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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?