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The emnieselol We Is the etentrolled
7'0 Meek tt eeintrel iMpliee
the entietenee of Orrething that Is
to be Ostrained, that is, of e, foree
el etteenn capable cd eageroUS Meer -
thee action, Where nothing ol »rent,
al or moral energy ie found, the ,31 0 -
tion olAontrol l3net relevent and
effieleney eli'y kind iIimposeible.
Bat on the ,, other band,. it is no4
teriffelent for ifilecess simply that on
hied victurtl should • posese a vigorous
mentality or an lotense Perseeleater•
Xere VOSSOSSi011 of power is not
enough, the question of its propel
Me mot needs el fie he cionsielored.
Wide direction oz eontrol of power is
tire note of a really etrong character,
and eonstitutes an important ole -
Ment of eUeeeeS in any career.
A suggeetive illustration of this
prineipat of 'control in order to efn-
cieueflfe'fiumished from Ole =Mani -
cal world in the cone of tho steam
engine. A locomotive, for example,
may be fitted with a strong and Ca-
pacious boiler, well supplied with
water, and may bave steam up at
high pressure. But all this power
will be useless, or may even be pos-
itively destructive, unless through an
ingenious system of wheele, cylin-
dere, pistons, connecting rods, and
velvet>, to which steam is admitted
intermittently at the intelligent bid-
ding of the engineer, whose brain
masters the mechanics of the thing,
the imprisoned power can be made to
run on the errands of humanity, or
to eug at the burdens of commerce.
Without the adjuetinents of the
throttle -valve, reversing lever, and
air -brake, enabling the engine driver
to regulate the inlet end outrush
the steam, cunt the speed and stop-
pages of his train, the steam in the
boiler would be a menace and not it
help. The only useful machinery is
the controlled machinery. Only re-
gulated mechanism serves humanity.
In an analogous fashion only the
controlled life assiets the higher de-
velopment of the race, only the re-
guhtted character subse,rves the most
-valuable purposes of society, The
need of self-control is too evident.
to require lengthy illustration. It
Is a commonplace to remark that the
man who so foeg,ets himself as to
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A despatch 'from Washington says ;
—Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from
the following text n-lsalors, xe,
'The days ol our yectre are three
score years and tee, •
Tho seventieth milestone cd life is
bore planted as at the end of the
Journey. A few go beyond it,
Multitudes never reach it, Tlio
oldest person of modern times ex-
pired 03 160 years. A Greek of
the name of Strayed& lived to
132 years. An Englishman of the
name of Thomas Parr lived 152
years. Before tho time of Moses
people lived 150 years, min if you
go far enough back they lived 900
e ears. Well, that MIS necessary,
because the story of 1.110 world must
come down by tradition, and it
needed long life safely to transmit
the news of the past. 7,f the gen-
erations had been ehort lived, the
story would so often have changed
lips that It might have got all .• as-
tray. Llut after Muses began to
write it down and parchment told
it frOM century to century it was
not neoossary that peonle live so
long in order to authenticate the
events of the past. If in nur time
people lived only twenty-five years.
that 'would not affecthistory, since
it is put in print and is no longer
dependent On tradition. Whatever
your age, I will to -day directly ad-
dress you, and I shall speak to
thme who aro in the twenties, the
thirties, the forties, the fifties the
sixties, end to those who are in the
seventies and beyond.
First, then, I accost those of you
who aro in the twenties. You aro
full of enpectation. You are ambi-
tious—that is, if you amount to any-
thing—for some kind of success, com-
mercial or meebanical or profession-
al or literary or agricultural
OR SOCIAL 011 MORAL.
11 I find some one in the twenties
without any sort of ambition, 1 feel
like saying . "My friend, you have
got on the wrong planet. This is
not the world for you. You are go-
ing to be in the way. Have you
made your choice of poorhouses ?
You will never bo able to pay for
your cradle. Who is going to settle
fall into a rage becomes ut OM n, for your bonrd ? There is a. mistake
weaklirig in presence of an antagou- about the fact that you were born
• t all."
ist alio keeps Ms temper. The man But, supposhig vou have (until -
in a passion . can hardly think tion, let Inc my to all the twen-
straight while he is feeling so crook- ties, expect everything through di-
ediy. Very desirable is it also that
un individual school himself to hear
patiently the host of passing ir-
ritations which come from thno to
'• time to everyone, but which though
Apparently trifling, do yet, if they
are allowed to induce worry of nand,
tend to wear life away and to weak-
en the effective powers of the soul.
In this rushing, distracting age the
causes, or at least occasfons, of
mental worry are probably increas-
ing. If so the need of an assiduous
effort to cultivate self-rnastery ap-
pears the more clearly, if men would
not become the abject serfs of cir-
cumstance, tbe fretted hirelings of
business or galley -slaves of an in-
sistent professionalism.
The need of sell -control appears
slso in view of the pbysical risks to
which all are liable. Danger is all
• about us. No one knows when ri
crisis will be precipitated calling for
the exercise of the utmost self-con-
trol end the greatest alertness and
resource. A gentleman known to Us
was recently travelling on the ears
In the West, when suddenly the end
of a, raii struck through the goofing
six Mello from where his loot rested,
over a hundred feet of connected YOU MAY NAVE 15111.
rails continuing past him on through I aM SO glad that I met you while
the roof of the coach, before the Yon are in the twenties. You are
train came to a standstill. Our laying out ya'sr plans, and all your
Mend reiraculouely escaped, imam- life in this world and tho next for
while retained his presence of mind De., hundred minion years of your
with milicient coolness to steady the existence will he affetted by those
. nerves of his fellow passengers also. plans. It is about 8 o'clock in the
That Was an experience fortuantelY morning of en er lite, and you are
decidedly exceptional. But the corer- juet starting out. Width way are
else of a similar self-control is likely yen going to start ? Oh, the twen-
to be &mantled at any moment un- tios !
dor circumstances which win prove' .enwenty" is a greet word in the
the undoing -of any man who rloes Bible. Joseph was sold Inc twenty
not hold hinreelf in tho tight grit: piqeen cif ?jiver; Samson judged Is -
of it supreme zriastery of his wits rao twenty years : 80190i0n gin:NC
and feeliege.. Hiram twenty cities ; the flying roll
- that. Zed:m.00h saw was twenty cue
vine manipulation, and then you
will get all you want and something
better. Are you looking for
wealth ? Well, remember that Clod
controls the . money markete, the
harvests, the droughts, the cater-
pillars, the locusts, the ninshine,
the Storm, the land, the ma, and
you will got wealth. Perham not
that which is stored up 111 the
banks, in safe deposits, in United
States :$cormitice, in houeen and
lands, but your clothing and 'board
and shelter, and that is about nil
you can appropriate anyhow. Yon
cost, the Lord o. great deal. To
feed and clothe and shelter you for
ri lifetime empires a big stun • of
money, end if you get nothing more
than the absolute necessities you
get. an enormous amount of supply.
Expect as much as you will of any
kind of success, if you expect it
from thc Lord you aro safe. De-
pend on any other resource end you
may be badly chagrined, but de-
pend on God and' all will be well.
It is a good thing in the crisis of
life to hove a man of large means
back you up. It is re great thing
to have O. moneyed institution
stand behind you in youe under -
tatting. But it is a mightier . thing
to have. the God of Deanen and
earth your coadjutor, and'
or attorney or broker or agent and
you would have plenty 01 bUSineflif.
How many houre you sat turn ,waitt
ed for 1001100e5, end waited in vain,
three mesons only know—Cod, P0110-
(410 and yourself. In commercial
life you bave not bad the PrellnlOcal
and the inereaele in eatery you an-
ticipated, or the place you expected
to oceupy in the firm has not bon
vacated. From thirty to lorty is all
especially hard time for young doe -
tors, yoeng lawyers, young mer-
chants, young farmers, young 'me-
chanics, young, ministers. The strug-
gle of the thirties is for Inineet and
helpful and remunerative recognition.
But few old people know how to
treat young people without patroniz-
ing them on theono hand or mob-
bing them on the other. Oh, the
thirties 1 Joseph stood before Pha-
raoh at. thirty. David was thirty
years old when he began to reign ;
the height of Solomon's temple was
thirty cubits ; Christ entered upon
his active ministry at thirty yenrs
of age e Juges sold him for thirty
opwriheicareAss:::.:t,ei.,,i,111a.ers,ugOgheLti,teheoftliiiii.'ittilweerh!
Next; I accost tbe fornies. 'Yours
is the • decode Of 'discovery. X do
not mann the discovery of the (fire-
side, but, the discovery of yourself.
No men Imowe himseii mail he is
forty. Ilo overestimates er under-
estimaten Ithuself. 13y that time
he hcrs learned what he can do or
what he cannot clo. Ile thought
he lind commercini genius enough
10 become it millionaire, but now he
is satisfied to make a comfortable
living. Now, calm yourself. Thank
Cod for the past and aeliberately
se your compass for anothee voy-
age. You have chased enough this-
tledown; you breve blown enough
soap bubbles; you have seen the
unsatisfying nature 01
.ALL EARTHLY THINGS.
Opeu a new chapter with God
and the world. Thin decade
rI tho forties ought to eclipee all
its predecessors in worship. 10 itee-
fulness and in happiness. "Forty"
is a great word in the Bible. God's
ancient people were forty years in
the cid ltlerness; Eli judged Israel
forty years; David and Solomon
and ..frilunteh reigned forty years;
when Joseph visited bis brethren, he
was forty years old. Oh, this
mountain top of the forties! You
have now tho character You
probably have for all time and all
eternity. Cod by Ills -grace, some-
times changes, a mtor alter the for -
bits; when the sailors of the ship
This self-mastery, so essential to on which Patil Sailed munded the
success, is • now 14 power Which is
susceptible of cultivation, although
in its complete strength it may be
doveloped only after years of labor-
ious training. 11 self-restraint be ex-
orcised day by day in the repression
4)3 ungodly anger or unholy appetite,
in the cultivation of cool, calm re-
eeercetulness under petty trials, and
in its thoughtful, judicious direction"
of the emotive 'powers of llfe, it
;3ettied habit of control, a permanent
tendency to sobriety and poise, will
he, induced, capable of enduring the
heavier strains of great crises. Ile
who • bas strengthened his muscles
refining patiently mile alter mile
with the borse,men, is fitted to en -
&re timid the swellings of .Tortlan.
GERMAN DOLLS.
It takes eighty men to =eke a (ler-
Ann doll, Emir man makes a inemil
portion of the 0011, but it is the
Mine, bit, all the time, and 1,000
dozen tIOIM Can be made in a day in
some of tho big faatories. Alter' the
Men finish the body portion, of tile
doll the women's worn begins. They
paint, dress rho dolls, end 110011 them
lor the Market.,
Mediterranean sea, it was twenty
fathoms. What mighty thivgs have and 3 and .1 and 5, but the figure 13,611- . . .
been done in the twenties ! Rona gives him it big jolt. Me says; oet teems to hnee. had sonnethieg of the "Walla that hind, regro blownig
twenty. Some of cannot be that I are sixty. Let me i eplrit Joeeph and Mender/ewe erfr,t. Whf:re he hit Me risito4/ky
UhiS lotintled Rome when he was
the mightiest examine the old family record. I !also were at elm time reemtego %Mt b4tt heckle!'
things for God and eternity Innen , 'the tliferk nee 43; J'ar%e
been done in the twenties. As long
as yon can put the figure 2 before
the other figure that helps floscribe
yore.. ago have high hopes about
you, Look out for that figure 2.
"%Vetch its continuance with ns much
earnestness as you ever Watched any-
thing about that promisod you sal-
vation or threatened you demoli-
tion. What a critioel Orne—the
twenties I While they continue you
decide your occumetion lind the min-
ciplee by which you will be guided ;
you 21clake year Most abiding friend-
ships ; you rtrrange your home life:
you An your habits. Lord Clocl Al-
mighty, for Josue Christ's sake have
mercy on ell the Men and worrier) in
the tWenLies
Next if [moot, those in the thir-
ties, You aro at an age when you
find what. ct tough thing is to got
recognized and establithed in your
oceupation or profession.
TEN YEARS AGO •
yon thotight all that was necessary
he has aterle enollghn it is the dendi
of indolence to. whiela he is Orem,
&Wag, end Goti generally talose the
man ett Iris word and lets Jelm Ole
right away. Nis brain, that under
the tension of heed Work IS Active,
NOW SUDDENLY SWIVELS.
Mem wnether.they rotiro iron eeernar
ur religious work, generally retire to
the grave. No Well man has a.
right to retire, Tnenvorla was me&
to Work. There rernalnoth a rest
for the people of (loci, Mit It is in a•
sphere beyond the renal of telescopes.
'Ny subject next accosts these in
Ole sevdnties and bey.ond, My word
10 them is Ong/ninth-Won. You have
'got nearly if not quite through. You
breve safely cresFied the sea of lire
, and are about to enter tire lowboy
There may be some work Sor you yet
on n small or a large seale.
Ilis-
niardle of Germany vigorous ,in the
eighties. The prime minister. of Eng-
land strong at seventy-two, ' Haydn
composing his oratorio, "The Cone
Lion, ' itt oventy years of age. Isoc-
ratee doing somas of Ms best work
at seventyefour. Christian men and
women in all departments 'serving
God enter becoming septuagenarians
and octogenanians and nonagenex-
fans prove tbat tbere aro possibili-
ties of work for the aged, but I
think you who ane missing the sev-
enties are near being tetough.
• But the most of you will never
reach -the eigbtles or the seventiee or
the sixties or the fifties or the for -
flea Ire Wee passes lett-) the forties
has gone far beyond the average, of
huinan life. Amid the uncertainties
take teoci throligle Christ nesus as
Oottr pepeent find eternal safety. The
longest,life is only a small frugment
of the gimat eternity, We will all cif,
us soon' be there.
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
PEI3.
Text 41 the Lesson, Acts v., 25-
42. Gorden Text, Matt.
v. 10.
25. "Behold, the men whom ye put
in prison are standing in the tempie
and teaching' the people." This was
the message which was brought to
the high priest, council and soutte
of the children of Israel as they
waited to receive the pri•soners whoth
they had arrested the evening before.
Multitudes of inen and 'Immo were
believing, and multitudee of sick
and demon possessed people not only
in Jerusalem, but also from the
cities roundabout, wore healed. ')'bo
work was going so grandly that the
high priest and Sadducees Fthriply
could not stand it and so put. the
apostles . in prison. God, whoa
they were and vvhom they. served.
sent an angel by night and released
them from prison and sent them to
the term& to continue their Minis -
changes himself. Tell me, 0 men nng,
try, and there they aro footed teach -
instead of in the prison under
Gee, but after that a =an never
UM power Of the authovities. They
and women who are in the fortiee
belonged to God.
213-28. "Behold, ye have filled Je-
rusalem with your doctrine and in-
tend to bring this man's blood upon
your habits of thought and lam
and I 'Will tell you.. what you will
forever be. I might make a mis-
take once in a thousand times, but
.not more Lhan in that proPortion. us," The high priest reminds thorn
Ify sermon, next accosts the fifties.
, that they. had been forbidden to
Bow queer it looks when in writ- teach in the narne of Jesus and then
ing your age • you make first of adds this word, unintentionally giv-
the two figures a "5." This is a, de- ing good testinrony to their zeal, lent
cede which shows while:the other de- evidently forgetting that the people
caties have been. If a young -Man
hnd cried, "Ills blood' be. one us and
on our children" (Matt. xxvii; 25).
29-32. "We ought , to obey God
rather than men." Thus replied
Peter and again accused them to
their faces of being the inuederers of
Jesuo whom God raised from the
88, ail thin Otiose). thie Work
be of Veen it will 00M0 :to nauffiltii”
II0.enay bane rellualibered these
words, 'The Lerd bringeth the Mim-
eo' of Ore 1108111011 10 naught; Ile
nnehoth the devices of the people of
mine effect," (Ps. xxxiii, 10; 500 oleo
Mee rill, 0 10, for very strong
wee& in Ode 4e:emotion.) Lt is a
great comfort to the troo believer
to nnow that they that war against
hiM slpill bo as nothing, and AS a
thing of naught and tient nO wetepon
formed against hira can proper (lee,
12; liv, 17), •
• 80, "If it be Of God, ye cannot
overthrow it, Met hanlY, ye be found
°Yell 1,0 ilght againet God." it ie
Written that "every purpose 01 the
Lord Mall be performed," and "The
Lewd of 110ats 'both sworn, saying,
Suroly as I have thought so shall it
COMO to pass, and aS 1 have pupae,
ad, shall it stand," and again,
"The counsel ot the Lord, standeth
forever, the thoughts of His heart to
all generations" (Jer. 31, 29; Isa.
xiv, .24; Ps, )x.nili,
40. "They commanded that they
should not spore% in the name of
Jesus," With the repetition of this
ungodly eon rebellious eon:inland
they are beaten and let go. Row
the devil hates that Mune at which
every lean shall yet bow and concern-
ing which , bvory tongue shall yot
confess that Jesus .Christ is Lord,
to " the glory of God the leather!
(Phil. ii, 10, 11.) Jesus told His
dieeiples that they would be deliver-
ed up to themouncits and elm scourged -
and brought before goyernors and
kings, foe His sake (Matt. x,:1.7,18).
41, "Rejoicimen. that they were,
counteicl reorethy to „suffer ammo for
Ilirineme." What' a glorlinte realitn
i$ Ile.1,orte 'lasers tO these2W110 oan
take, such treatment, not only with-
out eesentment; but eyen jeyfully!
Backs scourged and bleeding, full of
pain physically, but full of joy in-
wardly—Mew great, is the grace of
God! They wore already tasting
that wbich Paul was afterward told
concerning tho great, things ho mot.
stiffer for Christ's sake (chapter ix,
16). --
42. "And daily in the temple and
in every house they ',ceased not to
teach and preach Jesus Chelan!'
Thus they obeyed God rathel than
man and were rcetly for the next
beating or imprisonment rOr so do-
ing whenever Clod might see 111 to
lee it come. As Peter and John
said, they could not help doing it;
like Jeremiah, when tempted to
speak no • more in Pris.name, they
liad such a burning fire within them -
that they were weary if they did not
speak; or, like Either, they felt that
they would bin•st 0 they did not
speak (Acts iv, 20; Jer. xx, 0; Job.
xxxii, 18-20).
sown wild oats -and he has lived up
to this time, he reaps the harvest of it
-in, the fifties, or if by necessity he
was compelled to overtoil 111 honest
directions he is called to -settle up
!cni,11 exacting nature somethem dur-
mg the fifties. Many have it so hard
hand, to be a Prince and a Saviour
right
in early life that they are octogenar- iacaa "a cxxlted with Ills
ions at fifty. Sciaticas and rheuma- I give repentance and forgiveness. of
Gams and neoralgias and vertigos It?
Lems even Lo such as They were. That
and insoinnins have their playground it is not possible to please God and
in the fifties. - You have made so I please the world lying in the
many voyages you ought to be a.th.
wreked one is seen in Gal. i, 10 ;
good sailor. So long protected rued
Luke xvi, 18; Jas. iv, 4. Men
blessed, you ought to ha.ve a soul inpostles were in conscious partner -
full of doxology. in 73ible times in
with Ole Lioly Spirit, vrho was
Canaan every fifty years was by ishil)
tiathene, and He, the Spirit, WaS the
God's emumand a year of jubilee. ' ke through,their lips even as
The people did not work that year.3
If property bad -by misfortune gone 'Jesus had said, "It is not ye that
speak, bat' the Spirit of your Father lent The fulness at the back Is laid
out of one's 'possession, on the. fifti-
eth year It came back to Irian If he wb4
°AN .
ch ePeaketh in you" (Matt. n, inverted which. are flat et
had fooled it, away IL was' returned neg the waist line, and meet 'closely over
11 a 33. "Wire:: they heard that, - they the seam, but fall in ruffles at the
without a farthing to pay.
man hncl • been enslaved, he was- in
Una year emancipated. A trumpet
was soUnded loud and elver end
long. and it was the
OP JUBLLES.
They shook hands, they laugh-
ed, they congratulated. What a
time it was, that fiftieth year! And
if under the old dispensation it was
such re glad time, tinder our new and
more glorious dispensation lee all
\TO LET HP IN BOB WAR,
UNTIL =I..) ENEMY 1$ 001t1e
. PLETISLY SUBDUED.
Tient acreeph Chambeelnin Says
the WaV Will be Breseed to
Its Conclusion.
DiseUseing the Pregreee of the
South 'African Weer in his lill'ilelag"
hum, Jengltincl, MOO, Joseph
Chamberlain •
When r,o1.1 Ilene wild and vvilfril
ttelle about negotiallons which are to
be casually undertaken in some nub-
ile house on the continent, when you
ere told even by the highest, farther-
ity thie country thee prochurot-
tions solemnly adopted at the torg-
gestion of or with the sulesequent aln
provel of Colonial Governments are
to be rowelled ia presence of the en-
emy, 'velum you aro advised to offer
or to necept tOrntbi of peace,
10 the word $ of that calm and reso-
lute opeoch .whleh was made -by Lord
Milner two days ago—terms of peace
which, in his words, would preserve
the political dualism in Africa, in
substance although not in ' form --
then I say to you remember that you
do not stand alone, that you have
allies, and that you are not entitled
to maim '1151100 unless It is upon
terms which will be satisfactory* to
these office, who have sent of their
best to fight and to die in a common
cause. , Meanwbile, gentlemern the
War goes on -slowly, 'doebt, but
ineed
TO PPS SETTLED CONCLUSION,
FIVIre,-(1011ED, WALIC.ING SKIRT.
22 to 32 Waist,
The popularity of the skirt that
clears the ground long since became
an established fact. This latest mo-
del is shown in tobacco browu chev-
iot with stitched bands; but it is
suited to golf cloth, homespun, and
all the materials adapted to the pur-
poses for which it is designed.
The skirt is cut with five gores,
that axe cut to fit snugly about the
hips and to flare freely as it one
preaches the feet. . As shown, the
graduated circular flounce is arrang-
edeover the lower portion, so provid-
ing additionai grno and fulness; but
'the skirt can be left, plain if prerdre
Were cut ,to •the beart and tool,.
counsel to slay them." Not only
was the Mood of Jesus upon them,
but they were ready to bring Amon
themselves the blood of the apostles
lower edge.
To Cut thiS f:hirt in the medium
sive 41 yards of material 44 inches
wide or 4 yards 112 inches wide will
be required when the flounce is used;
Wee. Before they killed Jester then 3: yards 44 inches wide, :3 yarde 52
desired to kill Lazarus, WhOM Jona inches wide 0 the skirt is plain.
raised from the dead (John xil, 10). - --n.
The truth of God when not meekly WI117 VIE BUMP WAS TBLella
rec.eived mokes manifest, that "the
carnal mind is enmity against God" "This Protuberance on the back
(Rom. viii 7)1 of the head," said the phrenologist.
who have come to the fifties hear :34, 85. "Ye men of Israel, /Ake professor, ae he turned his young
the ;trumpet of jubilee. that I now iheed to yourselvea what ye intend to eubject towend the audience, "le the
blow. e . ,, do as touching these in et: .- 71 e tonsil of philoprogenitiveness. It
The beginning of that decade is more Icli for
'apostles, being sent out of the 'mar, Pri'iveS lu the preemie CDSO this boy
a little wbile, Guranliel, e. hoe en ontraordittorn love toe hie
- My minion next, accoets the sixties.
startling than any other. In his learned and honoreide unnoter, ' at Parenee. le .... not erne, toy son 8". '
chronological journey the man rides 1 whosc lett. Saul ....f Tarene heti eon "Well, 1 like my mother, hot 1
rather !monthly over the figures 2 i educated (chanter %ni), fie, thee be- don't 1(15000- "°`Ii• met dadaY."
1 ' • t - Ile "Why how In that ?"
There bas ,been a great improvee
Ment InIthe,eituation &riper the re-
cess. I can .give no bireter histenhe
of it, tban by Informing you that the
rallways.in the. Transvaal and the
Orange River Colony are now work-
ing almost as in normal times. 3n.
the 12 months between JUno 1900,
and June, 1903., there were 2.8n in-
terruptions of the line; the, line was
blown up; trains were eLoppail or fir-
ed into—very often when they con-
tained wounded men and women and
children. But during the last three
months there has not been a single
intmemption. Meanwhile, every clay,
O larger arca is being cleared of the
enemy, and being protected by that
iron•girdle of blockhouses wbich Lord
Kitchener has devised, and which aro
inexorably" barring out the •Boers
from the territory we have.occunied—
driving them into districts in which
our troops, I hope, will be able to
dal them. '
EFFEOT8 OF EATilfiFIDAIlt
IT$ INELVENCE ON BEITISIX
OPPIcERS ON Tan 174L:cyr.
Vro2). the Zac4st Air of rAgland
Into the lineefled Ale' et
South Ahrien.
it 111 one el Jules Verne's
stories that two men set, teet to
and) a mountain, As they went
highor and- Mailer up the air grow
more revelled and Provoked such
Mobility hi both thret they felrinea
an fogey queered. They challenged
each other tO, immedinto duel and
termed to no down the mountain
side fer their WeapOlf,S. ;But ea they
deecended into the lower streta 01
Itir their normal eonnition was re-
ritored and when they got. to the foot
of the mountain they were fast.
friends again,
A man who went from England to
the Boer etm, Wiens that
Generals and others in going from
Ole moist air of the Thames into tbe
rerelled air of tho South' Afritran
veldt, 8,000 to 1,1,000 feet above the
sea and a thousand miles away from
It may haVe passed through some
such mental transformation as the
mountain. climbers.
An instance of what Is meant was
furnished by two, Colonels of inean-
try who' rode out of Bloemfontein
one day with a couple of junior offi-
cers and en orderly, to shoot .buck.
Thee, none •cf, dozen miles noth .and
then to end fro among the. kopjee„, .
NOT A SENSATIONALIST.
It would be almost impertinent in
me to praise Loed Kitchener. Lord
Ritchener cloes not, draft sensational
despatches. J. daresay we all wish
sometimes that he wrote at g•reater
length; but he keeps, his own coun-
sels, And I think his countrymen ap-
preciate a great man when they have
lound him, They recOgnize the stern
resolution, the evcill-thought-out plan
'by which he is successfully dealing
with the most diflieldt task that has
ever fallen in modern times to any
nation to accomplish, We are proud
of the general; we axe proud of -the
army. To compare any other army
to it, is to pay the highest comple-
ment in our power. We are proud of
their heroic. courage. I think we are
Prouder still of the endurance—the
(Overfill endurance—which they have
strewn undeenthe hardships of this
exceptional camPaign, and sre are
Prouder of the unwavering humanity
that, even nt, great cost to themselv-
es they have constantly shown toll.=
troops opPosed to them and to the
civil population which has been at
their mercy.
Vet fonntl Poge sport.
It was. at a time when the Boers.
wore .watching for the next 'British
•itclvanc,e arid patrols , of the bdrgher
commandoes were active and Watch-
ful, These two Colonels were old
hands in the service ,and to sonoa oi
their friends it eeemed that nothing
but lightheadedness could explain
what they did when the buck failed
them,
They rode on for it good stretch.
outside of tbelr own outposts, Sud-
denly one of them. caught sight of
motinted
movraa unES,
a score of them, among the felds ol
the veldt a mile away.
"Come on, they're Boers Let's
round them lip I" shouted the older
and senior Colonel, and off - gal-
loped with the three officers cleft on
his heels oncl the orderly chasing be-
hind.
What the Men of Ore Boca' patrol
thought is not recorded, but at once
they spread out and puehed their
horses on as hard as they could to-
ward the dark boulders along the
base of the nearest foothills, the
buck shooters tearing alter them,
Once among the boulders the Zarpe—
for they proved to be men of the
Transvaal police, Jumped off, got
cover and turned to take the mea-
sure of thole amazing' pursuers.
They result came 80011. shot.
one of tire junior officers dead
through the brain, shattered the arm
of another, wounded 0710 . of the Col-
onels in the thigh and pierced the
wrist of the other, besides disabling
the. orderly.* They laid out their men
in the nearest farmhouee, dressed
their wounds turd sent a ineseenger
to J3loonfontein for Mal= aid.
Both Colonels got a severe repri-
mand. But possibly a ))r. Ohare0t,
or it brain specialist, conld have
understood their aberration hotter
than a field marshal 1,0 whom it pre-
sented only a case of reckless breach
of discipline. .
One of the divisional Generals,
whose forte was not. ii'ence, or bal-
ance even in the mc it rAetful of air,
finished his South African appertain
ities in the careless rapture of a gate
lop very like tbo race of the been -
hunting °Slicers. Ile was to link thle
forces with those of another general
in completing a lino of conummica-
tirtist,
when the other met him he
was dashing along on the veldt,
except for a handful of bodyguards,
swallowing the "heady" air as
though it was the most
PROUD Ole MILNElt.
We aro proud, also, of our Admin.
istrator, proud. of Lord Milner, tho
great publie servant whose labors no
man can over-e.stimate, who, day end
night, is working out the great
stherao for the regeneration of the
new 'colonies, who Buda men—I do
not know whether he knows of them
—mean enough in this country to
take the opportunity to:bracken his'
character, to call foh MS recall, to
attribute to him motives of the most
-unworthy, cheraMer. 't Gentlemen, 41.0.
hie his reward in the negarct arid ap-
proval. of the -vast. ntajority of Ills
fellow citizens; he haiiit in, the eon-
fidence Of the Govan/Mart, the 0On:
&lento Or hifi SOVereigh; and he will
not flinch, he will not turn out of
MS way, because a number of ill -
beer' eurs aro barking at his heels,
We aro proucl al him, we are proud
of the band of skilful and Zealous
and patriotic colleaguen with evhom
be is working. As in the military
operationn, progress, end Civil Gov-
ernment follows elose upon their
heels. When peace has been proclaim-
ed we shall nod an adminisiretion
already in our hands. The industry
in the two colonies ife reviving, The
refugees Fere reeterning in greet 'roma'
bers to their homes and Omit. work.
got rny mine down wrong in the roil F,5fha We (10 Tait knew (310-4 11 enter'
of birthe." But, no, the olcler brotle-1neenited Jeenin see 1(4 Cheint. hot.. l'AtiMrIST r'14'
e01 or sisters reniember the three of iiram the teledone 01 trli; (Ma a thl ISO, mete of tine leen/
his athent, and ti,ere is some mitt- addrPlaS IT.t.ff 611 Olt= WiPPO,:i !LVOV C-',00, 7r01004 Jbe7i,01W,04t beffiy: the ses-.
Viva a year Older and unether rela-'Satil venni eenek (no, 0114(1101 015' to1,A,g51m Nil lte
two a youngor, ann, sere ene toneener we may hope tenet he rneageng the ea;nrlee Or VS 04.0 MOM,
°ugh, the fact is established beyond 30, 37. "IrerOM, The fenereeee t.1 eneentere
all disputation. Now. your L0it011:44f i• -•,j ffr flko 05.:04.1401:g eOfO. frOffi 4:4440
great danger is the temptation to eomentedy." Ifo ,;000l0 it1 t. leneren ennee 41 the red:rnileozi 04 1h4
fOld up your faculties and quit. Yea 'deneinore '0114 ; (16 114m. 11154 fe
will feel e tendency to retnintseence f011owing, t,2010.3' Sr, 0,101 31,0 saritg 41
If yon clO not. look oat, you wilt be- or: nerieneel ;nee e..• nenee efern .eint eneeereee "t'nq nr,r, 14.!.1001 irt.14
gin almost eeerything with Ole disperener eenne eheteerne on.1 00,1 eaterioe
words, "When 7 wus n boy." But is thee `le M
you ought to make the eixties more eonieberly." whh. re 644 Melt. 64 104.0, J.::
memorable for God and the truth tee Lord eeeke io, ea,„,,ne. (nen; nett.0111140114 1iirit 1015 11' 'ram' *311-1(0 (31
than the tittles or the forties or the Tile aritiehrist n%ollf aoo (W-ArMi '-ew 11(01 .,trc,,;,q, 0 0'04(11)
thirelee, You ought 40 do mere der- his own will nod eintel nznet enneeen ;111,01. Wenas ist,e; hy 11 maJeri.fy
Ing the next ten years' than „you did ,erid imsngalfy hInteelf Mktg xf, :44), 4fo
atly thirty years of your life be- brit the Lord :Teem, Cbre.t teergen,
muse of all the experience emu have neither Ilis own will nor Min own
Sad. You bays r:omanaled enough glory (John vi, 813; Yi)1, poi tord Gee de hernythen "Theo beetee Of
inistakeil in life tO mitko you who! Teton the greet apoetle, determined Stettin1 eelenek eVefteillth
above your jUni0111, lifoW, +leder the
nceumulnied lightof your pest ex-
perimenting go to 'work ter Codas
for euccess leas to mut On Von never tiefore, 'When m nem in the
tor the slga of phypf olio or dentist sixties folds tip his energies and icicle
to know nothing but "jeous Christ
and ITim ermined," hie mottoes bee
irtg "Not I, IAA Gimlet," "Not
but tho vete of Cod" Coy. if, 2;
nve 10; (let, it 20), •
they're not emir) for yet, Johnny--
:"That'a ell nonstrome If there 10
avYthirns in that, -Irby do' 1, my coat
and- 'test And nry'trootere and nay
hat squeak Ida %it
NO '111011 FOR, FEAR-- -
Large scheinea of development aro
being clevieed, and preparation Winn.
ing made for the re-seeteement of the
lend - for the resumption of agricul-
tural operation. That is not 011,
The obsolete and corrupt legislation
of the Trannveal Goverernent ham
beers reviewed We have wiped the
stele chem. That im nothing. Any
ethoolboy tato do that. But WO have
wriefee on tho slate thee, WO haVO
<defined the prieciplen of jest and
ftermet, goverronent, under which, in
the interim, the two twee may live
it)/ fj,110/.11 inspect, enjoying equal
nt,ifte end equal liberties,- and in
(ohne, /net, vent, peptiltteion of na-
tives, for width we have become 0-0-
1 010/ r 11100170 00 proCec-
tiob ,1011€41(10rOMOA, (1!;xtt1e01111,
We Are tO Meet Parliattient in a few
deye f nope and believe that the
(Moen of Parliament evill be the
temper of the netion, Tide' is not
the tone for weak-kneed exhortation
or eollereds of fear. Wo 3m ave only.to
Mitate the natignilitieill, cell:stow
and reindution of the people of title
country end the Aunty metrioeirerreef
our colonies, end we retail itellieve a
reeult that Will nudity the mei:H(1mM
theti, lye Mae Made, which Will con-
firm foreme00 out dominion in Month
Afriea, end Will ternerd, the Unity of
rimpt0,,
SPARKLING. Ole 011A.M1AGNES:
Asked' where his division 01410 he
Made a, sweeping gesture to the 'hor-
izon- and rode cm. 'Ile \veto helve* '
away Vona his comIlland.
Some such inehtal disturbance pro-
veked by breatliing this air may bo
put forward perhaps to explain the
proceedings oftho three officers el
the intelligence Department who wero
sent out from tho War Office in Lon-
don before tho negotiatione between
the British and Transvaal Govern-
ments were broken off, They were to
report -what force would be• mode()
it it Caine to war.
All three wont different ways under
aSSIIMed names, grew beards, wore
ready-made suits and mixed with
farntere and stoeleraisers as men who
meant to adopt that life. They wee°
to watch end listen, look for ,signs,,
Jung° OM situation and report.
Their final estimate was that e .
'force from Blighted of 50,000 men
could conquer the two republics in
three ntonths. Dut much esteemocl as,
they Were by thetr superiors In Lon-
don, °Veil the latter seemed to have
pet down something to the unbal-
ancing effect of their South African
sureonntlings, for they mot one 150,-
000 Men and told them they had a
six months' fob.,
ITow had the .11oern escnped
flightiness ? Perlunis by constantly
living in their brilliant, air and know -
nig 00 othee they hay° Mailed just •
What can bo sorely done lir it. There'
Is something in their economy oi
speech—they have probably the small-
est vocabulary of any wide° race --in
their entlee indifference to all (viol -
Lions of speculative . philosophy
which may ' BEM) LW!. 111113110 from
ortain risks.
Then there is the soft, voice of the
bearded burghers that, ,tontratite 110
nthengely with their bigboned figure:5
aml the elimination of ell 'vloleet
exeetion—for even their sant On
boroback is as eon eh a rocitiU8
chair—that may Mean NOM a meting
lopeon: learned frOm*1 the air eremite
them. Their eyrie go into. it farther
than good Mad &ISMS have onebled
11.1081, MO» Or ,o1..hor reeve to so.
The first, medical (ndeitenre, the •
(Wilms gun, wee peel WO in 1801;