Exeter Times, 1897-4-22, Page 8CURRENT NOTES.
Evidence aceunralates that Spain can -
much longer endure the burden
of two wars, end that a crisis in her col-
onial affairs is near at hand. Even the
Madrid papers now publish dispatches
which show the situation in the Philip-
pines to be far more serious than has
been represented, that instead of
constant succession of insurgent defeats
the Spanish campaign is almost para-
lyzed owing to look of troops. Some
8,000 men intended for Cuba, are, ite
is said, to be seat to Manilla instead,
though the straits to which, the gov-
ernment is put for reinforcements is
shown by the report that these recruits
were raised by offers of bounty, it be-
ing deemed unsafe in the present state
of public opinion in Spain to tart& ex-
tend conscription. In Cuba the ,wax
(hags on, with the outlook more gloomy
for Spain than at any time since the
struggle began, the array being weak-
er and suffering from want of pay
except in depreciated paper currency,
and the insurgents stronger than they
were a year ago. It iis true that Gen-
eral Weylee has personally directed
campaigns in the four provinces of Pinar
del Roi, Havana, Matanzas and Santa
Clara, and. that as the insurgents
avoided any general engagements, lie
has declared the provinces to be pad -
tied. But the Spanish reports of skir-
mishes and battles show that the pat-
riots are as strong there as ever, that
they often attack these, and constantly
, inflict heavy losses on the Spaniards.
The total of Spanish losses from all
causes from the beginning of the war
down to December last, is placed by
the London Standard, whose correspon-
dent at Madrid has evidently drawn his
figures iron official sources, at more
than 44,000 men, or more than twenty-
two per cent of the entire force sent to
Cuba. The insurgent loss, on the oth-
er hand is claimed by the Spaniards
to bare been 20,467, that is, less than
half that. of Spain; though in view of
the fabulous losses which the Spaniards
claimed, to have inflicted upon the pat-
riots in the ten years' war, it is evil
dent that these figures must be tak-
en with allowance.
But accepting them as true, the
showing cannot but be discouraging to
Spain, and must increase the growing
discontent with General Weyler, whose
year of command, though marked by
unusual severity toward all classes of
Cubans and an enormous destruction of
property, has plainly proved a failure.
That any other general can retrieve
Spain's fortunes in the island is impro-
bable her resources being now so ex-
hausted that it is doubtful whether she
eon hope to repair the losses which
her ranks suffer from campaigning.
The debts contracted in the island dur-
ing the past year, and, for which no
funds are forthcoming, amount, it is
said, to $50,000,000 and it is molted
from Madrid that after May 1, the gov-
ernment will have no money available
for prosecuting the campaign. If that
be true, the crisis cannot long be avert-
ed, for any further increase of taxa-
tion would so augment the general dis-
content, which has already reached for-
Inidable proportions, that the Carlists
and Republicans could "lordly be re-
strained from taking their chance. Ac-
tive operations in the field will, of
course, be stopped in a few weeks by
the rainy season, but the terrible drain
upon the treasury will not be suspended
etor the ravages of yellow fever and
other diseases among the troops, nor
the unceasing activity of the insurg-
ents. No one can have aught but ad-
miration: for the tenacity with which
Spain holds on to her last great col-
onial possession, but she cannot pro-
long the struggle indefinitely.
A VANCOUVER SUICIDE.
•
Prominent Barrister Takes His own
Lire.
A despatch from Vancouver says:—
Mr. E. A. Magee, a prominent barrister
of this city, committed suicide on: Tues-
day afternoon. Some weeks ago he
visited Tisdale's gun store to purchase
a, revolver, but not finding one to suit
him said he would call again when new
stock arrived. Tuesday afternoon he
" called at the store and selected a 38 -
calibre Smith & Wesson. In response
to a, request Mr. Tisdale loaded it to
show how the ejecting mechanism
worked. Magee took it up, and, before
Tisdale could stop him had placed it
in his tateath and fired. Death was
instantaneous. Deceased was a na-
tive of Nova, Scotia, and, a graduate
of Dalhousie University, Halifax, where
he took the degree of LL.B., in 1888.
Be came to this Peovence that year
and has since followed his profession.
About four ywrs ago he married a
daughter of 1Vir. George Black, one of
the pioneers of 1858, who recently died.
Magee had been drinkig heavily of
late, and it is said this and family trou-
bles ca'ased his act. ,
CAST MA
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THE QUEEN'S APARSIMEINTS.
. Queen Victoria's apartments in the
new hotel at Cimiez .comprises more
;than 140 rooms, Xost of them have
been sumptuously decorated for royal
occupancy, much of the fueniture hav-
ing been pia -chased in London. The
Queen's bed, easy chair and footstool
Were brought from Windsor Castle.
Victoria's health is said to be reason-
ably good, and as for the talk of her
prospective abdication Henry Labou-
ebere says: "The Queen no more ton-
templatee tbdiotion than swimming
aoroes the Soleat.".
filUSIO IN G111:110}1ES,
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE POWER
OP THE HUMAN VOICE.
vece:
The Great Preacher Also Dilates on Musical
Instruments orsHisinss, But Especial,
3te !hum the Organ of the Churches.
Rev. Dlr. Talmage preached a won.-
derful sermon on Sanday from the
text, Genesis, iv. 21, "Eits brother's
name was Jabal; he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and or-
Lameoh had two boys, the one a
herdsman and the other a musician.
jubal, the younger son, was the first
organ builder. He started the first
sound that rolled tram the wondrous
in.struto.ent which has had, so much to
do with the worship of the ages. But
what inaprovemen,ts have been made
under the hands of organ builders
such as Bernhard, Sebastian Bach and.
George Floga,rth and Joseph Booth and
Thomas Robjohn, clear down to
George and Edward Jardine of our own
day. I do not wonder that when the
first full organ that we read of as giv-
en! in 757 by an emperor of the east to
a king of France sounded forth its
full grandeur, a woman fell into a
delirium. from which her reason was
never restored. .
The majesty of a great organ skill-
fully played is almost too much for
human endurance, but how much the
instrument has done in the re -enforce -
melte of divine service it will take all
time and all eternity to celebrate.
There has been much discussion as
to where music was born. I think
that at the beginning, when the morn-
ing steals sang together, and. all the
suns of Goa sin:ruled for joy, that the
earth heard. the echo. The cloud on:
which the angels stoodto celebrate the !
creation was the birthplace of song.
Inanimate nature is full of God's
stringed and wind instrumente. Si-
lence itself—perfect silence—is only a,
musical rest in God's great anthem
of worship. Wind among the leaves,
Insects bumming in the summer air,
the rash of billow upon beach, the
ocean far out sounding its everlasting
psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the
forest:, the quail whistling up from the
grass, are innate.
On BlackwelPs Island I heard, com-
ing up from a. :window of the lunatic;
asylum, a very sweet song. It was
seeing by one who had lost her reason
and I have. come to believe that even:
the deranged and disordered elements
of nature would make music to our
ear if we only had acuteness enough
to listen. I suppose that even the
sounds in nature that are repulsive
make harmony in God's ear. Yon
know that yen enay come so near to
an orchestra that the sounds are pain-
ful instead of pleasurable, and I think
we stand so near devastating storm and
frightful whirlwind we cannot hear
that which makes to God's ear and the
ear of the spirits above us a music as
complete as it is tremendous.
The day of judgment, which will be
a day of uproar and tumult, I suppose
will bring no disoisance to the ears of
those who can, calmly listen; although
it be as when some great performer
is executing some, boisterous piece of
music, he sometimes breaks down the
Instrument on which be plays; so it,
may be on that last day that the grand
march of God, played by the fingers of
thunder and earthquake and conflagra-
tion, may break down the world upon
which the music is executed.
Not only is inanimate nature full of
music, but God has wonderfully or-
ganized. the human voice so that in the
plainest throat and lungs there are
fourteen direct muscles which can
make over sixteen thousand different
sounds and there are thirty indirect
muscles which can make, it has been
estimated, more than one hundred and
seventy-three millions of sounds! Now,
I say, when God, basso constructed the
huma.n voice and when He has filled
the whole earth with harmony, and
when He recognized it in the ancient
temple, I have a eight to come to the
conclusion that God loved music.
I propose to speak about sacred
music, firet showing you its import-
ance, and then stating some of the ob-
stacles to its advancement.
I draw the first argument for the im-
portance of sacred music from the fact
that God, commanded it. Through Paul
he tells us to admonish one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
and through David he cries out, "Sing
ye to God, all ye kingdoms of the earth."
And there are hundreds of other pass-
ages I might name proving that It
is as much a man's duty to sing as it is
his duty to pray. Indeed, I think there
are more commands in the Bible to
sing than there are to pray. God not
alone asks for the human voice, but
for instruments of music. He asks
for the cymbal and the harp, and the
trumpet, as well as the organ.
And. I suppose that, in the last days
of the church, the beep, the elute, the
trumpet and all the instruments of
music, whether they have been in the
service of righteousness or sin, will
be brought by their masters and laid
down at the feet of Christ, and then
sounded in the church's triumph, on
her way from suffering into glory.
"Praise ye the Lord!" Praise Him
with your voices. Praise Him with
stringed instruments and with organs.
I draw another argument for the im-
portance of this exercise from the im-
pressiveness of this exercise. You know
something of what secular music has
achieved. You know it has made its
impression on governments, upon laws,
upon literature, upon whole gepera-
tions. One inspiring national air is
worth thirty thousand men as astand-
ing. ami
p. There comes a time n the
battle when cafe bugle is worth a thou -
send muskets. I have to tell you that
no nation, no church, can afford to
severely economize in musk.
Many of you, are illustrations of what
sacred. song can do. Through it you
were brought into the kingdom of Jesus
Christ. You stood out against the ar-
guinent and the warning of the pulpit,
but when in the sweet word,'; of Isaac
Watts or Cherles Wesley or John New-
ton or Toplady, the love of Jesus was
tate& to your soul, then yousuerendeie
ed as armed cootie that nisuld lot be
THE EXETER TIMES
taken by a host lifts its window to
listen to a harp's trill. There was a
Scotch soldier dying in New Orleans
and a Scotch minister came to him to
give hint the consolations of the Gospel.
The man turned over on his pillow and
said? "Don't talk to me about religion,"
Then the Scotch minister began to sew
a familiar hymn of Scotland that was
composed. by David, Dickenson, begin-
ning with the words:
"0, mother, dear Jerusalem,
When shall I come to thee ;"
He sang it to the tune of "Dundee,"
and everybody in Scotland knows that
and, as he began to sing the dying sol-
dier turned over on his pillow and said
to the minister, "Where did you learn
that I" "Why," replied the minister,
"My mother taught rue that." "So did
mine," said the dying Scotch soldier;
and the very foundation of his heart
W3.8 upturned and then and these
he yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it
has an irresistible power. Luther's
sermons have been forgotten, but his
"Judgment Bran" siege on through
the ages, and will keep on singing until
the blast of the archangel's trumpet
baIlbricelebrates.ngabout
that very day which
shall
hymn
In addition to the inspiring nussio of
our own day, we have a glorious !inher-
itance of church psalmody which has
come down fragrant with the devo-
tions of other generations—tunes no
more worn out than they were when
our great-grandtat hers climbed up on
them from the ehareb pew to glory!
Deer old souls, how they used to sing I
When they were cheerful, our grand-
fathers and grandmothers used to sing
" Colchester." When they weee yore
meditative then the board meeting
house rang with "South Street and
"St. Edmond's." Were they struck
through 'with great tenderness they
sang " Woodetock." 'Were they wraP-
ped in visions of the glory of the
church thy eang "eine.' Were they
overborne with his love and glory of
the Christ t] ysane* " Ariel." And in
those days there were certain tunes
married to certain hymns, and thee
have lived in peace a great while. these
two old people line we have no right
to divorce them. "Whit God bath
joined together let no man put asun-
der," But how hard-hearted we must
be if all the reiered music of the past
and all the eattred xxos,,eic of the pre-
sent doee net nem us heavenward.
I have aisle noticed the rower of sa-
cred song to sooth pertureation. You
may have ;vine in here this morning
with a great many worriments and
anxieties, yet perhaps in the singing of
this fleet hymn you lost, all your e'er-
riments and anxieties, You have read
in the Bible of Saul and how be was
sad and angry and how the boy David
mune in and played the evil spirit out
of him. *A Spanish king was melon-
ehol,v. The windows were all closed.
He sat in the darkness. Nothing could
bring him forth until Paraneli came
and discoursed music for three or four
days to him. On the fourth day he
looked up and wept and rejoiced, and
the windows were thrown open, and
that wbiele all the splendors of the
court could not do the power of song
accomplished. If you have anxieties
and worrinsents try this heavenly
charm upon them. Do not sit down
on the hank of the hymn, but plunge
in, that tbe devil of care may be
brought out of you. ,
It ale° arouses to action. A singing
church is always a triumphant church!
If a, congregation is silent during an
exercise, or partially silent, it is the
silence of death. If, when the Leann
is given out, you hear the faint hum
Of here and there a father and mother
in Israel while the vast majority are
silent, the minister of Christ, who is
preaching needs to have a very strong
constitution if be does not get the
chills. He needs not only the grave
of God, but nerves like whalebone. It
is amazing how some people who have
voice enough to discharge all this
duty. I really believe that if the
church of Christ could rise up and sing
asthey ought to sing, that where we
have a hundred souls brought into the
kingdom of Christ there would be a
thousand.
But I must now speak of some of
the. obstacles in the way of the ad-
vancement of this eaored music; and
the first is that it has been pressed into
the service of ;superstition. I ism far
from believing that music ought al-
ways to be positively religious. Re-
fined art has opened places where mu-
sic has been secularized and lawfully
so. The drawing room, the musical
club, the orchestra, the concert, by the
gratification of pure taste, and the pro-
duction of harmless amusements and
the improvement of talent have become
great forces in the advancement of our
civilization. Music has as much right
to laugh in Surrey gardens as it haste
pray in St. Paul's. In the kingdom of
nature we have the glad filing of the
wind as well as the long meter psalm
of the thunder. But while all this
is so, every observer has noticed that
this art which God intended for the
improvement of the ear, and the voice,
and the head and the heart hasoften
been impressed into the service of false
religion. False religions have depend-
ed more upon the hymning of their
congregations than upon the pulpit
proclamation of their dogmas. Tar -
tine the musical composer, dreamed
one night that Satan snatched from his
band an instrument and played upon it
something very sweet—a dream that
has often been fulfilled in our day—the
voice and the instruments that ought
to have been devoted to Christ, cap-
tured from the church and applied to
purposes of superstition.
Another obstacle has been an inor-
dinate fear of criticism. The vast
majority of people singing in church
never want anybody else to hear them
sing. Everybody is waiting for some-
body else to do his duty, if we all sang,
then the inaccuracies that are evident
when only a few sing would not be
heard at all; they would be drowned
out. God only asks you to do as well
as you can, and then if you get the
wrong pitch or keep wrong time. He
will forgive any deficiency of the ear
and imperfection of the voice. Angels
will not laugh if you lose your place
in the musical ;twee or come in at the
last a bar behind. Teen are three
schools of singing, I am told—the Ger-
man school, the Itellan school, and the
French sobool of singing. Now, I
would like to add a fourth school, and
that is the school of Christ. The
voioe of contrite, broken heart, al-
though it May not be a)ble to stand
human criticism, metes better music
to God's ear than the most artistic
performance when the heart is want-
ing. I know it is easier to preach on
tins than it is to practice; but I sing
for two reasons—first, because I like
it, and next, because I want to e310.0111'..
age those who do not know how. I
have but very little faculty in that di-
rection, yet I am resolved to sing. God
has commanded it and I dare not be
Silent. He calls on the beasts, on the
cattle, on the dragons to praise Him,
said we ought not to be behind the
cattle and the &agents.
Another obstacle that has been in
the way of the advancement of this
holy wet is the fact that there has
been se much angry discussion on the
ego I might name, proving that it
subject 'AA mu`si°'eeTltei'e are .;t'seSAVED INDIA. TO BE
who wont- have this exercise
conduct-
ed by musical instruments. at the
net Slikaberibmeei,toalberisterrus intbertes, who
do
it its organ and no organ, and there
is aree fight.ochurolzhestbAs'are evreadreslroeisppaladed
asdaxateagaell raintfhheixentoeham, anad praise.
eisemusic is a
Another obstacle in the advances'
ment of this art has been the erroneous
notion that this part of the service
could be conducted by delegation.
Churches have said: "Oh, what an
mde time'isol,rgstYsbiriteo1 1ddne do wtnh egsj shallins andY dre ayolhbov eaais reg theThoihso s-11
whole work is done by delegation of
gr eat na sv t intwoi Itedhue-
as I that there are a knowhlshall
a
of churches all through this land where
the people are not expected to sing, the
four or six or bee persons, and the
audience is silent. In such, a church
Ji Syracuse an old. older persisted in
singing, and so the choir appointed a
committee to go up and ask the squire
claimgarereatexraupolottietdudteo
if he would not stop. You know that
and the great mass of the people are
of churches cthhuer chsinging,e sthe
expected to be silent, and if you utter
your voice you are interfering. There
they stand, the four with opera glass
dangling at their side, singing "Rock
of Ages Cleft for Me," with the same
spirit that the night °before on the
Wage they took their part in the
"Grand Duchess" or "Don Giovanni -
My Christian friends, have we aright
to delegate to °there the discharge of
this duty lehich God demands of use
Suppose that four wood thrushes
should eropose to 'do all the singing
some bright day when the woode are
naming with birds' voices. It is dee
eided that fear wood thrushes shall
Ito all the singing of the forest. Let
all • other voices keep silent, 'How
beautifully the four Warble. It iS
really fine music. But how long' well
you keep the forest still? Why, Christ
wiould route into the forest and look
up as He looked through the olives, and
Ile would wave Hits heed and say, "Let
everything that hath breath praise the
horse" and keeping' time with. the
stroke of innumerable wings there
would be five. thousearel bird voices
leaping. into harmony. Suppose this
delegation of musical performere were
tried in heaven; suppose that four
choke singers should try to do the
singing of the epper temple. Hush,
now, thronese and dominions and prin-
cipalities. David! be still, though you
were "the sweet singer sif
Paufl come tothatogrouwient, otflwrueroicin"gu. have
ard Baxter! keep still, though thitchi;
the "eaint's Everlasting Rest." Four
epl.risis now do all the singing. But
howl ong would heaven be quiet?
How long? "Hallelujah I" would cry
Som e g.orified Methodists from under
the altar, "Praise the Lord," would
shag the martyrs from among the
thrones. "Thanks be unto God Who
Givetb Ites the Victory!" a great multi-
tude of redeemed spirits would cry.
Myriads of voices coming into the
'lemony, and. the one hundred and
forty and four thousand breaking forth
into one acclamation. Stop that loud
Flinging stop! Oh, no, they cannot
hear me. You might as well try to
drown the thunder' of the sky or beat
back the roar of the sea, for even"
soul in heaven has resolved. to do its
own singing. Alas! that we should
have tried on earth that which they
menet do in heaven, and instead of
Joining all our voices in the praise of
the Most High God, delegating per-
haps to 'unconsecrated men and wo-
mligehutfuithisservmicoset solemn and most de-
,
There wel be a great revolution on
this subject in all our churches. God
will come down by His spirit and rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
not been more than half awake since
the time of our grandfathers. The si-
lent pews in the church will break
forth into mush, and. when the conduc-
tor takes his place on the Sabbath
day there will be a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. My Chris-
tian friends, if we have no taste for
this service on earth, what, will we do
sininghefaarevevne,r ?wbere they all sing, and
I want to rouse you to a unanimity
in Christian song that has never yet
been exhibited. Come now, clear your
throats and get ready for this duty,
or you will never hear the end of
I never shall forget hearing a French
man sing the "Marseillaise" on the
Champs Elysees, Paris, just before the
battle of Sedan, in 1870. I never saw
such enthusiasm before or since. As
he sang that national air, oh! bow
the Frenchmen shouted.' ilave you
ever in an English assemblage heard
a. band play "God Save the Queen?"
If you have you know something about
the enthusiasm of a national air. Now,
I tell you that these songs we sing
Sabbath by Sabbath are the national
airs of Jesus Christ and of the king-
dom of heaven, and if you do not learn
to sing them here, how do you. ever ex-
pect to sing the song of Moses and.
the Lamb? should not be surprised
at all if some of the best anthems of
heaven were made up of some of the
best songs of earth. May God inorease
our reverence for Christian psalmody,
and keep us from disgracing it, by our
indifference end frivolity. When Crom-
well's army went into battle, he stood.
at the head of them one day and gave
out thel ong meter doxology to the tune
of the "Old Hundredth," and that
great host, company by company, re-
giment by regiment, battalion by bat-
talion joined in the doxology:
Praise God, from whom all blessings
flow,
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
And -labile the sang they marched,
and while they Marched they fought,
and. while they fought they got the
victory. Oh, men and women of Jesus
Christ, let us go into all our conflicts
singing the praises of God, and then
instead of falling bank, as we often do
from defeat to defeat, we will be
marching on from victory to victory.
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Hole Ghost, as it was in
the beginning is now and, ever shall be
world. without end. Amen.
ABSORBING AMBITION.
Did you. say that boy of yours was
ambitious 'I
Ambitious! Well, I should say! Why,
that boy does nothing but sit around all
day and think of the great things he's
going to dol
PAIN.
BRENDISH WAs THE HERO OF THE
INDIAN MUTINY.
The man Who sent the Dews From Denti—
ne Was Quite a Towing Mau at the Time.
There is just retired from the ser-
vice of the British PostmestereGeneral
a servant who may be said to have
Practically saved India, to this come -
ere, says the Olclinburges Scotsman.
This is Mae W. Brandish, itelegeaph
master, the sole survivor of those who
were Present in Delhi in May, 1857.
and 'who, in the courageous discharge
of his duty on the meanomibee eleveeth
of that month rendered invaluable ser-
vice to the state.
It was Mir. Beendish wee, without
orderer, and meting on his own respon-
sibility, despatched the telegram which
warned the authorities of the Punjab
of the outbreak of the terrible mutiny.
"The sepoys have come in from
Meerut and are burning everything,"
he wired. "Mr. Todd is de.a.d, and, we
hear, several Europeans, We must
shut up,"
The fearful news was sent to Ine
here by Mr. Brendle/hb who was then
but a youtle while the mutineers were
pursuing their veork of slaughter in
every part of the cantonment, It 'has
been acknowledged that this presence
ox mind on the part of young
saved India. The etary is told by Mr.
Brendieh in a modest narrative dies
services on that eventful day.
THE TELEGRAPH STAFF
at Delhi, be says, consisted of Me.
Todd, asisstant in loeal charge, and
two young signallers, Bre,ndish and
Pilkington. On Sunday, the tenth of
that month, in the forenoon, the sig-
nallers at the Meerut office wired that
eighty men oe the 3rd Chivalry had
been confined, and were to be blown
away from guns for refusing to bites
the Enfield cartridges only recently is-
sued to the. troops, No further news
was received, end at foux p. m. the
line with Meerut: was found to be in
-
terminate On the aelowing morning
Me. Todd took a. dak and started for
Meerut to ascertain at what point
along the road the break had occurred.
He got no fuether than the bridge of
boats over euesea, for he there met
the mutinous 3rd Cavalry, who killed.
bum.
The signallers remained at their
Pest in the telegraph office, which was
fortunately outside the city walls,
about one mile distant from the Kash-
mir Gate and from tbss Flagstaff Tow-
er. They saw a regiment of native
infantry with twe gums pates along
the road from cantonments toward the
city, and learned afterwards that they
had joined the. 3rd Cavalry. Later on
heave firing was heard in the city, and
Brandish, who wars at the signalling
instruments, kept on wiring to
bore all all news that was brought him.
At noon he went out on the road
be see what was going on, and present-
ly there passed &
WOUNDED BRITISH OFFICER,
driving from the cety,who called out:
"For God's sake, gee inside and close
your doors."
"We did so," says Mr. lirendish,
"but even then Pilkington and I did
not feel we were secure, as we were
but two lads encumbered with the wife
and child of Mir. Todd, whose sad end
was not yet known to us, and sur-
rounded by servants who perhaps
were prepared to take our lives, but
who were doubtful as /o the termin-
ation of events."
Poe two hours more the boys held
on, listening to the firing within the
walls. At two p, m. Brandish, went,
to the Umealla instrument for the
last time and signalled to the hands
at the other end of the wire the his-
toric message. ending, "and now I'm
off," the meaning being that they
were leaving the °Vice.
Be and his otentrade had persuaded
Mrs. Todd to accompany them to the
Flagstaff Tower, where a number
of Europeans bud already congregat-
ed, as it was the only possible place
of safety. They reinained there until
sunset, and witnessed the blowing up
of the magazine. That night the re-
fugees fled, and the two [signallers
eventually got safe to UnibalIa.
SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.
How is it that Wildon comes to the
club every night now? It used to be
that we couldn't get him here once a
month.
Oh, 'hie married last fall, and settled
down,
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DEATH STARES IN HIS FACE,
Lord Weiseley the Tic; un of a Disease tha
Witt Din Him within a Tear.
Prom London a correspondent writes:
Lord Wolseley is not likely to retain
for any length of time hie position
of ooramsundeeeinechibef of the British
army, for, although, after being con-
fined to his house for a number of
-weeks, he has at length returned to
duty at the branch of the War De-
partment known as the "Horse
Guards," yet it is no longer any secret
that he is afflicted with cancer of the
stommeh, which is en a very advanced
state. Nothing else is talked about at
the so-called "Service" clubs is and
around Pell Mall, St. Tames' and Pic-
cadilly, and although the. field mar-
shal has more. enemies than friends,
his popularity being restricted to what
is known as "his gang," yet regret
is expressed on all sides. ,
It is asserted that the malady has
reached a point which enables the doc-
tors to declare that, while his life may
be prolonged until the end of the
year, he must not look for much ex-
tension beyond that, while it is quite
possible that he may be carried off
Icing before the season is over. In
that event, it its his only daughter
Frances, who, by virtue of the terms of
the patent ,of the Peerage, will be-
come Viscountess Wreseley in her own
right. When site Marries, if her hus-
band, happens to be a commoner, or a
baronet, she will retain her own name
and title, which he will in no sense
share, and she will, only drop these
in the event of her being led to the
altar by a nobleman whose rank in
the peerage is Wider than her own.
Her peerage will descend at her de-
mise, but oot until then, to her eldest
some if she has one, and such failing,
to her eldest daughter, if she have
daughters.
Now that the terrible ailment of
Lord Wolseley is known people are
veering round and becoming far less
bitter In their denunciations of this
failure to put into execution all those
much needed military reforms which he
urgently recommended before attain-
ing to hits present office, and the
promise of wench was one of the prin-
cipal objects why the old Duke of Cam -
'bridge was ousted from the pesition of
commander -in -thief of the British army
In order to make wee for him.
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GRAIN FUEL IN THE WEST.
Farmers Rind Corn, Oats, and Wheat
cheaper Phan Coal or Wood.
The long, cold winter of the Dakotas
and eastern Montana bas developed
many new ideas in regard to where the
future supply of fuel for the prairie
farmer and other individuals of that
section Must come from, and it is now
quite definitely settled that such sup-
ply sooner or later must be raised upon
the farm., for the femme who does not
own any timber finds that his fuel in
one winter is a. very costly item, wood
being anywhere from $6 to $8 a cord.
When the farmer lives away from the
timber belt the supply must come by
rail., whether he purchases wood or coal.
Both are very expensive, and this year
few farmers have ready money. In
fact, Isrse numbers of farmers can af-
ford. barely enough fuel to keep their
houses in a serca-comfortable state, says
the Chicago Record.
The people are hardly to blame in 7
undergoing suffering for the saate of,'
saving expense but it has brought
them to a sense of practical. realization
that in the future something must be
done to furnish cheaper fuel. That, this
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DRIVING LAMP
Is about as near perfection as 50 years
of Lamp -Making can attain to. It
burns kerosene and gives a powerful
clear white light, and will neither blow
nor jar out. When out driving with
It the darkness easily keeps about two
hundred feet ahead of your smartest
horse. When you want the very best
Driving Lamp to be had, ask your
dealer for the "Dietz."
We Issue a special Catalogue of this
Lamp and. If you ever prowl around
after night -fall. it will interest you.
'Tis mailed free
R. no DIZM CO.,
6o liaight St., New 'York.
Spadal terms to Canadian customers,
will be the next step in domestic soon- elertaaa-aggieseaeageescalearagergea.
omy with them there can sca,rasly be
any detest. In the county of Lyon
many people acting in line with the
ideas here expressed have been experi-
menting with
CORN FOR FU.EL
and they report it a much greater suc-
cess than they had, reason to anticipate.
They are so delighted with it that they
will henceforth use no other fuel. It
gives but a very strong, regular heat,
las does good hard wood, and it lasts
nearly as long. Tbe maximum limits,
however, would be far better than any
results yet obtained, as the methods of
burning it are as yet very crude. There
can be no doubt, however, that invent-
ors will be ecrual to the emergency, and
in due time create a nearly perfect corn
stove or special. fusninsi which will
answer the usual requirements. As
soon as this is done farmers and others
who are prepared to take advantage of
the benefits may cultivate their own
fuel on their own land and probably
save 50 per cent. by doing so. Two
tons of corn would. be equivalent to
about one cord of hard wood if the corn
were burned economically, and corn for
fuel would not need by any means the
care that it would when grown for
food. The stalks can be burned also,
which gives a much greater amount of
fuel to the acre. They would. need to
be out into short lengths and the remn-
ants tightly paoked together, having the
appearance of good-sized stioks of wood,
in order for them to produce a hot fire
and to last long in a stove or furnace.
But thtey will certainly pay for the lab-
or by guying in return a very hot fire.
The prejudice and squeamishness
formerly existing against the use of
grain for fuel are fast dying away, for
Me people are realizing that grain is
one of nature's fuels and was intended.
for that purpose as well as to use, as a
cereal product. Could the people use
wood or coal for food there is not much
doubt that they would do it, but as they
cannot they have no scruples of con-
science about burning either. So will
the cereals be regarded when every
yak.% is extorted from them. ,
Besides burning corn regularly for
fuel, many persons have tried the ex-
periment of burning
OATS AND WHEAT.
Beth of these grains are reported as
making most excellent substitutes for
wood, the chief difficulty experienced
being the trouble of putting up the
fuel in small and compact form conveni-
ent for handling and burning. Oat
straw and wheat straw may he bound
together in small bundles or "logs" so
as to last a considerable time. As it
is now a farmer or individual in a pra-
irie town pays out ;80 for fuel in a
winter. Most all of it goes to railroads
or syndicates, and no one in the vicinity
is profited by it, en all probability he
could have saved $50 by using corn,oats,
or witeat for fuel, or all three, So he
saves by turning his labor into money
and keeping 'his money at home to meet
other expenses. Though the raising of
his fuel may have cost him some time
he finds that he has been the gainer,
and the actual cash outlay has been pos-
sibly not to exceed 45 in all.
trp to the present time it is only the
farmer and the frugal individual who
have made a study of fuel economy who
are trying the plan of raising their own
fuel, hut experiments prove that it will
be, a success. Cheap oil is about the
only thing that might make competition
against grain, but it is scarcely possible
for oil ever to become cheap enough.
The competition will likely be between
grains, and, of course, the best fuel for
the least money will win. Bat it is now
prejudiced with certainty that the era
of grain fuel. is near.
SWEEPING WITH WIND.
In some of the Chicago railway yards
compressed -air brooms are employed for
sweeping and dusting the carpets and
upholstery of the cars, and the results
are sad to be satisfactory'. The com-
pressed air is led from a power house
through an underground pipe, to which
a hose is attached in the car -yard. !Af-
fixed, to the end of the hose is an iron
nozzle as long as an ordinary broom -
handle, and having at its extremity a,
fixttue of brass about a foot broad,
and furnished. with a long slit a thir-
ty-second of an inch in width, through
which issues the compressed air et the
rate of seventy-five cabic feet a min-
ute. The dust does not stay long in
front of that current.
AN AUTOMATIC SINGER,
An "automatic singer" was exhib-
ited to the editorial staff of a Peri
newspaper. The apparatus is in the
form of a tripod, on ehe top of which
its a machine smaller than the photo-
graph, into which the cylinders are put.
The sound is transmitted by highly per-
fected board to a metallic trumpet,
and it is stated that the, voice can be
heard 220 yards off,.
A POSSIBILITY.
Oh, wad some power the gittire gie
' To see oursees as others see us;
; 'TwoUld make some writers quit on son
I nets
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