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MAY 20, 'ISPO
CURED TRIT TIN LEPERS:
DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS ARODT THE
imecATEvuL N1NEeTENT11S.
bo alltoilesele mire 00' One attend:- Su-
eunietenee ofeette-Eletiluto for nunta
Soule -action& or People Alter theist
Hoe linemen Thene-The no, nrees
lhaconverteit to leolne to turd.
A: despatch from Washitigton says:—
Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from the
following text: "Were there not. teu
cleansedl but where are the nine V"
--Luke xvii. 17.
If tan tigers had sprung out at Jesue
Christ as He went through an Eastern
village, the spectacle could not have
been naore frightful than when ten
loathsome and dying men eurrounded
Him, thougle at considerable distance.
Their hands and their feet were hor-
rible with corruption. Their 1 reath
was destruction to any one who telme
within reaoh, They had the leerosy.
Now, when a leper walks, whether be
goes northward or southward, or east-
ward or westward, he is gulag all the
time to his grave. if there had been
only one sucle ease, that would have
been appalling; but here is a multi-
plication of wretchedness, au aggre-
gation of miseries, a climax of horror.
Two, four, six, eight, ten lepers. The
healthy Christ standing as a centre
in a periphery of uloer and abscess,
"Well," you. say: "Here is enough to
employ a whole college of surgeons.
Let each of these desperate and. en-
flamed invalids have a separate doctor
assigned to him." Ala, no. Here is a
physician who tan cure ten as well
as one. Christ commands those ten
nem to go up to the Temple at Jerusa-
lem, and slaw themseives for inatiee-
tion to the health officers. They
start to go, and no smaller are they
started than the lethargy begins to go
out M their limbs, and the faintness
out of their head, and the tuatteration
sloughs off, and the coa.ted tongue Is
Cleared, andthe pulse is quieted from
ninety to seventy. And one man looks
at his foot, and sees that from toe to
heel the skin is fair; and he looks at
bis hand, wad sees from wrist to nail
the flesh is roseate; and he cries:
I ate all well)" So cry five of them;
so cry all the ten lepers. Well, they
go on toward the city of Jerusalem to
submit themselves to the inspection of
the health officer. They are talk-
ing how well and grandly they feel
after such long depression of body and
soul, wheia suddenly one of their num-
ber breaks ranks and turns back,
Whet is the matter with him 1 Who
is he? 0, he is a Samaritaa ; and the
Jews kept oo their way, and say:
"Welt, you never could depend upon
O Samaritan. He's nobody, anYhow.
He's disobedient, aod he has turned
back." They kept on, but this Sa-
maritan had turnert back that he
mighi accost his benefactor, and be
comes clapping Ms bands, and crying
at the top of his voice; "Thanks!
thailks I" And he throws himself
down at the feet of Christ in gratitude
amt in adoration. ,Tesus gently takes
him up, and says: "That will do, sir,
Lor you; but are you the only one of
all that group of tea cleansed lepers
who is grateful for convalescence and
restoration? Were there not ten
cleansed 1 but where are the uine?
See, first, in this subject, the whole-
sale cure of the Gospel. Christ gene
(walls took one invalid at a time. One
blind ma,a to be bratight under mire.
cul ous optics. One demoniac to have
his reason enthroned. One crooked
weman to have her back straightened.
One damsel whose heart had h ilted to be
started again. But lol here is a decade
mar:Ming out from the ranks of fell
disease into the ranks of robuse bealtla,
Teri lepers oared. Twenty gangrened
hands, twenty gangrened feet. A
evhole lazaretto swept out and
garniehed. 0, my friends, why not in
the same way have immortal souls
cured by wholesale? Sometimes one
mei. wilt come in a church, and stand
up and espouse the cause of Christ,
ene the whole congregition will re-
joiee over it., and heaven itself will
ecime down in gladness; but in that
very church, al tbat same time, there
will, be ten lepers on one gallery and
fifty lepers in soother gallery. Why'
do they not all coma? Christ tamed
over this whole congregation of lepere
inte exuberant health. Would to
God that we might gat tired of this
tient ersetioo by driblets. "Were there
not ten cleansed?" My text. seems to
warrant (110 expec tat ion that we wi I I
have ten times as nanny blessings as
we have received, lf a hundred souls
have mane to Christ, ten limes n bun -
did are a thousand, le eight hun-
dred souls Lave acme to Christ, ten
times eight hundred ore eigbt thou-
sand, There bave been in this church,
• during the past year, five thousand
two hundred and eighty persons who
• have applied to me end the session,
• asking the way of lite and I hope that
most of them, if not alt, became Chid:i-
nane, uniting with this or other
Churches, ha this or other Linde. If
tve had had sufficient faith, we might
have had, accordiag to the text, ten
times ae 105e17, hamely, fifty-two thou -
Sand.
A few days ago was out on the
beaeli at But Hampton, Lolig 1510101,
and the fishermeh were there, and
they Were just hauling In their nets,
The Wits had been thrown out at a
' great distance Dern the shore, and
there were about twenty men broiling
, them in. They seemed very much ex-
cited, end .1 laid down ma the sand to
wale': therm But I soon beenme Ault
at much excited an they were, and I
took hold of the rope and putted with
all my might aS lbe eaplairt cried:
"Every man, now, pull!" and we ell
, sheeted together rts the net aaMe 09
'bete the ettrf, and we saw it throbbing
with marine life, the fins flapping in
the sett. After they had been thrown
• late the 06115 1 mid to the eaplein:
"Hon ninny did yott eatell?" "Well,"
he said: "I think fifty thousaud,"
Then I said within my soul: "Good
Lord, why maywe not beet) a large
Leal of swats next Sabbath -day?" Why
go angling with a hook for one solitary
fish when the sett is rea with whole
sheets of them? Why put so mutt
eare upon one leper when there are
ten Men groaning with. horrible
Integration? 0 what a tam ecene
that was on Pent eeostal Day eionpar.
ed with wbat we nalplit 1)41+0 here, if
we only had the faith to ask it, Who
will come out for Christ to -night.?
Shill i1 be a tenth of this audience,
51101 it he teu-tenths? Shall it be a
fragment, or shalt it be all? Wen of
God, get tho lever ef your prayers
der this weight. Fishermen for souls,
"ley holth every men!" Soldiers of Jesus
Christ , advance 1t tlie storm' tag
the caetle. trneenditienel sunender
for Christ. If in the village of the
text Chtist sev.el ell His audienee
film leprosy, why m:y He not to -night
save al: this nudienee Crum sie? There
are a theusand souls; unsaved. There
an 'thee housand sats unsaved.
arett Ged give to. all these souls in-
oight. 'Were there not leo dee/node"
and len were all.
See, fui then in this subject, thee
these who me he the tende.est exprese
sten of gratitude are the last peeple
that yen expect. \Vine 114 tbat man
breaking ranke and turning beide, and
leaving the other cured lepers to go
? Who is he ? 1 nim tel: by the
color of his skin, and by the cantour
of his nose, and by the heir, that he
is not a Jew. Who is he e He is a
Sainariten. 'Them en hi: lattice eml an
outcast. What, you, the Samaritan,
going to Leone beck anti throw your-
self at the feet of Christ? If alt these
:nine Jews worshipped Jesus, it wtend
not surprise me so mach as to me you,
the Samaritan, cone back. Is it pos-
sible 1 les; yes. So it was then: So
it is nov, The pulite W11,1 Vonle into
the .liing,don uf tied itre aeout the last
peiple yo0 ever expect to ome. The
pe ple ta this audience who wid be
saved to -night will not he sO much
these wile have been broughl up by
Cblistian parents, for they are gving
to Mali under the weight of superior
tpportenities unimproved. The souls
hti wilt be saved here (u-uight, per-
haps. will not be so much theee who
have kept their integrity atm upright -
n665, tor they are dependiag tipm
tbeie good worke„md are going to
fab (11 at last into fearful diem:meat-
mem. But the pei plc \Ow wiii enue
lei -night Wilt be those farthest off from
God. It will be the SamAritane;
it will lie the last tees you
expect. Yi.nder literary Semen tan
wan 115138. He looks up and sullies, but
his knees kaock together, and there
is a ehirlwind of darkness in his soul,
and within i110 huur he wilt praY• 0,
you Scoffer; you did not. always scoef,
did you 1 Was there in your early boy-
la,:od Lome, a i enerable woman, with
grey hairs, and cap, and spectacles.
ath ou Sunday afternoon used to teach
Yeu how to pray 1 Oh, you were not al-
ways a snuffer, That man feels now,
under the pressure of God's Spirit, as
if he must shriek out in tbe midst of
this assemblage. He feels that the et-
ernal God is after him. He feels as if
be meet rise this moment and solicit
the prayers of God's people, No, my
brother, do not rise now. Sit still. If
7011 10051 make some demonstration of
feeling, kneel down where you are, or
Put your head down. 0, thou of tbe
defiant. heart and of the proud will;
you are coming to -night; yo(1 will
come; you must come. God is after
your soul. God's minitaum is mightier
that man's maxinatim.
There is a dissipated Samaritan who
will aortae to -night. "0," he says, "I
drink." I know it ; but you have tak-
en your last dram. W'hen you go home
to -night, the first thing you will touch
will not be the small knob of the wine
closet, but it will be the Bible on the
stand, alas is to be tbe night of
your disenthralment. 0 wife of the
shadowed heart, he will not drink any
inure, He sete his foot down this very
moment hard, and puts his teeth to-
gether very tight, in a resolution
never to drink any more, Be not sure
Prised if at the olose of this service
he comes up some of these aisles ask-
ing how his soul may be saved, With-
in one hour 1 'Adak all heaven will
hear the crash of his broken manacles.
And now I will select some one in
the audience that you trill be surpris-
ed at. You know thel in every assem-
blage there are the best and the worst.
You look over Hits audience to -night,
aed You see hundreds' of men in whose
integrity you bare full confidence,
do not select that class. 1 shall take
the one hundred in the audienoe who
are the worst, who cooeider themselves
110 worst, But 1 must narrow the
subject down, and I :Atoll t:e the
twenty out of that hundred wlin are
the worst, 81 111 1 have not gained my
point, and I shall take the five who
nee the worst out of all the twenty
But I here nal ye( gained my point,
and I shall bike the Inc who is worse
than all the rest of the five, And
1106. 1 corm to the worst man in this
eseemlnage1 de not lstinw mh,we he
sits t confront him. He soy's: "1 50-
knewlertge that I have Luken alt o•rong,
hnve committed every kind of Sin
during lhe (worse of my life -time.
have been a scoffer, an infidel, a lib-
ertine, --my whelp life has.been It eon-
geries of transgressions." lefy broth-
er, you are about the last one that
WO wollld expeet to repent hut, like
the unexpected Samaritan of the text,
you will ennata to -night. 1 aro not a
priest, with agile and tensure, and can-
onmeM, to hear your confeseion. I do
notwant yon to tell me the story of
ygur sin, I only am waiting to see you
throw yourself a: the lee( of Christ,
l'he pall of the Holy Gliest on your
sou
pu
yo
die
lio
the
ready to throw over you the broadest.
beneclittion. 0, that poor distraught
seta, it is straggling throat every-
thing. It, is olinabing over everything.
It is pressing on toward the moss. It
is full set for heaven. This ia to be
the lour for the redemption of Herods,
and Neros, and Aletbs, and jegebels,
and &lollies, and Belabazzars, and
Absalom. Come, the proudest. Come,
the hardeet. Corne, those most protract-
ed in iniquity. lecternl room for that
elenneecl Semitei tan leper eng
001116 00W to the climax of my at
subject, mid ties hew the majority of 00/'
I this 0101060( 18 mightier than the
11 of the world, rf men Gould see
or trenegressione you would be. rid-
tt with the shot of their indiena-
n; but God Sees all YoUf from
first to the last end yet He is
Jerusalent, when by one flash of n
aentolas power from the heart of Chr
their Surea dry up; their feet, 1
goad not limb the ground with
Mita beeame transilient ; their Is
which were written all over A
hieroglyphics of (mutter and eleph
asic heeinne the pictures of int
gence and health, 0, how thank
hey will be. They will olap t
hands, and they will say: "Mier
Chtlet? I must rush into His prese
W1113 lout acclaim I mum tell eve
body alnatit this mire, If Christ
never had a bed to sleep on, then
will prepare IliM a pillow; if He
never had a home, then I will bt
Him a Manse. lYbut eau I do Cur t
Physician that has cured ney leproa
No, th,y go On; only (me, of the
turns back to give God the glory.
wonder :hit while Jesus lovingly
I
the olle MAU, 11' flung Hie disappro
iida and indignation at all t he r
erying; "Were ile•re not ten Means
V.11,7,8 ure the nine?" Well, 1
it a great number itf ingrates:
hive been eharged by the grace
that, who hive been cured of
laproey, hut have never dared to
etc). Privately ask them: "Do you 1:
le, Lord jeans Chris'?" "Yes."
vatvly say to them: "11 you Were to
to -night where wouldt you go to?" '
heaved," Prive ly say to them; "II
ry
est,
tir-
hag
out
ees,
vith
an-
011 -
fel
heir
e is
nee
has height of redeem:me metcy? 01 you
1 nine lepers, come to -night and kneel
hes at the feel of Hine to whom you owe
did all homage and affection, Speak outl
his speak met, if 'your tongue be not ale
S." reedy palsied with the second death.
ten Who will be for Christ to -night?
Ne Fling your lost and undone soul at
e°- thp feet of Him who cured the ten
, lepore. 13 souk away Will) ace
"1" from PVeryi hi 09 thnt hindere you,
"1,1 11 aprons sonde in your. way, aud he
will not at your Namaland stoma nide,
t 15: then not over him, for this is the
10 ment when you are to esettpe hell
vno: and win heaven. I heard something
strip, Was it the 130LIVA shaokle, or
the ' W15 it fastening of the lock of
the door of a Mose(' hearen?
6.0
10i- I
1110 long trate of the raoe that was
owning on with lightning epeed to-
ward !be 11 wful Mink? All earthly
help had failed, and the bridge broke,
and Jesus sank that yea might live.
01 the wilder peril, the ghastlier
sacrifice, the more stupendous martyr-
dom of the Son of God, Does ;:mur
Hoe1 thrill with the story? Have you
no team to weep to -night over this
Christ? Have you no antiphon to
chant in his worship? Have you no
recognition of Ibis trans-A.Ipine
die
DAIVIIYIING THE NILE. .
"te
rive
been cured er your spiritual
axes?' They woull say; "Yes, 1. th
1 litre." Publicly they have ne
aol 1 anythiug about it, When to
rau :ion- lay arives, here and ib -re
o ID 3. Laik, aml in the presence
in re angele and devils espouses
0(65)' of Christ publicly, but the r
go th. ether way. So that eve
pastor on communion -day tuay Wt
hi. hend over the table, and sly; ese
there not ten cleansed? but where
the nine?" These spiritual default
gee Tar W(11141(4,01' the Great iteservete Artist
ink smiled tit ANO11311.
ver Sinoe the building of the pyramids
m- Egypt leas seen few such gigantic un-
une dertalcings as the constretetion of the
of
the great reservoir dam at Assuan, the
est foundation steno of which was laid a
"7 few days ago by the Duke of (Son -
naught, naught, says the Londoo
ere
5(7011,
are This dam will be a mile and. a (Mare
ers ter in leugth; .the height of the coo-
n. ingetone, will be 300 feet above the
10 tallying hide and seek in retigk
ule bed of the lower river, and for 140 mites
se,
.he Father Nile will feel tbe influence of
at this great impounding of waters.
en1 English engineers and Englisli sure
he ve • It planned this great enter-
yois APB
bee done 1,0 muth for thetn, they
ehoall do so little for Christ. Christ
'Doe 'their lepro y; they are nut willing
to take name. 0 the ingratitude, e
th, perfidy, the abhorrent iniquity of °
flag man who has been changed; by a
he grime or (3oct, but demo too say su.
Communion -ley comes, and the how.s r
of the Lord sit down at the Sacra- e
noon; but you, my brother, take your se
htt and leave. Treaeonl treason ngainst ,
the Lord that bought you with His1s
blood, Dom the cleaving of the first
vein tO the emptying of the last art- ,
ery. NI as Christ unfair and unrea-
sellable when Lie asked of you a
public espousal? "Were there not ten
demised? but where are the nine?"
ely subjeot has also a forceful ar-
raignment for alt the unconverted peo-
'th.e. are trying to eniuggle th ito
iato heaven. Cleaased of the lepro
Ithey are ashamed or afraid to tell O
ir domor was; skulking ana 0
lien eacuses whieb wilt stand th
nei,her on he death -bed 3101' t
clay of judgment. 0, that after Chr
prise, English money is at the back
of it, and English bondholders will,
next perhaps to the cultivators of the
oil on tne Nile banks, derive the great-
s!: beuefit.
Five thousand dusky natives are al-
eady at work; one order Mr 3,000,-
00 barrels of European cement has
ecu or is about to be delivered; thou -
tends of tons of granite oshlar arebe-
ng quarried from the Assuan side of
he river. Never has the ancient river
ou whose bosom Hoses was cradled
seen such industry. John Bull has
very much arrived.
The clam will be built of material
pl, (1116 assemblage. Have you not
all received enough mercies from the
h tnd of God to make it reasonable °
diet you turn around and in, worship-.
ful feeling throw yourselves at the
Who as giveu you.
pleasant home? Who has provided y
with a livelihoodf At whose table ha
you been fed? At whose fountains ha
you been drinking? Who has kept a
ilitt wonderful machinery of yo
body io motion, so that yuur lungs i
hale, Etna your heart drums, andyo
pulees heal? You are a we iki
miracle. If God should take Das got:
akar'. from the quarries at Assuan,
thence came the granite wed for the
onstruction of the Thames embank-
ment.
On its completion the reservoir will
a hold 250,000,00),M gallons of water, and
011
ve across this huge artificial Jake a bridge
ve will stretch., and camel trains and
11( pedestrians will pass over, and all will
er be life and bustle and burry. Never
n-
ur had the deacendants of Pharaoh sucth
ng a shaking up.
d- And what is the object of it all?
nem away from you for one hour. yo
would. be blind, and deaf, and dumb,
mot tortured, and sick, and dead.
And yet you turn your back upon lhis
Jesus, and go off with the nine lepers.
ust clutch the ear and see howmuch
oe it you can hold be, the palm of your
hand. None. But God holds in His
hand your breath, and the opening
and the shutting of that hand, decides
wh3ther you shell breathe or die
Dantel says so, Job says so. Yet yte
heve turned your bask upon Hine an
gone off with the nine lepers. "Go
in whom band thy breath is, bast tlao
not glorified." He has fed you, an
eh:Liered you, and nurtured you, an
defended you, and blessed you, in te
thousand ways, and yet you go oft wit
the hine lepers. 0, you ungratef
souls. Here is a thanklessne
enough to make men weep for a thou
sand years, You, hive not treate
your worst earthly enemy ELS badly 11
you have treated my Lord Jesu
Christ. If this moment yoll ever
taut and. eiok, and I should handy°
this glass of water, and you, hie
seventh enough left, you would say
"I thank you;" and yet Christ has bee
holding out the anallees of his love to
word you all these years, and you das
it back in His face, saying: "We %vit.
not have this man Christ Jesus to reig
cow us'. Does not your own hear
my brother, condemn you? Now b
troth. Do you not see it is unreason
able not Lo love and, serve Gude D
yoe not undevsLand that Obrist i
your best friend? He has been you
best friend in all the past, He is tie
friend that yoa need for all Lb
future, Do you remember Simmons
the railroad engineer? Aeoid,ent
come so frequently tbet pethaps yo
have forgotten that brave deed, than
which there hes never been a brave
deed rectorded in all the history o
hymen heroism. It was 801110 year
ago, and in the night/ when a freigh
train was wrecked on the Hudson
River Railroad, on e bridge near New
Flamburgh, Why they did not sten
beck lanterns to warn the advancing
trate clo not know. But there comes
the Buffalo express, like lightning
crank, and roar, and thunder, through
the darkness. The river one side
and rocks on the other. Coming oleo
up the enOtneer, saw the wreck on
the bridge, What shall he do?
ghee! re, leep? He may save Ms own
pceluipe Thoughts of wife, and
ceild, unit home flash across him. But
no, he says; "I must slow this train,
and though I may not save all the
passengers, I %may WINO some of them,"
And so he keeps his hand on the
steam throttle, and ,ories out to tha
brakeman behind: "'Hold hard( Hold
herd! DowA with the brakes!" Too
'Mel The bridge broke. Plunge!
crash( =matted conflagration, and
death groan. Many went down, and
were lost, but some were saved, just
beenuse Simmons stood to his post.
The flagmen foreook their duty..The
;neer 111d lea. 0/ your hoer!. Girdle
the recital of that merlyr engin-
. You are amazed at his spirit of
sacrtfice. But bow do you feel to -
Wards Testis Christ who plunged into
the awful chasm of denth to keel) hash
u " Egypt is the Nile, and the Nile is
Egypt." In that anolent saying the
whole busies s may be summed up. The
dam will Me le up the rich Nile wa-
ters;
MILLIONS OF ACRES OF LAND
will be irrigated; 2,500. square miles
will be reclaimed from the deserts;
in short, the dam will increase the
country's productive capacity by 25 per
cent. Egypt's output of raw sugar
11 will in a year or two be doubled per-
• haps trebled.
" Here is a tho.nce for the " depress -
O ed British farmer. Let bina. go to
"a Egypt. Uhe soil there, when it can
" get. Nile water, is more kind. than that
O at home, Cotton mad sugar command
high prices, and one mire will pre -
u_ duce from four to five hundredvveight
of long -staple cotton. When the great
darn Is completed vast trivets of land
" will be capable of producing two, if
8 1101 three, mops in the year.
The work will be 0011191016a a lit-
° tle over five years from now. This is
11 the first time a river approaching the
LI size of the Nile has had a dara built
in it. Another novel thing about this
altogether novel undertaking is that it
e` will be both a dam and a waterway.
a, Now, as to the Gest. When one eon-
' eiders tlee stupendous cbaracter of the
u, seheme, the many difficulties that will
have to be overoome, and the inealcul-
e able benelite that will acorns, the pries
does not appear exorbitant. The oon-
° traotors are to receive, in round fig-
° urea, £100,000 a year for thirty years,
malciag in all about £4,800,000.
O The period cnier which this payment
e is to extend must carry conviotion to
' the minds of other nations who have
set longing eyes on the valley of the
Nile that Great Britain tneana to hold
onto it, for some time, at any rate.
Oe ourious obstacle was at the outset
pieced in tbe. way of realizing the
1,! scheme. The original plans for the
e construction ot the clam would have
involved the disappearanee of the tam-
, ous mitts of Milne.
MIlem of petitiona were drawn ttp
and sabraitted to the authorities, and
/mores of alternative plans suggested
seine cie them vvorthy the inatigmativie
minds tnat had conceived them. One
was to remove Philae, stone by alone,
to Cairo, thus bringing it still easier
within the reach of tourists.
Finally the engineers modified their
plans, and the dam will be one-third
lower than was at first proposed. Still,
wheo the reservoir 15 finished, Philae
will never be itself again; for the
oration will wash the bet of the tette
plea that for ages have kneel like sen-
bianatondisEguonfeolir.
tinels guarding the bouliclary of No-
telet/ate, but the most
enthusiastic of Egyptologists will 00n.
fess that the sacrifice is not lit vaita
•
peeple act P r ('heist has blessed
therm There are len lepers going to
he inseeeted by the health officer at
AN EMPRESS' P:RIVILEGE.
The Empress of Japan hoe the
privL-
iagc awarded to none of her predates -
ears. Site is allowed to eat at the
same table with the Eteperor, atid he
coOsults her in regard to political
naatters. The Emprese le fond of horse.,
haelc riditig, and also exercises every
dray in her private gyntilesinne.
SOME MILITARY GIANTS,
THEY A112 THE FAD OF A GREAT
MANY KINGS AND QUEENS.
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Ages -lareilerielc Great andltillooleark
Enrolls, Rig Mon Seneca Vletorto
Paella 50 Sion or Leese Stature Who
'ffear Her rulforin.
Ever slime men began to fight and
Imams began to quarrel about strips
of territory, the soldier has occupied a
Prominentplace in human moolety, and
other things beiog equal, the taller the
soldier happened to be Ole more be
was esteemed and the more likely be
was to be promoted to 130))213 post of
unueual distinet ton. This was espe-
cially the ease fu the old days, wben
hand to hand eights were more com-
mon tban they ure now, and when, in
consequence, a soldier had mainly to
depend for hie safety upon his own per-
sonal prowess and dexterity. Even
in these modern days, however, when
personal prowess seems to play a
entailer part In battle than skill in
markemanehip, there a 3:0 oceasions
whoa men rush at each other in the
old unbridled fashion of their fore-
fathers, and it is then that the strong
arm and the surpassing stature of the
tall soldier rarely fail to stand him in
good stead.
It would be hard to name a country
or an age in which these fine fighting
men have not been much hymned
and sought after. We read of them in
the Homeric Wars, and we cannot help
admiring those among them 6.110 are
deecribed 05 outtopping their fellows
by the head and ehoulders. A tall
man .Elector must have been; other-
wise how could he have handled his
spear, which was so "ponderous, big
and tough?" In the army of Hanni-
bal, the astute Carthaginian, were
many men of this daredevil, pictures-
que type, just as there were at another
time in the army of Brian Bore, and in
the battalions of free-booters that
made Europe their hunting ground
during a great part of the Middle
Ages
UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS.
Dynamite and rapid fire gnus 'Were
unknown then, and hence, to a man
unusually strong and tall the life of
a soldier offered unusual attiactions.
And even after the invention of gun-
powder the indueaments to tall men to
enter the army increased in some
countries. Frederick the Great valu-
ed tall soldiers higOly, and it is doubt-
ful if finer specimens of men have ever
wont uniform than those whom he
gathered around him. Napoleon 111.
resembled him in this respect, and
visitors to Paris while he was Emper-
or must, have been struck by the state-
ly appearance of the many tall French
soldiers who might nave been seen on
duty at Versailles and elsewbere. And
here it may be said that, though the
world's attention has been specially at-
traoted to the feats of tall soldiers,
yet a volume of no small interest could
also be written about the deeds et sol-
diers whose stature was nor even that
of the average man, Goliath of Gath
was a giant, yet did not the stripling
David overcome him with consuramate
ease?
GREAT LEADERS SMALL DIEN.
It Is worth noting, too, that some of
the most famous generals the world
has ever seen have been comparative-
ly small men, Caesar Alexander the
Great and Napoleon 7,, were by no
means tall. A modern scientist in-
deed, goes so far as to say that if he
had to select a military strategist freen
a number of soldiers he would pick out
the timeliest.
The first Napoleon valued tall sol-
diers, but his main efforts wore spent
in securing first Mess generals, and
these he is said, to have selected not
ecoording to their statu'
re but accord-
ing to the length and shape of their
00680. PhYeical endurance in a sol-
dier was what he mend, and if he
could stand the strain and dress of a
long oampaign he cared little as to
his stature. True, among his guards
there were some notably tall men, end,
indeed, Itis safe to say that the stat-
ure of the men in the French army at
that time compared favorably with
that of the men in any other army.
England has long been famous to
ber
STATELY FIGHTING MEN,
and it is said that Queen Victoria has
always beim unusually oomplaisant to
any tall soldier who wears her
Loma. Those who have seen the Lite
Guard., in London know what ati Eng-
lish soldier of Dale type is like. Some
are tot apt to leek on these colossal of-
fioers. and men es mere ornate:tents
and appendages of an efeete monarchy,
whicl is absurd, sinoe there is ample
evidenoe that, when real figliting is to
be done, there are no more dauntless
warriors on the face of the earth. Such i
a matt was the late Captain Fred Burn-
aby, who achieved ro much distinetion n
some years ago by his adrairable work u
describing his travels through Asia. t
When trouble broke out in Egypt he b
went with his men to tho front, and
whea the moment of bottle came he o
swept forvvard at once to that NMt d
where the fighting was fiercest. Round e
hint his dusky opponents saviarmed, le
striving to unseat from his borse the le
tall utuscular Englielimen, telecom
strong right arm was bulking havoc in
theta renks, but not metal he was
wounded to death did be 0011330 to fight
foe England, end lenglaeul had the sate
isfactiort of knowiroe that he had out
clowe half a dozen of her foomen be-
fore he lib/melt went to join them.
sarnivais OE TO -DAY.
Probably the tallest officer io ser-
vice to -day is the English guardsmen,
Ceptain Oswald Ames, of the Seemed
Life Guards, who headed the Queen's
prooession, aid who mensures
siX feet eight Metes. It Was at the
personal request of the Prince of
Welee that Captain Ames rode alone,
the first in all tleat brilliant gather.
ing, A giene MemooOtte is the Grand
imperial Guard. The areod Duke is
$1x feel seven limbos, wbich Is so line
naeneely tall that no hotel bed has
been Muni' lopg enottgb to accommo-
date' him comfortably. He Is oliliged
to bevy one built 111 seotiOnfl, W111011
travelit with bint, and is put up by a
special, mechanics, told off for the pure
tame, under tbe euperineendence uf the
royal valet. Another gigantio Euro-
peen officer Is Colonel Vim Plaeltow,
of the First regiment, of Prussian
Gourds. He is over eix feet six in-
ches, and be beaded the delegation of
ufficare, all 01 111(01 over six feet, sant
by Emperor William to Om funeral of
the late Preeldent Enure, Von Phis-
kow 12 the tallest officer in Gentility,
end his regiment, stationed at Bets -
darn, is the same that wns the play-
thing of that old soldier Frederick.
HANDLE ON THE BOUQUETS.
The distinctive "note" of the newest
bouquets, as made by one of tbe most
femme Varlets at tbe West End, is
their exceeding lightness in the tand,
a recommendation of much importance
when it la considered how long it is
often necessary to hold them 11 is
possible to make a charming 1.9ect01en
of, say, titles of the valley, oarnatioas
or small orehlds, with full four yards
of wide ribbon, to welgb no more than
between three ad fuur nunees, and
only a ft:talon more if heavier blos-
soms, as roses or Cattleya orchids are
einployed. This is largely due to the
ram that our artistio florists, whether
consciously or net, have borrowed from
Japanese ideas, toting far fewer Dow-
ers and giving to oath one a more in-
dividual promineuce. A chat with one
of the moet accomplished nal:dresses of
the artof bouquet. matilng In out'
midst, who will design and make up
several for a drawing room, elicited
the information that the lightest pos-
sible shaft et nickel or other metal
plays, a leadingpart in these 00001196-
10011(5. Thh .so fine and slender
that it is imperceptible behind the
stem of the flower or asparagus frond,
whieh is fastened to .it by wires
scarcely thicker than a Mimeo hair,
Some eighteen iCattleyas, for example,
would be wanted for a full and hand-
some court bouquet, with unlimited
feathery aaperagUs. AS soon as these
are wired tba ample bow M tied, and
with great deftness and delicacy each
flower is worked on to it, all being
slightly inclined in a downward tend-
ency. For the trails, of winch there
may be from three to 1310, Only a very
small stiffening of wire is necessary,
and the blossoms employed in this are
set upward in the contrary direotion.
In this way nothing unnecessary is in.
oorporated in the bouquet and all is
shown in front. To finish it at the
back a tiny handle is added, and it
is in effect carried very much like a
Jug.
There has been an enormous demand
for all mauve orehids, violets, and
white exotios without too pronouncen
O perfume during the last day or so,
and the prices in the loading West End
sbolte for snob flowers have been very
high. It le interesting, however, to
note tbat bouquets are not, as a rule,
so costly as they ware two or three
yeotrs ago, as the culture of flowers
has extended so much, A simple but
fashionable bouquet of lilies of the val-
ley for a debutante eau be obtained
for a. guinea to twenty-five sbillings,
and one of white roses for thirty shil-
lings to a couple of guineas. 01 oourse
where rare orchids are used, the price
Moreases in proportion to their scar-
city, and there is practically no limit
to what extravaganoe might demand in
this direction. Both clendrobium and
Cattleya, In their manifold variations
will be very extensively carried at
both drawitig rooms, as their bettutitul
tones of lilac and heliotrope will blend
well with the mourning prescribed.
Some very great ladies will carry bou-
quets of the palest Parma violets,
made up with broad black velvet rib-
bon, and white blossom, tleCOMPanied
hy gray or Mg UVO ribbons, will also
be very generally seem
VALUE Or ALLOWANCE.
Women, ctnd especially in their
younger days, are often said to have
to conception of the value of money,
accusation that is very likely lo
have its root in Met. The cause is, of
course, that most of thorn do not have
Ilia earning of the money. Probably
the next best way to teaoh this lo a
woman is by allowing her to hove a
share in its expenditure on a business-
like basis. Every girl who has an allow-
ance of so much par week or month,
is glad of it, and takes a certain am-
ount of pride in showing how Much
she ean get out ot it, and in thiswaY
she Tep,rns to have something of an
idea of its value. it is surprising what
excellent anemia' ability a supposed-
ly oareless girl will sometimes develop,
And it is delightful to see how proud
Ole tond parent often is at this dis-
covery. However, this cannot in any
way be attributed to penuriousness on
the part of the provider, but to a gen-
uine pride at finding a well-balanoed
sense of eoonotny where he had never
mooned 11 possible to be.
Not long ago a gentleman ankh "1
at only find that eay daughter does
ut require so much money of me, now
hal Igive her a regular allowanee,
ea elle says that she has more than
he ever did before, As an examine,
few days ego 1 aelred het. why she
Id not begin to set aside a certain
mount every week, so (het mho would
Ire enough money to take het' lo I he
arts exposition.
Well, you see, papa,' said sine ".1
Wireatly heve enough saved for that
purpose."
She had apparently not (toehold here
self of anything, and yet, with the
knowledge of the valued money, which
the had learned by handling her own
accounts, elm was able to put all oe
this aside, without depriving herself
of other things,
It Is an excellent idea for every pare
ent to give his daughter an allowatem
oh as ho can afford, with the under -
ending that it is for speeified exe
nses. Everi with elaildren, this 15
rprisingly satiefuotory arrange..
ent. It Mathes the judictiougexpen-
Nth, and the coOsequent value be
(Mee in a very lihmeant way e and
o, 11 (lees away with that dependent
Cling in Money mattere which woe
en ore on often reared DA,
sit
st
Pe
re
di
at
Duke 13trittri Konettintinovitch, enu- to
sin of the Ceng and Colonel ernotnetarle le
big the eegiineta or Grenadiers ot the ln
YOUNG FOILK.S.
1,1111,1AMS.
To dream of emote means Jay; ante
denote good trade; applea (leucite a
wedding—eou re once dotioting 1,,ad
luck, weat ones prtiSperity and geod
110k.
To dream of a tionkeY nunntes bad
Luck, and it is said To ride one is seem
to hold wee 15 much toil; and to dream
you aro betaing one, emelt mourn.
'1'0 dream of a Weedy morniug thews
ill luck and griee; but to see a leria'ht
5UI1117 31101`13 in your drearo will Ming
you good news.
To dreamt you hear dogs barking and
howling is a bad sign.
To dream you hear bells is a sign
ef mmeitY, or ie you hear the wind
bloevlog it denotes hatred and outerl-
tog.
To dream of birds' nests or eggs
shows good luok will come to you ; bue
le you dream you are eating eggs, then
sorrow is in store for yen.
Clear water seen in a. dream denotes
good news, just as dirty Water denotes
ill look to the dreamer.
17 you dream you ere orossing a
bridge, an elevation in life le in store
Lor you; or if the bridge be broken,
dieficulty anti strife lie before you.
Cats denote bad luek, except it be
a black one that you dream of, then
this is lucky.
To dream of cattle denotes riches to
come, white to dream ot a sweep shows
good luck will you attend.
Clocks are good to dream about, but
if they strike then bad luck is the re-
sult.
To dream of fowls ie good news: and
if they crow, better tuck still.
Old clothes denote a fire.
To dream of a corpse denotes fortune
to you.
To dreara of horses, horse shoes,
horsemen and sigh things, means
riches and good look,
To dream you are drinking wine, de-
notes news, or if yuu dreana you are in
Nvine cellar, it denotes an illness.
Tears denote you'll be lucky in your
eithation; teeth falling out le a goad
sign; but to break them off, ill luck.
Rats and ravens denote 111 will,
death, and disgrace.
To lose a ring indicates sickness.
To dreams of lambs indicate pleas-
ure, riches, etc.
To he writing shows misery, as also
is It denoted by dreaming of worry.
Dead horses indicate much adversity.
Goats, Delvers, or flying in the air
are good omens to all.
Clean clothes denote prosperity, un-
clean linen, sickness and trouble.
ELSIE'S GARDENING.
Little Elsie felt herself quite a gar -
denim as she quietly walked across the
11a0:1;1101ith her AM rake and water.
n.
"My garden will always look nice
DOW, for i can rake it smooth with my
new rake, and 1 shall water it every
evening and then the seeds will all
coemseh.,a, p and the flowere will look
fr
Elsie held up her head and looked
quite proud.
She had not gone far before she met
her brother Dlok.
"All I" /mid he, "you are going to
your garden, Have you any seed to
sal
''N1'0'," said Elsie; "it is not the right
time."
"Doll seed may be set at any time,"
said Dick, taking two large beans out
of his pocket. "Don't eet them very
deep in the ground, and come every
morning to see if they have COMO 09,"
Dick was very fond 07 playing tricks
on his sister though his mother told
11 m it was wrong to do so, and he
laughed as he saw Elsie goieg off with
her beans, whielt she set near some
CI°Owneer naP°otism.ing Dick went off to the
garden with a small paper parcel tuck-
ed under his coat, and hid himself be-
bilendressemnatalybullalhselea. came along, and
when she looked et her garden she
apread out her hands and said:
'01) 1"
Close by the flower pots lay a little
wax doll. Elsie ran to the house,
ing out:
"Jefotner, mother I my doll seed has
come up. It has grown into a real
dull. Como aail look."
But when Jeer mother came and saw
Deilt looking through the bushes. she
said: "Oh I Diek, Diehl you have b.een
playing your sister enother trick."
TITS BIRDS' PETITION.
Dear Brothers of the Barth:
Wo, your brothers of the air
wish and hereby request you to show
the little kindneeses which We ask of
you,
\\homiest' you go out to the woods
in winter or early miring always take
retell you some corn or bread for us,
as our supply or berries will be near-
ly gone ,by that
Never take a gun or slingsbot into
the woods with you,
Pleese never destroy our nests CV
take our young or eggs.
Whenever you see a 3,roung bird on
Ilea ground lift It up Into its little
home.
Tell your mainmen and aunties nev-
er to wear feethers in their hats, as
horman cis of us a re slaughtered every
year to Omura Le bonnets.
And eve promise yott that we will re-
pay your favors by delighting you with
our quaint pranecs and evreet soogs,
Sigtecl, Robin, Bluebird, SparroW,
Chickadee, Oriole toad many others.
TRUANT LAWS ENFORCED,
The almence M a ebild from school
in Switizerlahcl, lu case of illness le pun-
tehabte by a fine, the amount of which
Is daily into eased. Xi it is saspeated
that the Mind's Moen is shammed a
(looter 18 Vera by the tichool authori-
ties, and when Ile is oonvinced that
the auspieion is cerreet, the Pareas
have to pity hie to.
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