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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-8-5, Page 71 ti.aVSernion on a Delicate Subject Which Applies what he wrote on the ground? I judge 60 AND SIN No MORE." once you cannot blame us for wonting to know what he rozilly did write, but I am certain he wrote nothing trivial or nothleg uoimportantll e and wiyea allow nui to say that I think I know trona the circumstances, lie might bave written other things, but kneeling there/ in the temple, surreuncied ley a pack of hypocrites who were a self appointed constebulary and having in his presence it persecuted woman. who evidently vets very penitent far her SinSo ene sure he wrote two wordn both of cheat grapier' and trementious and reverberating, tied the one word was Wh,ypoerisy," and the Other word WAS "forgieeness." From the way these Pharisees eod scribes vacated the premises and got at into the fresh Witt as Christ, with just one ironical sentence, ournasked them know they were first, cle.ss hypocrites. It was then as it is now. neisseirieg etypocrisy, Yes, I think that one word written ori the ground that day by the tleger Christ was the awful word hypoeriey. 'What pretensions to sanctity are the part of those hypeeritical Pharieeeet When the fox begins to pear ioon out for your chickens. 0»e of the erupt magnatea a olden tbedw wae imeg to enwon- rounitute one of the leareers, and h began in the mural form—°In the neure of God. Amen," "Stop!" says the martyr. "Don't Rev in the nettle at 'nett!' " Yet how roeny mines are practice4 under the garb of religion And sanctity! When in synods and cenferenees minieters a the gospel are about to *en' etinectiling nnbrotherly and unkind eheut a mintier, then almost elwave begin by being oventeetionely Moen the venom of their aweialt correeponding the heavenly gayer of the prelude. Abont to devour a repunitien, they say grates before meal. Hut I am Illra #.1./4It was another word in that duet From her °mire twiner 1 am sure that erraiened woman 'wee repeurant. She nestle no apology, and Chrietth POWISO 13011[11Ni her sie, fl her supplicatore Wheeler and her tome moved him, and when he eteoped down to write on the groursa he wrote that migety, that holler/el word, forgivenew. Meets on Heal God wrote the law, be wrote it with finger of liginniug ou tables of Renee, esteh wind ellt as ltO eltieel luta the hard granite surface. Bet when he writes the offense ot thO4 WO111311 he wratee it in duet so that it ean L nielly rubted out, and wben see repente of it, oh, he was a merelin! Criti 1 was reeling 44 a !Perste! thet teiti in the far PetsOrtit hint. He W-4- wa)litng through the eirewe of a erne and his SaW a ereWit acennit a dead the!. And ono man seise -Abu a letitlisoin oreeet W. het dog " Yes," fere ;we inenwd and Menial es. sete .motie r; * ewes hie hem 'a Add ter he of any two to the limner." **Yes." eald unother; -the odor of hie citreess is "Thin eltr14, stand- ing them said, "But pcnirle cannot equal the whittetees of hie teeth," Then the people, moved by the idea that any one weed tind anything ideas:tut concerning the dead dog, said, **Why, thia must ISP Jews of nue:truth!" Reproved end con victed, they wont ztway. Surely this isenind of Christ is good enough to bo true! lettotheis In all his words and ways 7.111t1 habits! Forgive. Dees! Word ot 11 letters, and some of them thrones and some of them palm branches. Better have Christ write close to our names that one word, though he write it in dust, than to have our mule cut lute monumental granite with the letters that the storm of 1,000 years cannot obliterate. Bishop thebington hail a book of only three leaves. The first leaf was black, the Sili`011t1 lost red, the third leaf white. The /sleek leaf woo gesteu sin, the red lea atonement, the white leaf purilleation. That is the whole story. God will abundently pardon. Sympathy for the Penitent. to Modern Society. The Beautiful Story of the Saviour and the Sinning Woman Ex- , piained—Sympathy for the Penitent—The Bound- less Ocean of Divine Mercy. I4 'Washington, July 81.—ln this discourse i Dr italinage gives heroic treennent M.' a del/Cote subject and applies to modere I sweet,- ties lesson taught by Christ on a I, raementble occasion; text, John viii, 6, i 44e- 1 ases btoopeci dali'n, add with bis anger ,Wrete on the ground," Xon must take your shoes oft and put -Ilk en the especial slippers provided at the • door if you would enter the )1onammed- on moeque which stands now where once stood Hertel's temple. the scene of my text. Solomon's temple bad stead there. but Nebuchadnezzar had antudereci it down- Zerthebabein temple bad stood there, MO that hail been prostrated. Now we take our places th a temple that Herod built, because be was fond of greet archieecture, and be wanted the Ptomaine temples te Pint ineiginlicant. Put eight or ten inedern cathielrele together, atul they would 1104 equal that Ittrualtre. It covered 10 notes. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar and sliver tables on which stood golden cupe, au4 there Were corvine exquisite and inscriptions retplendent. glittering balustrades and ornamented gateways, The building of this temple kepe 10.000 worineen busy 40 years. In that stupendous pile of pomp end magnificence at Christ, and a listening throng stood about hint when a wild disturbano rook place. A group of men ere pulliug and pushing along a womaa wbo bad committed a crime against society'. When they have brought her in front of febrien they ask that he sentence ber to death by stoning. They are a oritieal, merelleee, disingentious crowds They want to get Chriet into eonteoversy aucl militia, repethenelon. It he Say. "Let her dle," thee will charge him 'with meaty. If he let her go, they will eberge bite with twine in eomplielty with eviotea- noes. Whichever way he does they Vaunt bowl at him. Thou mews a =One whieh has not teen emiliciertly regarded. Ile leaves the nem* or lalloh on which he was sitting and sow down on me num or both linos. and with the forefinger of his right Wald lee bogine to write ru tbe dust of tho hoer, word after word. But they were not to he diverted or hindered, They kept on demanding' that he settle this ewes of tranegreesion until he looked up and thid threw they inight themselves bogie the Woman's essassituttion if the complainant wbo bad never done anything wrong Meiself would open the fire. "Go ahead, but be sure thee the maia who flings the first missile is ineranoulato." Tben be resumed writing with Ms finger in tbe dust of the noon word After word. Instead of looking over Ms shoulder to see what bo had written, the seoundrele skulked itivay. Finally the whole place is clear of pursuers, antagonists and plaintiffe, and when Christ has finished Vale strange chirography in the dust he looks up and finds the woraan all alone. A Divine judge. Tbe prisoner is the only one of the courtroom left, the judges, tbe police, tbe prosecuting attorney having (geared out. Christ is victor, and he says to tho 'woman: "Where are the proseoutors in Ibis ease? Are they all gone? Then 1 disohaege you. Go and sin no more " I have wondered what Christ wrote on tbe ground. For do you realize that its ihe only time that he ever 'wrote at all? I know that Bumbles says that Christ once wrote a letter to A.bgarus, the king of Edessa, but there is uo good evidence ; of snob a correspondence. The wisest . being the world ever saw, and the one , wbo bad more to say than any one who , ever Inked, never writing a book or a chapter or a paragraph or a word on f parehment! Nothing but the literature of ; the dust. and ono sweep of a brush or 1 one breath of a wind obliterated it !forever. Arnoug all the rolls of the volumes of , the first library founded at Thebes there 1 was not one soroll of Christ. Among the 700,000 books of the Alexandrian library, i wbioh by the infamous decree of Caliph Omar were used as fuel to beat the 4,000 !baths of the city, not ono sentence had Christ penned. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing in the libraries el Edinburgh, the British museum or Berlin or 'Vienna or the learned repositor. les a ell nations not one word written directly by the finger of Christ. All that Ibe ever wrote he wrote in dust, uncertain shifting dust. My text says he stooped down and wrote on the ground. Standing straight lap a man might write on the ground with a staff, bat if with his fingers be would write in the dust he must bend clear over. Aye. he must get at least on one knee , or he eanuot write on the ground, Be 1 net staprised that he stooped down. His , whole life was a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to barn. Stooping down from eelestial homage to monecratio jeer. From residence above the stars to where a star had to fall Go designate his landing place. From heaven's front door to the worth's back gate. From writing in rround and silvered letters of constellation and galaxy on the blue scroll of heaven 1 to writing on tho ground in the dust / white/ the feet of the crowd had left in Herod's temple. If in January you have ever stepped out of a prince's conserva- tory that hacl Mexioen cactus and magno lias in full bloom into the outside air, 10 degrees below zero, you may get some idea of Christ's change of atmosphere Wenn celestial th terrestrial. How many heavens there are I know not, but there are at least three, for Paul was "caught , up into the third heaven." i Christ came down from the higbest heaven to the second heaven and down 1 from mooed heaven to first heaven, down swifter than meteors ever fell, down amid stellar splendors that himself eclipsed, down througb olouds, through atmospheres, through appalling space, down to where there was no lower depth. , From beinebwaited on at the banquet of ; the skies to the broiling of fish for bis e own breakfast on the banks of the lake. From emblazoned chariots of eternity to i1 the saddle of a mule's back. From the homage cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, to the paying of 624 cents of tax to Caesar. From the deathless country to a. tomb built to hide human dissolutiori. The uplifted wave of Galilee vvas high. Ibut he had to come down before With his feet be could tomtit it and the whirls wind that arose above the billow was higher yet, but be had to come down before with his Hp be could kess it inth quiet 13ethlehere a stooping down. Nazareth a stooping dawn. Deet between two burglars a stooping down. Yes, it was in consonance 'with humilia- Mons that went tame and self abnega- tions that CaUla after when on that memoreble day in lierothe temple he stooped down and weate, Oa the grimed. Weir Christ writes. Whether the words he was writing were in Greek Or Latin or Hebrew, 1 cannoe ' say, for he knew all those languages, but he is *till stooping dome and with his ! lingers -writing on the gronel, le the winter in letters tif erystale, in the wing : in letters of flowers, in summer is goldela letters of barvest, in autumn in lettees of fire oo fallen Neves. Row it would sweeten up and enriele and erebiazen this world could we see Chriet's co/H- emp/ay all over it! Thai wor14 was not %lag Oat into since anewands of yeare ago and then left so loon out for itself, Ie Is etill Under the divine are. Genet uever for half a Mond takes his baud off of lt, Or 1$ would soon be e ehipwreonea world, a defunct world, an obsolete world, an Abandoned world, a Owl world. "Let there be light." was said. at ' the beginning, and Christ Wanes under the wintry skies and says, Let there be snovrnanes to enrede the earth, and under the cieuels cif spring and says, Come, yo bloseoms aud make redolent the orchards, and in eepteratier dips the branthes in the vat or henttitul centre and swings them into the !awe 41,x. NO i whim of mine is thin "Without hint was not auything nettle that was melon* : Chieste writing on the ground, If you could n'. his hand in cal the ressing enteelle, how it wetilli inn wine , the world! All verde:re tine feirre. ee sild he alleeerhe and 4.1a111 Wu %venni ft ter ' him sly. op.; of chi, "oeasider tie leee.: of the heed. how thee grew," wee we would not il tir rte. whinie of 4 iDi .14 or the cawing of a rztven 4a. the resin :,L4t, . of a brown thra'4.4 r withent we nett "Behold the fowie .4e tit, ,sir i.:ey gather not in leirns. ye: Yanr lle.:%4"l3e , loather feeilteh the:1i.- and a ilaininie le #1 of the barnyard weed not Own, foe e'er brood but wewouldn er Chriez ...weenie, as - OC old, "Ilow often would I have ire -lowed thy cbildren together, oven, ite a ;WA gathorede her chietiters under hor winged end through the reaolont heilloe we ' would hear Christ saying, "I am the rose of Sharon," We could not dip the swesoning from the snit -oiler without thinking of the divine stmgestion, "'Ye are tho salt of the earth. but if the salt hath lost its savor it is lit for nothing hut to be oast out and trodden under foot of men." Let us wake from out stupidity and take the wholetworld as a parable. Then, if with gun and pack of hounds we start off fedora dawn and see the morning coming down off the hills to meet us we would cry out with the evangelist, "The day -spring from on high bath visittd us," or, taught in a enowstarne while struggling bome, eyebrows and board and apparel all oovere4 with the whirling nukes, we would cry out with David, "Wash me, and 1 shall be whiter than snow." In a picture gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but the people having to look straight up, it wearied and dizzied them and bent their necks almost beyond oedurence, so a great looking glass/ was put near the floor. and now visitors only need to look easily down into this mirror, and they see the fresco at their teet. And so, much of the high heaven of God's truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and things that are above are copied by things around us. What right have we to throw away one of God's Bibles—aye, the first Bible he ever gave the race? We talk about the Old Testament and the Wow Testament, but the oldest testament contains the lessons of the natural world. SOnle people like the New Testament so well they discard the Old TesWment. Shall t we like the New Testament and the Old Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest—narnely, that which was written before Moses was put ailoat on the boat of leaves which was chalked with asphaltum—or rejeot the Genesis tbat r was 'smitten centuries before Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no 1 When s Deity stoops down and writes on the ground, let us read it. The Bible In Nature, X would have no less appreciation of the Bible on paper that comes out of the paper mill, but I would urge appreoia- tion of the Bible in the grass, the Bible in the sand hill, the Bible in the geran- a inn, the 'Bible in the asphodel, the Bible o in the dest. Some one asked an ancient t king whether he had seen the wilipse of s the sun "No," said he. "I have so a much to study on earth I have no time c to look at heaven." And if our faculties t were all awake in the study of God we o would not lesi e time to go mutat farther than the first grass blade. I have no fear g that natural religion will ever contradict t what we call revealed religion. 1 have no syinpathy with the followers of Aristotle, a who after the telescope was invented s would not look through it lest it contra - diet some of the theories of their great t master. I shall be glad to put against one lid of the Bible the microscope and against the other lid of the Bible the c telescope, But when Christ stooped down and a wrote on the ground what did he write? p The Pharisees did not stop to examine. s The cowards, whipped of their own oon- b sciences, tied penmen. Nothing will flay 0 a man like an arm -nod conscience. Dr. d Stevens, in bis "History of Methodism," f says that when Rev. Benjamin Abbott t of olden times was preaching he c exclaimed, "For aught I know there maY o be a murderer in this house." And a d man rose from the assemblage and 0 started for the door and bawled aloud, d confessing to a murder be had committed a 15 years before. And no wonder these a Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to their heels e 13ut what del chriet write on the ra I must not forget. to sitiv that as Christ, stooping down, with his linger wrote on the ground it is evieent that his sympa- thies are with this penitent woman unit that he has no sympathy with her bypo. critical pursuers. Juet opposite to that is the world's habit. Why didn't these unclean Pharisees bring one of their own number to Christ for excoriation and capital punishment? No, no! Thee overlook that in a man wheel they damnate in a woman, and so the world has had for offending woman scourges and objurgation, and for just one offense she boornes an outcast, while for men whose lives have been sodomic for Ile years the world swings open its doors of brilliant welcome, and they may sit in higb places. Unlike the Christ of my ext, tbe world writes a man's inis• demeanor ID dusk but chisels a woman's offense with great capitals upon inefface- able marble. For foreign lords and princes, whose names cannot even be mentioned in espeotable circles abroad because they are walking lazarettos of abomination, oroe of our American princesses of ortune wait and at the first beck sail out with them into the blackness of darkness forever. And in what are called higher oircles of society there is now not only the imitation of foreign dress and °reign manners, but an linitation of oreign dissoluteness. I like a foreigner, nd I like an American, brit the sickest mature on earth is an American playing he foreigner. Society needs to be reeon- treated on this subject. Treat then, like, masculine crime and feminine rime. If you out the one in granite, out hem both in granite. If you write the ne in dust, write the other in dust, 'No, no," says the world; "let woman o down, and let man go up." What is hat I hear splashing into the Hudson or Potomac at midnight? And then there is gurgle as of .strangulation, and all is till. Never mind. It is only a woman oo discouraged to live. Let the mills of he cruel world grind right on. woundless Itliercy., It is 'not so vsonderful, after all, that hrist those instead of an inkstand the inpressionable sand on the floor of an noient temple, and instead of a hard en put forth his forefinger with the antte kind et nerve and muscle and one and fiesb as that *winch makes up ur own forefinger, and wrote the awful oom of hypocrisy, and full and complete orgiveness for repentant sinners, even he worst. We talk about the ocean of larist's mercy. Put four ships upon that cean and let them sail out in opposite tractions for 1,000 years and see if they an end the shore of the ocean of the ivine moray. Let them sail to the north nd the south and the east and tne west, nd then after the; 1,000 years of voyage et there come back and they will report, No shore, no shore to the ocean of Godn drop I" And neve I can believe that, which I read, how thet. a mother kept burning o pendia in the window, every eight for ten ems, au4. Orie nightvery tete a weer hetet of the etreet entered. The aged woman said to her, "SW down by the lire." And. tbe straoge Penh dWby do yo 1;1 keep that light in the vrin.dow?" The aged wonta.n. said: "That is to light szogergreAwrciwent away, on aamgbatertivbrolloho ago,rfitaSt7 hair has turned white. row blomo me for worrying about her, but you serf I am her mother, Itild sometimes half a dome times a eight I open the door and leek Oat Intel tess Mot -mese and crys `Lizzie! Lizzie!' Bub I must net tell yen any more about my trouble, for 1 gueee from the way yoU cry you bare trouble enough of your own. Why, bow cold and sick you seem! Oh. my! CAP IC be? Yee, youareh that zyz ol reaeretiwuno mio:e4tegbaiLd ,Thronti w hat a time of rejoicing .there was in that /muse. that night! And Gbrist again stooped dome and in tbe aebes .of thet - hearth, new lighted up, eat more law the great elazipe, logs their by the jeY od a reunited household, wrote the eaMfe libereting words that had been evritten More than 1,800 year ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple Forgiveness! FA0E AND. FIGURE. A nese Aids to U.Ip clot gather Owe eis The other. It may Pig be generally known that garlic is an aid to the production of lovely alnuidexions- it la to a steady diet at this plant and to the camp air of the mach -tut.; that the pretty washerwomen at Paris, QUO ot whom is annually einseen quiten ot beauty for Mardi tires, ewe their fawinetine complexion. A physiklan of nate ativocatee a good ore- orcesionally for women. She who w eeps keeps her youth louger than the wornan who represses her Users. profit se now of tears leseeng Mooll premium, ▪ dietheree of etwegy reineei telleien and produces an exhaustion which demorals a refreshing eleop. For greee of CaY1.1.1g0 maw= women, who are aecustomesi to carry weights on their hcods, are desertedly noted. 10 tbe effort to keep the balance (.4t. the burden they ard feu -eying theee woman strain ell the muenes of the body in order diet Sher may walk Smoothly anal steatitiy, and the reels isis queettly carriage which rover a great laity inielet envy. To Attain gr.:petal earri.tga niCe" he dinie by praetiving walking with some olqeet uu the heee—a little enehton, teon or ovate a heti hezed wen1141 doe -and carteinly au younie pewee /demist learn Wowing, 11 and. a esseild'e Peeing. lirne ottercieeti erases. newness etel nisei-tinnyitt the limbs „ita the pater of steiteining bale/nee gewsehalle. 7117 DRUNKARD Staidly lel Also TOS•iiStr4 BM* au Whose who Drittli. to Dtectat "Drunnenness to day is deemed dist reputabi in the very quarters Where tealva litto while ago it Was thoked upotz -imply as a miefertunte" writese eidward W. Bok, in the Ladies' Boma Journal. "Seery line of business sbuts its doers absolutely to the drunkard. It bas no use for bins, liusineen eempotit elan has become so keen tbat only the of the steadiest taints COB find employment, This feet the bahltual indulger itt incoholica has found oue, and bhe dulerent 'cure' establishments for drunkenness—and Godsends they are, tee, to littnianity--tire to -day Oiled with men wise bave come to a realization of the chunged conditions. The man of steady babies is the man of the hour, and. the tire:Omni realizes shit In the social world the same -Ohm is -true. Tim excessive indulgence of even a few yeara ago would not be tolentted at any dinner to -day. Society has become intolerant of the behavior 'welter inevitably results front excessive indulgence in drinking, and num realize this. It is bad manners tonlay to drink to VICE*49. Good teste is spreading, and moderation is necessarily following." Getting matrimonially Intuited. "A large percentage of what is ordin- arily called love is tweet as safe a guide in the choice of a companion as a firefly would be trustworthy illumination in the intricaciee of a deep forest on a aark night," writes the Rev. Charles H. ParkbursO DD.. in the Ladies' Home Journal. "I am well aware that it is much easier to reason about these things in the abstract than it is to keep one's head coolant:epee's temperature regulated in a mason of severe exposure; but so touch of the success or failure of a young man's after life depends on the way in which he gets matrimonially planted that it seems well worth while to preempt the ground with as much rational conslieration as possible. If a man bas accustomed hlinself to canvass the ground with some seriousness before the susceptible eminent arrives there will be more likellbood of his being able to ride the storin when it breaks 'without the loss of ship, oargo and crew." The Discovery of Neptune. The soientists of France have just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the planet Neptune by Urban le Perrier and John Couch .Adams. Le Verner decided by caloula- dons that there must be a planet of about the mass and orbit of Neptune in order to adeount for certain disturbances in the orbits of other planets. He there- fore wrote to Dr. Gallo, the astronomer of the Berlin Observatory, requesting /aim to point his telescope to a particular spot in the sky on an evening indicated, and, in effect, said: "You will see a planet which I have not seen, but which, nevertheless, must be on the spot, because ray calculations have pointed out the necessity for Its existence." Dr. Galls did as directed, and on September 18, 1846, Neptune was in view and recognized as tho outlying planet wineh revolved around the sun. The Sure Bellance. The branch must abide In the vine, the oak in the soil, tbe child in its parents, the president in the laws oi his nation, the believer in Christ. To abide in Christ Is to rest one's hope in infinite strength, and to draw one's life out of infinite goodness and love. Christ is the profs°. Sion, the teacher and tbe example of all goodness, the source and giver of eternal life, the power of God unto salvation. How Good Cold Cream Is 'Wade. Get half a pound of the very best lard, put it in a basin, pour on it boiling water, and when cold drain it off. Repeat this process three times, then after freeing the lard from water boat it to a cream with a fork and scent it with essence of bergamot. A GALLANT COLOR SERGEANT afebard. Silver,. Who Raised Our nig O. Clwatanagu.k Hereon To baundown an enemy's flag, replace it with theflag of your own ociuntry and witie your owe bends raise in the fees of a powerful and hoetile force the emblem which yeu have sworn to honor and pro. teat is indeed a stirring deed, one which it is seldom given a uian ItO perform. Rich- ard Silvey, take sergeant of Couipony 0, First battalion marines. is ono of the few Auterieans fortunote enough to have tione Weis in the prinent War. Sergeant Silvey is one of Htuttingtouni brave 600 who landed at Gluier:um= bar- bor. drove back the Sweden ma hoisted Wee stars and stripes over the =lintel fort).- fie:Attune winch the enemy had just htt- dottetl, Soya a oews account: "The. o1er4. Celan et:Thine:en RICHARD savoy. were ran up over the still lo,f. of the ewe An it-. tunes naught the breeee coo men ironn the to, al ...hip I.:4 ut her I laid carbines. pieke. Owe -visaed tent yolee / aside to lift their eaps .and toiu iu a , ;nighty shunt." • Cnior Fergeaur reiveybasworn the blue 4 for nearly esi and bit tha ;in.' he jun emus a en of troll %net ft" Small pity. , lets had :es erevesue tweeentreet: for Wesel dariteeces reel:null ofbi.rs tei. inte 111,..11-1..1i.4 Mita hit :4.4 FA1 3a:07hr mon the :wane- eed Tel Lintel ite Asa I glad 1 VC% -la ;44,1 4.4.14.1? %VOL YOU 31W: " teineve wee11 trtet ; ;I.:WA, N. y,, e Alen les eit f tee gen „wee115n weeze lt . twine. : • 4 „tor ertey zes tn le wet new inn .7 se/ :a- in #1.,7er I e ze .1 ;i11 4.4 at. t 7.7i' ik 41i CA trn,it ,„: fay !:14t. ..."Dit`31 Wine wilietne RI; Eve yerea r.,.11 intr,o4 ionrine voiles mad on jtajy le., %vas nifisied 5i t!:44 fiairth XI,. ie new 4,a seogld en- 14,‘”,letti tr.*: reller ern:wait, having lents preeem ti to /led remit ei.ven nrs teen teslor neesut feline has erniera on tlie Indiana anti 5in....10111SW% fin April :hi of this year Saw was sent with Witi other Marines to man tee yeeeelisot the nitsehad. , lug fleet Ile was detailed to the transport Panther. COlar $ergeallt 14,11vey and Private 13111 Anthony, late of the battleship Maine, are warm friends, tax lag bon mew -nudes for 15 years. Silvey's record gi the is dm of thentarine corps is ''seveu finee," width means excellent in every particular. SOLDIER WITH A CUE. Ln Amerlenu Born VIllnese Enters tlae Volunteer Army. Tho nrst Chinese to enlist in the Ithlted States volunteer army le Ong Q. Tow of -Santa Ana, Cal. Ito is a succeesful mew thrust of that place, 1,0 it is pure patriotism and not the $13 a mouth which has urged Min to go into the ranks. Bela one of tho recruits of Company Is, Seventh Cali- fornia volunteers. Although Isrivate Tow wears a cue coiled underneath his campaign hat, he is not only a citizen of the United States, but a native of California. was born in Sonoma, county, Cal., 25 years ago. Ever since the blowing up of the Maine Orig Tow has been an tuelent patriot. Be was one of those who cried Modest for vengeance, and wheh the time crone he allowed that he was ready to shut up shop and shoulder a gun. Soon after the call Lar volunteers Ong Tow presented himself before the recruiting and examining of& cera and proved to thein that he was phys- ically able to stand the hardships of army life. He stands 5 feet 4e inches high in his stocking feet and -weighs 117 pounds ONG Q. TOW. stripped. His chest measurements and expansion are also much over the ordinary, and he has hardly spent an unwell day in his life. Ong Q. wears a cue, just as does his father and Chinese associates, and the idea of sending a. Chinaman to join the regi- ment was at first smiled upon by the re- cruiting officer, and he passed him on to the examining physician, but when the representative of Miele Sam was referred to the voting register of °mange comity, Third ward of the city of Santa Ana, Where he found the manes of Ong Q. Tow. Ong is the son of wealthy parents and is well educated, having attended school in San Francisco for a number of years, but has never been allowed to spend his time in idleness. Before enlisting he was en- gaged in running a mercantile establish- ment ireChbeatowu, which his father pur- chased for him, and he did an extensive business, BADLY DAMAGED, Not Itteyona Repair, gewever. It has • been repented that One of tit r.°°11-dfiwad belonging to the .Amerievo equadrou was badly damaged and bad bEen sent to the Navy yard for repair* She will egalo be ready for active *net vice in a few weeks. . A war ship ie big thin.gtostureelle, and yet as delloitei as a watch. On goodmiticerito ,Tobn H..Rook Hamilton, Qnt, wee oandeinned as in- curabie of relabe4ea, Kidney Dienes* and •Solatioa, Wee tomtits et Southern Fevc-r. He was repaired by Iterate mains Itheimiay Cuee, and is pow claw active service as night clerk at the Rey.,i Hefei. His story le best tad fai Ms own words given' iu .the for= o.f Swore Statement. "Tweire years ago I contracted fever* in Ceetral Auwelea. alai after passing through a terrible siedea), returned home - a physical -wreck. 1 wise afflicted with: a complieation of diseeses, arising from; inipl:re bleed and disordered genertd renettution, end was told by Vie -rent vitysielaus that 1 bad about every disr that could possibly arise from the alive ealwes. ttet tt Seiatiea, Lunn begoe Diseased Kidneys and Liver, DI - bites, and general debility. Senesc�. tied skill foiled to me me. but RYclo man's k:coney Cute is the medicine that removed every ache and paln trams /07 TaGalY, uud to -day I am a heolthY mon in every reepect I recornm.end the medicine most heartily, end sire Ws sworn declaration without nolleitir tien. ..101IN R. ROOT. Ant 27r,1608. before a 004:0701.• stoner. The above tes. timonial in full. with Pkiute of Mr. Root, and other sworn dcalatatons, • free on .application. Kootenay Cure gens for $1.00 per bete tie. or 0 for $5,00, from your druggieti ar Creet frorn 'The. S. S. RYCR"..NIAZtl Co., Limited. liamilton. Ont. rarly storriace The 'early marriage ceremony outong our Ang:o-Sexon foregathers was og very primillee eh:meter. It consieted merely of hantl-fasit g, or taking. each other lay the hand. and pledg:ng !eye usal efteedisee in the presentee of frierele- em. reeenozza. T2.r. brideserem weld , tire father a stun of meney. ealied "forxerieas," or payment for sourish,' At a Tater period, Ile wiely ewe - two oe soneenalle wee reduced to a Yen* tiler eyetem. end Weelever owls teeitileed to ewe a "weV" .4-4r seenrity, A& the re.7fa4-matce stf hiss contract; hem,* wee we'd "weddieig." Men and Women Repaired. A niaelline that is constantly aid be eessarely worlithe needs 'repair% at tete tole intervals, 'Ile human frame, worn by mental end physical toil and subjented to the worries and oarea of our modern life, hats need of repair.; and building Up. in the hot suroner weather nervous energy is at a low ebb. and AS a con- sequence, nervous debility, terrible head- aches, dyspepsia and it rtin-down cow dition make life a burden for thousands. Paine's Celery Cs:impound ig tbe greet repairer and buildee when wealizwes and siekness prevail. Tins great medi- cine lias the power of rapidly repairing the tissues and purifying the blood. It bestows the preper nutriment to all the weakened tissues, bringing strength and true vigor, thus averting breakdown and collapse. Thousands of lives are now fa* wearing out that ean be prolonged and made happy by the present use of Paine's Cdery Compound. Its use to- day will save wonting of sickness, misery and suffering. Take no substi- tute; get only "Paine's," the kind that cures. Eye 31tttnles.. /lumen beings have six muscles to each eye, that they zany move it on e4ther side; but horses, cons, sheep and °thee quadrupeds which :habitually in- cline their beads to the earth in search of food bone a inneele by which their eyeEds are impended and supported, and which we do not need. Ilk for ifinard's 'Liniment and take Po other. To Make Pulled Bread. After the loaf .of bread has been baked, if you want pulled bread, wbittle off the crust and pull the crumb into long, thin strips. Place these Wipe In a pan lined with soft paper, bake in a slow oven until golden brown and gesp to the very ceritre.—July Ladies? Home Journal. Dyspepsia or Indigestion is occasioned by the want of action in the biliary ducts, loss of vitality in the stomach to secret the gastric juices, -without which digestion eannot go on ; also, being tae principal cause of Headache. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills taken before going to bed,for a while, never fail to give relief and effect a cure. Mr. F. W. Ashdown, Ashdown, Ont., writes: Parmelee's Pills are taking 'Oa* lead against ten other makes which I have in stock." Quickoure for Bunions -15c, 25, 50e, To Remove Pimples. Though it is *wiser ta allow pimples to come to a head and rem.ove the pus, if they appear at an inconvenient time, when it is desirous that the complexion shall look particularly well, spirits of camphor will drive them int Keep Minard's Liniment in the House. Java Bombarded by Thunder. Stara is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, hav- Mg then/dem:bowies on an average ot 97 deys of the year. Money Saved and pain relieved by the leading household remedy, Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil -'a small qualitity of which usually :minces to awe a cough, heal a sore, cut, bruise or sprain, relieve lumba- go, rheumatism, neuralgia, excoriated nipples, or inflemed breset. -- A woman's idea of wrong is something a man does that would be a mistake if ehe did it hereele