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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-4, Page 3THE LOST CHILDREN. REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON TO 1=fir BEREAVED PARENTS. The Shorter the Voyage the Loss Chance for a escione—Temptation in Old. Age— What the Lad Dying: at Sixteen is Spared --Greaaero;ity of Bereavement. jOopyright 1807, by American Press. Associa- tiun.l Washington, pot. 81,—Froiri an un usual standpoint Dr. Talmage offers comfort at the loss of children, and this sermon must be a beisana for many wounds. His text is 'Isaiah 1vii, 1, "Tho righteous is taken away from the evil to come." We all spend much time in panegyric of longevity. We consider it a great thing to live to be an octogenarian, If any one dies in youth, we say, "What a pity!" Dr. Muhlenbergh, in old age, said that the hymn written in early life by his own hand no more expressed his _ e sentiment when'it said:— I would not live away. If one be pleasantly circumstanced, ho never wants to go. William Cullen Bry- ant, the great poet, at 82 years of age, standing in my house in a festal group, reading "Thanatopsis" without spectac- les, was just as anxious to live as when at 18 years of age ho wroto that immor- tal threnody, Cato feared at 80 years of ago that lie would not live to.learn Greek, Monaldssco, at 115 years, writing the history of his time, feared a uollapse. Theophrastus, writing a book at 90 years It, of ago, was anxious to live to complete it. Thurlow Weed, at about 80 years of age, found life as great a desirability as when he snuffed out his first politician. Albert Barnes, so well prepared for the next world at 70, said he would rather stay here. So it is all the way down. I suppose that the last time that Methu- selah was out of doors in a storm he was afrala of getting his feet wet lest it shorten his days. Indeed I some time ago preaohed a sermon on the blessings of longevity, but I now prnposo to preach to you about the blessings of an abbreviated earthly existence. If I were an agnostic, I would say a man is blessed in proportion to the number of years be can stay on terra firma, because after that be falls off the • docks, and if he is ever plotted out of the depths it is only to be set up in some morgue of the universe to see if anybody will claim him. If I thought God made man only to last 40 or 50 or 100 years and then he was to go into annihilation, I 'would say his chief business ought to. be to keep alive and even in good weather to be cautious ancl.to carry an umbrella and take overshoes and life preservers and bronze armor awl weapons of de- fense lest he fall off into nothingness and obliteration. The Quick Return Home. But, any .friends,you aro not agnostics. You believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous in hea- ven, and therefore I first remark that an. abbreviated earthly existence is to be desired and is a blessing because it makes one's life work very compact. Some men go to business at 7 o'clock J i the morning and return at 7 in the I evening. Others, go at 8 o'clock and re• tnrn at 12. Others go at 10 and return t 4. I have friends who are ten hours a day In business, others who are five hours, others who are one hour. They all do' their work well. They do their entire work and then they return. Which po-i- tion do you think the most desirable? You say, other things being equal, the man who is the shortest time detained in business and who can return home the quickest is the most blessed. Now, nay friends, why not carry that good sense into the subject of transfer- ence from this world? If a person die in childhood, he gets through his work at 9 o'clock in the morning. If he die at 45 years of age, he gets through his work at 12 o'clock noon. If he die at 70 years of age, he gets through his work at 5 o'olook in the afternoon. If he die at 90, he has to toil all the way on up to 11 ' o'clock at night. The• sooner we get through our work tho better. Tho har- vest all in barrack or barn the farmer does not sit down in the stubble field; but, shouldering his scythe and taking his pitcher from under the tree he makes a straight line for the old homestead. • All we want to be anxious about is to get our work done and well done, and the quicker the better. Saved From the Cyclone, Perhaps. .Again, there is a blessing in an ab- breviated earthly existence in the fact that moral disaster might come upon the. man if he tarried longer. Recently a man who had been prominent in church- es, and who had been admired for his generosity and kindness everywhere, for forgery was sent to state prison for 15 years. Twenty years ago there was no more probability of that man's commit- ting a commercial dishonesty than that you will commit commercial dishonesty. The number of men who fall into ruin Between iie and' 70 years of age is simply Gppalling. If they had • died 30 years ^-- ieefore, it would have been better foe himself and lift his family from all financial embarrassment, Ile attempts.to leap the chasm, and he falls into it, The Soldier on Guard. Then it is in after lite that the great temptation of success comes. If a man makes a fortune before 80 years of age, he generally loses It before 43. The solid and the permanent tortunes for the most part do not ootrle to their climax until in mid-life or in old age, The most of the bank presidents have white hair, Many of those who have been largely suooessful have been filing of arrogance or woridli. noes or dissipation in old age. They may not have lost their integrity, but they have become so worldly and so selfish under the influence of large success that it is evident to everybody that their such cess has been a temporal calamity and an eternal damage. Concerning many people it may be said it seems as if it would have beeu better if they could have embarked from this life at 20 or 30 years of ago. Do you know the reason why the vast majority of people die before 30? It is because they have not the moral endur- ance or that which is beyond the 30 and a merciful God will not allow them to be put to the fearful strain. Again, there is a blessing in an ab- breviated earthly existence in the fact. that one is the sooner taken off the de- fensive. As soon as ono is old enough to take care of himself he it put on his. guard. Bolts on the doors to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to keep off the flames. Life insurance and fire insur- ance against aooident. Receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck. Westinghouse air - brake against railroad collision and hun- dreds of hands ready to overreaoh you and take all you have, Defense against cold, defense against heat, defense against sickness, defense against the world's abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is not a suflioieet barricade. If a soldier who has been on guard, shivering and stung with the cold, pac- ing up And down the parapet with shouldered musket, is glad when some one comes to relieve guard and he oan go inside the fortress, ought not that elan to shout for joy who can put down his weapon of earthly defense and go. into the king's castle? Who is the more fortunate, the soldier who has to stand guard 12 hours or the man who has to stand guard six hours? Wehaveoammon sense about everything butreligion, com- mon sense about everything but trans- ference from this world. Many Bereavements Escaped. Again, there is a blessing in an abbre- viated earthly existence in the fact that one escapes so many bereavements. The longer we live the more attachments and. the snore kindred, the more chords to bo wounded or rasped or sundered. If a anon live on to 70 or 80 years of age; how many graves are aleft at his feet! In that lone reach of time father and mo- ther go, brothers and sisters go, children go, grandchildren go, personal friends, outside the family circle whore they had loved with•n love like that of David and Jonathan. Besides that, some men have a natural trepidation about dissolution and ever ani anon during 40 or 50 or 60 years, this horror of their dissolution shudders through soul and body. Now, suppose the lad goes at 10 years of age? Ho escapes 50 funerals, 50 caskets, 50 obsequies, 50 awful wrenohings of the heart. It is hard enough for us to bear their departure, but is it not easier for us to bear their departure than for them to stay and bear 50 departures? Shall we not by the grace of God rouse ourselves into a generosity of . bereavement which will practically say, "It is ,hard enough for lee to go through this bereavement, but how glad I am that he will never have to go through it." So I reason with myself, and so you will find it help- ful to reason with yourselves, David lost his son. Though David was king, he lay on the earth mourning and inconsolable for some time. At this distance of time, which do you really think was the one to be congratulated, tbo short lived child or the long lived father? Had David died as early as that child died ho would, in the first place, have escaped that particu- lar bereavement, then he would have escaped the worse bereavement of Absa- lom, his recreant son, and the pursuit of the Philistines, and the fatigues of his military campaign, and the jealousy of Saul, and the perfidy of Ahithophel, and the curse of Shimei, and the destruction of his family at Zik.lag, and, above all, he would have escaped the two great calamities •of his life, the great sins of uncleanness and murder. David lived to be of vast use to the ohurch and, the world, but so far as his own happiness was concerned, does it not seem to you that it would have been better for him to have gone early? Now„ this, my friends, explains some things that to you have been inexplic- able. This shows you why when God takes little children from a household he is very apt to take the brightest, the most genial, the most, sympathetic, the most talented. Why? It is because that kind of nature suffers the most when it does suffer,and is most liable to tempta- tion. God saw the tempest sweeping up from the Caribbean and he put the deli- cate Draft into the first harbor. "Taken Irom the fact that we are. studying un- cler suet great disadvantage, Millions of dollars for observatories to study things /:bout the moon, about the sun, about the, rings of Saturn, about transits and cuouitations and eclipses, simply because our studio,our observatory is poorly situated. We are down in the cellar try-. lug to study the palace of the universe While our departed Christian friende have gone upstairs amid. the skylights to. randy. Now', when one can sooner get to the center of things, is he not to be cou- gratulated? Who wants to be always in the freshman plass? We study God in thisworld by the Biblical photograph of him, but we all know we can in five minutes of interview with a friend get more accurate idea of him than we oan by studying him for 50 years through pictures or words. Tho little ohild that died last night knows more of God than all Andover, and all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the theological institnos in. Christen- dom. Is it not better to go up to the very headquarters of kuowledga? them and better for their families. The _/away from 'the evil to come. shorter the voyage the less chance for a cyclone. There is a wrong theory abroad that if one's youth be right his old agewill be right. You might as well say there is nothing wanting for a ship's safety except to get it fully launched on the Atlantic ocean.' I have sometimes asked those who were sohoollnates or college mates of some great defaulter: "What kind of a boy was be? What kind of a young man was he?" And they have Said: "'Why,' he was a splendid fellow. I had no idea he could ever go into such an outrage." The fact is the great temp- tation'of life sometimes comes far on in mid-life or in old age. The first tixne I crossed the Atlantic ocean it was as smooth as a millpond, and I thought the sea captains and the ,voyagers had slandered the old ocean, land I wrote horse an essay for a maga- on "Tho Smile :of the Sea," but I Leverafterward could have written that ;thing, for before we got home we gota terrible shaking up; The first .voyage of my life may be very smooth. The last may be.a euroolydon. Many :who start life in great prosperity do not end ib in prosperity. The great pressure of temptation comes sometimes in this : direction.. At about 45 years of age a man's nervous . system changes, and some one tells hint he must take stimulants to keep him- self up, and he takes stimulants to keep himself up until the stimulants keep him down, ; or a man has been going along for 30 or 40 years In unsuccessful business, and here is an opening where by one dishonorable aotlon he can lift The Center in Heaven. Again, my friends, there is a:blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in tne.fact that it puts one sooner in the center of things. All astronomers, in- fidel as well as Christian, agree in be- lieving that the universe swings around some great center. Any one who has studied the earth and studied the hea- vens knows that God's favorite figure in geometry is a circle. When God put forth hi hand to create the universe, he did not strike that hand at right angles, but he waved it in a circle, and kept on waving in .a circle until systems and constellations and galaxies and all worlds took that motion: Our planet swinging around the sun, other planets swinging around other suns, but somewhere a great hub, around which the great wheel of the universe turns. Now the center is heaven. That is the capital of the -uni- verse; that is the great metropolis of im- mensity. Does not our common sense teach us that in matters of study it 3s better for us to move ant from the center toward the circumference :rather than to be on,', the circumference, where our world now is? We are like those who study the American continent while standing on, the Atlantic beach. " The way to study the continent isto cross ,it or go to the heart'of it. Our standpoint' in this world is defective Weare at the wrong end of the telescope. The best way to study a piece of machinery is not to stand on the doorstep and try to look in, but to go in with the engineer and take our place right amid the saws and the cylinders. We wear our eyes out and our brain out etre,'. to his hate, "You call me at 10 o'olook at night." At 12 o'olook atnight the. captain was aroused and Qaid: `What does this mean? I thought T told you: to coli me at 10 o'olook, and here it is 12?" "Why," said the mate, "I did oall you; at 10 o'clock, and you got up, looked around and told me to keep right on the) sanae'course for two hours, and then to call you at 1e o'olock." Said the cap- tain; "Is it possible? I have no remem-. brance of that." At 12 o'olook the captain went on deck, and through the rift of a cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea and allowed him a shipwreck with 100 struggling passengers. He helped there off. Had he been any earlier or any later at that point of the sea he would have been of no service to those drowning people. On board the captain's vessel they began to hand together as to what they should pay for the rescue and what they should pay for the provisions. "Ah," says the captain, "my lads, you can't pay me anything. All I have on board is yours; I feel too greatly honored of God in hay- ing saved you to take any pay." Just like hila. He never got any pay except that of his own applauding acansoieooe. Ob, that the old sea captain's God night be my God and yours! Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always some one as tenderly to take Dare of us as the captain took care of the, drowning crew and the passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had, and if it should happen to be a Christmas morning, when the presents are being distributed and we are oalebrating the birth of him who came to save our shipwrecked world, all the bettor, for what grander, brighter Christ- mas present could we have than heaven? On the Rim of the )'heel. Does not our common sense teach us that it is better to be at the center than to be clear out on the rim of the wheel, holding nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled into light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer in throughthe cracks and the keyholes of heaven, afraid that both doors of the celestial mansion will be swung wide open before our entranced vision, rush- ing about among the apothecary shops of this world, wondering if this is good for rheumatism, and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good for a bad Dough, lest we be suddenly ushered into a hand of everlasting health where the inhabitant never says, "I am sink." What fools we all are to prefer the oireutnference to the center! What a dreadful thing 1t would be if we should be suddenly ushered from this wintr;si world into the May time orchards of heaven, and if our pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly broken up by a presentation of an emperor's castle surrounded by parks, with springing fountains and paths up and down whiuh angels of God walk two and two. We aro liko persons standing on the cold steps of the National picture gallery in London, under umbrella in the rain, afraid to go in amid the Turners and the Titians and the Raphaels. I come to them and say, "Why don't you go in- side 'the gallery?" "Ob," they say, "we don't know whether we can get in." I say, "Don't you see the door is open?" "Yes," they say, "but we have been so long on these cold steps we are so at- tached to them we don't like to leave." "But," I say, "it is so much brighter and more beautiful in the gallery; you had better go in." "No," they say, "we know exactly how it is out here, but we don't know exactly how it is inside." So we stick to this world as though we preferred cold drizzle to warns habita- tion, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple, as though we preferred a piano with four or five of the keys out of tune to an instrument fully attuned, as though earth and heaven had ex- changed apparel, and earth bad `taken on bridal array and heaven had gone into deep mourning, all its waters stagnant, all its harps broken, all chalices cracked at the dry wells, all the lawns sloping to the river plowed with graves, with dead angels under the furrow. Oh, I want to break any own infatuation and I want to break up your infatuation with this world! I tell you if we are ready and if our work is done the sooner we go the better, and if there are blessings in longevity 1 want you to know right well there are also blessings in an abbre- viated earthly existence. Taken From the Evil to Come.. Stamp Battery Gold Slimes. From the "Proceedings of the Chemi- cal and Metallurgical Society of Smith Africa" for July last it appears that, after many fruitless attempts, the treat- ment of stamp battery slimes from gold ores has now been mastered and is stead- ily going on in several works in South Africa. Formerly the excessively finely crushed portion of the battery tailings, amounting to some 30 per cent. of the whole, was p:teerce allowed to run waste, though theoretically worth nearly £1 per ton The slimes are now aggolmerated and precipitated from the water iu whioh they are suspended by the addition of lime water, and are then treated by agi- tation with very dilute solutions of cyanide (containing .01 per cent. or less of available KCy) and washed by settling and decantation, the gold being deposited by electrolytic action under the Siemens - Haskel system. This process has been running for over 12 months et the Crown Reef works, and is now costing about 3s. 9d, per ton, including royalty and management. The extraction is 83 per cent., and the net profit about 10s. per ton, or R,3u per day. The freshly formed slimes in course , of treatment at these works, yield their gold to cyanide read- ily enough, but it is otherwise with accumulated slimes; in which oxidation of he pyrites has taken pace, Here the presence of finely divided ferrous sulphide and hydrate absolutely prevents the dis- solution of the gold by withdrawing the free oxygen from the solution. W. ()aide. cott has discovered that by the supply of. oxygen artificially this difficulty is cheaply and effectively overcome, and that jets of air, moreover, form the best means of agitation. Potassium perman- ganate is also used as an oxidizer. The oxidation and destruction of cyanide by air, long regarded as preventing its use for agitating cynide solutions and pro- moting their solvent action, is not exces- sive in presence of ferrous suipbide.— N ature. If the spirit of this sermon is true, how consoled you ought to feel about members of your family that went early! "'Taken from the evil to come," this book says. What a fortunate escape they had! ' How glad we ought to feel that they will never have to go through the straggles which we have bad to go through! They had just time enough to get out of the cradle and run upon the springtime hills of this world and see how it looked, and then they started for a better stopping place. They were like ships that put in at St. Helena, staying there long enough to let passengers go up and see the barracks of Napoleon's captivity, and then h.iist sail for the port of their own native land. They only took this world in transit. It is hard for us, but it is blessed for thein. And if the spirit of this sermon is true, then we ought not to go around sighing and groaning when another year is going, but we ought to go down on one knee by the milestone anal see the letters and thank God that we are 365 miles nearer home. We ought not to go around with morbid feelings about our .health or about anticipated demise. We ought to be living not according to that old maxim which I used to hear in my boyhood that you must live as though every day were the last; you must live as though you were to live forever, for you will. Do not be nervous lest you have to move out .of a shanty into an Alh am bra. One Christmas day I witnessed some- thing very thrilling. We had just dis- tributed the family presents Christmas morning, when I heard a great cry of distress in the hallway. A child from a neighbor's house Dame in to say her father was dead. It was only three doors off, and I think in two minutes we were there. There lay the old Christian sea captain, his face upturned toward the window, as though he had suddenly seen the headlands and with an illumin ated countenance, as though he were just going into harbor. The fact was he had already got through the Narrows_ In the adjoining room were the Christ- mas presents ,waiting for his distribu- tion. Long ago, one night when he had narrowly escaped with his ship from be- ing run down by a great ocean steamer. he had, made his peace with God, and•a kinder neighbor or a ' better man than Captain Pendleton you would not find this side of heaven. Without a moment's warning, the pilot of the heavenly har- bor had met him just off the lightship. Tho Old Sea Captain's Story,' He had often talked to ane of the God, and especially goodness of Go , P y of a time when he was about to enter New York harbor with his; ship from Liverpool, and he was suddenly impressed that he ought. to put back to sea. Under the protest of under their very crew and v y threat he put back to sea, fearing at the same time he was losing his mind, for it did seem so unreasonable that when they could got into harbor that night they should put back to sea. But they put back to, sea, and Captain Pendleton said � SCJEtTIST SAVB. AN INTERVIEW WITII A COLLEGE PRESIDENT. His ltiany Duties Caused Buis Health to weak Down—Dr. Williams' fink Pllls Restore Hiao to Activity, Prom the Republican, Columbus, Ind. The Hartsville College. situated at Hartsville, Indiana, was founded years ago in the interest of the United Breth- ren Church, when the state was mostly a wilderness, and colleges were scarce, The college is well-known throughout the oountay, former students having gone into all parts of the world. A reporter recently called at this fa- mous seat of learning and was shown into the room of the president, Prof. Alvin P. Barnaby. When last seen by the reporter Prof; Barnaby was in deli- cate health. To -day Ile was apparently in A ]]ride's Sensible Trousseau. Isabel A. Mallon writes of "A Bride's Moderate Trousseau" in the Ladies' IIonro Journal. "The girl who has a fortune at her command needs no sug- gestions," sho says, "but the girl who has to think out the wisdom of every dollar spent on lit'r trousseau is the one who asks for advice. Taking it for granted, then, ' hat you will live a more or less social life, having your day at home and visiting your friends, and go- ing occasionally to hear good music, you can decide exactly what you will need. First of all, freshen all the gowns you possess, then you know their possibilities, then I would advise one handsome silk dress, combined, perhaps, with velvet, and having, to go with it, two bodices —one for wear when you are visiting, the other to be used when rather more elaborate dress is required. Have one simple, but smart -looking, wool dress for street wear; if required, you aright better omit your visiting costume than this. A black shirt, either of moire, silk or satin, will be useful, since with it there can be worn any number of elabor- ate bodices. Then you will want, also, a comfortable wrapper, to wear in no place except in your own room; two pretty, well -fitting, house dresses; a coat stilted to the season; a wrap that is a little more elaborate, if you can afford it; but do not make the mistake, so often made, of buying clothes that are not suited to your position in life, or, what is equally as bad, of buying such an elaborate wardrobe that it• will go out ot fashion." PROF'. AI,V1N P. BARNABY. Here Are the Feats. ts. There will be a feeling of relief to -day at the authentic statement that Great Britain, on behalf of Canada, has finally declined to walk into the trap that wan being arranged for her at Washington; In anticipation of thci bad language that will in a few hours be telegraphed from New York about England's "breachof faith" and "refusal of .a friendly confer- ence," it may be as well once mom to recapitulate the facts which led up to the present situation. Great Britain and the United States, being in dispute about the Behring Sea sealing regulations, went to arbitration. After a prolonged hearing in Paris, the decision was given on all essential points against the Uni- ted Staten, which country was further condemned to pay damages for illegal seizures of Canadian sealers. America has never paid the damages, and hat exhausted every diplomatic) artifice to evade the award, finally demanding a fresh conference with England to discuss, disputed. points. Lord Salisbury con- sented; whereupon America calmly pro- posed that Russia and Japan should have seats at the conference, the obvious intention being that England should be outvoted on a division, and America could obtain her wish --the upsetting by a side wind of the Paris award. We re- joice that Lord. Salisbury has put his foot down on this preposterous proposal.- Pall Mall Gazette. the best of health. In response to an inquiry the professor said: -- "Ob, yes, I am much better titan for some time. I am now in perfect health, but my recovery was brought about in rather a peculiar way." "Tell me about it," said the reporter. "Well, to begin at the beginning," said the professor, "1 studied too hard when at school endeavoring to eduoate myself for the profession. After complet- ing the common course I caine here, and graduated from the theological course. I entered the ministry and accepted the charge of a United Brethren church at a small place in Kent County, Stich. Be- ing of an ambitious nature, I applied myself diligently to my work and stud- ies. In time I noticed that my health was failing. My trouble was indigestion, and this with other troubles brought on nervousness. "My . physician prescribed for me for sometime,and advised mo to try a ohange of climate. I did as he requested and was some improved. Soon after, I tame here as professor in physics and chemis- try, and later was financial agent of this college. The change agreed with me, and for a while my health was better, but my duties were heavy, and again I found my trouble returning. This time it was more severe and in the winter I became completely prostrated. I tried various medicines and different physi- cians. Finally, I was able to return to my duties. In the spring of 1398 I was elected president of the college. Again I had considerable work, and the trouble, which had not been entirely cured, began to affect me, and last fall I oollapsed. I bad different doctors, but none did me any good. Professor Bowman, who is professor of natural science, told me of his experience with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and urged me to give them a trial, because they had bene- fitted him in a similar case, and I con- cluded to try them. "The first box helped me, and the sec- ond gave great relief, such as I had never experienced from the treatment of any physician. After using six boxes of the medicine I was entirely cured. To- day I am perfectly well. I feel better and stronger than for years. I certainly recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to similar sufferers and overworked people." Our Lives. Think of the brokenness, the incom- pleteness, the littleness of these lives of ours. We get glimpses of beauty in oharacter which we are not able to at- tain. We have longings which seem to us too great ever to Dome true. We dream of things we ought to do, but when we come to work them . out, our clumsy hands cannot put them into realizabfons. We have glimmerings of a love that is very rich and tender, without trace of selfishness, without envy or jealousy, without resentment. We strive to be sweet -spirited, unselfish, thoughtful, but we must wet our pillow with tears at the close, of our married days because we cannot be what we strive to be. So it is in .all our living. Life is ever some- thing too large for us. Yet this inoom- pleteness, this unsatisfaotoriness, this neer attainment, finds its realization in the risen Christ. 1Es is the perfect life and in Him we shall find fullness of life. --J. R. Miller. wellington's Comment on sheer. Next morning` Wellington was oonvers ing with General Bowles when a staff officer drew up,his horse flecked with. foam, and whispered the news of Ligny. Without a change of countenance, the der said to hiscompanion: "Old commander c p Blucher has had a -- good Ticking, and gone back to, Wayne, eighteen miles. As. he has gone back, we must go, too. t suppose in England they will say we: have been licked. I can't help it; as they have gone back, we must go, too." Greetings. Two Americans when they ./meet say, "How do you dot" Frenchmen say, "How do you carry yourself?" for they are vain of their appearance. Germans say, "How goes it with you?" for in Germany the going la slow. Italians ask, "How do you stay?" Russians, "How do you live?" because they are fond of good material living. People of Anglo- Saxon extraction say "Hew do you do?" because doing is their life; their faculties are coneentritted upon work. Dyspeps:aatud lnd'gestion.—C. W. Snow & Co., Syracuse, N. Y., writes; "Piease send us ten gross of Pills. We nee selling more of Parmelee's Pills than any other Pill we keep. They have a, great repu- tation for the cure of Dyspepsia and Lives Complaint." Mr. Charles A. Smith, Lind- say, writes: "Parmelee's Pills are an. excellent medicine. t1y sister has been troubled with severe headache, but these lilts have cured her." Opposite Expressions. '"There is a prosperity face. F under- stand." "Yes two kinds," "What are they?" "Tho faea w.‘ v:e.ar when we have prosperity and the face we wear when our neighbor has it." The horse—noblest. of the brute crea- tion --when suffering from a crit, abrasion, or sore, derives as touch benefit as its master in a like preai-acament, from the healing. sentit t. t netion of Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. l.auneizc's,-welling of the neck, stilineee of the joints. throat and lungs, are relieved lay it. Distance Mercury would Reach. While almost any one knows about the principles on which an ordinary ther- mometer operates, there are a number of things about this apparentlly little instrument which are not generally known, and which are of a great deal of interest. One of the most peculiar of these is the question of the length of tube which the mercury in the bulb of an ordinary thermometer would fill if it were stretched out in a single column the size of that in the tube. Most people, when asked how long this would be, would probably say from 5 to 15 feet, while as a matter of fact this column of mercury would in an ex- tremely delicate instrument be miles in length. The reason • of this is that the column, of mercury, while it appears quite largo, is really of almost inflnites mal size. If the tube of a thermometer is broken, one is at first at a loss to see whore the mercury goes in, but close examination will disclose a fine line, much thinner than a hair, running across one end of a little slit in which the mercury rises. As it has its,fiat side toward the eye, it appears to • be quite large, and the convexity of the outside of the tube, through which it is seen, mag- nifies it and gives it that rounded ap- pearance which is 'so deceptive. The rea- sonwhy the slit is madeso small' is to give the greatest ratio of .result for the expansion of the mercury in the bulb.- Boston Transoript. • , Economy in Corsets. Here is a hint for the woman who is obliged it edto be economical:foal: When your Dorset seems to be losing its shapeliness, steam it until the bones are soft and pli- able, and then over a flat -iron you oan restore them to their oorreot ehape;, this, of oourse, where whalebone is used.— Woman's Home Campanian. 110 Saw Two. 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