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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-3-25, Page 3WELLS - OF: COMFORT REV, DR. TALMAGE FINDS INSPIRA- TION IN THE DESERT. ' Our Duey Xs to Find Our Life's Worlt aid stSce to It We Are Prone to, Try to Lead Whop We Are Only Fitted to. Follow-, influence, of pereete on chlidren, (Copyright R148, by American Pres Amide. hon.) Washington, ?Maven 00.—This dis- course of Dr. Talmage draw* from An oriental Feene some earring leosons and points to wells of comfort in unexpected places; text, Geneeis, xxi, 19, "Ad God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went and ifiled be bottle with water and g•tve the lad drink." Morning breaksupon Ileersheba. Theis is an early stir lei the house of old Abraham. There brut been trouble among the clomeseies. Hagar, an assistant in the household, and her SOD, a brisk lad of 16 years, bavo become impudent and insolent, anti Sarah, the mistress of the householo, puts her foot dovro Tery hard and eve thee they will have too leave the peeresses. They are pecktng up teeeirs Abraleure knowipg that the leaerrielY before his servant and her son will be eery long across desolate places, in the kindness ot his heart sets about putting up some breed and a bottle with water In it, le ie le Yery plain luneh that Abraham provides, but I warraat you there would hove beeo sinough of it hail they net lost their way, "ed. be with yen," said old Abraham AS Ise gave the luneb to Raw and a geed loony chargea as to how she should eonduct the jeurney. Ishmael, the boy, I suppose, bounded away in the morning light. Boys always like a (dump. Boor Ishmael! Be has no iden of the disasters that are ahead of him. Hagar gives elm long, lingering look on the familiar place where she bad spent So many happy days, each scene assoeiated with the pride ri.al jay a her heart, young Ishionel. The scorching Moil conies on. The air is stifling and moves across the desert with insufferable suffocation. Ishmael, the boy, begins to cemplain and lies down. hut Raw rouses him Up, saying nothing Mena her own weariness or the sweltering heat; far mothers can endure anything, Trudge, trudge, trudge. Cress- ing tho dead level of the desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip! A tamarind that seemed hours ago to stood only just a little -ahead, inviting the tanvelere to come ander its shadow, now is as far off as ever, or seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert, and the travelers are pillowlese. lehumel, very weary, I suppose instantly falls asleep, Sagan as the shedows of the oiglet begin to lap over each other—Begat hugs her weary boy to her bosom and thinks of the fat that it is her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks out and every falling tear it kisses with a sparkle, A. wing of wind comes over tho hot earth and liftstthe looks from the fevered brow of the boy. Heger sleeps fitfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day and half awakes her son by crying out In her sleep: "Ishmael! Ishmael!" We Must Find Our Sphere. .And so they go on day after day and night after night, for they have lost their way. No path In the shifting sands no sign in the burning sky. The sack empty of the flours the water gone from the bottle. What shall she do? As the puts her fainting Ishmael under a stunted sbrub of the arid plain the sees the blood- shot eye and feels the hot hand and watches the blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in the desert of Beersheba: "We shall die! We shall diel" .Now, no mother was ever made strong enough to hear her son ory in vain for a drink. Heretofore slie had cheered her boy by promising a speedy end of the journey, and oven smiled upon him when she felt desperately enough. Now there Is nothing to do but place him under a shrub and let him die. She had thought that she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and than she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart, but as the boy begins to claw his tongue in agony of thirst and struggle in distortion and begs his mother to slay him she cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow shot, and begins to weep until all the desert seems sobbing, and her cry strikes clear through the heavens, and an angel of God comes out on a. cloud and looks down upon the appalling grief and cries, "Hagar, what aileth thee?" She looks up and sees the angel pointing to a. well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad. Thank God! Thank God I I learn frorn this oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place and gel too proud for their business. Hagar was an assistant in that household, but she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and jeered until her son. Ishmael, got the same tricks. She dashed out her own bappiness and threw Sarah into a great fret, and if she had staid much longer in that household she would have upset calm Abraham's equilibrium. My friends, one- half of the trouble in the world to -day 'comes from the fact that people do not know their place or, finding their place, will not stay in it. When we come into the world, there is always a place ready for us. A place for Abraham. A'place for Sarah. A piece for Hagar. A place for Ishmael. A. place for you anda place for me. Our first duty is to find our 'sphere; our second is to keep it. We may be born in a sphere far off from the onefor which God finally• intends us. Sixtus V. was born on the low ground and was a swine- herd. God called him up to wave a scep- ter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after sheep. God called 'him up to look after stars and be a shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hill- sides of heaven. Hogarth began by en- graving pewter pots. God raised him to stand in the enchanted eealin of a paint- er. The shoemaker's bench held Bloom- field for a little , while, but God raieed him to sit in the chair of a plailosoplier and Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep bis son in that business, for God had decided that Haw- ley was to be one of the greatest astron- omers of England. . Labor is Honorable. On the other hand we may be born in a sphere a little higher than thiinfor which God intends us. We may be born In a castle, and play in a costly conserva- tory, and feed high bred ;pointers, and angle for goldf.sh in artificial pondsoind be familiar With princes, yet God may better have fitted us for a carpenter's shop, er dentists' forceps, or a weaver's shuttle, or alfittoksmitins forge. The great thing Is to Ond just the sphere for width God intended us and then to occupy that sphere and occupy it forever. Here is a than God fashioned to make a plow. There is a man Ged fashioned to make a constitution. The men Who make it the plow is just AS honorable as the man who make, the constitution. There is a wa- lla= who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder ia one intended to be a queen and wear it. It seems to me that in the one ease as in the other God appolette the 'Phone, and the needle is just as respect- able in his sight as the scepter. I do no know butrthat the wgrid would long ago have been saved if some of the men out of the ministry were in it and some of tintst who aro in were oat of it, Ireally think that oue•half the world, may be divided into two quarters—those wlio have not found their sphere aiad those who, having found it, are net willing to stay there, How many are struggling for a position a little higher than that which Goa intended them! Tbe boudswOMaU wants to be mistress. Hagarkeeps crowd- ing Sarah. The small orbeel of a watch which beautifully went treading its golden pathway wants to be the balance wheel, aud the sparrow with chagrin drops into the brook because it cannon like the eagle. cut a circle under the sun. J or or Contentaimiat. In 51111 Lord's army we all want ter he brigadier generals; The sloop says: "More mast, more tonnage, more maven 011. that I were a topsail schooner, or a full rigged bz4g, or a Cunard. steamer!" And so the World is fined with cries of discolor tent bectMee we are not willing to stay In the plieee where God put us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too oreed to do anything God Mlle you to do; for the look of a righe dispositiou in this respece the world is strewn with wander- ing Ratters and Ishmeels, God has given each one of us a work M do. Yen carry a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. 'roil distribute that Christian tract. Yon give $10,000 to the missiemary eause, You for 15 years sit with ohronic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian sub- Whetover GO calls yon to, whether it win hissing or huzze; whether to walk under triumphal arch or lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to Preaoli on a Pentecost or tell Mae wan - darer of the street of the mercy of the Christ of Xary Mairdeleue; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning and call her a May queeu, or to eamb out the tangled looks o wait of the street and out up ono a your old dresses to lit her out for the sanctuary—do it, and do it right away. Whether it be a. crown or yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and do their whole work, and aro contented in the sphere In which Cod has put them,- while there Is wandering and exile and desolation and wilderness for discontented Ilagar and Wootton Again, I find in this oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when slie goes forth trudgiug In the desert. What a great change It as for this Hagar! Viers was the tent, and all the surroundings of Abraham's bouse, bean- tiful and luxurious, no doubt, Now she Is going out into the hot sands of the desert. Oh, What a ohange It WaS1 Ann in our day we often see the wheel of for- tune turn. Hero is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had everything possible to administer to her happiness—plenty at the table, music in the drawing room, welcoratt at the door. She is led forth, into life by some one who cannot appreciate her. A dissi- pated soul comes and takes her out in the desert. Cruelties blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The bigh hope that shone out over the ivarriage altar while the ring was being set, and the vows given, and the benediction pronounced, have all faded with tha orange blossoms, and there she is today broken hearted, thinking of past joys and present desola- tion and ooraing anguish. Hagar in the wilderness I Woman's Responsibilities. be sedentary in his life, dee1000 thot b. he student. That wound by the easel in the foot decides that he shall be,John Kittle, who slusll provide the bestreligious encyclopedia the world hes ever bad pro- Ticledi 414 With, his otherWritingses Veit throwing a light upon the word of tied such as has come from no otner man in this cautery, Q mother, mother, thot little hard that wanders over yourlace may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts ot war or drop benedictions! That little voice may blespheme God in the grog - hop or cry "Forward!" to the Leiters hosts as they go out for theielast vieterO, litly mind this morning leaps 80 years •ahead, and I seea merchant prince of New York. Coe stroke of his Pen WIWI" a hip oat of Canton, Another stroke ef his pen brings a tains into Madras. Me is mighty in all the money markets of the world. Who is Ise? He site on Sabbaths beide you in church. My mind leaps 80 oasts forward tram this time and I find myself in a relief association. A great multitude of Christian womeie have met together for a generous porpoee. There le one woman in that crowd who seems tO have the confidence of all the others, and they all look up to her for her counsel and for her prayers. Who la she? Tbis afternoon you will field her the Sob - both sehool, while the teeeber tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry and healed the sick, MY' mind leaps forward 80 years from now, and I And myself in an Africau tongle, and there is a missionary of the cross ad- dressing the natives and their dusky oeuntenalleee are irradiated, 'With the glad tidings of groat joy and sedvation. Who is lief Did you not hear lila SOlee In the opening song of your church serf - ice? My mind leaps forward 80 years from, now, and I dud myself looking through the wickets et a prison, I else a face seerred with every crime, lifie phin on his open palm, bis elbows on his knee ---a picture of despaiv, As I open the wieket, he starts and I hear his chain clenk. The jailkeeper tells me that he has been in there now three times—first ter theft, then for arson DOW ter murder. Re step* upon the trapdoor, the rope is fastened to his neok, tho. plank falls, his body swings into the air,, MS soul swings oft into eternity. Who is be, and where is he? This afternoon playing kite on the city commons. Mather, you are now hoisting a throne or forging a Ohaill; O0lt :we kitialiog a star or digging a dungeon! Here is a beautiful home. You cannot think of anything that can be added to it. For years there has not been the sug- gestion of a trouble. Bright and happy children fill the house with laughter and song. Books to read. Pictures to look at. Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic joy full and running over. Dark night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose well known steps on the doorsill brought the whole household out at eventide crying, "Father's com- ing!" will neves sound on the doorsill again. A lung, deep grief plowed through all that brightness of domestic life. Para- dise lost. Widowhood. Hagar in the wild- erness! How often is it we see the weak dem of woman conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Who is she going down the street in the early light of the morn- ing, pale with exhausting work, not half slept out with the slumbers of last night, tragedies of 'suffering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead, as though for the coming of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mery or Bertha or -Agnes on the day whim they held her up to the font and the Christian minister sprinkled on the infant's face the washings of a baby baptism. Her name is changed now. I hear it in the shuffle of the wornont shoes. I see it in the figuee of the faded, calico. I find it in the lineaments of the woe begone countenance Not Mary nor Bertha nor Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May God bave mercy upon 'woman in her toils her ,struggles, her hardships, her desolation, and may the great heart of divine sympathy inclose her forever I Again, I find in this oriental scene the fact that every moeher leads forth tre- mendous destinies. You say, "That isn't an unusual scene, a mother loading her child by the band." Who is it that she is leading? Ishmael, you say. Who is Islunael? A great nation IS To be founded—a nation en strong that it is to stand for thousatds of years against all the armies of the ,w1n1d. Egypt and Assyria thunder against it, but in vain. Gaulus brings up bis army, and his,areay is smatben. Alexender de- cides upoo a campaign, brings up his hosts and dies. Fora long while that pa - tion ,monopolizes the learning , of the world. It is the nation of theArabs. Who founded it? Xplarnael, the lad that Hagar led into the wildernese. She had no idea she wee leading forth such destinies. Neither dots any mother. You pass along the street and see and pass boysatid girl; who will yet make the earth quake with their. influence. ' Ao the Twig is Bent." Who Is thah boy at Suttonpool, Ply- mouth, England, barefooted, , wading down into the slush and slime until his bare foot comes upon a piece of glass and he lifts it, bleeding and pan struck? Obild Follows Foreut. A Christian mother a good many years ago eat teaohing lessons of religion to her child, and lie drank in those lessons. She never knew that Lantphier would come forth and establish the Fulton street prayer meeting, and by one meeting revolutionize the devotions oftthe wbole earth and ehrill the eternities with bis Christian influence. Laraphier said it was hie mother who 'brought him to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that the Was leading forth such destinies. But, oh, ether; I see a mother reckless °flier influ- ence, rattling on toward destruction, gar- landed for the sacrifice with unseemly mirth and godlessness, dancing ou down to perdition, taking her children in the same direction, preparing tbein for a life of frivolity, a death of shame and an eternity of disaster, I cannot help but say, "There they go, there they go— Bauer and Ishmael!" I tell you there there are wilder deserts than Beersheba in many of the fashionable circles of this day. Dissipated parents leadine dissipated children. Avaricious parenes lending avaricious children. Prayerlass parents leading prayerless children. They go through every street, up every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmael! And while I pro- nounce their names, it seems like the moaning of the desert wind, Hagar and Ishmael!" I learn one more lesson from this ori- ental sone, and that is that every wild- erness has a well in it. Hagar and Ish- mael gave up to die. Hagar's heart sank within her as she heard her child orying: " Water I Water I Water I" "Ah," she says, "ray darling, there is no water! This is a desert." And then God's angel said from the cloud, "Whitt aileth thee, Hagar?" And she looked up and saw him pointing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that there is in every wilderness a well, if you only know how to find it— fountains for all these thirsty monis! On that last day, on that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, "If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink." All these other fountains you find are mere mirages of the desert. Paracelsus, you kpow, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir oflife—a liquid, which, if taken, would keep one perpetually young in this world and would change the aged back again to youth. Of course he was disappointed. He found oot the elixir. But here I tell you of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the "Rook of Ages," and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. "Ho, every ono that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!" Ah, here is a matt who says, "I have been looking for that fountain a great while, but can't find it." And here is sorne one else who says, "I believe all you say, but I have been trudgingalong in the wilderness and can't,find the fountain." Do you know the reason? I will tell you. You never looked in the right direction. "Oh," you nay, "I bave looked everywhere. I have looked north, south, east and west, and I haven't found the fountain." Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. A well in Every Desert. that gespel well sweep, end 1 see tho buckets coming up, Thirsty soul! Here is one buoket of life! Come and drink of it. "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely.," /, Pull away again lilt the vont, and another bucket conies Up, It is this promise: "WeepSng may endure or a night, but joy cometie in the morialoght 1 1011014 of the rope again, and I pull away with u61p1,mbyrighSt"t anndli' and ths beadiluee091;elt°Q , UM:: is the promise: "Come unto me, all YO wbo are weary and heavy Wee. Snd will give yoo rest." A. NOW AfftrOlOry, The elcl aetrologers used, to cheat the people with the idea that they coidd *011 frtuthfuture, aen the poositiuTofhm t:it ao ewbautswteio o_nll occur stars stood in one relatieln whYn tunt would be a prophecy of evil; if a ,luster of stars stood in another relation. that would be a propheey of good. Whatsuper. stition! But here is a new astrology in to owhtichhe Isterinitoralljetneoyh,fatihteh. 41Boylrnio:shisnt:ruoPt tlse Redeemer, I can make this ProleheoY in regaed, to those who put their trust in God; "All things work together for good to those who love God." Doyen lovehimf He you seen the nyetanthes? It is a heantifill flower' bat it gives very little fragrance untilafter sunset. Then it pours its riehness an the sir. And thia grace of the gospel tuat I commend to You, now, while it DIV be very sweet dur- ing the day of prosperity, it ponrs forth its richest aroma after sundown, And will be sundown "with you and me after awhile., When you C01110 to go out of th4e world, will it he (105M5 TO.O.r011, Or Will it be drinking at afountain? A converted Rindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades Caine ttrOlind hint and tried to comfort him by reading some of the pages of their theology, hut he waved his band, as much as to say, "I don't want to hear it," Then they called, in it heathen priest, and he said, "If you will only recite the Nuratra, 14 will dearer you from hell," lie waved his hand, as xeueb ee to say', "I don't want to hear that," Then they said, "Call on Jagger- neut." Re shook his head, as 111110h as to say, "I can't do that." Then they thouglit perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said. "Now, if you can't llyoe'jilidgegbeerard4444' int.hainks mUlhhim." as to 8532(8 7, AO, 1101" Then they bent down to his pillow, and they said, "In what will you trust?" Ills ftiee ligiated up with the very glories et the celestial sphere, as he cried on; rallying all his dying energies, ".1e1051" 011, come thishour to the foul- taiu 1 I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Lightfer all darknes. And every wilderness has a well in it, nook up, where Hagar lookea. She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she beard the voice of the angel the looked up and saes tbeefinger pointing to the supply. And, 0 soul, if to -day with one earnest, intense prayer you would only look up to Christ, he would point you ° down to the supply in the wilderness. "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved; for I am God, and there is none else!" Look! Look, as Hagar looked! Yes, there is a well for every desert of bereavement. Looking over any audience I notice signs of mourning and woe. Ilaveyou found consolation? ' Oh, man bereft, oh, woman bereft, have you found consolation? Hearse after bearse. We step from one grave hillock to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be like them. The world is in mourn- ing for its death,. Every heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy. But slog ye to God; every wilderness has 'a well in it, and I come to that well to- dey, and I begin to draw water foe you from that well. If you have rived in the country, you have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well svveop, and you know how the 'bucket came op, dripping With bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the rope of , That wound in the foot decidethat he God '8 meroy, and I begin to draw on HOW COAL WAS FORMED, An Isaerestino Theory Advanced by French Jeneieeer. M. Fayed, an eminentrrenclz engineer, having, In charge the coal mines at Com - reentry, advanees the following theory of the formation of eoal, claimed to be based OD 50011 facts and experiments as receive the support ot scientific mon. The mines in question, being partly wotked in the open air, have rendered it easy to observe the relations of the different strata mak- ing up that region. It appearing at first that the pebbles constituting the pudding stones were formed of rooks whose place of origin was sometimes quite distant and the coal being the result of vegetable de- bris laid down in horizontal layers, one above the other, the conclusion arrived at from these data assumed that a liquid must bave been necessary to transport and arrange In this way such different ele- ments—coal, therefore, not baying been formed in the place -where now found, but ie a product of transportation. It is urged that the climate of the coal epoch being very moist, abundant floods carried away trees and whole forests and swept them into fake basins, the trees thus forming great rafts of logs; the heaviest materials—gravel, sand, clays—were de- posited in the order of their density, the lighter vegetable matter floating longer and being deposited last. This'it Is thought, explains why the layers of earth and coal are not parallel and why all those layers, as has been observed in del- tas, are inclined in the same direction and at different angles. — Locomotive Engineering. The Moon and the Earth. Among the theories of scientists is one regarding the original unity of the moon and the earth. It is believed that out of a mass of rapidly revolving elements, molten fluid or gaseous, the earth and the moon took such shape that the mass was divided into two parts. They con- tinued their revolution and becametthe ehrth and the moon. Each had its own axis on which it spun, each also revolv- ing about the other. The months were but a few hours long and the days not much shorter. Then the gravity mutually exerted by these rapidly revolving bodies disturbed them, tidal friction held them back, and the earth, moving more rapid- ly of the two, held its course, while the moon slowly receded. During ages of time, the earth took on its present shape and hardened, thus paving the way for such conditions as would make it habit- able. It is thought that the moon has never become entirely symmetrical, and that one and the same side is always turned toward the earth.—New York Ledger. Byron's Death. The Vita Bahama has discoveredamong the state archives of Rome certain copies of,a Greek jeurnal published at Missolon- ghi in 1824, the year of Byron's death. This journal, the Telegraph° (tree, relates naany things of Byron's last days, and it gives the reason why the poet died. He was killed by disobedience to the doctors. He died because he would not be bled. And this is proved by the autopsy of the poet, whith the Telegraph° Girth records in extenso. A Freak TOW11. "1 see it speaks in the paper, husband, about a town where there are 5,000 odd inhabitants." "That most be the place where all the freaks come from," --Detroit 'Free Bross. Gratitude and Generosity. Whenever I find a great deal of grati- nide in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as nanch generosity Of he were a rich man. --Pope. An Ancient Clock. . The great clock at Rouen has been measuring the time aiad striking, the heave and quarters for over 500 years. NO FUN IN THE GAS Sti8INE$S, A v uptiplo fiviffp wsys uir eon- a ramujmito 41) I Ivo, Settle Their ISMS. . THE 1,R4NS OE REFrOillal A LITTLE, GIRL TO REALM "WO% sin" exelaimed one of the gas companies, "there is absolutely nothing funny or amusiog in our 'oldness, I* is all extremely seri. O'S We actually get more abuse than the average ear conductor,. People think they are entitled to cuss, and call us all the nasty names from A to Z, As'a rule, don't regard gas in tbe same light as other conumedities, Some actually think that they ought te harS gas for nothing, and they are very neuch burs if they are reminded that their gas bill is four or five months overdue, So they take it out in abusing us," Tie° speaker's experience has been gained in the office. T.he life of the men employed to cello& overdue Pills is even more exciting- Then are eSellethnes inch,' if they pass a week without baying to elodge ilanrons, broometicks and bottles, Ths iras man starts out in the morn - Ing to go to the house of a consumer who has refused to pay his bill. 'lite scene is a sweatshop, awl the proprietor is busy with his irons and his workmen. The gas man enters. "I've cense arekind," be rags, eee your meter," Ile takes out his taller book. and rhe proprietor *Rena the little closet where the meter is. In a second the gas man snaps a lock on V= meter, and the llamas wider tba Jenne in the shop die out, "Reseal!" yells the proprietor, "Whet have yen dew)? It 15 robbery! Why 44 ocat COMA here? 1 bone paid my bill. report you to the oompeuy." The gas man miles. "Rave you got the receloe?" be asks. "1 bed it, I bad ie. I did. I did. Turn ou that gas, or I'll breakyeur "No money, no gas,, " says the gas company's employe. "It's a robbery! Joe, where is that receipt?" But Joe hasn't Seen it. Finally the $7.$5 is paid, and the gas Mall un- locks the meter and goes back 'to hi* oince or tO another heat() where 80015- tbing similar is likely to happen. The consumer ha e learned, a lesson. Ile &moos the gescoMpauy all day and vows be will born gas for 17 months and never be fooled again. A few magas Vase and amither gas bill rein up. The consumer paye ote otteution when asked to settle, and a 111411 15 sent around to look at the meter again. "fle, hal 1 guess yea won't do that triek evil)," says the consumer when the man in uniform asks to see the meter. "I have had the trick played on me before. 1 KS not ready tes pay. Wall awhile." The gas company waits a month and then decides to fool no more with hire, One morning a party of men begin to tear up tho street in frout of the sweat - slum. The proprietor catebes eight of the uniforms, and, knowing that tho gas men are upon hire, =shoe to his private board and pulls out some money. "Don't ruin mei" he cries as he hurries into the streets whore the men are already disconnecting his gas pipes. "I am ready to pay." The crowd whieh has gathered laughs at him es he appeals to the gas man in charge. "My friend," says the gas man, "pay up then right away and make a deposit of $50 with me." "Fifty dollars!" exclaims tho non - sumer. "I haven't that much in the world. It is robbery, worse than Russia. Villains 1 Rascals 1" The crowd laughs some more and the gas men go on with their work. But in ten minutes the consumer comes out of bis house with the money. A receipt is signed on the spot, the gravel goes back into the hole, and the gas men depart.—New York Sun. He Kept cool. A well known eastern editor had often reasoned of the folly of excitement in times of danger and had told himself that safety lay in calmness, sohooling himself until Ise believed he would re- tain his presence of mind in any emer- gency. He was a passenger on a New York Central train that was wrecked, and when he was rudely awakened by the jolting of the train he said to him- self: "An accident. This is such a time as I have been preparing for. Now I will prove that I can keep calm." The jolt- ing ceased and the car stopped. "When a car comes to a standstill," reasoned the editor!. "the worst is over. I will teach the others a lesson in calmness. Ladies and gentlemen," said he, addressing his fellow passengers from his berth, "keep perfectly cool. Do not let excitement overcome you. Keep your heads. The 'worst is over, and the wise course is to be calm." Having delivered himself of this wise admonition, he dressed himself, even bestowing care in the adjustment of his scarf. Then he stepped forth and did his full share in the work ot rescue, remaining on the ground until nigbt. When he undressed, he found that he had not put on his undershirt.—San Francisco Argonaut. 1#4. Was Gradually Vailleir *war 0114 Her Parente 14oubte4 Her Iteeevery to Realtlt, .FrennTbe Examiner, Charlottetown. . Perhaps the Most remarkable cure that basever been. recorded is that of Utte nnieenio Woodside, d,attgliter oi ¥rand ldrs, Jas. Weo.dside„ of ffaltic... P, E. L Mran4Xrs. Woodside aro members of the. Princetown Ilegabr, terian .church, arid are well and feV..rer4, • ably known in the .settlement where they reside. Woodside does an extensive business in oysters. A news- paper correspondent hearing of -the re- markable reeevetres of this little girl, • .040a. on XI'. Weodside and aser- *ained .the exact facts of the. case. 'as following is substantially the. resultof the interview hem a year age lAat JUile 1 ar$t noticed that. vy daughter was not as bright as usual and that She c.oceplairted at times 91- - her head .and chest. 14 to that time she had regularly attended school andwas remarkably. clever for . a child a .her age. She 414 Xi04414 except attend school • and although payer .en•ppoSed it would4o her panels allowed her to :study tee . sedulously. Thinking that she wee only a little r),:n1 down 1 kept her from school for a few weeks arid expected that she would be all right again, By the end of that time 1 was badly dis- appointed in tri,y expectations, how. -ever, as she rapidly grew weaker an lOSt flesh evory day, 1 Was •alarDiad, about her conditio11 when she DOIA• pigl.illed a a, soreness in her lungs and. began to cough, 1 Was just preparing to take her tos doctor when a neigh- bor called to see her and advised us to try Dr. Williams*.Pink Pills S*0. siee stired me that. Pink Pillshad restored • here own daughter to health after sev- eral doctors had failed to do her any ,goo& 1 therefore resolved to give .them a trial and purchased a couple of boxes that very day. 1 began giving ray little daughter those pillsbeing very careful to follow the directions; At the end of a month 1 noticed a de- cided improvement in ter health end thus encoural..tecl 1 continued uSing the pills three months more, Her health was qutterestored by that time end she was able to attendschool again. regard my daughter's cure as almost marvellous and accord all the. credit to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. For little girls and boys of delicate constitution' no better remedy could possibly be prescribed. What was done for my little girl could certainly be done for other children. Dr. Williams' Pink Pine cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from the system. A.vold imi- tations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a - wrapping bearing the full trade mark, Dr. 'Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. How Norwegian. Men Vote. Some interesting particulars with re- gard to this subji at are given in the Norsk Skibsforerforening Tidende. Nor- wegian seamen, it appears, are now en- titled to vote before leaving their country if the polling day is within three moaths of their departure, or they can vote at a foreign port within the same thne by hav- ing their votes registered and sent home through a Norwegian consul or through a notary, if they are not on board a Nor- wegian ship. 'If on board a Norwegian ship where there are not less than four of the crew entitled to vote, then tbe cap, tain end two of them are to administer the polling,. It is not absolutely necessary to vote for named persons. Votes may be given for Liberal, or Conservative candi- dates. Seamen. who would vote ihust pro- vide themselves with a proxy form, to be obtained from a registrar of voters in Norway. Sweet Peas and Ffies. The oiler of the sweet pea, according to a contribohor to the Medical Record, "is so offensive to flies that it will drive them out of the sickroom, though it is not usually in the slightest degree disagreeable to the patient." et is therefore recommended that sweet peas be placed in the sickroom during flytinao. 4 Cheap Motor Traveling. An Englishman hoz just completed a journey af 1,600 miles on a motor car through Ettglaod and Scotland. He was five weeks traveling and used 114 gallons of oil, which made his traveling cost him farthings (1)O cents) a =Ha—Scientific 113.at1eau, Safety SurgIcal Instrument. The arrest of bleeding in surgical operations is now saicl to be assured by meats of an instrument dos to the Inge- nuity of Lawson Tait. A platinum wire, so arranged as to carry a etuoent of elec- tricity, is inclosed in the blades of a pair of steel forceps or any otber required in- strument, the wire for this purpose being insulated by a bed of burnt pioe clay. This arrangement being perfected, a cur- rent of suitable voltage is turned on, the artery seized and compressed, and in a few seconds the tissues and arterial walls are so agglutinated that the passage ot blood is rendered impossible. The taro- perature employed is about 180 degrees F., the fact being thus apparent that the principle involved in this device is differ- ent from that of sleet-ricol cauterizing instruments. The Epicure's Paradise. It is our belief that in the United States the region around the Chesapeake bay probably produces more good things to eat than any other upon God's footstool. The shellfish of the Chesapeake bay, the Lynn Haven and Cherrystone oysters, the salt water fish which swarm in the waters of the Chesapeake, the fresh water fish which swim in the Susquehanna and other rivers which run into that magnificent sheet of water, the diamond back terrapin of the Chesapeake marshes, the wild_ fowl that fly over those marshes, the canvasbacks that regale themselves upon the wild celery in the ponds along the Chesapeake shore, the plump and yellow -legged chickens raised by the farmers' wives on both sides of that bay, the luscious peaches and other fruits found in Delaware and Maryland, the toothsome sides and flitches of Mary- land bacon, the Virginia hams, and goner - ally the products of that fat and juicy dis- trict known as the "eastern shore" of Maryland—who that has ever lived or so- journed there can forget thein1—San Francisco Argonaut. Messrs. Northrop & Lyman Co. are the proprietors of Dr. Thomas' Eclectrie Oil, which is now being sold in immense quantities throughout the Dominion. It is welcomed by the suffering invalid everywhere with emotions of delight, because it banishes pain and gives instant relief. This valuable specific for almost "every ill that flesh is heir to," is valued by the sufferer as more precious than gold. It is the elixir of life to many a ,wasted frame. To tbe farmer it is indis- pensable, and it should be in every house. An Orkney Prayer. The brehity of the Orkney summer pre - eluding the raising of harclly anything ex- cept oats ("aits") and barley, the elders had requested the minister to pray for good harvest weather. He complied as follows : "Lord, giens brew weather and a wee bit sough of a breeze that will dree the straw and will nee harm the heads, but if ye blew us sic a bletherin, rivin, tearin blast ae Be he been hen's, yell play the vera mischief wi' the aits and fairly spoil a1."—Arena. Ilinard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. parting shot. Mrs. Highirp—Yes, I advertised for a footman, but you. are too small. You will hardly do. Applicant (backing out of the room) —Theo you didn't really want a foot- man, mum. You wanted, a eIx feat man.—Obleago. Tribune,