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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-11-12, Page 3THE THSTARS. G OF E S 1 ARRS. SIN IS DISCORD AND RIGHTEOUS- NESS HARMONY, lrerfeet Harmony—Snapping of a Harp Btrin =A Shipwreck of Harmonies—Der finitlpu ofSia--The Stars Will Sing Again —The Vespers Will be. Sweeter Tinto the Matins. Washington, Nov. B.—The musical re ■Durres of all nations seem drawn upon by Dr. Talmage in hissermon mon to illus- trate a Most praotioal truth. His subject. was "'The Chant of the Stars," and the text .doh :38, r,, 7, "Who laid the corner- stone thereof when the morning stars gene t., ether." We !ince all seen the ceremony at the laying of the cornerstone of church, asy- lum or Masonic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were planed scrolls of his- tory and important documents, tobe suggestive if, 100 or 200 yearn after, tate building should be destroyed by fire or torn down, We remember the silver trowel cr iron hammer that smote the square piece of granite into sanctity. We rement er some venerable man who pre- sidedwielding the trowel or hammer. We remember also the musin as the choir stood nu the scattered stones and timber of the building about to be constructed, The leaves of the notebooks fluttered in the wind and were turned over with a great rustling, and we remember how the bass, heritone, tenor, contralto and thorium voices commingled. They had $or many days been rehearsing the special programme that it might be worthy of the cornerstone laying. 1n my text the poet of Uz calls us to a grendor ceremony—the laying of the foundation of tbia great temple of a world. Tho cornerstone was a bleak of light, and the trowel was of celestial crystal. All about and on the embank- ments of °lauds stood the angelic ohoris- . ters unrolling their librettos of overture, and other worlds clapped shining cym- bals while the cerexnopy went on, and God, the Arnhiteot, by stroke' of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with mountains for pillars and sky for frescoed ceiling and flowering fields for a floor and sun- rise and midnight aurora for upholstery. "Who ]aid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together?" The fast is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The groat sheet of immensity had been spread out, and written on it were the stars. the smaller of them minims, the larger of them wetained notes. The meteors marked the staccato passages, the whole heavens a gamut with all sounds, intona- tions, modulations, the space between the worlds a ntusloal interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef, tho wind among trees a treble elef. That is the way God made ail things a perfect harmony. But one day a harp string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glori- ous antiphon. It was sin that made the dissonance, and that harsh discord has been sounding through thecenturies. All the wort: of Christians and philanthro- piste anal reformers of all ages is to stop that discord and get all things back into the nerfeot harmony which was heard nt the laying of tho cornerstone when the morning, stars sang together. Before I get through, if I am divinely helped, I will make it plain that sin is discord ant righteousness Harmony; that in general things are out of tune is as plain as to a musician's ear is the unhappy °lash of clarirut and bassoon in an orchestral rendering. Tho world's health out of tune; weak lungs and the atmosphere in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheutnatio limb and damp weather in struggle; neuralgias and pneumonias, and consumptions, and epi- leptics in flocks sweep the neighborhoods and oitlee. Where you find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easy respiration, and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime digestion, and steady nerves, you find 100 who have to be very careful be- cause this or that or the other physical function is disordered, The human intellect out of tune; the judgment wrongly swerved, or the mem- ory leaky, or the will weak, nr the tem- per inflammable. the well balanced mind exceptional. Domestic life out of tune; only here and there conjugal outbreak of incom- patability of temper through the divorce courts, nr a filial outbreak about a fath- er's will through the surrogate's court or a case of wife beating or husband poison- ing through the criminal courts, but thousands of families with June outside and January within. - Society out of tone; labor and capital, their hands on each other's throat; spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale who are struggling to get up, and putting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of society is all out of sune,when hypocrisy and lying, and sub- terfuge, and double dealing, and syco- phancy, and charlatanism, and revenge have for 6,000 years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there to a shipwreck of harmonies --nations in discord ' without realizing it. So wrong, is the feeling of nation for nation that symbols obosen are fierce and destructive. In this coun- try, where our skies are full of robins and doves and morning larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce and filthy eagle, as cruel a bird as can be found in all the ornithological catalogues. In Great Britain,where they have lambs and fallow deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. In Russia, where from between her frozen north and blooming south all kindly beasts dwell they chose the growi- ing;bear, and in the world's heraldry a favorite figure is the dragon, the fabled winged .serpent, ferocious and dreadful. And so fond is the world of contention that we climb out through the heavens and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle and call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly celebrated for its: deadly sting. But,. after all, these symbols are expressive of the way nation feelstoward nation—dis- cord wide as the continent and bridging the seas. I. ,suppose you have noticed how warmly in love dry '.goods stores are with other dry goods stores, and how highly grocery men think of the sugars of the grocery man on the same street, and in what a eulogistic way allopathic and homeopathic dootors speak of each other, and how ministers:, will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking lives an harmony .with the eternal Christ. In trume b S p which the En dish call a spit —an iron roller with spikes on it and turned by a orank before a hot lire—and then if the minister being roasted oriel Oh, for his almighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with his will. to modulate aur life with his life and bring ont against it the men Who are turnip, 0s into unison with all that is pure and 'g self-saerifloio and heavenly ! The him say, "Bush, my brother; we are strings of our nature are all broken and turning thisspit for the glory of God twisted, and the bow is so slack it eon. and the good. of your soul; and ,you must not evoke anything melllflnons, The in - be quiet; while we close the serving with: stratnent made for heaven to play on has Blest be the tie that hinds been roughly twanged and struck by in - Our hearts in Christian lave. fluences worldly and demoniac. 0 master The earth is diatnetered and etre im. 11011 of Christ, restore this si;�lit and ferenoed with ,, and and the i 1 fractured and despoiled and unstrung Iso ,. music t )at wail was rendered at filo laying of the world's nature until lir" it abaft out for sin and then thrill with divine par- don! The :whole world must also be attuned by the same power. I was in the E'air- cornerstone when the morning stars sang together is not heard now, and though hero and there from this and that part of the earth there comes es up a thrilling solo banks' weighing scale manufactory of of love, or a warble of worship, or a 'Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they sweet duet of patience, they are drowned have never had strike! Complete .her- mit by a :discord that shakes the earth. mony between labor and capital, the Paul says, The whole creation groan• operatives of soothe of years in their boan- eth. And while the nightingale, and flint homes near by the mansions of the in an ute ct urers, whose invention and Christian behavior made the great enter- prise. So, all the world ovor, labor and. capital will be brought into euphony. Ynu may have heard what is called the "Anvil Chorus," composed by Verdi, a tune played by hammers, great and small, now with mighty stroke and now with Heavy stroke, beating a great iron anvil. That is what the world has got to come to—anvil eborus, yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus. crowbar ohorus, pickaxe churns, gold mine chorus, veil track chorus, locomo- tive chorus. It can be done, and it will be done; so all social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There will be as many °lasses in soci- ety as now, but the classes will not be regulated by birth or wealth or aeoldent, but by the scale of virtue and benovol- 8000, awl people will be assigned to ,Heir places as good, or very goad, or most ex- cellent. So also cnmmernial life will be attuned, and there will be 12 in every dozen and 16 ounces in, every pound, and: apples at the bottom of the barrel will be as sound as those on the top, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the right price because others will not pay. and goods will come to ynu corresponding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be ahicnrled, and sugar, will not be sand- ed, and milk will not be chalked, and adniteratinn of food will be a state prd- lower F of the buss and the higher G of son ofToeee, .Aye, all things shall he at - the soprano it would give them no dig. tuned Elections in England and the comfort, while on the forehead of the United States will no more be a grand educated artist bonds of perspiration of defamation and scurrility, would stand out as a result of the her- hue the elevation of righteous men in a rowing dissonance. While an amateurrighteous way. was performing on n piano and had just In the sixteenth century the singers afro.]; tine wrong chord, John Sebastiancalled the Fischer brothers reached the Bach, the immortal composer, entered west bass ever eaordoci, and the esthigh- note ever trilled was by Ln Baster- the room, and the amateur rose in em della, and CatalinVe voice had a compass barrassment, and Rauh rushed past the of Ser, octaves. lent Christianity is more host, who stepped forward to greet him, wonderful, far it runs all up and down and before the keyboard had stopped vi- the greatest heights and the deepest bracing pat his adroit hand upon the depths of the world's necessity' and it keys and changed the painful inharrony ' will into glorious cadence. Then Baelz ill compass everything and bring it in turned and gave salutation to the host accord with the song which the morning But the worst of all discord .is moral stars sant; at the Saying of the world's discord. If society mid the world are cornerstone. All the snoredmusic)in painfully discordant to imperfect roan, homes and oonoort halls and churches what const they be to a perfect God?tends toward this consummation. Duke it more and more hearty, Sing in your Penpie try to define what sin is. It families. Sing in your places of bust - seams to ille that gin is getting out of nen. If a'e with proper spirit use these harmony with God, and disagreement faculties, we are rehearsing for the skies. with his Holiness, with his purity, with Heaven to to have a new song, an en• his lows, with his aoanmands our will tirely new song. But I should not won - clashing with his wili, the infinite dash oar if, as sometimes on earth a tune le ing against the infinite, the frail against Pashi�noti out of many tunes, or it is the puissant, the created against the one tune with the variations; so some of creator. If 1,000 musicians, with flute the songs of the redeemed may have and Hornet -a -piston and trumpet and playing through them the songs of earth. violoncello, the hautboy and trombone And Bow thrilling, as coming through and all the wind and stringed instru- the great anthem of the saved. acooui- meats that ever gathered in a Dussel- panted by harpers with their harps and dorf jubilee should resolve that they trumpeters with their trumpets, if we would play out of tune and put concord should hear some of the strains of "An - to the rack and make the place wild "Coro - with shrieking and ,loch" and "Mount Pisgah" and ratio and grating res in p g flat Ion" and "Lenox" and "Sc. Dlar- sounds, they could make such a pantie' tin's" and "Fountain" and "Ariel" and wcniutn as that which rages in a sinful „Old Hundred!' How they would brine soul when God listens to the play of its to mind the praying circles atnd oanmun- tboughts passions and omutions discord, ion days, and the Christmas festivals, lifelong discord, maddening discord, and the Church worship in which on The world pays more for discord than earth we mingled. it does for consonance. High prices have After'nur dreadful civil war was ovor, been paid for music. One than gave $2°5 + ' to hear the Swedish songstress in New in the summer o4 1809, a great national York, and another $6x5 to hear her in peace ;jubilee was hold in Boston, and as Boston, and another $650 to hear her in an elder of any church had been honored Providence. Fabulous prices have been by the selection of some of his music iv paid for sweet sounds, but far more has be rendered on that occasion I accent been paid for discord. The 'Crimean war Periled him to the jubilee. Tarty thou- cost $1,,700,00D,000 and the American sand people sat and stood in they great civil war over $9,500,000,000, and the coliseum erected for that purpose. Thou - war debts of professed Christian nations sands of wind and stringed instruments. ars about $16,000,000,000. The world Twelve thousand trained voices. The pays for this red ticket, which admits it masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour to the saturnalia of broken banes and after hour and day after day—Handers death agonies and destroyed cities and "Judas Dlanoabaeus;" Similes `Last Judgment,"Beethoven's "Mount of 01 - amount lowed of money satanraves and asks. eartAiscord! ices," Elija n's "Creatine," Menthes- Discord! sohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's "Corona - But I bave to tell you that the song tion Meroh," rolling on and op in surges that the morning stars sang together at that billowed against the beavees. the laying of the world's cornet tone is The mighty cadences within were ace resound again. Mozart's greatest over- oompnnied on the outside by the ringing tore was composed one night when he of the bells of the city, and cannon on was several times overpowered with the commons discharged by electricity, sleep, and artists say they can tall the in exact time with the music, thunder- ing in the music where he was falling ing their awful bars of a , harmony that asleep and the places where he awakened. astounded all nations. Sometimes I bowed So the overture of the morning stars my head and wept. Sometimes I stood spoken of in • my tort has been asleep, up in the` enchantment, and sometimes but it will awaken and be more grandly the effect was so overpowering I felt I rendered by the evening stars of the could not endure it, especially when all world's existence than by the morning the voices were in full chorus, and all stars, and the vespers w11.1 be sweeter batons were in full wave, and all the than the matins." The work of all good orchestra in full triumph, and 100 anvils men and women and of all good churches under' mighty hammers were in full and all reform associations helps to bring clang, cad all the towers o the city rolled the race back to the original laar)nooy, in thein majestic sweetness, and The rebellious heart to be attuned, social the whole building quaked with the boom life to be attuned, commercial . ethics to of 30 cannon, Parepa Rosa, with a watch be attuned, internationality to be attuned, that will never again he equaled on hemispheres to be attuned. earth until the archengelio voice pro - In olden times the choristers had a claims that time shall be no longer, rose above all other so ads in her rendering tuning fork with two prongs, and they of our nations! air, "The Star Spangled would strike it on .the back of pew or Banner." It was too much for a mortal music rank and put it to the ear and —quite enough for an immortal—to hear, then start the tune, and all the other And while some fainted,. one womanly voices would join. In modern Orchestra spirit, released under its 'power, sped the leader has a complete instrument away to be with God, rightly attuned and he sounds that and the woodlark, and the canary, and the plover sometimes sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo sings in the key of l) and that the cormorant Is a basso in the winged choir. yet sportsman's gun and. the autumnal blast often leave them ruffled and bleeding or dead in meadow or forest, Paul was right, for the groan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of the sky. Tartini, the groat musical composer, dreamed one night that he made a con- tract with satan, the latter to be ever in the composer's service. But one night he banded to satan a violin, on which 1)i- aboltis tamale snob sweet uaic that the composer was awakened by the emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds, and therefrom was written Tortini's most famous piece, "The Devil's Sonata," a dream iugenions, but faulty, for all melody descends from heaven and only discords asoond from hell, .All hatreds foutts, controversies, backbitings and re- venges are the devil's sonata,are diabolic fugue, are demoniao phantasy, are grand march of doom, are allegro of perdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, how much iuore so to beings angelic and deifio! It takes a skilled artist to fully appreciate disagreement of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a defect of musical execution, and though there were in one bar as many offenses amtinst har- mony as could crowd in hetwcen the all the other performers tune the keys of O Lord, our God, quioklya usher in the their instruments to make them corres whole world's peace' jubilee; 'and all is and draw thebowover the stringlands of the sea join the five continents, pond and all the voices and all the musical and listen and sound it over again until instruments of all Heti}nusDom bine and all the keys are screwed to concert pitch and the discords melt into one great ,sync- all the organs that ever sounded requiem phony, and the curtain' hoists, and the of sorrow sound only a grand literati of baton taps, and audiences ere raptured joy, and all the bells that colied for bur - with Sohumann's "Paradise and the dal ring for resurrection, and all the can Peri, or 1iossini's "Stabat Mater," or non that ever hurled death across the Bacla's "Magnifioat" in D. nations sound forth eternal victory. And Now our world can never be attuned over all acclaim of earth and minstrelsy by an, imperfect instrument. Lyon a. of heaven there will be heard one voice Cremona would not do. Heaven has sweeter and. mightier than any human or ordained the onl instrument and it is: angelic voice, a voice 0000 full of tears,. S ' but now full of triumph, the voice of made out of the wood of the cross, and: „ the voices that accompany- it are im Christ, saying, I am alpha and omega, ported voices, oantatrices of the first. the beginning and: the end, the lits, Christmas night, when heaven selennded and the last. Then, at the laying of the the earth with "glory to God in the top stone of the world's history, the highest, and on earth peace, good will to, same woioes shall be Hoard as when, at men." Lest' we start too far off' and get the laying of the world's ecrnorstono, lost. in .generalities, we hadhotter ,begin the morning stars sang together,' with ourselves, get our own hearts and Some Subscribers $how . $ id 'u t lst of S an tial $ynipathy. $abbe? --,Union Printer. TAILOR-MADE GIRL, $kir, Eerfectly plaits and Measuring Four and one-LIalf Verde. The leading materials for the tailor- made girls are undoubtedly tweeds, home- spuns, serges and smooth broadcloths,. and of these hotnesptns are very much in the majority. It le a material oomhining every es- sential for a tailor gown; it has -body, the correct finish, is durable, and makes up most efl'entively, A nobby gown of anis sort is made up in a dull blue gray Dolor showing an occasional neck of scarlet. The skirt is perfectly plain, and mea- sures four and else -half yards around the hem. There are but throe seams. at the sides and down the neater of the back, an effective compromise between the Parisian winter models, which are so very Darrow, and our flaring summer styles. The bodice is draped across the figure in fiat, soft folds, and shows a thiek cord of navy-blue silk, and one of silver, as a finish at the bottom. The collar is a deep pointed stock of navy blue, topped with a thick ruching of blue mousseline de sole, set to form huge rose choux at each ear. The sleeves are gracefully made in the mousquetalra style, very close, and wrinkled from the deep point at the hand to the full, flat puff at the shoulder. With this severe gown is effectively worn a rippling collarette of Iitateian sable, fastened at the front with one of the new loop clasps. A big muff of the fur completes it, The jaunty little capote is made up of navy-blue velvet, °rushed up at the side and back. and made smart with huge silk poppies of dark blue, and two nod- ding blue plumes. To Olean Furs: To most women the art of cleaning add brightening furs is.a profound mys- tery, but a cheerful little housekeeper whose husband is a furrier divulges the secrets of the trade for the benefit of women who desire to be economical, and are willing to take some trouble to be so. She says that all dark fnrs such as seal, mink and otter, are best renovated with mahogany or fine cedar sawdust, which is kept in stook by all furriers, and of which enough to clean a dozen garments can be purchased for a smnli sum. Lay the garment fiat on a bare table, fur side up, take a handful of saw- dust, and rub it thoroughly into the hairs. Spare neither sawdust nor strength, for the appearance of the fur afterwards will warrant the lavish use of both. When the garmeat has been treated, take it up and shake it lightly over the table, when, of course, a great deal of the sawdust will fall out; it should be gathered up and carefully saved. Now lay upon the tnblo two pillows in their slips, and over them spread the garment, fur down this time, and heat it thoroughly with a light rattan or smooth switch. Move the pil- lows along as they are needed, so as to always have a soft support for the gar- ment. Take it up, shake lightly, brush off the pillows and table, and continue heating until the fur is free from saw- dust, when it will be as bright as new far. White furs must bo cleaned with plain white cornmeal, but in the same man- ner. Small white furs that are not much soiled may be freshened by the use of cube magnesia, which must be thoroughly rubbed in, and then as thoroughly dust- ed out. Fur cloaks. light or dark, often become disfigured with carriage grease, but it will yield readily to gasoline ap- plied with a piece of cotton batting. Gentle rubbing and a renewal of cotton frequently are necessary to secure suc- cess. Pitch, paint, resin, tar and oil stain's can all be treated in this way, and if they do not readily disappear, oil of turpentine, benzine or spirits of ether can be used. Flounces, Figaros and .1l'ichus. Three F's may be said to express the leading styles • for autumn—Flounces, Figaros and Fiehus. Skirts, while not- ably fuller all round, are being trimmed with more or less elaboration, and the shrunken sleeves give promise of a com- ing reign of tightness recalling perhaps the eelskin dresses of the eighties. In looking over the lntesb "creations" of Parisian houses as exhibited by the lead- ing New York shops, what strikes one most is the tendency to squareness, both in cut and trimmings --jackets with straight fronts have square revers, square -Gabbed collars and even snare buttons. Bodices follow the same right angles, fur -trimmed mantles have the fur put on squarely, vinare designs in braiding seem unusually popular, and ad infinitum. Care of Sato, Shoes. To clean satin shoes, take a piece of new flannel and dip it in spirits of wine, rub the satin lengthwise; change the soiled part of the flannel, so as not to rub the dirt on to a place you have cleaned already. White satin shoes should be kept in blue patter, and if laid by for a long period a sheet of wadding over the blue paper will exclude the air and pre- vent the satin from acquiring a yellow tint. A Contrary Man. " I'll bet that man down there in the corner near the door eats his pie with a knife." "You see he hi using a finger to out the pages of his magazine." ---Cleveland Leader, • Shining Tin. It is is not generally known that tin cleaned with newspapers will shine bet- ter than when cleaned with flannel. PERFECT HEALTH. How ita % be Obtained by J Young and Old. Pooplo With ''atony Blood and Flabby Nerves APB tho OHS Who Slifor--.-Plast Bisoasos Aro Dllo to Those Causes, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Renew the Blood and Restore the Nerves -Read the Evidence. 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My limbs assented their normal size and shape, my eppetltse unproved, and by the time I had *ken eleven boxes was a well woman. I make this statement to enoourage those in doubt as I was, about taking this medielne. Y believe It the best on earth, and that wader Providence it cured me," COMPLETELY RIJN DOWN—MM. Mr. Frank' Dunham, Weilandport, Ont., says: "I feel it a duty I owe to you as well as to other sufferers to make known the good I derived from the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Two years ago I was completely ,run down in health. I could not go up stairs without sitting down to rest. There was no color in my lips and I was quite ambitionlses. I was clerking in a store at the time and thought I would have to give up my position, as it was with diffloulty I could wait upon customers, I took medicine from doctors but got .. no permanent relief,and became low spirited and thought there was no help for me. One day a lady who carne into the store to Duruhase some of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills said to me, 'Frank, why don't you try Pink Pills?' Well, I followed her advice and the result is I am now as well as ever I was lo my life, and believ- ing as I do that Pink Pills saved me I cannot say tuo 100011 in their praise." AFTER EFFECTS OF LA telt11,P13--t MOD. Mr. D. Hefron, a well-known farmer living near Charleston Lake, says: "I had a severe attack of la grippe and was unable to recover my farmer health. I lost all ambition and even the lightest of my farm work left me weak and tired out. I would have spells of dizziness aha companied by pains in my back that would sometimes last for days. Frequent- ly I could not get . to sleep until near morning, and when I arose T fele more tired than when I went to bed. I had tried several medicines, but got no good from them, and then I determined to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. After r had tried a couple of hoses there was a de- cided improvement. I could sleep better, my spirits rose and I began to look for my meals half au hour before the usual tuna. I continued the use of the Pink Pills some time longer and found my he:filth fully restored, I am . now an enthusiastic friend of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and will always look to them for relief it illness attacks ine." KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES—CURED. Mrs. Bnona Matson, wife of Capt. Joseph Matson, of 10 Allen street, Hali- fax, N. 5., writes: "For several months in the year 1895 I suffered severely from tierangement of the kidneys and liver truuble from which I found little or no relief from the medicines prescribed by -my physician. I lost ]u flesh, grew sal- low, had no appetite and was mnnh troubled with insomnia, and though only about twenty years of age, life bad grown burdensome, and it was thought by my intimate friends that my health was per- manently undermined, When I had be- come almost indifferent as to the future 1. was persuaded to take a course of Dr, Williams' Pint: Pills. I found relief very soon, gained flesh and was enabled to sleep soundly, and with a restored ap- petite recovered my former complexion. I feel myself indebted to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for my present health, after I had expended much money for medi- cine prescribed by physicians from which I derived no 'benefit," A RHEUMATIC Sl; PPERER CURED. Mr. Angus J. McDonald, of Presoott, Ont., says: "I have been a victim of rheumatism for over seven years. The truuble first came upoe me at my former home in 'aWilliainatowaa. I became so bad that I was obliged to parry a cane when walking, end to go at a slow page. At one time I was oonf;aed to my bed for three Months, I tried many medicines, some of svhieh eased the pain, but none gave me permanent relief until I began. the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I have need in all about a dozen boxes and under the treatment my progress has been'continu;o0s and satisfactory. I have discarded the use of the Dane and my weight has increased from 120 to ielk pounds. In a word 1 am a new man and I attribute my improved condition en- tirely to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Beware of imitations. The genuine Pink Pills are sold only in boxeg the wrapper around which bears the full trade mark "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Pills colored pink, sold in bulk, by the dozen, :hundred or ounce, or taken from glass jars, or said, in boxes which do not bear our trade mark, are vile imitations and should be promptly refused. If your dealer does not keep the genuine Pink Pills they will be sent by mail,post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 82,50 by ad- liressfng the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co:, •Broekville, Out