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The Clinton News-Record, 1900-02-22, Page 2J. •••• r ' THE CLINTON NEWS-000ND pirIblish4, every Tburodity The Newe-Record PoWar Printing Hone, , AVEINkT SIREAT, • f'LINTOlg, Tinsels or Sunscaurries•-•01.110 per year is eavance t 01.0 may be climeed it uot o paid Nap:seer dlecontinued until ali arecarages are pakiemelese at the Optioli of the publisher. The dato to whioh every subscriptiou is Paid doneted on thelaliel. AnYenneiree Iteree.-Transiont advertise - mute, 10 gents: per twinge:1011Mo for first lesertion and a oonts porno° for each subse• imentinsertion. Small advertisements not 10 exceed one inelesuch as "best," "Strayed," "knolen." etc., inserted once for 50 cents end eiteh subsequent iusertion cent+ *Advertisements withellt Spooltio directione will be raserted until forbie and chanice severe ingly. 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No inert- gisge required as security. • ILO. BREWER, Manager, Clinton C, D. MeTAGGART KER. -7- A Illerierel 'Raines' Transacted. ?false Discontsd. Drafts hoed. laterite Allowed .on ,Dsposits. ALexisT STREW? CLINTON. L GA L j SCOTT BARRISTER, SOLIolT011; ' Money; to Loan, site. Ornex•-Elliett Block • • CLITONN -w BRYDON1C . . BARIIISTElt,SOLiOiTOR: Notary Path°, &a, ' Greson-elissiver Beek, Constipation, Headache, Billousnesso Heartburn, indigestion, Dizziness, Indicate Met your liver I* out of order. The best medicine to rouse the liver and cere ell thews ills, is found In • tit) IPS $I8 7 . , Three years. and, mix month*. Here ill THE . SUNDAY SCIIOOL again ,yesuwe PhratieselogY doe* not PporfEli ABB TOO BROIL ,..... closely agree with that of the Old ......., , IIHNOWIIAL LES8011411116.- LSO 4.1640 Tostaraent, which mentions three A BRITISH ExpEnos Discuss/ON YeaTs, Oen 1 Hinge 17. 1,8,9; 18. 1, 2; OP A NOVEL PROBLEM. hut the two atatementa are not necee. sarily contradictory. See James b. 17; Golden Text -GO tense Wale Ille Own raid 1 . a so Dan. 12. 7t ROY. 11.1 28,4nd 18. 5. The Unheard of GallantrY or Gar golden* Ills 0011 Userivrilissim Sue Jelin 1. 11. I 20. Sarepta. Zarepliath. The modern lends le ike Garottes as tit Whether PRAM 4. 14 Q. . . asreeto. A phounicialk town lying There is Eimecessary Lose of Life. !Vona 16. Nazareth, A village beg*.pliseTyur. ti!IlludEbroosan: '0 `At them 1 the triotie d °As if a "What lioneense I" ertee impatient. t t h d 1 th slopin 41de of a , were cleansed. The bit Mese 0 : lovely vale, two miles from the Ploal these two illustrations cannot readi. of fighters could ever be to brave!" Of Etairaelon, six miles west ot Mount ly be understood by ins. "Seeing that • 'Yes; but wait a moment. -11111,11* 1:at-ipemmiroe:74,1•••,,, , ED cents. gold by aU medicine dealers. 2.? 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G OIAS AttteGyeereidentio. matehmeenratents * Apt treo. omen arotarttor steering Detente remelts token aeons' mann a CO. reefers mike. without chaste, the ottific .11mtricats. 04.6004, iffiestieted !Jerkin Provreat_er, " ."!(1 AnoitC,°a.'dotordngilti w a ITO?SS 1 ilreadval, eel r winbiaelor. HORSE OR FO011, One of the soldier's great, difficul- ties in wAr is to tell what kind o fens - my he sees in the distanoe, and to know whether the enemy is approach- ing, going away, or trying to eut.: flank him. At a little less than a mile away, 1,500 yards, he can dialingaish infan- lry from caxalry only by the way in whitish they move. Single men look just like mese vertioal lines when standing, and a horseman is seareely at all OM:went from an infantryman. But the motions of horsemen. toot soldiers, and arfillery are very differ- ent from one another. The oust they raise ahio•helps to distinguish them. Ths dust raised by cavalry forms a high, light cloud. That raieed by infantry is loveer and denser. And the cloud raised by artillery is very dense. As to the direction in which a body of troops is moving, it is easy, te tell when the sun is shoeing, When they are coming. towards ram the rays are perpendietilar When they are mov- ing toward -1 your right, the rays slant downwaate from lea to right. And when they are moving towards your left, the rays slant down from right to left. If they axe movieg away, you see the arms glitteeing in a broken irregular matiner. °Len this is a very vital question te solve. EMPEROR AND DOCTOR. Ordinarily, a sovereigies slightest indisposition, is elaborately diagnosed and; promptly treated. Bub it's different with the Chinese Emperor. His doctor cannot even teel his pulse. - A few weeks ago tile court physi- cians et Peking failed tei dissipate a feverish lassitude from tvhich the Em- peror was suffering. Chen Lien Pang was summoned So en audience. Here is what happened: On his knees the great physician en- tered the 'presence of his sovereign. The Emperor and the Dowager Em- press were seated at opposite sides of a Low table, The Emperor eaid nothing; etiquette forbade the doctor to ask questions. The Empress began to describe •His /Majesty's, symptoms, the invalid con- firming her words by occasional nods, the physician being compelled to keep his gaze directed toward the floor. Finally at the Empress's command the still kneeling physician placed the palm of his ha.nd delicately' onethe Emperor% wrist. But he wee not per- mitted: to feel the royal pulse or to examine the Eraperor's tongue and throat, which were in a condition of considerable ulceration, The Empress's monologue finished, the physician was permitted to with- drawe still on his knees, and to present later his diagnosis and advice for treatment, which, as he well knew, must be safely orthodox, to the Greed Council, of the Court. ro-s• 15 YOUR NAIR TURNING GRAY? What does your mirror say?f. i Does it tell you of some pile.' 1 streaks of gray?- Are you pleased? , Do your friends of the saMe Age show this loss of- power also? • Just eemember that gray ---' haie never becomes darker without help, while dark hair rapidly becomes gray when once the change begins. gre Nair Vigor will bring beck to your hair the color of youth. It nerer falls. It is just as sure as that heat melts mote, or that water ueriches fire. It e tense* the *dip also and prevents the formation of 1 dandruff. It feeds and flout. - Wm the bulbs of the hair making them produce aluxu. tient growth. It stops the heir from falling out and gives _ A fine soft finish tO the hair as well. _VA hter. a book tho mut - molt whier. yen Oily Obtain itIA imrf „be,d, Ai! the triisitt s YOE *111816(04 ft4th II14 et ire thil2orthr ANOIG It. A4140001, DIU .1.p. ATE 1 Tabor, and about twenty west of the you do not come to nle in your heart, southern end, of the Sea of Tiberiao, wyooruhhatheveponwoecria.oim upon my Miracle - now En-Nasirah, with a population of 28. Filled with wrath. They adratr- about four thousand. Where lie had ed the graceful rhetorlo of the sermon, been brought up. Where, too, with but were maddened by ite application. 20. Rose up. In. a tumultuous mob. little ,doubt, lin had worked aa a ear. renter. WE may wen euppeae that aTnhaTrUo;t bmiMe4 Ouput.ahele higmreat tmhroohugohf many of those whei were his hearers the muddy. closely' built streets and that roornine bad in their hoeles up the hillside, The hill whereon, utensils fashioned by his bends. Ev. The city was not built tbe brow' ot the but on, the: lower . hillside. ery noticeable trait and event of hi!! They hustled him up to the** cliff, in - bo hood unknown to us, was we"' tending to burl hira down. Thera is a rock not far away from Nazareth about forty, feet high, which wail very likely the senile of this tumult. eaat him down headlong,. To properly:Asa- derstand the action of the Jews who rejected Jams, we Must remember that a false prophet in that day mas tar more infamous than a false pro- phet to -day. Brigham Yining, or Joseph Smith, self -deceived or hYP0- critical, stands before the community and proclaims his baseless gospel, and the intelligent community, while cen- suring him iseverely, ailoves him, never- theless, the private right of judg- ment and. in cases where blood ia shed, as 'at Carthage, is very apti to gym, Pathio with the Victim rather than with the attacking party. John the Baptist and Jesus were both add reseed as Rabbi, Teacher, hut neither of them had anything in com- mon with the hidebound rabbis who tionglit in exits and discussed la con- ventional style, Besides, Jesus had really claimed naucii more than pro- phetio dignity when, he had said, "This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears," That Scripture could only be fulfilled by the Messiah.,And was this low -bred carpenter the Mes- siah? 80. Through the midst. Marched theough the midst. After having been, tossed from side to side by the riot- ers, he suddenly exerted superhuman power, and they fell back abashed at bis divine majesty. There are a num- ber of intimations in the Bible that there wes a certain restrained majesty it to assert itself, paralyzed his op- paboncueni tsJ.es, us which, when he allowed knoWn to them. They were doubtless proud of their townsman's eloquence and power until they understood him to claim the DIessianship. That they meld not bear, Let us carry Christ's eauge first to tborle whom We know best. Let us not be ashamed, to be his followers anywhere. As his cus- tom was. He kiwis" more of the divine mysteries than all the scribes, but be would tench us by example ant to worahip God publiay is the duty of every man, From our earliest child- hood we ahould be aesoustoined to at- tend God's house. Our faithfulness to ehe chureb should not depend upon. our interest in theepreacbing, but should be matter of •principle, Into the synagogue. • In all the Jewish world there was only one temple, with its saCrifieial services; but every eillage or community of Jews had at least one synagogue, or house of wor- ship, where the people asserabled on Sabbath days. The services consisted of pisalms of praise, the reading of a selection frora the law, and generalle another from the prophets, after which any Jew who was. present could have the privilege of speaking. Each sYnagogue was so arranged that the worshippers fiiced Jerusalem. The Wen sat on one :side, the women on the other, a wooden partition between. ln an ark of painted .wood were theeholy books. . Stood up There is a flutter oe interest and expectation in the asseanbly as a young man, ivell known to ale present not as a religious teach- er, but as a simple. mechanic, blame - leas in life ana earnest in piety, just beginning to be the subject of strange reports as a miracle *orker'and pro- phet, rises and requests that' the roll af the prophets be handed to him. 17. Tne book. Each "book' of the Scriptures was written on &separate parehment,.whian was rolled on two cylinders, beginning at each end, so that the place was found by rolling off from one end and rolling on at the other. Enka. efhe Greek form of Isaiah. 'The place. The first ser- mon a the New Testament dispensa- tion finds its fitting text in the Old. Let us revere the Obi Testa- ment, whose pages point so directly to C:hrist. Where it was written, This passage is taken mostly, but not precisely, from the Septuagint version of in. 61, 1, 2, (with a clause from lea. 58. 6. Our Lord seems to have chosen those selections from the prophet which most distinctly prodahnedhithe reelf and his mission. ..- _ 18, 19. The Spirit of the Lord. He - mill the story of the baptism: ,A.noint- ed. me. Turned into English this would be "christened me," for the weird "Annointed" is "Christ" in Greek; but it parried wilh it the iclea of special conseeration, as much as does the "crowning" of a ,king. Gos- pel . "Glad tidings.' Never let us for-, get that Christ comes to bring glad- ness and, jog to troubled hearts. To the poor. While the world notices the rich, Christ comes with his special mercies to the poor and the downtrod. den. Heal the broken-hearted. Ev- ery heart has its sorrow and every sor- row finds a comforter in Christ. De- liversinee to captives. The world lies fettered in the prison house of sin; Christ comes.to set it free. Ace eeptable year. A reference to the year of jubilee, which came every half century, when debts were cancelled, slaves freed, and eatates redeemed. The Gospel brings men back into right relations with one another. 20. Closed the book. ley rolling it together. The minister. The chez- zas, whose dutiles were more like those of a sexton than those of a min- ister, having charge of the building MI its furniture, including the sac - i red box containin the booke of Scrip- ture. Sat dew'n The Jews stood in token of rearm while the Scrip- ture WO read,lont sat while speaking, All the discodrsee of Christ were dee livered in a sitting position. We should listen with eyes as well as ears to those who speak in God's house. 21. He began to say. His first words; the substaasee of a more ex- panded discourse. Scripture fulfilled. Eight hundred years this word was waiting, but the man foreshadowed had. come in God's own time. Every sentence of Scripture was sure of its aceomplisbment. God rarely brings to. pass his word in the way expected by men. EtIN providence is a perpet- ual surprise. : 22, Wondered. Ate his dear Insight into the Scriptural, at his original in- texpretation and „forcible presentation of the truth. 'Vie whole addre.sa was se eevelation. 41ame who begin with wonder end. 'With love, but othere, as these men "1".:f NazaTeth, end in hate. Gracious."ords. Let us learn at the feet of semis hew to present God's meeesapee to our classes tenderly and affec .ona.e.y, see graMous words. adg " Jesse es eon. The name by v.'Phich he vs populaxly known. 4"23. 24. Heal thyself. By this proverb, clierent et the tiane, they would re- mind hire that, if his powers are sup- eenetural, the"' can best be shown by lifting himself and his fanaily from their low condition, Row utterly the world misapprehends Christ and the Christian. The carnal raind cannot look through spiritual .eyes. We have heard. At least two =ironies had al- ready. taken places, and probably et& era not reported by the evangelist, Cepernaum. A. city on the northwest shore of the Sea of Tiberias. As it lay on the highway between Demands and the Mediterranean Sea, it was a flourishing town. Now it is com- pletely in rultis,•and its locality was long in diepute. Tell Hum is the name of the place where it probably stood, No. prophet. Let us beware of thet little jealousy which cdten keeps us from estimating others at their true worth. i 25. Of a truth. Such frequent phrases as this and "Verily, verily, I say unto you" are of interest for the light they ahed on jesules manner as a Dublin speaker. No. one earl read any lengthy ;sermon of Jesus, or even a, brief ejaculation such as that begin- ning, " 0 jeruenlera, Jerusalem," with- out geeing that even Isaiah and Dem- osthenes were measured and tame in • style e,orapiared with the torrentlike vehemence of the Son of man. He free- ly treed this strongest denuileiatory terms in the language, and then bought to intensify therr meaning by Thereet one tbmg I like in the Doer& to be shot down like doge, Tommy such rhetorical emohasia as this. Pro- said the.soldier who, had ju.st returned follows in desperallon, trying te get bably never before or shade have from the front, The reporter, who was near Lim enemy with that obsolete human tars heard any deliverances on the Merl of the leading ,dally, felt weapon the bayonet. Thus did the couched in rhetotic ao drifting and for his retell. Ehalifee followers at Omdurman, end voiced with such impressive eraphes. Test he eaid encouragingly. with much the Seine Vault, is. Many widow, Hewitt not flatter Yes, the other continued, and that'a The fat 6 illa Or , We tratt them. *is work is not to be fettered hulkite The Interview was not print» , got to begin end kern the art of War by their prejudices. Iiii has cut ktOS6 ed. ,...................... anew, alid we Canned do better than from ell earthly relationships. El jell learn it from our adversaries the end Elielm, rejosted by their country- TROARLESOME TENANTS. Boers. The Beer warrior has no men, exerted their beneficent power in behtlf et Gentile& Ana so the Son But the cellar's full of watery grunt.. o.t man will do tro wonders where he bled/ the neW tenant. Pail of water! Is r6,k4t0d, W will pees ever to the rotator! the house agent, end what i "grange** ..'" to God's Inherittnes.,, din pun expeetachimpagnet ,. c EXERCISE IN MODERATION. AthIolle everts fee Wonie.i No wore a Utica. 111111 llf 1.6111161611'. When we remember that only a very few years ago. it was thought 'unlady- like, if not absolutely indelicate, for a girl to go in ice!! any form! of exer- cise more violent than croqueteIt riot very surprising that publio opin- len Upon the subject is still:in an un- settled -condition. The last few years. have indeed witnessed very remark- able Changes. Our girls to-dey are Permitted; to enjoy , practically the same privileges as their brothere ; cycle, row, p1ay tennis tied cricket and hockey, and society looks on and ut- ters approval, To keen+ the weestion of "propriety" in amenection vidth et- ereise for *omen is to stamp one's aelf as hopelessly behind the tinies, It is true that people do exist *he, hide- bound by tradition, still eye askance the"' healthy,. whelesome-minded girl who by means of judicious exercise keeps in glowing health, and who sigh for the sickly, pallid creature of a generation or so back, who mainly occupied her time in "crewel -work," and could always summon up a timely "swoon-- when she desired to awaken masculine interest. But these good folk constitute but a trifling min- ority; and in consideeing the' subject,on bread lines, their opinion, however in- . teresting to the student ,of a bygone day, need not be taken into serious consideration. , Oil the other hand, It is idle to deny that, though the vast majority of peo. ple have only one opinion with regard to the prdpriety of women indulging in athletic exercises there's a great di- vergence of opinion as to wheth- er the Modern I rend ie eipedient or the reversa Roughly speaking, peo- ple are divided intd two classes -those who contend that athletie exercises are beneficial to women, and those who hold a directly opposite opinion. There are the [staunch upholders of exercise for women, and those who are never WEARY OF DECRYING IT. It is not necessaxy for a woman to be a profound phySiologist to under- stand .that exercise if carried tc ex- cess defeats its own object. Yet it is upon this side that the modern girl is most apt to err. That is, indeed, what Is to be expected. Exercise is ao comparatively new a thing to women that they cannot be expected to see it, all at once in its proper perspective. Men, it must always be remembered, have grown up with a tradition of physical exercise behind them, No doubt in time it will become a tradi- tion with Women; but the present gen- eration is only just beginning it, Again, boys begin at a very early age to participate in games and sports, and thus by the time' they COMO to adole- cenee their frames are hardened, their muscles toughened, their hearts and lungs in good working order, and able to staled a good deal of strain vvith- out serious injury. Now, if girls wish to properly benefit by eXercise they Meet take a leaf ont of their broth- ers' book. Women in general have a greater amount of what -for Want of a better name -we call nervous eilergy than have men ; this leads then1 very frequently to overtax their strength. While under the influence of excite- ment, or the feeling borh ofi good-na- tured rivalry, thee will attempt, and very frequently succeed in accomplish- ing, Mate out of all proportion to their strength without having worked up to them by a graduated course of trebl- ing* such as would be undergone by a man tn s Miler eireumstances. The result is t.t.et they are making a great drain upon ;heir nervous aystena ; and, after the spurioue strength born of ex* element nett the dessixe not to be. ciutstrippeti passes off, collapse and nervous prostration follow. HE KNEW BETTER. Mr. Scrimps -I asked your datigh- ter a very itnportant question last night, and she referred me to you. Old Gent-Ifunaphl What did you ask herf / naked her if she'd marry me. Well, she won't, nto Ilea she rtaid so? No; but Mtn what know of the girl, I don't believe she would have bothered herself about me if she had really wanted you. beano% our men ere cowarde. but be. OND THE REPORTER. ettuee they are too brave, too reek. Ism. Our offieers stand up like men, la the northern portion or that very coiltinent within whose aouthern con. fines we aro to -day eoing battle for the Empire, there arose, not so very many years back, a Mithdi, or "Felipe Prophet," and he gathered round' his standard an array cel some quarter of a million of as brave warriors as the world has ever Seen. Where are they noes' Dead, fugitives, prisonerei but Meetly deed, Whyt Bosoms they wore. 'TOO BRAVE. They oillutsg themselves euriously against Ocoee eraned with modern weapons, and they paid the penalty. Now, in one respeet-and in one re- spect only -does elm charge of our men at the battle of Magerefontein Mei Oran the charge of the der- vishes at Omdurman, The latter counted death as nothing. • The type, cal Baggora fanatics went into action determined to kill at least one unbe- liever if possible; but if he found it impossible, then the next best thing was to allow the unbeliever to kill him, thereby qualifying at once and without any more ado for the joys of his particular paradise. So, when the storm of hissing, stinging lead stuck him, he rushed on and on and was annihilated. The British "Toin- ray:: on the other hand, having still a lingering prejudice left in favor of living, and possessing no illusion about houris ane lerussulman para- dises, did not • welcome dereth !for death's sake, and, when .be found it impossible to stand against the tem - Pest Of shot and shell he lay down. There he remained for eight weary hours, while the bullers flew ceaseless- ly overhead, and when night and darkness came -he was able to retire , • . • OUT OP DANGER. But he left on the field over one thou- sand dead and wounded. Iie was too brave; he attempted' to accomplish the impossible. . Yes -the 'impassible. That is the plain, naked, unvarnished truth. Suc- cessful frontal attacks, delivered against a -strongly-entrenched and Well -armed enemy, have always been accounted among the most difficult and daiigerous operations of war. Na- poleon only resorted to them as a last extremity. Moltke laid le doern as a hard-ancl-fast',rule that they were to be avoided whenever 'possible, and never undertaken under any circum- stances unless the attacking force was at least three times the strenght of the defending one. "To succeed to -day, then," argues the nrai-military reader "a frontal attack Must be delivered by a force which outnumbers • the defenders in the proportion of six, eight, tin to onef" No. This will not do, eith- er. For, hy au.gmenting the strength of an attacking force beyond a certain point, you simply increase, not its fighting eapacity, but its density and its vulnerability ; end, at the same time, you decrease its mobility. In other words, you inake it a better Wept' for the enemy's • fire, while seriously impairing its power !of avoiding it. A force of, say, • • TEN THOUSAND 3LEN might conceivably carry -or fail to ,carry -a given position with a loss of only ten per cent, of its total. A forte of One hundred thousand men, performing the same work under the seine conditions, .might easily lose forty per cent, of its total. Or put in another way, the larger 'force 'would lose in killed and ;wounded twice as many men as were contained in the smaller. It is this factor in the pro.. blem which makes frontal attacks under the conditions set forth above impossible of accomplishment. De- livered by a small force or a large one, it is all the same. In the former case the attenuated lines are not strong enough to drive the attack home; in the latter they are over- whelmed by rifle and machine-gun fire because they are not Attenuated. But in any ease -and this is the point to be remeMbeired-the braver the at- tacking troops the more they suffer. "Ife who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day!" ' Tbe sentiment constitutes the keynote of Boer strategy. To the Boer. acting on the defensive, one poeition is as good as another, Fle falls back and back, inflicting • FRIGHTFUL DANAGB on his too -valiant assailants, stiffer- ing little or none himself. Like the Afridi, the Hoer never ex- poses Wiesen .unnecessatily. Many men who went right through the Tirah campaign scareely ever saw a dead Afridi. , It cannot be gathered from the .newspaper reports that, even where we have succeeded in cap. tering a Boer position, we have:Pine across any very great number of dead Boers. To account for this, it is aver- red that they carry otf their dead, bury, them, sink them in rivers, and so on, The explanation zuffices fin" the average man in the street. But the military reader, knowing the din, ficulty and danger attendant on ree moving dead bodies under a', heavy fire, cannot well refrain frotn Wond- ering whether there are ' really any great eamhees to be carried off, beri- ed, or stink, as the ease may fWe know what were the Hoer low@ in the; former war,. and we can ;badge erene them approximately whit they are likely to be in this. At Laing's Nek their casualties were twenty-four killed and wounded, against oer At Ingogo, foeght a few 'days later, 142 British were put out of action, and and seventeen Beer!. Afajnba Hill was stormed at a total logs to the s.tormers of one killed and four wonnded; we loot 280, Rut, then, the Beers etorrned not as we Morn& There Was no rurraing, ne cheering, no fir- ing of mere or lees wild velieya In- stead, they crept frees • MULDER • to boulder and from rock to rook, making no sound, ehowieg nethieg of their atiipments or earache, hem. ming in tne doomed defenders with an Invisible and gradualbetentrealeg ring of rifles. At Bionkhoret Spruit, with a less to themseelves Of oneman only, they killed mad woonded 120 British. err. Winston Chiirenill repently eleetrified England„ by calmly, stat. Mg that one IlOer Was pedal to from thtee to five British soldier& The average citizen laughed, These reallY qualified to judge thought he had nn. derrated the value of the Boer as fighting unit, And this, Mind, net military training as we understand it. It fit doubtful if he is a better marks'. matt than his opponent, the Briton. Bat he knows the value Of cover. Re &Yes not fire useless volley* at le• vieible tow by wor ot commend, like liviug machine-gun he waite until he sees an enemy, and then he shoots tg kill. Hie marching, hie drilling, and hi* general "get-up," would he the deepeir of the avenge drill in- structor. glut he can cover twice the distance we can in the same epees of time, and -come up Broiling at the end of a sixty -mile Jour e ac ens h without food or water. . WHERE HEROES FAIL. The cold, cold morning. has broken; the taps are frozen tight, and Woo eaels window.nane le etched a frosty leciawork. Behind and of the etched window- panes and beneath a ;sheet,. three blankets an overcoat and a thick ru there crouches a man. The buzzing alarm of his tin eloek has died away, the bells of the near -by faetoriess are ieYntle13' clanging, and the maIs is palpfully aware that it is high time to arise, elothalemself, and kindle a fire In,the kitchen -grate, He greatly prefers to Ile beneath the warm cove - !Bring with his back' arched in a semi- circle and his knees hooked around bus ears; but fate has decreed that the fire m.ust be made and lit. Ris employers have likewise decid- ed that an employee who cannot ar- Om at the office at schedule time had"better look for enother job. Still the' man lies beneath the covering , Hecautiously projects a naked toot and tests the temperature of the room. The feet turns blue, and le hurriedle withdrawn. Heavens! Nau- sea himself would not get out of bed n such weather! Clang Half -past 1 With a wild, desperate leap the man leaves the warm bed. Frantically he attires himself and makes for the office, with uncombed hair, unbathed face and protesting appetite. iAnd the grate smiles coldly upon the scene. for the fire is unmade. ' AN ELEOTRIO GANNON. AN ENTIRELY NEW DEPARTURE IN FIELD ORDINANCE. • The E16616117,11 1111611111111 Wm herointittit• lac the cons.tritetion mid Ilse of Modern Artillery. L. S. Gard,ner, an ex -Detroit man, has inventeil a cannon that may rev- olutionize certain forma of artillery. Scoomoie tteon, thine ftent tPlit:itthhafrveaekinovoennttroirvs- armee, which in their prospectuses: were scheduled to brine about a new ers. werfare, and so regularly have their Malmo been found to be false and based on iecomplete experiment- ation, .that the pu.blie generally has come to! look upon all puck announce- ments with skepticism. This - ex- pected. incredulity ie nourished when it is further announced that the Gard- ner gun is an. absolutely new, depar- ture and that its possibilities seem almost unlimited. Accepted theories are set topsy-turvy and, the scientific world' is sure to be startled. The projectile, instead. of beteg ,forced out of the rifle by, an exploeive force be- hind, ie pulled through by an attrac- tive force before its nose. 'Both eerie are open. There is nothing; explosive. about 11- and friction is reduced to so Low a point that the, barrel may be made of any light material, even wood or glaze. The .gun dan not get hot In the nature of things and it can be fired a§ rapidly as lightning -like ma- chinery cn feed it. The muzzle velo- City is tiraited 'only by ehe will of, the operator, for its poWer is electricity. PRINCIpLE OF. THE' GtIN. ' The prinCiple of the gun is a simple one and• le based on well known scientific laws. If a cylinder is wrap- . ped with a wire and throegh this wire is sent a current of electricity, every student of the Wonderful force knows tbat the cylinder will become mag- netized and will draw; to its center any bit of iron or steel that may be Pieced near the evening. The experi- ments in the pest have ended' here, tor when the center of the magnet is readied the attractive force in neu- tralized and the bolt stops. Alr, Gar- dner figured that if juet before the 'center was reached an automatic me- chanical device' were to cut off tbe current the projectile vrouid pass oe through! the cylinder with the MUM force given Why, the magnet in the first half of its joutaey. The expere me,nt was tried and found to be practi- cal. Out of an ordinery wooden spool, wound witkcopper wire, he repeated- eent a bolt of iron the size of a man% little finger forty feet acroes his laboratory. The: next step was to make a series of magnets ia a single tube, The bolt passing through the first eection of magnetism enters the meat& with the speed with which it left the first, 4a it enters the third the vekeity is still. further accelerat- ed; and thus with a sufficient number ot powerful magnets in succession tbiere le no limit to the size ef the pro- jectile: or the velocity with which it may be thrown from this muzzle, of thie unique weapon. MODEL OF THE NEW GHN. 'My. Gardner's working model, in not of a large size, for his invention Is of too recent a date to have had a More lpretenkious one completed,. It is but a glass tube with bore about the size of a lead pencil. The barrel wounsl with three coils of wire, each making a :separate magnet. Ile tios canonon wire nails with the, heads out! off for projectiles, read, with this Low -force contrivance can penetrate a halt -inch plank at the distance of twenty feet. The inventor es assured, of the cor- rectne.se of the principle upon which he has proceeded. The greatest. dif- ficulty that 110W besets him 'is the per- feetion of the system of automatto switches (hat ere to out off the elec- tric current at the proper moment Without deterring in the slightest de- gree the speed of the projectile. Thls he Maintains is editing mere than a inechanical pronlene'Which needs only a raifficient amount of experimenta- tion to develop. The switch system he now Wes is considered' rather delicate for practtcal field work. One point. to which the inventor at- taches great importance ie the ease and safety with which high explosives case be dieobaxged from his gun in shells or aerial torpedoes. The reae sell why a gun -cotton or dynamite shell canoot be fired frets' the ordinery Caution is becaude the shook of the due eliarge Would explode it in the bar- rel, and the great probleus oil inv.3n- tore in the pent has baen to'find some means of etarting the shell gently, In the electric mile ties shell /starts at nei epees!, and the impetus is acquired by gradual raid incresiSed'force. There IS GO ehook at any pOint of the jour- ney. The Only piece of ordnance that has ever successfully thrown dyne - mite Shells fa the pneuirentie gun that woe mounted on thet S. S. Vegivities. But the *lege thie was limited to tomething lessi tha* a mile, while It was not toileidered altogether 6'IrtTleh'etveelellettriliceaeen will have a range greeter perhaps than *flys cannon now extetence. end will hurl its prow. - tile, no tnatter hoW explesive it may be. with, a elf:W.0We that Will (neural eafety to everybody extent the tar. get of the Merkeinele. PROPESSIONA,L DINNER TA.STENS. A curious profession foe a woman is that of dinner taster. She le a pro. duct of Parisian refinement, and spends a portion of tath day visiting houses end tasting diehes intended for dinner. She sitggests improvements and showe the took new waya of pee. pering dishes. The duties aro pletient and the onteeneatioe *MO.. PLAOBB CT OF • exactly a disease, hett lt f -to mil u gui had from ,the eorainander view, for *11 the inan's etrongt stiaf vitality goes out of bim, and he be. THE ARMY NUMMI( HAS SHOWN mutes too weak to witik. The tr reat ease' of the heart, and wear invalids HIS IMPORTANCE IN PANT WARS. exertion also cause' very frequen die. Inseese )1 WO to be "'cares* Than Ilse II hat oceount. Rheum*. ekemy.,, swiet4 phold, choem thlrEl attacki and dleables °molder. come borne o t $11101100S, 314110r10, 0101 .A.1,1704". eclioUepledurnwithV thew oveercroWe dinexg"itellort sista *re a IPow or ihe soldiers' 11411. ten neoeseary during a campeign, Bete Tins Army doctor looke uPon himself up a large amount of consumption. as one of the most importaat mem. irhe worst thing about disearie ie bens of a campaigning force, tor lie Olga While under the excitement that it dot* not end with the eitin.r rightly nye that even the most of aetual war the :soldier iseeme able highly -trained army le of little ef- to bear up against an amount of ex- fieiency anlesis the health of its WU- posure, wet, long marchin , want of vidual soldier is good. When the campaign is of short duration an army loses little of its force by trans- ference to the alekelist. But when oPerations extend over many menthe the health of the troops invariablY undermined by their great hardships and privations; while a lengthened siege is certain to dieable a very large percentage. In face, during the PRESENT WAR, Ladysmith's greatest danger has been from disease, not of the Boer guns. In most wars of the past eiekness did more to render the contending armies inefficient than any other cause. It killed niore than bullets and bayonet, and gave no quarter. TO separate the 'deaths due to disease from those due to wounde alone is not easy. Severe wounds are very. fre- quently followed by some form of lung -disease, and crowding in hospi- tals is aefruitful Sotirce of feeers. But the stetistio of modern wars show that, for one death. due to the fire of the enemy, five are caused by disease. During the wars of the beginning of the present century the British Fleet owed two-thirds of its total losses to sickness. That is to say, betvveen the years 1792 and 1815. During 'the ex- pedition of the Britishr Army to Wal- clieren, in 18J9, the losses at the hands of The enemy amounted to only seven- teen per thousand, while the losses from disease reaohed the terrible num- ber of 345 men per thousand. And when we were figbting in Spain, dur- ing the years 181.1 to 1814, the casual- ties in battle numbered 8,890, while 'the losses from disearn were 24,930. an limy; • This frightful mortality occurred in MUCH SMALLER than that now operating in South Afrioa-namely, 6i,50a of all ranks. in those. three years six times the number of the army passed through the hospital -that is to say, there were two attacks of serlOus sickness per man. per annuin. • The iigures relaeing. to foreign arm- ies show an equally remarkabie state ef things. When Prussia fought Austria in 1808 her casualty list amounted to a total of 4,400, while her LOSS .by disease was 6,400, or a little over. The Civil War in America, however, resuited in more deeths from disemse than any other war of this century. T.he number killed in bat- tle, as given by the very complete statistical record of the surgeon -gen- eral, amounting to over 6400; the number who subsequently died from the effects of wounds almost touched d5,050; while the Men lost by disease reached the inaniense total of '240,000. To give one last example, the French, in the Crimea, lost, in round numbers, 20,0011 at the hands of the enemy, arid, 75,000 from disease. During the last thirty years, how- ever, the sanitary arrangements of armies in the field have been revolu- tionised, and death from disease is never even likely to reach so high a figure as in the past. Indeed, the improvement set • in during the France -German War, and while over 28,000 of the German troops were killed by the enemy, only 12,200 died from disease. This same improve - Mont has been made in the HEALTH- OF' ARMIES in time of ,peabe as Well as in war. Our Indian army t used to die at suoh rate at the beginning of tne Queen's reign that any body of menkept there for twelve years would have become extinct. Now things are altogether different, and the soldier's expecta- tion of life in India not very mueh worse than the civilian's. The disearses whieli attack an army are, of course, those from which everyone else in tne country suffers. But it is obvious that when stoma in- fectious sickneiss hreaks out in a (vamp or cantonment it hes every facility "for spreading, and is'exceed- ingly difficult tei stamp out. Typhoid fever,. for instance, whenever it eemes, Omen to stay. When this rages it is practically impossible to prevent the infection spreading. It is one of the soldier's worst enemies, and the sight of the Bret mule is most dis- heartening to a commauder. Typhoid fever will enfit a soldier for duty eight or ten days before tp takes to bed; it will keep him in tied for a month, six weeks, or even looser, and he will be an invalid for a log time after getting up. Typhus fever le still worse, as it is more fatal, and' far more infectious , Worse still' irs cholera. An mit- Meek of cholera takes all the pluck -out of an army, for It. is well knoWn that it is far'more fatal to an army than even among eivilians. We used to lose an enormous ntimber of sol- diers many years ago froni eholera, as many as five thousand men having died in five days out of the division under Hastings. Cholera its dangerous to any army in a curious way. When, it is. ragiug there is not an hour's se- curity for any man'a life, and aentries on duty haste been seen to fall as if shot. Small-por., since the predict of re- peatisd vaccInations betnime generel in European armies, is not the terrible foe it Used to be. The best-vaceinat- ed troope in the world are the Ger- mans, and in the war of 1870 they lost less than three in ten thousand by small -pox. But the French' lost 680 in ten thoesand. Of the other infec- tions diseases, malaria 13 the worst in eertain' cogntries, 'At ope time the French troops in Guiana died at the yearly rate of 125 'p.et thousend FROM. MALARTA" alone. It le had in India, Egypt, Al- geria, Abyssinia, and' the United States, In the last-named place it is no uncommon thing Os set 209 out of every thoitaand troops down with•ma- laria. There are many kinds of ilishealth besides Infectious diseasee to be eile dured by the campaigning :Midler. re hot tountriee sunstroke does a lot of execution. Fortunately It Is ex- tremely rare in South and West Af- rica. .13tit what Wean do is dercion. etrated' by the fact that, in' the Ital. inn War, two, thousand troops of one French division fell in the ranks. La- Oiniry are the greet Vietipis of suustroke. It fiefdoms affeete the cavalry, owing to their dense forma- tion. On the other hand, old is -or, rath. er, has been -vastly mere deatructive Fifteen hundred French and Eng. lish troope perished from cold in the Crimea ; but this was more owing to want of food than mere Cold, for the therm eter was not SO 'ye y to The wel -nourished Canadian troepe, who have dime a lot of fighting in mucb older regions, &Mitred eon. iteratively little from cold. So tbitt the reduetion of the "Grand Army" aeries Its retteet frit% Molle00/1 froM 400,000 to 3,00 men could not have been due, ta ao often aald, to the told. Starvation had more to do with It. Bivouacking on old, drone elfalta In Africa, is 4 great cause Of opetbrie, PteAd Ot the heel, a wiretap will ty. Mia, Por Mune reaeon, the 'bright, aceompbahed. end, following the leold, danto night. II _ _ INIURtOtis ritit tr ES' Well, bat sad, the Boers Ertl t110 The soldier on the mart% freeuenbly tom. tote" trout $ wpm* end 01111314w ym, jobb teplio,d, lookin th slitnent milled *dynamic Thls not sleee: and food, thet would ill him at any other time.. But when the war s over he breaks down, RECRUITING ODR SOLDIERS •••••••• IhIPORTANCE or THE SERGEANTS WHO ENLIST THE RAW RECRUIT. ree ge w Moterial Nu .4 Drill Six Long Months Tha "Awkward Squad" - The $41111h1r 15 the Postwar mot la War Time. The backbone of the /3ritish enlist - tug" syetem is the Recruiting Sergeant, While he irs an institution of every barrack station, it is in London that he is in his greatest glory. In Lon- don he may be seen to the number of 20 CID 80 promenading' up and down the streets in the neighborhood of Trafalgar square, with a broad re'd band gracing his manly breast, sport- ing a little cane, florid of complexion' -a living exemplificalon of the great- ness and glory of the British nation, But this is not his sole occupation. Os- tensibly it is his duty to give informa. tion to intending recruits as to the requirements end the Advantages of the various branches of service. In practice be varies the advantages ace oording to the desirability of the applicant. If the latter palpably unfit the Sergeant paints a picture of life in the service that would make the vein's of the most bloodthirsty; Briton that ever shirked honest toil run cold. "It's fightin" all day and marohin' all night, with nothing over- head but the .burnin' eun and under foot the scorchin' sand, and nagurs popping at ye from behint bushes that ye cannot see, &a," unt.1 tlie would-be Tommy Ailens slinks hilmedly away, TENIXTATIONS TO JOIN. Tbe English you* who enlists in the army usuaby passea through cer- tain well denned SWAM of mind in re., lateen to the . eubjece He sees a regi - went go march.ng past. to the stirring Music of the band and the cheers of people. He sees Tommy Atkins *elk ing conaplacently with the nurse- maid on whom he himself lavisheti smileS in vain, Or he is out of a job and hungry. "It's a line life for a lad With spirit," says the Sergeant who has spotted his man. The youth is sur- prised that tile great . hero has read his thoughts so easily. He becemes comident. The Sergeant is encourag- ing, sweeps away his doubts, present-. He is weighed and measured and ex - machine carries him on resistleseiy. amined very thoroughly. If be•ia an measurement, it is not considered an inch or so below the required cheat to see for himself. Once inside the 1 ly he lugs him oif to the stathon, just obstacle, as he is expected to make it up presently. Then he answers a very lengthy list of questions, as te • hie birthplace, trade, age, etc. He s:gns a contract which is couched in the most pleasing personal terras with Victoria, as if she sat in the next • room waiting to affix her own Ogee:. ,e ture. When the ,z•ecruit passes his . medical examination be is turned over btousainneostsheisr tgoromupakoefs4orfefitcherast hweltosise not a deserter, criminal or runaway from home. At the end he makes a -r 1•••• solemn oath to "honestly, faithfully defend Her Majesty the Queen Vic- toria, her heirs and successors in per- son, crown and dignity against all e.nemtes, as well as observe and obey all orders Her Majesty, her Generals and 0:Goers set over Me. So help me Godl" This oath makes lava a British soldier. If he tries to withdraw. he is a deserter, . IRE ''QUEEN:S SHILLING." Then. he receives the 'Queell's shill- ing." Just •Why he gets this quarter nobody knows. It is it enstpm followed ee froth time immemorial, probably or- iginated at a time when one could get a good deal more liquor for the amount than possible,at present. Aft. erward he is hustled off to the sta- tion where he is exercised in gymuits. tics, learns a little how to hold him - coif, how to use hie muscles, to move his hands and feet with ease. .After seven weeks' training he is consigned to the "Awkward Squad." Hire he • spends six months in incessant drill- ing. At the end of six months he ' is drafted to Aldershot, where 'be learns how to use his gun. It ap- pears that the instruction in this particular is not np to the standard of Pretoria Arsenal. Six months' rifle practice•here completes his edu- cation as Tompay A.tkins. Not until he has left Aldershot is a Briton con- sidered a full-fledged soldier, worthy to rank as such and with tne privis" lege of being shot in Pattie. Except in times 'of war the great B. P., British Punlic, look down upon Tommy Atkins. Quite two thirds of London saloons do not serve soldiers. Some people do not consider being ex- cluded 'from thee:pin:Pillar resorte a curse but it is mighte inconvenient I o persons gifted with the prodigious thirst of Tommy Atkins, Of ceurse, when the empire is in danger eVery- thing irs changed. The Parish of yes. terday becomes the hero of to -day, The sober citizen, who would at other timer] seiorn to be seen within ,five yards of soldier, cheers biroself hoarse, and share speculators carry him on their shoulders. But T. Atkin° is a philosopber. And while ne has the utnicet contempt for the incomes - Ailey of his aristocratic friends OM - day, he cheerfully resigna himself into the position of a darling of the natien with the consequent free drinke as long as the scare halt& {, I AN OYSTER SATIN GOWN, .A. neve wedding ern Is of Oyeter white satin brocade and naoeseetine de Bele. The yoke and sleeved are ot mou.sseline applique. The Pripcess bod- , ice and tunic are of brocade. 'The tun- es falls in a point in front and inshore at the sides. It is finished with mints - saline ruching& The underskirt is a mass or satin ruffles set one above the other, with a Mousseline ruffle placed between every three of satin. There la also a court train of eye - ter. white • satin, and a Bete of lace draped twine the bodice and fastened prettily at the left aide with a series of loops threaded throUgh a diamond buckle, WEI.1...varanso wasiE/11. There . la birthing more rare nee beautiful to behold than the wontan who tvalks well. One vete* eimple rule (tenet standing Is to elevate the thest and wry it Net over the toes. Then, with head tired, and by remembering . to 'strike the ball of the toot tint; in. very AN OM. DDT SEASONABLE ;ORE, *look, but than ate emus 14/glee: