The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-16, Page 7THE UNAPPRECISTED
REV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS IN BE-
HALF OF HUMBLE EFFORTS)
Stio wine Teat God Rewartto Ac-
eOrtl II air to Effort And Xilt .0..eeording tO
opportunity—The litsalded in Lima Bat^
(1es—Thoonspieuolla Seheres,
Washingbou, Nov, 3.—Dr. Taltriage be,
day mesaehed Isis second sermon since
/coming to the national capital. If possible
the audience wns even larger than laet
Sunday. The subject Was " The, Disabled,"
the text seleeted being I, Samuel xxx, e4,
"As his pert is that a oeth down to the
battle, so shell his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff."'
If you have never seen an army change
luarters, you have no Idea of the amount
of baggage -20 loads, 50 loads, 100 loads
of baggage, David and his army were
about to start on a double Wok maroh
for the recovery of their eaptured tontines
from the Amalekites. So they left by the
brook Besor their blankets, their limp-
eaeks, their baggage and their carriages,
Who shall he detailed to watch this stuff?
Them are sick soldiees, and wounded sot.
diers, and aged soldiers, who are not able
to go on swift ruilitaty expeditions, but
who are able to do some work, and so
they are detailed totwateh; the baggage.,
There is many a soldier who is not strong
enough to march 30 miles in a day and
then plunge into a ten hours' tight who is
able with drawn sword lifted against Ms
shoulder to pace up and doven as a senti-
nel to keep off an enemy who might put
the toroh to the baggage. There are 200 of
those crippled and aged and wounded sol-
diers detailed to watch the baggage. Some
of them,, I suppose, had bandages across
the brow, and some of them had their
arms In a sling, and some of them walked
on crutches. They were not cowards
shirking duty. They bad fought in inane'
a fierce battle for their country and their
God. They are now part of the time in
hospital and part of the time on garrison
duty. They almost ory because they can-
not go with the other troops to the front
Wink, these sentinels watch the baggage
the Lord watohes the sentinels.
There is quite a different scene being
enaoted in the distance. Amalekites, hav-
ing ravaged and ransacked and robbed
whole countries, are celebrating their sue -
cess in a roaring carousal. Soine of them
aro dancing on the lawn with wonderful
gyration of heel and toe, and some of them
are examining the spoils of victory —the
finger rings and earrings, the necklaces,
and -wristlets, the head bands, diamond
starred, and the coffers with coronets and
carnellans and pearls and sapphires and.
esneraids and ail the wealth of plate and
jewels and decanters, and the silver, and
the gold banked np on the earth in prince-
ly profusion, and the embroideries, and the
robes, and the turbans, and the cloaks of
an imperial wardrobe. The banquet bas
gone on until the banqueters are meutilin
and weak and stupid and indecent runt
loathsomely drank. What a time it is
now for David and his men to swoop on
them 1 Bo the English lost the battle of
Bannockburn, because the night before.
they were in wassail ancl bibulous celebra-
tion while the SOOt011 'WM in prayer. So
the Syrians were overthrown in their car-
ousal by the Israelites. So Chedarlaomer
and his army were overthrown in theie
carousal by Abraham and his men. So in
our civil war more than ones the battle was
lost beetles se one of the generals was drunk.
Now is the time for David and his men
to swoop upon these ,David
Arnalekites.
Some of the Ainalekites are hacked to
pieces ots the spot, some of them are just
able to go staggering and hiccoughing off
the field, some of them crawl on camels
and speed off iii the distance. David and
his men eather together the wardrabes,
the jewel's, and put them upon the hack of
camels and into wagons, and they gather
together the sheep and cattle that had been
stolen and start beck toward. the garrison.
Yonder they tame! Yonder they consel
The limping men of the garyison come on t
and greet them with wild liana, The
Bible says David seluted them—that is, he
asked them bow they all were„ "How is
your broken atm?" "Bow is your frac-
tured fan?" "Has the stiffened limb been
unlimbered'?' "Have yoii had another
".Are you getting better?" He
sa• luted them.
But now came a very difficult thing, the
distribution of the spoils of victory. Drive
up those laden camels now. Who hall
have the spoils? Well, some eelfish soul
suggests that these treasures ought all uo
belong to those who had been out in active
S erViee. "We did all the fighting while
these men staid at home in me garrison,
and we ought to have ell this treasures,"
But David looked into the worn facee
'of these veterans who had staid in the
garrison and he looked round and saw how
cleanly everything had been kept, and saw
that the baggage was all safe, and he knew
that these wounded anti crippled men
would gladly enough have been at the
front if they had been able, and the little
general looked up from under his helmet
and says: "No, no, let us have fair play,"
and ite rushes up to one of these men and
he says, "Hold your hands together," and
the hands are held together, and he fills
them with silver. And he rushes up to
another man who was sitting away back
and had no idea of getting any of the spoils
end throws a Babylonish garment ever
him and 1111s his band with gold, And he
rushes up to another man who had lost all
his property In serving God and his coun-
try years before, and he drives up some of
the cattle and some of the sheep that they
brought back from the Amalekites and he
gives two or three of the cattle and three
or four of the sheep to this poor man, 80
he shall always be fed and clothed. He
sees tt man se emaciated and worn oat and
sick 183,1108(18 stimulants and he gives him
a little of the Wine that he brought feom
She Amalekites. Yonder ie a man who
has no appetite for the rough rations of
the army, and he gives him a stare Morsel
from the .A malekitieh bancamt„ and the
200 crippled and maimed and. aged soldiers
Wise tarried on the garrison duty' get just
as much of the, spoils of battle as any of
the 200 men thatwent to the front. ".As
his part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall his part he that tari:loth by the
, sthff.'
, The Earl of '<inter() said to ine on an
English railway,." Mr, Talmage, When yOt.
get back to Americeal want yet In preach
a sermon on the discharge bt ordinary
duty in ordinary places and then send tne
II copy of it." Afterward. an langlielt
elergyreen taming to this land .brought
front the Earl of Kintore.the same mes-
mega. Alas that before 1 get reedy to do
what he asked me to do the good Earl of
Kintore had, departed this life/ But that
seenestirrounded by all palatird sitereund-
inge and. In a distinguished taphole+, felt
sympethetio wibh those who had ordihaty
&Meeto perferta 111 ,oedinety Ways. A
great Many people are disoonraged when
they beat the story of Moseley arid of
&sebum ked Of David, and of I/tither, and
of .Tohn 101oX, and of Lebokala and' of
Florence Nightingale. They pay: "Oh,
that was all good and right for theta het
shall ne'ver be galled to receive the 1atv
an Mount Sinai, 1 shall never he ealle,1 to
eommand the son and moon to stand stall,
I shall never be coiled to slay a giant, 1
shall oever prefach on Mars hill, I hall
never defy tbe dbot ot Worms, I shall never
be celled let make a mean tremble for her
orimee, I shell never preside over a hospi-
tal.'' There are women, who say: "If 1 had
as brilliant a sphere as those people had. I
shonid be as brave and os grand, but my
business is to got children off to sehool
and to hunt up things when they are lost,
ond to see Shat dinner is ready, and to
keep Omelet of the household expenses,
and to hinder the .ehildren from being
strangulated by the whooping eough, and
to get through all , the annoyances and
vexations of housekeepieg. Oh, my sphere
is so infinitesimal and so insignificant I
am clearly discouraged," Women, God
places you an garrison duty, and your
reward will be just is great es that of
Florence Nightingale, who, moving so
often night by night with a light in her
hand through the hospitals, was called by
She wounded the "lady of the lamp."
lobe reward will be just as great as that
of Mrs. Hertzog, who built and widowed
theological seminary builidngs. Your re-
ward will be just as great tut that of Han-
nah More, who by her excellent books
won for her admirers Garrick and Ed-
mund Burke and Joshua Reynolds, Re-
wards are not to be givers according to the
amount ot noise you. make in the world,
nor even according to the amount of good
you do, but aocording to wt ether you work
to your fujI capacity, aceording to whether
or not you do your full duty in the sphere
where God has placed you.
Sumiesse you give to two of your chil-
dren errands and they are to go off to
make purchases, and to (me you give $1
and teethe other you give $20. Do you
reward the boy you gave $20 to for pur-
chasing more with that amount of money
Shan the other boy purchased with $1? Of
course not. IfGod give wealth or sweat
position or eloquence or 90 times the fac-
ulty to a man that he gives vo the ordinary
man, is he going to give to the Waived
man a reward because he has more power
and more influence? 011, no. In other
words, if you and I were to do our whole
duty and you have 20 times more talent
than. I have, you will get no more divine
reward than I will. Is God goleg to re.
ward you because he gave you more? That
would not be fait; that would not 'be
right, These 200 men of the text who
fainted by the brook Baser did their whole
duty ; they watched the baggage, they took
care of the stuff, and they got as much of
the spoils ot victory as the men who went
to the front. "As his post is that goeth
down. to the battle, SO shall his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff." •
There is high encouragement in this for
all who have great responsibility and little
credit for what they do, You know the
names of the great oommeroial houses of
these Mies. Do you know the names of ,
the confidential clerks—the men who have
the key to the safe, the men who know
the combination look? A distinguished
01 erehant goes forth at the summer water-
ing, place and he flashes past and yon say,
"Who is that?" "Oh," reptes some 00e,
"don't you know? That is the greab im-
porter, that is the great banker,that is the
great sett n neat urea "
Once for tie hours we expected every mo-
ment to go to the bottom of the ocean.
The waves struck through the skylights
and rushed down into the hold of the ship,
and hiseed against the bailees. It was an
awful time, but by the blessing of God and
the faithfulness of the 1111111 in oiarge, we
came out 0 the cyclone and. we arrived at
home. Each one before leaving the ship
thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think
then was A man or woman that went off
that ship without thanking Captain An -
strews, and when, years after I heard of
his death, I was impelled to write' a letter
ennaolence to his family in. Liverpool.
Everybody recognized the goodness, the
coarrwe, the kindness of Captain Andrews,
but it oceurs to me now that we never
thanked the engineer. He stood away
down in the darkness, amid the hissing
furnaces, doing his whole dtsty. Nobody
thanked the engineer, but God recognized
his heroism, and his continuance, and his
fidelity, and there will be just as high ie -
ward Ler the engineer who worked out of
sight as the captain, who stood en the
bridge of the ship in the Midst of the howl-
ing tempest. "As his part is that goeth
down to the battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff."
A Christians woman was seen going
along the edge of a wood every eventide and
the neighbors in the country did not under
stand how a mother with so nany cares
and anxieties should waste so much time
as to be idly sauntering out evening by
evening. It was found out afterward that
she went there to pray for her household,
ail while there one evening she wrote
that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages
for cheering hearts:
I love to steal a while away
From °Very cumbering care
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no reward for such unpre-
tending yet everlastiog service?
'Chew back in the country -there is a boy
who wants to go to college and get an
education. They call him a bookworm.
Wherever they find lem—in the beim or in
the house—he is reading a book. "What
a pity 15 15,'' they sae, " that Ed. cannot
get an education." His father, work as
bard as ho will, can DO more time support
She l'amily by the product of the farm.
One night Ed. has retired to his room and
there Is a Malii . conference about him.
The sisters say: "Father, I wish you
would send leal, to eollege. If you will,
we will work harder than we over did, and
we will melee our old dresses do." The
mother says:. "Yes, I wilt get along with-
out any hired help, Although I am 001 08
strong as I used to be.. I think I can get
along without any fared help" The
father says, "Well, I think by husking
003"13 nights 1 can get along without any
Assistance," Sega, is bronshed from the
table, better is banished tram the plate.
That family is pnt down on rigid—yea,
stiffetleg—econoing that the boy may go
to college, Time passest on. G'omInemsos
mont day has come, Think not that I
Mention an imaginary case. God keens
it happenea: Commeneement day has
Come, and the peofessote walk in on the
stage Ill their iong gowns, The interest of
the oecasion is passing on, and, after a
While it wines to a annum of interest ae
the valedicterhat is to be introduced. Ed.
has studied so hard, and Worked so wall
that he has bed the honor eoeferred 'upon
him. There are rounds of Applause, some-
times brealdng into vociferation, et la
a gent day for ald. But Mew back in the
galleries roe his sistma in their ifiala hats
and theft faded sheathe and the elti, rash -
lotted fathet,. nett mother-adear ine, she
has hot had a MAY hat Tor six gears, he
has tot had a new coat for six years—and
they got up Md look over on the platfoten
and they langli and they ery, end they sit
deans, anti they leek pale and then thee
ate eery' metal fleshed, Ed gete the gith,
lands, mad the Od fashioned group in the
gallery have their fall share of the
triumph, They have made that scene
possible, and in the day when. God shall
more fully reward self eaerifices rode for
others, he will give grand and glorious.
meagnition. PAs his pare is that goeth
down to the battle, so shall his parr be
that tarrieth by the stuff."
'There is high encouragement in Ole
stibject, also, for those who male wrought
mightily for Christ and the chureh, but
through SielilleSS or collapse of fortune or
advanced years cannot now go to the
front. (.thetie 200 men of the text were
veterans. Let that man bare his arm and
show how themuseles were torn, Let
hina pull Aside tbe turban, and see the.
mark of a battle ax. ° P011 aside the coat
and see where the spear thrust him.
Would it have been fair for those men,
crippled, weak and old, by the brook
Timor, to have no share in the spoils of
triumph? I was in the Soldiers' Hospital
in Paris, and I saw there some of the men
of the first Napoleon, and I asked them
where they had fought under their great
commander. One man said, "I was at
Austerlitz." Another man said, "1 was at
the Pyramids." Another man said, "1 was
in the awful retreat from Moscow." An-
other man said, "I was at the bridge of
Lodi." Some of them were lame; they
were all aged. Did the French Govern-
ment turn off these old soldiers to die in
want? No their last days were spent like
princes. Do you think my Lord is going
to thin off his soldiers 'because they are
weak and worn and because they fainted
by the brook Besor? Are they going to get
no part of the opolis of the victory? Just
look at them. Do you think those crevices
In the face are wrinkles? No; they are
battle sears. They fought against siek-
ness, they fought against trouble, they
fought against sin, they fought for God,
they .fought for the church, they. fought
ter the truth, they fought for heaven,
When they had plenty of money, their
names were always on the subscription
list. When there was any hard work to be
done for God, they were ready to takiethe
heaviese part of it. When there came a
great revival, they were ready to pray all
night for the anxious and the sin struck.
They were ready to do any work, endure
any saorifice, do the most unpopular thing
Stint God demanded of them, . But now
they cannot go further. Now they have
physical infirmities. Now their head
troubles them. They are weak and faint
by the brook Baser. Are they to have no
share in the triumph? Are they to get
none of the treasures, none of the spoils of
conquest? You must think that Christ
bas a very short memory if you think he
has forgotten their services.
Fear not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by
the stuff and wait for your share of the
spoils. Yonder they are °outing. I hear
the bleating of the fat Iambs and I see the
jewels glint in the sun. It makes me
laugh to think bow yon will be surprised
when they throw IV chain of gold over your
neck and tell you to go in and dine with
the king. I see you booking out bemuse
you reel unworthy. The shining rules come
UP on the ono side, and the shining ones
come up on the ether side, and they push
yon on end they push you up and they
say, "Here is au old soldier of Jesus
Christ," and the shining ones will rush
out toward you and say, "Yes, that man
saved nay soul," or they will rush out and
say. "Oh, yes, she was with me in the last
sickness." And then the cry will go
round the carols, "Come in, contain, °eine
in, come up, We saw you away down
there, old and sick and decrepit and dis.
couraged because you could not go to the
front, but "As his part is that goeth down
to the battle, so shall his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff."
There is high consolation, also, in this
for aged ministers. I see some of them
here to -day. They sit in pews in our
°Marches. They used to stand in pulpits.
Their hair is white with the blossoms of
the tree of life. Their names marked on
the roll of the general assembly, or of the
consociation, "Ent eritus, " They some-
times heat a text announced which brings
to mind a sermon they preached 50 years
ago on the same subject. They preached
more gospel on $400 a year than some of
their successors pre5tch on $4,000. Some
Sunday the old minister is in a church
and near by in another pew there is a hus-
band and a wife and a row of children.
And after the benediction the lady comes
up and says, "Doctor, you don't know me,
do yon" "Well," he says, • 'your face is
familar, but 1 cannot call you by name,"
"Why," she says, "you baptized me and
you married me said you buried my father
and mother and sisters." OA, yes," he
' says, "my eyesight Ise' t as good as It used
to be." They are in all our churenes—the
beroes of 1820, the heroes of 1832, the
heroes of 1857. Bv the long grave trench
that cue through balf a cettastry, they have
stood sounding the resurrection. They
have been in more Babas -lavas and they
ha,ve taken mere Sebastopols than youever
heard of. Sometimes they get a little fret•
ful because they cannot be at the front.
They hear the sound of the battle and the
old war here° champs his bit. leut tbe
60;000 minstere of religion this day stand-
ing in the brunt of the fray shall have no
nuire reward than those retired. veterans.
"My father, Iny father, the chariots of
,IsaeI and the horsemen thereof." "As
his part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall his part be that taerteth by the
stuff."
Cheer up, leen and women of unappre-
ciated serviees. You will get your reward,
if not here, hereafter. When Charles Wes-
ley comes tip to judgment, and the thou-
sands of souls which were wafted into
glory through his songs shall be enumer-
ated, he wi 1 I. ta ke h is throne. Then Jain
Wesley will come sip to judgment, and
after his 00108 has beets mentioned in con-
nection with the Salvation of the Inillions
of souls brought to God through the Meth-
odism which lie founded., he will take his
throne. But between the two thrones ot
Charles Weeley and .701111 Wesley. there will
be a throne higher than either, .on wheel
001 sit Susannah Wesley, Who with ma-
ternal conseeetition in Itpworth rectory,
, Lincolnshire, started thoee two souls on
their triumphant mairtion of the emanon
and song through all the folldyving ages.
011, what a day that will be fOr limns/ who
rocked Christian easdlos with weary foot,.
and who patched wean out garments and
darned soaks, and Out of a small income
made the claildren • comfortable for the
Whiter. What n day that will be for those
to whom the world gave the cold shouldea
and called them nobodies and begrudged
them the least rethgnition, and who,
weary and 'moth and stick, Minted by 5110
brook Besor, 011, that will be a mighty
day when the Son of David shall distribute
among them the ,garlatale, the °tonne, the
essepters, the chariots, the thrones. And
then it shall Inc found out that all who on
earth served God in ineonSpictionsseberee
receive just as tatieb eewerd aS theSis Who
filled the earth with Uproar of achieve-
ment. Theo they shall linderetand the
height, the depth, the length, the 13Walths
the pillared and the domed magnificence Of
ma text, ".A0 1110 part is that gate dent
Vs the brittle) so shall his part Inc that tat -
Keith by the, stuff',"
M ME.,FEL.1)e FAURE,
late mistress of the Mystic Is Sehti to fie
A fIllarPaing WoMiso.,
We may say ef the wife of the new pm-
sident of the French republie, s' like a fers
tuna at e01311l1'A she leis no history,''
Muse, Felix Faure, writes a orrespoud-
xct the Creutiewonsan, '88 Mlle. Marie
Matitilde Belluot, tiaughter of a solicitor
and Mom of Seesaw." Guinotof Ambroiec,
sn the depotaneut of Isidro -et -Loire, On
:July 10, 1805, at the Lige of twenty-three
yettee, Mise Belluet heestme Met: Felix
karma She Was a. beautiful brunette.
With jet black hair and sparkling eyes.
Two daughters /save blessed this union,
ansI Anteinotte,the younger, Is wife of a
mining enginerne Rene Berge, oonseiller-
general of the SeinceInfeeloure.
Although, as I have said, MAUI. 'Pair.
Yam is but little kriown, that does not
Mean she has not sympathized with her
husband in his eventful life. Certainly
the Itsrger Aare of M. Fame's success is
due to the helpful miluence of his wife.
The borne life of M. and Mine. Faure
has always been chauning. Mine. Faure
is a very intelligent SYM1U111, and her wit
and humor are preeerbial. She does not
care for the guy world, as she dearlsaloves
her home, but she knows how tp entertain
with perfect grace. The naval officers
who attended her receptions in the minis-
try of nuerine wee° charmed with Mine.
Fame's anenner, as 0 hostess, and all
who know her say that she will be an or-
nament to the Elyse° palace. Mme,
Faure always remains in her 'own apart-
111ente until noon, the hour for dejeunera,
la fourehette, but the president rises at 5
o'clock, and at 6 he is ID his study. He
then reads the documents left over from
the previous evening-, and While perusing
them he smokes is curved pipe called a
pipe de chasse. Regularly at ten minutes
before eight the president returns to his
dressing -room, changes his clothes, and
at 8 (Mock Ise is ready to give audience
or to work with his secretaries. Mme
•
AMR.
Felix Faure is being greatly assisted in
her duties as "first lady of the lead" by
her eldest daughter, Mlle. Lucie Eanre,
a very beautiful girl, 25 years Md.'', Mlle.
Limit: is, like her mother, intelligent,
witty, telented and very literary. She is
fond of poetry, writes poems with great
facility, and willingly recites thein to het
friends. Mlle. Faure is often her father's
secretary, and last year she accompanied
him to Egypt, where both were very well
received. As I have said, the second
daughter is mrseried. M. Berge, although
by profession an engiueer, does not prac-
tice ; Ise is very wealthy and Owns im-
mense properties near Havre. In witster
I. and Mine. Beige live in a splen id fit
—12 Rae Pierre Chevron, Paris. M.
Berge is very mutes interested in agricul-
ture and cattle Wising. Because of theit
youth and enthusiasm Mine. Berge and
Mlle. Faure are giving a tone of gayety
to the Elyse° receptions. This is a decid-
ed change for the better, as these map -
tons new always very cold and formal.
JIii
TATTOOED CLOTHES.
The Satuoaus are Very (layer People and
Like 'Iltelr Sommer Sults,
leliss Marie Fraser, after a visit to
Samoashas written a book on the Wends.
in which appears the following naive lit-
tle essay on the philosophy of clothes:
"Though the tattooing in Samoa may
vary a little io design, the decoratiou is
always in the shape of kneebreeehes, ex-
tending front the. waist—where strings tied
iu karats raid ornamental fasteningare
tatsooed on the skin, so thorough is the
artist in his work—to below the keee.
The pattern is very elaborate, with stripes
of -natural skin intersecting. It is cer-
tainly a great improvemeut to their ap-
pearance, for in wet or stormy weather
they economically leave their best lava -
lavas at home and wear only a ballalla
leaf or a girdle of leaves; and should an
Wander be caught in a heavy shower
white wearing only a garment of tapa the
tattooing stands him in good stead, for
dark cloth does not survive wet and
rapidly dissolves into rags No matter
how scantily they may he clad, the tat-
-toeing makes them look 51; (;r;iugliby
clothed acid trim in their 11111)8018 1)113.
After leaviug the Navigators and visiting
other islands, where the ktrt is only used
aft the most inartistic and disfiguring
300111181'. we missed the clam -looking tat
toed 3:18,t1V88 of Samoa 10 their dexterous
knee breeches.
f1,ueen .1.60.110+1 124's Godobildren.
It is said that Queese Isabella has elore
godchildren than tiny other woman ia
the Collette Olairela She 110.8 never
known to refuse to not as sponsor when-
ever asked by parents who had any sort of
claim en her kiminess. Her latest god -
01111(1 was ehrlsteued on Tuesday at the
Church of St. Frances of A.ssisi, The
:Tonere were the ex -Queen, represented
by the wife or the Spanieli Ambassador,
and Don Franciseo ot aassisi, The
neophyte is the son of the Marquis de No -
van is, first secretary of the apanish am-
bassy, and received the names of Joseph
Lopez Francisco. Wessels boys are often
called after their godmothers. The late
als etrevy's real name NV88 Judith. The
eustom 18 ancleut, inasmuch es the Con-
stable de Montmoreney was named. All DO,
after Quemi Amite, Duehess or Brittany,
and wife of Louis XII.
Miss Migraine ef Hyderabad, the Bret
Mohammedan girl to try a university ex-
aminatiot, has passed. the first examin-
ation ia tbe arts at the Madras umversity
With honors in Arabic. Not being alien-
ed to leave the tamale, she peesued her
studies by hereelf under very great diffi-
culties, as She could not abated coliege
leettires. She took her examieation itt
gecles school nudist the eye of the head
miatress.
Saving up.
The waiter had their orders.
"Dearest," lse whispered, "do aott to -
ally Meta it 'Oben you say you will he
inine?" '
She woe A bit ilupatient.
'Fitz, allattriee," she teplied, "did I not
just this -moment SW plait stow When if
might have said terrapin ?''
',that was Certainly cotteltieiVe.
BED,FilDDEN BY FANCY, WE
Erszluminatioos wale)). Domluate She
miaginative and Make late a laerdea•
Among the eterioue a110M8l1ee of
Janssen nature to be met with ie medical
practice, none are more befiling than the
mental freaks who are elaves of hallizeite
ation. The Rola is a huge one to plow in,
and plentiful. indeea, le the crop. Nevela
old and new, aro libert1119 peppered with
these odditiee in charaeter, $010.31 mono
-
llamas Of which the victim beeornee
possessed holds 1410 or her in its power -
fel grip mail routed from its mental
Stronghold by some violent shock to body
or mind. ''To my mind," said a, well.
known physieian, "the most illoaieal
and uoacesountable exhibit in this line
is the folk, that fancy themselves com-
pletely incapaeitatett and take perman-
ently to bed. I recall a case some Xew
years ago in the City of Waseington, One of the Finest Serials
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She was a widow, ',believe, and in in-
dependent circumstances, She was
robuste sound as a dollar, and in tbe
vigorous prime of about 44. I was ac-
quainted *with the peculiar facts of the
case. She made her home in a married
sister's family. One day she collided
head on with the hallucination that she
was an absolute physical wreek. Her
usefulness was gone, her days were
numbered. The only thlieg left for her
was to take to bed and wait till the sum-
mons came to be an angel.
"She did so. Physicians, a whole soote
of them, were called be to discover her
malaey. There was not a trace of organise
disease, Dot even of a temporary ailment
She could have walked ten miles or
danced through an entire progratume.
But the mania had her, and in bed she
lay by the month and the year. She be-
came, from a thoroughly active, energetic
woman, an inert mass of flesh, helpless
as a babe. And this total eclipse of phy-
sical power continued for twelve long
years.
"Now for the sequel. It so happened
one day when the servant and this bed-
ridden wreck were alone in the house
that a fire broke out next door, The
buildings were 01(1 110(1 dry, and it wasn't
any time before Aunt Lucy began to
smell smoke. The servant had her own
canoe to paddle in this extremity and
no one offererl to tote the helpless ma-
ture to it place of safety. She screamed
and prayed, but the smoke and the
flames kept marching on. Soon it be-
came a question of skip or roast, and
Aunt Lucy, snatching up a shawl,
bounded down those stairs and into the
crowd on the street like an antelope with
She hounds at his heels. From that mo-
ment she resumed the active duties of
life. The shock had done the business.
"I had a carious case about four years
ago mY own practice. It was the
wife of El wealthy broker out in one of
She suburbs. They are living it Boston
nowbile had been working tins bed-
ridden hallucination for over a year
when I was called. Sbe was attended by
two nurses, one trained and the other a FORCED TO LIVE ON BREAD.
, sort of understudy, and somebody was
always on band to gratify any want or Stroanut, ejiisoe soifutit.es t,Le(tlid.ftrs oonfl DE3d;sgpeehpisllia,
' caprice. `If you wish your wife clued,'
for Ten Years—A Peculiarly “Inter -
said I to the husband, 'dismiss those estate. Case.
,nUrses et once eat the wire that calm t
''her bell with downstairs, and pay no
attention to iser calls.' Yes, it was
• heroics treatment, but nothing else will
wits. The advice was followed. It took ,
' her some time to discover that for some
, mysterious reason she Was ntterly
negleeted.Noises gone; nobody wiener- 1
ed her bell or her crie.e. At the encl of
about two hours of this desertion it
struok her brain with some force that if
she wauted any attention or soeiety she
had to hustle for it Loaded to the niuzz-
le with the hottest kind of wrath, 'she
flung the bedclothes aside, jumped to the
floor, and bounced downstairs at a inost
; encouraging pace for a hopeless, bed-
ridden invalid. Then they laughed at
• her, and she has been all right ever since.
, "Did you ever hear of the man with
, the glass legs;',' continued. the doctor.
"That fellow's a record breaker in lialllx-
einations. Here you -have an active
business man, sound in body and mind
suddenly struok by the conviction as he
lay ill bed that his legs were made of
glass. If Ise bent hie knee or wriggled
, his toes they'd snap right off like a stick
of candy. They tried to laugh and argue
and bully him out of his mania, but all
, no good. So his distracted family had to
luake the best of it. No doctors were
allowed; his ease was beyond medical
, aid. They handled him as gingerly as a
peachblow vase.
"So things went for nearly two yeavs.
One day a seedy and froeeled vagabond
knocked at the kitchen door. Couldn't
the lady give lam something to eat in re'
• turn for some work about the house?
She fed him. His talk was clear and
logical, las fund of knowledge strangely
out of plumb with Dig 11511011 fortunes.
She grew interested and coufidential, She
told of the skeleton in her closat—that
glass -legged nionstroSity who had abnost
made her mason totter on its pewit.
' "Then it was the tramp's turn to play.
. 'Madame,' said be, in husky, pathetip
tones, 'long ago, before this viper got me
down, I was a physician with A haud-
wane practice. I let it go to the dogs
and wont to join it myself. I'll cure
your husband. if you'll do precisely as
(.1.isTelle'
ot.believed hint and gave her
promise, 'Very well, then, said the
tramp, as he gathered his nerves together
. and shook his tattered wings out for a
professional flight, 'lead me to his room
and bring elan a can of kerosene.'
"Tn less than no time, doctor, kerosene,
and glass -legged invalid were alone in
; the roma The wife had been ordered
1 out and the key turned in the loek. One
brief, business glance the vagabond turn-
' ed on the she: man, but never a word
. said lie. Tilting the can, he eoen had a
streak at kermuMe along the carpetat the
foot of the invalid's bed. Then lie reach-
ed for a usateli and touched it off. bn-
; agination can chilly with the horror oil
OM bed -ridden creature's faee as he gni
ed at that, repulsive and ragged agent of
I doom, tied realized that lie was at the
I mama 00 renthe at smile III/571 1110 Who
' had stetted 'Willi fiendish deliberation to
roast him alive. Ile bellowed Jaw help
like a despairing 'bull, but no relief
could mane through that looked door.
And all the time the ;flames grew warmer
and stronger, and there stood that stolid
'ragged man,' that diabolteal gobliu
freth from the halls of hell, with the
mereilems purpose of a hundred fiands ire
1 ills cold, deterInieed eye.
"A inotneut more, and this horrible
Situation cletitgecl. Those glass toes be-
gina to wriggle and squirm at the ap-
proachtng aleatt, Thetawith a suddea
f jerk, up went the glass itttOes like a hall -
sprung jackals/We. and the next second
tne glessitied eripple wits 113 e hot Graeeca
Homan wrestling match with the tramp.
k "It WAS. tile Work of a thieute
quetch the bleze, mlook the door, and
admit the terrified wife. Next day, when
I the poor vagabond called again by re -
meet, 110 reeeleect the fattest fee he had
I handled lu twenty yeets."
Ever Offered our Readers,
FULL OF PLOT
AND INCIDENT.
Finely Illustrated and Tersely Told.
Your interest will be maintained at
"fe-ver heat" from beginning to end. The
scene is laid in Britain, andsthe intrigues
ot polities, or rather of politicalchar-
acters are dove -tailed skilfully with
several very interesting love entangle-
ments.,
The principal characters are beautiful-
ly delineated in the best of English, and
the minor parts taken. by minor people
are so skilfully interwoven as to serve as
admirable foils to the stronger &erecter-
istics of the greater players.
You will miss it if you don't begin
with the opening chapter.
"The House at the Corner"
has, without being written for a purpose'
a gland moral, and is pure in tone
throughout, without at any time losing
sight of human interests in the least.
Watch for it.
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N occasional day of hula
gestiou is about as much
of that trosible as ordinary
mortals want, but a siege
at' ten y ears of this kind of
Thing is distressing' be-
yond easy calculation.
this is what Mrs. Jas.
.Edge, who is in tharge of
the postealice at Edgehill,
tMt., had to endure.
.•
Her ease took peeuliar form. When bread is/
snake', of as the stair of life, :Ind is 0 leading
, item of the. 13111 or fare of every meal, it is the
cre nal (Ten with bread one may have too much
o
good_ Phis_ waS etre. Esige'S expert-
: erna.e, for her indignation assumed that shape that
sbe practically could, ear nothing, hut bread. and,
unihrturiatelv, very little or that. Only one re.
snit could follow. Mat the system was thorough-
ly weakened, and soon she heeame prostrated.
She tried medicines, and she trieb doctors; but
her case grew %verse rather than better. She says:
•'Last Winter I 110100110 proSt1'0100, 2111111 0. friend
W110 118.111ed nte induced me to try South Ameri-
can Nervine After two bottleo wits greatly re-
lievedaind before the third bottle wits taken I
was entirely well. and for the last six months X
hare enjoyedperrenc health. I' may say that I'
tried nearly eyery other remedv au the market,
out 11011e del as work so welt 10(11 completely and
perfectly as South American Nervine. which I
do not hesitate to say is the only remedy on the
market that- will successfully cure stomach
trouble."
lead a Basement Entrance.
Tankleigh ‘joeularly)—I don't want to
play in your yard. You don't open
your side entranca on Sundays.
Saloon -keeper --Is that so'? Well,
what is the matter with sliding down
our cellar door ?
The g1eati 1 ing h al 3' 18 f und in that
excilleut medieiae soid es Bieele's Anti -
Consumptive Syrup It sett es t
diminishes the sen ibliy d the mem-
brane of the threat on'l air ps.ssagee
sea is a sovereiga remedy for all couel
CO. ds hoax:. en e- , pale or 8001 8055 i a
cheat, Melilla -tea, ete. Ir ties ctir
many alien ens:posed to be fae adva, e eed
in C01181.11131D40)1.
No Alt ctenatil:e.
Her eyes were red with weeping.
"Unkind fate," she moaned.
The maxi who was tearing his hair at
She other side of the room acquiesced.
"But there is no alternative," lie said,
in a hallow voice, "Sign."
He pointed to the paper before her.
With trembling hand she took the pen,
"We've got to mortgage the home."
he eontinued, "or take- ISS0 les each
atoning, and 'we must keep up appear -
amass."
With a quick, dry sob she wrote her
name.
Wake Not lev.
I, Malcolm MeBaire mete hant tailor, 3-
Q0000 $t West. do certify that Dr. Car-
son's Stemach Bitters eared me Of dis-
peasia. 1 believe it to be fee best med..
cmc tor all Stomach and lavei tiouhles
At all Druggists. Price Soc.
A Sure 'r
Sport (in gl,mxnering corduroys, Creed -
moor Ilea and divers showy fishing ac-
eoutrements)—Ah ! good mawning, fah-
! Have the twout commenced to
%vim yet?
Faruier—Not yit, trot I guess they:
will, by gosh, soon's they 11th sight.
You.
Her tteaeou For a Refloat.
"No," said the young woman, haught-
ily, hi response to Ids request, as tley
sat on the porch in the twilight, "I will
not lot you, hold my hand, 1 don't be-
lieve in sueli ()chance for a young lady.
And, besides," she added, after a pause,
''it isn't dark enough yet."
`Owe To Ite
"Leek here," said the warden of the
penal institution, "if you don't mind
your ways more carefully I'll &talon &
taste of solitary confinement."
"Holt I Solitude hasn't any terrors
for me, I 110ea to he one of the workmen
on the postoillee building in Washing-
ton,--Witshingtou Star.