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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-5-27, Page 5PROPER COMFORTERS DR. TALMAGE TELLS HOW TO HELP PEOPLE IN TROUBLE - .11 Better Way or Detalog WM* Broken ateavts—em rittee for cant ten4 alactie Taiking Etapainess Comes Through suffering. (Copyright 308, by Amerleen Frets amnia - Met) Washington, atay S2.—The awkward told initatiag mode of trying to comfort people in trouble in here see forth by Dr. %%Image, mid a better way of dealing with brokalt hearts is recommended; text Job Seth "Miserable comfortere are ye all. The mem of TM had a great many trials—the loss of his family, the loss of bis property, the loss of Ms bealth—but the roost exasperativa tlaIng that came upon him was the tantalizing talk at tiara who extant ro baye sympathized with Itims And looking aroma upon them, and weighing what they bad said, he utters the wools a my teat Why dal God let sin come tato the world? It is a queseiott I often herm als- euseed, but never eatiefactorily ansvrered. God suede the world fair and, beautiful at the start. If our gest parents had net Blame in Edam they :night have gone out of time gerelea mai fauna 50 paradises all around the earth—Lampe, Asia, Airiest, North and $outle America—so many ilewer gardens or onahards.ot fruit. redolent and luseions. I suppose that when God poured out the Gillen end the Iliddekel be poured out at the SAPP, time the litalson And the Suequebanila. The whole earth was very fair and beautiful to look upon, Wity did it not stay so? Geo, had the power to keep battle sin and Woe, Why d o not keep them 'Imola' Why not every elead roseete, and Vera step a 20Y, and every sorind use and all the ages a long 3uLilee or sinless Men and sieless women? God ewe make A rose its easily as be can make a thorn. Why, theta the. predominaoce of nom? 1:18 efell mate good, fair, ripe fruit as well as grou'led aud soar trait Why 6o much, them that Is gnarled and sow? Ile eatt Mane meu robast in health. Wby, the% arO there so Many inValid.S? Why not have for our whole reef) perpetual leisure inetead of this tug anti toil and tussle far a livellhoed? I VIII tell you why 00d let sin eome into the world—when I get on tbe other side at the ri,,,er of death. That is the place where such questions will be answered and such mysteries solved. lie who this side that river attempts to answer the question only illuitrates his own ignorance and ineempetency. All I know is ono great feet and that is, that a herd at Woes bat come in upou ua trampling down everything fair and beautilel. A sword at the gate of Eden and a sword at every mat More people under theare oared than on it. The graveyards in 'vast inalority. Tbe 6,000 WinterS have made more scars than the 6,000 =mere an cover up. Trouble has taken the tender heart of this world in its two rough hands aud pinthed it until the nations wail win the agony. It all the mounds of greveyards that have ben raised 'were put side by side, you exaght step On them and nothing elite, going all around the world, ad around again, and around again. These are the Mete. Ana now X lame to tea tbat a world like this the grandest occupation is that of giving condolence, 'The holy science of imparting comfort to the troubled we ought all of us to study. Tbere are many of you who could look arotiod upon some of your very best friends, who wish you well and are very intelligent, and yet be able truthfully to sap to them ia your days of trouble, "Miserable comforters aro ye all." I remark, in the firet palm, that very volable people are incompetent fox. the work or giving comfort. Bildad and Eliphaz bad the gift of language, and with their words almost bother Job's life out. Alas for these voluble people that go among the bouses of the afflicted and talk and talk and talk mod talk. They rehearse their own sorrows, and tben they tell the poor sufferers that they feel badly now, but they will feel worse after awhile. Silence! Do you expeot with a thin court plaster of words to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently around about a broken heart Talk very moray around those whom God has bereft. Then go your way. Deep syropathy bas not much to say. A firm grasp of the hand, a compassionate look, just one word that rneans as much as a whole dictionary, and you bave given perhaps all the comfort that a soul needs. A man has a terrible, wound in his arm. The eurgeon comes and binds it up. "Now," he says, "carry that arm in a sling and be very careful of it. Let no one touch it." But the neighbors have heard of the accident, and they come in, and they say. "Let us see it." .And the bandage is pulled off, and this one and that one must feel it and see bow Inuola it is eveollen, and there are irritation and inflammation and exasperation where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon (tames in and says: "Wliat does all this men? You have no business to touch 'those bendages. That wound will never heal melees you let it alone." So there are souls broken down in sorrow. What they roost want is rest or very careful and gentle treatment, but the neighbors have beard of tbe bereavement or of the loss, and they come in to • sympathize, and they say: "Show us now the wound. What were his last words? Rehearse now the whole scene. Haw did you- feel when you found you were an orphan?" Tearing off the band- ages Imre and pulling them off there, leaving a ghastly wound that the baba of God's grace had already begun to heal. Oh, Mt no •loquaoioue people, with evet rattling tongues, go into the homes of the distressed I Again, I remark that all those persons are incompetent to give any kind of com- fort who act merely as worldly philosoph- ers. They come in and say 'Why, this is what you ought to have expected. The laws of nature must have their way." And then they get eloquent over some. thing they have seen in post-mortem exaininations. Now, away with all human philosophy at such a time! What difference does it make to that father and mother what disease their son died of? He is dead, and it makes no difference Whether the trouble was in tbe epigrastrio or hypograstio region. If the philosopher be of the stoical school, he will come and eay : "You ought to control your feel- ings. You must not cry so. You xnust cultivate a cooler temperament. You must bave self reliance, self government, self control!'—an iceberg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. A violinist has his instrument, and he sweeps his angers acrossthe strings, noW evoking strains of joy and sow ---------- eseameee. • • -ate> e st▪ ee- ' • , z•-• eft,: -ste ate.4xpeme-414, esatate -te," ENTRAME TO HAVANA. HARBOR illextretiou elaowe the fentetre Bona Omaa le the eight gad the premed:4g bay, 14pcmta, OA The len, we 00,14047 gun . Ma iowaz4 atemaina earl onagelea altiott4 strains of maltose. Ife cannot play all the tunes an one strin e. The human soul is an instrument of a thousand striugs, and all Sorts of Mations were made to play au it. Now an anthem, new a dirge. It Is PO evidence nr weakness when one is Overcome of sorrow, Etimuna Berate was found In the posture fielti with his erma Annual a horse's neelt, Cares:dug lane, and SOMO one said, "Ulm, the great man bas lost hie mina," )Ze; the berse belonged elleades, I multi say arm yeurseives to his son, wile had recently died, aud against them Lula as in troPloal dimes his great heart broke over the grief. It When. a tiger comes down from the is no sign ef weakness tbat men are over. mountains and earries oil a Child from come at their sorrowe. Thank ape tee the Tillage the neighbors band together the relief of tears. Ilave you never been and go into the forest and lititit the back front you, but you persist. You are going to mine that splinter out, se you -take the chile with a gentle but firm grasp, for although there may bo pain In ie the splinter must come out. And it is love thee aietates it and nieltes you persist. lily friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only thehand et our Father extracting some thorn. If ail these sorrows wore sent by In trouble when you could not weep awl monstat so would have you, If I yea ula have given eoseateg fee a ory? thought these misforturtes were sent by David slid well when lie mourned for au oneraY. go You and heteleagalost thoun Absalom, Abraham ditl well When, he But no. 'they come from a Father se berneaned Sarah, Cbrist wept tor kinds so loving* so gentle that the prophet, spealsing of his Mu eraeSs and Morey, woos the idea of a father and says, "As one whom his mother come fortOtb, So Will I comfort you." Again, 1 remark there is comfort in the tnought that God by all this proms is going to maim you usefel. Do you now that those who accomplish the most for God and heaven have Atli been under tile barrow? l4how me a man that has done anything for Uhrlst in this day in a public or private place who has had Do trouble and whose path bas been smooth. Ala nol I once went through an ax faetory, and I saw them take the bars of Iran and thrust them into tile terrible furnaces. Then besweated Worionen with long tongs stirred the blaze. Then f,they brought out a bar of iron and put It In a crushing machine, and then MO it 'between jaws that bit it in twain. Tient they put it on au anvil, and there were great hammers swung by maelanery-- eaeh one.lattit a ton in weight—that went thump, thump, thump! If that iran eould have spoken, it would bave said: "Wily all this beating? Wity must I be pounded any more than any other Iron?" The workmen would have said, "We *want toinalee axes out of you, keen, sharp axes—axes with which to hew down the forest and build the Ship aria mot houses and carry on a thousand enterprises of civilization. That Is the reason we pound you." Now, God puts a soul into the furnuee of trial, and then it Is brought out and run through the :crashing machine, and then it comes down on tho anvil and upon it, blow atter blow, blow atter blow, until the soul cries out, "0 Lord, what does all this mean?" God says: "I -want to make something very useful out of you. You shall be something to hew with and sonaotbing to build evith. It is a practical process through which I am putting you." Yes, my Christian friends, we want more tools in the church at God; not more wedges to split with. We have enough of these. Not rnore bores with which to drill. We have too many bores. What we really want is keen, sharp, well tempered axes, and if there be any other way of making them than in the hot furnace, and on the bard anvil, and under the heavy hzunmer, I do not know What it is. Remember that if God brings any kind of chastisement upon you it is only to make you useful. Do not sit down discouraged and say: "I have no more .reason for living. I wish I were dead." Oh, there never was so much reason for your living as now! By this ordeal you have been consecrated a priest of the inost high God. Go out and do your whole work for the Master. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all our troubles are a revelation. Have you ever thought of it in that con- nection? The man who has never been through chastisement is ignorant about a thousand things in his soul he ought to know. For instance, here is a man who prides himself on his cheerfulness of character. He has no patience with any- body who is depressed in spirits. Oh, it is easy for hini to be cheerful with his fine house, bis filled wardrobe and well strung instruments of music and tapestried parlor and plenty of money in the bank waiting tor some permanent investment! It is easy for him to be cheerful. But suppose his fortune goes to pieces and his house goes down tinder the sheriff's hammer and the banks Will net have anything to do with his paper. Suppose those people who wove once elegantly entertained at his table get se shortsighted that they eannot recognize him upon the street. How then? Is it so easy to be obeeeful? It is easy to be cheerful in the home after the day's worlr ie done, and the gas is turned on, and the house is full of romping little ones, But suppose the piano is shut because the lingers that playucl on it well no more touch the keys, and the Widish voice that asked so many questions will ask no more. Then is it so easy? 'When a xaan wakes up and finds that his resources are all gone, be begins to rebel, and he says: .3,"God Is hard; God is outrageous. He had no business to do this to me." -My friends, those of us who have been through trouble know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have, and how much God has to put up with, and how neon we need pardon. Itis only in the Ugh of a flaming furnaee that we can learn our own weakness and our own lack 0 moral resource. There is also a groat deal of comfort in the fact that there will be a family Lazarus, and the last num that I emit to see come anywhere near me when I bave any kind of trouble Is a Worldly Ali - (isolator. Again, I remark that those persons are Incompetent for the work of eomfort bearing wile have nothing but cant to offor. Tbere are those who have the idea that you must groan over the distressed and afflicted. There are times in grief wben ono cheertal face, dawning upon a man's soul, is worth $1,000 to him. Do not whine over the afflicted. Take the promises of no gospel and utter them in a molly tont Do not bo afraid to smile if you feel like it Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not toll him the trouble was foreordained. It will not be any comfort to know 11 was a raillien years coming, If you want to dud Relate for a broken bone, do not take cast iron, Do not tell thorn it is Gods justiee that weighs out grief. They want to hear of God's tender moray. In calm words, do not give them aquafortia when they need valerian. Again, I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had. any trouble themselves. A larkspur cannot lecture on the nature of a snow- flake; it never WV a snowflake and those people who lame always lived in the summer of prosperity eaunat talk to those who are frozen in disaster. God. keeps aged peoole In the world, I think, for this very work or sympathy. They have been through all these trials. They know all that which irritates and all that which soothes. If there are inert anti women here who have old people in the house or near at hand, so that they oan easily reach them, I congratulate you. Some or us bave bad trials in life, and although we have had many friends around about us we bave 'wished that father and mother were still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would have been such a comfort to bave them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cberish them; let them lean on your arm, these aged people. If when you speak to them they cannot hear just what you say the first time, and you have to say it a second time, when you say it a second time do not say it sharply. If you do, you will be sorry for le on the day when you take the last look and brush back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they screw the lid on. Blessed be God for the old people! They may not have much strength to go around, but they are God's appointed ministers of comfort to a broken heart. People who bave not had trials them- selves cannot give conafort to others. They inay talk very beautifully, and they may give you a great deal of poetic sentiment; bat, while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If you have a grave in a pathway, and somebody comes and covers it all over with flowers, it is a grave yet. Those who have not had grief themselves know not the mystery of a broken beart. They know not the meaning of childless- ness, and the having no one to put to bed at night or the standing in a room where every book and picture and door is full of memories—the doormat where she sat, the cup out of which she drank, the place where she stood at the door and clapped her hands, the odd ilgures that she scribbled, tbe blocks she built into a house. .Ah, no, you must have trouble yourself before you can comfort trouble In others. But come all ae who have beta bereft and ye vtho have beer' comfovtea In sorrows and stand around these afflicted souls and say to them: "I had that very sorrow royself. God comforted me, and be will comfore you." And that will go right to the spot. In other words, to comfort others we muse have faith in God, practical experience and good, sound common tans°. But there are three or four considera- tions that I will bring to those who are sorrowful and distressed and that we lean always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first consideration is that God sends our troubles in love. I often hear people in theiv troubles say, "why, ,r wonder what God bas against roe?" They seem to think God bee some grudge against them because trouble and misfortune have come. Oh no! Do you not remember that passage of Scripture, "Whom the Lord lovetle he chastenetb?" A child comes in with a very bad splinter in its hand, and you try to extract it It is a very painful opera on. e o raws moons rue on xt a e r • Scotland or Ituglana or Ireland a ellind emigrates te America, le is very hard Prang, !Mt ha CMo OS, afrawhile writing borne as to nkat a good land it Is. Anotherbrether conte,a, a sneer comes, Mal another, mid after awhile the father Manes, mad now they are A11 here, and they have a time of great congratulation And a very pleasant reunion. Well, it is iust so with our families. They are emigrating toward a better land. Now one goes oUt. Oh, how hard it is to pare with n him! Another gars. Oh. how earl it is to part with Mal And another and another, and we ourselves will after Awhile go over, and tlaen We Will he together. Ob, wiate a reunion! Do you believe that? "Yee," you gay. Oh, you do not! Yon do nos believe it as you believe other thing% If you do, and 'Math the same entpw luteie, why it ould take ratemtenthe of your trouble all your heart. The faet heaven to many et us IS a great fog, it is away off somewhere, With an uncertain and indefinite populatunt That is the Mild of hea'ven that many at tet dream about but it is the most tromeadous Met In all this universe— this heaven of the kospel. Our departed, friends are not ailoat. The reeitienee iu Whieh you live is not so real As the reeidenee In whielt they stay. You are afloat—you. who do not know In the morning what will lump= before night. They aro boused aud safe forever. Do Apply With a soft sponge, then dry Our Mae with a very sof; towel and give a final tuech—not a Wish.— with a eofe hernels leather whicb will effeetUally re. move all =lame. For the crow's feet use a little pure fresh oreArn, and putting a little on the first and fiecolal fingers, worn It well lute the foreoWs fame the eye outward and downweed, not upward. Olive oil is also aix excellent emollient, which Cali be used in the same way, as well as Mr those lines uncleracath the eyes, whMh must be smoothed out by a eemi-eirculer MOTO- 'went of the Angers, cerameneing from the Muer earners downward; do this Tor five minutes every eight, after ba,ving cleaned your face lireet In tepid, thou be cold distilled, water, into which latter has been put a MOO et tbe lotiort given aeove. Those lines wlavie come on either side of the ORS@ must be rubbed toward the Mega:, while those acres% tbte forehead Must be smootbed out from the eenmr of the forehead outward, net up and down. asrringent lotion, in addition to a course of facial inie;sage, is of great bone. The following, is epeclally recom- mended; Powdered tannin. ... 2 mune ROSOWatOr . • ...... • • • • • • • R• * S • 6 (mutts Glycerine ......................l ounces Remember, too, that ugliness lurks in smelling salts. One of the most hOaliatill WOM011 On the stage speaks of baying noticed with Inn rapidity one ot her not therefore play your departed friendS who havo died In (most. Thol„ do not blonde was aecumutating wrinkles, And eeedany of your pity, You might as well ' th°'''05 too, of . unusual dePth and size. Upon spentlinU the day with her she send a letter of condolence to Queen found thet elle Was addicted to the almost Vittoria on her obecurity or to the eonstaut use of strong smelling Oita, Rothsehilds on their poverty as to pity which caused her to wrinkle up her face In a truly renutekeble manner. The mys- tery was explained. Ladies will do Well So beware the bottle. those wbo have won the palm, Do not say of those wbo are departedt "Poor childl" "Poor Mama* "Poor =thole" !they are not poor. You aro poor, you whose homes nave been shattered, not they. Yon do not dwell much 'with your families in this world. All day long yott are off to business. Will it not be pleasant When you earl he together all the while? If yea have had four children and ono is gone, and anybody asks how many children you have, do not be so Infidel as to say three. Say four—one In 'leaven. Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You go into your roam and dress for some grand eotertainment, and you come forth beautifully appareled, and the grave Is only the place where we go to dress for tbe glorious resurrection, and we will come out radiant mortality having become immortality. Ob, hose much condolence there Is in this thought! X expect to see my kindred in beavens— expeet to see them just as certainly' as I expect to go home to -day. Aye, I shall more certainly sea them. Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back of Somerville, and one will come from the mountains back of Amoy, China, and atother will come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras, and 30 will come up from Greenwood, and I shall know them better than I ever knew them hero, e remoric once more: Our troubles in this world are preparative for glory. What a transition it was for Paul—from the slippery deck of a foundering, ship to the calm presence of Jesus! What a transition it was for Latimer—from the stake to a throne! What a transition it was for Robert Hall—from insanity to glory! What a transition fax Richard Baxter— from the dropsy to the "Saint's Everlast- ing Rest 1" .And what a transition it will be for you—from a world of sorrow to a world of joy! John Holland, when he was dying, said: "What means this *brightness in the room? Have men lighted the candles?" "No," they replied, "we have not lighted any candles." Then said he, "Welcome heaven!" The light already beaming upon his pillow. Oh, ye who are persecuted in this world, your enemies will get off the traok after awhile and all will speak well of you among the thrones! Ho, ye who are sick now. No medicines to take there. One breath of the eternal bffls will thrill you with immortal vigor. And ye who are lone- some now. There will be a million spirits to welcome you into their com- panionship. Oh, ye bereft souls! There will be no gravedigger's spade that will, cleave the side of the hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that temple. The river of God, deep as the joy of heaven, will roll on between banks odorous with halm, and over depths bright with jewels, and under skies voseate with gladness, argosies of light going down the stream to the stroke of glitter- ing oar and the song of =Ionia. Not one sigh in the wind; tot onetear mingling with the waters. UGLY CROW'S FEET. With Care and Patience They Nay Be obasea Away. With the proper amount of time and care ranch may be done in the way of combating that natural enemy of woman- kind --wrinkles. In the mat place never by any chance wash the race in hard water. The hardest can be softened with so little trouble-- fustv.atteaspoonful of ammonia in a pitch- er of boiled water over night, and a bag a oatraeal placed in it in addition. This sinaple wash used in the morning will keep the face in line condition: Pure elderflower water Borax. a ........... .... ..... eiloupuincet Eau de Cologne.. , .. 1 ounce HEART IVEAKNOS. MUST DE TREATED IN TINE Oil ENDS. IN CERTAIN ILtIIL some or the Symptoms Are reneitatioa AftersligJtt EXortion, Sornetiates saver. rain*, Dizziness and fainting eeelleaatt nen fie Cured. Prom the Echo, I:nett/3.011e, Ont, SPREAD OF LEPROSY. The Echo has read and has published many statements from people who Lave been. cured of varieus, ailnaents by the timely and judicious use of Dr, Williams' Pink Pias for Pale People, but never before have we ha.d such versonally cenvineing proof of their efficacy as in the case of Mrs. George Tayior, who with her husband an4 family reSide in this village. To arc Echo reporter Mrs. Taylor gave the fulicaring history„ of her illness and sre, and asked SZ be given the •Ittest publicity, so that others might bo benefitted :—"I am thirey-twO Year* ot age.” said Mrs. Taylor, and in 1685 y husband and myself were living on, arm in Perth county, and ie wale tbere 1 was first taken. sick. The doce, tor who was called in said I was suffer- ing f•orn heart trouble. due to nervous .411 his remedies proved of no avail and I steadily grew worse. The doctor advised a clump. and, we moved to MOtiateli, Ont. idere I put myself under the charge of another physician, but with no -better results, eat tho Moat exertion my heart would palpitate violently, I Was frecppritly overcome with dizziness an, famting fits. While in these ray limbs would become cold and often ray husband theught 1 was dzing. I trted several medicines advertised, to cure troubles like mine, but with AO better results, and I did not expect tO recover, in faot I often thought 4t would be better if the end ea,roe, for my life was one of misery. We moved back to the farm, and then one day I read the statement of a lady who had been cured.of sinular trouble by the use of Jr. Williams' Pink Pills, so I said to ray husband that I would try this medicme and it seemed te me that it was ray Iasi chance. Before the first box Was fila- ished I felt an improvement in my qp» pptite and. felt that this was A hopeful wart. By the time I had. used three boxes more ray trouble seemed to be entirely gone, and I have not felt & single recurrence of the old symptoms. Since moving to Piattsville 'Lave used two boxes and they had the effect of tortinr, up the system and curing slight indispositions. To -day 1 arn a wel1 woman and owe my Lie to Dr. Wil- liams' Pint: Pills, and to me my re- storation seems nothing short of a miracle. I was like one dead and brought back to life, and I cannot speed too highly of this medicine, or urge too strongly those ',vim are afflict- ed to give it a trial." It has been proved time and again that Br. Pink Pills cure heart troubles, nervous debility, rheu- matism, sciatica, St. Vitus' fiance Llati, storaach trouble. They make new blood and build up the nerves, rester, ing the glow of health, to pale and. sallow fa.ees. Be sure you get the gen- uine as tliere is no other medicine "the same Re or 'just as good" as Dr, Wil- liams' Pink Pills. If your dealer does not have them they will be sent post paid at 60 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr. Wiiliame' Medicine Co., Brorkvilie Ont. It Xs Extending to tho United States Erma* South America. No physician Is entitled to say, as many are doing, that leprosy is not con- tagious. Tbere are too many well-anthen- tiented eases where the disease has been transmitted front one Individual to an- other. It is a well-known Met that this most dreadful of Minim) ills has existed in all ages. Although the bacillus bus been discovered, it can neither be culti- vated nor inoculated in animals, tinleis some means of doing this be found, lop - rosy is likely to rentein incurable. Dome Of oil of chaulmongra, up to 200 drops a day, have afforded relief, but recovery Is rare. The disease is spreading in Russia, on the shores of the Mediterranean, ease - ern Prussia and Norway. Cases have been observed in England, France and Ger- many, Tbrough the Gulf of Mexico, from South America, leprosy is extending to the United States. One physician in New Orleans has had 18 eases under his ob. servation. Since 1840 it has been Intro- duced into Hawaii by she Chinese. To prevent its spread in this country, prompt legislation should deny leprous foreign- ers admission and isolate those cases now in our midst. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Crisis In Bis Career. "Cyrus," asked his wife, "what are you moping about?" "It is 87 years ago to -day, Keturah," replied the gloomy man, who had thrown hiineelf on the lounge, "since I became cashier of the bank." "Well, wbat of that? Are you worn out? Is tbe salary too small? Have you ever bad the slightest trouble with the bank? Is there anything wrong with your accounts? .Are they thinking of replacing you with another man?" "No, there's nothing wrong in any way," rejoined the bank cashier, "but the very fact that 1 bave been the bank's most trusted offloial for 87 years, and have never done a dishonest thing in my life, never made an injudicious loan, that nay accounts are perfectly straight, and that no man on earth can say a word against me, is making people suspicions, and they are beginning to talk about me."—Ohicaeo Tribune. Air Cure for Consumption. There are now six sanitariums in Ger- many at white: consumptives are treated by constant exposure to air at a low tem- perature. Ourreots of cold air are allowed to pass through the bedroom at night, and during the day as much of the time is spent in the open ale as possible. The pure. cold air quiets (sough, lessens tem- peratnre, arrests night sweats, inipeoves appetite and modifies or arrests the cceirse 01 the dieease. Observations made in these sanitariums have developed the interest- ing fact that it is exceedingly rare, in- deed, that intection ot healthy persons ey coated with consumptive inmates is ob- served. Japanese Advertising. Even the Japs applaciate the value of printer's ink, The Mikado's government has appropriated 1t42,000to be expended in advertising throughout the United States the merits of 'Japanese 'tea. Cuba. This, the largest of the West Indian' Islands,Is the last remetning colony el i Spain n the Wester:I liemiephere, if we except the neighboring small Island of Puerto Rico. It is governed by at Captain -General, and is represented iro the Spt nish Cortez (or Congress) by, thirty Deputies and sixteen Senators.. Cuba's urea is 41,655 square miles. Its population in 1894 AVUS 1,631,596. Tha population cg Havana, the capital, in 1687, was 18,271. The greatest part of the people are insulars, or Cubare creoles, descendants of the origami Spanish conquerors, who xtumber nearly! 1,000,000 souls. A. Nary small number represents the peninsulars, composing the governing Hasa while of negroes and mulattoes there are 575,000 in aele dition there are about 50,000 Chinese laborers on the island, e A CabitOs Length. A cable's length is one-teuth of a unix tical mile (6,080 feet). The longest mile is the Norwegian, which is within a from - tion of seven times cola. $100 Reward, $100. Thereaders of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to tura in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Itthe only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity.. Catarrh being a. con- stitutional disease, requires s constitutional treatment. 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