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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-10-14, Page 71 ; NOTES AND COMMENTS% It la seetewereby that the native troops thee appear to be doing so far the best a the fighting on the Indian froritier are Silcns and Goorkbees, reliance being Apparently placed on the aluesulmen and Bralmanieal elements tbe native army. The reason for this k: obviotre it being among them that the asetisEnglish agitation has been actively carried. one Althougb the participation of the Ameer o Afgh- alastan, through his emiesaries in this agitation is, dieclaimed by Iiimselt and attested by. oatet, so it is reported, the Indian authorities have probably sue- "ficient evidence tot justify them in dis- trusting the se.meer's protestations of loy,alty. At the, eame time, policy pre- vents them assuming such a tone as would warrant the Am,eor in opeuly preparing. for defence against British aggression.. It is doubtful., however, whether Abdurrahman Khan has not already prepared to meet the coming storm, wad it is safe to assume that when the Anglo Indian army reaches his frontier it: will raeet a formidable force of weinormed troops, provided with a numerous artillerY, xettay to dispute. a further advent,. ethics the last Afgken war cannon ant rifle fact- ories have been established at Cahill under the suptervision of skilled. Europ- eans, artd have turned out weapons that niece the .Ameer's army act at more equal footing with the Engliede forces theta oaf a previous occasion. THE NIBBLING' IN LITTLE INIQUITIES THAT ASSAIL THE EASY-GOING HEART. e-seei mind to live beyon.d las income, eaten rhe 'rice or Gat:awing which ;Ugh" In n has bought him, out and out, and it is Small a. 'Way and increases by 'What it iei 0.0ey question a time when !ale goods are to be delivered. The thing THE EXETBR TIMES teem my friends. more expensively.' I won't stand this eny longer. I earl with one brilliant stroke xnaee a for- tune. Now here goes principle or no principle heaven or hell. Who cares?' When. a, youxig men makes up bes. era Tpon— The end. or Girt Enterprises anti Stock Gambling. Rev. D. Talknage on Susaday direourse er from the text: hiatiah, v., 18, "Woe unto them that sin as it were with a earl rape." There are some iniquities that oney nibblo at the heart. After a lifetime of their vvork, the man still stands up- right, respected and honored. These ver.min have not strength enough to gnaw through a man's character. But there are other transgressions that lift themaelves up to gigantio propor- tions and seize hold ot a man and bind him with thonge forever) There are some iniquitiee thet have such great empimees eye]) that he who commits As tot the native tritesnien now re- sisting the. British advaece, their ulti- mate Watt is a foregote conclusion.. They are without organization, skilled leaders or artillery, and without these their fanatieal valor will eount for very little. The employment by the British a the Sikhs and Goorkhas de- prives theta of what hope they may have had of the defeetien of their co - religionists and tellow ceunerymen at any given moment; so that. however numerous and valerou.s thee may be, thee will be forced bark toward the Afglun frontier or compelled to sue, mit to eave _their villages and property. Due after thee the gutestion remains, what then ? This will. only Ito answered when the Dritieh aftvanee has re:la- ce. the Afghea frontier, and the atti- tude of the Ameer hes been more Sitar- ly develt-specl. It will ales depend on lenenterneets have been matte by the Ruesiine lei their side of Alglianis- t xe. Ls done. You may plant in :the way all the bettertes of truth and. right- eousness—that „man is bound to go on. When a. man makes $1,000 a year and spends $1,200, when a. young man makes $1,500 and spends $1,700, all the herpias of derkness cry oat, he we have hen." And they have. Haw to get the extra. $500 or the extra $2.000 is the qu.estion. He say, "Here is uty friend who started out the other day with but little mon- ey, and. be one oight so great was his tack, he. rolled up hundreds and thou- sands a dollars. He got it—why hot I? It is such dull work, this adding up long lines of figures in the count, ing houses; this pulling down a a hundred yards a goods end selling a remnant; this a.hvays waiting upon somebody else; whea I could put noo on. the race and picic up el,- perty wrung away from them, and then they go out, some of them to drawn their grief In etreng drink - sores to ply the counterfeiter's pen, and. so restore their fortunes; some resort to the suloide's revolver, but all going down And. that work proceeds clay by day, end night by night. "That cart rope," says one young man, "has never been w'oand arou.nd my soul." But have not Some threeds of that cart rope beetn twisted? arraign before God the gift enter- prises of our cities which have a tea - donee tot make this nation of gamblere. W.hatever you get, young man in such a piece as that, without giving a proper equavalen,t is a robbery of your own seal ante a robbery of the commueity. Yet how are we appalled to see men who hem failed in other enterprises go into gift concerts, where tbe chief attraction is not mimic, but prizes dis- tributed am.ang the audience, or to trienited among the audience, or to sell books where the chief attraction is Oat the book, but the package that goes with the book. Erobacco dealers advertise tbat en c,ertain day they will putt money into their papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco in Ciembanati or New York may unexpect- edly come upon a magnificent grate. - them. may be said to sin as with a cart 000. ity. Boys hawking through the cars rope. 1 suppose you know bow they This sin works very insidiously. Oth- packages containing nobody knows made a. great roe°. Tee stuff out of er sine sound tbe drum and flaunt the what until yeti oven them and. find flee and gather their recruits. with they cvsztain nothang. Ceristian men which it Ls toilette(/' is eabing but wild hewn., but this neerobes its pro- with picturee on their wall gotten in tow weal you gull apart without (session of pale victims in dead of night, a lottery, and the brain of conamunity any exertion a your fingers. This in sile.nee, and. when they drop into taxed to, find. out some new way of is spun into threads, any of which yea the grave there Lsn.ot so much sound getting things evithont paying for as the click of the dice. Oh, how many there Oh, young men, these are the could madly span, but a great many of teem threads are inter -wound. Then you have a rope strong enough to bient an me or heni eehiP in a tem- pest. I tepeak to you of the sin of gambling, A (Sart rope ie Wets:meth is that sin, and yet I wish more especielly to draw your attention to the matt threads a inflames out of weieli that mighty iniquity is Wrested. This mime is on the advance, so that it; is we'd not only that fathers and, brothers, and sons be interested in steel a discussion, but that wives aneireothers and sisters and daughters_ look out lest their present Lome be seerifieed or their intended home be 'existed,. No man, no woman, can Maud alcef from meth a. subject, as this and. say: "Itt hes no practical! bearing upon life," for there may be. in a short time in your history an exierienre in e Well you, \yin find find. that the die tession involved three werais—earte, heaven, hell. There are gemleing establishments by the thous - mule. There are about 5,500 profes- sional gamblers. Out or the gamb- ling establishments Low many of tbem do you suppose profess to be honest? Ten—theee ten professing to be honest bee.eutie they are merety the antecham- ber to three that are acknowledged fra telutent. There are firet cless establishments. You etep a let Lie way out, of Broadway, New York, Yen go up the marble stairs. You ring, the heal. The liveried liervant int rod:tees you. The walls are lavender tinted. 'rile nuertels are ot Verraont marble. The pietuxes; are "Juplehah's Drughter" and Dore'e "Dante's" and "Froeen Regien of Hell," a mese aepropriate seeation, this last, for the Flute. here is the realette table the finest, ceetliest, mcst exquisite piece a furniture in the Ileated Slates. There ie tee banqueting room where free of charge to the guests,. you may filed. the elute and viands and wines and ciexarie sumptueus beyond. parallel. Then you come to the second elms gambling establisienent. TO it you. are introdured by a card through some "roper in." Having entered, youniust either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice leaded with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed with more poor drinks, wile soon help yea to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to see. You. saws The tow villains ot that pEace welch you as you come be Does not the panther squat in the grass know a calf when. he sees it? 1,Vrangie not for you T rights in that place or your (body will be thrown Woody into tiee ;street or . dead into the river. You go along a little farther and find the policy establishment. In that peace you bet on numbers. Betting on two menbers caZed a "saddle," betting on three nuxubers is cailled "gig," beitieg, on four numbers is calla ed "home,' And there are thous- ands of aux young men leaping into that "saddle," and mounting that "gig" and behind that "horse" riding to per- dition. There is always one kind. of sign on the door, "Exchange," a most appropriate eitee for the door, for there, M. that room, a man exchanges health, peace and heaven for logs of health, Inee of home, loss of family, loss a immortal soul. lexeliange sure enough and infinite enough. Now you acknowledge that is a cart rope of evil, but you want to know Weal are the email threads o:ut of wince it is made. •There Ls l'n many a So far all we knew of the line:den Army In Turkeetan is that it. is an emy erg:in:zee emenentle fur wax. It uneempered ity the maeste of vamp encestire withotit Whieh British teems la Inlet are belpIeee in the field. and is trailed especially with a view to ra- ta movement. Gen. leuropatkine, who aelonen te the forward school in Bus - elan trans -Caspian military panties. is be coalmine or the army on the Russo - Afghan frontier; he is a strategist a the first order, tied ie now hurrying beck ta his temmand after conferring with his; military chiefs at St. Peters- burg. Whet the outteme may be for the .temeer of these gatherings on the opposite sides or his donanions remains to be seen; whether they will tholth prove enemies or whether one. will turn out to be a friend. SLOGAN'S SILVER MINES Allow an incretteed Production tet the race or the Decline in the teem of the Meta. In spite of the fall in silver the ship- ments a ore from the Sagan for the month a July have shown a gratifying inerease over the shipments for the eame month in 1895, says the Spokane Chronicle. The record in the face of the rapid and continuous decline in the price ofeiever speaks volumes for the stability athat great northern silver camp. It le olttimed. and probably just- ly, that the veite of ore are so rich in the Seocan that eilver could, be mined at a. profit if the price shouted drop to twenty-five cents per au.nce. It is hardly likely, however, that the name owners will be put to that test. Silver will not fall miesh lower than it is at present according to the opinion of those who are ea. a position to judge, and the premise: price or oven a few centa loever will allow silver to be mined in the Sl'ocan it a fair profit. The mines of the camp, are so thor- oughly developed that it would take a mewl greater salver ilanic than that wheel ocourred in 1893 to close down the different properties. The low price of silver will, undoubt- edly, retard tbe development a many mines that are not yet on a paying basis, end in that way will have a bad effect on the different =ape ha that vicinity. elewever, the prospects are that the setback will be only tem- porary, ana the camps evill recover from the bad effects of the tow price of saver. The fact that; the large mines can be evorked at a profit with sneer at fifty cents, wile encourage capital to invest in Skean properties and those mines which are far enough develop- ed to show that they have ore will fincl ready sale it the market. The rapid progress made by the Semen country ea the past two years warrants thebe- lief that before many years it will be- come the greatest siever penducing country in the wared. REAL LANGUAGE. !The Japanese language ie said to eontain 60,000 words, every ane of svhicb :equires a different symbol.. It is quite anpoe.sible for one man to learn the entire language, and. a well-educated. Japanese is funnier with only about 10,000 wordier. - Miss Highflerer—leo, Mr. Sharpie, 1 certalely will not marry you. I cannot think what made you promee to me, ' Mr, Sharpie, bufted.--Well,• you see, it's the "illy season," end 1 must have caught the oomplaiet, or I should have shovvn more sense! ^ . • ha.ve gone down under et, took a those men who were once highly prospered. Now their foreleead is lick- ed by a tengue of flame that will never go out. In their souls are plunged. the, beaks whioh will never be lifted. Swing (Men. the door of that man's heart and you, see p. coil ot adders wrig- gling their indescribable horror until you turn away and hide your face end ask God to help you to forget it. The most of this evil is uno.dveTtised. The community dotee not hear of it. Men de, frauded in gaming establishments are not fools enough to tell it. Ome 211 awhile, however, there is an exposure. as when in Boston the police swooped upen garaieg establishment. and found in it the representatives of all classes • citizens from the first merchants cm State, street to the low Ann street gambler ; as when Bullock, the cashier of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was found to have stolen $103,000 for the purpose of carrying on gaming prao- tiette; as when a, young man in one of the aavings banks in Brooklyn. many years ago was found to have stolen e10,000 to carry on gaming practicee: as when a roma connected_ with a Wall street insurance company was found. to have stolen $180,000 to earn on bis gaming practices; but that is excel, - Generally the money leaks silently from the merchant's till into the gam - leer's wallet. I believe that one of the main pipes. leading to this sewer af iniquity is the excitement of business life. Is it not. a eignificiint fact that the mejority of the day gambling houses m New York are in proximiloir to Wall street? Men go iuto the excite - of stork gambling, and from that they plunge into the gambling houses, as, wben men are intoxicated, they go into a liquor saloon to get more dente The agitation tea is witnessed in the stook market when the cater announces the word, "Northwestern" or "Fort 'Wayne" or "Rock island" or "New Nark Central," and the rat, tat, tat of the auctioneer's hammer, and the ex- eitement matking "corners," and get t ing up " pivele and. " carrying seek," and a-" break" from 80 to 70, and the excitement of rushing around in curbstone brokerage, and the sud- dee eries, of " Buyer three T " Buyer ten 1" "rake 'em!' HOW many?' and the making or losing of el0,000 by one operation, unfits a man to go home, and se he.goes up, the flight of stain, amid business offices, to the darkly - curt ained, wooden -shuttered room, gay- ly furnished inside, and takes his place at. the roulette or the faro table. But I cannot tell all the process by which ellen get into Me MI. A man went to New York. He was a Westernmer- chant. He went into a gaming house on Park elate. Beforemorning habil& lost all his money save $1, and he moved around about with that dollar in his hand, and after awhile, caught still more powerfully under the infer- nal infatuation he came up and put down the dollar and cried out until they heard. hien through the saloon. "One thousand miles from. home, and my last dollar on the gaining tablet" Many yeare ago, for sermonio pule peeve, and in company with the chief of polka of New York I visited one of the brilliant gambling houses in that city: It was night and as we. came U p ei front all seemed dark. The blinds were down, the door eves 'guard- ed, but after &whispering of the officer witli the g.thraid at the door, we were admitted Into the. hall and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed, all the work going on in silence,- save the noise, of the rattling " chips " on the gaming table in one parlor and the re- vtolvixig ball of the roulette table in the some were shipwreoked bankers and were told. had served terms in prison: other parlor, Some of tbeee men, we brokers and. rammer dealers, and some were going their first rounds of vice, but ell intent upon the table as large or small fortunes moved. up and down bider& them. Ol,. there was something awfully soleann in the silence, the in- tense gaze, the suppressed emotions of disposeatin to hazard. itey feel a de- the players. NO one looked up. They light in -walking neer a precipice be- ell hadinoney in the rapids, and I have mese. of the sense of clenger. There i ao doubt souse mow as they sat there are people who go upon Jungfraue not horses acid carriages and houses and for the hugeness of the eras/act, but lands and. btame and family s:ushing for the feeling that they have of dawn into the votex. et. man's lite thinking, "'What would happen if I would not have been worth a farthing should fall off?" There are persons en that presence, had. he not b,een who have their blood flit/limed tend ac- compacted by the paice, if he hed been celerated skating very near an air supposed to be on a Christian. errand hole. There are men who fled. posi- obstervationi, some evere taken in by tive delight in driving within two careful. introdection some were taken inches of the edge of e bridge. It is In by the patrons a tee establishment. this disposition of the hazard that finds The officals of the law told me, "None development be gaming practiees, Here gets bal hem except by police mandate ore by SOIttle, letter Of Pat:rent. are e500, I may stake them. le I stake them, I may lose them, but I While. wet were 'there tit young man: may win $5,000. Whionever way it oainte bat, put les money clown on the turns I have the excitement. Shuf- roulette table and lost; put mere money' the roulette table and lost; 1! le the cards. Lost! Heart thump- down 013: beg. Head dizzy, At it again— just to gratify the desire for haz- ard. Then there are others who go into this sin through sheer desire for gain. It is especially So with professional gamblers. The always' keep cool. They never drink enough to unbal- BMA& their judgment. They do not see the dim so much as they see the dollar beyond the dim, end for that they watoh ree the spider ie. the web, looking as it dead until the HY presses. Thousands of young /nee in the hope of wan go into the -se practioes, They sae, Well, ray salary is not enough to ellowl this luxury. I don't get enough from my store, office or shop. I might to have finer apart- ments, I ought to have better ;wines, I ought to have more richly flavored cigars. I ought.to be, a,ble to enter,. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. threads that make the cart rope, and when a, young man consents to these prattioes be et being bcrund heed and foot by a habit wince has already de- stroyed "a great multitude that no men can number." Sometimes these gift enteeprLsest are carried on in the name a charity, and some a you. re- member at the close of our civil war haw many gift enterprises were on foot, the proceeds to go to the orphans; and widows of the soldiers and sailors. What did the men who had charge of those gift enterprises care for the orphans and widows? 'Why, they wonted have allowed theni to freeze to death upon their steps. I nave no faith 121 11 charity which, for the sake of, re - Keying pres.ent sufferings, opens a gap- ing of that has swallowed dosvn so T principaer of tee community. Young men, bay° nothing to do with these things. They on:sherpee your appetite for games of (hence. leo ote of two things—be honest or die. I have accompliehed my object if I put you on the ectokout. It is a great deal easier to fell than it is to get 1:11) again. Tee trouble is that when men begin to go wrap from the rtatle of duly they are apt to seer; "There's!: no use of my tryieg to get back. I've sacrificed my respectability. I can't re- turn." And they go on untie. they 0.te niler:Y destroyed. I tell you, mY friends, that God this moment, by Bis 110,7y Spirit, an change your metre neture, so that you will be a different man in a, minute. Your great wane—what is, id elere salttry ? Higher sorial positioa? No, no. 31 wiel tell yoa the greet want ot every male if be has not already ob- tained it—it is the grave a God,. Are there any wbo Lave fallen vietims to the sin that I have been reprehending e Yen are in a prison. You rush against the wall of this prison and try to get out, and you tale and you turn around and dash against the other well until there. is Woad on tbe grates a.nd blood on. .Your ;soul. You will never get out in this way. There. is onty one way of get- ting out. There is a key that can unlock that prison Louse. It is the key of tbe house of David. It is the key that Cluest wears at His girdle. If you will allosv Hint to pet that key to the lock, the bolt will shoot baok a.nd the door will spring open, and you will be a free man in Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a business this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands in the front door, straining bis eyesight, to catch the first gillinsee, of your return, and the calf is as fel. as it will be, and the harps of heaven are all strung and the feet free. There are converted gam- blers in heaven. The light of eternity flashed upon the green baize of their billierd saloon. In the layer of God's forgtveness they washed off ail their sins. They gent trying for earthly stakes. They tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hand from heaven towards the head of the worst offender. n is a hand not clinchedas ifl to smite but outspread. as if to drop alsenedie, Lion. Other seas have a shore and may be fathomed, but the sea, of God's love—eternity has no plummet to strike the bottom and immensity no ironbound shore to confine: it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite compassion. Its wayee are the hosannas of the redeem- ed. The argosies that sail on it drop anchor at last amid the thundering istalvo of eternal victory, but alas for that man who sits down to the final game of life and puts his immortal soul on the tally board, and after kings and queens and knaves and spades are "shuffled." and cut" and the game is ended, hovering and 'impending worlds discover that he has lost it, the faro bank of eternal darkness clutch- ingdown into his wallet all the blood.- stained wagers. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 17 ,41-rs " rain Before me Roman Governor." Acts 24, 10•25, Golden Text, Ise 41110, PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 10. 'The governor Antonies Felix, "Procurator " of Judea, Samar- ia, Galilee and Perm. a freedman °I the Emperor Claudius, appointed about A.D. 52. Answered. For the accusation, Presented by Tertallus, a learned. ad- vocate, reed. the preceding verses. Paul's answer is calm. and dignified. No flattery, no circumlocution, no in - motive, but sound argument and an honest stateemat of faot. Re shows himself to be an abler pleader than the professional orator. Maas' years. Six to eight. In that time Felix heel became acquainted with the peculiari- ties of the Jews, and. coned the more readily understand the defense of Paul. But accordiug to most accounts beeves a harsh and. corrupt ruler. Paul's in- troductory compliments are cautiously worded so ae to be within the limits of truth. 11. But twelve days. Sevez spent in purification, Acts al, 27, and Live since his arrest. Verse 1. His departure from Caesarea as an honored traveler and hie retura as a prisoner vvere butt nine days apart. Went up to . . wor- ship, Not to ineite tumult, nor to over- throw the worship of tee Jews, but to "worship" in the temple. He chal- lenges them to eirove that at any time in that twelve days he had committed any of tbe acts of watch he was ac- cused. 12. They neither found me . . . puting. On this visit Paul had done no arguing—neitber in temple nor syna- gogue, nor yet in private bcruees ; there - to preace him a sermon which woutta, by the aid of the Spirit, reaoh his commence. Righteousness. The state "oll right hying, justice to God an d man, Just. what Felix was not doing. Teraperauce. Not merely abstinenoe from strong drink, but a ourbing of all appetites andpessione; another home tbrime though Pane may not leave made any personal applica- tion. Jedg,roent to come. As the HMS! Spirit brought these truths Immo to the ccmsoience of Felix, and he rea- N-eed that be loreet give ea account of his actions to a Judge who could not be bribed, no wonder he trembled. Be temente alarmed, but to quiet hie fears dismissed not his sins but—the preaoh- cenveetent season. Many still deceive themselves by the same ex- ma...ea—not now, but some more conven- ient, time, when they are tired of sin perhaps, or death is a little nearer: then they will call. But God. Ls calling " now," and it may be with others as it was with Felix, the more convenient time will never come. Lore the raising up of the people in a mob was not chargeable to hitn. 13. Neither can they prove. Accuse. - 58 V.Ot proof. yet haw many judge even good and true men on mere re- port. " judge not, that ye be not ;Wig - 14, But Paul is ready to confess Christ even before his enemies. Are wee The way which they call heresy. [be accesed lami of being "e ring- leader of the seet of Nazarenes," the only time this term Li used in the Bils.e to de,signate Christians. "Tee WitY," here, has the force of a pro - Per name, and, seems to have been the term earliest adopted by Christians. God of roer fathers. No schism, no nem' religion, but a fuller and more P01" Leet development of the old coven- ant. Believing all things whites are written. The old Seripttires, tben, are thte reel baste of the Gospel. To Paul the Old Testament was not less, but more, to him than it had been before he believed. in Jesus. 15. Hope. Another point wherein he is not a schismetio. His hope is the same which t hey "wait for,"—a let- ter translation than allove— tees with him it is a living and directing pew- er; with them it was mere putit•ne waiting. Resurrection of the dead. The foundation of the Ceristian lioPe —it may.be, said to be the bope," for "if Christ be not raised then your faith is vain," 1 Cor. 15. 17. Roth just and unjust. "For we shall all, standbefore the judgment -seat of Christ." Rom. 14. 10. 15. Herein. In this hope, and 1* 08.1220 of this hope. The 'Christian's trust in the grace a God and the efti- oaoy of the blood of Jesus does not lead him into laxity of life. Compare the similar expressions of the apoetles Peter and John. 2 Peter 3 14; 1 john 3. 3, Exercise myself. Note the en- ergy in this word. 'rhe athlete must go through careful training both eontinuous and untiring if he would succeed. There is little hope for the Chrietian who does not "strive to en- ter in." juke 13. 24. 'We are to give "all diligence," 2 Peter 1. 5, to"press toward the mark" Phil. 3. 14, to "be careful to mebetain good works," Titus 3. 8. and to "fight the good fight of faith." 1 Tim. 6. 12, 17. Many. "Not so strong as many." —Conybeare and Rawson. 'Several, — Lange. It was five years. Acts 18. 21, 22. Ahne.. . . offerings. Two objects of the visit, both inconsistent with that of which he was accused. The alms were probably those spoken of in Rom., 15. 25. 26; the offerings those of the Pentecost and purification. Acts 20. 16, and. 21. 86. 18. Certain Jews from Asia. Procon- sular Asia, the district around Ephes- els. Those who were commanded to appear, Acts 23. 30, were not there. Found me purified. Not inciting' tumult, but fulfilling ceremonial ob- servances. 19. Here before thee. It sees the Roman, as it is the modern usage to bring the accused and the accusers fate to face; bet the Asiatic co-mplain- ants were absent. 20. These smae. Ananias and. his &dere. 21. One voice. "One saying." The aney charge that weld be sustained was his belief in the resurrection of the dead; and his Saddurean enemies knew- well that if that charge were made the multitude would promptly declare itself on Paul's side. 22. More perfect knowledge. Felix in his six or eight years must heve learned much about (the Christians. There were Christian soldiers in his own eity (Acts 10), and probably am- ong his own guards. He therefore knew more perfectly than was developed in the trial, the dorteene.s of Paul and, the hatred of the Jews. That way. The Christian religion. See note on verse 14; also Acts 9. 2; 19. 9, 23. Ile, de- ferred the= that is, he adjourned the meet, end deferred the case, He had power to defer it as long as he liked,, and his object was, doubtless,: to avoid attending tbe Jews. Verses 26, 27. 23. Coame.anded. He kept Paul still a prisoner, under the oba,rge a a sol- dier, though with large liberty. • But he was mainly selfish ie his motive, hoping Peal or hits friends would mix- othe,se hie liberty. Verse 20. 24. Drusilla. Daughter of Herod Ag- rippa I. married to the Prime a:Eli:meat, ha.d. seduc,ed rrom him by Felix, through the instramentality of a Cypriotes sor- cerer. She was a Jewess by birth, eau - cation and beltef, but far belo-w the morals of honest Judatsm. As her aunt Herodias, under very similar ciroum- stances, heard John the Baptiet, so, she desired to boar Parte concerning the faith in Christ. Hew many, while liv- ing in; sin, listen to the Gospel, hoping pereeps to hear some word to ease their consomme, hat with little thought of forsa,kteg timer sins. 25. Rea:sened. Paul sought not his own safety through the favor a the judge but took thie Opportunity put more money down on the roulette Able and lost. Then feeling in his pockets for more money, fmelsing none, be severe gnome he turned, his beck up - 01/1 tete scene and passed out. While We stood there men lost thine property and last their souls. Oh merciless. place! Not once in all the history of that gameng house has there been one word, of sympathy utt- tiered, for tee losers at the game. Sir Horace Walpole said teat a man drop- ped dead en one of tbe clubhouses of Landon', His body was carried into the clubhouse and the members of the club bega,a Menediately to bet as to whether he were deed or alive, and when ,Lt was proposed to test the matter by bleed - leg hem,. it was only hindeured bythe suggestion' that,it vvoeld be unfair to some ot the players. In these gaming houses of our cities men have theie pro - The Shamzes. WHY SUNDAY IS CHOSEN. Most ROYal Assassinations HIM Occurred OM the sabbath. Sergi& seems to be a favorite day for potion.]: assassinations of Europe. The Wh of Canons on this day re- cales,fte long list of rulers who have eitleeis met death or but narrowly es- capta it an the Sabbath at the hands Of anarceists, connxtunists or nihilists. The fact that be the old world Stan - day its the great festival, day, when the rulers go aTouxtd. and give their web- jects an. opportuinity to look.upon and. get near teems, is perhaps a sufficient explanation, Alexander II., the Russian ozar, was returning to his gairice on the after - WEALTH12._ECOVERED. nae Silver YililRedi at eceolie Talcen nem a Sunken. Slap. After having been submerged in 180 feet of water for seven years the trea- sure. on board the steamer Skyro, sunk off Cape Finisterre in April, 1891, has been recovered by divers. The Skyro sailed from Cartagena, bound for Lon- don with a valuable cargo, ineluding bar silver, valued at §45,000. All went well until approaching Cape Finisterre in foggy weather when the vessel struck on the Maxie& reef, but passea over and went dawn in deep water witbin 20m1nutes, and about two miles off the coast. An expedition went out in the same year, but was unable to secure thezasetreya.esuarre.ano.ther effort was made. with more powerful diving apperatas and resulted in 59 bars being recover- ed. The working dept." fio_2r 1! 171 s was never less than 171 feet—and it, frequently exceeded this. To obtain these bars it was found necessary to blow away the deck with dynamite, which the diver did, only af- ter great difficullty, awing to the bois- terous state of the weather. Work was compulsorily suspended in October, but agam resumed this summer with sat- isfactory remelts. 011, CHARITY! But, my dear, gently remonstrated her huhanc1 1 tbought I gave you $5 18, buy a. eaat cushion Inc your fancy table at the etir yesterday. Why, hut, John, dear, this $5 is to buy it baolc. 21 The Shainsez were of aristoeratio and. ancient lineage; in feet, they dated from Adtam and no one can do better tan that. They were a very martial people, the head of the farnely being an odd caval- ry man, a Colonel was the proud P° 808501' of not only a pretty little Jer,. sey cow, but also a race horse, whit& had been a good friend to hire in the first flush of early Manhood, and old friends being better than new. he Wee secordingly attached ter it. Through all its long proud reeord, its worst eti- enty would never aceuse it of hoeing won a race! L'exen this honorable an noble beast moat of the Colonel's small patrimony was spent, and it is to 14 hoped thes tbte fiery steed. ratecii good, for it certainly benefited no one else, least of all the family to which he belonged. 'Twee whispered, the Co1- onell's wife was a geeeral; but much as women have matte to the front of late in publie matters; we have not yet heate(1 of them entering the army 50 41218 must have been a mistake. Il!ow. belt she was kind and. dignified in mane ner, with a motherly countenance, and so might have been e commander -In- c -1114 which, we new suppose, she wale in her -lawn house at least. Them were many Misses sharozsz, sal tan and martial looking as from their birth one might expect them to be. None of them were married, the only one who was, being no longer a Miss Sham- zez does not count. It was not neces- noon of Sunday, March 13, 1881, when sexy the others should. be, for the a dynamite bomb was thrown at his carriage. The carriage was blown to pieces and Aee' xander died within a feev hours. President Carnot, of France, was at Lyons attendbm an industrial and art exhibition an Sanda.v. June 24, 1894- Tea.t .nisset as he drove to a thea.ter. Sesare Giovanni Sarlio, a Yoling anarchist, sprang upon the still oe the president's carriage and psunged a „laufe into his abdomen. Carnet died. within a few hours. Presiden. Faure narrowly eseaped younger ones were not quite grown up, while the others being women of ad- vanced thought, no doubt did not wish to tie themselves down. The elder Misses Shamsez, were. as I have said, tall; they were slight, toe, some people said spare! Their limbs were long and. aristocratic, no vulgar thickness or heaviness about them, as was very apparent to their many friends when the bicycle -suit first came into vogue. Being women of advanced thought, death on, unday, june, 13, suet. they were the first in our town to adopt was driving on the Bats de..13ou.ogne to the new style. People might say they witness the Grand Prix at the 1.ong- were vain of beauties otherwise hidden. elaampa race course, wlaen a bomb was ' but then people do say such spiteful exploded near his carriage. It was of things! Tito elder Misses Shamzez gen- faulty construction and hurt no one. evilly spent the winter abroad. their Two attempts have been made on the annual flight being a.nnounced. to the life of King Eitualert of Italy on Sun-: world of fashion in which they moved days. On. Sunday, March 17, 1878, ; by a little flourish in the "personals" Giovanni Pasa.nante elimbed into the of our " Loval," to the effect that Mrs. king's carriage in the streets of Netpees Shoenzez had given a, delightful hop at and stabbetl him in the thigh with .as her heautiful Lome on emit anti such sword. The king fought back, cut his a. night, tba.t her daughters naget bid aseailient on the erne and held hie:eat farewell to their many friends, as they bay untie. the polite; took charge of hum intended wintering ahr.'ad. The Misses On Sunday, Mareh 26, 1893, a re.igtoueSbantizes had looked charming in low fanatic, named Beradi attacked. King cut dress's of pale green with nia.uve Humbert in the streets ot Rome, but trimmings, etc. Their large terele of was captured before he did any harm.; acquaintencet; boiled they iodide have William I. of Germany, grandfather ',a plear.ant trip. anti were already leek - of th& present emperor, was twice at-, ing forward with pleasure to the spring teeked by would-be assassins on Sun-, as then their return was excested. day. On juily 14, 1801, Ossar Becker 'Whether the Mieses Shanizez enjoyed tried to sbuot him, and on Jew 2, 1878, these little trips im uot known, but that, Dr. NolZing repea.ted the attempt.. they spent their time abroad to great Nob:Ing blew his own brains out when advantage. is certain. and that these he saw that he had failed. flighte 111011,4 t'112 12101 them to eau- cate their younger sisters in a 2.8.31 that their fether's slender purse rendered °teeny's-Li impossible Ls also much to Toting 21110110111, cons (lei° Desires to liccover itnille..labrentiercraleolTlatai t lri ye ;lin, nris f a elesvior en a nb mf re ireunudss, the Palace. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE. 1 and it woke evell for the The Duehess of Marlborough amiability has a , of the :Mises S.hamzez that they were new ambition She aims not only n.t 1 thus popular, while that their :merman - restoring Blenheim to its pristine ionsitiP was Most agreeable must cer- tainly have been apparent to all, for splendor, but also at restoring to her ae aipeared once in the aforesaid "per- huslittad and his heirs the Loudon home senate', miss seameee was tees time whittle was theirs for many generations. not only to winter abroad, but was ect- In other words, she has conceived the tnallY to =Ice -a tour of the world. ; r Egypt, the Nee, and daring project of winning back Marwith heh friends. e -tall sucplaces Its are usually " thine " borough House froni royal control, and , onsuch an occasion were to be visited. peaciug it once more in the hands of She had been cavorted to the station by a number of evell-wiehers, and had the Spencer Churchials. 1 looked very smart in her tragelliog- The magnitude of the task to which gown. Of mum every one VilIS glad ebb has set herself may be estimated to hear of her good bece and were sure when -one recognizes that Marlborough her party whom she was to join on the steamer would find her twat useful. The Misses Shanizez were very kind and affable to those whom business and churchwork brought thenl in contact with, but, of course, delft you know, when one is absorbed in interesting con- verse evith society friends, one cannot Rouen hes become the recognized town residence of tee Prince of Wales, and that the heir apparmat and his fam- ily lauve conceived for it it a great and lasting affection. . But wealth, tart and social influence can, accempash wonders, and strang- be expected to eee mere outside tic:emitt- er things have happened than the , taneee, and as no 021:0 in such cases ex - abandonment of hie town home by 14 pected the Misses Sharazez to do so, no Prime of Wales in favor of a subject , one was disappointed. with reasonable olaims for its posses- l• At home these young ladies were wo- eion.t —men of fashion and. pleasure. occasion - Marlborough Reuse was built by ' ally seen skipping in friCall the yard. Sarah, the first .and greatest Duchess ,: not to be caught hanging out their of Marlborough. on the gardens( of the washing; while abroad they were clever old Friary. A stipulation in the origi-; women earning their livelihood and nai lease was to the effect that thehelping their younger sisters on in the Friary garclem shouted not be built I over. For this reason the gardens,. although in London's very heart, cl re- main to this day spacious and pro- active. The alariboreugles lived in Marl- borough Hou,se from. the days of the greet Duchese 'down to the first deoade of the present century. when the suc- cessive heavy losses of the then Dake and his son, Lord 13C.andford, caused the famile to pert with ie in order that Beenteita might le saved. Royalty at ones leased the home for Prince Leopold, husband of the ill-fat- ed heiress of George IV. In 1831 tee the Queen Dowager A.delaid went to 'eve there, and. in 1863 the present Queen assigned. it to the newly married Prince and. Princess of Wares as their posenfate town establish.rae,nt. The structure was much enearged and improved on, Ibis occesion, so that, should Diaohess Consuetlo succeed in re- gaining this liaise gem of the Maxibor- ough coronet she we'd find it. fa,r more seitable to modern requirements than it was when fortune the fickle caused it to pass away tram the houee of Spencer Carierchill. The chief authority for the rumor of th.e Duchess of Martborou,gles inten- tions in regard. to the house is a well- known London lawyer, whose name Jeas Bong been a household word for his skirl and. ingenuity in managing the 010Gft delicate affairs. , AIRS: AND NO AIRS. Business Men—There goes Mr. Hige- fly. He can put on more airs lean any man I ever saw. One itvoted think ell his ancestries were kings. , Chance Campanion--Airs? Why Mrs High.fly is the meekest man I ever met —a,levays gentle as a lamb, and. profuse nett. apologies. Business eilen—Temal What lino are you. Companion—I'm a bill collector world. But such ens the modesty of their dispositions that they did their best to hide their candle under a bush- el of pretences, instead of waving it aloft as so many,do. JILL. tlarIT OF A DEER'S LIFE. Roraa.nce , has played a prominent part with regard to the longevity of deer. What says tbe Highland ad-, age? Thricethe age of a dog is that of a _horse. Theice the age of a horse is tbat of , a man, Thrice. the age of a man is that of v. deer, Thrice tbs age of it deer is that of an eagle, Thrice the age of an eagle is that of an oak tree. This is to sssign the dear a period of more than 200 years; and the esti- mate is supportett by many highly dr- cernstantial stories. Thus, Capt. Mc- Donald, of Telltale who died in 1776, aged 86 years, is said to, have known the white hind. of tLoch Treig for fifty years, bis tether for a like period be- fore, him, ased his arandfather for siety years before him. So, in 1826, Macdonald of Glengarry is reported to have killed a stag which bore a Maxk identical witia that made on adi the on the left ear identioat 'whit tlaat made on all the calves lee cauld eateh by letven-Mac-Irtn-O, Nye oha,4 been by Etven-Mac-Ian-Og, who had been dead 150 ye,ars. Analogous stories, it may be noted, Are told countriee on the, Contieent of Europe, where deer are to be found in any number. But, ;tam, the general opinion among experts would, seem to be that thirty years or thereabouts is the limn or a deer's life.