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Yv 1 WABRIOBS' WOUNDS HOW THEY WILL BE CARED FOI u int .AtAi Man. Electric Lights to Find the Wounde< ?Flying Hospitals to Aid Them ?To Outwit Hyenas of the Battlefield. THE International Medical Con gress in Rome, Italy, devote* part of its time to the (lis cnssion of the problem, si dear to the heart of all lovers of man kind: The labors of humanity in th war of the future. Electricity am eteam, aeronautics and chemistry, al the old and new sciences have beei pressed into Mars' service and uni form. Inventions, which, by thai expensiveness, frightened off the grea industrial powers of the world, hav been eagerly bought up by the Wa Ministers of petty States; nothing ii too costly, no outlay too extravagant There is apparently no remedy against war making on the Continent our Kings and Kinglets, our Chancel Jors and Presidents continue to bleec PHYSICIAN'S WAG< the peoples of Europe for purposes o: the alleged preservation of peace anc the forestalling of the threatening calamity until we almost think that i would be better to take the bull ty tke horns and prefer the devastatioi of war to the tearfcl "blessings" o armed peace. Meanwhile we are go ing on in the old style, making guns drilling our sons for the duties of exe cutioners, if not for the horrors o murder, and crushing out all instinct; rtf Tnnassion in ceneraL '\ It is, indeed, high time that th< medical profession begins to concen irate its thoughts on mitigating th< (Bins of other branches of science, re lying in doing so on their hearty oo operation. Germany, the greatest millitary Stat of the world, proposes to lead al TBAXSPOBT OF WOUXDED. other powers in the fight against th hyenas of the battlefield, and in th' 'completeness of her arrangements fo the care of the wounded and sich Kaiser William's Physician General o the Army, Dr. Von Coler, the reor ganizer of the German sanitary sye tem, inventor of numerous health brinsincr and pain alleviating device for use iu the field and in the garrison one of the foremost spokesmen of th Red Cross conventions and the intei national scientific congresses, wil demonstrate to his colleagues from a] parts of the world his experiences ani achievements in those lines. I ma; add here thai his sanitary system, o that of the German Army, as define in his numerous medical works, ha been adopted by all the armies of th Continent with greater or lesser modi ideations. Of course there are man novelties since the publication of Vo: Coler's latest eDOch making works "Sanitary Reports of the War Againe France," "La Grippe Epidemic in th German Army," "The Lazaretto o: Transport," etc., etc.; some of ther the German Empire has patented an protected against use by other pow ers, but on the whole the internatioE ality of science and the universal as pects of humanity will be recognized and all States will be permitted t profit by Von Coler's labors. "While talking with one of the Frenc delegates to the Medical Congress, t whom I am indebted for some of th foregoing information, he called m attention to the fact that the sanitar system employed in the field durin the last forty-five years originated i the army of one of the smallest Gei man Statee* Schleswig-Holstein, ro' a PusBian province. Profsesor Vo Esmarch, then plain Dr. Esmarch, wr the Surgeon General of the Duchie: and invented and worked out an elat orate and almost perfect plan of san tation. such as the world had neve known before for an army, that existe mainly on paper and in the mind < Duke Frederick of Schleswig, who, b the way, was the father of the presei German Empress. "The United States of America, continued my informant, "was th first power to avail itself of Esmarch methods. Th? dcior. who could n< get a hearing in the fatherland, wi recognized by the United States as benefactor of mankind, and at the ou break of the war in 1861 sanitary corj were organized on the lines advocate by him. V/h:n, after the battle < Fredericksburg, it became known i Europe thai the 9000 wounded we] taken in charge by physicians duric the evening and the night followiE the battle, so that on tho mornic after only th# dead remained on tl battlefield, the news w^s first treate ,"as American humbug." Six montl later the "War Loric experienced a; Other baffling surprise: It was official statedthatof the 21,000 wounded at Gettysburg, during the battle lasting from the 1st to the 3d of July, none * remained unattended on July 4. Professor Virchow once told me that of all the great services America had 1 conferred upon the world, none had been of more importance than the brilliant example of humanity in the care of the wounded and sick set the United States in the war with the South. "It was the old story of the prophet q finding no recognition in his own country," said the veteran, after re0 ferring to Von Esmarch's work. . "Prussia did not o/ganize regular e sanitary corps until 18c">5; they proved 1 insufficient in the little unpleasant] ness with Denmark, 1864, and two a years later their total incompetency _ was eo glaring that even the stoutest r military hearts shuddered.\ Austria t did not join the Geneva convention B until July, 1S66, and left tUe care of r her wounded unblushingly. to the 5 hated Prussians. Her army pl^icians ran off with the regiments, td which r they were attached, as soon as top re. treat began, and as if that had \not . been enough, the Bohemian people j made war on the Prussian sanitary <*? i )>*; TTF.R TiAZARETTO. f ficers, of whom many were shot and 3 tt?Vtila olfon^inrr fn fho tha 1 (VUUUUOU) HUUC UUVVUUIU^ VV vuw Y ?V j tima of battle?irrespective of nationt ality. r "Civilization is, indeed, only skin 1 deep," continued the learned profesf sor; "in the war of the Crimea the - Russians abandoned 10,000 of their , wounded and crippled, leaving the - men to starvation and terrible death, f The army corps carried no lazarettos 3 with them; the physicians, few in number, were ignorant and brutal; 5 the general, avowedly, 'had no use for - eoldiers unable to fight.' Even the 3 English entered upon that war with out proper sanitary corps. After the - battle of Alma, the wounded were left six days without attendance. Seven e days later 240 were still found alive 1 and carried to Sevastopol. in me " Italian war, it was found, after action had opened, that the French ambulance corps had started out with only a quarter of their quota of men and horses. At Magenta one ambulance physician had to take care of an average of 175 wounded; at Solferino the average wrs one physician to 500 wounded; after the battle of Navara, sis surgeons had to look after 4000 wounded for forty-eight hours, when aid arrived. Dunant then wrote his great book, 'Un Sovenir de Solferino,' which led to the 'Convention of Geneva.'" These reminiscences, horrible as they are, lose somewhat of their ghastliness when we compare them with some historical facts in the archives of Berlin and Paris, corroborated by official reports. Frederick the Great in 1771 issued an order that no e private must be removed from the e battlefield, after being wounded, and r that only such officers who were at tended by their own servants might be sent to the rear after being disqualified. That King's Physician General of h the Army, Dr. Bilguer, reports that s "it is best to let privates die if they j lose a limb in battle. They should e not be removed under any circumstances, his Majesty having no further [j interest in them." II Ordinary physicians, at that time, were not allowed to amputate limbs of y soldiers unless authorized in each inr dividual case by the 6urgeon general, j Napoleon thought nothing of Adriv3 ing over a battlefield strewn with e wounded and dying, with his train [. consisting of thirty to forty cumbery some carriages and wagons. When at q the beginning of this century ambuif lance wagons were introduced in the . TiV/?n/?V? A *mt- tVioT' TTPrfl fnnt.ArrmfcTi jj X1VUVU-.U.J, X e ously dubbed "la Wurst" to deaiga nate them as a German invention and consequently as one of little or no act| count. So far Dr. Virchow, scholar and I- ? z\ it ? saxttakt s " i ?~~?~~? ~? ie j humanitarian. "When I repeated the 's ! above to a well kuown American mili>t j tary man, at present residing here, he is j said: ''I have once or twics urged a Professor Virchow to re-visit the t- United States and give our young >s men, and likewise our own scientific :d lights, the benefit of his ripe wisdom, 3f his thorough investigation and his in general knowledge, which on all subre jects touching upon the interests of tg humanity, is of extraordinary proig fundi ty." ig In the next war, commonly called ie the "War of the Future," the fighters id of men and the soldiers of humanity as will enter upon their bloody work in g- the following established order: lv Each tody of troops will carry tc '< * ' the front, in covered positions, onehalf its quota of surgeons, of lazaretto servants, of ambulance servants and at least one horsed ambulance wagon. In the second line?that is, under cover of ammunition trains?a regular "flying lazaretto" will be established; the second half of the physicians, etc., will be in attendance, with a fully equipped medicine wagon; furthermore, there are ambulance wagons, litters and refreshments. Within the precincts of the reserve lino flip chipf "flvirxr lazaretto" is erected, attended by the physicians of the field lazaretto brigade, a special organization. There are a reception station, where all comers are booked, and as many operation stations as necessary. In the rear the train is located for purposes of swiftly carrying off the wounded or defending them in case the enemy should refuse to recognize the Red Cross. All wounded allowing of transportation, are as soon as possible removed to the covered lazarettos, which, in the event of a battle, must be at once established in available buildings not too far removed from the field. The war dog, of whose soldierly qualities we have heard so much in t&e past years, is hardly taken into serious consideration by scientific njen. He is still an adjunct to the ajmies of the continent, it is true, but Las usefulness is no longer relied upon. Tlinfrvr Vnn Pnlor and Viiq rnllp>aimes ill the French and Italian service have come to the conclusion that the St. Bernard may be successfully employed to ferret out wounded men Hing in the mountains, ravines and fdreste, but their chief utility will be in dragging small, low ambulance wig&ns, holding one patient. Germany, Austria, and Italy, and in a lejser degree, France, too, have ten thousands of able bodied dogs, daily employed in market and other light vJhicles. There is no reason for djubting that these animals will be exceedingly useful in the field, though tley are liable to swell the train consilerably. The physicians recognize tljj inconvenience of carrying along a jTeat number of uniformed canines, bit hold that humanity requires the adaptation of every possible means #1 r 1 Zl.^i.2 ?4.4sv^ /Inn/iA I<T iUClillllUUg tut; eaiucai attcuuauvc oithe battle's victims, arguing in favor oidogs that they are less liable to be kiled by stray bullets and therefore afbrd greater safety in transport. 1 horde of dogs, trained to attack si jpicious characters, in addition, p Dve a formidable battlefield police, "fan's best friend" quickly dis-, ti guishes between a Samaritan and ore of the nameless crimin-ls, who, vilture like, swoop down upon the battlefield as soon as hostilities have st pped for want of light. ?5> WATER BED FOE THE WOCXDED. Hundreds of -wounded men seek, a: er every great battle, as is only n ;ural, shelter in some secluded s] >t, a ravine, a deserted hayloft, etc., w ere they fall asleep and are liable tc bleed to death. Their discovery in tl dark of the night is more than ii jrobable. And again, there are the h; 2nas of the battlefield, bound on m rder, robbery and slaughter general f, the majority covering their tr eke by the cloak of the Red Cross Sciety. They know full well that if ce ght they will be shot without pi ley. And he who 6hoots first, bI ots best. These marauders are not oi y menacing the life of the wounded, bi also those of the sanitary officials, a the -war of 1870-71 over 400 army su jeons and lazaretto assistants were an >ushed and murdered, while patrol 4-V?a Ko+flofial/l rlticlr xxlf ujlu* u???ivuwu uusui n electric light machine on wheels, th invention of Baron Von Mundy, wi do away with these horrors. It ha already been adopted by the Germt Army. The English authorities an the French are now considering th advisability of its introduction, an> Austria has nearly completed ne^ >tiations in that direction. , lother invention calculated to all -iate the horrors of the battle is a ne y constructed "water wagon," ca: ping 400 quarts. It is a two wh }ler, drawn by one horse. At its rea end three barrels are fastened, coi lining vinegar, wine and liquor res actively. All liquids can be drawn dir :tly from the wood. Below the big water barrel are metal receivers for tin cups, funnels* etc. None of i *Vi?A?rrnr loarlerq V>ai7<? en far rppt) fit. I to dopt this barrel wagon, but in ! . ' j ebm' cart. Ge lany and France several private "I I Cross Societies" are working for its troduction. j :h sanitary detachment in the an 2S of the great powers is now fui shed with four coflee mills, two co] sr kettles, twelve 6poons, twenty bij and sixty-Sve small cups, ten po ds of English biscuits, 6ix quarts of hiskv, sis pounds of chocolate, eig quarts of vinegar, six pounds of m( extract, ten pounds of coffee, fifl pounds of condensed milk, six po d3 of salt, eight pounds of tea, 10 bottles of wine, one pound of lei i extract and six pounds of sugar. Tb stock does not admit of much va: ty in the menu, it will be seen. ' e Italian Siguor Locati has coni structed a so called "kitchen wagon," I whose introduction into the armies of f the powers is warmly advocated by the friends of humanity. The wagon is a two wheeler and can easily be drawn j 1 by one horse. It has two boilers, j which open in front and rear. Below j ? i T DOG CART TO BE CSED OX BATTLEFIELD. 1 lc the seat of the cook and coachman is a : ^ storage room, with a roof over it. ! The inventor promises to cook a quan- I c< tity of soup sufficient for 250 hungry b men within a very 6hort space of time. K Another kitchen wagon for field use, h system Kellner, is a rather cumber- ,r some affair, requiring two teams of 8( horses. The Btove is in the rear, the e! cook sits in the middle, and the front j ^ part of the vehicle contains the stores tt and crockery. The soup is drawn ft from the boilers directly, without mak- ? ing anybody's assistance necessary.? New York Press. t< m K Queer Hiding Place lor a Coin. * There is a horse up in the First Ward which seems to be a sort of silver ? mine. A son of its owner, with the ? aid of a penknife, removed a dime p from under its hide on Friday. The r horse belongs to Edmund Stivera c' Mr. Stivers bought it about two years E ago from a party near Long Bottom, b A week or two ago a small lump appeared on the horse's shoulder and ? grew more pronounced from day to t day. Finally it became so distinct fi that it could be pinched up under the " hide. On Friday Wall'Stivers coneluded to see what it was, and sliced open the hide with his penknife, when out rolled a silver dime. When the blood was wiped from it it was as bright as the day it came from the w mint. It was coined in 1876. There fl: was no scar or other indication that the dime had been inserted through the hide.?Pomeroy (Kan.) Tribune n and Telegraph. ? it Wolires in Kansas. tl - . , ? it is saia mat mere is gooa reason to think that some of the farmers of Q western Kansas make a business of ? raising wolves for the bounty paid on their scalps. The Secretary of the bi State Board of Agriculture has just s| issued a statement, showing that the ^ several counties of the State during the q year 1893 paid for wolf scalps the sum of $17,600, and that during the past 0 four years the grcsa amount of 860,000 n has been paid out in these bounties. ? A significant fact shown by the report ri is that the amount so paid out has ^ regularly increased each year. It is ~K said that, what with the bounty and c the value of their hides, wolf-raising ? could be carried on at considerable g, profi t. ?Picayune. t! M tl Do Alligators Swallow Stones? fi The Indians of South and Central '(l ' America declare that prior to attack- p ing some large animal, such as an ox or buffalo, which may come to the & river brink, alligators always swallow J] a stone, so tnat it may acquire aa- w ditional weight to aid in dragging tl victims under water. Balvez, who h shot and examined several, found stones in all of them, varying in 6ize h according to the size of the 'gator, '1 one fellow having a stone in his stomach that weighed seventy-sis pounds. ?St, Louis Republic. * C Ex-Empress Frederick. s< Si Of all the daughters of Queen Yio- tl i toria the, ex-Empress Frederick was j i< the naughtiest when a child. She was i 11 self-willed, a perfect tomboy, and as S( ? i* | ' te EX-EMPJ1ESS FTJEDERICK. Hj ? m full of pranks as her brother, the ; ^ Prince of Wales. On one occasion, j ^ when an old sailor had carried her on ! w a yacht, and setting her down on deck 6C said, "There you are, my little lady," ! 8l the little girl replied, "I am not a lit- st tie lady; I am a Princess!" wheroupou w her mother said, "You had better tell 111 the kind sailor that you are not a little | ^ lady, but that you- hope to be one hi son: e day." As Princess Victoria grew j 1" up her disposition did not alter. Self- I ^ willed and ambitious, after her mar- ! w riege with the Crown Prince Frede- j tr rick she antagonized Bismarck and 0 shocked the German Court by her in- i V{ dependence. She often said that she i th [ would be Empress of Germany if only | for a day. Her wish was gratified, j and after her brief reign of a few j ^ months she was shamefully and disre- | spectfully treated by her son, who now i th calls her the most intelligent woman j in Germany. The Empress Frederick's i ^ life has been a singularly sad one. ! ir< She is wonderfully like her mother in -J* appearance, and they are very devoted j ^ to one another. She is exceedingly i Rn shrewd and clever, highly educated pi and the superior in intellect of most j h1 German mutrons. | 1 I tic Pennsylvania "Manors." I ^ The word "manor" is of frequsnt sc occurrence throughout rural Pcnnsylvania, and it frequently marks some re of the sixty odd manors conferred j ea upon the heirs of William Penn by an i J?} act of 1779. These manors, ranging from two hundred to many thousand sti acres, were scattered thickly over the tic eastern part of the State, and their names have since become the names of jir many townships. The manors aggre- ui gated more than fi00,000 acres, and , included 6ome of the finest lands in to Pennsylvania.?St. Louis Republic. be m at One foundling asylum in Moscow receives 12,000 infants every year. The c.' boys are trained for the navy, f,1 RELIGIOUS READING. | A CHRISTIAN'S DTIXO PRAYER. I "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God. saying. Lord?Iesu3, receive my spirit" ?Acts viL 29. Here is a prayer to Jesus Christ, to receive ] the departing soul; and this I put down among the characteristics of every faithful death. N Brethren. I think vou will feel in a dying * 1 BIG BLAZE B B0ST1. 'HE HEABT OF THE CITT SWEPT BY FLAMES. lie Flrfr Started by Boys Under tha Seats in the Baseball GroundsAcres of Houses Destroyed and 2000 People Made Homeless?The Loss Over One Million Dollars. By the torch of an incendiary over a mil!>n dollars' worth of property in Boston, [ass., was laid in ashes, over Ave hundred imilies of the medium and poorer cinssea, insisting of over 2000 people, were made omeless.andmanyof them who had time to ive a portion of their household furnilre slept that night in the open air, guardig all that they had in the world, on Uadl>n Park and In open, lots, which were litrally piled sis feet hisrh with furniture of yery description. Women with babes in ieir arms and little children huddled close jgether had only the sky for a roof and the ;w mattresses saved from the burned tenelents for a bed. and no prospects of a breakist in the morning. In less than three hours twelve acres of nritory were burned over. The baseball rand stand and bleachers, a large school ouse, an engine house and 164 wooden and .veive oriCK Duuaixij^ were umivyiM. The second ol the series of ball gamesbeveen the Bostons and Baltimores had began efore 3500 spectators. Nettled by the dealt of the previous day, the champions were laying-ball for all they were worth, and inning bases in a way that threatened to arry everything before them. Only 1)4 innings had been played, and the -altimores were to take their turn at at in the last part of the third inning, 'hen the contest was interrupted by ames that could be seen rislg from the right field bleachers, ho cause of this was that some small boys :om Roxbnry saw a pile of chips and shavlgs under the baseball structure, applied a latch and then left to -watch the effect of leir work. A moment afterward the fire had spread ) such an extent that the boys became ightened at the unexpected result of their >liy and ran away. The occupnnts of the bleachers, feeling the armth under them, jumped from their seats " 1 4 -,n/' fhu flomoa hTT tcxQ Hno LiU IflCli IV CAItU^UlOU kuv w; ??.?w?0 ic rubbish and scattering It, but the blaze jfused to be extinguished. Excitement on the ball ground was imlense, for the flames were beyond control efore the 3500 spectators had time to realize ieir peril. At first it was regarded as a )ke. The spectators began to get impatient lat such a little flame should stop play, and npatiently cried, "'Play ball! Play ball!'' With the rapidity of a prairie fire, the ames rushed along, taking in everything f an inflammable nature they encountered, he ball players ran out toward the scene, ut it was not long before they were forcea ack. The heat was so intense that the jectators who had been driven into the left eld corner began to make their way out of :e grounds through a hole in the centreeld fence. Those who managed to get a view outside f the fence saw a magnificent sight as the inssive towers tottered and fell. The ball players little dreaming that there ould be anything more than a brief inteription, found that it was a case of hustle ) get their belongings out in time. Captain ash was one of the last to leave, and It had ot pretty hot before he had made his exit nptain Robinson, of the Baltimores, was Iso slow to get out. A number of women fell on the street from Seer exhaustion and had to be carried into * 1Qnma nf ly vnriuus uuu^tro >u uviuui. wwlmv v* jese women are in a delicate condition, and hysicians were summoned from all parts of le city to assist should their services be reuired. The streets were fall of carts corrylg off furniture, and confusion reigned sqreme. A few minutes past 6 o'clock a woman was 3en coming from a bouso on Cabot street, ith her clothes all on fire. She made a antic rush from the street toward the ropes, hen Patrolmen Green and Lewis, of Staon No. 1, caught herln their arms, roiled er in the street and thereby saved her life, s she escaped with only a few slight burns. A woman on Burke street, wringing her anrls. shrieked: "Where are my chilrenV" Near at hand were Charles W. Eaton and Mr. Cusick. ot Brookline, who had been itending the ball game. They Instantly sprang to the rescue of the *.tl? ones in a burning building. Mr. usici; brought out three and Mr. Eaton ived two. They went through clouds of noke in order to do this and with peril to leir lives. The children were turned over > the woman in the street, who took care of lem. Michael Welsh, entered his home to save >me personal effects, but the building had rniteci and the tlames spread so rapidly lat his escape was completely cut oft. Ho rushed totheroof of the building, and hen enveloped in flames jumped to the round, about tnirty feet. Ho landed on his set. but was severely injured internally, nd was picked up in a semi-conscious conition and taken to the City Hospital, where was discovered that in addition to internal ijuries, one of the small bones ol his leg as broken. One man was seized with paroxysms of :ar when the fire ignited his home, and the . suit of the attack was comoleta prostraDn. He was rendered insensible and was ken to the hospital. By 6 o'clock the fire had crossed Tremont i Cabot street, and was beyond the control the firemen. Again and again the gallant re fighters made a stand and poured thouinds of gallons of water upon the flames, it still they swept on, and It seemed as nothing could stop them. Shortly nfr 6 o'clock several steamers arrived om Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Brookae and Lawrence, and every effort was ado to stop the fire at Cabot street But it )uld not be checked, and not until it had arned from Cabot half way through to 'arwick street and north to Burke street, as the limit of the burned district on the mthwest side of the ball grounds reached. While the flremea were at work on this de the Are was spreading from Walpole reet toward Mil ford place on the southest side of the ball grounds, and in half an our all the buildings on this block were in lins. It burned on until it reached Rue: les street at one point, consumed the auses on both sides of Chapel street and id low the structures on Sudbury street, t Rustles street on the west and Cabot reet on the southeast the Ore was practiilly stopped, and at 7.30 it was under conol and in no danger of spreading further, n the northwest side of the ball grounds le tracks of the Old Colony Railroad pretnted the conflagration from spreading in at direction. The fire was an unusually hot one and one ' tho hnrdest to fight in tly2 history of the jston department. Three engines had to > abandoned because of the heat. After the conflagration was under control e grounds of the Boston baseball team ?rethrongod with thousands of anxious ;htseers. The familiar grand stand was > longer there. Nothing remained but tho jn work?a mass of smoldering ruins an I jingle pillar of brick. Looking toward emont and Cabot streets, one vast waste of lien walls and smoldering ruins met the ye. Many West End street railway enn oyes were burned out and hundreds lost I their effects On the streets, just without tho burned strict, goods were strown in every direc>n. Many outfits of entire households 2re hopelessly mixed up with Roods from lighboring houses, and many who owned >ods created stirring scenes in their efrts to recover their lost property. Women tl?lin? little children frantically looked for latives without success, and in mauy ses women were carried off by odicers in a inting condition. Tremont street, for a stance ofseverat hundred yards was strewn th wrecknge, broken coils of West End reet railway trolleys, and feed wires, bed tking and hundreds of feet of hose burned a crisp. Rivers of water covered the reet. and on one side werethreeabandoned e engines, twisted into an almost unrecogzable shape. The Society for the Prevention of Cru-jlty Animals headed off tho pruposau duel tween a grizzly bear and an African lion the San Francisco City Mid-winter Fair. The World's Fair cheese contributed by anada was recently cut and eaten in Kenngton, London. It weighed ten tons, and said to have been very palatable. hcur that your departing soui needs u Divine Saviour. You have one in Jesus Christ, i'ou may call upon Him then, even as now. His ear will not be heavy though yours may, when death is sealing up your faculties. His J eye will not have lost its power of gazing af fectionately on you. when yours is becoming dim and closed. His hand will not be shortened in the hour when yours will have be- ; 1 come tremulous and feeble. But lift up the ' hand, the heart, the eye, the soul in prayer to ( Him, and you will find Him a very near and present help in that your time of trouble. Brethren, a Christian' should die praying. Other men die in different ways, according to their character and temper. Julius Caesar J died adiustini? his robes, that he mivrht fall gracefully. Augustus died in a compliment to Livia; Tiberius, dissimulation; Yespucian, in a jest The infidel Hume died with pitiful jokes about Charon and his boat; Rousseau with language of presumptious boasting: Voltairewith mingled imprecations and supplications ; Paine with shrieks of agonizing remorse. Multitudes die with sullenness, some with blasphemies faltering on their tongues. But, brethren, the humble Christian would die praying. Well, says the poet: "Prayer is the Christian's vital breath. The Christian's native air, His watch-word at the gates of death, He enters heaven with prayer." But observe for what 8tephen prayed 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" This is the prayer of faith commending the immortal spirit to the covenant care of Jesus. The spirit does not die with the body. None but God, who gave, can take away the soul's existence, and he has declared that he never will. Would that bad men would think on that. You cannot get rid of your soul's existence ; you cannot cease to be; you may wish it, though the wish is monstrous and unnatural. But there is no annihilation for any soul of man. Oh, come to our Savior! give him your guilty soul, to be justified through his atonement, washed in his blood, regenerated by his spirit Make to him now that surrender of your soul, for which he calls. Renew this happy self-dedication every day, very especially every Sabbath. and most solemnly from time to time at the Lord's Supper. And then when you come to die, it will only be, to do once more what, vou have so often" done in former davs. again to commend your soul very humbly, bellevingly and affectionately, into the faithful care of Jesus Christ. INFLUENCE OP FAMILY WORSHIP OF CHH> DEES. There are many readers of these pages who, lite the author, can go back to no period of recollection in which the worship of God was not duly observed under the parental roof; and they will agree in testifying that this is among the chief blessings for which they have to thank an ever gracious Providence. If called upon to name the principal benefit of the institution, we should indicate its benign operations on the children of the house. The simple fact that parents and offspring meet together every morning and evening for reading the word of God and prayer, is a great fact in household annals. It is the inscribing of God's name over the lintel of the door. It is the setting up of God's altar. The dwelling is marked as a bouse of prayer. Religion is thus made a substantative and promi- 1 nent part of the domestic plan. The way is opened and closed In the name of the Lord. From the very dawn of creation, each little one grows ap with a feeling that God must be honored in everything; that no business of life can proceed without him; and that the day's work or study would be unsheltered, disorderly, and in u manner profane, but for this consecration. When such a child comes, iu into years, to mingle with families where there is" no worship, there is an unavoidable shudder, as if among heathen or infldel companions. In Greenland, when a stranger knocks at the door, he asks "Is God in this house?" and If they nnswer ''Yes," he enters. As prayer is the main part of all family worship, so the chief benefit to children is that they are the subjects of such prayer. As the great topic of the parent's heart in his offspring, so they jvill be his great burden at the throne of grace. And what is there which the father and mother can ever do for their beloved ones that may be compared with their bearing them to God in daily supplication? And when are they so likely to do this with melting affection, "as when kneeling amidst the group of sons and daughters? And what prayers are more likely to be answered, than those which are offered thus? The direct influence of family prayer is then to bring down the benediction of Almighty God upon the children of the house. In sayin cr tViio flinmrh tro ehnnM nnf juli! another word, wo adduce a sufficient and triumphant j reason for the custom of our fathers. j I WILL GIVE NOTHING. J "There is that seattereth and yet increas- [ eth; and there is that withholdeth more than j is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."? Trov. t zi. 24. t A minister soliciting aid towards his i chapel, waited upon an individual distinguished for his wealth and benevolence. Ap- ] proving the case, he presented to the minister ] a handsome donation, and turning to his 1 three sons, he advised them to imitate his ex- < ample. "My dear boys," said he, -you have I heard the case, now what will you give?" e One said, "I will give all my pockets will f furnish; another observed, "I will give all t that I have in my pursethe third siernly \ remarked: "I will give nothing." t Some years after, the minister had occa- 4 sion to visit the same place, and recollecting the family he had called upon, he inquired t< I into the actual oosition of Darties. He was v informed that the generous father was dead; a the youth who had cheerfully given all his d store, was living in affluence; the son who I had divided his pocket-money, was in com- u fortablecircumstances; but "the third, who h had indignantly refused to assist, had haugh- g tiiy declared ho would eive "nothing," waa t so "reduced as to be supportoa by his two v brothers. w The above anecdote is a striking illustra- b tion of the words of Solomon. Men of property should contribute largely; they should n recolloct that thev are responsible to God for I the use they make of their fortunes, and he tl will hereafter call for the account.?London ( Christian Witness. v 5 CHBISTIAN I5LES9ED>'ESS. P Oh that blessed song, "Unto him that loved r us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests ^ unto God and his father, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." When shall I sing it above? Burst, burst P thine earthly tabernacle, my soul?fly, and h reach those blessed regions. Oh my re- " deemer, when wilt thou stretch forth thy b hand and take me into the haven of rest? & Only touch this body and my soul is there, a Then farewell storms?farewell this tempes- ?' tuous ocean, upon which I have been ship- b wrecked a thousand times. There the haven 61 iscalm. lilessed, peaceful haven. No temp- ai eets there; no sorrow, nor tears, nor sin. nor pain. No enemy of souls, neither the world nor the flesh there. a! g w REPE5TENCE. j? 'God now commandeth all men,every where, fl to repent' I lay this command across your fi path: you cannot proceed one step farther in a a sinful course without treading it under foot. You are not urged to the immediate performance of this duty by a regard to your own interest. X'ou are uracil to do it bv all the blessed angels,whoare waiting with desire to rejoice in fc your own conversion. Above a'l,your are most tl powerfully urged to it by thebleseed Redeemer, h; c: No Silent Process. Tbo United States Treasury Department. J in in perplexity over the oncoming hordes Tj of Chines ', has made a new ruling, which Sl seeir.i likely to lead to trouble. It has or- u dered that no one shall be recognized as a ?, "merchant," but such as are doing business 0! under their own nam". Under this order y* some 20) Chinanu-u have been forbidden to come ashore from the steamship Peru, just ^ arrived at San Fran -isoo, and thpre are a lot ~ more coming on the steamer China, who will be similarly stopped. The ruling is a little peculiar, as it is said that in San Francisco not oue merchant in fifty is doing business under his own name. The Chinese pro- i_ pose to bring the ruling into court under habeas corpus proceeding. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR; JUNE 3. i Lesson Text: "The Passover Tnstlta* ted," Exodus xll., 1-14?Golden Text: I Cor. v., 7? Commcntary. 1. "And the Lord spake unto llpsea and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying." The command of the Lord to Pharaoh through, Moses and Aaron to let Israel go received from Pharaoh tbo reply, '*1 know not the Lord ; neither will I let Israel go" (Ex v., 2). Consequently plague after plague was sent upon Pharaoh and his people, if perchance he might learn who Jehovah was, obey His command to let Israel, His firstborn, go and thus escape the loss of Egypt's firstborn (Ex iv., 22, 23), but alt was in vain, and the "one plague more" (Ex. xi., 1) had to come before Israel could go free. To-day's lesson tells of that dreadful night in Egypt. 2. ''This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to - you." It was the seventh month of their civil year which was henoeforth to be the first month of the year to them. It was the beginning of their national existence, and was associated with redemption by blood. There is no life to any sinner?he has not begun to live until he has been redeemed by the precious blood of the Lambtf John v., 12V 3. "In the-1anth day of this month tbey shall take to them every man a lamb, according to-the house-of their fathers, a lamb for in house." At least two suggestions are here. That each one for himself must take i lamb teaches U3 that each one for Mm<wlt- ? must receive Christ, and a lamb for a hoose teaches the Lord's pleasure in saving households. Think of Noah, Rahab, Lydla. the jailer and their households (Gen. viL, 1, Trwhna il 1ft . Aofc tit! 1S <31 \ i ''And if the household be loo little for :he lamb, let him and his neighbors next unto his house take it according to the numi>er ol the souls." There was no reference :o the possibility of the lamb being too small tor a household. There is never any lack or failure on God's part Failure is always on a 01UT7, uui uu VJVU to. d. "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the KOats." See also the burnt offering, peace offering, sin aid trespass offering (Lev. i., 3; ill., 1; iv., 3 ; r., 15)?every offering had to be without Flemish. It was never a question of the of-Scer's fitness; for he was never fit, but if the offering was fit or without blemish it was ac:ept'!d for Him (Lev. i., 4). See the antitype ind application in I Pet. iM 18, 19, and see sur acceptance in Eph. L, 6. 7. 6. "And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the tvhole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." As C.H. 51. says, each house was the local expression. if fha trhrtlA ncoumKl\? ar\ *?4?4?elli# :here was only one assembly and one sacrifice. The lamb being kept four days makes as think of Christ, who was foreordained jefore the foundation of the world (I Pet. 1., 20) and was therefore kept four days?that Is, 4000 years (II Pet. ill, 8)?before He was slain for us. 7. "And they shall take of the blood and strike It on the two side posts and on tha lpper doorpost of the houses* wherein they shall eat it." On either side and overhead, )Ut none underfoot, for the blood must not 5e trampled on. Tho first and principal :hlng is to be under the shelter of the blood; hen being safe by the food wo are to eat the Lamb, as Jesus said, "He that eateth Me, iven he shall live by Ale" (John vi.. 57). The )lood speaks of safety, and eating tho Lamb s sucrgestive of life and fellowship. 8 *'And they shall eat the flesh In that light, roast with Ore, and unleavened bread, ind with bitter herhfl thnr shall ft.it fr " Thft Ire and the bitter herbs are suggestive ol Sis sufferings for us and speak to us of our privilege of suffering with Hiin, as in Phil. 29, "Unto vou it is given in the behalf of Dnrist not only to believe on Him, but also :o suffer for His sake." See also John xvL, 13; Col. 1., 24; I Pet. I v., 12, 13. 9. "Eat not of It raw, nor sodden at all vith water, but roast with Are, hie head wtth lis legs and with the purtenaace thereof." rho fierce wrath on account of sin could >nly be illustrated by the Ore (Ps? lsxxviii., f, 16). TVe are apt to make light of this vrath of God, but the 8criptures are very ilain and clear upon it. Consider Gethsenane and Calvary and see what Ho endured :o save us from the wrath to come. See I Thess. i., 10; John iii., 3C; Rev. xiv., 9-11. [lead and legs speak to us of inward hought and outward life, all of which in 3lm was perfect. 10. "And ye shall let nothing of it remain intil the morning, and that which remained* >f it till the morning ye shall burn with Are." Compare chapter xxiii., 18. The lesson o be that all fellowship is inseparably linked , vith the sacrifice. There can bo no safety ior lire nor commuulou apart Irom tbe Mood of the Lamb. 11. "And tbns shall ye eat It." Thegirded oins, the siiod feet, the staff fa haad, all inlicated a readiness for iastaat departure. Chey were redeemed, separated, expectant, jolng home. Our instructions are "Gird up :he loins of your mind, be sober and hopo to :he end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 12. "For I will pas3 through the land o? Egypt this eight and will smite all the firstjoru in the land of Egypt, both man and joast." The time of Israel s redemption and Ji juu^uicui upuu ua auu uuiilt:. t is coming again in greater degree thai ver and shall so far exceed the dellreranca rom Egypt that the former shall not come o mind. It will he the day of the Lord'* engeance and the year of recompenses fox he ?ontroversy of Zion (Isa. xxxiv., 8; lxiil., and see also Jer. xvi., 14, 15; xxiii., 5-S> 13. '*And the blood shall be to you for a oken upon the houses where ye are, and rhen I see the blood I will pass over yon, nd the plague shall not be put upon you to lestroy you when I smite the land ohIgypt." The blood being shed and sprinkled ipon the door, the firstborn in every sucIk ouse was safe, and all such were equally nie, I'c^iiruieas ui iucjl icuiiu^o ju iuc uu?sr. It is easy to fancy some nervous ones rho could not believe tliey wore safe and rho coultltlierefore hardly tagte the lamb ecause of their anxiety. 14. "And this day shall be unto you for a lemorlal, and ye shall keep it a feast to the ,ord throughout your generations." It was lio Lord's passover to be kept unto Him verse 27), but it degenerated into the Jews' assover, with the Lord left out (John xi , 5). Let us take heed lest the Lord's Super, which is our passover feast, become a. iere form, with no longing for His return I Cor. xi.. 2C). ? Lesson Helper >lcl Not Want a Female Executioner. Since the decease of 31. Boutquin, the daperoid gentleman who invariably woreasiLk at and carried the umbrella when discharglg his official duties, Brussels, Belgium, has een deprived of the services or a pubdc ex:utioner. SI. de Liege has Kindly acted as stopgag during the interregnum. The ther week his cx>peration was requested y the authorities. At the appointed hour a out, middle-aged lady presented herself ad quietly remarked to the assembled funoonaries: "I've come for the execution, [y husband is not well this morning and sked me to take his place. Please let us et to business." The general stupefaction as intensified when she aided in a reassuristone: "This is not by any means my rst time." However, the authorities raised to avail themselves of her offer, and leant lino declined to Dav her expenses. Makes a Good Showing. Th^ report of the Paris Pasteur Institute >r 1S9.J has just been published. It shows lat last year 1648 persons were treated for w'.ropuobia, and that only six of them died i that disease. Of the number mentioned lera were 1470 French people and 173 forgners. Among the foreigners were 43 panianls, 35 Greeks, ?3 English, 22 Bellans, is Egyptians, 14 British subjects from idia, 9 Swiss, 9 Dutch and 6 Portuguese, inee M. Pasteur began to practice his inoclations against hydrophobia, 14,430 persons ave been treated by this method, ot whom aly seventy-two have died of ttie disease, "hat proportion ot the others would have iffered lrom the disease if they had not sen treated it is impossible, of course, to iv, but the showing is clearly a good one. A Hnffe Corporation. The Standard Oil Company, of New Yor^ said to hold assets to the amount of $20. 0,000.