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The Clinton News-Record, 1898-10-27, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS. IIfCreal were alive,it would be tie for him to publish an enlarged edi- tion of his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, adding to his list the bat- tles of Manila Bay, Santiago, and Om- durman. These are likely to prove epoch -leaking battles in the broadest sense. The English are now hard at work figuring over the probable re- sults of General Kitohener's great victory over the Mandists, The Frenoh too, are naturally great- ly interested in the question of M- rioan expansion, whioh has now been projected into the forefront of diplo- matic problems, For the fall of Khar- toum is likely to prove the occasion of the rise of a great civilization to the south of the Upper Nile valley. Al- ready weird, if not wholly wild dreams of colonial extension in Africa are floating through the brains of Eng- lishmen, constituting when 'transfers - ed to the brains of Frenchmen, decid- edly bad dreams. The " Cape to Cairo" cry is already becoming popular. Vis- ions of a vaster zone of British influ- ence in northern Africa are crowding fast upon the excitements connected with Cecil Rhodes's ambitious imperial schemes in South Africa. Even by the soberest men, it is seen that Khar- toum is not a terminus, but a point of departure in the further march of oivilization. Though Gordon thought that Khartoum should be the limit of Anglo-Egyptian occupation to the south, the progress of events has side- tracked such a view as antiquated and obstructionary. The Nile expedition was a political move, as well as a hu- manitarian crusade, and its interna- tional consequences are likely to prove of the greatest moment. Already tourists are beginning to travel to Khartoum which has been well termed a half -way house between Cairo and Uganda, and soon explor- ers, engineers and military command- ants will he pushing the whole of the way to equatorial Africa. The cur- rent of civilization pressing thither cannot anywhere be stayed along its 'course. What the English long for, the French fear. France may not, it is true, really count very muchonthe possible performances of Commandant Marchand, now at Fashoda, with a strong force of Senegalese, who per - resent a movement dramatic perhaps, rather than decisive. But the French have colonial aspirations, though they are not successful colonizers, and will retreat from their scheme of estab- lishing an equatorial sphere of influ- ence across the continent of Africa, only with chagrin aand intense disap- pointment. Already some of the lead- ers of public opinion in France are re- signing themselves to the inevitable, and prophesying the ultimate success of the English as pioneers in the march of civilization. " We are about to wit- ness the foundation," admits " The Sol- eil, " of the empire of African -India ; England mistress of the Nile, of her sourde and resources, and of the Im- mense and fruitful countries travers- ed by that river." So many daring dreams of sanguine men have already come true in history, that it is not impossible that the Twentieth Cen- tury will see the construction of a line of railway from Alexandria to Cape Town, over which solid vestibule trains fl; will run, with stops at Khartoum,Fash- oda, Uganda, and other way stations. Civilization cannot be held back. THE ELECTRIC GRATE. Producing the Semblance of a foal Fire Ry the Aid of Bumps of 'Glass. Gas logs are made nowadays in vari- ous sizes and yvith the imitation hic- kory logs of which they are formed piled in various shapes. The gas log is designed as a sightly and conveni- ent means of giving out heat. There is an imitation electric grate fire that is intended for ornamental purposes only. This fire is composed of pieces of ruby and amber glass. The grate, standing in a fireplace in the usual manner, has within it an incandescent light, over which is placed a wire cage at such a height in the grate that the coal, that is the ruby and amber glass, when spread over it, is brought up to the height of an ordinary coal fire. The cage protects the burner, makes a thin layer of glass sufficient, and holds the glass up so that the light from below can shine through it all and give it the appearance of the coal fire it is made to represent. The light is turned on and off and the fire thus lighted or put out by turning a key in the usual manner, this key be- ing located conveniently by the side of the fireplace. The electric grate is used usually in rooms where steam is used for heating. NICKEL IN SLOT SERVANTS NOW. An English System Which Causes "Slaves" Misch Alarmed. Some enterprising subjects of the Queen have -embarked on an undertak- ing which threatens to revolutionize the English system of service. The Domestic Aiders is the title of the organization, and the name certainly fits it like the varnish on a picture frame. A niokle in the slot servant is the epitome of the society's purpose. ;All the vassals in the employ of the Domestic Aiders are uniformed, and they may be found at various stations. Suppose'yourbrasswork on the out- side of the house needs burnishing. The Aiders will supply you with roman who will polish up the handle of the big front door, and polish it up right cheerfully. All this will coat a cent. For three gents a day the English householder may have his steps clean- odand if there is an area to his resid- once, that will be put in neat order for an additional three dents. It coats three cents to have the dust and dirt removed !rem a window and the pane polisbed inside and out. The emit?. ,ration for cleaning the sills Ta an extra cent. Stairs, blinds, carpet roils and fireplace will receive careful at- tention, each article being considered according to a regular and carefully arranged schedule of rates. Clothing Will bo mended and laundry restored to He original purity. The system is calling forth the ,post vigorous protests from the man ser• *ante'' tenet their donate, The, poasibdl'i- ties are illimitable. THE BIBLE E Z ASOUR CHIME, REV. DR. TALMAGE ENDEAVORS TO POINT OUT THE WAY. What inspired Dien Say of Christ—What lie Said of Himself " Where Two or Three are Gathered Together In My Nnine, There ^1 am In the Mldttt of Theon "—Some of Christ's Achlevemeutt —Au Intensely Interesting Seryion. A despatch from Washington says:— Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text: "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever, Amen." —Romans ix. 5. Paul was a reckless man in always telling the whole truth ; it mattered not who it hit or what thelogical sys- tem it upset. In this one sentence he makes a world of trouble for all Arians and Socipiansrr�, and gives a cud for scep- ticism to Chet[[ on for the next thousand years. ;We must proceed skilfully to twist this passage of Scripture, or we shall have to admit the Deity of Jesus Christ. I roll up my sleeves for the work, and begin by saying, perhaps this is a wrong version. No, all the versions agree—Syriac, Ethiopic, Latin, Arabic. Perhaps this word God means a being of great power, but not the Deity. It is God "over all." But perhaps this word God refers to the first person gf the Trinity—God the Fa- ther. No ; it is "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." Whichever way I take it, and when I turn it upside down, and when I try to read it in every possible shape, X am compelled to leave it who have gone before me, an incontrovertible proof of the eternal and magnificent Godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." I suppose we are all willing to take the Bible as our standard. It requires as much faith to be an infidel ea to be a Christian; but it is faith in a dffer- ent direction. The Christian believes in the statements of Moses and Isaiah, and David, and Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and Paul. The infidel be- lieves in the statement of the Free- thinkers. We have faith in one class of men ; they have faith in another Clare of men. But as I suppose the vast majority of the people1e in the audi- ence this morning are willing totakek e the Bible as their guide in morals and religion, I shall make th's book my starting point. You may be aware that the two great generals who have marshalled the larg- est army of Unitarian trool•s are Strauss and Renan. The multitudes of the slain under them will never be counted until the day when the archangel sounds the roll call of the resurrection. Them men, and all mon who have sympathy with them, begin by attacking the fortress of the mira- cles. They know that when once they have captured that fortress, Christian- ity must surrender. The great Ger- man exegete says that all the miracles are myths. The great French exegete says that all the miracles are legends. They must s imehow or other explain away everything supernatural in the Bible—everything supernatural in the life of Christ—though to accomplaah that they must go up the greatest ab- surdity. They prefer the miracles of human nonsenas rather than the grand miracles of Jdsaa Christ. They say, for instance, that the miraculous birth, of Christ was a myth, just as it is a fanciful idea that Romulus WEB born of Rhea Sylvia and the god Mars. They say that Chr;et did not feed five thous- and with a few loaves of bread ; that Is only • a myth which got mix- ed up with the `distribution • of twenty loaves among a hundred peo- ple by Elisha. They say Christ did not turn the water into wine; that was only an improvement on the old Egyp• tian plague by which water was turn- ed into blood. They say no star pointed down to the manger where Jesus laid that was only the flash of passing lan- tern. They say that Christ's sweating drops of blood in Gethsemane was not very astonishing, for He had been ex- posed to the night, and had been tak- en suddenly physically ill. They say no tongues of fire sat on the heads of the disciples at the Pentecost ; it was only a great thunder -storm and the air was full of electricity,. andit snap- ped and flew all around about the Leads of the disciples. They say that Mary and Martha, and Lazarus, and Christ made up their minds it was ne- cessary to get up an excitement, in order to forward their religion and so they resolved to play funeral and Laz- arus consented to be the corpse, and Mary and Martha consented to be mourners, and Christ consented to be the chief operator. I, of course, put it in my own words, but state accur- ately their meaning. They say that the four Gospels are spurious, written by superstitious or lying men, and that they were hacked up by people who were to die and actually did die for a thing they did not believe. Now I take back the limited remark made a moment ago, and say that it re- quires a thousandfold more credulity and faith to be an infidel than to be a Christian, and that if Christianity demands that the whale swallow Jonah, then scepticism demands that Jonah swallow the whale. I propose this morning to show you, so far as the Lord may help me, that Jesus Christ is God. I shall prove it, first, frorn what inspired men say of Him; then from what He said of Him- self ; then from His wonderful achieve- ments. "Get a good fat text to start with," said Dr. Dudlow, our grand old theological professor. If I never had such a text before, I have one this morning: "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen," Not over Solomon's throne • not higher than David's throne; not higher than Caes- ar's; not higher than the Henrys', than the Fredericks', than the Louis', than Napoleon's, than Victoria's. 0, yes. Gather all those thrones and pile them up, and my text overspans them as easily as a rainbow spans .the moun- tain -top. "Christ came, who is over all. God blessed for ever. Amen." The Bible says: " All things were made by Him." Stop I Does not that prove too much ? He did) not make the Mediterranean, did He ? not Mount Lebanon? nor the Alps? nor Mount Wash ngtoi ? not the earth ? not the stars? not the universe? Yes, " all things were made by Him." And lest we should be so stupid as not to under- .:tand it, the apostle concludes by say- ing: "'Without flim was not anything made that was made." Why then, He must have been a God. The Bible says: " At the name of •fesus Christ every knee shall bow, of things on earth, and things in heav- en." Seo all heasren doming, down on thetr knees—nlart rs oh their knees, apostles on their knees, confeetiors on their knew!,the archangel on his knees. Vetere *hem? A mtcn ? No, a God. Tho Bible goes on to say that "ev- ery tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." Malayan, Borneslan,. Mexican, Persian, Italian, German; Sparkish, French, Engli.h—every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Why, He must be a God. The Bible says: 'Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and for ever." Men change; the body changes entirely in seven years, the hind changes, the heart changes; but "Christ is the same yesterday, to -day, and for ever." He must be a God. Philosophers say that it is gravit- ation, the centripetel and centrifugal forces, which keeps the worlds from clashing and Prole demolition; but Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on whioh everything turns, and that His hand is the socket in whioh every- thing is set ; " upholding, holding all things by the word of His power." He must be a God. But I go on in the next place and see what Christ said of Himself. Ev- ery person ought to know more about himself than anybody else does. If I ask you where you were born, and you say: " I was born in Ches- ter, England; or [Dublin, or New Orleans." I would believe you. Why ? Because you ought to know— it is a matter that pertains to your- self. If I ask you whether you can Iift three or four hundred pounds, d you said yes, I would believe you. ought to know. If I ask you how much money you have—a hun- dred or a hundred thousand dollars— and you tell me, I believe you, be- cause you; being tin honest man, will tell me truth. Now 1 ask if Christ ought not to know whether or not He is God ? I ask his age. He says, in so many words: "Before Abraham was, I am." Abraham had been dead two thousand and twenty-eight years. Was Christ two thousand and twenty-eight years old? He says so, In Revela- tions IIs says: "1 am Alpha;" Alpha being the first letter of the Greek al- phabet, it was as much as to say: "I am the A of the great alphabet of all the centuries." Ought not He to know ? Could Christ be in a thousand plac- es at the same time? He said so. He intimates that He can be in Madras, in Stockholm, in Pekin, in San Fran- cisco, in Constantingple at the same time. "Where two or three are gath- ered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them." The facul- ty of everywhereativeness, is it a hu- man or a Divine attribute? Lest we should think that this power of every- whereativeness should give out, Christ intimates th.it IIe is going to keep on, and that on the day before the world is burned. up He will be in all the prayer -meetings in Europe, Africa, and North and South America ; for He declares in so many words: "Lo 1 I am with you alway, even unto the end of t he ris a wo ()rid)"He isa Godl Heo Godl IIe takes Divine honours. Ile calls himself the Lord of men, the Lord of angels, the Lord of devils. Is He not ? If He is not, then He is the grandest fraud that was ever enacted. To- morrow morning, a man comes into your store and he says: "I am Mr. Laird, the great ship -builder of Liver- pool. I have built a great many fine ships." You treat him with a great deal of consideration ; but you find out after awhile that he is not Mr. Laird, and that he never built .any- thing. What is that man? An im- postor. Now Christ said that he built the earth—built all things. Did He build the earth, or did He not? If He did, He was a God; if He did not, Ile was an impostor. A man with a Jew- ish countenance and German accent comes into your store. He says:• • "I am Rothschild, the banker, of London. I hold the wealth of nations in my vest pocket. I loaned that money to Italy and to Austria." You treat him with a great deal oficonsideration for awhile; but suppose you find out that he is not a banker, that he does not own a single dollar in all the world? What is that man? An im- postor. Now Christ comes and He says He owns this world, He owns the next, He owns all the glories of land and sea, He professes to be vast in His possessions. Is He in the possession of all these things? Doe§ He own them all 1 If He does not, what is He? An impostor. Strauss saw that alternative, and he says that Christ was sinful in taking homage that did not belong to Him. Renan saw that all ernative, and says that Christ, not through his own fault, but through the fault of others, lost some of the purity of His conscience, and slyly intimates that dishonourable women may have damaged His soul. Anything but admit that Christ is God. I have shown you that Christ was God, from what inspired men have said of Him, and from what He era of Himself ; now I want to show you that. He was God from His wonderful achievements. I suppose that all be- lieve the Bible. If you do not, what do you do in this Tabernacle 1 Why do you not go and kiss the foot of the new statute of Tom Payne in Boston! Why do you not take your hat, and not stealing the hymn -book, go out and find associates among men who do not believe in the Word of God, 1 ha only foundation of good govern- ment, and for common honesty? We in this church are among the deluded souls -and the narrow -heads who be- lieve the whole Bible, and take it clown in one swallow .s easily as you pick up a ripe strawberry. Supposing that you admit the Bible to be true, let us go out and see the Saviour's achievements — surgical, alimentary, marine, mortuary. Surgical achievements? Did you ever, in all the scientific journals of the world, see such wonderful operations as He performed? Ile used no knife. He carried no splints . He employed no compress. He never made a patient squirm under cauterization. He never tied an artery, and yet, behold Him, With one word He stuck fast Malchu's amputated ear. He stirred dust and spittle into a salve, with which be made the man who was born blind, without optic nerve, cornea, or crysta- line lens, open his eyes on the glorioutt sunlight- Ile beat music on the drum of the deaf ear. He straightened a woman, who, through contraction of muscles, had been bent almost double for nigh two decades. He made a man who had not used his limbs for thirty- eight year shoulder his mattress and walk off. Sir Astley Cooper, Aberne- thy, and Valentine Mote stood power- less before awithered arm. This Doc- tor of Omnipotent surgery comes up to the man with the lifel,eQss, useless, shrivelled arm, and He stays to him: "Stretch forth thy hand.", The man stretched it for just as good as the other. This was God 1 This was a Godl Alimentary achievements? A lad comes with five loaves with whioh he expected co make a speculation; per- haps having bought them for five pen- nies and expecting to sell them for ten pennies, and thus double his mon- ey. Lo ! Christ takes those loaves, and from them performs a miracle with whioh he satisfies seven thousand fam- iihing people, When the Saviour's mo- ther went into a neighbor's house to bete get up awedding party, and by a calculation she naw that they bad made a mistake in the amount of bev- erage that was requisite she calls Christ for help, and Christ, to Believe Cho awkward embarranement, not through slow decay of fermentation but by .one word, melee a hundred and thirty gallons of pure wine. Marine aehievemientst Do you not re- niiember how He brought around a whole school of fish Into the not of the nien who were tnonrning over their poor luck, and howl they bad to halloo to the people in the other boat, and then. both ships were loaded to the water's edge with game, so that the sailors had to walk °cauiirtcus)y Prom larboard to starboard lest the boat sink. And then when the squall came down through the mountain gorge to the water, and Gennessaret with long white looks of foam rose up to battle it, and the vessel dropped, into the trough, and shipped a sea, and the loosened sails cracked in the tornado; how Christ rose from the back part of the vessel, and Dame to the prow; and wiping the spray from His fore- head, hushed the crying tempest on the. knee of His omnipotence. 0, was it a man who wrestled down the btorml Was r?it.' a man who, with both feet trampled Gennessaret into a smooth floo But look at his mortuary achieve- ments. Let all the psychologists and anatomists of the world got to West- minster Abbey, and try to wake Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII, All the in- genuity of man never yet brought the dead to life. But look at that dead girl at Capernaum. What a pity that she should die so early, and when the world is so fair. She is only twelve years old. Feel at the hands. Feel at the brow. Dead. Dead. The house is full of uproar and wailing. What does Christ do? Be comes and takes this little girl by lha hand, and no soon- er has He touched her hand than her eyes open, and her heart starts, and she rushes into tbe arms of her rejoic- ing ejoio-ing relatives. Who was it that rade- ed her up? Was it a man, or was it a God? Vkhat is that crying in Bethany? Mary prying, Martha crying, Jesus Drying, and the neighbours crying, What is the matter? Lazarus is dead. The sisters think they will never again see him, never have him sit at the table again. Poor things! Since their father died they have depended upon Lazarus for almost everything. Jesus comes down to the excavation in the rock, in one of the side niches of which Lazarus sleeps in death. Jesus generally spoke in gentle articulations, but now $e lets out His voice to full strength, until it rings through all the labyrinths and avenues of the rook: "Lazarus, come- forth!" And Lazarus slides down from the side niche into the main avenue of the rock, and stands a living man before the ab- ashed and confounded spectators. Who was it that stood at the mouth of that cave, and uttered that potent word? Wes it a man? Tell that to the luna- tics in Bloomingdale Asylum. It was Christ the everywhere present, the everlasting, the omniscient, the omnipotent Gail But there is one test which will show you whether Christ is God or not. The recital of that one• verse ought to blanch the cheeks ofsome with alarm,and kindle the faces of others with eternal sun- rise: "We must all appear before the judgment -seat of Christ." The world will be stunned by a blow that will make it stagger mid heaven; the stars will scatter like dried leaves in an equinox; the graveyards will unroll the bodies, and the clouds will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh will come together in incorruptible conjunction, Hark to the loud wash of the retreat- ing sea, and the baying of the advanc- ing thunders, and the sweeping of 1 winged cobertsl Smoke and darkness, and fire and earthquake, and shout- ing, shouting, shouting, wailing, wail- ing, wailing. On the one side, in piled up galleries of light, are the one hundred and forty and four thousand —yea, the quintillions of the saved; and as they take their Seats, I feel its if I must drop under the insuffer- able radiance. On the other side is piled up, in galleries of thunder -cloud, the frowning, glaring, dying popula- tions of the wroth to come. Before me, and between the two galleries, is a throne. It is very high. It stands on two burnished pillars—justice and mercy. IL is stupendous with awards and condemnation: Looks; but ball hide your eyes lest they be put out in the excess of vision. There is a throne, but no one is seated on it. Who shall occupy it? Will you go up and take it? "No," you say: "I am I only dust and ashes." Show me some I man that is fit to take it, in all ages. Lord Mansfield? No. Solomon? No. Isaiah? No. Paul? No. Their foot would consume at the first touch of the step of that throne, Even Gab- riel dare not go up on it. Michael the archangel would rather bow down, pulling his right wing over his left, both over his face, and cry: "Holy!" But here is one ascending that throne. His back is toward us. He goes step above step, height above height, until He comes to the apex. Then, turn- ing around, so that all nations can see Him, we behold it is Christ; and all earth, and heaven, and bell, fall on the knee, and cry out: "It is a Godl It is a God. There is great comfort in my sub- ject. It is God who came down .in Jeans Christ to save us. Do you think only a man could have made an atone- ment for millions of the race? Does your common sense teach you that? I tell you if Christ is not God the re- demption of our race is a dead failure. We want a Divine arm to lift our burden. We want a Divine endurance to carry our pang. We want a Divine expiation to take away our sin; and "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever, Amen," God also comes down in Christ to comfort you. Sometimes our troubles are so great, human sympathy does not seem to be sufficient for them. 0 ye who cried all last night because of loneliness and bereavement, 1 want to tell you t hat it is your Maker and your Goll that comes this day to comfort you, When there are children in the house, and tbe mother dies, then you know that the father has to be more gentle than ever, and he has to act two parts in that household. And it seems as if the Lord Jesus Cnrist looked down and saw your "helplessness, and he proposed to be 'Both father and mother to your aids soul. Se comes in the strength of the other, and He says; "As a father pitieth one, and In the tenderness of the his children sol pity you. As one whom his mother comforteth so I will com- fort you." 0, do you not feel the bush of that Divine lullaby 1 Put down your tired bead on the heaving bosom of that Divine oompars'on, and let Him put His arms around you, and say : "0, widowed soul, I will be thy hus- band and thy God. 0, orphaned ones, I will be your protector. Don't cry. Don't cry." And then He will put His hand on your eyelids, and sweep that hand down on the cheek, wiping away all the tears of loneliness and bereavement. 0, what a loving, ten- der, sympathetic God bee come for us. I do not ask you, this morning, to lay hold of God; you may be too weak for that. I do not ask you even to pray; you natty be too bewildered for that. I only ask you just to let go, and fall back into the arms of everlast-, ing strength. You and I will soon hear the click of the latch of the sepulchre. We want an Almighty Christ to go with us. I wonder if the friend of Lazarus will he about. Our friends will take •us with strong arms, and Jay us down in the dust ; but they cannot bring us back again, I would be seared_ with infinite );right if 1I thought 1 should have to rttey+ there for et„er. Hut no. Christ Will dome with a glorious ieon- oclaem, and split and grind up the granite, and let us WAS out. 0, the resurrection t What kind of a resur- rection will it be? A young woman was recently dying, • without any hope, and she said td her mother in the closing hour "Mother, I am going away from you and I am eo afraid." When you leavt this world, when you bid farewell to those with whom you have been as sociated, and in the last great day, will you be afraid? If we have on that day Christ, the Omnipotent Sav- iour, on our side, all shall be well. If the resurrection comes upon a spring day, and all the flowers are blooming around our graves, how pleasant it would be to take up the brightest one of all those flowers and put in the scarred hand of Him who died for us; to gather up the most redolent of -them all, and twist them into a gar- land for the brow that was struck with the thorns. On that day. when Jesus Is surrounded by all the domin- ions of the saved, we will see what an awful libel it was when men said that Christ was only a man ; arid then you will declare with unparal- then you will declare with unparal- over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." 0, would you not like to join in that "Amen," ye who believe this Chrlat is the eternal God? You shall have my permission. Let your "Amen" be the doxology of this whole assemblage I "Christ came, who is over all. God We, a 3d for ever. Amen." Thousands of voices: "Amen ?" EXCITING ADVENTURE IN INDIA A Toeing Officers Narrow Escape From a Horrible Death. Dinner was just finished and sev- eral English officers were sitting around the table. The conversation had not been animated, and there came a lull, as the night was too hot for small talk. The major of the regiment, a clean-cut man of fifty-five, turned to- ward his next neighbor at the table, a young subaltern, who was leaning back in his chair with his hands clasp- ed lasped behind his head, staring through the cigar -smoke at the ceiling. The ma- jor was slowly looking the man over, from his handsome face down, when, with a sudden alertness and in a quiet steady voice, he said:—"Don't move, please, Mr. Carruthers, 1 want to try an experiment with you. Don't move a muscle." "All right, major,' replied the subaltern, without even tufning his eyes; " hadn't the least idea of moving, assure you! What's the game?" By this• time all the others were lis- tening In a lazily expectant way. "Do you think," continued the major—and his voice trembled just a little—"that you can keep absolutely still for, say, two minutes—to save your life 1" "Are you joking?" "On the contrary, move a muscle and you are a dead man. Can you stand the strain,?" The subaltern barely whispered "Yes," and his face paled slightly. "Burke," said the ma- jor, addressing an officer across the table, " pour some of that milk into a saucer, and set it on the floor here just at the back of me. Gently, man 1 Quiet!" Not a word was spoken, as the officer quietly filled the saucer, walked with it carefully around the table, and set it down where the major had indicated on the floor. Like a marble statue sat the young subaltern in his white lin- en clothes, while a cobra de capello which had been crawling up the leg of his trousers slowly raised its head, then turned, descended to the floor, and glided toward the milk. Sudden- ly the silence was broken by the re- port of the major's revolver, and the snake lay dead on the floor. " Thank you, major," said the subaltern, as the two men shook hands warmly; " you have saved my life!" " You're welcome, my boy," replied the senior ; " but you did your share." MORALITY OF PERFUMES. Professor Harry Thurston Peck con- tributes to the current number of an eastern review -an interesting article on " The Morality of Perfumes." Pro- fessor Peck, who evidently bas carried his investigations of this subject much farther than the average person has either time or inclination to do, con- cludes that perfumes not only furnish a reliable index to the characteristics of those who use them but also that the continued use of certain odors pro- duce certain defipite effects, either moral or immoral. For instance, Professor • Peck thinks that users of musk and other strong odors of that class are " brutal, sensual and passionate," and bolds that the use of such perfumes tends to develop those tendencies in anyone. On the other hand those who use violet and perfumes of similar delicacy, Professor Peck says, " are characterized by refinement, good taste, natural purity of character and a love of the beautiful." Users of Jockey Club, Opoponax, White Iris and other odors of the step- hanotis tephanotis class, he thinks, " will not stand toomuch temptation, but if not strong- ly templed will proceed in general on the ordinary conventional lines." Those who like to smell Chinese incense, burn- ing papier d'Armenie, or papier de l'Or- ient the writer claims, are the lowest of all, " being given over to degener- acy without the other redeeming qual- ities." Professor Peck's favorite perfume, however, is not violet but cologne. Ile Bays: ,Above violet is Eau de Cologne. A person whose taste is limited to this is a person distinctly to admire and trust, one who has taste and extreme refinement, whose character is one of great purity and nobility and whose intellect is particularly clear and sone Whatever he may think of this clat sification of odors from a moral stand- point, the average citizen probably will admit that the best perfume is no per- fume at all. The delicacy of violet and the purity of cologne do not mark a type of p sonality which is higher than that Characterized by good health and soap and water. 04D NOTIONS. Women who can't go away in sum- mer always leave their opinion of other women who leave, their poor husbands sweltering in the heat. We like dogs because they aro so conatant,and affectionate, and we like eats because they are so fickle and indiffeacent. A woman always feels a secret con- tempt for another woman who has on a bargain shirt waist just like hers. A book -lover is apemen who would not prop up a window with a blue and gold volume of poetry. It takes a plain woman five times as long to buy a new hat as it does • a pretty woman. It is three-fourths of a man's pay *hen ha oonaiders his profession the finest in the world, Human nature bewilders us because we study other people instead of study- ing ollrselvalt. When a woman never mentions a Mane name she either hates him or loVes lino. Stulild viwledotn is so universal that only coo olevf!rnesaa le now Market- able; NO THOUSAND MINERS, 'HE NUMBER ROSSLAND PROPER- TIES WILL EMPLOY. Prediction of the lflner—Progress In the Different Camps—Mining Notes. The Rossland Miner says that the ore body on the Velvet has been locat- ed at the 165 -foot level, and the show- ing at that point is the finest that has yet been uncovered. The Centre Star has resumed operations, and J. 13. Hastings, the Superintendent, ex- pects to have close upon 100 men at work shortly. The Miner says that there is no doubt that 900 men will be employed there. The War Eagle force is to be increased to the same number, while the Le Roi will be working as many men in the course of the next few weeks. It is evident that these three properties alone will employ between 900 and 1,000 men as soon as the arrangements now pend- ing can be completed. On the basis of the universally accepted maxim that every miner supports at least five people, Rossland will have a pop- ulation of 5,000 on the strength of the men employed only in these three great mines. Other properties, how- ever, will certainly work at least as many men as the three already men- tioned, and it will be a matter of on- ly a few months before Rossland will have 2,000 men employee in the mines right around the city. The strike in the Commander is re- garded as an important one. At a depth of 225 feet in the shaft a body of ore that is two and a half feet wide has been encountered. The ore at this point is of a shipping quality, as it averages $32 to the ton in all values. There are 200 tons of market* able ore on the damp. The work of development is in progress on the Monte Cristo, principally on the 400 - foot and 600 -foot levels. • A strike is reported on the 400 -foot level, the ex- tent of which has not yet been deter- mined. It is announced that the mine will resume shipping as soon as the spur from the C. & W. is extended to its bunkers. Development of the Grand Prize, un- der the management of W. T. McDon- ald, commenced last week. T*o ledges have been exposed, and it is believed that one of them is thext s' Deer Park e en ton of the lead, although the fact has not yet been definitely ascertained. On the Iron Horse the double compartment shaft is now down to a depth of 2,0 feet, and the entire bottom is in ore. As soon as the seven -drill compressor is installed the work of sinking the shaft will he accelerated. The Vietory- Triumph shaft is down 88 feet. During six days the shaft, which Is 4x7 in the clear, was sunk 135 feet. The shaft on the Novelty has reached a depth of 20 feet, and there is four feet of ore car- rying a high per cent, in copper, but small values in gold. The main shaft of the Giant is down a distance of 70 feet and the showing of mineral in- creases with depth. THE BEST YET. In regard to the Le Roi, The Miner says:—For the month of September, ending Friday night, the La Roi hip ped 10,208 tons of ore, and for the fol- lowing week the output of the mine 2,067 tons. Both figures are the highest that have ever been establish- ed in the Rossland camp. Superin- tendent. Tregear iv enl hu••i tstic regard- ing the showing in the mine. "We have not commenced to prospect it yet," be said. "When the new vertical shaft. is in operation we shall he in a position to output ' 1,000 tons daily." Down at the 700 -foot level, where the recent amazing developments have taken place, the ore body is now 42 feet eight inches in width. About 280 men are at work, and the pay roll for this month will be 228,000. The new electrical plant at the War Eagle will be in running order by the first of next month, unless something unexpected happens. Underground there is little change. Ore continues to he met all over the mine, and al- though mineral to the value of a mil- lion and a half has been extracted its loss is not noticeable. With the com- pletion of the electrical plant, Super- intendent Hastings expects to increase the force materially, and in all likeli- hood there will he at least 300 men employed at the War Eagle by the 1st of next January, three months hence. To accommodate the employees a new hunk house will be erected, capable of accommodating 90 men. Already the hotel accommodations at the pro- perty are sufficient for 170 men. Depth has showna complete change in the character of the Deer Park ore. From a low-grade deposit of iron sul- phides on the surface, the loweriwork- Ings have changed into a fine-grained blue quartz, carrying at times gold in enormously high values. The Pug Mine, which was formerly owned by t he Columbia & Ontario Gold Mining Company, has been purchased by F. B. Chapin, of Sudbury, Ont. He has arranged for the resumption of work on the claim, and fifteen mon will soon start operations. The ,British Columbia Gazette gives notice of the incorporation of the War Eagle Hotel Company, limited, with a capital of $25,000 in 250 shares of the value of $100 encl. Its announced purpose is to run hotels and boarding houses in Rossland and throughout the Province of British Columbia. The company owns the new boarding house being erected at Site War,Engle. The head office of the company will be located in Rossland, IN THE YMIR CAMP. A good strike has been made on the Evening Star, which property, with the MorningsStar, was recently incor- porated under the name of the Fair- mont Golrl Mining Company. The properties lie near the well-known Dundee, and contain the extension of the Dundee ledge. The work now being done is on the main ledge of the Evening Star, and consists of a shaft which is opening an excellent body of fine-grained sug- ar quartz, carrying white ore in very noticeable quantities. Five mon are at work at present. The find was made at a point abort 400 feet away from the shaft, and an entirely new' ledge has been, opened. A miner made the discovery accidently, He found an outcrop being about twelve feet wide, showing galena and zine in white quartz. DEMANDING THE BEST. I suppose, ,said the somewhat sarcas- tic railway Official, that you'd like a privates'. No, 9 ,` timid Mr. Brutus Pinok- ley, ;1 doesmil't want no private cab. I want .you to preeinetly unduhstan' dot to officer oar ain't none toe good fob me. TAXING A FRESH START. nell—"Clara is evidently trying to make a new woman of herself." Bess --"Why, what has she been doing?" Nell --„)ler age is 29, but elle makes the 9 upside down'so it will read 29.” HIESUNDAY SU Y SCHOOL. A INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. SO. aaa- "MRssfah's 1Kfngdon Fore$eId." l6 4 . U. 1.10. Golden Text, Ise. 11.9. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1, ,A rod. A new shoot. The stem of Jesse. The stump or roots, and therefore this rod is the beginnip of a new tree. Jesae was the once tor of David. A branch. The Hebrew word here used is netzer, whioh closely resembles in sound our Lord's geogra- phical surname, the Nazarene, Grow out of his roots, "Out of his roots shall be fruitful." Strangely enough, the word rendered " fruitful " is the word from whioh "Ephratah," another name for Bethlehem, is derived. When these words were uttered the tree of Jesse was not yet cut down. 2. This verse describes the character of the king who has just been spoken of as a branch from Jesse's roots. The Spirit of the Lord. The spirit of Je- hovah. Shall rest upon him. Clothing him like a garment. Now comes a six- fold analysis of the Holy Spirit which has made a deep impression on all ages of Christendom. It has been repeated- ly compared to the golden candlestick or lampstand of the temple, which was a golden shaft with three pairs of arms • proceeding from it, and which was pop- ularly understood to be emblematic of the divine nature. The golden shaft here is the Spirit of the Lord, and his perfect fullness is shown by the pairs of graces now named—wisdom and un- derstanding, . . . counsel and might, knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. That is, intellectual and moral clearness, right conclusions and the ability to carry them out with en- ergy, acquaintance with the will of God and holy reverence. 64. Of quick understanding in th'e fear of the Lord. The Hebrew word is also applied to "sent", and critics divide as to whether the meaning here is quick apprehension, perspicacity of mind, or great delight, an allusion to the hound or to the scent of flowers. Another translation is, "He draws breath in the fear of the Lord," which is the most expressive definition of sinlessness, that sinlessness whioh is the attribute of Christ alone. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. The imagery here is so daring that ib should be ex- plained with profound reverence. He hasLord, a scent for good things. He will not depend on his sight or his hearing or his intellectual judgment, but all his judgments are in the fear of the 4. With righteousness shall he judge. Judges in the East have been in all ages corrupt, but this man cannot be bribed or terrified. The poor are ig- nored by too many oriental judges. "When thou goest to a magistrate, take a gift in thy hands;" but the poor have no gift. The meek. "Who use no adroit or eloquent words to win the ear."—Bannister. The earth. The hu- man race. The rod of his mouth. The words of his mouth' are like arod, In another place they are compared to a sword. The breath of his lips. A poe- tic phrase for his judicial sentence. 5. 'Girdle,. A beltby which the out- ward loose -flowing robe was confined during active labor. One's habits are often represented as one's clothing. All the character of this coming One was kept together in consistency by righteousness and faithfulness. 6-8. All the ferocious animals of Palestine are here mentioned: eacli one is coupled with the domestic ani- mal which is its natural prey. Our Lord speaks of the way in which wol- ves harried sheepfolds. Little kids could run out along precipices where no beats of prey could follow them but the leopard, which can keep on its feet like a cat. In the East bay is not used as an article of food, but oxen are fed with chopped straw. On the hole should be "near to the hole;" the playground of the babe should be close to the den of the asp. Exactly which of all poisonous reptiles are meant by asps and cocatrices is not certain. They were fabled to poison even with their breath. Power over beasts was greatly coveted In the an- cient East, and charmers were !re- garded• as supernaturally gifted. To prove their power with the gods Egyptian priests played with serpents and erocodiles. But in the happy time that was coming such wisdom and skill should be given to +he lit- tle children," 9. They. The evil beasts and the civil and moral forces symbolized by them. My holy mountain. The mountain land of Judah, and symboli- cally the redeemed world. No com- ment can make the last part of this verse simpler or more beautiful than the words themselves. 10. In that day. The time of which the whole lesson teaches. The Re- vised Version of this verse is a great improvement. A root of Jesse. From which'the"branch" of verse 1 has sprung. Shall stand. "St : ndeth." An ensign of the people. A standard of the nations. The Gentiles. The na- tions. Itis rest shall be glorious. His resting place shall be' glory. COi,DEEST PLACE IN THE WOR,LD. Werchojansk, is Siberia, is said to be the coldest spot on earth. A temper- ture of ninety degrees below zoro (Fahrenheit) has been observed tbere. The average temperature in January is said to be forty-eight degrees below zero. In :summer the thermometer rises to eighty-six in the shade during the day, dropping, however, to the freezing point at night. In the fall there are Frequent floods, caused by heavy rains. Vegetation in ibis dis- trict is said to ho meagre and animn1 growth small. Nevertheless the dis- trict: has some ten thousand inhabi- tants. It is said. to be a cold day when they get left. -.s REPAIL:S WANTED.stsvosiorT' YAfter a recent. railway collisiotil" Midlands, a Scotsman was extracted from the wreckage by a companion who had escaped unhurt. Never mind, Sandy, his rescuer re- marked, it's nothing serious. And gnu - '11 get damages for it. [Damages? roared Sandy, Ha's I no ha' eneueh ? Guid sakes, it's repairs I'm seeking the nool THE THOUGHTFUL MANAGER, Airs. De Style in theater box—What was this pine•ir•d, No Loud Talking, put In our box for? Mrs, Forundred, nfte►r reflection-- I presume the manager left it there so so WO could show it to the people on the stage when their chatter inter. rupta our cos versat.ien.