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Exeter Times, 1898-9-22, Page 3• NOTES A OW C'011(N.ENTS. wee ' Soon after the Crimean War a GOrrOEM 000/10WiSt And Writer, Beecher, dila- °n tim futare of Asia a/listor de- •serilied it es an admirable field for the Germaa enaigra,tion Which WAS • Settin in toward America in a steadily in.ormaing etream. He pointed, out the Silitability of the climete of the high- lands of Armenia and Anetoliw for• . the yettlement • of the European race, whioh he proposed should there create a. barrier against what 'he called the ever-encroacbing evave of Panslayism. Prince laisnaarok was said to have been favorable to the principle of the Pre- fessor's Meas, but he was too much ma tupieol with • his schemes for the unity and organization of Germany to take up the matter. An attempt was made, however, to etart German colonization in Asia Minor by th'e establishment of sniall agricultural settlements in dif- ferent partasof the country, but they entirely failed" of their purpose. Their surroundings, weie uncongenial, the Turkish likkal authorities always look- ed on them with su,spicion, and the to- tal absenee of moan e of communica- tion with the outside markets pre- vented their prospering, and they simp- ly withered away. No immigration was attracted from Germany, and the , private societies that furnished the • funds for German colonization in op- positidn to the extension of Russian influence in we,stern Asia were at the floss of their money. Before the attempt td stem the Rus - slam advance into Asia was made by tbe Germans the Prussian Government bad been officially using all its in- fluence to prevent the concessions asked. for by England at Constantin- ople for the construction of a rail- way from the Mediterranean •to the Persian Gulf, by way of the valley of the Euphrates. This opposition was partly the result of the attempts made by the British Government of the day to prevent th'e alsquielSion of the port of Danzig by Prussia at the time of the pa-rtition of Poland, and partly be- • vause of ambitions already entertain- ed. by Prussian istatesmen regarding the extension of German influence in southeastern Europe and western Asia. The Crimean war, that was intended to preserve Turkey as •a barrier against both Germany and Russia, has long since been discovered by British states- men to have been a, mistake, .for it did not put the Turk on his legs, as intended, nor did it keep Russia back; and it only prepared, the way for the ase-evenoise Of the German influence now predominant at Constantinople. The Turkish Army has been brought into the highe,st state of efficiency it has ever attained entirely by German offi- cers; and it is German advice that in- spires the foreign policy of Yildiz Kiosk. Nothing is now needed but a war between England and Russia, in which Prance would probably be in- volved, to bring out into the full light the real aspirations of Germany. Standing neutral, and still exercising control over the policies of Austria- Hungary and Italy, Germany might have it in her power to drive a close bargain with either belligerent in re- turn for her alliancq or moral( aid. It is the knowledge ,otf what is involved in an appeal to arms under the circum- stances described that will be a power- ful factor in the maintenance of peace between England and Russia, how- ever strong may be the antagonism be- tween them in China and elsewhere in Asioe Neither have any interest in promoting the extension of Gernia,n in- fluence or commerte, while there is hardly any material cause of con- flict between them. The Christian races of the Turkish Empire have certainly nothin,g to be grateful for to Germany and the Turks themselves cannot but be conscious that they are only cats - paws in the hands of the statesmen of Berlin. The po.sition of Germany is, however, extremely interesting, and :cannot fail to exercise 'a strong, if not a decisive, influeuce on what is pass- ing between England and Russia in respect to their. spheres of influence throughout Asia... THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN. Some Notes °flits Experience in the matter oi Steep. "I find," sea& the middle-aged man, "two things: That I need just about so much sleep and that 1 need.it at just such hours. What suits me best is to go to bed at 10 O'clock and, get up at 6. If I go to bed at 12 I ana likely Is wake up in the morning at 8 anyway, or soon 51 ti and then I get a short night's sleep, which is bad for me; arid even if I sleep over, until 7 or 8 o'clock, so that; I get trty full °M- ount of sleep, it does not refresh nie as the name amount does taken at my accustomed hours; 1 don't feel' the eam a. "Here is another thing that I ob- serve: If I get a short night's sleep seems to have to Maisel thietip. What ae one full night's sleep after a short night does riot bring meback to feel- ing quite like myself again. It takes me two or three nights of sleep to at haek to normal, "All of which Meats that t eind CM work to the best adVantage an re- guier sleep at regular hours-, and don't believe I isti alone in this," WHAT THE 01111E011 NEEDS REV. DR, TALMAGE PREACHES A TIMELY SERMON, Coldnets ha the Majority of Chorea Nam lbers-eittle zeal anti Enthusiasm for ((host -Need for it areal Awakening-- rztionn:14 11118 Deno Jar Dr. l'isheina's A •despatch front Washington says: --Dx. Tahrtaoe preached from the fol- lowing text :--" Behold, I will send mY messenger, and he shell prepare the way before ree • and the Lord whom ye Seek, /shall suddenly come to bis temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye deiight in; behold, he shall mine, saith the Lord of hosts." iii. 1. Sometinaes, a minister's subject is suggested. by his artistic tastes; some- times, by the occurrences of the pre- vious week; sometimes, by a hearer who desires some particular religious subject discussed. My subject oomes in no such way. It drops straight from God into my heart. Give me your pray- erful and intense listening, 1 waat to show this morning, so far as God may help me, that the dying need of the Charch universal is a mighty awakening. The ox in the pas- ture field looks around, and perhaps comes to the conclusion that all the world is a clover field, So we, standing in the midst of luxuriant religious ad- vantages, might think perhaps that the earth is covered with the knowledge of God; but so far from that, if this platform were the world,. so much of it as I now cover with my right foot would represent all that is conquer- ed. for Emanuel. Or, if this whole Tab- ernacle were the world, then one pew would represent so much of it as the grace of God has already conquered. 0 there is need of a radical change. Something must be done, and r shall show this morning that the great—aye, as I have already said, the dying—need of the Church is a 'great awakening. I learn this need, in the first place, frora the coldness in the majority of Church Jzenabers. If a religious soci- ety have a thousand members, eight hundred of them are sound asleep._ If it have five hundred members, four hundred are lethargic. If the Chris- tians can rally—that is, the professed Christians --for ceeninunion day, and succeed in not dropping the wine cup, how many of them are satisfied? If it be a choice between Christ and the world, the world has it. You know it as well at I do. If a religious meeting be on a certain night, and on that same night there be an extraordinary' op- eratic entertainment, or a social gath- ering, or a literary club, or a politi- cal meeting, or a Free Mason Society, or an Odd Fellow's Association, you know which they go to. God there fair- ly demonstrating that while such pro- fessed Christians pretend to be on His side, they are really on the other side; for there is a mint -blank issue be- tween Christ and the world, and the world has it. You know very well whe- ther you are a professed Christian or not; you know very well that the di- viding line between the Church and the world to -day is—like the equator, or the arctic or antarctic circle—an iinaginary line, and that there are men and women sworn of God svho sit dis- cussing infinitessimal questions: "Shall we dance? Shall we play cards? Shall ,we, go to the theatre? Shall we attend the opera ?" while there are five hun- dred millions of the ram going down to darkness univarned. These share Christians will go on, occasionally tak- ing a little religion with the tip end of their fingers, sauntering on lazily to- wards the bar of Christ, until they come in front of God's swift revolving mill, and find themselves to be "the chaff which the wind driveth away." 0 how much dead wood we have in all our Churches. The Day of Judgment will make a fearful thinning out am- ong professed Christians. I suppose it will be found on that day that there are bundreds of thousands of men who have their names on the Church books who really made religion a second- rate or third-rate thing; living for themselves, unnaindful of God and the salvation of the ram, and then tumb- ling over the embankment where Judas went, and Achan went, and where all those shall go who do not make religion the primordial thing— the first and last matter of the soul. 0 worldly professor of religion, vacil- lating professor, idle professor, trem- ble before God to -day. Do you ,not know that if you die as you are, all the comulunion-tables at which you have ever sat will lift up hands of blood, cry- ing for your condemnation ? And yoar neglmtecl Bible, and your pray- erless pillow, will cry: "Go elown I go down I" You pretended to have re- ligion, but you had none. Out of the seven clays of the week, you gave not five hours to Christ. You broke ,your Sacramental oath. Go down! go down And the firiest and mightiest thunderbolt of God's indignation that is ever forged will smite you into da,rk- nese 0 I would rather be a man, in the last day, who has never seen a church, than you who professed to be so much, and to do so much, and yet 'clid nothing. Yon shall perish in the day svhen God's wrath is kindled but a tittle. 0 worldly professor of relig- ion—and there are hundreds of theta here to -day, I am aiming at the mark —if you could to -day realize your true condition, and your true position before (Sod, yott would bite your Hp until the blood came; yOU woUld wring your hands nntil the bones cracked ; you would utter a cry that would send this whole audienee to their feet with a, hernia May God wake you up, worldly professor of religion, before yeti. wake up in the barred and flatn- ing (Mavens of a destroyed eternity. When yon look abroad and see leth- argy amohg the professors of religioti almost the world over, do you not ee0 end the cyrabals, and the drtuns, and the trumnere of all earth and heaven, call uason the Church to wake up, all these dormant professors of religion? "Awake, then that steepest; ftwahe, and Christ shall giVO the° life." eau further: I See a need for a get earakening 10 the fact that those of us wlao preach the Goetal have *so little enthusiasm arid zeal eoropered with what we ought ,to have. Now you see the gun 'deka X saY, we svhe Prea0h the Gospel heve so little zeal and en- thusiasra for Christ compared with what we ought' to have. 0, it is a tremendous thing to , stand before an audience on Sabbath days, realizing the font that the majority of them will believe what you say about God., end the soul, and the great future. Sup- pose a man asked of you the road toa eertain place, and you carelessly and falsely told him, and afterwards you heard that through laok of eight dim - tion that radea was lost on the moun- tains, fell over the rocks, and lest his life. You could not forgive your- self, Yoe would say; "1 vvish I had given him, emelt specific directions that he would not have been lost. How sorry I feel about it." But 0, to tale - direct the eternal interest of a large congregation How cold end stolid we stand in oar palpits, acitually some- times priding ourselves on our delib- ei.ation, when we have no right to be cold, and ought to be almost frantic with the perils that threaten oux hearers. So much so, that Koine of us give no Nvarning at all, and we stand Sa,bbath after Sebbath, talking about "human development," and we pat men On the bank, and we please them, and we hide eternal retribution, and we sing them all down through the rapids to the last plunge. Or, as the poet has it :— "Smooth down the stubborn text to eels polies, , • And snugly keep damnation out of sight 1" 0, ray brethren in the ministr I see them always in the au.dien brethren in the ministry, we c afford to do that way. If you phesy good things, smooth tbin your people, without regard' to character, what chance will the for you in the day when you meet at the bar of God? You had stand clear of them then. The tear you to pieces. They will sa heard you preach five hundred and I admired your philosophi quisition, and your graeeful ges and your nicely moulded sent eu.rv. . near and stelleform, a thoaght you were the prince of pro- . . s, but you didn't help me prepare for thie day. Cuised be your rhetoric, cursed be your art. I am going down, and take you with me. It is your fault; witness all the hosts of heaven and an the hosts of y—for e,e—my annot Pro- gs, to their re be them better y will y: "I times, dis- tures, ences, nd I 0- e. But who can count the of our permanent congrega- tion ieho are not Christians? And what about the eighty or one hundred thos- sand souls of strangers that, during the last year, floated in and out of our assemblages; and what about the t • ner Of Emannel, and rush ahead! cryington I time This is no ti e to CARE OF THE-WOIJ1IDED TO APRIOA. BY BALLOON ; this! is he to a.dvanee." I gee, still further, the, need of French aeronanta Salerno for She ExPlesse a greet awakening in the mut- SPLENDID MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN nen er th, nairk titudirione going down forgiLen. souls. Since Many of you ,INC'enle MA the stage of action, is whole generation has gone into the gates oe eternity.. Y4111' Opportunity to act upon (bent es gone, They have disappeared from the churches, front raoemeetehr:eb, ona.t)se. sulhonpys, the streets, of them are now --what is the use of my hiding the feet and being the coward in regard to it—no, 1 will tell you just ste it is— many of them gong out of this world. without one item of preparation, Their souls dropped flat into the lost world, That is if the Bible is true, and I am supposing it is, You, 0 Christian man, had an opportunity of meeting. them. You did meet them. You talked with them on other sub- jects. You had an opportunity' of say- ing the (..iaving word, and you did not erty that saving word, ;rust think of thet! 0, where is the fountain where, with sleeve rolled up, we may wash our hands frora the blood of souls? There is no need, perhaps, cif raourning over tlaat just now. We cannot change it, They are dead and they an de- stroyed—those who believed not in Christ,—they are destroyed. The only question is, whetter, as Christian men and women, we ean now interrupt the other .proceeesion that is marching down, and will,' after awhile, if unarrested by God's grace, fall off. There are going out frona our stores hundreds of thousands of clerks; going out from our factories hundreds of thousands of operatives; there are going out of our fields hundreds of thousands of hus- bandmen, to join the ranks of death. They are fighting their way down. They storm and take every impediment put in their way, and who will throw himself in the way of this stampede of dying men and women—who, orying: "Halt, held" If there be eight hund- red millions of the race unblessed, and the Churches average two souls saved in a. year, will you let this generation go down, and the next, and the next? I need not rehearse in this presence what God has done for as as an/indivi- dual Church. You have heard -with your own ears the cries for mercy, and YOU have seen the raining tears of re- psnta,nce for the last eighteen months. I do not believe that there is any Church in this land that owes God more of gratitude than this Church owes of un- THE SOUDAN WAR Do z and, Livoe, the French aers onauts, who reeently submitted their echenaes for exploring the Dark Con- tinent hy meane of a ballooia to the Freneh A eademy and the Smithsonian Institute a Washington, which bod- ies are stated to have approved of the plans, haVe now, in eenjunction, with Id. Hearst, the African traveller in- voked, the aid of the Perla Municipality in support of the great undertaking. They dp not profess to be able-nind in this they are in aeoord with work- ers in the same direction—to construct a complete dirigible balloon; but they helieve in the practicability of their scheme, assuming the air currents of tropical Africa, are fairly regular, at /east at certain seasons. The balloon they intend to construet is to be 92 ft. in diameter, with a capacity of 400,- 134 cubic feet. It is to be made of silk and rendered gas -proof by an eight- fold coat of varnish, so much so that, according to a calculation based upon arkness, it is your fault, the ehorus will come up from 'worlds': "His fault!. bis ity: Au a as who preach thie Gospel need -td" speak as though the pulpit quaked with. the tramp of eternal realities, as though beneath us were the bursting grave§, of the resurrection morn, as though rising above us, tier above tier, were the myriads of heaven look- ing down, ready to applaud our fidel- ity, or hiss at our stolidity, while coming through the Sabbath air were the long, deep, hareowing groan of the dying nations that are never dead. May God with a` torch from heaven set all the pulpits of England and Scotland, and Ireland, and the United States on fire. As for my- self standing here in this presence this morning, I feel as if I had never begun to peeach. If God will forgive me for the past. I will do better for the future. " 'Tie not a cause of small import The pastor's care demands; But what might fill an angel's heart, "They watch for souls for which the It fLioll.recdi a Saviour's hands. Did heavenly bliss forego; Por souls that must forever live In raptures, or in woe." Still furthera I see a need for a great awakening in the fact that the kingdom of God is making such slow progress. I simply state a fact when I say that in many places the Church is surrendering and the world is con- quering. Where there is one man brought into the kingdom of God through Christian instrumentality, there are ten men dragged down by dissipations. Fifty grog shops built to one Church established. Literary journals an different parts of the country fil'ed with scum, and dand- ruff, and slang, controlled by the very scullions of society, depraving everything they put their hands on. Look abroad and see the stireender, even on the pert of thoge that pre- tend to be Christian Churches, to Spiritualism, and Humanitarianism, and all the for m.s of devilism. If a man stand in his pulpit and say that uialese you be born again you will be Jost, do not the tight kid gloves of the Christian, diamonds bursting. through, go up to their forehead in humilia- tion and shame ? It is not elegant. A mighty host i the Christian Church Positively professing Christianity, do not believe in the Bible, out and out, in and in, from the firs!: word of the f' o the first chapter of t book of Genesis, down to the las word of the last verse of the la chapter of the book of Revelatio And when, a few Sabbaths ago, stood in this pulpit and said: "I fea that some of this audience' will be los for the rejection of Christ," why ther were four or five of the daily paper that threw up their hands in surpris at it. 0, we have magnificent Chum machinery in this country; we hay sixty thousand American ministers we home costly music, we leave grea Sunday -schools; and yet give yo the appalling statistics that in th last twenty-five years, laying and last year, the statistics of which have not yet eeen--within the las tNventy-fiye years the Churches of God in this country, have averaged les than two conversions a year each There hos beet, an average of four or five deaths in the Churehes. How soon, at that mat, wilt thie world be brought to God? We gain two; we lose four. Eternal God, what will this come to? I tell you plainly that while here and there a regiment of the Christian soldiery is advancing, the Chureh is foaling. back for the most part, and falling back, and falling baeir, and it yon do not come to cOM- plate rout, it will be betanse sonae in- dividual Cluteche.e hurl themselves to the front, and, ministers of Christ, trampling .on. the favour of this world an saes in eing eve r,e thing, shall Y those who are now and and will be this year in oux permanent all congregation; and the eighty or one hundred thousand souls that during thiseemninge twelve months will float ai in daine ctlleoe out.services;rue r ytittc pit the ryeaaset her_ es week by week on both sidea-of,the sea through the Christian printing - press? If John Livingston in a small church in one service had five hund- red souls brought to God, why may you not, in a larger church, have three thousand souls as easily as he had five hundred? It is the same Gos- pel. John Livingston did not save them. It is the same Holy Ghost. It is the eame great Jehovah. If John Knox could put the lever of prayer under Scotland until he moved it from end to end, shall you not by the lever ia importunate petition move the city of Washington from end to end. God Will do it, if you mightily and relent- lessly ask Him to do it. 0, fling body, mind, and soul, and eternal destiny into this one thing. Swing out and enlarge in your prayerful expectations. aYnoduRasekegdavGeotdhefmor to you, hundreds Eseoraules., times heard you ask for thousands; and I am very certain that if you had asked for thousands with the same faith that you) asked for hundreds, God would have given you thousands, There is no need, in this presence, of bringing the old stereotyped illustra- tions of the fact that God hears pray- er, nor telling you about Hezekiah's restored health, and about Elijah and the great rain, and about the post mortem examination of the apostle James, which found that his knees had become callous by much praying; nor Richaxd Baxter, who stained the walls of his study with prayerful breath; nor of John Welch and the midnight plaid; nor of George Whitfield flat on his face before God. No need of my telling you these things. I turn in upon your own self consciousness, and I review the mem- ory of that, time when your own soul was sinking, and God heard your cry; and of that time when your child was dying, and God heard your petition; and of that time when your fortune failed, arid God set in your empty pan- try the cruse of oil, and the :measure of meal. I want no illustration at all. I just take a ladder with three rungs, and set it down at your feet. On .hat you can mount up, and, if you will look off, see the salvation of ten (thou- aand of your fellow citizens. "Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and (ye (shall find," P your right foot on the low - ha er rung of that ladder, and your left t on the second rung of it, and allot nvill Si. bring your right foot on the top rung. L Then hold fast, and look out and see I the wave Of the Divine blessing dash- ing higher than the top-galla,nts of t your ship. 0 yes, God at ready to hear. 0 t think the Lord put on us, as a Church, a great responsibility. We set our ee hands to the work of evangelization. We are doing nothing else here. We ° do not want to de anything else here, but this work of evangelization. That u is, we went to bring( men and Women U to Chriet, and bring thern now. I do not know bow you feel, nay brethren, e but my heart is breaking, with a long., ing that I have for the redemption of t this people. If God does net give me my prayer, cannot endure It. I of. - 8 ter myself, offer my life, to this work. Take it, 0 Lord jesue, end slay me if that be best. Whether by ray life, or by my death, may a great mul- titude of souls here be borne to God, If from the mound of My grave more can step into the kingdom. of God;than through my life, let me He down to ibo last sleep. But only let the people be saved. Lord 'Melia, it is sweet to live Lor 'Thee; Methinks it Would be sweet to die for Thee. If in the Napoleonie wars six millions fell; if in the wars of the Roman Empire one hundred and eighty Millioles fell, shall there not be 5. grea,t, Many in our slay Who ars will sirs to sae:Mice, not only Worldly atn, bitiOn, but eantifide, all for Chriat,? that there 18 a need that the bugles, I snatch up the torn and ehattored ban- ElahOrate 4(rraugement for the Reis and 'Wounded Soldier$ of' Gen liCitchetter's. Army— (tote a Contra,t the Methods Employed in OM Spantsit..ftmerleon iVar. There is not the least danger of the hospital horrors that resulted, from the Spanish-American war • being re-, peated in the Soudan. The arrange- ments made by the British Army Medi- cal depaxtment for tbe final advance oft Khartouta, were most elaborate and eoraplete. They are thus described by the special 'correspondent of the Lon- don Dally News, who accompanies the expedition; The arrangements have been made by Surgeon -Colonel Manna - tiara, who has been and remains P.N.°, of the British force, while Surgeon - General Taylor, --a, man of great and varied experience --has come specially out to exercise supreme control in both British and Egyptian divisions. The arrangements raade .for the treat - Leant of the wounded are as follows: A medical officer is attached to each battalion, and one also to the cavalry and to each battery of artillery; then from each battalion etc., are drawn thirty-two trained naen, who retain their arms and can be otherwise un in emergency, whose business is to pick up and give( first aid to the Wounded and oonvey them to the field hospitals, which will be at convenient distances behind the brigades ha some sheltered Position. Behind each brigade are to be five field laospitals, each -with one medical officer and accommodation for twenty-five men. These five field hos- pitals act as one, but are made' sec- tional in order that the sections may be detached to follow any battalion that may be acting independently of the brigade. In all these there is ac- commodation for 125 wounded in the field hospitals of each brigade. There is also a senior medical officer with each brigade. Lieut -Col. Sloggett,vvith General Wauchope's and Lieut. -Col.; Hughes with General Lyttleton's com- mand. Flom the field hospitals the wound- ed are to be conveyed as soon as pos- isble, after treatment, to barges moor- ed off the river bank, 'where there will he accommodation for 200 men. These barges are at present engaged in con- veying troops to Wad Ilabashiyeh, our ,place of rendezvous, but as soon as this work is completed they will be cleansed and disinfected and fitted as hospit- als. Other barges will be used for operating purposes. • THE ROENTGEN RAYS. Two Rotenteren rays apparatuses (which are now here) will be on these eee.s. Of °curse, apart from the bargeanthernwil be other hospital ac- pommodation cin -the river bank, and the barges will, irerecessaxy, ply to and from _the Atbara camii.—Beisaveen Khartoum and this place there will be eight lines and communication hospit- als, with 5D beds, having, of course, a medical officer attached to each. Sur- geon-iVIajor Hunter, who, until last year, was attached to the Egyptian army, has charge of these eight hospit- als. Here, at Atbaxa, ample and spec- ial accommodation has been provided. A hospital has been built of mud bricks, with walls some three Met thick, and a lofty roof, the wards be- ing celled. with matting and thickly thatched with Dhurra. straw. It is probably as cool a place as there is in the Soudan. Here is accommodation for 200 men, but on so generous a scale that if necessary another fifty or more could be added without any cramping of the inmates. Men reach- ing this hospital get proper hospital, clothing -and bedding, and have sheets to their beds. Six medical officers are in charge. There is another base hos- pital lower down the river at Abadeah. Fifteen miles north of Berber is an- other big mud brick hospital, with ac- commodation for 300 men, who will be looked after by eight medical. officers. Beth hence and from the Atbara camp sick, convoys will be made up for the desert railway journey to Haifa, and the trains will be specially fitted for conveyin,g sick and wounded. At Haifa and at Assuan, where there are lsreaks between rail and river, there will be severally a fifty -bed and a twenty-five bed hospital for the accommodation of men who need rest after the journey. At Abadeah hospital, by the way, is another Roentgen, apparatus. On each gunboat is a medical officer, the P.M. 0., of the gunboats being Surgeon - Major Smythe. A THOROUGH ORGANIZATION. Every sort of drug, appliance and in- strument that may be required has been plentifully supplied; and the or- ganization generally is so through that there is every reason to hope that the complaints so often made (and made as much( by the surgeons as by anyone else) of the inadequacy of the arrangeraents for the medical treat- ment of our troops on active service welt not find any voiee as regards the expedition to Khartoum. I have omitted to mention that (he stretchers for carrying the wounded and sick from piece to place have been fitted with hoods, and Tommy, who generally contrives to get fun of his own peCuliar fancyeout of most events has succeeded in evolving a mild but popular jokelet out of the labour the alteration has cost him. For some rea- son or other it has been the fashion at Darmali te cast a sott of comic scorn an the Guards, there being a sort of prevalent theory in camp that these gallant soldiers were 10 be sent to Khartoum wrapped (so to speak) in cotton wool. A hit at the Guards therefore was not to be missed when occasion offered. And the soldier at work on the stretcher hoods promptly answered the question its to What they were for with, "What for? Why for you and me to carry the blooming Guards to Khartourt, of etsurse." TH8 D.TSTINCTION. The Minister—It is a shame that you shottld not be trying, to earn yetis, liv- ing at; yoga' age, Iti,s Son—Oh 1 well, father, consider the Linea of the field. They toil not, neither do thex Spin. The 3littister--.But they can afford 11. experiments made at the 1VIendon ,A.er- onautical Institute of the Mandl ar- ray, only a very small quantity a gas will be lost per day. The car will be ih• two storeys, connected by a rope ladder the upper storey providing liv- ing and sleeping accommodation for six travellers, the lower being reserv- ed. for the apparatus used in manoeuv- ring the balloon. Another smaller car, anchored to the balloon, is to serve as a means of communication with terra firma, and to be lowered when the bal- loon has been anchored. The sum of 15,0001. for which the Paris Municip- ality has been asked is intended for preliminary trials, as the cost of the actual joueney through Africa., it is hoped, will be defrayed by rich mem- bers a the committee for French Af- rica. THE SIRDAR'S BULLET. General Kitchener's Singniar Expeertene Lu the Campaign of 1888. The Sirdar of the army in Egypt on whom the eyes of Englishmen are now turned from 'every quarter of the Empire, has had a very extraordinary experience, having swallowed a bullet with which he had been wounded, and which he now preserves as a memento. During the campaign of '88 Major • Kitchener was hit in the side of the face by a bullet, during a skirmish near Suakim, and was taken down the Nile, and thence to the Citadelu Hos- pital Cairo, where, despite all the efforts of the surgeons, the bullet could not be located, the X-rays being then unknown. On the authority of Sergeant -Hilton, late of the Medical Staff corps, who is now in London, and who was then spepially detailed to look niter the injured officer, the wound wa,s aTnedaire ana end very soon heal- ed, and the medical ofrienetneeaute to the canolusion that the bullert aasede worked its way out without being no- ticed on the passage down the Nile. Hilton one day tempted his patient's ap- petite with a tasty beef steak, which the Major had no sooner attacked ahan he put his hand to his throat (exclaim- ing:—"Bilton, if there's no bone in the steak, I've swallowed that bullet; I felt Lt go down." This proved to be the case, the bullet passing through the alimentary canal without injury- to the distinguished officer. POP CORN FOR INSOMNIA. New Cure That Has Proved Efficacious 'Whenever Tried. A business man living in The south has found an agreeable cure for in- somnia. It answered perfectly in his case, and no longer needing it as medicine he continues it as food. It is a most agreeable dish of pop corn. The corn is popped in the usual wire basket, and while hot it is put in a hot bowl. Scalding milk is poured ov- er it, and in two minutes it is soft and ready to be sprinkled with sugar, unless salt and pepper are preferred. The addition of a little vanilla trans- forms the juvenile favorite into a del- icate hasty pudding. To keep the corn after gathering, put it, on the cob, in a cool place ; if shelled it loses its moisture sooner, and after a while wit!. not pop. Tile place where other corn is kept is best to preserve it in. Pop corn hot served in bowls of hot praairlktiesis. a southern refection at card LEADING UP. . Minnie—Have you and Charlie agreed upon terms of peace, yet? Gra,ce—No; we haven't got any fir- ther than a protocol. He brought a box of candy last night, and I told him he might come around Sunday for the purpose of discussing the matter. OPEN TO CONGRATULATIONS. .Tames—Hurrah! My brother is home from the Klondike. Nimson—You don't say. What did he get, that you rejoice so? James—Why, he got back, of course. That's more than the moat of them are getting. GLAD SHE WENT. The Husband—My dear, did you get any good from the sermoh to -day? The Wife—I did; I am fully convinc- ed that I neight be worse than I am. PRELDVIINARY STEPS. Why do you think Mr. Quizzleham intends to run for something? Ile shook hands with a laborer Who had ju.at wane out of a boiler shop a little while ago and asked him to tall him "Bill" hereafter. UNKIND. raise one, said. he, as he Stalked front her presenee, you. now leek up- on toy face for the last time. Well, your looks will be imprestsed by wearing a meek, replied the unkiiid girl, TIOHBORNE WAS 'CELLED1 SO s.AYS A MAN WHO HAS JUST AN- RIV,ED IN ENGLAND. Renintikable Store of Pik 418Strallatk who mhos to gl/OW NUM About Slv life In the BUS% Among the passengers( on the Bri- tannia, which arrived a few days ago In England from Australia, was a man named Healem, ,wao, if hie story, is true can do much to clear up that ruystaxy a Mysteries—the famous Taal - borne case, There was a good hit of snyetery about Healem himself, ac- cording to the statements of his fel.. low passengers. He occupied one of the cabins on the lower deck, at. the second saloon end of the shills -- !cabins expreesively spoken of by the passen- gers as "the dungeons." All the ven- tilation they received was from a Wind sail, and even that was taken in in rainy or rough weather. Yet Mr. Reale-in, and his wife were never seen on deck, and even did they indalge an airing at the lower end Oahe wind sail they, did so one at a 'time. The other remained to guard certain van. uables and documents which they re- garded as too precious to be intrusted to the ship's puxser. Mr. Hea,lera is an oldish looking man, and would pass well for a fa,rmer. His face is clean shaven but for a fring of hair down each eide and under the chin. He is not particularly COM-. municative, as he hopes to be of service to Sir Roger Tichborne in helping him to obtain the whole of the family) property, instead of the quarter which the law now allows him. , MET TICHBOANE. He came to England, although Aus- tralian Isom — in connection with money affairs of his own, and. will set- tle for the present in Lincolnshire. But he has also been in communicae tion with Sir Roger and his lawyer, and expects that they will shortly put hisn in the witness box. Of course he hopes to reap some profit out of that &leo. Madera has broken up his home in Australia, where he was living mm.- fortably on money made at the dig- gings. And it was at these diggings that he mei; the late Sir Roger andhis companions. His story, which, deals with a period of about forty years ago, is in its main points as follows, leaving the minor details to be filled L in whenever he comes up for pinslin examinations— , Sir Roger, Arthur Orton, Creswell and Morgan, he says, were partners in a, slaughtering and butcher's busi- ness, supplying the wants of the 'dig- gers on what is now the town: of Mary- bowough. Mr. Healem also asserts that they were bushrangers, and that ahis nrofits of the butchery were ad- Edevden-itc>inetina; obtilta,e;zingtheir hive stock s... tbhye o.:hharere f-athls'llin7;obeesacidehs beinpuevrch.oz. $805itn and Creswell them engaged themselves to a man named Davis, and Sir Roger went With them They were all in mortal fear of capture for some of their lawless expeditinns, and Mr. Healem asserts th,at 511' Roger was sending, or was supposed by his companions to be about to send, the whole of his money to some lady in Sydney, to be held under a false name. Sir Roger had, besides the S8,- 500 from his ,thare of the business, some $4.000 in nuggets, purebased from va- rious diggers. It was his intention to leave the country with this $12,500 as soon as he could manage it, the nug- gets having been obtained to add color to the story he would tell hid relatives of his luck at the digging* t, SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED. .While the three men were at Davis' Sir Roger disappeared -- murdered, in 11.1r. Healem's opinion. Fie was a drink- er, and when in his Cups let Feut mat- ters connected with his part, which were carefully noted down by Orton in a pocketbook, which is already known to the world. It was these drunken babblings of Sir Roger tbat led to his eventual disappearance and all the events that have followed. Orton and Cresswell always pulled together, and, in Mr. Reale/la's opinion, wee confederates in the contspiraey, When matters were ripe for tha in- trn :el coup. 0.ton, he asserts p-ov- ed false to Cresswell -and secured his incarceration in an asylum as a luntic, Ind then came to England with the capital supplied by his own '58,500, Cresswell's $8,500 and Sir Roger's $12,- 500, ss-hieh in some way was obtained from the Sydney lady. Orton knew Sir Roger's alias equally with his other seorets, and would have had no diffi- culty in getting the money. Such is Mr. Healem's story. 11 11 be Iran it will go a long way toward throwing light upon this remarkable wee. Mr. Healem will be in England for some months. and Sir :Roger and hie lawyers will have plenty of time to sift the story and ascertain hoveXar it is reliable, and whether it will just, ify them in bringing the matter once more before the world. CHEAP. Fair Chutth Worker—Oh, Mr. BasY- thing I Please buy a ticket for our church fair! Siegle tickets 25 cents/ round-trip tickets $10. Mr. Easything--Roundettip ticket for a. church fair? I never heard of snob a. thing! What is it ? Fair Church Worker s -Why, a, rounds trip ticket mouse that the pries, of the tileketis all it will cost you when isou go to the fair. You show the tieket and no one will pereuade yeti, to buy anything' , A TH011,01.1011 SPORT. The Detteon—YOurig Men, don't you know that there's es rainy day beln- penldthrift,-,Mebby there is, but t bay() got gp5 that sews the weather man won't call the turn. Come,- tow, if yOU- .°Vei got any nerve show your uniney,