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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-23, Page 7AN UR6ENT. 3IESSA6E. Rev.. Dr. Talmage Gives Words of Counsel to Young Men. Points Out the Dangers Which Await Unwary Feet -Warning Against Drinking, Gambling and Unthrifty Habits --close to God. 'Washington, Deo. 1_$,—Thiti arousing and practical sermon by Dr. Talmage will reach Inane, hearts and be an avec- bel inspiration to those who are now starting in life. His text is Zechariah • 4, "Run. speak to this young lean." There was no snow on the beard of the propLet of my text, and no crow's feet bad lefe their hark near bier eyes. Zeeta- rich was a young luau, and in a day elreaul be saw and beard two angels talk- ing about the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. One of these angels desires that Towne 7.eehariale should be well in- forneed ohont+ the rebuildng of that city, Ile circumference and the height of its walls, and he says to the other angel, "Run. spear, to this young; hall." 1lo not walk, but run, for the message is ilrgent find imminent. So every young Man reds to have immediate advice about the dimeuslens, the isoight and the circumference of that which under Gad lie is to hutl"i--.-ltareely, hie own Chatau- ear and destine, No glow or lagger%i pace win do, .i! little farther on and retinae} will be of no advantngnwitt footed noise he the practical and important seta - neatens, kir boy mitten as well never be, Meade at all. Run at the pace of live utiles the hour and speak to that young yuan. Run, before this year of luted is onued. Run, i'efore this century is closed. Run, before leis eltaraerer is inexorably dei:tied for two worlds, this worldand the next. Row many 9t us have found out n, long and bitter experience things that ore ought to have Leen told before we wore 8h Tears of ago Now I propose to tell 1o0 Soma things -width it you will seri- ously and prayerfully observe kill unke you roaster of the situation in lrhieh you arta DOW placed. anel inastor of every situ- ation in which yolt ever will tea planed. And in order that my subae, t relay be climacteric 1 begin on the outside edge of that advice, which will be more and more import art as the subject unfolds, Now, if Foe would be master of the situation do not expend looney intern you ;get it. How many young sum irre- trievably mortgage their futons because at resoure es tlrtt aro quite sure to be theirs. have the money either in your band or ilr a safety deposit or in a bank or In a United States hood Wore you make pur- chases or go into expensive enterprises or hitch a spanking team to a glistering turnout or contract for the building of a mnnslon on tete Potomac or the Melon Do not depend on an inheritance from your father or uncle. The old man may' live an a good deal longer than you ex - pen, and the day of your oaforoed pay - ) mens may some before the day of hie deocase. You cannot depend upon rhou. ;nation or bent failure or senility to do Its work. Longevity is se wonderfully improved that you oaunot dapond upon people dying when you think they ought to. They live to be soptuagenariana or octogenarians or nonagenarians or even centenarians, and moanwhilo their heirs go l:.to bankruptcy, or, tempted to forg- ery or misappropriation of trust funds or watering ot railroad or nrining stook, go into the penitentiary. Neither had you better spread yourself out because of the 15 or 20 per cent, you expect from un 1nvestmene. Most of the 15 or 20 per cent. investments are apt to pay nothing save the privilege of being assessed to meet the obligations ot the company in the affairs of which you get involved. Better got 8% per cont. from a Govern- ment bond than be promised 16 par cent. dividend which will never be declared or paid only once or twine. so as to tempt you deeper in before the grand smash up and you receive, instead of a paymeut of dividends, a letter from the president and secretary of tho woman,' saying they are very sorry. Save as tittle Money. If you have to wait a year or five years or ten years or most of your lifetime then you had better wait rather than spend money you expect to get. Then after you get it do not spend it all. Never spend a dollar until you have 50 cents that you do not spend. In the Govern- ment service in this olty how many splendid women who are the daughters of men who spent all they got and then aueal;ed out of life to leave their daugh- ters penniless, to be looked after by some kind Senator or other friend who might solicit for therm a position one small sal- ary, but enough to keep them from starvation and the poorhouse! Such men do not die; they abscond. I cannot un- derstand how such spendthrift and reck- less improvident men dare at their decease aupear at the door of heaven seeking ad- mission when they have lett their fami- lies in the tophet or want and mendi- cancy. Such men do not deserve a throne and a harp and a mansion, but an ever- lasting poorhouse, From no disappointed or disgruntled state of mind do I give -ibis counsel, for life has been to me a glad surprise, as it has been to roost peo- ple a disappointment. I expected nothing of advantage or opportunity, and so everything has been to me a matter of pleased amarornent, but I have seen so many men ruined for tune and eternity by going into expenditure, with nothing to depend upon except anticipation, that if 1 bad power to, put all warnings into one clap of thunder I would with that startling vehemence say to all young MOD what John Randolph said in yon- der Senate Chamber as ho stretched his long finger out toward some Senatorial opponent and with shin I voice cried out. "Gentlemen, pay as you gol" Do not say you have no chance, but ▪ re- memberIsaac Newton, the greatest astronomer of his day, once pe•ldling cab- bages in the street, and Martin Luther singing on the public square for any pen- nies that he might pick up, and John Bunyan mending kettles, and the late Judge Bradley of the United States Su• prerne Court, wbo was the son of a char- coal harcoal burner, and Turner, the painter, who was the sen or a .barber, and Lord Clive, who saved India to England, shipped, by his father to Madras as a use- less boy whom he wanted to get rid, at, and Prideaux, the " world renowned scholar and theologian, scouring mots and pans to work his way through college. and the mother of the late William ]11. Dodge, the p.bllanthrogist and magma - gene man, keeping a thre.td and noodle store, and Peter Cooper, who worked on email wages in a glue iaotory, living to give $500,090 for the founding of an in* strung that has already educated tbou- samtis of the moor sons and daughters of .America, and Bowditch, thesoientist, be- ginning leis useful learning and affluent career by reading the books that had been drive ashore from a shipwreck at Salem. There is, young man a great financial or literary or moral or religious success awaiting you it you only know how to go up and take It. Then take it or get ready to take it. The mightier tbe opposition the grander the triumph when you have cengnered. There is a flower in Siberia that Nome only in January, the sever- est month of that cold eliurate. It is a star shaped flower and aovored with glee- toning spooks that look like diamonds, A. Russian took souse of the soeda 01 that slower to St. Petersburg an.i planted them, and they grow, and on the coldest day of January they pushed book the snow and ice and burst into full bluom. They veiled it the "snow #fewer," and it nnikes use thick at those whom the world tries to freeze out and avow under, bet who in the strength ot Clod push through and up and duo and bloom in the hardest 'weather of the world's cold treatment, starred and radiant with a beauty given only to those who find life a struggle and turn io into a victory. Mood c meet inti, Again. if you would be master of the sltnation. expect nothing front good leek or haphazard or gaining adventures, In this Lime, ~when it is estimated tbat gam- bling exehaugoe money to the amount of about X60,000,000 a day, this remark may bo useful. T11ore coma times in many a man's. life when he hopes to get something for which he moos not give an egsli;alent, and there are a0 kinds of gambling. Stand aloof from all of them. Understand that the gen:Ming spirit is a disease, anti the mote successful you aro the more eettain you are to go right on to your own ruin. Having made his thousands. why dose not the gambler stop and make a safe investment of what ho has gained and spend rho rest of his lite in quiet or less hazardous style of occupation? The reason is be cannot stop. Nothing but death ever cures a confirmed worthier. 1)r. Keeley's gold cure rescues the drunkard, and there are anti,tobacco prep°ratians that will arrest tho tiiotlm of nicotine, tend religion can cavo any ono except a gambler. The faot is ho is irresponsible Having got the habit in hint, ho is no more responsiblo for keeping on time a mon falling from the roof of a four storey house can atop at tho \fade\ri of the seaond storey. Here and there you may find an instance where a gambler has been roportod or reports leirnseif as being converted, but in that case the man was not fully under the heel of the passion. 'the real gambler is A Through passenger to death and perdi- rien. 'lho only use in referring to him IS in the way or prevention. He began by taking chances on a bookcase or a sewing machine at a church fair and ended by gutting a few pennies for his last valu- able In a pawnbroker's shop, The only nuts who gambles successfully is the man who loses so fearfully at the start that he is disgnsted and quits. Let him win ret the start and win again, and ie moans farewell to home and Beavon. Most merciless of all habits! Horace Walpole says that a man drop- ped down at the door of a clubhouse in London and was carried in, and the gam. biers began to bot whether ho was dead or not, and when it was proposed to bleed him for his racesery the gamblers pi•jeated that it would afidot the fairness of the bet. What noble men they must heves been! To -day, Not To -morrow. Again, if you would bo master of the situation, never adjourn until to -morrow what you can do to -day. The difference between happy and inspiring work and wearying and exhausting and dispiriting work is the difference between work be- hind you and work before you. But al- ways wait until you feel like it, wait until circumstances aro more propitious, wait till next week or wait till next year, and the probability is the work will be only half done or never done at all. Post- ponement Is the curse of a vast popula- tion. After awhile all the things that ought to have been done previously will rush in upon you, and, it being too much for your brain and nerves, you will be a fit subject for paralysis or nervous pros- tration, How many battles have been lost because the general did not strike quick enough, and the enemy hal full tune to satber re•enforcomentl You in - send saline time to write tbat important lett.r. You Intend some time to make thaaibusiness call. You intend some time to finish that book. You intend some time to preach that sermon. Where is some ii.ue? What is some time? Does it «elk es eros it float about you? Will it happen to come? No! Some time is never. There are no stragglers in tbe days and months and years. If one day should re- fuse.to keep step and become a straggler, 11 would wreck the universe. Prompt- ness! 17p to timel To -days Now! You will get only what you win. There are accidents, like the printer's mistake which caused Louis Napoleon to be called "Napoleon III." A Parisian edi- tor at the time tbat Louth Napoleon by base strategy turned the republio into a monarchy wrote in 9erision the word "Napoleon," followed by three exclama- tion points. Tbese exclamation points the printer mistook for the letter 'I" three times Written, and hence be Was, called "Napoleon III." But promotions by accident are not to be depended on. Depend on getting nothing except that which under God by your own industry and goo,1 sense you achieve. That was a good maxim of onion time, "Get thy spindle ready, and God will send thee Sax." Religion Necessary. Again, if you ,would be master of . the situation, and I natne it last because it le the most important, for you know that whioh is last mentioned is apt to be best remembered, I charge you get into your heart and life, your oonversation . and your manners, your body, mind and f oul, the miler 6,03P -year-old religion of' the Bible. Why sof Because the large majority of people quit this life before 25 years of age, and the possibility is that if you do not take possession of tbis religion, and religion does not tan possession of you while you are young, you will never come into alliance. Aire Heraolitus, according to Plato, said that no man bathes twice in the same river. But, suppose you live to be octo- genarians, do you not see that postpone- ment is an awful waste of nerve and. musole and brain? What is the useof your pulling a hoary load all your life when you can have two of the white horses that St. John saw in heaven bar - morsel to your load? Suppose you bave a great mill wheel to turn. You can pus that mill wheel where it will be turned by a mils race of water one toot deep, poured by a small brook, or you can put It along the deep and swift St. Law- rence, wbiah will yell through the mill race tons of water every second of time, Are you going to run your life by the shallow drippings of earthly inlluencce or ay the rolling rivers of omnipotent power? Are you going to undertake the work of lite with noting but your own brain and arm backed up by all the ter- restrial and all the celestial farces of the Almighty? I make as great an offer as was over made by man, 1 offer you God. He tells me to make that point blank proposition, le you want thele you can have them on your side for the earnest Asking •-- omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence! Can you imagine a greater contrast thou .a yonng man undertaking lite 1,t9ne—lith, with all it oonfreetntonts of temptation and obstacles --and a young iuell undertaking life with every wing of angel and every thunderbolt of heaven pledged for his defense and advancement -- the difference between a yen= man alone and a young man befriended by the Maker and Upholtler of the universe? The battle of life is so severe that no young man Can afford to deellne any help, and the mightiest help is God, One night in the year 1741 (fount Lassoo* went to escort the Princess Elizabeth to Russia to a throne watch was then nn - occupied. She halted. ^he hesitated, she wondered whether she had better go to the palace and mount the tbreno 9f all the Russian, Then Count Lessook drew op a paper two skotohee, the one of her- self and the count io disgrace and on the scaffold and the other of herself on throne amid hn;rrati.tg subjects, When the saw plainly thio she mutt make a choice, she chose the thranu. I put before the sung man of e'.aehia*ton and the young men of America ,ha eitaico between overthrow and enthronement. You may have what you will. Witt you be the $lave of passion and sin and death or a conqueror empala"'edI' 'lire : pttnie r prov- erb was right whom it said, "The road of By and By lends to the town of Never," Get Ouse to God. More young men would take this ad- vantago which I speae of if they did not have tho notion that religion purrs one iota depressing pros ees. They have heard, for instance, the absurd praaahrnont, "You ought to live every day as though it wore your last." Such a lachrymose man I would not want anywhere around me. Qn the contrary, you aught to live as though you were going to live a great while in this world and to live forever in Oa nest world. There is no smell of varnish of Rollin lids in our genuine re- ligion. Get in right relation with God through Jesus Christ, and you need not bother yourself the ro-t of your life for two minutes about death or abot.I your funeral. Hero is a manly religion, one that will extirpate from your nature all that ought to be extirpated and Irradiate it with every virtue and make it glow with every anticipation. Neither would I have you adopt that other absurd preachment, that the things of this world aro,of little importance as compared with the next world. On the contrary, you cannot sufficiently appreci- ate the importance of this world, for it decides your next world. You might as well despise a schoolhouse because it is not a university. In the schoolhouse we prepare for the university. If this worlds Is of such Little importance, I do not think the first born and the bast born of heaven would have event 33 years down here to redeem it. Start Right. Young man, start right, and the only way to start right is to put yonrselt into companionship with the best friend a young man ever had—Christ the Lord. He will give you equipoise amid the rook• ing of life's uncertainties. He will sup- port you in day of loss. He will direst } ou when you come to the forks of the road atad know not which road to take. He will guide you In your home life, if you are wise enough to hove a home of your own. , If you live on to great pros- perity, ho will show you how to manage a fortune. If your earthly projects fail and you are put in financial straits, he will see to it that time is the best condition for your soul, and the discipline and the hardship will make you more and more of a mat. If you live o0 to old age, ha will make the evening twilight as bright as and perhaps brighter than was the morning twilight, and when your work on earth is clone the gates of a better world will open on expaualone and en- tbronements and felicities which St. Jahn describes sometimes as orchards, sometimes as shaded streets and some- times as a crystalline river and some- times as an orchestra with mighty instru- ments, blown on by lips cherubic or thrummed by fingers seraphic, and in- habitants always tearless and songful and resplendent, so that the mightiest calamity of the universe is the portion of that one who fails to enter it. Young man, seek only elevating and improving companionship. Do not let the last salon of a noble family, a fellow with a big name, but bad habits, for he drinks and swears and is arssolute, take your arm to walk down the street or spend an evening with you, either at your room or his room. Remember that sin is the most expensive thing in God's universe. I have read that Sir Brasil, the knight, tired out with the chase, had a falcon on his wrist, as tbey did in days of falconry, when with hawks or falcons they went forth to bring down partridges or grouse or pigeons, and, being very thirsty, came to a stream struggling from a rook, and, releasing the falcon from his wriot, be took the 'Bugle whioh he carried, and, stopping the mouthpiece of his bugle with a tuft of moss, be put this extemporized cup under the water which (lame down drop by drop from the rock until the cup was fuli,tind then lift- ed into drink, when the falcon he bad released with sudden swoop dashed the cup from his hand. By the sante process' be filled the cup again and was about to drink when thefaloon by •another swoop dashed. down the cup. Enraged at this insolence and violence of the bird, he cried, "I • will wring thy neck if thou doest that again." But, having filled the cup a third time and trying t0 drink, a Obit : time the falcon dashed 15 down, Then Sir Brasil with but net struck the bird, which fluttered and looked lovingly and reproachfully at him and dropped dead. Then Sir Brasil, looking up to the top ot the rook whence drloped the water, saW a great green serpent soiledfold a*ave told, the venom, front his mouth dropping into that from whioh Sir Brazil had filled bis oup- Then exclaimed tba knight, "What a kind thing it was for the falcon to dash down that poisoned cup, and what a sad thing that I killed him, and what a narrow escape 1 hall" So now there are no more certainly wa- ters tbat refresh than waters that poison. This moment there are thousands or young mon, unwittingly and not know - inn what they do, taking ire etheir bugle cup of earthly joy that which is deadly because it drips from the jaws of tbat old serpent, the devil, and the dove of Glod's Spirit in kindly warning dashes down the cup, but again it is Oiled and again dashed down and again filled and again dashed dawn. Why not turn away and slake your thirst at the clear, bright, perennial fountain that, breaks front the Rom of Ages, a fountain so wide and so deep that all the inbabitants of earth and all the armies of heaven may stoop down and fill their chalices? CRANBERRY DESSERTS - Pies and retie, That Are Deuelooe for ialnoor Vine -hes, To make cranberry pie with eggs: Take ono coffee euptul of llitely-chopped cranberries and a oup of sugar beaten with one wbole egg and the yolks of two eggs. Mix them thoroughly and turn into* piste lined with pie crust, anti hake in a moderate oven. Beat the whites of Iwo eggs to a stiff froth anti add two tablespoonfule of sugar. When the pie ie faked spread the meringue roughly over the top and return to the oven 19r a few moments to brown light. ly. Another delicious pie may be made thus: Take two cups of chopped cran- berries, and add to them one oup of raisins, seeded, and chopped, bait a oup of granalated sugar, the same amouns of water, two t,hiospoonfuts at flour, and. ono egg. Line pie plate with rioh crust aired 1111 with tide mixture; cover with an upper crust and bake in rather a slaw oven. For a Canadian cranberry pudding; Sift into a large bowl two imps of flour and a half a tauspoonful of Bait. Mix into this oue half or a cup of molasses and two-thirds et a cup of sour milk, In which half a teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved, Add one beaten egg and one and one -halt cups of cranberries. Turn into a buttered pudding dish and steam an Baur and a quarter. Servo with a Hweet mune. A dainty and pretty dessert is Bran. berry Bavarian cream Rub tbrougb a sieve while hot one pint of cooked cran- berries, and udd to thong oue oup of granulated sugar. Soak half a box of gelatine In half a cup of Mater and add it while the berries are hot. When the sugar and gelatine are dissolved, place the duff containing the mixture in a pan of ice water and stir until it begins to thicken, Then add one cup of milk and whip light one oup of Dream and all it last. Boat thoroughly and tarn It into a mould and set in a cold place to harden. Servo it with whipped cream. Light cranberry puffs are made thus: Rub through a slave one pint of dour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt. Add two cogs well beaten and milk enough to make a batter as thick as for pancakes, and stir in one pint of oranberrles. Butter oust- ard cope and partly fill them with the mixture. Place thorn in a eteamer and steam one hour without lilting the cover. They should be very light and like puffs. Serve with ;he following sauce: Cream together one cup of powdered sugar, bail a cup of butter, one egg and one tea- spoonful et vanilla extract. Have one oup of milk boiling and when ready to serve stir It into the creamed mixture. A Queer Incident. A Chicago man, according to the Tribune of that city, used the telegraph the other day in an odd way. A visitor wborn he bad met frequently in New York stepped into his office. It was busi- ness as well as inclination to be exceed- ingly cordial to the New Yorker, but for the life of him he could not recall the visitor's name. In the ntldst of the con- versation the Chicago man was reminded of a telegram be had forgotten to send. Pulling out a blank he sent the follow- ing to his New York house: "What's the narae of Jenkin's bead man? Can't re- call it. He is here." They chatted along for half an hour, when the answer came. 11 read: "Simpkins." "And now, Mr. Simpkins, it is about time for lunch," remarked the Chicago man. "We'll go over to the club. I want you to meet sem° of my friends there," A Clear Definition. Teacher—West Is salt, Thomas? Can you tell me? Thomas—Please, sir, it's what spoils the potatoes if you don't put it in to boil with them, Vp to Date Inference. The Maid—Yes, darling, let us marry at once. We can get along, for 'I will work hard and be ever so economical. The Man—Ah, dearest, it makes my heart swell with happiness to bear you talk in that noble inanner. I thought at first that you might object to taking a position. Streets No Obstacle. Yeast—How did you like the streets of Pnris? t')rimsonbeak—All right. It was the hart mage I couldn't get over.—Yonkers Se:teem an No Cause For Trouble. ".Are the Indians near your ranch trou- blesome?" rou-blesoAle?" "Naw I They itetW$ t _nothin we Fant. i• ftei 1.40,1(Ativ c'e?,4, a i&A*R4utz 44t&vtrvIL-4r 447 4$46.4 Me missed clang. "My eon," said the old gentleman, who very properly objects to slang, "I have been thinking over your rectuest this morning, and 1 am inclined to think I may have best a little hasty in my decision," "Thank you, governor." "I believe in clearly understanaing a Rase before re -opening it. Now, as I ro member the conversation, your call at the office was prompted by a desire to 'raise the dough.' „ "Yes—that is to say—'" "Never mind. I asked tar no cxplana Mons. I do Dot seek to inquire into all tbe trfviai whims of youth. 1 accept them as I do the wild flowers among the grain. They are useless, but they are cheering to contemplate. Thera are many tbings I do not understand, among them being golf, lawn tennis rend football, but I do not asutune to interfere with your innocent dlvcrsion any more than I un- dertake to keep track of the 'currenat fad. If you want to give up experiments with the chafing dish and go to work with an oven I have no objection to offer, nor will I let the mere matter of expense stand in your way. I was rather busy when you spoke to me about raising the dough this morning. I know that 1 sports shortly, bat my beast le in he right place, and 1 am too generous and in- dulgent to Bann your slightest request. Isere, my boy, Is twa cant*. Ga and buy eourselt a cake of yeast." Jottings ret foinparauee.. A home for barkeepers is to be eetab- lisirod at \linukesba, Wis. The papers report that arraugments are making far the establishment in bunt Cuba and 1100110 Rico of largo distiller- ies to bo owned and operated by Ameri- cans, those to be followed by breweries, During the diamond jubilee festivities in inriia a native prince, in proposing the health of the Queen, asked the company to drink it, not in the fashion of Euro - peens, but in a glass of water, which represented the purity of Har Majesty's oharaator. A barkeeper at the house of Commons restaurant has been summoned before a London police magistrate for "illegally supplying intoxicating liquor to the publio," The tem pare nco people are fight, ing to force the House of Commons either to take out a license for its beer or to stop the sale of liquor. Recently, with sooreoy and baste, the Leelslativo Connell of Jamriea passed a bite to increase their income by multiply- ing the facilities far the sato of spirits. A vigorous opposition was started by the missionaries. The Queen bus declined to eonftrm the bill, and so It bas fallen through. The habitual inebriates bill bas become a law. It merely applies to habitual drunkards wbo have been convicted by the pollee. Lord Womyss fought hard for its restriction to persons convicted of crime. The bill is a small temperance mercy for whioh we ought to be thankful. Lending a Helping Baud. There can be no question but that there aro many who need sympathy and help. A little interest taken in others, a little advice given to others, have most unquestionably constituted a turning point in their lives. Every reader of bio- graphical sketches remembers scorns of in- stances proving and illustrating the propositions laid down above. Biography is a luminous demonstration of the fact that society Is a vast and tarreaohing network; it reveals a mutual dependence and interaction; It shows the neeelsity Ior a reoiproccal exchange of sympathy, advice and help. The moral whioh we would craw from the above is this: Re• membering the authority of that pro- found and beneficent vroverbial saying, "nobleesse oblige," we should see to it that all who come within the range of our influence are duly counseled and aid- ed. Beware of putting Cain's question to God: "Am I my brother's keeper?" Be- ware lest we forget St. Paul's mighty teaching: "For none of us liveth to bine- self, and no man dieth to bimself " To neglect thole who have been provident• sally thrown into our hands, to withhold the love, counsel and succor due them by our advantageous position, is to forfeit a good conscience and the favor of God. _ler Pretty Teeth. In a Vine street car the other day, says a Cinuinnati daily, were an old goutleman with an ear -trumpet and a very pretty young woman, accompanied by a pretty little boy. She smiled at in- tervals to the boy and showed her pretty teeth in a bewitching way. All at onoo the old man, in the way so peculiar to so many deaf people who do not know bow to moderato their voices, so loud as to be audible all over the car: "I only paid $5 for my upper set of teeth. What did yours cost?" To say that the pretty woman was mad is putting 1t mildly. She flounced around with a flush of angor blazing in her cheeks, and sig- nalled the conductor to let her out at the next crossing. Gladstone and Ireland. Only a stern sense of duty induced Mr. Gladstone in his 77th year to endeavor to bring about the pacineation of Ireland. "I shall win," he said when he appealed to the country, "or be hunted out or Public life." "What do you think el Mr. Gladstone now?" asked a Liberal M.P. of Mr. Healey at the close of Mr. Glad - stone's speech introduoing home Rule. "I think," replied sir. Healey, "that he bas elected to be crucified for Ireland." Thinking Alike. Yabsley—I have always had an idea that after a couple had been married for some time even their thoughts became to a great degree idontival. Ain I right, Pock? Mr. N. Peck (emphatically)—You are. About now my wife is 'thinking what she'll sny to me for coming home so late. 4.04 so ani I.—London Pamoh. CLOSET, 'l'ilsonburg, pmt Fab. net, leas, 'Ile Warriors Creutatory Moret Qo„ $arrarftan, Gentlemen: I breve need your (Modest closet in my bath -room for come time, and bave muelt pleasure 10 recuupnending. it to the public. Neither le fore, daring or after Writing out, you can,n,t detect the slightest oder, and would not le without it for double the sort. Yours truly, NV. R. Hoses. It requires no fire wide,, in use and with a family of from 4106 members, a Are once ire two weeks is auflicient. The Odorless Crematory and General Keating Co., HAMILTON, ONT. Iittntsnua 114%e nutty Uses. Immense fortunes bave been mads out of the banana huslneee. Revenues do not accrue alone from the Eltle of the fruit, for the leaves are used for packing; the juice, being strong in tannin; the wax found on the under side of the leaves is a valuable article of comnmarce; manila hemp is made from the atoms, and of this hemp are made :Hats, platted work„ and lace handkerchiefs of the finest texture; moreover, the banana is Around into banana flour, The fruit to be sold for dessert is ripened by the dry warmth of flaring go. irate in the eterage places in which it is kept, and immense ohre has to be taken to prevent eofte:ling or over. ripeniug, The Island of Jamaica yields great props of this useful and money. making fruit. a :,L.. EX -REEVE CMG. A Prominent Dresden Citizen Tells an interesting Story. Mew Dodd's Kidney Y1lis Cured Him et Rheumatism. and Gout After the Best Doctors and Reny Medi.. eines Bad Failed. Dresden, Dec. 12.—This town begets a, peculiarity of whish its people may well be proud, as it proves beyond dis- pute, iepnte, that they poseess that desirable attribute, common sense, in no snail! degree. The peculiarity is the remark- able decrease in the unrmber of caeca of Rheumatism during the past few years. Eight years ago, Dresden was afflict- ed by that curse of modern civi1izatione Rheumatism, to es great an extent as any other place of its size is the Do- minion. To -day such e. complaint la practically unkoonn here. A clue to the means by wealth this drsirable condition has been brought about may be found in the following statement, given for publication by W. G. Cragg, Esq., ex -reeve of the town, and one of our most prominent mer- chants. "For eight years I was a martyr to Rheumatism, of the intlamenntoiry type, end during that period my sufferings beggared description. To add to my mis- ery, I was attacked by Gout. The beak doctors failed to benefit me, and no good was done by the many patent medicine* I used. At times; I could not get about at all, and, at the best, it was a severe task for me to make my way about my store. "Hearing that Pond's Kidney Pills had cured a Dresden lady of Rheumae •tism, I decided to try the medicine. Imagine my delightful surprise when I found myself growing better after having takenhalf a dozen doses. I used six boxes of the pills need am now a* sound and well es ever I was. Dodd', Kidney Pills curers me. This I am ready and willing to swam to." Dodld's Kidney Pills are the menet, quickest and hest euro for Itheumntiean ever known. They never fail. And they cost only fifty cents a box, at all drug stores. She Wars Thinking of It. Mrs. Elverson—Oh, Mrs. Downsleigh,. I hear that your daughter Mabel is en' gaged to Fred eVaddington. Mrs. Downsleigb—Yes; they expect to be married some time during the winter. Why, what makes you look so funny/ Do you know anything about bine? Mrs. Elverson—Oh, no! Nothing much. I was only thinking. Once when he was a boy I heard our minister say be expected him to come to a bad end. An :twtni -.eute•..ce.. A celebrated Irish judge once passed sentence in the following manner. The prisoner was a butler who bad been con- victed of stealing his`' matter's wined "Dead • to every claim 01 nattmrelaffeotioo, blind to your own' r3111 interests, yea b;ivu burst through 'ell the restraints of • religion and morality.auti have for many years been feathering your, own nest with your master's bottles,"