HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-3-1, Page 3ELIGION OF GlIOSTS,
Rev. Dr, Talmage Discourses on
fan Unique Subject.
THE FALLACIES OF SPIRITUALISM
iiis Renounces It as Witchcraft and $or-
eery—We Are surrounded by Mystery
—A Vast Iteaim Unexplored Whiell
Science May Yet MaP Out.
Washington, Feb. 25. — In this dis-
course Dr. Talmage discusses a theme
never more under exploration than at
Aleethis time and warns people against
what he calls a religion of ghosts ;
text, 1 Samuel xxviii, 7: "Behold,
there is a woman that hath a fam-
iliar spirit at En -dor. And Saul dis-
guised himself and put on other rai-
ment, and lie went, and two men
With him, and they came to the wo-
man by night."
Trouble to the right of him and
trouble to the left of him, Saul knew
not. what to do. As a last resort he
concluded to seek Out a spiritual
medium or a witch or anythieg that
you please 'to call her — a -woman
who had communication with the
spirits of the eternal world. It was
a very difficult thing to do, for Saul
had either slain all the witches or
compelled them to stop business. A
servant one day said to King Saul,
"I know of a spiritual medium down
et the village of En -dor." "Do you?"
"aid the king. Night falls. Saul,
1/!..tting on the dress of a plain citi-
zen, with two servants, goes out to
hunt up this medium.
Saul and his servants after awhile
reached the village, and they say, "I
'wonder if this is the house," and
they look in, and they see the hag-
gard, weird and shriveled up spiritu-
al medium sitting by the light and
on the table sculptured images and
divining' rods and poisonous images
and bottles and vases. They say,
"Yes, this must be the place." One
loud rap brings the woman to the
door, and as she stands there, hold-
ing 'the candle or lamp above her
head and peering out into the dark-
ness, she says, "Who is here!" The
tall king informs her that he has
come to have his fortune told. When
she . hears that, she trembles and al-
most drops the light, for she knows
there is no chance for a fortune tel-
ler or spiritual mecliuna in all the
land. But Saul having sworn that
no harm shall 'come to her, she says,
"Well, who shall I bring up from the
dead?" Saul says, "Bring up, Sam-
uel," That was the' prophet who
had died a •-little while before.
I see her waving a wand, or stir-
ring up some poisonous herbs in a
caldron, or hear her muteering over
some incantations, or stamping with
her foot as she cries out to the realm
of ease dead; "Samuel, Samuel!" Lo,
the freezing horror! The floor of the
tenement opens, and the gray hairs
'float up and the forehead, the eyes,
. 'the lips, the shoulders, the arms,
the feet—the entire body of the dead
Seenuel—wrapped in sepulchral robe,
appearing to the astonished group,
who stagger back and hold fast and
csIt e, their breath and shiver with
ter or.
'he dead prophet, white and awful
from the tomb, begins to naove his
ashen lips, and he glares upon King
Saul and cries out: "What did you
bring me up for? What do you
mean, King Saul?" Saul, trying to
compose and control himself, makes
this stammering and affrighted ut-
terance as he says to the dead pro-
phet: "The Lord is against me, and
I have come to you for help. What
shall I do?" The dead prophet
stretched forth his finger 'to King
Saul and said: "Die to -morrow !
'Come with me into the sepulcher. I
am going now. Come, come with
me!" And, lo, the floor again opens,
and the feet of the dead prophet dis-
appear and the arms and the shoul-
ders and the forehead! The floor
closes. Oh, that was an awful
seance!
We are surrounded by mystery—be-
fore us, behind us, to the right of
us, to the left of us, mystery. There
is a vast realm unexplored that sci-
ence, I have no doubt, will yet map
out. He who explores that realm
will do the world, more.service than
did ever a Columbus or an Amerigo
sVespucci. There aro so many things
that cannot be accounted for, so
many sounds and appearances which
defy acoustics and investigation, 'so
'many things appr.oximating to the
Spectral, so many effects which do
not seem to have it sufficient cause.
Spiritualism in America was born
in Hyde,sville, Wayne County, N.Y.,
when one night there was a loud rap
heeecl against the door of Michael
's W ' kmaii; a rap a second time, a
a a third time, and -all three times,
when the door was operied, there was
nothing found there, the knocking
having been made seemingly by in -
'visible knuckles. In that same house
there was a young woman who had
s, cold hand passed over her 'face,
and, there being seemengly no arm
attached to it, ghostly suspicions
were excited. •
After awhile Mr. -Fox with his farn-
i" moved into that house, and then
77.heY had banginge at the door every
night. One night Mr. Fox cried out,
"Are you it spirit?" Two raps—ans-
wer in the affirmative. "Are you an
fnitirecl spirite" Two raps—answer
in the affirmative. Then they ,knew
right away that ft was the spirit
of a peddler Who had been murdered
In that house years before and who
had been robbed of his $500. Wile -
'tiler the spirit of the peddler came
back to collect' his $500 ot his bones
I do not know.
. 'The excitement spread, There was
a universal rumpus. The Hon. Judge
Edmonds declared in a book that
he had actually seen a bell start
from the top shelf of a closet, heard
It ring over the people that were
standing in the el oset: then, swung
hy invisible hands, it rang over the
people in the heek parlor aud floated
through the foldflig doors to the
front parlor, rang over the people
there a ncl then dropped on 1,lie floor.
A senator of the United States, af-
terwards governor of Wisconsin, had °
his head geite turned with spiritual
is tic demonsti a twits
The tahlee ellesed, and the steels
tilted, and the bedsteads raised, and
the chairs uPsete and it seemed as if
the spirits everywhere, had gone into
the furniture business! Well, the
people said: We have got something
new in this country. It is a new re-
ligion!" Oh, no, my friend, thous-
ands of years ago we find in our
text, a spiritualistic seance!
Nothing in the spiritualistic circles
of our day has been more strange,
mysterious and wonderful than
things which have been seen in past
centuries of the world. In eel ages
there have been necromancers, those
who consult with the spirits of the
departed; charmers, those who put
their subjects in a mesmeric state;
sorcerers, those who by taking pois-
onous drugs see everything and hear
everything and tell everything; dream-
ers, People who in their sleeping mo-
ments can see the future world and
hold consultation with spirits. Yes,
before the time of Christ, the Bra-
inimes went through all the table
moving, all the furniture excitement,
which the spirits have exploited in
our day, precisely the same thing
over and over again, under the man-
ipulation of the•Brahmans. Now, do
you say that spiritualism is difierent
from these'? I answer, all these de-
lusione I have mentioned belong to
the same family. They are exhuma-
tions from the unseen world.
What does God think of all these
delusions? He thinks so severely of
them that he never speaks of them
but with livid thunders of indigna-
tion. He says, will be a ewift
witeess against the sorcerer." Ile
says, "Thou shalt not suffer a !witch
to live." And lest you might make
, some important distinction between
spieitualisna and witchcraft God says
in so many words, "There shall not
be among ton a consulter of laminar
spirits, or wizards, or necromancer,
f or they that do these things are an
abomination unto the Lord." The
Lord God Almighty in a score of pas-
sages which I have not now time to
quote utters his indignation against
all this great family of delusions.
After that be a spiritualist if you
dare!
You lose a friend; you want the
spiritual world opened, so that you
may. have communication with him.
In a highly wrought, nervous and
diteased state of mind you go and
put yourself in that communication.
That is why I hate spiritualism. It
takes advantage of one in ae moment
of weakness, which may come upon,
'us at any time. We lose a friend'.
The trial is keen, sharp, suffocating,
almost maddening. If we could
marshal a host and storm the eter-
nal world end recapture our loved
one, the host would soon be marshal-
ed. The house is so lonely. The
world is so dark, The separation is
so insufferable. But spiritualism
says, "We will open the future world,
and your loved one can come back
and talk, to you." Though we may
not hear his voice, we may hearthe
rap of his hand. So clear the table. Sit
down. Put your hands on the ta-
ble. Be very quiet. Five minutes
gone. Ten minutes. No motion of
the table. No response from tele fu-
ture world. Twenty minutes. Thir-
ty minute. Nervous excitement all
the time increasing. Forty minutes.
The table shivers. Two raps from
the future world. The letters of the
alphabet are called over. The de-
parted friend's name is John. At the
pronunciation of the letter J two
raps. At the pronunciation of the
letter 0 two raps. At the pronun-
ciation of the letter H two raps. At
the pronunciation of the letter N two
raps. There you have the whole
name spelled out—J-o-h-n, Sohn.
Now, the spirit being; present, you
say, "John, are you happy?" Two
raps give an affirmative answer.
Pretty soon the hand of the med-
ium begins to tw-ich and toss and
begins to write out, after paper and
ink are furnished, a message from
the eternal world. What is rensarls-
able, the departed spirit, although it
has been amid the illumination of
the heaven, cannot spell as well as
it used to. It has lose all grammati-
cal aceuracy and cannot write as dis-
tinctly. I received a letter through
a medium once. I sent it back. I
said, "Just please to tell these ghosts
they had betLer go to school and get
improved in their orthography."
Now, just think of spirits, that the
Bible represents as enthroned in glo-
ry, coming down to crawl under the
table and break crockery and ring
tea bells before supper is ready and
rap the window shetter- on a gusty
night! ' What consolation in such
miserable stuff as compared with the
consolation of our departed friends
free from toil and sin and pain are
forever happy and that we will join
them, not in mysterious and half ut-
terance which makes the heir stand
on end .and makes cold chills creep
the back, but in a reunion most bless-
ed and happy and glorious!
And none shall inurmer or inisdoubt
When God's great sunrise ands us out.
• SO do they all. Away with thl re- ,u
4 •
ligiost of spooks! PAI F AL NG
Still fute,lier, I lea,rn from my text ' 4
that sr)irittialisni is doomand death
it TI1E Or VERY MANY
e" YOUNG GLILS IN CANADA
es
I learn still further from this sub-
ject that spiritualism ,and necroman-
cy are affairs of darkness. Why did
not Saul go in the day? He Was
ashamed to go. Besides that, he
knew' that- this spiritual mediuneelke
all her successors, performed he ex-
ploits in the night. The Davenports,
the Fowlers, the Foxes, the spiritual
mediums of all ages, have chosen 'the
night or a darkened room. Why.?
The majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deceptions pros-
pers best in the night.
You have all seen strange and un-
accountable things in the night. Ale'
most every man has at sothe time
had a touch of hallucination. Some
time ago, after 1 had been over -
tempted to eat something indigesti-
ble before retiring for the night, after
retiring I saw the president of one of
the prominent colleges ,astride the
foot of the bed, while he demanded of
me a loan al: 5 cents! When .1 awak-
ened, I had no idea it was anything
supernatural. And I have to advise
you, if you hear and see strange
things at night, to stop eating hot
mince pie, and take a dose of billions
medicine. It is an oUtraged physical
organism, enough to (ICCeiVe the very
elect after sundown and docs 10arly
all its work en the night, The witch
En -dor held her Peanties at Mat; e
1
to Its disciples. King Saul thougl
that he would get help from the "ni
diuin," but the first • that he se
makes him swoon away, and no soon-
er ,4s he resuscitated than he is told
he must die. Spiritualism is doom
and death to every one that yields to
it. It ruins the body. Look in iipen
an audience of spiritualists—ecadaver-
dus, weak, nervous, exhausted, hands
clammy and cold, voices sepulchral
and ominous, bewildered with raps.
I never knew a confirmed spiritualist
who had a healthy nervous system.
It is incipiereeepilepsy and catalepsy.
Destroy your nervous system and you
might as well be dead. I have no
iced that people who are hearing rar
from the future world have but lite
strength left to bear the hard raps
this world. A man can live with
only one lung or with no eyes and be
happy, as men have been under such
afflictions, but woe be to the inan
whose nerves are shattered! Spiritu-
alism smites first of all, and mightily,
against the nervous system and so
makes life miserable.
A man in Bellevue, Hospital dying
from wounds made by his own hand
was asked why he tiled to commit
suicide, and he said, "The Spirits told
me to'." Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they
did it replied, "Spiritualism demand-
ed it." It is the pa,tronizer and for-
ager for the madhouse. Judge Ed-
monds, in Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, delivering a lecture concerning
spiritualism, admitted in so many
words, "There is a fascination about
consultation with the spirits of the
dead that has a tendency to lead peo-
ple oft from their right judgment and
to instill into them a fanaticism that
Is revolting to the natural mind."
It not only ruins its disciples, but
It ruins the mediums also, only give
it time. The Gadarene swine on the
banks of the Lake of Galilee no soon-
er became spiritual mediums than
down they went in an avalanche of
pork, to the consternation of all -the
herdsmen. The offiee of a medium is
had for a man, bad for a woinambad
for a beast.
I bring against this delusion a more
fearful indictment—it ruins the soul
immortal. First, it makes a /Ilan a
quarter of an infidel; then it makes
him half an infidel; then it makes him
a whole infidel. The whole system,
as I conceive it, is founded on the in -
They are Subjeet to Readeelsee, Heart
T you ble, and an Indisposition to Exer.
tion—Paronts should Aot Promptly in
Saab. ()Ube'.
Miss Alma Gauthier, daughter of
Mr. Adelard Gauthier, proprietor of
it well-known hotel at Three Rivers,
Que., enjoys a wide popularity among
her young friends, and they have re-
ceutly had occasion to rejoice at her
restoration to health after a serious
illness. When a reporter called to
le 'Ascertain the facts of the case Miss
01 Gauthier was out of the city on a
visit, but her father very gladly con-
sented to give the story of her cure.
He said :--"I believe that had it not
been for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills my
daughter Alma might have been in
her grave, and I woUld be ungrateful
indeed if I did not at all times say a
Iciud word in favor of the medicine
that restored her to health. My
daughter's health first began to give
way several years ago. At first the
trouble did not appear to be serious,
and we thought she would soon regain
her accustomed health. As time
went on, however, this proved not to
be the case. She grew 'weaker, wee
troubled with headaches, poor appe-
tite, dizziness and a fooling of almost
constant languor. She was treated
by a good doctor, but still there was
no improvemet. She seemed to be
gradually fading away. If she walk-
ed up stairs she wonld have to stop
several times to rest on the way. She
lost all her color and her face was
as white almost as chalk. Her trouble
was clearly that which afflicts so many
young women entering womanhood,
and we feared it would develop into
consumption. One day a friend of
the family urged her to try Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills, and she consented,
and procured a coup/e of boxes. Be-
fore they were quite gone there was
a slight improvement in her appetite
and we looked upon this as a hopeful
sign. Another half dozen boxes were
sufficiency of the word of God as
revelation. God says" the Bible i
enough for you to know about th
future world. You say it is no
enough, and there is where you and
the Lord differ. ' And although the
Scrieture,s say, "Add thou not unto
his words, lest he reprove thee and
thou he found a liar," you risk it
and say: "Come back, spirit pf my
departed father; come back, spirit of
my departed mother, of my compan-
ions, of my little child, and tell me
some things I don't know about you
And about -the unseen world."
"Bet," says some one, "wouldn'
it be of advantage to hear from th
future world? Don't you think i
would strengthen Christians?' Ther
are a great many materialists wh
do not believe there are souls, but i
spirits from the future world shout
knock and talk over to us they would
be persuaded." To that I answer i
the ringing words of the Son of God
"If they believe not Moses and th
prophets, neither will they be per-
suaded though one rose •froin the
dead."
1. beliove these Are the days o
which the apostle spake when he said
"In the latter titnes some shall de-
part from. the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits." Audiences in this
day need to have reiterated in their
hearing the passages I quoted some
minutes ago, "Tnere shall not be
among you a consulter of familiar
spirits, or wizard, or necromancer,
for they that do these things' are en
abomination unto the Lord," and
"The soul that turneth after such
as have fa,miliar spirits I will set my
as have familiar spirits 1 will set
myself against them, and they shall
be cut off from their people."
But I invite you now to a Christ-
ian seance, 'a, noonday seance.. This
congregation is only one great
family. I-Iere is the church table.
Come around the church table; take
your seats for this great Christian
seance; put your Bible on the table,
put your hands on top of the Bible
and then listen and hear if there are
any voices coming from the eternal
world. I think there are. Listen!
a procured, and under their use she day
s by day acquired new strength and
e new interest in life. She is now as
healthy a girl as there is in Three
Rivers, with every trace of her pallor
and lang,our gone. This is entirely
due to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and
I am rejoiced to be able to say so
publiely."
The case of Miss Gauthier certainly
carries with it a lesson to other par-
ents, whose daughters may be pale,
languid, easily tired, or subject to
headaches, or other distressing symp-
toms that mark the onward progress
of anaemia. In cases of this kind
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will give
more certain and speedy results than
d any other medicine. They act prompt-
ly and directly, making new, rich
ri red blood, and strengthen the nerves,
• and correct all the irregularities inci-
dent to this critical, period.
Sold by all dealers or sent post paid
at 50c. a box or six boxes for $2.60
1 by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medi.
, eine Co., Brockville, Ont. Do not
be persuaded to take some substitute.
"Secret things belong unto the Lord,
our God, but things that are reveal-
ed belong unto us and to our chil-
dren." Surely that is the voice from
the spirit world. But before you
rise from this Christian seance I want
you to promise me you will be satis-
fied with the divine revelation until
the light of the eternal throne breaks
upon yoor. vision. Do not go after
the witch of En -dor. Do not sit
down at table rappings either in
sport or in earnest.
Teach your children there are no
ghosts to be seen or beard in this
world save those which walk on two
feet or four—human or bestial. Re-
inember that spiritualism at the best
is a useless thing, for if it tells what
the Bible reveals it Is a superfluity,
and if it tells what the Bible does
not reveal it is a lie. Instead of go-
ing out to get other people to
tell your fortune tell your oWn
fortune by putting your trust
In God and doing the best you
can. 1 will tell your fortune: "All
things can work together for good to
them that love God." Insult not
your departed friends by asking them
to come down and scrabble under an
extension table. Remeeiber that
there is only one spirit whose dicta-
tion you bave a right to invoke, and
that is the holy, blessed and omnipo-
tent spirit of God. Earlt! is
rapping now, not oh a table or the
floor, but rapping on the door of
your heart, and every rap is an invi-
tation to Christ and a warning of
judgment to COMe. 01, grieve him
not awayl Quench him not. He has
been all around you this morning.
isle was all around you last night.
He has been around you all your
lives. Hark! 'There comes a voice
with tender, overmastering intona-
tion, saying, "My spirit shall not al-
v*.va strive."
"Good Morning" in Various Lands.
"Good morning!" How it is said
in various countries.
"How are you?" That's Swedish.
"Etow do you are?" That's Dutch.
"How do you stand?" That's Ital-
ian.
"'God with Go, senor." That's
Spanish.
"How do you have yourself?"
That's Polish.
"Thank God, how are you?"
That's Arabian.
"May thy shadow never grow
less. " ' That's Persian.
"How do you carry yourself?"
That's French.
"How do you do?" That's Eng-
lish and American. ,
"Be under the guard of God."
That's Ottoman.
Good Digestion Shoule wait on Appe-
tite.—To have the stomach well is to have
the nervous system well. Very delicate
are the digestive organs. In some so sen-
sitive are they that atmospheric changes
affect them. When they become disar-
raugecl no better remedy is procurable
thau Parmelee' e Vegetable Pills They
will assist elle digestion so that the hearty
eater will suffer no inconvenience and
will derive all the benefits of his food.
Matchmaker's Problem.
Hicks—It is hardly possible that a
marriage should come out of it be-
tween two such persons.
Wicks—I don't Iniow. He is a reg-
ular stick, and she has got enough
brimstone in her to make a match. •
Miller's Worm Powders are the best
laxative medicine for children; as nice as
sugar.
Bare Chance,
Mrs. Binks—The Paper says a west-
ern woman has a baby that has never
cried in its life.
Mr. Binks—By Jove! I wonder
how she'll trade.
Health for the children.. s
Worm Powders.
,
Inspiring Confidence.
"11 pays to be chce,rful.''
,"That's right: as long as yon look
as if you had money you'r creditore
have confidence in you."
Keep Minard's Liniment in the House,
in A lg., Oa.
)frane0 itt above to raise a loan of
P20,000,000 for public parks in Algeria.
411.
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•1•—•
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN LIF
ASSULIA.INCE COMPANY.
Head Office: 112 118 King Street We
TORONTO.
For the year ended December 30th, 1899.
Dec 81 1898 To net Ledger Assets • 80 977 4,51
RECEIPTS.
Dec. 80, 1899, To Cash for Premiums._ ,........$744,865.58
" " To Cash Income on Investmenis......... 148,650.81
893,522,39,
83,870,9740i
Dec. 80, 1899, By payments forDea,th Clairns,Profits,etc..$303,081.50
" " By all other payments... .. 281 182.32
5141,263,82
Balance net Led,erAssets....
ASSETS.; $3,836,710.21
Dec. 30, 1899. By Mortgages, ,etc........, 416.92.681
d Debentures (market Value 5608,935.65). , .. .
Stock e and Bonds (market value 5587,391.50. 55h,903.62
Real Estate, including Company's building. , , 334(51 7
44 Loans on Policies, etc. .. ... . ......... ..... 02116115.8?
6‘ Leans On Stocks (nearly all on call) .. . . . . ........ 194,821,4:2„:
" Cash in Banks and on hand........... , , 28.705,9et
,,33(1,710.21
" Premiums Outstanding, etc. (less cost of collection) 187,298.2e
Interest and Rents, due and accrued............ 35,0.74.75
66 Market value of Debentures and Stocks over cost 56.294.15
53 565 477.3e
LIABILITIES.
Dec. 30, 1899, To Guarantee Fund...... . .. 60,000 00
" Assurance and _Annuity Reserve fund 2,929,552 00
" Death Losses awaiting proofs, etc... 51 507.85
3 04.1 059 34
Net Surplus................ ... ..... ........ $524,4,18.0 t
The financial position of the Company is unexcelled—its per-
centag.re of net surplus to liabilities exceeds that of any other
Home Company.
New insurances issued during 1899. .. ... ..........5 4,929,140.00
e Exceeding the best previous year by nearly one million.
Insurance in torce at end of 16199 (net).... ,
PRESIDENT:
JOHN L. BLAIKIE.
VICE-PRESIDENTS:
HON. G. W. ALLAN. HON. SIR FRANK SMITH, K.C.M.G
imitEcToRs:
HON. SENATOR GOWAN, Q. C., E? GURNEY, ESQ.
LLD., C.M.G. JOHN N. LAKE, ESQ.
L. W. SMITH, ESQ., Q.C., D.C.L. J. KERR, OSBORNE. ESQ.
D. McCRAE, , ESQ., Guelph.
HON. SIR WM. R. MEREDITH, Chief Justice of Ontario,
MANAGING DIRECTOR,:
WM. McCABE, LL.B., F.I.A., F,S.S.
SECRETARY: MEDICAL DIRECTOR:
L. GOLDMAN, A. I. A. J. THORBLTEN, M. D Edin
The Report containing the proceedings of the Annual Mooting, held on,
January 30th, last, showing marked proofs of the great prog,Tcss and solid pros-
perity of the Company, will be sent to the policy -holders. Pamphlets explana-
tory of the attractive investment plans of the Company and a copy of the animal
report, showing its unexcelled financial position, tvill be furnished on applica-
tion to the Head Office or any of the Company's agencies.
SIEGE OF KIMBERLEY.
P. ar More Thai: Foxy.. 3Iontlis This Tows
Has Been Invested by the Boers
Anxious to Get Rhodes.
Kimberley was invested more than
'four naonths ago. Since the begin
ning of war the world has never
known such irony of fate as the per-
sons beleaguered there have endured.
Within this besieged town were
10,000 to 15,000 white people and
as many blanks. At their command
is wealth so vast the ordinary mind
cannot grasp it. Stored in vaults
are at least $40,000,000 worth of
diamonds.
Each day $100,000 could be taken
from the earth in gems. Yet with
all this vast wealth the people of
Kimberley have been living on horse
and mule meat since Jan. 8, and all
rations have been cut to the mini-
mum.
During these four months the Boers
have made no attempt to capture
Kimberley by storm. Their purpose
evidently has been to starve the peo-
ple out.
There can be no doubt that they
want possession of Kimberley.
Should they capture it they would
have the wealth of its diamond
mines --- enough to pay the expenses
of the war a dozen times over.
The Boers also want Cecil Rhodes,
who went there just before the break-
ing out of hostilities, declaring that
he would be as safe there as in Pic-
cadily, London. The personal hat-
red of the Boers centres upon Rhodes.
They recognize him as their arch
enemy, the real cause of the war.
'Ihey realize the importance of cap-
turing the men of whom W. T. Stead
wrote: •
"He is the greatest personage in
the 'British Empire, bar two -- the
Queen and Lord Salisbury. He is
the greatest rnan in the British Em-
pire, bar one."
Kimberley is 647 miles from Cape
Town by railroad. It lies in a plain
that stretches for miles in every di-
rection and is unbroken, save toward
the east, where there is a line of
low hills.
Its area is out of all ratio to its
size. The streets are wide and the
houses are detached, surrounded by
yards. Land tas little value save
when diamonds are found.
The town- really suerounds a hi:Igo
hole, the VVesselton mine, an opening,
2,000 feet wide and 612 feet deep.
Of course every one knows that the
diamond trust formed by Cecil
Rhodes in 1885 owns or controls
nearly everything in Kitnberley, lo
(191Li on to the mines, which are in-
closed in a great wire netting,. The
native workerS are compelled to live
iji
ive workmeri, were pressed into ser-
wice.
and a detachthent of the Roye.1 Artil-
there to fortify the pla,ce. The Da -
Stores of provisions, , wheat, flour,
lery, tinder Major Chamier, was sent
oatmeal and biscuits were laid in,
a compound in order to minimize
t ions were made for a siege. Vast
Before hoe tilities beg'an prepare-
Conclitions 'were favorable enough.
Surrounding the wliole town is an ar-
tificial ransport, the dee)ris from the
!nines, placed there to be rid of it,
eesides there are inany net -Oral
mounds, Tn many reeves this ram-
part was bililt to it height of (10
feet. and guns were mounted on top..
In addition trenches were made, or
course, and the work as a whole wae•
pronounced remarkably effective.
The Loyal North Lancashire battal-
ion arrived in Kimberley Oct. 7, and
the siege began with the opening of
hostilities a few days later. The in-
habitants were then placed on siege
rations, which were gradually re-
duced.
Meantime steps were taken to or.
ganize for defense. One writer says
Kimberley ead 20 big guns. Another
that it had nine Maxims and 12 field
guns.
The DeBeers Company, which ownis
the mines, organized its police as it
military force, and also equipped an
artillery company. Also a town
guard was organized, part infantry,
part mounted. The total fighting
force, as nearly as can be learned,
was about 3,000 men, made up of the
following:
Royal Artillery.
Diamond Field Artillery,
First Battalion Loyal Ncrth La.
cashires.
Kimberley Regiment.
Diamond Field Horse.
Diamond Police.
Town Guard,
Lieut. -Col. Ieekewich, of the Lan-
cashires, has as commandant con-
ducted the defense of the town with
skill.
A nsost efTectis•e weapon of defense
were the scores of searchlights be-
longing to the mines, and the most
powerful in the world, which scoured
the surrounding country at night and
flashed upon the eky signals said to
have been read, as far off as Orange
River, SO miles south.
Directly after the war began Lord
Methuen was sent with a force of 9,-
000 men to relieve Kimberley and
Cecil Rhodes. The latter has lived in
the sanitarium, especially fortified to
a height of 60 feet with sandbags
and debris from the mines to protect
them.
fyi er AT a tor IV ith Coal 00.
It is a common practice in many',
sections of Louisiana, to use coal oil
in the cisterns and wells to destroy,
germ life, A physician in that see -
tion gives the results of experiments
to determine its value. Ile took a.
barrel of rain 'water, full of "wiggle -
tails" and wood lice, poured in it.
tablespoonful of coal oil, stirred up
the water, and in an hour afterward
no living insect eves to be found in
the barrel, the water being as clean
as crystal, the oil only showing on
top, and the taste ssvciet and pure.
Ile believes ie purifies the water as
well as prevents the formation ol
germs, aed that it prevents all dis-
eaees originating in impbre water,
•
en ter Ora uses in Paris.
Theatre Omnibuses have been start-
ed ill Paris, which leave the chief
theatres after the perforthances and
go ont to six residence quarters for
the oreSen1,
Why Views Differ.
It is said that 111,41910 are right had left
eyed, just the semi, ne they are right ate
left heeded, e)leoecounts for the per-
sistency with eihich se nany persons took
ai things differeeily from ourseiresess
Reston TrabSeriPt,