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Tiaqi with r,r, steadily, thongli inovillingly, 1 hey retre hark t bat I 01,11j. out harshly ea the ei h''ir tanks ilieduishing ef .sen lte _„ nir, eonesri with is;,,e1's ci•y .• ,/1•i f..re Ili" 1,11.0 !Iva° Noel files 10 eisell A. elem., bright neamili 4, a calm 1,1110 Nell ar(11" : (1•IIX IiriII01 I " l''' .Priug. i'a'sv'tst1 at 11.81 " ', ittio k lett with ,alls a thii.1 of gently rippling up tlie henelt at Algiets, "1"1 the .e....•Pilig stuekt..1.1t, is.'Iv ef s wily the regime..., their eolours ....ill 0...vitiet whiel, is ,L1 1 1,1, 1,..,;..1,4„1,0e, hum, for .1, AVM,' W110 has eoutrived 1., :.,....h, unre.. 1 riumphantly, Ing on their awes the loek of , solitary fee1,1.11..„4„, weei.i..,, ;„ e11,1 fee. ,rh0 ,sdv0.1 through the grasses int.. lie! 01(11111. leen W110 IslIfler there is no (bailee. ile. ...sus maa t i and tall ftem . i owner's Nee is not at eds.. might a „..c.„11,,,, Hon sect „one. does that it) of Au s atm ., . . n 1 h ill!. thetio 0110. It is tee stsisi, tee hard and Aux urmus I " burst upon the meanie- the hand of the lii.utent ant, who hoes them bitter. Yet, looking at the asep-set gulf arbiters' ease. Now rtsidiIy they sni ing to a8 he drops 11'01111(11Si to the death ; mealier eyes, now that theY 1100 turned to the smi their amiss -how luiekly twit man 10 ill 11111 seizes them anothee, emelt it] turn tut ; • • 1 1 11 t Denier holds mg blue sett rencewards, oue sees a world of tenderness alai faithful affection In their sad gaze, 01 whom IR he thinking? His wife? No —for her who should now be his wife le that repellent mask worn week hides from tell AN IDEAL ARISTOURAOY. At It (1,11111 01.1111.11 fi'0111 tilt' stoat. or ;lie 1,• at iat.i ;vomit.. ra tossed" W.I. •• 1..1(10..1(.• 1 oil (t11.1 i• 1,1111 1 1.010111 lit( II. 0, 1 staisies.' That t..1 Wiell 11 WIWI lip(Ei..,(,(o, T110 1110.11 AV.05 111 ilR1 the 21,1, of us. sys may hsse het 1,11, oyas thee he ; but eve a., 1101 (100 With elle eyi.s. Et erylsely 1,81 of i.1,1 MA. 11,:3 1.4,1104 p sates ate hymns ale sph 111131 LATEST BY CABLE . ,.! 11,q11.111. "lay ri, 4,1,4011. ti0:13, la+OlitO ' • rest 110 eke not ChriNtians S1GRI INOIBBNT. '4'1-1(1 i1'07 11;(1.1‘1‘C. [111;1,."..:;r1 I i ',ILIA, 1 il•Al .1. Now it is also Um. igeiliteiti Natters, ler noisi,,,t1 instrument Ividell wakes discord ,,„ , in the chsist so,,,,,,,gaisos, ath,i11 lam 1 11000 tuts been ne such other object lesson. 1111111 1/.40114 10 IL tinureCsnoiety After what in soma 11.neopeen polities for a deeade as pattern ;41.111 the ideal Clivistian Chafe!' he that which fluttered the Bourses of she world. place, am t ie it e sun , m s )., , drawn up in the moonlight against a seem. them, and wit It them in the midst t he re. ki0.100 that, VI 11 000 (V1 1 II 0111' 1111100. 1 110 0OLII1 1117.1..1 sod t..1(0.((./11...1 '( In 0111' Wily. Say ingly emintless swarm of amity A Mini, 1010 1111011111g fIllgIllellt (1011111101100 11 slow retreat . mind reeks ota through tie? lens of 11.0 op", 11;;, .1(„1,),,,;.;,,,, ; in eat, Imy, mfty 11,c, 11op . at the beginning of the last week. There as through a, glass, and /10 SOOS. But 11040 OM, 0,,,,, i„ Itu,i, Oa nutulipr 01 ijugerA tries a declare ion that three Consuls in the advance from the woml RIO its shadow. towards the men body, which is also retir• i The fight begins in eavneta. 11 Is of no Lig. Swiftly, with a sharp cry, Denier falls, ; 'flUe11 W" "0" 16"11 013 0 "Yes "Pend' aPoll which the priest shall hold up when lie pro. Grecian Arehipelage had informed their light skientish, as lcoel realizes in the first nomices the Ismeilietion is a matter ol!Int:see• Ministers at. Cousisentinople that a British „ A vons gr el le, Neel is, A. y 0, ng ,„,p„,,,1 '', the seeing mind. Every summer ..ow.ii 1 , i t , ,,,l pm,i,!., 0 over 10 sac Ear.i.w, ligion. Mint, anise and cummin' 1 the tithing heart. mhee„gh her wh„g„ „„, few moments, but a, t eiy sot ions Ian. - o• soc &lamas nifoll what tiro the Gangs about which we eau I. agree. 1.1"‘ fl'`I lar"lua 'fluu awl' gum' uu 'ligrii an stable mauve could net hear the peoef of hand tight against an inftuanted horde—the ere be too Joins Gig groat majority. ! ","" 'alas'. lbeY 010011(10 1.100S 110 live alone in the crowd, more infuriated that where they expeeted Desperately. Noel seizes them, the poor, torn i 1.110)' ithuw• Tin, na,st expert oculist can. wc are at 0110 in the essentials, We ORO island by Mitylene. pitilessfy stern, if lost, feared 11.1111 unloved II the old tinie 11110 t1111 011t 1 Ot 11 fLAI S 0 ). rattled around Europe like a to find the enemy in unsuspicious sleep -4111 e01011111, Lk IS morning waving IS) proudly !Mt make a (1,a11 "lid see• I Tier° Witii a say the Apostles' Creed together, But We Thili t r • easy prey—they find them ready, waiting over Se many pastel heads 1 How eau be :0.'0" in" ' „ • . , - 1 --•• ..,,,,it each 'Aber when We ought to be fight- 1 . • . i , . ,• save by the (lees 01(1 mother whome faithful . sestets/1 ( eptessieg the markets, frights eagerly to receive them at the point of the save them from istssing into the enetny'a ' ; sitiCy018, 14.1111 even tneu 011.10 more than tiny- igg the siosog, 1,s0,30,1, our ilitterent nee,- ' affeetitm is the only oasts 1.1 the desert of las • 1 I fall an hour passes Noel is slight. hand ? He grinds his teeth savagely at the . I I n y e se in all Gree..e. It is the mind that mesa, weer aiggeeta e„gi,,,,,,tuse. 111i„a , ening investors, awl unsettling everything. dead hopes. Of hsr is he thillkillg 1101V• 41•1111 I • • I ' r• f .' 1 ' • that tender, subdued light in his grey eyes. Ilia thoughts are, however abruptly brought those he has strangled. Half the little beak from their trassp, 1,.y the shri„ise 1„;11 band are dead ra• dying, and still the Arabs laughtee of some half a dozen street tateties crowd uponthem, thoughthey cancottetheir who 1.„011 as„.„ 1,011,1llen on te the hetimh, dead by fifties. !Tastily leaving a, lea out string. The pup is brutally !long into the " Surpsised by Arabs 1 send help at once !" sea, then pulled back, This operation is As Ile ("hes' a "badow Passes between I" , 6 .. 111 . ly 'WM111110.1, Jack also by tile knives of thought, limy tan lie s•tve them ? How t • „ , 1 • 1 . g 1 • f ,, I 1 . . , ti„)„,,,,,,,,i ; as unnoseeing, we cannet (smart tee eenfes• The Christian i:Iiiireh is a niiglity giant, mutes and he falls 1—the selen roar of battle ; sum of blinail,,,,,.A.iii,r ,'a:11,,,.,,I.:..i.i..11;i,:,iiii:iet.Etilics 'ir,,i,v.r,,,,;;,is,,,,i,T 11c:3%1,311i! 1111:11.1,s0tvie)(1,Villimiattii,11,4 iotsf ad. with, which 0ur dying r.;00tuey,s Aram. semi:ling faint awl far away lit his ears, tel'1441 thinking' Ills enemy seizes the eelours -the coveted ; grize for that 1 NVe are ali lasaliers of the it, vjuteol• ',Vet. 1.111• wore, the flesh aiel the g0'1(1"" is 10 l's ushered 121' Ev'm ""u. tke alpitatiens have not all subsided, and 110111. I 10 111/, giant is Mind, and cannot 1 uoloties—but Noel with the strewth of des- 1 111bal Illam This blind man, who at first /4(430 nothing tell tit. ell'erenc.. bet ween a man and a tree, pitch tioaieral 11e1W011011e08 exists that very peeR1i011, (100per11.10 for the honour of his 1 the next few days will wituese . • ' • • • I .1t1 I but a univereal blaeliness, utesettelY 6'"I• kis between tie: little and the big. And the Pr"bablY 1i/either picnic it' the news or a rumor af- giant is bresking tWigs, when be ought to .1 1 • l' 0 t .01 • 4 x 1 dragging poor little mongvel pup by a (if his pooket-iniok, Noel morilibles rapidly 1 repented many times to the infinite amuse- and the moon ; he leoks tip, it is the body meta of the lookers-on, though Neat time of his faithful leek, who, eves watchful, has the pup is pulled back it is feehlei. alitt lint. sprung across his shoulder at the throat of per. It. is, in feet, half drowned, when the one whose knife in seethes second. weed tables ere turned, and four of its torinentors have dealt hint his denth•blow. A film messure their length on the ground. The passes across Noel's stern eyes. ffe thinks rescuing hand seizes tho string end lifts the of the old mother at home who owes the poor, little dripping beast up to the sheltev , lire of hu " boy" to the devotion of a of a pair of strong ROMA, where it cuddles ; mongrel picked up in the streets. First itself with all its remaining strength, feuline • '10'111 3101113g 1110 e0010r, Noel then pats Gm instinctively thet there. WRS safety, '1 paper in. Jack's inotali, fuel says, pointing " Pour little beast !" says Neel, the (has- • in the directton of the other eamp : " La gents compassionately, and his es•es soften bag ; an regiment ; au Capitaine 1../anies." and grow pitiful as he looks do wn on the One quick look in Noel's lace and the dog helpless, dumb creature he has rescued ; . is gone, swift as the wind, through tbe Arab then he carries it home and washes and dries; horde. Some few knives are thsown after that that it, and feeds it, then lays it ill 11, nice 110.4 of • klia eafelaislY. LI1Ile ra"k theY sweet. clean hay. I flying form will bring up t \ ViCC one hundred 0 se,e, you run; 11 10,, bnast, wha, shall 1 I Rea SIXty 111(..11 it: -.411,11151 1.11V111—ralier dot hey call you ?" says Noel, regarding his p,,,,, , take it for some stray jtokal surprised out with matiefuetion 0.0 it W11111)010 pity ,101,11,1! of his lair. Another half-hour passes, Noel his meagre remit the day after , 1,, ,,,..,,,,,,,,„. 1 grows more and mere anxious, Jack has not With all the iiNcordetna of peal; the pep! rettti•ned. Has he been killed—bis faithful has already almost forgotten the .tilreringsof : (log 1 A enrious feeling contracts his heart yesterday, end is rejoicing in the delight of , at the thought. The littlebandis vei..). small the pt•esent. I nsw 1 yet still it Imes compactly tngether. " ;leek," says Noel reflectively. 0 1 e ! There us a terrible look on the men's faces, Jack, mon ell, o," pulling the dog to him and ; The look of those who have nothing to hope looking into its wistful, almost [Inman, , for further but death. yet are proud to die heels te back, la'"um "Yee, " Your name is Jack, aml with I us bravo 1110,1. swatal 111 hand, this name is tt greet responsibility, for / giy, ' comrades and brothers to the end, a in memory of an English youth I knew and loved, who died like a hero to save his regiment'seolours. Seeyou 1,0(1101 worthily!" Jack Belts his master's hands, wags his tail, and returns eageily to an old top boot with which he has been tussling valiantly since easly morn. Judge him not severely, fair reader, He is young yet, and reeks little of the glorious future in store for Min. Our greatest heroes have played contentedly witInt rattle, and found thetr chief joy in a stick of chocolate. For some weeks Jask lives a happy, idle life, which agrees with him 0010811 that he is hardly recognisable. Nis tnetnovies of the past have become 50 lazy, ne is not at all sure they are not nightmat•es. It seems bsolutely absurd to think there Over WI41 a Gine W11011 1/10W5 were as thick as—black- berries he would say wore he English, but, being Algerian, he substitutes " dates "; and how he could ever have lived without old top boots and tunics to play with seems numb too impossible to be true. One day, however, .1 aeles idle happiness is rudely disturbed. His master seizes him by the scruff of his neck, and, placing the astonished pup before him, commences his training seriously. Life from this moment no longer a time of thoughtless, happy boot gnav ing., but el hard work etul earnest study. Jaels es learning t 0 lesionte e. soldier ; and really, after the trst, month 00 so, he takes to it wends rfully, me shows quite a remarkable sptituile. I IV soon legrus the drill, and also to distinguish the officers, neecommissioned °filets's, and privates, one from the other ; and amongst the two former eau piek out anyone 111(1110(1 to him without the slightest hesitation. The regi- ment is very proud of .1 aek—proud of his cleverness and otelligenee, 11 is proud of his master's lumen and tried courage. Some months pass eneventfully eeough. Then news comes that the Arabs further in• land are hecoming troublesome, and two or three companies, of which Noel's is one, are told off to teach those unruly sons of the desert to keep quiet. The thought of a change of many clays' march and EL skirmish, though it be but with Arabs, sends the blood coursing warmly through Noel's veins ; and he looks every inch a soldier as he marches along in the early inerning at the head of his company, whilst Jack shows his joy by wild bounds and barks as he tears hither and thither amongst the small wood growth that borders the track. For some days nothing occurs, The disturbing element seems tO have disappeared from off the facie of the earth. The soldiers aro beginning to grum- ble at having nothing to do'Ini sit on their heels, smoking, relating and listening to stories each man knows as well as his 00011 mane. Jack diverts them a little ; but the dog is (811 indefatigable sportsman, the on the Inuit from earliest niotning until latest oveuleg ; and woe be to the bird or beast who sleeps toosoundly or thinks too deeply I He is speedily aroused to a disagreeable sense of the present by out. friend's sharp teeth. One night, howevev, instead of staying out late, jack comes in at nightfall, ends Ins master, lays his muzzle, on Noel's knee, and looktim up in his face, gives 1•0111: LO (4 prolonged howl, then, erasing his nose, sniffs uneasily around. Persuaded by the dog's unusual behaviour that something is wrong, Noel plaoes his sentinels with extect awe and in greater numbers round the camp, followed in all his movements by Jack, who seems thoroughly 111101403% The lights aro out, the camp is in darkness, 001d seeming sleep, yet evevy soldier is equipped, his weapons ready LO 11R11(1. Noel sits Motu) in his tent, Jack at his feet, his ears full -000k - ell, his intelligent oyes wide open. Noel is thinking of the other two companies en - Camped a mile and a balf away. i'Pray God, he says to himself, that if attack there be, it may not be on my unprepared comrades, but on the little band 11010 waiting in breath - loss eagerness." Soddenly hats sits rip, and a, low, half- suppvesschl growl breaks from hitt. Noel holds up n, weaning finger, and steps quietly to tho opening of the tent, Ile listens in- tently, bet no sound breaks Gm stillness of night save ri, faint rustling that may be the wind. in the leaves, or perchance the deep - drawn breath of 1 60 mon waiting silently for victory—or detail, The 1110011 shines brightly,lightieg up wholly one-half of the camp. Nuolean almost 800 every blade of grass quivering in the feint night breeze*, The ether half lies in total darkness, wrapped in the black shadow of a thick Weed beyond, Towards this wood man and clog turn with instinetive suspicion, deal: trembles violently, his att,ention riveted on a largo clump of' trees, apparently lying Again that dark, flying ferm passes through the Arab crowd, and arrives pant. ing at Noel's feet. A paper is in its mouth with these words " Hold fast ; will lettnek from the veer, —Daniels" Tenderly caressing Jack, 1st oel cries to his men " Courage ! courage ! help is coining ! Forward ! " Even as he speaks, the sound of approach. ing bugles breaks fovth, and the tramp of many feet tells of the help at hand. With a loud cry of " En avant !en avant !" 'Noel and his little band dash forward. Thus attacked, front and rear, the Arabs lose heart, and flee precipitately in ;visit disorder. In another half•hour nothing remains of them but their dead an d wounded. Noel's first thought is for his woanded men, his second for his brave dog. Now that the excitement is over, Jack presents a, very limp and feeble appearance ; he has had more than his share of knife slashes, though fortunately all are ileshwounds. Noel finds him busily cleaning himself with his little remaining strength, giving vent 110e.• and again to the most piteous cries, as his rough tongue passes over the wounds. 1.t sight of his master he tries to rise and vag Ins tail, but his strength fails him, and, with a little plaintive moan, he sinks clown. With an expressioa of tenderness rare to his rugged Mee, Noel shams me gathers up 11 10 wounded comrade in his arms, and staggers to his tent, for 110, too is wounded, For a little while it seemed as if men had already heard the first sound of a cannon - eyes half .ipen. Anil Christ said, " you last great (ems, fires ic The '11ernuen falls 1 without a groan. din of battle sounds 1 see anYfidt.14 lu anti l he man II0311"elSol ' 1 . 1(00 men, for I behold them as trees, walk. fainter and fainter. Sweet theughts of farewell t.o the dear 11101 her stir 11 Mt for it ing." Ile saw 111011, R.111.1 he was quite sore moment. Then the sense of feeling op. I that, tkeS were men hadallsa thee Were WRIKI0g 11.1101It like tee.08. Wigglier the men presses him. " Is this death ?" he asks 1010. leeked to len like trees, et. the trees seemed self. A pitiful whine breaks on his deafen- ed ears •, W(11•111 tongue Ras his blood- stained faue, I•fe forees his eyes open. Over him stands Jack, the agonised look of a human being ill IliS brown eyes. " (toed dog 1 brave dog !" he says, feebly, and smiles. Then a thought oomes to him. He collects his remaining strength, rolls the colours tight round their broken staff, and places them in the dog's mouth. " Allez," he says, faintly " Allez au suppose that, be has got ft lot «1 big trees trees and men. regiment." together and built himself a fine house out of them, isn't he mere of a man on that oomingesoeiety and the faultsof the Church, It is all very well to talk about the short - Jack, loth to leave his master thus, yet stays, his eyes pleading not to be sent account'? And so, isn't a tree te part of a away. Man Doesn't it to the making of man- but we must remember that there is no such " Allez--allez," repeats Noel, almost thing 110 abstract society, nor an abstract Church. These names mean us. Society means ell of us eensidered socially. Th Chureh metes all of us considered coolest. astically. Every time we are eotinted in. So.:levy is blind, alai the Church IS blind, because you and I (10 1101 see as clearly RS we might. Look once more at this mistaken blind man. Is there not a certain familiarity in the features of his fnce? Where have we looked into his blind eyes before ? Ah, yes ; in wear own mirrois r know a great many people, and could set down their names and residences upon a sheet of paper, and would cnly hesitate shout the stepping place, who are as blind as that blind man was Bethsaida. They are taking the small things of life to be the -great things. They rive very basy, day.after day, in car- ing for what concerns their bodily nomfort ; they are neglecting their souls. I woulcl not say that church -going is an essential duty of the Christian life. There is scarcely any- thing about it in the Christian Scriptures. But ehureh•going is a pretty sure test of the Christian life. I have never known anybody about whose real Christianity I WAS certain, who did not want to go to church, And when I see people busy and. interested on Saturday, and busy and interested on llonday, and in. visible and asleep on Sunday I take it that that means something, And I 'know not what it means milessitis that these Sunday sleepers are forgetting that they have any soul. My friends, if there are Ally of you within reach of those words—honestly now, what are you doing for your souls? I know pretty well what you are doing for yens minds, and wbat yOU eve doing for your business, and what you are doing for yottr pleasure. But you have a soul ; yori know that, Anil youv soul is the most valuable possession that you have, isn't it ? This alone, of all that snakes up your life, will determine your eternal future. And your soul needs ease, doesn't it ? Your body 'does, yens business does, yens mind does. The soul won't grow, left to itself, like a tree. If you don't care for your soul, your soul will simply go on in the way of all things that are uneared for ; it wiil die. And yott will lose yorn• soul, There is a big difference between ft man and a tree, and the biggest part of the eta. ferenee is in the fact that a, man has 11. 50111, while a tree has only trunk and branches. But there are always people blind enough to 111100 that. Somehow, it takes pvetty clear sight on the part of all ot us to see that distinctly, and really to get it into our understanding. To set the emphasis on great things rather than on Small things., to value the spiritual side of life at its right valuation, to keep the Kingdom of God atal His righteoasness first and foremost every day WO live, is the order of things with tell people W110 k11010 IL man from a tree. uplit ling nations, Christ healed a great many people t he For the moment the most interesting tbiag years of his blessed ministry, tlic about this Sigri 611141.0 WIL1 that people be. writers of the gespels seem cspeilally fond Hoge it. I .10 110t mean alone 011 the Con - 01 telling OS 110W 111, opened the eyes of the Mont, even where, RS explained last week, blind. Fer that is one of the sat:Lana:mai distrust of Englan.l's good faith;is ingrain- ed, but in London the story de not im- press anybody as necessarily impossible. lt turns out now- that the report was not strictly a. canard. to 111111 to be walking about like men, tt • . would be hard to say, But it is evident what a limey, blundering vision he 11.1.1. 1113 ecut SOO better than that. \ Ve clan tell a man from a tree. Anyhow, we think we mem But can we ? that sure 1 Isn't it true, now, that a man is mere of a num if he OW05 EL tree 1 Suppose that he owns a hundred trees, anti groat green acre of smooth lawn in the shadow of them ; Beneath the outward gesture and deed lies the spiritual meaning. Weave all more or less blind, We are all fooling our way shout in the haze, not seeing everything electrify and often making blunders, taking men 00 trees. A11.1 Christ came to be the light of Get world. Ile ensue to open our blind eyes, ate to Rhow us what things tirci —to tercel( us the eternal difference between hoed 1 Ought we mg to regard him 40 the first among men who pessesses the mos trees 1 You will net say that, nor will I. We know better than thaa We know very well that not what a man has, but what he 10, makes Min more of a manor less of a man, At sundown the eeonel rif Noel's regiment ntul settles his real station in the company states wi"11 a little Isaul within the French of men. We know that character means (amp, Claire it hisk of infinite pain awl manhood, ate that the man of best character i5 the best man, and that trees have nothing to do with it. \\ e do not inistake trees for men, But eau WO say as much of all our neighbors ? Is that the common way of es. timation ? Look closely at this blind 111R11 of Beth- saida, and see if you don't know him. Ian's his name Society 1 Whas this blind man needs is that Oiliest shall touch him and set his eyes wide open, so that he may know a man when he looks at him. Aristocracy is an abiding charm. teristie of human life. It has always exis- ted ; it exists everywhere, and it will con- tinue on into the world to come. For the aristocrats aro simply the best. That is what the word ineans. And there will always be the best, There will never arrives daywheu we shall all be perfectly equal saints and heroes. But best in what? The ideal arts- tocraey—who shall belong to it ? Sometimes it has been made elp of the men with the stoutest muscles ; sometimes of thecleseen• (tants of the oldest settlers ; sometitnes of the people with the fullest pocketbooks. 13ut Must leaves no doubt as to the ideal aristocracy. Society', looking about with open eyes and clear vision, to choose its best, will base its choice not upon any of these condi- tions. Christ caved not for strength, except for strength of ellat'aeter. It mattered not to Him though a inan's great-grandfather A1 110 the pattaareh Abraham. And he loved the poor man just as 0111011 as lie loved the rich man. Look at the men whom Christ chose as tho actual aristocrecy in His own ideal commonwealth. The Twelve ApoSties were selected not even for their wisdom, lint simply for their devotion to their Mas- ter They were men who gladly followed Christ. They were the friends of Christ. The Bible makes short work of eonven. done aristoeracaes. The proudest prince gets no praise in that impartial and just history if he were a man who followed not the will of God, The standard of approba,- tion in the Bible is the rule of righteousness. And when society looks out of dim eyes no longer hut sees with clear vision, touched by the healing hand of Christ, then he will have praise and welcome who brings man- hood with him ; Christian birth or bank account. There will be uo longer any doubt as to the identity of a 1118,11. sternly, " chez— chez — Colo net — au His voice dies away ; his bead falls back ; it is the end IV. sadness on his brouzed face. 1711e French have been heavily. defeated, and the sorrow of it has strut* home deeply to the French commander's heart. " They fought well—they fought well, /0, ,:eriturs,' lie says, repeatedly. "They fought well," eelm the others, ad- ding heavily, " but we have lost !" Suddenly, while their eyes are 31 rected sadly towards the battlefield, where so ITIRlly comrades lie bathed in bloocl and the ruddy sunset light, their gaze falls on an extraord- inary, shapeless mass speeding towards them, Nearer and nearer it comes, its pace grow- ittg more and 111000 laboured. It reaches then', and falls with a moan, inert at their feet.. "It is a (log !" cries the colonel, stooping over the erimson mass. " Cest Jack l" he adds, startled ; and then he recognises ite the tottered rags, clenched fast in the dog's teeth, his CO.711 colours. He turns away in silence, choking with emotion. A few spas- modic gasps—a stru.ggle—an upward look, andlack closes his falthfill brown eyes for ever. They buried him late that evening, firing EL volley asross the mound as a last tribute to 0110 W110 111411 saved his captain's and 0001- pany's life in the first place : and, 111 the secortl, had given his life in blind obedience to orders, to 00.00 HO regiment's " eolours With gentle hands he staunches Jack's wontes, washing them free of all foreign matter with fresh clear wster ; then lays him on his own camp bed, bidding him to lie quiet ; 111111 stretching himself on the ground alongside, he closes his eyes. fivadually emiscionsness leaves him, and when the doctor and Captain Denier enter his tent they find him senseless, and on the road to high feves. " alust get him back to Algiers Dawn as possible, .thanier," says the old doctor, shaking his heed "Don't like his looks I don't like his look's " " Don't croak, doetov," says Denies, " but come and attend to Jack ; if ever a soldier deserved attention this four•legged one does, Besides bringing us to the rescue I myself BMW him drag down no loss than three of the enemy." rho next clay master and dog are put in an ambulance cart, and ocimmenee EL S1010 and tedious joutoey back to Algiers. For many weary weeks Nool is in danger, though Jack soon recovers ; then one lovely moon- ing sees our friend and his dog einbatesed for France—two gaunt looking objects, one waving his hat end the other his tail at the fast fading forms of millworks on shove. What a joyful meeting it is bete•ixt the old mother and het. " boy !" How lovingly she folds hint in her arms, whilst Ile lays his weather-beaten, stern few like a little 0111131 on her breast, as though, at last, he had found rest and peace ! Is there any love more hestitif el, inore perfect, than the love between mother and 111,1 ? Does man ever fine( anyone to loves° completely,. so dis- tinetly his mother ? Rarely, I tents. Jock, of course, gets very inueli spoilt by the old Indy. Nothing is too good foe him, until, at last, Noel begin to fear his soldier- ly qualities ruined, and tho gag, good for nothing in camp. Such is not, however, the case, as Jack proves later on. The months roll by peacefully: Noel is himself again, and returns to Algiers. The rumours of war between Femme and Germany grow loricles and louder, and Noel has not boon two months back in his regi. Meta before War is declared. Soon after, the--Chasseurs are ordered home on active service. During the Best part of the Noel and Jock seem to bear a elhomecl life. The latter, indeed, has half of his brush shot off ; but that Ile regards as nothing—a mere matter of cle.tteit. The regiment has been ell the titne to the front, and IllOaly WOn. known fat:mare seen no more ; many a proud young head lies low in the dust, The good old doetor is gsowing quite 'white with the Work, and the fretting after the "boys," .who ere gone ; the " boys" he called " mes enfants" and loved so well. The two armies face each other—the Germans very numb inferior in numbers to tho French. The light begins in hot earnest, and alinoet, from the first Victory inclines her head to the Gentians ; why tend where. fore no ono ean explain, except that shci is a, woman, and like hes slates, 'Fortune, caprici- ous, The French ligh1 like very devils, yet Row the Record has Been Ont. The extraordinary performances of ocean steamships this Stunner have stimulated speculation and reminiscence about record breaking to new activity. It 10 a little re• marl:able that the record of the City of Paris, after standing for two'years, should have been broken twice in one Hummer. Anothev featuve of this year is that the per- formance of the Teutonic hes brought the time of crossing the Atlantic under live and a half days. This is a reduction of three days in forty years. It iias in 18,51 that the speed first fell belew the equivalent of nine days to Queenstown. In 1873 the eight-day mask wa,s passed ; in Hat? seven days coased to be thought much of a trip s tem years ago six clays wove left behind. In the twenty-five years from. 1851 to 1876, when the eta of the " ocean grey. hound' may be said to have begun, tlio re- duction of time between Roche's Point and Now York W/10 thirty-one and a half hours, while in the next fifteen years, from 1876 to 1 811 1, the gain was thirty-nine hours, This was at the rate of two and half honrs every year. At this rate the time will fall below five days in tho next six years. A careful examination of aqueous humor of the eyes of cattle will detevinine whether they aro suffering from tubercle or not. The bacilli will Ise 10111131 there in all eases where the disease exists. . Six young ladies, graduates of Itoseinavy Hall Seminary, Wallinford, Conn., some contestants in a horSe harnessing match, this boIng 0110 Of the commencement exercise es. The prise was a saves mounted whip. The harness lay on the ground, and the horses were led out with nothing on them but halters. At the word " start" the girls leaped forward and hurriedly began to harness the animals. Miss Alamein Hazard of Providence proved herself the most ex- peditious, She harnessed her horse in four minutes and a half. The biggest dog in the world arrived at New York last week on the White Star steamship Normandie. HO is Lord Bute, and is the finest fit. 13evnard dog known. 1113 is now the property of the Menthen ken- nels of Phoinixville, Pa, He was purchased for $3,700 from Thomas Shillook, of Binning - hank AN bench show dog he has 10011 Ill England `26 Irises( He is 36 inches high, or one inch higher than Sir Bedivero, mud weighs 2.4.7 pounds, or 110 pounds heavier then Bediveve. A Roman nose in a horse, like the eorres ponding aquiline shag? in a man, generally indioates strong often mown - peed with great intelligence, writes a stu• dent of equines, .A. straight facial line is quite as often fonnd with a high cloves of intelligence, but le dislufased horse is rarely anything but a, nonenity in character or a fool. I have seen 11 fow exceptionS to thiS rule, but they only prove it, ASfitio nmszle usually denotes high nervous orgagizatioa, While tt. coarse and large muzzle, with small and non -expansive nostrils and pendulons lower lip, means stupidity. A sensitive and trnmpet,sluquel nostril moms courage tend intelligence, even when, as it does 001110. 11010S, 11 also 11141.110 heaves. A broad and fel 1,10011011(1 and length from oyo to ear are the speaking features of a horses face, One of the most important advantages of sight is that it gives a knowledge of deer - once. It makes it possible for us to distill.: ,,suish between a man and a, tree. And this knowledge of difference is the most useful piece of information that anybody men have. Because it tells us what is valuable and what is not. We know what things are retaly worth. Ana that is the beginning of all sorts of success. A ergo part a the batle of life has peen fought and gained when one has learned the difference between the groat and. tits mem, between mind encl matter, between the otevnal and the transitory, between earth and heaven. Success begins with a recogni- tion of the value of things, It is condition- ed upon a sense of proportion. Nobody ever made a fortune who expended any con- sulerable amount of "Sff tune " upon " (30 cent jobs," Nobody evoe suet:leaded who habitually mistook small things for great, or groat things for small. Look again at this blundering blind man. Isn't his name the Climb 7 This, anyhow, is exactly what the Church is doing—making a mistaken valuation, reading life 14 wrong emphasis, setting small things in the place of great things. Some people think that the adoption of col. •oved bookmarks is a sign of the advance of true religion. A vested chefs is a regiment enlisted against; the armies of the devil. The growth ofiritual is a growth in righteousness. Other people think that those things are earthly, sensual, and of the pit, The mis- chief is in oaring about those things at all. What the Church watts is men, The mis. gen of the Church is to uplift men, All else is utterly subordinate. To teach the truth of Ood, and to get poople where they can take the hand of Christ—this is what the CAlureli exists to do. Christ looks straight into the oyes of men, What does he care about the oolor of the leaves in the tree over his head, It is only the blind. num who mixes men up with trees, ancl not tellwhich is which. The whole question of ritual, the whole dismission 011 1/0L11 Si.(108 RS to the eta and eoler of tho person's cloth- es, is nothing lint tt blind mott's blunder. These 1:41`0 few hindrances which offer workie obstruction to the progreme of Chris - Gently than the dissensions of Christians. And if you will think whet these dissensions are about you. will see they are very little things indeed. Some people say that the Amparently British fleet cruising around for exercise tu the bay did land some men, and the natives who saw and reported this could not be expected to know that their mission was entirely paeirle toe innocent. Politicians are beginning to return from their holidays on the Continent in order to prepare for the oratorical campaign which in some parts of the country will commence xt week. It is already evident that there will lie beth-een 110W and Christmas more speechmaking than in any Ptilege.intary reeese 011-100 that preceding the famous gen- eral election in Ns°, in 1010011 Gladstone routed the Tories and returned to West- minster at the head of a triumphant Liberal majority. This time Gladstone will be un- able to take a prominent part in the strug- gle, and Sir Andrew Clarke, his medical advises and friend, has consented. only with the greatest reluctance to the Grand Old Man's attendance at the annual meeting of the :stational Liberal Federation at New- castle. On tbe Galilean Sheres, Then Jesas saith unto them, "Children, have ye any meat ?" They answered Him, " No." And he said unto them, " Cast the net. on the right side of the ship and ye shall find." They east, therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes."—xxi-, 5.6. • The happy history of tile Lake of Galilee is richer than all the stories of the classic streams of Greece. The very names of these streams are passing away froin the memory of the world, lint " the blue waves of Galilee" will be dear to the hearts and thoughts of 1nen as long as the world en- dures. 11 -hat memories cluster around that little inland lake ? From its shores the first apostles of the lamb were called from their boats and nets to the higher destiny of be- ing fishers of men. On itS western shore the wild man of Gadara was brought to sounder mind and gentler thought after the briefest of interviews with Christ. Along its grassy slopes thousands sat down and were fed by that open hand that offers to men in all ages not the bread that perishes hut the bread that answers the hunger of the sgel and builds up the spiritual nature to et61.11a1 fruition. 011 these shores with a boat for a- pulpit Christ preached to thousands, and the words He spoke linger yet, the wisest, tenderest, gentlest words the world has ever heard. Here many of His mighty deeds were wrought, And here iu that mystic time the strange inter- regnum between the resursection from. the dead and the ascension into heaven. Jesus was pleased to enter into the most in- timate °midden ies with His friends. It was a dull, g.ray wonting on the shore of Galilee. The disciples had evidently come back to their old order of life. The glorious dream they had cherished of " kingdom" hat' al- most enth•ely vanisher' from their view, and they had had a night of fruitless fishing 01% the lake and were returning sad at heart. and wholly dispirited. Of all times this was the time they needed the presence of their Lord to revive their failing faith and to relnme their dying hope ; ael of all times this was the time when Jesus was near to make them glad with His preset= and strong by His word. A. thousand helpf al things are sug- gested by this one morning on the Lake of Galilee, one thing will be enough to set our thoughts in a happy direction this plenaant Sabbath morning. How thorough- ly '300118 entered into the spirit. of these men, and from the level of their present need led them to diviner things. He might have said, and if He bad been simply a leader of men,thenrobabilitiesarethatHe would have said: " You see how utterly helpless you are without 111e." This would have been very natuntl, Mallet Christlike. Jesus comes in the hour of neednot to emphasize the fact of failtMe, but to help His friends in their need. "Cast the net on the right side of the ship." 11.110 WRS LIIIS stranger that had advice to give to practiced fishermen about their busi- ness, Moreover, were they not very near the land? 1Vas it likely a shoal of fish woulcl be found so near the shote ? But at His word they let down the net, and lo I a great swarm of fish tante crowding into the net. What a lesson for us all, espeeially in the clays of empty nets and fruitless toil. The simple unquestioning obedience of these men brought success and for us there is this assurance that if we will launch out into the deep where the voice of and distinctly bids us, there eau only be one result, that the divinest kind of success. After the catching of the fish and the early morning meal, what glorious disclosures awaited these men. So will it often bo, that the darkest night is nearest the day of divine exaltation, So nuty it be at last. 'When the night of time is over' and the weary voyage is ended may tve meet the Master on that further shore and so be forever with the Lord. Niagara Falls Ono() Oeased to Flow. It seem almost ineredible that at one time in its bistory the greatest end most wonder- ful waterfsll in the world actually ran dry. Ne7ertheless, it is an established fact that this occurred on March 20, 1848, and for a few hours scarcely (1.11y water passed over Niagara rolls. The winter of that yew: had been au exceptionally sovero one, and ice of unuseal thicknese had formed on lake Erie. Tho warm spring rains loosened thiS eon gealed mass, and on the day in question a brisk east wind drove the iee far up illt0 1110 lake. About sunset the wind en...Manly veered round, and blew a heavy gale from the west. This naturally turned the the in its course, and, bringing it clown to the Ni. agora River, piled it up in a solid, impene- trable wall. So closely was it packed ancl so great was its foroo that in a short time tke outlet to the lake tyres completely ohokod up and little or no water could possibly escape. In a very short space of time the water be- low this frozen barrier passed over the Falls, end the next morning the people residing in the neig.hbourhood were treated to most extraordinary spectacle: The roaring, tumb- ling rapids above the Falls were almoet ob- literated, and nothing but the cold, blaok rocks Were visible in all directions. The 110400 quickly spread, and orowds of spode - tors fleeced to view the scene, the banks on each side of the river being lined with pet). ple during the whole day. At last there came a break in the ice. It WELS released from its restraint, the pent-up wall of water tgi. liined downward, and Niagara was itself ••••• Tito famous St, Bernard clogs ere very easefully trained, A traveler who visited some of the monasteries of the monks of St, 13ernard a fow years ago, found tho monks teaohing their clogs from the earliest stages of puppyhood, Not only is physical and mental training inclnded. in the teaching, but spiritual oultnre is by no meant, negleet- od. At the meal time the (logs sot m a row, each with (I, tin dish before hint containing his repast. Gram) is said by one of the A monks ; the dogs sit motionless with bowed heeds, NO 0110 OtiOS 1111011 1110 " A11101.1" spoken. If a, 'frisky puppy pertaltes of his meal before grace is over an older dog growls and gently tugs his ear, Not That Way. Visitor (in Jones' room at 11 p, That young W01111411 in the house across the way sings like ft bird." Jones (unkindly)—" Well, not altogether. Vou see a bird stops singing at night." desposit of what is known as " fossil flour " has bon recently discovered in Maine which will resist the notion cif Raids, alkalies and oils and is a remarkable non -conductor of hens. It will he used in the manetteinre of seater goods. It eentains ea per tient- of pure silica, and when mined it comes out RH 11 11110 pOWLIer.