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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-1-11, Page 6D COAIMENTS. 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. 52 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. • 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- ' 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. • 11