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U.1ough it ie deuied that Dr. Leyde
estecl France to mediate be-
en his country and Great Britain,
there seems to be ao • doubt that he
was last reeilvea of ficlally as tee ageat
ot the Transvaal Govereenent by
Deleasee, tee Freneb Mtnister for
Foreiga Afars. lace mu,eh sIgna,
ficanca bewever, attaches to tee fact
that the Transvaaa agent should: r
ITE EXETEII. TIMES
YOU IINVE A LION TO FIGHT.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the
Temptations of Men.
Scene at tile AraphitheMre at Verona—Paul's Fight With
neeive at Paris a. reeognitton given mountains. 'Do we suffer f Pena
tO bien nowhe‘re eLse. except at The it --The Bad Habits of Dlen--The Dr. Preaches A
— beat e They sweltered in the tropics.
Plague. Theegood sense and. diseretion Powerful Discourse. •
De we get tatituedt They fainted, eone
with whittle I. Deleasse handled the - Persecuted? Tbey were anatbismatiz-
to care for teem but cannibals, Are we
Fashoda incident may be accepted a - .a. despetele from Washingten says; ed. And as they look from their gal -
proof that England has notelet; to —Rev. Dr. Talmage preahed from tbe lerY atid eee us falter in the preeenee
fear teem Preach interference so ions following text:—"a bave fought with a the lions, I seem tri bear IsaaeVatte
as he remalas in office, beasts at larebesus."-1 Cor. xv. V. addressing us in his old even, only a
little. changed:
. "Must etou be earried to the Wee
"Seeing we are compessed about with
The Vablnet, however. of ea On flowery beds of ease,
great a cloud et witnessesi"--Heb.
the Beasts at Ephesus -Lessons to Be Learned From
There are the sweet singers—Topleely,
Montgemery, Merles NiTeeley, Isaac
Watts, and Mrs, Sigoveney. If heav-
en tad Ilea no muse, before theY went
lePt they would have started the eing-
mg, And there, the bead of missioe-
ariese-Daval Abeel. talhing of China
redeented and jorin Seadder, of India
sayed ; and Devitt Bea:beard, of the Alt,
engines evangelized; ad Mrs. Admit -
rem Judson, whose prayers for Bet -
Ptah took beavea by violence! All these
Christians are looklag lute tbe arena.
Oar struggle is notieing to theirs1
wei in Chriet's cause, stiffer from tee
cold?' They waited Greealaad's ittY
to fight it all alone. No 1 The
stand in the eentre of intmeese
'circle of sympathy. Peel bad been
recitieg the names of Abel, Emelt,
Neale Abraham, Isaac, Joseph;
Gideon„ and Iterate, and then says;
"Being compassed by so great cloud
of witnesses.'
On the filet elevation, a the ancieut
lett
Deicaese is a member, has a preca Crossing tbe Alps ey the alount
Ws lease a 1.44 fau eue e'asten last Cenis pass, or through the Mount
week it was upheld by' a raajoriey
Nil 1 Welk °there foeght te ev'a the prlze,
Or sailed through bloody seae/"
ToPlady shoots in his old hymn:
"Your Itarpst ye trembling eants„
Cenis tunnel, you. are in a few- hour
vilely three votes. Se beterogeueozteand
set dawn at Verona, Italy, and in -a
inaarnionious are tee eiements come tew minutes begin examining one
to survive Wog the olio:dug of the new graudest ileitis of the worid—the
•
piesiog it that. few observers expect it
'ear. The fall of Premier Walilettlin
Rousseau will be regarded as a tri-
uriatat, of the antieltevisioniets. and his
succeesor, whetber ht. Menne or azi
other, will choose rietreseatativee of
that faction for his colleagaee. Now,
it cannot Le denied. that the anti -Hee I
visiouiete are bitterly hoetile to Great t kinge, awl the twenty-five thougend.
Britula; le is their orgaita tha Par eended seectators. At the sides of
atuellitheatre, on the day of a cele-
bration, sat Tiberius, or Auguste°. er
the reigning king. So, in that greet
arena of specto.tors that Nya.tell our
struggle, and In tee fire tem. g Dowil from the willows take,
kry, as I shall call it, sits ger King, Lead to the praise, at love Divine,
One Jesus. On His head are maay Rid every string awake."
crowns...? The Roman eroperor got t While Cherles Wesley, the Methodist,
Amphttletatre. • The \thole bellang his place by cold-bloodea cemplaetei breete teeth in hie tevourite 'tweet% A
sweene around. Toil in a Circle. Yon but our King bath come to Hie Place little varied:
by the broken hearts bee.led, aud tee ii,, emerge to ;seep you. bave,
stand. in the erena uhere t et CWWe.
texi
re
we* °nee+ fought, or the race ran, Mel elleepeTiloes
on all side,s the seats rise, tier above WiLh foIded, tittliffereut as to
tier, Until yoa Mint forty elevations, whi ther the swordsman or tee
fta
r galleriee as I ettall eee lie to eall be''t ; bat aur Xtrig's'eYeittrethiee Ave
an with us. Nay, unheardt ot Can-
eet the senatore, the
Press wlateh jae""aglisbicaen awl he argue, and wider the galleriee eve
exteit over the liritlint h reverses the cages in which the duns artd t:gers
tiit
SceAfrica. It does not follow that are keta without feed, uutil, tjed lion wit
It one ea,tie caught the come And tit h.ih • , ft th 1 a ea blood. During its celebration Jetruse.-
tbeir leaders. °nee clothed actin's sword, and with his otter i . ose c i ren. o eY 00
responsibility f ffi
0- 0---,:e. will give anY ' out upon eater our vistuu, wae. with rau taugbt bis swell Tbe maa toot , with stolid indiffereuce as to whether lera was arowdecl with at least four or
v.ltli Ihei • whit huuger and thiriist they are let 6
his knife from his girdle and slew tee .11.Le wifi -five times its oedinery populatiore
overt expression to ant:elt viedoi i t tee seieed aud etime, is eondinuned to er losetgs battle frourneutturnitg,
4.e. Twelve eaare old. Tbe age
raacer• 1i° d°abt tbff vit'ahl giadlY i nate. teem; I thane that Pant leni.elf tilet3;4 sdIll!' ,4r. sitting ill tle gall' 1"
ov:rec'esoiC breottv. and eafing,
A: Goa ta glorify,
A never -dying etial to save.
aria fit it for the sly."
look tigain. aud, ewe the gallery
our departed triende. afaey of
oaa in tee other galleries we eave
dessension. I see Him come doWn from aware et hut thew we kilDw. Ork.1 bow
the gallery into the arene to belP us feta:tar their faces. The.,Y sat at our
in the fight, shouting, uutil all up and tables. and wo walked, to tbe bean ot
down His voice is heard:, "Fear not 1 God ie company. Have they forgotten
I -rid help thee! I will strengthen tute Tbose tattlers and =there start.
thee by the right band. of My power." ed us an the ease]. te life. Are they
Gnat in the aucient amphitheatre, a ce 1 s,s as to what becomes a U.S
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL'
pany aseerabled, for at the passover
season tbe temple was crowded with
strangers. Astonihsed at hie Under-
etanding. They saw that this elfild
hard. thought oe the Scriptures, ad
• ould penetrate below tbe busies and
ihheelltsruotebt.be teacbers to the kernel of
di
in stehPeb nr Ogf S etuelraYpitep,own e4tr ele r
48. TheY saw him. Mary and
prised to behold. their son in tbe midst
an earnest participant in the discus-
sion, wbile the -witnesses stood Won-
deging at his intelligence, Sou. A
gentle, loviaa rebuke. Those weo
must reprove should do it very tee-
derly.. Thy fateer. This \Vas the only
possible way in whieh Mary could
sPetak to her son cle Joseph. Netice
what a singular contrast occurs in
the next phrase, when he tells her be
=est be about bis Fatber's business.
togooweiefgaithHer eaxietY shows some
r e4c9o.rdejarrwardsiit.
roTinhetshee are
es tbeof Jef siruset,
and contain the charaeteristio featuees
or Lanleisah i so tu t me. eosi—nba,,n11 euot tNevri tfhoreg,eut;
Plete cousciousnese of his nature avid
thorouge elevation table work among
men- About nay' Eatberes business.
Or,
Ftbeeti?a,gthlierattbfQruosrae'"biAsintreo2talf-
er's lips, the mystery of his ditene
origin; awl the thought of his vote -
Von Was begineing to stir his soul,
valio'nwesiriouillelsobaentedearloywisnteejuesset.e.4 both in
r,500,:dr)lto. p'rohnievyArielleisttuOiTyl Intinet.imTphoerty
Of hie words. $o, ever, tee utterances
ef jeSafili fall upon dull eas and. darlt-
ened initiate Went dawn with them.
Thoegb conseloue of big owe higher in-
tellideilee. he left the congenial cantle
of the temple at teeir Willi*, fully
eabuliseive to hie human lot. Nazati
retie A village in a lovely vale, girdl-
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse .41, His parents., Mary and
Joseph are both termed "hie pareats,'
bece.use they appeered as such to tlie
oommunity. Went to Jerueelem. Ac-
cording to tee best eutlioriales the
poverty of tbe atilatuoa people ef Pal-
estine in Jesus's time, was ,verY great;
bat their rot/jeer* e.alled them, et. stat-
ed times, 4.4.1d at considerable expexiee,
to go to Jerusalem, and they went.
Christia,nity makes no such detailed
detaande on •our time or M011eY, be-
cause it olainas our hearts. EverY Yea5.
very male Israelite wale bound, to
make this pllgrimaget and mane' Pleas
people believed that weeuen eleould ,g4
also. Only "tee etc); the aged, boys
under twelve, the blind, tbe deaf, wed
lunatics" were permitted to remelt).
'at Izonte. The attendauce of May is
n evideuce of ber deep religious in -
est. linnet of the peeeoveri This was
he greatest of all tee jewigh. feeete,
It was beat la the eyeing, about the
time eaeown as Buster, anti lasted sea -
fulfill all righteousness," Christians
• like their Meter should be careful to
en days. It Wee called also tbe "exit
of unleavened bread," as thet Wae the
only hind of bread aten derieg its
progreee. It commemorated the de-
parture of Israel from Egypt, evben
the angel of death passed over" the
housee sprinklee wite the lamb%
INTERNATIONAL. LESSON, JAN, 144
"lite (laid aresee Tame Jerusalem.," Vett
41-52. Golden. Text. tette tt.
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advantaga linglantre attual! awe stood itt euce a place, ;And that do not fret;" "Mother, do which the Young Jew waS first Von -
HE CATHES
lion mast be siiiitita buY' 3%9 env(!orkeeQteee hand,'
remember the( day eidered subject to the law, and
;ereelicaraeut if they could eee their a wee eet way figuratively, but at. Mete were turned out, aud the veer not worry." Tbey len-
way to striking as effw, tetive blow. in , areas, that he hat. .deught mib beabk. vii iiia fell. You ere, "Shame1 shawl"
at
sash meanness. Bur the King, inl, they left u.s. They remember the
agony of the last farewell. Though
what. quarter, however. could 1 at Eplietue." la ease, is our brother, lad Ile will, years in heaven, they kW= OU tacea.
euela a blow be delivered? Unlike i The gala-de.y hal male. From ail see that we bave fair tVay. Ile will iThey remember our sorrows. They
RittSsia, the French. Reublic cannot the nerai the peenle are puur.ng itt- tot lad the rushing out of more lions apeelltacourb names. They watch this
hope to attacie succeesfaily any &nab Verona. Men, woniee, and ebilete th4h•iuswetacabtee, Teen:tee. tedllebwill fitttsult" " 1
ve, Vy 113eraree3r7srs'hoill we die in the 14'11%1311g Jewi'sb aaSt9las be 5e1111111 -
r • able. Thank Sod 1 adt:leveeetu; is le, arena or rise to join our friends in the 4°41stY fulfilled. It "became lam
to
the gallery! me eyes are en us, Hie gallery? Through Christ, we MaY COMO fulfill all proper religioue 'customs,
heart is with us. His hand wilt de-' off more than conqueror., A soldier They went up to Jerpsalene. And thie
live. us, "Blessed are all they teho dying in the hospital rose( uP in bed tiine t It • h h 1 •
oo tint t ern t ear boy. dat far
put their trust in Him I" the last moment and cried: "Here! ,1
I icok again, awl 1 sae the angelic floral" His attendants put bine back.' as we know Jesus had never been out
gale ry. There they tare: the oberubint on bispillowaitua aeked. hint why be of his little village home shwa his re -
that swung the award at the ga,w ate of shoutett "Iierel" "Obl I heard. the turn teem Egypt. The word "up"
na I was only because jeeitea.
May ateoixians, au English girl, who
settled e.vitla two brothers in °Miter.,
nia, has developea n profitable iadusi
trh in catohing Putterflies. She. had
etene heowledge of batterfliee when
She went there. One day a finale ot
fellow ne.e.ey-liae butterflies hovered
ethine 0:974ttactivnersiirertaionda pthateonttf,loatwyley.
law boneysuokle. She followed the bete
terflies up the steep ratenataia side,
She thought she reoognized them as
a species known only in the bigher
Alpe, and very rare and valuable,
" Wben at Jest I did, get. ope in mY
hands I was eere it was the very
kind," she eatit in telling about her
new business. "I was too excited to.
wait tea awning, witiele is the best
time to eateh butterflies, because they
are sluggish then ha tee cold, damp
foliage. I caught site before nigbt,
and the rest et the Hoek In the morn.
°Mtneeteer4:01coarr-eflu).111Yradetiantaktcbed it in o
be saving a my poetage, AP I sent the
shetell instead at a box of butterfliee
home to England, Snch a lona wall
as it wee! Aud foamy my aelight when
I ead word at last to send all the
buttercliee to leendon. You, would Inv-
guees wegt they offered me for
theme -426 eacia, awl as there wee()
tweety-three ef thetri 'need the tidy
little gain Of *575, ell owni eared
tee first money I ever earned in uly
life. Viet was my beginnieg, ettel
Ntts4ellyiae !NZ! t:hata yt hme 01: e°yk boughtt fbtl let;
ed with hills, two miles from the plain
ot Esdraelon, six west of Meant
Tabor veil about twenty west of the
sonthern end of the Sea. ot Tiberias.
now EinNasirati, with a populatkaugt
ebeut our thousand, Subject unto
them. The only perfect child the
world lute ever twee was a model a
sobretsstoo to Ide parinete. His eootla
es kept. Aeon= mysterious event
der obligation to observe the customs in COnneetmei with her on was xi(H'
of the Church. As the Christian usages in the themes for thougat already tu
are easter and simpler, we should lie. Mary'e heart. Sileiutly she brooded
gmn over these straege inclilents, destined
their practice earlier* The mast to have thir eexplanation afterward.
62, ITereneed. Vor eighteen years
after thie the record of Jesus% life is
unevritten.. From aIark 6. A it wouhl
appear that he followed the vocation
of josepli as a carpeuter. In wisdom.
Trained by the teaehing of a pious
mother, by the communing; of nature,
by the oraeles of the Old Teetament
and the Sabbeth services of the syna-
gogue, bie tnind advaneed in natural
growth. Vailor with God. God's
poesession. by land. Any anenele
pedition despitebed to the Tapper Nile
from West Africa or front Algeria
ureters and eenators, great men
mall, thousands upon thou -ands
(bee, until the first gillery is full,
would encounter almost illsarol°auld and, the second, the third, the tome
able obetaeles in the course Of 48 the fiitb—all the way up to the Veen -
g march, and, should. it manage to tietb, all theiavay up to the thirtieth,
arrive at its destination. could be alt the way up to the fortieth. Every
easily dieposed of by tbei greatly sup-
erior Anglo-Bgyealan foree which is
master of the Soudan. Mr. W. T.
Stead suggests in the Daily Cbronicle
that, in the absence of. the Channel
fleet, a raid might be tnade on Lon-
don by 60.000 Frencliraen. From. the
preparations goiug on, however, for
mobilizing the whoie British Navy, it
is evident that, long before a large
body of troops could. be concentrated
near Buulogue or any other Frenelt
porn a number of warships sufficient
to protect the Channel could be pro-
vided, without recalling any of the
vessels now stationed or cruising in
the Mediterranean. The projeot of
invasion. whiwhiehNapoleon Bonaparte
was unable to carry out; is not likely
te executed. by the preeent French
Republic.
The one certain outcome of hostia-
ties between Frame and England
would be that Franee would lose all
her insular colonies. with the pos-
slide exception of Madegascar, all of
her warehips that ventured out oE
fortified harbors and almost the whole
of her oeean-borne commerce, while
the utmost that she could do by' way
of repesal would be to inflict some
bajary upon England's mercantile ma-
rine. No government, we may feel as-
sured, however sympathizing with the
Anglophobia of its sueporters, would
venture to plunge France, s:ngle-band-
ed, in. a conteet which would threaten
to be as disastrous to her at sea as
was the war of 1870 on land. Sup-
pose, however, that the Czar could be
induced by the Russian military party
to seize the present opportunity for a
moveraent against British India. Thera
is no reason to suppose the so-called
alliance between France and Russia
binds the former country to take part
in an aggressive war against Gres t
Britain. In the absence of a treaty
obligation, 11 would be an ailft of gross
folly for a French Iteinistry to join
Russia. in a venture, the gravest risks
of which would! have to be confronted.
by France. Russia naight be dep,riv-
ed of Vladivosiotik and Port Arthur,
though it is by no rneatas certain that
those strongly fortified harbors would
not be able to resist a naval attack.
France, on the ether hand, if the con-
test were prolonagecl, would be likely
to lose evary island and coaling sta
non which she possesses on the globe.
Then, again, the Navy and the ocean -
bonne eonamerce of France are vulner-
able points for which thee are no
Ruesian equivalents. • In. a word,
France would burn her fingers, while,
if any chestnuts were secured, they
would fall to Russia's share exclu-
sively.
place is tailed. Ineraeneity of aumenee
sweeping the great circlet Silence!
The time for the contest bas route. A
Roman offelal leads torth the viettra
into the arena. Let him get Ids sword
with firm grip, into his kight hind.
The twenty-five thousand sit breath-
lessly watelting. hear the door at
the side of the arena gate open. Out
plunges the half-starved. lion, his ton-
gue athirst for bleod, and. with a roar
that brings all the galleries to their
feet, he rushes against the sword of
the corabataxit. Do you. know how
strong a stroke a man will strike
when his life depends upon the first
thrust or his blade? The wild beast,
lame and. bleeding, slings back to-
ward. the side of the arena ; then,
rallying his waning strength, he tomes
up with fiercer eye and. mare terrible
roar than ever, only to be driven
baek with a fatal wound, while the
combatant comes in with stroke aft-
er stroke, until the monster is dead
at his feel, and the twenty-five thou-
sand people clap their hands and utter
a shout that makes the city tremble.
Sametirues the audience eame to see
a race; soraetimes to see gladiators
fight each other, until the audience,
compassionate for the fallen, turned
their thtunbs down as an appeal that
the vanquished. be spared; and some-
times the combat was with wild
beasts.
To one of the Roman aMpliitheatri-
eel audiences at one hundred thousand
people Paul refers when he says: "We
are compassed about by so great a
cloud of witnesses." The direct refer-
ence in the last passage is made, to a
race', but elsewhere, having discussed
that, I take now Paurs favorite idea
of the Christian life as a combat.
The fact is that every Christian man
has a lion to fight. Yours is a bad
temper. The gates of the arena have
been opened, and this tiger has come
out to destroy your soul. It has lacer-
ated. you with many a wound. You
have been thrown by it time and again
but in the strength of God you have
risen, to drive it back. I verily be-
lieve you will conquer. I think that
the temptation is getting weaker and
weaker. You have given it so many
wounds that the prospect is that it
will die, and you shall be the Victor,
through Christ. Courage brother! Bo
not let the sands of the arena drink
tie blood of your soul!
• Your lion is the passion for strong.
You may have cOntended
against it twenty years; but it is
strong of body And thirsty of tongue.
You have tried to fight it back with
broken bottle and empty wine -flask.
Nay that is not the weapon. With
one horrible roar he will seize thee
by the throat and rend thee limb from
limb. Take this weapon, sharp and
keen—reachl up and get it from God's
iterao-ury ; the Sword. of the Spirit.
With that thou. naayst drive him batik
and conquer 1
But why specify, when every man
and woman has a lion to fight. If
theta be any here Wthot.have no beset-
ting Sin, let him speak out, for him
have I offended. If you have not
fought the lion, it is because you have
let the lion eat you up. This very
momeet the contest goes on. The Tra-
Jan celebrations, where ten' thousand
gladiators fought and eleven thous-
and wild beasts were slaih, was not
so 'terrific a struggle as that which
at this moment goes on in many a
soul. That combat was for the life of
the body; this is for the life of the
slain. That wt s with wild beasts from
the jungles ; this is with the roaring
!iota of hell.
Men think, when they contend
against an evil habit, that they have
Born. the saute thek
at Eziel: supe To -0 . .
1-101ding the threne Of God, and from answering to MY what. I took away, for the splendor wbether, atter tais battle ot hie is
elevated etty race We
in Paleetine, being two thousand SOY- ge lrillM&Sled in hilll by tbe
nalhe l" I wander lam is almost the most elev
Is insufferable. Here are the guard- over, our names will be called in the ell hundred feet above. the sea level. sweetness of bis eh:trainer and the.
earnestness of bis piety. And man.
t
inn angels. Tbat one watched. a pat- muster-rollof the pardoned and glora 1 43. Faltilled the days. The beaglite True godliness of the right sort does
riareli ; this one protected a (Mild. fled, arid with the 3oy of heaven break- tui boy, it whose mind theconeinous- ,not repel, but attracts, the love of
f eswas I power.
That .one has been pulling a Bout oat ing upon our souls, we shalt cry:Herel mai ohis origin and milon lathers by its own,
of temptation! All these are raessen- Here!"
gers of light! Those drove the Span- beginaing to dawn, woula me. deep
turn-
ed nnacrib's living aosts into meanings and foreabadeWilige Ill the
leb Armatela on the rocks. This Sehe
heap of one hundred and eighty-five CURIOUS SIGHTS,
slain lamb, the Whored samitice, the
aprinkled. blood, mad the solemn sere
vices of theme eight, days of the feast,
thousand eorpses. Thesei Yonder,
_ate_
HER POSITION.
'When she had finished her remarks
relative to something he hed done that
did not meet her approval, "he spokei
don't eee tehy you should want wo-
man suffrage, he said. You already,
hold office.
What office ? she demahded.
Speaker in the house, he replied.
As they taunted. "God's services may
chanted the Christmas carol over ut„41 A„..t a.0.4„41 ante value inot be so attendee, teat we ebouid
Bethlehem until the chant awake the — " inegleot our particular callings." -
10 evation or eine
sheeberds. These, at creative, stood Ulisbote Hall, After the services of the
In the balcony of .heaven, and serer'. Surge= General Mackinnon was one i temple come those of Mary's household
.
aded the new-born world -wrapped in
swaddling -clothes of *light. And
tht re, holier and mightier than all, is
aftchael, the archangel.
Thaugh the arena be crowded with
'temptations, we shall with the angelic.
help, strike thezu down in the name
of our God, and leap on their fallen
earcaeses 1 0 bending throng of bright
angelic faces, and swift wings, arid
lightning foot! I hail you to -day,
from the dust and struggle of the
arena!
I look again, and 4 see the gallery
of the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones up yonder? Hosea, he was killed. ,
and Paul and Peter, and Johtt, and 10- Rossbaoh, of Wurzburg, tells of ltfolaurryi=ss.ight of Jars for three or rican service before. In fact, he was
and Jeremiah, and Daniel, and Isaiah, th
44 Supposing him to have been in the at tbe battle of Majuba Hill, and the
a soldier who was killed as he was
ment of a shell tore off his skull, lea- the company was probably a care-. tle. This feet was referred to in ahigh-
ing nothing but the lower jaw. And van traveling together for safety. ly interesting manner at a dinner giv-
halt Sitting position, still holding ehe only suppose, but be sure, that their
win) was in the chair said:— ,
of the first of the Crilllean warridhs land Joseph's carpenter shop. Taxrie
to enter the Redan after it had been 'behiud. This may not have bean by ed death, must be laiewn by name to
1 • t' f the -ourets Jesus,
every reader of the newspapera. flia
wane in the army is "Fighting Mac."
Where all are fighters, what a mean-
ing that feet has! ale was, after Lord
Kinthener himself, the hero of Omdur-
man. Some, Indeed would be.ve for him
o second place, and say he saved the
GEN. H, MACPONALD,
owe to rempIete In South ArrIca
e weer Ineiltantly negan.
Gem. liector Ilaedonald, who is to
go out to take the place in the staff
vacated by Col. Wauehope's lament.*
aitiss Ye04144'S Seliar iS not for eat-
ables, but le her nursery. for beetles,
Wbat appears to be austnit a We Wead
heti in rows on the floor. Each piece
has been eplit„ hut tied together agaia,
and in each Peeve are different specteit
of beetles. They at the wood, mak-
ing their way oat, and lay their cage
In the wood.
"I keep watch, and when a beetle
gets to the eurface I put it back"
she said. "The most valuable one? It
all depends upon the demand, Abate
tle is worth just what I, elm get for
It, Dr, Le Fontein, who carne out from
France to study tbe lessens of Cali-
fornia, eanie to our laouse by chance.
Ile did not tell no wait he was, merely
that he Was a stranger passing
through the country, but when Labium.
ed to see him before dawn, creating
with a candle in his hand under the
pine trees, I knew he must be after
'meets. Ile was ia eaptures over A
beauty he had found, and when I tole
him about my butterfliee and showed
elm what I had, be forgot all his Eng-
liah and rhaPsodized French. Ile
Ought me a great deal about heelacie
and told me of a tertain one be was
most eager to find in California, Ile
believed it was here, though he could
not find it. It had been found on
ty
in Italy, and had almost altrappeare
d.
A.h 1 YOU. had better not look at it;
you will be diseppointed."
She poked latent in a box of twigs,
and produced what seemed a most or-
dinary little bleak bug, with loug;
slender legs, and then she placed be-
side it ti • little round red one, no.
larger than a pin head.
Tee they one is the one whieh Dr,
Le Fontein travelled miles and miles
to find and 'Wald not—I found it. The
-
other is the beauty he =tight under
the nine trees. You understand, a col-
lection of beetles es not conaplete
without all the different species.
Some are very common, but others are
most difficult to find. Dr. Le Fon- tei.
fain made me a sketch of the beetle
he was looking for, and then we went
out to find a mate for the beauty he
had eaught in the morning, for where.
one is, more are sure to be. We found
four and they were the ancestars of
the ones I have here. He showed me
how. to make what we called a series.
That is, a butterfly or a beetle in all -
its stages from the egg to the perfect
creature—each stage shown by a ape-
cimett and taelted in order on a card.
I always make dates as to time eacb.
stage requires and food .and where tee
life was lived. Be was so kind and in-
terested I was delighted when at last
I found the beetle he wetted. It was.
three summers later and I made a
long journey for it. I had 'wanted for --
so long to go back to the Redwoods.
we passed coming up. You stopped in
the woods andtknow how that silence
of the great trees hautits one who bait
once known it. Brother Tom and I
made the journey on horseback, and
camped a week right in the heart of
the belt. It was there I found my bee-
tle. I carried a white sheet along
and spread it on the ground. Taking
up an armful of driedtpine needles, I
shook it over the sheet. If any of the
fallen particles scuttled off Iknew it
was an insect, and one of the scuttling
speeks was my long -wished for numb.
desired beetle.
" The Indians know anent butter-
flies, and know where to find Uteri,
and they are 'the only ones who have
ever helped me to any extent except
Chinanaan. I have a greaCreepeet
for Chinamen and Indians; they see
things which few of our own white
civilized men can comprehend, even
,though it means dollars."
evacuated by the Russians. The fast ,
for want of <tare on the part of
thing eel saw was a Russian officer In"
!his parents. bat xis an accident•Ln the
sitting on a gabion. His arms were !ruse end/laces of the •
folded . across his chest, and he lip- !Becoming- scparatedPromellsititt rcaolet
peered to be sleeping, but he was dead,!PanY, he remained in the plate of deep -
interest, to himself ; and they. felt less
with a rifle bell imbedded. ini his left uneasy on account of his intelligence
breast. There Was nothing to show
whether he had sat down; on the gab -
ion after he had been shot, or whether
he happened to be sitting there when
and trustworthiness of chat act et.
Knew not of at int such a crowd'. it army from v. great. eliance.of disaster.
was easy to be. hist. In the caravans }le certainly held. a critical position
of Galilean pilgrims the children seem
black regiment.
tit have usually traveled together, with Ills
1, • that joseph and. Gen. Macdonald has seen South AC -
James. Glorious spirits! Ye were howl-
ed at; ye were stoned; ye were spit
upon! They have been in this fight
themselves; and they are all with us.
Daniel knows all about lions. Paul
fought with beasts at Ephesus.
In the ancient amphitheatre, the peo-
ple got so excited that they would
shout from the galleries to the men in up to his head ess owe 3 .
first day's journey of s !caravan was
the atena.: " At it again!" " Forwardle Nolan, in the celebrated charge of
proverbially short, aot more than six
" One more stroke 1" "Look out 1" "Fall the Light Brigade at Balaelave, .rode
a vent_ or eight miles. 'When fully, under way
back 1" " Huzza 1 huzzd 1" So in that for some time, sword in air,
gallery, rirophetic and apostolic, they table headle,ss horseraan they go about twenty-five miles a day.
El Bireb, six miles north of Jerusalem,
cannot keep their peace, Daniel cries A. British soldier in the Transvaal,
is sail to be the, place where Joseph's
out: "Thy God will deliver thee from searching. for missing comrades after
the mouth of the lions 1" David ex-
claims : "He will not suffer thy foot
to be moved 1" Isaiah calls out: "Pear
not I I am with thee! Be not dismay -
ea 1" Paul exclaims: "Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ 1"
raising a cup to his lips. The frag- company. This is not remarkable, at wonder is that he survived that bat-
he was found 24 hours afterward it a en in Ids honour. The Duke of Athol
What a blessing when parents cannot
ildren are to be found! la good asso-
• ciations only! A day's journey. The It was a remarkable career, that
cup with his unsupported hand raised
of Colt Macdonald, beginning at tee
I look again, and I see the gallery of
the martyrs. The great throng of the
martyrs 1 They had not lead poured
down their throats, horses were fasten-
ed to their hands, and other horses to
their feet, and. thus they were pulled
apart; they had their tongues pulled
out by red-hot pincers; they were sew-
ed up in the skins of a.nimals, andthen
thrown to the dogs; they were, daubed
with combustibles and set OD fire ! And
now they 'sit yonder in the martyr's
gallery. For them, the fires of per-
secution have gene out. The swords are
sheathed, and the mob hushed. Now
they watch us with an all observing
sympathy. They know all the pain,
all .the hardship, all the anguish, ell
the injustice, all the privation.* They
cannot keep still. They cry; "Cour-
age! The fire will not consume. The
floods cannot drown. The lions cannot
devour! Courage! clown there in the
arena I"
What, are they all iooking? This
"light we answer back the saluta.tion
they give, and cry, "Hail! sons and
daughetrs of the fire!"
I look again arid see another gallery
that of eminent Christians. What
strikes me strangily is the mixing in
companionship of those who on earth
could not agree. There I see Martin
Luther, and besidehim a Roman Cath-
olic, who looked beyond the supersti-
tions of his Church and is saved. There
is Albert Berries, ancl around htna the
Presbytery who tried him for hetero-
doxy! Yonder ie Lyman Beecher, and
the church court that denounced laina
Stranger than all, there is John Cal-
vin and James Aembalusi Who would
have thought that they would sit so
lovingly together? There is George
Whitefield and the bishops who would
not let him came into their pelpits
the Zulus had disappeared, found one
man kneeling behind the outer de-
fenses with his rifle to his shoulder
and resting on the pitapat as if he
was taking aim. He touthed him on
the shoulder, 'asking hina why he didn't
come inside. He fell over. He was
dead.
Nor are the eccentricities of shot and
shell more curious than those of cold
steel. Irving Montague, a war artist,
mentions a case of a Russian and a
Turk, who, meeting, fought to the
d,eath with fixed bayonets in a wood
in Anatolia. The fatal thrusts must
have been instantaneous, the strange
fact being that both stood, with their
leo much apart, eaeh with his bay-
onet imbedded 'deeply in his adver-
sary's breast, for several days.
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BEAUTY ACQUIRED.
It is a curious fact, but in many
cases it seems indisputable, that two
'Demons, living many years together
assume a likeness in facial expression,
features and most certainly in char-
acter, but more so from the poiut of
features. No doubt it i's for this self-
same reason that ladies procure the
pervices of pretty and lady -like nurses
for the bringing up of their infants,
who, not possessing beauty by heredity,
may attain it by the simple method of
constant impressionable contact.
caravan stopped. Kinsfolk and. ace
quaintane,e. The family a the, Saviour
had their rd'ationshipe among the
plain people of Galilee, who had COMO'
as pilgrims to the feast., ,
46. They turned back. Leaving the
caravan at its baiting place, and
searching along the path to travel
Lack to Jerusalem. At this point
their parental alarm begins. Seeking
him. Those who have lost their Sav-
iour shoutd at once turn back and
seek him. .
46. Afterthree days. On the third
day. Lange suggests that one day
was spent in departure, one in return,
and one in search. But they probably
had not at out until, late in the af-
ternoon of the first day, and only three
4;or four hours would be required to
bring them back to Jerusalem from
the first night's stopping place. The
searcl was probably long and tedi-
ous. In the temple. Phobably in
one of the colonnades or porches sur-
rounding the Court of the Women,
where many woreen congreated and
where the rabbis gave their itstruce
thew.. Those tvho love God. love his
house, and, as children, are found in.
his courts. Sitting in the midst. The
religious teachers, called rabbis sat on
a raised 'platform, With their disciples
seated around them; whi le, .the general
audience stood or sat outsidethe
circle. Jesus was there not as a for-
ward leader in the discussion, but as
an intelligent listener and inquirer;
"an eager -hearted and gifted learner,
whose enthusiasra kindled their ad-
miration, and whose bearing won their
esteem, and love."—Farrar. The doc-
tors. Teachers of the law. Some of
the mast' distinguished of the tabbis
were living at this- time—IIillel, Sim-
eon, and Gamaliel. Hearinh . . end
asking. • In these oriental eehools there
was great liberty of questioning. Con-
trary to our customs, the scholars in-
te.nrogated their teacher, and proposed
dotibts and difficulties for their in-
structor to answer. '
le. All that heard. A large coin-
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RETURNED A HUNDREDI'OLE.
Wyeke—I can't understand ,how
Starbord became so rich..
Wytti—Well, yea know, he was born
aboard ship, and lived there nearly all
his
Wycke--Exactly.That's why I can't
Understand his' Wealth. ,
Wytte—Oh I I don't know; bred up -
because they thought him a fanatic. on the Waters" you know
lowest rank of tlee army, and on the
ppint of reaching one of the highest—
that of brigedier-general — without
having akipped. a single grade. In his
conduct during the only unlucky fight
itt whieh the guest had been engaged.
that of Maju.ba Bill, the Duke, found
subject for praise and fun. 'Fighting
Mac's' company was almost annihilat-
ed, and the Boers approaehed to cap-
ture the remnant, eThe first Boer
thought the sporran of Lieut. ,Mac-
donald, as he then was, would: be a
pretty piece of loot, lint he received a
kick in the stomaeh, which convinced,
hina that his opponent came from a
land. where footbo.11 was not unknown.
Another Boar was about to shoot the
gallant Highlander; but the first, gen-
erously forgiving the kick, struck up
his comrade's rifle, saying: `No, he is
a brave man—too good to kill.'"
As the Duke of Athol said, Gen.
Macdonald rose from the ranks. His
father was a small crofter in Ross -
shire, and the future soldier tended
the few cattle on the croft in his ear-
ly boyhood. At. thirteen he was a dra-
per's apprentice. fle enlisted in the
Gordon Highlanders at nineteen, and
joining; that regiment. in India distin-
guished himself by bis judgment cool-
ness, and gallantry in the Afghan
campaign. Ile took his South. Afri-
can,,work, including that notable ex-
peTience at 1Vlajuba on his way home;
and afterward served in the Nile ex-
pedition for the relief of Gordon. He
.made ,soldiers of the Egyptian army,
and led them in the way we have seen
at Omduneue. He is still only forty-
seven, and as much a " Fighting Mac"
as ever.
HER CHARM.
When I look at Mrs. Donley I cane
help wondering whether it can be pos-
sible that 'her husband married her for
love.
Oh, no, heglidn't.
Well she didn't., have, mone,y
she.
No, but he could always keep step
with her without assuming an unna-
tural gait.
NOT TO BE CAUGHT NAPPING.
len sorry about this' war in South
Africa. '
• IL doesn't affect you personally.?
YRS it does. Hale a dozen girls have
told me that it was going toanake dio.-
inonds more expensive,. Maybe it was
my egotistic, imagination, bat every
one of them seemed to have a `now-is-
the-time-to•buy, engagement rings look
in hor eye.
HANDY.
Maud—Luther is a nice young ream
May—Yes; hut Harry wears butt on
Meud—What (4 that?
May -.-Why, how convenient it
would 15 if"we were married! 1would
be sure to misplace my button tio61
and then I could just borrpte his If
ihe iwo were misplace(' we cold both
use hairpins.
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