REV. DR. TALMAGE THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: *The Path of Safety'—Menacos’ to Oar National Existence~The Dan” gers of Monopoly, Xihilismm and In. fidelity Pointed Out, [Copyright, Louis Klopeeh, 1809.) Wasurxarox, D, C.—In this discourse Dr, Talmage speaks of some of the perils that threaten our American {nstitutions and yoints out the path of safety; text, Isaiah xil., 4, “Thy land shall be married.” As the greater includes the less, so does the oircle of future joy around our entire world include the epiayele of our own re- Jublie. Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine magery of the text. At the close of a week in which for three days our national capital was a pageant, and all that grand review and baapered procession and na- tional anthems could do celebrated peace, it may not be inapt to anticipate the time when the Princes of Peace and the Heir of Universal Dominion shall take possession of this nation and “thy land shall be mar- ried.” In discussing the final destiny of this nation, it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral ora wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpiis and on Jlationns and in places of public concourse hear so maoy of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though we were on the way to national interment, and beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the ceme- tery of dead nations our republic was to be entombed, that I wish you to under- stand it is not to be obsequies, but nup- tials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re. quiem, but wedding mareh, for “thy land shall be married.” I propose to name dome of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this repub- lie. This land is so fair, so beautiful, so affluent that it bas maoy suitors, and it will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be accepted or rejected, In the first place, I remark: There is a greedy, all grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this repubiie, and that monster is known by the name of monopoly. His scepter is made out of the {ron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and {or the robbery of the people, Things went on from bad to worse until in the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a loog time monopoly decided everything, 1f monop- oly favors a law, it passes; {{ monopoly op- poses a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot putting into his pockets in one year $200000 in excess of all reasopable charges for services, Mo- nopoly holds in hiz one hand tbe steam power of locomotion and in the other the electricity of swift communication. Mo- nopoly has the Republican party in one pocket and the Democratic party in the other pocket. Monopoly decides nomina- tisns and elections—city elections, state elections, national elections. With bribes he secures the votes of legislators, giving them {ree passes, giving appointments to needy relatives to luerative position, em- ploying them as attorneys if they are Inw- yers, carrying their goods 15 per cent. leas if they are merchants, and if Le find a case very stubborn as well as very important uts down before him the hard cash of ribery. But monopoly 1s not so sasily eaught now as when during the term of Mr, Bu- chapan the Legislative Committes fn one of our States explored and exposed the manner in which a certain raliway come any had obtained a donation of publie and. It was found out that thirteen of the Senators of that State received $175,000 among them, sixty members of the lower house of that State received between $5000 and #10000 each, the Governor of that State received £30,000, his clerk received $5000, the Lieutenant-Governor received $10,000, all the clerks of the Legislature received $5000 each, while $50,000 were di- vided among the lobby agents, That thing on a jarger or smaller scale {8 all the time going on in some of the States io the Union, but it is not so bianderiog as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or ar- rested. I tell vou that the overshadowing curse of the United States to-day is mo- nopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every tom of coal, and every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed depotism. I re- joica that in twenty-four Slates of the aslon already anti-monopoly leagues have been establishea. God speed them in the wotks of liberation, I have nothing to sav against eapital- fsts. A man has a right fo all the money he can make honestiy—I have nothing to say against corporations as such; without them no great anterprizse would be possible, but what I do say is that the same prin- ciples are to te applied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plainest laborer, What is wrong for me is wrong for great corporations. If 1 take from you your property without any adequate compensa tion, 1 am a thief, and if a raliway damages the property of the people with- out making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic theft. What Is wrong on a small scale is wrong on a large seale, Monopoly in England has ground hundreds of thousands of ber best people into semi- starvation and in Ireland has driven multi. tudinous tenants ajmost to madness and in the United States proposes to take the wealth of 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 of people and put it in a few silken wallets, Monopoly, brazen faced, iron fingered, vulture hearted monopoly offers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the (akes and up the great rallroads and over the telegraph poles of the continent and says, “Here is my heart and band; be mine forever.” Let the millions of the peopie North, South, East and West forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot box, forbid them on the plat. form, forbid them by great organizations, forbid them by the overwhelming senti- ment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the ehureh of God, forbid them by prayer to high heaven. That Herod shail not have this Abigail, It shall not be to ali devouring monopoly that this iand is to be married, Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is nihilism, # owns nothing but a knife for uni- versal cutthroatery and a nitrogiyveesia bomb for universal explosion, Ha believes in no God, no government, no heaven and no hell exespt what he ean make on earth! He slew the czar of Russia, keeps many a king practically imprisoned, killed Abra- bam Lincoln, would put to death every king and president on earth, and {f he had the power would climb up until he could drive tha God of heaven from His throne and take it bimsell, the universal buteher, In Franes it is called communism; in the United States it is oailed anarchism; in Russia it 1s called nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternsl smash up. It would make the holding of property a erime, and ft wonld drive a dagger through Jou heart and put a toreh to your dwell. ng and turn over this whole land into the Jossasnion of theft and lust and rapise and murder, Where does this monster live? In all the towne avd Sities ot hid land, It offers 1" hand to air republic, proposes | tear to pieces the ballot hox, hall, the congressional assembly, Northern cities during the war; it wasn! billsm that mauled to death the Chinese immigrants years ago; It is nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drunker. ies upon sober people as they go by. Abt Its power has never yet been tested! 1 pray God its power may never be [fully od. It would, {f it had the power, leave every church, chapel, cathedral, school. house and college in ashes, Another suitor for the hand of this na. tion is infidelity. When the midnight ruf. flazs despoiled the grave of A. I. Stewart in Bt. Mark's churchyard, everybody was shocked, but infidelity proposes something worse than thatthe robbing of ail the graves of Christendom of the hope of a re. surreetion. It proposes to ohisel out from the tomb-stones of your Christian dead the words, “Asleep in Jesus’ and substitute the words, ‘‘Obliteration-—annihilation.” Infidelity proposes to take the letter from the world’s Father, inviting the nations to virtue and happiness and tear it up into fragments so small that you cannot read a word of it. It proposes to takes the conso- ation from the broken hearted and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity ro to swear in the President of the nited States and the suprems court and the Governors of States and the witnessas in the courtroom with thelr right hand on Paine's “Age of Reason” or Voltalre's “Philosophy of History.” It proposes to take away from thiscountry the book that makes the differences between the United States and the kinzdom of Dahomey, be- tween American civilization and Bornesian cannibalism. If infidelity could destroy the Beriptures, it would in 200 years turn the civilized nations back to semibarbarism, and then from somibarbarism into mid. night savagery until the morals of a menag- ® of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpau- sees would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked buman race, he only impulse fn the right direction that this world has ever had has coms from the Bible, It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence, That book has been the mother of all re forms and all eharities—mother of Eup Hah magna charta apd Ameriean Declara- tion of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, holding that Holy Book fn his hand, stood before an infidel] club in Parle and rend to them out of the prophecies of Halakkuk, and the infidels, not knowing what book it was, declared that it was the best poetry they bad ever heard, That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge and led the dy- ing Prince Albert to ask some one to sing ““Roek of Ages.” I tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century is the attempt to destroy this book. Yet infidelity, loathsome, stench. ful, leprous, pestiferous, rotten stretches out its hand, lehiorous with the second death, to take the hand of this re. publie. It stretches it out through seduce tive magazines, and through iyeeum tures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of the continent al. ready fully settled, and the two-thirds pot yet occupied. It saye: “Give me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of the chureh and with the Christian printing presses —then give me Wyoming Alaska, give me Moatana, give me Colo- rado, give me all the Siates west of the Mississippi. and I wili take those places and keep them by right of possessio LT fore the gospel can be fully intrenched.’ Bat there Is another suitor that presen’ his elaim for the hand of this republic, is mentioned in the versa following text where it says. “As the bridegroom re. joleoth over the bride, so shall thy God re. Jjolen over thee,” Belore Columbus and his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, for their wonderin! voyage, what was the last thing they did? They sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. Afior they caught the first glimse of this country and the gun of one ship had announced it to the other vessels that land had been discovared, what was the song thet went up from ail t three decks? “Gloria In exdalsis.” After Columbus and Lis 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what did they do? They all knelt an: secrated the new world to God. the Huguenots do after thay lasded in the Carolinas? What did the Holland refa gees do after they had lauded in New York? What aid the pligrim {atbers d2 after they landed in New England? With banded knee and uplifted face and heaven besieging prayer, they took possession of this conti. nent for God. How was the first American Congress opened? By prayer, in the rams of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ, And then see how good God has been to us! Just open the map of the continent and see bow it isshaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navigable rivers, more ia number and greater than of any other land, rolling down on all sides to the sea, prophe. syiog large manufactures and easy com- merce, look at the great ranges of mos. tains timbered with wealtl. on the top and sides, metaled with wenith usderseatn, One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coali . One husdred and eighty thousand squares miles of iron The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly aver lasts more than threes days—extreme beat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. Ali fruits, =»ll minerals, all harvests, Sosnery displavisg aa autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival, No Bouth American earthquake, No Heoten mists. No London Fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic divisions, The peoples of the United States are happler thao anv people on earth, It is the testi. mony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor mors sympathy, tor the industrious more opportunity. On, how good God was to our (athers, and how good He Las been to us and our abil dren. To Him, blessed bs His mighty name-—to Him of cross and triamph, to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugess and the pligrim fathers, to Him shall this land be married. Oh, you Cuaristian patriots, by your costributions and your prayers, fasten on the fulfiiiment of the text, While somes people may stand at the gates of the eity, saviog, “Stay back!” to foreign populations, I press out as far be. yond those gates as [ can press out bayond them and beckon to foreign nations, say- ing, “Come, come, all ya people who are honest and industrious and God loving!” But say you, “I am so afraid that they will bring their prejudices for foreign gov. ernments and plant them here,’ Absurd, They are sick of the governments that have essed them and they waut free Americal Give them the great gospel of 8. Throw around tham all Chris. tian hospitalitiea, They will add their in- dustry and bard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Christ and *‘thy land shall be married.” But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be the Rocky Mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irnigation, all their tops shall be covered, ns they will be, with vineyards and orchards and grainfislds, Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks snd the Chariéstons of the Pacific const come to the marriage altar on one side, apd then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Atlantic coast come to the marriage altar on the other side, and thers be. tween them let this hride of nations knesl, if the organ of the loudest over shook the Sierra he one side or moved the Alleghanies monster je give 1 he NOTES AND COMMENTS. Orchids at $20,000 each ought to en- courage floriculture. An offer of this amount was made and refused for the three recently exhibited at the Ant werp horticultural show, Hundreds of the best artisans of Finland have already left thelr father land for Sweden and Norway, and hun. dreds more will set sail for Canada and the United States during the sum. mer, to escape service as conscripts in the Russian army. The Ohio law which permits the pub- well as German, in addition to Eng. lish, on motion of council, authorizes also the publication of such official notices in Bohemian, There are many Bohemians in Cleveland and Toledo, Angell of University President the men, liberally educated and of good natural parts, who will pay their own expenses abroad for several years If consular service afterward, merchantable thimber., Her forest area is estimated at 1,250,000 square miles, or S00.000,000 acres, the largest forest are concerned. of in the world, 000,000 annually. auy country It is thought that the most obliging postmaster in the State of Missouri lives at Bethel, He recently put a telephone in his office, and announced that for the out of town patrons who are connected by wire and who may desire It he will open their and will read the contents to them over the benefit of those 1 E ietters "phone, The regents of the West Virgin Und versity have passed a resolution to os tablish a school President Raymond was Instructed to engage an astructor at a of £1.600 a year. This is an entirely new but the fl be a popular de pumber of demestic science, salary departure in aniversity work, regents think it w partment because of the large of women students, of has filed ap application In the Clrenit Frederick Re Chicago, hlehulwr, Court be granted per miakion to change name Fred Sehiley, No eanse was assigned 1H desired clinnee asking that he his to the tition for the Ad. im he the victories of mirnl Schiley had so affected the agination of the petitioner that sought to adopt the name of the illus. yaneed was that trious sallor. The prosperity of the South is fairly by the progress of Char. Tenn vears ago it had a population about 10006 and one mill. Today its population is more than 25.000 and its twelve cotton mills are running day and night in the manufacturing of colton yarns, gray ginghams, toweling. webbing, sash cord, hosiery, batting and wad. ding. and its five clothing factories are utilizing hour of daylight to keep up with orders, lotte, N. C. of cotton cloths, every The other day at Yale one youth was declared the mandsomest member of a certain class. Now we have the members of the class of "08 of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania establishing a medal which is to be awarded every year “to the member of the senior class who shall by the majority of his classmates be adjudged to possess the finest qualities that go to make the jdeal man. The medal is to be of gold.” We wonder which of these honors wonld cause the greatest hap piness to the recipient. It is the lady's privilege fo change her name, and Toledo, the Lady of the Lakes. has exchanged her privilege and wishes hereafter to be known as the Centennial City, having come of age. Toledo is the third largest city since 1010, Its fame is associated to the historical reader with Perry's vies tories, with Forts Miami and Meigs, a center of Indian and pioneer skirmish- es. The Centennial of the State is to be celebrated in 1902; already leading citizens are busying themselves with its possibilities, and Toledo expects to add to its fame and importance by the coming event. RS LIS cancy in the Iowa State siderable discussion as to the advis ability of apointing a native of lowa, sympathy with the people and their objects, gorvices of the best man possible, be he an Iowan or not. and the appoint. ment falls to Prof, H. I". Hutchins, dean of the Ann Arbor University Law School, Mr. 1. Yoshii, of Kyoto, Japan, who is in this country In connection with the development of the fron and steel influstries in his country, states taat the railway sysiem of Japan covers upward of 5,000 miles, with 5.000 more projected uhder construction. The tel egraph and telephone systems are in creasing at a rapid rate. All the wires used are American, but the instru ments are made In Japan, copled after the Bell and other American inven to start most of the pig and ingot metal will have to be imported, and the preference will be given to this country, A RI General Greely has published an In- teresting report of experiments by the sigual corps with wireless telegraphy. While it was found that signals, let. ters amd words cnn be sent SUCCERS- fully between stations, a partial fail- ure in the sending of regular messages is reported. Of course, the chief inter. est centres In the use of the proposed new parabolic reflector, because the sending of a message to a particular ceived at any point within the proper In view of in de- at first %0 often which has been done veloping Inventions dict that wireless telegraphy will not Thiz recalls the work written to navigation across At least Greely's report should have been omitted until after Marconi’s experiment in connection with the race for the American Cup next fall, Until then it cannot be defl- nitely known whether we shall have to make old metal out of our cables, Purposes, * prove that steam The Russian Chief of Polie> has jnst facts aboot growth and development of social rd... niecracy patent long since to the rest of the world. In a secret report which suw light at Vienna be says that the success of recent strikes in Russia has helped the revolutionary movement immensely; they formed a in which the workingmen learned the les- son of confidence in and in thelr own power, of their value and place in the State and of the solidarity of their with of worker throughout the world, Irrespec tive of nationality. the growth of this new education by force, advices of this Rus. wie tan school combination tliione the interests lepress if necessary, is the sian official, but if the Russian laborer lias learned as much as he eredits him . with, perhaps it will be found that this little learning will thing, in Russia—to be a dangerous 14 the oli order. Claims of foreign residents of Caba net the United States for damages Cuban result in claims Und ld COM ISsIon agai to during the recent will nothing. They against Kpnin, not ag: Niates, and Amer at Parix distipetly refosed the Spanish debt caused by the insur in the peace the United States voluntarny assumed the | obligations of settling claims of Ameri. : oan for dam- ! ages still retained | but this | I nothing | properiys insurrection probably really the are iinst the enn fo assume rection, treaty citizens against in Cuba while sovereignty in that WAS A concession fo Spain. am said about claims of sublects of intter for therefore, the This wiate. Spain she island, was other pain The will friction United States and other powers, further indicated by the ment that foreign ministers at Wash POWers, These are ta pay. matter, Canse no between in ington are not disposed fo push these claims “unduly.” Personal experience as well as med} | onl has for time been teaching us the disastrous pervous of. Sole noe KOme fects upon the listener of piano pmae. ticing. It may cause the unwilling ls- tener to rejoice that pinno playing has been placed under the ban almost un- reserveddiy by Dr. Watzhold, In the dritialy Medical Journal, The doctor belleves that soueh of the neurosis irom which mans young girls suffer may largely be attributed to the abuse of the piano. Aside from the agony ecansed to the listeners, it seems almost barbarous to foree children to practice a vertain number of hours every day, whether they want to or pot. And, in niue cases ont of ten. we fear the re- sults are similar to those brought about by a too stringent insiztance on Sabbath school attendance-—the Insirg. ment is loathed. But Dr. Watzhold is very serious, and he urges that before compelled by misguided parents to bammer out a daily quota o. practice, only the robust of constitution shonid be put to the task, Self government in the public has come to grief. The children were not equal to the sosponsibility, and the boys par. ticularly were troublesome, being es. The girls who served] In this capacity were scoffed for opportunities to get even “ith their tormentors, Parents complaine! that caused them to be watchful of petty shortcomings, revengelful when arrest. ed, and degraded when brought into the school “municipal court.” Anoth- or complaint was that the time ocens pied by members of the court in trying offenders could be employed better in studying. The climax enme when the fier was disclosed that one boy, Imi tating the practices of his elders in polities, had been trying to buy votes with pencils to compass his elsction ns an alderman in the selsol povern. ment. Hecnuse of these disclosures experiment was being tried was direct: wb 10 ctu tv od wethods of disci TWO WAR-TIME ESCORTS. Aso Officer nrd Returned with a Confederate, A woman now living in Washington can boast of a personal incident in her career so strange as to challenge the probability of its ever having been paralleled. On the Sunday morning previous to the battle of Antietam a i 1 by a fashionable throng. and the music provided was an Not another church in London can offer the attractions of Westminister Abbey. The stately choir, at her father's the will of headquarters much against that in Rockville, M4, the centre of the the village church The church was in residence was on the outskirts. The day was hot and the village streets very dusty. Searcely any one was in the streets, but as the young couple turned a corner a single horse. man sprang from the saadle, and, placing his hand upon the arm of the Lieutenant, sald, “Yon are my pris oner, sir.” Instantly the rondway seem- ed full of Confederate cavalry, The Union Lientenant was placed In charge of others by his captor, who was a captain, and a gallant at that, for, turning to the astonished young girl he sald: “I'm very sorry indeed to interrupt your churchgoing, and particularly to deprive vou of the company of your young friend.” “Not a friend at all-hardly an ac- quaintance.” she replied, 100 confused to know just what she was saying. but quite certain she didn’t want to boast of any great degree of intimacy with a Federal officer. “Permit me.” “to see you safe home,” ed and walked father's door. gret to annoy continued, “but war times ando our duty often on many least, you has same day to Union and a Confederate will pardon me for youth and beauty one continued the Captain, and he with her to her “1 really very much re sou in nraow turn- back he are way.” any 3 ii ‘ you {hse imposes At escort on the us disagreeable tasks, Ind nis an church a cificer. You that your the You left home ulenant and and from the saving HeRerves recog nition it has received with a Second 14 ol return in the same a Captain sincerely regrets life an bid you vali 1 v Wises ong YOu 3 1 rust The famous now gooidl-hiv.” captain provea a very bmve one, as the gird and now when he Is on i inl side of Washington He | Sunday the retired | enjoving the soc ‘ she frequently meots | most forgotten the episod Lint New York Ss she will never in Patron Saints of Trade, No fewer than forty-two trades have ber worked at and their patron saints, mostly chosen canse the selected saints that particstlar occupation & there fitted themselves to wateh over, guard and protect those en The following list gives th and their names of Lhe occupations patron saints Armorers, artists, Agatha: bakers, St. Winifred St. Louis: bookbinders, St sellers, St brushmakers, Kt, Dismas: eandlemakers, carpenters, 8t, Joseph St. Paul: clothworker vines, Bt. Thomas J Cosme; dyers St. Christopher: goldsmiths, St. Eloy: St. resped tive Nt. George; St barbers Louis: book Jolin; brewers, St. Florian; burglars Lucian: St nthony: Nt. Carpet weavers, John: 41 : ddortors, St Nt ferryvinen, YOR St. Peter: Lhiatters, wil Hubert: lawyers St. Yves Helori; Ie 8t. Peter; mariners, St. Christopher: millers, St Arnold; miners, St. Barbara; clans, 8t. Cecilia: nallers, St. Cloud; netmakers, St, James; nurses, St, Aga- tha; painters, St. Luke: pinmakers, 8t Sebastian; potters, 8t. Gore; shepherds, St. Windeline: shoemakers, St Cris. pin: spectacle makers, St. Fridolin: tailors, 8t. Goodman; tanners. 8t, Clem. ent: tax collectors, St. Matthew: tent makers, St. Aquila; travellers, St. Ra- phael; wheelwrights, 8t. Boniface. St chamiths, nus Piant Covers. When Sir Humphrey Davy was a boy about sixteen, a little girl cawe to him in great excitement. “Humphrey, do tell me why these two pieces of cane make a ny spark of light when I rub them together.” Humphrey was a studious boy, who spent hours in thinking out scientific problems. He patted the child's curly head, and said: “1 do not know, dear. Let us gee if they really do make a light, and then we will try to find out why.” Humphrey soon found that the little girl was right; the pleces of cane, if Hght. the reason. and after some time, thanks and the wide area within the rails make it Ideal for the accommodation of the contracting parties and the ate tendant bridesmaids. Chicago Times Herald, The Bumboantmen of the Orient. There is probably not a port at which ships ever touch where the busi- in China It Is especially active as well as fit the various ports of Indo-China and British India. The bumboatmen of Alexandria, Egypt, are sald to be the Too Indo lent to make an effort to get alongside a ship, they sail aimlessly up and down vessels in the harbor, crying monotonously, “Ebryting. ebry- ting!” This is intended to deseribe the extensgiveness of thelr wares, but it is deceptive, for they usually have next nothing to sell Sometimes they rouse themselves just before a ship is about to depart, and come alongside, offering pigeons and other birds and animals, which the sailors often buy for pets. In faraway Madagascar the natives are enthusiastic bumbont trad ers, and frequently swarm about the New York Tri- among 10 Lune, A Vietoresgue Conflief. the 1’ picturesque side The had a found in the prior It was conflict in hilippines has that not engagements of the out In a and totally new and and men. country, and difficulties to was War. found tropic jungle, under conditions in sur thal were our of the roundings unfamiliar to officers The character the climate comman presented our i ders, and raised obstacles that they had pot been trained to meet and That they surmount neverthe- and if 2 ation of the virility f varied re. and of manhood, The less, onnted the obstae i sUurin wir ow these difficulties wushed aside splendid des 1811 and strength the ROUTCES Sew “3 4 EA » 1 1s . - wr > y fight has been waged largely by volun. had little training hie ra ice of arms. teers, men had actual yel 'mselves as ready I IC meet have learned should be done. ail and Express, Scottish In the Brit army. en are likely to Who Came Impartiality. wh as elsewhere, Barve a “soft side” those i from their own tures the color apany, in whi or two unfortunate English- men roll “Anjus Mackay!” “Augus Mackay!” Stl no reply. (Sotto “1 ken ye're there; ver aye at ver jooty, decent mon, but ye're ower geant of a Highlasx 01 are ote calling the No reply. Louder Youre) modest to speak before sae mony folks, I see ye fine.” Marks him down in the roll. “Jolin Jones!” * voice replies, “Ere” “On, ay, ye're here “re sick a a word Or sav muckle that I'll jist believe I canua comes oot oF ver mooth mark ye doon as absent!” sae Peacock Feathers Unlocky, Iiluck is said to lurk in peacock feathers, and bad luck is supposed to vixit the house where they are used as It Is said that children will become ll if peacock feathers are in thelr rooms. Bone young women are superstitions about having them in the roofs where they receive thelr sweet hearts, believing thelr presence would Time was when the peacock was looked upon as a sem- blance of royalty, and gastronomically the bird was considered a dainty dish. Histories speak of the prominence in which the peacock was held in classic days. Knights of old swore by “the peacock” and on festival occasions the bird was served garnished with all its elaborate plumage. a decoration, preven t prog sand, A Niacing Marine Bomb. IMuminating shells for lighting up large areas of ocean in lifesaving work or to obtain the range of the vessels of an enemy are proposed by the American Hluminating Shell Company, of Baltimore, Md. The shell used is a hollow cylinder made of steel tubing and charged with calcium carbide, not impatiently telling her not interesting discoveries, from insects, and alsy helps the frail looking leaves to stand upright.—The Evangelist, Weddings in Westminster Abbey, 1t tsu’t everybody who can be ware vied In Westminster Abbey. The re cent wedding of Lady “Peggy” Prim. rose to the Earl of Crewa ix the occa: gion of recalling some of the notewor- thy ceremonies that have occurred in own daughters was married there, An. other famous wedding was that of H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, and that excited some Interest, occurring as ft did at the moment of Mr. Stanley's | generates acetylene gas. The end of the shell remains above water, and at burners lighted by an it is claimed that the light prodoced is 1.000 candle power and cannot be ex- tinguished by water. The shell is to be shot from a gun to a distance of two miles, and floats with one-quarter of its length above water —Engineering Musical Breakfast Calls, Thete are sold nowadays for break: fast calls groups of small tubular bells, highly finished, which are suspended at any convenient place in the house, There are three or four bells of differ. ent tones In a group, hung side by side and close together, Kept convenlently at hand, hanging on a hook, is a tiny nammer. with which the bells are struck, their musical tones reverberat. ing through the house.~New York The Child Died Carved. In some parts of Italy bleeding is
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