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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-5-13, Page 76 AN ORIENTAL WELL. DR. 'TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM A RUSTIC SCENE. Work is honorable, and Thera should he uners„ Says the Great Preacher— Row Moses Found Etis P.ride—Learn Usefulness From. the Sheik's Daughter. Copyright /ke8, by American Fress Assocla. don.) Weshinetom May 8.—From a rustle Bible eecaue Dr. Talmage in this sernaort ars praetical ana inspiring lessons for sU elassee of people. The text is Exodus iii, 1, "Now Moses kept the took or Jethro, les father-in-law, the eeriest of In the southeastern part of Arabia a lnen is sitting by ll, well. It is an orid country toad water is scam, so that a well Is of great value.ami /leeks and herds are driven vast distances to have their theist elaked. Jethro, a Midianite sheik and priest, was so fortunate as to have seven daughters, end tbey are ?radical girls, and yonder they come driviug the sheep and cattle and camels of tbeir father to the watering. They lower the hookas and then pull them up, the Water splashing on the atones and dull- ing their feet, end the troughs are tiled. Weo is that man out there sitting tumor:- eereed awl looking tux? Why does he not Mae and, -help the women in tbia bard Werk oCl'awing teeter? But no owner bave the 4117 lips and plating nostrils of the flocks begun to cool a little ex the brimming trough of the well than some rough Beclouin simpberds beak in upou the seeite, and, with claim and shouts drive back the animals -Oust were drluk- ing end affright these girls nil La they fly la retrear, and, the Aeons ot these 111 ruanoorea aeepherds are clzeven to the traugbe, taking elle place.; of the other dooks. Now that loan sitting' by the begins to color up, awl bis eye tashes with indigestion, and all the gallantry in is nature is aroused. It is Moses, who naturally bad a quick temper anybow, as he demonstrated o elle acettqlou when he Saw an Egyptian oppreeeiug an Israelite and gave the Egyptian a sudden clip and burled ben te, the .t.autl, and as be showed afterward ember* be broke all the Ten Contround- meets at once by shatterieg the two granite slabs on whielt the law was written. But the injustice of this treat- ment Of the seven girls eat ben on tre with wrath, end he takes this sbepherd by the throat and puttee back another till he Rale over the trough, and aims a etunning blow betweee the eves ot another as be cries, "Bogen°, you vile lineal" and ho hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle and eamels of those invaders and delee ,. them back, and having cleared the place of the deeper - &does, he told the seven girls or this Midianite sheik to nether their flocks together and bring them again to the Watering. An. Oriental Well. Oh. you °eget to see a fight between the shepherds at it well in the orient as I saw it in December, 1e00, There were hero a group of rough raeu who had driven the cattle many miles and here another group who had driven their cattle as many miles. Who should have precedence? Such clashing of buekets1 Suoh hooking of horns! Seen kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence in a language I fortunately could nob under:stand! Now the sheep with a peculiar mark moot their 'woolly backs were at the trough and now the :sheep of another mark.. It was one of the most exalting scenes I ever witnessed. An old book describes one of there contentions at an eastern well when it says: "One day the poor anon, tho widows and tbe orphans met together atid were driving their camels and their flooks to drink and were ail standing by the watereide. Dajl canto up and stopped them all and took posses- sion of the water for his master s cattle. Just then an old woman belonging to tho tribe of Abs came up and accosted him in a suppliant manner, saying: 'Be so good, Master Daji, as to let lay cattle drink. They are all the property I pos- sess, and I live by their milk. Pity my t ook; leave compassion on me. Grant my request and let them drink.' Then came another old roman and addressed bim: 'Oh, Master Dai, I am a poor, weak old woman, as you see. Time has dealt hardly with me. It bas ahead its farrows at me, and its daily and nightly calam- ities have destroyed all ray men. I have lost nry children and my husband, and since then I have been in great distress. These sheep are all that I possess, Let them drink, for I live on the milk that they produce. Pity my forlorn state. I bave no one to tend them. Therefore grant any supplication and of thy kind- ness let them drink.' But in this case the brutal slave, so far from granting this humble request, smote the woman to the grounil." A like scrimmage bas taken place at the well in the triangle of Arabia between the Bedouin shepherds and Moses championing the cause of the seven danghters who had driven their father's flocks to the watering. One of the girls, Zipporah, her name meaning "little bird," was captured by this beroic behavior of Moses, for, however timid woman herself may be, she always admires courage in a man. Zipporab became the bride of Moses, one of the mightiest men of all the centuries. Zipperah little thouglit that that morn- ing as she helped drive her father's flocks to the well she was splendidly deciding ber own destiny. Had she staict in the tent or house veleta the other six daugbters of the sheik tended to their bards her lffe would probbaly have been a tame and uneventful life in the soli- tudes. But her industry, her fidelity to ber father's interest, her spirit of help- fulness, brought ber into league with one of the grandest characters of all history. They met at that famoes well, and while the admired the courage of Moses he admired tbe filial behavior of Zipporah. Cares of home. The fact that it took the seven daughters to drive the docks to the well implies that they were immense flocks and that her father was a man of wealth. What was the use of Zipporah' s bemean- leg herself with work when sbe might bave reclined on the hillside near her fatber's tent and plucked buttercups and drowned out romances and sighed idly to the winds and wept ever imaginary songs to the brooks? No, she knew that work was honorable and tbat every girl ought to have something to do, and so she starts with the bleating and lowing and bellowing and neighing droves to the well for the watering. Around every home there are flecks and droyes of cares and anxieties and every daeghter of the family, thOugk .11•141•14t there be levels, ougbt to he doing her part to take care of the flocks. In many households not only is Zipporah, but all her sisters, without practical and useful employments. Many ot them are waiting for fortunate and prosperous matrimonial alliance, but some lounger like them- selves will come along and after count- ing the large number of father Jethro's sheep and camels will make proposal that will be accepted, aud neither of them having done anything more pre°, tical than to obew chocolate caramels, the tsvo nothings will start on the road of life together, every step xnore and more a failure, Tbat daughter of the sbelk will never find her Mose% Girls of America, imitate Zip- porithi Do something practical, Do something helpful. Do something well. Many beve fathers with great noon's of absm g iuties. and sueh a father need@ help in .)eine or oftee or field. Go out and belp him with the flocks. The reason that so many men now condemn them- selvc t to unafilaticea met solitary life is becauze they caunot support the modern young woman, who rises at half past 10 in the morning and retires after mid- night, one of the teasidest of novels in her bands most of the time between the late rasing aud the late retiring, a thous- and of them not worth one Zipporala. Tbere are questions that every father and mother engin to ask the daughter at breakfast or tea table, and that all the daughters of the wealthy sheik ougbt to ask each other; "Wbat would you do if the family fortune snould fail, if sick- ness should prostrate the lareadwinuer, If elm nooks of Jethro should be destroyed by a sudden eneursion of wolves and bears and lwertes frau the mountain? What would you do for a living Could you support yourself? Crea you take oath of an invalid mother or brother or sister as well es yourself?" Yea, siren; It down to what any day aught come to a prosperous "Lem you cook a dinner it the„servents should make a strike for higher 'wages Mad leave that merning?" Every minute of every hour of every day of every year there are families flung from prosperity into hardship, and, alas, if in sutsh exig- enq the seven daughters of Jethro can do notbies• but sit around and cry and waft for some oue to come mad hunt 'them up a situation for whieh they bays xxo qutIzflcai1dn. Ciet at something -else- ful; get At it right aevayl Do uot eve "If I were threw:a epee any owe esourcea I would become a music eather." There are now more music aebers than could be setae:arts:I if they were ell atozarts and Wawa:tees and Handels. Do not gm, "I will go to em- broidering slippers." There aro more slippers uow than there are feet. Our hearts are every day wreng by the story of elegant women who were once affluent, but through catastrophe bave fallen helpless, with no ;Witty to take care of themselves, idlers Sheathe 'work. Our friend and Washiegtonian towns- man, W. W, Corcorou, did a magnificent thing when ho built nod endowed. the Louise home for the eupport of the un- fortunate aristocraey of the south—the people who once hail everything, hut have come to nothing. We want another W. W. Corcoran to build a Louise Immo for the unfortunate uristooreoy of the north. But Institutions like that In every city of the land could not take care of ono -half the unfortunate aristocracy of the north and south whose largo fortunes have failed and who, through lack of aoqueintance with any style of work, cannot now earn their own bread. There needs to be peateeful eat radical revolution among most of the prosperous homes of Americo by width the elegant do-nothings may be transformed into prae.tical do -something. Let useless Women go to work and gather the flocks. Come, Zipporah, lot me introduce you to MOS0.4. But you tio not mean that this man affianced to this eountry girl was the great Moses of histery, do you? You do not mean that he was the man who afterward wpought moll wonders there? Surely you do not mean he whose staff, dropped, wriggled iuto za serpent and then, clutched, stiffened again into a staff? You do not mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones and. palaces? You do not mean be who struck the rock so hard It wept in a stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you do not mean the man Who stood alone with Gad on the quaking Sinaitio ranges, not him of that most famous funeral of all thee, God coming down clue of the heavens to bury him? Yes, the same Moses defending, the seven daughters of the Midianitish sheik, who afterwards rescued all nations. Why, do you not know that this is the way men and women get prepared for thecial work? The wilderness of Arabia was the law school, the theological semin- ary, the university of rock and sand from which he graduated for a mission that will balk seas, and drown armies, and follow the cloud of fire by night, and start the workmen with bleeding backs among Egyptian brick kilns toward the pasture lands that flow with milk and the trees of Canaan dripping with boney. Gracious God, teacb alT the people this lesson. You inust go into humiliation and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if you are to be fitted for special useful- ness. How did John the Baptist get prepared to become a forerunner of Cbrist? Show me his wardrobe. It will be hung with silken soaks and embroid- ered robes and attire of Syrian purple? Show me bis dining table. On it the tankards a -blush with tbe richest wines of the vineyards of Engedi, and rarest birds that were ever caught in net, and sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers before the hunter? No, we are directly told "the same John had his raiment of camel's hair" not the fine hair of the camel which we oall oamlet, but the long, coarse hair such as beg- gars in the east wear, and his only meat was of hum* the green locust, about two inches long, roasted, a disgusting food. These insects were caught and the wings and legs torn off, and they were stuck on wooden spits and turned before the flre. The Bedouins pack them in Bait and carry them in sacks. What a menu for John the Baptist! Through what deprivation he came to west exultation! Victory of Endeavors. And you will have to go down before you go up. From the pit into which his brothers threw him and the prison hi which his eneraies incarcerated him Joseph rose to be Egyptian Prime Min- ister. Elijah, who was to be the greatest of all the ancient propbets; Elijah, who made King Ahab's knees knock together with the prophecy that the dogs would be leis only undertakers; Elijah, whose one prayer brought more than three yearu of drought, and ethos* other prayer brought drenching showers, the 'man wbo wrapped up his cape of ebeepskin into a roll and with it cut a path through raging Jordan for just two men to pass over, the raan who with wheel of fire rode ever death and esoaped into the skies without mortuary disintegration, the man who thousands of years after was called out of the eteraities to stand beside Jesus Clarist on Mount Tabor ween it was ablaze with the splendors of trans- figuration—tlais roan could look back to the time when veracities and filthy ravens were his only caterers. You see Jetill KDOX preacbing the coronation sermon of James VI. and arraigning Queen Mary and Lord Delaney m a publio discourse at Edinburgh aaad tell:Int the French ambassador to go hetet) and call his king a murderer, John .tattett malting all Christendom feel his moral power and at his burial the Earl of Morton ming, "Here lieth a man who in his life never feerea the thee of man." 'Where did John Knox get Mach of his schooling for such resounaing and everlasting acinevement? He got it while in chips puliing at the boat's oar In French captivity. no the privations and hardships of your life may on a smaller , scale be the preface and introdnetiOu to usefulness and viotory. lice also in this call of Moses that God has it reat menany. Four Impaired years e ow he had momieed the deliver- was Ian; 40 Yeses of wilderness life after 40 years of palace life, yet test beginning. , Titere lies dying ab Ifestercien, lenglated. ' one of the most wonderful nem char, ever lived since the ages of time began aloft roll. He is the chief citizen of the • Whole world. 'llaree times has he prate . tically been king of Great Britain. Again and again coming front the Dense of ' Commons, which lie had thrined and overawed by les clognence, an teundan morumg reading erayere for thea pollee TILE SEYDAY SCI100-1, LESSON VII, SECOND ClUART'ER, INTER- A LACIIFIE LADY NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 15. _ Text of the Lesson, Heatory Verses, 4440 — saoideza Teat, Math. eery, 45---Comine4tary hy the ltev 1"ath. ".". j Gives Her Experience With Paine's Celery Stearns, witb illunained countenance and brim- feepygght, NM by 1..). IV. Ste:inns.) 4 'nine, eyes mad resentment voice, seeing: oe, yeetele thovfore, for ye know mt "I believe lia (lod the th l °tt it'S* wear hour yeur Lord e•oh ogre." The -Christ, his only on, our Lord." If we coesitier the epteial Et.ple tait maker of beeveu and eartlo and in Jesus • tn., of this kssens "netelenthess," an The world has no other each luau whole eleteter and the mere one, "Ties lose as tiladstene. The church. has no , sneeze geelog. ee oar Lord." Cxre is at other such ellarapiora to mourn oleo I ; erten fee wenh we week!, leen, teeene shall never cease to thank cc,a tio wean It we loved It as wo biaauld, and we 31r. GladiFtene's would surely love it if we urea:retool it at Hawardoo and beard from his own • Tbe lessen committee euggeet teat it nog lips bis belief In the authenticity of the ; be need es a tenteerunce lott,ri. et:el if we Holy- Seri Christ and -the grandeurs et the \vela so ptures, the eivinity of .10sUri illider,tand tile word "mate race•et in ft. ncriptural nee of toe wlen, ; ter u contrel there is no truth; thae neve ot the oppressed Ieraelites of Egyot• never be aeain with the ana-e -tv f self renunciation then tiest et' tbe imme Reao e the Musc es • .▪ ..,: .• -,..„ .. corms. At bis table and. in the walk : f If through his groun - I was imprested as • tends more to denial of fil& and etergn, t) de Compound. She IS Reseuni from a Terriblo Condition of Suffering That Was Leading to Death. Inflammatory Rheumatm never before, end probably will 3 s . 0 a , nence of the return et our lord liaving The elook of thee has struea the bour, nature all consecrated to God and the , uttered Ills last publie •ca era to the hyeo- : and now Moser is called to the work of world's betterment. In the presence of !., criticel leharisecee and baying announced rescue. Four leundred years is a eery long seen a wan what ha th promise 400 years as well as you can time, but you see God can remember a pusillanimous d elk our religion is it ' — who - the desolation of Jerneetna, ;hoes and : His ditelples left the temple awl as tbey ` profess to think ;iv% °Se tO l•-..: Still further wotch thie sptotede of • would to thrown down, Thi led I" L by telling thexu that the wheie thing Never Disappoints the remember 400 minutes. Four hundred and unreaeo blri a riw*als.- and cowardly did so Lies dieciples tried to draw His et - years includes all your ancestry thee you i Bans E. Clod Hoots* Yon. and the adordngs, bl4rife surprieed tiaton , Paine's Celeiy Compound 01 ita e it air? Matchless Wil- teethe:I to the buildines and the stones, promises suede to them, and wo may know anything about and ell the 4isiatisi expece fulfill/neat in our heart and life genuine coUrage. No wonder When 241Ases gueetion privately aelnd Him by tour el blersinga thee were predicated to mar ,,hr.,,_ ...s,.,,,,.. _.‘,...,,,n ,.....,.. .,,,,,, scattered taut rude shepherds he 'won tho dleelelfs Chherh MIL 3), azul Ilea -clues- , jtete': 71194"411;.;;;;;;;Ze, 46ii ,': 'Zipportaltn heart. What mattenei it to tion led to this -oteotnoe, in welch Dore- remembratme et all, of your gre7t.t Manes whether the cattle or the seven fers to the approaching destruction of ' ... grandfether, but God sees those Who daughters of Jethro were driven from the ' Jerusalem, but chat; to events connected were On their knees .in MS as Well as '4%111°8 by the/ titla 'herdsman? A .5"1" wia; olio combats; egaiu at the end of tele • of juetiee fired his courage, and the age. those on their iteees in 1898, and the blessings he promised the former and world wants more of the spelt that will 43. "That know this—that If the geed • their descendants bave :arrived, or wili! ill" idin°8"nribing h d of the Heart. to see Others Mari of tho Mean had known in Men. Rheumatio Sufferer. e Marvellous t3pring :Medicine Should be (jsvd This Month. arrive. While piety is eot inareditary riedated. All the time at wailer of connore, wateh the thief would come he would. le prig it ie grand thing to have had a plow at Nve114 of jay, at wolls of religion tuld have svatched ann svoiald not have sulrert d ancestry. So God ID this thapter calls up at whet of oterature there are outrage.; his houe-o to be broken up." On a Power pratatie•el, the wroug horde getting the , onaelon our Lord uric'," tiro guat' monis the pedigree of the people whom loses was to deliven and MOM oraered to thot water. Thote who have the prev:ans (Litho Oh but in count:et:on with say to them, 4,The Lord Got. ot Four right (Nene in last, e they come est at all. • watehing for His return from tact 'seed - fathom the Used of Abraham, the God of 9•711""k kcl Nca ittire a"ti thera a d11-41'. In Vaal s...te.on anti ita the no Tele Isaac and the God of Jacob bath sent ma man to set Veings right! I am so : of tlattia w. Mere end Lune we mu -s aeourate. let 100 ago. %knelt are we doing tailo i' Itit4 S411"e WI° '1'44 to w"--Vni• "11. "Rd "r) o-ro ferhianta: strung man g. ezi;•.,,,, a. Bibb) to trja.,11424 80 CAI 10 V.".....;30 there an• unto you," le that th aught bo divieen, glad th'a whull Lind Ica: an eeneeiel work nielolor tint ten etutauf.,ion was to 1 . by prayer and, les a holy life for the redemption at the aext 400 years? Our there is it Wyelif ii.an:late it; if Ch.ro Icsoncr or 41.1 ail in all tee wo reag. ie liteeature to e • aelexerized, thcro kh 1114412(43411t 10 tV.V."17 bt'SUe thin7i4N worn. is not only welt the people of the Sholte.peir,l to en egeze it; If there is an ors 6F 0'4177 for lerded tine olairer, or Latter pen of the nieeteenth century, but wint then, in the ei.oiwt. te. the twentieth error r swan% te.t is a Luther to ensile ;vivo vcr'sh 1,rntiu for fi""-t„latrch e°u"i'rn" century., anti the eieting, 01 the twenty., it; If tee is to to a ueteen free, tenet ,tnr bbs FenOnit S'011.4rA, of ner1st Is tik‘lo a, ILI:. t feel ie len eourage is na gleu ohasliF kt the 0144' t• Notk hF-atori,• flree century, and the closing of the twenty-seeond cetent7, and tbe clasteg in.rtta'-i '41, 'ovum, In eteteemen- that tbe coining as a *Lief dose reetne of dm ewe/1st...teen century, ger ent ship, it all filial'. •4; 'woke to dtnd should not opply to the erearet; a Ilea - years, if the weeiti ogoinues until that Jeihra't datigtt1/44's and th°ir „ v. 4, el, for eaci ;4 144'0V? 1:79 rsatane tune, Or it it droeo then uotwitlistanditeg "Vat" N. the inflUetiee will go on hi other And tatt"twlte titthe 1.rave work will latitules and ionzitettee of Gotta win somewhere high reward. The lotelest universe. cheer of heaven is to be given "to him that overeometh." roe Good or Evil. Still further, See in this call of Moses No ono realizes bow great ho is for that if (led liaq any espceial wore: a good or for evil. There are branobings 7011 to do he will find you. There was out and rebounds and reverberattens and Egypt anti Amite and Palomino with elaborations of theme:zee thee mama be their crowded, population, but the man estimated. The 50 or 10U years of our, the Lord wantol wee at the southern earthly stay Is only a small pare of our point of the triongle ef Arabia, mad its seater°. The flap of the wing of the plcist him right cant, tho shepherd who destroying, angel that smote the Egyptian kept the ileek of Jethro, his father-inelaw, oppressors, the Waith of the Red sea over the priest and sheik, So God will not the lauds of the drowned EgYptians,were find it hard to t•ake you out from tho all fulfillments of promises lour centuries, 1,600,000,000 of the human race if be old. And things oeour in your life aud wants yen for anything especial. There in mine that we cannot account for. They was only just one man qualified. Other may be the 'outman of what, vs tx promised men had ;mirage like :seises, ether, mon in the sixteenth or seventestatu century. had toetance in their hi try, as bad Ola, the prolongation of the divine Motes; other men were impetuous like memory I Moses, but no other man had these Notice also that Moots was 80 yeara of different qualities In the exact proper - age when he got thie call to become the tion as had eloges, anti cod, who nuak.es Israolitish deliverer. Forty years he had no anietake, found the righe man for the lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40 right place. Do not fear you will be years he had lived in the wilderness of overlooked or that when you aro wanted Arabia, I should not wonder if he bad God cannot find you. said: "Take a youmzer man for this Character of Hoses. work. nighty winters have exposed, ran . Still further notice that the calrof health. elighty summers have poured their beats upon rily bead. Tbere are 40 years that I spent among the enervating luxuries of a paluee, aud then follow the 10 years of wild:onto-1 hardship. I am too old. Let me off. Btatter all a man in the forties or fifties and not one Nebo bas enterod upon the eighties." Nevertheless he undertook tbe work, and if we want to know vrbether he succeeded ask tho abandoned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmasters, and the splintered chariot wheels strewn on the beaoh of the Red sea, and the timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Isarelites passed over and the Eayptians gone under. Do not retire toe early. Like Moses, you may have your chief work to do after 80. la may not be in the bigh places of the told. It may not be where a strong twin and an athletic foot and a clear viston are required, but there is some- thing for you yet to do. Perhaps it may be to round. off the work you have already done, to demonstrate the patience you have been recommending all your lifetime. Perhaps to, stand a lighthouse at the mouth of the bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps to show how glorious a sunset may come after a stormy day. If aged men do not feel strong enough for anything else. let them sit around in our churches and pray, aud perhaps in that way they may accomplish more good than they ever did in the meridian of their life. It makes as feel strong to see aged men and women all up and down the flews, their faces showing they have been on mountains of transfigura- tion. We want in an our churches more men like Moses, men who have been through the deeps and climbed up the shelled bomb on the other side. We want aged Jacobs, who have seen ladders which let down beaven into their dreams. Ws want aged Peters, who have been at Penteoosts, and aged Pauls, who bays made Felix tremble. There are here and there those who feel like the woman of 90 years who said to Fontanelle, who was 85 years of age, "Death appears to have forgotten us." "Hush," said Fontanelle, the wit, putting his finger to his lin. No, my friend, you have not been forgotten. You will be called at the right time. Meantime be holily occupied. Labor a Preservative. Let the aged remember that by increased longevity of the race men Art not as old at 60 as they used to be at 50, not as old at 70;as they used to be al 60, not as old at 80 as they used to be at 70. Sanitary precaution better under- stood; medical science further advanced; laws of health more thoroughly adopted; dentistry continuing for longer time successful masticatiou, homes and churches and courtrooms and places of business better venbilated—all these have prolonged life, and men and Women in the dose of tbis century ought not to retire until at least 16 years later thee in the opening of the century. Do not put the harness off until you nave fought a few more battles. Think of Mose' start - hag out for his thief work an ootogenar- Moses was writ'ten in letters of fire. On. the Sinaitio ponimeala there is it thorn busk called tho aceteia, dry and brittle, and it easily f.*08, down at the touth of the Earn°. 18 craeklet and turns to ashes very quickly. Moses, seeing ono of these bushes on fire, goot to look at it. At first no doubt It seemed to 1.10 it botanical curiosity, burning, yet crumplieg no leaf, parting no stem, scattering no ashes. It was a supernatural fire that did no damage to tbe vegotamon. That burning bush was the call. Your can will probably come in letters of lire. Ministers get their call to preach in letters on paper or parchment or type - 'written, but it does not amount to much until they get their poet call in letters of fire. You will not amount to much in usefulness until somewhere near you find a burning bush. It may be found burn- ing in the hectic flush of your child's cheek.- It may be found burning in busi- ness misfortune. It may be found burn- ing in the fire of the world's scorn or hate or misrepresentation. But harken to the crackle of the burning bushl Shoe Hieroglyphics. "People often ask me the meaning of tho apparently crazy bieroglyphs and fig- ures that are stamped on the inner side of the uppers of ready enatie shoes nowa- days," said an F street shoe dealer. "As every shoe manufactory has it secret stamp code of its own, and there is, therefore, no possibility of the general public learning 1110re than that sun eodes exist, I may as well tell you that the vanity of modern mortals, and especially women, is at the bottom of these peculiar stamped characters and figures. You'd be surprised to know, for instance, how many women there are who imagine that they wear it No. 3 shoe, when in reality their size is a couple of figures larger. A shoe salesman who understands his busi- oess can tell precisely the number of the shoe a woraan customer wears at a glance. But as often as not it woman whose foot is a No. 5 calls for a shoe a couple of sizes smaller, and the mysterious stamped• hieroglyph scheme was devised for the purpose of encouraging her in the belief that her foot is it couple of sizes smaller than it really measures in thee leathet. "linen a woman calls for a number to fit a number 5 foot, no shoe salesman of this era who cares anything for his job is going to say, 'Madam, your foot requires a number b.' Jae simply breaks out a shoe of the style she requests that he feels confident will fit her comfortably, and lets it go at that. "A woman rarely thinks to inquire if the shoe is really of the size site asked Lor, for she takes it for granted that the salesman has given her what site de- manded. But when a woman sloes ask, for instance, 'This is it nuns ber 8, isn't it?' it's the salesman's business to un- blushingly reply, Yes'm, it's a number 3.' The woman customer might examine the hieroglyphs inside the uppers for a week without finding out any difference, that even if she haethe key to the puzzle it would only make her feel bad, so what would be the use?"---Washingeon Stan ' and loonang eagerly faa Dint in lb fi 14;2SW:. by &toeing, "'Como, Lord tleswi" (env. nee, 110). 44. "Therefore be ee den rrady, for in nob on !tour as ye taitik not the nen of , 4 colueth." Nosy. to La really nes: ' ittebiul is a wora for every Inliever at ell luxee. Having, received Chriat awl be- come clothed with Ilia rIghteoustoos, vse , are ever ready for Ilis preeence, for noth• leg more is neceeeage to lit asto enter heaven than Ills merits only. Ilut we are "114r4111' , expectea to be ever ready for any manner • hear Ills words (II nam. xv, 16; I Cbron. • The ' ntierelae 1, of service and watclaul to Fen MEI way and far th Insizatugni, Pois n From the WELLS a RICIIA1:1) ••• VO. .0ENTLE11P.•;:—Ir; with extrome p1 sure 1 givo you it :monad. In • yonr. evoirierfut r•:..,... est, Value's compound, Leg.- nentiory I batienrIppte anal it• left use s in • ere witie tl;oe dread dieease, inderatee ',et" r eurnetient. M,y neolts ated fag tee s ,eollx•et badly; 1 she brad the thefarate - in 11/7 eiles and Stem:hi:Ts, end an ' • •,reteles of rey heorte Isolered vcry nntil n frieuded- vilsel my hus7- •4•,, fls procu.re Paitne'S Cehay Compeer '• ,..• me. 1 vnumencoal tolzing, th eene-, • 1 in April; I kovii ItSpi ttla rilleigly cured, be eenteound 1:•• •• see. sue a geed appee tite and narele « i•,•• ." • • e•-• la of me. I bear Painenf Celery In•••• pratetal eery .agy ke people ‘r, lave need it, aced beertily revenge .e; • ;e to all win) etatfer from rheuratnetex, 'near • ••-•:,,t•relee ens-- '1, 11. HAMMOND, leselaule, P.Q. • ,1ite ee fed" is going too ,ording to elle Jour. xxvIii, 21; nab. it, 1; II b. nalotthatelty. eteing elate penelle'l Is not, however, the epeetal thought of ' these words, for the content of the nen of Man, as I understand it, is always His coming with Bin HI power and glory for the special benefit of lereel and ' the overthrow of her enemies. It is aever death nor Pentecost nor the destruction of Jeursalem (Ise. levi, 5, 30; Zeal. 4, 6). 46. "Who then Is it faithful and wiee servant whom bis Lord buds mule ruler over Isis bousebold to give theta meat In due Ralson?" Here is eomething it child oe God can always lay to bean. Two thing:, required of us aro tbat wo prove faitlfful soul wise, 46. "Blessed is that servant whom his Lora when Ito cometh shall And so tieing." Ono of His awe:galena of the Isbarleees was, "They say and clo not" (thapter xxiii, 3), and His warning in chapter vii, 21, is, "Not every one that saith, lint be that doeth." He was Dever idle or indo- lent, and it is imposeible that those In evbcon He has full control can be either the one or the other. 47. "Verily I say unto yen tat He shall make him ruler over all Ills goods." In the story of the talents in the next chapter both the one who gained five and the one who gained two received the com- mendation: "Well done, good and faithful , servant. Tbou bast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lod." What can it all mean but that tho faithful servants will have places in His kingdom according to their faithful- ness? Saved by grace, but rewarded ac- cording to works (Rev. xxii, 12). 48. "But and if tbat evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming." Whether all that talk that way are evil servants or not we cannot say, God knows, but we do know that there are many who bear His name, at least out- wardly, who not only say it in their hearts, but are very bold to say it vvith their lips, and even after the fashion of II Pet. iii, 8, 4. 49. "And shall begin to smite his fel- low servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken." There are many Christians both in the pulpit and in the pews who seem to take special pleasure in the smit- ing of others, at least with their tongues, unmindful of tbe word, "The servanteof the Lord must not strive," and of that other, "Judge nothing before the time " and "All things whatsoever ye would tilt men should do to you, do ye even so o them" (I Cor. iv, 6; II Tim. II, 24; Math. via 12). As to eating and drinking with the drunken, the Lord sees those who bear His name doing even this also, and open- ly without shame and in a very literal sense. It is still true tbat many walk whose god Is their belly, who mind earth- ly things (Phil. ill, 18, 19). Whether there are many who weep over them er riot, the Lord knows. If you are clear of the guilt of the literal fulithnent, remeralser that there are many seemingly lawful things, as study, business innocent amusement, the bicycle, eto., veliela are very intoxioat- bug and take time and strength and money which ougbt to be wholly devoted to Him. 50, 61. "Tlae lord of that servant shall COMO." He may seem to delay and not to care, but in an unexpected day and hour He will deal with his uefaithful servants. There may be present dealing in the way of treading under foot of men, like tee savorless salt, or sickness or death, but these are only partial and except death may be with the desire to lead to repent- ance. The great dealing is, as in the last lessons, and also in chapter xxv, 80, the Anal one, from which there Is no appeal sr recall. See remarks on the last lesson, and hesitate not to repeat to your class anything you then said, or baa them tell you what ynu then told there, for thin g s musk be oft repeated. to prevent contare one deelareil "utter folly," since echo- eltildren will play to- gether woe so eut..11 :l,1141tbVer 'there may be to outoh, ond if alT 51. 'paraphernalia of the sehool room were .n a sterilizet.; oven deity sente ent• ..; . microbe may be in the 'plitygronne 1 e•tly unless they are eventually to novo • narate reersi and a teaeher for tacit a and it Iswell to call a, halt in tho bconateno to the microbe - bunting fed. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of Oa t r will be 1,!oleed te learn that there 1, el ..t , that smcnee h2s tw,‘ !.. to .14:e Its stages and that is t'. Cateit the anis. t., 1,4 ktiOW11, to tee medieal • i•e'a .4 e0n. OtitUtIOnal r It'. .1 1,nd treetment. 11.1115 1'• intrr- why, Reline dire Me le, eod mucous sureges • e ie• • , too. tl..1.-hv de- sLr..ytiigtlie feu ..de ' o eon-. giv- lug tee patient st- I ,•.? stoutton and ii'm, tt wOrk, The propr.eters have., it • ntdea Can h at as cura- tive powers, that they One Mud:tea Dal - tars tor any CASe filet it tails to cure. feeed for list of Testimonials. Address. F. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. serSold by anise:Rs, nee lin Me fox Funerals. Fox—Of course you are going to Big. gin's funeral this afternoon? Knox—Of course I am not. I have an aversion to attending funerals. Fox—Yes, but Bigeins was a friend of yours; you can certainly make an excep- tion itt his favor. Knox—An exception in his favor. Why, man, I wouldn't go to my own funeral if I could help it. Colic and Kidney Di ftcultee—Mr. J. W. Wilder, J. P, Lafargeville, N. Y., writes: "I am subject Co severe attacks of Collo and laidney Difficulty, and find Parma - lee's Pills afford me great relief, while all other remedies have failed. They are the best medicine I have ever used." In fact so great is the power of this medicine to cleanse and purify, that diseases of all most every name and nature are drive* from the body. Still in the Lead. "Is it true, aunti,,,, that you /nave refused Blakera every year for the last tvrenty years ?" "Yes, my dear." "Doyen mind telling me why?" "Not at all. The 'first time I refused him I told him he was not good enough for me, and I'm not the woman to admit that he has grown better any faster than I lave." GENTLEMEN, ---While driving dwelt a very steep hill last August my horse stumbled and fell, cutting himself fearfully about the head and body. I used Minard's Liniment freely on him and in a few days he was as well as ever. J. B. A. BEACOM:MIN. Sherbrooke. A Youth Cul Native. "Why are you leaving here," asked the prospective settler, 'If the land is se pro- ductive?" "I'll be hones' With you, stranger; l'ns gittin"long in years an' the plain truth le that the crops here is so doggone big that I can't handle 'em any more."