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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-2-12, Page 3THE BOAT OF RUSHES DR, TALMAGE TAKES MOSES' SISTER AS HIS THEME. • Re Admires the Behavior of the Faithful, SeArliatent and Strategto Kiriano-Exhorti. sisicts to Bestow Care on Their Brother* —Bente Thoughts., Cepyright :lase, by Amer, leen, Press As.socia. Vette Washington, Feb. 0.—In this eerneon ot Dr. lebnage be eharacter of a wise, sypa'i u1 selielopying sister is set forth set au example, ati),I the story will set 1uuued, u meu to tlieetkteg over old times; teat, Forming II, 4, "Apahis eistes stood afar off to wit whae Woutete done to him." Princess Therenutis, deughter of Phar- aoh, looking ellt through the lattice at ber bathing h011Se, 011 the banks of the Nile, saw 4 curious boat on the riYer, It bad neither oar nor hebn, andthey would have been useless anyhow. There Was only one passenger and that 4 baby boy. Bee the Mayflower, that brougat the Pile grim filthere to America, carried not so precious tt load. The boat was made of tile braid, leaves a papyrus, tigbterted together by bitumen. Boats were some- times; made of that nutterial, as we !earn from Pliety and Ilerodotus Ana_ Theo. parstua 'Kill all the Hebrew cialdren bern." had been Keret/WS Order. To *aye her boy, ,Tochebeti, the mother of little Mosvs. bad put him in that queer boat and kunelted bt, is sister alit', iron stood on the baule, wittehiog that preeious ereft. Sbe was far enough off not to draw attentioo o tbe boa a bat =ear enough to offer protection. Tam be stands on, the bante—altriam the poet - ass, Mam the quick witted, Mirlent the faithful, Though very human, for in after time she demonstreted airlines Was 4 splendid sister, but llad ner faults, like all the rest at us. How careftilly she wateaed the litiat containing her brother! .& strong wiod might upset It. The buffaloes often found there might io a sudden plunge of thirst sink, it. Some raveueus waterfowl might swoop and pick les eyes; 011t With ir011 1)00.14, $01116 croeodile or bippopotamus crawling through the rusbes might crunch the babe. Miriam watched and watehed tU Prinvess Therzuntis, aInaiden on eaeh side ot bei holditig palm leaves over her head to shelter her from the sun, Mine down and entered her bathing home, Via= from the lattieee, she saw the beet, she ordered it Imagist, and when the leavee were pulle4 back from the face of the tibial and, the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he was hungry and. frightened and would not e'en l't the princess take Ile infant would rather stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Miriam, the sister, in- cognito, no one suspeeting lair relation to the calla, leaps from the bank audrashes down and oilers to got a purse to pacify the child. Consent is given, and she brings nochebetl, the baby's mother, cognito, none of the 'ours knowing that she was the mother, and when Joelzehed arrived the chila stopped crying*, for its fright Was calmed and its hunger ap- peased, You may admire slechebed, the =Other, and all the ages may admire Moses, but I clap Illy hauds in applause at the behavior of 'Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and strategies sister. A. Nonsuch In litistory. "Go home," some one might have said to Miriam. "Why risk yourself out there alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing the miasma and in danger of being at- tacked or wild beast or ruffian? Go home!" No. Miriam), the sister, more lovingly watched and bravely defended eloses, the brother. Is he worthy her oare and calv- e age? Oh. yes; the 60 centuries of the world's history have never had. so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen! Its one pass- enger was to be a nonsuch in history— lawyer, statesman, politician, legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer. He had such remaeltable beauty in childhood that, Josephus says, when he was carried along the road people steeped. to gaze at him and workmen would leave their work to admire him. When the king playfully put his crown upon this boy, he threw it off indignantly and put his foot on it. The king, fearing that this might be a sign that the child anigbt yet take down his crown, applied another test. Accord- ing to the :Jewish legend, the king ordered two bowls to be put before the child, one containing rubies and the other burning coals, and if he took the eoals he was to live and if he took the rubies be was to die. For some reason the child took one of the coals'and put it in his mouth, so that his life was spared,, although it burned the tongue till be was indistinct of utterance ever after. Having oorne to manhood, he spreads open the palms of his hands in prayer, and the Red sea parted to let 2,500,000 people escape, And he put the palms of his hands together In prayer, and the Red sea closed on a strangulated host. Burial or Noses. His life so unutterably grand, his bur- ial must be on the sante scale. God would let neither man nor saint nor archangel halve anything to do with weaving for him a sbrouOE digging for him a grave. The omnipotent God left his throne in heaven one day, a,nd if the question was asked, "Whither is the King'of the Ifni - verse going?" the answer was, "I am going down to bury Moses," And the Lord took this mightiest of men to the • top of a hill, and the day was clear, and Moses ran his eye over the magnificent range of country. Here the valley of Esdraelon, where the dnal battle of all nations is to be fought, and yonder the • mountains Hermon and Lebanon and Gerizim and the hills of Judaea, and the village of Bethlehein there, and the city of Jericho yonder, and the east Stretch of landscape that ahnost took the old law- giver's breath away as be looted at it. And then without a pang, as Ilea= from the statement that the eye of Mows was • undimmed and his enamel force unabated, God tom:lied the great lawgiver's eyes and they Closed, and his lungs arid they cetteed, and bis heave and it stopped, and commanded, saying, "To the skies, thou immortal spiral" And then one divine hand was put against the backeof Moses, and the other hand against the pulseless breast, and God laid him softly down on Mount Nebo, and then the lawgiver, lift- ed in the Ahnighty's arms,was carried to the opening of a cave and placed in a crypt, and one stroke of the divine baud smoothed the features into an everlasting ca,lna, and a rock was rolled to the door, and the only obsequies, at which God did all the offices of priest and undertaker and gravedigger and mourner. weee,ended. Oh, was not Miriam, the sister of Moses, doing a good thing, an important thing, a gleriOtAs thing waen she watehea the boat woven or river plants and made water tight with osphaltuna, carrying Ate one passenger? Did she not put all the ages of time and of a coming eternity under obligation when she defended her helpless brother from the perils a,auatie, reptiliap awl ravepous? $he it was ehat brougat that wonderful babe and hie mother together, so that he was reared to be the deliverer of his natiep, whim other- wise, if saved at all from the rushes of the Nile, he would have been only one enore ef the Godelefying Pharaohs; for Princess Tberrnutis 0 ehe bathing house would bave atherited the crow/eta Egypt, and as she had no ehild of her own this adopted child would have come to corona- tion. „Hatt there been 114 likfirialn there 7,01.44 llaVe‘.heeil no Moses, IThat a gala laua for faithful sisterhood! For how rilanY a lawgiver and how many a hero and how 11)411Y a delivereemal bow many a sable are the world and the °Imola in- debted, to a watchful, loving, faithful, Goely sister? Coate ap out at the farm- houses, come up oet of tbe liacoespentous homes, mile up from the banks of the Hudson and Penobscot and the Savaunan and the Mobile and the Mississippi and all the Other Niles of America. and let tis see you, the Miriams who watebed and proteete4 the leaders in law and meaieitte and merehandise and, art and agriculture and reeebanies and religion! If I should ask all physicians audattorneys and, mar - cheats and. =loafers of religion and ,sue- eeseful men of all professions and trades who are indebted to an elder Siseer for geed influencee and perhaps toren etinee- thin or a prosperous start to let it be known, hundreds would testify. God lenowe how" many of our Green lexicoos and how omen of ourechooling were paid for by money that would otherwise bave gone for the replenishing et a sister's werarebe. While the . brother sailed at for a resouriding sphere, the sister vtatehed Mu e froni the batiks of self denial. The Paler Sister's anteing Bend. Miriam \NS the dam of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were younger. Oh, the power of the elder sister to help deeide the brother's character for usefulness awl for baleent he eau keep oft from ber brother more evils glaze Miriam could, hAVe driven back water- fowl. or croteulile front the ark of WI - melees. The older sister decides the direc- tion in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness, by gond seuen, by Carla, 'flan principles she eon turn It towards the palace, not of a wieked Paaraoh, but of a hole' God, and a brigbter princess than Thema-as should, •litt him out of neril, cm religion, whose ways are ways of pleasentuess and all her paths are peace. The alder tieter, how remelt the world owes her! Born while yet the Mit' ii7 vvits in limited eirettinetances, she bad to hold 'iand take tetre of her youner brother& ;and it there is anything that mites iny sympathy it is a little girl lugging round a greet, fat child aud get- ting her cars boxed because she minuet keep hint quiet. By the tirne she gets to young 'womanhood the Is pale and worn out and her attraetiveness has been satt- rifted on the Altar ot eaterly flaelity, and she is consigned to celibacy, and steamy tails her by an unfair name, but in beta von they mei her Miriam. In most bea- nies the tWO ITIOS4 uneeerable places in the record of births are the first and the last—the first because she Is worn out with the cares of a Lome that cannot tinged. to hire help, and the lees& because she is spoiled as a pet. Arnow the gond- eet equipages that sweep through the streete of 11040011 Will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of the Apocalyptio white horses, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass, the eharioteer crying: "Clair the way 1 A queen is coining!" Blessing or Curse. Let sisters not begrudge the time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy that you know so well as your brother tan ever turn out anything very usefal. Well, he may not be a Moses. There Is only one of that kind needed for 6,000 years. But I tell you wbat your brother will be—.either a blessing or a curse to societyand a candi- date for happiness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses, have the choice between rubies and living coals, and your inilu- once will have much to do with his de- cision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer of a nation, but be may, after your father and mother are gone, be the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes to -day are piloted by brotheral There are propertiek now well invested and yielding income for the support of sisters and younger brother because the elder brotber rose to the leadership from the day the father lay down to die. What- ever you do for your brother -will come back token again. lf you set him an ill natured, censorious, unaccommodating example, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated a,nd despoiled nature. If you, by patience with his infirmities and. by nobility of character, 'dwell with him in the few year. of your companion- ship, yon will have your counsels reflected back upon you seine clay by his Splendor of behavior in some crisis where he would have failed but for you. Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his ability. Don't talk discouragingly about his future. Don't let Miriam get down eft the bank of the Nile and wade out and upset the ark of bub..ushes. .Don't tease Mtn. Brothers and sisters do not consider it any berm to tease. That spirit abroad in the family is one of the mean- est and most devilish. There is a teasing that is pleasurable and is only another form of innocent raillery, but that which provokes and irritates and make • the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended. It would be less blanaeworthy't'o take a blench of • thorns and draw then] across your sister'S cheek or to take a knife and draw its sharp edge across your anther's hand till the blood spurts for that would damage only the body, bi.4 teasing is the thorn and tbe knife scratching and lacer- ating the disposition and the soul. It is the curse of innumerable households that • She brothers tease the sisters and the sis- ters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color of the hair, or the shape of the fea- tures or an affair of the heart. Sometinaes It is by revealing a, secree or by a sugges- tive look or a gu aw, or an "Ahem!" Tease!Teasel le' se I For mercy's sake, quit it, Christ say, "He that hateth his brother is a mordeter." Now, when you, by teasing, make irour brother or sister hate, you turn Mani or her into a murderer or murderess. a I ' Beware oiT Jealo'xsy. Don't let jealousy ennir t uch a sister's sonl, as.it so often doe \b cause her bro- ther gets more honor en' re moans. , Even Miriam, the 'Aleiles e of the text, was struck by that in O'qj sion of jeal- a edgy. She had posse, \.° limited influ- ence over MoseS, ants w be marries, end not only so, but naa ries a black WO - man from Ethiopia, arid Afiriana isso Ots- guste4 and outraged at Moses, first be- cause he bad married at all, mid meat because he bad pritotieed, neiscegeoiteioa, that she is drawn into a frenzy, and then begins to turn evhite and gets (waits as a corpse and then whiter than a corpse. Fier compleZion is likeeltalk—the feee is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And row the brother whom she bad. defended on She Nile comes to aer rescue in a prayer that brings her restoration. Let there be no own in all your house for jealousy either to sit or stand. It is a leprous abomination. • Your brother's success, 0 eietere, is your success! Hie vietoriee will be your victories. For while Moses the brother led the vocal rausie after the crossing of the Red sea, Miriam the sis- ter, with two sheets of shining brass up,. lifted and glittering in tbe sun. led tbe instrumental musk), elappiog the cymbals till the last frightened neigh a pltating eavalry herse was smothered in the wave, sseender,eoee lest Egyptian helmet went u How strong it Makes a family when all the sisters and brothers stand together and what an awful wreck when they dis- 11,4cfgate, quarreling about lifetimes will and malting the surrogate's office horrible with their wrangle! 13etter, when you, were little ehildren In the nursery, that with your playbouse malletsyeu had acei- dentully killed each other fighting across your cradle than that, having come to the age or maturity' an having in your Veins and. arteries the blood of the sante father and mealier, yea fight each other tteress the pareotal grave in theceatetely. Po tante Part. If yea only knew it, your Interests are identical. Of all the lamiliee of the earth that ever stood together peraaps the most Cinspleuous is the failaily of the Ratbs- childs. As Mayer "Aneehn. Rothschild was about to die, in 1S12, be gethered, his children, about him—stosolia, Soloinoo, Nethee, Obarlee and James—and Made them promise that they would elereye be united en 'ehange. Obeying that injunc- tion, they have been the mightiest com- mercial power on earth, and at tbe rais- ing or lowering of their scepter nations bave risen or fallen. net illustrates how much, on 4 laree scale and for soltish purposes, a uuited family may achieve. • But suppose that illtit'ad of a magnitude of dollars as tile 014013 It be doing good and making salutary impreeslon and rale - Ing this sunken world, bow mina more ennobling! Sister, eon do your pat and. brother will do bis part. If Miriam will lovingly wateh the boat on the Nile, Moses will belp her when leprous disas- ters strike. Wheu tether and mother are gape—and they soon will be, if they bave not already made exit—the sieterly and fraternal bond will be the onle ligarnout thot will hold the family together. How many ran- I sons for your deep anti unfaltering affee- tion for each other! Reeketi ia the same enact bent over by the same motherly tenderness; tolled for by the eame father's ! weery arms and aching brow; -with coin - mon ieheritauee of alt the family secrets and with manes given you by parents who started you with the highest hopes Lor your happineee and presperitY, ohaege you be loving and Jdnd mut for- giving. If the Miter see that the brother payer want.; a sympeehleer, the brother will eels thee the elaer IleVer wants an °awe Oh, It the si vers. of a 1101180101a knosv through what terrine and dimming temptations their brother goes in city lire they would lewdly sleet) nights in anXiety for his ealvatIon! a ea if you would make a holy conspiraey of kind words and gentle attentions and earnest players, that wriuld save his soul from death and hide a multitude of sins, But let the sister dash off in one direction in discipleship of the world, and the brother flee off in another direetion and dissipa- tion, and it will not be long before they will meet again at ehe iron gate of despair, their blistered feet in the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alas, that brothers and sisters though living to- gether for years very often do not know each other, and that they see only the im- perfections and none of the virtues! Know Thy Brother. General Bauer of the Russian cavalri had in early life wandered off in the army, and tbe family supposed he was dead. After he gal ued a fortune he en- camped one day in Husain, his native place, and made a banquee, and among the great military mea who were to dine' he invited a plain miller and his wife who lived near by and who, affrighted,, came, fearing some harm would be done them, The miller and his wife were placed one on each side of the general at the *able. The general ;sated the miller all about his family, and the miller said Shat he had two brothers and a sistee, "No other brothers?" "My younger bother Went off with the artily inany years ago and no doubt was long ago killed." Then the general said, "Soldiers, I am this man's younger brother, whom he thought was dead." And how loud was the cheer and how warm the tee brace! • Brother and sister, you need as much of an introduction to each other as they did. You. do not know each other. You think your brothe 15 grouty and cross and queer, and he thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely. Both wrong. That brother will be ti prince in some woman's eyes, and that sister a queen in She estimation of some man. That bro- ther is a magniefient fellow, and that sister is a morning in .June. Come, let me introduce you: "Moses, this is Mir- iam. Miriam, this is Moses." Add 75 per cent. to your present appreciation of each other and when you kiss good morning do not stick up your cold cheek, wet *era the recent washing, -as though you, hated to touch each other's lips in affectionate caress. Let it have all the fondness of cordiality of a loving sister's kiss. To Part No more. Make yourself as agreeable and helpful to each other as possible, remembering that seep you part The few years of boy- hood and girlhood will soon slip by, and you will go out to homes of your own and into the battle with the world and amid ever changing vicissitades and ou paths crossed with graves and up steeps hard to climb and through shadowy ravine. But, 0 my God and Saviour, may the terminus of the journey be the same as the start—namely, at father's and mother's knee, if they have inherited the kingdom. Then, as in boyhood and girlhood daya, we rushed in after the day's) absence with much to tell of excit- ing adventure, and father and mother enjoyed the recital. as Inuch as we who made it, so ,ive shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse to them all the scenes of our earthla expedition, and they shall welcome us home, as we say, "Father and inother, we have come and ,brought our children with us." Tho old .revival hymn described it with glorious repeti- tion: Brothers and sisters there will meet, Brothers and sisters there will meet, 13rottversa 3aunede s itsot e;str tu TnNiVo irl el ..Ineer, I read of a child In the conetry via) o was detained at it neighbor's Irma) on a stormy night by some fascinating stories thet were being told him, and then looked MU and saw it was so dark he dal pot dare ao henie Tbe incidene impressed Inc the more because) in niy childbood I bad niuh the same expermoce. boa asked bis coumadee to go with him, but they dazed uot. It get later and later—al • oneloek, 8 o'clock., o'cleate "Oh," lie said, "I wish I were home!" As he °timed the door the last time a blinding flash of liglatniug and 4 deafening roar overcame him. Due after awhile be saw iet tile dietetics a lantern, am!, lo, bis brother was col/sing to fetch tilin home, and the httl stepped oue and with swift feet hastened on to his brother, wile tools bint borne, where ibey wore $0 stied tie greet bins and for a long time supper bad , been waiting. ao may it be when the night of death comes mad our eierthly frieuds camas:, go with us, and Nee dare not go alone; may our brother, our elder brother, our friend closer than a bottler, time out to meet us with the light of tbe promises, which than be a lame= to our fee, and, then we will go in to join our loved ones waiting foe us, supper ;Ail ready, the marriege supper of the Laalei Al' AWFUL MINUTE. Narrow Bseape Prom Beath of a Lhaluois lino ter. AN IMPORTANT CASE. redter Sent to Preion for leepreeenting an imitation P111 to be the Same as Dr. Pills- Jr-neaciaing Decision. MozterneaL, jart. at, 1$98.—A ease °X more than ordinary interest ee the public canal before Judge Leon taine here to-(1ay, the facts being as follows: For some, time past ore 11. B. Aligner bas been going about pedling a pill ethich he represented as being the seine 4$ 1)r. Williams' Pink Pills. Tile Die Williams tiedielim Co. placed the matter in rho lianas of Deteee aitynes, of the Canadian secret sr - 'dos, who soon boa collected sufficient evie deuce to Warriint the tonnst of aligner on a cherge of obtaining money under false pretences, 'Meantime aligner bad left eiontreal, going to St. John, N.B. On his arrival in that eity he Was at once plaeed under arrest and an official sene to briar, him back here. He was brought before Judge Lafontaine this *itemizes on two (-barges, and pleaded guilty to both. 15 WOO pointed Out that his offence was a grave one aud left hint lbeile 50 51 leilghY term of imprieonment. The counsel for the Dr. Williams aledieine Co, stated that his clients did not wisb, to. press for severe punishment at tale time; they Onle' wish- eti to establieh the tsetse that representing en imitation pill to be the same as Dr, Williams' Pink Pills was a erime which Alpine left the perpetrator liable -to a lengthy bee- prieonmenv. On ooti eltarge the eudge Obamois-bunting amoug the precipices then Intnened. snuteuee 05 ten data, with ea too Alps in ottoman' ah no loot.. of oz, the option of a tine of ten dellere, and in intone:ate, the wither et "SpOtS 14 the Alps," while out with a, keeper named. David, wounded it buck, which escaped them, aud xinafly was seen standing on a tiny projection on rho faeo of is era:Spice, es if glued to the roan, "All chances of getting him were now gone, and the only thleg thet could be done was to end the poor beast's suffer- • ilege by a shot. To do this David, after taking off his boots. sidled wet a few • yards on the ledge to get a better view of the animal. The hank upon which he . stood was not wider than ten or twelve iuclies, and. where he stood there grew a small latelien bush, the main . stem not much larger round then a sixpence. The least slip on Ids part would baveseut bim at lean is th011Selni feet 50 the bottom ef Lbeiiff "While thus stimainee, be suddenly lost his belanee and as the moon% rock pre- sented no hoId he toppled over. "But for that elender Imam stein nothing in the world mild have saved • him. As it eras, he made one convulsive grasp at it, caughs it. and so tough and tentietieus are the branches of the 'stalk- er's friend,' that for sozne seconds the heavy num was hanging to it, clutching with one hand Mute life•aeviug bougb, his body dangling clam of the rock over the terrible abyss, "Singular to say, he never let go of the rifle, wIllelt he held, probably quite uneonselotisly, in the other hand, until, by drawing himself up, he deposited, it on the ledge above Ills head. Then, when, he had nee; freed las hand, he did the same with his body. "For half an hour he sat on the ledge, totally unnerved. Then silently we re- turned to the lodge, neither of us having any (helve to tempt Providence further that day." She Feared for Him. Once Prot Sylvester bought a new pair of trousers and wore them o the univers- ity. His wife, who was well aware of his absent-minded halti4e, knew nothing of the purchuse, An boor or so after Prof Sylvester's arrival at the university his wife Wite seen rushing breathlesely down the street with a plekage under her arm. Meeting one of the professors, she in- quired hastily and anxiously: "Have you seen Prof. Sylvester?" "Yes," an:avast! the astonished pro- fessor "Well, is he all right—is everything all right?" asked his tuations spouse. "My dear madam," said the professor, "calm yourself; your busband is perfectly well. 1 saw him but a few moments ago." "But, I mean," said the almost frenz- ied woman, "did yon notice anything peculiar about him? Did he look as he ought to look': Oh, did he—, did 110—" atist then Profeseor Sylvester strolled around the corner with the new trousers on, to the intense relief of both his wife and the other professor. The Iron Duke. It is not generally known that the "Iron" Duke of Wellington was im- mensely fond of the game of draughts. Such, hoevever, was so. After be bad gained MI the sword could, give, the quiet game often afforded Min that inward pleasure experienced only by those who are victors in the Arlie. It is recorded in a recent review of his life that a son of Kendal, the Duke's valet, was spending his holidays with his father at Apsley House, and was in due course ushered into the presence of the great man, who kindly shook him by the hand and en- deavored in many WOYS to entertain hint! He then proposed a gain° of draughts. The two sat down to play, and the Duke won. They played a second game—the Duke won again. "I really thought I should have beaten lam the second game," said the lad afterward to his father, "but he had a trap for me, and laughed because I did not see it." The game ended, the lad was entertaiued with a dinner, and then dismissed with the command: "Be a good boy; do your duty."—Manchester Post. .• nowt lee Distouraged. • He vrho possesses but little strength, and who uses that little effectively in God's service, is a greater man in God's sight, and a more profitable servant, than one, richly ertdowed with Divine gifts, who undertakes no task for God, but who, it may be, stands by and sneers at what be calls the putiy efforts of others less richly gifted than he, We cannot all attain td the greathess of mighty accom- plishment, but we can all attain to the greater greatness of being faithful. Politic. "Ma, I want a pony. Can't I have a pony, ma?" "Certainly, my sou, I suppose so. Ask your father." "1 don't like to ask him, ma." "WIty, what nonsense!. Ask him." "No, ma: you ask him; you've kaolin him the longest." Clever Animals. The Cat—Watch me run up this col- umn. The Pig—That's nothing. Watch me extract this square root, the Ober ease a sentence of two days in jell without the option of ane. '1'his decision is likely to have afar - reaching effeet, as it eeerns to establish the prinelple that substituters and. these W110 sell inaltetiens representing them tO be "the same ee" Dr. Willie -Pas' Palk Pills are liable mailer the criminal code, which is in force all over tbe Domioion, and it Will no 5140.14t, to 4 eel/Adorable extent, put an end te this nefarious business, as ft is evident from, the fact thee the Dr. Win Mous Aledieine Co. went to the expense of bringing this 111411 back from So great s clistanee AS St. John that they intend spering no expense to protect both The public and themeelves 'in seat easeea TWICE A HERO* 4t31 Old Circus Ittiler's Tale -Saved * Faitittees Wire reeve Death. "I am tired, hungry and broke," said, abrtei::: at tbe pollee station Yesterchnn Is that ain too hungry to stand up. Give roe something to eat, 15 15 is onla "The main trouble with ma, though, The man tottered as he spoke and grasped the (leek for support, while the sergeant looked at hint with the eagle ate of an °facer. "1 an not a tramp." said the man, "but1 aux sick and hungry and just bad enough to ask for something to eat, My head hurts so thee I am almost oozy. This scar you see on my torehead causes Shat," and the man passed bis hand over a horrible sear that vouched from the top of his forehead down his face and ended at his clan. • "That sear, too, has caused me to be itn outcast, shunned wherever I go a,nd by people all over the werld. "1 gas it honestly, too, and that make my story all the more sad; but give me something to eat or I will die." The man was plainly in an almost starving condition, and his appearance touched the heart of the desk sergeant. The officer climbed down from his high stool and in less than five minutes the hungry num was eating ravenously in restaurant aoross the street from the pri- son. Fifteen minutes after he came into the sergeant's office again. This time he 041110 to return thanks. "How did you get that horrible scar?" the sergeant asked, as the man seated himself before one of the heaters in the room and began to WO1111 his feet "nergeant " he said slowly, "the story is a sad oue to nie, but I'll tell it. Fifteen years ago I was a circus performer, and wits considered one of the most daring bareback riders in the world. "I WaS known then as Signor Cabrilli Costillo, but my name in really Emanuel Golding. I was young, strong, skilled in my profession and happy. Ten years ago, when the ROMOU chariot races wore more of a novelty than they are now, I was with a circus that inede this feature of amusement a big specialty. I drove four Wild horses to a chariot, while a,,,sytetuan whom I loved drove four that were as wild to another. One night when in a town in Michi- gan WS went on the track for the cbariot, race, and her horses became unmanage- able and ran away. I jumped from my chariot at the risk of my life, stopped the horses and saved that woman's life. Three weeks after that we were married. I was happy until one morning two years later, when she left me, going'awaywith an acrobat who was with a circus that WO were performing with. "Her desertion almost killed rne, and Tor several weeks I was insane. When the first shock haa -worn off I became the mese desperate man M the profession, and rode and drove with a recklessness that made xne famous in the business. My riding was heard of by managers in the city of Alexicoeand three years after my wife had left me I was offered and accepted an engagement there, - "I had been performing there about two weeks when one day I heard that a new female rider had arrived and. was to race with nee that night in the chariots. I had not seen the woman until we were driving in the ring, and when I did I almost dropped dead, for it was my wife. The effect upon her was almost the same as it had been upon me. "We started the race, and 1, desperate, lashed iny horses until they were furious. Tee thousand Mexicans yelled themselves hoarse at the performance. My wife was evidently frightened at my recklessness, for she tried to rein her horses in, bunt they had °might the excitement ;Ind dashed away with her. We were rurnine side by side when I saw one of the Teens she was holding break and in a second the horses were dashing from one side of She track to the other. "They ran by me, arid. as they were about to pass the second 'time I leaped from the chariot I was in to that of my wife. I climbed on the back of one of the horses, and gathered no the reins to trill them up. I don't know how many times they ran around with us, but dually I steeped them. Just as they stopped the devil I was seeing pietagee forwarcl and my head struck one of the big tent poles. "Weeks after that, when I recovered, I Sound that tbe woman had goxie and I had thie infernal scar, She left, I learned, the day after I had saved her life for the Second time. Rheumatism Paralysis. AND A cloud of witn‘esses testify widow °atO bo haVing* been cured of tbe hitherto incurable diSeasee by Ryckman's Kootenay Carer which contains vbe New Ingredient. aciseph W. Aldrich, of lea Wellington at. North, Hamilton, Ont., was 10 weeks in the hospital without being cured. Ryckmenn Kootenay Cure soon kmnaodcehm ltetliozelttib.el e pains and aches, aM Geo, Baker, of 14 Starner Torento, Chas. Brittain,.a Ingersoll, ow., scla, tree: nu Inadtei srmofaotrh s, itIch ayte he ressufferedoot Kootenay leZ uhreetici late after everything else failed. 17intut.,, was afilicted with Inflammatory Rhetuuatisru, and "Kootenay" John McCauley, of Beanaville, Ont. de- clares that for over 8 years he suffered, from Sciatic Rheumatism, and could get no relief till he took "Kootenay." Mrs. Eva Parradee. of ee Woodleino Crescent, Hamilton, Ont., suffered tfirlieensttAorcnuarceh,Diu4s4 cluolaorteR:yezitiresma her over years; also with Ulceration. of completely. R riPar, eeo Lorne Ave., London, Ont,, t,, 3b6)1).,•(:aKsoct catNeinytctne a,i.gf Rheumatiem c Mrs. Margaret Patterson, or Vine St., Hamilton, Ont., furnishes an extraor- dinary example of the power of "Koot- enay." She had both Paralysis and Rileuniatism. and was thought to be beyond all hope. Chas. Armstrong, 184 Basserer Street, Ottawa, Ont., cured of Rheematient, Chae. Sayer, of the City of Hamilton, spent $130 in doctoring and teot no relief till lie took "Kootenay' which c11\r'.ed1-711;g• R.inbottotn, 92 Argyle Street, Toronto, Ont., cured of Rbeutuatient of years' stending. Mrs. Maggie McMartin, a ee Radon - burst Street, Toronto, strict:ea by i)u carreadlyasKatibetattel dal; .d b 4 physicians, Miss Jennie Blieltley, Toronto, whose right hand was approaching paral3 sis, and who sullnred Wiill numbness of the same for over 3 years. Kootenay completely cured her. We could inuitiply this aumber of testi- monials indefinitely. All the above eer- sons made oath as to their cure. You can heve their statements in fuii by ad- bdereakssifnrge: thear e S.vilSe.atRiotnman Medicine Co., tletnitedt, Hamilton, Out. Chart NEWS OF VICTORY. John Thompson Cured of Dia-, betes by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's, Kidney vino nave Arany Startling Cares to Their Credit in Brno* ^ County—No medicine nada: t Can preach menu PeaSena, Jab. 81.—.A. marked peculiarity of the people of Bruce County Is II= belief in Dodd's laidney Pills as a sure cura- tor Bright's Disease, Diabetes, and All other kidney troubles. • So many remarkable cures have beets road° by Dodd's Kidney Pills in this county that the people's confidence be them is only natural,. One of those who have been rescued by Dodd's Kidney Pills is James Thompson, of Paisley. He suffered for years with "all extreme case of Diabetes," and waa so bad he could hardly move. Almost every medicine on the market was tried without effect. Then he tried Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. His recovery began at that time. Now he is fully restored to health. Mr. Thompson is only one of many thou- sands who hsve been cured of /Kidney Diseases by Dodd's Hidney Pills. The simple, undeniable truth is that every per- son. who has used thern for any of thaw diseases has been thoroughly and per- manently cured. This cannot be said truthfully of any other medicine that has ever been used. Dodd's Kidney Pine stand alone, in. proud position far above any rivals. Dodd's lin-Laney Pills ALWAYS CURB Men- rnatism, Leine Back, Lumbago, Gout, Dropsy, Heart Disease, Peale Weakness, Gravel, Stone in Bladder, Sciatica, Neu- ralgia, and all hnpurities of the blood. They are the only medicine on earth that will positively cure Bright's Disease and Diabetes. Dodd's Kidney Pills are sold by all druggists at 50 cent* a box, six boxes for $8.50, or will be sent on receipt of price by the Dodds Medicine 06., Limited, Ta- ronto. •, Fought iris Way to the Front. "How did I get my title of colonel?" laughed the cheery old gentleman who has never married and regards the club as his home. "It doesn't count for much in this sen- sible age, but down there in my old state our family was one of the first. :lust across the street was another of the nrst families, and our 'relations were much like those which made so much unnecessary trouble for Romeo and Juliet. Dick Groomer, of my own age and attacbed to the adjacent enemy, had been urging me for some months to join a young military organization in which he wielded an al- most autoeratic power. One evening I in- duced his presence at iny room and plainly told him that he was animated by some ulterior and -unworthy motive in trying to enlist me. He declared with poorly eon- cealed sarcasm a desire single to the pro- m/Won of military interests. I submitted that the truth was not in him. "After we had washed up and made the wreckage of furniture as presentable tut possible the conference was resumed. held a wet towel over one eye while I glared upon hies with the other. Ile bad his coat buttoned to the chin in order to Conceal his sanguinary contributions to the somewhat heated argument Our muscular controversy seemed to clear,the atmosphere. There was a warelood preseet When .he asked me if I thought my eye would close, and I showed like solicitude by asking if he thought it possible that any of the small bones in his nose were ' broken. But we showea the tact begotten of mutual respect. As soon as my usually handsome appearance had returned I joined his command. After Dick had beat- en me out of my best giel we became Iasi chums, and he made me colonel.'oe-D• et- trolt Pree Press. •