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Saarr, 30, 1899
BRUEEBILS POST.
VARIOUS KINDS OF LIGHTS.
REV. DR, TALMA.GE DISCOURSES ON
THE BIBLE,
It Is a haloid 1•er the Parlour, tete Meet, iho
store, the church, and 1114 Sepeh,hre.-
The piques. of One t•lttes The Great
Need ern Ntore etotsp- Eitt•nesa teen for
the light of tee script res.
A despatch from Washington says: -
Dr. To/range prorated from the fol-
lowing text: "Thy word is a lamp."
--Psalm exix. 105,
With lamps, and ebandelkers, and
Lovelies, and lanterns, we l.ry to drive
out the night from houses and i•hurrll-
es, and stores, and shops. TIe who in-
vents a new kind of light invents his
hie
.
own fortune and the fortune of
children. 'Rut there is a night of sin,
and suffering, and shame, which needs
another kind of illumination. Anoient
philosophy made a lamp. but it was a
dead failure, and the people kept crying
out: "Give us a light 1 give us a
light 1" After awhile prophet, and even -
genet, end apostle made a lump, A
coal from heaven struck it Into a blaze,
and uncounted multitudes of people
with an open Bible before them cry
out; in rapture and in love: "Thy word the howl unit the whoop of drunkards,; young man in a store rn Boston, stand -
is clamp•„ and the saloons boil over with WWII and. int behind the rount.er, selling goods.
When, a few years ago, there was publ.to oftioi.als think mora of a bribe A ge»Lloman game in, and asked for
than they do of their own oonseience, some Middlesex cloths. O," said the
a great accident in Hartley Colliery, and when great odes of wickedness young man, "wve haven't any A'fiddlesex
England, and two hundred persons last' set down the streets -the first want (If cloths, but bare is eomel.hints just as
their lives, the Queen telegraphed such a tt.ty asp that is the street lamp Rood." "No," replied the gentlemen,
down to the seine of disaster ; "Can we of the Bible. 1Jid you evar stunts in Food."
don't want them ;" and ire passed
a church Lower and .oak down upon a out. The ileal of the firm came down
give you any help? Will you he able city at rd lat'5 It Is overwhelming.' to the young man, and said: "Whet dtcl
to got the .men out? Flow many aro
lost? Give my sympathy to all the
bereft," What consolation it was to
the families who stood amid the con-
sternation and the terror, that the
throne of England throbbed in sympa-
thy with their disaster 1 But i have the sighings of the prisoners came up . tttl he bonnie a. merchant prince, and he, dispelled, when God truth shall go
to tell you toa more , ua a is ear and made music or him, iety^ Gad will never let a Young man want no sappers or miners to level the
truth, and that Is, from the throne of -God Mande at the head of our world, j p p
no nr(h too grand for religion to walk) °hent'wincos of Tyra -lent great city
ve50Dls of trade with cedar mttst.s and
embroidered soils, and ivory henehes,
driven by fierce Mote on Northers
waters, and then dropping down on
Messy Indian seas; bringing wino from
Het hon; and chariot cloths from th,-
dan, and gold and spices from ]tuhmalt,
end emerald and agate from Syria; her
waters foaming with innumerable
keels; her derv. -houses bursting with
the treasures of all Indiana -that
queen of cities, on a throne of tvory
and ebony, under n orown of gold,
anti. pearl, and diamond, and carbuncle
and ehr•ysopras? The want of u right
kind of store lamp. If the principles
under, and no etrole too brilliant for of fairs and bazaars, and palaces; her
rellginn t0 movo in. If t`bust.iamty
at last is to 'walk up the streets of
heaven, with sornphim, and. archangel,
it is gond enough to go anywhere where
you go or where 1 shall go, To purify
the heart, to claanee the life, to cul-
ture the taste, to expurgate all by -
000 10y, and Loleeliood, and sham, we
must hove the Bible in the parlour,
When Christine people come to spend.
an evening, they talk about the wen-
they, unci they talk about: the wan -
dal, tied they talk ah0111 the crops, and
they talk about the markets; but they
do not talk about God, and Christ., and
heaven. The thing wo most want to-
d.ay in all our parlors is the lamp 'of of religion had ruled in her trade, do
the lIlite. you suppose that dry rot would have
Still further; the Bible Is the street sunk the ships, and that vermin would
lunlp• 'When night comes down on have eaten zip her robes, and 'het God's
the city, crime goes forth to its worst mills would have ground up the agate,
aehievemenls. Not only to sbow hot- and that fishermen would dry their
est citizens where to walk, but is nista on the reeks which once were
hinder the burglar, and assassin, and aquake with the roar and tread of a
highwayman, and pickpocket, wo must great metropolis? 0, wvbat thrones
have artificial lights all over. the city. have fallen, what monuments have
But these is a darkness beyond all entailed, what fleets have sunk, what:
power of gaslight, What is the use statues have been defected, what bar -
of police -station, and almshouse, and 1 barisms have been created, weal 01 -
watchmen's club, if there be no mor- vilizaLion retarded, what nations
al and religious influence to sanction damned, all for the want. of theright
the law, and to purify the executive, kind of a st.ore lamp, 'len of business!
and to hang over legal enactment the take your Bibles with ,you to -morrow
fear of God and an enlightened publio morning. Plane them in your stoic or
opinion. When in a city crime runs -shop. 'Do not be ashamed if anybody
rampant, and virtue, is at a discount, at noon finds you reading the Scrip -
and Jails are full and churches are tures, It is safe always to do bust -
empty, find the nights are hideous Will nest by its teachings, There was a
•
Good Fele ,
MakesH4 alth
And Mood's Sarsaparilla makes good
blood, That is why it aures Be many
'diseases and makes so many people feel
better than ever before. If you don't feel
web, are half sick, tired, worn out, you
may be made well by teeing
Hood's ara,�v'��r�iitf
Oanada'e Greatest Medicine,
HeDDts MIS cure all reveries. 25 owls.
eeeeeeesseeeeeeseeeweeeeeeoeeacsecweeetrseee
ages blossoming from pit. to dome; but
there is something in- the place and
in the occaslou that makes it super-
natural. In the light of this larnp 1
see ynui' faces kindle with great. ,joy.
Glorious church lump, this Bible. Lu -
thee found it 1 thecloister t T •fur
f n n Lft .t t,
and ho lifted it until the monasteries
and cathedrals of Germany and Italy,
and Prance and England sow ire il-
Iemin,tLion. It alwne under the
Brent: plata of saverdotul authority,
and in the mosques of Turkey, and
in the pagodas of India, and in the
tea huts of ,Greenland, and in the 'mud
hovels of Afriee, and in the Temples bf
China, God's regenerated cbildren, in
musical Tamil, and. sweet Italian, and
nasal Chinese, and harsh Choctaw,
cried out: "Thy Word is a lamp." It
throws its light on the pulpit, reeking
a bulwarlc of truth; on the baptismal
cup, until lis waters glitter like the
crystals of heaven. It strikes peni-
tence into the prayers and. gladness
into the thanksgiving. It changes into
a church John Bunyan's prison, and
Covenanter°s Cave, and Calvin's castle,
and Htiss'S stake, and Hugh Arcliall's
scaffold of martyrdom. Zwin lus car-
ried it. into Switzerland,.Tnhc le irkfield
But you feel that. beneath alt that tbat man want?" "He wanted Middle- into England, and John Knox into Scot -
brilliancy of ga.,light there is a sung-' sex cloths,' replied the young man, lend, and Jelaudi Asbmen into Africa.
ing sea of want, and buffering, and ; "Why didn't yon tell him they were Begone ye scoffers'! Down to the low -
woe. History says that 1Jiony'sdus bad a i Middlesex cloths "Because they were est p11, ye miswrite of darkness l for
great cave built for leis prisoners, Ile' not, std:' "Then you can take your I by the throne of an omnipotent judg-
Wtts a oruel muni and he used wigs to hat, and leave." That young -mon took . ment 1 (lecture it that all inquiry shall
the lop of the cavo, put his eat/to the his het anti. left. Ile vent into mer -'frill, and, all bondage be broken, and
opening and listen, and the groans and
chandize in Cineinnai.i, went on up all wounds be healed, and all daeknoss
glorious t h' 1 d i f 1' not more eminent for wealth than for' forth as a laxnp .brit burneth" Wo
but for at different purpose, and with' el for rising right. Full justice wall; •we want no axame'n or engineers
God elle King of heaven and earth tele- a different heart. lie puts His ear to! may not be done bun in this world;;to .prepare the way ; we want no gilt -
graphs down through this Bible into the dungeo1, and (very, sigh condos up, i but in the last day, before an as- tering steel, or l-noaning gun, or bowl -
the dungeons of our sin and suffering stirring Ills sympathies, and every •• ambled omens e,L51 will
ebe re Mid out , Ening' •ftcHotchkiss shelfmouo et usre the vie-
£ull e -
i, r horses and chariots of fire. Hallelu-
jah I for the kingdoms of this world
ere become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christ. I do not wonder that
the stranger who sot the other day be-
side, me in the 'rail -car reading his Bi-
ble, after he had concluded his read-
ing, closed it, and kissed lt, and put ft
In his pocket. There have been ttmos
when' you did the same. When all else
failed you, it was so bright, it was so
loving, it was iso sympathetio a book
that you too kissed it.
Still further the Bible is a sepul-
chral lamp. ,You know that the an -
tient Egyptians used to keep lighte
burning rn the tombs of their dead.
These lights were kept up for scores,
raven hundreds of years. Friends would
came from generation to generation
and, put all in the lamps, and it was
considered a disaster of those lamps
went out. Yon and I will some day go
down into the house of the dead. Some
have looked open 1t as an unknown
land and when they have thought of
it, their' knees have knocked together
and their hearts fainted. There were
whole generations of men that had no
comfort about death, no view of the
eternal world, and whenever they
larought their friends and put them
away into the dust, they said, with-
out: any alleviation: "This is horrid,
this is. torrid," And it was. The grave
is the deepest, ghastliest pit that a
men ever looks in, unless the lamp of
God's word flaahes into R. For whole
ages men thought that: the sepulchre
was a Glen wirers a great monster gorg-
ed himself on human carcasses. " I will
put. an end to thee," said Jesus nf Naz-
areth: " I with mine own voice go
down and make darkness flee ;" and
as He stepped out from the gate of
heaven, ell the. graveyards of eavth
erten: " Como I Come 1" And He came
down, bringing e great many beauti-
ful lights, and above this babe's grave
, to lasing a light, and over this molh-
er's tomb He hung a light, and over
this wife's )grave IIs -hung a light, end
over. all the sleeping -places of t.be
Christian dead IIe hung 0 light. Then
He uttered His voice, and it ran along
under the ground iron city to city,
and along under the sea from contin-
ent; to continent, until mnasoleum,end
sarcophagus, and sepulchre throbbed
With the joys -"I eiA the resurrection
and the life, he that bolieveth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live.'
0 ye bruised souls! 0 ye who have
been cutting yourselves among the
tombs! 0 ye who have beau sowing
seal for the resurrection day! 0 ye
of the broken heart 1 I come out to-
day incl 'Prat In y'o'ur head this glor-
ious Gospel temp, 11 will throw a glow
of consolation over your bereft spirit,
" Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning." "Ther'
that saw in tears will reap in joy,'
Rabht 112ter went. off from .tome to be
gene for a few days, end left Iwo beau-
tiful boys. While he was gone the two
lads died. Rabbi Mier returned, not
knowing that anything happened. His
Christian wife knew he would. be over-
come with grief, end. she met. him at
the door and said to him: "My bus -
hand, I once had two beautiful jowels
loaned to me. If had tilers for tt little
white, iAnd do you know while you
were gone the ol0n101 came for them,
Ought T to hfeve given them?" "01
course," said Rabbi Mier, "you ought
to have given them up, yen any they
were only loaned.." Then she called her
husband to the side -room and remov-
ed the clout .hat ceve.red the deed
children. After Rabbi slier had for a
few .moments given way to his grief,
he ruse up and sufd : "Now I' know'
what you meant by the borrowed jewv-
els. ' The toed gave end the Lord
bath' taken away, Plowed, be the same
01 the Lord." And s* Rabbi Mier was
1 le rat light
rL cl.T,at this se u h g
annuls. n 1
your dead, May
Ott all the graves ofyq
this Intl) of the text he set in all
your pat'inUrs, in ail your streets, in
ell your stores, in all your shushes,
in all your sopuietivos I Amen.
a message of pardon, of love, of sym- g:•''atu eon, mg 11 cart, and He
nthy, of comfort, of eternal life. Like IisLens alt night long. 'there is but
p ono lamp that nsn throw light into
some lighthouse on high promontory, the dungeon wh(re Ibis prisouor
blessed by ships passing through dark- groans, into the bevel where the beg -
nem anti storm, so on the heights of gat' pines, into the cellar where the
God's love and race there flames forth drunkard wallows, into the alloy where
g the Libertine ptitrifie:s, into the mal-
a light upon the great sea of man's house where the utaniaa dares. Tra-
wretchedness and 01 God's providence, yellers in Africa tell us that they have
so that angels on Oleic way earth- seen serpents -a vast number of there
-coiled th, and piled up in hor-
ward, and ransomed spirits on their riot told;togeand therou they would hear
way heavenward, and devils on their bnndrects of them hissing at once, and
way hellward, pass through its flash, the eight and the ,sound was appalling
Drying: "Thy word is a lamp:' and unbearable. But if you should
take the wickedness of our best of
You have four or five Bibles in your cities, and bring it all together in one
house -perhaps ten, perhaps twenty. place, and pile it up fold upon fold, it
They are such common property you woutd be a hissing horror and ghast-
do not appreciate there. If you had linens that no human eye could look
at wvithout being blasted, and no hu -
only one Bible, and for that you paid man ear could hear without being
five hundred dollars -the pried that Attuned.
was paid in olden time for a copy of Now, how will all these scenes of
the Scriptures -then yotl woulyd mors iTnhiqeuityw91in1not aur bo cities be overcome?
rcoe ntil
thoroughly appreciate it. I Was once the y Church and theovesohomol, anud a
a colpurteur for a few months in a Christian printing -press kindle all
vacation, and I came into a home of around about 04 Gmd's street lamp
destitution. I saw a woman there of the Bible. Send the Bible down
t:bat filthy alley, f1 you would leave it
eighty-five years of ago, and I said to cleansed. Send it against tltosa de -
her: "May I give you a Bible?" "0," canters, 11 you would have them
she replied: "a Bible would be of no smashed. Send 11 against those
use to nae. I coni see to read. chains, .1 you would have tbembroken.
bend it llarougll aI1 the ignoranao
I used to read, but for twenty years of the city, if you would have it tllum-
7 haven't been able to read a tned as by u flash from heaven's
word." Iputled out of my satchel one morning. The Bible can dotit-will do
it, jiather all the ignorance and the
of the copies of the Psalms of David wickedness, and the viae of out• cities
and the New Testament in great, in moo great', pilo -Alps above Alps,
large, round type, and I said: "Now Pyrenees above Pyrenees, .Htina-
put on your spectacles and see if you la.yit above Himalaya in motley array
ca.n't read this." She wiped her spec -and then give one Little New Testa-
elnant full swing tgaiust the side of
tattles and put them on. "0, yes" she that mountain, and down it would
said: "Why, I can see teeter alb I am sore, Alps after Alps, Pyrenees after
very thankful to you. Wily, yes, i i yenees; Himalaya after IXtmulaya.
\4 hat is the difference between New
see it: "I love the Lord because ile York and Pekin? What is the differ-
h,tth heard my voice and my' -O, yes, e.nce between London and Madras?
can read it, I can rear.. it." I wish Wtral: is the difference between Ldin
Hutt God to day would make the Bible burgh and Canton? No difference, save
as naw and fresh to ns as it Ives to that which the 13ibla makes. 0, city
bar. missionary; 0, philanthropist; 0, Chris -
I want to chow you that the Bible Man, go everywhere, and kindle up
is a lamp -e. parlour lamp, a street tithes° great street lamps of the Gospel;
lamp, a store lamp, a church lamp, a and our pity, purified and cleansed,
sepulchral lamp.will proclaim what the Psalmist so
togIn parlours all atlaeh with gaslight, lain ago (teetered: "Thy Word is a
lend gleaming mirror, and blazing
ehrendelier, and candelabra, there luny I know there are people who suppose
be Egyptian darkness; wvhile in some that. the viae of our cities is going to
plain room, which a frugal hand has
spread with hospitality and refine-
ment, this ono Lamp may .cast a glow
that makes it a fit place for beavenly
coronations, ;We invoke no shadows
to fall upon the hilaritles of life. 1Ve
would not have ovary song a dirge,
and every picture a martyrdom, and
every step a funeral pace. God's lamp
hung in the parlour would chill no
joy, would rend no harmony, would
check no innocent laughter. On the
contrary, it would bring out brighter
colours in the pioture; it would ex-
pose now gracefulness in Lha curtains
it would unroll new wreaths from the
carpet; it would. strike new mnsdm
from the harp ; it would throw now
polish into the manners; it would
kindle with light borrowed from the
very throne of God all the refine-
ments of society. 0, that the Chvist
who was born in n, barn would Comp
to our 'sweetly 1 We need His hand
to sift the parlour tnuele. Wa need
His taste to assort the parlour litera-
ture, We need IIis voice to conduct
the parlour conversation. We aro apt
to think of religion its being a MOO,
blundering thing, not fit to put its
foot upon Axminster, or its clownish
hands on beautiful adornments, or
lift its voice a.rni,l tho artistic acid re -
Oiled; so, while we have Jesus in the
nursery, when we teach our children
to pray, and Jesus in the, dining-ha/1
when we eats His blessing uilon our
food, and Jesus in the sitting -room
Whet we have fancily prayers, it is a
simpla .feat that from ten thousand
P,inrietian homes in this colni:ry
Christ is from one end of the year to
Hite other slut out nf the parlour. 0,
that home Welton nnder'sbood that
the grime of (Ohl is the greatest u.o-
emplisluneut, rand that no seat 1s too
_luxuriant for religion_ to sit In, and
tilothe.
Still further; the Bible is the beet
°burets lamp. I care not how many
chandeliers there may be in 0 ohureh
how many brilliant lights there may
be; the Word, of God Is the best tthurch
lamp. 0, is there anything more beau-
tiful than an audience gathered on the
Sabbath for Christian warship? There
may be no dazzle of tbeatric assem-
blage, there may be no glitter of foot-
lights, there may bo no allegoric im-
A STRANGE CASE.
JEC, JAS. CROSGREY, SF PORT HOPE,
TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY.
.MIs lttght Legg Swollen to Time 7'bees its
Natural SW -Floors Followed au,l for
a
Year and a R7alC. Doctors' Treatutent
Failed to Help .Atm,
From the Port Hope Times.
"1t was nearly; as large as' hat tele-
phone pole." Those words were used
by Air. Jas. Crosgrey, for eight yearn
a resident of Port Hope, Ont. 14Ir.
Orosgrey is in the employ of Mr. R.
K. Scott, who has a feed store on 1Va1-
ton street, anti is well and favorably
known in town and vicinity. Less than
two years ago Mr. Crosgrey was the
recipent of much sympathy on acoouut
of a severe affliction which betel nim,
depriving him of the use of his right
leg, and from doing any labor except
a few odd days work. His recovery
was wrought so suddenly and complete -
1y that the Times aonsiderad the mat -
tar would be of sufficient intermit to
its readers to obtain an interview with
Mr, Cro_grey. In substance Mr. Cros-
grey told the following story of his
illness: -"In April, 1800, I was laid up
for seven weeks with typhoid fever,
and after I recovered from the 0000,
my right leg began to swell. It
was very painful indeed, and in
a easy weeks it WW1 three times
its natural size - nearly as large
as that telephone pole," and he
Pointed to a stick of timber ten
inches in diameter, "Nothing the
doctor dill gave me any relief, and I
consulted another with the same re-
sult. I suffered for nearly fivemonths
who I noticed that the swelling began
to doereuse and I became hopeful of
recovery. But the improvement only
continued for re short 11an0 and then
ounquar the virtue oi; the people. 1 do the swelling became greater and two
not believe it. Lot error and vice trig ulcors formed teethe inside of the
run, if you only .let truth run along ; leg above the ankle. These ulcers
with them. 11 1150(1 en by eeeplio s wore right through to the bone and
shout, and transcendentalist's spur, let you could put that much into them,"
error rind Gott's angels of wrath aro end tete. Crosgrey indicated en .lis
in hot pursuit, and quioker than thumb an object an inch in length,
eagle's beak clutohlreth out a hawk's "For the next year and a half Iwo
treated by four or five doctors but my
leg and the Wears were us bad as ever.
The doctors Pronounced the disease
phlebitis or inflammation of the vain.
They didn't seem to know what to do
for ane, however, and I despaired of
getting well." alt. Crosg'reyee relief
eamo in a strange manner, almost by
chance one .night say. Ide tells of it
this way:-" .I had a relative living
near Teeswater, named William Bap-
tist, 1Ie heard of my condition and
Sent word to me to try Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills, His reason tor recommend-
ing them, be stated was because they
had cured him of serious trouble in
hol'.h legs, when all oleo had failed,
'decided to try them and in less than
dome gamblers and defrauders, and five weeks the ulcers wore completely
knaves, and desperadoes, and liars, and healed and the awaiting in my legs clle-
t:hievese They did not have the right appeared, The ulrcrs never returned
kinli of a store lamp. Why is it, in
oiit' day, morchandizo Is rsnattten with
nua0rlalnty, and throe -fourths of the
business of our great cities in only one
huge species of gamhling, and soiat
d
is upturned by false assignments, and
heart, God 's vengeance will tett* At to
piece*., Let it run, if yeti only let
Gotl'o \\ford run along with it.
Still further: the Bible is he best
store lamp. Messed is the merchant
who under its glow rode his ledger,
and transacts hie business, and pockets
hie gains, and suffers his losses. it
may be well to have a fine sky. -light,
to have 0 magnificent glass show -win-
dow, by night to Immo bronzed brackets
spouting fire in a very palace of mer-
eitandize; but if you have not this
eternal lamp you had 'better quit keep-
ing store, What is the reason $o
many who started tai merchandise,
with good prineiptos,and fair prospeols,
and honourable intentions, have be -
end my leg is lJust about es mend es
the other one, T know That Dr. 1191 -
Items' Pink Pills alone retract me when
doctors and all others .medicines fail-
ed and T am willing dear, the details
of may illness and euro can be made
twn•i bird oats ain' repudiations,and int- known," 141x, Oro.pgrey who is 41 years
emitted trust -funds, and fradulont cat- 1C
itfield:eel of stock, rand wild schemes in
railroads without any track, and banks
without any capital, and: cities with-
out any lienees, and joint-stock com-
panies without any conscience? And
why are ten thousand of our bust-
Ouse men ridden with it night -mare en-
ough to crush Tleroulos and. Protne-
liheas? It is the .want of a ri ht kind
of store lamp, What ruing the 1)507 -
of Rage, iv now at, wvor ovary Mlny. The
nature of hie work that of lifting hsq.vy
bags of flour and feed, is proof., et his
Complete recovery. fie le a life log
trfend of Dr. Williams'. Pink Pdile And
never lets an opportunity paw of
spenking a good. word for them.
The above statement ware sworn to
before the undersigned at Port Hope
on the 17th day of .i'obr n. 'y 1808.
y,, r', allglbsalv>,
THE KHALIFA ABDULLAHn-F
LIFE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
DERVISH CHIEF.
The ;news seertaeor-.'I'hrce•Plflhs et the
so,tdan's robe oit utte have Died
'Cbrenrh `Tar and 70551114 5511106 Ile
ensue Ulf Poiret'- Ai Cruel Monster,
Abdullah et '7aishi Khalifs, whose
power has been broken by the British
foreee under General Sir Her-
bert Kitchener, was the most power-
ful and successful of the three 1fhafl-
fits of Lho three leading Arab tribes,
that in 1882 helped the ALatadi to. over-
th;ow the Government of :Egypt in
the eastern Soudan and establish the
Mandist despotism in its place. Each
of these Khalifas commanded a dis-
tinct section of the Mandi's army, and
Abdullah's force had most to do with
the annihilation of General Hioks and
army. Abdullah was the favorite
of his master. The a:randl believed that
1
if he died Abdullah was the on 3" man
W110 could maintain the strange em-
pire he had raised and keep the upper
hand of the rapaeloas Soudanese tribes.
Before his death the Mandi nominated
the Tdhalifa, Abdullah as his successor,
and thus the cruel and tyrannical Arab
tribe of the Bagaras, whose leader was
Abdullah, became the masters of the
Egyptian Soudan and ruled it with a
rod of iron.
the Mahal died on June 22, 1885, af-
ter three years of power, and Abdul-
lah leas since been known as " the Alah-
di's successor" There was intense jeal-
ousy and disappointment on the part
of the Danagla and Jaalin tribes, who
had been the rulers, but now became
the ruled. Civil war on account of Ab-
dullah's accession was narrowly avert-
ed, but he was too strong for bis ene-
mies. in the other tribes, and them fin-
ally chose the part oe discretion just
when all had been made
READY FOR BATTLE,
The new ruler then made it his business
to render the other tribes harmless, He
reduced the power of the two other
avaricious ACTION.
Why oro you skeptical about the sin-
cerity of ihol,' temperance speaker?
Well, he tried to blow the tome off
glass aw0atars ' ' ' e
down, the wood of windows, balconies
and doors was taken across the river,
and soon the town was fit only to be
the habitation of wild beasts. The
bricks were taken over the Nile, and
Khartn'un was a heap of mud ruins.
The building material was used in the
rearing of Omdurman on the other
Ade of the Nile and it became a city
of 150,000 inhabitants, The most con-
spicuous building in it was the tomb of
the Mandi. Thousands of workmen were
sent over to Khartoum to get the, ma-
terial for it. The Khaliia himself,
emirs and judges marled stones for
the dome. Of course, the whole city
followed chair example, and in a abort
time all the stone required was at the
site. The Khalif° s palette, also was
a sumptuous building for the Soudan.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Leentive Broom quinine Tablets. All Drug.
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YOUNG HEADS AND OLD.
Daughter -You should have turned
down the upper corners of your visit-
ing cards, ma, when you call on the
bride. That means Congratulation.
But you turned down the lower corn-
ers. Thal means Condolence.
Matron, with dignity -You'd better
wait till you get married.before you
criticise your ma.
A WEDDING PRESENT
Of practical importance would be a
bottle of the only sure -pop corn cure
-Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor -
which can be had at any drug store.
"'Shelties, and they became men of lit- A continuation of the honeymoon and
tie influenoe. He sent many of the the removal of earns both assured by
its use. Beware of imitations,
Jaalin and Danagla Emirs In chains
hundreds of miles up the Nile, and ho A LIFE SAVER.
n the l Sam, wily yer go out inter deep water
Permitted his Daggara to plunder ,
other tribes without mercy, under the an' make berltove yer drowndin'? I
pretext of levying taxes. There has 1 want ter try my dog.
been only one ruler of the Soudan for ---
EVIDENCE.
First Musician -He knows music
thoroughly, doesn't be?
Second Musician -I think he does. He
says it doesn't pay.
the past thirteen years, and he has
been the Khallfa Abdullah. He main-
tained his polioy of cruelly repressing
all the people except his awn tribe,
until he was frightened very badly by
the news that,Engleed and Egypt were
getting ready to invade the country
and overthrow his power. After that
news reaolied Omdurman he made a
great show of reversing his policy, He
pardoned the imprisoned Emirs and
tried in many ways to win back the
disaffected people.
The lihalefa's empire, within which
not a particle of European influence
has permeated since the Mandi cap-
tured Ifherteum, extends along the
Nile from Dongola on the north to the
neighbourhood of Lao, an the south,
a distance of about thirteen hundred
miles. 'Omdurman, the capital, just
across the Nile from the ruins of Khar-
toum, Is ;about midway between these
points. The Khalifs lost Darter, but
still his empire extends from the west-
ern limits of Kordofan to Abyssinia
on the east, and embraces about 700,-
000 square miles. During the thirteen
years be has controlled the destinies
of the Egyptian Soudan it is estimat-
ed that nearly three-fifths of its in-
habitants have perished through
WAR AND FAMINE.
Constant warfare has greatly dimin-
ished the male population.
Ahdullah is forty-nine years old this
year. He is a Baggara, with dark, cof-
fee-coloured complexion, his face much
marked by smallpox. He has a long
and prominent noso. and wears a short
beard, according to the Isiosl.en'e custom,
When he helped conquer the country
he, was very time, but of late years he
has grown exceedingly stout. Ile could
never conceal his Beggars accent and
dialect in speaking Arabic. Ile is gifted
by nature with tremendous anergy and
common sense, but he has no educa-
tion whatever, He eau not read or
write, and for this reason he could
never (incept a written position. He is
very' cruel by nature, while the Mandn
was naturally humane. In the terrible
days o1 the famine, when bones were
ground to powder, made into a sort of
bread, and eaten with eagerness in Om-
durman, the Rhallfat showed no mor-
ay, pity or desire, to relieve these
terrible sufferings. He dict not care
a jot for any of the people, except bis
Beggar:a and he made sure that they
were all fed. Ere treated the white
prisoners in his lianas with great: cruel-
ty except c. few wham he could make
to him, and their en,laymeat of
his favour was spasmodic and ttncer-
lain.useful
Giko the Mahal, it Was always Abdul -
till's wish to destroy even the recollec-
tion of the old regime under the Egyp-
tian Government. This to the reason
that they destroyed so enemy of the
old towns which had attei.ned some
measure of prosperity under the Egyp-
tians. Old Berber was deserted and a
new Berber was butte by the Khalifa's
commend just north of the old town.
This is the reason and the only one
why by far the finest city in tropical
East Africa was
LAID IN 71:f11NS.
Ti: was t:ha work of the Is: halite, He
left hardly ono stone upon anoth-
er' in Khartoum, 11110 day In 1888, af-
ter ha had been in puwver a little over
a year Abdullah ordered the thou-
sands who lived in Khartoum to quit
the town within three days. On the
fourth da thereafter the work of le-
y
r,M:
molitiol began, Houses were pulled
MEAN.
I, he started to say, have always had
an idea -
1 know it, she interrupted; why don't
you take a day off some time and try
to scare up another one?
Deafeeas Cannot be Cured
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lowed portion of Liao ear. There is only one
way to ouzo doahtena, and glint Is by oonetitu-
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lamed aun,lltlon oft the innoouv limbs of the
13uetaehian Tubo. When tide tube gots inflate.
,d you have a rumbling ,oared or inrperfaob
soaring, and when It la entirely olo,ed deatnose
,e the roeult,and nnieentheIuflam motion oan be
taken out and thin tube restored to Ste normal
condition, hearing willbo destroyed forever;
olds os0oa oat of ten aro eanaed by catarrh
which 1s nothing brit an Inflamed condition of
the mnaoaw surfaces.
Wo will give c5 a Smeared Dollars for any
..ase of Deafness caused byoaterrlt) that can-
not be cured by 1 all's Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
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