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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-6-23, Page 3NOTES AND COMMENTS Tne offioial polilie,ation by, the Trans - Teed Goveroment, a the d.espateh. re- cently sent by President Krieger to Mr, Joseph Chemberlain, repudiating the eozerainty of. Great Britain, am - founts to a declaration of independ- IMMO on the part et the Boa's of Um Transvaal. At the Colonial ()tacit in London it will probably be taken as a declaration a revolt and treated ac- eordingly, Recent reports from South Africa state that the British garrisons in the Cape Colony and Netal have re- ceived considerable reinfoneereents, and that the organization of local corps in the territories north and west of the Tranevaal has been !Icing on actively for some time. The Boer on their gide have not been idle, and are per- tecting their preparations for defence with all the eneans at their disposal, including a defeneive treaty with the neighboring Orange Free State. • The basis of the repudiation of Brit- ish suzerainty MOW formally deolared • by President Kroger is found in the absence cif its mention in the conven- tion between the British ond Trana- 'veal Goveretnarents itn1884. In tb:e con- vention of 1881 it was specifically im- posed -and reluctantly accepted, by the (Been foe tbe purpose of gaining time. In ibe arrangement of three years after the condition of suzerainty was omitted, and the right of veto (tuning Inez months on all treaties with for- eign States, except the Orange Free • State, was the only external obligation contained in it. How far the Trans- vaal Government is legally justified in its repudiation of British suzerainty remains to be peen; the question de- pends entirely on Die understanding when the convention of 1884 was • drawn up. It is unlikely that the om- ission of any reference to the condition DJ suzerainty wa,s acoidental or an act of forgetfentess; and, ,unless there was a distinct abrogation of all the condi- tions contained. in the agreement ot .1881, the British Government might legitimately continue to claim the right of sTunerainty until it was form- ally lelinquislie& after diplomatic agreeneent. This the present head of the Colonial Office in London has so far shown no disposition to do. On the contrary, he has /been at all times insistent in his determination to main- tain the paramount authority • of the 13ritis.b Croft in the Transvaal by as- sertion, and in the last resort by force if necepsarye BASKET OF STEINER FROIT reen. REV, DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON SPIRITUAL BLESSING, Dead Ripe Fruit Shooed Be fend at tince Illessengs neon iinivennes linnet is Pleasant to the Eye and Taste, so the Gospel Is Pleacant. Washin'gtore despatch sayst—Ren. De. Talmage preached from the follow- inwords: "And Ire said, Amos, evliat eeest• thou? And 1 sant, a basket of strainer fruit."—Amos viii. 2. A stout -chested, swarthy -limbed, brave -hearted man was (tailed out to rebuke Israel. His name was Antos. He was brought up ataxia ebeep and cat- tle, an& in eddition to his occupation as herneman, he had tbe business, of gathering sycamore-fruit—a very dif. floult business, because, if the fruit were not properly ripened, and jost -before it maturing it were not wenn: tured with the teeth of an iron cob, the the fruit would be bitter and thoroughly unpalatable. Having al- ways lived in the country, when Amos conies to -write or to epeele, his allus- ions are rural --full of thresbing-floor, and eheaf-laden carts, and grass-hop- ners, and mowings, and orchards, end vineyards, and, in my text: "a basket of summer fruit." Just what kind of fruit 'this was I do not ktow, whe- ther sycamore -fruit, or OoMegre. ntes' in another the yellow fever raged.; but ' The Boers, meanwhile, have not ab- andoned their resolve to recover their independence, acknowledged in 1852, taken from them in 1877, and par- tially regainea in 1880, after the affair of Moneta Hill. They have been stead- • ily training and arming with that end In vietv. The bungled Jameson raid rouged the active sympathies of their fellow countrymen in Natal and the Cape, end of not a few among the oth- er nationalities in those colonies; and it larought a.bout more than anything eltse the willingness of the Orange Free State to enter into the defensive ka- gue proposed by President Kruger. It also obtained for the Boers the moral ounport of several European Govern - 'nerds, followed. by material •assist - &nee in different ways. Whether the repudiation of British suzeraintywith all its obligations, by President Krieg- er, at the present moment, has been • wise or expedient will be judged by •results. The step appears to have been •taken with greet deliberation, and probably with the approval of friendly powers; and in •the inoreasing newer- tainty of the political situation in Eur- ope, it becomes an act of international importance. TRAINING ENGLISH SOLDIERS. 4.,M1plir,‘",7777,7). •THE EXETER TIMES notineement .ot the good nal"' the house was emptied of all its gueets, yo, who axe seate4 at the banquet cd this world, or whirling in ins gaieties and frivolitiee, if to -night you could hear the sweet strains of tbe Gospel trumpet announic,ng Christ's victory OVer sin and death, an hell, you. would rush forth, glad in the eternal deliver- ance. The Watetleo againet sto has been fought, and our Cotentanderein- chief hatte won the day. 0, the joy of this salvation 1 I do riot eare what metaphor, what comparison yeeti have; bring it re• me tb,at I may use it. Ant - 08 shall bring one simile, lealah an- other, David anotber, John another, Beautiful with antieipatiens. 1 spread Out the heaped up, large, round, lus cnons "baeket of simmer Eolith You nave noticed thet if summer fruit is not taken immediately, it soon fails. Font, the speak; then a multi- plieatioe of defects; after trWhile a, eat - ening that le offensive; and, then It le all flung out. So I have to tell you that all religious advantages, all Gost pel opportunities, all religious prim leges, whilethey are beautiful and at- traetive, periele right speedily if you do pot take them. I suppose you have no- ticed. how swiftly the days andyears go by. Every day seems to me like "a baeket of euentner fruit " the moruing eky is vermilion, the noonday is ono, lineethe evening cloud is fire -dyed. Ev- ery day has its oluster of blessings and its fruity branehes �f opportunities. But how soon they are gone! Where is 1873? [870? ISM ? 1850? Gone an thoroughly as the fruit \viten dropped from the trees and netted last August. Illvery year may have its clearacteeine tic. In one the, wan broke out; in an- other the locusts made terrible Jaynes; figs; but I do know that God meant I care not what be the oharacteristice, they are all gone save one. Of the six thousand years of this worlds exis - mace, oint, one is left. Aye, Len months Of that is gone, or nearly gone, end the tongue in the clock of the tient hs wiU soon strike twelve, and than this year will be as dead as all its predecee- sors. In your linrany, you put theln5- terica.1 volumes e,ide by side•, volatile first volume second, volume third, 1vol- ume asl, °;11intilo!dr tm' athOf bi ssilx"Yth°oCusainhde n eolumes three hundred and sixty-five pages in each of the volumes, and in the last day. at one flash, you will read all of them. Time how swiftly it goes! Gra.y :ere here and there upon you, fruit thrown into the streets, and en- and some of you know it not, The and means; to -night for for Urea us, the truth that spiritual blessing, like summer fruit, must be used immediate- ly, or it will perish. Many of you. remember, a few' nears ago, when the peach orop suddenly ripened, and all the rail trains and steamers • coming to our city were ladenett with the delicious product. The, fruit was dead ripe, o,nd not able to wait utatil the glutted markets were cleared, and. tap there' were heindreds of thousands of dollars' worth of the to the rivers, and carted book again to erarioh the soil. 0 the perishable nature of suhamer fruit. It is so "crown -foot," iS coming neater up to- wards the corner of the eye. You. COP more than you. nsed to, You ha,ve been di,scussing Eta to the propriety of tne work will go on and again wee out of every ten will he one, and egein the decimation will take lilaee, until not a single person in this hottse tonight will be alive, Our •bodies, some Of them, will bei Greenwood, an Laurel Hill, in Mount Auborn in Oak- lands, in Grey enters churchyard, ii the village cemetery ; but your souls wild be in one of two pieces, tile natnee of which 1 need not naention, for they rush upon you this moment with thunderous articelation and em- phasis, much like our spiritual blessings, winch must be used immediately, or never wearing glasses. Yon are going from the thirties hilt° the forties and from. the o the seventies. The colour is going. hhe stalls of an agricultural fair, used at, all. To -night, instead of hay- forties into t e fifties and from the fin- ing you wandering around as through ties into the sixties, and from the sixties • out of the "basket of summer fruit.' would have you, with profound and The curculio of trouble hath left the agitated feelings of soul, look upon this mark of its sting. The work of decay text as depicting your last chance for has begun and the full baeket of humtaf tr:nolvil of soon grbaeesnptied ve. iillliGrat bee - heaven, as it is all suggestively set "i forth. "Behold a jeasieet of summer came anxious about my soul, there was a. soliloquy I read in -Mr. Pike's "A_de fruit." Was this eitaternent of- the text the dress to the Unsaved." It was a shill - ague, on thie very subject:. repre- blundering comparison of a man used sented a men dying, and as be was dy- to literary compodition? nInnyou think) ing, the Geode stollen. As toe omen the analogy will hold out? Is There struck, the man -was startled, and he eried out: "0 time, it is fit,that thou any similarity between the Gospel and shouldst strike thy murderer to the summer fruit? 0, yes. They both heart. now ant thou gone for ever in the first. place, mean health. God ev- A month! 0 for a. week! I ask not for ere, summer dootors the ailments on the world by the orchards and groves. The failing of the orcharde is a license to all kinds of diseases, mad plenty of fruit ordinarily means improved. sani- tary condition. So this Gospel means health. It makes a man mighty for work, and strong for contest. it cures sniritual ailments. It helps the soul that is decrepid, bound on in the road to heaven. It is juvenescence. It is convalescence., It kindles the eye with brilliant anticipations. It thrills the soul with glories to come. It is not a weak sentimentality. It helped Paul to atand unblanched on the deck a the foundering corn ship, and it helped Luther nail his defiant Whey Receive an Athletic Training Which •1Vould Fit Them For a cirrus. ' In England the reservee are *made athletes first and soldiers afterward. The eanee system. prevails in Germany, where the first, thing done with a "rooky" is to send him to the gym- nasium, where hee goes •throngh every ;conceiVable exercise caleulated to lim- ber him up, and make hini ereot an& • grazeful, 1 It the English army one of the most filM0116 a,thletio organizattons is the Gymnastic Staff from Aldershot. It ))se ootne to its present state ot ',erten. 'Mon Under, the direction Of Sergeant Major Palmer, and is in deoaand at all of the ntilitary exhibitions ire England, In addition to the regular 'athletic ex- • hibitions, -the Alde.rshol, nerni give tab- leau. A number of form studiee have been evolved by Sergeant Major Pien 7rler, They will be given ret the great military tournament for which the militar,y met of England, are peeper - it intitaided to melte this tour- reament hiatorie one, and. the, soldiers in the parade will be costumed i,n the arnformel winch the English army 'has Worn in the last few con -Write. Thein will lee the uniform worn (hiring the Elizabethan period, the one worn by the soldiees when the Duke of Itiaxl- hotrottglf ctrenteranded them, and ee, on. -tete-ten-a-no-- OLD INDEED! • Metien-Did he aok you the old, old oluestion Sareptar—Yes, indeed IX Alto oet,hi first, words were is it hot enough for you / • Many have Missed their (-hence. Now there is no hiding that fact—they have enissea their ehance. They came in o.nd 10 OlCcd at the "basket of summer fruit." They admired the gracefulness of the wicker work; the delte.aey of the rtini; the greenness of the !emote. They went off. • They came back and admired again, Rut one day they came, and they found that all the glory had fad- ed, and that the fruit had been thrown ont. They mune to a certain evening. They saw the sun set, They never saw the sun rise again. The pastor pro- neunced moon the the benediction. It was the last benediction they ever heard. They took their Met step, sPoire their lent word, breathed their last bewail, they missed their last chance. thertunately for us their voice is not strong enough to ring up until we Sart hear it, or it would. make life on earth intolerable with the wailing, The wall- is so thick that we hear not one word of their pang. Periehed I Perished! They talk no more about there being time enough yet. They hew no time. They worry no longer about the inconsistepeies of Christians; they are looking after their own con- dition. They no more argue that there is no seen a thing as a lost soul; th}ee, have felt the pang that mimes frorn it fall ten thousand fathoms down. 0 sceptical man, go out and persuade them that there is no retribution for a soul that forgets God. Break open the gate, dash througb the fire; leap the intervening cliff, and cry out to them: "There is no hell!" and. ten thousand voicep will answer back: " There ts See you not the gate? Feel you not the sorrow? We have been here five hundred yeats, and yet the woe has just begun. Go beak and tell all you have seen. Tell them that we once wan as they are, and that they, unless they repent, shall be as we are our- selves. We had the fruits of life set before ue, fain as "a basket of sum- mer fruit," but we would not take them and. eve everlastingly died. Lost I Lost I My friends the praotical. question is now: Will you miss your chance? The offer of salvation is now extended to Iln- It will not always be continu.ed. Thle day of grace will be past. The probability is that there are some in this audience who will miss their op- portunity'. I put my hand on your pulse, and I find that the fever bas begun. I look upon your brONV, and 1 find the shadow of impending doom, I listen to your breath, and I find it 18 suggestive of the last gasp. Some of you will be lost I See! you ;am falling now—down from heaven, from life, from peace—down, down. 1 member reading eeading how LCOnidaS, 'With three hundred men, stooa in the pass •between Eta- and the sea, fighting back the Persian hosts. The Persian hoste come on. They trampled him down. 0 that God, to -night, would arra me, a poor weak man, with a sup- ernatural courage, to stand. ire the pass ef ibis glorious Sabbath hour, end a.• year, though an age -were too short , dispute with this army that I see Lor the work I have to do. Reraorse 1 before me, the way to death. Halt 1 for the past throws my thoughts on I ye infatuated souls. 1 • swing the two - the past. I turn and turn, and find , edged sword both' ways. Halt! Halt! no ray. If thou didst feel one half ! Take not one step More oh the mountain that is on my 1 this downward path. Why will ye dm heart, thou wouldst struggle witb !when there is no use in it I Are you so the martyr for his stake, and bless I charmed with pain, and sin, and sor- heaven. for the flame that is an u.n.- , row, and woe, that you will wade quenchable fire. 0, Thou. blaspheraed, I through the foaming billows of perdi- tion to win them? Is there nothing in the systematic, tears of friends, nothing in the sacrificial blood. of the Son of God, nothing in the death -bed experiences of those whom you have loved, nothing in the crash of the judg- ment avalanche, to make you think. 1 oan tell from the way the country sexton rings the bell, when he is about a basket of summer fruet. But do to stole ringing it, Wben be begins you not know, my brother, that all 1 40 ring, the music cornes softly out the% Christian associations fade away !• on the tin; the bell fills all the air with i from the soul? Your Christian father naliSie. He lays hold with strong pal; and mother, who have been holding • but after awhile when the horses have benefieent influences over you. do you been tied, and the people have gath- not realize that they are go- hered, then there is some distance, of time between the strokes of the bell, It gets slower and slower, for he has begun to toll, and after awhile it stops. 0 sinner, how swiftly the invitations of the Gospel oatUle to you 1 Call after call. Invitation after invitation. Floods of them. Floods of them. How' merrity the bell did ring. But it seems as if with weenie of you God's patience is exhaaated; as if His mercy were almost gone. The bell rings slower to -night than it ever trang before, and as if about to stop. Aye, it seems to have come to the dying toll. Thrice more it will speak — perhaps only tb rice. Toll! Toll 1 Toll ! It was to set forth this solenan truth that religious advantages, while they last, are attrantive, but • very soon leave us, that God let down to Amos the herdstnan, in vision, the bee,utiful bat perishable basket of summer fruit. "Theses" against the door of the elec- toral college, the thumping of his ham- mer ecnoing through all the ages. It has helped ten thousand souls to spring through flood and fire to glories immortal. 0, it is a swarthy Gospel, Mighty in itself it makes mete mighty. It gives one over -mastering power in the day of trouble, The Church cries out to Christ in the Canticles: "Cpm - fort me with apples," and so to -night I shake down upon you a whole orch- ard of fruit, • while I read that the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, brotherly kindness, eharity. Gather it up from the' ground—large. round, luscious. Take it home with you—"a basted of summer fruit." I notice that the analogy also is Lound in the fact that. summer fruit is pleasant to the eye and the tasee, So the Gospel, when a man rightly sees it and tastes it, is very pleasant. Whe- ther Summer fruit be piled up in the orchard, or on the barn floor, or on the platter of the table, the commingling of green, and gold, and red, aud brown, in the cheek of the fruit is very fasoin- ating. You know that some artists deal thietly with pictures bf fruit; and while Corregio delights to sketch phy- sical beauty, and Turner drops the sea -foam. on the calves, and Cuyp drives up his cattle at evening tide, and Rosa• Bonheur ca,tches, by the halter the rearing steeds at the "Horse Fair," and Edwin Landseer whistles tis the doge, there are many of our modern penitent who are putting all their power on fruit pieces, and do not wonder at it. There is a beauty, in fruit indescribable. So it is with the Gospel of Christ. tt charms the yeti* and the old, the well and the nick, the wise an.d the ignoraht. It has the glitter of the wave, the aroma of flowers, the fascination of mimic. It is the luxury �tthe ages. Religion 18 not an abbess—is t ot a ceeobite. "tier waye are ways of pleaeattnesn and all her paths are peace." ; Iri june 1815, there Was a very noble party gathered it a house irt St. Seines' square London. The prince Regent was preeent, and the occasion was made tascivating by =Elie, and banquethig, teen by jewels, While a quadrillewae being formed, suddenly, all the peeple rushed to the Windows. What is the matter ? Henry reedy heel arrived With the neees that WatertoO had been fought and that England had won the day. r.the danee was abandoned; the party dispersed; loedst liediee arid lima- icianS rustled into the greet, and, in fifteen minutre from the flret an - '42.<67.1ku .11 . DOLLS OF FAMOUS WOMEN. , owe Interesting AtTount., About Clow the Pets 'owe 'treated and oretsed When (Marlette and ,Emily Broote Were little women they lived a hnrd, desolnte life on the bleak Yorkshire eabers, and found the chief. pleasure Pt their young lives in playing witti eat of very ugly wooden dolls, TheY thought ratner slignitegly of doll ba - bins, dreeeed the wOoden figures in poets end trousers, anti gave -them most heroie maneee. Charlotte 13con4els fav- orite playfellow was called tbe Duke of Wellington, and the gallant Duke had online of tin soldiers againSt :Ern" ily's Napoleen, or stood up to listen while Charlutte read. to bira long poem ehe ined eomposed in his honor. Besidee the "loattlea, these children built a tiny stage in their nursery, and, wrote lit- tle plays for the dolls to act, and oom- pesed xoneences, in which one doll roe - cued another from the pirates or Turks, Ur went tiger shooting a, jengle of • shawls in one end. ef the play-roona. The Briente dolls had very exciting lives indeed, but their end was not so end aS that of J'ane Welsh Carlyle's doll, This clever woman was preco- cious as a thild, and she loved only one doll. When at lest. in hat studies the girl began to translate the first book of Virgil, she decided it was time to give 13.1) doll games. Accordingly, she piled on its bed an the dell's clothes, added }several lead peneils, .a few sticks of cinnamon, grated. over this some nutmeg, and emptied. over the funeral pyre a, vial of perfume. Fin- ally, with many tears, she pretend- ed that the doll Issei stabbed /aerself, and laying the anhappy sawaust corpse on the bed set tire to it. When the fire aegan to burn the non Jane Welsh's feelings gave wan. She snatch- ed it from the flames, but all too late, and the toy waa soon reduced to ashes. Georgc Eliot possessed. several dolls yet, most indulgent Lord God, hell it- is a 'refugee if it hide me from Thy frown i" Still further, 1 remark upon the perishable nature of all religious sur- roundings. You sometimes go into a religious association and you say : ns- n't this beautiful. BOW many ripe 're- ligious experiences. Why, it is like tag away from, you, Ito yrrn not notice that they do not get over sickness as soon as they used to? Are you. not aware on the faet that they do not get over a colci as quicklyt as once? The feet le that they have mede more • prayers tor you. • than they will ever make again, They have passed, the last • mile -stone on the road home, and if yon are going to get any benefit from that "basket of summer fruit!' gat it now, or get it never. Some of you do not know what it is re look down up- on the still and. rigid features of a Christian father or a Cheistian mother. dol'n five minutes you will think of all the unkind words you ever said to them. You may cover up the coffin with wreaths and crosses,' and crowns; but you cannot mane anything attrac- live out of it. It is trouble, and no- thing but trouble , for those who sit and sigh with the consciousness that these dear lips will never pray for you again, and those lips will never sympa- thize with you again. ,When you stoop down and kiss for the last time the wrinkled brow just before the lid, as screwed on, you evill think of what I bali you to -night, 0, if father and moth- er be still alive with i heir Christian in- fluences, eherisb them while you may. Take their example. Ile peofited by their prayere, They are riveter bein yen and cannot stay. The "basket of (manner feult" will soon be gone. So also it is, my friende, with all Genre offers of mercy arid ealva•tion. Are you to-nightetintler the infatuation that those privileges are going to be continued? O'no. Every -opportunity of selvinion Se0018 tO be restless until it gets away from as. Going away, the sermons; going away, the songs; go- ing away, the atrivings of God's Eta - 'non Spirit. The fruits ot, hureortallife Mir end hteciems, are, no sooner met: be - 'lore the soul than, they disappear, The Theban legion eonsisted or six thou- sand, six he:oared end sixty-eix meh. Mo ximian decreed that that host shauld be clecimeted—that is, every tentb Mart shonid be pttt te, the sword. So it was done; but the eoldiero did not submit to the kitgly authority, Ana to :moth- er decimation took p1aoa ern' the work went ore until all of the air thoueatid, six hundred, and sixty-six men had perished: NoW, I do re et kno* how many people May be in OM lumen io night, but it le an army. ft is going to be necimated. • One out a over's, teh -Will ems }In golui, and after tbat DARKY ENGLISH. niriens 'Words Whit% the etennes Ilse to Expren Theo- opentetts. Every great language has its mock lingoes and clipped dialeets. The come non people make one ot their own, and every' tribe of a,clopted foreigtere ins its peculier mi. amusing vernee- ular. Generally it re,eembles the orie ginal vern melon a$ a monkey reseme bles a men. " Parley thiglish, like the grotesque bleederewords of the supposed Mrs. Ptertingtot, nearly always has a phon- etic/ suggestion Oen makes the eneake es meaning laughably clear. The fet old coot. in Lynchburg Vire girea, who complained that her son "Sana's gain's ori is conjurin' his ine stitution, an' disriptin' as " hed. the word " diereputable"- echoing round somewhere in leer head, She made hers- . self underatood, and there was piquan- ey in her new -verb, The colored servant who reported [het her mistress was " sick tvid LterVt- OUS perfection," eonveyed the tiootor's diagnosis—and sprung a droll passibitt Lay besides. in bee childhood, but ga.ve them her attention or effection only by fits and Starts. In "The Mill on tlie Floss ", she writes of a, little girl,. Maggie Tele" liver, who kept in the igerret a hideous wooden doll, lacking a head, one arm and a leg. Ntleen poor Maggie was in trouble elm went to the garret to -weep a.nd arive nein; into tbe torn:ern_ body of tbits -wretched plaything called Pet- iole. Every nail in Fetiala's body rep- resented the fault for which Maggie mourned OT suffered gunislament. When grown to be a famous woman George Eliot confessed that in her, youthful days she had owned and naal- treated a doll caned Fetish and Malg- gie's behavior was the true story of her own childish Miss jean Ingelow possessed a special waxen favorite that she named Amelia. tencielia went everywhere Jean did, and she was introduced to all the agreeable people who came to the Ingelow house, her dresses were always made from; a piece of whatever cloth jean wore, and Mien games of merry times were en- yoye the nursery Araeliat was plac- ed wherever she could. take, in the fun with the retst of the young folks. An ill-advised bath on a hot day was so hopelessly destructive to • Amelia's painted beauty and sawdust constitu- tion that the Ingelow family pronounc- ed. her quite dead. Her funeral was well at:twirled and for many months Jean eorrowed for Amelia. and refus- ed ever to take anothen doll to heart. Not only her own big dell family, but all dolls, fine or shabby, large or small, black or white, -who came A71- nie Thaekeray's way shared the ten- der atfection of her overflowing heart. When a very little girl she believed clolisNyere quite as much alive as real' babies, and if they lost head or arms the miming members eveuld. grow again When her dolls suffered ae- olden!: she event weeping to her fath- er and he would gravely assure her that all dolly needed was an interview with the family physician. Putting the toy in his pocket he would pretend. o be off to the doctor's, Insteat he event straight to a. toy shop, had the o ll repaired, and returned her whole and hearty to his d,aughter. When, at 14 years of age, George Sand heard some one laugh at the idea of so big a girl still playing with dolls. Like Jane Welsh, slie concluded to give them up, With tears an& hearty hugs ehe bade every one on them. adieu and locked them into a, garret closet. At first the separation from her adored playfellows was almost more than she could bear, and every day she would sit for an hour, or two, sad and tear - int, outside the closet door, sometimes whiepering words of comfort through the keyhole, to the poor exiles, hut she never brolte her vow to have done with dolls, and by end by they were forgot- ten. Florence Nightingale's dolls all en- joyed very indifferent health. Tim.e and again disease stalked through! the nursery and laid the &lin so low. that their lives were quite despaired of, but the little girl, who wan to grow up to be a ministering angel th thousands in teal suffering, always pulled. her babies through their worst attacks. One night youthful Mies Florence assured her leers° that elle eould not possibly go to bed because a feverish rag baby would need. to be watched every hour. It was only when both nurse anti moth- er assured the little girl that one of girt would sil croigshetu bet e tgoh itilovtelit Once or twice, thinking the child was fast asleep, the nitrite attenapted. to leave ber post, het Florence was awake in on bastent. At nitideight tieseemid et - fort was made to desert" the sufferer, but the child woke again., anti in the end the entree was oblilged to remain bennie the dell's bed until. lrliss Ntght- ingale was up, brigbt and early in the interning, aud Ale to pronounce the patient vastly improved. BICYCLES. OF DROICZE. Rcsnanium is a, metal muoh discuss- ed at present among bicycle makers. This new metal is a bronze composi- tion, the invention of a foreigner, Dr. Ronan, from whom it has its tame. It is gold -colored, aboui, as heavy as steel and is twice as strong as ordinary bronze. In toughness anti strength it te equal to cast steel, and is noncor- rosive, Dr, Roman's ambition was to perfect a metal for bicycle manufac- ture whittle wmild stand tient water, he impervious to rust, be eapable of joint- ing without brazing, whiell would re- quire neither enamel nor polish, and at the eflaie time be the strongest metal for the purpose, This is what roracenium is saki to be. '•,S.,h1E WIFE'S LAMENT. There is one thing you don't have tee do, anyhtty, groWled Mr. Wiredillikar through the lather that covered his faeit an he pretended to strop his rotor) you, are alevieye complaining • about your handshIps. In'ou miteht to be mighty thankful you bedell't got is hewect to bother yoo. I don't kuow about t,bitt. replied Mrs. Wipeduttics, if 1 Were a bearded lady, I believe I eetild make a better living tor this family than you're making, Rev-. Egerton It Young Annul -hes to us one ef hie evenings in an African chaireh in Florida, where the minister announced " fus' chapter the En- sitle o' David," and proceeded to read the First Psalm,. One fiery young en- horter in the meeting, with exemplary good taste, confined bis remarks to those of his own age. " I's nuffin to say toanight," saki he, " to disrupt de feelin's o' yous ole daddies and mann mie% but jes goin' to consuramate dem sinners back do,r by de ; None of the prayere were good Eng- lish, but, "IVe bow down on de bended an syndieated knees of our body to beg a humble blessin" somehow seeme ed to get singular emphasis from the imported adjective nand "0 Lord, dee libber as from upsettini sins, an' prop US up on de tippinnoven side," certain- ly left nothing to be desired in, dire,* ness and. graphie force. Al the close of the service the pa.. tor called attentioo to the rabaesoaked and stained plaster in the recess back of the pulpit, which he had long tried in vain to _persuade his shiftless par- ishleners to fresco, and he pronounced his ultimatum in this wise: "Bredren, de sovic.es in dis ohunch will all be discontinnered. ontil ye' fricassee de absMeer.ssY.70'llng adds a good. quotation to close with, though there is no badly twisted Etglish in it. "Pompey, how did. you like my sermon ?" said a vain and rather long' -winded preacher to a black man who han set under, the gat- lery. Pompey wee still aching with the fatigue of listening to the fortenmun utee tedriserl,ubrogess.," re replied, "1 Vink yo' went by a lot o' .mighty good stoppinn places." 110Vir SHIPS ARE COALED; GREATEST DEFECT rouND Ds' Tug MODERN FIGHTING VESSE10 Placing" nnoi swine; Fiier-ciienciat- 50 Ovisittor to Nato a Moot and 00 iiront Favor'to ins Country. LUGGING THE PIANO. •••••••• The ingenuity of inventors hag been almost exhausted in their efforts tO perfect the protective character a Alio, to secure the gretktest amount of desteuctive power in the size and projectile force of the big guns 1s4tU which they are armed., and to increase the speed of the 'vessels fo the Imaxi- Mum at the least possible expexise and With the least possible danger to the intricate maehinery ofi the vast ene gines by winch they are prorpelled. appro%.iniate degree or perfection has been reached in all these particulars, but there le otne iittestiOn Which hue received considerable attention thab has not yet been satisfactorily eolvede aria that is the problem of eoaling these floating fortres,ses. Xany attempts have been ma.de tO overoorae the diffi- culties that lie in the way In this re- gard, lmt ao far no successful solu- tion of the problem, has been towed. FUTILE EXPEettn.MENTS. 1A. great amount of money hes been spent in eiperiznenting vvith new de- vices for coaling vessels', but as yet no process where rapidity is a fatetor has been discovered. • The coaling •of ships tor fuel is termed hunkering, aeni the coin is deposited in bunkers, and the miraitive means employed do not bear witness that the matter has ree ceivecl the a,tteretion that it demands, though there have been sorae improve- ments made in leesening the expense and time, necessary to fill a war We's bunkers with coal. , But when the improvements in war ,ships in other respects are considered, the xnantier of coaling is almost as crude as when the sail power was first superseded by steam. Among the mechanical inventions for this purpose is a barge provided with square boxes that will hold about forty 'tons each. These boxes or cone- portments are arranged so that t,b.ey can be separately raised by mechanical means above the level a the ship's port. The coal is then discharged I -through a dente into the ship. This device can hardly be said to he beyond ,the es.-perimental stage. • The great Mr. Gonsieby *Inds Tria.Rporary IteMerfrout theireary Prolal b.1 Womb. MeasiS. "It is a familiar faot," said Mr. Goz- zleby, "or it is a fact familiar a,t least to all fond parents, that c.hildren, with- out exception, like to play the piano with the hard pedal on all the time. Ali children like to make all the noise they can, in playing the piano as in everything else. Playing upon the piano without the laea,vy pedal does not disturb me at all; but the minute the heavy pedal is put an I am greatly disturbed, and the continued resound- ing of the notes lately racks me. "Of course, I can't be forever saying 'don't,' and it's ungracious to say it at all, I suppose, for why shouldn't the children have their fun? And so I hit neon the desperate expedient of block- ing the heavy pedal. I have whittled out a nice little piece of soft white pine into is. pulg that just fits into the space under the pedal in the opening in wbich it works, so that the pedal can- not be depressed. "It has only been there two days, now, but it has been two da,ys of bless- ed. relief. It can't last roneh longer, because the children are liable to ask me, any minute, what'e the matter -1 wonder tbey haven't asked me long ago—and of cenune I'll have to tell 'em, but I am grateful for the rest I have had, and the respite has given me strength the better to ;withstand, for a, time at least, the uproar that will surely came when the cbildren dis- cover the plug." , CONSTITUTIONAL FAILING. wonder why Mr. Defer never mar- ried? NOthing to wander at In all hie life Defer hat never met an engtegettent. A curious accident befell a boy at Gelden Ring, Md., iuid matte hint deaf sin e ear. He sten-titled in fiela$ a htlar stem entered Ws' ear, Ana piev). eit the drum. • PEARLS OF TRUTH. „ }nee When ill neee-a comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.—Zimenerenan. • It is not what he has, nor even what be does, which expresses the worth of man; but what he is.—A.miel. troubleis not in finding a device that can load the coal onto the ship, but in taddieg care of it or towing it away after it is on board. Chal cannot 'be received. on board. any more 'rapidly than it can be stoired. • The amount of coal that can be stowed away is about a ton per Man per hour. WOMMN AS COAL HEAVERS. tonsIndifaers, atrihtigymhoraeveprinmot_ (wizen aldhevanIrd Vivo methods than the one described are still in vogue there. The work is done exclusively by negro women, who iu a slow and measured tread file to a•nd fro over the gang plank, each carrying about a hundred pounds of cas,1 in a, basket on her head. In the Mediterranean pants the work is done in much the same way, except that men instead of women do the work. !At great deal has been said a,nd many suggestions have 'been made, on thie subject by naval constructors, who appreciate the deficienoy in the present mode of bunking war ships, and who are earnestly looking for some arranger latent that will expedite the present tedione and inconvenient way tit eccona- plishing this work. It is said that in the newest and latest improved war ships, the clammed for space is never satisfied. Naval officers have already learned. that the coaling operations of a great war ship is of vast emportanee as a modern battle ship or cruiser is as dependent for efficiency On 008a as otee amrounition, ONE GOOD DEVICE. One of the most popular deviees tor loading coal is what is known as the sell -discharging barge, which, in come parison with others, is regarded as be- ing eucceseful. In these barges the coal is drawn ou.t and carried up an incline plane to an altitude that will permit delivery through chutes into t,he ports of a ship. This is done by means of endless canners or conveyers that are rim by steam. One engineer and. Ma assistant eau manage to toperate one of these barges, ansi oars handle from eighty to is hundred tons an hour and stow it avnty in the bunkers. COALING WHILE UNDER WAY. Another device known as the Teme perly transporter has been in tise France, and bah been known to stove on board a war ship going at a, rate? of seven knots an hour is hundred tone of coal 40 three hours. While the transfer was being made the ship and the transporter were kept apart lay their helms and prevented from, sep- arating be, cables. The above are only a few of the modes of de•vieete now In use for loadin,g coal on a man-of-war, arid naval inventora are taxing their inge,nuity to invent some process by which the tedions and inconvenient modes may be superseded. AS neces- sity is the mother of ievesettoe, the probability is that before another de - credit thia great Obstacle in the way of naval prognees will be removen, and. the coaling Moilities oi our iron wet' ships be as efficitent as their sheath -kg or sailing A feinted. thet you bny won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may bee—George D. Pren- tice. Most Wen remember obligations, but not Often to be grateful the proud are meek sour by the remembranee EiAld the vain silent.—Simono. Reading and conversation ratty ftir- nieh us with manyideas of men and thinttn, yet it is ottr own meditatien that buist form our judgmett.--Watts. Do your duty and do tot swerve trona it. Do that ethieh your con- ecienee tells yott tone right, mid leave the ommegoences to God.—.13. 14. tiny - don. Talkativeness has anotther plague tacked to 11, even curiosity; foe ora- tors wisia to hear neuele that they may have mlieh to say. -Plutarch. If we cecina read the seeret history of our enemies, we should find in each meahce lite, aorreec and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.—Longfellow. AN Lilt OF PROBABILITY. I have just reed is story in which the heroine's hair Wilma white iri a sin- gle night, Sada One girl. I dohn believe It, ' I don't know, .said the other. There it; no -telling what mteer trieles setae o$ them tow Meaehea will olv, • TWO ]1NiD 011 LECIe.. The man who 'owns the Tann next to mine 16 the luckiest fellow 1 ever saw. • What, ere 'you talldtg about ? There's no se& thing as luck. • Thereken, hey 1 Then will 'you kindly telt Me, how it happened that • he loared fon Water awl sttnek while1 bored foe oil and ettnek WittOrt, I tilANSAVEllainJO, "11 you freeist upoo knowing, there are tweinateotis to,. trefusiog you," "Ansi they are?" • "Yourself nud 4nothot