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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1898-4-14, Page 7, COM4LVArrS, It is evident thee reltniens between Oraece anct Runeia are endereoine change, and that alienutiou hes alreaelY ,oweederi so far as to produce in larteriee not only (mousiness but resentment, 'Complaint is coeetent iu the Paris prose Ithat alliance between the two powere as thus fen- benefitted ouly Rtiesitt, •comelaine which not infrequently fettle expression in the Chamber, and ellich apparently refleets the feeling of the goyerning men. In the course eaf a leveret delete on NY)11:011 this vieev eves strongly brought out, M. Piano- taux, the Freech Foeeign Minister, nit eteacl of defeedieg the alliance, merely stated that there Wee one and &pre- hte.„14zte_d discussion, and Premier Moline sled that the Deputes should not alia- ' euss-ciist they should. "sap its aoun- ilations." As both these men know the exact condition ree the alliance, the fact !that they failed to defend it, to enlarge upon its advantages, and to reiterate their confieance in Russia, and only .asked that it should not be talked about lest Lt should be destroyed, would in- dicate that it is only fortmal. The unea,.sinese displayea bet the Gov- ernment tla,reoughout the Dreyfus af- • fair, and the tacit admiesion that if all be facts of the case should. be made public, the French people would re- pudiale the lau.ssian alliance, points in the &area direction. For as Germany .and Italy had. explicitly denied hav- ing any dealings with Dreyfus, the only • plausible explanation of the affair is that before tha Franco-Russian alliance was arrengerl Russia bought the French mobilization plans in order to make sure that France was not ready to ae- tack Germany, and that she showed theni to the latter power to remove • her hostility to the Dual League. As •the French Government knew that Ger- many had the plans, it naturally infer- red that she had bought them, end hav- iing. once comflemned Dreyfus for their sale, it was obliged to prevent his re- • trial lest the secret should get out and !the French people repudiate the alli- ance. As Russia did nothing not sanc- tioned by the diploraa,tio' ethics of the •,continent, and. nothing more than Bis- marck did to Austria at a time -when Germany and. Austria, were. in elose al- liance, there was no reason why the Freseh Government, should not have let the truth be known, .save the know- ledge that the alienation of the French people from Russia had. already gone eo far that they would refuse to; par - (Ion it. ••••••••••••••• - The causes of this alienation are not far to seek, but raay be found in the indifference and neglect with which France has been treated by Russia in recent arrangements in Eastern and Soatheastern Europe and the Far East, La which France has an interest, and in the geowing evidence that the north- ern power does not intend to help, the Republic to recover her lost provinces or re-establish her hold in Egypt. Not only has Russia made an agreement ;with Austria with respect to ths fu- ture of the Balkans without consixlt- trig France, but she has carried out ter own policy with Turkey, nomin- ated Prill,ce George for Crete, find ig- nored France in China, though all the erhile relying upon the suppoet of the' French fleet and floating Russian loans in the Paris market:. In short, France • has been used not' as an equal, but as a useful henget- on, a position which the French governing men reeent as • discreditable to the. traditions of France but full disclosure of which they fear • woulcl end in a emplane of the alliance. /That they -do not want, or so long as it exists, it is, tney think, a guarantee against invasion, and so insist that the subject shall not be discussed.. RODE WITH THE KING. An Affable Monarch and a iioldier Who • Was in a Hurry. r, A. few days ago, says one of the South German papers, a soldier was return- • to the barracks of Ludivigsburg, ,Wurtemberg, from an excursion to the suburbs. It was near the time for evening drill, and he was in fear of be- ing late. Suddenly a, small vehicle, • driven by a man in civilian's clothes, appeared. "May 1 not take the vacant seat at your side, sir ?" asked the soldier, "I am late for drill." "ill be glaa of your company," came the reply. • The trooper took the •seat. A few intimates later, leoking al his watch, he grew pale. "Pardon rae," he went on, "but • might I ask you to drive faster? I have great •fear of my tepta,in, who is ' etriet, disciplinarian. If T am, a min- ute Late he will put me in the gamed- • houee." , "To whet barrackdo you belong ?" . "The H-- barraeks." "Very well; we shall atrive in time," The driver whipped up his teem and in e short tleae drew up before the gate ter the barracks, "Thank you, sited said the soldier, deseeeding. • White the on of Mars was still bow- •ing his acknowledgments tee oftieer on duty at the armory had ordered the guard to present ams. The deliver of the vehicle was the king of Wurlerna berg. AND ari al:4;101,d1);) SURPRISED. Landlaelyeenr. Netvbearcter, Will you ekey grace? Newboardtw,—Vilat tor t IP IS 1314001) NONE!. rffAT WHICH IS WON FROM OTHER WITHOUT VALUE OVEN. werull•Nrelle Sleet WIlikelk mks Been fin, CPI'S° or the lyarld or Connote — Ong liesUlts 11ar4d as Welt as • thuanotal Tess — nee, Dr. atenkage Deleeuw:es luteareu Washington, Ainil 3.—Hey, Dr. Tal- mage preeehea thee morning from the text, Acts 1, 19 " Aceldame—thell is to say, the field of blood." Ile said: • The money that .Tu.des gave foe sale rendering Chriet was used to puecease a greveyax•d.. it3 thle money was blood money, thb ground bought by it was called in the Syriac tongue Aceldaraa, meaning ", the field, of blood." Well, there is one word I want to write to- day over every rade course where wag- er§ are staked. and over poolroom and every gambling saloon and. every ta- ble, public or private, where men and women bet for stuns of money, large or smell, and that is a worit immense dined, with the nee of innamerable vio- tims—Aceldama. t film gambling spirit, which is at all times a stupendous evil, ever and anon sweeps over the country like an epid- emic, prostrating uncounted thousands. There has never been a worse attack than that frora which all the villages, towns and cities are now suffering. While among my hearers and readers are those WhO have passed on int o+ the afternoon of life and the shadows are lengthening and the sky crimsons with the glow of the setting sun, a large rauntber of them art; in early life, and the morning is coming down *ant of the clear sky upon them, and the bright air is redolent ivith spring blossoms, and the stream of life, gleaming and glancing rushes on between flowery banks, making music as it goes. Some of you, are engaged in mercantile con- cerns as clerks and bookkeepers, and your whole life is to be pessee in the exciting world of traffic. The sound of busy life stirs you as the drum stirs the fiery war horse. Others are in the me- cha.nieal arts, to hammer and chisel your way through Ude, and success awaits you. Some are preparing for professional life, and grand. opportun- ities are .before you—nay, some of you already have buckled on the armor. But whatever your age and. calling, the sub- ject of gambling, about which I speak to -day, is pertinent. Some years ago when an association Lor the suppression of gambling was or- ganized an agent of the assoeiation came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society. He said: " No,1 can ]neve no interest in such an organization. 1 am in nowise af- fected by the evil." At that very time his son, who was his partner in busi- ness, was one of the heaviest players in fanaous gambling establishment. An- other refused his patronage on the same ground. not knowing that his first bookkeeper, though receeving a salary of only e4,000, was losing from $50 to e1.00 per night. The president of a railroad company refused to pat- ronize the institution, saying, " That society is good for the defense of mer- chants, but we railroad people are not injured. by this evil "—not knowing that at that very time two oe his con- ductors were spending three nights of each week at faro tables in New York, Directly or indirectly this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is tee risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of inning more than you hazard. The instruments of gaming may differ but the prineiple is the seine. The shuffling and dealing cards, however full of temptation, is not gambling unless stakes are put up while on the other hand gambling may be carried on with- out, cards or dice or billiards or, a ten- pin alley. • 'I'he man who bets on horses on elections, on battles, the man who deals in " fancy" stocks be conducts a business which hazards extra cdpital or goes into transaotions without foun- dation, but dependent Uponwhat men call eltick," is a gambler. Whatever you 'expect to get from yourneighbor without offering an equivalent in money of time or skill is either the product of theft or gam- ing. Lottery tickets and lottery poli- cies come into the same category. Baz- aars for •the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted on the raffling system, come under the same denomination.. Do not, therefore, asso- ciate gambling necessarily with any instrument or game or time or place or think the principle depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or 100 shares of railroad. stock. Wheth- er you patronize auction pools, French mutuals for bookrnakin,g, whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keno, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest, for it profess- es to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent. r This erime is no hewborn Sprite, but a haggard transgression that comes staggering down tinder a' warmth: of courses, through many centuries. All nations, barbarous and eivilizea have been addicted to it. - But; now the laws of the whole civi- lized world denounce the system. En- aeleneetts have been passed., but only pertially enforced, and et times not enforced. et all. The men interested it gaming IliOUseS and in jockey clubs vvield such influence by their numbers tine affluende that the judge, the jury and the pollee officer must be bold indeed who would array them- selvee, agaanat teeth infamous estate lishraents. 'gee Rouse of Conernone of England. actually adjourns on Derby day that; members May atteed the tacos, and in the best circles a society in this country to -day are Many dredS or professedly reepeetable men who are acknowledged gambler% •Roncleeds of thousands ot dollars in this land are every clay being won and lost threugh sheer gambling, Says a traveler through the west, "T heve treeelea 1,000 thiles at a time upon the weeteru writere start seen gambling at every Waking meMent tram the darn- mencoment to the, termination of the ackerney," The emithweet of tine Omni. try reeks with this site be Soled of these pities evere third or fourth house in many of the 'Alecto in a gaming plaoe, audit May be tretlafully eVerred that each of wie e iti es is curried with this evil, Kee wishing te gambla will find. placejust site to their eapaskity,iiet only, in the undergeound oyster cellar or at the teazle beck of the curtain, covered with greaey cards, or in the •steamboat smoking • cabin, vvthere tee bleated. wreteh with rings in his ea" deals oat his peek tied winks at the uneuepeoting traveler, providing free drinks all around, but in gilded par- ities and amid gorgeous surroundings, This sin works ruin first by providing an unhealthful stimulant. :Excite - is .pleasueable. Under ever sky and in every age men here sought it. We inust at times have excite- ment. A thousand voices in our me Luxe demand it. It is right, It is healthful. It is inspiriting . It is a desire God given, But anything that Lim; gratifies this appetite peel hums it back in a terrific reaetien is deplor- abie‘and wicked. Look out for the agi- tation that, like a rough musician, in bringing out tee, tune plays se hard that he breaks down the instrument, God never made a man strong eneugb to endure the wear and tear of gaInb- I ing excitement. A young man having suddenly in- herited a large property site at the haecird tables enijt takes up in a lice box the eetate won by a father's life- time's sweat and &Maims it and tosses Lt away. Intemperance soon stigma- tizes its victims, kicking hun out, a slevering fool, into the ditch, or send- ing him, with a drunkard's hiccough, staggerieg up the street where hie family lives, Bet gaaneling does not in that way expose its victims. The gambler may be eaten up by the gamb- ler's passion, yet you only discover it by the greed an his eyee, the hardness of his features, the nervous restless- ness, the threadbare coat and his em- barrassed business. Yet he is on the reed to ruin, and no preacher's voice or startling warnings or wife's entreaty can make him stay for a moment his headlong carper. The infernal spell is on him, a giant is aroused within, and though you bind him with cables they would part like thread, and though you fasten him: seven times arouncl with chains they would snap like rusted wire, and , though you piled up in his peth heaven high Biblee, tracts and sermons and on t the top should set the cross of the Son of God, over thena all the gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks on his way to perdition. "Acelda.ma, " the field of blood!" Again, this sin works ruin by killing I industry. A man used to reaping 1 scares or hundreds of dollars from the gaming table will not be content with 1 slow work. He will say, "What is the use of trying to make this $50 in my 1 store rit -e fire times that ' in half an hou.r by the dice?" You never knew •a confirmed gambler who , was industrious. The men given to this vien spend their time not active- ' ly employed in the game in idleness or I intoxication or sleep or in corrupting: new victims. This sin has dulled teal carpenter's saw and. cut the band of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's har- row and sent a strange. lightning to! shatter the battery of the philosopher. I The very idea in gaming is at war with all the industries of society. Any trade or occupation that is of use is ennobling. The street sweeper advances the interest of society by the cleanliness effected, The cat pays for the fragments it eats by clearing the house of vermin. The fly that takes the sweetness from the dregs of the cep compensates by purifying the air and keeping back the pestilence. But the gambler gives not anything for that -which he takes. I recall that sen- tence. He does make a return, but it is disgrace to the man that he fleeces, despair to his beart, ruin to his busi- ness, anguish to his wife, shame to his children and eternal wasting away to his soul. He pays in tears and blood and agony and darkness and woe. Went dull work is plowing. to the farmer when in the village saloon in one night he makes and loses the value of a summer harvest! Who will want to sell tapes and measure nankeen and cut garments and weigh sugar, when in a night's game he niakes and loses and makes again and loses again the profits of a season. John Borack was sent as a mercan- tile agent from Bremen to England and this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that alt was not right. He was a defaulter for e87,- 000. It was found that he, had lost in Lombard street, London, e29,000 • in $ Futon street, New York, el0,000: and in New Orleans, 53,000. He was im- prisoned, but afterward escaped and went into the gambling profession. He died in a lunatic: asylum.. This crime is getting its levee under many a mer- cantile house in our cities; and before long down will come the establislunent, crushing reputation, home comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some anthentic statement before us. The ten gaming houses that °nee Were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearly 325,000,000 francs. Furthermore, this sin Is the source of dishonesty. The. game of hazard it- self is often a aheat. How many tricks and deceptions in the dealing of cards! rite opponent's band is °Mimes found out by fraud, Cards are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert gamesters have their ace complicee, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found loaded with platina so that doublets come up every time. These dice are in- trodue,e.d by the gaenblers unobserv- ed by the "honest men who lune come nit° the play, and this" accounts for • the feet than 99 out of 100 who gam- ble, however wealthy when they be- gan, et the end are found to be poor, miserable., haggard wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of tbe liaise that they once owned, In a gaming house in San Francisco, a yetteg man eaving juet come from tee tunes depoeited a large sum Up- on the ace and woe $22,000. Bat the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes lila on the teuetenances of all. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is herd mita the ace is revealed favorable to the bank. There are ,shouts of "Foul! Foul !" but the keepers et the tables produce their patole ana ,the uproar is silenced, and the bank as woti $05,000, 1)o you call this a game of .chanee 1 There is no chance but it. t. Notice aleo the effect of this crime upon d.omestie lutppineee. It has sent its ettthIeSs plc/Wealth threugh rode of families, until the Wife set in rags and the deueleters were disgreo- ed, and the sons grewl up th the eeme infaMetee prtiotices or took a. short cut to ileetruetieet eethes the murderer's scaffold. Eraole ties lost all °Imams fox• the garabler. How tame are "the cnild- rerde oaresses mel a wife's devotion to the gambler: Hew drearily the fire borne OilUedoeciestie Werth! There Must be leudee laughter and sotne- thine tq wiz and, ,aemething to loge, and exeitemeat to drive the heart east- • er,. fillip tee blood and fire the nee %reflation No home, however bright, Oa keep bol the gamester. The sweet call of love boutids back from his iron' sone end all endeerments are coma/need in the fire of his peesioxi. family Bible will go after all other treesures are lost, and it. his crown in heaven were put let° Lieletricl he would cry: "Here goes—oee more game, ray boys! On this one throw, stake my crown' of ilea -yen!" A young man in London on conaing of age received a fortune of $120,000, and through gambling in three yeses was theewn on his mother for support. An only son went to New Oeleans. 'He wae rich, intellectuel and elegant in man- ners. His !tweets gave thine on his de- parture from home then" lase blessing, The sharpers got hold of him. They flattered him. They bevel hien to the gaming table and let tam win almost every time LOX a good while and patted him on the baek and said, "First rate player." But, fully in their grasp, they fleeced. him, me his $30,000 was lost. Last a al), he put up his watch and lost that. Then he began to think of his home and of his old father, and another, and. *thee thus: "My beloved parents, yo,u will doubt- less feel a momentary joy De' the recep- tion of this letter from the child of your begone on whom you have lavish- ed all the favors of youe declitung years. But should a feeling of joy for a moment spring un in your hearts when ykau siao,uld have received this teem me, cherish it not. I bane fall- en deep, never to wise. Those gray h,airs that I should have honored and prole:Ana I shall beteg dawn in sorrow to the grave. I will. n,ort ourse my de- seroyer; but, de may God eveage the wrongs and impositions practiced upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him! This, my dear parents, is bhe last letter you Will ever receive front me. I humbly pray your forgive- n,ess. It is ray dying prayer. Long before you will Lave theeived this from me the cold grave walleye closed upon me forever. Life to me is insupport- able. I cannot—nay, I will not—suffer the shame of having ruined you. Foe get and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortunate son." The old father came to the post-ofice got the letter and fell to the floor. Teey thought he was dead. at first., but they brushed beck the white hair from his brow and fanned him. He had only fainted. "Aceldama, the field of blood!" When things go wrong at a gaming table, they shout: "Foul1 Foul!" Ov- er11 tihe gaming tabies of the World I cry out: "Foul! Foul! Infinitely foul!" "Gift stores" are abundant through- out the amintry. With a leek or knife or sewing machine or coat or carriage there goes a prize. Art these stores people get something thrown in with their putrehase. It may be a gold watch or a set of silver, a ring or a farm. Sbarp way to get off unsalable goods. It has filled the land with fictitious wrecks and covered up our population with brass fintger rings and despoiled the moral sense of the community, and. is fast making us a nation of gambl- ers. The gambling spirit has not stepped for any indecency. T,here transpired in Maryland a lottery in which people drew for Lots in a burying ground. The rcuodern habit of batting about every- thing is productive of immense mis- ebief. The most healthful and innoc- ent amusements of yaehting and base- ball playing litive been the occasion of putting up excited and. extravagant wagers. Tthat which to many has been advantageous to body and mind has been to others the means of financial and moral loss. The custom is pernici- ous in the extreme where seams of men in respectable life give themselves up to betting, now on this boat, now on that; now on this ball club, now on that. Bettin,g that once was chiefly the accompaniment od the race course is fast becoming a national habit, and in sonte circles any opinion advanced on polities is accosted. with the inter- rogaties, "How much will you bet on that, sir ?" This custom may make no appeal to low, lethargic. temperaments, but there i are n the country tens of thousands: of quick, nervous, sanguine, excitable tem- peraments, ready to be actect uponand their feet will soon taike hold on death. For some months and perhaps for years they will linger in the more polite and elegant aircle of gamesters, bat after awhile their pathway will come to the fatal plunge. Shall I sketch the history of the gam - bier? Lured by bad company, he finds his way into a place vi=here honest men aught never to go. He sits clown to his first game, eat only for pastime and the desire of thing thought socieble. Tee players deal out the cares. They u:newaseiously play into Satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and I:0th the players' souls for trunms, he Leing it Sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up, jest to add interest to the play. Game after vette ie played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their Wailers. Their brows lower and eyes flesh, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, it lealithcbeseit fists jaws, anancidcoeulikemypresseir d lips,iomuands that seem starting from their sockets, to see the final tarn before it cones. If losing, pale with envy and trenatt- Imes with unutterect oatee test back hredysliteticuP°Iaangthh—e'h'IleaZ, thtotit Twhinarvieini% wiih A few years have eassed, arid he is oitly ,the wreak of O man. Seating himself at the game ere he throwe the first card, be stakes the last :relic of herfi—tbl marriage rlge° s:1ectiemoen bWeetveen n The game is lest, and, stageetieg back in exhauetion, he dretlate. Tale bettglat hours of the past mock his agony, and in his dreams fiends wtth eyes of flee end tbngliett of 'flame cir- cle about him with joined, henda, to dance, tine sing their ergies with hele • chorus, client:hag, "Hail brother!" kiesing hie claterne forehead until their Inetheotne locks, flowing with eeeeeitte, ertitte into bie boereei and eink their ehare lenge and seek up hie lifeblood anti, telling avowed hie heexte pineh it with chille and ehtuidets imetttertibles, Team warning 1 Yona are e0 etrenger • tens of theaSande Whe have by tme votatiec teen oeerthroWn. "110 young maii in our cities en eecape being tempted, Beware ef the fleet *inalirigel, Tells road. is a dowe grade, and, every .instant inereasee the Meg mentien. Lennon eot upon this trea- :heroes Sea, SpU1 bulksetrew the beach, Everlasting Ozer= howl tin end down, tossing unwary craft into the Hell Cato, speak of what I bave • wee with my own eyes, ale it gambit ere; deathbed there manes no hope, He will probahly,die alone, His foreaer as- sociatee come not nigh tie devellieg, \Viten the hoar comes, his miserable, soal, will go out of a miserable Wel/I- to a miserable eternity. k As hs poor remains parse the house where he was ruined, old companions my look out for a moment and. say "There goes the cad ca,rcaes—cletke at last," but they will not get up from the table. Let hini dowa into his grave, Plant no eree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough, Plant no for -- gel -me -nets or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not merle to grow on suce a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sunshine, for that would be mockery, but in the dismal night, when no eters were out and the spirit of darkness come down, hersea on the wind, teen visit the grave of the gam- bler, • .ABOUT JEWS IN FRANCE, wee the Eat% Ws Mated In the City Repalki I e — They Control the Country. The Daily Mail, London, England, says: To Llae majority of the people of this country the Jew is a person who buys oar old clothe% deals in ancient pictures, and lends money to folks who wish to barrow. In a word, Jews fol- low callings in which brain is of more value than muscle. No one will deny that the coraraendieg position they have acquired is mainly owing to na- tural ability, fortifiecl by a sharpen- . tag of the faculties consequent upon the persecution they sustained in the past. Still, as we have ourselves no incon- siderable share of financing ability we have so far been able to held, our own with the l'sraelite. Therefore, the spec- tacle of a liberty -loving nation like the FSemiis tic agitation to as incomprehen- siebelen.ch, engaging in a furious anti - EXPLANATION OF IT. Yet this attitude. of th'e French na- tion is not so unreasonable as it ap- pears, Supreme as is the genius of their race in the world of art, it cannot be said that they sl.•ov equal talene in business. They are rich because they are frugal, and having, as stated, a much keener eye for beauty than for business, and regarding evith scorn what they regard is us as the "shop - keeping instinct," the Jews of France, for all practical purposes, control the destinies of the country. Their triumph, however, has a deep- er significance. It assumes the shape of retribution. The French Sew isnot a new -comer in the country, for as the Synagogues of Poland, Germany, Rus- sia and Holland have availed them- eelves more of the steaxaboat than the railway to get ricl of their surplus population, nine -tenths of the Jews in France to -day are the descendants of the race -which before the revolution cielrepereseecruettsounbjected to the tnost rue For a tinae—under Napoleon—a change for the better took place. In 1807 they were praoticaelly i.nvested with the rights of citizenship, but the imagination of the Emperor, which had been kindled by their sufferings, soon cooled, and in the tollowing year they were degraded to their old poen tion. But freedom was at hand. The revolution of 1830, which abolished the Roman Catholic: creed, as the state re- ligion ea France, gave birth to a de- cree, proposed in the Chamber, by M. Preverich, that the ministers of the Jewish faith should. receive salaries from the State in the same proportions as were paid to the different sects of the Christian religion, namely, in pro- gpaortitoionns.to the numbers of the congre- POSITION BY WEALTH. From that moment their fortunes were assured. They prospered under Napoleon II., but it was the Republic which laid the foundations of their present greet power awl well-being. Practically speaking, Lhe power of he Jews in this country is confined o Lhe influence derived from the pos- session of enorames wealth. Our in- titutions are fettered., and. the "Jews lave little hand in the moulding of ontical partiee. tn. France it is the -eveese. Spreading over the land, and i Oleg innumerable official posts, they aye contrived to obtain not only a Lem tooting in commercial enterprise, ueutin the machinery of Government as v es no religious statistics were given the last ceneus in France, the num- ber of Jews in that country is not ccurateler known. For eorne reason r other, their jOarnalS declare that hey do not; number 50,000. 13y those est qualified to judge the numbers pproximetely are nearer 600,000. Weether Dreyfue be guilty or not of thing seerets to e foreign power, the hence peoele do not were to woe. le ie a Jew, etel thee is enough for hem. The press has joined, in the oat- rY, and the jew is now a, target for he malice of the boulevards JeWs ill snot do any hard or useful work, say the French, and in the newspapers coreeependelits ere gravely requested o 8ay Whellier they know of any Wish 1 ocks m ithe, bl &demi h s, u Oda es Miners, or mentbers of similar killings. Mee ere told that the Jews' evotioe to LIAO,* hes derriorelizeti the entry. When the whele nation Agee tamest $ one that the pro-• erty of the JeWs has not heee, won e herneet toil, but by limey and felted, le a grave qtteeticel as to What will e the reetilt, tit Fettnee cries equelly lid he'd deed away heeenee the grieve ,rice has been It sentiMental olio, In is cage the Preemie appeals te the tlret), IIIE SUNDAY SCROOL. • NTERN4Ti0NAL LESSON, APRIL 17. tee* lie TillatilignrattOn" 310411, t4, tlen Text, Jaho 1, 1, PRAerfoia, NoTEs. Vere 1. After aix lity. One weele after a coevereation with Lis dieuiplee in which jeetis hul foretold his death, Leke iaioludes in his count beth the dey of the converisatien and -the day of the transtigeration; Matthew ane Mark exolud.e both. Jesus teketh Peter, •,Temes and John. These me e were weal our Lord ivhen he raised the daughter nI Jaerus, Mark 5, 37 and be the hear of eLs agony at Gethsemane Matt. 26 37, It throws some light on the human oharacter .ane tastes Of ;Testis to ob- serve that the three wbo were thug in elosest syinpathy with him had been named, because of pereonal charm!.- istics, the "Rock" and the "Sees of Timeder." 4. eigh mountain. Peter calls this "the holy mount," An old tradition survives the centuries that it was Meant Tabor, but the three narratives all require solitude on the mountain top, and Tabor was at this tien.e covered withhouses and forti ficketions. Just before this Jesus Lad been in the neighborhood of Caesarea. Philippi, which is near to Hermon, and Herniola is therefore generally be- lieved to hav ebeen the scene of the transfiguration, See introductory nate. Luke tells us that the Master ascended the mountain to pray. Apart. Fax from interruption. 2. Was transfigured. before them. They were awakened from deep slum- ber by the power of this vision. It was plain to view; they never forgot it or doubted it. "We have not followed cunningly devised fables," said Peter, years afterwards, "but were eyewit- nesses of the majesty,of our LordJesus Christ." Like Paul's anchor, their vision reached to that winch was with- in the veil. Their spiritual insight was clear. It is hardly iereverent to conjecture that one whose spiritual. faculties were not keyed. up to so high a pitch could not have seen the heeven- ly glory even though he had been pres- ent. His face did shine as the sun. A week before this he had told his disci- ples to expect to see him. "in the glory of his Father." Compare Rev. 1. 13-17 and Acts 26. 13. Three eeangelists strain their powers of language to de- scribe this glory. His raiment was white as the light. Matthews phrase makes us think of the calm, even shin- ing of the sun. Mark uses the word "glistening," twinkling like a planet. Luke says "flashing,' like lightning. This wonderful light was not shed up- on Jesus; it came from him as its source. His face did not shine as did the face of Moses at the foot of Sinai, when he had to veil it because of re- flected glory. The spiritual forces within Jesus had become so full and intense during prayer that his own holiness shone straight through body and. clothing. 3. There appeared. Plainly seen; clearly recognized. Moses and Elias. The representative of the law and the representative of the prophets, both of which our Lord had came to fulfill. Both Moses anci Elias had been, in their own persons and careers, to a good degree types, syeabols, proeherdes, of the Christ. God had sent Moses in the world's gray morning, just as early as he could find one nation out of all on earth morally able to adept his lane So soon as that nation showed appre- ciation of the virtue maintained by Moses's law God sent the prophets, of whom Elija,h was a recognized lead- er, to help their fellows to spiritual light. In the fullness of time, just so soon as any considerable portion of the world could accept his teachings, God sent his well -beloved Son. Talking with him. Concerning his death. 4. Then answered Peter. The word "answered" does not, in biblical usage, Make it necessary to sappose that some one had just spoken; Peter's remark seems to have been called. out by his fear that the two prophets were about to depart. Said unto Jesus. Peter was very ready with his tongue, and one almost -wonders Mete he did not speak directly to Moses and Elias. It is pathetic to note that just now he was too awstruck to do so. It 'is good for us to be here. Mark tells us that he spoke as one 'bewildered, not know- ing w:hat he said. His spiritual joy and mental confusion were equally inex- pressible. Let us make. The Revised Version gives "I will make," eneoh is More cheracteeistie ot Peter, Here three tabernacies. Huts made of bran - !Mee of trees. He desired ehat the holy visitors might stay and sojourn a white with the Lord. einkehaps--whu knows? —such a sojouirn might make the death of our Land annecessaxy." But God knows, what we are slew to learn, that the richest blessings oil life are often best, for us when cut. shorte 5. A bright cloul overshadowed them. Overshadowed Jesus, Moses, and Elias. Petee atter:y.9,M called this cloud "the excellent glory," which would. seem to point to the Shekinah, tbs visible symtol or th,e divine presence. We may picture the three enveloped with bril- liant haze. A voice out of the demi. • Which voice had. been heard at the be- ginning of ette Lord's otereer, Luke a, 22, anl was to be beard again at its close, John 12. 28, In whom I em well pleased, "On whom my good pleasure rested." Be is the ehesen one to ;re - (kern the race. Hear ye him. Listen be him as the Teacher of whom all oth- ers were types ancl forerunners; listen to him as the Crophet predicted by Moses. 6. They fell On their fate and were some afraid. Filled with awe, Bead the etory oe told. in Meek and Tilike apa the whole eenie will bee,ome More reel, , 7, Tenoned him. The loving touch of the Master' reassures them. Be not afreltd, N'ote how often jeses and his messekagere have to repeat tele exher- teflon to his timid. followers 8. When they heti lifted mp their oyes. Raised them from t lie ground, where in their timidity thee- had fixed them Jestts billy. No longer assoteat- ea with Moos and Flies ; no longer Clashing with heavenly glory; only the eaille plain Carpoliter-rabbi who had gone up w'itla akera to laie summit, 9, As they eaine deWn front the Wen - take. Probably, though f41:4 theteinly. the treasfigaratieri toek plette in the night, anti they deem:titled itethe Were- ing. Jesus (Merged them, Commended them. The viehei, tae spectsete, Tell. • . net maxi, leer the present the video was to be exclusively for their owe euelport and comato't. Until, the Son of nian be risen, agairi from tee deed. Net till then ecrald it be itederetood. NOW it was not uiuleestoed even by tee en three, for ''they questioned one with another what the eitsieg from theedead shouad be." Mare, THE IlUEEN LOVE'S ANIMALS, IlteGreat Care raken of Iler 110r5014, Cattle and Dogs. Queee Victoria, loves dogs, admires bores, and, appreciates"all agile -tale ex- cept oats. The possession of an ani - mai, she thinks, makes the writer re- sponsible for its well-being. Tee roy- al stables, therefore, are hygienically perfect, and the royal kennels modete of cleanly, healthy dog-liouees,• member of tee royal, heusehold, WI° wrote "The Private Life of the Queen" Ls our authority for the folbek ing a0 - count of Her Majesty's peter • The queen's pet dog for many years was a collie teamed "Share," who, though a bad-tempered, beast, always when with his mietress etheved as a dog should. The servants were afraid of it. "Noble," another collie, took special charge of the queen's gloves. When the queen moved anywhere her suite generally comprieed half e doe - en dogs. The queen is proud of her live stock. weich is famous for taking prizes, Ali her cattle are washed once a week with a mild and sweet disinfectant. As the work is done by experienced men from' the time the oreetures are young calves the animals grew to enjoy the process. The dairy cows are kept and milked in a, long double row of etails, each label- led. with its occupant's name. The royal stables are arranged in a series of roomy, airy, loose boxes, a dozen of which form a "court," as it is not thought expedient to crowd a, number of horses under one roof. Eighty horses generally stand in the castle stables, wiken the court is at Windsor, and at the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace one hundred aud twenty horses are kept. The stable fittings in all the reseil mews are re- markable for their plainness and neat- ness, and fer the absence of nickel. ornament and brilliant tile work. No horse in Her Majesty's service is ever killed when old age renders it un- fit for work. Such horses are gen- erally put out to grabs, or are sent to the royal farms to do such light tasks as their strength may permit. The queen prides herself on the fact that no horse in her stables has ever been docked—a pr-actice she thinks cruel and unn a, tu rel All the queen's horses undergo e special training before they are con- sidered safe for riding or driving. Af- ter they have been broken, they are driven day after day past every kind of military band, and are made to stand by raihvay trains, and to hear every sort of whistle and. rattle. Be- fore any great publie ceremeniel the horses to be used. in the procession ere walked through a howling crowd of grooms and stable -lads. The horses are also broken to firing, by taking them down on a field day to Aldershot. - where the volunteers engage in sham, battles. SOME UNUSUAL REQUIREMENTS. 1 What Some English EsuplayerS Beguile Their "People" to Do and pint to Do. A famous English comedian has al- vrays one peculiar clause in his con- tracts. His salary is arranged for iri black and white,and in addition it is agreed that he shall receive a certein number of bottles of champagne per week, and eig•ars ot fine brands ad. Another actor adorning tee lighter stage has exulless aeguments with men- agers concerning hie broughem. When the price to be paid for his serviees has been agreed upon, he always demands the addition of his carriage hill. an a London ellen ilatrenhh,e(.1 eanPe, tomers of very good class a olause in the agreements provides that the as- sista.nts shell at lance time drink no spirits end eat neither onions or cheese, Likewise they are at midday to abstain Iran. steokizag anything but cigareetes. At many houses a, daily shave is com- pulsory, this stipulation, oleo being re - diced to writing. ; Young women engaged, by a fashion- able London hairdresser agree to <lye their hair 'when oecat1ion requires to way shade thee is the rage. The juniore may also be directed to adopt a tint not fashienablel bub which is caleel- mead to "eet elf " the cdiffuee of the —first hands," either by ecoatrast or oteerwise. The firm, however, egress to supply only perfectly harmless "stains," and to haa itseir eespoxi- sible for any possible ill results of such application. In an action for breach of contraot two brothers "living in "-at a big wholesale house pleaded a novel de- fence, When engaged, they had expeese- ly stipulated that they should, net be required to eat coact meat, amt tele rule had not beee adhered to. Appreoieting a aistinet ektvieg of ax-' pease from teeing travellers who were Wee eyelets, 0." pushing " firm aces et) to such conviction. Coming a,orose ernert Men, lylo deesitet celtlea,te, the whedieg reet,, he is 11 engaged, plocigod to become a Aare...Within three nkontee. Dulness having oef oonse- gnome or tee mattention of, a Mee - ager who was often inebriated, eel/O- tte proprietor eavertieed for 0 netu who was e, eteiet teetotaller. The teem eviseeetteed, elettee. nee ineertea itL the contraet which he eigilied, provii. big for his insteet &missat if, retied owlet/Ming taledeolic liquors', The plotigo wits never breken, hut after Working up the trade' the tettialegee tete evith toirttightls taking