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Parties deeirous to effeet insurance t r eau,. sact other business win he tnemptly te4cled to on application to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post MAUSER BULLETS. F .•.1 II isiot y te ittali.e liar 1,Aist. or It Recover, We lmve heard A great deal about the Manser bullet, which, because it could pass through the bodies of a dozen men standing one behind the other, or penetrate a tree -trunk and kill the man on the other side, was going to mow ilown regiments. Yet now it is flaunting a reputation for mercifulness, won by its use in China, seemed lor roaniaxousness' sake, is The London Outlook. puts concisely • t IIIE SUNDAY SCIIOOL 9 las b Bee a n in 1411gidel ocfr rirnt; tint, with possession of the heavenly INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 1. ItIrocrtt jaribgritrfo tc1112° %ft% "The world. Persecution was never far from Iceathoulem," !mitt. 4, ea no s. 1e. the early nhenainn, when men knew ;Autoteao Text. Rime 5. s. that it tberadvocated Jesus they must PRACTICAL NOTES. suffer, it must bave been rars17 eara forting to be assured tbat their eilt, Verse. 26. There follewed bins greet feringe was a alga of their citizenship multitudee. Tim outset of our Lord's in neneeno career wati Immeasurably promising. 11. Blessed are ye when me The attention et the nation had sad- !!!,alel denly been directed to lam. Tile people 'wt 04(111 XIII' say7L Pn7asne ner lent aetainst you fatsely, for my thrateett in darkness had Been a great sane. This is a ParsOnal applicatiOn " The optimum people beard him of the oreceding I3eatitude. Notice the conditIon of the blessings, that gladly." Only the .rulers were againat the accusations shall be "false" and end their opposition was largely due Made "for my sake," or which is the to the untsettlitog influence of his tecusli- same thing, "for righteoUsnesin sake." 12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad. Inns. etonisning_ words to addrem to theee 1. Seeing the multitudes. Wile con" Awho alreadY cowered before Me /neatly increasing orewds must be wicked authoritim. Great is your teught. He went up into a mountain. reward in Heaven. Theira is the By substituting " the" icor " a" the re., Kingdom, of Heaven on earth; theirs visers set forward clearly the thought ;trIfit.nedgr Velfseerctaleldintitilel; of dm original. lie amended to the the prophets which were before you inenntein region whien ;spread out toe To thus bring theae plain fisberraen oat down on the larove of a. °belie the spud ehe uorth, weat and eoutla, and. lotie.hiltalewneadsininoinctizliosnagenlfoejljtezeramIshiaaphndwatintnna. Horns of Hattin probably. When he spleens. Bat all the Beatitude wee set. Like all Jewish -rabbis, and it apply to tis as directly as to the epee - might be &lid like orientals of every ties, • sort, Jesus sat to work and to speak. Ills disciples came upon him. At onee, in a half formal way, they surrotinded him ared "eat at hes feet." His words wo may assume, were addressed to thein, but wait tall latent that the multitudes should heae. 2. 'lie opeued his mouth, and taught them, saying. What ale said is not, • in the iondern utie of the word, a ser- mon. le is a series of principles and precepts on whieh the Kingdom. of Heaven is based. It is accoreing to these nungs that aogels do the will cof oar Falher whioto is be neavan. We, too, are citizens of heleyen, though temporarily hying eareh. heaven's leWs are ours. n e arenot (ehriatians exempt. we atrive unceasingly to weave into our lives Ltlese PreeePts• 3. 'lee word blessed, venial). occurs nin'e times 11118 lesson, bus been turned by some into "oappy," but 'llestated't 'bester, "Happy,' when appoest• to a man, is a ae.euription of 'etti ; . LORD HOBBITS' alliBBH. 'SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF 'MS POPULAR soon% Ma Saco:MOBS Int allip41101118-'103011°Y4 117mot, . . N•01Iono 0 t 11114 Native 0**1**10** *be Enticet vionadonce or We aleu-De. Among the nassengere on board the P. efe 0. steamer Ripon, whieto left ' SoilfhanePton, England, in Pebruara• * 1852, to perform the tint (nage of the seasalled overland routh to India, was a youth named Frederick Roberta. who hart just been involuted to a ca- detship in the nengal .ArtillerY. Some there are who still remeMber that yoleth WI that, the outeet of a re- markable career; they remember him as a small, delicate -looking, very de- spondent lad, who did not take kindly ttClinetbde. tporoefaesrnsiognrelantwfhalmt lle was de"- • He appeared nipped and hOrneeick and very sorry for himself, doubtful whether he would foe able to stand the Indian climate, as his health Prone a childhood had been precarious, The heat in the Red Seo. nearly overPow- ered him, and he Wes heard to ex- peess wonder how any fighting cotild be done in Indio under its torrid sun. Yet 'to India and the great oppor- tunities that soon came. to him, to' be e turned to suon liplendid account, he ,owes everything -name and fortune, and the high esteein of bis fellowmen. Nearly half a. century since that sor- rowful debut, he twain embarked on the aervice of his °country, a peer, a field-maralial, a leader of such ac- knowledged prowess and power that every eye turned to him as the man most likely to bring England through A GREAT NATIONAL CRISIS. .Lord Roberti is approaching the limit of man's allotted term, but two years short of the three -score and . ten that end mast lives; but he is still the bard -bitten, wiry, indefatigable. irrepressible worker of the Old days, one evho has quite grown out 04 early; • ill -health, and whit can still ride to hounds with the first flight; whe de- lights In lawn tennis, and.is an enthu- siastic cyclist. . . • • When suddenly called upon to start for SOuta Afrioa heavent With as little 'fuss 'as -though lie. bad merely .to call a; . cab. . It was in this prompt, straightforward way that he hurried down to Delhi forty years ago, when. all' ertillery •officeto were gathered in 'te help at the siege, travelling down fume Peshawur in the mail cart, with no. more baggage than a, thin roll of bedding; his saddle, bridle,.and sword. .As :the child is father to the man, so tixe lieutenant foreshadowed . the. field -Marshal. Roberts displayed . in early lite. the 'same' teaits. that have eince gained ;him:greet .distinction. He was ambitious in the best 'sense from . . the very first, repining 'much in bis youth far Abe opportunities that tar- ried, eager. at all times to throw, him-. self into any line. of work that geve iiim a change of showing What- he was wortne • . ,His first .great. aspiration was to get "'the jacket ;" to be 'anointed to 'that. famines nramila of his corps, f the Horse. Artillery, with. its grand •tra- ditions and its gorgeous dress. The Bengal Horse Artillery had done much in the uncessing confliet•that badmen- solidated the Indiaie Empire, • and its .splendid appearance with .gold -braid- ed. jacket. and lecipard-covered helmet. was just what .would most appeal to an aide t young military spirit: - lir When Roberts gained this, his first coveted- ize, . - • • .. HE,FINED FOR YET MORE. . , , . .. Be aoon obtained an .appeintment on the -staff, under the Quartermaster - Generale a mimeo ot shis staff in which he reemines almost' without a break, rising. higher and' higher, .un - tit he left it finally finite; head. What Roberts did in the Mutiny, at Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow-,hia pre& mace at all the serious actions of filet momentous issue, his Personal gallato try and Conetant unqUestioning ex- posure of hie life -all these are record- ed in history and are too well ,known to need' recapitulation. ' He Was still only a subordinate, a youngster, on his promotion, and -richly deserving it, but ending with no more reward than the rank . of -a brevet -major, the de- coration of the V. O., and a promising reputation. Long Years of peace ser- vice follosved, broken only by small campaigns into the Umbeyla couptry, in the expedition to Abyssinia under Napier, and. against the Looshal, when, as usual, lie did good aerviCE, and more firmly established bis mili- tary reputation. As a staff °Meer his value _wail shown In the compile- tiole of. various works,' stone as "route books" and other regulations Der marches to inculcate that topographi- cal knowledge ilo necessary in such a vast. territory as India. • One of the secrets of Roberts' sue - cess has no doubt been his personal influence Upon his staff as opon all who come in contact with him. In a leaser sense, as regards the rank and file, Lord Roberts has al- ways enjoyed the fullest confidence of his men. This may be partly due to the feet that he hag - . SUPERSTITIONS OF THE BOERS. They Are rosily Seared By VPI7 lames, Superaition has e strong hold up- oa the Boers. An interesting matter In connection with native races of Soutb A.frica, and the unenlightened Boers have, to a large extent, become participant in the weakness. The mythology of the different races there- in is full of extravagant tales of birds, beasts and fishes bang gifted, not 9c1.9 with tne power of speech, but with prophetic and vatioinatory know- ledge. That weird writer, Olive Schreiner, hears coot this statement. Largely mixed op with her own spook lore, the Boers. have added many: of these Kaffir fancies, Weenen. die- trict, where Britain's troops were -re- cently converging upon Ladysrnitlefdr tue state ar lite mind, lite:meatless its relief, is a very hot -bed for. spooks. is uttppinetis pins character. ;hems is uesci lying wawa ao,a_ Tonhere is, or was, a certain homeetead the Little Tugela River, whieh used Melon, NV:11001er 110 oe Only con - to be quite as tavorite a playground emous of it or not,' •Tait biassing or all for ghosts as •ever Cock -lane, in Lott- o,. those mentioned, with tee eacep- don, treed to be. There, the eccupants tion a the poet in spirit and the per- at one time were nightly peisecuted and again in South Africa. based on their experience in the otioure• it ia not necessariiy a des, the case for and against the raissile. °upturn ol he present eonselou ne a,. the Inessea ones. The poor, or It seems that so long as its nickel neatly, in spirit are those conerite arid coating remains intact, it makes a humble ones- with wawa Isaiah says small, clean, almost painless wound, the align and Laty One that, In - without tearing muscles or shatterlog lowiteui eternity, whoee name is Ifoly, the bone; indeed, it will pass complete- will dwell, They are the unconceee. ly. through the bone, leaving only a oe, teachable oaes who have eameno round perforation, as free from splin- as little ones. Tne Kingdom a, Hea- ters as if made by a drill. It follows van belongs to soca in um very nature that there is little or no hemorrhage, a •things. Tins beatitude is not a unless a large artery has been perfor- promise; it is a statement ot. a per- nted, almost nO shook and a rapid heal- menent met; now .• one. through the bng, unending eueure theirs is the hingdom To stop a savage rushat elose guar- os. Heavva, What. does Jesua mean tors, it is far interior to the old soft by thief Notsthe heavenly worid mere - bullet, which flattened on the first ly, nor the future blessedness, but bone it struek ; but for eivilized war- heaven on earth as well. Tne phrase fare, where there is no risk, or butch- seems to have imen corantionly used ory of the wounded,. it ma.kes an ideal the 'Jews to describe the happy, condo; missile, either making a clean and Leon or p„olia and private amiss, une pginlees kill when a' vital organ is der the rule ot the Messiah. Our puerced, or a disabling wound, destin- Lord's blessing. ' ed to deal with great rapidity. . ..alokes the rough petite of peevish With the aid of aseptic, surgery, the nature even. recovery rake of its womeds ranges Aul opens. m our ,breasta a little very high, from eighty to ninety per heaven," Sent. Here is further proof against 4. 13feesed are they that monra; the popular delusion that war la be- for they aeon. be• coil:looted. Luke, coming more deadly. It was never, in , . MB an spirit" trom verse 3, all history, less so than at present, ."'" gives this. second Beatitude en a and the decline 'continues steadily. .serainge form, " Blessed are ye that • weep. how: tor ye shall laugh." Pro - IR AN AN D DYSPEPSIA.. • batify both phrases 1611 froini the lips • ot th,e Saviour.. The old • prophets • ha -d promesed that the Messiah should . cliellminitthic (lives It lip". 111°. ''it""nel' column the maarnere, who were as- - or ita Opiler. . ' • nonled to be maize:no ot the hingdonent one oe, the good effects •of, the War 1 Heaven. But howl min • heaven's .ati- . . is that it cures the wcorat forma • of , emus monenr. TheY have .griets like. . . . dyepepsia. • Inning ceficeis Who are the 1 ether.s-great . tribulation sometimes, fightnige without; and - fears wio hin;• despaie ,of their- medical atteudants they LUOUrn, Oda for sensaliolliese and 'while spending their daye between the sorrows of- themselvees and of others. club and the berracsks, 'came -home irom Our Lord ' comic:roe, hp encouraging a campaign witb a stomach like ao as- mod surengthenoig. 'Jesus Said to his trial's.. This, of course,. ariaes from disciples,. -Your, sorrow ehall be tura- the exercise, •the open.= life, . the ad. enee - joy,e ..itte shell wipe every constant mental employmedt, andvery mar ree,„, their eyee.e .Nowne ,a,, often the abort commons. Another know- the Mil. happiness that even good elfeet is the rather strange one this world een bring who has not had that war mires nervousness of. the or.. bitter Sorrow•conaiorted by love. "The dinary kind, as well as headaches and highest triendship would lee impossible' neuralgia. •In feet, if a man has any ; to one woo had not sorrowed.- noncen kind of health .at the start, nothing t tell at one,e by hearing a preacher or braces him up like an exciting earoe I by reading- the writings oi an. author paign. But, on the other hand, if anY !whether or not he hes =tiered and of hid organs are really weak he Tuns 'mourned. It he is without the expert - every chance of leaving his boned I eines a grief, he lacks. the.power to broken in foreign parts. . I read your inmost heart it . you have -1 mourned." . Bo Writes Dr. H. Clay Trumbull.• And it is an added cora- . .BRITISH USE' ENGINES. . fore to us to remember that this Beati- .TractIon engines are employee by the mile was pronounced by "Ifim who Bretish forces in the Transvaal for thei Was °lad° 5. Blessed are the meek: tor they pereect through suffering." conVeyance of supplies. They drag shalt inheeil the earth. "This is heavy loads up steep bills, and save that meeknese," sons Alford, "whose the struggling homes. positive side is love and whose negative. . aide is long-suefering." In earthly kingdoms toe proud take the prizes; in the Kingdom of Heaven the meek, Just as it is true that: in thd main Honesty. is the best policy, so it is ' . true that Meekness oiten captures as • many co this world's prizes' es Assurnp. . ? don and Bluff. But the true mean- ing of this text is far deeper than that. It is a promise Of that true wealth which no man eau give .or take away. . DOM 1101111' Bath Ache 1 itt cOnatant pain when on your feet ? la that dragging, pulling sensation with you from morn till night ? Why not put the medicine exactly on the disease/ Why not apply the eure right to the epOt itself / YoU can do it with DEAge s Char Oral Plaster Iremediately after the Mader ia applied, yea feel its warming, soothing in. flume. Its healingrelnediee qUickly penetrate doWn deep lute the inflamed tinsueg. Paints quieted, soreileBe in re- 110Ved and atrength flouted. No plaster Was eves' made Obit. No plaster avar Wed fa oddly mad thoroughly. No plaster aver bad such conplete control overall Med* el psi& ?laced over the dent it ia powerful aid te Ayer's Cherry Pettoral; relieving songestion and drawing out all kdammation. 7"111,2" . 6..They which do hunger and thirst. strongest incentive' to afora tO' obtain pitted to. be heunted. Some. of these villages of sMaller or greater size re - Intense desire. for anytbing Is the . Righteousness. Right relations with inhabited, but, one and all, they pre. are entirely and souls only partly un- it. "Hunger" is the token of health. God and with fellow -beings; goodness. sent the appearance of having been branded with a mark reconionending The entire inermon on the man to event them, Mount is an • • exposition of In the Auvergne ' MOUntains of our Lord's conception or righte- France there are two adjacent villages ousness. They shall be tilled. "The without inhabitants. In this case word for 'filled' was originally ap- plied to the feeding and fattening of state of affairs, thongh. More tan - .ghosts are not reitponsible for the animals tn, a atall.'s-M. It. Vincent. gible and material beings' have worked But these, shall be "filled" with - the desolation. The villteges are the righteonathese. "If your strongest de- hunting grounds of fierce wolees 1 awe is for goodnese, you shall be made Wolvesi are by no raeans uncommon good. So certain is this filet our in Prance. Indeed, the sum of e5,000 Lord does, not pronounce a blessIng is paid annually to keep down the .upon tbe ,possesston fo righteousness, scourge. The villages in question , but upon the desire for ite --lefnclaxen. were particularly Itiffeated, les is the 7, The merciful. The compaisatore. entire neighborhood, with the cruel, ate; the relievers of ;wont and Pam; the enmpathette; those who hive child eating mot:store, and -the ravagea a osea., Of the, beasts become so frequent and munity of interest With their afflict- ed hrothera. Misern of all north- the • death rate ' frem this cause . go. high: that it was deeided that thet vil whether actually felt, or, as Ls some - thus tha ease, unappreciated by tbe lages were not inhabitable, andt hteioe valley where the wolves were Gund occupants moved lower down in fo h . Most miserable -e• whether physical , e, ir,_, venturesome. or ittental or spiritual -appeals dlr.- ';'"i "" —T -- t woud appear that drains are ectly to Sins merciful. They abaft oh- . ,,,,, equally as powerful a factor In the 'tam' 1443o-te/' 11;vell irmn Meit' '48 cc"- desolating. of a village as wolves, for mon ouservationi allows, but' pre- (leveret cases have beert notleed where- eintnently from God. in a bad system of drainage was re- • 8, The Pure in heart. Those who are sponsible for the total emptying of a sincere in heart and direct in holy put.- village. &hie of them cases la report. pose, oppoaers of all wrontc_and hypo. ed from Wales, where what bad once crisy. God's " name is Holy ; ' A fl 411 --n - --°8° been te prosperous little settlement who have to any degree holiness, pond I Was vacated after the outbreak of an ity, in their hearts, in tbat proportien epidemie tever attributed to foul see God. It is onlY Poetin snub wno drains which the people were too poor love poetry; a man must bave. an ar- to bave aist aright. by ghostly visitants, who whiled away the tine by pelting the family, not- withstanding closed doors and win- dows, with chunks of iron, stone, rocks,. orenges, lemone, or mectlie-cobs. 'Occasionally the amusement was vari- ed. Sometimes oranges were arrang- ed in order, like unto a span of yoked oxen attached to a wagon, a eew strews lying between the oranges t9 represent the trek -tow, a huge pump- kin having to do duty as a wagon. The superiatitious looked upon this de- vioe as a warning Of Boma comiag ovil, end were very earnest in their endeav- ors to persuade the oWner to 'vacate his farm. Oo 'another occasion the mighberhood met, rifles in their hands, to attempt exercising this yok- ing spook. One among there, an' old Irish soldier, of religious tendencies, addressed the spook during a /ull in the worthy's spirit exercises. His me- thod was spiritual advice, for • the spook's retirement • to the place where the weary obtAin rest. In ehis he must hese been too free, perhaps tomilied sore spot in the spook's conscience; but, Whether so or not, ac- coiding tb an eye witness's evidence, the advising Pat reeeived remindee to keep his edifice to bieuself, by be- ing hil ley e lump of rock in the region whiCh . the smolt 'boy calls his "tum- my." • Like Bret Harte'e hero, he was not interested in the eutsequent pro- ceedings. The oeher neighbors pre- cipitately fled for their horses, being pelted the while with potatoes, Pome- granates, and other lumpy garden pro- duce of the fruitful Natalian soil. DESERTED VILLAGEs in England Will 011 !Ite't•tta tinent 'they nre ee ...... on. it seems difficult to realize that there are in Great Britein, says Pear - son's Weekly, whole' villages existing to -day wherein is not to be found a single inhabitant. It is interesting, moreover, to trace the cause of sueb desola.tion, both in England and abroad, where empty twos' are al- most ubiquitous. The public attention was recently drawn to the case of the village of Congleton, on the Macclesfield high road, which consists of over sixty houses and cottages, not. one of which is oecupied. But this instance is by no means unique. In county; Donegal, Ireland, there is a small town in a sinallarlY deserted cOndition. Over one hundred houses go to form it, and the. poblic buildings' include a Roman Catholic chapel, a police station and little post office. Yet not one of the nouses is ocrupied 1 Why T Beeallse of the banshee! The untortunate little towo acquired the reputation of being haunted, and the . superstitious in- habitants have one by one deserted the place. Nor is this cause of desertion oat. One. Not in Ireland alone, but it England and Scotland, too, there are tunes nature to appreciate art ; ito 11180 thotle WhoSe heerts have been puri- fied can see the ood of Purity. In the north of Seotiand another village was, deaorted for the same rem. son, the inhabitante lit this ease tak. 9' The Peaeemakots, Those who -ox ing temporary theiter tinder a eeriee plain ;away misunderstandirogs, pecifY of ulunged railway torches which they turbulenee, aciothe irritetions, *Venn* bricked up ao as to form more or less elle the alienated. and prevent ware, eonefortable auminer houses+. Mean. aghtill be called, which in oriental phr118e, time more permenent buildings were eology means "snail be" or "are,'" the' erected by their future occupiers. ehildren, :eons, of God, and are known by their morel likettent to their heave only Father. " And if thildren, then Were; heirs of God, ttud joint heirs NEEDED IIELP. of Jesus Owlet." But let us not forget Mrs, liturtohy, bow can you lot your weight3r tre.th uttered by Dr. Machine old child boat the °there sot en, "Chriat'a peaeemakers must have D'ye think a heard wurrukiin wor the peace they bring." iman has thin* to boat thins tin elite 10, Blessed ars they which are per.' Oren iverry day t I ihry Me hand at *muted for righteousness' sake. Those the oldest wan ivory morning, an' he's who are so aggressively good that nay a food, Ohtani bty, heats the oth. 44,,s volak till* tor Ms ALWA,YS BEEN succEssrut, Troops aro quickly brought tie belleVe in a general's capacity, and yardman arly in his luck. Little "Bobs" has never yet been beaten, although there were some union shrines in his second Afghan canIpaign, as when the rising en mama of the whole of the tribes about Kabul obliged him to evacuate city, and Bala-Hissar, to take eefuge in the Sherpur cantonments. That waa very near things for quite 100,000 Afghans aurrounded his small force of 10,030, not half of them British ; and when they Made their great attack on the 23rd December, 1870, but. for Roberts' excellent dis• positions and the pluck of his men, he mast have been overwhelmed. It was no doubt to his personal as. (Tendency, so quietly but firmly exer- oisern that We may trace the simple but Implicite faith that all, incItoci- hit native servants, have reposed in him. MI through the most dangerous episodes of the Mutiny he was waited on quite as a matter of course even under the hottoot fire. His ItitnIut- gary or native butler, brought him his Meals regularly In the battery at Delhi; his grooms waited with nis horse wherever ordered, regardless of the stone of sheot and Shell. /n the middle of the fierce onslaught of the Afghans ulkin Sherptor, his bath at- tendant earne te tira in the thick Of the fight and touched him quietly on tbe shoulder, ivith the simple words, "Bath ready:" that waa his duty- wnat was expeeted just as he was sure hia master expected to wash even in the MIDDLE 00 A BATTLE. , The most touching devotion to his person was shown in the Aftiban 04M- paign by his native orderlies, of whore he utta tote Sikhcl, twe Glmeekas, and two Fathans. They never left him; two or more followed him wherever he went, night or day; they had al- ways the best news of what Was in the wind, and if there was any Ottomans business afoot they Willed OUt and kept eloae to their beloved genera wherever he might go. If he got into a tight place, they were there to keep tom fronl harm if they could; and in one fight a tall Sikh atood in front of hint with arms outstretched to Abel. ter hilt tenall Ohief, and reeeire any b011et that mrght bave erulannbred Roberts life. a Throughout hie whole service Lord Roberts bas 'ever identified, himself f with his troove. !Ile first thought has been for them, and for their eomfort t and well being. LIMO MO IN WAR Tin FIGHTING TERMS FOR NEN OF PEACE TO STUDY UP. Thole setenee or nloodslied in Otte Easy loseen-anst now ie. Lead o111 ATM 014 go a, Oloritme Theory, Provided Our Enemies IS0Ve Not Learned Their SuraleitY Prom a itiererent Text Nook. You will fln4 a great deal more in- torest Pair daily war news if you grasp a few petals in the science of War, in general, saya a well known toillatry expert. A.ccording to the mil- itary writers there are four kinds of war. As a preliminary it Is necessary for you. to understand the difference between the two words winch most often drop trout the lips of the expert ...,nanciely, strategy and taetice. Strategy le the whole plan of mon- paign ; Medico is the plan on wbich ar angle battle is fought. Now, it is clear that, in war, the whofe plan oe campaign can mean an attack, or it can. mean einiply remain-- Img quietly on the defense. Likewise, in +men battle,• yoo can either' beldly- attack theeeneray or remain paw trenched until he' attacks you. In this; waY You divide war into four species.. Pirat, the whole army sets out to at-• tack the enemy, and invade Ida couno try, and every time any part of it. comee up wIth a force of the enemy' it attacks him. That is what the Bri-; tieh have been doing in South Africa.' It ia the kind of war which all nations believing they have superior strength make. It is attack in strategy and attack in tactics. And the results are aa follows: In _case of victory you an- nihilate the enemy and colleluer bis country; Mae you are defeated it does not matter very mu.eb, for you have only to get more men and go at it again. ATTACK IN STRATEGY,. Secondly, the whole army may in- vade the enemy's country -that is, at- tack in strategy. The Boers began the war in this way. But, having got a cer- tain distance, they may entrencle them- selves and wait for the enemy to at - teak. Now,. wbat the posslble result of this kind of war I :Well, in mite of victoryn, you defeat the enemy in sev- r era' battles, but you don't annilulate him, and there he is, ready to come on amain as soon as he gets re -enforce - talents. In case of defeat your army is annihilated, or else it • has to run away 'home. • The other two . kinds of war have 110 present interest. They are, third- ly defensive strategy, plus defensive tactics. 'Suppose the Boers had stay- ed in their own country entrenching themselves, this would be their species of war, And, foorthly, defensive stra- tegy phis offensive tootles. Suppose the Boers had stayed in their oven country, but inetead of matrenclung themtselves, fell upon .the English troops wherever they entered, this would be their kind of •warfare. There are many interesting things to be said about these different ways of 'Carrying on war: For instanee, it is the nation which believes in its' superior strength. that makee tbe attack both in strategy and tacties, and the count - tee, which remains on the defense is uoually conscioui of its weakness. In fact, it knows that, unless something un.expected happens, it must be beat- en in the end, and the reason it fights is that it hopes some suen incident will occur. There have been 'many examples ef this fact. • e STRENGTH. FOR THE WEAK. When Greece threw down the gaunt- let to Turkey a short time ago it knew very well that the Powers would not rem it annihilated and that tirae was its ally. In 1878 Turkey fought Ruasia, in just the same way, acting almost wholly on the defenstve. The Sultan, 110 doubt, hoped that England would come to his aid, and England was very near doing so. Bat, though no one came to the Sultan's assistance! during the war, several of the Pow- ers, including . England, stepped in when it was over a-nd prevented Rus- sia from taking a big slice, of the Tur- kish Empire. It is generally supposed. that the de- fensive nation has great advantages, and that all the • disadvantages f are with 'the attacking army. But this is not the case at all. Each method of warfare has its good points and bad. Attacking troops can choose their owe time for giving battle, while the de- fenders can do nothing but' wait. Be- siegers can enjoy themselves while resting, but the besieged must be all the time on the alert. Then there is nothing which depresses men's • spir- its so much as remaining in the same place for weeks or months, bearing al f the discomforts of camp life, especial- e ly when they got several dosee of lyd• dite shells every day, Attacking troops are mere or less tyn the move, and the new scenes arid active life keep up t their spirits. And, as every one knows t it is much easier to get up courage to attack than to wait quietly on the a defensive. 0 • SOME DISADVANTAGES. tacking party . must be Intrh4 mons ABE sonflp ed. uneo Lastly, although they may be able to avoid defeat, they can seldom gain any real victory. In fact, unleee the TIM OU01151/11BEFEINt011sToSpOrUlpil. AFR1CA, defensive elde is able in the end tc- become the neeailant be cannot hope to do. anything more than put off 2 defeat and surrender to a future day. •-•-• FAMINE'S RAVAGE'S. Three Mlillotti or People Are Whig Ped by lb* SWIMS 4:9***11411e110. In India three milliona et people are being fed by the government. The; famine area covera a very large extent ot the country. Eitty million people are involved in the section where the famine le the worst. 'Oa November 1, there were about four hundred thou - Band on government relief works; an December 29, according to Lord Cur - eon's cable, three raillions were receive ing relief; and the number is still in- ornasielg. Out three millions on relier sicr:ringmeTs many more millions who are figiating with the very hest ex., tremity of went in vartoos degrees of The prompt measnres of .the gov- ernment,. tho geoerosity, of native and European men of wealth, the untir- ing eftorts of missionaries. all have tints far supplemented the resources of the people, an that but few have as yet starved to death, but tbe mama- oted bodies of men, women and child- ren are beginning to be .seen ; despair,. ing parenta have been met with offer- ing. their children for sale, and aband. oned children have been found. Thou- aands are Irving en the fruat of the eactos plant, a fruit fit rather for unreels tnan men. -This condition recalls the femaina of 1897- thewAlicr oicrsTo cisfjceBnrEciTaotseds, people, fatniahing tor food, and bitterly cry- ing for help ; children whose beads wore raere skin covered skulls, whose bodies were abnormally swollen from their ranenoun ee.ting of every. indi- gestible stuff that belped to quaet the pangs of huaager, and from drinking large quantitie,s of water for the tem- porary relief of hunger's pain, their little arms and legs but . skin covered sticks, just able to bold up theta bo- dies as they staggered .along in their terrible weakness. • It was under swill stress' that child- hood came in for its 'most terrible suf- fering: This. WOO especially true of tbe central provinces, where neither government nor private•help was able to cope with the emergency, Barents died of starvation first, because they denied themselves far their little ones, their children lingering on longer,. and in their.death becoming a orey to the wolves and jackale. • . reside from what the government did, ten thousand such poor, famish- ing, 'dying. littk °nee were saved by missionartea and their agents: By car- loads they wore. . sent to difterent sehools,e where kind bands washed tbeir sores-ethe terrible sores that fa- mine brings-careeully fed while' their ravenous, uonatural hunger was upon thane and gradually brought to fife and health again. cause of .the present :famine the absence of. rain. In .good years the' fertile•soil yielde two -crope, and hiaacre of land a farmer manages to live and support his family, but his resources are very ;limited: A bad year minces h•inetto extremita, and h total failure of min td starvation- • • Next to.goyernment, the best organ- izedagent for saving lite and relieving suffering is the missionary bodyaWith their native agents, Preachers and teachers working, as they do ine the large cities and. the country villages, their operations cover a very large part of the fainine hrea. TORONTO COMMITTEE... e • That this •country maV do itis share towards reneving the awful dice. tress, si coramittee composed of Prime - 'nein:. business men in *Toronto has been organized for theepurpose.of rte. calving subscriptions to the • famine fund. It is composed of Mr. A. E. Kemp, president of the Beard of Trade; Mr, ' Elias Rogers and Mr. Stapleton Caldecootte both ex -presi- dents of the same board, tvith Mr. Ed- ward Trout,. publisher of the Monetary Times. Mr .Trout wfil be chairman of' the committee, and all• 'money. should lee addi•essed to .hitar at hie tonne at 62. Church street, Toronto. Already' some 6400 has been received ,and sent for; ward direct to responsible parties in Indieentho will distribate the same in slime of.the worst famine districts. All unds reeeiveil • Will • be . transmitted Without eventhe reduction of the cest ot esnhange. NEXT THOUSAND YEARS. What tete Wm eve itave Mr Our teat la 'the Euthre. • • Professor Yung, of the University of Guef, Switzerland, entertains great ears coacern:ng the future of our low - ✓ limbs, This sage is of the opia- on that within fife next thouietind ears Mallon beings will have forgot - en how; tot use their legs, and that hese limbs, if evolution will not do way with them, will serve aa mere rna.ments to *the rest tit the body. rOfessor 'Yung States that at the pre - tient age human 'beings show a decide ed 'aversion to personal or physical ocomotiOn, and this is more manliest very time a new automatic travelling nstrument is .invented and render- ed practical. Steam, eleotricity, cable ower and the dilferent velocipede ma- hines all hear an influence over us nd create a dislike for walking, and he future generations will likely have he oonvenience of; nteerable air - hips at their windows and electric; au2- mobiles at their doors, and these cola- eyances will be so cheap that almost very one can own them, and thia leans the doom of out legal The latter will be regarded as super - Mous appendages, no use will be made t them, and who knOws but that they ey disappear altogether Dut so uch more will our arms develop in ngth and Strength. These ere the cruel laws of evolu- on, and it will be due to their pranks hat future generations will again re- table the apes. There will cone° an- ther epoch of Short legs and Tong rens. There are disadvantagete however, to the attacking party which' counterbal- ance the advantages. Por instance, an & army that bas to travel over much f! ground loses more men on the mareh• ' than in combat, Then they have to go a long Way from their base Of sup- plies, and the result is poor food and a little of It. Often they hove to fight d after a long night's march, and if You - want to know what that means walk t 25 miles over rough country some a night, and then, without breakfasting, t play a ganIe of football. You'll belle some idea of what South African eel- ° diers have to do at the •present time. ba Another thing against the attaek- ing force is that while it is rushing f up close to the enemy it can do little ° or no firing, while the enemy from his m sate position In the trenches can fire m at his leitture. Then the attacking le patty is tied to time. It muot finish , the woe* in one day, or it will have cl to begin all over again next clay, and C find the enemy as strong as ever, For se that reason an attack has a better a chance of sUccesa on a long summer a day than tin one Of the abort days of winter. Finally, the attathing troops must be better men than the defend- ers, In fact, they must be the brav- est of the brave, for nothing requires in such sturdy 'courage aS to capture t reached and fOrtified places. • ON THEIR OWN GROUND. tI COURTSHIP AT COURT. If personal Influence had any weight preserving the peace df Europe here would have been no need •for ut Emperor Of Ituesia's Lamm Re- ript. The Tsarina, Who only at- ined her tiventy-seeenth year on uly 6, Is a German. Princess and a ughter of the late Princess Alice, ko was the third child of Queen Vie - ria, teed she bears tha name of Allx ietoria complinaent to her royal andmothen At first there was eat objection in liaSsiati cir- cle to this future Entlitror marryin Now, what advantages have those so who fight a defensive war First, they ta ate familiar with the country, and a uned to the climate. Ais a rule, thett da lines of cointaUnieation are safe, and w they aced not weaken their forces by to leaving troops to defend their railways. v They can aeleet the Very atrongest ar places et which to give battle, tatting 0." r advantage of mountains, Streams, and en defiles. All the inhabitenta help thean with food and give thein inforMation, tho try to Waked the enemy, and hide their provisions from hint. They a love and woUld look Ilo °Weenie so kr oan ed, dm by 'Wel nave no le smote na-acuthern austrane Likely *Is All*Not the thlol 8 Hod 1)..-Thir.0414 Pietas or nesters - .Where shall we get our gold and die - Manila now that the supply from South Africa Is cut off, and pronlisea to remein cut or( for perhaire many Months to wine The answer is, froni Australia. The fields there may not be so easily worksel or :so accessible as those in Africa were, but eapital Is now expeoted te rusk to this rich die, (riot ; in fact, the nosh has already begun. The gold fields lie in Western Atte- tralia, and the diamond fields chieflY n Sou.thern Australie, both very promising districts. A. report froM the Secretary of Mines and Mining of Sydney, New South Wales, has just been Isom& and its inforraation ia especially interesting at this junc- ture. Diamonds were discovered in New South ‚Wales au far back as 1851, bat thougle occasional finds were . made in different parts ot the ooun- try, lio regular mining began until ION when three thousand or four houiand diamoniiii • weee gatheied !from teie minket Of the ,Ausroation leaning Comeany. In 1872-78 there was a rusb to Dingera, but the stones were found to be small, and there was no outlet for the product there, Desultory mining followed at differ - tun. places, until, in 1886,. the Govern- ment had an exhibit of the diamonds found in order to awaken iuterest M the matter, At last.soma of this gems were cut, wieli the startling result chat it was seen that these diamonds • vere *as fine as those of Brazil, the MCIST BRILLIANT IN THE WORLD, and had been sold in London as Brazil - n atones. They were hard to out, but very brilliant, surpassing even the South African .gems in refractive - power. Great interest was aroused • by the announcement of these results, stiraulating Australian mining great- i Y• The diamonds found at Bingen. aver- age five or aix to the carat, but some- times a single atone will weigh two or two and one-helf carats. The yield of diamonds from washing the drift s large, six loads having given 1030 dainouds weighing .9, 001 a.s. Drought and the sett rot ty of water have inter - fend with tha advancement of the work, but, nevertheless, the Boggy Camp .diamond and tie field yielded 14,92,o carats of diamonds laat year, valued at .£5,621. As soon as rain falls work will be resumed at the and cnpital will be introduced o assure a proper water supply. Diamond mining io Australia is as yet n its infancy,. but. t he stimulus offer- ed by high ortees and the cutting off of the supply from South Africa will orce, it forward. ' In the matter et gold leaning mueh more has been acconaplislaed. The chief gold fields are in Western Aim. tralia, the moat desert waste section of the continent. • The fielde _cover' a vide area, and are eine:fly located at Coolgardie and in the Yilgarn district. The population of this district has quadrupled since d891 the sum at gold meting from all the minee last year being X4e.0400. , Coolgarclie has about 18,000 ants,. with a popeolation of 20,000 ' more around the ranee in the neigh- bortiocol. It is connected by rail with Pertlr,,the capital, which is a thriving ity with three theatres, six banks !lurches and hotels. The town of • Pilbara or raining settlement of •that • ame, lfies to, the north of Coolgardie, but both of these districts suffer roan a ' • LACK OP GOOD WATER. • Kimberley; so called after the South African town, is well leatered, and has oth gold and diamond mines, though he' latter have been little developed. At Murc.hison, another raining settle- ment, there inplenty of water, but it is sane and condensers are used for produceng frees& water. ' Mueh of this lack of good water is soon to be remedied, for the Governmentis about to expend Z8,000,000 for the construc- tion of a pipe line to the mountains, ome two hundred nines away, and through tins' all. of the ehief trouble ow prevalent will be put aside.' The hard work is done by the na- Ives and poor whites; Chinese labor a debarred ny law. In the gold fields here. are no less than 112 standing mills for crushing gold !parte, with ,349 stamps. Placer Laming is also arried on by the .use of powerful treams of water played. on the river rift, and dredging the sands of the ivers is another raethod employed for getting all the gold that is to be ound. Large nuggets are sonietimes mind on the bed rock, and the quartz extracted from the "deep leads" for crushere. . , I. FORTUNES HID IN CANNON. serious ThlagA 1Sploteli Away In Some Great Guns. ' When some five, yeara ago, the Chi- ese men-of-war were about te go in - a action at the battle Of Yalu, *mine the European officere found that e native (tailors had been in the haler. of desecrating the eoatly macohine tins by keeping io them anon articlee bottles, chopsticks, native dishes nd money. This sort of thing, says London Tit- ts,. is not totally, unknown in the ritish service in the ease of raen who ve charge of guns, and misaing and scrip sought artieles have not Ione mmonly been found hidden away in a great guns. But cannons of the d fashioded kind have in many easea at have °cane to tight been used as ding Oaths for little hoards. Not any years ago there was found In a Mary cannon that stands in a fort Shoreham, near Brighton, a panel tainiug malty beautiaul gold are les ot jewelry, from; which. the sire- ns stones had been removed, and in gun at Peel Park, Bradford, there a not very long agotound a. wash.; ther bag containing seventy sever - us. „AA Liverpool there are certain Old Anode wielch were taken. from the tins/nos in the Crimean War, and (Ail, one of them, in 18S7, some initials- ve children brought out a soldier's charge papers, in which were apped notes tO the value Of orter one ndred pounds. Several yeara be. a a discharged soldier had given no. ee to the police of the loss of hie Pa. a and the identical sum, he hexing tt drinking wheit Bitch loss took ee. Atter the dimovery he was trae. and recovered the greater part Of of th it aa a /3 co th ol ito at eon tic cio a We. lea eiet ca ir ti dis wr hu. tor ti per bee ed, Gertna11, but Nicholas had fallen in the hidden tbe money there himself, for his faintly had to put the best possible faee on tho matter. It Is said that e Czareiviteh, in making the pro. ogal, said, "The Emperor, my fath. s bad eommanded me to make you e offer of My hand and heart." "My andmother," reldied the Princess, th many blushog, "has commanded 41 tO AMMO the offer of your hand d heart." Thia was a model pro - sal, and we tordially comMend it to e notice of baehelor reader:4 WhOM May eoneern. th have no long and tiring marcluse to r„ make, and they are really glad to have ;1, a fight by way of a ()flange from the th monotony of waiting. Then it le net el. such hard work defending aa adsaillt- Tel nig, and the defenders are not atr tired tti after the battle as the attacking par. eh ty. They can oboe ell /torts of oh - &taints, and tbere is no interruption, ti; of their fire, and they fight behind it cover, wbile tbe attacking party hile tO 00ille Mit in the open. Bat the defenders can't have th6- ' heart of the attaeking side for they MILLIONS UNDER. ARMS. I& Frani% etatistlelan sondes that the are. conedous of their weakneas. Ile- tO tal number of mon permanently um. Ides, as they never know when and de where they will he attacked, they fire tir requently thrown into a state of ner. oneness by false alarms, At the RAMO pi Ime they don't need much trebling w a nuke 0, *God dile*** while the et. sr r forms is 4,240,000. If unlvereal war eke out there would be 44,240,000 rail • ready to teke up Arms atonets. A seed in One Ilas the anidlefa Of the G orld could °over the Equator right pit tk mono. Tbe man had undoubted. had laved elose at hand. One of the non at Whitehall was, when Wean.. found to contain a large number of pty purees, doubtless thrown there some piekpooket. DRAWBACKS TO PIthISTIGE„ he Gegaw atria are terribly diacoure about their father. no ill f 0; het they` (seal make /alba quit ling dinner "supper." ege • THEN SHE MOVED. eorgie-Auntie, I want th run mY road train ttOVOtte here, untie -I can't nitro now, Georgie. eorgie-All right, auntie; I'll just y there's a great big fit (sow on trash. (mad tk4 *or the