The Exeter Times, 1895-10-24, Page 7UReteLeiVei
HaVe we been mietaken 11 tide while
Ie it indeed a pleasure et, die1 Whab
relief and consolation to think o 1 And
it is porisible we Mey be led to this belief
by the eel/Allege of soience,the conolusions
cd philoophg, and, better than all, by the
experienoe (partial though it rneseneoelieer'
IY be) ef those who have stood at the gets
and looked in, ari it were, bube beiug re.
milled, to mundane things,are able to teetify
with sortie degree of authority upon the
iubjeet,
Whether the experience of the oiditterY
inertia will be similar to that of Gail
Hamilton or not, there are many retteone
for believing that the pain of death Le exag-
gerated, and the dreadeof it a sentiment
• that mold fully obtains in health and dis-
appears gradually aa vigor wanes and the
powers are undermined. And, strange
enough the boon most' eought for by the
long and patienb sufferer is not aseuremoes
mit life hereafter, but rest, entire and per -
rest, from the life that now is. Hamlet
ihad no fear of death'beeausie of its phygoal
tortures. Re didn't 'Met his life at a, pin's
fee," And he felt Assured that no sensible
person would bear •the "whips and theme
of time," • the "oppreseoree wrong," etc.,
etc., "whenhe could his quietus make
with a bare bodkin but for the dread of
something !deer death." That was the
"rub" with him. In these days, at least
ewith very many, it is not so much the
dread of something as the fear of nothing
after death thee "puzzles the will" and
• makes us bear the ills of the present rather
than fiy to an uncertainty.
That there is pleesure in eSCPping, even
through death, the tortures of pain, the
misery of chronic invalidism or the dreary
treadmill of unceasing and monotonous
toil which makes up the existence of certain
unfortunate mertals, is• unquestionable.
Not a few human beings are like that over
worked ferneer's wife who burst out in
frenzied rejoicing When the doctor announc-
ed that shei was dying, because death
meant to berth° end of dishwashing, and
the was "going to do nothing forever ana.
ever." But the pleasure arising from this
• thought is merely anticipatory, and not
synenymous with enjoyment, the sensation
of actual delight in the physical dismember-
ment of soul and body.
After looking on death in many varied
forma, from that occurring on the battle-
field and in the hospital to the family
chamber, learned physician gives it as
his opinion that the supreme agony which
evee arre' apt to associate With the final
hundering of the vital cord is rarely if ever
present. The poet assures us that it is
sweet to die for one's country, but this is
in the sense, no doubt, of gladly making a
greatsaFlisloc,for a loved objectoend not in
teeleplie of experiencing physical pleasure
in raying down one's life. But whether
it be on account of the excitement and
exaltation of the moment or for other reas-
ons,eye-witnesses tell us thatdeathin battle
• is often full of that triumph and ecstacy
which are only inspired by supreme pleas-
ure.
It is undoubtedly true that the man who
lives well is apt to die well, and we love
• to hear of the summons coining softly to a
brave life, as if the soul stole gently forth
on tip -toe, not to wake the sleeper. Bry-
ant's injunction is ri.propos in this con.
nection : '
So live; that when thy summons comes to
• join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall
take
Hie chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go netlike, the quarry slaves at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, su to.ined and
soothe4
, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
•Like one who wraps the drapery of his couoh
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
BATTLE IN CUBA.
Antonio Mace° With an Inferior Force
• Wine an Important Victory Front the
Spanish Generals.
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The famous mountain of Mogote, Cuba,
was the scene of a heavy battle on the 2nd
instant. • The Mogote is 45 miles northeast
ef this city. The rebels, learning that tht
Spanish Generals Garcia, Navarro and
Linares were on their way thither, placed
themselves in a good position for the attack.
The combined Spanish column 2,600
strong, opened the attack from their van.
guard. Antonio Macao, with 800 men, re-
turned the fire, and after a severe battle
eof five hours he conquered the Spaniards,
• ,„..livhe were obliged to retire, leaving five
• oteers killed, ten officers wounded and
380 soldiers killed and wounded. The
rebels have isolated the towns of San Luis
ond Palm Soriano., situated 24 and 30
miles respectively from Santiagmby settiug
fire to a bridge between the towns.
Bleyeles Free Of Duty.
A despatch from Washington says :-
Assistent Secretary of the Treasury Hern-
ia has rendered a decision that bicycles
may be entered free of duty. Thie decision
h highly important both to bicycle riders
aud manufacturers, since wheels are
cheaper in Canada than here. The case
was brotiget to the attention of the Treas.
nry Department by Mr, Oswald N. Cain.
mann, mompreeident of the Chesboroueh
ele,•meacturing Company, Of New York
eity, who eomeet,inie ago suffered a wheel
which he Mid purchaeed in Canada to be
iteized for *asthma duties at the pore of
entry, Mamma. Falls, rather then pay 85
per cent. A letter has beeu sent to IVIr.
•..(3a.narnann apprising him a the decision,
•aiPjd notifying hi,ri that he can hevemide
Fotir geheratione of a family are being
taken care e at the poor farm at Bidde-
ford, Me,
S 1 OF RESOD],
REV. DR- TALIIIACIE PREACKES OD
THE SA0111E100 OE ADRADAEL
'The Lamb or God Vflto lealteS *Way Ebe
SIM of the Werle-,t Itenuteirsinte
ro werrui and (near Miele Store -Abra-
ham anillisatie.
1+Tsw Youit, Oot, his sermon for
to -,day Rev, Dr. Talmage ohose for hit
eubject Abralinmee supreme trial of faith
and the angelic rescue of Lien.° from being
efferecl by hie father iie a sacrifice. The
text woe/ Genesis xxii, 7, "Bello d the fire
and the wood, but where is the lamb?"
Here are Abraham end Isaac, the one a
kind, old, gracious, affectionate father, the
other brave, obedient, religious son.
From his bronzed appearance, you can tell
that this son has been much in the fields,
and from his shaggy dress you know three
he has been vvatehing the herds. The
mountain air has painted his cheek rubi-
cund. He is 20 or 25, or as some suppose,
33 years of age, nevertheless a boy, °oust&
ering the length of life to whioh people
jived in those times and the fact that a eon
Is never anything hut a boy to a father. I
remember that my father used to come
into the house when the ohildren were
home on seine festal occasion and say,
"where are the boys 1'1 albhough "the
boys" were 25 and 30 Ind 35 years of age.
So this lsaao is only a boy to Abraham,
and this father's heart is in him, It ea
Immo here and Isaac there. If there is
any festivity around the father's tent,
Isaac mime enjoy it, It is betide walk
and Isaac's apparel and Isaac's manner and.
Isaao's prospects, and Isaac's prosperity.
The father's heartstrings are all wrapped
around that boy, and wrapped again until
nine -tenths of the old mart's life is in Isaac.
I can just imagine how lovingly and
proudly he looked at his only son.
Well, the dear old men had borne a
great deal of trouble, and it had lefb its
mark upon him. In hieroglyphics of wrinkle
the story was written from forehead to chin.
But now his trouble seems all 'gone, and
we are glad that he is very soon to rest
forever. H the old man shall get decrepit,
'same is strong though to wait on him. If
the father gets dim of eyesight, Isaac will
lead him by the hand. If the father be-
come destitute, Isaac will earn him bread.
How glad we are that the ship that has
been in such e. storing aea is coming at last
into the harbor. Are you not rejoiced that
glorious old Abraham is through with his
troubles? No, no ! A thunderbolt ! From
that clear eastern sky there dgops into
that tent a voioe with an announcement
enough to turn black hair white, and to
stun the patriarch back into instant anni.
hilation. God said, "Abraham 1" The
old man answered, "Here I am." God
said to him, "Take thy son, thy only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into
the land of Modell and offer him there as
a burnt offering." • In other wards, slay
him, eut his body into fragments, put the
fragments, on the wood, set fire to the
wood and let Isaac's body be a/maw/led to
ashes. •...
"Cannibalism !Murder 1" says some one.
" Net so," said Abraham. • I hear him
soliloquize: "Here is the boy on whom I
have depended. • Ob, how 1 loved him !
He was given in answer to prayer, and
now I must surrender hen? OI8aac, my
son 1 Isaac: how shell 1 part with you?
But then, it Is always safer to do as God
asks me to. I have been in dark places
before, and God has got me out. I will
irnplicity do as Godhas told me, although
it is very dark. I can't see my way, but
I know Godmakes no mistakes, and et)
him I commit myself and my dealing
son."
Early in • the. /nominee there is a stir
around Abraham's tent. A beast of burden
is fed and saddled. Abraham makes no
dieclosure of the awful secret. At the
break of day he says : " Come, come Isaac,
get up 1 We are going off on a two days'
journey," I bear the axe hewing and
splitting atnid the wood until the sticksare
made the right length and the right thick
ness,and then they are fastened maim beast
of burden. They pass one -there are four of
thern-Abrahamethe father '• Isteac,the son,
and two servants. Going along the road,1
eee Isaac looking up into his father's face
and saying : Father, what is the mat-
ter ? Are you not well? Has anything
happened Are you tired? Lean on my
arm." Then turning around . to the
servants, the son says, " Ah, father is
Resting old,and he has had trouble enough
in other days to kill him 1"
The third morning has come, and it is
the third day of the tragedy. The two
servar.ts are left the beast of burden, while
Abraham and his son Isaac, as was the
()groom of good people in those times, went
up on a hill to sacrifice to the Lord. The
wood is taken off the beast's backand put
on Isaac's back. Abrahain has in one hand
a pan of coals or lamp, and in the other a
sharp, keeu knife. Hee are all the ap-
pliances for sae:rifle° you say. No there
is one thin wanting -there is no victim -
no pigeon, or heifer or lamb. Isaao, not
knowing that he is to be the victiin, looks
up into his father's face and asks a question
which mum) have out ti.e old man to the
bone--" elle father." The .father said,
" My eon Isaac, here lam." The son treed,
J3eholcl the fire and the wood, but where
is the lamb ?" The father's lem quivered,
and his heart fainted, and his knees knock.
ed together, and his entire body, mind and
soul shiver in sickening anguish as he
struggles to gain equipoise,for he does not
want tee:weak down. And then he look's
into his son's face with a thouriand rushing
tendernesses, and says, "My son, God
will provide himself a lamb."
• The twain are now at the foot of the
hill, the place which fate be famous for a
most transeenclene occurrence. They geth-
erect own° stones oue of the field and build
an alter 3 or 4 feet high. Then they take
this wood off Isaac's baok and sprinkle it
over the Wires ao as to help and invite the
flame. The altat it clone -ie is all done,
leaao has helped to build it, With his
father he has discussed whether the top of
thateble is even and whether the wood it
properly prepared. • Then there is a pause,
The son looks :mound, to see if there is not
from° living animal that oan be diught and
butchered for the offering. Abraham tries
to choke down his fatherly feelings and
suppress his grief, in order that he may
break to his son the terrific newt thee he
must bo bhovictim,
Ah, Isaeo never looked more beautiful
than on that day to his father. As the old
man ran his emaciated fingers through hie
air, he said to himself ; "Row filiall
give him up? "What will mother say
when. I ocone back without 'my boy 1I
thought he would have been the cornfort.of
my declining clays, I thought he would
have been the hope of ages to QOM.
BeatItItal and loving and yet to die under
My own band. 0 God, is there not sonie
other secrifloe bleat will do '1 Take my life
and spare idel Pour out my blood and
save Isaac for his mother and the world 1"
lint thie was an inward. struggle. The
father controllais feelings and limes into
his Son's fame end eayS "lama°, must I tell
yon all ?" His eon said ; "Yes, father, I
thought you had something on your mind,
Tell it. The father eaid, "My son Demo,
thou ere the lamb 1" "Oh," you say,
"why didn'b thereoung man, if he NAMS 20
or 80 years of age, emite iuto the dust ble
inern father? Ho could have done it,"
Ah 1,Isaan knew by thin tirne that the
scene was typical of a Ikleestah who was to
come, read so he made no struggle. They
£411 noeach other's necks and wailed out
thei„partiug. Amin], and matchless soene
of the wilclernees. The rocks epho bade
the breaking of their heart& The cry
"My sou 1 My sou 1" The answer: "My
father 1 My father 1"
Do not compare thie, as some people
have, to Agemeinnon, willing to offer up
his daughter, Iphigenia, to please the gado.
There is nothing emexparable to this won-
derful obedience to the tree God. Yoa
•know that victims for sacrifices were
always bound, ao that they might not
struggle away. Rawlings, the martyr,
when he was dying for Christ's sake, said
to the blacksmith who held the menaoles,
"Fasten those chains tight now, for my
flesh may struggle !flightily." So Isaac's
arras are fastened, his feet, are tied.
The old man, rallying all his strength, lifts
him on to a pile of wood. FaSIGNing
thong on the side of the altar, he makee
it span the body of Isaac, and &stens the
thong at the other side of the altar, and
another thong and another thong. Thera
is elm lamp flickering iu the wind, ready to
be put under the brushwood of the altar.
There is the knife, sharp and keen.
Abraham -struggling with his mortal
feelings on the one side and the commands
of God on the other -takes that knife rubs
the flat of it on the palm of his hand, cries
to God for help, comes up to the side of
the altar, takes a parting kiss on the brow
of his boy, takes a message from him for
mother and home, and then, lifting the
glittering weapon for the plunge of tbe
death stroke -his muscles knitting for the
work -the hand begins t� descend. It
falls 1 Not on the heart of Issao, but on
the arm' of God, who arrests the stroke,
maery u wi h the
ki the
thy
harm
It is
bleati
gaonicings
horns
wood not e ose.
ham seizes in gladly, and quickly unloosens
Isaac from the altarmute the ram on in his
plame, sets the lamp under the bruthevood
of the altar, and as the dense smoke of the
sacrifice begins to rise the blood rolls down
the sides of the altar and drops hissing
into the fire, and I liar the words, "Be-
ll -61d the Lamb ot God who takes away the
sins of the world."
• Well, what are you going to get out of
this. • There is an aged minister of the
gospel. He says : I should gee out of
it that when God tells you to do a thing,
whether it seems reasonable to you or not,
go ahead and do it. Here Abraham couldn't
have bee n mistaken. God didn't apeak so
inclistinetly that it was not certain whether
he called Sarah or Abimelech or somebody
else, but •with divine articulation, divine
intonation, divine emphasis, he said,
"Abraham 1" Abraham rushed blindly
ahead to do his duty, knowing that things
would thine out right. Likewise do so
yourselves. There is a mystery of your
life. There is some burden you have to
carry. You don't know why God has put
it on you.. There is some persecution,some
trial, and you don't miaow why God allows
it. There is a work for you to do, and you
have not enough grace you think, to do
it. Do as Abraham did. Advance, and do
your whole duty. Be willing to give up
Isaac, ancl perhaps you will not have to
give up anything. "Jehovah jireh"--"the
Lord will provide." A capital lesson this
old minister gives us.
Out yonder in his house 18 80 aged woman.
The light of heaven In her face, she is half
way through the door ; she has her hand on
the pearl of the gate. Mother what would
you geb out of this subject? "Oh,she says
I would learn that it is in the last pinch
that God comes to the relief. You see the
altar was ready, and Isaac was fastened on
it, and the knife was lif ted,and just at the
last moment God broke in and stopped
proceedings. So it has been in my life of
70 years. Why, sir, there was a time when
the' flonr was all out of the house, and. I set
the table at noon and had nothing to put
on 111, but five minutes of I o'clock a loaf
of bread came. The Lord will provide.
My son was very siek, and I said: 'Dear
Lord, you cion'e mean to take him away
from me, do you? Please, Lord, dents
take him away. Why there are neighbor'
who have three and four sons. This is my
Isaac. Lord, you won't take him away
from me, will you? But I saw he was
getting worse and worse all the time, and
I turned round and prayed, until after
a while I felt Submissive, and 1 could say,
'Thy will, 0 Lord, be done 1." The doctors
gave him up,and we all gave him up. And,
as was tile ouatom in those times, we had
made the grave clothes,and we were whisp.
ming about the last exercises when I looked
and saw soine perapiration on his brow,
showing that the fever had broken, and he
spoke to us so naturally that 1 knew he
was going to get well, and my eon Isaac.,
whom. I thought was going to be slain and
consumed of disease, was loosened from
that altar. And, bless your souls, that's
been ao for 70 years, end if my voice were
not so weak, and if I could see beeter, I
could preaoh to you younger people a ser-
mon, for though I can't see much I can see
this : Whenever you get into a tough
place, and your heart is breaking, if you
will look a little farther into the woods
you will see °aught in the branches, a sub.
stitute and a deliverance. 'My son, God
Will provide himself a lamb.' '
Thank you mother,for that short sermon,
I could preael baok to you for a minute or
two and day, never do you fear. I wish I
had half as good a hope of heaven as mot
have. I was going up a long flight of stairs,
and I saw an aged woman, very decrepit,
and with a cane, creeping on up. She made
but very little progeesse and I fele very
exuberent,and I said to her,"Why mother,
that is no way to go up eteers," and I three/
my anus around her and I carried her up
and put her down on the landing at the
top of the goers. She dad "Thank you,
theetk you. am very thankful." Oh,
mother, when you get throngh this life's
work aila you want to go up ateire and
reet in the F004 plago thattGo4ba� provid-
ed for you, you will riot have toenail) Up -
you will net have te erewl up painfully,
The two arum that were stretolied no tho
cross will he filing around yea and co will
be hoisted with a glorious life beyond all
wearincies and all struggle. May the God
of Abraham and Isaaebe with you until you
atm the Lamb on the hilltops.
Now that aged minister hat •made a
seggeeeme and this aged woman has made
a suggestion; I will make a iniSgestion-
Isaac going up the hill limier* me think of
the great sacrifice. 'soma, the only son of
Abraham, je4110, the only son of God. On
those two "only" I build a tearful emphiieni.
0 Isaac, 0 Josue 1 But thia lase teicrifice
was a rime tremendous one, When the
knife WaS lifted over Calvary, there was no
voice that cried "Stop e aNCI no halld
arrested it, Sharp, keen and tremendous,
it out down through nerve and areery until
the blood sprayed, the faces of the ocean -
amen and the midday SIM dropped a veil
of oloud over ite fee° because ib eould not
endure the spectacle. 0, Isaao of Mount
Modell: 0, J eau ot Mount Calvary 1 Better
could God have thrown away into annihi-
lation a thowiend worldthan to have
sacrificed hie only Son. It was not one of
ten sons -it was his ouly on, If he bad
not given up hint, you and ,I would. have
pedalled. "God so loved the world that he
gave his only" -I stop there, not because
I have foigotten the quotation, but because
I went to think. "God so loved the world
that he gave his ooly beginten Son that
whosoever believeth in him, should not
perish, but h av everlas ting life." Great God,
break my heart at the thought of that
sacrifice, Isaac the only, typical of Joists
the only.
Yon see Isaac going up the hill and
carrying the wood. 0 Abraham, why not
take the load off the boy. • If lee is going
to die so soon, why not make his last
hours easy? Abraham knew that in
carrying that wood up Mount idoriah
lesem was to be a symbol of Christ carry..
ins his own cross up Calvary. I do not
know how heavy that croes wae-whether
it was made of oak oreacacia, or Lebanon
-cedar. I euppoee it may have weighed 100
or 200 or 300 pounds: That was the
lightest pare of the burden. All the sins
and sorrows of the world- were wound
around that cross.. The 'heft of one, the
heftmf two, worlda-earth and hell were
ou his shoulders. 0 Isaac, -carrying the
wood of sa.orifice up Mount :Kedah, 0
Jesus carrying the wood of sacrifice up
Mount Calvary, the agonies of earth and
hell wrapped around that cross. I shall
never, see the heavy load on Isaac's back
that I shall not think of the crushing
on Chriat's back. For whom that
For you. For you. For me.
e. Would that all the tears that we
ever wept over oar sorrows had been
until this morning, and that we
t now pour them out an the lacerated
of the son of G'od.
u say : "If thimeroung man was 20
years of age, why did not he resist?
wail it not Isaac binding Abraham,
instead of ,Abraliant binding Isaac? The
muscle in Isaac's arm was stronger than the
muscle in Abraham's withered ann. No
young matt 25 years of age would submit
to have his father fasten him to a pile of
wood with intention of burning." Isaac was
a willing sacrifice, and so a type of Christ,
who willingly came to save the woeld. If
all the armies of heaven bad resolved to
force Christ out from the gate, they could
not have done it. Christ was equal with
God. If all the battalions oe glory had
armed themselves and resolved to put
Christ forth and make him come out end
save this world, they could not have suc-
ceeded in it. With one stroke he would -
have toppled over an angel/Ai and archangel..
io dominion.
But there was one thing that the om-
nipotent Christ could not stand. Our sorrows
mastered huos. He could. not bear to see
the world die without an offer of pardon
and help, and if all heaven had armed. itself
to keep him baok,if the gates of life haelbeen
bolted and double barred, Christ would
haeve flung the everlasting doors from their
hinges and would have sprung. forth,
scattering the hindering hosts or heaven
like chaff before the whirlwind,as he cried:
"Lo, I come to suffer. Lo, I come to die 1"
Ohrist--a willing sacrifice. Willing bo take
Bethlehem humiliation and semhedrin
outrage and whipping post maltreatment
and Golgotha butchery. Willing to be
bound -Willing to suffer, Willing to
die. Willing to save you. .
I have been told that the cathedral of
St. Mark stande in a quarter in the centre
of the city of Venice, and that when the
clock strikes 12 at noon all the birds from
the oity and the regions round about the
city fly to the square and settle down, It
ceme in this wise: A large hearted woman
passing one noonday acrosa the square saw
some birds shivering in the cold, and she
scattered some crumbs of bread e.monk
them. The next day at the same hour she
scattered more crumbs of bread among
them, and eo cm from year to year until
the day of her death. In her will she
bequeathed a certain timeline of ntoney to
keep up the same practice, and now, at the
first, stroke of the bell at noon, the birds
begin to come there, and when the cloak has
struck 12 the square ia covered with them.
How beautifully suggestive. Christ comes
out to feed thy soul to -day. The more
hungry you feel yourselv.ee to be the better
itis. 12 18 noon and the gospel cloth atrikee
12. Come in flocks. Come tee doves to the
window! All the air is filled With the
liquid chime. Comet Come 1 Come
Stub Ends of Thought.
The time to shoot folly is not when it
flies, hut before it flies.
Some peopie preach more religion in an
hour than they practice in a lifetime.
Only the mord, superior woman will
admit thatshe is lackingentirely in he:peaty.
No virtue, that is the result of fear, can
be taught by example.
Many a silly woman has been able bo
lead a wise man around by the nose.
There may he religion in art,but there is
no art in religion,
A matt may unlearn, but a Woman, never.
It inay be stated as a busineas facie ehat
Cupid doeseet always pay the debts he
contracts.
When a man combines in himself cash
and character, he is praotieally
If le man could run out of debt as easily
as he Can run into it, times would not be so
hard,
What He Could Do.
And you really elaira thab you can
am -ninon ghoets into your peeeenot ?
Certeittly,
Prove it.
I will.
He sun:Mons a ghee b.
But -1 don't eee anything.
Nr 1, BO 1 artintlIoned °tie just ethe
ante. 1 didn't say I could make hbri
donee,
80.13 ARABI)
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH KINGS,
qUEENP AND EMPERORS.
Ord Meteor or London in Pares-eit Posner
Rohe los the tsarina -The r one or
Home and ate Saltan. of Turkey -ante.
Carnet's Criee-The finemes Trip to
Seteatind-fingagentent of the Princess
Maud.
Diplomatically epeeleing, that potentate
of the moment, the Lord Mayor bf London,
seems to have made a fiasco of his late ex,
oursion to Paris, lie made a great im.
pression on the Parisians with his golden
;state coach and powdered foonnee, but he
overeeepped the mark when he went the
length of extending an invitation to the
French President to visit Loudon. In
responding M. Faure intimeted that "it
was nob the like of him to talk to the
DR. BURNETTE'S CASE SAID TO
likee of me" about visiting Ienglartd, but
PROVE THAT IT 15.
Au invitation coming from the proper
source would be duly coneidered. In g
commenting ou. Sir Joseplea break, -a."At
,41;e:1,)e -syto-v-1,.e°YeUee rrudue" by an
TRIABeyond Doubt,
a London contemporary suggests that if .e%tr-tisSayre-Evidenees that a genie
the French band had played "'E Dunne eel Treatment for Absorption Was
• Fineeee4lug,.
/OA !foully io a stete ee ea I ,y
1X10,40 niesallianee, and a niermege witi
ane of the Queenei granddaughters would
be highly eatisfactory' to the eonservative
Danigi omirt. During the lade few yeere
the Princese Matedei llama had been colipied
rnatriumnieliy with every marriageable
prinoe in Europe. Eliseo the melandiele
eyes of the Shahzede were reported as
turning admiring glances in her direation.
Several members of the English nobility
were also discueeed as probable husband
for Prineees Maud, The Qneen, it is said,
is highly eppoeed to another royalty -
commoner marriage, on the ground that
the commoner limy have all sorts of itnees-
sible relations, The Argylt family, into
which the Quemea daughter married, hes
ail riorte of queer eonneeelone in Scotland,
and the same thing ie Also erue of the Duifii.
In Mot, the Duke of Argyll's daughter, the
Lady Viotoria, is reported as engaged to
the Rev. Joon RoNeill, who was a railway
porter before he took holy indorse
IB A GINO B, 0011TAGION9
Wheee'E Are" an the Lord Mayor enter-
ed the Gars St. Lamaze instead of the The phyalcians who have been engaged
national hymn it woad have been a far for nearly two weeks( ripen an examination
more appropriate anthem. • to determine whether Dr. Edward W.
Burnette, who died of cancer on Sept. 22,
The work on the coronation robe of ehe
Czarina of Russia has been going n for
had °entreated the disease by inoculation
o
have come to the conolusion that he did so
months; it is to cost the incredible sum
of $200,000, Pearls and gold, worked in
the most modern ecientifie manner, are to
decorate the dress worn by lifer Imperial
Majeseme Alexandea Feodormena, on the
wicasion of her coronation. The dress
is being made in Paris, where the decora-
Cane were, aloe prepared. The coronation
robe of the last Empress of Russia wad
white, studded with the most gorgeous
and finest jewels. Her Majesty oleo wore
a mantle of burnished silver and ermine
and a crown of diamonds. it is customary
for the "Holy Czar," as he is known in
the ritual of the Russian Church, to be
crowned 10 his army uniform. On this
occasion he carries the golden sceptre,
ornamented with diamonds. The diamond
in the top is one of the finest in the world.
There aim but two Europeau potentates
who manage to get along without ohange of
residence or outings of any description.
These are the Pope of Rome arid the Salim./
of Turkey. The Sultan ha a never left
Constantinople since he ascended the throne
under such tragic circumstances, twenty
years ago. ,And Bi, Holiness him remained
within the precincts of the Vatican since
the triple tiara was placed upon his head in
1878. If the Pontiff will not leave his self-
imposed confinement, it ie because he feels
that in leaving the Vatican his departure
would be construed by the world at large
88 80 acquiescence on the.part of the Papacy
in a state of affairs against which he can.
not but protest.
The German Emperor once followed the
example of the mad King Ludwig, of
Bawarhaand was the solitary listener to an
opera. A performance of "Gotterdarnmer.
ung" was oommanded, wish Frau Such&
in the role of lerannhildemne morning at 11
oallook. When the curtain went up the
singers were ea much amazed at what
appeared to be a dark arid empty house
than they could. hardly go on. As soon as
their eyes heceme accustomed to the dark-
ness they diecovered His Imperial Majesty
the solitary auditor, sitting in one et the
boxes, After the opera he decorated Frau
Sucher and made her Chamber Singer,at the
same time expreeming himself delighted at
his individual method of hearing the opera.
Mme. Carnet's grief for the late French
President is morbid in the exereme. She
has set apart a salou in her house to be
transferred into a sort of private chapel,
the decorations of whieh are the dee/Lobed
ribbons from the numerous wreathe sent
on the occiasion of her husband's funeral,
the Ruseia,u ribbon of Admiral Avellan
forming the* centrepiece. The different
silver wreaths, with thee colors of the couu-
tries from which they were sent, are placed
on easels. Albums in mediaeval bindings
are filled with photographs of the late
President's visit to Lyons, of his death -
chamber there and of the funeral. The
telegrams and letters of condolence from
the great ones of the earth are also pre-
served in albitme, In this room lelme.
Carnet expects to spend a portion of each
day.
The Queen's annual trip to Scotland
costs her $25,000. The following are a
few of the precautions she orders for her
safety anti comfort in travelling 1 The
official whose sole duty consists in manag-
ing the Queen'a journeys makes the an-
nouncemene to the manager of the railroad
over -which the Queen intenile to travel,
and with the manager lies the responsibil-
ity for the Queen's stele transportation. To
this end all traffic is suspended, and the
lines kept clear; to every stationimaster
along the line a notice is sent, the receipt
of which must be acknowledged by the
next train back, and also in the daily
returns, and woe betide 'the individual
who fails to do this, In addition to these
preetintions, plate -layers are stationed the
whole distance along the line in bight of
each other, tend they signal by hand, so that
railway accidents are praoti wily impossible.
Heade of stations must be in attendance as
the royal train passes, and a locomotive in.
ripener ecoompoinies the engineitiriver. A
speed of forty-five miles au hour is main.
tained. During the Qaeen's recent journey
to Scotland, she stopped at Perth for break.
fast and an hour's rest. The station
platform was enlarged, carpeted and hung
with orimson cloth; flowers were sent frolic,
three palaces and the Duke of Athole and
Lord Breadalbane waited to receive her.
Her Meeesey looking feeble and careworn,
waled, with the assistanoe of two Ioclien
domestics, down the incline leading from
the train to the station. She did not oven
glanoe at the deoorations prepared in her
honor as she feebly made her way to the
hotel where breekfase was served.
So many ofrouinstanees favor the report.
ed engagement of the Priticess Maud of
Wales to her eoueln, Prince Christian,
ultimate heir to the throne of Denmark,
that the statement does not EOM to require
the sprinkle of sale that the Wales girl's
engagements have heretofore demanded.
Apert from the foot that the prieth and
princess are first eoueins, the marriage is
in every way desirable; religion and polie
tics, serious thesideratiate in most royal
inarriegesi being thoroughly harmonious 10
this case. Prince Chrietion'e ultra-demoi
erotic, almost Socialistic views have kept
WHAT Is GGING ON I
CORNERS Or Tful ow)
014 an4 Nor Wor14 liVoit1$ of lieteresit
chronicled lerieile-enteriteting Us*
penina$ or itteeent
There are now in Japan 377 Chrietieu
°hurdler: and 0413 missionaries.
England has developed a taste for
loattanas,drawing ite supply from the Canes
rice and from Madeira,
The Prince of Widen reeeivee daily ott
average between 500 and 600 letters, 200
of whioh are begging letters,
About 100 lettere written by Sir Walter
Scott to Mr. Craig, a hanker, were diseov-
ered, recently in an old box in the city of
Galashields, Seetland.
The German Evengelteel Preebyterien
Misaionary Society has recently opened a
theological amedemy at Tokio. Its library
hes 9,000 volumes.
G merge Solomon, a Padden book colleetor
has a collection of few en hundred volumes,
none of them being larger than one inch
wide by two ineb.ee high.
There has been great enoouragetnene in
regard to Japan, 70,811 eeperate gospels
and 1,449 New Testaments having been dip
tributed among the soldiers.
The love of Londoners for flowers is
universal. So great is the demand that
their cultieation for the London market
censtieutes cone of tloe most thriving incluse
tries of the day. •
There is one missionary to every 50,000
Jews in the world. Altogether there are
let it, 49 vedettes at work,with 12 statione,having
The patient from whom, it is said D,,. a total of 884 workers, ordained or not
a •
Burnette became inoculated is still living. or anted.
The Doctor had shaved himself in the
morning when she called on him, and had
accidentally out his cheek. While he was
applying nitrate of silver in the mouth of
the patient he pushed the index finger of
hie other hand into her mouth and held
her eheek away from her tongue. Before
finishing with the patient he thoughtlessly
matched the razor out, thus bringing the
finger that had been in the canceroue
mouth into contact, with an open wound.
• Within twenty minutes afterward the
part became inflamed, and the poison had
entered the physician's system, it is sup-
posed.
Dr. Roland D. Jones and Dr. G. Lennox
Curtie were in charge of Dr. Burnette's
case, and their statement at the time Dr.
Buraette died that he probably had become
inoculated from ai patient,' immediately
caused great interest, for it opened anew
the controversy over the possibility of
contagion from csamer,and under conditions
favorable fax careful obeervation. While
the preponderance of medical authority
here and in Europe has been against the
theory thee dencer can be so transmitted,
it has been held by some medical men of
France and Germany that it can be.
Dr. Curtis says that while the examina-
tion made possible by the autopsy was non
completed, and he did non wish to talk
until it was over, when
A FULL TECHNICAL REPonT
would be made for the benefit] of scientific
study, he would state that the ease was
one of malignant cancer, and the examina-
tion had abown it to be one of exceeding
interest. "The deealls will be thoroughly
dealt with," he added, "in the article soon
to appear ma medical journal. There is
sufficient evidence to prove beyond ques-
tion that it was a case of inoculation."
The work of Dr. Curtis on the case is
looked upon, it is said, as being of especial
value because he has for seven years devot-
ed himself particularly to the study of can-
cer, and has pursued the work a part of the
time at Berlin and. Vienna,where be might
have the benefib of Koch's and Virchow's
researches. Contrary, however, to pursu-
ing the lines of 0 eir study and taking up
the accepted meth° is of treatment, he has
worked upon a different hypothesis,and he
has attained amumber of cures,he believes,
by means of medicine, and not the knife.
Dr. Curtis's belief is that he can euro
cancer by causing the symptom to absorb it
and eliminate it. The progress of Dr. Bur-
uette's dam for several weeks before he
died, and the examination of the organs
since, have convinced Dr. Curtis that his
bellef is founded on fact. He says that
absorption was produced and that poison
was eliminated. Dr. Barnette had cancer
of the liver, end the swellings on his face
were caused by it. During the weeks of
his treatment by the medicines intended to
produce absorpcion Dr. Curtis says he got
better,and that within ten days the external
tumors and the swellings on his face dim-
inished, and that the tumors of the liver
diminished also, and is now found.
The Doctor says that the immediate cause
of the patient's death was exhaustion due
to the heat, and if those three days of
extremely hot weather had not come on Dr,
Barnette would have continued to progress
toward recovery.
If tbe case is shown to have been one of
inoculation the public will be concerned,
for it will show that cancer is a contagious
disease.
An Even Thing.
It has been said that all rnen are cowards
in the dark, and there is doubtleee some
truth ift the statement. A correspondent
cites an instance in illustration. Two
officers of the British army in India had a
difficulty which resulted in a duel,
The colonel,the challenged party,wes an
old campaigner who heel won his laurels in
the Crimea,and was a most gallant soldier.
The choice of weapons being his, he named
pistols, and elected that the affair shwa
()alit in a. dark room,
We secured a roorn twenty feet square,
says the narrator of the incident, closed
every crevice that would admit light,pliteed
our men in corners diagonally oppositegend
vei thdrew.
leach man was provided with three
therges, and when these were eximusted
we rtudeed in eo gather up the mutilated
remains.
Each mon stood erect and eoldierlille in
bit corner, antouthed ; but directly behind
the °Meer who had given the challenge
were three bullet holes made by the colonel'e
pistol.
"Bow is this?" said it grizzled major.
"Had yet/ been standing here where those
shots were fired, you would home been
killed.
The oulprit was forced to admit that he
had dropped to one knee,
"You are a coward, sir, and anfit for the
company of eoldiers and geotlemenl" °tied
the major,
"ttoid on, major 1" said the colonel. "It,
is
it ettincl.off. While he was on hie knees
in one corner, I was on my atoznach in the
other."
Thia year's pilgrimage th Lourdes is the
largeth on record ; 8,000 persona left Paris
in special trains on one day recently, and
were joined by 9,000 more from way
etations.
The largest telegraph office in the world
iS in the general post -office building, Lone
don. There are over 3,000 operators, 1,000
of whom are women. The batteries are
supplied by 30,000 cells.
A Moscow jeweller is now making a
silver service for the Russian Czar, which
is to cost 100,000 rubles. The work will be
finished in time for bee at the coronation
services. The pieces are of solid silver in
the style of Louis XIV.
At Desborough, in .Northamptonshire,
Eng., a Band of Hope was formed six years
ago. The succese was so marked that an
adult society was formed. The two socie-
ties now number 1,015 members one of a
population of 3,000.
A writer has been writing in the Echo
de Paris against the rowdy ways of the
students in the Latin Quarter. In order
to convince him of his mistake the students
undertook to mob him and to destroy the
office of the offending paper.
Jerome K. Jerome, the author of Three
Men in a Bose, has been awarded $2,500
damages from a railway that was recently
built near his house and disturbed his
seclusion. Several famous London authors
gave evidence during the trial.
Mr. Gladstone, says the St. ,Tearies
Gazette, continues in vigorous bodily
health, and his mental power is such that
he is able to spend several hours a day in
his library. He is preparing himself for
editing the writings of Bishop Butler.
At the Pasteur Institute in Paris 1,387
persons were treated duringl894, seven of
whom died. This is 261 leas than in 1893.
Two hundred and twentymix of the patients
were foreigners, 128 coming from England
and only one from Russia.
In Berlin gone there are nearly 400
American atudents,189 of them on the rolls
of the university, and in the other univer-
sity towns of the Empire the percentage of
American students is so large as to excete
the comment of the local press.
M. Schneider, the head of the great
Creusot foundries, was married the other
day in Paris. Creuaot has grown in sixty
years from a village of five hundred inhab-
itants to a town of thirty thousand people
-larger than Krupp's town of Essen.
Though Ireland has 3,000,0000 acres of
bog land, large quantities of peat litter are
imported from Belgium and Holland, Mills
are being fitted up to separate the litter
from the turf, and it is hoped that peat
moss litter may soon be a narticle of ex..
port.
Platen Pawlow, the famous Russian
historian and. art critic, who died in St.
Petersburg a few days ago, was 72 years
old. Owing to his liberal views and influ-
ence over the young, he was deprived of
his professorship in the sixties and banished
no Wethiga.
A Capuchin friar in the south of France
named Father Joseph hae been in the
habit, of firing off a canon to attramt con-
gregations. The cannon blew up recently,
killing a man 801118 distance off, and the
friar was fined 200 francs for "homicide,
through imprudence."
France's great military port at Bizerte,
on the Tunis coast, has been formally de.
chimed open. By conneeting the great la-
goon with the sea by an artificial channel
a harbour has been mbtained large enough
to hold the whole French fleet, and as safe
as if it were an artificial basin in the
•
centre of Prance.
A bronze fork was picked up at Kon
yunjik, in Assyria, in 187e; it was believed
to date from 1,100, or 1,210 13. 0. A flesh
book of three teeth is mentioned in the
Bible, 1. Samoa', xi., 13, about 1,165 B. C.,
but this was not a fork in our sense of the
word, but a hook used. to draw the boiled
uleSautltfaronmieltohheamP°m4ed Agile Khan of Peoria
is indignant with the Earl of Dunmore
for maligning his grandfather. In a book
an the 'emirs the Earl says he granted
free passes to heaven by letters addreseed
to "My Brother Gabriel." This, the Sul-
tan says, is non true, yet the Earl
persistently refuses to suppress the state.
menAnt Albert medal has been awarded to
.Mr. Hereward elewisori, of Newcaetle,
New South Weida for saving his brother
from a shark last year. The brother was
seized by the arm while awionning, when
Mr. Damson mane to him and fought the
shark till it bit off the arm at the elbow,
releasing its prisoner, Be then sui ra
ashore, pushing his brother befeere him.
Ibis estimated that in England on an
average each person epends Os. a year 015
books, periodicals, newspapers, and so ou,
which would give a tobal of about $85,000,
000. Soma ItatiEtitiiAll has gone so fax at
to otilthlete thee the eggeetente anntuil oire
oulation of the world is about 12,000,000,i
000 ocipiee of printed matter of every kind,
Lor which 78,125 tone of peeer esedi