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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-4-2, Page 3THIS \COLD WORLD WANTS THE WARMTH OF CHRIS- TIAN SYMPATHY. With Cheery Look, and iielptul Word; and Kind Action Try to Make it Warmer -- The Church of God the Great Gospel IR'lr•eplaoe to Which All Are Welcome, Washington, March 22.—The freezing blasts which have. swept over the country at the time we expected spring weather make this sermon especially appropriate. Dr. Talniage's text was Psalm oxlvii., 17: "Who can stand before his cold??' The almanno says that winter isended and spring has come, but the winds, and the frosts, and the thermometers,. in some places down to zero, deny it. The psalmist lived in a more genial climate, than this, and yet he must sometimes have, beep cut by the sharp weather. in this chapter he speaks of the snow like wool, the frost like ashes, the hailstones like marbles and describes the congeal- ment of lowest temperature. We have all studied the power of the heat. How few of us have studied the power of the frost? "Who can stand before his cold?" This challenge of the text has, many times been accepted. Oct. 19, 1812, Napoleon's great army began its retreat from Moscow. One hun- dred and fifty thousand men, 50,000 horses, 60 pieces of cannon, 40,000 strag- glers. It was bright weather when they Ilp' started from Moscow, but soon some- thing wrathier than the Cossacks swooped upon their flanks An army of erotic blasts with icicles for bayonets and hailstones for shot, and commanded by voice of tempest, marched• after them, the flying artillery of the heavens in pursuit. The troops at nightfall would gather into cir- cles and huddle themselves together for warmth, but when the day broke they rose not, for they were dead, and the ra- vens came for their morning meal of corpses. The way was strewn with the rich stuffs of the east, brought as booty from the Russian capital, An invisible Mower .seized 100,000 men and hurled them dead into the snowdrifts and on the • bard surfaces of the chili rivers and into the maws of the dogs that had followed them from Moscow. The freezing horror which has appalled history was proof to all ages that it is a vain thing for any earthly power to accept the challenge of my text, "Who can stand before his cold?" In the middle of December, 1777, at Valley Forge, 11,000 troops were, with frosted ears and frosted bands and frosted feet, without shoes, without blankets, ly• ling on the white pillow of the snowbank. As during our civil war the cry was, "On to Richmond!" when the troops were not ready to march, so in the Revo- lutionary war there was a demand for wintry campaign until Washington lost his equilibrium and wrote emphatically, "I assure those gentlemen it is easy enough seated by a good fireside and in comfortable homes to draw out cam- paigns for the American army, but 1 tell them it is not so easy to lie on a bleak hillside, without blankets and without shoes," Oh, the frigid horrors that gath- ered around the American army in the winter of 17771 Valley Forge was one of the tragedies of the century. Benumbed, senseless, dead! "Who can stand before his cold?" "Not we"' say the frozen lips 'of Sir John Franklin and his men, dying in arctic exploration. "Not we," answer Sohwatka and his crew, falling back from the fortress of ice which they bad tried in vain to capture. t"Not we," say the abandoned and crushed decks of the Intrepid, the Resist- ance and the Jeannette. "Not we," say the procession of American martyrs re- turned home for American sepulture, De Long and his men. The highest pil- jars of the earth are pillars of ice—Mount Blano, Jungfrau, and Matterhorn. The largest galleries of the world are galleries of ice. Some of the mighty rivers much of the year are in captivity of toe. The greatest sculptors of the ages are the gla- elers, with arm and hand and chisel and hammer of toe. The gild is imperial and has a crown of glittering crystal and is seated on a throne of ice, with footstool of ice and scepter of ice. 'Who can tell the sufferings of the winter of 1433, when all the birds of Germany perished, or the winter of 1658 in England, when the stages rolled on the Thames and tempo- rary houses of merchandise were built on the ice, or the winter of 1821, in Amer- ica, when.New York harbor was frozen ever and the heaviest teams crossed on the ice to Staten island? Then come down to our own winters, when there have been so many wrapping themselves in furs, or gathering themselves around fires, or thrashing their arms about them to revive circulation—the millions of the temperate and the arctic] zones who are compelled to confess, "None of us can stand before his cold," One-half of the industries of our day are employed in battling inclemency of the weather. The furs of the north, the cotton of the south, the flax of our own fields, the wool of our own flocks, the coal from our own forests, all employed in battling these inclemencies, and still every winter, with blue lips and chatter - lag teeth, answers, "None of us can stand before his cold." Now, this being snob a cold world, God sends out influ- ences to warm it. I am glad that the God of the frost is the God of the beat; that the God of the snow is the. God of the white blossoms; that the God of January is the God of .lune. The question as to bow shall we warm this world up is a question of immediate and all encom- passing practicality. In this zone and weather there are so many fireless hearths, so many broken window panes. so many defective roofs that sift the snow. Coal and, wood and flannels and thick coat' are better for warming up such a place than tracts and bibles and creeds. Kindle that fire where it has gone out; wrap something around those shiv- ering limbs; shoo Otiose bare feet; hat that bare head: coat that bare back; sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the pictures of Martha Wash- ington, represeet her in courtly dress as bowed to by foreign ambassadors, but Mrs. Kirkland, in her interesting 'book, gives amore inspiring portrait of Martha Washington. She comes forth from her husband's lint in the encampment, the but 16 feet long by 1a feet wide—she comes forth from that hut to nurse the sick, to sow the patched garments, to console the soldiers dying of the cold. That is a betterpicture of lii':artha'Wash- ington. Hundreds of garments, hundreds of whole-souled inen, and women, ,are necessary co warm the Wintry weather, What are we doing to alleviate the condi tion of those not so fortunate as we? Know ye not, my friends, there are hundreds of thousands of people who cannot stand before his cold? It is useless to preach to bare feeaand to empty stom- eclhs, and to gaunt visages Christ gave the world a'lesson in common sense when. before preaohing the gospel to the mul- titude in the wilderness, he gave them a good dinner. When I was a lad I remember seeing two rough Woodcuts, but they made more impression upon me than any pie- ta* ,Iahave`ever seen., They were , on the opposite pagep. The one woodcut repre- sented the coming of the snow in winter and a lad looking out at the door of a great mansion, and he was all wrapped in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy, and, with glowing countenance, he shouted: "It snows! It snows!" On the next page there was a miserable tenement, and the door waseepen, and a child, wan and sick and ragged and wretched, was looking, out, and he said "Oh my God, it snows I" The winter of gladness or grief accord- ing to our circumstances. But my friends there is more than one way of warming. up this cold world, -for it is a cold world in more respects than one, and 'I am here to consult with yon as to the' best way of warming, up the world. I want to have a great heater introduced into all your churches and ail your homes throughout the world. It is a heater of divine patent. It has many pipes with which to conduct. heat and it has a door in which to throw the fuel. Once get this heater introduced and it wil turn the ardtio zone into a temperate and the temperate into the tropics. It is the powerful heater; it is the glorious furnace of Christian sympa- thy. The question ought to be instead of how much heat can we absorb, how much heat can we throw out? There are men who go through the world floating on icebergs. They freeze everything with their forbidding look. The hand with which they shake yours is as cold as the paw of a polar bear. If they float into a religious meeting the temperature drops from 80 above to 10 degrees below zero. There are icicles hanging from their eye- brows. They float into a religious meet- ing and they chill everything with their jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold songs, cold greetings, cold sermons. Christianity on ioel The church a great refrigerator. Christians gone into winter quarters. Hi- bernation! On the other hand there are people who go through the world like the breath of a spring morning. Warm greet- ings, warm prayers, warm smiles, warm Christian influence, There are such per- sons. We bless God for them. We rejoice In their companionship. A general in the English army, the army having halted for the night, hay- ing lost his baggage, lay down tired and sick without, any blanket. An officer came up and said: "Why, you have no blanket. I'll go and get you a blanket. " He departed for a few moments and then came back and covered the general up with a very warm blanket. The gen- eral said, "Whose blanket is this?" The officer replied, "I got that from a private soldier in the Sootoh regiment, Ralph McDonald." "Now," said the general, "you take this blanket right back so that soldier. Ho can no more do without it than I can do without it. Never bring tome the blanket of a pri- vate soldier." How many men like that general would It take to warm the world? The vast majority of us aro anxious to get more blankets, whether anybody else is blanketless or not. Look at the fellow fooling displayed in the rooky defile between ,Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture times. Here is a man who has boon set upon by bandits, and in the struggle to keep his property he has got o ounded anti mangled and stabbed, and Le lies there ball dead. A priest rides along. Ho sees him and says: "Why, what's the matter with that man? Why, he must be hurt, lying on the flat of his back. Isn't it strange that be should lie there? But It can't stop. I am on my way to temple ser- vices. Go along, you beast. Carry me up to my temple duties." After awhile a Levite comes up. He looks over and says: "Why, that man must be very much burl. Gashed on the forehead. What a pity Stabbed under his arm. What a pity I Tut, tut I What a pity I Why, they have taken his clothes nearly all away from him. But I haven't time. to stop. I lead the choir up in the temple service. Go along, you beast. Carry me up to my temple duties." After awhile, a Samaritan comes along—one who you might suppose through a national grudge aright have rejected this poor wounded Israelite. Coining along, he sees this man anti say: "Why, that man must he terribly hurt. I see by his features he is an Is- raelite, but he is a man, and ho is a brother." "Whoa!" says the Samaritan,. and he gets down off the -beast and comes up to this wounded man, gets down on one knee, listens to see whether the heart of the unfortunate man is still beating, makes up his mind there is a chance for resuscitation, goes to work at him, takes out of his sack a bottle of oil and a bottle of Wine, cleanses the wound with some wine, then pours some of the restorative into the wounded nian's lips, then takes some oil, and with it soothes the wound. After awhile he takes off a part of his garments for a bandage, Now the sick and wounded man sits up, pale and exhausted, but very thankful. Now the good Samaritan says, "You must get on my saddle and I will walk." The Samaritan helps and ten- derly- steadies this wounded man until he gets him on toward the tavern, the wounded man holding on with the lit- tle strength ho has left, ever and anon looking down at the good Samaritan and saying: "You are very kind. I had no right to expect this thing of a Samaritan when I am an Israelite. You are very kind to v'a1k and let me ride." • Now they have Dome up to .the tavern. The Samaritan, with the help of the landlord, assists the sick and wounded man to dismount, and puts him to bed. The Bible says the Samaritan stayed all night In the morning, I suppose, the Samaritan went in to look how his patientwasand ask him how he passed the night. Then he comes out, the Samaritan comes out, and says to the landlord: "Here is money to pay that man's board, and if his convalescence is not as rapid as I hope for, charge the whole thing to me. Good morning,•all," He° gets on the beast and says, "Go long, you beast, but go s1owigt for those bandits sweeping through the land may have somebody else wounded and half dead." Sympathy! Christian sympathy 1 How many such mon as that would it take to warm the ' cold world up? Famine in Zarephath, -Everything dried up. There is a widow with a sou and no food' except a handful 'of meal. She is gathering sticks to kindle a to cook the handful of meal, 'Then she is going to wrap' her arms' around her boy and die. Here comes Elijah. His two black servants, the ravens, have got tired waiting on him. He asks that woman for food. Now that handful' of meal is to be divided into three parts. Before it was to be divided ;'into two parts. Now she says to Elijah, " Come in and sit down at tine solemn table and take a third of the last mor.,isl;" How many women like that would it take to warm the cold world up? Recently an engineer in the sou''/.h.- west, on.a locomotlae Caw a train, colo lug with which' be"must` collide: 'He re- solved to stand at his post and slow up the train until the last minute, for there were passengers behind. The engineer said tv the fireman "Jump I One man is enough on this engine! Sump!" The fireman jumped and .was saved. The crash came. The engineer . died at his pee'. How many men like that engineer would it take to warm this cold world up? A vessel struck on a rooky island. The passengers and the crew were with- out food, and a sailor had a shellfish under his coat. Re was saving it for his last morsel. He heard a littlechild cry to her moth"r: "Oh, mother, I am so hungry I Give me something to eat, I aim so hungry." The sailor took the shellfish from under his coat and said, "Here, take that." Bow many men like that sailor would it take to warm the cold world up? Xerxes, fleeing from his enemy, got on board a boat. A great many Persians leaped into the same boat, and the bout was sinking. Some one said : "Are you not willing to make a sacrifice for your king?" And the ma- jerity of those who .were in the boat leaped overboard and drowned to save their king. How many men like that would it take to warns up this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into the hor- rors of Newgate prison, and she turned the imprecation and the obscenity and the filth into prayer and repentance and a redeemed life. •The sisters of charity, in 1863, on the northern anti southern battlefields, came to boys in blue and gray while they were bleeding to death. The black bonnet, with the sides pinned back and the white bandage on the brow, may not have answered all the demands of elegant taste, but you could not persuade that soldier dying a thou- sand miles from home that it was any- thing but an angel that looked him in the face. Oh, with cheery look, with helpful word, with kind action, try to make the world warm I 'Count that day lost whose low descend- ing sun Views from thy hand no:generous action done, It was his strong sympathy that brought Christ from a warm heaven to a cold world. The land where he dwelt bad a serene sky, balsamic atmosphere, tropical luxuriance; no storm blasts in heaven; no chill fountains. On a cold December night Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into the world's frigidity. The thermometer in Palestine never drops below zero, but December is cheerless month, and the pasturage i very poor on the hilltops, Christ steppe. out of a warm heaven into the cold world that cold December night. The world's reception was cold. The surf of bestornied Galilee was cold. Joseph's sepulcher was cold. Christ came, the great warmer, to warm the earth, and all Christendom to -day feels the glow. lie will keep on warming the earth un- til the tropic will drive away the arotio and autunite He gave an intimation of what he was going to do do when he broke up the •funeral at the gate of Nain and. turned it .into a reunion festival, and when, with his warm lips, ho incited the Galilean hurricane and stood on the deck and stamped his foot, crying, "Silence!" and the waves crouched and the tempests folded their wings. Oh, it was this Christ who warmed the chilled disciples when they had no food by giving them plenty to eat and who in the tomb of Lazarus shattered the shack. les until the broken links of the chain of death rattled into the darkest orypt of the mausoleum, In his genial presence the girl had fallen into the fire and the water is healed of the catalepsy, an the wither- ed arm takes muscular, healthy action, and the ear that could not hear an ava- lanche, catches a leaf's rustle, and the tongue that could not articulate, trills a quatrain, and the blind eye was ratite - mined, and Christ, instead of . staying three days and three nights in the sepul- cher, as was supposed, as soon as the worldly curtain of observation was dropped began the exploration of all the underground passages of earth and sea, wherever a Christian's grave may after a while be, and started a light of Christian hope, resurrection, hope, which shall not go out until the last cerement is taken off and the last mausoleum breaks open, I am so glad that the son of righteoi-s- ness dawned on the polar night of the i tions! And if Christ is the great ware r, then the church is the great hothout„ with its plants and trees and fruits of righteousness Do you know, my friends, that the church is the institution that proposes warmth? I have been 27 years studying how to make the church warmer. Warmer architecture,warmer hymnology, warmer Christian salutation. All outside Siberian winter; we must have it a prince's hothouse. The only it'. stitution on earth to -day that proposes 0 make the world warmer. Universit., and observatories, they all have the r work:, They propose to make the world light, hut they do not propose to maise the world warm- Geology informs us, hut it is as cold as the rook it hammers. The telescope shows where the other worlds are. but an astronomer is chilled while leaking through sit. Philosophy tells us of strange combinations and how inferior affinity may be overcome by su- perior affinity, but it cannot tell bow all things work together for good. Worldly philosophy has a great splendor, but it is the splendor of moonlight on an iceberg The church of God proposes warintb•and hope—warmth for the expectations, warmth for the sympathies. Oh, I am so glad that these altar fires have been kit, - died. Come in out of the cold. Come in and have your wounds salved. Come and have your sins pardoned. Come in by the great gospel fireplace. Oh, come up close to the fireplace! Have your worn faces transfigured in the light, Put your cold feet, Weary of the journey; close up to the blessed contlagr'a- tion.Chilled through with trouble and disappointment, i'ome close up until you can get warm clear through. Exchange experience, talk over the harvests gath- ered, tell all the gospel news, Meanwhile the table is being spread. On it bread of life, On it grapes of Eshool. On it new wino from the kingdom., On it a thou- sand luxuries celestial. Hark, as a wounded hand raps on the table and a tender voicecomes through, saving "Come, for all things' ate now r,•ady. b Eat, oh, friends I Drink, yea, drink a un- dently, oh, beloved I" My friends' that is , the the :cold world' is going to be warmed up by the great gospel fireplace. All nations will sit clown at the bouquet. While I was ?noting the fire boreal. , "(tome in out of the. cold l Come in out of the cold!" Science and the Arta. There are estimated to be 2,600 stamps in operation in the South erican geld region. • The earliest coinage of Rome dates from the 4th century B. C. The coins were:cast bricks of metal; .''weighing four or five pounds. It is reported that a cable will soon be laid between Iceland and the Shet- land Islands, the northernmost'point of the British telegraph system. The present century, it is stated, has witnessed the birth of not less than 52 Volcanic islands, of which' 19 have dis- appeared beneath the sea, while 10 are now inhabited. Alaska's gold output last year, it ie estimated, was $3,000,000, nearly $800,- 000 of which has been obtained from placer mining, chiefly along the Yukon River. ' There are about 500 stamps in operation. According to a French journal the current from a Ruhmkorff coil between large metal plates in the water will temporarily paralyze any fish that is between them, the fish rising to the surface upside down. Two electric locomotives are being built by the Baldwin Locomotive works of Philadelphia, Pa., not for order, but largely as an experiment under the Baldwin -Westinghouse corn. bination. 'They are intended for pass. enger service, The United StatesPost-office Depart went now uses over 3.000 railway cars on 150,000 miles of road, and keeps 6,000 clerks on the move, traveling in crews 150,000,000 miles a year, during which time 9,000,000,000 pieces of mail matter are handled. The cost of coal is for ordinary en- gines of moderate size only about one- third of the total cost of steam power, so if the other costs remain nearly con stant moderate savings in the cost of coal will not proportionally decrease the cost of the power. All bottled mineral waters—artificial as well as natural—havebeen found by a German pharmacist to contain bac- teria. The waters are mostly germ free when taken from the earth, the bacteria being introduced by carelessly washed bottles, corks, etc. Dr. Sherman, of New York, reports satisfactory employment of commercial kerosene oil as an application to wounds and ulcers. He claims that it has some curative effect and that its ad= a vantages are rapidity' of action, econ. s omy of cost and freedom from poison- ous effects. THE L • NDOF ' A EV.�NG�+�LINE in• ' ' ONE Sacred Books of the Buddhists. , The original series, two in number, of "The Sacred Books of the East,'!, edited by Prof. Max Muller, are now complete. But, thanks to the munifi- cence of the King of Siam, and to hie •desire that the true teaching of the Buddha should become more widely known in Europe, arrangements have been made for the issue under the same competent editorship of a further series specially devoted to the "Sacred Books of the Buddhists," which will be "translated by various oriental sehol- i era" and "published under the patron- age of his Majesty Chulalankarana," Of this series the first volume lately I issued contains what is known as "The Gatakainala, or Garland of Birth Stories, by Arya Sura," translated from the Sanskrit by Prof. J. H.' 1 Speyer. To students of the history of religion this translation will prove of a singular value and importance ; but it is also full of interest for the philologer t and the anthropologist, The Gataka, I c i airy From Which a Gaspereaux Farmer Suffered. 01!' THE HOST ROMANTIC SPOTS IN CANADA. Hat it is No More Free From the Ills to Which Flesh is Heir Than Less Favored Localities --An st,ecount of is strange ilial . From the Acadian, Woifvllle, N, S. Perhaps there is no more beautiful or picturesque spot in Nova Scotia tnan the valley of Gaspereaux in the "Land of Evangeline.". Winding its way through the center of the valley is a beautiful little river, while nestled at the foot of the mountains, which rise on either side. to the height of hundreds of feet, is the romantic looking little village of Gasper- eaux. About too anti a half miles from the village resides Mr. Fred. J. Fielding, one of the most thrifty farmers in this section of the country. Your cor- respondent galled upon him and found a very genial, intelligent and apparently a very healthy looking man. In reply to our question, Mr. Fielding said, " Yes, I was near to death's door at one time, but thank God I am a new man to -day. You see," he went on, "that pump in the kitchen, beneath is a well about 20 feet deep, which was the cause, I think, of all my illness. 1 went down last fall (1894) in it to clean it out and was only a short time at the bottom, when I took with a severe pain at the back of my head and a burning sensation in my throat and lungs, such as caused by the inhalation of brimstone. A sort of stupor also was gradually coming over me when, by a huge effort, I succeeded in regaining the kitchen once snore. A lighted lamp let down became extinguished, thus show- ing that the accumulation of gas had caused the trouble, The pain at the back of my head continued to trouble ale and one day while working in a back field I suddenly lost the use of my left eye, right arm and left leg. At times I could not speak, but towards evening I began slowly to grow better. The next day at about the same time I was seized again in the same manner. I now called in our family physician who told me that a blood vessel had burst in the back of my head. Ho left me medicine. The pain in the back of my head never left me and I continued to feel miserable. About two months after this second attack while sit- ting in the post -office of the village I was suddenly seized again and getting out my horses and wagon started for home. I had not gone far when the lines dropped out of my right hand and I again found myself blind in my left eye and the right arm and left leg paralyzed. The horses now carried me home, but passed the house in the direction of the barn. My wife thinking I had gone on to the barn paid no attention for perhaps 15 minutes, when she sent one of the children to see. what was keeping me. At this time I was unable to speak and had to be assisted into the house. Before lied time I began to recover somewhat and felt fairly well the next morning, but was again seized during the day in the same manner and the re- port reached the village that I was dead. Neighbors came flocking out expecting that it was true. As the medicine I had tried seemed to do me no good, I now thought I would try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and by the time I had used six boxes the pain had left my head and I felt as good as new. I now ceased using them for about a month when I thought I felt a recurrence of the pain at the back of my head. I sent again and got three more boxes and used them. It is now about five months since I used the last pill, and I have never had a recurrence of the attack, besides I feel myself a new pan. I am now 39 years of age, and have !ways worked on a farm and never en - eyed work better than last summer and utumn and am positive Dr, Williams' Pink Pills cured me. I now always keep hem in my house and when my wife or hildren have any sickness our resort is or birth stories, were stories supposed to be told by Buddha of his former ex-; v istences and generally meant to incus-, a, tate some moral lesson. The popularity p of these tales in India is attested by the n fact that in the seventh century A. D. d a Chinese Buddhist traveler, I-tsing by b name, saw some of them performed on ,h the stage, with music and dancing, at c the court of a Buddhist Rajah of Suma- y tra. As to their age it is certain that one of the stories, that of the ass in g o this medicine and always with the cry best effect." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are offered ith a confidence that they are the only erfeot and unfailing blood builder and erve restorer and when given a fair trial isease and suffering must vanish. Sold r all dealers or sent by snail on receipt f 50 cents a box or $2.50 for six boxes, y addressing the Dr. Williams Medicine o., Brockville, 'Ont., or Schenectady, N. Beware of imitations and refuse Trashy substitutes alleged to be "just tis ood." the lion's skin was known to Plato,aud another, that of the tortoise carried by two birds, to 2Esop; but the fact will perhaps be differently interpreted by scholars of different schools. Whether the Greeks borrowed some of their fables directly from India before Plato's time, or whether fables indigenous to Greece found their way through Asia Minor to Persia and India, or whether fables common to India and Greece were the common property of the Aryan people before their dispersion are questions far more easily asked than answered.— London Times. Cold Treatment for Pneumonia. The local application of cold is now common in pneumonia. Mortality ranging from 30 -per 'cent. to nothing is recorded for various methods of treat ment. while the natural recovery with- out treatment has been found to be about 90 per cent. Dr. Mays, of Phila. delphia, reports 195 cases treated by cold, with 8.58 per cent. of deaths. , It cannot be believed that any treatment invariably cures, and he regards this as by far the most ;ati.sfactory. The action of the cold consists in reducing the fever, strengthening the" pulse, toning up the heart, diminishing the pain in the chest and alleviating the difficulty in breathing. It Altered the. Case. In an Edinburgh school time other day an inspector, wishing to test the knowledge of a class infractions, asked one boy whether he would rather take a sixth than a seventh part of an orange if he got his choice. The boy promptly replied that he would take the seventh. At this the inspector explained at length to the c Claes that. the boy who would choose the smaller part as this boy . had donebecause it looked the larger if action was very foolish; but the laugh was on the other sit when the chirping voice of another urchin broke in in remonstrance, "Please, sir, but that boy t. i . 3 1 su.t• like oranges ! " Ranting the Sloth. The tamest hunting in the world is sloth -hunting, in comparison with which the pursuit of orchids is quite exciting , and turtle -catching is wild and danger- ous sport. But I have done my turn at it, nevertheless. Once on the mighty ills- sequibo River, in British Guiana, I took a.native companion, a gun, an ax, and a leaky canoe, and set forth to round up a lot of chestnut -headed sloths. We paddled about 30 miles that day, and picked eight sloths, They were found by paddling along the shore, and watch- ing the tree -tops for things that looked like big gray spiders. Sometimes we found our sloth "spread-eagled" on the outer branches of a tree; others would be hanging upside down. They eat so slowly that before one meal is over it is time for the next. Usually the gun would bring thele down, but sometimes it was not necessary. Two were taken alive by Paelie, who climbed up and plucked them like so much fruit, and twice we had to cut down trees—St. Nicholas. A Novel Pen Wiper. The "wish -bone" peuwiper is a clever Idea for the small boy hr girl to make for mamma or papa as an Easter gift. It is a simple affair, but is really useful for the writing -desk. A good-sized wish -bone is required for the foundation. The !lead is made upon the upper pertion of the bone by applying black sealing -wax, with white beads for eyes. On the head is set a cap of red cloth. Several circles of red cloth are prepared,' edged 'with beads; through those the head is thrust, the legs appearing beneath the edge of the skirt. Sealing wax also forms the feet. On the cloth skirts, which not as penwiperr, these lines are printed; ()nee I was a wish' -bone And grow upon a hen; Now I am a little slave And made to wipe a pen. A TAILOR-MADEBASQUE. A Useful Article in the Sprinter Wardrobe. A, tailor-made baaque such as we offer our readers this week will prove a very;, useful article in the spring wardrobe to wear ;with any kind of skirt: ' The ample sleeves are lined with peroaline or seal•, brie and may or may not have an inter- linil.g of canvas or hat/Vieth. A neatly fitted collar finishes the neck, and this is stitched in regular tailor fashion, like a man's coat, leafiled After All, A few years ago a Welsh collier, wish- ing to leave his native land, came down from the hills to Swansea, intending to stow away in one of the large steamers that trade between Swansea and Phila- delphia. Taking with him sufficient vict- uals for three days, he effected his pur- pose one night, and stowed away in the hold just before the vessel was leaving one of the docks. In about three days or so, when the pangs of hunger began to tell upon hint, he came on deck, more dead than alive; but the poor fellow's feelings may be im- agined when he discovered himself, not on the Atlantic, but in one of the local dry docks, whither the vessel had been taken for renalrs. The Seven Ages, First Age—Sees the earth. Second Age—Wants it. Third Age—Tries to get it. Fourth Age—Concludes to take only a large piece of it, Fifth Age—Is still more moderate in his demands. Sixth Age—Decides to be satisfied with a very small section. Seventh Age—Gets it—Judge. Puzzle Rewards of Hundreds of Dollars. The above Picture represents Washington's tomb and shade or ghost. To'the first person Sending a correct answer to the above Picture Puzzle which is to find the shade or ghost of Washington in the Picture andenclo£ng 50 cents for a box of Fox's Liver and Anemia Pills we will give: 1 A Handsome first-class Ladles or Gentle- men's Bicycle, pneumatic tire, latest make. 2 A Handsome and valuable Solid Gold Watch. Ladies or Gentlemen's Waltham or Elgin Jewelled movement. 3 to 10 Eight dozen heavily Silver Plated Tea Spoons. 11 A Handsome heavily Silver Plated and Engraved five o'clock Tea Set. 12 to 30 Nineteen handsome Silver Plated Cake or Fruit Baskets, 31 to GO Twenty Solid Silver Thimbles. 100 A beautiful Silk Dress or Gentlemen's Dress Suit. 101 to 125 Twenty-five half-dozen heavily. Silver Plated Table Spoons, extra quality. 126 to 136 Eleven pairs Triple Plated Sugar Tongs. 137 to 145 Nine handsome Dressing Cases 146 to 150 Five beautiful heavily Silver Plated Tete -a -Tete Sets. MIDDLE REWARDS, To the person sending the middle correctan- ewer in the whole competition will be given the first of the following articles: 1 A handsome Upholstered Saito of Parlor Furniture. 2 to 10 Nine elegant Gold Thimbles. 11 to 25 Fifteen half dozen Table Spoons Silver Plated, extra quality, 26 to 30 Five heavily Plated Tete -a -Tete Sets. 31 to 50 Twenty pairs heavily Plated Silver Sugar Tongs. CONSOLATION REWARDS. To the last fifty persons sending correct an- swers o 101 be cone sivards halt half-dozen Tea Spoons heavily Silver Plated. 11 to 20 Ten Open Face Stein Wind hand- some Nickel Watches. 21 to 30 Ten Silver Thimbles, 31 to 35 Five heavily Silver Plated and Engraved Tete -a -Tete Sets. 3sto 49 Fourteen dozens Nickel Tea Spoons 50 and Last One First -Class Ladies or Gentlemen's l:icycle, Pneumatic Tire, Last - est make. CONDITIONS. 1 Answers to Puzzle received only through malls 2 Itervards made in the following ardor, to the first correct answer received and enclosurefor box of Pills bearing earliest post mark, first reward and o on, thus no advantage is gained by those near by over those farther away. 3. competition closes April 21st, 18 26. One week The Old Subscriber. The editor of a er newspaper that has adoptedhonetic spelling, in ,a measure, p av received. a postal card from an old sub- scriber in the country, which read as fol- lows: "I hey telt your ,,. pesyer for levon yen's, but; if you kant spot cony bettor than you have been doin for 'the las to mouths yen may jez stappit,"—'J.'it• Bits, from closing date will leo allowed for .letters from a distance to reach us, but such answers will be re turned unless bearing post mark within time mentioned. 4. All persons solving this' Puzzle and entering this Competition must mark with pencil or pen the figure of Washington in tiro Picture in this eater. - dement then cut out the adverisemebt.Pictrtire'and all and enclose togetherervith Fifty Cents in 'Postage Stamps or Silver for one box of Fox's Liver and Anemia Pills. We are offering the above articles to advertise our Pills, Our Medicine "Prevento Mare " is a success, and the people know it, because we advertised it this way and did all we promised, We are going to do it again math our Pills. we know there is no better Pili on the market for the euro of Kidney, Liver, Stomach and Bowel Troubles, all of which are such prolific causes of other diseases. Liver and Anemia Pills are supremo as a nerve and general tonic and an absolute cure, .tranteecl, for Anemia or watery blood. Thousands of Ladies with white bloodless complex- ions, listless eyes, shortness nl' breath turd general weakness and lassitude suffer from tannest A certified hist. of the names and addresses' of all persons receiving the above rewards will bemailed liar close of Competition to each one *outline In tear tinarvea' to the Puzzle .Picture end 50 cents for a box of Liver anti Aneinki Pills. Address, FOX UTUIti��'��yttyy� CO.r,. 113 go5 Spading. Ave,, To.ranko Owe.