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'RUB OF GOD'S PEOPLE
Rev. Dr. Talmage Talks of Their
a Struggles.
Jacob's Combat With an Unknown Visitor. -Men's
Conflict . With Evil Habits..—With the Help of
, the Lord They Triumph -Prosperity and Trolible
Compared,
deepatch from Washington says: Bot the old giunti began lo waver;
Rev, D. Talmage, Preached frora tbe mid ail lest, In the ,naidnight a one,
following lext:—" And &mob was left with; nonek but God In witness, by the
brook Sabbock, the giant fell; wad the
alone; and there Neeestled a man with triumphant wrestler broke the dark -
him until the breaking of the day.1ness withthe ery, "T.h inks be unto
And welen he saw Ulla he prevailed' God, wee giveth us the wearer
not alpinist him he touched the hole'h our Lord Jesus Meat,"
liheregis a widow's heart, that first
low op els thigh; and the hollow of was desolated by bereft; mane and
Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he
wrestled with him. And he said, 'Let
me go tor the day bratikethe And he
Pak, 'I will not let thee go exaept
thou bless Inee"...-Geneeds xxxii, 24,
25, 20,
The dust arose from 4 travelling
eerd of cattle, and sheep, and goats,
and eamels. They are the present that
,Iaeob sends to gain tee good -will o:
his offended brother. Thal night Jerson
hales by the brook Jabbock. But there
is no rest for the weary man. No shin-
ing ladder to let the angel down
into his dream; but a Herm combat,
that lasts until morning, with an un-
known visitor. Inky slush try to throw
the other. The unknown visitor, to re-
veal his superior power, by a Louth
wrenches Jacob's thigh bone from
- Its sooket, perhaps maiming him for
life. As on the morning sky the eels-
tera a purple elou.cl begin to ripen,
Jamb sees it is an angel with whom
he has been tontending, and not one
of his brother's coadjutors. "Let me
go," cries the angel, lifting himself
tip into increasing light, " the day
breaker. h."
Yon see, in the first place, that
God allows good people sometimes to
get into a terrible sieuggle. Jamb
was a good man; but here us was left
alone in the midnight to wrestle with
O tremendous influence by the brook
Jabbock. For Joseph a pit ; for Dan -
since. by the anxieties and trials that
Mile/ in, the support of a family, et
is a sad thing to see a man contend-
ing for -a livelihood under disadvant-
ages; bah to see a delicate woman,
with heipleas little ones at, her bark,
fighting the giants ok poverty and
Sorrow, is snore affecting.,. It was a
humble home; and passei•s by knew
not that within those Icier wails were
.Iteplays of courage more admirable
than that t of Hannibal crossing the
Alps, or in the Pam of Teeernopylae,
or at Balaklava, wbere, " into the
Jaws of death, rode the six hundred."
These heroes earl the whole woulck to
sheer there om but there mere none
to applaud: the struggle in that hum-
ule home. She fought fact bread, lox
Methane, for fire, for sheleer, with
eehing laertd, and weak Hide, and ex-
hrelisted strength: through tbe long
night, by the brook Jehbock, Could
a, be ,that none would give her help?
C1,)d forgotten to he Lead ti
Not rentemling soul. The midnight:
oar is full of wings, coming to the Twi-
nes, She hears 11 now, in the sough
cd the night wind, in the ripple of
the brook Jabbock,—the
PROMISE, MADE SO LONG AGO,
ringing down the sky: "Thy fether-
less children I will preserve thean
elive; and let thy widows trust in 'Me!"
Some one said to a very poor woxnan, ,
"How is It that in reach distress you
keep cheerful?" She said, "I do. it by
wbat I call, cross prayers. When I!
had my rent to pay, and nothing to
pny in with, and bread to buy and
nothing torb.uy it witb. I used to sit
down andi cry. But now I do not get
dtscouraged. If 1 go along the street,
a wild beast den; for David, de -when I conk to a eorner of the street,
ihronement and exile; for John the I 0117, 'The Lord help iner I then go
Baptist, w internees diet ;cud t be exe- until emanoth
ee to er crossing of
eationees axe; for Peter, a prison ; the street, ;:nd ng,ain I say, 'The Lord
fur Paul, shw
iprk;Lor John, dews- help mei- And so I pray at every eros -
late Palates ; for Vashti, most insult- sing; and mince I have got into the
ing, cruelty; for Josephine, banish- habit of saying these 'terms prayer's,'
meat; Ior Mira. Sigourney, the agony I. have been able to keep up illy 'tour -
et a drunkard's ',sleet for John Wes- tine.'
ley, stems hurled by an Infuriated Leern again *erne this subjeet, teat
mob; far Catherine, the Scotch girl, Peopie sometines ore surprised to find
he drowning Burgett of the sea: for mit that what they huve been 00 rug -
Mr. Burns, the huffetting of the Mout- gling Nati h in the darkness, is really
real populace; for John Brown, of .eld- an "n
agel of blessing.' Jacob
inburgh, the pistol -shot of Lord Cla- found in the morning, 0131
veximuse; for Hugh McCall, the seaf- this strange personage 0100
fold; foe Latimer, the stake; for not an enemy, but a God -despatched
Christ, the Cross. For whom the , messenger to promise prosperity tor
rocks, the giblets, the guillotines, the him and for his children. And so,
thumb screws? Itor the sons and many a man, at the abuse of his trial,
daughters of the Lord Almighty, Some • has found oat that he bas been try -
one staid to Christian reformer, "The to throw down his own blessing.
world is against you." "Then " re -:If you are a Christian man I will go
plied,' "I am against. tbe world." back in your history and find that tile
I will go further and say that ev- grandest things that have ever imp-
el:fry Christian has hie struggle. Veith ;kernel to yam have been your trials.
'financial nesforinne you have had Nething short of seourging, impels -
THE MIDNIGHT WRESTLE. cement. and shipwreck, could have
made Paul what he was. \Veen David
Red-hot disasters have dropped into „Be fleeing. iereege thc einienine,
your store froin loft to teller, What pursued by his own son, he WAS be-
you
b h • . ireg prepared to heeome, the sweet
you trusted lied. The help you expert- singer of Israel. Tee pit and' the '
ed Would not eame. Sume giant puree dela eon Ja 1 h 1 '
. wim
th eg urine, and grip Itkedeath, new., Joseph ever graduated. The
. took held of yoa in an awful wrestle, hurriettne that upset the tent, and
front which you have not yet escaped, killed Jotter children, prepared the
and it is uncertain whether it will man of Us to write the magnific.ent
throw you, or you will throw it. Here 'pnem that has astounded the ages.,
is another soot, in struggle with some There is no way to get I he wheal out
bad appetite. Ile knew now how steal- of the straw but. to thresh it. There
Only it was growing upm. ou hiOne is Ito way to purify the gold hut to
hour he Woke UP. He Said, "For the Miro 11, Look at the people who have
sake of my soul, of my faintly, and of always had it their 00011 way. They
eay thildr•en, and of my God,1 must , are proud, discontented, useless, and
stop this!" And behold he found unhappy. It you want to find cheer -
himself eione, by this brook Jabboek; . ful folks, go among those who have
and 11, was midnight. That evil ap- ' been purified by the fire. After
petite seized upon Inm, and dm seized Roseini hod rendered William Teti
upon. it; and 0, the horror of the eon- the five hundredth time. a company
Ike Wben once. a bad habit bath of musicians came under. bis window ,
roused emelt up to destroy a inan, in Paris, and serenaded him. They
and the men has seurn that, by the put upon his brow
help of the eternal, God, he will de- A GOLDEN CROWN
stroy it, all heaven draws Itself out of keret leaves! But, amid all the
In long Imo oe light, tit, book from applause and enthusiasm Ressirti t urn -
above, and' all hell stretehes itself ed a friend and said, "I would give
formadons of spite to' look up from al/ this brilliant seeue for a few days
beneath, I have seen men rany them- of youth and love."
eelves for such a st.ruggle, end they It is prosperity that, kills, and
bays bitten their lie, and elenehed trouble that saves. While the Israe-
their fist,, and cried with a blood red lites were on the march amid great
earnestness, ance a ram of scalding
tears, "God, help reel"
From a wrestle with habit, I have
seen men fall back defeated. Calling
Cor 1101 hen>, bue relying on their own
resolutions, they have eome into the
struggle; and for a time it seemed as
if they were getting the upper hand of
their habit; but that; habit rallied
!Igen its infernal power, and lifted
its soul from . its standing, ,end with
a form borrowed, front the pit, hurled
11. into eater darknese. First, 1 saw
the attetioneexes mallet fall on the
pictures, and nausleal instruments,
end the Hob upholstery of his family
parlour, After a while I saw lime
fall into the ditch. Then, in the mid-
night, when the children Were dream-
ing their, Sweetest dreeink, and Chris-
tian homes/1°1de are silent with slum-
ber, angel -watched, 11 heard him. give
TOE 'SHARP SHRIEK
that followed tthe stab; Of his own
pionard. He fell from an bonoured
, Socha Position; he fele from a family
°hale oe which once he Wes the grand -
eel ettraotioe; her fell erode the house
of God, nit whose Deers hes had bean
elonerelletedi he fell—for ever/ Hen
thank God, lairs 05,0' mon esrepaee
theniselvert for such it wrestling. They
laid hold of Geder help Go they went
in to col/abut. 'elle giant ;habit, re-
galed by the eup of meny dissmatiote
teem one etroeg and defiant. They
elenetied, There were the writhings
and distortions of a fearful etruggle.
eneY. They may triumph twee their
lone end yet Omsk «011 WWI eou
that they heve been traubled-toaelle
Od• ArO 'WO StOlCat that WO 0511, une
neared, see our overlie rifled of the
bright eyes anti the aweet lips? Ma
we stand unmoved alit! see our gird-
ena ere earthly delight uprooted? Will
Jesus, who svept ininisielf, be angry
with US 41 we pour 001 teaes iuto tbe
graves tibia °Peened 10 eivallow down
,What love beet? 'Wee Lazarus
enore dear to Hina than our beloved
dead to as? No. We have a eight
to weep. Our tears must 001115. You
seen net drive them Mask ecald
the heart. They fall Into God's
bottle. Afflicted ones itsiVe tiled be-
cause they Gould not weep, Thank God
tor the sweet, tbe eneeteeloue rend
OW comes to tee in tear's! Leeder (his
gentle rain the flowers of corn put
forth tbeir bloom, God pity that dry,
withered, parc:hed, allemnsunileg erief
that wrings its hands, and grinds its
teeth, and bites Its nails unto the
queer, but canuot weep! We may
breve found the comfort of the Cross,
and yet ever after show that In the
dark night, and by the brook Jabbook,
NW were trouble-iouched.
Again: We may take the idea of tbe
text, and annuunee the approach of
the day-dawil. No one wee twer
mole glad to see the morning than
was Jacob after that night of
struggle. It is appropriate for
philienthropisis and Christians to
cry out with thee angel of the text,
"The day breaketh." The world's
prospeets are brightening. Popery
hue hail its et rongest props knocked
out, The tyrants of the earth are
I falling flat in the dust. The Church
lef Christ is rising" (IP in its streneth
, to go forth, "fete as the moon, Hear
, as the sun, mid terrible AS an anti)" of
!banuers."' Clap your hands, all ye
people, the day breaketh. The
.bigutiles of the earth ere perishing.
'The mile was when we were told, that
!le e wanted to get to heaven, we
'must hi' immersed or sprinkled; or we
e
'mw !settees in the perseverance; of
, the saints, or in fabling away from
'grace, or a liturgy, 00 00 liturgy; or
'they must be Calvinists, ter Annini-
'401, in order to reach heaven. We
have all Ocnne to confess now that
these are
i NON-ESSENTIALSh
IN RIeltUON.
During my vacation, one summer, 1
was in a Presbyterian audience, and
it wee sattrareental day, and with .
. grateful heart I received the lefoly
Communion. On the next Sabbathr.
j was in a Inethedist cherub, end sat
'at a Inveneetist. On the following i
Sabbath I was in an Episcopalian
(hurter and, knelt at the attar and ree
mixed the consecrated bread. 1 do
not know which service l enjoyed the
most. "I believe in the communion of ,
salute Anil ill the life everlasting." !
"The der breaketh."
As 1 look upon thin Etudience, lees
many who have passed. through waves
of trouble that came up higher than
their girdle. In God's name I pro-
tean:It eessation of hostilities. You
shall unt go always saddened and
heart -broken, Gael will lift your bur- ;
den. Gud will bring your deed to
life. Ged will staunch the heart's
bleeding. I knoW' He will. Like its a
father eitieth his ehildeen, so the
Lord pities you. The 'reins of earth
will / ne. The tomb will burst. The ;
dead will rise. The morning star
trembles on e brightening sky. The .
gates ef the east begin 10 swing
epen. The day In.eaketh.
Luill•r and Idelanethon were talking
together gloomily about the prospects '
of the Cburch. They could see no •
hope of deliverance. After a while, :
Luther got up and said to Melanath-
on, "Come, Philip, let as sing the
forty-eieth PSII1X/1 of David- "God is
our refuge and strength, 0 very' pre-
sent help in trouble. Therefore will ,
not we fear, though the eantle be re-
moved, and though the mountains be
into ;the midst of the sea;
though the waters thereof roar and
be t roubled, ithough the mountains
shake with the swelling thereof
Selab."
privations and hardships, they be -
hayed well. After awhile they prayed
for meat; and the sky darkened
with a great flock at quails; and
these quails fell in great multitudes
all alum( them; and the Israelites ate
and ate. and stuffed themselves un-
til they died, Oh, my friends, it. is
not hards,hip, or trial, or starvation
that injures the soul, but abundant
supply. It is not the vulture of
trouble that eats up the Christian's
life; it is t.he quails! it is the quells!
You will /yet find out that your mid-
night Ivrestle by t.he brook Jabbock
Is with an angel of God, (tome down
to bless and to save.
Learn again that, while our wrest-
ling with trouble may be triumphant,
we must expecte that 11 will leave its
mark upon us. jarsob prevailed, but
the angel toweled him, ani his thigh -
holm es -prang erom Ittl socket, and the
good man went limping on his way.
We Muse carry through this world the
mark of the combat, What ploughed
those premature wrinkles in your
tam?: 'What whitened your hair be-
fore it 'was time for feint? What
/silenced fot ever so intieh of the bil-
unity el Lear eeneeft!entelt 1.1 I/ -It
EitidaTati the angel of trot e
toaohed you tbat you go liMpIng on
your way. You need not be eurtmised
that than Nebo have passed throng's
the tire clo not feel as
GAY A.S THEY ONCF, DID.
Do not be out et patience with those
who came not init of their despond -
DEATH TO MANY,
nay to all, is a struggle and a wrestle.
We have many friends that it will be
hard to leave. I care not howl bright
our future hope is. It is a bitter
thing to look upon this fair world, and
knew that we shall never again see
its bluesoming seeing, its falling
fruits, 115 sparkling streams, and to
eay farewell to those with whom we
played in childhood, or counselled in
manhood. In that night, like Jacob,
eve mity have to wrestle, but God will
not leave us unblessed. It shall not
be ('Id in heaven that a dying soul
cried unto God for help but was not
delemed. The lattice may be turn-
ed to keep out the sun, or 0 book
set t,, dim the light of the /midnight
taper; or the room may be filled with
the 'ries of orphanage and widow-
hood; cm 'the Church of Christ may
niuurn over our going; but, if Jesus
calls, all is well. The strong wrestl-
ing hy the brook 14 11 MISS; the hours
of death's night will pass Along: one
onlortit in the utorning; ewo &dock in
the miming; four teelock in the morn-
ing: the (ley breaketh.
en I would have it when I die. I
am in no haste to be gone. 1 have no
grudge a ge nst this world: Tne
only fault 1 have to find with the
world in that iL Create Inc too' well
But when the time rennee to go, I trust
to be ready, my worldly affairs all
set Owl. If 1 have wronged others,'
want then to be were of their forgive-
ness. In (hal lost wrestling, rnyarrri
enfeebled with eicknees, and my head
fake I want Jesus beside me. If there
be hands on tills side of ltie flood
Wretched cnit to hold Inc Musk, 1 want
the heavenly heroin sit relebed out to
draw me forward. Then, 0 Jesus, help
me on, and help me u.p. Unfertring, un -
doubling, may I step right out into
the light, and be able to look beck
to my kindred and frietele, who,woued
detain me here, exelaiming, Let me
go—treet Inc go!" The day breaketh.
MILLIONS UNDER ARMS.
A French statistician steins that the
total number of men permanently un-
der arms is 4,250,000. If universal war
broke out there would be 44,250,000
men teady to take up arms at once.
Pla20bitme lire, the pieldiem o the
*cad OUT eneer the Equator right
around the earth.
The German war nuthorittes have dtt-
Plieates of all bridge/1 in Flamm. If,
im macs of war, tiny of therm bridges
were cleetroyed, they could be replace
ed in six bours.
TO THE BARREN OROHNES,
WILL TRAVEL 4,000 IMES BY
CANOE AND SNOWSHOES,
rhea er the Terme Expedition Now on
Pis Wee to expiere cenitetwe Barren
ereuuds—en elnenewn lane 50 as H5,
isi:im.v
re-etie:igibers or the ewes.
Th
off plam for explerera
4tid "triPtears" wins atrlke out for the
Barron Grounds, the fertile valleys ef
the Peane River, or the etie regime of
the great Maelconzie basin, is the town
of, Edmonton. 11. is ailukted at the
northern terminus of the most north-
erly- breech of the Canadian Pectin:1
Railway, about ;seventy-five mike east
of the Itoelry Mountain4 'It is the
extends northward for eighteen hun-
dred miles. OD its ate•eets the half
breed dog 'driver, the lereneh trapper,
the Canadian mounted' policeman, the
eicoteh fur trader and the Indian
hunter jostle one anoLi3er. Cayuse
"juinpere" EALBS up and down anti clog
trains scurry by. It is there, tam' lts
long trip of 2,01e miles, the "Maelrenzie
River Packett"--the men from far off
Port Macpherson — is transferred
from dog abed to railroad train.
,A few weeks ago an expedition took
leave of Edmonton and oommenced an
interesting and adventurous trip that
wilb cover more than ' four thousand
miles, by anowshoes and canoe. It is
in charge of Mn J. W. Tyrrell, Cella,
D.L.S., the well known Canadian ex-
plorer, of Hamilton, Ont., who. wite
bis brother, 3, Burr Tyrrell, completed,
in 1898, a journey of 3,200 miles by
canoe and snowshoes, theough tbe
southern end of the Barren Grounds,
lying between Lake Athabasca and
Cliestteriield Inlet.
The route to be taken on the present
trip extends further sent& through a
land. HITHERTO UNEXPLORED.
ele. Tyrrell is being sent in the later -
este or the Dominion government.
His party consists oI eiglat men. Ms.
C. .0.1,.h., 01 SIM0013, Ont.,
wilt be the topographer oe the expedi-
tion. The Venerable Arehdeamm
Ienthouse will act as native interpre-
ter, meteorological observer and chap -
limn. Archdeacon Louthouse is a par-
Licularly useetul man for northern
travel. Be has spent seventeen years
as a missionary on the coast ot Hud-
son Bay.
Mr, Percy Acres, a Hamilton, Ont.,
man, who has had considerable expexi-
ence in Northwestern bitTe, eill lint as
a voyageur and will be the eook of
the expedition. Pierre French, a
half breed from Caughnawaga, one -of
the most celebrated Whitewater
eanaemen in tbe Dominion, will be
the chief voyageur. French has spent
least oi his lite on the Vlilciest waters
of the caunery. A few years ago, out
of sheer bravado, he ran the Lachine
rapids on a Christmas Day Menne
thousands of spectators. He acisom-
ponied Lord Wolseley as a voyageur
on his Egyptian campaigns. On one
trip alone he successfully shot, on
eight, on -e bundred and sevenLy-five
rapids. He accompanied Mr. Tyrrell
on his former trip through the Barren
Grounds, French has selected a
famous half breed voyageur, named
Henry Monette who will aeL as his
bowman.
es. CM! Indian, named Jimmie West -
emote who is the seventh man, has
the reputation of being tbe greatest
hunter and snowshoe runner in
the "Great. Lone Lamb." He comes
teem Fort Churchill, on Hudson ,Bay.
Bo amompauled Mr. Tyrrell on the
return- portlon of his former trip.
John Harper, a halfbreed who bas
made many trips through the Barren
Grounds and who has heed on Hudson
Bay, Is another member of the party,
ninth man may be engaged at Fort
Resolution, so that there will be
"THREE MEN IN A BOAT."
Tnivelling 170 miles by cart 1.11011 1110
expedition willmach tile Hudson Bay
Company's post at Lac la Hiche. As the
wagon ends there they will trans-
frtheir outfit from horse sleighs to
dog Made. They will have twenty
hauling dogs, tour being hitched tan-
dem to each sled. They wilt travel
00123paratively light, tbe sled loads
averaging only 250 poutids, while the
maximum weight for each dog is us-
ually 100 pounds. The winter packet
from the northland travels to Edmon-
ton by this route, so that an alleged
trail winds through tbe desolane mus-
keg that. stretches away to the north.
They will e,ncleavor to follow this
often ievisible thread through Lhe
wilderness of bush that COV0111 the
hclght of land, and, going down the
northern watershed, will strike the
Clearwater River and follow its course
10 ato oontitience With e a asea
River, at Fort Mae/Hurray.
Beyond this point the trail will wind
down the Athabaaca, and cross the
lake of the same name to Fort Chipe-
wayan, the prinoipal post ot the Hud-
son Bay Company in that district.
ellen, going down the hiave River to
Great Slave lake, the expedition will
pause at. Fort Resolution, 'Paving
thus, far covered 883 miles on Snow-
shoe. It was from this Hudson Bey
post that Warburt on Pike, Deno, Toke
Munn and Crisper Whitney sorted on
their various; tripe into the Bo 'Ten
(311,4)aUsntd8'stimmet. three Peterborough
canoes and six menthe' provisions were
Shipped to Fort Resolution on the
Hudson Bay Company steamer for
Tyrrell's use on the north-eastern
portion of his trip. ' Mr. Tyrrell will
travel to Use and of the eastern arm
of
GREAT SLAVE LAKE:
then, following the course of the Lock-
hart River, he will traverse. a rough,
mountainotis country before he x•each-
es Artillery Lake, wbeee he hopes to be
by the opening of navigation, about
the first of July.
lf Mt. Tyrrell is' fortunate enough
to reaoli Artillery Lake before the
snow disappears, ha will avoid having
to peek his outfit over Gael nunatrous
rooky portages of the Lockhart River.
It was in 181441 that the explorer Hank
met with so mnch diffloullY In Palming
atom rapids, and Mr. Tyrrell will
make every effort to reaeh Artillery
Luke before the tee breaks u,p.
letorn Artillery Lake he will begie
his exploration through an Unknown
dletriot about 300 miles wide, and 500
miles long, following the ecrerse of
the peiecipal weterways until he fin-
ellY reaoheS n northern erne, of Hudson
Bay Palled Phesterfield inlet. It IS
terongli 041 oonnttry that the eller/ne
Due horde Of reindeer er Herren
Greund otirlhou migrate every epring
end fall. The deer winter in the
wood e on, the sinetbeen border ot the
Barren Grounds ;Old vend the /rum -
neer nese tee Arotio 00ean.
Qu the soethern Iltalts of this Un-
known land Tyrrell during hie former
trip sow horde et caribou that OeXCI)-
9141tely covered the country, For two
xuonthe he waa never out of sight of
oaribou and every day tor nearly two
weeks he saw immenee herds thet
must have numbered hundreds oZ
thousands, That seems hard to be-
neys, but Tyrrell showed a dozen Dim-
ttoQpsP,l'itithnedthtuitiey'haPi101ot411rteodkennotfhl'iolmig hbit
skY and caribou.
'Resides caribou, the musk ox, Bar-
ren Ground bear, Armee wolf, ihnber
wolf, wolverine, Arotie fox, and Arctic
hare are to be found there; and
- 1111112 POLAR, BEAR,
Prowls along the eastern and north-
ern borders. The Jeugulmaux who
live along the coast of Hudson Bey and
the A.rotio Ocean, frequently make
hunting excursions into that wild
14nch
After crossing lhe Buren Grounds,
Tyrrell will survey both the northern
and southern shores of Chesterfield
klet. As soon as that work is com-
pleted he will stert on Isis return
journey, which he thinks will lakehim
luether south. He is yet uncertain
whether he will return by way of
Great Slave Luke or of Lake Atha-
boo/al
Ott
i.
return LO Edmonton he ex-
pecte to have covered about two thou-
sand two hundred miles on snowsboes
and two thousand miles by canoe. The
most northerly point he °epode to
reaolt will be 65 degrees north lati-
tude. He figures that the date of his
return will he about the middle of
November.
Be is commissioned to explore and
report on this character of the cowl --
ley, paying particular attention to
geology, botany, zoology and to deter-
naining the. magnetic force and declin-
alien. His party is provided with
three Winchester repeating rifles and
one Winchester repeaLing shotgun.
It has three tents of eight ounce duck.
Two at these will be used on the win-
ter trip, and Neill be heated witb sheet
Iron stoves, using wood as fuel. One
of the most important itenas of sup-
riill'hall ' 1g
3te:inEillsealed
u
e eaalesol3foet;! useputa
ups
fuel for an aloehol stove, which will
do the cooking while crossing the Bar-
ren Grounds, thus saving the necessity
of carrying wood.
OLIVE SCHREINER
AND CECIL RHODES.
Olive. Schreiner loved Cecil Rhodes;
now she hates hien She is now in Cpe
Town, working with pen and voice ex-
hausting hermit in bitter vitupera-
then against the despoiler of her hap -
pi nese,
. At length, from the bloody drama
that bating eriected in South Africa
emerges a, figure of romance; and
from tales of .eleughter oue turns to
tee sorrows of that stormy heart
1 which throbs thiesugb the "Story of an
'Aeritain Farm."
! All the. world has known of the hat-
red, but Dot of Lbe love out onwhieh
11 grew. In "Trooper Peter Hal -
km," Miss Sehreiner's second novel, Ce-
cil lebodee was held up by name td the
'obloquy of civilization. This genera-
tion has not witnessed a more savage
literary cruelfixion. And that was
king before the present war was talk-
ed of. The book was published aptly
;enough, just leehen the Napoleon of
South Afriea was trying to whitewash
himself before the Commission winch
investiga fed the ja,meson raid.
I Pe.opee sae, that Mere Schreiner was
a hitter partisiel. They called her
fanatic, angl,optiebe, champion of tbe
Boers.
They ded noe well her a 301e01
! mao-
mao, bemuse no une kin,* that save
; the members of her own family. The
story has only just came out—an ex-
halation from the seething ealdron of
humtaa passions which South Africa
presents to the world to -day. ,
Whet well prove the historical value
f the r
man and twoman of genet's. Cecil
Rhodes is a genius ot affairs, of states-
manship and finance. Olive Schreiner
is a genius of the pen.
Hie achievements are the moulding
de men and parties, the amassing of a
fortune, the development ot a country,
the Upbutikeing ere a nation. Hers are
the searching of human hearts, the
portrayal of bern.an passions, the ex-
pleiting of a wild, rebellious women's
phi losophy.
Cerel Itilintle.$ is all iron; Olive
&Airtime le all fire. But the irort did
not mete
11 Nees a singular intatuaLion, wor-
thy of beteg enshrinea by some great
10110101 of psychology. Love revels in
such oontrasts, leerheps it Netts the
eornmanding initiginution of Rhode,s, so
utterly unlike her awe, thab euptivat-
ed the authoress. In him she sem one
wholes lodester was tunbition, whom
will was adamant, whose dreams were
of empire. Of human sympathy, of
regard, for human lbXe and hentikees.,
isa Ilta.d. not- spark—and he was prone'
And she, Nebo was all sentiment, all
irlioas great, warm heaet,
wraught to the acme of aensitiveness
in the solitude of the veldt, bled LOT
every sorrow et another—elm adored
hint.
Ek oRMe to her country an alien ; she
war of the first generation a Afri-
kandtars. Cecil Rhodes was the eon of
01* Eoglesh clergyman, a delimits boy,
Who was eent to Cape Colony in the
hope that the climate would prolong
bit bile 10 MailhOofl. It WeS his gen-
tile alone that enabled blin in become
(he mom learn ng indielauel i1 y of a con-
tirtent,:as irteelleble that the, tem should
meet, for her family le o0118pioU0118 ttt
the public affeir of 110 colony, Her
tether. g Germen, wee a remarkable
*erecter, resembling ite einne respeole
the Hither of Omelette Jerome, with
Wheel Illerare 0400 ate fahd, el
eornparing 011Y0 Sahreillar. Ile wits
PM evangel/e1-4a emotional, extrava-
gust Wenderee, with doubtless a Mucks
of genius, which Wed to find expres-
Oka in a Way te command reepeotent
aeleatlen. That he had it corneae/W-
ing perSoosLity Is proved by the air-
eumeinnete ender which he Won Ms
wine,
Traeelling through elerinally, in tee
donble eleareeter of petddlen and exhort -
Or, he folieut shelter one night In the
home err: a farmer sent) had, a young
daughter. Next morning the peddler -
preacher prepoeed Lo bile host for the
girl's hand and --more alnuaing sti11—
1110 elle herself Witidi his advocate, Tbey
were worried three do
tys latex and
aturted Cor nouth Africa.
While lee erangeliat lived lest wife
end her Augmenting brood shared hie
nomad 1310. On hie deeth they settled
in Granametown, and. there the child-
ren received from their meth/30 a rudi•
mere ary education as extraordinary as
theft. antecedents, Finding thaL the
sieheets were ea void of Letin as she
was herself, she trodertook to teach her
children the language by herself,
etudying It with them In text books.
The remit was that when in after
ye -ars they am:sauntered educated.peo-
ple they had a good workleg know-
ledge of Lain, bue employed a system
af
pronouncention entirely originel,
OliVe Nee's.. not the only glIted mem-
ber of the Merely. William destined
to be Premier of Cape Colony during
the most. stormy peried of its bietory
—the present—showed ea,rly a talent
for public affairs, which earned -1or
him tlae thankless; distinction of becom-
mg the political bulwark between the
Britoil and the Beer. Theophilu-s, an -
°thee brother, inherited his father s
zeal'and eloquence, and batmen) a tem-
perance lecturer. He is assisted by
one of the triesnied sisters, Mrs. Stew-
art; while the other, Mrs. Lewes, as:tan-
agers a ham for incapables, and. ranks
high as a philanthropist.
But Olive was tbe genius of the fatra-
ily. Again like Chterlotte Brenta, ishe
began tile as a governess, and it' was
during this period that she wrote the
"Story of an African Farm." 4
GUARDING PRISONERS OF WAS.
The Slany 000 mays in Which They Are
Teemed.
In the barbarous "good old times" it
Nvas as often, as not the euretotn in
time of, war to get rid of prisoners as
soon as possible by adopting the most
drastic means. A firing party was
ordered out, and the unfortuntete
prisoners, after digging their own
graves, were disposed of in ihe simp-
lest of manners. And the same was
the cam with the misdemeanants. A
man oond,emnecl for cowardice or In-
subordination woe similarly treated.
Nowadays all that is changed. Of
course, it is still the prerogative of the
oomman,ding officer to have a prisoner
shot if the eireumstances seem 10 de-
mand sueh a course, but very seldom
is it that either captive enemies or
court-martialled. ruisdexneanants are
dimposed of by means of the final
Our own men, if they should behave
in an nnsoldierly fashion, are usually
sent to the ,rear. Cupeured foes are
deprived of their weapons, frequently
fastened together by means of hand-
cuffs, if such are available, and placed
under an Armed guard. With these
captives 11 is commonly the case for
the guard to be about onealenth in
nuinber of their prisoners. !Jut very
frequently, when misdemeanants, or.
cap n ividuals am the oppoeing
ranks, show themselves to be unruly,
less orthodox means of quieting them
are resorted to.
Not so long ago a number of eap-
tured Dervishes in the Egyptian num-
paign were reported to have been
hobbled to some of our horses in, order
to allow of a small guard only being
reserved to hold them.
Another somewhat similar ease ie
reported by a chronicler of the
Franeo-German War. He reraarks
that upwards of a more of
French fugitives were imprison-
ed by the Germans in an
old farmhouse not ear from Sedan, the
door of their prison beingguarded
only by a big regimental dog,
A FIERCE. MASTIFF,
who would undoubtedly have torn
to pieces any of the captors who was
daring to escape.
Ln the same campaign a couple of
lerench spies, taken 13y the Prussians,
were fastened to hooks in a crazy gar-
den wall, and supplied with the gratui-
tous information that their Struggles
would only be instrument' in pulling
the wale on to the and. ending their
respective ettrears of adventure,
lo the Russoneurkieh War a daring
Russianspy was -captured by a small
force of reconnoitring Turks. In
number the captors were so Inc that
they could ill spare a single man to
guard their prisoner while theyseout-
ed, and, since it was inconvenient to
carry their prisoner abotit with them,
they ear/pled a very simple, but some -
whet barbarous, course. Procuring a
and somethieg in the miLuge of
a naunner, they fastened the luckless
Russian to a tree by his ear. But
they had resekoned without their host,
for aubsemtently it was; discovered
that the spy, inetead of refraining
from self -torture, had wrenched him-
self free, leaving a portion of his ear
behind him.
An Indian mode ok guarding pie:ton-
ere of war is intareeting. The yap-
LiVeli are huddled into the centre of
a ring of green brushwood, which te.
thee ignited from severei points, w it 11
the r6sUll, that. 1 Isa prisoners arunur-
rounaeci for hotter by a cirele of fire'
that absolutely preveets t hid r osta pe,
but in all ,probability does not more
than severely Beare therm At one
time it, wee a rennzeon means; among
Herni-civilized nations to fasten prison-
ers of war to horses, eethide, their lege
being secured under the anituale In
such 5, way that thelr escepe was im-
passible. As the interim were gener-
ally spirited animate the experieneetr
were not ietrequently of a SUillOWhal
exciting nature.
,
iHAT
I
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N AT.
•TEIVIS OF NregesT ABOUT 'MEI
BUSY YANKEE.
Apighborly interest 10 tILe Polags—Mittors
of Mewed and Meth Gathered front kils
Dall.v Record,
Swelter Boar's fad is the oultivation
of flowere. When, not in 'ffashiegten
he spends several hours a daY in hie
garden.
• Bx-Senator Philetus Sawyer, of Win,
oinesinr has given to different towns
lu hie State five hospitals and three
publics armies,
Mayor Herrison, of Oblong), heat
never missed being present at a meet-
ing of the city council eines his elec-
tion to office. ,
Josiah Johnsoa Hawes, the oldest
photographer in tbe world, has just
celebrated his 92-nd birthday in Boo,
t011. He 10 still at hie work. °
Gov. Chandler, of Georgia'is an-
other of the public men who do most
of their own letter-writting. He writes
nearly fill his letters except official
ones, with his own liand.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, has in
his wife an effiesient lielper, She as -
slats him in the arrangement of his
notes for speeehes and attends herself
to the filling of his large collection, of
newspaper clippinge.
Seegeant-at-Arnas Ransdall of the
United States Senate, is a very busy
man, He moves around the Senate
wing of the Capitol seVaTal timer
each day, making a tour of the com-
mittee rooms, the galleries and the
press gallery.
M. Anagnoe, the prineipal of the
Perkins Institution for the Blind, In
Boston, will be one of the thrU
ee ni-
ted Stake representatives at the in-
ternational congress in the Interest
of the blind to be held in Paris dare
ing August.
Bret !eerie is said to be at work
on a new aeries of "condensed novened
The first series appeared in 1807 and
Nvere very successful. In this new one
it is supposed that he will parody mo-
dern novels that have had a greater
or less vogue.
James Oliver, who is probably the
riebest man in Indiana, laid the
foundation of his fortune by flaying
from bis salary of fifty cants a week
as a _farmer's 'chore boy" enough to
buy a house awl lot on the Instalment
pion and than selling lt at a profit.
Sir Walkr Besant, the leading spirit
of the new English Atlantke Union,
says its °heel purpose la to introduce
visiting Americaus, who would otbere
wise spend their time abroad in their
hotels, to the siesial and home life of
England.
C. 1. Hudson, a member of the Ne*
York Stock Exchange, was suspended
for thirty days by the Governing Com-
mittee for au assault upon a tele-
phone clerk, with whom he had some
discussion as to Um prim ofi an order
to sell Sugar certificates.
Secretary Lung has sent instruct, -
Gans by cable to Rear -Admiral Wat-
son, at Cavite, to send a war -ship to
Taku, China, at the mouth of the
Peiho Riven to look after American
missionary interests that are -threat-
ened.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet
banker, is trequently supposed to be
a large man leo= a look at his pie-
tuces, but in reality he is nut. It is
kha
his whiskers tt give him the ap-
pearance of great size in bis portraits
ky, and,
He is smell, thin,
Senator Liucesay, of Kentuc
Senator Allen, of Nebraeka, met be -
foie tbey beetinie colkaguee in the
Senate. They were very aline to each
other during 1.116 civil war. Lindsay
bought mulct 1011.0Se and Allen svaa
with A.1, emith. the ewe commands
came in eater/ion rawer Tupelo, Miss.,
and there was a lively scrimmage.
Dere. Roosevelt, the wife of the Gov..
ernur of the States of New York, or,
as the Governor himself mills her.
"Teddy's chum," is a quiet, unassum-
ing, modest, housewifely, little body,
who has absolutely no distinguiehing
characteristics from thoutrands of ,
game true, American wives and
mothers.
The engineer of the Lackawanna
railroad train, John le. Riordan
against \them charges of negligence
were brought alter an accident, in No-
vember laet, when hie train ran into
another standing at the elation in
Paterson, N. J„ was acquitted. The de-
fence shuwed that Riordan had done
everything he eould to avoid theaccie
dem, teed that the eaanagement waa
al fault in not having adequate !signals
the
um
e
s,
Jllue Gaynor, oe the supreme
Court, who was presiding in Brooklyn
°Vet the trial of the suin of Annie 11,
Andrews fur e110,000 damages for in-
juries received at the Valley Stream'
grade orossing accident in 1897, learn-
ed that Jurors John Kienek and W. S.
Wells had been talking to a witness.
The justice 'declared that it was a
most outrageous proeeeding, dismissed
the tveo jurors, and ordered a new
teial.
Tliomam Conroy, a Brooklyn !Mild,
sent to the Catholia Protectory
proves to be a membeete cre 0 family
ol children, 011 under fourteen, who
have annoyed Brooklyu residents by
begging, and even in some casOS by
petty thieving, Each of the children
has been arrested, repeatedly for
these offences, but has been dismissed
by the magistrates, who were unaware
that the youngeters were profeesion-
II 1 beg g '
• PERILS Or THE SEA,
Yea, need the lady vvho had been
shipwrecked, we su., bred terrible hard-
ships. 'We drifted for two Weeks in
tin open boat, and I lost my pocket
mirror the first day.
AN UNCONVENTIONAL CENTUBY.
The first eentery began with the
year 0110; lhe second century with the
year one hundred end 001, and (40 011.
Adfnitting thee why should tbe
1 wentiett, century, be bound by pesos -
dental