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trUhY 19, 1900
CHRIST THE WONDERFuL. dr :Tait
Rev. Dr. Talmage Tel of the
Magnetism of Jesus.
4114111 go euth ao iniquitous' trash. Ie
Wets, itt eenstatittions, on etehuage,
lia scientifitt leboretory, on earth as
lu heaven, Christ shall be called Won-
derful, Let 'het work of the world's
regeneration begin in your heart, ob
nearer! A Jesus tto knee a Jesus so
A. demo:holt from Washbageon ears: it was unsearchable. ite went gond' a je"3 " 1°thig—how "11
.--Rev. Telmege preached from the
followitag text LEW MUMS lll b0,
ottllod Wonderful."--Isaish 0.
The propbet lived Id •a dark time..
For some three thousand years the
'world bas been getting worse. King -
dome had arisen and perished. As the
captain of a tweet tia dist:roes sees re,
het coming morass the water, so th
Prot/hoe atald the stormy times in
which he lived, pat the telescope
prophecy to his eye, and saw, seven
hundred and fifty years ahead, on
jostle advancing to the reaoue.
It wa'n't to show that when Isaiah
called Chalet the Wonderful, he spoke
Wisele.
I think that you are all Interested
le the story of Christ. You feel that
he is the only one who can help you,
You have unbounded admiration for
the commander who helped his pas-
Ete'ngers hore while he himself per-
ished, but have you no admiration for
hira who resealed our souls, himself
laUIng back into the waters from.
whith he had saved us?
1 imagine Gimlet one day standing
in the streets% of Jeruaalem. A man
d'eoded from high lineage is .
und-
Mg beside him, and says, "My father
was a merchant prince; had a castle
on the beach at Galilee. Who was your
father ?" Christ answers,Et Joseph,
the ca pen ." man fro ens
Is standing there unrolling his parch-,
matt of grad,uation, and says to
Christ. " Where did you go to school?'
Christ answera, "I never graduated." 1
Alia I the idea of suoh ae unheralded
young men attempting to command
the attention of the world ! Yet no
sooner does he set his foot in thte
towns or MAIM of Judea than every-
thing is in commotion. The people go
out on a picnic), taking only food
enough for a day, yet are
SO FASCIINATED WITH CHRIST,
that, at the risk of starving, they fol-
low him out into the witderness. A
nobleman falls down flat before him ;
'and says " lily daughter is dead," A,!
beggar tries to rub the dimness from ;
hie eyes, and says, " Lord, that my
eyes me, be opened. A poor. .sick,
panting woman presses through the
creed. says, ' 'I must touch the bent
of he garment." Children, who love
their urether better than any one etee,
struggls to get into his arms, and to '
kiss his cheek, and to run their fin-
ger, 'enough his hair, and for all time
putting Jesus us in love with the lit-
tle ones, that there is hardly a nurs-
ery in Christendom, from which he,
does not take one, saying, "I meet
isave them ; I will fill beiven with,
those; for every cedar that I plant in
heaven I have fifty white lilies.
In the hour when 1 was a poor matt
in J udea they were not ashamed af
me, ond now that I have eome to a t
theme I do not despise them. Hold it
mit. back, eh weeping mother; lay it
on my warm heart- Of such is tbe
kingdom of heaven."
Jesus was wonderful in the oppo-
sites and seeming antagonisms of his
elature. You want thiegs logical and
consistent, and you aay, ' How mulct,
Christ be God and man et the same
time 1" John says Christ was the cre-
ator: "All theme were macle by him,
and without him was not anything
neide." Matthew says he was omni-
preeent: "Where two or three are
met together in my name, there am
11 in the midst of them." Christ de-
clares his own eternity; or am Alpha
and Omega.' How can he be a lion, un-
der his foot crushing kingdoms, yet
a lamb licking the hand that slays
him? At what point does the throne
and the manger touch? If Christ
climbing up from argument to uu
yuetp but eve rn
le
raent, and erona antithesis to anti-
is a beuatiful artoment when two
thesis, and from glory to glory, and ' persons w4° 11'""Mge4 each 01115:,
then sank down in exhaustion as heheart and hand, stand in cherish and
saw far abovhim other heights '
haye the benne of marriage proolaina-
e
divinity unsealed, and exclaimed, of
ed. Father and neither, brother.% and
otbao m all things be Engin baye Ibe ;sister's stand around the altar. The
!minister trt Jesus gives the mensal;
r<3.. 110 "
the ring is eel earth and mea
o Again: Christ was wonderful 111 bis
withees itt the organ wounds, and
teachings, The people had been need!
;amid tritely oongratulations they atart
f to formalities and technicalities;
out on the path of life together.
Christ upset all their notions as to
Oh that this might be your marriage
how h'
dayl Stand up, immortal soul. Thy
There was this peculiarity about his Beloved coons to
get, his betrothed.
preaching; the people knew what he
Joeus stretches forth his hand and
meant,
issays, "1 will love thee wills an ever -
were taken from the hen calling her floteeeee 15 mem. and I am HIV' 1
HIS ILLUSTRATIONS lasting love," and you respond, "My
eibiekens together; from salt, ere
'put yuur bleat lo his; henceforth be
candles, from fishing -tackle, from a io trouble
,hard creditor collaring a debtor. time cool your love. Side byt side on
How few people of this day would earth—side by side in heaven I Now
have allowed him entrancV Lie let the blossoms of heavenly gardens
would have been called un ignified
fill toe house with their redolence,
and familiar in 1214 style nf Prfliehillg' and all the organs of God peal forth
And yet the people went to heir him.
the wedding march of eternity.
Those old Jewish rabbis might have
Bark! "The vetch of my beloved 1
preached on the side of Olivet fifty
Bebrad, he cometh leaping upon the
years and never got an audience. The mounteies, skipping upon the hills."
philosophers sneered at his ministra-
tions, and said, "This will never do ?"
The lawyers eat:lettered, but the com-
mon people heard him gladly.
Christ, in bis preaching, was plain,
earnest, and Ivonderfully sympathetics
fr..0.-*#—.4.—•,.—*
Young Folks.
We cannot dragoon man into 'maven. GIRLS OF TO -DAY.
We rennet drive them in with lhe butt
What sweeter characters can be
end of a catechism. We waste our time
in trying to catch flies with acids in- found than in some of the girls of to -
stead of the sweet honeycomb of the daY1 The weary, worn mother is
Gospel. We try to make arab-apples brightened and cheered by the giris
of to -day. A merry smile, a little
do the work of poniegranates.
helping band, hew it lights the path
algaiti: Jesus was wonderful in hie
ahead I But the pleasure yielded by
sorrows. The San smote him, and. 1 he
every little thoughtful aot is not
cold/ c,hflled hem„ the rain pelted lam.
awakened by the mere help. Ala. No.
Shall I compare his sorrow to the
It's the willing, loving service which
see?' Nofoe that is sometimes huuh- mtikes our dam mothers say. "God
ed into a calm. Shall I compare it
bless you, darling." Sometimes it is
witth fhe isig-hte, No; for that some -
hard to feel glad to help mother, and
timee glerms witth Orion, or kindles
ease the book, or, may ap, miss a
with Aurora. If one thorn should be
pleasant drive, that she may be less
thrust tbrough your temple you - burdened. Dear girls, remember the
tumid faint. Prat here is a whole
inure mother has spent over you, the
crown made from the Ithamaus,no r
trials and troubles she has endured for
Spina Chiriati—sinoti• shirt) slinging your sake, and foleget your own
Spina Christi—small, sharp stinging happiness. Row much longer will
horns.
mother be with you? You would wake
THE AIO.B1MAKES, A CROSS. from your tirearaing, dear, if some
They Put down the long Peam, and bright morning you would come from v.
oe it they fasten a shorter beam. Got pleasure tear to find the dear eye.;
him 'to tan. Those hands, that have closed ferever, and those slim toil -
been doing kindnesses and wiping hardened hands folded on a breast
away tears—feel the hammer driving within which no angry passion ever
the spikes through them. Those feet allowed the beautiful lips to say im-
thil have been going about on mint- ;admit words to you. How wouli
stratioes of merey—inattered against you tell God you never saw her fading,
the cross. Then they, lift it up. Look! and bow give an excuse to an impartial
look! looki Who will help him now? judge? There, dear, I am not scolding
Coma, moo of Jerusalem—ye whose you, only remember these few words,
dead he brought to Ilfe; ye whose sick won't you, darling, and think of
the heeled; whit will help hun, to seize mother a little more. .
the weapons of the soldrs? :".;one; ° HEARTSEASE.
n help! Having carried suoh across --
far US, shell we refuse to take our! •
hoes eor him? 211 BEAUTIFUL.
Thackeray says the world is a look -
Again: CA:trist was wonderful in ing-glass that reflects sun looks,
his victoriee. whether they are sweet or sour, It
First—over the forces of nature, rests with our young readers, as well
The see ts a crystal sepelehre. Theas with those of mature growth,
inland fakes are fully as terrible in whether this truth -telling mirror
their wrath. Recent travellers te I shows them plain or beautiful faces.
us that Galilee, whoa aroused in a Happiness makes beauty. Even the
storm is overwbelminge end yet that
see crounbed in his presenoe and
licked his 'feet. Lie knew all the
waves anal wind. When he beckon-
ed, they came. When he frowned,
they fled. The beet ei his foot mode
au indentetion on 111-, eolidilied water.
Behold les vettory ovo.s i he gravel
Tbe hinges if the femily tuft beteme
very nasty heciume They inc'never
opened except to [eke enother tn.
Thera, is u kuob an the oeteide ot the
door of the sepulchre, but none on
girl who thinks she is plain, if she will
can so change her expression that the
world-rairror would reflect a beauti
fut face.
One morning, eaye an exchange, a
girl whose face was under a cloud of
unhappiness, from constantly laboring
under the impression that she wit
plain, walked out into the sunshine of
the park. In a moment the gloom
lifted, for the brightness of the morn-
ing had made her thoughts unusually
pleasant. "What a pretty, happy
'he inside. Hera „meat, lee et,,,e girl that is we just limeade' she heard
ueror of pooh. lie enters that one of two ladles say to the. other.
etre°, end says, Daugeaer of Jarius "Why, they mean nee I" she exclaimed
it up;" end she see up,' in pleased surprise. "No one ever
o Lezerae, "Come forth ;" and he called me prate before. It must he
me forth. To the wi,dow's son he because I am uniting." Again, as
aid, 'Get up from that bier!" and he she entered 11 street car, she heard;
oes hone:, with his mother. eaten , "Do you see that pretty -looking girl?"
esus at:tithed up the kers at death,!`vWeaeoi
lgtdne:laLore,i''ooskhehmapupsy:ed1,1,I tahmizae
isl
and hung them to his girdle, end cried „,'ay
until all the graveyards of the earth what amines of it I I have thought
heard hioi, "0 Death! I will be iby myself homely all my lite, and here
plague! 0 Gravel 1 win be thy des- , twice in one day I've been milled
truetion!" ' pretty." From that day she did try to
But Christ's victories have only just look happy, and now she is regularly
be
gun. Thio world is his, end he must considered as 000 of lhe leading
have it. There never will be n p8r-; beauties of her modal eirole,
menent peace in this land until Christ This little story contains a lesson
rules it. This land was discovered for for our boys as well as our girls, and
Christ, and until our cities ahaIl be Ieht?onfa h
n oibelywielaluatliZatuao: atrhet:
evangelized, end north, south, east, rlecItt
and waist shall acknowledge Christ worleamirror. itis the duty of every
an , woman to drew neatly and look as
IWell, as poseible,, in her home as
• 11,1140 AND REDEEMER,
!well as elsewhere.
we cannot Wave permanent prosperity.
When getter/it/mete not only tbeare-
tioally, but praatioally, acknowledge
the Saviour of the world, there will
broody but persiatent ben had been
for many days sitting upon Agate china
eggs, Before long aeunde of a strug-
gle were belted, and the cat left her
little °nee with e good deal of baste.
On inveetigating, the stableman
found to hie astonishment that the
hen bed driven out the oat and
taken her plane as foster mothee to
the kittens; nor woulij she permit the
oat to *return, Sho cooed to the kit-
tens and did her beet to amuse them;
when they beouxue restless she exer-
eleed meternal authority In keeping
them well within bounds, Sometimes,
while attending to one side of her
nest, a kitten would atray from the
°them But the foster mother was not
to be evaded. She would at once
leave her place and hearth 011 she
found the truant, and persuaded it by
pushing and other means to return to
the nest.
Of course it was necessary that the
oat should be allowed to approach her
offspring from time to time in order
to feed them, The hen' had then to be
forcibly removed and the door barred
against her. No sooner was it open-
ed than the ben would drive the oat
out and resume her place as head of
the household. At nighi she spread
her wings over the little animals just
as though they were ohickens, and
certainly they seemed to like the oozy
war/nth of their feathered quilt.
SOMETECiNG ABOUT GAMES.
Our boys, who are just now so hip-
py int their games- of baseball, foot
ball, gaff, tennis and erieltet, etc., may
be glad to read something of how the
boys and: men on long ago amused
themselves.
The boys of Greens were fond of all
athletio sports and took part in' the
most splendid of all the Greek games
—the Olympic ganaes—whieh were
oelebrated every five years, in honor
of Zeus, the father, of the, Gods.
Women were forbidden to be pre
sent at these games, which .usually
lasted five days,
All who took part in these games
were obliged to 'undergo preparatory
training for ten months at the gym-
nasium before, they could parttomate
in the games.
The first day .tves spent in offer-
ing sacrifices. The second was set
apart for the boys who competed with
each other fin foot racing, wrestling
boxing and horse mating. T,he third
and principal day was devoted to the
contests of men in foot -racing, wrestl-
ing and raol,ng in heavy armor.
On the fourth day there wast leap-
ing, running, throwing and wrestl-
ing ancl chariot and horse racing.
The fifth day was set apart forpre•
cessions, saceifices, and banquets to
the lectors, who were always crowned
with a garland of Wild olive, cut from
a sacred tree.
After the games, the victors were
great throes, were feted upon their
return home, had statues erected to
them and were exempt from taxes.
LEARN TO COOK, GIRLS.
Good housekeeping has far more to
do with domestic happiness than
young lovers dream of. We believe
that these times need women whose
most beautiful work will be done in-
side their own doors. Without good
housekeeping the romance will aeon go
out of marriage. Of course, the men
who prizes woman chiefly because she
"Iookoth well to the ways of her house-
hold" does not deserve to have a good
Wife. He should merely employ a
housekeeper and pay her good Wages.
, But there are sooial, moral and s.piri-
teal uses proceeding from the wise
- regulation of the household which
bestow a dignity on what would other-
wise be trifling. No matter what a
girl's accomplishment may be, her
eduoation is incomplete if she bas no
a knowledge of bakeology, boilogy,
roaetoro ey, atitchology, and mend.
ology. Even If a girl sbould never be
required to do the -work herself she
ought to know whether it is done in
a proper manner.
wee Clod, why flee into Egypt? 'Why 1
nut stand his ground'? Why, instead q
right hand and crush his assaseinsl r
ea
a
g
right hand and crush his assaselna?
WHY STAND AND 1311 SPIT UPON?
Why sleep on the mountain, when lis
owned the palaces of eternity? Why
ouch fish for his breakfast o.n the
beads in the chill morning, when tel
the pomegranates aro his, and all the
vineyard's are his, and all the cattle
his, and all the partridges bit? Why
walk when weary, and hie feet stone -
bruised, when he might have taken
the splendours of the sunset for
his equipage, and moved with horses
and chariots of fire? Why beg e
drink from the wayside, When out of
the crystal °halloos of eternity he
he poured the Euphrates, the Masts-
eipPl, and the Amason, and dipping his
hand in the fountains of heaven, and
shaking that heed over the world,
from the tips of his fingers dripped!
the great lakes and the weans? Why
let the Roman regiment put hlra to
death, when he might have ridden
down the sky followed by all the
cavalry of heavetn, mounted on white
berme of eternal vietery
You cannot understand. Who can?
Yon try Lo confound me. I ate Con-
founded Were you speak. Patti said
HEN WANTED THIllte.
A eat and five kittens were found
be peace everywhere. In that day the one morning cornforta,hly ensconced in
sea will have more shies than now, the hayloft of A MAWS at Blacken,
but there will not be one "tuanmeo !burst, They were not wattled there,
w,ar." The foundrlee of the weed 'and so ide etbable man moved thri
will jar with mightier industries, hut 'fanailY to a orib le a stall, where a
A LEFT-HANDED PARTY.
A hostess often finds difficulty in
entertaining her young friends. Here
is a novel way to spend ' an evening
which will afford amusement to old
and young.
In sending out invitations request •
each guest to come with his right
hand seourely bound up. Let no ono
bo excepted.,
When tbe.ho,stess greets them she
extends her left hand and bogs them
to write their names in a blankbook
on her desk. Tho page will soon have
the appearance of a three-year-old's
first attempt to write.
Some soloist may play her own loft -
handed accompaniments, and au elo-
cutionist recite, making all her ges-
tures with the left hund.
The menu must include something
that will demand the use of a spoon
to add to the awkwatdruele of the !off-
hand community.
HEARING TINDER SNOW.
People buried tn an avalanche hear
distinctly every word uttered by those
who are seeking them, while the bit:
id ones' moot strenuous shoutfall
to penetrate (69012 a few feet of &tow,
HOUMIOLD,
A mums SMILE.
baby's etulle ie sweeter than A COW.
sr ;
beby's smile is brigliter than the
sun,
Richer than wealth, and mightier than
eowee,
Deeper than tears, yet radiant with
fun.
A baby's smile takes oaptive ev'ry will;
A halves smile—a happy moment's
birth—
Is all unknowing human good or ill—
'Tis heaven revealed ane Matant itt
the earth,
USES FOR, HONEY.
For human consumption no artege
can be friend more delicious, than
honey, and none more beneficial to
heatt b.
There are three classes of honey --
honey in the comb, honey extracited
from the comb, and strained honey.
Honey made by the bees In small see -
tweet boxes eompriaes the first
elan.
Haney extracted from the oomb
is the pure liquid, without the comb,
and is sold cheaper than tn the comb
bemuse; the comb is 'of more value
then the laaney. It takes 20 pounds
of honey to make one pound of comb,
'Strained 'honey to (lie result of
mashing up combs and .eatolitng
that will pass through a cloth. Thus
it is inferior to pure extracted hon-
ey. The mashing of the comb and
straining give it a cloudy appearance
and destroy the flavor.
The following the efeW of the many
good things that may be made with
honey as an ingredient:
Honey Fruit-Calre.--Four eggs, five
cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of honey,
one cupful of butter, one cupful of
sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one
pound of .ralsins, one pound of our -
rants, hell a pound of citron; one tea-
spoonful each of Moshe, cannel:non
and nutmeg. Bake in a slow oven,
This cake will keep a long time.
Honey, Cookies.—One quart of honey
mixed with malt a emend of white
sugar. half apound of butter and the
juice of two lemons. Stir this mix-
ture very hard, then mix in gradual-
ly flour enough to make a stiff paste
Cut into round cakes and bake in
buttered pans.
Honey Ginger -Snaps. --,One pint of
honey, three-quarters of a pound of
butter, two teaspoonfuls of ginger.
Boil together foe a few minutesand
when nearly cold slit in flour until
it. is stiff enough to roll. Cut in smell
cakes and bake quiekly.
Honey Sponge-Cake—One oupful of
honey, one cupful of flour, five eggs.
Beat the yelks and honey together;
beat the whites to a froth; mix all to-
gether, stirring es little as possible;
flavor with lemon and bake quickly.
Honey Tea-Cake—One cupful of
honey, Miff a Cupful of sour cream,
two eggs, halt a cupful butter, two
eu‘pfuts of flour, scant halt teaspoon-
ful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream
of tartar. Flavor to taste,
Haney Popcorn Halls.—One ignt of
honey. Put in a frying -pan and boil
until very thick, then stir in freshly.
parched coon, and mold into bat's'
nearly cold. -
4 atyliels Eton sub.—This natty suit
its represented in tan whipcord. The
style of both jacket and skirt is suit-
able for developing in "cloth, cbeviot,
poplin, serge, biteege, pique, canvas or
silk, Size 313, in jacket, requires 3
yards of 21 inch, or 11-2 yards of 42
inch materiel. Size 24 in skirt requires
4 1-2 yards of 42 Wall material,
CANNING FRUtle
cafe and reliable Way et (ten-
tacle soft fruits is by steaming them
in ii lerge kitchen steamer; but if such
a eteamer Is not evailable, WO should
aditiale hot1i,g them in a nommen
wash-beller. Press the fruit eon-
paoldy into the mins, plana the covers
on, omitting tine rings and rebbere,
and Ininterse them in Water up VVO''
thirde of the way to tee lop of the
Pane, Place a boerd, or a 00111110 of
brown towels, in the bottom of the
boiler, set over a brisk fire ;Ind boll
an hour alter it begine te boil. In
the meantime have a syrop. made by
boiling the require( amount of suer
Per awn fn bolliag water, allowing Per-
haps nearly a cupful of water to 050
or more of sugar, depending somewhat
upon the fruit one is canning. Re-
naave a can at Si Ulna and fill to over-
flowing with the preetered (syrup; put
an the rubber, then the cover and
ring, screw down ttghtly, and the
work is done never to be repeated,
ae it is impossible for fermentation
to tate place if the cans are perfeet
and Chose directions are olosely fol -
!mile&
To add a handful of sneezes to each
otrn of currants when canning them,
adds greatly to their flavor.
Raspberry Shrub,—Take two quarts
of raspberries and add to them one
pint of eider vinegar; !art them re-
melt in the vinegar 24 hours, using
an earthen vessel, after whioh mash
and strain. For each pint of jume add
one pound of sugar; boil twenty Min-
utes, akira, and bottle when cold.
Very useful in many kinels of mkt:less.
To Pickle Peachee—For' seven
pounds of fruit take three and a half
pomade of sugar and one pint of good
vinegar; .add half an canoe each of
cloves and cinnamon tied up in a
cloth, and when boiing hot, add a
few of the peaches at a time until they
COM be ensile maimed with a fork; re-
move there as fast es cooked, being
careful that they do not overcook;
place them in a jar, boil down the
syrup until it will juet cover the
peaches, then cover secerely, and
they will keep without trouble, and
are simply delicious.
THE CITY OF PEKIN.
at la a Very Straztie11410
:0:pital for a Great
Tee history ef Pekin Is to be, read
in the walls winch surround it in
ruin or preservution, and if one
traces [hem within and, without the
city they wilI show where Lay the
famous "Ranking" of the Khttan
Tartars ba 980;„ howl the famous
"Golde.n Horde" of Kin Tartars laid
out their capital et Chung Tu itt 1151;
what. Ghengiz Keen hnd his Mongols
thought a great city elrauld be in
1215; JIMW, the immortal Keblai Khan
centstruoted Illeanbalik, "the 'oity of
thee` Khan," a century later—Polo
calls 11 Cambillum and much, more in-
terestiag botchy down to the advent
of the present ellanchtue In 1614. And
it, se the wails, in excellent. preserva-
tion, that mark the division Yet the
Pekin oif to-day—first the so-oallod
"Chinese," or Outer Oity, more pro-
perly the Southern City; adjoining it
is the Inner tor "Tarter City,' or
Manchu properly Northern; inside this
the "Imperial Cety" and inside this
"'again, the "Forbidden City," the
actual imperial residence ilselt. The
ethnological distinctions ot Chinese
end Tartar are practically effaced; the
only; haunt:ilea for tee flying vieitor
is that the shops are in the Chinese
City, wattle moat of iha temples,
public buildings, and "sighta," to-
gether with all the foreign residen-
ces,. are to the Tartar City, and, that
the wall of the latter ie much 'the
larger and more massive strueture.
TERRE ARE TWO GREAT STREETS
which intersect at ¢ral point,
and from all parts of these other
streets, lanes and alleys ran in
straight lines. Every corner in .Ptik.
in seeina to be a right ahgte; flue
are no winding thoeoughfares. The
houses are all very low, with flat
roofs, and it is hard to see e single
first-class Chinese dwelling -house in
the whole oily. Bol 0. is the streets
ul Pekin that strike the observer
first, and fade, last from his reooLtee-
'eon. Whether wide or iiarron, dark
alley or mains artery, they are en-
tirely unpaved—the native alluvial
soil and the native sewage from every
Pekinese pathway. From thts state
of things spring several curious eon-
sequeemes, 'ilbe route are so uneven
the holes in thezn numerous and
deep, the ridge? so high and steep,
that no vehicle ,with springs can
navigate null a mile. The only cote
voyance, therefore, is the famous
springlees Pekin out, drawn by a
mule. After it good shower of rata in
Pekin, one cannot sal toot out of
doors; the mud is often three feet
deep, and the centra of the street
sometimes a couple feet• higher than
the sides. Hut, on the other hand,
if no rain comes, there LS the dust,
and a Pekin dust atom), ones encoun-
tered, is a dreadtul memory' forever
Alter a drought. the dust is ankle-
deep, every night at sunset 51 1.4 ,wit -
Loved With. the liquid sewage of the
city, end so. it 'has oomo them oompoze
ed of dried, pulverized earth and
drroiecloorptts
utoiver.ilnudlt
fi%holtenn airetit Aorni
qua
vl
coenee one is blinded and choked by
ite it penetrates once teething to the
skin, windows and doors and mutates
sal:nada teiogorlsiledesa03,0111 80 o1en5 lfnils wv1611;
into bogies, So whether the
barometer indicates "rain' or
011.0 Ito equally badly off.
TELEPHOTOORAPHY 111 WARPARE.
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worn—esnes Where et Walt He Meru'.
Wireless telegraphy, the hallograPti
and the balloon find 000 more im-
portant military applieetion in reoon-
noiseanise work, With thole aide and
acoeseoriea it would appear that there
is to -day very little mentee for •
leader of troops not knowing the posi-
tion of the enemy, or the configure,
tion of the ground on a PresPecane
battlefield, at has beep the ease so
often in South Africa. ' Scienoe and
invention together, however, have
added still another aid, one that
Promises to be of immense venue
namely, the' telephone lens.
Telephotography is the art of tak-
ing, by a special and variable long
focus telescopic lens, optioally ad -
jested to the lens of a good photo-
graphic) camera, photographs of ob-
jects a long distance off as if the
operator were comparatively close Lii
them. • Consequently, an object five
or ten ranee away, which, by ordinary
photography would cover on the pho-
tograph a apace an inch square, oan
be made to cover, by telephotography,
a space eixteen, thirty-two or sixty-
four inches square, depending on the
magnifying power of the lens and the
size of the camera used. The advant-
age of this is tipparent, for a telephoe
tograph of
AN ENEMY'S POSITION
gives a commanding °Meer a bird's
eye view of the ground, of the enemy's'
forces and their positions, of MS horn-
ohes and gun emplacements, all me-
ourately drawn to scale and on a
sheet of tt, size convenient for study
and reference. The range of such a
lens is practically unlimited, and use-
ful photographs are readily obtained
at distances beyond gun range, more-
over, balloons can be utilized fax ob-
taining views from above the au -
face of the earth.
The telephoto -lens was invented
about ten years ago, and placed on
the market by Dallmeyer in England,
Dtzbaseq in France atid Meithe in Ger-
many. Experiments with light in-
struments were made by the Intelli-
gence Department in England ae
early as 189:3, but the 4/natio omit -
tions andthe fact that the telephoto
camera was then in its infancy, and
consequently very defective, mused It
to be condemned b5;. the War Office at
the tirae. Experiments were con-
tinued, however, and improvements
gradually increased its praotioal use,
In the Chino -Japanese war of 1894 it
was used for the first time in actual
we.refare, and one of the Japanese of -
Mors obtained some excellent tele-
photographs of the naval battle off
the Yalu River. One of these, of the
large Chinese man-of-war Tie -yen,
taken at a distance of over two miles,
presents a fine view of the effaces of
the projectiles.
Good telephotographere have beeu
obtained at a distance or
OVER FORTY MILES,
and those taken beyond artillery
range, ten miles, are on a suffieient-
ly targe seals to be of praotioal use.
The uses to vehicle the valuable ad-
junot could be put are various. The
navy, for example, Gould use it to
obtain photographs of foreign mast
defences from beyond the three-mile
limit. The land array, by taking e
series of photographs of the enemy's
line at different 1.1.IneS, during an at-
tack of a siego, would find this a val-
uable means, not only for locating his
poen:ion, but also of discovering
fresb entrenchments that may have
been tbrown up during the night.
The British War Offioe Is said to
have sent but one small telephoto
camera to South Africa, and this 0120
IS attached to a bicyole. Of course,
this instrument can give no useful
results, Large cameras and power -
rut lenses should be used, either on
commanding pante or in balloons.
Had such a series et photographs been
ta,ken, on the Tugela or on the Mul-
der River, of all the Boer positions,
and copies distributed to the com-
manders, the coefusion of orders, mis-
direction of advance, misunderstand-
ing of the topography and position of
trenches, so .00naaton in this cam-
paign, would have been avoided, at
least to a great extent.
The subject is of such Depoitenoo
that it would seem to recommend it-
self for study by the army, and the
Lntereist in the subject 15 inormsed
by the foot that molt photographe
would furnish invaluable data tor
history and military setenee.
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DRUNKARDS IN DENMARK.
When the police in Denmark find a
men helplessly drunk in the streets
they drive the patient in a eel) to the
station, where his sobers off; then they
take him home. Tbe eabinan makes
his therm the pollee dootor =ken
bis, the agents make their claim for
special duty, and ibis bill is presented
to the landlord of the eatabilelintent
wh'et'e the drunkard took ihe
glees that did the business. No won.
der that certain landlords pretest,
saying that proofs are insuffietent,
and that some alleged Victims sham
intoxication to get into trouble laud -
lords against whom they have
/mite.
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