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PREACHING THE GOSPEL 'A deepatch from Washington says; â€"Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the Mowing text; "Would God that .11 the Lord’s people were propheta.” Numbers xi. 29. There is great excitement in the ancient tabernacle. Two good men. by the name of Eldad and Medad. be- gin topray and to instruct. Not hav- ing been regularly ordained to the work, the jealousy of "the regulars" Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on Spreading the Word. in the service is aroused, and they come to Moses. asking that these un- ordained men -be silenced. But Moses. instead of stopping them. says he wishes that all the people would go to preaching, and praying, and exhort- ing. ‘ Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets!” for Christian work. Waking up at I suppose that every man has .thirty, forty, or titty years of age. tome controlling @833 131135 llfe- L038 l with a desire of usefulness, they are ego. and before I saw any Mbility too old to begin a regular theological 01 carrying them out. I had born of 1 course. Besides that, they have fam- God in my eoul these . two desires: flies to support. It takes them eight First, the establishment of afree ’ hoursevery day to earn a livelihood. church with the home-feeling mainâ€" ; What knowledge shot down they must mined; and, mond, the establishmenti take on the wing, loading the rifle o! a college in which private Christian L While the barrel is yet hot from other men and women might be trained for discharges. In their undrilled state, usefulness. The need of such a 001-; they rise to talk in prayer-meetings lege is felt to-day throughout“ the: with head down and blushing cheek, whole Christian world. “To havel as though they were talking by- suf- many 0f the leading men 0‘ all denoâ€" ll feranee, instead of remembering that minations in our professorate. If 1 they have a message from the throne there is anything at all in learned lot the eternal God,- and that, though titles, we have the advantage of it in men _____-_ -â€"â€"-. n-v nnxv! Inr.‘\fn'“ These men do not now feel prepared our college circular. The printer fail- ed to get our circular done as soon an expected becauSe, as he said. he ran out of‘ ‘s,D.‘ ” and had to go to a neighbouring printing-office to bor- row a. new supply of that letter. But what is human confirmation compar- cd with that which comes from God through His Church, Hi: Providence. end His Word? Ministers cannot do the work on the world‘s evangelization. What Are the few thousand ministers in this country compared to the seventy mil- lion: 0! the population! We are num- erically too small. Sin, with its army of drunkenness, and lust. and crime, has not yet put out. hall of its attength, {or it. can beat us, and not half try. Who is getting the victory HONESTY 0R F RAUD? Purity or uncleanness? Infidelity or the Gospel? Light or Darkness? Heaven or' ball? If you are an honest in onrrcities toâ€"dayâ€"sobriety or in- temperance? man, you confess that the latter havei gained the victory. What is the mat-i tar! Are the Gospel weapons insub, licienti Is the sword of the Spirit! dull? Are the great howitzers of truth at too short range to throw the? bombahells into the enemy’s fortress?I No! no! The great want. and the only ; want, is more troops! Instead of five 3 or ten thousand ministers, We want; two million men and women, ewornl that-they will neither eat nor sleep! until they have slain iniquity. But: how it you cannot get them? Sup-i page, after along war, the President: should make proclamation for one hundred thousand men, and they warm not to be had? But the Church has not sent athousandth part of its fling by the still waters of Zion, when strength, and the troops are encamp- they ought to be at the front, and would be if you gave them achzmce, and made them ready for the heat and terror of the contest. Let us quit this grand farce of try- ing to save the world by a. few clergy- man, and let all hands lay hold of the work. Give us in all our churches two or three hundred aroused and qualified men and women to help. In most churches to-day, five or ten men are compelled to do all the work. A vast majority of churches are at their with end how to carry on a. prayer meeting if the minister is not there. when there ought to be enough pent- up ens” and religiOUS fire to make a meeting so on with su:h power that the minister would never be missed. The Church stands working the pumps of afew ministerial cisterns until the buckets are dry and choked. while there are thousands oi foun- tains h’om which might be clipped up ner's roof, or the: printer’s type-room. until converted plumbers and masons. and carpenters, and printers carry it there. Some men are so profound in their education they do not seem qualified for this mission. You can- WATERS OF ETERNAL LIFE. Religion will make headway ix. ha: factories when you can send there, baptized by the spirit, a. Christin: hatter. We want men in an the oc- cupations, in the name of God, to throttle the sins of their own trade. Reh‘gion will never conquer the plum- bar’s shop. or the mason's wall. or the carpenter's scaffqlding, or the tin- not send the Great Eastern up the Penobscot River. Profouudly edu- cated men seem to "draw too much water” to get up such a. stream. I have heard finely educated men in payer-Questing talk in sentences of W ntflnenoe. yet their word: VII. N0. ‘52. $1 per annum. “.5 do the work of THE OMEMEE MIRROR fell dead upon the meeting; but when some poor. uneducated man arose. and ‘said. “I suppose you tellers think that because I don't know anything I haven’t no right to speak; but Christ has converted my soul and you know [was the miserablest chap in town; and if God will pit-don me. he Will pardon you.” Come to Jesus! Come Come now !â€"-the prayerâ€"meeting broke down with religious emotion. It is a grand thing to be accurate in speech; but get out with your grammar if you are going to let the lack of ac- quaintance therewith keep a man down when God Almighty tells him to get up! i We want private Christians to know g how they may stand their ground, or ‘go forth with‘ the vehemence of the 1 Bible-dwarf when he accosted the igiant, saying, "Thou comest to me é with a sword, and with a spear, and i“ ith a shield; but I come to thee in i the name of the Lord of ’ hosts, the God of. the armies of Israel, wvhom thou hast defied. This day lwill the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I. will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I wiil give the carcasses of the host of the Phili. stines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; 5 that all the earth may know that I there is a God in Israel.” Let me get In this college we want to teach men common sensa in religious mat- ters. \\ bile a young man was stand;- ing amid rollicking companions, full of mirth and repartee, a good Chris- tian man came and asked him, “W hat is the first step of wisdom t" The young man turned and said "The first step of wisdom is for everyone to mind his own business !" A coarse answer; but it was a very abrupt question, considering the place in which it was put. There re religious pedlars who go around making a business of dis- playing their whole stock of wares in the most obtrusive manner. It is no time, while an accountant is puzzl- ing his brain with a long line of fig- ures, to ask him “how his account stands with God; or stop the sports- man on the playground, while running between the hunks, and ask “whether, in a religious sense, he is running the race set before him.” \Ve want tact and adaptation for his work. Some Christians try to catch a. whale with a fly-rod oi hornbeam, and fling a harpoon at a salmon. " HOWL wrm CONTEMPT, they must utter it. my sling out! Three times I swfing it around my head, and down t-hou goeet, oh gianb! We want that institution to qualify people to work amid the wretchedness and crime or the great cities. Is any Christian man so deluded as to think that we can overcome these evil: by our present; way of. doing thingsl Where there in one church built there are ten grog-ehops established. Where one sermon on purity is preached there are five houses of shame built. The Church has not touched the great evils sa ve' WITH HER. LITTLE FINGER. Before you and I have the sod press- ing our eyelida, we will, under God, decide whether Our children shall grow up amid the accursed surroundings of vice and shame, or come to an inherit- ance of righteousness. Long, loud. bitter will be the curse that scorchas our grave if, holding within the Church filoâ€"day enough men and wo- men to save the city, we act the coward or the drone. I wish that I could put enough moral glycerine unâ€" der the oouveutionallties and majestic stupidities of the day to blow them to atoms and‘that then, with fifty thousand men and women from all the churches knowing nothing but Christ and a desire to bring all the world to him, we mlght move upon the enemy’s works. For a little while. heaven would. not have trumpets enough to celebrate the victory! We want also to qualify men for street-preaching. There are hundreds of thousands of men who will never come to church. The only kind of pul- pit that will reach them is a. dry- goods box or a drayrnan‘s cart at the street corner. We want hundreds of men eVery Sabbath to be preaching the Gospel in our great city parks. There are, in this house to-day, two hundred men that ought to be preach- ing. Under the control of this col- lege they might get the courage and the facility. What! you ask, “would you let them preach without ordina- tion 9" I answer, If Conferences and Presbyteries will not put their hands upon your head, then Iwould have you ordained in another way. Iwould take you down into the h‘aunts of suf- fering and crime within ten minutes walk of our best churches, and there have you tell the story of Christ, un- til men redeemed from their cups, and women, elevated from a life of pollu- tion, and children, whose bare, bleed- ing feet are on the road to death, should be, by your instrumentality, saved. Then I would have these con- verted suffering ones put their hands of ordination on your head, setting you apart for the holy ministry in ;the name of the Father, and of the i Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Ah! that 5 would be an ordination as good as the 1 laying on of hands by conferences and ESynodsâ€"an ordination that would be imost bright in the day when, :Shrivelled like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll." l'he Peculiar Methods Adopted In the Rowen-i Kingdom. Although the peculiar civilization of the Chinese has failed to provide the shops of the country with plate glass windows, mahogany counters, huge mirrors and the seductive shop walker, yet the tradespeople have methods of their own for engaging the attention of the public worthy of notice, if not of imitation. To begin with, the com- petition which forces down the prices of goods in this country is unknown in China. The manufacturers, who own most of the shops, to protect the interest of themselves and their workpeOple, insist on fixing“ all prices, and when attacked with fits of greed combine to raise the price lists, which, to pre- vent the shopkeeper overcharging, are posted up in the shop. All such shops belong to what ,we should calla union. In free houses the price: given for an article is the result of a. prolonged haggle. The Chinese are such experts at bargaining that shops of good re- pute publicly declare that they sell only at the advertised price. \Vhy a Chinaman when haggling should shout at the t0p of his voice is not clear, but he does, consequently the vociferations of several hundred purchasers and the equally stentor- ian rejoinders of the tradespeople ren- ders a Chinese shopping quarter, when the public is abroad, a veritable pan- demonium. THE AMOUNTS IN DISPUTE are seldom more than a hulfpenny or so, but the partfies scream and gesticu- late as if their entire fortunes were at stake, the din appearing to be mluch louder than it really is owing to the narrowness of the streets, which are sold-om more than a. few feet across. Shops which decline all abatement have a signhoard inscribed “chen pu urlo chin," which means "fixed price.” Businese in China. being conducted on principles mostly unknown to the outer world, it is not strange to find that shops and warehouses are never known by the family name of the pro- prietor. They are distinguished by some sign generally the invention of tie owner, who will hold long and anxious consultation with his family and friends in order to obtain a.“hao,” which shall embody some felicitous idea. When a new shop is opened or a newcomer comes into possession the public is made aware of what has tak- en place by long crimson streamers hanging from the signhoards. The friendliness which exists between the shopkeeping class and their patrms results in developments of which we know nothing in this country. We should smile at the tradesmen who affixed a notice in his window saying that " his wife was not very well that day," or that " his father was dead.” In China, in addition to such written amendments, increased publicly is at- forded by white or ash colored stream- ers being suspended from the sign- boards. The signboards are also used to re- cord the death of an Emperor. This is done by putting th) board with its letters in gaudy red and gold into mourning. The paper with which the sides of the board are covered is not black, as It wduld be with us, but green, and in order that business shall not be interfered with the green pa- per is dotted all over with the house‘s name. But the loyalty and grief of the shopkeeper is testified to by two streamers, on which is inscribed “kus kshio "â€"“ the kingdom mourns”â€"are attached to the board. A WOMAN ’S QUESTION. The Paying Tellerâ€"I cannot cash this check, madam. Sheâ€"Why nob! There isn’t enough money here to meeb it. Then can't: you meet it half way I SHE WAS. Claraâ€"What a putty bonnet you have on! Ireneâ€"Yes, but I’m over m: an in debt tor it; SHOPPING IN CHINA. “OH, WAD SOME POWER THE mm CE 33, m SEE 00m M Im an US.” OMEMBE OWL, THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1900, Those were their namesâ€"Jimmy end June. Everybody in {he village knew them; they had many friends; yet all agreed with wonderful unanimit that they were two oi theistrzmgest indivi uals ever s_een. Jimmyâ€"his full name was James Brad- ford-was a. bachelor of about 50 years, re- puted to have a. stocking full of gold and ai1-. var coins, which he kept in his feather beck.- He was a noted hater of women. and seldom spoke to one. Janeâ€"or more properly Miss Jane Green â€"was cal-led an old maid, lived in a. tiny house by herself, and had a holy horror of the biped man. Her age was “uncertain,” but her fortieth birthday was of the past. _ Jimmy took life easily, but was opposed to ostentation and the modem acceptation of ‘the term “luxury." 7 He cared little for books: society he abom- inated, because it was spoiled by admitting women, and of the few diversions that went to make up the sum at his life’s pleasures, fishing held the place of .prgminence. One bright afternoon in September Jim- my was lounging along the river bank when .the splash of ours in midstream fell upon- his ears. He ‘Iooked in the direction of the souxad, and then a acowl wrinkled his fore- bea . “Humph!” 'he muttered, "that old maid, Jane Green. is trying to row over to Ned Brown’s. She’d better be home, drinkin’ tea. Most likely she’ll manage to get drowned. 'Whut a fuss she makes, splashin’ an’ flappin’ about.” 7 The “splashin’ an’ flappin’ about,” instead of dying away in the distance as the boat neared the other side of the river, grew louder and more disturbing, and half 1n won- der. half in anger, Jimmy looked around again. “Drat the luck!” he cried. “If she ain’t gone an’ rowed right smack inter that «My â€"the only one Within two miles at that. If zhat ain’t jest like a. fool woman I’d like to know what ’tis like.” Just then his attention was attracted to his line, and J ane’s peril was for a moment forgotten} , . X forcible reminder came in the form of a loud, piercing scream, followed by a fright- enedrappearl for help. > “There. jest as might ha’ been expected! The first bite I’ve had for an hour, an’ that miser’ble woman had to let out a. screech an’ scare the fish away”, There was no question about it, Miss Jane was in great peril. Her boat, an old leaky men, was twirling about, the rapid, rotary motion causing at frequent intervals foamy waves to splash over its aid“, and it bade fair to sink in short order. “Help! Help! i] shall drown!”screamed the woman. His own boat happened to be near at hand, and a few rapid strokes brought him as neu- the eddy as safety permittedtr “Heré! ” cried he. grumblingly, as he threw out a rope. "ketch hold of that, if you don't want to drown.” Miss Jane had been so occupied with her fears and struggles that up to this moment she was un :mzu‘e that assistance had at- rived. At the sound of his voice sh: turned maiskls'; "Let her drown!” growleé the woman- hater, savagely. “There‘ll be one less wom- mâ€"gosh! she will go down a sure as fate. Bein’. a sort of human critter, I s’pose I’ll hev to pull her out, er Lheneidhbors’ll lynch Her hasty movement caused the boat to go down, but, she clung heroically to the oats and regarded her woxfld-be rescuer with a look of horror. “Merciful powers! Jimmy Bradford, of all men! lemme‘d'x'own ! ” 7 “Don’t be a taz-nat-mn fool, Jane Green! Ketch hold of the rope and I’ll pull you out." “Never!” crierl Jane, spufting’ out a. stream of water f1 on‘ her mouth and pad- .lling desperately xx 1th both hands to keep afloat. Despite Jane' 5 gmgledprotes’tshe hurried- ly hauled 1n the rope. formed a slip noose at one end and hurled it over the half drowned. \\ oman s s: 'vouldexs Then be exerted his r'trength in a vigorous pull, which Jane re sisted wrth all her waning powers, and sue needed in lizting her into the boat. “0 dear! ” she gasped. “And to think that I should owe my life to Jimmy Bradford," and then, too much exhausted to bear up long ‘1‘, she closed her eyes and fainmdpwgy. He drew the boat upon the sloping shore, and, after carrying Miss June to a. sheltered qpot beneath amide-spreading wil- iow tree, proceeded to restore her to con- ,::i uness. When she opened her eyes the first thing that met her gaze was Jimmy’n face. “0, my soul!” she gasped, feebly. “Am I in the power of the Evil One?” “Then I’ll pull ye out, anyhow!” ejacu- iated Jim. “I never knew any livin’ wom- m had sm'n grit. Y’ou re too plmky for fish bait an’ I I] saw nghethererno “Draw It a. little mild, Jane Green. I ain’t the Evil One. nor no kin to him asI knows on. An’ you’re ahowin’ mighty little appreciation for havin’ your life saved, I ran tell ye." “\Vall,” said Jane, after a moment’s thought, “perhaps I was a little too harsh. I s’pose there are wuss bein’s on the face of this airth than you be. I reckon you’d ha’ better let me drown, though, than set all the tongues o’ scandal waggin’ against me." ‘nu "“You' re too plucky a. woman to feed fishes on, an’ too good looldng, too.” Jane’s pale face changed' in a moment to a deep carnation 'hue, and' her tone might have indicated either real or pretended w proach as she replied: . “Shame on yo: Jimmy Bradford, to make fun of a misfortunate an’ Menseless woman. I’ll go home this minute.” .L u 5” NULL“: yula “Anna“.- “You’re too weak to go home now, J ane," said Jimmy, approaching. “You’d better stop awhile longgr.” “I didn't say more'a I meant, Jane Green, nor more’n I’d sayamothertime. I never knew before that women had so much gumption. But if you’re bound to go I’ll give you a boost, for you couldn’t get there alone. Ilere, take my arm.” “An’ set. the hull town to talkin’,” cm’ed Jane. ” ’Tain’t best that they 0.11:,” retorted Jimmy. “The first one that says a. word "g’inst you will feel that,” exhibiting a hard -d formidable fist. , After considerable persuasion, Jane was it last induced to take his arm, and ofl" they valk_ed, _a. mostAsiyg-uhr looking couplp. “HS; ryou_ coficl’ci make more fun of me, I a’pose,” said she, tartly. “No, thank you, Mr. Bradford.” 'JIMMY iii) JANET? ‘Now be caref111an’ see that you don’t take wk! after yer duclxin’, ” said Jimmy, as they zenched the invalid’s home. “You’d better make you some hot ginger tea. to once. An’ if you '11 agree to it I’ll drop in to-morrow an’ see how you are.” Jane agreed to it coyly, and Jimmy turned away with new and strange feelings lingering in his breast. “Blast if she ain’t a plucky one,” he said, to himself. “I never see a woman before that had- any sense. She'd make a good wife fora fciler that liked women fonts.” 7 73'1“: :1 month later found her “he wife of a man that did not like women folks, and that contented individual was no other than 'immy Bndford.â€"Waverley Magazina. fusing the Good Shepherd." John 10. ‘ 1-16. , PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. Verily, verily. "Truly; t-l'uly." The formula with which Jesus was wont to preface important utter- ances. Not by the door. To the sheep- [old in oriental lands there is but one, door, and the porter or shepherd . watches all night beside it. In a. cave 'under the hlill now regarded as Cal- very, north of Jerusalem, the; Editor lsaw a flock of sheep gathered, and ‘ the shepherd standing on guard at ‘the entrance. The sheepfold. Here lrepresenting the earthly yet invisible iChurch‘ of Christ», the fold containing 1 many flocks which are yet one. A . thief and a robber. The reference is . in such as become teachers of religion ; from evil or selfish motives, and not 3 in the spirit of the Gospel. Often have {churches been deceived and souls led pustray by men who claimed to be i teachers of truth but were without the divine commission. THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON. AUG. 26 2. Entereth in by the door. By the Same door both the flock and. the thepherd enter, and that door, as ex.â€" plained below, is Christ, through whom alone is given entrance into the true Church of the redeemed in earth and heaven. The shepherd of the gheep. Or, "a shepherd." as in the margin of the Revised Version. The reference here is nob to Christ, but to those who teach in his name. 3. The porter. The porter may re- present- the Holy Spirit, by whom the Church is guided. Bub it is not essential to find a. meaning in every part of this parable. The sheep hear his voice. “The sheep" here are not merely members of the Church. but true followers of Christ. having a. spiritual recognition of the teachers who speaks in Christ’s name. Are you one of Christ’s flock“: Have you personal acquaintance with the Lord? Leadeth them out. The ori- ental shepherd never drives. but al- ways leads, his flock; has a name for each sheep, and can call it. So is it with the great Shepherd and so is it in a measure with his true under- shepherds. Do you try to know thoroughly the souls committed to your care? 4. He goeth before. Keep in mind the double reference to Christ himself the great Shepherd, and to those who are his true representatives. The true teacher can bring his followers only where he goes before; into experi- ences that he has realized, and into a fellowship which he has enjoyed. The real leader never say: “Go," but always "Come." They know his voice. The true followers of Christ recog- nize the true teacher of the Gospel, by the accordance of his utterances with the word. and by the inner witness to the truth. 5. A stranger. One who does not represent the true message of the Lord, but speaks out of his own will. Will they not follow. Even the true disciples may sometimes be deceived for a Little time. but they soon dis- tinguish the false teacher from the true. Flee from him. Travelers in the East have often noticed that when they or other strangers attempt to call the flock, using the words of the shepherd, 'the sheep will run from them. 6. His parable. The word here translated ”parable" is not the one so used in the other gospels, but is elsewhere translated “proverb," and refers to a saying with a hidden meaning. This illustration might properly be called an allegory. They understood not. To the Jews in gen- eral the meaning of this "parable" or "allegory" was absolutely unknown; and even disciples failed to understand its deeper teachings. How fortunate are we who have the enlightenment of the Spirit upon the dark sayings of the Master! 7. Then said Jesus. He went through the allegory a second time, interpreting its principal elements. I am the door. The door through which the sheep enter the fold, and .through which shepherds come to the sheep. It is not through the Church that we come to Christ, but through Christ that we come! into the Church. 8.'All that ever came before me. Not those who came before Christ in time, as the Old Testament prophets; but all who claimed to stand before him, above him, in authority, as do the scribes and Pharisees of that day. Are thieves. lNot "were thieves," but "are thieves," showing the reference is to false teachers of that time. The sheep did not hear. The true followers of God, not always as individuals, but as 9. By me if any man. Through faith in Christ as our Saviour we ex'fter in.' to his fold. He shall be saved. Outside are the wild beasts, within are the; sheep in safe shelter. Go in and aut.‘ The allegofy is not to be pressed with the question how one can be within the fold and yet outside in the pasture ‘ fields. The meaning is that those ini Chnist’s care are safe, wherever they a “'Ihole, possess a. spiritual insight which enables them to. detect the false and accept the true tin teaching. ' Pasture, Food for the spiritual 10. The thief. At that time the thief was the Pharisee. pretending to hold the keys of the kingdom olf heaven. Now, he is the false teacher who per- verts the Gospel. To destroy. Think what harm is being wrought by teach- ers who sow error and unbeliet in the hearts of men. I am come. Jesus has already revealed himself as the door; now he presents. h‘mself also as the chief shepherd. 11. I am the good shepherd. As the Son of man Jesus embodies ideal hu- manity; so as the Good Shepâ€" herd he unites in perfection the traits of all true shepherds. Giveth‘. his life. The shepherd in oriental; lands is responsible for the sheep in his care. He must find them when last ; must if need be tight wild beasts and robbers to protect them. Christ saw the cross always rising before his view. 14, 15. Know my sheep. We have a. Saviour and 3. Shepherd who has a personal knowledge and notice of each one among his many million followers, as though that were the only one. Known of mine. Each tlrue disciple knows his Lord, and has loving fellowship with him. AS the Father knoweth. The Revised Version shows the thought more clearly: "I know mine own, and mine know me; even as the Father knoweth no sacrifice for them, cares only to shear them and to get a living out of them. The wolf. Here placed to represent every enemy of the cause of Christ. 12, 13. .A hireling. A hired man, working for his wages only. There are such‘ professedly as under-shep- herds of Christ, whu preach for a liv- ing, instead of living to preach the gospel. Whose own the sheep are not. He does not love them, makes. me, and I know the Father.” The rela- tion between Christ and his flock is as close as that between the Father and the Son. 16. Other sheep Ihave. Here is a hinb of the souls to be gathered from the Gentile world. Shlall hear my voice. They had not heard it as yet, but were soon to bear it through the lips of Paul, and Timothy, and other broad- minded teachers. One fold. Rather, as in the Revised Version, “one flock.” There may be many fold: for Christ’s Sheep. but they all belong to one great flock. An'unoonscionable time is always consumed in offering and arranging ‘ the teas and sweets, and to any direct question these celestial statesmen al- ways anSWer with praises of the me]- on seeds or ginger root. There as In Modern [much There Is a ('lrcumlocuflon 001cc. The Chinese Foreign Office, or Tsuug-li-Yamen, was established as a. temporary bureau of necessity' after the war of 1860. It consists of elev- en aged, sleepy, incompetents, who muddle with foreign affairs. of Dr. Chase’s Ointment are a mys- tery to physicians, and, though they are slow to recognize merit in any dis»- covery, they join minrtily with people of other ceilings in endorsing and re- 5 commending Dr. Chase’s Ointment as ‘ the most successful treatment ever ‘ devised for itching skin diseases. E Rev. J. A. Baldwin. Baptist Minister. ‘ Arkorna. 0nt., writes: . “For over twenty years I was a great sufferer from itching and protruding piles. I used many remedies and un- derwent three very painful surgical , operations. all without obtaining any ‘permnanenb benefit. When about to ‘ give up in despair I was told to use Dr. Chase’s Ointment and did so, find- , ing relief at once. I used three boxes, i and un nlmoab entirely cured. The All these eleven elders have reach- ed such posts by steady advances. They are always septuagenarians, worn out with the exacting, empty routine rightsl and functidns of such high of.- fice, and physically too exhausted by their midnight rides to and sunrise departures from the palace to begin fitly the day's tedium at the dilapi- dated Tsung-li-Yamen. The appointment for an interview with the nonâ€"committal, irresponsible board must be made beforehand, the Minister and his secretaries are al- ways, kept waiting, and the inner re- ception room swarms with Gaping at- tendants during an interview. Once the American minister made a vigour- ous protest, and refused to conduct any negotiations while there were un- derlings in the room, and. as it was business that the Chinese Government wished conducted, the minions Were summarily cast outâ€"cast out to the other side of the many-hinged, lattica ed doors, where they scuttled audibly for first place at cracks and knot- holes. The other envoys would not sustain the American protest, and soon the fame of the empty room was played to an end, and the servants came in with their pipes and fans, tea and cake and candies, as usual; stood about: commented on. and fairly took part in the diplomatic conversations, as before. It is extremely doubtful if there ever was a remedy that was endorsed by such an overwhelming mats of evi- dence as is Dr. Chase’s Ointment. The remarkable soothing. healing qualities Is the World’s Greatest Cure for Itching Skin, Eczema, Salt Rheum and Piles. Dr. Chase’s Ointment RED TAPE IN’ CHINA. ;. W. Rm, Publisher and Proprietor mmculues or line III-lush (‘ammigl In South Africa. In a recent interview in Loni’m Ma- jor Burnham, who had just arrived from South Africa, said that, in his opinion. the difficulty of the country and the length of Lord Rolwerts’ line of communications were not yet pro- perly realized at home. Instead of Bri- tish communications being occasional- ly cut in the Transvaal or Orange Riv- er State it was rather a matter for wonder that they had not been in- terrupted in Cape Colony itself. Peo- ple were apt to forget that it; was further from Cape Town to Pretoria than from London to Vienna, and that the railway service was somewhat dif- ferent. A Londoner did not think lightly of a journey to Aberdeen, but such a distance would be merely a lit- tle patrol for the troops under Lord Roberts. A high German military au- thority had stated that a single rail- way Line of live hundred miles could support only forty thousand troops. With one thousand miles of railway Lord Roberts had to support 150,000 soldiers, in addition to a large civilian population on the line of; the route, including such towns as Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Sufficient stress had not yet been laid, Major Burnham continued, on the extreme dryness of the South African veldt. Where in England a squadron of cavalry coruld march six miles there they could only march two. The mobil- ity of the mounted troops was further hindered by their own transport, for each cavalry brigade was bound to carry its forage. The column’s rate of progress, therefore, was regulated by the pace of the transport wagons. It was folly to say, when the enemy hap- pened to be thirty miles distant, “Why don t the cavalry gallop in pursuit and wipe them out. ” Major Burnham was most favour- ably impressed by the City of London Imperial Volunteers, and said that they had astonished every one by their physique and power of endurance. _Nothing could exceed his admiration for Lord Roberts: colonial bodyguard. He had seen them lying down, holding Itheir unsaddied horses, and at the sound of the bugle they had saddled up, mounted and rode past within ‘ t.hirty seconds. ‘ ONE THIRTY MILE GALLOP, would finish off every house in South Africa. It was marvellous to consider the thousands of miles travelled by the cavalry division, under General French, especially when it was remem- bered that the forced marches were generally done on quarter rations for horses and half ration: for the men. The secret of the greater mobility of the Boers consisted in the fact that their own native horses were stronger than the imported English ones, when the latter were fed on native food. If a mounted Boer had half a mile start it was practically impossible for an English trooper to overtake him. It was more likely that the Boer would increase the intervening distance. The English commanders made use of na- tive horses whenever they could get them, and but for these hardly a scout could be mounted. In conlusion, Major Burnham said the scout of the future would have need of more than keen sight, and acuteness of hearing. He must be something of an engineer as well, and should be able to judge the facilities for intrenchments and the best posi- tions for his guns. In order to acquire the habit of seeing in the dark, men and boys Ehould be encouraged to play games at night. It was not uncom- mon in the West for men to go out hunting at night, and he attributed his own power of sight in the dark and acute hearing to his boyhood‘s training in the frontier wars. itching is all gone. I have advised other: to use it, believing it would cure them as it its me.” USELESS. A number of young women have organized an anti-kissing society. Those who have seen the members say that such a precaution was not neces- sary. You must not tfiink that Dr. Chase’s Ointment is for piles only, but we men- tion this ailment as the most difficult to cure of all itching skin diseases. and the disease which has never been absolutely conquered by any other treatment. Among the ailments for which Dr. Chase's Ointment is being used by scores of. thousands of people with‘ uni- versal success may be mentioned: Eczema, salt rheum, tetter, baby eczema, rash. barber’s itch, chilbains, itching eyelids, ulcers, poisoned flesh; burns. scalds. sores, blind, itching. bleeding and protruding piles, and itching skin diseases of every descrip- tvi’on. Dr. Chase’s Ointment is [or sale at alldealers or sent: postpaid. on receipt of price, 60cte., by Edmmon Batu I 00., Toronto‘ MAJOR BU RNBAM.