HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-1-18, Page 6WORLD'S GREAT TRIAL -DAY.
Rev., Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Qreat Salvation.
The Most Stupendous Undertaking—Founded Upon a Great
• Sacrifice --Fortunate That We Cannot Foresee Our Trials
• —Scene at the Crucifixion --The Dr. Believes 'in the
Whole Bible. .
A- desPetth front Wasbinetion Sans: ' they were seen off the shore e of eartb,
-The Rev. Dr. Inlenage Preached from and word got back to glory that the
erusedin •
g ileet vvere landing a.miclet
the following text :-" Hew than we es- storms of persecution, there must hone
gape, if we neglece so great salve-, been a ery of amiteement in heaven. If
tion?"-Ilebrews ii. S. the expedition bad steered into the
I Wend before you to -night borne 17;'elenate, heettingeplaces, or if it had
te, that would ave beg
ha a mOre
down with two great and all-absorbleg sailed into Mercury, that would have
desires; one, to get to heaven myself; been a mightier world. . But no;
the other to take ail these people along they ehoose one of the smallest
v °riiGfdsestii"al-aiitti
with me. Who knows but God 12141 world, p,ocd world an
hear my prayer, and that all swept world, a defiant World, a eruel world,
by the cirele a these walls shall with- a dying world, a dead world. Was
in one hour be enclosed in the arms of initeutn Lillie salvation great in its humilia-
a pardoning J'esue? It is no tiane for So also was this redemption great
argument, for you mentally ,aecept all in its sufferings. It is fortunate
these truths. It 18 010 time for pbiloso. thee we cannot foresee our trials. If
phy, for it is your hearts we want, that
manwho last weelo bi pro -
arty could have knownitetforten Years
and not your heads. It is no tim,e feat, be was going to become bank -
for poetry, for tulips and daffodils rept, all those ten years would eave
will not satisfy those who are famish- been shadowed witb trouble. If that
rai who last year lost lals child had
ing for bread. The ofterepeeted pray- known for ten years previously that
er of Rowland Hill, in the midst of he would lose it, for ten years that
lais sermon, is my prayer at the be- parent. would have been overshadowed.
ginning, "Master, help!'" While I Christ's sufferings were augmented
stand here, the audience vanishes lar' LitIL r tfyahe was -
cith rteuh a tysaIle s foresawlybieumg..
from my vision, and it is the world's Thetast horror huag over him at the
great trial -day, and the books are open- sea -side, tit the wedding, and every -
ea. 0 my Saviour 1 if I do not speak ir3gehnejne, tHuutak knew :eh:art revisor yt hpeu lisue;
as I ouglit, what will beeome of me? throb got anguish. 1312sawthe walls
as I ought, what will become of me? If shut ling in around him, the citrate of
these people do not bear as they ought, fire centraoting, the vice screwing np•
what will become of them? " How shall When he flew away from Herod he
knew. that at last
he would be eape
we escape, if we neglect so great sale 1 tured. lie weni
t nto court knowing
ration r i that the verdict would be againstlina.
• Paul was right 'ellen he called it There was an upright piece of wood
great. The most stupendous under- and a transverse piece of wood that
taking, since God mated, was the hunt 0080 by day and by night;
dw, . of a cross.
hoisting of tbis world out of ruin. It; Tbe last hour of Christ -was the focus
had made shipwreck -going down with to which the woes of time and of Mere
all hands onboard. From none of the laity converged. Heaven frowned from
surrounding worlds did a life -boat hi,fte thIellelfgeorthfereilLio7seeir th!
mune out. The Lord God Almighty eavalry troop as they ride out toward
rose up, and bringing into action all the fatal hill. I hear the buzz, and
the om,niseience, and omnipotence, and bine. and roar, and blasphemy of a
majesty, and loving kindness of His igifealstnrbPut T111)11%1:1. fftecolfiltilene
ware. He set about tbe redemption, way.
of the world. John Frederick Oberlin 1 IT IS NO PLACE FOR WOMEN.
pui uff all earthly comfort to redeemI Do not let his mother see this. Take
a barren district of France froze Pover- her away. This spectacle would
...E.PhaulsoptuturaseiatrheestanartptlesauoS
ty and ignorance, with his own pick- tlh:e1 elf;
axe beginning the building lof a high they plunge them. The heavens are
road from Ban de la Roche up to the burdened with woe, and they thunder.
Unlined darknees-seve as a. flash of
city of Strasburg. But here was a
igletning reveals the eye of G'
od peer -
highway to be constructed from the tag through the gloom to seewhat
equator of earth to the heights of they are doing with his well -beloved
heaven. Cha.rkson pleaded before the Son. Methinks the thrones of heaven
g at
tthgl tiev:1.11.b He t)t= ifiefetY,
English Parliament, and the Russian thainvar
1?,mperor, against the slave trade. But mint:teegs. What next vureWnem will
here was the question of deliverance; the Onwipotent Sufferer firsl cone
for a hundred thousand millions of : sierne 'vial hts enrse f Witt He net
TlitE /311U80/11.,15
not believe God when he 'tells me a
thing ten timen, eertalnly 1 wia heti
Ho has told 11 10 me forty times. tBut
it 1 eolebt him the fortieth time,
eertainly when He ise,noencee thelig
tee me the fifty-fourth Lime I had bel
-
ter aceept it. Paul /give "They ehael
be Oenitheil with evertaiding cestrue-
Oen from the presenee of We Lord,"
SAY% '"Fhere shall be Weeping
and geashing f wail), when ye ehals.
see Abraham, and 41304e, anti 'dacon,
end all the prophets in the hlegdoint
of Uod, and you youremf thruet out."
Lasrlet, who ouatit to know, saye, "And
thole alma go away, lute everlestrag
paaamment. ie hot Meee certain
that there 18 a ei.y caoeti. Conetan-
titivate or Motacow than that there i9
a great Metropolis a/ suffering, that
Satan colee over 11; that there are
tiro that ettemot be put out, aed Mare
that eVer tall, and groans that are
Lor ever uttered. When a men gets
ieto that pews, he neve/gets our.
There may be a different:0 of
2011 313001 about the exact naeure of teat
sultering, itm may, if you like, els-
earl the old-fashioned notion of fire,
but the Bible la Many pewees says that
the stafer'eg is like eirel tine if It is
like five, it is ea beVere fire; and
if it is as severe as fire,
take beIviserriuithticuhaitad.fruom
the xiatl
bond men. &vet it. was the pounding
durl off of an iron cbain from the neck flare ? /Wait a gnaouneteyntraListen0135 .1
ol a captive world. I think It was the' am sure He will speak I Yes; He
apelike: "Father, forgive them. They
greatest and must absorbing thought:
of God's lifetime.1 do not think that 2 know not what they do."
there eras anything in all the ages aOl Tbis was death at the stake; but
the fires kindled around it were the
the past, Or that, Leere will be in all
Lama. of the world's hatred, enwrap -
the Ages of the future, iped with the fiercer fires of eternal
ANYTHING TO EQUAL IT. 1 woe -wreathing feet, bands, eyes,
The master -piece or eternity I There' brain, emit, in the worst horror that
W5010 so Marty difficulties to be over-; ever shuddered through God's uni-
t:mast There were such infinite cense- verse. Was not this salvation great
. .
m ites su wing
This redemption was also great in
Its pardon. _Et takes all the sins of a
life, and outs them off with one
stroke, so that all the crtmes the
worst man ever committed, as soon se
he takes hold of this salvation, are
gone, al once, utterly and for ever.
Gone, so that you cannot find them.
Gone, 60 that- the light of the judg-
ment -day cannot discover them. Says
some one: "Do you mean to say that
I could have that done for me?" 1
answer, "Yes 1 "Wben r Now .1
Though you had. committed fifty mur-
ders, though your life were rotten
With debauchery, though you had gone
tbretigh the whom catalogue of
crimes, I announee full pardon for all
your sins the moment you take hold
of this salvation.
This redemption i8. great in its final
deliverance. There is a hell. Ration-
alism rules it out; but there it is where
our modern essayists and the Bible dif-
fer. People say there ought not to
be a belt; but there it is where modern
theologians and the Lord God ,5.1 -
mighty differ, I am one of those few
benighted mortals in this city who take
the 141101013h:de. Wheel you GO [101 be-
lieve everything in ill Everything!
Absolutely everythingi "‘Slaati that
about the serpent in Eden? and. the
quenees to be consmieted 1 there were
such gulfs to bridge, and ouch heights
to scale, and such inamensities to cora-
grass! if God bad been less than lam-
ed/Potent, He would not, have been
strong enough; or less than omnis-
cient, I do nut think He would have
been wise eztough ; or less loving, would
not nave beet'. sympathetic enough.
There might bave been a God strong
enough to create a universe, and yet
too weak to do this. To create the
worlds, only a word, seas necessary;
but to do this work required more than
a word. It required .mure than ordin-
ary effort of a God. It required the
dying anguish of an Only Son. Ohl
Is not that which took all the he:ght,
and depth, and length, and irnmenetty,
and eternity of His nature to achieve
worthy of being called a great salva-
tion,/
Paul Wes right when he called this
salvation great, because it was founded
upon Ft great sacrifice. linen Eliza-
beth Fry went. into Newgate Prison
to redeem the abandoned, she was told
to lay off her purse and voiteh lest
they be stolen, but refused, saying that
001211(1612114 in the criminals would be
one way of touching them. When
Christ came into the prisoo of this
world's sin, he brought with him all
the jewels a heavenly affection upon
him. Heaven could not afford to spere 8118 standing stale and thee whale
him. If a host of angels had been wallowing Jonah?"
hurled off the battlement, they would EVERYTHING I
• not se math have been missed. It 10 7, believe it all ag much as I do in
an exciting time around an old home- my own exietence. "'Well, then, you
stead, the morning the ion leaves home cannot have read the arganvents on
to go teway; for they ktiow not what the other side." Yee, have; read
will happen, or whether he will ever, them. day and night; read them by the
ratline'W
, hat a morning it most lyeer; read every word that Tom
have been in heavea when Jesus left 1 Pae, or Theodore Parker, or Itenan
I think all heaven hung around him- ewer wrote en the subjeot; read them
some asking film not to go; some., from the ale -page to the last word,
eteeaking to him of the perils by the ,oi tho last line, ot the teat page of
way; ecene standing in silent grief at',the last book; read them until it is
his departure; and when the cavel- `only through the teeny of God that
code for Bethlehem, dashed up to the did eot kill my soul through the ate
• golden gate and the ory wag, " All of reading them; read them, until. I
ready 1" there was a warm good-bye,' found out that the land of sceptieisto
and a rain of tertra, and last Words, ia a desert, Where tbe mends are re&
and a Seene that the oldest inhabit- , hot coals, swept by the smothering
• ants of heaven rereember now as aimoon of all -consuming evretehed-
• though iL were btet yesterday. in timetO nees; read them until I have /Maud
of war fleets go aWriy, and none but that there are tWo kettle iestead of
the king and the dltal ItzlOW where one -the hell of Seopticimin arid the
they art bound. During our last war,' heti spoket of in the' table; and I , be -
squadrons *ent mitt and we krieW; neve ite the last becaaee 11 18 the more
• nothing of teen)! 031111 they were re- tolerable. Coyne to my haulm some
Parted oti 811014, Arta ictoding amid ; time, at six otelock in the eeening.
FIERY ASSAULT OP BATTLE. and I will abow you fifty-four peas-
ao Hot think that, Maven knew
ages in the Bible, all positively Desert -
for
Whet skeree :iesas and Ube eoherte were log that there is meshft le/ace, and
bound; and when 0326 Ohrialstaaa night 00 Intent 0200(6 ItOPWASI 11. It1 de
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE FIRE.
You say that it b uneitar torture, and
not physieal. Bat you know that
menuti torture is worse than physical
So the styie at eaLoribe Lbet you wa-
lleye in is far more ineolerable than
the stile ter seffering yuur fathers and
mothers used to believe in. A dying
man of large means mad, "I would give
thirty thousand pomade tu have it
proved to me satisfactorily that there
is no hell," Such proof cannot be
pvesentel. But. sueeese you throw
overboard most of the teseimony on
tine subject -is there not some teig,ht
possibitity that there may be emelt a
peace? 11 there should be, and you leave
no preparation to escape it, eyelet time?
A youog woman, uyi,,,g4 said. to her
father: "leatner, why uld you not tell
me there vas such a placer "What
placer "A belle" Re said, 4,Tenny,
is no such plat*. God is meninx!.
There will be no future sufferinel"
She said, "I know, beeterl I feel it
now: I know there is such a. placel
Me feet are slipping into it thio mom-
ent! I am Matt Why dieli you/ not tell
POSTC
errands Of moray, god wOuld have
ellarmed intol ife; but ha beat up
beck in our minietir, Eseapti he moat
not.' "The throne of udgmout will sey,
"I have but two eeetences to give -
that to the triennia of God, and that
to his rejetitore ; Escape he naitit Pot."
All the voleee Of the destroyed will
etioalt out end say, "We eegiseted it
no more than he, Why should he go
free when we are banished ? Eeeape he
mutat pot." Jesus will say, "I called
hIne for ineey year% but he turned hie
back on all these wounds; and by all
thotm despised tears, and by that re-
jected blood. Becalm he meet not."
Then God will speak, and ammo the
waters, earl the rocks, and 018 sun,
and the eters end the Bible, and the
bloody tree, and the angels, and the
thronea of judgment, and the voice of
the deetroyed and the plea of a rejected
Christ, mad with a voice that Omit
ring all through the heights, and
depths, ona lengths, and breadths of
Hie univeree, say, "Escape he shall
not."
May the Lord God Almighty, tor
jams' sake, avert sueb a t•atastrophe.
Hark I The city cloak strikes nine.
Thankt God it is not the °lock of our
destiny striking twelve I The day of
mercy has not fully passed. But Itis
the eleventh hour, and it may bei OUT
last thence. It I never say another
word to you, let this go forth as my
iaet and dying utterance:
Come to Jesus! Come now.
BERLIN'S SLAUGHTER OF HAMSTERS
mew um Destructive Bodes* Came le
Germany and Erantei
The farmers around Berlin recent-
ly presented themselves, at one of
the public buildings with evidence that
they had killed 89000 balusters in six
mouths, and received the reward offer-
ed for the destruction. of, these harm-
ful rodent. The hamster is a sturdy
little animal velated to the rat, with
a large appetite for grain and, a thrif-
ty habil of storing considerable quan-
tities in his hole for uture consump-
tion. His skin is of, some value and
as there is a weioe on his bead, and
me there was seeh a 'theme Itis the the grebe he steals and cashes is worth
awful, stupendous, consuming, Moon- recovering, there is a little profit in
taa °I the trai'verne- hunting hm, There are too many ham -
Now, is not a salvation that keeps
down the hatches, so that these flames eters and, like the surplus papule -
cannot scorch us, mei then muzzles tion of Europe, he trine to remedy the
these. lione so that their, teeth cannot evil by emigration. He has only re-
touch us, worthy ot being called a
great salvation; Every one may eterepe cantle, appeared. in certain cantons of
it. Gel never puts a man in perm_ Belgium end France, and the reception
Lion! Ile P018 himself there. ' tf you. he has met would, grieve lum if he
.
have, a great lire on your farm in were at all sen..iteve. There is, just now,
which you are tunsurning a 8 wad appeai fur drastic: reea,nres to
large, amount of rubbish, and stop. the invaeion, and it is little wone
I deliberately .rush into it, der thee the ravages and, fecundiey of
and get oohed, who is to the animal have alarmed the thrifty
blame? Myself. God has told us farmer folk, who leave not a kernel of
there is, a peace of burning. Ile makes grain for the gleaner when they reap
for us every possibility of escaping. it, their fields and, much less desire to
if, deliberately, and of our own choice, eupport, harasiers. .
we dash, fin, upon whom comes the re- The hamster is a native of the
sponsibiaty ? Answer / Your eon- Chinese Empire and hie overland jeer -
science has answered. ney to the Atlantic has taken a great
This salvation is great in its con- many years. he travelled by slow
summations. It does not leave a man stages to the southern part of Siberia,
shivering and hall starved on the out- then made nis way acroee Russia, and
akin:, of a fine city, but gives him finady appeared in the domain. ot the
citizenship in the great capital of the Gerrctan Emperor. The French in-
salmighty. The Bible says that one elude Kim among the evils. ot the
day an angel event out and measured FRANCO-PKIJSSIAN WAR.
ILE TOOK A GOLDEN ROD. They say he never crossed the Rhine
till he saw great masses oE men and
I see that rod flashing in the light of beetles marcning in the west. Be Lot -
the sun that never sets. With it the Dewed after them to see what was go.
angel measures all along by the gates. lag on, was pleased witle the country,
ad. along- by the towers, and ail along are has never rejoined his brethren 121
by the foundatiotts-a hundred miles, ehe east,:
five huadred miles, a thousand miles, This is not the arst time tbat an in -
Bible intimates. What a city! Lon- vasion of rodenta has been attributed.
fifteen hundred miles around -so the
don and NeNV York are villages cone- to a marching army. The tamous re-
doe
with It, Though the account murk at the Marquis de Cherville that
be figurative, what a heaven God has result oft the Napo-
tiehoouoionlwy aernsd.,uvraisn
iCthe introduetion to
reade for us 1 But tent heaven,
spoken of in the Bible, was heaven be- the west of the Persian rat was not
for the. improvements. Itis e. grand- intended merely ate a :witticism. It
er place UOW; for the great and good is a well authenticated fact that tbe
souls of the last eigheeen bundred troops who were laurried westward
years have gone in since then. Ex- from the steppes of Asia and the plains
cepting Jesus, the best part of our of Eastern Russia to ta.ke part m those
heaveu has been made up within the gigantic struggles were followed, by
, many thousands of gray or Penian
bat thi'rtY "ere elm(' our friends rats that toraged in the d. sorted camps
have been going In. • In the
great park of the universe we and found a good living in uneosioer-
may walk, and we shall want ed trifles. The Marquis might have
not one thing for all eternity. added that these formidable eastern
No sickness will pale the cheek. No die- rodents Were a more thorough scourge
cord will str.ke the ear. No shadow will in their way than were the Visigoths
darken the path, save under the palm and, Vandals for they °Mittel extingu-
trees, througla which sifts the golden ished the raoe of the black rat whith
light of eternal summer. Jesus will be they supplanted in the west.
there; and all the good will be there. But the Persian animal had really see
0 land of light, and love, and joy! A cured lodgment in the West long be -
land where the redeemed of the Lord fore Russian soldiers marched against
come with songs upon their head. A. Napoleon. In early times the people of
Western Europe knew none of these
land where -1 hill I break down reeeeee „,,,,,pt the mouse, but dur-
under the thought 1 I cannot express
Ori -
it. "Bye bath not seeb, tag the erusades vessels frorn the Ori -
heard, neither hath it entered into the
TInr ear eat brought the black rat. to Europe,
heart of man the things that God bath and the gray rat came to Engle nil as a
prepared for those who love Him." 18 stowaway on merchant vessels about
1780, This species is to -day the common
rat the world over, for it is stronger
and more aggressive than the black or
brown roe, and has supplanted those
animals in almost every 0000119.
It is possible to keep tioxious rodents
within bounds, but. 11 18 very difficult
to exterminate them, At preaent. the
hamster is giving most trouble.
heaven.
EXTINCTION OF MBE
BRITISH OFFICER'S ACCOUNT 010
KILLING OF THE KHALIFA,
Morel. or Your haya Willi Two Rattle.
-hese or Mu litoesor Milled and 40,000
PrIsoorra Taken -1'11e lithallrels last
fit iiit awl Che IIenlb or ifin 1100 OuOrd.
The final destruction of Malactleat b
an event of eueb great importaece and
it waa accompliehed Pinter Ninth ells.
cumatenees of dramatie interest tbat
on one can fall to appreciate the fol-
lowing more complete record of the
great tragedy. It is from the pen
of the leritesh officer seemed 111 00111,
)314134 of Gen. Wingate's array, and it
• as just reached his family in Leedom
In my last. letter j 1411 you I was
on my way up to join the Khalifa
hunt ; it is all over now, and I am on
my way baok again. It has been the
quielmet thing and mest conaplete
have even. taken part in. On the 10th
November I left Dougola, itod, join-
ing the Sirdar at Wetly Haifa, trowel-
ing express all the way, arrived at
Khartoum on the 18th. The Birder
there appointed Wingate to command
the operations. .We left Khartoum
the same evening and arrived at Faold
Slaoya, the point of coneentration or
the troops, on the evening of the 2,011,
and Wingate there took over, command
from Lewis, and my work began.
Steamers kept cm arriving. all night
and depositing men and amnia's, by 8
a.m. all detatla had errived. 41 10
mra. all C. 0.'s were sent for and Win-
gate gave out to them his plan of cam-
paign and the orders for the oarrying
out of the same, together with the die-
teibution of the transport animals -
some one tbousand-for the carrying
of food, water, etc., the Water being
the difficult point, we having only
enough tanks to carry water for mer
men and animals for two and a half
days at the rate of men one gallon,
horses six, and mutes four, camels
none. At 3.31 the same day 100 started
from the river tend marched some four
and a half or five reties by sunset, and
then hatted in square
TILL THE MOON SHOULD RISE.
not a salvation that OffeD9 such a gate
end rouses such an anthem, and 00/3: -
summates, suoh a friendship, a great
salvation?
Now, are you ready for the Apostle's
efilestton 34 Are you all ready? la the
light of this ealvation-so great is its
Author, so great In its humiliations,
s0 greed in its saerifiets, so great in
'la nonsammations tbo question
burets, crackles, and thunders upoe
our ears: How shall we et:melee 11 we
negleet tee great salvalien,
NO ESCIAPE,AT ALL.
For the man who neglects it there Is
no possibility of excuse or rescue.
Everything will plead against him.
The water will his from the foun-
tains, aed say, "We told him of the
livinp etre= wbere he might wash
all hie eine away, but he woald not
COMO Escape he must not," The
rocks will say, "We told him of a shel-
ter and defence to which he mlghi run
and be staved; but he would not come.
Escape -he must not," The sun in the
sky will say, "We told him of the lig•ht
of the world and of the cloyspriug
from on lulgh; and he (Mut his eyes
to the glory. Escape he must not."
The star witl 857. "I Tototed to his
ooly hope -the jeens of Bethlehem;
hut he woeld not look anti be saved.
Eseape he meet not." The Bible will
nay, "0 called him by a thousond in-
Vitatiohs, and warned him by it thous-
and fibrins; but he would not heed,
he woul(1 not liatan. Escape he must
not," The tree of Oalvary will say,
"Oil my bloody branala / bore fruit
that Might have fed his etarviog soul;
but he would not pluck It, . Es.
Wipe he must net." The angtle of
God will ruty, "We flow 10 hint on,
At 10.45 p.m. we started again and
marched till dawn, wheu eve baited,
as we were supposed to be near the
camp of the Khalita's advaine guard
under Ahmed Fedi', of Gedarif fame,
and Lewis's opponent at Rosseires, at
Itclnialefsaititia..ed,d v
Our ecavalry carefully re-
entually tound Me-
lissa vacated. It was only a spot in
O bushy desert where there was a
sman pool of very dirty water. "We
arrived there about 8 a.m., having
marched twenty-seven miles slime
leaving the river. We then watered
our anima's, while our Arab irregular
borserneu under a most gallant Egyp-
tian officer followed in the tracks of
the retreated force of AJamed Fedi!.
Very soon they returned, and to our
great joy reported that Fedil's force
was only about three miles Lu-
ther on encamped by the Water pool
of Abo Aardel. Fearing that Fedil
naight again retreat before infantry
could come up, Wingate most judici-
ously and prompuy sent on Mu' 040 -
airy camel corps, two guns and four
maxims, escorted by our bleak irregu-
lar infantry, to try and engage Ah-
med Facile and hold him until our in-
fantry and guns could come up. We
had to serve out the water from the
tanks almost lawfully -'e long job -so
the infantry could uot .go on till that
viluisdone.
Mahon, our A. A. G., a cavalry
officer of great experience, command-
ed the advance guard. Ile drove in
the enemy's cavalry scouting 121 11001
of him, and after carefully recommit-
oring the position seized a bill close to
Fedit's camp which praetioally com-
manded the same. He at once shelled
the camp with his two galls, and the
enemy attacked him, trying to drive
him off the hill ad our intantry came
up and joined his party, :They were
just in time to repel a most detain -
Med attempt to capture the hill and
guns.
THE DERVISHES CHARGED
with all their old dash and gallantry
and were only finally stopped within
sixty yards of the guns and Maxims.
The two nearest of the slain were tied
together at the wriet end lay dead
side by side. The prisoners told us
afterward that they were two great
friends who had always lived together,
and finally had decided to die, as they
had lived, together.
It was a touehing sight and made
GOO WW2 that such brave men bacl fal-
len in a better cause. 'That charge
being defeated, we made a general
advatce of the whole line, driving the
now defeated enemy through their
camp, eine many mils on through the
bush. The cavalry did not return
from the pursuit till late in the after-
noon, and we encamped sozne two miles
beyond the place where we had fought.
Our losses were very small, one Egyp-
tian officer badly wounded, one man
killed and five wounded, while 108
;emir' count. 'some four hundred of the
enemy dead, end had some three bun-
dred prisoners, most of than wounded,
and their store of grain, whith Ahmed
Fedit had been colleoting for the Kiln-
lifa's force by raiding and. looting the
surrounding country.
Thus you 888 W8 bad; begun well,
Marching twenty-seven miles by night,
we had practically suvprised the lehne
lifa's advance guard and annihilated
it and captured his food. The next
0200(3 was more difficult, because we
were tmeartain as to the actual porde
tion of the Kbalifa bimetal( and his
main body. • Reports wore coefliethag
some said that he Was at i,be wells
of Great& others at the waterpoola of
HE ADVANCE'S SLOWLY, 0
but seems to keep every region
he adde to hie domain. Hie presence
was not severely felt in elaatern
France till three years after the Ger-
man 111/88104, an,' he was taut observed
in Belgium till 1878. Ten years later
the Belgian Minister of Agriculture
offered. a bounty for his destruction,
btu. in spite of the war upon him the
animal hen held his own tend pushed
further afield, defying the Belgian
Minister by invading cantons he had
not yet pre -emitted, and then 61218.0111115France on the 13elgia2 ag well as the
Freneh side. He he a herd, problem. 10
active, and ell that can bp, done seems
to be te earn as rouelt'bounty money
as possible.
[the Far East is the graodfather 01
the West, end a very large part of
living thinge, including mare and math
vegetation, haa been traced from the
Orient to the Occident. There are ex-
ceptiona, however, to this general law
of Migration, and the latest that has
eome to noliee is thq 0480 01 the little
insect pest known as the jigger, widish
teethed the weat African coast in a
sailing vessel trom Brazil in 1872 and
arrived at the Italian Ocean laat
yeav, 13091125 ermined the Continent in
the equatorial regione, 2,706 rallete In
twenty-six years, traVelling from west
to elate '
frem there he °Mild Make same 01
stepping the nail% goiug weat to
Sherkeleh oet el moll, and it woeld
piece hiM in an adeentageeee poeillee
to strike the Rhalita if be tried to
advanee north by the why Ahmed
00411 lied retreated, hie OtIginiti Wan
of advance.
• ova or= DIFFICULTY.
was the uncertainty of finding
ter, all we had ael yet eeen even our
aeiraals would not driek; so we scot
back all our empty tanks with gr.
wimple teem .A.ho Anedel to the river,
with ordere to onto out again ane
meet es 01 that place in two drip,'
Lime ; we had atilt Mie and a halt days'
water, and we reekened that we could
get to Gedld, twenty.,three milee, ad
It we found no water' there, could al-
ways come back next day and meet
met water, So at midnight we start-
ed again, and got to Goal(' about 0
0.30,1 11 woo very hot aad the last tem
hours tried the men very lima, the
sun waa cm their batiks, after little
sleep and less water. At Gedld we
triune a deserter of the Rhalifa, or
spy, who told us the Khatifa was at
Mitearudin, some even miles south-
east, the road to whieh was through
a densely wooded country. Our use-
ful Arab scouts, under • the same
Egyptian officer, were entrusted with
the job of finding out the truth, and
off they went, it being deemed inad-
visable to let our regular troops be
Seen until we were uear enough to
strike -a wise preeaution.
Luckily we found at Gedid a large
pool of excellent water, 'whiefi relieved
as from any further anxiety on that
acme. So we watered all our men arid
borses and camels, tilled our tanks,
cooked our first meal and generally
rested. At 5p.m. our scouts return-
ed, and the officer reported that be
had found no one at Mugarueln, hut
that he had actually located, the Kim-
lifa and all hie forme at Om Debrekat,
a little north of the former place and
only about eix miles from our camp,
the road being fairly open and good
going except in a few placee, where
the trees were thick. This was in-
deed good news, and we then knew
that unless the K,halita retreated in
the night we must get a go in at him.
At 1 a.m. next morning we started
with the moon. about a quarter size,
well up. Our transport we left be-
hind with orders to follow at 4ajn.
We moved mast carefully covered by
cavalry in front and °mein on flanks;
not a sound was heard except the
footsteps of men and horses, and oc-
casionally the crack of a pioneer's axe
cutting a way through the thick bush
for the column behind dim to follow.
After three ranee we halted, (Ind Col.
Mahon event on with a fele men, and
carefully felt his way, raurning to
tell us they were still there, and that
the highest ground near their camp,
a slight ridgS with gently sloping
ground in front of it toward the camp,
was unoccupied and at our disposal;
Om Eemara, end, again, others et
some water plate between the Iwo.
The Khalitehad three 8011/1168 open t
him:first to march via ("redid to Slaw-
keleta where he eould be out of reach;
secondly, to 1111V81200 etraight against
tid ; or, thirdly, to retire the way he
had come, a dangeroua move, as Im
had pothauated ail feed and water com-
ing. We lead two alternatives -first,
to advent% agoaruilt, him at Oan 170,
mora, whore mod people 0034 he was,
n distance of twenty-seven miles from
us, or to go to Godiel, fight him if we
Lound him there, or gb fibre there to
Om Homara, or Wherever he might bp
!mated,
Wingate, with the aeumen of It true
strategist, decided to go lo Gedid;
WE AT ONCE PUSHED ON,
and arriving at this ridge one hour
before dawn mit out pickets along our
line, deployed fur action. lay down and
some of us stein.
While we were doing the last mile
we heard the sound et the dervish
drums beating in front et us; it was
evident that the Khalifa meant to
give us battle. .At 5.15 a.tn., just ae
the dawn commenced, our pickets came
in, and we saw dimly the advaneing
dervishes who were evidently mean-
ing iu aka the commanding ground
we had already occupied. They were
too late as usual, andt our guns,im-
mediately began to play on, them, and
the fight began. It wee hard. to die-
tinguish anything in the uneertain
tight of early dawn; the gran also
was high, two feet, and the buslice
thick, but we could Lail in, the occas-
ional lulls et the firing from bearing
the enemy's shouts and waving of
tbetr hanners that mime movement,
was evidently going on, to p065 0011111
our len and try to turn that flank,
Naturally, our fere was concentrated
on that puint, and the flank further
protected by prolonging it entb com-
panies from the reserve of the flank
battalion of infanlry. It soon be-
came eirdent that they could not press
the attack home, and with our right
well thrown forward we made a regu-
lar advance of the whole force, sweep-
ing the remainder of the eneann be-
fore us, and not stopping till we halt
reached the dervish (tamp, some one -
and -a -half miles in elle rear. ,
There WO found all the women and
obeldren-some 6,000 -and having giv-
en the Aman, or quarter, large n11110 -
bars of tho enemy .accepted the same,
throwing down their arms and the
fight was over, the cavalry carrying
on for some miles and brirming in the
remainder of fugitives, who gave in at
canoe 1011011 they heard the Khali&
was killed.
Ana eow for the most touching part
of the whole affair. Leaving lhe
troops in the camp, Wingate and bis
staff rode back to the scene of the
figlit to identify the body of Khali&
and make quite sure that the rumor
of his death was true.
In tbe centre of wbat was evidently
the main attath on our right we mime
across a very large number of bodies
all huddled together in a very small
place; their horses lay dead behind
them,
THE KHALIPA LAY DEAD
on hie furraa, or sheepskin, the typical
end of the Arab Sheikh who diedains
surrender', on hie right was the Elea-
lifa Aly Wad 1111a, and on his lett. Ah-
med 'Fedi], his great fighting leader,
while all around him lay his faithtul
Emile+ all content to meet their death
when he had ohoeen to meet his. INS
black Mulamirin, or bodyguard, all
lae dead in a. et might line about torly
yards in front of their master's body
with their faces to the, foe and faith-
eul to the last -
Directly the moan rose On the night
after the fight, after having made all
errangemente for marehing back the
force to the river by detachneente in
the most comfortable manner, and
I.Ar 113, 1900
YOUNG. FOLIC%
EMS, /0E91? YOUNG, ,
"Mother wante to aeaP ale a bp,4
..ta . I. 20," pa 1
outed girl o% 1
whose wise mother wanted to bave nee
retain the loosely flowing 1001[0 and
the ronthfel simple garmonta
sult-
eble to hey years for a eoulne Q getet
sons longer, complaint if often
}terve coming frorn the lips of maid»
ens who are to be envied, owing to
their adorable yonth, the var2 thing:
they despise, The rosy flush, the slight
figere, the ober eyee, will never be-
long to them but once. Once orill
San a woman be young. Do not forget
this girls, se anxieue to put behind
you tbe one period of your existenee,
when the sun shieee as It never will
again, and WINSEA the birds shad With
4 sweeter meaning than will be heard
wheel the Morning him paws' and higla
noon with the greater heat and pres-
sure of the burdens of life has ria -
ed upoa you. Isn't every young thing
sweeter and purer than the world -
hardened, older ones of the same epee
clef Look at the lambs at Plat, not/
the tender green leaven that eboot
out in their innocent verdure from
the old neater -seasoned branchee. Kite
tens and ebitike and young birds are
the moot appealing creatures, end
when one comes to babies there never
can be in all this lovely world any.
thing quite so sweet and lovable 019 .6
dear little dimpled baby.
Therefore, girls, stay young, You
may have to bear some inconvenience
of restraint, owing to your extreme
youth, but the time will come when
you will long for these ineidentels of
the youthfulness that will have pass-
ed away from you forever.
WHAT EYES TELL.
Hazel eyes ehow steadiness and pow-
er of conetant affection; green, cat-
like orbs, though frequently farminat-
ing, are dangerous, for they are a sista
of deceit. Black eyes show stroeg
tellect and passions. The eyes of gen,
bus are said to be of varying tints, 1114
tbe sea -sometimes blue, tinged with
green or oraege ; in certain lights, or
when affected by emotion, deep and
almost dark. It should never be fore
gotten thee eyes are more capable of
misleading than any other feature,
'Widely expanded eyelids see much
without reflecting greatly; they live
in the senses, and think little beyond
the present moment. Eyelids half aloe.
ing over the eyes denote less facility
of impression, but clearer insight,
more definite ideas, greater steadinese
in action. Deep-set eyes, with wrinke
les at the outer earners, show pene-
tration and a sense of humor.
Eyes see near together, espeeially
when there are wrinkles aerosts the
:Iowa are 681513 of eunning and mean-
ness in email tbings-money matters
and otherwise. Set wide apart, the
character will be generous; if to
wide, careless and extravagant. The
proper distance between the eyes 14
Yt he length of 0116 eye,
•
TO TIMM:MATE YOUR WATC111.
the same for the bringing in of iho
hap eumber of priaortere, the water-
ing of whom en route would be some-
what difficult, and having seen that
the Dervish loaders were decently
buried in reepoot for their great gal-
lantry, Wingate and rayeelf rode off
to the river,doing the 50 milea in 11
hours. The Harem night tve started
south, and next day in eteamer man-
aged to finish all official reports nee-
esstiry to give to the Str.tar on arrival
at rcbarf ottm. We 01113' stopped there
a few hour:teen:A aro now, as you see
by thy above address, one 011 1118 way
bads to hie office goo]) in Cairo, and
11ia other to his ottlinary work in
DartgolM
Few persons know, perhaps, time d
watch may be rears easily and more
accurately regulated by a star than by
the sun. The reason is that the mo-
tion of the eertb weal reference to the
fixed stars is perfectly maiforra, while
Nvii.h reference to the sure it is not. ;
Select a window opening on the
south giving a view of a chimney oe
of tbe side of a house. To the side et
the window attach a piece of ear&
board with a little hole bored in
TIM card must be so placed that you
can see a star through the bolo. Watele
the star as it approaches the chimuop,
or the side of the house and note the
exact time of its disappearance beitin41
it.
'Watch the same star the following
night, for the motion of the earth will
01101811 it to disappear behind the chime
ney exactly three minutes and, 56 sea
ends earlier than it did on the first
night, and that 18 what your watch
will show, 10 it be keeping accurate
time. Let us suppose that you saw,
the star disappear at 8 o'clook on lho
first night; then on the second night
it will disappear at three minutes and
56 seconds before 8.
If you find, therefore, that the star
disappears at three ininutes, before 8
on the seemed night, according to you*
watch, you will know that youv wateli
has gained 66 seconds in the 24 lemma;
if it disappears at Tour minutes and
56 seconds before 8 your watch will
have lost one minute.
If the sky be cloudy for, say, three
nights after your first observation, erg
that you multiply three minutes and 51
set:omdt. by three and deduat the Noe
duet from the timo ef your Brat obe
servation to find the time that you*
watch should give. •It is bardly neee
essary to say that youl should use one
of the fixed stars, and not a planet,
as your guide.
ill THE OLDEN DAYS.,
Once upon a time salmi ohildren had
not as easy a time as some of tile
Young folks nowadaya. Batik in the
early part of the aixteerith century,
for instance, the famous English sobool
of St. Paul's then under the general
direction of Dean Oolet, used to open
at 7 o'clook both in winter and sum-
mer, and the reles were, so strict that
the school boy of to -day would think
them barbarous. Following are in-
fections from the eode of rake 53111 111-
10 operation when the sehool WAS
EOUndocl:
"The children shall dome into sehool
at 7 o'clock, both whiter and sentheer,
and tarry there unitl 11; and retires
against 3. of the elook, and depart at
5. In the aohool, no time in the yher
Obeli they use tallow candle in nowise
at the oost ef their friends. Aloe 34
will they bring ,no meat nor driek, 1101
bottle, mor use in the echoed no break -
feels, nor drinkings, in the time of
learning, 113 ,1100(130. f will they use
120 noolt-fightlegs, nor riding about oft
a vietory, nor disputing at St. Bar-
tholomew, which is but foothill bate,
Whig and loss at tiMe."
There were lo be no holidays getteted
at detire, union I for the King ok a
,Biehop.