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Exeter Times, 1896-8-6, Page 7THE EXETER, TIMES 1 PLEA FOB) 110TEERS. ives4 livfee settrge (lafasbethe.ir 1111dreiticlielarathoii, Samuel Johnson and of Alfred the GRAIN OF COMFORT FOR THE GREAT Creat and of Isaac Newton and of St. ARMY OF EVERYDAY WOMEN. . of President Dd ugustine, and i colfv214, hafrol -g.eeil,a103.0nsdi. - part were induetrions, hardworking 4. Radiate Discourse by Rev. Dr. Talmage- 3211141,.81.ft,' • Naw, while I congratulate Voncerning the ordinary wouten who and htrhttian. zdnentuherletegeon tiliahmay wealib ere simple etteeateleaee cnristlans• afford them all kinds of help, let me Washiagton, July 2e. -Tele radical say that every mother ought to be bbservent ot her children's walk, her discourse will no doubt have its prace children's behavior, her ohildren'e food beat result in many homesteads her children's books, her children's corn-. tiaroughout Chrietendone. The text was panionships. However much help L Samuel, ii, 19, "Moreover his mother ' flannah may have, I think she ought every year at /east make one garment made hien a little coat and. brought it • for Samuel. The Lord *ave mercy on to lam from year to year when she the man who is so unfortunate as to wane up with her husband to offer the have had a. lazy mother! o Again, Hannah stands before you. yearly saerifiee." . o to -day as an intelligent mother. From The stories of Deborah and Abigaal . the way in which she talked in this are very apt to discourage a woman's : el )ter ad from the way she maeaged soul. "She says within herselp f, It is rhis boy you know she. was naelleteet. tropoesible that I ever achieve any N; vroren are foo lifsosota-swen IrtnattruitnY- such grandeur of &erecter, anti I i formed as mothers. Oh, this work of don't mean to try," as though a child culturing children is timid, world and should re se to play the eight notes the next! This child s timid, ane It s roused up and P t because h gannot execute a " Williana activities. This child is forward, and Tell." This Hannah of the text differs he must be held beck and tamed down from the persons I test gamed, $ee ' ifnto modesty and politeness. Rewards was an ordinary woman, with ordiu- uo.Lieote, prishments for another. That are intellectual capacity, placed in or- John, Yie!' eerneqller°neetelt=r !Veil r:m. dinary circemstances, and. yet by ex- ' while a frown of displeasure teem° more traordinary piety standing out before ' than enough in another. Wbipping all the ages to come the model Chris- and aroduaq elofsetd do not exha,utt all ben mother. Hannah was the, mete of , There hatn•esieQen 01101r/etc wgoiseiPtiliztuv% Elkanal, who was a person very much grown up and gone to glory without ever having had, their ears boxed. Oh, like hereelf-unromantic and plain. b, muehe d ' I ' genee are never baying fouget a battle or been neeessary in the rearing of children: the subject of a zeorvelous escape. But in this day, when there are so Neither of them would have been call- many hooks on this slibjeet, no parent is extmeeble in being ignorant of the ed a genius. JUSi 1% bat you and 1 . best mude of bringing up a child. If might be, that was Elkenall and Han- . Parents knew mere of dietetics, there nah. The »rigbrest time in all the 1141't nut be s ' mane' 4.'1'4.14'. st`).111- history of that family wee the Leith of . fltsrsaand Samuel. Although no pear ra.n along ' knew more of pbssiology, there would. monricell= and ilitl= the heavens pointing down to his tozot be so many eurvell spines ;Ind birthplace, I think the tlug..-1.-5 of God (Tamped. Oleg.; and inflamed throats and diseaeel Ittnee es there are among steeled at the centime of eo monolerful children. If par7eits enew more of art. a prophet. As Samuel eel been given and were in symirothy with all that is o answer to prayer, Elkanah and all (.1.:"crlitifill, there would not be so ina.ny 1 Shiloh to offer seerilices of thanke- more of Chrig end practieed, more of giving. The cra•lle where the child His religion. there would not le so many bis faluilYo leave Hannah, started up to i'eutt„ter.0;11p7r,I,Iiiinefti°{,uet illi thA.;!‘,.(,),It.1,(1k"n'1,,..1.i.: rtai, 111 o Ata 1svi,.,1.$ eni;1 r ' slept was altar enough for Ifarmale's titl-ti,tin% f‘i'(pt;317.1.4111sart i .-1 rtr! gra:1;CW Ot heart, but. when the Loy was of rand eies.141.!lenyeoloilll 1,)t COTO4' Olti v11011gii She took hint to Shiloh awl upe bitsueli teteity of infertile took three liulleeke ant an El,„,11 of triumph. Th•, eftgq.sis in Th,- eyrie heee fl no airantam; over the eeglets of 19lt! our, a bottle of wine and made offer- years ago. the kitle, have ne euperior in of sacrifice unto the Lord, awl way of elinteing up the rocks th kn the there. aecovtling te a previous vow, ,She OW goats taught them he/ewes ef left him, for there he eas to stay alt y virs ago: 1114 whOips kr0114: nu more the days: of his life awl minister in the now then did the whelps of egos, ago- sanet wiry. they are teught no more by the lions Yeare rolled on, and every year Han- 0. tb . dosPrt. 1;ut it is a, Artme that In nah made with her oen hand. a gar- ! this tiy. when there are so many op- ulent for etlinuel and Wok it over to ' Portunities of improving oureelvee in him. The lad woull have got along the last manner of culturing children, well without that garment. for 1 suP- that s,) offrn there is no more ad - poet .he was well clad by the ministry , vanttement in this riespect than there of the temple, but Hannah coal not begowent entree she was all the t-ime dome am:eating for her dar.ing boy. Moreover 11,14 mother made him a lit- tle coat and. brought it to hint from year to year eh.% she came up with Iter hue -bawl to offer the yearly eatine Bee." Hannah sten& before you, then, to - en day, M the fizst place, as an industrious 4 4* Mother. There WAS no need that she work. ,Eililteah, her husband, was far from poor. tee beionged to a distill - guishee famile, tor the Bible tells us that he was the .on ttf aerobarte tb tem. of Italie, the son of Tolle, the so ot Zuph. " Who Were they t" you aey I do net know, but they mere distin Relished people, no doubt, or tlieix names woult not have heen mention ed. Hannah might have eatated hersel in iter fanaile. and, Milli 10141441 arm awl disheveled hair, real novels, from year to year, if there hut been any to read. But *ellen I ;tee her making that garment and taking it, over tt. Sannit'l, 1 kilOW she is industrious fron prineiple as wedt as from pleasure God would not levet n motlit•r became a tlradge or a slave; He would have her employ all the helps possible in thie any in the rearing ce her children But Hannah ought never to be asham ed to be found making a coat for Samuel. Most mothers need no counsel in this dire-elm:1. The wrinkles on thee hrovv, the pallor on their cheek, the thimble mark on their fingers, attest thee they are faithful in their maternal duties. The bloom and the brightness and the vivacity of girlhood have given place to the grander dignity and usefulness and industry of raother- hood. But there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in some of the families of Americans. Tb.ere are raothers who banish themselves from the home circle For threeefourths of their raaternal duties they prove themselves incom- petent. They are ignorant of what their children wear, and what their children eat, and what -their children read. They intrust to irresponsible per- sons these young immortals and allow them to be under influences which may cripple their bodies, or taint their purity, or spoil their manners, or de- stroy their souls4 From the awkward cut of Samuel's coat' you know his mother Hannah did not make it. Out from under flaming chandeliers, and. off from imported carpets, and down the granite stairs there is com- ing a great crowd of children in this day untrained, saucy, incompetent for all the practical duties of life, ready. to be cadge& in the first whirl of Grime and sensuality. Indolent and unfaith- ful children.. You cannot except neat- ness and order in any house where the daughters see nothing but slatternli- ness and upside downativeness in their parents. Let Hannah be idle, and most c.ertainly Samuel will grow up idle. Who are the industrious men in all our occupations and professions? Who are they managing the mercan- dise of the world, building the vvalls, tinning the roffs, weaving the carpets, has been among the kids and the etg-let. and the whelps. Agam, II !meth stentis before you to- day is a Chrietian mother. From her ; prayers, and froin the way she con- scera.teel her hoe to God, I know she 1 was good. A mother env have the finest &Pure, the matt bi•illiant sur- : roundings, but sh•• is not fit for her , !duties unless she la Christian moth- ' er. 'nitre may be well-read libraries tin the house, and exquisite musk. in • the arlor, awl the canvas of the best artis adorning the want, awl the e wardrobe be crowtled with tasteful ap- n; Parel, and the ehildren wonderful • for their attainments, and make the - house ring with laughter and innocent • : mirth, but there is something woefully .1 larking in that house if it be e not else the resitience of a Christian s ; mother. I Mese God that there are not ! Many prayerlest naotbers. The weight ! or responsibility is so great that t hey I feel the need of a divine hand to help, and a divine voice to comfort, and e divine heart to sympathize. Thou- , ! sands of mothers have been led into the Ilittle children, There are hundreds of kingdom of God by the hands of their mothers to -day who would not have been Christians had it not been for the _ prattle of their little ones. Standing some day in the nursery, they he- , thought themselves: "This child God has green me to raise for eternity. What is my influence upon it? Not being a Christian myself, how can I ever expect him to become a Christian. Lord, help enel" Oh, are there anxious mothers who know nothing of the in- finite help of religion? Then I com- mend to you Hannah. the pipits mother of Samuel. Do not think it as absolute- ly impossible that your children come up iniquitous. Out of just such fair brows and bright eyes and soft hands and innocent bearts enrae gets its vic- tims -extirpating purity from the he7art and rubbing- out. the smoothness from the brow, and quenclimg the luster of the eye, and shrivelling up and poison- ing the putrefying and. scathing and scaldin,g and blasting and burning with shame and woe. Every child is a bundle of tremend- ous possibilities, and whether that child shall. come forth in life, its heart at- tuned to the eternal harmonies, and after a life of usefulness on earth go to a life of joy in heaven, or whether across it shall jar eternal discords, and after a life of wrongdoing on earth it shall go to a home of impene- trable darkness and an abyss of- im- measurable plunge, is being decided by nursery song and Sabbath lesson and. evening prayer and walk and ride and look and frown and smile. Oh, how many children in glory, crowding all the battlements and. lifting a rnil- Honed voiced hosanna -brought to God through Christian parentage! One hun- dred and twenty clergymen were to- gether, and they were telling their ex- perience and their ancestry, and of the 120 clergymen, how many of them do you. suppose assigned as the means of their conversion the influence of a Christian inother ? One hundred out of the hundred and twenty 1 Philip Dod- dricege was brought to God by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The mother thinks she is only rocking a•child, but at the same time she may be rocking. the destiny of empires, rocking the glories of heaven. The same maternal power that may lift a child up may press a child down. A daughter came to a worldly mother and said she was anxious about her sins and. she had been praying ell night. The mother said: "Oh, step praying! / dont be- lieve in pratung. Get over all those religious notions and I'll give you a dress that will cost $500, and you my wear it next week to that party." The daughter took the dress, and she mov- ed in the gay oixcle, the gayest of all the gay that eight, and, sure enough, all religious impressions were gone and. she stopped praying. A few' months after she ca,me to die, and in her elaeing moments said: "Mather, I wish you would, bring me that dress that cost 8500." The mother thought it , was a very stretage request, but she brought it to please the dying child. "Now," said. time daughter, "mother, hang that dress on the foot of nay bed." And .the dress was hung there on the foot or the lied. Teen the dying girl got up on one elbow and looked at her mother and then poilated to Lite dress and sat!, "Mailer, that dress is the price of my soul 1" Oh, whet a momentous thing it is to be a mother! Again, and testi Hannah steads be. fore you to -day t le rewarded mother. For all the coats she made for Samuel, for all the prayers she tattled for Lim, for the diseiptine ehe exerted over him, she got abuwlant compensation in the piety and the usefulness and the itopu- levity. of her son b' a mu , and that is true in all ages. Every mother gets full a f II the, prayers atnd tears In be -er obildren That man PhZ for 11; useful necommercial life, that .man pro- minent in the profession, that master reethenic-why, every. step lie takes in life has an. wile gladneee in the old beet that long ago taught him to be Clinstian and heroic and earnest. The eteig of what you eaye clime or what you have wtaten, of the. nitluerace yett Lave exerted hati 0,0113 badi 1.0 the old homestead. for there is some one al- ways ready to. carry good tidings, and that story makes the 11 1 Id mother's tremulous band fly quicker and the flail in the father's band come down upon the Irani floor. with; 3 more vigorous thump. Parents love to hea,r good new, from their children. Ito you I send them good news always? Look out for the young man who speaks of his fe.the a h "e• • • " tite for the young woman who calls her "equire" or the "old chap." Look out , mother her maternal aneestor," or ; the "old woman." "The eye that I naockt•th at her father and refuseth to °ley his nauther the rat ellS of the valley shall piek it out, awl the ! young eagles sh ettt it." God grant ; teit all ilea 'reroute; may leave she great A1,1E-fent n of pe hag tht.t'ibit 1. ten grow up Chrietians, uh. the . pang thlt moth •r who, aft.•r a life of starLtto goldling vet gessip retailing, b ging on er e .1.lren the ripperies and rallies of this world, see those ehildren toesed out on the sea tit life like foani on 1.11, wave or nonentities t nhirl'hneY tal not bie-ee i'r lite ; het' hr tiogi (1:r1.1egi oirtre14.1171.4n1.11 1 '01 .saliinwieu lieuziali on e. 1 g t me serving at the titter, elot eer , Euniet• in seteng her Thwelie learned I in lb • S -rip nee. : The. is tit. mei here; reompenet•-zo see t•hildeen. ening up . ottefte in ih• wort L re -19.1%0.14r oh - healing ;h. A 'le pitying tle• ignerest, ! tern••e w•eful in every ephere. '1 hitt nvw Hght bleb: 11:,,3 ( 1 f Iputv tit I • wht-xt •ver ,he ,• tliel the ei, 1 , o(..•futftitix,drett,tplitti.odi„teleallIN light up tie. Loure lift's day , wee tbt• Work, of an 3.11111111113,1 I mother, ripe for heat en. Her eyetight ; Lore he Lets. the old Christian tiost b ,p enlots of elestiti y kinele up lt •r eaten. The . g.r Ito. a he tvena mon hes s.ru. k " atrough the gray loeks whieh are fold- ed back over the wrinkled temples. She t•4 Is leg 11111eh den lof e4120 US% "tOUllOaderrrYtileerbhue•rx: eltildren. She sits at home to -day goo old to find her way to the house of 1 God, but while sho. it there all the ! paet comes baek,and. the, chtldren that ; 10 years ago trooped around her aein- clal'ir web heir lint- otriefs and joys anti sorrows, those eluldrtm aro all gone now -some caught up into a bet -1 er realm, where they shall never die, and others out in the broad world at- testing t exeelleney of a Christian mother's Her last days are full of peace, and calmer and sweet- er will hrr spirit become until the gates of life shall lift and let the worn out pilgrim into eternal springtide and youth, where the limbs never ache, and the eyes never grow dim, awl the staff of the exhausted and decrepit pilgrim shell become the palm of the inunortal athlete. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 9. "David's Victories." 2 sam, Ito, 849. cot. deo. Thee Psalm et. L toTrilesie summary of David's wars and vie- Gw:NteEllut,xiAL ST.A.TEMEN'T. chapter from whiinch ejatearePitaeyr'sbleasusdonthies taken shows his wonderful military gen- ime. At the beginuing (.1 his reign he found Israel sorely preesed by eueznies. The standing anuy was therefore rais- ed to three hundred thousand exper- ienced, soldiers, besides a band of six !.. bemired heroes noted for deeds ot pero ., sozial valor. Ills gen.erals were unriv - i aled for military skill arta bravery. An i account of three of hie• great campaigns , prior to the engagement with the Ana- ; znonites, is given. 'These were against ; the Arnalekite,s, Philistines, and Mot - bites, In each case David's cause was just. Israel was not the offending, par,. making the laws, governing the =- Hon, making the earth to quake and heave and roar end battle with the dreae of gigantic enterprises? Who are they? For the most part they descend- ed from industrious mothers, who in the old homestead used to spin their own yarn and weave their own car- pets and plait their own doormats .and flag their oven chairs and do their own work. The stalwart men end the in- fluential women of this day, 99 ou.t of 100 of them, came from such an il- lustrious ancestry of hard knuekles and eonaesemn. And who are these people itt society --light as froth, blown every whither of temptetion and fashion - the peddlers of filthy stories, the danc- ing jacks of political parties, the seem of eooiety, the tavern lounging, store infesting, the men of low wink and filthy' chuckle and braes breastpin and. rotten associations ? For the most pa,rt they came from mothers idle and dis- gusting, the scandal mongers of so- ciety, going from houee to house at- tending to everybody's business but their own, believing in witehes and sheets, end leoeseslaoes to keep the devil ont of the alauxu, and by a god- teee-V'tele."1"'Ct"'", tett C 1itj asmict A SILENT SMUGGLER. Ali ilkge1110114 SUO1r,gling Trick Recently eueoted ill earls. Every afternoon for weeks past a handsome carriage, drawn by two fine horses and cecupied by a well-dressed woman was driven out of Paris, and, after an absence of a couple hours,would drive back, into the city. The lady tvas accompanied by an invalid, a man with the high collar of his overcoat turned. up to his ears and kis hat drawn over his brows, so that a very small portion of his pale face was visible. The customs officials always open the door of any passing carriage, and ask in a perfunctory way if its inmates have anything to declare, but they never make any investigation, and the party might have continued its daily rides for years to come but for an accident. On openeng the carriage door the oth- er day, the official noticed that the lady had dropped her handkerchief on the floor of the carriage and gallantly hastened to pick it up, but in his haste struck violently against the invalid's legs. He apologized civilly, but the in- valid paid no more attention to the apology than he had to the blow, and the aflame thinking his silence mys- terious, laid his hand on the invalid's shoulder, whereupon, to his utter amaze- ment, the lady opened the carriage door and alighted as the coachman descended froxn his box, and both took to their heels, leaving. their equipage and their companion. The cause of their mysterious flight W39 soon discovered. The invalid was made of tin,vvith a wax head,and the tin body was filled with brandy. To judge from the length of time this fraud has been kept up, the profit mut have been very large, but the swindlers have not yet been caught, so it is a matter of speculation inerely as to the identity of the people who organized so elabor- ate and successful a scheme. Rules for the Woman Who Wheels. To mount the wheel with perfect grace, First see the pedals are in place; The right the center half around, The left the nearest to the. ground. Draw back the wheel a little, thus, To give it proper Impetus. Your hands upon the handle -bar Should be as d.ainty touches are. Thenpress with rig* foot, till you see The inside pedal rising free. Don't be in haste; the.pedal right Deseribes the circle, sinks from sight; But ere it rae,ets your foot once more You're mounted and the lesson's o'er. Ruin of the Rose. To destroy earwigs on roses,dahli- as, carnations, eta., place smallinvert- ed flower pots on stakes, or wind a piece of cotton wool dipped in oil round the stock of the rose trees at ten in- ches from the earth, which quite pre- vents the pest from climbing, above the wool. The small flower pots should be inspected twice a day, and the con- tents shaken into a basket of boiling water, tte ?Tat tee but on the .contraxy had suffered . . in material prosperity through incur- sions which rendered life and property ansecure, will& inflicted severe cruel- ties, and whieb, endangered national ex- istence. David's wars were tee wars of the Lord. 'Wherever his sway was ex- tended foal idolatries awl tee rule of brute force were swept aside arel a, rev erent and enlightened, government set up in their stead. The %air with the Ring of Autumn was brought on by an eleflein.-ible affront, greao le ziggettett- ed Loy the kindly disposetien of Pavel toeard the sun of Iliti i.l frital, .1.1y hiring mercenaries from AreiweetWient Syria -for five . ittiwired theusizi! pounds' Wi ight. of se:ter, dent, lleuun was aide to bring inttio- eget an army of thirty teetieetti .111:11. ThF, M9e110 Of the latt.e. liwar city of itletiette, in the utaintains of Moab, east, of the northern tee! of the Dead Sea. Devils grieml tees the couragetous and crafty teeth. A tevere coutect resulted u vietery fer the cameo of lerael, whice wee soon tollow- ed by other vietiories decieive ep.;1!‘-. all fo.s. A z rf•13111,, now ft•r tee fire time the promise mile tc 1111 that his eteteeity eizeuel eestes, ;tit; tele land from the river ef iteeept to river .E111111r3EVS- \Vas Ai:filled. Itiee, spoils mere taken from tete eozteiterei loge Tleee lueluoted gole eleelds and exeeeding reeve copper, and all man- ner of vesseis of gold mad silver dna brass. Tliese treasures were detii•tated to Seel to be used in'Solomon's temple. Out of the brass taken from the Sy- rians Solomon afterward made thegreat brazea sea ant the pillars of brass (1. Chron, 18. 8, 11). The intereets of man- kind were thelefore in gonse measure ineet.Yed an the muse espou.stet by nav- el. While we depreeate war, it is pos- sible for us, too, to get things tbat ere now the -instrements of unrightousness couseerated to the eervice ot Clod, and azso help to exteal the kingdom tot Sod by our temporal gaius. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 8. Ceildrett of Ammon came out. From Itabbatb, their capital city, to the open country. Put the battle in array. Not daring to advance into hostile territory they took an advan- tageous position awl awaited attack. U. Front of the battle was against hitn. Ills position was between nab - bah and eiedeoa, with the Ammonites &dz. In the mortheast, near the Eu- phrates. Rebel% In Asher, in northern Galilee. Isbtob. Literally, Men of Tob, a district eoutheast of the eea, of Galilee. Maacah. Beyond the waters of Merom. By themselves in the field. They had not been able to join the Ammonites before Joab appeared. "The field" was the treekets prairie surround- ing Metteba.. This was an Israel- ite town lying in the tribe of Reuben, four miles southeast of Heshbon. It is mentioned on the Moabite stone as having been recaptured by Mesha, and in the time of Isaiah was a Moabite eanctuary (Lsa. 15 2.) in front and the Syrians behind. Hence he had to fight both armies at the same time. The natural advantages were with the enemy, as the Ammoni- tes had their city to fall back into, and the Syrians a plain well fitted for cavalry and chariots. Choice men. His choice of the picked men to attack the Syrians and his taking com.mand of this division in person mdic.ate that the mercenary troops were the most for- midable peat of the Ammonite force. (1) We may be so surrounded by dif- ficulties that no way of escape seems poesible. 10. Hand. of Abishai his brother. Ab- ishai was the eldest of the three sons of Zerula,h, David's sister, and brother to Joab and Ashel. He was captain of the eacond three of David's mighty men. 11. Syrians be too strong. If Joe.b's assault on the Syrians failed, Abishai could hardly turn away from the Am- monites without ruining his entire di- vision of the army. The understand- ing may have been not to attaele both armies at the same time. 12. Be of good courage. The peril of their position demanded extraordi- nary bravery. Play the men. The part of valiant men. The cities of our (tod. The people, tbe land, and the ities were God's. If the oities fell in - o heathen hands they would be given over to the worship of heathen gods. The city of Medeba, for which they xenv tought, was still in possession of he Renbe,nites, but was besieged by the Syrians. Justice, patriotism, love of amity, and self-love urged these men o unusual valor. That which seemeth him. good. An expression of trust e,om- tined with resignation to God's will. 2) When we contend for what is God's eve may well have courage. 13. They fled before Inan. They that re hired to fight have usually a great are to save themselves, with light re- ard for the cause for which they ight. 14. Saw that the Syrians. News of he defeat or victory spreads rapidly on eat battlefields. Then fled they also. etvs of. the Syrian defeat broke the pirit of the Ammonities, and they re- ired at once .within the wallo of the ity. Joab returned. He did not at- tempt a siege. This battle was fought ate in the year, and fall and winter age campeigning in Pale,stine impos- ble. 15. When the Syrians saw. When heir generals had succeeded in recorgan- zing their force, and the extent of the damage inflicted by jamb's onset could. be measured. They gathered. them - Ives together. 'Their soldierly habits nailed. them to re-form quickly after cleat. As Jost} hed, retuined to awe c AO.", co way lief() it wait discovered. usaleni itt triumph the broken force could be united, without fear of raoles- tation. (3) Wlaen we contend against wrong wo stunted never think it utieless to try again. id. Iiadare•zer. The name is spelled Iladadezer in 2 Sam, 8. 3. Ills kineetona fuel utled not only the principality of 2:0- beli, but extended aerase tb.e river into Mesopotamia. Brought out the Syrians. Tho deleae of the soldiers whom be had rented out to the King of otrumon forc- ed him to declare a Seven war against David. B.!-Youli the rtver. Etiplorgets. These were doubtless Itis vassals and tributaries. Shobaeh the captain. Ile was to Hadarezer's army wbat dual> was to David's. . 17. When it was told David. The moveraents of the Anueoeites and Sy- rians wouli be closely watched. et suuh a. time. Gathered all Israel together. His action implies no reflection on Joel.). Ween the teo great military forces of the time were preparing for a finel duel and IsraePs existence was at stake it would have been untegeming fur the king to stay at home. e 1e. eleven bundred chariots. The num- uere vary in eerie-A(.1es, but any num- ber higher than four hundred was repre- sented by a system of markbags so UV - volved that errors frequently reeulted. 19. Kluge that were servants. The vassal kings. And served theta. They transferred their allegiance to David. Tbis was the cbief link in the chain that led to the subjtetion of all Serie to David and the extensien of his kiug- Plom to the Euphrates. About the same tizne the Edomites invaded Judah in southern Paiestirie. Joab and Abishai, with a portion of the army, were dis- patched to meet them. la the Valley of Salt near the Deed Sea Ethan was ee- feated. garrisons piect-ti in the conquer - (el dietrict, ant Do.vi•i's empire. extend- ed south as far as tee desert. Concerning the Cat. en..the Tyrol girls who are fond of cets marry early. Terewing a cat overboard from a. ship will (tense a. cyclone. The l'ennsyiyania Hutch le•lieve black age eure epeepey, Three drops Of a, black cat's bleed is said to be a. cure Ir croup. If a, eat wasbes herself calmly and smoethly the weather will be fair. If tee family cat lies with its back to the fire teere will tie n quell. A person who deepist•s eats will be • earrie4 to his grave in 3 howling storm. If a eat eneeees three times the Whale ineXy wilt tioon euffer freet ineluenza. . Te oirt•ent of a Week cat at Christ- • rime tea., in Sea:many is ee ceren of, a.larming. netts. If it rens on a Dutch girl's day it is legalise time bride nes fergotten to feed her eat. In Ireland the cat inuet not le token ! to a new house lay a moving feentiy, especially if water has to et. eat horn in Meet will be or a melon- elloee dhoPoosiliton, given to ,eating snakes and taingiug them late the house. 11 1? rains vr..iien there is a large waeh- tug on the tine in Gerniany, it is a sure sign that the house mother bas treated the cat. Bad Wok will follow if a Mirk cat rosses yoar path, for the devil prowls about, especiatly at night, in the guise of e Meek eat. itt Scottand they used to Cure ery- sipelas by cutting off half n •at's ear anti letting the blood Irma the wound drop on the disetteed part. In Moving itt te-otland the family eat is thrown into the new le use before the family eaters, in artier that it May ab- sorb any disease or curse left by fornaer tenants. Victoria's Favorite Books. All through her life, although it bas been a. bu,sy one, the queen has, says a contemporary, been a, very great reader. There is harely any book of note that has not pagted through her hands. During her ma- jesty's reign she has made a collection of about 80,000 volumes, kept under charge of a. librarian and two assistants at Windsor. Lord Beaconsfield's novele and .Lord Tennyson's peeing with Charles Dickens' works, have for veers constituted her raajesty's favorite read- ing. Strange to say, Thackeray's works have never been favorites with members of bac royal femily, although. of ceurse, they have their places in the library. "Alice be Wonderland" is another fav- orite book with the queen, who is also fond of a number of the best novels written. by Mrs. Geekell, Miss Braddon and Mrs. Henry Ward. Black's, Stev- enson's and Marie Corelli's works are also seen at Windsor. Claarles Dickens is, perhaps the queen's favorite author, and: of his works she possesses hand- somely bound sets of almost every edi- beta that has been issued Sunday is the queen's principal day for reading, when one of Mrs. Oliphant's novels is frequently chosen. flow to Cock Bacon. The cooks nowadays know precious little about smoked meats, to say noth- ing of cooking them. They don't even know tbat marrow in the cheek bone of a smoked joint will cure the mumps, and haw the mischief are they to know that bacon is food for the gods, when properly cookexi? Out our way, every inother's son of us knew how to fix up bacon 'fore we were 15, and one of the reasons why Indianians are so all -fired polite to everybody is, because their tuothere threatened to cut off their bacon supply every time they did aaaything wrong. Bacon! Well, I guess, and if yoa want to know how to cook it in good. old true Indianstyle that would make Joe Blackburn wish he had been born across the line every time he tastes it, m•hy here it is: Cut into the thinnest possible slices one-quarter of a pound of fat bacon; arrange these in a bowl or crock with alternated layers of cracked ice; let stand thirty minutes; remove and broil on one side, theta put them back in the ice and water; let them become very cold again, and broil erisp on the other side. The sudden citange,s in tem- perature disintegrate the fiber of the meat, making it more palatable, If broken fine with a knife, mixed with soft boiled eggs, ant served on toast, the combination forms an appetizing breakfast dish. Select a choice .piece of bacon, cut square, and weighing. from 3 to 4 pounds. Soak it over rught ; next day boil it slowly an hour to the pound, and allow it to stand in the water un- til it becomes cold, remove, draba, and skizi; rub into the fat a liberal quan- tity; coof brown or granulated sugar; moisten with a pint of cbarapagne, sau- terne, or other light wine, and roast, or rather bake,. brown; baste constantly, and if wine is not convenient, use ditle:c vinegar or herd cider, DR. ..BELL'S EXPLORATION.% ne sets slot-. to teonipteee iris Survey 01. Large itegion south of liudson nay. Dr. Robert -Bell of the Canadian -Geo- logical Survey, left Ottawa • :lest week for further explorations. • Before be started, • a newspaper reporter said to Ilita: "Where are yc.u.• going this sea- son?" "To the southeast of James Bay and those portions of the basin of the Nod- da,wai which I dill not explore last year. I am going west to elattawe and thence by the Teintseamingue Coloni- zation Railway to Keepawa Lake, from ethich I will go northeastward by canoes to -Grand Lake, on the Upper Ottawa. From this I shall er.ess the height of land 440, the region to be explored. This, is a rather cirouitous route, compared with that by the Gatin- eau River, *hide I followed last year, but owing to the facility of reaching Keepawa Lake be the new railway, it beeomes the easiest route, the other be- ing very difficult." "What party do you, taker "Only one assistant, Mr. It. W. Brock, who has been with rae for seven or eight years, and enough Indians and white men for two good-sized canoes." "Was the Noddawai River known be- fore last year ?" "Its .niouth was marked on the chart of HUI.14,01a Bay, but the maps were all astray about tee interior. Instead of SEVERAL SEPARATE RIVERS retailing northweetwasa across this great, unknown tract, it proved to be drained .entirely by the Noddawal and its tributaries, wideb thus form a. couwerpart to time ItiVer and its loran:•bee. The letter drain all the count ry MW hwest of James Baygehile the Naldawai system of rivere dreins tee. whole region to the southeast of !la, play. Tbe areas of tbese two great river 6SSEOEU3 appear to ;et or nearly equal extent, wet covering sonle 00, - tole) equare milee or thereabouts, being quite equal in extent to that oe the Ottawa," " hat parts of the basin of the Neeilliaal do you ',repose. EO explore this eeason:' • "I will use tjaewestern or Main branch of the river for a base, and will t's:plOre some otif its tributaries as • zweine of getting at and treeing otr.t the i..euridaries; to. the reetk formation., "is tide west branch what has been Fteer.vritli)- eolleil the Bell River after !mown terisugh your eureeY veer?" • "sate awl it stares from near the nerinen extremity of Grand Lake. 'lb- valley of the upper part of ie is itt .11reet ksta inuatiu of the long west - tern arm of this lake, and it is sepa- ratt•ti frem, it by a deposit- of send wince bus bleekel up the areieut northwest (outflow of the lake, and now conett- totes the lee Of: 11114 at this 1108 " "Hel this river an Indian name?" el. cutlet 11--::tr of no rectsguizeol ulnae for it. tilt heugh I enquired diligent ly, Strange :16 it natty seem, the tew In- dians who lieve only ree•ealy COMO 111- 1O thlE rt•gicm ere not particular elemt get iett millets to ih• leeger (zeograple- eal leaturee, lieligh lfl theit own family eirelee th.,y have temporary nanaes for camping ideates and minor feature; of that sort. None of tberii knew ul, Wei te destination of this river, het they all had AN ERRONEOUS IDEA of what beeeme itf it. They supposed it fell into Hemel] Bay, whereas Ide- tzLet rated t bit it nals into 1110 west eni cif elettag,une Lake, a hitherto un- known eheet of water at the head of the 1\0dd:1w:is proper, and thee falls in- Relfort Dee, t,he southeastern arm of James Bay." "Does Mattes:nil Lake receive any other feeder Lodi. let .1:ell River e" "Yee. At it.., eaetern extremity it receive. tee Waswenipi, which is else a larg. etream awl comes from e. lake of th•• same name lying sixty miles to the emit h'. -at , i'his lake again 're- ceives two tribut aritee, the eastern lie - mg the upward and eastward e csntin- slat len of the Nit aewanipi, and the other. which (terne from the south, I called the Oetullivan River, after the survee- or of that name who had explored it in 1894." "Is Bell River navigeble for steam- boats?" "Otto stretch, over sixty miles in length, Le navigable for good-sized steamers, being from t•wenty-five to forty feet eleep awl uninterrueted by rapids. Other emoth stretches are aelso adopted for steam navigation. There 6 an a.mmense trate- of loamy and eityey si! wt 11 atioreed for i:tgre•ulture, and the climate appears suitable for ripening grain of all kinds, including wheat ; and it will aLeo prove a splen- did country for dairy farming andsthek raising. lee, cattle and other donaes- tic animals proaueed from imported stock at Moose Factory; Rupert House, and. East main River, to the north of the most northern part of the coun- try I have been speaking about, can- not be excelled in any other part of Canada. "The forests of the whole region, ex- cept in some small Sections, are still unburnt, and will be of great value. The white and. red pine are found only in the scut berm part of it, but there is an abundance of fine spruca,. tama- rack, and other timber. • This new region will support alarge white popu- lation some day when opened up by railways. It will add so much to the width of the habitable part of .the Dominion, which every one knows has length enough, but was supposed to lack breadth. How's Your Baby?" A pretty story of the young Empreso of Russia 6 going the round. Before leaving Tzarsko-Seto iter Imperial Ma- jesty gave a reception at the palace to some ladies mem had taken part in a charitable bazaar in which she was much interested. One of the ladies, A seems, was mother to a baby exactly the same age as the Empress's lovely little daughter. When it came her turn to speak to the Empress, although hitherto a stranger, this motherly young woman inquired suddenly, and With irrepressible interest, "How's your baby?" T e Ernpxess smiled, and was, we are told, delighted at the naivete. Apropos of the Russian lady, her lit- tle highness when dressed for an out - mg is held up at the window every morning by her nurse for all the world to eee. In Danger. The moment a girl has a seoret from her mother or has received a letter she dare not let her mother read, or has a friend of whorix her mother does not know, she is in clanger. THE ISLAND or POL4PE. treeing net* SeLett, Mal era MIsaloxisn wad Ms 'Wife in Vase Region., Ie peel Luther Haloes! Gulick, young clergyman, accompanied be his wife, entered, tee wide-encireling bar - tier reef of Ponape, the largest cot the islands thee form the Caroline grolue They went there to live as mission - axles. Home, parente, friends, lux- uries, eveu conaforts-all that raakea life pleasant -had to be given up to carry tbe Christian religion to 'those copper -colored, tattooed Wanders. Withi all their enthusiasm, the two foreigners little knew what measures of self-dewt ial were before there. There has recently been published by his daughter a life of this well known man, and from Mr. Groliekis diary we cull a few examples of suffering, ex- amples which might be paralleled out of the unwritten biographies of hun- dreds of men and women who leave civilization in order to do Christian work under some impoverished but eag- er Missionary Board. The missionary's wife became ill, and his diary' reads: "Attended to meals, to washing dote - es. and to getting firewood." "So fatigue4 with household work hat I retire early." "Washed clothes, got breakfast, and while doing It read some." "Not felt well. Made bread And pudding. WIfe• (tick." "Hope ever. God shall yet coma out of this apparently fruitless life." In 18.13 they load no fresh meat, and often went to bed hungry. Mr. Gulick sleet a few wild pigeons, but soori IIIS GUN GAVE OUT, and thert he made the touching entry, are becoming quite needy. "Will not the Lord soot provide, awl relieve us?" In 1854 a foreign sailor was set ashore to tee of etuallpox. The wanes gleefully wore the dead man's clothes, and in a raonth the disea,se was upon the whole island in all its horror. Of coursa there was no vacant) matter. The missionary, seeing that the only hope of saving tlae nation lay in in- oculating, hints tlf with the small -pox virus, took the terrible risk, and went to his own buepita.1 expecting to die; but les lived through the "most hor- rible wrt•uolaelnest" and. "barrowir.s inieery," and was ;tele to nye one-lref of the inieteitants through his Weill- igeut heroism. Then his wife had to be sent away ttp soge her life. This was herder to tear then a. scourge. Per thirteen months he did not hear a word from her. He thought her dead. Anxiety anti nervous proetration abnost kisled bine but at last, it speck WSS seen on the horizon. It was the Morning Star, tbr mis-itrnary veeeel which the chil- dren of the world had given to be a, joy to the islands of the Pa.cific. It orought the wife and children Just In 'UMW to give life to a worn-out. man. "If they lacked food, they had at least the comfurt of }leering from their friends," YOU say. No. For yore whal- ers were their only mail -carriers. Some- times six months passed without a -gond from the world. Ten months even; twelve months, and still no letter. We can easily understand the famishing of the body, but who can measure mental hunger? IN hen Doctor Gulick sent an order for looks he haa to wait thirteen months, SOMETIMES TWO YEARS, for it to be answered. At one time he gave an order tout of Itis meagre sal- ary for seventy-five dollars' worth of kooks, which his soul craved. Tw years passed. Day after day the ze esion- ary's eyes searched the cloudless horiz- on in vain, looking for a sail. At last the mail arrived; but instead of hooks he received the incredible re- ply that it was thought his order over- drew bis salary; and using their discre- tion, wiser heads had. sent him what th•y tltought he ought to have, not what he needed most. Two more ) trs of bitter waiting before his books aline] Four years for an order that any of us could have filled in almost as many Sueh martyr -like fidelity and patience are a marvel to most men. They do not understand the power of manliness reinforced Ly the self-effacement of true religious devotion. The instance we have given may be exceptional m the conditions under which practical Chris-- tianity was exhibited -but the wish and resolve to bites mankind ean become a ruling passion in other minds as well as in title of the pioneer raissionary. In ell walks ot life, there is brave work to be done, that involves the subliraest motives, and Christian self-denial can bear and do anything for its sake. Marriage a Lottery. He looked happy enough as he walk- ed up to the postolfice box, set a huge bundle on the floor and. began taking pretty square envelopes therefrom, dropping them by twos and threes in the box. "Big lot of letters," remarked the policeman. "Nice day, too." "Letters!" said the happy man. "My dear fellow, those are not lateens. They are wedding invitations." A stern look came over the face of the lien -ego friendly policeman. efe ;friend," he said, "I am sorry to disturb you, But I must do my duty. Come with me." 'Arrested 1" . "On what charge, sir? Sale is an outrage." a e'" Nt all. Yot are advertising a lottery jihrough the mails." The man went along. A STUDENT AT SEVENTY. A short tirae ago the oldest student in Germany died, aged 70. During the last 53 years of his life he had studied at the Grieswald 'University without passing his examinations. 'The student was a very clever men. When he was 20 years of age a distant relative of his, who was enormously rich, left him the interest of his capital, which he eves to draw as long as he rematrted at college and had no occupetton, but when this was acineve-d the money was to go to !emus chaeltable institutions. The cunrang student, however, remain - 04 a stutle.nt for 53 years, during whatee time he enjoyed a bee of ease aaul drew his deceased relative's income. He was supposed during all this time to he reading for holy orders. --- Tea,cher-And wha,t is meant by keeping the Sabbath holy? Ethel -It means -it means to think of sometlaing you would lilee to do -oh, ever so much, and thee not (loins it, 'cause its Suming.