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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-9-24, Page 7emeessiessossteessateassomerse letrlimionniromenemenimimmik THE BREAD CRUSADE, DR, TALMAGE PREACHES UPON A SEASONABLE SUBJECT. 1.1.••••• A. Journey Front icanatat to Eipast to Get Corn. - A Etinibie Striaelc World - Tbo Point 'Simi* Etscomilts Many a ithe starved sout. Waahingtial, Sept. 13. -No one not born and brought up in this country day, 'Ye Shall not see ray face unless Well, my frieuds, tins wand is famine ruck of an. It does slot yield a sie.gle crop or solid eatisfaction. It is dying. It is hunger bitten. Tee feet that it does not, -cannot feed a mann beart was well illustrated in the life of the English oomedian. All the world hon- ored him-clid everything* tor him that the world could do. He was: apland- ed iss, England and in the United SMtes. He roused up nations into laughter. He had no equal. And yet, althouge many people supposed him entirely eappy and that this world waa could preach asernaon like this of Dr. rIPletely satisfying his soul, be sits Talmage. It is apastoral and. full of pugronaand-neVilleari 't'ilstatetvte'rdt;Itanmety ralitgle scenes from country life. Teetext is and ruin. it, I never went out its a Genesis xliii, 3; And Judah spake unto shabby coat because it was raining himsaying, The man aid solemnly pro- and thought all who "tad the choioe test unto us, saying, Ye shall not see would keep indoors that the sun did not come out in its that and bririg my face, except your brotb.er be with out with it all the butterflies of fast - you, ion wean I keew and who knew me. ixt I never consented. to aocept a part 1 Notable to eat! Plenty of corn bated out a kind ess to another that Egypt, but ghastly famine in Canaan. I did not get hissene by the publie and The cattle moaning in the stall. Men, out ay, the writer. I could. not take women and children awfully white a drive for a. few minutes with Terry without being overturned and eaving with bger. eteNot the failing of one e rat, elbow broken though my .friend crop for one summer, but the failing got off unharmed. I could not make of all crops for seven years. A nation a covenant with A.rnold, whieh 1 dying for lack of that welch is so tbought was to make my fortune with- out *making les instead, teat in an in - common on your table and so little credibly short space of time -I think 13 appreciated; the product of harvest field. and gristmill and oven; the prioe of sweat and anxiety and struggle- breact 1 Jacob, the father, has the last report, from the flour bin, and he finds months -1 earned foe him X20,000 and for nayself 1. I am persuaded that if I were to seeup asa, baker. every' oee in ray neighborhood. woald leave off eating bread," That was the lament of the world's that everything as out, and he says te eohnecliaa nut joker. All unhappy. The ete sons, ',Boys hook Iv the wageet tttohald.tdid everything for Lord .13yron and start for Egypt and. get is some- moment el4i)ealattsletadaaPrdiexittoulcomse iaunstti Mum to eet." The fact was there was a greet csamacrib in Egypt. The peo- ple of Egypt bane been largely taxed in all ages, at the present time paying between 70 and 80 per cent. of their produet to the Government. No won- der in that time they had a large cern crib and it was full. To that crib they came from the regions around about - those. weo were famished -some pay- ing for the corn in money. When the money was exhausted, paying for the :ern in sheep, and cattle land horses and camels,. and when they were ex - sit down by ham wad read, as most ap- propriate to his case, the story of "The Bleeding Heart," Torrigiano, U25 sculptor, executed, ad ter naonths of care and carving, "Madonne, arid the Cbilde".ree royel family elute us and. admired it. Everybody that looked at it was in esctasy, but one day, after all that toil ana all that admira- tion. because he did not, get as mime compensation for his work as he had expected, he teak a mallet and daehed the exquisite sculpture into aeons. Th1. world is poor compenea non, poor satisfaction, poor solve*. Farnine, famine ist all tee earth; not for seven years, laut for 6000. But, bleseed Crud, there tea, great' ' hausted, then selling their own bodies , cern orate The Lord. bualt it. It is an and their families into slavery. another land. It, is it large place. An angel once measured it, and as fax as The morning for starting out on the , I can calculete it in tine phrase that crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob corn crib is 1,5a3 miles long and 1,500 eets bis family up very early. But be- miles broad and 1,51J0 high, and it is ore the elder sons start they say ; ibli' Faud for I'lnations."Ob," saY tee, people, "we will start rightaway tomething that makes him tremble and get this supply for our soul" But with emotion Trona head to foot and stop tt moment, for from the Keeper burst into tears. The faet was that af that abra crib there e'l.rws this IfvaTc.tdxsca:3PitnTou'rYloutttilisiiiibellitte";*ofla.4 these elder sons had ouce before been ' in Egypt to get corn, and they had In other words, there is no such rthit:sni; of the corn crib supplying them with leen treated somewint roughly, the lord aa getting front heaven pardon and f)ortitiforlevitir us etesruI frItex corn. but saying at the close of the end mune tleotZt rci&enteargu welout, interview, "Now, you need not COMP lIun We shall fall before we reach the 'back here for any more corn unless cern crib and our bodies shall be a you brintassomething hetter than money 11,:tr.;t3iVotrg °Lite ,ilateikt;Listeu,i etge(1,vitittineer; -even Your younger brother Bela -id.- all the granaries of heavi'm will swing rein." Ale Benjamin -that very name open enure our eould and abundance W115 suggestive of all tenderness. The shall be given ". We shalt be mother bad died at the birth of that in- vited Lo sit' in See pal:me of the King and at, tee table, and while the Lord of heaven is apport timing from his own table to other tables, he will not forget big with, Benjamin must have been us and then and there 1.t. will be foiled that our Benjamin's mess is it beartbreak. The keeper of this corn larger than all the others, for so it erib. nevertheless, ssys to these elder ought 10 he. " Worthy es the Lamb sons, "There isno need of your coming that slain to receive ble.ssing and son -a spirit corning and another spirit goings -rend the very thought of part - up here any more for corn unless you riches and honor and glory and can bring Benjamin, your father's dar- ling." Now Jacob and bis family very =oh needed bread, but what a strug- gle it eould be to give up his son. else oetentals are very demonstrative In their grief, and th I hear e out:wail- lIptv? Through the anerey of God. mg of the rat her as 1 hese deer sees ea lett do. you mean by t he mercy of keep reiterating in his ears the on- (red? le it the letting, down ot it box for the admission of all, without re - • to character. Be not deceived, I see a soul coming up to the gate csf mercy and knocking at the corn crib of heavenly supply, and a voice from wit bin sass, " Are you alone ?" The sin- ner replies, " All alone.'"fhe voice from within stays: " You. shall not see my pardening face unless your divine Brother, the Lord Jesus, be with you." 011, that is the point at which so many are discomfited. There is no mercy from God except through Jesus Christ. Coming with him. we are ac- cepted. earning without Him, we are rejected. Peter put it right in his great sermon before the high priests when he thundered forth: Neither is there ,salvation in any other. There is no other naxne given under heaven among men 'whereby we may be saved." Oh, anxious sinner! Oh, dying sinner! Oh, lost sinner! All you have got to do is to have this divine Benjamin along with you. Side by side, coming to the gate, all the storehouses of heaven will swing open before your anxious soul. Am I right in calling Jesus Benja- min? Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long enough to give a name to that child and with n dying kiss she called him 13enoni. Afterward jaw") ehanged his mune, and -Ite called him Benjamin. The meaning of the name she gone was, "Son of ray Pain." The meaning of the name his father gave was "Son of my Right Hand." And was not Christ the Son of Pain?" All the sor- row of Rachel in that hour when she gave her child over into the hands of strangers was as nothing 'eompared with the struggle of God when he gave up. His only Son. And was not Christ appropriately called "Son of the Right Hand?" Did. not Stephen look into heaven and see Him standing at the right hand of God? And does not Paul speak of Hina as standing at the right hand of God making intercession for us? Ole 13enjarnin-3esusl Son of Pang 1 Son of Victory 1 The .cep - est emotions of our souls ought to be stirred at the sound of that nomen- clature. In your prayers plead His tears, His sufferings,- His sorrows, and His death. If you refuse to do it, all the corn cribs and the palaces of heaven will be bolted and barred egainst your soul and a voice from the tart:me shall stun you vvith the announcement, "You shall not- see my face except your brother be with you." My text also suggests the reason eta so many people do not get any real comfort. You meet ten people. Nine a them are in need of some kind of condolence. There is something, in their health or in their state, or in their domestie oondition that demands sympathy. __And yet most of the world's sysarpatity . amounts to • abso- lutely nothing. People go to thewrong crib, or these go ea the wrong way. When the plague was in Rome it great nasty years ago, :there were 80 men who chantecl themselves to death with the litanies of Gregory the Great -lit - wetly chanted themselves to death and yet it did not stop the plague. And all the mast° of this world mance: halt the plague of tbe lattman heart. cone to some one weese anytiml. are chronic and I say, -In heaven you will never be eiekt That does not I want to niake three points. Every frank and common Noise num will acknowledge Itimetelf to be a sinner. vitat tire you going to do with your ems? Have them ardente', you. say. nouncement of the Egyptian lord. "Ye shell notsee my face unless your brother be with you." "Why did you Id! him you hod a brother ?'' says the old man, complaining and chiding them. "Why, father," they eticl, "he asked us ell about our etnitly, and we had no idea that he wonla moles any such demend upon us as he tuts made." -No use of asking me," said the fath- er, "1 cannot, L will not, give up Ben- ja.miu." The fact was that the old man had lost children and when there has been bereavement in a household sna a child taken it makes the other shildren in the household more pre- vious. So the day for departure was adjourned and adjourned - and ad- journed. Stilt the horrors of the famine in-. creaed. and louder nuemed the cattle and wider open cracked the earth and more tinted 'became the cheeks, .until Jacob ea deepair, cried out to his sons, "Take Benjamin and be off !" The elder sons tried to cheer up their fath- er. They said: "We have strong arms and a stout heart, and no harm will come to Benjamin. We'll see that he gets back again." "Farewell!" said the young men tothe father, in a tone of assumed good cheer. "F -a -r -e - w -e-1-11" said the old man. For that word has more quavers in it when pronounced by the aged than by the young. , Well, the bread .perty, the bread ene see, drives up na front of the corn eel, ' Egypt. Those, corn cribs are fil e v Leer ith wheat and barley and corn in -he husk, for modern travelers in those lands, both in Canaan and in Egypt tell us there is corn there cor- responding with our Indian' maize. ." Huzzal The' journey is ended. The hard of the corn crib, who is also the Prime Mtnister, comps down to these newlyarrived travelers and sans: "Dine with me to -day. How, is your father? Is ON I3enjarain, the young- er brother, whose presence I -demand- ed.?" The travelers are introdnced into dusted of the way and servants Come in with a. basin of water in one hand end a towel in the other and kneel down Tefore these newly arrived trav- elers, washing off the dust of the way. The butchers and poulterers and ca- terers of the Prime Minister prepare the repaet. The guests are seated in: mall groups, two or three at a table, the, food ona, tray. dill the luxe:siert from the imperial gardens and °nth- ards and aquariums and aviaries are brought there arid are filling chalice and platter. Now is the time for thie Prime Minister, if he haa it grudge against Benjamin, to show it. Will he kill him now that he hes hina in hie hands? Oh, nol This toed of the corn crib is seated at his own table, and be looks over to the tables of his guests, and he sends a portion to each af them, but -sends a larger portion to Benjamin, or, as the Bible quaintly Puts it, "Benjamin's • mess was five tithes as much as any of theirs." Be quick and some word back with the swiftest camel to Canaan to old Jacob that "Benjamin ts well; all is well; he is faring sumptuously; the Egyp- tian lord did riot mean murder and aenth, but Ise meant deliverance and life wheu he ansteenced to us on that . . TELE EXETER TIMES ive you much comfort. What you vent is a soothing powder for your, resent distress. Lost children, eave yea? I come to -you and tell you that en ten years perhaps you. will meet hose loved ones before the throne of God. But there is but little condolence th that. One dayis a year with them and ten years is a small eternity. W het, you want is sympathy now - present help. 1 come to those of you who have lost dear friends and say. " Try to forget them. Do not keep the departed always in your mind." How eau you forget. them when every figure Ira the carpet, aid every book, and every picture and every room cells out their name? Suppose I come to you. and. say by way of condolence, "God is wise," "Oh," you say, "that gives me no help." Supposse 1. come to you and say, "God, from all eternity, has arrang.ed this trouble. '' Ala," you say, "that does me no good." Then I say, " With the swift feet of prayer go, direct to th corn crib for a heav- enly supply." You go. You sate "Lord, eelp ine; Lord, comfort, me." But no halet yet. No comfort yet. It is* all dark. What is the matter? I have found. You ought to go to God and. say, "Here, 0 Lord, are the wounds of my soul, and I bring with me the wounded Jesus. Let Ris Wolinds pay for my wounds, His bereavetneete for my bereavements, His loneliness for my loneliness. His iaeartbreak for any heartbreak. 0 God, for the sake of the Lord je.sus Christ -the God, the Man the .Beejamin, the Brother -de- liver ray agonized soul. 0 Jesus of the aching bead, heel my aching head! 0 JOSUS of the Bethany' sisters, roll awaY the stone from tee door of our grave I" I .go further and Lind in my subjeet a lint as to why so many people fail of heaven. We are told that heaven has 12 gates, and some people infer from that faot that all the people will to in without reference to, their past life, but weat is the use of having a gate that is not sometimes to be shut? The ewingiug of a gate implies that our entrance into heaven is condition- aL It is not a naonetary condition. It we come to tlae door of an exquisite concert, we are not surprised that we must, pay a, fee, for we know that fine earthly music is expensive, but all the oratorios of heaven cost noth- ing. Heaven pays nothing for its music. It is all free. There is nothing to be paid at that door for entrance, but the condition of gettinginto hea- ven is our bringing our divine .Benja, min along with us. Do you notice bow ow dying people tall upon Jesus? it 15 the usual prayer offered -the pray- er offered more than all the other pray - ere put together- aloord Jesus, re- ceive my sprit." One our congre- gation, when asked in the closing mo- ments of els life, "Do you know us?" said: "Ola. yes, 1 know you. God bless you. Good-bye. Lord Jesus. receive trty spirit," And he etze gone. Oh. yes, in tbe closing moments of our life. we must have it Cbrist to call upon. if Ja- cob's sons bad gone up toward Retest and had gone vete the very finest equip- age. and had not taken Benjamin along with there, and to the question they should have been obliged to answer; "Sir, we didn't bring him, as father could not let him go. We didn't want to be bothered with him," a voice from within would have said; "Go away' from us. You shall not have any of this supply. You shell not see my face bemuse your brtoher Le not with you." And if we come up toward the door of heaven et Dee though we come from all luxuriance and brilliancy of surroundings, and knock for admit- tance, and 11 is found that Christ. is not with us, the police of heaven will beat us back from the Isreadhouse, saying; "Depart. I never knew you." ely friends, you see it is either Christ or famine. if there were two ban- quets spread, and to one of them only you might go, you might. stand and think for a. good while as to which invitation you had letter a.ceept; but here it is feasting or starvation. If there were two mansione offered and you. might have only One, you might think fur a tong hile, saying, "Per - baps I had better accept this gift, and perhaps I had better accept that gift." But; here it is a. cholee between palaces of light and hove]o of despair. 11 it, were a choice between oratorios, you might stay, "I prefer 'The Creation.'" or, "I prefer "rhe Messiah.'" But here it is a choice between eternal harmony and everlitsting diseord. vell tent live or die? Will you eel into the harbor or drive on the rocks ? Will you start for the Egyptian corn crib or will you perish antid the etupty barns of the Canaanitish famine? JOIE Siw TUREI 1111.1•0•• SAID TO ROB CHOLERA AND CON- SUMPTION OF THEIR TERRORS. Dr, liaffkine's Experiments in inoculation with Anti -cholera Serum — Dr. terettett statement mat Ise Has cured eee Cases oreonsumptiou wait Formoe If we can believe half we bear. hu- manity is on the verge of triumph over some- of the worst ills fiesta is heir to, writes a. London correspondent. There comes from India, a report of most hopeful results from the extensive ex- periments made during the last two rears wite the Haffkine method of cholera inoculation. Front Paris comes the almost incredible announcement that 600 cases of tuberculosis have been cared. by it new treatment out of a, total of 800 Gases experimented upon. There has been so many premature an- nouncements of great discoveries in the medical world that both physicians and laymen are rightly incredulous of such tidings as I have quoted. Both these startling sta.temeets, however, are back- ed. up by authentic facts which are en- titled. to respect and certainly demand world-wide consideration. Tee cholera cure -cholera propeyla.c, tic is more, correct, for I do not under- stand that any curative power is slain). - ed for the inoculation treatment -is no new thing, It was put forward more tban three years; ago, as most persons will remember, and it was received with more or lees suspicion in medical circles. The treatment is simply anti -cholera vaccination, whieb LS supposed to ren- der tee subject cholera -proof. Dr. Haff- kine assumes that the microbe known as the femme bacUlus is the true chol- era, germ -a point by the way which is still disputed by some medical ruen. Ile inoculates each person twice with a serum, containing the first time it milder type of microbe, and the eecond time, five days later. -with LIVING SPECIMENS The EXPLAINING A litlYSTERY; presume or a Mirror is Believed to ale= sorrow to sts rossestor. "Talking about warnings," said the doctor, "you would be surprised to know how many people believe in them in these enlightened days, and actual- ly are guided in important affairs by some such absurdity as a clock strik- ing thirteen, or a black spider running over it white cloth." " How do you account for it, doc- tor?" " The leaven of old Egypt. They in- herit those fancies just as they ta.ke their hair and eyes from some remote ancestor. When you see a group of breathless children listening to some weird yarn told by an elder, just say to yourself, 'that will be folk -lore in the future." Have you ever met with any in- stances of these so -celled warnings?" "Yes, and seen the impression they make, and I must say there is some- thing very impressive about an unusu- al happening at a deathbed or on a sol- emn occaston, I was called to see a man die, and as I stood with his fam- ily aboutlais bed, there came three distinct raps back of a large mirror in the room and instantly it was shivered to fragments. Naturally we were all startled. There is supposed to be some special significsame in three raps, and the breaking of the mirror is popularly, believed to mean ,sorrow to its posses- sor. The family DA once accepted the event as a sure indication of death, and it added stagnancy to their grief, al- though they knew before that the case was hopeless." "Did you. discover how it happen- -" Yes. I was alone in the room the next day when all was over. A white cloth covered the broken mirror, but ou looking back of it I found that the point of a large nail which had been driven in the wall of the next room, had penetrated through and cracked the glass. So the massage of the thee mysterious raps was accounted for by purely human agency. • But I did not tell the family ethey seemed so settled in their conviction that it was a sup- ernatural warning." AN INNOCUOUS BIRD. Young Lady -That parrot you sold me last week doesn't talk at all. Dealer -Yes -axe you said you wanted one that wouldn't be a, nuisance to the neighbors. or the comma bullies. The patient suffers some discetafort for about five day e as the result or the second in- oculation. He eata pain in the lions aaad soine fever, which eventually pass away without any unpieaeant sequelae. During the ptist terve years Dr. Haft - Wee and his assistants have inoeulated about 40,000 persons with the anti -chol- era serum, 4,003 of whom were- Europ- eans in India, Dr. Simpson, the Healtb Officer of Calcane, obteleed municipal authority to make an investigation three years ago, wad his rtport, just issued, deals with 7.609 e,ases in which he used the Haffkine treatment, or rather With stash or those ea:4es as it known were subjected CO clustera ine fection. Whenever cases of cholera oc- curred the reedieal officer was directed to ascertain whether the patient laid been inoculated, and also how many of the household had or had not been inoculated. l'inee interest.ing facts Were n.scerteined; Cholera appeared in seventy-five households eller-eel One or more inmates had been inoculated withie five days of the advent of the disease. In these eaees the plague attaeked botb classes or inmates, but the inoculated ones en- joyedgreater immunity. This class of caee.s is set aside on the ground that the treatment had not taken full effect. Then come the cants occurring in hou.seholas where one or more members had been inoculated withia the period of from five days to one year previous to the appearance of the disease. Out of 502 inmates who had. not been in- oculated 47 were atewked and 42 died. Among the e(11) inmates who had been inoculated only one died. The number of the Lem:elated who were attacked is not :tutted. Cholera also appeared in houses, 96 of whose inmates had been inoculated more than a year pre- vious. or tlavt.., sin died, while of 238 =inoculated persons 23 died. It is ex- plained regarding THE SIX DEATHS -.^ without knowing it. Dr. Crotte there- fore attempted to find SOMfa agent which would assist nature in the process of euxe. He tried forme" because it was Bret used very successfully for the pro - servation of meat. It is now largely employed in therapeutics. Dr. Crotte" hoe been testing for some months his cure among the poor of Paris, whom he has treated gratuitous- ly et hie laboratory; He has admin- istered Ms remedy u:t more than 800 emcee of lintels's, taearly all, he says, cases wluee laa,ve been given up by other physicians, lie does not tire - tend to restore tissue which has been already destroyed by tuberculosis, but itt 600 cases he affirms that the advance of the disease has not only been stopped, but a practical cure. has been effected. NEW KINKS IN STEAMSHIPS' Features of the New North German Lloyd titters. One of the six large twin-screw steaniers ordered by the North German Lloyd Steamship Company bas been launched aat Stettin, Gerenany. Two of the.,six are to be express steamers, and four are intended for the regular pas- ,senger and freight service of the com- pany between Bremen and New York. The names chosen for the latter, which are to be completed first, are the Freal- rice der Grosse end Konigiri Luise, con- structed by the Vulcan Seipbuildirtg Con1Pany of Stettin; the Barbarossa, bujIt. by Blohes & Voss, Hamburg, and. the Bremen, tuuler way la the yard at F. Scbichaut Dentate. The aim of the company in building this class of steam- ers was to combiant tha transportation of great quantities of cargo with large numbers of passengers and itt solving ties problem some interesting depar- tduresiziixavintbee beeura: maadce,oustraction and The new steamers are termed the Bar- baroesa class, to distinguish them from the types now in the cesupany's serv- ice. Their dimensions are to be as fol- lows: Length, 525 feet betweeu per- pendiculars, or 550 feet over all; GO feet beam, 34 feet deep, 10,000 tons register, wad approximately 20,000 tons displace, anent, with a draught of 28 feet. The cargo space, including the steerage device, shows a capacity of 11.000 cubic meters or leant) tons measurement. The cabins contain accommodations for 100 first-class and 76 secomi-claes passen- gers, and 2300 PASSENGERS can be carried on the ereerage desks when not needed for cargo. To sep- arate cargo and passengers the cabin accommodationare placed in a super- structure araidsllips containing practic- ally three stories, leaving ample space fore and aft for the working of cargo through right large emcees. There are two promenade decks on the euperstrueture, the lower for sec- ond-caein passeetters irt ease a elide- ond-cabin and tin upper for first -cabin passengers. The first -story, plueed on the upper deck, is 256 feet long and extends from side to side of the steam- er. This story will be °simp1e:1 by see- ond-eahin passengers and. officers. The second story of the superstruc- ture extende 213 feet longendinally, Out does not reach to the sidee of the ves- sel, leaving a- promenade deck peoteet- ed by the deck obove, which rests on emanations at tee steamer's side. In the forward part of this deek house Ls the first -eaten dining saloon. 111 the after part the eicond-cabin dining sal- oon, anti smoking room and ladies' teb- tn. Between the saloons are fireaceliin state retells. On the (leek above the seeend story of the superstt uei ere is another deck house, cote:enlists in its forward part the first-elass Imit „a' rah - in, caption's room. first et ilen state rooms and first -cabin smoking rooms. 'the fore part of the steanier is pro- vided with a turtle-I:wit Sleek. SO feet in length, as a prts salon against the high seas of the At Inet ice and over the after part {lore is a poop (el feet long. Th' poop tent:tins aevomniodationg for steerage passengers, but. Is provided with miens timer can he used for sec- eemeabin eaesengers in ease cif need. tender the turtle -hack or forecastle are placed TIIE CREW'S QUARTERS, just mentioned that, they were of persons who had been inoculated soon after the treatment was introduced, and that the tints used was too weak. Dr. Simpson 811111S up these results by saying that among 654 uninoculat.ed persons there were 71 deal Issabout 11 per cent.), -while among 402 inoculated parsons in the same, house 'here la were but 12 deaths, less than per cent. Similar results are repo rom other parts of India. Among 5,000 coolies working in the tea gardens in Cachar 2,000 have been inoculated. Fif- teen of these were attackesi by cholera and four died, but among the other 3,- 000, 154 were attacked and 60 died. The test of the system among Eu- ropeans is perhaps more important, al- though it is lees decisive. The latter point is explained by the fact that in the cases mentioned the inoculations were of the earlier and weaker kind. The British East Lancashire regiment, stationed at Lucknow, suffered terrib- ly by cholera a year ago. Some 133 of its members had been inoculated fourteen months previous. Of these 18 were attacked. and 13 died. Of the 640 other members, 120 were attacked and 79 died. Public opinion in Calcutta, it is said, is in favor of going on with the experi- ments, but some medical authorities there are opposed to it. It is appar- ently impossible to claim for Dr. Haft- kine's treatment that a single applica- tion will ineure lifelong immunity from cholera. It may be an exceedingly val- uable emergence- weapon to be resort- ed to in the presence of danger. Few persons, except in a permanent hot- bed of cholera, will be willing to submit themselves annually to anti -cholera in- oculation. . The French koaderay of Science has just appointed a committee of eminent experts to ermine and report upon Dr. Francisque Crott's treatment for con- sumptives with which ' REalARKA131.11 RESULTS have been obtained. The treatment is simple, and there is nothing radically new about it. It consists merely 'in the use of a strong antiseptic, which is as- sistect in its action by a mild form of electricity. The agent Dr. Crotte em- ploys is tormaldehyde, better known as formol. This is administered in gase- ous form by inhalation, a,nd ordinary static electricity is passed through the chest. The treatment was suggested to Dr. Crotte by the fact that p-ostenorteras have many tiones shown that nature it- self'soraethnes cures tuberculosis in its early stages. The tell -tele scars in the lung tissue have been found in. persons who at some, time in their lives bad saffexecl from inci ple.nt coneamption BERMUDA WOMEN. They Are Pressing Their Claims for the night to Vote for hienibers of the sentbly, The question of woman suffrage has come to the front in an unlooked-for quarter, the Bermuda. Wends, where it Ines lately been considered in the House of Assembly. It appeares that the women of the islands, cultivated, intelligent, and thoroughly capable, and many of there laree landowners, have become tired or taxation without repre,sentation, wad, after *three cen- with toilet rooms and wash rooms for the steerage. Under the upper desk and below the euperstrueture (lecke are the quarters of the firemen and stew- ards, and the .rest of th'es main deck and tis <leek under it are devoted either to steerage passengers or to cargo. Besides the double bottom, extending the whole length of the steamer, the vessels are divided by twelve exceeding- ly strong transverse bulkheads, ex- tending to the upper deck into thirteeu water -tight renipartments, so placed that (WO contiguous compartments can be filled without danger to the steami- er. Pumps of all kinds are provided, and the lifeboats are ready to be lowered at a element's notice. The motive pow- er conststs of two gua,druple-expansion engines whien in three of these steam- ers tvill develop 7000 indicated horse- , power, with a speed of fourteen knots. The .13remee will have engines of 8000 indicated horse -power, resulting in a speedof 111 teen knots. THE NIHILISTS IN EUROPE. AN ARMY OBSTACLE RACE. Teams 0'106 hien Contest for the Doh of Counauglit's Prize in lthe Rain. To promote tee efficiertm, of the Bri- tish soldier iaa anarchiug aver neigh country, suek as he would meet in act- ual warfare, the Dt.dre of Ceenauglato commander of the camp at Alderseet, bas establislaed an obstacle race, giv- ing as it trophy to the regimental team that wins it shield to be held for it year. The competition has just been beld for the. first time. The Fourth King's . tunes of suppression, have come for- RoYel Rifles won the prize from twelve ward and expressed their desire to re- other competitors present their own property. According- . ly it number of the wealthiest signed - a. detaehmerst of two officeee, elght The condition of tee'race called for a petition, which was presented by une of the oldest members to the House of sergeants, mid ninety-six rank and file. Assernbly-corresponding to the House of Commons in Englano.-praying that the electoral franclaiee be extended to them =et to alliof their sex wbe pos- sessecl the necessary legal qualifica- taieoan. atThlso coorials3toso. of a freehold val- It is believed t hat the primary mo- tive of tee women in taking save a step is a desire to increase the white vote. Many of the negroes of the is- land are eligible for office, and in one instanee a colored representative was returned to the Legislature over a white candidate. In order to prevent a similar occurrence at the next gen- eral election,t be far-siglited portioa Of the community grasped tee nay way out of the difficulty, ite the granting of suffrage to women would considerably streugthen the weite vote, whereas the colorecl vote would remsen practicelly the same, owing to the fact that few of the negro women possess the nee- essery qualification. 'Mae ptition gave rise to long and warm debates, ua which the opposition party was led by tee Attorney -Gen- eral, who favored. no receive which the mother country had not sanctioned. He thought no such radical change in the Constitution should be made until Great Britain had set the example to her colonies. An opponent replied. teat Bermuda -the first English crawly to 'lave a representalivegovernmeet urns t e prize. j own -was capable of udgiug of its own O requirements, and it was unnecessary pouring thd rfog e dotttther o of haair il ya.cethe . a nhdteaw hein 001.0 _ to go alaroad for a precedent; but if one were needed, the Isle of Men had Pehatvihotogrsthenele, raoeteepoptooiceoff togo ot auoingon nn er day.o granted women the right to vote for They all preferred to start, regardless members of the House of Kees, and in , of the weather, so tea the test turn - New Zealand they were allowed, to ed. out to be a more severe one than vote, as well as in Wyoming. it had been intended. The balancing . ° The A etornet -Generxd was cent' to . beams had become so slippery that the oceaszon. Drawing front his poelt- i thanpart of the conte.st was given up, et a New York daily piper, lie read an but ! but in every other respect the race wile run as it lad been planned. Tee win- artiele entitled "The Murder of the , laabitents of a city in willeh some of the hi- i ners covered the mile in 8 minutes and in Wyoming were :12 seconds, ssoring 147 1-2 points, beat - itemised of instigating the killing of the ' , me e- their competitors, tbe Secouti Rifle Indians at Jackson's Ilole. lie consid- been eresi that if this sort of thing i Brigade, by 20 seconds and 36 points. ad. ea-sied Inc Duke and Duchess of Connaught, in it state where earrge ha with their children, watched the race given to women, their poliii el lufluence 1 feem le This argument was, af eollese. refuted had not been humanizing in its elates. 1Tain. ,ginning to end in spite of the by his adverseries. Ono menseer, who had marriert an Aineri-.•:m. v. Moll, per- haps, acsount ea for his liberal views re- garding women, remarked, us the couree of his speesh in Myer id tarrying the matte- respects, and it would be a good bill, that if the women of nernaula were thing if a Iridal trip could be spent allowed not only to vete but to beeline members of the Legislature the islands within its charmed circle by some oil would. be greatly lesnefitel Another our young couples. The day bas its own of his collemetes slid thee as: nsauy Of life, and he is the wisest man who gets the Conservatives, notabiy Lord Sal- isbury, Mr. Ritehie. axle err. Balfour, most tb.e out of its short span., There were known to he in favor of women is no blind hurry and there is it certain suffrage, the question WoUld undoubt- contented leisure in which to enjoy the oily soon be agitated in England, the 'United States would follow the exam- present. The home is the center of love, pie, and it woule be to the honor of ' costal pleasure and comfort. It is not Iternsude if he should tak.e the lead it mere place to eat and sleep, and carry; in the right direetion. .. on the train of bueiness followed. all day, Fatriots 111 Russia Are All Nihilists and Mope For the Future. The French Republic, thanks to the new alliance between the Phrygian cap and. the knout, has don.e its best to make its soil insecure for those who fled. from the tyranny of Czardora. Among Rus- sian exiles living at Zurich, Geneva and Lausanne, spies have latterly been, in- troduced, even in the guise of alleged lady students of the same. nationality. an England proscribed Russians are free, and lax England, partly in conse- quence of their contact with the quiet operation of parliamentary teethe, tions, partly on account of a change of feeling among the cultured classes of their own country, men like Stepniak, the author of "Underground Russia" and kindred works, who once had it hand in .the fierc,e active fight against eutecrecy by all available means of irregular warfare, have gradually ceased to .be connected with t,he organ- ization of the so-cellod. terroristic ate, tempts. Their London monthly organ, Free Russia, shows how -much they have moderated their demands. If the young Emperor would only con- sent' to the Introduction of some kind of representative assembly, such as all Euro,pean nations have, and as even the Sultan had adopted shortly before Tur- key WeS beaten down. be the armies of Alexander IL, the reigning Czar would rally around him many who are at present his adversaries in what is be- lieved to be the camp of the mast ex- treme party. from each regiment.• These were ar- ranged in single ranks of tvventy-four men each, starting at a distance of tweettepacee apart, and were- required to keep within thirty paces of each other. The obstacles were merle wide enough. for twenty-four men to Pato over them abrea,st. The total num- ber of men engaged in tee contest was La78. A circular couree about a mile in lepgth bad been laid out and provided watt nine sets of obstaeles. These as- cended balancing beams, rails to jurap and to vault over, ditches. water inhale% and a, fortified hill. The object aimed at le celerity end. precision of move- ment cornbinea witlx perfect control of the weale teem. At each olsject ,judges were posted who assigned potats to easie tease. as it passed. The men were in drill uniform, cerrying their rifles at the trail, while the officers who carried their swords were allowed to select any position they chose, as long as they kepis vrithIn tee course and took all the one /stacks. After suranounting the last obstacle the team was forraed into line end passed betweeta tile winning posts an line formation. The centestinn teams went over the course oxie atter the other, tbe sum of the points made la ' each team deciding the award at ENGLISH HOME LIFE, The English bones life 'is ideal in m .1, a11y the hill .amencled to exclude I married women but to allow e Mows -- in the office. There is a glow from the and single women of the age of .21 to , ferailY hearth that has a spark that it svoontiehifr aorrantbepristrtniitihoe allipisitituleiApasi- 1 lask,..hitnaetofamdt elections, paseed 1 he lower 'Douse by : iynetofitrht Ilivoilmiechl floVetsenetrhese. a large majority, and, hail it alone pos- , dons; and when once the doors have eessei the power to create laws, the been opened to the guest, every hospitals women %voted have vote:1 at the next :lie and kindnessis shown him, terra- general e'en lone U et ort unat ely, their : e• e . • e fate was placed in the hamis of the up- per House, or Couneil, whieh body I At morning prayers, meater, mistress, pattponel further considerations of the- children and servants are at least for bill until other matters deemed of more , inmertanee, were disposed of. :onee in the day MI united.: Breakfaet eleanwhile the Bermuda women are 1, all over England is at 0 :Melts*. It is quietly waiting, apparent ly named • set upon the tafile, t -he jowls of void -saltnh, tthhcoyen.httTilenz. cs.lfoottliseopeeerilleteo et-ii3seenigi i meat on the sisieboara, the bell Ls rung, the servant or housemaid goes; about the door of ine elestion booth. ;her duties, and the breakfasters help- , or.e another.. The mattes of Engiand :are a delight. There is it mutual re - COULDN'T FOOL THE DEACON. ;epee maintained between mistress and. it — ow 01.4 intuition sat ed !aim Ffivt nun.- l'ula.celionii. paTnihedsalgyill--t;;s' p(litt;tinselasnnt'd i"lafl*tae3ie,,a (leen DienaeS. please" and "Thank. you." It is not "Ili, there!" shelved Deaeon Gruffer- coesidered well-bred to omit this little tse a fine loeking man, handsomely f°rin More sort ant s are era slay ti the li ' ' I 'a in household, as the Lugliehman rare - dressed made his way aeross the gar- ; ly does for himself what he cats get den patch in the deacon's direction. any one else to do for him. The nuts- "Keef offen them vegeterbles, will ter supervises tie:servants, the mietress yer? Have yer got any idee that 1,m . the household. Cabs at cheap rates are always at hand, porters pick up your raisin' truck fur to be tromped out . traps aml inuelle you into the railway weer foot by any dude feller front th' ' earriaaesa A. cultivated English worn - here." Walk atween *1' rows er git outer melees ie. other ways, ani gets a house- = :lake her time too valuable to de- vote R all to 'housekeeping.; She econ- city that comes wanderin"rowad here. "I'm looking for board," said the. in,' keeper or excellent upper maid. Her truder, picking his steps with greaten own time is devote 1 to hsr children, care. "'Want to stop here a few days her guests, her reading and correspond- ence. If she =tenants mucli she must and enjoy the country." "Can't stop with us," snapped the keep abreast of all the ogees of the deacon. "We hain't ru.unire no tan- day.. Conversation must embrace all ern an' I don't berlieve in givin' no WM.", if 'her dinner table is to be a encoungement ter big, able-bodied fell -success. The dinner bour is from 7 to Bre like you, loafin,"round. like th' lit - 8 p.m., arid even later. This gives the it's of th' vallies while thars so tarnal full benefit for the enjoyment of the much to do in this worlet" : long twilights in summer, when the out-of-door life means- so much. It Deacon, and I'm not out hare "But I'm a very busy man at home, wee any seems as if the people wished to get intention of loafing around. I have all the sunshine they could as an at- e private reason for being Le this see- set to the dreary months of fog. tion a little while, and I'll pay- y -our 1 The important epoch of the day is own price for accommodations." ; dinner.. It is more or less a meal of "Itt advance, stranger?" , ceremony, even in the humbler house - "Yes, if you don't want to trust me. ' holds- The Englishman does every - But I had no idea my appearance would 'thing seriously, ana bis meals are taever create suspieion." hurried over or slighted4 At a betel he "Your 'pearance don't indercate no- Prefers table d'hote to the Americana thin' defnite ter me. Yer miget be plan of ordering a la carte: Here again a, past or ea: ter might le a "Lenin' one sees the time for everything, and rod agent fur es kin be judged from everything in its own due time.; Be- yer leeks. I jist have ono way of doin' tween 4 and. 5 o'clock oe1 the tea and business with people I don't know an' lunch rooms in London are tlaronged, rsoieodnstruck a bargain and the " for "the cup that cheers," etc., is =dist 'pensaam le to the en women and obit- haTinh'etyt deacon got a handsome sum down in dren. More tea must be consumed than settlement for e week's board and ninasa set aside any otearedieaotithoeek city of thwtoarlcg for Busa is lodging. Inside of twenty-four hours eo Mrs. Gruffer thought the boarder one of rest and refreshment. Among the poor - the finest gentlemen she Inc ever met er elasses this custom is also observed, and the daughter was infatuated, but the old deacon said nothing and kept tab kehe third evening the fascinating stranger told the deacon ' about a pa- tent feed cutter that every farmer ought to have and got his name to an ostensible contract for one of them, though in reality the deacon's signature was at the bottom of a $600 promis- sory note. Shortly after midnight the guest crept from his window and slid down one of the uprights of the porch., At the bottom he encountered an old array musket, an eighty -pound. dog and a, constable that the deacon had tbere by special Invitation. 'After the sum- raer resorter hada beoenne_phio-orpse3rly ironesi wagon,#n ftjaoti deacon na shnintc;ay said: osoolfs 1 we STRENGTH OF ELECTRIC WELDS. Itis generally recognized, that oleo- erical welding results ia producing ai practically continuotte piece, the strength of the weld beteg equal to or greater than that of other portions of thewelded body. An example of this is seen in some publishe4 tests con- ducted in England as to the tensile strength and absolute riounduess of flanges welded electrically. An 8 -inch iron pipe, one quarter inch thick, with flanges welded electrically, broke in the body of the .pese at eighty- eight tons, and a sunilet• pitte of steel broke in the welded wet ea feee flanges at 101 tone