The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-11-28 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 18132.

The eermou treated of God's love to man, the had joined these_ Their total subscriptions amounted
different epodes by whitish mac reosivee the Spirit of to2l 17s. IL; the balance in hand at the begin.
, God, sometimes through naturathrough the birds, end nine of the year El 13.. 3id ,—tot .1 receitir.
through weenie...ad preacher. Goa 'peeks to man, this 81. 5,1., total disbursements E 3 6 9d . leaving •
, resulting M a changed character and life. The Royal io his hands of £2 ls. Ri. 11. wvhed it however to
reletionshig with the Father, which God's children ,be remembered Cl le. was duet to Union in Mantle
could SIOOD understand, was simply and earnestly I and other expense. 14e. ;at ter which he hoped to have
forced. Christ's love in dying for falls, humanity, la balance of fis. or 2a.
al
the duty of all to gin themselves to God's sinks Mr. G. CROCCPR, jun., Superiofrodent, gave a short
I without delay, WDA faithfully urged. The sermon account of the couditi old progress of hi. own
gboogrigd with iiiwargsions and anecdotes bearing school—the D.echeeter Wesleyan About WIDOW years
lupon the all important subject, and was very stem- ego they had 613 echo's's, snd 12 teachers, now they
I 'lively listened to by the young people. had 182 scholar", and 26 teachers. (Amino's.) They
The annual meeting was held at the Wesleyan were endeavouring to do all the good they could,
' Schoolroom on the following evening, when there Was perhaps not always In the best way, and not always
a good mundane., the chide being taken by the Rev, with the greatest amount of eoccees,—still they were
W. Allen, the president, who was supported by the eneeravourieg to lo all they could to benefit the young
Base T. Name and the Rev. R. R. Albin. and also themselves; for he felt that in teaching the
A hymn having been song, and prayer offered by the young they were gaining very useful lesson',
Rev. T. NUTS, which were of great a rvice to them as
Tbe Illuenteas raid it had been expected that the they grew older. Amongst other things which
Rs'. Mr. Fell and Mr. G. Davis would have been they had in connection with their own school
protect He could not explain their absence. The was the Juvenile Missionary Society, with an income
Rev. Mr. Hartle would have liked to hays been there, of about e:4O a yeer—(applauee)— and whet they
but before it was arranged to hold that meeting, he term d a Band for Jess, the latter consisting of
had promised to !Stand a mission meeting at White- scholars trained to Aid the sick, and to hold preys"
church. meetings amongst themselves. He had reason to
The result of the Toting for the election of prod- believe this little noisy had boon greatly blessed.
dent, officers, and committee for the year. was this Re thought their school might claim four out of the
declared av follows :—President, ROW. W. A 11..; twelve who had joined the church. He asked for
Hon. Secretaries, Mr. W. Pouncy and Mr. E. their prayers, their sympathies and their help, and cave
Blewett ; Treasurer, Mr. C. J. Foster; Committee, some good advice to parents. If only they prayed for
Mr. W. Lockett, Mr. G. Wright, Mr. Wolffeune, Mr. their children and the teachers, they would have
G. Crocker Mr. Oottman, with representatives of better boys and girls both at home and at schoot
each connected school chosen by the schools. (Appian-i.)
The SKOPITAIi (Mr. Walter Pouncy), who was ell, Locum. (C ingregational Superintendent),
called on for his mood, briefly explained the objects said he was very pleased to hear Mr. Crocker'.
of the Union. It aimed at the improvement of enceuragiog report. Ile was afraid be could not give
teachers by three means. Altbough they had not such • one, although he wished with ail his heart and
been able themselves to have a local competition in longed to 1104 the work proapering. Although they
the way of examinations, still the parent Unton had did not see any outward signs, he Was sure of one
one, and it only wanted for the teacher" to give in their thing, that Sunday Scholars were not far from the
names to the local soretary, saying they were willing Kingdom of Heaven. (Hear, hear.) He hoped at
to compete. and if they could oely get a given number some future time he might have a more favourable
in this town they would be able to snake this • local report; their teachers were all good and thoroughly
centre, and the examination would be held at Dor- kincebearted, an I bed their hearts in the work. He
cheater instead of going to another plan, which trusted they would Sill go on and that God's bless.
Involved a considerable lose of time arid money. He log would rest upon the schools.
trusted more would come forward, willing to sit for The Rev. Costume before closing the meeting
the examination. This wee one of the objects. thanked them for electing him to the Presidential
Another was the preparation clan They had been chair.
unable to maintain one here foe some time • although
nes _
he was glad to hear them were esepansior:ine cline's in Doxology and the Benediction brought the
the respective places of worship. If, however, they meeting to • c eeel•
could get one ofa mire general character, he, for one,
thought it would be a moors. Then another object
was the providing of cheap literature which the Union
cironlered AA there seemed to be • want of Informa-
tion on this subject, be might mention to thine schools
who had not yet availed themselves of the advantages,
that the Union offered e 3 worth of books for
EL This was a great benefit, more especially to the
poorer schools. They often asked what benefit it
would be to join • society, but they should think in
what way it would benefit others. Thee was the real
abject of all such onions and associations, and the
I mere it was aimed at the more arecomestul they would
be. United prayer osetiegs was another object,
bringing them together to ask unitedly God's blessing
epos themselves and on their enema. They had been
usable to maintain one, but be trusted after that
meeting they would make a fresh start, sad see if they
could net get a good united prayer meeting, at least
owe a month—The secnitary's report was as follows:
There are POW sit schools, containing 74 teachers,
592 scholars of which 21 are church members, and 12
I have joined the various Churches during the year.
I Two new schools, Tic. Weldon Newton Cons=
Weal and PiddletrenthMe Baptist, have joined d
the year. Two library grants have been made. We
ooaM wish that more were returned as joining the
Christian °buret, bet we are hopeful the figures do
not represent the full result of our work. The fact that
out of over LOOO.OOO scholars in England counseled
with the union about 16,000 joined the Church last
yew sewerage* as to look on the brighter side, and
to rest on God's promise that our labour is aniant;biret
but that in His time we shall me the children g
tato the fold. Out of an army of 118.000 teacher" is
the union 93,000 were originally schotars. Tame
bets, I think, we do well to repeat, because we are all
too apt to keep our view within the hedge of our own
mot, and thee fail to partake of the joy of seeing the
success of others. During the year we had a children's
flower show in Alington Hall although pecunierly
we found ourselves by it £2 in thereat, We
think, as far as the children's interest in it is con-
cerned, it was successful, and if spared to another year
we trust with the experience gained to make the next
more successful in every way. In ;pseudo:l, we
trust that the separate schools will not merely end in
the names of it representatives on the Union
Committee, but Impress on them the importance of
their attendance at the committee meetings DO that
the union may be more real and energetic than ever.
The CIiAIIUIAN said on the whole the report was
favourable. It certainly was to be regretted tbay had
not more than twelve in connection with the schools
who had joined the Church during their twelve months
of hard labour. Still he was not discouraged, for he
believed it to be simply impossible for Sabbath &Moat
teacher, to do their duty without doing good. They
might not, perhaps, me the reward of their labours at
once, but he thought that boys and girls who had
spent some years in the school would find it very
difficult to run into any excess of sin afterwards' their
'consciences would meet them at every corner. Many
persons had grown grey before they had given their
hcarts to God and their hands to God's Church, and
who had still received their first good impressions in
Sabbath Schools. They met with scone of such Menaces
upend down the world, andthis was the result of their
Sunday School teaching. Addressing those who had
been labouring for the past twelvemoaths, tee rev.
gentleman said they might take it for granted their
Moues would not be lost, although they might
not be instrumental in twain many of their
scholars to the Lamb of God. They could not
e then duties rightly without making
Vagocholfinpressicio upon children, who would find gnat
difficulty to erase from their 'uncle the good med. He
Ind for many year" thought that the churches did not
pay that attention to the Sabbath schools that they
ought. There was not that sympathy put forth by
the churches to aid them es they ought. Everything
that could be done ought to be done to encourage the
teachers and to benefit the schools. He referred to
the greet defect of not being able to hare 'operate
vestries or class rooms. During their year's toil no
doubt they had met with many discouragement', and
he trusted also with many eooouragements. It was
imposible for them to Gorge in any good work
without disoouragententa, but he thought a little
opposition sometimae did a great deal to help forward
the work in which they were engaged. In his closing
remarks the President said the schools in this district
belonging to the Union were WeeleyseCoogregational,
and Baptist. They had some Primitive friends
present, and be thought it would do them good if they
joined. He should really like them to be awake to
their privil-gee, sad to join the Union for their own
bow& aad the benefit of their school. (Applause.) The
1 different denominations could not be too closely
united, for the more be threw himself with the
ministers of other denominations and the friends of
other churches, the more he found the difference
between them was very trifling. (Hear, bear.) The
more they got together the more they loiew and loved
each other. He sometimes thought it would do the
church people • great deal of good if they joined the
Union—(laughter)--bat he supposed it was too much to
expect of them, and perhaps they had one of their
own. The mere tiny all united themselves against the
common foe of maWeind, the better for them and the
better for mankind at large. (Applania.)
Th. Hey. R. R. Airing said he did not suppose
they could have a meeting about a more important
object than training the young and tender plant to
now up in the kn iwledg• and love of the living God.
Re compared the Salida) School to the nursery, with
the some loving mother—the Church—ready to receive
them Into her arms. He then addressed himself to
various Important matters relating to the school work;
lint—What to teach. He thought the motto that
every Sunday School teacher ought to place upon the
' banner that he unfurled should be the sante motto
that the great Apostle Paul pieced on his—" I am
determined to know nothing amongst mu but Christ,
and Woo crucified." So the teacher should not be in
any doubt as to what to teach his scholars. Then
what manner of stuff ought these teachers to be made
of? They should be determined, not simply to make
thole classes the best In the school and to take the
beet prizes, but to teach these young ends to know
Hbn who loved and died for them. He knew of no
greater theology, and no greater scieece, and no
greater knowledge, and none that would be more
useful to them than the knowledge of Christ and Him
crucified. He Woke of the importance of prayer, and
also the necessity of the teacher being converted. He
especially impressed upon them the need of prayer in
their work. They should never cease till they bad
proved their children into the Church.
The Bev. T. Nue', in his address, thanked them
for the secondary honour of bringing him almost as
near in votes as their president; it was quite a dis-
covery that he should have been thought of in his
(Mr. Allen's) presence; still he was very glad that the
teachers as friends present had thought him almost
equal to himself. (Laughter.) Referrin to the work
of the Union, he said he did not think thwe was any.
thing that was more worth being thought about, and
men justly claimed the attention of ministers of the
Gospel, pastors, fathers and mothers, and members
lof churches. If they would understand what
was meant by the growth and the marvellous
outcome of Um growth of our social and national Ms,
then there was no gamine so momentous and so
grand as the questiou of Sunday School teaching. He
remembered the Right Honourable John Bright (he
always wished they could dlspsnia with that affix, and
call hint Jobs Bright) speaking of the Sundey School
teachers some years ago; be said—The work of the
statesman was very great, and so was the week of the
pelidelane but there was no worker in the whole sphere
el boom life who was to be compared to the Sunday
School teacher. They might the best laws in
the merit, and than was no nation under heaven that
could make • finer form of laws the° the Turkish
Government, and there was no nation under heaven
less capable of making them work; they might have
their Gladstone*. Beaconsfield', and their Belfries,
splendid men, and the Bead specimens of humanity,
who might legislate In the House of Comm no, and
make fine laws, brit what was the good if they had not
the people to zany them oat? ( fipples's.) Tbe rev.
gentleman sp ke • stimuLating and encouraging word
to the Machine in their nob"' work. They had the
very finest possible materials, and they could make
almost anything of them. In tbe course of an smallest
and interesting speech, the rev, gentleman said
Obristiaaity stone had taught them to reverence the
• ng. They did sot find it in heathen literature, nor
did tiny Sara anything of the great men of antiquity
In their younger aays, but Jeans said—" Forbid them
not, for of such lathe Kingdom of God. * The i•olhorg
deserved their sympathies and their prayers, for they
were engaged in the noblest and grandest of all works,
and he treated that the result of that meeting would
be to inspire eheen with warmer seal in their work.
13°...70ar fif47, said Mr. Naive in concluidon, it is the
noisiesl thing you can do. You are doing more for
England and for human society, but above all doing
more for God, than any other form of work I can think
of. (A
Mr. rte. iketze (Somme) thanked them for
electing him again to his office. RI. report stated
thee during UN yew the Sehool,
_Piddletrent-
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A WORTHY entry Trartaa.—At the meekly seamier' family ca,enhgag other a
two.eta a cornerta,turn ipei.ver.tand ii aie
hebacktllenr!
of the "Hope of Weymouth" lodge on Friday evening sit facing ...
last, the report of the Anuiversery Committee having log car, V. .0 can have • li tie realm along the window
been presented, showing a balance in fevour .4 the and a table l-ta down, where you can read or play
lodge of shoat £72 24 Bro, It. 4.. 'leaden, district g Mien, and I found it convenient to jot down note, of
treasurer, rose and said that he had a plitasitig luty travel. If Milli of money you can have an armchair
to pertain, which wag to premut to the lodge • in, drawing-room car, and you can *wing roun I and
portrait of Br". Russell, who lad been their W.C.T. , eee the country, slid when tired walk in the slide, or
oo • great many .006/1011., and all could testify to the ' iv" out on the ;distr. ,fin at the end of your carriage.
good work that be had done among them. He (Br. Every our mat break hie neck if he like*, or be left
Readell) had known Bro. Russell perhaps longer behind, men jump .if an I -n while the ears are
than any one present; long before be was either a moving awl no one interferes, and the engine atops
Good Templar or a teetotaler, and his becoming sugh and goes on without the c otwirt id station bell.; it
, had been the means M Vod. both to hiumelf does not whistle, but t ills • bun, bell, or roais •
and them.—Bro. P. Hawaii, W.T., in moving that variety of noteo end tone, The railway. are n
the lodge accent the portrait with hearty thanks to fenced off ; but run straight through village streets
Bro. Russell for his gift, said be need not say anything and town., yet they have no more accidents than we
,4 Bro. Rumiell's good qualities, as they were well have. In frrwt lea iow-catcner. awl if a cow genii,. the
' known to them all. He should else like t 'see a like- line awl it iv cot frighten doff by the engine's b wl.,
I lAA. of Bro. Handel!, who we. one of the oldest on nes, and r ar., Vie eo4ioeer do•ut care, the ciw Le
I members of the lodge, to hang with it. Bro. Captain ...hunted," and is nom, 'eau in the ditch with her
Clark having sec inded the proposition, it was mann heel. in the air, Luggage arrangements are admirable.
11t0H4 and enthusisatically carried. The picture, Tell the clerk at your hotel that you want to go by
which is from the studio of Mr. Wheeler, is an such a train in the morning, a big porter take* hold
enlarged coloured photograph, is • faithful likeness of of your portmaiteau, and streks it in the ball. At a
Mr. Russell, and represents him at an officer's desk, certain time the 'bus appear. at the door, •po ter
clothed in the Grand I. dip regalia, which the lodge cries out "All ab iard f r the Weet," awl the vehicle
presented him with some tune baba. -The little hit starts, the luggairs todowing in • van ; the owner li..
,of blue" is also shown. Coder the "good of the nothing to do with it; he simply pip the bill
Order" the lodge was officered by sisters, who enter. for it in his hotel fire. If he ha. not tak n
, gained the lodge with wogs and recitations, not for- his ticket at an office in the town, he takes
getting also to entertain the inner 1/110:1. Altogether one now at the rail aay Italie, and, ticket in
• very pleasant evening was spent, the attendance hand, he prese.uts himself at the logeage office, tin
being large. p out bpi goo Is a brasc ticket appended to a
EterillTalemeseT AT THX WORKING Msx's CLUX.— leather strap i. fastened 111 the parcel, and • duplicate
On Wednesday afternoon and evening the large brass ticket with the same number is heeded to you.
lecture room at the Working Men's Club—the noble You put it ii, your pocket, and jin_de it fr want of
building that tells of the muuificenoe of our esteemed silver, for the cuiel money is greenback.. But do not
member, Mr. Henry Edwards, wag the score of • very turn your eye. to the luggege van, the Yankee porters
happy gathering. It was the occasion of the membe.s play catch-boll with the luggage, and are apt to miss
tea, and this was followed by • first-clase musical the catch; the be-t plan I- wilier to look, but hope
eutertainment, arranged by the committee of the for the best. Na ir a large town a man appears, and,
Club, aseLted by Mr. W. irdaunt Thiselt in. Mr. pencil in h walk. thr ey.d, the car., crying out
fancy Russell, the secretary, Mr. E. atace, 51r. " Baggage ! h igzage !" You hold up your hand, he
Downing, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Luc**, Mr. Mclntyre, at ,p. an I ask.—•• Wh.t tel ?" " best; which
Mr. Dowell, Mr. Learmouth, Mr. Royal, lc., worked is it?" "Such an one" in the reply; you band out
hard to make the tea a success. On the tables were yoer lire's check, and he gives you a slip of paper
numerous bunches of chrysanthemums, andother bright with the Name number. Arriving at the depOt (statC oi)
autumnal if mere, sent by the Mimeos Thiselton. Th., you get on • 'bus, get out at the hod. wriie your name
programme of the musical entertainment was as follows: a book; you are now known as "No. 93," or what
—Part I. Pianoforte duet, "H.M.S. Pinaforte," The other number you hit on, you give your paper equiva-
Mimes Teiselton_ ; glee," Fair Flora Decks," Messrs, lent for brass again, and, arrived in your room, you
B. Parsons, A. Dennis, and A. W. Dennis; Hadyu's find your portmanteau awaiting you. (Applause.)
trio. Messrs C. Dickenson, Sidney Smite, and Without he-dilation I pronounce the American rail-
Thorne; song, "Psalm of Life,"
o
Mrs. Moorhead way travelling superior t more, unless you ride in •
violin sol
first-class carriage; Anieriessios praise ours, because
song, "Tg L. Dickermon, e
Place where the O•, song, Mrs. O'Donnell;
Id Horse Died," Major they are on holiday., and travel first-class. But I doubt
Idol up; song, "The Village Blacksmith," Mr. B. whether the Amencan system suite • lady; there is too
Panties. Part IL—Pianoforte duet, " The Great great • lack of privacy, and if she poste through the
Globe Quadrilles," The Misses Thiselton ; sotg, Mrs. count, y she may eo.n become crazy, jolted over logs
O'Donnell; glee, "Toe Winds Walla's Cold,"Messrs. aryl r.ck., and entangled in deep ruts. In St. Louis
B. Parsons, A. Dennis, and A. W. Dennis; Haydn's a gentleman drove me out to see the city ;we bumped
first symphony, Messrs. L and C. Dickenson and over moues and rails till we snapped the whippletree,
Sidney Smith; song, "Hearts and Homes," Mrs. when my friend got a stout rope, tieil the horse to the
Moorhead; song, "Man the Life Boat," Mr. vehicle somehow, and off we went like the wind.
B. Parsons; song, "I Really am so Sleepy," Pennsylvania
Major " God Savo the Queen. Ali us uninteresting,
the affair woe • great success. About 100 sat cAorthysl:l,a.i.te.ne.ll:l3oont aio.t:nfanultid area;
th. he
.ht
down to tea, which WM well laid out and enjoyed.
6,7001 t. high, the swinery somewhat like the raw
In the subsequent entertainment, the people begau
riLlenberia, North Waken Pittsburg is the dirtiest and
arrive early, and, instead of the "usual quarter-tiour "
blackest • ity I ever saw. At Ciociumati I stopped,
being allowed, the lecture-room was full by eight
it still bra's the nickname of Pork.polis, tho' Chicago
o'clock, many paying at the door. This led to •
great crush, for those who had "soured tickets cure* qu,ite much pork. and is suriewsiug it in the
race. tducionatti ha* ..b.,ut 400,000, a large portion
thought they were safe, and came • little later,
of
who. wag there
0, tipnotion
when there was positively not standing room, aid the
and saw all siirts of manufactures from baby linen to
mar of people overflowed round the door, while some
elaborate and cousplicated machinery. By a brides
gendernen had even to give up the attempt to get
.ver the Ohio we pawed into Keiltucky, the only
in, and go away. We submit that the committee Southern State I WM in. It war divided in gym-
ought Pi have reserved places for tickereholden ; but
liathies during the war, del not spat out clearly, and
committee-men themselves were forced to remain out- at the close
side. G. E. Eli P.sq., president perpetual of the _wa... wiles,
I,rwitratt want e. The,
t oprairies, having
g-Ge over lee es. you don o see any mre
club, was in the chair, and the entertaiument pro-
f. A poor tlighlend woman wail to sigh—" Oh for
ceeded according to the programme, except that His,
wee bit of a hill," and to • Western man boasting
"owls" place was abli "IPP"eI by Ilia' Nsiral* of the richness of the *oil. • poor New &sidewise
The glees were pleasingly sung, and violin and piano
said—" I'll tell you, William. if you could just show
performance.' much appreciated by connoisseurs.
me here one of my dear old stone heaps, I would fall
Major Gollop, whose whole-hearted style makes him • in
great favour to, was encored twice, on the first encore down on my face and kiss it." There is no use
e gays that well-known and always welcomed song ytr ing to deem ibe the prairie, there is nothing iii it to
describee except its vaatness, and hat is indescribable.
h
"Jobs Peel." Mrs. Moorhead was also encored for iyou ever a dream about watelenng ou a vast
her beautiful rendering of "Hearths and Homes,"
when she responded with that deliciously low-noted 'st'
u diem moor, seeking something suulesaly, and
after • dreamy search for you know not what,
I'l4 " Dsrb/ and "1""4" Mr. Pari"nis e°""y" wandering on, an I *till the m so- stretching before you
for " Man the Lifeboat," repeated • verse, as did
endlessly and unisiuuded ? Go over the Western
Major (dollop of '' I really am so eleepy" —which prairies and you *ill find that dream true.
neither the audience nor hewer.. Mr. G. Tnorue and
On the cro-sing of the Nlis.iiisiopi to get On to St.
Miss Humphrey accompanied some of the singiug
Louie, the bowies, a whole crowd, drive 'mm, board the
in a charming wanner; in fact,
to tio, atm use, which mollies over, Anil they drive out. We
Mr. Eliot properly proposed a vote of thanks
all was so good that
anil gentlemen performing, and named Dlr. have loaning in this country to compare with the
Thorne, who acc onpanie I part of the siueiug. He st-am -b• Qui •in the " Father f Water.," f dimensions,
hoped the entertainment would be repeated—Mr. 11. splendour, and aucceseful management 'Die nave of
Russell moved • vote of thanks to the chairman, and the Cry-tal Palace hoisted un tward the hull of the
this most euccessful evening for the club closed. Great Eastern. with 110 Me of the Adjuncts id a lunatic
asylum, and • few accessinies of the Tower of Babel
thnieru in, might give a faint 11.Pti..11 of the gigantic
floating canteen...ma, which, deck-l.a led to "cg ,uy
point," pl iiteh the brood boeim. of the Transatlantic
water., The streets of St. Lelia in the old part are of
French origin awl uarr •w,reunniliiig you the French are
not good coloniser., while the Engliall part h .s gone on
reit:doling one of how the Celtic race hug hail to give
way to the Anglo-Saxon, in developing weterial no.
source., and forming natienal character. F rum St.
Luuis I went ii, Chicago, which, two v ears before, was
burnt to ashes, yet I could find nii trace of the tire.
Everything is string amid massive, and appears de-
signed to last fore-uteri.. How it emit.' be re-built a,
so ,n is a nary eL Some of th- rail ways go out on the Lake
on stilts ; ebips of large size, big steamers, tugs, boat.,
and all the parephereada .4 a nig inland seseport, come
struggling through the town in canals which open to
the lake. By mean. • f an iv-bowie, curing pork was in
full operation ; the j dee i. that a hog goes in liviig the
end and comae out menage., the other. A fearful r,
them beset. kick up wheu they are driven in from the
prairies. They fight .Ireadfully, and the war breaks
out again an I again, so that the last end
of the prairie hogs is not pew.. Soon a dozen
are separated, and driveu lute • very small
apartment. • man riteps in among them with •
hatebet, ate!' "ti the h-ad with the hammer en-I, and
dead silence follows him. Au iron hand worked oy
machinery lifts the animals on a horiz motel pole to
which =nil wheels are attached, their throat' are
cut, and on the wheel., they rue into a tank beneath,
a roll or two through the ecalliog water, and they
are scraped and split up into quaiters in less time than
It takes to deecribe. I stood till I saw how it was
done, and wishing to retain some appetite for eating
pork, refuse Ito stay any longer. Like prairie gram,
awl mushrooms, Cincinnatti, ,t. Loui•, and Chicago
have grown, and Chicago the most wonderful of them
I all. You walk along eplenilid streets, quoya. and
avenues, and are told that 40 years ago no buildings
stood there, except an old mud fort, and that the first
child born into the city was married the other year; but
when you have made the stock remark that in • little
more than a quarter of • century • Trans-Atlantic
Liverpool las risen on the swampy shores of Lake
Michigan, you have said pretty well all that is to be
said about the Metropolis of the West. It is not
strange that nobody. has given us a poem about a
factory? Unless hole slant agent, I cannot conceive
how a MAO could expatiate on the glories of the cele-
brated prairie city.
From Chicago, I went to Detroit, on the borders of
Canada, and went to my relatives there. I had •
rare opportunity of seeing farm life, anii feel about
Canada as ala..ut the Far West. If • man has six or
seven strong sons he MAY 1:0 out. take A farm, and do
well; but if he has not, he will find the price of labour
so enormous that I ism afraid he would do quite as
well on • farm at home. In New England, dismiss
any suspicion of America being all a flat country. I
' have never seen fields at once so picturesque and so
barren. Yet New England is one of the strengest
parte of America. With fine ingenuity, what the
people could not take out of the soil they have taken
out of their favourable situation on the Atlantic, by
establishing all kinds of mauufactery. And if a man
prizes solid worth, true culture, modesty of bearing,
sincerity of belief, and • decided tone of religious con-
viction, he will form the highest possible opinion of the
New England people.
I resumed my journey at Niagara, and saw the Great
Falls as the sun was rising. Piece after piece of
Indescribable beauty came out as the sun rolled up the
mist which raced on the mivem, revealing to us he
most heavenly spits of sunny happineso lying sleeping
unsuspected in the fog. We stood spellbound with
the divers obj eta of beauty which the beams of the
rising day brought out singly to view, until in about
15 minutes, the vied scene of the Niagara Falls
stuod before us, and if ever I felt • temptation
to worship Nature, it was at that momeut
when that greatest .of all sights which I
have ever seen snsid before my gaze. We
etood ov.r the Fall, which has hollow,-.l out what is
known as the "Cave of the While." We came up to
it first in the de:dolma en I heard that thunder of its
awful rush mingling with the sound of the winds below,
mail it seemed like something going forward without
sight or hearing, mingling with a black drapery of
darkness—to do a work of death. But when the
morning light reveal. the stillness of the pool beneoth,
Into which the mighty cataract fell, it seemed as if
peace and power had kissed each other ; and than when
we looked on the while ocelle now abining in the
g.,lden beanie of a summer sun, what c one to us at
find with the sound of te•ror, was all tran.formel
the lwautiful ; the gentle flower eumiunded by 4,ligga
leaning over the verge, living in the baptism of the
spray, and a railibow here and there came out watch-
ing around the flood, like a spirit sleeping or playing
.0 its ,ipples, sporting with Vie stoi in, and swielse if
Love had triumphed oval Power. Having stool over
this fall, the next thing was to go below into the
"Cave i•f the Winds." By the bad .of • guide, who
lead. you by the band, you walk over shelving
precipices, after having thrown off every articleof your
own clothing, and clad yourself with thick ci ild oil-
akin, provided for the pip ea. You are led by the
conductor right under the Great Fall, which Sir C.
Lyell has used to measure geological time. The weter
in falling drive, the wind, and the wind in return
drives the spray, so that a constant whirlwind whirls
like a mill wheel behind the green certain of Niagara.
When you get under this fell, it is scarcely poedble
esse anything for the storm ; but by dint iof feeling and
blinking, it is possible to make out that the cl if is
worn into • hollow curve by the revolving wheel id
water. The conductor stands in the midst of the spray
awl tempest and lets you survey the ace= ; but a very
short time suffices, and panting for breath, and feeling
as if the pelting spray had gone through and through
your holy, you make your escape to the top, and don-
ning your own clothes, again prepare to see the red.
It seemed to me a thought of t:odi a thing for wort*
and if I were taking a tour through America again, i
would see Niagara for the last thing, would aim, away
by • night train, talc- psalms next day home, and
have 1111111 the eight red memory remaining with me.
Following the lecturer's thought, we " skip" the St.
Lawrence, the Thousand Islands, the Rapids, East-
hampton, where the tourbits go up almost POrPen-
dicular hills by steam engines, and where you =isn't
think whether the ropes will bold; Boston, the seat
olilfashioneil English society, where culture alone,
and not riche,, is the passport; Bunker's Hill, Wash-
ington, the city of magnificent distances; and Wake
to she people, with whom Mr. Wood was most
favourably Impresoed. He said:
" We must not judge either of their habita by what
we see of them here. They come here on holiday, and
their expenses are on a holiday *gels • but at home
they are remarkably simple in their ;lode of living.
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servanti, and to the impossibility of keeping up a large
lortmenoli of donnertic- ; hut more, I fancy, to a certain
inherent simplicity of taste. '1 think,' said an iild
woman one day, ' God ma le Americs for poor people
And if you go into the west parts of heir wins:
cities, even into the lowest pats of New York, where
the dregs of all the Europe..n nationalities ere poured.
you will rot meet anything Ike the sqhalid poverty
you meet in London or i iverpool. The truth is I Mel
Dot meet a beggar all the time I was there. Arid I
did not see one ilronkard. There is a good deal of
drinking in America, but nothing like what there is
with I was never yet offered liquor at ene rain's
table. and I never saw one man offering it to
another."
In the New Foreland Ftates the sale of intoxicating
liquors is prohibited, and Ithough there are secret
drinking places at the hotels, the people must go in
smirch df them, and when they find them, Cuero is such
• narrow space that very few can get together. The
lecturer went on to speak id the religious feeling of
the Americans, and their hr at catholicism in matters
of church polity, which ena.iled all to meet together
without' patronage or priority. and even discuss the
twitters of differen e without bitternes 4. The
President of tie Stake entertained the
Evangelical Albinos, and lie speech-6 were fully
reported in the daily prom'. To ir politic• are detest-
oble ; but religl.us amid literary men are being eriimiect
and the moral sentiment of the nation ea to p elites
will change. Mr. Wood conc.u.led—
" No oils who winkles well to the cause of humanity
tviuld wish America to be a failure. Upon her must
fall in the future a 1.e.., Mare of the responsibilitim
and duties whish this small island in the midst rif the
sea boa so long borne, while she hes wield° I an
influence altogetiter disprop trtionate to her pity-ical
means. She has shown America how to be tree, and
now he secret fire of freedom could be kept alive
through geseratimis when it was extingui-hel else-
s here ; en.i now that those brawls are to reel which
threat ned to keep us slow t, and which would have ins.
grecs 1 a commoriity of quarrelsome villagers, England
anti merles are beginutto, to he felt to be the teetotal
aides of the wirll; they col show as no other ha.
inn
can. how liberty end tattler ca, go wool ice hand ;
the Geneva Arbitration has .ipened up a new misei in
for them in uniting their power together to cause was.
to cease unto the ends of the earth." (Applause.)
Very cordial votes of thanks were given to the
Lecturer on the proposition of the MAYOR and Rev.
W. Lewis; an I ti his Worship, being proposed by the
It-v. J. Wool, and Mr. It. Dagotil.
The choir very pleadngly "Awake, awake! 0
Zion i" acid this concluded an instructive and agreeable
evening.