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F HOME LIFE
It May be Humble, But Woman's Cheerfulness Will
Gild It With SplendorS.:
A despatch from tVashington sayseints seeking less rent; landlords de -
Rev. Dr. 'TaInmge preached from the 1rnailding more. tl old fidgety.
following tet :.--Genesis i, 27, Struggles about office. tUcn •Nvtio are
n.A.L.lie and female created lie them," in trying to keep in; men out trying
in other words, God, who can to get in. Slips. TurnMes. Defal-
make no mistake, made man and cations. Panics. Cataetrophes. 0
woman iene n. pecilic work, and 10. wonaten, thank God you, have a home,
move in particular spheres—man to and that you ina3r be queen iii it.
regnant in his realm, woman to be Better be there than wear a queen's
coronet, Better be there than carry
the puree of a princess. Your abode
may be humble, but you can by your
faith in God and your cheerfulness of
demeanor gild it with splendors such
as an upholstermee hand never yet
kindled.
What right does woman want that
is grander than to be queen in euch
a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven
cannot fly across that dominion.
Horses panting and with lathered
flanks are not swif 1 enough to run
to the outpost of that realise They
say that the sun never sets upon
the British Empire. but I have to
tell you that on this reahn of wo-
man's influence eternity never marks
any bound. Isabella fled from the
Spanish throne pursued by the na-
tion's anathema, but she who is a
queen in a honie will never lose her
throne, and death itself will only be
the annexation of
dominant in hers. The boundary
line between Italy and Sivitzerland,
between England and Scotland is
not more thoroughly marked than
this distinction between the empire
masculine and the empire reminine.
So entirely dissimilar aro the fields
to which God called them that you
can no inore compare them. than you
can oxygen and hydrogen, water and
grass, trees and stars. All this talk
about the superiority of one sex to
the other is an everlasting waste of
ink and speech, A jeweler may have
a scale so delicate that he can weigh
the dust of diamonds, but where are
the scalee so delicate that you can
weigh in them affection, sentiment,
against seutiment, thought against
thbught, soul against soul, a man's
word against a woman's word ?
You come out with your stereotyp-
ed remark that man is superior to
woman in intellect, and then 1 open
on my desk the swarthy, iron typed,
thunderbolted writings of Harriet
Martineau and Elizabeth Browning
and George Eliot. You come on
with your stereotyped remark about
woman's superiority to man in the
item of affection,. but I ask you
where was there more capacity to
love than in John the 'disciple, and
Robert McCheyne, the Scotchnia.n,
and John Summerfield, the Metho-
dist, and Henry Martyn, the mission-
ary ? The heart of those men was so
large that after you had rolled into
it the hemispheres there was room
still left to marshal the hosts of hea-
ven and set up the throne of the
ETERNAL JEHOVAH.
I deny to man the throne intellec-
•tual. I deny to woman thethrone
affectional. No ;human phraseology
will ever define .the spheres while
there is an intuition by Which we
knew Whon a man is in his realm
and when a woinan is in her realm
and when 'either or themis out of it.
No bungling legislature ought to
attempt to -make .a definition or to
say:, This isthe line and that And I looked along by the :hills'
the .line:7 - • where it would be most:beautiful for
know there are women of most
'Madesirablenature' who wander up
and clown the country, having no
.homes of their own or forsaking
their own homes, talking abeut their
rights, and we know very well that
they themselves are fit neither . to
vote nor 'fit to keep house e Their
mission teems to be to humiliate the
two sexes 'at the. thought 01 what
any one of us might „become. NO
011C• would want to liVe Under . the
Jaws that such women would enact,
oe to have case upon .society • the
'children that such woinen-, .would
raise. . .But I will show .You ;that the,
, best rights that woman can Own she.
'already has in her „possession, ; that
her 'position in this country at this
time is not one of commiseration,
but one 'of congratelation.; that the
, grandeur and power' of her realm
have never ' 'yet been a,pprociated ;
that she sits to -clay on a throne so
high that abi the thrones oeearth
piled on top of each other would not
make for her a footstool. Here is
the platform on 'which she, stands..
.Away down below it 'are thetballot
box and ; the asOngressional assem-
blage .and the
„L'esGISLA.T.IVE HALL.
HEAVENLY' PRINCIPALITIES
One twilight' .after I. had been
playing .with the children' for some
'time, I lay down. on thecouch' to.
rest, and, half asleep and half awake;
seemed to dream this dream. It,
seemed to inc that I . was in a: far
distant land—not Persia, , although
more than oriental luxuriance crown-
ed the Cities; nor the tropics, al-
though More than tropical fruitful-
ness ' filled the gardens; nor Italy,
'although More than Italian softness
filled the: air. And I wandered.
around looking for thorns and net-.
tlee, but .1 found none of them grew
there. ,And I walked forth, and I
saw the sun rise, and I said, "When
will it set again?" and the sun sank
not. And I saw all the people in
holiday apparel; and I said, "When
will theyput on workingman's garb
again and delve in the mine and
Swelter at the forge?" But neither
the garments nor the robes did they
rut off. And I wandered in the sub-
urbs, and I said, , '!Where do they'
bury the dead: of this great City'?"
Woman always has voted and al-
ways will vote. Our great-grand-
fathers thought they were by their
votes putting Wasjaingtcm into., the
presicbcntial chair.. His moth -
r, 10Y the principles tanght Lira.
and by the habits she inculcated,
zed° him president, It was a Chris-
tian mother's hand dropping the bal-
lot when Lord Bacon wrote, and
Newton philosophised, and Alfred
the Great governed, and Jonathan
Edwards thundered of judgment
to come. 1. -Tow many men there have
been in high political ettetion who
would have been insufficient to stand
the test to which their moral prin-
ciple was put had it not been for a
Ivife's voice that encouraged them
to do right and a i f o's prayer that
sounded'srOuder than the cla,mar01
partisanship ! Why, my friends, the
right of suffrage, as we men exercise
seenee to be a feeble thing, You,
'a -Christian nmn, come up to the
ballot box, and you drop your vote.
Right after you comes a libertine or
a set, the offscouring of the street,
and he drope his vote, and his vote
counteracts yonrs. But if in the
truiet of home life a.claughter by her
Christian demeaaor, a wife by her
industry, a mother by her faithful-
ness, casts a vote in the right di-
rection, then , nothip g, can resist it,
and the influence of that vote will
throb through the eternities.
My chlef anxiety, then, is net that
woinen have other rights aceorded
her, but that she, by the grace of
God, rise up to the appreciation of
the glorious rights she
ALREADY POSSESSES.
the dead to sleep; and 1 saw 'castles
and towers and baettements, but not
niatiSolellin nor , Moinunent..ner
white slab could 1 eee,. And I vent•
into " the. great. Chapel of the town,
and I said, "Where do the poor Wor-
ship? . Where are the -benches on
which they ,sit?". And a voice an-
swered, "We'. have .no poor in this •
great - City." And I wandered .out
seeking to find t* place where were
the hovels 01 the destitute, „ .and I
found mansions .of amber and ivory
and gold, but
NO TEAR DID • I SEE
or sigh hear. I was bewildered; and
I .eat . under the shadow of an great
tree, and I said "What' ani 1 and
whence 'comes' all this?".' , And at
that :irminent there came from among
the„ leaves,' :skipping Up' the floWery.
paths and acrbeethe sparkling wa-
ters, a very bright.. and 'sparkling
group, and when I saw 'their step I
knew it, and, when I heard their
voices I thought I knew, theme but
their apparelwas so, 'different from
anything I had ever seen. I bowed, a
a stranger to strangers. But after
awhile; " when they clapped their
hailds and shouted; .''Welcome! .Wel-
Come.'', the mystery was solved, and
I•saw that time had passed and that
'eternity had come, and that Godhad
gathered us' uri into 'a higher hOinee
and. 1 said, ."Are all here?". and the
voices ofinnumerable generatiens an-
swered, "All here." And White -te'eLe's
of 'gladness . were 'raining down our
diodes and. the - branches of, Leb-
anon , cedars were clapping :their
hands anOthe jowners ' of ehegreat
city -Were elihning their Welcome,„We
began to daugh wed sing and -leap
and shout, "Home! 1.rIcime! Hamel",
CONCERNING SLEEPLESSNESS
Use of Medicines to Produce Slum-
ber is Dangerous.
One warning cannot be too often
repeated—medicines to produce elecP
are dangerous, with different degrees
of clanger, to be sure, but still not
things to be trusted to the hands of
ignorance especially where ignorance
is personally interested. Sleep -in-
ducing drugs are often pecessary to
save from worse evils, but'they need
supervision—a • c oc, stipei
that is.
Lastly as to the economy of ner-
voes energy. On this, too, much haS
been said, but the text is a fruitful
and suggestive one, a.nd many ser-
mons could be hammered out of it.
First, let it be repeated that
whether the essential cause of ner-
vousness can be reached and con-
quered or not, the less open manifes-
tations of nervousness the patient
permits herself the better it will be
for her in every way.
I shall only have -time to speak of Do not talk about your feelings or
one grand and all-abeorbing right your fatigue or Yoen sleep, do not
that every woman has and that, is allow the weed nervolts to be
to make home happy, That realm tared in your ereeence. To talk
no one, hae ever disputed with her. about yourself is a, form of bad
Men may come home at nOon or at manners, to say the least ; to be
night, and they tarry a comparatiese- sena( for yoerself will not make
by litibe while, but she all day long anYonel more sorry for You, and self -
governs it. be.auti flee it, sanctifies it. pity is a poor kind of an emotion.
It is within her power to Make it 1 once this kind of talk becomes a
the most attractive Place on eexthhabit, an unconscious exaggeration
lt is the only calm harbor in this soon creeps into it ; the victim be -
world. You know as well as 1 4,32, gins 1)0 make the most of the feel -
that this outside world and the huni- irige and pains which have occurred
noes world is a long 500110 of jostle and to look for new ones, in Meier
and contention. The man who has to get all the sympathy poseible.
(1, dollar struggles to keep it; the and .Nom this to imagining syrep-
man who has it no 1 eteuggies to get toms is a short and sadly easy step',
it. Pi ices up. Fricee down. Losses, To cultivnte and eticourage
Gains. Mierepresentatioes, einotionS to overgrowth is bad
ings. tlederselliag, Buyers depreactt- enough, to sow and till a crop of
tug. Salesmen exaggerati ng. • Ten -
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Notes of Interest About Some
Fr oniinent People ,
A German paper is quoted as stat-
ing that since 1 888, when the Em-
peror ;William succeeded to ' the
throne, HiS -"theje;•itY hae delivered
916 public speeehee, of which 22 were
in French (in connection with [loyal
visits), 18 were hi Englieh, 3 in Rus -
sten, and 873 in the German lan-
guage,
The Dukes of SuLlierlund,
eleugh, and Devonshire are joint
lords of 2,001,600 acres of land, an
area equal 1.0 more than eleven times
that of the County of Middlekx, and
representinga slice of land stretch-
ing fromthe south Q1 England to
the extreme aorth of Scotland more
than five miles wide. If this land
were an in England about an acre
out of every sixteen would belong to
one or other of these dukes,
A peculiar souvenir is kept in Lord
Salisbury's historic home at i'Iat-
fleld is a stone, over a pound in
weight, with which the window of
Lord Salisbury's carriage was smash-
ed at :Dumfries on October 21st,
1884, Iiis two daughters were seat-
ed with his lordship in the vehicle,
but fortunately all three escaped un-
injured. Lord Salisbury had on that
occasion delivered the last of a ser-
ies of speeches in Scotland.
Madam Rejane, the celebrated
French actress who has lately been
delighting Lond.on audiences in "Ma-
dame Sans Gene" and other come-
dies; has been the recipient of orders
and decorations from every Court in
Europe, The King of Portugal, be-
fore whom Madame Rejane has ap-
peared on severeeroccasions, marked
his appreciation of her great talent
as an actress by presenting her with
a pair of very beautiful mules. These
animate, which are extremely docile,
accompany Madame Rejane on all
her European tours.
It may not be generally known -that,
Abdur Rahman, the Ameer of Af-
ghanistan, is a horse breeder on a
large scale. Some years ago he
founded a Government stud, Which
now comprises about 2,000 animals.
Some are English thoroughbreds and
some Australian, while others are
Arabs, Turkoman. and Indian coun-
try -bred horses. To look after them
the Amcor employs an English veter-
inary surgeon named Clements who
teaches twenty young Afghans his
profession and imparts to them the
correct principles of horse -breeding.
A glance at the Royal personages
in the direct line of succession to the
British throne reveals some interest-
ing facts. How ,many people know
that there are, only two adult males
between ;the Emperor William and
King Edward? It is, however sur-
prising it may 'be, a fact that the
German Einperor is the third male
-successor over twenty-one. He
stands twenty-fourth in -the list, but
most of those before him are women
or children, Only two men are of
full age -,—the King's only on, the
Duke of Cornwalland York, and his
only living brother, the Duke of
Connaught.
One of the most interesting oisEng-
land's surviving men of science, is Dr.
James Glaisher, P.R.S., who recent-
ly entered upon his ninety-third year.
Many people think of the veteran
meteorologist only as an aeronaut,
on account of that memorable a,nd
unparalleled ascent which he and. Mr.
Coxwell made nearly forty year ago.
But Mr. Glaisher is not an aero-
naut, though he has made some thir-
ty ascents skyward for scientific pur-
poses. He is a meteorologist, as-
tronomer, aad' mathematician, elid—
e, fine sample of what a vigorous
mind in a sound body can do—hale,
and hearty at over ninety-two. t
Eleanore Duse, the famous Italian
actress, is peculiarly marvellous.
When she is not at rehearsals or act-
ing she spends her time in perfect
rest. She, receives no one except old
friends, aad only a few of these. She
has a lady companion who arranges
her journeys and engages rooms in
the. hotels. This lady sees that
le,Use's l'OOMS are at Ole back of the
he,tel,. andthat, if possible, they,
look"' out oh. a° ''ill•Tent She cannot
bear streetessounds and sights. The
clanging of a tram -bell sete her
crazy. 'The furnishing of her rooms
is important. 9.7here must be 110 pic-
tures or busts about, nothing to dis-
turb her highly-wreught aesthetic
sensibilities. Everything must be
scrupulously clean, severe, quiet. She
never goes out walking, and is ridic-
nlously careless about her toilet and
her personal appearance, except on
the stage.
0
ROYALTY'S CAST-OFF RAIMENT.
, 0110 reason why the confidential
servants of royalty haveleeen able
to amass comfortable fortunes in
spite of their moderate salaries is
that' they receive from their ena-
ployers many gifts of old clothes
and other things which they can
turn into money. The out -grown
raiment of Queen Victoria's children
used to be quickly purchased by
discreet persons from the confidential
servante, who clid not offer these
perquisities to the World et large,
but only to a select clientele. In
Cath ole countries, the church and
its various eisteehoods are glad. to
take over the, leavings of royal and
imperial, families ; for splendid robes
can be tamed into vestments for the
?,Iadonna or the priests, or for altar
draperies.
CARRIED OFF BY EAGLES.
In a wood near Polnora, on the
edge of the Northern Carpathians,
a woman went to gather eticks,
leaving her baby in a secluded,epot.
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSONe
SEPT. 8.
Text of the Lesson, Gen. xxviii,
10-22. Golden Text, Gen.
xxviii, 6.
10, 11. "And Jacob went out
from Beersheba and went toward
IltIgan." The previous chapter tells
cef the deception practiced npon
Isaac by Jacob and hie mother, Re-
bekah, and of Esau's hatred and
purpose to kill his brother hecauee
he had supplanted him and taken
his blessing, and as a result of this
the sending of Jacob to Haran to
Rebekah's brother Laban for a time.
Our lesson is the story of the ap-
pearing of the Lord to Jacob as he
journeyed to Reran and is a record
of the wonderful gyace of God, but
seems also to imply true penitence
on the part of Jacob after he left
his father's house, for he would have
much timeeto meditate as he jour-
neyed enwa,rd alone. If Rebekah
had believed God and had trusted
Him to accomplish in His own way
His promise to her (chapter xxv,
23), she might have been spared
this separation from Jacob. But
she seems to have feared that the
purpose of God might be frustrated
by Esau and his father and that
it was necessary for her. to act
promptly even if not honestly. It is
a restful thing to believe that every
purpose of the Lord shall be per-
formed both for His people and
against His enemies (Jer. li, 29 ;
Isa, xiv, 24) and just abide in Him.
As Jacob journeyed from his home
the blessing of his father (verses 1-4-)
and the love of his mother would
lift hiin somewhat above the
thoughts of his brother's anger, but
he knew he had sinned against God,
even though his mother was the
most guilty, for she had been his
counsellor to do wickedly (II. Chron.
xxii, 3), and there must have been
some searching of heart before God.
His mother pyomised to send for
him when his brother's anger had
quieted, but we do not read that she
ever saw him again on earth.
12. Behold a ladder set up on the
earth and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending upon it.
The Lord Jesus said to Nathanael
"Hereafter ye shall see Heaven open
mid the angels 61 God ascending and
descending upon the Son of Man "
(John i, 51), which teaches us that
the ladder was typical of the Lord
Jesus, through whom, alone sinful
man can come to God or have any
revelation of God to him.
13, 11. Behold the Lord stood
above it and said, I am the Lord
God of Abraham thy father, and the
God of Isaac. All things are of God
through Christ ; salvation is of the
Lord. The unchangeable Jehovah
here confirms to the unwoether Ja-
cob 1 -lis promise to Abraham and
Isaac, giving to Jacob the promise
of seed as the dust of the earth,
whereas He had given to Isaac the
promise of seed as the stars of hea-
ven (chapter .xxvi, 4). It is possible
that when the kingdom comes ,we
shall see that the promise to Isaac
refers to or includes the chinch,
while the premise to Jacob refers to
the earthly seed Israel, and by the
two righteous companies shall the
righteous King of kings and Lord of
lordS rule all the earth.
15. "And, behold, I am with thee
and will keep thee in all places whi-
ther thou goest and will bring thee
again ,into -this land." This is the
fourth "behold" of our lesson : a
ladder, the angels, Jehovah and now
the assurance of His presence, His
keeping power, }Tie guidance and the
fulfilment of all His promises. What
more could sinful mortal desire ?
IIow undeserving is Jacob 1 How
gracious is Jehovah ! Can anyone
else appropriate such a promise, ,or
was it only for Jacob? Why shoUld
any child of God hesitate since in
...Christ God hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings, and all things
are ours hi Christ ? (Eph. i, 3; Cor.
iii, 21).• •
16, 17. "Surely the Lord is in
this place, and I knew it not!'
Such were his waking thoughts as
he -remembered ,his beautiful • dream,
and a great sense of, „his unworthi-
ness and sinfulness filled him as he
considered that the God of his fath-
ers had appeared to him also. He
probably felt like Job and Isaiah
and 'Daniel and john when they saw
the Lord (job xlii, 5, 6; Ise, vi, 5.;
Dan. x, 8`; Rev. i, 17). Simon Pe-
ter had a somewhat similar experi-
ence when he saw the great good-
ness of his Lord and cried, Depart
from me, for I am a sinful Marl, 0
Lord (Luke v, 8). The believer
should never be found where he can-
not say, "Surely the Lord is in this
place,," but the precious truth of
AT,attle xxviii. 20, should be 'an un-
ceasing comfort to us, for He is
ever saying, "Fear not ; peace be
unto you," See also jer. xxix, 11.
18, 10. His ,pillow became a pil-
lar, annointed unto God. May it
suggest theachange hi himself that
whereas in More senses than one he
had recently been prone upon the
earth he was now by the grace of
God an 'upright man before God and
annointed by His Spirit-. One of the
promises to the overcomer is that
he shall be, a pillar M the temple of
God (Rev. iii, 12), andPaulwrote
concerning James and Peter and
John that they seethed to be pillars
(Gal. ii, 9), speaking of the time
when they gave to Bernabas and to
!liaisel 1 the right hand of fellowship.
There is one great truth that be-
lievers are very apt to forget, and
that is that their bodies are temples
of the, Hely Ghost and that they are
'Linen her return she saw two great not their 01011, but mansions, in
eagles bearing away her child, whom which Father, Son aed Holy Spirit
thcY haa dismembered. Upon a 1.1lint have 001.00 to dwell (le Coi' vi, 19,
being made by the inh abi tan the 20 ; J 01111 XIV, 17, 23). The word
bones of the baby wero found in the "tbode" in John xiv, 23, is the
eagles' nest on the rocks amid, the same as "mansion" M. verso 2.
TINY INSIO(YI'S,
There are 211),000 die'ereet species
of insects on. the.,eneLli ; 2onle of
them are se) 11011111. that 4,000 of
them are only equal to a of
falec 00101.1011518 0. niOral rinic. sand., se.,
20 22. Of Pli {Mat 1.11011 Shalt
give 1110 I. Nvill surely give the tenth
1101,0 thee.'' Iteading this passage
nit is in our A.V,, it looks. as
.Tacob did not quite believe God,
but said, 11 God 'will do as Ple has
said, then I will give Him tho tenth
of all that Ile gives me, Sua bar-
gaining would be unbecoming in a
1 Child of Abraham Who cheerfully
paid tithes to Melchisedek (chapter
xiv, 20), if we should read it,
"Since God will be with me," etc,,
which translation, some say, the
word will allow, then it becomes on
the part of Jacob a grateful conse-
cration to the Loyd who appeared
unto him., We limy hope that the
latter reading' is correct, but het us
who are redeemed by the precious
blood of Christ See te it that WO
gn'atefully and cheerfully and con-
scientiously give the Lord at least
the tenth of all He gives us that we
maY in our experience manifest the
truth of Mal. iii, 10, and 11. Chron,
xxxi, 10, and prove Ps. lxxxiv, 11.
An
TRACKING A TIGER.
Exciting Adventure in Search
of a Man -Eater.
A writer hie the Indian Sporting
Times gives some details of the de-
predations of a tiger in various vil-
lages during the famine year. In the
course of his remarks he says that
for a whole year the monster contin-
ued his depredations almost without
molestation. Over forty people had
been slain, and the village herds suf-
fered severely. The local forest
ranger was in a state of terror, and
had written to his superior in terms
much as follows, showing the diffi-
cult situation in which he compiled
his reports:—
"February lst—Up a tree, where I
adhere with much pain and discom-
posure while big tiger roaring in a
very awful manner on the fire line.
This is two times he spoiled my
work, corning and shouting like
thunder and putting me Up a tree,
and making me behave like an insect.
I am not able to climb with agility
'owing to stomach being a little big;
owing to bad water of this jungle.
Jungle mans can fly up tree quickly.
Even when I do not see this tiger,
and he does net make a dreadful
noise. I see the marks of his hoofs
and his nails on the path.
The writer of this article continues:
So it came about that when my
camp was pitched in the vicinity of
the "Yellow Peril," a deputation,
headed by Koombappa, presented it-
self before my tent, and begged me
to rid the' neighborhood of a mon-
ster concerning whose doings each
one had some piteous tale to tell.
It was a long tramp up the valley
before daylight next morning, and a
stiff climb ma the path which wound
its way over the rocks and through
the thick bamboo jungle. Now, the
jungle was so thick and extensive
that to beat for the tiger would be
O useless task. Nothing could be
seen in the dense thickets of the
cover where he lurked. What was to
be done?
''SPI1KA13 WITH BELLS."
Then 1 bethought me of a mode of
huntingeof. which a sportsman of 60
yeags of age had told me. This was
the "shikar uvitli bells.'' A native,
adorned only with a coating of wood
ashes, with a tray containing burn-
ing oil -wicks upon his head, and a
chime of bells in his hand, precedes
the hunter M search of game on a
dark night. Such" was the plan now
proposed. At ten o'clock at night
Koombappa, smeared with ashes and
bearing the lights upon his head and
the chiracs in his hand, preceded me
to the forest. It was a weird ad-
venture. Nought could be seen but
the dim outline of trees in the
gloomy forest. My companion's
movements became more grotesque
and, as it were, inspired. The
lights danced before my eyes and cast
a beautiful glare for some yards
ahead. The, tinkle of the 'bells be-
came more sonorous, and filled the
forest with a weird noise that exer-
cised an indescribable spell over the
senses. Suddenly the spectral ash -
clad, figure ceased to advance, but
frantically continued its ceaseless
antics. I peered into the gloom in
front, and saw two luminous orbs
shining through the darkness, Slow-
ly they approached. The movements
of the dancer became spasmodic as
the huge form of the tiger emerged
from the shadows and stood erect Pc -
fore us in the dim flickering light,
with every hair set, breathing heav:
ily, with panting tongue and heaving
sides. As I 'raised my rifle and fired
between the creature's eyes koom-
bbytenP ss nekxetroutolni es gia.oneidnclexecxiliteamusetnetd
The lights Were exhausted at the
same moment, and all was silent and
buried hi. darkness. For some mo-
ments I dared not move. At length
as' my eyes became accustomed to
the darkness, objects outlined them-
selves amid the surrounding obscur-
ity and the great form of the tiger
appeared lying on the ground a few
yards off. My bullet had pierced his
brain.
TIIE REAL ARTICLE.
At a restaurant. A customer in a
disgusted tone of voice :
Why, this milk is turned:
Well, sir ! exclahns the delighted
vendor of comestibles ; and what
does that prove,, sir ? Why, sir, it
preveS that the article served to
you was, like everything else sold
in this restaurant, genuine, and not
a deceiving combination of chalk
and water, sir.
I-IARD TIMES IN EARNEST.
Shopkeeper (to coniniercial travel-
ler)—Can't give you an order. Quite
overstocked.
Traveller—Let me at least show
yott mer samples.
Sbi opiceeper—Spare yourself the
trouble. I can't look at them.
Tr ivvel 1 er—'1'11 en Will 370 11 allow me
to look at them Myself. It is three
weeks since I have e -von seen them 1
TPIE AIOS'T N0I3LE ORDER.
"'The niost ancient and most noble
order
Order of the, 'Thistle" is the smallest
of three great orders of knighthood
in point of numbers and tee longest,
in point of title. it coneiele of the
Sovereign, 'British Princes and six-
tee,n knights.
New Orlenhs holds- the record' for
crime,. 'Three hundred police made
18,000 arrests last year,
FORTUNES OF CHILDREN,
MUSICAL PRODIGIES AMArS
SNUG LITTLE 17013TUNES
Keep Their Parents in Luxury
and Retire from Business in.
Their Teens.
Musical prodigies earn gigantic
sums ; but, en the other hand, they
work extremely hard. Josef Hof -
man, the boy pianist, studied under
Rubenstein, toured (Termany, Den.
mark, Norway, Vienna and Parise
and gave. no less than 140 concerts
in less than a year. $15,000 seems
a good deal to make a year; but as
the work was very Pard, to say no-
thing of the long journeys -undertake
en, Holman and his parents were
not greatly pleased. The little fele
low did much better in America.;
'The fifty-two concerts he gave hi
two and .a half months bringing in,
after all expenses had been paid;
over $60,000.
The parents of musical prodigies
are supposed, as a rule, to be per-
sons with an inordinate love of
money. Kubelik, the wonderful
young violinist, and Hofman, are es- :
pecially fortunate in having parents '
who do mit regard their wonderful
offspring -as mere money -getting ma- ,
chines. Greatly against the boy's
wish, the HOfmans compelled Josef
not lopg since to retire into private
life till he had progressed sufficiently
to appear as a man musician,
The Kubelik and Hoffman parents
have several points in common.
They like London better than the
continent, and have tlie greatest
confidence in English investments.
Otto Hegner, after amassing a
snug little fortune of 8150,000, re-
tired. He is now domiciled in the
United States. As a teacher of, mu -
sir I-Iegner's popularity as a man
was even greater than that which
Pc enjoyed as a boy. He has been
asked to go to England, but has re-
fused. Why should he when he can
earn $50,000 a year in the land of
his adoption.
Child actors and actresses do not
earn a tithe of the sums lavished on
child musicians, simply because the
parts undertaken by children on the
stage are, as a rule, of
MINOR IMPORTANCE.
When the late W. H. Betty, known •
in his youth as the infant leo:Seine,:
retired into private life, .be took
with him upwards of $200,000, but
then Betty played Hamlet and other
Shakespearian characters, and com-
petition in Ids clay was not so keen
as it is now.
The two daughters of that charroe
in,g` lady and accomplished writer,
Mrs. Berieger, cleared over little
Lord Eauntleroy some 810,000 it is
said, but their good fortune was
quite exceptional. Child actors draw'
anything from 820 to 850 a week.
The fault most common in stage
children is one sufficiently great to de-
ter 'draincttists from fitting them with
plays, the mechanical and artificial
way in which they repeat their 111108greatly marring the naturalness of
the plays „they appear in. The de-
lightful children of Charles Terry,:
the youngest brother of Miss Ellen
Terry, never played a part in which
they did not enter with an abandon
and zest which showed that they.
thoroughly understood ,what was go-
ing on about them. The public say
this too, and the tiny Terrys were
always considered cheap at $50 '
week apiece.
Those versed in gauging the
public ta.ste declare that the time
when the public would hardly listen
to any performer not out ef his or
her teens has almost, if not quite,
passed away. The warning nmy be
a little premature, but it is certain
that infant prodigies of the future
will have to be an improvement on
the present article. e
It is all very well to say the public
will never tire of the niusical child be-
cause what seems to them a difficult
feat for an acluilt Snust be a marvel-
lous one for a little child ; but the
momenTh t they. discover that the in-
fant prodigy lack what ainfant
prodigies must lack—soul,
THEIR DOOM' IS SEALED.
Not long since •:there were not
wanting signs." Of a literary 'infant
boom, but the publisher hold enough
to publish a work by Sybyl, aged
eight, or a volume of poems by Mar-
garet, aged seven, dedicated to her
loving parents, has not yet arisen. ,
The next best thing to being a boy
niusician is to be a boy jockey. The
fees are not much, 825 for a win,
815 for a lose, but they form a
sthall portion of his income..,. The
presents given a boy jockey by his
admirers, consisting of the owners
of the horses he rides and wins, the
hackers who back his 'mounts, and
the bookies who when they, tha.nics
to his riding, have had a good 'day,
amount to something worth having
in the course of a season. There are
at least, half a dozen boy jockeys,
whose stock of jewellery, consisting
of gold watche.e apd diamond riegs,
and breast pins set with rubies,
runs into five figures.
Boy jockies, like other people,
have their weaknesses. One well-
known lad, passionately fond of the eeee'''''e
sea, is never so happy as when on
board his yacht, which costs him
$5,000 to keep going.
FOUNDERS OF PEERAGES.
The Duke of Westminster owes his
fortune to a lucky Inartiage long,
long ago, but many of his colleagues
in the peerage have humbler origins.
The ITouse of Lansdowne wns found-
ed by a pedlar, who was so poor
that he lived for three week's on
walnuts. 'The Strutts of Belper, one
of the best-known families i11 the'
peerage, owe their position to a
man who worked on O. farrn and
made stockings when a boy. Lord
Tenterclen, owes his rank and for-
tlurie to oho who began lifo es a
barber in Canterletiry ; Lord War-
wick to a wool -stapler, Lord Flesex
to a draper, and the Duke of Nor-
thumberland—the head of f,he proud
Percys---can trace his fortune to a,
London apothecary.
—
Trel a ncl exports ynfl 434.0,000
cattle and 611,000 elleele.,