ^^ it will produce a similar effect upon the Xr """^ ""' This is merely in accordance with the fourth of th^ i. • , -cms .^ich He as the bases of all i„,.ctive ^^UL^ .^^' that.- A wm continue to be A, till something occurs to stop it" lar tlf' '^T ''^'^""'" ■'''' "^™"^''^ ^ ■^^'■'^« «f states with simi- from Hoyle, Cavendish and i„.^ZZ, n ., sS™. d '", and Lucas, W,„ have ne^ V a,„. J Tve' "' The """^ games o„, of .6, playing 3h„„ wl, s. Si„^ L l-ZT^ ? have a good English publicschool ed„ca&,n Thet f" ■'T" sutes, (0, A good education, (,), Special training'and ('" to quick imaginations, atural, History. utterfly," was used by ?red into one of their nnot prove ; can only lilarities between two luces a known effect fied in assuming that ;r. fourth of the logical e reasoning; to wit, ing occurs to stop it." !s of states with simi- le is observed to pass vn term of the series, I find a similar result m the other series. )d LennoxviJIe clas- the game of whist ?tly stolen) doggiel ' for the penultimate y play with Thomas ivell. They win 9 I'larly Si and Jack '• They learn the g, by reading and e first part, and Si series of 3 similar I training, and (3), m practise. Tom and Luke pass into a 4th state, — that of being pitted against mufils, Thomass and Lucass. They beat thest muffs 9 games out of i6. Then if Si and Jack are pitted agamst 2 muffs Silass and Jackass, may we not be sure they will beat these muffs ; and, assuming that the 4 knowing ones are equal in knowledge and the 4 muffs equal in being boas, then the latter pair of experts will /// t/ie long run beat the tenderfeet exactly the same number of games out of a too. Flowers have sometimes been held by the highest minds to give the highest indications and foreshadowments of God's good- ness. They may well,. therefore, be expected to teach the highest truths. Now. plants are born, grow, eat. assimilate, breathe, self-heLl, fight for survi -al, sleep and die like man. They sleep daily. Perennials die annually. Now — and this is a point hitherto un- observed — in winter, trees and other perennials do XiO\.seem dead: they arc dead! The only living parts of a plant are the leaves and the cambium layer. The " heart," the heart-wood, tl,w skin, the barks, the liber and the epidermis are dead. "Dcnd as heiTings tluit are red."' Like the bark of a tree they can be replaced by brown paper, or, like the disappeared part of hollow oaks, be almost done without altogether. And yet, every spring, the dead tree comes to life again. So will man, if his character is such that it will be good for him to live again. God is good. When we die we can leave ourselves to Him to do what is best for us ; to annihilate us, to revive us, to torture us if He will. If the torture is to work for our moral good — the only gooil worthy of the name — then, welcome torture. 89 notlTcodTuM^rS. '"'"" '"'""' °' '""^'"»" "= -""'^ 62^ Finally our nightly sleep may well seem a nightly reminder and type of death. Nightly as it deliciously steals ove u \td we grasp the boon of the gods," let us delightedly thank Him "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." Of course If he hadn't been a fool he wc-idn't have said it. ^'"°"^^^- Disbelief in the existence of a God,— Disbelief in P «H' a ness and fear of that .elf-contradictor; absurdt a ^IrSt and locahsed (!) Hell, is a frequent cause, and 12Z Z course), effect also, of insanity. "ereiore, (of What good man ever doubted the existence of God ? Read the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. And here we humbly beg his pardon for vexing his righteous soul-beg pardon again-he says he hasn't got a soul-o fnoTo nous m,htary gentleman in the United States, w.th his k hand km.who havmg every earthly comfort themselves, „.ak ^ ' Tu d tfk"""""r "' '^"PP^^-'-^-PPers sometimes-to go ^oundtakmgaway from those who have got nothing else th. only consolafon they have-Their belief in'ood and feave' Take the case of that military Yankee eentlem.n ..u ■ discarded the Bible as uninteresting, devote "nh^sdr!' "' a special table in itsdf to ' dra.,..ng.room Pericle,s, Prince ok Tyre. The filtliiest, dirtiest, smuttiest drivel ever written And wh.n domgthe honors to the visitors who come to his thrt proudly and Yankee-conceitedly points to it and says M "This is my Bible." Oh ; 40 c ^^^M ■;'*ms« 62J or anything He would 6& ;m a nightly reminder ily steals over us, and lightedly thank Him. is no God." Of course, lid it. isbelief in God's good- urdity, a material (!) •> and, therefore, (of 5XISTENCE OK GoD ? vexing his righteous ;ot a soul— of a noto- s, with his kith and mselves, make it a rs sometimes— to go )t nothing else, the Jod and heaven, itleman, who, having in his drau.ng-room ritten. And when to his shrine, he nd says : — Chapter XHI. SOME HAPPY DEATHS. One good proof of the Imaiortality of the Soul is the death-bed i)f t!ie .Saini.). "Ah! (.i.anick!" s.iid i >r. Joluison, pointing to his line pictures and hixuiious sunoiuvlings, '• These are the things which make a death-l)ed hard " 'lUli DEATH OK VOKK. A///,;;' //I'li. Well have we dmu-, thrice-valiant cmnitrymen: liut all's nut done ; )et keep tlie French the field. Ex, The 1 Hike of York connr.ends him to your ni.ajesty. AV«4' //i'lt. Lives he, good uncle? tin ice within this hour I saw him down ; tlu-ice up again, and figliting ; From helmet to the spur all blood was he. ^ ■'• In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie. Larding the plain ; and by his bloody side, (Yoke-fjllow to his honor-owing wounds) The noble Earl of SufTolk also lies. Suffolk first died ; and York, all haggled over. Comes CO him, where in gore he lay insteep'd And '.akes him l)y the beard ; kisses the gashes That bloodily did yawn upon his face ; And cries aloud,— "Tarry, dear cousin SulTjIk I My soul shall thine keep company to heaven ; Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly a-breast, As, in this glorious and well foiighten field We kept together in our chivalry." Upon these words I came and cheered him up ; 41 Commend n,y se.vL'.o' „,>' L;;.;,..,' "^^ '"^ ^'°'"' J>oI^,,id turn, and over Suffolk's neck "lue„.I,,s wounded ann.„,,,,ki.s..l his lips A-lsoespous- ,o death, wit,,, dood he se?S' A testament of noble-ending love •>e pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd And all my motl,er came into mine eyes, And gave me up to tears. RABELAIS. 'vith such a jes. on his Ifps L ,""' " "' "'"'^ "'' "«»*")• SIK TIIOM.AS MORE ««• He quietly pushed" ale . """^ '" ""= "•»? <>f the .-. "I suppose'™'; poo be *S7h:''l' '"I" ^'"«' '»- treason." ^ "^^°" ' ^e chopped off for high SOCRATES. ".a-his irro:;;:far:=,ir.^Tir r- ::r 42 i lit- his haiul, • " "ear my Lord, eigii." neck Issfd his lips^ 0(1 lie scal'd orcM iilii have stupp'd . le, eyes, t le bon pere, en niou- 't in Domino niori " I thing to die in the were his last words. ied with God as his could die trustfully vas that he showed bis " 'J'iger master," use he persisted in "lease Henry VIH. in the way of the 1 perfect good tem- opped off for high 'hat every cultured uct of his accusers in as excusable a light as possible, calmly drank the infusion of hemlock plant which was then the means of capital punishment. When the cold had mounted his legs and reached his body, and death was ab.solutely certain, he quietly told one of his dis- ciples to "go and offer a cock to Aesculapius," the then God of Healing. A more subtle flash of humor can, surely, hardly be imagined. It was as bright and hajjpy, as the " Ueja?" of the French wit to his dying friend, who said he was " suffering the torments of the damned," vvas bitter and almost fiendish. Aesculapius was, as we learn from Aristophanes, the most disreputable and despised of all the Greek goddikins, and the idea that he could cure one whose body was icily stiffening with death, must have seemed in- expressibly comical to the man who ever obeyed a Higher Voice, and looked upon death merely as that which would make him in all probability (for he had not the Christian Certainty) go where he would see his Daimon, his " Guide, Counsellor and Friend," face to face, and live with Him for ever. 15ESSIE GAUNT. {Fioii! MiUitiih).) Burton was saved from death by an ancient matron of the Anabaptist persuasion, named Elizabeth Gaunt. This woman had a large charity. Her life was passed in re- lieving the unhappy of all religious denominations, and she was well known as a constant visitor of the jails. Her compassionate disposition, led her to do anything in her power for the fugitive. She procured a boat which look him to Gravesend, where he got on board of a ship bound for Amsterdam. At the moment of parting she put into his hand a sum of money, which, for her means, was very large It was noised abroad that the anger of James was more strongly excited against those who harbored rebels, than against 43 B t: ^ II ! G8 4 the rebels themselves u i ^ ^^f t--on, the hiding of raUot^'",'^'^'^'^^^^'''^'. ^^^''^rms •-pardonable. BulA'r -f -^'-J-g-nce -- th. .0": the Government, and he gave i„r "''^ '"'"^'^'f "J' to ,G^""^- Shewasbrou.httorhl ;::"':" "^^'"^^ Elizabeth reserved, had the hean and t fore ' H "" "'^°^^ ^'^^ «'- ''ad ^'P--"e. against her, ..;:t::--^^^^^ r"Xtrd:rn^^:--r^^^^^^^^ ^y -n, thousands with comS.S:;'a?d'hor "^^ ^ ^^ -^ , "My fault," she said, "was on. u- . J-e forgiven. I did but re Lve T '"o r '', ^""^'^ ™'S'^' -" ^'^ fcr It." '^"^'^^ '^ poor family, and lo : f n-,ust . '^0 the last she preservpH ., . "'-ded the spectators^f t ; 1 , ;-'^."" courage, which re- had read in Fo.v. '"°'' '^^^'^ deaths of which they William Penn stw fi; u ■ "maimer as 10 shone,, 1,„ 'T ''•■"'■"''»"• ^i" ", sod, !"■" «"- Since ,„„, ,e„;,"f '"«■'■ '■"' "•" ''Pt-.ders !,,« m England for a„, poli.c,", I^'k"" "'°'"" ""» '"*-^ =>-.; bastmg him with his own 1 and '^ ''" g^^'^'Cock alive -ck-fight.„g has been a e:a 'o f:rr' i" '^'^ ^-n defeated.' beneath the cross, -on.an has belu, t ' . T '''' '^'^8'" -^P 'nstead of the slave and toy of m ° '' ^'^ ^^"'^' or superior, -here I have reverenced the 0^0";" •„ f,"' '''' "-rtyrs/ burn street, Oxford. lit a fire in V^J T ""^ Pavement of Broad a" Shall cease to beli^^^ frmrc^'^'' -er die 0'::, and cvarunte hi. .Maker. ''" '=''"-' ^^allow, digest 44 lared that, of all forms ngeance was tlu- most ■vered himself u,. to 1 against Elizabeth "" ^vhose life she had appear as the jirin- iced to the stake. ryl'urii. She left a et such as was read ror. 1 prince might well 'ly. and lo : I must ourage, which re- iths of which they He afterward re- aboutherin such I'ystanders burst lias suffered death n his own hand, game-cock alive, d been defeated,' the Virgin we])t qual or superior, • martyrs, burnt ement of Broad 'ever die out till swallow, digest 67 PRINCE AI.liEKT. I always despised Prince Albert when he was alive, with all the ignorance and prejudice of a raw Oxford Undergraduate, but I could never read of his death without tears. " Tears which joy jierploxt for iitterance Stolo Irom her .sibter sumow." All can find the jilain account of it in any good contomporarv history or magazine. Enough to say that lie who had quietly passed his whole life in utter forgetfulness of self— in the highest aims with the low est appreciation, in humiliations (and therefore humility) which no one of lower station couM ]JOssibiy experience, in love for the ' ery wife who humiliated him— passed away from Sleep to Death in the room he loved best, facinr; the prospect he loved best, like a Ma- homedan tasting the adumbration of heaven in heavenly sunset and hearing the dying lullaby of his favourite daughter singing hi': favourite hymn ! " I have had such happy dreams," said he to Alice Gucljih, when he awoke from a short quiet sleep just before he died. And then he slept again and woke elsewhere. i 45 8 T' IS' Fl oui c rs. There is „otl.„, ,i., ..owcrs to soothe an overwrought brain. r.end. Mr. Muun s hothouses feeling as if life was barely worth ;3;;dco.eouta.ha,.,a„.re.e..if.h.ta.::r , i-iun.si, 2508 bt. Catherine St. Tel. 4348. t>rtess. It is well to know that Silk, Wool or MiveH f . c color, or of mixed materials in VJi .'^.^'^ ^""^^ of any I-dies- Dresses, Eve " r "^,7 '"""'^,^^'-'-^^ ^ °"-''- '^"'ts. successfully cleaned ll' ^.''". ^'^"■'"^^' ^^"'■"'^".s, .K:c., can be This is done by a ,tr o "''7,"' ""°"'"^ ^''^" ^-"""i^- uone Dy a new process called " French Cleaninr ' Antnnacassars, Colored Silk Pi,,„ m . Curtain, ^.c, .„d .„ k^ ds^f ;' Sif ti"; .'''"r '^°"™' thus cleaned. t-xptnsive knick-knacks can be Its great advantages are as follows :-CoIor, will . change; no displacement of paddintr • <,Hfr "°' "'" °'' G.U. and 15» S.. Ca,„„i„e S.S, m1',"7 ""■ ''' «'• 40 li vcrwrought brain. -' I turned into my was barely wortli f had taken a new huy them from t-'l- 4,348. cnt Iielj) to Goods of any 3 or other Suits, tns, ^c, can be the trimmings, eaning.' Velvet Covers, cnacks can be ■'ill not run or are left firm t made ; there 1 there is posi- r the work. Dyeing Co., ime, 221 Mc- Gray's Syruo of Red Spruce Gum — KOU — Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchial and all Lung Affections. AN IMMFDIATE AND r'N.)^'PT CURE. Gray s Syrup of Red Spruce Gu a ',:; a caro ;'ly compounded Iireparatinn ot Siiruce Gum with if b !sami':, soothing, exi)ec- toraiit and tonic i)r,)pertics preserved , .1 atr. -.gthened. It fur- mslu's the only satisfactory and reli; > 1 means by which the beneficial effecis of Spruce Gum can be obtained and its remark- able curative power in all throat and lung troubles enjoyed. Spruce Gum has lon.c; beei^ used in Canada as a specific in Lou-hs and Lolds, and its use dates back to the earliest recorded times. Ibe methods of preparing the (Jum as a remedy were all unsatisfactory and until the introduction of Gray's Syrup its ex- cellent qualities were largely lost by want of the technical skill needfu to i)resent its valuable constituents in a soluble and easily assimable form. Now all the remedial j-ood of this well-known Gum IS given to the i)ublic in the pleasant and palatable remedy. Gray's byrup of Red Spruce Gum. CAUTION.— Be careful when buying Gray's Syrup to get it, because many imitations have been offered to the public by un- scrujuilous manufacturers who have copied closely the external appearances of Gray's Syrup, its bottle, labels and wrai)pers ; these piracies are dangerous as tlieir makers, being unabl' to produce a true .Syrup of Spruce Gum, have contented thems..(ves with getting a fluid resembling in appearance the genuine Syrup while leaving out the Spruce Gum an.! other valuable ingre- dients. Several of these imitations have been exposed in the courts and their sale forbidden, but as new ones are occasionally brought out It is necessary to issue this warning. Action is promptly taken against infringements as soon as they are brought to our notice. KERRY, WATSON & CO., Wholesale Druggists, Sole Proprietors, MONTREAL. 47 "'•■^-iA.-.ar^mt.imm^m^s W. H'n;ttn ^1. I), -o / '^. Unns Pelleo Juveni non s.fficit o.bis iiaicopha^H) contentus crit. The old wor!d did no, content Alexander, he t-i-eat (Philanthropist ) But when he had, otto the ci.V ringed in by pot- terni^ aldcrnu-n His dininghallconttnts him well. MOR.U.-LCNCHAT ALi:XANDKr<=S. '>--enowhere.n.:;:'l:;: :;:,^;-;;-'^"-'a.and ^■x ^i'^'^^"^'' Dtimaurier THE YARN OF THE LOVE-SICK JAP/'-the most ridiculous book in the world. J . me most 50 ■ayer and all the )ssible, at exact- may be cured he lovely Turk- Montreal, or by lir ill day long ■n air and then use are sickly Let 'em have > far as you can ourage them to liness.. Bathe hands. Rub and people we ■ ease. Avoid are sovereign, ^any, &c., are ' and take a k to walk far wife, child or 'orse than the Aristophanes. > Duniaurier, Quixote and '," — the most 203 ID. Cures —For a cold I — Stay in bed till k is well. Cough !-— Gaigle with luke warm milk and honey and Gray's Syrup of Red Spruce Gum, Check the coughing. II, 12, Dress,— As light as you can stand. ' et it be comfortable above all things, and porous. " Lai-ing " is worse than wicked, it's vulgar. The real blue blood of England got sick of wasp-waists with resulting red noses and waspish tempers and cold feet and hands long ago ; -ven before ihey began to play Lawn Tennis, the best game in the world for girls who wish to be girls. Rest.— The nervous and exhausted should lie down an hour at noon daily, and thirik what they have done during the past twenty-four hours to vex themselves oi others and 7vriig down some rule to prevent their ever being so foolish again. 13. Doctors. — Dr. Ease and Dr. Diet, Dr. Trust and Dr, Ouiet. No others need apply. PS.— The longer I live the more sure I am that the real secret of Life, Health and Happiness is Open "vv indows. Air is Life. The want of it death. Ozone is Health and Happiness. Night air is the purest air. So sung Miss Nightingale. Buy " Immortality Proved for lOc," by F. C. Emberton. The most wonderful book in the world, of the Canada News Co., Montreal. 51 ■i !■ w % '■ . ?. Ill 1 4 QV: Gh 97 Chapter XXIV. How TO BE Happy. the Ir rt-r t. T '^'"^*^"- ^' ^""^^^'^ *he wisdom of the ages. Focus the wisdom of the wisest men of the past upon he best way to be happy, and it is simple enough. It can L re duced to a merely mechanical process. "' All it needs is that you should try it. All it asks is five minutes a day The way to be happy is this:-About the middle of each dav efre and ask yourself this question: -What have I done during U.e pas mormng to m.ke myself or anybody else unhappy Th'n frame some br.ef rule to preve.u your ever being so foo^fsh aLil Entc. these rues into a little book kept for the purpos wkh a blank space m it for every day in the year. Then say over to yourself, aloud or half aloud, the following go0(jrd. Pray. Invincible Good Humored be; and cool ALWAY. Eat,— sleep,— letire from all away, At some fixed h. • 'y rule (And PLA.- Two HOURS at least) Each day. Cast out all fear and all desire. Be fiercely honest, not a liar. For e'en in jest The truth is best. Say Hof/img ill of old or young; And when you're angry hold your tongue : Owe no man ought but the gift of love. Seek bliss in blessing others here, And find it up above. p;'> 4 he wisdom of the past upon tt can be re- of each day done during Ppy? Then ooh'sh again, pose, with a following 98 Or, every other day, say in prose these DOZEN RULES FOR HAPPINESS. 1. Praise. 2. Preserve IrresistiOie Good Humour. Say the initial letters of the four words (the letters P I G) over to yourself every time you sit down to a meal. 3. Keep cool whatever happens. There is nothing in this little world worth worrying an immortal soul's viscera into fiddle- strings about. 4. Keep fixt and immovable hours for all the functions of nature. 5. Set aside two hours a day for fun. 6. Desirez fort peu et desirez-le fort peu. 7. Never tell a lie, even in jest. A man who tells an untruth m jest is often not believed when he speaks in earnest. 8. If you are a fool speak ill of a man to his face. If a knave as well as a fool say it behind his back. 9. When angry hold your tongue. 10. Don't owe a sixpence, rather die. 11. You may look for your own happiness everywhere. You will never find it till you stumble across it in trying to make others happy. 12. Be much in the society of your best friend, and your best friends' books, and noble women, and your heart-friendi among men. 13. Never be in a room by night or day without a window being more or less open in it, or unless it communicates by open doors into a room with an open window. The last rule is one of the most important. There was ahvays, seemingly, meant to be clear access between us and heaven, phy- sically as well as mentally. Read Drummond's " Natural Law in the Spiritual World." and this will be explained. 53 BT EL 1^ 99 If the prophet had asked some great thing " But ten minutes a day ! 27iat's too. much! !" A winsome Winnie once said : " Pam H^^. ! •.< resolutions. I break 'em faster than I make 'em tT "" ^'"''"^ (wuh an arch look), "You know wherrpLHs nl V /° "-''' resolutions." ' P^' '^ P^^^'^ ^'"^ good "And so is the road to Heaven, chick." " But how can I keep my resolutions. Dad dear ? " "Easily enough." put it^f ;::; ;oc?;t ^to'x; tT Tr' ^^^-^ ^°- p-- -^^ well man ged chari y' Iverv t ^ f "" """P''^' °^ ^'^ °'her cure any bfd habit" ^ ^'"^ '^'"'"^ ^'"^ '"'«• That will And then I told her of the " Five r^n. n .u ^ , t:T:"' ~"'^ - "- Officers' ess' T„°l ''"b^ T';;* not think It necessary to tell her of th^ '°'omo. But I did box every month when it was ope/ed !! I """ "" '^""'^ '"^ ^^^ P.S.-Are you trying to get all that you can? Turn about; VVhat a numW of things you can well do wit' ■ t 54 You setk hap()' 1 say: t try how much etotaJler; ic is high interest, dom, and zc/«' lang spune to lo use making le road to L," ed with good ur purse and or any other '■• That will 3ox," which But I did found in the , <5\#^HEREF0RE were they mads?" "^ f "To comfort man. To whisper hope Whene'er his Faith grows dim, That Cod, who careth tor the flowers, Will much more care for him." —Barbauld. .^•O p. C. EIWBBHSOJi. 55 -1 BT El 1^ 107 Chapter II. ARE FLOWERS HAPPY? I-- I " """!, ''"'''^'"e «^v'gs spread out their fan To catcli the breezy air, And I must think, do all I can, Thaf there was pleasure there." — IVordsworth. Let us see how far flowers carry out the Love-Sick Jap's Rules of Happiness. now well, in air and water, for the silent p r r- . u, ^ ^ hurried about cash." '"^ ^"^«' ^•^•^■. troubled and X. Prav ; Consult '. Tlie Silent Voice " in every doubt. It wil answer you fast enough. - Now; No time like the present. If you want a thing done do It yourself, and do it at once. What Is d'one ^ done. What isn't done, isn't done. What's not do-^, today may never be done to-morrow. How often have said '< I'll pick that flower on my way home " no ably a beautiful fly orchis I saw at MelbLniTin 1875, and I've never done so. Well j Be contented. Leave well alone. Am ; Be in the open air all you can. two hours at least daily. Water ; Bathe daily. Silent; Whenever you don't know whether to speak or be silent hold your tongue, ' 56 108 : Jap's ce: "Pray 'ubled and bt. It wil hing done s done is s not do'^c low often ly home," bourne in : daily, be silent, P. I. G. ; Preserve Invincible Good-humor. Troubled ; Don't fish in troubled waters. Avoid disagreeable persons, places, subjects of conversation and things. Don't go near them. Hurried; " Hurry is the devil," say the Spaniards, " He that believeth shall not make haste," says the Bible. Never hurry. Cash; "A fool and his money are soon parted." "A fule and his gear are soon tined." Diminish your desires rather than try to increase your cash. Finally, " Owe no man anything," but to " Love one another." Flowers keep all these rules so far as we can see. As to the daily bath, few think of the drenching, daily draughts of dew which flowers enjoy. Those who did would besprinkle their house-plants once a week for a good long time with lukewarm water. And well grown flowers certainly look happy. See my friend, Bertie Grave's, flowers, at Westmount, if you doubt it. Ask to see one of his Salaginella Caesias, the most beautiful plant, surely, in the world, with its " chatouillant," or shot-silk gleams of lurid, metallic, flickering green, like Tennyson's " Silvery gossamers (i.e., good-summers?) Which twinkle into green and gold." Or see the Campanula Pyramidalis at my friend Mr. Drennan's, with its thousand bells of blue — 5 stalks, 200 to a stalk. For sale by Mr. Hopton. And as to happiness, how happy should we be if we were brought up from the first to look forward to our death as the greatest of blessings in this short phase of a long life spent on a little ball only 8,000 miles through. I 57 V!*''>>< BT 1^ Floras W.rks,- V'ol. r. Plants Without Leaves "The basest things do quickest propagate," [Quoted ,„ a letter to .e .o. „^,„ ,„ .,, ,,,, „, ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^_^ Book I.-Pt. i or Root-stem-leaf Plants Chapter i-Red and Green Snow Plant. ^~"^SaS^ai:^r^---=---r ;; 3-Sea-weeds, '.The sapless foliage of the Ocean " ZLlt"" '''' ^^""^^^ ™Perceptibi;tto Book II._p, , ., r^,, ,„j g^^^^ ,^^^ ^^^^^^^ Chapter 5— Funguse- 8 — L' 1. VORT. 9-HoPSETAILS or EQUI.SETUMS Hyemale, .uring Rush. Limosum, '■ ,oth [. Scirpoides, Jliforu, H. Variegatum, Green and Black H. 58 iL .. I. IhiUo. my first child.] ir : Scarlet-tever of the Ocean." 'erceptibly into I. 2. 3- 4. 5- Chapter lo — Ferns, a study of Gray's Manual shows that Ferns may practically be divided into s genera only. Feather Ferns, Pteris. Polypody or Many-foot, Polypodium. Heart's Tongue, Scolopendrium Maiden's Hair, Adianlum. Royal Fern, Osmunda. Shakespeare says:— " He is invisible. He wears tern seed." No wonder. Ferns, like the other plants in Vol. I. of Flora's works, have no seeds. Only spores. To identify these and other plants in this book, use the Manual of Botany, by Asa Gray, (friend of my friend, J. Titus Cruikshank ; ) Price 82.50, at W. Drvsdale's, 232 St. James street, Montreal. It is indispensable to a botanist. erceptibly into if distinct. rtile and then I. .^O 6 ai Botany in One P\rv .^n n ^»it. rAGh OF IJOGGRKL. ^To he learnt hij heart.) fC^T:!"-' "" ^«™ ^™«^' "■" He. ,vo., ,„ ,, .„,„,„, „ Vol.. I. conlains Plants »i,ho„, leave,. These have seed. !»'>.., i . ■ "■;;"'»'"= Flowers ,vl,h parallcLveined leave, c:::;::r'-:-"'-'^----^.eave,. Vol. HI. '"termediate between Vol. jj. ^„^ Volume I. has 3 Books and xo Chapters. In Book I. are Plants with one nart R. . plants in which the root, stem L 17 -'^"""^"^^ P^^"'«> '-- able. Such are, Chap. r. tT R d nd r' '"'. '"' '"^'^^tinguish: ^. Veast-plant, Mould^M^the 'o Vine! tI" ?": ^'^"^' ^hap. An.mal. &c.; Chap. 3. Seaweeds ;';irar;L,ch::s''^"^-'^^"- • 00 OGGREL, 3 voIumeH, as is ur infinity, in his mouth, :aves. n multiples of 3. 'eined Jeaves. « are 4, 5, &c. both Calyx and n other words, Vol. I. and ')• II. and plants; i.e., di?tingu:sh- »nt; Chap. ever-pJant- III Book II. aro Plants with two parts— Root and Stem-leaf plants. Such are, Chap, s, Fuhguses, and 6, Mosses. In Hook III. are Plants with Root and Stem and Leaf, all three. But not /rue leaves. Such are, Ch.ip. 7, Club mosses; 8. Liver- worts; 9, Horse-tails (Equisetums) ; and 10, Ferns. Volume II. has 3 Chapters:—!, Lilies; 2, Grasses; and 3 Links. By Links is meant such Flowers as Tradescantia, or Spider-plant, Smilax, &c. Volume III. contains 3 Books, 61 Chapters and an Appendix. These 3 Books are each subdivided into 2 Sections, viz., a. Underseeds, i.e., Flowers in which the petals are in their natural position under the Ovary or womb contain- ing the seeds, and /'. OvERSEEDs, or Flowcrs where the petals are round or over the Ovary. Po cr Book L contains the tribes of Flowers with no Petals, only petaloido. These are a. Underseeds. Ch. I &: 2, Amaranths, Four-'o clocks. d. OvERSEEDS. Ch. 3-10, Knotweed, Goosefeet, Beg., Daph., Laur., Birthwort, Nettles and Euphor. (The abbrevlatloiu stand for DuKonlo, Daphne, Laurel and Euphorbia.) Pi, 5, n,or Book II. contains the tribes of Flowers with 4, 5, or n Petals. N.B.— The letter " n " means any indefinite number. Underseeds. Pn, Ch. 11-14, Ranuncs, Moonseed, Poppies, Fumitories. P4, " 15", Crucifers. P4or5," 16-18, Fla,x, St. Johns Wort, Rue. 19-21, Maples, Milkwort, Mignonette. 22-24, Mallows and Rcrkvoses, Teas. 25-27, Sundew, Pinks ai d Orangees. 28-30, Geraniums, Vine and Violet. Pa, II i< >*-v — 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15 16. 17. It] 19. 20. FOR THE OPEN BORDER. 50c 5c. 5c. 5c. Heartsease, or Pansy, Dreers' choice. Sweet Pea, 10 distinct colors. 50c. MijTnonettte, Machet, and all otlier varieties, mixed. Coreopsis, Bi-color. 5c. Cai-dytuft, Rocket. 5c. Morning Glory or Convolvulus. Balsam, Double, mixed. lOc. Marvel of Peru. 5c. Meteor ^larigold or Calendula. Sunflower, OucumerifoliHn and Nanus Sfriatus. 5c each. Prince's Feather. 5c.' The Black and the White, Mourning Bride. 5c each. Columbine or Dove Plant. You can see the four doves beak to beak. The Hijhrids. 5c. Snapdragon, mixed, and Sulphur Kiiuj. 10c each. Larkspur, Foniiosum, perennial. 5c. Nasturtium or Tropa-olum, all varieties, mixed. 10c. Chrysanthemum, mixed. 5c. Clarkia. 6c. Poi'Uilaca, Double. 10c. Curled Cress. 5c. il Few, if any, except these 20, can be sown to any advantage in the open border. Others mai/ come up, but they will bloom too late to be worth much. Mix them all together and sow in drills. And yet one U. S. catalogue recommends some sixty flowers for sowing in the open ground in Canada. THE FLOWERS BETTER SOWN IN HOT BED, OR BOX IN THE KITCHEN. 1. Petunia. 10c. 2. Phlox Drammondi. 3. Verbena. 10c. 10c. 63 61 4. Scarlet Double Stock. 10c 0. Joseph's Coat. 5c 7. Aster, Truffaufs. 10c 8. Pyrethrum or Feverfew. 10c 9. Chinese Pink, Heddewegi. lOc iO. Ricinus, Palma Christi, Castor o'il Pl.nf n v • 11. Lutoca Viscida. 5c. "^'"^ '-'^^ ^ ^^^i, Gibsom. ]'i Tf™xT.'°"' ^f'^-garet.' 50c. i-i- liie iSiicotiana Affiiiis. lOc. 10c ne,. ^„«„,.,/. „ ^„...,, ^,_^^ _^^.,^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ 'tot bed fan aril/ jfowcrs.- 14. Ammobium. 5c ...d the be„i.a of tl. Bi..rjl '™.',,.'1r',''° "' "' "''"'• VEGETABLES. 1. ^eans, Golden Wax, l]b..l5c j- China, 1 lb 15^ 3- Beet, Long Blood " ' 5^ 4. Cabbage, Etamp^s forsum- nier and (5) 8t. Denis Drumhead for winter. . . 10c t). Carrot, Nantes . 5^ 9. Celery, White and Large 5c 10. Cucumber. White Spine.' n. Corn, Crosby's Earlv «„ Evergreen Crosby's Early and 13. Lettuce, Drumhead, " for open air. Oc 5c 5c ly. Onion Red Wethersfield and 16)yellowDanvers6c '• ^''^^'P. Hollow Crown... 5c 18. Parsley, Wyatt's.... 5! 19- i^', lib. American Won- der, for early use.... OQc -"0. Peas, lib. Yorkshire Hero; Avhich come in later. ... 15c 21. Red and AV^ite Turnip Radish ... ^ K 22. Hubbard Squash!: ' S "^. Connecticut Broad- Leaf lobacco K 14- Sage...;::::::;:;;;:; 5! li ^'"°' tomato:;;;;; S H. A. Dreer, Philada., will 25. Savory ::;'" 5^ floral novelties thrown in,LZ!Lt!%;): V^'^' ^i^^'^ -- sl'owy, unrivalled, fra-rant and n,n<=f 1 ^ ^ ' "'^ '"'' """l^e a of Paradise," the despru 1 :^nX , ^t '''''') ^ ^^^^^^^^ " ^""^ the admiration of all. '"''Shhovs, the joy of its possessor and 64 - ^j^-^i.W ^EUs^ iL6aw«-*v^*. ibsoni. 10c. "■ !/mrs, need a 10c. each. le of the best leiiiiitis beard, tree and the ithersfield vDanvera 5c Crown. . . 5e 5o can W'on- 56 20c ire Hero, later.. . . 15c Turnip 5c 5c td - Leaf 5c > 5c 5c with some ill niake a 'ect "knot 3sessor and SOME IMMORTAL THINGS. If Is fhr inrisihh' liiipalpdhli' things In the n-nrbK -snrh as J^Jhrfrlvltf/, Light (uhI Chanictrr irhlch (irr plttlidf/ Jnntiortdl. 11,-un' tJ,>> (Jhnmctars <„• ^Sonls—fnr Soul mrans Chdyartrr— nfthr hoHr.st inrit, chos^'H !>>/ ni>/srjf us <,(lr,'rils,;:s, for th<'lr hoiirst//. irhosr nnxhst anninntcnnrnts hi'Vi' api„'(iv. arr sun'It/ Innnoiidl. 6o 8' E ^H?^' »^-i"'-.^>M!a*i''i^j>iia"^''.- i .li'.. »^v ^n % & (i)Ki>ii-ATi:r) T mrmxUl flan, " •ir/Hiic ]ir:MMi.\( Ky^i St.iii.li "r till! four men, Irisl WMiiil St I'.itr; roSM'S I, I this I'liig, tin u:K, liiivv 1 I'll liiiulisliiiic 1 lit Si li St I;uiii; ■■'■ '■•'i'?v'.-"."f - Hn«,is„ "^r^'r;:;-/',i:in^;;';;;!i-i::i--!;; liUU pI,-,-,seii 8 6: 100 To A Female Fool. Hherbrookk Street. •' Tiicre nrc- only two tliiiiKs woilh livinu fn,- . , ti O restless, craving, eager soul, On fashions, fruth and folly tost ' Why not ensue a Heavenly Goal ? Why drift among the lost ? Within thee lies a garden sweet- 'ihe Garden of the Mind— Oh ! Till its flowers with culture meet, Be thoughtful, patient, kind. Around thee close the blackening fates Confusions, DEATH, alarms— " * * . ' For thee a Heavenly Bridegroom waits, — i'ly to His /t?v/;i^r anus! Cote St. Tall, ^' ^- Embkr.son. X'mas Day, 1894. To THE Same. "Look how the world its veterans rewards •- Ayouthoffro,ics;.ano,dageofcard.:; i-air to no purpose; artful to no end • ^oungwuhout lovers; old without a /riend; I" l.fe nd.culous, and in death forgot." MORAL 7°''~"""'^'^''^"^'^'^"^'^'"--' ''■ M()RAL-CoN,suLT THE Inner Voice. 70 Pope. ervice of others, rBKRSON. Me, with a FEW of my Grandchildren. Surely tl.e Family of Emberson is likely to be Immortal. OPE. 71 e PLOW & SULLY, account JBooh Cimcve n.u^ <3cncral 36oohbi^^c^o No. 448 ST. JAMES STREET, Bell Tol. 406. MoNrri^H-Ai,. Books bound by thorn last for ever. IMMORTAL CLOTHES. Why buy new clothes? Old clothes can be made as good as new at the S3ntfs=: amcrican ID^cnio Ca 3433 Notre a.ne Street and branches. - MONTREAL. Murray ^s Gui de to Montreal is so far i mi wisii some of ni\- •""^'tal tliat it has reached 't-^ 7th edition. J books had. It can be bon^jht of THE \VM. DRYSD.ALK CO. 232 St. James Street, Montreal, uhich I have found the best place to jret books in Canada. 7.2 ^^bi^^c^i? »8t for cvor. ImtMiPdal cnmxus*, be made TREAL. Verdun. TO I>KAU JESSIK. O harvested in heaiity's Uloom, Ere Sin could soil or Sorrow faile 1 How brifjht our Hopes beyond the Tomb With thee in Silver Liglit arrayed. Truthful lhyho, s purpose, a practice for which we have 'the verv highest authority. ^ ''^^'^y The spelling ,s cccasionally phonetic and go as u uleese 1 h s has savd much wear and tear of my ener^M nS i's S re ding prools sheets. It is always rood to L-n • speling, much mor a poor pr n e?'5 hoo nn no l''7T samadvamajes of edukation as yoorseif ""' "" "'^ ''^^ his'i:r S':u;v; J: llrs^^ f ;;?^ ""'^^^ ^^-j^^-- ^•^^^ bnghtest and H velirit. m^ ^^itj^and^ ^l s, •^^^^^^"^^ri!" bo:r.^MerSelr-- r cin'; -;re -rcumSr^e Jj hif neS it of lu-m V; I p Ice coc s^ IflT^-'"''' ^^°^>'- ^^^^ at 25c. ^ ' ^' -^ P"" fo every body, fl^This book is not copyrighted rnnvr,-„kf • t most unchristian, at any rate';Vost unaposX.' ''' " ""' 76 to Fancy St. Paul copyrighting Iiis leiters. He says, " Every writing ('i>ASA grafee' not • pasai ai grakai') is given by inspiration of God." Slielley arrived independently at the same conclusion Now, how can a man, worth calling a man, restrict the circulation of thoughts, doubtless inspired by the bource of Al I ight, however impaired by the human tongue through which they are uttered? Nothing would please me better than to see someone print a 24 cent edition ol this little book. A penny edition would put me in ecstasies and raise my head to ihe stars. ^ And to see rriy booklet turned into Arabic, as Moore saw his Lalla Rookh, and as their autiior did the Arabian Nidits would elevate me to the constellations. I can earn a living, as St. Paul and Yorrick did, by my trade, and I thank everyone who helos to ser.J my brain bantlings my works pastime, joy and recreation, broadcast through the world. W ould only they were were worthy of it ' If really good which they aint, a magazine would pay me for first right to them. ' ^ £WT!"''r n "" ""'^^"'=^' '^"'i ^ ^ax on books is a barbarism. Moiiulal!' ""^ ''" '° ^- ^"- ^^l^^""". U^^^ver 2381, Dear Sir : -Please add my name to the list of those who promise to oppose the election of any man for M.P. who will not give his pledge to bestir himself :— I. To abolish all copyright law in Canada so that we may have the best books all over the world at cost price. , J'i'^° ^^' x'"" ''"^y '''''^" ""^ '^" '^ool^s (that is, off all light and learning) coming to us from the other hemisphere, And I have signed. -Tlie Quotations at tJie heads of my chapters have no reference to their contents. This I have arranged in loving memory of Walter Scot'. Similarly I make t em up my "ff Sin poets'lt?:." " '''''''''" °^ ^'^- "-' -'-'"- I i Mer/zicviir.o r» \ *: For $336,00 I can insert a four inch ad. in all the best papers, in Quebec Province, both English and French — outside of Montreal City. Advt. to ac;:e3r onco a week lor onu year. This is an orportunity for any firm wishing to push 1:5 trade to the 1,300,000 people in Que.bec's Cities, towns aqd vill^"es- The e. Desbarats Advertising Agency, Montreal, 73 St. J Hires Street. HART & SON, 3ob IPrintcrii, dc 241 ST. JAMES STREET, MONTREAL. fcS* fpm (^ Neatness and Despatch. J. S. iMLIRRAV, FLORIST «2L! DUKCHKSTBW MONTREAL. STKBKT. Delivers Flowers not many minutes after they are picked at his Hot Houses, 234-240 GREEN AVENUE, WESTMOUNT. It is most important for ]'"arniers to know of . . HONEST COMMISSION MERCHANTES. I personally i,Hiarantcc the honesty of J. HAMILTON, 22 St. Peter Street, and of VIPOXD, McBRn;].: .v;. CO., 26, Commissioners Street, SO iT >nc.sty of ■ Street. leet, ti » if THB St. Johns News Is undoubtedly The Best Country Newspaper in the World YES I THE WORLD I SEE BELOW. U--1-I , -'"g Original, Wignly Interesting Matter. N.B.-NO chf/ge^forinserting Original, Useful and ^'^^rart:-,tt^?"^ ^^- -•^-•^^ ^^ paper in I "i"*^* Horld THE AFTER LIFE ' (0 I sent my Soul throo the Invisible, Some secret of that After Life to spell, And, by-and-bye, my Soul returned to me, And said : " T'is I myself AM Heaven atid Hell." The Ruby Hat of Omar Khan. The Wm. Drysdale Co., 50c. !.H =1 iper in I ii i di -if 'M ?• ' Turkish Bath Hotel. (" Perhaps the Best Hotel in the World." F. C. Emiikiixdn, M.A. M0^U4 St. SKonique Street. MONTREAL. Wm. Tees & Co UNDERTAKERS 298=300 St. James 5t. Montreal, Will be happy to supply all their friends with coffins new or second-hand. They are urged to run in to the office at any time and try them by lying down in them when alive, so as, when dead, to secure /\ GOOD FIT. el W tic.y THE AFTKR LIKE • (2) HfeAVE^I'S but the Vision of Fulfilled Desire. HELL, The reflection of a Soul on Fire Cast on the Darkness, into which ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon Expire. Omar Khayyam. Buy of Tlie Wm. Drysdale Co., Montreal, $i.oc. u ! l",f I i li ■!;■ H ! .A -i 1=^ W. DANCERFIELD 1173 Notre Dam».V«-(n'h.)_Vipond, McBride & Co., 857. (Retail)— \V. Miiitland, loio" Hardware -J^s. Walker, 2;i6 St. James St. Hotel-T\,e Turkish Bath Hotel, 4305. [The best Temperance Hotel in the world.) :584. 3393. 2193. 8271. 230. 4597. 1298. Temple Bldg. 8070. 1448. 4927. 8162. Job Printing— Tom Hurst, lawj/er—A. Chambers. Lumber— J drier, E. Ma.xwell, W. Rutherford. J. Shearer. L>ke Books and Flowers, 'tis an honest trade. Milk— Tho Montoiths sell good milk. Montreal 3>,., Co.-ll. Brophy, 386 St. James. Se.o.,,„j>er-l look on theMoNxHRAL Daily and WKKK..V Star as the best-managed newspapers in the world. Painti—A. Ramsay .t Co., Paper— Canada Paper Co., Photogrnjiher—Sotman, i''"'l'"jrai'ur,:—\\'.J)eshiirnta, f mnM-Lindsay-Nordbelmer Co., Poet—F. C. Emberson, Phjj«ician,~.Vr. Prayer and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Air and Dr. Diet. Bail way— C.P R., A No. 1. 71. 205. 4229. 1887. 811. 8018. Tickets, Trains, SmlJler AV. \v. Robertson, Seedn-W. Ewing .fc Co., Shirt M/r,.-A. n. Sims s, Co., .S'fVi-— Welding, Paul A- Co. Tuilor—X. Dufort, Toharro, (Wb.)-J. Rattray & Co., (Retail)— S. Hyman, .SV'.c/,-4)-,/.-e,— Frank Bond, r.ina-,/,,,— R. c. Jamieson, Watch iVender— Peter Wood . 597. 598. 3516. 184. 1621. 8568. 147. 914. 2141. 423*. N.B.-I!est means " most good," i.e.. most honest. Honesty is as D.n,. virtue "proper to man " Tho „),.,. „ """esty 's. as Dant■ "^-'h "'^