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Rev. Prank De Witt Talmage Speak$011
the Evils of Divorce
d c riling to eke. �t tee nage look at this responsibility in another
/temente ot Canada, 1.4, tea year Ora
tebousatel Nine eleadred and Three,
len Wee. Deily, of Toronto, at the
Sespartmeat agnoulture. Oteaweee-
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A.• desprgell front Chicago says:
Bev. lerinik De -Witt 'Talmage preach-
ed front the following text: Mark
xe 9, "What therefore God hath wish. I am not compelled so to clo.
joined. together let no man put
For inetance: The sateen keeper gets
asander." I a city license and has the privilege
lOr Whine me a glass of whiskey. But
As the civil war was the mortal
because it is lateful for me to buy
claSh between two. couflicting ideas, , ,,.
from -hint that is no reason
no to -day we find eonflicting ideas MI w,,'''Y
why I should drink it. Because the
mortal combat over the marrittge al- I e"e„- en
element of San Francisco
tar. The olio is the Christ idea, '1"'"."'-'4
gets ie, city license for holding a prize
which decleres that ameriage is not
fight thee is no reason why I am
IL confederation that can be broken
compelled to go and witeese two
at will, but an indissoluble 'union..
, pugilists batter each other's Sam in -
This idea asserts that after marriage e
‘,0 a pulp. Because Chicago gives a
the twain in every sense becomes one.
n, license to gamblers to open a race
The second idea declares that ' ea
' track thee is no reason Why I shoeld
divorce is not a crime, but often, fol
go and petroeize the bookmakers.
the social good, a aecessity. It says
Becanse the county cleric tells me
that when a mart and a women are
that I can remarry a libertine, _who
unequally yoked together it is better
has been sinfidly divorced, that is no
that they be separated by law, even
reason why I should tarnish the good
Way. I said to myself: "Yes, 1 arn
wrong. That' county clerk cannot
tell- me whet I aught, to do. The
paper he sends to inc is only a lic-
ense. a governmeatal privilege,. per-
mitting me to merry the paeties if 1
if the cause for separation be not so
serious as -that recognized in the
Bible, and, more, that they may, if
they Wish, contract new marriages.
A CALL FOR UNITED ACTION.
Against the further spread and for
the extermination oi this divorce
evil the Catholic church is already
up in arms. -Against it the Presby-
terian church, with its general assem-
bl,v conirnittee working in unison
with. the sister churches, as struggling
night and day. Against it enly
few weeks ago all the Rhode Island
ministers banded themselves together
to give religious combat. Thus, as
bad boo
gowo---
into the neortil fa.tallY, I ZOOLOGIST'S PARADISE
ld," 7.6. k rmwa
e fts y. A
poisons the heart. Tho way far'
good peoPle to keep pure and to IINGLISHMEN/S PRIVATE ZOO
prePare themselves for a Ohristia 'LARGEST IN WORLD,
marriage, whih cwill never be broken
this side or ea the other side of the eePs all Kinds of Animals At
grave, is Lor Weill to live •with good Times in His Sitting
people. They must work to .LOAlte
Luse to associaee with thebad, ' elaganee. einelliene"emre'leearee Beek_
men good. They must positively re -
whether that bad is found in fiction inhamshire, England, is not only
�a. in real life. When the 11.03W8pepers, ene of. the handsomest seats le the
elt tIO ItrrheiteShiScetgaoteshielilliclidtes, heti= cte;,(7ileltW' ebatrieteirseL,1110°e nitTelfitteld° •wWitni;
placed 3Dremium on crime. When almost every species of animal under
�. bad book eulogizes anti glorifies the nee •
the, brokeul marriage ring, it is only li__
ere young feob Leadbetter, one of
gilding the open door of the divorce te
wealthiest . and most. eligible
court; which, is tbe, guillotine of mar- `'-` n
young men in Lendon's society, is
ital love Master and rides to his heart's con -
WHEN DIVORCE IS JUSTIFIED. tent his hobby for queer pets. His
'But some one asks meain closing beantifelly kept lawns and gardens
"Are divorces always wrong?'are given over 'to a number of mag -
Should .a husband and wife ,be corn- nificent creatmes whose roars at one
Pelled/to live together under tell con- time made African jungles shake
ditioes ?" Oh, no. The, violation and the -sight of whose tawny and
of the- marriage vow justifies divorce. striped bodies' has caused terror
Christ's own words imply thatthroughout certain parts of India.
There are other conditions which In various parts •of the estate
justify 'separation, even when there
has been no violation of that vow.
It Would be a grievous injestice to
enforce constant companionship when
one of the parties to a Marriage hate
contracted babits which render the
con Linued relation an Intoierable
misery to the other, 1 have known
such cases and have rejoiced that
the law permits the innocent party
to be relieved of the burdei and af-
fords protection from molestation.
•it is not for me to Say when,a stage
bas been reached which clemaeds the
interveationof the law, but I do
Contend that it is a menace to the
morals of the people when a contract
so Worm and stirred as that of
marriage can be broken on pretexts
so frivolous as 'those now recognized
in many states. I protest also
against the diversity of the &wove
name of my Church by placieg such
a black retard; upon the session
hooks. No, no; my brother minis-
ters, We cannot thus shirk our re-
sponsibilities. You a,nd ere respon-
sible before God when we become of-
ficiating parties in the marriages of
divorced persons. A. religious nmr-•
riage Means infinitely more than a
Mere civil contract. If not, why do
nearly all people desire to be married
by a clergyman instead of by a police
justice or a county judge?
RESPONSIBILITY OF MINISTERS
We axe responsible a.serninisters. , A
legal divorce, in ninety-nine cases
the other a year-old lion. Both in-,
stances' he puts down to their un-
governable tempers, which Inc the
iestant got quite the better of them,
for, amording to Mr, Leadbetter,
pet animal Is always sorry,. after-
ward.
Bears, he has discovered, ere the
mast uncertain and he wares all
venturers into tbe field of animal
collection to beware of this particu-
lar branch of the animal fiunily. He
CELIA el alai. experience as the basis f
this warning, for he had at one
time seven beers.
.ANTS WHICH KIDNAP.
Sole Business of the Rulin.g Clang
Is to Fight 0.11a Plunder.
A hundred years. cigo a Swiss, na-
turalist, Pierre Huber, the son of alt
eminent father, 'made the discovery
that gertain species of ants kidnap
members of other communities, and
turn than into slaves. A writer in
Harpers - Magazine -says that one
species, the rufescent ant, forms a
sort of military caste which makes
there are picturesque rustic houses
filled with strong and padlocked iron • raids up"--nefghb"ing nest.g. f" the
canes, end these ,eeges. are „envied capture of larvae and pupae. These
by some strange, some ferocious and they take home,- some of them .to
serve as food and others to be turne0
,beantini. .and some, terrifying. ann
ta.ble country home
for a into. workers. The woeker, the fus-
cous ant,. then does all the work 'of
all odd-looking inhabitants -
quiet and respec
in :England. • construction, of foraging and feeding
•'Almost every sort of animal that- the family. Thgsole business of the
roams the forest or' plain is repro-. ruling- class is to fight and, plunder,
sentecl in Mr. Leadbetter's collection and to control the succession and
and only the most exclueive Wee- citizenship of the commune. Other
blooded members of each family- are. species, have been found Lo have the
allowed to become inmates of liaele- same habit, but the best-known sale -e-
nter° Park., ' makers arc still those of Huber's dis-
Some of Mr. Lecielbetter's society co -very, • .
When the. rufesceet or Amazon ant
has deterniined upon a raid, thegiost
is ae scene of wild excitement.- • The
raiders issue front ;the -city gates and
assemble upon, the gounded •exterior.
friends in London think it is a dan-
gerous fad for a man to have, but
,then they have not -seen ,the young
Englishman with his pets. • ..
He is as 'devoted to all of . them
as they, are to him, and be even has There is much runntng to and fro,
in the relation so vital as this to entire possession of his awn private exchanged • by tween the east lesson and this one,
laws of the different states., which r a number of the less formidable ,ories men challenges Are
tends to confusion and uncertainty l in his house, where they have taken so
crossing -antennae or striking them but the 'order of : events is. not of
sharply upon the forehead.' The ants much importance as becoming bettei
the morality and ste.bility of society. domain. acquainted with Gad through Jesui
in this discussion I have peesent- . He has always beert particularly
ed, for the most part, only the tem- fond . of animals of every, sort aad
the public leaders of many denomina- poral side of the divorce question. kind. He began keeping wolves and
tions are fighting this undermining out of a hundred, is not sufficient If I lied spoken frone the - spiritual tiger cats and various other small
and would be destroyer of the home, ground for a. church divorce. We side the result would have -been self and harmless pets when he was lie,
it is not inappropriate for me to must remember that the minister be- evident. G ospel love never gave teen years' old.
speak a few words in reference to fore the world stands as the repre- birth to legal hate. May the Christ But the hunting inetiect is strong
those legal and domestic causes
THE SUNDAY SCHOOI
111,1111.1.
INTERNATIONAL LESSUN,
JAN. 31.
Text of the Lesson, Luke v., 1-111
• Golden Text, john
31.
leseon tells of several fieh-
ermen who left all to foilow Jeses.
It would seen'. from John 40-e1,
that Andrew and Sim:en, Philip elici
Nathanael had already begun to fol.
low Him, buta-evidently mot to the
extent of forsaking all to follow Hein
fully. After the people of Nazaretli
drove aim out Re made Caper/kat/re
His home, and from thence He went
about all Galilee teaching, prestehing
and healing all manner of sicknesc
and disease (Matt. iv., 13, 23). It
Would scent from Matt. iv., 18-221
Mark i., 16-20, that Simon and
Andrew took a step further he follow-
ing than that recorded in John i.,
and that jellies, and john hettrtily
joined them,
On that occasion Simon and Aia
drew were canting a net into the sea, •
while ,James and John were M' the
ship with their father mending theie
nets. 'In our lesson to -day the fisher-
men had gone out of their ships and
Were wa.shing their rietS: There is ne
need to, try to reconcile the records. '
Let. them stand as records of different
events. In the' Past they forsook
their nets, but now they forsake all.
The life .of the believer is a series
Of separations from sin and selVand
the world -to bebome more wholly the
Lord's for His service.
According'to gospel htu•monies it ie
probable that the 'sermon on the
mount (Matt. v., 1) collies in be,
sentative of the chereh. Why, ,legel
divorcee are often obtained on the
flimsiest excuses. Bishop Fallowe, in
a scathing attack upon tide marital
evil, quotes -vine of the most absurd,
and triviae! causes on account of
which men and women have been
divorced. One ,woman get a. legal
divorce because her hueband enlisted
in the. United States navy; another
because her husband smoked and
gave her headeches; another her bus -
baled. called her sister a thief; aa -
other because her husband did not
like her front hair and cut part of
it off. One husband secured a di-
vorce because his wife refused to
SOW on his buttons; another because
he told his wife he had found an-
other woman whom he could love
better. Think of any ininister be-
ing guilty of such a heinous sin: as
to marry- such- divorcees to other.
marital partners. It is high time
for us ministers to band togethee
.and rouse public sentiinent upon this
question. By our actions as well as
by our preaching we Must protest
Iagainst this national crime. We must
do this because a church marriage
before God and man means that the
church gives its sanction to
the union and regards it as sacred
and indissoluble.
:which might hereafter make "easy • in Mr. Leadbetter, and .,with true
huntsman's scorn of all prey that is
First, nothing Call be accomplished not of the finest. he refused to add
to his menagerie any that Were not
divorce" an impossibility.
national legislation or at least con- ipciaardti. particular fine specimens Of their
in a raaterial way unless there is
state legislatures upon this subject. He believed that in a, private col,
wiled action among the different
There must be all over the land har- lection everything should be of the
./nonious and united legal action best that accounts for the repute.-
apainst the divorce evil. It It tion his menagerie has gained among
zoologists for its 'excepteonally line
to get a divorce in one state which and healthy -maim alS •
:;?iatild be made impossible for a man
he could not obtain on the seine NO ARTIFICIAL HEAT.
verve courts of the United States. ions on the way to manage and rear
The young man has decided opin-
ground in arty one of the 3,000 di it
those courts ought to be in agree- his pets and he carries them into
ment as to what causes justify and practice. .
what do not justify the dissolution He does pot believe in aily artiele
of a marriage. cial heat fer tropical animals in the
We recognize the necessity of the coldest weather and neither his Wine
criminal courts ot the United States not tigers,. born as the majority of
• working in harmony. Why shauld them have been,' in India, are sup -
We not recognize the necessity of plied with any artificial heat during
concerted action by divorce coerts'? the winter. They have roomy sleep -
Some years ago in Chicago a inan eng places behind,- their front - dens
killed his wife and burned her body and in the cold weather any araount
in the vat of a sausage factory. Sup- of straw. .0therwise, they must
posing after that crime he could depend upon nature for -their • heat
• and in Indiana. defied the legal au- .and comfort.
Mr. Leadbetter has had tame lei/p-
hase, stepped across the state line
thorities of Illinois. What would ails, lions, beat's, wolves and jackals
have been the result.? Supposing en different occasions in the house
thai a notable murderer could have •
and in hes own particular sitting -
walked a free man in Philadelphia af- roorn. They always owned him . as
ter he had poisoned his child wife in master 'and would obey no one else.
New York City. -117hy; murder end Of course, he brought them in Drat
very young.
who uttered the protest of the text
against promiscuous 'divorce bless
the earhest words of one whom God
has greatly blessed with a happy.
home.
WAR RECORD -OF A DOG.
Once Belonged. to Gen. Botha, and
Followed Troops Through -Wax.
Unusual interest centred in a case
heard in the Dublin 'police court, re-
cently, in which the leading figure
was a bulldog that formerly belouged
to Gen. Philip Botha and • went,
through a good portioned the Smith
African war. ' Ernest Warminghant,
canteen manager for the contractors;
was •surnmoned for cruelty to the
animal, which has been stationed for
some time past with the Royal Irish
Rifles at Richmond Barracks.•
The bulldog, which now belongs to
Color Sergeant Edwards, Royal
Irish Rifles, was a,ccoinearglieted with
a seat in the witness box, from
which tebiut he seemed to take a
languid interest in the proceedings.
He was dressed in a coat with green
facings, and wore several South
African medals with clasps. The an-
imal's record is an eventful one.
During the Boer war he ,Was captur-
ed by the Second Reigal Irish Rifles,
Mounted 1121'cm:try, from Command,
ant Philip Botha's farm in the
Doornberg, in -S.eptember,- 1900.
From that -time until the end of the
war he trked with the .
mounted force from Criqueland in
the west to Basutoland in the east,
-and he still bears the scar of a
wound received in. ection. Later he
was with. Gen. Freuch's coluinn itt
Cape Colony. For his service the
bulldog now weld's the Queen's South
African medal with three clasps, and
the King's -South African medal with
two clasps. • -.Mr, Drury remarked,
when the case was called, that this
was the most distinguished dog itt
the countien, as he had medals..
• rnrvArrE .STATIONS.
A HINT TO PARENTS.
I once heard of a young lady who
,usecl to boast that she was engaged
to three different young men at the
same time. She had in her. posses-
three 'different engagement, rings.
After awhile she dismissed all three
suitors and married a foarth. 1)0
you wonder that after such perfidies
her married life was unhappy? Un-
true to her fiance, of course she was
untrue to her husband: A divorce
scandal a few years later was the
result. Her father, a noble Christian
man of the west, as a result felt
himself disgraced and resigned his
pulpit, for he was a minister. 'His
life was to some extent wrecked, as
well as hers. You say such a
course as that is an extreme case?
Of course. But evils should .not
he despised because they are not
monstrous evils. The little, seem-
ingly hermless flirtations during ,
summer vacations or a church I
picnic or in the street car or Concert 1
hall are alt 'divorce seed plantings.
You cannot trifle with human. affect-
imery about as if they were engaged
in preliminary evolutions, and Mean-
while most of the slaves placidly car-
ry on' their accustomed occupations;
although a law of them. catch the in-
fection of haste - in their superiors,
and htirry about with the. air of
spurring them on to battle. At last
the muster is complete and the col-
unm moves, forward, while the slaves
remain on duty• about , the nest,
which. at once takes on its usual as-
pect of peaceful industry. •
A hundred yards distant, perhaps,
is a fuscan village. The warriors
fall upon it Auld meet with no re-
sistance, although a few of the in-
habitants manage to flee, carrying
with them • some of the family train
sure, eggs, larvae and Pupae.
But there Ma plenty of young left,
and these the .invaders bear in• their
jaws. They • take the home trait
now, but not. in ordered ranks. Now
Christ. As We see Telim standing be
the lake of , Gennesaret, the sea, oi
Galilee, we remember that He made
it and every living thing. in it, the
river that flows through it and the
hills that surround it; thingt
were made by Him and for Him( Col.
16; 1:161/. i., 3; John i., 1-3).
• The people see that He spoke at
never man spake, and they crowd.
screen&• Him to -receive the living
bre,ad and living water which are in
im. That he ratty -separate a little
from the crowd and thus be bettez '
able to tetieli them, Heeeeteps into
Simon's boat and asks him to posh
out alittle from the land, and, sit-
ting dowa, He taught them. out of
the boat. We May, safely eoeclude
that He taught them out of the-
Seripteres the things of the kingdom
and the things conceening
and that His word. Was with.power,
it is, go as you please. The slaves and that- some believed and some
are hastily deposited in the nests,
and the domesticated slaves take believed not; for He Himself taught
Then the 4111E12011S,, their greed, of side, rocky, thorny and good ground.
that the seed always falls '021 way- ,
charge of them. • . • .
conquest not yet satisfied, sally forth with meekness
Blessed, are all who receive His word •
(.3 as. i ., 21). Having
used Simon's boat as a pulpit He
again in solid column., Their course
will reward hen for •the loan of it,
is bent toward another settlement,
and thin, a large and prosperous one, and so He told him to lauireli out
rouses to repel them. The workers in.to the deep and let clown his nets
hastily barricade galleries, and nurs- fen a draft. No one ever suffered
es gather the young into interior loss ter giving 'attention to the speci-
rooms for concealment Or readier es- al work of Christ, but multitudes
cape. Then comes the tug of war. have been blessed for time 'and eter-
The ground is covered with a can- nity by obeying Matt. vie- 83. If we
fused mass of struggling combatants. see to His work He will see to all
Here and there groups are balled to- our need, better than we could:
gather in such a tangle of interlecked • •
jaws and limbs that only the hghters There were plenty of hilt in the see
and they were no mean fishermen,
themselves can teil friend from foe.
but "toiled and -taken nothing" de- .
outlawry would be everywhere in the The -•most- valuable specimens ,of , The slave -makers are. not always
United States running rampant. To- this Unique no at the present time 1 victorious • but the chances are that
day your life would not be worth the
value, of a pia oely as you were able
to protect it with ;emir own arm and
defy your would be murderer behind
the barricaded walls of your • ONVO
1101r:o. No,. 1101 The only safety of
life depends upon this fact: If you
eimenit a n'tkr One state_ and
then ren away another state gayer -
tier will recognize your extradition
parers and allow you to be forcibly
ri,turniel to the place where you com-
mitted the crime.
FLOOD Ole NATIONAL. INFAMY.
A seeond •breakwater to dam bade
thie sulanerging flood of national in-
famy: It is for the gospel ministers
to protest against it by practice as
well as by preaching. The pulpit
cannot speak loedly and with the
voice of a true leader unless at the
san.ci • time IL refuses to become a tions in youth without beteg in dan-
ger, as an iconchtst, of smashing the
party to the national crime of easy
marriage shrine when you- are mid -
divorce. What do I mean by this
• statement? That the minister hina aged. Lot parents be' careful
with whom their children associate.
self shall not be a blatant and a,
brutal divorce? Oh, no. No self
• respecting Christian church would
allow her minister to continue
, preaching in her pulpit after. a di-
vorce esecipade. Pani writes, "A
, bishop must be blameless, the im-
bued of one wife." No minister's
life can be blamelese when he turns
his back upon his first wife Inc an
unjust 'cause. But do mean. • this:
• A minister should not oiliciateat
'the UCC011d marriage of a divorcee
unlees he himself knows positively*
that the divorced nata was not culp-
Ale in • the snapping of the marital
bonds. By Such a ministerial course
public Sentiment 'Would be aroused
egninst this national evil, and arous-
ed eptickly and permanently. ••
I have taken only lately /this , stand
• in reference to the clergyman:8 re-
sponsibility. 'Ake hundreds and
thousands of other ministers have,
heretofore 'said to myself': ."I nin not
in any way compelled to look into
I personal eliaraeters of those
tvhom *unite in marriage. 1Vhen
mail to. live in New York etate I
had to ask URI' contreeting* pavties a
long. list of emelt ons teed. 111 51(0 a re -
Port tie the comity oflicials in refer-
ence to the'same. But, in the state
of 711 luois the clerk of the Merge
Let them beware of what they are
:allowed to say to others and what
others are allowed to say to them.
It is ell well enough. to talk about
the vaunted freedom of the Ameri-
can boy and girl; but, for My Own
part, especially in reference to the
promiecuous association of young
people and the cervices promises they
are allowed to makee I think thew
haVe altogether too much freedom-,
P URTFICATION OF Tilt] PRESS' .
Another 'divorce preventive The
purification of the press, both in
book form and in periodical ang itt
the morning newspaper. The pesti-
ferous triteh which every day and
every week and every month, like a
winter blizzard, is flung into. our
faces by the snowstorm of the
ing press is enough to destroy the
healthy heart throbs of any young
person wh 0 s alio wed • to read it,
um, of course, net epeaking
against good publications but bad
publipations. Go to aliment any
bookstand that, you see and opeu..
some of the books at rentioni and
vead. There we find the -authors
make their heroes/ out, of bad men.
arid their -herohme out. of bad wom-
en, with here arid there a 10i1001Ding
\Oita spot to offset these black char-
• earirt does -OM. :tic asks t Sues- enters. -Broken VOWS,
1114,... Trits evert the licenin. tF1 "Cbilde Harold" inclecericiess, deceit,-
aneer,snee ear the marriage, and not fel deceiVing men-atimee Move
• taleine tee a brother mil -dense upon i'ore, 1,11O faSeillated eyOS of tile. young thOro'S hol) 01 beas' ts he hes
f:rit, shiert time ago, when El r, at 0,137 angin k al e oscopa be -
1 110 AtilSeet.,110 eald: "Vou are Wrong. readers. 'J'Itere the bey and the irial etiving- him, what ere you goieg in 1. ait pets,, (in only two occrieioes
• Yoe eemmt, Shirk your respoesibility learn to call erime 'respectable and perform tbe operation for?" Doctor— ens been, injured. by them. One
IVO. a -half-grown hroWn beer and
in that l'tcroy." Then I 'comineire..ed to a inaa's dishener "free lance of torwenty
-There are a number of private rail-
way s-tations in Great Britain. The
Duke of Sutherland owns a large pro-
portion of the. North of Scotland.
Dunrobin Castle, in that district, has
its station for the Doke and hie
household, . called after the castle,
"Dunrobin.." Then there issthe beau-
tiful station of Watchingwell, in the
Isle of Wight, which belongs to Sir
John S. II. Simeon; also the station
in connection with Avon- Castle and
that of the Earl of Warwick at Eas-
ton Lodge, while Dire. Ballantyne
Dykes has had built ior her • own
ilea and enjoyment a picturesque sta-
tion about three miles from Cocker-
mouth.
SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
Seventy years of wedded like Me.
end WS. 0. 1).. 'Webster,. of Clinton,
Wis., recently celebrated their seven-
tieth wedding anniversnry. Mr. Web-
ster is ninety-three years old and
his Wife is ninety, This estimable
couple joined the Methodist Chinch
tWo years after .their marriage and
have, it seeme, been faithhil mem-
bers ever -since. Mr,' Webster has.
held many important °films in the
chinch, . Since 1848 he has acted as
trustee, recording steward, class
leader, .and Sunday -school superin-
tenclent. Both Mr, and Mrs. Web-
ster. are in ex.cellent health,
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13Rvroils A nn TAT.;L 1s
The British prefeesional classes are
the gillest adalt nudes it the world,
The average is fift. 9ein. 'United
States males follow, and behind
them come males of all 1 3ritislielase-
es . Most; European e cal oe ave re ge
for the adult male 5ft.eeie., hitt the
aesieenne, tepitelards, and Porte -
geese jut full slant of this stan-
ii d .
are four lions, one, Sultan, a large,
beautiful, full -maned animal, is con-
sidered the largest and finest speci-
menin any tocilogical establishment
in the world.
^ ^
The lions do particularly well urn
der Mr. Leadbetter's care, and two
strong litters of four.have been
reared and bred ,at Hazlemere Park.
Mr Leadbettcr head keeper's favor-
ite amusement is to put .a three-
month old lion cub on his knee and
watch him play with a kitten, his
great playfellow. - The cat always
sleeps curled up on the lion's back
and many a fine romp the two—the
great and the little cat—have to-
gether.
The Englishmanei pride and parti-
cular friends are the royal Bengal
tigers, which are wonderfully fine
animals and so devoted to their
master that they make a great fuss
over 'him every time he -visits them.
Emperor the big male, always comes
tip to be stroked.
There are some very large white
Siberian . camels that are beautiful
beasts, and one, a stallion, is an
enormous creature, with a wonder-
fully good temper.
The list of the animals that 'the
young zoologist has spent eo many
years and so much care in collecting
is a large one.
GRF.,AT,, VARIETY OF ANIMALS.
,
Besides the tigers, lions and lion-
esses, leopards, pumas, bears, in-
cluding a very big one. from Alaska.
Nome Malay eun bears, sevesal hyen-
as, including the spottedar laughing
variety, now very scarce, indeed.
arid a lot a big Siberian Wolves,
bred at Hazleinere; jeckals halal Af-
rica ancl India some White Siberian
they do enter the besieged city and
bear away niany larvae and pupae.
As they trail homeward, one , may
nee a warrior draging along a -trophy
of battle in the shape of a severed
black head, the unrelaxed jaws still
clinging to its foreman's leg.
Somethnes the survivors in the vil-
lage will follow and harass the rear
of the column, pounce on the strag-
glers, and succeed in rescuing a few
captives. Before long the fugitives
return from the grass and fern whith-
er they had fled with their young, or
from the recesses ether° they had
been barricaded, and the life of the
commtrnity is reorganized. The lit-
tle ones for whom they had fotight
so desperately grow up itt the con-
quering city, and perhaps before the
season entls axe cheering on their -
captors to another raid on their na-
tive villag,e.
NEW FRICTION. MATCH.
• In Germany, where the government
controls the manufacture of matches
the time of while phosphorus has been
prohibited. A new material. made
Of non-poisoneu.s red phosphorus, has
been substituted for it. The new
match. • ignites at 0 higher temperu.,
ture than do those of the old style,
but it can be lighted by scratching
on almost any material. Itscost
is much4ower than that of the white
phoSphorus matches for which it has
been substituted.
In the centre of Nadine, an island
in the North Sea, is perhaps the
most curious lake in the world. The
Surface of its waters is quite fresh
camels, several brown cam1 1 iom and supports fresh -water ereatures,
Egypt, a number of ettics, a flock of bet deep down it is as salt as the
Syrian sheep, a, white •saciacl Egyp- greatest depths of the sea, and salt -
Ha' ass, names. alpacas, peccaries, water hsh live in it,
monkeys Of einneroes viten:ace. In-
tliaa' Zebus, buffaloes and two white -
sacred Intlinn zebe s Th is ebout
complete.> • the list of wild animiels.
but by no means ire:lades -the whole
ol acti on,
, Teem are , wondcifUlll benuLifUl
foreign birds—seal-Jet int -thaws, blue
end yellciw military macaws, se.verial
parrote, cockatoos and every other
conceivable leathered lw:eigner. '
, Mr. Leinibetter ba n strangc pow -
0 over' his an 1 Intl Is and i i 01 0
r at' eSt tiling foe even the wildest to
show their well -loved reaeter the
A bad memory is the liar's night-
.
mare.
a..ches
art easy iiirti,tei• -Lei bear
of another's' corns.
prisoners -in' France, are
tO liay one visit to dying
-As a rule, men, donkeys and
are stubborn eh
scribes the result of their labor. It
had been, thus Inc their skill, their
Wisdom, their labor. Now it is.
word that they let down the net,
and the reeult is two boats filled
with fishes, When He worSea wheth-
er it be men or angels or ,ereatures,
the one thing on their- part is obe-
dience. Whether itete a great tish to
swallow. Jonah, or a little fish to
bring a piece of money, or a multi-
tude of fishes to fillthese nets, all
are obedient, to • Him. Jesus said,
"Let demi yotir nets," but Sitnon
said, "I will let 'down -the net." Thee •
belief- en our part isthe great hind -
ranee, yet on this occasion our Lord
wrought, notwitbStanding Siinon's
lack of faith. It is our Lord's way
to fill empty vensels and empty peo-
ple, and , one of Hie Very precious
Words to us- Is, "Blessed are they. •
that hunger and thirst- after .right-
eousnose, for they shall be filled,"
(11 Eings iv; Ex. xl; 11 Chronn v;
Lulea ix; Acts ii; Matt: le, 6-;
v, lie oft allows us to toil in
vain that we may see our own heleg
lessness and let Han work.
When the Lord thus wrought, Sir
on soasetw his unwortheness that he
cried, "Depart from me, for I an a.
:sinful mime 0 Lord" verse 8); and
so it was with others When they teen •
the -glory of the Lord (job i1ii 5.
6; lea. p; Dan. x 8; Rev. i, 17).
We are vessets, eerie:ern vessels, and
if lee would hit the Master have 0611-
trol of us who can toll what 'great
and mighty things He , might do e
(11 Cor. iv, ,7; II Tim, ii, 21; • Jer,
xxxiii, 3.) In scene unlikely wage
and perhaps through some weak but
empty vessel, the t-lpirit of God
works and we all stand astogished,
When we are -brekee deein and con-
scious of ••our einfulneee end utter -0n-
worthinese, then we hear -His "Fear ,
not," or "Peace be wile) you," or
other word Of splietheee .0,11d encour-
agement, It is only the proud, will-
ful, rebellious and lined of heart who
have mese, to fear, for all such God
will humbhi and abuse (Isa ii, 11,
17; Dan. iv, 37), But those who
bave come to the cord of themselvee •
lie will bless aad use.
As to foreaki lig all, noti0e the
coeditions 021 which we gee, -become
disciple in Matt, xve 24;. Luke eiv,
33. , • All who truly 1 (Tele -0 J esti s
ChriSt aS their Saviour beconie oh it.
dren of God, for the gift, Of Clod ie
eternal lite pit in ale any work*
of ()tiro ;(johe i, lea Bone vi, 23seS
'ill, 24; iv, 5); but to be a diecipli
Moans- 0 Whele hearted forsalting o
all foe 'His stele:, The Wei ef 01(1
ealvation- fell wholly ea Chriee;
,coet ni disciphighip falls en la'.
the
perani t te cl
permits.
',The forward look el,iradates
forward step.
fatte
the