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Exeter Advocate, 1901-5-16, Page 2TEE ARTYR 0 History Is Written With Red Ink of Human. Blood. A dopa ch from, Washington says: —Bev. Dr, Talmage preaellect from the followiug text! "Thou, therefoee, endue° 11ard11ese."-2 Tim. ii. 3. Historians tire net slow to acknow- ledge the merits of great, militaiy ehieftainc. We have the full-length portrait of the 13aldw1ns, the °tem - wells, and the Marshal Neys of the world. History is not Written in black ink, but with red ink of hu- man blood. The gods Of human am- bit toil d•ld not drink. Irom bowls made out of 41,1ver, or gold, or preeioas $toaes, but of the bleached skulls of the fallen, But I am to -day to un- roll before you a scroll of heroes that the world has never acknowledged; they who lased no guns, blew no bugle -blast, conquered no ' chained, no captives to their chariot wheels, and yet, in the great day of eternity, will stand higher than ' thoee whose manes Startled tte na- titans; and sereph, and rapt spirit, aud archangel will tell their deeds to a listening universe. I meara the heroes of common, everyday life. In this roll, in the first place, I find all the heroes of the sick -room. When Satan had failed Lot overoome Job; he said to God, "Put forth thy hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." Satan has found out what we have all feeand out, that sickness ia the greatest test of one'S °iterate - ter. A man who ea.n stand that can stand anything; to be phut up in a room so fast as though it were a bastile; to be so net- vous you oannot endure the tap of a child's toot; to have luxuriant fruit n-hiela tempts the appetite of the robust and the healthy, excite our loathing and disgust when it first appears on the platter; to have the rapier of pain strike through the Aide or across the temPle, like a razor, or to put the foot into a vice, or to tb,row the whole body into a is a perpetual martYtdonh Some- thing he a vier than the stroke Of a fist, unkind words, staggerhige homm It midnig 4, ixid c,onstant mal tree t - Taunt which have left her only 11 wreck of Nvila i she was on that day \viler; in the midst of brilliant as- eemblages tile vows were taken, and full organ played the wedding mareh and the oar via go rolled away with the benediction of the people, No bitter \vords when the rollicking (tempera - bens at two o'clock- in the morning piieh the husband dead druuk into the front entry. No bitter svoeds when wiping from the eivellen brow 1 he blood streck out in a mid -night car- ousal. 13eadiug, over the battered and bruised form of him who, whoa he took bee from her father's home, promised love, kindness, arid protec- tion, yet nothieg but sympathy, and prayers, and forgiveness before they are asked for. Not bitter words when the family Bible goes for rum, and the pawnbroker's shop get e the last decent dress. Some day, desbring to evoke the story of her sorrows, you say: "Well, how are you getting along now?' aa4,1 rallying her teembt- ing VOlee. and quieting her quiver lug hp, she says: "Pretty well, 1 thenle you, Pretty well," She never will tell you, in the delirium oZ her last slekness she may tell all the seorets of her lite -time, but she will not tall that; Not until the books of eternity are opened on the throne.s of judg- ment will ever be known what she has suffered. Oh! ye who are twist- ing a garland for the victor, put it on that pale brow. When she is dead the neighbours will beg linen to make her a shroud, and she will be carried aat in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for she has lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gamblers and the swin- dlers who destroy her hu.sband not come to the funeral. One car- riage will be enough for that funeral —one carriage to carry the orphans and the two Christian wpm= who presided over the obsequies. But there is a fLash, add a clank of it celestial door, and a shout: "Lift up your head, ye everlasting gate, and let • her come in!" And Christ will step forth and Say: "Came in! ye suffered with me an earth, be glorifi- ed with ma in heaven." What is the highest throne in heaven? You. say: "The throne of the Lord God Al- mighty and the Lamb." No doubt blaze of a fever. Yet there have Mame: it. What is the next hignest been men and women. but more wo- throne in heaven? While I speak it seems to me that it will be the throne men than men, wise have cheerfully of the drunkard's wife, if she, with endured this hardness. Through cheerful patience, endured all her years of exhausting rheuraatisms earthly torture. and excreciating neuralgias they HEROES AND HEROINES. have gone, and through bodily dis- But I am spe.akinag this morning of tresses that rasped the nerves, and those who, out of thein: pinched pose: tore the muscles, and paled the erty help others—of such -men as those cheeks, and stooped the shoulders. By Chtristiun missionaries at the West, the dim light of the sick -room taper who are liarintgon, r2,50 a year, that they saw an their wall the picture of they may proclaim Christ to the pece that land where the people are never pia. And of these people who have sick. Through the dead silence of only a half loaf of .ohehd, bat give a the night they heard piece of it to others who are hungrier; TUE CHORUS OF ;THE ANGELS. and of these who have only a eouttle The cancer ate away her life from of coal, bat help others to fuel; and of week to week and month to month, those who have only a dollar in their anti she became weaker and weaker, pockets., and give twenty-five cents and every."good nip,ht" was feebler to somebody else; and of that father than the "good night" before—yet who wears a shabby eoat, and of that never Aad. The children looked up mother who wears a faded dress, that into her face and saw suffering trans- their children may be well appareled. formed into a heavenly 4mi1e. Those You call them paupers or ragamuf- who suffered on the battle -field, amid fins or emigrants, of tatterdemalions. shot and shell were not so much I call them heroes and heroines. You heroes and heroinez as those who in and I may not know where they live the asylum. had fevers which no ice or what their name is. Gad knows, could cool and no surgery could and they _have raore angels hovering cure. NO shout of comrade to cheer over them than you and I have, and them, but numbness, and aching, and they will have a higher seat in homesick.ness—yet willing to suffer, Heaven. They may have. only a ou.p of cenfideat in God, hopeful of heaven. j cold water to give a poor traveller, Heroe,s of rheumatism; heroes of or may have only pioked a splinter neuralgia; heroes of spinal nom- from under the nail of a child's finger plaints; heroes of sick headache; he- 1 or have pat only two mites into' the roesof lifelong invalidism; heroes treasury, but the Lard knows them. end heroines. They shall reign for- Considering what they had, they ever and forever. Hark! I catch 4did mere than we have ever just one rote of the eternal anthem; done, and their faded dress will be - "There shall be no more pain." Bless come a white robe, and the small C;od for that. lroom will he. an eternal mansion, and In this roll I also find the heroes , the ale hat a coronet of victory, and of toil who do their work unconas 1 all the applause of earth and all the pleb:tingly. It is comparatively easy I shouting of heavens will be drowned to lead a regiment into battle when out when God rises up to give His re - you know that the whole nation will ward to those hatable workers in His applaud the victory; it is compare- kingdom, and say to them: "Well tively easy to doctor the stele when done, good and faithful servant." you know that your skill will be ap- But there is great excitement in preciated by a large company of heaven. Why th.ose long processionst friends and relatives; it is compare,- Why the booming of that great bell tivelY easy to address an audienhe/in the towtr? ft is coronation day when in the gleaming eyes and the in bees -eve weep are thsse rising en flushed cheeks you know that your the thrones with crowns of eternal sentiments. are adopted, but to do royalty'? They mast have been great sewing where you expect that the. people on earth, world-renowned peo- „eraployer will come and thrust his nee. No. They taught in a ragged thumb through the work to show how ' school! Is that all V That is all. Who imperfect it is, or to have the whole are those souls waving sceptres of garment thrown back on you td be eternal dominion? Why, they were done ,wer again; to build a wall and little children who waited on in - know there will be no one to saY You valid mothers. That all? That is all. did it well, but only a swearing em- She was called” Little 'Brary," on player howling across the scaffold; earth, to work until your eyes are dirn and and your back rielies, and your heart SHB IS AN EMPRESS Isl'OVe. faints, and to know that if you stop Who are that great multitude on the before night your children will highest thrones of heaven ? Who are starve. All! the sword has not slain so many as the needle. In this roll I also find the heroes who have uncomplainingly endured domestic injustice. Theri; are, Men who for their toil ancl anxiety have no eympathy in their homes. Ex- hausting application to business gets them a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he COMM Out Of it. The exas- perations of business life augmented by the exasperations of domestic. life. Such men are laughed at, but they have it heart -breaking trouble, and they Would have long ago gone into appalling dissipations but for the grace, of God. Society to -day is StreWt1 Wtill the wrecks of men \vho Tinder the northeast storm of domes- tic infelicity have lreen DRIVEN ON TILE 13,001(S. There ore tens of /hot:saints of drunk- ards in this country to -day, roe de such lry their wises Tltat is prose; But they? lIdtiy, tbey fed the hungry,the clothed the naked, they heated th tapping ageinet the window -pane, Go to the window, and you will fiad it lie the book of g raven, and open th0 window, and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah, Do Yeu. think- that the God who krOWS 1110 ant'ell of the South will lea sou ereeze for lack of clothes ? Po you thinks that the God W110 allowed the disciples on Sunday morning to go into the grain -field, and then take Lb e grain and rub it in their hands end eat—do you think God will let yOU etarve? Di(1 you ever hear the ex- perience of that old man. "I havo been young mad nciW am 1 old, yet 111LV 1 Itev,ct seen the righteous for- saken, or Ws seed begging bread." Gdt. up out of your discouvagement, troubled soul, 0 sewing woman, 0 man kieked and cuffed by unjust cm- ployers,0 ye who are hard bestead in the battle of life tired know not which way to turn, 0 you bereft one, 0 you sick one with complaints you have told to no one. Come and get the oomfort of this subject. Listen to our great Captain's cheer: "To him that overeenteth will 1 give to eat of the fruit of the tree of life which ia in the midst of the Paradise of God." ECLIPSES OF' THE SUN. Thit napeeneat Or Yea's Whose Great Events Llie n the lEllatis of 31eM OleGe. calculations have established the law that regulates ectipses, not only in the future, but in the past, and, thanks to these mathematical results, several oeminonly accepted hitstorical mistakes ie the dates of famous events have been rectified. Thus the tinae, of the birth, and death of Gliriet has been corrected wilk the help of astronomy, and the two facts established as follows: The Claris - era began in reality with the year 4 instead of the. year 1, as com- monly believed. That furnishes us with an entirely new solution for the tiresome question, "When does the twentieth century begin?" It is only in the year 527 A. D. that Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman priest, fixed the date of the Julian period, when the Chrtstian era -was supposed to begin. King literati, who ordered the babies killed at the tines of the birth of the Son of Mary, died, according to the Jewish historian josephus, shortly after an eclipse of the moon. All as- tronomical tables show that ' this eclipse was visible at Jerusalem on Harch 13, 4710, Julian period. There- fore Christ was born before Lhis, or at the latest in December, 4709, in- stead of December, 4713, as commonly believed. The world te four years older than we linagined, and if We want to be exact, we had better date our letters, this month, May, 1995, instead of May, 1901. Astronomically it is also proved. that the crucifixion took place in the 4,746th year of the Julian per- iod, the Savior being at the time over 86 years of age. But another curious fact in refer- ence to the death of Christ is found in the records of eclipses. It refers to the great eclipae of the. run which Cateek philosophers of the time de- clared to have taken place tn that year and raonth, and which would then correspond ,with the sudden darkness that fell upan the city of Jerusalem when the SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD. gave up his breath en the cross. Vila, however, has been contradicted by astronomers, who declare that such darkness must have been of absolutely mix. melons origin, as an eclipse of the sun visible in Judea could not possibly have taken place that year. Here are the dates and historical facts which, by their strange coin- cidence, kept a number of sun eclips- es alive in tb.e minds of men; 463, B. C.—The Great Persien-Egyp- Ilan War. 431 B.C.—Terrible plague in Ath- ens. 59 A. IX—Nero murders his mother, Agrippina. 237 A. D.—The stars were seen- at noon. Death of Emperor Constan- tine. 810 A.D.—Death of Emperar Louis the Pious. 1133 A. D.—The Great Schism of the Christian Church began; two Popes. 1493 A. D.—Christopher Columbus, ha Irimeica, obtains assistance from to the natives just in time to save his eh men from starvation by predicting an I) eclipse that threw the Indians at ha his feet in abject terror. 1793 A. D.—The massacres of the th French Revolution. ki 1800 A. D.—The bloody victory of h Austerlitz. 1813 A. D.—Napoleon's terrible de- feats at Leipsic, Bautzen etc. • 1820 A. Da—Murder of the Duke de (Its Berry, hair to the Fresseli throne. th 1851 A. D.—.Napoleort III. massacres fo Republizans all over Prance. Ch 18.58 A. D.—Orsini's bombs kill scores is IBE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 19. "stent eetendi Into Ilea en." Luke 7)31 Atte 1.11. Ciddeu Text, Laaell. 51. PRACTICAL NOrEs. Vera 1. The former teeatise. The Gospel eceoeding to Luke, 0 Theo- philue. The men te whom the gos- pel of Luke as well as 11ne Ac to of the Apostles w'as declioated. 11 is gene,rally assumed that lac was 0 Greek because of his Greek name, but that ie not a certeinty, for Jews frequently had Gree.b: names, as, for inetanett, Philip and Andreae and that Ito wee a man of destinctioa, be- eithee of the phrase "most excellent" which is 055011:lied with his feline in the dedication of the gospel—a phrasia which is elsewhere used ae a compli- ment in addressing men of position, aa, for esarxtple, in Acts 24. 3 end Acts 26, 25. Jesus began a work which was to be carried oe by his apostles. To do and teach. His wale au exemplifieation of the doctrines he taught. 2, The day in which he was taken up. The day of the ascension. He through, the HeTly Ghost had given omemandmente unto the apostles whom he had chosen. ThL3 may mean either that the specie.' com- mandments hare alluded to were giv- en to the apoetles, not by our Lord personally, but by the Holy Ghost as an agency; or it may mean that the Lard, himeelf anointed by the Holy Ghost, gave the commandnaents. The isu.estion is one of little practical importance. 3. To whom also he showed himself alive. He demonstrated his life after death; made plain m many ways his resurrection. Passion. An old English word for "suffering,",i, here referring to our Lord' a death. , By many infallible proofs. The Revis- ed Vereitm omits the word "infalli- ble," not to weaken but to strengthen the statement. Being seen of them forty days. Literally, "through forty days," or, as the Revised Vex- to ascertain precise. y when and Pr sion has it, "by the space of forty oisely how our Lor,d will come.. L days"—that is at intervals during us calmly believe the words of Seri. that period. is, of Lite things ture and recognise' that the most pertaining to the kingdom of God. portant thing for aes is to have o jeeus was the Kieg, and might eater- Lord with .03 every inome,nt of our ally be expected to talk of the king- lives; then no surprise can bexlisaster, dom. The disciples- were to be the ambassadors or represe.ntatives of the BRITISH TACTICS IN THE WAR. Lingdona of God, and would need more inatruction. What they had heard before but could not understand would come to tlaem with fresh mean- ing in the light that shone from, the open grave and from. the cloud that received their Lord. 4. Being aesembled together with them. Perhaps in Jerusalem on the day of the eacension, perhaps at an earlier date. Commanded them that they ahould not depart from Jerusa- lem, but wait. 'Compare Luke 24. 49; see John 14. 16. Though they thus waited, they were far from lacing idlers, for their time was spent in again. But, nevertheless, I was ab prayer and conference. The promise from the side of the Boers to. watc ed Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom as of the Father. The gift of the bless- the affect of moamla tactics em God the Father had premised by his Ployed by the English. I rnentio prophets in the Old Testament to therefore, one thing:—"Those Bur sanctify the hearts of his faithful peens on the Boer side who had th people, Lea. 44. 3; Bzek. 36. 26,127; jocl old meditary tastics, so to say, inbre 2. 28, 29, and which. Jesus himself itn them, were all either shot or take had premised but a few days before, prisoners without being of any reta John 14. 15, 16. Ye have heard of use whatever. Under the entens me. Notably in the long cornmunica- English fire of any of .the early; ba then he had with them. daring and ties, Colen,so and Mageesfontein in in the laet chapters of John. after the Lord's Supper, as recorded cp,l'ettrdfeordm, hoarddeia.inyy atiotniees oartt:senepntesdtant. 5. For John truly baptized with upright, he would have been dea water; but ye shall he baptized with man in the first half hoax. Afte the Holy Ghost not many days hence. such expe.riettice.s our first care mus These are the very words of john; the be, at manoetarres in time of peas Baptist, Luke 3. 16. The 'baptism to, pay attention to and rook= wit with water was the symbol and type this effect of modern weapons. of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The therefore, cherish the analterable con baptism of the Holy Ghost was to be viction that a return to line tactics monumental in its manner and in its to the war of fortifications, is a thin abundance. The Holy Spirit: had of necessity-. By fertifications c been in their hearts before, but they course, mean field fortifications. Lor were to wait for something unpreced- Kitchener, on the first day of his or elated. The, "not many days hence," rival, broke wile the old system, an proved to be tee. "He says 'not has be,gam a new kind of line ta.ctics. many' that they may hope; he doee n conclusion th,e writer says:— not say hew few in order that they I "There is no doubt that since Lard may watch."--Chrysostora. I Roberts and he began to command in 6. When they therefore were come Saadi Africa. the Boors heve bee f gether. This would seem to be on I no use iu the field, and for this ren e Mout of °levee. near to Bethany. son only—tlaat these commanders hav lazing the very la.st interview they 1 emplayed their troops in. a widely ex d with the Lord they asked of hiro.„ tended order. The moral effect wa hey kept asking him," Lord, wilt extraordinary. Iremernber with aw ou et thie time restore again the gazing from a kopje near te-offyfon ngdona to Israel? "The disciples tein at the great dark snake ote. th ad not yet unlearned their LlOtiOn$ British 'line coiling round d rouno of a temporal kingdom, Shur ria- us; and yet that line was as thin as tion was tributary' to the Romans. a thread. I would, tlaerefore, mak The disciples had • mach of spiritual it clear that tie tresult cernment, but their old way of of the South African campaign is the inking led them to suppose that' be- lesson that we should break with the ricittlaietlmvotri8ltd beeoueldowheer et eodn vteor tocuddrt,o- reoineeasierav,etctveLeieetpt. tte30:11teetile:e2.,fezsrischa,ouriovalodIf\ Ilii•ticittle.epraetnhreti m; and if so, why not have Jerusa- otloToaumeeDstipnecttiooin thaenc.t,,ccociirnedt ui and tu dr nairnkg_ the centre of power, and Jesus ez.bovrisieblimeilKaringth? ouglhlatsnyto°-dharyi,s,tiatbtles ness. Battles are not to bet won in tees or the seasons, which thc Seth- . It te not for you to know i ,g on began t len]. and ended as lend a day. 'They meet. be begun as hath put put in his own power. C°Ine Roberts ended them." re Mete 24. Thie response is not denial of their belief, but a state- nt that the limitations of their owiedge had been reaohed. Some ter that'tO the ends. or tho earth, a ad to the end of time, . 9. While they beheld, As tbey Were looking. They were closely, we telling, Luke 24, 51. lie was taken Lea Mark 10. 19. "The ascension is not recorded by. the other two e wan- geliste. Bat it is alluded to by Paul, EfIll. 4. 9, 10; 1 Tim, 3. 16." A cloud received him out of their sight. A bright cloud of glory wee the symbol of Gottas poesenee. Snell a cloud led Moses and his followers over the desert of Sinai; swell, a cloud abode. in the hely placte; *twit a cloud liad overethadewed jesus on the aToutit of Transfigurration. Luke'e statement that our "Lord wes eitgagecl in biota sing his disciples when he dieeppear- ea, Luke el, 50, is of great interest. By bleesiog them he acted as their great Priest, consecrating these whcan ha sent aortae to bless in his ne mo. The, last woods Whho 0 he was heard to speak on earth were words of bl essing---ter eel's of his abiding lose; assurance of his effectual pro- tec1ing 9001101', 10. White they looked steadnustly toward heaven as he went up. Full oa unspeaka ble eleligh t tied c uriesity and sorrow. Deltoid, astoeishing to Say, two men stood by them in white aeparel. "Men in wline apparel" is O phrese repeatedly used deSCrihe angels. 11, Ye men of Gelilue. That: they were Galileares was probebly evident eoth by their dress and their accent. To accost them saoh WaS not as of fe v e th a t day as such fami- liarity would be with us. 'Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? most nature' thiag for thean ta do, so long as they had •thoroughly secular con- eeptiens. Fetr Li physical men to rise from the earth and to be hitadem by 00 aseendieg cloud was mervelous enough to fix any eyes. upon the place where he had rantshed. The force of the aeigens question, "Why?" disistehoarte:hey should have by this Li ed that the things of t kingdom of God are not concered the 'flesh and blood," and that needs a splxitual eye, a n eyeg faith, to follow the Load on his jo nay te? the right hand a God t Father Ahreighty. This same jesu shall sO e.0111e. in like marirm. ao hase seen hina. ,gol into heaven. Go man sometimes forget that this be etateenent, so fall of meaning to all, was made almost immediately 1 ter oar Lord's statement, 'It is not for you to knees, times or iseasorts." It is possible. to spend too much tithe and too recondite s lady in endeavors rno he ng it of ur- s.' ye od ief us often contain areenio, and many great ef_ card -players get an eruption on their hands remit this source. , IN DUST AND GAS., Theo. tee. ickets, rail way tickets, omnibus tiekers are also frequently e- coloured with a pigment containing et this dangerous cheetah:ea. It is much P- used in the manufacture of artificial haa- flowers, and it comes away from them, • ae from wall -papers, both in the form of dust and as a gas called "arsine." It is also used in the coloring of chi. 'clren's toys, crayons, candles, tlo glazed papers that cover confeetion- ery, lamp ethad.es, and many toilet art Viole t powder frequently contains arsenic, anti some time ago two children were fatally poisoned by the use of thie powder. Areenical soap is greatly faveured by ladies vain of their skin. Un- doubtedly arsenic has the effect, it if properly used, of beautifying tha skin, e But very often the soap causes a of naaty rash through its poisonous • qualities, and it 'helps all the other things in producing ill -heal th. "- Arsenic is very often present in at gloves, stockings, and hat linings, and le cause a Ina, or gets into the system. h Perhaps one of the 11103t; dangerous poison-carriere is the colored 'v. -inclose or bed ell!' hair). 0, There ;.seems to be no c,ncl to tie articles of daily use which may be tho mysterious cause, of stomach aches, u sore eyes, neuralgia, and other resulte -n, of chronic arsenic poisoning. Britan- ' lila metal spoons,' forks, and teapote frequently contain arsenic, lvhich ' slowly dissolved out of them in use, - All kinds of glassware. may have soma ° a.rsenic in their 5ubstance, though not !-.; so often nONV formorly. It is used " in bronzing brassivare and tinning r, sheet -iron, Orpiment, an arsenical compound, is used Os a hair destroy- e• r, and tanners often use it to take .rn the hairoff 'skirts. Several deaths 1, have been tra.cetl. to it. Arsenite of h copper is used, under the name of pains green, for destro,eing insects on g potatoes. Possibly it finds its way into the tuber, and is eaten by us at d dinner. Corn intended for seed is - steeped in an arsenical solution to prevent "smut" and here, again, then: is some probability that the drug passes into the, new corn, and thus into our bread. Then, most sheep dips cousist of arsenic, and it is almostedertain tha.t some ()flit ets - Into the body and remains in • the' mutton; \Odle fly -Papers, fly-wa' - ter, and rat pastas owe their destruc- s tive rawer to arsenic, and when us- e ed a house some of the poison pass- - es into the air. To me,ntion one more O source of danger, immemse quantd- Lies cif arsenic are thrown into tle holds of chips to prevent vegetation and nothing le more likely than that corn subsequently loaded in bulk gets con tami na ted. In most cases, however., it is con- soling to kriow that the trifling quail- ; titiee of. arseeic we accidenttilly take ' o eye em. o more goo," than harm. It is ail excellent tcnic, and promotes health when taken in suit' 1)1)10 quantity. The, symptoms of slight chronic, poisoning tie° unfortu- nately easily taken for something else. One victim always had,a celd in his head, and theug.ht: iL arose. fools draughts in his office, but it was real' y due irri la Ling effee ts a.r. genie, which enet 03 did net discovei till his health was undermined. Most people feel their eyes sore, a,s, if there were sand in them, usually the stom- ach is in an inflamed candition, but this is put. dew°, to ordinary dys- pepsia. Neuralgia, headache, and cle- pressien ef spirits are other symp- toms.. But no one thinks of arsenic pcisoning when he suffers from these. l'OISOi FOR YOTIR __- IMMENSE ArilouNT OF ILL-IlltALTB CAUSED BY ARSENIC. it Is PreSent tin ef the Artialas wattle sve lortak oe 11010ie Symptoms of Chroole Potiou gag. The colossal case of arsenie poleon- ing at Manchester, England, Galls at - ten Lien in a eta rtling mariner to the risJes we tall run even in our own hemes. Thousands of tons of poison 013 110)1)' 110111 in the nia n tire° I uri rig 0 r te, e I tol ing a q tr a n Li ty of arsenic. According to the British Registrar:- llenera.1, only twelve or four teea' deaths occur annually 'teen arsenic. iu Englatel, most of them being acci- dental. But medical men, who hif7a-e enquired into the matter, assert that an immense 0100001of i 11 -heal th teriees from thtt use of this drug, which ratty., innoeently taken at lunch lime or abeurbed in the bed. room, This is peefeelly credible when Iva coneicler the various uses to which the drug is put. It is used in making slot. Three parts of arsenie are com- bined with 1,000 parte of lead, to make orchaary ehol. Nov, shot is extensive- ly ueed irt witehing bottles, and in thte p-ocess goo:1 deal of the arsenic gets detached and adlicres to tlic bob - Lice. eVlien (beet,. are filled with beer the tetieenie dissolves in 1113 beverage and, thcugh the quntlity is too sm.a14 to injure a moderate drinker, it of.ten seriously affects the health. To understand hew.. these infinitesi- mal quantiliee of arsenic nrove harm- ful, 0 curious property of the drug must be explaixonl. ft is what tho doetors eetunulative" hi its ac- tion. That is to say, when a dose ie swallowed it sticks tcutteiouely in the body, and though the body gets rid of a little af it, every day, it takes from two to six week's to eliminate the whole. Green -backed playing ea eds very A Boer's Impresslon of Warfare. as Em- ployed la South Afrtea. Adelbert Count Sternberg, in an article in the 'Times on "Sonia Tactical Lessons in War," records his personal im,pression of modern tactics as em - played by the English against th Boers. He says:—South Africa. is, course, not a goed example of the co du.ct of war, since conditions have o tattned there which will never ace • - le his Empress. I th 1860 A. D.--.A.nnounces the bloody ha War of the Sacessien, in tha United 7 States. ti 1870 A. D.—This extraordinary er y eclipse, visible in the terrible year al pa o iha Franc:a-German 'War, 3e0,030 inen a _ killed. me , 1900 A, D., May 28.—Nothing but irn wars and rumors of wars the world de over. . t sick,they comforted. the heart-brok en. They never found any rest un 10. they pat their head :down on the ceE the e4spulchre Clnd watche Wily HE BOUGHT THE HALF- PENNIES. vout men like God. to kacp no, mere- . s er thena. God laughed defiance at the 8 enemies who out'''' their heels hard down on these his dear children; and 10 PC. A gen tleme n li v in g in a rural . 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I asked' "Y" '1 in Soma ens , 010(1 un to the utter- st part of the earth., Beginning h0n1,3 yeer itafluonce is to bsl felt he bounds or the nation, anek af- one day the Lord struck his hands° hard on his thigh that the, omnipot- s.sv,ord, rattledl on the buckler, as he slide "1 aro their God, and .no weapon formed againet them shall prosper," What herrn con the world do you when the Lord Almighty with unsheatbed sword ferrite for .you? I preach this Getman). this morreng in comfort. Go home to the plaee Jest where (lee has put you to pay the hero and licroine. Do riot envy any man his money, or his applause or his esoeial position, Do not envy any woman her wardrobe, or Iter' exquis- ite appearanae, no the hero dr 1 he heroine. If there be no flour in the NOT QtfITE SATISFIED. visiter among the poor ia the East -end of London found unexpect- ed testimony to the disadv.antages of health during one of her recent calls. B. has 0. fa,mily of a dozen and, like 01 her class, she we h.ad her tale of Wile to tho ow ase th a c hi ld re Mrs. 13.1 in-. quire(' tile caller. All very well, inectatt ine'em, very \vela indeed. You ought 1 o be 111,11101'0e rm sure, wich sot much steknees all about, j reit sha , Gr. , tyr 1111) 51)11 (400 are sirn Lot lee, Ma'am; au i)pcse. Olikilt to be end ' th'n Wrnfilg .gennynIlY in the 'one house, and you do not. know where thankful—but, tell ycee meeem, irte pecrie direction, -Zoo would not have yeur children Are to get breed, 'tvlaen they're they eat an awful' ttt , . to go fer to fold a wife whose Site ten and you will hear something loti" ea el lite 'netl I.," , says I, "if you rein buy eterlite4 for a halfpenny, , s\ -(la 1 to the ilea , of pay in' ta. penny ?" Alt' I bought; the halfpenny staieps, ell.. CHANGES AT I3ISLEY. 'flee tittle ef the great "Queen's Prize" of the N. R. A. \sill thencefor- ward be altered to the, "ICing'al It'size," 'by command of his MetieatYe who, will continue patron of the as- Ineteed of ten rourids at 500 yards and fifteen at 606, the sec- ond of Lbe three stages of the eom- petbtion will in future consist of ten ratirsits at 600 yardiel and ten at 800. e..