HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-30, Page 7rusic IN CHURCHES.
REV. DR. TALMAGE FAVORS CON-
GREGATIONAL SINGING..
/ha Importance of Sacred Music and Some
O f the Obstacles to Its Advancement—A
Oincing Church is AlwaYS a SucceSsful
One.
Washington, Sept, 26.—Dr. Talmage
In this discourse rallies the °bombes to
mote hearty congregational singing, and
calls upon instruments of musio to join
In the praise of God. The text is II
Chrordeles v, 18 "It came even to pass
as the trunmeters and singers were as
one, to make one sound to be heard in
praising and thanking the Lord."
The temple was done. It was the very
chorus of all magnificence and pomp.
Splendor crowded against splendor. It
was the diamond necklace of the earth.
imo From the huge pillars crowned with
leaves and flowers and rows and snuffers
made out of pure gold, everything was
as complete as the God directed architect
could make it It seemed as if a vision
from heaven had alighted on the moun-
tains. The day for dedication came.
Tradition says that there were in and
around. about the temple an that day
200,000 silver trumpets, 40,000 harps,
40,000 tirabrels and 200,000 singers. So
that all raodern demonstrations at Dus-
seldorf or Boston seem nothing compared
with that. .As this great sound surged up
axnid the precious stones of the temple,
It roust have seemed like the river of life
dashing against the anietlayst of the wall
of heaven. The sound arose, and God,
as if to show that be was pleased with
the musio wbich his children make in
all ages, dropped into the midst of the
temple a cloud of glory so overpowering
that the allele -those priests were obliged
to stop in the midst of the services.
The Birth or Illusie.
There has been much disoussion as to
where mush; was born, I think that at
the beginning, "when the morning stars
sane together and all, the sons of God
*touted for joy," the earth heard the
echo. The cloud on which tbe angels
stood to celebrate the creating was the
birthplace of song. Tbe stare that glitter
at night are only so many keys of celes-
tial pearl me which God's fingers play the
rause] of the spheres, Inanimate nature
Is full of God's stringed and winged in-
struments. Silence itself—perfect &levee
—is only a musical rest In God's great
authem of worship. Wind among the
leaves, insect hummiog in the summer
air, the rush of billow upon the beach,
the ocean far out sounding its everlast-
ing psalm, the boboliok on the edge of
the forest, the quail whistling up from
the grass, are musio. Wnile visiting
Blackwell's island X heard, coming from
a wirelow of the lunatics asylum, a very
sweet song, It was sung by one wbo had
lost her reason, and I have come to be-
lieve that even tho deranged and dis-
ordered elements of nature would make
enttsio to our ear if we only bad acute-
ness enough to listen. I suppose that
even the sounds in nature that are dis-
cordant and repulsive make harmony in
God's ear. You know that you may
come so near to an orchestra, that the
sounds are painful instead of pleasurable,
and I think that we stand so near de-
vastating storm and frightful vbirlyeind
Yee cannot hear that which makes to
God's ear and the ear of the spirits above
us a music as complete as it is tremend-
ous.
propose to speak about sacred music,
first showing you its importance and
then stating some of the obstacles to its
advancement.
Sacred Music.
draw the first argument for the im-
portance of saored music from the fact
;that God commanded it. Through Paul
be tells -us to admonish one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
through David he cries out, "Sing ye to
,God, all ye kingdoms of the earth." And
there are hundreds of other passages I
might name'proving that it is as muoh
t
a man's duy to sing as it is his duty to
,pray. Indeed I think there are xnore com-
mands in the Iiible to sing than there
are to pray. God not only asks for the
human voice, but for the instruments of
musio. He asks for the cymbal and the
harp and the trumpet. And I suppose
that in the last days of the church, the
harp, the lute, the trumpet and all the
instruments of music; that have given
their chief aid to the theater and bac-
chanal will be brought by their masters
and laid down at the feet of Christ and
then sounded in the church's triumph
on her way from suffering into glory.
"Praise ye the Lord!" Praise bine with
your voices. Praise him with stringed
instruments and with orgahs.
I draw another argument for the Ito-
, portanoo of this exercise from the im-
pressiveness of the exercise. You know
something of what secular music has
achieved. You know it has made its im-
pression upon governments, upon laws,
upon literature, upon wbole generations.
One inspiring national air is worth 80,-
000 men as a standing army.. There
. comes a time in the battle when one
bugle is worth 1,000 muskets. In the
earlier part of our civil war the govern-
ment proposed to economize in bands of
music and many of them were Sent
home, but the generals in the army sent
word to Washington: "You are making
:St a very great mistake. We are falling
back and falling back. We have not
enough music." 1 have to tell you that
no nation or olatareh can afford to severe -
V economize in xnusio. •
Why should we rob the prograraxnes of
worldly gayety whee we have so many
appropriate songs and tunes composed in
our own day, as well as that magnifi-
cent inheritance of church psalmody
which has come down fragrant with the
deyotions of other generations—tunes no
more worn out than when our great-
grandfathers climbed up on them from
the church pew to glory? Dear old shuts,
haw they used to sing! And in those
days there were certain twee married
to certain hymns, and while they have
lived in peace a great while, these two
old people, and we have no right to
divorce them. Born as we have been
amid this great wealth of church music,
augmented by the compositioue of artists
ha our day, we ought not to be tempted
out of the sphere of °bristle?) harmony
and try to seek unconsecrated sounds.
It is absurd for a millionaire to steal.
Many of you are illustrations of what
a sacred song can do. Through it you
were brought into the kingdom of Jesus
Christ. You stood out against the warn-
•
Ing and the argument of the pulpit, but
when in the sweet words of -Charles
Wesley, or John Newton, or Toplady, the
love of Jesus was sung to your soul,
then you surrendered, as an armed castle
that could not be tieken by a host lifts
its window to listea to a harp's trill.
A Sacred Song.
There was a Scotch soldier dying in
New Orleans and a &latch minister
came in to give him the consolations of
the gospel, The man turned over on, his
pillow and said, "Don't talk to nie about
religion" Then the rninister began to
sing a familiar hymn that was composed
by David Dickenson, beginning with the
words:—
Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem,
When shall I come to thee?
Re sang it to the tune of Dundee, and
everybody in Scotland knows that, and.
as he began to sing the dying soldier
turned over on his pillow and said to the
minister, "Where did you learn that?"
"Why," replied the minister, "my ano-
ther taught me that." "So did mine,"
said the dying soldier, and the very
foundation of his boart was upturned,
and then and there he yielded himself to
Christ. Oh, it has an irresistible power!
Luther's sermons have been forgotten,
but his Judgment Hymn slogs on
Caro -ugh the ages and will keep on sing-
ing urtil the blast of the archangel's
trumpet shall bring about that very day
which the hymn celebrates. I would to
God that you would take these songs of
salvation as messags from heaven, for
just as certainly as the bird brought food
to Elijah by the brook Cherith so these
w nged harmonies God sent are flying to
your soul with the bread of life. Open
your mouths and take it, 0 bungry Elijah 1
1 have also noticed the power of saored
song to soothe perturbation. You may
have cones in here with a great many
worriments and aexieties, yet perhaps
in the singing of the first hymn you lost
them ail. You have read in the Bible of
Saul, and how he was sad .and angry,
and how the boy David came in and
played the evil spirit out of him. A
Spanish king was inelanoholy. Tbe win-
dows were all closed. He sat in the
darkness. Nothing could bring him
forth until Vraneli came and discoursed
musio for three or four days to him. On
the fourth day he looked up and wept
aud rejoiced, and the windows were
thrown open, and that which salt the
spleeders of the court could not 'do the
power of song athomplithed. If you have
anxieties arid worriments, try this hea-
venly charm upon them. Do not sit
down on the bank of the hymn but
plunge in, that the devil of care may be
brought out of you.
It also arouses to action. De you not
know that a singing church is always a
triumphant church? If a congregation is
silent during the exercises or partially
sileet, it is the silence of death, If
when the bynin is given out you hear
the faint hum of here and there a father
and mother in Israel, while the vast
majority are silent, that minister of
Christ who is presiding needs to have a
very strong constitution if he does not
get the chills. Ile needs not only the
grace of tad, but nerves like whalebone.
It is amazing bow some people with
voice enough to discharge all their dit-
ties in the world, when they come into
the house of God have no voice to dis-
charge this duty. I really believe that if
the church of Christ could rise up and
sing as it ought to sing, where we have
100 souls broughb into the kingdom of
Christ there would be 1,000. How was
it in olden times? Cajetan said, "Lather
conquered us by his songs."
Music or saran
But I must now speak of some of the
obstacles in the way of the advancement
of this sacred music, and the first is that
It hes been .impressed into the service of
setae. I am far from believing that
inusio ought always to be positively re-
ligious. Refined art has opened places
where music has been secularized, and
lawfully so. The drawing -room, the con-
cert, by the gratification of pure taste
and the production of harmless amuse-
ment and- hnprovement of talent,
have beeonie very forces in the advance-
ment of our civilization. Music has as
much right to laugh in Surrey gardens
as it has to pray in St. Paul's. In the
kingdom of nature we have the glad
Meng of the wind as well as the long
meter psalm of the thunder'but while
all this is so, every observer has noticed
that this art, which God intended for the
improvement of the ear'and the voice,
and the head, and the heart, bas often
been impressed into the service of error.
Tartini, the musical composer, dreamed
one night that satin snatched from his
band an instrument and played upon it
something very sweet—a dream that has
often been fulfilled in our day, the voice
and the instrument that ought to have
been devoted to Christ captured from
the °Mirth and applied to the purposes
of sin.
Another obstacle bas been an inordin-
ail) fear of criticism. The vast majority
of people singing in church never want
anybody else to hear them sing. Every-
body is waiting for somebody else to do
his duty. If we all sang, then the inac-
curacies that are evident -when only a
few sing would be drowned out. God
asks you to do as well as you can, and
then if you get the wrong pitch or keep
wrong time be will forgive any deficiency
of the ear and imperfection of the TOICO.
Angels will not laugh if you should lose
your place in the musical scale or come
in at the close a bar behind. There are
three schools of singing, I am told—the
German school, the Italian school and
she French school of singing. Now, I
would like to add a fourth school, and
that is the school of Christ. The voice
of a contrite, broken heart, althoegh it
may not be able to 'stand huthan prat-
cism, xnakes better music to God's ear
than the most artistic performance ehen
the heart is wanting. God calls on the
beasts,' on the fettle, on the dragons to
praise him, and 378 aught not to be be-
hind the cattle arid the dragons.
Let All Sing, -
Another obstacle in the advancement
of this art has been the erroneousnotion
that this part of the service could be con-
ducted by delegations. Churches ha,ve
said, "Oh, what an easy time we shall
have! The minister will do the preachine and the choir will do the singing,
and we will have nothing to do." And
you know as well as 1 that there are a
great multitude of churches all though
this hind where the petiole are not ex-
pected to sing. The whole work is done
by delegation of four or Six or ten per-
sons, and the audience are silent. In
such a church in Syracuse an old -elder
persisted in singing, and so the choir
appointed a committee to go and ask the
eicier if he would net stop, You know
that in many churehes the choir aro ex-
pected to do all the eioging, encl the
great mass of the petiole are 'expected to
he silent, and if vie utter your voice
you are interfering. in that,' church they
stand, the four, with opera glasses
dangling at their Ode, singing "Rook of
ages, cleft for me," with the same spirit
that the night before on. the stage they
took their part in the "Grande Duch -
ease" or "Doo Giovanni."
My Christian friends, have we a right
to delegate to others the dlsoharge of this
duty which God demands ofus Suppose
that four woodthrushes propose to do all
the singing some bright day when the
woods are ringing with bird voioes. It is
decided that tour woodthrushes shall do
till the singing in the forest. Let all
other voices keep silent. How beautifully
She four warble! It is really fine musio.
But how long will you keep the forest
still? Why, Christ would wine into tbat
forest and look up as lie looked through
the olives, and he would wave els hand
and say, "Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord," and, keeping time
with the stroke of innumerable wings,
there would be 5,000 bird voices leaping
into the harmony.
Suppose this delegation of musical
performers were tried in heaven. Sup-
pose that four ehoiee spirits should try'
to do the singing of the upper teinple.
Hirsh now, thrones and dominions anti
principalities! David, be still, though
you were the "sweet singer of Israel,"
Paul, keep quiet, though you have come
to that crown of rejoicing. Richard Bax-
ter, iteep still, tbourth this is the "Saints'
Everlasting Rest." Four spirits USW do
all the singing, but how long would
heaven be quiet? How longt
fah!" would cry some glorified, Methodist
from under the altar. "Praise the Lord!"
would sing the martyrs from among the
thrones. "Thaolte be ante God who
giveth us the viototy I" a great multi-
tude of redeemed spirits wouid ory, my-
riads of voices coming into the harmony
and the 144,000 breaking forth into one
acclamation.. Stop that loud singing!
Stop! Oh, no. They cannot hear me.
You might as well try to drowo the
thunder of the sky, or beat Wolf the roar
of the sea, for every soul in heaven has
resolved to do its own" singing, Alas
that we should have tried on earth that
which they cannot do in heaven, and,
instead of joining all our voices in the
praise of the most high God, delegating
perhaps to unconseeratea man and wo-
men this most solemn and most delight-
ful service.
spirited singing.
Mueie ought to rush from the audience
like the water from a rook—clear, bright,
sparkling. If all the other part of the
ehureb service is dull, do not have tbe
mush: dull. With eo many thrilling
things to sing about, away with all
drawling and stupidity! There is noth-
leg makes me Sonervous as to sit in a
pulpit and look off on an audience with
their lips almost shut, nrumbling Out
praises of God. During my recent alt,
some I preaohed to a large audience, and
all the music they made together clid not
equal one skylark. People do not sleep at
o coromition Do not let us sleep when
we come to a Saviour's crowning. In
order to a peeper discharge of this duty
let us stand up, save as age or weakness
or fatigue excuses us. Seated in an easy
new we cannot do this duty half so well
US when upright we throw our whole
body into it, Let our song be like an
acclamation of victory. You have a right
to sing. Do not sorrender your preroga-
tive.
' We want to rouse all our families upon
this subject. We want each family of
our congregation to be a singing school.
Childish petulrince, olaluraey and in-
tractability would be soothed if we had
more singing in the household, and then
our little ones would be prepared for the
great congregation on Sabbath day, their
voices uniting -with our voices in the
praises of the Lord. After a shower there
are scores of strelons that come down
the mountain side with voices rippling
and silvery, pouring into one river and
then rolling in united strength to the
sett. So I would breve all the families in
our chorale send forth the voice of prayer
and praise, pouring it into 'the great
tide of public worship that rolls on and
on to empty into the great, wide heart
of God. Never can we have our chureh
sing as it ought until our families sing
• as they ought.
There will be a great revolution on
this subject in all our churches. God
will come down by his spirit and rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
not been more thau half awake since the
time of our grandfathers. The silent
pews in the church will break forth into
111liSig, and when the conduotoreakes his
place on the Sabbath day there will be a
great host of voices rushing into the
harmony. My Christian friends, if eye
have no taste for this service on earth,
what will we do in heaven, where they
all sing, and sing forever? I would that
our singing to -day might be like the
Saturday night rehearsal for the Sabbath
morning in the skies, and we might be
gin now, by the strength and by the
help of God, to discharge a duty which.
none of us has fully performed, .And
now what more appropriate. thing can I
do than to give out the doxology of the
heavens, "Unto him who bath loved us
and washed us from our sins in his heat
blood, to him be glory forever!"
Emperor William's Tattle Joke.
In view of the recent discussion in
the English Parliament about the neces-
sity of keeping . Germans and other in-
quisitive foreigners out of British dock-
yards, it is rather amusing to learo that
Emperor William has just bad printed
at Berlin a large volume, containing
minute and exhaustive particulars about
the construction, the armament and the
peculiarities of every British warship,
and, as if to poke fun at the English
Government, he has seot a copy of the
compilation, with bis compliments, to
every member of the board of admiralty
in London. The , lords—for that is the
official title of the admirals and politi-
cians who are intrusted with the destin-
ies of the royal navy—are now engaged
in endeavoring to discover the source of
the German Raiser's extraordinary
amount of information, much of which
is coniprisecl among what bas hitherto
been coesiclered in the light of offioial
secrets of the English Government. --
New York. Tribune.
How to Cover an Umbrella.
An old umbrella frame can often be
covered with black sateen at a trifling
expense and will answer for the ohildren
to carry to school or for an extra una-
brelle, on many occasions. Take two
yards of best black sateen and use one
section of the cover of the old one for
a pattern. Cut the new eloth a seam
smaller than the old one, as it will
stretch, and it needs to be Very tight.
Cut as many sections as the old one had,
sew them together and hem the edg,e,
and your cover is ready to try one
Slip it on the frame and teak it, and
if it is not perfectly tight all over re
-
Move and tak.e larger seams in the looae
places,
FORGOT HIS PROMISE,
Sad Story of a Sailor Whom Drink Brought
to the Gallo:as.
WbeLl W. Burns Thomson kiaown
throughout Scotland as the naedieel
missionary, was a young inan preseout-
lag WS medical studies, he was assistant
chaplain of the Edinburgh prison. There
many strange and sad experiences in She
lives of convicts comae to his knowledge.
The following, told by himself and in-
cluded in his biography by Mr. Maxwell,
shows how one mistake in conduct may
prove fatal to oloaracter and even to life
itself.
Mr. Thomson was leaving Calton jail
one afternoon, when the governor, step-
ping from a group of officials,. said to
him: "Please tyaiv. We are expecting a
heavy sentence."
In a short tarie the gates were opened
ana the police vire came in. When the
(natter of bolts had ceased, a prisoner
stepped out of the van. After glanchag
for a moment at the papers handed to
bini the governor whispered to Mr.
Thomson one word, "Death!"
After the man was taken to his cell
the young chaplain went to see him.
When the warden had len the cell, the
prisoner looked earnestly at his visitor
and seid, "So you don't know me?"
"I do not recall baying seen you ha-
ters," was tee reply.
"But I remember you," the prisoner
exclaimed, so bitterly that the chaplain
wondered for a moment whether he
could ever have done him an injury.
Almost immediately the coodetnned man
broke into a paroxyein of grief, wring-
ing his hands anSi crying:—
'Oh, if I had keptany promise! If I
had only kept my promise, I should not
be here to -day."
Ho was a typical Biltish tar with a
free luind and a generous heart when he
was sober. 'Under the influence of liquor
he had quarreled with his -wife anti had
pushed her down stairs to her death.
It seems that three years previous to
his trial and conyietiou for murder he
had been senteneed to 80 deys ia Prison
because of a drunken row. Then be at-
tended the prison meetings held by Mr.
Thomson, who, after ripe of these gather-
ings, took the sailor bete his private
room, prayed with him and then warned
him earneetly against drink. The mur-
derer now told the chaplain this and
ended hie confession in these words:—
"I promised you faithfully that I
'would give it up, and sol did for awhile,
but it came back on me. Since then I
have been around the world, and to think
thet, I am here and that it bas come to
this:" Then Named an outburst of
agony and the plaintive wail, "Ob, if I
had kept my. promise!"
This for weeks was his remorseful
refrain uutil the moment of his execu-
tion. As the unhappy man was led to
the scaffold he looked down upon his
black clothes arid then at the good chap-
lain.
"Oh, William," he exclaimed, "Wil -
limn, (lid ever I expect to see you in
ourning for yourself?"
Treinbling with emotion, he soon after
shook hands with Mr. Thomson, &eying
penitently as he did so, "Ob, that I had
kept my promise!"
"Oh, if I had kept my promise!" is
the sil nt wail of Wally a ruined life.—
Youth's Companion.
Whisky in illedleine.
A convention of the American Medical
Temperance Association was held recent-
ly on Staten Island. Members of the
association are pledged to personal total
abstinence, but are not restrained from
the use of alcoholic stimulants in their
practice, although its use is opposed by
O large majority of the members. Dr. T.
Grothers, of Hartford, who presided,
geld physicians had Outgrown the theory
that a habit was good because every one
had it. He said it was an exploded
theory that a teaspoonful of alcohol
would produce a gallon of epergy.
Dr. D. A. Elsworth said be had not
used alcohol in any form itt his practice
Lor 15' years and had been able to obtain
better results, particularly in eases of
typhoid fever. -
Dr. Shepherd, of Brooklyn, said that
alcohol passed through the human sys-
tem without undergoing any change. Its
action was to paralyze the nerve centers.
One grain of wheat contained more nu-
trition than a keg of beer and a beefsteak
more nutrition than a gill of wine. The
administration of stiumlants to children
was particularly disastrous, he said, be-
cause the tissues of a child were easily
destroyed by it.
Dr. A. M. Lesser, surgeon at the New
York Red Cross hospital, declared that
It was the duty of physioians and
preachers to eradicate alcohol from gen-
eral medical practice. Sincehhe opening
of the Red Cross hospltal in 189e, he
said, over 1,000 oases had been treated
without the nse of alcohol, and the
mortality rate had been only 1 per cent.
Sullicient Unto the Day.
In accomplishing your day's work you
have simply to take a step at a time. To
take that step wisely is all that you need
think about. If 1 aan climbing a moun-
tain, to look down may make me dizzy
to look too fax up may snake nie tired
and discouraged. Take no anxious
thought for the morrow. Sufficient for
the day—yes, apd for each hour in the
day—is the toil or the trial thereof.
There is not a child of God in this world
who is strong enough to stand the strain
of to -day's duties ad all the load of to-
morrow's anxieties piled upon the top of
them. Paul himself would have broken
down if he had attempted the experi-
ment. We have a perfect right to ask our
Heavenly Father for strength equal to
the day; but WO have no eight to ask
Him for one extra ounce of strength for
anything heyond it. When,. the morrow
comes, grace will come with it, sufficient
for its tasks or for its troubles.
Injured by Brit&
I should join issue at once with those
people who .helleve that intellectual work
cannot be,t-tone to well without wine or
alcohol. I should deny that proposition
and hold the very opposite. 'All alcohol
and all things of an alcoholic nature in
jure the nerve tissues, protenmore, if not
altogether. You may quicken the opera-
tions, bnt you do not improve them. It
is one of the commonest things in Eng-
lish seeiety that people are injured by
drink without being drunkards. It goes.
on so quietly that it is difficult to ob-
serve. A man's nearest friends frequently
Will not observe it.—Sir William Gull,
M.D.
A otiOn of! Aleob01.
German chemists now say that about
90 per cent. of all alcohol swallowed Is
tinned into carbonic acid and water in
She system, and that alcohol robs the
cells of the oxygen required for their
life. Drunkenness is caused; they say, by
the action of the excess of carbonic acid
in the blood upon the brain,
HIS DREAM CAME TRUE.
rms. Fact WO Plain, and the Darky
Wouldn't Be Eunkoeta„
An old Georgia darker had a dream, and
In that dream he saw an iron vessel at the
roots of a dead oak tree and the vessel was
filial with silver dollars. He had great
faith in dreams, and be communicated
Leis ciee to Ms wife, who in turn told it to
her neiglibors.
15 got to the ears of twe practical jokers
about town, who placed a dozen dollars in
such 0 receptaole as the old man's dream
bad pictured and buried it beneath "a
dead oak tree."
Then one night when the old man went
to digging around the dead trees in the
vicinity they secreted themselves and ,
watched him at bis work.
finally he came to the tree where the
dollars were and presently unearthed them,
and at the sight of the saver he fell on his
knees and returned thaeks to heaven.
Then the young nona presented them.
selves, had a good laugh aed explained
Matters. They had had their fun out of
the old man, and now they wanted their
"Drees all right, genlemen," be said,
"ter wine beah en claim what de Lewd
send, but I dreamed it, en 1 digged it, en
damn of I ain't gwine ter hol it!'
He was in earnest. He squared himself,
spit on bis hands and swung his ax in a
threatening manner.
"Yo' can't fool nie—none 0r yo'. I
dream de dream, I tell ye', on I cligged
bite de debbil fer de inoney. Go 'long en
wuk fer yo' livin!"
The young men are just $10 out The
old man is dreaming with that ionob un-
der his heart—Atlanta Constitution.
A VETERAN'S STORY.
At Eights Years or Ago One Box or Dr.
strZnetv's Catarrhal rowdOr CI,Irti& a
Case of riftYears standing --
it Relieves Colds and Ca-
tarrh in 30 Minutes.
George Lewis, of Shamokin, Pa.,
writes: "I ara eighty years of age. I
have been troubled with catarrh for fifty
years, awl in my time have used a great
many eatarth cures, but never bad any
relief Meal 1 used ler. Agnew's Ca-
tarrhal Powder. One box cured nee com-
pletely, and it gives me great pleasure to
reconuneud it to all suffering from this
malady.
Wheel Talk.
Fle--How I wish we could ride thus
forever along life's patirsvay side by side.
She—Yes, you say that; but wager
anything that in no time at all you
would be hinting for me to stay at home,
anti 0001; you three meals a day.
Itching, Bernier; skin Diseases Cured for
Th1rty-11w. Cents.
Dr, Agnew's Ointment relieves in one
day and cures Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald
Dead, Eczema, Barber's Itch, Ulcers,
Blotches and all eruptions of the skin. It
15 soothing and quieting runt nets like
magic, in the cure of all baby humors;
35 cents.
A Judge's indignation.
"That machine, Judge," saiSi the vic-
tim of the bioyele thief, "was the finest
:u the market—"
"Stop!" cried the judge. "I'll floe
you $5 for contempt. This Court rides
the finest wheel on the market."
Treatment et Skin Disen,es in Bellevue
liospital, ew Three
Professor Joseph N. Henry, M.D.,
lecturer on Dermatology, Bellevue Hos-
pital, New York, writes: "I have used
'Pheno-Banurn' (lQuickourai) in chronic
skin diseases: namely, Psoriasis, and
obstinate ulceration of the leg, due to
yaricositas; and also in suppurative
dermatitis. I have found it to be of
marked service, and consider it a very
good preparation."
BusinesAlilte.
"I wonder what Grinder's wife gets
him uti at such an unearthly hour in the
morning for?"
"So she'll have more time to call him
down, I guess."
The great. demand for a pleasant-, safe
and reliable antidote for all affections of
the throat and lungs is fixity met with in
Biekle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup. Ie 55
O purely Vegetable Compound, and acts
promptly and magically in subduing all
coughs, colds, bronchitis, inflammation of
the lunge.' etc. It, is so palatable that a
child willrot refuse it, and 15 18 put at' a
price that will not exclude the poor from
its benefits.
More Wisdom,
"What is an old-fashioned patriot?"
Well, he is a fellow who doesn't be-
lieve that baseball ought to go ahead of
statesmanship."
There never' was, and never will be, a
universal panacea, in one remedy, for all
bit in which flesh is heir—the very nature
of many curatives being such that were
the germs of other and differently seated
diseases rooted in the system of the
patient—what would relieve one ill in
turn would aggravate the other. We
have, however, in Quinine Wine, when
obtainable in a sound unadulterated
state, a remedy for many and grevious
By its gradual and judicious use, the
frailest systems are led into convalescence
and strengthe by the influence which Qui-
nine exerts on Nature's own restoratives.
Itrelieyee tbe drooping spirits of those
with whom a chronic state of morbid des-
pondency and lack of interest in life is a
disease, and, by tranquilizing, the nerves,
disposes to souud amt refreshing sleep—
imparts vigor to the action of the blood,
which, being stimulated, courses through-
out the veins, strengtheuing the healthy
animal fuections of the system, thereby
making activity a necessary result,
strengthening the frame, and riving life
to the digestive organs, whiclinaturally
demand increased substance—result, im-
proved appetite. Northrop & Lyman of
Toronto, have given to the public their
superior Quinine Wine atthe usual rate,
and, gauged by the opinion of scientists,
this wine approaches nearest perfection of
auy in the market. All druggists sellit.
A Privileged Pair.
Hojack—Silence is golden, I bellevet
Torndik—So they say.
Hojack—Then the nuptials of a deaf
mute couple might be called a golden
wedding.
Lott lib Time.
'Miss Grabbs declares her' girl friends
can't deny that her attachment to that
gentleman .with a title 1, -vas a case 05 love
at Best sight.'' •
"That's very true," replied Miss Gay-
enee. "She saw him iirst."—Washington
Star,
NID EY TROUBLE CITED
A WELL-KNOWN HOTEL -KEEPER
RELATES HIS EXPERIENCE.
Ue Suirered:GreatlyWrona Xidney 'rrolthia
and Indigestione.ac Doctored for A 'Long
Time Without Getting Any Better.
From the Standard, Cornwall. 1
The march of the world's progress is
forced, protracted and continuous, the
competitieu for supremacy is keen. The
man of business must keep rank if he
would secure any covetable measure of
suceess, The watchfulness, vigilance and
thought involved in modern superixitende
ency producee a severe strain on the
physical and mental powers of raodern
business men, wed exposes 'them th the
attacks of certain diseaee Considering
that much depends on health In this
struggle-, ie behooves those who would
be victorious, to guard against the first
approach of disease. Neglect, of early ad-
justment of digestive and kidney disord-
ers is often fraught wall dire reSUltS,
Added to this is the unpardonable trliliag
with health by experimentitie with ali
manner of worthless decoctions. It is
simply invaluable to make the acquaint-
ance of a safe mad effeelive remedy era%
as lir. Williams' Pink Pills. Janes
Macpherson, hotel keeper in the village
of Laxletteter, Glengarry county, has done
business for a xiuneber of yeara in Lane
easter, end having succeesfully catered
Los the patronage of the travelling pnblio
therefore is favorably known not only at
home but also abroad. In conversation,
with a newspaper reporter he enumerated
some of his ailments and how he was
cured, "About two years ago," he :add,
"ray whole digestive apparatus seemed
to becorae disordered. Some days I could
move around, then again I would be
obliged to go to /bed. I tried several
things but with indifferent success.
Occasionally I felt relieved, but in a day
or two the old symptoms would return
with itt more depressing effect This kited
of thing event en until I became troubled
with my kidneys, whieb •was a very
annoying addition to my sufferings. I
was restless, with a sensation of siekness
at the stomach, with intermittent pain
in the small of my back. I was miserable
enough when't consulted the doctor who
probably dill me seine good. because I
lett relieved. The (lector's inedicioe was
taken and his directions obeyed, but I
did not improve. I had beard of the
fame of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. My
wife balieveti in then; and urged me to
try them. I am glad I did so, for after
taking on( box I felt better, anti I con-
tinued taking the pills until I was corn-
pletely cured, This summer I bad an
attack or the h•Illle complaint, and I
found Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as effec-
tive as before. I bad this advantage, ray
knowledge and belief in the pills saved
me from costly and tedious experiment-
ing such as I had undergone previously.
I may further add that both myself an&
Mrs. Macphereon have derived much
benefit from the use of Dr. Williams'
Plnk Pills, and X can cordially 'recom-
mend them to those who are suffel log
similarly."
Dr. Willianis' Pink Pills eure by go-
ing to the root of the disease. They re-
new and build up the blood, and
strengthen the nerves, thus driving dis-
ease from the system. Avoid imitations
by insisting that every box you purchase
is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the
full trade mark., Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People.
Sltortm,s of nice.
The shortness of life is bound up with
its fullness. It is to him who is most
active, always thinking, feeling, work-
ing, caring for people and for things,
that life seems ehort. Strip it life empty
and it will seem long eilough.—Plailli-os
Brooks.
HEART PAINS LEAVE IN A DAY.1
Unable to Attend to Her Daily Dot: ,--Ad
a Great Sufferer From Heart T* able
for the fleart, and It Provd.
--Induced to Try Dr. Agnew's Pro
I
Wonder Worker. i
These are the words of iNtif W. T.
Rundle, of Dundalk, Ont.: ",, Was a.
great sufferer 'kith severe pea, in the
region of my heart. For a tied° I was
quite unable to attend to iny household
duties. I was induced to try Dr. Agnew's
Cure for the Heart, and 1 naust say the
result, was wonderful. The pain intone-
diately left me, and after the first day I
have had no pain or trouble since."
ror Cut Flowers.
Dr. Dixon states that tincture of aux
vomica added to the water in which out
flowers are kept exercise- a stimulant
effect upon the iloveers. Cut chrysanthe-
'MUMS on which he tried it held their
freshness for an unusually long time.
—
Exchange.
Extract rrom Editorial in "DOI:Onion
Dental Journal."
Since the article appeared by Dr. Xevers
in the last issue, a large number of testi-
monials frone outside and impartial
sources, bare been sent to us as to the
value of 'Quickeure.' Entinent physictans
exptess the same opinion from practital
experience in its use in boils and wouttd&I
We have had practical proof of its vein°
111 a burn, and repeated experienoe irk its
1,020 107 in exposed pulps, nod yari ens
pathologiord conditions of the gums and
She mouth. Drlevers, of Quebec cite,
has for over eleven years ha.d suoh invara
able success with his preparation that he'
had little trouble to persuade many of
his colleagues to experiment in the same
direction, and the general consensus of
professional opinion has been decidedly
in its favor."