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\Luv _-‘ other centuries for dying of trouble. There are : awful possibilities in vie‘ pmr: of the earth there ties and problems of a. d alleled in history. The E «As if these two stupendous problemsx were not enough to give the present1 century a royal send off, there are‘ other questions with very serious as- pect. There are insurrections and rebellious in 80qu America which will apparentl rovide more than the P . LL..-J{.L~.A.I and nxciLemento It is rebellions in South America “munE i: will apparently provide more t ‘ v. usual bloodshed and excitement. extremely likely that a decision \xiil!h c be reached as to whether a canal will', 1 .be cut through Central America at 1 {Panama or at Nicarauga. The Al- E‘aslian boundary is Still a matter of Edispute between Canada and the Unit- ' States. Canada and Great Bri- min Jhave not in this case got at all what they want; and it is extremely unlikely that, when the question is ' taken up, Great Britain will re- cede from her demands in the slightest ‘The‘ EXposition at Paris will, degree it is Said, be a glorious effort, (at surpassing all that have preceded and wilbx- 3. .il comm rc al and in;.ustrlal' triumph for the end of the century. The last year of the 19th century also witnessed an example of expanâ€" sion. when the United States assumed E inlperial sway, the results of which 5 are more extensive and serious than was at first supposed. WHAT IS 'A LIE? Simple as the question is, it would ‘dou'uilezs evoke very different answers iron) different persons according to hei“ information and relation to the Ebjecz. Shakespeare makes Falstaff 3': “Lord, how this world is given Jo .vv â€"â€", _ . lying.” Probably the world is not cry afferent now trom what it was in Shakespeare’ s time. As he makes another character say. ' "’Tis as easy as lying,’ practitioners of the art then as there are 110“ . -OV â€"' . 01w. trouble in obtaining an exact pepuiar definiion of what constitutes a lie‘ is that so many people are inter- eszed parties. No person who lies habisuaily. frequently or even occas- I Y (8‘ Exasperated 0m Gantkeman, to lady m front of him: Excuse me, madam, but my seat has OOSt me: ten shillings, and 1 want to see. Your hatâ€"â€"- The THE OBNOXIOUS HAT AGAIN .ted witness in the The Rev. Dr. Talmage Calling for a Wid Christianity. A despatch from Wash â€"The Rev. Dr. Talmage p] the following text: “Th iika the driving of Jehu Nimshi; for he driveth 2 Kings 11:. 20. Joram, wounaeu m DuLLup, ..w -_ hospital at Jezreel. The watchman. atandlng. 1n the tower, looks off and sees against the sky, horseman and charxots. A messenger is sent out to find who is coming, but does not re- and gets who .a re cavalcade cided. The watchman ca'n'not deecry I I I, ‘ L-â€" ‘4... A‘ +‘\A annroaChing man, the features of the approaching man, “I have found out who of Jehu. the son of Nimshi; for he 3' LL“! Llaau v- -.... v. we discover Jehu’s character. Ha I came with such speed, not. because3 he had an errand to do, but becausei he was urged on by a headlong disposi- t tion, which had won him the name of} a reckkess driver, even among the‘ watchmen. The chariot plunges un-z vvâ€" he had an errand to do, he was urged on by a bean tion, which had won him a reckiess driver, eve watchmen. The chari til you almbst expect crash under it, or som‘ party to be thrown or to become utterly he always 8033 5° By the flash of. that ma 517K116 [11.111 W nu ..--.. hundred, and goes up ~ am 1- nor r1; interests of a . along the Hudson to build his man- ‘ those who ar sion, the whole cit. hangs on our'ity without} skirts. crying: “ Don’t you hurt him 1” I the years, a‘ It is, therefore, left too the Church ‘weeks, and of God to make these things odious memeni'g, Everybody knows that - ward an and in the membership of our ' yet uncertai' churches men who devour wxdows’ are reckless houses, and digest them, and for afyou think pretence make long prayers. There ' six horses a are stock gamblers who are trustees: the midnigh of churches; in the eidership, those 1 you cannot ; - who grind the faces of the poor; and g face, dashinl ; while the Church will expel from its -; and along 1 ' membership, the drunlmrd or the lib- 5 Such a man 1 ertine, which of our churches has risâ€" 3 one who, a: 3 en‘ up to the courageous point of say- ‘; dashes on t. ‘:ing that a defrauder, be he great or ty, not knc 1 little, president of a bank. or keeper in driving, } of. a. cigar shop, worth a million. or a a road, and "bankraet, shall not come unchallengv the other ' led to our holy communion! The make inqui be ewe-pt out. But an or-- come to t] ‘ leads to he scrubbed. The time Which roe when the Church W111 to the rig] see that this great load of obloqny will you may {5 break her down. If a teamster,pa88- been much - diese- marks at ' ho atop lation hav -‘ not for the right of others, and who Thebones ' as over 011 along t V'J “ 9' It is, therefore, left to of God to make these ‘ and penal. Everybody there stand in the mem‘. churches men who de houses, and digest the: pretence. make long pr: 4-â€"AMA-~ mm D wounded in battle, lies in a Erom‘Washington' says: Talmage preached from text: “The dnvmg 13 m of Jehu, the Son Of driveth furiously." one sentence, the heads of innocence, Virtuu am. -- ligionâ€"no chastisements. Some time ago, in t ' of New York, a young man in a jewellers store, stood “behin lering gold rings said, “Those rings are fourteen car ats.” The lady replied, “I want a a ring of sixteen carats;" and not 8°" U ' ted, went may]. i firm came am you not were six- to a. customer. * deceive anybody." Th ‘- the firm severely reprima and said, "You never can 88 . ness to this way. It is lawful in bus: . ntataons?" make these little misreprese ? A hero! 3 l Who was the young man tlemen representing P 3 Who was the gen e the firm?A deacon in a Brooklyn church. 3 of defrauders Meanwhile this clas y increasesâ€"more during the war than 1’ before it; more now than in -war- 0 times. In those days of large conâ€" 3 ' tracts, and convulsions in the gold- l6 l market, and suttlerships in the army, multitudes of men got so in. the habit of cheating that they cannot stop. In 8, . those days they bought a very Splen' le ‘; did house and their roan span, and 5e ; , . . ' hip with the1 99: ' “ ‘ square; and ‘. gmeans must somehow be obtained to >1" l continue in the same style, for Keep 0f house they ought, anti drive that he' roan Span they will, and walk the 1 beach at the watering-place with the e track .n-. _, t .Astors they must. Clear th 0 l for these reckless drivers. 3-__1:“" When I see in the community, men with large incomes but larger out- gces, rushing into wildest under- takings, their pockets filled with circulars about gold in Canada, and lead in Missouri, and fortunes every- where, launching out in expenditures to he met by the thousands they ex- pect to make, with derision dashing across the path of sober men depend- -_ ing upon their industry and honour of Esuccess, I say, “Here he comes, the {send Nimshi, driving furiously." l When I see a young man, not con- ‘tent gradually +0 come to a compe- , tency, careless as to how often he goes lupon credit, spending in one night’s Searousal a month's salary. taking the: lfew hundred dollars given himl {for starting in the purchase of a iregal wardrobe, ashamed to work, I anxious only for display, regardless of lhis father’s counsel, and the example of the thousands who, in a short Ewhile, have wrecked body, and mind, '5 and soul in scheming or dissipation I ,‘say, “Here he comes. the son of Nim- ' , shi, driving furiously." ‘I would that on the desk of every I counting-house, and on the bench of S every artizan, there were a - bible; t and that by its instruction all busiâ€" l ness men were regulated, and that 1 they would see that godliness is proâ€" e iitable for the life that is, as well as for that which is to come; and that g business dishonour is a spiritual dis- 1 aster; and that a man may be the 1 leader of a Methodist class, or the * itrustee of a Baptist church, or an ‘ "example" in a Quaker meeting- . house, or a_ vestryman in an Episcopal ‘parish, or an elder in a Presbyter- , ian church, and yet go to perdit‘ion. l Thus far my discourse may not ': have touched your case, and l consid- ier that sermon a failure which does lnot strike every one somewhere. I ‘ghave no desire to escape personal i preaching. ’ \Vhat is the use of going i to church it not to he made better? I ‘ lnever feel satisfied when I sit in Echurch unless the preacher strikes i some of my sins, and arouses me out :of some of my stupidities.’ Now, you iimay, in wordly affairs, be cautious, :Etrue, honourable. and exemplary: but Nam I - not right when I say. that a1! - ‘ those who are speeding: inward etern- ‘I 0 ___.k 1t ngvlthout Sreiaa'i‘atibnâ€"flying wi‘: h the years, and the months. anjd :22 In ULLV $1.159 ’Vu ‘1va -w -â€" a road, and one goes to the right, and' the other to the left, you stop and make inquiry as to which road, you ought to take. To-night, you have como to the forks of. a road. One leads to heaven and the other to hell. Which road will you take? The road to the right jg a little rough â€" yea, 1'; k-.. v h-‘r' .IDâ€"- â€"V â€" _ 0 you may find 1t very rough. 'It haej been much out up with the hoof- marks of the cavalry of temptation- There are a great many steep hills. You will see where torrents of tribu- lation have washed the road away. The bones of the martyrs are scatter- ed along the road. I will not decelve Church Me bets More Continuous , went away. firm 0311*6 and virtue of defraudel’B the war than ban in -war- and re- Talk about castles V kings and queens. . ‘ . , Bul notwithstanding the brilliant; terminus of the road, you forks. because the le a great deal smoother; ' you will drive in that way. 'I see mul- lit titudes of peopl stop at the for The coursers behin panting with l tended, foam dronping from the bit and whitening the flanks, but still ‘1‘ urged on with lash and shout and ex laughter; the r ins undrawn; the em- b, the steed k' bankments unwatched; unnoticed. Alas for the reckless drivers! They may after a while see P'- the peril and seize the reins, and lay a. back with all their might, and put t, on the brakes, and cry for help until their hands are numb, and their eyes start from their sockets, and the c breath stops, and the heart chills, x; as over the rocks they plunge, cours- t 1 er and chariot, and horseman, tumb- ,_ g ling, in long-resounding crash of t .r- behind them. Once £u 1y under way, no sawing of the bit can stop them. They start at every sudden sight or sound; and where it needs a slow step Bit andgreat care, they go with bound Their eyes are aflame with terrors, and their boots red with the n whose life they have hat is worse, the :m into more furi- Ito ous Speed. \K’e come out and tell eep them of dangers ahead, but with jeers hat they pass on. The wild team smoke the with the speed, and their flying feet the strike fire, and the rumbling of swift ack wheels over rotten bridges that. Span awful chasms is answered by the ‘ : “Because I fig,- called and ye re They start at every sudden sound; an and great care, they go wi terrific. Their eyes are afi terrors, and their boots red blood of men whose life dashed out; and what is w .drivers scourge them into 1 ous Speed. We come on1 them of dangers ahead, but they pass on. The wild te with the speed, and their : strike fire, and the rumblir wheels over rotten bridges awful chasms is answerl rumbling of the heavens: called and ye refused, and the value or the whole unv com, they would cheerfull if they could buy butan, hc trom the horrors which t Young man betore yo chariot. of sin, go and a tho c reckless drivers. as fair 3 cheek as you, a heart. They steppet ally agidq. They read T “GA n. Better stop now near Princeton. 1‘ Luv “W vvvvv feet again in two weeks. Well, didn't he do it? He did, indeed. I had bicycle to pay his bill. A mathematician that a‘man Sixty, yq three years of hm ‘ collar. A C _-- ~â€" A mathematician has estimated sixty years old has spent that a‘ man three years of his life buttoning his collar. 13 that ad I wonder ,how many years at her life a woman of forty- five has wanted in putting her hat on straight. :79. us one round more :' 1..ch DUNN might nuuuiw . . ‘ JUuL-U ~â€"--- With a Wild crash break through waiting, but the man foreshadowed o .bottomless perdition. Do not had come in God’s own time. Every 5 k “7 any longer. .Sto? now. God sentence of Scripture was sure oi its ; re (:15 from; ioolhardmess 0f the one accomplishment. God rarely brings 3 1n more . v ~' rd in the we ' ex ected E thank God that I have met You to- g} fi‘éiéwfl‘g providence is: a pierpet- : ght, and been permitted to tell you ual surprise. ; :ich is the right road and which the 22 Wondered. At his clear insight . rong road. You must take one 01: into the Scriptures, at his original in~‘: leave you at the forks, terpretation and forcible presentationi 9: other. I ‘ And may GOd have mercy upon all of the truth The whole address was: 100.90 for yourselves! a, revelation. Some who begin with; -â€"‘â€"*"â€""' wonder end with love, but others, as} HE KEPT HIS WORD. :these men of Nagreth, end in hate! . . Gracious words. t us learn at the? The doctor sald hed gut me on my gfeet of Jesus how. to present God’s :et 383“} 1? twodweefls. amessage to our classes tenderly and Well,. dlfiln t he 101:3 d to ”n m iaifectionately, as gracious vyords. .He did. In 99 - b'll y f Joseph’s son. ‘ The name by which he icycle to pay his 1 - {was popIEIIlagy hknolwn. b "".. . ’ 23.24. e t ysef.Bythisprover A gathemeticxan 11331 d °§tfatg 2 current at the time, they wiould re1 hat a man suty. 1991's 0 9:3 99h. ; mind him that, if his powers are sup- L“- “M” “f 1113 hie buttonlng 1"iea'naturel, they can best be shownb ‘ - " ‘ "â€" 1-..:1... My“ 11 som‘e here Who THE SUNDAY SCHOOL mumnom ussoianB.25-- 111KB 4.16-50 Golden Textâ€"lie (‘amc Unto Ills Own Received film 50:. PRACTICAL NOTES- . {2" Verse 16. Nazareth. A village ofn lovely vale, two miles of Esdraelon, six miles west Tabor, and about twenty we southern end of the Sea of now E-n-Nasirah, with a population of If about four thousand. ‘ Where he had :15 been brought up. ’W‘here, too, with 1e: little doubt, he had worked as a car- bx P501813 We may well suppose that Di many of those who were his hearers 3: that morning bad i ' : ‘ st of the 2 Tiberias, ph ery noticeable trait and even boyhood, unknown to us, Was well.sl L known to them. They were doubtless‘i : of their townsman’s eloquence“; , proud and power until they understood him: to claim the Messiahship. " That they ' C could not bear. Let us carry Christ’s : best. Let us not be ashamed to be _ his followers anywhere. .As his cue»i ,f tom was. He knew more of the divine § mysteries than all the scribes, but he ‘ ‘1 would teach us by example that to y worship God. publicly is the duty of g , . a - ; , Ere-m our ear.1cst Child- ; a. hood we should be accustomed to at- ” tend God’s house. Our faithfulness :p to the church should not depend upon id th our interest in the yreaching, but he should be a matter of principle. lnto B: the synagogue. In all the Jewish world there was only one temple, with ri- all its sacrificial services; but every .vO“ (Umâ€"l. ;t ',l 31 world there was only one temple, With 25‘ its sacrificial services; but every Seraf ship, where the people assembled on these Sabbath days. The services consisted 1y b4 of psalms of praise, the reading of a you selection from the law, and generally W21] w r another from the prophets, after ._ 28 was present could ' ed t speaking. Each but synagogue was so arranged that the T1229 . T worshippers faced Jerusalem. The ang men sat on one side, the women on the the other, a wooden partition between. in up an ark of painted wood were the holy The the books. Stood up. There is a flutter The of interest and annotation in the ten main, well known. a r ' , ‘ as a religious teach- abc 1‘ er, but as a simple mechanic, blame- “In less in life and. earnest in piety, gust bin 3 beginning to be the subject of strange dei L reports as a miracle worker and pro- re' 3 phet, rises and requests that the roll mg 3 oi the prophets be handed to him. fai ‘3 17. The book. Each "book’ of the h‘ ‘3 Scripture-s was written on a separate ET) 9 parchment, which was rolled on two cfi " cylinders, beginning at each end, so 8 that the place was found by rolling :11: r off from one end and rolling on at i- the other. Esaias. The Greek form ‘2: .- of Isaiah. The place. The first ser- m« '8' mon of the New Testament dispensa- . tion finds its fittin . ' 3‘9 "1 Let us revere the 4 ‘8 merit, whose pages point so directly w ‘p to Christ. Where it was .written. B‘ ' ' “ ken mostly, but not ‘1' those selections from the pmphet in which most distinctly proclaimed him- I! " P he self and his mission. . 0f 18, 19. The Spirit of the Lord. no.1 ”‘1 call the story of the baptism. Anoint-. ii “t ed me. Turned into English this 0 .u- would be "christened me.” for the v 13' word “Annointed” is “Christ” in s 2y Greek; but it carried with it the idea ; 93' of special consecration. as much as ’ t or does ihe “crowning” of a king. Go's- t 0‘ pel . "Glad tidings.” Never let us io-r- ‘e “it get that Christ comes to bring gladâ€" I ey; ness and joy to troubled hearts. To 1 .n ' ‘ha poor. While the world notices the i av- rich,‘ Christ comes with his special - .__a A: q.- 1nd. liverauoe to captives. The world )9“ liw lettered in the prison house of 831' sin; Christ comes to set it free. A0- and ceptable year. A.re£erence to the ere year of jubilee, which came every half ‘ century, when debts were cancelled, and slaves freed. and estates redeemed! . .. rings men back into right } {’1 a relations with one another. l 8.9“ ~ 20. Ciceed the book. By rolling it ; Hist . ‘ . The chaz-i the zen, whose duiiaes were more like: those of a sexton than those of a min- ‘ a o ister, having charge of the building 30%“: and its furniture, including the sac- ond red box containing the books of Scrip- ? b ture. Sat down. The Jews stood in j .e- token of respect While , the Scrip- t but "sat while speaking. I no All the discourses of Christ were de- 8 'c . ‘ ' sition. We should 1 e listen with eyes as well as ears to was those who speak in God’s house. ' His first 'tcfiyt' pended discourse. Scripture fullilled. f‘a‘fi Eight hundred years this word was 9‘18. L waiting, but nthe man foreshadowed _ j... A-..“ ":mn Everv had come in God’s om sentence of Scripture accomplishment. Go to‘ pass his word in t by men. His provid' ua-l surprise. ‘ AL U“. ww-:â€"â€"r- 22. Wondered. At into the Scriptures, terpretation and for of the truth Ehe V Da‘ltlvvu- â€"-___ L the prison house of nes to set it free. A0- A reference to the , which came every half debts were cancelled, and esmtes redeemed. ncrs men back into right 1 and Elisha, rejected by thtil‘ country- imeu. exerted their beneficent power in behalf of Gentiles. And so the Son of man will do no- wonders where he is rejected, but will pass over to the {“strangers to Gods inheritance.” "Three years and six months. Here again Je use phraseolcg'y d0's not! ‘ c10:-e1y agree with that of the Oldn L Testament, which mentions three t years, see 1 Kings 17. 1.89: 18. l, :2; 0 but the two statements are wt 1186‘ 9' h Eurily contradictory. See James 5. l7; alco Dan. 12. 7: Rev. 11.‘ 23, and 13. 5. b 26. Sarepta. Zarepha'h. The modern Y Shrafend. A Phoenician town lying 26. Sarepta. Zarepha’h. The modern Sarafend. A Phoenician town 13.38 between Tyre and Sidon. 27. Eiiseus. Elisha: None of them were cleansed. The bitterness of these two illustrations cannot reed:- [y be understood by us. “Seeing that you do not come to me in your .hem‘t. you have no c1.a':m upon m working power." "7 an" «11ml?- Vere cleansed. The bitterness m -~â€"-â€"-__-- 7 . hese two illustrations cannot readi- pad with a wire and through this Wire .3; be understood by us. “Seeing that Is sent'a current of erectncity, every ur heart. student of the wonderful force knows you do not come to me in yo you have no claim upon my miracle- Lhat the cylinder will become magâ€" working power." netized and will draw: to its center 28. Filled With wrath. They admlr- any bit of iron or steel that may be ' The eXperi- ed the graceful rhetoric of the sermon. placed near the opening. but were maddened by its application. ments in the PM“? ‘29. Rose up. In a tumultuous mob. tor when the center of the magnet Thrust him out. The. great mob of Is reached the attractive force is non- angry men pushed him through tralized and the bolt stops. Mr.G~ar- the muddy. closely built. streets and dner figured that if just before the up the hillside. The hill whereonJm-nter was reached an automatic me- " re to cut off the The city was not built on’ the ' the hill. but on the' lower. hillside. current the projectile would pass on They hustled him up to the cliff. m- through the cy ° ’ tending to hurl him down. There 13 force given it by. the magnet in the a rock not far away from. Nazareth first‘half‘ of its journey. The expert- about forty. feet high. which was very ment was tried and found to be practi- likely the scene of thisc tumult. C‘ast cal. Out of an ordinary wooden spool, wound with copper wire, be repeated- hlm down headlong. To properly unâ€" sent a bolt of iron the size of a derstand the action of the Jews who Ly: rejected Jesus, we must remember man's Little finger forty feet 361083 that a false prophet in that day was his laboratory. The next step was to far more infamous than a false pro- make a series of magnets in asingle phet to-day. Brigham Young- or ‘ tube. The bolt passing throng Joseph Smith, self-deceived or hypoâ€" ‘ first section of magnetism enters the critical, stands before the community second: with the speed with which it and proclaims his baseless EOSPBL and left the first. As it enters the third the intelligent community, While cenâ€" ‘ the velocity is still further accelerat- suring him severely, allows him, never- - e ' ’ t number (1, and thus with a sufficten theless, the private right 0! judg- ot powerful magnets in ment and in cases where blood 19 shed, there 15 no limit to the size of the 9“?" . m at Carthage, ' '° h which It is very apt to sym- jectile or the velocity mt , pathize with the victim rat to of her than. may be thrown from the muzz with the attacking party. John the this unique weapon. Baptist and Jesus were both MODEL OF THE NEW GUN. addressed as Rabbi, ’l‘eachenbu’c Mr.Gardner's working modetisnot ; neither of them had anything in. milk .of a large s1zg’ for ‘.te to have had a .. mon with the hidebound rabbis who, of too recent a 0.1 : imiflt Pig: and d‘SC‘lssed m" con- more pretentious one complebged. tI’t x: . a .,. . with a re a 00 .- really claimed much more than PIO- the size of a lead 9031.311, Ephetic dignity when he had. {filid‘ iswound with three 601 .. I “This day is this Script“re fulfilled making a separate ' a in your ears." That Scripture could common Wire nail-s with th? heads m, and Wit-h ”I“ 8 only be fulfilled by the Messiah. ._And cnt‘ off for projecti penetrate a e was this low-bred carpenter the Mes- bow-force con-trivance can 1 Slab? ham-inch plank at the distance of a; 31). Through the midst. Marched twenty feet. ';8 through the midst. After having been The Inventor as assured of the cor- rn side to side by the riot- reâ€"ctness of the‘ - ~ : . exerted superhuman he has proceeded. bRCk abashed at ficulty that now ' .‘0 his divine majesty. t 16 her of intimations in the Bible that switches that al there was a certain restrained majesty tric current at the d“ abtu’. Jesus which, when he allowed Without deterring,- tn the slightest (it! v- if, to assert, itself, paralyzed his op- gree the speed of the projectile. Tht vr- rpoinents. - mmhamcal problems which needs onl _ --.â€"- AmJ-ll 7 Ordinarily, i-ndisposition. is eiaboratel and promptly treated. ,- But- it's different with the Chinese Emnex‘or. His doctor cannot even a sovere-ign's slightest y diagnosed But it's dluerem, vu Emperor. His doctor reel his pulse. A few weeks ago th mans at Peking failed {evens}: lassitude from ' ~ I " â€"â€"-â€"‘ On his knees the great physician en- tered the presence of his sovereign. The Emperor and the Dowager Emg press were seated at opposite sides of = a low table. The Emperor said' nothing; etiquette forbade the doctor to ask questions. The Empress began to describe His Majesty's symptoms, the invalid con- firming her words by occasional nods, the physxcian being compelled to keep ‘ ' directed toward the floor. = Finally at the Empress’s command the gstill kneeling physician placed the rpalm of his hand delicately on the Emperor’s wrist. But he was not per- . Emitted: to feel the royal pulse or to examine the Emperor's tongue and ; throat, which were in a condition of 3 considerable ulceration. i The Ernpress’s m’onologue finished, . later his diagnosm and advice for 3 treatment, which, as he well knew, i must be safely orthodox, to the Grand iCouncil. o! the Court. 113 I like in the Boers, said the soldier who had just returned from the front, The reporter, who was on the staff of the loading ,daily, felt tor his pencil. . Yes? he said encouregmnglyl. 01%: ON '01-];11 Lxen Fang audience. Here a court phySI- to dissipate a which the Em- Lt" come to. t V. emcee, w [e is were sche Ly era in: wa a their (:13? nâ€" and base 11- . nâ€" anon, th in come ta” k6 manta v ’6' pected. i-x IF . . en 1t 16 furt by nor gun roâ€" ture am :2: almost nd are set as; world u ter projectil read of the 1 3°th hind, is ry- tlve for AN ENTIRELY NEW DEPARTURE IN FIELD ORDINANCE N a 1m: ELEGTRIB GANNUN. twenty “:69. The Inventor as assured of the cor- n which reâ€"ctness of the‘principie npo he has proceeded. The greatest dit- ficulty that now besets him is the per- fection of the system of automatto 0 out of! the eleo- switches that are t tric current at the proper moment without deterring m the slightest de- gree the speed of the projectne This ’ tains is nothing more thgn a. 1 problems which needs only is. sufficient amount of experimenta- tion to develoy. The switch system he - ‘4‘“ m nnnsidered rather deuce“ va n..â€" ._ a sufficientâ€" amount or. expex meg”...â€" tiou to develoy. The sthch systegn he now \fises 15 considered rather delicate tor pracucal field work. One point; to. which the iuventor atâ€" shell canno cannon us because the shock of the the- charge would explode it. In the bar- rel. and the great problems ofi inven- 'meams of > In the electric gun the :hell starts at no speed, and the impetus ls a<.-qu1red : by gradual and increaued force. There ’ LS no shock at any point of the jour- ney. The only piene of ordnance that has ever successfully thrown dyna- mite Shells is the Zalinski ptnfiuimfltlc gun that was mounted on the U. S. S. Vecuvms. But the range of this man umited to something lesa than a mile, while it was not considered altogether safe, even then. - . -__. -..:ll known 9 P30” suits, UVvu wwwww ' The: electnc gun W111 have a range than any cannon now greater perhaps . m exzstence. and wm hurl its projec- tile, no matter how explosive it my be. with a gentlenees that will insure safety 'to everybody except the tar- get of the marksman. Lâ€"g NO PAY IF CAPTURED. It will doubtless surprise most peoa p16 to learn that any soldier of the British army who is capturéd by the enemy gets his pay stepped at once, therefore, the 2,000 English warrior: who are now playing football on the Pretoria are in no sens. AN OLDSAYING. ,va' 'â€" Lb thg heads and\ \Vim thm m penetrate a a dmtanca oi