——————— DOGS OF WAR. THE LATEST RECRUITS IN THE GERMAN ARMY, Shepherd Dogs Trained for Sentinel Duty—The Assistance They Will Render to Sentinels and the Ambulance Corps. The dogs of war have passed out of | rhetoric into reality. The plebian tow- haired, bristling shepheard dogs of Ger- | many have been forced into military ser- vice and have come to be a valuable ally to the armies of the Emperor. At first | sight the German shepherd dogs gives one | a very bad impression. animal of very bad breeding and very low instincts. But he improves on better ac- quaintance and will shortly demonstrate A WAR DOG. He looks like an that he has extraordinary intelligence | and a devotion to duty that is simply marvelous. To him every one is either a friend or a f instinct which plies an excellent foundation for a tary training 1 few months of ser mili After vice this instinct is developed to such a remarkable degree that he can teil at sight whether a man belongs to the army of His Royal Highness or to that of the enemy. He is relied on for the possession of one ve quality he will sert 1t always ry valuable never fall asleep o These doos are a puns IRCesStors were n his post or de wrefully bred for army carelessly handle and indulged in habits of shiftle to ss fellow in spite He worth » dlisobedis nee, ten one he of was training + has come t | As 1 worthle DEFENDERS OF THE ORRMAN EMPIRE. bothering with, and is left to the humble occupation of house watching, which, by the way, he can do very well. The most important office which these dogs por- form as sn ally of the army, aid they render to sentinels at night. Keen scented, quick to detect any strange sound, and able to darkness that is impenetrable to man, it is impossible for an enemy to approach the picket lines without attracting their attention. jut they must not If thoroughly trained they will hasten to the nearest sentinel and impart the information to him ‘without making any noise. Some consists in the se n bark TO THE RESCUE, are trained to express their meaning by a low whine, and others by tugging at the bootlegs of the sentinel. The only occasion on which these dogs are allowed to bark ison finding a dead or wounded soldier in some marsh or underbrush, or pest in the snow after the battlefield been deserted. They render in- valuable assistance to the ambulance. A knapsack of food, with perhaps a flask of brandy and a bottle of milk, if the hospital surgeon thinks proper, is fre- uently strapped to their backs whon are on duty with the ambulance corps, The digabled soldier who may be fame ishing in some lonely thicket is thus en. abled to satisfy the most imperstive de- ON HIS NATIVE MEATH, mands of nature when the dog reaches him. It has been found that the dog for them after that and the mortality in their ranks became very heavy, According to the Scientific Review the shepherd dogs are being trained to perform this danger- ous service for the lancers. It is impos- gible for men, especially if. mounted, to reconnoitre the position of the enemy by day without attracting attention. The dogs can be sent forward a hundred yards or so in advance of the men, aud if the enemy is near they will be sure to find it out und inform the outposts accordingly. Moving noiselessly about through the grass and underbrush or perhaps a field of grain, they will not be apt to attract attention, The French have tried the Spitz dog for a similar service, but with indifferent success. He lacks courage, snd while very bright he does not possess the grit and self-control of the German shepherd dog. His color, which is milk white, is also against him, for he can be very eas. ily seen at night, Oddly enough these German dogs take kindly to beer. A Ber- lin paper tells of a dog belonging to an officer of a North German regiment which takes his beer regularly, and to such success, whenever enough is offered him, as to become exceedingly hilarious, When he and his master go out for a good time they return in s state of hearty good fellowship and intoxication. Beer being the national beverage the dogs are offered more or less of it in every house- hold, until they find it quite as satisfying as walter, Some years ago these dogs were im. ported into Australia in large numbers, | where they are used as couriers in the bush. They rarely get lost, and are above the te mptations to which most dogs are subject in the woods where game is plentiful : Newfoundland dog would prob- " adaptable to military pur. as any other breed that is common His uneven temper might essly disqualify him for the work, but why give him a trial?! At forts the frontier a few well-trained dogs would render important service in cir he wily Indian.— Brooklyn great ¢ as erica not on cumventing t Cilazen —— A Heroine of the Revolution. weompanying portrait is a good likeness of Mrs. Sarah Tho i of Daniel Thon martyr heroes of the Revolution, first of the mumber who was killed at the opening conflict of the war at Lexington ord, Mass.., on of the 7¢9, Daniel Thompson luential men of Woburn, ews of the stores ipson, and the and Con On the morning Mass. , marc heard Fie tie at wed, ole wile immediately Giffer. SARAH THOMPSON asked her if her husband not too hasty and likely to expose great danger She rn plied : “No. | tell tyrants their march WAS kimself to are on to destroy our stores, and if you our | no one else opposes them to-day my hus. band will, and I only wish I were & man to shoulder a musket and join him.” | early conflict, and inscribed with The gallant band of patriots intercepted the enemy at Lexington, a few miles from the village of Woburfl, and a de sperate conflict occured, in which Daniel Thomp- son fell mortally wounded a few hours after leaving his home. The bereaved wife, animated by the patriotism which inspired her husband, devoted her energies during the war to the noble cause of freedom, and at its close had the honor of being presented to General Washington upon his visit to Boston, and was received by him with great respect, A monument commemorative of this the { names of the nineteen heroes who fell, now stands at Lexington, Mass, The cut which accompanies this article is made from an old miniature over a hundred years old, now in possession of a descendant of Mr, Thompson, An Excursion to the Aretic Cirele, The Everest exploring party has left Winnipeg, Manitoba, fof the Arctic cir tle. The party consists of five, and is headed by A. W, Everest, the wealthy oprictor of a large stock yard farm. ¥ #0 to Calgary, thence across the country to Edmonton, and they will de- cend the Mackenzie River until the Arc tic Ocean in reached, and at the of that river they intend to build & | %el with which they will Cape Barrow, a feat that Two Youthful! Rulers ay ALEXANDER 1. On Wednesday of the first week in March, King Milan of SBervia abdicated the throne in favor of his son, the Crown Prince Alexander. His resolve was not OF SERVIA. ! definitely known until the very day when Act State the and of Abdication to officials, officers, he read the Ministers, , members of the Diplomatic Body, who had come to the palace to congratulate 1 : 1 | him on the seventh anniversary of his Having dow n proclamation as King of Servia, finished reading, the King knelt {| before his son, and in the presence of the took the of this ex. arch-priest solemnly outh allegiance to the new sovervign, ample being followed by the of the Regency, whom he had previously nominated to take charge of the Govern- members {| ment during the young King's minority. King Alexander I. was born on August 14th, 1876, and the Regency, which is composed of M. Jovan Ristitch, General Protitch and General Belimarkoviteh. is appointed for the five and a half years which must clapse before the King com. pletes his eighteenth yo majority. The young as a tall, stim-looki: black eyes and the kee } to Ris father, UiiATr ud haughty | ar and atisins his Ki ribed g boy, n, penetrating | wh { I8 Ces with PRIKCESE WILNELMINE OF HOLLAND William 11., King of the Netherlands # been declared incapable of i his functi thus practically dethroned | hut this action perhaps anticipates his death by a very short time, for though his Majesty is only seventy-two years old, he has exhausted the vital possibilities of an ordinary hu. man system. At last accounts, he somewhat improved in health King William was twice married perform US 8% SOY and is ereigm was His | first wife was Sophia, daughter of the King of Wurtemberg His two sons by that marriage are both dead. In January, IST9, William married Emma Adelaide Wilhelmine Therese, danghter of the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. She was then twenty-one. Her daughter and only child, Wilhelmine, was bom in 1580, This daughter will succeed to the throne if she lives, and in the mean time a re gency will be formed. Mice Listen to the Musie. Her Von Bulow has won one triumph in America that has as yet been left un. chronicled. On Tuesday afternoon when | the crowded audience listened silently to | his house, up in the galleries, down in the | orchestra, on either side of the balcony, wonderful shadings, all over the mice came running out to hear him play, { a their ancestors came out to hear the | great master, Mozart, long ago. It is said that mice are very fond of music, but | they have never appeared in so great numbers at any musical entertainment be. fore. Well may the German master ad. mit that the musical taste of the Ameri. can people has become cultured and elevated since his former visit when even the mice discriminate between musicians, choosing the most skillful, and when women fall to take advantage of their time-honored privilege of screaming at a mouse lest they fail to eatch a motive of the melody or drown n phrase of the composition, New York Sun, * —— Swamp Muck is Valuable, peat, the dark-brown y lie unused within 100 miles a A A" Sos | Just, the find resurrection, rewards them SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MAY ob, ron Lesson Text: “The Communa to Watch,” Mark xiil, 24-87 Golden Text : Mark xiil,, 83--Commentary, This Is a continuation of the sermon. the beginning of which we had in last week's los. son; the are with Him, Jerusalem is a little beneath them if they are on the top of Olivet, and as Ho answers the questions of | the four (v. iii), He sees in prophetic vision all the future of the nation of Israel and their Hol them Ho is speaking, 24 “In those days, after that tribulation.” In va. 10 He had spoken of it as an affliction or tribulation such as never had been before nor ever will be again. Because of the very istory at the time Jerusalem fell, A. D, 70, groat tribulation here referred to; but Berip- ture is o better oxpositor of Beripture than | any history possibly can be, and however | great were the afflictions of the poople at that | time, our lesson to-day in the light o prophecy | makes it very clear that the tribulation bere | spoken of is yet future and will come in the | Inst wook of Daniel's prophecy, the last seven years of Israel's history ere the kingdom: is | | restored to her, 25. "The stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall bo shaken,” is In addition to the darkening of the sun and moon, mentioned in the previous vorse In Luke xxi, 25 20. the Bpirit says thore shall be signs in the sun and in the moon. and ups the earth distress of nations with per- plexity, Bhnilar language is found in refer. ence to these very times in Jes, xili,, 9-13; xxxiv,, 1-8; Joel Ii, 80: fii. 2: and in each place it is in connection with the punishment of the world for iniquity, vengeance upon the entauies of God's people, and the redemy- tion of Israel. Dean Alford says on Matt xxiv, 20, that such prophesies aro to be understood literally, otherwise they loss thelr truth and significance; the physica signs shall happen as accompaniments and intensifications of the awful state of things which the description typifies 20, “And then shall they the Bon of Man coming in the clouds, with great powe and glory.” To understand this commg of the Son of Man in power and glory we must soo from the Beriptures that ere He thus comes with His saints He gathers them 4 meet Him in the alr at the resurrection of the f Bod { their service, appoints thems positions in His kingdom soex ring to their faithfulness, and the marriage of the Lamb takes i | Thess, iv, 16-1 xiv, 14; Rev. xx. IH Cor. 5 10; 1a , 18-19; Rev. xix 1-11); then when Christ who is our life shall “ppens shall wo also appear with Him in glory (Col. Hi, 41; thes shall the Lord build up 74 im when Heo shall appear in His glory pt and shall gn four winds” this from th shad] sot up an or shall amomble gather together the four o~ wn sign eT nations, ane ul the earth 28. “Now leas Nature iteslf has ma wo only ha son; and illustrations in irom the bir weather the ¢ Him some ike the fig tree, like the vis bol of leracl i. Joel | and the fic tre ane expecting fruit professions, and whi away at J vord (chap, xi, 12-21), was a symbol of what Israel then was and wae abont to be &, "Bo ye in that it is nigh SUIMITDOT WAS fi ar when the f saves, = WaE near whet hou come to pass (Lake xxi Lb “Verily | say unto you that this generation shall not pass Gl all these things bo done While it i= true that many wi were then living must have the destruction of Jerusalem, there is nn ing in this verse to Hmit it to that event Generation signifies race or family, and no one need be told that the unbelieving Jowish race still continues, among all uations and vet separate, distinct, the miracle of the ages, awaiting the fulfillment of all these things #1. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shali not pass away.” In what sense heaven and earth are to pass away we may learn from [I Pet. iil, where wo are told of the perishing of the world that was before the deluge, and of the perishing of the world that now is the former by water. this by fire; but as there came out of the deluge the oarth on which we now live, there shall come out of the destruction by fire and the passing away there described a new ecarth, wherein dwelleth righeousnoss 3. “But that day and hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels which are io heaven neither the Son, but the Father” There is no authority in the Beriptures whereby we MAY say He will come in such a year, OF cobhantl OF GRY. Wo OILY Kuow thal He tarry He will surely come, and we may know when He is near 83. “Take yo hood, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is.” Luke says that we are to take hood lest we be filled the pleasures or cares of this life, but that we are to watch and a. aeend by ti becans withered like manne Just as they could g tre that the these wmizns they might know kingdom and wonders been living at ¥ Haag “ of the kingdom to Tarasl, and meantime He is out of all nations a Sompacy of tried thiul followers, to whom } . give wor to do and talents socording to their several ability, commanding them to be faithful and to oo ns of the Bon of Man; Indi a's the things” of thin life, Lat £93 ih | 3.1 fig iL Fit 2 i Daneing at Eighty-Five, The island of Nuutucket is off the trace of the modern world, The people snd their customs are very unlike those in any ovher part of the wor.d—the “off-island part,” as the Nantucketers are wont to call it, Old-fashioned customs and habits prevail They know but little about the new-fangied manners and methods of modern social life They follow the beaten paths of a century ago, live sitnple, thrifty, Iatorious lives, aud furnish little busines for the doctors, They thrive financially and physically. viour Is sitting upon the Mount of | Olives over against the Yemiplo, the disciples | wiore them and | snapiing eyes, nervous speech and decisive | Comparatively City, and with special reference to | } | time fens sufferings of the people, as recorded in | } A visitor at an evaning gathering on the island, not long since, tells how one lady, | age] ninety -one. presided at the piano, and another. aged eighty-five, danced, “And you may take my word for it,” adds the viritor, "that the dancing was sure-enough dancing, if one might judge from the lady's charsoter,’ Locality and climate would seem to have litle effect on health and wople lived simply, as nature when ailing built up with longevity if dictates, ans | pature s simple remedies, tke Warner's Log | Cabin Barsaparilla, instead of { the systems by using poisonous mineral drags puliing down People who hasten to the physician every they have a headache, or experience any of the minor evidences of nature's sure | ravolt against disobedience of her laws, will there are many who think that that was the | The lend to not be found dancing at eighty-five, mineral poisons of the apothecary early phys.csl decay The long lived, rugged Naniucketars, who enjov Jife's pleasures when octogenarisns, illustrate what off island " portion of the world may experience if they live by nature's law and uss old fashioned log-cabin remedies of roots and herbs for the ordinary iis that Cesh is beir to the * Sexuality In Atoms, son Kinne o lived for is an enthusiast 8 quiet gentleman in this city. unber of the Mi- member ar d nurs opical Society, an honorary of several {« eietion, contrioutes it he had dis , After exan inorg mineral sub- certain traces t all RDA snd female The img verified it can be of sci An Extraordinary Reminiscence, - 4 4 wld exirn : speaker USE aca = 2 OIL AT Dave axd Draven FEL CHARLES A VOSELER CO. Dallimare, M4. Lod and po sign of Las retorped 4. C. Nawcn, Hobbhyvilie, Ind. a ee had white swelling 1 that she was con 0 the od for & Jong time More than 2) jécces of bone case out of ber beg, and the doctors sald amputation was the only remedy to save her Bife, | refused tie operation and put her on 8 5.8. snd rhe is Dow up and seve and in as good health as i any chin Miss Ax¥iz Gresiive, Pen 1". Columbus, Ga. Book on Dlood Disesses pent frea, Swirr Sercire Co Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga, var ro much froubled with stark © seviouwr y affected my Ome hotthe of Ey's Cream Balm did the work fully westored. RF. AN of the (Rivet! Day tist Churoh, Mhfladelphi My voice Lirgunes Taster BLY BROOK. 8 Warren 8} ’ AFTER ALL OTHERS Drs. LI] New York Ofoos 32 Clinton Place (Kichth 8. er 399 Nevth Fifteenth St. Fhilsdeiplis, Par for the trentraent of Rood rofscns, Skin §ruplions Servous Dosupds nts, Bright's Dieses o Strict ures, impotepcy and kindred diseases, Bo maller | how ts standing. of fiom what cans orisinat ne. ! WT aayy’ mn digines Margished by ve. FREE. mond for Book on SPECIAL Diseases, RCHAN TSS, sr SUTDHERD FAIL gy ARANYY HYDE PARK; VERMOUN 9 CoP | GOOD UNG 5 CERT MAN | Ears GOOD PAY 1 “UAE ’ { | CONSTIPATION, NN& LOBE | Gathering Coral and Sponges, Gathering of coral and sponges is £0 ims portant industry on the Florida reefs. Both are frequently found in the same Jo- cality. The sponges are found wherever the bottom is rocky, generally from ten to thirty feet beneath the surface. Two or three dozen schooners are now engaged in the work of gathering the sponges, each schooner carrying two small bosts, manned by a crew of two, When the reef is reached the small hosts put off, and while one sculls the other keeps an eye out for sponges, A simple contrivance enables the watchmen to see sponges on the reef twenty feet or more under the water. On the side of the small long barrel sort of arrangement is built, the lower end of which is under water and closed up by head By placing his head in this barrel the watchman esn see th bottom of the When = boat a 0 wines ouch tho ir water to the Ben aistincines tected it is be wk on 8 long poe. IS. 5-0055% ght LH unt Clauvdeboye, en earning i i mighty tiger sins sn ni ee A————— The Excitement Not Over, e Qrogeists still conti cali for a POOL the Throat and Lung Awd over the Unit Prople Refuse to Take Cod ant of laste, pe in SOOTTS 5 aoe tx npieasant Hy popbos lk, and the reat. and Bron. g 1iseases of Ana Colas, Las the world to gr tle patients roots Eauision A Radienl Cure for Epileptic Fira. falter Please you ressdiers tive remedy for the above 1 warrant toc he s my faith in its vir. or a sanple bottle and y #ullerer who will give o address, nform > The mest core fain and safe Fain REMEDY in the world that instantly stops the most excrme inting It the great pains. in truly CONQUEROR OF PAIX, has done good tham any known remedy. Fer SPRAINS. ERTUISES, BACKACHE, PAIN in the CHEST or SIDES. HEAD. ACHE, TOOTHACHE. or sny esther EX« TERNAL PAIN, » few applications act like magic, causing the PAIN te IN- STANTLY sTOP. 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Ry so doing DYSPEPSIA, SICK NMEADACHE, FOUL STOMACH, RILJOUSY ESS, will be avelded, and the feed that is eaten contribute Ms nenrishing preperties for the suppor i of the natural waste of the hady. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price 25. per hor, wr, on receipt of price, will be sent hy mail, 5 boxes for One Dollar. HADWAY & CO, 39 Warren St NN. ¥ Ohio INPROYED 8 ad have a pen ve $715 T™ A MONTH ons be made working for Ba, Agents preferred whe oan furnish @ horse and give their whole time 10 the business 4 Lens er (A CS LIA IPT rine oo) oom.” cia Kapri Wiis: no other LAWN OWER yi J; A ty Lhe Fhdadentin. 1s
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