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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-7, Page 3A, RESPECT BITE TO AGE REV. DR. TALMAGE ON HOW TO TREAT OLD PEOPLE. Re First Considers Parental Attachment and Then the Duty of the -Young to the Old—An Eloquent and Voreerui Plea for Filial Affection. WashingfOn, Oot. 8.—Dr. Talmage In this sermon'shows us a Boone of ten- derness and reverence and tells us how we ought to treat old people, His text is eeneeis, xlv, 28, "I will go and see him before I tile." Jacob had long slum passed the hun- dred ye at milestone. In those times peo- ple were distinguiseed for longevity. In the centuries after persons lived to greet age. Galen, the most celebrated physi- cian of hs time, took so little of his own medicine that he lived to 140 years. A man of undoubted veracity on the witnees stand In England swore that he reraembered an event 150 years before. Lord Bacon speaks of a countess who had cut three sets of teeth and died at 140 years. Joseph Crete of Pennsylvania lived 140 yeas. In 1857 a book was printed containing the names of 137 per- sons who lived 140 years and the names of 3,1 persons who lived 150 years. Jacob, the Shepherd. Among the grand old people of whom we have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the text. But he had, a bad lot of boys, They were jealous aod ambitious Rod every way unprincipled, Joseph, however, seemed to be an exception, but he had been gone many years and the probability was that he was dead. As sometimes now in a house you will find kept at the table a vacant chair, a plate, a knife, a fork, for some deceased Mem- ber of the family, so Jacob kept in his heart a place for bis beloved Joseph. There sits the old man, the flock of 100 years in their flight having alighted long enough to leave the marks of their claw on forehead and oheelt and temple. His long beard snows down over his chest. His eyes are somewhat dims and he can see farther when they are closed than when they are open, for he olio see clear batik into the time when beautiful Ra- chel, his wife, was living, and his chil- dren shook the oriental abode with their merrim en a The centenarian is sitting dreaming over the past when be hears a wagon rumbling to the front door. lie gess up and goes to the door to see who has ar- rived, and his long absent sons from Egypt come in and announce to him that Joseph, instead of being dead, is living in an Egyptian palace, with all the in- vestiture of prime roinister, next to the king in the mightiest empire of all the world! The• news was to sudden and too glad for the old man, and bis cheeks whiten, and he has a (lazed , look and his staff falls out of bis hand and he would have dropped had not the sons caught him and. led bini to a lounge and put acid water on his face and fanned him a little. In that half deliritim the old man mumbles something about his son Joseph. Be says: "You don't mean Joseph, do you My dear son who has been dead so long? You. don't mean Joseph, do you?" But after they had folly resuscitated him, and the news was confirmed, the tears begin their winding way down tee crossroads of the wrinkles, and the se,: en lips lips of the old xnan quiver and ho brings bis 'bent fingers together as la sae's: "Joseph is yet alive. I will go ame see hint before I die." It did not take the old man a great while to get ready, 1 warrant you. Ile put on the best clothethat the shep- herd's wardrobe could afford. He got into the -wagon, and though the aged are cautious and like to ride slow, the wagon did not get along fast enough for this cad inan, and when the wagon with the old man met Joseph's ohariot corn - Ing down to meet him and Joseph got out of the ohariot and got into the wagon and threw his arms around his father's neck, it was an antithesia of royalty and rusticity, of simplicity and pomp, of filial affection and paternal love, which leaves us so much in doubt whether we had better laugh or cry, that we do both. So Jacob kept the resolution of the text—"I will go and. see him before I Parental Love. What a strong and unfailing thing is parental attachment! Was it not almost time tor Jacob to forget Joseph? The hot suns of many summers had blazed on the heath; the river Nile had overflowed and receded, overflowed and receded again and again; the seed had been sown and the harvests reaped; stars rose and set; years of plenty and years of famine bad passed on, but the love of 'Jacob in ray text is overwhelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pulled on by many decades! Though when the little child expired the parents may not have been more than 25 years of age, and now they are 75, yet the vision of the cradle, and the childish face, and the first utterances of the in- fantile lips are fresh to -day, in spite of the passage of a half century. Joseph was as fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17 years of age the boy had disappeared from the old homestead. I found in our family record the story ot an infant that had died 50 years before, and I said to my parents, "What is this record and what does it mean?" Their chief answer was a long, deep sigh. It was yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all mean? Why, it means our children departed are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reaching across the years will hold us until it brings us together in the palace, as Jacob and Joseph were brought together. That is one thing that makes old people die hap- py. They realize Itis a re -union with those from whom they have long been separated. I am often asked as pastor—aod every pastor is asked the question ---"Will my children be children in heaven and for- ever onildren? ' Well, there was no doubt a great change in Joseph from the time Jacob lost him and the time when Jacob found him—between the boy of 17 years of age and the man in midlife, his fore- head developed with the great business • of state, but jaoob was glad to get back Joseph anyhow, and it did not make much difference to the old man whether the boy looked older or looked younger. And it will be enough joy for that par- ent if he can get back that son, that daughter, at the gate of heaven' whether the departed loved ono shallcome a cherub or in full grown angelhood. • There must be a change wrought by that oelestial climate and by those super- nal years, but it will only be from love- liness to more loveliness, and from health So more radiant health. Oh, parent, as you think of the darlang panting and astataTtes white in membranous oroup, I want you to know it will be gloriously bettered in Shat land where there has never been a death and where all the inhabitants will live on in the great future as long as God! Joseph was Joseph notwithstand- ing tbe palace, and your child will be your child notwithstandieg all the rain- ing splendors of everlasting noon. What a thrilling visit was that of the old shepherd to the prime minister Joseph! I see the old countryman seated in the palace lookipg around at the mirrors and the fountains and the carved pillars, and oh, how he wiebes that Rachel, his wife, was alive and she could have none with him to see their son in his great house. "Oh," says the old mate within "I do wish Rachel could be here to see all this!" A Blessed Homo. vislted the farmhouse of the father of Millard Fillmore when the sou was president ot the United, States, and the octogenarian farmer entertaithed me until 11 o'clock at night telling me 'mast great things he saw in his son's house at Washington, and how grandly Millard treated his father in the White House. The old man's face was illumined with She story until ahnost midnight. He had just been visiting his son at the capital. And I suppose it was something of the same joy that thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as he stood in the palace of She prime minister, It is a great day with you when your old parents come to visit you. Your little children stand around with great wide open eyes, won- dering how anybody could be so old. Tao Parents cannot stay many days, for they are a little restless, and °spatially at nightfall, bemuse they sleep better in their own bed, but while they tarry you somehow feel there is a benediction in every room in the house. They are a little feeble, and you make It as easy as you can for them, and you realize they rill probably not visit you very often— perhaps never again. You go to their room after they have retired at oigbt to see if the lights aro properly put out, for the old, people understand candle and lamp better than the modevn apparatus for illumination. In the morning, with eat interest in their health., you ask bow they rested last night. Joseph, in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of his father than you do of your parents. The prob- ability is before they leave your house they bait spoil you children with .kind- nesses. Grandfather and grandmother are more lenient and. Indulgent to your ohildren than they ever were vidth you. And want wonders of revelation in the bombazine pocket of the one and tho sleeve of the other! Blessed is that home where Christian parents come to visttl Whatever may have been the style of the architecture when they came, it is a • palaco before they have. If they visit you 50 times, the two most memorable visits will be the first and the last. Those two pictures will hang In the hall of your memovy wane memory Jests, and you will remember just how they looked, and where they sat, and what they said, and at what figure of the carpet, and at what doorsill they parted with you, giv- ing you the final goodby. Ito not be em- barrassed if your father come to town and be bave the manners at the shep- herd, aed if your mother come to town and there be in her hat no .sign of costly millinery. The wife ot the Emperor Theo- dosius said a wise thing when she said, "Husbands, remember what you lately were and remember what you are, and oo .banfkul." 'mildness to Parents. Ily ibis time you all notice what kind- ly provis1ou .7oseph made for his father Jaceb. Joseph did not .ay: "I can't have the Id man around this place. How &lenity ha would look elimbleg up these meeble stairs enft wall:nig over those MOSillOS I Then he would be putting his hands upon sae.° of tune frescoes ,sce- pie would wondor snere the old gen- horn came froin. • lle would. shock all the Egyptian court with hie manners at table. Besides that, he might get sick on my hands, and he might be querul- ous and he intght talk to me as though I were only a boy, 'when I am the second' man in all the realm. Of course he must not suffer and if there is famine in his country—and I hear there Is—I will send him some provisions, but I can't take a man from Padanaram and introduce him into this polite Egyptian court. What a nuisanee it is to have poor rela- tions!" Joseph did not say that, but he rushed out to meet his father with perfect abandon of affection, and brought him up to the palace and introdueed him to emperor and provided for all the rest of the father's days, and nothing was too good for old man while living, and when he was dead, Joseph, with mili- tary escort, took his father's remains to the family cemetery. Would to God all children were as kind to their parents! If the father have large property, and he be wise enough to keep it in his own name, be will be respected by the heirs, but how often it is when the son finds his father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine, the young people make it very hard for the old man. They are so surprised he eats with a knife instead ot a fork. They are chagrined at his antediluvian habits. They are provoked because he cannot hear as well as he used to, and wlaert he asks it over again, and the son has to repeat it, he bawls in the old man's ear, "I hope you bear that?" How long he must wear the old coat or the old bat before they get him a new one! How chagrined they are at his independnce of the English grammar! How long he hangs on! Seventy -live years and not gone yet! Eighty years and not gone yet! Will he ever go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in his last sideness, and go up to the drug store and get something that' makes him worse and economize on a coffin, and beat the undertaker down to the last point, giving a note for the reduced amount, which they never pay! I have officiated at obsequies of aged people where the family have been so inordin- ately resigned to •Providence that I felt like taking My text from Proverbs, "The eye that reocketh at his father and re- fuseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." In other words, such an ingrate •ought to have a flock of crows for pallbearers! I congrat- ulate you if you have the honor of pro- viding for aged parents. The blessing of the Lord God of Joseph and Jacob well be on you. A Share in Success. 1 rejoice to remember that, though my father lived in a plain house the most of his days, he died in • a mansion pro- vided by the filial piety of a Son ;who had achieved a fortune. There the octogen- arian sat, and the servants waited on him, and there were plenty of horses and plenty of carriages to convey him and a bower ia which to sit on long • summer afternoons, dreaming over the past, and there was not a room in the house where be was not welcome, and there were musical instruments of all sorts to regale him, and when life had passed the neighbors came out and ex- preseed all hcnor possible and carried him to the village Maelmelah • and put hire down beside the Rachel with whom bp had lived more than half a century. Share your successes with the old people. The probability is that the prindpies they inculcated achieved your fortune. Give thene a Christian percentage • of kindly coesitieration, Let Joseph divide with Jaime the pasture fields of Goshen and tho glories of the Egyptian court, And here I would, like to sing the praises of the sisterhood who remained unmarried that they might administer to aged parents. The brutal world calls these self-sacrifieing ones peculiar or angular, but if you had had as many annoyances as they have bad Xantippe would have been an angel oompaved with you. It is easier to take care of five rollicking, •romping children than One 011lIdiSh old man. Among the best wo- men of our land are those who allowed the bloom ot life to pass away while them were caring for their parents. Waite other maidens were asleep they were soaking the old man's feet or tuck- ing up the covers around the invalid mother. While other maidens were In the cotillon they were danoing upon, rheuma- tism and spreading plasters for the lame back of the septuagenarian and heating catnip tea for insomnia. In almost every circle of our kindred there has been some queen of self sacri- fice to whom jeweled band after jeweled hand was offered in marriage, but who staid on the old place because of the sense of filial obligation until the health was gone and the attraotiven.ess of per- aonal presence had vanished. Brutal soolety may call snob a one by a nick- name, God calls her (laughter, and hea- ven calls her saint, and I call her domes - 530 martyr. A half dozen ordinary woman have • not as numb nobaity as could be found in the smallest joint of the little finger of her Wu hand, Al- though the world bas stood 6,000 years, this is the first apotheosis of maiden- hood, although in the long line of those who have declined marriage that they might be qualified for some special mis- sion are the names of Anita Ross, and Margaret Breekinridge,aad Mary Shelton, and Anna Etheridge, and Georgitula Valets, and the angels of the battlefields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chancellorsville and Cooper Shop aospi- tal, and though stogie life has been honored by the fact that the three grend- est men of the Bible—John and Paul and Christ—were celibates. after thee." Oh, the palace, the palm*, She palace! That is what Itichard Baxter called "The Saints' Everlasting Rest." 'Meat is what John Bunyan called the "Celestial City," That is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exultations. That is Gray's "Elegy In Churchyard," turned to resurrection spec- tacle. That is the "Cotter's Saturday Night" exchanged for the ootter's Sab- bath morning. Thab is the shepherd of Salisbury plains amid the flocks on the hills of heaven, That is the famine tarmac Padanaram turned into the rah pasture field of Goshen. Tbat is Jacob visiting Joseph at the emerald ca,stle. THE GIRL WHO SHAMS RELIGION She Uses the Church as a Stelifdllg-Stuo° to Society. 7 Ruth Ashmore, writing of the "Shams of the Modern Girl," in the Ladies' Home Journal, and of "the sham_ that is worse thau all others—the religious sham," says: "She is the one who is most conspicuous in speech and some- times in work; but in her heart her re- ligion is simply a means to a very earthly end. She is prominent in the Sunday school, because she thinks she can in that way become acquaileted with some People she would like to know. She is ever ready to get up and express her creed at the prayer meeting, because she thinks that her ability will be recognized She rustles into her pew, kneels for a long tam, and then settles herself com- fortably—to look at the congregation. She considers it respectable to go to church. Beyond that she gives Ad thought, alio forgets that, unless relig- ion is of the heart, it is of no value. She has never underetood that it: is not the loud prayer, nor the wordy prayer which makes an impression, on God, but that it is the sincere ory from the soul anneal- ing to Hire to which Be listens, The re- ligious shape can usually give you a deseription of all the eostunies worn hy `her set' in church, She can tell you of the amoudt of money put in by eaoh member as the plate is PaSsecl along, She goes to church to observe the outward, visible sign, and, never, in any way, troubles herself about the inward, spirit- ual grace." The Maiden Aunt, Let the ungrateful, world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a throne burnished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven there Is a vase containing two jewels, the cam brighter than the Naha:tom, of London tower, and the other larger than any dia- mond ever found in the districts of Gol- conda—the one jewel by the lapidary of the palace cut with tho words, "Inas- much as ye did it to father," tho other jewel by the /apidary of the palace out with the words, "Inasinneh as ye did it to mother." "Over the gills to the Poor- house" is the exquisite • ballad of Will Carleton, who found an old woman who had been turned oft by her prospered sons, but I thank God I may find in my text, "Over the hills to the palade." As if to disgust us with unfilial con - duet, the Bible presents us with the story of Alicah,who stole the 1,100 shekels from bis mother, and the story of Absa- lom, who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with stories of liliol fidelity. Epaminondas, the war- rior, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories. There goes Aeneas from burning Troy, on his shouloors Anchises, his father. The tle ramie punished with death any un - filial vonduct. Diem goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi across the desere amid the howit set of the wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Lawrence, burned at the stake in Col- chester, was cheered in the dames by his children, who said, "0 bee, strengthen thy servant and kc'p thy promise!" And Chris' in the hour at cruciation provided far his old mother. Jacob kept his resolution, "I will go aryl see him before I die," and a little evhile after we find them walking the tessel- ated floor of the palace, . Jacob and Joseph, the prime minister proud of the shepherd. I may say in regard to the most of you that your parents have probably visited you for the last time, or will soon pay you such a visit, and I have wondered if they will ever visit you in the king's palace. "Oh," you say, "I am in the pit of sin!" Joseph was in the pit. Oh," you say, "I am In the pri- son of mine iniquity!" Joseph was onoe in prison. "Oh," you say, t't didn't have a fair (Mance. I was denied maternal kindness!" Joseph was denied maternal attendance. "Oh," you say, "I am far away from the land of my nativity!" Joseph was far from home. "Oh," you say, "I have been betrayed and exasper- ated!" Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a passing Ishmaelitish caravan? Yet God brought him to that emblazoned residence'and if you will trust his grace in Jesus Christ, you, too, will be ern - palmed. Ob, what a day that will be when the old folks mine from an adjoin- ing mansion in heaVen, and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the throne - room and living with the king! They are coming up the steps now, and the epau- leted guard of the palace rushes in and says, "Your father's coming, your mo- ther's coming!" And when under the arches of precious stones and'•on the pavement of porphyry you greet each other, the scene will eolipse the ineeting on the Goshen highway, when Joseph and Jacob fell on each other's neck and wept a good while. But, oh, bow changed the old folks will bet Their cheek smoothed into the flesh of a little child. Their stooped Pos- ture lifted into immortal symnietry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprightliness of a bounding roe, asi they • shall say to you, "A. spirit passed this way from earth and told us that you • were wayward and dissipated after we left the world, but you have repented, our prayer has been answered and you are here, and as we used to visit you on - earth before we died now we visit you in your new honie after our ascension." And father will say, "Mother, don't you see Joseph is yet alive?" and mother will say, "Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive." And then they will talk: over i their earthly anxieties n regard to you, and the'inidnio•ht supplications in your behalf, and they will recite to each other. the old Scripture • passage with which they used to cheer their'staggering faith, 'I will be a God to thee and thy seed 41i llezard Inv; Limitations. No human life is large enough not to be small in spots. It is largely, a question as to where the piaoh will come, as to the locality of the narrowness. Intoler- ance is with most an intermittent kind of a thing, of springing to manifesta- tion, if not into being, very unexpected- ly. This uncertainty as to when and where the limitation will come ill proves at times rather awkward, for it is dis- concerting to discover that, when we want to be narrow, just then our neigh bore want to be narrow, too. It would be preferable, perhaps, if the breadth of one mind could always dovetail into the narrowness Of another, as deep seas sometimes crowd up into long but COD- tracted estuaries, and then would flood oat of sight the sharp, surromuling pro- monotories of prejadive. But until the millenuium comes iii minas broad and rummy, sympathies strong and scant, faith rotund and lean, will probably continuo to rub and josrle OtlE1 against another more or less. Yea it may and should all along be the honest effort of all to prayerfully and persistently strive to work out into just so much breadth of view and elasticity of faith as is con- sistent with loyalty to Christ and to Cbrist's truth, each individual mean- while exhibiting toward such as oppose themselves that same meekness of spirit -which the latter are presumably exercis- ing, though with what degree of success may not immediately appear, toward him. At any rate, the fact remains that every mind and every school of thought bas its limitations, and never goes as far and as satisfactory along all lines as others do along some one line. There- fore, let no Mall "think of himself more highly than he ought to thirik," but "soberly," according as God hath dealt to him "the measure of faith" and of vision. -0. A. S. Dwight. A Loudon Woman's Club. It is so unusual, In England at all events for a club to be independent of peuats on the sale of intoxicating liquors, teat it ie a matter to rejoice over that women' have found it possible to pay their way as strict temperance people. In the new club they intend to show how the more material wants of life can be provided for both economically and so elegantly as to tempt into the same good paths some at least of those who groan for deliverance from the over- weening luxury and shameful extrava- gance of fashionable society. The con- trasts of grinding poverty and wasteful wealth are so glaring in London that a secret shame and misgiving invades even the nouveau riche, and if women can lead the way from the luxury of the Roman empire to "Roman simplicity." their club may do the State no small service. Care and dainty tastefulness are watchwords of the catering department. In such surroundings the club will invite its members to be not only units of its own corporate life, but also to form groups for special objects both of work and of recreation.—From "A Women's Club Movement in London," by Mrs. Sheldon Amos, in American Monthly Review of Reviews. The Electric Cab in Loudon. The eleotrio cab has taken the popular fancy in London. The vehicle is not only attractive in appearance, having a body of bright yellow, but comfortable. The single seat, with ample room for two passengers, is well cushioned and the fittings are luxurious. The solid tires give perfect smoothness of running, and but a faint noise is noticeable from the motor. The cab drivers of the city are greatly excited over the innovation. They have had a niass meeting, at which the probable effect of tbe intro- duction of the new vehicle on tho cab trade of London was discussed. The fol- lowing resolution was carried: "That this meeting views with disapproval the introduction of electric cabs on the streets of London, and urges all cab drivers, in the interest of the cab indus- try, to discourage any further develop- ment of public vehicles driven by imotive power." It is, however, difficult to see how this "further development" is to be arrested. Abnormal Geniality. Wbat a friendly woman your wife is! "Friendly? I should say so; why, last week when the sheriff levied on her piano and sho made him a glass of iced l Onions or other odors can be removed from cooking kettles by disolving spoonful of pearl ash or saleratus in water and washing them with it BOHN A THIEF.. PO ur-Year-old Geri Who Conies Naturally by Her Pilfering Iostioets. In the C01011140 State Home For De- pendant Children there is a pretty, Moe eyed baby girl, just past bar fourth year, who is by birth a herdeeed and expert thief. Her name is Grace Williams, ger mother, Mrs. Tilly Williams, is servinv a ten year sentenee in the Colorado state penitentiary at Canyon City, for sboplift- ing. She was sentenced about four years ego after a trial which developed the fact that she lual stolen thouseutis of dollars' worth of goods in oearly every city of im- portance in the country. With the mother is ber sister, Mrs. Mary Watsor, serving a similar sentence for the same offense, The maternal grandmother LITTLE GRACE WILLIAMS, Of Grace is now living iit Joliet, Ma, and is a petty thief, having served several short jail senteoces. The maternal great-grand- mother served three terms in :Joliet peni- tentiary for shoplifting and larceny, With Grace, therefore, it is a dear ease of hered- itary deprevity. Dr. Beers, superintendent; of the state home firse discovered the child's patellar afilicaon about eight months ago, when a wealthy Denver woman, who was visiting the home, attracted by Grace's beauty and winning ways, expressed a desire to adapt her. Grace seemed delighted with the proposition, and, climbing upon the lady's lap, put her arms about her neck and ask- ed if she could be her little girl. The touching scene brought tears to the eyes of the good doctor, but when Grace got down from the visitor's lap and start- ed to leave She room she noticed that the child held cam hand 'under her apron io suspicions manner, and, calling ber back, asked her what she was endeavoring to conceal. Grace stoutly protested ber inuooeuce of wrongdoing; but, pulling theapron aside, the doctor discovered the warnan's pocket- book tightly clinehal in the little band. Tho kind visitor's surprise was great, for the pocketbook, which contained a large amount of money, was in an ioside pocket of her jacket and could have been removed without discovery only by an adept. Next day theabild's room was thorough- ly.searchecl. Cunningly concealed in the mattress of the bed a largenumber of arti- cles which had mysteriously disappeared were discovered. • A month later a wealthy Woman of Manitou, lif spite of tho dootor's story of tho child's affliction, adopted Grace. She did not believe that crime ootild be boreal- tary and woald riot be convinced. that this sweet child could not be trained to become a good woman. ,All went well for a few days, and Grace won the hearts of the entire family, but one evening her benefactress gave a large party, and as a result of what mourred sae is now a firm believer in the heredity of crime. While the party was at its height Grace managed to slip unobserved into the oloaltroons and steal all tho pocketbooks and handkerchiefs from the visitors' wraps. Profiting by thodoctor's story, the woman soon discovered them in the girl's favorite hiding place, the mattress of her bed. Next day Grace was returned to the home. TWO MINDS IN ONE BODY. Dora Loomis Can Do Two Things at the Same Time. A young girl at the Binghamton State hospital is the most remarkable example of "double personality" ever brought to the attention of doctors who study freaks of the brain. She is afflicted with hysteria and actually lives two lives in one. The discovery of ber "dual consciousness" was made during the treatment at the hospital for her malady. Hypnotic suggestion is a pare of the treatment. The girl, Dora Loomis, chn do two things at the same time. For instance, she can read aloud from a book and while DORA. LOOMIS. reading can write from dictation ot pen answers to questions asked her. The con- eciousness that directs her reading knows nothing of the writing and the conscious- ness that directs the writing knows noth- ing of the reading. Study of this case may aid to solve one of the mysteries of life—the respoasibility of 0 person for acts committed ueder the direction or intpulse of the subconsciousness. During attacks of hysteria sbe has violent delirium. At other times she is bright and intelligent, docile and quiet. She is the living Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. To Check Suicide. The Russian commander in Turkestan has issued an order that, in consequence of the nninber of oases of suicide, both r officers and troops, superior officers are in future to pay special attention to the morel well being of every young soldier under their command. Documentary Evidence. "Where vvas Alagna Charta signed?" asked a teacher in a London hoard school. • "Please, sir, at the bottom."—Tit-Bits. AFTER MANY YEARS L SUFFERER IS RESTORED TO HEALTH AND STRENGTIL Suffered From Weak Heart and Could Not Safely Walk any Distancti—flow the Pulse of Life 'Was Adjusted. From the Cornwall Freeholder. The romance of unwritten fads Of real life far exceeds the rich elaborations of fiction. A peep behind the scenes would furnish us with adequate proof that there is more of care, telal mad severe ahxiety, in human life than floats on the surfaces. We Anti inany 'whose experience has admen incessantly' fluctuated be- tween health and sidemen; little If any of this is obtruded upon the notice of the world, or breathed into human ear. You may secure the confidenoe of some of these sufferers who will rehearse to you dark catalogues of pains and aches that. are often ill understood by ttie friends aud inaaequately treated by the physi- elan. Thanks be to the neighty genius that discovered the now famous panacea for the ills to which humanity is subject- ed when suffering from impoverished blood or a shattered nerve system. Them - sande have, and thousands are still usIng to the greatest advantage 13r. Williams' Pink Pills. They have passed the ordeal of experiment again and again with ever increasing boner. Tbe tollowing state- ment is froro one who was rescued from seeming parinanene enfeeblement and aistressiog beart action. Mary Fisher, of Lancaster township, Glengarry county, is O maiden lady, About eight years. ago Mies Fisher was seized with weakness and distressing sensation in the region of She heart It: was attributed to several causes, all possibly more or less true, they were overwork, exposure, etc, She was certainly weak and the action of the heart was abnormally rapid. The doctor in attendauce pronounced the ailment nervous palpitation of the Inert and she received treatment acoordingly for two years. At this stage she took to her bed she was so low. For twelve months she lay receiving, only domestic: attention. Sbe improved somewbat, however, and was able to be taken to a friend. of bers near Lancaster village, Mrs. J. Haney, where she was under medioal attendance and took mediclete for about three years. At the end of this time she could not safely venture to walk out even a short distance. All this time she complained of her heart. About two years ago she be- gan taking Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills. From this date she began what proved a steady restoration of nervous energy. During the summer of 1806 the improve- ment was marked, She was able by the middle of the summer to do as Much work and walking as most ordinary wo- men, and so satisfactory and eppareatly permanent is the cure that Miss Fisher has gone to her 'former home, Such are the unvarnished fads of a remarkable ease. Tbe malady was persistent, termoi- ous and hard to fight. But the constant use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wrought a marvellous change,which Miss Fisher's friend said might be profitably known to many others. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from She system. Avoid imitations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr. William's Pink Pills tor Pale People. lie Shut It Tight. "You southern people," said the man with the frayed overooat, "claim to have good manners, but during the winter when I was in business in your town I don't think there was but one man closed my door when he cants into my store." "Yes," said the colonel as he cut an- other slice from his plug, "we always try to elect the politest man -we've got for sheriff." OH! THE MISERY. Mrs. Galbraith, of Shelburne, Ont,. Watt a Great Sufferer From Indigestion, the Bane of So Many Lives—South American Nervine Released Its Hold—It Relieves in One Day. "I was for a long time a great sufferer rom indigestion. I experienced all the misery and annoyance so 001)1111011 to - this ailment. I tried many remedies and spent a great deal on doctors' bills with- out receiving any permanent benefit. X was strongly recommended to try South American Nervine. I procured aid used it, after using only two bottles I am pleased to testify that I am fully restored to health, and I have never had the slightest indication of a return of the ' trouble. I recommend it most heartily. Proven. Miss Oldgold—Before I give you my answer, count, tell me one thing. When ray freshness of youth is gone and hand of time has dimmed whatever beauty I possessed; evh'en advancing years cause my cheek to fade and my charms to van- ish --tell Me, count, will you love me then? The Count— I do. There are so many cough medicines in She market, that it is sometimes difficult to tell which to buy; but it we had a congh, a cold or any affliction of the throat or lungs, We would try Sickle's Anti - Consumptive Syrup. Those who have used it think it is far ahead of all other Preparations recommended for such com- plaints. The ,little folks like it as it is as pleasant as syrup. Before marriage a girl always carries a few love letters next her heart, but after- wards these give way to recipes for enak- ing sweet pickles and methods of keeping ants out of the cupboard,