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ehief Occtipaii,
wee tuatiug ou the Trauevaal plat-
eau eelou t, Niciteleoa aud ether bun-
ters heve told tie that African game
animal:A are wittier, swifter and mere
elert than the a any otter part of
tee world. The Boers -were traineil in
tete
at a training wheels and be-
came expert Niearads, even if few of
the foreign sportemeri who have hunt-
ed with the have been willing to ad
-
nett that veey many are fleet -altos
. 13et hunters in South Africa have
bald, for several years/ past, that the
younger Boers were not maintaining
the reputation of their fathers e ,The
extermination •of game hi and near the
Transvaal, they said, caused most of
the young men to abandon the chase,
and the cost of modern ammurition de-
terred most of them from sufficient
practice to keep up to the mark as
rifle experts. Same of Boer shooting
records in the past few years distinct-
ly indicated deterioration. It was
found, for example, that each head of
game killed by a party a bunters on
the banks of the Limpopo in one week,
with breeehloading rifles, cost about
thirty eartridges. Their record was
elso poor in the fight with Dr. James -
son's raiders, The Boers firee, from
behind rocks, while the enemy was on
ate exposed plain ea which marks in-
dicating distances had been placed.
The burghers killed only tweuty-three
raiders and wounded less than that
number, though they firea about six
thousand cartridges,
Either the sportsmem have undeeesti-
mated the average efficiency a the
Boers of to -day or the latter were dili-
gently practising with their guns for
Months before hostilities began. It was
an,nounced early this year -that the
burghers of lee Orange Free State bad
been supplied by the Government with
ammuration for the rifle practice as
the restiet of the meeting of Command-
ants at Bloemfontein: There is lit-
tle doubt that the same thing was done
en. the Transvaal, though with less
epuelicity. et is well known that the
Transvaal Boers engaged in artillery
praotice under European direction for
• months before the first hostile shot
was fired. The rifle record of the
burghers thus far in the war certain-
ly has not justified the poor opinion
spertsixten have lately entertained of
their marksmanship:
• NINETEEN' YEAR OLD BOY
He eras Been In Mis Cradle. All Ells Life nnal
Lives on Prince Edward Wand.
When a. child has reached the age of
• two years without learning to talk or
even to creep, the anxioue parents sor-
rowfully admit that all is not well
With their offspeLug.
Last week, however, a newspaper re-
presentative had. the privilege of seeing
a nineteen -year-old boy who leas lain
in the cradle alt his life, who can
; laugh and cry, but whose speech is as
the inartioalate murmurings of t -
dumb, who rejects all solid eod, and
who has been kept all an these years
on milk alone.
T t— curiosity is the grand-
am of Angus Sleek, of Newport„
a -Lower Cardigan, and. ha e been seen by
• hundreds of people. He. is alittle over
• tive feet in length, weighs probably
WO pounds, and•is still growing. The
head is of normal size and covered
• with black hair which contrasts
strongly with the deathly pallor of the
akin.
The features are regular and the
filee not at all unprepossessing. The
trunk is large and: well developed, but
the arins are small and consist prin-
cipally of skin and bone. The hands
are bent inwards and the fingers are
-Jong, thin and transparent. The: lower
imbs, from the knees downward, are
ehruuken and fleshless, and the feet
are small and strangely distorted.
• Teens is considerable strength in the
rghU aro, but the left is paralyzed.
Though unable to talk he cart ores
vigorously, and. when in good humour
• will laugh and chwarle in high glee.
Though deed to nearly all sights and
sounds he grows wild with delight on
heitring the sound of music.
During all these years the mother
has nursed this belpless boy with a
tenleraess born of a mother's love,
and that he is alive and healthy to-
-lay shows how faithfully see has per.
formed her task. Whoe labouo it lee
involved none but she can tell.
FINAL REVENGE.
• ,Fregs--1 am surprised to see you so
intimate with Sraith after his shabby
treatment of you.
• Baggs—leo-w can I ever get even
with hine if I don't win his eonfidence?
,
•
AN EXC.EPTIONAL YOPNG
• Said be, Pretty Miss,
Pray give me a kiss,
• 1s for one—only one, that f sue.
• She. liftet her eyes,
told exclaimed in surprise.
Why, the other °hips always want
two e
Dr. Talmage Discourses on An
Important Theme
I and His Three Officers Fought an Army --A Well in
Ihe Bethlehem Barn --Pity the Man Who Has No Early
Memories ---No One Ras Escaped Sinful Defilement --,-The
Br. Preaches a Powerful Sermon,.
despateh from Washington says: yoiz will not begrudge me a drink
_wed Drgetenaea dreaeeee erten the feetta tbe water of the well of Beale-
. hem, wbieh is by the gete."
following text:— Oh, tlaat one would This Gospel will be like the one spoir-
give rae drink of the water of the well :en ot LU the text; A. Well of &awe_
of Bethlehem, whioh is by the gate!" hem.
a Samuel 15 • ' Dttvid bad known aundreds wells,
—xxlii, .
War, always distressing, is „peeled or water, but he wanted to drink from
that particular one; and. unless your
Is ruinous in liarvest time. When the isoul and mine can get aeoess to the
crepe are all ready for the sickle, to fountain opened for sin and for ne-
irv cleanliness, we must die. That foun-
have them trodden down by
eava-- tale is the well of Bethlehem. It
horses and heavy supply trains gully- was dug' in the night, le was dug by
ing the fields, is enough to make vele the light of a lantern—the star that
man's heart, siek. It was at this sea- hung down over the manger. It was
on of the harveet that the array of dug not at the gate of Caesar's palaces
not in the peek of) a jerusalera bar..
the
emPhthe clamour a iliatines earns down upon Beth -
gain maker., It was due in a barn. The
leh. Hark, to their camels lifted their as the work weut on; weary heads Lo
voices, tiae'ueighing of their chargers, listee the shepe
the blasts of their trumpets, end the, heeds.. unable to sleep bona -dee the
clash of tteir shields. heaveos were filled vvith bands oe
Let David and hie men fall bank' The meho, came dome to see the otienitee
Lord's hosts som.etiraes loses tee daY. of the well. • The augels of God, at
But -Damid knew where to hide. He the first gush a the living water, dip -
had been, brought up in' that. ociuntre. pea their ehalies drank into it, and
Boys are inquisitive, and thew know
all eboat the region where they were
born and brought up. If you seould
go back, to the old horaesteada, you
eould, with your eyee shut, find your
way to the meadows, or orchard, or
hill back a the house, with which you
were familiar thirty or forty years
n. 60 David knew- the cave of Actull-
am. Perhaps in his boyhood clays he
had played "hide and seek" with his
comrades all about the oldi cave; and,
though others might not have known it
David did. Travellers say there is only
one way of getting into that cave, and
that by a narrow path; bet David was
Mout, and steady headed. and steady
nerved; and BO, with' his three brave
staff officers, he goes.along that path,
finds his way into thcave, sits down, are clear ma the track; it has leaped
e
chasms and scaled elites; it is fagged
looks around at the roa and the dark
out ; its eyes are rollena in death : its
tongue lolling from
ITS FOAMING MOUTH.
Faster the deer, faster the dogs, un-
til it plunges into Schroon-lake, and
the hounds can follow it no 'further,
and it puts down its bead and mouth,
was not, what he wanted. He wanted until the nostril is clean submerged
a deep, full, cold. drink—such as a itt the cool wave, and I understand it:
man gets only out of an old well with "As the hart panteth for the water -
moss -covered bucket. David remem- brook, so penteth my seat after thee,
beret that very near that cave of oh God." Ohl bring me water from
Achillrotin there was such a well as that well. Little child, who hast
that—a well where he used to go in learned of Jesus in the Selabath school,
boyhood—the well of Bethlehem; and being me some of that living water.
Ile almost imagines that he can hear Ofd man, who fifty years ago clidst
the liquid plashing of that well,. and first find tJae well, bring me some of
his peached tongue inoves through) his that water. Stranger in a strange
hot lips as he says; "Oh, that some one
lend, who used to hear sung. amid the
would give me drink from the water highlaelds of Scotland, to the tune of
of the well of Bethlehem, which is by Bonrae Doon.' "'The Star, the Star
the gate."
of Bethlehem," bring me some of that
It was no sooner said than done, water. "Whosoever drinketh of this
The three brave staff officers bound
water shall never thirst." "Oh, that
to their tea and start. ,
same one would give me to drink of
the water of the well of Bethlehem,
V
to the health of eerth and heaven, as
they cried; "Glory to God in the high-
est, and on earth pea.ce." Sometimes, in
our modern times, the water is
brought through the, pipes of the city
to the very nostrils a tee horses or
cattle; but this well in the Bethlehem
bane was not so much for the beaste
that perish as toe our race—thirst-
sleeted, desert -travelled, simoom-
streak. Oh 1 my seal, :weary with sin,
stoop down and drink to -day out of
that Bethlehem well. David said :"As
the hart panteth after the water -
brooks, so my soul entiateth after thee,
pe God." You would get a better
understanding of this if you were amid
the Adirondaoks in sunamer time. Here
conies a swift -footed deer. The hounds
passages of the mountains, feels very
weary with the forced march, and we -
ter he mlist- ba.vet or die. I doubt not
there may have been drops triekling
down the side a the cavern, or that
there may have been some water in the
goatskin, slung to his girdle; but that
BRA SOLDIERS : which is by the gate."
will take even a hint frone their corn- Again: this Gospel well, like the one
mandef. But between them and the spoken of in the text, is a captured
well lay the hosts of the Philistines, well.
and what could three men do with a
great army ? But where there is a will
there is a way; and with their swords,
slaelung this way and that, they make
their path to the well, While the Phili-
stines are amazed at the seeming fool -
David rememberedth ti
e me wh
ell
that good water of Bethlehem; was in
possession of his ancestors; his father
drank there, his mother drank there.
He remembered how that water tast-
ed when he was a boy, and came up
hardiness of these three men, and eau.. from ptay. We never forget the old
not make up their minde exactly what well we used to drink freem. evehheaehe
it menus, the three men have come to were boys and gleigire There was
the well. They dropped tbe bucket. somethinvegedaeit le-liten blessed the lips
They brought up the water. They and-eFfifeshed the brows better than
poured it in the pail, anti startotd for laythiug we have found since. As we
the nave. "Stop them I". Shieliehie Philie think of that old well, the memories of
(seines; "die' thoehe-Wrtle your swords I the past flow into *each other like
, Stop therrheeaewe h your spears I Stop orystaline drops, sun -glinted; and, all
he.sew'three men.1" Too late. They the more, we remember that the hand
ave got around the hill. The hot that used to lay hold of the rope, and
racks are splashed with the overflow- the hearts that beat against the well-
ing of the water tie it is carried up the curb, are still now. We never forget
cliffs. The three men go along the the fountain at which we drank. Alas!
dangerous paths, and. with cheeks foe the man who ;has no early mem-
flushed with the exeiteraent, and all eerie&
out of breath in the haste, fling their David thought of that well—that
steads red with the skirmish to the boyhood wen—and he wanted a drink
side of the cave, and cry out to David; of it; but he remembered that the
"There, eaptain of the host, is what Philistines had captured it. When
you wanted a drink of the water of these three men tried to come up to
the well of Bethlehem, whiele is by the well in behade of David, they saw
the gate." swords gleaming around about it. And
tbis is true of this Gospel well. • The
A. text is of Tic). use to me unless
Philistines have he times captured it.
can find Christ it! and unless loan
When we coma to take a full, old-fash-
bring a Gospel oat of these words that
lolled drink of pardon and comfort,
will arouse, and comfort, and bless, I
doset thelr swords of indignation and
shall wish had never seen them;
sarcasm flash 9 Why, the sceptics
for your thee would be wasted, and
Letts us we cannot come to ehat foun-
against. my soul the dark record would
tate. They say the water is not fit
be mode that this day I stood before a
to drink anyhow. "if you are really
great audience of sinning, sufferitig,
thirsty, now, there is tee well oil
dying men, and told them of no res -
Philosophy; there is the well of art
cue. By the cross oft the Son of God
by the throne oe the eternal judg-
ment, that shall not be. May the
Lord jesus help me to tell you the mortal
truth to -day, hunger on rose leaves, and mix
a mint jalep of worldly stimulants,
As I was on. the way down here this
morning, I heard someone say that when nothing will satisfy us but "a
rink of t e water of the well of Beth -
carrier -pigeons had sometimes letters
leltem, evitich is at ;the gate."
Beth -
tied under the wings, and that they
THEY g
would fly hundreds of milee — hue, T.RY TO sTArtvUS.
on husks when the Father's banquet
dred miles in an hoar -- carryieg . . .
message, so I have thought I wouldis ready; and t e best ring is taken
from the casket, and the sweetest harp
like to have it now. Oh Heavenly
is struck fax the music, and the swift -
Dove I bring- under Thy wing to -day to
e
my soul and to the souls of this peoplest foot is already lifted for the dance.
patronize Heaven, and abolish hall;
sorae message a light., and love, and
peach and try to measure eternity with their
hour glasses, and the throne of the
It is not an unusual thing toseepeo-
great goa with their yard -sticks. I
ple gather around a well in sumraer
time. The husbandman puts down abhoo it. I tell you tee old Gospel'
his eradle at the welL The well is a captured well. I pray God
builder puts down his trowel. that there may be, somewhere in the
The traveller puts clown his Elea host, three anointed men, with
pack The one draws the wa- courage enouge to go forth iri the
tel for tat the reete himselt taking the strength oft the omeepotent God,
very Not. . with the glittering sword e of truth
THE CUP IS PASSING AROUND to eew the way back again to that
and I he fires of thirst are put eed old well1 think the tide is turning,
and that the old Gospel is to take its
Naos again in the family, and in the
university, and in the legislative hall.
Men have tried worldly philosophies,
and- have found out that. they de hot
give any cobefort, amt. that they drop
an arctic eaideight upon the death
pillow. They fail when there is a dead
chief In tee helm; and, wean the :soul
comes to leap into the fathomlese
n ocean of eternity, thee give to the
man not so mech as a broken spar to
there is the well of science." They say
a great many beautiful things about
the soul, o.nd they try to feed our im-
eni t he traveller startle on his journee,
ani the 'mirk:lean takes up his bur-
den, t . ;
ele Maude, we come to-clawaround
the Gospel well. We put down our
pack of bardene and our implements
pack. Then one draws the we -
ter foe those Who have gathered
arouriti the liven. I will try to draw
the water today; axicl ifl after I ye
poured out from this living f
Ler your -soul, 1 just taste ok it
Ming to, Depend upon it, tbat well
will come into our posseitelon agaip,
though it has been captarea. if there
be not three anoieted meu in the
Lord's host with enough Oonserra.-
tion to do the work, then the words
will leap atom jeliovales buelelers, and
the eternal three evill detteend --God
the Father, Goa the Son, aud God the
Holy Ghost—conquer/Ile for our dying
race the way back again te "the water
a the well or Bottiohm, volich is by
the gate." If God be fox- us, who can
be againeaeas t If God spared not His
own Sod; but freely gave Mm up for
us all, how shall He not with Him al -
80 freely give ue alt thiegs it For I
am persuaded that neither height, nor
depte, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, shall take erom as in-
to final captivity the Gospel of the
Lord jesus Christ,
• Again: the Gospel well, like the one
spoken of in my text, is a, well at the
gate,
-The traveller stops the camel to -
date and gets clowiwaaci dips out of the
valley of the east some very beautiful,
clear, bright water, and that is out
of the very well that David longed for.
Do you know that that, well was at
the gate, so that nobody could go in-
to Bethlehem without going
RICHT PAST II
and so it is with this Gospel well—it
is at the gate. it is, in the first place,
at the gate of purification. We can-
not west away our sins unless with
that water. I take the responsibility
of saying that there is no man, wo-
man, or ehild, in this house to -day that
has escaped sinful defilement Do
you say it is outrageous and ungallant
for me to make suoh a charge I Do
you say: "I have never stolen. I have
never blasphemed. I have never com-
mitted unchastity. I have never been
guilty of murder." I reply, you have
committed a $in worse tlaan murder.
We have all committed it. We have,
by our sin, re -crucified the Lord, and
that is deeided. And if there be any
who dare to irlead "not guilty" to the
indictment, then the hosts of Heaven
will be empannellect as a jury to ren-
der an unanimous verdict against us:
guilty one—guilty all. With what a
slashing- stroke that one passage cuts
us away from all our pretensions :
"There is none that doeth hood, no
not one.' "Oh," says some tone, "all
we want—all the race wants—is de-
velopment." 'OW, I want to tell you
that the race develops without the
Gospel into a. Sod-om, a Five Points, a
great Salt LakeCity. It always de-
velops downwards and never upwards,
except as the grace of God. lays hold
it. What then is to become of your
soul without Christ? Banishment,
—disaster. Rut I Mess my Lord Jesus
that there is a well at the gate of puri-
fication. For great sin, great pardon.
For eighty years of transgression, an
eternity of forgiveness,* For crime
deep as hell, an atonement high as or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethle-
heaven. That where sin abaunded, so hem." Now, wheii we come to .stand by
grace may much, more abound. That the death -pillow of those who are
as sin reigued unto death, even so leaving us for the fax land, do not
may grace., reign through righteous- let up weep as teough we would nev-
nese unto eternal life by Jesus Christ ae see them again, "Eat let us there'.
aur Lord, Angel of the Covenant dip standing appoint a place where we
fatheriese will preeerve
them alive; and let thy vadowts treat In
me," "Oh," says eome ono in I in gal -
tease, "you missed My eame; that is
not my trouble." I will not -miss it,
X kiting up now it premise for every
Olirtetiati sou -u: tilinge werli to-
gether for good to those elm love
God." I break Ithrough the armed
ranks a your sorrows to -day, and
bring to your panelled, lips a <triple a
N'y'tjabillei;Witiotehryofibtellogiawi:.1,1, Ileteadente
Abgsttu,
afvtthis Gospel, well is at the gate
ot
I have net yeti beard one single in-
telligent aceount a the future want,
from anybody who does not believe in
the Bible. They throw such a fog
about the subjea, that I do not .want
to go to the sceptic's heaven, to the
transcendentalist's heaven., to thte
worldly plailosopher's heaven, .1 would
net exchange the poorest room in your
house for the finest heaven that Hux-
ley, or Stuart Mill, or Dermot ever
dreamed of. Tbeir heaven laas no
Christ in it. Heaven without Christ,
though you could sweep the whole uni-
verse into it, would be a hell! Oh, they
tell as, there are no songs there, there
owe no coronations in heevert—dhat is
all imagination. They tell us we will
de there about what we de here, only
on a larger scale—gepertetrize with
&eater tetellecte and, with Alpin
stook, clamber up over the icebergs, in
an eternal vacation!. Rather than
that, Iturs to my Bible, and If ind
Soan's petters of that good land—
that heaven which was yotar Iva -
/ably in infauey—that, heaven
which otar ohildreu in the Staiebath-
school will sing about this afternoon
—that heavee that has a well at the
gate, After you have been on a. long
journey, and you -come in all bedust-
ed and tired to your house, the first
thing you want is refreshing ablu-
tion; and I am glad to know that af-
ter we get through the pilgrimage of
this, world,—the hard, dusty pilgrim-
age—we will find a well at tee gate.
In that one wash, and away will go
all our sins and sorrows. I do not
care whether cherub, or seraph, or me
own departed friends in that blessed
laud, place to my lips the cup of life,
the touch of that cup will be life.—
will be heaven. I was reading of how
'the antlients sought for the fountain
of perpetoal. youtle They thought that,
if they could find and drink out of
that well, the old would betome young
again, the sick well, and everybody
would have eternal juvenescence. Of
course they could not find it. Eure-
ka have found it—" the water of
the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate."
r tbink we had better make a bar-
gain with those wile leave us—going
out of this world from time to time.
—as to
WHERE WE WILL MEET THEM,
Travellers parting appoint a place a
meeting. They say: "We will meet
at Rome, or we will meet at Stockholm
Thy wing in this living fountain to-
day, and wave it over this solemn as-
sembly, that our souls may wash in
the water of the well of Bethlehen3.,
whith is by the gate."
the Gospel is at the Gate of pam-
fort.
Further, r remark that this well of
Do you know where David was wben
he uttered the words of the text ? He en! Heaven where our good friends
was in the cave of Adullum. That is are. Heaven where Jesus is. Heaven I
whersome of you are now.. Has the Heaven 1 world alwaysgone sm,00thly with you'? '
But, while I stand here there comes
e
Has it never pursued you with slander? a revulsion of feeling when I look ba-
le your health always good? Have to your eyes and know there are souls
your fortunes never perished? Are here dying of thirst, notwithstanding
your children all alive and well Is the well at the gate. Between them
therand the well of heaven there is ahreet
there one dead lamb in the fold ? Are ahe
ary of eie.dedecie,.,thddigh, e di, ge
you ignorant of the way to the temegaa.ra, ...e -leads a
tory ? Have you never heard f)' teddge
e b 11 s". 1A-.hway to that well
will meet. Where shall it be? Shall
it be on the banks of the river t No I
the banks are too long. Shall it be
in the temple? NO! there is such a
host, there—ten thousand times ten
thousand. Where shall we meet our
loved ones? Let us make an appoint-
ment to meet at the well by the gate.
Oh heaven! Sweet heaven ! Dear heav-
ten. wheeeethweeffia ads if every stroke
,
he iron clapper beat your heart.?
Are the skies as bright when you look
into them, as they used to be when
other eyes, now closed, used to look in-
to theme is there some trunk or
shower in your houso that you go to
only on enniversary days, when there
comes beating ahainst gout soul the
surf of a great ocean of agony'? ;
IT IS THE CAVE OF ADIeLLUMI
Is there some David here whose father-
ly heart wayward Absolora- has brok-
enl Is there some Abraham here who:
is lonely because Sarah is dead in the
family plot of 1Veacpe1aht After
thirty or forty years of companion -
hip, how hard it was for them to
pert. Why not have two seats in the
Lord's chariot, so that both tee old
folks -ntigihe have gone up at once? My
aged. mother, in her last moments, said
• to" my father: "Father, -wouldn't it be
slice if we could both go together? No,
no, no; we must part." And there are
wounded hearts here to -day; thougb
I bare been away, I hove heard. I
know some of youhare had trouble
einee 1 have -been gone, I thought I
would say one word of comfort to you.
to -day. The world cannot comfort
you. What can it bring you? No-
thing—nothing. The salve they try to
put on. your wounds will not stick.
They cannot, with their bungling sur-
gery, mend your broken bones. A.ophar,
the Naamahite, and Bitdad; the Shu-
hite, and Eliphaz, the. Temanite, come
in, and talk, and talk, and talk; but
miserable comforters are they alli
They menet pour light: into ihe care
of Mullion. They eannot bring a
single draught of water from "the well
of Bethlebeau, which is by the gate."
But, glory be to jesus Christ, there is
cameort at the gate. There is life in
the well at the gate. If you give me
time, I win draw up a promise for
every man, woman, and child in the
house Aye, r will do it in, two min-
utes, 1 will lay hold of the rope of the
old well. What, is your trouble? "0E,"
you say: "I am so siek, so weary of life
—ailments after ailments." I .veill
drew you up a promese: The inhabi-
tant shall never say, 1 am sick." What
is your tamale f' 'Oh, it is loss of
frieods—bereeyeraent," yott say.
will 'drew you up a promise fresh and
cool out of the well "I am the laser-
reotiou an the life, He that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall
be live." What is your trouble? You
say it is tbe infirmities iof old age.
t will draw you up a promise: "(Down
tet old age I OM With' thee; to hoar
hairs will r oarry thee."
WHAT IS YOUR TROUBLE @
"Oh." you sale' "1 bare a widowed soul
arta bay children cry 20r bread." I
brims up this premiee: Leave thy
for them, they well not have His love
and intercession. I suppose there may
be some seul in this house to -day that
will never see heaven. I cannot tell
by any pallor of cheek, or gloom of
brow, where such an one may sit or
stand; but God knows that that one
soul is lost. The grain is all gath-
ered into the barns, and it is Decem-
ber now, and for that soul in this
house—if there be such an one—the
dirge would be appropriate in two
senses: "Tho harvest is past, the
summer is ended."
But I am glad to know that you
may come yet. The well is lire—the
well of heaven. Come, I do not care
how feeble you. are. Let me take hold
a your area mail steady you up to the
well curb. " Ho, evevy one that thirst-
eth, come." I would rather win
ONE SOTIL TO CHRIST
this morning, than wear the crown of
the world's dominion. Do not let any
man go away and say I did not invite
him. Oh, if you could only just look
at my Lord once I If you could just
see Him full in the face—aye, if you
could only do as ;that woman did who
I read aboutt'at the beginning of the
service, just eome up behind Him and
toutth His feet—methinks you would
live. In Northern New Xersey, three
winters ago, three little children wane
dered off, from home in a snowstorm.
Night came on, lather and mother
said: "Where are the. ehildren?" They
could not be found. They started out
in haste, and the news ran le the
neighbours, and before morning it was
said that there were hundreds of mete
hunting the mountains for these three
children but found them not. After
a while, a man imagined that there
was a -place that had not been looked
at, and,event and saw the three chil-
dren. ie examined their bodies. He
found that the elder boy had taken
off Ids coat and wrapped it around
the other one, the baby, and then tak-
en off eis vest and put it around i he
younger one. And thee they all died,
he probably the first, for he had no
coat or vest. Oh, it was a toweling
Scene when that was brottght to light,
I was be the ground about a week
ago, audit brought the whole scene
to ray mind ; and 1 thought to myself
of a more melting scene than thet—
a is that eases, our elder brother,
took off the robe of His royalty, and
laid aside the last garment of earthIy
comfort, that Ile might wrap our poor
souls from the blast.
Some Ministers say the worst ober
be saved, because Richerd Baxter Wag
eaved, and :Cohn Newton was eaved,
and any Irian can be saved, I do not
want to put it iita that way. 1"oft ean
be eased. von eertain of it ; because
I have been saved. Oh, the height and
the depth, and the length, and the
breadth a tee love of God.
111
SOLD ERS OP' THAT
'DDT 1-ILLPLESr
They Are suletat t
tweeter and (tent
itteyead the )(leach
in the Itt
t Itapid Itate,
The maintenance of clisoiltleate len e. ye
- aet
army is one of those matters tip4„,
Which all soldiers, from the Field MO
slut), down to the latest remelt, are
la perfeot agreement, says a Berlin
letter, It is essentiat teat the rules
of the aerviee and orders from "BAXPer-
lora ahould be rigidly observed and
obeyed, bat tee method, in which those
rules and orders are enforced is some-
times open to questiert. This is espe-
cially the CUSE) in Germany, The discip-
line
to wIticth the eadiers of the Kale.:
er are oubjeeted is of the strietest
nature, their emperial chief is fond
of addressing them, as "nay children,"
but the German. private has much less
chance of obtaining fatherly treat-
ment than his brother in. other come -
:Wes, It is an iron hazel that guidee
him through all the phases and turns
a les military servitude—"service" is
rather too mild a term to use—arid
he oever knows how deservedly or how
undeservedly he ma e feel tee weight
of that hand.
One confirmation of this is to be
found in tlie number of suicides in the
German army ; the percentage, welch
already exceeds that of any other army
of Europe, is increasing to an alarm-
ing extent and causing much anxiety
to tee military authorities. (The chiefs
of the army are advancing all kinds
of plausible theories to account for
it, but it Ls patent to unbiased observ-
ers that there is not much °hence of
iraproveraent until the ."common" sol-
dier Is treated, with. ruaeh less vigor
by his superiors-
13LACK 0 FICIAL liECORD.
But ehe beat confirmation of tact
iron rule exercised over the German
soldier, -and the injustice' to which he
hes to submit, is to be found in the
reports of actual occurrences which
appear from time to time in the news-
papers of tee Fatberland. A few
weeki ago the Sergeant in charge of
tee mess department of the regiment
of Uhlaias, 'sto.tioned in an Alsatian
town, was seat on forage duty, and
in his absence his subordinates neg-
lected teen- adOrk and, spoilt the food
they were cooking. On hearing this
the Captain—a young Count—sent for
tee Sergeant and reprimanded him,
much to the latteets surprise, for a
fault of wheel be was not guilty.
The noncommissioned officer was un-
wise enough to point, out that the rails,
hap bad taken place during his ab-
sence on another duty, wbereupon the
1..,
ficer 1,
r Of Money,
at was gentleiit.,.
nee the °bawl of Ibis
'me aware of his faillug ix
wean the Messenger ;ix ed with
not from the Captain, sae had al
ehown into her brothier's presence, aml
be Pat a question to Lim soldier *IQ
such unexpected abrupt nese corteeree
bag the officee'e habits, that the m
Was nienelused, axid staramere '
firmative. The engagement et
en off, and the youug lady
cautions enough to say iliti
statements wheel teed come
bad been confirmed by the a
the xneeseneer.
That was extougb for tite oft
aootteed the man of being 1
with a civilian candidate for il
hand. - Without more ado he
savage blow at his Xnesseng
his sword, cutting the left, ar
through. No punishment was
ed upon the officer for hie ed,
When e. man eutees the ra
becomes a machine, an atiti
without feeliitga—a soraethin(b s
ordered about, cuffed, swornee, e '
sweet will oi those whom fate haeY4e-
ed above aim, The dominating lenge
enact of the army in Germetine is dome
onstrated by an ineident in a restackr*
ant in Karlsruhe. An officer
seated at the same table as a civilian
artd the latter, in moving hie pba,'
for the Purpose of leaving the tab
Pushed it unintentionally, again
officer's leg somewhat violently.
immediately apologized, but the'
oar drew his sword and deliberately
ran aim through the body. The 'ave.,
lion died, and the officer was triea
and sentenced to two Tears' impriscut
ill
ment without hard labor, and the'Ene
peror remitted three quarlees of the
time. , 1
• 66 PERMANFNT M. P.'S.
MO' Axe Elected for Ilfe, and Cota
E12,061 a Year,
Most people think that,ail member
of Parliament, are eleciecl for a bi
period only, and not (for life, sahs
London Daily Mail.
• In mosacases that is so. At the ee.
time there are no fewer then ditty -six
"M. P.'s" who are eleted for life.
Not only so, but, unlike eater M.P.'s
they are paid salaries end in one year
they get as ranch as £42,001 out of the
taxpayers' pocket.
Parliaments come and Parliaratente
go, but these sixty-six gentlerama go
on for ever,— tbet is, 'till tbey die.
To be plain they form the permanent
staff of the Houses of Parliament. They
run the legislative show, and without
them the elected, M.P. ond the beredt
tary lord would be in a pickle.
The biggest salary paid to a ar of the peep:tenet:xi etaf mem
young Captain waxed highly incleg- b
., .
mint at the
struck elm aman's epeeseineeeete era:ea-aka this sum is 'paid to the clerks cn
efeeent Blow, with bits
fist, causing .the Sergeant to reel both the House of Comraons, and th
grounded ie. the men to suoh an ex- House of Lords. Ettob. also gets a house,
The two clerks assistant get £16,e0
against the:Wall. Discipline had been
tent that, ;on recovering himself, hapiece: But the clerk assistant of tht
saluted rdspectfulle, but a seconde House of Commons bas the advautag
later his deeling got so far the better over tits brother in the Lords, fax le
,ef. ainegets a house as Well.
,that he turned to two soldiers The second clerk assistant and t
elm were present and asked them to
sergeant -at -arms in the House allow?
observe how he had been treated. mons halt get £1,200 and the lattea
Thiewas more than the Count could also
stand; with a furious exelalgets a house.mation, e
drew his sword, and slashed the Ser- _ The reading clerk of the House og
geant in the leg and on the aide of Lords gets £900, while the examiner. ,
fax standing orders and the depute'l
the head. In spite of dial wounds, ibe
blood streaming down his face is sergeant of the House of Commons
Sergeant contrived to get on his feete
)ieeee get £.1300.
and stand at " attention;" but thei Two salaries of £500 eitele are given
effort was too much and he fell back to tee yeoman usher of the Illouee of
unconecion.s. He died a few hours af- Lords, who is aLso secretary to the -
iterward. lord great chamberlain, and to the as -
clergyman who read the burial ser- sistant sergeant -at -arms in tee House
arms in the Holm
of Commons. Tee deputy sergeant -
The deed was characterized by the
which had ever come to his notice. £250; but the petersea'orte soredvselfresle
vice as ob.e of the most dastardly'
that he has nothing to do.
The Sergeant was interred -with full ohe °chi ef these phdeaseeplaces 1
military honors. The Count was ar- '-
rested and sent to the military prison the permanent staffs of the Elco.seB o
at Strasburg to await trial, but prey- Parliataent—are, in the House ofiliord,
ious experience has convinced the sol- £7,450 a year, and in the leciuse .0
diers that he will get off very easily Co:omens £8,000: le addition to 'thee
—that, in fact, the trial will be a mere th.ere are 17 clerks in the establiele
eat of the Howse of Lords, who divid
ffarce.1 m
MAN HAD NO CHANCE. 410,730 a year between them, while n
, clerks in tee House of Commons share
An infantry regiment, then station- out £15,881 a year. e
ed ae: Poson, furnishes another in- The regulation of the staff includieg
stanee of whid the German soldier their salaries" and. pensions is entrust -
has to put up withed to a committee of the House. _
A young Lieutenant, who lied dined' The -clerk of the Paeliaraents, the
someweat too well, did not notice that clerk of the House of Commons, the
tee soldier he was,passing had given gentleman usher of the black rod, and
him the customary salute, and turn- the sergeant -at -arms in eaeh House are
ing fiercely upon him, roundly up- appointed by the Crown, The second
braided him tor his SUP1:YOSed ofaiS- and third elerks at the tables of the
sloe. House of Lords arel Conamous are ate
The man wisely refrained from any
explanation, and saluted again, but
this merely served to increase the of-
ficer's angor: he streak the man a,
pointed—the first by the Lord Chan-
delier and the others by "the Prime
Minister.
The appointments of the clerks, how
blow, then reported him for his in- ever, are rested ba the clerk of the Pee
seance and neglaet of duty. 'laments aetd the olerks of the Haite
The men had simply no chance, and, of Commonl, with abcclute edo
was sent be prison for a year,—all be- selection. So important oi se la
cause a young subaltern had drunk ter appointmeats held to be that that
more than was good for him. Three
men witnessed the same, but they did
not dare give evidence in favor of
their comrade, and 11 is to the dis-
oredtt of the Lieutenant's brother of -
Wears that, knowing he was of a quar-
relsome disposition and was not quite
sober on that occasion, they made no
Proper inctuiry.
DELIBERATE MURDER.
A cute of deliberate murder on the
part of aseperior officer arose out of
an incident in the autumn manoeuv-
ers. In pereorming one of the evolu-
tions a Sergeant in a cavalry regi-
ment rather spoilt the look of tem line
beoan awkward movement a a com-
paratively insignificant nature; some
of the teen noticed that the Colonel's
face wore a spiteful look aftee this in-
eident, and in (heir hearts pitied the
luckless non-com. There was reason
for their oompreesion, foe scarcely were
the men back in their quarters than
the Colonel had the man brought to
him, and fired his revolver et him as
be entered the door. There was rto sec-
recy about it, for the truth of the 15 the dark.
are never thrown open to general coin
petition., though all candidatee mut
hinted howe to pass an examination -
IN HIS OLD AGE.
Lord Armstrong, the famous
maker, has just entered his nin
year. et is now, just forty years s
he. was knighted for hie discovery 0
the Armstrong breech -loading gun
But as the inventor of the mode
system of hydraulics, says the Neo
'e.ork Post, he deserves even greater
fame than his gun ha,s given him. Kim
oel age has been devoted, to the pube
iiention a abstruse valentine ivorke
and to the restoratio:n of Bambareen
Castle—where be now lives—to soma-,
thing a its former gloriee.
LIGHT.
Mrs. Creteley--My, flue b nri a 1 iveye
tries to make iight of thinge,
Mrs.. Ales) 0.3r --Ane, yet it is tienotion
ge;seip that he maxiagee to keep- you