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• , A -dcspatcli from. Washington says:
--Rev, Dr. Talmage preached froni
the following texts:
. "Then
was oar mouth filled with
laughter. ' cxxvi. 2.
,1LO that sitteth 111 the Heavens
shall laugh . "-ers atm lie4. •
• Thir.tYteight times' does the Bible
, Make reference to this configuration
of the features and quick expulsion
of breath winch, we eiell leughter.
Sometimes it is born of Lee sunshine
and sometimes the Midnight. Some-
times it stirs the sympathies of an-
gels and sometimes the cachinations
of devils. All healthy peoine laugh;
whether it pleases the Lord, or dis-
pleases himathat depends upon when
W3 laugh. and at what we la ugh.
. Ahem°. this , morning, is the laughter
• of the Bible, name'.,': SaratC.s lauge,
or that of scepticasm; David's laugh,
or that of ''spiritual ex.ul-
tati on; the fool's . laugh,
or that of sinful merriment; God's
laugh, or that of infinite, condemna-
tion; , Heaven's laugh, or that of
.eternal triumph. 'Scene: an .oriental
tent. Tho occupants, old Abraham
and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and
decrepit. Their three guests are
three angels, the Lord 'Almighty is
of then'. In return:for 'the hospital -r
ity shown.by the old people, God
15roinises Sarah that she shall be-
come the ancestress of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the
face of God; -she does not believe it.
She is affrighted ',at what she has
done. She denies' it, she says: "I
di dn' t laugh'' Then God retorted
\vith an einphasis that silenced all
.disputation: "But thou did'st
,laugh.'' •My friends, the laugh of
scepticism in all the ages is only the
echo of Sarah's laughter'. God_ says
he willaccomplish a thing, and men
say it cannot be done. A great mul-
titude laugh, at the nairacles. They
say they are contrary to the laws of
nature. What is a law of nature?
It is, God's way of doing ,a thing.
. The next laughter mentioned in the
Bible is David's laughtee, or the
express io n of spiritual exultation.
"Then NiAlS our mouth filled with
laughter." IfIe got very much down
.sometimes, but those are other Chap-
ters where, for four or five times he
Galls upon' the people to praise and
• exult. It was not e mere twitch of
, thelips; it was a demonstration
• 'that took hold of his whole physical
•i.itttnres "Then was our .month filled
• with laughter," My friends, this
• world will never' be converted" to
God until Christians Cry less and
laugh and sing .more. The . horrors
' are a ,peOr• bait. If people are to
1 a be persuaded to adopt our holy re-
ligion, it will be because they have
.'inade up their mind it is , a happy,
They do' not like aneultra-
• bilious -Christianity. I know there
. are morbid people ,who enjoy a fun-
• eral. They come' early to see, the
.friends take leave of the corpse, and
_they steal a ride to the Cemetery;
but all healthy people enjoy a mar-
riage better thanthey do a burial:
• Now, you make the religion of
Christ., sepulchral and hearse -like
and you make it repulsive. , I say
• piant th.e Rose of Sharon along
, church walks, and columbine to
clamber over the church wall, and
have a smile on the lip, and have the
mouth filled with holy laughter.
' There is no man in the world ex-
. cept-'the Christian that has a right
to feel an untrammeled glee.. He is.
promised that everything is the best
here, .and he is on the way to a de-
light which will take' all the proces-
sions with . paint -branches, and all
. the orchestras harped and cymbaled
' to express. 0! rejoice evermore.
You know how it is in an army—an
esaany in encampment. • If today,
• news comes that our side has had a
,defeat, and tomorrow' another por-
tion of the tidings comes, saying:
"We have -had another defeat," it
demoralizes all the host. But if the
• news, comes of victory today and
vietory tomorrow, the whole army
is inniassioned for the contest. NoWs
in the leingdona of our .Lord Jeeue
Christ, report fewer defeats; tell •us
. the victories. Victory over, sin and
• death and hell. , Rejoice 'evermore,
and again I say rejoice. I, believe
there is more. religion in a laugh
than 'in a groan.— e'Anybody . can
groan, but to laughin the Midst of
banishment and persecution and
in-
descrthabletrials--that requires a
' David, „ a Daniel, a Paul, a modern
Heroine. ' .
The next laughter mentioned in
• ,•• the Bible that I shall speak of,is the
• fool's laughter, or the expression. of
merrhnent.Solomon was very
, quick ainaSimile; when he makes a
comparison we all catch it. What
. is the laughter of afoot like? He
says "it is the crackling of thorns
under a pot." The kettle is Swung,
a bunch of brambles is put under it,
and there is a greatnoise and a big
" blaze, and e a sputter and 'a 'quick ex-
. thigniihnient. ' 'Then it • is darker
than id 'was before. -Fool's laughter."
.The most Miserable thing On earth
is a bad Man's tan. When. I was ,ft
book eairia out entitled "Dow'
, • J'r's Patent SerlY1021S." It'nuide a
' t stir a very wide laugh all
. • , ovee tbe country, that book did. It
was a caricature of the Christian
ministry and. of the Word of God;
and. of the day of judgment. Oh!
we had a great laugh. 'The com-
mentary on. the 'whole thing is, that
not long' ago, the author Of that
book died in poverty, Warne,'de-
bauchery, kicked out of Society and
- cursed of Almighty God.. The laugh-
, ter of such me,n as he is the echo of
-their own. damnation. •
The next laughter 1 shall .mention
. as being in the Bible, is the laugh of
God's Condemnation. "He that, sit-
• :te,th in the heavenshall laugh."
. Again: “The Lord will Tang"). at
`I will laugh at. his
calamity.'' Wi ih Su demOnstra-
, tiOn will God greet ever): Xind of sin
and wickedness, • Bad Men build up
villanies, higher and. ,higher. Good.
- , :nen elr'OSt, .... pity God becauSe he is
so sc1ieto4d, agelrist by men.,
denly a pin drops out of the ma-
chinery of wicked men, or a secret
is revealed, the foundation begins to
rock. Filially the whole thing' is de-
molished. What is the matter? I
will tell you what the matter is.
That crash of ruin is only the rever-
beration of God's laughter.
There is a great difference between
God's laugh and his smile. His
smile is eternal. beatitude. He smiled
when David sang, and Miriam clap-
ped the cymbals, and Hannah made
garments for her son, and Paul
preached, and John kindled with
apocalyptic vision, and when any
man has anything to do and does
i,t well. His smile! It is morning
breaking on a rippling sea, It is
heaven at high nooe, all the bells
ringing. • But his laughter—may it
never fall on us. It is a condemna-
tion for 'our sin. It is a Wastillg
away. 'We may let the satirist laugh
at us, and all our companions laugh
at us, and we be made the target for
the merriment of earth and hell; but
God forbid that wn should ever coin()
to the fulfillment of the prophecy
against the rejectors of the truth:
'`I will laugn at, your calamity.'
The other laughter men ti oned in
the Bible, the only one I shall speak
of, is Heaven's laughter, or the ex-
pression of eternal triumph. Christ
said to his disciples: "Blessed are
ye that weep now, for ye shall
laugh." That makes isle nnow poSi-
tively that we are not to spend our
days in heaven singing long metre -
songs. The formalistic and stiff no-
tions of heaven that SOMO people
have would make me miserable. I
am glad to know that the heaven of
the Bible is not only a place of holy
worship but of magnificent sociality.
"What," says you, "will the ringing
laugh go around the circle of the
saved?" I say yes; pure laughter,
holy laughter. It will be a laugh
of congratulation. When we meet a
friend who has suddenly come 'to a
fortune, or who has got over some
dire sickness; do we not shake hands,
do we not laugh with him? And
when we get to heaven and see our
friends there, some of them having
come up out of great tribulation,
why we will say to one of them :
"the last time I saw you, you had
been suffering for six weeks under a
low intermittent," or to another we
will say: "Von for ten years were
limping with the !heti ilOL ism, and
you were full of complaints when we
saw you last. I congratulate -you
on this eternal recovery." Ye shall
laugh. Yes, we shall congratnlate
all those who have come -up out of
great financial embarrassineuts 111
this world, because they have be-
come millionaires in heaven. Ye
shall laugh. It vsill -be a laugh of
reassociation. It is just as natural
for us to laugh when we meet
a friend we have not seen for ten
years as anything is possible to be
natural. When we meet our friends
from whom we have been parted ten,
ointweaty or thirty years, will it not
bd with infinite congratulation? Our
perception quickened, our knowledge
improved we will know each other'
at a flash. We will have to talk
over all that has happened since we
have been separated, the one that
has been ten years hi heaven telling
us all that has happened in the ten
years of his heavenly residence, and
we telling him in return all that has
happened during the ten years of his
absence from earth. Ye shall laugh.
I think George Whitfield and John
Wesley wili have a laugh of contempt
for their earthly collisions, and Top -
lady and Charles Wesley will have
a laugh of .contempt for their earth-
ly misunderstanding, and the two
farmers who were in a law suit all
their days will have a •laugh of con-
tempt over their earthly disturbance
about, a line 'fence.. ,Exemption from
all annoyance. Inimersion in all
gladness-. Ye • shall laugh. Christ
steers, "Ye shall laugh." Yes, it will
b -da laugh of triumph. Oh! • what
a pleas -ant thing it will be to stand
on the wall of heaven and look down
at Satan. and hurl at him defiance,
and see him caged and chained, „and
we forener free from his chinches.
Ahat Aha l Yes, it will be a laugh
of royal greeting.
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• COST OF FIRING A GUN. „.
The ,firing of n, shell from a 110 -
ton gun costs 2166—,C36 for 900/b.
of powder and E,130 for the projec-
tile. That is what it costs to "pull
the trigger," but as the 11.0 -ton gun
only stands ninety-three shots and
costs- R.16,480 tti Make, the actual
cost of each shot is £34.0.
thonsand shots from each of these
•guns, Which could be fired in a few
rninuteS, represent an expenditure
equal to the interest on eight and a
half millions of money.
FOR SERVICES RENDERED.
Strange are the experiences of the
great, A , famous musician was tell-
ing 'his friends of the quern prises he
had played for. when climbing the
ladder of fame.
I remember he laughed, being pre-
sented by the public of Rotherham
with half a sheep for a couple of
violin solos. '
That's nothing ! exclaimed a grum-
py old fellotv. in a corrier. A inan
gave half a cornet solo only yes-
terday, down our street in AShover,
and got an old boot, a ,chunk of
coal ,ancl seventeen eggs 1
A brisk, smart -looking man Walk-,
ed into a dentist'a, and asked: Doe -
tor, what do ,you charge to pull a
tooth? Fifty 'cerits.., Are yoti sure
eyon ktiosn how to do it? EtoW many
do you pull a year? At least three
thousand, My gni ba Sir. That will
do, am the intome 'tax man.
Good -thele, ' •
nit&
EARLY SYMPTQNS OF CON$IJMPTION
,it Is By No Means Easy to Recognize
the PiSeaSe in Its Incipiency.
,Now that the value of the open-air
treatment of consumption has been
demonstrated, the great importance
of an •canin diagnosis of the disease
IS evident. 1 .
UnfontunatelY, it 5bY no menfls.
easy to 'recognize the disease in it
incipiency, for the early eymplonas are
nal diatinctive, and the 'cause of the
failing health ie often not suspect-
ed until the disease has become
entabliehed.
The' symptonaS ealling attention es-
pecially to dieease of the 'lungs axe
g,emerally late in appearing, and the
physieian'e suspicions will usually
have been aroused long before there, is
any severe cough .'.er profuse expeo-
taxation. .
At flint there ia merely a falling
off in :health ; the penson is "a little
below pair," and hie friends' remark
that he la losing flesh. He is not ace'
tually 111, and his; condition causes
him little, anxiety, being attributed
to a nuala of work, or to worriment
oatmeal by a business hitch or eonae
family treuble. '
But as time, ,goee on, ancl the sup-
posed ca,uee, of the trouble has been
ireanoved, the- patient does' not recov-
er •liis l'itrerngth ; 'on the contrary, the
gradual decline coaaLinuea and a no-
tieeable' palloir appears.' The lips are
bluish, the eyes ane abnormally white,
Use - pinkish hue of the nails fades out,
the mucous naernbrane of the mouth
is pale, in medical language, the pa-
tient is anaemic. .
This pallor le a suspicious sign; and
another symptom of marked ssgnific-
ance ie a rapid ulee, one that beats\
continuously ninety , on one hundred
times a minute.- At this time there
ia theuallyalso, more or less fever, al-
though it may be no elight as to be
detected only by a frequent Use of'
the thexanometer.
founth nynaptorn of importance is
incae,aSed perepiration, usually most
marked in the first hours after mid-
night—night' awents--but Bernet:trace
troublesome in the. daytime as well;
Cough duning this period in as ofs
ten absent ste present, and in any
cane ie Faith= more than a nervoua
hacking; later it beocanee move per-
sisteant, and some expectonatIon an-
peare. But by thin' time the plays!,
clan can generally detect signs of
lung troublo by an examination, of
tho chest, and the discovery a tubers
oulo bacilli when th,e expectogated
MfateX 5 itudlod under tho• Inhere-.
scope will nemove all idoubts as to the
natune of, the malady, ,
Of course, one who hen persistent
anaemia, a ;rapid pnine, night Sweats,
alinndthPoeirheaanPlay setvaegrl est4onf octOnnesucemspsatrionnY,
although there is ground foe sus-
ploion. Even if Inc Is, however' there
need be no oxoeseive alanra, ior the
disease .sit this stage la almost ,pools
tively curable, and Ile Priely cleteca
tion I therefore a. blessing,
WEALTH AND FOOD.
London Lancet Thinks; the Rich Fare No
• Reiter Than the Poor.
•
The Man of wealth quite natural-
ly pays considerably more fOr Wei
breakfast, luncheon and dinner than
do.e.s, say ; the mechanic, but LS he any
the batter fon it, mentally and Oval,
cally? We doubt it.
We shalt be pretty correct na stat-
ing th,at the man ;Syle01 buys common
eggs instead of Pievera' eggs, and
calf's head instead eof turtle, and a
pigeon instead of a partridge, Is the
gainer, at any rate fromthe econos
mioally nutritive paint of view. XIS
other words, the price of an artiolo
on food by rio means 'seta upon Its
foocl value and the difference repre-
sented between the price of chant -
pagan and ginger beer, between that
of oysters and cooklen, etc., is the
prioe paid for -pleasing the palate,
which extravagance is probably tbe
penalty of a mental rather than of a
bodily demand. '
. ,But PhYsioleigicalli it in akin', to
'substituting difimianda for coals in the
s.team engine. Luxurious foods are,
strictly speaking, creature comforta,
wlatlle. plain .foOdsare bodily neces,s1,-
ties. It must be .admitted, however,
that, as a rule, choice -tasting game
an,c1 meatsare necessarily tender and
therefore easy of assimilation. But
clearly there rolus.t be a limit to the
appropriation - of food by the body,
and thie iiinit m:ay be reached ju.st,
n,asily by- means of good,' plain and
tender food as by food of a rarer
.sor t. , ,
According to this view there must
Inc great phySiologiond extravagance
going on .frorri day to day. In the
matter of beverages the same aort of
extravagance occurs. Einormous
rices are given for, a particularly
choi.c.e- wine, but here, again; it is
practically certain that „the, human
eeonomy gains little or nothing by it.
Does the man who drinks a claret
of choice vintage at, say, 10 shilling
a bottle., derive any material advant-
alg,eoyer the man 'who drinks his
battl,e, of yin orclinair,e? It is
doubtful. In any case, the prices ask-
ed for wine at big hotels are sot mon-
strously high and the wine offered is,
so often bad that thts fact tames ac-
counts for an increasing de,mand. 'for
whiskey as a dinner beverage There
itt ob.vicunly considerable physiolo-
ain ,and vvantonriesa committed
in the choice of food and in the quan-
tity conseinind..
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ELECTRIC 'LIGHT AND THE
EYES.'
• A Russian medical man has decid-
ed that the electric light is least in-
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jurietts to the eyes. He says that
the oftener the lids are closed the
greater the fatigue and conSecitteat
injury. By experiments he finds that
the Flds would close With different il-
luminations perminute; oandle light,
.8,
gas, 2.8; sun, 2.2; electric light,
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The last Indian famine created ri,
world's record in famine relief; there
having • been sik million people do -
pendent o15 charity for many weeks.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII SECOND QUARTER INTER-
NATIONAL SERtES JUNE 23
Text of the ILeinsen, Rev. x1, 1-7, 22"
2'7—Memory 'Verses, 3,, 4, 27-6olden
Text, Rev. xxl, 7—Commentary Pre-,
pared by the Rev. Li. ';tit. Stearns.
[Copyright, 1501, by American PleS3 ASSOdiAtiOD.]
1. "And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth." Compare Is. lxy, 17; lxvi,
22; if Pet. iii, 13, for in these passages
also do we read of a new heaven and
earth. The first two chapters M the Bi-
ble tell us of this earth and its atmos-
phere without sM, and the last two chain
tees in Revelation tell of the same. Our
leSS011 tOday is concerning the .,geeat eoa-
summation when the Lord Jesue sball
have subdued all things unto Himself
and God shall be all in all t Cor. ".> 28).
The present beaven aadearth is said to
have •passed away, bet' it will be the
same earth changed and purified. - Cora-
aPattarelogInI tia")ekte. in, C50 -r7., va,n1d7.fol:Thae hsealsPifnligi
"no more sea" may refer to the great sea
of Scripture, the 'Mediterranean, or if it
means all oceans some people will be
Very glad, and all HIS people will be sate
18116d:
2.`And I, John, saw the Holy City,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorn-
ed for her husband." Verses 9-21 give a
bit description of this great city, the
Hely Jerusalem, the bride, the Lamb's
wife, and if tbe language is figurative it
is because words cannot tell the glory of
that city; if the description is to be taken
literally, it will be glorious enough to
suit the most ambitious.
13, 4. "Behold the tabernacle of God is
with men, and He will dwell with them."
Earth shall be a part of heaven, for there
shall be no more curse (xxii, 3), and on
this long sin cursed earth ,there shall nev-
er again be tears or death or sorrow or
crying or pain, All old things shall truly
be passed away. The devil, after his
thousand years in the pit, shall have
gone to the lake of fire forever (chapter
xx, 7-10), and the, last enemy, death,
shall have been destroyed (I Cor. xv, 26).
The whole earth shall be an Eden, and
God as familiar with man on earth as
with Adam and Eve M Eden. When the
believer dies, he goes to be with God in
His house, but on the new earth God Will
dwell with man in man's house, which
God shall then have made all new.
5. "And He that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new."
Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah ii, 9),
whether of a nation or a man only gob
xxxlv, 29); Ile is the author and finisher.
In the individual He begins the work,
and He performs it until the day of Jesus
Christ (Phil. i, 6). As He created all
things, He will also re-create all things,
for He is able. Lest any should doubt
the truth and reality of these.things, the
marriage of the Lamb, the coming of the
kingdom, the new heaven and earth, He
takes pains to say again and again that
these sayings are of God and are true
and faithful (xix, 9; xxii, 6). Many are
longing to have all things made new M
their lives, but cannot see how it is to be
done. Let them remember these words
of our God, "I make all things new."
He who can make a new heaven and
earth can make some new men and Wo-
,
6. "I will give unto him that is athirst
of the fountain of the water of life free-
ly." He who said on the cross, "It is fin-
ished," will again say, "It is done," and
the full' benefits of His great redemption
shall fill the earth. The cry, "Ho, every
one that thirsteth, coiner' has long been
sounding, and with greater emphasis
since John's Patmos visions, "Let hiin
that is athirst come,' and whosoeyer will
let him take the water of life freely"
(Isa. Iv, 1; Rev. xxii, 17).
7. "He that overeometh shall inherit all
things, and I will be his God, and he
shall be My son." If we would let God
be our exceeding joy, He would so satis-
fy us that the world would lose its hold,
and, believing His exceeding great and
precious promises, we would be filled
with joy and peace and manifest the
truth of His saying, so fully illustrated in
Heb. xi, that faith overcometh the world
(I John v, 4).i See Ells call to us to let
Him satisfy us in II Cor. vi, 14-18. The
committee who prepare the lessons have
said that this lesson may be used as a
temperance lesson. Well, if the glories
of the New Jerusalem will not draw men
from •intemperance, nor the horrors of
verso, 8 make •them afraid, their case
looks hopeless indeed.
22, 23. "The glory of God' did lighten
it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."
temple, and no need oftsun or moon;
the Lord God.Almightynaud the Lamb'
are all and sufficient. If we could see
the glory and the light of that city, we
could not see much to attract us in the
ordinary 'allurements of this world. He
satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the
hungry soul, and it is possible even here
in fhese mortal bodies to be abundantly
satisfied with the fatness ot HIS house
and drink of the river of His pleasures;
satisfied with favor and full with the
blessing of the Lord (Ps, xxxvi, 8; Jer.
xxxi, 14; Dent. xxxili, 23). ,
24. "And the nations of them which
are saved/shall walk in the light of -it."
Now we have saved persons, but then,
after Israel as a nation is saved, there
shell; be saved nations walking M the
light 'of this great city. If Christians
were now fully walking in the light ac-
cording to ,their privilege, may we not
believe • that others, seeing that light,
might want to walk in it too? In my .
mail today was a letter containing this
request, "Pray that I may come into
such oneness with Him that by the
Christ within me my life may glorify
Him and draw others to Him." Does
,po
u,srelseettrett sanl:Le
e...aen .to such a request?
see Ihethenthy.,..19
25, 26. "They shall bring the glory and
honor of- the nations into it." In Pc.
11, We nead that "ill kings shall
fall down before Him, all nations shall
serve. Him." In Isa. lx, 5 11, we read
of gates that shall never be shut and of
the wealth of the nations being brought
(verse 5, margin) for His Name's sake.
We think of the men from the east who
brought their geld and other gifts at III,
birth, and of Mary of Bethany, with her
box of very precious and coetly ointment,
rind we may well ask ourselves if we aro
briegieg to IIhn i Ms service all that is
most precious to is, or aro we reserving
somewhat?'
27. "They which are written In the
Lamb's book of life." Only such shall
enter the city, but nothing or no one not
cleaned by the bleed of the Lomb can
enter. See in Luke X, 20, what our Lori
thinki or having one's name in the heel(
of life. It we have life in Christ by His
preciolts bleed, our names are surely
there, keit Ift etherwise (1 John .v,
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A prominent characteristic of the
later phases of the war in South Af-
rica, is the reversion of both sides to
the methods of a century ago.
Big guns, cavalry charges hollow
Squares, and fortified places carried
at tho point of the bayonet are all
put on ono side, and Boer and Brit-
ish alike trust to mobility, inde-
pendent initiative and sharpshoot-
ing;
'Reliance upon small arms of of-
fence has moreover brought in again
primitive methods of defence. One
of the most striking examples of
this Is Lord Kitchener's institution
of a system of blockhouses along the
railway lino like that in our illustra-
tion. They are coeval from a mili-
tary paint of view with the Martell°
towers which were built a hundred
years ago to assist in repelling the
feared Napoleonic invasion, but
Which are now obsolete and ruinous,
A third-class gunboat could shell
a Martell° tower into a heap of toad
metal in half an hour, and a Boer
Long Tom would demolish a block
house at a single shot. But, as a
protection ,for riflemen against rifle-
men, the block house is adequate.
• Our picture is of Fort Napier in
Natal, and its "permanent garrison"
of nine men of the ICing's Liverpool
regiment. The Liverpools were one
of the first regiments of volunteers
to go out to the front, and were
recently welcomed back to Lon-
don. The fort is solidly built 01
•cemented masonry, with its walls
pierced on ail sides for rifle fire.
SOMEEXPENSIVE BLEEPS, etiClOrlweidtht0 liTeVdtli.e',Ina.nd a, guard sta.,
STORIES OF NAPS THAT COST
MONEY AND TROUBLE.
•
Young Scotch Minister Lost a
Fine Appointment by Goin.g to
Sleep—A London Grocer's Ex-
perience on a Jury—Half-Hour
Snooze Almost Caused a War.
A young and clever, but rather
nervous, Scotch minister received
telegram one Friday lately asking
him to preach on the following Sun.- ,
day at a church in an out-of-the-
way part of Sutherlandshire.
It, appeared that the congregation
were looking for a new minister,
and there was a strong possibility
of his obtaining the vacancy if his
sermon suited his hearers. He spent
almost all night On his discolirse,
and next day started on his 'long
journey in a very tired. condition.
The result was that he fell sound
asleep, and woke at a junction, to
find that someone had relieved him
of his bag, purse, and ticket. He
jumped out in a hurry, and began
to tell his story to the station -mas-
ter, who very kindly said he would
see him on to his destination. To
his horror, the unfortunate young
man found that he had absolutely
forgotten the name of the place.
The station -master's suspicions were
a,rotised, and, despite his protests,
the minister was hauled off to the
pollee station. He missed his last
train, missed his a,ppointrnent, and
made his way home on Monday,
with a fixed resolve never again to in-
dulge M a sleep M a train.
An, -English railway cstrriage was
recently the scene Of a still more "
EXPENSIVE NAP.
Three young Germans were travel-
lingtogether, two of whom were
brothers, the third a chance acquain-
tance. Number three went to sleep,
had a nightmare, and, under the im-
pression that the others were about
to murder him, sprang to the dbor
threw it open and flung himself out.
. The other two were arrested for
attempted murder, and, as the in-
jured man remained insensible, they
were held for trial. It happened
that one of them was on bin way
back to serve his time in the Ger-
man army. The clelay,, made it mm -
possible to join M time. When he
was at length set, feed'," and did ar-
rive at -the depot, lie was arrested as
a deserter, and suffered a month's,
rigorous imprisonment before the,.
truth was ascertained.
There is a South London grocer
whose tendency: to stoutness, per-
haps, explains his little habit of
taking five-minute cat -naps at odd
times during the day, Ajew months
ago • he . was called to serve on a
jury. It wen a long and dreary,
ease, and towaucla the.erid of the day
habit proved too strong, and he
dropped off. The time came for the
jury , to receive their pay and go
bome; but when it came to the gro-
cer's turn the coroner suddenly real-
ized that this juror wa.s sound as-
leep.
i'Leave him alone,'' he said:
"don't wake him up," So he was
left unpaid, to slumber in peace in
the dark court room, The seqUel
was more serious. Waking sudden -
13r, and unable 'to imagine whege he
was, the sleepy grocer fell out of the
jury -box, mid twisted hit ankle so
badly that he was
LAID UP FOR SIX WEEKS,
A snooze of half an hour -very
nearly caused a seine -as rupture be-
tween Brazil and Portugal some
yeare ago.- A Portuguese man-of-war
was expected in a South Brazilian
harbor, and great preparations were
made to welcome her, A ninnbee of
old intizzleloading guns were chain. -
The day was hot, and the Portue
guese vessel very slow about putting
in an appearance. Finally, the offie
cer in charge fell asleep M the very
act of lighting a cigar, mid his men
lost no time in following his ex- ,
ample. Suddenly one of them was '
awakened by a steanier's whistle. He
sprang up, and roused his officer. A
big vessel was entering the harbor.
"Fire!" yelled the officer. And the
guns went off With f one `bang,. start-
ling the captain of the English
tramp -steamer "Carnarvon." into.the
belief tbat a new revolution was take
Alas! there was no powder for ane
other charge; so, when the Portus
guese shin steamed up half an hour
later, her captain's first business was
to inquire why the conimon courtesy,
of a salute had been .omitted. Nor
was he satisfied till he had obtained •
a, specinc apology •fteozie headquarters(
HOW JAPAN WAS IVIODERNIZED
A Large Army and Navy INeces. •,
sary to Absorb Her Ex -War -
The men who have made Japan--
.
Marquise Ito, Count Itagalu and
,others now dead—were keen -sighted •
enough to see that to preserve the
independence and dignity of their
country it tva,s necessary to fight the
foreigner with Ms own weapons.
They were all men belonging to the
hereditary gentry of Japan but as
it were, to the democracy of gentil- ,
ity. None of them belonged to high
families, and in, the old order of
things their , splendid "zibilities would
not liave raisedethein from obscurity.
Their personal ambitions, therefore, •
coincided exactly with the policy
1
they saw was necessary for their
country's welfare. '
I -raving obtained the -power they
set to work with minds enlightened • '
by foreign travel and totally °man-
cipatedfrom old-fashioned ideas. Ala
most at a blow, as preparatiori for
the grand scheme of modernization,
they destroyed the old feudal eysteni
and created a new order of society.
But this tremendous revolution
brought with it consequences which '
have had a vast effect on the coun-
try's policy- . Itis not diflicult in a
more or less absolute country to
sweep away' an institution by a
.stroke of the pen, but it is impos-
sible to do so without a vast social
disturbance.
A great military class—the armed
retainera of the old nobility, men
bred only to fighting --disdaining
labor, ,and above all, trade ---were
practically cast adrift without means
of livelihood. It was at one time no
uncommon thing to find a messenger
"boY"• or a jinriksha coolie whose
ancestors had been soldiers 'or a
hundred generations, and who con-
side'red himself vastly higher, twee in
his poverty, than the
merchant whoms he served.
This class wes n greet den e'er and
embarrassment to the reformed goV-
ernment.' Some peovieion had to lie
inade for them, and revolutionary
outbreaks here .an d there she we 1 it
would have been on a lare'e reale. A
big p01 ice f orce—im access ari ly large
to a foreign eye—was formed. The
army IVSS progressively increased,
chiefly, perhaps, in the idea that the
safety of the country denumded it,
but largely, to dispose of Se masses
of disconten tett ex-warri ore. Elit
expansion Of the navy fuether helpg
Us absorb these men,
Darling, lo (tried in tender torten
I never loved but thee!
Must Imst, the maid replied,: 4;0 tni
at,eurs foe me,
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