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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-3-14, Page 6STAMS BY HIS PEOPLE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Says Clod Always ttX fll� Uis Promise. A despatch front Washington says; s—Rov. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text:.—"There shah not any man bo able to strand before thea all tam days of thy life,"—Joshua I. 0. Mouse waa dead. A beautiful tradi- tion says. that God kissed bim, and in that act drew forth the soul of tb0 .dying lawgiver. He has been buried, oaily. one .person at ails funeral; the tame() one who kissed +him. But God never removes a man until he has boom one ready to take his place. God aces not go around seeking among a irreat. variety of candidates some one to take a vacant position; be just makes a man to fit that particular place. Moses had passed off the atage.7oshua, the hero of the text comas out to take his plana, and puts pais foot so solidly on the platform of history that all ages hear the echo of his tread. He was a magnificent fighter, and he always fought on the. right side. He never fought for per- sonal aggraudizement, and never fought unless the Lord told him to do eo. His first undertaking was to cross the. river Jordan in a spring freshet. At certain (masons in the year, and at certain points, that river could be easily forded, and the water would only come to the knee or to the gir- dle ; but at thin season of whioh I am Speaking, the snow of Mount Leban- on had melted, and they were pouring down into the valley, and the valley had become one raging flood. The Canaanites on the other side felt per- fectly secure. They looked across the river and saw the Israelites', and they said: "Aha l you can't get at us—we are safe anyhow until this spring freshet falls" But one day Joshua order's out his troops and tells them to fall into line. • "FORWARD MARCH!" cries Joshua to hia troops. They pass on toward the river, and it seems as if the light -armed troops and the Spearman and the archers and all their leaders must be swept down in the fearful flood. They reach the bank and they pull themselves up its steep thirty or forty feet in height—they pull themselves up the bank by the oleanders and the tamarisks and the willows until they reach the top. No sooner have they climbed up this high bank than with dash and roar and terrific rush the waters of the Jordan break loose from their strange an- chorage. Why din not those waters stay parted until Joshua and his troops could find out whether they could cope with their enemies or not? I hear one of the unbelieving Israel- ites say: "Lord, why didst thou not keep those billows% parted so that if we wanted to retreat we could go back dry ahod, just as when we advanced ? 1Wta are engaged an a very risky ex- periment. How if these Canaanites eat us all up?" Ah I my hearer, God never makes any provision for the Christian's re- treat. ole clears the path to Canaan, 1f we go ahead; if we go back, we die. It is dry shod on a path of broken obeli and pebbles in one direction. It is water forty feet deep in the rear. The same gate -keeper that swung back the crystal and amethystine door of Jordan to let you pass, hatb. bolted and barred the crystal and am- ethystine of the Jordan to keep yon from going back. I declare it to -day; :Victory ahead. Darkness, hood, ruin and death behind But we cannot stop here. It is no place for Joshua's troops to stay, What la that in the distance? At the end of a grove of palms eight miles long; is the chief city. THAT IS JERICHO the great metropolis, Take it Joshua must. "Take it Josbua can't," say tha unbelievers. This campaign is planned by the Lord Almighty, There are to be no swords, no shields, no battering rams. There Js to be only one weapon, and that is to he ram's horn. Now the command is, that seven of the priests should take these rude musical instruments, and for six days they should go around the ,walls of Jericho once a day, and then as the seventh day, they should go around seven times blowing this curi- ous, rustio, musical instrument, and .Lhe peroration of the whole servo 18 to be a great shout under which that ,wall from baso to capstone is to tumble, Around the walls of ,Terieho the priests go once, and a failatre. Nei so much' as a piece of mortar or plaster drops from the wall; not so mach as a crevice opens, not So mueb as, a .rock gots loose. Around the city the second day, and a failure; the third day and a failure; the fourth day, and a failure; around the fifth day,and a faiIiure; around the sixth day, and a failure. Joshua's stook was down. Butt the seventh day came—the alimaotorio day. At last, t11 hour i (weaved. The3 a oat 11a a od priests ,wild tame mule musical li.Otrunaents go all around Use 01ty of Jericho 01200 and a failure, Around the city twice, three times, four Limes, and a failure. Arouod the oily five times, six times, Seven times, and a failure. There is only one more thing to bo done, and that is to give a great shout. Joshua rise3 up to his full stature and he gives the command. Ho feels lite right moment has come, and he says: "Shout for the Lord bath .given'you' the city," and the command is heard, and the people all together cry; "Down, Jericho! down, Jericho"! And that long line of solid masonry be- gins to quiver, and then crash go the walls, the temples, the palaces, until the earth quakes and the Heavens aro blackened with the dust, and the shriek of the crushed city and the huzza of the victorious Israelites com- mingle. People oross the ocean to see a ruin. Yon need not go far. Stand a min- ute and look at the ruins of this city Jericho. There is one house that did not fall. I wonder that one house stood while all the rest of the pity fell. BABAS LIVED THERE. She had been noted for her crimes. Yet she was saved. Because she had been a great. sinner? No, because she had repented, and to prove to all the ages that there is mercy for the chief of sinners. All the other houses went down but Rahah's house; that stood. She repented. She trusted in God. She was saved. Mercy for the chief of sinners. This is no place to atop, Joshua cries; `Forward, march!" There is the city of Ai to be taken. They got up in front of the city when the men of Al came out and gave one yell, and away ran the Israelites like reindeer. I sea Joshua coming out that day of his encampment, and he looks up and sees the people running, and he puts his hand to his forehead, and he says; "Why, I really believe those are our men. They are running in retreat" And soon the retreating army come up. They say: "0, General, we are all cut to pieces. Those( men of Ai are awful people. We are all cut to pieces." Joshua falls down on his face in chagrin. But how did God arouse Joshua? Did he address him in some complimentary apostrophe? No, he says: "Get thee up. Why Best thou thus on thy face?" Joshua arose, I suppose looking mortified; but his old courage came back again, He marahals all the Israelites, and he says: "We will got up en masse, and we will take the city of Ai." He takes most of his army and he bides it in the night, behind a ledge of rocks, In the morning he marches up a small battalion' of troops in front of the city as by stratagem. The men of Ai say: "Ah I we will conquer these men very soon," and the people of Ai pursued this little battalion, and the Israelites, as though they were frightened, fall back into the strata- gem. No sooner are all the people of the city started in pursuit of that battalion, that Joshua stands on a rock, and I see his hair flying in the wind as he stretches out his spear toward the doomed city, and all the armed men behind the rocks rush for Lhe city and they capture it and put it to the torch, and no sooner is it on fire than those Israelites in the city start down, pur- suing the men of Ai, and the Israelites coming out of the city on one side, and the battalion that had fallen hack suddenly, coming up from the other side, between those two waves of Israelitish; courage, THE VICTORY WAS GAINED. Joshua's troops cannot stop yet. "Forward, march I" says Joshua, for there is the city of Gibson; it has put itself under the wings of Joshua's protec- tion, and Joshua must defend it, and the people send wordfrom this city to Joshua: "Come right away; there are five kings going to destroy us. Come right away." Joshua makes a tbree days' morel) In one night. The eonflict opens with great slaughter, The Canaanites look up and they gay; "Ah 1 it is Joshua, it is Joshua who conquered the spring freshet, and the stone wall, and who took the city of Ai, There's no use ; he's a terri- ble man; there's no use ;" and they sounded a retreat. "011." says Joshua, "this is a victory I But it is getting towards sundown and those miserable Canaanites are going to get away from me. and they will besiege les, and -Perhaps attempt to destroy us, 011 for a day twice as long as any we have ever seen in this clim- ate." What is the maLter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apnpleolic fit? No, he is in prayer. Joshua rises, hia face radiant with prayer, and he looks, at the descend- ing sun over the bills of Gibson, and he looks at 't a h fa Int f arose nt a the C moon tied in he' t name of the Lord, who spake the world into beim', he lifte ono hand and 5478: "Sun, stand aloe still over v r Giboant aAd pointing the other hand to the Moen, bo says; *And thou' moue stand Still over the valley of Ajalon." And for Involve boars the planetary spawn baited. It le not yet quite sundown in xoebun's day,' and wo will have. Lima for faro royal funerals, Where are these five kings' that Joshua took 4i14 whose armies no destroyed? They aro there fan that cavo -the cavo of Alakkedah, hiding. Joshua has roll- ed a stone against it and they cem- ent gel out. Ilut beeere night, be- fore this very sun which 1 am%peak- ing about goes down, these fivo kings aro brought out, and according to the ancient custom, the major generals of Joshua now coma up, zus4 they put their foot on the neck of THE TERRIBLE OLD KINGS, and. they are beheaded, and their bodies are put bank Into the same cava and the same stone la rolled .against it again, Now, it is time for Joshua to go home. He is an old man. Ile is a hundred ' and ten. Now give Jos- hua, the oldest warrior of the ages, a chance to rest. No ! The greatest battle of all his lifetime opens, He comes out now against the greatest king on earth, a king who has more subjeots than all the present popu- lation of Lhe earth, It is the king of Terrors, the conqueror of thous- ands of years. Now, Joshua, you have your match, No! For i3 this is Joshua's greatest battle it is Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers his friends around him and he gives his valedictory. He is a hundred and ten years old. Touch him vary gently. Stretch out those old feet that once walked the dry path of the parted Jordan. Close those lip which blew the blast that dropped the walls of Jericho. Fold. that arm that stretched out the spear, against the doomed city of Ai. fold it across the heart that exult- ed when the five kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished granite fit to be the headstone and the Taotstone of this groateet of warriors ? 1 Oh, I bethink myself now. I imagine at his head it shall be the sun that stood still above Gib - eon, and at the foot it shall be the moon that stood still over the valley of Ajalon. LORD ROBERTS' PATENT. Text or the Document Which Conferred a Peerage Olt the Marshal. The following is the full text of Lord Roberts' latest patent of nobil- ity: The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. granting the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the said United Kingdom unto: Frederick Sleigh Baron Roberts of Kandahar, I{,G„ K.P., G.C.B„ G,C.S.I,; G.C,I.E., V.C., Field Marshall and Com- mander-ba-Chief ommander-tn-Chief of His Majesty's Forces, lately Field Marshall Com- manding -in -Chief, the forces Ln South Africa, by the names, styles and ti- tles of Viscount St. Pierre and Earl Roberts of Kandahar In Afghanistan, and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony, and of the City of Waterford; with remainder to the !heirs male of his body lawfully begotten: And in default of male issue with remainder to his elder daughter, the Honorable Aileen Mary Roberts, spin- ster, to bold the names, styles and titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and Countess Roberts of Kandahar be Af- gbsnistan, and Pretoria in the Trans- vaal colony, and of the City of Wa- terford; and after cher decease to the heirs male of her body, lawfully be- gotten by the names, styles and tt- tlesi of Viscount St. Pierre and Earl Roberts of Kandahar in Afghanistan and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony, and the City of Waterford: With the like remainder in default of such issue of the said Aileen Mary Roberts to the honorable Ada Ed- wina Stewarta Roberts, and the heirs male of her body lawfully begotten. With the like remainder in default of each issue to every other younger daughter lawfully begotten of the said Baron Roberta, successively in or- der of eeniortty of ago and priority of birth, and to the heirs male 01 their. bodies lawfully begotten. A ' IN THre YEAR 2000. Here, said the husband, of the New Woman, entering a tailor tsbop and laying a bundle on the counter, you will nave to alter those trousers. I can't wear them at all as they aro. Really, replied the tailor, as he opened the bundle, you trust excuse me, my dear sir, these ore your rite's. i FRIENDLY ENCOURAGEMENT. Simmons—Since thinking it over I have concluded that perhaps you aro a second Shakespeare, Ttnatnans-0h, thank you I Er—But Why? 8 a hakes ea e for s S r o The ac p does not n Pan, Tglifffir TALKS OF THE WAR HE CRITICIZES THE CONDUCT Or THE cOMMANDINn o,TFIPBRS, __ filen Manta 1'eh,g keit Into avails 'arag$ . Onteee'e 1'1108,1 the :t1t—AUtlaa I00wo 411 alma 1t, '*00. Tommy Atkins le a silent fellow. IIo Heins, he marches, and he bears 411 the 1;ardsbips of a long. campaign (Incl says nothing about it. Even in his private letters borne he seldom gimes'exarossian 'to more than an or- oasional'grruurbleat the Privations be is Compelled to endure, Itis opinion, however, upon the actual conduct of the war, apart trom strategy, 10 more valuable than thet of any other man, for it is the nien.in tilt ranks who feel the pinch. They pay for blun- ders and mismanagement in pri- vations and bardsliips. 88,feed' short, it is Tommy who goes .without; 1:f the transport breaks down, it is Tommy who sleeps In the feud,- in the pouring rain, without any shel- ter to ,,rotect him; 11 there is a hitch in sending up new elmtlling, it is. Tommy who goes In rags and marches with bootless feet. March and fight ho must, no matter whet blunders are committed, If his officer is young and ignorant and loads bis men into a death-trap, it is Tommy who pays for that ignorance with his life, If the hospitals are mismanaged and overcrowded, it is Tommy who dips in the filthy wards. He bears the brunt of the campaign witbout a murmur. At its clam he surely has a right to express his opinion upon its management, FIGHTING—AND Pi,ENTY net IT. The other day, writes a represen- tative, I had an interesting talk with a non-commissioned officer who re - °wetly returned from the fighting line. Ile had been is a dozen battles, and has had personal experience of bath field and base hospitals as an enteric patient. ITe has served his time, and is no longer in the army. Ho was a non-commissioned officer in :the Guards, and is an educated man, who made careful notes of his esperienees in a diary which he kept from, day to day. "Were you in all the fights in which the Guards took part?" "Fighting? Yes, we had plenty of it. Most of us had hover been under fire before. You feel pretty bad the first time, but you soon get used to R. After the first fight or two we thought no more of a battle than of a parade day in England. It was an in the day's work. Sometimes we really looked forward to a fight with pleasure, as•a break in the dreadful monotony of tbe'continuous marching day after day. As soon as we landed we joinedeLordf Methuen's column. Our first bit of fighting was at Belmont. Madder River fight was by far the worst battle I was in, and I went through a good many. None of us thought we should have to fight that day. But from early morning till late at night we bad to lie flat on the veldt in a blazing sun, hardly daring to lift our heads, We could see nothing. of the enemy. We aimed at the puffs of white smoke n tlee river bed. If the. Boer shells had only burst there would have been very few. of us left alive and un- wounded; but they seldom exploded. I often saw a shell bury itself im- mediately in front of a man, so close that it raised bim off the earth, but he wouLd not be injured, for it failed to explode." NAVAL AND MILITARY OFFICERS. "Did tbo officers farm as badly as the men?" "No fear, They always looked out far themselves. They could always Lind a flask of whiskey. Although there was not sufficient transport for the needs of the army, many officers were allowed a hundred or two hun- dred pounds of baggage in place of the thirty pounds to which they were entitled. They expected everything to be the same as at home. Some of thom were too fine gentlemen to speak to a non-commissioned officer. They would smoke their cigarettes and keep to themselves. The officers of the Naval Brigade were very dif- ferent. They were with us at Mad- der River with the 4.7 gaps. They worked and talked with their men, and even messed with them. You had to be very oarefui how you spoke to your offioor, of it was the worst) for you. Here is a little thing which happened at 11Iodder River, which will show yogi what I mean.A non-com mtssioned officer had been the round et the outposts one night. Ile was malting his report to the commanding officer, who had asked harp where meth and such a picket was. "Over there, sir," the man replied. In an- swer to another question, he said, "Over there." Simply because he had omitted to repeat the word "sir," that man svgs courtenlartialled; and lost his stripes. TOMMY ON HIS OFFICER. "What did Tommy think 01 his offi- cer as a lender?" Tiley were elevem8 leading you in- to deetit traps, unless you kept your' eyes very wide open, They d.ld not ha ogiro know what to . will d I s 1i va g 7011. n ease that happened M er on at ng of loin, We were supporting the Highlanders, When they were shot down 'be scores we°< bold 1 lho gauannd, and format' the first firing lino, 'There was a grteat dent of barbed wire, fencing about Ctrouohing on ail feirrs, w,° manobod to get past one tonne'. The next (Maid not be passed, as the wires wero too close together, The Boers were firing in front and on aur' Mule, We were protecting a 'battery .of guns ,by firing volleys at the enemy. That's the may thing that will keep them quiet, Tho lieutenant in eammand of my seot.lon lost his head, complete- ly. Really,' he kept 'on saying, Melil- ly, I don't know what to do. T think we obeli be cat off 1f we Ley hero, Really, X bcJieva we had bathe' me - taro.' 'I, think, .sit',' X ventures to sug'ges't—they don't like you ie ln- terfei'e, soyou must; be °arefal—'we had better remain here,' Ile tboaght bettor. of 11:,' and therewe stayed, If wo had refired, we should have lost some more {,runs. Some of the officers eared very little far their mon. They would speak' bo them as 18 they were dogs, At Afagcrsfontein one oe my men was wounded In the arm. We borund it up as well as we could. He had to lie out in the open all day long, foe the Boors fit,'ed at the stretcher-bearers. At night, when we were about to retire, I asked tiro offioor in command of my company what wo should do with the wounded man, 'Do,' he said; 'we must •leave him behind. He will have to stay mut all night' I knew that would ,wean certain deatb,fbr he had lost. a terrible "amount of blood, and I know also that he had a wife and two children at home in England. I therefore got four of my men to make a stretcher out of a blanket and two rifles, While the others were firing volleys at the Boers, we got him safe into camp. Of (soars°, you got no credit for it, But the man's life was saved." , • • AN ARMLESS ARTIST. Having Lost Ills Arm., Ile Uses the Brush 0611, Ills Stealth. Bartram Hiles, an armless artist, of London, England, is attracting moth attention by bis paintings in water colors. When eight years of age, he lost both arms, but having al - reedy. made a beginning in the study of art and baying a strong natural taste for painting even this calamity did not close his career as an artist. He determined to learn to draw and paint by holding the brush in his mouth. He acquired such oontrol over the muscles of his mouth that in two years after he began his work in this way las work took a prize at a local exhibition. Wbem he wan 16 Mr. Hiles exl ibit- ed, a water color at the British Fine Arts Academy whioh elicited much admiration though the (fact that the painter was without (hands was' not known by those who satyr Lhe picture. So far as his present work goes the rtechnique is in every way equal to that of men who work with two •hands. In fact Mr. Hiles in no way acknow- ledges that he is handicapped by bis physical misfortunes. He is wrapped up in his work and is bright, cheer- ful and happy—neither expecting nor even admitting. that Ibis base calls for sympathy. He seems absolutely to have found a substitute for his hands in working with the brush mixing the colors skilfully and laying them on deftly. (Among the latest exhibits of Mr, Hiles work have been pictures at the exhibitions of the Royal Society of Bristol artists and at the Dudley Gal- lery. allery. Sir. Hiles evidently looks for - wand to seeing one of his works hung at the Royal Academy, for ;ho made a smiling remark to that effect not long ago when talking of his work. He works in a little alcove in the south nave of the Crystal Palace, London, where he is surrounded by sketches, designs and artislie draw- ing's, all products of hia own art. His best effects, where tints have been employed, have been Secured by the use of water colors. It is doubtful whether he will ever excel in oil, the heavy pressure of that sort of .work being perhaps too much for one com- pelled to secure results by such means as Mr. Hiles is forced to adopt. VIE COST OF IT. The Cashier shook his head de°ided- ly. In all candor, he replied, I advise you not to lacgin stealing the funds of the bank. Them) is vary little i.1t it. You will have to spend about all you make for Cast horses', wino sup- pers, and that sort of thing, in order to keep the I)ircalots from booming suspleious of you! ''Cha teliem was deeply tmprossed for it was evident ghat his chief spoke with knowledge. moe A POINT IN PRECEDENCE. Mr. Mttrmaduke-Jones•—Sootety now- adays seems to be made up of much( a lot of people we don't know. Mrs. Marmaduke-Jones—Oh, don't put it that, my dear; say rather that society nowadays ie made up of such a 10:1; of people who don't know us. J ESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSOR MAR. I?, ",Jesus (Intl raw," incite sc. 14.46, Golden Text, Luhc P1IsACTICAL 0101)115. Verse 13, Pilate, when he bad gall- ed together the chief priests and the rulers. Compare Malt, 27. 11.23; Mark 15, 0-14, Apparently the San- hedrla or commit was stili in Session; at least its members had not dispors- ell, Wben, Pilate had 'striven to tha'oiv all the responsibility con- cerning Jesus on the Sanhedrin 1151 members claimed :that they had no power to exeonto judgment. To toes oonvegsation: between Joann anih Pllabo whioh John reoo451 was due probably tliegreat desire shown by the governor- to secure the release of Testis. The words and the people point to this grent,desire. Pilate hp00910 from the council to ilio crowd, ooaafident that the "common people" who "heard him gladly" will support him, Stow. ; 11. :Yo leave brought this man un- to me, as one that pesvorteth the peo- ple. Turns them away from the religion of the nation or from the loy- alty to the Roman. govternment. I. having examined him before you, have found no `' fault in this man, Pilate's examination had proved that' Jesus waa in another sphere of life from the rulers. 15. Nor yet Herod. To whom our Lord had been sent by Pilate, when lee hoard that Jesus wawa Galilean. In- stead of for I sent you to him the iievlaed Version has "fornate Sent bim back unto us" Nothing worthy of death is done unto bim. "Nothing worthy of death has been done by him'," 10. I will therefore chastise him, and release him. •Pilate proposed to scourge him—a punishment inflicted by the Roman magistrates in certain cases for offenses loss than capital• This was said :in a spirit of weak con- cession to the assembled multitudes, since he bad already declared thein- nocence of theaccuscd; and the Jaws took advantage of this weakness. 17. This verse of the Authorized Version is omitted in the Revised Ver- sion. It !s wanting in several import- ant Greek manuscripts. In most classes which study from the Author- ized Version, mention of the omission would be of little service, for it re- cords an historic' font, whether Luke originally wrote it or not„ and it be- longs properly to Matt. 27. 15 and Mark 16, 0. Suoh an act of public fav- or was often shown In old times on occasions of publics rejoicing. 18. Cried; out all at once. A un- animous clamor. Away with this man and release unto us Barabbas. Amen who wast at once a prisoner and popular. Barabbas• is not so much a name as a "patronymic." "Bar" Means a son: "Abbas" may be eith- er the enamel of the man'slfathen or it may mean a complimentary phrase often applied to priests it may mean the "son of a rabbi." there is some evidence ins favor of reading in Matt. 27, 10 the name "Jesus Barabbas." 10. Toho tells us that Barabbas was a robber. Maria agrees with Luke that he ♦vas a notable insurrectionist, and time murder for which he was held responsible had been committed during the uprising. It bas been con- joetured that he was a leader of the mob which arose when Pilate ruth- lessly appropriated Jewish religious moneys. This may explain his popu- larity. 23. They' were instant with loud voices. "They pressed upon bim with loud voices." "Instant" means "uent." 24.rgPilate gave sentence that Jt should be as they required Matt, 27. 21411; Mark 15, 15-10. The motive whiul, at lost prevailed with Pilate is mare eeltp' shown in John 19, 12-16, Ile feared that the Jews 'would ac- cuse him before Caesar, and from his many acts of cruelp and extortion be had reason to dread the consequences. But the very midfortuno which he sought to avoid by condemning the innocent did really befall bim alter - ward. The six years oh his governor- ship oe Judea were years of arbi- trary violence, and tour years after our Lord's death he was dismissed from his °barge, and is said to have destl'oyed himself in banishment at Vienne, in Gaul. 25. Whom they had desired. "'Whom they were clamoring for," Barabbas. 26, Simon, a Cyrenien. Cyrano was acity in the north of Africa, where many Jews wore settled. Simon whose sons Alexander and Rufus are named by Mark, may have been known as a follower of oar Lord, but was probably taken by the soldiers as a stranger On him they laid the cross. They dill this apparently be- cause our Lord was unable to bear the cross any longer. • IND00IL A'1'HLLTICS. ' ! 1Iy muscles are getting frightfully out of f col 'tion. 1d, lINoll ]1ny a pair of old bass and- irons end Scour them up. Mi;.N AS THEY PAG, Lord Roberto lass entered upon the fit, tiotb year of his military service. Andrew D. White, the United States embessador, bas been sleeted a memhec Of the Berlin ,Aeadewy et Seleuce. Besides Hiram Maxim the only two Aa tritons to be knighted by an 10ngli0 monarch were Sir Curtis Lalnpeoti and Sir E1118 Ashmea+l Bartlett, Congressman John Sharp Williams of Yazoo, AXiss„ wns 11 classmate at Heide!. berg of the present emperor of Germany, The two were telends,.and Air, Williams Is still an admirer of the kaiser, General SVilliane Gaston Lewis, who dled at his home in Goldsboro, the abet day at the age of 00, was elle of the four surviving ex -Confederate brigndler generale in North Carolina. An ell: preserve has been established at Jaeksou's Hole, Weeby 151. V. Gilt - net; who fears that the clic will share the fate of .the buffalo, Ile now has a herd of 19, having started four years ago withhalt a dozen. ,Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii naturally has the distinetien of drawing the largest, amount of money which congress' al- lows for mileage. The law allows 10 cents a mile, So Mr. Wilcox gets over $1,000 for his round trip. • Robert Gearhart, who ie 84 years old, recently walked from his home in Brush Creek township to McConnellsburg, Pa., and back, making "a round trip of 52 miles. He 1s the father of 28 children and has never been ill In hie lire, Almon S. Sherman, who was the third mayor of Chicago, is still living at the age of 03. He was born in Vermont. Hie present home is in Waukegan, Ills., and he seldom visits Chicago. He moved out of Chicago before the big flee. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, our new min- ister to Switzerland, is a graduate of West Point. He served in the Third ar- tillery, traveled much, studied in Prance, was professor of civil engineering and mathematics at Iowa college aud Dart- mouth and wrote several successful nov- els and textbooks. The new Persian minister, Isaac Khan elofakhomed Healey, wears European tress and talks fluently in Frenc), al- though he knows but little English, He is applying himself with great industry to the task of learning the language and hopes to be able to make himself under- stood before the end of the winter. Gen- eral Bien is a handsome man of stalwart physique and a face that indicates strong character. It is .a remarkable coincidence that John In. Francis, the founder of the Troy Times, should here held the same office which his son has now been called to till. The senior Francis was made minister to Greece by President Grant in 1871 and held the office for three years, reslguing in orderto return to active journalistic work. The son, succeeding the father as editor and. proprietor of The Tithes, is now chosen to occupy the same post. THE ROYAL BOX. Fix -Queen Isabella does not approve of the engagement of her granddaughter, the Princess of the Asturias, to the Duke of Calabria. The duke's father, the Count of Caserta, is an exile from Spain because of Carlist conspiracies in which he was engaged. The Prince of Wales' greatest yacht racing rival is the kaiser, 0 most gener- ous supporter of British pleasure craft sailing. As head of the Royal Yacht squadron the prince holds precedence to the German emperor—the only living man that does so. The king of Greece, who was 55 years old on Dec, 24, has reigned longer than his father, the aged king of Denmark. It was on Alareh 30, 1S03, that he acced- ed to the throne, having been proclaimed ting bathe Greek national assembly, while Ming Christian did not ascend the throne of Denmark until the middle of the November following. Many of the purchases made by the shah of Persia last summer in Europe, as well as some of the presents made to him, went to the bottom of the Caspian sea by the sinking of the steamship Vera in a storm. Among them rem the 18 carriages bought in Paris. There is no chance of rccorering anything, as the Vera went down in 000 fathoms. TOWN TOPICS. Constant digging is the only thing that will insure clean streets in Cleveland. Things get dirty here much sootier than In most other cities,—Cleveland: Leader. It has reached the point where unless the better elements In St. Louis hang to- gether they are la danger of that dire ca- lamity of "hanging apart."—St. Lords Republic. Suburban railway lines in Sweden have to provide a special car for intoxicated persons. Why don't Boston's no license suburbs demand similar accommodations? —Boston Globe. Baltimore may be called too conserva- tive by other more lively communities, but, then, it is happily free from their financial storms, which may even things n little. And, if it Is a trifle slower, it has more reserve power in its monetary nerves, which counts for much more 11? the long run. ANIMAL LIFE. A small, stingless bee is found in some parts of Mexico. Its honey is slightly tett and is more esteemed than the sweet honey of other bees. A shepherd of New South Wales has tried dentistry for sheep with great suc- cess. Be had a valuable ram whiol, found grent difficulty in masticating its food owing to the loss of teeth. Actin• tial teeth were inserted. The ornithologists of Great Britton and America have jest finished a spirited discussion, which has lasted for more than a year, as to which is the largest bird that flies, The prize has been award- ed to on American bled, the great condor of the Andes, The second prize has been given to the fierce heepy eagle of the Philippines. POWDER AND BALL. 11 1 The British cruiser Terrible establish- ed aa exceptional record at the recent prize firing by its crew with Ale 0 inch guns, nighty ]lits were sweet] out of 104 Mends Med. Another new rifle has been Invented, this time in Sweden, and England line placed orderss foe some e sem fie. It is 1t1 1 Y. 1 automatic contrivence, which is said to mean a revolution of the whole system or rine shooting. Germany bee ren, some gun barrels 10 1.iwetlell to l,ac•- the new intention fitted to. thein. , *1