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Rev. Dr. Talmage Thinks We Had
Better Keep the Bible Intact.
A. despatch Trani Washington ;says:
-Rev. Dr, Talmage preached front
the following texts;
"'Ton wan our mouth filled with
laughter," --Psalm exxvi. 2,
"IIe that sitteth in the Ileavells
than laugh+" -Psalm II. A.
Thirty-eight (Amos does the Bible
make reference 1,o this configuration
of the features and qulok expulsion
of breath which wo call. laughter.
Sometimes to is burn of the sunshine
cued sometimes the midnight. Some-
timee it stirs the sympathies of an-
gels and sometimes the cacllivatiOns
of devils. All healthy imolai) laugh;
,whether 'it pleases the Lord, or cos -
pleases hlm, that depends upon when
wo laugh and at what we laugh, 11;;
theme this morning, is the laughter.
of the Bible, namely: Sarah. laugh, ringing, But his laughter -may 1t
or that of scepticism; David's laugh,
never full on us. It is a condemmt-
or that of spiritual exttl- tion for our sin. It is a wasting
talon; the fool's laugh, away, Wemay let the satirist laugh
or that of sinful merriment; God's at us, and all our companions laugh
f infinite condez^u1
a-
tat• 1 x 1 c
1 tato n
laugh, p t
g,
do • loaven'e laugh, or that of
the
us, and on be made elle target for
n, I the merriment of earth and hell; but
eternal triumph. Scene: an oriental God forbid that wo should over come
tent,. The occupants, old Abraham to the fulfillment of the Prophecy
and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and against elle rejectors of •the truth:
decrepit. Their three guests aro 1
"I
three angels, the Lord Almighty is will laugh at your calm/lay."
of them. In return for the hospital- The other laughter mentioned in
ity shown by the old people, God the Bible, the only one I shall speak
of, is heaven's laughter, or the ex-
pression of eternal triumph. Christ
solid to his disciples:. "Blessed are
ye that weep now, for ye shall
laugh." That makes me lcnow posi-
tively that we are not to spend our
clays in heaven singing long metre -
dimly a pin drops out of the mor
ehinety of wicked men, or a secret
is revealed, the foundation. begins to
rock. Finally the whole thing le do-
molished, Whet is elle meteor? I
will tell you what the matter Is.
That crash of ruin is only the rever-
beration of God's laughter,
There is a great difference between
God's laugh and Ms smile. Ills
smile is etornet beatitude. He smiled
when David sang, and Miriam clap-
ped the cymbals, and Hannah made
garments for her son, and Paul
preached, and John kindled with
apocalyptic vision, and when any
man has anything to do and does
it Well His sm11e1 It is morning
breaking on a rippling sea. It is
heaven at high noon, all the bolls
promises Sarah that she shall be-
come the ancestress of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the
face of God; she does not believe it.
She is affrighted at what she has
done. She denies it, she says: "I
didn't laugh." Then God retorted
with an emphasis tbat silenced all songs. The formalistic and still no-
tions Of heaven that some people
disputation: "But thou did'st
laugh." My friends, the laugh of have would make me miserable. I
scepticism in all the ages is only the
echo of Sarah's laughter. God says
he will accomplish a thing, and men
say it cannot bo done. A great mul-
titude laugh at the miracles. They
say they are contrary to the laws of
nature. What is e. law of nature?
It is God's way of doing a thing.
The next laughter mentioned in the friend who has suddenly come 'to a
Bible is David's laughter, or the fortune, or who has got over same
expression of spiritual exultation, dire sickness, do we not shake hands,
"Then was our mouth filled with do we not laugh with him? And
laughter." IIe got very much down when we get to heaven and see our
sometimes, but there are other chap- friends there, some of them having
tors where, for four or five times ho came up out of great tribulation,
calls upon the people to praise and why we will say to one of them :
exult. It was not a mere twitch of "the last time I saw you, you had
the lips; it was a demonstration been suffering for six weeks under a
that took hold of his whole physical low intermittent," or to another wo
nature. "Then was our mouth filled will say: "You for ten years were
with. laughter." illy friends, this limping with the rllerulze., ism, nod
world will never be converted to you were full of complaints when we
God until Christians cry less and saw you last. I congratulate you
laugh and sing more. The horrors on this eternal recovery." Ye shall
are a poor bait. If people are to laugh. Yes, we shall congratulate
be persuaded to adopt our holy re- all those who have come up out of
ligion, it will be because they have great financial embarraesmeats fn
made up their mind it is a happy this world, because they have be -
religion. They do not like an ultra- come millionaires in heaven. Yo
bilious Christianity. I know there shall laugh. It will be a laugh of
are morbid people who enjoy a fun- reassociation. It is just as natural
eral. They come early to see the for us to laugh when we meet
friends take leave of the corpse, and a friend we have not reel for ten
they steal a ride to the cemetery; years as anything is possible to be
but all healthy people enjoy a mar- natural. When we meet our friends
riagc better than they do a burial. from whom we have been parted ten,
Now, you make the religion of or twenty or thirty years, will it not
Christ sepulchral and hearse -like be with infinite congratulation? Our
and you Brake it repulsive. I say perception quickened, our knowledge
plant the Rose of Sharon along improved, we will know each other
church walks, and columbine to at a flash. We will have to talk
clamber over the church wall, and over all that has happened since we
have a smile on the lip, and Have the have been separated, the one that
mouth filled with holy laughter. has been ten years in heaven telling
There is no man in the world ex- us all that has happened in the ten
cept the Christian that has a right years of his heavenly residence, and
to feel an untrammeled glee. He is we telling him in return all that has
promised that everything is the best happened during the ten years of his
here, and hie is on the way to a de- absence from earth. Ye shall laugh.
light which will take all the proces- I think George Whitfield and John
sions with palm -branches, and all Wesley wlli have a laugh of contempt
the orchestras harped and eymbated for their earthly collisions, and Top -
to express. 01 rejoice evermore, lady and Charles Wesley will have
You know how it is in an army -an a laugh of contempt for their earth -
army in encampment. IP today, ly misunderstandings, and the two
news comes that our side has hada farmers who wore in a law suit all
defeat, and tomorrow another per- their days will have a laugh of con -
tion of the tidings comes, saying:
"we have had another defeat," 1t tempt over their carinii, disturbance
demoralizes all the host. But of the about a line fence. Exemption from
news comes of victory today and
victory tomorrow, the whole army
is impassioned for the contest. Now,
in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ, report fewer defeats; tell us
the victories. Victory over sin and
death and hell. Rejoice evermore,
and again I say rejoice. I believe
there is more religion in a laugh
than in a groan. Anybody can
groan, but to laugh in the midst of
banishment and persecution and in- 1 -�-
describable trials -that requires a
David, a Daniel, a Paul, a modern COST OF FIRING A GUN,
Heroine.
The noxa laughter mentioned in
the Bible that 1' shall speak oras the
fool's laughter, or the expression of
merriment. Solomon was very the trigger," but. as the 1 10 -ton gun
quick at simile; when he makes a only stands ninety-three shots and
is the laughter of afoul like? IIe
comparison we all catch it. What' costs £16,480 to mance, the actual
says "it is the crackling of thorns
under a pot." The kettle is swung,
a bunch of brambles is put under it,
and there is a great noise and a big
blaze, and a sputter and a quick ex-
tinguishment. Then it is darker
than it was before. Fool's laughter.
The most mieere.blo thing on earth
fs te bad man's fun. When I was a
Ind, a book carne out rantitlocl "Dow
Jrei Patent Sermons." It made a
great stir, a very wide laugh nit
over the country', that book dict, 1L
was a caricature of the Christian
ministry and of the Word of God,
and of the day of judgment. 011!
we had a great laugh. Tho com-
mentary on the whole thing is, that
net long ago, the author of that
book died in poverty, shame, de-
bauchery, Iciciced out of society and
cursed of Almighty God, The laugh-
ter of such sten as he is the echo of
their own damnation.
The next laught.e' I shall mention
as being in the llible is the laugh of
God's condemnation. "lie that site
troth it the heavens shall laugh." A brisk, smart -looking man walk -
Again: "Tho Lord will laugh at ed into a dentist's, and asked: Dae -
him." Again: "1 will laugh at his tor, what do you charge to pull a
calamity,' With such domonstra,. tootle? Fifty cents, Are you sure
tion will God greet every Idled of sin you know hew to do it? How many
and wielcodnoss. Bad neon build up do you pull a year? At ).oast throe
3villanies bleier and higher. Good thoueanfl, my good sir, That wil
Men almost pi+.e Gotl because he is do. 3 01011 floe income tax man.
t3o schemed agteinbt by men. Sad- Gerrie-clay.
am glad to know that the heaven of
the Bible Is not only a place of holy
worship but of magnificent sociality.
"What," says you, "will the ringing
laugh go around the circle of the
saved?" I say yes; pure laughter,
holy laughter. It will be a laugh
of congratulutiol/. \Wen we meet a
all annoyance. Immersion en all
gladness. Ye shall laugh. Christ
says, "Ye shall laugh." Yes, it will
be a laugh of triumph. Ohl what
a pleasant thing it will be to stand
on the wall of heaven. and look down
at Satan, and hurl at him defiance,
and see him caged and chained, and
we forever free from his clutches.
Ahat Arial Yes, it will be a laugh
of royal greeting.
The firing of a shell from a 110 -
ton gull costs ,0166-236 for 0001b.
of powder and £130 far the projec-
tile. That is what it costs to "pull
cost of each shot is £340.. A
thousand shots from each of these
guns, which could be fired in a few
minutes, represent an expenditure
equal to the interest on eight and a
half millions of money.
FOR SERVICES RENDERED,
Strange are the experiences of the
great. A famous musician was toll-
ing itis friends of the queer prizes he
had played for when climbing the
ladder of fame.
I remember 11e laughed, being pre-
sented by the public of Rotherham
with half a sheep for a couple of
violin solos,
That's nothing ! exoln.imed a grum-
py old fellow in a corner. A man
gave half a cornet solo only Yes-
terday, down our street in Ashover,
and got an old boot, a chunk, of
coal ,and seventeen eggs t
TACE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON XII, SEOONl QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIE, .JUNE 23,
Text of the 146850u, Rev, axe 1-7, 22-
27-lllomory verses, 3, 4, 27 -Golden
Text, Ilex, xxl, 7-0uaar11e11tere. Vere,'
Rared by the lieu. 17. 1313 Stearns,
i0opyrteht, lean, by American Wen Association.]
1."And I saw a new heaven and a
new earth," Compare Ion, Ixv, 17; lxvi,
22; II Pet. ill, 13, for in these passages
also do we read of a new heaven and
earth. The first two chapters in the Bi-
ble tell us of this earth and Its atmos-
phere without eta, and the last two chap-
ters in Revelation tell of the saute. Our
lesson today is concerning the great con-
5uuunation when the Lord Jesus shall
bare subdued all things unto Himself
and God shall be all in all (I Cor. xv, 28).
The pl'oseat heaven and earth is said to
have passed usvay, but it will be the
same earth changed and purified. Com-
pare II Vet, ill, 5.7, and for a helpful
analogy take II Cor. v, 17. The saying
"no more sea" may refer to the great sea
of Scripture, the Mediterranean, or if it
menus all oceans some people will be
very glad, and all His people will be sat-
isfied.
2. 'Andy I, John, saw the Holy City,
New Jerusalem, coming down from Clod
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorn-
ed for her husband. Verses
0.. 9
1g i•
50 a
fall description of this great city, the
Holy Jerusalem, the bride, the Lamb's
wife, and if the language is figurative It
Is because words cannot tell the glory of
that city; if the description is to be taken
literally, It will be glorious enough to
suit the most ambitious. . -
3, 4. "Behold the tabernacle of God is
with men, and He will dwell with them,"
Earth shall be a part of heaven, for there
shall be no more curse (xxii, 3), and on
this long sin cursed earth there shall nev-
er again bo tears or death or sorrow or
crying or pain. All old things shall truly
be passed away. The devil, after his
thousand years in the pit, shall have
gone to the lake of fire forever (chapter
xx, 7-10), and the last enemy, death,
shell have been destroyed (I Cor. xv, 26).
The whole earth shall be an Eden, and
God as familiar with man on earth as
with Alain and Eve in 'laden. When the
Hbeliever dies, he goes to be with God in
is house, but on the new earth God will
dwell with man in man's house, which
God shall then have made all new.
5. "And Ho that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new."
Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 11, 9),
whether of a nation or a man only (Job
rxxiv, 29); He is the author and finisher.
In the individual He begins the work,
and Ile performs it until the day of Jesus
Christ (Phil. i, 0). As He created all
things, He will also re-create all things,
for Be is able. Lest any should doubt
the truth and reality of these things, the
marriage of the Lamb, the coming of the
kingdom, the new heaven and earth, lie
takes pains to say again and again that
these sayings aro of God and aro true
and faithful (air, 9; xxii, 6). Arany are
longing to have all things made new in
their lives, but cannot see how it is to be
done. Let them remember these words
of our God, "I make all things new."
He who can make a new heaven and
earth can make some new men and wo-
men,
6. "I will give unto him that Is athirst
of the fountain of the water of life free-
ly." He who said on the cross, "It is fin-
ished,' will again say, "It is done," and
the Intl benefits of His great redemption
shall fill the earth. The cry, "Ho, every
one that thirsteth, come!" has long been
sounding, and with greater emphasis
since John's Patens visions, "Let him
that is athirst come, and whosoever will
let him take the water of life freely"
(Ise. ]v, 1; Rev. xxii, 17)
, 7. "He that overcometh shall Inherit all
things, and I will be his God, and he
shall be My epn." If eve would let God
be our exceeding joy, He would so satis-
fy us that the world would lose its hold,
and, believing His exceeding great and
precious promises, we would be filled
with joy. and peace and manifest the
truth of His saying, so tally illustrated in
Heb. xi, that faith overcometh the world
(I John v, 4). Seo His call to us to let
Him satisfy us in II Cor. vi, 14-18. The
committee who prepare the lessons have
suit} that this lesson may be used as a
temperance lesson. Well, it the glories
of the New Jerusalem will not draw men
from intemperance, nor the horrors of
verse 8 make then afraid, their case
looks hopeless indeed.
22, 23. "The glory of God did lighten
it, and the Lamb Is the light thereof."
No temple, and no need of sun or moon;
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are all and suflheient. It eve could see
the glory and the light of that city, we
could not see much to attract us in the
ordinary allurements of this world. He
eatisfleth the longing soul and fitleth the
hungry soul, and it is possible even here
in these mortal bodies to be abundantly
satisfied with the fatness of His house
and drink of the river of His pleasures;
satisfied with favor and full with the
blessing of the Lard (Ps. xxxvi, 8; Jer.
xxxi, 14; Dent. xxxlli, 23).
24. "And the nations of them which
are saved shall wall: in the light of it."
Now we have saved persons, but then,
after Israel as a nation is saved, there
shall be saved nations walking in the
light of this great city. If Christians
were now fully walking in the light ac-
cording to their privilege, may wo not
believe that others, seeing that light,
might want to walk in it too? In my
mail today was a letter containing this
request, "Pray that T may come into
such oneness with Ulm that by the
Christ within me my life may glorify
Him and draw others to Him," Does
your heart say amen to such a request?
1f s0, se7 Pa 0X1v. 19.
23, 26. "They'shall bring the glory and
honor of the nations into it." In Pe.
(xxii, 11, we read that "all kings shall
fall down before Him, all nations shall
serve Him" In Ise. lx, 5, 11, we read
of gates that shall never be shut and of
tho wealth of the nations being brought
(verse 5, margin) for His Name's sake.
Wo think of the men from the east who
brought their gold and other gifts at His
birth, end of efery of Bethany, with her
box of very jli'ecious and costly ointment,
nee we max eye]] ask ourselves if eve are
banging •ging to Him be Itis service all that is
most precious to Fns, 0r aro w0 reserving
301new17at? -"a+
27. "Thy whicll are written in the
Land's book of life." Only such 8111111
linter the city, but nothing or to one not
atomised by tine blood of the Lamb can
enter. See in Lek° x, 20, whet our Lord
thinks of having email hams lu the brink.
et life. If we have life 11 Christ be Hie
;melons bleed, aur names are surely
there, but Vel 3111erw1so (I John v,
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TCHENBW'S BLOCKHOUSES
' A prominent chtu•actei'istic of the
later phases of the war in South Af-
rica is the reversion of both sides to
the methods of a century ago.
Big guns, cavalry charges hollow
squares, and fortified places carried
at the point of the bayonet are all
put on one side, and Boer and Brit-
ish alike trust to mobility, inde-
pendent initiative and sharpshoot-
ing.
Reliance upon small arms of of-
fence has moreover brought in. again
primitive methods of defence. One
of the most striking examples of
this is Lord IOitchener's institution
of a system of blockhouses along the
railway lino lilte that in our illustra-
tion. They are coeval from a mili-
tary point of view with the Martell°.
towers which were built a. hundred
years ago to assist in repelling the
feared Napoleonic invasion, but
which are now obsolete and ruinous.
A third-class gunboat could shell
a Martello tower into a heap of road
metal in half an hour, and a Boer
Long Tom would demolish a block
house at a single shot+ But, as a
protection for riflemen against rifle-
men, the block house is adequate,
Our picture is of Fort Napier in
Natal, and its "permanent garrison"
of nine mon of the King's Liverpool
regiment. The Liverpools were one
of the first regirnents of volunteers
to go out to the front, and were
recently welcomed back to Lon-
don. The fort is solidly built of
cemented masonry, with its walls
pierced on all sides for rifle fire.
SOME EXPENSIVE SLEEPS,
STORIES OF NAPS THAT COST
MONEY AND TROUBLE.
Young Scotch Minister Lost a
Fine Appointment by Going to
Sleep -A London Grocer's Ex-
perience on a Jury -Half -Hour
Snooze Almost Caused a War.
A young and clever, but rather
nervous, Scotch minister received a
telegram one Friday lately asking
him to preach on the following Sun-
day at a' church in an out-of-the-
way part of Sutherlandshire.
It appeared that the congregation
were looking for a new minister,
and there was a strong possibility
of his obtaining the vacancy if his
sermon suited 1118 hearers. He spent
almost all night on his discourse,
and next day started on his long
journey in a very tired condition.
Tho result was that lee fell sound
asleep, and woke at a junction, to
find that someone had relieved him
of his bag, purse, and ticket. He
jumped out in a hurry, and began
to toll his story to the station-mas-
tor, who very kindly said he would
see him on to his destination. To
his Horror, trio unfortunate young
man found that he had absolutely
forgotten the name of the place.
The station -master's suspicions were
aroused, and, despite his protests,
the minister was hauled off to tho
police station. Ile missed his last
train, missed his appointment and
made his way home on Monday,
with a fixed resolve never again to in-
dulge in a sleep in a train.
An English railway carriage was
recently the scene of a still more
EXPENSIVE NAP.
Three young Germans were travel-
ling together, two of whom Were
brothers, the third a chance acquain-
tance. Number three went to sleep,
had a nightmare, and, under the im-
pression that the others were about
to murder him, sprang to the door
tluew it open and flung himself out..
The other two wore arrested for
attempted murder, and, as the ia-
jurod man remained insensible, they
were held for trial. It happened
that one of them wa8 on his way
back to serve his time in the Ger-
man army. The delay made it im-
possible to join in time. When he
was at length set fa'eo, and did ar-
rive at the depot, he was arrested as
a deserter, and suffered a month's
rigorous imprisonment before the
truth wa8 ascertained,
There is a South London grocer
whose tendency to stoutness, per-
haps, explains his little habit of
taking five-minute cat -naps at odd
ulnas aurin!( the day. A foe 1ao11the
ago he tune called to 501•VO o11 e
jury, It was 13. long and dreary
casn, and towards the tied of the deer
hablb proved too fieronle, aha ho
dropped off, '1'11e dale Mame for the
fury to 1'0eelvo their pity and g0
hoaa0; but when it Caine to the gro-
001"11 turn the coroner suddenly reale
teed that title juror was sound tee-
loep, +-
Lbetve h1111 anon," • + he said;
"don't wake ]rim up," So lie was
lett, lupoid, to slumber in Immo in
the dark court room, The moot
wan more el'Iotts. Walling sudden-
ly, feud unable to imagine whore ho
tuns, the sleepy greet' fell out of the
elle,-box, and twisted his ankle so
badly that 11e wan
;LAID 1W Iron SIX '1Y17EI£S.
A pat= of holt on boar very
Melly 5011501 t1 eortons 1•uplur3 be-
t1V@M1 Ilrustl and Portugitr some
.1801303 ago, A I'Ortngeoso n1531--Of-war
WAX elp*EL3d j31 a .South 0razilien
harbor, and groat. pi'ep1txatign8 were
made to welcome her. A 33)1n1ber of
old muzzle -loading guns were charge
ed with powder, and a guard sta-
tioned to fire them.
The day was hot, and the Portu-
guese vessel very slow about putting
in an appearance. Finally, the ofa-
cer in charge fell asleep in the very
act of lighting a cigar, and his mon
lost no time in following his ex-
ample. Suddenly one of thein was
awakened by a steamer's whistle, He
sprang up, and roused his officer, A
big vessel was entering the harbor.
"Fire!" yelled the officer. And the
guns wc1113 off with one bang, start-
ling the captain of,the English
tramp -steamer "Carnaron" into the
belief that a new revolution was tak-
ing place.
Alas! there was no powder for an-
other charge; so, when the Portu-
lguese ship steamed up half an hour
ater, her captain's first business was
to inquire why the common courtesy
of a salute had been omitted. Nor
was he satisfied t,l l ho had obtained
a specific apology from headquarters.
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HOW JAPAN WAS MODERNIZED
•
A Large Arany and Navy P7'ocee-
eary to Absorb Her Ex -War-
riors.
The man who have mado Japan-
Marqulso Ito, Count Itagaki and
others now dead-woro keen -sighted
enough to see that to preserve tho
independence and dignity of their
country it was necessary to fight the
foreigner with his own weapons,
They were all men belonging to the
hereditary gentry of Japan, but, as
it woro, to the democracy of gentil-
ity, None of them belonged to high
families, and in the old order of
things their splendid abilities would
not have raised them from obscurity.
Their personal ambitions, therefore,
coincided exactly wvith the policy
they caw was necessary for their
country's welfare.
Having obtained the power they
sot to work with minds enlightened
by foreign travel and totally eman-
cipated from old-fashioned ideas. Al-
most at a blow, as preparation for
the grand scheme of modernization,
they destroyed the old feudal system
and created a now order of society.
But this tremendous revolution
brought with it consequences which
have had a vast effect on the coun-
try's policy. It is not difficult in a
more or loss absolute country to
sweep away an institution by a
stroke of the pen, but it le impose
Bible to do so without a meet social
disturbance.
A groat military class -the armed
retainers of the old alobility, mon
bred only to fighting --disdaining
labor, mud ai ey° all, trade -Were
practically cast adrift without means
of livelihood. It was at one time 110
uncommon thing to find a messenger
"boy" or 0. jinriksha coolie whose
ancestors had been soldiers 'or a
hundred generations, and who con-
Sldcrad himself vastly higher, oath In
hie poverty, than the millionaire
103011111$ whom ho sorvod,
This °hese was a groat longe' tool
Olnbttl•ra9Slllerlt to the a'eforaned g0w
erhlnoht, Smile larovieton heel to 110
made for #hell, held revolutionary
outbreaks hard and #1001'0 eli(wel it
would Have been 011, a largo scaio, A.
big pollee te've,-maneeessocr•ti,Ylat1.et�M
to a fo1ign eye --tett.; 13rfead, Tito
army wenn proemeee)vely .ina1'eiu''ed,
chiefly', perhtlps, in the idea, that the
aelaLy bf the eonntry daulealded it,
but, lar#ly to dtopese of the rats''.
of dlsoklntoo totl ex-,vnrriors. '1`11e
expeami In oaf tine navy Nether holm0d
to absorb 'Lhasa Men,
..
]Darling, 11e erted In tender tortes,
1 'never loved hut, theca 'Phe11 we
meet part, :the Maid .rep71'ed1i'rb 1ayn-
ateers for m0.,
EARLY SYMPTOMS OP CONSUMPTION
It Ie By 120 Moats Eaay to Rpoogaize
the Dlseaso in Its 131011111ngy,
1H01v that the valuer cif the open -nix
treatment of emetumpt10xt has been
demonstrated, the great importance
of au early diagnosis• 01 the disease
le evident, t
lerilfertienately, it ht' by no Mean8
eaafy to recognize tbo disease in tee
inelaienoy, for the early symptoms aro
net distinctive, and the 0anse ,of the
failing health 15 often not suspect-
ed until the disease has become family
e5tabliglled.
The symptoms calling attention es-
pecially to disease of trio lungs are
generally late be appearing, and the
Pb3'818ianl'a suspicions will usually
have boon aroused long before there is
any 01001•e dough or profuse expec-
toration.
At first there l5' merely a failing.
off in health ; the pexson is "a little
below pax," and his friends remark
that 11e i.0 losing flesh, He Is not ao-
#wally ill, and his condition Causes
him little anxiety, being attributed'
to it Iru011 of work,, or to worriment
cfausad by a business hitch or come
family trouble.
93ut as time goee on, and the sup-
posed cause of the trouble has been
removed, the patient does not reoov-
,,
Or his t1 n L
n e h �the cont..:' � the
oncontrary y, t e
gradual decline continues and a no-
t'ioeable pallor:' appears. The lips are
bluish,
tha eyes axe abnormally white,
the pinkieb hue of the nails fades out,
the mucous rnemlarwne of the mouth.
Ls pale, fn nam ioal language, the pa-
tient is anaemi0.
Thin pallor hs a susploious sign ; eta
another symptom of marked signific-
1nee is a rapid pulse, one that beats
oontinuouslyninety , or one hundred
times a minute. At this time there
is usually also, more or less fever, al-
though it may bo so slight as to bo
detected only by a frequent use of
the tbeymometer. •
A. fourth symptom of importance is
ineseased perspiration,usually most
marked in the first hours after mid-
ntght-night sweats -but sometimes
troublesome in the daytime as well.
Cough during this period is as .of-
ten abeent as present, and in any
case is seldom more than a nervous
hacking ; later Lt became.% more per-
eistemt, and sone expectoration ap-
pears. But by this time the physi-
cian can generally detect signs of
lung trouble by an 'examination of
the chest, and the discovery of tuber -
cube bacilli when the expectorated
matter is ntudisd under the micro -
seeps will remove all adoubts as to the
naturae of the malady.
Of contras, one who has persistent
anaemia, a !rapid pulse, night sweats,
and perhaps fever, is not necessarily
in the early stages of consumption,
although there f5 ground for sus-
picion Even if he is, however, there
need be no excessive alarm, for the
disease at tbis stage is almost posi-
tively 01310011)15, and its early detco-
tion la.taeaefore a blessing.
WEALTH AND FOOD.
London 1,nneet Thinks the Rich Fare No
Bolter Than the Poor.
The man of wealth (Ville natural-
ly pays considerably more for big
breakfast, luncheon and dinner than
does, say, the mechanic, but is he any
the baiter for it, mentally and physi-
cally? We doubt it.
We shell be pretty correct in stat-
ing that the man who buys common
eggs instead of plovers.' eggs, and
eaif's head instead of turtle, and a
pigeon instead of a partridge, is the
garner, at any rate from: the econo-
mically nutritive paint of view. In
other words, the price of an article
of food by no means sets upon its
food velaue and the difference repre-
sented between the price of cham-
pagne and ginger beer, between that
et oysters and coekbo3, etc., is the
price paid for pleasing the palate,
which extravagance is probably the
penalty of a mental rather than of a
bodily demand.
But physiologically it es akin to
substituting diamonds for coals in the
steam engine. Luxurious foods aro,
strictly speaking, creature eOmforts,
wwll[le plain foods, are bodily necoesi-
ties. It must be admitted, however,
that, as a rule, oboicc-tasting game
and meats` are necessarily tender and
therefore easy of assimilation. But
clearly tbsre must be a limit to tbo
appropriation of food by the body,
anal this limit may be reached jest ad
easily by means of good, plain and
bender food Be by good of a rarer
sort.
Aooariling to there view there must
be great pbysiologioal extravagance
going on from day to day. In the
matter of beverages the soma port of
extravagance occurs. Enormous
prices are given for a particularly
choice wine, but here, again, it is
practically certain tbat the human
economy gains little or nothing by it.
Dome the men who drinks a claret
08 choice vintage at, !say, 10 shillings
a bottle, derive any material advant-
age over the man who drinks his
shilling bottle of vin ordinaire? It Is
doubttul, In any case, the prices ask-
ed for mama at big hotels are sot nlon-
atrcatsly high and the wino cleared is
so often bad that this fact alone na-
g
Daunts for an increasing demand for
warbl:1ya dinner beverage, There
to obvious, , considerable physiolo-
gical ,sin and Wantonness committed
in the oho-leo,oe food and in the quan-
tity oonsu'n:ad.
ELECTRIC LIGITT AND THE
EYES.
A Russian medicrel man has decid-
ed that the electric light is least in-
jurious to the eyes. Ifo says that
the oftener the lids are olosod the
greater the fatigue and consequent
injury. By experiments he finds that
the lids would close with different 11-
lumihations' per minute; candle light,
6.8; gen, 2.83 sun, 2.2; elecl,ric 11g11t,
1.80
at
Tho hast Indium famine created a
world's record In. famine relief, tizere
having been six edition people de-
pendent on charity for many weeks;,
IN CAMP AND HARBOTJL,
NAVAL AND MILITARY NOTES 01
THE BRITISH EMPIRE,
Condoneed paragraphs or entereet to
Bete Military and Civilian -MAW
Pommy Atlring ?Faroe be Defioveol
Countries,
The 3rd Suffolk ltlillitto, wv1ie11 wag
embodied in December, 1899, end.
tablet Mai been doing 'ganetion duty
at Guerniey and. Alderney for 15
menthe, has Left Guarnsoy for 1Oo1-
o11eel7er: ,
Chnrje.e ]asking, 17th Lancers, who
fought at Balaclava, and whose fath-
er was ea Watorloe ami formerly kept
a royal lodge in Windsor Great Park,
le an ennead* of !Windsor wvorkhott s.
7'he di ectars of the Crystal Palace
have given a lnirge Member o1. acason
tielcets'foe the forthcoming naval and
military exhibitions, to be sold for the
sole benefit of the Southern' and Sail-
ors' Families' Association,, , 4
At Hythe recently' h'llajor-General
Syr lan'Hamilton was presented with
the freedom: of that boro'u,gh in ro-
eognition of his serviaes:in South Af-
rio•a, S,lb,sequen5t to the presentation
there meas a reception and a banquet:
Lieut. -General Sir Alfred Gartoibe, as
goon as thre ooloplioretiong in China
are settled, and hill ifervhces can saf 0-
ly be spared from the oommamd of the
troops, well go to India direct in-
,st0ad of returning to England.
Lieut. -Col. W. D. Connor, R.E., lento
for a year or thvo past ha,s been com-
manding Royal Engineers at Dover,
has received an appointment in Can-
ada, and Major E. J. Boyea, R.E., brie
bean gazotted to sucoeed him at Dov-
er.
The 3rd Battalion, 7th Fusil'ers,
Clay of London Regiment, w•hi011 was
sent out to Greta in 1898, and thence
were sent to Gibraltar, where they,
aro BOW quartered, under the come
mane of Lieutenant -Coronet G. E.
Briggs, aro to be moved direct to
Egypt. , •
Orders have been issued at Alder-
shot for the 1st and 2nd Battalions of
the Royal Garrison Regiment to be
e;rnvpleted forthwith to full estale-
Ibshmeent from the non -toms. and men
now present or attached to the bat-
talion. This 15 with a view to their
earlier embarkation for the Mediter-
ranean.
Addressing his constituents at Alde-
burgh, Capt. Pretymnn, M.P., aLord
of the Admiralty, spoke with grati-
fication of a recent visit he had paid
to the Mediterranean Squadron. On
the occasion to which ' he referred 11,-
000 .sailers and marines were landed
at 11llaltu, being Lhe largest 'number
of men landed from a fleet in the hiae-
tory of the world.
General Sir Evelyn Wood, P.C., G,
C. 13., Adjutant -General of the forces,
on the 18th ult. entered upon his
fiftieth year in waive oervice. IHe
jellied the Royal Navy on the 18th of
April,1852, wahen he was just fourtr013.
In 1855, in his eighteenth year, he left
the navy for the army, recolvtmg aq,
oornet'•s commission in the 13th Lighf
Dragoons, 130180 the 13111 Hussars.
Who aerobe Lord Roberts' de-
spai:che,s? They are geld bo be the
work of Lieut. -Col. H. V. Cowan, R.H.
A., an officer With brilliant Afghan
service. The Duke of Wellington was
Once told that he would live in peo-
ple's m01010003 more for the bearuti-
ful ;style of Wellington's despatches
than for the merits of his viotorie'tfr
The Dube replied: -"Yes, I didn't
think Glenwood had it In him:"
It seemlls that he Norville oirales
thane is much surprise that, although'
for the relief of Tiurmasi Sir James
WillcocW3 wee awarded a K.C.M.G:
and the long overdue brevet -colon•
clay, he has received no recognition
whatever of his conduct of the ate
portent and very arduous campaign
which began only after Kumlash had
been relieved and ended with the bat-
tle of 0b01310a; waren the Ashantis
were oempletoly and finally defeat-
ed.
ENGLAND'S VAGRANTS.
Her Tramps Have Gone to the Al
rican War Apparently.
One of the Most notable docu-
ments issued in connection with
poor law administration for many
years is that which has just been
prepared by the English local gov-
ornment board on the subject of
vagrancy in the eastern counties.;
For generations the tramps and calm
ual class had been the despair of Sas
eine reformers;" and the hardest prod
blow of all for poor law administra,
tors. If wo are to believe those fig-
ures, this class is now decreasing so
rapidly that within a very few ,oars
it will bo extinct if the present roto
of decrease continues:. The report,
gives the number of cosuals in Nore
folk and Suffolk for the four years,
1897-1900. In Norfolk the Iguros
for the four years aro. 29,037; 24,-
128; 15,095; and last year only 9,-
7SJe In Suffolk the corrosJo11tlipg
docrOase Is from 23,908 to 12,838.
For the two counties the decrease is
just 60 per ceut. From the details
of the return wo gather that the de-
crease is general over 88 out of 39
poor 1(W unions of ilnst Angina.
Tito most conservative ljefendors oro
thialg5 as they aro will hear of the
disappearance of the tramp in the
country in any considerable numbers
in .critic oro. emeiloymont. A few
stele there slat 010e. hull 1,114.
4s'ra. annJOrlty of e.asuo1s are the
M ears rand sonil-rxizninals who de-
Meer:xteayprefer avagrant lilo auld a
11018g vpon odds and ends qutstion-
slab' picked up to nay attempt at
tattled : inelnalaye et is this class
:10119th :Ming ebsor1od in semo way
Std o11blotl. :.AL ;any ante it 15 ci3sap"
voel'tm from 'the roads and casual
weeds, and with it 18 decreasing
Munni the Ireent rinplcesanit of all the
reeponslbllj,tles resiting upon proVixi-
eiul berths of hu0rdiaas.,