Exeter Advocate, 1899-3-9, Page 7A PRECIOUS BUNDLE.
LIFE ANO THE MANY THINGS WHICH
GO TO MAKE IT UP.
DR, TALMAGE'S UNIQUE SERMON
The Rev. Gaultlemma% Tip/14 et Many
needles Which, Hound Together,
Doke the Sum Total of Man's Earthly
and Heavenly Exlatenee-The .4.13undle
Of /Are" DtvInely rroteeted.
Wathington, March 5.—Rev. The Tale
mage ehis morning preached from the
text I. Samuel xxv, 29, "The soul of my
Lod shall be bound in the bundle a life
with the Lord thy God." Ile road:
Beautiful Abigail, iu kee ehetbenic pleo
for the rescue of her Mallet° husband,
who died within ten days addreents
David the warrior in the words of the
text. She suggests that his life, physical-
ly and intellectually and spiritually, is a
'valuable package or bundle, divinely
bound up and to be divinely protected.
That phrase "bundle of life" I bowl
many times in my father's family pag-
ers. Family prayers you knoev, beve
frequent repetitions, because thy by day
they aeknowiedge about the same bless-
ings and depiore about .the same frailtio
and sympathize with Mame the same
misfortunes, and I do not know -why
thine who lead at household tlevotions
abould took Narlety a eomposition. That
fanilliar pager bevoines tlie household
liturgy. I would not give One of my old
fatherti prayers for 50 eloeutionarY sup"
plietttions. Again and again, in the
teeming and evening prayer, I beard the
request tbat we iniglit all be bound up
in the bundle et life, but I did not know
until a few slays ago that the piano was
a Bible phrase.
W. le luoro n o Q C
I like it. Bundle of life! It is such a
'ample and unpretending, yet expressive
comparison. a'here is nothiug gran-
diloquence in the neriptores. While there
are litany sublime rtee&igcs in Italy Writ, I
there aro more pas ,ges homely and draw -
tug illustrations front common observa-
tion and (somata' life. In Christ's great t
sermons ;you hear a hen elttek.Ing her
thickens together and see the photograph
of Itypocrites -with a aid COUntenallee and
th
bear of e grass of the field, and tbe
black croeva which our beavenly leather
feeds, and the salt that is worthless, aud
the precloui etones flung uuder the feet
of swine, and the shifting sand that lete
down the house with a great crash and
beer tbe comparison of the text. the most
nupoeticel thing -we can think ot-11.
bundle. Ordiparily it Is something tOoseel
anent, something throwu under the table,
something that suggests garrets or eonte-
thing on the shoulder of a poor wayfarer.
But there are bundles of great value,
bundles put up witb great caution, bun-
dli e the loss of which means consterna-
tion and despair, and there have been
bundles repreeenang the worth of "
klogdom,
During the last spell of eel(' weather
there were bundles that attracted the
attention and the plaudits of the bigb
beavons—bundles of clothing on the Way
from comfortable hems to the door of
the mission room, and Christ stood in
the snowbanks and said as the bundles
passed: "Naked, and ye olotbed me. In-
asintich as ye bay° does it unto ono of
the least of these, ley brethren, yo have
done it unto tne." Those bundles are
multiplying. Blessings on those who
pack them! Blessings on. those who Os -
tribute them! Blessings on those who re-
eelye tbein
With what beautiful aptitude didtAbl-
gall, homy text, speak of the bundle of
life! Oh, what a precious bundle is life!
Bundle of memories, bundle of hopes,
bundle of ambitions, bundle of destiulesi
Once in a while a man writes las auto-
biography, and. it is of thrilling interest.
The story of his birthplace, the story of
his struggles, the story of his sufferings,
the story of his triumplas I But if the
autobiography of the most eventful life
were well written it would make many
tempters of adventure, of tragedy, of
comedy, and there 'would not be an un-
interesting step from cradle to grave.
Bundle of memories are you! I3oybood
memories, with all its injustices from
playmates, with all its games with ball
and bat and kite and sled. Manhood
memories, evith all your struggles in
starting — obstacles, oppositiors, acci-
dents, misfortunes, losses, Euceessee.
lifemories of the first marriage you even
saw solemnized, of the Brae grave you
ever saw °petted, of the first mighty
wrong you ever suffered, of the ilrst vic-
tory you ever gained. Memory of the
hove when you were affianced, memory
of the first advent in your home, xnemory
of the roseate cheek faded and of blue
eyes closed in. the last sleep, memory off
anthem and of dirge, memory of great
pain and of slow convalescence, memory.
of times when all things were against
lanolin memory of prosperities that came in
like ,the full tide of the sea, memories of
* lifetime. What a bundle!
I lift that bundle to -day and unloose
the cord that binds it, and for a moment
you look in and see tears and smiles and
laughter and groans and noon.days and
Inianights of experience, and then I tie
again the bundle with heartstrings that
have some time vibrated • with joy and.
anon been thruminal by finger's of woe.
Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is
almost every man and woman, especially
at the starting. What gains he will bar -
vest, or evhat reputation be will achieve,
. or what bliss he will reach, or what love
he will win. Wbat makes -.college com-
mencemeot 'day so entrancing to all of
us as we see the students receive their
diplomas and take up the garlands
thrown to their feet? They will be Fara-
days in science; they will be Tennysons
Iva poesy; they will be Willard Parlters
in surgerya they will be Alexanclor Inane -
litotes in national finance; they will be
Horace Greeloys in editorial chair; they
will be Websters in the Senate. Or she
will be a Mary Lyon in edueatioual
realms, or a Frances Willard on reforma-
tory platform, or a Helen Gould in
toy hospitals. Or she will make home
life radiant wain helpfulness and ' self
*writhe and magnificent womanhood.
Ob, what a bundle of hopes and ambi-
tioria 1 It is a bundle of garlands and
scepters from which I would not take one
sprig of inignonette nor extinguish one
spark of brillienco. They who start life
withOut bright hopes and inspiring =In-
' *ions might as well not start at all, for
evexy step will be a failure. Rather
. would T. add to the bundle, and if I epee
it now it .will not be because I with to
lake anything from ia but that; I may
pus into it more coronets and hosannas.
Bundle of faculties in evety man and
. sway woman ! Power to think—to think
of the past, and through all the fothre, I was right. We may be bound up with a
to think upward and higher than the i loving and aympathette God. We may be
tannest pinnacle of bagmen, or to thiriki as neer to hen its ever were emerald and
downward until there is no lower abysm e ruby tunnel rn one ring, as ever wore
to fathom, Power to think right, power two deeds in One package, as ever were
1
for, ouce having begun % think, there i were two Yalu -Wes in the same bundler
to think wrong, power to thinlr forever, two vases on the same shelf, as ever
shall be no terminus for that exercised Together to elute of' joy. Together 011
and eternity itself shall hove no power: earth. Together inboven. Close oilman -
to bid it halt, Faculties to love—fillet; 'within of Goa. Hear nina, "I will newer
love, conjugal love, paternal love, mater- ol leave the nor torsake thee." "For the
nal love, love of coontry, love of Qed.; mountains shall depart and, the hills be
Faculty of judgment, with scales so deli- l removed, but my kindness shall not de -
sate and yet $0 Mighty they Citu weigh., part from thee, tleither shell the covenant
arguments, weigh emotions, Weigh heal or my peace be renewed, saith the Lord
yen and hell Faculty' of willethat on; that hath tnerey on thee." And when
climb mountains or tenuael Meet; Wade; those Bible authors compered God's
seas or bridge them, accepting eternal friendship to the mouutaina for height and
enthronement or choosing everlasting i fuenness they knew what they were
exile. Oh, what it is to be a man! Ob, 1 welting about, for tbey well knew what
'what it is to be a woman!, Sublime and mountains are A.B. these lands are moue-
iufinite bundle of feeeltieel The thought: tainous. Motuit Hermon, Mount Gilboa,
of it staggers ma swamps ma stuns In& ' Mount Gerizim, Mount Engedi, Mount
bewilders me, overwhelms me. Ob, what: Horeb, tloilne Nebo, Mount Pisgah,
a bundle of life -Abigail of ray text owl Mount Olivet, Mount Zhao Mount More
in Davie., aud evhieli we ought to see in'-', lab, Meant Lebanon, Moline Sinai, Mount
every human, yet immortal, beteg! 1 Golgotha. Yes, we have the divine proud -
Know, also, that this bundle of life" lee that all those mountains shall weigb
was put up with greae care. Any tiler- , their anchorage of reeks and move away
chant and almost any faithful houson from elle earth before a loving and sym-
bolder will tell you how meal depends pathetio God will move away from us if
on. the way a buudle is bound. The cord we love and trust him. Oh, if we could
1 or rope muse be strong enough to hold, r. realize that according to my text we may
i the knot must be well tied. You know I be bound up with that God, how ludo-
nowitat rough bands may teas that pendent it would make us of things that
bundle. If not properly put together, now haraea and annoy and dieeonmose
I though it may leave your hands in good and torment us. Instead of a grasdlopper
order and symmetrical, before le vetches being A burden a world ef care Would be
its proper destinetion is may be 1009040d. as light as a feather, and tonlbstonee
g in fragments for the winds to Rather or would be marble stab's to the king's pal -
1 the veil toxin to loee, fien and ell the giants or oppesition We
Now, I have to tell you tbat this bun- ,'' would mate down /elp and thigh with
I, rile or life is well put together—the body, i greet slauginer. ,
elle mind, the soul. Wito but the cannipo- I A, God Away up in the heavens is ot
tent Goa. could bind such a bundle? , mueli cottsehteion to us when we get into
Allatelltiale, PhYsieladishat Phrsielsta, - life's struggle It is tt God close by, ail
ivielans, metaphysielans, declare elutt . peer to us as any two artielee of AppArQl
,
we are fearfully and wonderfully limit& ' Were none to eatib other in that bundle
' Thee we aro a bundle well put together that you thnt the other ther to that slave
I prove by the tutioulni Of jounteying we ' eying /mete, through whose roof the snow
eau endure without dell:legeby the sifted toed ebreugh wbolebrolten .witadew
pane the night winds howled. It was
validated irony and holy sarcasm that
Elijah used, when be told the idolaters of
Baal to pray louder, saying that their
god ntiglit be asleep, or talking, or On a
journey, or gone a hunting, but our God
is always wide awake, and always bears,
and is always ekes by, and to him a
wbiaper of prayer is as loud as an erebe
etagere -tramper, and a obild's "Now I
ley me down to sleep" is arm easily heard
by bim as tbe prayer of the great &etch.
MEM amid the highlunde wben pursued
by Lord Claverbouse's miscreants. The
Covenanter said, "Ct Lord, mit the lap
of thy cloak about these children of the
coot/mut," and a Inotuonin fog instantly
hid the pursue41 from their bloodslarsty
pursuers. I proelaina lam a God close by,
When .we are tempted to do wrong, when
we bave questions of livelliumil too mutat
for US when we put our darlings into
the la!st sleep, when we are overwhelmed
with physical clistreeses, when we are
perplexed about what next to do, when
we come into combat with the king ot
terrors We Want a Clod close by. How do
you like the cloottrIne of the text, "Donna
in the bundle of life with the Lord thy
God?" Thank you, Abigail. kneeling
amount of rough bandlitag we on or.
vhe ice, by the feet that tvast majority
of us go through life without the loss a
An eye, or the (Tippling of a limb, tbe
destruetiou of a single energy of body or
faculty of mind. I subpoena for this trial
Quit Man in yonder view 70 or SO yaws
of age and ask him to notify that after
all the storms autl accidents and vicissi-
tudes of a long life be still keeps hie Roo
senees, and, though all tile lighthouses
as old an he is luive boon revonstructed
or new lanterns put in, he has in under
bis forekeed the tiAlne two lanterns With
which God started bins, and, though tbo
locomotives of GO years ago were lone. ago
sold for old iron, be has the original
, powers of locomotion In the limbs with
wbich Goa started him, and, though all
the electric( wires that carried messages
25 years ago 'lave been torn down, bis
nerves bring mesotges from all parts of
bis body as well as when God strung
them 75 years ago, Was there ever such
& complete butulle put together as the
buntan being? Whet a, factoiy! What ad
engine! Wino a 111111 ram! What a light-
house! Whet a locomotive! What an elec-
tric battery! What furnace! Wlutt a
nuisterplece of the Lord God .A.bniglity I
Che to employ the untiolimax fuel use the there at the foot of the mountain utter -
figure of the text, wbut a bundle I I log consolation for all ages, while ad
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Know also that tble btutdie of life is dreading Davtd. No 'wonder that in after
properly directed. :Many a bundle 1105 time he !tented her to the palace and put
miesed its way and disappeared because her upon the throne of his heart as well
the address has dropped and no one can as upon the throne of Judah.
line by examination for what city or Know also taut this bundle of lite will
town or neighborhood it was intended. be gladly received evhea 15 oomes to the
All great carrviug companies have so
many mialirected packages that they
appoint days of vonduo to dispose of
them All intelligent people know the
importance of having e valuable package
plainly directed, the name of the ono to
WilOna it 19 to go plainly written. Bag-
gage muster and expressman ought to
know at the first glum° to whom to take
it.
This bundle of life that Abigail, in
my text, speaks of is plainly addressed.
By divine penmanship it is dirootod hea-
venward. However long nifty be the
earthly distance it travels, its destination
is the eternal city of God on high. Every
nal° it goes away froni that direction is
by some human or infernal fraud prac-
ticed, against it There are those who put
door of the mansion for \villoh it was
bound and plainly directed. With what
alacrity and glee lye await some package
that has been foretold by letter; some
holiday presentation; something that will
enrich and ornament our home; some
testinaony of admiration and affection!
With -what glow of expectation we untie
She knot and. take off the cord that holds
it together in safety, and with what glad
exclamation we unroll the covering and
nee the gift or purohase in all its beauty
of color and proportion. Well, what a
day it will be 'when your precious bun-
dle a life shall be opened tri the "house
of many mansions" amid saintly and
angelic and divine inspection! The bun-
dle may be spotted with the marks of
mucli exposure. It may bear inscription
it on some other track, who misplace it after Inscription to tell through what
in seine wrong conveyance, who send 151 ordea.1 it has passed. Perhaps splashed of
off or send it back by some diabello nits- I wave and scorched of flame, bu.t ail it
carriage. The value of tbat bundle is' las within -undamaged of the journey.
so well known all up and down the And evitb what shouts of joy the bundle
universe that there are a million dishon- of life will be greeted by all the voices of
est hands which are trying to detain or the heavenly home circlet
divert it, or to forever stop its progress in In otw anxiety at last to reach heaven
the right direction. -there are so many we are apt to lose sight of the glee or
influences abroad- to ruin your body, welcome that awaits us if we get in at
mind and soul that my wonder is not mal. We all have friends up there. They
that so many are destroyed for this world will somehow hear that we are coming.
and the next, but that there are not,Such close and swift and constant corn -
more who go down irremediably. munication is there between those up
Every human being is assailed at the lands and these lowlands ' that we will
start. Within an hour of the time when not surprise them by sudden arrival. If
this bundle of life is made up the assault , loved ones on earth expect, - our coming
begins. First of all, there are the infan- visit aud are at the depot with carriage
tile disorders that threaten the body just ; to meet as, surely we will be met at the
aaunehed upon earthly existence. Scarlet shining gate by old friends now sainted
fevers and. pneumonias, and diphtherias and kindred now glorified. If there were
and influenzas, and the whole pack of , no angel a God to tneet us and show us
epidemics surround the cradle and the palaces and guide us to our everlast-
threaten its occupant, and infant Moses Ing residence, these kindred would show
in time ark 01 bulrushes was not snore us the way and point out the splendors
imperiled by the monsters of the Nile and guide us to our celestiel home, bow-
tban every cradle is imperiled by ailments ered and fountained and arched and
all devouring. In after years. there are illuinined by it atm that never seta Will'
bus within and foes without. Evil appe- it not be glorious, the going in and the
tite joined by outside allurements. Temp- settling down•afthr all th
tar ions that have utterly destroyed more and upsettings of anathly experience? We
ptople than now inhabit the earth will soon know all our neighbors, kingly,
Gambling saloons and rummeries, and queenly, prophetic, apostolic, seraphic,
places where dissoluteness reigns Supreme, arobangelic. The precious bundle of life
enough in number to go round and round opened amid palaces and grand marches
and round the earth. Discouragement's, and acclamations. They will all be so
jealousies, revengeo .malevolencee, &sap- glad we have got safely through.
poi natioute, swindles, arsons, confiagra- Once there it will be found that the
teen ana cruelties which make tient-domed safety a that precious bundle of life was
existence of the human atter) a wonder- assured because it was bound up with
neut. Was any valuable bundle ever so the life of God in Jesus Christ Heaven
imperiled as this bundle of life? Oh, look could not afford to have that bundle lost,
at the address and get that bundle going because it bad been said in regard to its
in the right way! "Thou shalt love the transportation and safe arrival, "Kept by
Lord thy God with all thy heart clod the power of God through faith unto
soul, and mind and strength." Heaven complete salvation." The veracity of the
with its . 12 gates standing wide open heavens is involved hi its arrival. If God
weel.1 invitation. All the forces of the should fail to keep las promise to just
Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival one ransomed soul the pillars of Jehovah's
if we will do the rig,ht thing. All angel- throne would fall, and the foundations
(loin ready for muaolvance and guidanceof the eternal city would crumble, and
All the lightnings of heaven so many infinite poverties would dash down all
drawn swords for our protection. What it the chalices and close all the banqueting
pity, what an everlasting pity, if this halls, and the river of life would change
bundle of life, so well bound and eo its course, sweeping everything with close
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plainly directed, does not come out at the lation, and frost would blast all the bear
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right station, but becoxines a lost bundle, dens, and imineasurahle sickness slaythe
cast out amid tho rubbish of the uni immortals, and the new .Terusalem be -
verse! come an abandoned city, with no chariot
Know also that a bundle may have in wheel on the streets and no worshipers in
it more than one invaluable. There may the temple—a dead Pompeii of the skies,
be in it a photograph of a loved one and a buried Eferculaneum of the heavens.
a tewel for it ca,reanet. It may contain an Lest anyone should doubt, the God who
embroidered robe and a Itore's illustrated cannot lie smiths his omnipotent hand on
BiNe. A. bundle may have two treasures the side of his throne, and takes affidavit,
Abigail, in my text, recognized this declaring, "As I live, said the Lord God,
when she said to David, "The soul of I have no pleasure in the death of him
xny lord is bound in the bundle of life that theta. Oh I I cannot tell you how 1
with the Lord thy God." and Abigail feel about it, the thonght Ls so glotious.
'SWINDLING AS AN
Rogues Who Have Caught Roy.
alty With Clever Schemes.
po PEOPIR LOVE TO in DUPED!
etory of Me ratoono elnamood Seek,
lace -414m the Sootlt $e& 17.$14lib1e
And Joho Ltutv'o eitseieseeet seaeme
Were Wortted.
Recen5 revelations In regent to the
Keely motor go to show time the inventor
was emuething more than a dreamer.The
Ines that he always had frietule and baelt-
ers is an interesting steely in bateau na-
•ture..'An American lady In England for
sears preceding itis death gave bini over
ente it month with which to carry on his
experiments, and Iota be lived nutny yetere
looOer 15 18 nee at ell IlUely that he would
beoe ham embarrassed for leen Of funds. ,
The New Fiegland swindling seheme of
eeetiring fortunes in gold trent sea water,
•protectea by a hypeeritieel fraud who lefe
hie victims In the Aaron At an opportune •
,e-
tafee,
MI1.IO5TII0 VISITING TUN GNAND MASTEN,
moment, is still ftesh in the minds of the
people. Tbreugli secretly salting the sea
water with gold victims eager 50become
rich were captured and toe rascally pro -
teeter; secured large 50805 01 money. The
difference betwou this swindle and
Keeirs motor is that there is something
In U. A ton of SCA tooter, SAM men of
science tell us, =tains a grain of gold,
which may be extracted by a sImple elleute
teal proveta. But, however simple the
procete 01 extraeting the gold may be, it
would proirably cost mueli moth than the
grela of gold would be worth to obtain it
il Barnum remarked at one time
tint the public dearly loved to be hum-
burtzed. It would be almost as numb of
a ti itism to assert that they dearly loved
to be swindled, Though the tricks of tho
gold brick mau bare been exposed time
and again he still pursuea his voodoo
with apparently undiminished sue,eces.
Rural victitns and sometimes keen busi-
ness men in the ciao fall victims to his
wiles, and when they discover that their
gold hes been transmuted into bra.s.s they
wonder al their gullibility, I3y numerous
other devices, evhich prove how fertile the
swindler is in expedients and how prolific
In inventions, he has succeeded in keeping
abreast of tho times. Driven from one
sphere of enterprise, he tries another and
anticipates efforts made to °hem:event
hint by thanging, his modes operand' as
well as the character of his operations.
Tboraas Do Quincey wrote of "Murder
as a Fine Art.' Had he lived in our days
ho would have much less trouble in writ-
ing of swindling from a similar point of
view. To mention even briefly all the
successful swindlers of the last three or
four decades wouldrequire a large volume.
For that reason I will restrict myself to
the mention of a few that attained a
worldwide celebrity previous th the begin-
ning of the present century. Further-
more, it should not be forgotten that the
devices and tricks which were successful
in deluding the public in former years
would probably fail to achieve the same
results now. It would be impossible for a
Cagliostro to pursue a similar successful
career of fraud now, nor would it be pos-
sible for a swindler now to secure such a
universal prominence in infamy as was
gained by that notorious individual about
it hundred years ago.
John Law's Mississippi scheme in
France and the south sea bubble in Eng-
land have been generally included in the
list of gigantic swindles'but I think im-
properly so. There Can be but little doubt
that the majority of the projectors of the
south see scheme were honest men and
though these projectors were certainly
visionary they had no intention of de -
!rending the public. Tho same may be
said of Law's scheme. Bad as Law's repu-
tation was, there were but few that at-
tributed dishonest motives to him in his
financial transactions in France.
John Law was a Scottish adventurer and
man of the world who bad gambled
and amused himself in many of the capi-
tals of Ertrope. He was a man of good
family said bad an undoubted talent for
finance. Meeting the Duo d'Orleans, then
regent of France, at a time when that
country was in a bad financial condition,
he succeeded in interesting him in some
of his financial projects. Under the royal
authority Law founded a bank of circu-
lation and discount, and afterward secur-
ing a concession of the territory of Louisi-
ana, which was supposed to be vic.h in
gold and silver and precious stome, he or-
ganized a company and .floated its stock
So an unlimited extent. Tho people be-
came crazed with the speculative mania,
the shares rose from 85 to 50 times their
original value, and Law was made comp.
troller general and had the whole court at
his feet. Soon the collapse &mune, and the
shares so valuable before became poeti-
cally wortlahrss. Law sweetly left Paris
with only a few coins in his possession of
all the millions he had handled. ,H died
nine years later tu extreme poverty, but
convinced till the last of the utility of his
scheme of finance.
Tho affair of the diamond necklace,
which involved one of the best planned
and successful svtinclles over perpetrated,
has 130011 made the leading incident in one
of Dumas' novels and furnished Thomas
Carlyle with subject matter for one of his
most interesting essays. The incident
caused a great scandal in France at the
time, besmirched the name of Marie An-
toinette, innocent as she was of all com-
plicity, and contributed in no slight de-
gree to the revolution and the destruction
of the royal fansily.
The chief aotor in the affair of the dia-
mond necklace was an adventuress evbo
etyled herself the Countess de Lamotte
awl elatine4 &weal gram Bear
sylio bad been half servant, half compan-
ion to A lady of quality, and bad thus
plotted up an acquaintanceship with the
ntanners and gossip of court etelette The
Cardinal Prince LAMAS de Hoban had long
been excludael from court And WAS ex-
tremely desirous of entiblishing himself
al the queen's gaud grease. Through her ,
origima patroness alone. de Lamette be,
alum acquaancel with Cardinal de Beaten
and anew hew eager be WAS te propitiate 1!
Marla Antoinette. Becoming aware that
the ereurt jeweler, Beehnier. teed atelatemond
neelthee valued et etite,eetm aluglieh nione;ve,
/diea 4s lonmette entame 11re4 with the
desire to Roane is. Portending; eti Prince
Louie time she was familiar at eenre, abe
led ban to understate( that the queen was
wry desireu e of procuring the tealtatiee,
but was prevented by the king front niatt-
Mg the purelmee.
With consummate eltill the adenuturess
boodwineed halt the prince and tbe jew-
tier. $ho deluded the former into believ-
ing that be bed an intt rview with the ,
queen at night ie am park of Versailles,
whik ably meeting Gay 40111"0, it
heantiftil girl talfea from elle streets ef
Paris. She pretended to owe' the jew-
eler's terms for the nieflaace to the queen
and returued with a note purporting to
be signed by her agreeing to the eoutli-
tions of sale. The valuable necidace was
Shen placed in the hands of Prince Iseuis,
bo then gave it to ainie. de lAutotte
be conveyed to the queen. Soon after
diamond neeislaen CATUO inte the pas -
a tho 4dt-enterers it WAS term te
ibeees and sot in great haste out of the
kingdom. Nett until the'jeweler chattered
forJ1ie nest installumeut el tho pereLate
money, some thee ettletaluent, was any
susplelou entertained by the prime or the
jeweler of the great swindle which had
been perpetrated. Mine. de Lamotw. who
had ample time to esrape, was whipped,
branded and sentenced to ImpriFentnens 1
for life, The Cardinal Prince de Rotten '
was arrested and tried, but was finally ac-
quitted through hisgreat family influence.
CaglieStrO, One Qf the IlieA picturesque
and successful swindlers that ever lived, .1
was born of humble parente in Palermo,
Italy, in 1743. Ills real name was
Giuseppe Balsam& but, claiming to be
an aristecra,t, he aSS11111ed tile tiara° of
Count Cagilostro, ett tbe ago of 13 he
ran away from a seminary where be had.
been placed, but was caught and put in
0. monastery, whore las learned semetbing
of the properties of drugs as an oesistant
to the apothecary in the institution. In
it few years be became the clevereet rogue
in Palermo, but Sicily becoming too hot
for bine be =ado his exit by obtainine
money from a Jeweler under tbe pretense
of securing him a treasure. With tbis
money he set out on bis travels with it
companion, whom he named Albotas. Be
asstuned it different name and. cimmeter
in each country be visited, at one thee
appearing as a oceronmucer, then as a
nobleman, again as it naturalist or plgsit
clan, while the continuous exerelsoof old
tricks and concoctIon of new ones inn
parted a wonderful elasticity to his genius
for successful deception. Aceording to
%;"
PRINCE LOUIS GIVING THE DIAMOND NEON -
LACE TO COUNTESS DE LAMOTTE.
his own account, with Alhotas he explored.
various countries of the orient and was
received with the most distinguished
honors. These reported perigrinations
were only imaginary, but iri 1770 he actu-
ally visited the grand master of the
Knights of Malta and so impressed him
and others that he was given letters of in-
troduction which gained him adealssion
Into the society of the Italian nobility.
He then married a beautiful woman,
Lorenza Feliciana, and, aided by her fem-
inine cunning and attractions, succeeded
in malting dupes where his coarser decep-
tions would have failed. Having done a
thriving business in Italy, he made his
appearance in Germany, where he offered
an elixir for sale which insured perpetual
life and never fading beauty. Its opera-
tioe he said was manifest in his own per-
son, as he frequently passed himself as
ranging in age from 109 to 200 years, as
the case might be. Reaping a golden
harvest in Germany, he departed for
Russia, and in 1779 while at Mitau he
gathered around him the first ladies of the
town and founded a Masonic lodge to
'which high born ladies were admitted as
members. Before the enthusiasm of his
victims could cool Ile left for St. Peters-
burg, but Catherine II laughed at him
end his tamale dupes, and he then de-
for Frauce. namepreteoded
toiraeles he bad performed at Strasharg
spread lais fame threrigh that country, find
*neon arriving et Faris be was resetvea
with open anus. Tim most notable ear,-
onages of the French •ceurt becalue be-
lievers in ins dererlica, a:,....:41ng the nr1O1-
brr iteing Certlinet tiSt feelean• Tertemeh
bite Cag.42:(4. 3/:!r:sm in.443,1•Xe4 itt in0
Aitatir Ott the dr3N1OTA nee/flare gen wee
art -estate, but as nothing cesuld be proved
againee him he was titiereted, lie wee
at:mete-Bed re leave :Frame. end then V.:CIA
to linglami, ethere he met rata but slight
teentets. After havin7inenesizteRe4 fman
var-Ams comae:es on Itv continent he pro -
t0 inetie, waere he felt into the
heads or to ineettesitlea end was sen -
Lo dealt- Olie -seine:tee was. awe.
ever, orranuted to• impels:4114unit for life,
and be patiai the lase eight pens of 14e
life in it tienigeen. • Nolo MatlACiALD.
Seropbeolt of Style*.
After eteiessmf pat icon atter:non it 130StOn
women has Aetolytli a ser:4111e04 of fash-
ions that is trule unique ante totieeigen
In the early days of the eivd war hitt) bo.
gaa clipping plates and fashien pltetor
gamin from mole journals until her pro-
posed volume has yew forreed eeseral lb
is wonderfully ten' to review the fads and
fancies tbat flashed like so many teethers
througla the eines ef tbe pees 65 or 40
yeare. Thule are time Greciene bend, the
elageon, the waterfall, the pullback, the
crinoline, the tiny Imettoets and Me pokes
the Ictrge bustice, imeoto and the large
sleeves. Only eetnniats efetyle odd!.
ties ere URAL for the ciAlleetten would swell
beyond ell prepertien. As 15 1*, *5 18 the
SOWTO et much mirth witeneverthe brings
it out as a "etenpAll trap."—SpringlIela
Republican,
PAINS IN THE SACK.
4rori040170muomuterzsuroarractwQr1p,
laf,T4 of the }St oosThrlop on Only tor
It astored to Sliir :Normal Condition Ili
A Fall. Use of Dr. Williamte Nish 011ie.
Mr. Albert Mimic, of Woodstock, Ont.,
now engaged it the insurance burettes%
Is well kantwn In that tete and eorrounde
Ing country Some thr e years ago Mr.
Idinilewas Living at South Iti.er, Parry
Sound District, and, widle there was At-
tacked with severe rains in the back. AO
fleet lie paid but little attention to them,
daubing that the trouble would pass
away. but as It tikl not he consulted it
tocal pbytician, and was Lead tbat htis kW-
neys were effected. Medicine was pro-
scribed, but beyond it trifling allevlation
of the pain it had no effect. In addition
to the pain in the back air. Made was
troubled with headaches and a feeling of
laseitude. He was forced to quit work,
and. while in this rendition, wea,k and de-
spondent, be decided to try Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. He purchased a half dozen
boxee and was not disappointed with the
result, Before they were all used Mr.
adinde was feeling almost as well as ever
he bad done. The pain in ids back had
almost disappeared, the beadaches were
gone, and he felt greatly improved in
strength. Two more boxes conipleted the
cure, and he returned to work bale and
hearty as ever. Mr, Mintier asserts that
his return to health is duo entirely to Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and be still occa-
sionally uses a box if he feels in any way
"out of sorts"
The kidneys, like other organs of the
body, are dependent upon rich, red blood
and strong nerves for healthy action, and
It is because Die Williams' Pink Pills sup-
ply these conditions that they cure kidney
trouble as well as other ills which have
their origin in watery blood or a shattered
nervous system. Sold by all dealers al
sent postpaid at 60c. it box or set boxes fox
$2.50 by oddiessing the Dr. Will ems'
Medicine Co., 13rockville, Ont. If you
value your health do not take it substitute -
To Be Done Beforehand.
Cholly Softy had been back from the
meth just one day and half a night.
He had gone up there the week previous
well equipped tor a menth's shoot. His
arms had been 'die best, leis tamp equdire
went away in advance of those of
youths of less mOlIes, end his "grub"
the nicest calmed stuff that money could
buy. Ile got out his deer shooting
liecose in good form and On the way
home that night in the car he studied
its vague verbiage thoroughly. To it
were affixed a certain number of tags
upon each of which were printed the in-
structions that one was to be tautened
to each deer shot. Thus equipped,
Cholly left for the north, dogs, gum
ble nit ets and all.
And he came back day before yeetexe
day. Of course the boys had heard ot
his departure, and naturully they ex.
pected be would be away at least two
ee eks. so it WeS with snretriee that they
saw him stroll into the Debby of the
itt'l!'.511°e1111o,EC°Ibisoellains," ceriveand lim.
omegof them.
Ba"cal''fi:'s," was the reply.
"Have any luelet"
11"Saw a lot of deer, didn't yen?" r
"Yaas, morre'n n thousosid know."
"Couldn't hit 'em. huh?'
"Inktinly; aidn't try."
"Didnt try to shoot 'em. Who mat?'
"Couldn't get elate enough to limy of
'em t' tie on the Oconee tags, y'knawra
roesseoseetweeeeeesecose
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On GeGGSOneittitedecGe NeCCCOVII
It is the easiest thing in the world to have
1 Lumbago or Lame Back
And it is just as easy to get rid of la
and quicker Cures than
No remedy has made surer
IT RELAXES THE STIFFENED MUSCLES.
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