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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-12-14, Page 3- I o '7•44. .71" go8corgilinrelal° W‘bitei th MILLIONAIRES FOR VER THER0AIK, "s" "4" Pk i ‘ , . . , , . . . , • , . . , , • . • . , . . , • . , la worth More than antagem yon Gan bring trete the ocean, t A Atistrallan or Brazilian mines atrung in one oar- Tilton omit. Seek after GO; fled Me woos a bright fire barn ug Rev, Dr. Talmage Ives Some Go d Advice to dote,u14044, end all shall be welt the 'grate and the soft fragranee of Business Neu. n -r- T • 4r,r-Vai, n1r, here; all shalt be well liereafter. . violets, 'in the pretty room, Over 'the' Some of you remember the shipwreck mantel hung the brave tatie of Sir Gal - of the Central Amadei, Thie noble ahad, with las anow-whIte aced, dark . steaMer had, I thin,k, about five hun- epee paooeug„e aboard. suddenly toliege, bellied them, ea paler elouds, Starting a Business on Too Small Capital—It Is Ruilla I 141: t tO tt: eta 4000eiriZi the eurgee tramp; *hawing talt the eteadfaitt look on the ng 1;litri the knight's noble countenance. The gi I . e haitches, and there wekilit tap a undred on the crimson covered sofa raised heti Mellic•The Mail: Who Borrows Prom friend •An I ti vo oed death -shriek. The foam th" _ jaw of the wave.- The pitobingl of th: steamer as though it were /eapin e cut to the leture once or twiceoind and Perplexities of Business Life—The Dr. Spealts of g a raountatn, The Memel flare of the signal rockete, i The long cough of the Only 'Incorruptible Treasures; :the steam pipea. The hiss cie•the ex-, -anguished Dirnaees. The walking of A desPittch frOm 'Weslitngton Saw Itving ealarlee, or by the culture Of God on the wavel The eteamer went -Bev. Dr. Talmage preached froni the 9.1e, 7:1110, ertinnA. nodedrsinteng tr,s,:leisori not down without a etruggle. As the paseengers stationed themselvee in: our niearogants Yaraenimbreted, when .rowe, to bale out the.vesselt hark to following teat ;-"Corafoet ye, comfort eue ye. MY people." --Isaiah xl. 1. they do aot know, but OA ,their live -e the thump of the buckets, AK mea un - TWA() words•cienie te the prophet in lihood and ;drained mueole, tug ter ; their used to toil, wtth blistered /made and, the olden time, but they come just as • THEIR BUSINESS HONOR lieee There is it salt see forcibly to any men that stande, tee day, in any 'of the phipits of our great cities, .4A preaeher hate itio more right to ignore commeroial sarrews thee. any other kind! ef sorrows. Any men 'who will, ie thie (ley, by video, or pen, or type, intlame the public mind. or try to keeC; up the exeitement a commer- cial ciroles,.is the enemy a God and pf good aociety, Inatead of that, I 'would rather ntter words of peace and eon, solation, **eying the injunotion'ot my text, "Comfort ye, comfort ye, My pare pie.'" Same of yoaluive come in here with countenances worn from the ei- citement of the past week. §oine of the heat men in the lend have talteeed; men whose hearts , aee • enlisted in every good work, and whose hinds gave bleesed oven; great charity: The. are .deperident upon the uncertain- • ment of the brain, thle corroding care , ..,_,, „j,P., 1,0 ne leek a s snste4 mit isvuodiscre illiseoanird. na-en, her friends told her somettintes, ri• of the heart, thie etratnt of effort that 1 fl"'e Ltill 4 1 exhausts the spirit. sends a great 'efr (oit .,h sea. A lew peseengers es- for the great doetor, WhO was deePlY• then sighed a little, though a *mile succeeded the sigh each time. She . Was very pretty, too, with lovely, shimmering hair and violet -blue eYeer but the delicate featurea were too fragile for perteot health, and the tiny handa were white and waxen as palest; Marbte, and. Ethe was a eriPPle; "so that ends it all!" she [mid a her- self, with a frankness very gad and. yet wery ohltdlike, "Whysdle hit Mere 0,11041..ittget; itelewer leng•utdly. *Mare be wax the great,Aten of the country leng ago." "He has freeh fOrtwao now, you silly girl,'" the old lady said; tate/. up her knitting. "VW Miele lett him a great 'abate, and I don't know how much - Money; Let Me eee-that uncle waif ocionected with my father% tamily through the Trevelyttait, and then Ada Trevelyan married" -and the good lady went calmly through a string of anmea and Marriages> anti oonnectione whit% pleased her greatly, though Erneatine never listened to one. Shie, would never Martel anYone who propotied to her Irons pity -come what would. And when, he did ask her - very gently and humbly -with a world of pleading in hie honeet voice, arid wistfulnese and love in hie eyes, if she could not love him now a little and trY_ to loq him more horeafter,iiiith a !redden pain at he, r heart, never elese she enlY laughed, RIM told him that she was nearly well now, and he mustn't pity her any more -though she loved hie flowers dearly. She had fOund her unknown toyer out hY then - And for the woad time they drift- ed apart again. ties of the next hour. . This excite_ atigeasiirt the °Sky She tpok the darkest vlew of the eThe klash, of the dm - many of our beet mouou raki_efe, intPe ; btit the steamer: gave one great interested in her aomewhat complicate tercel and was gontel So there are to the grave. ; They find that Wall, fmnne men who sail ell proopercetely ed ailments, was distinctly hopeful at claehed Out against: money safecp They Their life:14re. 'A•We well, airs well, But , waYs good Sign. • euroolyelon. Down they go! the hot- sung in the old days, But elm would never sing as she had • street does not 00 at the Best Weer. laet, finaneial• disaster comes ; heart a d that Is al It ends at Greenwood!! They trudge like eamels, oweating. t opt of thfa conunerciel sea Strewn ing from hie bee in the yeltow core like a lark ris- g9 with their stare on their hackie from Aloppo'io Damascus. '.ehey make wit I shattered bulks. l3ut because land above 'tie 066 flouring: out their life a crucifixion. Standing be- Year ProPerty goes, do not Mt ,your ' - - Though all ales perish, save soul go,. that ; for I have to tell flood of wouderiul wild melody, all bis htnd desks and counters, banished from the fresh air, weighed down bY bark- Yen of a more heart's story of love and thankfulnesa stupendous shtpwreck than that which and preiee, or like a wave on the geed - tug cares their are le many suicides. E have just mentioneid. God launohe elh I I wieh I could, this morninSirub en margin of the shinhig Sande, Plain - at r ed this world six thoutiand 'years ago. could lift some of the burdens from the gob** , ander freight- aye and plashing aed sinking into oil - out slime of these lines °Coen; It has been heart ; that. I could give relaxation to of MeOntains and immortals; but mice with a long -drawn sigh. some of 'these wora MUSQletl• It is one day it will stagger at the err :of roit. a little While she bed eoline end thin for you to.,begin, to take itr a lit- fire, The timbers of rook will burn, being the people who listened into ha istfulneas and sweet remem- God m am es all the affairs of your hurrtoane. Then God, shall take tbe hering. She had smiled and changed tie easier.. Do your best, and then thtenaountains flame like masts, and • trust God for the rest. Do( not 'fret. the clouds like sails in the judgmenli PPS' Vir Church of God Can afford to extend tO - life, and Ile manages them for the Passengers off the deck, and froni the -them her sympathies, end plead before best Consider the lilies -they al- berths those who have long been asleep have robes, I Behold the fowls in Jesus, and Bo will set them far the - heaven with all availing prayer, The :Ways schools such men heve establighed, the fee air -they always haye nests, Yond the reiteit Of ROM and peril. a e a long breath }3ethi:pk, be- Bat haw many shall g o down that. .,ihurelies they have built, the asylunie times, that God diei 'not make you for will never be known, until' it shall be a pack -horse. , Dig yourselves out annonnoed one day in heaven ; the and beneficent institutions they have fostered, Vali lie th;11.• eulogy long af- fsrhom , among the hog:sheads and the shipwreck of a world ! So mane mil - elves, and, in the light of the holy boos saved I • Bo many millions drown - ter their banking institutions are for- Sabbath -day resolvel that you will ed ! Ob I my dear hearers, .whatever gottent Stich men can never' fail. - give toethe winds your fears, and your you • lose. though your houses go. They belie their 'treasures in .boilts trretfurliesii, and ynur distresses. Ton, though your lands go, though all your ought nothing into tDe world, and earthly ossessions perish, may .God that never breali,.and will he million - it, is ver rt u • • AI I h y ce ani yo can carry no- m g ti, rough the everlasting aires for ever. 1 thought "it would be thing out. • Having fookand raiment covenant, save all your: souls. h t appropriate to:elay, and useful, for me came home from the store. There he.d to tallt about the trials' and terapta- been great disaster there, I He open - INDIAN TATTOOING. tions of 'oar business men, and. try to ed the front door, , and said, m the offer euiatlye preserietions,- Inedidet lalreytihaimn,,VY flrgtiO Pair anii It %to universat elisions the A1110. ln the first Place) 1 have to renlark, ruined." His vale said: ri ant left ;' "gin" oid Louisiade. that a great many • of our business and the little child threw up its handy!, Tattooing was a universal cestora men feel ruinous trials and temtea- and said: . "P.apa, I ane.lierei's! • h T -e among the ledians Of old Louisiana tions coming •to then). from -small and esagg:Fgeeemyendleellrearir tl,t 1 e "fres' with both sexes. ' Among the • nien it limited cap,,tal in, busieees. It' is eve :of „God, beside, John. 1 And he burst Possessed a Significance attiching to 'erYwhere understood. that it takeanow into tears, and said; "God, fergive me, their career as warrious, and their tat- thr .‘„, -,':,04:,- ;1,11,4,•-thet I have been so, ungrateful. r I too marks were testintonials of dis. _ find I ham a ---...iti •:,..-,,,y, things left, . - . , . • ' tinction ;‘wIth the women Lc seems to 31. ce, - God forgivel'ae." . . •••••• •!,,..* LLARS ' Again I remark, that many of our- Fitti!.....heen merely a Matter of adore - e merchant butdness 'Men arn temPted to neglect. .ment, prom iheir .girlhood the wo-. Weeper, hie their , home duties: IMW often' it is, . 01611 caused themeelee'e.t.e.,t• e,,,tettooed s own bookkeeper , he a on the face Sotnetimes was ••1!ne e all.the affairs himself, clash, but there ought not to be any. • to tbe concert -room and said it h o ld he' net profit: colliaion. It is often the case that the bf tattooing acrose•the top of the nose ,z-,...L.41410.awuo, ,„ • the tune, and they were all ehildren again, ewinging under the pink and white apple blossoms, and ainid the scented May, and the cuokoo called from the tragrant pine wtio4 and the thrush sang in the swaying beeches, and then had come silence. One night at a great concert thert hatt been an alarit of fire -nothing. sertous, and almost ncibody hurt, eic., °apt the little White -robed singer alone on tbe Artained Platform. where 'AM lights were hurriedly extinguish- ed, so that she could not find her Nay Out.. • . She had fallen then, and hurt herself badlY, ao 'badly that she stirred not from where. She fell until *they came later and found the small crushed beep Of [satin and flowerie all scented and pale and broken. - • •• • , And then they carried her aWay to an hospital, and smite one else sang.at: the next concert mid receiven the plaudits:, of tha:audienee and the bou- quet of white roses whieh would have been hens too. . • A:nd the. 116Vtapapeis deplored her. :Won rful changes hats come; cost.. father is the mere treasurer of the eometimes the line was up and down ly apparatus, extensive advertising, familY7 a sort of agent to see that , , the chin, and not unfrequently, the, en - exorbitant store rente, heavy taxa-, theY have . , lire upper part o the body was thus tion, expensive agencies, are only parts DRY GOODS .610 GROCERIES: • e marked.. • of the demand made upon our eon:Wier- cial men; •and When they have tottnd Tdhe work of family government he The young men of the nation also ot tciuch, • Once or twice in a themselves , in such , circumstancei, °eaers Ealls the children • uP on subjeoted themselees toethe tattooing with mall eaP"al' they have Wine- gabbath • afternooh, times been tempted; to run against the when' he has :a process bY being tattooed first on the rocks of moral and linancial destruc- half-hour •he does not exactly know nose, like the women, and nOt until !ton: This temptatiola of limited °aid- What to. do with; and•in that half-hour . they bad given . evidence of 1 hi.iir tal has ruined 'me iri two ways.' Some. he dieciplines the thirdren. and cMdes them and corrects their faults, and. courage were they privileaed to receive times they have shrunk down under , . --. gives them a great dee). Of good ad- tattoo marks on any other part of the the temptation, tThey have. yielded. the battle before the first ahot was fired. vice, and then Wonders all 'the rest of body.' . This testimony of their meat the year. that his childrenr.do not do s. warriors „was reserved. for theni "Ae. the .first hard gun they surrender - better, when they "beve the wondeful a the fall of the auctioneer's, hammer. advantage of theit semi-annual casti,- then they .had dittinguished them- ed. Their kneed- knocked together at TlieY blanched at the tinancial peril. to be .the place for pleasant discus - They did not understandlhat there is sion and cheerfulneffs, often becomes battle. or by bringing with them from . such a thing as heroism in merchan- the. place of perilous e2editiom If the field of carnage the scalp of. an gation. Thalami y table, which. ought selves fa war by killing an enemy in dize, and ;that there are Waterloos of there be any blessing n eta at ell, it- enemy taker. in tne fight, When they the counter, aud .that a Man can is eut off at 'bothvends, and with fight no .braver battle, with the stiord the ' had thus given evicience of their hand on the eareing knife. Ke counts than he .can withAtie yardstick, Their worthiness to ).- ranked among the on his fingere, making estimatersan the warriors they had the right to tattoo .soule metted in them laecause ,sugard interstices a the repast, t The were up when theY wanted to buy "rk their hodies with emb.ems and figure's 'done, the hat goes to the heed, and he illustrative and commemorative of the and down 14:ten they 'wanted to Sell, starts down thn,street, and before the incident in • which they had proved and nnsaleable goods were oh the shelf and bed debts in their ledger. The has boond up family have risen frorty the, fable, h -e their valor, . • another binaille of geode, . Every Man and woman among the gloom Of their conntenances oversha- and se.ys to the mistoneer :,;'Anything Indians •yielded to . the arbitrary dowed even their -ery goods and gee- more I can do for you tsi+day, sir t" custom or tattooing, •but the warriors, eeries. Deimondency, coming from nin- A inan, has mere reaPonsibilities thin above all, were carried away by this ited capital, blasted them. Others those which are discharged by mit- sort of vanity, and not one of that have felt it in a different , way. Ther ting competent instructors over his class hx, any chance allowed his op - have said: "Here I have been' trudg- children, and giving them,u drawing- portunity to receive this patent of iiag along. I have been trying to be. mastei and 'a ,,music -teacher. The lioneet all these yeara. I find it is of physical culture of the child will not knighthood to pass by neglected. One of the ordinary methods adopted by no use. Now it is make or break:, be attended to, unless the father'looks a warrior to commemorate a heroic The anion craft that could have stood to it, Ile muse sometimes , lose his deed in battle, in which he possibly the stream, is Fgt. out beyond the dignity, He must unlimber libi 'joints. had killed or in some way Overcome an light-laouse, on the great sea of spec- tle raust•sometimes lead them out/ to enemy, was to cause a tomahawk to ulation. Ide borrows a few thousand their sports and 'games. 'The parent be 'tattooed mien his right shoulder, ' dollars from Wends who dare hob re- who cannot forget the tievere duties of and under it the hieroglyphical sign fuse him, and he goes bartering on a life sometimes, to fly the kite, and of the nation to which belonged the .large opals: He reasons in this way: trundle the hoop, and. chase the ball, „,..otitierea, .man. " Perhaps I will succeed, and if I and jump the rope with his children; " The operation of tattoothg required considerable fortitude to be borne without so much as wincing, A design was first drawn On the skin, and this design was then pricked with six needlein firmly fastened on a lihe in don't I will be no worse off than Iam now, for a hundred thousand dollars taken from nothing, nothing remains." Stooks are the dice with which he gambles, He bought for a few dol- l/ire vast tracte of western land. Sense man at the Etat, living on a fat home- stead, meets this gambler of foraine, and is persuaded to trade off his es- tate4liere, for lots in a Western city, with large avenues, and costly pal, aces ititd lake steamers smoking at the wharves, end trail trains coming down with ligtning speed. from every direc- tion. There it is all on paper I The city has never been.built, nor the railroads constructed, but :everything points that way, and the thing will be done aa sure as you live. Well, the Man goes on, stopping at no fraud or outrrage. IN EIS SPWNDID BQMPAOA de dashes past, 'Willa the honest lab- ourer looks up, and wipes the sweat from hie brow, and says: " I•yonder where that man got all his money." After while the bubble bursts. Cred- itors rush in. The taw clutches, but finds niithing in ha grasp. The men who were swindled eat: " I don't know how I coulld have ever been deceived by that Man ;" and the pictorials, in handsome wood -cuts, set forth the hero who in ten yeats had genius enough to fail for 150000 dollars! And that is ought never to have been tempted, out of a crusty aud unredeemable soli- tariness, If you Want to keep your children away from places of sim you can only do it by making your home attractive, You may prectelvderrnons, and advocate risforms, and denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin, unles.s you con make your home a brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Ohl gather all chorine iato your house.' If you can afford it, bring bookie and pictures, and cheerful entertatnntents to the household. But, ahovi all, teaeh thatie children, not by half -an -how& tvvice a year on the SabliethTday, but day af- ter day; and every day tea& them that religion is ' A GREAT4 GLADNESS, , that throws chain!! of gold about' the meek, that It takes no spring' from the foot, no blithness from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter; but that "her ways, are ways ef pleasantness and all her paths are petite." I sympathize with the work being done an many of our Cities, by which beautiful rooms are set apert by isur Young Ments Christian Moeda- tion. and I pray God to prosper' theni in all things. But I tell yout theteis something back of that and before that the procees 'by which many Invite been We need more haPPY, consecrated tempted, through limitation of capi. cheerful Christian homes in Washing- tal to rush intd loans that they eould ton. not Meet, and Into labyrinths from - Again, I remark , that ts. great many. Which 'they could hot be extricated. 1 of our business men are tempted to would not want to chain honest enter- put the attainment of niono above the irnise. I would not want to block up vahle Of the soul. It id .0. grand thing any of the wienues for honest acmes- to have plenty of moneY, The mere illation that open before young men. You get of it, the better, if it come On the contrary, I would like to cheer heneetly and go Usefully. For the them on and rejoice when they reach lack Of it, sickeAsii dies without' mai. the goal; bUt whets there are such eine, end hunger finds its Coffin in the nraltitudes of men going to ruin for empty bread tray, and nakedinuss shiv- this Me and the life that is to come, era for lack of clothes and fire.'Whers through wrohg notions of what are r hear a man in canting tirade • lewful spheres of enterptise, it is the against money - a Christian man - duty of the Church of God, and the es.though it had no possible. 11116 011 mlniatete pf religion, and the friends earth and he had. no interest/hi it, X of oll yoUng melt to utter a plain, em. tome almost to think that the heaven phatie, unmistakable protest. These that would be aPpropriate for him, mouth and eyes, a.nd after taking tered over t 6 daya gone by and the are the influences that drown men in would' be an everlasting heer-buusel breath for a moment, pff she ',vent people of old tiMee. But at the future destructioti and perdition. While, my friends, we do admit there, again as if walking in her sleep. not a word, nor of the Immediate pest, ,A.gain ; a gtecte many of our haat.. is such a thing as a lawful Wile in Until, AS he was leaving, and her Mint Miss men are teMpted to ovet-anxiety mono -a profitable USe of Money -let. ammo, The Men are paid at much as Wm tbree penniee, a day. The stood with them,' he ventured to say and care. Yon know that nearly -all us recc,gnize also the fact, that! Money that/ he hoped she would soon be bet. eommereiel businetises are over -done in. canna [satisfy a inail's soul, that it women earn ten, seVen Or three tow - ries, thelles at the rate of about one Mee Of quick gain, our titles It cannot pay our fares acres*. this Ser- each baeket load, according to the ills- ter. this day. S,mitteri With the cannot glitter in the dark valjeya that hundred and ninety th the anna, Mr "f shall be all right direetly," she a ia crowded with MM. reataitaid to be dari that it cannot unlock the gate oh lineWered reeklessiy, headhunt of her It was very sad -very sad indeed, to the, girl in the long ward, 'I'ditere the white-eapped nurses Came and Wet* end spoke tenderly to her es they passed; but the bore a lorave heart through it all. . She asked wha was singing at Bristol that night, and *hen, they told her she. only smiled and said that •her succestor would be glad, °reach ,a 'good oeportunity, and that she hoped she would ao well, and I believe that themeant it, too. -'• And then eaMe the after time -the days when she was better; and yet not well -unable to do anthing for herself, and, yet"' well enough to leaate the hos- pital and the kindly care of the good 11111617.9. AI relative, good hearted and gener- ously inclined, gave her shelter and tre,ated her teederly, yet with strong disapptoval of the public life that the poor, pale girl had led. "A woman Is mein& to live in her own home,". the benevolent lady said, drawing Upon her littM store of maximefor the bene- fit of her sister's child. • And Erneatine listened and smiled, though her• heart felt heavy as lead. Then the thought of the past came - back: There wits one who had coine benne fascination of her beautiful vowel -dawned upon her, one Who had offer- ed, ber his all if she would love him too. , And his kindly eyes had churned her and. his tender voice had thrilled her through and through, till she forgot everything In the joy of being belov- ed, but with the waking knowledge of her power ehe began to chafe under the silken. bonds of love. She yearned to stretch her ,dointy wings and, mar, and * • • • I Ons Obrietmes eve the snow fell sottly over the eiti, making it pure and beautiful, and the people came and went on their happy marketing, with Presents for the children andgreetings and good will. But in the dingy house 'in, a side street, poor little Erneatine wondered where to -morrow's fire• to coma from, and it ter oue or :two music pupils would pay their little nun to -night. She was teachirg musio and, ainging now -from her their dir- ecting the awkward girls in their studies -a wan, plaintive littte figure, with- only a glimpse of its old gayety left. ; • The Mildly aunt was deed, and stran- gera reigned in the prim house, alai showed no inolination, to keep the IlleCe that had come to them with the old ledy's property. And Ernestine bad fled at eine-to a life of hardship and privatiog, and yet independence, which pleased the yet unbroken spirit and the brave heart. The, dootde had been right ; she was • g, andlliOworlfed her hardest in the nar- rowed.aphere, for the beautiful, fairy- like volee hadtailed her, and was now, though sweet nod true RR ever, very weak aild feeble. • And it was Chrietmas eve. and others were meeting with old friends, and laughing and ,wishtng them a happy season, and out in the street the sound ot merry footsteps came and went, while she sat on alone. The puhil for whom she waited, came at. last, and. practised a song that she vvished to sing at some festive gather- ing, and then she, too, /hurried away without a thought of the few shillings that would have made the morrow brighter for another. She did not mean to be unkind, and she wished Ernestine a happy Christmas as she Nastily put on her hat and ran away. "Save I kept you waitingt" the lit- tle teacher heard her aay to some one outaide, and then' there was more laughter, and quick footsteps passed the window in a little whirl ot ques- tions and answers and happy mirth, And the lamp burned very low on the table, and the fire sank and eank, and ,Ernestine .sobbed 'over the open piano and the scattered music scores. Quite suddenly her utter ,Ionetiness broke upon her, and the strong soul tailed at last. _ 4 llg_ht tilicie in from the passage, andi a firm foc-nei:.‘p crossed the room. Some one stood brave, protecting -holding her kell tiand. 'his own, calling her every perm, he could think of ; then he took her, poor little taw between his hands and kissed the dropping mouth. And she clung to him in her happiness, laugh- ing and crying together -overcome by the scent •of the great bunch ot violets that he had brought for her -dazzled at her ewift delight at seeing him once moAratdi When once he had calmed her, and she sat to talk with_ him as in the olden days, he told her that he had oome, to her for oinpathy. "1 have lost home money," he said, "and you wouldn't marry me when I was rich, but now I hardly like to ask yen, dar- ling, and yet -and yet-" The delicate face wan flushed and quivering 'with joy, the dainty lips. were parted like rosebuds, the little. hands played nervously on her knee. "Do ask me, please," a tiny voice said, coaxingly, and he took her into his protecting arms -and kept her there, And the violets breathed their sweet- ness over the quiet 'room, and the fire ifilfaome. burne.d slowly, slowly down, and, the lovers talked of the new glad • • • • • "You have'deceived Me a little," the bride. said to her husband in the gold- en days thereafter; "and you are not peon at all!" . "But I did lose some money -and I .glad of it, lor your sake, my 'meet," he answered, tenderly. And she gathered pale Christmas roses. for her hair, and gave him one. her little world seemed small and nar- ence began and so it ended. And t be .fl ,‘ OEN. WHITE'S V. C. rowed. and trivial. And so the differ- daisied meadows above•the way of love "`e .:°" IV" " 111 11 changed to the crimson -hung walls and a flat piece ot wood, After this fine- _..the',,lestaeolt„ Palms that ly powered °Mama' was rubbed into in,"'" screened her f on't mean to [settle down in a the pine:tures inade by the needles, little, sleepy town all my life," she had leaving an ineffaceable ptint of the said, petulantly, as an April shower." design. The operation caused much .,I want to make soniebody, you all, inflammation, and sometimes • fever, prima of me. -1 have a chance; why which brought on severe sickness in shouldn't, I take itf" case the patient was neglected while Yes, it was true, the chance and the the swelling lasted. While the. sick- opportunity offered -love or faine, and ness remained the only food given was alp, 013000 fame. Indian corn, and water wag the only And now She turned away from daintr shoulders. Where was fame the oozy fire with a shrug of, her FAMINE CAMPS. now? Another'is name shone on the concert party's bills -and very [mien - did! hills they were, tooLain her place. Deteription of Scene ist Indio Dinging Anotheo voice sang, perhaps, the very the Famine. • mugs, new Bangs all of them, that she The author of "Enchanted India," b.o.d, practieed so often, and with such gives a vivid and heart -sickening pie- varying delicaby of aixpreasion. An- other won the murmur of applause tura of one a the famine campe, ea - hat e was want to be here. tablished all over Didia to afford the And. she lay here, on the comfortable means of earning a living to those sofa that was her [ranee, by the warm whom the scourge had driven from fire. With nothing in the atlas but ex- penahre room, her own, [rave the bunoh their native provinces. , of violets in the little green vase you - Two or three thousand‘haggerd and der. Who sent her those, by the way? fleshless beings were digging or car- Theithought was a new one,\and di- verted the other vexed etrain for a rying earth to form an embankment for a railway or a road. With arms Some listener, perhups, wile had not - scarcely thicker than the bandies of yet forgotten her in the siren yews of the tools they wielded, the tabOrere [somebody else, and Ernestine blessed the Unknown donor for the ,kindly gloved for air, tired in a minute and thought of her. - !paused to rest in smite of the 'abuse And with the Pleaeed ensile still lin- of the overseers. gerin,g on her Mee, the door opened, ES:omitted women, in their tattered andi the friend of olden days entered, mule, earried little baskets on their ad he bad entered Lang age into that heads containing a few handfuls Of quaint rectory in the North ,Countrie. earth, wbich they could scarcely lift. Ile Wad very kind and gentle in his One ot them wrinkled and ehrunken, mariner, end the girl's high spirit rota looked a litettilred ear's old, tottering to the omindon until the r se col motet her load. n reaching the spot MOunbed, to her cheek add the flash of where she wee to empty' OUt the Emil, ninimition gleamed in her pretty eyes. she leaned forward a little an let. the 'He should never think her deepen. whelc thing fall, indifferent to the dent, beaten. crushed !" ehe said proud - duet which covered her and filled her ly to herself s they laughed and chat. - tenet. mid can make an tatuth as air e • telt at, all hazard's. They do not titre heaven. There are men in all oeouPa' anna a day. asked rirtestioningly, aid a little per - how money emelt, 1$ it only comes, flows who $66M to aot as; though theY Ail thete toilet" had to support oth- vously, then I". • the aneWered n I, h en ' the iamp in ayork again, and lots of it, I hope, ralserY, biles de Vete hasn't stolein everyone's anY hetirt from poor little Me Urea- SO there was nothing loft for hint to do hitt te ne " oed b " ith • g pea ti s V 04 6 al te t e Our best merchants the thrown into thonght that a Peek Of bonds and.- ers belonging to them, cornpetbtion with men of more meatus mortgages eoUld tredetreif for a to work, squatted abou and less COniteletice, and if an oppor. title to hesaten, and as. thought gold their demolate and piti ttinitY aecitrattlation be neglected would be lawful* tender tit thatt And the food vras insufficient tine hour, sofas, one slat picks it up, place where it is so commont that they of them, only hindering the Prom .lanitary Beeember the atrug. 'make pavements me of It. Saltation tures from dying at oncie, gie goes' On, Night, give* no Wet to by Chriet le the May ealiration Tres.. The baboo wh,o has lost ate and litti f hi 1 t h tt The bl .• limbs toseing in restleesneee, nor to sum in heaven are the Onlr UllefOr., been half.eiVilized in the A. lo -In. table at his dear mere aide. a brain that wilt not *Ito thinking, runtible treasuree. Nave vitt erer oipe dian Colleges, is alwaye the MI lettian "How foolisdi you are, itrileatfne I" The dreams tre harreWed by iinagill. bered out in the rtde oft Loss andlOain, between the government and the Pdo.l het ault mild, crustily, when he had ei, sty Mee, ana fleshed' With' Imaginary the sum: "Virhat Shall, I proXis a Maw nd he, barefaCed and with no Preten one, ' nyone can eels how dearly he 4 Sir George White, who commatds the Natal. forces, is an Irish officer, wha did all his regimental [service and won his way to distinction in a Highland regiment, says Mainly About People. Like Buller, he weats that covited "bit of bronze," the Victoria Cross. He won it in Afghanistan, in, the hard-fought battle of Charasiah, twenty yeareago. White told the Gordons that he Count- ed on them to carry a hill with the bayonet. Up they Went, two companiee ia front, two more in support, and the Gazette tells what followedin record - Ing White's claim to the mobs, "Ad- vancieg with two companies of his re- giment," it says, "and climbing from one steep ledge to another, he came upon a body ot the. enemy strongly posted, and outnumbering hi* force by eighteen to one. His men being much exhauated, and immediate action being necessary Major White took a rifle add going on hylituself, shot dead the leader ot the enemy." When White fired the Afghan was rushing upon him sword in hand, trying to bring his men to the charge. If they had come on mere weight of numbers might have hurled the handful of Highland - era down the hill, But the fall of the fanatics chief produced something like a panio among his people, and the Highlanders, cheering wildly fortheir heroic leader, rushed on with levelled atytmetil. Wa6 Oyer in a few incl. rants. The ridge was won, and the deadly rifles of the victors were busy ishoeting.down the flying foe. On this occasion ha would have won the Vic- toria Crosse and also Candahar, when, charging again at the head of the Gordons, he captured one of the enemy's guile. Sir George White is a tall, soidierly-looking man, with a handsome Moe arid a very charming manner that has won him hoste of friend& He has had always in his fa- vour a remarkably otrong constitution and it still, to uise the popular phrase, "as- hard as nails," About a year ago when another distinguished general was teMporarily invalided through a bad fell, a friend of hot remar e o White that he doubted if the injured offloer would ever a ain be fit to meent a horse, for he ad broken hisi leg in Mx places. "Why. [should he not get well," said White, cheerily, "he has onl breken hie leg In six Owes. oupe bro one of raffle in Weil, and doe/ thine I am any the worm fOr It." 1 ABC OF ORSAT WAIN were " ITS PERSONNEL, ITS ORGANIZATION AND ITO MANAGEMENT. Mr, rerilitineitt ilseribies Centre* of er#07 -Onkel% of Olio illeadailiwiers NOM- t 11'41tri.liettliet,ilreerthtbktLUnder theliVetooneath. nd 0;7 Mid into tellit there are led sub or reginusgtill di*. fain: tehoelorstnevispiriTxbeeropeoe 4:017 twolv. onkel/striate tem the arta/Airy gad two Ohristroaa corm but one. a yeer, It PoillstMent in, the English itrMy 10 is true, but it la A Matter far •thanks. voluntary, carrying will it In' the , , obnirlauoirtovisfisoe.wvaTritwbtshireves.eppayneeysrtms Ai tttobs: titwaoreignol otrmviivelingcrobs3040474,thorilgthtx.caonowkitnbitriotorb onobit:pricatrro: dtyle-ornteo ayeiattri:i,ixiwnohlteobit.entitles.the *01. Even to those who have no turkeY• Der at hi if, t(1. e4 oWartzilletlrienagealuBdtn)iggliteanrnsetristlocl,":20:0x*eztarmieorY; till:elillicry--0ePovieineniicormtlhvoodeenpooWwberholimituttal°0vewileanifs::aldr Generals and 23 Brigadier Generale. friend* to till their suspended 'dock. ' HE 4.1/1.1,4•0 Ike Velesteor Ariter-Rottee or 460 1111111e• -•The ray et talkers mint Mos- eepentitteree Mr *lie Mimi'. ',Under the provisions of the bill of rights of 1689, can not maiu. tain a standing gritty in the time of peace without the consent of Palate - meld. wad Jiince then the nuMber of troOpe aad the coot of the different taro:whoa or the eervieehave been aanc- dolled by an annual vote of the nous° Of commona. In another way Par,, gement exercties control Of the army, paseing al, tbe commencement of ev- ery eatielon an aot entitled the army annual bill, inveating the crown. with :large powers to make regulations for the good government of the arnly and to frame the articles of war, which constitute the military code, An order of council, dated November 21, 1895,, `reorganised the military ad. ministration and defined the duties of the principal officere. Under the systeM in vogue before them; all the departments of =Mary tiervice were controlled by the commander-in-chief ' of the army as the supreme head, with the Adjutant General as. his chief of staff ; while the civil departments were direetly under the financial geeretary. Now the Secretary et tat.i. for War, under the new system is in control of all branches of army service, and the heads of departments are respon- sible to him.o An army board, omelet., Ltig of the commander -in --chief as president, and the Adjutant General, Quarternaaster General, inspectors general Of lortifieations and ordnance and the accountant general, ad the representative of the financial secre. tury, as membere, reports on promo- tions aed appointments of offieete of superior rank and on all proposals for estimates. These duties tire 'the chief functiOns of the board. ; • THE COIVIAIANDER-IN-CHIEE • tb9 army exercises geeeral tom- maod, ia the principal adviser •of the Secretary of State aed le charged with the plans ot mobilization and for de- fensive and offensive operatiens. As4 sociated with the Muunander-ip-obief in hie department arethe military sec- retary, director of military inatruo- don end this:officer in charge of the mobilization service. The Adjutant General Me to do with the, discipline, education, training, clothing and re- cruiting of the forces.; the Quarter- master General provides the suppliea and .ecinipment for the army, and the inspectors general of fortifications and ordnance are cherged • with the con- trol and maintenance. reniectively,' of those departments. These axe the principal depaements of the British army. One feature et interest pro- vided for in the present system of de- fense id the cabinet of officers to which in the %time of war, is referred the -o ing e u 'es o 6 naval and military departments. These officers commie the headquar- ters staff .of the British; army Field Marshal Rt. Hon. Viscount Wolseley, tomniander.inchief ; Maj. Gen. Sir ' Coleridge Grove, inilitary ieeretary ; • Maj. Gen. Sit Charles Ardagh, director af military intelligence ;.Gen. Sir Eve- lyn •Wood; adjutant general; Lieut. Gen. Sir It. Harrison, inspector gener- al of 'fortifications; . Lieut. Gen: Sir George Stewart Whitd, tquartermaster • general df ordnance, Offhe vacant ; Maj. Gen, 'Edward Arthut Gor/s, in- spector general of remounta hiej. GSM' i Thomas Kelly-Keuny, inspector miner!. al of auxiliary forces itnd recruiting; Maj. Gen. Henry Vane Grant, inspector general of cavalry ; Surgeon General Yamee Jameson, director general of medical department; Col. James Dou- glas Forde-Yones, director of army schools.; Rev. J. Cox Edghill, chaplain general. year in pounds Merlins of the differ., ,bnve no „Ingo with toye [ind Don bons. Se who ent officer. and men, approximatelY, stoekinge ie. susPend, the is ea follovess Commander -in -thief, day itself emelt AIM the saroe, god field Marshal, $41340; Geeeral, 42400 I upon the saddest heart and th p Lieutenant General, 42100; Major Qen.. ' 'e - ear'. emit 41500: Colonel, 41000; Lieutenant est, .most blighted life, it abode Immo- Colonel, da20; major, 4202; captain, . thing of that eiveet feeling. of peace £212; Lieutenant, S118; Enaign, R100 . 011.0arth, good will to all mankind, Sergeant, X38; private 418. . withstobhoirtaliaswbeietyed lon.rtointhBeewthoir;hd ne,a.aralyd. 00 years ago, when a lovely baby ha the army of Great Britain amountt4be°der teina 11189tt7let°m018r9e8 'tthhain 4one-nal7th oe; bead of estimated population. During lavnhifiweasexargitruarg oil) Itslimnotrusntar, ohm!: edbeaintuurh:10i7fualignoy.aotuwinnotignittemirna,. idpeenop:ootth: the following year the emu expendi. , turns showed an increase, lieing a total teititteyt maiivallitgoeo iboaurgn For the year 18913 tO. 1899 the army in poor health,. No lords of atate• of £22,859,599. expenditures, in detail, were as fol, lows: •, . . awaiting in ante-ohamber, as when aarttreurdgaew foarikoneet other kluge are born; no meesengers 2. Medical establii*ihment, 1. Pay of army. . • 47,426,400 ruoduino:dsaktiuthien daototreawdaaynreeealdny:tosabtei:-. rot effective serviees, • • ald the advent from City to oity; no se, Transportation and re- ' • • t 1 5. ,yolunteera, pay, eto. . . -. 1314,700 guard, but a monarch born in the hos- 8. Igitrat-,°*etc., . . ,- ", ., : ;4 . 4. Yeomanry, pay,• etc. . , . 75,010 lined cradle to receive the lefantile , ..739,100 e ry called the House of Chim Ham. 8. Clothing establisliments, • •• : pointing! down- to the place; the door . 7. Pir°o4vi 1 st tit n s , etc, . . . • /. .. . .1,295;600 oft heaven set wide open to look out 3.392,20o The night with diamonded finger f.orasge 'etc:, 9, Warlike and -other • stores. .. . . . ,. ., 2,843 pop from orahestrel batons of light. drip- -, 10. Works, *buildings end re - it, Military °duration, pay - • pairs. . . • •' • .• .. .• 1,175,645' lowest. doorsteit..of heaven the min,' ‘ • • • shale of God d in:nursing ot•glotY and • • • • ping the oratorios of the Messiah; on ..' . etc. . . . . . . • , .182,S00 - 0 . won . . •. _ 1,2, . Miscellaneous effeCtive - g od - • ' • services.. . . . . •,. ii1,00 - Soon after the white -bearded emote- -charges. . . • . . . .- 845,350.: chink the shekels,. and . .ftora open 18.. Wei., Office, salaries and .. gists kneel, and from leathern pouch sack.s .exhale the . fran,kincense ' and .-. Total. : . ..., . . . . el8,441,405 • Non-effeetive services. . . .1 rustle Out the bundles. of myrrh; The -. i loosened star, the escaped desology of - ' 14. Retired pay,. half pay, era., for officers. , . . £1,938,280 !celestials, the chill December* ' 15. Pensions for warrant „ • • • . . .. . . • 1,802,535 i aflueh with May - morn, r . world •it.. .. 18. •.Supetunnuation, etch, itt- • • loat• star, anti star rushing. . officers, Met • lowadces. . ' . .• . • .. ,- 177,463 down the sk•.. at eigh to -beckon tbe . • - '" ----""" wanderer he J. again, shall yet make fitet Totil. . . . i . . . . . 22,359,599 _•.,., :, _ dnance fectoeies aggregeted 42,922,000. . I have always rejoiced. that: Christ ' For that yeat the estimates for or- 'sit ilt)•leffriiitis ireep Christi:0st.. , .- . • , -.. , i ... .._ • , • - .. Wee born en a December .night. .Mad . - - . • _ . it been the month ef May -that is the. OPEN VICTORIA'S OHRISTbIAS . . GIFTS. •• :., t . in the montlrof June -that is the sea- '''`r... Simplicity 'hoes not advirays dWeit. in Son of roses. had he hien bornin rthe the cottage, nor ita . Upposite in the . month of July -that is the season ot . great harvests;. haa he been born in palace. ' Honsebrild Words some time Queen Victoria's olitervance of Christ- - bona in the month of October -that in .. ago -gays an interesting pieture .of ' -eP • - - It • • the month of S tenther-Ahat 'I the • season of ripe orchards; had.. he mien Inas. . :Since tbe (Math. of the Prince the season Of upholstered formate. But. : Consort the holiday ' hoe always beee _ he was hot% in the month of Timm- '.-- There the and a long list she has, for no mem- • •,... , a •.,. . . ..... .._ spent. at Osborne, inthe Isle of Wight:-. for -her Cnristmas gifts and greetinge; „havaa perished, end when there are no ber of her -large family is forgott n queen, makes arrangements - lier, when cheee hre 110 flqweye .1000M. • vngtOtIt_ aof doors, .and when all the liar= Lee /eaves ate uni.Le4 oar Lee ware • riots ripening on the hill. and when st th t .have niat been gathered up . . .....-,. . and ail her• friends and ministers' ree,' Ili was ln closing December, that he ----:""-'" • earth . ..., • - : a., . ceive. greetings. from her. ,., • • . - • • .s. wae born, to show that this is a Christ . • for. people in,osharp blast, for people She invariably writes to the ex -Em- • press Eugenie and ex-thieen Isabehe rider, elotided sky, for people •with: . . rested hopes, • for people • with. tiler,. . of -Spain.. The late Lord Iteaeonidield. motheter below• zero, .for people snow-, • otten received a. present from her,.and - ell: under; That is the reason that he is so.often found among the destitute; ' Lard Salithuri is honored in'the scram you, can find him on any, night coming , way, .. allFieLMae. preaents go to. all . off the moorailyou Can see. him anY her ladiee -.and .gentlemen -in -waiting,. night gaming through the (leek lame and the more humble servitore are.not Of, the city; you can see him putting . forgotten. . Every royal servant re - the pauper's Cabin. He remembers • .. his hand under the fainting head in . oeiv.es a gift fret:1 the queen at:Christ- how the wind whistled- archnd the car- '" ism • She• sends cards to her. former avansary in 'Bethlehena thet Derain - men, (Iodate, singers and musicians. • _ itth • --t-t' 1014 maids of • honor, her favorite clergy-. her night, and he is in. sympathy.with To %lee tea e in cards isnot ova. Chriseasratile was as :wonderful ae •`"'aget :‘ t ' ' 11 those ,who • their poverty, hear.. 6 shit ers c er on a cold night. ereed by faattiiin-:•,...•:,,She does not carp hid cross. On that first ChriMmas he greeting, now so fashirsnabli;Intt Pre-. eate Mr:the private cards -he -Klee a Minter' a par -4" traw, . a oke an .he , only two friends. They. Were hia• satin -lined cradle, iar, fere to sele.ct a suitable mid for aach recipient. Eor •her imane,dlitte rela Uinta she, chooses a simple. J•card, on . which, for a specially favored oneeske-suen paints'. a rose; lily, ot some. unpieten- desus, for were, were o m Hoes design, with a • Christmas greet- that time to worship.; rom th ing 'in her own flowing handwriting. of that poverty, be *Om, until Her actual gifts are on at simple a he is honored throisgbout all,Chr scale as tee cards. She does riot fav- dom, and sits trittinphant 914.- ot exPenstre presents, but prefers- to perial throne irti heaven, .. , give and :receive token§ slight in them. .. - What neva' is mightiest '17.. selves, bat expreainve of the good wish- Christeeddani, Jesus. Who -has es and affection of the donor. friends on earth than any other be - Her majesty is very 'fond of. knit- Mg? Jesus. Before whom do :the Ling. etraw-plaiting and crocheting most thousands kneel in chapel and - with large ivory hook and soft Shot- church' and cathedral the ;world over ? , Jesus. From what depthie of poverty land wool, and the quilts, mufflers mittens and hats made by the ;royal tot what heights of renown! • And go . bands are greatly prized by- the mem- let all those who are poorly started re- • bers of her faniily. Flower epergnes. member • that they- ono not be more dainty bonbon (theses, photograph poorly born than was our Christ. . frames and beautifully bound books Do you know that the vast major - figure largely in the queen's list of ity.of the world's deliverers bad barn - 1 e lt p . .. e • e 'enian- prreisents. . . Tradesmen v,ho, by royal warrant, cipatoe of religion, bora among the are "purveyors to her majesty" for- mines; Shakespeare, the emancipator of literature. born in a- humble home at ward to ths queen large consignments of articles- suitable for Christmas press- Stratford -on -Avon; Columbus, the dis.. • ents, and from these she Call select all Coverer of a world; born in poyerty • at Genoa ; Itogarth, the •discaverer of _- she requires. It often happens; how- ever, that a pretty advertisement in how to make art accumulative and ad- ministrative of vhtue, hems in an hum - will bring ble home at Westmoreland; Mato and one of the weekly journale a command for a [selection of the Prideaux, whose keys unlocked apart - geode to be sent to the queen, fol. merits in the Hely Scriptures which lowed -by a substantial order, even when the firm us not a warrant held- had -never been entered, bomb' want,, , er. • , . Mho out of ten of the world'. ' el v. grand., erera born in -wear To her younger nephews and I stir your libi-e--umbitirn One the queen gives handsome tips, Christmas with 'these thoughtcda nue lip _-..cs '''' and to the girls dress lengtha of fine world's first Christmas, to tell you stuff, with the direction that the that - although the whole world may dress Is ta be made ,up as the tecipient be opposed to you, and inside and out - pleases, and the bill forwarded to her . side of your occupation or profession majesty. 'To a favorite grandchild the queen there may be those who would binder jewel, with the message that it is to will' soinetimes gelid a. fine uncut Your ascent, on your side arid collid- ed. in your behalf are the symplithetio heart and :almighty arm of one, who, be set as the receiver cheeses, es on• the night of the world's first: "grandonernme does not know the latest fashion in jewelry, but will be Christmas, about 1900 .years ago, was ting." wrapped In swaddling clothes and laid( in a manger. Oh, 'what splendid pleased to nay the bill for the set- . Whoever else -is forgotten, the encouragdtnent for the poorly started. Oux wotld has.plenty of sympathizers! 'T 7 queen alWaye remleanbers her oia Ber- t Th h w r Our world is only a silver rung of a • • • ..• reat ladder, at the top of which us in her Berries before the death of the g your Pether's house. No more itellat Prince Consort are specially favored, solltarineelli fOr our world ; no other They are allowed to cameo. for then friendless planets spun out into iina A selves some article of ether plate to freeze,.but a worfd in the bosom and on Christmas day they receive divine paternity. * star harfiessed o their present, acoonmanied by a large black -bordered card bearing the a manger! • - ' touthing imicription, "with good OEN. SIR CHAS. WARREN. Wishes froze Her Majesty and Prinee , Centscitt." season of blossoms; had he been horn . gaihet Etelt the Sabbath cannot dans if he gain thts. whole w back the tide of anxiety; for fhb; swill" However fine y WaVe of Werldliness (lathes clear over winde of death will the ehurehes, and leaves it's foam on raga, Ilenterpuil and lee and ptayer.heoks. Men who are coat heve sometime" anti Ione hit Annecealment„ Leek twenty per cent oyes yo and yet you are playing .ficor aPPerel, the the wages he was supposed to VI with hint etill-now that he itt a. W utter IV like he labetarre. ; And there Were ne ter part! than ever," she added I threadbare but Who,* to .superintend -the r., self, theugh ilek-witt the shadow. hone° a the famine camps. I caught, the w -",.4. f.' . BUCTLY NONCOMMITTAL. cook asked if Ate had hardwood t did you tell 'her, Jack didn't answer her at all. Bow d /. guess whether she, *rusted tor didn't Walt then% I PERSONNEL OP THE ARM% According to figures given in Wbi- taker's Almanac, for 1899, the person - eel of the British army is ad 'follows :- Regular army, at home.and in ' colonies. ., . . . . 171,894 . Regular army, in.India.. 873;016502 - Army reserve, first'and second Claes. • • • • • lin Militia; including per anent _ staff and militia reserve. 3,998 Militia, channel Iolanda.. , 3,990 Militia, Malta and Bermuda. . '2,472 Yeomanry cavalry, including staff. . . . . 11,981 Volunteers, including staff.. • 283,983 Total. . . . . . , /42,421 The latest estimates in Whitaker's for 1899 show that the regular army of the 'United Kingdom, exclusive of India, consists of 8109 commissioned officers, 1087 warrant officers, 17,100 Sergeants, 3941 drummers, trumpeters, etc. and 150,267 rank and file, a total of 180,513 men of all nuke, There are, in addLtion to the regular armr four classes of reserve or aux- iliary forces -militia, yeomanry cav- alry, volunteer corps and the army re- serve force. In case of invasion the volunteers-, next to the regular army, constitute the principal defense. They are organized as infantry and gagtsocwon artillery, and number about men. The volunteers receive their arms from the government., and are inatructed Under this direction of the commanders of military dietriete. On joining, recruits are required to attend thirty drilla and afterward a mini - 'mum of nine drills annually are [suf- ficient. Officers of volunteers are ap- pointed by the Lieutenants of coun- ties, subject to the approval of the Queen, The volunteers are mobilized in case of invasion or war, and are bele for permanent service, THE MILITIA Consists of,about 135,000 men, who are intended for local defense, but mai be ordered anywhere within the limits of. the 'United Kingdom, and are also available for garrison duty in Eng- land'e Mediterranean fortressee. Thie force is organized as infantry and at- tillery. Enlistment is Voluntary and the term is for sit years. Officers of the militia are commissioned by the Queen,. and the Generals °Commanding the military districts administer all the details of reoruttment and instruo- don. Por from three to foUr weeks annually the militia is called out for instruction, and thIS time may be ex- tended to eight week's, if necessary. Regular officers may also be maligned to the militia as inetructora, and the soldiers In reserve may be attached to It whenever called oUt for maneuvers. The militia reserve numbers Omit one-fourth eel many Men are in the militia. Their term of .enlistment IS also for six years. Another force, called yeonlan eav. airy, consists of ebout 13,M0 Men, who are equipped aa light cavalry. Every f h h own hors and when called on fOr services, each man is paid id a day. The yeoman navairy drills eight • days a year end it sub,. jreeet3ttifoonr. duty in (*sea of riot or insut- The vital principle of the present army oaten% is the training of men by abort aervice, in the regulars and then pasting them Into the reiserve. After serVing three years in thayanks of the regular army soldiere are per. mitted to go into the reserve, where they receive pence a day In consid- engin* Of being liable to Military duty. Thus the, regular army htuf a body of trained aoldlere from which to recruit lit ranks /I4 VIZ TOO OP WAR, Vhen ealled back Into active service t ey go into the branch ot the array in. tab they Were originally enrolled. 4 T ey [torten the right to a position NINA batik te the Color,. toot. Ih the ease of, Ireland, the Olen of the army le exereised the I officer* oomrtaind. Britain and Ire. ,. • • lie Mot liken Appointed to command the Plfert iLnlitittry Divpion lit S. Attica. A POOTBALL WORK BOX. General Sit Charles Warren, who has This work box fa a novelty thie appointed thief of the Fifth . Chrlatmap vehich will find favor with been division • ordered to Cape many beestoso it is lo easily made. IntantrY Most • cut out from stiff co.edbeard has se' en considerabYleYservice itigSo.uth $1hoWn in "8 Africa. When seventeen Years of age three oval pieced', lustration, eight inched 'Ong by 81-2 etattlemrtedhethheasItocoyea4tEdiedgtitizzerse.iStromee einrchtheataweldn:rittnlvthweitsrhidleillntenT fliice°41.teh°emv" ohthfeaassiatant inatructo hd ch • it struotor at the schoot of llitary veering and the, Schooltof -Gunnery for eeveral Years. Later, he acted as Royal CommulsiOner foi laying 'down the boundary line between Grinnualarld and the Orange Preis State. As a • Major he commanded the Diamond with red satin or eilk and bind the Melds Horse nit Kaffir war, Griqua - edges with 11, half-inch wide [Satin rib. land rebenion, Bechuanaland war, bon. Then t the pieces tOgeither and and northern border expedition of sew tWO ei es blind. etiteh, with heavy 3877.79, receiving the Medal and damp, red Wet. At the. corners tie *Mull Mention in deepectches and Promotion bows of ribbon. and In the middle of to Brevet LieutoCol. AtS 'served the top *oiling sew two loone, which throughout the Bayptiati war of IStig, will eerve Rd a handle. The two aides reeeleing the medal, Xhedive's star, being bored. very tightly, Makee third.olose raedildle, and the dieoth- *ugh opting to keep the box closed tion of K, 0.1t. O. Ile couiraanded the DeribiL limo able need to eater -85, receiving the decoration of G. when not. resift 'apart by the loppa. ound Ileehuanaland expedition of theau red vrith red ribbon for O. M. O. dfruto. to 1888 he wax Ife of lege, dititriet ITax•grd rle, end mother* and blue Chief Coitinetesioner of the Metro for Irsa Msch ribbOrks th Oho tab Police, oommanded the tr low s the hendsome combine- the Straits_flettlement, tioo up for one ot Princeton's and the trodpe of the Them from 1105 tjo 180d. 041