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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-12, Page 7BY THE HOLY STEIL =REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES UENTLY ON TONGUES OF FIRE. 'They Who Have Received the Divine Preaeaee in their Hearts are Lifted Above Sorrow and Misfortune — Labors, of Noted Evangelists. When Dr, Talmage aseended the plat- , form of the Academy of Music on Sunday afternoon he faced an audience quite as large as any that had assembled in the -,great budding since these services began, while several thousand others were out- -side unable to seeure seats or even stand- ing room. He took for his subject "Ton. .,gues of Fire," the text selected being Acts six., 2, "Neve ye received the Holy eGhost ?" The word ghost, whieh means a, soul or spirit, has been degraded in common par - lanae, We talk of ghosts as baleful and frightful and in a frivolous or supersti- tious way. But my text speaks of a ghost who as omnipotent and divine and -everywhere present, and ninety-one times in the New Testament called the Holy Ghost, The only time I ever heard this text preached from was in the opening days of my ministry, when a glorious old Scotch minister Dame up to help me in my village church. On the day of my ordination and installation he said, "11 ..you get into a corner of a. Saturday night without enough awrmons for Sunday, send :for me, and 1 will come and preach for ,you." The fact ought to be known that 'the first roe Years of a.est ort s life are -appallingly arduous. No other profession makes the twentieth part of the demand on a young man. If a secular speaker prepares one or two speeches for a political campaign, it is considered arduous. If a lecturer prepares one lecture for a years, he is thought to have done well. But a young pastor has ~two sermons to deliver every Sabbath, be- fore the seine audience, beside all his other work, and the .most of ministers never -recover from the awful nervous strain of `the first three years. Be sympathetic with all young ministers and, withhold .:your criticisms. My aged Scotch friend responded tomy first call and came and preached from the 'text that I now announce. I remember nothing bat the text. It was the last ser- mon he ever preached, On the following • Saturday he was called to his heavenly reward. But I remember just how he ap- peared as; leaning over the pulpit, he lookedinto the face of the audience and with earnestness and pathos and electric :force asked them in the words of my text, "Have you received the Holy Ghost?" The office of this present discourse is to -open a door, to unveil a parsonage, to in- troduce a force not sufficiently recogniz- ed. He is as great as God. He is God. The second verse of the first chapter of the Bible introduces him. Genesis i, 2, *"The Spirit of God. moved upon the face of the waters"—that is, an albatross or eagle spreads her wings over her young and warms them into life and teaches them to fly, so the eternal spirit spreads his great, broad, radiant wings over this earth in its callow and unfledged state and warmed it into life and fluttered over it .and set it winging its way through im- mensity. It is the tiptop of all beautiful and sublime suggestiveness. Can you not almost see the outspread wings over the nest of young worlds ? "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." book insults my eo>um.oln sense. I eau- not understand it Away with the in- eongruity?" No one but the H ly Ghost who inspired the Scripturest can explain the beripturos. Pully realize that, esti you will be as enthusiastic a lover of the old book as my venerable friend who told me in Philadelphia last week that .he was reading the Bible through the fftyninth time, and it became more attractive and thrilling every time he went through it. In the saddle bags that hung across my horse's back as. I rode from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea and up to Darras- cus T had all the books about Palestine that I could carry, but many a man on his knees in the privacy of his own room has had flashed upon him more vivid ap- preciation of the word of God than many a pian who has visited all the settees of Christ's birth, and Paul's eloquence, and Peter's imprisonment, and Joshua's prow- ess, and Elijah's ascension. I do not de- preciate any of the helps for Bible study, but T do say that they all together come infinitely short without a direct commu- nication from the throne of God, in re- sponseeto prayerful solicitation. We may find many interesting things about the Bible without especial illumination, and how many horses Solomon had in his stables, or how long was Noah's ark, or who was the only woman whose full name is given in the Scriptures, or which is the middle verse of the Bible, and all that will do you no more good than to be able to tell how many beanpoles there are in your neighbor's garden.' The learned Earl of Chatham heard the famous Mr. Cecil preach about the Holy Ghost and said to a friend on the way home from church, "I could not under- stand it, and do you suppose anybody " " " it ? Oh es said. his understood , y t Christian friend, "there were uneducated women and some little children present who understood it." I warrant you that the English soldier had under supernal influence read the book, for after the bat- tle of Inkerman was over he was found dead. with his hand glued to the page of the open Bible by his owe blood, and the words adhered to his hands as they buried him, ''I am the resurrection and the life; he that believetb in Me, though dead, yet shall he live." Next consider the Holy Ghost as a hu. man reconstructor. We must be made over again. Christ and Nicodemus talk- ed about it. Theologians call it regenera- tion. I do not care what you call it, but we have to bo reconstructed by the Holy Ghost. We become new creatures, hat- ing what we once loved and loving what we once hated. If sin were a luxury, it must become a detestation. If we prefer- r.d bad associations, we must prefer good associations. In most cases it is such a complete change that the world notices the difference and begins to ask "What has come over that man ? Whom has he been with ? What has so affected him? What has ransacked his entire nature ? What has turned him square about?" Take two pictures of Paul—one on the road to Damascus to kill the disciples of Christ; the other on the road to Ostsia to died for Christ. Come nearer home and look at the man who found his chief de- light in a low class of clubrooms, hic- coughing around the card table and then stumbling down the front steps after mid- night and staggering homeward, and that same man one week afterward with his family on the way to a prayer meeting. What has done it ? It must be God. It must be the Holy Ghost. Notice the Holy Ghost is the solacer of broken hearts. Christ calls him the com- forter. Nothing does the world so much want as comfort. The most of the people have been abused, misrepresented., cheat- ed, lied about, swindled, bereft. What is needed is balsam for the wounds, lan- tern for the dark roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a lift from the mar- ble slab'of tombstones. Life to most has been a semifailure. They have not got what they wanted. They have not reach- ed that whieh they started for. Friends betray. Change of business stands loses old custom and does not bring enough custom to make up for the .loss. Health becomes precarious when one most needs strong muscle, said steady nerve, and clear brain. Out of this audience of thousands and thousands, if I should ask all those who have been unhurt in the struggle of life to stand up, or all stand- ing to hold up their right hand, not one would move. Oh, how much we need the Holy Ghost as comforter ! He recites the sweet gospel promisesto the hardly be - stead. He assures of mercy mingled with the severities. He consoles with thoughts of coming release. He tells of a heaven where tear is never wept, and burden is never carried, and injustice is never suf- fered. Comfort for all the young people who are maltreated at home, or receive insufficient income, or are robbed of their schooling, or kept back from positions they have earned by the putting forward of others less worthy. Comfort for all these men and women midway in the path of life worn out with what they have already gone through and with no :bright- ening future. Comfort for those aged ones amid. many infirmities and who feel themselves to be in. the way in the home or business which themselves established with their own grit. Another appearance of the Holy Ghost was at Jerusalem during the great feast. Strangers speaking seventeen different langaages were present from many parts of the world. But in one house they heard what seemed like the coming of a Dyclone or hurricane. It made the trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What is that ?" And then a forked flame .of fire tipped each forehead, and what with the blast of wind and the dropping fire a panic took place until Peter ex- plained•that it was neither cyclone nor • conflagration, but 'the brilliance and an- nointing and baptismal power of the Holy Ghost. That scene was partially repeated in a :forest when Rev. John Easton was preach- ing. There was the sound of a rashing, mighty wind, and the people looked to the sky to see if there were any signs of a storm, but it was a clear sky, yet the sound of the wind was so great that .horses, frightened, broke loose from their fastenings, and the whole assembly felt that the sound was supernatural and Pentecostal. Oh, what an infinite and almighty and glorious personage is the Holy Ghost. He brooded this planet into life, and now that through sin it has be- -eome a dead world he will brood it the second time into life. Perilous attempt would be the comparison between the -three persons of the Godhead. They are -equal, but there is some consideration which attaches itself to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, that does ' not attach itself to either God the Father, or to God the Son. We may grieve God -the Father and grieve God the Son and be forgiven, but we are directly told that there is a sin against the Holy Goat which shall never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come. And it wonderful that while on the street you hear the name of God and Jesus Christ used in profanity you never hear the words Holy Ghost. This 'hour I speak -of the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, -as a human reeonstructor, as a solace for the •broken hearted, as a preacher's re- euforcement. The Bible is a mass of contradictions, an affirmation of impossibilities, unless the Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. The Bible says of itself that the Scripture is not for "private interpretation," but 'holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost"—that is, not Itrivate interpretation, but Holy Ghost interpretation. File on your study table all the commentaries of the Bible—Met- -thew Henry and Stott and Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes and Bush and Alex- :ander—and all the areheeologies and all the Bible dictionaries, and all the maps of Palestine, and all the International series of Sunday school lessons, and if that is all you will not understand the deeperg g andrender sof the Bible meanings so well as that Christian mountaineer, who Sunday morning, after having shaken do wit the fodder for :the cattle, wines into his cabin, takes up his well worn Bible, and with a prayer that stirs the heavens, asks for the Rely Ghost to 'unfold the book, 'enfold more unreasonab,e Would I be if I should take up the Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg,'all printed in Russian, and say, "!There is no sense in;,this newspaper, for I e tuna understand one line of all its onitinans," than for any man to take up he Bible and without getting Holy Gliese es lamination as to its moaning say: This those thipga you say to yourself are only soliloquies. No, no, They are the Com - Porter, who is the Holy Ghost, Now, my hearers, let five hundred of, us, whether oleriee'l or lay workers, get such a divine yisitation as that, and we could take this world for God before the °lock of the next century strikes one. How many marked instances of Holy Ghost power! When a black trumpeter took his place in Whitfield's audience proposing to blow the trumpet at a cer- tain paint in the service and put every- thing into derision, somehow he could not get the trumpet to his lips, and at the close of the meeting he sought out the preacher and asked for his prayers. It was the Holy Ghost, What was the matter with Hedley Vicars, the memor- rable soldier, when he sad with his Bible before him ina tent and his deriding com- panions came in and ��jeered, saying, “Turned Methodist, eh ? And another said : "You hypocrite ! Bad as you were, I never thought you would come to this, old fellow !" And then he became the soldier evangelist, and when a soldier in another regiment hundreds of miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxieties to Hadley Vicars, saying, ''What shall I do ?" Vicars telegraphed as thrilling a message as ever went over the 'wire, "Be- lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." What, power was being felt ? It was the Holy Ghost. And what more appropriate for the Holy Ghost is a "tongue of fire," and the electricity that flies along the wires is a tongue of fire ? And that reminds me of what I do now. From the place where I stand on this platform there are invisible wires on lines of influence stretching to every heart in all the seats on the main floor and up in the boxes and galleries, e and there are other innumerable wires or lines of influence reaching out from this place into the vast beyond, and across continents, and under ,the seas, for in my recent journey around the world •I did not find a country where I had not been preaching this gospel for many years through the printing press. So as a tele- graph operator site or stands at a given point and sends messages in all direc- tions, and you only hear the click, click, click of the electric apparatus, bat the telegrams go on their errand. God help me now to touch the right key and send the right message along the right wires to the right places ! Who shall I first call up ? To whom shall I send the message ! I guess I will send the first to all the tired, wherever they are, for there are so many tired souls. Here goes the Christly message, " Come unto me, all ye who are weary, aL d I will give you rest." Who next shall I call up ? I guess the next message will be to the fatherless and widows, and here goes God's message, " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me." Who next shall 1 call up? I guess my next mess- age will be to those who have buried members of their own families, and here it goes, " The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise." Who next shall I call up ? I guess the next message will go to those who think themselves too bad to be saved. Here it goes, •' Let the wicked forsake his way and the un- righteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord, who will hove mercy, and unto our God, who will abundantly pardon." Who next shall I call up ? 1 guess it will be to those who may think I have not yet touched their ease. Here it goes, " Whosoever, who- soever, whosoever will, let him come." The Holy Ghost comfort I think gene- rally comes in the shape' of a soliloquy. You find yourself saying to yourself: "Well, I ought not to go on this way about my mother's death. She had suf- fered enough. She had borne other peo- ple's burdens long enough. I am glad that father and mother are together in heaven, and they willbe waiting to greet us. audit will be only a little while any• how, and God makes no mistakes," or you soliquize, saying : "It is hard to lose my property. I am sure 1 worked hard enough for it. But God will take care of us, and, as the children, the money might have spoiled them, and we find that those who have to struggle for them- selves generally turn out best, and ,twill au be well if this upsetting of our world- ly resources leads us to lay up treasures in heaven." Or yon soliloquize, saying : "It was hard to give up that boy when the Lord took him. I expected great things from him, and, oh, how we miss him out of the house, and there are so many things I come acroas 'that make one think of him. and he was such a spendid fellow, but then what an escape he has made from the temptations and sorrows which collie to all who grow up, and it is a grand thing to have him safe from all possible harm, and there are all those Bible promises for parents who have lost children, and we shall feel a drawing heavenward that we could not have otherwise experienced." After you have said that you get that relief whish comes from an outburst of tears. I 'do not say to you as some say, do not cry. God. pity people in trouble who have the parched eyeball, and the dry eyelid, and cannot shed a, tear. That makes mani- acs. To God's people tears are the dews of the night dashed with sunrise. I am so glad you San weep. But you think TUE FARM AND GARDEN. HINTS AND NEWS NOTES For City and Country --Clippings and Original Articles which have been Prepared for Our Readers. AN EFFECTIVE ?4WrUIOD QF CgOWI GIiAFT- IING,.. Saw off the branch at right angles to the stem to be grafted, as at a in the il- lustration, Thee out a clean slit in the bark through to the wood, as shown—the same as in budding. Separate the bark from the wood and insert the cion b, one for each slit.. The number of slits for each stock will be determined by its size. We will suppose the stook illustrated to And now may God. turn on all the electric power into this gospel battery for the last tremendous message, so that it may thrill through this assemblage and through all the earth. Just six words will compose the message, and I touch the key of this gospel battery just six times and the message is gone ! Away ! Away it flies ! And the message is, "Have ye received the Holy Ghost ?"— that is, do you feel the power ? Has he enabled you to sorrow over a wasted life, and take full pardon from the crucified Christ, and turned your faee toward the wide open gates of a welcoming heaven ? We appeal to thee, 0 Holy Ghost, who didst turn the Philippian jailer, and Saul of Tarsus, and Lydia of Thyatira, and helped John Bunyan out of darkness, when, as he describes it, " Down fell r as a bird shot from the top of the tree into fearful despair, bat was relieved by the comforting word, ' The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin,' and helped John Newton when. standing at the helm of the ship in a midnight hurricane and mightier than the waves that swept the decks came over him the memory of his blasphemous and licentious life, and he cried out, t' My mother's God. have mercy on me !" and helped one nearer home, even me, De Witt Talmage, at about eighteen years of age, that Sunday night in the lovely village of Blawen- burg, N.J., when I could not sleep be- cause the questions of eternal destiny seized hold of me, and has helped me ever since to use as most expressive of my own felling : Amazing grace, how sweet the sound 'That saved a wretch like me 1 I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, butnow I see. Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come. "Tis grace nos brought me safe thus far, And grace willlead me home. be six inches in diameter, and that six cions are to be inserted. The stock after receiving the cions is shown at c. A thick paper is wound about the top of the o stook extendingabout one high above it and securely ted with strong twine as at d. The space above the stook formed by the inch of paper may then be filled to the top of the paper with a puddle of soil and water. This mud protects the sur- face of the wood. of the stock and excludes the air from the insertions, giving every advantage of wax without its objections. Stocks of any size may be worked in this way, and one, two or any number of cions inserted. A SECTIONAL ram ROLLER. One of the most useful implements, next to those of absolute necessity, upon a well-conducted farm is a roller. When the soil is heavy and tenacious the roller helps to crash the clods and level the rough surface, while the light, shifting soil is quite as much benefited by its compressing action, A. roller oonsisting Lady Aberdeen on Servants. Mistresses of well -ordered households who are the victims of incompetent and impertinent pleasure -loving girls who abuse their goodness, have often not a notion of the very real hardships en- dured by young servants at the hands of mistresses who do not know themselves, and, therefore, cannot train others, or even discern between good and bad ser- vice, who perhaps are full of toil and worries of their own and forget that their servants have any right to interests out- sids of their daily work, writes Lady Aberdeen in an article under the heading " The Burning Question of Domestic Service, and an Endeavor to Solve It," in the April Ladies' Home Journal. Many a bad servant and bad woman has been manufactured by such a mistress. Much depends on the first place. It is there where a girl leatns to estimate the worth put on her service --and if she be there trained to realize the importance of her duties, if she is a a word of encour- agement s sure of agement when she has done well, as well as the word of reproof in. the contrary case, and if she can rely on her mistress' kindly interest in her life and °utside occupations and pleasures, the probabill- ty is that all will be well and that one more self-respecting servant will have been added to the soloot number who bless the homes in which they minister Mexico's first internatioai exposition will open April 2, 1806, and continue for six menthe or so. An authorized lottery is one of its features. the furnace, and the back .opening closed thoroughly around the pipe with clay, which may be built as high as the top of the box and so protect the, wood from the heat. Any farmer who t, ill try the ex" parlament will be astonished at the short space of time required to boil such a fur nate. It can be heated with old rails, or scrap wood, such as accumulate around every farm yard. A silo 10 feet square, 20 feet high, will hold 40 tons of ensilage. Three acres will fill it at 15 tons per acre. One 2) feet square and 20 feet high will hold 160 tons of ensilage, or 1Q acnes. There are 40. pounds of ensilage to the cubic foot. Same animals will eat 60 pounds, and do well on the ensilage alone. It is better to add bran or cottonseed meal. One hundred and sixty tons of ensilage will furnish thefor g a ge food for a sinor :le ani - 8 cows mal for 218 months, . h eo s for six months. A man has been known to buy and haul manure five mil s that was so fire - fanged or burnI that it was little better than. straw. While he was doing • this work there were about his barn and yard fertilizers of three times the value of the manure he hauled going to waste. the leaching from the yard was allowed to run into the rod, the slops, soap suds, etc., followed suit, while every chance was in his favor to produce abundant fer- tilizers of the first quality, with half the expense. tipon his farm he had abund- ance of muck that would only cost the hauling. This with the limited wastes applied would. give a most gratifying re - salt and be a lasting benefit. A good garden is little appreciated by e f onth the average a armeret nothiug y g i all respects in pro- portion is so valuable n x p to the labor and expens i, as a well -selected, well -kept' garden. Profit, pleasure, and health may be realized and promoted by tt. .thorough culture of the garden is of great importance, Fre- quent culture will insure tioistnre in times of drought, and it is valuable at all times for supplying mellowness and mois- ture to the soil for the use of plents. One of the reasons why many farmers pay little or no attention to having a garden is the fact that so many attempt the cul- tivation. of more land than can well be tilled ; the consequence is that they are compelled to give all their time to ordi- nary farm work, and have no time to make a garden. The economy of this course may well be doubted. The better way would be to attempt no more than can be done in the best manner, and. in determining this question, one should al- low the garden to come into account. FIG. 1.—A SECTIONAL ROLLER. of a single long cylinder works at a great disadvantage in turning corners, the outer end having to travel over a much greater distance than the inner, so that it must sweep over the ground without revolving. This difficulty is largely obviated by making the roller in sections,. each one of which tarns independently of the others. We illustrate herewith a sectional roller which may be cheaply constructed and effective. It is in four sections. The frame shown in Fig. 1 is of oak or other toy t, hard timber, three by four inches. The two side pieces are nine feet six inches long, the two end pieces threw feet. A block of white oak or similar wood, eighteen inehee in extreme length and nine inches wide, FIG. 2.—ROLLER BOX. shaped as shown in Fig. 2, is securely bolted to the lower edge of eaeh end piece, to hold the boxes in which the outer ends of the axles revolve. Three iron bars of the shapeshown in Fig. 2 are bolted, one in the middle of the frame, and one'on each side half way to the end. These hold the boxes which support the inner journals. A stout piece of oak or white elm is bolted across the middle of the frame and extends in front where it serves as a tongue to which the double - tree and neck -yoke are attached. The cylinders may be made of wood or iron. FARM ROLLER FOR TWO DOLLARS. In the illustration below we give a clear idea how any farmer may construct for himself a boiler suitable for all pur- poses that a boiler is required for. The box (or boiler) is simply a coarse box made of sound inch lumber of any desir- able size, say two feet by four and one foot deep being a convenient size, well secured at the corners, with clips of sheet iron. The bottom is made of one sheet of heavy sheet iron and tacked securely to the edges of the box. The foundation is built of three or four rows of brick of the same size as the box, which latter point, if observed, will carry the sides of the box the width of the brick from the fire. It is necessary to lay to or three bars of iron am oss to support the bottom', an old sleigh_ shoe answering the purpose quite well. To complete the furnace two old lengths of stove pipe are all that is necessary, being. set up at the back of Before ordering your seeds make up your mind how much ground is co be planted with each kind of vegetable or flower, and calculate accordingly the amount of seed required, ordering suffiei- ent to allow you to err on the side of thick sowing rather than thin. It is bet- ter to have no surplus which you will be tempted to -save for the following season, since there are fe w sleds, when kept over, which give as good results as those order- ed fresh every year. Should the seeds you receive meet with your approval, iecommend them to your neighbors, ad- vising them to send for catalogues, and you will find you will lose nothing by so doing, for an enterprising seedsman is not slow to appreciate sad reciprocate such favors. You should also make sure, before blaming your dealer for the fail- ure of his seeds to germinate or to yield profitably, that you yourself are well posted as the proper time and method of planting each variety, as well as its sub- sequent requirements. Old You Know Thiel Two trained mice operate a spinning machine devised by a (alasgow machinist. The eggs of the Bahama euckoo are held at $100 per set by dealers m birds eggs. Witl3 the present optical instruments in use 50,000,000 stars are rendered vis, ble. A spring of goad water on a, °lei= in Oklahama adds $500 to the value of the claim.. Vienna is to Have an elevated railroad with the wheels on top of the cars, which will hang suspended to the. rails, A negro boy of Cherokee, Ga., who was attacked by three rattlesnakes and bitten several times, recovered within a few days. A flour mill in Minneapolis contains a belt 260 feet long and weighing over a ton. It required twenty cowhides to make it. It is said that the frigate bird eau fly atthe rate of 100 miles an hour and live in the air a week ata time without touching a roost. A flower cut in the morning will retain its freshness twice as long as a flower out in the middle of the day, 'when the sun. is upon it. For NERVOUS PROSTRATION, Bl 1. Ex HAUSI'XON, an 1 DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS resulting from undue Strain upon the Mental or Phy- sical Energies. MALTINE COCOA WINE A Most Effective Nutrient Tonic and Stimulant. In this Preparation are combined the nutrienh • and digestive properties of MALTn15 with the powerful tonic and stimulant action of Cocos. ERYTRROXYLON. The preparation has been very largely and successfully used for relief of morbid conditions due to nervous exhaustion, and depression of spirits resulting from undue strain upon the mental or physical energies. It will be found a valuable recuperative agent in coavalescencefromwasting diseasestimprov- ing the appetite and promoting digestion—and being very palatable, is acceptable, to the most sensitive stomach. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. A cold frame is simply a construction of boards in an oblong form, similar to a garden hotbed, and differing from it only that in the latter bottom heat is furnish- ed to force the growth of the plants. The frame may be made of common boards. four feet wide and as long as required. Whether for a cold frame or a hotbed a southern exposure is the best, and each must becovered with sash, or canvas, which is sometimes substituted for glass. The back should be fifteen and the front six inehes high with a cross tie every throe feet. The frame should be settled into the ground a little and be banked up around an the outside. Then excavate the inside a foot or more and form the bottom into a plant bed of fine, rich earth. On warm pleasant daysleave it uncovered and exposed to the sun and air. Much tee same care about watering and ventilation is required as fora hot- bed, from which the early forced plants may be transferred and their growth con- tinued until the season is far enough ad- vanced for them to be transplanted. into the open garden without further protec- tion. A Doctor's Certificate. A good story is revived on a physician not a thousand miles from Toronto. Some weeks ago on old lady died in one of the institutions of the county, It was desir- ed to send the remains to distant rela- tives, but the railroad company would not transport the corpse -without a cert,- tate that there was no infectious disease. No doctor attended her, but, acertificate being required, our M.D. furnished the following : "This certifies that I knew the deceased many years. She came to her death from dumb palsy of long stand- ing which gradually run her down, and she died without the necessity of a phy- sician." LAKEHURST SANITARIUM Fast Enough. An emyloyee of a large granite com- pany was driving from the station, with several kegs of blasting powder and dy- namite cartridges in his load, and over- took a young man walking. Without waiting for an invitation the pedestrian sprang up into the wagon and sat down upon one of the powder kegs. Ho was a talkative young man, and began at once to make derogatory re- marks about the speed of the wagon, or the lack of it. ,•,. "We're passing everything en the road," he said cheerily, "that is, every- thing that is stationary." Not receiving a reply he continued : "1 was half a, mind to hire a landslide or a glacier, just for speed, you know, but I guess we are doing about as well." He was silent for some time, then he broke f g ort h again. "I say—stop the horse ! The earth is revolving fast enough to get es there." dust then he prepared to scratch a match on the keg. The driver spoke rather lazily. "If you are goin' my way, this is jest as fast as it will bei but if you want to go straight up at right angles to the road, fest light that match on that powder— and you're there now." The young man decided to walk, Single stones in the walls surrounding Baelbec weigh 3,0J0,00J pours is each OAKVILLE, ONTARIO. For the treatment and cure of ALCOHOLIsai, THE MORPHINEVIABIT, TOBACCO HABIT, AND NERVOUS DISEASES The system employed at this institutiou is the famous Double Chloride of Gold System. Through its agency over 290,- 000 Slaves to the use of these poisons have been emancipated in the last four- teen years. Lakehurst Sanitarium is the oldest institution of its kind in Canada, and has a well-earned reputation to maintain in this line of medicine. In ite whole history there is not an instance of any after ill-effects from the treatment. Hundred of happy homes in all parts of the Dominion bear eloquent witness to the efficacy of a course of treatment with us, For terms and all informationwrite THE SECRETARY, 28 Bank of Commerce Chambeaa, Toronto, Ont A. H. CANNING, WHOLESALE GROCER, TORONTO Sells direct to the people, and he pays the freight. He is now selling No. 161ranulated Sugar at Hie. per lb. and sells the best Teas in Canada, price and quality considered. Remember he pays the freight. WHEN YOU ARE IN !DOUBT use the matches your father and your grandfather before you used. As they were the best then, they are the best now. E. B. EDDY'S MATCHES. 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