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The antnor et oThe teetietzet Sointea" in a
tiepty to orifice adhanees inatichfitme
Theory, which 'Terri -Also Dim 'Penh
His newton toud commence Told Dine
a hat ominatm Iht AO, *Avila/0
(TransIaeed tamp ComateToistonentinueerinta
I have meetved, rind histlt continue to
.ceive, Munchers of latterefrona persons Who'
are petted sttingere th nie, aelting me to
.stitin plein, and eimplelanguana rpy men
'victor) tionthe Subject handled in the etc*,
ontitlea 'Kreutzer Sonata.", With
this eequest 1 ehall now endeavorto
n and '
• My viewe on the cineetiOn may be suo.
oinotly stated, tie f011awee Without enter-
ing, into details it may be generally ad.
nutted, that I Orrhaneniate in saying that
=any people condone, in young men a
course of comitiot with regard to the, other
:sex which is 'itutoinprittltle With atria
morality, and 'that this dissoluteness is
pardoned generally., , Both .parents and the
government inconsequence cif this view
May ,be said to wink at proftintaiyand even
in the last resort to erianurage,its itraotiee,
I am of opinion that thitris not 'right.' '
Ithe not possible that the health of one
nines 'should necessitate the Min of
another; and in.00nsemience it is our fitet
.duty to teen a deaf .ear to tench an,
essentially immoral (beeline, no 'Patter'
how strongly soaiety, pay have established
or law proteeted it. 6 Moreover, WI:leaded to'
be fully reitognizedthat men Eire• rightly to
be held responsible for the consequence ot.
theta Etote, apel that them are no aonh'eritto
be vietted upon the woman alone. It 161:
lows from this that it is the. ,duty of men:
who'd° not wiehibhive a lifeof infamy "to
practise suolt continence in, teepect to all
women as they Would Wei° the female'
, society in which theyeissove medenhd, ex-
theinely of their. liteitheretinacheisters.
A more rational modef Wet ehoula be
adopted,. whiell'''WOuldt include abstinence
from aloehotie nrinhs, from excess in eat-
ing and from fieslitaentnon the one dhatia;,
and Monerae to physical labor on the
other. 1 mai not 'speaking Of gheirineettee,ah
ofany of those OCcupations which may he
fitly .described ns playing' at work;.I meati
the genuine toil that fatigues. No one need,
go fee in search of propfinthat this kind Of
absteinions Hain is not merely priteiblet
but far leett hurtful to health than ettoesea
Hundreds of instances rite known to every
one. This is my first contention.
CUPID TO RR SFIUNNED.-,
In the second plecenr think that ohlatd.
years, through Vations reactors' into
1 need not enter„ but among whiele the
above thentioned 'laxity of 'opinion in
moiety and the teequent, tdealizetion .pf
The subject in nutmeat literature !Ind
painting may .be nienticinedi,coningtil infi-
delity has becomemore common mad is
considered less' reprehensible. I aret 'of
opinion that this is not fight. The origin,
of this evil is twofold. It is dee; in the
first place, to a natural instinct end in
the seeond to the elevationof Ithistinstinct,
to a Ohne to .Which it 'dem not rightly
belong. Thls being so, the evil Can only
be remedied by effecting a change inthe,
views math in Vogue ,ithout' "'falling in
love" and all that this term implies, by
educating men and 'WODien at hone
through family influence and exampier and
abroad by means of healthy public opinion,
to practise that abstinence whioh morality
and Christianity elike enjoin.' This is my
Esmond contention.
In the third place, I am of opinion that
another consequence Of the 'felse ltglat 'in
which "failing in love" and what'it leads
to are Viewed in orir society is that the
birth of children has lost its pristine
eignifioance,nand that .modern marriages
aro , conceived 'less and less -froth' the'
point of view of the family. I am of
opinion that this is not right. This is• my
third contention •
CHILDREN OVERFED AND SPOILED.
In the fourth Place; feat of opinion that
the children (who in our eociety are either
eat obstaple to enjohinent--an „untuchy
tiecidennas it were) ate edmatecianotensith
▪ view to the problem width theywill be
one day called on to fece, and to solve, but
Bblely with an eye to the pleasure which
They maybemade to yield. to their parente.
The consequenee is that the children of
human beings" are brought up for all the
world like the young of animate, the chief
care Of their 'parents beteg not to train
them to s,nch work, 1,41 -.10 VVOrthY OU110611
and women,' but to inerearei their Weight,.
toadd a en* to thltih,. stature, to make
'then Shreiors, Sleek; well-fed and comely.
They rig them out in all manner of fantas-
lic costumee, wash /-themeaoverfeed, 'them,
and refine en 'malie. thein work.' If the
,ohildrenlof .the lower ohders differ in this
last respect from those of the well.to-do
classes:, ,the .difference is ,menely , tormei t,
they work frep sheet necessity, rind then
because:their. Ferrante reocignize work as:
duty. And in overfed children as in over-
fed animals, sensuality lahengendered, un.
naturally early.
, Fashionable dress tehdetit, the ',donne, Of,
reading, plays, antigie, .denaes, letsciena
food, all the elements Of one thodern life,'
in oword, from the, piethree onthe:little
belies = of thy:teeth:eats t Up to the niCivel , the
taleand the , pogniecatatribute to fan this
sensuality into a strormeemienming flan"
with the result that sehealthrinest and diet,
eases have come to be the normal condi-
:time pf the peripdto tenagh youth, ' kid
.otien continue into thes'.4Par. age of
blown manhood. And ranef opinion $hkt
this is not right., , tt,
It is high ttme it ceased. The ithildren
of humanbetngs should not be„bretightup
as if they Were antirialenandtwe shOeldneet
tie the object end' istritath obtain as the
result of our lappes, something, better t and
nobler than at Welhateissedtbody. This is
my fonrth contention.
, LOVE, OVERRATED,
hiehthe fifth plaiien1 "sin :Of opinion theta'
owing to the exaggerated and erroneous
eignificome attribetted:'hy, ottrtheathety tO
love and td the idealized 'statesibrit acconi-
pany and encoeedett, the best energies of
• Mit Men and 'ettOpetit hie dentine fOtth an
eacieetriated dneing tjildet mosth;pritrciising
period' of life ;:thosts' Of the den in the
Work of looking. lets, °homing and wining
the mcist dedittible Objeetii of llote,' for Which
pnrpose.lyingetnafrand are, held to be quite
ettetieehie ; t1theht4 the; thottheht
Men and decoying them into
liaisOns ot ,nearetagee by the Mesh gnestion.
able meanetedneeiveble, hiendinetanoeof
which the meant fashions 10 arm
imay be cited. t am, of oninitinethat thy is
not right. ‘,
The tenth is that the hoe affair bas
beep exalted by peetiand rethancereta art
endue intpcietenee and that love he ite
'vationetleveltiptaelitit istiletafitting, object
t� °muerte the heat energieh 'Of 'Meth:Pam
PIO set tt lettere ttitem. and strive after it,,,
heeittuititheil,Viati Of life la as Vulgar ana
OVE
gnently met with in the tower eines of
oevelopment, which meg in lueoions„and,
abundant feed an end worthy, of mash Cheat
efforts, NOW,. thill not riglat'
and WA be One. And' in
order to, , aVoid doing it ott ie only
nlihe eedful eo aeathe feet that Whaterert
truly ,elemervegtO be held uti: se, h werthr
.ohjeot pf Matit 'striding dth4 ,;919;,,t,0t4ti
whether it White eerviets humanity, Of.
ene's country, of 'seience, of art, not to;
Espealnof the Menthe Of God, is far aboire.
and beyond the:Ember° of personal enjoy,:
pent.' Blonde it f011OWei filet not only to
,form ligi80131 but even to oontraettParti,
eine is, front it ChriatieW'isOttttht MOTO
net a hiograele; but atilt: 'Love and all
* the
etathat iteeempanY 'and fellow it, hew".
,ever, we may tan an ptcliee andherse to prove:,
the contrary,neyee; de and henet 'oan
tete the attainment' of ad Alin worthy �f
pen, bet, alwaya erookee, , it • mohe
This is menfifth contention.' , !
" HOW sheet, the Iranian hien'? We
.admit that oelibaoy is better and nobler,
thentintrriage evidently the human ram
Will Cope ithendi ,.- But if the logical
conolnetitin of the argument is that the
heinan race Will beaonse extinot the whole,
resin -ming it( weenge 9:uiVX,. reply that,
the ,argutnent is not mine; I did not invent('
it. That it • ialtiouinhent on mankind so
to Melva and that celibacy is preferable' to
marriage' are truths "'reheated by Christ,
nineteen hundred years, ago, •set forth' in
catechisms' and profeased by na as
lowers of Ohriet.
hen NATURALLY CHASTV
The same tenth ocastirthed, by mit'
aeas,onnwhich tells usethith the 'WY 'oohi'
tion not repugnant, to ebe eentiment of
hutininit V of the patiblem" of' dryeattehnlah
tion ie atfcitdedtby the ayeeematie ettinirig
lifter Sheittity which, 'though distasteful to
,animalanis naturalto man.
It is most extraordinary thing when
you come to think dr it ; Malthusian
theories oen bo broad:sea .ana propagated;
milltons. of children Pah be allowed to die;
every year of hanger and want ; millions
pport millions of latinien beings ,may be
butchered in war; ,thet' &eta may strain
every nre
erve to toetee "hin,dtperfect the
means of killing the people and look „.upon
this ,asthre,main same andeobjeetef its. ex'.
thee things may be done
under , cm; eyes without striking as ,in,
any weye dengetotis to inimanity, but len
some onehint thensecessittef colibaon
and inainediately theory is 'raised that the
human race is in danger.
Chastity and celibacy, His urged, cannot
constitute the ideal of huntenitne, temente
chastity would 'annihilate' the rime whibh
strove to real,* it, and humanity cannot
setup Etedte ideal its, own annihilation. ;It
may bepointed out inreply that only that
is tine:ideal whioh, being unettsinabletad.
mite of infinite gradation in degrees of
proximity. Stich is thetChristian ideal of
the founding of God's kingdom, the union
'Of all living oreatutedeby thehamida of love.
gb:'ocuineption Of ite attairtinenthis inoonat
patible with the coneeptiOnefetlie
went of life:. • Whitt kind ';cf life could.
subsist, if al) liying ereetnres,were, joined
together by the bonds of love? None. Our
,conoeption of life is ansepetahtYlieund up
with the bonoeption of, a continttal steiving
afte,a aneinattainable .
. THE TIACE DOOMED ANZVAX,
,
13Rt even if we. euppoee the 'Christian
rideal of perfect ehastity ereelieed, what
thenhthWe should; merely oureelyhe
'faM faoe en the one hied with the
familiar teaching of religion, one of whose
'dogrente that the world vehthitheadh end ;.
and on the other, of so.callen science, which'
,informa ns that enn:ientadeally loan
.itetheat, the result of which will in time be
hlais extinction Of the human ince.
If the lives of us Christians are chars cn
terieed by soon a, friglifiht contradiction
betheenater commences and reality it is
because we fail to understand the doctrine
of Christ, which pointe to an unattainable,
a s
impertsbable ideal,: and in ,nonsequence
allow ecolesiestical preseriptions, wrongly
called Christian, to be substituted for the
Christian ideal. eThirhharebeen done Paths
nhateethif divine Service, Off; apostleshipt of
power and of much else. The same thipm
has been done in respect of merriage.
Christ not only.'never tinatituted marriage
but if we search for formal precept on the
suhjeot we find that He rather dieapproved
inthan otherwise. (" And 6,760 one that
bath forsaken hotts,m, or eiteethrem, or,
sisters, or father, or tnoothert or ,Wtfes or
ehilaren, or land° for Mt ;percent peke,
shall receive an hundred foldand shell inn
heeit everlasting life."-aMatt., xix ,, 29
Mark, x.; 29, 30; Lake, xviii:, 29, 30) He
only impressed upon married and unmar-
ried alike the neceseity of striving after.
Perfection. .
„
The churebes, however, by endeavoring,
COntterttO Christ's thatibing, to establish
maeriagettan Christian inefittition failed'
to °Mate' a,' solid institutibrn and yet de.
ptived,the people ofethenguicling in ettreet
up by Christ. The upshot of this ill aa-
eyiserl effort was that people flung away the
befomar,receiving .the',,new h they lett,
night of thettrue ideal of oltestity pointed
out by Christ and emtireced outwardly the
eeclesiastioal, dogma of the sacrament of•
marriage, a deriteine that has been built up
Open ate foundetiona whatever ,and in
Which men do not really andeincerely be.
.heve. This affords us a satisfactory ex-
planation of the, 'fact, which at first sight
seems m strange anomaly,. that tlieprin •
cipieef 'family life and its basiEr(doithigal
fideltty) em found to be more firmly rooted
Belong peoplesaciadhodsess' clear and min-
ute external,„religions pmsoriptions, onthe
aubjeot-eamong Illohaparnadrose •shatlews;
for instance—than ,'Etmong no eilled
tie,ns. eThe fernier have a code of clear;
detailed external precepts respecting mar-
riage, whereas the latter have nothing of
the It leerily Over a ;May hisiguifi-
ce,nt fraction of the unions which they con-
tract thet the nien and women of our so.
.ctietealaave .o ceremony. performed by the
'clergy to which theh gine the name of sae-
espental marriage; they, then liveonin
pelygarnytittia. pplandry and Wing Ohm -
Mines up to viae;' in the' belief that they'are
.praotising the monogamy they profess. -
MARRIdES AHMAUD.
Now, there ts not and canhot be suolnan
institution as' a Chrietian naiirriaget. juit as
'there 'oannot be snob aileirignien Christian
litnrgy, Matt., vi., d.12; John, iv ,21) nor
rChnetian eteocherenettore,ohnroh fathers
in10)" not Christian smite,
Christian taw come, nor Christian States.
:11118 is *4/it& was ahhetee (taught jtitahe-
hinged bYtinet Chriretien'd, 'Oft the Cett end
" A. 'Christian's ideal is
not marriage, but lone.for God and for his
'ClIOneegnenith hithe eyes of ,a
Chriatiantelatiens, in mattiegenot only Po
:not conetitute a ;lawful eight' end happy
atete, as our society and our churches
mairitairten bet, toriethee other hand, lire
el'asttys shall: a a et ,tr
, Stich a thing as Christian marriage neva
iti
Was er never could be. Christ did. net
Atutery, tor' lid He eatabliph marriage;
neither aid tiffs allseiples Petry. Btitif
Cbriiah hattiriageneannot exist *bete le
ettoh a thing an a Christian ,view of mei.
riagend tAtid 'this 'he* • it titaYbe fOrinti
A,'Chriatilati lend lir thigt
tinderstand nekthose WhO hall then:miner
;,..latdirely because they were
hrutith 'le that other conaeption fro*1 bePtleed end still receive the eecrement
once a year, but there whose lives are
obaped and regulated by the teaehinge
ef Ohriat) a Chrietien, I Say, cannohview
the marriage relation otherwise. th,a1;,,tte a
devietiOn rota tbe doetrine Of Che—as
ThitiettlearlY 1ajd,owntitt. Matthew Ve
28 and the ceremony Ailed Chriatian mar.
riage 'does no alter iteOgortoter one jot.
4 'Pbrietienwill, never, 'tlierefOre, 'deans
,marriage, avOld ht,
tt,the,light qf trnth dawne npon- hal*.
tiON,
be ig alresay hipereied, q 11,
behlg,ahlIthietietn, from weiticiteee heentere
'into?marriage, relationd with the 'cerenio.
mop, of, the, Ohoreh,, or without tliein,bo
9therhilternative than to abide with
!ib1,1/irt,tregtothiw.11: t, i,tatt ,Wcihtriaie hotlaro )h uand tt
teapiretagether With her to free themeelhee
of their`din.,'"-Thia is the Christian View of
marriagei and there cannot 'be any, other'
for. ti'than whet' htmestly 'endeavors to elpipe•
hialife in aceordence with the teaohings of
Cuitt.ttat;I:1'iA':;•
•34PONO. LIMON.
- To vote' many persens the thoughts,
tave uttered here and in ." The Keenteer
Sonata "; willeseeria etrenge, vague, even
tiontrodictorh., They certainly do contra.
diet,' not eaolietlier, but the Wholetenor of
our lived, and involuntarily a doubt arises,
011 Whioh,•side is :trtith-a-on the
side of the thoughts ' which seem
trim , and well founded, oth on the. aide
'of the lives of others and myself." I„, too,
Was weighed &nate by 'that. same doubt
When writing, " The Kteetzer Sdnats." I
had hat the feinteet' preisentiMent that the
traitrof thotight I had started Wonld lead
Pe'whithei it did. 1 hves terrified, by my
.0Wle conishution and was at first disposed
„toraeotibut it was inspereible not to
harken to tbe,voice of ,My reason and my
etinestience.' , And eo, Strange thettgla they
may appear to many, opposed as 'they un-
doubtedly stet° thetrend and tenor of our
livesaand ino'ornpatible thotigh they msy
prove with, what. I have heretofore thought
and uttered, I have no choice but to accept
them. " Bat man is weak," people will
object. " His task 03010 benreatteleeed by
his'etrength." •thn ,
Thiri is tentanion)at toete,hing "My hand
is weak., al cannot draw a straight', linee-
that is, a line whichttvrill ' be the shortest
,
line between twah'given pointe—and so, in
circler to make it andre .eastior myself, I,
intending to deaw, a stesiglat, will; choose
'for my model a brooked. ling." •
•' The weaker my hand the greater the
meed that my mbdel should be perfeot.
''1./aelt TOLSTOI.
, The Loeksmith andthe Emperor.
; At a meeting the other day of the Con-
servative Society of Madgeburg a locksmith
named Deppe thus , describes his frame-
Sions,of the recent eittiege of the Council
Of "Stittebefore which he appeared : "Called
'by the Emperor as one having a knowledge
' of technical mittere, Ihad the,pleasure of
attending three meetings beet week, Mader
the presidency of the Einperor 'himself.
The sittings, with the exception of a short
pause for lunch, lasted from 10 a.m. to 680
p.m. The Emperor opened,. ; ad-
journed, and cloeed the meeting, called on
speakers, spoke himself, or stopped a
speakezdwheti be made 'a Pehlke, as the
case Might bet First to 'come and'irtst to
go, be fellowed the proceedings with eager
attention. , During .lunch, where we eat' in
otrelese rows, and at whioh,the mintster of
'the interior was our host, the most dittiful
of monarobe became the moat gracious.
When 'Speaking singly or in mall groups
and discussing various questions, we quite
forgot that it was the German
Emperor before whom, we sett. As I 'stood
modestly apart, Herr von Boetticher took
me by the arm and led me up to the Em-
peror, and at the same time I had the
opportunity of 'sharing in a discussion with
the social•deneoOrat Herr Buchholz; who,.
'aide repreeentative of the workingmen and
member of the UnfaH'Versicherung (acci-
dent insurame), could boast of the ,support
of 650,000 votes. Herr Buchholz, who wore
the iron cross, believed that patriotisro and
socialism could be united, and had no de-
sire at all that the Emperor's rule 'should
tiot got ,rid of. Hemupon the Emperor
asliedn- "Do you believe that your leaders
in the Reichstag will do anything for you?'
Herr Bnehhole replied Certainly, Your
Majesty, thel hive promised, and if they
do nothing we shall not °boom then:ensile.'
The 'limper& rejoined: we shall
see. ..11 only we could put it to the proof
and oblige these gentlemen to bear the re-
sponsibity of government. But 1 oennot
leave Bebel on, the throne.' The cabinet-
maker Vorderbrugge and I rather drove
-
Herr. Buchholz into a corner, but when
=next day the Emperor inquired if we had
'got him round *ewere obliged to answer
no."
The Pastor's Lot.
Folks go to the pastor with their troubles
and ask his help about things they ought
to fix themselves without anybody's assist-
ance. They tell the minister ' stuff they
ought to be ashemed to repeat to them-
eelves-in,a whisper at the bottoninef the
well, and yes this man they hint for a
thousand or two dollars a year.mnst do
their preaching and be the confidant ana
arbitrator for the whole parish besides.
Ministers, need a vacation every year if
only for a ohange. ''Churches should be
glad to give it to them, and all concerned
will be directly or indirectly benefited.—
Utica Press. -
,
Trnavoidamy Detained.
, • , •
Man:eying EditOneaWhit do you mean by
this: "Mr. Prindle was unavoidably de-
tained "/ W,hy, now, Briodle's dead.
' New Writer—'S that so'? What shall
Ido?
M: E.—Well, it we'll do to say he's dead
in so many words. Use some enphemistio
expremion. ,
Nl'W.s--013, yes, I understand. (Writes):
"111r:Erindle was' 'unable to 'attend, hiv-
ing )gdnet, ohs long visitto the Sulphur
Springeatt ' eh, ,
hthiet is a. very original boy, theft son of
yours. I think he is bound to Hoehn the
world?""1: kite*. It's a hard,
thing to gehhina to riachinathe morning." '
Mee. Millais,' the Unions artist's
and the ei.Wife of JohdReeltin, lives like a
royal prinitess analtate, a staff of artistically
dressed serteinte, Who; care for her every,
desire. She is bettutifttl, acooreplished`
and captinating and i,ttegarded as her
hasband'etnescsot. ElertGreek dresses are
poems and:, her poem ' the perfection of
grade. She' has Oriental douched:PI all her
apertnaents andhieeald to ,be the hippictat
wonian' inhalleNurchno. 'Acr huribrind it
werth'$1.000 000. ; r,`
opened on karch.lttitlast tot
The Itieneet single 4nok in Ai ld,erwea os
t,
Port Jeekson, in, Sydney ha New
Scietti t It ha e taken' in�n4 Met
of6,990 tone and bid rOOM'to Spore
theipeletrated.Gertntin'reMedi fqr lentrith
ethfafittsf o 15 ounces of'the best white ghee,'
broken ,rintosrn1I Pieocia lnt�pintt of
witertriad alloWisd tobecomeSoft; then.
Aissolve it by means of a wpter path and
ciddjtva chinos of glyeerine and eix Ararat
Of -Catholic id;tibcohthand the heat- Until
"thdroughlY dissolVed, On cooling this
hardend to an elastic mass, ptiVered. With h
shining, parohnient.like akin.
IPORO WoLSNifolth10 thIPPOE8e0.8.
tiltr Bad'vere Muller Antelated Athiceiant-
oenerai or the Atli/met, ,
-
LlouteGenerol BirItedYergl3uIIer, 1.0,
A(wdbjecitanwhiGn eni3egli7fdtherr'Bor4140.r1 941%17), as
beat hnown for the, part be" UNIX in the
Sondau war, when beached se Lord Won
seley'e chief of thaff. e,' hbWeVert ;Ow
much honereble service. before *het mettle
(treble oaeapitigna He ,, was ..gtteettetil and
lieutenant in 1950, heutenent, ;et 862,
captain in 1870, maner in 1874,edietitentint;
°motel in 1878 arid colOnel in.111.78, 'He'th
alto aidedemamp to the Sheen.' • EleWas;
one of General', Wolselen's coinpeniOne, in,
arras in the Red River expeditiormand alhe,
aceonsPathed hint to Athafttett, frfOn'hbtv
valinntlY in the Zulu ,war witch e
Chelmeford mine to grief,, and materielly
aided Lord Wolseley in the leet , Egyptian
campaign, taking a proininent part in the.
battles of El Teti and Tamed. On laiebeing,
appointed chief of staff to Lord Wolseleyeet
the Soudan eampaign, a Londonhpaper.
int0 : A tower of strength, a gianteenWillj,
and a most careiul an ,setnee leader
Heavers Buller has proved 'his military
skill in many a fight for the homire Of Oid
England. This apparently invaluable
commander, ason of whom fair,. Devon-
ehire may well be. preud, riohly, Merits
the honorable dietinotion ed 9f being
general Lord Wolseley's' •Chief ,
Staff." Of the 'General, Mr, Arobiba,14
Forbes says: "RedvetsBolldi has r,seen
more war than any of our eoldiets who are,
not yet veteraers. The ,Red River expSclif
tion VMS not war,bunit had its paerits' as
a preparatory hemp. He , ecconmented,
Wolseley to Aehantee and, seohtook his
'place there as a Men who riaighthe trtiatea
zo organize, to lead end 'to fight. din South
Africa his name was bracketed With that,
of Sir Evelyn Wood. Men who , were in
the field with him in the Zeta caxemaigh
will not soon ,horget , what dominance Ile
swayed, what powerwielded both of
restraint moil of 'enoontagenient oyer the
wild, mixed, irregular horsemen with whoni
he did service, so constant, so active and so
enterprising. -General Buller obtained, the
Victoria Cross for his gallant othaduct itt
,the 'retreat at .Inhlobanat on the 28th
March, 1879, inhevin8 , assiated, whilst
hotly pursued by :Zahn, oa 'rescuing'
C. D'Aroy, of the Frontier Light Home
who was retiring, on foot, and carrnirinbina
on. his horse until he overtookthe rear
guard; elect for having, on the same, date
andunder the same cironmstancee, con-
veyed Lieut. C. Everitt, of the Frontlet,'
Light Home, whose horse had been; killed,
under him, to athlace of safety.' Let:erect:1,
General Buller,' in the same manner, nave&
a Crimper of the Frontier 'Light' Bathe,
whoee home waseompletely exhausted:and
who otherwiee woula haye been killed by
the Zaino, who were within, eighttreyards
of him. In later' Years General Bailer bets
held various important cominands. .
1.0
Flag Lore.
To "strike a flag " is to totter the
national colors in token of submission.
Flees are used as the symbol of rank and
coramand, the officers using them 'being
called flag officers. Such flags am equare,
to distinguish them from other banners.,
A " flag of truce" its a white flag dire
played to en enemy ta indicated& desire fort
a parley.
The white flag is a sign of peace.' 'Attest
a beetle parties of both aides often go out
to the iiald to rescue the wounded or bury
the dead under the protection of a white
flag.
The red flag is e. sign of defiance and is
often used by revolatiothsts. In our ser-
vice it ia it mark of danger and shows a
ant he. receiving or discharging her
powder.
The black flag is a sign of piracy.
The yellow flag shows teyessel to be at
quarantine or is the ,sign of a contagions
disease.
A flag at half-mast means Mourning.
Fishing and other vessels return with a
flag at half-maet to announce the loss or
death of some of the men.
, Dipping the flag is lowering it slightly.
and then hoisting it again, to salute it vessel
or fok t.
Beware
Beware of the man who tells you of his
wife's faults.
Beware of the man and woman,•too, who
always want to borrow a little change. •
Beware of people who are always inviting
you, to dine with them generally and never
speotally.
Beware of the milk that is heavenly in
hue and spiritual in its thickness.
Beware of losing your temper , in bot
weathe ••
Bee e of the girl with the one white
lock," th painted eyee, and a bOdice out,
low, ich she wear ti on the streets.
e of vulgar things, words and
peel; s you would of the gentleman in
blt d red, for vulgarity and sin ere
Ar• eine.
' re of the woman who announces to,
t life is without flavor and that if`
only met you before ehe did John
ki then, of course, it would have been
di nt.—Bab.
•A pathetic Story. •
"1 was telkine with e postal clerk yes-
terday who has just returned from Pitts.
burg, and he told me e touching story
which came to light in that city. A blank
envelope was found ip the mail, and it was
opened to ascertain the address of the
sender. • There Was none, and the only
signature was ' From your brother
Will.' The letter went on to say *hot the
writer had pawned his coat to raise 310,
which was enclosed, to send to his sister,
who was starving. The letter stated that
he hoped the money would relieve her dia.
tress."—New York Star.
The Main Thing Missed.
Pr. A.—Yon didn't get t,o the society last
night t Dr. Jay's paper On n Germs ' , Was
very interesting. ' •
;
Dr. B.—Had several cells tia,the evening;
'sorry I couldn't attend. .
• 15r. A.—The paper Will. be published.
' Pr, p.—Yes, but the supper worth. --
Boston Transcript. 1.
High Art on thellBoad.
Old Lady—Ia there spything you can do
round the bouselfI give yon a Ocala meal.
Tramp—Yes, marm; I kin lecture on
Wagner, en' any frier' kin glee practical
Alustrations on der piannyforty; if you've
hot one.
SUPERINTENDENT Bonen, "of, the United
States Census Bureau, estimates that the
tenete returns, when ceittpleted, will place
the population of the country at 64,500,000.
against 50,155,783 in the year 1880.
Mise Torment; the lady who is to marty
'ArAti`filey, has Oliver Cromwell for an anoes.
tVr, • •
To shrink woolen gob: 1, After tanning;
treat the goods on a perforated , table
with sepetheated steam. 2, ran through
h
bath01alum of 1.67 spirit,grains for
half an hour, wring Ana 'dry ; Welsh, soap,
wikah Of1 and dry.
The 15nehess of rile has a reputation for
making butter.
IKON 401/Sir8,
-A DdpMrtureh Bsiii1dW Width ie itictininh
• QlSeeT1'4144i1170'134t,7W171.1.
12;or med an.
,ornemental feature of ,,the Windsor thew,
le to be ereeted in the grounds etGaborne.'
An article In the Londen Stalulard explains
that l'the Questa/3as , been suffering from
theentatirre of iste, end her sulniner prate
ltaiettien 9 rit:ral';?hr"likteir tugej, m4 ultlatentot. eueirc:uu :gee
tphiiitsc,ePatt nia701nmaa,lba2i oT1 Lath pavilionardoonq treat:, boa
that her Majeity pity, behtble ±0 enjoy her
'meet elate* in the open ,air,without risk of
danip.w11,9,Ano,gpea, of the pavilion has
;given an tam:reties eo. the trede in iron
-`
lir:. Gladstone, we are intended, , is
having an iron library erected at Hawarden,
Ito contaiet 16,000 volumes.; He takes
1413;4iveli9st :interest he the bnilding ,end
atchett ,every detail of pe, emotion.
'
he boost) contains fivedmoras, the largest
one measuring 41' feet by . 21. • Oases are
,nitide *hold 3twenty tons of books. Mr.
•,Gladetbne, intends the library for quiet,
'Study and therefore proposes to admit
• only a Any- pereceas at a time. These houses
are put togetherlilte ahila's puzzle, and
can be taken apart, compactly packed and
retnoved elsewhere. A ' large number of
iron villas have been sent from the worhe,
st hilbert•gate to . the Riviera, and there
ereoted epon plots of land marehased or
. rented for e terra' .91 yeara, • When the
leateenpietria the betties oan be peeked op
• and removed. There is 'beginning to be a
demand for iron bungalows as marine
eretidences „in 'England: The rapidity
with which they oen be built and their
.small coat, as compared with the ordinary
dwellings of brick and stone, are recione-
hitendatiena whet' tell in their iavor.
' ", Thepossibility of having it house built
ip it month to thebuyer'sown plan And
ready for micupatton ea soon as Entailed
• seems almost poredible. The pretty Wel.
'cone Club at the 'Itclian Etna American
exhibitions was pade of iron, and its cost
-(2300) will give some idea of the compara-
tive prices of brick and iron. It was cov-
ered with trellis work, which immarted,a
picturesque and rural inspect to the outside.
In its uncovered state the corrugated iron
oannothe said to be Ornamental, bat the
trellis work enthelliebes it at it small met.
'It iesuggested bythe manufecturere that
thatching the roofa with heather would add
to the pictorial effect and also give addi-
tional protection' to the roof. Heather
from Bourne:eolith thus applied would last
`for fifteen, years or more. The thatching
nler.' aid ,in keepinghthe house,. cool in
„ summer. arta warm in winter, thengla this
denble desideratum has already , been
, Monied by the lair epeces between the outer
' iron Walla and the Inneeeines of felt; and
pine Weed. :
e, this' How feasible to add an additional
room to the ordieary brick; dwelling house,
wherensuch accomnaodation Is needed.
Being removable, ibis tha property of the
tenant, so that the objection felt by most
people spinet building for the ultimate
benefit of one's landlerdr'does net hold good
in sueb it case. Stabling and Mach honees
0614 in . the earcie Way, be temporarily
eractea2 As a playroom or schoolroom for
childrenna detached iron building comma -
'Meeting' with. the hens° by a covered way
would' frequently- prone a boon to the
,brain-worknig father ante family; and in
• thane of illness it would be possible, by
this means, to isolate e patient contpletely
from the other members .of the family.
' h There is no damp to he apprehended in
aniron 'house. A useful Present to it vil-
lage would be an iron playroom, which
could oe built in a week. A building cost-
ing 2200 can be erected in a fortnight. The
price af it room measuring 20 feet by 14
feet would be about 250. The cost of re-
moval is from 25 upward. With this novel
architecture it would be possible to reside
in one's own house ana different seaside
resort in England every year by having an
iron house, removed in this way. The
brickwork chimney is preferred to any
other by the benders' of iron houses, no
mode of heating being so Wholesome as the
open grate with direct venfilation. There
are other modes of heatinn rooms, and
sone of them are stifficiendy satisfactory
when the ventilation, hem been properly
secured. The drainage can be worked on
the meal plan, if this be preferred to the
simpler mode recommended by the origin-
ator of the iron house."
Cat With a Wooden Leg.
Patrick McGrath, a resident of Wood-
ford, Kentacky, has a three -pawed cat that
he thinks can do more business in extermi-
nating vermin than any fournegged feline
thetwalks the earth. The oat, whose
name is Tbomas, was born deformed, and,
'accerditig to the usual custom, ought to
hate been drowned. Mr. McGrath, how.
ever, reseed it with °ate,' and after it had
been weaned .provided it with a wooden
paw, whicla is now useful, ornamental and
an object of envy to the other oats of the
neighborhood.' Themao finds the ligneous
appendage of much more value than a
natural one. It eapplements satisfactorily
the action of its three companions, and also
comes, into as whenever occasion reqnires
se
is club, foc insetted of nein its month to
chew up rate and mice the artificially gifted
feline stuns them with the wooden paw,
which is used like 'a club. Thomas is one
of the features of Woodford, and a visit to
that place withont a visit to 'Thomas will
be no visit at all. All nthia he on the
antherity of the local Kentucky news-
papers.
a. Yankee Oa/Scrim:Lander.
,
Word 1108 :'reaohed Winnipeg •from the
Hudson; Bah fort, in the MoKenzie River
country, confirming the report that a re.
measurement, by Atnericant' surveyors of
the Alaska boundary shows it to be 28
milegefuither , east than heretofore sup-
posed. This places Forty -Mile Creek and
thetioh gold distriots of elaat oduntry in
American', territory. The Hndson Bay
Company will have to abandon Fort Ram.
part House, which, by the new demarca-
tion of the boundary, is within United
States territory. •
,
Rev: Sant Small, 'who tried to follow in
the fodtstepe of some of the other sensat-
ional evangelists, has ,dificepted the ',peed-
dency of a' college in Utah. It's it small,
institution,ipresomably.
Chocolate cashmere, Indices a pretty
oltilihs dress. •
LO/la011 fire department statietice,show
that althdagth theatre firer) have increased
greatlyin nninber, they a're far less dant
aging than formerly, owing to the itnproys.
menta ixt tlae apparatus for. 'suppressing
them., 'The ' sera°. etetiefice shawthet the
death rata from fires in London has fallen
hero 238 in 1.87 to 19 in 1889,. This' ie
also laid'M the imProved apparatus.,
' Arelide,acon . Fearer, visited, Ob,erant.
'neergett et the first perfOrnts,hoe` thia year,
of the Pabsioir , And lodged in, the
Whale Of the itetor Who- 'hayed •the hart of
, jean, ,
George' Mots, of .NVilltesbarre, Pa., inur.
aorta hitt wife dna the jury °dye he mast
hang. The condemned meta sage he is glad
was not senteeced to prison for life, as he
mut% prefere hanging.
NO BYES WO 1381M atilD GAME,
etler or a hilindEvooyntv,
atitthe ret n
at /Meeha
irpotahrein4t4IfisiPShahrftcilt4.3ebh4lsienbaitiltioftarmate
betreortnhaelnandAilithrOonheletratled
anaiagialipppels, by o ea:
hibited juet as mach interd,if in the game
tbe bleaoheries with his elder
aa the hundreds; of whey little fellOW0
around hi.
What ere aey dojo' JiMMY 1" he
asked, ae a loud burst of applause rang out
upon the air,
"Rally jool You ought to 0d0191309k
Swipe dab ball! It went down atisioet to
tie gate. It was a dead omiy home rn, but
be stopped on third 'cause it went into de
The little bltnd boy piped Ottt bali enthu.
slam in a shrill treble.
"Tell me all about tinge, how, Jimmy,"
he ineplered. " Yoe know you 'mid you
' lot Pin" replied the other bo, un.
feelingly. " watolaing de gerne."
"Yes, but can't watch, Jimmy. Tell
me a little eomething, won' type? Fit give
yer my new montleorgen if tree Dat's
a good feller." The boy groped veguely
around for hiebrother's hand, which was
impatiently drawn away. h
" Oh, my, but dist Vale a ailiSy 1" cried he
of the eyes, as another volley of applause
broke the enema. " Gain Buch ! Get dere
Eli!" "Now, Roger, knock it out of de
lot!" shouted the bleochers in a paroxysna
of expectation. =
Meanwhile the sightless eyes wereturned
wistfully towards the diamond.
"Oh Jimmy 1" the boy fineffy wailed;
" if you was blind I'd tell yer eyerything.
You've' got dead de best of it Jimmy."
Two large tears born of a hopeleas des-
pair rolled down the boy's cheeks, and
burying hie face in hie hands he subbed
bitterly. ,
Above, the skies were as blue and tender
as a maiden's eyes, and from the dreamier -
eine of the vast field oame the volleying
roars of applause from twelve thousand
throats ; but the little blind chap never
tsilnitileen.Hae sat in silence and darkness un-
" I might as well stayed at home,
Timmy," was his only comment.
"Well, wot did yer crime for 2" replied
the other.—New York World.
• The' Sanctipil. ,
Herd, in twenty partichlere, is William
Seeker's description of, the ' charaeteristios
of sanctified men andtwomett:
1. Sanctified Christiana ' do M111011 good
and melte little noiee.
2. They bring up the bottom of their life
to the top of their light.. ,
3: They prefer the duty then owe to God
to the danger they fear from man.
4. They seek the nubile good of others
above the private good of themselves.
They have the most beantifel conver-
sations among the blackest personae
6. They choose the worst sorrow rather
than commit the least sin.
7. They become ars fathers to all in char-
ity and as servants to all in huraility.
8. They mourn most before God for their
lusts, which appear least before men.
9. They keep their hearts lowest when
God raises their estates higheet.
10. They, seek to be better inwardly in
the substances than outwardly in ampeor-
ance.
11. They are grieved more at the distress
of the church than affected et their own
happiness.
12. They render the greatest good for the
greatest evil.
13. They take those reproofs best which
they need most.
14. They take up duty in point of per-
formance and lay it down in point pf inde-
pendence. ,,
15., They take up their' contentment in
God's appointment.
16. They are raore in love with the
employment of holiness than with the
enjoyment of happiness.
17. They are more enaployed ineearobing
their own hearts than in °rimming other
men's states.
18. They set ont for God at the. begin-
ning and hold out with Him to the end.
19. They take all the shame' of their sins
to themselves and give all the glory of their
services to Christ.
20. They value a heavenly reversion
above an earthly possession.
Pees for Old Paper.
Most housekeepers know hew invaluable
newspapers are for packing away the win-
ter clothing, the' printing ink eating as it
defiance to the stoutest moat; some house-
wives think, as successfully as camphor or
tar paper. For this reason newspapers are
invaluable under the carpet, laid over the
regular cerpat paper. The most valuable
quality of newspapers in the kitchen, how-
ever, is their ability to keep out the air. It
is well known that ice, completely en-
veloped in newspapers so that all air is
shut out. will keep it longer time than under
other conditions; and that a pitcher of ice
water laid in a newspaper, with the ends of
the paper twisted together to exclude the
air, will remain all night -in any summer
room with,scarcely any perceptible melting
Of the ice. These facts should be utilized
oftener than they ore in the care of the
sick at night. In freezing ice cream, when
the ice is scarce, pack the freezer only
threequarters full of ice ana salt, and
finish with newspapers, and the difference
in the time of freezing and quality of the
cream is not perceptible from the result
where the freezer is packed full of ice.
After removing the dasher, it is better to
,cork np theeream and cover it tightly with
a packing of newspapers than to use more
ice. Tke newspapers. retain the oola
already in the ice better than' a packing of
cracked dee and 'ealt, which must have
crevices' to admit the air:—Scientific
American. •
The move norm
She, was talking confidentially to her
bosom friend.
"Now, that we are married," she said,
"John has stopped drinking entirely.
have not detecited the odor of liquor about
him since our wedding day." •
"Was it diffionit for him to stop 2" in.
quired the bosom friend. ,
"01,, no; not rit all. Hci joist eats cloven
He says that is a certain cute."
• Not True That Be Never Worked.
Lady (giving tramri a lanohoon)—I ought,
not to give yeu thia. 1 suppoSe you neve•r
work,
Tratnp—You are ,rnistahen, madam. I
wok hard every day.
• Led -What tin you dd ?
Tratnti--It's hard work getting meals for
nothing, I tell yott, '
Baronen tiurdett.Cotitts and other Lon
den notables are raising by , s,ttbscripties
fund with tvhich to buy a residence for
Explikrer 'Stanley. ' Thid tuition was begun
only after it became known that Stanley
had a Tennantler the hens°. "
" Smithere wanta tat be Priaident,
" Boil Smithers ien't straight enough for
a ruler."