The Divine Omnipresence.

THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE .

" Let us remember that wherever we are , and whatever we do , He is with us , and His all-seeing eye beholds us . "—Masonic Charge . The Sacred Symbol consecrates the Lodge , And thoughts inspire which lift the heart

above , Suggesting that ' tis holy ground we tread , Where all is harmony—all peace and love . We ' re there reminded of the truth sublime , That He who all things made , now fills all

space ; In all things lives , and animates the whole , Ruling and guiding in every p lace . » Wheree ' er we are , whate ' er we say or do ,

His eye beholds , for He is with us ever , To check the evil , and to crown the good , To strengthen and to aid each hig h endeavour . Oh , Lord omnipotent , as good as great , Who vvert , and art , and evermore shalt be !

Let Thy good Sp irit rule within our hearts , That all our doings may be bless'd by Thee ! Then shall we ever in uprig htness walk , Our obligations ne ' er forgotten be , But so controlling us , in heart and life , That all may learn from what in us they see .

There ' s nothing selfish in our mystic band , There ' s nothing diff ' rence makes among our kind , Our brothers first , but only first , we aid ,

That aid we'd g ive alike to all mankind . 'Tis thus we'd imitate our common Lord , Whose sun shines forth on evil and on good , Whose rain refreshes both unjust and just , Though some , through fife , His goodness have withstood .

Oh , Lord Omnipotent , give us the grace To do Thy will , as holy angels do , That others seeing , in our steps may tread And thus the reign of ri ghteousness renew .-

A CALU'ORNIAN LANDOWNER . —Dr . Glenn , of Colusa County , owns a ranch which contains nearly 45 , 000 acres . It embraces a frontage of J 8 miles on the Sacramento River , and extends back about five miles . It is enclosed and

divided by 140 miles of fencing . One tenant , G . W . Hoog , rents and cultivates about 10 , 000 acres of the land , and the Gupton Brothers cultivate an equal portion . Some 15 , 000 acres are rented out to a number of farmers who work on a smaller

scale . Atthe present time Hoog is engaged incutting 7 , 000 acres of wheat and barley . The c * op this year will y ield about 20 bushels per acre ol wheat . In favourable seasons the yield has been about 35 bushels . The yield of barley is considerabl y larger . The total crop will amount to

n ; arly 180 , 000 bushels . He is thrashing his grain with one of Case ' s 48-inch cylinder thrashing machines , which is run by a 20 horse-power steam engine . To suppl y this machine requires six large headers and 18 header wagons , v . lih require the labour of 110 horses and 50 men .

The machine has thrashed five sacks of barley per minute , at which rate it has run for an hour and a half in succession . It has also thrashed 32 sacks of wheat in seven minutes . It will require about six weeks to thrash the entire crop .

These are the operations of Hoog alone . Gupton Brothers have an equally large crop , and arc driving business on about the same scale . Thc smaller tenants are equally well employed . — Sacramento Union .

MowiiVF . it HIGH HIE TKMI'E IIATUIII-:, howcter iniprcgnat-d with impuritiei , , * iir , food , or lieuiargcs may be , nn one need be helpless , htpeless , or powerless . Apathy , restlessness , headache , giddiness and pinched skin , warn mankind that a feverish attack has begun , which rct-licl will intensify if the sufferer fail to result ea-Iy to Holioway ' s purifyimr awl reiriilatiti < j * pills or some such

coi'icctivo medicine . Holioway ' s I'ills meet all the disarrangements of the circulation and nerious ccnties v . ith cfliciency and safety , and through these patent auxiliaries they art competent to check advancing maladies and to com-uei hreatened perils . Molloway ' s Medicine is particulaily useful to people past their clim . iteric age , tvlien energies begin to wane , and various organs of the batty become capricious in * heir functions . —ADVT .

The Divine Omnipresence.

A NOVEL EXPERIMENT . —The National Temperance League have successsfully made a novel experiment at the manoeuvres on Dartmoor , and are about to repeat it at Cannock Chase . With the sanction of the military authorities they opened a temperance commissariat for the benefit

of the soldiers , and have worked it so well as to make up to some extent for the deficiencies of the Control Department . Commencing at five o ' clock in the morning , they have all day long supplied hot coffee and tea , in addition to most things eatable and drinkable which savour not of

alcohol . In other respects the ' * Temperance Camp " has offered far better accommodation to the soldiers than the ordinary canteen , the men being able not onl y to obtain stationery and stamps , but having a tent placed at their disposal for recreation , reading , and writing . The

" camp * ' appears to have supplied about too gallons of coffee and four gallons of tea a-day in id . cups , and at certain hours of the day demands upon its resources have been very severe- . The experiment has been made under the direction of a Miss Robinson , assisted by an earnest

and competent staff , and officers antl men alike have largely and thankfully availed themselves of the advantages which it conferred , At considerable personal trouble , too , Miss Robinson has rushed in where the postal officials feared to tread , and has earned the gratitude of many a

soldier ' s wife hy sending to Plymouth for postoffice orders for the men , neither thc camp postmaster nor tlie Postmaster-General , though memorialised on the subject , caring to make the necessary arrangements . Writing to the

Secretary of the League on August 14 th , Miss Robinson says that on tlie previous Saturday sho had sent in for forty orders , amounting to over £ 25 , antl adds , " Last year the soldiers' wives left behind in garrison s 11 lie red much from beina * . ^ . v ... — .... . . . ..... ^ -. . . . — . ,-.,.,.

e unable to get remittances from their husbands nnd the men as a rule take no money back , say ing that they may as well spend it as lose it . ' It is scarcely necessary to observe that the tem perance caterers have seized every available op

portunity of spreading the principles of the League , and as they started b y securing in an eminently practical way the sympathies of the men , they have succeeded in making a very fair number of converts . — Times , 21 st August , 187 , - ; A CONSUMERS' STKIKIC ,- —In these days of

hi g h prices it is impossible to tell what foim combination may take , and it is interesting to watch its development as it exli ids from one class to another , and is even snatched up as a weapon of delence in out-of-the-way places under the pressure of enietgeney . It seems that at

Btiillh , a Welsh - watering place , the other dav . the visiters , mnddi tvd by the exhorbitani charges of the local tradesmen , determined on a "strike " and accordingly convened a meeting on tin public recreation ground of the place , when they discussed their grievances and decided on their plan of action . Bitter complaints wen

made of the hi gh prices charged b y shopkeepers and hotelkcepcis , and it was ultimatel y rt solved that unless the charge for built r was 1 * 1 iluccd nearly jo per cent , ami the [ nice of ham brought down to that at which it could be obiainid at Cardiff , they ( the visitors ) woultl totall ) abstain Irom the use of those unifies of constimnlinn

The meeting was then adjoin m d , after a committee had been formed to wait upon tin tradesmen and inform them of the determination that had been arrived at . ' 1 here can be little doubt lhat this system of " striking" against the charge of certain HI tides which have hilluito

been of dail y use will iu a short time become common , owing to the impossibility of milling the exorbitant demands of retail tle . ikr . s . People are beginning to find out that manv ol what arc termed " neei-ssaiii-s" are in fact luxuries , which can be easily disc , n . 1 < l with

without serious discomfort or iiiconv- niciiiv . The style of living has oi late vears become lar too extravagant among all classes of society , and the present high prices will be not without . their compensation , il ' . hey induce simpler habits

than those which have done so much in demoralise both tradesmen and their customers . Fewer servants , fewer fires , less meat , less butter , less luxuries of every description will become tlie fashion , until demand and -stipple hate reached an equilibrium . —Pall Mall ( Ju- .-Jttc .

The Divine Omnipresence.

PATENT AIR GAS . — A novelty is about to be introduced in Leeds in the shape of gas manufactured b y a very simple process from air . The necessary apparatus consists of three connected parts . The first is a blower , set in motion by a wound-up wei ght , operating upon its axis by a

cord passing over pulley sheaves . Through the motive power secured b y the gradual pressure of the weight downwards , the fan revolves and forces a sufficient supply of air into what is called the generator . This is a cylinder charged with a chemical preparation known as gasogen ,

which gives off an inflammable vapour . B y passing through this , common air acquires illuminating qualities , and is at once conducted , ready for use , into the "governor , " a kind " of meter used to regulate the pressure . It will thus be seen that no kind of fuel is used in the

process , the only material requisite , in addition to the air supply , being the liquid gasogen . One of the main ingredients of this hi g hly volatile preparation is spirits of petroleum . It is not explosive , and can be purchased at a cost of half-a-I'ruivn per gallon . This tpiai'tity will make --joo cubic feet of air gas , which is said to be eq tal in

l-vice that supply of coal gas , owing to its stronger li ght and slower combustion . Consumers who may contemplate making * 1 I 1 ir own gas b y the new mode will want to know sometiling about the apparatus . A machine to serve from ro to 14 burners can be purchased for / . ' 15 . and the prices : for ordinary purposes range from this figure to JJ 60 I ' or au apparatus etpial to the supply of from - *¦* to / 2 ? burners . *

CONSERVATION- OI * WOOD . — 'Iho a p lication of wootl to the rough and trying purnosc of stieet paving renders any inquiry into th * means of assuring its preservation of great interest . At Toledo , Ohio , bJovks werc found to bo , ;* :

the end of four or live years , entirel y rotten ; yet when the wood paving at tlie corner of King and Jordan-streets , Toronto , was taken up after some two or three years' wear , it was found to be practically as good as new . It had diminished only from one-sixteenth to one-ei ghth of an inch

but , although the stnface had thus been ground down , it was , by that very process , rendered almost as hard as iron . Toledo blocks had been coated with tar . The probability i . s that the latter had been thus treated while the wood was still green or moist , and that the superficial

covering served to fondue the moist in c , ami so lo make the process of softening ov rotting away all tin * caMer . Ivench and Jj , Igian engineers have bet u laic l y giving some atiuitionto this sublet . An Aniciican newspaper , noticing t ' leir I'vperiminls , says " Instances au- ntcnti nud by one of the 1 xpet imciiters , ? v ! . Melseims , in

which prepared blocks , into the sinuosities of ¦ vhose wood y fibres the tairy preparation had pi ncratcd . afti 1 * exposure to alti mate steam baths and liiisty weather , and to burial in wet 01 * iiarsh y soil , were peif cily sound and uninjured after 20 years' trial . A section of a p iece of timber imiir * . : * nntcd v . ilh 1 ar shows tbat the

const r \ m ;; Mibslance lias followed the lines of the loiigiiiidiiKi ! fibres , and often lhe microscope reveals the complete filling of lhe pores , anil every channel which mi ght . jive intianee lo di deletions agt nts is plugged bv lhe lar , which in many cases , is al-o found a pi vf-ct preseiv . i *

of bobs , strews antl nails . * ' It i . s if d . i .-ed lhat by this process a railway sleep -i * may be made as sound and lo last as long ns an Kgypli . in iiuinnny . Il must , be clear that no such results as t ) ie-e could lie atiainel wiihot . l * a c .-u * i fill si lection ant ! preparation ol tlv wood ill the fust

instance . ' 1 liar app . ais to ua to be tin * prima ;* - * coudiiioii in all ca * -es . Then it b < conn s a question what is the best preserver , regard being bad In ( 'li- apmss . Is il carbolic acid or l a * , or -vli . il * ? I )) - * ; ia--. e-i- i : i * n * iocs ! niaiari I |) I . * of o ' L l lie application <•; ' wool wile-c e ' liranibty i * an absolute 11 i \ ssil- lo Hs aiiop 'i . m . — 7 \ , roil to ( , l „ t ::

i ' he I ' nnee of ' Wales will .-. u-e-a *; ib ¦ to tile Col-.- testimonial . The Duke of I *' . dinhur . gh puts bis name down for -LOj . and Lord Kipon and lhe Duke of P . uccleiich each •¦ . ub-eiib .- £ ; . - . The l- ' oti'teis had their a-ei-ad T ; le at the Crystal Palace 011 Tue : day last , ' . ' . hich was attended by 0 o , j 4 j persons .