Exeter Advocate, 1901-11-14, Page 2IVOITTY
IDIAESFA
• Peopie Who Throw Away Thefr Lives
• if...111,01,0 Were No Eternity.
(Entered according to Aot a the Parliament oi
0111.14C1B., in the year One Thousand Nino Hun -
di and One, by i.)f Toronto, at
tlio Devartrneu of Aorioulture, Ottawa.]
A dosPatee fthin Washineton says:
. --Rev. Dr. Talmage preached. from
the following text: job. xXxviii,• 81,
"Canst thou bind, the 'sweet influen-
ces of Pleiades?"
What is the meaning of that quos -
tion which God put to job? :Have
eve all our lives been reading it, and
are most of us ignorant df its beauty
and power and ,practical suggestive-
ness? A meaningless . passage of
Scripture many . thought it to be,
but the teleseepeS,' were busy age af-
ter age, and astronomiCal observa-
tions kept on questioning the .skies
until the meaning of, my text comes
out lustrously. The Pleiades is a
eonstellatioa of seneu. stars ' appear-
ing to the naked eye but scientific
instruments reveal more than 400
properly belonging to the group. Ad-
eyone is the name of the brightest
star of that group called the
P lei axles. A Russian aSiir o mer ob-
•serVed that, Alcyone is the centre of'
gravitation of our solar system.
Hugh Macmillan says that the sun
411(.1 its planets wheel argund that
centre at tho rate of 4122,900 miles
a day in an orbit which it will take
19,000,000 years to complete. The
Pleiades appear in the springtime and
are associated with flowers and gen-
ial warmth and good weather. The
navigation of the Mediterranean was
from May to November, the rising
and the 'setting of the Pleiades. The
priests of Belus noticed that rising
and setting ,
2,000 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
Now, the glorious , meaning of my,
text is plain as well as radiant. To
give Job the beautiful grace of hu-
mility God asked him, "Canst thou
bind the sweet influences of the
Pleiades?" Have you any power
over the laws of gravitation? Can
you modify or change an influence
wielded by a star more than 400,000
nines away? Can you control the
winds of the springtime? Can you
call out the flowers? IIow little you,
know compared with omniscience?
How little, you can do compared with
omnipotence!
The probability is that Joh had
been tempted to arrogance by his
vast attainments. ,He was a metal-
lurgist, a zoologist, a poet, .and
shows by his writings he had know-
ledge of ,hunting, of music, of ,hus-
bandry, of' medicine, of 'Mining-, ,of
astronomy and perhaps was so far
ahead of the scholars and scientists.
of his time' that he may have been
somewhat puffed up: hence this inter-
rogation or My text. And there iS
nothing that 50 soon takes down hu-
manprideas an interrogation point
rightly 'thrust. Christ used it
mightily. Paul, mounted the parapet
of his great arguments with such a
battery. , Men of the world under-
stand it. Demosthenes began his
speech to the crown and Cicero his
oration against Catiline and Lord'
Chatham his most famous orations
with a question. The empire of ig-
norance is so much 'easter than the
empire' of knowledge that after the
most learned ansi elaborate disquisi-
tion upon any subject of Sociology or
theology the plainest MOM may ask
a, qticistion that will make the wisest
speechless. After the profoundest as-
sault upon Christianity the humblest'
disciple •may make an inquiry that
would
SILENCE. A VOLTAIRE.
Galled upon, as we are at ,times,
to. defend our holy religion instead
of argumeni. that can always be an-
swered by argument let us , try the
power of interrogation. We ought
to be loaded, with. at least half a
dozen questions and always ready,
and when Christianity' is assailed,
, arid we are told there. is nothing in
it and there is no God and there
never was a, miracle and that the
Scriptures are unreasonable . and
cruel and that there never will be a
judgment day take out your port-
able armory of interrogation 'somee
thing like this: "What makes the con-
dition of woman in Christian lands
better than in heathen lands? Do
you ' think it would be kind in God
,to turn the human race into a world
without any. written revelation to
explain' and encourage ansi elevate
and ,save? And if a revelation was,
made, which do you prefer—the Zen -
da -Vista of the, Persian or the Con-
fucian writings of the Chinese or the
Koran of Moharnmed, or our • Bible?
If Christ is not a divine being, what
did he mean when he said, "Before
Abram was,, 1 am?" If the Bible is
a bad book, what are the evil results
• of reading it? Did you. 'see any de-
grading influence of the book in your
father or '.mother or sister who Used
to read it?
I suppose one of the greatest sur-
prises' of the' next world will be to
• see. 'what wide farreaching inffileace
I am sneaking of ourselves, who are
• ONLY ORDINARY PEOPLE,
t who • can fully appreciate
• the fierreaching good • done by.
• 111011, of . wealth in Great Brit-
ain foe the working classes—Mr. Lis-
ter of Bradford, Edward Akroyd Of
Hatilnx, • Thomas Sikes Of Hudders-
field, JosePh Wentworth ancl Josiah
Mason and Sir Titus, Scileii • This
last great soul, with his vast wealth
provided 756 houses at cheap rent
for 8,000 working pc'ople end chapel
and cricket geound and croquet lawn
and concert hall and saviegs bank,
where they •Might (.10POSit 30100 (A
their earniugs, and life insurance for
those who lOokec1 further ahead
arid bathhouses and parks and Muse -
u1113 and lecture halls with philose-
phical apparatus, the gcncrous ex-
ainpte of thoge men of ss previous
gen oration bei ng COO al inmany.
plenes in Canada and the United
States. making, life, which Would
otirerwise be a prolonged drudgery,
(10 hem irati on a,nd a joy,
,Jotice. also ill My text the influ-
elute of 'other' worlds upon this world,
Wean regardthe effect which our
continent has imori other continents
or 0110 llemiSPhere 1•1Pon the other
hemisphere. Great harvest or
drought on on0. side of our world
affects the other side of our world.
The nations of the earth cable-
grammed together all feel the
same thrill of delight or shock of
wee,' But We do not appreciate
the influence of other worlds upon
our world. The author of my text
rouses us to the consideration,. It
takes all the worlds of known' and
unknown astronomy to keep our
world in its orbit. Every world de-
pendent on, other worlds,
TIED STELLAR EXISTENCE
is felt all through the heavens. Ev-
ery constellation is a sisterhood.
Our planet feels the benediction of
Alcyone and all the other stars 'of
the Pleiades. Yea, , there are two
other worldsthat decide the fate of
our world—its redemption or its de-
molition. Those twe, worlds ' are
The headquarters of angelology and
demonology. Frora the one world
came Christ, come ministering spir-
its, corns: all gracious influences.
From the other world, rise, all satan-
ic and diabolic influences. Erom
that world ,of moral 'night rose the
power that wrecked, our poor world
six thousand years ago,, and all the
good work done since than has not
been able to get our world Out 'of
the breakers. But t,he signs of dis-
tress have been hoisted and the life-
lines .are out, and our world's re-
lease is certain. The good influenees
of the consecrated .people in our
'world, will be centupled by the help
from the heavenly world, and the
divine power will overcome' the de-
moniac. 0 man, 0 woman, expand
yonr idea and know the magnitude
df a contest in which three worlds
are specially interested ! From all
the seven worlds which my text calls
the Pleiades there come no sucn Pow-
erful 'influences as from the two
worlds that I am now mentioning.
My only hope for this world is in
the reinforcement' that is to come
froni another. world. But that ,is
•
promised, and so I feel as sure of
the rectification of all evil as though
looking Out of My' whitlow to -day I
saw the parks and the gardens flow-
ering.,into another paradise and the
,apocalyptic angel • flying through the
midst of heaven .with the news that
the kingdoms of this world . Would
have become the kingdonas of our
Lord.
My text called Job and calls us
to consider
"THE SWEET INFLUENCES."
•
'We put too much emphasis upon the
acidities. of 'life upon the irritations
of life, upon the disappointinents
,of life. Not sufficiently, do we recog-
nize the sweet influences of ,the Wife.
We men are of a rougher ,inold, and
our voice is loud, and; our manners
need to be ,tamed, and gentleness is
not as much of a enaracteristic as
it 'ought to be, and we often say
things we ought to take back. II; is
to change this that the good wife
coines in. The interests' of . the
twain are • identical. That which
from outsiders would be considered
criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly. suggestion. Sweet influences
"that make us better men than we
otherwise would have, beel., or could
have been 1,
Sweet influences of friendship 1 If
we have behaved ourselves tolerably
well we ha,Ve friends, In our days
of Mirth they, eonee•with their con-
gratulations.In times of sorrow
they come with expressions of solace.
In timee of perplexity they come
with their advice. They are with us
at weddings and at burials. If there
is anything good in us, they find it
out, and our frailties they overlook
and, excuse. If something appears
against us, they say, " Wait till I
hear the other side." If disaster
shall befall us, wo. kn.ow, from whom
would, come the 'first condolence.
Family friends ; church friends ;
business friends ; lifelong friends.
In our heart of hearts we cherish
The stories of that world and its
holy hilarities come in upon our
souls sometimes in song, sometimes
in sermon, sometimes in hours of
solitary reflection, and they are, to
use the words pf my text, ,
•
'SWERT _INFLUENCES.
33ut theiYe is one star that affects us
more with. its sweet inn:UM:MS than
the centre star, the Alcyone of the
Pleiades, and that is what one Di-
,
ble author calls the Star of Jacob
and another Bible author calls the
Morning Star. ' Of all the sweet in-
fluences that have ever touched Our
earth those that radiate from Christ
are the sweetest.
Sweet influences of the, Holy
GhoSt, With all its transforming and
comfortingand einancipating power.
When that, poWer is fully felt, there
will be no more sins to pardon, and
Po more whongegth correct,, and no
more sorrows to Comfort, and no
more ,bandagc. to break. But as the
old 'tune ship captains •watched the
rising ,61 the Pleiades . for safe navi-
gation and set sail in Mediterranean
waters; bill, Were Sure to get bad<
into port before the constellation
Orion mind ihto sight—the season of
cyclone 'and hurricane—so there is, a
time to sail for heaven, and that is
while the sweet influenced ate upon
us and before tire Storms overtake
the delay. Open all your soul to the
light and warmth and comfort and
inspivation of that gospel which has
already peopled heaven with millions
of the ransomed, and is helping oth-
er Millions to that, gloriothe deetina-
tion. Do not postpone the things of
God and eternity till the storms of
life sweep tincl the agitations of a
groat future are ,upen 118. Do not
sioril wai t till Orion :takes the,, ,pl ace
of the 'Pleiades. Weigh anchor Oow
ees
board head for the reunions and. .•
and with chart unrolled and pilot on IHE s
raptures that await all the souls • • ,
fOrgiV011. "And -they need no can-
dle, neither li,ght, of the sun, for the,
Lord G od giveth theni light, and
they shall reign forever 'and ever."
A CZAR'S ROMANCE,
Illustrates A Peculiar Phase of
Russian Royal Life.
When Nicholas IL was CiZarONVitZ,
and about 19 years old, he fell in
love with a Polish ballet, girl named
Masha, a daughter of the race which
his father was even then persecuting
with inexorable severity. She came
from a little town. near Warst w ansi
danced her way into the imPerial
opera house at Si. Petersburg,
where she, made a profound sensation
by beauty and graces and turned
the heads of all the princes and
grand dukes. She gave herself to
the, prince imperial, and he Was eo
infatuated that, he determined to
marry her aad sacrifice eveu his title
to the throne. It was frequently. re-
ported that a marriage had actually
taken place over the Germen froe-
tier. The Czar finally interfered, and
having failed to persuade his son to
give iipn the girl appealed to her.
The result Was a compromise by
which both pledged themselves not
to complicate affairs by marriage
Provided they were permitted to live
as husband and wife. Masha retired
from the stage 'and tool: possession
of sumptuous apartments upon one
of the finest streets in Si. Peters-
burg. She was frequently seen with
the CZar0WitZ in the'parks,' at the
opera and other public places. • Ev-
erybody knew who she was, but he
seemed • to be proud of her rather
than otherwise, and his devotion
was approved by a tolerant
public sentiment, which is accustom-,
ed to such. affairs. • Nicholas had
been living with the Jewish dancer
for three years, and she had borne
him two children, when the declining
health of his father made it, impera-
tive for the Ozarowitz to marry.
The sons of kings and emperors are
trained to discipline, and usually
have a high appreciation of the res-
ponsibilities that rest upon them, so
he promptly acquiesced in the plans
of the ministry. The young ,and
beautiful Princess Alix, daughter of
the Grand Duke of Hesse, and the
favorite grandchild of Queen Vic-
toria, was selected for his wife, and
the Polish Jewess, with her two
children, was sent to the south of
Russia, where she has since occupied
a pretty villa, and is said to have
married, or at least to have prom-
ised to marry, a young duke.
THE VICTORIA CROSS.
Soldiers Decorated for Conspicu-
ous Bravery.
The decoration of the Victoria
Cross has just been conferred upon
three soldiers—two officers and one
non-commissioned officer—for cmispi-
cuous bravery in South Africa. The
special acts for which the honor has
been awarded are set, forth in the
London Gazette as follows :
Lieutenant F. W. Dell, West Aus-
tralian Mounted Infantry—At Drak-
pan on May 16, 1901, when return-
ing through heavy fire after holding
the right flank, Lieut. Dell noticed a
raan dismounted and returned and
took him up behind him. The horSe
not being equal to the weight, fell
with them, Lieut. Bell then remained
behind and covered the man's retire-
raent till he was out of danger.
• Lieutenant W. J. English, 2nd
Scottish Horse—This officer • with
five men was holding the right of a
position at Vlakfontein on July 3,
1901, during an attack by the Boers.
Two of his men were killed and two
wounded, but the position was still
held, largely owing to Lieutenant
English's personal • pluck. When the
ammunition ran short he went over
to the next Party and obtained more;
to do this he had to cross some fif-
teen yards of open ground under a
heavy fire at a range of from twenty
to thirty yards.
Farrier -Major W. J. IIardliam, 4th
New Zealand Contiegent—On Jan, 28
1901, near Na.aupoort, this non-com-
missioned officer was ,with a section
which Wa.S extended and hotly engag-
ed with a party of about twenty
Boers. Just before the force com-
menced to retire Trooper McCrae
was wounded and his horse killed.
Farrier -Major ITardham at' once
went under a heavy fire to his as-
sistance, dismounted and placed him
On his own horse, and ran alongside
until he had guided him to a place
of safety.'
.SAILORS MAKE RAG DOLLS.,
Sailors, .when on foreign stations
amuse 'themselves by making arid-,
cles for sale a,nd presentation, there-
by pleasing their friends and making
a few ,extra pennies that help to
make the stay ashore more agreeable.
Some will pick lengths of old rope
to pieces, dye the threads and make
ore amen Lai mats of th em. Others
will carve curious figures out of beef
and muttoa bones, foreign nuts or
seeds, and various things that may
come within their rearit.- The rag
doll, made from 910000 of sasi cloth
end short lengths of unpickecl rope,
is a common article of Manufacture.
Jack can sell these toys a,nd orna-
ments to ,dealers, who wait on him
'when his ship comes home, but he of-
ten prefers to dispose of them with-
out the aid of the, middleman. In
his native place lie can sell them to
acquaintances. ,The price obtained is
not inaccordance with. the 011100711
of Work spent in their production,
bet Jack remembers that, it has af-
forded him amusement to ina,kethe
articles and he takes that fact into
consiciersstion
'1.1116 feel-IC.1mi Fire ,Ileigade uses • 7
Million,'gallOns bi.water yeally
.1,;lather .(severely) --J 'notice' that
Charles hissed you 011 leaving again
to -night, • 1,, `telt you ,franklY r den.' I
like its 1)atighter (swetlthsr,)---nies
haps eot, papa, but 'Clieriee. does,'" , I
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 17.
Text of the Lesson, Ex. ii.,
10. Golden Text, Prov.
• xxii. 6.
4., 2. The bondage of Israel 'con-
tinued, and they sighed and cried by
reason of it, arid their cry .camet up
ueto God, and Be heard their groan-
ing and retheinbered His covenant
with Abraham; Isaac and J0001), ad
ills time drew near to deliver them,
according to Mis assurance to Abra-
ham in Gen xv, 13, for He wih kceP
everypromise in the fullnees ,of time,
through Him, who came at the full-
ness of time •(Gal. iv, 4): All sin
and wrong and oppreseion is ever
crying to God,' and He will see to it
(versos 23-25; Gen. iv, 10; Hata.
,las. v. 4). Fr 0.111 the house, of
Levi God ordained thmt, the deliver-
er, the .human instrument, ShOtild
001110. ``Known unto God are all
His works, from the beginning of
the world," (Acts xv, 18). 'The man
of the honse of Levi was Anaram,
and the daughter of Levi was
Jochebed, and the child spoken of
in our leseon WIZ, Moses whose elder
brother and sister were Aaron and
Miriam' (Ex. vi, 16-20; Num. xxvi,
59), 'Concerning this child it . is
written in Acts" vii, 20, that he was
exceeding fair ,(margin, fair to God)
and nourished up . in his father's
house three months, in,Heb. xi, 23,
the 'statement is "I3y faitlt Moses,
when he was born, Was hid three
months of his parents, because they
saw he was a proper child, and they
were not afraid of the king's cam-
mandment." The faith that sees God
IS not afraid of "any king's conunand-
meat. Consider , Daniel and his
friends.
'4.• This .is , the second of the
three arks of Scripture,. catch of
which was Made for a similar pur-
pose, to ,preserve what, they con-
tained ; the ark of Noah to preserve
himself and,family and all the crea-
tures which God sent into it, the
ark of the tabernacle to preserve the
law on the two tables of stone and
this ark to preserve the babe chosen
of God. As God gave full instruc-
tions concerning the ,other two, I
ani inclined to believe that He in-
structed the mother of Moses con-
cerning this one for the record in
Heb. xi is that it was all by faith,
but there can be no faith where there
is no word of God to rest upog or
be governed by, for faith cometh by
hearing the word of God (Rom. x;
17).• With strong 'confidence in t3 ud
did Jochebed place, that ark witl.
its precious treasure among the flags
by the river's brink, and with intense
interest did Miriam watch to see what
God would do for her baby brother.
5, 6. "This is one of the Hebrews'
children." How true are, the WJr(iS
of the old hymn, "God moVes. in ,a,""
mysterious way His Wonder's to per-
form;" Pharaoh 'decreeing the death
of all the male Hebrew. children
22), and Pharaoh's daughter moved
with compassion to spare this one
who was destined to be the human
instrument . through whom. God•
would humble .the pride of Egypt.
How •blessed aro those who have
their inheritance hi Ilim who work-
eth all things after the counsel of
His, own Will (Eph. i, 11). Rev.
Andrew Murray . says, "No wonder
that all' things are possible to faith,
which just means allowing Goa t�
work. ; God teach that blessedlife of
dependence in which the Son ever
lived" with the Father."' Amrani and
Jocimbed andall others mentioned
in Scripture as inen 'and women of
faith lived this life in some measure,
and it is the • life that all believers
should live, saying, "I live, yet not
I, but, Christ liveth in me, and the
life Which now live in the flesh I
liver by the faith of the ,,Sciri of God,
who ,loved me and gave Himself for
me" (Gal. ii; 20). It ' is ours :to
yield ourselves to obey His
conmia,nds and trust Him to •tk
out in us all the good pleasure .of
Hia will. •
7; 8 "The maid went and called
the child's mother." How eagerly,
andyet possibly With -wise, quietness,
Miriam would ask if she, ,shouldcall
a nurse Of the .Hebrew women to
nurse the child Tor, her, ancle at the
word "Go" with what joy she would
hasten to her mother with the joy-
ful news that. .the king's daugater
had found , their babe andhad.sc,at
her to obtain • a nurse. He brings
us •• to the placeofutter helplessness
that We may seo.how, wondrously He
will' work (Judg. xiii,. 19). He' does
need ue to help Him out in His
purposes' as Rebekah supposed, but
He would have us watchful and ready
to do, .4 He should seem to ',require
us, as Miriam did. It seems.to me
that .the attitude of faith is welt set
forth in two phrases in :,Nah. it, 1,
and i3ab. ii,-, '`Watch the way,
and watch to see what lie' will say,"
then "Do as occasion serve thee, for
God is with thee" (I Sam: x, 7). ,
9.•"Take this child away and
nurse it for me, and I will give thee
thy wages.", Only a mother can in
full Measure appreciate Jochebed's
feelings as •She..clasped her dear babe
in her arnis and went 'away with
him ; a mother who, had her babe
given back to her 'from the verge of
the tmseen would appreciate the: c,r-
curnstances still mere; for this child
was in some sense, like ,,Isaac,, given
back from 1110 pliiiee Of d oath , ilay
not • eveny godly mother hear the
veice of God saying. what Pharaoh's
daughter said to this mother, ' lent,
heW 'few seeM to realize that th°
,
children given td them are, a sPecial
trust from God for which they must
render to God an =collet, and for
which they shall be rewarded if faith -
tut (Mark ix, ,41),
10. "And the chill grew, and elle
brought him unto 'Pharaoh's daugh-
ter, and he became her son.' D'Orn
Acts vii, ,23-29, and Hob. xi,' 21-27,
we learn that Moses; wad learned i
all the wisdom of the -Egyptians,
find became a inightv'ma,n both. in
word and deed butthat at the
of 40 lie refused.,1miger to ,he. known
as the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
and choSe the, 1e9r61100 of Christ
rather than the treaSOretil 111
and eftlictism.with the people of God
rather than the pleaSures pf sin ,for
_
recompenso f the isnvitiet and en- IIESOLUTE NEEDED
a season., for he had respeet unto the
clueed'as seeing ho is invisible, ,----
Having fled from Egypt, he beeame
eliepherd with the priest of Midian,
inarvied one of his seven daughters,
Zipporah, and dwelt with him forty
years (Acts vii, 30). His helping the
daughters of Jethro to' water their
flocks and thus obtaining a wife Tor
himself reminds us somewhat of the
story of ISliezer obtaining a wife for
'Isaac, and also' or Jacob and Rachel,
and carries us on to our Lord Win-
ning the 'W0111all of Samaria at the
Well ancl others through her 111111
they might become part of is bride,
the chtn‘ch. The God of Israel, who
is also the God and Father. or our
Lord Jesus Christ, is caning Ills
redeemed ones to the same unwaver-
ing faith in Hint SS VMS Mallici)Sted
by these Old r.Pestament werthiee,
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PEItSONAL POINTERS.
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Notes of Interest About Some
Prominent People.
The Archbishop Of York has just
completed his ,seventy-fifth year, but,
stilt carries on all the work of his
position and still reads daily a fixed
portion of ITindestani, which lan-
guage 00 learned when a soldier in
1110111,
"If I had not been brought up a,
Dean," says Dr. Hole, of Rochester,
England, "there are three other vo-
cations I should have liked to have
followed : Master of a pack of
hounds head gardener in a Ittre
nursery, or a bookseller. I think: the
last is the best office of the three."
Noise is not usually a passport to
popularity. But the Archbishop of
Canterbury by his stentorian voice
won the affections many years ago
of a 'Devonshire farmer, who was
overheard to say, admiringly, near
the thenBboistitioopm ofo Eaxecthetti.rcwhalsvhie)11;e0atcliiie-
ing, "1 du love the Bishop, 'cos he
hollers proper!'
Dr. Nansen :has a- liking for briglat
colors.. That is why his the
Fra,m; was painted green, .grey, • scar-
let, .and white, . picked out with gold.
The explorer is a clever .artist and
lover Ofmusic—of his. wife's •singing
especialiy-e-but he does not core for
so-called "artistic" furnitUre,
table atwhich he does all his •woris
when at 'home • at his ;place at Lye
saker, •six miles, from Christiania, is
merely a huge•kitshen table, - I
Mr.. Edward Terry, ,the actor,thlls.
of a Pretty incident ',which occurred ,
during .,one of his tours "Do you
know • what I consider - the . most '
glowing tribute T ev'el'. received.? The
compliment came troth a child. There
was a crowded house -.--an intent ail-
dience—the humour had, for' the
in-
stant, given place to pathos. ':Yeit
might have .heard a pin drop, •and I
felt the tension of the house was at
breaking point. The . intense silence
was broken by a childish voice—a
girl's --who, :turning to her parent,
asked, in a broken, voice ; .`Father,
is it real r "
HISTORICAL FACTS RECALLED`
BY DR T 1VIArqIIRE
Class of Nen W10 Would, B4
Valuable Adjuncts of Regular
Army.
:ro lecturing oo guerilla warfare in!
London., recently, Dr. T., :Miller Mil-
gUire said tile greatest (affinities of
some of the . greatest gcmerals had
been caueed by guerilla warfare. it
,was a fact that the inost part of the
praetical and fighting life ,of ' the
.British army was spent hi, situalionsi
verging on guerilla warfare, • Irre-
gular fighting', theeefore, was a style
of fighting' which ought' to be spe-
cially studied by British officere, as
1 it was one in which they were al -
Ways engaged. At present in South
Arnica, however, they were coping.
, with guerillas arined up to the sane:
standard as their own regular troops.
He was afraid that, in future, the,'
British army was likely to havo to
meet in its various wars, adversa-',
ries whether savage pr civilized ,I
who would not be so deficient MI
armaments as heretofore. There was
nothing irregular, a priori in into;
gular warfare ; in fact, irregular;
warfare, if carried on under certain
conditions, was just as regular as
BEG uLAR WARFARE..
Up to the time of Napoleon, all
through the history of Europe, there
had been free corps which; detached,
from the regular fighting organiza-
tions, had made it their business to
harass the enemy and -intercept his'
lines of communication.' There were
three classes of guerillas—the free
corps, as mentioned, properly equip -
Pod, uniformed and` officered ; the
national rising, a good example of
which was the rebellion of the Tyro-
lese against Napoleon, and lastly,:
'the soldiers of fortune, fighting
their own hand, who were bandits
and scoundrels. In his opinion the
English militia and volunteers would
be about the very best material for a
free corps. After giving numerous
examples of legal guerilla warfare in
the course of various European wars,
he went on to say that throughotite
the American war in 1861-65 there
was a continuous struggle, partlee
regular and partly irregular, and;
numerous raids were made into
Northern territory by mounted bands'
from the South. The next great war
in which the guerilla system wast
pursued to a great extent was in thei
Franco-German war, and there again'
there were proper free corps, bodies
of men of various numbers, with;
guns, properly uniformed ande.ollicere,
ed, attempting to break the lines of
communication.
Lord Dalmeny. Lord Rosebery's
eldest son, has, like .his father, a
sense of humor, though in other re-
spects he is singularly unlike his dis-
tinguished father. Dig, strong, and
athletic, he is fondof outdoor life
and field sports, is a first ,class rac-
quet player, and much interested in
racing. It was Lord Dalmeny who,
when Lord Rosebery was to address
the boys at Eton on the "Fourth of
June," begged his father not to al-
lude totWellington and "the glaying-
fields of Eton," a hackneyed quota-
tion which the poor Etonians suffer
from at very frequent iatervals.
A young Danish journalist, Mr.
Marius B. Schroder, is on a journey
round the world in performance of a'
wager on the question whether a
man, being Penniless, can go round
'the world in a year. Mr. Schroder I
is a bachelor of, twenty-seven. The
wager is for $2,775. 11 successful he
will receive $1,250 of that amount,
while $1,250 go th the funds of the
Danish Journalists' Institution, and
$275 to the Sailors' Widows l'und
of Copenhagen -and the Copenhagen
Poor -box. In addition to his pass -
pert the traveller carries a sheaf Of
letters of recommendation from Dan-
ish Consuls, newspaper editors, and
heads of public departments.
KEEPING AT IT.
The wide-awake business man of
many years experience would do a
great deal of business this year, if
he did not do any advertising at all.
But. the business would not be as
great and next year's business would
suffer from lack of advertising this
year and there would be a gmadual
dropping oif if the merchant stopped
advertising- entirely. This is what
makes the necessity of advertising in
the busiest seasons to provide for
the future and keep the name of the
firm ever in the minds of the public.
Swellplead7--"Good morning." 01 1-
ent—"I've just, received your bill for
getting me MT in that assault • ansi
battery case the other clay." Swell-
plead—"Ah, yes, to be sure. Any
further information. I can give „you
about it ?" Client --"Yes, I'd like
to know if E can change my min(
and go to jail instead''
UNIFORMED GUERILLAS
were rigorously suppressed. Indivi-
duality must be suppressea in officers
if they were to suppress guerilla,i*-
The main object of a legal guerillt
chief was to break the lines of com-
munication, and the keeping of these
intact was a Matter of great diffi-
culty to advancing armies. The ex-
tended tactics of to -day, tended he
was sure, to bring, out the individu-
ality of subaltern leaders and of the
men themselves. If the guerilla war-
fare which we had had to adopt • in
South Africa restored the individual.
manhood of otn• soldiers, the expense
of the campaign wduld not have,
been in vain, and the effect wduld be
very great indeed. Ile emphasized'
the fact that a very small company'
of resolute men, whether mounted in-
fantry, infantry, or cavalry, if they,
hardened their muscles and exercised
their naiads, could make themselves,
most valuable adjuncts to the very
best organized army.
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DIRD—S AS S URG EONS .
Certain birds are said to possess a
wonderful knowledge of the princi-
ples'of surgery. The woodcock, the
partridge, and some others are, we
are told, able to dress their wounds'
with considerable skill. A. French'
naturalist says that on several oc-
casions he has killE,d woodcock that'
were, when shot, convalescing from
wounds previously received. In
every instance he found the old in-
jury neatly dressed with down pluck-
ed from the stem of feathers and
skilfully arranged over the wound,
evidently by the long beak of the
bird. In some cases a solid plaster
was thus formed, and in others lige-
tures had been applied to wounded
or broken lim'zs."
BE HONEST.
The present day advertising is more
honest than advertising hat, er
been- in the pa.st. The mn awl 0 al -
tempts to gain business bY dee0P-
tion or who resorts to crooked, meth-
ods to •obtain customers will find
himself running up against a circum-
stance which Will queer him with 1110
people he ha,d intended to favorably
impress a,ral which will damage his
business when he had most hoped to
iinprove it. Honesty is the best,
policy in business and the only poll-,
Gy in advertising.
Nothing worries ,gi rl in ore than
to discover ,that the man after her
own heart isn't after it at all,
Teacher --Be leafed, Jarneg,"
3imin1e—“Cark,"
'.r.acher--"Ivhy not, James?"
Jiminle—'Ta fell ever a chair this 111
0111 an' lauzliza„*
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