HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-12-27, Page 74A. WORLD OF TROUBLE
y1EV. DR, TALMAGE ON THE PETTY
ANNOYANCES OF LIFE.
the Hornet ou Its. Mission•—Yarietiee of
insect Annoyances--Neeossity for Little
'Troubles -=.Choy Are A11 Blessings in DIs
1gniee,
Washington; Deo. 15.—Dr, Talmage to-
day those for his discourse a theme that
will appeal to most people—viz„ "The
Petty Annoyanoes of Life." His text was,
'" The Lord thy God will send the hornet,"
Deuteronomy via, 20.
It seems as if the insectile world were
determined to extirpate the human race.
It bombards the grainfields and the or -
eh rds and the vineyards. The Colorado
beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper,the New
Jersey locust, the universal potato bug
seem to carry on the work which was be-
gun ages ago when insects buzzed out of
Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my
4ext the hornet flies out on its mission,. It
is species of wasp, swift in its motion
an violent in its sting. Its touch is tor-
ai rr to man or beast. We have all seen tho
401 a run bellowing under the out of its
la& t. In boyhood we used to stand
etautiot:,ly,, looking at the globular nest
hung from *thealree taral alis, and while we
were looking at the won.. erful covering
we were struck with something that sent
us shrieking away, The hornet `lzoos"itt"
swarms. It has captains over hundreds,
and 20 of them alighting on one man will
produce death.
Tho Persians attempted to conquer a
Christian city, but the elephants and the
beasts on whioh the Persians rode were
assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole
army was broken up and the besieged city
was rescued. This burning and noxious
insect stung out the Hittite's and the
Canaanites from their country. What
gleaming sword and chariot of war could
mot accomplish was done by the puncture
•of an insect. Tho Lord sent the hornets.
My friends, when we aro assaulted by
great behemoths of trouble, we become
.ohivalrio, and we assault them. We get
on the high metaled steed :a our courage,
.and we make a cavalry charge at thele,
.and if God be with us, we oome out
stronger and better than when we went
in. But, alas, for these insectile nnnoy-
anc-s of life—these foes too small to shoot
—these things without any avoirdupois
weight, the gnats, and the midges, and
the flies, and the wasps, and the hornets!
In other words, it is the small, stinging
.annoyances of our life whioh drive us out
and use us up. In the best conditioned
life, for some grand and glorious purpose,
:God has sent the hornet.
I remark, in the first place, that these
small stinging annoyances may come in
the shape of a nervous organization.
People who are prostrated under typhoid
-fevers or with broken bones get plenty of
:sympathy, but who pities anybody that is
nervous? The dootors say, and the family
say, and everybody says, "Oh, she',i only.
s little nervous; that's all!" •• The sound
of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a
throat, a discord in rnuplo, a want of h'ar-
mofly,between the shawl and the glove on
the same person, a curt answer, a passing
:alight, the wind from the east, any one of
10,000 annoyances opens the door for the
]hornet. The fact is that tho vast majori-
ty of the people in this country are over-
worked, and their nerves are the first to
give out. A great multitude are under .the
strain of Leyden, who, when he was told
Sly his physician that if he did not stop
working while ho was in such poor physi-
ma1 health be would die, responded, "Doc-
tor, whether I live or die, the wheel must
keep going round." These sensitive per-
sons of whom I speak have a bleeding
sensitiveness: The flies love to light on
anything raw, and these people are like
the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in
the context—they have a very thin cover-
ing and are vulnerable at all points. "And
the Lord sent the hornet."
Again, the small insect annoyances may
some to
s
n in the aha
s
P0 of Friend and ac-
quaintanoes who are always saying dis-
agreeable things, There are some people
y-ou oannot be with for half an hour but
eDu feel' cheered and comforted. Then
there are other people you oannot be with
for Jive minutes before you feel miserable.
They do not mean to disturb you, but they
:sting you to the bond. They gather up
call the yarn which the gossips spin and
retail it. They gather up all the adverse
srit1eisms about your person, about your
business, about yourhome, about your
•church, and they make your ear the fun-
nel into which they pour it, They laugh
heartily when they toll you, as though it
were a good joke, and you laugh too—out-
side.
These people are brought to our atten-
tion in the Bible, in the book of Ruth.
Naomi went forth beautiful and with the
finest of worldly prospects, and into an-
other land, but, after a while, shecarne
back widowed and sink and poor. What
did her friends do when she calve to the
city? They all went out, and instead of
giving her common sense consolation,
what did they do? Read the book of Ruth
and find out. They threw up their hands
and said, "Is this Naomi?" as much as to
.say "How awful bad you do look!" When
I entered the ministry, I looked very pale
for years, and every year, for four or five
years, a hundred times a year, I was ask-
ed if I had not the oonsumption,and pass-
e Ing through the room I would sometimes
hear people sigh and say, "A -ah, not
long for this world!" I resolved in those
times that I never in any conversation
would say anything depressing, and by
the help of God I have kept the resolution.
These people of whom I speak reap and
bind in the great harvest field of discour-
agement. Some day you greet them with
a hilarious "good morning." and they
some buzzing at you with some depress-
ing information. "The Lord sent the
hornet.
W hcn I see so many people in the world
who like to say disagreeable things and
write disagreeable things, I come almost
an my weaker moments to believe what a
man said to mo in Philadelphia one Mon-
day morning, I went to got the horse at
the livery stable, and the hostler, a plain
man, said t,l me, "Mr. Talmage, I 'saw
that you preached to the young men yes-
terday?" I said, "Yes." Ho said: "No
`also—no use, Mall's a failure."
The small insect annoyances of life
:sometimes come in the Shape of local
physical trouble, whioh does not amount
to a postl prostrti
n
f but which bothers
you when you want to feel the best. Per-
haps it is a sick headache which has been
the plague of your life, and you appoint
some occasion of Mirth or o0iality or.nse-
fuin., and nd when the clock
strikes +,i C the
,flour you cannot make your appeauinoe.
Perhaps the trouble is between tho ear and.
the forehead, in the shape of a nouialgio
twinge Nobody can see it or samapathize
With it, but just at the timewhen yea
want your intellect clearest and your dis•
position brightest yon feel a sharp, keen,
edisoonootting thrust. "The Lord Sent the
nee,i r
Perhaps these smell insect annoyanoes
will cornu in the shape of a domestic hie -
Wien. The parlor and the kitoben do not
always harInonliye. To get good seraloe
and to keep it is one of the greatest ques-
tions of the country. Sometimes it may
be the tilroganoy and inoolisiderateness of
employers, but, whatever.- be the fact, we
all admit there are these insect annoy -
maces winging their way out from the
culinary department. If the grace of God
be nob in the heart of the housekeeper,siie
eanuot maintain her equilibriums. Tho
men come home at night and hear the
story of these annoyances and say, "Oh,
these home troubles are very little things!"
They aro small, small as wasps, but they
sting. Martha's nerves were all unstrung
when she rushed in, asking Christ to scold
Mary, and there, aro tens of thousands of
women who are dying stung to death by
these pestiferous domestic ammo ances,
"The Lord sent the hornet," • y
These small insect disturbances may
also oome in the shape of business irrita-
tions., There are men here who we t
through 1857 and the 24th of September,
1869, without losing their balance, who
are every day unhorsed by little annoy-
ances --a clerk's ill manners, or a blot of
ink on a bill of lading, or the extrava-
gance of a partner who overdraws his ac-
count, or the underselling by a business
rival, or the whispering of store oonfld-
annex to the street, or the making of some
little ad debt which was against your
iudint, just to please somebody else.
it is noe panics that kill the mer-
chb'tl,
ants. Ponies carne only once, in 10 or
20 years. It is the collstant din of these
everyday annoyances which is sending so
many of our best meroharits into nervous
dyspepsia and paralysis and . the grave.
When our national commerce 'fell flat on
its face, these men stood up and felt al-
most defiant, but their life is going away
now under the swarm of these pestiferous
annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet,"
I bare noticed in the history of some
that their annoyances are multiplying and
that they have a hundred where they used
to have ten, The naturalist tells us that
a wasp sometime. has a ,family of 20.000
wasps, and it does seem as if every annoy-
ance of your life brooded a million. By
the help of God I want to show you the
other side. The hornet is of no use? Ob,
yes! The naturalists tell us they are very
important in the world's economy. They
kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere,
and I really believe God sends the annoy-
ances of our life upon us to kill the spies
of the soul and clear the atmosphere of
our skies. These annoyances are sent to
us, I think, to wake us up from our leth-
argy. There is nothing that makes a man
so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and
I think that these annoyances are intend-
ed to persuade us of the fact that this is
not a world for us to stop in. If we had a
bed of everything that was attractive and
soft and easy. what would we want of
heaven? We think that the hollow tree
sends the hornet, or we may think that
the devil sends the hornet. I want to cor-
rect your opinion. "The Lord sent the
hornet."
Then I think these annoyances oome on
vs tototilture our patience. In tbe gym -
1 • m you find upright parallel beas—
t ht, bars with holes over each other
f os to fie"put in. Then the gymnast
s a peg in each hand,`arid he begins to
climb, one inch at a time on -two inches
aud,getting his strength cultured, reaches
after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to
me that these annoyances in life are
a .moral gymnasium. each worriment a
peg with which we are to climb higher
and higher in Christian attainment. We
all love to see patience, but it cannot be
cultured in fair weather. Patience is a
child of the storm. If you had everything
desirable and there was nothing more to
get, what would you want with patience?
The only time to culture it is when° yon
are lied about and sick and halt dead.
"Oh," you say, "if I only had the oir-
oumstalioes of some well to do man, I
would be patient too!" You might as
well say, "If it were not for this water, I
would swim," or "I could shoot this gun
if it were mot for the charge." When you
stand chin deep in annoyances is the time
for you to swim out toward the great
headlands of Christian attainment, so as
to know Christ and the power of his resur-
reation and to have fellowship with his
sufferings.
Nothing but the furnace will ever burn
out of us the clinker and the slag. I have
formed this theory in rogardao small an-
noyances and vexations. It takes just so
much trouble to fit us for usefulness and
for heaven. The only question is whether
we shall take it in the bulk or pulverized
and granulated. Here is one man who
takes it in the bulk. His bank is broken,
or his eyesight put out, or some other
awful calamity befalls him, while the vast
majority of people take the thing piece-
meal. Which way would you lather have
it? Of course, in piecemeal. Better have
five aching teeth than one broken jaw;
better 10 fly blisters than an amputation;
better 20 squalls than one oyolone. There
may be a difference of opinion as to alio.
pathy and homeopathy, but in this matter
of trouble I like homeopathic doses—
small pellets of ,annoyances rather than
some knookdown dose of calamity. In-
stead of the thunderbolt give us the hor-
net.
If you have a bank, yon would a great
deal rather that 50 men would come in
with cheeks less than $100 than to have
two depositors come in the same day,eaoh
wanting his $10,000. In this latter case
you cough and look down to the floor,and
you look up at the ceiling before you look
into the safe. iNow,my friends,would you
not rather have these small drafts of an-
noyances on your bank of faith than some
all staggering demand upon your endur-
ance? But remember that little as well as
great annoyances equally require you to
trust in Christ for su000r and a deliver-
ance from impatience and irritability.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfeob peace
whose mind is staid on thee." In the
village of Hamelin, tradition 'says, there
was an invasion of rats, and these small
creatures almost devoured the town and
threatened the lives of the popuiatlon,tand
the story is that a piper came out one day
and played a very swept tune, and all the
vermin followed him—followed him to the
banks of the Weser. Then lie blew a blast,
and alien they dropped in and disappeared
forever. Of ceuese this is a fable, but I
wish T could,on the sweet flute of the gds -
pal, draw forth all the nibbling and bar -
rowing annoyances of your life and play
them down, into tho depths forever.
How many touches did Mn Church give
„
to his „
ioture
of "Cotopaxi" Oto ax
i or
his
P "Heart
e
of the Andes?" I suppose about 50,000
touches. I hoar the canvas saying: " Why
do you keep Me trent blingwith that poheil
so long? Why soli,[ you pub it on in one
" " ,
i
dash ',o
! DTC, says Mr Churtlil, I know.
hew to make a painting. • It will take
50,000 of these toueltds, And I want (iris 1
you, frie.nds,to tendereeta:d .bat it 18 these wilt
10,000 annoyances whioh under Goa, are, .Warn
making up the picture of life • over
bun •. yourlife, n, lie
g at least in the gal lAries of heaven, fib 1
for angels to look ea. Rod knows how to i Dv
make, a picture, in th
I go into a sculptoY"s studio and tee meth
him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in
one hand and a mallet in the other, and
its gives a very gentle strol.e—oliok,ollok,
allele! I say, " Why don't you strike hard-
er?" "Oh," he replies,"that would shat-
ter the statue. Ioan't do it. that way. •I
must do it this way." So he works on,
and after a while the features conte out,
and everybody that enters the studio is
charmed and fascinated. Well, God has
your soul under process of development,
and it ie the little annoyances and vette-
tions of life that are chiseling out your
immortal nature. It Is click, click, click!
I wonder why some great providence does
not come and with one stroke prepare you
for heaven. Ah, no. God says that is
not the way. And so he keeps on by
strokes of little vexations until at, last you
shall be a glad spectacle for angels and
for men. `
You know that a large fortune may be
[;pent in small change, and. a vast amount
of moral character may go away in small
depletions. It is ,the little troubles of life
that are having inore affect upon you than
great ones, A swarm of locusts will kill
a grainfield sooner than the incursion of
three or four cattle. You say, s• Since I
lost my child, since,I lost my property, I
have been a different man." But yon do
not recognize the architecture of little an-
noyances that are hewing, , digging, out -
ting, shaping, splitting and interjoining
your moral qualities. Rats may sink, a
ship, Ono Wolfer may send destruetiun:
through:a block -of storehouses, Catherine
de Medici, got her death from smelling a
poisonous - rose. Columbus by stopping
and asking for a piece of bread and a drink
of water at a Franciscan convent was led
to the discovery of a new world. And
there is an intimate connection between
trifles and immensities, between nothings
and everythingia. down and take Pete out to the summer
Now, be Careful to let none of these an- kitchen and shut hint in. Although she
noyanoes go through your soul unarraign- kept his saucer full of milk there to coin-
ed. Compel them to administer to your fort him, •they would still hear him faint -
spiritual wealth. The scratch of a six- ly Drying.
penny nail sometimes produces lockjaw, "He ain't a mite of good," said Han -
and the clip of a most infinitesimal an- nah, the kitohen girl. "I don't believe
noyanee may damage you forever. Do not he's stopped yowling long enough to catch
let any annoyance or perp:exity Dome a mouse.''
across your soul without its making you "Oh! Imost saw bim," said Ethelwyn.
better. "He ran and jumped at something, I
Our Government does not think it be- didn't stay to see what, 'cause I ran,
littling to put a tax on small articles The too "
individual taxes do not amount to much, "No, he isn't good for much, I dare
but in the aggregate to millions and mil- say," said grandma, "but Ethelwyn loves
lions of dollars. .And I would have you, him, so I suppose we'll have to stand
O Christian man, put a high tariff on him."
every annoyanoe and vexation that comes Ethelwyn felt very happy when she
through your soul. This might not heard this, for she had been afraid Pete's
amount to [much in single cases, but in bad habits would get him into trouble.
the aggregate it would be a great revenue "I'll take him upstairs with us to-
ot' spiritual strength and satisfaction. A night, "'said grandma, "for I'm sure I
bee can suck honey even out of a nettle,and heard a mouse gnawing in the closet last
If you have the grade of God in your heart night, and we'll see if Pete can do •any -
you can get sweetness out of that which thing 'besides dry."
would otherwise irritate and annoy. "Oh 1 I'm sure he'll catch it," said
A returned missionary told me that a Ethelwyn, and she talked to him about it
company of adventurers rowing up the that afternoon, and was quite sure he un -
Ganges were stung to death by flies that derstood by the way he looked.
infest that region at certain seasons. I Pete seemed to like grandma's room,
have seen the earth strewn with the car- with its bright open fire and brass fender,
oasses of men slain by insect annoyances. and he purred contentedly when Ethel -
The only way to get prepared for the great wyn laid him gently down on the fluffy
troubles of life is to conquer these small rug in front of the fireplace; then she
troubles. What would you say of a soldier jumped into her own little bed beside
who refused to load his gun or to go into grandma's big one, and they both went off
the conflict because it was only a skirmish, sound asleep
saying: "I am not going to expend my In the middle of the night, though,
ammunition on a skirmish. Wait until Pete opened his eyes; there was a faint
there comes a general engagement, and scratching in the closet that interested
then you will see how courageous I ani him so that he never thought of mewing,
and what battling I will do."The gener-"but stole quietly up, and when a little
al would say to such a man, "If you are gray mouse peeped out, Pete's blaok paw
not faithful in a skirmish, you would be shot out suddenly and knocked it sense -
nothing in a general engagement." And less: He had a great frolio then, knocking
I have to tell you. 0 Christian men, if it around like a gray ball, but by and by
you cannot apply the principles of Christ's something popped in the grate, and out
religion on a small scale you will never be calve a live coal over the fender and onto
able to apply them on a large scale. . tiobe fluffy rug, and ,then it smoked and
If I had my way with you,I would ha;- a smoked. Pete knew something was wrong,
so he opened his mouth and mewed his
loudest; grandma did not seem to notice
him at all, but Ethelwyn sat straight up in
bed and said: "Oh,Pete,dear,please don't
ory, you'll 'sturb grandma, and—oh,
grandma, wake up quilt the rug's burn-
ing!"
Grandma jumped um ed upi
n
J Pa hurry,
then,
and drenched the rug' from the toilet
pitcher until the smoking stopped.
"I do declare," she said afterward, "I
heard the cat crying. but I didn't think it
was anything uncommon, so I didn't try to
wake up. It's a mercy you did Ethel-
wyn „
"Oh, grandma," said Ethelwyn, bug-
ging Pete hard,isn't he the dearest smart-
est,—and grandma, you can't say he ain't
good for an earthly thing now—oh, uh,
oit 1" she cried, as her bare feet struck
Crete's mouse. "He's good for two earth-
ly things, grandma, darling, because he's
caught your mouse."
"That's a fact," said grandma, laugh-
ing. "I'm much obliged to Pete all
around, and he shall have cream to•mor-
row for his breakfast, for if he hadn't
waked you we might have been burned
up. "—N. Y. Recorder.
THE BOYS AND GILLS.
THIS COLUMN IS PREPARED ES-
PECIALLY FOR THE YOUNG.
PETE, THE TRAMP CAT.
flow Ile Won the Good Opinion of Grand.
ma and Irannaia.
Pete was a very black tramp oat, and
nobody but Ethelwyn loved bi . because
he mewed continually, and t'i such a
mournful, half.starved fashion, that he
did no credit wbatever to his good care
after be cane to grandma's house.
"I don't like animals around that look.
and ant as if they were half-starved," said
grandma, who was not given to starving
anyone or anything, as Pete well knew.
But he kept on yowling so dolefully that
Ethelwyn, who was visiting grandma,
when she saw the old lady begin to fidget
and look under the table, would jump
you possess all possible worldly prosperity.
I would have you each one a garden, a
river flowing through it, geraniums. and
shrubs on the sides, and the grass and
flowers as beautiful as though the rain-
bow had fallen. I would have you a house,
a splendid mansion and the bed should be
covered with
upholstery ulster
dipped '
P di
nt
y he set-
ting ting sun. I would have every hall in your
house set with statues and statuettes, and
then I would have the four quarters of the
globe pour in all their luxuries on your
table, azd J ou should have forks of silver
and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds
and amethysts. Then you should eaoh
one of you have the finest horses,and your
pick of tbe equipages of the world Then
I would have you live 150 years, and you
should not have a pain or ache until the
last breath.
"Not each one of us?" you say. Yes.
Each one of you. "Not to your enemies?"
Yes. The only difference I would make
with them would be that I would put a
little exbra gilt , on their walls and a little
extra embroidery on their slippers. But,
you say, "Why does not God give ns all
those things?" Ah, I bethink myself he is
wiser. It would make fools and sluggards
of us. if we had our way. No ]man puts
his best picture in the portico or vestibule
of his horse. God meant this world to be
only the vestibule of heaven, that great
gallery of the universe toward whioh we
are aspiring. We must not have it too
good in this world, or we would want no
heaven.
Polycarp was condemned to be burned
to death. The stake was planted, He
was fastened to it. The fagots were placed
aroun i him, the fires kindled, but history
tells us that the flames. bent outward like
the canvas of a ship in a stout breeze, ste
that the flames, instead of destroying
Polycarp, were only a wali between him
and his enemies. They bad actually to
destroy him with the poniard. The flames
would not touch him, Well, my hearer,
1 want you to understand that by God's
grace the flames of trial, instead of con-,
gaming your soul, are only going to be a
wall of.defense and a canopy of blessing,'
God is going to fulfil to you the blessing
and the promise, as he did to Polycarp,
"When thou walkost through the fire thou
shalt not be burned. NOW you do ` not
understand. You shall know hereafter.
In heaven you will bless God even for the
hornet.
Women Pre(iominato In England,
One of the curious revelations of the re.
cent British census is the extraordinary
predominance of the female over the male
sex among the grown ihliabitants of Eng-
land, Tho figures show that tate excess of
the former over the�, latter, amounts to ex-
actly 809,000. Anlothor romarkabi
e thing
in connection *1 i this excess of women
is the fact
that
ora than !t
vb si
xths
of
the fetal
899
,000 .r
o widows.
Anything t fiat is healthful i
]s beautify -
iii A diet g of rare l
• beetled beef, 1 beot�
S
7
.
asparagus, a
us
p g Ca�a ti.
,o �, onions, juicy fruits,.
ttoast, soft boiled eggs and milk
do more towards beautifying a
an than till the :lotions and pomades
invented.
en .
the ;lines[ blank roto .paper, boot
is colrtitry and Europe, is Meade by
anioaletprocesses,
Two "Stupid" Boys,
Mr. Dawson, the master of a famous
preparatory school in England, vied to
declare that the two most stupid boys
be ever had in his classes turned out to
be the brightest men. One boy was
stupid at figures,; and there was another
one who was yet more hopeless, and was
unable to grasp simple addition and
multiplication. At last at Rugby, one of
the boys roselike a rocket to every kind
of eminence except that of doing "suets."
In due time he distinguished himself at
Oxford University. Ile became known
in the world as Dean Stanley. The other
stupid boy, "more hopeless" than he,
afterward developed a phenomenal
mastery of arithmetic, He became the
great Finance Minister of after years,
who oould make a budget speech of
three hours' length, full of figures,
which se interested the members of the
House of Commons that they crowded
out into the aisle, standing till mid-
night. Thus we see that a boy may be
stupid in ono study and bright in all
the others, and that a boy may over-
come, • by hard application, his natural
repugnance to a certain study and be-
come a master of it. —Word and Work.
A I?ew outset Definitions.
In a recent examination, some boys
were asked to define certain words, and
to give a sentence illustrating the moan-
ing. Here area few: Frantio moans
wild—I picked some frantic flowers
Athletic, strong --the vinegar was too
athletic 1t0 1[90. Tandem,
one h.
, ho led the
other— th
t b boys
Sit tandem dem at
school.
Alai then some single words aro funnily
explained : Dust is mud, with the wet
squeezed out; flus aro fishes' Wings; stars
y
are the Moon's r
OUt
1Ys
05Xg • circumference
is
distance amend the middle of the out.
side.
flank of •thiglan(1 Di.sciplino,
Tho Bank of lilugiand has 1,160 otneitcls
on its payroll, which amounts to abetlt
$1,600,000 a year, and 1,000 clothe, 12 a
Clerk is late three times he receives a
warning; the .Fourth time he is diseharg
ed at onbe.;t.
\\N• \ fo" \\'i \ U
for Infhnts and Children.
Mar
HIRTY years' observation of Castoria with the _patronage of
millions ne of persons, one
permit
us to s
1? peak of it without gnesszng.
It is unquestionably the best remedy for Infants and Childreat
the world has ever known. It is harrcles.. Children like it. It
gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothers have
something which is absolutely safe and practically perfect as a
child's medicine.
Castoria destroys Worms.
Castoria allays Feverishness,
`Castoria prevents remaking Sonr Cnrd.
Castoria cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic.
Castoria reliever Teething Troubles.
Castoria cures Constipation and Flatulency.
Castoria neutralizes the effects of earbonio acid gas or poisonous air.
Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narootiri property.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach aad bowels,
giving healthy and natural sleek
Castoria, is put up in oneesize bottles only. It is not sold in bulk.
Don't allow any one to sell you anything else on the plea or promise
that it is "just as good" and"will =newer every purpose."
See that you get C-AeSeTeOelteleA.
The fee -simile
signature of
.—•e`er•
is Art Avery
wratroer.
Ch dream Cry for Putcherr's Castoria.
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a.j?IR.tante tele':a ie ,YS:.'n'eettea:7tea,M�
ANIMAL MECHANICS.
The first wearer of armor was the crab.
The first shovel was the nose of the
shovel fish.
The human eye Is a perfect camera ob-
scure.
The first adobe houses were built by
the swallows. ,
The first tunnel ever made was excav-
ated by the moles.
The armadillo was the first wearer of
plate armor.
The arm and tts muscles form the
most approved style of lever.
The spring trap is constructed on the
principle of the jaws of a shark or dol-
phin.
The water snail has a gelatinous.rope
'which he can lengthen or shorten at
pleasure,
The ball and socket joint is seen to per-
fection in the upper extremity of the
thigh bone.
Crab pots and eel pots are exact
models, on an enlarged soale, of the
cocoon of the Emperor ]moth.
The famous savage clubs of Borneo
were modeled after a thorny fruit which
grows wild in that island.
The bones of flying birds are hollow
and filled with air, by this means com-
bining
strength
with lightness.
The leg bones of animals like the ele-
phant are vary heavy, indeed, almost
solid, being designed to support great
weight.
The shape of the fish hook was doubt-
less suggested by that of various thorns,
or by the claws of the cat, lion or 'ger.
The abattis was donbtless suggested to
early military engineers by the natural
defonce on the back of the hedgehog.
The "Testudo" iu use among the
Romans when besieging a city was no
doubt suggested by the shape and shell
of the tortoise.
The poison dagger, an infamous
weapon still in use among the aborigines
of Brazil, is fashioned after the fang of
a serpent
The Mexican sword, in use among the
aborigines at the coming of the Span-
iards, was modeled after the nose of the
saw -fish.
The single oar propulsion common
among the boatmen of almost every
country is on the principle best seen in
the tail of the fish.
Tho earth -worm propel himself along
the ground or through the earth by
means of bristles projecting from each
ring of his body.
The first needle was the bill of the
tailor bird,which sows together leaves in.
order to slake its nest and form ,
shelter over its young.
The common garden slug has the
means of spinning a gelatinous thread
by which he can let hiinself down from
dangerous heights.
The swallow in preparing its nest,drives
its tunnel that upward and then down-
ward, in order that the nest may be
properly drained.
The flesh book used by cooks to draw
pieces of meat from the pot is obviously
modeled after the claws of an eagle or
other bird of prey.
The first wearer .of scale armor was
the 001515 en flea, which is provided with
a coat of mail in overlapping folds and
with high resisting power.
DONT'S FOR THE NEW WOMAN.
Don't neglect your husband.
Don't crease your bloo mars.
Don't discuss private ffalrs.
Don't drink before bre ltfast,
Don
Don
Don
Don
Don
Don
Don
Don
sipato
Don
coat.
Don
club.
Don't smoke on the front seats
open cars.
1)en'b meta* the ]morning paper ii 1wn
town With with you,
'0 grumble about y ur meals,
'0 sib while woe oue
r
standing.
din
g•
t when dinne linne is lata.
'0 wear ready-made' eckties.
't swear at the petit salesmen.
'0 pall your husband wltiskorg,
tUse acigarette fora loorkog',
't think it is manly be dis-
d,
'b wear a high hat wia sack
'0 spend all your evenings
A Dainty Toilet Set.
A very pretty thing in this line is made
from white Java canvas. Cut the -its
either oval or oblong as your taste or
shape of the toilet set may diresta
also a cover for the pincushion tonna
In each corner work a parti-colored des'
of simple crazy patoh-work stitches in
worsteds or crewels of old•kold,dark•blu
cardinal, sea green, ann'1 pale blue and
pink, and work arpaf d the edge a shell
stitch of blue worsted with an outer chain
of pink silk, "'he.effect is very oriental.
and the tiine spent should not exceed two
hours. A cover for washstand and bureau
and splasher may be made to match.-
American Agriculturist.
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.
A man is only as rich as he is content-
ed.
People find fault without looking for
it.
Some hearts are like flint—it takes 4.
blow to bring the flee out,
What is most beautiful in a face lasts
longest.
Judge a man by tht clothes he payr
for, rather than by, thus he wears.
If there is honor amen thieves, they
stole it.
Don't give the devil his ue if you cam
prevent it.
What is is one man's clouna• is another
man's sunshine r
Only human beauty is spoli2od by ad-
miration.
When life becomes too sweet, thy fear
of losing it corrects the sweetness, te
ADVICE TO THE NEWLY MARRIED., 'an
Always
Always remember that people haven't
anything to think of except you two.
Be sure to start out with a whole new
outfit, trunks and all.
Don't forget the white necktie, veil,
eta ; to leave those off would tend to de-
ceive your fellow passengers.
Don't turn pale when the waiter
brings you boiled rice
Go out in the woods and practise say-
ing "my wife," and "my husband"
until it doesn't choke you.
Don't forget to "take hold of hands
occasionally, just to show that "there
no frost.''
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Casteris.•
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castari.%
THE
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FOR MAN OR BEAST.
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