HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-6-24, Page 7VICTORIA'S JUBILEE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES
UPON A TIMELY THEME.
He rays a Glowing Tribute to Great Brit-
ain'Venerable lluler..The Capacity of
Wornen---The Splendors of Earth and of
He Ire :I.
Bsatrice, Neb., Juno 20. --This is Dr.
•Talmage's third manual visit to the
Chautauqua eere, one of the greatest
throng e ever assembled on this continent.
He leotured yesterday; he preaches to-
day. Text, Esther v, 8, "What wilt thou,
Queen Esther?"
This question, which was asked oe a
queen tho-usands a years ago, all civil-
ized nations are this day asking of Queen
ytotorlit. "What with them have of 9nor,
of le'viard or ideaotenee or service" of
national and international acclamation?
What wilt thou, the queen of the utile-
teenth century?" The seven miles of
procession through tho streets of London
day after to -morrow will be a small part
illa of the congratulatory procession whose
enultittelinous tramp will encircle the
earth. The oelebratiaa anthems that will
sound up from Westminster abbey and
St. Paul's cathedral ha London will be
less than the vibration of one harp striog
as compared with the doxologies which
this hour roll up from all nations in
praise to God for the beautiful Iffe and
the glorious reign of this oldest queen
amid centuries, FrOM 5 o'clook of the
naoroing of 1887, when the arclabishop
of Ccuiterbury addressed the embarrassed
and weeping and almost affrighted girl
of 18 years with tbe startling words,
"your majesty," until this sixtieth anni-
versary of her sethronement, the prayer
of all good people on all side of the seas,
whether that prayer be offered by the
800,000,000 of her subjects or the larger
, number ef millions who are not her sub-
jects, whether that prayer be solemnized
in thumb, or rolled from great orches-
tras or poured forth by military bands
from forts and battlements and in front
a triumphant armies all around the
world, has been and is now, "God save
the veto a' Amid the innumerable col-
umns that have been printed in eulogy
of this queen at the aperoaelting anni-
versary—oolumns whiten put to gether,
would be literally miles leng—it seems
to me that the chief cause of congratula-
tion to her and of praise to God has not
yet been properly emphasized, and ill
nearly cases the chief keynote has not
been struck at all.
We have been told over and aver again
what has occurred in the Victorian era.
The mightiest thing she has done has
been almost ignored, while she has been
bonored by having her name attached to
individuals and events for whom and
for which she bad no responsibility. We
have put before us the names of potent
and grandly useful men and women who
bave lived during her reign, but I to
not suppose that she at all helped
Thomas Carlyle in twisting his involved
and mighty satires, or heiped ,Disraeli
i21 issuance or his epigrammatic wit, or
helpad Canlinal Newman irk his crossing
over from religion to religion or helped
to inspire tbe enchanted sentiments of
George Eliot and Harriet Martineau and
4aIrs.r'Drowning, or helped to invent any
of George Cruiltshank's, healthful car-
toons, or belped George Grey in founding
a British South .African empire, or
kindlea. the patriotic fervor with which
John Bright stliged the masses, or bad
anything to do with the invention of the
telephone or photograph, or the building
up of the science of bacteriology, or the
directing of the Roentgen rays which
have revolutionized surgery, or helped
in the inventions for facilitating prieting
and rallroadisig and ocean voyageng. One
is not to 1.e credited or discredited for
the virtue or the vice, the brilliance or
the stupidity, of his or her contempor-
aries. While Queen Victoria has been the
friend of all art, all literature, all
science, all invention, all reform, her
reign will be most remembered for all
time and all eternity as the reign of
Christianity. Beginning with the scone
at 5 o'clock in the lamming in Kensing-
ton palace, where she asked the arch-
bishop of Canterbury to pray for her, and
they knelt down, imploring divine guid-
ance, until this hour, not only in the
sublime liturgy of her established
church, but on all occasions, she has
directly or indirectly declared, "1 believe
in God the Father Almighty, maker of
heaven and earth, anti in Jesus Christ,
his only begotten San." 1 declare it, fear-
less of contradiction, that the mightiest
champion of Christianity to -day is the
throne et England,
The queen's book, so =oh criticised
at the time of its appearance, SOMe say-
ing it was not skillfully done and some
saying that the private affairs of a house-
hold ought not so to have been exposed,
was nevertheless a book of vast useful-
ness from the fact that it showed that
God was aoknowledged in all her life
and that "Rock of Ages" was not =un-
usual song th Windsor castle. Was her
son, the Prince of Wales, down with an
iess that bellied the greatest doctors of
laaigland? 'Then she proolahned a day
of prayer to Almighty God, and in an-
swer to the prayers of the.whole civilized
world the prince got well. Was Sevasto-
pol to be taken and the thousands of
bereaved homes of soldiers to be com-
forted? She called her nation to its
knees, arid the prayer was answered. See
her walking tbrough .tbe hospitals like
an angel of mercy! Was there ever an ex-
plosioe of fire damp in the mines of
Sheffield or Wales and her telegram was
not the first to arrive with help and
Christian sympathy? Is President Gar-
field dying at Lang Branch, and is not
the cable under the sea, reaching to Bal-
e moral castle, kept busy in announcing
the sympenes of the sufferer?
Victoria's Tbrone.
I believe that no throne since the
throne of David, and the throne of Haze-
kiah, end the throne of Esther has been
In such constant touch with the 'throne
' of heaven as the throne of Victoria. From
what I know of her habits she reads the
Bible more than she does Shakespeare.
She admires the laynans of Horatio Boner
snore than she does Byron's "Corsair."
She has not knowingly admitted into
her presence a oorrupt man or dissolute
woman. To very distinguished novelists
and very celebrated prima donnas she has
deollned reception because they were
inamoeal. An the coming centuries of
tune canbot revoke the advantages of
haviog-harr60 years of Christian woman-
eladod inthroned in the palaces of Eng-
land. Compare liar Court surroundings
With what were the court surroundings
In the tinae of Etenry VIII, or vrhatowere
the court surroundings 1 the time of
Napoleon, in the time of Louis XVI, in
the time of men aud women whose
names may not be ,mentioned 1 decent
society. Alas for tile revelries, and the
worse than Beishazzae feasts, and the
more than Herodian dances, and the
scenes from which, the veil must not be
lifted.
You need, however, in order to appre-
ciate the purity and virtuous splendor of
Victoria's reign to contrast it somewhat
with the gehennas and the pandernoni-
urns of many of the thronerooms of the
Past and some of the thronerooms of the
present. 1 call the roll of the queens of
the earth, not.that I would have them
comae up or come back, .but that I may
make them the background of a picture
in which I can better present the present
septuageoarian, so Seal to be an octogen-
arian, now on the throne of England,
her example so thoroughly on the right
side that all the scandal mongers in all
the nations in six decades have not been
able to manufacture an evil suspicion iu
regard to her that could be made to
stick: Maria of Portugal, Isabella and
Eleepettaxid 41Lnp of _Catherine
a Russia' Mary "of Scotland, gar%
Theresa ofGermany, Marie Antoinette
of France and all the queens of England,
as Miss Strickland bas put thern before
us in her eharming la volumes. And
while some queen may surpass our
modern queen in learning, and another
in attractiveness of feature, and another
in gracefulness of form. and anotlaor in
romance of history, Victoria surpasses
them all in nobility and mantle= and
thoroughness of Christian character.
hail her, the Christian daughter, the
Christian wife, the Christian mother, the
Christian queen and let the• °hurt% of
God and all benign and gracious institu-
tions the world over ory out, as they
come, with music, and bannered boot and
million vetoed buzza and the beeedie-
tious of earth and heaven, "What wilt
thou, Queen Esther?"
Life 'Uncorrupted.
Another thing I call to your attention
this illustrious woman's career is that
she is a specimen of high life uncoe-
rupted. Would she have lived to celebrate
the sixtieth anniversary of her coronation
and the seventy-eighth anniversary of
her birthday, had she not been an ex-
ample of good principals and good hab-
its? Wbilek there have been bad men and
women in exalted station and humble
station who have carried their vices
clear on into the seventies and eighties
and even the nineties of their lifetime,
suoli persons are very rare. The majority
of the vicious die in their thirties, and
fewer reach the forties, and they are ex-
ceedingly scarce in the fifties. Longevity
has not been the characteristic of the
most of those who have reached high
places in that or that country. In many
cases their wealth leads them into indul-
gences, or their honors make them reck-
less, or their opportunities of doing
wrong are multiplied into the over-
whelming, and it is as true now as when
the Bible first presented it "The wicked
live not out half their days." Longevity
is not a positive proof of goodness, but
it is prima facie evidence in that direc-
tion. A loose life has killed hundreds of
eminent Amerioans and Europeans. The
doctors are very kind, and the eertificate
given after the distinguished man of
dissipation is dead, says, "Died of con-
gestion of the brain," although it was
delirium tremens, or "Died of cirrhosis
of the liver," although it was a round
at' libertinism, or "Died of heart fail-
ure," although it was the vengeance of
outraged law that slew him. Thanks,
doctor, for you are right in saving the
feelings of the bereft household by not
being more specific. Look, all ye who
are in high places of the meth, and see
ono who bas been iflied by all the tempt -
Miens which wealth and honor and the
secret place of palaces could produce,
and yet. next Tuesdayshe will ride along
in the presence of 7,000,000 people, if
they can get within sight of her chariot,
in a vigorous ola age, no more hurt by
the splendors that have surrounded her
for 78'years than is the plain country
woman come down from her mountain
Immo in an oxcart to attend the Satur-
day marketing. The temptations of social
life among the successful class have been
so great that every winter is a holocaust
of human nerves, and the beaches of this
tossing sea of high life are constantly
strewn with' physical and menta) and
moral shipwreck. Beware, all ye success-
ful ones. Take a good look at the vener-
able queen as she rides through Regent
street and along the Strand and through
Trafalgar square and by the Nelson
mounument What is the use of your
dying at 40, when you may just as well
live to be SO? •
If you are doing nothing for God or
the race, the sooner you quit the better.
But if you are worth anrthieg for the
world's betterment, M the strength of
God and through good habits, lay out a
plan for a life that will reach through
most of a century. How many people
a,ro practically suicides from the fent that
their gormandizing or their recklessness
or their defiance of dietetics and plain
sanitary law cuts short their days! In-
deed, so great is the temptation of those
who bave bountiful tables and fun wine
closets that Solomon suggests that in-
stead of petting the knife into the meat
on their plate they direct the edge of it
across their throat • Proverbs xxiii, 1,
"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently what is before thee,
and put a knife to thy throat if thou be
a loan given to appetite." I believe more
people die of improper eating than die of
strong drink. The former causes no
delirium or violence and works more
gradually, but none the less fatally.
Queen Victoria's habits, self denying and
almost ascetic, under a good Providence,
account for her magniacent longevity. It
may be a honiely lesson for a sexagesi-
mal anniversary in British places, but it
Is worth all the millions of dollars the
celebration will cost and the laborious
convocation of the representatives from
all the zones of the planet if the nations
will learn the sanitary lesson of good
hours, plain food, out door exercise,
reasonable abstinence and cora/non sense
habits. That which Paul said to the
jailer is just as appropriate for you and
for mo, "Do thyself no harm." And here
let me say, no people outside of Great
Britain ought to be more interested in
this queen's jubilee than our nation. The
cradles of inost of our ancestors were
rocked th Great Britain. They played in
childhood on the banks of the Thames,
or the Clyde, or the Shannon. Tait° from
my veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch
blood, and the streams of ray life would
be a shallow. Great Britain is our grand-
mother. We have read in the family
records that without our grandmother's
consent her daughter, our Mother, loft
home and Married the genius of Amami
can independence, and for awlaile there
was bitter.estrangemont But the family
quarrel has ended, and all has been for.
given, and we shake hands *every da,y
across the seas.
At this queenly anniversary our an-
thorized representative will otter greeting
in Buckingham palace, and our warships
will t lunclor coogratulation th English
waters. They are over there, bone of our
bone and flesh of pur flesh. It is our
John Banyan, our Wilberforce, our Cole-
ridge, eer Quincey, our John Milton,
our John Wesley, our John Knox, our
Thomas Chalmers, our Bishop Charpook,
our Latimer, our Ridley, our Walter
Scott, our Daniel O'Connell, our Robert
Enanset, our Havelock, our Henry Law-
rence our William E. Gladstone, our
Queen Victoria I Long live the daughter
al the Dachess of Kentl
Again, this international occasion im-
presses me with the fact that woman is
competent for political government when
God calls her to it. Great fears have been
experienced in this country that woman
would get the right of suffrage, and as a
coosequence, after avebile, woman might
get into congressional chair, and, perhaps
after awhile, reach the chief inagistrEtcy.
Awful! Well, better quiet your perturba-
tions, as you look across the sea, in this
anniversary time, and behold a woman
Nyasa for 60 years has ruled dyer the
mightiest eInpirik of all iinie and ruled
well. In approval of her government,
the hands of all nations are cla,pping,
the flags of all nations are waving, the
batteries of all nations booming. Look
tkerel Men have not made such a won-
derful sticcess of government that they
need be afraid that women should ever
take a, turn at power. The fact is that
mon have made a bad mess of it. The
most damnably dorrupt thiog on earth
is AmerIcan politics after Men have had
it ell their ottue. way M thig country foe
1-21 years. Othenthings being equal, for
there are fools among women as well as
among mon—I say other things being
equal, woman has generally a keener•
sense of what is right and what is wrong
than has man—bas naturaaly more faitla
in God and -knows better how to make
self sacrifices and would more boldly ad
against intemperance rind the social evil,
and worse things might mine to this
country than a supreme courtroom and a
senate chamber and a house of represent-
atives in which wonaanly voices were
sometimes heard.
We men had better drop some of the
strut out of our pompous gait and with
a little less of superciliousness thrust tbe
thumbs into the sleeves of our vests and
be less apprehensive of the other sex,
who seem to be the Lord's favorite from
the fact that he has made naore of them.
If vvoinan had possessed an influential
and controlling vote on Capitol hill at
Washington and in the English parlia-
ment, do you think that the two ruffian
and murderous nations of the earth
could have gone on until this time with
the butcheries in Armenia and Cuba?
No! The Christian nations would have
gone forth with bread and medicine and
bandages and military relief, until Abdul
Hanaid would have bad no throne to sit
ma, and Weyler, the commanding assassin
in Cuba, would have been thrust into a
prison as dark as that be whieh they
murdered Dr. Ruiz I am no adovcate
foe female suffrage. and I do not know
whether it would be best to have it, but
point you to the queen of Groat Bri-
tain and the nation over wbiolk she rules
as proof that women may be politically
dominant and prosperity reign, God save
the queen, whether now, on the throne
In Buckingham palace, or in some time
to come iv ..elnerican White House.
And now I pray God that day atter
to -morrow the =pertain skies of Eng-
land, so economic of sunshine, may pour
golden light upon all the scene, and that
sinoe the day when in Westminster abbey,
the girlish queen took in one hand the
scepter and in the other the orb of empire,
there may have been no day so happy as
that one m tvhich she shall this week
receive the plaudits of Christendom. May
she be strengthened in her aged body to
ride the whirlwind of international ex-
citement and her failing vision be illu-
mined with bright memories of tbe past
and brighter visions of the future, and
when she quits the throne of earth may
she have a throne in heaven, and as the
doors of the eternal palace are swung
open. may tbe question of the text sound
th her enraptured ears, "What wilt thole,
Queen Esther?"
Two CorOnations.
But as all of us will be denied attend-
ance on that sixtieth anniversary corona-
tion I invite you, not to the anniversary
of a coronation, but to a coronation itself
—aye, to two coroeations. Brought up
as we are, to love as no other form of
government that which is republican and
democratic. we living on this side of the
sea cannot so easily as those living on the
other side of the sea appreciate the tvso
coronations to which all up and down
the Bible you and I are urgently invited.
Some of you have suoh morbid ideas
of religion that you think of it as going
down into a dark cellar, or out on a
barren connnons, or as a flagellation,
when, so far from a dark cellar, it is a
palace, and instead of a barren commons
11 is a garden, atoss with the brightest
foientains that were ever rainbowed, and
instead of flagellation it is coronation,
but a coronation utterly colipsing tho one
whose sixtieth anniversary is now being
celebrated. It was a great day when
David, the little king who was large
enough to thrash Goliath, took the crown
at Rabbah—a crown weighing a talent
of gold and encircled with precious
stones—and the people shouted, "Long
live the king1" 11 was a great day when
Petrarch, surrounded by 12 patrician
youths clothed in smarten received from
a senator the laurel crown, and the peo-
ple shouted, "Long live the poet!" It
was a great day when Mark Antony put
upon Caesar the mightiest tiara of all
the earth, and in honor of divine author-
ity Caesar had it placed afterward on
the head of the statue of Jupiter Olyinus.
It was a great day when the greatest of
Frenchmen took the diadem of Charle-
magne and put it on his own brow. I1
was a great day when, about an eighth
of a mile from the gate of Jerusalem,
under a sky pallid with thickest dark-
ness, and on a mountain trammeled of
earthquake, and the air on fire with the
blasphemies of a mob, a crown of spikes
was put upon the pallid and agonized
brow of our Jesus. But that particalar
coronation, anairi tears and blood and
groans and shivering cataclysms, made
your own coronation passible.
Paul was not a man to lose his equili-
brium, but when that olcl missionary,
with crooked back and inflamed eyes,
got a glimpse of the crown coming to
him and wining to you, if you will by
repentance andfaith accept it, he went
into eostesies, and his poor oyes. flashed
and his crooked baek straightened as ho
cried to Timothy, "There is laid up tor
me a crown of righteousness," and to the
Corinthians, "laicise athletes run to `ob-
tain a corruptible We an ineotruptible'
crovyn." And to the Thessalonians he
speaks of "the crown of glory," and to
Ilia Philippians he says, "My joy and
crown." The Apostle Peter catches the
inspiration and cries out "Ye shall re-
ceive n CrOWD of glory that fadeth not
away," and St. John joins in the rapture
and says, "Faithful to death, and I will
give -thee a crown of life," and elseweere
eaclaims, 'cabala fast, that no man Wee
thy crown."Crowns, crowns, orowliel
You did not expect in coming here to
day to be invited to a coronation, You
ean searcely believe your own eats, but
in the name of a pardoning God, and a
sacrificing Christ, and an omnipotent
Holy Spirit, and. a triumpbant heaven I
offer each one a crown for the asking.
Crowns, crowns! Hove to get the crown?
The way Victoria got her orown—on her
knees. Altbough eight duchesses and
MarqUiSeS, all in cloth of silver, carried
her train, and the windows and arches
and roof of the abbey shook with the
"Te Deuin" of the organ in full dia-
pason, she had to kneel, she had to
come down. To get the crown of pardon
and eternal life you will Lave to kneel,
you will bave to come clovrn. Yea! His-
tory says that at her ooronation not only
the entthe assembly wept with profound
emotion, but Victoria was in tears. So
you Fled have to have your dry eyes mois-
tened with tears, in our case tears of
repeotance, tears of joy, tears of corona-
tion, and you will feel like crying out
with Jeremiah, "Oh, that any head were
waters and mils° eyes fountains of tears,"
Yes, she was duriog the ceremony seated
for awhile on a lowly stone called the
Lia Vail, which, as I remember 11, as I
have scan 11 again and again, was rough
and not a foot high, a lowly and humble
place in which to be seated, and if you
are to be crowned king or queen to God
forever, yon ioust be seated on the Lie,
Fail of profound huesiliation.
After all that she was ready for the
throne, and let nae say that God is not
aing to leave your exultation half done.
There are thrones as well as crowns
awaiting you, St. John shouted, "I saw
thrones 1" and again he said, "They shall
reign forever and ever," Thrones!
Thrones! Get ready for the coronation.
But I invite you not only to your own
coronation, but to a aniglitier and the
mightiest. In all the ages of time no
one ever had suoh a bard time as Christ
while he was on earth. Brambles for his
brow, expectoration for his cheek, whips
for his back, spears for his side, spikes
for his feet, contumely for his name, and
even in our time, how many say he is no
Christ at all, and there are tens of thou-
sands of hands trying to push hixn back
and keep him down. But, oh, tbe human
and satanic impotency! Can a spider stop
am albatross? Can the hole whice the
toy shovel of a child digs in the sand at
Cape May swallow the Atlantic? Can
the breath of a sunareer fan drive back
the Mediterranean earoclydon? Yes,
when all the combined forces of earth
and hell can keep Christ from ascending
the throne of universal dominion. David
tee psalmist foresaw that coronation,
and cried out in regard to the Messiah,
"Unto himself shall his crown flourish."
From the cave of black basalt St. John
foresaw it, and cried, "On his head were
many crowns." Now do not miss the
beauty of that figure. There is no roosn
in any head for more than one crown of
silver, gold or diamond. Then what does
the book mean when it says, "On his
head were many crowns?" Well, it
means twisted and enwreathed floWers.
To prepare a crown for your child and
make ber the "queen of the May," you
might take the white flowers out of one
parterre, and the crimson flowers out of
another parterre, and the blue flowers
out of another parterre, and the pink
flowers out al another parterre, and
grace:Ally and skillfully work these four
or five crowns into one crown of beauty.
So all the splendors of earth and heaven
are to be enwreathed into one ooronal for
our Lord's forehead—one blazing glory,
one dazzling brightness, one overpower-
ing perfume, one clown flashing, up roll-
ing, outspreading maguificence—and so
on his head shall be annoy crowns,
Oross and Crown.
The world's best musio will yet be
sounded in his praise, the world's best
architect:on built for his worship, the
world's best paintings descriptive of bis
triumphs, the world's best saulpture per -
pallets the memory of his heroes and
heroines. Already the crown woven out
of many crowns Is being put upon his
brow. His scarred feet are already ascend-
ing the throne. A careful statistician
estimates that ill 1950 there will be 170,-
000,000 people in the United States, and
by the present ratio of uniting with the
church 100,000,000 of them will be church
members. What think ye of that, ve
pessimists inspired by the devil? the dead-
est failure in the universe is the kingdom
of Eaten. The grandest throne of all time
and all eternity is the one that Christ is
now mounting. .The most of as will not
see the consummation of this world, but
WO will gaze on it from the high hea-
vens. The moreing of that consumma-
tion will arrive, and what a stir in the
holy ethyl All the towers of gold will
ring Its arrival. All the chariots will
roll into line. The armies of heaven
which John saw seated on white horses
passing in infinite cavalecase The in-
habitants of Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South Anaerica aaad of all Islands of
the sea, and perhams of other worlds,
will join in a procession, competed with
which tlaat of next Tuesday will not
make one battalion. The Conqueror
ahead, baying OD bis vesture and on his
thigh written "Kiog of Kings and Lord
of Lords," and when he passes through
the chief of the 12 uplifted gates, all na-
tions following, may you and I be there
to hear the combined ehout of church
militant and church triumphant. 'Until
the choirs standing on "the sea of glass
mingled with ilre" shall sound tbe tri-
umph in more jubiliant strains, accom-
panied by harpers with their hates and
trumpeters "with their trumpets, the
hundred and forty and four thousand
coming into the chorus, I think we will
stiok to Isaac Watts'old aiymn, which
the 5,000 natives of 'Tonga, Fiji and
Samoa sang when they gave up their
idolatries for Christianity, and I would
net be surprised to see some of you old
heroes of the cross, who for a life time
have been toiling in the service, beating
time with your right hand, a little tromu-
Ions with many years:— •
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his suaessive journeys run;
His kingticnn stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise aud set no more.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar boners to our Klieg,
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud anaen.
Not Unlikely.
"I wonder who over set the fashion for
dressing children in sailor suits," ob-
served Mr. Mann.
'I doss' maybe it wath Mrs. Noah,
papa," lisped Polly.—Harper's Bazaar.
'Suitable for a Boy.
Lady Shopper—I Watt to get some-
thing saitable for a boy of 10 years.
Salesman—Slipper counter down in
second aisle, turn to your rightP—Bestop
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GRANT AS A WRITER.
His Style Was Vigorous and Terse, With
Little Ornament.
General Horace Porter in `` Campaign,
mg With Grant" in Tbe Century ex-
presses tbe following opinion of Grant
astid
tiona worfittelrio: wths 13°Ovvreeroftoefn eshrlocne-rin)
tiy
the cironmstances under which be
vyrote. Nothing that Went on around°
hins, epee the field or in his quarters,
could distract his attention or interrupt
him Sometimes, when his tent was
filled with officers talking and laughing
at the top of their voices, he would
turn to his table and write the most
kmportant communications. There
would then be an immediate "Hushl"
and abundant excuses offered by the
eompany, but he always insisted upon
the conversation going on, and after
awhile his officers came to understand
his wishes in this respect, to learn that
noise was apparently a stiaxmlus rather
than a check to his flow of ideas, and
to realize that nothing short of a gen-
eral attack along the 'whole line could
divert his thoughts from the subject
upon which his mind was concentrated.
In writing his style was vigorous and
teree, with little of ornament. Its most
conspicuous characteristic was perspi-
cuity. General Meade's chief of staff
onco SaiC1, "There is one striking feature
about Grant's orders—no matter how
hurriedly he may write them on the
fleld, no one ever has the slightest
doubt as to their meaning or ever has
to read them over a second time to uo-
derstand them." The general used An-
glo-Saxon words much more frequently
than those derived from the Greek and
Latin tongues, He had studied French
at West Point and picked up some
knowledge of Spanish during the Mexi-
can war, but he could not hold a con-
versation in either language, and rarely
employed a foreign word in any Of his
writings. His adjectives were few end
well chosen, No document vvhich ever
came from his hands was in the least
degree pretentious. Henever laid claim
to any knowledge he did not possess and
seemed to feel, with Addison, that "ped-
antry in learning is like hypocrisy in
religion—a form of knowledge without
the power of it."
He rarely indulged in metaphor, but
when he did employ a figure of speech
it was always expressive and graphic,
as when he spoke of the.00mmander at
Bermuda Hundred being "in a bottle
strongly corked" or referred to our ar-
mies at one time as moving "like horses
in a balky team, no two ever pulling
together." His style inclined to the epi-
grammatic without his being aware of
it. There was scarcely a document writ-
ten by him from which brief sentences
could not be selected fit to be set in
mottos or placed upon transparenoies.
.As examples niay be mentioned: "I
propose to move immediately upon your
works," "I shall take no backward
steps," the famous "I propose to fight
it out on this line if it takes all sum-
mer," and. later in his career, "Let us
have peace." "The best means of secur-
ing the repeal of an obnoxious law is its
vigorous enforcement," "I shall have
no policy ic enforce against the will of
athscepe.0
eople" and "Let nm
o guiltY an
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FIRST WHITE HOUSE BATH.
Van Buren Was Criticised For Introduc-
ing the Tub into the Mansion.
In an article on "The Domestic, Side
of the White House," in The Ladies'
Home Journal, ex -President Harrison
gives this interesting view of the home
portion of the executive mansion: "Prop.
erly speaking," be says, "there are
five bedrooms in the executive mansion
though by the use of two dressing rooms
and of the end of a short hali that for-
naerly opened to a large north window,
htit has Dow been closed up to make a
small bedroom, the number may be in-
creased to eight. There are no suitable
servants' quarters. Those provided are
in the basement, and only those open-
ing to the south are habitable. The
north rooms open upon a darop brick
arena and are unhealthy. One of the
basement rooms, having a southern ex-
posure, is fitted up as a billiard room,
but -very plainly.
"It is said that provision for a library
for the White House was first made dur-
ing Mr. Fillraore's term. Neat eases are
arranged about the room, and most of
them are filled with books—old editions
of historical and classical works. There
is no oatalogue, and the library has not
been kept up.
"President Adores introduced bill-
iards into the White House, purchasing
the first table, balls and cues at a cost
of $61, paying for them out of his on
pocket. President Van Buren was
charged by a political adversary and
scathing critic as being the first of our
presidents to discover that the pleasures
of the warm or tepid bath are the proper
accompaniments of a palace life. For it
appears that our former presidents were
content with the application, when nec-
essary, of the simple shower bath. Mr.
Van lariren's crit4o then refers with high
approval to the salutary side of Mr.
Adores' heroio habit of bathing in the
Potomac between daybreak and sun-
rise.' "
Color Run Had.
Are we not losiog any innate peroep-
tion of .grace Of line and harmony of
coloring that we may once have pos-
sessed through our weak minded sub-
mission to chanaeleon coated Dame Fash-
ion, who plays pranks that at tinses are
positively sardonic? I saw a woraan the
ether day iu a boimet that boasted three
shades of pink, two of magenta, four of
green, three of yellow and a fine blob of
scarlet like a "little round button at
tom" And at first I thought she looked
nice! It took time to realize that each
tiut clashed with the other tint, so de-
cadent had become my taste in milli-
nery. Wom an.
Necessarily So.
Mand—Is life vvorth the living? Ab ,
that is a great ccumedruml
Cynicus—Yes, We all have to give it,
up.-13rooklyn Life.
,qIE COULD NOT EATS -
THE STATEMENT OF A LADY WHO
WAS A DYSPEPTIC.
Ad1ietN1 With Pain,in the Stomach, Illato
sea and Vomiting -Constipation, Reath
aches and Other Distressing SYnaPtoms
rolJoured,
From Le Sorelpis, Soren Que.
Dyspepsia and kindred disorders of the
digestive trgtins are beckon:hog alarming
ly prevalent among the people of all
classek, and it is safe to say that there
are fe n ills afflicting mankind produc-
tive of more real anie4ry than iudSgestion.
It is said that happiness and a good di-
gestion go hared in band, and the state-
ment contains more truth than has been
generally admitted. It may be safely
said, therefore, that the medicine that
will cure dyspepsia is a blessing to Man-
kind, a promoter of human happioess,
whose good work cannot be too widely
known. Saab is the opinion of Mrs. P.
Lussier, of Sorel, Que., and it is because
of this that she gave the folowing state-
ment to a representative of Le Sorelois.
"For some time past," she said, "1 had
been suffering from a malady that at
first 1 could not define, but evnich proved
to be a severe attack of dyspepsia. After
each meal 1 felt a sensation of over full-
ness, even when I had eaten most spar-
ingly. This feeling was accompanied by
severe paths in the region of the etom-
anh,ana frequently by nausea, and some-
times vornitiog. Constipation followed,
which added to ray misery. In the inter-
val I suffered from fever and slight bead -
ache and became generally indisposed.
At times the path in the stomach was
less severe. My appetite was leaving me,
had eo taste for anything and at this
stage my son, Alfred, assistant manager
of Le Sorelois urged me to try Dr. Wile
limns' Pink Pills, at the same time urg-
ing me to read an article in that paper
which related to tho cure of a person
smxnhlnrly afflicted. I was skeptical and
did not believe the pills would help me,
but a few days later I re -read the article
and decided that I would try this medi-
cine and I have Inuoh reason to be glad
that I old so. I took a couple of Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills after each meal and
little by little perceived that my digestion
was becoming more easy. I continued
the use of the pills for a little more than
a month, and have pleasure in stating
that my cure is complete, At nay age (66
years) one greatly appreciates being able
to enJoy one's meals, and I bless the
day 1 began to use Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and I heartily reconaend them to
other sufferers."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure indigos -
Noe, rheuxnatism, neuralgia, locomotor
ataxia, St. "Vitus' dance'aervous bead -
ache mid prostration, diseases of the
blood, such as scrofula, chronio erysip-
elas, and restores pale and sallow com-
plexions to the glow of 'health. They are
a specific) for all the troubles peculiar to
the female sex, and in men cure all oases
arising from worry, overwork., or excess-
es. Sold by all chemists and by Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., at
50c per box or six boxes for 22.50. There
are imitation pille colored pink against
which the publie are warned. The genu-
ine pills are put up in boxes, the wrapper
around which hes the full trade mark,
"Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
ple." Take nothing else.
The amount of money actually in cir-
euation in this country is estimated to be
21,600,000,000.
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