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Exeter Times, 1897-1-21, Page 7GOD'S SHEEP kiOLD, ce-ea IT CONTAINS "A GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO MAN OAN NUMBER." Severe Churchmen Bead a Needed lesson at the Beginning or Another Year For Cinest-etev. Dr. ernIntagen Powerful Sunday morning Sermon. Washington, Tan. 10.—In this dis- course, which he preached to an enormous congregation this morning, Req. Dr. Talmage told in a new way the, universality of God's earthly king - demi. Ms text wee:John x.10; "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold. ere is no monopoly in religion. The of God is not a nice little pre- y fenced. off all for ourselves. It not a king's park, at which we look angle a barred gateway, wishing we might go in and pluck the flowers and look at the deer and the statuary: It is a, father's orchard, and there are bars to let down, and gates to swing open. In my boyhood days, next to the country ethooniaouse where I went, there was an apple orchard of great luxuriance, owned ity a very lame man Nebo did not gather the apples, and they went to waste ay scores of bushelse Sometimes the lads of the school, In tbe. einfulness of a, nature inherited from our first parents who fell through the same temptation, would climb over the fence and take some of these apples, and notwith- standing the faet tbat there was a surplus, and all going to waste, the owner of tint orthard, reckless of making his lameness worse, would take after these lays, ad shout, "Boys, drop flame apples, or I'll set the dog on you!" Now, there are Christians who hew: severe guard over the Church of God. They have a rough and misympathetio way of treat- ing outsiderIt is a great oreheird into whieb God would like to have all the people tame and take the rithest and the ripest fruit, and tbe more they take the tatter He likes it. But tbere are theie.e that stand with a hard and severe nature guarding the Chureh of God,and all the time afraid that sorue will get theta apples when they really ought not to have therne Have you any idea that because you were baptized at eight months of age, and bacatuse you ta,ve aJl your life been surrounded with bellowed influ- ences, you have a right to one whale side a tbe Lord's table, epreading yourself out so nobody else can sit there? You will have to baul in your sorrows, for there will come a great multitude to sit at the table, and on both sides of you, You are not going to have this monopoly of religion. "Other sheep have I whieb are not of thi$ fold." " McDonald the Scotthanan has on the Scotch bills a great flock of sheep, SUIDonald has four or five thousand head m sheep.. Some are browsing in the, heather, some are on the hills, ecene are in the valleys, a few are in the yard. One day Cameron couaes over to MoDonald and says, "Mc- Donald, you have thirty sheep; Ihave eeen counting them." "Ob, nol" says ItleDonald "I bave four or five thou- sand." "Ah," says Cameron, "you are mistaken; 'I have just eounted McDonald, "do you suppose that is all the sheep I have? I have sheep on the distant hills and in the valleys, ranging and roaming everywhere. Other sbeep have I which are not of this fold." So Christ comes. Here is a group of Christians, and there is a .geoup of Christians, here is a. Methoair. fold, here. is a Presbyterian fold, here is a Bapn'st fold, here is a Lutheran fold, ano we make our annual statistics, and we think we can tell you just how many Chi Christians there are n the world; how nituay there are in the church; how many of all these denominations: "We • ang.regate them, and we think we are giving an intelligent and an accurate count;• but Christ comes, and He says, "You have not counted them right. There are those whom you have never Been, those •of whom you have never heard. I bane my children in all parts of the earth, on all the islands et the sea, on all the continents, in all the mountains and in all the valleys. Do you think that these few sheep you have, counted are all the sheep I have? There is a great multitude that no man can number. Other sheep have which are not of this fold." • Christ, in my text, talks of the con- version of the Gentiles as confidently as though they ha,d already been, con- verted. He sets forth the idea that His people will come from all parts of the earth, from all ages, from all circumstances, from all conditions. "Other steep, have I which are not of this fold." • In the first place, I remark, the Heavenly Shepherd will find many of His steep among those who are at pre.sent non-claurcbgoers. There are • different kinds of churches. Sometimes eau will find a church matte up only / Of Christians. Everything seemed Tbe chum reminds you of ethose ekeleton plants from which by chemical preparation all •the greenness and the verdure have been taken, and they are cold and white and delicate, and beautiful, and finished. Ail that is wanted is glass case put over, them. The minister of the Sabbath has only to take an °stria, feather Incl. brush off the dust that has aq- eumulated in the last six days of bust- - seems and then they are as. cold and beautiful and delicate as before, Every- thing is finished; finished sermons, finished music, finished arehitecture, finished atterything. Another church is like an armory; the sound of drum and fife calling more recruits to the Lord's army. We say to the applicants.: " Come in and get your eceetpinent.. Here is the lath in which s nt are to be cleansed, here is the helmet you are to puton your head,• here are tbe saneale you are to put on your feet, here is the breast- plate .you are to put over your heart, here is the sword you are to take in • your right hand and fight Ills battle with, Quit yourselves like men." There aro those here, • perhaps, who say, "It le now ten, fifteenyears since was in the liebie the regular he,bit, 17"-- of eherchgoing," I know all about your case. I am going to tell you sorciethin.g that will be staxtling. at first, and, thet is, that you are going to become the Lortre sheep. "Oh," YOU say, "that is impossible; you don't Itnow my ease; you don't knOW tow far 1 ani from anything of that kind," • I know all about your ease, 1 have been up and down the world. I know why. aome of yen do not attend upon Christian services. I go further and make another an- nouncement in regard to you; and that is, you are not only to become the Lord's eheep but you are going to be- come the Lord's ebeep thie boar. God Ls „going to call you gracieuslY, by Me Spirit; you are going to- come into the fold •of Christ. This sermon shall not be so much for those who are Claris- tians. 1 %aye preached to them hun- dreds of the/wands of tames. The ser- mon that I preach now is •going to be ahlefly for those who consider tbem- selves outsiders, but who may happen to be in Vhe house, and the thief =- you xaust come in, you wilt eome in. Chriat looks in all tenderness, with the infinite tenderness of the Gospel into your soul. and He says, "Thir, is your time for Heaven ;" and then We weves Ms hand to tbe people of God, and He saors "Otleer sbeep have I weach are ne, ef this fold." Again I remark: The Heavenly Shep- herd is going to get many of Hie sheep among those who have been flung on evil Labia ItoutTegeo me to eee tow soon Cbristian people give up tbe prodigal. I hear Christian people talk as though they thought the grace of God were a. chain of forty or fifty -links; and when they had ran out them there was bothiega to tow& the depth of a roan's iniqutty. If a Joao were out hunting for deer, and got all the track of the deer, he would hunt pond the bushes and tlbe brakes lee-- for the lost gaxae than he will ..et for a lost soul. They say if a man hes had the de - /alum tremens twice be cannot be cared. They say if a woman leas fall- en from integrity ste caunot he re- deemed. MI of which is an iofinite slander ou the Gospel of the Son of God. Mu who say that know nothino, ployment of the Christian people here to -day will be to pray for these who are not accestomed to attend upon Christian sanctuaries. You are now tine hour in the tide of Christian influence. You are .going to be swept in; your voice is going tte hoard. in ,prayer; you are going to be consecrated to God; you are going to live a life of useful nes.s, and your oast le bedie going to be surrounded by Cbris- tian sympathizer* and deviant men will carry yoa to your bruial NV IMO your Work IS done, and these words will be chiselled for your epitaph: "Precious in the sight of the Lord ie the death of His saints." Ad all that history is going to begin to -day, "Other eheep have 1 winch are not of this fold," Again I remark: The Heaveoly Sbep- hert is goiog to find many of His shee,p among time who are now rejectors cf Christianity. I do not know wbether it was througb hearing Theodore Par- ker preach, or whether it was reading Relearns Life of Jesus, or whether it, was through some skeptic io the store or factory. Or it may be—probably is. the case—that you. were disgusted with religion and disgusted with Christianity because some man who professed to be a Christiou defrauded you, and be being a member of the Church, and you. taking Into as a. representeeve of the Cbristian religion, you said: "Well, if thane religion, I don't want any of I do not kaow bow you came to re- jeet ObrisLianity, but you frankly tell me you do reject it; yoado not think the Bible is the Word of Goa, although there are many thing.: in zj you ad- mire; you do not thialk that Christ was a divine Being, although you thiek He was tt very good man. You say, "If the Bible be true—the most of the Bible be true—I. nevertheless think the earlier part of the Bible 18 an allegory." And there are fifty things that I be- lieve you do not believe. Neverthe- less they tell me in regard. to yo'ii that you are an accommodating, you are an obliging person. If I should come to you. and ask of youa favor you would grant it, if it were possible. It would be a joy for you to grant roe a favor. If any of your friends came to you and wanted an accommodation, and yoa could accommodate them bow glad you would he! Now I am going to ask of you a fa- vor. I want you to oblige, me. The accommodation will cost you nothing, and. will give me great happiness. Of course you will not deny me. I want you as ara experiment to try the Chris- tian religion. If it does not stand the test, discard it; if it does, receive it. If yoa ewere very sick and you had been given up by the doctors, and I came to you and I took a bottle pf medicine from my, poeket and safe , "Here is medicine I am sure 'Well e you; it has cured fifty people," you would say, "Oh, I haven't any confi- dence in it; they tell me all these medi- eines will fail me." "Well," I say, "will you not ass. matter of accommo- dation •to myself, just try it?" "Well," you say, "I have no objection to trying it, if it will be any satisfaction to you I will try it." You take it. Now you are, sick in disquietude, sick in sin. You are not, happy. You laugh some- times when you are miseratle. There cornee suave of unhappiness over your soul that almost swamp you. You are •unhappy, strut* through with unrest. Now, will you not try this solace, this ferbrinage, this anodyne, this Gospel medicine? "Oh," you. say, "I haven't any faith in it." As a matter of ac- commodation., let nee ineroduee eu to the. Lord j.esus Christ, the Great Phy- skiart. "Why," you seer, "I haven't any faith in Him.' Well, now, will you not just let Hera eome and try }lie power on your soul ? juet let me in- troduce Hina to you. I do not a,sk you to take nay word for in I do notask you to take the advice Of clergelneln ask you to take the advice of- every re,speetable laymen, such as William Sbakespeaxe, tee dramatiet, as William Wilberforce, the stateeman ; as Isaac Newton, the astronomer ; as Robert Boyle, the philosopher ; ' as Locke, the raetaphysicien ; as Morse, • the eleceri- clan. These men never preached—they never pretended to preach—but they come out, • and putting down one his telescope, and another the electrician's wire, and "another • the Parliamentary seroll--they come out, and they com- mend Chalet as a comfort to all the eople, a Christ that tee world needs. Now I do n,ot ask you to take the ad- vice of clergymen. Take the advice oi these layerien. It does not make any differenee to me at this juncture what you have sald against the Bible; it does not make paw difference to me at this juncturehow you ataa have caricatured religiou. Take the advide of men whom .L have mentioned, and others who immediately occur to your mends Yon see I do not scoff at gee/Al- ois-an. 1 heveiS scoffed at scepticism. I had a good reaeoxt for mot scoffing. I lave been anatural eceptio. I do not know vveat the first word was that 1 altered after entering this world, but think it naua Neve been " Why ?" Tlaere were tinaee when I doubted the T HE EXETER TIMES existence of God, when I doubted 'the divinityof Christ, when I doubted eon own existence, and when I doubted everything. I have been through „the whole curxiouluau of doubt, a•nd You cart tell me nothing new about it. I have come oat from a great Sahara desert into the man warm, ettnehblY • land of the Gospel. I know about the other land. I have been there. You can teal me nothing new about iteapd know al/ about the other eondttion of which you do aot know anything— the peace, the comfort, tile ,joy; tbe triumph of trusting in Gocl, and in Jesus Christ wbom He has sent, So I am not scoffing in regard to it. There are some things I believe tbalt you do not; but there are some things that lbelieve and you do believe. You believe in love—a father's love, a MO' the•r'S .ove, a wife's love, a thild's love. Now, lett me tell you God loves you more that aIi of them together; and about practical religion in their own hearts. How many times will God take back a man wto bus fallen/ Well, I =not give you the exact fig - tires, but I con tell you at what point Ile certainly will take him baele. Four hundred and eanety times, Way do I say four hundred and ninety times. Became. the Bible says seventy times seven- Now, figure that out, you who do not think a, man can fall four times, eigh,t times, ten times, twenty times, oue aandred times, four bundred times, :old yet be saved 1 Four hundred and. ninety times! Why. there is a. great multitude before tbe tarone of God who planed into all the depths of in- iquity. 'ehere were no sine they did not commit; hut theywere wasbed of body and Israeli:4d of mind, and waslied et soul, and they axe before the throne of God now forever happy. I seer that to encourage any roan who feels there le no chance for bine Good Tereplare will oot save youeal- tbougb they are a grand institution. Sons of Tempaceelek i11 n t save you, although there rs no better soelety on earth. Signing the temperance Wedge %veil not save you. although it is a grand thing to do. No one but God can save you. Do not put your confi- dence in bromide of pottteeleanii, or anything that the apothecary ran mot. Put your trust in God. After the Church bee cast you all, and the bank bas eaet you off. and father has cast you off. and mother bas east you of, at our tiret Dry for help God will bend clean down to that ditch of pa* iniquity to help you oat. Oh what a God He est Long :mitering and gra- cious! There linty be in this house eoxne whose hand trerables so witb dissipa- tion they could bardly hold it hymn hook. I say to such. if they are here, "You will preach the Gospel yet ayou well yet some of you Garry. the Holy Communion through the isles, end you well Le aceeplable to everybody, le:cause everybody will know you are saved and purified by talo grace of God, and a consecrated man, w.tolly conset erated. Your business bee got to come up, your physical bectith has got to be rebuilt, your family is to be re- stored, the Church of God on eartb and,18 beaven is to rejoice aver yeur com, g. "Other sheep bane I wawa axe not of thie fold.' If thee is not the Gospel, I 4o eolknow wha.t the Go.sael is. It cam scale any heigtht, it can fathom any depth, it can compass any infinity. FRANCE'S ARMY CRITICISED. •••••••• Frew* Officer's l'ampidet SaYs That Hair toe Force Exists eat), on. raper. A remarkaltle pampalei entitled "My Company," appeared recently in Paris. The autbor remains anonymous, sign- ing bemeelf merely "A Captain and Company Leader," but ens statements regarding the array tire yowl:led for by Gen. Poilloue de St. Mars, who in the preface says that to his own knowledge they are correct in every respect. In view of the proposal to add several corns to the Frene:h tinny, the pamphlet has special interest. The Captain and Company Leader complains that the French nation is de- ceived as regards the numerical strength of its army. The army on pa- per numbers some 500,000 he says, but in actual military service there is hard- ly more than two-thirds that force. In some liranehes of tete service, be con- tends the proportion is barely one-half. He asserts that every soldier who can shirks his proper duties—arillingener- thing, manoeuvring, and. so on—and de- votes himsetf to the work of the officer's orderly or secretary, or even to the tasks of the common workbaginaniabout camp or lbarraelte. One day the alithor coaled out bie. company to drill and found out 37 of the 121 men at haod. Upon inquiry he learned that the other eighty-four were eraployed in work that had no direct connection with soldiering. 'The absentee list was not always so large, but rarely fell below sixty or seventy. In other companies the same state of affairs was common., The read- er who questioned tbis statement neight satisfy himself of its truth by question- ing any company commander of his ac- quaintaaace. How completely this sys- tem of sairking had taken possession of the army might be learned from this letter, written but a few weeks ago by a General who recently had given op he command of an army corps: • "In peace the officers take the priv- ates to their homes to keep the houses in order to go walking with the chil- dren, &c. The privates live with their mestere, and wear civilian clothes. The regulations say, however, that the of- ficers may boos at their service only a few privates, whose duty it shale be merely to keep the officers' uniforms and. weapons In order. The abuses of this nerrow privilege are c,oncealed,a.nd the more they are concealed the more they are multiplied. For the one pur- pose of personae, service, about ten men awe taken ault of every company. "In Germany the numerical strength of the petite army is fixed beyond the possibility of alteration by tbe officers. If one man goes, he is replaced at once by another. Thus the numerical stan- dard remains 1111011Anged. In France the number on paper is always deceiv- ing, It includes many w•ho are soldiers in narae only., In Germany 'they hava as they aim to have, a cettam fixed lightieg force. In Pranm we seem to exert ourselves mainly to make a good showing on paper." • The C4ereaan correspondents in- Paris are inameosely pleased with these utter- ances, and recall ,the book of Major de Nervy, retired, who, writing on "The Next War," under the supervision of Gen. Martinis de Galliffet, told the E'reneh people, teat unless the army should be reorigeniaed and disciplined more strictly, the next wax with Ger- many Would 'be likely to end as dis- astrodsly for Trainee as did that of 1870- 71. ' HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 24 "The tame Was lleated." Acts 3. IOW (Addeo 'I'ext. Acts 3.16. GENERAL STATEMENT. Ged does exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. For we learn to -day bad lived without /mac forty years the poor cripple of -whom He never danced in his mother's arms when a babe. He bad never played hide and seek with childish comeanims in the crowded street, or tag unoll the lawn, He bad never walked out t,o sch,00l or to earn his daily bread, or to purchase the needs and luxuries of life with the Money be had. earned. All of others. Poor enah. 1 How he ulvst hilife e he had depended on the whiros have watched the faces of the passer- by 1 I have no doitat he could have giv- en points to a. leetarer on physiogno- my. Most beggars could. Now he sees two men go into the temple to pray, and lie asks a few pence. The aext moneent be is well. Ile need. lie on the stone slab no longer t he can rise; he tan stand; he. Can walk; lie tan leap! "Praise God I praise God I praise God!" he cries, and for the first tirat, in his lite enters the holy euurt, singing as be goes. 13u1 bow dill it all happen! He netted for small things, God gave 11-im large. Let pa from this lesson learn tbe lefinity of God's love, tbe un- searchahlemas of his rithes, the un- speakableness of his gift. IIis goodness is pan finding oat. The larger our conception of that geodness, the more our own goodness will groa. Another thought among many of great value which come from this lesine is this --and it is a very old one—"inen judge by the outwardertept armee." Like so many others the oulOolters mistook the instrument for the cause. To -day the world recognizes outward visible sigas, but ignores inward spirit mil grace. We must never forget that is manifested in every stage of human life. there is a strong spiritual farce watch PRACTICAL NOTES. 1. Peter and John went up together. Very beautifui le, the friendship ofe these two apostles. From the time they started together in the fisting busi- ness on the Sea of Galilee they were partners in the deeper experiences as well as in the secular profit and loss of their life. They were present to- gether at the transfiguration, at the agony in the garden of Gelb.senaane, at the pekoe of Citia.phoe when Jesus had been betrayed, at the sepulcher on the Morning of the resurrection, again wben the Lord asked Peter, "Lovest thou me?" Now that tae boly Spirit had write upon the diseiples Peter and John standing side by side in the front of th.e little Society. Into the tem - pc,• It is evident that none of the followers of Je,sees op to this Lime had any thougbt of the teasing away of tete temple, with its magnificent symbolic service. They were still loyal Jews, and to them the sacrifice and the in- cense meant as laru.oh as they had ever meant, indeed immeasurably more. At the hbur of prayer. The boar of the evening sacrifice. The time when the priest went into the sa,netuary to burn the ineenee while the people stood outside in prayer. The story of Zachar- ias makes the circumstances familiar to us, 2. A certain man lame from his mo- ther's womb. Born a cripple and. evi- dently in poverty. Was carried. Unable to walk. Whom they laid. daily. Ev- ery morning the sa.d procession start- ed. from his teneme,nt, and be was laid at the gate; every evening friendly hands lifted and carried him back again. The gate. Probably he was lean- ed un against one of the open doors. Called Beautiful. No one knows certain- ly what this gate was. Josephus gives two amounts of thevies of the tem- ple. which, unfortunately for us, do not agree. Ile says first that there were ten gates, four on the north, four on the south, and two on the east, and that fifteen steps led up from the wo- men's inelosure to the great gate which was exactly opposite to the door of the temple; and even he says that there were three gates on the nortb, three on the south, and. one on the east, and that women were permitted to enter through the great gate on the east. And as Josephu,s was the only man of those who saw the 1 emple whose desoription of it bas been preserved, our ideas of it are left in confusion. But if there were. two gates on the east, we may suppose that one was that described by josephus as elaborately wrought .of Corinthian brass, and the other a great- er one leading inner the court 01 the m woen to the court. Ask alms. Beg. The temple. We cannot too of- ten remind ourselves that the temple included a whole series of 'porches and courts within courts, in the heart of whicb was the sanctuary. 3. Seeing Peter and John. BLit prob- ably not paying any more attention to them than be did to others whcepass- ed, Asked an alma. He had no inter - eat in anybody except tor the help he could get from them. 0. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This was no incantation Read verse 12 and verse 10 of this chap- ter. He who would be healed must exercise faith, have confidence in, lean upon the power of, lbe murdered and deteste.d Jesus the Messiah of Nazareth. 7. Took him by the rigbt hand. With friendly helpfulness. Lifted him up. Bet- ter "raised.- His feet and ankle bones. This is one of :many indications of Luke's medical know] ed ge. 8. This should, be read, "and, leaping up, he stood, and began to walk." Into the temple. Passing through the court he mounted the fifteen steps up which 18 lia.c1 often looked, but lia,d never step- I ped upon before e 11. The Revised, Version is .mueb more direet, "And as he held, Peter and John." The porcla 1181 is called Solo- mon's. The -colonnade ait the eastern ' end of the tempSe mobs -sure. When Sol - °morns temple was built, the king en- larged the eastern side with solid masoery, and upon this artificial foun- dation ereceed it covered colonnade. Af- terward all sides of the temple were adorned with porches, but the one that stood on the original site was still call- ed. Solomoe's porch., 12, Why marvel ye at this? Better, "Way marvel erheat this man?" Look ye so earnestly. 'Pesten ye your eyes." See verse 4. By our own Power or hol- iness. The "sacred" people of the East, fakir*, dervishes,and Mohamme- dan saints of all variiities, are sutler - power because of thei, holiness. stitioeely believed tl possess healing 18. The God of our fat-hrs. It is well to notice the conneetion made by Peter of tile Mosaic religion with that of *TeiSUS. Jae is cmaselous of no break between the two, This coutinuity of the New Testament with the Old is etnnthea sized by Paul also, but argumentative - 1Y, and ler quite another purpose. Pe- ter's speech, which goes on an,til it is broken 1/1 upon (at the beginning of thel next eheepter) by the eaptaio of the temple, is an elaborate statemeut that he /las no new doctrine to introduce*, bat, that if Israelites are true to their own doctriete they must be true to Jeaus. His Son Jesus, This should be "his servant Jesus," Ye delivered up. The whole Jewist nation is regarded by Peter as having been responsible for the death of Jesus. Denied him in the presence of Pilate, Better, "denied be- fore the faee of Pilate." See Luke 23. 13-23 f 15. Xilled the Prince of life. The suc- cessive paradoxes of this speech are striking. "You spared the life of one who for base ends took away life, and you took away the life of one who was the, Author of life." Interwoven with this is another, you killed tbe Prince of life, whore God, has brought bark to life. Whereof we are witnesses. Wit- nessing tni the truth of the resurrection was one of the most important duties of the. apostles,. With the exception of Pant, they did little, in the way of formulating theology; their great duty was to witneea to the pivotal truth which must endure tbrough tbe eter- nal yecoa of God. 10. This perfect soundness. And meanwhile the happy man was leaping and singing and dancing. No doub1 he the world about his Soundue.ss. WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS. Statisiies or Foreigners and Emigration,ui Wuuina Countries, There is only one country in the world, so far as official figures show, in which the number of foreign resi- dents is exactly the sarae as the num- ber of natives living abroad. That couotry is the republic) of Switzerland, Ayala, by the last flaw:aeration by cantons, was seen to have a foreign population of 290,000, waerea.s the to- tal number of natives of Switzerland in other countries foots up the sa.me figure, 105,000 of taem being residents of the United States and more than 100,000 being residents of the repub- lie of France. Though a century ago the Swiss wbo left their homes for offieiaI or nUitary eervice in other coantries were known for their alle- giance to royalty and monarchial in- stitutions, the Swiss of to -day residing away from home go by preference to republican countries. Thera are very few natives of Switzerland to be found, AS the reportti. show, in countries under monarchicad rule. Russia. is the European couutry from which, in proportion to the total popu- lation, emigration has been smallest. The total number of Russians in all the countries ot the world, excluding Poland from the computation, is 200,- 000, wad tbe number of foreign resi- dents of Russia is very nearly as large, 175,000. The other extreme is Inaehed in the ease of Ireland. The present population of that country is about 5,100,000, arid only 100,000 of the bababitants of Ireland were born in other countries, and of this number only 20000 itt eountries other than those included in the United Kingdom Though there are only 20,000 foreign- ers in Ireland, the number of natives of Ireland resident in °tear countries exceeds 5,000,000. There are 2,000,000 natives of Ireland remittent in the United Stoics, more than 1,000,000 in Canada, nearly 500,000 in Australia, 700,000 in Eng:and, and nearly 300,000 in Scotland. The number of foreigners resident in France is 1,200,000, and the number of French residents of other countries. ex - elusive of Freneh colanies, is materially less. There aee fewer than 125,000 rffi- tildes of Frame resident in the United States. The Argentine Republic con- tains about the same number, and in the various countries of Europe there are about 200,600 more in all less than 000,000 natives of France resident in other countries less than one-balf ±18 number of foreigners residing in France. Englishmen and Scotchmen are, of course, to be found in every part of the world, but the total number of them residing on the European Con - talent is surprisingly low—less than 100,000. There are four times as many foreigntborn residents in England and Wales as there are Englishmen, Irish- men, Welsbmen, and Seetchmen resid- e:1g in the whole of Europe outside of the United Ringdom. There are thirty times as many Sc,otchmen in Canada alone teethe total foreign population of Scotland, and there are 200,000 na- tives of Scotland resident in Australia. The number of foreigners resident in Italy is less than one -twentieth of the number of Radians resident abroed, and the number of foreigners reeident en Germany is about one -twentieth of the number of Germans resident in other countries. - TITLES OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY. Very useful is a table of the ranks that correspond to one another in the Egyptian armies, respeetivelY, now farming the, expedition up the Nile:— • Egyptian Corresponding , ' Rank English, Rank Sirdar Commander in Chee Farik Lieutenant -General Lewa, Major-Gateral aliralai Colonel ICalinaleam Lieutenant-Colonel leiratasei Major Yosbasin Captain Mulazim Awal Lieatenant Mulazim Tani Second Lieutenant The rank of sirdar, faxik and lewa carry with them the title of " pacha " and the rank of marala.i and kairnakam the title of "bey." NO TARIFF ON THE PRINCE. Prince Banjitsinjitri, the cricketer, ap- pears as °etc of the articles on the free list in the New South Wales tariff. He is going to visit the country with an English team next year, and has been excepted by name from the penaltiee of a bill imposing it tax of £100 on all colored aliens that land in the colony. The bill is inteeded to exclude Hindoes, Celanese and Japeeese from Australia,. AN ITNFINSIIIED JOB. Sir, I am a self-made man{ Who interrupted you 1 LIKE THE BLACK PLAGUE THE TERRIBLE BUBONIC PLAGUE NAY BEACH AMERICA. Swept All Europe in the Seventeenth teentury—ahe Breeding Place of the riapte -Stone Features of the 1atte:00. Recent despatches from London say that two cases of the bubonic plague have developed there—the same dis- ease which since 1894 has been ravaging ceertahe parts of China, mia is only another reminder to us here itt Am- erica that these Eastern epidemics only too frequently girdle the earth before they have run their cou.rse, a.s did, la grippe, which first was beard from in an alarming form in distant Russia, but which soma reached over our shores with the disastrous results whieh are still so fresh in mind. Already two cases, of it have °colla- red on one of the Pacific mail steamers on the way from China to San Fran- cisco. Two Cali:less stokers were atrieken and died. of the disease short- ly after the vessel sailed, and both were buried at sea. It is said. on good authority that the bubonic plagae has been more or less peevalent in certain parts of China ever since the seventeenth century, wben it gained. soca terrific aeadway 1181 11 SWEPT ALL EUROPE, and nearly depopulated Marseilles, to say nothing of the De Fee borrore it wrought in London. The disease took pestilential form in Canton about two years ago. There is a wide, open ditch about a portion of the city into which all the refuse and exuvia of the swarming population is exaptied It is the placid Chinese theory that the tide washes the festering roues away. Thetide does nothipg of the kind, and the, filth remains there in the blister- ing su.n to the depth of two OT three feet, a breeding place for inyriain af rats and other foul vermln. It is a curious fact that in all vio- lent outbreaks of the bubonic plague rats seemed first to be seized with it, and their death in great numbers al- ways preceded by a, few days corre- sponding ravages among human be- ings. The rats swarming out of the extra-roural ditch about Canton and dying by thousands was the first warn- ing the Chinamen had that an epidemic of the disease was upon them. iThey burned red. paper, tried to fool the gods by changing the date of the new year and died by the thousand convinced that they had taken all the sanitary precautions within the power of man. From Chime the disease got to For- mosa and toe Malay Anaemia. The dhonnese, with their modern learning anet freedom from the idiotic supersti- tions which afflict the besotted China- men, made a serang and intelligent fight against the deadly invader and kept hem comparatively at bay. But the dieease erept, into India and among certase groups of the natives therethas spread with FRIGHTFUL RAPIDITY. A press despatch from Bombay last week reported. 2094,crises and 1,494 deaths up to date. Europeans and such natives as were. able to get away were leaving the city by thousands. The newspapers were threatening mar- tial law unless the natives obeyed the sanitary regulations. In India, as in China, the advent of the plague was heralded by an epidem- ic, among the rats, which were found dead by the hundreds in and about the native dwellings. In some instances rats, evidently suffering from the dis- ease, swarmed, swollen and dying, in- to rooms where were human beings. They reeled and staggered and wan- dered aimlessly about as though in the same deliriura which marks a certain stage of the disease in man. A. feature of the disease is the sud- denness of attack and the awful rapid- ity with which one stage follows anoth- er until death eneuee, The flee— symp- tom is usually a chill, as in an ague. Then follows an aeute nervousness and mental disturbance, with a fever that sends the temperature up to from 100 to 107. The patient staggers like a drunken man. Headache, a. burning thirst and intense pain in the upper part of the. abdomen follow. A sticky perspiration exudes from the pores, and them follows the glandular swellings from whicla the disease takes its name. The last occur in the groin or neck, or, very frequently, under the arm- pits. The swellings is oval and egg - like in shape, and the more of them' there are the less dangerous is the at- tack. Sudden, stab -like .pains shoot through the body, and this gave rise to the superstition among the Turks that the man with the plague is wound- ed by the arrow of AN INVISTBLE DEVIL. Dark epote—wbence come the name of the "black denth"—appear on the skin of the victim just before disso- lution. These spots were called "the token," and their appearance was the signal for abandonment of all hope in the Middle Ages, end the victim was tleen and there. seared to death by be- ing told. that all was ever. • An eminent Japanese bacteriologist, Prof. Kita-Soto, wao studied in Eu- rope under Koch, has discovered the microbe of the "black death," and leis diseovery was confirmed by Prof. Ger- sin, formerly attecherl to the Pasteur Laboratory In Paris. The baccilus is short, thick, easy of culture and when inoculated tin Guinea pigs kills them in twenty-four hours, • Specimens of baccili-infected glandular swellings tak- en frouxt victims of the dieease have been fporrolvveavelfetdicateom:ris, and it is hoped a vaccine roe,y be obtaened that will NOT A FAIR TEST. • Ferry, What clo yoa t,hituk of this idea that a man's real character is re - 'reelect itt his hand -writing? Wallace. 1 don't believe it. Of course a man's eba,racter is not revealed, by his thantberiting. I have heard love let- ters read in court, the author of which I knew were not the asses that the let- tere made them out to be. HER- PREFERENCE -- Perhaps the little girl would like a talking doll, suggested the salesman at the toy store. I think 3 evonid, said the little girl, speaking for herself, if you have any that e,an talk intelligently. I could not endure oue 'that giggles. HY THE GREAT LAKES. Freaks 01 the Wiadt and "Waves as tit. sands of the Beach. One of the attraetions presented bet the coasts of the Great Ulan is the clean, glittering sand that borders the water% edge along most of the coast lines, says a writer in Popular iSeielace News. Vow ages the waters of these lakes lave dasted upon tbe shores with a force scarcely less -Wien that of the ocean wa,ves, grinding down rocks into fine grains and evaahiug away the last particle of silt. So perfectly kayo the sends been eleaneed that, tae many tbousaaadis of people who lounge upon them every summer day May drew in their finest aod daintiest tabrice, for they leave no mark. A peculiar property of tiles, beadh ana,terialat least in certain localities, has given it ale liazne "sixtgin.g sand." T.hie remarkable name leas been given on account of the Aril1 creaking sound emitted by the sand when vigorousey. disburbed. By whirling a. cane or singlar ntick so that the end cuts through the sand to the depth of au inch or so, the sound made is very similar to that of a eircular sew run- ning rapidly through timber, although, of eounse, the two "soands •axe not to be compared in intensity. Walking over tbe sand, especially when tbe heel of the shot is made to plouga taxough it in stepping, or even bruehing througt it brielny with the fizger, Pre - awes alinilar efle,ct. It is stated that • Governmeat official at Washington onat, bad some of this material sent, to him for tele amnose of investigat- ing ITS SONOROUS QUALITIES, but no eaAitsfaetory explanation WAS found. Perfect freedom from dust seems to be au essential condition, as the effect cain be etroduced only in the portion that is wasted by the waves. Another rernarkable feature of this mot is the eparkling a coal -black magnetic particles in its totaposition. Tbose paraelea are generally sinallex than the quartz stra173S. IT1 number they constitute, I woul& saY at a guess, one-tenth of the sand. They are attracted by the magmet nearly or quite as stxongly as are iron filings, thus indicating an abundanco of iron. In what form thia irom is contained. I have not yet detexrained. Sometimes the &does of flee waves separates this material from the quartz, /ea,viiag it in deposits, often many rods in extent, just opposite the water line, and from one-eighth to one-half an inidi a.in depth, eme.being one to gatte,r a con- era,ble quantity nearly pure. Before I had learned the nature of these de- posits I called them ateuraulations of cool aust or of fine cinders from some furnace, and, passed them, bywithout secood thought, u.ntil a.t last it occur- red to me that the supposition was not wawa:table. The sand is subject to the freaks of the winds as well as of the waives, and with results atilt more remarkable. Walking over the sand fields in a strong wind is as uncomfortable a,nd as dangerous to the sight as faeuug a severe storm of elect. The aer is Ut€un filled with flying particles that STING SH'AREPLY whenever tley strike an exposed part of the body. Dead trees beaten for years by Ibis natural sand blast gra- d.ually wear away below and finally fall. The moving power of the wind. over thmi is aterial s shown by the frequent formation of drifts More than a foot in depth during n single storm, and by the inunemse hills oe dunes that heve been accumulating and shifting for ages. These great piles, samonf tbemettnyeatte hundred frethigh, lige the waist 111 aix, ailmost unbroken chain, some more or ;. lees conical in shave, others forming ridges. On the eastern Apra the dunes appear to be gradually1 moving to the eastward at. the rate ig a few Welles or a few feet each yeah, accordring to be intensity and frequency of the 'pre- vailing westerly winds. Should a for- est stand in the way of this cxeeping mass it is slowly buried alive. Where such a tragedy is in pi ogress one ana.y walk among the upper branebes of tall trees, whicb still retain a. degree of vitality, and. put forth. sickly leaves and bear dwarfed fruit •a: the few pro- truding branches. ELECTRIC PLOUGHING PRIZES. The Germans are very much in ear- nest about electric plougbing. Their National Agricultural Society has ar- • ranged a prize competition an:tong power -driven ploughs, intended spe- cially to encourage wad develop the ap- plication of electric power to the work- ing of plougas and other agrieultural implements. In the trials non -electri- cal ploughs will also be tested, so that a comparison meta be, made of theeee- lative efficiency of the edifferen't s teens. Only plougha will be tested, as it is considered that the power could ea.sily be applied to other implements with bat sligbt alterations. Speeial at- tention will be paid to the conveyance ef the oattits from field to field. One prize of 3.000 marks and another of 1,1)00 marks will be given for the best plough driven by any kind of power, and there will 'be n special prize for the best electrically driven plough. A peeee of heavy a piece of light land will be assigned for tilling to each, c,oeopetitor. Pointe -will be given for. 1, tbe time taken for the ploughing; 2, the weight of earth moved.; 3, the consumptien ot fuel by the motor ; e,, the power consumed between the enie.e. tor and the plough; 5, the cost oe- the ploughing, inceudeng fuel, water, lubri- • cants, attendance, repairs, interest and depredation. SECRECY OF THE S.1ILTAN. No one knows where the Sultan will spend any portion of the day or even- ing. Every movement he makes is kept a profound secret. He has more than 50 bedrooms, and no one ca,ri ten in whiel he meatus to sleep. Than> apart- ments are separated from the, rest of the Wilding by iten doors, end Inc furniShed wilth loCke o extraoranary" and ingenious coils -true -non It is even said that in the walls and oeilingeol these rooms there are secret hiding places. Two noble St. Bernard dogs lie outside the door of the room.: im waket Abdul may be sleeefing. NECESSA Tar AEJENCI Mr. Savory. What 1 lIctrirreitol last year's hal? You are an • Mrs, Savory An angel, tau le then, give nip S10 to buy wlrigg