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THE WELMCNGTON MESSENGEK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1899. KILLS AT i,0OO YARDS. Ueadly Gun Used by the Boer Sharp shooter In the Tranavaal War. The sharpshooter is very much in ev idence in the Anglo-Boer war now being waged in the Transvaal. In the war of 1879-80, against the same people, the Boers displayed the same deadly accuracy with the rifle that they did at Dundee. The weapon of 1879-80 was a very different arm from the one used last week. The rifle of twenty years ago was built on the lines of the Brit ish Martini. It was a hammerless arm of about nine pounds weight, with a 30 inch half octagon barrel, and a shotgun butt stock. ' The caliber was .45, with a bullet weighing from 405 to 450 grains. The powder charge was 90 grains, in a brass drawn cartidge case. This arm was sighted up to 2,000 yards. "I was very much interested in the Boer riflemen and their weapons," said Archibald Forbes, the first of living war correspondents, who was with Sir Evelyn Woods' column in South Africa in 1879-80. "They are marvelous rifle shots. They shoot their antelope and other game from the saddle, not appar ently caring to get nearer to their quarry than GOO or 700 yards. Then they understand the currents of air, their effeot upon the drift of a bullet, and can judge distance as accurately as it could be measured by a skilled en gineer. They can hit an officer as far as they can discern his insignia of rank. Sir George' Colley, the commander in South Africa, was killed at a distance of 1,400 yards at Majuba Hill. We lost terribly in officers at the fight men tioned, and also at Laings Neck and Rorkes Drift, from the deadly rifles of the sharp-shooting Boers" The Boer weapon that did such execu tion the other day is the sporting model of the Mannlicher, a German arm, per haps the most powerful weapon of its caliber and weight in the world. The military Mannlicher is used in armies of Austria, Holland, Greece, Brazil, Chili, Peru and Koumania. The ideal Mannlicher is the sporting rifle known as the Haenel model. It is a beauti fully finished arm, weighing about eight pounds, and costing in South Africa 200 German marks. The rifle is thirty inches in barrel, the carbine twenty four. It has a pistol grip, sling straps, and hair triggers. Its caliber is .20. This rifle has an extreme range of 4,500 yards, and a killing range of 4,000. At that distance, the bullet will go through two inches of solid ash, and nearly three of pine, quite enough force to kill if the bullet struck a vital part. At twenty yards it will shoot through fifty inches of pine. The bullet for war is full-mantled, with a fine outer skin of copper or nickel. That for game shoot ing is only half mantled, leaving the lead point exposed so that it opens back, or mushrooms, when it strikes. For deer, elk, and bears there can be no better arm. 'Though the bullet makes but a small orifice where it enters, the expansion causes it to tear a hole as large as a man's finger when it makes its exit. Travelling at the rate of 2,000 feet per second, the force of this bullet's blow is tremendous. Much debate was had at the peace conference of The Hague, just ended, because England and the United States insisted on using the dum-dum bullet in war. It is a self-pointed missile, but by no means so deadly or destruc tive as is this Maenel-Mannlicher bul let the Boers are using. If it strikes at close range or 1,000 yards or under and does not flatten, the Mannlicher bullet bores a hole right through a bone without comminution or splintering. But when it upsets the shock is terrible. The bullet literally smashes the flesh and bone into fragments. It is charged that the Boers are using the soft-pointed bullet in their deadly Haenel-Mann-licher, against all conventions. It is doubtful whether the Boer has ever heard of the convention of The Hague, or that he would heed its covenants if he had. He adheres to the old-fashioned notion that the business of war is to kill or disable your enemy. If he believes the soft-pointed bullet will do his enemy more harm than the hard, why that is the one he will use, no mat ter if all the peace conventions in Christendom pronounced against it. Washington Post. The Host PerscrlptioiiFor Chills, and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Taste less CM11 Tonic. The formula is plain ly printed on each bottle, showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a taste less form. Imitators do Dot advertise their formula because if they did they know that you would not buy their medicine. Be sure then that you get Grove's, as the formula shows what you are taking. NO CURE NO PAT. Hce 50 cents. A. Swindle." This interesting item has been going the rounds of the Australian press: "A Swindle" is the name that appears above the door of a strugglying lawyer in an up-country town in New South Wales. A friend of the unfortunate gentleman suggested the advisability of his writing out his name in full, thinking that Arthur or Andrew Swin dle, as the case might be, would look better than the significant "A. Swin dle." When the lawyer with tears in his eyes, whispered to him that his name was A-dam, the friend under stood, and was silent. Two Murderers Handed. Austin, Tex., October 27. Samuel Waltrous, one of the murderers of G. W. Engberg and his wife, was hanged in the jail yard here today. Before dy ing Waltrous said he was going to heaven. James Davidson, convicted of the same crime, will be hanged No vember 24th. St. Louis, October 27. A special to The Post-Dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says: Walter Fort, who murdered his . sweetheart, Lucinda Moore, at Waco, Texas, in June, 1S9S, was hanged in that city today. He died without fal tering. Dewey in His New Home. Washington, October 30. Admiral Dewey today took possession of his new home. Preparations for the move have been going forward for several days. Today the last of the furniture was ar ranged in the new house and the ad miral's trunks were brought up from 'the apartments he has been occuping at the Everett. Wo men's A tt ra et io n s . "It is not necessary for a woman dur ing courtship," said a judge in a recent case, "to inform her intended husband of any device or attachment to improve the work of nature in the construction of her face, form or figure." This was apropos of a charge of deception by wearing glasses to conceal a glass eye. Humors of Agitation in Samoa Untrne Washington, October 27. The British commissioner for Samoi., Mr. Elliot, is in receipt of a letter from the British consul at Apia which dispels the re cent rumors of native agitation. The consul states that ithe conditions are serene at Apia and throughout the in terior, although he adds that it is dif ficult to say how long this will continue in (the present unsettled staite of af' fairs. TILE STATE UNIVERSITY. The October German Athletic Sports. First University Preackar of the Ses sionImprovements in the Library. Inter-Colleglate Debates. (Correspondence of The Messenger.) Chapel, Hill, N. C. October 28. The most successful and largely at tended intermediate german ever given here was that last night that took place in the most spacious and excellent ball room in the state, gymnasium hall. It was the annual October dance of the University German Club and in every way it was a ereat success. Beautiful women with gorgeous costumes, hand some men in evening dress, and en chanting music, all tended to further enhance the success of the occasion. About forty couples were present, among them were some of the south land's most beautiful women, while Carolina's fairest daughters were in at tendance. The brilliantly executed figures were gracefully led by Mr. E. N. Joyner, of South Carolina, and he was ably as sisted by the floor managers, Messrs. K. P. Lewis and M. Makely. The music was furnished by the Bos ton String Band, of Wilmington. The dance continued from early in the evening hours passing very swiftly, until it was a few hours late into an other day before "Home, Sweet Home" was played. Athletics continue unabated, the foot ball team practicing hard and regular ly. Since the Davidson game a week ago the players have lined up against the "scrubs" several times and each day sees Ja?i?rovements in the team. What will perhaps be the very best game in this state this year will be played here on Tuesday between this university and Maryland. A hotly con tested and hard fought game will be played and large crowds of visitors are expected over to see it. Dr. J. W. Stagg, pastor of the Sec ond Presbyterian church of Charlotte, the first university preacher for this' year, will arrive on the Hill today and remain a week, preaching in the Chapel and conducting other religious exer cises. Dr. D. W. Long, ex-president of An tioch college in Ohio, lectured in a most interesting way last Thursday night in the chapel on "Religion and Science." This is only one of the numerous lec tures provided for the students. Stipulations and agreements have finally been drawn up and signed be tween the literary societies of this uni versity and like organizations of the University of Georgia and Vanderbilt university. An annual debate will be held between Carolina and each one of the others. Soon the queries and sides will be chosen and then the contest for Choosing our representatives will take place. Many changes and improvements have been made in the library recently, notably the placing of boilers for steam heat, the addition of two roller bicycle ladders for gathering books and a hand some desk for the librarian. Work is progressing very satisfac tory on "Carr Hall" and it is beginning to assume an imposing appearance. NO CHANCE FOR HEAVEN. Revival Preacher Denounces Secret Societies, Smokers and Chewers. Rev. K. M. Hench, an evengeliist, recenttly created quite a stir at a revi val meeting ait Oak Grove, Md., by de nouncing secret societies. During revi val services he pointed, while preach ing (to persons in the congregation of Rev. J. C. Coulson, in whose church services' were being held, and seeing thait they wore secret society badges, told them they could not be sanctified until they gave up their membership in the orders ito which they belonged. He told the women in the audience who wore birds in itheir hats that there was no chance for them to enter heav en, and smokers and chewers of tobac co he said, were "on Ithe road to hell." A large number of persons have been converted by Rev. Hench's preaching, and a number are still at ithe mourners bench. A large class of people have no sym pathy with the evangelist's preaching, an. denounce his doctrine. Baltimore Sun. Death of Another Person Connected With the Dreyfus Case. Following ithe deaith of Colonel Schneider, the Austrian military at tache at Paris, who was mortally wounded the other day in a duel with General Roget, of the French army, comes the news of Ithe demise of anoth er prominent figure in the Dreyfus case of one who may be regarded as andther of ithe numerous victims of this great conspiracy, namely, Countess Marie Munster. She was the daughter of ithe old German Ambassador at Paris Prince Munster - Derneburg, and throughout Ithe latiter's entire residence in the French capital she filled the role of German Ambassadress ari did the honors of Ithe embassy. Of all the Shocking features of the Dreyfus case there have been few more shameful than the calumnies leveled at the head of this singularly blameless woman, whose life in Paris had been one uninterrupted succession of acts of kindness and of chariiity. .It is idle to suppose that ithe prince willl consent to resume his post at Paris under the cir cumstances, and Emperor Williiam is probably at the present moment en gaged in looking out for a suitable man Ito take charge of the very delicate and difficult post of German Ambassador to the French Republic 'Marquise de Fontency, in Washington Post. How to Keep Apples. An exchange tells us that the proper metl'od to keep apples in winter is to wrap them in old newspapers so as to exclude the air. The newspaper, how ever, must be one on which the sub scription has been paid, otherwise dampness resulting from what is "dew" may cause the fruit to spoil. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature In strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, SickHeadache,Gastralgia,Cramps,and all other results of imperfectdigestion. Prepared by E. C. Dc Witt a Co., Chicago. n7 n n LAY HOLD OF CHRIST. REV. CR. TALHAGE POINTS THE WAY Ta- SALVATION. .Show the Ulelpfulne of Itelfgfon In Fighting Life's Battle-Be Bold for the Right nnd Trust In the Son of Christ. (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1S99J la this discourse Dr. Talmsage em ploys a very bold figure of the Bible to bring out the helpfulness of religion for aU those In any kind of struggle. The text is Isaialh xxv, 11, "He shall spread forth his hands in the mid3t of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth, his hands." In the summer season multitudes of people -wade Irfto the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas to drive or float or swim- In a world the most of which is water afll men and women should learn to swim, borne of 5 oil have learned the side stroke introduced by George Pewters in 1850, eacUi stroke of that kind carrying t!hse swimmer a disfijan.ee of six feet, and some of you may use the overhand stroke invented by Gar dener, the expert who by it won the 500 yard championship in LIar.c::c::er in lS62,the swimmer by Wait stroke car rying his arm In the air for a more lengthened reach, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been made to walk the sea, but most of you usually take -what is call ed the breast -stroke, placing the Wands with the backs upward, about five inches under the water, the inside of the wristfe touching the breast, then pushing the arms forward, coincident witfli the stroke of the feet struck out to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illustrate the mean ing of my text, "He shaia spread forth hiis hands in the midst, of them, as he thait tswlmmefth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The fisherman seeks out unfrequent ed nooks. You tand all day on the bank of a river in the boiling sun and fling out your line and catch nothing, while an expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock and, in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, throws out his lime and comes home at night, his face shinning and his basket fulL I do not know why we ministers of 'tlhie gospel need always be fishing i'n the same stream and preaching from tihe same testis that other people preach from. I cannot understand th!e policy of tfhie minister who ini Blackfriars, London, England, every week for 30 years preached from the Epistle to tfhe Hebrews, It has an exhilaration to me when I .came across ta theme whidh I feel no one elbe has treated, and my text is one of that kind There are paths in God's word that are well beat en by Christian feet "When men want to quote Scripture, (they quote the old passages that every one has heard. When they want a chapter read, they read a chapter that all the other people have been reading, so that the church today is1 'ignorant of three-fourth's of the (Bible. TOSH DOWN INIQUITY. You go IntO tKe Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. !As you come out your friends says to you, rM you (see Ithe Rembrandt?" "No." "Did you see that Rubens?" "No." "DM you see that Titan?" "No." "Did you see that Raphael?" "No." "WeJDl," says youir friend, ''then you did not see the Louvre." Now, my friends, I think wo are (too much apt to confine our selves to one Of the great corridors of Scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million wlho has ever noticed the afll suggestive and powerful picture of the words of my text This text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to pulslh down iniquity : and isave the souls of men. "He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of th'em, a!s ne that swimmeth spreadeth forth, his hands to swim." Moist of you know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the cilty school, where this art is taught; some of you in bkfyhood, in the river near your fa ther's house; some of you, since you came to maWhood or womanhood, while summering on ithe beach otf the sea It is a good thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you will aftier awhile perhaps have to help others I do not know anything more stirring or sublime than to see some man like Norman CMcKetnzie leaping from the ship Madras frtto the sea to save Charles Turner, Who had dropped from the royal yard While trying to loosen the stall, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and ch'ew If a mam has not enthusiasm enough to dheer in such circumstances, he deserves himlself to drop into the sea and have no one help him The Royal Humane Society of England was established In 1774, its object to ap plaud and reward those who should pluck up life from the deep Any one who has performed such a deed of dar ing has all the particuliairta of that bravery recorded in a public record and on his breast a medal done in blue and gold and bronze, anchor and mono gram and insoription, telling to future generations the bravery of the man or Woman who saved som!e one from drowning But if it is such a worthy thing ito save a body from the deep I ask you if it is not a worthier thing to save an immortal soul And you shall see tfhis hour the Son of God step forth for this adhievement "He shall spread forth hia hands in the midst of them, as h'e that swimmeth speadetOi forth his hands to swim." "IOST BALEFUL WORD. In order to understand the full force of this figure, you need to realize that our race is in a sinking condition. You sometimes hear people talking of What they consider the most beautiful words in our language. One man says It is "home," another man says it is the word "mother," another says it is the word "Jesus," but I tell you the bitter est word in all our language, the yrord most angry and baleful, the word sat urated wifh themost trouble, the word that accounts for ail the loathsomeness and the pang and the outrage and the harrowing, and that word is "sin." You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters describe the circum ference and pierce the diameter of ev ery thing bad in the universe Sin is a sibilant word. You cannot pronounce Ft without giving the sis3 of the flame or the hiss of the serpent. Sin! And then if you add three letters to that word it describes every ore of us by nature sinner. We have outraged tb law of God, not occasionally, or now and then, but perpetually. The BITble deo2area it. Hark! It thunders two claps: "The "heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." The soul that sinneth it shad die." What the Bible says our own con science affirms After Judge Morgan had ventenced Lady Jane Grey to death hU conscience troubled him so much for the deed that la? became insane, and all through his irsanSty be kept Baying: "Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!'. It was the voice of conscience And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but his conscience brings that matter before him. and at every step of his misbehavior it says. "Wrong, wrong:' em is a leprosy; sin is a paralysis; sin is a consumption; sin is pollution; sin Is death. Give It a fair enhance and ft wili swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, forever. In this world it only gives a faint inti mation of jts virulerrx. You tee a pa tient in the first stages of typhoid fe ver The cheek is somewhat flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a slight chill "Why," you say, "ty phoid fever does not seem to be much of a disease" But wait until the pa tient has been eix. weeks under it, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect gone. tven you see the fuU havoc of the disease. Now, sin in this World is an ailment which Is only in its first stages, but let it get under full sway, and it is an all con suming typhoid. Oh, if we could see our unpardoned sins as God sees them, our teeth would chatter and our knees would knock together, and our respira tion would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiv en, they are bearing down on you, and you are sinking linking away from happiness, sinking away from God. sinking away from everything that is good end blessed HIGH WATER MARK. Then what do we want? A swim mer a strong swimmer, a swift swimmer! And. blessed be God. in my text we have him announced. "He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim." You have noticed that wihen a swimmer goes to rescue any one he puts off his heavy ap parel. He must not have any such im pediment about him if . he Is going to do this great deed. And when Christ step ped forth, to save us he shook off the sandails oif heaven, and his feet were free, and then he stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came up over his wounded feet, and if came above the spear stab in his side aye, it dashed to tne lacerated tem ple, the nigh water mark of anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "He stretched forth his hands in the midst of tihem, as hie that swimmeth spend -e'tih forth his hands to swim." If you have ever watched a swim mer, you noltice that his whole body i3 brought into play. The arms are flex ed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body is in propulsion. And when Chr'is't sprang into the deep to save us he threw his entire mature into it all his godhead, his omniscence, his goodness, his love, hils omnipotence, head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out on the sea and so deep down in the waves and so far out from the shore that nothing short of an en tire God could save us. Christ leaped out for our rescue, saying, "Lo, I come to db thy will!" and all the surges of human and satanie hate 'beat against him, and l!hose who watched him from the gates ctf heaven feared he would go down under the waves and instead of Saving others would himself perish; but, putting Ms breast to the foam aind shaking tlhe surf from his locks, he came o-n and until he is now within' the reach of every one here, eye om niscient, heart infiniite, arm omnipo tent, mighty to save, even unto the utmost. Oh, it was not half a God t)hat tram pled down bellowing Gennesaret; it wa's not a quarter of a God that mas tered the demons of Gadara; it was not two-thirds of a God that lifted up Laz arus into the arms of his overjoyed sisters; it was not a fragment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. This mighty swimmer threw his . grandeur, his glory, his might, his wisdom, his omnipotence and h'is eternity into this one act. It took botlh hands of God to save us both feet. How ao I prove it? On the cross Were not both hands nailed? On the cross were not both feet spiked? His entire nature involved in our re demption ! JESUS ALONE. If you have lived much by the wa ter, you notice also that if any one is going out to the rescue of the drown ing he must be independent, self reli ant, able to go alone. There may be a time when he must spring out to save one, and he cannot get a lifeboat, and if he goes out and has not strength enough up he will sink, and instead of dragging one corpse out of the billows you will have two fco drag out. When Christ spang out into the pea to de liver us, he had no life buoy. His Father did not help him. Alone in the wine press, alone in the pang, alone in the darkness, alone on the, mountain, alone in the sea! Oh, if he saves us he shall have alflthe credit, for "there was none to help," no oar, no wing, no ladder! "When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge In front otf his troops, he had a whole' army to cheer him. When !Marsnal Ney 'sprang into the contest and plunged in- the spurs till the horse's flanks spurted blood, all France appfauded him. But Jesus alone! "Of the people there was none to help." "All forsook him and fled." Oh, it was not a flotilla that sailed down and saved us. It was not a clus ter of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one person, independent 'and aSone, "spreading out his hands among us as a 'swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim!" Behold, then ,the spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ the swim mer! I believe it was in 1S4S when there were six English soldiers of the Fifth fusileers who were hanging to a capsized boata boat that had been upset by a squall three miles from shore. It was in the nlgfot. but one man swam mightily for the beach, guided by the dark mountains that lifted their top through the night. He came to the beach. He found a shore man that consented to go with him and save the other men, and they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where the men were , but after awhile they heard their cry, "Help, help!" and they bore down to them, and they saved them and brought them to shore. Oh, that this moment our cry might be lifted long, loud and shrill till Christ, the swim mer, shall come and take us rest we drop a thousand fathoms under! THE GOSPEL URGENT. If you have been much by the water, you know very well that when one Is in peril help must come very quickly, or it will be of no use One minute may decide everything. Immediate help the man wants or no help at ail. Now, that is just the kind of relief we want. The case is urgent. Imminent, instantaneous. See that soul sinking! Son of God, lay hold of him. Be quick, be quick! Oh, I wish you all under stood how urgent thi3 gospel is. There was a man In the navy at sea who had been severely whipped for bad behavior, and he was maddened by ft and leaped Into the sea, and no sooner had he leaped into the sea than, quick as lightning, an albatross swooped upon him. The drowning man, brought to his senses, seized hold of the albatross and held on. The flut tering of the bird kept him on the wave uma rc&ef couM come. Would now that the dove of Goi's convict ing, converting and saving spirit might flash from the throne upoji your oul and that you. taking hold of its potent wing, might live and live forever. The world has had strong swimmers besides the one of the text, .perhaps the greatest among them Matthew Webb of the British mercantile marine serv ice He leaped fcom the deck of the Russia, the Cunard steamer, to save the life of a saEor who had fallen over board. No wonder the passengers sub scribed for him a large reward and the Royal Humane Society of London dec orated him with honors A mighty swimmer was h?, by the strength of his own arm and foot pushing through the waters from BlackwaH pier to Graves end pier. IS miles, and from Powr to Calais, S3 miles, where he crossed, yt he was drowned at last in our Ni agara's whirlpool. But the strong swimmer of my text put out alone to swim a wrathJer sea. and for vaster distance, even from world to world, to save us who were swamped in guilt and woe, and brought us to the shore of safety, ilihough he at last went down into the w hirlpool of human and satanie rage 'He descended into hell!' NOT A NEW INVENTION. New model have been invented for rescuing a drowning body, but there has been r r.v w invention for rescuing a drowning soul In 17S3 Lion! Inkin, a London coach builder, fitted up a Norway yawl as a lifeboat and called it the InsubmergibSe. and that has been improved upon until from all the coasts of the round world perfect life boats are ready to put out for the relief of marine disasters In 16 years 4he French SSociery For Saving Life From Shipwreck, by their lifebioats and gun .pparatus saved 2.129 lives The Ger man Association for the Rescue of Life from Shipwreck, the Royal Na tional Lifeboat institution and our United States life saving service have done a work beyond the power of statistics to commemorate. Whiat rocket lines and sling life buoys and tally boards and mortars and ham mocks and cork mattresses and life saving stations fined with machinery for saving the bodies of the drowning! But let me Were and now make it plain that there has been no new way in vented for the moral and eternal res cue of a struggling soul Five hundred attempts a't such contrivance have been made, but ali of them dead failures. Hear ic! "There is none other name under heaven given among men where by we must be saved" than the name of Jesus The mighty swimmer of my text comes down off ihe beach of heav en and through the breakers, cames buffeted and bruised, and. reddening the waves from his own lacerations, he cries: "Lay hold of my arm! Put your head on my shoulder! Hear the beating of my loving heart! Be ye saved, for I am God, and there is no other!" I want to persuade you To lay hold of this strong swimmer "No," you say; "it is always disastrous for a drowning man to lay hold of a swim mer." There is not a river or lake but has a calamity resultant from the fact that When a strong swimmer went out to save a sinking man the drowning man clutched him. threw his arms around him, pinioned his arms, and they both went down together. When you are saving a man in the water, you do not want to come up by his face. You want to come up by his back. You do not want him to hold you w hile you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so strong a swimmer he comes not to our back, but to our face, and he asks us to throwr around him the arms of our love and then promises to take us to the beach, and he will do it. Do not trust that plank of good works. Do not trust that shivered spar of your own righteousness. Christ only can give you safe transportation. Turn your face upon him, as the dying mar tyr did in olden times wrhen he cried out: "None but Christ! None but Christ!" Jesus has taken millions to the land, and he is willing to take you there. Oh, what hardness to thrust him back when he has been swimming all (the way from the throne of God, where you are now, and is ready to swim all the way back again, taking your redeemed spirit! DON'T STRUGGLE. I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when the last day the water is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where the harpooners went down. There is where the line of battle ships went down. There is where the merchant men went down. There is where the steamers went 'down, a long line of wrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day, when the water is drawn off! But, oh, how much more solemn if we had an eye to see the spiritual w recks and the places where they foundered! You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful ca tastrophe, putting out for their souls, "spreading forth his hands as a swim mer spreadeth forth his hands to swim," but they thrust him in the sore heart, and they smote his fair cheek, and the storm and darkness swallowed a UtlTU ft! e a o H o n o a ci B O n a men There are few women as beau tiful as they might be. Powder and paint and cosmetics don't make good looks. Beauty is simply an impossibility without . health. Beautiful women are few because healthy women are few. 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I ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of him now. ou will iak without him. f0? to horizon not one sail n lght, only one strong swimmer, with head flung back and arms outspread. wolil(1 I hear many saying: "W 1 UJ like to be a Christian. I a n& work to become a Christian." My broth er, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning and a strong swimmer comes out to help htm, he says to him. ow be quiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shoulder, but don't ftnigglc don't try to help yourself, and I H taito you ashore. The more you struggle and the more you try to help yourself the more you Impede me. Now. be quiet, and 111 take you ashore." hen Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the sinner says: "That s right. I am glad to see Christ, and I am gomg to help him In the work of my redemption. I am going to pray more, and that will help him. and i am going to weep extravagantly over my sins, and that will help him." No: It will not. Stop your doing. Christ will do all or none. You cannot life an ounce, you cannot move an inch. In this matter of your redemption. L-VY HOLD OF CHRIST. This Is th. difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the kingdom of heaven. It Is because they cannot consent to let Jesus Christ begin and complete the work of their redemption. "Why," you say, "then is there nothing for me to do? Only one thing have vou to do. and that is to lay hold of Christ nnd let him achieve your salva tion and achieve It all. I do not know whether I make the matter plain or not. I simply want to show you that a man cannot save himself, but that the Al mighty Son of Gcd can do it and will do it If you ask him. Oh, fling your two arms, the arm of your trust and the arm of your love, around this omnliot ent swimmer of the cross! "Have you ever stood by and seen some one under process of resuscitation after long submergence? The strong swimmer has put him on the leach af ter a struggle in the waters. To excite breathing In the almost lifeless Inxly what manipulation, what friction of the cold limbs, what artificial movement of the lungs, what breath of the rescurer blown into the mouth of the rescued! And when breathing begins, and after awhile the slight respiration becomes the deep sigh, and the eyes open, and the blue Hps take on a smile, what re joicing, what clapping of hands all up and down the beach, what congratula tion for the strong swimmer and for all who helped in the restoration, what shouting of "He lives, he lives!" Like this is the gladness when a soul that has been submerged in sin and sorrow is "coming to." What desire on the part of all to help, and. w hen under the breath of Cod and under the manipu lation by the wounded hands of Christ, the life eternal of the fouI begins to show itself, all through the ranks of spectators, terrestrial and celestial, goes, the cry: "He lives! llejolcc. for the dead is alive again!" May the liv ing Christ this moment put out for your rescue, "spreading his hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spread eth his hands to "swim !" Hcmurknhlo Foot Hall jatn. Chicago Z, Pennsylvania .1. Chicago. October 28. The foot. hall eleven of ithe University of Pennsylva nia barely escaped defeat at the hands of the University of Chicago eleven to day in a game that for desperate. play ing has seldom been equaled in th west. The final .score was a tie. Ixith sides scoring a touchdown in the iee ond half and neither kicking a goal, leaving the total score f to H. 1 letter foot ball, so far as clean, snappy play ing is concerned, has bw.n seen in two or three games this season, but for sheer gameness, for rallies whin to yield the W:mi bit would result in a touchdown and for situations tending to produce heart disease, the game was certainly remarkable. Five times Chi cago had opportunities to score, tvie by place-kicks with the ball In a favor able position, arxl -three times getting the pig's skin inside of the Pennsyl vania's five yard line; but only ..rice were the maroon able ito gm the ball over the goal line, and that when de feat seemed almost a certainty. Chi cago's all round playing was superior to tha't Of the Quakers. Columbus 5. Yale 0. New York, October 28. At Manhat tan fi?M today. In a game that was hercly contested throughout,th eleven of Columbia defeated thait of Yale by the score 5 ito 0. In addition to this Columbia carried the ball acnw 1 ale's line two more time in the same half, neither of which wa allowed a a score because of some technical it $ Cornell 5, Princeton 0. Ithica, X. Y., October 29. In one of the finest football games that Cornel! ever won agalnsit an opposing eleven she wrested victory from Princeton to day on Percy field by a score of T, t,, 0 Throughout the two twenty minute halves, which were repeatedly Inter rupted by various players succumbing to the strain of 'the fierce work, the teams struggled with the odds slightly in favor of Cornell. Princeton wa out played both in defensive and offensive work. Harvard 23, Carlisle 10. Cambridge. Mass October 2S. While Harvard had no difficulty in disposing ?lt iht famous Carlisle Indian eleven this afternoon on So Idlers' fivi.i. the mimT,a.,p,aTs wer" unle to ken, tt!e Hudson from kicking his eu.stom- ' v 4 irom ine and a wretch let 1 in u uy merasch early in the Rall followed a quick pick up by iiedwat who ran fifty vard for .. ime. gave the visitors five more p.,int making the final score 22 to H. Scarcely a Harvard man u. wn. d ,, . . . ........ u. III! U Jring the enefre Vamn t ... .. hand, a number of Indians were k.hh -r u . . " r- carried fr m iie iiej'i ana tonight is till in a ous condition. His injury nppan-ritlv resulted from a blow about hj lad ri- Xurrow t street in thee World. T-TlZTpon0,Wn of Great Yarmouth England, contains a street that S S?SL?nsI.duCrex tho lowest, built up street in the world. This thorough fare is known as -Kitty Witched row and mO!LliremMt t - - . . row wouia seriously Inconvenience a stout peraon, as twenty-nine inches a4 all that are spared from wall to wa ! ifri advantages of uch a pathway Tr-lS numerous; the possibility oTexS handshakes from the wmdw? opposite neighbor hardly rmvL ?Z for the inconvenience of ST PSnS many WhrW? The are all called rows Vt Jtreetg otZZ SS a"d Ending a length SLfitS vemn3- one seems to th f JlKWhy. thes streets exist In hVMtc they Some dlaim the In H tf grange their dwellings S? I JSLe 10 resist the attack -t,J PosstOiO enemy vrlih comparative a. 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