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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-8-19, Page 7ROCKS ON BOIT SIDES Dr. Talmage Encourages Those People Who Are in Sore Affliction. What We Are Taught by the Triumph of Jonathan Ove istines—Inspiration in Persecvtion and New Life in Adversity, Washingtoo, Aug. 14,—This discourse of Da Talmage is full of encouragemene for those who know not welch way to burn because of accumulated misfortunes; text, I• reaneuel xiv. 4, "There was a sharp rock an the oue side and a sharp rook on the other side." Tbe cruel any of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his bodyguard to dd that thing. Jonathan is the hero or the scene. I know that David °recited the Omit a the giane with a few pebbles Well slung, aud that 800 Gideonites scat- tered 10,000 Amalekites by the crash of broken croekery, but, here is a more Wonderful conflict. Yonder are theplu sine e on the rooks. Here is Jonathan with bis bodyguard in tho valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock caned Seneb. These two were as famous in olden times as in Modern times aro Plymouth Ho= and elleralner. Time' were preipitotes, liliecal- able and sbarp, lietweeo these two roolcs Jouathau must make his ascent, no day comes for the sealing 0 the height, Jolla, teen an ids bands aml feet begins the Anent. 'With strain and slip and bruise, ; suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodygoard, lieZez On cote side, Seneh ou the other. After a there tug and push and. Winging 1 see the heed of Jonathan above tbe bolo lu the Mountain, and there is a thal. lenge, and a fight, sued a eupeenatural Consternation, These twe mon, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the enemies of Israel. I suppose that the ovethanging and overehadowlitg rooks on either side did not balk or :lithe:nem jonatheu or his bodyguard, but only • roused and lintel them with enthusiasm as they weat up. "There was a sharp rook, on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." Sharp lloelts of Trouble. friends, you have been or are now, some of yore, in this crisis of the text. If man meets one trouble. he can go through with it. He gatbers all his attendee, coneentrates them on one eoint and In the strength of God or by els own natural determinatiell gees through it, lint the man who has troubleto the riulit of him and trouble to the loft of him is to be pitied,. Did either trouble come alone, he mighe endure itbut two troubles, two disastere, two overshadow- ing 'misfortunes, are Danz and Somali. God pity him! "There is a sharp rook on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." In this erisis of the text is that man whose fortune and bertith fail hino at the mune time. Nine tenths a all our merch- ants capsize io Im4nes4 before they came to 40 years of age. There is some collision in connuereial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put bis name on the back of a note before be learns what a fool a roan is who risks all his property on the pros pect that some inan will tell. the truth. It seems as if a num must have a largo amount a unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns bow ninth easier it Is to buy then to sell. It seems co if .'very man must be completely burned out betore he learns the importance of itlways keeping luny insurea. It mann as 0 every inan must be wrecked in a finanolal tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden eurooly- don. Wbeu the calamity does come, It is awful. The man goes home in despair, and he tells his family, "We'll ilaye to go to the poorhouse." He takes a dolor- ous -view of everything. It seems as if be never could rise. But a little tbne passes, and be says: "Wity. I am not so badly off after all. I have my family left." Blessing' of a Family. Before the Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve so that when be lost paradise he could stand it. Permit one wbo has never read but a few novels in all his life, and Who has not a great deal of romancelin his oomposition, to say that if when a man's fortunes fail he has a good wife—a good Christian wife— he ought not to be despondent. "Oh," you say, "that only increases tbe embar- rassment, since you have her also to take care of." You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the moan as the naan supports the woman. The roan may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom 1 ton speaking looks around, and be finds his family left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to hie face, and the courage to his heart, In two years he is quite over it. He makes his finance ial calamity the first chapter in a new era of- prosperity. He met that one trouble—conquered it. He sat clown for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose and began like Jonathan to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with finanolal embarrassment] When Abe fortune tailed, it broke the inan's spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain • was stunned. I loan show you hundreds of men in our cities whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They Came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors together arra compromise. If suoh men are the; patient and peculiar and irritable, excuse Sham. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met success- fully. If when the health went the for- tune had been retained, is would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he could have had •the very best attend - alma and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to Inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Benz and Seneheand they interlook,their shadows and drop , them upon the poor man's way. God help him! "There is a sharp rook on one side and a sharp rook en the other sicle." Sunlight of God's Favor. Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God, t will tele hien - the Phil-, what to. do. DO as Jonathan I did— °limb; climb up into the sunlight of God's favor • and consolation. I can go through the churthes and sbow you men Nebo lost fortune and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day and dream et heaven all night. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing and plenty of friends are necessary to inak.e a man happy, you have miscalou- lated. I suppose that these overhangieg rocks only made Jonathan scramble the bawler and the faster to get up and oat into the sunlight, and this combined shadow of invalidism and financial eme barrassment has often sent a man up the quicker into tbe sunlight of Goa's favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. It is a difficult thing for a men to feel his dependence upon God when he has $10,000 in the bank, and $$0,000 in Woe - moment securities, and a bloat of stores and three ships, "Well," the Man says to himself, "it is silly for me to pray, 'Give me this day rny daily bread,* 'when eay pautry is full and the canals frOto the west are crowded with breadstuffs destined for my storehouees." Ott, my friends, if the combined misfortunes and disasters of life leave made you elti-nb up Into tbe arms of a sympetbetio and aona• passionate God, through all etereity you Will bless him that io tale world "there was 4 sharp rook on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." Ways of the World. .Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who bas .home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The World treats a man wen, just as long as it pays to. treat hire well. As long as it aim manor:enure Sticeeee out of bis bone and brain and musele It favors him, The 'world fatterts the borse it wants to drive. But let a man sea it his duty to arose the triune, ot the world, then every bush is full of barns and tusks thrust at him. They will belittle him. They will carica- ture Wm. They will eta' his generosity self aggranclizetuent and his piety sancti- reonionsness. The very worst persecuelon will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to te Christians. John Milton—grate and good John alliton—so far forgot himself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down into the dark- est and deepest gulf of hell, ana be the unaormeet and most dejected and the lowett down vassale of perdition. -Orel Martin lauthor so far forgot himself as to say in regard to his theoloeical oppon- ents, "Put them in whatever sauce you please, roasted or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or Method, they are nothing but asses!" .Ah, my frionde„if John Milton or Martin Luthet could come down to such scurrility, what may you not exneot from less elevated oppon- ents? Now, sometimes the world takes after them, the newspapers take after them, publio opinion takaa after them, and the unfortunate man is lied about until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is exit:meted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good and pure and honest, set upon by the World and mauled by whole communities, While 'VICIOUS men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him, as though Lord Jeffreys :Mould write an essay on winno- ws:4 or Henry VIII. talk about purity or Xing Herod take to blessing little children. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man's defienoe, stirs his blood Lor magnificent battle and makes hint 60 times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was With the great reformer when he said, "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in tho time of Louis XL When Louis XI. sent word to hint that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw Jim into the river, he replied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner bv water than he will reach it by fast horses." A certain amount of perseoution Is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it, and too long contbaued, becomes the rook Bozez throwing a dark shadow over a man's life. What is he to do then? Go home, yon say. Good advice, that. That is just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet and sympa- thetic homes! But there is many a inan wbo bas the reputation of having a home when he bas none. Through unthinking - mess or precipitation there are many matches made teat ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone mete a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in wIlich there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have been hoard outside, but God knows, notwith- staaling all the playing of the wedding neareh, and all the odor of the orange bleseens, and the ben.edietion of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes men have awak- ened to find on one side of there the rook of perst eution and on the other side of them t it, rock . of domestic infelicity. Weat seen euela a one do? • Do as Jona- than did—olimb, Get up the Leiglots of God's consolation, from which you may look down in triumph upon outside per• seoution and bome trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates and having his name written on the board fences of London in doggerel, at that very time bis wife was making him as miserable as she could—acting as tbough she were pos- eessed by the devil, as I suppose she was, never loing him a kindnese until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: "I did not forsake her. I have not dismissed her. I will not recall her." Planting one foot upon outside persecution and the other foot on home trouble, John Wesley climbed up into the heights of Christian joy, and, after poaching 40,000 sermons and travel. Ing 270,000 miles reached the heights of heaven, thougle in this world he had it hard enough—"a sharp rook OD the one side and a sbarp rock on the other." Despairing women. Again, that woman stands in the arises of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood •at the same time. Without mentioning names, I ... . epee& from observation. •A h, It is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest 'living, even when her heart is not troubled, and she bas a fair cheelc, and She nta,guetism of an exquisite presence. But now the husberid or the either is dead, The expenses ot the Obsequies have, absoreal all that was left in the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weep- ing and watobing, she goes forth—a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her—to contend for ber existence and the exist once of her catildren. When 1 see suoh battle as that open I shudder at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered, slippers and write heartl. SR essays ebolit women's wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, and tbere is more blood than tears. Oh, give woman free access to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, frora tbe telegraph office to the pulpit! Lot roon's wages be cut down before hers are out down. Men bave iron in their souls and can stand it, elake the way free to her 0! the broken heart. May Dad put into my band the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a widowlese hut for shelter for many years rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my borne into the pitiless world a woman's arm to fight the Gettys- burg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread! And yet how many women there are seated between. the rock of bereavement on the one side and the rook of destitution on the other: Bozez and iteneh interlocking their shadows and dropping them upon her miserable way. "htiere is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." Whet are such te do? Somehow let them olimb up into the heights of the glorious promiSez "Leave rhy fatherless thilden. I will preserve them lIve and let thy widows trust in me." Or get up into the heights of that other gloriuus promise, "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherless," 0 ye amine women on starving magas! 0 ye widows turned out from the once beautiful, home! 0 se female teachers kept on niggardly stiperull 0 yo despairing women seeking in vain, for work, Wandering along tat don'ts aud thinking to throw yourselves bite the river last night: 0 ye 'women of weak nerves, and 'tolling sides, and short breath, and broken heart, you need something more than human sympathy. 'You Anted the sympathy of God, Climb up into His awns. He knows it all, and He laves you more Chau father or mother or busbend ever liould or ever did, and loaned of sitting down, wringing your hands in despair, you had bettor begin to climb. Thera aro heights of consola- tion for you, though now "there is a sharp rook on one side and a sharp rook on the other side." The Sharpest or Arl necks. Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who bas a wasted life on the one side and an unilluminated eternity on the other. Though a man may all his life have eultured deliberation aod self poke, 11' he gets into that position all his self possession is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words—strata above Anita, granitic), ponderous, over- shadowing. Tbat rock I call Dozen On the other :AM aro all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long cleft:ince. That rock, I call Senele Between these tivo rocks 10,000 times 10,000 have perished. 0 man immortal, man redeerixel, man blood bought, climb up out of those shadows! . Climb up by the way of the • cross. Have your wasted life forgiven. Have your eternal life secured. This hour just takes one look to the past and see what it has been, and MO° ono look to the future and see what it threatens to be. Yent can effort' to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you eau afford. to lose your reputation, but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth buns up and the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peen of the gospel he does not demean hirnsolf. There Is nothing in religion that leads to mean- ness or unmanliness. The gospel ot Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jpna• than did --climb toward God, climb to- ward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God's favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down. It is to coma gloriously up—op into the communion of saints, up into the peace that passeth all under.; tauding, up into the companion- ship of angels. He lives upward; he dies upward. 013, then accept the wholesale invita- tion which I make this day to all the people! Conte up from between your in. validism and financial embarrassments. Comeup from between your bereave- ments and your destitution. Corne up from between a wastect life and an un- illuinined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb up with all your might instead of sitting down to vvring your hands in the shadow and in the darkness—"a thaw) rock on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." Living Sweetly under Many of us find life hard and full of path. The -world oses us rudeiy and roughly. We suffer wrougs and injories. Other people's clumsy feet tread upon our tender spirits. We must endure Mis- fortune, trials and disappointments. We cannot avoid these things, but we should not allow the harsh experiences to deaden our sensibilities or make us stoical or sour. The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences. It you remove the snow from the hillside in the late winter, you will find sweet flowers growing there beneath the cold drifts, unhurt by the storm and by the snowy blankets that have covered them. So 3hould WO keep our hearts tender and = sensitive beneath life's fiercest winter blasts, and through the longest years of suffering, and even of injustice and wrong treatment. That is true, victorious living. Wisdom Beyond His Tears. ' His mother found him in the jam and reprimanded him. A little later she caught him teasing his baby sister and reprinoanded him again. • "I don't see what's got into you, Willie," she said. "You're usually the good ttle boy, but So -day you're up to all kinds of mischief." "IOn tired of being good," he returned with juvenile frankness. "Tired of being good!" She exclaimed. "What do you rnean by that?" "Well, brother Bob is naughty most of the time, and you're always giving him things to get him to be good, and I guess I'll be naughty for avvbile and see if I don't get something too." , Sometimes a youngster seems to have wisdom beyond his years. THE PURE IN HEART. I asked the angels in my prayer. With bitter tears and pales, To show mine eyes the kingdom where The Lord of glory reigns. I told, my way with doubt is dim, My heart is sick with fear. Oh, come, and belp ow build to him O. tabernacle here: The storms of sorrow wildly beat, The clouds with cleate are I long to hear his voice so sweet, Who whispered, "Pettee, be still!" Tee angels said, God giveth you His love-eiviett more is ours? and even as the gentle clew Descends upon the flowers. His grace descends, and as of olcl. He walks with man apart, Keeping the promise, as foretold. With all the pure M heart, Thou needst not ask the angels where His habitations be. Keep thou thy spirit clean and fair. And he shalt dwell with thee. —Alice teary in New York Ledger. BOUND TO WIN. A Dateetives Play With, a Mit Bill In a yaw, Bank. "I've seen many a funny play come off in a faro bank," said an old time gambler the other day, 'strut of all the plays that I can remember the cheekiest came off in Colonel Bolly Lewis' game a long time ago. It was in the fall of 1869, and Colo - net )3olly had the biggest game in the west at 212 West Fourth street. There was plenty of roomy around hero in those days, and, cottoo and tobacco planters dropped in day after clay, sold their °rope arid then played the bank. When a man Was known as a gambler, the limit was the sky, and I've seen turns made for small fortunes. Another big thing around Cin- cinnati in those days was the making of counterfeit money Just as soon as a new coonterfeit bill made its appearance the governinept would send oilleers to this city to locate the plant. This city WaS She distributing point, and every orai knew it. Early in 1809 a $eu0 counterfeit bill mede its appearance out east, The first one was detected on one of the race tracks and was forwarded to Washington. Secret service agents were sent at once to this (thy. One of the crowd was Chris Hogan, who was as well known among sporting mon8S 13illy PinkertoO is today. Just as soon as Chris reached town he hunted up the gang, and they had many a good night "They all took a tont at the bank. Sometbnes they were lucky, but at the wind up all were as good as broke, aod this included all at Hogan's expense money, Ono afternoon Hogan, with klph Holland, who ran the Empire gambling house and managed the Goss -Allen fight; 'Bud' Reilly and a dealer called Little Henry dropped into Colonel Belly Lewis' game. Bully was sitting behinti the lay- out, staking his tvhisicere, when the boys dropped in. 'How aro you, col000l?' said Lewis as he began to shuffle up. " 'I'm very well. How are your re- plied Hogan. " 'Never was bettor,' seta Lewis as he shoved the deck in the box. "The eolouel latticed all around, and n few small bete were imule. Hogan looked on for a turn or two and then threw down a $51/0 bill ixx the big square to win. " 'Bow irmob goes, colonel?' " 'Three hundred dollars,' replied Ho- gan. "Colonel Lewis turned, and the big square WW1. " 'What goes?' asked Colooel Bally. " 'Nothing. Give me the cash,' replied Hogan, "Lewis gave him the money, and be walked out with his friends. When they got outside, Holland said: " 'Where'd you get tbat money?' " 'Why, that's some of those counterfeit bills I've been working on,' said Hogan. " 'Well, you've got your nerve. Sup- pose the big square had lost. What would you have done?' asked Holland. "'Done! Why, I'd have got $200 °hen& in good money and bought a few cold bot- tles,' was Hogan's reply. "The next day Colonel Lewis was told that he had turned for oounterfeit money, but he 'would not believe the story, but I know the bill was a counterfeit."—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. New 'Erich on an Old Miner. "If you never had a mine salted on you," remarked an old time Colorado miner, "you have missed half of your chance to get good experience." "Did you over have it happen to you?" asked a stranger from the east. "Yes; my first lesson cost me $5,000, when I bought a wino in Leadville that bad been tunneled into the mountain side for nearly 200 feet. I had heard of the trick of saltiog properties, so after the man showed nie what there was in sight he invited me to go right ahead and blast out several feet in order to satisfy myself, which I did, and, the ore seemed to be just as good as it was when he was working it Of course I bought it, and then it never paid a cent—it was salted." "But how could they salt three or four feet into the solid rock?" 1'Thu° was the trick of it They didn't salt the rook, but pot the gold colors into the giant powder, and as long as that lasted there was gold in sight "—Denver Times. Raw Ants as Delicacies. Raw ants are largely eaten in Mexico. As is known, certain ants are selected by their kindred as storehouses of honey. They are fed with honey until the abdo- men speedily becomes smooth and round and so filled with honey that the skin is transparent. These ants are doomed to pass the remainder of their lives as mere honey cells, from which their kindred ex- tract the honey when it is required. There are several specimens of these ants In the British rouseum, with the honey still within their transparent bodies. The Mexicans raid the nests of these ants for the sake of the honey that their bodies con- tain, and the ants aro eaten raw as sweet- meats. They are sold by measure and form an article, of commerce.—London Standard. Kindly Meant. "You'll have a fit when I get through with you," cried the first. "Just try it on," promptly retorted the other. No, gentle reader, they were not quar- reling. The first speaker was a dressmaker and tbe other her patron.—Philadelpffia Record. Luxembourg, the great French soldier, was called "The Upholsterer of Notre Dame" from the number of captured flags he sent lo be hung as trophies in that eathedraL Atlanta has an ordinance prohibiting vehicles from passing places of worship at a rapid rate of sneed on Sundays CANADA'S NE W R EJLER A rIUNNING SKETCH OF THe EARL OF MINTO'S CAREER, The necord of the New Governor-General asa 31ilitary MILO -Severely Wounded in au Egyptian Engagement- Ails 'Interest in Agriculture and Stock ItAibing 'Ishe Charming couatete ot Dlinto. The appointment of the Earl ot elinto as GovernoaUeneral to succeed the Earl of Aberdeen Is banal with satisetetion throughooe Canada. Lord Mine) win not assume his official duties eager the dis- advantage of being stranger, far he is widely hoown throughout the provinees. It might be truthfully alit' that he is already a popular man. The arrival of the Earl and his cearne hot wife, she Conntees of Alba°, is sure to strengthen the regard now entertained for them They will be the handsomest couple ever occupying Rideau Hall, and fully cepeble of maintaining the social prestige of their high position. With them will probably come three highly accomplished and lovely daughters ane two sons, forming an • exceptiontilly in. teresting family. Lord alinee comes ot one of the best known farnilies in teen land, and bas a fine record in Tonnaz'b and civil life. He et the fourth Earl 01 Minto and a detcendant of Gilbert Elliot, whose great-grendson. Sir Gilbert, was created Lieran alinto in 1797, His family name is Gilbert John Ellice; and he suc- ceeded to the title in 1891. fie is very wealthy, owning an estete of lti,U00 acres, which includes the domain in Rox burghshire, near Jedburgh, and property In Infeshlre. The new UoverPor-General is OS years old, tall, athletic and distinguished in his bearing, and ono ot the most courteoes and approachable of men. lie Witt ecluctited itt leton and. Cambridge, and took his degree at the latter place. Dur;• big his college days he went in for athletics strongly, and attested his uroivess in wowing, sculling and running by winning numerous tropbles. His lova for outeoor sports still continues to the extent ,of bicycle ritliag, an emneement which the Countess of alinto shares with birn very often. Lord Minto has had a varied inilitary' experience, and bas seen hard service in several camp:ale:us. Idpon finishing- his edticatiou he joinea the Scots Guarde in 1867, and served three years lathe; betty. This was his preliminary training, for a long and honorable cercer. He followed the Carlitit army In Navarre and Direay In the north of Swan in 1b74 as it come. pondent for a London newspaper, auJ In aitto AND 4-01n. lees or matzoth 1877 wae sent to Turicity by the intelli- genee dttpartment an asetwant ettaehe under 'Colonel Lennox. detailed to follow the Turhith army in the Russe -Turkish campaign. Ile as prosent at the hem- bartina-nt of Nikopoll; by the Russians, arid witnessed the ertetsing of the Danube by the victor. Ho was laid up in a Mas- on/a with fever several weeks, during wbieli the Russians pushed steadily toward the Balkans, mid upon getting out again he was fortunate in Wes first to notify England lee telegraph of the fact that the Russians had erosseci the nionntains. The hardships of this campaign aompolled Lord Minto to return home before the war was ithished. In 1878 his lordship went to India, and going to the front in Afghanistan, joined Lord Roberts. He was with Lord Roberts all through the campaign in the leurram valley. When Lord Roberts succeeded to She vacancy created by the death of General Colley in 1e81, be invited Lord Mioto to join his staff and be ome his private secretary. Peace was arranged, however, before any active service began, and the next year Lord Minto went to Egypt as a captain in the mounted in- fantry. Lord Minto received bis first baptism of Wood very soon afterward, being severely wounded in the first en- gagement. As soon as able he rejoined the mounted infantry, remaining with his picked organization until it was disband- ed at Cairo. Most of its officers were either killed, wounded or invalided. Lord Minto came to Canada in 1883 as military secretary to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Governor-General. One of his first acts in a military capacity was the organize ion of 800 Canadian boat- men for service in Egypt. In 1885, wimp the rebeinon broke out in the Northwest unuer Biel, Lord Minto accompanied General Middleton 's Canadian volunteers to the scene of the outbreak in the capa- city of chief of staff. The conclusion of this campaign closed Lord Minto's active service, but he has taken a hearty interest In military affairs ever sinoe. Upon his return to Scotland in 1887 he took a prominent part in organizing the Border MBorder Brigade was formed tbe 'next year his lordship was appointed brigadier. tLeouornredgteudivliairnRst.ile iand when the Scottish Minto iss, general. This brigade holds nianoeuvers every second year at Minto, and has won numerous prizesniont cao:ipieittaiti,ivonra:oaninlyst h . He takes a deep interest In other :affairs, and especially in agriculture and stook - raising. Ile is one of the strongest sup- porters of the border agrie,ultural societies, and has contriZuted Many valuable prizes toward bettering the conditioos of the farming community. Lord Mint?) married Mary Caroline Grey in 1883, just before ooming to Can- ada. She is the daughter of General Charles Grey, who was private secretary, to the Queen, She is a remarkably hand- some and charming woman, and is as popular in the border dietriot as the Earl. Tbeie mansion at Alloto, which is the little villege from whith the family thaes its name, is a palatial struotuee situated about six miles from aweak on the Teviot: There are many historical associa- tions, connected with the mansion. It has tor many years been visited by men and women famous in art and science, literature, poetry and politics. In days gone by Sir Walter Scott and 'Themes Campbell were frequent visitors, the latter writing Lochi el' s Warning' ' while gueet of Sir Gilbert Elliot. HOW STARVATION KILLS. A Doctor Peterthes the Horrors c.f Bela. without Nourishineet. Dr. William C. rssery says time the firs, objective symptom of starvation is te lose of weight and flesh. This is produced 07 the absorprion and deetruenta, of fat, which is deposited throughout the body. The length of time required to produce great esnaelation and death will of GUM'S* depend upon the corpnlency of the iodi- value'. In the average person after a feW days or 4 week the cbeerts become Mellow, the Arms and legs sae and tiebby, !thee and wrinkles appear Ana ageneral slerink- ing is manifest, Promineut anion these symptoms are the sunkeo eyeballs and staring pupils. 13ehinvi every eye is le sea pretective cusbiou of fat, whieb is the Iteet to be abserbed. As this disappears the eyeballs retract, the pupils dilata, dark shadows appear around them, the ei4eek bones stenel out prominently with their cevering of wrinkled slciu, the lips eetracil from the teeth, and the corners of the mouth droop, all of which goes to make up a IlOrrible, unmistakable picture of doth by slow starvation. Aff this tiroe simuiwehanges are galP4/ 011 in the internal organs. They, too, are supplied with silt -plus fuel i4 the shape or fat. Hanging over the intestines is aa el401111011S apron of pure fete In fact, the intestines themselves are heldin place by moorings which are nothing more than ribbons of fat. The kidneys are always surrounded by more or tests fatty tissue, while the various other organs heVe varying amount of tbe same material, After this surplus has been hurried the destruction of the actual tissues and Or* gans begins. From new on the process le rapid, as the less of fuel there is the great- er becomes the demand for sustenance. The lost fat to dlsappear is that around the base of the heart- This supply once destroyed., the heart muscle rapidly degen- erates, and death follows from exhaustion. It cannot be mid that any particular fano* tion or organ is the direct 0111150 of death, lf, in addition to the withdrawal of food, water is abstained from, the euffma bags and rapidity of emaciotion are great- ly intensified. The tissues are literally parched or dried, and, like well seasoned wood, burn all the more rapidly. The ao- twit physical discomfort produced by thirst is probably the greatest torment o human being can undergo. When we con- sider that about 7d per cent of the body consists of water and thatoeti individual cell of the milliards which compose the whole joins in the cry for moisture, the intense mechanical drying effect upon the eyes, tollgate nose and throat, the actual pulverization of the internal membranes, together with the demand for food, we can begin to conceive the awful torment which follows. There is no reason VillY A num should starve voluntarily Physical force can be used to steady his head, when it is a sim- pie matter to introduce a tube through hit nose and into his s,tonnieh, Through thil tube condensed anal nourishing food eau he conveyed. By no muscular power or voluntat7 elTort can an individual prevent this procedure once hie head is held Ira- ruovable. This me: hod of feeding is often resorted to in eui.oV lockjaw mother die - eases in which there is au inability to open the mouth. Alouth gags or openers and stomach tubes aro regular equipments of ever.y asye lum for the thane. This method some - threw fails because of a failure of the gag to stay in poeition. In these eases it is usual to intreauee a tube through the nose. The only drawimok is that a small- er tube nmst he used, which, of course, prolongs the operatien. It is difficult to say at just what point in a caseof starvatien feeding may be cora. :minced and life saved. Liko that vague, indefinite boundary between health rind disease, daylight and darkness, virtue and vice, or any extremes. there are no well marked indications. We believe that most 'physicians agree as to the methods of pro- cedure when feeding is resumed. It should be in small quantities and at frequent In- tervals. A stool:tell—in fact, the eraire system—when deprived of food at once tries to adjust itself to do without it. Na- ture cloes all things lavishly and gross1n. To repair an insignificant scratch she will send a thousandfold more material than is utilized. So with any process. What aba can't get she tries to so adept the economy as to do without. A sudden supply of food to such a stomach would act as an irritant and produce immediate nausea and vom- iting. WALKING TOPSY TURVY. Two Charming Sisters and Their Daring Theatrical Performances, The Austin sisters, though they appear In stage performances on Coney Island's Bowery, are pretty, refined and young. More than that, they are heiresses. Aimee, • wALimsto UPSIDE DOWN. the older sister, has clean out, remade features and is exceptionally' dainty and petite. Marie, the yonnger, is a beauty. Sho was born in Vienna and has tho Prin- cess Christine Olga Strogoloff type of beauty. Marie has lovely large dark eyes. Her soft, dark hair is pompadourocl about , her oval face. Together the girls make a charming picture, and their act Is one of unusualainterest. Wonderfully daring is the trapeze performanoe, but it is with the greatest interest that the audience watthas the girls' topsy torty walk across the ceilei beg.