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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-2-19, Page 3FOR,RANK AND FILE. Tein WOR1,D WANTS A RapoN FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE, Se Dr. Talmage Deelaree in s Sermon That. is Euti of Encouregement for Irattliful Men and liobto Women Who Are Unrecognised and Burewarded.. copyr!glit Mee by Americani,ress meads, tion.1 Washineton. Feb. 13.—Dr. Talmage io tam dee muse calls the roll et faltbful men arta noble wonieu Mall departments who are unrecognized aed pnrewarded arid sounis encouragement for those who do vvork et spheres Mconspicuous; text, Romans xt-1, 14, le, "Salute Asyneritus, Phlegon, Hernete. Patrobes, Flermes, Philologee ane Julia." 'Matthew Henry, Albere Barnes, Adele. Clark, Thomas Scott and all the com- mentators pass by these verses esithout any especial remerk. Tbe other 20 people mentioned in tbe chapter were distill, guisben for sonnething anca,were therefore dIscussed by the illastrieus expositors, but nothing is said about Asyueritus, Pblegon, Hennas, PatteAtae„ Hermes, Philolugus and Julie. Where were they borne tno one knows. When did the die? There is no record a their decease. For what were they distieguished? Absolutely nothing, or the tri e a ammeter vor,yuid leave betel brought out by tile apostle. If they bad been yery intrepid or epeleot or hirsute or musicel of eetienee or crass of style or in any wise auomelous that feeture troulcl ben been caught by the epOstoilc cionera. Bee they were good peup1tsbeeause Paul sends to them his high Christien regards. They were online my people taming ordinery spintree, attending to oral:nue duty and meeting ordinary re.ponsibilities. What the work l wente ts A veligion for ordiuury people. If there be hi the United States 70,000,000 people, therearecerteint IF not more titan 1,000,000 eztritortlioary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon tlie distiguished and con - *mimeo,: people of the taible n4 cousider In otu texe the seven ordinary. We pend too rowel of our time in twistleg gar. lands for remarkables. tend building thrones Mr zuognatee, and sculpturing warriors. and apotheosizlog plailauthrop. lets. Tile rank and Me at the Lord's soldiety neat espial help. The Mediocre Mawr. TIM 'MeV majority of people will tiever lead an :truly, will never write A state. constittulen, will never electrify a senate, wiU never make an loneertant Invention. 'will ttever introdoce a new philosopby, 'will newt. decide the fate of a teation. YOU do uot, expect to; you do not went to, You will me be a Maws to lead a no. - Wen out of bondage. !au will not be a deshua to prolong the dealight until rat can shut five kings in a cavern. Youevill not be a St. JOhll 011111'011 an A pocelypse. You will not be a -Ptall to preside over en epos -toile college, You will not be a Mnreato enoeher a Christ. Yea Will more probably be et syneritus or Pelegon or liernuts Or PatrObas or Iterates or Philo, logus or Julia, Many ot you aro women at the head of * bouseholds. Every morning you plan for the day. The cultuary department of the nousebold is in your dominion. You de- cide all mentions of diet. Allthe sanitary regulations of your house are uuder your supervision. To regulate the foodeana the apparel and the habits and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax upon brain and nerve tied general bealte absolutely appalling, if there be no divine allevtation. It does not belp you much to be told that nlizabeth Fry del wonderful tbings weld the criminals at Newgate. It does not belp you much to be told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Borne - clan cannibals. It does not help you very reach to be iold that Florence Nightin- gale was eery land to thewoundea in the Crimea. It would be better for me to tell yea that the divine friend of 'Mary and Martha is your friend and that he sees all the annnyanine and disappointments mad abrasions mud exasperations of an ordin- ary hopsekeeper from morn till night, and from the, first day or the year'until the last day of the year and at your call he is ready with help and reinforcement. They who provide the food of the world decide the health of the world. Yoa have only to go on some errand amid tbe taverns and the hotels of thettnited States and Great Britain to aPpreciate the fact that a Tate multitude of the human race are slaughtered by ineonapeteut cookery. Though a young woman may have taken lessons in music, and may have taken les- sons in painting and lessons in astron- omy, the is not well educated unless she bas takeu lessons in dough! They who decide the apparel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance of the world. martyrs of the )(Mellen and. Nursery. .A..n unthinking man may consider it a inattee of little importance—the cares of the household and the economies of do- mestic life --but I ten you the earth is et -reeve with the martyrs of kitthen and nursery. The health-shatterect WOnlan- hood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the ordinary. duties of housekeeping. The wearing„ grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but the sante Christ who stood on the bank of Galilee in the early morning ancl kindled the lire and had the fish already cleaned and broilirtg when the !sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will belp every woman to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hard or the hand of her hired help. The God who made in- destructible eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for Samuel, her son, and carried it to the temple every year, will help everywoman in preparing the family wardrobe, The God who opens the Bible with the story of Abrahem's t entertain - moot by the three angels on the plains of Mainre will help every women to provide ing. It is high time that some of the at- tention we have been giving to the eT- exiarkable women of the Bible—reniark- able for their virtue, or their want of it, or remarkable for their deeds—Deborah and Jezebel and Heredias and Athalia and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and ' abandoned—it is high time some of the attention We have been giving to these tionspictioue women of the Bible be given to Julie, an ordinary woman, amid ordin- ay circumstances, attending to ordinary duties and meeting ordinary yesponsibili- business men do not sell a tatallitee deflate et goods, nor half a m1111011, nor quarter of a enillien, nor the eightk parbof a mil- lion. Put all the business men of our eines, towns, villages and. neighbotheods side by side, and yoo will find that they sell lets then ;100,000 worth of goods. All these men in ordinary business life Want divine help. Teuesce bow the wrin- klea are printing on the countenanee the story of worriment and Sara, rronlatare tehe Age* Yeti cannot tell bow old a business Man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30. A loAn at 45 'with the Stool) or a nonogenarlan. No time to attend to lot. proved dentistry, the grinders cease be, wane tbee are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to be at tile meridian, Many of these business men have bellies like a negleated clock to Whiele yea come, and when yete wind it up it begins to buzz and roar, and then the hand* start around very very rapidly, and then the clock strikes 5 er 10 or 40, and strikes without any settee. au tt thee suddenly stops, So is the, body of that woreout businessmen. it is a aegleeted clock, and though by scene summer re- "egttiOu it IAAY he Wound Up, Still the machinery is ell out of gear. The hands turn around with a velecity that excitea the astonishment of tbe world. Men can, Xbatt. IlAdkiZStAlld the wonderful :wattles, and. there is a roar and. a buzz awl a ne- ttle about these disordered Uvea and they strike 10 when they ought to Mike A, mid they- striae ig when they eseghe strike 0, eten env strike 40 when they might to Mine nothing, and suddenly they stele POsamortem eXaMination ree reale the face 'NAP Ail the springs and pivots aud weights and, balauce wbeele of health aro cempletely dee:waged, The Int - emu Mock is simply rafe And at the time When the seemly band ought in be panting to the 11-n111We/wee hours on clear aud auolit dial the wirelemeebinery of body, mind and mutely capacity stops forever, Oak Hill and Greenwood hove tines:tilde of Mud:testi men Who died et old age at 30, 85, 40, 45. Now, watte Is wanted is grace, dining graee, tem ordinary busieess Deem men who aro harnessed front morn till night and all the dews of their life—barnessed in business. Not gatee to lose $100,000, but grace to lose pa. Not glace to super- vise employes in factory, but gree te supervise the booltheeperand two tales - men and the smell boy thnt swop e out the store. (Iran toe Meese no; the ali0,000 or net profit, but the f$2,500 of clear gain. Grace Ea to maim: the lose of e wbole shipload of apiece front the Indica but grace to endure a late a ale:morel collars from the leakage of tt. displeced dangle ou a poor roof. Greco not to endure the tardluess of the American Congress in passing a neceesavy new, Inte game to en. dare the tardlueis in an errand boy stopping to play Marble.; When he Ought to -deliver the goodie Such a grate as thOUSende of intelneee 131011 have to day—. keeping them traugull, whether geode sell or do not sell, whethercustomers pay or do not pay, whether tarift Is up or teriff is down, whether the crops are lux. teriant or a dead failure—calm in all eir. munstancei and amid :M. vicissitudes, Tbat le the kind of game we Welle. of that Christ who often drew his almilee from the farmer's life, es wben he eald, "A sower went forth to sow," as when be built hie beSe pereble out of the eccue of a farmer boy (meting back front his wanderings, and the old farmhouse thoon thee night with rural jubilee, and whe eompared bituself to alembiu the pasture field and who said that the eteenel Jew, • a farmer, tieelmategt "My Father is the husbandman." Those Sten° 111aSens do pot want to hear about Christopher Wren, Vitce archi- tect who built St. Paul's cathedral, It You'd be better.Co teU them bow to carry the hod of Mien' up the /adder without slippiug, end. now on a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and, keep cheerful. and bow to be thank,. ful to God for the plain food token trent the pail be thereedside. Cerpentenssonol. ing amid the adz, ana the Ms, and the photo, end -the broadax need WM: tola That Christ was A It-greet:ter, with his own band wielding saw and baututer. Ob, this is a Weed World, arid it is •all airer. WOlted WOrla, and is is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, and men aud Weinen need so know time there is rest and recuperation m God end in that religion Whiell Was not so numb in- tended for extraerdinary people as for ordinary people, ineauee there are More a them. The healing profe.selou bas bad its Abercrombie% and its Atte,rnethys, and its. Valentine Motts, and its Willard Per - kers, bat the orainery physicians do ehe most of tbe world's medittiningt and they ta wederetand that while tektlete dieguesis or progaesis, or writing i?ret soviption, or Compounning inediennieleti eir holding the deticate poise of A. dying 11114 tbey may have tbe poteepee and the ictation a the Almiginy .Dootor who Wok the eaSe of the tuatimart, audater he had tore Qff his garments In teeming dementia ideated Mtn Again, body and tenni, and who lifted up the WOMMI who fOr 18 years had been bens almost dettble with rheutnaviam into graetaul stature, rod who turned the seabe of leprosy bete rubicund complexion, and wbo rubbed, the numbness out of paralysis, and who melte wide open the eleseri windows of hereditary or accidental blindness until the morning light moue etre:man through the fleshly Casements, 0114 who Inews all the atseasea and ell the remedies And all the beet* and all the meeholleous aud ie mammon et pbarmaey and therepeutics, and who lute gene out 10,000 doet,ere 01 W110111 the world makes no mord, but to prove that they are aggels of mercy 1 in. Nolte the thousands of men whose ail. meets they have asenaged and. the thou- sands of women to whom in Arles of pain they here been neXt to God. in berme:tee tion. Come. now, let us have a religion for mellow people in professions, in (moue pations, in agriculture, In the household, in Inerehaudise, in everything. I salute across the tenturtes Asyncritus, Phlegm), • Hennas, Paribas, Hermes, Pldlologus and ,1 ulia. Bereeitut lfotue. :Millions of men waIi it, and they may nave it for the asithet. Some hero. or heroine tames to town, and as the proces- sion passes through the street the busi- ness men come out, stana on tiptoe on their store stop and look at some one who in erotic clime, or in oceau storm, or In day of battle or in hoepital agonies did the brave tang, nos realizing that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone throligh trials in imeinees life that are alit as great before Gott. There aye mon who have gone through freeziug atones and. burning torritis and awIta elureitgos of experiences without moving five milue from their doorstep. Now, what ordinary business mon need le to realize that they have the frientiship of that Christ who looked after elle religi- ous interests of Matthew, the ousrom house elork, and helped nod% or Thya- tire to sell the dry goods, and who opened a bakery and fish market in the wilder - nes of Asia Minor to feed the 1,000 who had come out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs of your head with as tnuch partieularity as though they were the plunaes of a coronation. told who took the trouble to stoop down with his linger writing on the ground, although the nest shuffle of feet obliterated tbe caligraphy. and who knows just bow many locusts tbore were in the Egyp- tiau plague and knew just how many ravens were necessary to supply Elijah's pautry by the brook Cberith, and who, as oral commander, leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffo- dils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty and kindle their campfires of color all around the hemis- phere—that that Obrist and that God knows the roost InillUte affairs of your business life and, however inconsiderable, understanding all the affairs of that WO - roam who keeps a thread aud needle stove as well as all the all:ties of a Rothschild aud a Baring. • Then a:left are all the ordinary farmers. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately shoot all to talk about OM- einnatus, the patrician, who weet from the plow to a high position, and atter he got through the dictatorship in 21 days went back agaiu t� the plow. What en- couragement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast anajority of them—none of there will be patricians. Perhaps none of them will be senators. If any of them have dic- tatorships, it will be over 40 or 50 or 100 acres of the old homestead. What these men want is grace to keep their patience while plowing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn orop and that enables them to restore the garden • the day after the n'eighbor's eattle have broken in and trainpled out the strawberry bed and gone through the Lima beau patch and eaten up the sweet core in such large quantities that they must be kept from the water lest they swell up and die. Everyd my hospitality, however ram and ernbaerase- Grace i 41 race. inn catche weather that enables them, without impreeation, to spread out the hay the third time, althouede again and again and again it has been'almost ready for the mown A grace to doctor the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the footk. rot, and the horse with the distemper and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the family and schooling for the children and little extras to 41.1) the older boy in business and sometliipg for the dauglater's wedding outfit and n little surplus for the time when th laakles will get stiff with age and the b •eath will be a little, short and the sw :ming of the cradle through the hot 'vest field will bring v on the old mains rtigo. Better close up about Cincienatus. I know 500 farmers just as noble as he le to know that the Then there are all the ordinary business men. They need divine and' Christian help. When we begin to talk a,bout Mad- ness life, we shoot right off and talk about mon who did bun siness oa largo en scale, d who sold millions of dollars el goods a year, and the vast majority of was. What they Want have the friendship who shall be potent for the ago. Just tin' Tired of Eel raordinery Folk. Firet of a, if you fool that you are ordinary, Wreak Gotl that you are not ex - unordinary. I am tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraordinary people. Time take all their time to tell us how very extraordivary they really are. You know as troll as I do, my brother and Meter, that tIte most of the useful work of tbe world is done by un- pretentious people who toll right on—by people, who de tiot get much improve' and. no one seerestosay, "That is well clone." Pnetenuena are of bot little US°. Things that are exceptional ;menet be depended on. Better tense the smallest planet that swiugs on its orbit than ton comets shoot. Mg this way and that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is a lamp than a rocket. Then, it you feel that you unordinary, remember that your position invites the lessettacle. Conspicuouspeople—how they have to take MI How they are misrepre- sented and abused and shot at! The high- er the borne of a roebuck the easier to strike him down. What a delicious thing it must be to be a eandidate Inc governor of a state or president , of the United States! It numb be soothing to the nerves It must pour into the soul of a candidate such a sense of serenity when he reacta the blessed newspapers. I came into the putseesion of the abu- sive cartoons in the time of Napoleon I., printed while he was yet alive. The re- treat of the army from Moscow, that army burled in the snows of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of the cent- uries, represented under the tiger° of a monster called General Frost shaving the French emperor with a razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he is represented, etage after page, page after page. England cursing hint, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him, Russia cursing him, Europe cursing Ithn, Noreli and, South Amerioa cursing hire. The most reintokable man of his day, and the most abused. • All those men in history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore a crown of thorns. Take the few extraord- inary railroad men of our thin) and see what abuse coulee upon them, while thousands of stockholders escape. New York Central railroad had 9,265 stock- holders. If anything in that railroad affronted the people, all the abuse eam,e down on one Inuit, and the 9,264 esoapea. All the world took after Thomas acott, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, abused him until he got undo!: the grotind. Over 17,000 stockholdersin that company. All the blame On Ono man! The Central Pacific railroad—two or three men get all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10,000 be that company. I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abused, while the ordinary escape. The 'weather of life le not so severe on theplain as it is on the high peaks • The world never forgives aman who knows or gains or does DIOTO than =it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confectionery to their children as an inducement to take bitter medicine and the world's sugar plum precedes the world's agem fortis Tbe mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify him, crucify hint!" and they had to say it twice to be understood, for they were so hoarse, and they got their hoarsenees be Ming a little while before at the top of their voice, "Hosanna!" The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline when it comes out on the other siee. But there are men who have entered the bright lake of worldly prosperity orystalline and come out terribly soiled. If, therefore, you feel that you are ordinary, thank God for the defenses and the tranquility of your position. Frain Humble Hornets. Then remenwer if you have only what Is called an ordinary hon to that the great deliverers of the world have all cone from such a hom'e, And there may be seated, reading at your evening stand, a child 74.:, • tdc I roll the scroll of men mighty in church and state, and you will find they nearly all • 1 ozone from logaline or poor homes. Uenine almost always rens oue in the third or fourth generation, Yon. CalIDOS e Ana in all bistory an ineteuee Where the fourtI* generatioe of extraordinery people uneounta to anything. In tbia country we bad two greet mem fatner end son. both presidents of the Unatea States but, front present prospects there never wiel 188n that geneological lam another president tor a thousand years, Celumbele frotil weaver's het, Demostlatues front a cut- ler's cellar, Bloomaeld and Missionary Carey from a sten/maker's bench, Ark.- wriglit from a 'tether's shopand be witose pante is high over all iu earth and air end sny from a manger. Let us all he content with such thinge as we have. God ie jetit AS good in wium be keeps away frotu •us as In what he OW% us. Been a knot may to useful if ie is at the end of A thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb eeyltire one of the childree wrote upon the blackboard words es Sublime as the "Thad," the "Odyssey" and the "Divioa Commode*" all eon pressed tie one Pura - graph, The examiner. In the signs of rhe mute language. asIted her, "Who made the worel?" The datf ena dumb gni wrote tliniel the blackboard, "In the be- ginning God created the heaven and the earth." The examiner asned her, "For whet purpose did Christ come into the world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote the bleoltboani, "Tine is a faithrel Wing. aul werthy of ell tweeptatioa, that Cbrist lneus aline into the world to gave etneere," The examiner said -to ber, "Why were you born deaf and duntiet while I hear and speak?" She wrote uponthe blackboard, "Even so, Father, for So it semen), good in thy eight." Ob, tints we inight he baptized with a coateuted eplria The spider draws poison our of a tbe he getehoney nut ota thistle, but neppinets is a heittenly elixir, and the contented eptrit extracts it not from the rhododendron of the hills, but from the lily Of the valley. A PeoisiO 'Who Cannot Make Fire, The Peplums of time Monty coast ot New Goatee ilan Still in the most prim,. tive state. 'fbey are wholly eueequeieted with metele and make their weapons elf stone, bones mid weed. They «0not lereew how to stem a lire, thouele fire Le need among them. Wheu a Rttssina asked them how they made a fire they regarded ie as very amusing, antl answered that when a perscans lire went out, be got some or a neighbor, and if all the liras in the village should go out, they would get it 'front the next village. Theirfathers and grand(atbers bad told them tbae then remembered a time or had heard, from their ancestoto that there was a time when fire was not lenowneod every. thlug was tete') raw. The tietives' of the southern roast of New Guinea, having no Iron, shave theinselvee with a piece at glees. Formerly they shaved 'with (lint, which they could shorpen quite well and used with consider:title dexterity. A Tie of rek, tnIontby. "Isn't It strange how people thrown to. gother abroad will beeome iutimate?" add a lady wbo lute just reeurnal front a Rummel% jaunt. "We fell in with some Clevelaud people on shipboard going. with whom we were ace/imbued only by name, but in a few hours we thared con- fidences like lifelong frleude. It was the sante way wherever we oluineed to find our conntremen. At It0711,1 WO 19)1 across a, Cleveland clergyman And you would have thought we were long loet relatives from the eordial way he gioeted the dis- covery thee we wore alai levelanders. In fact, it is quite Impossible to feel lonely if you know that any of your home peo- ple are about. All the frigid harriCCS of social distInetione are melted down, and everybody is oe 000 plune of friendly equality. Yes, and they are not* seaside acquaintances either; when they meet again the old freemitettery of a 001111111)11 hiterest Moms them straightway together and they live thee delightful experiences over again in sympaelietir reminiscences." STILL IN THE FRONT RANK. The animal meeting of this Company vas liehl at its head ofilee in Toronto on ,inal%). 25, The Directors' Report pre - eon!, at the xueetine showed marked proofs ot continued progress and solid Proeperity IA every Malting braeela of be Company's business. Suallindllulry lgiaripte'thsheeeFt itutelzruetrel ySoatartelneutleel Dm:ember $1, 1897. Oath income „....„....-......e OW650 49 itlxpeeetitere. incluelleg death eminiet endOwteents, watered nivestment pelleles,proitts end nit ether puemente te Aesete polcy- NWhim eee433,e67 26 ;.1 7741772 lteervfund ....il..-.,..;,.2:)30 04 et surplus or poeyeldra 427.121 33 Wel. aleCAtne, Managing Director. Audited and found correet. JAS. naltlenbE, MA,. auditor. The Conmany'e colts:litho; aeteary reported to the Directors that be ban very earefally examined the atcollets and balance sheet of the ColtsPeuen. SS St teat:water SI, 1897. awl found that in every branch ot the Company's work tenting; to its solid progrees and prase penny substantial gaine had been made. "N our oh:igation for etvestutent Pelle eie$ that Matured /a ISOT called for an outlay of over etSie500—the Individual. settlenteuts not only bring geuerally went-Am:tory, but, as P. Matter of MO. comparing more than favoraniy with the upon similar forms of policies.' es•tiati.:entents made by otner camPenies 031 'llualempi rues* I (till: ttluieolvil'i. juJnoliont It.334.e Brion ilcomie, "ele on many previous aecasioue, you will be pleased to observe that in every. ItIng that goes to maim a life instleanee eon -many successful the North Americen Life again shows progress, Gelidity aod gain tor *he poliey-holders. 'For enaulide.compare the business of 1807 and lallti nutter thei followingj:crease.raeltrgeaecmt. fs olr: over 151)0 luerease eseett Dee, • , me. leee4.117 eg See7.84181 1;ei: .....01etuutli.ot-.e ... ltmi, 4e.en4e wee 001.4.55eziee4 tti00i 1,.. eut nut le - team , .. ela 1.: iti 4 feat 41 lO "Si 1.c.onlo ll: .t::t 'A SAO "Tito assets of the Company a,re of a high elase, Lead afteaproviding for every le:Unity. there teutauts a uet eurpis of ,e4.27,12.1ene. the percentageof vet, sur - to liabilities twiny, 18,2,aral the per, teenage of gesets to liabilities beteg 118.2. - "A year ago I submitted a. table show - the exper ence of eleven companies ailing businetis in Canada, the amount of iueilreitre issued, the total teriiiinatious each had experieneed, eon) what the per- emtiage Was. Tim North Amerlena raade a Inc hotter showing than any of the elevan, and onleial figures giveti in the last Dentin on Goverument report, thow- Mg a like experieuce, again plates the North American is the Mat position." The Hon. tt. W. Allan, Vice-Presideut, 6e:xt 4 "! ,et : ;Ilet think1IlIt5.: a thehi1 nx andiveryth(elL.:birset ht ese lir assetse,oneb 0:11 thetlathee Direetors in the investrneut of the fads is tbe large increese in or interest in- come fur the year, namely,$15,092'and the fact that our interest eud rents, doe and everued, at the end of the e ear, 1 'here la the position of our assets. elemie sltow o. decrease of p$01r,e1pn19t4.5:e. ow, h Ihre bate nvested Inc of total I *mount. fTsets. ftr)tigugi,.set1 ........e1,108,e030. 40 •••• 030.107 89 22.9 **Real estate . . ... 292,26383 10.5 Stooks and lends 203,331 44 7.3 Loans on polieies 176,381 61 6.4 Loans on etooks 157,780 00 5.7 Outstanding premiums in course of collec- tion, and quartette and leaf -yearly premiums, being balance of ycar's premiums not yet paid 100,460 87 3.6 oush In banks ......... 57,743 07 31 78 2.1 Cetsh en hand Interest and rents, due and actrued ... 38,376 95 1.4 Reversions ... .. ..... 3,046 85 .1 ACat Story. A singular 'ntentrrd at Clifton Heights a few days ago while John Kane, a stone mean, wee engaged in eleanieg a well. Kane started to go to work in the morning, and on looking down the well discovered two big oats at the bottom. Be anticipated no trouble in removing the animate, and had himself lowered down. Both ears, however, dew at Kane, scratching send biting viciously. He gave the signal to be hauled up, and when be appeared his Cavb and hands were bleed- ing from deep eratehes and bites. After a constatation it was decieed to blow the oats to deeth with dynamite, and a large stick was eapInded in the well. It never phased the eats. A shot -gun' was then procured, and several loads were sent down after the cats. 'When the smoke had cleared away Katie ventured dowu again. One cat was still alive, but it was not able to light, and was seon despatched. It is thought the cats W0E0 fighting on the well curb during the neebt and tom - bled in the opening. • Flow to Clean jewelry. Put a teaspoonful of household am- monia into a basin of warm water into Which scene toilet soap has boon lathered. Put in all the jewelry and allow it to remain a few minutes, turning it over with the hands occasionally. Then clean each piece separately with an old soft tooth -brush, throwing it back into the water after the brushing. Rinse all Well, shake out and put iuto a soft cloth and dry gently.' 'When quite dry, take a piece of flannel or old stockinet and rub or polisheeach piece with crab's eyes or pre pared chtak. They willimmediately show e a lovely polieh, and any remains of th chalk can be removed. by using any sof haired brush which is perfectly dry. ifte 9. 3.6 7.5 14.8 A Campaign itimontat. The Georgia vote bids to be as early a bird as the candidate. Yesterday an old negro met a former employer and ap- proached him in this way: "You lookin' mighty well, Mars Tom." "Yes I'm feeling peett-y good." "I thought you wuz. You know what you look like, Idars Tom?" "No, what de I look like?" "You look likes you had a dollar in yo' pocket en wire ovine ter run fer guy'nerP'--Atlante. Constitution. Curious Locomotion. Walking backward is the latest pedes- trian feat for a wager. A young Belgian recently Walked from Antwerp to Brno. eels in two days, going backward the whole time. Practice made him progress asrapidly as by the ordinary mode of walking, but he was obliged to wear special shoes, with a kind of heel under- neath the toe. ment bad been made a fee years ago. • disastrously, by elm of o'er eompaities. Cerittin method.= of omelet -rem buninees teen en the , hitVC. timaalattee of sueeess. hut ultimately Call have bet tine reacat. The teetese we nave edapted hae beeu it ouservative oue in every wayatud we mropoee to fohow that eoerse, believing that one nre: interests mast 'he those of our poliey-bolderse sted that ultimately the test of the tillittleta between Use different eamentues ja eWlett are you doinmand Irbil are you likely to do, for your poties-holderet" Mr. annex. inreferrieg to the Coin - pony's tonna 03.711: tin Making orer tine neregam. nte I wee Er:eased to lind the :4J*4f:141017 111411- 4CT c,, witleit the Inter -ea bite been psid ebtrieg Ve97. The into:eel due one ac - cruet: on ali loans nein tly the 4heopano, rieg a dm-tat:sr. as compaetel with fee Selattleal. 'rite pestrion eathe ,Corapeity is inghlo eatiefaetory. and :et oue of its earliest end large paliey-liolilers. I feel ve.:7 pleased at the position that the Com- pany bas attained. Jantes Thorhuru. Medieal Dire- eetor. preeeeteil a full awl intemeting report ot the mortality experieneed by the Vorripany during the past yeaaebowa Mg that tbe arena/ atee woe fevetable when monnared with tbe mortally table. After the usual vele of thanks had been peseed, tin. Meetion oe tlirectore *0101 pleeet Prtsitient. Mr. J. L. Batikie. Vice.Presidente. Hon, (1., W. Alla% Sir Prank Smith. etfaeag:ng Mireeter. Wm. McCain*, P.I.A. Secretary, L, Golebeau. 32,778.17722 100. *Market value exceeds this by $21,425.15. **Including the company's bulicling. "I think you will agree with me this shows a highly eatiefaetory state of af- fairs and must be doubly reassuring to all the policy -holders of the Company, as well as its excellent agency staff, as to the high standard this Company haa attained among the life companies in this asuntry. So far as 7 can judge it at:trids at the head. "Our real estate, as compared with last year, shows but a slight addition in amount, except that we bane now added thereto our own home, this handsome building, in which we are holding this meeting. It was an excellent stroke of hueiness on the part of the Company in securing this property, as we have now eyel7 accommomation for the proper conduct of the basioess; ie fact one of the best equipped offices in the eity,and the cost to the Company will be but a moderate oue. Already the space we have to rent Is well tenanted, and the ane office at present vacant is already bespoken. All the properties in posses- sion of the Coinpany aee well rented, and giving the Company it fair return." • Mr. I. N. Lake, in moving a vote of thauks to the Company's provincial managers, inspectors and agency staff, &aid: "It will be gratifying to everyone interested In the Company, and speaks volumes for the eneigy displayed by our agent.e, that our new bui:den.g this month is the hest businees for January in the hieiery of the Company. "It Is interesting to note -the great progress One ,Ceinteine lets made during the last ten years, as S1.10'Wn by i.he fon lowing table: 7th row". 1:th Near, 17th Yptir. Crain Income 3 228,582 64 5414,626 42 SW 9 558 49 Assets . 542.318 99 I. )13,97e00 2,773.1't7 00 Ins. in three 6,974,3ee 00 le,060,e80 00 IS 941,87800 Net Surplus, 54,895 94 225.685 80 427,121 83 *Wet llotnr. Daldlet'a home Ilft. Was; a Iteeme one and ' haeleeen deftly stet -hal ley St **art Heine' ID "Roma with Famous Parisians," in which Daudet is queue} as Fatting: "1a it possible that, es emu see, foreignere taxis oompleie et the rio fermee (wielded life) of Paristait hetrielifildee Why, the idea had never matured to me. I do riot understand im You see how it ell ie &mut u here" (throwing his arm in a careless gesture) --"how oopretendiug it is—tad things. We live in modest conttorte- friendst acqualutances, strangers—all are welcome—every one does as he pleases. Of course at the wane time we lead A ClOSO family life. I was laughing just before yen came in, for I betted roy boy ot Meek his mother: "Won't you go walking with me this afternoon?' t ceouot—I ranee take your Mao sister out—why don't yo** go alone?"Oh, I don't want to go with- out eau.' 'rely eldest eon lives in are -Aber part of tbe town, but be comes here every day in the year to embrace me anti to inquire: 1 -low are you to -stay. father to Mot, je suis pour le farnillin—I believe with ray beery auci soul in the sanctity of marriage end he Areside. 1 atn not in fever of the in- stitutlon of divorce. Love Of family end love of eountry—those are my two gre.an mottoes. It Fames to me ideal to eboose one person and to say to yourself: 'That is the person whose eyes 1 am to clues for. ever, or who ie to close Tante in the las; sleep.' 'When you visit us at Chfunprosay this summer I will show you that our family life is by no means fermee—walled. up. Witli as every ono makes himself ati home. We get together at breakfese timo —we stroll into tbeparlt—we shout to each other—we wear our old clothes—we give st rendezvous for five o'clock tea—we talk, laugh, sing. My sou has &tennis emelt there. I go and sit on a bench end \ratan the game. A photographer in the Avenue - Victor Hugo bas pnotographed tho scene. There I am with my come, aza with a big hat drawn down over uly ears. I look 1Lat a patriarch—they call ate rhe 'old man.' " "Yon' will see that the cash income increased over three -told; assets over five times; insurance 11.1 force nearly three -fold: and net surplus nearly eight- fold—the latter indicating, that the Com- • Pony is a good one to.,r the policy -holders. • Mr. McCabe, Managing Director, said he could lieartily endorse all that had been said as to the efddiency et our. agency staff,and the energetic and satis- factory manner in which they had ac- complished their work drawing the year juet, closed. He knew that the agents had unusual compedlion during the lat- ter part of the year, uwing to four new companies having commenced operations during 1897. In this connection he said that of all the companies starting about the same time as the North American or subsie- fluently, not one of them outside of our own has met but -with moderate success. The mere fact of a company having a large capital and eepeeially rushing a large amount of beeinese on it$ booke in a short time, means n very large liability leY 'was of the -reserve reettivea by the MINISTER'S STORY' Rev. F. Elliott, of Richmond Hill .4 Relates a Happy Incident, Bletd Bedfast by Midney Trouble -110 Could Not TUTU Himself Dodcrs Kid- ney rills Cured 1{2,n—"A Good llonest, xtetiabie Medicine." Richmond Rill, Feb, 7.—Rev. F. Elli- ot; a popular and prominent clergyman of this place, bas written the stdry of his sufferings and recovery from Kidney Dis- ease. The sketch is of deep interest to thousands of Canadiaus. Rev. Mr. Elliott says he feels it has duty to tell of the medicine that cured hlre—Dockles Kidney Pills. Only "good- will to men" could induee him to allow his name to be published In this connec- tion. The testhnonitil ie, entirely talsola cited, "I suffered so severely from Lame Back that I could not turn, nor get out of bed. I began teeing Dodd's Keelnee' Pills, and my pains and lamene,ss soon disappeared. I consider Dodit's Kidney Pills a good, ballen, reliable medicine for the diseases they are recommended for." These are Mr. Elliott's own words, and such is the result every time Dodd's Kid- ney Pills are used. Any person who suffers from Bright's Disease, Diabetes, or any other Kidney Trouble, after hav- ing the assurance of such a worthy and eminent clergyman as Bev. Mr. Elliott, deserves no pity. The cure is within easy reach, and if they refuse to stretch oat a hand to grasp it, no one can be blamed but themselves. Dodd's Kidney Piles positively and permanently cure Lumbago, Dropsy, Paralysis, Heart Disease, Gotta Sciatica, Gravel, Stone in 'Bleeder, Female Weak- ness, all urinary disorders, Neuralgia, Larne Back, and ell other Kidney Dis- eases. They are the only remedy on, earth that has ever cured Bright's Disease and Diabetes. They are sold by all druggists, or -win be sent oo receipt of price, fifty cents a box, six boxes for 82.50, by The Dodd's Medicine 00„ Limited, Toronto. Polite Rivets. William Dean IXowells' father, Who emi- grated to Ohio half a century and more ago, used this formula to get rid of an in- trusive visitor Who had vvorn. out his wel- come. He would be called ont on some business, and would say to the guest: "7 suppose you will. not be here when I return, so I wish you good-bye." This was not bad, ex-eept in comparison with the superb stratagem ascribed to Ger- rit Smith in steel emergencies—as that to used to say in his family prayer after breakfast : "May the Lord bless Brother Jonesewho /eaves us on the 10 o'clock train this morn- ing." Liniment is the best In Paris etiolate look after the welfare of the trees on the public streets with ell Dominion Covernineet, end must result the care that is ,given the plants in lige 1»a loss to the Compare*. This experi- botanical gardens.