HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1899-1-20, Page 3THELIBAL
Rev. D . Talmage Discourses on the Subject
of Feminine Attributes.
The Hand on the Shurtle--The Nobility of Womanhood --The Great-
ness of Christian Characteristics—The
Duties of Women.
Waeliington, Jan. 15.—A Soriptere the stianger thought his destruction was
being plannedleen the man of the
house came forward and said to the stran-
getti "Strenger, we aro a zrough and rude
people out here and wo work hard for a
liying. We males our living by bupting,
anel when we come to the nightfell we
are tired and we are apt to go to bed
early, and before retiring we are always
in the habit of reauling a chapter from
the word of God and making a prayer. If
on don't like each things, if you wilt
juet Sten outside the door until we ger
through, V bo greatly obtiged to you."
O corse the stranger tarried In the
room, mad tbe old hunter leek hold of
the liores or the altar and brought down
the blessing of God upon his household
and upon the srtanger within their gates.
Rene but glorlons Christian hospitality!
The noes of tho
Agee% this woman of MT tett WaX
great In her kindness toward God's mess
-
anger, Elleba may bave been a strange,
in tint household, but as she found out
I e had eeme on a divine mission he was
cordially welcomed. We have a gretit
many bookin our day about the hard-
ships et ministers and the trials of Chris.
ti an ministers. 1 wish eumebody would
write a book about the joys of the (lute-
tian minisier. about the sympathies 4411
around about hint, about the kindness,
abotte the genial cooeicterations of him.
Dees sorrow come m our home, and is
there a shadow an the cradle, there an
hundreds of hands to help, and many
win) weary not through the night youth-
ing and hundreds of prayers goino up
that God Weld restore the sick. Is there
A burning, brinionime cup of calamity
laved on the pastor's table? Are there
at anane to help him drink ot that oup
and who will not be colutorted beeauee
he is strieten? Oh, for seumbeelY to write
a book about the rewards of the Christian
Ministry about his surroundings
Christiau symputhyl
Title woman of the text vine only a
type of thousends of men and wereen
who came down front mansien and from
cot to do kindness to the Lord's stymies.
I egini tell you of eomothing that you
znfght think a romance. A yourg man
graduated from Naw Brunswick Theelog
local Sisininat7 was ladled to a village
church ile had DOI the moans to turaish
the parsonage. After three or four week.;
of preaohing a committee of the eilleters
or.the church vvalted on him and told
him he looked tiled and thought he had
better take a vacation of a few date:. The
young pastor took it as an intimation
that his work Was done or not accepteble.
He took the savat on, and at the end of
a few days came Leek, when an old elder
said: "Here Is the key at the parsonage,
We have been cleaning it up. You had
better go up and look at In" no the
Young paetor took the hoe, went up to
the parsonage, opened the door, and MI
it was corpeted, and there was a britrack
all ready for the mingle and the umbrellas
and the osereoate, and on the left hand
at the hall was the parlor, admen chair-
ed, pictured. He Datsed on to the other
side of the ball, and there was the study
table in the center of the floor with
stationery upon it, bookshelves built,
long ranges of now volumes, far beyond
the reach of tho means of the young
pastor many of these volumes. The
young pastor wenthupstairs and found all
the sleeping apartments furnished, came
downstairs and entered the pantry, and
there *were the spices and the coffees and
the sugars, and the groceries for six
months. He went down into the cellar,
and there was the coal for all the com-
ing winter. He went into the dining hall,
and there was the table already set—the
glass and the silverware. He want into
the kitchen, and there were all the culin-
ary implements and a great stove. The
young palter lifted ono lid of the stove
and he found the fuel all ready for igni-
tion. Putting back the cover of the entire,
he saw in another part of it a lucifer
match, and all that young man had to
do in darting to keep house vras to strike
the match. You tell me that is aproery-
phal. Oh, nol that was my own experi-
ence. Oh, the kindnesses, oh, the enlarged
sympathies nometimes clustering around
those who enter the gospel ministry. I
suppose the man of Shunem bad to pay
the bills, but it was the large -hearted
Christian woman of Shunem that looked
after the Lord's messenger.
c warner whce,m name is Moe geven bee
somas the Subject of De. Tannage's* sdr-v
mon, in which he sate teeth the (mantles
of good and noble Womanhood; text, IL
Eines iv, 8, "Elisha passed to Shiment•
Where Was a great woman."
The eotel of our time had no counter-
part in any entertainment of olden time.
Tie vast majoritn of travellers reed then
be entertained at private abode. Hers
comes Elisha, a ilerYaMG of the Lord, on
olvine Mission, and he must find
shetten A balcony overMoking the valley
of Esdraelon IS Offeral him in a priTatel
haulm, and it le espeeially furnished for
bis occupancy—a chair to sit on, a Mble
from whMb to eat, a candleetick by vritich
to road and a bed oat which to slumber,
the whole establislimene belonging to a
greet and geed wotnsu. Ffer husband, it
eeerne, was a godly men, but he was
entirely overshadowed by his wife's excel-
lencies, just as now you somelenees find
in 4 household the wife the center of dig-
nity and irtilueoce and power, not lay any
errogance or mosemntion, but by superior
intellette force of moral nature wield.
bre domestic affairs and at the same Tillie
supervising all Onetime' and buelnets
affairs. The ift's band On the shutele,
or the banking house, or the woxidly
beeineee.
Yen see hnnelreds of men who are sue-
ceeetul only becauee there is a reason at
home wilv they are successful, if a nran
imarrv a good, beneet sml, be inalcce bis
fortune, If he marry a fool, the Lord
belp Maui The nife uny be the silent
partner in the then, there may be only
maseulitte voices down on Exchange, hut
there ofteutimi venues from the bottle Or.
ole 4 potential and elevating influeecce
This woman of my text W4.1 the suptitior
of her husband. Be, tee far as I can under-
stand, was What we often see in our dey,
Man of large rortune and ()Ply a meal -
rum or brain, intensely quiet, sitting a
long while in the same place, without
moving hand or foot; if you gay "Yee."
responding "Yes;" if you Witt "No," rot
spending "No"—inane, eyes half abut,
mouth wide open, maintaining bis posi-
tion in society only bemuse he htis a large
patrbzunly. But his wife, my text says,
War,
it great W011ifill. Her name bas nut
come daWn to Us, She belonged to that
colleotion of peopio who need no iti11110 to
distinguish them What would title of
duchess or princess or queen—wbat would
estuttcheon or gloaming diadem be to this
Woman of iny text, who, by her intern.
gence and her behavior, challenges the
admiration of all ages? Long after tbe
brilliant vromon of tbe court of Leitia
XV, have been forgotten, and the brilli-
anti women of the court of Spain have
been forgotten, and the brilliant Whalen
wbo sot on the throne ot Russia beim
been forgotten, some grandfather will put
on bis spectacles and, bolding the book
the other side of the light, read to his
grandchildren the story of this great
woman of Shunem who was flO kind and
courteous and Christian to the good
prophet Elisha, Yes, she was a groat
woman.
Th• Nospltaibla woman.
In the first place, oho was great in her
hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarous
mations have this virtue. Jupiter laud the
surname of the Hospitable, and he was
said eapecially to avenge the wrongs of
strangers, Homer extolled it In his verse
The Arabs are punctilious on this sub-
ject, and among some of their tribes it is
not until the ninth day of tarrying that
the oceepant has a right to ask his guest,
"Who and whence art thou?" If this vir-
tue is so honored among barbarians, how
ought it to be honored among those of
us who believe in the Bible, which com-
mands us to use hospitality one toward
another without grudging?
Of course, I do not mean under this
cover to give any idea that I approve of
that vagrant class who go around from
place to place, ranging their whole life-
time partaaps under the auspices of some
benevolent or philanthropic society,
quartering themselves on Christian fami-
lies with a great pile of trunks in the
hail and carpetbag portentous of tarrying.
There le many a country parsonage that
leeks out week by week upon ,the omin-
ous arrival of wagon with creaking wheel
and lank aorse and dilapiaated driver,
00I1141 under the auspices of some chari-
table institution to spend a few weeks
and canvass the neighborhood. Let no
suoh religious tramps take advantage of
thin beautiful virtue of Christian hospi-
tality. Not so ranch the sumptuousness
of your diet and the regality of your
abode will insprese the friend or the
'stranger that steps across your threshold
Great Even in Trouble.
Again, this woznan of the text wail
great in her bebavior under trouble. Her
only son had died on her lap. .A very
bright light want out in that household.
The sacred writer puts it very tersely
as the warmth of your greetingwhen he says, "He sat on her knee until
, the
informality of you reception, the reitera-
noon and then he died."' Yet the writer
tion by grasp and by look ani by
goes on to say that she exclaimed, "It is
a
ep
Weill" Great in prosperity, this woman ee thousand attentions, insignificant atten-
tions, of your earnestness of vreloome. was great in trouble.
\Mier° aro the feet that have not been
There will be high apureoiation of your
welcome though you have nothing but blistered on the hot sands of this great
the brazen candlestick and the plain chair Sahura? Wbore are the solniers that bave
to offer Ensile when he comes to Shunem. not bent under the burden of grief?
Most beautiful is this grace of hospitality Where is the hip sailing over glasey sea
when shown In the house of God. I am that has not after awhile been caught in
thankful that I have always been pastor a cyclone? Where is the gareen of earthly
of churches where strangers are...welcome. comfort but trouble hath hitched up its
But I have entered churches where there fiery and panting team and gone through
was no hospitality. A manger
it with burning plowshare of disaster?
stand in the vestibule for awhile and '\,,,uniier the pelting of ages of suffering the
then make a pilgrimage up the long great heart of the world has burst,with
• alsie. No door opened to him until, flush- woe. Navigators tell us about the rivers
ed and excited and embarrassed, he and the Amazon and the Danube and ths
started back again, and coining to some egississiliPi have been explored, but who
half filled new with apologetic air entered can tell the depth or the length of the,
grime river of sorrow, made up of tears
It, while the Onoupant elared on him with
and blood, rollinighhrough all lands and
a look which *meanest to say, "Well, if
must, I miust." Away with Huth accursed
all ages, bearing the wreck of families and
indeceney from the house of God! Let
of communities and of empires, foaming,
---
ovawrithing, ,boiling with , the agonies of
ovary church that would naaintain large 6,000 years? Etna, Cotopaxi and Vesu,
Christian influence in community culture vius have been described, but ,who has
Sabbath ny Sabbath this beautiful grace
of Christian hospitality. ever sketched the volcano of 'suffering
r
.A good man travelling in the far, wedeuching up from its depths the lava and
scoria and pouring them down the sides
In the vvilderness was overtaken by night to whelin the nations? Oh, if I could
and sterns, and he put in at a cabin. He gather all the heartstrings, the broke
saw firearms along the beams of the heartstrings, into a harp, I would play
cabin, and he felt atarined. He did not on it a dirge such as was never .scounded/
know but that he ..had fallen into a dee
of thieves. He sat there greatly perturbed. Mythplsostseeii us of hergen and centaur
and Titan and geologists tell us of extinct
After awhile the man of the house came
hoepodes of monsters, but greater than
me with a gun on his shoulder and set gorgon or megathrium and not belonging
it down in a corner. The stranger was to the realm of fable and not of an ex.
still more alarmed. After awhile the n an
of theniouse whispered with his wife, d tinot species, a monster with an tree jawand a hundred iron hoofs ham walked
h 1 THE SUNDAY SCROOL,
u
LESSON IV, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERInS, JAN. 22.
acaoss the nations, and history and poetry
and scuipture, in their attempt to ehein
it end deecriee it, nave seemed to Eatall
great drops of blown But, thann God
there are those who can conquer as this
Woman et the text conquered and say,
"It is well, thougb nay property be gone,
though my children be gone, though my
home be broken up, though my heelth be
sacrificed, it Is well, it is well!" There is
414 dorm on the sea but Christ is ready
to rise in the binder part of the ship and
hush in There is no darkness but the
constellation of God's eternal love can
illumine it, anti though the winter counts
out of the northern sky, you have some-
times seen that northern sky all ablaze
with auroras whicb seem to say: "Come
up Vale way; up this way are thrones of
light and seas of sapphire and the splen-
dor of an eternal heaven. Conte up this
way."
We may, like the ships, by tenapese
tossed
On perilous deeps, but cannot be loin,
Though Satan enrage the wind and
tide,
The promise escargot ua the Lord rill
provide.
Th. Pion!. WOIXIII3I.
Again, this W0/111tH of my tee; was
great in her application to denietitio
duties. Every picture is a home picture,
whether elm is entertaining an Ellehri, or
whether she is giving careful attention
to her sick boy or whether she is appeal-
ing for the reatoration of her property.
Every picture In her eaSe is one of
domesticity. Those are not disciplee at
the Shunemite Woman who, going out to
attend to outside charities, negleet the
duty ot home—the duty of wile, of
rcother, of daughter. No faithfulness ha
public benefaction can ever atone for
tioneestie negligence, There has boon
many a mother who by indefatigable toil
bas reered a largo family of ehildren,
equippleg them for the duties Of life with
geed menners and large intelligence mad
Cbrietien nrinelele starting, them out,
who has done roere for the world than
ninny a Millen WhQSQ name haseounded
through all the lands and through the
ceeturies. I remember when Kossuth Was
in this country there were some ladies
who got bonorable reputations by pre-
senting Win very gracefully with bon -
of flowers on publie omelette. But
Wbat was all thav compared with the
plain liungarian mother who gave to
truth aud eivilizatien and the muse of
universal lieeoy a ,K.ossuth? Yes, this
women of any text was great in her slat-
plielty, When tine prophst wanted to
reward her for her heapitelith by asking
some preferment from the king, what
did she sue'? She declined it She said,
"I Owen among fey own people," as
mud) as to say: "I um wiener] with any
lot. All 1 want is my family and my
friends around Ina I dwell among my
own people,"
The isoeutiret Heine.
Oh, what n rebuke to the strife for
precedence in all ages! How many there
are who want to get great arehiteeture
and homes furnished with all art, all
painting, all statuary, who have pot
though tette to distinguish betvveen
Gothic and Byzantine. and who could
not tell a figure in plaster of parts front
Palmer's "White Captive," and WOUld
not know a but; penciling from Bier-
etatit's "Yosemite." Mon who buy large
libreries by the square foot, buying these
libraries •wlaen they have scarcely enougb
eduoanon to pick out the day of the
month in the almanac:I Oh, how many
there aro striving to have things as well
as their neighbors or better than their
neighbors, and in the struggle vast for-
tunes aro exhausted and business firms
.thrown into bankruptcy and men of re-
puted honesty rush into astounding forg-
eries! Of course I say nothing agaiest re-
finement or culture. Splendor of abode,
sumptuousnes of diet, lavishness in art,
neatness in apparel, there is nothing
against them ia the Bible or out of the
Bible God does not want no to prefer
need hovel to English cottage, or un•
tanned sheepskin to Frenob broadcloth,
or husks to pineapple, or the clumsiness
of a boor to the manners of a gentleman.
God, who strung tho beach with tinted
shell, and the grass of the Bald with the
dews of the night, and hatb exquisitely
tinged morning cloud and robin red-
brease, wants us to keep our ear open to
all beautiful cadences, and our heart
open to all elevating sentiments.
But what X want to impress upon you,
my hearers. is that you ought not to in-
ventory the luxuries of life among the
indispensables, and you ought not to de-
preciate bids woman of the text, who,
when offerea kingly preferment, respond-
ed, "I dwell arnong my own people."
Yea, this woman of the text was great in
her piety. Juin read the ohapter after
you go home. Faith in God, and she was
not ashamed to talk about It before
idolaters. Ala, woman will never appre-
ciate what she owes to Christianity until
she knows aud sees the degradation of -
her sex under paganism and Mohammed-
anism. Her very birth considered a mis-
fortune.
Sold like cattle on the shambles. Slave
of ail work, and, at last, her body fuel
for the funeral pyre of her husband.
.Above the shriek of the fire worshippers
in India, and above the rumbling of the
juggernauts, I hear the million voiced
groan of wronged, insulted, broken-
hearted, downtrodden woman. Her tears
have fallen in the Nlle and Tigris, the
La Plata, and on the steppes of Tartary.
She bas been diabonored in Turkish gar-
den and Persian palace and Spanish
Alhambra. Hor little ones haye been
sacrificed in the Indus and the Ganges.
There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or
an- island, or a mountain, or a river, or
a lake, ora sea, but could tell a story of
tlae outrages heaped upon her. But,
thanks to God, this glorious Christianity
comes forth, and all the chains of this
vassalage are snappegl, and she rises from
ignominy to exalted sphere and becomes
tbe affectionate daughter, the gentle wife,
the honored mother, the useful Christian.
Oh, if Christianity has done so much for
Woman, surely woman will become its
most ardent advocate and its sublimest
exemplifioation.
'next of the Lennon, John Hi, 1 -
memory Verses, 14-10-sGoldee
John let. tet—,Gienintentary Proper
beethe Rev. D. N. Stearns,
CC0PYright, 1868: by D. M. Steerage]
1. "Now there WaS a man'(II, V.).
verses 11, 22, 23, of chapter 2, eve read th
the disciples believed and many belier
but then we read that Jeeps did not OW
mit Himself unto (believe in) men, for
knew what was in man. Then we he
ellin dealing with dustman, a ruler of t
Jews, and revealing Nicodeame to hit
self, that he might know God, for this
greater than riches or wisdom or tang
(Jer. ix, 23, 24).
2. Nicotietuus knew that Jesits was
least sent of God and that God was wi
Mw, and his soul was hungering fer mo
of God, and he felt that Jesus had pow
to help him, yey, beteg a ruler and Jes
being evidently, a very humble pereen, n
having been taught in any of the sehool
nor having, like Saul, been brouglat up
the feet of °amend or any great tmeher
the day, he seems to think it wise Oat
Ofdile tit Ilrflt to Him too publicly.
8. Jesus passes by the seeming coutpl
meet and, recognizing the longing 1» t
heart of Nicedenius., tells hini brielly t
only way to see the kingdom for which l
longs. To be born of God (I.13)or fro
atieVe (weenie) is the only way, No b
man wisdom nor royal lineage nor posed%
among men can entitle any one to see
enter the kingdom of nod, it must be
work of God in the heart—nothiug le
than thereceiving of the Son of God (cha
ter 1, 121.
1. Nieodenras though very religlat
and a ruler of A° .Tews, was only a ne
liral man and undereteod not spiritit
things. 130 iouId only think of a natter
1L A little more fltily Jesus now stet
it, sieving that to be born of Lied means
be born of water and of tho i4iirit. /I
calime up three witnesses—Peter, Jam
and Paul—at:a by comparing I Pet. i, 23;
Jas. 1, W; Epia. v, 2.6; John vi, 63, we
learn elect water segg,ests the Word of God,
by which the Spirit always works,
6. 'rho Resta is the natimal man, the matt
not subject to nor controlled by God. Re
nm' be intellectual, educated, talented,
wealthy, a good eitizeu, moral, philan-
throttle aud in every way all that could be
desired ae a loving father, son or brother,
yet if only that never see the klegtioni of
God. Ile that bath the Son bath life, but
Ibieit,htwaiiahttettvherneoltsethbee 3SIOlanyObfaNG:ecalahjaothlinnyo.t
12).
7, "Ye must be born again." There Is
much teething now:Mate, to the effect that
there is a spent of the divine nature in
every one and that it only needs to be de-
veloped, but suoh is not the teething of
the Word of God, whieb says that the car-
nal or natural mind is enmity ogainst
God, Inc it is nut subject to the law of
Goes eeither, indeed, can be (Rom. vill, 7).
8. We ean feel the wind as it blows upon
as, but we cannot tell whence it came nor
whither its destination. Thus the Spirit
moves and works, In the Mee:miss of
Gen. 1, e, the Spirit of God moved upon
the tamer the waters, and Clod svelte, and
there was light. So God, by His word
and Spirit, shines in hearts and gives tho
knowledge of Himself, causing life and
freitfulness where all before was waste
and void (II Con iv, (3, 7).
9. "How can these things be?" The
blind was groping for the light and but
very dimly perceivieg. These spiritual
things, so simple to the Spirit taught, wore
too much for the natural men, even though
he be a ruler. I have wondered if one
reason why the wisdom of this world ills -
likes the book of Daniel rind would fain
have done with it is that there, as perhaps
nowhere else, is showu the utter impo-
tome of such wisdom to deal with the
things of God.
10. A. master of Israel should know
something of these things, for in Ezek.
xxxvi, 26, 47, it was written: "A new
heart also will I give you and a new spirit
will I put within you. I will put My
Spirit within you and cause you to walk
in My statutes." Gabriel was sent from
heaven to cause Daniel to know, but hero
is a greater than Gabriel, and yet Nicode-
mus does not understand.
11. This is the third verily, verily of
our lesson. Only in this gospel do we find
the double verily or anion or in truth,
and He who uses it is Himself the Truth.
He knew all things and all men, even
their utmost imaginings. He said through
Jeremiah: "I, the Lord, search the heart;
I try the reins" (Jen xvii, 10).
12. There are celestial and terrestrial
things as well as bodies, but the glory of
the one differs greatly from that of the
other (I Cor. xv, 40). The kingdom, al-
though not of this world, is to beset upon
this earth and will include the whole
world (John xviii, 86; Dan. vii, 27; Flab
11, 14), but there is a New Jerusalem to
comedown out of heaven from God, in the
light of which the nations of the earth aro
toilalkh
What wondrous sayings are herel
While He was on earth He was in heaven;
He came down from heaven, and does no
say that as man Ile had ascended up to
heaven? If so, we must believe it. But,
what about John xx 17, "I am not yet
ascended to my Father?" That was in
His resurrection body.
14. Our Lord Jesus never made light of
or in any way discounted any record in
the Scriptures, but spoke of them as reali-
ties. Here He,refers to the incident of
Num. xxi, 6-9, where the people, dying
from the bite .of fiery serpents, were to
look upon a brazen serpent which Moses,
at God's command, lifted .up upon a polo
high enough for all to see, and when rule
dying one behold the serpent of brass be
!Wit The ,
Israelites bitten were as goon
as dead'unless they looked They were
utterly helpless. Nicodemus was as teep-
ees to save himself as a bitten Israelite,
o are we. When a bitten and dying eno
ooked whore he was told, he saw the re
-
ambiance of that which was causing his
ufforing and ..probable death, but it wee
astened to it pole and thud in th'e piece ee
loath to itself.
16. In Jesus Christ on the cross for oat -
eine we,see the lone of God as it never wae
een elsewhere. We see the fulfillment et
en. iii, lb, 21; Ps. xxii; Ise, hie and ev-
ry other Scripture concerning His suffer-
ngs and death. We are not asked to, un-
erstend it nor, to grasp its full signtli-
ance, for that would be impossible, but,.
ike tho bitten Israelite, we aro asked e to
ohoed Him and believe He ie for me.
hen we are assured that through Edna
e have life and can never perish. All
be are helpless and turn to Him and
imply receivit Him are born of God. It
evident hewn chapter Nix, 39, that Nice
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Pinished,Rehiike. '
Hon. George Russell, in his "Recoils°.
tions and Collocations," tells the follow-
ing story of Jewett, the famous master
of Balliol College:
"The scene was the master's own dine
Ing room, and the moment that the ladies
had left the room one of the guests began
a molt outrageous conversation. Every
ono sat flabbergasted. The master winced
with annoyance, and then bending down
,
the table toward the offender, said in his
shrillest tone, 'Shall we continue this
conversation in the drawing room?" and
rose from his chair, It was reany a stroke
of genius thus both to terminate and to
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For selling our Patent Lever Collar
Buttons or our Aluminum Thimbles"
NO MONEY REQUIREDIdll'r=1:1,4Y47.2.Ttehar 1
tile you wouidlike to sell. 'We forward them by return
mail, free of all eliarge, You pay for ebeue vibe°. sold
PIMAIMMS—Watehes, Rings,
.A.ccordeem, Air Gurist Syriac, Skates,
Haekey Skates Manicure ;ets, and
others.
Western Novelty ANncy;
Thie Full -nen efgeert Violin and now
Ator
52 Yonne Sto reade, '1 yaw:To. sellieg 2 dee. Burt tele or T„ieletre.
TIDES IN ENGLISH CHANNttle.
Great nrital AN 10 Ite-4i tl C. IN
Daug-*, Cu N, I it tIl UM,
The Prince of Wales lid greatly exercised
over the remit, eceident in the R,uglish
Chaunel. As it peer expressed it, "leis
Royal Iiigheese does mat like to Wei that
he is liviug upon an island defended and
barricaded, like the feudal barona of old,
by bigh seas that dash to pieces friend
mid foe alike."
The Crown, it is asserted upon the best
euthorIty, will shortly offer a prize to be
Wed for by a competition which will be
opened th all civil engiueers of the world.
The prize offered will be no loss than a
fortune sterling for a plain by which the
English Channel can be redeem' from a
rolling torrent to a calm, peaceful sea.
Crossing the channel for years bag been
the dread of the traus-Atlantle journey.
Tourists wee travel as Inc as London In
StlfetY are unable to cross the chancel to
enancenvithout suffering untold tortures
of seasteltness.
Trafile aoross the channel at certain
periods of the year is absolutely danger -
o09, and at times commerce is greatly
delayed by the uncertainty tat the 'voyage.
The journey, which, under ordinary cite
ournstances, ouglat to be taken in a little
over a night, is soroetiroes prolonged 30
hours, end then upon the very i est
steamers, Upon slow -going freight steam-
ers it is almost indefinite. The highest
typo of machinery is required to make
the journey on time.
At damn various schemes have been
proposed tor stemming the current or
midertow from the North Se Ll and the
North Atlantic Ocean around the British
Isles The is:es aot as a dam to the
water, which, sweeping southward by
mighty undertow. is caught by them only
to break and sweep through the channel
with incredible rapidtty.
Many of the schemes have been almost
unique notably one advanced by a Dan-
ish civil engineer for building a break-
water north of Wales, This, which was
to extend for many hundred feet into the
water, was to be constructed south of
Denmark and north from Wales leaving
a small open space through which boats
could sail. This, the engineer chinned,
would have a tendency to allow less
water to sweep through the channel, and
would thus calm the tide. Other scheines
of breakwater have been proposed, the
most extravagant of which was the fill-
ing in of the channel by means of mud
soowa, so that, instead of being a deep
lpoawssage, it would be in places very shun
Modern engineering has become such a
high developed science that nothing seems
impossible to it, and it is thought that
some engineering genius will have a rem-
edy by which the English Channel can be
mane calm.
At present one or the features of the
channel is the life-saving service, which
is the strongest in Europe.
SIMPLE FATHER OF AN EMPRESS.
Played Zither for Money and Said His
Daughter Had Married Well.
The death of the Empress Elizabeth of
Austria has brought out litany stories of
her and her family. Some of the most
interesting, are about ber father, the
Duke Maximilian. This man was a re-
markably simple and genial character.
Once he was making a pedestrian tour
and stopped in a small tavern to eat. Be
had a zither with him, and some guests
asked him to play, thinking, on account
ot his plain clothing, that he was a stroll-
ing znusician. Ee obeyed readily and
played everything that he could think of
tin coins rained into his hat. nen he
ordered a meal that was so expensive for
a strolling musician that the tavern.
keeper became suspicious tbat his strange
guest intended to rue away after eating
without paying. There was hesitation
about serving (be food, and while tho
duke was waiting a corporal of one of his
regiments entered the inn. He saluted,
much to the duke's embarrassment, who
threw the money for the meal on tile
table and ran away, says The New York
Prees,
Once the duke was in a train travelling
to Vienna to visit the Imperial family.
In the coupe with him was a banker,
who, misled by his fellow -traveller's
simplicity, patronized him, and in the
oourse of a conversation told him that he
had a daughter in Vienna who had mar-
ried very well. She was, be boasted, the
wife of one of the richest bankers in the
city. "So?" said the duke. "Why, tbat
is quite a coincidence. I have a daughter
in Vienna who has married very well,
too," "Who is the hueband of your
daughter, any good man?" asked the
baneer, and in hi e most haraeiees toho
Maxienillau aneweie I, "UM Emperor cf
Austhia."
Benefit of Altitudes,
Going to the miaintains for beeefit
cersee of inamimary inevase is a reggila.r
thieg iierneas, thue 1.11/4
there ie airietegai tor thie may penile
unteirstand, int:lough thee- en me, ;nem
preenely wheel!. I. A number ).0dt-
ral
seientists have been workitig to. this .
u stiou and have dieroverecl nett tlh '
c LINII in the red blood corpusinee when
inc moves from lower to bigher nitit tines '
is very marked.
There never was. mut never will be, a
oniversal patentee, III one remedy, for all
ills to wince) flesh is heir—the very nation
of many curatives being Rich that were
the germs of other and differeetly seated
dieettses rooted in the system of the
patient—what would relieve one 111 in .
turn would aggravate the other. We '
have, bowever, in Quinine Wine, When
obtainable in a sound unadulterined
stare, a remedy for many and grevious a I Is.
By its ge .4.1ual mut milicious use, the
frailest sr theme are led into convalescence
and strength, by the influence which Man
nine exerts on Nature's own restoratives.
It relieves the drooping spirits or thine
with whom a Chronic state of morbid des -
pendency and lack of interest in life is a
disease, and, by tranquilizing.: the nerves,
disposes to sound and refreshieg sleep—
imparts vigor to the action of the blood,
which, being stimulated, courses through-
out the veins, streugthening the healthy
anitnal functions of the system, thereby
making activity a necessary reeult,
strengthening the frame, and giving life
to the digestive organs, which naturally
demand tecreased substance—resole, leas
peeved appetite. Northrop & Lytnen of
Toronto, have given to the public their
superior Quinine Wine Attila usual rate,
arid, gauged by the opinion of scientists,
this wine approaches nearest perfection of
any in the market All druggists sell it.
Haznid as a Pistol shot.
The Sultan, in fear for his personal
safety, has taken to revolver practice. He
shoots at a target daily, and has, it is re-
ported in Paris, become so proficient that
hepan fire with equal fatal facility with
either his right or his left hand.
Many persons suffering from rbeunta-
tisna have been permanently cured by
Miller's Compound Iran Pills.
Pap.. Knew.
Tommy—Is that a he or a she lion, papa?
Pater—Which one, dear?
Tommy—That one with his face scratch. -
ed and the hair off the top of his head.
Pater (with a sigh)'—That must be the
male -ray son.
HA V1LTON PROVES
That Dodd's Wdney Pills Curs
Bright's Disease
Though All Other Means Pall—Ydr.•O.,11.
Aiken.' Cass Shows the Truth of the
,Clitim That Do id's Kidney Pill•
Aro the Only Cure for
this Disease.
HAMILTON, Jan. 9.—One of the mod
popular of Hamilton's hotel clerks is Mr.
C. E. Aikens, of the Commercial Hotel.
Mr. Aikens' duties are onerous and
heavy throughout the year, and a man
who was not possessed of more than ordiedh
nary shrewdness and capability could not
possibly fill his position.
This being the case, it will be readily
understood that Mr. Aikens was vent
heavily handicappei when, some three
years ago, he was attacked by Bright's
Disease—a disease which many physicians
claim is inourable.
Mr. Aikens found a cure, however. And
so important does he rightly deem his digs
covery that he has given the following
statement regarding ie for publication, in
the hope that other sufferers from Bright's
Disease wiil be rescued.
"I Could get no relief, no matter what Xi
used nor which of our doctor s treated ma
I had suffered (with Bright's Disease) for
two years, and bad tried many remedies
and wasted many dollars ixf my endeavors
to regain my health. When I was advised
to try Dodd's Kicinty Pills X had no ex-
pectation of receiving any benefit from
theta.
"I tried them itt waver, and soon had
reason to be thankful that I did. Before
I had taketi o dezee (roses I ion a change
for the better,'and the improvernent atin"
tinned steadily until now I aul as strong
and healthy as ever. hitt noses of Dodd.'o
Kidney Pills did this for me.'" ;
Dodd's 'Kidney Ville the ably
cure for Tiriglres 1.)?•,,mscs, uro sOd kq all
cl-Nagists at DDT votts a box; boxea
hint), or e. nt, nn reeeipt of Tirice,
Dodds Medicine Co., Lb/died, Terettie