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THE BRUSSELS POST.
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UE IiOB IthOUIRE?
REV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS OP OCR
GREAT BLESSINGS.
eye Must ('re tin Account to God or Every
Evens tu Our 11,110-M0nte et the laicise
11111,8 We Enjoy Lu Tilts Woriti-rolteed
(411 Warnpuni-/Ilitur Fatal Accidents
tine Sudden leetillis--The Dr.'s Picture
or the Day or Judgment.
A despatch from Washington says:
-
Rev. Dr, Talmage preened from the
following text :-"Clud requireth that
which is past."-Eeclestastes, Hi, 15.
We are ail looking forward. The
ploughman who would strike out a
straight furrow, tukee sight by the
post at the end, of the field, toward
which he drives, and not by the poet
behied bbn. The sportsman alms at
the target before his face, not at the
one behind him. The bontmen steers
by the headland width he is approach-
ing, and not by the headland that he
bas left behind him. So we are all
looking forward; and where in this
audieeee to -night there are a hun-
ched tboughts directed toward to -mor-
row, there is not more than one
thought directed toward yesterday. I
think it was Longfellow wbo spoke of
the "dead past." indeed, it seems to be
a great cemetery, in which are buried.
dead hopes, dead opportunities, dead
joys, dead sorrows, dead everything.
But, my friends, there is really no
such thing as h "dead past." We
shall not travel it any more. But
are Germany, and England, and Rus-
sia dead and interred because we shall
never see them again, having once teen
them? 0, no. They are alive with
population just as certainly 3101V we
do eot go there as when we did go
there; Ilnd so though we may not
travel through the pest, it is all popu-
lous with liring events. We ought
to be just as much interested in yes-
terday as in to -morrow, for "God re-
euiretb that which is past."
frhere is in law what they call a re-
lease. If you bare en encumbrance
upon your property, by the payment
of a certain sum of money on
your part the person to who= you
obligoted gives you a document
a only cm. Isow If there had been
tee divine sons in the futility, tend He
had sent one and nine nad staid with
Hine the, sacriflee would not have been
NO great. But the Lord's taraily was
email. There watt only taw Sue, 111311
lie earns forth, and He came Isere; and
the Fether was willing that the divine
family seould broken up, aed the
Son should come. Wlay To heal youe
wounds, and to wipe away your tears,
to carry your burdens, to die your
death, and to etive your soul ; end for
(twee last teat tweuty yams Ile has
been atiki»g of you (me little thing,
and thet it that you would let Him
just steed inside the door of your
heart. 0, have pm dorm it ? Your
erectly to °lariat, and your ingrati-
tude to God make up a very rough
PoragraPh. Look at lotus I What is
He weepine for 1 Has He not got over
he death of Lazarus yet 1 0, yes; He
is weeping for the treatment He his
veceived yuur bands. He (lid nut de.
serve this. 0, it was hard, after He
((time tio fax, and endured so millet. If
isre er was any one that you ought
to have greeted with a great deal of
hospitality, it was this One; yet you
have closed the door in His face, and
You nave driven flim down the steps,
and "God requireth that width is
past."
wbe Amine in thoughtlese, now fe
you IVO inaroortel, thel is suy
yen 00 loudly ,you comm. sto
ears 'valiant "0 man, where
dying mother's enleieuties; 0
where bave you spent your
since you nave been in town? ()
H you should die in your 8081 to
where would you go to? ()
long will you liver Some 0110 an
"I expect to live sixty, seventy,
years." You will live tongue
that. You will live a laundred
You will live a quadrillion uf
You will live a quintillion of
And whou you have gon througl
you will be uo 'meter the, termin
your journey than you are lo -
But wbere? In what radinnee
a a. own? Say, say, what o
night? 00 what road? What have
the propheeies of the past ten ye
your life? Are not all the ti
Pointing one way? Just as eert
as this gallery sweeps around, so
eweeps around every man's heal
night a saying: "Before
mut( out of that you will decide
des t ny."
here is In every war a derisive
tle. Once it was Marathon, one
was Wnterloo, 0110P it was Ge
burgh, once it was Sedinn; but 1
to tell you that in this great we
ng uu about your soul, to -night 1
deci-ive lattl- to-nightl to -nigh
ailor that was on boa z•d ("alum
.essel, Mem he earae ashore. se
'as a /look of land -birds that sh
hem where the land was. He
14,1 ball them flymg just 1,
ightfall, and that they mad
heir minds that the birds must be
ng toward land; "so," lee said,
leered in the direction they went,
e• soon found land" So 10-01
here are anxious souls flying a
el that I written ie the books according to ELI) lloRsEs
ing t o OF THIBET
le your
is thy
man,
nighte
MOM,
-night,
u, how
ewers;
eighty
than
years,
y01.1.113.
years,
that
OS of
night.
or in
t wothe; and there was a great.
earthquake, and the sue became biaek
83 saekelot 4 of hair."
What proportiou of this audience Is
ready tor thet day? Half of it? 1
hope 60-.1. belieVe so. If so, let tee
half who are prepared. ery aloud un-
to God in behalf of the belf LIUIL are
eot. Do you not know that oue who
site by you to -night, though he may
be a stranger, will be near Yon in the
last day? Will he 031 that any be en-
abled to charge you with leaking no
effort to -night for bis venue? Eter-
nal God, overwhelm there! ehrtstian
Hunts will a eettee of their
reeponsibiiity, and seige (mole all
the impenitent with a t
the anxiety. " 0," aeys seine (me here in
beeu the gallery, " (Owes the use tif talk -
ars of ?mg about the fact that ell our sllie
n er will be Moment up in the last day it
ainly
eloct
e to -
You
your
UNHEEDED WARNINGS, 1
Again„ I remark tbat God will require i
ol. you, and does require of you, the s
i
warninge Hut were unheeded all your %
Ole. Did any of you have narrow es.
capes I 1 remember two or three times '
there is no way uut 1 knuw I have
been a einner. Dune tell me anything
aboet il." My brother, Christ isready
to puy all your debts, ruld He Is ready
not only tu (11.055 014 and erase every
sin yen have ever committed, but
bat- nee put your finger in a but -
e it tle of ink end then with the ink 0/1
(ism. that finger rub out something thee
beee had been written un a beautiful page,
ao Gott says, He will nut only erase
a the Year sins and cross them out, but Ile
o A will blot out -your transgression, so
ewe that neither man, angel, nue devil can
la it tell what it wee. Now is not (lint some -
owed thing to believe? le it not good news/
saie The arch -Legere trunateet that sh 11
came near drowning. 1 remem-
ber with what chagrin I was obliged
to take the last berth in the Met sleet).-
ing-car of the express train from Chi-
cago but I did not know fleet before
1
n6 the two front sleemng-cars e
would be burled over an enabmkment t
in great sem liter d the iront 01
the ear in which 1 0:10 sleeping would
be erueheS to tams, 1 did not know
that. 0, I suppose nil you men who
have Iliad en active life, have run a
great m Aeks, aud have many nar-
row escapes. Did you not think God
teas etIling to you client Din you not ,,
say within yourselves: "If 1 bad been en
on the front of the boat, instead of e"
in the stern, or if couldn't have swum 212
or if I had been on the fourth floor :1
of that burning hotel instead of the ea,
eecond floor, or if I had been on the
fr
up train instead of tbe down belie,
e ecome o Jam? I was
eeeee set the pyriunids end shatter the solid
e, up masonry of Westruinster Abbey, pan -
go_ nut be blown so loudly that it can
ewe wake up 0 sin when God bas buried it,
and The swimmer that goes down on the
Atlantic beach to bathe has not so
much room in the great aceee au there
Is to -night M the wide fountain of God's
mercy, (01 7015 to come and wash' away
all your sins, 0, will yeu, my brother,
be so obstinate as to put nway this
chance. for heaven? Come to the Lord
Jesus Christ now, How often you
have heard that invitaticin-heard it
from platform, from pulpit, from in-
dividual Christians, in all moue:mein.
oes. It has got to be on old story.
come to Jesus, Some people sooff at
Christians because they say those three
words so often; but, my friends, tbat
short sentence
EM.BRACES EVERYTHING,
and why thould we. tot use it, and wbo
(tares what the world says, if only our
souls ate saved? le'o I tell you, come
to Jesus. Come now, 0 wanderer
from thy God; come. tame. I feel that
you must be. in earnest to -night, I do
not tlaink that on such a stormy night
mem conae to the house of God unless
they have some reason for coming, and
I feel tnat this is the hour of your sal-
vation. I am certain of it now, after
I heard the prayers that were offered
in the Lay College building at half -
past six o'clock, where men laid hold
of the horns of the altar and plead
with the Lord for His blessing on
these services with an imeortunity
He will not deny. Ever since that I
have expected that the Lord woold
graciously appear here, and that there
would be many souls this night who
would fled their way into the hope
of the Gospel. Will it be you Will
it be you? Will it be you? 0, young
man, what good news it would be to
send honae to your father and mother
en the country. They are wondering
where you are to -night. Whet good
news it would be to send them. 0, ye
who have perents in heaven what
good news it would be to send them.
" There is joy among tbe angels of
God over one sinner that repenteib,"
awl I do not believe that you would
have been in the hope of the Gospel
one minute before they would hear of
it befue the throne, and et•y : "Praise
Bina 1 Praise Him 1 0, the gefee of
jeaus, (bat ba$ brought home my lost
boy. Halletueth 1" I can eromise you
no pardon for Monday. I can promise
you no spiritual hope for ten o'clock
to -night. There hove been seventeen
htindred people who have (lied since we
began the service to -night. There will
be thirteen tbuusand people who will
die before to -morrow morning, who
\yin die yet to -night -thirteen thou -
send. I would be very silly to stand
here and premise you nnything in the
way of future repentance tend future
pardon. "Escape for thy life, lest Ellett
be 001381702041." Mercy long g•rieved
may leave the gate, and the uplifted
sword of justice fall, and then thy
(hence is gone and thy doom is fixed.
I suppose that this very moment, while
I apeak, there are thousonds in the
world of the lost who felt once jast *18
you feel to -night, and enme just as
near being saved as you have come,
and yet they did not. take the decisive
step while they could, and now they
could net if they would. lleware,
lest, through the snme ImItleg, you
come to the same fate,
"To -day the Saviour calls,
re wanderers come;
0, ye benighted souls,
Why longer roam?
The gitirit calls to -day,
'Yield to His power ;
0, grieve Him not away,
'Tis mercy's hour."
oward Christ and heaven '11n(isyour direction, and that is the safe dir-
ection. Did I say it was/ the decisive
battle? Why, leaven or bele, in the
next hall hour, will get the victory for
There is another point at which God
makes requisition and that is tee
out we live on earth. I know
at physicians do not like to have,
any people in the sielc-room. When a
an is ekpiring they say it vitiates tbe
'oueldogt isl diitt(13'PlL7e;s Vete
• t e ,
r dies the room is always crowded,
ona the door to the bedside, from the
sor o e
CROWDED \erne MEMORIES,
owded until you can crowd in no
ore. And God, in every sinner's
ing room, calls (be roll of three
gunents: the regiment of past mere-
, e tegument of past warnings, the
gimeat of past sins. He calls thsoe
ree regiments, and they come in,
d they present arms and
a: e atm, and they fire,
The saddest and the busiest
room hi all the world is such a room.
You may turn on all the lights, you
cannot expel the darkness. You may
talk about the importance of having
the room quiet, you eaneue silence the
voices. 'What is God doing with that
dying soul? Be is "requiring that
wh:ch is past," What are the yokes
of the pest saying Lieu unrepent-
ant Man as he is going out of lite?
Thom voices are saying to him :
"What about those Sebbatb-breaking
rides? What about those wo • Id
os -
mums or unclean ? What about
se malpractices in trade? What
ut those million bad tboughts dur-
your life of envy, 07' hatred, or
t, or pride ? Come to resurieetion
ye deem and months and Years;
O to resurrection. And they come,
ere is /10 anodyne tilet 04111 soothe
b pang, for I have tried h. There
no stinaulous that can brace up
t courage. There is no febrifuge
t 111 C001 that excitement, You
y tell all the disturbances to leave
bedside and go awoy ; they will
go. Wbat is God doing with that
ng man 1 He is "reg i ring that
eh ie past."
here is one other point at whet
will make requieition, that is in
great final Jay. suppose you
O dreamed uf that day. We are
y apt, an our dreanas, to have no-
s and ideas about things we have
ughi of in the clay time, and mere
king ninn has thought something
111 t t tiny. NaW the day of
Meath tthen I had hoard a minie-
ot Christ preach his farewell ser-
. lt had been a clay of deep emo-
mem once. It wns at the close of
s, and that night 1 hettril the last
rapei sound, There was uo music in
or t twee not ready; but the sound
deep end long, and overmaster -
1 saw the flash a a •
ou d bay b
entirely unprepared then ?" Did you „„
heed that warning? 0, my brother,
next time you rimy be on the bow in- ',re
stead of on the stern, or on the 111) re
train inetead ef the down train, Ors
your arm palsied of a falling spar you
may aot know how to swim. God re- fr,
mentbers all these narrow escapes. lie a.
treeing your property from any 1n- has mane a record of them, and "He
cumbrance. That is a. xeleuse Well, requires that which is pist,"'
w en a man becoraes a Christian, for,
and in consideration of what Christ So God will require of you all the
has paid in his behalf, God grants him warnings that came to you througb
e. full release, and all bis old sins go sickness. It is very seldom that thy
down into the very depths of the one crones to mid-life or even manhood
ocean, never to be brought up again, without having been bombarded of
neither in the erisee of this world nor disease. You were driven into a room
in the Day 01 Judgment ; but until anti kept there as though armed sol -
that arrangement is made, "God re- diery had stood gutrd over you. There
quireth that which is Past." AS WS nerves, or your lungs, or your head,
WON oomething the matter with your
axe not responsible for anything that
occurred before we were born, God will or your heart, or your linabs, that made
eot ask us anything (demi that. As you, full of portent. The question
We tere not responsible for anything our friends,
asked by yourself and bY e'
we could not help, God willl not nsk and by the doctor MS: " Will I ever
outthat. But there
are in all oue lives, liowever insigni-
ficant, a multitude of events for which
we must give an account; and tnough
the events bare gone away from us ,
twentY Years ago, in God's eight they `
stand close by us as though they had
transpired only three minutes ago.
A meeiner puts his sea -glass to his ,
eye, and looks off .upon the wean, end,'
beholds the hulk tie a charred steumer.'
The sea is quite rough, anti he tells Y
the crew to give a wide berth to that t
hulk, But, my 1 eie11118, 1Ve OannOt r
•tteer clear of the dismasted eveuts! ,t
which burned to the weier's edge in '
our .past life. They float all about • s
us, significant and tremendous, far , in
''God requireth that which is past." . r
'UNRECOGNIZED BLESSINGS. • o
; e
DI the first place, God will require ;
of US all our east unrecognized bless- D
ings. When I consider how mueh it
takes to elotte, and shelter, and feed. t
a man for only a year, on, then eat- ,
rulate how much it wuuld 0010. him le
for twenty, tbirtz forty, fifty, six-. '
ty years, 1 come to the vonelusion, ri,1
when I see you here to-nlght, that you ,
have been very much blessed. 11 hy , r.,`,
the numblest of you hae been at an "
eiependiture of a5,(O0, Fenn, $10,00, g
$15,000, $20,000 througb the course of ,,
your life. Besides that, you have re-, "
.
naA
UN uoflrlhi
ph
me out of ties will be ever come tiro
out of this ?" And as you laid there abo
and the world seerued to be growing Mg
0151 of your grasp, and the great Etete his
nity seemed to be hovering. se near di
hat you thought you could feel its cora
breath on your cheek 0, how rapidly Th
you thought ; what resolutions you 0L10 21
made ; whet vows before God you is
ledged. Did you keep them ? You re- the
member very well that night wben tha
ou henrd the watchers whispering one mi
0 tthother ; and you teem alarmed at tbe
our breathing; eed the clock struck not
welve at midnight, mad the falling of dyl
he elock'ebammer seemed like a knell -ate
minding through your soul. God re- 9
embers that (ime, He 13,3S made a God
(-cord of that thee." lir requireth th .0 the
Inch is pest." Tint sit -knees in whith bay
ou said: "1), God! it een only get ver
veil, 1 will serve Thee." You got well. tion
id you serve Him?
So, also, God will require of you en Usin
holm warnings thet came to you alio
hrough the sudden derense of year S;
1011418. How many quick w.ye there ter
re to get oat of life; a stumbling men
mem; the capsizing of a sall-boat. it .1019
lp nt the head of the stairs; a break- don
9 away of a railing; the eniting to tro
et up alive of tbe intn who went to it, f
ed well ; the flash of a thunderbeit ; was
• elneh of two swift vehieles end ing-
ne of your friends is gone A friend
at tilt with you at tbe table, or .91
10 Chamber of Commerce, or in the
feted of Direction, he is gone. 'Yee
ke up, a morning wiper and you a
ticked. " Why," you say, "the prin
s must have got hold of the wro
pe, It can't be, It e, n't be." But
as. The store was Mateo]. You saw
you went. i(long to business, Prien
thered in sentimillY. A long Pr
esion was formed going ott town
-• vein •tery, and in the course 01 111*
ys the whole story of sickness, dent
it its obeequies woe ended, How (I
affect yeti? Did you hear the he
gt! That WE18 the team of God
ovidenee. Aye, there was one wen
t from yotir own household,
HOW SUDDENLY fIle WENT
so many thaws entirely (1e
00 charge. l'he /nest of the light th
you haVe 901 for nothing. "0," you;
say, "we have to furnish the lamps end'
the , an it costs a great deal ' `es
to light our room; and light our homes 0'
and light our churches." Flora five
(Mork ill the intraing until seven ; 'a
o'clock in the evening, how much does w
it cost you for light ( Does not God's; ss
eandle light up the earth and tbe Ilea- E1)1
yen for all those lames? and it e0.1114 c"P,
you nothing for al least twelve hours in
of the day. So it bus been with (be •da
most of your fuel. "0," you say, !In
"wood and coal are up and it mem us
a great deal for fuel;" but from May rut
to October whose fireplare is it that Pt
1100' 0111014 does it cost you ? Nothing,
warrne the earth 1 It is God's. And ou
You get the most 'g 91 no-. ; 91
thing, and the /nest of your fuel for er„
nothing, and :rem the 010133011 1 you 'deli
were tiorn God bits curried you around he
in the arrne of His benefaetion. Ile roli
gas kissed you with Hie sunshine, and imp
stroked you with His air tin b•
epiendor, and on one side there was
a vast illumined &pace filled wit h
happy leers; and on Ole other side
there wos a thick cloud, from which
re tit' • ens hollow with woe
ta Did 1 see the hooks open? No. You
og aek me did I see the great while
e throne ? No. You ask me why? it
it wee because the falling of the moun-
ds tains end the hallehijabs (0 the 110' 3d
ea and the ehrieks of the lost woke me
ed 01) 191 with besweated brow I thought
au 0, if tbe dretun is so vivid, what will
h the reality be 1 On 1 hal day, jute NO
id plainly prophesied in Ibis Bible, that
11 no man doubts its owning win/ believes
the Bible -on that day "God will
t require that which ie paste Though
In that fire the books of tiecount
should be coneumere and the Met leaf
go nto ashes, our tnetnuries would lie
so aroused and invigorated that they
would bring up all the past. On that
day nue unrepented eine will glare in
upon us with oyes of fire, and. clutch
No. laeelBS141431eS,
s with fingers of flame. 18 it
t h and fourteenth "God bath
'fled a day in which He will
the world in righteousness by
men when) He bath ordained."
I s fair enougb. "0," you saY,
wrong thing I did was in Ole
." Nevertheless, God saw there
. eu say there wits not one present,
and it Gould hot be proved, Neverthe-
less God sew 111 Wit bout a single ex-
ception, ell the untorgiven sins of
our past life will come up before us,
and before, an aseembled universe sve
e quote toned a bout. them.
L OUR UNPOILGIVEN SINS,
vill see them un that day just
inly as you see the theking al
teantains in the chill of e great
road the thrivellieg of the hea-
ike o enroll; and you will bear
sins on that day as plainly as
eel' the baying of the thunders
e Oath of the oceans as it MOW!
ha its hist agony. "I Saw the
mall and great, steed before
ex! the books were open, tted tbe
were judged eat of the tbinga
ere was one that went from your
tiest bueiness associations. Hew sud-
ly he went. I suppose that there
ve been thirty or forty startling
videnees in your life, when you were"'100 01 fl)that
reesed with the fact roore or leas for u
tressed with it, that life was uncer- (we)t
33, and that at any moment eternity: eppoi
lit move in upon your soul. How' Judo',
you feel about it? Did you put the ' that
rnings that God gave you to tiny That
etical application, or 1111/3 it been ' "that
rel that there im no power in Gott's 'night
vidences to move and arouse and
est your soula 0, my dear friends,
otwithstanding all these long, re-
iding thunders of admonition, you
ot turn to God and live, wbat will
• you? "Grid requireth that which
ast."
you with His waiters, and garlanded tai
• ,irni
,enu with His flowers, and fed you at mig
Elm granaries, and reeked you in the' did.
attune of His beautiful world. Illees-
ings behind you; blessings before yen; „
bleesings on either side of you; blew- :1131'4';
inge nbore nem; blessings beneath pm •
igs within you. What tlinnks pro
hove you rendered ? What grntitude
have you telt? Have you been sit- " ,n,
ling teething, 000n, aria night, al the' es°'"
Levi's table without ever praising the a`i en
divine goodnese a Have you stept 'ner
eight on an easy much anti never r
.urned thenks for the divine goodness11 T
Have you 'children in your house, ehil- ren
exert hearty, robust and well, end have 'non'
you never reeognizett the divine power ehel
that keeps theni bee/thy and roseate? 00 a
0 C 1 1,, .11 very good to you.
Heve you been good, to God ? "Gocl
requireth Viet whieh is meet." More
titan that, He saw ,yout dying and sent
tin Angel to redeem yett. Did he ? 510,
va Fent Gabriel erom the throne, to
ree
here are three points al whieb "Godi saY
uiree that which pasi," One is AL
, Many a man bite come te Yell e
•ch and eat looking at the eeiling as pia
t the tights, 07' at the apparel ni the na
terror
vets 1
those
a9n0lal fhb
itself
dead,
God, a
dead
115*'
emti
er, a
has
ies o
the
, no. He cried, out to Owl
Michael, the archengel, "Go forth and God
eansom finfi elan." 0, no. He, 50101 1 10 at
people near hira, or has been cooltyl
mating the intellect of the preach -
tut nut thae enument the Lord
turned rivet on him all the reemore
1 his ease ilk and the voices of
future have shrieked in his ear
r overmastering realities. And so
le doing to -night. So He is doing
le very assemblage. Sorne. of you
THE CORREOT VEIL.
The newest veil, ie of white or bleak
°hawing, slightly longer in the eenter
than at the sides and shaped to kit the
hat, It laas been worn in Paris all
winter. Women who tind that the
large Hoses are unbecoming wind the
veil loosely about the bat, as though
earelesely thrown back from tbe fate.
The veil is extremely becoming to a
brilliant complexion and Mega lea -
tures, but farms that are finely chisel-
ed fled dello/it:81y tinted will find that
O better effect is produced when the
veil is woand around the hat than
when worn over the face.
IMPOSSIBLE.
Yis, sor, th' byee are stroikba' for
shorter hours, but it sames foollah to
me.
How long are their bones now.
Larry?
Sixty rainnits, sor, an', he dad, Oi
cab% toe how they kin make Iny
different widout chanin' the ealinder,
HIS PERTINENT OFEER.,
The ecieversation has terned, upon
clubs and bachelore and bachelor
gnartere.
'Why Is it, she asked drearaily, that
men don't marrY?
Witb your permission, he replied,
shall be pleased to orove to you that
they do. .
44•44.4.
A DUEL OP STALLIONS AND A BAT-
TLE BETWEEN 'HERDS.
Memo. Unman CliaratelertstIrs or the Ant,
14ial8-310voinents Directed 11 1111111ary
Science -Pall or MO Big Vittlir 811011100
Contllel tu Which Muir rfall.
William jartteeon Reid, who spent
several yeare IXI explorieg China and
Thibet, gives the following account
of the wild horees of Thihet in his book
" Through Unexplored Asia," whieh le
to be issued shoetly:
" Wild horses, called by the Wa-
re:tee Dzerlikedu, are very numerous in
the country to the eastward of Salmi
at the base of the mountain ranges,
They are generally in large herds,
very shy, and wben frightened con-
tinue their fliglit for days, They are
never hunted, owing to the difficulties
of the chase, but are captured by
streeg 119080S 11(.111elled 10 sunken
stakes, distributed In the districts
which they are known to frequent,
in this manner insuring their capture
without injury. Tbese horses usually
roam' over the country in groups of
fifty to a hundred. Each lot of mares
is led by a stallion, the size of whose
family depends on hie age, strength
and courage, .his individual qualities
keeping his herd together, Over this
he maintains the most strict watch-
fulness% for lf he deeeries intruders
from other herds 10 105 ranks las rushes
to the encounter and tries in every
way by biting and kicking to drive
them off. During the breeding season
the males are exceptionally aggres-
sive, and encounters among them-
selves, and even attacks on human be-
ings, are of frequent occurrence.
"Long before reaching this country
we had been entertained by numer-
ous narratives of a more or less nebu-
lous clutracter concerning the almost
human characteristics, of these ani-
mals, in -1011101 stories we bad placed
no more faith than in those usually
told by the natives. The head mat of
Sukul we had immediately Concluded
was not better than his fellows, for
he told suoh
ASTONISHING TALES.
of the dolege of ibis &plea nation
that we momentarily expected he
would tell of cities, torts and houses
built by them. We were all tee more
surprised, therefore, when, on the sec-
ond day, he earue to us with the asser-
tion that, if 0143 were mill incredulous,
be was, ready and willing 10 put proof
to the test, as several of bus bunters
had reported a number of herds in the
valley plain to the southward. Accord-
ingly, shortly before nightfall, we rode
for some hours, until we had reaebed
a spot weence we tould uverlook the
Plain waere we were informed the as-
tonishing wonders of wIneb we had
been told might 10 perrorrned.
" About 11) o'clock, as, slaivering with
the almost Arctic coldness of the wea-
ther, we were making futile efforts to
keep warm, and cursing our stupid-
ity in coining to verity fairy tales we
were aroused to aotion be' an ominons
stir among our tionies, who were strain-
ing at their tetbers and whinpyiug
nervuusly. A few initiates later a.
weird, shrieking howl, as of some soul
in dies distress, floated through the
air, sounding 110113' at hand and yet far
removed. Following the guide, we
mounted to a little jutting meg over-
looking the broad plain which stretch-
ed away for miles from the foot`of the
broad plateau, and therm'Indeed, saw
O sight which almost beggared des-
cription, The broad expanse, lighted
by the new moon, which rendered the
surrourtding country almost as lum-
cats as day, was filled with herds upon
herds of horses of every size, color, and
description. For several mements we
were dembfounded at a. sight so thril-
ling and awe -inspiring -a vast, surg-
ing mass of living, breathing animals
busily engaged in fedding on the lux-
uriant grass of the valley. Suddenly
upon the night air resounded a "blood-
curdling neigh, as clear as a bugle
cull; and immediately the herd stop-
ped feeding,and stood with heads er-
ect, as a mighty army at the call of
its leader. Another prolonged neigh,
pitched in e somewhat higher key, and
LIKE A NVIIIIILWIND,
the whole herd bolted up the valley,
as orderly and regularly es the finest
disciplined army, with the three or
tour who seemed to be the leaders sYln-
metrically arrangel ahead of the main
body, and flanking and rear detaoh-
meats posted with studious exact, -
nese.
"On reaching the bead of the plain
orme more they crone to a halt end
grnzing was resumed. Our attention
had been so drawn in following the
action of this herd that we had nut
noticed Hutt another fully es large had
come from far down the valley end had
installed themselves on the feeding
rounds just vacated. The scene, in d
front was now all -engaging; cold and
fatigue were alike forgotten in the st
enthralling interest of the moment, Poe
half an hour both herds cropped the 11
short grass in silenee, when it shrill.
neigh from the group nearest to us th
attracted our attention in their reireepe
-
ng their sbniaely necks xnuc
ln tee maneer of two Retorts in Mae
combat making the prelhalleary flour
ish previous to deadly uotion.
" This overture Mated. for Dull 111
teen minutes, when wan startling suti
denness both animals leaped armee(
and rushed at mil other with lite vel
°city of well -aimed projemites, N011t0
and nearer they 011/330 112 their mad
onward career, and we were waiting
the reennent whoa the two grand beasts
s toine together with trernendou
force. But, 0101 foe when within twen
ty feet of each other they came baok
th
on eir haunches, and eyed each oth-
er cautiously for a moment, as it await-
ing the necessary opening. And than
WITH ONE LAST DEFIANT NEIGH
at each other, they heaped to the en-
counter,
" To describe the events of the next
ten mieutes would require pages of
hyperbole to give in any pleasure a
faint Idea of the SUPreir10 grandeur
and welrdnese of this bele:Wenn strug-
gle between two giants. They rushed
at each other time and time again like
inameese catapults; they fought with
tooth and hoof, while no other sound
could be heard -the two bores, who
hail meanwhile approached nearer to
the struggle, gazing on their loaders
as if carved in stone. One would have
had to be within a few feet of the (11-
1110 combat to describe neeurately the
events of that short quarter of an
hour. The 'two beasts could be seen
rearing in the air, locked together like
two wrestlers, their tee)1s tearing
other and their great hoofs relentless.
13' kicking in all directions witb the
tome of pile -drivers. 13oth animals
eere tiring perceptibly, when in an
instant all was 0001.. A sharp rally,
end then the ghastly Lorin of the big
wiete stallion rose alone, and on the
ground lay the prostritte body of bis
all tagonist. The victor eon t en t ed
g ving utterance to short,
exultant neighs, and ever and anon
knieking the body of his defeated foe.
"1375 bad seen the great equine duel,
but we little knew what was yet in
store for us. Soon there W£13 R. move-
ment in both herds, and with the Home
military promptness as we had wit-
nessed before, with the meres and colts
In the centre, the two bodiea formed,
and without the least wart3ing or sig-
nal rushed at each other. It meemed
as if the vete( heevens were falling in.
The dim and crash as they swept to-
gether, even at our distance, was ter-
rific, and in the elear moonlight could
be seen the rolling mum of contest-
ants surging like a huge wave over
Ole plain. 41 110 end of ten minutes,
and aa suddenly as it had conimeneeil,
Ole battle terminated, end the two
herds slowly separated. We could now
see someaw
of the results of the ful
contlict, for, scattered here and there
all aver the plain, were the forms of
tbose who had fallen in the sanguin-
ary conflict."
auLy 7, 180
REIdOS OF GREAT PEOPLE;
--
, IN THE HANDS OF ANTIQUARIES.
ALL OVER THE WOIll,A
1
Trappings 01 Unhappy Queens. 'Whose
num Slate Led OulY PilltorHe" *11121
' Dealb,
There us suenething peculiarly petite -
tic in the few mute 011108 of the great
- Napoleon, who was, within the Maine
ory of the living, the lord and tho.
seourage of Europe.
, The must interesting of thee merge
oriels is the cradle in ivniela the Ent-
peror-to-be lay ai au Infant, in his
semple nursery in .Ajacelo, while hie
future conquerer, the Duke of Well-
ington, was being rocked in a minallar
erade 111 the nursery of Deegan Castle,
in far -away Ireland. In these two
cradles, so simple and innocent in an-
pearanee, what terrible potential&
ties were itursecil
Napoleon's cradle now occupies a
jeweler uf the drawing room of Mee.
Van Rensselaer Cruger, New York. It
is of (leek wood, very plain, free truee
ornament, and it was bought by its
present owner at an auction salein
Paris.
..1, few months ago a look of leapolee
on's hair was sold at auction for $26,
It. was given by Napoleon during Lis
exile to Captain Poppleton, his "per -
raiment orderly," and by him given to
O fifes. Lethaux. Captain Poppleten,
in his letter accompanying+ the lock of
wrote: "Incloeed is what I pro -
1 haeveyloiutile7lit
ef" small, but precloue.
MEXICAN PROVERBS.
SOMC Trite Sayings Frolu the Land or the
Clfrarot.te. •
There are many fine epigrams and
proverbs in Spanish. Many of them
cannot be translated so as to preserve
the terseness and aptness of the origin-
al. Many, of course, are the Balm as
the English proverbs or simply change
Ole simile. They are used with all
possible variety of application. A
gentleman who was seated near a
group of young ladies of a railway
station, busy with their fonewell kiss-
es, stood it as long as he could and
then protested: "Don't count your
money in the presence of the poor,"
Following are some of the proverbs not
uncommonly heard in Mexico;
"He who never ventures will never
ones the sea."
"There's no gain without pain."
"Flies cannot enter a closed mouth."
"Behind the cross is the. devil."
"4081 in gloves will never catch
a•nts."
"To the hungry no bread is dry,"
"A book thet M shut makes no
Balmier."
"The good laundress washes the
ysheahrqs.f„irst."
"No evil will endure a hundred
"When the elver is passed the saint
is forgotten."
"He who has little has little to fear."
etc the pill were not bitter it would
001 be bengoititt"
,, rust your naoney to those
who keep their eyes on the floor, make
an outward sign of piety."
"Wind and good luck do not last,"
"Don't take a pawn that must be
fed,"
"It is good fishing in troubled wa-
tTi"frugal, rich father and a spend-
thl:Nifot Isvoonr,a"
is ill -spoken if it is not ill
unclerstoVgu‘"
"Ate rarty inflict a deeper
wound than a sword."
-
A F:Re.NK SURGEON,
Doctor Colles, an eminent; surgeon of
Dublin, tvh,) died 1121 43, was remarked
tor bis plain dealing with himself. In
his fee -book be had many such caudid
entries as the following:
For giving ineffectual advice for
eat/toss, one guinea.
For attempting to them out the
tune, of a tooth, cane guinea,
For telling him thet Ile was no more
1 than I was, one guinea,
leer nothing that I know of exeept
at he probably thought be did not
y me enough last time, one guinea.
Lion. They had all stopped feeding
and stood restless and fearful as i
detecting the approach of some ter
rible etten3y. Suddenly from out the
compactly gathered MaSS speeng a
gigantic stallion, who, after pawing
the earth and meanwhile neighieg
fiercely, proceeded et a gallop a full
half mile up the valley, slopping every
few hundred feet to rennet hitt belli-
cose neighing. Following his move-
ments, we now saw that another ani-
ma) was galloping down in a similar
=inner from the other herd, doubtless
to accept the challenge. The newcomer
was e magnificent snow -while, and,
with' the clear light of the moon shin-
ing trinol hiM, he presented a gigantic
appearance when contrasted with his
smaller antagotiat. Whet within a
quarter of a Mile of ettell,other the
two Imaete came to another hall ahd
stool facing their respeetive herds,
netving the ground, and teinhiner fieree.
„ ELEVEN DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.
Miner casually deecended 15 yartle
a
into n all flooded mine near Welling-
borough, England, by means of 0 rope,
to see if the writers were subsiding.
All his efforts to get back wee° un-
availieg, and tor 11 days he wee on -
(embed. A visitor to the spot beer-
ing a voiee below scoured the manta
Irleleataisyes.. Though provided with wrie
tee he had been without food the whole
r A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT,
come here, Johnnyl len going 10
9106h, 7ra reatnIal 10*101 °1
t1 -em -on or caste rd
pit?
0011.moewlideraer;eIymon4.ioniniegrrutiott regievoJoyttir ylet
'niece of advice
SOUVENIR OF NAPOLEON'S
FOLLY.
,Another most interesting relic of
Napoleon Is the very sleigh be which
he ee.eaped from Russia, when he left
behind dim a trail of half a million
frozen corpses, the victims of Ms fail-
ure and folly. The sleigh bas been In
the possession of a Chicago tamily for
over halt a century, and its genuine-
ness is attested by a parchment C81,
tificate, dated A.prit 7, 1816, and, sign-
ed by one of Bonaparteee lamily. The
sleigh itself is full of elaborate 01`13154.
Lille're're are fONY more patlaetic Napole-
.
onie relics than the piano which Napole-
on himself presented to his wide, the
ill-tated josephine, and which Lee
found a restierg place in London. It
waa made in 1808' when Napoleon watt
at the leanest ofMa conquering ear-,
eer, and was stolen at the seeking of
Ole Tuileries. The piano is of rose-
wood, with ormolu decoration; and bats
keys of tortoise shell and mother -of-%
pearl, It has also a curious attach-
ment of a triaegle end drum, worked
by a pedal.
PRINCE CHARLLE'S CANE,
The Quoen counts among her treas-
ures a memorial of Prince Charlie in
tha form of a favorite walking stick.
for which she paid £160. The stick,
which was totted in his bedrooetr has a
handle of NYhi0h 1010 hes.ds are carved,
one of Wisdom aul, the other of Folly,
One of the raest-prized memorials ot
14Iary Queen of Soots is a pane of glass
from an old ball at Buxton, on which
the miliappY queen had scratched these
lines wibb a Weinfeld:
19153' famous tepid streams shall ever
"Buxtvo rn 8, of ta.,r,etvelll No more perhaps my
feet
On another pane of glass in one of
Ole windows of 0 mottled house near
51 101 Id Manor, AlCreir n, where Mary
was a prisoner, she had traced these
lines in French:
"Though hapPY in thee
Unhappy atn I,"
Al'hen Mary Queen of Scots left
France and with it happiness and
security, she curried with her one of
tin thorns saiti to have been token
frum Christ's crown or thorns, Title
sacra(' rale the always carried close to
het' heart, anti, after her execution, it
was still found lying on her heat*
when it was still.
Perlems the most pathetic of all
relies is the wedding dress in whiela
that most unhappy of Queens'Melee
Antoinette, appeaved at the nItair in
all the wild -rose freshness of hor gir1.
isle beauty. This memorial et a tragic
marriage may 11000 be set n, stained and
fatted by time, intim church of Keine.
weg, near Vienna, where the young
Austrian Princeas was born.
PAWNBROKERS IN JAPAN.
etteinvis Initeie or Sally tire Among Me
Poor ol"roltto.
One of the hills introduced in the
Japanese house of representatives
illustrates a tierious phase of every-
day life among the lower orders of
Tokio. The pawnbrokers' law now in
force forbids a pawnbroker to levy a
higher interest than 1 son per month
tor a lone riot met:ceding eb sen. Thus
a pawnbroker may obtain 12 see a
year for a loan of 25 sen; or he may
even obtain 12 sen a year tor a loan
ue11 8011. Such charges seem nigh
euough, in all conscience. Neverthe-
less, the bill to which we allude de-,
nouneem the restrictions of the preseint
law rip unduly limiting the pawnbrok--
eee galls, and cobsequently tending
to prevent the people obtaining useful
aelerinnAy ottj
ittiZn'inen and women, who
:atheist. by manual labor 133 Tokio, find
the:rose/vas constantly without suffi-
dent fends to buy their dinner. They
enn pay for their breakfast, but trionex
to get a dinner is wanting. It Is
their habit, then, to put some of their
cooking utcusils in pawn, lints ob-
taining means to pay to their dinner
and, when they receive their cley's
wage Mi the evening, 133031 A7.0 11 WO 10
Tedeeln the 'dazed articles and also
to procure Ones smmor that night end
their brenkfeet and bath the following
morning, The priwilbraker, therefore,
haS LO P11111011M thirty transaations
monthly in the nature of taking
pledgee and paying and receiving
money. The mai Involved
ta Vary amall, and the interest es we
thoo'14ad pe8"rnetthint0,Ybubte, ollenIttihIllogthferrataanl,
a charge of 1 Ban per mons= for stmh
trouldesoule eatviees le etartaiely not
exorbitant.
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