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Exeter Times, 1896-12-10, Page 7GUNG ITY, SAFETY, DE - EMIL a Good plane Is a and So Are industrious le ¥iisusts That Religion es gest or Att. gton, Nov. 29.—A resounding ut in this sermon of Dr, eeded, it would be reve- good. His subjeot is en Challenged to Nobility " text II. Kings, vi, 17, "And the necl the eyes of the young orning in Dothan a young tbeo- i atudent was scared by finding self and Elisha, the prophet, upon he waited, surrounded by a e army of enemies. But venerable isba was not scared at all, because he saw the mountains fall of defense or him in chariots made of fire, drawn by horses of fire—a supernatural ap- pearance that could not be seen with the natural eye. So the old minister prayed that the young minister might see them also, and the prayer was an- swored, and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose like the Adirondacks or the Alleghenies in autumnal resplendence. Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. 2tlay God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety. your opportunity and your destiny l A mighty defense for a young man is a good home. Some of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills and architect or upbolaterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco or princely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of treea planted on fashionable eonntry seat so attractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farm arouse and sang under the weeping wile lame No barred gateway adorned with statue of bronze and swung open by obsequious porter in full dress has half the glory of the old swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place -- your adapted bone -that also is sacred forever.` There you built the first fam- ily altar. There your ebildren were born. All these trees you planted. That roof is solemn because once in it, overt the hot pillow, flapped the wing of dittle. Under that roof you expect wheW your work is done to lie down and die. You try with many wards to tell the excellency of the place, but you fall. There is only one word in language that can describe your g: it is home. Now, 1 declare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like this upon him, The memory of parental solici- tude, watching, planning and praying will be to him a shield and a shelter. I never knew a man faithful both to his early and adapted home who at. the same time was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside assoeiation rather than from tbe more quiet and unpresuuning pleas- ures of which I have spoken may be suspected to be on the broad road to ruin. %Absalom despised his father's house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated from your kin- dred and farmer associates, is there not some room that you can call your own? Into it gather books and pictures and a barp. Have a portrait over the man- tel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from the threshold. Consecrate some spot with the knee of prayer, By the memory of other days, a father's coun- sel, and a mother's love, and a sister's confidence, call it home. Another defense for a young man is industrious habits. Manyyoung men in starting upon life in this age expect to make their way through the world by tbe use of their wits rather than the toil of their hands. A boy now goes to tis city and fails twice before he is as old as his father was when he first saw tile spires of the great town. Sit- ting in some office, rented at $1,000 a it year, he is waiting for the bank to de- clare its dividend,or goes into the mar- ket expecting beore night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stooks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other track. Perhaps he borrow- ed from his employer's money drawer and forgets to put it back, or for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship makes a copy plate of a merchant's signature. Never mind. All is ri4ht in trade. In some dark night the may come in his dreams a vision of the penitentiary, but it soon vanish- es. In a short time be will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid bis flocks and herds cultivate the do- mestic virtues. Then those young men who were once his schoolmates and knew no better than to engage in hon- est work will come with their ox teams to .draw him logs and with their hard -bands to help heave up his castle. This is no fancyicture. �-It is everyday life, T should aotpwonder if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. 1 should not. . wonder if diresickness should 'smite through the young man, or. if God should pour into his cup of life a draft that would thrill him with unbearable agony; if his children should become to bin a living curse;. making his home a pest and a dis %aa . miserablld not wonder if be ggoes grave and,beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. The way of hhie ungodly. hall perish. My y, gfriends, e is no way to .genuine success except through toil, either of the head or hand. At the battle of Crecy in 1316 the Prince of Wales, : finding himself heavily ' pressed jby the enemy sent word to his father ,for help. The father, watching the bat- tle from a windmill, and seeing his son was not wounded, and .could gain the day if he would, 'sent word: "No, I will not .coots. Let the boy win his spurs, for if God will, I desire that this, day be his with all its honors." Young man, fight your own'; battle all through and you shall have the victory. Oh, it is a battle. worth, fighting! Two.mon- archsfoughtduel,Charles hs olda.V: g not Frauds, and the stakewere king - donne Milan and Burgundy, : You fight THE EXETER TIMB8 with sin and the stake is heaven or hell. Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius and that therefore, theree is no need of close application. ft is bora where multitudes fail. The • eurse of this age is the geniuses. --men with enor- mous self Conceit and egotism and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plodding and useful rather than high flying and good for nothing but to pick nut the eyes of careasszs. .Extraordinary capacity wi.hout work is extraordinary failure; There is no hope for tbat person who begins Iife resolved to live by his wits, for the probability is that he has net. any.Adam,even It Was not safefor in his unfallen stat, to have nthing to do, and therefore God commanded him to he a farmer and horticulturist. He was to dress the garden and keep it, and bad he and his wife obeyed the divine injunction and been at work they would not have been sauntering under the trees and hankering after that fruit which destroyed them and tib it posterity --a proof positive for all ages to come that those who do not attend their business are sure to get into mischief. I do not know that the prodigal in Scripture would ever have been re- c.nimed had he not given up, his idle habits and gone to feeding swine for a iving. The devil does not so often at- tack the man who is busy with the pen and the book and the trowel and the saw and the hammer. He is afraid of those weapons. But woe to the man whom this roaring :ion meets with his hands in his pockets. Bless God that you have a brain to think and hands to work and feet to walk with, for in your constant activ- ity, 0 young man, is one of your strongest defenses. Put your trust in God and do your best. That chid had it right when tbe horses ran away with the load of wood and be sat on It. When asked if he was frightened, he said: "No. Iprayed to (hut and bung on like a beaver." Respeot for the Sabbath will be to the young. man another preservative against evil. God bas thrust into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day when the sou' is especially to be fed. It is no newfangled notion of a wild brained reformer, but an institution es- tablished at the beginning. God has made natural and moral taws so bar - :emulous that the body as well as the sou; demands this institution ; Our bod- ies are seven -clay clocks that must be wound up as often as that or they will run down. Failure moat come sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has tattled it the Lord's day, and hes who devotes it to the word is guilty of robbery. God wi,l not let the sin go unpunished eith- er in this world or the world to come., This is the statement of a man yvlad has broken this divine enactment: "I was engaged in manufacturing on the Lehigh !Giver. In the Sabbath I used to rest; but never regarded God in it. One beautiful Sabbath when the noise was alit hushed, and the day was all that loveliness could make tt, I sat down on my piazza and went to work inventing a new abuttis, I neither step. ped to eat nor drink til the sun went down. By that time I had the invention completed. The next morning I exhib- ited it and bcasted of my day's work, and was applauded. The shuttle was tried and worked welt, but that Sala bath day's work Dost me $30,000. Wo branched out and enlarged, and the cures of heaven was upon me from that day onward." A noble ideal and confident expecta- tion of approximating to it are an in- fallible dmense. The artist completes in his mind the great thought that he wishes to transfer to the me or the marble before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders the workmen to begin, and, though there may for long while seem to be nothing but b undermg and rudeness, he has in his .mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capita:. The p•.et arranges the entire plot before be begins to chime the Bust canto of tingeing rhythms. And yet, strange to say, there are men who at- tempt to build their character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude Tartar's tent or a St. Mark's of Venice—men who begin to write, the intricate poem of their :eves without knowing whether it shall be a namer's "Odyssey" or a rhymesters botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are living without any great life plot. Booted and spur- red and palmed, and urging their shift courser in the hottest haste, I ask: "Melo, man ! Whither away ?" His re- spense is, 'Nowhere." Rush into the busy shop or store of many a one and taking. thereane out of the man's hand or layeng down the yardstick, =say "What, man, is all this about—so much stir and sweat?" The reply will stumble and break down between teeth and lips. Every day's duty ought only to be the filling up of the main plan of existence. Let men be consistent. If they prefer mis- deeds to correct courses of eaten, then let them draw opt the design of knav- ery and cruelty and plunder. Let ev- ery day's falsehood and wrongdoing be added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the picture, and the clouds of a wrathful God hang down heavily over the canvas, ready to break out in canorous tempest. Let the waters he chafed and froth tangled and green with immeasurable depths. Then take a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame the right name for it—the soul's suicide. If one entering upon sinful directions would only in his mind or on paper draw nut in awful reality this dreadful future, he would recoil from it and say, "Am I a Dante, that by my own life 1 should write another 'Inferno?'" But if you are resolved to live a life sue)) as God and good men will approve, do not let it be a vagus dream, an indefinite de- termination, but in your mind or upon paper sketch it in all its minutiae. You cannot know the changes to which you may be a subject, but you may know what .always will be right and always will bev o .. Let gentleness and charitand veracity ad faith stand to the heart of the sketch. Many years ago word came to me that two imposters, as temperance lee- turers, had been speaking in Ohio in various places and giving their exper- ience, and they told their audience that they had long been .intimate with me and had become drunkards by dining at my table, where I always had li quors of all sorts: Indignant to the last degree, I went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of Brooklyn police, saying that I; was going to start that night for Ohio to have these villains arrested, and I wanted.' him to• tell nee how to make the arrest. He smiled and said: "Do not waste your time by chasing these men. • Go home and do your work, and ''they can do you no harm." I took his counsel and all was Well Long ago I made up 71111x naiad that if one will pet his trust ni God and: be -'faithful. to dut he need not ndy fear any evil. Have God :on your side young man,' and all the combined forces of earth and hell can do you! no dam- age. And this leads me to say that the mightiest defense, for a young roan is the possession of religious principle. He may have manners that would put toshame-the gracefulness and courtesy of a Lord Chesterfield. Foreign langu- ages may drop from bis tongue. He may be' able to discuss literature and laws and foreign customs. He may Wield a nen of unequaled polish and power.. His quickness and taut may qualify him for the highest salary of the counting -house. Ile may be as sharp ;is Herod and as strong as Sam- s^n. with as fire looks as those which hung Absalmen, Will be is not safe frr'm onntamination. The more elegant his manner e n r a nd thet more fascinating his dress, 'the more peril, Satan does not care Por the allegiance of a cowardly ani illiterate being, He cannot br+ng Una inho e!fioient service. Bat he loves to storm that castle of character which has in it the m^st seas and treasures. It was not some crazy craft creeping along the coast with a valueless cargo that the pirate attacked, but the ship, fu•1 winge+i, and flag•re•1, plying 1•e- tween great port& carrying its millions of specie. The more your natural and aenuired aooiran'ishmen`s the remote need of the religion of Jssns. That does not cut in upon or hack up 2ny smoothness of eianosilion or 1^ohne eor. Tt gives symmetry. It arrests that in the soul whi^h eeght to le arrested and pr^pe`s that whist ougb` to be pro- pelled. Ir fills an the galleys. It ele- vaees the trans"arms To beauty it gives metre t•eaut•y. to tart mare tact, to enthusiasm or nal"'re, more enthu- siasm. When the I=l"iy Spirit im- presses the lary % of Clot nn thn heart. He does net sp^il the canvas. It in al the muI'itn•1es at young ,non noon whom re'i' ion has ae'e4 yen could find ens nature that had been the least damaged, I would yield this propcsi- ti^n. You may pow have e:noutrh strength of character to repel the varixes temp- tations to g'•oss veckeen pee which as- ssal you, but T do not know in what strait yon may be fhrus` at aerie future tit»e. Nothing short of the grace of the °roes may then be able to deliver you from the lions. You are not meeker than Moses, nor holier than David. nor more patient than job, and yon ought not to consider yourself in- vutiolee'le. You may have some weak point of character that ''you have never discovered, and in some hour \when you are unsuspeeling the Philistines will he yup;Va.- ig,M yThrust. ninn ing or your pride of cbaractereenath- int{ short of t.h. arm of A:ndghty God tyl]l be Snffl°ietlt to uphold 3 ou. Yon look forward in that world sometimes with a chilling despondency. Cheer up. I will tell how you may make a fortune, "Seek first the kingdom. of God and His ri hteorsness and al . other things shallheadded unto you. I know you do not wnt to be mea in this matter. Give God the fresh- ness of your life. You will not have the heart to drink down tbe brimming cup of life and then pour the dregs nn God's altar. To a Saviour so infinitely generous you have not the heart to act like fhyt. That is not brave. That is trot honorable. That is not manly. Your greatest want in all the world is a nerouwgh the rL In God's name I tell syou And the Blessed Spirit Are thsolemnities and privileges of this holy hour. Put the cup of life eternal to your thirsty lips; Thrust it not buck, Mercy offers it --bleeding mercy, long suffering mercy. Rej°c all other friendships, be ungrateful for all other kindness, prove recreant to all other bargains, but to despise God's love for your immortal soul—do not do that, I would like to see some of you this hour press out of the ranks of the world and lay your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesus. This hour is no wandering vagabond staggering over the earth; it is a winged messenger of the skies whispering mercy to thy soul. Life is smooth now, but after awhile it may be rough, wild and pre- cipitate. There comes a crisis in the history of every man. We seldom understand that turning point until it is far past, The road of life is fork- ed,and I read on two signboards "This is the way" to hap i•ness, and This is the way to ruin.How apt we are to pass the fork of the road without thinking whether it comes out at the door of bliss or tbe gates of darkness. Many years ago I stood on the an- niversary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable state= went: "Thirty years ago two young men started oat in the evening to at- tend the Park theatre, New York, where a play Was to be aoted in which the cause of religion was to be )raced in a ridiculous and hypocritical 1•ght. - They come to the steps. The consommes of both meets thein. One started to go home, but returned again to the door, mad yet had not courage to enter, and` finally departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theatre. It was the turning point in the history of these two young men. The • man who entered was caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and deeper in infanaye He was lost. That other young man was saved, and he now stands before you to bless God that for 20 years he bus been permitted to preach the gospel." "Rejoice., 0 young man in thy. youth and iet thy heart cheer thee m the days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." EATS BREAD AND BUTTER ONLY. The newest diet suggested as pro- ductive of longevity is bread and but- ter. There is in H•ythe, England, a lady who lives entirely on bread and butter, and has done so all her life. She has never tasted meat, game, fish, veg- etables, jam, and only a few kinds of bi'm•cuits and sweets. She has never had a day's illness in all her life,and nev- er had reco arse to medicine of any des- mignon. Her friends have tried in vain to induce her to eat something besides bread and butter but she confines her- self: entirely to the diet on which she has existed for at least thinY y ears. She is strong and healthy in every re- spect --healthier, in fact, than a. great many people. who have Iived upon ex- actly the food that is supposed to make ua feel as if illness were a total strange er and always would be. A CITY OF GOLD, The next Paris Exposition will con- tain "A City of Gold." It will be an historical exhibition of the progress of banking. One seetian will slow the processes 'for obtaining the precious metals, with `models of the different kinds of mines; another will show the conversion of the Instals into coin, and the workings of the mint; still an- other the progress of all kinds of conn- mercial papers, with reproductions , of historical banks from the Strozzi and the Dedici to the Rothschilds and the Bank of trance. There will be a gal- lery of portraits of great financiers, and a reconstruction of the Pont au Change as it was in the Middle Ages connected with streets representingvar- bus historical periods. • eto • ,, . RO t • A la N"+ -4,4o 'UNAVOIDABLY DELAYED. Or. Ruggles Heel Engaged to Impersonate Santa Claus at a Neighbor's House—and was About to Slip in at the Beck -door, as Agreed; bat the Neighbor's Dog bad Not Been Let Into the Secret. T'1E SUNDA' SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEO. 13. "Cautious Against Jsteuiperauee." Pr• ev. 23.15-25. (,,t1eu Text. Prov. 23. GEN.ERAL STATEbiENT. The book from which our lesson comes takes its general title from the words . with which in the Hebrew it opens— "the Proverbs of Solomon." But it pro- , teases itself to be composd by et least three authors, Solomon, Agur, and Lem- uel ; besides which there are two ap-, pendixee containing "The Words of the . ise," which seem to be compilations of sayings of many forgotten sages. One important section was copied by Heze- kiah s friends between two and three hundred years after Solomon's day, and if we may venture to attach a Jewish tradition to the record of 2 Sings 18. 18, the men who gathered and perhaps remodeled these words of wisdom were Isaiah, the prophet ; Joab son of Asaph, the chronicler; and Shelma, the secre- tary. A careful comparison of these various section's shows tbat they were made in widely differing environments, and that the controlling ideals of prac- tical wisdom, or pious sbrewdness, dif- fered somewhat when the different com- pilations were made. So that the Book of Proverbs is of Very composite char- acter. From the first of the two ap- pendixes which we have mentioned (Prov. 22, 17, to 24. 22) our lesson is taken. It bas been well entitled by the Lesson Committee."Cautions against Intemperance." While its verses, like all the verses from the section from which they have been seleeted, aro written with a very bread view of a holy life—of an intelligent thoughtful temperance wbich goes much farther than mere abstinence from intoxicating liquors—the vices which have come to the front in modern times as the re- sult of indulgence in alcohol are di- rectly antagonized by these counsels, and it is perfectly legitimate to use these verses as a text for most earnest reasoning and appeal against modern intemperance. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 15. The sage has been giving various maxims, some apparently ad- dressed to a man of talent who, be- cause of his talents, had been made a royal guest. He now turns from that and other special cases to address his disciples especially, and my son is to be 'regarded as the utterances of the philosopher to bis pupils, If thine heart be wise. Tbe wise man has no faith in natural wisdom. He has already taught that "Owlishness is bound up in the beart of a chid." folly is natural, but by discipline wisdom can be acquired. "The rod of correction" is of value {Prov. 13. 24; 22. 15 ; 19. 18' e9. 15, 17). Just before this lesson be- gins we are told .not to withhold cor- rection from children, and that beat- ing with the rod shall become to them a most salutary means of discipline. These repeated counsels to inflict pun- ishment upon erring children are not. to be taken as arguments of a pedego- ue against mdsrn a viewstraining, of and be favor f corporal punishment homeand in school. In Solomon's day,. and centuries after, no one had so much as dreamed of bringing up ehil- dren without the "rod." The sage is not arguing.about any system of teach- ing or training; he is arguing in favor of training and against its neglect ;.and while unquestionably modern times have planted many moral hedges around the youth, which keep even the worst of the community from committing sins that some of the best of people com- mitted a century, and a half ago, we ourselves believe m "the rad" as much' as Solemn= did; only a superior civ- ilization has taken it out of the hand of the parent and teacher, and put it in the hand of the more remote of- ficer of the law. Without doubt he is the wisest ;parent, the wisest teacher, who can bring up children aright with- out whippings or rather inflictions of physical pain. But they are no teach- ers at all, they are a disgrace to father- hood and motherhood, who ndis- cipline. Discipline must tody be as strict as it was a thousand years before the Christian era. There is no civil- ization without discipline. It is'a,sneees- RING TIBURZI IS DEAD, AN ITALIAN ERIGdND WHO KEPT ORDER IN NIS PROVINCE. tie Iauglied at Wa▪ rrants, Killed Spies, and Conducted an Insurance Rosiness for the Protection or idle and Proper- ty-� Died tiightthg tis )le Said He Would. Sing Tiburzi 1: dead 1 Long live King ,Fioravanti ! Tiburzi was the most fam- o fall tis a the modern baiganda, and he- died edied fighting. Pioravanti is his suo- oessor. Ring Tiburzi's interpidity and his ability to escape the pursuit of the authorities, have made his name almost Iegendary in the region of the Maxon - ma. In the Capalbio wood, near Orbbet- ello, he was surprised the other day by a company of carabineers. He re- fused to surrender, and with Fioravanti, his companion, opened fire upon the soldiers. After a desperate fight burzi was killed, but om cpanion managed to escape. Tiburzi was barn is 1847 at Cellere, a Iittle village in the Ronan Campag- no. He commenced +1118 profession as a brigand at an early age. His bold ex Plaits soon began to make him fam- ous. In 1872 Atte was arrested and sen- tenced to penal servitude for life. Two years afterward he escaped, vowing that be would never again he taken alive. He returned to the neighborhood of Vi- terbo. The vast woods of Santa Elora and Castro and of the territory bor- dering the sea, from the confines of Latium to t close of Tuacany, soon be- came the om Tbi, wild and roughkingdcounoftryi, urzfull ofIn gamthate, he was able to laugh at all the efforts of the authorities. They could do nothing more than issue innumerable bench warrants against him and offer A REWARD OF 1000 LIRE sary for the making of bookbinders and shoemakers and lawyers and ,physicians as i., is far the making of soldiers. Tbere is an awful danger that in getting rid of some outworn types and met•bods of discipline we may get rid of the dis- cipline itself. My heart shall rejoice. even mine. The last two words give rhetorical emphasis to the statement. The happiness of others depends on us; our detlec ion from the path of duty brings daggers and scorpions to many loving hearts; no man liveth to him- self. He who is most loved bas simply most hearts in his keeping. You cannot do right without gladdening somebody and making it easter for others to do right, You cannot do wrong without saddening some one. That is a noble aspiration. in William Cullen Bryant's hymn: "Amid the :mares misfortune lays Unseen, beneatb the steps of all, Brest is the love that seeks to raise, And fall ; stay, and strengthen those who "Till, taught by Him, who for our sake Bore every form of life's distress, With every passing year we make The sum of buman sorrow less." But the Wise Man here teaches an- other lesson, more profoundly wise than even his words—a lesson in the art of teaching. Immeasuralby better than whips and rods le the sentiment of this verse, that the heart of the teacher is bound up in the success of the scholar. The ]:est influence that can be exerted upon the mind of a scholar is that which comes from love. 16. My reins shall rejoice. A strange phrase to our notions, for if it was literally translated it would be "kid- neys;" but in reality it is little strang- er than our own phrases about the "breaking of the heart." Bowels and kidneys were regarded in antiquity much as we now regard the heart, as centers of affection, sentiment, pas - slim. When thy lips speak right things. For "ont of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." "If any man of- i fend not in word the same is a perfect body." able also to bridle the whole 17. Let not thine heart envy sinners. Perbaps the most insidious of all temp- tations. When we see men who deserve less than we secure the luxuries by manifestly wrong methods (which nev- ertheless seem to be justified by pub- lic opinion) we are strongly tempted to envy them. But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. This is the antidote to foolish. and sinful envy. 7)r. W. J. Deane thus .parapbrases the proverb, "Show your heart's desire not by envy of the sinner's fortune, but by zeal for true religion, that 'fear of the Lord' which leads to strict obed- ience and earnest desire to please him." 18. For surely there is an end. Notice the close connection of this verse with the preceding verse. "The prosperity of sinners Is not to be envied, for it is transitory and deceptive, but for the righteous, however depressed at times, there is a happy end m prospect." 19. Hear thou. Here begins the Wise Man's special exhortation to temper- ance. Guide thine heart in the way. In the way of duty. Care for thy heart especially, for out of it ars the issues actionsof life. "Right thoughts lead to right .:' 20 Winebibbers. Those wbo of purpose intoxicate t` inneelves, Riotous eaters of flesh, Gluttons. Banquets in the East were often prepared for on the plan of our modern picnics, each participant bringing his own contribution of food and drink. Consequently there was a rivalry which often led to excess, This verse is a prohibition of all actions which make indulgence of appetite the end rather than the means to help. Meat is a rare article of diet in the East, and when it is indulged in is of- ten induiggad in to an extreme, so that amight meat di feast ober and a riotous become almost synonymous terms. 21. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. As true in A. D. 1896 as in B. C. 1000. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Luxury tends ness•to to excess,poverty. excess to idleness, idle - 22. A verse that needs to be practiced upon, rather than commented upon. No p 23. Boyrice is tothe o gtruthreat , atond expesellnd it notfor. truth. No price is great enough to accept for it. Also, Should be omit- ted. Wisdom. Practical knowledge. In- struction. Moral culture and discipline. Understanding. The faeulty of discern- ment. 24. The two Members of this verse tell the same story. It is a poetic repetition. 25. She that bare. thee. This matches with verse 22, "He that begat thee," and a repetition of the perennial truth that wise and good children are the profoundest source of joy to their par- ents. : Curses are like prbcessioiis', they re- turn to the plane from wihenoe they came. to any one who would hand him over to the police. The peasantry, instead of helping the polies, never failed to notify his Majesty of their presence, and always kept him well informed con- cerning all the movements of the offi- cers. Bat this brigand did not confine him- self exclusively to his kingdom. He often took trips to Rome, to Vienna, and to Paris, After having established his power by terror and cruelties prac- tised upon his victims, be changed his system. Robbery and murder appear- ed to 'him played out and insufficient to procure hien the means of a royal ex- istence. He alit upon a better plan, In- stead of killing and stealing, he regu- larly taxed all the landed proprietors of the neighbourhood. More cunning, moue powerful, and lays exacting than the Government, he knew very well how to collect his revenues. Each one was taxed according to rhes resources. One rich landowner paid him. 4,000 francs an- nually.. As a warning to those who were in arrears or showed a disposition tot r deafear thane/WS, a turn a to bis deYn+ n s, hays < ack was burned, or cattle were carried off, in addition to other amen- ities of the same character. Personal punish3nent was reserved for spies and for those who tried to get the 10,000 lire for handing hint over. Woe to the man who tried to soil Tiburzi 1 His vendetta w -us inexplorable; Ile stopped at nothing to satisfy i4 ant everybody knew that be never missed his man when he raised his gun. One day Jae went alone into a village to find a man who had planned like capture. He went right into the market place, saw his enemy, and at about fifty paces from him levelled his carbine and fired. The unfortunate man fell dead. Then put: ting down his gun with a theatrical air, his Majesty shouted out in a voice oft hunder: That's the way Tiburzi punishes his traitors who endeavor to sell his skin!" Then, coolly throwing his carbine across his back, he walked away quietly. Nobody dared to follow bin. In exchange for the money received from the people whom he taxed, King Tiburzi guaranteed their lives and pro - mired MILITARY BULLIES ifN EUROPE. Cases in Which Army °Mears ShoWcd. flow Ilneveru xnstiee's Band Can lie+ The peculiar relations between sol- dier and civilian in Germany were illus. trated last month by the assassination of the engineer Liebmann, by the Lieu- tenant, Baron Bruesewitt,, in a Carle- rube beer garden. Bruesewitz killed Leibmann because Liebmann was slow; to apologize for accidently rubbing has arm a ainst Btuaseweta s chair. Persons who may regard Bruesewite as an ex- ceptionally arrogant officer and the attitude he assumed toward LIebmani as a rare thing in Continental life may get ligbt from an incident of Vienna life about two weeks ago. .At 10.30 o'clock in the evening an omnibus full of passengers was rolling down the 3/feria/eider strasse, near the Kaiser strasse. when Lieut. Rudolf vont Resift of His Imperial Majesty's Four- teenth Artillery started to cross the street with five young women whorl he was taking home from a music ball The driver of the omnibus shouted warning to Hesse, but Hesse ignored ABSOLUTE PROTECTION of their property. Here there was a strange phenomenon. His monopoly of the business of brigandage, or rather of insurance against brigands, had good results for public security. That per- haps erhaps is one of the reasons why the po- lice did not press Yum very hard. Tbe Crown Prosecutor of Viterbo said one day to a distinguished criminalist that he found really very little to ccanplain of in the actual state of affairs in Ti- burzi's kingdom. The number of crimes had considerably diminished because the presence of Tiburzi was sufficient to keep other evildoers away. The little shrimp of the criminal world were afraid of the big fish, and, as a mat- ter of fact, the death of the royal ban- dit, is regretted, and the reign of Fi- oravanti gives. rise to apprehension. The body of Tiburzi was taken to the receiving vault of the cemetery of Capalbio, where an autopsy was perform- ed and his photograph taken. The head is large, and the face with energetic features, is framed with a close cut beard, very mon, almost white, al- though Tiburzi was not 50 years old. Ile was well made, squarely and solidly built, and had remarkably small hands, On the right knee there was the trace of an old wound, which at times pre- vented him from walking. The right femoral bone was broken in two places by the bullet of the carabineers in his last fight. Thee left leg was pierced by a ball, and hewas also shot through the head. The news of the death of this famous bandit was received with some doubt in the neighborhood, because reports of his death had previously been made, from time to time; but there is no doubt of the identity of the body of the fam- ous Tiburzi. A MISS. Old Gent (evidently under great men- tat strain) --See 'hare, ear; I want to speak to •you. sir. You were at my house until very late last night, and after. my daughter went to her Alban. I beard her sobbing for, an hour. u - 're a villain, she and I've a great mind, - 'Young Man—Sobbing 1 O. G, --Yes, sir. How dared yon to in- sult -- '1% n -suit ---'Y. M.—I wouldn't tthink of autnh e thing. Believe me. O. G: (tempestuoau,sly)—Wtat did you say - to her, sir t Y,M,-I merely remarked 4-1Ist 3 was too poor to marry, him and walked out directly in the w.ayt of the omnibus. The driver bore down on the brake. pulled in his horses with might and main, and brought the omni- bus up against the curb at the rialit of an upset. Meantime Hesse saunter- ed serenly on to the opposite aide of the street without hastening a step. The driver called to him: "Can't you get out of the way, sir f The officer at once threw aside his coat, called to the women to wait cosi the walk for him, and unsheathed hid sword. He ran at the omnibus, halted at the forward wheels, and brought down the sword. on the driver's bend stili resting on the brake. He cut oft two fingers and stuck the driver in the shoulder. The driver tumbled down from his box. The passengers hur- ried from the omnibus. Among theca was a Captain in uniform. As soon es he saw the Captain. Hesse saluted ;and reported: "Mr. Captain, I report most obedi- ently that this fellow shouted at rata and I gave him a little lesson with myt sword." "Exactly," replied the Captain,'Youat conduct was perfectly correct." The officer told a policeman bis story, called acab, and with his yotmg wo- men drove away, while the omnibus driver was carried to a hospital to un- dergo an operation, and the omnibua and passengers were deft to be got our of their difficulty by others. Hesse we* not arrested by the Vienna police, and he was not even reprimanded by bist superior officers. The driver lost his band and his employment. The Badische Landeshote tells of am army paymaster in Car:sruhe who o one of the :est nights in October trleG to have fun with a lithographer 3.nd an engraver whom he met as he was going to bis quarters. He caught therot by the shoulders and knocked thein heads together, and the lithographer flung hien off. The paymaster strews his sword and shushed at him. Thd two civilians closed in on the officer, threw him down, and disarmed bis, They were arrested and fined. The paymaster of course was herd blame- less, except perhaps for not running the men through before they could overpower him. At ea events, be we* not tried and was not punished in anyl military or civil court Happenings similar to these have beeat reported. from Grogan in Germany and from two Hungarian towns. They go merely torove, however, what Bruese- witz and Jesse and the Carlsrube pay- master proved, that in central .Europe the civilian has few rights which an army officer may not override with Sm - vanity. BUSY QUEEN VICTORIA. iter st lest3 is Very Coeselentious About Letter-Writing—now She Gell the Deny News. Queen Victoria's private letters num ber many hundreds every year. She writes to her numerous relatives, for- getting no anniversary or occasion ori which a letter might be welcome. The London Chronic:° says that to the younger members of the royal family she never faits to send birthday gifts, accompanies by a few loving words of greeting. Every day the birthday book is consulted not that birthday book in which singers, actors and other per- sonages are asked to write, but that smaller volume reserved for relatives and intimates. Then there are nurn- erous letters of a semi -private nature which are written by the Queen her- self—letters of condolence, letters of congratulation to brides who have been . _ connected with the court, letters to foreign monarchs. Besides all these epistles, written in the blackest of ink . thpaper slightly edged with black, ere are thousands wnich are penned by the private secretary and 'bis as- sistants. The Queen's day begins early and ends lace. Alter breakfast—a meal which she always enjoys eating in the open air when possibe—there are the newspapers and private correspondence oalming attention.. With regard to the former, portions of the Times and other bournais are read aloud to the Queen y a lady specially appointed for the purpose. "1 ery rari .y does the Queen comment on the news, except in the case of a cai.aamity, when her sympathy is quickly expressed in a telegram. In- a uraey ea an important newspaper as to royal:, mattersgives the Queen grave annoyance, and the Chronicle's writer has known. an official to call and con - plain of the misstatement and demand a rectification. Not long ago an ilius- trated London paper gave a picture La which. Her Majesty was represented as holding the arm of hes, balms attend- -e" Mat. Within a short space of time a member of the royal household called ori the editor to state the absurdity of such an error. "The Queen is much annoyed at this miatake'on the part of your artist, as it might give grievous offense to innportant persons in India. She could.' never take the arm of a servant. " ,.Chis will sheer how closely she watches even the pictorial press. When a good illustration appears of any .state function it is a. common in- oident for the artist to be requested to visit the Queen, very likely to re- ceive a corntmi cion. WITHIN Tigpl LAW. Wild-eyed Man—I want a lot of pois- on oiseon right of;C. Drug OIrIt's against the law to sell ..poison to people who look as i£ they want to commit suicide; but 1'11 let you have a bottle of Dr. Black- unn's Elixir of 'T es. 'That seems t sure to p e � s death. •