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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-12-13, Page 3;11 GOD AND THE NATION. DR. TALMAGE TALKS TO THE GATHERING CONGRESSMEN. He is Sure That Bovinity Is on Our Side, ond What the church Will Purify Pon - nes and Protect the Ballo t Box In the End. Washington, Deo. 1.—As to -morrow the eongress of the (Tufted States assembles, and many of the mena hers were present at the delivery of this sermon Dr.Talmage book a most appropriate theme, showing that iu all their work they might realize that God has always been on the side of this Nation. Text, U. Rings vi, 17, "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Ensile." The American congress is assembling. Arriving or already arrived are the rf pre- sentatiyes of all sections of this beloved land. Let us welcome them with prayere and benedictions. A nobler group of men never entered Washington than those who will to -morrow take their place in the senate chamber and the house of represen- tatives. Whether they come alone or leave their families at the homestead far away, may the blessing of the Eternal God be upon them! We invite them to our *hurdles, and together, they in political spheres, and we in religious circles, will give the coming months to consideration De the best interests of this otountry, which Sod has blessed so much in the past that I propose to show you and show them, so far as I may now reaoh their ear or to- morrow their eye through the printing press, that God will be with them to help them, as in the text he filled the moun- tains with help for Elisha. As it oast England many regiments and $2,000,000 a year to keep safely a trouble- some captive at St. Helena, so the king of Syria sends out a whole army to capture one minister of religion—perhaps 50,000 men to take Elisha. During the night the army of Syrian e came around the village of Dothan, where the prophet was staying. At early daybreak the manservant of Ensile rushed in and said: "What shall we do? There is a whole army come to destroy yont Wemust diet We must die!" But Ensile was not soared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of supernatural forces, and he knew that if there were 50,000 Syrians against him there wore 100,000 angels for him, feud in answer to the prophet's pray- er in behalf of his affrighted nmaiservant the young man saw it too. Eorses of fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on bits of fire, and wargiors of fire with brandished swords of fire, and the brilliancy of that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the galloping splendors of the celestial cavalcade, "And tho Lord opened the eyes of the young roan, and he saw, encl. behold the moun- tain was full of horsot and chariots of fire 'round about Elisha." I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to fight on our side as a nation. If all tho low levels are filled with armed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains ot onr hope and sourage and faith are full of the horses and chariots of divine rescue. You will notice that the divine equip- age is always represented as a chariot of lire Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when they come to 'describe tho divine equipage, always represent it as a wheeled, a har- nessed, an upholsteroa conflagration. It Is not a chariot like kings and and con- querors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, justice, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? Yes, but a chariot of fire All our national disenthralments have heen through scorch- ing agonies and red disasters. Through tribulation the individual rises. Through tribulation nations riso. Chariots of rescue, but chariots of lire But how do I know that this divine equipage is on tbe side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last 110 years. The Ameri- can Revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence hall, in 1776. The colonies, without ships, with- out ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side, the mightiest nation of the earth. the largest arndes, the grandest navies and the most distin- guished commanders and resources inex- haustible, and nearly all nations ready to back them up in the light. Nothing as against immensity. I do not know how utterly can read the history of those times without admitting the contest was decided by the upper forces. Then, in 1861, when our civil wor was opened, many at the north and at the south pronounced it national suicide. It was not courage against cowardice; it was not wealth against poverty; it was not large states against small states. It was heroism against heroism; it was the re- souroes of many generationagainst the resources of generations; it was the prayer of the north against the prayer of the south; it was ono half of the nation in armed wrath meeting the other half of the nation in armed indignation. 'What could some but extermination? At the opening of the war the command- er in onief of the United States forces was a man who had been great in battle, but old age had come, with many infirmities, and he bad a right to quietude. He could not mount a horse, and he rode on the battlefield in a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of the four years of the cermet on the southern side was a man in midlife, who had in his veins the blood of many genera- tions of warriors,hinaself ono of theheroes of;Churubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years passed on and the scroll of carnage unrolled there cattle out from both sides a heroism, and a strength, and a dottamination that the world had never seen reershaled. And what but extermination could come when Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney .TohnstOn rode in from north and south, and Grant and Leo, the two thunderbolts of battle, clasbed? Yet we are a nation, and yet we are at pease Earthly coinage did not decide the conflict, Tho upper forces of the text—they hell us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout mountain, but there was soniethihg high- er than that Again, the horses and ehariote of God• came to the resouo of this nation 10 1876 at the close of a presidential (Outten fam- oixs for toroolty, A darker cloud yet set. tied down upon this ation. The result of the election was in dispute, and revolt, ten, not between two or tiireo sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of the United States, scorned immi- nent. The prospect tt,as that New' "rork would throttle New 'York, and New Or. leans wonld grip Now (Means, and Boston Boston, and Savannah Savannah, and Washington Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was cleated, others said Mr. Hayes wa<4 elected, and how near we came to universal massacre' some of Us guessed, but God only knew. I asoribe our ethape not to tbe honesty and righteousness ef Infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the ueper forthof the text. Chariots of mercy rola* in, and though the wheels were not heard, and the fiaigh was not seen, yet all through the moun- tains of the north, and the south, and the Oast, and the west, though the hoofs did not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you God is the friend of this nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lincoln, when there was a prospect that greater slaughter would open upon this nation, God hushed the tem- pest. In the awful eroitement at the time of Garfield's assassination God put his foot on the nook of the cyclone. To prove God is on the side of this nation I argue from the last eight or nine great na- tional harvests, and from the, national health of the last quarter of a century, epidemics very exuoptional, and from the great reyivals of religion, and from the spreading of the church of God, and from the continent blossoming with asylums and reformatory institutions, and from an Edenization which promises that this whole land is to be a paradise, where God shall walk. I rim encouraged more than I oan tell you as I see the regiments wheeling down the sky, and my jeremiads turn into dox- ologies, anchthat which was the Good Fri- day of the nation's oruoifixion becomes the Easter morn of its resurrection. Of course God works through human instru- mentalities, and this national betterment is to come among other things through a scrutinized ballot box. By the law of registration it is almost inapossible now to have illegal voting. There was a tilne —you and I remember it very well—when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on election day. and from poll to poll, and voted here and voted there and voted everywhere, and there was no ohal- lenge, or, if there were, it amounted to nothing, because nothing could so sudden- ly be proved upon the vagabonds. Now in every well organized neighborhood every voter. is watched with severest scrutiny. If I am in a region where I am allowed a vote'I must tell the registrar my name, and how old I am, and how long I have resided in the state' and how long I have resided in the wardor the township, and if I misrepresent 50 witnesses will rise and shut me out from the ballot box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohibits a man voting if be has bet on the election. A step farther needs to be taken, and that man forbidden a vote who has offered or taken a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a free drink or cash paid down, the suspicious oases obliged to put their band on the Bible and swear their vote in if they vote at all. So, through the saored chest of our nation's suffrage, redemption will come. God will save this nation through an aroused moral sentiment. There has never been so much discussion of morals and immorals. Men, whether or not they ac- knowledge what is right, have to think what is right. We have men who have had their hands in the public treasury the most of their lifetime stealing all they could lay their hands on, discoursing elo- quently about dishonesby in public ser- va,nts,and men witn two or three families of their own proaohing eloquently about the beauties of the seventh conanaand- meet. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the face o this nation as never before and takes a part in our political contests. The question of national sobriety is going to be respectful- ly and deferentially heard at the bar of every legislature. and every house of repre- sentatives, and every state senate, and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again, say- ing to these rising tides of drunkonnesa which threaten to whelm home and church and nation, "Thus far shall thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." 1 have not in my mind a shadow of dis- heartment as largo as the shadow of a house fiy's wing. My faith is in the upper forces, the upper armies of the text. God is not dead. The chariots are not unwheeled. If you would only pray more and wash your eyes in die cool, bright water fresh from the well of Christian ro- forrn'it would be said of you, as of this one of the text, "The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw'and, be- hold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." When the army of Antigonus went into battle, his soldiers were very muoh dis- couraged, and they rushed up to the gen- eral and said to him, "Don't you soe we have few forces, and they have so many more?" And the soldiers wore affrighted at tho smallness of their number and the greatness of the enemy. Antigonus, their commander. straightened himself up and said, with indignation and vebemence, "How many do you reckon me to be?" And when we see tbe vast armies arrayed against the cause of sobriety'it may some- times be very disoouraging, but I ask you in making up your estimate of the forces of righteousness—I ask you bow many do you reokon the Lord God Almighty to be? He is our commander. The Lord of Hosts is his name. I have the best authority for saying that the chariots of God are 20,000, and the mountains aro full of them. Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make de- cent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this coun- try great maufactories—manufactories of lies—and they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day, all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies. Lies private, and lies publia and lies prurienalles cut bias, reed. lies out diagonal, long -limbed lies, and lies with double back tuition; lies compli- mentary, and lies defamatory; lies that some people believe, anti lies that nobody believes; lies with hunIps like camels, and scales like crocodiles, and necks as long as storks. and feet as swift as an an- telope's, and stings lik adders; liege raw arid scalloped and panned and stewed; crawling lies, and jumpitig lies, and soar- ing lies; lies vvith attachment screws and ruttier/4 and blenders and ready wound bobbins; lies by Christian people who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat thorn- solVes in a presidential campaign. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop Retch a flood of indeoenoy. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal through 'vehleh we wade every year of ovory four years must be rebuked by that religion Which speaks trona its tee() great meu5. tains—froin the ono mountain intoning the oorranand, "Thou shalt not boar false wltnese againsb thy' nolgh bor, " and from the other neotint, melting plea for kind - boss arid bleasleg rather than oulaing, Yes ; wo are going to bath a national Nei g- am, There aro two Idiots of national re- ligion. The ono is eupported by the state and, is a matter et human polities, Ma it has great patronitge, and Ulnae! it Mon Will struggle tor prominence Without ref. armee to quail fl cetiona and if s web biehop is supported by a salaryof V5,000 a year, and hero am great eathedrals, with all tho machinery of irate° and canonicals, and room for 1,000 people, yet an audience of 60 people, or 20 people or 10 or 2, We want no each religion as that, no swat national religion, but we want this kind of national religion --the vast majority of the people converted and evangelized—and then tney will manage the scoolat as well as the religious. Do you say that thie is impracticable? No. The time is corning Just as certain- ly as there le a God, and diet this is his book, and that he has the strength and the honesty to fulfil his promises. One of the ancient emperors used to pride hinie eel! on performing that which his coun- sellor wild was impossible, and I have to tell you to -day that man's impossibles are God's easies. 'Rath he said, ana shall not he not do it? Rath he commanded, and will he not bring it to pass?" The Chris- tian religion is coming to take possession of every ballot box, of every school house, of every mountain, ot every acre of our national domain. This nation, notwitn- standing all the evil influences that are trying to destroy it, is going to live. Never since, according to John Milton, when "satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies In hideous ruin and combustion down," have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as now. What a jewel it is—a jewel carveti in relief, the cameo of this planet! On one side of us the Atlan- tic ocean, dividing us from the eupersta dons of Asia. Oa the north of us, the amble sea. whioh is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators de- velop their courage. A. continent of 10,- 600 mites long, 17,000,000 square miles and all of it but one-seventh capable of rich caltivation. One hundred millions of population Ou this continent of North and South America -100,000,000 and room for many hundred millions more. 411 flora and all fauna, all metals and all precious woods and grains and all fruits, The Appalachian range the backbone and th rivers the ganglia carrying life all through and out to the extremities. Isth- must of Darien the narrow waist of a giant continent all to be uuder one gov- ernment and all free and all Christian and tho scene of Christ's personal reign on earth,if according to the expectation of many good pimple he shall at last set up his throne in this world. Who shall have this hemisphere—Christ or sawn? Who shall have the shore of her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold e" her Color- ados,the telescopes of her observateriesethe brain of her universities, the wheal:P:1 her prairies, the rine of her savannas, the ewe great ocean beaches, the one reaching Erato. Baflin's bay to Tierra del Fuego and the other from Behring stria to Cape Horn, and all the moral and temporal and spir- itual and everlasting interests of a popu- lation vast beyond all human computa- tion? Who shall have the hemisphete? You and I will decide that, or help to de- cide it. by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian insti- tutions, by support of great philanthro- pies, by putting body, mind and soul on the right side f all moral, religious and national movements. Ale it will' not be long before it will not make any difference ta you or to me what becomes of this oontinent so far as earthly comfort is conuernea. All we will want of it will be 7 feet by 8, and that will take in the largest, and there will be room and to spare. That is aU of this country we will need very soon—the Youngest of us all. But we bave an anxi- ety about the welfare and the happiness of the generations that are uoming on and it will be a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds, we find tbet our sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Ari- mathea provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden. Ono of the seven wonders of the world was the white marble watch tower or pharos of Egypt. Sosistratus,the architect and sculptor. after building that waton towel, cut his name on it. Then be uov- ered it with plaster, and, to please the king, he put the monarch's name on the outside of the plastering, and the storms beat and the seas dashed in their fury,and they washed off the plastering, and they washed it out, and they washed it down, but the name of Sosistratus was deep out in the impenshable rook. So across the faoe of this nation there have been a great many names written—across our finances, across our religions, names worthy uf re- membrance, names written on the archi- tecture of our cburches and our schools and our asylums and our homes of. mercy, but God is the architect of this continent, and he was the sculptor of all its grand- eurs, at d ling after—through the wash of the ages and the tempests of centuries— all other names shall be obliterated the divine signature and divine name will be brightex and brighter as the millenniums go by, and the world shall see that the God who made this continent has redeem- ed it by his grace from all its sorrows and from all its ()times. Have you faith in such a thing as that? After all the chariots have been unwheel- ea, and after all the war obareers have been oiippled, the chariots which Rlisha saw 071 the morning of his peril will roll on in triumph, followed by all the armies of heaven on white horses. God could do without us, but he will not. The weakest of we the faintest of us, the smallest brained of us, shall have a part in the niumph. We may not nave our name, like the name of Sosistratus,out in imper- ishable rook and conspicuous for centuries, brit we shall be remembered in a better place thou tnat, even in the heart of him who came to redeem Us and redeem the world, and our names will be seen close to the signature of his wound, for, as to- day he throws out his arms to us, he says, "Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of my hands." By the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of prayer, I beg you to seek our national welfare. Some time ago there were 4,600,000 let- ters in the dead letter post -canoe in this nisy—letters that lost their way—but not one prayer ever directee to the heart of God miscarried. The way is all clear for tne ascent of your supplication heaven- ward in bohalf of this nation. Before the postal communication was so easy, and long ago, on a rook 100 feet high, on the ooast of England, there was a barrel fast- eneti to a post, and in groat letters on the side of the rock,so It could be seen far out at ace, were the words, "Post -office," and vOlien ships came by, a boat put out to take and fetch letters. And so sacred were those deposits of affection in that barred that no look wee ever put upon that bar- rel, although ib containea Meseages for Am erica and Europe and Asia and Africa, and all the islands of the sea. Many a storni-tossed sailor, homesick, got MOS - sagas Of 1611(1/10gS by that rook, and many a homestead hoard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights of our natlor al prosperity were iti interehange of Sympathies—m%yers going tip meeting blessings commg down. Postal celestial, not by a storm -struck rock on a wintry coast, bat by the Rook of Ages, — Tho first hint oe paper making In Europe Was in Constantinople. Tho process was ordoght from China by way of Samareand in A, D. M. JEKUSALt111 •OF OLD TRACING THE OLD WALL OF THE CITY, What Major Conder, Mr. /Henry maudslaY and Mr. lilies Have Drought to Light -- Tit! eSpaden Expected to Settle iniport, ant Natters Still in Doubt. It is UM more than a quarter of a own tury slime Captain, now Major-General Warren carried on his explorations at Jerusalem for the Palestine exploration fund, and which resulted in such brilliant discoveries, revealing to ns what was then known as "Underground Jerusalem." That was the remains of the ancient city, now covered up with the aoeumulated debris of ages—an acoumulation that reached, in some places, to a depth of more than seventy feet. Since that time no eystematio explorations have been carried on in the Holy City. Herr Baurath von Schick and other agents of the Palestine exploration fund have watohed whenever any digging took place—for the founda- tions of new buildings or any other pur- poses—and, if anything of importance turned up, ft has been faithfully reported In the Quarterly Statement published by the fund,and which is now the recognized journal of archaeology in Palestine For some years back the vale.° of ground at Jerusalem bas been increasing, and building, more particularly on the north and west, has been aping on outside the walls, and it beoame advisable to have some excavations made before houses were ereoted, whicix would make exploratione impossible. The necessary &maxi from the Sultan was procured and Dr. F. J. Bliss began operations last year. The first task he undertook was to trace the line of the ancient wall on the southern side of Jerusalem. It was known that the old wall was about 800 feet to the south of the present one,and that it skirted the brow of the slope which forms on. side of the Val- ley of Hinnorn. Why the builders of the new wall left this commanding height undefended is a question that is not easily explained. It is certain that the older en- gineers did not leave this advantageous position for an enemy to wimpy. Traces of the wall were first come upon when levelling the ground for the English ceme- tery. • in 1E374, Major Conder, writing from Jerusalem, recommended that explorations should be made at this point, and Mr. Filmy Matulslay at that time did suffi- eleet digging to show the existence of the wall all the way from the Protestant school :to the east end of the cemetery. Among ether things, he found that the dining -room of the school had its walls standing on the square base of one of the ancient towers, and that in places the rock on which the wall stood was scraped below to a depth of thirty feet, Mr. Bliss took up the work at the point where Mr. Maudslay had left off, and followed the line of wall from the cemetery, where it runs in a south-westerly direction for about 250 feet. He also found deep scraps In the rook, which must have given f.”9.b. strength to the defense and made the bat,. tienaents to tower with an imposing ap- pearance over the Hinnom Valley. The • stones are of no great size, that is, in com- parison with some of the masonry at other parts of the walls, suoh as that of the Jews' wailing place and portions of the Harem wall. They have the usual draught , round their borders, and the lower course is bedded on the solid rook. Water supply had not been forgotten, as numirous cisterns have been come upon. The existence of a gateway was discover- ed at this point, and it is here that one in- teresting point in the present exploration presents itself. The main street of Jerusa- lem runs from north to south in almost a straight line—it begins at the Damascus gate 071 the north and ends on the south at the Sion gate, also known as the Bab an Nabi Daud, or gate of the Prophet David. This is. no doubt. the original line of a thoroughfare that has existed from the earliest times, and it is assumed that there must have been a similar gate at the end of this main street in the older wall. This was one of the points Dr. Bliss was direct- ed to discover. The gate which has been found is not exactly in the position where the expected gate was supposed to exist; it is a little too far to the west to be in a line wieh the main street. Still it ought to be borne in mind that the present Sion gate Is not quite at the end of that street, but a little to the west of it; this may indicate that somegeason existed for the deviation in both cases. Here, for the present, judg- ment must be suspended, as the "spade" will in tinie settle the matter. The point would have been cleared up by this time, but, in tracing the wall east- ward, difficulties arose with some of the ' proprietors of fields on the subject of re- muneration, and Dr. Bliss, merely as a strategical move in the negotiations, start- ed his operations still farther to the east, where he picked up the line of the wall again near tho pool of Siloam. There he found that the wall runs south of the old pool and turns up in a northerly direction, and,as the Hinnom Valley here rneets the Kedron Valley,it is assumed that the wall will continue northward until it joins the portion of the Ophel wali which Warren came upon during his operations. This will then connect it with the old wall of the Temple inclosure at the switheast cor- ner. The Ophel wall is mentioned in IL Chronicles aryl!, 3, where it is said that Jotharn "built the high gate of the house of the Lord,and the wall of Ophel he built much," It is also referred to in Jeremiah Hi, 26-7: "Moreover, the Nethininis dwelt in Ophol, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out. .After them, the Tokoltes repaired another piece, over against the groat tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.'' Close to the corner, where the newly discovered wall turns northwardanother gate has been found. As four or five courses of the draughted masonry still ex- ist, the details of this gate can bo well made out. Its date xnay also be &terrain - ed. to within a few years,for Josephus says that at this time Siloam was outside the wrille; but Antonius, a martyr, who wrote about.750 A. D., states that 'the mountain of Slice is, at the present day, within the walls of the city, because the Ilmpress Budocia herself added those walla to the city." This makes it evident MOO the portion ot the wall, with its gath, that Die Bliss has brought to light at Siloam Was that ballt by this Empress, and its erection may be dated, as having taken plebe within a year or two of the Middle of the fifth century. Thermal:its of the older wall, that existed in the time of Joelepints, are, Ile doubt, still tinder the grotnd, and will require to be sought for in order to Melte the exploration complete at this leeality.—London Daily News. The difference inthe price of a w'ell-bred stook inid Aerobe when sent to market might to bo sufficient argument to indnee anyone to breed the boot. VISITING -CARD SWINDLE, place No Faith ia the Fellow Who Says your Priend eent Hite. A meet audacious enterprise has been undertaken and successfully carried out by a respectable -looking map in this city. He rang the bell of a city house the other day, and, presenting a visiting Oard, asked for the mistress, Mrs. Blank, saying that the wornati vvhose card he offered had sent hint. She was a dear friend of tars.Blank, so the latter listened willingly to the story the man had to tell. He was the usual poor, but deserving parent of unnumbered children. Mrs. Blank's friend had promised olothes, nod had sent him to her to see if she could give him Worle—if not, he was to go to Mrs. Dash. a common friend of the other two women. "I can't give you employment," said Mrs. Blank, "but I will give you tempor- ary .help, at all events. Wait a moment aiad I will bring you down some money." As she descended With her pocket book in nand she saw the man stealthily remove some visiting cards from the receiver in the hall and slip them into his pooket. "What are you doing that for?" she asked, iler suspicions aroused. The man looked up in oonsternation and fled without another word. Mrs. Dash's card, of course, had been obtained in the same way. Mrs. BIM* Os now warning all her ac- quaintances to put no trust in any man who may present her card or use her name.—N, Y, Herald. The Greatest of An Questions - This is a true tale. You are to picture a lady, single and of a certain age, who has for some months been in unsuccessful pursuit of a reliable domestic servant. Of aristocratic connections, she is prevented, by reason of the smallness of her means, from living in tbe splendor and dignity which she thinks she ought to enjoy—and vvoulfl enjoy—if everyone had their own. Her heart is in Mayfair, but she lives perforce at Brixton. She would have a butler and footman, but has to manage as best sbe may with one girl. Her voice is of the kind that would say "Home i" to a coachman, but it only - asks the conductor to stop at the next corner. Not unnaturally, then, her manner, and her visage else, give indica- tions of asperity of temper. No wonder her servants refuse to remain with herl She is so addicted to malting her "in- feriors" feel their inferiority. After having been bandied about for weeks from registry 'to registry she has at length discovered a maid vatic, is likely to suit her numerous requirements. She has made private inquiries about the girl which have turned out satisfactorily even to her. It only remains to inter- view the young person, get a formal "character," and finally arrange terms'. The servant calls, by appointment. She is quietly dressed, and particularly self- contained. Maid: Good =min , madam. Mistress (after an invisible nod): What wages do you expect? Maid: Eighteen pounds, madam. Nlistress: Oh 1 and what evenings off? Metro • One night ' a week, and one Sunday per month. Mistress: Indeed I Well, I think you will suit me; but, of course, I shall want a character. Maid: I am afraid I shall be unable to obtain a character, because— Mistress; Then it's no use talaing any further. I. never engage anyone without a character, and I always want to know why a girl left her last place. Maid: I can't get a character because my late mistress is dead. That is why I am out of a situation. Mistress (after a pause): How exces- sively awkward ! Well, I'll take you on trial, mind, for a month, Yon can come next Tuesday. Good -day. Maid: Excuse me, but it will be necessary for me to have a character be- fore I come. Mistress: Don't you unde4stand, girl, that I will try you without a character? Maid: I meant, madam, a character from your last servant. Mistress (bridling): From my last servant? What do you mean? Maid: I have been misled so many times that I make it a rule, before taking a sithation, to get from the last servant a description of tbe place' mid the mis- tress, and her reason for leaving. Sub- ject to these being satisfactory, I can come on Tuesday. Perhaps you will give me the name of your present ser- vant, or allow rne to see her. Mistress (with some beat): I shall not. Maid: Then it's no use talking fur- ther. I have seventeen other offers ef situations. I never engage myself to a lady without a obaracter. And I always want to know why the last servant left. Good -day. Mistress (with forced calmness)! Good -day. Tho lady is still seeking a servant. But she is determined not to furnish a characten—Westminster. Review. As Good as His Word. E. D. Brown, travelling representative of a large Baltimore tobacco house, who is at present in .Pensacola, is the berg of an incident that occurred on a train coming dut of Atlanta a few nights knee. .A. party of drummers was on the train, and the conversation turned upon train robberies. Mr. Brown said that he would resist any man who attempted t� rob a train that be was on. Tho drum- mers determined to test his nerVes, and shortly afterward one of tbe number, made up 118 a typical train robber, entered the car with pistols in hand, and yelled: "Hands up, gentlemen 1" Tire drummers who. were in the secret suddenly disappeared beneath the seats, but Mr. Brown, believing tbe man to be a genuine robber, drew a pistol and opened llre on him. One ball passed through the supposed robber's bat and two others 'whizzed uncomfortably near him. ley this time the bogus robber was nearly frighteted ottIA of his wits, and the other drummers, realizing that Mr. BTOW11 was terribly in eatliest, crone out from beneath the seats end seizing hem by the arms, explained the situatien. — Savannah nTows. crowded cities. The most crowded spot on the earth's surface is that portien of the oity of Val- letta, asland of Malta, known as the "Moncloraggio," in the whole of Val- letta dm proportion is 76,000 human beings to the square mile, but iii the itlanderaggio there 15 ono locality in which there are 11,571 persons living on a plot of ground loss than two macs anti a Imlf in extent. This would give no loos than (iM, 000 persons to the square mile, or 1017.0 to the nem. fu Liverpool, the most crowded oity in Britain. the nmsz. dense portions have only 1111.4 `..t.3 acre. —New York Advertiser, JOHN 11. )4ELLAlt CASE. DISMISSES TWO PHYSICIANS AND Cr'ETS WELL. This was in Chicago, but Dodd's Kidney 1111134.1ways Cure ltheirmatism no Mat- tBairnont, Deo. 9.7 -Your OerreSPOIUleht on this mission of ncedical investigation, calling upon Mr, john Meliar of this place and after finding him, he said: "About a year ago, while liviug in Chicago, as the result of a oold, 1 heoalne a Victim of in- flammatory rheumatism and a tereible sufferer. "I was confined to rny bed for many weeks and was treated by two of the best physicians I could obtain. "But I grew worse, until 1 bad con3- pletely lost the use of hands, wrists, and arinS, and I feared that I Should heeome entirely paralyzed. ".A.s 1 was growing worse continually realized that some change must be made in my treatment and I decided to dismiss DaY`acstlactt°17' Aorisis a friend from Canada advised me to use Dodit's Kidney Pills. "I am happy to say that the firet few doses brought relief and by the dine I had anished the first box I was free from pain. "I completed the cure by using the see- ond box, and have bad no occasion since ole. "1 either the pills or any other medi, "I cpnsider them worth $26 a box in my ease, for that is what my doctors cost me and they failed." It Was Salty.* He was from the interior. It was his first trip to the seaside. Be stood upon the banks for a few MO - =Buts surveying the waters before him, when suddenly he plunged in head fore- motenhe came to the surface his face bore an expression of anguish. He began sp tting fiercely, emerged from the water and was just in tb,e act of entering his dressing room when his friend slopped him. "What's the trouble?" he asked. "Is the water too oold ?" "No, it's not too cold, but some durn bothersome fool threw salt in it." EvorythIng Else of secondary Impor- tance. An old graduate of Lakehurst Insti- tute, Oakville, writes this week thus : "Wien 1 went to Lakehurst for treat- ment for my liquor appetite I had hardly any business left, but since my visit and restoration. I have become firmly con- vinced that one's business interests be- come a very sm.all consideration com- pared with the results to one's moral and physical economy received at the hands of your medical superintendent and staff at Oakville. I will ever pray for your success." There is the right ring to our friend's remarks, and there is also food - for reflection to many thousands who "cannot spare the time from their busi- ness," There should be no hesitation in deciding between considerations of busi- ness and considerations of health. How much. money will a man take for his health? He holds it beyond price. Why then should anyone hesitate to seek to regain physical vigor, because some paltry business matter may seem to inter- fere? Drinleing men. go to Lakehurst In- stitute, Oakville, and. fit yourselves to take better care of your business and make money. Toronto Office, 28 Bank of Commerce Building. 'Phone 1168. Cut It Short When a-ieeatve got a thing to say, Say it ! Don't take half -a day. When you're yarn's got little in it, Crowd the whole 'thing in,:a minute.. Life is short—a fleeti vapor— Don't you fill an eight -page paper With a bale which at a .pinch,.', Could. be covered in an itich Boil her dowxi until she simmers ;, Polish her until she glimmers. When you've got u thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. One Source of Fain awl Suffering fin- der Human Control. The remedy known as South American Kidney Cure neVer fails to give relief in six hours in all derangemen ts of the kid- neys or bladder. Bright's disease, dia- betes, inflammation or ulceration of the kidneys, neuralgia, consumption, hem- orrhage and catarrh of the kidneys, in- flammation of the bladder, eta. It puri- fies and regulates the urine'removes sedi- ment in urine and prevents scalding. It Is worth a thousand times its cost for pro- static troubles in the old, such as enlarge- ment, inflammation and ulceration of the prostrate gland When She Blushed., wY es, ! Dinah done blush when I axed her to be ma wife." "Come, now, Mose, Dinah is as black as coal. You couldn't see her blush." "Yes. I did 1 She done blush in do palms ob her hands. Dey ain't black," Strange. Hicks—The new girl doesn't seem pos- sessed of ordinary intelligence. Mra. Hicks—That's strange; I got her from an ordinary intelligence oface. Unable to Move Handler Foot for Week./ —.Horrors of leb eumatisin. "For fifteen years I have been more or less troubled with rheumatism in my back. Last spring I became so very bad that I was unable to move hand oi foot and was Sex bed for weeks. My husband and I became clithouarged, and had given up all hope but at the critical time a neighbour, km. Blanchard, who had been cured of luxnbago in three days by South American Rheumatic Cure, milled to see me, and advised nte to try this remedy, I did so, and the flrst bottle enabled me to sit up in bed, and in a week I was attend- ing to my duties as usual. It is without doubt the best remedy in the worlda' "NIES, JOHN BEAUMO.NT,, Elora, No Place for Them. Jar, Z. Parmer—What do you reckon all those town fellers do? Ser. Z.'s Wite—Comitry Jokes, 1 calcu- late. ;Ter. Z. Parmer—Be gumn =ebbe you're right ; less lite out for the ferry. Heard in the Hall, "You don't know enough to stay in when it althea," derisively said the cane 10 tho "Look hors," retorted the' umbrella, "such bluffs from. a MOTO Sfiek like you is put Or shut ap, every time."--Intlianapolis don't go with me. My _m_ot_ti UP Imislial. :Rust tte" a Saint, Gabriel—A man says ha Wants to Come in. Sb. pet02.--/rae lie any particular re. commendation?