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Exeter Times, 1898-11-3, Page 3"WENT AND TOLD jESDa" ARV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES, A TIMELY SERMON. lfia*Aina* Frain the Assassination of John the leaetistnetteti ites att trading Nattore .,-tIto (loatittentIK the Behrolour ot Oto IttNolples to all who are eampiett, settee to en who are Abused and Slan- dered and rersecuted. had never been led into temptotien, If yen leave )eot felt teen/tee:inn it :Labe - cause you have not tried to do right. A titan hoppled and bandeuefed, as long as he lies quietly, does not teat the power of tee °balm but when he rises up, and with cleterraination resolves to snap the banal:tuffs or break the hoe - Pie, teen he finde the pewee Of• the iroa. And there are men who have been for ten, and twenty, and. thirty years bound hand and foot of evil habit, who have ;sever felt the Power of the chain, be they have oever tried to break it,. It is very easy to A despatch from Washington says: lee down. with tbe stream and with the Rev, Dr. Tannage preached from the wind, lying on Your oars; bet wee just following text And his disciples Went and told Jesus."—Matt. xiv. 12. An outrageous assassination has just turn around, and try to go against the wind and the tide, and you will find it is a very 'different matter. As long as we go down the current of our evil taken place. To appease a revengeful habits we seem to get along quite WoMen, King Herodwordered the death Smoothly; but after awhile we turn of essenahe If around, and head the other way to - en , se -samTo.na Chris_ e. 1 i ward Christ, and pardon and heaven; tie, John the Baptist. The grooP of 0, thSn how we have to fay to the oa'isl disciples were thrown into grief and You all have your temptation. Yoe dismay. They found themselves as have one kind, you another, not one terlY defencelees. There was no au- 1 person escaping. It is °all foUy for you to say to some one: "I could not thOrity to which they could appeal, and be tempted as You are." The lion yet grief must always find. expression.lthinks it is 50 strange that the fish If there be no human ear to hear it, then the agonized soul will ory it aloud to the winds, and the woods, and the waters. But there was an ear that was willing to listen. There is a tender Peihos, and at the same time a moat atenirable pleture, 111 tne words of my text: "They went and told Jesus." He could understand their grief, and He immediately soothed It. Our burdens are not more than hair so eteavy to car- ry if another shoulder is thrust under tho other end of them. Here we find Christ, His brow shadowed with grief, standing amid the group of disciples, who, with tears, and violent gesticu- tenons, and wringing of hands, and outcry of bereavement, are expressing their woe. Raphael, with his skilful brush putting upnn the wall of it pal- ace some scene of saored story, gave not so skilful a stroke as when the plait hand of the evangelist writes: "They went and told Jesus." The old Goths and Vandals came down from the North of Europe, and they upset the gardens, and they broke down the altars, and swept away everything that was good and beau - MIL So there is ever and anon in the history of all the sons and daughters of our race an ineurston Of rough- an - ed troubles that come U.; plunder, and tus, who when he was cardinal, pre - ransack, and put to the torchvall that tended he was very weak and sickly. men highly prize. There is no . cave and if they elevated him to the office so deeply cleft into the •mountaue as or chair of the,Pope, he would only to allow us shelter, and the foot of occupy it a little while, for he would. fle.et set courser cannot bear as beyond soon be gone. He crawled upon. his -the quick pursuit. The ,arrows they crutches to the chair, and 01108 having put to the string fly with unerring dart attained it, he wae etrong again. He u.ntil we fall pierced and stunned. It_ said: "It was well for me while Iwas seems to me that there has neves' been looking for the keys of St. Peter that so many trials in my congregation as I should stoop; but now I have found now; so many bereaved hearts; s° them, why should 1 stoop any longer? and he threw away 131s crutches and was well again. How illustrative of the power of temptation. You think it is a weak and crippled influence; but give. it a chance and it will be a should be caught with a hook. The fish thinks it is so strange that the lion should be caught with a trap. You see some man with a cold, phleg- matic temperament, and you say: "I suppose that man has not any tempta- tion." 'Yea, as much as you have. In his'plegmatio nature he has a tempta- tion to indolerme, and censoriousness, and over -eating and drinking; to sink down into a great latitude and longi- tude of fattiness; a temptation to ignore the great work of life; a tempta- tion to lay down an obstacle in the way of all good, enterprises. The tem- perament decides the style of tempta- tion; but sanguine or lymphatic, pin will have temptation. • SATAN HAS A GRAPPLING -HOOK just fitted for your soul. Arran never lives beyond the reach of temptation. You say when a man gets to be seventy or eighty years of age he is safe from all satanic assault. You are very much mistaken. A man at eighty-five years of age has as many temptations as a man at twenty-five. They are only different styles of temp- tation. Ask the aged. Christian whe- ther he is never assaulted of the powers of. darkness. If you think you have conquered the power of tempta- tion you are very much mistaken. I was readhig this mornban• of Pope Six - many borne down in worldly and sni itual trouble. But I feel that I bring, to you a most appropriate raessage. I mean to bind up all your griefs into a bundle, and set them on fire with a spark from God's altar. The same pres- pope, it will be a tyrant in your soul, cription that cured the sorrow of the is wmngi.ind you to atoms. No man disciples will cure all your heart -aches. has finally and. for ever overcome I have read that when Godfrey and his temptation until he has left the world. army marched out to capture Jerusa- lem, as they came over the hills, at the 1-.11arrett1ee pinnacles of that beau- tiful city, the army that had marched in silence lifted a shout that MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE. 0, you soldiers of Jesus Christ, march- ing on toward heaven, I would that to- day, by sonic- gleam of the palace of God's mercy and God's strength: Jou light be lifted into great rejoicing, ws'and that before this service is ended you might raise one glad hosanna to the Lord. In the first .mace. T commend the be- liaviour of these disciples to all those in the audience who are sinful and un - pardoned. There comes a time in al- most every man's history when he feels from some source that he has aneerr- ing nature. The thought may not fiave such heft as to fell him. It may be only like the flash in an evening cloud just after a very hot Bummer day. One man, to get rid of that impression, will go to prayer; another will stim- ulate himself by ardent spirits, and another man will dive deeper in secu- larities. But sometimes a man cannot get rid of these impressions. Driven, and. perplexed, and harrassed as you have been by sin, go and tell Jesus, To relax the grip of death ftom your soul, and plant your unshackled feet upon the golden throne, Christ let the tortures of Calvary's mount transfix Him. With the beam of his own Cross He will break down the door of your dungeon. From the thorns of His own crown He will pick enough gems to retike•your brow blaze with eternal vic- tory. In eteery tear on Hist wet cheek; in every gash of His side; in every hong, blackening mark of laceration from slioulder to shoulder; in the grave -shattering, heaven storming death groan, I hear Him say: eHim that cometh unto nee I will in no wise cast out." "0,' but you say, “instead of curing My wound you want to make another wound, namely, that of con- viction." Have you never known a sur- geon to come and find a chronic dis- ease, and then with sharp caustic burn it all out? So the grace of God comes to the olcl sore sin. It has long been rankling there, but by Divine grace it 'is burned out through these fires of conviction, "the flesh coming again as the flesh on a little child "where sin abounded, grace once more abouncl- eth." With the ten thousand unpar- dotted sine of your life, this morning GO AND TELL JESUS. You will never get rid of your sins tee any otem way; and remember that the broad invitation which 1 extend to you will not always be extended. I was reading of King Alfred, who, in the days long before the modern time- pieces were invented, used to divide the day into -three parts, eight hours -each, and then had three Wax candies. By the time the first candle had burn- ed to the socket, eight hours had gone, and when the second eendle had burn- ed to the eocket, another eight hours had gone, and when ell the three can- dles Were gorse out, then the day had passed. 0, that sonie of us, instead of ,calculetinet our deys, and nights, and years by any earthly tithe -piece, might caloulate them by the nionbers of op- portunities and Mercies which are barning down and. burning Out, never to be -relighted, lest at last we be amid the foolisbevirgins who cry, "Our lamps beve gone out." Ago ie : 1 commend the behavioue of tho disciples ofwho are tempted, ease heard Men in Ixiid-life say' they 1.1 But what are you to do svitb these temptations? Tell everybody about them?, Ah, what a silly man you would be! As well miebt a commander in a fort send word to the enemy which gate of the castle is least barred, as for you to go and tell what all your frailties are, and what all your temp- tations are. The world will only cari- cature you, will only scoff at you. What then, must a man do? When the wave strikes him with terrific dash, shall we have nothing to hold on to? In this contest with "the world, the flesh and the devil," shall a man have to help? no counsel? My text indicates something different. In those eyes that wept with the Bethany sigiters, I SEE SHINING HOPE. In that voice which spoke until the grave broke and the widow of Nain had back her lost son, and the sea slept, and sorrow stupendous woke up in the arms of rapture, in that voice I hear the command and the promise: "Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He will sustain thee." Why should you carry your burdens any longer? 0, you weary soul, Christ has been in all this conflict. He says: "My grace shall be sufficient for you shall *not shall be sufficient for you shall not be tempted above that you are able to bear." Therefore with all your temp- tations, go, as, these disciples did, and tell Jesus. Again: I commend the behaviour of the disciples to all those who are abused and slandered, and persecuted. When Herod put John to death, the disciples knew that their own beads were not safe. And do you know that every -John has a Herod? There are per- sons in life who do not wish you very well.- Your misfortunes are honey- combs to them. Through their teeth they hiss at you, misinterpret your motives, and would be glad to see you upset. No man gets through life without having a pommelling. Some elefider comes after you, horned, and tusked, and hoofed, to gore and tram- ple you; and what are you to do? I tell you plainly that all who serve Christ must suffer„persecution. It is the worst sign in the world for you to be able to say: "I haven't an enemy in the world." A woe is pronounced in the Bible against the one of whom everybody speaks well. If you are at peace with the world, and everybody likes you and approves your vvork, it is because you are an idler in the Lord's vineyard, and are not doing your duty. All those who have serv- ed Christ, however eminent, have been maltreated at sorne stage of their ex. perietice. You know it was so in the time of George Whitefield, when he stood and invited men into the king - dem. of God. What did the learned Doctor johoson say of him.? He pro- notniced him a integrable mountebank. How was it wheri Robert Hall stood anti spoke as no uninspired man ever did speak of the glories of heaven? ahd as he stood Sabbath after Sabbath pet:aching en these themes his face kthdled with the glory. john Foster, a Christian man, said of this man "Robert Hall is only acting; and the smile oti his face is a reflection of hie own vanity." John Wesley turneciall England upside down with Christian reform, and yet the punsters were after hint, and the meanest jokes in Epghand were petpetrated abtlat john Wesley. What is trite of the pulpit is tree of the pew; it le true of, the street, it Le true of the shop, ahd. the store. All who live godly in Christ jeetie MUST SUFFER PERSECHTION Ad 1 set it down as the very worst Sin.10 all your Christian experience, if yeu axe, any of you, at peece with all the world. The religioe of Christ •war 1 It is a chaelenge to "tbe world, the flesh, and the devil," and if you buckle on the whole armour of God, you will find a great hest disput- ing your path between this and heav- en. But what are you to do when you are assaulted, and. slandered, and ebused, as 1 suppose nearly all of you base been in your life? Go out and hunt up the slanderer? 0 no telly man. Welle you are explaining away a falsehood in one plaoe, fiety people will just bave heerd of it in other places. I counsel you to another course. While you are not to admit any opportunity of setting yourself right, I want to tell you. this morn- ing of One who had the hardest things said about Him, whose sobriety was dis- mg. e were moving out ot our whose companionship- was denounced, lend save the soul. Not dins of eYe, ffju°st Vrthil! rbiglakt °t tenur 0,otni °It elTele:gindc'e ael applatiding eaeth and a' reeollede tug heaven, will rittse Mir dead. He will do Z. He ist mightier than Herod. He is, swifter than the storm, He is grander thael the tiers, HE IS VASTER. TITAN ETERNITY. Arid every sword of God's omnipotence will leap from its soabbard, and all the resourcee of infinity be exhaneted, ra- ther than that Godes child Alan not be delivered when he cries to HiM ter. rosette. Suppose your child was in filDIEBB ADD THEIVAT, A CORRESPONDENTS WEIRD non ov THE DESERT. Whitt WO* $ewt. by an Eye Witness mad OescrIotkon or the 'rerribie and Ghostly 014,hts, Mr,. G. W. Stevens, writing from Omduemen, gives tee following vivid and interestiog description of the Situ - trouble ;t o hgoevrt bin:P.4211411 3 wY°11oula woyuolud at'1:3Gno' otinherr'eT'Tse hideous orY broke on go through arse hardshita You w°1114 to. the etill night and jarred on the tsay: "I don't care what it will cost; . ' bomuyosut gtehtinhkixoGooduisof,notthasto trgoouobdle.. a" swahnitle Gsotoamrs; goMoraohr,,mmI esda1t title lonrime father as you! Seeing you are angareb and greened. Po not be eright- trouble, and. having a.11 power, wt11 He ened. "Goom" is not the cry of abeast not stretch ottt His arra and deliver You? He will, Ile is raighty to save. of prey, It is worse; it is the Arabic He eau level the mountain and divide for "Wake," and it was three in the puted, whose mission was scouted, the Sea, and can extinguish the fire mere w not oarmnot feebof re pleasant palm -shade, at Magawieh on who was pursued as a babe, and spit weak f , le - uPon as a man, who was howled at ate sources, but with all eternity and the August 21, and taking the road south ter he wae dead. I will have you go universe at His feet. Go and tell unto Rim with your bruised soul, in Jesus. Will you? Ye whose cheeks some humble, child -like preyer, say- are wet with the night -dew of the mg: I see Thy wounds—wounds of grave; ye who cannot look up , Ye head, wounds of feet, wounds of heart, whose' hearts are dried with the llY desertwazd through the mimosa - Now, look at my wounds and see what brea,th of a sirocco; in the name of thorns. After a few minutes we I have suffered, and through what the religion of Jesus Christ, which earhe , , to out wonder, on to a broad, battles I ani going, and by those lifts every burden, and. wipes away fiat road, embanked at each side, It wounds of Thine, sympathize with • every tear, and delivers every captive could have battler been built by seer - these." And He will sympathize, and and lightens every darkness, 1 imPlore He will help. Go and tell Jesus l You now, go ,and tell Jesus. leions, and there were no other visible I was reading of a little child Who Again: 1 (tenements the behaviour of iinhabitants. Then, at a corner, we been bereaved. How many in garb of with her father, a sea captain, , o a sign -post., --a sign-posa by the disciples to all who may have , went mourning I If you could stand at this the little child was very much fright - to sea, and when the first storm came 1 came t • ' ' all that's astounding !—with "To Me - and in the night rushed out of terimeh " inscribed th on We learn - point where I am standing and look off "ed. ere . upon this audience, how many signals the cabin, and said: "Where is fath- ed afterwards that the fertile -minded of sorrow you would behold. God has et ? Where is father?' Then they Hickman Boy, finding himself and his His own way of taking apart a family. , told her; "Father is on deck guiding r the vessel and watching the storm." battalion wood -cutting in the neigh - We must get out of the way for coming The little child, immediately return- bourhood, had ' generations. We must get off the 'used up some of his . the valley of shadows This matter of world, up by the mountains 'and down "It's all ting up the sign, the only one in the stage that other's may come on, and . ed to her berth and said: 0, ye spare energy and of his men's spare g proces- t right, for fatheer on deck." na'uscle in making the road and set - for tbis reason there is a toe sion reaching down all the time into • who are tossed and driven in this emigration from time into eternity is by the valleys, and at your wits' end, Soudan. At the time the thing was so vast an. enterprise, that we cannot I want you to know the Lord God is like meeting an old friend after a long understand it, Every hour we hear guiding the ship. Your Father is on parting, and the caravan set out at the clang of the sepulchral gate. The deck. He will bring you through the least half a mile an „hour the better sod must be broken. The ground , darkness into the harbour. again, The clumsy eolumn formed up after its clumsy wont, and threaded sleep - IUMMIES ALONG THE LINE. must be ploughed for resurrection ' TRUST IN THE LORD. 1 et harvest. 1 We trudged through the sand and - Go and. tell Jesus. Let me say that if , scrub for the best part of five hours. ETERNITY MUST BE PEOPLED. you do not you will ha,ve no comfort' Then suddenly it sank and died away. The dust must press our eyelids. "It here, and you will for ever be an out -1 We had noticed already more than the is appointed unto all men once to die." cast encl a wanderer. Your life will usual number of mummied camels and This emigration from time into eter- be a failure. Your death will be a donkeys by the roadside. Tbo sun nity keeps three-fourths of the fame, sorrow. Your eternity will be a dis- had tanned the skin and bleached the lies of the earth in desolation. The aster. But if you go to Him for par- bones; hawks and vultures had seen air is rent with farewells, and tbe I don and sympathy, all is well. Every- to the rest; they might have been black -tasselled vehicles of death rum- thing will brighten up, and joy will lying there days or years. The camels ble through every street. The body of the child that was folded closely to the mother's heart is put away in the cold and the darkness. The laughter freez- es to the girl's lip, and the TOS6 scat- ters. The boy in the harvest field of Shunam, says: "My head, my head," come to the heart, and sorrow will de- lay with their heads writhed back till part; your sins will be forgiven and the ears brushed the hump; the &Ai - your foot will touch the upwardepaths tude in which a camel always dies: and the shining messengers that re- But all the donkeys had their throats port'above what is done here will tell eut—and that told us we were reach - it until the great arches of God re- ing Metemneh. sound. with the glad tidings, if nowLast year about this time or a and they carry him home to die on the with contrition and. full trustful- little earlier, the main force of the lap of his mother. Widowhood. stands ness of soul, you will only go and tell , Egyptian army lay at M Jesus. erawi, peeper - with tragedies ot woe struck into the I bag to advance on Abu Earned. The But I am oppressed, wben I look Khania ordered the Jaalin to advance over t his audience, at the prospect against it; but the Joann had been that some may not take this counsel, in the forefront of every dervish dis- and go away unblessed. I cannot help aster since Abu Klee., and they sent asking what will be the d.estiny of secretly to the Sirdar for arms. But these people? So I never care wheth- it was too late and Mahmud fell upon er it comes into the text or not; I the Jaalin as Hunter fell upon Abu never leave my place on this platform flamed. They fought hard, but Mah- without telling them that now is the mud had too many rifles for them. time, and to some, perhaps, the last. I Meteneneh was made even as Khar- Xerxes looked off on his array. i toum and. old Berber; the branch of There were two million men—perhaps Jaalin, whose headquarters were Me- ths finest army ever marshalled. Xer- temneh, were blotted out of existence. see rode along the lines, reviewed The carcases we saw were the beasts them, came back, stood on some high that had dropped or been overtaken point, looked off upon the two million in their flight. men, and burst into tears. At that THE SCRUB SANK AND DIED AWAY moment, when every one supposed he ss,e came on to a bare level of old would be in the greatest; exaltation, w h he broke down in grief, They tasked, c_adry ltivated land, sparsely dotted with im why he wept. "Ab," be said: I a twigs, seamed with vents and holes " and covered thick with bones. Bones, weep at the thought that so soon all skulls and hides of camels, oxen, horses asses, sheep, goats—the place was car- peted with them, a very Golgotha. A sickening smell came into the air, a smell heavy with blood and. fat. We off -saddled at a. solitary clump of tall palms on the bank, turned round, and across a mile of treeless desolation saw a forlorn line of black mud wall. The look of the wall alone was some- how enough to tell you there was no- body inside. That was the corpse of Meteraneh. Before we went in we looked at the forts and trenches with which they had lined the bank against. the gunboats. It was to be presumed that they had done the same at Omdurman, so we looked at them out of more than idle curiosity. They were rude enough, to be sure. Circular, at some 20 feet radius, the forts were mud emplace- ments for a single gun with three eni- brasures looking forward, half right and half left; the guns—captured since at the Atbara—could only be firedets they bore on aboat in line with one of these. Yet, rough and crumbling as they were, it is plain that the boats' fire had done them 'little harm. The embrasures were chipped about a good deal, and. with very accurate shooting anybody trying to serve the guns would probably have gone down. But the mudwork could shelter any man who sat close enough under it, and common shell, or even shrapnel, would do him little harm. The trenches were not wholly contemptible either—deep and with traverses. AT THE OLD CAM.P. The next thing was to ride over to Mahmud's old camp. Ile bad pleeed it behind the ridge on which Metem•- neh stands in the open desert, and out of range, as he thought, oE the boats; the time -fuse of a 12 1 -2 -pounder shell, picked up in the very centre of the camp, seemed to suggest 'a subse- quent disillusionment. As you rode up you first saw nothing but four mud. huts. When the soil looked redder than that of the desert behind it; pre - mutts/ you saw it had been turned up in shallow heaps; the plaee looked like a native cemetery. /And when We got little nearer we found, that this was his fortified camp. One of the huts' eppeared to have been his dwelling - house ; another was a sort of casemate —mud walls four feet thick, and an arrangement of logs that looked as if it had been meant as a stockade to shield riflemen. But the rest of the position was merely ohildieh--as planless as hie zareba on the Atbara, Without any of its difficulties, It was jtist a number of shelter trenches scattered anyhow over the open sand. Some could have held twenty men, some two. , They must have spread over nearly a square mile, bnit they Were quite wire end die- continueus; in the cirele of the enitp there seas about twits it mach firm grouted as trenell. Ada that the Wheto pallor of the cheek. Orphanage cries in vain for father and =then 0, the grave is cruel I With teeth of stone., it clutches for its prey. Between the closing gates of the sepulchre, OW hearts are mangled and crushed. Is there any earthly solace? None. We come to the obsequies, we sit with the grief-sticken, we talk pathetically to their soul; but soon the obsequies have passed, the carriages have left us at the door, the friends who stay- ed for a few days are gone, and the heart sits in desolation listening for the little feet that will never again patter through the hall, or looking for the entrance of those who will never come again—sighing into the darkness. Ever and anon coming on some book or garment, or little shoe or picture, lhat arouses former association, almost killing the heart. Long days and nights of suffering that wear out the spirit, and expunge the bright lines of life, and give haggardness to the face, and draw the flesh tight down over the cheek -bone, and draw dark lines und- er the sunken eye, and the hand is treinutous, and the -Mice is husky and uncertain, and the grief is wearing, grinding, accumulating, exhausting. Now, what are such to do? Aro they merely to look up -into a bra.zen and unpitying heaven? Are they te walk a blasted field unfed of stream, unsbel- tered by overarching trees? Has God turned. us out on the barren commons to die? 0, no I nO 1 110 1 He has not. He comes with synapathy, and. kind- ness and. love. He understands all our grief. He sees the height, and the depth, and the length, and. the breadth of it. He is the only one that can fully sympathize. GO AND"72ELL, JESUS. Sometitnes when .we have trouble we go to our friends and we expiain it, and they try to sympathize; but they do not understand it. They cannot understand it. But Christ sees all ov- er it, and all through it.. He not only counts the tears and • records the groans, but before the tears started, be, fore the groans began, Christ saw the inmost hiding place of your sorrow, and He takes it, and He weighs it, and He measures it, and He pities it with an all absorbing pity. Bone of our bone. Flesh of our flesh Heart of ou.r heart, Sorrow of our sorrow. As long as He remembers Lozarus's grave He well stand by you in the cemetery. As long as He remembers His own heartbreak, He will stand by you in the laceration of your affections. eVhen he forgets the foot -sore way, the sleepless nights, the weary body, the exhausted mind, the awful cross, the solemn grave, then Ile will forget you, but nob until then. Often when We were in trouble we sent for our friends; but they were far away, they could not get to us. We to them: "Come right away," or teles graphed: "Take the first train." They came at last, yet were a great while in coming. .But Christ is always near before you, behind you, within you. No mother ever threw her arms around her ehild with such warmth arid ees- tacy of. affeetion as Christ has shown towards you. Close at hand —nearer than the staff upon which you lean, nearer than the Min you put to trete lip, nearer then the handkerchief with which you wipe away your tears —I pretteh Hine an ever present, all sympa- thizing, compassionate Jeses. nONV can you stay away one moment trent I Him with goer griefs? Go now! Go Old tell' Janis It is often that our relent/8 have no power to relieve es, They would very much like to do it; but they cannot disentangle bur tinences, they can- not cure sickness anti raise ode dead; but glory be to God filet ele to whom i.he dist:11)1es went has all hewer in heeVen and en male and at otir call this host will be gone." So I stand looking off upon this host of immortal men and women, and realize the fact, as perhaps no man can, unless he has been in a similar position, that soon the places which know you now will know you no more, and you will be gone—whither? 'Whither? There is it stirring idea which the poet put in very peculiar verse when he said: 'Ti not for man to trifle; life is brief, Ana sin is here; Ourage is but the falling of a leaf— A dropping tear. • Not many lives, but only one have we— One, only one; How sacred should that one life ever be— That narrow span." QUEEN AND DAUGHTER. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was ever of an independent and high-spirit- ed nature, and, as a child, was not al- ways easy to manage. The person to whom she submitted (generally) with grace, and whom she avoided displeas- ing, was her English governess. The magic influence of this lady has been attributed to the judicious use of the word "darling"—in English. When Wilhelmina was obstreperous and was addressed in sorrowful tones as "dar- ling," she was generally charmed to obedience. She always kept the no- tion of being queen constantly in mind, and when opposed in any way would murmur. "Ah, when I am queers, then I shall be misigess." Many delightful stories are afloat about the girl's pride, which the Queen -Regent Emma often found it necessary to check. Here Is one of them. The following parley occurred early one morning between mother and child, as the yotmg queen sought entrance to her mothet's room: (Kncpoks,e Qtieet Regent—Who is there? Willett:nine—The queen. Queent•Regent—Can't come in, (Wilhelmina reflects for a moment, then knocks again) ,Queen Regent—"Who is there? Wilhelmiza—Youe daughter. Queen -Regent (in a, caressing voice) e -Come in, dealing. WORLD'S laRgnST I4AttE. The deepest lake in the world is nate Baikal, in Siberia. In some parts it is 5,261 feet deep; it length is 897 milee, with an area of 15,090 square miles. It is tho iargest lake in Asia, atilt the sixth largest in the World, °MAI(' heire been Shelled. teem the fifes i telettele ridge at half a Mile Or Po, end ` IIENRY 00IVELL'S ItE1101t1) that meld thenee have Seen al-. neoet ev r ree in the altiee—Well if ()Maur:al was be no herder shell GALLOWS IN THE DESERT Now then lief* to etlektenneh—poor, bIlmawalted, deed, illetetenele And first, between teaMp end, town, stead a 'eouple of crutehed nprigets and a crossear. Yoti wonder what for, a Moment, and. then wonder that you and one, two, four, six; eight human woudered. A gallows! At lila feet of tt a few' strande of the brown Palin,‘ fibre rope they use in this coiletrY• jaw -bones, just the jaw -bones, and agaire you wonder why; till you re- member the story that when. Sheikh Ibrahim, of the ,Taalin, earae tzere week or two ago he found eight skulls under the gallows in a rope-nettiug bag, When ee took them up for burial the lower jaws chopped, off, and lie beet: still. If the jaws could wag in speech again --but we must try net to be sentimental. If we are, we shall bard- ly ,stand the inside of illetemneh. So blank and piteous and empty Is the husk of it. These are net mere mud hovels, but town houses as the Soudan understands houses—mud, certainly but large, lofty rooms, wit ht wide win- dow -holes and what ono; were mat- ting roofs. tvvo that J. went into were even double -storeyed; no stairs, of course, but a sort of mud inclined, plane outside the walls leading to the upper rooms. Another house had a tamed mud bank forming a divan round its ehief room. New tbe beams were cracked and broken, and the divan had been reload on through the broken roof; shreds of what once may have been hangings were dangling limply in the breeze. At the gateway of this house—once an arch, now a tumble of dry mud—was a bleak hand- ful of a woman's hair. PANIC AND MASSACRE. In every courtyard you see the mis- erable emblems of panic and neassacee. Ride through the gate—there lies a calabash tossed aside; soiled red, peak - .a slipper dropped from the foot that du.rst not stop to pick it up again; the broken sticks end decayed cords of a new angareb that the butchers smashed. because it was not worth taking away. And tn every court- yard you see great patches of black ashes spreading up the wall. Those monuments are recent; they are the places were, only days ago, they burned the bones of the Jaalin, The dead camels and donkeys lie there yet, across every lane, dry, but still stink- ing. A parrot -peaked, hairy tarantula scrambles across the path, alizard's Lail slides deeper into a. hole; that is all the life of Metemnela. Everything steeped in the shadeless sun, every- thing dry and silent, silent. The still- ness and the stench merge together and soak into your soul, exuding from every foot of this melancholy grave- yard—the eenotaph of a whole tribe, fifteen years of the Soudan's history read. in an hour. Sun, squalor, stink, and blood; that is Mahdism. Press your bridle on the drooping pony's neck, turn and ride back to the river, the palms and the lances. God send he does not run away. SIBYLLE HAS HER WAY. Love Finds the 1Vay to Bring unitnitteis to Baron and Sihylle of Hesse. The marriage of the Princess Sibylle of Hesse, youngset daughter of the wi- dowed Lendgra.efin, of Hasse, with the Baron von Vinkee which has just taken place in Frankfort -on -the -Main, has cause no end of gossip in German Court circles. The love affair of this prom- inent couple dates back three years, having originated in the city in which the nuptials were celebrated. Baron von Vinke, was then, as lieu- tenant in the Thirteenth Hessian Hus- sars, stationed in Frankfort, where the Princess was living with her mother. He was introduced to the Princess at one of the riding meetings, which take place twice every week during the win- ter season, and in which all officers and society women participate. It proved a case of love at first sight and the Princess managed through her mother to have the Baron•as her com- panion at every riding meeting. This was an easy matter to arrange, as her mother favored the Baron. CAUSED A LOT OF GOSSIP. The fondness for each other's so- ciety, shown by the Princess and Bar- on was quickly noticea, and gave rise to gossip which did not cease until the end of the season, and. was promptly renewed at the beginning of the next season. One of the Frankfort so-called so- ciety journals, published some of the rumours, :aid the matter was called to the attentiou of Baron von Aiten, cot- erieof the Thirteenth Hussars, and to the Princess' brother, who appeal- ed to the Emperor to interfere. On a hint from the Emperor, who is said to have planned an alliance be- tween the Princess and King Alexan- der of Servia, the Colonel advised Bar- on von Vinke not to see the Princess or her mother again, and be was trans- ferred to the Tbird Dragoons, station- ed in Bromberg, the German city, the furthest away from Frankfort. But "love wile find the way." After six months' service in his new regi- ment, Baton von Vinke obtained a transfer to the reserve list. This en- abled him to join his mother in Wies- baden, twenty, minutes by rail from Pronkfort. Princess Sibylle's mother regarded the Baron with favor, and he and the Princess, were, therefore, able to meet very frequently. ' EXTRACTING GOLD, Gold is now extraeted by mixing the ore with etneenee salt and eulplitirie acid then adding a solution of per- manganate of potash, Hydeothiorie acid is forhied, and Chlorine is liberated to Olathe with the gold-forMing ohlor- ide of gold. This ow Method as em- ployed at Mt. Morgan; Queensland, is said to have advantages over the eta- algamation arat cyabide peooesees, It is more searching than mercury, and can be applied to ores containing cop, per. NEARLY SEVEN OILES ABOVE SEA LEVEL IN A BALLOON. Semler Spencer, lehose Steitlent eettlev S About, "" Pliiy Interest ballooning ftet scientiele pp uu rtpfoosretehhbays bseteolreeyvisvp0:10beyr,t 1•19,e12 enter:. lish eerooaunt, teat comealSy with a, Professer Bersou during ah anent from the grotuids of the Crystal Palaee, LOIldfsle tna SePtertaber re reached a eigher elevation than cver mortal had yet attaieed. Mr. Spencer is a sheevrean well Practised le the shovvman's art, and he 43 fielly alive to the modern fad for record beating achievements, but, unfortunately for his widely advertised emeomplisement, there lives in the little keen of Tot- tenhara near London, a remarkable man, who will be eighty years old Mapenreothraetnedd further into who thoasspanonedboyuhateedalry. ly ten thousand feet than Stanley Spencer even olaims to have done. Henry Cowell, whose name and reputation as an aeronaut has been world renowned for half a century, on September 5th, 1802, reaohed an alti- smtupitelleenso.oeft. oe6n7ly,000layfeseto,laoirna wtoithainn efloorvtay_ feet of seven miles, whereas tion of 27,500 feet, or five and one-fifth While Spencer's recent ascent from the Crystal Palace was. confessedly made for exhibition purposes, Cox - well's ascent was a private one, ender - taken solely in the interests of science. Elis companion in the memorable voy- age was the late James Glaisher, F. R. S., Professor of Meteorological Science at the Royal Observatory, the authen- ticity of whose observations could not well be doubted. Moreover, the ascent of 1862 was made under the auspices of a commit- tee of the British Association, which compriss,d such men as Lord Wrottes- ley, Six. T. Herschel, Sir. D. Brewster, Admiral Fitzroy, Profewzor, Airy and Dr. Tyndall, to whom Mr. Glaisher's report was subsequeretly submitted. The avowed objects of Coxwell and elleisher's famous expedition into specie were set dosvn follows: -- OBJECTS OF THE EXPEDITION. "The determination of the tempera, tare of the air and its hygrometrical states at different elevations, and as high as possible; to determine the tem- perature of the dew point by Daniell's !dew point hygrometer and other in- struinents; to compare the readings of an aneroid. barometer with those of a mercurial barometer up to the 'highest point attainable; to determine the electrical state of the air; to determine the oxygenic condition of the at- mosphere by means of ozone papers; to determine the time of vibration of a magnet on the earth and at different distances from it; to coilect air at dif- ferent elevations; to note the height and kind of clouds, their dewily and thick -nest; to note atinceipherical phe- nomena in general, and to make gen- earl observations." All manner of known instruments to carry out this coraprehensive program- me were taken in the car of Coxwell's balloon, and. it is absurd to doubt the word or the exact:tude. of such a. man as the late Professor Glashier. The balloon used lw Stanley Spencer in his recent high ascent from the grounds of the Crystal Palace had capacity for 56,000 cubic feet of gas, while that used.by Cowell and Glais- her in their famous ascent from 'Wol- verhampton, in 3862, stool eighty feet from the ground, was more than fifty- five feet in diameter, and it was cap- able of containing, if fully inflated, nearly. 100,000 cubic feet of gas. To allow for expansion only 66,000 feet was used. Spencer went aloft with only 10,000 feet. It is obviously absurd for Mr. Stan- ley Spencer to endeavor to upset the well authenticated record of Messrs. Coxwell and Glaisher, about which the London Times in an. editorial, printed September llth, 1862, said: — "The aerial voyage just performed by Nix. Coxwell and Mr. Glaisher deserves to rank with the greatest feats of experi- mentallzers, di -coverers and travel- lers." FLOORS MADE 01? PAPER. The newest floor is of paper, and is of German importation. The paper is imported in a dusty, powdery form, and is then mixed with a. kind of ce- ment which gives eubstence to the im-e palpable stuff and a piaster like ap- pearance. It is said thas when the floor is laid, the absence of joints and •seams like those at the berdsvtood floors is a distinot improvement and with- out the inconvenienee of catching dirt. The paste of which the floor is com- posed is laid on and then rolled out with a heavy roller, specially adaptee for the purpose, something bike the street roller for espbelt. The floor, when smooth, hard and dry is either stained or painted to mateh or eon - (east with the wood work of the room, walnut, cherry, or mahogany stain giv- ing it an appearance like the natural wood. While there are many advau- togas in thia paper floor, one of ex- pense not being inconsiderable, 5 advantage to the sensitive is its pli- able feel to the feet, for no 'natter . how hard it is rolled it has always 11 eunaturel sensation to One WhO Walks Over it. ' NATURAL, Isaac --Which do you think is tee huskiest day of Me Week on Which be Ile born? Jecob-1 done. know; I've only tried one.