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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-2-5, Page 7J
DEMANDS OF THE AGE ple fact that all the tito.e that the Teel
majority of you will balm for the exclu-
sive service of God will. be less than wee
DR. TALMAGn PLEADS Rift HER=
MEN AND WOMEN.
Advice to Christens* te Breeden out and
•
Not Itheialn in Old Ratsea Serowe of
Encouragentent Ye All otwisticto work-
ers -strong- Characters. Neecletle
Ceepyright nen by American nrees Asses -no
tion.
Washinesoil, Jan, 80. --Dr. Taimege
here oboe's; the style of Christian, chant°.
ter recanted for the times in evbich we
live and pleads for more heroics. The
text in Esther iv, 14, "Who knoweth
eel:totter thou art come to the kingdom
for such a tame LIS thief "
Esther the be,eutiful was the wife of
Abasuerus the aboiniaable, The Woo ha4
come for her to present a petition to her
infamous hueband in behalf of the Jew-
nettiou. to Witich she had on be-
longed. be was afraid to uudertake the
work lest she shoula lese her own life,
blie her cousin, Mertlecal, who bad
broughe lier up, encouraged. her with the
suggestion that probably she luta been
raised up of God for that pcouliarmis
gen "Wbo knowetit wbether thou art
come el the kingdom for such a time as
this?"
Esther bad her Godappolutea work.
You estd T beee ours. It is my business
to MI you what style of 111911 WQM011
on 0%44 tO be in Order entit you leeet
the demend of the age in wideUed hen
east your lot. So this diecouree will not
deet with the teebnicalitiewbOtordy with
the precticabilittee. WItett two orioles
be rnsiten into battle, the officers of
tither army do not want a plosophical
dieeuesion aliout the chemical properties
ef human blood or the velure of gunpow-
der. They want &erne cash to Mail the
tetteriee end tette out the gum. And
lleWs whole all the forces of light and
dartnese of heaven and hell have plunged
into the, figitt, it is no time to glee our -
;seises to the definitions and formulas
and techilindities and conventionalities
of Minion. What We want is practicel,
cermet. VOMlitrattl, entleuelastic and
triuniphant belp.
exert:solve Christians.
In the ilret plait's, in order to useet
the eitcle:31 demerel of this ego, you uted
eti ae tettnistakelle, aggrwitive Che.
tan. (if lielf and bele entiotiens we do-
nor, went, esty mere. no elnareh et Jews
entree will lto withaut them. They
are the elietf OlPitr:atle Vi the element% can
eneete. . I atio eventing oe ;mother
k aristittn. All- ttet aelaterwee foe
your teeming esretert Christian are
at prim. Pawl, anal there le ;3, smile:lie
nate foe 7..1,1 nate the liewel daylleet,of
tred'e Iiitreeetwee You tvey this; esopien
te the teseinten of the woela, and the
next virevere yen may to prince; a the
year,
1314," says some man, "I liberally
support the gospel, and the church is
open, and the gospel is preached; all the
spiritual advantages are speed before
Men* and if they want to he Favfxl. let
them, come and be eaved—I have din,
oberged all mo responsibilite." Ah,
04 nay Maetelos spirit? Is there net an
old bane soraewbere that ocenenanda us
to go out iuto the highweye and the hedges
and compel the people to come in What
would become of you and ine It Christ
bad nob come down eft tete ot hea-
ven, aud if be had not eoree through the
door of the Bethlehem oaravansary, and
if ha had not midi the crushed hand et
tliocrucinxion kJ:reeked at the iron gate
Ot the Belualcher at our spirithal death,
ot7ing, "Logan% came torthr Oh, ray
Cloristian friend, thie is no time for ner-
ta all the tomes ef derkness seem
th be 'in full blast—wizen Statue Printing
presses are, poblislaing infidel tract% whea
express train are etertYing messcoSera ef
1.1d; "Tell are a hypoorite. You are at
oad as. ewer you were," Still he kept his
faith in Obrist, and afterawlaile, finding
Viet they could net tem nim Aside by
willing hire a hypocrite, they said to
him, 'Oh, you are nothing but ix Metlio-
diet!" This did not disturb him. He went
THE TIDY letelBAND-
lie Is Xrfta More 1;i:cave/IWO:S. Titan pin
WhO Is Absolutely Careless,
Is there anythiog more trying tot tide
earth than "tidy" husband—that is to
on pereorming his Christen duty until Ws the Phtladelpbit3 Times, the
man who thiults himself the pink of Pere
he had fermecl all hie troops Sete v. Biltle
class, end the whole eue,ampineut was f°°tiee'l" a's' far as Ileatr'°5° gm*" wal Yet
e w. th 0 neesenee s whet has absolutely no idea of orderliness?
Havelock'wesee into.the heathen, temple Ins °Wu be,kalgeings' el°theg!Plt'est 1)°°1"5.
in India while the English army. -was aetucd., :nreatelltollYpetutoto:ulet tablelseOvle.:1:hhQeiriarOill:bett
there ana put a candle into the liana of
each ot the heathen gods that wad we bringsdewn terreet of grumbling
erouud in the heathen temple, and bY the ' 4,3379,,w5fe.
leigonleetmol Hathoyseowor,plesreatseueledd. irTgbilywotliu04051s8 nes Is prita ti-frohmer a° eewnonbiauat
temperenoe and Judgment to 0011104 And pr,ying and curiosity? Let Iser condo° her -
who will say on earth or In heaven that sell te her awn duties' whlela NeKatki e'er'
ITevelock. had not the right to inv.teh? taility be Interned by a, little more are,
In tbe minister's house where prepered etc"
tor college there worked a mate et, the But other people'suntidinessnedw welt
name ot Peter Coy. He count neither IK a theme upon which he is uever weary
s God of talking, and periodically he has fits of
Often tbeelogians would stop in the house udenug uP crt home, where We, for those
in the house, is one long weariness.
—greet° theologians—and atfamilYPraTer Then nothing is private from his pry-
T'eter Croy 'mold he celled upon to lead,
;nn and curiosity; boolce and papers are
Sin Wilen t b chloPers are laden nilth A a those wise Men s4 41131"1d. won carefully sorted out and put back in. the
d ed wrong places; those which his wife has
oPilim and strong arine, when the night • der struck ed at his religious ofdelency.
air of our cities is polluted Wit the
laughter tbat breaks up from the 10.000 to take bold of the very throne of the espeelally laid by for future reference are
saloons of dissipation and abandonment, toightee and be talked with God until t ewithderatriedsennit lth tuut be twire utIt13;i1kPneur ton hi:
when the firer et the second deatb tareaey , very heavens ware bowed down into the sold 0z
Olettero are torn up indnerinain-
are kindled la the Omens ot soma lehg; sitting room. Oh, if I were dying X
ateiy, whether they are answered or not;
only a little while ago, 'Were incorrapel would rather hone Plain Peter Or°S knee'. the cupboard shelves are packed with a
Olt, never since the mime fen upon the far my bedside and commend my lea -
earth leis there been a time when it was Intbrtal sPirlt to God than tbe greatest let of rubbish, which is really useless,
and which was only wahing en oppor-
saeb an unwise, Stich a gruel! sOch 4reilh'ShaP aiTaSe4 jn e°stlY CAMI*415' Utility to be got rid 144 and for the next
awfnl thing for tbe church to sleep! kite , Qo Pretieh this gospel! Yon ean 70:1 ATO few weeho caniastou reiva eapreone;
greet midiences are mit feathered Chris. ' nat licensed. In the name of the Lord
-
tian churphm Up great audipages etro ..Ninlighty, I license you. file preach this nethleg call he felled when It ie Walittli
gathered in temples of sin—tears ot un- , goVelt Protgeb, it in the tiehhath eehooln because everYlhing has been' put Just
.„„ where it shouldn't be,
utterable woo *bar imptisre, the blood et ' in the PraYer zaccItega, in the highlva•'"' When he hag thee a making, hisnselt
crushed hearts the awful wine pf their , ill the hedges. Woo be unto yon it you
sacrament, blasphemies their litany, and Preach n now th ,ou hi' lie nablet clewnstairs, he
Cil g t O 3 c to
the grettile ot the lost World the organ Trionlab of Trete. goes upsteles and turns out all his boxes
dirge of their worship. , end drawers, end—and lasses tbere; for
. 1 remark ageint that lil order to ea his fit of tidinets does not lest sufficiently
Get Out of Old Huts, qualified to meet your duty in this lief-- long to quote ee his reducing the meddle
Agent, I t you went to be qualiaed to 'Gelder age See Nvanb 'unbounded Nth 411 be leis made to neatness; that is for his
zneet the tholes whielt thie an delnalltle the triumph of the truth and the twee- won te de lam we
Of you, :yell must on the 011e hand avoid threw of wickedness. How dare the Chris- , With a du,,ter. too, be goes about dick -
reckless iconoclasm and an the other ' tian church ever got dise011faged? IfaVe Ing up lah,41aary particles af dust, which
band not ttick toe much to things; because , we not the Lord Almighty an our aide? delet mist, and a pieta a strir,g and a
they are old. The air is full of now plans, ' Ilow long did it take God to slay thc roel et cotton out a tattee apparently
new projeets, new timer...wet government, hosts of Sermacherili or burn Sodom tit' cause him agOny and are the eubject at a
new theelogles, and 1 am aUnIZOLI, to see sheite down Jericho? II0W long Will It long homily on "the amount of rubbish
how so many febristlens wantonly novel- '', take God, when he once arisee in his which is ,:illaw,m1 to aecumulAte unless
te• in order to reonsanuentla thine, to their streueth, to overthrow all the tercee of there Is tone one to tate an interest in
entfitience, and ea they rennet -17 and ' iniquity? Between this time and thee the bouote,
wile; to and fro, autt they ere ateleee there may be long eetteelle of ilarkuete* There ere getterail.v premonitury seamnd they aro tinheppy, New plensenseen- and the chariot wheelie of tioe's gel tours tome to were tho Isla...re:int wife that the
1 ay,. eteiree ehureepiewg, rane, elo- nra7 qt.,Iiii to drag lativily, bothers, is the et te canteret, on,,,,,,a reiteesuneasiueee, Au
atlantic, ttttll-all,a3:c—loug es:multi to pr.thmi,,,, and weeder is rate teroue, and, abutter; =tweet of the lienements on the
visite a 11137 reuteisine tram the German vil.,•,), couni-,4her,o has lost Its ey(sight lama the ,0 at tee re:vetted hue -anon,
naversirlee ta Greg Oelt ',wee Wily. Ah, and et-ardor:men tails Nei: Impotent and 4.-Alik.r.,, -..„ test weet tee that paper) that
- k aher, do nat. za a A bEgli of a thing oh:hoe:et is driettu train his throne„ Mien, e woe a.,,,anteset w,„ ettee wele,entito tea
ly ihtiNVO,F4 it le n al Two- it le- the the eine-eh of Ofeate t'llr/•4 tan WWII to .....a. s..,1% of weer:nee and boreletensent
et tise eutiguatet day. lint, on ' te deospeneent, Int ret oe until then. . aot of „t 11 i i who 4' 3.71;?4 unsuaresquily
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i'ltiv_wis. the 14,,,Ido 1,,,l,„1,01 inn by bunt there went , iatenner :Auld ridienie
deeds a Itivals,tiuls PI frtin WM. Why? `41'41434 Ihe l'hil41713" "'.'n'h• ll'e2e ''';.114 n'Tcr'''' 1" twin." '"ela the hrle:1.1tHes! ' hie inelele is fulle et -eaglet lea as awn
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halt whee wen all tett honor compared a ..411'‘IL Pvill'k' v4'.. - ,'"itt "WI"' ever st:Irl. 1 41'; ,4,U1!. tbe .e,1.°1141:encti in'llgU2a . line enhengh nee may rvethecotitreat,
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te be cone testi, eauninsa, a am Lunt orommt! N,IL) over t,. •.* sueh a rAyla UN OWn triumph, autireturningfront unit. it, nisi iatittea it i,.; oftisti wise to aerept
unth **J. "They shall reign with hint talked of mysterious wi4 and WiliVit gems est, t le strontwa, to, test throne of ea many worse taunts that hentight take
Alniinerewayses, to Ise tilte,inl end kinga • i 1 1 ti
forevor and forever." , lbw imam) a man from Caproauni and 631'th bsin Ibingtool. t Ilr'P'Irc ''' ie fireman ' '
I:wait...arta, und ho time; his illustrations }wares 1 want o, easeera 04, .4 thlthatha up, and, as WO are all supposed to he
But you need to be aggrecolve Chris. , ' ". , . el, ; ' " - slightly need on one staneet et least, a
Maus, and not lam thoto pth,aat whs., :eon tee tenses, from tho sand, front the reenters in every perweett eepartneme -
spend twee lives in humans ,theie chri4 .1alantr.in, from the Illiol, l'cOul the corn- , Neste of the hiving tied, march on, znarelt , nermia for tilinese—in other people -1s at
; Hew the Pharisee,: scoffs:di wow on! Hie *spirit will Wan you. His shield 3 Mer'L 4 111'11161es'; 1111"5"i'r4ISS.
tian greens and Wondering why thee do '11' ' . , . If the lit threatens to be a enry bad
4 sr et' itr,' '14 Teal • I see' .1 h tersest concluest let will Sit ciftViret lt 444 3.12, ilywiroac alAaomfora. There eats
not make /gagmen How much robust,.
mess of health -would a man have if he
lki himself in a dark :nose? A great deal
of tbe piety of tteday le too exclusive. It
bides ittell. ft needs more fresh air, more
outdoor en ratite. There are tunny City's.
tarn who .t,e giving their entire life to
self O.VAlliht.nitz. They are feeling their
pulses to we what is the condition of
their aphelia health. How long would a
man bave robust physical health if he
kept all the day feeling bis pulse instead
of going out into active, earnest everyday
work?
Strong Characters Needed.
I was once tuna the wonderful, be-
witobing e eitus growths of North Caro-
lina. never was more bewildered with
the beauty of flowers, and yet when
would take up one of those cacti and
pull the leaves apart the beauty was all
gone. You 'could hardly tell tbat it bad
ever been a flower. .And there are a great
many Christitm people in this day just
pulling apart tbeir Christian experiences
to see what there Is in them, and there is
nothing left in them.
This style of self examination is a
damage instead of an advantage to their
Christian character. I remeMber wben
was a boy I used to have a small piece in
the gaxdon that I called roy own, and X
planted eorn there, and every few days I
would pull it up to see how fasb it was
growing. Now, there are a groat many
Christian people In ..this day whoso 'self
examination xnerely amounts to the pull-
ing -up of that which they only yesterday
or the day before planted. Oh, my friends,
If you want to ha,ve a stalwart Christian
character, plant it right out of doors in
the great field of Christian usefulness,
and though storms may corn° uponet,
and though the hot sun of trial may ty
to consume it, it will thrive -until it be-
comes a great tree, in which the fowls of
heaven may have their habitation. I halls
no patience with these flowerpot Chris-
tians. They keep themselves under shel-
ter, and all their Christian experience in
a small, exclusive circle, when they ought
to plant it in the great gar do n of the
'Mord, so that the -whole atmospbere could
bearer/late with their Christian useful-
neSe. What we want in the church of God
Is more strength of piety. The century
plant is wonderfully suggestive and won-
derfully beautiful, btit I never look at it
without thinking Of its parSimOny. It lets
whole generations go by before it puts
forth one blossom. So I have really more
admiration when I see the clowy tears in
the blue eyes of the -violets, for they
come every sprina My Christian friends,
time is going by so rapidly that :we can -
Lot affort'd to be idle.
io Time for Inertia.
ent statistician says that human
has an average of only 82 years.
these 32 years you must subtract
thne you take for sleep and the
, eking of food and recreation; that will
leave you atom 16 years. From these 16
you must subtraot all the time that you
are necessarily engaged in the earning of
a livelihood. That will leave you about
eight years. From these eight years you
must take all the days and weeks and
xaonths—all the length of time that is
passed in sickness --leaving you about one
year in which to work for God. 0 my
Foul, wake up! How detest thou sleep in
barvest time and with so few hours in
1' So that 1 sta it as a slue wet Christian, They scoffed at him and
ad derided: Anti title Jesus they w e en you. - The des- one it may be roult•reit lase fewer,: hy extra
pin, le el by the bean!, end they spat in 4 for you. March cm, march onl of nineteen by
/114 lalV, and they palled him "this fel- potism. Neill fait and pagaeism will burn swectues1 aria kjnane8*4
low." All the great enterprises in and its mew tied yaamonedhatein hhh. toha iii_n_ooxrectltileontehodiuntztt; :tilnwrojititedricidotirlesalteloand:
out of the *Muriel haws at thaws Wen 1.1P ite false propbet and Gm great walls of anticipate leg husband
wetted at, and there haw) been a greet superstition will COMO dOWil thender 4131'11:Oa wa"tidyinup" spell on her if° nalY
g
niultitede who have 3hought that the and wreck at the long, laud blast of the own account. who tooling- about, the
will soon be enIndeda".120ennly1 I extra dust—which can anvays be reeled if
chariot of God's trutb would full to pieces gospel trumpet, illarch on,
1115 once got out Of the old rut. And so The beslegemont
there sere those who beve no patience with si a few more steps on the long was only 1 °a° goes the right way 10 work—with a
anything like improventent in church s a few time sturdy blows; onlytw1 few gloomto y refereeces a "good clean
architecture, or with ituything, good, more battle criaw than God will put few
wupil,1"bweiollnlusually eo 1 Ire him out that he
hearty, earnest church singing, and they laurels upon your brow, a r
y toe glad to allow things to
deride any form of religious discussion living fouetains of heaven bathe e tho will
as they are. that he may enjoy a
;
which goes down walking among every- I the sweat una the heat and the dust of little peace and quietness,
day tnen ratber than that which makes 1 the conflict. March on, march on! For ,
an excursion an rhetorical stilts. Oh, you the time for work will soon be passed, A Possible Undiscovered Gas.
to
that the church of God would wake up 1 and amid tbe outflashinge of the judg- ;
an adaptability of work I We mm
must ad- ent throne and the trempetingof resur- Professor Williven Ramsay has given to
mit the simple fact that the churches of rection angels and tbe upheaving of a the British Asooetation his opinion that
e
Jesus Christ in this day do not math the world of graves and the home= and tilo there is an lement. tee yet undiscovered,
great masses. There are 50,000 people in groaning of the saved and the lost we lying between hereon and argon when
Edinburgh who never hear the gospeh h1i hc njh rn,. • f'thfuln ss or arranged accorcli»g to the "periodic law."
Share are 1,0'00,000 people in London
who never hoer tho gavel. The great
majority of the inhabitants of this oaten
tal come not under the immediate min -
of Christ's truth, and the church
of God in this day, instead of being a
place full of living epistles, known and
read of all men, is more line a dead letter
post -office.
Work to be wone.
"But," say the people, "the world is
going to be converted; you must be pa-
tient; the kingdoms of this world are to
become tbe king,doins of Christ." Never,
unless the churoh of Jesus Christ puts on
more, speed and energy. Instead of tb
°hurrah converting the world, the worl
is converting the church. Here is a grea
fortress. How than Ube taken? An army
comes and sits around about it. cuts off
the supplies and says, "Now we Will just
wait until trout exhaustion and starva-
tion they will have to give up." Weeks
and mouths and perhaps a year pass
along and finally the foreress surrenders
through that starvation and exhaustion.
But, my friends, the fortresses of sin aro
never to be taken in that way. If they
are taken for God, it will be by storm;
you will breve to bring up the great siege
guns of the gospel to the very wall and
wheel the flying artillery into line, and
when the armed infantry of heaven shall
confront the battlements you ewill have
to give the quick command, "Forwardt
(Margo t" •
Ah, ray friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order 6 gain this
grand accotuplishment, I have a pulpit.
preaoh in it Your pulpit is the bank.
Your pulpit is the store, Yotir pulpit is
the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the
anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffold-
thg. Your pulpit is -the mechanic's shop.
I may stand in my place 'and, through
cowardice or through self seeking, may
keep back the word I ouglit to utter,
while you, with sleeve rolled up and
brow besweated with toil, may utter the
word that will jar the foundations of
heaven with the shout of cs great victory.
Oh, teat we might all feel that the eLorcl
Almighty is putting upon us the had
of ordination! I tell you, every one, go
forth and preach this gospel. You have as
emelt right to preach as I have or any
man living.
Example s of Courage.
Hadley ViORTil was a winked man in
the English army. The graced God came
to him. He became an earned and emin
THE COMING OF LOVE.
dreamed that love came as the oak tree
grow,
AY the chance dropping of a tiny seed,
And then frora tenet to Moon with steady
speed,
Then& ewe by Wilalla eltilled with beed-
lees snow,
The Bap of pulsing ll-fe would, tweverd. flow
Till in its might the heavene themeselyes eoul
read
Portents of power that they mast learn to heea,
'Ibis was my drenn. The. waiting proved net, se
For love came like a dower and grew awe*.
ISanr it blossom. lenderlY and frail,
Till the dear spring lead run its eager race.
Then the Petah wind teased high the wean
red.
The seed fell far In Boll beyond nly Pale.
I know not pow if love be lest or dead.
t1 —11eten 3Oay in Harper'e Magazine,.
_
punished for our stupidity. Blessed be tbe
Lord God of Israel from everlasting to
everlasting and let the 'whole earth be
filled with its glory. Arnett and amen.
She 'rook the Hint.
At honae stations the private soldiers'
washing is usually dono by the married
soldiers' wives, who are expected to sew
on missing buttons and do repairs, for
which a small sum Is deducted from the
private's pay.
Pat MoCainnis had a good deal of
tr h his laundress; Sundayafter
k 11 he
"Bo her t
lye•r a hint this time, anyhow."
He then took theeld of a tin blaokin
box, about three 'inches in demote
drilled two holes in it with a fork an
sewea it on to the nook, of the sbirt th
was next to be washed. When his was
ing came back be found that she ha
taken the hint; she had made a batten
hole to fit it.
Long Distance Telepb
A system of long distance telephoning
ie reported to have been invented by Mr.
w, iteenaugblin Merrell, southern elec-
trician of the Postal Telegraph Company,
whose headquarters is at Altaeta, At an
exhibition of the apparatus it Is said that
audible sorteds were transmitted through
resistances equal to 40,000 miles of ordin-
ary telegraph cable. The result is obtain-
ed by having the original transmitter
very powerful and by using repeaters
which take up and magnify the sound at
several stations along the liee. Fel-trans-
atlantic telephoning it a pr rposed to have
the repeaters contained In submarine
chambers located 1,010 miles apart. --
Engineering News.
what 'Pvi I Will Do.
The Lord °Wee brings his people away
from their sins by givieg them sharp and
cutting experiences of what evil will do
forethem. It suol be tho present conse-
quences of sin, they begin to guess what
sin will bring them i when they come into
lodgment and con emnation.
Vbile expermentmg with helium, 111 tbe
attempt to petrify it byrodiffnsion, it was
found that this gaa could be separated
into a, boa,vy and a light parb, with densi-
f 2 0 and 2 4; continuing the exper-
es o
intent after as many as 180 diffusions of
helium the density of tbe lightest. portion
xemained constant at 1.98, and its refrac-
tivity to light as compared with air was
0.1245. The spectrum, too, not differing
(ram helium, one element may therefore
be considered as isolated as pure helium.
The residue is easily altered in density
by rediffusion, implying a small quantity
of beavy gas mixed with a large quantity
°flight gae. The spark spectrum revealed
targets in the mixture to the amount of
1.64 per cant by density and 1.14 per
cot by refractivity, leading to the sup-
position that the new gas is contained as
a very small proportion of argon. Neither
helium nor argon forme compounds, go
that the new elementas demanded by the
"periodic law" newt be determined by
diffusion. This method, ilowever, doe;
not reneal the existence of such a gas,
though it by no means follows, Professor
Ramsey holds, that there is no such gas.
1101leY GALLORY GODS.
W Tribe Is Worse en Hagiand 'Mars
Over Here, wbougle
Itirst Gol (witistling anxiously across
tbe 'Arry, where's itt Le Billy?
Second Goa (returtalug the eat coi)—
'es sweltered his shillie, anti the cove
'won'tlet Om in,
Firet Ood—We of tho Dom
blokes. (Intrepidly) Pre off tO turn Dilly
apside down and get that "bob" bock.
First oddess (with severity)—Sit down
Jim. Don't Make a begibitioe of yourself:
Sit dawn, I say- 'Ave done.
.Firet God (resolutely)—Ine going arter
Billy (endeavors to. tone hie way OLIO.
Various Volcce of Eepoetulation—Keep
queti Sit down! Vetere drunk!
rirgt1 God (intligpantiy facing lila act
ousers),--All right. lop your 'air ell,
Drunk, am I? Well soon See who's drunk.
Piret Godeees (in minister)* lanes)—Look
hire, Jim, its the lest tiftle lover 'come
out 'with you, see if it ain't. You're a
disgrace, that's what you are. Zia, never
again.
Beeond Ooddees (with the hest inten#
tans)—!y ewe wOMent '40.11't you better
Oho your 'u .hand 'onie?
FlVt Gnados (Promptly returning good
for evill--Wito are you a -talking to? I'm
f1, gotta woman, and Ibis geutleteau
ain't my No lleed fOr TIM to
hinterfere.
Second Owitless (loudly to a neighbor-
tlieinite)—What ft hc4ious person,
dear.
First Goddess (with bellicose looks)
Person, Intlerdi There are some prone
who'd lee in wet at tome fryieg, their ugly
fasten No. Jim. I shan't. Sbet'a no ialdy.
cno orehea:ra strikes up.)
Voloes (fre-ai thititull as Irfore)---Sh Sh I
Ordori %%MU 'cr out!
First Gneeess (corneeting wit h tbe tram-
bourn—Times what I say, turn 'er out!
Ilinsiertoinereen (And in asseb wise, mall
the cunain r:4 ;3, when ht -z' attention is :tt
, once to thestage,1 Oh, my! Jimit
ainte time beastiftili—Leetion World,
It WM* Maw,
Pete W:dIttu was olatut tho gamet
' fellow of all am smooth chap; that %mit
doing buslite-a at Leaitvllln vhe 15 was
the live:len platta OA earth. Ile was litne
anO drew! a Inas a fashion plate, but to
bad a ralr of eyes thee would wore haw
in you atta eould pull quielter'n n UMW
can kick.
Polo put himself on record rictitt from
the stmt. Ilo want au the ground a week
before a cool& of tenderfeet from the ease
got up a itettelt game of billiards. Of
course it, made the !tette lively, and. the
boys all aim:gilt they had admit when
Pete, wbo was new ter them, broke into
the play and went Pa puttin up all kinds
of money that the ganie would be a draw.
no Wee of a draw in a billiard contest
was so eitliettlittis that the fellows thought
Pete must be ()rosy, but there seemed to
be IV bottom to his pile, and it did the
talkin.
It all came out afterwards. Pete went
to ono of the plums and gave elm $500
to throw the game Then be made the
same kind ot a deal win/ the Other one,
weenie both that there would be a kilhin
11 tbe agreement was not carried out. Won
never saw a funnier game. Bath tried to
throw it. Neither knew that the otter
Was under °entreat to do so. They played
worse than amateurs, were nervous and
looked at Pete, who sat there with a band
in each bip pocket and lookin like a tiger
ready to spring. At 100 points they were
a tie. One of them pretended to be kale,
and the otber led him into a side room.
Ten minutes later it was cliscovered that
they bad fled. declare all bets"— be-
gan the referee. "I declare this Imre game
a draw," he concluded, for he ha(1 caught
the eye of Pete, who appeared to be exam -
thin his gun.—Detroit Free Press.
A SOLDIER'S LIFE.
ONLY VnTERANS CAN REALIZE THE
SUFFERIelOS OF ARMY LIFE.
roue, Ken ertade He/pleas euvends—rhe
Story of CUm 'Who Suffered Pay Oa*
Ntgitt for Twenty Tears.
rpm the Cbatbene Beaten
Everyone tieing in and around the vim.
szo Whecielter knows Mr. Peter Sippia
who has been a resident of the place fete
upwards of tweety years, and. who during
the whole period up to last year Wall el
constant sufferer from seute ritouniatienn,
aOmplielated by other troubles, =eel he
was worn almost to a sbadow. At tat,'
age of twelty jobted the Oist New
York Volunteers, and, sheer beiug a 1410111.
ber at that orgenieatiou ter three nears,
he joined the New York Cavalry and
served through the war et the robe -Mort.
He took part in the historic battles of
Bull's Run, Fredericksburg, Culpepper,
eta, and at one tbne rode eiglev mileage;
a stretch, carrying dispatchesthrough the
enemy's lines. On another OCOLtelen be
was on horseback for four ys ar3d five
nights, and it le little wonder that so*
hardships left him, as they did thou -tends
of others, With a wrecked oonstitation,
VW% in the armee as a reeelt of poor
feed and often worse water, he Vraa **-
Peeked with diarrheee, whieb easetated
ohrouie feria, This of course greatly
weakened him, and he fell an WY Mr
to the patina and terror e rhonnatiem.
TO a correspondent of thO he said;
never expected to be any better In
this 'world, as bad tried scores of oines wh/011 brong.ht me no relief at all.
Sometimes far weeks at a time 1 could
not Ile down or sleep, and could eat buit
little, 1 was not only troubled with rben-
inatisM, hut tie tiniest was eubject ter
fainting spells, and at other times every-
thing appeared to turn blaels. before my
eyes. I would often feel sicit at my stom-
ach, at wItich trees fete would prove
loarhsoneeto eta My lr.idDeyS alSO trou-
bled me greatly aed my nervous syetere
seentecl completely shattered. Tongue cats
scarcely tell how emelt eedured during
Own long aud weary TWO. AbOUta year
ago I Was advised to try Dr. Williams'
Pink, Pills. and It WAS agrand day for ma
that I began their uee. After I Irsal Wier1
a few hoses my rains tad decreased and
I was coneidexably letter. Later, through
a continued use of the pills, I coati eat,
sleep and felt as alie to work. as I had
done twenty years tem. I now feel well
and Wrenn and if' any of myold comrade,
see title mid are aillicreed I would. urge
thole to tee Dr. \rattans' Pink Pills."
An analysis shone; that Dr. Williams'
Pink euntaiii In a condented form,
all the seeritents lit-N:5,41V to giro new
life and re:linens to the blood, and restore
elustroted neves. 'Wive are an tustilling
speeific for suck dieetCPS as locamotor
Ataxia, partial woult tie, St. Vitus* dance,
sciatlea, 'Kewanee, rhoUnlittisin, nervous
head:wile, the after effects of In grippe,
palpitation of the heart. nervous prostree
tion, all disease.; delimiting upon 'vitiated
humors In the blow!, such as !scrofula,
throttle erysipelas, ere They are Also
specific for trotiblee pigedlar to female's,
suet as suppretsione. inogultritiee, and
all forms at eveakitear. They build up the
blood, and restore the glow a health to
pale and sallow cheeks. In men theyeffect
a radical euro in all oases arising frOm
mental worry, overwork, or excesses of
whatever nature.
Wearing Glasses.
The care of the oyes is perhaps one of
the ntost imperfectly understood of any of
our daily duties. More ills arise (corn
their misuse than the public generally
appreciate. 'Epilepsy is a frequent result
of eye etrain, and a cereal and intelli-
gent observation will convince most peo-
ple that more headaches corae from abuse
of tbe eyes than from any other cause.
Probably one-sixth of the adult popula-
tion of this country would be benefited
by the use of glasses, at least during
their working hours. They tire quickly,
have headaches, the digestive apparatus is
completely upset, there are pains in the
back and a general feeling of dizziness
and nausea, and the true cause is never
auspeeted. The patient is bilious or nerv-
ous; bas indigestion or liver complaint.
The evil is attributed to everything but
the proper cause. Fit the person to good
glasses and the difficulty vanishes almost
as if by magic.—New York Ledger.
Armies of the World.
At the fleet of the year the armies of
the world numbered 4,500,000 nien.
London's Cemeteries.
The cemeteries of the city of Londen
cover over 2,000 acres of ground.
Unconscious Cerebration.'
"Here is something which interests me,"
said the solemn faced man, "and that
seemed quite wonderful. too.. 110(1 gone
out before breakfast, as •I commonly do,
to give myself the pleasure of a breath of
fresh air. Just as I started off from my
front door 1 met a man coining along
without a collar on. Before I realized it
ixsy arm had started up for my neck to see
if I had a collar on. .As a matter of fact,
I hadn't, and I suppose that the failure to
put one on at the usual time had left me
peculiarly sensitive to iropressions about
collars. But vvbat interested me partiou-
larly was this:
"The impression in this case, taken
through the eye, was conveyed to the'xiius-
eles of iny arm before it was to my eon-
soiousness. My arm realized it before my
mind did; nay hand started independently
to find out whether I did haw, a collar on;
and it had inoved at least six inches from
my side up toward my neck before I --that
Is to say, my thinking part—realized what
it was moving for.
"I let it go on up, bowever, now under
my control and direction; but, honest, I
hated to boss it over such an intelligent
arm."—Atlanta Constitution.
Made It Complete.
When Lablacbe, the famous operatic
singer, was presented to the queen, her
majesty, wile had heard of the artist's
hobby, asked if it was true that he had a
large collection of smiWboxes. He replied
that it was correct. He had one for every
day in the year -865,
"Nevertheless, your collection Is not
quite ceinplete," was the queen's response.
"Here is another for leap year."—Pear-
son's Weekly.
5tysteries of Polities.
She—I don't see what draws you men
Into politics. As for me, I can't make
anything out of it.
He—It is the hope of exalting something
out of it that makee so many men go in.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
A man's good qualities are never prop-
erly proclaimed " until hiswidow's second
busband tracks a lot of mud across the
best parlor earpet.—Detroit Free Press.
There were more than 100 colossal stat-
ues in the city of eihodes, besides the great
bronze image that bestrode the harbor.
Lire as It Is.
; Financial circumstances alter legal
ta,ses.
How strange it is that only sensible,
people agree with yeas
"The eternal mielltuess of Wogs"
would often be more 'appropriates.
The baseball and the football have re-
signed in favor of the iishba,11.
Tim Mall who apologizes never bas to
explain how he happened to get a black
eye.
It Is said that woman shares ratuste
grief, doubles his joys and trebles his ex-
penses.
A girl has a right to look into the- tu-
tu*, but she should never be forward-
looking.
The man with a dollar, a nickel and
hole in hie pooket invariably bases the
dollar and retains the nickel andthehole.
Becky Sharp.
After all when the novels are read and
the costumes duly admired or condemned
do we not conclude that the true secret in
making use of costume as an end in Ito -
ton lies in following a plan not unlike
the conduct of Mies eharp regarding the
laces and brooadeo which she warloined
during the housecleaning time from the
closets in the houe.. of Sir Pitt? We all
remeinber how she kept them well out of
sight until she desired a costume de cour
of "the raost elegantand hrillianli clesorip-
ton," so effective as to compel Lady Jane
to own sorrowfully to tiers& that she was
quite iuferior in taste to Mrs. Beoky, and
Jilxs. Bute Crawley and her daughter down
In the country to give vent to their honest
indignation at tbe flies of the "windy
haired, green eyed French rope dancer's
daugb ter."
The mistake of the light fiction 'write=
In regard to costume is in not keeping
clothes in the background until the mo-
ment when only clothes can produce the
desired effect. They make a hotoine so
fine for breakfast that nothing remains
for a costume de cour.—Eva A. Madden
in Lippincott's.
A Century Age. ,
Glasgow is now within less than one
minute of London—that is to stay, a com-
munication can be sent there by teleetsrain
in that space of thee, In the last century
it was scarcely within a fortnight of it.
It is a positive fact that 'when the post
arrived there a hundred years ago the fir-
ing of a gun announced its touting in.
The members of the clubs who heard ie
tumbled out of bed aed , rushed down tee
the clubrooms to get the latest news.
Generally on those ocoasions a tankard
of hot herb ale, or a beverage which was*
mixture of rum and sugar, was reedy foe
them, over which they discussed the mail.
—Exchange.
Not on the Mena.
Oldboi—Well, can't you find what TIM,
want on the bill?
Shortleiglio-No.
Oldboi—Incleocli What do you weed'
Shortleigh—Money enough to pay for
what I orcler.—liarlem Life.
The motive of action often, lifts the ',se-
ttee but of the sloweb o sin Or Off the
plane of ilIDOCchee le the higher planes ef
virtue and reiigiott.