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| The British ] ^ T V? H iii M Trerrieridoiis Prepara . Contest Wit] 1 FLOWER OF TIE AI V-," HE whole of Europe is watching j Great Britain at X,I this crucial inomeat in her milxSgli; tary affairs. ForijpSff M eign statesmen ySV fell and military exM perts regard the /fljU result of the war jt.:Wb!ui nil -? with the Boers as a foregone conclusion. "What they scan with such anxious interest is her tremendous preparations for the contest. By the result of these efforts will her strength be gauged. In assembling an army twice as large as that which she sent to the Crimea and considerably greater than Well ington's force at Waterloo, England is offering an illustration, for the J- first time in many decades,of her abii ' ily to fight on the land. Although her naval strength has often been demonstrated to advantage, j it has still been a matter of doubt whether her military arm would com- j pare favorably with that of continental nations, and in the throes of such a test she has been engaged recently day and night. Gangs of men are working incessantly at the ports on England's shores, I transforming liners into troop ships. .Largely augmented forces are ceaselessly turning out ammunition and ordnance stores. Meanwhile the men for whom these implements of war are being made are pouring out of barracks to the ports, standing by to embark, drilling, manoeuvring and practising at targets every snare hour. The reserres are GENERAL SIR REDVERS BTLLE3. <IIe commands the British forces in the field in South Africa.) swarming into Alderskot in unheralded batches aud reshouldering their > . rifles as if the transformation from civil to military .life were meroly an everyday occurrence. The huge mobilization at Aldershot is now in charge of Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Tnspector-GenAnviliortr Pnv/?na (11)H ing, who has succeeded General Sir Redvers Buller, All the work is new. It is the first time that anything of the kind has been attempted since the short-service system went into effect. A visit to Aldershot produces the impression that everything is goiug like clockwork, but it is too early yet to express a definite opinion regarding the British mobilization. For the reserves themselves, who are obliged to leave their wives and families on a pitiful pittance from the Government, much public sympathy has been aroused, exemplifying the truth of Rudyard Kipling's jeer, "A special train for 4tkins when the band begins to play." A number of reserves who were not called ont have asked to be allowed to serva in South Africa, and a similar spirit of spontaneous, practical patriotism is seen on all sides. Sir Redvers Buller's force includes the flower of the English nobility. Sir Redvers Henry Buller is an old campaigner, who has served his time in the country to which he is going, and who is regarded in London as the most capable man for the command. Sir Redvers has been a soldier since lie was nineteen. At that youthful ; " age he was a commissioned officer of the Thirteenth Rifles, and on pure znerit, combined with dogged determination, hard service and remarkable bravery, he forged his way ahead ,i? I s . ! british field artillei to the high position he now holds. In the war in Zululand he won the rare Victoria Crosa in the retreat f Inb'.o bane. On that occasion life saved the life of a brother officer who was rearing on foot hotly pursued by the Z iK.s. OTKir. A n a A wqq nnlw o cai lVil f j. LI 10 ^auaui utv\* ? w w?ij w ? ?? j of his conduct. Since that lime Builei lias been a conspicuous figure in tin i " ? . Forces | South Africa. 1 itions Made For tiie if h the Boers. ^ iMY IN THE FIELD. I 1 jit ail B Hj jrij W |][ j -jjf j ^il ffi if fierce fighting of the British on land invaded by their forces. He took part in the actions of Tel-el-Keber and of Kassassin during the Egyptian war of 1882, and served with distinction under Wolseley in the Sudan expedition of 1884. It is the opinion of good judges that, with the exception of Wolseley ' * VA.YAL C.ARa\HttW. f ' TYPES OF THE BKITISH FORCES i and Roberts, Bailer stands head and ! shonlders over any general now in the British army. The excellent Boer marksmanship, | combined -with the fact that it is an unwritten rule in the British army I that officers must always stand under fire even though the men are lying down, makes mourning probable in many a noble British house. The Admiralty is perhups more on J trial than the army, especially as it is well known that General Lord Garnet Wolseley, the Commander-in-Chief, doe3 not approve a system which gives the nary such far-reaching power in i transporting troop3. In 1882 Greet Britain despatched fifteen thousand troops in three weeKs to Alexandria, Egypt, a feat that elicited the intense admiration of Count von Moltke, but the task "of shipping more than tifty-two thousand men has no parallel in the history of England. Already two branches of the service are beginning to blame each other for various delays, but it is scarcely apparent that there has yet been any oavinna 1 astir np far?i1lfrioa OV1JVUO 1UWU V* JMVA**V*VW, The ship brokers have undoubtedly worked something like a corner on the Admiralty, as they did during the Hispauo-American War, and the recent breakdown of two transports is private of the eighteenth hussars. i still the cause of considerable abuse I of the Ada iralty. The most remarkable point in con' i-* ~ ?. ?? IU. rt 4vnr>or*A??f orro n nrn_ UtJCl/lUJLl Wll/11 l uu mauo|/uiv 1*1 a merits is that about eighty ships can | be taken into the Government service without materially disturbing the sliipj ping trade. ; The weakest joint in the whole mobi ilization seems to be the Army Service ; Corps, corresponding to the United , States Commissary. The various sta tions have been gutted to obtain the : necessary officers and men, yet many line officers assure the Associated V1' IV ON TIIE NATAL BORDER. i Press that the arrangements are grave! ly inadequate for such a corps. In this connection the Naval and Military ! Record says: "It is quite clear that, if England had , to provide a second or third army ? corps for foreign service, these, or : either of them, -would have to go out ) without a full equipment. That this \ * " ' . r a-.;. unpleasant discovery will form the subject of iuquiry in Parliament goes without saying." No matter what the general opinion may he as to the merits of the quarrel between j&ngiana ana tne xransvaai, all the world believes that the former will freely spend both blood and treasure to establish her side of the argument. The troops which she will pnt into the field include many of the most famous regiments that have ever fought beneath English colors. This very fact should count for something in deciding the issue. The Boer, of course, will just as cheerfully shoot at a guardsman or a Gordon as at a meaner mark, but it should always bo remembered, in measuring the rela tive value of the two armies, that while the burgher has no regimental tradii tions and morale to preserve, the Briton has both, coupled with a devotion tc his Queen,which should pretty nearly match the patriotic ardor of his Dutch antagoQist. Among the historic regiments al;okdoh Ab . -gaspm. , | cmuowwimt # ^ ' VsOVJHTfcO 9-3UC.V OPERATING AGAINST THE BOERS. # ready in South Africa or under orders to go there, are the First (Royal) Dragoons, the Royal Scots Greys, the aixtn lnnisKiiungs, ine oixm uragoon | Guards, tho Tenth Hussars, the Twelfth Lancers, the Royal Munater Regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, the Black Watch, the Highland Light Infantry, the Liverpool Regiment, the Eighteenth Hussars and the Northumberland Fusiliers. All of these have records which would tell the story of most of the victories and aot a few of the defeats achieved and sustained by the British army since that organization became an established entity. The Gordons, who are now in Natal, have an old score to settle with the Boers. In 1881 the regiment was attached to Sir Evelyn Wood's column, about 150 men being detailed to the small force operating under Sir George Colloy's command. Tliey were among the four hundred who scaled Majuba Hill and vainly endeavored to hold that position against the Boer attack. Majors Hay and Singleton and Lieutenant Hamilton were wounded, Singleton fatally and Captain Macgregor and Lieutenants Wright, Macdonald and Staunton taken prisoners. One of Job'H Comforter*. Some persons have peculiar ideas of how to cheer one up. A fond Brooklyn mother was endeavoring the other dav at the breakfast table to comfort her daughter vho had not received a letter for several days from her fiance. "I am sure be is forgetting me," wailed Georgiana, refusing to eat her toast. "Oh, I don't think so, dear," said the fond mother. "He always UEed to say he couldn't possibly do it." "But I never believed him," exclaimed Georgiana, shaking her head defiantly. "He's so taken up with the fall shooting that he thinks of nothing else." Mamma tried once more. "Perl*?a a/3 anil lio V? a a Ijupo lilD I^UU WAjyiUUVVi UV MMW been so injured that he couldn't write," she said soothingly. Georgiaua instantly burst into tears, and the good old mother was keenly disappointed that her effort to comfort the girl had so signally failed. ?New York Tribune. An Kxl.raorillnary Mountain. Near the little station of Maravillas, Peru., which means "marvelous," on the Southern railway, there is a mountain of which the most extraordinary stories are told. It is claimed to be a solid mass of ores of all varieties indiscriminately mixed, and as one citizen declared, "all you have to do is to blindfold your eyes, turn around three times, throw a little salt over your left shoulder, then begin to dig where your spade strikes and you can get any kind of ore you want?gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, antimony or anything else?aud it lies right on the surface like gravel." The fact that this extraordinary ir.ineralogical phenomenon has not been utilized, however, rather detracts from the interest of the story.?Chicago Record An Obliging Huwban.ri, That husband of mine never did appreciate a joke," said one woman to another. "Why, liow is that?" asked hei friend. "Mrs. told mo this joke the othei day," said she. 'Why don't you gel j ten cents'worth of borax?' I asked ' 'What for?' and she replied, 'Why, foi ten cents.' Wheu I went home ll ~ ? T ? i- ? T /I <T-1 U_ I Sprung II UU'iOiiU. i. aaiu, oiuiiu, wjjy don't you get ten cents' worth ol borax?' He made no reply, but went out and shortly returned with a small package. I said. 'What is that?' and he replied, 'Why, that's the ten cents' worth of borax you wanted.' John never did appreciate a joke."?Albany Eveniug Journal. Gave Them Fair Warning. j A Vienna paper relates that not long [ ago three soldiers wero drowned in a I military swimming school in that city. ) A few days later an officer harangued j his soldiers as follows: ,;I want you ' all to be careful not to get drowned, because that creates no end of bother I for the Colonel and the Captain. liesides, it is in your own interest, too!" The railway mileage of Russia now . amounts to 29,000 miles, which in1 13? it.. 1 CiUUUS bUU greui' giuti -au OAI/Cuaiuu, 9 , k % ' 4- - ; - ' -v >* BOOKKEEPINC BY KNOTS. ( How the Natives of Peru Use the Klpn Instead of Figures. , " ttli. - J:~I: ru,.. JUT. iviax Ulllt!, It uiniiiiiumouDu uctman scientist, has been for many years engaged in archaeological explorations in Pern. Among other important discoveries if\ THE KIPU, USED FOB KEEPING ACCOUNTS 1 of Dr. Uhle is the kipu, a collection of knotted strings of different colors which were used by the peoples of the ancient civilizations of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for the purpose of keeping accounts. They had no written language and no system of figures. Their arithmetic consisted solely of little knotted strings. Among the primitive villages of the Andes, tho descendants of the Incas depend upon the kipu for keeping accounts, and Dr. Uhle was so fortunate as to discover them in the hands of Indian herdsmen, who used them so skillfully that they are able to make a record for everv animal, every bushel of | feed and article of property that is in- j trusted to their care. The colors of ) the different strings represent differ- i | ent articles, such as barley, corn, j I sheep, rams, ewes, lambs, horses, ( etc., while the knots, by their size j and distance from each other, express < I hundreds, tens and units, in such a ' j manner as to accurately include the j decimals. i i Stole From Queen Willielinina. I ' An extraordinary case of theft is re- ' ported from The Hague, the victim j being no less a personage than Queen i Wilbelmina herself. The culprit ap- 1 I pears to be the person to whom the j safe custody of the young, Queen's , valuables was intrusted. The stolen < articles consist of very valuable gold 1 and silver toilet pieces, and seem to ; have been abstracted from Her Ma- < aolw'ti rnnm Thpir 1 flfLD- I JOOIJ o Ui VOUIMI^ ? WAMi pearance was the cause of inquiries being made, and when the bulk of them were discovered in the possession of a silversmith, he stated that he had bought them from the official in question, who has now absconded. Helpmeet of Senator IlAnna. Mrs. Augusta Rhodes Hanna, wifo of Senator Hanna, of Ohio, was born at Kent, then called Franklin Mills, . 153 miles from Cleveland, and is the daughter of Daniel P. Rhodes. When ! she was two years old her parents removed to Cleveland, where she has since resided. Miss Rhodes was sent to the Abbot Collegiate Institute, in New York City, for school training, and on her return met her father's young business partner, Mr. Hanna, and they were married in 18f>4. Mr. and Mrs. Hanna have three children, the son being Daniel R. Hanna. who is married and has a home on Euclid avenue, Cleveland. Miss Mabel is the elder daughter. She is fond of music, and devotes much time to the study of it. She is a charming and cultured young lady, and is a fine horsewoman. Ruth, the youngest child, is at school in Farmington, Connecticut. fjpp .^Vv 1 \ <<^fi v MF.S. "IAP.K A. HANNA. Mrs. Hanna is a stately, handsome j woman, with au impressive manner i and considerable hauteur. Her ? abundant white hair is dressed in the t latest fashion, and her complexion is t like wild roses in the snow. Mrs. > Hanna has been the reigning queen ot [ society in Cleveland before and since it her marriage. Her gowns are made c of the costliest fabrics, her jewels are J worth a fortune, and she wears them 9 with the dignity of a duchess. Sena- .1 tor and Mrs. Hanna ore both fond of J entertaining their friends, and they t please themselves and all concerned t by giving magnificent social affairs, t 1 ! II? 1 I] I>irs. nauua giv.s iiDerany ui uer i bounty for char-'table purposes, but { 3 her time ami her eudeavor are de- i u voted to her family aud her friends, j ? She has 110 time for the executive ? j duties of clubs or other organizations, j On<1 Kind of liccoril. j . 'A remarkable old gentleman," says V theIndia iapolisSentinel, "was agues! ; i at the Occidental Hotel yesterday? t Mr. Robert Watts, of Connersville. J He is deventy-eight years old and one ^ of F/.'yette County's oldest and mosl j respected citizens. In all, forty-seven j Staie fairs have been held, aud Mr. Watts has attended forty-six of them. | f' mis uutioUDceciiy oeais an utiier rec- ) ords. He is bale and active and baa : never been ill in his life with the ex- ? ception of a slight indisposition from the grip last winter. He is sweet > tempered, sunshiny and genial." * I ' * . .- - . ' . )K. TALMAGE'S SEEMON. \ i UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED ] DIVINE. 1 abject: The Water Brookt?The Gospel of Kefreslimont Show* How We May ]?lu<te the tlonnd* of Trouble and Safely lteacU the Lake of Divine Solace. [Copyright, LonU Klopsch, 1399.1 Washington, D. C.?ThJ Gospel n* a treat refreshment is here set forth by Dr. L'ttlmage, under a figure which will be ound particularly graphic by those who lave gone out as hunters to llnd game in be mountains; test, Tsalm xlli., 1, "Asthe lart pnnteth after the water brooks." David, who must some time havo seen a leer hunt, points us here to a hunted stair naking for tile water. The fascinating aninal, called in my text the hart, Is the same mlmal that in sacred and profane llteraure io called the stag, the roebuck, the llnd, the gazelle, the reindeer. In central syrui id uiuiu limes lucre hoiu wuuiu (ma uro fields of them, as Solomon suggests vhen he says, "I charge you by the binds >f the Held." Their antlers jutted from I he long grass as they lay dowD. No hunter t nho has been long In "John Brown's tract" vill wonder that In the Bible they wore ilassed among clean animals, for the dews, he showers, the lakes, washed them as ilean as the sky. When Isaac, the patrlircb, longed for venison, Esau shot and jrought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares ;hn sprightllness of the restored cripple of nillennial times to the long and quick ump of the stag, saying, "The lame shall eap as the hart." Solomon expressed his Il9gu3t at a hunter who, having shot a. leer, is too lazy to cook it, sayinjr. "The ilothful man roasteth not that which he :ook In hunting." But one day David, while far from the lome from which he had been driven and ilttlng near the mouth of a lonely cave vhere he had lodged and on the banks of i pond or river, hears a pack of hounds In iwift pursuit. Because of the previous illence of the forest the clangor startles llm, and he says to himself. "I wonder *? l? ? Ar\rma iiwa offflr " Than f huPfl la i crackling (a the brushwood and the load wreathing of soma rushing wonder of the voods, and the antlers ot a deer rend the eaves of the thicket, and by an instinct which all hunters recognize it plunges into i pond or lako or river to cool its thirst mil at the same time, by its capacity Tor twlfier and longerowlmmlng, to get away Irom the foaming barriers. David says to himself: "Aha! That is uyselfl Saul after me, Absalom after me, juemles without number after me. I am abased, their bloody muzzles at my heels, jarkiui; at my good name, barking after ny body, barking after ray soul. Oh, the jounds, the hounds! But look there!" lays David, "That hunted deer has splashed nto the water. It puts its hot lips and lostrils into the cool wave'that washes the athered flanks, .and it swims away from bo fiery canines, and it is free at last. 3I?, that I might find In the deep, wide ako of God's mercy and consolation es;ape from my pursuers! Oh, for the svators of life and reseuo! As the hart pantetli after the water brooks, so pantetli bv soul after thee. O God!" domo of vou hnve just come from the idirondacks, and the breath of the balsam and spruce aud-pino is still on you. .The iriirooducks are now populous with liuuters, and the deer are being slain by he score. Once while ther>) talking with a liunter I thought I would like to soe, whether my text was accurate in itsallu-' iion, and as I hoard the dogs baying a Utile way off and supposed tboy were ou the track of a deer I said to the hunter in rough sorduroy, "Do tho doer always make for I be water when they are pursued?" He jald: "Oh,yes, mister! You soe, they are i hot and thirsty animal, and they know where tho water is, and when they hear ianger In the distance they lift their antlers and snuff the breeze and start for Racquet or Loon or Saranac, and we get Into jur cedar shell boat or standby the runway with rifle loaded ready to blaze away." My friends, that is one reason why I liko the BUjIo so much. Its allusions aro so ;rue to nature. Its partrldgos are real pactridges, its ostriches real ostriches and its reindeer real reindeer. I do not wonder that this autlered glory of the text makes tho hunter's eye sparklo and his :heek glow and his respiration quicken, to. <ay nothing of its usefulness, although it is the most usflful of all game, its flesh delicious, its fekin turned into human apparel, Its sinews fashioned Into bow strings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery aou Lbe shavings of Its horns used as a restorative, its name taken from the hart aud sailed, hartshorn. By putting aside its usefulness this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness und elasticity. What au oye, with a liquid brightness as if cratberod up from a liuudred lakes at sunset! The horns a coronal branching into svery possible curve, and, after it seems Joue, ascending into other projections of jxquisiteness, a tree of polished bone, uplifted in pride or 3wung down for awful :ombat! It is velocity embodied, timidity mpersonnted, the enchantment of the tvoods, eyo lustrous in life and pathetic in loath, tbo splendid animal a complete rhythm of muscle and bone and color and lttilude and locomotion, whether couched In the grass among the shadows or a living bolt shot through the forest or turning at my to attack the bounds or rearing for its nst fall under the bucushot of the trapper. It is a splendid appearance, that the nainter's pencil falls to sketch, and only a Itunter's dream on 11 pillow of bemloeks at the foot of St. llegis i9 able to picture. iVben twenty mile.? from any .settlement, it comos down at eventide to tbe lake's idge to drink umoDg tbe lllypad*, and, witb its sharp-edged hoof, shatters tbe ?rystal of Long lake, it is very picturesque. But only wben after miles of pursuit, with tea vine sides and boiling tongue and eyes nvlraminp: in death, tbe stag leaps from iliff to cliff into Upper Saranac can you reilize how much David had suffered from lis troubles and how much he wanted God Then he expressed himself in the words, 'As tho liart pantetb after tbo water >rooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, 0 ' 3od." Well, now, let all those who have comiug ifter tliem the lean hounds of poverty or be black bounds of persecution or the ipotlod hounds of vicissitude cr the pale touuds of death or who uro in any wise inrsued run to tbo wide, deep Klorlous .. r\t /4 li*f no cAlnr?A Jinrl fflMfllli*. Til ft I uost of the mea and women whom I hapien to know, nt different times, if not now, iavo Lad trouble after them, sharpnuzz^ed troubles, swift troubles, all dopouring troubles. Many of you liavo nnde tho mistake of trying to fight tbcm. Somebody meanly attacked you, and you ittaiked them. They depreciated you, aud rou depreciated them, or they overreached fou in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall itreot parlance, to get a corner on thorn. 3r you Lave had a bereavement, and intead ol boing submissive you are lighting hat bereavement. You charge on the docors who liavo failed to effect a cure, or ou chargo on tho carelessness of the raiload company through which the accident (Courred. Or you are a chronic invalid, ind yon fret and worry and scold and wonler why you cannot be well like othor pc.o>le, and you angrily ohargo on tho neu- I nlL'ia or the larvnultls or the ague or tho I iek headache. The fact is you are a door X bay. Instead of running to the waters if divine consolation and sinking your It.'rst and cooling your body and soiil in he good clieer of the gospel and swimnlnj; away iulo tlio mighty deeps of God's ovm, you arc fighting u wholo kennel of inrriers. Nome time ago I saw in the Adirondack* 1 dotr lying across the road, and lie seemed J luabln to get up, and I said to some hunt- ' irs, "What is tlio matter with that do;:?" ' .'liev answered, "A deer hurt him," mid I ' aw ho had a great swollen paw and a bat- er?'d head, showing where the millers truck nlm. And the probability is that c oino of you might give a mkhty clip to ( onr pursuers. You might damage their 1 ti sin ess, you might worry them into ill J ealth, you might hurt them as much j s they hurt you; but, after all, it is 1 ot worth while. You only have hurt a ouud. Botter bo olT for tlio upper ?ara ic, into which the mountains of God's tomnl strength look down ami moor their ' 1)nilows. As for your physical disorders, ' he worst strychnine you can tak" Is fr??t- ? illness, and the host medicine is r 'llicion. know people who were only a li'.tlo ills- ' rdered, yet hnvn iretted themselves into j1 oaiplete <.?letudinarianism, wlillo others ' ut their trust in (!oil and cam" up from he very shadow of death aud have lived omfortably twenty-five years with only ue lunp. A man with one lung, but God J rith him, is better off than a godless mau 1 ritli two luaga. Some of vou have been 1 ' ; . -L' ! . /, '"V.v* 'or a lone time sailing nround Cape Feai tvben you ouebt to have been miilloft iround Capo Good Hope. Do not turo jack, but go ahead. The deer will accomplish more with Its swift feet than with Its lorns. T)in? whnlft ohnlnq of lnWflq -In the Ldirondaeks, and from one height yoti can tee thirty lakes, and there are said to be aver 800 in the great wilderness. So near lire they to onoh othsr that your mountain ?uldo picks up and carries tho boat from lake to lake, the small distance between :hem for that reason called a "carry." knd the realm of God!s word is one long jhain of bright, refreshing lakes, each promise a lake, and a very short carry between thorn, and, though for acres the pursued have bean drluklng out of them, :hoy are full up to the top of thu croeu janlcs.and the same Daviddescrlbos them, md they seem so near together-that iu three different places he spuakn of them is a continuous river, saying, 'There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God." "Thou slmlt make them ririnir nf thn rlvAM of thv nleasures:" "Thou greatly onrlche9t it w>tU tho rivoj jf God, which Is full of water." But-many of you have turned your back on that supply and confronted your trouble, and you are soured witli your circumstances, and you are lighting society, aQd yo i are fighting n pursuing world, and troubles, Instead of driving you iato the sool lake of hoavenly comfort, have made srou ntop and turn round and lower yout head, and it is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same ciroumstances I would have dope worse. But you are all wrong. You nedd to do as the reindeer does In Fehruary and March?it sheds its horns. The Rabbinical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures his money In rislcy enterprises he has hung It on the stag's horns, and a proverb in the far east tells a man who has foolishly lost I1I9 fortune to go and find where the deer has shed his horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circumstances, quit misanthropy, quit complaint, quit pitching Into your pursuer. Be as wise as next spring will be'the deer ol the Adirondack. Shed your horns. But very many 01 you wno are wrongea of the world?and if la any'Assembly between the Atlantlo unci Pacific oceans U were asked t hat all who luid been badly treated should raise both their hands, and full response should be made, there would be twice as many hands lifted as persona present?I sny many of you would declare, "We have always done the best we could and tried to bo useful, and why we became the victims of mnllgnment or invalidism ot mishap is inscrutnble." Why, do you not know that the finer a deer and the more elegant its proportions and the more beautiful its bearing the more anxious the hunters and the hounds are to capture it? Had that roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and a limping guit the hunters would have said: "Pahuwl Don't let us waste our ammunition on a sick deer." And the hounds vtould have given a few sniffs of the tracks and then darted off in another direction for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as If it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides incloso the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the bank of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven, andthe stamp of its foot defies tho iack shootincr lantern and the rifle, the horn and tbe hound, that deer they will have if they must needs bren.lt their neck in the rapids. 80 if there were no noble stufT in your mako up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you ^ere a forlorn failure, you would be" allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm draws on you its "finest bead;" therefore the world gooa gunnlug for you with its best Winchester breechloader. Highest oomplimont is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest Being the world over saw had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Galvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its ltedeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a cross. Many who have dono their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is in anticipation of the next world. Yes, for soma people in this world there seems no let up. They are pursued from youth to manhood and from manhood into old ago. But what Is a relief for all those pursued of trouble and annoynnco and pain and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a word of tbreo letters, but eaoh letter is a chariot if you would triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned, or a lake if you would slake your thirst?yea, a chain of three lakes?G-o-d, the one for whom David longed and the one whom David found. You might as well meet a stag which, after its sixth mile of running at the topmost spoed through thicket and gorge aud with the breath of the dogs on his heels, ha3 como in full sight of Schroon lake and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass as to attompt to satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from trouble and sin, with anything less deep and high and broad and immense and Infinite and eternnl thnn God. Ills comfort ?why, it embosoms all distress. His arm ?it wrenches off all bonduge. His bandit wipes away all tears. His Chrlstly atonoment?it makes us all right with the past, and ail rigut wuu me iurure, ;iuu an rifriit with God, and all right with man; and all right forever. 01), when some of you get there it will be like what a hunter tells of when ho was pushing his canoo far up north In the winter aud amid the ice floes and a hundred miles, us he thought, from any otbex human beings. He was startled ono day as he heard a stepping on the Ice, and he cocked tho rifle, ready to meet anything tbat came near. Ho found u mau, barefooted and insane from long oxposure, approaching blm. Taking him into his canoe and kindling (Ires to warm him, lie restored blm, found out where he had lived nnd took him to his home and found all the village in great excitement.* A hundred men were soarchingfoi this lost man, and his family and friends rushed out to meet him, and, ns had been ucrreed ut his first nppearanco, bolls were rung and guns were discharged nnd banquets spread and the rescuer loaded with presents. Weli, when some of you stop out of this wilderness, whore you havoheen chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid tho icebergs, Into the warm greetings ol all tbo villages of tho glorified, and yout friends rush out to kIvo you welcoming kiss, tlio news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread tlu banquet and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope In the tower, aud while the chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a sceno so uplifting 1 pray God I may be there to tako part ia the celestial merriment. And now do you not think the prayer In Solomon's Song where ho compared Christ to a reindeer ia [he night would make an exquisltelv appropriate peroration to my sermon, "Until the day break and the shadows flee away bo thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bother?" METHODISTS' RADICAL MOVE. lViicon8ln Conference Will Elect Uisliopi For Four to Eight Vearg. The Wisconsin Conference of the Method st Episcopal Church, which was held ir Milwaukee, took radical action Ju tin idoption of a series of resolutions declar nff in favor of electing Bishops for a tera 3f four to oicrlit years, and assigning then :o tbe same Held of labor lor a term of fo.ui fears. A plan was adopted providing for tin 'lection of Presiding Elders by the annua onrereuce, removing the time limit of thi mstorate, reducing the number of Churcl mpors, and providing thut the Steward: md Trustees bo elected by tbo members o ho church. IMmlo mi Anncnlitn 1'riettt. The Rev. Garabed Martongesian, former y a l'rolostaut minister of l'rovideuce, 11 ., and who afterward abjured l'rotestaut sin, has been or.lained a priest by Bishof inrajiano, of llio Armenian Church, at Voreoster, Mass. This is the llr.?t time thai i priest of llienucient Armenian fnitli evei ius been ordained in tbe United States. S3."S0,0n0 I'"or MlmlonRiy l'urpospn. Cliarle? A. Aitclilson, of Glasgow, Scot aud, lias by a trust settlement devoted $50,000 for the education of Bible women nitsionaries and religious teachers. ' y. .. . THE GREAT DESTROYER. . ; J SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE! OF INTEMPERANCE. For Sale"?Work of American Minion*rlM In Combatting the Urlnk EvIl In India?They Hart Wrought ? Noteworthy Change in Public Sentiment. "For sale! A good saloon?One business Good will iocluded too. its worth to land! Here's a rare snap?If wise you'll catch it Reason for selling out?I go abroad!" A ''good saloon"?whence came this aspect "Fine place for business"?aye, 'tis on the The tolling masses pass, when homeward bouud? A trap, devised tO( make the weak Its "A snap?" for whom? Who gathers up this pelf Through dally traffic of this dally wage? Is It the suffering wife and helpless babe, Or sorrowing mother, bowed by grief and Going abroad!" To seek luxurious ease, With coffers filled, regardless of Its cost To countless lives, by a bass traffla wrecked, r.j ^ And countless souls, perchance.' forever ' &? And yet, "the po worst hat be" hdld slackened rein. Nor check the rum-fiend that enslaves th? Robs homes of want?builds up the bloated And mocks at sighs and tears of helpless wo el \"For sale!" Can gold thus gotten mov? that load? * Tbe pruyers, groans, curses of the hearts It broke? "Can foreign scenes efface a sin-cursed Or heaven's just retributive laws revoke? , . .SjJ ?L. S. Harris, In New York Observer. The BlUslonarles and Temperaneo. Tbe fact of the advanoe of total abstinence among +he missionary body to-Iadlsi received striking confirmation at a dinner party on the Queen's birthday, glvftn by', the collector of tbe district, when 6t the nine missionary guests present all drank fho hailfh r\f hflF mniAafrv In rtftld WfttftPJ The circumstance occasioned surprise, and! was the subject of much comment by tb? kind host and his civilian friends. It is rare to find a missionary of any nationality, In India to-day who takes liquor in any form, except for medicinal purposes. Even the Oorman brethren, who indulge in their beer at home, do not make a practice, w? ? are told, of using it In India. The ohange of sentiment In this matter during the last quarter of a century has been most marked. It is noteworthy that the American missionaries had the honor of being; the pioneers in bringing about so deslra-; ble a result. There was a time when they. were looked upon as extremists and fanat-; iea by the other missionaries of other nationalities, and were subjected to z^o.ilttlo, ridicule. A firm, uncompr imlsltr^attltudo has had its effect. Tbe influence'on,\tha( native church has likewise been wbolJ-. 9omo. The vice of intemperance'has undoubtedly decreased among native Christians of Madras during the lasttwenty-fiva years, when we consider their numerical ' 'S growth during the same period. Not that' the drinking habit has by any means been' entirely abandoned; but It is not the re J uruiiuu Ul LUC UUUJUiUUIbjr kuav 1W uuv,w nno. It is a matter of rejoicing that oar ova mission has taken an* unflinching stand . &3j from the first on this question.?Mangla Vasanam (India). "The Poor Han'i Club." The Rev. Walter B. Vassar writes as foU lows in the Pittsburg Christian Advocate; Thesoclal side of the saloon Is the deadliest * - S and most dangerous phase of it. Just at the most dangerous period In a young man's life, when he is apt to form false notions of the restraints of home, the aaioons open their doors and bid him enter.' The estimate Is made that ninety per cent of all drink-cursed lives began the oareer of the drunkard at the bar of theaaloon. Very strangely, we think, there are some who, with a false pity for the poor, are willing to uphold it for the salre of making what is called a "club" for the lowly. If a tree may be known by its fruits, we may not be charged with bearing false witness when we say the Institution whioh is the rendezvous of crooks, which Is tho center of every influence which makes for the de- > -A. morallzation of civil government, whioh mimes u impossiuie iu pu 13 auwvioui iuhs for civic righteousness, has no right to live. He who condones its presence in a community is either blind to its effect or morally on a level with It. .. >^30 Dancer In the Nip. One of the surest ways of ending one's days in a madhouse is tostimulatea fagged brain by constant "nips" of spirits. Overindulgence In spirits injures the memory to an incredible degree. In years gone by no person who was known to be of Intemperate habits was permitted to appear as a witness in the Spanish Courts of Justice, | the authorities maintaining that alcoholI ism was so prejudicial to the brain that It j was unsafe to accept the testimony of an ; inebriate. There is a singular instance on I record of a merchant who grew so accus- . -j | tomed to jogging his brain by brandy drink. iug that unless be could procure a "nip" he was utterly unable to *t>rk. Needless to say, he generally left hls'offlce in a state of intoxication. The day that bis brain collapsed he went home and insisted on putting every member of his family to bed. | under the impression tbat ttiey, too, haC drunk not wisely, but too well. r'M Science Must Not Claim Too 3Iuch. It is well tbat science has come to the aid of temperance. But science cannot win the battle alone. To say tbat alcohol acts so - and so upon the body makes no impression upon tbe average mind. Ho nedds the appeal to tbe heart. He needs the burning words of women who have felt,;andthe impassioned appeal of the reformed. He needs the recital of the sufferings of those whom the drink traffic las damned. The country needs a Jiew campaign of soulstirring song and speeches freed from everything save the need of Immediate de cision against the whisky devil?The Epworth Herald. \'A Don't Treat. The Omaha World-Herald preaches an. editorial sermon on "non-treating clubs," und says, among other things: "The treating hAbit i3 responsible i'or tb? bulk of intemperance In this country. No one has over yet been able to explain why It is considered the right thing to line up to a bar and drink on invitations merely because some friend has extended the Invitation." The Craiade In Brief. Saloons are sin and disense breeders, but, while our Board of Health taclcs up notices of contagious disease, the Board of Excise ticks up a license to sell drunkenness. V Medical science is more and more disposed to eschew the u?e of alcohol in the treatment of disease because other remedies, most of them po'sons, aro safer and more effective. Among the liberal bequests of the lata Robert C. Billings, of Boston, was one of $50,000 to the Institute of Technolofjy for the assistance of s;udents who do not use liquor or tobacco. Lady Marv Glynn, wife of the Bishop of Peterborough, England, lias been taking active part in u temperance mission held among the brlckmakers of Peterborough. It has been known for half a century or more, that all diseases, together with drunkeLness, poverty, insanity, vice and crime, are disseminated by the salooa-frequenting citizens. "Christendom is saloondom, and nlnetyflve per cent, of male church members are on the pay roll of the drink?as gaugers, collector*, .store-keepers or silence-keep- , ors."?John G. Wooley. Over one million of the best of God's creatures untere.l upon the alcoholic short*' 1 " *' " ' ** flirt 1u f tan vaun nae rtui'i iu iuo (#>? ? ? . The roiul fa still open with over 200,000 depots in llio United flutes. I *. * * '