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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1899-1-13, Page 7DAVIDS ARE WANTED. Not Only the Nations But Each Community Needs Leaders, Dr. Tall -nage POIntS Out the Way in WhiOh. One Man May Make HirilSelf Worth Many, as the Old PrOPhetS Did --A Lesson fOr US. ward will reveal the self seCrifloe and the fidelity of thousands who rover in all their Beres received one word of praise. Washington, Jan, 8„ --From a text probably never before discoursed upon hie Talmage In title sermon ows bow Ing oue man in * hattaliou, by your faith ea God aud new consecration be a Wbole regiment Tied deity peelers say Meetrny pld friend Jeremiah 0. Lanphier of New York le need ae 90 years of Age. But thee Ate mistaken, That man can never die. U e will live as long ae beeven lives. ao was the father of vitaliztd ed, vleed wed• arousing prayer meetings. geeetatelthed the neondey Fulton street prayer meeting threoue tbroughput Christennom ao witt 'rere bonoreel of GO than auedeyetioesti meeting sinli ge the Wend began. e Intro' tweed the little bell ed tbe preyer meet- ing thele width, alwaye tapped When prayer* were tee prefix Or eXliartatiOliS winded. Finding that Malty business man are from le noon to 1 o'clook at coneparetive. leisure', he widely announced that at Le oteleck or 23r4 of September, 1867, there would, begin a prayer meeting of one hexer In the small ',lee People neuittply their resouroee tor OhYe knOwn, ye thtbful and Chris upper room of the Reformed Cberch, on usefulnese and in a noYel way urges the tian and all -enduring Stay at homes. Fulton street, New york, Lanpbier went putting forth ef more energy in right 'neve no power now to do yo tt iteseice, to tat vane at le eitileek and sat alone. directioes; text, IL Samuel ;edit, 8, but 1 tell you of wee who hats the power, .&t. 1e,30 a mart eutered an1 ethos came Tbou are worth 10,000 of ps." and cif the day 'whole be will put it forth, , until there were Me worshIpeers presene It will be tbe day when ehe thimble), end The meeting on the following nagneety the ladle, and the earning needle, and numbered ele and the next day 40. Then the waehtub, and the spinning wheel, the meeting became WO large for tbe anel the eeYthe, and the thrashing Men. and Wives takep i»ta the Main niathiete, and the natnener, and the melieeritem, aed for 41 years that eervica bee been the religienie center of Chritten, dom. Requeats for prayer from all porta of the earth bath come there and the prayers offered been answered sometimee With a resoend that was heard Wench - Mat Chriatendem. lieudreds of theingentia a souls helm stepped into thee Betnesda aud been bettled, Thee meeting etarteal One of the most wonclroue characters of his time was David. A red haired boy, he could shepherd a flock er carry "ten loaves and ten slices of milk. cheese to big Inothers 10 the regleneut." or witb leethern thong, stone loialed, bring donne trenvel, and the plow, well count to lee giant aruose armor weighed tWo hand- !high an appreolation as a 74 -pounder, or redweignt ot metal, or cause Alien whieh the sword, or the battering ram that roared at him in rage th roar with pain Pounded down the walk or the flag that tie he flung it, dying, to the roadelele, or Was heisted on the scaled parapets. could marshal a best, or rule an empire, Tb e warrior David of my text *Showed or thumit lunp so skilitnlle that . Mara Self control and moral prowese oared tt'aill'a dementia—a harp from StAYIng SO IMMO then he conk* ineeee WhOS0 strings, dripped pastorals, elegies, ' oomrotiogitli ehe tiold* rat tritIMPhal Mambas, neueslictiong, a natural warrior. Menial Urs Stirred Now, tide entire a combination of musks him. Tbe glitter of opposing shields fired and berobs, of ditityramns and nettle. him. lie was one et thote tneu who 'feel of coontry tinietudes and stetee- hoolo to the saddlos Pittting the nook inantihip, IS to lit out a military expedi. a a pawing cavalry berme But be sup - tion. Veer tbetleana troops, aceordIng to Preeeed hiMeelf. Re obeyed the commend Josephue, were seat into the field. The ot the treePs 'wheel Ita Woilld like to have etstitalee were it in oosilmand Of the . velllinended• cempanies and the oolonela in command ' Some people think it is a brigbt thing er refeilleente: wideh Were dispoised tee pet theneselvee in Uneeceseary neriI, into right eviug, left wing and center. They like to Walk up to the edge of a General Jottb, General Ablshai and. Gen- Preciplce and look off, nefying vertigo, end laid are to lead these three MO- or go araoag contagious when, they can along. liat who shall take the field as be of no use but to demoustrate their cestozeauder-in cbief? David offers his own bravado, or with glee drive horses services and prepeeee to tee to the trent, Whitsil are enly barneesed whirlwinds, or Re will lead them in the ammo, charge, SOO bole close tbey Call Wails ill treat Ot for be hos net a 00Wardly nerve In all * trelley car Without being ere:deed, or his body. He did net propose to have bis oprieg on A Will train after le leas started, ttoope go into perils whiele be htueseet or leap off a Mel trelo before it bits atop- woolci not bravo, and the 'Attie:geld re- Ped. Their 'Ilte le a aerthe ot narrow ;mired as much courage then as now, for *Milne., careless at what predicament the appesing foram remit, in -order to do titer eamily would euffer at their sudden any execution at all, cones up to Within taking off, or of the misfortune theft positive reach of saber ad spear. But 'night corns to their In:Illness nartners, there came up from the troops and Imo or the complete failure of their life work (+seinen' a mighty protest agansst if a aoronsee jury ilatiSt be called in te David's taking the field. His eire was too deelde the style of their exit. They do important to the nation. et he went not take into eunsideration what their down, the empire went down, whereas if life is worth to others. Taken off through the whole 4,000 of the ranks were slain such reeklemenees they go criminals. another army might be marehailed and There was not: one man among those the defeat turned luta victory. The arsny four full reglinents of 4,000 Israelite.; and the nation practically cried out; that would have so MU011 enjoyed being "leol e,'01 You cannot on tO tbe front. in tbe as Devlin but homer that he Wu estimate you as 10,000 mole Thou could serve bill nation best by tiot putting art worth 10,000 of usl" on helmet eild shield ante sword, and so Tito Lessons for Xis. bo took the advice at the armed men and said, "What seemeth to you best I Will That army and that nation then and do," I warrent that you evill die soon there reminded David and now remind thougl. Without teasing and bentorIng us of the fact that we fortet or never casualty to sae if it can launch you into appreciate at all that souse Humes are the next world. steamily or spiritually wart t ;far more Elvin; of neekteeeneen then others and some worth 1 loss, The consuls and istatistice of peighborboods, nib° oases out et ten fatnbeiee of churches, of nations, item their pur. every day reported ure not the fault of pose, but they oan never aces:irately ex- engineers or brakemen or conductors or press the real state of things. The pram cab driver,, but of the stupidity and Ideal subject that I want to preseut to- rookleseness of people at street or railroad slay is that those wee have especial oppor- crossing. They would like to have the tunity, especial graces espeolal wealth, Chicago limited (manes train, with 300 especial talent, eve:nail eloquence, ought paseengers, and etivertised to arrive at a lo make up by especial assiduity and eertairt hour in a eartein city, slow up consecration or those who have lees to let them get two minutes sooner to opportunities and less gifts. 'Yon ought their destination, not one farthing of to do ten timer more for God and human their own or any ono else's welfare do - uplifting than those who have only a pendent on whethee they arrive ono min - tenth in your equipment. The rank and ute before 2 o'clock or one minute after. the file of the 4,000 of the text told the You ought to get permission from a rail - truth when they said, "Thou art worth load superintendent to mounts beside the 10,000 of us." engineer on a locomotive to realize how many evils of reokleeeness there are in What night Ito Done. the world—funeral prooeseions en:lipping I admit that this thought of my text, up to get across before the cowcatcher fully carried out, would change many of strikea the hearse; man of family, with the world's statistics. Suppose a village wife and children beside him In a wagon, is saia to have 1,000 inhabitantsand that evidently having made close celculation one-lialf of them—namely, 500—bave for as to wbether a stroke from the l000nm- yeare been becoming less in body, and Sive would put them look:ward or forward through niggardliness and grumbling, in the journey to the village grocery; lees in soul. Each 0138 of these is only traveller on a railroad bridge hoping that one-half of what be once was or one-half , be could get to the end of the bridge be- ef what she once wee. The °rig -Itch' 5 -e -e fore the train re:lobes it. You have no have been reduced one-baif in moral right to put your life in peril unless by quality, and are really only 250. Suppose euch exposure something is to be gained that the other 500 have maintainee tteir or others. What imbecility in thousande original status and are neither better nor worse. Then the entire population &that village is 750. But suppose another vill- age of 1,000, and 500 of thorn as the years go by, through mental and spiritual culture, augment theineetven until they ire really twice the then and women they origimilly were, and the other 500 remaie unchatigee' and are , rieitber hotter nor fees-isse;'` then' tins -population thee Sil1. age is 1,500. Meanness is subtraction and nobillte iee %Mitten. According as ran ise itt tins Eisele listilisese aud generosity Wei Odeseoration, you are worth five or sn or 50 or 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 others. eNotitie, my friend, that this David, warrior, strategist, minstrel, master of blank verse and stone slinger at the giant, whom the soldiers of the text estimated cigar up into the tbousandfeed of usefulness, on this particular ocoasion -staid at home or in his place of temporary residences. General Joale, General Abiehai and General Ittai, who commanded the Inv in the right wing and left Wing aini center, did their work bravely and lifee25,000 of the Lord's enemies (lead ameba geld, and many of the survivors "geeentangled in the woods of Ephraim, lurd' mixed up in ihe bushes, and stuni- bled over the stumps of trees, and fell infO bogs, and were devoured of wild bethts which seieed theca in the thickets. But David did his work at home. We all Ingheis for hero,' who have been in bat- tbneend on their return what processions wellorns, and what triumphal arches we teeing, and what banquets we spread, airrimhat 'garlands we wreathe, and what ettition.:S we,delivert,,' and. what ':bells we nog, and what cannonades we fire! But sio.We do justice to the stay at homes? Dated who was worth 10,000 of those who, went out to meet the Lord's eneinies in the Woods of Ephraim, that day did his work in retirement. Stay at Home illerotti. , . ' Oh, the world needs a. day of judgment to give many of' the titay at homes proper reiegnition. In the different waif; the seuette Went to the front and on ship's decilh.or batdefield exposed their lives and earned the admiration of the enuptry. Butdeow about the mothers. and fathers 'eh() 'ethrough long . years taught those ,soese the noble sentiments thee inspired these to ge.and then gave tome up veli n ;aphelia a few worde of earnest prot evened have Iteet them on the farm to, $he homestead? The day of final. , , Si tt ad :santiago, and the veesele ef the enemy began to slut, and their crew were struggling in the waters, w bens from this abip I speak of the raters and sailors negen to threw aVer chairs, planks, Wenn, to belp the drowning gave themselves. After eyebile every tbing amen Able had been thrown overneeed exeept the pulpet to the shape ei a mese. Aft.T objeetion by scene thee ie was tee beauti- fui and vedueble to be Asast Into pbe water, tbe gross, eves dropped eett, the sea. One of the drowning men seized it, hut tot go, and another seized mad the thou; went trent many on cleele to tbese etroggling in tbe waves.; "Cling to the cross i ("nag to the cross!" Several ef the drowning took the advice awl held on until they were rescued and isroughe la Wet,* to deok, one shore, and Immo, and I say to all the smile to -day Sinking in sin and sorrow, now awept this stay and new that; Toone, the guns qt Ornate - ;ion and disaster may splinter and. lingo* from under you ail other standing, and everything else goet down, take hold at Sae cross and clieg to it for your present and everlasting safety- Cling ee the cross! For Ile who ellen upon it Will eesve to the uttermost, and he le Sa good, and, . so 'ovate', 404 SQ InigheY that he is wore!" infinitely mom then 10,00 0 use, .reeh unseen,' ,A snob is a prlvate parte who oteratee himeelf nand underates others The man who has na phyeikal cenrego bee nlit very lietie moral ceurege. T.bo men who to win iz were tat there ain't had luk eauff in the War the great revival at 18ed, In 'Whittle it le ',Ube siteeyese man I kilo QV hen - estimated 400,040 Poula wee() oortverted, peaked hnsbontl—when he is away from When .hlontley morning, Deo 20, LIS name. • testi remenden, I think be welt met at the A careless roan in it faintly Ix simply a gate of heaveu by it weleonaing throng As noissance, but a elnillees and eluttleh Mighty AS that widob has greeted any woman iz wuggs than it nlister, admitted geni for live minatea. Rumble Inee Sea uhuneineuen; it karst be de - Ana withant any pretenalen, arid witbout ailed nee ereetreelea, mid too often, Hat, anything brilliant 10 bis snake up, tins -wild rose, 444 wane% le eweeteess on thieaugh faith In eod and coecerittated, taa eteaeat eaerz prayer he shook the eerth and enrepttutel We nil or sae think, if we could live the heaven° Ile was worth 20,000, yeas our lives over again. WO Shoilid make 100,000, orglinaty Christian worker, fewer blunlere, This probably ain'e so, Hear o01 rriena Ilauphier, how I loved we etteeiti only make different ones, you! A sedate Christian I letutt sendetstand mosque of St, Sophia. be One who primps eropperly enud Wheu the aerosol -general Carnet in his Prctete the ahadslowa or piety to the sou, *moue rowboat ee tato us oer our give; shine; but the Sad and iller011a Chrletdea inventor in the tweets' et Cenetantiteeple 1-4 te Peril` Whe hue mieteltell hie Callitsg, there were meny things 2 wanted to see in that eitr multitortu onehantmente, hut moat of all 2 was anxioue to see that aroldtectural Omni ut the eyes, the $4, Soptda—oece a church, but now * A STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE, ore Truth Than leletion About a 8ettme inter lestiestone etorer. From some 0 the uewer countries, Sts mosque. 1 slo not wonder tent Wool] Lamartine saw it he thanked bed, and 'called op aecauat °t tha Inak at d'analt° 1,0tscraewitio $elt nieheat ihth some knowledge regordthg ehern, reports ef other world. 1Vhee pillars ut porphyry, Pang° traahs an° cu4"tle° °°13"tant17 g annear' and. as it rule" Sbey laushad and wall of malachite, and hoTerIn archer", alleries but onCe In a while they torn out to uhe angbod from beann inneal 0 be, be the truth, It is tble way with A seemed to k and gwhiob at ing bat up tram e„ehl mmti„ and setrenge freak of nature eailed tlie But - "Tell Cesterpillar, width indigenous to mother of pearl, and seraphim with wings bediamontlee, und dome tebloh New Yealand. This report, which stated scoops the sky aud stegsers with its l!l't.aetrapiellaererteewionuldenabsuenrys aitielargieu Matt height aud circumfernece all times who e grouud, mei be converted into the root gave lute it until they cian look no more, but oath succeedlug time yam look it et hulirlieb, was leughed at, like the memo higher and wider and grander, aral "at' hat now an tilnglimrt 8aientle't who recently RIM an exhaustive investigation more supernatural—ell the thou known world taxed to furnish the splendor of at the grrawr° Phemneunn• .tilted theh in many respeots the statement," are ntrlotly true. From his report it has been learned Mutt the caterpiner grown to about three And one-half iniehee long, and when about to assume the chrysalis state buries itself In the ground, and in doing so it Is fro. gauntly infected by the spore' ot some fungus, which become involved in the scales in its neck. These the larvae is unable to expel, and the vegetation thus tot up tepidly extends throughout the entire body, replaoing each animal cell thus destroyed by vegetable wetter, and flually converting it into a comparatively dense vegetable structure, whieh retains the renegue, and many at the great blooks of stone braught from Alexandria, trout Athens, from Thebes, from Beattie°. Marbles veined, and starred, and Striped, and interlaced. But atter all I can- not forget that It is a destroyed church, and that oas day that building, Whioh had been dedicated to God, was transferred to that religiose which has Mohammed for its prophet. One day, e,enturies ago, 100,000 people had fied betwoeu its vralis frorn the devastating war of the Turk, but all in vain, tor Mohammed IL, on Isorseback and tallow - ed by infuriated enobs, rode into that every detail of the body, even th the legs, church, the hoofs clattering the sacred mandibles and minutese claw. From the floors, while the conqueror shouted the victory of superstition and invoked neck, the portion first infected, there then Allah, the god of Arab* and Turks, 50 shoots up a single Atone whith grows to accept the stupendous pile in dedication, the height of eight or ten inohes, rovembl. What a desecration, and what worldwide Ing very closely the clubibeatied builrusis in miniature. It has no leaves, and it the despair! But 'that which the nations now most need is a hero, a leader, e nem. &et stem he broken off another rime in ITO lace, though two steme never grow pion, an incarnated God, to turn all the mosques of superstition and all the ei.multaneoasly from the mine "cater - basilicas of sin into temples of iighteous- ness, and to rededicate Ole wore], so' Don't Re Soft. long given up to wickedness and sin, to the God wbo in the beginning Some people don't know the differenee pro• nounced it very good. Such a hero such betvveon meekness and weakness. Tbele a leader, euch a chatupion, suchn in- is a auod deal. .A Ineek man is not an haveBe rttg e ass that lots everbody 'saddle and bridle cataloged God WO . comes nota doormat that lets every clod - in upon the white hares of eternal vlc-I hopper wipehis bouts on him. The oroep- tory, and we can in more exalted same , n wobbling creature that adapts his than that which the soldiers of David "-s, locomotion to every new surrounding is felt cry out, "Thou art worth 10,000 of not a meek negro, but a weak man. A meek man has backbone stiff enough to keep his head straight and pliant enough to get through an ord:nary doorway. '''.) one admires the aggressive nuisance echo tinent, but here is one wbo is to he a disturbs and demoralizes eterybody anti Conqueror of hemispheres. Otber ltpgs everylbing with whgcb be comes in con - have Tided wide realms, but here ia a a.ing ta0,, V e felt ine huve no patience with the tbat will yet reign in all the earth as he simpleton, who hasn't enough confidence now reign 3 in heaven. There have been ,n himself .0 wipe bis v ipe s own nose without otheir historians who told the story of ,b ng let. Don't go around apologizing nations, but here is one Who tells us a . f ear being on the earth. If you are a Idall things that oeourred before the world Shat is excuse enough, tand out for the was. There have been other generals treatment: a inah shetild receive and get Who connuanded men, but here was a it. Beware of being made a tool of by General who coninianded SCAS and hurri• those who will traino in your innocence canes. There have been other prophets, and softness if they got She least chance, but here is one out of whose life and Ilemember "the simple believeth every career Moses and David and Jeremiah word, but the prudent man looketb well and Ezekiel and Micah and Malachi and to his going." This does not mean that Zechariah dipped their inspiration. There have been other merciful hearts all up yon t keheeopulycluubre wseuastphieclinuuysu oufueeiv) efruyrbvoduu-er, and down through the ages, but here is own interests. Don't be fooled with sugar one who loves tis with an everlasting sticks or fox talk. Ile meek in the sense of Americans during our recent Americo- us. Spanish war disappointed because the " The 31*irhty Chorus. surrender came so soon and they coeia The world has had other conquerors, not have the advantage of being shot at yet they subdued only a namon or a con - San Juan hill or brought down with the yellow fever and carried on a litter to transport steamers already so many float- ing leearettos, instead of thanking God that they get no nearer ea the slaughter than Tampa or Chattabooga ...or the en- oampinent at their own state capital, mad at tbe Government, mad at God, because they could not get to the front in time to join the 4,000 corpses that are now being vranspoeted from the tropics to tbe national cemeteries ot the 'United States! Exposure and daring are admir- able vvhen duty calls, but keep out of peril when nothing praotical and useful is to be gainee for your thirdly or our country or your God. I admire the David 0 my teen as he suppresses himself and enter, the gate of his castle as much as I admire him when with hts four lingers ane thumb clutched into the grisly look ot Goliath's head, which be bad decapi- tated, and Satil adiniringly asks, "Whogge son art thou, yeune man?" and David, bInshing With genuine modesty, re- sets: de, "I *in the son of thy setvant, Jesse, the Bethlehendie." kakis Yourself a Doyle. Now, hero is another important point. As there are so many people In the world who amount to little or nothing, you ought to augment yourself, and If not able like David to be Worth 10,000 times more than others, you can com- mand God's re -enforcing grace to make yourself four times or threseeimes or twice as much as some others'. Pray twice as much, read twice as muck, give twice as much. go to church twice as neueh. Instead of spending your time ending fault With others, substitute your superior fidelity for their dereliction And default. In any church there are ma here and now as your pardon for all sin, useineers worth all the other 1,000. In and your whoa for all grist, and your leve and whose mercy antedates the birth of the tirse menetain, and the wash of the arst sea, and the 'radiance of the tirst aurora, and the chant of the morning stars at the breetten, and will continue after the last rook has melted in the float confiagiation, nand Atlantic and 'Paoitio oceans have rolled out of their beds, and the lase night shall have folded up its shadows, and our Lord shall have cried out in tbe mune words that sounded through the night of John's banishment on Patmos, "I ton Alpha and Omega, She beginning and the end, the first and the last." 'then all the mightiest of hea- ven Will gather around the incarnated Used .,of. whom I proaoh, each one saying It fenehiSimelt, but ail; together ludo/dug 15 Id nilighty chord*, "Them 'Son of David, thou Son a Mary, thou Son 0 God, thou art worth 10,000 of us!" But I must not close without own - mending to you this wonderful Christ every great business firin there le one triumph in all struggle. Down at Norfolk, .man worth the other three partners. In Va., a fow daja ago, a gentleman was every legislative nail, statn or national, telling me of one et our 'warships in there are five men worth all She other ea fenhan waters. Before inieft a northern or 100. Take the stiggeetion of my text' harbor some Christian, laeles at much and augment yourself. Make your one, expense and with fine taste bought anti talent do the work of two, or your five furnished for that war vessel * 'pulpit talents do the work of ten, or gour ten, from which the chaplain might read tba talents ao the work of 20. Multiply yaw, service and Preach while on shipboard,. words of encouragement. Multiply, the The pelpit we' made in the shape of a number of boosts. you .can give to those who areeerying to climb. Instead Of !At- . ree4.S.A.erege, cress, .and it was beautifuliy damasked and Wasted. The ship got Into the battle ieseeeieseeteenten of heinn above or receiving wrong, but beevare of being weak. There t is all tbe differeime in the world between the two, Hee se Teri Sente.ene. "If you'd been half an bour later," she said, "I clote't know what 2should have done. "Wbat's happened?" nonsked. "Why, Mrs. Gadding next door has been in here with such an extraordinary tale, which she made me promise I would never breathe to a living wee that it ha* seemed as. it I positively couldn't welt for you to conic hone to tell you about it."—Chicago Poet, twin in tutt NI ttOem1 nntrisittent, .A new use for' all -instilled] ie reported from France, whore attempts to con- sume& violius, bass fiddles and other etring bastrumentts of the metal have been entirely s000estful It is stated that these instruments produoe a richer sound Gnus those mannfgaitered of wood, and that this is especially the oaSe With higher 11.1101....eieweereefee,, REE1 rit1,-,:rztv„...44014 414* a illeolint Waver Jeweller'', eeenie •• • ie ewe Nees, 1.1. Daisy Adr Slam eneemie.Van ugthelleY *eases. lirseieterelse Sere eatt lierienasee Muskat lie eireeceaue Teel Soma etee—fer ;Oleg Oar Wblir Tepee ewe /WA Emmen* amen Face, at 111" amiss I/ "wk. The White ToS-t ti * tree Plat WA tb iniiihaire 0 the ahalica4; Aairtilee groentl. end set nog flenettlee Ineaieel.rhre ; yen. glite„ Thine Pins tell ttarsr •=esterated Jtatagerdszn maple e Xar see nos larr"Cth *SW' ISO 1404 witirk*.olx,014,1-ir Repair or Replete. Goodfor ege rar. e askew, Mersey. We Triut yu. sealer year ewe aed addr,. aed we forward est eire, pestpain, with iestrectieste townie rem tiete hell the Piree MUM; ritliarirt VS ea WO iarraiiti Par wit% all 0*Mo Pahl Zrit wi, Ton rall no risk. kissold feint are ilitternahle. We allow a cash onasolialen Ir pro. revved. Deal bet ethera get sherd el Yee. Write at eace,s44 when yeawriteneenttha tads paper and the Prise yell Wait. roc, GEM PIN COit Torontoiligto A 81/1v, WO 400 Raw* of A min#40PN bee ApIth MN 4 Mem -• fee Mang 2.9 Plea gegeafeL WIteRePese. Th..ir Toes. People in lodia wears rings on tbeir toes as well es upon their fingers, and hake much pride in :le doing. They look queer to travellers, but no more a than do some al] tile travellers' attachments to the natives. A SUDDEN CH 1:\*(‘ E SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER, THE SEA DOG GROWS THOUGHTFUL. SiI Rie 'Thought* Wat der Rack to the Seveallee. Whoa the IdereurT 'nook liesuarkahlo Drop an ece Ohio River, Wash Ste:Allen Effects. One afteleloon, when tbe mercury was skylarking in the neighborhood of thei seta entice, a perky of sea doge of the Obio river species Wee sitting on tho :Weenier of oue ot the packets. Ut course the wants and balmy weather was tho theme ter talk. Won't lest, though," said one. "1 ste by this here paper that e cold wave'e a-comiu; says the thermometer% drop 80 or 40 degree's 'fore tomorrow menthe" " That bain't much ot eltop. nor it Wu' so very sudden, either." "Well, It's pretty much ot a cold spell an a sudden drop, too, when it changes In a night from weather Ilke thle to snow an sleet." "Yes, but I remember e chimp one time that went ebunge. It was %soy back in the tieventles if 1 rockets rigid. Cap Campbell was on the Telegraph. I thine.. The river WAS gettln low, an there want much over Straka:ton Your Mlle. We came in on Tuesday moods), an the day stns as nice as this, every bit, but maybe imt, EU warm, quite. They didn't have any weather bureau then. YUll bad to take your chu.nces with the weather an he glad to get it, whatever kind ‘ailLO alung "Well, as I was myth, tbe weather was nice, though 'twee along In December, Long toward 2100/3 it gotrlght smart void- er. In fact, yen couldn't set on the guards, au the tires in the seribin felt abutit right. There was a lelef spline -lin of people regie- toile, an it looked like wo were goin to have a good passenger trip up fur that night. "About 4 o'clock the ice este ronuin little In the river in a keel et ettins, hO the clerk's thermometer registered merle nigh zero. Ho solo it was On to he cold night, but everybody ktueved that when they stook their 110505 OUL the door. •'We pulled OUL 81.011t 5:30 an etarted up the river. Tee tui.s 0 ite ut.:x bigger an bigger every minute, but it was thin Ice, an we didn't have much trouble gettin along, though it was mitten the buckets bad. After a little we slowed down some, as the travelin waz gettin bad. Them we run into a big (sake of ice up nigh New Richmond, an we had It time gettin out of it, but we did. The old luau went an looked at the therinonicta an saw that it was nearly 20 below. Of course ice maims mighty fast when it's that cold an the river dead low. "Be cense up an the roof an hollered to me. I was at the wheel. " he says, 'you'd better turu her around. Ien goin to take her back to Cincinnati. We'll get cut down If we go through this bee much longer, an it's gettin so heavy that we'll git caught right out hero in the river the first thing you know.' "texell, 1 run her in near shore under a bend an backed out an started down. An it was a good thing, for after we had started down we had to float or pretty near it, anyhow. The cakes of ice came pretty near reachin from shore to shore, an if we had kept on up the river we would have got fastened right out in the river inside of two hours. "Along about midnight or maybe a lit. tle later we got back,an It was a devil of a job to svving an make a landln. But we did, an I was glad to get back te the wharf. The next usornin the river froze tight as a drum an staid closed till after New Year's. If we had been up the river, tbe boat would have been lost sure. Now, that was a drop 'Of about 60 degrees In a day. Wasn't that enough?" ---Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Be Didn't Like n crowd. Mrs. Gotrox—Mabel, dear, are you sure Mr. Woodby loves you for yourself alone! Mabel—Yes, I'm sure he does, manure& He is always so restless when you are In the r00110 The “ilmakiur," a Finnish stone, which becomes almost whitehefpre the approach of fine weather and darkens when storms are at hand, is used by the natives as a barometer in which they repose the high- est confidence. Occupation is one great source of enjoy - anent No man properly occupied was ever miserable. ---L. E. Landon. Boston laims to have the longest paved street of one /141110, ill the world, VsTashing- ton street, which is 17,1/;,; miles in length. Miller's "Worm Powders make tbe eltildrert healthy At the Powolsraiser'sk. iluron—Hy watch allies very much. Wreyan—Se dove talkie. II oyes—Ulna fiaina volnuree ewe,' hours 2aerreats---t4ine gelue a he'pertne oak Ware Me Up. Iltoosehold edema*. “Stobbeinit thinka be I= an ocesnomical len." "What le "Re is going to light his house witlt octricity generated by lala coVo fur," hioago Record 1 NUN UPEENCE A Story Told by a Well -Known Salvation Army Captain, lila poet, Reeked 'From etasd 50 West With it intuntasio seed Neoralele Palest-- 1Vould }'refer Asatli to Vosloroonsil Stlffsrlus Again. From the Post, Lindsay, Ont. It Is the lot of but it limited number at people to enjoy the conildence 0 set% an excealingly large circle 0 friends and. comrades as does Capt. Joirn A. Prole- enshire, %vim WAS recently interviewed ley a Post reporter at the hoine. of his p irents at liosedale, it pretty - hamlet eitueted at the heed of., ;We sem river in Victoria county." whin* the elder Mr. Brokenshire, Whe ed the three -score years and ten, has held the position of iookmaster for the past twenty-two years. Capt. Brokentextre,thei 'object of the. article, is 04 yeers of age, Is well known and highly respeeted throughout many of the leading cities and towus of Ontario, where, during hi seven years' vervice in Salvation Army work he came in contact with a 1 age number of people. He has been stationed at Toronto - Montreal, Pete:Theme, Otte:evil, Mir is burg and minor 'places, aial at one time was a member of a travelling S. A. string band. The following is Capt. Broken- stire's OWIl statement e--" I had been slightly troubled with rheumatic plane for several years and had to give up the Army work on differentoecasione on account of my trouble. "When statiorterl in Morrie - burg four years ago, I became eouipletely unfitted for work, as I suffered terribly , with pains in the back of my peek, down my shoulder:: and terms and through my body. In fact I bad pains 0 a stinging muscular nature from the baek of my head to my toes. I could not bend Iny head forward if I got the whole of Canada to do so, and when iln 0.4 10. only slight rest I got was with a large pillow under my shoulder, thus letting isty head hang backe ward. I could not get up, but had to, roll or twist xiayself out of bed, as my 'Meths seemed to be affected. My inedicar ad- viser pronounced my trouble neuralgic and rheumatism combined, whiali he said had gone through iny whole system. Ho prescribed for me, but the medicine gave me no relief. I tried various other reine, dies, but they were ot no avail. Bellevinill my case to be hopeless, I determined te start for my borne in Rosedale, but the jarring of the train caused such terrible agony I was conapelled to abandon the trip at Peterboro, where I was laid up foe thr,e weeks, when I finally made a heron. lean effort and reached home. As ray mother says, 'I looked like an old man eg 00 years of age when she saw me straw. gling with the aid of two heavy canes Is walk from the carriage to the house.' Al home I received every poesible attention and all the treatmente that kind friends suggested. but I was constantly going from bad th Worse. In January, 1890,aftee many months of untold agony, I deter - rained to try Dr. William' Perelt Pills, haying read so much in tlae newspapers of he great benefits recelved by others from their nee. To make sure of getting the genuine article I sent direct to the Iles. Medio ne Co, Brockville, foe the pills:, After taking two' boos 1 notes. .„ ed a slight improvement in inyeetnidetteath which gave me SOM0 encouragement, aria I kept on until I had taken twelve boxel‘ although before I got through wit,lk the statla I could go to besi and enjoy a good night's rest' such as I had not done for years. I never at any time enjoyed better health than I am doing at present. Sines my recovery. I have induced several friends to take Pink Pills for varione troubles and in each case they have elected cures. "The above is a voluntary and come* statement of tbe fools of my case, aria X trust that many others may by reading this receive the blet,sing that I have. I/ necessary I would rmike 531 allidaVit the above facts at ztr* time."