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OME RAPPY.
Rev. Dr, Talmage 5peaks of a
Mother's Duty.
A despetch from Waehiugton say
Ilev. Dr, eleulmage preached. front th
Iola/Wing text 1—eleeesie t, 27
'Melo and female creeted he thorn.
In Other words, Clod, who ca
Make no Mistake, made man an
women for a specific work, and t
11110Y0 111 Partlelllar Hpher0S-^-14114 4.
regnant in his realm, woinan to
• dominant in hers. The bounder
line between Rely and Switzerland
betWeen Regimen end Mool laud, i
not more thoroughly marked 'Um
, this diseinction between the email'
=amineo and the empire feminine
So entirely dissimilar are the fluid
to wbich God culled them that yo
can ne MOM compare them than yot
can oxygen and hydrogen, water and
grass, trees and stars. All tide tall
about the superiority of 0110 sex to
the other is an everlasting waste o
ink mid speech. A jeweler may have
a scale so delicate that he can weigh
the dust of diamonds, but wbere art
the scales so delicate that you eau
weigh in them affection, sentiment.
against sentunent, thought against
thought, soul against soul, a. man'e
word against a woman's word ?
You come out with your stereotyp-
ed remark that Mall 111 superior to
woman in intellect, and then I open
on my desk the swarthy, iron typed;
thundorbolted writings of Harriet
Martlueatt and Elizabeth Browning
and George Eliot. You come on
with your stereotyped remark abeue
woman's superiority to man in the
item of affection, but 1 ask you
where was there more cnpacity to
love than in John the disciple. and
Robert McCheyne, the Seotchmatt,
and John Summerfield, the UM ho -
dist, and Henry Marton, the mission-
ary ? Tbe heart of those men was eo
large that after you had rolled into
it the hamispheres there was room
still left to inat•shal the hosts of hea-
ven and set up the throne of the
ETERNAL JEIROVAH,
81 ants seeking less rent; Landlords 4
e 1ntandleg .more. Cola fidget
ilatruggles about 013)11), gen who a
hl tryieg to keep in; men out', try'
n • 1. ,' ph. .1,1111 es. 1 eft
d cations. Peeks, Catastrophee.
o woman, thank fled you have a lion
0 1 may queen in
13(111111r be there 1114111 wear a queen
11 cormwt. Better be there than car
• the puese of a priecees. 'Your alto(
s may be humble, but you can by yot
11 feint in God and your cheerfulness
o demeanor gild it with splendors suc
•ns au upholsterer's ham] never y
e kindled,
u What right doe's woman want flu
n
L is gradet• than to be queen in 1114.
a 114.1111? Why, tho eagles 01 110i1V0
t cannot fly 1101'0145 that doininm
i
Horses panting und. with lathere
f (hulks are not, swift enough to rti
to the outpost of that realm. The
say that the Slat never sets upo
) the Britash Empire, but I have t
toll you that on this 100101 of 4.14.mn
man's influence eternity never 1(111 111
any bound. Isabella fled from 11)soanish throne pursued
by the nit
tion's anathema, but she who is
PERSONAL POINTERS,
Notes of , Interest About Some
Prominent Peepie.
• A German pa.per quoted as st
ing that since 1888, when the 10
Porer succeeded to t
throne, His Majesty law deliver
910 p0114110 speeches, of whieh 22 we
111 French (in oonnection with .I.(oy
visits). 1.8 were 111 English, 13
sian, mid 873 in the German li
gunge.
0- Tho Dukes of Sutherland, lit
ye (limpet, and Devonshire are joi
re lords of 2.004,000 1101.08 of latal,
ng 11104 0111141 LO 111010 111411 (1101•0)1 11111
1110 1 of the County of Middlesex. et
0 representing a slice of land tal'Ote
10, ing front the south of England
at -
he
re
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tc-
nt
an
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1(1h -
to
1 • !the extreme north of Scotland mo
's than live tuilee Wide. 11 this lai
rY I were all in England about 011 aC.
111 0111 01 every sixteen would. belong i
11' (1110 or other of these dukes.
le
1(1
1'D
°,1 ! A, peculiar souvenir ie kept lu Loi
Solisbuoy's historic home at lb.
" field. It 113 4 etone, over a pound.'
weight, with which the window
ee Lord Hal iebury's carriage teas statist
" Jed. at Duinfeles on October 21.s
I
,a. 1.4484. llis two daughters were sea
'd ed with hie lordship in the vehiel
but fortuuately all three escaped un
e injured. Lord Salisbury had on tha
; (m1111;10)1 delivered the last of a set
n
THE S. S. LESSON.
•-INTERNATIONAL Ln'ssoNA
S EPT, 8.
Text ef the LOS5011, Gen. xxviit,
10-22. Golden Text, Gen,
xxviii, O.,
10, 11, "Aini J0e0b went out
from Beersheba mut seem toward
Tho previous chapter tells
of the deception practiced uoon t le tenth ef 131V05 us that. We
may in our exprience manifest the
:Isaac by jaeob unci his mother, Re- truth of Mal 111; 10 and If 014.1011,.
bekali, and of EtaleS hatreel 1111f1'
purpose to .1c11.1 lils •brother because xxxt, 10, and prove Ps. lxxxlv, 11.
he hod supplanted him and taken
child 01 Abraham who cheerfully
paid Mime to Melehiststek (chapter
xlv, 20). If we should read 111,
"Since God will be with ine," ote„
withal translation, some say, the
word will allow, then 11, becomes on
the part of Jacob a grateful eonse-
cration to the Lord who appenred
unto him We may hope Unit the
latter reeding is correct, but lot UH
olio are vedeemeti hy the precious
blood of Christ see to it, that wo
gratefully anti, elleorfully and con-
nelentiously give the Lord nt least,
his blessing, and as 0 result of thie TRA.CRING A TIGER.
the gentling of jamb to llama to
Itebekah's erother Labatt for a tittle. ,An Exciting Adventtire in Search
Our lesson is the story of the up -
f .11%.
0 peening of the Lord to Jacob as he oa .an-Ea'ter,
journeyed to Horan mid le a record A writer io the :Indian Sporting
of the wonderful grace of God, but Times gives some details of the de -
seems also to imply true penitence predations of a tiger in various vil-
on the part of Jocob after he left /ages during the famine year, In the
his father's house, for he would have course of his remaeks he says that
much time to meditnte as he jour- for a whole year the monster contln-
neyed onward alone, if Rebekah mueodlelsiltsutdioetredioitvleolustoarltiynois)teolvvilothiolaticti
been slain, rout the village heeds suf-
fered severely. rahe local forest
ranger was in a state of terror, and
had written to his supeelor in terms
much as follows, showing the diffi-
cult situation in which he compiled
his reports:—
"Irebruery lse—Hp a tree. Wher0
adhere W14.41 much pain and discom-
posure melee big tiger roaeing in a
very awful manner on the fire line,
This is two tinies Ite spoiled My
W01.14., coming and shouting 11110
and making me behave
thunder and putting ulnecouxnaintsoreete:
I an not able to climb with agility
owing to stomach being a little big,
1 if t lam somewhat above the, owing to bad water of this jungle,
thoughts of his brother's anger, hutl .Tungle mans can fly up tree catickly,
he knew be had sinned against Clod, Even when I do -not seo this tiger,
even though his mother was the! and 110 does not make a dreadful
most guilty, for she had been his ' noise, I see -the marks of Ids hoofs
counsellor to do wickedly (II, Chron.
xxii, 3), Etna there must have been
some searching of heart before God.
His mother promised to sencl for
t-
11
of
1- had believed God and bail trusted.
0, Him to accomplish in Hie own way
- His promise to Ine• (chapter xxv,
t 23), she might llaVe beea spared
e this separation from • J meat. But
1 deny to man the throw intellec-
tual. I deny to woman tlm throne
affectionate No human phraseology
will ever define the epheres while
there is an intuition by which we
know whim a man is in his realm
and when a 11,0111011 is in her realm
and when either or them is out of it.
No bungling legislature. ought, to
attempt to make a definitiett or to
say, "This is the line alai that is
the line,"
I know there 1110 women of most
unacsirable 11a111/.0 11.110 Walltler up
anal down the country, having no
homes of their own or forealting
their own homes, talking about their
rights, and we know very well that
they themselves are lit neither to
vote nor fit to keep house. Their
mission seems to be to humiliate the
two sexes at the thought of what
any ono of us inig•lit become. No
ono would want to live under the
laws that such women would owlet, f
or to have cast upon socie;v the
clifidren that such women would
mem, But I will ehow you that the
beet rights that woman can own she
alt °tidy has in ber posseesion ; tha
her position la this country at tin
time is not ene of commiseration
but one of congratulation ; that th
grandeur and power of her teeth
have never yet been appoTiated
that she sits to-tlay on a throne so
high that all the thrones of cart!
piled on top of each other would not
otake for her a footstool. Here i
the pluteorm on which she stands
A:way down below it ere the hallo
box ttnd the toongressional assent
blage and the
LEG 'SLAT' Vle HALL.
0 lice of speeches in Scotland.
_ Madam Rejane, the celebrate
s French actress who has lately bee
O delighting London. audiences 10 "Ma
al dilute Sans Cone" and other come
a dies, has been the recipient of order
she seems to have feared that the
purpose of Cod might bo frustrated
by ESall and his father and that
,14. wits necessary for her to act
-1
promptly even if not honeetly, It is
s a restful thing to believe that every
mimosa of the Lord shall be per-
formed both for His people and
againel; 'e/is ('/10111108 (der. 11, 20 ;
Isa. xiv, 24) and just abide in Him.
t As Jacob journeyed frbm his home
• the blessing of his father (verses led)
and the love of his mother would
queen in a holue will never lose he
throne, and death iteelf will only be
the apnexation of
HEAVENLY PRINCIDALITIES
One twilight after I had bee
Playing with the children for soot
time, I lay down ma the couch to
1'051, and, half asleep and half awetke
I seemed to dream this dream. It
seentert to me that I was In a far
dist ant land—not Persia, al hough
more than oriental luxuriatia, crown-
ed the calve; ner the tropics, al -
thou elt 0111111 4.4114.41 tropical
(less tilled the gardens; nor Italy,
although more than Italian softness
tilled the air. And I wandered
around looking for thorns and uet-
tlee, but 1 found none of them grew
there Anti I welked forth .1 cl I
saw- the suu rise, and I said, "When
Will it set again?" and the sun sank
uot. And 51111/ all the people in
holiday apparel, and I said, "When
Will they put on workingman's garb
again an(1. delve in the mine and
swelter at tho forger Bu t 11011 (4.01
the garmente nor the robes did they
jut off Awl I wandered in the sub-
iii•bs, and I said, "Where do they
bury the dead of this great City?"
And 1 looked along by the Iiiits
where it would be most ben.utiful for
the dead 110 $leep. and i saw castles
and towers and battlements, but not
a mausoleum nor monument nor
white slab could 1 see, And I went
into the great chapel of the town,
and I said, Where do the poor wor-
ship? • Where are the benches on
whielt they sit?" Attd a voice an-
swered, We have no poor in this
great city." And I wrualered out
seeking to find the piece where were
the hovels uf the destitute, end I
ound mansions of amber and ivory
411,11 goli, but
NO TEAR DID 11414.18
or sigh hear. I wee bewilderocl and
sat ander the shadow of a great
ren, and I said "What am I and
whence comes all this?" And at
hat nutmeat there came from among
he leaves, skipping up the flowery
nails and across the sparkling wa-
ers, a very bright and sparkling
roup, and 1711011 I saw their step I
now it. tual when I heard their
'oleos I thought I knew them. but
heir npparell was so different from
nythieg had ever Seen I bowed,
stranger to strangers. But after
while, when they clapped their
awls and shouted, '•Welcontel Wel-
owe," the mystery was solved, and
saw that time had passed and that
(.ernity had 14.01115, and that God had
altered us up into a, higher home,
0(1 I said, "Are all here?" and the
oices of innumerable generations an -
wens( "All here." And while tears 1
O gladness were reining down our
and decorations from every Couet in
Europe. The King of Portugal, be-
fore whom Madame Helene has a4) -
peered on several occasions, marked
his n p precia Lion of her gren t talon
11an 1(C11'058s 1(C11'058 by presenting her wit'
1
e a pair of very beautiful mules. These
:animals. which are extremely docile
accomeetny Madame Reinue on al
' 11101' European tours.
' It may not be generally known Um
: Abdur Rahman, the Amcor of Al -
1 gltanis tan, is a horse breeder on a
!large scale. Some years ago he
1 founded a Clovernment stutl, which
:now comprises about 2,000 animals.
;Some are English thoroughbreds and
1801010 Australian, wh 1 le others are
iArabs, Turlionnua and Indian coun-
try -bred horses. To look after them
1 the Amoor 0111[110;1'5 a11 English voter-
: inary surgeon named Clements who
teaches twenty young Afghans his
:
; profession and imparts to them the
: correct principles of horse -breeding.
Women always hae voted and al-
ways will "vote. Our great-grand-
fathers thought they were by their
votes putting Washington into the
prteidential chair, No. Nis' moth-
er, by the principles she taught him
and by the habits she inculcated.
made him president. It MIS a Chris-
tfan raother s Mulct dropping the bal-
lot when Lord Bacon wrote, and
Newton philosophised, and Alfred
the Clreat governed, and Jonathan
Edwards thundered of judgment
to come, How many mea there have
hem in high political station who
would have been insufficient to stand
tho test to which their moral prin-
ciple was put had it not been for a
. wife's voice that encouraged them
to do right and a wife's prayer that
Bounded louder titan the clamor of
partisanship ! Why. uly friends, the
right of suffrage, as we men exereise
it, seems to be a feebie thing. You,
a Christian 111110, come up to the
ballot box, and yon drop your vote.
Right after you comes a libertine or
a sot, the olescouring of the street,
awl 110 drops his vote, and his vote
counteracts yours. But if in the
quiet 00 11014.10 life a daughter by her
Christian demenuor, a wife by her
industry, a mother by her faithful-
ness, casts a vote in the right di-
rection, then nothing can resist 11,
and the influence ef that vote will
throb through the eternities.
My•clitaf anxiety, then, is not that
women have °thee Aghts accorded
her, but that she, by the gence of
Clod, rise up to the appreciation of
the glorious rights she
ALREADY POSSESSES,
shall only' have time to speak of
one grand and all -absorbing right
that every woman has and that is
to make home happy. That realm
110 one has ever disputed with her.
Men may come home at noon or at
night, and they tarry a comparative-
ly little while, but sho all day long
goVerns it, beautifies it, sanotifies it.
It is within her power to make it
the most attractive place ou earth.
It is the only calm harbor in this
tooted. You know as well fla I do
that this outside world and the busi-
ness world is a long scene of jostle
atul cootetition. The man who has
a clonal' strugglesto keep it; the
1111111 1V110 11115 11 not etruggles to get
. it. Prices up. Priees clown, Losses,
ni 115. Misrepresentations. oug-
ing's. Underselling.. Buyers (lemma-
ing, Saleamen exaggerating. Ten -
A glance at the Royat personages
in the direct line of succession to the
British throne reveals toone interest-
ing facts. How many people know
that there are only two adult males
• between t he Emperor William and
King Edward? IL is, however sur-
prising it may be, a fact that, the
German Emperor is the third male
successor over twenty-one. He
stands twenty-foueth in the list, but
most of those before him are women
or children. Only two me11 are of
full age—the Ling's only son, the
Duke of Cornwall and York, and his
only living brother, the Duke of I
Connaught.
'One of the tnost interesting' of Eng- '
land's surviving men of science is Dr.
James Glaisher, who recent-
ly entered upon his ninety-third year.
Many people think of the veteran
meteorologist only as an aeronaut,
on account of that memorable and
unparalleled ascent which he and Mr.
Coxwell made nearly forty years ago.
But Mr. Ciaisher is not an aero-
naut, though he has made some thir-
ty ascents skyward for scientific pur-
puses. Ile is a meteorologist, as-
trononter, and mathematician, mai—
n fine sample of what e, vigorous
mind 10 a sound body can do—hale ;
and hearty at over ninety-two.
Eleanore. Dime, the famous Italian
actress, is pecaliarly marvellous.
When site is not at rehearsals or act-
ing she spends her time in perfect
rest. She receives uo one except old
friends, and only a few of Oliese. She
has a lady companioa who arraeges
bier journeys and engages rooms in
the hotels. This lady sees that
Duse's rooms are at the hack of the
hotel, and that, if possible, they
ook out on a garden. She cannot i
bear street sounds and sights. The
cheeks and the branches of Leb-
anon ceders were clapping thole:
bends and the owners of the great i
city were chiming their welcome, we t
began to laugh anri slug and leap t
and shout, 'Ilome! Home! Hamel' s
01111 his nails on the path.
The writer of this article continues:
So it came about that when my
camp was pitched in the vicinity of
lum (Met1 his brother's anger had the "Yellow Peril," a deputation,
quieted, but we do not read that 81101 heeded by ICoombappa, presented it.
over saw him again on earth, i self before iny tent, and begged me
to rid the neighborhood of a moti-
le'. Behold a kidder set up on the t
;Mee concerning yvbose doings each
earth and behold the angels of God
; one had some piteous tale to tell,
ascending and descending upon it, was , tramp up the' valley
The Lord Jesus said to Nathanael e" 'Crng
"Hereafter ye shall see Heaven open
and the angels of God esconding and
clesceialing upon the Son of Alan "
(John i, (11), which teaches us that
the ladder wits typical of the Lord.
Jesus, through tvhout lone sinful
man can corae to Cod or have any
revelation of Cod to him.
1.3, 14,. Behold the Lord stood
above it and said, I am the Lord
God of Abraham thy father, end the
Cod of Isaac. All things are of God
through Christ ; salvation is of the
before daylight next morning, Datil a
stiff climb up the path, which wound
its way over the rocks end through
the thick bamboo jungle. Now, the
jungle was so thick and extensive
that to beat for the tiger would be
0 useless task. Nothing could be
seen in the dense thickets of the
cover where he lurked. What WaS to
be done?
WITTI BELLS."
Then 1 bethought Me of a mode of
hunting of which a sportsman of 60
FORTUNES OF .REILDREN
MUSICAL PRODIGIES AMASS
SNUG LITTLE FORTUNES,
Their ParentS 111Luxury
and Eetire front Businees in
Their Teens.
:Musical prodigies' earn gigantic
814118 ; but, on the other liand, they
work extremely hard, J osef Hei-
man, the boy pianist, studied under
Rubenstein, toured Germany, Den-
mark, Norway, Vienna and Paris,
end gave no less then 1.40 concerts
111 loss than a yew'. $15,000 seems
a good deal to make a yenr; but as
the work was very hard, to say no-
thing of the long journeys uncleetrik-
orl, 11ofn.ii nd his parents were
not greatly pleased. The little fel-
low did much better in Aximeica.
The fifty-two concerts he gave in
two and a half months bringing in,
after all expenses had been paid,
over $60,000.
Tao permits of nwsical prodigies
are supposed, as 0 rule, to bo per -
50125 W1111 4111 1101111111110 love of
1Cobelik, the wonderful
young violinist, and HolMan, are es-
PeolaRY fortunate 111 havieg pnrents
who do not regard their wonderful
offspring as more money -getting ma-
chines. Greatly against the boy's
wish, 1110 Hohnans compelled Josef
not long since to retire into Private
life 4.111 410 had progressed sufficiently
to appear as 0 111n11 musician.
The Kubelik and Hoffman parents
have several points in. common.
They like London better. than the
continent, and have the greatest
confidence in English investments,
Otto Ilegiter, 01101` amassing a
snug little fortune of $150,000, re-
tired. ITo is how domiciled in the
United States. As a teacher of mu-
sh, Hegner's popularity as 0 limn
was evert greater than that which
he enjoyed as a boy. ITe has beer(
asked to go to England, but has re-
fused, Why •should he when he can
earn $50,000 a year in the land of
bis adoption.
Child actors and actresses do not
earn a tithe of the sums lavished on
child musicians, simply because the
parts undertaken by children on the
stage itt•e, as a rule, of
MINOR IMPORTANCE.
When the late W. II. Betty, known
in his youth as the infant Roscius,
retired into private life, he took
with him upwards of $200,000, but
then Betty played Handet and other
Shakespearian characters, and com-
petition in hie day was not so keen
as it is now
7:1ITO IN17013424.TIOINT,
:interesting Paragoaphe frOrn the
World's FOUr VirnierS.,
Australia, a etmary • eemarlcable
ter its largo eaters, lute the highest
dee Want°.
It is estimated that Melting peek -
1)44.5 stlinsertS over 100,000 of Lon-
don's populatioa.
Now York City COnsutrles
000 tons of ice a year, of wideli 4,-
500,000 tons are liaturai ice,
The United States has a lower per
eentage of blind people than any ot-
her country in the world,
Tho highest railway bridge in the
United States is the 14.111500 Viaduct
on the B110 11110—.305 feet high.
From e cliff 1,000 feet high a per -
soil with clear vision can see a ship
at a distance of forty-two miles.
For the last ton years theve has
been 0,11 therease of 2,000 annually
In the number of Great l3ritain15 in-
sane.
0110 hundred and twenty firemen
aro required to feed the furnaces of
a first-class Atlantio steamer.
Beggars in China aro faxed, and
certain 4istricts allotted to them in
which to make appeale for charity.
The difference between the tallest
and shortest races in the world is
11 igtht
eot 1:1'5 P'1;51n
(001,08, .aigest.he average
1e l
In Sweden and Norway it is a
01.1410 to make any profit on the sale
of liquor; it must bo dispensed at
cost price. '
lu'illxeci."elephant beetle" of Venezuela
full-grown one weighs about half a
po
is the largest insect in,the world, A
From the Atlantic ueean to the
llead of Lake Superior a 'vessel may
sail in Canadian waters 11. distance
of 2,260 statute miles,
Elongated ear -lobes are considered
a mork of beauty In Borneo. Girls
with this feature reaching down to
their elbows are not uncommon.
In Zante, one of the Ionian Is-
lands, there is a petroleum spring
which has been known for nearly
3,000 years. It is mentioned by
Herodolats.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses
in proportion to their population
than any other country in the world;
the Argentine Republic and Uruguay
have most.
, Sixty-seven per cent. of Portugal's
inhabitants cannot read or write.
3.50 per cont. of English people, and
only half of one per cont. in Den-
inark and Switzerland.
The two daughters of that charm- Seven out of every 10,000 inhabl-
ing lady and accomplished writer, tants of the United Slates are deaf
Mrs. Beringer, cleared over little and dumb, The afilictiop is much
less common, among the negroes than
among the whites.
Two hundred miles an hour, scien-
tific men have concluded, &titer nura-
beelass experiments, is a speed which
eau never be attained by anything
that moves on wheels.
The largest carpet in the world is
in 1Vindsor Castle. It is 40 feet in
breadth, and contains 58,840,000
stitches. The weaving of it, occupied
twenty-eight men fourteen months.
Russian girls have a, peculiar way
of learning their matrimottial pros-
pects. .A. number of girls take off
Lord Fauntleroy some $40,000 it is
said, but thole gooe fortuae was
quite exceptional. Child actor.s 'draw
Lord, The unchangeable Jehovah years of age had told manything from $20 to $50 a week.e. This was The fault most common in stage
here confirms to the unworthy J a- 1 the "shikar with bells." A native, children is one sufficiently great to de -
cob His promise to Abrahunt and adorned only .with a coating of wood I ter dramatists front fitting them with
fsaac, giving to Jacob the promise ashes, with a tray containing burni plays, the mechanical end artificial
of seed as the dust of the earth, ing oil -wicks upon his head, and a
W11010115 He had given to Isaac the
chime of bells in his hand, prway ecedes in which they repent their lines
greatly marring the naturalness of
promise of seed as the stars of hea- 1 the hunter in search of game on a the plays they appear in. The de -
dark night. Such was the plan 1101V
vert (chapter xxvi, It is possible
that when tho kingdom comes we proposed. At, ten o'clocic at nighlightful children of Charles Terry,t the youngest brother of Miss Ellen
Koombappa, smeared with ashes d
ideal' see that the promise to Isaac an- Terry, never played a part in which
bearing the lights upon his head and
refers to or includes the church,
while the promise to Jacob refers to the chimes in bis 1100(1, preceded me they did not eater with an abandon
the earthly seed Israel, and by the to the forest. IL was a weed ad-
venture. Nought could be seen but
two righteous companies shall the
the dint outline of trees in the
tighteous King of kings and Lord of
orcls rule all the earth. gloomy forest. My companion's
14). "And, behold, 2 ant with thee movements became more grotesque
and will keep thee 111 all places whi- and, as it were, inspired. O'he
lights danced before my eyes anee cast
(.1101' thou vest and will bring thee
again into this lance" This is the a beautiful glare for some yards
ahead. The 'tinkle of the bells be-
came more sonorous, and filled the
forest with a. weird noise that exer-
cised an indescribable spell over the
senses, Suddenly the spectral ash -
clad figure ceased to advance, but
frantically continued its ceaseless
antics. I peered into the gloom 414
'Mat, and saw two luminous orbs
shining through the darkness. Slow-
ly they aPproached. The movements
of the dancer became spasmodic as
the huge form of the tiger etnerged
from the shadows and stool) erect be-
fore us in the dim flickering light,
with every hair set, bveathing heav-
ily, with panting tongue and heaving
sides. As I raised my rifle and fired
between the creature's eyes Koam-
bappa sank to the ground exhausted
by his exertions and excitement.
The lights were exhausted at the
same moment, and 011 was eilent and
buried in darkness. For some mo-
ments I dared not move. At length
as my eyes became accustomed to
the darkness, objects outlined them-
selves amid the surrounding obscur-
ity and the great form of the tiger
appeared lying on the groond n. few
yards off. My Mellott had pierced his
brain,
mirth "behold" of our lesson :
adder, the angels, Jehovah and 110(1
the tteetwance of His presence, His
moping power. Itte guidance and the
tafilinent of all His promises. .What
more could ahiful mortal desire ?
How uncieseeving is Jacob ! How
gracious is Jehovah 1 Can anyone
else appropriate such a promise, or
was it only for Jacob ? .Why should
aey child of God hesitate since in
Christ Cod bath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings., and all things
are.ours in Christ ? (EOs. i, 8; Cor,
ii, 21).
16, 17. "Surely the Lord is in
his. place, aud. 1 141017 it not."
Such were his. waking thoughts as
10 remembered his beautiful dream,
and a great sense of • his unworthi-
ness and sinfulness filled hint as he
considered that the God of his fath-
ers had appeared to him also. He
probablyfelt like job and leniah
and Daniel and John when they saw
the Lord (Job xlii, 5, 6; Ise.. vi, (1 ;
Dan. x, 8 ; Rev. i, 17). Simon Pe-
ter had a somewhat similar exeeri-
once when Ito saw the great,good-
10513 00 1115 Lord and cried, Depart
vont me, for I am a sinful man, 0
Lord (Leke v, 8). The believer
'Muhl never be found where lie com-
a say, "Surely the Lord is in this
lace," but the precious truth of
tattle • xxviii, 20, should be an un -
easing comfort to us, for He is
ver saying, "Fear not; peace be
nto you." See also jar. xxix, 11.
clanging of a tram -bell sots her
crazy. The furnishing of her monis
s important. There must be no pic-
ures or busts about, nothing to Ws -
tut her highly -wrought aesthetic
eosibilities. Everything must be
scrupulously clean, severe, quiet. She
lever goes out walking, and is ridic-
ileusly cereless about her toilet and
ter personal appearance, -except on
Ile stage.
CONCERNING SLEEPLESSNESS
Use of Medicines to Froduce Slum-
ber is Dangerous.
One teaming menet be teo often I
repeuted—nualicines to produce sleep
aro dangerous, with different degree); s
of danger, to be sure, but still
things to be trusted to the hands of
ignorance especially where ignorance t
ia personally interested. Sleep-in11
-
ducing drugs 1110 001411 11001%S/try to ie
1414.00 from worse evils, but tltey aced t
supet•vision—a doctor's supervision, ,
it
that is.
Lastly 415 to the economy of 1101'- d
'VOUS 0110rgy. 011 11115, too, much has s
beeoi said, but, the text is a fruitful
and suggestive one, and maey ser-
mons could be hammered out of it.
First, lot it be repeated that
whether the essential (music of OM,
vousneas can be reached and con-
quered or not, the less open manifes-
tations of nervousness the patient
permits herself the better it, will be
for her in every way.
Do not talk about your feelings or
your fatigue or your sleep, do not
allow the word nervous to bo ut-
tered in your presence, To talk
about yourself is a form of bad
manners, to say the least; to be
sorry for yourself will not make
ar.yone more sorry for you, and sali-
nity is a poor kind of on emotion.
If once this kind of talk becomes a t
habit, an unconscious exaggeration be
soon creeps into It ; the victim be- h
gins do make the most of the feel- e
sri
LOYALTY'S CAST-OFF RAIMENT.
One reason why the confidential
mounts of royalty have beau able
• amass comfortable fortunes in n
plte of their moderate salaries is p
hut they receive from their Om -I(1
layers many gifts of old clothes
nd other things which they can e
urn into money. The out-grotvn
lament of Queen Victoria's children
sad to be quickly purchased by ,
iscreet persons from the confidential
ervaats, who did not offer these 8'
18, 19. His pillow bectune a pit-
ar, annotated. unto God, May it
iggest the change In himself that
therms in more senses than one he
ted recently been prone upon the
-lath he was 11040 by the grace of
od an upright man before God and
unointed by I -Us Spirit. One 04 4.140
remises to the overcomer is that
• shall be a pillar in the temple of
od (Rev, ill, 1$), and Paul wrote
oncoming James and Peter and
ohn that they scented to be pillars
ii, 0), 'speaking of the time
hen they gavo to Barnabas and to
intsolf the right hand of 00110478514).here is one great truth that be,
evors are verY apt to forgot, and
iat is that their bodies are temples
f the Holy Ghost and that they are
ot their own, but mansions in
111011 Father, Son and Uoly Spirit
eve come to dwell (T. Coe. vl, 10,
0 ; john xiv, 17, 23), The word
abode" in .Tohn. xiv, 23, is the
me as "mansion" in Verse 2,
20, 22. "Of all :that thou shalt
Ye me will sorely give the tenth
nto thee.'' Rend ng this passage
134, as it is in our A ,V., it looks es
Jacob did not quite believe God,
ut said, /0 God Will do as He 11115
Id, then 1V111 give Him the tonth
thot Ile gives me. Such 'bar -
mining would. be unbecoecting ill a
perguttuties to the world at large,
but may to a select clientele. In
Catholic couatries, the church and
its various sisterhoods aro glad to
take 0001' ho tlettvings of royal and
imperial families ; for splendid robes
east be turned into vestmeats for the
Meantime, or the priests, or for altar
drapertee,
CARRIED OFF BY EAGLES.
In a wood near Polnore„ on the
edge of the Northern Carpathians,
a woman went to gather sticks,
leaving her baby in a secluded spot.
Upon her return she SEM two great,
eagles bearing away her child, whom
icy had ismembered. *Upon a hunt
ing made by the inhabitants the
ones of the baby were found in the
agles' nest cm the rocks amid the
0104.
—4.--
TINY INSECTS,
There are 240,000 different species
of insects on tho earth ; some of
them are so small that 4,000 of
them aro only equal to a grain of
sand;
Ingo and pains which have occurred
and to look for now ones, in order
to get 011 the sympathy possible,
and from this to imagining symp-
toms is a short and sadly easy step.
To cultivate and (01000110(10 genuine
emotions to overgrowth is bad
enough, '111 801/1011(1 till a crop of
false emotions is a moral crime, '
of
TETE REAL ARTICLE.
At a restaurant. A customer in a
dfsgusted tone of voice :
'Why, this milk is turned.
Well., sir 1 exclaims the delighted
vendor of comestibles ; and what
does that prove, .sir ? Why, sir, it
proves that the article served to
you was, like everything else sold
In this restaurant, genuine, and not
a deceiving combination of chalk
and water, sir. •
+----
EARD TIMES IN EARNEST.
Shopkeeper (to commercial travel-
ler)—Can't give you an order. Quite.
overstooked.
Traveller—Let me at least show
you my samples.
Shopkeeper ---Spare yourself the
trouble. 3 can't look tut them.
Traveller—Then will you allow me
to look at them myself. It is three
weeks since I have even seen them 1
TEE MOST .NOBLE ORDER.
"The most ancient and most noble
ordee
Order: of the Thistle" is tho smallest
of three great orders of knighthood
in point of numbers and the longest
in point of title. It consists of the
Sovereign, British Princes and six-
teen Icnigh ts.
Isiew X)rloans holds the rceord for
crime. Throe hundred police made
18,000 arrests laet year;
and zest which showed that they their rings and conceal them in a
thoroughly understood what was go -
shallow basket of corn; partake of
ing on about them. The public say 1 the corn, and the owner of the first
this too, and the tiny Terrys (1010
ring uncovered will be the first to en -
always considered cheap at $50 a
ter matrimony.
week apiece.
Those versed in gauging the
public taste declare thet the time
whett the public would hardly 1151011
to any performer not out of his or
WHAT THE BAND PLAYED.
When the Soudaneso battalions
het, teens has almost, if not quite, wero formed. the British °dicers tried
passed away. Tho walTing may bel hard to establishreganental bands
a little premature, but it is certain, after our own model, but for -a long
that infant prodigies of the future time their efforts mot with very lit -
will have to be au improvement on LW success. Each instrumentalist,
the present article,
though himself, like rnost blacks,
It is all very well to say the public fond of music, would be Independent
will never tire of the musical child be -1 of tho rest, and the effect of a band
cause what seems to them a difficult
feat for an adult, must be a marvel-
lous one 0058. little child; but the
moment they discover that the in-
fant prodigy lack what all infant
prodigies must lack—soul,
T23E211 DOOM IS SEALED.
Not long since there were not
wanting signs of a literary infant Wed hard to do better. By way of .
boom, but the publisher bold enough ; encouragement some British band -
to publish a work by Sybed. aged !masters gave them a hand, and the
eight, or a volume of poems .by alate!Soudanese listened intently to tho
garet, aged seven, dedicated to her performances of tho white man.
loving parents, has not yet arisen. There was a death in their own
The next best thing to being a boy ranks soon after and the Weeks de -
musician is to be a boy jockey. The termined to imitate their comrades.
fees aro not much, 325 for a win, So the body was wrapped in an Egyp-
$15 for a lose, but they form a ttan flag, put on a gun earrhige.
small portion of his Weenie, The and tho regiment couunenced to
presents given a boy jockey by his march very slowly, while the baial
admirers, consisting of the owners struck up M its best style. Tho tune
of the horses he rides and wins, the they played was: "Up I came with
backers who back his mounts, and my little lot." Of course, tho poor
the bookies who when they, thanks blecke didn't know the words,
10 his riding, have hod a good day,
amount to something woeth having
in the course of a. season. There are
at least, half a dozen boy jockeys,
whose stock of jewellery, ,consisting
of gold watches and diamond rings,
and breast pins set with rubies,
runs into five figures.
Boy jockies, like other people,
havo their weaknesses. One well-
knettel lad, passionately fond of the
see., is never so happy as when on
board his yacht, which costs him
85,000 to keen going,
performance upon the European oars
can be butter imagined than describe
ed. However, the British officers
stuck Lo thole plan with tho peeten-
acity of our race, and slowly there
VMS all improvement. Tho blocky%
seemed struck with the superior per-
formanco of the Eoglishmen, and
FOUNDERS OF PEERAGES,
The Duke of Westminster owes his
fortune to a lucky marriage long,
long ago, but many of his colleagues
i11 the peerage lave humbler origins,
The House of Lansdowne was found-
ed by a pedlar, who was so poor
that he lived for three weeks on
walnuts. The Strutts of Belper, 000
Of the best-known families in the
peerage, 0100 their position to
men who worked on a farm and
•made stockings when a boy. Lord
Tentertlen owes his rank and for-
liune to one who begaii life as n
barber in Canterbury ; Lord War-
wick to a Wool -stapler, Lord Essex
to a draper, and tho Duke of Nor-
thumberland—the head of the proud
Pereys—con 4,m.0,0 1,15 foetune to a
London apothecary.
Ireland exports yearly 40,000
cattle and 641,000 011011/4
DO NOT WEEP AT ONIONS.
Although tho fact of the pungeat
odor arising from tho peeling of on-
ions affecting the oyes is well known,
the way to avoid those effects is not
so generally recognized. The odor
which affects the delicate membrane
surrounding the oyes is due to a
sulphurous oil which volatilises rap-
idly When the tissue of the vegetable.
is broken in any way. To avoid the
effects of this vapor is easy if a.
small pared potato be stuck on the
end of the knife with which the cut-
tiog is pone. A chemical ailinity at-
tracts the fumes, and thole presence
is not manifest to the, operator tin
the potato has reached a certain de-
gree of saturation, when it can read-
ily be replaced by another, Onions
aro among the finest nerve tonics Nve
have, end it spring onions are chop-
ped and spread between sliced bread-
and-butter they form a sendwich
which, if eaten at suppor-thno, will
do a great deal toward inswing a
good night's sleep.
•
CURIOUS LANDSLIDE.
A landslide occurred recently in
Switzerland, An ion and its garden
and outbuildings elle; down a hillside
a, distance of 35 feet wIthoet being
tee the. least Injured. TWo et -nerdy
elm trees. , in the• garden 10010 4150
moved without injuty,
,