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Exeter Times, 1896-6-18, Page 7• T fXITfilB Timns TIIE SPIRIT OF WAR. CONTRASTED WITH THE SPIRIT OF TREATY HY REV. -DR. TALMAGE. • The Nieman% or the Dead Ole Mementoes or the Four Year War or the Hebeb iion-The teed or nattles-editnerence and me Duties. Washington, June 7. -Rev. Dr. Tan ma.ge dune fe,v leis text Solomon's Song in-, 4; "The tower of David.build- a thousand bucklers, all sbields of miglaty men." The church is here compared to an armory, the walls hung with trophies of dead heroes. Walk all about tbis tower of David, and see the dented sbields, and the twisted swords, and. the rusted helmets of terrible battle. So at this season, a month earlier at the south, a naonta later at the north, ethe American churches are turned ioto atmories adorned with memories of departed brave.s. Blossom and bloom, O wain, with storiee of self-sacrifiee and patriotism and prowess! By unanimous decree of the people of the 'United States of America, the graves of all the northern and. south- ern dead are every year decorated. All acerbity and. bitterness have gone out of the national solemnity, and asi the men and women of the south one month ago floralised the cemeteriesand graveyards, so yesterday we, the men end women of the nortb, put upon the zorets of our dead the kiss of patriotic affection. Bravery always appreciates bravery, though it fight on the other eide, and if a soldier of the federal army had been a naonth ago at Savan- nah he would. not have been aehriraed to mareh in the floral proceeelons to the cemetery. And if yesterday a Con- federate soldier was at .Arlington he was glad to .put a sprig or heartsease an the silent heart of our dead. In a battle during our last war the Confederatee were driving back the leederals, who were in swift retreat, wben 4 Federal officer dropped, wound- ed. One of his men stopped at the risk a his life and put his arms around the officer to carry hi% from the field. Fifty Confederate muskets were aimed at the young man who was picking up the officer. But the Confed- erate captain shouted: " Hold! Don't fire. Tbat fellow is too brave to be sbot. And as tile Federal officer held up by his private eoldier went, limping nowly off the field, the Confederates gave three cbeers for the brave private and. just before the two disappeared bebind a barn both the wounded officer end -the brave private lifted their caps al gratitude to the Confederate cap- tain, Shall the gospel be less generous than the world? We stack arms, the bayo- net of our northern gun facing this wav the bayonet of the southern gun facing the other way, and as the gray of the morning melts into the blue of noon so the typical gray and. blue of old war times have blended at last. and tbee• quote in the language of King James' translation without any revis- ion, "Glory, to God. in the highest, and onearta peace, goad will to men." Now, what do we mean by this great observ- ance? First, we mean instruetion to one whole generation. Subtract leen when will realize what a vast number of people were born since the war or were so young as to have no vivid ap- preciation. Neci one under 41 years of age has any adequate memory of that prolonged. horror. Do you remember ? "Well," you say, "I only remem- ber that mother swooned. away when she was reading the newspaper, and that they brought my father home wrapped in the flag, and that a good m any people came into the house to pray, and mother faded away after that until again thews were many peo- ple in the house, and they told me she was dead." There are others who cannot remem- ber tbe roll of a, drum or a sigh or a tear of that tornado of woe that swept the nation again and again, until there was one dead in each hpuse. Now it is tbe religious duty of those who do remember it to tell th.ose Nebo do not. My young friends there were such partings at rail car windows and steamboat wharfs and at front doors of comfortable homes as I pray God you may never witnees. Oh, what a time it was, when fathers and mothers gave up their sons never expeeting to see them again and. never did see them again until they came back mu- tilated and crusiaed and dead. Four years of blood. _Four years of hostile experiences. Four years of ghastliness, four years o gravedigging. Four years of funerals, coffins, shrouds hearses, dirges. Mourning, mourning, mourning 1 it was hell let loose. What a time of waiting for news! Morning paper and evening paper scrutinized ..for intelligence from the boys at the front. First, announcement that the battle must occur the next day. Then the news of the battle giling on. The news of 30,000 slain an.d of the names of the great generals who had fallen but no news about the private soldiers. Waiting for news! After many days a load. of wounded going through the town or city, but no news from our boy. Then a long list of wounded and a long list of the dead and a long list • of the missing, and amoog the last list our boy. When missing? How missing? liVho' saw bira last? Missing! Missing 1 Was he in the wood or by the stream? 'Was he hut? Missing I Missing! 'What • burning prayers that he may yet be; beard from. In that awful waiting for news many a life perished. The strain of anxiety was too great. That wife's brain gave way that first week after the battle,' and ever and anon she walks the Boar of the asylum or looks oult of the window an though. she expeoted some one to come along the.path and up the steps as she solioe quizes, '.Missing; missing'!" • What made matters worse, all this might have been avoided. There was no mozre need of that war than at this moment I sine:del plunge a dagger tiwough pear heart. There was a fain Christiari philanthropists in those days, scoffed at both by north and south, who had the right of it. If they had. been heard on both sides, we should' have had no war and no slavery. It was advised by those Christian philane tleropists, "Let thoolorth pay in nioney for the slaves as property and set them; free." The north ;nod "We cannot af- ford to pay " 'Thee:nu said, We meth ria sell the &axes anylitew." But thet nortadid pay in wax expenses enought to purchase tlae slaves; and. the south', was compelled to give up elavery any. how. Might not nee north better aava paid the money and saved the lives of 500,000 brave men, and wig* not the south better have sold out slavery, and saved her 500,000 brave men? It, swear you by the graves of your fath- • ere and brothers and son aS to a newl hatred for the celempion curse of tbe universe -war. 0 Lord God, with the hottest bolt a thine omnipeesent indigi x?ation strike th,at monster down for,' , ever end ever. Imprison it in the deep -1 est dungeon of the eternal penitentiary, Bolt it m with all the iron ev,er forgedi in cannon or molded into howitzers.", Cleave it with all the sabres that ever , glittered, in battle and wriog its soul with all the pangs whichit ever caused. Let it feel all the conflagrations of tha homestead it has ever destroyed. Deepe let it burn till it hes gatiaered int* ita heart all the suffering of eternity es well as time. In the name of the millions of graves of its victims, I dee iaounce rtahe natioxis need more the Spirt of treaty and lens the spirit a war. 'War is more ghaatly now than oncee not only becauee of the greater destruc- tiveness of its weaponry, but because now it takes duevia the best men, where., as once it chiefly took down the worst,. Bruee, in 1717, in ins Inetitutions of Military Law, said. of the European. armies of his day, "If all the bafammeel Persons and such as have committea capital crimes, beretics, atheists andale dastardly immune men, were weeded mit of the army, it would soon be re- duced to a pretty moderate number." Flogging and mean pay made them still more ignoble. Officers were ap- Pointed to :see that each soldier dranie his ration oe a pint of spirits a day. There. were noble men in battle, but the moral character at the army tam was 95 per cent. lower than the moral, elehraeter of an army to -day. By sa mucla is war TIM the mere detestable, because it cientroyed the picked uteri oe Ina nations. Again, in this national cermetuy we mean to honor courage. Many of these departed soldiers were voluuteers, not conscripts, anti many of t hose who were dratted might here provided a suhsti- tute or got off on furlough or have deserted. The fact that they lie in their graves is proof of their knavery. Brave a; the front, brave at, the can- non's moutli, !gave on lonely picket duty, brave in cavalry charge, brave before the surgeon, brave in the dying message to the home circle. We yester- day put: a garland on the brow of cour- age. Tlie world wants mare of h. The church of God is in woeful need of men who can stand under fire. The lion of worldly derision roars and the sheep trerable. In great reformatory movements at the first, shot how many fall baoke The great obstacle to the chorea's advancement is the inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the namby pam.byism of professed Claris - times. Great on a parade, cowards in battle. Afraid of getting their plumes ruffled, they carry. a parasol over their helmet. They go into battle, not with warriors' gauntlet, but witb kid gloves, not clutcbing the sword hilt too tight lest the glove split at the back. In all our reformatory and Christian work the great want is more backbone, more mettle, more daring, more prow- ess. We would in all our nhurches like to trade of a hundred do nothings for like men; be strong." Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die, They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. Again we mean by this national ob- servance to honor self sacrifice for others. To all these departed men home and kindred were as dear as our home and kindred are to us. Do you knowi how they felt? just as you and I would feel starting out to -morrow morning with nine themes out of ten against our returning alive, for the intelligent soldier sees, not only battle ahead, but malarial sickness and ex- hasution. Had these men chosen, they could have spent last nigbt in their homes and to -day have been seated where you are. They came the camp, not because they liked it better than their own house, and followed the drum and fife, not because they were better music than the voices of the domestic circle. South mountain and Murfrees- boro and the swamps of Chickahominy were not playgrounds. These heroes risked and lost all for others. There is no higher sublimity than that. To keep three-quartera for ourselves and give one-quarter to oth- ers is honorable. To divide even with others is generous. To keep nothing for ourselves and. give all for others is magnanimity Christlike. Put a girdle around your body and then measure the girdle and see if yoa are na ot 66 inches round. And is that the circle of your sympathizes -the size of your- self? Or. to measure you arounct the heart. would it take a girdle large enough' to encircle the land and en- circle the world? 'You want to know what we dry theologians mean when we talk of vicarious suffering. Look at the soldiers' graves ancl find. out. Vi- cariousl entnge for others, wounds for others. homesickness for others, blood for others, sem:licher for others. Those who visited the national ceme- teries at Arlington Heights and at Richmond and Gettysburg saw one itt- scription on. soldiers.' tombs oftener re- peated. than any other -"Unknown." When, about 21 years ago, I was call- ed to deliver the oration at Arlington Heights, Washington, I was not so muc,h impressed with the minute guns that shobk the earth, or with the at- tendance of President and Cabinet and. Foreign Ministers and generals of the array and commodores of the navy, as with the pathetic and overwhelming suggestiveness of that epitaph on so many graves at my feet. Unknown! Unknoivnl It seems to me that the time must come when the government of the United States shall take off that epitaph. They are no more unknown. epitaph. They are no more unknown. are the beloved sons of the republic. Would it not be well to take the statue of the heathen goddess off the top of the capitol (for I have no faith in the. morals of a heathen goddess) and put one great statue in all our na- tional cemeteries -a statue of Liberty in the form of a Christian woman,with her hand on an open leible and her foot on the Rook of Ages, with the other hand pointing down to the graves of the unknown saying; "Those are my sons, who died that I might live?" Take off the misnomer. Everybody knows them. It is of comparatively little importance what was the name given themin baptism of water. Again,. by this national ceremony we, mean the future defence of 1 his nation. By every wreath of flowers on the sol- diers' graves we say, "Those who die for the country shall not be forgotten," and that will give enthnsiasna to our young men in case our nation should in the future need to defend itself in battle.- We shall never have another war between north and. south. The old decayed hone of contention. American slavery, has been' cast out, although neve arid there a depraved politician tekes it up to see if be can't itriaw something' off it. Wo are floating off farther and farther front the possibil- ity of sectional strife. No possibility of civil war. But about i foreign nvanon I am not so certain. When .1 spoke against war, 1said nothing against self defence, An in- ventor told me that he had ioverited a style of weapon which could be used in self-defence, but not in aggressive warfare. I said., "When you get tbe nations to adopt that weapon,youehava introduced the millennium." I have no right to go on my neighbores premises and assault hire, but if some ruffian break into my house for the assassina- tion of my family, and I can borrow a gun and load it in time and aim it straight enough, I will sheot him. There is no room on this continent for any other nation -except Canada, and a better neighbar ne one ever had. If you don't think so, go to Montreal and Toronto and see how well they will treat yon. Other than that, there is absolutely no room for any other na- tion, I have been aeross the continent again and again, and know that we have not a half :nth of ground for the gouty foot pf foreign despotiem to stand. on, But am not so sure that some of the axing int nations of Europe naey not wane day challenge ns. 1 do not know that these forts around New York by are to sleep all through the next century. I do not know that Barnegat lighthouse evil' not yet look off upon a bonne navy. I do not know bot that a hell dozen nations, envious la our prosperity, rely want to gore us O wrestle. Durng our civil war there were two or three nations tali, mold hardly keep their hands off us. It, is very easy to pick national quarrels, and if oar nation escapes much longer it will be the exception. ' If foreign foe should come, we want men like those of 1812 and like those of 1862 to meet them, We want them all up and down the coast. Pulaski and Volt Sumter in tile same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton. Men evho will not only know how to fight, but how to die. When such a time comes, if it ever does come, the generation on the stage of action will say: "My country will care for my family, as they did in the solaiers' asylum for the onarinaitt the civil war, and my ceuntry will honor my duet, as it honorel those who preeedel me in patriotic sacrifiee, and once a Year at any rate. on Dec- oration <ley, I .•hall be resurrect e 1 inte the remembraine of these for whom I died. Here I go for Go 1 and my Mini - try I Huzza I" If foreign foe should come, the old sectional animosities would have no power. Here go our regiment.; into the battlefield: Fifteenth New York Vol- unteers, Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Four- teenth Pennsylvania Riflemen, Tenth Massachusetts Artillery, Seventh South Carolina Sharpshooters. I do not know but it may require the attack of some foreign foe to make us forget our ab- surd sectional verheigling. I have no faith in the cry, 'No north, no south, no east, no west." Let all four sections keep their peculiarities earl their pre- ferenees, each doing its own work and not interfering with each other, eiteh of the four carrying its part in the great harmony -the bass, the alto, the tenor,. the soprano -in the .grand marcb of union. Orre niore, this great national cere- mony means the beautification of the tombs, whether of those who fell itt battle or accident, or who have expired en their beds or in our arms or on our hips. I suppose you. have noticed that many of the families' take this season as the time for the adornment of their family plots. This national observance has secured the arboriculture and flori- culture of the cemeteries, the straight- ening up of many e slab planted 30 or 40 years ago, and has swung the sythe through the long grass and bas brouglat the stonecutter to call out the half obliterated epitaph. This day is the benediction of the resting place of fa- ther, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister. It is all that we ran do for them now. Make their resting places attractive, not absurd with costly putlay, but in quiet remembrance. You know how. If you can afford only one flower, that will do. It shows what you would do if you could. One blossom from you may mean more than the Duke of Wellington's catafalque. Oh, we cannot afford to forget them. The.y were so lovely to us. We miss them so tenth. We will never get over it. Blessed Lord Jesus comfort our broken hearts. From every bank of flowers breathes promise of resurrection. In olden times the Hebrews, return- ing from their burial place, used to pluck the grass from the field three or four times, then throw it over their heads, suggestive of the resurrection. We pick not the grass, but the flow- ers, and instead of throwing them over our beads, we place them before our eyes, right down over the silent heart that once beat with warmest love to- ward. us, or over the still feet that ran to service, or over the lips from which we took the kiss at the anguish of the last parting. But stop! We are not infidels. Our bodies will soon join the bodies of our departed in, the tomb, and our spirits shall join their spirits in the land of the rising sun. We cannot long be separted. Instead of crying with Ja- cob for Joseph; "n will go dowu into the grave unto my son, mourning," let us cry with David, al shall go to him." On one of the gates of Greenwood is the quaint inscription, "A night's lodg- ing pn the way to the city oi. the New Jerusalem," Comfort on.o another with these words. May the band of Him who shall wipe away all tears from all eyes wipe your cheek with its softest tenderness. The Christ of Mark and Martha and Lazarus will infold you.in his arms. The white robed angels who sat at the tomb of Jesus will yet roll the stone from the door of your dead in radiant resurrection. The Lord Him - sol? shall descend from heaven with a shout and. the voice of the archangel. So the Dead March in Saul shall -be- come the Hallelujah chorus. "TWINS," All the world. likes to see a liar caught in the lie. No one regrets when the parent who tries to palm off a twelve- year -old child as only nine, in order to escape paying a full fare, is corrected by the child himself. In the following case,, which a London paper relates, it was the mother hersel.f who betrayed the truth: : It was at the railroad station, and she was trying to buy half -fare tickets for her two children; How old are they? asked the ticket - seller. Only six. Both of them? ? Yes; they's twins. ? Ahl said the man. He eyed them a moment, and then said, Pretty chil- dren. Where were they born? This one in London, answered the proud mother, and the other in 13righ. ton I THE SUNDAY SCROOL. INTERNATIONAL_LESSON, JUNE 21. "The Rise* and," Luke 24. Minn Golden Text, 'alien 24,34. GENERAL STATEMENT, Late in the afternoon of Friday (the day of hie crueifixion), by permission of Pilot, the Lord's body was laid in Joseph's tomb, Perhaps the next morn- ing (which would be our Saturday and the Jews' Sabbath), the soldiers were duly set at the door of the sepulcher as guardian. On the morning of the third day our Lord arose from the dead. Then came, the sudden diecovery of this face by the sad. visitants to the tomb. Later in the day the walk of two dis- ciples to Emeneus, when the Master, unknown for the time being joined them, and a little later still our Lord's appearance to the disciplea in Jerusa- lem. Thomas being absent. After the appearance of our Lord On the first Sun- day after bis death we bave very little to guide us in claronology; the accounts of the evangelists so overlap eacit oth- er that the only *ay to get. a con- tinuous view is to read met on to the end of the story, But tbe order of the appearances ori Sunday is plain, and per- haps the mostremarkable of them all tbat which we now study. 'When the chief followere of Jesus, apPrelteud- bag their own arrest, and probably ex- pectiug to be crucified like their Lord, had gathered in a room and carefully barred the doors for fear of the 'Jewel, the doors were cautiously opened to ad- mit the two disciples who came with the wonderful story of the appearance at Euimau.s, [hue corroborating the earlier and discredited story of the wo- man. The little group formed the very first. cburch of Christendom, and into the midst of it. the Lord suddenly and mysteriously appea re. The ineldent s and deelaratione of tbe lesson follow. PRACTICAL learEs. Verse 36. As they thus space The tot° who bad walked with the Minter to Emmaus, fetood in the midst of thexu. auddenly. nompare the a count given in John 20. Peace be unto yea. The euetomary salutation of the Jews, hut "of more than ordinary meaning in the mouth of the Lord."-Plumpire. See John 14. 27, 37. AWrighted. No wonder. A spir- it. These appearances were so unpre- cedented, and so contrary to all known playsical laws, that the disciples had eome cause at first to distrust the tes- • timony of their eyes and ears. We ourselves can form no clear idea of the conditions of Clarista lody at this nine; nor is it necessary that we should. 38-40. Thoughts. Itea.sonings, skein deems. Behold my hands and my feet. A tent offered to prove that. he was not a seecter, nor a creature of their dis- turbed imagination (see 1 John 1. 11; but not only so, the nail wounds in loot h hands and feet were an abundant iden- tification. 41. Believed not for joy. It is inter- esting to notice frequent evidences of Luke's method of thought as a psychol- ogical observer. It is he who tells us thatthe disciples in the garden "slept for sorrow." Here the same men "be- lieved boot for joy." What they see, hear, and feel is too gni to be true. Any meat. Any food. See John 21. 5; Acts 10.41. teo ghost would ask for food. The diseiples were at this mom- ent gathered about the table for their evening meal (Atark 16.14). (1) Our Lord stoops to our weakness to strengthen our faith. 42, 43. Broiled fiat, .honey- comb. Fish, fresh and dried; was tine of the staple artieles of food in &inseam, Palestine. Honey, wild and cultivated, wee so plenty that the poorest: neght have it. In tinies of scarcity, v. nen wheat and fruit failed, men used :he more butter and linney (lee. 7. 15, e2). 44. And he said. Wbat our Lord is here said in have said is doubtless a condensation of many communizations to his diaciples made during these "forty daye." 1 he worzes. A. colloqui- al phrase ineanng "events." Jesus h -re refers to his death and tresurrenion, and all the ineidental marvels. I spake.. I foretold. If you hal only understiod me, I long ag foretold all the trials and triumph e of your later experi- ences. While 1 was yet with you. He is no longer a citizen of earth. His abode is now in Heaven. See john 13. 33; 14. 4. He departed "to the fath- er" when he died, and is now a visitor to the dear ones with nhoat he had associated during his earthly life. Law . . . . prophels . . . psalms. This, of course, means the entire He- brew Scriptures-whatwe now call the Old Testament. The Jews were accustomed to divide their sacred writings into three groups -the Law, containing the first five books, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deu- teronomy; tbe Prophets, eontaining Joshua, Judges, the four books of Kings, and the prophets, except Dan- iel; and the Hagiographa (here called the "Psalms"), consisting of the Psalms and an the rest of the books. (2) Hove great are our privilegm, seeing that to us Was come the entire written revel- ation TofheGnopodt ened he their understand.- ing. By a direct impartation of the Holy Spirit (jell). 20. 22). Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned (1 Con 2, 10-18; Psalm 119. 18; Matt. 11. 27; 13, 11; John 16. 13; Acts 16. 14). Without power directly given fro.m God no man can reach the true value of the reveal- ed word; What effect this divine op- ening of their uuderstandbag had on these diseiples may be seen by refer- ence to Acts. 1. 16, 20; 2. 16, 25. 46. Said unto them. Perhaos not at the same timeand place. Thus it be- hooved. "Thus it is :written that the Ch4ri77tashopupeledsnutfafnerce. ". See Acts 2. 38. Among all nations. Matt.28. 19; Mark 16. 15; Acts1.8;Gen.12.3; Psalm 22.27nsa.49.6. Through all Carist's earthly ministry he souganto keep before the minds of his disciples the ultimate salvation of the Gentiles. Beginning at Jeruealeno The place of spiritual endowment, of the "baptism from on high," was to be the centre of illumination for the world. Forth from the pentecostal chamber was to go a divine radiance reaching across the seas and. the centuries to "eartla's remotest bound," and till "time shall be no longer." Ye are witnesses. The apostles are witnesses as ore cannot be; but (3) In a very true sense we are called to be witnesses for Jesus. Refer to Jobb 15, 27; Acts, 18; 2,32; 3, 15; 4, 33; 5.30-32. These things. Reterring, like "the words" of verse 44, to his death and resurrection. 49. I send the promiee. • Since the. grr' aeious promise given in Luke 11. 13, the disciples had received the fax move definite promise of John 14, 16, 17, 20; 15, 20; 10. 7. The promise was also to be found in the Old Testament whica they now for the first time understood (Ise, 44.3;Ezek. 30. 20; doei.2, 228). Tar- ry ye. Literally, eit down. Be endu- ed with. .Literally, dreea yourselves with, put on a ganment. They were to be the same men.; efter their thorough conversion and sanctifiezition, as before -not losing thaw identity, but exirob- ed with salvation. (4) All the graces and power of the Holy Spirit are for us 38 really as for the twelve. 50. Let them out from Jerusalem, to which they had returned after meeting their Lord itt Galilee. en Bethany. To its borders. The aseension took place from the Mount, of Olives -not from its summit, but probably from a hillock overbanging the margin of Betbaoy. Dean Stanley says, "The seclusion was suck as, perhaps, -could nowhere else be fenoad so near the stir of a mighty cit .." Blessed taem. (5) "This blessing longs tont' the faithful, for they were all represented bee the eleven and. those that were with them."-Bengel. 'Flee met date of this incident we find from Acta 1. 3, to have been forty clays aft- er the resurrection and ten before Pen-. teenet. 51. Ile was parted. Rather, he stood apart from, them. Carried up. -W as gradually upbcirne. Cook: "We must hue our Szneiour slowly rising above ze mentos with his hands still raised in thetattitude of blessing till a cloud toriceals him from the eyes of his fol- lowers." eiltbough neither Matthew nor Jolene gives us any amount of the ascension, they both clearly assume that it was known (Matt. 24. 3; John 3. 13; 6, 02; 20. 17). 52, 53. Worahiped, padored as a di- vine person. See the account of the angelic vision by Luke in Acts, Great joy. A joy that no man could take away from them (John 16. 20-22). From this time onward the little Church had a stormy and straining. experience. ruggles wit h foe s and misunderstand- ing,' among 1 he brethren amply fulfill- ed the Lord's p.ophner that in the world the should have tribulation; but in their darkest hours their joy never for- sook tbera nor was dimmed. (John 14.28). (6) Tt is the Christian's privilege to -day to live a life of uninterrupted joy. Con- tinually in .he temple. This required great hardihood, no friendly fleas greet- ed them as they took up in the sacred newts the lines of instruction their Master had laid down; but they knew God waS on their side, (7) If God be for etind volume the juso,hunito oan be against. us? Each gos- pel requires as its seActs; as its third, the Revelation of ARTIFICIAL FOODS. A tura Products 'olden the craft of Man Strives to Supplant. The craft of man bas found food pro- ducts, which do not grow from the soil and science, no less than experi- ment leas approved their utility. Long ag,o the golden scepter of butter was wrested away by the mightier product of a faetory, with which neither farm nor creamery could compete. Retorts yielded a culinary aid that was better than lard. Scientific young men pro- duced jellies fairer in appearance than that which came from natural fruit. In meat production the margin of profit narrowed with the narrowing " range." As free pastures disappeared!, the price of beef eoared. Instantly taat food product became tbe target of inventive attempt. The inevitable law of commerce was obeyed. 13h; profits ottani:tad big attempt. And imitation meat, followed imitation butter into the field -no, into the mart. For a long time potatoes held a place peculiarly their own; but the main rea- son was that potatoes could still, three years in five, be cheaply produced. But the two uncertain years would come,and the rapid rise in price provoked atten- tion. lexperiment made eliort work of the potato. A thieos of starch and wa- ter at the best, as combining was a simple matter, and farmers hung up their hoes and bought potatoes at the factory -ready for the kitchen, and at a rate which undercut, their cheapest effort. Corn was more complex, but it sur- rendered. After all, what, is it. but a combination of chemical properties which could be found elsewhere t11 was far less trouble to combine them in a substitute for maize than to find the light by which that substitute for maize might, on winter evenings, be inspected. Bread groducts were matter of habit and tradition. Give the race a food which answered all tbe requirements bread had eupplied, and the race was Loo intellectual to declines in. Labora- tories took the place of fallow land. Pestle and inortar were as reaper and ' mill. The band skilled at combining and eompouuding wielded at once the executioner's axe by which the head of the baker was sundered. A thing of steel, with handle bars arid chain, elastic tread and lamp -by -night, had pedalled buzzing east the horse, and. a creature winch had served man well for ninety centuries limped useless away. And with him went the fields which had maintained him. No need for oats since this better than horse did not eat them; nor of hay, since the animal to which hay were one day a feast had grown too rare to eat it. PRO -VERBS ABOUT THE CZAR. The crown of the Czar does not pro- tect him against headache. The Czar, too, dies when his hour comes. The Czar's lungs can not put out the sun. One has to bow before the Czar, even if the Czar be blind, The Czar might be the cousin of God, but he is not his brother. The Czar can shake the terrestrial globe, but can not naake it deviate from its axis. The Czar has long arms, but they do not reach to heaven. A fat Czar is not heavier for death to carry than a lean beggar. If the Czar be a rhymester, let the poets beware. When the Czar dies the moujik would not change places with him. Whoever needs the Czar's favor rau.st not disdain the good -will of his valet. When the Czar wishes to cut leath- er straps, the peasants must furnish t• heir When hedtc. vs Czar takes snuff, the pm - pie sneeze. He whom the Czarina hates is despis- ed by her lady-in-waiting, hated by her tire -woman, and sent to the devil by her chambermaid. Three crematories are in operation in England -one in Maxtchester, another in Woking, and the third in Liver- pool, BATTLE OF THE GIANTS, AN ELEPHANT FIGHT IN THE NEPAL JUNGLE OF INDIA. 111101, the maharajah's Tame Champion. - Pachyderm, conquers a nig awl fierce nun Ricoh:tat-Ten Tous ot anti - nod crash Together ita a Charge. -A big elephaot weighs nearly live tons, liThen one big elephant goes claming into 'another's fine there is usually about 20,000 pounds of ele- phant sprawling on the ground, and the • most magnificent fight in the world. In Nepal, one of the provinces of In- dia, ruled aver by a dependent Mahar- ajab, the elephant is royal game, arid the annual Mune are state affair, In Nepal they catch the wild elephant; by surrounding them with tame ones. Some of the big tame bulls are famous fightees, and. these they tuxn on Lae big wild ones if they show fight, as they usually do. Then follow the most ex- cel iog nettles a "sporting man" could ask to Bee. Imagine what it must be when the contestants sometim,es break down great Wrest trees that stand in their way. A writer in the Engle:ea Badminton magazine was recently the guest of the Manarajah of Nepal on a, great ele- Pthheasettt ghlaunntt,baatiltillasir Iledettrilebe'sliorteiteoef* overtook a very powerful male witha, evicleed eye and no tusks. Be had hest bis other eye and both tusks in pre- vious battles. MUNGAL AND WAZEER FLUNK. First tbe Maharajah's raen brought up a tante elephant named "Muttgal Per- slead." and sent hbs against the enemy. Alwagal began by bunting hie opponeut in a vigorous enough manner, because an eightor nine-tnousand pound ele- phant, nazi .uardly help being vigorous, be did not seem really 10 bave very umeh heart in the business. However, nIungal succeeded in get- ting the other fellow thorouglely mad, and then was simple enougie to leave his flank expo -zed, elle wiki eleribant in- stantly charged and gave Mungal a but that made his ribe caeca and al- naost carried him. over. Tlie boy on his lack was sent flying, but esteaped ter falling in some long grass. where tin wild elephant did not eee Idea. Mungal ran away after thatand an- other warrior elephant called "Wazeer Perehad" appeared on the eeene. Wa- zeer made tor the wild onen blind side, eod it looked as if he was going to score a knockout the first thing, out the enemy suddenly realized what was going on and wheeled round. This was too provoking tu Wazeer, who was eo disappointed that be fled trumpetiog in alarm, his tail and trunk high in am. By this time the odds were immense- ly on the stranger, and it looked a.e if no tame elephant present was in his class. Then the crowd began to shout for "Bijli Pere:had," wmph, being inter- preted, means the lightnino. Bijli was the ace of trumps on the Maharajah's elephant raneh, and to him- all the others were as nine spots. Besides, BUR was "netistb," whitth means that beavas in a very irritable state of mind. Therefore, when Bijli was sent for every one looked forward to a hot round or two, and nobody was disappointed. • BIJIA APPEARS. The eleplants famed into Inc and saluted as the ehampion came on to the scene. Then, as the eyewitness of the fight tells it: "As Bijli and the wild elephant came face to face they mutuallyInemed to recognize a worthy antagonist. for with uplifted trunks they rushed at mei other over about 150 yards of ground. The eoneuesion was tremen- dous, and seemed like that of two ships itt collinom It was followed by real manoeuvring, by pushing, wrestling and struggling. It was a battle of Ti- tans, and wonld alone have been worth coming any distance to see. In the middle of the fight I noticed Beni raise hi,- trunk on high and bring it down wit h might y strength upon the wild ele- phant's head, and I tried to realize what would have leen the result of Kiel a blow upon thr human frame. "At last the wild elephant turned tail and began to retire in surly slownees, Bijli t he while following hem up: push- ing him from behind and Occasionally placing his forelegs on his lack lie- lahoring him rigbt and left. The foe be- gan presently to show signs of exhaus- tion, and Boll was withdrawn Lest he should kilt him. But he was not as worn out as we believed, arid again ingan to move away at a rapid walk, foiling all attempts of the other elephants to stop him, or of the mahouts mo throw nooses around his hind legs. Presently it be- came evident that he was regaining Loth his breath and his courage,and he hega.n soon to attack any one who approached too near. Bijli was therefore recalled and permitted to administer a push or two by way of reminder and again taken to one side. THE STRANGER TAKES TO COVER. • "Still, however, tbe wild elepnant was not raptured. He crossed a email nullala and took up a strong position behind a thick tree, which was cover- ed with thorny jungl.e tereepernienTo approach him here was a molter both of difficulty and peril, and again Bien was brought to the front. The in- telligent fellow advanced very slowly, as if meditating on his scheme of at- tack, until he got a emell of his enemx through the undergrowth. Then with a tremendous rush he charged through the tree as if it were mere brushwood, 'regarding the boughs, thorns and creep- ers as no more than cobwebs. His mahout and boy were Swept off his bane, hut held like 'Donkeys on to his tail and crupper. ancl when clear of the Iran hauled themselves `on deck' again. BIJLI WINS. "The fierce struggle of the giants be- gan afresh, but at length the inonarch of the forest exposed his flank, and Beni, taking imraediate advantage of this mistake, charged him with tre- mendous force and. literally hurled hinl against the trunk of a great Tree. The doulde blow, after so prolonged a strug- gle, we.semore than the wild elephant could stand, and all further fight was knot:keci out of him." Then they gently herded the weary wild elephant into a neighboring stream bed, a,nd while he was in the water tied ropes round his legs and he was a cap- tive. BUR' .got a rub down and pecks of tender bamboo sprouts, which, it seems elephants in India prefer to claana- pagne. SILK HAT FOR A CROWN. One must go to Imeriland, in West Africa, to find the "topper" taking tbe place of the crown, There the "Sokong" is crowned with a seedy tile that i$ put on top of his turban by his Tassos, or medieme men, with the greatest solem- nity. It is the symbol of loyalty, and et is death for a woman to look in one. WHY MEN FAIL. Tht ereanY Wars in Which Men Have Failure in Ute. The New York World some time ago invited confessions from those wao felt themselves to bave made a failure in life, and as will readily be supposed, there was, no lack of responses, Most of the writers lay the blame, a their poor euecess upon themselves, though, some ascribed it to circumstances. Ores man, at least, charges Ina failure to Ms wife, but with no great show of justice, as is clear, even from his own statement. In any case, be should have changed bis plea or held hie tongue. One man was ruined by gambling,-' which will ruin any man, no matter tow rich 12e may get, -and. another makes a somewhat similar confession when lie says that he came to notbing. through trying to gen riche too and- denly. One man lays his poor enemas to want of concentration axid perse- verance, but signs himself, "Try, try, again;" and One leas "dabbled in toe many things," made himself master a nothing, and consequently, as be say, has to "take the bottom place every- where." Still another man, a type of a large does, fell through strong drink. He heads bis sad story with a motto from Emerson, "The dice of God are elways loaded," and thus continues: I fell from an estate of influence, use- fulness and ease to a condition of drunken pauperism because I lacked self-control, pride, ambition, diseepline. I possessed Scene ot the minor virtues, -industry, integrity, honesty, chastity, -but the:fa proved an inadeckuate bul- wark against the evils of wool driole- ing. Beginning bu.siness life at twenty, with a fair education and a. good kuow- ledge of stenography, at thirty 1 was itt eliarge of a newspaper and was an official court stenographer, blessed with a loving wife and children and a peaceful laome. and in, the enjoymen of an incume of about five 'Moue -an dollars. Energetic, skillful, apt, I was succeseful in my official and private vocations; generous, liberal, unselfisie and opennaearted. I had many friends and a wide acquaintance. 1 drank moderately, joined ha an oc- casional game of poker with friends. laid an oceasional wager on an election. a bail -game or a horse -race, -never to the material depletion of my purser - and was neither aegambler nor a rake. TN% enty years since, compartionanle drinking at open bars was more respec- table than it is now, and being in daily companionship with lawyers, county on fiends, jurymen, witnesses and politi- cians who indulged in a social glass, I soon became a regular drinker. As a consequence of over -indulgence, my health began to fail, and as custom grew into babit, I felt the need of stimulants when my work was prolong- ed or perplexing. 3. remember the shock to my self-respect when I first tool* a drink alone, but I never stopped to "breathe and exercise the soul by as- suming the penalties of abstinence." Finally nervous prostration com- pelled me to resign my official pool - non and to sell nay badly encumbered business, and soon I was a wreck finan- payeieally• , and. mentally; and - one morning found me at the mirror gazing at ray laaggard features, and in wondering if 3. bad en reality gene mad! Is it possible tint my story will cause any young drinking man to stop in his downward way? I, too, was sure that I could never sink to such depths, and I pitied the wretched ones below me. But here I am, and there are countless thousands coming my way. And they forget that the dice are load- ed. FRANCE GETTING READY. The tireless energy with whieh France is pressing forward the work on her froutier forts is il- lustrated by a report of the pro- gress of the last ten months. Ver- dun, already the center of a vast de- fensive system, has been strengthened, with two new forts, flanked by armor- ed revolving towers containing rapid- fire guns. Toul has five forts that have been added in the last year to the twenty-five completed with the origi- nal plan of fortification. The new fort Si. Manzny, with shielded guns and outlying armored towers, has been built to protect the railway line from. Pont St. Vincent to Tout and Espinal has sixteen more redoubts, to say nothing of outlying earthworks now nearly fin- ished. Round Belfort, which expects to feel the first onset of Germany in the uext war, seventeen small forts have been added to the massive works of for - neer years, and along the Belgian fron- tier new earthworks and forts have been built in so fast that to -day the widest space between French fortifi- cations on that line is barely a mine and a quarter. THE KNIGHTHOODS OF ENGLAND. Lep till the present reign the knight- hoods in existence in the United King- dom were those of the Garter, the This,- tle, St. Patrick, the Bath, and SS. Michael and George. Since then there bave been founded the Orders of the Star of India, 1861, winch takes pre- cedence of the SS. Michael and George; the Order of tbe Indian Empire 1878' the Distinguished Service Order, 1886; the Royal Order of Victoria and Al- bert, 1862 (for ladies), and the Impere ial Order of the Crown of India, also for ladies, but the two latter hardly come under knighthood any more than the Victoria Cross and the Albert medals. A recent issue oe the "Gazette" noti- fies the creation of a new "order of knighthood," to be called the Royal Victorian Order. No intimation LS gven for what class it is intended, how many cla.sses it is to contain, or what will be its insignia,. But perhaps a niche in it may be found for Alfred Austin, and then it may not be necessary to announce him in drawing rooms as the "Poet Laneeate." --- WILLING TO WAIT. Prospective Father -in -law -See here! You don't expe.ot to begin life wbere your parents and wife's parents left off. do you? Proepective Son -in -law -Oh, no. There's no hurry about zn.arrying. I'd rather wait, and. begin Bie when you leave off. A GOOD TRADE NA eene, Housekeeper -I notice yea have `Lake alemphremageog Ice' oti ,your wagon. Eloy-Yisen' Ulan ; at dad named the frog-pond'down in the holler where we get it.