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Exeter Times, 1898-8-18, Page 2.. TiE EXETER TIMES .01•1•11110•1111. NOTES AND COMMENTS Anstralian federation, Which it Wes honed would beeeme au acconeplishnel flint be the yote of the eolenies' hist =tenth, Seems to eieve, been defeated for the time, owing to the failure of New Stnith Wales to accept the, preposals hal OW requiaite number of votes, The vote was the oatcome of the conference) of ooloulel premiers at Hobart, 'in 1805, at whien agreement WaS reaehed, for the introduetion into eacli colonial le- gislature of bills for the appointment of delegatess to a. eonstitutional con- Vention, and for sabraitting the work OE f that convention to the deoision of the eleetors. New Zealand. held aloof, but all the remaining colonies select- ed delegates to the convention, 'which met in. April of last year, and maha- tabled its sessions until March last, when the consbitution was completed awl referred. to th.e colonie,,s. In many resets this instrument is modelled after the fundamental law of a governor-geueral representing the Crown, and the six colonies becoming states, with representatioTh he a par- liament of two houses, a, senate and house of repres,entatives. To ehe form- er the states are to have equal repre- sentation, each having six senators, to be eleeted by the people of each state voting as one electorate, whiletAthe latter there is to be proportionate re- presentation, the districts being ap- portioned by the states. The two hous- es are to have equal powers, except that money bills must originate with the representatives, though they may be. amended by the Senete, and all powers not directly vested in the Fed- eral Government, are reserved to t.b,e states. The executive is to be a coun- cil, or ministry, Of seven members, who must be members of Parliament, and provision is made for a federa1 judici- ary, for constitutional amendment, fol- lowing the Swiss plan, and. for the ad- mission of new states. Revenue is to be derived. from customs tariffs and excise duties, whicb, are to be uniform throughout the commonwealth, and in- terstiae trade is to be entirely free, save for a time in. the case of Western Australia. During the drafting of this constitution two chief points of differ- ence developed, first as to the expe- diency of a protectionist policy, to which New South Wales, as a free - trade colony, strenuously objected and second, as to equality of representation in the senate, to which as tbe more popu.lous colony, it also objected. Seeing that it was likely to be over- ruled. in these important matters, the colonial legislature passed. a bill in- creasing the nuanlaer of votes neces- sary to accept the constitution, from fifty thousand, as required in the ori- ginal Enabling act, to eighty thous- and. The result was that while in Victoria, Tasmania and. South Aus- tralia federation was carried by large majorities, the vote in New South Wales fell short by nearly ten thous- and of the required number. As un- der the provisions of the Common- wealth bill, federation is secured when three colonies accept it, the three gov- ernments may now legally proceed to form a union, to which West Aus- tralia, Queensland and New South Wales may be added later on. But it is felt that an Australian common- wealth without New South Wales, the most populous and wealthy of the col- onies, would be doomed from the start to failure; and effort is, therefore, be- ing made to allow the colony to vote on ari amended. bill which, if adopted, can be submitted in turn to the other colonies. As New South Wales has been the leader in the federation' move- 32nent, and has still a clear majority for federation, it is hoped that witb a slight revision, the scheme will go through. THE KING OF THIEVES. -- Capture era :teen Who 11544 Commatted a Great NUM her or intet eon ries. The Viennese police have reason to pride themselves on the capture of an individual who is regarded among the light-fingered. gentlemen of the Con- tinent; as the King of Thieves. This man appears to have possessed a magic power over bolts and bars, and no less than 390 burglaries, have been scored to his account during the last few years. He affected somewhat the line of policy adopted by Robin Ilood,Claude Duval, and Dick Turpin, for he exhib- ited at times the traits of chivalry and generosity which are popularly supposed in fiction to have marked the charaeters of some of the historical knights of the highway. lie burgled, not always with thi3 sordid objeet of stealing, but frori a professional pride, which proxiapted hiz s. to overeorae ob- stacles. he more difficult the bolts and bars, the more he desired to win hie way tiarough them.' When he had succeeded he would. leave a card or a written compliment to the locksmith, arid go awa3r with empty howls. But hie ambition has overleaped itself, and he has 'andel in a. cell, wjaiele is no wonder, seeing how the actiorlei eVeri apt a chlYelrene leleegtar aye1idb1 ta be looked lijid&i with zuspicion by thd police • ENORMO'llS LIBRARY, 'eeee le"' ' Cliter0 ate li,(60,000 Volatiles hi the tbrary of the British lelneeuiti, anti. more thaw thirty-nine Miles of ehelit- ISRAELITES IN GARAI D. TALMAGE TELLS Or POD'S GOODNESS TO THEM, teaseas intioru From the Suiterings or These Peoplle-l'he OnlY reed 'Oat can (leen the sursIlleots.ev-ei Is Needed '1,„nt "i'ee 'Mies, DaY--.4ti Xieteitent tied ouegestive Sermon. A clespateh from Washington eays; Rev, Dr. Tahnage prette.lied Trona the following text:-" And the manila ceased on 'the roorrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land."- josbua v. 12. Only those who have had something to do with the commissariat of an army know what a joie it is to feed and clothe five or six thousand men., Well, there is such a, host as that masoning across the desert. They are cut ofe from all army supplies. There are no rail traine bringing down food or blankets. Shall they ell perish? No. The Lord. comes from heaven to the rescue, and He touches tne shoes and the coats vehich in a year or two would have been worn to rags and tatters, and they become storm -proof and rime -proof; so that after forty years of wearing, the coats and the shoes are as good as new. Besides that, every morning there is a shower of bread -not sour and soggy, for the rising of that bread is made in heaven, and celestial fingers have mix- ed, it and rolled it into balls, light, fla- ky, and sweet, as though they were the crumbs thrown out from a heav- enly banquet. Two batches of bread made every day in the upper mansion --one for those who sit at the table with the King, and. the other for the marohing Israelites in the wilderness. I do not very ronch pity the Israelites Lor the fact that they had only man- na to eat. It was, I suppose, the best food ever provided. I know that the ravens brought food to hungry Eli- jah; but I should not so well have lik- ed those black waiters. Rather would I have had the fare that came down ev- eny morning in buckets of dew, -clean, sweet, God -provided edibles. But now the Israelites have taken their last bit of it in their fingers, and the last de- licate naoesel of it to their lips. They look out and there is no manna.. -Why this cessation of heavenly supply? It was because the Israelites had arrived in Canaan, and, they smelled the breath of the harvest fields, and the crowded barns of the country were thrown op- en to them. All the inhabitants had fled, and in the name of the Lord of Hosts the Israelites took possession of everything. Well, the threshing -floor is cleared, the corn is sc.attered over it, the oxen are brought round in. lazy and perpetual circuit anti! the corn is trampled loose: then it is winnowed with a fan, and it is ground, and it is baked, and lol there is enough bread for all the worn-out host: " A.nd the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land." The bisection ot this subject leads me, ffirst, to speak of especial relief for especial emergency; and, secondly of the old corn of the Gospel for ordinary cireumstances. If these Israelites crossing the wild- erness had not received bread from the heavenly bakeries, there woald first have been a long line of dead children half buried in the sand. What use was it to them that there was plenty of corn in Canaan, or plenty of corn in Egypt? What they wanted was some- thing to eat right there, where there was not so much as a grass -blade. In other words, an especial supply for an especial emergency, This • is -w.hat some of you want. The ordinary com- fort, the ordinary direotion, the ordin- ary counsel, do not seem to meet your case. There aro those who feel that they must have an omnipotent and im- mediate supply, and you shall have it. Is it pain and physical distress through 'which you. must go? Does not Jesus know all about pain Did He not suffer it in the most sensitive part of head, and nand, and foot t" He has a niixture of comfort, one drop ef which shall cure the worst paroxysm. It is the same grace that soothed Robert Hall when, after writhing on the car- pet in physical tortures, he cried out: "Oh, I suffered terribly, but I didn't cry out while I was suffering, did I? Did I cry out ?" There is AO such nurse as Jesus -His hand the gentlest, his Loot the lightest, His arra tlae strong- est. For especial pang, especial help. Is it approaching sorrow? Is it long shadowing bereavement that you know IS coming, because the. breath is short, and the voice is faint, and the eheek is pale? Have you been caleinating your capacity or incapaeity to endure wi- dowhood, or childishness, or a disban- ed home, and cried; "1 cennot endure it?"' Oh, worried soul, you will wake up amid all your troul5les and find around about you the sweet consolation of the Gospel as thickly strewn as was the manna around about the Israeli - Usti eneampment. Especial solace for especial distress. Or is it the gaief of a dissipated companion 1 There are those here who have it, ao I em not speaking in the abetreen but to the point. You have not whispered it, perhaps, to your most intimate friend ; but yon see your home going greclually- way from you, and unlessthinge change soon, it will be entirely destroyed. Your grief was well depicted by e woman, presiding at a vonitin's Meeting last winter in Ohio, when her intoxicated husband staggered up to the platform, to her overwhelming mortification and the disturbatee of the audience, nrid she pulled a protruding bat Ile from her husband's poeket, and held it up be- fore the audience add Cried out; 1,'here fe the fettiee if rtng woe There are the tears and the life-bita o ti drankard's wife," And then, looking up to heaven, she said, "Efeev long, 0 Lord, how lona'?" ij0 inbking clown to the alldiellee, 'Cried: "Do you wonder I reit strongly on this subject. Sisters, will you help ener And hundreds of Voiced respond ; "Yeee3ree, we will help you, ' You stand, mores of you, le even ask hiza to stop. drinking. It father and your child, but y -o -u, it lltakeS bUn erose, and he tells you to would make this lieur like the jtnig- mind yotte own busioess, is there any raent-day for agitations, and, no long - relies in such a ease? Not such as if or able to keep your seat, you would, Lound in the riginarole of conefort or- leap up, erying;"For me 1 For me igo diuurilY given in etteh eases. But -A. new convert said: "I could opt there es a, relief that drops in menna ,eleep, thinking over that paeitage, from the throne Of God, Oh, lift unlyour 'Whosoever believeth on the Son bath lacerated soul, in preyer, and you will Me' and so I got up, and, lighted a ,get Omnipotent comfort. I do not Male, and found my Bible, awl read know in what wards the soothing in- it over; ',e-hosoevee believeth on the fluenee .may come, but I know Unit it over; 'Whoseever believeth op the fOr special. grief there is especial deli- Sea bath "Why,' says some va)geeale,tsi a:nelet r give you n. Take. v u\o oe tithhuetee..w,)ihalsosh- Bible orctelyoou k,,nor ytehzt, be d wasr replied: itehe: ycur I Itw000vvleekt hQ' togetheroHte,, ,c, \hvaeideot,pieinril iNomVe:ty°"01Auetul hltdol lasetrelielf.sn 14;„ urotilas, *antedrIkbtraoewtriht,leoirrtfsmeNtei reaady!tesieWilGe totite btolt vth yleoVt lua leloytylevosni a night, but joy cometh in the mOrn- eensand hear it with your own ears, ing," I know there are those who, and feel it with your °WO heart, that when they try to comfort People, You' are a. lost soul, hut that Christ ways beteeg the same stale seutiment comesforyor extrication. Can you not about the usefulness of tripe. Instead take is otahlayt bred. and digest !t. and of bringing a new plaster for a, new make it a „part of your immortal life? I wound, and fresh manna for fresh hun- ger, they rummage their haversack to You have neticed that invalids can - when egoin due= to horizon the that will a° for one will not do for rind some crumb of old eonsolation, not take all kinds of feed.. The food another. There are kinds of food Soirdoui ud is White with the new -fallen erval4eleryillspt.3reddy cdeemin ,easesofyinwvalide noticed that ell persons, however weak huteldtreadficeornsefcouutivteeendaytshollofeaugaisuixg sick hy mwiatyhb:junitniutvaukliedbradin y',:mOht,rasouus.l. manna--Sunclays excepted-Ahn man- na ceased. Some of them were glad of ages„ with y D. gressione, I think this Gospel' will it, You know they had complained to got take anytkingIetis•bei,nkyoinf oan tYOU caakne- their leader, and wondered that they hNaodw. this. Lost -found! Sunken -raised 1 eeftl'atrenlisanenhaaregiTdt!adThIseQPileio°11)118e. vited in! Condenmed--paecionedl Cast out-4n- Now never seen a corn -field, and new, You have often seen a wheel with That is the old corn of the in that army under forty years,of age Gospel, when they hear the leaves rustling, and see tassels waving, and, the billows spokes of different colours, and when of green flowing over the plain as the the wheel was rapidly turned all the colors blended into a rainbow of ex - wind. touched-I:hem, it must have been a new and lively sensation. "Corn!" 9'illsite beauty. I wish I could, this ,cried the old Man, as he husked. ciaizi morning, take the peace, and the life, "Corn!" shouted the vanguard of the hwNrviitoshut,lsdallnble they counted the shining grains, speed and strength thatsoo3flirol°11 ear. "Corn!" cried, the children, andture thethe jujo ,joy, e faonrde g 1 yourory enchanted with the revolting splend- host, as they burst, open the granaries ours of that name which is above evexy of the affrighted, population the gran- name -the nanae written once with aries that had been left in the pos- tears of exile and in blood of martyr - session of the victorious Israelites. Then the fire was kindled,. and the ears oC corn were thrust into it, and fresh angelic• throne. dom, but written now in burnished crown, and lifted sceptre, and trans - and crisp, and tender, were devotred by the, hungry gletors; and bread was There is another cbaracteristic about bread, and that is you never get tired prepared, and many things that can be of et. There are people here sevetaty made of flour regaled the appetites years of age who find it just as leppro- that had been sharpened by the long priate for their appetite as they did march: "And the manna ceased on the when, in boyhood, their mother cut a, morrow atter they had. eaten of the slice of it clear around the loaf. You old corn of the land." have not got tired of bread, and that Blessed be God, we. stand in just such is a characteristic of the Gospel. Old a field to -day; the luxuriant grain Christian man, are you tired of Jesus? coming above the girdle, th,e air full If so, let us take His name out of our of the odours of the ripe: old corn of Bible, and let us with pen and ink the Gospel Canaan. "Ohl" you. say, "the fare is too plain." Then I re- member you will soon get tired of a fanciful diet. While I was in Paris I liked for a while the rare and ex- quisite cookery; but; I soon wished I was home again, and bad the plain Lars of nay native land. So it is afact that we, soon weary of the syrups, and the custards, and the whipped team of fanciful religionists, and we cry, "Give us plain bread made out of the oleenorn of the Gospel Canaan." That; is the only food that can quell the soul's hunger. There are men here this morning who hardly know what is the mat- ter with them. They have tried to get together a fortune and larger account at the bank, and to get investments yielding larger percentages. They are trying to satisfy their soul with a diet of bank notes and government se- curities. There are others here who have been trying to get famous, and have succeeded to a greater or less ex - infidel scientists. They are trying to satisfy their soul with the chopped feed of magazin.es and newspapers. All these men are no more laappy now than be- fore they made the first thousand pounds -no more happy now than when for the first time they saw their names favorably mentioned. They cannot analyze or define their feelings; but I will tele them what is the matter; they are bungry for the old corn of the Gospel. That you must have, or be pinched, and wan, and wasted, and hollow-eyed, and shrivelled up with an eternity of famine. The infidel scientists of this day are offering as a different kind of soul food; but they are, of all men, the most raiserable. I have known many of them; but I never knew one of them. who came with a thous- and miles of being happy. The great John Stewart Mill provided fOr himself a new kind. of porridge,' but yet, when he comes to die, he acknowledges that his philosophy never gave him any corafort in days of bereavement, and in a rounda.boot way he admits taiat his life was a allure, x 'e with all infidel scientists. They are trynig to live on telescopes, and crucibles, and protoplasms, and they charge us with cant, not realizing that there is no such intolerable cant in all the, world, as this perpetual talk we are heering about "positive philosophy," and "the absolute," and "the great -to -be," and "the everlasting nen and "the higher unity," and 'the latent' potentiali- ties," and "the cathedral of the im- mensities." have been translating what these men ha,ve been writing, and I have been transcribing what they have. been cloieg, and I will tell what it all means. It means that they want to kill God! And my only evorider is that God has not lellieS them. I have, in other days, 'tested of their coulee - tions, and come bask and tell you to -day that there is no natrineent, or life, or health in anything bat" the bread made out of the old awn of the G-ospel. What do I mean by. that? I rneen that Cbrist is the bread or life, and, taking Hine, Yea live for ever. Bun you Say, earn is of but little practioal use unless it is threshed, and ground, and baked. I answer, this Gospel cora has goneetlirough that pro. cess. When on Calvary all the hoofs of human scorn came down on the heart of Christ, arid all the flails of Satartie fury beat Him long' and fast, was not the cOrn threshed? When the mills of God's indignation against sin 'caught Christ between the upper end nether rollers, was not the COM ground1 When ..Teetis descended into hell, end the flames of the lost world evrepped all about, was not the. eorn belred '1 Oh, yes( Christ is ready. His pardon all ready' His Peaee all %%DAY; everything ready in Christ. Are you ready for Him? "Tit I* 'St eh 1 POtrrlari.. -Ate - A ° GOepel XlineVe IN/ -.-*v.2.nal ray yali manna of God's help not five Minutes • w th But neve thought religion was a, strange mix - tete() of:elaborate eompoaricis. No, it is se plain that any abeciacierien may understated It. In its simplicity is ite pwer T yoll Could, this morAing realize that Christ died to save froth sire and death, end hell, not only gout stleh 5 tragedy to -day. Yeti earieet minister end yOut neighbor, and your erase that name wherever we see it. Let us cast it out of our hymnology, and let "There is a Fountain," and "Rock of Ages," go into forgetfulness. Let us tear down the communion table scb.ere we celebrate His love. Let us dash down the baptismal bowl where we were consecrated to Him. Let us hurl -jests from our heart, and ask some other hero to come in. Let as say: "Ceo away, Jesus; I want anoth- e companion, another friend, than Thou art." Could you do it? The years of your past life, aged man, would utter a protest against it, and the graves of your Christian dead would charge you with being an in- grate, and our little grandchildren would say: -Grandfather, don't de that, Jesus is the One to whom we say our prayers at night, and who is to open heaven when we die? Grandfather don't do that." Tired of Jesus? The Burgundy rose you pluck from the garden is not so fresh, and fair, a� beautiful. Tired. of Jesus? As well get wear Y of the spring morning, and. the voices of the mountain stream, and the quiet -of your OWE) 1101116, and the gladness of your own children. Jesus is bread. and the appetite for that is never obliterated. I notice, in regard to this article of food, you take it three times a day. It IS on your table morning, noon, and night, and if it isforgotten, you say: "Where is the bread ?" _ just so cer- tainly you need Jesus three times a day. Oh, do not etert out without Him ; do not. dare to go out of the front door; do not dare to go off the front steps, without first having com- muned. with Him. "Hove noon there may be perils that will destroy body, mind and soul for ever. You c,a,nnot afford to do without Him. You will during the day be amid sharp hoofs ancl swift wheels, and dangerous seaf- foldings threatening the body, and traps for the soul that have taken some who are more wily than you. When they shove a Vessel from the dry-dock. they break against the sid.e of it a bot- tle of wine. That is a sort of supea.- stition ainong sailnrs. Bat oh, on, the launching of every day, that we might strike against it at least one earneet prayer for . Divine protection. That would. not be superstition; that would. be Christian. Than at the apex of the day, at the tip-top of the hours, equi- distant from morning and night, look three ways. Look backwsrd to the forenoon.; look aheacl to the afternoon; look up to the Saviour who presides oyez. all. You want bread at noon. You may nein no phece in which to kneel amid the coeton bales and the tierces of rice; but if Joriels could find. room to pray in the whale's belly, most tertainly you will never be in such a arowded place that -you cannot pray. Bread. at noon 1 ,. hen the evening hour cornea anal, your head is buzzing with the day's engagements, and your. whole naturais sore from the abrasion of rough life, ,and 3,ou see a great many duties you have teglected, then com- mune with Cheist, asking His pardon; thanking Him. for love, That Would he a Weer evening repast at which there was no bread. . This is the nutriment and life of the Plaits Gospel thrttr commend ,to you. I do not know how some of our minis- ters make it' so Intricate, and elabor- ate, and lalystifying,,P. ening. It seems as if they had.. a soft or inongeelisna religion -part humanitarianlem, peg', snitlitaalism, part nothinga,rinnism; and sonaetinies you thiok they are building their temple Ott of the "Rock of Ages,' but you find. theite 18 no troak in it ;at all, It, is Stticeo. The Gospel is plain. It 18 bread, There are no fogs hovering over. this Three of life All the fogs hover over the marsh of ha-, man speculation. If you cannot; tell when you hear et mart preach whether denot he belleVese in the plenary in- splietelon,j tbe Seel/stares, it is be- catse lit dote net believe in it. If, when you, teeter a Man' preach you eaehot tell Whetliee or not he be- lieves that sin i$ irilken, it is because he ciees not ,thielt it is congenital, If, when you he oaten talk in 'pulpit or prayer -meeting, you eannot make up Wit mind whether Or not be believes in tegeneration, it is beeauee he does not believe in it. Tf, when you hear a man speak on religious themes, you nctoentnhoet mthailneke:Ptbyeoui' righteousp ill dwtdt, h :tht Ae‘ wicked will come eta at the eaule Places, it is becaupe he really believes their destinies are conterminous. Do not talk to me about a man being doubtful aboat the doctrines of grace. He is not doubtful to me at All. Bread is bread, and .I know it the moment eee it, I had a corn -field whit% I cul- tured this summer with my own hand, I did not ask once in 511 theosunimer: 'lls this corn?" I did not hunt up the Agriculturist to get a picture of corn, kwnasowllaboutb°ra“insht t iof whnh a 00il V-ofieidte ,ansde Iositrauepliotuesthceamfieolcitos, Cthane acainn v weal looked Coen!" And if a man has once tasted of thie heavenly bread he knows it right away. He can tell this corn of the Gospel Canaan from "the chaff which the wind driveth away." Iblees God so many have found this Gpsepl corn. It is the bread of which if n man eat he shall never hunger. I set the gladness of your soul to the tunes of "Ariel" and "Antioch." I ring the wedding bells, for Christ and your soul carveormeaemrreiendti and there is no power on th earor in hell to get out letters ,of u But alas for the fel:nine-struck. Enough corn., yet -it seems you have no siekle to cut it, no mill togrind it, no fire to bake it, no 'appetite to eat it. Starving to death, when the plain is golden with. magnificent har- vest. My brother, if your friends had acted so crazily abont wordly things as you have acted about spiritual things, you woulil have sent them be- fore this to Bloomingsdale Insane Asy- luin. You do not seem to realize the hunger that is guaeving on your soul, the precipices on the edge of which you walk, the fires into whieh you run. Oh the insanity, the awful madness, of a man that will not take Christ. When 'I think of the risks you eun,t it seems as if I must lush from the pulpit and take you by the shoulder and tell you. of what is come ancehow little you axe ready -LOT it. I. rode some thirteen miles to see a steamer that was beached near South- a.mp`on, Long Island. It was a splenaid vessel. As 1 walked up and down the decks, and in the cabins, I said; "What a. pity that this vessel should go to pieces, or be lying here idle." The coast wreckers had spent several thousand pounds trying even to get her off, and succeeded once; but she came back again to the old place -While I was walking on deck every part of the vessel trembled with the beating of the surf on one side. Since then I heard that that vessel, which was worth fifty thousand pounds, had been sold for seven hundred pounds, and is to be knocked to pieces. They had given up the idea of getting her to sail again. How suggestive that is to mel There are those here who are aground in religious things. Once you started for heaven, but you are now, aground. Sev- eral times we thought we had started you again heavenward, but you soon got back to the old place, and there is not much prospect you will ever reach the herbours of the blessed. I fear it will be after awhile. said in regard to some of you "No use. No use. To be destroyed without remedy." God's wreckers will pronounce you a hope- less case. Beached for eternity! And then it will be written in heaven:eon- cerning some one of your size, and Com- plexion, and a.ge and name, that heewas invited to be saved., but refused the offer, and starved to death .within sight of the fields and granaries full of the Old Corn of Canaan, "DEATH'S HEAD" REGIMENTS. Something About a Famous Prussian Organization. Every one, of course, has heard of the "Death or Glory Boys" (17th Lan- cers), but how many men are aware that this distinguished corps is by no mains alone in bearing the quaint badge of the "Death's Head and Cross- bones." The 17th were not even the first troops to adopt the "Death's Head."; this honor belongs to a -Prus- sian regiment, now kuown as the lst and 2nd Hussars; but in 1741, the time of its incorporation by the great Fred- erick, its usual designation was the "erodtenkopf," regiment, from the "Death's Head" worn on the cap, Raised in stirring times, the gallant Hussars had soon plenty of work in the wars of Frederick, and they acquitted themselve,s with gr,eat credit. The Todtenkopf regiment arone, of all the Hussars heel the misfortune to be taken prisoners of war in 1806, by Na- poleon's troops. At the re -organiza- tion of the Prussian army in 1808, it was split up and became the 1st and 2nd Hussars of the Life Guard. The "Death's Head" was at first worn by both officers and men, but after a time the officers adopted arosette in its place. The uniform was black with white Inc, -a, touch of ' nolour being suPplied by the scarlet vendykee on the shabraque, was of blaok cloth. The collars and cuffs„„ were a.t first black, but, were changed to red later. In 1702 s vvhite feather plume was in- troduced for the whole of the Prussian cavalry. The Life Squadron of the Todtenkopf regiment was entirely mounted on white horses. HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND. What is the charge, inquired the -judge. The acctised, responded the prose- enting attorney, had two wives, and en the 3rd of June 'lest, be took his Involver and 03°V -both of them.. Humph! observed the Court, there's something don't understand about Whetis it, ,yotir Honor? How coald., any man with tern wives have a revolver witholet ehootiug him- self? t THE ITSVAL 'WAY. ' Mrs. Giett,theati-What kept you SO late at that ineethac? Mr. Greathee,d-r had to draw up a long set of resolutions for publication, complimenting Mx. Bullhead's great efficiertey as a member of the board, and expressing our heartfelt regret a losing his invalualale aid and counsel, oOf all things! Why you and the rest have been fighting for threeomonths to get nita out of the board. Yes; but to -night he teeigned Vol- unterily. . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG, 21, N411111491,11 Healed. 2 latine, 5. Golden Text, .ler. 11. 14. PR4CTICAL NOTES, Verse 1, Naaraan means, probably, " beautifill." Captain of the host. COM- niander in chief. His station was, next to the throne iteelf,' the most import- ant in the realtbb teat . . , and honorable. One word refers to his rank, the other to the,personal regard. Of the king, By him the Lord had giv- en deliverance unto Syria, Revised Version, "victory unto Syria." This may have been in the ware between Sy- ria and Israel, or, as the monuments would indicate, in an Assyrian war, in whioh the Syrians secured indepen- dence. The pious Jew who wrote these words, regarded, as we Eibould regard, eveey event of life as being under God's control. A mighty man of valor. Personally brave. What a series of ad- vantages were his: General of the ar- my, favorite of his king, popular with the nation, dwelling in a palace. weal - thy, afraid of nothing. But be was a leper, All his honors were as nothing to, that "but." Who would exchange places with him? There were two kinds of leprosy, one of which was surely fatal. The disease in both forms was hereditary; was believed to be contag- ious; was deceptive, from its painless Oharacter ; rendered a man ndean, so that none could come near him; and was absolutely ineura.ble. Under the strict law of Israel. Naaman would have been deposed and excluded from so- ciety, but the Syrians were less care- ful.. 1. What a perfect picture of the disease of sin! 12, The Syrians had gone out by com- panies. Guerillas; freebooters. Even in times of peace such parties might dash across the line from either country into the other, and capture what they could. Brought away captive. War, always barbarous, was in- andel-it times more cruel than now. Prisoners were generally killed, eepecially the aged, the wounded, and the useless; and all who were worth keeping were enslav- ed. A little maid. A young girl, valu- ed, like a horse, or a vase, or a ruge, cpr beauty and for use.fulness. 3. She said. (2) See the power of a. child's word for good! Would God. This phrase is elsewhere better translat- ed "0 that." My lord. Her title of re- spect for Naaman. The prophet that is in Samaria. For a while Elisha's re- sidence was in the city of Samaria. (See 2 Kings 5. 9: 6. 32.) He would re- cover him. Perhaps he had healed oth- er Jews; at all events; his fame as a wonder -worker reached far. This verse shoulll impress car minds with the fact that there are good. words for ms all to speak, and. good deeds for us all to do, and not even the least of these shall lose its reward. 4. One went in and told his lord. The "one" indicates that the word supplied by our .Dnglish translators is pto- bably a mistake. The Revised Version in its margin supplies "he," and thus makes Newnan hasten into the pres- ence of "his lord," Ben-hs.dad, to re- peat what his wife's maidservant had said. 5. Go to. "Come now." 1 will send a letter unto the king of Israel. An exceedingly imposing result of the young girl's remark to her mistress. The king of Israel was probably Jeh- .oram, the son of Ahab. Talents . . . pieces of gold. The treasu.re has been naxiously estimated at from twenty to sixty thousand. dollars. Coined money was not yet invented. Change of raiment. Orientals are fond of gor- geous robes; these are changed. fre- quently, and are a sort of standard of value. 6. That .thou mayest recover him. Himself an absolute rider, he supposed that the king of Israel could command his subjects at will; and. he considered it quite ' a complimentary way cif ex- pressing his desire that the king would use his influence to effect the cure. Doubtless Beni:al-dad had magicians de:awing rich salaries at his court, and in their supernatural power 1m had a good deal of religious finth ; but they could not cure Naaanan. He suppos- ed Elisha, also to be a magician, but with greater power. How utterly does this world fail to comprehend the things of God! 7. Rent his clothes. An oriental gesture, expressive of sorrow, alarm, and terror. The king does not seem to have thought of-Elisha. 3. Kings have all the trouble of ordinary men and sometimes heavier troubles. Am I God- Even, a king finds limits to his power. A closer intimacy with the Lord and his'. prophets would have lessened his alarm. }Ie seeketh a quer- el. He supposed that as Ben-hadad had made impossible demands upon his father, A.hab7 in order to provoke war, so his succeseor was now doing with like purpose. 8. Elisha . . . sent. A plain man, calm while the kieg is terror-stricken; subjeet rebuking his sovereign's want of faith. Let him come now to me. Spoken not in arrogance, but under divine 'direction. He knew the might of the arm on whieh he leaned. There is a prophet in Israel. One who COSild speak and act for CrOd among men. 0e Newman came. A contrast ; Nan: man with princely `retinue, and under- neath his clezzlieg lobe a leper's skin and an aching heart Elisha in humble surroundings, yet swaying a scepter mightier fhan a kingn. His horses for his attendants, and his eharlot Or him- self. 4. The seeming is not always the real. 5. When a dinner seeks- for mercy let hind not COMO in etate, but On his knees,. in the pover- ty and nakedness of hie soul. 1.0, Elisha Sent. He does not lionon the haughty Syrian by his presence, but sends his commands by aeervant; thus tespeotirig the cereinpniel law, ehowing the dignity of his office, and humbling 1\Taatnan's priae. Go and wash in Jordan. Is A, Simple act; 2. A self-denying act; 3. An act of obedience; 4. An act of perSeiverance; 5. An a,ot of faith; 6. A semeolie act, showing as in a picture the procese of salvation. 11. Neaman was Wroth. He nod ill- teady planned an impressive way oil healing; altogether befitting the dignity of Syrian noblemen, New he finds hilneelf Lreeted.precisely like at, conamon 'otticest leper, The name ef the ledsel his God. Litetal ly, "of J'ehtterah hie God," Ile tegarded Teho- rab as the Ged et Isreal, jast es 111m - mon was of Syria., and Onemosle of' Moab. Orer the plane. Showing that the leprosy was recently manifeated, and as yet touelied onlY a part of the body. Recover the leper, He wanted to be rid or the "leper" yet 'preserve the grandeur of the "coptain." How Many eling to their own uncleansed heerts from which they would fain be free, becaueerthey cannot receive sal- Yadien en their own teems and in their own proud way. 12, Abana, and Plierpar. The Bar - ado, and the Awaj, two erYstal streams rising in IVIQuilt Lebanon ad flow" lug acroes the plain of Damascus, only to be lost in the desert; fit types of the wprldly morality cold ceremoni- alism, and intellectual culture which men would eubstitute eor the Gospel of salvation, Went away in a rage., How fooliala is that rage which makes. a man turn away from purity and life just beoause its conditions are not of his own cboosingl 6. Naamen has., left many descendanes in the world. 13. His servants. They knew the quickness of his temper a,nd the real worth of his elaceraeter, Well for hira that he hall wise advisers, and better that he folluived their advioe. Some great thing. ad would have been reedy to spend a great. fortune or to take a great joarney if he conld have obtaiteed heeling. How much rather thou. So now, Since it is so easy, why should any hesitate to obtain salvation? 14. Like the flesh of a little child. Gone the chalky, clammy' skin; in ite piece conies the glowing freshness of childhood. He 1.8 " a new creature." What a pieture of that mightier work of grace by which the sinner becomes. a new creature! SAM JONhS ON DRINKS. Timely Advice to Young Igen on the Tent revalue.) Question. At the close of a dinner recently given in Cartersville, Ga., Sam Jones. the well known evangelist, mede address espeeially designed for the young men of that section. He said among other things: , There is nothing 1 wish more than to sea each one of your happy and. suc- cessful in life. You are Might young. men, and can make for yourselves a future if you will but try, I will, tell yon my ideal of the greatest and beet young man. He is one who( never steps. upon his mother's bleeding heart. Ile is one Who loves and obeys her, and who would yield. his life before he would cause her pain. I have asked you here to -day so that I might be with you and tell you these things. Boys, I want to tell you three things you should not do. You should not drink. Drink has dragged down the e best of our land, and I grieve to say 'et that so many of our young men are - in the grasp of this terrible appetite. Twenty-five years ago I lived in a little cottage up on yonder hill, and nearly every night I would go hom.e to my wife drunk. With tears in her eyes, she would beg me not to do so. again, and I would promise, but that very night I would go home drunker tha-n before. But it; wasn't my faults I was not a hypocrite. I meant it when I promised, but I wasn't strong enough. But, thank God, boys, 1 won at last, I quit drink, and for nearly twenty-six years I have not tasted a drop. But I will not feel secure from. a drunkard's grace until my wife has kissed my cheeks cold in death. I am afraid of it yet. You should, all be afraid of it. Don't drink boys. Every drop you take means misery for your poor mothers, and it is but one step nearer ruin. TRUE FRIENSHIP. True frfendship is above a jeweled crown, more precious than the finest gold, more costly than the rarest gem. She lies deeper than the pearls of ocean, rises higeher than the stars of heaven, brightening a dark or lonely s, life, stretches broader than the azureaF main; encircling us in her a,rnas of' love. True friendship will abide with us, firm, steadea,ste unwavering and tender, even though the taunts, de - lesions, scorn, and it may be malice 6't false companions' weigh us down. She holds us up, encourages us to be strong a,na brave, stimulates us to "act well our part," even though "hon- or may be deemed dishonor," or loyalty be called a crime. Yes, into the ear of friendship one may whisper Of his brightest; hope, his highest aspiration, the deepest longing of hie soul, and he is met witb the answering smile- of encouragement, the fond word of joy- ful cheer, "press on, oh, noble heart and true." Again, the whisper may be breathed hesitatingly, sorrowfully, telling of withered hopes, ungratified ambitions, mistaken aim, and tender friendship, in her sympathetic, soli - °Rude to fill the aching void, returns the whisper, "be of good cheer,-' for "Often the thing aux life misses helps more than tho thing which it gets." it may be that friendship must eend still closer to °etch the mournful tale or sins committed, of wrongs unright- ed, then it is that she rises to the caseenly height3 of her noble nature, faithfully woutiditg, but the more tenderly and surely to heal, '8ecures our confession to heaven, our repent,: ance to God, our atonement to rnail. Friendship is a blessing of the ear - set kind, "She seeketh not her own,'4111.i, she is Christlike because "she never faileth," Together WO Wark thr.OElgil life, loving end following thee which in "trae, and beatetittil, mud goo.d,'! and at ascii step reaching atter !nets., which is still higher, bin at heaveribe gate We pause and catch a glifttpSe of Him. Velto is the lerieted of air tbe Friend of sinners, who in the niacin" tude ot his lovingsheart, hath said, "Ye are u, re my If Ye doewliatSoeVer I t SAME MEASIldeEMENT. Inshforl be -Tim much drop hes your AeW wheel? iettedge-Two-inch drop, arlF10;;Sitot '1.1"vhhaisticisy"aboult the s e tee