The Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-29, Page 7THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
DR. TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BLESS-
INGS OF MISFORTUNE,
reopie Who Are Mind to Boo Bright
Light io the Clottila--Eorthly Bereave-
ments Essential to Beavenly Welcome,
-Glory Succeeds (Boom -
(Copyright 314,9$, by Anotricau Fres s Associa-
tion.)
Wasbington, April 24.—T1is sernaou of
Dr. Tag e will bave a tendeney to tike
the gloom out oe many lives and stir 1113
a spirit!, a healtaftil antiolpatiou; teat,
Job xxxvii, 31, "And now men see oat
the bright light which is in the clouds."
Wind eeett learometor falling. Storni
signals ou.. Ship reefing maintemsail.
Awnings taken en. Prophecies of foul
'weather everywhere. The Woods congro.
gat orotund the sun, proposing to abolish
him. But after awhile he assails the
late flanks a the etetog Isith flying artillery
of light, mid here and there is a sign of
clearing weather. Many do not observe
le, Many do not realize it. "Aad now
nom see no the brighe light which is in
the eloods." In other word; there are
10 men looking for etorm where there is
one man looleing for sunshine. My objece
'will be to gea you, and myself into the
delightful habit of making the best of
everything.
You may have WOOdered at the Otitis -
ties that in Indict in the year 1874 there
Were MOO people slain by wild beests,
end that, in the year 1870 there were in
India over 2.0.000 people destroyed by
wild, animals. But there is a monster in
Our own Mod wMei s yeat by yeor de
-
maid start them in life with a compet-
encel How I have beeu disappointed in
all my expectetieos of wbat I would do
for them! Upon that scene a pathos I
break with a paean of congratalation,
that by your finenoial losses your own
prospects or heayea eeol the prospect for
the beaven of year obildreie are mightily
improved. You may bave lost toy, but
you, hove won a palace.
"How hardly ellefl they that have
eiches outer into the kingdom of Q0C1,!"
"It is easier for a camel to go through a
needle's eye than for 4 rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven," Wbat does thee
mean? It illeans that the grandest bless -
tug God ever bestgwed upon you was to
Mho your money away from you. Let Wle
here say, in passing, do not put much,
stress on the treasurea of this world. You
millet Mae them along with you. At
ally rate, you caonot tako them more
than two or Three miles. You will have
to leave them at the cemetery. Attila
had three coffins. So fond was he of this
life that he decreed that first he should
be buried in a ceffin of gold, and that
then that should be inolosed in a cofdo
silver, and that should be inclosed in a
coffin of iron, end then a largo amount
of treasure should be throwo in over his
body. And so he was buried, and the
men who buried hem were slain so that
no ono might know where be was buried
and no one there interfere with bis
treasnree. 0 oleo of the world wao want
to take your naoney with you, better have
three coffins!
Profit byliereayements,
Again, I remark yen Might to 'Peke
the very best af your bereavements. Tim
whole tentleney is to brood over thee°
separations, and to eve much time to
the barreling of ?Demotes of the depart-
ed, and to make long visitations to the
cemetery, and to meet "Ob, I can never
etroying more than that le is the old , hole up nein!, My hope is gene, my
boor a melancholy, and with gospel weae courage le p,,orlo. fihy .m,.gieis
pens I propose to obese le back to its faith in dot is oono. the wear tuul
midnight caverlis. 1 lueall to do tw° Telr anti eximustion et this loneliness!"
0"1"-44 Sam in slIbt"°ti°11 21114 a &MU lire moat frequent bereaeemelett is the
In adtilticee—a subtraction /reel your oe children. it year deported child
days of ilePaettion ono an atulltiml t°, lied lived as long as yo it bath lived, do
your tie,eis of ler. If Goa will help mot a you not suppose that he would have bad
will compel you to See the bright light about the samo alumna of trouble and
that thew is in the clouds and compel trial that you hove had: If you could
emu to mato the beet a everything. make a choke for your calla between 40
In tile iirSt pltiCe, you ought to umae years of annoyance, Leh, ehaation, mid,
the very Wee Of ail YoUr 1-41411elal ullsr°r- peration and Lereavementi anal 40 years
tunes. laving the panic a fOW years agoin heaven, would you aloe tile rosponsi..
you till lost enemy, Some at you lost it Wiley of eimmeleg the former? Weald
in 'most' Illiaetaant314° war3- F°t' Ill° you switch away the eup of eternal bliss
tiu°"1"/ "1)1°W PIA" t1l°119311'ns Ot n`alt and put into that caild's Mende the oup
ears :shalt I put aside thee year?" you of eintuy bereovemente? Instead of the
substituted the queetion, "How shall I complete safety into which that child has
pay my leateber and looker and clothier bean lifted, -would you like to hold it
toed latollord?" You had the sensation oa down to tho risks ef this mortal etatof
rowing hard Iv" two ears and yet an Weillt1 3•01,1 like to ktem It out on a Sea la
the tenet going down 6trealu, which there have been more thipvereeke
'ran "41 bat say Urneh about It bScabS° than safe voyagesis it not a comfort to
lb WAS BOt politic to speak much of fin• you to know that that obild, instead of
alwIfil mlia":45s"1°"; ball your lyne being beeollod and dung into the mire of
knew. Lees Variety of Wardrobe, more , sin, is swung clear iuto the skies? Aro
economy at the table, self denial in are 1 not those children to be cougratulated
arid tapeetry, Compression, retrenchment. that the point of celeetial bliss which you
Who did not feel the xteeeseity of ite My 1expect to reach by a pilgrimage of 0 or
friona, aid you make the best of this? 1 80 or 70 years they retched at a flash? If
Are yon aware of bow narrow an escape the last; 10,000 obiltlon who bad entered
yoa made? Suppose you had readied the beaven had Pile throegli the °Norma) of
fortune toward which you 'were rapidly 1 human life on earth, aro you sure all
going? 'What then? You would have bean those 10,000 children would bave finally
as proud as Lucifer. 1 reached the blissful terminus? llesidee
What is Success? 1 that, my friends, you are to look at this
How few men have succeeded largely In 1 matter as a self denial on your part for
a financial sense and yet maintained tboir benefit If Tour ebildren want to
their simplicity and religious conseara- go off in a May day party, if your chile
lion I Not olio loan out of 100. There are dren want to go ou a flowery androusical
,i.
glorious !Animations, bus the general rule excursion, you consent. You might pre.
Is that In proportion as a num gots well for to have them with you, but their ja-
off for this world ho gets poorly off for Mint abseuce eatisiaes you. Well, your
tho next. Ho loses his sense of depend- departed children have only gone out in
once on God. Be gets a distaste for prayer a May day party, amid flowery and =el -
meetings. With plenty of bank stocks and cal entertaiument, amid joys and hilari-
plenty of govermnent securities, what ties forever. TWO ought to quell some of
does that man know of the prayer, "Give your grief, the thought of their glee.
me this day my daily bread?" How few Glorious Welcomes.
men largely e,uccossful in this world aro
So it ought to be that you could make
bringing souls to Christ or showing self
denial for others or are eminent for the best of all bereavements. The fact
that you have so many friends in heaven
piety? You can couot them all upon your
eight fingers and two thumbs. , will make your own departure very
One of the old covetous souls, when be
k and r o age, cheerful. When you are going on a voy-
everything depends upon where your
was sicstaiunto death, used t
may be different, they are no more than
those of the man who has an appetite
three times a day and sleeps eight hours
every night,
No More Pain,
From my observation, I judge that in-
valids, have a mere rapturous view a the
next worla than well people and will
bare higaer renown in heaven. The best
view of the delectable raountains is
through the lattice of the sieleremm.
There are trains running, every hour be-
tween pillow and throne, between aospi-
cal and loaueioo, between bandages and
robes, between crutch and palm branch.
Oh, I wish seem of you people who are
compelled to cry; "My bead, my headi
aiy foot my foot; My back, my bloater
would try some of the Lord's medicine,
You aro going to be well anyhow before
lang. aleoven is an ola city, but has
never yet reported one case of siclerloos or
One bill of mortality. No ophthalmia for
the eye. No pneumonia for the lungs, No
pleurisy for the side. No neuralgia for
the Deletes. No rheumatism for the =M -
"The inhabitauts shall never say,
aut sick." "There shell be no mere
pain,"
Again, you ought to maim the best of
life's finality. Now, you think I leave a
very tough subject. You do not see how
I am to strike a spark of light out of the
flint of the torebstotaa There are many
people who have an idea tbat death is the
eutanergence of everything pleasaut by
everything doleful. If iny subject could
clew in the upsetting of all such precon-
ceived netions, it would close well, Wile
can judge best of the feetoree of al man
—these who are close by Mm or those
Wha are afar at? "Oh," you say, "thew
ran judge best of the features Of a mail
who are close by 1ato1"
Now, iny Weeds, wag shall judge et
the features of death—whother they are
lovely or whether they are repulsive?
YOU? YOU are ten far off. If I want to
get a jlillgilleUt as to want really the
features of death are, I will hot tisk yeti.
Will ask then who have been within a
mouth of await, or a week of death, or
an hour of death, or a iuiriute of death.
They stand so near the =auras, they can
tell. They give unanimous testimouy, if
they aro Christian people, ehat death, in-
stead of being demo:dee, is ebertieic. Oa
all the ehousande et aarietieue who have
been carried theaugh the geees of the
cemetery, gether up their dying experi-
ence, and you will find they nearly all
bortlerca ou a jubilee°. How often you
bare semi a dying man join in the psalm
!ming sang around Me bedside. the anal-
dle of the verse opolairee to let bis ran -
towed spirit free, long otter the lips
could not speak looking and pointing
upward.
Some of you. talk, as though (iota bad
exbaueted himself in building title world,
oucl that all the rital curtains be ever
matte be bung around this planet, and
all the flowers be eser grew he has wosen
into the carpet of our tialslea meadows.
No. This world is not the best thing God
can do. This world la not the best thing
that God has done.
Season of Blossoms.
One week of the year is called blossom
week -walled so alt through the lend
because there aro more blesemus in that
week than in any other week, of the year.
Blossom week! And that is wbat the
future world is to which the Christian is
Ineeted—blossom week. forever. It is as
far ahead of tide world as paradise is
ahead of Dry Tortugas, end yet hero we
stand shivering and fearing to go out,
and we want to stay on the tiry sand and
amid the stormy petrels when we aro
invited to arbors of jasmine and birds of
paradise.
One season I had two springtimes. I
went to New Orleans in April, and I
marked the difference between going to-
ward New (Moans and then coming
back. As 1 eyelet on down toward New
Orleans the verdure, the foliage, became
ehicker and more beautiful. When I came
back, the farther I came toward home
the loss the foliage and iess and less it
became until there was hardly any, Now,
It all depends upon the direction in which
you travel. If a spirit barn heaven should
come toward our world, be is traveling
from June toward Bei:ember, from radi-
ance toward darkness, from hanging gar-
dens toward icebergs. And one would
not be very much surprised if a spirit of
God sent forth from beaven toward our
world should be slow to come. But how
strange it is that we dread going out to-
ward that world when going is from
December toward .Tune, from the snow of
earthly storm to the snow of Edenic blos-
som, from the arcties of trouble toward
the tropics of eternal joy!
Oh, what an ado about dying! We get
so attached to the malarial marsb 111
which we livethat we are afraid to go up
!Jed live on the hilltop. We are alarmed
because vacation is coming. Eternal sun-
light and best programme of celestial
!minstrels and halleluiah, no inducement.
Let us stay here and keep cold and ignor-
ant and weak. Do not introduce us to
Elijah and John Milton and Bourdaloue.
Keep our feet on the sharp eubblestones
of earth instead of planting them on the
bank of amaranth in heaven. Give us
this small island of a leprous world in-
stead of the immensities of splendor and
delight. Keep our hands full of nettles
and our shoulder under the burden and
our neck in the yoke and hopples on our
anklee and handcuffs on our wrists.
"Dear Lord," we seetn to say, "keep us
down here where we have to suffer instead
of letting us up where we might live and
reign and rejoice."
A insizing Infatuation.
I am amazed at myself and at yourself
for this infatuation under which we all
rest. Men you would suppose would get
frightened at having to stay in this world
instead of getting frightened at having
to go toward heaven. I congratulate any-
body who has a right to die. By that I
mean through sickness you cannot avert
or through aeoident you cannot avoid—
your work consummated. "Where did
they bury Lily?" said one little child to
another. "Oh," he replied, "they buried
her in'the ground." "What! In the cold
ground?" "Oh, no, no; not to the cold
ground, but in the warm ground, where
ugly seeds become beautiful flowers!"
"But," says some one, "it pains me so
much to think that I must lose the body
with vehiele my soul has so long compan-
ioned." You do not lose it. You no more
lose your body by death than you lose
your watch when you send it to have it
repaired, or yourjewel when you send it
to have it reset, or the faded picture
when you Based it to have it touched up,
or the photograph of a friend when you
have it put in a new locket. you do not
lose your body. Paul will go to Rome to
get his, Payson will go to Portland to
get his, President Edwards will go to
Princeton to got his, George Cookmala
'Will go to the bottona of the .A.tlantio to
get his, and we will go to the vbflage
churehyards and the city cemeteries to
get ours, and when we have our perfect
smelt rejoined to our poileet hotly then
have a basia brought in, ;basin filled friends are—if they aro on the wharf that
Y- leave or on the wharf toward which
with gold, aim his only' amusement and
you are going to sail. In other words,
the only relief he got for his inflamed
tho more friends you have in heaven the
hands was running it up in the basin.
Oh, what infatuation and what destroy- easier it will be to get away from this
world. The more friends here the inore
ing power money has for many a man!
Now, you were sailing at 80 knots the bitter goodbyes. The more friends there
the more glorious welcomes. Some of
hour toward these vortices of worldliness
—what a nieroy it was, that honest &Pal- y°11 have so many brothers, sisters,
cation I The same divine hand that children, friends, in heaven that' do not
know hardly how you are going to crowd
crushed your storehouse, your bank, your
through. "When the vessel came from
office, your insurance company, lifted you
foreign lands and brought a prince to
out of destruction. The day you honestly
our harbor, the ships were covered with
suspeoded in business roade your fortune
bunting, and you remember how the
for eternity.
/nen-of-war thundered broadsides, but
"Oh," you say, "I could got along very
well myself, but I am so disappointed there was no joy there compared -with the
joy which shall be demonstrated when
tbat I cannot leave a competence for my
you sail up the broad bay of heavenly
children I" My brother, the seen° financial
misfortune that is going to save your salutation. The more friends you have
soul will save your children. With the there the easier your own transit. What
anticipation of large fortune, how math is death to a mother whose children are
industry would your children have, with- in heaven? Why, theati is no more grief
in it than there is in her going into a
out which habit of industry there is no
"slaty? The young man would say, "Well, nursery amid the romp and laughter of
her household. Though all around may
tbere's no need of my working. My father
will soon step out, and then I'll have just be dark, see you not the bright light in
the clouds, that light the irradiated faces
what 1 want." You cannot hide from
him how much you are worth. You of your glorified kindred?
So also, my friends, I would have you
think you are hiding it. He knows all
about it. He can tell you almost to a make the best of your sicknesses. When
dollar. -Perhaps he has been to the county you see one move off with elastic step and
office and searched the records of deeds in full physical vigor, sometimes you be -
and mortgages, and be bas added it all come impatieot with your lame foot.
When a xnan describes an object a mile
up, and he has made an estimate of how
long you will probably stay in this off and you cannot soo it at all, you be-
come impatient of your dim eye. linen
world, and is not as much worried about
you hear of a well man making a great
your rheumatism and shortness of breath
as you are. The only fortune worth any- achievement, you become impatient with
thing that you Can give your child is the your depressed nervous system or.your
dilapidated health. I will tell you how
fortune you put in his head and heart.
Of all the young inen who started life you can make the worst of it. Brood over
with $40,000 capital, how many turned it—brood over all these illnesses—and
and your dyspepsia more aggravated, and
inspiring Inheritance. your weakness more appalling, But that
The best inheritance a young man can is the devil's work to tell you how be
have is the feeling that he . has to fight make the worst of it. It is ray work to
his own battle, and that life is a struggle show you a bright light in the clouds.
into vvhich he mast throw body, mind Which of the Bible men most attract
ited soul or be disgracefully worsted. your attention? You say, Moses, Job,
Where are the burial places of the men David, Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what a
who started life with a fortune? Some of strange thing it is that you have °boson
them in the potter's Eeld, some in the those who were physically disorderedl
suicide's grave. But few of these ,men Moses—I know he was nervous from the
reached 85 years of age. They drank, clip he gave the Egyptian. Job—his
they smoked, they gambled. In them the blood, was vitiated and diseased and his
bead destroyed the man. Some of them skin distressfully eruptive. David—he
lived long enough to get their fortunes liad a running sore which ne speaks of
„and went through them. The vast major- when he says, "My' sore ran in the night
ity of them did not live to get their in- and ceased not" Jereiniab had enlarge -
bele -bailee. From the ginshop or house of went of the spleen. Who can doubt it
infainy thev were brought home to their who reads Lamentations? Paul—he had
=then! house and in delirium began to a lifetime staleness wiiieh the cominenta-
pick Off loathsome reptiles from the ern- tors have been guessing about for yore,
broidered pillow and to.fight back imag. not knowing exactly wieat the apostle
inary devils. And then they were laid Ineant by "a thorn in the Bosh." I do
out in highly upholstered parlor, the not know either, but it was something
casket covered with flo•wers by indulgent sleep, sonaething that stuck him. I
parents, flowers euggestive of a easinr'ea- gather from all this that physical dis-
tion with no hope. 'a order may be the means of grace to the
out well? I do not know half a dozen. your nerves will become more twitchy
As you get thie morning'at your break- soul. You say you have so many temp a -
cast table and looked into the faceS of tions from bodily ailments, and if you
your children perhaps you said within
aoursolf: "Poor things! How I wish 1
were only, well yen think you could be a
good C r an. y p
h 1St' While our tem tations
,
we will be the kind of men and women
that the resurrection morning will ineke ,
possible, I
So you see you have not made out any
doleful story yet. What have you proved •
about death? Wbat is the case you have
made out? You have made out just this
—that death ellows as to have a perfect
body, free of all aches, united forever, 1
with a perfect soul, free from al) sin- !
Correct your theology. What does it all i
mean? Why. it means that moving day 1
is coming and that you are going to quit,
cramped apartmeots and be mansioued '
forever. The lime that stands at the gate!
will not be the one lathered and bespat-
tered, carrying bad oews, bat it will be
the horse that St. John saw in Apocal-
yptic visiou—the white horse on which,
the King comes to the banquet The
ground around the palace will quake
with the tires and hoofs of celestial equi-
page, and 'armee Christiaus watt in this
world lost their friends and lost their
property wed lost their health and lost
their life will find oue that God was
always kind, and that all things worked
together for their good, and that those
were he whest people on earth who
made the hese of everything. See you not
now the bright light in the elouas?
DAD WRIGHT'S _LIGHTNING STROKE.
, The Many Things It Bid Besides Curing
His Rheumatism.
"A few years ago 'Dad' Wright of
Salvisa, this State, bad a very remarkable
• experience with lighening, ' eoid aIMO-
tlemete from Garrard county, whose stook
of pea and true stories is always large.
"His eseepe from instant death tit ehe
time was utireculous. While aestening
on foot through an °eon field toward his
benne durmg it rerrillo thumierstorm he
was struck squerely on the heaa by au
electric bolt. It stripped zho hair from
one side of his brainpen, tore the eloth
ing from Ms body, and made a created
bewk stripe an Melt wide down Me left 3,
side atom lottal to flue. When smack, lie P°43"4
haunt'ed!Fuveral feet in the air and fell Some years ago a friend of roam owned
bark open the Imo.. mas if at,aa. The a beudsome retriever dog. Tim animal
shaft entered Ale earth, throwing up it received more Melts than caresees from
shower mud.
ids /fleeter, mid I Was continually remon-
of
"At the time Wright carried in his hip strating with my friend on his cruelty to
pocket it loaded rev elver. Every chamber
uhstsuadlogon, e,blIgtaibileisulao?roliTivoauilieswicakr wos him the
at the weapou was dieeharged, the \yew-
work was bornemore he will love you." I was very kind
a aud the metal partially
fused by the Judd Hie left thee was tohisii,adogo, maandafvr.ente:0na1;aimm;sterwaswellawelillarei
ripped from his foot. Tho unfortunate w
man lay seneeless ;tad naltea tor several
hours in the drenelana, rain, but, lucredi-
ble as it may seem, nuttily regained par-
tial conselousness ond leigau to etagger
uncertainly &lout over the field. He was
in this pitiable eonditiou wben discov•
end.
, "Ile was soon reeognizea, Man itt
I charge, mid conductiei to his home, \Timm
S be was clothed and given proper attention.
"As a result of the stroke bis teeth
and toe nalle were looeened, his scalp al-
most denuded of hair, and his hearing
permanently impaireu, On the other band
be reaped an unexpeeted aud deoided
benefit For years prior to the occurrence
here outlined be bad been it great sufferer
from maseular rheumatism, but never
afterward felt a twiuge of pain from that
disease, being completely cured of it by
the terrible shook.
"The dark, zigzag 'streak along the
loft sido of his body, indicating the
scarred path of the eleetrie (torrent, could
mover be altogether removed, although
various !mamas were tried for this pur-
pose. In a vary short time Wright was ttp
and around and as cheerful as a bird.
Jaren) that time forth he was famous in
that section as the human lightning
rod."—Lonisville Evening Post.
SACREDNESS OF THE RETRO HAL.
Only Alcohol Wrecks More Lives Than
awoken Engagements.
Iu the Ladies' Home journal Edward
W. Bok writes on "The Answer of a
Girl's Life," discussing the allegation
made against the Ameriean girl that she
thinks lightly of the imporeanee of her
betrothal. "The betrothal," Mr. 13 de
asserts, "should be jeep as sacred as the
marriage. It is the gravest of the two
steps whielt bind two people together, be-
cause it is the initiative. Only dm mese
extraordinary oiromostances justify
brealeing gf the betrothal. Only goo other
ageucy in, responsible for
more broken ;marts ante wreeked lives
than broken engageroeuts. It is highly
necessary that our girls should have a
perfectly abeam idea of watet it betrothal
meaeme or abinald omani it it is a. betro-
thal in the sight of God. A hasty len.
poise, the temporary swaying of a tumul-
tuous, youthful passion, the confusion al
admiration for affection, the mistaking 01
respeet or love; these are not safe grOMeas
for betrothals. It is never to the emelt oa
it, girl, en the eyes of men, tbot she has
been eogaged two or three times. Girls
should remember that Too often they
think thee men fool otherwise, or, per -
baps, do not care. But men do: that ie,
the men worth marrying. A matt look
upon an oft -engaged girl as ho does upon
a peach with much of the bloom rubbed
off. Besides, men generelhe conclude that
there is something wrong with soca a
girl, The right kind of a girl will betroth
herself bat Once. An ualeappy betrettea
Cell he just as keen is sorrow as all
bappy marriage. It has aarketied the Bre
01 more than one woman."
Kindness,
To be kind is not so tlifUeUlt as emu*
seem to fancy. The holeit of kinelnesa may
asily be cultivatea and is always profit-
able. A. writer in Ceseers Journal relates
an ineltieet which well ill -mita -sees this
Worldliness and Unworldliness.
If we would draw the lino between
worldliness and unworldliness we must
look for it not where so-called worldly
amusements are accepted or refused, but
rather where there is a vastly broader
demarcation, viz., between the things
which are unseen and eternal.The fash-
ion of this world passable away. Some
things perish with the using. The =an
who is supremely devoted to "temporal"
things is a worldly man. There aro
things whith outlast the stars. Faith and
hopo and charity are classed by St. Paul
amongst those things which "abide."
Money is not one of them; fame is not;
social position is not, nor governmental
power. These are things for time. The
great things aro for eternity. The man
who cares primarily about money or fame
or station lives in the region of worldli-
ness; the man who cares primarily about
truth and purity and gooduess dwells in
the vast and enduring and satisfying re-
gion of unworldliness. The unworldly
man may oorne now and then into the
region of these so-called worldly amuse-
ments and share them for needed recrea-
tion or for the good of others, but if so,
he comes as a visitur from the earthly
tents, whereas the man eagerly pursuing
fame, or fashion, or power through
wealth, can know nothing of unworldli-
ness. The sights above are hidden from
bis eyes.
A Bank Bill.
A Canadian on making some purchases
in a Detroit store a few days ago tenger-
ed a Bank of Montreal bill in payment.
"Have you nothing else?" asked the
;merchant, "I don't like bills issued by
those little Canadian banks."
The Canuck bristled at this, and in a
discussion that followed boasted that the
bill in question was issued by the second
greatest bank in the world. The merchant
laughed, and the irate customer dared
him to sten around to the nearest banker
and refer the point to him. They went.
"nave said that this bill is issued by
the second greatest bank in the world,"
said the Canadian. "Am I right?"
"Well," said the banker, "I guess you
are right—yes, as far as I know you are
right."
"I'm satisfied;" said the merchant.
"That bill's good enougla for me."
"Its too good for you, said the custom-
er. "You'll never get your hands on it.
Next time you are offered a Canadian
bank bill accept it, for your banker will
tell you that Canada has the safest and
simplest banking system in the world.
And he wont out, leaving the merchant
and his Walker in deep consultation.
The Cap Pitted.
,- "Now," said the fussy old gentleman,
putting one of the biggosb berries Itt his
mouth and peeking up another, "what is
the sense of having that sign read, 'Freeh
strawberries for sale?' Don't you see that
'Fresh strawberries' would be enougle?
Don't you suppose everybody knows they
arafarsuno
aian'
"Id,/" answered the groom.;
"some folks seem to think I'm givin'
thein away." •
And then the old aenbleman pout the
berry back In the box.—.Retail Grocers'
Advocate.
treed to prevent Ms dog getting in the
boat, Mit I eventually prevailed an him
Jet the dog accompany us. On tire re-
turn eonrney a fog eAllid on and tho swell
from a passing steamer swamped us, veith
the result that our ban upset, awl wo
were struggliog in the water. We coald
riot swim and the emainer's crew could
nas sae us, altbougal they could hoar our
Orie9 for belie As I Was sinking the dog
grabbed met and pullea nee to the up-
turned boat; but I. could mat get bine to
try to save his Blaster, WIl0 WAS drowned.
A Doineixaiting Town,
Almost tba entire population of Mont-
roul, Franco, is mimed to the manufac-
ture of dolls' heads. The "biscuit" from
which the heads Urn made is composed of
limo and earth, adze,/ and trampled un-
til it becomes a species of kaolin, which
is better steeped several days, the longer
the better, washed, filtered and stralued
again and again until Itis dazzlingly pure
and white. The semiellquid is then
poured in moulds, of whieh there are
seventeen sizes, and when dry are turned
out of the raoulds and delivered to the
woolen who insert tho eyes and affix the
ears, eta., after which they are baked
forty eight hours in an oven whioh con-
tains 0,500 heads. The heads, after cool-
ing, aro polisbed with eandpaper and the
flesh tints laid on, after whicb skillful
artists color the features and put in the
lashes and eyebrows, and when the heads
Wive been baked seven hours longer they
are ready to be attached to the bodies,
making tbo dolly which forms so deligbt-
ful a part of Christmas to every young
femininity.
Paddy Pot tawatorny.
Edwin Forrest once produced a play
called "Motamora." Supers were engaged
to personate Indian warriors and among
them was a bright Irish lad who had a
deep admiration for the great tragedian.
At a point in the play where Metarnora
asks "Am I not the great chief of the
Pottawatoinies?" the supers are supposed
to grunt "Ugh, ugh!" The stage man-
ager had carefully drilled them on what
the were supposed to do, but on the night
of the perfornaance the young Irishman
was so transported by Forrest's eating as
to quite forget that he was impersonating
an Indian.
When Forrest turned to the assembled
warriors and thundered forth, "Am I
not the groat chief of the Pottawatom-
ies?" the Irish boy's enthusiasm broke
through all restraint. He leaped into the
air with a wild shout and brandishing
his tomahawk around his head shouted,
"Bogorra, ye are!"
How on Ogg Should Be Boiled.
There is no better way to boil an egg
than not to put it on the Ere at all. In-
stead of this the boiling water should be
poured upon the eggs, and they then
should be covered and set aside for ten
minutes. Cooks who try this reoipe com-
plain of its uncertainty. If the eggs are
done "just right," they are perfection,
the white a thick custard and the yolk
smooth and rich. But sometimes, at the
end of the ten minutes, they are scarcely
"set" at all, and sometimes they are tog
hard. The reason for this occasional fall-
ure is that a proper amount of water has
not been allowed. This varies according
.to the contents of the saucepan. There
should be a half pint of water—and it
should have boiled hard for several mo-
ments before using --for each egg.
Mark Twain's Reply.
At a New England society dinner some
years ago Mark Twain had just finished
O piquant address when Mr. Evearts
arose, shoved both of his hands down in
his trousers pockets, as was his habit,
and laughingly remarked: "Doesn't it
strike this company as a litbie unusual
that a professional humorist ehould be
funny?" Mark Twain waited until tbe
laughter excited by his sally had subsided
and then drawled out: "Doesn't it strike
this company as a little unusual that a
lawyer should have his hands an his own
pockets?"—Los Angeles Express.
Adding to the World's Good.
It iS /lot alone those high in place or
great in the world's esteem who have the
opportunity oe Bybee' a purposeful life
mad of accomplishing a part he the world's
work. Whoever elees a useful thing, and
does it well and cheereally, is contribut.
Ing to the world'S bappinoss toed better-
ment. Whoever does oo More than keep
himself truly happy, is adding to the
world'e good.,
This Time
in (iii.y.o.#
HUNDREDS IN THE TOWN
CAN VOUCH FOR TIIE
TRUTHFULNESS OF
THE STORY.
Mrs. Rass is Cured by the
Great Spring Medicine
MU'S Celery Compound.
SHE SUFFERED FOR LONG YEARS
FROM FRIGHTFUL NEURALGIA.
She says:
"No tongue can describe
the agonies I suffered.
Paine's Celery Computind the Red
TtedicalPrescription for Nenralgia,
Sciatica and Rliemnatisi
Beware of Imitations ;
VANE'S"
Is CuresbeKind
The quiet little town of Quyon, situated
on the Ottawa river, has furnished many
a. strong and convineeng testimouial for
earth's most portlier medicine, Poineasi
Celery Coral -month One of the latest let-
ters received is from Mrs. David Rees, a
lady well known and highly esteemed
sire writes as follows:
Winos & leicoenosoet CO.,
Bonet Suts :—I have much pleasure in
testifying to the worth of your life-aoreiug
medicine, Paine's eatery Compound. I
was a victim of neuralgia in its wont =rue
for many years, and no tougue can de.
scribe the agonies I suffered. A friend
recommended your Compound to me, and
after 'using two bottles I am completely
cured. I cheerfully recommend Paine's
Celery Corapouuti to the world, especially
to all who suffer the agonizing tortures of
neuralgia.
Yours very truly,
Mos. DA.VID RASS, Quyon,
Trimming In Vogue.
Heavy silk reps belting.
Jet belts representing a. serpent.
Chiffon crimped itt bayadere rows.
Black chantilly piece lace for waists.
Lace bands in heavy medallion design'.
Narrow moire ribbon for edging redeem
Bayadere striped neckties in heavy reps,
Long ties of applique lacefor the throat.
Fancy empire combs in shell, plain and
eweled.
Silver buckles set with turquoise ois
white belts.
Colored silk waists having a V and collar
of white satin.
Waists of colored taffeta braided with
white satin bands.—Dry Goods Economist.
Thereto more catarrh in this section of the
courary than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a gnat many years doctors
pronounced it a loct.1 disease. and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, 1.ronouneed it incur.
able. Seienee has proven catarrh to be a eon.
stitutional disease, and therefore requires con-
stitutional treatment. Hall's Cat:0Th Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the
blood and I:Litmus surfaven of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case 19
fails to cure. Send tor circulars and testi-
monials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Mr Sold by Druggists, 75e.
Where Re Got ,Em.
"I want your jewels I" hissed Mae burg..
lar.
"Certainly!" said the mother of Cirachi;
"I will go and get them."
When she returned with her two stal-
wart sons—say, maybe that burglar didn't
get 'em
Still Another Triumph --Mr. Thomas S.
Bullen, Sunderland, writes; "For four-
teen years I was afflicted with Piles; and
frequently I was tumble to walk or sit,
and four years ago I was cured by using
Dr. Thomas' Eclectrie Oil. I have also
been subject to Quinsy for over forty
years, but Eclectrie Oil cured it, and it
was a perina,nent cure in both cases, as
neither the Piles nor Quinsy have troubled
me since."
The Eagle Wears a Veil.
The eagle is able to look at the sun with-
out blinking by means of a thin, semi-
transparent veil, which the bird can draw
instantaneously over its eye. It does nee
obstruct the sight.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Eronio Quinine Tablets. All
Drue•gistsrefund the money 15 11 falls to Cure. 55p
Alcohol Front Coke Gas.
A. German ohenaist has succeeded in
evolving alcohol as a by-product of coke
over gases, which by reason of their ethane
contents are especially suitable for the re-
covery of alcohol.
•
Ask for Liniment and take no other.
Ignored one Emergency.
"These ernevgeney hospitals are us
good."
71 whyenntinatrt'o one at them au4 tried. to
borrow a dollar; ...they wouldn't let me
have a cent."