HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-3-12, Page 7SAVIOUR OF MANKIND they all get hornet ilhut, sleet for those
who never come home. Sometimes it
seems as if it niust be impostible, What,
will tbeir feet never again come over the
threshold? Will they never again sib
With tie at the table? Will they never
again, kneel with im et family prayer?
Shall we never again look* into their
sunny faces? Shall we never again on
earth take counsel with them for our
work?
The world cannot offer you any help
at such a time. Suppose !JO world oomes
CHRIST THE CENTER OF ALL
POPULAR ATTRACTION.
The 'World Lobate to Him for Pardon and
Syrnpatnyt-Wide, Deep, High, Everlast•
Ina, Almighty Sympathy—Goa% Mercy
Immeasurable.
Oats of that continent going to Europe,
part corning to Amerloa over the table -
ands of Mexico, up through the valleys
of the Miesissippl, and we are finding
tow the remains of their mounds and
!heir cities in Mexico, ill Colorado anct
he tablelands of the west. It is a mat-
ar of demonstration that a whole ornatin-
oat has gone down, the Azores off the
toast of Spain only the highest mountain
M that Bunion continent. Plato describ-
ed that continent, its grandeur, its
tplendor and its awful destruotion, and.
Washington, March 1. —This sermon and offers you money . You would rather rchaeologists have found out it was his
ohe world thought it was a romance, but
, live on a crust in a cellar and have your A.
ory, and the English, and the German
mounds
, i
earn these ti
departed loved ones with you than live tthe note of triumph, a note that
all will * be glad to nmes - And the American fleets have gone forth
' .in palatial surroundings, and they away. • ,
when so many are uttering and writing Suppose the world offers you its honors with archaeologists, and the Challeng,er
to console you. What is the presidency tad the Dolphin• and the Gazelle have
jeremiads of discouragement. Dr. Tan
ropped anchor, and
"Unto Him shall the gathexing of the to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie 'f
e Sin deep sea sound -
mage took as his text Genesis, xlix, 10,
lies dead In the White House? Perhaps the rogs they have found the contour of that
e eople be." world cornea and says: "Time will cure sunken continent.
. might call a prophesoope, dying Jacob Ah, there are griefs th at have Oh, there is trouble marked on the
Through a supernuratal lens, or whet I it mi.)/
rocks, on
raged on for 30 years and are raging yet. the sky, on the sea, on the flora
lookedown through the corridors of the And yet hundreds have been comforted, end the fauna—astronoinical trouble,
of all popular attraction and the greatest thousands have been comforted, millions geological trouble, oceanic trouble, poll -
centuries until he sees Christ the center blat t
have been comforted, and Cbrist has done otouble, domestic trouble --and
;Maine in the presences o
being in all the world, so everyvvhere ^ the Werk. Oh, what you want i„ym_ i f all those.
tupendous devastations,1 ask if I am not
acknowledged. It was not alwaye so. panty! The world's heart of sympathy 1 s
ight in sayniz that the great want of
The world tried hard to ut
and to put Him out. In the year 120Q, beats very irregularly. Plenty of ,y, m this age and all ages is divine sympathy
pHim down
pithy when we do not want it, and often, 1
while excavating for antiquities 53 miles when we are in appalling need of it, no end oinhipotent comfort, and they are
found net in the Brahma of the Eindoo
northeast of Rama, a ooppor plate tablet shoth„tey, There are multitudes of peo-
was found containing the death warrant ple dying for sympathy --sympathy in or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in
of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this their work, sympathy in their fatigues, 1 the Chrisennto Whom shall the gathering
, of the people be Other worlds may fall,
wise:
"In the year 17 of the empire of Tiber-
ius Caesar, and on .the e5th of Maroh, I,
Pontius Pilate, governor of the Praetore,
condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die be- time of declining years—w0 ide,deop high
tween two thievee, Quintius Cornelius to everlasting, almighty sympathy. Wo who
' Chrlet who fed the 6,000 will feed all the
lead hint forth to the place of execution." rld' hun or The same Christ'
• The death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi,
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi;
thirdly by Raphael; fourthly, by Capin, a
private citizen. This capital punishment
Tho though
and he prepares to do battle even
was executed according to law. rally all the pious dead in glorious
T"e though it be against the heavens; yet
name of the thief crucified on the right what aerna is so hard but it will succumb resurrection, "I know that my Redeem -
'hand side of Christ was Dismas; the name er liveth," and that "to Him ehall the
to the story of compassion! Even a man's athering of the people be." Ah, neo
sympathy in their bereavements, spa- ,
pathy in their financial losses, sympathy but this morning star will never be blot-
ted from the heavens, The earth may
In their physical anon ants, sympathy in.
quake, but this rook of ages will never be
their spiritual anxieties, sympathy in the
shaken from its foundations. The same
must have it, and Christ gives it. That
oured Bartimous will illumine all blind -
is the cord with whioh He is going to
draw all nations to Him. nese. The same Christ who made the
dumb speak will put on every tongue a
At the story of. punishment a man 'a hosanna. The same Christ who awoke
eye flashed and his teeth set and his fist Lazarus feom the sarcophagus will yet
of the thief orttoified on the left hand side
of Christ was Gestus, Pontius Pilate,
describing the tragedy, says the whole
world lighted cianclleto from noon until
night. Thirty-tbree years of maltreat-
ment. They ascribed His birtb to bastardy
and His death to excruciation. A wall
of the city, built about those times and
recently exposed by arehaeologiste, shows
a caricature of Jesus Christ evidencing
the contempt in which Ho was held by
many in His day—that caricature on the
wall representing a cross and a donkey
'Bailet to it, and under it tbe inscription,
"'This is the Christ whom the people
worship." But I rejoin that that day is
gone D. Our Christ is coining out from
sympathy is element and helpful. When friends, when Christ starts thoroughly
we have been in some hour of weakness, , and quickly to lift this miserable wrack
to have a brawny man stand beside us of a sunken world. it will not take Him
and promise, to see us through—what lone to lift it!
long
thought that this particular age
courage it glees to our heart and what 1
atreugth tit gives to our arm. Still might- in whith We live may be given up to dia-
ler is a vvonian's sytnpathy. Let him tell coveries and inventions, by which
the story, who, when all his fortunes through quick and instantaneous cam -
were gone and all the world was against munication,all cities and all communities
him, canoe home and found in that borne and all lands will be brought together,
a 'wife who could write on the top of the and then in another period perhaps these
empty Boer barrel, "The Lord will pro- inventions which have been used for
vide," or write on the door of the empty worldly purposes will be brought out for
wardrobe, "Consider the lilies of tho gospel inyitation,and some great prophet
told; if God so (naked tho grass of the of the Lord will come and snatch the
field, .will lie not clothe us and ours?" m sterious sublime and miraculous tele-
, Or let that young man tell the story who
under the world's abuse. phone from the heed of commerce, and,
The mc'st has gone the whole round of dissipation. all lanes and kingdoms conneeted by a
popular name on earth to -day is the. The shadow of the penitentiary is upon
name of Christ. Where He had one friend wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord
him, and even his father says: "Be off 1
Obrist has a thousand friends. The may, through telephonic communication.
Never come home again!" The young in an instant announce to all nations
scoffers have •become the worshippers. man finds still his mother's arm out-
most celebrated infidels in pardon and sympathy and life through
Of the twenty
stretched for Mm, and how she will stand hems hhrist, and then, putting the
Great Britain in . our day sixteen have at the wicket of the prison to wbisper
come back to Christ, trying to undo the wondrons tube to the ear of the Lord's
conselation, or get down on her knees be -
blatant mischief of their lives—sixteen fore the governor, begging for pardon prophet, the response shall come back,
' "I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
mot ef twenty. Every man who writes a hoping on foe her wayward boy after all Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
letter or signs a document, wittingly or others are hopeless. Or let her tell the Christ, His only begotten Son."
unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ. We story who, under villainous allurement You and I may not live to see the day.
doom everything as B.C. or A.D. —B.C., and impatient of parental reetraint, has I think those of us who are over forty
before Christ; A.D., Anne Domini, in the wandered off from a home of which she years a age can scarcely expect 10 900
year of our Lord. was the idol into the murky and thunder- the day: I expect before that time our
In the first place, tbo people are gather- ous midnight of abandonment,awe,
- bodies will be sound asleep In the flam-
ed aroand Christ for pardon. No sensible from God, and further away until some mocks of the old gospel ship as it goes
man or healthfully ambitious man is time she is tossed on the beaoh of that sailing on. But Christ will wake us up
satisfied with bis past life. A fool may early home a mere splinter of a wreck. in time to see the achievement. We who
think he is all right. A sensible man who will pity her now? Who will gather have sweated in the hot. harvest fields
knows ho is not. I do not care who the these dishonered looks into her lap? Who will be at the door of the garner when the
thougbtful man is, the review of his life- will wail' off the blood from the gasbed sheaves come in. That work for whieh
time behavior before God and man gives forehead? Who will tell her of that Christ in this world we toiled and wept and
to him no especial satisfaction. "Oh," who came to save the lost? Who will struggled and wore ourselves out shall
he says, "there have been so many things ptthat weary head upon the clean white not come to consummation and we be
atisin, erysipelas, scrofulous troublos etc.,
I have said I ought never to have said; pillow and watch by day and watch by oblivious of the achievement. We will be I these pills are superior to all other treat.
there have been so many things I have night until the hoarse voice of the suffer-
- ment, They are also a specific for the
allowed to come out and shake hands
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Everyone around Yorkton knows Mr.
Dan Garry, and what a pushing active
business farmer be was wren la grippe
took hold of him, and when that enemy
left him 'how listless and unfitted for
hard toi'l he became. For months be
suffered from the baneful after effects of
the trouble, and although he still en-
deavored to take bis share of the farrn
work, he found that it was very trying;
he had beconie greatly weakened, 'had
lost both appetite and ambition, and was
tired with the least exertion. Be tried
several remedies withent deriving any
benefit, and as ono after the other had
failed,ho determined to give DaWilliares'
Pink Pills a trial. He felt so utterly
worn out that several boxes of the pills
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Yong Relletnue hitched forward in his
chair, pulled up bis trousers a. little at tile, '
knees, glanced at his cuffs to see that they
projected the proper distance beyond life
coat sleeves, and nervously began.
"I have something to say to you Eats.
1—don't turn your face away from me,
please. You have not been eating ouions,
have you. ?"
I"
"Neither have I, Listen to me. There
is something resting on my mind---" •
"Resting on my mind, I say, and it has
become a burden that I am going to shake
off. NOW, there isn't any use in your pra.
tending yoe. haven't men ideanwhat I want
to'talk about."
"Assurnieg that I do, Mr. Bellarn-us--"
"Let it pass. Go op."
"That's right. You act like a good, sen-
sible girl in deciding to hear me. You
might as well, anyhow, • because wheal
-get started I'm hard to stop, and I am. p-
ine to say what I came here to say this
eve,,,eing if ft takes all—if it takes a
quarter of an hour. That's the sort of
desperate lover I am, Kate Naggus, though
I didn't mean to . give the whole business
away in one breatb.. like that. I intended
to lead up to' it gradually. I suppose,
'however, the shock of surprise was very
great. Yeti had idea- something of the
kind whe'Ocentugt didn't you ?"
"Rather.",
"I knew you did. But it doesn't seem
artistic to.block out a regular form of do-
ing something and then fly the track and
jump, across lots in order to get there
sobn en. Whet I intended to see, abont
like this; Ever since I have kuown you I
bare had a different feeling toward you
-from that which I entertain toward other
_lint before I go any further I'd like to
have some kind of hint as to whether.I'm
wasting onetime or not. Somehow I don't
feel quite so confident as I did when I
Degan."
He stopped a moment, took a long
.breath and. htquited uneasily: ,
"Is it of any use for me to go on, Rate?"
The rosy lips of the fair young girl part-
ed and she softly answered:
"Nit!" ,
"That settles it," rejoined Mr. Bellamue,
recovering himself and drawing on his
gloves. "It turned out exactly as I hoped
it might, but Pve saved at least ten min-
utes of valuable time for each of us, and
that makes twenty mita-nes. I don't know
what your time is worth, but my time,
computed from a business point of view,
is worth $50 per hour. I will not detain
you any longer, llissNaggits. Good even.
ing."—Chicago Daily Tribune.
were taken before he found ane benefit,
but with the first signs of improvement
he took fresh courage, and continued
taking the pills for three months, by the
and of which time he was again an active
bustling MAD, feeling better than he had
for years. Mr. Garry tens his own story
In the following letter to the Assinibolane
"Dear Sir—After a severe attack of la
grippe I was unable to recover ray former
strength and activity, I had no ambition
for either work or pleasure, and to use a
popular phrase, "did' not care whether
school kept or not." I tried various
medicines without deriving any benefit
front them. With not much hope I de-
cided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and
was agreeably pleased to find after a few
boxes, a decided change for the better.
My appetittewhich had failed me, return-
ed, and I began to look for my meals half
an hour before timetand. I was able to got
around with my old time vim. I con-
tinued the use of the Pink Pills for three
raonths, £1.11C lind myself now better than
ever. You inay therefore depend upon it
that from this out I will be found among
the thousands of other enthusiastic ad-
mirers of Dr. Williams' wonderful health
restoring medicine,"
"Tours gratefully,
"DAN GARRY."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills strike at the
root of the disease, driving it from the
system and restoring the patient to health
and strength. In cases of paralysis, spinal
troubles,locomotor ataxia,sciatica,rheum-
written I ought never to have written , er becomes a whisper, and the whisper
'With the victors.
there have been so 111007auy things I have, becomes only a faint motion of the lips,
•
We who fought in the earlier battles
thought I ought never to have thought. I and the faint motion of the lips is 0X will esomehow get things readjusted, I I changed for a silent nook, and he out will have eust as much right to rejoice as
those who reddened their feet in the last
aluet somehow have the past reconstruct- foot are still, and the weary eyes are still,
Armagedoon. Ab, yea, those who could
ad; there are days and months and neel'e and the frenzied beart Is still, and all is
only give a cupful of cold water in the
which 'cry out against me in terrible still? Who will have compassion on her name of a disciple, these who could only
vociferation." Alt, my brother, Christ when 130 others have compassion? Mother serape a handful of lint for a wounded
Motherl ' soldier, those who could only administer
Ob, there is something beautiful in to old age in Its decrepitude, those who
sympathy—in manly sympatby, wifely could only coax a poor waif of the street
sympathy, motherly sympathy! Why was to go back home to her God, those who
it that a city was areurised with excite- could only lift a little child in the arms
of Christ, will have as much right to take
part in the ovation to' the Lord Jesus
Cbrist as a Chrysostons. It will be your
victory and mine, as well as Christ's. He
the conqueros, we shouting in His train.
Christ the victor will pace out the humb-
lest of His disciples in the crowd, and
turning half around two the white horse
of victory. He shall point her out for
approval by the multitude as He says,
"She did what she could:" Than put-
ting His hand on the head of some man,
who by his industry made one talent do
the work of ten, Ile will say, "Thou bast
been faithful over a few things; I will
make thee ruler over ten cities." Two,
different theories about the fulfillment of
this promise.
Timm are people who think Christ will
come in person and sit on a throne. Per-
haps Re may. I should like to see, the
scarred feet going up the stairs of a
palace in which all the glories of the
Alhambra, and the Taj /titillate and St.
Mark's, and the Winter palace are gath-
ered I should like to see the world pay
Christ in love for what it did to Him in
maltreatment I should like to he one
of the grooms of the chargers, holding
the stirrups as the King mounts, Ob,
what a glorioue thne it would be on earth
if Christ would break through the
heavens, and right here where He has
suffered and died have this prophecy fun
eilleti—"Unto Him shall the gathering of
the people be." But failing in that, I
bargain to meet you at the ponderous
gate of heaven on the day when our Lord
adjusts the past by obliterating it! Ho
does eat erase the record of our mis-
doings with a dash of ink from a regis•
trar's pea, but lifting his right hand, crush-
ed,red at the palm,He puts it agaiest His
bleeding brow, and then against His ment when a little child was kidnapped
pierced side,and with the crimson aocurn- from one of the streets? Why were whole
ulation of all those wounds lie rubs out columns of the newspapers filled with
lite accusatory ebapter. He blots out our the story of a little child? It was because
iniquities. Oh, never be anxious about we are ell one in sympathy, and every
lhe future; better be anxions about the parent said: "How if it had been my
past. I put it not at the end of my ser- Lizzie How 11 11 had been my Mary?
snout I put it at the front—mercy and How if It had been my Maud? How if
pardon through Shiloh the sin pardoning it had been my child? How if there had
athrist. "Unto Him shall the gathering . been one unoccupied pillow in our
• of the people be." "Oh," says some man, • trundle bed to-nlght? How if iny little
"I have for forty years been as bad as I one—bone of my bone and fiesh of nay
could be,and is there any mercy for me?" flesh—were to -night carried captive into
.1( etcy for you. '.'Oh 1" eaye some one seme den of vagabonds, never to oome
tare, "I had a grand ancestry, the hbliest back to me? How if it had been my sor-
' ,Of fathers and the tenderest of mothers, row, looking out of the window, watching
and for eny perfidy there is no excuse. Do and waiting—that sorrow worse than
yon think there is any mercy for me?" death?" Then, when they found he,
'Mercy for you. "But," says another man, why did wedeclare the news all through
"t fear I have committed what they call
the
the unpardonable fen, and the bible sees howbtooupserhayoldeasand everyone that knew
y, ,
"Thank God?" Becalm.°
if a man commit that sin he ls neither we are all one, bound. by one great golden
to be forgiveinin tbis world nor the world clonn of syranathy. Oh, yes, but I have
to come. Do you think there Is' any
to tell you that if you will aggregate all
Alertly for me?" The fact that you have neighborly, manly, wifelynnotterly sym-
Anysolicitude about the matter at all patine it will be found only a pcor starv-
proves positively that you have not COM- ingtthieg compared with the sympathy
Mitted the unpardonable sin. Mercy for of our great Shiihhewhe has held in His
you? Olt,' the grace of God which bringeth lap the sorrows of the ages, midi who is
stilvetion. ' ready m nurse on Eis holy heart the
The grace of God! Let us take the woes of all who will norne to Him • Oh,
purveyor's chain and try to measure what a God, what a Saviour we have!
God's mercy through Jesus Christ. Let But in larger vision see the nations in
elm surveyor take that ehain and go to some kied of trouble, ever sinee the world
itho north, and another surveyor take that was derailed and harled down the ern-
ehain and go to the south, and another bankment. The demon of' sin eamo to
anrveyor take that chain and go to. the this world, but other demons have gone
east, and another surveyor take that
ehttin and go to the West and then make
a repnrt of the square miles of that vast -
t. kingdom of God's mercy. Aye, you will
hliaye to wait to all eternity for the re-
port of thm measurement. It cannot be
eas unit "Paul tried to other b the height
•a it, and he went height over height,
altitude abeve altitude, mountain above
mountain, thee sank down in discourago-
meet and gave it up, for he saw Sierra
Nevadas beyothd and Matterhorns beyond,
and waying his hands back to es in the
plains, be says, "Past finding out; un-
riearcbable, that in all things He might
have the pre-eminence." You notice
that nearly all the sinners mentioned as
'pardoned in the bible were great sinners
—David a great sinner, Paul a great sin-
ner, Rehab a geeat sinner, Magdalene a
great sinner, the Prodigal Son a great sin-
.
The world easily underetood how
Christ multi pardon a half and half sin-
neri but whiat the world wants to be
persuaded of is that Clhrist will forgive
the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the
eldest sinner, the most inexcusable sin-
• ner. To the sin -pardoning Shiloh let all
the gathering of the people be,
But, I remark again, the people will
gather mated Christ as a eynapathieen
(now° alf want sympathy. I hear people
talk as though they were independent of
it, None of , us could live without syrow
,pathy. When parts of our tonally are
away, how lonely the house seems until
throunh other worlds. The demon of
eonflegration, the demon of volcanic die- conies back. Garlands of all nations on
turbance, the demon of destruction. His brow—of the bronzed netions of the
La Place says Ile saw one world in the south and the pallid nations of the north
northern hemisphere 16 months burning, —Europe, Asia, Afriors, North and South
Tneho Blythe weld he saw another world. America, and the other continents that
burping, A French astronomer says that may artse meantime from the sea to take
in 300 years 1,500 worms hove disappear- the places of their sunken predecessors
ed, I do not see how infidels find it so --arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, arch of
hard te believe that two worlds stopped Triumph -in the Champs Mimes, all too
in Joshua's time, when the astronomers poor to welcome this King of kings and
toll us that 1,500 worlds have stopped. Lord of lords and Conqueror et conquer -
Even the moon is a world in ruins. Stat. ors In His august arrival. TIM ont all
tar, lunar, solar eatastrophies innumer- heaven to meet Him. Hang all along the
able! But it seems as If the most sor- route the flags of earthly dominion,
rows have been reserved for our world. *bother deoorated with oresnont, or star,
By Imo terse et the world at Ticuboro, of or eagle, or lion, or coronet. Hang out
MOO inhabitants only 26 people escaped. heaven's briglitest banner, with its one
By one shake of the world at Lisbon irt star of Bethlehem and blood striped of
five minutes 00,000 perished end e00,000 the cross, I hear the procession now.
before the earth stopped rocking. A • Hak! The tramp of the feet, the rumb-
mountain falls in SWitzerland, burying: the ling of the wheels, the clattering of the
village of Geldan. A mountaiu falls in hoofs and the about of the riders! Ten
Italy in the night, wben 20100 people aro thousand times ten thousand' and thous -
asleep, aha then never aroese. Ihy a eon- rattle of thousends. Put up in heaven's
vulsion of the earth japan broken off librery, right beide the whole volume of
f China Ay a convulsion of the the world'e ruin the completed volume of
rom ,
earth the Caelhbean islands broken oft Shiloh's triumph, The 'clfl promise
feom A.rnerica. Three islands near the struggling through the ages fulfilled at
mouth of the Ganges, with 340,000 ie. last; "Unto Him shall , the gatherneg of
habitants—a great surge of the sea breaks the people &fee' • '
tone them, and 214,000 perish that elan. While everlasting ages roll
Alas,alas, for eter poor world! It has been Eternal have ebali feast their soul
recently discovraed that a whole °entire And. seeees of bliss forever IMSO
Mit has sunk, a continent that connected Rise in sti„ession to their view,
Europe and. America, part of the inhabit.
troubles which make the lives of so many
women a burden, and speedily restore
the rich glow of health to pale and sallow
cheeks. Men broken down by overwork-,
worry or excesses, will find in Pink Pills,
a certain cure, Sold by all dealers or
sent by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box,
or SIX boxes for $2.50, by addressing the
DaWilliams' Medicine Company, Brook-
ville, Ont. Beware of imitations and
substitutes alleged to be. "just as good,".
WORKED WONDERS
• IN THIS WOMAN.
Never Kilew a Xeditine
So: Much Geed..
Unit Temperance Dreeting,in America.
The' first temperance meeting in all
probability on this 'continent was held at.
the _wrench raission of Sillery as early as
1648. The temperance question had lung
agitated the colony, not in regard to the
colonists, though here, too, there was a
groat need of reform, but in regard to the
Indians who drank simply to get drunk.
The missionaries were in despair and
called a council of all the tribes in the
sunamer of 1648 at Sillery. After mass
the drums were beaten and the Indians,
freshly oiled and painted, bedecked with
furs and. feathers, followed by a band of
Musicians, screeching and yelling
through their primitive reed instruments,
gathered into a ring at its call.
An Algonquin chief—a zealous convert
of the Jesults—in the fallow:10ply of war,
rose from his place and read a late edict
from the governor imposing penalties on
drunkenness, Then in his own name and
that of the other ekiefs he declared that
all drunkards should be given to the
French to punish. And the French did
punish them! They led the culprit after
the daily sermon to the door of the
chierch, . where kneeling on the pavement,
partially stripped and holding the,peni-
tential torch in his hands, he underwent
a vigorous whipping.
Not only the drinkers, but the dealers
were punished, In Saral's time any one
engaged in suCh traffieWas cendemned to
death, and two men were actually shot
for selling brandy to tho Indians I Great
excitement shook the settlement. Most
of the Colonists were implicated. An ex-
plosion followed. A woman had been im-
prisoned for the same cease, awl a Jesuit
moved by pity begged the governor to
release her. The governor was Waldo
himself with rage, and exclaimed. an grily,
"You and your priests were the Erst to
cry out against this trade, and now you
want to save the traders from punish-
ment. - I won't be tho sport of your. eon-
tradictions any longer. 71 11 isn't a crime
for thig womat, it shan't be a crane for
anybody." And he hold to his wowl.
There waaa full license to liquor deal-
ers. A violent reaction followed., and
brandy Rowed like water. The ungodly
drank to spite the priests and revenge
them for the restraints they had practised
eo Jong. The priests saw their teachings
despised and their ohureh threatened. On
the other hand, the sale of brandy was' pf
groat profit to the celony. If the Inclines
could not getit Canadathey had poly.
to go ' to the Ditch settlements ott , the
Hudson. Ann. Canatte, could not affern to,
lose theirselnaiice, so then remained bet,
tweea two evels.--elenion Signal.
THE FIRE WALK.
Did
A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE
Joyfully and Gratefally Told lby
Nova Scotia, Lady.
We 1111 dread specific .diseases liktt
fevers, that are prone to turn disastrous-
ly before their length has been run,
yet, in their worst form, despite the ilta-
mediate danger 'that at certain stages
may show ittelf, they can not be com-
pared to the distress that comes to the
victim of nervousness and the safferer
from general debility. Let the system
become run down, without one knowing
just what may be the cause of it, and
there is nothing surprming that those so
Afflicted /es° heart, and suffer pbysically
and mentally, -as those latd serioue
beds of sicknera, do not suffer. For one
long year Mrs, haites A. Publicever, of
Luneriburg, N. Se ranked arnonn thee
class. She dragged out a =tearable ex-
istence, arising in the morning wishing
it were night, and retiring at night wish-
iog it were morning, Completely pros-
tr .ted, she had not energy for any 'worlt.
Her appetite bad failed her, and strength
was gone. 01 course sbe tried doctors'
medioine, and verious other medicipee,
but over her own signature she tells those
echo suffer line her that sae found no re-
lief until she had learned of Seuth
American Nervine, and taken it herself.
Fully restored tevigoeous health, et is
not surprising that she should say that
Ibis is tho very beet medicine in the
World, and this experience she backs -up
by recommending it to her friends,
whom, she says have also fonnO it good.
As a health -builder, a flesh -builder and
a strength -builder South Araerioan
Nervine is par excellence a woaderful
medicine, and there is not another
remedy that possesses the singularly
effective properties that it does for all
case; of this character,
Fijians Who Trod on Hot Stones JuStFOr
Fun.
The fire walk is undertakenby members
bf a certain clan of Fijians, Nalvtlankata,
who have a traditional faily tale as to how
they acquired the newer. trick or secret.
When Mr. Thomson j visited the scene the
pit was & "white -bot mass, shooting out
little tongues of white flame." The wood,
was extracted Int pees, a -ad the glorying
stones wete laid level, "tontues of flame
still playing among them." The Afteen
riten, in garlands, with anklets of dried
fern, walked barefoot over the surface of
the stollen trampling down the green
leaves as, they were thrown in by the
lookers on. " The volume of steam rose
thick and dark. Now, a ferv minutes be-
fore the men entered*the furnace, a hot
stone was hooked out, ort which Mr.
Thomson's handkerchief was ; the
men went in, and it was removed when
the last neett, left the oveh. "Every fold
that touched the stone was charred," as,
indeed, may he observed on the handker-
ehief, winch "lies before us as we write."
The feet °Mlle performers, being examin-
ed, were coel, awl their anklets of dry fern
leaf were not burned. Mr. Thomson
wrote his published account on the day
after the event. He has heard of a similar
ceremony in the Cook group of islands,
and it is attested, both in the Journal of
the Polynesian Society and by private
correspondence, among the Wings of
Southern India And elsewhere. 'Else-
where, curious to say, includes modern
Bulgaria. Mr. Th..nsonle photograph
has not been published ; the fine shapes of
the men, like figures of polished basalt,
are partly obscured by the steam arising
from the leaves thrown into the furnaee.
A representative of popular science has,
we believe,- suggested a dilution of sul-
phuric acid as the probable cause of the
immunity of the fire -walkers. He does
not seem to have tried the experiment on
his own persoe, nor is it certain thatthe
Kliegs and other backward races, or the.
priests :of Apollo, know, or knew, sul-
phuric acid. We /nest look further
afield for an explanation.
Ameng thenntwiteetethentemy forms ara
important, item, ,111, eyr91y , eeer.
traet. It a heisleiiie fefuses, to, give hie
wife sufficienemoney for batleinnhinhpcses
sheenaer-go before teee',eacei; take eeft*.her'
slipper aticl teem it upside (Iowa. If the:
grievance is toot iedressed she has grounds
fot divorce.
A Story of Miss Roeltefeller.
While Miss Edith Rockefeller, who
Tuesday became Mrs. Harold F. Mc-
Cormick,' was a schoolgirl at one of the
fasbionable seminaries of New York a
little ineitiene oecurred which shows the
simple manner in which she regarded
her father's great wealtin She, with a
party of girls, fromher class, preseiated
herselt at a certain furniture dealer's to
cheese a gift for a favorite teacher. The
price of the pretty writing desk, however,
atas maze than the sent of money in their
possession. The girls suggested that if
the desk were sent they would forward
the balance as soon as possible: The
proprietor very politely, but also 'very
decidedly, itoormed the girls that "he
could not do as they asked.. "But," he
saicla'il you can think of .any New York
business man with whom any of your
fathers are aoquainted, and who will
vouch for you, the matter may possibly
be arranged." "Why," said the daugh-
ter oE the great. petroleum .magnate, "I
think uty papa has an office down on.
Broadway; possibly we can getthe money
there." •'Who is your father ?" querie(1
the dealer. nHe is name is Rockefeller,"
replied the girAllinetply; "John D. Rocke-
feller; he is in he eirbusiness." The
merchant gasped and looked- at the girl
in amazement. "John D. Rockefeller
your father? Is John Rockefeller
good for ego?" he repeated in excitement.
Then ho recovered his presence of mind
sufficiently -Weeder the desk packed up.'
and sent immediately, while Miss Edith,.
very much astonished., at his unwonted
excitement, thaaltedbim with pretty and
simple grace.--Philadenhhia Record.
Connecting* Ships With Land by Telephone.
The connection with land by telephone
wire of the Si. Paul, as she lay stranded
off the Long Branch shore, is likely to lead
to new developments in the establishment
of telephone commuuicatiou betweea in-
coming vessels and the shore. The con-
nectiou was easily made. A wire was
taken from the central station at Long
Branch to a point on the beach opposite
the stranded ship. Here 4 pole was set up
and theevire was made feet. A suifboat
WOS manned and in it was placed the coiled
line. As the •boat went seaward it was
Payed out, and when the steamship was
reaclien it Was made taut, hanging direct-
ly from the pole on the bluff to the steam-
ship. A regulation instrument was cter-
ried to the Sr. Paul, and in less than an
hour after leaving shore, the telephone •
superintentleet had the ship ,connected
with the civilieed.world. This is the Rest
instance in the history of telephone . come
munication that a wire has ever been
pineal, on hoard a shipwrecked vessel.
Plenty of sleek wire was used, se thet the
looked for shifting of the vessel's position
would nob affect the connection. It is now
proposed to „gine telephone service for tke
benefib of crew end passengers to iecome
ing ships as they approach the harbor:
A light telephone cable would be roan out
a few nines totvard the approaching -vessel
and coenected with an instrument on
board. Messages could immediately be
sent to: expectant .frieuds or others on
seore, anda duly equipped drum woald
teke np the sleele af.the.cable as the ship
• neaeed hentlecte onareival at which the
e4bhe tele'
phelie'ie IciPolkitiet!117bisalnilspiwliPrPecelt4eilto,nt
ss1s, 1,1
is andponehf tOlittihnlh a telephone line to•
the safety 'tine cantied by rocket, or other-
wie,e„end lettitainilieetled onboard, where
eoeuection wont& he made with instra-
Meets alreetly amended for .such O con-
tpiiiitogi7,pet.:176kiteriraye egaisieetioatzleed-
tba, connecting nope, `by which it eoteld be
passed to .the ship, where it Would be
available for immediete use.
Still the Good -News.
A. former patient of Lakehurst Insti-
tute, Oakville, from the Eastern part of
the Province, has just writtefl us enving
a pleaeing account of his experience sincs.
passing through the Lakehurst treatment
over a year ago. He saws : "Since I
have returned home I have had neither
ache nor pain. nothing to remind me of
the slavery of drink. I am now happy
and prosperous." In the same locality
there are nearly a more of men who have
Similarly benefited by this treatmenit.
Mistrust and hesitation have given place
to confidence and resolution, and these
men have now 110 10010 temptation to use
whiskey or other alcoholic beverages
than:those Who have never used them..
Their friends 'are happy. They are able
to save money, to make money, and they
eta longer. contribute . to the barkeeper's
profits. Lakehurst Institute, Oakville,
• stands:pre-eminent teenay by the public
benefaction. Toronto office: 25 Bank of
Commerce Building.
He Drew the Line There.
"Jack, your fame is spreading wonder-
fully. Only this afternoon a friend of
mine asked me to try and. secure your
autograph dor him."
Successful author—Why, sure, Tom;
glad. to oblige him. Wi
-
ho s it ?
Unsuccessful authOr—lsaacstein, the
money lender. He wants it on the back
of my promissory eiote.—Amusing 3otir-
nal.
Fagged. Ont.—None but those -who have
become fagged out, know what a de-
pressed, miserable feeling it is. All
strength is gone, and. despondency has
taken hold of the sufferers, They feel as
though there is nothing to live for.
• There, however, is a cure—one box of
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills will do won -
dere in restoring health and. strength.
Mandrake and Dandelion are two of. the
articles entering into the compesition ,of
Parmelee's Pills.
A Test for Death. •
A foreign scientist has a eewetest for
death. With a cantlle, produce a blister
on the hana or loot or the body. 11 the
blister, upon opening with. a needle or
other metruneent, • be found to ourtain
fluid of any kind. there is still life in the
body.
She 11;anted to 14:now.
, 4
Agnese-Do they caeTy cattle on this
oceaxi line, ma.? .
• andenmn—, indeen, this Is one of
the' finest alioat.
Agriee—eVe'ell, the peerage is far peers,
and. why isn't the steerage for Mears ?"
They are Lovers still. •
Mr. Trotter (renewing an oleeeteenainte
ance)—.A..a is that little black-eyed...ICI-
duff girl as deer to you now as she W,1S
several years ago h •
Mr. Spatts-0, much dearer, I have
to pay her $100 a month alimony now,
t,•