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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-2-19, Page 3Mee \ser ieeeloteeteseeeeepoesimaat "viz LAPeED M." The The membere of the Hamilton Minister. lel Aesociatiott are going to try to lied out, at their next meeting, why a* ntany people do not go to church, Rev. John Morton will read a paper on "The (Murree and Her Betranged Childreu," and other ministers will give their viewe, The ghee - tion if3 one that has puzzled laymen, and many will be very Wad 11 the prettehere are sable to decide it. Perhaps there is not cleurch-room for the whole population of a city like hie,.»u It ik; eertain that all the avetleble room is not utillzed. Whose fault is it? Are the people to blame? Or the ['remitters? 04 ia the eystern of religion at fault? Do those who attend the churches ect in mirth a way as to keep others out? Or are the non-cleurch•going people too proud, too stingy, too lazy or too )ignorant to oast in their lot with those who .corapoi3e the oongregatione ? rl be sleets in the churches are ootnfort. .able. The mash) is, ae a rule, exoellent. The (service's are short end not ted10119, and they are held at convenient hours. We can eympathise with the inclination of a workingman to lie abed on Sunday morn- ing, after having bean obliged to breakfast by lamplight the other six mornings'in order to get to hie work at 7 &. m., but utuely he could get hie Bleep out and be tidied sup Imfore 11 o'olook, and he must have been stirring long before the 7 p. m. Gervioe begine. In some cases the lack of good olothes and of money to put on 'the ms plate moor deter from attendance at church, but we notioed thet workingmen and their wives turned out bv hundreds to hear Frank Fogg talk in the Opera Elouse et few yettrs ago ; they kept them seats end gave attention for more than two hours, and few of them failed to honor the collem tion plate. He was talking about weigee end broad aud butter. Are thos snbj eta of more importanee than the deatuty of immortal souls 2 We do not propoee to solve the problem for our friends the ministere. It is too deep for UR. But we venture to suggest, es brencin topic which needs clearing up, that there is a wideepread feeling that ithe preachers are not thorough believers in the doctrinee they preach, and that a little more of the ardor of oonviotton would prove a drawing ord. Yeare ago, when higher ednoation was not so common, the circuit riders at a camp meeting or a pretreated revival servioe thundered away in dead wriest. Whether the topio was the pains of hell or the love and pity of Christ, it was plain that the preacher believed every word be spoke, and the wickedeet men in the congregation never doubtedthe preacher's eincerity. Then most people went to church, some perhaps only to vieit and goseip but most of them to worship; now many do not go to church at all, and, of those who do go, many are spectators of, and not partakers in, the worship. Is it a mienomer to call us a Obrietian people? To doubt the divine thspiration of one word of the Old or New Testament used tie Toa accounted sacrilege. Now doctors of divinity tell es that we canuot look to the Bible to teach us what Christianity is, because "the Bible is not a book, but a library of many books', written in different ages, by authors whose names are in some (setae uaknown or disputed, containing here and there statements that oannot be reconoiled with the laws amiePted by selectee, or even with hietorioal fact, and disfieured by variations, corruptions end interpolations of the text, which taek all the energy of modern scholership to remove them." The Greek version of the Old Testament differs from the Hebrew, inserting, omitting and altering, and even the Elebrew version contains books which \ are rejected by Hebrew commentators. In ' orthodox England, it is contended, since the publication of the Revised Version, that StePatil did not write the Epistle to the Hebrews and that S. Jade wrote the second Epistle of Peter. "But what, per- haps, will impress modern readers more than any other fact is that the Lord's Prayer iteelt is recognized by the Revised Version to have been corrupted by the addition of the conolading doxology, and that the samemersion prints as of doubtful authority, not only the story ot the woman taken in adultery (found in St. John's Gospel), but even the last twelve verses of the Gospel of Si. Mark, the spuriousness of which, if proved, would destroy the earliest evengelistio evidence as to the Resurrec- tion of Christ." This quotation is not from Bob Ingersoll, but from Rev. Dr. Abbott. Modern seholare bring forward very plausible evidences to prove that Chris- tianity is not an original religion at all, but an adaptation of Buddhara. Is it possible that our learned preachers believe this, and therefore have lost some of their old earnestness? Buddhisin is religion with- out God, jest as Comptism is Christianity without Christ. Travellers say that there is a startling difference in the popular appreciation of Buddhism and Christianity The former is ueiversally accepted, say, en Banneh, while the daily life and conduct of statesmen, priests .and people alike deny the latter in Europe and America.; that while Christianity is loudly prooleimed by its' drofeseors to be the only saving faith, and it missionaries are sent to preach its mysterione dogmas to the uttermost parts of the eerth, on the majority of English. men, the most cultured and the mot de- graded, it exeroises no influence. "The MEWS of the working classes' ignore it alto- gether, and the middle class, among whom it him the firmest and deepest root, do mot mem under its teaching to grow lees material." It would be unkind and unfair to charge al that oar ministers preach what they do ' not believe, but their lessons often lack sexplioitness. A wicked men dies, and his wicked friends follow him to the grave. A ,preacher is on hand, and the lemon is mad about committing the body of oar dear departed brother to the grave in eure and certain hope of a glorious reeurrem (don. All the old (shams of the deceased know thet he never earned admission to the joys of heaven, either by his faith or hie works. They are pleased to hear the preacher "cheek him through," but they go .away talking about how much money the dead man left for his family, and not about the destination of his soul. Theses men, have not read either Paley's' or Dlowat's " Evidences of Christianity ;" they never enter a ehuroh except to help bury a friend, and on ettoh occasions they are not ,plainly taught that a man must behave well in this world or pay the penalty in .the next. We are aware that in writing thus we may be treading upon dangerous ground hut we mean it for the beet. It may help . the Ministerial Association to arrive at a oorreot conoltigion on *hie subject of their °holm, to know what laytnen-or sinners-- moribes, or even Pharimes-think about it. Women are believed to be the mainatay of the churches!. They are raore regular in eattendence, more devout, more obaritable, more selfmacrifioing, More correet in their oondnot, than men. Yet a Woman wrote the following: Theology and the Army are both dying etrefessione, I do not mean to indicate that I think either will be dead in my time, but they are on the down grede, looked at from a Emoiologicel point of view. Trein• ing men for is life of battle -to leern how ece kill each other fastest and etteieet-le surely of the pest, 'I he days of warfare, let ne hope, are numbered, Just ha pro. portion se eve are eivilmed, we will ilot tiglat-and we are steadily appretiching civilization. That is whY I OM to Albert, `Do not be a profeseioual toddler. Don't join a dying profession. Take one on the up grade. Take one diet yoa will have to hurry to keep up with. Don't chemise one that you must needs loiter behind, and hold beak if you stay AU epeakieg terms with it.' That ie what I said to him about the Army. Now as to hie more recent notion -The. ology. Hera are exactly the same object. done. War and Theology belong to the Emote age. They belong to the infancy of the mug. The former is civilized by progress to the extent of gritting guile and torpedo Imam ; the latter to the verge ot sealing hell over, and reading the viottrioue monement and original sin out of good society. But in the nature of things, 'theology must get its light from the peat, It ie based on a revelation long duce elotied. It cannot Bay, ' We expeot to revise this nutil it fits our needs '-aes in law, or medie eine, or j iurvelism. The religious law- revelatioa-ie maled. A clergyman who is honest must go to the records of the dead past for hie light, hie iuspiratron, his guici. anise. The final appeal of any orthodox clergyman must be the Bible. He cannot doubt the jaetioe of Jehovah, end be an orthodox °lore) m tn. He 080 10* qsasetee, the gamin. st of tee Jewish God, end be true to his ordination vowe. 11 ottnuot throw ovetilwhat natty shook or pin bun in the Ne W Teetaineut ; he cannot maintain bus mental integrity in dieuuseing the mir • miles, and be au orthodox minister. In ahort, father, if Albert ever outgrows ,the creed of a dead age, he will either have to stifle hie manhoon and his mentel integ- rity, or he wit have toahrow over hie pro• feseion-one or the other. Every one knows how hard this last ie for a mieister to do. lc means a lose, a struggle, a painful break with many years of his life, with mauy loved and loving frieuds, aud-often it means a Vast deal more than that to a man so unhappily placed. Why, father, while people talk so much of the clergy doing good te their fellows, living for them ana to save them, the honorable, progressive physician is aotually, quietly doing it. If there ia a human, and crippled sonle go there, surely, surely, there will be a Great Physician able to heal them -if He made them. It is here that aorrow, sufferiag and pain need looking after. Maa's highest duty is here. Do you know it is always an absurd idea to me that people who really believe in a personal God -and don't simply pretend to -seem to think that the Almighty made a miatekein locating them ? He put them here. It seems to me that is a pretty strong hint that right here is the places where their energies are needed. If He had wanted them to look after some other world, don't you think He would have put them nearer their poet of duty ? But it is so muoh easier to at- titudinize and pose for eome famoff piece and time than it is to take up the duties that are plain, and common, and tedious, right here and now. In short, father, it Beams to me that if a man is a rgood healer of bodies, he is in a far nobler business' than if he is a talker about eoule No, father, do not let him commit him• self, in his youth, to any calling which will bully him if he changes his mind, and hound him if he makes hie changes known. Many good women will dieeent from these views. Many of them, we know, if the choice were left to them, would gladly see their brothers and sons in the pulpit. But all of them would grieve to see the friend in the pulpit have to coax people to come and listen to him. What is lacking to make the Goepel menage awaken popu- lar interest ? Lives of others oft remind as Married life may be sublime. We trust to be forgiven this parody of lines from Longfellow's immortal "Psalm of Life." Eluebands who are wiee and thoughtful, know that the happiness of the home depends largely on the health of the mistress of the home. Many are the tasks which daily confront her. How oan a woman contend against the treals and worries ot housekeeping, if ahebe suffering from those distreesing irregularities, ail. mente and weaknesses' pecinaar to her sex? Dr. Pierce's Favorite Presoription is a specific for these disorders. The only remedy, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers. Satis- faction guaranteed in every case, or money refunded. See printed guarautee on bottle • wrapper. A Palace ou Fire. A leaUtelle¥ P.A.E0300( Who has Probably Addsd murder to his Other onamics. An Alleany, N. Y., despatch seem Tbe Rev. A. W, George ie pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church at Leeds, three miles from Catskill, going there from New Jemmy about three weeke ago. On Friday evening Coroner Kortz was notified thek Lotta Towneend, of that place, cleared to make an anteanortera (statement. ;Mise Town - Bend is a more than ordinarily hendsonee girl, with a plump and welnrounded figare. She was 20 years old last July. She stated that about the filen of September she entered the George family, whieti coeelated of tine minister and hie wite'as an adopted daughter. Eler mother is dead, and her father lives at laishkill. Slaortly after Miss Townsend entered into the family Mrs, George went west to Vieit relatives, and hes not returned. One Sunday night in September, and at various dines after this, she consented to his propositions. Later else informed George of her condi- tion, and he took her to Dr. Erway's offise hare on three different ociettaions. Opera- tions were performed on her with instru- naents. Teter condition became alarming, and the corner was notified and took her ante-mortem Amato:tent. To -day he visited Leeds, and George made a aonfeesion ourrobcratirm the girl's statement. War• rants have been issued for the arrest of both George arid Dr. Erws,y, AN AAR AsSADO tt'S SU' tIDE. 'I he Turkish Euvt.y to tust.r 011108 to land au Uuln.ppy Lire. A. Vienne cable sews : It was aenounced here yeeaerday that Sa (Meth Peelle, the Tureish. Am mostidor to Austria, Was suffer- ing roni a fit. It now trimmeres that he attempted euicioe in hie bathroom It is said he tried to strangle himself, and fail. in this, attempted to end his life by stop- ping up all the aperiures iu the room end alio wing the gee in the banters to escape. He was discovered before life wee extinct, and doctors hastily summoned. They worked over him for a long time and at length Bucceseded in restoring rstp.ration, but were unable to bring the patient back to consciousness, although every mimes 'mown to science is being employed. It is thought the arnbaesador will probably die. The Ambassador's attempt to commit an oide is believed to be due to family troubles, ae his wife is sufferiug from an incurable disease, and his favorite daughter has beoome ineane. A Paris cable says : Thepelace at Rouen is on tire. At len accounts a portion of the roof, 40 yards in circumference, ems in a blaze. The flames were extending down - weed despite the efiorts of the firemen. It seems probable the bnilding, which is widely noted for its architectural beauty, will be destroyed. The fire was flintily quenched. The damage was confined to the upper pertion of the structure. The older ana more valuable wing was saved entire. The " Black Death " in Rlibbiti. A despatch from Tobolsk says the terra • ble seougre known as " black death " has reaohed the City of Tobolsk, the capital of West Stberia. The whole of Asiatic Ramat. from Samarkand to the month of the Obi is suffering from the Emerge. Thousands are dying at Obdorek, near the month of the Obi. Owing to the lack of physicians, It seems almost hopeless to try and check the spread of the fearful disease. That's Co. New York Herald: Once in a while politician complairs because the news• papers tell lies abbet him. It would be very rough, though, if the newsmen were tMmend their ways and tell the irtith about them. The Silver Question. New York Herald : "Have you got a quarter about you, old fel, that yon don't have to have ?" Logical. Washington Poet: Brown -1 can marry any girl I please. Van Riper-There'e the rub; you don't plesse any. M Floquet has been re-eleoted President of the French Chamber of Deputicer, reoeiv- ing 282 out of 333 votes cast. The weather heel been so phenomenally mild in Southern Alberta that in sheltered pletoes trees are budding into leaf. There are rumors in London that Sir George Stephen and Sir Donald Smith ere interested in the reconstruoted Bering firm. If riches have wings', the al mut Carta e einehip (otpitel 6/0,003,000) ogbl to ecia like a kirk. An English syndicate will buy out the manufeeturers of (Toole, bobbins and ehnt- lee in the States. THE IRISH. DISTRESS. Poverty-stricken People Refused Aid by the Board ot Guardians. A Dahlia cable Bays : It id stated that the poor people of the Provinces of Ulster, Connaught and Munster have reached the extreme limit of destitution. A. despatch from Mitchelstown Mates that a crowd of poverty etre:hen people called upon the Board of Gaardians there, asking 1 or relief. The bard refused to do anything for the apphoents. even refusing them aBsistance trom the Zetlend-Balfour fund. A. despatch from Castlebar, County Mayo, Bays the Government, as a measure of relief, has emplaved a thousand men about Westport in the construction of a railroad. The Board of Guardians of the Borne loaelity have given tenants in need of assistance 1200,tone of seed potatoes. It is stated that Mr. Belfour's prompt action in relieving the poor in the west ot Ireland has averted many deaths from starvation. The Highest Wages. In the 'building trades the six cities in which the highest wages are paid are Ne w York, Brooklyn, ('hioago, St. Louie, Galvese ton ad San Francisco. fit. Louis pays the highest wages for masonry, New York for carpentry, San Francisco for painting, Chicago for plumbing, Santa Fa for roofing end Galveaton for common labor. The lowest wages are paid in the Southern cities. Two adjoining cities seldom pay exaotly the same wages. Philadelphia and Boston rank below the five leading cities, and many smaller Western oities pay higher wages. .4.1 the Police Station. Jester: First reporter -Yoa would never take that tall, dietinguished•looking man in the dook to be a bunco swindler, would yon? Second reporter -Why not? He has an imposing appearanoe. Mrs. Harrison never touches wine, punch or lamer of any deseription, and if her wishes were carried oat the strongest beverage served at the White House Btate dinners and banquets would be apollinaris water. On the President's private table wine is never tierved. The Login 01 Events. Life: Customer -Not long ago I came in here and bought; a porous plaster to help me get rid of the lainbago. Clerk -Yes, sir; what can I do for you now ?" Customer -I want eomething to help me get rid of the porous plaster. A Lucky Postponeme Rochester Herald: Wiggins, the weather and earthquake prophet, has graciously postponed the next great earthquake for Canada until August 17th, 1904, 11 Canada doesn't have an earthquake before that, then some of her statesmen are indulging in anneoessary apprehensions. • 8 101 WMt Gas .ENPL0.431014, A Woman's Brame Dashed Out on the Street and, other Persons Hurt. A Chicago despatoh Bays : With a (mash heard for a mile, and everything plate glams windows for a ratline of three blocks, a sewer man-ho)e exploded lest evening at the intersection of Jackson street and Wabash avenue, when both thoroughfares were crowded with people. Dozens of persons were thrown from their feet ity the foroe of the exploeion, and a wild panic ensued. A number were injured by falling glass. In the orowd were many women Mrs. C. 11. Crom (oolored) was kIlled outright. She was stepping nearly upon the manhole when the cover flew up and she was 'dammed backwards egainet the curbing. Eler skull was split open and her brei ne were scattered about in a circle. Those injered by glass were F. Et, Meek, C. M. Stout, T. Sneldon, J. Kate piers, K. W, Waddell. None were danger. ously hurt except Stoot, one of whose hands was nearly eevered from the arm. An officer who is stationed itt that corner had been standing on the men.hole cover almost continuously for hours. A right of way dispute between temmetere calmed him to change his position in the nick of time. Some attribute the explosion to sewer gas. °there think illuminating gas pipes oprang a leak, and the eleutric light wires caused the gas to ignite. A similar explosion with hardly leas ditiestroue retults occurred a year agu in almost the same locality. Yes, Be Met Them. New York Herald: Daggett -Hello, Cutting, did yon meet any glorious" turn- oute" in the Park this afternoon? Cutting- Oh, yes, a sleigh full of pretty girls cepeized. Some New Words. A " bibliodre snon " is a book fiend; "bibliopoliyau," a book dtsiroyer ; " biblioklept," a book robber; and a " biblioriptos," one who throws books around. -The Story of a Home. A Justifiable Case. New York Herald: "I am going to turn over a new leaf, ' Bald the stranger, "and am going to leaf off---" Then they rang for an imbalances and carried him off. FROZEN TO DEATH. indi Pupils Desert school and Perish in the snowdrlits. A Kingfisher, 0. T. despatch Bays: Themes trouble at tbe Krowit Indian school et Anadoiko, Wichii a agency. Ou the 9th lest. the preempt1 of the school paniehed a Ktowa pupil 1 a misconduct. The boy persuaded two ether Indian pupils to run a wily from &heel with him. Their absence was notioed that evening, but the principal supposed the boys had merely gone to the camp of their parents, two utiles away. Oa Saturday the teacher went in pursuit of the traants, but they were not found. Their partnis were notifitd, and their Tndian friends started in search of them. The leds were found on Sunday all frozen to death, one, 10 years of age, bung twenty ranee from school. The others, three or four. years older, were found within the next ten mate. It is supposed the boys lost their way in a heavy snow etorrn. When the principal learned of the boys' fete, fearing the vengeance of the Indians, he fled, end hae not since been heard from. A report was brought here today that 400 or 500 angry Indians are oemped near the agency, and threaten to burn the eohool building and to kit the principal if he cen be found. An applioation has been made ta the commanding officer at Fort Sill for troops to prevent any outbreak. ‘, Dr. MoKey, M. P. P. for South Oxford; Dlr. Thomism Ballantyne, M P. P. for South Perth; Mr. N. A.wrey, M. P. P. for South Wentworth, and Mr. 5.3. Davie, M. P. P. f or North York, are campaigning for Mr. Ahrens in North Perth. It is now stated that an additionel (shortage of $80,000 hits been dist:levered in the trust fun s held by the Attotney John 0. Hall, of San Francisco, and that the lorm will fall upon Mrs. H. A. Baldwin, whose estate was in Hell's charge. The United States Senate had a oon- tintious eemsion of 30 honest on Friday arid Saturday, OM:Med by the Republicens try. ing to oath through the Foroe" Bill. To. night the Repubirioen Senators intend having a mums tie consider the question of introducing closure, so as to be able to choke off Demoeratio disortesion. TRE MILIAN TROUBLES. The Revolution Does Not Affect the Land Forces at All. Iquique, Chili, advices say that when the (Magian navy revolted it was expected it would be emended by the troops in Antofagasta and Cal iera, but the soldiers remained faithful, with the rest of the army, to the Government. Several promi- nent members of Congress are said to be with the revolutionists. Jorge Moult hem been appointed commanderin-obief of the forces, and the commander of the ironclad Hummer has been replaoed by a former commeeder of the cruieer Esmeralda tielltSrattV't -Wand and other admirals re- main loyal and are preparing to defend Valparaiso. The Government of Chili, has offsred two years' pay and amnesty to those who have been unwillingly led into the revolt who will submit to the Govern meat. Pisagua and Caleta Buena, and probably Arica, will be blockaded on an after Jammu 25th. It is reported provis- ions are becoming very inane in Iquique. D NO Siti0170 PILE.% A Clounterrett 'Watch he 431%ing Business - mess auch Trouble. Here is a desoription of the new and dangerous eounterfeit ift bill which is being exteneively circulated throughout the country, especially the Western States: The couuterfeit ie exceedingly daegerous. It ie on the issue under the act of August 4th, 1886, department series 1886, and beere the large spiked seal Ana elm) the chesk letter LI and plate number 2 235, It is signed W. S. Roseoraus, register of the treasury, and James W. Hyatt, treaeurer of the United Statee It is well executed and is likely to deceive even the experts in handling money. The blue figures' or treasury numbers tkze deity out aud closely resemble those on the genuiee note. The portrait of Gen. Hancock is well engraved, bat the hair and mustache do not appear brushed as smoothly as in the genuine; also the star ea the right ehonlder is imperfect. The color of the seal is good, but le a shade lighter than the genuine. In the upper left and lower right corner ire the figure " 2 " of the genuine are engoaved in three places the word " two." Ureter% good fluoroscope it will be observed that in the ball of the "2" on the counterfeit the lettere "owl " are -engraved, but this defect would would not be discovered except by the aid of a good gime). In the word " United," in tretteurer of the United States, under signature of James W. Efyatt, the " i " and " t " extend a little below the other lettere. An attempt hae been made to imitate the silk fibre by drawing fine blue lines through the body of this man- terfett. The back of tiles counterfeit is exoeedingly well executed. To William C. Wachs, receiving teller of the Gernaen National Bank of Camila. nate ie dtt the credit of being the first to detect ibis dangerous counterfeit. Oae of the bills WAS handed over the counter to hira at the bank. Chief Brooks, of the secret servioe bureau in this city, has one of the bad bills in his possession. -New York World. The Scotch Strikers' Parade. A Sunday's London cable says: Thirty thousand trades' unionists paraded in Edinburgh yesterday as ademonstration of sympathy with the railroad strikers. The processioniets were orderly, and were cheered by tene of thoneands of persons who lined the streets. Banners were carried bearing such mottoee as " No Surrender," " Fight for Yonr Rights," " Fair Pay for a Fair Day's Work." There seems to be no prospect of an early termination of the railroad strike, which has now lasted four weeks. The Southwestern Railway employees having refused to rejoin the strikers the men are losing heart and gradually re- turning to work. A DEAD KING. Halakaua's Death Leaves the Hawaiian Throne Vacant. A last night's San Francisco despatch says : Kalakaus, King of the Hawaiian 'elands, died at the Palsoe Hotel here at 2.30 o'olook this -afternoon. There has been no hope of the King's recovery since Sunday, though his alarming condition was not generally kaown until last evening, when the attending physioians announced hie malady was Bright's disease of the kidney e and nue Kalakana's vieit to this country was made on account of his failing health. The King's rameine will be embalmed at once. It is probable funeral services will be held in Trinity Cleuroh here on Thursday, and the remains will leave for Honolulu on the United States flagship Charleeton before the Mose of the week, and it us probable the first intelligence of the King's death will be re- oeived by the Hawaiian people when the body arrives at Honolulu. Betaken& became King of Hawaii in February, 187,4. His sumessor will be his Bitter, Printess Lininokalani, who has been acting as Queen Regent during Kelaltana's absence from the i Amide. The a lent- lp /3 op. The right hip hop is the newest fashion of the New York promenade. It is the direct remit of the idiotic) walkiog dices!! fashion which turns a flock of handsomely garbed women loose on filthy streets in skirts whioh, if allowed to hang, would sweep the pavement with at ltast an inch and a half of their costly material To obviate this Billy sweep up of the refuse of the shopkeepers' brooms, the ladies of the promenade may be observed in great num- bers reeling their right forearm on their right hip, and with the hand extending beekward bolding up the superabundant skirt. The continued pressure of the right arm and the weight of the suspended skirt naturally retard the movement of the side of the body and the right -hip hop is the re. eult,-New York World. Put alc In My Little Bed. I am dizzy, dizzy, dizzy And I want to go to bed I've no appetite to eat, And headache racks my head, In other worde, I am suffering from a bilious attack, but Dr Pteroe's Pleasant Pellets will bring me around all right by tomorrow. They often cure headache in an hour. I have found teem the beet oath. ertio pill in existence. They prodnoe no nausea or griping, but do their work thor- oughly. They are convenient to oarry in be met pooket, and pleasant to take. In vials: 25 cents. The Reading of Books. An active -minded boy or girl oan find out a great deal about the •world we live in by the habit of attention, by looking around ; and he or she can get muohlinspira. don from the example of good men and women. But this knowledge can be added to indefinitely by reading, and people will read if they have a genuine desire to know things, and are not, as we say, " too lazy to live." When I hear a boy say that he does not know what to read, I wonder if he has no curiosity. Is there nothing that he wante to know about? Most children ask questions. It often happens that the persons they ask cannot answer the questions. Now, it is the purpose of books to do jest this thing which the particular person asked cannot do. And that is about all there is in reading. Of course it must be borne in mind that curiosity is of many kinds; eurioeity about facts, about emotions, about what happened long ago, about what is taking place now, about the people who lived ages ago, and the people who live now, about others, and about one's Bea. So it happens that one wants to read science, and poetry, and histoty, and biography, and romances, and the daily news It is quite impossible to lay down - rules for reading that will suit all children, and generally difficult to map out a " course " to be inflexibly pursued by any one. But nearly every mind is or can be interested in something, and a very good plan is to encourage reading concerning the subject the child shows some curiosity about. One thing will oertaioly load to another, for nothing is isolated in this world. Try to find out all you can about one thing, one fact in history, one person, the habits of one animal, the trath about one historical character; pursue this!, and before you know it you will be a scholar in many things. Do not forget that reading is a matins to an end. The indulgence of it is good or bad according to the end in view. The mind is benefited by punning Borne definite subject until it is understood, but it is apt to be imptired by idly nibbling now and then, tasting a theta:1'nd things, and swallowing none,in short, by desultory reading. -Charles Dudley Warner in Janu- ary St. Nicholas, ee Temple Sinclair, 18 years of age, son of Rey. Mr. Sinclair, pastor of the Beptiet Church &t Ridgetown, strayed away from home on Monday last while temporarily insane, and hits not yet been heard of. Fenn for his eitety are entertained. Meetings in South Norfolk in behalf of Mr. W. A. Chierhon will be addreeeed by Hon. John Dryden as follows: Todaight Port Ilyerse, on Tuesday at Welsh abd on Wedneedey at Welsingbem Centre, and on Tuemlay Dlr. W. T. R. Preston will speak at Port Dover. The Flatten of Turkey is not in all respeots the easehming monarch he is re- ported to be. He pasees a good part of the day with his secretary, discussing noettere pretaining to the empire, and it is hie boast that he has never signed a state paper without reeding it. he hosiers are taking advantage Of the primate etyle of big gloves, adopted by the ladies, to sell the pocket glove. A small puree is adroitly fixed in the paled of tbe loft glove anfacient for the reception of a bank bill or five piecee of silver. Olditioperatttloon. Cut your noels on Monday, out thenefor nOVIS Ma them en Tuesday, a ppAr of new shoot Cut traneoe Wednesday, out them for bealte ; C(Jutu ule eu ni oo tiTole,tit;t7:tye,,a0 juotutt :My yf 00 rit, W:gaul t; h. ; Out teem On Friday. out at zu for wee; Out them on Sunday, you'u cot them for evil, Fur tal the next week you'll De ruled by the a°viir. Mary 'Monday—for wealth. Murry Tuesday ior health; Marry Wednesday, the bes t day ot P11, ; Marry Thimecley for crosees, warys MarritLyzicLal.vay nfoo illooteti%1L Born ou a M—onday, otani1;1011a9t li;stia v, Pun of God's gzace ; 1.3 vetrorya aanwa glad'; di atidet;c1 a Yo I3orn on a Thursday, Sour and sed; Bedonciolyi egi7eind";'Y' Born ot a eaturdom Work for a living; Born of a Sunday, Never shall wanwtlioleet::: S 0A tnhoe tab': et en wo fleet! , fineez,e on 4 Monday, y—ou sneeze for danger; Sneeze on a Tuesday, you'll kiss a stranger; Sneeze8eeoe e0° in ae. TWileucirnsectdye.yio orit,i) sneeze for a letter gnu:13:001in losratarycLyyt),ny n e ernre 40 vr ram Our e h week. Sunday, your safetyseek- The " e have you the rownw e r ; k. -Chicago News.e Hugging int Churn h. Sunday evening services in the Church of Jesus in Montreal are remarkable for the beauty of tbe musical programme and elwaye attract large oon,gregatious. Young Protestants have made a babit of escorting their beet girls there after leaving their own church( s to hear the music, and the eervicee have degenerated into some- thieg like it promenade concert. Con- sequently the rector, Rev. Father Drummond, last Sunday issued an edict that persons entering the church after half past 8- o'clock shall pay an admission fee of 25 cents. In explaining hie reason for resorting to such drastic) meaures the rector Bead that the late visitors disturbed the regular worshipers. Besides the loud talking Father Drum- mond ettid he had been informed there was considerable flirting induleed in and that young, men had even been discovered with their arms around their fair com- panion's waists. This wile eoandelizing to the regular worshipers and some severe, steps were neceesary to have it stopped. Archbishop Tache, who is on a visit to Montreal, ie very ill at the Grey Nunnerv Mrs. O'Shea has been greatly annoyed by reporters and others since her arrival in Paris. She ie follewed ebout everywhere, ani can't take a walk in the street without having instantaneous cameras leveled at her. Hon, EDWARD Beeee has given $20,000 to the Toronto Unwereity to be apPlied to the endowment of matriculation scholar- ships, the holden of which shall be exempt from fees during the tenured their scholar- ships. A Willows (0a1.) man has constructed a telephone from his home to his store. by using three miles of wire fencing. The body of a woman was found last night a few miles from Stonewall, Man., with a bullet wound in the back of her head. She is supposed to have been mur- dered, and the provinoial authorities have been notified. The woman's name has not been ascertained. Arthur Waillmemn of Detroit, haa started on a starvation campaign of 46 days. He wants to beat Sucei. If he stun meths he will get $1,500 ; if he is alive in 30 days he gets *1,000. The high tides did a10,000 damage in Digby county, N. fi., on Monday. Wharves were oovered, stores flooded, hundreds of, cords of wood (serried away, roedwaye. washed out, flour and meal destroyed and other damage done. Miss Charlotte Crabtree (" Lotta ") is about to build a four-story brick store, building, to cost $50,000, on 125th street near Madison avenue, New York. The Canadian Pacific) steamer Empress of India made a trial trip from Liverpool to Glasgow on Saturday. 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