The Exeter Advocate, 1897-5-20, Page 3HEALTH OF THE BODY
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON
OVERWORKED LIVERS,
He Believes 'ehat Mos i of the World's
Moral Depressions Are Due to That Hard-
.
worked Organ and Urges His Hearera to
Take Caro of It.
Washington, May 16.—Dr. Tabnage's
sermon of to -clay has more to do with
this life than the life to come and will
be a warning against all forms of dis-
sipation. Text, Proverbs vii, 28, "Till a
dart strike through his liver."
Solomon's anatomical and pbysiolo-
glee' discoveries were so very great that
he was nearly 8,000 years ahead of the
soientists of . his day. He, more than
1,000 years before. Christ, seemed to.
know about the oirculation of the blood,
whioh Harvey discovered 1,619 years
after Christ, for when Solomon, in
Ecclesiastes, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain,
he evidently means•the three canals lead-
ing from the heart that receive the
blood like pitchers. When he speaks in
Ecclesiastes of the silver cord of life, he
evidently ineans the spinal marrow,
about which, in our day, Drs. Mayo
and Carpenter and Dalton. and Flint
and Brown-Sequard bave experimented.
And Solomon recorded in the Bible,
thousands of years before scientists dis-
covered it, that in his time the spipal
cord relaxed. in old age, produoing the
tremors of band and head, "or the
Silver cord be loosed."
The Liver and. Morality.
In the text he reveals the fact that he
had studied that largest gland of the
human system, the liver, not by the
electric: light of the Inodern dissecting
room, but by the dim light of a com-
paratively darkageland yet had seen
its important functions in the God
built castle of the human body, its Select-
ing ana secreting power, its curious cells,
its elongated branching tube, as divine
workmanship in central and right and
left lobe, and the hepatic artery through
which flONV the orineson tides. Oh, this
vital organ is like the eye of God in that
ib never sleeps!
Solomon knew of it, and had noticed
either in vivisection or post mart=
what awful attacks sin and dissipation
make upon. It, until the flat of Almighty
God bids the body and soul separate,
and the one it commends to the grave
and. the other it sends to judgment. A
javelin of retribution, not glancing off
or malting a slight wound, but piercing
it froze side to side "till a dart strikes
through his liver." Galen and Hippo-
crates ascribe to the liver the most of
the world's moral depression, and the
word melancholy means black bile.
I preaeh to you the gospel of health.
In taking a diagnosis of disease of the
soul you must tile° take a diagnosis of
diseases of the body. As if to recognize
this, one whole book of the New Testa-
naent wiaz written by a physician. Luke
was a in., lival doctor, and he discourses
much of the physical conditions, and he
tells ot the good Samaritan's medication
of the s‘ounds by pouring in oil and
wino, ant recognizes hunger as a hind-
rance to l oaring the gospel, so that the
5,1iou wen. fed,. He also records the sparse
diet of the prodigal away from honie,
and the extinguished eyesight of the
beg,gar the wnyside, and lets us know
tho h,aorritage of the wounds of tho
dying Cerist and the mirticuloue post
mortetn resuscitator'. Any estimate of
the spiritual condition that does not
intently also the physical condition is
nue:replete.
\sewn the doorkeeper of congrees fell
deatl from eXeOSSIVO joy because Burgoyne
bat serr, ntlerea at naratoga, and Philip
V. of Spent dropped dead at the news of
bi can. y's defeat in battle, and Car-
dinal NV Isely faded away as the result
of Henry VIII's anathema, it was
denumete:ted. that the body and soul are
Siameee ; sins, and when you thrill the
ono wit,' joy or sorrow you thrill the
other. ie .t may as well recognize the
trenteennets fact that there are two
mighty rtresses in the human body,
the heart and the liver; the heart, the
fortress 1•.2 the graces; the liver, the
fortress a.: the furies. You may have the
head fillei with all intellectualities, and
the ear with all musical appreciation,
and the mouth with all eloquence, and
the hand with all industries, and the
heart weal all generosities, and yet "a
dart strike through the liver."
A. Hehellions Liver.
First, let Christian people avoid the
Inistake that they are all wrong with
God because they suffer from depression
of spirits. Many a consecrated man has
found hie spiritual sky befogged and his
hope of heaven blotted out and himself
plunged chin deep in the slough of
despond. and has said: "My heart is
not right with God, and I think I must
have inade a mistake, and inetead of
being a ohild of light I am a child of
darkness. No one can feel as gloomy as I
feel ante be a Christian." And he has
gone to his minister for consolation, and
he has collected heaves books, and
Cecil's books, and Baxter's bunks, and
read and read and read, and prayed and
prayed and prayed, 0,nd wept and went
and wept, and groaned and groaned and
groaned. My brother, your trouble is not
with the heart. It is a gastric disorder
or a rebellion of the liver.You need a
physician more than you do a clergy-
man. It is not sin that blots out your
hope of heaven, but bile. It not only
yellows your eyeballs, and furs your
tongue, and makes your head ache. but
swoops upon your soul in dejections and
forebodings. The devil is after you, He
has failed to despoil your telemeter, and
he does the next best thing for him—he
ruffles your peace of mind. When be
says that you are not a forgiven soul,
when he says you are not right with
God. when he says that you win never
get to heaven, he lies. If you are in
Christ, yciu are just as sure of heaven
as thotigh you were there already. But
• setae, unding that he cannot keep you
out of the promised land of 'Canaan, has
determined that the spies shall not bring
you any of the Eschol grapes beforehand
• and that you shall have nothing but
prickly pear and crabapple. You are just
• as much a Christian now under the
cloud as you were when you were aeons -
tooled to riga in the morning at 5 o'clock
• to pray and sing "Halleluiah, 'tis done!"
'ely friend Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Jones of
Pliiladelph.ia, a translated spirit now,
wrote a book entitled "Man, Moral and
Physical," in which he shows how
different the SaMe things may appear to
different people. He says: "After the
• great battle on the Mind°. in 1859 be-
tweeu the French and the Sardinians on
the oee side and the Austrians on• the
other, so disastrous to the latter, the
defeated army retreated, followed by the
victors. A description of the march of a ong ese s ree s y I
eaoh army is given by two eassespsaig., bent, and decayed, and preniaturely old
ents of the London %lines, one of whom for the reason that they are paying for
traveled with the successful host, the• liens they put upon their physical estate
other with the defeated. The difference before they wore 80. By early dissipation
n views and statements of the same they put on their body a first mortgage,
place, scenes and events is remarkable. and a oecond mortgage, and a third
The former are said to be marching Pertgage to the devil, and these mOrt'
through a beautiful and luxuriant coma- gages are now being foreclosed, and all
try during the day and at night encamp- that remains of their earthly estate the
ing where they are supplied with an undertaker will soon put out of sight.
abundance of the best provisions and all Many years ago, in fulfillment of my
sorts of rural dainties. There is nothing text, a dart struok through their liver,
of war about the !proceeding except its and it is there yet. God forgives, but
stimulus and excitement. On the side of outraged physical lava never, never,
the poor Austrians it is just the reverse. never. That has a Sinai, but no Calvary.
In his letter of the same date, describing Solomon 111. my text knew what he was
the same places and march over the talking about, and he rises up on his
same road, the writer can seemly find throne of worldly splendor to shriek out
words to set forth the suffering, impati- a warning to all the centuries.
once and disgust existing around him. 1 Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of
What was pleasant to the former was . "squatter sovereignty" to those who
intolerable to the latter. What made all went out west and took possession of
this difference? asks the author. One lands and held them by right of preocou-
coadition only—the French are victori_ potion. Let a flea of sins settle on your
ous, the Austrians have been defeated." liver before you get to 25 years of age,
So, my dear brother, the road you are and they will in all probabilty keep pos-
tra,veling is the same you have been . session of it by an infernal squatter
sovereignty. 'I promise to pay at the bank
traveling a long while, but the difference,
in your physical conditions makes it look' $500 six months from date," says the
different, and therefore the two reports1 promissory note. "I promise to pay my
foil have given of yourself are as widely life 80 years from date at the bank of
the grave," Says every infraction of the
different as the reports in the London
Times from the two correspondents. laws of your physical being.
Edward Payson, sometimes so far up on Solomon's Diagnosis.
the mount that it seemed as if the son- What? Will a man's body never corn-
tripetal force of earth could no longer pletely recover from early dissipation in
hold him, sometimes through a physical this world? Never. How about the world
disorder was so far down that it seemed
as if the nether world would clutch
him. Poor William Cowper was a most
excellent Christian, and will be loved
in the Christian church as long as it
sings his hymns beginning: "There is a
fountain filled with blood." "Oh, for a
closer walk with God," "'Whet various
hindrances we meet" and "God moves
in a mysterious way." Yet was he so
overcome by melancholy or black •bile,
that it was only throogh the mistake of
the cabdriver who took him to a wrong
plan instead of the river bank that he
did. not (lona/nit suicide.
Christian Physicians.
Spiritual condition so mightily affected
by the physical statenvhat a great oppor-
tunity this gives to the Christian physi-
cian, for he oan feel at the same time
both the pulse of the body and the pulse
of the soul, and he can administer to
both at once, and if medicine is eeeded
he oan give that, and if spiritual counsel
is needed he cau give that—an earthly
and a divine prescription at the stone those here with 'whom it is no fable, but
time—and call on not only' the apothecary a terrine realleee
of earth, but the pliarmaoy of heaven! That young man smoking cigarettes
Ah, that is the kind of doctor I want at
my bedside—one that can not only count
out the right number of drops, but who
can also pray. That is the kind of doctor
I have had in my house when sickness
or death came. I do not want any of
your profligate or astheistio doctors
around my loved ones when the balances
of life are trembling. A doctor who has
gone through the medical college, and
in dissecting room has traversed the
wonders of the human mechanism, and
found no God in any of the labyrinths, is
a fool, and cannot dootor me or mine.
But, oh, the Christian (looters! What a
comfort they have beeu in many of our
households! And they ought to have a
warm place in our prayers, as well as
praise on our tongues.
I bless God that the number of Chris-
tian physicians is multiplying and smne
of the students of the medical colleges
are here to -day, and I hail you and
ordain • yen to the tender, beautiful.
heaven amended work of a Christian
physician, and when you take your
diploma from the medical college to
look after the perishable body be sure
also to get a diploma from the skies to
look after the imperishable soul. Lot all
Christian pbysieians unite with ministers
of the gospel in persuading good people
that it is not because God is against
there that they sometimes feel depressed,
but because a their diseased body. I
suppose David, the psalmist, was no
more pious when be called on everything
human and angelic, animate and inan-
imate, even from snowflake to hurricane.
to praise God than when he said, "Out
of the depths of hell have I cried unto
thee, 0 Lord;" or that Jeremiah was
more pious when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his "Lamentations;"
or Job when he said, "I know that my
Redeemer liveth," ' than when covered
over with the pustules of elephantiasis
as he sat in the ashes scratching the
scabs off with a. broken piece of pottery;
or that Alexander Cruden, the concord-
ist, was a better man when he compiled
the book that has helped 10,000 students
of the I3ible than when under the
power of physical disorder he was hand-
cuffed and strait waistcoated in Bethnal
Green Insane asylurn. "Oh," says some
,
Christian man, one ought to allow
physical disorder to depress his soul. He
might to live so bear to God as to be
always in the sunshine." Yes, that is
good advice. But I warrant that you,
the man who gives the advice, has a
sound liver. Thank God for a bealthful
hepatic condition, for as certainly as you
lose it you will sometimes, like David,
and like Jeremiah, and like Cowper,
and like Alexander Cruden'and like
10,000 other invalids, be playing a dead
march on the same organ with which
now you play a staccato.
Dissipations.
to come? Perhaps God will fix it up in
the resurreetion body so that it will not
have to go limping through all eternity.
But get the liver thoroughly damaged,
and it will stay damaged as long as you
are here. Physicians call it cirrhosis of
the liver, or inflammation of the liver,
or fatty degeneratian of the liver, but
Solomon puts all these - gs into one
fignre and says, "Till dart strikes
through bis liver."
Elesiod seemed to bave some hint of
this when he represented Prometheus,for
his crimes, fastened to a pillar and an
eagle feeding on his liver, which was
renewed again eaoh night so that the
devouring went on until finally Hercules
slew the eagle and rescued Prometheus.
And a dissipated early life assures a fero-
city pecking away and clawing away at
the liver year ba and year out, and death
is the only Heroules who can break the
power of its beak or unclench its claw.
So also others wrote fables about vultures
preying upon the liver. But there are
and smok-ing cigars has no idea that he
is getting for himself smoked liver. That
young man has no idea that he has by
early dissipation so depleted his energies
that he will go into the battle only half
armed. Here is another young man who,
if he put all his forces against the regi-
ment of youthful temptations, in the
strength of God, might drive them back.
but he is allowing them to be re-onforced
by the whole army of undlife tempta,-
atiwonaisthim? , hand what but immortal defeat can
Oh, my young brother, do not make
the mistake that thousands are making
in opening the battle against sin too
late, for this world too late, and for the
world to omne too late. What brings that
express train from St. Louis into Jersey
Oity three hours late? They lost 10
minutes early on the route, and tbat
affected them all the way, and they had
to be switched off here and switched off
there, and detained here and detained
there, and the man who loses time and
strength in the earlier part of the
journey of life will suffer for it all the
way through—tbe first 20 years of life
damaging the following 50 years.
Sonae years ago a scientific lecturer
went through the country exhibiting 011
great canvas different parts of the human
body when healthy, and the same parts
when diseased. And what the world
wants now is some eloquent scientist to
go through the country, showing to our
young people on blazing canvas the
drunkard's liver, the idler's liver, the
libertine's liver, the gambler's liver.
Perhaps the speetticle might stop some
young man before be comes to the catas-
trophe and the dart strikes through his
A Pew Epitaphs.
My object at this point is not only to
emolliate the criticisms of those in good
health against those in poor health, but
to show Christian people who are ata-abil-
ions what is the xnatter with them. Do
not charge against the heart the crimes
of another portion of your organism. Do
not conclude because the path to heaven
is not arbored with as fine a foliage, or
the banks beatifully snowed with ex-
quisite chrysanthemums as once, that
therefore you are on the wrong road.
The road will bring you out at the same
gate whether you walk with the stride
of an athlete or come up on crutches.
Thousands of Christians, morbid about
their experiences, and morbid about their
business, and roorbid about the present,
and morbid about the beton, need the
serrnon I am now preaching.
Another practical use of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad
that they must first sow their wild oats
and afterward Michigan wheat. Let me
break the delusion. Wild oats are
generally sown in the liver, and
they can never be pulled up. They so
preoccupy that organ that there is no
room for the implantation of a righteous
crop. You seo aged men about us at 80,
erect, agile, splendid, grand old men:
How much wild oats did they sow be-
tween 18 years and 30? None, absolutely
none. God does not very often honor
with old ago those who have in early life
sacrificed swine on the altar of the bodily
temple. B,enaember, 0 young man, that.
while in after life and after years of
sipation you may perhaps have yeur
heart changTrenabling and staggering ed, religion does not change
,
My hearer, this is the first sermon you
have heard on the gospel of health, and
it may be the last you will ever hear on
that subject, and I charge you, in the
name ot God and Christ and usefulness
and eternal destiny, take better care of
your health. When some of you die, if
your friends put on your tombstone a
truthful epitaph, it will read, "Here lies
the victim of late suppers"; or it will
be, "Behold what lobster salad at mid-
night will do for a man"; or it will be,
"Ten cigars a day closed my earthly
existence"; or it will be, "Thought I
could do at 70 wbat I did at 20,and-I ani
here"; or it will be, "Here is the con-
sequence of sitting a half day with wet
feats" or it will be, "This is where I
have stacked any harvest of wild oats";
or instead of words the stonecutter will
chisel for an epitaph on the tombstone
two figures—namely, a dart and a liver.
There is a kind of sickness that is
beautiful when it comes from overwork
for God, or one's country, or one's
family. I have seen wounds that were
glorious. I have seen an empty sleeve
that was more beautiful than the most
muscular forearm. I have seen a green
shade over the eye, shot out in battle,
that was more beautiful than any two
eyes that had passe,d without injury. I
have seen an old nxissionary worn out
with the malaria of African jungles,
who looked to me more radiant than a
rubicund gymnast. 1 have seen a mother
after six weeks' watching over a family
of children down with scarlet fever,
with a glory around her pale and wan
face that surpassed the angelica It all
depends on how you got your sicknese
and in what battle your wounds.
If we must get sick and worn out, let
it be in God's service and in the effort
to make the world good. Not in the
service of sin. No, no1 One of the most
pathetic scones that I ever witness, and
I often see it, is that of men or WOMetl
converted in the fifties or sixties or
seveleties wanting to be useful, but they
so served the world and satan in the
earlier part of their life that they have
no physical energy left for the service of
God. They sacrificed nerves, inuscles,
lungs, heart and 1 -er on the wrong
altar. They touget en the wrong side,
and now, when their sword is all backed
up and their ammunition all gone, they
enlist for Emmanuel. When the high
mottled calvary horse, which that man
spurred into many a calvary charge with
champing bit and flaming eye and neck
clothed with thunder, is worn out and
spavined and ringboned and springhalt,
he rides up to the great Captain of our
salvation on the white borse and offers
his services. When such persons inight
the liver.
have been, through the good habits of a
Ifetime, crashing their battle axe through
he hehnetecl iniquities they are spending
heir days and nights in discussing the
est way of curing indigestion, and
uieting their jangling nerves, and
°using their laggard appetite,and trying
o extract the dart from their outraged
Ivor. Better converted late than never!
Oh, yes, for they will get to heaven. But
hey will go afoot when they might have
wbeeled up tee steep hills of the sky in
Elijah's chariot. There ,is an old hymn
hat we used to sing in the country
meeting house when I was a boy, and I
emenabor how the old folks' voices
trembled with emotion while they sang
t. I have forgotten all but two lines, but
those lines are the peroration of my
sermon:—
Twill save as from a thousand snares
To mind religion young.
Vanacies Veneers -4e g Prayer.
The question which some still think it
worth while to ask, "Why does a loving
God, who knows our needs, require us
to petition for their supply?" both
reveals the fundamental misconception
and brings into contrast the fundamental
truth iu regard to the whole subject. Dr.
Edward Canal has noted, as a strange
survival of the pagan mode of thought
among Christians, that some of them
still conceive of prayer as an, attempt to
get God to do inan's will rather than as
an inspiration to get God's will done by
man. Jesus has expressly cautioned us
not to think that eitlaer he prays or we
pray for the purpose of informing God
about our ueeds or inducing him to sup-
ply them. What end, then, is served by
petitionary prayer for the things God
knows we need and that he wills to
bestow? Surely no thinker is unaware
that verbal expression has much to do
with both clearness of thonght and the
concentration of attention and will. It
is reason enough fox. engaging in peti-
tionary prayer that the confession in
words of our wants to God enables and
pledges us in a clearer consciousness to
work out more reverently and patiently
the divine conditions of theis supply.
Thus it is that through prayer the in-
dividual will strive toward unity with
the universal will. To ianpute to the
leaders of religious thought to -day the
crude, primitive fancy of bending the
divine will into line with the human is
unworthy of any who profess to keep
abreast of the world's advancing intelli-
gence, The true function of prayer is to
lift the will of man into lbae with the
will of God. This it does by its effect in
clarifying moral insight, deepening
reverent convictions of responsibility
and dedicating self more thoroughly to
divine ends, which can be accomplished
in the world no sooner or naore fully
than a -on devote themselves to their
tultillment.--Rev. James M. Whiten. in
• Forum.
Curious Marriage. custome.
Some of the customs peculiar to court-
ship and marriage among tho race of
dwarfs who inhabit the Andaman Island
are, according to 111. 'de Quatrefages, who
recently published a book called "The
Pygmies," about these people, very
peculiar. Not the least remarkable of
them is the procedure of courtship. The
young man who has made his choice
addresses himself to the parents, view
never refuse, but send the girl into the
forest, where, before day, she conceals
herself. The young man must find her.
If he does nos succeed he must re-
nounce all claim to her. The wedding
ceremony of these people is equally curi-
ous. M. Quatrefages thus describes it:
"The two parties climb two flexible
trees growing near each other, which an
old inan then makes to bend toward each
other. When _ the head of the man
touches that of the girl they are legally
married" Turning from Asia, to Europe,
we find a very curious custom prevail-
ing in Roumania. Among the peasantry
of this country, when a girl attains a
marriageable ago her trousseau, wbiela
has in the meanwhile been carefully
woven, spun and embroidered by her
inother and herself, is placed in a painted
wooden bon.
When a young man thinks of asking
to be allowed to pay his attention to the
girl he is at liberty- to open the box,
which is always placed itt a convenient
position, and examine the trousseau. If
he is satisfied with the quantity and
quality of the dowry he makes formal
application for the girl's hand, but, if
not, he is quite at liberty to retire.
IIARM.STOTIN:SCROOL
BR/NGS ON A SEVERE ATTA.CE OF
ST. VITUS' DANCE.
A Young eirl's Life for a Time Made
Hieerable--Oonid Not Use Her Rands
and Found It Maculae Walke-Health
Restored.
From the Napanee Express.
Nervousness is the frequent cause of
much misery and suffering. One of the
effects of this breaking up of the nerves,
particularly among young people, being
ohorea or Se Vitus dance. A correspond-
ent tells of a young lady at Selby who
was badly afflicted with this trouble.
Be says: "1 never saw anyone suffering
so badly before from nervous disorder.
She was violently jerking and twitching
all the time, and could not use her right
hand at all. Anythiug she would try to
pick up with it would instantly fall.
*When she would ateempb to walk, her
limbs woulit twist and turn, tbe ankle
often doubling down and throwing her.
Lately I heard that she bad been cured
but doubted the troth of the statement
and went to see her. The statement
proved quite true'and believing that a
recital of the facts of the case would be
of advantage to some one who inight bs
similarly suffering, I asked permission to
make them known, which was readily
granted. The yonng lady is Mies H. M.
Gonyou, a general favorite among her
acquaintances, and it is thought that her
trouble, as is not infrequently the case,
was brought on by hard study in
school." Miss Gonyou gave the following
statement: "All through the fall of
To Lizlit Fires.
This inventor may not get a monu-
ment in this generation, but in years to
coine the new woman willbe called upon
to subscribe the inoney that will in
enduring bronze conamemorate the vir-
tues of the man who renioved from their
husbands' lives the great bugbear of
making a fire in the cold range of the
cailly and draughty grate, says the New
York Journal. The new fire -lighting fan
dpes away with the treacherous kind-
ling that gayly burns out and leaves no
. I
impression upon the stubborn coal.
, It is a simple meohanical contrivance
this "fan," shaped as its name. It fits
close to e stove front or the grate.
Within its sheet -iron walls is a main
apring and clock -wheels to work it. It is
wound up by turning a handle at the
side and set going or stopped by a lever.
When the apparatus is to be used. a small
quantity of parafilne oil is poured into
a cavity in the blow pipe, which is
filled with asbestos fiber. When the fiber
Is thoroughly soaked a light is applied,
and the fan set going, thus forcing from
the, outlet into the grate an oxidizing
flarne Whiell quickly spreads through and
thoroughly ignites the coal with whit%
the grate has already been filled. The
machine is also used for blowing up a
dead fire, the spring being wound up
and the fan set in motion for from three
to ton roinutes.
Vanity.
There are tinaos when provisional
vanity even keeps watch in the place of
principle and acts as servant to consci-
ence. The complaint is kept back, the
murmur checked, the hardship endured,
because vanity will not let us seem to
be less hardy than others. And when
there aro so many things to be struggled
against it is sonmsthat comforting to
know there is something which is
rather an imperfection than a fault, an
inaperfection whicb may be left to time's
correcting. For, in all wholesome natures
this youthful vanity is little more than
part and parcel of youth itself. It has its
province and its sphere, and should not
bo hardly dealt with nor hastily con-
demned. If capable of realizing life at
all, the time 001115S when life is realized,
and self stands out in approximately trite
proportions; but in the meantime efforts
have been put forth, admirable habits
formed, character built up. And much
of the effort achieved is dne to that
quality we all blush for Vanity.---Ellea,
Duval.
1894 I had been feeling unwell. I did
not speak to anyone about it, for I was
going to school and was afraid if I said
anything about it to my parents they
would keep me at home. I kept getting
worse, and at last grew so nervous that I
could not hold my pencil. My right side
was affected most, though the trouble
seemed to go through ray whole system.
In January I was so bad that I had to
discontinue going to school, and I was
constantly growing worse. I could not
use my hands, because I would let every
thing drop, and frequently when I at-
tempted to walk, I would fall. My
brother had been ailing for a long time
and was then tasiog Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills and getting better, so 1 tho-ught as
they Vera helping him se much they
would be a good medicine for me. Before
the iirst box was done I was feeling
much bettor, and after using the Pink
Pills for about a month, my health was
fully restored. It is now MOTE) that a year
since I discontinued the use of the pills,
and I have not had the slightest trace of
the malady since. I am satisfied. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills saved me from a
life of misery, and I would strongly re-
commend them for nervous troubles."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills create new
blood, build up the nerves, and thus
drive disease froin the system. In hun-
dreds of oases they have cured after all
other medicines had failed, thus estab-
lishing, the claim that they are a marvel
among the triumphs of ixiodern inedieal
science. The genuine Pink Pills are sold,
only in boxes, bearing the full trade
mark, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People." Protect yourself from im-
position by refusing any pill that does
not bear the registered trade mark
around the box.
WOMANLY MODESTY.
This Applicant for Work lietitares it Large
Salary, Travel and Plenty et Sport.
Through the advertising eoiuras of
an English newspaper a woman of birth,
who is unhappily reduced to the neces-
sity of earning a living, states her re-
quirements in the follOwing thorough
fashion
:—
"A lady, biglaly educated and. ver'
well connected, and writing and reading
Franca fluently, also good reader, cheer-
ful, bright and patient, wishes to be a
secretary to a nobleman or military man
between fifty and sixty; she is used to
travelling, and prefers it part of the
year; good salary and all expenses to be
paid; country preferred, and a gerttlexnan
who is fond of riding and driving; she
bas been used to luxurious homes in
India and England, but never out before;
must be a refined man In tastes and
habits, and an intellectual man; literary
man not objeoted to; personal intervieve
and highest references given and re-
quired; the lady is also very good at
nursing and highly conscientious and
painstaking; would undertake charge
of a delicate Ian, living on a country
estate, or to travel with him; Swista'
Cannes, mountains preferred, or south of
France or Alx-les-Bains; she could
undertake to ride and drive with him,
any one requiring outdoor, healthy exer-
cise, etc.; must be a perfect gentleman
by birth, education and tastes, and no
one with a tendency for vicious habite,
either of gambling, drinking or other
wise; he would receive devoted attention
and care, or she would take the place of
a mother to him or superintend his
studies under a tutor; English, Araeris
can, Swedish or Russian not objected to;
no Spaniard, Frenchman or Italian need
apply. Address Mme. She can
speak- and write and read fluently, is
musical and artistic, also has been a
great rider; lad fourteen to eighteen, son
of nobleman or military man preferred;
unexceptional references given anli re-
quired; no idiots, epileptics or consump-
tives undertaken. Address Mute. --:
Spirit of the Times.
"Ma'am, I'm no tramp," he saki as
the woman opened the door in response
to his ring, "but, owing to circum
stances, I am obliged to ask for some-
thing to eat."
"You look, about like the resa of 'em
who come along hero," she dryly replied,
as she lookea him over.
"But I don't belong,- with the crowd.
My home, ma'am, is in New York city."
And what are you doing out here in
Indiana?"
"On my way to the prize fight at Car-
son City, ma'am. 1 left New York a
month ago, and I expect to reach Carson
the day before the fight. I could not let
such an affair be pulled off without being
present. You will excuse me, ma'am,
but may I ask if you are interested in
the champion scrap?"
"Well, rayther 1" she said with a beam-
ing smile. "I've got five plunks bet with
the old man that ray side will win."
"And which is your side, ma'am?"
"Corbett will do him in four rounds."
"He'll do him in three, ma'am, and
I'll bet on it I"
"Shake and come and fill yourself
full, and if you'll lick the Fitzsimmons
man who lives around the corner I'll pay
your railroad fare for the next 500 miles
and find you a second hand suit of
clothes1"---IsTew York Journal.
Looking Eackward and Portrard.
Absolute forgettulness of the past is
an irepossiblity to a man in the right
use of his faculties. Nothing dies in the
soul. A thought once struck, an emotion
once experienced, passes into the perman-
ent furnishing of our inner and immort-
al being. The apostle Paul could not for-
get the past of his life. How it comes
out again and again, like a minor re-
frain. Yet practically he did forget the
past, he did leave it behind It was but
a fugitive look he gave to the sad and
guilty days that were gone. The look
intent was before. So we are to forget
the past ff it has Leen an inglorious one.
There xnust be no useless moaning, no
paralysis of the will. That past cannot
be unmade or recalled. Give it a swift
look of regret. Theo, with the purpc.se of
the Olympian runner—on to the future.
That future is yours and mine—radiant,
sublime, glorious.—Bieb op Fellows.
The Art of Dow Tying.
The art of bow tying ie taught to
young women, who like always to be
smartly trimmed with correct bows at
the neck and belt. Even the bow for
the hair has a different tie from the
bow at the slipper; and the waistband
has a knot entirely unlike that at the
throat. To know the difference is one of
the arts of bow -tying. The next is to be
able to tie.
• A bow of orange velvet of the new
shade, capucine, is a valuable adjunct
for a somber dress. 'Upon a light one it
becomes positively brilliant, a beautiful
decoration for dinner. For such a bow,
and its belt there must be a crush oe
velvet to go around the waist snugly.
This must be erinolined,to set likea
girdle, and to it must be sewed -the bow
of velvet. Bach separate loop is Weed 'and
stiffened, and the ends have sharp pieces
of stiffening set in. The, whole is
bronglat under a small knot A bow,
carefully made like this, withstands a
great deal of haTti usage; and if it is
lined with taffeta, instead of with veneet
it is nob too bulky a thing to be worn
under a coat
Seeking Information.
"John," she began, casting aside her
paper, "is that Maaalower log which has
just been returned to us a piece of petrified
wood or ju.sr ordinary oak?" •
The Latest Popular Music
For 10 cents a Copy.
Regularly sold for 40 and ail cents.
aiend us cash, rest -office order or stamps
and we will fcrward postpaid to any
address. The intv,ic selected to the
amount of your purchase.
Vocal.
All for you Furke 10
Don't forget your promise....Osisorne 10
He took it in a quiet,, good-
natured nay (comic) David. 10
There will ceree a time Harris 10,
Don't tell her you love her. _Dresser 101
Star light, star bright Herbert 104
You are not the only pebble on the
beanie Olin sr 10:
Words cannot tell my love. ..... .Stahl 10
The girl you dream about Stahl 10
Hide behind the door when papa
comes Collin Coo 10!
I loved you better than you knew
Carroll 10
I love you if others don't. . Bien ford lel
Don't semi her away,John–Rosenfeld 10,
She may have seen better days
Thornton 10
When the girl you love is xnany miles
away Kipper leP
Ben Bolt, English ballad 10,
The wearing of the green, Irish
national song 10
Instrumental.
Royal jubilee waltzes Imp. Music Co. 10
Wheeling Girl two-step Insp. Music Co. 10
El Capitan march and two-step.Sousa 10
20th Century Woman two -stein .Norris 10.
A story ever sweet and true„ , .Stultz 10
Muaphy on parade, the latest hi t„Tansen les
King. Cotton march and two-step eousa 10,
Handicap march and two-step..Dosey 10
Choochi Cheochi polka Clark 10
Yale march and two-step...Van Baer 10
'Black America maech... Zickle 10
Belle of Chicago two -stop..... ,Sousa 10
Stax Light, Star Bright waltz.11erbert 10
Nordica waltz .Teurjee 10
Princess Bonnie waltz Spencer 10
waltz Thompson 10
Dainties' Dreem caprice, . . ... Lancing 10
Dance of the Brownies 'caprice Kam -
man 10
Bastes on Parade two-step Mills 10
Genderon 1111Sie CO. 10
Narcissus (classical) Nevin 10
In the Lead two-step. .. Bailey 10
Sernper Falelis March .Sonsa, 10
Thundery march Sousa 10
Washington Post march .Sousa 10
High School Cadets march.. Sousa 10
Liberty Bell march Sousa 10
Manhattan Beach immix Sousa 10
Love conies like a summer sigh 10
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