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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-11-18, Page 3THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Dr. Talmage s Sermon on the Aim and Object of Existehce. The End of Life Should Be Action—Premonitions of Usefulness - Th. Necessity of Speoializing--Paradise Shall Be the Reward of Labor. Washington, Nov. 13.—To all those who feel they have no especial mission in the world, this sermon ot Dr. Tat - image will come as a °beeriest revelation; text, John xviii, 37, "To this end was I barn." After Pilete bad, sanded, tradition says that his body was throwu into the Tiber' and such storms eusued on and aboutthat river that his body was taken out and thrown lute the Rhone and limner disturbances syteps that river and its banns. Then the body was taken out Ana moved to Lausanne, and put in et deeper pool, which Inionediately became the center en Mwilar atmospberio and Aqueous disturbancee. 'Though these are fanciful and Mists tradition; they show the eneoretion with which the world looked upon Pilate. It 'was befort this roan, wbee he was full life and Power, that Cbrist Was arreigned as in tt. eaten o oyer and terminer. Viten) said to his prisoner. "Art thou a kip& then?" and Jereue answered, "To this end watt I born," Sure enough, eithough tell earth and hell eras° to neep him down, Ise le te-ntle empalaced, enthroned and coronet- sel Meg of earttnand king of beaven. Thet is What he mons for and libat is Whae he aecomPlisbed. Ity the tinee a eland resells* 10 years of age thel gamuts begin to discover that destmy, but by the time ha or she reeehee 15 years of age, the question Is on tee ottile's lips: "What shall I do? Wilat am I going to be? What was I made for?" It is a sensible and righteous questioe, and the youth ought to imp asking It until it is so fully answered that the pang man or youne woman con say with as much moth as its authors though on a lees expansive Sole. "To this owl was I born." The Divine rorpose. Tbers je-tee much divine skill shown in tho physical, mental And moral con- etitution of the ordinary human betng to suppose that bo was c,onstruoted 'without any divieo purpose. I eau take nee out on sense as Plain and show Ina pillared temple surmounted by a dome like St. Peter's and having a floor of precious stones and amine that must haws taxed the brain of the greatest draftsman to design, and walls erolled .snd nettled and paneled, and 'wainscoted and paintea, and I should ask you what thia building was pus up for and you answered, "For nothing at all," bow oould I believe you? And it is impossible for me to believe tbat any ordinary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cerebral organization more wonders than Christopher Wren lifted in St. Paul's, or Phlditts over chiseled on tbe Acropolis, and built in suoh a way that it shall last long After St. Paul's 'cathedral is as much a ruin as the Parthenon—that such a being was con- otructed for no purpose, and to anoints, no mission, and without any divine in- tention toward some end. Tho object of -this sermon le to help you to find out what you are made for and help you Ilnd your sphere and assist you into that con- dition where you can say witb certainty and empbasis and enthusiasm and triumph, "To this end was I born." First, I discharge you from all respon- sibility for most of your environments. You aro not responsible for your parent- age or graudparentage. You aro not re- sponsible for any of tho cranks that may been lived in your ancestral line and wbo a hundred years before you were born may have lived a style of life that more or loss affects you today. You are not responsible for the Mot that your temper- ament is sanguine, or melancholic), or bilious, or lymphatic, or nervous. Neither are you responsible for the place of your nativity, whether among the granite hills •of New England, or tin cotton planta- tions of Louisiana, or on the banks of -the Clyde, er the Dneiper, or the Shan- non, or the Seine. Neither aro you re- sponsible for the religiou taught in your father's house, or tbe irreligion. Do not bother yourself about what you cannot .help or about circumstances that you did not decree. Take things as they are and decide the question so that you shall be able safely to say, "To this end was I born." How will you decide it? By direct application to the only Being in the universe who le .00mpetent to tell yeu—the Lord Al- mighty. Do you know the reason why he is the Only one who can tell? Because he can 'eee everything between your cradle and Your grave, though the grave be 80 ,years off. And besides that he isthe only Being who can see what has tieen bappening in the last 500 years in your sencestral line, and for thousands of years irolear back to Adam, and there is not one person in all that ancestral line of 6,000 -years but has somehow affected your .oharacter, and even old Adam himself will sometimes turn up in your disposi- tion. The only Being who can take al Ltinnien that pertain to you into consider' sation is God, and he is the one you can *Bk. Life is so short we have no time to ,experimeilt with occupations and pretax- llons. The reason we have so many dead ,sfallures is that parents decide for ohildren 'What they shall do, or children them - Imhof!, wrought on by some whim or -fancy, decide for theneseiVes, without any imploration of divine guidance. So we bevy now in pulpits men making sermons wile' ought to be. in biaokamith sisops smeking.plowshares, and we have in the law those who instead of ruining the ,eases of their clients ought to be pound - Ing shoe lasts, and doctors who are the worst hindrances to their patients' con- malethence, and artists trying to paint landecapes who ought to be whitewash- ing board fences, while there are others nsaking bricks who ought to be re2nodel- 4ing constitations or shoving planes who ought to be transforming literatures. Ask ,God about what worldly business you .shall undertake until von are so positive ,you tan in earnestness smite your hand •on your plow handle or your carpenter's bench., tee your Blackstone's "Comment- aries," or your medical dictionary, or your Dr. Dick's "Didactic) Theology," eayheg, "For this end was I born." There are children who early develop natural affinities for certain styles of work. When She father of the astronomer Forbes was „going to Landon, he asked his children what 'trident he should bring each one of them. The boy who was t� be an astron- omer cried out, 'Elirlag me a teleecopel" Stens of the future. And there are children whom you lind all by theineelrea drawing on their slates or in paper ships or houses or birds, and you know they are to be draftsmen or architects of some kind. And yen find others ciphering eta difficult problems with rare interest and esteem, and you know thy are to be mathensaticiana. And others making wheels and atrange con- trivances, ana yen know they are going Lo be machinists. And Others are found experimenting with hoe and plow and sickle, and you know they will be farm- ers. And others are always swapping jackknives or balls or bats and making something by the bergain, and they ere going to ne merabente, When Abbe do 1141340 bud SO advanced in studying emelt that he could translate Aneereon at 12 years of age, there was no doubt left that he Was intended for a Sehalar, But in almost every hal there comes a time when he does not know what be WM Made far. Alla big parents do not know, aud IS a Orlala thet Ged only eau decide. Then there are these born for some especial worn and their fitness does oot develop Until quite late. When Philip Doadridge, wingie moutons mot books have harvested uncounted souls for glory, inmate to study for the ministry, Dr. Calamy, one of the Wisest and best mon, advised Min to turn his tbotights to some other work. Isaao Barrow, the eminent clergyman and Obrietian scientist—bis books standard now. thOlIgh Ile has Wen dead we, 200 yeares-was the disheartenment or his father, wit° Used to say that if it pleased Clod to tune atm of bis children away he hoped it might bo Ins son Iseate So some of those who have been charaoterized for their stupidity in boyhood or girlhood, have turned out tbe mightiest benefactors or benefaetresees of the Inman race, Thane things being so, am I not right in saying that in roany cases God only knows What is the most appropriate thing for you to do, and he is tho one to ask? And let all parents and all schools and all universities and all colleges recognize this and a large number of those who spent their best yearn 112 stumbling about among businesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that and failing in all, would be uble to go ahead with a deartite, decided and tremendous purpose, saying, "To this end was I born." Whet Shall I Do? But my subject now mounts lute tbe momentous. Let me say that you are made for usefulnose and heaven. 7judge this from the way you are built. You go into a shop xvbere there is only ono wheel turning and that by a worktnan's foot on a treatile, and you say to yourself, "Here la something good being done, yet on a small scale," but if you gointo a faotory covering many acres and you lind thous- ands of bands pulling on thousands of wheels and shuttles flying and the whole scene bewildering with activities, driven by water or steam or electrio poNvor, yon conclude that the factory was put up to do great work and on a vast thane Now, I look at you, and if 7 :should find that you had only ono faculty of body, only ono muscle, only one nerve, if you weld Fee but not hear, or could bear and not see, If you had the use of only one foot or ono hand, and, as to our higher nature, if you had only one mental faculty and you had memory but no judgment, or judgment but no will, and if you had a soul vvith only one =palette would say not much is expected of you. But stand up, oh, men, and let 208 look you squarely in the face. Eyes capable of seeing everything. Hands capable of grasping everything. Minds with more wheels than any factory every turned, more power than any Cubes engine ever moved. A soul that will outlive all the I universe except heaven, and would out- live all heaven if the life of the other im- mortals were a moment short of the eternal. Now, what ha; the world a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the greatest of economists in the universe, and he makes nothing uselessly, and for what purpose did, be build your body mind and soul as they are built? There are only two beings in the universe who oan answer that question. The angels do not know. The schools do not know. Your kindred cannot certainly know. God knows, and you ought to know. A factory running at an expense of 8500,000 a year and turning out goods worth 70 cents a year would not be such an incon- gruity as you, 0 man, with such semi - infinite equipment doing nothing, or next to nothing, in the way of useful- ness. "What shall I do?" you ask. My bretbren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask God. There's some path of Christian use- fulness open. It may be a rough path or it may be a smooth nath, a long path or a short path. It may be on a mount of conspicuity or In a valley unobserved, but it Is a path on which you can start with swat faith and such satisfaction and such certainty that you can cry out In the faoe of earth and hell and heaven, "Te this end was I born." Aot at Once. Do not wait for extraordinary qualifloa- tions. Philip, the conqueror, gained his greatest 'Wades seated an a mule, and if you wait for some caparisoned Bu- oephains to ride into the conflict you will never get into the worldwide fights at all. Samson [slew the Lord's enemies with the jawbone of the stupidest beast oreated. Shamgar slew 600 of the Lord's enemies with an ox goad. Under God spittle cured the blind mania eyes in the New Testament story. Take all the faculty you have and says "0 Lord, here is what I havel Show me the field and back me up by omnipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God." Two men riding on horseback came to a trough to water the horses. While the horses were drinking one of the men said to the other a few words about the value of the soul, then they rode away and in opposite directions. But the words uttered were the salva- tion of the one to whom they were utter- ed, and he became the Bev. Mr. Champ- ion, ono of the mese dintinguished mis- sionaries In heathen lands, tor years wondering who did for him the °bristles% kindness, and not finding out until in a bundle of books sent him to Africa he found the biography of Brainere Tayber and a picture of him, and the mission- ary recognized the face in that book a - the man who at the watering troegh fue horses had said the thing that newel his soul, What opportunities yea Inive had in the pastl What opportunities yen have now! What opportunitioa you will have In the days to come! Put on your hat, 0 woman, this afternoon and go aild corn - tort that young mother who lost ear babe last summer. Pat on your hatn() man, and go over and see that merchent who was compelled yesterday to make an as* sigement and tell eina of the everlasting riches remaining tor ail those who serve tisc Lord, Can you sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you will help him into heaven. Let it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your heart, your lungs, Peen hanilt your feet, your body, your mind, Tour soul, your life, your time, your eternity for God, feeling in your soul, "To this end was I born," It may be helptol if I recite my own experience In this regard. 1 started for the law Witheet !mixing any divine direo- tIon. I conaulted my own taste; I liked lawyers and courtrooms and jitnnes and enries, and reetned in bearing the Feels ingleuysens and the leradleys of the NoW .Iersey bar, and as assistant or the oatinti clerk, at 16 years of age, esearebed tiUu naturalized foreigners, recorded deeds, received the confessiors of judgment; swore WItlIOSSell and JUXIall and grand bat after awhile 1 felt a call to tile gospel ministry and entered it, and fett some saelefaotion in the work; but one summer, when I was resting at Sharon Springs ami While seated In the park of that village, 1 sold to myself, "If 1 bave espeoloi work te do in the world, I ought to find it out now," and with that determination I prayed as 7 had never lieforo prayed, and got the divine direotioe, and wrote it down in my memoreetlem 'seek wed7 new my life work time as plainly as I see it now. Lire lo Ilrlot. And now I come to the olisnaoterie consideration, As near as I can tell you were bent for a latoPpy eternity, all the (listeners whittle have happened to your nateve to be overeonio by the blood of the Lamb It you will heartily accept that Christie. arrangement, We are all rejoic- ed at the therease in human longevity, People live as near as I can observe nbout ten years louger than they used to. Tee modern douters do not bleed Mater pati- ents on all oecasione as did the former doetors. In those times if a man land fever they bled Mw; if be bad consump- tion they bled him; it be bad lemma - Liens they blea him and If they could not mane out ozaotly what was the zaatter they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy was death's coadjutor. .All this has changed. Frans the Way 7 sea PeoPis skipping about at 80 yeara of age I con - chicle that the life insurance °mummies will have to obango their table of risks and charge a man no more premium at 70 than they wee to do witen be was 60 and no mere premium et 50 than when be was 40. By tho adeantioment of ntedioal science and the wider acquaint- ance with the laws of boalth and the fact that tho people know better bow to take care ot themseivoe human lite is prolong- ed But do you realize what. after all, Is the brevity of our earthly state? In the tines when people lived 700 and, SOO Vara tbe patriaroh Jacob said that his years were few. Looking at the lifo of the youngest person iu this assembly and supposing that he will live to be a nonagenarian, how short tho time and boon gone, while banked un in front of us Is an eternity so vast that arlthmetio bas not figures enough to express its length, or breadth, or depth, or height. You hone examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and you many baste seen daguerrectypes of some of the kindred of previous generations, you have had photographs taken of what you ware in boyhood or girlhood, and what you wore ton years later, and it Is 'Very interesting to any one to be able to look back upon pictures of what he vras 10, or 20, or 80 years ago, but have you ever had a pieture taaen of vsbat you may b and what you will bo if you seek after God and feel the spirit's regenerat- ing powert Where shall I plant the camera to take the picture? 1 plant it on this platform. I direct it toward you. Sit still or stand still whim I take the pioture. It shall be an instantaneous pio- ture, There! I have it. It is done. You can see the picture in its imperfect state and get some idea of what it will be when thoroughly developed. There is your resurrected body, so brilliant that the noonday sun is a patois of midnight compared with it. There is your soul, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could not spot It with an imperfection. There is your being, so mighty and so swift that flight from beaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter and back again to heaven would not weary yon, and a world on each shoulder would not crush you. An eye that shall never shed a tear. An energy that shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that shall never throb with pain. You are young again, though you died of decrepitude. You are wall again, though you coughed or shivered yourself into the tomb. Your everyday associates are the apostles and prophets and martyrs and most exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the centuries. The End of All Life. If you realize that it is an imperfeot picture, my apology is what the apostle John said, "It doth not yet appear what we shall he." "To this end was I born." If I 'did not think so, I would be over- whelmed with melancholy. The world does very well for a little while, 80 or 100 or 150 years, and I think that human loegevity may yet be improved up to that prolongation, for novv there is so little room betvveen our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish much, but who would want to dwell inthis world for all eternity. Some think this earth will finally be turned into a heaven. Perhaps it may, but it would have to undergo radical repairs and thorough eliminations and evolutiona and revolu- tions and transformations infinite to make it deesirable for eternal residence. All the east winds would have to become west winds and all the winters changed to springtides and all the volcanoes ex- tinguished and the oceans chained to their bode and the epidemics forbidden entrance and the world so fixed up that I think it would take tooth to repair this old world than to make an entirely new outs. But I must say I do not care where heaven is, if we can only get there; whether a gardenized America or an emparadlsed Europe or a world central to the whole universe, "To this end was I born." If each one of us could say that, Vie Would go with faces shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's Wang mis- fortunes did trials Only a little while, and then the rapture. Only a little white, and then the reunion. Only a little while. and then the transtiguretion. In the seventeeth ceetury all Nuropte Was threatened with a wave of Asiatics barbarism, and Vienna was espeoially besieged. The king and his court Ilea fled, and nothing could save the eity from being overwhelmed unless the king of Poland, John Sobleeki, to whom they had sent for help, should with his army come down for the relief, and Irons every roof and tower the inhabitants of Vienna watched and waited and hoped, until on the morning, ot Sept. 11 the rising sun threw an unusual and un- paralleled brilliancy, 11 was the reflec- tion of the men on the swords and shleide and helnaets of John Sobieskl and, hie army coming down oyer the hills to the rescue, and that day not only "Vienne, but Europe, was gave& And see you non 0 ye souls, besieged with sl o and sorrow, thee lighe breaks mi the aware" and the shieVi and the bele:lets of divine rosette bathed In the -rising tam of beaveply deliverance? Lat everytning else ge rather than let beeline' go. Aa umeraved Tooth, M. DebSell ldeked aeross the table at his wife with smile of irritating toter - arm. "Now those headaches of yours, my dear," he said, "1 oan't help feeling that they are partly the range of imagin. atiott. You are a little prelim, I fear, to exaggerate your suderings. I think yon should guard agaiust that tentlemay, or you'll soon become one of these carenio invalids." Mrs. Dobsen'a pelt* face flushed, nut Were she could reply, her buenend was apparently euized with a spasm of pain, lie hestily lete the thine Nvith Me napkin pressed to Me moans. Mrs. Doloson fol- lowed, and found bint 1 the Innate anxieuely regardlng a Small, graYiSko lump held in one hand. "The fillina has come out Of that VIIi. dem tooth." be tnestered, beneath the napkin. "The dentias said if the owe Was ever exposed again be feared uleera- tem; be wee °bin able to put in a tem. porary filling• last week. 11 is already jumping, and I must bare A het water bag and do up my face right away for the nighn and go to the dentist the first thing in the swathing " Mrs, Dobson was all syespatby at Once. She passed a wakeful night, keePlen hot ccanpreseee on ber husbaud'e fame but be euffered agonies from the tooth in spite of all, "it bas begun to ulcerate, 7 ismovr," he unimbled behind his swathings in the morning, and, without waiting for break - fest, Mrs Dobson took nim, weak from pain, to Dectot Brawn's Wilco. "Your face hasn't swollen Any yet," said Doctor Brawn, 'with the cheerful- ness born of long exercise of bis prates- sion. "Did emu save the filling?" Mrs. Dobson solemnly banded Mm a mall Inuit, of paper, whigh he laurelled in silence. "Did you have any canned stuff for dinner?" be asked, with apparent irravel- time, "Yes, wo had method corn," said lira. Dobson. "Wall, this," said the tientist, indicat- ing tbe gray lump, "appears to be a lump of solder; probably it canto from the tin can that the corn was in. I don't believe par tooth wsli uluerate toolay, Mr. Dobsou!" Silica then, when any guest mentions the word "Imagination" at the Dobson's, the head of the Mistily looks uneasily at hie wife. Treating &oinks, Bites. "Pimsloians are not agraea on tbe treatment for sneke bites," said a loads lug physician, "especially as to adminis- tering unlimited draughts of whisky to Persons suffering from the bite. The fact of the znetter is that, though there is a very general dread of the bits.° of a snake, there are few, very few persona ever bit- ten by them. In a practice extending over thirty yeers, seven years of whiele was in tho country district, 7 bave had but three snake bites to attend to, and in eye of them I was not entirely sure that it was a snake bite at all. Tbe three oases I had cauterized tho teals with nitrate of silver. .Any other strong caus- tic would probably have done as well, but the nitrate of silver or lunar ()anent) was bandy. I gave whisky in small quantities, but at frequent intervals. I know there is a very general impression in existence that whisky should be sim- ply poured down the bitten person, a half pint or so at a time, the theory being that the poison from u snake neutralizes the effects that whisky ordinerily cantles. I am free to say that I would not dare to gme a person a pint of whisky under any circumstances, and would not feel safe In giving a child as much as a quarter of a pint. Tablespoon doses given at intervals of a half hour for two or three hours will be all that is needed, though in cases whore tbe person used stimulants frequently I would not be so careful, for a large quantity might not do them any harm. I feel sure, however, that half .pint drinks of whisky are liable to do more harm than a snake bite. It is much safer, In my judgment, to administer the whisky hypodermically. Tbe effect is pro- duced Eau& quioker and more eatisfaet- orily. Wants and Weeds. A "need" is one thing; a "want" le another thing. We want e great many more things; than we need. A good parent wants the child to have whatever he needs, and is ready to secure such things for him if within his power. He would be a culpable parent who would give his child whatever -Shings he wanted whether he needed them or not. A parent le, in fact, set to the duty of keepinghis child from having many a thing he wan* as Well as Bemiring for the child whatever he needs. Our Heavenly Father is truest and best of parents in this sante diearire- ination of gifts to His children. lis knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Hine We tell Him the things that we want. We ought to be grateful that God will not give us the things that we want unless He knows that we also have need of them. Learning 111.ww to Learn. Sir James Pavt spoke upon one occa- sion of the importance of "learning to learn," and showed that knowledge, not immediately useful in itself, may be the means of developing the power of learn- ing. The cultivation of the faculty of knowing is of incomparably greater Ina- portapoe than the mere acquisition; and to the student, this faculty so developed that when need arises knowledge may be quickly obtained, is a bettet provision, for the business of life than is affordei by the largest and richest stores of in- formation peeked away in memory. Thus the brain property most worth carrying about is the power of finding at pleasure and learning at will precisely what is THE MINISTER'S STQRIES.. Being a jolly minister and a good etory teller, be goes through the world "seeing the bright stde of things anti waning life pleasanter for those -with whom he is thrown. His fondness or travel is only less than bis zeal in the work to wbiolt his life is dedicated, and it is a treat to listen to bile after one of his seenmer campaigns. "1 ws,it to see some of these stories in print," be remarked the tether evening weers ander the soothing Influence of a good dinner'. "I bave no patience with the peeecher wno thinks that the fuony tilde et existence is to be kept under a veil and that a mare' CbrletileoltY Is t4 be measured by tbe length of his fame The people who honestly steak tei do right are those entitled th enjoy Ilfe to the full, and I efteu think that assumed oolemnity it responsibie for a popular preimlice against tho oburoh. Cheerful- ness is the best and most attractive Ode of bureau nature, and It is actually dan- gerous to suppress it. Keep ln the sun- shine and extraot ail tise rational pleasure you can front your temporal experience. That's my metto, "Last week I was visiting some friends nee' Danville, (Mite I could, see that my presence imposed a t'estraine upon them and I longed for the opportunity to re- move the embargo upon their natural feelings. It came in an unexpected way. They took me out to see the pretty little cemetery. Among the monuments Inoted a shaft of marble surmounted by 12 huge ball. I'm near-sighted, you know, so atlinsted my glasses and eaW that the ball WAS a globe. Jumping to the conelosien tines it must mark the last resing place of some distingliiebed gcogranber, turned to my hostess and asked ber what male of edema Was buried there. " 'Bead the inscription,' she replied, her 'rand as Salatall as Ulat of an owl, though there was a tell-tale twinkle in her eyes. 7 complied and 'h'ho woe all tios world to me' Was wbat I read, The great globe, WWI all thenaturaletivielena marked with an acouraey to justify its nee in A sohool menu, and the accompany- ing words, were the tribute of a husband to Ms departed wife. I yield to roe cote 131 my regard for things sacred, but 7 ply went down on the green award and laughed till the tears roiled dawn my eiseeks and I was lathed by tbe entire party. That It was righteous to he natural appeared in the sequel, for 7 was *loser to those who were entertaining me and In better position to do thorn good thou I eould have been as the result of years or formal intercourse. "At another point in Ohio I attended slervices at a Ilttle church to winch* 'versa theologIcel etedent by the2212105 01 Hill bad bean called as rector ased Wel to Appear the next Sunday. Mr. 11111 had formerin been a nletbedist Painister and the 'Venerable Meter who bad been tem- poratilly in °barge bespoke indulgeucte far his successor until he should learn the forme, 'The congregatiott will bave to no lenient Nvith Mr. Hill for a time,' said the apologist, 'dud I am sore he will receive kindly any suggestions that will assist in the proper conduct at the serv- Mos, I bespeak: for him a cordial welcome at your bends; arta ism let lasing bran No. ---, "There's a green far away." "I'm frank to admit that I was ono of the 'young folks' that tittansti, and that I was in full sympathy with the little oboir wben it went to pieces beyond re- claim on that 'green hill.' "At my alma meter we sat up till 3 a.m, telling experiences and royiewing the days that came but once in a man's brothels. Some of my old Oath:elates aro staid professors now and others were there to Menne,' just as I was. Baidy was there, and at his best, We called Mtn Bailey be those days bethese ioe liati so much hair, and TIOW the title is °spool - ally appropriate, for ho is a shining-pated light in the educational field and ono of the meet oonseientioue workers to be found there. Baldy could not rest until be told bow be had placed a trunk In a darkened hallway and then called me, bow I responded in my ueually active way, how I took a header over that trunk, how I thuneered and roared to the limitations of speech placed upon a 'thee - log ' how I sent the trunk down. two fligkes of stairs, Nvreeking it as though it bad been an egesholl, how I offered a reward of $5 for the owner of the trunk, and how Balder earned the money by proving that it was my own. We laughed just as heartily as when we were boys together and every old °tiger among, us was the better for it "It was an old joke we bad on the learned professor of botany, but it was as good to us as when it was new, and it caused him to blush just as vividly. He bad been lecturing to his class which showed a disposition to be hilarious that day. They perpetrated bad puns, trans- posed letters and Syllables and were rid- ing a high horse so hard that the pro- fessor was compelled to call a halt. After sufficiently impressing them with the impropriety of their conduct, he said: 'Now, young gentlemen, we will resume. You see this potton cod I have in rey hand.' But they saw nothing but the joke which was on the professor and they were doubled up with laughter as he waved them out the door with the inno• cent cotton pod that he might have a chance to vent his town rislbles. "Of course they bad to recall how I had broken my repeated pledge that I would never taste anything intoxicating. Hurrying to my room one fall night I had taken a cross -out, the plank bridge over the creek had given way under my weight and I was immersed in the toy water. I reached the mom to find a lot of the boys assembled there. 'Fellows,' I said, with chattering teeth, 'mi -mix me a sti-stiff to -to -toddy, quick. An -and if I d -do -don't wa-want it whe-hen mixed, make m -m -me take it anyhow.' "FrItzy, who le a great preacher novr, related how he made his first call on the (thief lady of his original parish. He was a beardless youth of small stature and the nervous movements or a French dancing master. Facing the social ordeal with fear and trembling, be no sooner confronted the lady of the house than she told him that it would not be convenient to have him at that time. They were expecting the new minister and it would not do to annoy him with constant drumming and thrumming of a piano tuner. Poor Fritzy was half way across the front yard before he could muster the conrage to go back and establish his id en tity. "0, I had a great time and I feel just as strong for work as I did ten years ago." Saltness of Various Seas. A ton of Atlantic water when evapor- ated yields 81 ;wends of salt; a ton of Pacific water 79 pounds. Arctic and Ant- arctic waters yield 85 pounds to the ton, end Dead Sea water 187 pounds. ,---ennernesnotoste EMPEROR MAY LIVE. Though His Physician Pre. uounces His Disease Incurable. Bright's Disease fa Not Incurable. fly Dodd's! /Kidney rills }Pima Curtail It Thousands of Time* mut WUt Vora It Thousands of Times Again. Toronto,Nov. 7. --Newspaper despatch's front Pekin, China, bring ioforratetieet Se the effect that the Emperor is dying Olt Dieee.se. He is under the care et a famous French physician, who easertir that the Emperor's CQ1laPlaint l&4`110 curable Kidney disease.' The -tie -where the famous French Ore sician Is mistaken, There is no incurable Xiamen difteassit. Kvery disease of 010 Kidneys is cure:Wes They, like ell other disease; yield eeted117 Mt the proper remedies, The experience ot tbe past elght pal* bee shown conclusively, beyond tke elledew of a doubt, that there is one restip- edy tbae will 01215 1207 case of Keine,diet ease, no matter now severe, no matter how long it has rum This remedy is known throughout tho English-speakieg world, to physicians and laymen alike, by the name of Dow,a Kinenen PIPS, When Docid's Kidney Pill* were first irte ere:Weed, metliena men were ekeptical ren gardiug their power to cure ntriptiztee dis- ease. Experiments were made, in case* tisat heel defied the Fain of the most erne. neat medical men on the American con. ducat, cases that had been given up as liopeless—fatal. To the astenisbreent tat tbe medical Men, Dodel's Kidney Pills workeda. complete cure in each and every case. Thenceforth they 'were recognized 123 the only known ours for diseases of tits Kidneys, tholuellitg Bright's Disease and Diabetes. This place they have held since, and hold to -day. ,1kTo other euro for these dis- eases has ever beeu discovered, althougle many worthless imitations Cif Dada's Xid. uey 1211la have been placed on the marks If the fatuous Freuelz Opiate** =deer Nellose care the Chinese Emperor le, woitid use In -miens Kidney Pills the case ot his iniperial patient, his recovery be rapid aud certain, Groat Men's nem "It s an interesting historical face that nevi,* every man of great deeds Nebo also possessed a, great ebaractee had a mother of a strong. One nature, with whom in boyhood and early man- hood be dwelt in close sympathy eye* when at a dietance from her," writes Prances B. Kraus, in the readies' Home journal, "Probably tbe most disagree- able man soelally of all celebrated me* was poor Thomas Carlyle, whose die - position wee nervous, melancholy and grumpy, but In the midst of his !abode ous life, and severe lumina industry, he could always find time to write ef- fectionate lettere to hie mother, full If The respect, tendernees and coneldera- lion he never seemed to fee' for much greater personages. If e. mother's hand beide the leneinmstringe of a maze:, life 31 'will hold himself as at -enrol,' so did Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zeiade, with his motto, 'The Zing can do new wrong." The great demaini Inc a pleasant, safe and reliable antidote for all affections of the throat and lung% is fully met with in Bickle's Anti-Cotriumptive Syrup. It le a purely Vegetable Compound, and acts promptly and magically in subduing all coughs, colds, bronchitle, inflammation of the lunge, etc. It 14 so palatable that a child will not refnse it, and it is put at a price that will not exclude the poor from its benefits. *Lemon for the Hands. For the hands that have become tan- ned or sunburnt, just before going to bed bathe them in warm water and soap; then rinse them in tepid water so that all the soapy water has disap- peared, and then dabble them with lent - on juice. If your skin is very seresitiye dilute tbe lemon juice, but when it is applied aliove it to dry on the hands. Sleep in gloves, and after the third night's care your hands will be as fair and soft as the hands of any one of Shakespeare's heroines.—Ladies' Homo Journal. ..011/1- Baddeck, June t, 1897. C. C. RICHARDS & CO., Dear Sirs,—Minard's Liniment is my remedy for NEURALGIA. It relieves at once. A. S. McDONALD, Not Up -to -Date. "Lost his place as war correspondent for the Daily Whoop, I understand?" "Yes, I believe the reason assigned was that he was not np-to-date Lablo methods. You see he got hold of good piece of news, and in waiting It out he failed to devote 4,000 or 6,000 words to telling how he got it before stating what it was. On the contrary, he gave the news first." Aeoldentally Overheard. "Kirby, I admire your wife. She IS 111 eloquent in a few words." "How do you know?" "When you told her you had brought me up to dinner, she said, 'Gracious good- ness!' "—Detroit Free Press. Thome Hanorkti Cubans. Having successfully stormed the Amer- ican sandwich -wagons, the haughty Cu- bans are now preparing for a fierce assault on the (aces made vacant by the other fellows' surrender.—Denver Timm III. Idea et It. Yeast—Do you think Ike ever Iles about; the fish he catches? Crimsonbeak--No, I don't; but 7 think he lies about the fish he doesn't oatoh.-- 'Yonkers Statesman.