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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-10, Page 7POWER OF KINDNESS AS A MEANS OF DEFENSE AND USEFULNESS. :Talmage Decries Acerbity and. Sarcasm ' and Acrimony and Hecommends "the Soft Tongue That Dreaketh the Ilene"— A Sermon for the Politleians. Washington, D. C., Sept.6.—In these ,days, when'satire and retort and bitter- ness fill the tIr, the Gospel carol of this sermon will do good to all who read and prnctise it. The text is: Proverbs xxv., 15: "A soft tongne breaketh the bone." • . When Solomon said this he drove a 'whole volume iuto one phrase. You, of course, will not be so silly as to take the words of the text in a lite:eal Sense. They simply meen to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Although it may seem to be very insignificant, its force is indescrib- able and illimitable. Pungent and all conquering utterance: "A soft tongue breaketh the bone." If I had thee, 1 wnuld show you kind- ness as a means a defense, as a means of usefulness,. kindness as a means of domestic harmony, kindness as best een- ployed by Governmenes for the taming and oaring of oriminals, and kinclnese as best adapted for the settling and ad- justing of international citiarrels; but I shall call your attention only to two of these thoughts. .And first, I speak to you of kindness as a means of defense. Almost: every man, in the course of his life,is set upon and assaulted. Your motives are mis- interpreted or your religious prinolples are bombarded. What to do under such cirounastances isthe question. The first impulse of the natural heart says: "Strike back. Give as much as he sent, Trip him into the ditch which he dug for your feet. Gash him with at; severe a woune as that which he inflieted on your soul. Shot for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. .An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.'" But the better spirit in the man's soul rises up and says: "You ought to consider that matter:" You look Into the face of Chrisb and say: "My Master, how onght 1 to act under these difficult eirmeinstances?" And Christ insta.utly answers: "Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despite- fully use yon." Then the old nature rises up again and says: "You had bet - 'ter not forgive hInt until first you have chastised him. You will never get Min in so tight a corner again. You will never have such an opportunity of in - Meting she right kind of punishment upon him again. First chastise him'and then let him go." "No," says the better nature, "Mash, thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that breaketh the bone." BOY° you ever in all your life known acerbity and aorlinonlous dispute to set tie a quarrel? Did they not always nteete matters worse and worse and worse? About fifty-five years ago there was a great quarrel in the Presbyterian family. et( Ministers of Christ Were thought ortho- dox in proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen of the same denomination. The most outrageous per- sonalities were abroad. As, in the an- tuinn, a hunter MOWS home with a string ot game partridges and wild ducks, slung over his shoulder, so there were many minister e who came back from the ecclesiastical courts with loeg strings of dootnrs of divinity whom they had shot with their own rifle. The divi- sion became wider, theanimosity greater, until after a while seine good men re- solved upon another tack. They began to explain away the diffictrities; they began to forgive eaoh other's faults; and lothe great Church quarrel was settled, and the new school Presbyterian Church and the old school Presbyterian Church became one. The different parts of the Presbyterian order welded by a hammer, a little baramer, a Christian hammer 1,that tbe Scripture calls "a soft tongue." Ypu have a dispute with your neigh- bor. You say to him, "I despise you." He replies, "I can't bear the sight of you.' You say to him, "Never enter any house again." He says, "If you come on my door sill, I'll kick you off," You say to him, "I'll put you down," Be says to you, "You are mistaken; I'll put you down." .And so the contest rages; and year after year you act the unchristian part, and he acts the unchristian part. After a while the better spirit seizes yen, and one day you go over to the neigh, bor,.and say, "Give me your hand. We have fought long enough. Time is so short, and eternity is so near that we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel you have wronged nie very much, but let us settle all now in one great handshaking, and be good friends for all the rest of our lives." You have risen to a higher platform than that on which before you stood. You win his admira- tion, and you get his apology. But; if • you have not canquered him in that way, at any rate you bane won the applause of your own conscienne, the high esti- mation of good men, and the honor nf your Lord who died for Res armed ene- mies. "But," you say, "what are we to do when slanders aseault us, e and there come aeriminons eayings all around about as, and we are ithused and spit upon?" My 'reply is: Do not go and attempt to chase down the slanders. Lies are pro- lific, and while •you are 'killing one, 60 are born. All your demonstrations of in- dignities only exhaust yourself. You este might as well on a sunonaer night when the swarme of insects are coming •up from the meadows and disturbing you and disturbing your Penally, bring up some great swamp angel, like that whioh thundered over Charlestnn, and try to shoot them down. The gime is too small • for the gun. But what, then, are you to do with the abuses that come upon you int life? 'You are to live them down! I saw a farmer go nut to get back a swarm of bees that had wandered off frona the hive. As eo moved amid them they i buzzed around his head, and buzzed around Inc hands, and buzzed around his feet.. If he had killed owe of them they would bave stung him to death. But he moved in their midst in perfeot placidity until he had captured the swarm of wan- dering bees. And so I have seen men moving amid the annoyanoes, and the 'Vexations, and the assaults of life in such calm, Christian doliberetion, that all the buzzing around about their soul amounted to nothing. They conquered them, and above all they conquered theoiselves. "Oh' " you say, "that's a very good theory to preach on a hot day, but it won't work." It will work. It has Worked, I believe it is the last Christian grace we win. ' 'You, know there are fruits which we gather in June, and others in July, and others in August, anti others in September, and still others in October, and I eave to admit that ellie grace of .Christian forgiveness 15 about the last fruit of the Christian 110111. We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcastic tongue, and the quick tongue, and the stengleg tongue; but we know very little about "She soft tongue that breaketh the bone." We read* Rudibras, fled Sterne, and peen Swift, and the other apostles of acrimony, but give little time to studying the example of him who Was reviled, and yet reviled not agate. 0 Shat the Lord, by his Spirit, woold have plenty of fanit-iindieg for every endow us all vvith "the soft tongue that • breaketh the hone." ilnporleotion of handiwork, but no praise I pass now to the other thought that ler twenty excellencies. 1 that some of the severest battles andethe toughest week come before 80. Therefore we must have our sermons and our, exhortations in prayer meeting all sym- pathetio with the young. And so with these people further an in life. What do these doctors and lawyers and merchants and mechanics care abut the abstraotions of religion? What the' want is help to bear the whimsioaiities of patients, the browbeating of legal oppon- ents, the unfairness of customers, who I desire tn present, and that is, kindnea3 as a means of usefulness. In all com- munities you find sceptical men. Through early edneation, or through the maltreat - merit of professed Christian people, ar through prying curiosity abort 5 the future world, there are a great many people who become sceptical in religious things. How shall you capture them for God? Sharp • arugment and sarcastic retort never won a single soul, from scepticism to the Christian religion. While powerful books on The Evidences of Christianity have their mission in confirming Chris- tian people in the faith they have already adopted, I have noticed that when skepti- cal people are brought into the kingdom of Christ, it is through the charm of some genial soul, and not by argument at all. Men are not saved throngh the head; they are saved through the heart. A storm comes out of its hiding plaoe. It says: "Now we'll 3ust rouse up all this sea," and it makes a great bluster, but it does not succeed, Part of the sea is roused up—perhaps one-half of it or one-fourth of it. After a while the calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks down, and the ocean begins to rise. It comes up to high water mark. It embraces the great headlands. It submerges the beaoh of all the continents. It is: the heart- • throb of one world against the heart- throb of another world. And I have to tell you that while all your storms Of ridicule and storms of sarcasm may rouse up the passion of an immortal nature, nothing less than the attractive power of Christian kittdnoss can ever raise the deathless spirit to happiness and to God. I have more faith in the prayer of a child five years old, in the way of bringing an infidel back to Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the hissing thunderbolts of ecoleeinstical non- troversy. You cannot overcome men with religious argunaentation. If you come at,a sceptical man with an argument On behalf of the Christian religion, you put the man on Inc mettle. He says: "I see that man has a carbine. I'll answer Inc argument with my argument." But if you come to that man, persuading him that you desire his happiness on earth and his eternal welfare in the world to come, he cannot answer it. What I have said is just as true In the reclamation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be saved througe the caricature of a drunk- ard? Your mimicry of the staggering step, and the disgustiog hiccough, only worse maddees Inc brain. But if you come to him in kindnest and sympathy; if you show leim that you appreciate the awfui grip of a depraved appetite; if you persuade him of the fact that thou sands who had the grappling -books of evil inclination clutched in their soul as firmly as they now are in his, have been rescued, then a ray of light will flash across his vision'and it will seem as if a supernatural hand were steady- ing Inc staggering gait. A good many years ago there lay in the streets of Iliehmond, Va., a man dead drunk, his face expoeed to the blistering noonday 81113. A Christian woman passed. along, looked at him, and said, "Poor fellow." She took her handkerchief and spread it over his face, and passed on. The man roused himself up from his debauch and began to look at the handkerchief, and In! on it was the name of a highly re- spectable Christian woman of the city of Itiehmond. He went to her, he thanked her for her kindness; and that one little deed saved him for this life, and saved him for the life that is to come, He was Afterward attorney general of the United States, but, higher than all, he bet:tune the consecrated disciple of Jesus Christ. Kind words are so cheap, it is a wonder we do not use them oftener. There are tone of thousands of people in these cities who are dying for the lack of otie kind word. There is a business man who has fought against trouble until he is per- fectly exhausted. He has been thinking about forgery, about robbery, about. suicide. Go to the business man. Tell him that better times are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord deliv- ered you. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands beside every business man in Inc perplexities. Tell him of the sweep prom- ises of God's comforting grace. That man is dying for the lack of one kind word. Go to -morrow and utter that one saving, omnipotent, kind word. Here is a soul.' that has been swamped in sin. He wants to find the light of the gospel. He feels like a shipwrecked mariner look- ing out over the beach, watching for a sail against the sky. 0, bear down on him. Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious to him, that though he has been a great sinner, there is a great Savior provided. Tell him that though his sing are as scarlet, they shall he as snow; though they are red like crimson. they shall be as wool. That man is dying forever for the lack of one kind word, There used to be sung at a great many of the pianos all through the country a song that has almost died out. I wish somebody would start it again In our social circles. There may not have been 'very exauislte art in the music, 6ut there Was a grand and glorious sentiment:— Kind words never die, never die; Cherithed and blessed. 0, that we /night in our families and in our churches try the force of kindness. You can never ,drive men, women or children into the kingdom. of God. A, March northeaster will bring out more honeysuckles than fretfulnessand scold- ing will ever bring out Christian grace. I wish that in all our reliigous work We might be saturated with the . spirit of kinduess. Missing Shut, we miss a great deal of usefulness. Thera is no need of coming out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same thne you preaelt to thorn the gospel. The world is dying foe laelt of kindness, ,These yolvog people want it just as much as the old, The old sometimes seem to think they have a monopoly of the rheumntisins, and the neuralgias, and the headaches, mad the physical dis- orders of the world; but I tell you there are no worse heartaches than are felt by some of these young people. Do you know that much of the work is done by the ytning, Raphael died at 37; Rich- elieu at Ji Gustavus Adolphus died at 88; lenocent IIIcame to his mightiest influellee at 87; Cortez congnerecl Mexico at 80;Don John won Lepanto at 25'; Grotius Was attorney -general at 24e and I have noticed amid all clasee.s of men In all our metopes there muse be help for every one somewhere. You go into an apothecary store We see others being waited on; we do not complain beoause we do not immediately get the medicine; We know our turn will come after • awhile, And so while all parts of a ser- mon may not be appropriate to our case, if we wait prayerfully, before the sermon is through we shall have the divine prescription. I say to these young men who are going to preach the .gospel, these theological students— I say to them—we want in our sermons not more Inetaphysios, • nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor more profundity. What we wept in our sermons and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. When Father Taylor • preaohed in the Sailors' Bethel at Boston, the Jack Tars 'felt they had help for their duties among the ratlines and the forecastle& When Richard Weaver preached to the operatives in Oldham. England, all the working- men felt they had more grace for the spindles. When Dr, South preached to kings and pritmes and princesses, all the mighty men and women who heard him felt preparation for their high sta- tion. Kindness! We all need more of it in our hearts, our words and our behavior. The chief characteristia of our Lord was kindness. A gentleman in England died leaving his fortune by will to two sons. The son that stayed at home destroyed She father's will and pretended that the brother who was abseut was dead and buried. The absent brother, after awhile, returned and olaimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to say that the returned brother and son was no sou at all, but only an imposter. The trial mune. Sir Matthew Rale, the pride of the English court room, and far twenty years the pride of jurisprudence, heard that that injustice was about to be practised. He put off his official robe. Ile put on the garb of a miller. He went to the village where that trial was to take place. He entered the court room. He somehow got empanelled as one of the jurors. The bribers came around, rind the man gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but as this was only a poor miller the briber gave tobim only five pieces of gold. A verdict was brought in rejecting the right of this re- turned brother. He was to have no share in the inheritance. "Hold! my Lord," said the miller. "Hold! we are not all agreed on this vevdice These other men have received ten pieces of gold in bribery and I have received only five." "Who are you? Where do you come from?" said the judge on the bench, The response Was: "1 am from Westminster hall; my name is Matthew Hale, lord chief justice of the King's benele Oil of that place, thou villain!" And so the injustice was balked, and so the young man got his inheritance. It was all for a-nother that Sir Mat- thew Hale took off his robe and put oil the garb of a miller. And so Christ took off his robe of royalty and put on the attire of our humility, and in that dieguise he won our ezernal portion. Now are we the RODS of God! Joint heirs! We went off from home sure enough, but we got back 'in tine° to receive our eteranl inheritance. And if Christ was so kind to us, surely we can afford to be kind to each other. EIGHTH PARLIAMENT THURSDAY, A prohibitory liquor law was enacted on Parliament Hill this morning, and the consequence is that the much -talked - of House of Commons bar is no more. Henceforth thirty legislators Will be unable to go helow stairs to partake of their favorite tipple or to parley wieb their friends over an iced and alcoholic glass. The Internal IDOonomy Committee of the popular chamber, composed of Iker, Speaker Edgar, Sir Richard Cartwright and Hon. Messrs. Davies, Tarte end Fielding, met this moreing and passed a resolution that the bar in the basement of the Hoese of Commons be absolutely abolished. Subsequently the Speaker gave directions that the order should be strictly carried out. Just before the Speaker announced the action of the Internal Econotny Committee at a pri- vate seseion of the House to -clay he was presented with a petition signed by a ntunber of members asking that the bar be closed, In the meantime the Senate bar remains open, and it is possible that it may profit by the suppression of its competitor on the Commons side. Mr. Charlton introduced a bill to amend the Criminal Code by reeking more effentnal provision for the punish- ment of seduction and abduction. It was read a first time. On a motion for concurrence In the vote of $440,000 for tho purpose of drill- ing the militia, Mr. Borden gave a num- ber of particulars, whioh showed that it was proposed to drill 10,624 men in the city battalions at headquarters, at an es- timated cost of $85,000, while to enable 24,411 men in the cavalry, field batteries end rural infantry to drill, $226, 000 had been set apart. • The rote was ooncurred in. The time of the House to -day was given up to the consideration of a motion by Mr. Foster condemning the recent issue of Governor -General's warrants for the payment of expenditures that Were perfectly foreseen' as in contravention of a well-understoodparliamentary princi- ple, and fraught with danger to Con- stitutional Government. Sir Rh:Anted Cartwright replied to Mr. Foster, The debate was carried on by Messrs. Bor- den, Lister, Craig, .1. Ross Robertson and Sir C. Hibbert Tupper. FRIDAY, The House to -day entered upon the discussion of the Governor -General's warrants under a tacit arrangement for its coneinuance over the sitting. The atteedance of members was slight ao- cordingly, for only the clang of the div - WOO bell will revive the interest in the new issue before the House. BOOKS AND PAPER, The Question as to the Durability of Paper Made of IA ood Pulp. Xf the paper of to -day is cheaper than ever before, it appears that it is also poorer. When. William T. Peoples, the Librarian of the Mercantile Library, was asked for his views about the paper used for the books of the present day, the sentence of inquiry was not finished before Mr. Peoples exclaimed: "The paper is cheaper than it ever was before, and worse than it ever was before! Why, the books that aro made now," he went on, "will scarcely outwear their bind- ings. By the time the binding of a hook is worn out the book itself is worthless, and it is better to get a new one than to try to put a new cover on it. I don't know how the historians of 100 years hence will be able tn find out anything about our times, for there will be scarce- ly any of our books that. eau be read by that time. Even books that are left standing on the shelves and seldons taken from the library seem to decay, and they go all to pieces. Almost all the books are printed on wood pulp paper. I am not prepared to say that a good and durable wood pulp paper can not be made, but the mnst of it is not good or durable. The trouble goes back for perhaps twenty-five years, and through all that time it has been growing worse, We find that our books printed more than twenty-five years ago keep in better condition and are wearing better now than those printed since that time. The Ger- man books are worse than' the American. The paper does not seem to be made of wood even. It seems to be clay. Ina very short time It all crumbles away. The English paper. I think, is in general a little better than oars. There are a few publishers who melte' bnokethat are hon- orable exceptions ,to what I have said, They use good paper and produce books that will last, but the most of them, even She leading puhas, ers, are turning out such things as I have desceibecl." When persons interested in other ways in the paper trade .are consulted about these points—publishere, paper dealers, etc.—they seem reluctant to admit the correctness of the statements and are in- clined to take refuge in the fact that just as good paper is made now as ever. But When they are confronted with the'clear assertion that the general run of book paper now in use is poor as conapaeed with that which • was used twenty years ago, they admit that the proposi -Mon is incontrovertible. Iteis the molten - choly fact that whole libraries of the books that are turned out now will not last, with Ordinary usage, for twenty years, Comi Advice. A far-seeing editor appealed to Inc sub- scribers in this unique way: "If you have frequent headaches, dizziness, and fainting spells, accompanied by chills, chilblains, epilepsy and jaundice, it is a sign that you are not well, hut are liable to dio at any moment. Pay your sub- scription a year in advance, and thns make your self solid fora good obituary notice:' EVENTS IN HAIVIILTON. Conflicting Interests negarding, the Bridge Over the Canal—Mb* Battery to Fire a Salute to LI Rung Chang at Niagara Fulls—Sudden Desstb. Hamilton, Sept. 8.—Mr. Josh M. Chapman, of this city, a nleillbar of the Harry Lindley drarnatio company, now playing at Ottawa, has decided. to Oa the stage and become an evangelist. He will leave the company next Wednesday, and will join forces With W. A. Dun- nett, the well-known evangelist. They will conduct a series of revival services, at Niagara Fails South, going from there to Kingston, thence to Hamilton. Early In the year services will. be held in the Bathurst street Methodist church. Mr. Chitptoa.nehas been on the stage for a member of years. Is is said that he was impressed by the services held by Evan- gelist Dunnett in Zion tabernaole last winter. Since then he has been in cor- respondence with Mr. Dunnett. He has a striking appearance. Before going on She he gained quite a reputation as ait The county clerk has reoeived notice that the Railway Committee of the Privy Council will consider the application of the T., H. and B. to cross the Desjardins canal on Thursday, and as the city is interested in the matter, it seems strange that the city clerk was not notified of the meeting. , There will be a big fight before the committee, as the parties in- terested have not been able to agree et a basis of settlement. The city wants a high bridge built at the expense of the T., II. and B. The county councillors are opposed to the high level bridge, The Hamilton and Milton Road Company, which is more interested than any of the other oorporations, has held aloof from the conferences whicli have been held. It is expected that there will be a spirited discussion at the meeting of the `HanailtoiatPresbytery on Sept. 15, When the call from St. Paul's chueoh to the Rev. Dr. Beavis will be considered. Both sides are working hard. The majority are trying to get as many signatures as possible to the call, and the influential minority are getting their supporters to sign the protest The Rev. Dr. Beavis will not declare whether or not he will accept the call until it is formally pre- sented to him. • Mr. Maoklin has sued the city for $1,000 damages for the flooding of his preroises. His solicitors will apply for an injunction on Tuesday next to restrain the city from emptying sewage on his premises, THE IRISH CAUSE, C1oee or •11 • Con ve n oil—Foreign Dele- gates I c a 4°111 t DeoliteatIon*National Leaglle Election - 'Dublin, 'Sept. 5.—The foreign dele- gates to the Irish Race Convention, which concluded its three clays' session ydesterda,v'have issued a joint declara- tion in which they say: "We deem it our duty to record leer grateful apprecia- tion of the courtesy and kindness with which we have been treated here. We name here without any bias toward any seotion and with a determination to form an independent opinion based upon our own observations. The delegates who were responsible for the arrange- ments for holding the convention scrup- ulously abstained from any attempts to influence our judgment. We have kept separate our own organimation and asked nobody connected with the home move- ment to attend our conference. We are satisfied that the convention in its com- position and character voiced the Irish natinnal spirit. We watched the preened- ings of the convention throughout anti heard therein the fullest and freest possi- ble discussion, and we were especially Impressed with the unanimity that was displayed for genuine party unity, necessarily involving diselpline and re- spect for the ruin of the majority. We record our own entire belief in unity based upon the only foundation possi- ble, submission to the majority, and we earnestly call npoia the people to stand together for the cause of unity and disoi- pline in the Irish party in parliament As citizens of countries engaging in free government we affirm that no other effective line is known than submission to the rule nf the majority in pulitical organizations. Upon returniug to our home eve shall convey to our people a sense of the magnitude, authority and order of the convention, and "we pledge ourselves to give our unfailing support to the Irish parliamentary party until self-government has been won for Ire- landh' The TIris.h National League of Great Britain held a meeting here to -day and elected Patrick Aloysius McHugh, mem- ber of parliament for the north division of Leitrim, a Dillonite, as Vice -Chair- man, in the place 'of Tmothy 11 Sulli- Tau, M. P'. for West Donegal, whom as a Healyite the meeting refused to re-elect. Mr. Dillon, addressing the meeting, said be would rather lead a party of fifty, the members of which were united, than one of 70, each member of which was flying at the throats of his,fellowe members. The past of anyone coming into the party and promising to work faithfully in accord with it would be obliterated, Mr. Dillon said, but so long as he remained the leader he should in- sist upon the members adhering to the old doctrine of party purity. The Fire Beeord. I Greenwood, Sept. 4.—The barn and -outbuildings ocenpied by John Dwyer, half a mile west of here, were destroyed by tire this afternoon, with the product of two hundred aores, together with all his implements, Loss about $1,000, partly covered by insurance. Cause of fire unknown. Southampton, Sept. 4.—Fire broke out about 11 o'clock last night in the Southampton Lumber Company's lumber yard at Pine Treo. destroying about 3,250,000 feet of lumber, chiefly pine. Loss about $85,000; insurance about $25,000. Cause, sparks from the smoke- stack. mins el eee Down. Pittsborg Sept. 5.—Every inill in the steel department of tho Edgar Thompson works of the Carnegie Company at Brad- dock, suspended operations indefinitely last night. Lack of orders is given as She cause of et/Ft.:elision Only seven of the nhao blast furnaces at the Carnegie Company's Braddock plant are in blast. The report is clirrent that six of the seven are to be banked soon. To Bet:i3l:110 on c antui Ian Banks. Seattle, NV asli„ Sept 5,--Seatt50 banks Will retaliate ora (aoadian banks for dis- counting the In ney of the United States, The proi,o,pc1 nation will be ;A a diSCO .ot 2 iJ ent, 00 paper, while 50 cent pl9res will be received for 40 oents and 25 ceIlt pieces for 21) cents. HAMMOND'S STATEMENT. A REGULAR CRIPPLE. THE STORY OF AN OLD SETTLER: IN :DUFFERIN COUNTY. Suffered Terribly With atheematiem, ante Had to Use IViechanieal :Appliances to /Turn in Bed--Priends Tixought He Could t :Recover. From the Economist. Seelburn e Ont. Almost everybody in the township of Melanchtov, Dufferin. Clo., knows Mr. Wm. August, J le, postmaster of Augus- ton. Mr August, now in his 77th year, came to Canada from England forty years ago, and for thirty-eigbt years has been a Vesident of Idelanethon, During seine thiety years of that time he has been a postmaster, and for eleven or twelve years was a member of the town- ship eouncil, for some years holding the position of deputy reeve. Re has also been a juetice of the peace since the for- • Motion of the donnty. It will thus be seen thee Mr. August stands high in the estimation of his neighbors. In the wineer•of 18134-95 Mr. 'August was laid up with an unusually severe at•tackf roeumatisin, being confined to the house and to his bed for but three The American Has a Grievance Against Jameson—The Standard Says Uc Spoils His Cause. London, Sept. 8.—The Standard this morning, commenting upon a statement of John Hays Hammond, accusing Dr. Jameson of misrepresenting the Johan- nesberg reformers,s aye: "We fail to see that Dr. Jameson was lender any oblige- tinns to remove the impression of coy/medics oveated by the johannesberg reformers' °Wu conduct. With becoming generosity he assmned the fell responsi- billy for the raid. Many bard things have been •said of the reform leaders, but nothing so damning as tne defense set up by Mr. Hammond," Hammond Is reported to have made the following statement: "I never had any money transaotions of any kind with Dr. Jameson, and, so far as person- al feeling goes, I admire the man. But and the other reformers have one great grievanne against Dr. Jameson, namely, that he has allowed as to remain under the imputation of eowardioe, and has stated that be started for Johaneesberg in obealence to our request. Our lipe laitherto have remained sealed, but it was solely to help Dr. :Jameson and Ms fel- low -prisoners. Had eve spoketrwhile they were in the hands nf the Beers, or before their trial here, then their fate might have been very different. As a matter of fact, and one which will be conclusively shown during the corning parliamentary investigation, Dr. Jameson started in spite of my express orders to the con- trary. I will not attempt to deny the fact that we intended to secure by force of arms the reforms wbich were denied us, and that we intended to establish an independent republio; but not then. 1 not only teleeraphed Dr. Jameson not to come, butI sent two of Inc own offi- cers who were at Johannesberg—Captain Holden and Major Heany, the latter be- ing an American—back to him, telling him on no account to start. I have not seen Dr. .7erneson since my arrival in England, but both Mr. Phillips and I have written him that we think the time has came for him to exonerate us." SUFFOCATING SMOKE. Probable cause or the Horror at Vankleek Spread of the Flames ---A tt-core of Coal Oil Lamps. Ottawa, Sept. 5.—A special to The Evening Journal from Vankleck Hill says that Coroner Richard Lawlor, of Hawkesbury, opened an inquest Friday on the bodies of the five vietlins of Tuesday night's fire which gutted the Grand Central Hotel. The evidence of Mr. P. S. Paquette showed that the fire started very sud- denly. He went to the hotel to consult Dr. MoDermid, and had been theee lees ,han five minutes when he saw flames, toough when he entered there was nothing to indicate fire. Before an ad- journment at noon two other witnesses w..'" examined. Dr. McDermid and C. E. Gillen, barrister, both of whom were „guests at the hotel. The effect of the evidence was that a ;eneral -Maim of fire had been given .hroughont the 'house shortly atfer the discovery of the flames. On the second leer of the kitehen annex was a score of .081 oil lamps, which caught shortly tfier the discovery of the flames. These ‘1..enterl dense, suffocating smoke, which ”oNe through the stairway to the rooms ,cenpied by the victims. Islr, Gillen ,as uosvnstairs, and when thealarm Was. 4ive0 he went to his room 0I3 the third aoor and removed some olothes. Hs beard no noise in the kitchen annex, the ban' of which he passed quite closely, and coucluded there was no one there. To make 80 esoape the victims only had to cover about twelve feet and unlock a door. Both witnesses considevecl that the ere originated in tbe wooden boilding at the rear of the kitchen. The funerel of three of the victims, Marie Louise Yeendort, Christie Villen- euve and :Josephine Descamps, took place this morning to the Catholic Church. The remains of the Villeneuve and Deshlinmps girls were in the sa'me coffin, it being impossible to ea§ , which was which. They were interred in the Catho- lic cemetery. The body of the Yeandon elle was not burned, and was, placed in A separatia ,00tlin and grave. ne. ijj (to r mnethe. To a. reporter of the Ecnnoraist, Mr. August said "I was in fad a regu- lar °ripple. Suspended from the ceiling over my bed eves a rope which I 'would seize with my hands, and thus change my position in bed or rise to a sitting posture. I suffered as only those racked with rheumatic pains could suffer, and owing to my advanced age, my neighbore did not think it possible for me to re - meet., I had read much concerning Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and at last deter. mined to give them a trial. I commenced taking the pills about the 1st of Feb, 1895, taking at the outset one after each meal and increasing to three at a time. Within a couple of weeks I could notice an improvement, and by the first of April I was able to be about as usual, free from the pains, and with but very little of the stiftness left. I continued the treatment a short them longer and found myself fully restored. It is new nearly a year since I discontinued taking the Pink Pills, and I have lent had any re- turn of the trouble in tbat time. I have no hesitation in easing that I owe my eeoovery to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." These pills are a perfect blond builder and nerve restorer, curing such dieeases as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paraly- sis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' Dance. nervous headache, all nervous troubles, palpitardon of the heart, the after effects of la grippe, diseases depending on hu- mors of the blood, suoh as eorofula, chronic erysipelas, eto. Pink Pills give a. healthy glow to pale and sallow com- plexions and are a specifio for troubles peculiar to tee female system, and in the case of men they effect a radical cure In all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all druggistc. or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., or Sche- nectady, N. Y., at 50o. a box, or six for $2.50. See that the company's registered trade mark is on the wrapper of every box fit •ed you, and positively refuse all imitations or substitutes alleged to be "just as good." Remember no other remedy has been discovered that can suc- cessfully do the work of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Divorces in Canada. The last volume of the Statistical Year Book gives some interesting information relative to divorces in Canada, In Canada, under the union act, 1867, divorce is one of the subjects assigned to. She Federal parlianaeut. As, however, some of the provinces had established divorce courts before confederation, they have been permitted to continue the jur- isdiction whloh was conferred upon their courts. These provinces are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island. and British Columbia. ID Ontario, Quebeo, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories clivoroe oan only be obtained by legislation—an Act of the parliament of Canada heing necessary. The rules of the Senate touching divorce require the production of such evidence in support of the application as would be deemed stifficient in a court of law; in other respects the matter is dealt with as for an ordinary private Act of parlia- ment. The statistics show that since confed- eration 211 divorces have been granted, of which 54 were by the: Dominion par- liament and 157 by the several provincial courts. Princes Edward Island courts have not glinted a single divorce in the 27 years. The general figures give an average of eight divorces a year for the whole of Canada. The provinces which have courts of divorce have absolutely and relatively to population very many metre divorces than the provinces which depend upon parliament for divorces. With respect to the province of Quebec, the comparatively small number of di- vorces mast be attribated to the influ- ence nf the Roman Catholie ohm& there. The latge number in the province of Nova Scotia is probably due to the fact teat the cost of fees established many 1 years ago is so small that the poorest in! the lead are not prevented from seek- ing relief in the courts, The 211 divorces were granted in 119 cases venom the husband was petitioner for relief and in ge oases where the -wife , was pettionen By far the largest proper- I Sion of the divorces granted by the Do- minion parliament and by the several provincial courts of divoroe were grantee for adultery. The Latest Pad. The latest health fad, according to Good Housekeeping., is paper pillows. l The paper is tern int() very smell pieoes and then put into a pillow sack of drill-; nag or light ticking. The pillows are very cooling in hot weather, and are said, to be superior to feather ones. NeWs-1 papers are not nice to use, as they have a disagreeable odor of printer's ink; but! brown or white paper and. old letters and envelopes arc) the best. The finer the pa- per is cut or torn the lighter it makes She pillow.