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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-2-1, Page 7t i1 Giil'IA �i1���. A Lesson of Gratitudefor That Which We Do Not Appreciate. THE SOUL'S EXECUTIVE OFFICER, The doustruetion of the 1Tand'Illnstrates 'the Divine. VYintiop,-Its Employment " 1n the Direction Will Make ,.DIaulcuxliietter•and Iiaj,piete Washington, , Jan. 28. The dis- course of Di. Talmage is a lesson of gratitude for that which none of us fully appreciate and shows the di- vine meaning in our physical struc- ture; text, I • 'Corinthians xii, 21 "The eye cannot say unto the , hand I have no, need of thee. These words suggest : that some time two very important parts of the ' human body into , gotcontro- versy, and the 'eye became and full b of i•aggadoci( , and insolent said: "I am an independent ':art of an system, Flow fctp the hum- an Icon see, tale- , ing in spring morning and midnight aurora! Compared with myself, what an. • insignificant thing is the human hand. I look down upon hangs, swinging P n it. There it u a nb at the side, a clump uzp of : muscles , and nerves, and it cannot see an t inch either way• has i lU luster, St ez , cou.iiared with that Which t beam' forth.'' "what sense- less talk," responds the hand. "You, 'the eye, would have beenut long; ago but for in - p out e. Without the food I' have earned ,you would been sightless'; and starved to dhave. eath years ago. - 'You cannot do without me .any better than -I can do - vitli out ,you." At this part of the dis- putation Paul of my: text breaks in and ends the ;controversy by declar- ing, "The eye cannot sayunto' o the hand, I have no need' of thee. Fourteen hundred and thirty-three Ythree tines, as nearly as I can count by aid of concordance, does the Bible speak of the human hand. We are all familiar with the hand,but man has the yet to be born who can fully understand this ;wondrous in- strument. Sir Charles Dell, the Eng- lish surgeon, cause : home from the battlefield of Wa terl oo, where he had been amputating limbs and: binding up gun -shot fractures,' and wrote 'a book entitled "The Hand: Its Mech- anism and Vital Endownrnents as Evidencing Design," r But' it is so profound a book that only a scion - :List who is familiar with the tech- nicalities of anatomy and physiology can understand it. • So we are all going on opening and shutting this divinely, constructed in- strument — the hand ignorant of much of the revelation it was in- tended to make of the wisdom. aril goodness of God. You can see by their "structure. that shoulder and. elbow and forearm are getting ready,. for the :culmination in - the hand.' There is : Your yr t with its eight bones and 'their ligaments in two ws. That wrist, ,with its bands fibers and: its hinged I' ' a joint and u mag a on two axis — on the larg- er axis 'moving backward and for- ward, and on the smaller axis turn- ing nearly round. And there; is the palm of > your hand,'with its five bones, each having a shaft;. two ,terininations. There are the fingers of that hand,' with 14 bones, each linger with, its curiously ' ,wrought tendons, five of the hones with end- ing roughened for the lodgment of the nails.' There is the thumb, -com- ing from opposite • direction ,to meet the fingers, so, that in conjunction they may clasp and hold fast that which you desire to'take. There are the long nerves .; running, from the armpit to: the 46 muscles, so : that all are under mastery. ° The whole anatomy ': of your hand as complex, as intricate, as symmetrical, as use- ful i as God could make it. What can it, do? It can ,limb, it can lift, it can push, it can repel, it can men- ace, it can clutch, it can deny, it can affirm,it can extend, , it can weave, it can bathe, it can smite, it can humble, • it can exalt, it can soothe, it can throw, it can defy, ,it can wave, it can imprecate, it can A skeleton of the hand traced on black. -board, or unrolled in diagram, or hung in medical'museum, is .inight- ily illustrative of: the divine wisdom and goodness, but how ,much more pleasing when in living action all its nerves and muscles and ,bones and tendons', and tissues and phalanges display what God invented when he invented the human hand. Two, pecimens of it we carry at our side rom the 'tithe when in infancy we open them to take a ,toy till in the last hour of a long life we extend them in hitter 'farewell. • With the divine help I shall speak of the hand as the chief executive otliper, of the 'soul, whether lifted. for defense, or extended for help, or bus- ied in the arts, or offered in salute. - tion, or wrung in. despair, or spread abroad in benediction. God, evidcnt- ly Late/102d all the. lower orders of `living 'beings should ha;,ve'Weapons of defense, ` and hence the elephant's tusk, and the horses,' hoof, and the • cow's horn, and the lion's tooth, and the insect's sting. Having given weapons of defense to the lower or- ders or living beings, of course he would not leave man, the highest or- der of living beings on earth, de- fenceless and at the . rnercy'of brutal or ruffian attack. . The right, yea, better the duty of self defense is so evi- P°11ed, dent it needs nd argumentation. pastor, What a defense it is against acci- concha. dent! There have been times in all shying, our O periences when 'we 'have with Was;'8P the, hand warded off something that 1 1101d would.' have extinguished our eye- mercy.' sie,ht,eor broken the skull, or trip- Aged pled es for 7 lifetime. • While the tine` of. eye has discovered the approaching in agora peril, the hand has beaten:it back, times sortie - Jellied or streeic it down, or disarmed it. at such :Snd' In pissing' let"ane say that he and bili who has tin= eveenon of the hand un- time eve injured and in full use needs no there is other. You cowards: who walk with e.•riiiirin sword, cane, or carry a pistol .in At the your„ hilt oorket he better ;lay aside so1uetin your deadly 'Catton. At the fron- the t;�vi< tja.•. or in barbarions lands or ae ,nears th an (Slicer of the law about t ai'a t S t, such arming, mai bo nee 5 sari, but no aitueu moving' iu flies civilized regions needs such r in forcemeat. 1f you are afraid to g down these streets or Mor„ these country 1'oads without dagger oi• hre arias better ask your gra nctin°the to' go with your armed with scissor and knitting needle. What cowards , if not what intended murderers, use- lessly, to cai'Y'weapons, of death! :Cl our two hands God gave us all the Weapons'' we need to carry. Again, the hand is the chief>execu- tive olhcer of the soul for affording' help. Just• see how'that hand is constructed. Hew easily • you. can lower it to raise the fallen. .How easily it is extended to feel the in- valid's pulse, or gently wipe.away the tear of orphanage, or contribute aims, or smooth the excited brow, or beckon into safety. 0 the help- ing hands! There aro, hundreds thousands ' of thein, and the world wants at. least 1,600,000,000: of them. Hands to bless others, hands, to ;. rescue' others, hands to save others. What are all these schools and churches and asylums of mercy? Outstretched hands. What are all those hands and 1 s distributing; tracts .and carrying medicines and trying to cure blind eyes, and deaf ears And broken bones and :disordered intellects and; Wayward sons? Helping hands. Let each one of us add two to that number if we have two, or, if through' casualty only one add that - one If these hands which; w so ,long.',kept thrust into e Have through 'indolence pockets or folded in indif- ference or' employed in writing wrong things or doingmean or heaving an things up obstacles in the ,way of righteous progress might e t this be `consecrated to helping others out and up and on, they. would be Bands worth being raised. on the resurrection Morn and worth clapping in `eternal gladnessto world redeemed. over a Elis own hands free, see how the sympathized with the man who had lost the use: of his hand.. It was a case of atrophy, a wasting away until the arm and hand had been reduced in size beyond any med- ical or surgical restoration. More- over, it was his right hand, the most important of • the 'two, for the. - left side in all its ,parts is weaker 'than the right side, and: we involuntarily, in any exigency, 'put out the right hand because; We k13ow • it is the best hand. So that poor man had lost more than half of his physical arma- ment.' • It ' would not have - been so bad if it had been the hft hand., But Christ looked at that; shriveled `up right-hand dangling uselessly at -the' man's side and. then • cried out with a -voice that had omnipotence in it,. "Stretch `forth thy .hand!"' nand the record is "he stretched it forth whole as the other." How often has the hand decided a destiny! Mary, Queen of Scots, was escaping from imprisonment at Loch - lever in the dress of a launch e ss and had her face thickly veiled. ' When a boatman attempted: to remove the veil, she put h �• P cr hand P t it o defend and so revealed the 'ivhlte 'and fair hauci of a queen, and so the boat- man took her back to .captivity. Again and again` it has been demon- strated that tate hand hath a langu- age as well as the mouth. Palmistry, or the science by which character 'and destiny are read in the lines of ; the- hand, is '! yet crude and uncertain' and unsatisfactory, but as astrology was the mother'' of as- tronomy and alchemy was the moth- er of chemistry, it may be that palmi. istry will result in a science yet to be born. u snake poi tunitles the like ,of which will - neer again occur and conscience in • its wrath pouncing upon the soul and - ail the past a horror,, only to; be stir- o passed by the approaching horror.. '., So a anzn wrings his hands over the - casket of a dead wife whom he has r: ,cruelly. treated. ~ So ' a man wrings s , phis. hands at the fate of, sons and daughters whose prospects have been ruined by his inebriety and neeloct z; and depravity. So the sinner_ wrings.. phis hands when after a life,' full of offers of pardon and ileac(' and leave '' en he dies Without hope. • • Again, tate hand_is the chief execu tive of the soul in salutation: ,A former president of the United States said: "I think -handshaking is a great nuisance, and ` it should be, abolished. It not - only makes the right arni sore, but :shocks the whole. system and unfits a roan for writing or attending to other duties..•It-de moralizes the entire nervous i ops and mus- cular, system." ]3ut while this exer- cise may be fatiguing, it is also an opportunity. He nvlio knows how heartily: to shake hands has one 'of the mightiest arts • for conveying happiness and; eternal. good cheer and'i lice After" you have,, •shaken hands with one, a line' of communi- 'cation is opened that was not open before. Two hands clasped in greet- ing • are: a bridge" on which all syni- pathics and kindnesses and encour- agements and blessin'gs'cross •over. To': shake hands with some persons does us more than .a good sermon—aye, , it i i , s a sermon. with. a ° 1• 7. o shake hands• good doctor, when we aro sick is an anodyne, a: tonic, a febri fuge, before he feels the pulse or. 'rites the prescription. To. shake hands With a. cheerful man : when we are discouraged fills us with, faith to try again what we have failed in.' doing. To shake Bands with some consecrated man, clerical or lily, aft; ter w,e 'have wandered away into sin is to feel the grasp of a fattier God -welcoming : home the prodigal. Shake hands, 0 ye stolid and exclu- sive and 'cold )blooded and precise and conventional Christians! Jehu `cried out to Jelronadaia: "Is . thine heart right? If it he, give me Velem hand." There is' in an honest, and Christian. andshake a thrill of gospel electri ity. You take part of .his trouble. nd he takes part of your jubilance. In that"way you divide up anxieties and congratulations. The main' trunk line. of that handshaker has ranches of blessed• telegraphy right own to both hearts and up, to both eads, a- nd you both get the message he same .instant.:. Take off the- glove wlien'you• shake hands, for that :glove uts the 'hide of a kid,•between- the alai of your hand. and the palm of is, hand, 'and that animal's hide is nonconductor of this gospel elec ricity. Do not grip the:bone�of the refinger and the hone of the little 'Iger with : a crushing power that its one into a severe suffering' Which any of us have •experienced from ose who are more brutes than men. elle the hand gently, reasonably,: he and know that God ordered. at•forrn :of salutation. That is one m' portant 'thing that' ' h a tl tit the hand.was ade for. You can see: 'the indica- ons: in` ,its shape and equipment— e, four fingers to take your neigh= is hand , on one side, and the numb to take it on the other, and e forearm so seeding that you can sily draw it toward you. Of course there is' a wicked shaking hands, and Solomon refers to it ren he says, "Though hand join in id, the wicked shall not be un- Wished." Shake hands in conspir- to damage 'individual or com- nity or nation, she, e hands to de- ud, shake hands to stand by each er in wrongdoing. You help me 1f this ballot box, and I will see t when - I am in:power: you shall e promotion. You help me in infamy, and I will help you in ✓ infamy. Oh, that is-' profana- 1 ` of a holy rite; that is sacrilege fast a divine arrangement; that gripping your own destruction. to and Herod, : though. antagon- before, shook hands over Christ's projected assassination. ' -'Again, the hand is the .chief execu- tive of the soul wiles' eniployed in benediction.' No gesture of the hu- man hand means more than the out- stretched .gesture. '. In many of our religious denomitiatioiis we are" not e; permitted to pronounce 'as 'apostolic - `'benediction until we have been rega- 1 larly ordained as ministers ` of the l gospel; but there are kinds of bene- ' diction that you may all pronounce without especial permission 'from presbytery, or° conference; or conven- t tion. You have a right. to' spread h c a .b d h 1 P a t fo fi m th h th i nl ti th bo tl th ea of wl ha P'•i acy nzu Fra On two discourses, one concerning oth the ear and: the other concerning the stu eye, I spoke from the potent text in' tha the Psalms, "He that planted the hav ear, : shall he not hear," and "He mY that formed the eye, shall he not You see,'' but what use in, the eye anti do what use in the ear if the hand had age not been strung, with all its nerves, is and moved with all its` muscles, and Pila reticulated with all sits joints, and i ists strengthened with all its bones acid contrived with all its ingenuities. The hand hath. forwarcled all the arts, and tunneled the mountains through which,. the rail train thund- ers, and launched all the shipping, and .fought all the battles, and built 11 the temples, and `swung• all th cables under the sea, as well as lift ed to mid air ` the wire tracks o which whole trains of thought rush across the continents, and'built, .all the cities and hoisted the pyramids. Do riot` eulogize the eye and ear at the expense of the hand, for the eye may be blotted out, as in the case of Milton, and yet his hand writes a -Paradise Lost" or a "Samson "Agonistes;" as in the case of 'William 11. Prescott, and yet his hand may write the enchanting "Conquest of Peru." ; Or the. ear inay be silenced forever, as in the case of Beethoven,. and yet his hand may ,put into. im- mortal cadences the "Ninth Sym- phony"' Oh, the hand! The: God fashioned,. hand! The triumplipht hand! It is an, open, Bible of divine revelation„ and • the Five fingers ` are the Isaiah, and the Ezekiel, .and the David, and the Micah, and, -the, Paul of that ,almighty inspiration. A. pastor , in his sermon told how •a little child appreciated the value of his; hand when ho, was told that on the nlorro,w' it must bo amputated in order to save his life. Hearing that, he went to a quiet place and'prayed that God would spare his, hand. ,The surgeon, coming. the next clay to do the .work, ,.found the hand so . much that amputation was post - and the hand got well. The telling. of this in a sermon, "'That, is, the ivory hand that -teed in answer to preyer and it up,, a nionurnent of divine 1, the hand is the chief execu- tiine are as hot and parched 'nine. as, the brow, At such o no sob or outery, rrhen the. c j abroad both - right - and left -hand in bestowing a .blessing of kindness and good will upon all you 'meet. With great „ � uuu both hands bless the.;children. Take The largest -reservoir is near, Asso theme in your'arms and, ,kiss their Ilan. There is a tremendous catarac fair, cheek. Take with then a round ,here which the British aro busily en of merriment, in the room before you gaged in subduing. •,This clone the; ':leave it, and' by prayer put them in will fill up and divert the torrent an f the arms of that Christ, to. go to , crown their efforts with a granite via whom, in olden time .they struggled duct 70 feet high on the average bA to get out of the arms of their in sone places double• that elevation mothers_ .God, bless the cradles and! Two hundred miles down the riwei 'high chairs; and nurseries all` around: iS the subsidiary reservoir, at Assiout, the world. I where 11,000,nen areeinployed, •This And 'Slat better .use can T make of > work is;only one fourth done, yet eon- my hands, which are the"chief 'execu- tive siderable more than a anillioir dollars • officer of My soul.than now to has been spent.. The dam will hold spread them abroad in the apostolic up more than ten feet of water, the benediction which has been pronouns-.: river here being more than. a half ed for centuries, and over,hundreds of mile wide. Cher, will bo 1;1.1 eche. tlirnlsands of assemblages, at corona- or openings, each lu` feet .verde, lilt tions and obsequies,' at kiarvest nibow ed with sluices, Nile wielotiv, ,to homes and on fast day's," by all the allow the en'ttdciy Nile water free ministers of the gospel' in the vent, for water stirred up rriet.anle5 past • loses its fertilizi,1 .',,operties, There as it will be by x11 the ministers of will boa navigable canal, with gales: ,•tile gospel until the, church'"militant. for the passage of the extensive trade reaches up its right hand to take the that goes up and down the river. right hand of the church triulnphant;l These , two , mammoth reservoirs,,. a benediction which, when it lias fell - each with its system of canals, .weiri sway, will leave nothing for our_ and dams, represent only two-thirds world to want or heaven to bestow: of the great work whose object is to'' "May the grace of our Lord Jesus ° fertilize Egypt ;- The remaining one' Christ, and the love of :God, and the third isthe Cairo barrage, the pion communion of the Holy Ghost, be.eel' of all Nile dams, with you ; al/ forever. Amen. The barrage is more than a mile, length. 'a handsome pave( roadway-' t` c e,•+,'• with embattled walls. Sluices stem o: Most sculptors could carve a joint. the current and hold up at the proper Most founders could cast ;a shadow season a wall of water froin< twenty r n glance. to thirty feet 'high. most b eekemitlis could forge ' a As it stands the Nitta: e.is the meet herdic 11 they wanted, dignif>.ed, useful and Picturesque err Most artists ccirild draw a breath, �uleoririg work iu the tvorid: :E)verp Most builders could build a castle means is offered - to travellers,;; to get t,ha air. an adequate vibes of.�this' lieiiutiful. But tailors' n�nver' Mertens* trV houSI ,structure, With its slim• towers and`:' or a Coat: Of belinE.... .. .. I BmbtittlAri. a+nhnnl a....w.,..... •t... w. _ _.. ... OR g11glanfl's Gi-aliil: Aellleveilicut, ill Nardi Africa.: A Triumph of Englneerin„ That Will Acid Mt1110n8 of Acres to Egypt. While Great Britain has, beeu sus- - taming reverses in South Africa, she . has ,been achieving ,la.:North Africa the' mightiest engineering feat of its sort ever,attemptaed.,in the daulrn�ii.g of the ' The Nile,' harnessed and mad( clo cile, will inis re thousands of British subjects against famine, swell error monsl3• l�gyp.t';s'produce aaicl,put gold in Britain's coffer 6. T110 .minds of the •'''unpt'ogressive''' natives, .merle to toil ' for England's gain, will be firecl.to a quicker ' intelligence by con- tact with the science of modern en- gineering. And a monument to British skill :evill be:: of , s up .whore it will rival -the rami `Palin pyramids ds in woticler: groves and broad, `plateaux have had to give Wap to railroads, . monhds of Masonry, engineering ;parn,tus and half �' demolished •�iocl�s. 'The 'quiet of the land of the . lotus. eaters is de'tr s oyed•by the: ; sli,rrel s, of engines ,aucl the lotus-eaters'dcscentl:_ ants are forced -to toil for `the British six days in the week and 'give" hp the seventh to the ;Britisl Sabbath. But the evorl, is `one of the 'b..etost of modern marvels. .Great dams aro being built at two spots the — P Nile Assiout°and Assouan. ' Anciout canals are•being restored, ancient sluices re- built. t Fater that now' runs waste into the Mediterranean will -be guard- ed in.. the "reservoirs until,. thesur- rounding lan i i c shall enjoy a � fertility it •has 'not known in two thousau d The water supply of - thirst Egypt -will ' be more ;than doubled Y b P in volume, N,.. Sure. ANA { Ni KHARTUMi° f Kordofan:': DBrfur • S'0SI DA"S' �� leek(• x Behr el ''� . 6h zal t FRENCH U&ANti 7; 1.) t`ahiV.R •^1. A A,r B 4r 4. an AnxA C, i 0 N G 0 FREE STA T ANGOL (Port) Awa 1 repro uao u BR.EASTASRlt.,K NO,,H 0 r(eoA,n NrANZA AleArats GEAMAN r.Lzanxila EAST rANp l HYIKA AFRICA As ••",:• �.r 1t. NYA AL' u • A QNni" CAPE C CAP[ r. t ''Tri• ",-4 �rfiG s�.Loicit The Little Per a sites 'Mat 21t TOI11II1y Atkins dna Takes With Him. An ObjeetLesson on " Ilfan «'ants nut tle H�r'o,73elow,'.. A writer ' rn the London Daily N Cliseusses in nu. •alters tines s article hart , orae 1 side of the a soldiers life the front. Some . of the : things t about the soldier's hit will stied m light on a' subject as regards wh the ordinary civilian is in darkness The unit of the- Commissariat Transport Service is the "Company" which is organized . upon sin i 1 P cp admitting of'its easy and rapid exp sion. Each service company is div ed into four sections—one dismoun for clerks and commissariat artifice and`threermointed for transport `d P ews the at old uoh ioh and oz. pepper,..SS salt, 1 'oz. chocolate, 1 ' oz. • compressed vegetables, 3i • oz.. lime juice, and, when the medical officer likes, 1=0-, gal. rum, 3!=1b. tin of: jam, 2 oz, cheese in lieu of "4 oz. fresh meat, 4 oz. bacon, in lieu of 4 oz. of fresh meat.,. In addition 5.. . everyman receives me pound . of .coal or, two ' of wood,,.''' ` 1'Voricin the Mines, A recent i v sites to Johannesburg tells the as Arg . P© ,,us that : ! l.o e:�o- dus; including natives, �s n e was , 5 F estimated at P1i3, 000. Many of the mines y 11neS aloe„ the reef were working, and the mint was busy. The first batch of sover- eigns minted from the commandeered gold had . been deli,verecl'at Piet• -iia The Gentle Ail of'<Srinki>G u 11+ les "When ,you have mastered the gentle. an- art of winking, " said Lord Beacons- id- field, "you bold, the key to success irl your• hands." Every "one's personality t p y 8 made YIp.. of trivial 'failings and trivial . talents. in Foster the good qualities in your nt friends 'and subordinates and wink at its those failings so dear to their possess - mut ors. 't Not to .see everything is a rule It whlch will strengthen friendships and one help you to get 'the best ; results from a your fellow workers. "He is no good," said the great Na- poleon of one of his officers. " He le continually looking into the -privates' stew pot!" "1 want a man who can keep his eye on the ultimate result and ignore , little failings, ever'neinel bow aggravatin ' said Nelson. And General Gordon ones remarked that the :pian who lost his I temper because a private's boot lace was tied loosely on the day of battle did more tolose the day than all the enemy's Funs. ted r8,' ut- es. Each company possesses with itself : the elements : of independe administration mid, discipline, and officers are thoroughly ; carvers with the minutes of their duties.•' was my privilege recently to'; put of these experienced officers under cross-fire of questions for , the bene of the readers of the . Temple. "T War Office," he said, "sent ; out teen days' supplies with the' troop this 'was followed by a mouth's, su ply, and this again we are suppleme ing by a second month's, and ' the se and by a third. " , "What is a month's supply?`,"• asked. "Fifty thousand tons for o horses an men." "And that quantity 'will feecl—? "Fifty thousand men, twelve thou and horses, and =fifteen . thous mules. The second , month's suppl will be the same, both as regards qual l and na ' ty quantity, but t 9, ho third wont. we are sending out one hundred an fifty thousand tons, or supplies fo one hundred thousand men. Thi is in addition, of course, to the grea bulk of the food, which will be ; pro cured in the country by purchase." "But why so much food?" "You must understand that we have four lines of communications to supply—Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban. We may only need to supply one, two, or three of ,these, or, on the other hand, we may ' require to supply the four." "In obtaining food from the ene- my's country is it 'not "sometimes necessary to requisition it?" "Gold will do everything. I never knew an instance where gold in the hand was not conducive to ready supply. „ "What would be the mode of pro- cedure in• effecting the exchange?" "Well, Our men would enter a Boer Perm and enquire of the farmer the number of his bullocks and sheep. He would Probably 'reply, and we„ should then ask him to name the e. He would very naturally try btain the best price possible, ' and . should endeavor to meet him if it e not exorbitant ; but in any case would be compelled, : to sell. As a ter of fact, we are actually pay elevenpencs a pound - now for t.” fit he fit- - s np- nt- c- d f, s- and.. y Map Showing Oomparative Loca,tion pr 1C of British Operations in the Nile. to c milli n we o s £ o unu r se 1 acres will lee given ve €' wer over to cultivation, and in a few years he the , British public will . begin to'see mat the return , of the • bread it so lavishly i bag cast on the waters of the Nile. It was ' mea only last spring that raore than , $50, 000,000 was advanced to the contrac tors having this 'Iron. are not sending ont live "No, it would be unnecessary. We - are sending out flour, dried ,vegeta- t hies, groceries, condensed millr,' rum, wines, spirits, and so on. Now a question as to the transpor t “We have four kinds; ox, mule, • horse, and traction. The- traction engine is the latest innovation, and big things are prophesied of it; but we shall see what, we shall see." "Where and how is the feod eaten?" "Wherever the men happen to be at the moment. They sit down on the, veldt and withdraw from their haver -- sacks knives and forks,, and fall to. There are, it is needless to say, no tables, nor any luxuries 'of that sort. Bach man is provided with a canteen —a sort of double plate --and earrieS I with him PePPor and salt. The can- teen and knife, fork, and spoop. are his Own Personal property. , "Of how 1111My meals daily does a soldier on t,he march partake?'' "In the rooming, before starting ened coffee (no milk); midday a halt is called and he opens his ctuiteen containing a portion of the cold meat, and takes from bis haversack some bread; in the evening he partakes of his dinner, his princthal meal. All rations sire absolutely frec in time of war, hut there is is list, rod het from the 'Control' Department setting t th s lona per iem day ing the present war : of tile hand f,alls the story, eloso' of s. life vviiste,l in siii Inattiary of at 'Will ritwer Of on-' 'Bismarck's Appetite. \I, Among other, amusing reminiscences of the late Prince Bismarck appearing In Herr John Booth's "Afernoirs of the Iron Chancellor's is one relating to,the latter's gargantuan capacity for eating and drinking. He told the author that the largest number of oysters be ever ate was 175. He first ordered 25; then, as they were very good, 50 more, and, consuming these. determined to eat nothing else and ordered another hun- dred, to the great amusement of those present. Bismarck was then 26 anti had just returned from England. IN OTTAWA VALLEY Reuben Draper, of Bristol, P.Q, Reports That He is Cured of Gravel by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Passed a Large Stone One Week Afte.r Commencing 1)othFs Kidney Pills— Now Completely Free From This Front Bladder Complaints. pie on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river are fully' alive to the boon they have in Dodd's Kidney Pills as ite witnessed by the large number who are publically testifying, to the merits of Dodd's Kidney Pills in. the press. One of these is Mr. Reuben Drapar, of Clarendon, near here. Mr. Draper •-vas troubled with that painful and dangerous bladder com- plaint known at gravel. Dodd's Kid- ney Pills cure Ogavel, and when it is reMembered that a surgical operation Was fornterlythe only means of assail- ing this disease, the value of Dodd's Kidney Pills is apparent. Dodd's Kidney Plls were recomnaended to Mr. Draper, and lie tried them, with complete success. as ,the following letter vvill show. Jan. 3, 1900. Dodd's Medicine CO. I was taken ill with what I thought.' was gravel. .was suffering ,great pain, so I sent for a doctor, He gave me some medicine and said he evonld 1 -Ie came twice more and charged. in.e fifteen dollars. I was a little better but net well. A short time after I had. another attack, ,fio. tried another doctor with the sauati result, only I was getting weaker all the time. Then a Man advised me to' try Docid's Kidney Pills, for, he, said they bad Cured his mother. So 1' thetight I would try them, and in jusS One Week passed a, stone es large as a small beau,. and in four clays after 1 pasSed another about tho size of a grain Of bsrloy, 'Ellis gave nie groai, relief and cormneneed to feel better and to gain strength, ' l'hat is two years ago, and hay, ' not inal,any trouble that way shine, I have the siones still in loy posses- sion. and can show them to anyone) Who doubte [hie story. Hoping laity be of Some beaOfit to sorneone suffering as I did, am, y, oteRrsetzbuelney,Drapee.