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The Yale Expositor.
J. A. Menzies, Publisher.
TALE,
MICQ
Should the comet swipe a few elo
quent pugilists, would they bo mist?
All nations will have to take water
as soon as Kaiser Billy gets his navy
built.
We have had Paderewskl to pay, Ir
ving to pay, and next there will be the
Duse to pay.
There was nothing pacific about the
Huntington cross-examination, except
the name of his road.
Jiidffine from the description of the
rifle invented by Dr. McLean, it must
be as penetrating as tho Roentgen ray
We are waiting for some ono to denv
onstrate that the murderers of Pearl
Brvan are degenerates, rather than
criminals.
A Maine lady of 83 has Just killed i
large bear with a club. Is there any
where a new woman who can compete
with this old woman?
Mrs. Townsend, who proposes to leg
islate all New York city children into
bed. at 9 p. m., will have to provide for
a good deal of spanking.
The ten senators' sons who are each
drawing $2,000 a year as committee
clerks are doubtless thanking heaven
that they are not orphans.
A sentuacenarian of Jollet has Just
married a girl of eighteen. This is not
only spring and winter; it is an eariy
spring and a February blizzard.
When hundreds of women answer
one advertisement for a wife, there are
evidently not enough new women yet
to much affect the institution of matri
mony.
The Brooklyn widow who is to bury
her noodle by the side of her husband
would scarcely be overwhelmed with
offers if she were to decide to wed once
more.
It is probably with an eye to business
that dealers in lumber are holding a
convention Just when the politicians
are looking around for material for a
platform.
The greatest wonder of the Fltz-slmmons-Maher
fight was the fact that
the knock-out blow was planted on Ma
her's Jaw. It takes marvelous dexter
ity and quickness to catch the Jaw of a
prize fighter.
A Cincinnati grocer, while unpack
ing a case of eggs, discovered this mes
sage delicately penciled on a fine speci
men: "Any young lady who gets this
egg and wishes to marry, please ad
dress box 43, Murphysville, Ky." The
good grocer kindly placed the egg In a
matrimonially inclined maiden's bas
ket and is now patiently awaiting re
suits.
A corner on bibles is the latest. The
American Bible society of New York
has secured control of the publications
of certain London houses and Chicago
pays tribute to Gotham amounting to
tens of thousands of dollars a year.
Chicago is; organizing a company to
print her own bibles. They will be
issued in forty languages and the sup
ply will be independent of London or
New York.
By agreement between the govern
ment authorities of the United States
and France, ex-Consul Waller will soon
be released from a French prison. He
receives a pardon on the condition that
the United States shall make no claim
for damages in behalf of the prisoner
based upon his arrest, conviction or
imprisonment. Waller may, however,
sue in the French courts for damages
for ill-treatment.
Times have been very lively lately
at Red Dog's camp on Wounded Kneo
creek in South Dakota, where the Ogall
ala Indians have been holding a grand
powwow. There was a large attend
ance and these noble red men of the
forest feasted on 200 stewed dogs. After
the repast they Indulged in the Omaha
dance. You may not know how the
Omaha dance goes, but you likely have
an idea about stewed dog.
The emancipation of woman is going
on apace. Every day brings her new
liberties and wider fields of labor. Even
that cesspool of conservatism, the law,
has begun to recognize the rights and
liberties of woman in a broad-gauge,
up-to-date sense of the word. For in
stance, yesterday a Chicago Judge sit
ting in a court of chancery to deter
mine the equities in a suit for divorce
decreed that a wife should pay her hus
band $20 a month alimony. If this is
what the champions of higher woman
hood have been fighting for these many
years it is certainly not the province of
any man to -st and in their way.
During the run on a bank at Rome,
N. Y., the mayor of the city, in order
to restore confidence, squeezed through
the crowd and made a deposit of $6,000
The run was checked, the bank waa
saved, and the mayor Insured his re
election. 2t is a wise man who knows
his opportunities.
Now comes the news of a social war
between the Vanderbllts and tho As
ton. If those two houses haven't had
advance agents in their ancestral halls
the ability of the present scions to se
cure free advertising is phenomena!.
A. DIPLOMAT'S WIFE.
LADY DUFFERIN A FAVORITE OF
QUEEN VICTORIA.
The Retirement from IubUo Life of
Uer Husband Keuewa Interest In m
Woman Celebrated for Her Ueulus-
Hold Many Ordera.
HEN Thackeray in
his Irish ballads
wrote concerning
the great ball giv
en to the Nepaulese
ambassadors that
among those pres
ent were
'T.rrH o r A
yr paddy Fif9
with his fat wife
(I wonder how he coull stuff her
in),"
he did not refer to the present charm
ing Marchioness of Dufferln and Ava,
but to her predecessor of long ago. Her
ladyship will shortly retire with her
husband from public life, and diplomat
ic circles with her will loso one of their
most valuable ornaments. Lady Duf
ferln has occupied no end of prominent
places. She has been ambassadress to
Peris, t Rome, to Constantinople, and
she shared with her husband the most
distinguished post in the gift of the
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LADY DUFFERIN.
British government that of tho vice
regal throne of India. When Lord Duf
ferln wa3 made governor general of
Canada the countess (for she was only
a countess then) was considerably un
der 30, and from that time until th
present her husband has been foremost
among the big .diplomatic guns of the
empire. The marchioness 13 the very
best of amateur actresses and during
her regency in Canada she had built a
6tage in the government house at Ot
tawa, and her entertainments, contrib
uted to chiefly by herself, were artistic
and praiseworthy. She lived an out
door winter life in Canada, too, and
curling, sleighing and hockey parties
were led by her, and she distributed
tho prizes In an lco tourney originated
by herself. Her transfer from the Ice
bound dominion to burning India
wrought likewise a transfer of occupa
tion, and while in Aryavarta she as
complishod a stupendous work In the
matter of providing female medical at
tendance for the women of that coun
try. On her return to England sho was
personally congratulated by the queen
on the success of her labors. Lady
Dufferln holds no less than four orders.
These are the Crown of India, the Per
sian Order of the Sun, the Turkish Or
der of the Shefkat and, the most val
ued of all, tho Order of Victoria and
Albert.
A Notable French Statesman.
By no means the least notable figure
in French politics is Henri Brlsson.who
T.
HENRI BRISSON.
has Just been elected president of the
chamber of deputies. In manner, In at
tlrt and In mode of living he Is like ono
of the revolutionists who despises tho
trumpery and the trappings of kings
and courtiers and nobles. He despises
the good clothes of the modern poli-
A
V
tlclan and dresses in the most shabby
of garments. He lives in the fifth
story flat in an obscure street, and, con
trolling the motions of the deputies, is
not too proud to climb to his attic at
night and retire to sleep in a cot. He
Is 60, a lawyer, a Journalist, and an un
alterable foe of the Jesuits. Under tha
empire he was a lawyer with no prac
tice, but his star appeared abovo the
horizon when in 1870, after the fall of
the empire, he was made mayor of
Paris. Five years later he was elected
a member of the assembly. He was
once minister of Justice, and was chief
of the Panama commission. His at
tempt at premiership in 1885 was not
satisfactory to himself, his party or the
people.
NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
M. Uelzebne Who Will Ilenreaeat the
Csar lu the United State.
M. Kolzebue, tho new Russian ambas
sador, was not accompanied to this
country by hl3 wife. Mme. Kolzebuo
was detained at home by Illness. It is
expected she will soon follow her hufc
band. Washington society la somewhat
desirous of her early appearance, as tho
Russian representatives cut much of a
figure in the social gaieties of the capi
tal. The ambassador and wife have
two chlldran, Paul Kolzebue, an army
officer, who has recently taken a young
wife, and a daughter, the Countess de
Rebmller. M. Kolzebue Is a tall, blonde
man. Ills hair and beard, formerly
yellow, are now white, the only Indica-
1 ii !!,.,
tion of age strangers can discern. His
valet might tell a different story, but
the servant has not yet been inter
viewed by tho Jenkinses. The ambas
sador Is the best dressed man in Wash
ington; ho is a foreign elderly E. Berry
Wall. It is his intention to make a
M. KOLZEBUE.
tour of America soon to get information
a3 to the country's resources and for
pleasures of travel.
The Stone Foreata of Arizona.
The regions of Little Colorado River
in Arizona abound in wonderful vege
table petrifactions whole forests be
ing found in some places which are
hard as flint but which look as if but
recently stripped of their foliage. Some
of these stone trees are standing Just
as natural as life, while others are piled
across each other just like the fallen
monarch of a real wood forest. Geolo
gists say that these stone trees wero
once covered to a depth of 1,000 feet
with marl, which transformed them
from wood to solid rock. . This marl,
after the lapse of ages, washed out,
leaving some of the trees standing in
an upright position. The majority of
them, however, are piled helter-skelter
In all directions, thousands of cords
being sometimes pilod up on an acre
of ground. St. Louis Republic.
No Honey in It one.
Roses do not secrete honey in their
flowers. Insects are simply attracted
by the perfume and rich colors and bj
the abundant supply of pollen, whl (
serves as food. Los Angeles Express.
A man who makes no enemies is too
soft and compliant for ffe&t practical
purposes.
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TALM AWE'S SEEMON.
'THE SHEEP ASTRAY" CHOSEN
FOR SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
Uolden Texts "Wave Ho Turned Every
one to Ilia Own Way, and the Lord
llath Laid on II Uu the Iniquity of Ua
All" laalah, lilt. O.
NCE more I ring
the old Gospel bell
The first half of my
next text is an lu
dlctment: All we,
like sheep, have
gone astray. Some
one says: "Can't
you drop that first
word? that is too
general; that
sweeps too wide a
Some man rises In the audi
circle.'
ence and he looks over on the opposite
side of the house and says: "There
is a blasphemer; and I understand how
he has goai astray. And there In an
other part of the house Is a defaulter,
and he has gone astray. And there is
an impure person, and ho has gone
astray." Sit down, my brother, and
look at home. My next text takes us
all in. It starts behind the pulpit,
sweeps the circuit of the room, and
comes back to the point where it start
ed, when it says. All we, like sheep,
have gone astray. I can very e&slly
understand why Martin Luther threw
up bis hands after ho had found the
Bible and cried out, "Oh! my sins, my
sins!" and why the publican, according
to the custom to this day In the east,
when they have any great grief, began
to beat himself and cry, as he smote
upon his breast, "God be merciful to
me, a sinner." I waa, like many of
you, brought up in the country, and I
know some of the habits of sheep, and
how they get astray, and what my text
means when it says: "All we, like
sheep, have gone astray." Sheep got
astray In two ways: either by trying to
get Into other pasture, or from being
scared by the dogs. In the former way
some of us get astray. We thought the
religion of Jesus Christ put us on short
commons. Wo thought there was bet
ter pasturage somewhere else. Wo
thought If wo could only He down on
the banks of a distant stream, or under
great oaks on the other side of some
hill, we might be better fed. We want
ed other pasturage than that which
God, through Jesus Christ, gave our
soul, and we wandered on, and we wan
dered on, and we were lost. We wanted
bread, ana we found garbage. The
farther we wandered, instead of find
ing rich pasturage, we found blasted
heath and sharper rocks and more
stinging nettles. No pasture. How
was it in tho club house when you lost
your child? Did they como around and
help you very much? Did your worldly
associates consolo you very much?
Did not the plain Christian man who
came Into your house and 6at up with
your darling child give you more con
fort than all worldly associates? Did
all the convivial songs you ever heard
comfort you in that day of bereave
ment so much as the song they sang
to you perhaps the very song that was
sung by your little child the last Sab
bath afternoon of her life.
There Is a happy land
Kar, far away.
Where saints Immortal reign,
Bright, bright aa day.
Did your business associates In that
day of darkness and trouble give you
any especial condolence? Business ex
asperated you, business woro you out,
business left you limp as a rag, busi
ness made you mad. You got dollars,
but you got no peace. God have mercy
on the man who has nothing but busi
ness to comfort him! The world afford
ed you no luxuriant pasturage. A fa
mous English actor stood on tho stage
impersonating, and thunder3 of ap
plause came down from the galleries,
and many thought it waa tho proudest
moment of all his life; but there was
a man asleep Just in front of him, and
the fact that that man was Indifferent
and somnolent spoiled all tho occasion
for him, and he cried: "Wake up, wake
up!" So one little annoyance In life
has been more pervading to your mind
than all the brilliant congratulations
and success. Poor pasturage for your
soul you find in the world. The world
has cheated you, the world has belled
you, the world has misinterpreted you,
the world has persecuted you. It never
comforted you. Oh! this world is a
good rack from which a horse may
pick his food; it is a good trough from
which the swine may crunch their mess;
but It gives but little food to a soul
blood-bought and immortal. What is a
soul? It is a hope high as the throne
of God. What is a man? You say, "It
la only a man." It Is only a man gone
overboard In sin. It ia only a man gono
overboard in business life. What is a
man? Tho battle ground of three
worlds, with his hands taking hold of
destinies of light or darkness. A man!
No line can measure him. No limit can
bound him. The archangel before the
throne cannot outlive him. The stars
shall die, but he will watch their ex
tinguishment. The world will burn,
but he will gaze at the conflagration.
Endless ages will march on; he will
watch the procession. A man! The
masterpiece of God Almighty. Yet you
say, "It Is only a man." Can a nature
liko that be fed on husks of tho wilder
ness? Substantial comfort will not grow
On Nature's barren soli;
All we can boast till Christ we know,
Is vanity and toll.
Somo of you got astray by looking
for better pasturage; others by being
scared of the dogs. The hounds get over
Into the pasture-field. The poor things
fly In every direction. In a few moments
they aro torn of the hedges and they
are plashed of the ditch, and the lost
sheep never gets home unle.ti the far
mer gets after it There is nothing so
thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It
may have been in 1857, during the
financial panic, or during tho financial
stress in the fall of 1873, when you
got astray. You almost became an athe
ist. You said, "Where is God that hon
est men go down and thieves prosper?"
You were dogged of creditors, you were
dogged of tho banks, you were dogged
of worldly disaster, and some of you
went into misanthropy, and some of
you took to strong drink, and others
of you fled out of Christian association,
and you got astray. Oh! man, that was
the last time when you ought to have
forsaken God. Standing amid the floun
dering of your earthly failures, how
could you get along without a God to
comfort you, and a God to deliver you,
and a God to help you, and a God to
save you? You tell me you have been
through enough business trouble almost
to kill you. I know It. I cannot un
derstand how the boat could live one
hour in that chopped sea. But I do not
knovr by what jcess you got astray;
some In one way and some in another,
and ir you could really see the position
somo of you occupy before God your
soul would burst into an agony of tears
and you would pelt the heavens with
the cry, "God have mercy!" Sinai's
batteries have been unllmbered above
your soul, and at times you have heard
it thunder "The wages of sin 13 death."
All have sinned and como short of
tho glory of God." "By one man sin
entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned." "The soul
that slnnetb, it shall die." When Se
bastopol was being bombarded, two
Russian frigates burned all night in
the harbor, throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress; and some of you,
from wbat you have told me yourselves,
some of you are standing in the night
of your soul's trouble, tho cannonade,
and the conflagration, and the multi
plication, and the multitude of your
sorrows and troubles I think must make
the wings of God's hovering angels
shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum It
on the harps with all the strings atum
With all the melody possible let the
heavens sound it to tho earth and let
the earth tell it to the heavens. "The
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all." I am glad that tho prophet did
not stop to explain whom he meant by
"him." Him of tho manger, him of the
bloody sweat, him of the resurrection
throne, him of the crucifixion agony.
"On him the Lord hath laid the Iniquity
of us all." "Oh!" says some man, "that
Isn't generous, that isn't fair; let every
man carry his own burden and pay I1I3
own debts." That sounds reasonable.
If I have an obligation and I have the
means to meet it and I come to you and
ask you to settle that obligation, you
rightly say, "Pay your own debts." If
you and I, walking down the street
both hale, hearty and well I ask you
to carry me, you say rightly, "Walk
on your own feet!" But euppose you
and I were In a regiment, and I wad
wounded In the battle and I fell uncon
dous at your feet with gunshot frac
tures and dislocations, what would you
do? You would call to your com
rades, saying. "Como and help, this
man is helpless; bring the ambulance:
let U3 take him to tho hospital," an3
I would be a dead lift in your arms,
and you would lift me from the ground
where I had fallen, and put me in tho
ambulance and take me to tho hospital
and have all kindness shown me. Would
there be anything bemoaning in my
accepting that kindness? Oh! no. You
would be mean not to do it. That Is
what Christ does. If we could pay our
dolts, then It would be better to go up
and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord,
here i3 my obligation; hero are tho
means with which I mean to settle that
obligation; now give me a receipt, cross
It all out." The debt is paid. But the
fact is we have fallen In the battle,
wc have gone down under the hot flro
of our transgressions, -wo have been
wounded by the sabres of sin, wo arc
helpless, we are undone. Christ comes.
The loud clang heard in the sky on that
Christmas night was only the bell, the
resounding bell of tho ambulance.
Clear the way for the Son of God. He
comes down to bind up the wound3, and
to scatter the darkness, and to save the
lost. Clear the way for the Son of God.
Christ comes down to us, and we aro
a dead lift. He does not lift us with
the tips of his fingers. He dees not lift
us with one arm. Ho comes down upon
his knee, and then with a dead lift he
raises us to honor and glory and Im
mortality. "The Lord hath laid on him
the iniquity of us all." Why, then,
will a man carry his sins? You caunct
carry successfully the smallest sin you
ever committed. You might as well put
the Appennlnes on one shoulder and the
Alps on the other. How much less can
you carry all tho sins of your lifetime?
Christ comes and looks down in your
face and says: "I have come through
all tho lacerations of these days, and
through all the tempests of these
nights; I have come to bear your bur
dens, and to pardon your sins, and to
pay your debts; put them on my shoul
der, put them on my heart." "On him
tho Lord hath laid tho iniquity of us
all." Sin has almost pestered the life
out of some of you. At times it has
made you cross and unreasonable, and
it has spoiled the brightness of your
days and the peace of your nights.
There aro men who have been riddled
of sin. The world gives them no so
lace. Gossamery and volatile the
world, while eternity, as they look for
ward to it, is as black as midnight.
They writhe under the stings of a con
science which proposes to give no rcBt
here and no rest hereafter; and yet they
do not repent, they do not pray, they do
not weep. They do not realize that Just
the position they occupy is tho position
occupied by scores, hundreds and thou
sands of men who never found any
hope. "!
Some one comes here to-day and I
stand aside. He cornea up three steps.
He comes to this place. I must stand
aside. Taking that place he spreads
abroad his hands, and they were nailed.
You see his feet; they were bruised.
He pulls aside tho robe and shows you
his wounded heart. I say: "Art thou
weary?" "Yes," he says, "weary with
the world's woe." I say: "Whence
comest thou?" He says: "I came from,
Calvary." I say: "Who comes with
thee? He says: "No one; I have trod
den the wine-press alone." I say: "Why
comest thou here?" "Oh!" he says, "r
came here to carry all the sins andsor
rows of the people." And. he kneels.
He says: "Put on my shoulders all the
sorrows and all the sins." And. con
scious of my own sins first, I take them
and put them on the shoulders of the
Son of God. I eayt "Canst thou bear
any more, O Christ';" He says: "Yes,
more." And I gather up the sins of all
those who serve at these altars, the offi
cers of tho church of Jesus Christ I
gather up all their sins and I put them
on Christ's shoulders, and I say: "Canst
thou bear any more?" He says: "Yes,
more." Then I gather up all the sins
of a hundred people in this house and I
put them on the shoulders of Curlst,
and I say: "Canst thou bear more?"
He says: "Yea, more." And I gather
up all the sins of this assembly, and
put them on the shoulders of the Sou
of God, and I 6ay: "Canst thou bear
more?" "Yea," he says, "more." But
he Is departing. Clear the way for him,
the Son of God. Open the door and let
him pass out. He is carrying our sins
and bearing them away. We shall
never see them again. He throws them
down into the abysm, and you hear the
long reverberating echo of their fall.
"On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity
of us all." Will you let him take your
sins to-day? or, do you say, "I will take
charge of them myself, I will fight my
own battles, I will risk eternity on my
own account"? I know not how near
some of you have come to crossing tho
line. A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath: "Before next Saturday
night ono of his audience will have
passed out of life." A gentleman said
to another seated next to him: "I don't
believe it; I mean to watch, and if it
doe3n't come true by next Saturday
night, I shall tell that clergyman his
falsehood." The man seated next to
him said: "Perhaps it will be your
self." "Oh! no," the other replied: "I
shall live to be an old man." That
night he breathed hl3 last. To-day tho
Savior calls. All may come. God
never pushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man Jumps off,
ho Jumps off. It is suicide soul sui
cide if tho man perlshe3, for the in
vitation is, "whosoever will, let him
come;" whosoever, whosoever, whoso
ever! While Goi Invites, how blet the flay.
How sweet the Gospel's charming sound;
Come, sinner, haste, O! haste away
While yet a pardoning God Is found.
To Malte Happy Home.
1. Learn to govern yourselves, and
to bo gentle and patient.
2. Guard your tempers, especially in
seasons of ill health, Irritation and
trouble, and soften them by prayer,
penitence and a sense of your own
shortcomings and errors.
3. Never speak or act until you have
prayed over your words or acts, and
concluded that Christ would have done
so in your place.
4. Remember that, valuable as is the
gift of speech, the gift of silence is much
more valuable.
5. Do not expect too much from
others, but remember that all have an
evil nature, whose development we
must expect, and which we should for
bear and forgive, as we often desire for
bearance and forgiveness ourselves.
6. Never retort a sharp or angly word.
It is tho second that makes the quarrel.
7. Beware of the first disagreement.
8. Learn to sperk m a gentle tone
of voice.
9. Learn to say kind and pleasant
thlng3 whenever an opportunity offers.
10. Study the character of each, and
sympathize with all in their troubles.
however small.
11. Do not neglect little things, if
they can affect the comfort of others in
the smallest degree.
A Or and Kins,
Rev. Dr. Ferguson, at a gathering of
the Scottish Temperance league, In
Glasgow, pertinently said: "The visU
of the three African chiefs has been a
great blessing and a great help to the
temperance cause. They have been
rroinc: through our land giving object
lessons in this, that 'the gospel is the
power of God unto salvation to every
one that bclleveth whether he be black
or white. I could use of them the words
of the Song of Solomon: 'They are black
hut comely.' comely with meekness.wlth
humility. Christian comeliness, and
also temperance firmness. What better
ran I call it than temperance mission
ary zeal? for they have come to us to
teach us, and to teach the queen and
Mr. Chamberlain a great lesson in pro
hibition. I think that tho lesson has
gone to the heart of the country with
this impression, that if we prohibit
drink in King Khama's territory should
it not be prohibited at home?"
roll t !o nnrt Religion.
Carry vour religion Into your politics?
call no man master but the Lord Jesus
Christ; vote, against corruption, against
bribery, against bosslsm, against the
rum power, and even though you vote
alone, you will not be throwing away
your vote. It will be registered in the
estimation of God, and some day He
will reward you openly. Rer. E. C.
Sweetzer.
A Tha'ikfnl Spirit.
Thankrglving is the vital breath of a
thankful spirit. It is silly to say: "I
am thankful if I never choose to ex
press it." It is not all of life to breathe,
and It is not all of thankfulness to give
thanks, but If we cease to breathe we
shall cease to live, ail's if we cease to ex
press tho gratitude we feel we shall
soon have no gratitude to express.