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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-3-26, Page 7AME'RICA FoR uoR take a drink, be takes ale. When a at the , time of ' Johnstown flood, and Scototman wants to take a drink he tales's. whisky. But when an American *wants to take a drink, he takes anything he can lay his hands on. Plenty of statistics to tell how much money is spent in this country for ram and bow many .drunkards die! But who will give us the statistics at hoW many 'hearts are crushed under the heel of the worst dement of the centurMs? How many hopes.blasted? How malty children turned out on the world; ac- cursed with stigma of a debauched. ancestry? Until the worm of the dis- tillery becomes the worm that never diet, and the smoke of the heated Wine vats becomes the smoke of the torment that aseendeth up forever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing—not with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from that direction can it get no help, but with right baud stretched down toward the perdition from which it came up— sweaing that it Will not cease as long as there are any homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men and women to destroy, any immortal souls to damn, any more nations to balk, any There civilizations to extinguish. Then there is what in Ameelett we call socialism, in France communism, an a in Russia nihilism—the three names for one and the same thing—and having but two doctrines to its creed: First, there is no God; second, there shall be no rights of property. One Of their chief journals printed this senti- ment, "Dynamite can be made out of the dead bodies of capitalists as well as out of hogs." One of the leaders of communism loft inscribed on his prison wall, whore he had been unjustty in- carcerated, these words: "When once you aro dead, there is an end of every- tbing. Therefore, ya scoundrels, meth whatever you can, only don't lot your. selves Le grabbed Amen !" There are in this country hundreds of thous:Ands of these lazy scountlrols. Honest men deplore it when they cannot get work, but those of who l speak will not do work when they can get is. I tried to employ one who asked me for money. I said, "Down in my colter I have some wood to saw, and I will Inty you for it." For a little whileJ heard the saw going, and then I heard it no more. I went down stairs and found the wood, but the workman had disappeared, taking for company both bock and saw. Socialism, communism and nihilism mean "tad* wicked to acknowledge, God and too lazy to earn a living,' and among the mightiest obstacles to be over- come are those organized elements of domestic, social and political ruin. There also are the fastnesses of infidel- ity, and atheism, and fraud, and poli- tical corruption, and multiform, hydra headed, million armed abominations all over the land.. While the mightiest agencies for righteousness on earth are good and healthful newspapers and good and healthful books, and our chief depondtoce for intelligence and Christian achievement ie upon them, what wont? among the more than 100,- 000 worsts in our vocabulary can de- scribe the work of that archangel of mischief, a corrupt literature? What man, attempting anything for God and humanity, has escaped n stroke of its filthy wing? What good cause has escaped its biudermenta What other obstacle in all the land: so appalling! But I cannot nines more than one-half the battlements, the bastions, the in- trenchments, the redotthts, the fortifica- tions, to be stormed and overcome if this country is over taken for God. Tim statistics are so awful that if we had nothing but the mutiplioation table and the arithmetic, the attempt to evangelize America would be an absurd- ity higher than the tower of Babel be- fore it dropped on the plain of Shiner. Whore are the drilled troops to march against those fortifieetions as long as the continent.? Whore are the batteries that can be unlimbered against those walls? Where are the guns of large enough caliber to storm these gates? Well, let us look around and see, the first of all, who is our hauler and will be Our leader until the work is done. Following him wore the Scotch cove- nanters, the Theban legion, the victims of the London Haymarket; the Pinch/len- tos° sufferers the pilgrim fathers, the Huguenots and uncounted multitudes of the past, joined by about 400,000,000 of the • present, and with the certainty that all nations shall huzza at his chariot wheel, he goes forth, the moon under his feat and the stars of heaven for his tiara—the mighty leader, he of Drumelog, and Bothwell Bridge, and Bannockburn, and the one who whelm- ed Spanish armada. "Coming up from Edom, with dyed garments form Bozrah, tarveling in the greatness of hie strength, mighty to save," and behind whom we fall into line to -day and march in the campaign that is to take America for God. Hosanna! Hosanna! Wave all the palm branches! At his feet put down your silver and your gold, as in heaven you will, cast before him your coronets. With such a leader do you dot think we cad do it? Say, do you think we can? Why, many ramparts have already Lien taken. Where is American slavery? Gone, and the south as heartily as the north, prate, "Peace to its ashes." Where is bestial polygamy? Gone, by the fiat of the United States Govern- ment, urged on by Christian sentiment,' and Mormonism, having retreated in *0 from Fayette, N.Y., to leirkland, 0., and in 1888retreated to Missouri, and'in 1846 retreated to Salt Lake City, now divorced from its superfluity of wives, will mon retreat into the Pacific, and no basin smaller, than an ocean tonal wash out its pollutions. Latency gown down under the work of Stetor mad Peabody funds and Sabbeth schools of all the churches of all denoininations! Pugilism now made unlawful by con- gressional onectmeet, the brutal cus- tom knocked out in the first eatend ! Cortamtiern at the ballot box by law of registration and other safeguards, en ado almost beep blo ! Churches twice as large as t he old ones, the enlarged supply to ineet the 'enlarged demand! Nihilism getting a stunning stroke by the stutunarO execution of Its exponents after they had murdered time nelidemen in Chicago, received its deathbow from the recent treetY. Whiell sends back to linesta the blatant criminals . who had been regurgitated on Or American ' The yell things that Wive been quoted as perils, to this nation are going to help salvatien. Great cities, so often Men ilOrlei at glee o at est— e center • I • t • I to of ceiese and the eeeeevoies of all hatqui- tiestiva to load on -riale Work of :gosppl. leatien, , Who give nip.st tolmonemis- seems, to asylums, to religious ed aces tiled,. to all styles f hwAlant,tarian and Chris L tan busittuliwist • lee (Wee. From what planes aid 'tee most relief -go TALMAGE SEES IT ACCOMPLISH- ED IN HIS MIND'S EYri.. reismmism, Agnosticism, Atooftidism, elialsm, Political C • o ad All Kanner of .Ahominutimis to be Put Down , --Christ the Leader of the Goopel Bat- teries. F Washington, March 15.—This dis- course presents a sublime theme and is of stational importance, and coming from the capital of the nation, must hair° 4, stirring effect throughout the land. Dr. Talmage chose for his text Revelation xiii., 11: "And I beheld another beast coining out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." Is America mentioned in the bible? Learned and consecrated men who have studied the inspired books of Daniel and Revelations more than I have and understand them better agree in saying that the leopard men- tioned in the bible meant Grecia, and the bear meant Medo-Persia, and the lion Babylon, and the beast of the text coming up out of the earth with .two horns like alamb and the voice of a dragon means our country, because among other reasons it seemed to come up out of the earth when Columbus discovered it, and it has been for the most part at peace, like a lamb, unless assaulted by foreign foe, in which case it has had two horns strong and sharp, and the voice of a dragon loud enough to make all nations hoar the roar of its indignation, Is it reasonable to suppose that God would leave out from the prophecies of his book this whole western hemisphere? No, no. ,4 beheld another beast coining up out _of the earth, and lie had two horns Hite a lamb, and ho spake as a dragon." Germany for scholarship, England for manufactories, Frau oe for manners, Egypt for aotiquities,Italy for pictures, 'but America for God. I start with the cheering thought that the most popular book on earth to -day is the bible, the most popular in- stitution on earth to -day is the church, and the most popular name on earth to -day is Jesus. Right from this au- dience hundreds of men and women would, if need be, march teout and it for Rijn, Am I too confident tu saying, "Am- erica for God?" If the Lord will help me, I will show -the strength and ex. - tent of the long line of fortresses to be taken, and give you my reasops for say- ing it can he done and will ha done. Let us decade in this battle for God whether we are at Bull Run or at Gettysburg. There is a Fourth of julyish way of bragging about this country,and the roost tired and plucked bird that ever flew through the heavens Is the American eagle, so much so that Mr.Glacistone said to me facetious- ly at Hawarden, "I hear that the fish In your American lakes are so large that when One of them is taken out the entire lake is perceptibly lowered," and as a dinner given In Paris an 'American offered for a sentiment, "Here Is to the United States—bounded on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by the procession of the equinoxes, on the east by primeval chaos, and on the west by the day of judgment." The effect of such grand- iloquence is to discredit the real facts, which are so tremeudous they need no garnishing. The worst thing to do in any campaign, military or religious, Is to under -estimate an enemy, and I will have no part in such attempt at belittlement. This land to be tenon for God, accord- ing to Hassel, the statistician, has 14,219,067 square miles, a width and a length that none but the, Omniscient can appreciate. Four Europes put together and capable of hohling and feeding, as it will hold and feed, according to Atkin- son, the statistician, if the world con- tinues, in existence and does not run afoul of some other world or get con- sumed by the fires already burning In the cellars of the planet—capable, I say, of holding and feeding more than 1,000,- 000,000 inhabitants. For you must re- member it must be held for God as well as taken for God, and the last 500,000,000 inhabitants insist not be :Mewed to swamp the religion of the first 500,000,- 000. Not much use in raking the fort- • ress if we cannot hold it. It must be held until the archangel's trumpet bids living and dead arise from this founder- ing planet. You must remember that it is only about 7 o'clock in the morning of our nation's life. Great cities are to flash and roar among what are called the "Bad Lands" of the Dakotas and the great "Columbia Plains" of Washing- ton state, and that On which we put our schoolboy fingers on the mite, and spelled out as the "Great American Desert," is, through systematic and consummating irr gettion, to bloom like Chatsworth park and be made more productive than those regions depend- ent upon uncertain and spasmodic rain- fall. All those regions as well as them regions already cultivated to be inhabit- ed! That was a sublime thing said by Henry Clay while crossing the Allegheny mountains and he was waiting for the stage horses to be rested, as he stoodasn a rook, arms folded, looking off into the • lley, and some one said to hiin "Mr. ay, what are you thinking :bout?" e replied, "I am listening to the on- coming tramp of the future generation of America." Have you laid your home missionary scheme On such an infini- tude of scale? If the work of bringing one soul to God is so great, can 1,100,- 000,000 be captured? In this country, already planted and to be overcome, Paganism has built its altar to, Brahniat and the libinese are already burning incense in their temples, and Moham- medeniern, drunk in other days with the red wino of human bleed at Lucknow Cud Csawnporo, and now fresh from the diabolism In Armenia, is trying to get a fdothold here, and from the minarets of her mosques will yet mumble her blasphemies, saying, "God is great, and Mohammed is his prophet." • Then there are the vaster multitudes ' with no religion at all. They worslitp no God, they live with no consolation, and they .die with no hope. No star of peace points down- to the manger in whieh they are born, and no prayer is uttered over the grave into which they sink. Then thro as a (0flO min, its piled up Siendjohns of fiery death, a bar- ricade high and 1i:dig as he Alleghenies and Rockies and Sierra Nevatiato in g forth day and night their ton nm out- tbunof wretoh'edness and wets. W h en a • Gamete/wants to take a cheek, no takes beer When an Englishman wants to Michigan fires, and Charleston earth- quake, and Ohio freshets? From the citiese'orm what place did Christ send out his twelve apostles to gospelize the world? From a city. What place will do more than any other place by its con- tribution of Christian men and women and means, in this work of taking America for God? New York City. The way Paris goes, goes France. The way Berlin goes, goes Germany, The way Edinburgh goes, goes Scotland. The way London goes, goes England. The way New York and a couple other cites go, goes .America. May the eternal God wake up to the stupendous issue! Another thing quoted pessimistically is .the vast and overtopping fortunes in this country, and they scy ft means con- centrated wealth, end luxuriousness' and display and moral ruin. It is My observation that it is people who have but limited resources -who make the most splurge, and I ask you, Who are eeedowing colleges and theological seminaries? Did you ever bear of Peter Cooper, and James Lenox, and sainted I Amos and Abbott, while I refrain from mentioning living benefactors who, quite as generous and Christian, are in this assembly at this moment planning , what they can do in those days, and in their last will and testament in this campaign that proposes taking America for God? The widow's mite, honored of the Lord, is to have its pars in this con- tinental capture; but we must have MOW than that, and more right away. Many of the men that expect to get the blessing for bestowing the widow's mite will not get the blessing. In the first place, they are not widows, and in the next place, they have no "might." The time is coining—hasten it, Lord —and I think you and I will see it, when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arlmathean, gave for the dead Christ a costly mauso- luen, the affluent men and women of this country will rise in their strength and build for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this American continent. Another thing quoted for discourage- ment, but which I quote for encourage- ment, is foreign immigra.tain—now that from Castle Garden we turn tank by the first poor ship the foreign vaga- bondism—we are getting people, the vast majority of whom come to make an honest living, among them some of the bravest and the best, If you should turn back from this land to Europe the foreign ministers of the gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign merchants, and the foreign philanthrop- ists, what a robbery of our pulpit, our court -rooms, our storehouses, and our beuefleent Institutions, and what a putting back of . every monetary, merciful, moral and religious interest of the land! This commingling here of nail nationalities limier the blessina of God will produce in 75 or 100 years the most magnificent style of man and woman the world over saw. They will have the wit of one race, the eloquence of ttpother race, the kindness of another, the geuerosity of another, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral charac- ter of another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve and muselentu intertwining of the fibres of all nationalities, nothing but the new electric photograph apparatus, that can see clear through bony, mind and soul, can take of them an adequate plc. turo. But the foreign population of America is less than ontneleventh of all our population, and why all this Hiss about foreign immigration? Eighty-nine Americans to 11 ford:peers! If 89 of us Now Jerseyinen, or 89 of us New York- ers, or 89 of us Ohioan% or 89 of us Georgians, or 89 of us Yankees Are not equal to 11 foreigners, then we are a starving, lilliputian green et homunculi that ought to be wiaed out of existence. But now what are the weapons by which, under our omnipotent leader, the real obitacles in the way of our coun- try's evangelization, the 10,000 mile Sevastopols, are to be leveled? The first columbiad, with range enough to sweep from eternity to eternity, is the bible, millions of its copies going out, mil. lions of millions—this the monarch of books, that has made all the differences bewteen China and the United States, between Africa and America; a book declaring in every style of phraseology that all nations are to be converted and does not that include our nation? If the Apocalyptic angel is to fly across the continents will he not fly across this continent? The worst insult I could offer you would be to doubt your ver- acitytand shall we doubt God's promise? Then there are all the gospel batteries manned by 70,000 nesters and home mis- sionaries, over the head of each one of whom is the ehield of divine protection, anti in the right hand of each one the gleaming two-edged sword of the Infinite Spirit! Hundreds of thousands of private soldiers for 'Christ, marching under the one starred, blood striped flag of Emanuel! They are marching on! Episcopacy, with, the sublime roll of its liturgies; Methodism with its battle cry of "The sword of the Lord and John Wesley;" the Baptist church, with its glorious navy sailing up our Cravens and Sacramentos and Mississippis, and Presbyterianism, moving on with the battle cry of "The sword of the Lord And John Knox," and then after awhile will come the great tide of revival, -sweeping over the land, the 500,000 conversions in 1857 eclipsed by the salvation of millions In a day, and the four American armies of the Lord's host marching toward each other, the eastern army marching west, the western army -marching east, the northern army marching south, the southern tiese.y marching north, shoulder to shoulder! Tramp, tramp, tramp, until they. meet midcontinent, having taken America for God! The thunder of the bombardment is already in the air, and when the last bridge of opposition is, taken, an d the last portcullis of satan is lifted, and the last gun spiked, and the last tower dis- Mantled, and the last charge of iniquity shall have been hurled back upon its haunches, What a time of rejoicing! We will see it, not With these eyes, which, before that, will: be closed in blessed sleep, but with strong and better vision, whefi the Lord once in a while gives us a vacation among the doxologies to odes° deep and see the clear old land, which I pray may always be the lamb of the text, Mild and. peacef uI, inoffensive, but in case toreign nations assail it, having two horns of army • and Pavy strong enough to hook them beck and hook en down, and a voice iduder than a dragon —yea, louder than 10,00 thunders—saying to time billows of Asia- tic superstition and European arrog- ance, "Thus far shalt thou ' go and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves Cheiet abide to lin d 'ad trectio n, but LI ItTLE BOY'S WEAR. Some Jaunty Spring Styles Prom New Yo, -k. Some English models of little boys' clothing in the New York tailor shops show some jaunty spring styles. The highwayman overcoat," in grey tweed, faced cloth or the new art shades of beaver cloth, is a double-breasted triple -caped garnient, with rolling collar, turned -up cuffs, big buttons and a general pictur- esqueness of effect. It is intended for a boy from fonr to eight years and is a rough-and-ready garment, suitable for all sorts of outing wear. • The Marlboro suit is the latest edition of the Little Loed Fa.untleroy styles dear to the hearts of fend mothers and galling to the small boy with a manly disdain for fineries. It consists of a square -cut jacket with a broad turn -over collar and lapels, the sleeves slightly foiled at the shoulder - seam; with th is is worn the frilled blouse. The trousers are loose and full, gathered just below the knee by an elastic band. The full sleeve for little lads and the bloomerette idea in knickerbockers is one of the fashionable fads just now that can be seen any pleasant afternoon in the Park or along upper Fifth avenue, where the Freuelebonnes take the small scions of millionairedone for an airing. Etiquette of Cards. Cards for persons in mourning have a black border, not so deep as was formerly the style Cards of condolence are seat to persons after an affliction. Flowers and books may also be sent. Men's cards are oblong, and small. The lettering is in clear-cut script. should never be omitted. In England a widow always drops her husband's Christian name and uses her ' own. In this country, as often as not, she retains the deceased's name. When it is desirable to drop an acquaint- ance it is only necessary to discontinue calling or omit the sending of reception cards. This should be considered as final and no explanation demanded. The wafer card, which is in favor now, has ori Ey one thing to recommend it, and that is a greater number of cards may be compressed into small space. On the other hand, It is easily bent and crushed. The Welcome Guest. Who is he? The man who 'calls on a woman when he is at his very best, and who never stays too long. Oh, that mas- culine visitors knew the peril that lies in an extra half hour I Almost every woman likes to entertain men at her own home and to receive the delidate compliment of a personal call; but, unless two people have the same hobby, or are engaged to be married (or are about tote), any call that lasts over an hour is filled with dire threatenings. "I know two men," sighed a young woman to her best friend, "who are both handsome, intelligent, courteous arid altogether delightful; one comes at odd intervals and stays until 11 o'clock. Height)! The other arrives periodically; chats, hteighs, tells the news—and leaves in half an hour. I shudder whenthe first comes and sigh when the other gees." There are more timings than letters that should be jest long enough to make the recipient "wish there was more of it," and a call is not least among them. The ubi- quitous "Don'ts" that give terse hints to all sorts and conditions of men could eas- ily he used on the staerage caller with telling effe c For. instance: 1 Don't eall anywhere unless you are in a good humor Don't sea, "I came in for a minute or two," then stay until 10 o'clock. , Don't linger a second if the girl before you looks vacantly over your head. Don't expect that your most thrilling story will he interesting if youssee heroup- peeseM o a yawn ; and, lest, but by no Don't cease to 'remember that it is op - Menai with you to conic and go, and that she is 'at yonr4thercy. Thelnan who takes to heart these pfe... capts will be that .blessed mortal who /nukes the women love -to "welcome?' the connnk,d'.guost and at the samo time be loth to "speed the parting" one. WASTING- YOUR _LIFE GRADUAL FAILING OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FORCES. General Breaking Down—How to Add to Pour YearS—Never Despair—use Dodd's Kidney rins. With a pathetic sigh how often it has been said: "Well, then, I suppose I must let go my hold OP life." The failing senses, loss of strength, loss of flesh and loss of memory finally brings nearly all to this square issue. To fathers and Mothers of uurearea children this is tragic. For children. it is simply pathetic and terrible. How blessed, then, is the ray of hope -the timely, sure help in this dark how of trial! But whence cometh this sure and timely help? If ddath is preventible, how? I. The timely answer is: By scientific and successiul kidney treatment—by using Dodd's Kidney Pills. Since its advent, about four years ago, thousands have been saved from prema- ture death by this great kidney medi- cine. And hundreds of thousands must have used them, for over a million boxes have been sold. in Canada alone. Hundreds write to thank us and tell of their cure, but nous to say that Dodsits Kidney Pills have ever failed. On Guard. DObbillS—I didn't know you had. organic heart trouble, Bright's disease, hereditary consumption and hardening of the liver! Robbins -I haven't. Dobbins—But you insinuated. as much to that Mall 100 MSG went out. Robbins -1 know. He is a friend of mine and a life -insurance agent. -Puck. NO SUCHTHE\GAS OLD AGE TO THOSE WHO USE SQUTH AM- ERICAN NERVINE. A. Lady of Eighty Years Permanently Cured. Wordsworth speaks of "An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lap- land. night," and elsewhere this same writer telks of "Art old age, beautiful and free." These are conditions that come to the man or the woman though their years may border close on ion cen- tury, when in the enjoyment of good health. In fact ibis difficult to think of some of the old men and women' on the stage of to -day as old people, there seems tothe sash a perennial youthful- ness about their every movement and act. Mrs. John Dinwoody has been a resi- dent of Flesherton, Ont.. for over 40 years, and there is no person in the town and country side around better known than this lady, and none more highly esteemed. Three years ago it was her sad, lot to lose a daughter who had been all the world to her. The shock sustained by this event completely broke up the system of Mrs. Dinwoody. She sup- posed her end had come. She doctored for one year with three doetors and they gave her case up, saying that it was one of old ago, and no one, nor any medicine could do her good. Made of the kind of stuff that gives beauty to old age at any time, she del not despair. She was in- fluenced to try Nervine. She took three bottles, and this was sufficient to show that her end was not yet. Fromthose she obtained relief. She persevered, and in all took twelve bottles of the medi- cine, with the result that she is to -day completely cured of that breaking up a the system that threatened her three years ago. There is nothing wonderful in the fact that Mrs. Diaiwoody would proc.11aim to the thousands of old people throughout this broad land that with old ao-e does. not necessarily come decline, decrepi- tude and disease. Why should we not live into the eighties and nineties and cross the border of the century? South American Nervine, whether the person be young or old, gets at the nerve centers, and when they are kept in proper condition the system is as well able to with -tand disease at SO as at 86. With this prospect in view, who would not live to an old age and enjoy the pleasures of family, friends and society, and take part in watching the marvel- lous progress and developments of these closing -days of a wonderful century, which marks as not the least of its wonderful climateries the tliscovery of South American Nervine? An Important Distinction. A loquacious passenger on a trolley car that was slowly wending its way between the swamps and sandy fields between Newport News and Old Point, Va., caught sight cif a yoke of oxen drawing 9" NoWhatacia trotterarc those animals I see, Vir- &il "No," answered the vassengsr, s sit- ting next to him. " Those are plain, everyday Virginia creepers?" Dangerous Symptoms. Not long since a well-known citizen was heard to -boast of his control over his liquor thinking: that Ice never took more than his regular :allowance, and no One had ever seen him the Worse for liquor. Probably no one had ever se(n him stag- ger in his gait or thick in his speech, or incap.thie ci ticcin business, but the cold truth of the matter wits that that same boaster was and had been for years the worse for liquor -very much the worse for it ithysieally, and ' nat getting or likoly to get any better. The worst drunkard is often the man -who has never been •• drunk," but whose daily all.bwan0 has gradually destroyed vitality' and is raising a eons-tint:1y strengthening bar- rier between him and- restoration to health. Some day it 'will kill, and, the end will be sudden, and people Will Wonder and the truth will out, If , you take your daily alldwanee-yet never et- ceed it, never stagger or become Unfit business--4ake warning. Time treatment, at Lakehurst Institute, Oakville, is the only thing.: that will save :you. Don't Wait. till there.: is nothing loft of you. Toronto office, 128 Bank of Commerce Building. Do not delay in getting relief for the littLe folks kotber \Vern . . .4 4, Er- temiicator is a pleasent and .same env*, Ii you love your,ehild why you let it calor when a remed-, is so neTv at hand ? LINEN LIKE DRIVEN SNOW, It is Not Hard to Keel) Dainty Table Sets As Good as New. It is necessary before the real work of washing commences to have the- em-' broideries themselves finished according to certain rules of needlework, if the, former is to be a success. The few follow- ing hints will be of assistance to any one, who not only launders her Own em- broideries, but does the needlework also. ( Many ladies prefer to wash and press their ' own pieces for table decoration, for unless the work is done by a skilful lauedress they are apt to be ruined in color or' stretched out of shape in the ironing. First, only the best wash silkshould be' used, and it is a mistake to use very strong coloring on pure white linen'as even the palest shades show darker than One thinks after being massed in solid on the white background. Never ese a knot, as eath one will show plainly after the piece is preesed, no matter how well it may be disguised while working. Never cross from one part of a design to another, leaving a connecting thread; rather break it off and commence again. This may seem an unnecessary, precaution, as with fine three hundred silk and rather heavy material it would not be liable to show on the right side; but the habit once formed is harchto over- come, and if sheer lawn or any other transparent material is used, the effect will be very bad. There is also another reason for avoiding this method of work- ing, and that is that it gives a very care- less appearance to the wrong sides of the designs, and a really artistic and skilful worker will take pride in seeing how dl - cult it is to distinguish the two sides. This may sound incredible, but there are many pieces which require close handling to determine the difference. When the embroidery is complete, put the whole piece into a suds formed of tepid water and the purest white soap and wash care- fully, rubbing the soap on the parts of the design where the stamping Estill re- mains distinct, and work it between the fingers till all trace of the pattern is gone from the lin en,treating in the same wayany parts of the linen which have become especially soiled. Use care not to have the water very hot, as even the best ,silk, in some shades, will run us little if put" into anything like boiling water. Rinse thoroughly of the soap and wring out gently as Much of the water as possible, stretch into shape, fold evenly and roll up ready for pressing. This should be done at once, before it has tunic to dry, as if ironed when wet, the pressing of the linen is preserved, and the stitches are set in place, so that any number of subsequent washings will not destroy the effect. On a Perfectly clean cloth over a thin flannel or cotton batting spread the embroidery wrong side up, and with as hot an iron as can be used without fear of scorching, begin the pressing from the center outward, between the iren and the work, until partly dried. Then press out the wrinkles toward the edge, which can be stretched in the finish- ing. If care has been taken in the em- broidering not to draw the work (hoops are of great value in this respect), time lin- en will be perfectly smooth and thettesign raised on the right side from having sunk into the thickness of the flannel under- neath. Never press any embroidery on the right side, as it is ruined In this way. When the piece is ironed on the wrong side till thoroughly dry, turn it and run the iron over the plain surface of, the En. en, and over the hemstitched. edge, if there be such a finish. Fringed edges should be brushed after they dry. Em- broiderers will appreciate the importance of these hints, for after hours of work and the expenditure of much eyesight, it is distressing to see a beautiful piece of work ruthlessly- handled and perhaps des- poiled of its beauty after a few washings by the bands of an inexperienced worker. • — Sunday Drinking. This province has reason to be thank- ful because our license laws require all liquor shops, of all kinds, to be closed from 7 o'clock Saturday evenings until 6 on Monday morning. In many places that law might be better enforced than it is, but even under present enforce- ment, there are much fewer c.tisesof drunkenness before the police courts of Toronto on Monday mbenings than on other mornings of the week. The same is true of most of our other On- tario towns and cities; and we are convinced that a good many of those cases come out of sales in the shops of bottles before the lawful hours of closing. On the other hand, in Eng- land liquor shops are allowed open a part of Sunday, and the results are such as might be expected. Baron Roths- child has said: "There are many streets in London where you may see. rows after rows of public houses, dens of the worst description, which are simply supported by the money which flows into their coffers on Sunday-, which, if closed on that day, must eventually go to the wall." The Reii- ,gious Telescope says that the criminal statistics of England show that 18,000 persons are convicted annually for Sunday drunkenness 'as a result of open saloons in London and other cities. It is now bad form to tarn dawn the corners of cards. This is an obsolete Cu • tom and entirely an ManitobaSettlers for should make it a point to call upon us and get lists of lands for sale BEFORE COMO WEST, to make find selctlon A number Of ' our farms have buildings 1,-1)d land um. der eultivation. SAVE VALUABLE TIM AND GOOD MONEY by locating upon improved lands. Prices from se per acre upwards. Settlers can • arrange tEralS to stat thane, BY CALLING PERSONALLY at our office and ialking•the matter over. With fifteen years experienee we can . , the most suitable parts in which to to- emie. IL 3", I trItIPTOlif, 218 PV,WPACkiS A..),BNUni ' MAN. •• WritcifOr prices my' lists.