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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-2-15, Page 3TRE DIVINE FESTIVAL. THE INVITATION, ."oomn FOR ALL 1. THINGS ARE NOW READY" Mbe Great roasts of History AM (Mere shadowed lay the Groat Banquet Given by the Saviour of Mannino— Again lie fiays " Come!" BROMIL-flt, N. Ye Jan, 28,—The urinal large audience assembled in the Mabee. wale to -day and, listened to a sermon of tninkable power and tutored by Rev. Dr, Talmage, the subject being "Festivity." - The text selected was Luke 14:17—N:irate, ifor all things are now ready." It was one of the most exciting times in Sellish history when Queen Elizabeth iteleited, Lord Leicester at Kenilworth Case tle. The moment of 11,1'r arrival was mom aidered so important that all the clocks bf the oastle were stopped, so that the hands might point to that one moment ae being film most significant of all. She was greeted to the gate with floating islands, and torches, arid the thunder of cannon, and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a great burst of muse° that lifted the whole scans into perfect enchantment. Then she was introduced in a dining -hall the Mouths of which astoolehed the world.; four hundred servants waited upon the rusts; the entertainment cost five thousand dollars each day. Lord Leices- ter made that great supper in Kenilwoith Castle. Cardinal Welsey entertained the French ambassadors at Ilien,pton Court. The best cooks in all the land prepared for the ban- quet; purveyors went out and traveled tat the kingdom over to find spoils for,the table. The time came. The guests Were kept during the day hunting in the king's park, so that their appetites might be keen; and then, in the evening, to the sound of the trumpeters, they were intro- duced into a hall hung with silk and cloth of gold, and there were tables a -glitter with imperial plate, and laden with the rarest of meats, and a -blush witu the costliest wines: and when the second course ed the feast (tame it was found that the articles of food had been fashioned into the shape of men, birds and beasts, and groups dancing, and jousting parties riding against. each other with lances. Lords and princes and ambassadors, cut of cups filled to the brim,. drank the health, first to the king of England and next to the king of France. Cardinal Wolsey prepared that great supper in Hampton Oeurt. But I have to tell you of a grander en- tertainment. My Lord, the King, is the banqueter. Angels axe the cup -bearers. All the redeemed are the guests. The halls of eternal love, frescoed with light, and paved with joy, and curtained with nnfading beauty, are the banquetingplace. The harmonies of eternity are the music. The chalices of Heaven are the plates; and I am one of the servants coming out with both hands filled with invitations,, scatter- ing them everywhere, and, oh, that for yourselves, you might break the seal of the invitaeion and read the words written in red ink of blood by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ:—' Come now, for all things are ready." There have been great entertainments where was a taking oil—the wine gave out —or the servants were rebellious, or the llght failed; but I have gone all around about this subjeot and looked at the re- demption which Christ has provided, and a come here to tell you it is complete, and -awing open the door of the feast, telling .you that "All things are now ready." , In the first place, I have to announce 'that the Lord, Jeans Christ Himself is ready. Cardinal Wolsey came into the feast efts; the first course; he came in booted and spurred, sun the guests arose mud cheered him. But Christ comes in at late beginning of the feast; aye, He has Meon waiting eighteen hundred and ninety- loar years for His guests. He had been 'attending on His mangied feet; He had had Itis sore hand on His punctured side; or 'He has been pressing His lacerated temple —waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that He had not been impatient, and that He lee not said, "Shut the door, and let the laggard stay out;" but He has been wait. in. No banqueter over waited for his ;guest so patiently as Christ has waited for :us. To prove how willing He is to receive se, I gather all the tears that rolled down is cheeks in sympathy for your sorrows; mealier all the drops of blood that chan- nelled His brow, and His back, and His elands and feet, in trying to purchase year redemption; I gather all the groans that He 'uttered in midnight chill, and in mountain hunger, and in desert loneliness, and twist •thern into one cry—bitter, agonizing, over- whelming., I gather all the pains that shot from spear, and spike, and moss, jolting Into one pang—remorseless, grinding, ex- cruciating. I take that -one drop of sweat on his brow, and under the Gospel glass meat drop enlarges until I see in it lakes of sorrow and an ocean of agony. That Be- ano standing before you now, emaciated, • mid gashed, and gory, coaxes for your love with a pathos in which every word is heart -break and every sentence martyrdom. • How can you think He trifles! Ahasuerus prepared a feast for 180 days; 'but this feast is for all eternity. Lords and ,princes were invited to that; you and I, and all our world are invited to this. ,Ohrist is ready. Yon know that the ban- queters of olden times used to wrap them- selves in robes prepared for the occasion; ea, my Lord Jesus bath wrapped Himself in all that la beautiful. See how fair he isl life eye, His brow, Ilis cheek, so radiant that the stars have no gleam, and the morning no brilliancy compared with it. His face /reflecting all the joys •of the redeemed. Hie hand having the omnipotent surgery with which he opened blind eyes, and estraigb.ened °reeked limbo, and hoisted the millers of heaven, and swung the twelve .gates which are twelve pearls. There are .bot enough cups in heaven to dip up this • ocean of beauty. There are not ladders enough to scale this height of love. There are not enough cymbals to clap, or harp! .to thrum, or trumpets to peal forth the praises of this One altogether fair, Oh, thou flower of eternity, thy breath is the perfume of heaven I Oh, bliesful day. break, let all people clap their hand, m by radiance I Morns I Come, men, and ,saints and cherubim, and seraphim, and archangel—all heights, all depths, all Ma- meeptddimmegmeMertlleoele 'Mme, through, We ',Leavens nindent—riaitie fidtedierit claim, Over bridges of hosanna% midget arches of coronation, along by the great towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorus I "Into Him who bath love um And washed us from our MILS in Hu own blood, to Him be glory, world Without end!' have a word of five lettem, but no ..sheet white ehough on which to Wilts ite -sod no leen good enough with whioh to in. 'scribe it. Give Me the faired kied from the heavenly records—glee me the pencil with which the angel records his victory- -and then, with my hand street; to inmate enetufal ecstasy, maul my pen dipped in OM vAt taw omit*, I will writ. it Ontlie illaftrifferlarArfierae"MMeertrier 1131111511 060, hilleltalt tto *holm leu sae UMW. CASS is Wetting for Tani willtiag as tho Teenneedir Waite for the delltred Milletemtb, meant smokinm the beakers inineenbteit tele minstrels with fingers on the otiff string, 'aiting for the clash of hoofs at the gate- way. Vifutting for yen as a mother waits for her son who went oft ten years Me. dragging_lter bleeding hesirt along with him. Waiting! 0! give me a comparison intense enough, hot enough, importunate enough to express my zeoanimin—soneethieg high as heave, and deep as bell, and long as eternity, Not hoping that you can help Me with such a commarison, will sari- -442;te. .31sLs Orariet can wart foiiiie—e-oialiai a's loot soul. - Bow the nnee and kiss the Son. Come and ‚welcome, ginner coma. Again the Holy Spirit is ready. Why es It that so many sermons drop dead—that Christian songs do not get their wing under the people—that so often prayer goes no higher than a hunter's "hulloa?" It is be- cause there tea link wanting—the work of the aloly Spirit. ,Thiless that Spirit give grappling hooks to a sermon, and lift the prayer, and waft the song, everything is a dead failure. • That Sptrit is willing to come at our call and lead you to eternal life; or ready to come with the same power with which he unhorsed Saul on the Dam- _ anitteiturriproe, anti oreme &Mete Willa in her fine atom, and lifted the three thousand from midnight into mid -noon ret the Pente- cost. With that power the Spirit of God now beats et the gate of your soul. Have you not noticed what homely and insigni- ficant iustrumentallty the Spirit of God employs for man's conversion? There was a man on a Hudson river boat to whom a tract was effaced. With indignation he tore it up and threw it overboard. But one fragment lodged on his coataleeve; and he WM on it the word "eternity" and he found no peace until he was prepared for that great future. Do you know what pas- sage it was that caused Martin Luther to sea the truth? "The just shall live by faith.', Do you know there is one—just one—passage that brought Augustine from a life of dissipation? "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof." It WM just one passage that converted Hadley Vicars, the great soldier, to Christ; "The blood of Teens Christ cleanse% from all sin." Do you know that the Holy Spirit risel one passage of Scripture to save Jonathan Edwards? "Now, unto the King, • eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our Sayiour, be glory." One year ago on Thanksgiving day, I read for my text, "0, give shanks unto the Lord, for Ile is good; for His mercy enclureth for ever." And there is a young man in the house to whose heart the Holy spirit took that text for his eternal redemption. I might speak of my own ease. I will tell you I was brought to the peace of the Gospel through the Syro-Phoenician wo- man's cry to Christ: "Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the Master's table." Do you know that the Holy Spirit al- most always uses insignificant means? Eloquent sermons never save anybody; metaphysical sermons Over save anybody; philosophical sermons never save anybody. But the minister comes some Sabbath to his pulpit, worn out with engagements and the jangling of a frenzied door bell; he has only a text and two or three ideas, but he says: "0 Lord, help me. Here are a good many people I may never meet again. I have not much to say. Speak Thou through my poor lips;" and before the ser- vice is done there are tearful eyes and a solemnity like the judgment. The great French °rather'when the dead king lay before him, looked up and cried: "God only is great;" and the triumph of his eloquence has been told by the historians, But I have not heard that one soul was saved by the oratorical flourieh. Worldly critics may think that the early preaching of Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece. But Thomas Chalmers says he never began to preach until he came out of the sick room, white and emaciated, and told men the • simple story of Jesus. In the great day of eternity it will be found that the most souls have been brought to Christ, not by the Bossuets, and Massil- lone, and Bourdalottes, but by humble men who, in the strength of God, and be-, Hering in the eternal Spirit, invited men to Jesus. There were wise salves—there were excellent ointments, I suppose, in the time of Christ, for blind or inflamed eyes. But Jesus turned His back upon them, and put the tip of his finger to His tongue, and then, with the spittle that adhered to the finger he anointed the eyes of the blind man, and daylight poured into his blinded soul. So it is now that the Spirit of God takes that humble prayer -meeting talk, which seems to be the very saliva of Christian influence, and anoints the eyes of the blind man, and pours the sunlight of pardon and peace upon the soul. Oh, my friend, I wish we could feel it more and more, that if any good is done it is by the power of God's omnipotent Spirit. I do nob knoweerbat hymn may bring you to Jesus. I do not know what wordh of the gerenture lemoo ;sod may save your soul. Ferfitips The Spirit of Gra May hurl the very next text into your heart ;—" Come, for all things are now ready." Again, the Church is ready. Oh, man, If I could take the curtain off these Chris- tian hearts, I could show you a great many anxieties for your redemption. You think that old man is asleep, because His head is down and His eyes are shut. No, He is praying for your redemption, and hoping that the words spoken may strike your heart. Do you know the air is full of prayer. Do you know that prayer is going up from yulton street prayer meet- atid from Friday evening prayer Meet- ing, and going up every hour of the day for the redemption of the people9 And if you aimed start toward the door of the Christian Chttroh, how quickly it would fly open. Hundeeds of people would say "Give that man room at the sacrament. Bring the silver bowl for His baptism. Give Him the right hand of Christian fel- lowslaip. Bring Him into all Christian fellowship. Bring Him into all Christian associations." Oh, you wanderer on the cold mountains, come into the warmeheep- fold. I let down the bare and bid you come. • With the Shepherd's crook point you the way. Hundreds of Christian hands beckon you into the Church of God. A great mime people do not like the Chtroh, and say it is a great mass of hy- pocrites, but III. a glorious Church with all Its imperfections. Christ bought it, and hoisted the pillars, and swung Its • gates, and lifted its arches, fin& ouvtained It with upholstery crimson with crucifixion carnage. Come into it. • e are a gerden waged rolled esipshut made mot:afar tiM little et Cueldisee by grace, On o the stdKul'e wide -*monism. Again, the angels of God are ready. A. greet many, Chriiiiane think that the talk about angels is fanciful. Von say it is a Vary Itikal subjent tor theological student.; *he Mere just begun to sermonise; bat for elder Ee4 hip improper There Immo Moroi ireinif ire Otai IMA ilioettheas ma UM OM *at Mora ass asigo10, Wby, do not *SI swarm shout Joemelett ladder? Aro we net faid that they emaduoted Lamas epwarell that Wet stead before the thtinte, their faces corond up with their wing, While they cry s•—"Holy holy, is the Lord God Almighty I" Did not David as. thousand% end thoueandst Did not one angel slay one hundred end eighty-five thousand men in Senxiaoheribes army? And shall they not be the (thief harvesters at the judgment? There is a has of loving, holy, mighty angels reaching to heaven, I suppose they reach from here to the very gate, end when an audience is assembled for Christian • worship the air is full of them. If each one of you have a guardian angel, how many celestials are there here? They crowd the place, they hover, they flit about., they rejoice, Look I that spirit is just come from the Throne, A moment ago it stood before gimlet, and heard the doxology of the glorified. Look! Bright immortal, what news from • the golden • city I Speak, spirit blest 1 The response comes melting on the air—" Cornet, for all things are now ready!" Angels ready to bear the tidings, angels ready to drop the benediction, anaele ready to eldedlo the eoye toren itestete tregtory=tetey know all about it. They have felt the joy that is felt where. there are no tears and no teafee ins:ter-S. • lam; songs, but no groans; wedding bells, but no funeral torches—eyes that never weep—hands that never blister—heads that never faint—hearts that never break —friendships that are never weakened. Beady, allot them' Ready thrones, prin- cipalities and powers{ Beady seraphim "an:el cherubim I Ready, Michael, the arch - Again, your kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. I pronounce mod- ern spiritualism a fraud and a shame. If John Milton and George 'Whitefield have no better business than to crawl under a table and rattle the leaves, they had better stay at home in glory. While I believe that modern spiritualism is bad. because of Its mental and domestic ravages, common sense, enlightened by the Word. of Goa, teaches us that our friends in glory sympa- thize with our redemption. This Bible says plainly there is joy in heaven amongst the angels of God over one sinner that re- penteth; and if angels rejoice and know of it, shall not our friend* standing among them, know it? Some of these spirits iii glory toiled for your redemption. When they came to die their chief grief was that you were not a Christian. They said; "Meet me in heaven;" and put their handout from the cover and said, "Good-bye." Now, suppose you should cross over from a sinful life to a holy life. Suppose you should be born inte the kingdom? Suppose you should now say: "Farewell, 0 deceitful world! Get thee gone, ray sin! Fie upon all the follies! 01 Christ, help Me or I perish I I take Thy promise. 1 believe Thy Word. I enter Thy service." Suppose you should say and do this? Why, the eng5l sent to you would shout upward, "He is coming I" and the angel, poising higher in the air, would shout it upward, "He is coming!" and it would run all up the line of light, from wing to wing, and from trumpet to trumpet, until it reached the gate; and 'then it would flash to "the house of many mansions," and it arthuld find out your kindred there, and beano your tears of repentance had beenwiPed from the cheek, and before you had finished your first prayer, your kindred in glory would know of it, and another heaven would be added to their joy, and they would cry, "My prayers are answered •, another loved one saved. Give me a harp with which to strike the joy. Saved! saved! saved!" If I have shown you that "all things are ready," that Christ is ready, that the Holy Spirit is ready, that the Church is ready, that the angels in glory are ready, that your glorified kixtdred are ready, then with all the concentrated emphasis 'Of my soul, ask you if you are ready? You see my subject throws the whole responsibility upon yourself. If you do not get into the King's banquet, it is because you do not accept the invitation. You have the most Importunate invitation. Two arms stretched down from the cross, soaked in blood from elbow to finger-tip; two lips quivering in mortal anguish; two eyes beaming with infinite love, "Saying, come, for all thins are nom ready." Stamps axed Their Prices. The following are a few of the " fancy " figures peld for stamps at a recent auction In Chancery Lane, London: Great Britain, oightpenom brown, an unused strip of three, £16 ; two shilling, salmon, an unused block of six, £18 ; a Tuscany three lire, yellow (a matchless specimen), £25 10a., and a brilliant unused specimen of a two eoldi (the Grab in this condition ever offered et an English suction), £14; British Guiana, °Mauler issue, four cent, lemon yellow, one corner mended, £25; same Issue, eight canto green, £13 ; Canada, twelvepence, black, slightly mended, £23' • Antiaquia, three specimens of the first lotto, ewe and a half centre five cents and ten cents, a total of £36 10e. ; Peru, media peso, rose'£11 10s. ; UnitedIStates. 1869, fifteen cents, brown and blue, £17, and same NSW, twenty-four cents, green and Mao, 418 10s. I Meuriblus, 1848, twopence*, bine, early state'a fine specimen of the " P01200 "error, ZIO ; Cape of Good Hope, weed block error, one penny, blue, £26, and the other error, foutpenee, red, £18 10e. ; Buenos Ayreet, five pesos, orange, :ell 10.,; New Brunswick, the" Cowell" stamp un- used, £20 10a ; British Columbia, two- pence halfpenny, pink, imperforate, £1510.. A. Strange Superstition. In Bosnia the people have believed at all times that a bridge could not be firm and lasting unless a human being was walled up In it. Thus there is a legend oenneoted with the handsome Roman beidge at Mostar, which says that the fine arch across the Numbs could not be finished until the architect walled up in ib a bridal pair. Now that a mild bridge ie being built ROMs the Save at Hawke, this etmerstibion is revived, It is rumored everywhere that gypsies are stealing children te sell them to the con- tractors, who will wall one up in each pillar. Knowerlowlve Make TIMM Nappy. A,-,hoetaise at a party last night put extra feel on the fire, passed each guest a blanket. shawl, brought in a lot of hot bricks, view- ing one air each guesVe feet, and then served Ice Cream. The nate Mies Woolson. Mica Weedsones last story, published in the February " Hyper," is one of the strongest, says the Now York Tribune, milt is certainly the most pathebles of her short Little Clarence—Papa, if men from Porta - get are Portuguese, arc their little boys Pornagoolings Algy (counting the cast)—Do yen—or— al wale fake a chaperon *thee When you go to the theatre? Miss Da Pink—My, ne I ammo onlees I ge with a man, Two beetle will be ?maim. *exam or A wonemui. lftalitent Stemseindial After War and lilt fair ladeltaltiednteetilatee Helen Yirelfiewer watt 06, 014 life had been a hunk of dioreppoinienenie to bar. She had never known. the delight' of having I" beau to squander his substance on her in the shape of theatre tickets or lee cream. $he had never bade lover, toll and hand- some, to drew her to bine In the soft moon. light and whisper hit devotion into her all. too willing ears. When else went to the theatre it WAS with her pa ; when she bad ice-cream she paid for it hong, and Yellen the spoke to her lever it was in dreamt, and she was but balking through her night oap, as it were. At balls and parties young men who book her oab did it with an air of m31148°4008 that subtracted ail pleasure from the clit- cumetance. Her father looked upon her as a burden be was always to hear, and her mother looked upon her as an uofertunate mete to be pitied than laughed at. If she wan invited to any social entertainment, from a strew ride to a donkey party, she was regarded, even by those of her Owe age, as a chaperon, and as ;mobbing mere. And die was expected to leek, set end talk au if she knew and appreciated the favor of being invited at all. Bread and butter school misses laughed at her as an old maid, and callow youths shuddered at sight et her at leap year parties. Such were the circumstances up to date, when Helen Welflower took a &anti° tumble. She lived in Brooklyn, but Helen Walflower was nobedy's fool. A great thought came to her. The next thing her friends knew she had forsworn all frivolity, and was a teacher in Chinese Sunday School. Than a rumor flew around and fattened as it fled. The rumor was that Helen %Mower was to marry Wah Sing, her Sunday school class I The friends who had condescended to notice her came new and tried te dissuade her from her worm The callow youths aforesaid gazed upon her with awe and ad- miration. Her sayings and doings were quoted far and near, and her portrait am - pawed lathe daily papers. Her father, to win her from her purpose fell and set, gave her half his fortune. And the catch of the year wooed and wen her away from her oriental lever, and as her husband, new flatters himself on having secured a, jewel for a wife, She is settled now in life, bub she is toe wise a woman to let herself be forgotten. Her name heads the lists for Chinas mist - stens. Her pamphlet. "The Heathen in Our Midst," has run through four editions. Her husband Mores her. All Breoklyn leeks up to her as one to knew, and an in- vitation to her Thursday evenings makes each recipient proud. This is the ease of Helen Walflower that was. The moral le that the difference be- tween notoriety and fame la so slight in these degenerate modern days that few can diebingtitah between one and the other.— Puck. Soap Powders. Sohreib, a German authority, states that the washing powders or soap powders, which have latterly become important articles of commerce, always contain, besides powdered dried soap, a large per- centage of sodium carbonate, generally in form of dried sada crystals. These powders may be prepared in either of the ,following ways : 1. Anhydreue sodium carbonate or soda ash is added to a "clear boiled" soap paste, and after thoroughly mixing the somewhat stiff material is drawn off into cooling frames. The wild and hard soap • obtained is then finely ground. 2. Soda crystals and seep are melted to- gether and then treated ha the above man- ner. This method of manufacture, however, is only advantageous where seep scraps are to be had. A suitable apparatus consists of a wrought. iron vessel with a strong agitator contained in an interior cast -hen vessel, which can be cooled by water, circulated in the outer vessel. The liquid soap is cooled while the soda ash is slowly added and completely dissolved. During the grinding proems care has to be taken not to overheat and thus sof ben the product. The composition of soap powders varies considerably. Oily a small proportion of resin soap can be need, as such soap Is sticky and cannot be powdered. Olein seep may he used with advantage, end the oleisa may be saponified with sodium carbonat'e in- stead of the more expensive caustic; !yea. As a small quantity of free chlorine is nob objeotionable in soap powder, dark colored materiels, ouch as bone Mt, fish ells, to., may he used for making soap, with an addition ef a :wall quantity of bleaching powder. To some soap powders 2 to 5 per cent, of sodium silicate is added. A good washing powder should con. tain : 30-35 per cent. of fatty sold ; 30.35 per cent, of tedium carbsnate and 30 40 per cent, of water. The infernos pswdern °entailing enly 5-10 per cent, of fatty add, :should not be used for the laundry; they are only serviceable for scrubbing purporme. There is a soap powder la the market con- taining is soap prepared by Meeting linseed with caustic soda directly. This soap coe- Mina certain Impurities derived from the seed, which lather freely, end thus whoa the powder is used, give the impression oi more genuine soap being contained in the wavier than is actually the moo Moe. Bice is nnqueotionably tie grain newt extensively used as feed throughout the world. Hundreds of mallows of people chiefly subsist en it, and its consumptien fa constantly increasiug. It Is the principal diet of at lead one-third of the human race, forming the chief food of the native popula- tion of India China, Japan, Madgamer, many parts of Affirm and, ha fact, of almost all eastern nations. The Burmese and Siamese are the greatest consumers of it A Malay laborer gets through 56 pounds monthly, a Burmese or Siamese 46 pounds in the same period. The eastern nations also chiefly obtain their beverages Irene rice, which is the principal grain die. billed in Siam, Japan and Odom Saki or rice beer is produced in China to the extent of 150,000,000 gallons annually. The yield of five times as hewey as that of wheat, the two mops yearly giving from 80 to 100 bushels per acre. India nab only raises enough of this grain for 200,000,000 people, but exports 1,000,000 tons every year, Directly Densimuniteated. Kate—Ad before he Went away he gave her a awed kiss. • Aunb Mary—And pray, hew do you know it woe sweet? Did Heinle tell you So? late—N�; I had it direct from leredn lips. A Chleage man Who had juet surrendered his watch to a footemd was moved to re- mark that he didn't knew When, he had been so pressed for time. "Yes," Neid Gibley, "Lb came pretty' Deer .being re Wadding between Mist my. mad me ; but Mee Mid there Was one thing lathed. I eeked her What that one thing was, and Me said, Doh' eels me ; peen eallane ethreenary.' Se I didn't preos her.» A 'WM 1001110111, had Seller ineoservoll he the Washington *SA tatter **1004 The maser= senstales Many 00104 and Interesting thin& In one case is a mail. peuele with an sely Adorn made by a sharp knife and stained with blood. The carrier returning from Doohiel, Arizona, July 23rd,. 1885, woo killed by Apeohe Indians, who destroyed the none, leaving this bag en the ground. In another plane may be seen five letters that claim an at-W(30.aq of antiquity, being severally stamped 1821, 1826, 1832, MO and 1836, Among the Woke is a New Testament In Chinese, a life of Ignatius' Loyola in Indian; printed in Venice in 1711, and a French volume whioh Wes back to 1687. Near by is the lard's Prayer in filly -four len- Pages, mid a certificate of character to an apprentice from his imager, The oem titioate is in German and was brought to this country a hundred years age. There are two miniatures, apparently of father and eon, painted on ivory, which were found in a blank Weer from Boston, December 9th, 1882, arid many efforts have been made by the department to find the owners, but so far they have proved un - evening. Two other miniatures that have attracted much attention are framed in old- fashioned gold settings whiolz bear upon the reverse sides the inscriptions Lucy Raw delph, Obilt April 23, 1782, efE 6e years anti Mary Carter, Obit!) San. 31st, 1870, ATE 34 years. A crucifix of gold and emelt= on a cushion of velvet in a glare case was found at the close of the wear in the Atlanta post - office, end to this day it remains unclaimed. Wear it lire sapphire ringlet with diamonds, and in close proximity, as if keeping guard over these valuables, is a loaded revolver. The latter was .sent addressed to a lady in Indiana but as she never welled for it, le drifted here. Then, with singular incongruity, but tastefully dimplayed, upon shelves covered with crimson cloth are to be found a piece of weed of the room in which Jesse James, the notorious outlaw, was killed; stuffed birds; palmetto -weed; nuggetegold ; sea- shells; boxes of wedding -cake; false teeth; Easter eggs; bottles of aelad-oll ; cognac) and perfumes; packages arsenic and stry- chnine; an array of bowie -knives; an old Englishhat-box that lot ke if it had (Aram - navigated the globe; a coffee -pet ; a wash- board ; samples of barbed-wire fence; a baby cotton -bale; and dolls enough for the children of an entire village. There is a fantastic garment stamped all over with cards, kings, ginseng dia- monds, spades, hearth and clubs miingled in brilliant oenfration. A coat like this is much prized by the Sandwich Islanders, who send to America to have it manufactured, the possession of one being regarded as a, badge ef distinction. The bright hues of this one are toned down by the companionship of an exemiete feather fan in black and white with pearl sticks. Several years RiSSCO, when the steamship Oregon was lest, a portion of her mail wee recovered, and among the newspapers were fined many dozens of pairs of kid gloves which were being smuggled into this country. A few of these now hang behind the glass doers in the museum au a warning to the dishonest. The collections of cobra would make the eyes of a coileoter glisten. The patriarch of the tribe ie so old—so many hundred yearn old—that in woold ba hazardous to state his exact age, but he began some- where n. o.—SC. Nichotas. A BitAITE OLD MAN. -- Mr. Gladstone Desired to ba Operated 'Upon for cataract. Mr. G. W. Smalley, dimming the Pall Mall Gazette's prediction of Gladebeneet resignation,reline to his failing eyesight. Ha says: e real Mots are known to few. Just after he left London for Biarritz I heard, not directly, hut from a donee I think trustworthy, what took place. Mn, Gladstone or perhaps one of the family, cent for Dr. Grainger, of Chester, a phy. Medan, who ie also an wallet. Ib was Dr. Granger who encoded him at the time when the gingerbread nut was thrown at him and etruok and slightly injured one eye. Now that Sir Andrew Clarke In gone Dr. Grainger probably knows more of Mr. GladsteneM constitutional peculiarities than anybody else. He saw him at his hence in Downing street the day before he started. He told Mr. Gladstone, not, I suppose, for the firet time, that a cataract had entirely obliterated the sight of one eye, and that another cataract had begun to fern on the other eye. This hot statement was, perhaps, new to the Primo Minister. He reflected a moment and said "I wish you, to remove the cataract at once." Dr. Granger told him it 'Rao not yet far enough advanced far an operation. "Yea do not understend me," replied his illustrious patient. "it is the old cataract I wish removed. If that le out el the way Mill have one good eye when the new cataract impairs the sight ef the other." Dr. Grainger hesitated. Mr. Gladstone oarehirined : "You still seam net to underetaud me. I want you to perform the operation here and now, while I MU sitting in this chair." Dr. Grainger still objected. "lb might net be swoon. MI," said he. "Thai in a risk I accept," tetoreed the gallant old man, In the end Dr. Grainger, saying that the responsibility must be his, as a medical man, declined, giving such reaeona fur he could. The true Lamson, probably, was that such an opera- tion GP d• patient of Ur. Gladstoneht age was too dangerous. It was not performed. But what could be more admirable than the courage and towhee= he allowed? 'Fe Control may Fever, A floreiga scientist has observed that in the winter a wryer. was usually accompanied with hot ears, which regained their nominal temperature when the discharge from the noes wee established. He determined to try a reversed order of effect en the hay fever in the summer, end began accordingly be rub his ears nriffiethey became red and hot, Iii Ire now the third year that he hen been able to lead an enclarable existence during the bay fever mem As soon as the first musation of fulness in the nose appears, there is recognized e certain amount of pallor in the ears. A thorough rubbing of the care, at •times even to contusion, has always eacseeded in freeing the nasal mum* monstrous from Ito congestion. The rubbing, however, must be thorough and repeated at often as the leash symptom of congestion returns to the nee0.—Asteriers Drunzet and Phenix. Record, September, ISO& The Ignorant; Hothead—What! $125 for that hell Why, there's nothing in it but it ea frame, a $2 feather andre dollar's worth of velvet!. lrhe Itetelligent Wife -eared $120 woe% of style. We do nob lotep the outward forte of order, where. there Is deep disorder in the Mind. —Sliakeepeare. iteenher—lenhat le the feminine of men Thornier Thomson-A/V*1)nm Thekeheten And the feminine at gentleman t Theme* (anheeinetingtee ••-itinde, SAVO BY NEWSPAnie T1111 BTU:X. or AN OTTAWA, BUD. NEAS MAN. dedieted With Itealneitli and Partial new- seleels—Obehred to Wive up His triusiesee on aweintut of Therm imierualeiwimere ellem Morprise While Meade Has Ikon Dons Restored to ahem.. the Ottawa Free Bree0 Ryan, who to well known he Ottawa and vicinity, having been ;midi recently a Meroheeit of this city, relates experience that cannot fell to prove Were eating to all our reecho, It Is well Imam to Mr. ltyan'e acquaintances that he has been absent totally deg since twelve year of age, and that some time ago this affliction was made still more heavy by a stroke of partial paralysis. Recently it has bow noticed that Mr. Rye* has been cured of these troubles, and a reporter, thinking that hie story would be of benefit to the community, rowelled permission to make It public, and it was given by lir. Ryan as foetows: " 'the fell ef 1883, when I WO about twelve years of age, I caught a sevens cold in the head, whlola gradually developed Into deafness, and doily beoerao worse, nal Lu the month of July, 1284, I had become totally deaf, and was forced on amnia of this to leave school, The Physician wheel I consulted informed me that my deaftleas watt incurable, and I concluded to boor ray • ailments as well as I could. In 1889 I started a store about two miles train Calumet Island, Que., but not being able bet converse with ray patrons on account of my deafness, I found it almost itimmeible to make business a success. However, things were getting a little brighter until last April, when I took a severe pain, or rather what appeared to be a cramp, in my right log below the knee. I was then doing business in Ottawa, having come Is the city from the place above, mentioned. At first I gave no heed to the pain, thinking it would disappear; but on the contrary it grew worse, and in the course of a few weeks I had to use a cane aud could scarcely hear any weight on my leg. I continued to go about this way fer two weeks, when a similar cramp at- tacked nay left arm, and in less than two weeks, in spite of all I could do for it, I could not retie the arm four inches from my body and I found that the trouble was partial paralysis. a edge my crendition—se leg and an arm useless, and deaf balder. Being able to do nothing eke I read a great deal and one day notioed in one ef the city papers of a man being cured of paralysis by De. Williams' Pink Pills. I immediately began the use of Pink Pills and before I had finished the third box I noticed a curious sensation in my leg, and the pain began to leave it excepting when I endeavored to walk. Well, the improvement continued, gradually extended to my arm, and by the time I had completed the seventh box my leg and arm were as well as ever, and my general health was much better. And now - comes a stranger part of my experience. I began to wonder why people who were conversing with me would %out so loud. Of course they had always had to shout owing be my deefnem, but I was under the impression that they were beginning to shoat much louder. After having bads them "speak lower" several times, I en- quired why they still pervisted in shouting, or rather yelling at me, and was surprised to be lammed that they were not sheubing as load as formerly. This led to an investi- gation and judge my joy when I found that Pink Pills were curing the deafness which was eepposed to have been caused by my catarrh. I continued the Pink Me for a, month and a half longer, and I now consider myself perfectly cured after having been deaf fer ten years. I can hear ordinary conversation and am fib for buninese, thought I am yet a little dull of hearing, but this Is not deaftiese, it is simply dueness, the m- oult of my len year& inability to hear cleaver - mations, which still leaves me with an inclination not to heed what is mid. But I am and you may say from me that I con- sider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the beat medicine known to man, and I shall be forever indebted to them for my renewed health and strength. Newspaper ethics usually prevent the publication in the news columns of any- thing that might be construed as an adver- tieettient, and thus much valuable infor- mation is suppressed that might prove of incalculable benefit to thousands. The praise of Dr. Williams' Pink Fine should be sung throughout the land, they should be familiar in every household, and news- papers should unite in making them se. An analysis shows that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a °endowed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and rich - nem to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an un- failing specifie for smith diseases as locomotorataxis, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, solstice, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner- vous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, nervous prostration, all diseases depending upon vitiated humor* in the bleed, such an scrofula, chronic eryeipelas etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppresniono, irregularities and all forms of weeknose. They build up the bleed, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radioed cure in all eases arising from mental worry, over- work or excesses of any nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are manufacture' by the De. Williams' Medicine Co., Break- ville,Onte,andSehenectady,N.Y.,andaresoId only in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold In this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggist, ondireob by mail from Do Williams' Med. clue Company, from either address. Female Socialists. Two female loolallet orators have been sentenced to Imprisonment In Vienna, Emulsive Glare is a comely young woman of 20, of the Jewbsh confession, and looked very crithusialble in a Pallor hat, her hate blown about her face by' the wind. Amelia Ribe is younger still—not much more than 17—and by her firmness caused 600 factory gills to strike for six weeks. The girl can talk very return to the purpose for %whams at a Watch. Both these secieliat women are pretty. Artificial Diamonds. At the French Academy of Soleness, M. Moisoan announced recently that, in con tinning his resemeittes on the synthesis of the diamond by means of the Meade fur. time he hag tueb obtained two compounds Weleworbhy of attention. theme bodies are eillielde of carbon anti betide of cube's. They are of excessive hardness and out ruble% teel et dierthede.—Scientifteennere- can. The pedigree of here, does not concerti the bee; a' clever, any time to him, is aria - tomes*. A Gormeo aat etiele weitee "Chopin deeaineri bonnie' cinema Beethoven made then real."