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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-6-24, Page 7A BRIGHT RELIGION A Sermon in Which the Various Aspects of Amusements Are Considered. house. Parente will come down and wash •his wounds and dole Ms eyes in death. They forgive him all he ever did, though he cannot in Ms silence ask it. The prod- igal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy and push back from the bloated brow the long looks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the father's cry: "Oh, 3ny son, nay son, nay poor sop The Preacher Has No Sympathy With Straitjackets, Yet Points Would God had died for thee, oh, mY Out the Dangers of Unrestrained. Pleasure—Re- son, my son!" creation That Leads to Sin. Effect of the Body on the Soul. ,, :kr Entered ethordIng to Act of the Panama eight hundred and ninety -00A. by (Limited), at the Department of 'Washiion. June 29. -.-From an un- usual eterulpoint Dr. Talmage in this Ms- * course niece...sea amusements and applios test•e by whicb they may be known as good or bad. The text is Judges xvi, 2$: "Anal it came to pass when their bearts were ;toothy that they said, Call for Sam- son, thee he may make tie sport. .A.nd they called for 'damson out of the prison bouse, and be made them sport." There were 3,000 people assembled as the Temple of Dagen. They bad come to make seerof eyeless Samson. They Were all ready for the entertainment. They began to clap and pound, impatient for the amu-ement to begin, and they cried: "Fetch kn out! Foe h him out!" Yon- der I see the blind old giant coming, led by the band et a child luta the very suidse of the temple. At his first appear- ance there goes up a shout of laughter and derision. Tbe blind old giant pre- tende he is tired and wants to rest him- self against the pillar.; of the house, so be ears to the lad who leads him, "Whig Me where the main pillare are." The lad does so. Then the strong plan puts his bands on one of the pillars, and with the mightiest push that mortal ever made, throws himself forward until the wilt*: honso clines down M thunderous crash, grinding the audience Rae grapta in a wine peat. "Ana se it came to pees, when th ir Iren' is were merry, that they said, Cell for id:mom, that be may make us sport. And they called for ettmeon out of the prison house. and he reed° them sport." In other word, them are aumee- =nor that are destimetive and •bring down dietster and death upon the beads of Onto who practice them, \Ingle, they laneth zeal cheer they die. The 3,00 who periehtel that dray in lava are nothing concaved with the tens of thousande who have been destroyed. body. mind and by bad amusements and by good ainusementi carried to Queer, In my sermons yon MCt have noticed that I have no sympathy with oedemas - Veal straitjackets or with that wholesale denunciation of amusements to whielt many ar.1 pledged. I believe the church of God arts made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth and drive out from men their love of amueenieut. If God ever implanted anything in us, he implanted this desire. But instead of providing for this demand of our nature the church of God has for the main part ignored it. .As in a riot the mayor plants a battery at the end of the Area and has it fired off, so that everything is cut clown that bappens to stand in the range, the goad as well as the bad, so there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemnation ana tire away indiscriminately. Every- thing is condomued. They talk as if they would like to both our youth dress in blue uniform, like the children of an orpban asylum, and march down the path 4 of lite to the tune of the dead march in "Saul." They hate a blue sash, or a rose- bud in the hair, or a tasseled gaiter, and think a man almost ready for the lunatic asylum who utters a conuedrum. A Glorious Work. Young MOWS Christian associations of the country aro doing a glorious work. They have tine reading rooms, and all the influences aro of the best kind, and are now adding gymnasiums and beveling alleys, where without any evil surround- ings our young men may got physical as well as spiritual improvement. Wo are dwindling away to a narrow chested, weak armed, feeble voiced race when God calls us to a work which be wants physical as well as spiritual athletes. 1 woule to God that the tittle might soon come when in all our colleges and theo- logical seminaries, as at Princeton, a gymnasium shall be established. We spend seven years of bard study in pre- paration for the ministry and come out with bronchitis and dyspepsia and liver complaint, and then crawl up into the pulpit and the people say, "Doesn't he look heavenly!" because he looks sickly. Let the church of God direct rather than ttempt to suppress the desire for amuse- ment. The best men that the world every Wilberforce trundled hoop with his chil- dren; Martin Luther helped dress the , Christmas tree; ministers have pitched . quoits; philanthropists have gone a-skat- fng; prime ministers have played bell. Our communities aro filled with men and women who have in their souls un- measured resources for sportfulness and , frolia. Show me a man who never lights , up with sportfulness and has no sympathy with the recreations of others, and I will sbow you a man who is a stumbling block to the kingdom of God. Such men are caricatures of religion. They lead young people to think that a man is good in proportion as he groans and frowns and looks sallow, and that the height of a man's Christian stature is in proportion to the length of his face. would trade off 600 such men for on ' bright faced, radiant Christian on whose face are the words, "Rejoice evermore!' Every morning by his cheerful face he -1, I preaches 50 sermons. I will go further dr and say that I have no confidence in a man who makes a religion of his gloomy iff: ' out badly. I would not want hiro for th tra :hoe: kindannorfaphamn,anaaavlwinamys. tuTrhn Suspicious Piety. °e°11ss u. 1. 6 orphans would suer Ii Among 40 people whom I received into i• the thumb at one communion, there was only onmapplinant of whose piety I was • at of Canada, iu the year one thousand the Central Press Agency ot Canada, Agriculture. Alt rights reserved. violin tin '9 Why stop(ter ears to a heaven full of songsters to better to the hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from the moun- tain side all a-bleom with, wild flowers and a -dash with the nimble torrents, and with blistered feet attempt to climb the hot side of Cotopaxi? Now, all opera houses, theatres, bowl- ing skating rinks and all styles of amusement, good and bad, I put on trial to -day and judge of them by certain car- dinal principles. First. you may judge of any amusement by its healthful result or by its baneful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard • fads. Tbey are a combination of multiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an ex- quisite picture, they will begin to discuss the pigments involved in the coloring. If you show them a beautiful rose, they Will submit it to a botanical analysis, which Is only the poet -Moneta examine - tion of a flower. They never flo anything inure than feebly smile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depth of their soul in billow after billow of reverberating leugliter. They seem us if nature had built them by contract and ?nada a bungling job out of it. But, blessed be God, there are people in the world who ha-ve bright faces and whose life is a song, au anthem, a paean of victory, elven their troubles aro like the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower on the top of which the sunlight sits and the soft tura o m eitter o per- petual carnival. They are the people you like to have come to your honse. Tbey aro the people 1 !leo to have come to my house. Now, it is these oxhilarant and m sypathetio and warm beerted people that are most tempted to pernicious aum-ements. In proportion as a ship is strong' awift it want a helmeman, In proportion lei a horse is gay it wants a strong driver, and these people of exu-1 hermit nature will do well to look at the rection of all theft amusements. If an amusement sends you holm at night nervous so you eaunot sleep, and yen rise in the morning not because you are slept out, but because your duty drags you front your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There aro amusements that send a 'Mall next day to bis work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, riauseated, and they aro wrong' kinds of arausemente There are enter- tainments Ora give a man disgust with tho drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with Working aprons because they aro not roles, with cattle because they aro not infuriated bulls of the arena, If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventhre, love that takes poison and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hairbreadth escapee you may depend won it that you are the sacrificed victim of unser-notified pleasure. Onr recreations aro intended to build us up, and if they pull us down as to our moral or as to our physical strongeli yon may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. e again I have gone and implored for the I young man—sometimes, alas! the peti- tion unavailing. How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens! The young man says: "Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy. get money somehow. What a line roa,d1 What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip and over the turnpike! Come, boys, 1311 high your glasses( Drink! Long life, health, plenty of rides just like 13is!" Hardworking men bear the clatter of the hoofs and look up and say: "Why, I wonder where those fellows get their money from 1 We have to toil and drudge. They do noth- ing." To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at other people and in tura are stared at. The watoh chain jingles. Tho cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flasb. The mid- night hears their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle decent men on the sidewalk. They take the name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their zoother's knee, and to all pictures or coming disaster they cry out, "Who ?rarest" and to the counsel of some Chris- tian friend, "Who are you?" Passing among the street some night you hear a shriek In a grogshop, the rattle of the watchman's club, the rush of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reck- less young man has been killed in a grog - shop fight I Carry him home to his father's Danger of TJnrestraincd Amusement. Still further, those amusements are wrong which lead into expenditure be- yond your means. Money spent in recrea- toads not thrown away. It is all folly for us to come from a place of amuse- ment feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yielded you $100 to $1,000. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusements? The table has been robbed to pay tbe club. The champagne has cheated the children's wardrobe. The carousing party has burn- ed up the boy's primer. The tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the E wife's faded dress.Excursions that in a day make a tour around a wholemonth's wages, ladies whose lifetime business it is to "go shopping," bare their counter- part in uneducated children, bankrupt- cies that shock the money market and appall the ohuroh and that send drunken- ness staggering across the richly figured carpet of the mansion and dashing into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come home to break their old mother's heart. When men go into amuse- ments that they cannot afford, they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they cannot borrow. First they go into embarrassment and then into theft, and when a man gets as far on as that he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of unsanotifted amusements. How often I have had parents come to me and ask me to go and beg their boy off from the con- sequence of crimes that he had commit- ted against his employer—the taking of fends out of the employer's till, or the aisarrangements ef the a000unts I Why, he bad salary enough to pay all lawful ex- penditure, but not enough salary to meet his sinful amusements. And again and e suspicious. He had the longest story to • tell, bad seen the most visions and gave • an experience so wonderful that all the other applicants were disoouraged. I was not surprised the year after to learn the he had run off with the funds of the bank with which ho was oonneoted. Who 0 is this blaokangel that you call religion or —wings black, feet black, feathers black '''' Our religion is a bright angel—fee bright, eyes bright, wings bright, taking her place in the soul. She pulls a rop that reaches to the skies and sets all th bells of heaven a -chiming. There ar some persons who, when talking to a minister, always feel it politic to look lugubrious. Go forth, 0 people, to you lawful amusement. God means you to b happy. But when there are so many attunes of innocent pleasure why tampe With anything that is dangerous an — _ t e e V d You may judge of amusements by their effect upon physical health. The need of marry good people is physical re- cuperation. There are Christian men who write hard things against their immortal souls when there is nothing the matter with them but an incompetent liver. There are Christian people who seem to think that it is a good sign to be poorly, and because Richard Baxter and Robert Ball were invalids they think that by t e same sickness they may come to the same grandeur of character. I want to tell Christian people that God will hold you responsible for your invalidism if it is your own fault and when through right exercise and _prudeece you might be athletic and welr. The Edited of the body upon the soul you tecknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition upon the animal that of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while his blood will change Its chemical proportions. It Will hee01110 like unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or the bear, while his disposition will change and become fierce, cruel and • unrelenting., The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. There are people whose ideas of heaven am all shut out with dories of tobacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in which God put the jewel of etern- ity. There are men with great hearts and intellects in bodies worn out by their own neglects. Magnificent machinery capable of propelling a greet letruria across the Atlantic, yet fastened in a rickety North river propeller Physieal development whicb merely sheers itself in a fabulous lifting ar in p0I'l1t)U'waiking ar in 'monistic encounter excites only our con- tempt, but we confeee to great admira- tion fur the man who has a greet soul in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle and bone Ot which is coneeerated to right twee. Ob, it seems ta me outrageous that men tbrough neglect should allow their physical health to go down beyond re- wire, spending the rest of their life not in some great enterprise far God and the world, but in studyine what is the best thing to take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought with all sails set and, every man at his post to be carrying a rich cargo for eternity, employing all its men in stopping up leekages. When you nifty through some of the popular and health- ful recreations of our time work off your spleen and your querulousness and one- half of your physical and mental ail-' merits, do not turn your baak from such' a grand medicament. Sinful Pleasures. Again, judge of the places of amuse- ment by the companionship into which tboy put you. If you belong to an organi- zation whore you have to associate with the intemperate, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they may bo dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will despoil your nature. They will undermine your moral obaraoter. They will drop you whon you are destroyed. They will not give one cent to support your children when you are dead. They will weep not one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. But the day comes w110/1 the men who have exerted evil influence upon their follows will be brought to judgment. Scene, the last day. Stage, the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, downs, No sword. No tureen No crown. For footlights, the kindling flames of a world. For orchestra, the trumpets that wake the dead. For gallery, the clouds filled with angel spectators. For applause, the clapping floods of the sea. For our - tains, the heavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the de- stroyed. For farce, the effort to serve the world and God at the sante time. For the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp of nations aoross the stage, some to the right, others to the left. Again, any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements? Tbe father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. Thera are all round us the fragments of blasted bouseheids. Oh, if you have wandered away, X would like to charm you baok by the sound of that one word, "Home." Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to demestio welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to have over them you must bare now? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and, alas if you bavo to stand over the grave of one who perished from your neglect. I saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christian wife, and X saw her point to a ring on her finger and heard her say to her husband, "Do you see that ring?" Ho replied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she, "do you remember who put it there?" "Yes," said he, "I put it there." And all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day when in the presence of men and angels you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow and in siokness and in health; by the memory of those pleasant hours wben you sat together in your new house talking of a bright future; by the cradle and the excited hour when one life was spared and another given; by that sickbed, when the little one lifted up the Molds and called for help and you knew he must die, and he put one arm around each of your nooks and brought you very near together in that dying kiss; by the little grave in the cemetery that you never think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where in its stories of heavenly love is the brief but expres- sive record of births ane deaths; by the neglects of the past and by the agonies of the future; by a judgment day wben hus- bands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups will stand to be caught up in shining array or to shrink down into darknoss—byr all that I beg you to give home your best affections. I look in your eyes to -day, and I ask you the question that Gehazi asked of the Shunammite: "Its it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with thy child?" God grant that it may be everlastingly well! Deciding Destiny. Let me say to all young men your style of amusement will decide your eternal destiny. One night I saw a young man at a street corner evidently doubting; as to which direction he bad better take. He had his hat lifted high enough so you He had a stout chest; be had a robust development. Splendid young man. Cul- tured young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is that very man bas a good angel and a bad angel contending for tbe mastery of his spirit. ,A.ncl there was a good an4 a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of the street. "Come with me," said the good angel. "I will take you home. I will spread zny wing over your pathway, I will lovingly escort you all through life, I will bless every cup you drink .out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter; I will consecrate your tears when you weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christ reeurrection. to answer to your father's pitmen and your mother's prayer 1 bare been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian sprit. Come with mei" said tho good angel in a voice of unearth- ly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph breatbeeon it. "No, no," said the had angel, "canto with 1110 1 bare something better to offer. The wines I pour are from ehallees of bewitching ear - ousel, the dance I lead is over a floor tessellated with unrestrained indulgences. There is no Und to frown ou the temples of sin where ,L worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows deleted and primrosed. Come with mei" The young man hesitated at a time when heeltatiou was ruin, and the bad g 1 smate she goati augol" Parted, Rereading wingthrough the star- light upward and away until a door limbed open in the sky and forever the wings veniehed, That was the turning point in that young inan's bistory, for, the good angel flown, he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiftil at the Opening, but Masted at the Ian. The bad angel, leading the way, opened gale after gate, and at each gate the rail becamo rougher and the sky armee lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the mite "lammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed earth portal, there was a grind. Ing of leder and a shaving of bolts, and the Mg: ry on either eide of the road changed fern gariene to deserts, anti the June air lemma a cutting December blast, am! the Ineitht wings of the bad angel turned to tackeloth and the eyes of. light betaine hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains that at tbe start bad tossed wine inured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel, "What is that serpent?" And the answer was, "That is the serpent of stinging re- morse." On the left slue of the road there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel, "What is thnt lion?" And the an- swer was, "That is the lion of all de- vouring despair." A vulture flew through the sky, and the man asked the bad angel, "What is that vulture?" And the answer was, "That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of the slain." And then the man began to try to pull oft of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and. he said to the bad angel, "What is it that twists me in this awful convolution?" And the answer was, "That is tho worm that never dies!" And then the man said to the bad angel: "What does all this mean? I trusted in what you said ab the corner of the street that night. 1 trusted it all, and why have you thus deceived me?" Then the last deception fell off the charmer, and it said: "I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul. I watohed my chance for many a long year. When you hesitated that night on the street, I gained my triumph. Now you are here. Ha, ha! Yoa are hued Come, now, let us All these two chalices of fire and dripk together to darkness and woe and death. Hall, bail!" 0 young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ or tho bad angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your soul? Their wings are Interlocked this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Apennines eagle and condor fight midsky. This hour may decide your destiny, God help youl To hesitate is to diet Scotch Humor. An old gentleman is recorded to have emerged gloriously from the difficulty propounded by a canny little urchin in the Sunday school, 'who, when "Jacob's Ladder" was under consideration, Wanted to know if "all angels had wings;" and when answered in the affirmative, pro- ceeded: "Weel, whit did they want tae be elimbin' up an' loon a ladder for?" A gleam came into the old Sootchman's eye as he responded pawkily: "Weel, weal, my laddie, it's gey like the angels were on the pouk" (molting). Having missed one of his students for several Sundays, he said to one of her relatives: "I haena seen yeer oousin Bell at the class for a long while. Ye ken it's her duty taetattend the sohule. Wbaur has she gaen?" "I canna -very wed tell ye that, meenister," was the cautious re- ply, "but she's deed." Scotsmen are sometimes very funny when they joke, but some of those grim old sons of the Covenant are even more humorous wben they pray. In an old volume, published in Edinburgh in 1698, entitled "Scottish Presbyterian Elo- quence," is to he found the tollowing notice: "Mr. Areskin prayed in the Iron Kirk last year: 'Lord, have mercy on all fools an' idiots, and particular on the Magistrates of Edinburgh.' "—The Arena. The Meat Time for Work. This story is told of an eccentric preaoher. One day, on visiting the °Mirth, he found a vvhitowasher at work in the church cellar, and, to his horror, the man was whistling a very lively air as he worked. The preacher reproved him sharply, reminding bim that suoh music was out of place in such an edifice, even if it was in the cellar. "Beg your par- don!" said the whitewasher. "I forgot where I was." And then, to show he was sorry, he started to whistling "Old Hund- red." His hand, of course, kept time to the n3usio, and "Old Hundred" made the whitewash brush go wonderfully slow. Tbe preacher watched him for a few minutes; then :he cried: "Oh, go back to your dance tune, or the job will never be donel" Cost of American ,Wara. The estimated cost of American wars is as follows: Revolutionary war, 1775-82, $135,198,000; war with Great Britain, 1812-15, • $107,150,000; Mexican war, 1846-48, $66,000,000; oivil war, 1861-65, $3,025,000,000. Catskills in Fur Trade. More than 1,000,000 cats' skins are used could the he had an intelligent foreheadevery year in the fur trade. AN OLD BULLY. People who live in fear of his attacks. How to avoid him or beat him, off: if biliousness isn't the bully of the body thea what is? When once biliousness gets the upper hand you don't dare say your stomach is your own. "Don't you dare eat that dish says biliousness, or you'll see what I'll do." 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These imita.tion lyes are simply de- ceptions; they are adulterated and don- gdons preparations, hurtful to the bands of the user, and destroyers of valuable garments and materials. The mramfacture of Diamond Dyes is reduced to a science, and to -day •they are the only dyes that dare guarantee their work—that dare proclaim certain victory for every user who will follow the plain &Tedious. Diamond Dyes have a wide -spread popularity; other Mends of dyes are hardly known out- side of the greedy, long -profit dealers who seal them to the unsuspecting public. Avodd all imitation packages as You would avoid spurious coins. A Clever Boy. "Oh, do come and help!" grasped a boy who ran up to a policeman; "there is an awful fight going on in our street!" "Who's fighting?" "My father and another roam" "How long have they been at it?" "Oh, half am hour." "But why didn't you come and tell me about it before?" "Why, because dad was getting the best of it all along- up to 'ten minutes ago." How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any oasA of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. FA'. °HENRY & CO., Toledo, 0 We, the undeasigned have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga- tions made by their Erm. WaST &Titaux,\Vhol esaleDruenists, Toledo, 0. & 3/LuiVIN, wholesale Drug- gists, Toledo, 0. Hants Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price M. per bottle. Sold by all. Druggists. Balsa J sti ce. Exact justice is commonly more merci- ful tin the ldlig run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. Minard's Liniment for Rheumatism, Willing to Change. Mrs. Do Fadd—The latest fashion is to have the piano built into the wall. Mr. De Fadd rwearily)—Weil, that's sensible. Let's wall up ours. • Quiekoure for Sores -15e., 25c., 50e. Found It citneat. Mamma (after she had punished Tone rate—Stop making such dreadful faces, Tommy (bursting into tears)—I ain't. I'm trying to keep a stiff upper lip. To be Done With Care. "Yes," said the man whose narratives are almost invariably interesting. "1 had some curious experiences in that mining country. One day 1 met two children witb the dirtiest faces I ever 't caw. "Poor thingsr "That's 'what I thought. X said to tbem: `Children. Why don't you 'wash • your faces?' and one of them answered:' 'We &mil. We've been pinyin' on pap's best claim. and he's liable to lose money if anybody touches us but bizarr', Minard's Liniment Cures LaGrippe. Dail wetter. 'It's remarkable to see how much cow densed milk is being' used nowadays," re- • marked the summer hoarder. "Yes," replied thts guileless dairyman tis be reached for the pump handle, "and 1 how much expanded milk, too." Quickeure for Rheumatism -15m, 25e., 50e. Ali teeter Thero. VHS glad to know." remarked Miss' Cayenne, "that Mr. and Mrs. Jinkles are living far more happily than they , were formerly." "Indeed?" "Yes. I am informed that they haven't spoken to each other for weeks."— Washington Star. Minard's Liniment the best Hair Restorer. Not Mt -lied. "You seem to havtOto mend your goo.; ments a good deal. Mrs. Bugby." "Yes; our washerwoman is two sizes" larger than I am." A Handsome GoT,S1 Bing Set With 3 Genuine Garnets and Peaega FREE! 4 „ ,;, . 14,t;;; You pay nothing, elm. qi •-,.',',,, ply send your Name and 1 al 1‘..: . .address plainly written, and we will send you 20 :iete- '. -- .11 et. , pa aae' : • "r among yf roeciaini. glie saofragrant or 1 ..,aVlaria. packages it Sell el nrt el I .3,(wstii.ellethtefdar surpasses any 1U / hot] r r t e lasting qualities of ita 3 dsw c n o or, to sell for us (It 1 vou n)friends at 10e. per package. 'When sold remit us tbe money, and we will I send you free for your trouble the above de- ( scribed ring, which is stamped and warrant-, ed Gold, set with genuine Garnets and Pearl& —Send address at once. mention this paper and 1 STATIC THAT you WANT ii(sent c." and w e I We take all risk. Goods return' Uabler."-Hulanat I will send it. No money %) some premiums in proportion to amount sold. Senolo Agency, 84 alcOaul St., Toronto. 1 ASK YOUR DEALER FOR , K 'S' BRUSHES and BROOMS. For Sale by all Leading Houses. BOECER nnos. & 0031PA.NT, Manaaato. turers, TORONTO, ONT. The QUEEN CITY OIL CO,,i (Limited,) SAIRTEL ROGERS, President, , T01011T0. Ask your dealer for this 011. It's Cheaper and Better teas Water White Aram -iota on. Rest Ever Slade In Canada. T. N. U. 172 THING a young man or woman can do is to iva, tend The 'Northern Business College for a term. 194 you want to know what you can learn? Then write fai Announcement to C. A. Fleming, Owen Sound, Om.