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a taper was kindled in the darkness. He
died physics unless. He died in Gold sweat
and dizziness anti hemorrhage and agony,
neer, leave put him in syenpathy with all.
the dying. He goes through Christen -
done and he gathers up the stings out of
all the death pillows, and he puts them
Rev. Dr, Talmage Finds Lessons of Comfort under his own neck and bead. He gathers
on his own tongue the burning thirsts
of teeny generations. he sponge to soak
in a. Bad Scene, min tate sorrows of all those who bave
, .•al ii1 their beds, as well as soaked. in
t:ae Borrows of all those who perished In.
ley or fiery tnartyrdoin. While heaven
was pitying, and earth wags moeking; and
hell was deriding, he reek the vinegar!
Carry sorrow.* to Jesus.
To all those to whom life has been an'
averhity—a Hesse they could not swalllow,
The Great Divine Says That Heaven's Brightest Crowns S- had
Adorn the Brows of Those Who Bear Life's
Burdens With Fortitude.,
I
Washington, March 26.—Front tl•a+
pathetic 'scene of Christ's last ]tour of
suffering s
ffer n Dr. 7 alma inthis at r
gge t anon
draw, lessons of comfort for people in
trouble, text John xix, 30, "Whin Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar."
The brigands of Terusaalem bad dole
their work. It was almost sundown. nud
Jesus was (lying. Persons in crucifixion
often lingered on from slay to day, cry
ing, begging, cursing, but Christ had
been exhausted by years of naraltreatrt.ent.
Irillowless, poorly ted, flogged, as bent
of er amu tied to a low post his bare back
Was, inflammed with the scourges inter
sticed with pieces of lead and bone, and
now for whole hours the weight of bit
body hong on delicate tendons, and, tae.
Cording to custom, a violent stroke under
the armpits had been given by the envy.-
tioper. Dizzy, nause !tell, feverish,
world of agony is compressed in the two
1 words, "I thirst!" Olt shies of Tudea,
let a drop of rain strike on his burning
tongues Oh, world, with rolling rivers
axed sparkling lakes and spraying for,!•
tains, give Jesus something to drink! If
there be any pity in earth or lacaaven or
hell, let it now be dctuonstrattel in be.
half of title royal sufferer.
Tho wealthy women of Jerusalem used
to have a fund of money with they
provided wine fur those people who di,'d
in crucifixion—a powerful opiate to
deaden the pain—but Christ would not
tante it. He wanted to die sober, and :'t
be refused the wine, But afterward they
y
go to a cup of vinegar and soak a sponge
in it and put it on a stick lit hyssop and
then press it against the hot lip; cif
Christ. Yon say the wine meas an aanaeti•
thette and intended to relieve or deaden
the pain. But the vinegar was an insult.
Life's Weak Spots.
In sonic lives the saccharine seems to
predominate. Life is sunshine on a bank
of flowers. A thousand hands to clap ap-
proval. In December or in January, look-
ing across their table, they see all their
family present. Health rubicund, skies
finmboyant, days resilient, But in a groat
many cases there are not so many sugars.
as acids. The annoyances, and the vexa-
tions, and the disappointments of lire
overpower the successes. There is a gravel
in almost every. shoe. An Arabian legend
says that there was a worm in Solomon's
staff gnawing its strength away, end
there Is a weak spot in every earthly
slllaport that a limn leans on. Xing
Gcorga of England forgot all the grand-
( Burs of his throne bemuse one day in an
interview Beast Brnnunel called ltim by
his first name and addressed hint ns a
servant, crying, "George, ring the bell!"
Miss Langdon, honored all tho world
over for her poetic genius, Is so worried
over the evil reports set afloat rogardiug
her that she is found dead with an empty
bottle of prussic acid in her haaud. Gold-
smith said that his life was a wretohed
being, and that all that want and con-
tempt could bring to it had been brought,
and cries out, "What, then, is there
formidable in a jail?" Correggio's fine
painting is hung up for .a tavern sign.
Hogarth cannot sell his best painting
except through a raffle. .Andrea del Surto
• makesthe great fresco in the Church of
the Annunciate at Florence and gets for
pay a sack of corn, and there aro annoy-
ances and vexations in high places .as
well as in low places, showing that in a
great many lives are the sours greater
than the sweets. "When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar."
It is absurd to suppose that a man who
bas always been well can sympathize
with those who are sick, or that one who
has always been honored can appreciate
the sorrow of those who aro despised, or
that one who has been born to a great
fort :no can understand the distress and
. the a; a'ts of those who aro destitute.
The face that Christ himself took the
vinegar makes him able to sympathize
to -day and forever with all those wbose
cup is fidel with the sharp acids of this
life. He took the vinegar!
The Treacherous Friend.
In the first plane, there was the sour-
ness of betrayal. The treachery of Judas
hurt Christ's feelings more than all the
erettndship of his disciples did him good.
You have bad many friends, but there
a was one friend upon whom you put
especial stress. Yon feasted him. You
loaned him money. You befriended him
in the dark passes of life, when be
espeolaaily needed a friend. Afterward, he
turned upon you, and he took advantage
of your former intimacies. He wrote
against you. He talked against you. He
miseroscopizod your faults. He flung
contempt at you, when you ought to
!rave received nothing but gratitude. At
first you could not sleep at night. Then
you went about with a sense of having
boon: strung, That diflicuity will never be.
healed, for though m'u'tual friends may
arbitrate in the matter ' until you than
shake bands, the old cordiality will never
come back. Now I command to all such.
1h-1 sympathy of a betrayed Christ. Wbv,
t..ey sold him for less than our . $;20'1;
They all 'forsook him and fled. They out
. him to, tho.quick. Ilse drank that Amp to.,
the dregs. Ho took the vinegar.
There is also the ' soleness of pain.
There aro some of you who have not seen
a well day for many years. By keeping
out of drafts, and by carefully studying
dietetics, you continue to this time, but
oh,` the headaches, and the side aches,
and the backaches, and the heartaches
which have been -your accompaniment all
She way through! Yon have ,r,.iuggled
under a .heavy mortgage sof physical dis
abilities, and instead of the placidity that
nyouit is now
only
once. (zed
character
with great effort that you keep away
from irritability and sharp retort. Diffi-
culties of respiration, of digestion, ,of
locomotion, make up the groat obstaclo
in your life, and you tug and sweat
along the pathway and wonder when the
exhaustion will end. My friends, the
brightest crowns in heaven will not be
givento those who, in stirrups, dashed
to the cavalry charge, while the general
applauded, and the sound of clashing
sabers rang through the land, but the
brightest crowns fn beaaven, I believe,
will be given to those wbo trudged on
amid chronic ailments: which unnerved
their strength, net all the time maintain -
leg their faith in God, It is comparative
ly easy to fight in a regiment of a thou-
sand men, charging up the parapets to
the son martial
h u d of
music, but it is not
so easy to endure when no one but the
nurse and the doctor are the witnesses of
the Cbristian fortitude. Besides that, you
never had any pains worse than Christ's.
The sharpness that stung through his
brain, through his hands, through bis
feet, through his hears, were as great as
yours certainly. Ile was as sick and as
weary. Not a nerve oz' nuscle orllgazuent-
escaped. All the pangs of all the nations
of all the ages compressed into ono sour
CRP. He took the vinegar!
04114t's FrivatiOnn.
There is also the sourness of poverty.
Your ineoauo does not meet you outgo-
ings, and that always gives au honest
man anxiety. There is no sign of dostitu-
tiers about you—pleasant appearance and
a cheerful limo for you—but God only
knows what a time you have bad to man-
age your private finances, Just es the
bills run up the wages seen to run down.
You may say nothing, but life to you is.
a hard push, and when you sit down
With your wife and talk over the expenses'
you both rise up discouraged. You abridge
here, and you abridge there, and you get
things snug for smooth sailing, and, lo,
suddenly there is a large doctor's bill to
pay, or you halve lost your pocketbook,
or some debtor has failed, and yen are
thrown beton end, Well, brother, you aro
in glorious company. Christ owned mot'
She (louse in which sic stoned or the colt -
on which he rode or the boat, ilawhich be
sailed. Ho lived in a borrowed house; he
was buried in a borrowed grave, >aaposed
to all kinds of weather, yes be had only
one suit of clothes. Ile 'W'(';lkfal.sted in the
horning, and no one could possibly tell
-where 110 could get anything to eat before
night. He would bare been pronounced al.
financial failure. lie had to perform a
miracle to get money to pay a tax bill.
Not e. dollar slid be own, Privation of
domeaitieity, privation of nutritious food,
privatiulz of a comfortable couclt 011
W11/011 to sleep, privation of all worldly
resources! '.laze kings of the earth had
chased chalices out of which to dt'iuk,
but Christ bad nothing but a plain cup
set before him, and it was very sharp,
and it was very sours lie took the vine-
gar.
The Vacant Chair.
There were years that passed along
before your family circle was invaded by
death, bus the moment, the =armed cir-
cle was broken everything seemed to dis-
solve. hardly have you put the black
apparel in the wardrobe before you have
again to take it out. Greet and rapid
changes in your faultily record. You got
the house and rejoiced i11 it, but the
eherns was gone xis soon as the crape
hung on the doorbell. The ono upon
whom you most depended, was taken
away from yon. A cold marble slab lies
on your heart to•clay. Once, as the chil-
dren romped through the ]louse, you put
your hand over your aching head and
said, "Oh, if X could, only have le still!"
Oh, it is too still nowt You lost your
patience when the tops and tato strings
and the shells were loft amid floor, but,
oh, you would be willing to have the
trinkets scatterd all over tura floor again
if they were scattered by the same hands.
With what a ruthless plowshaun ber-
eavement rips up the heart! lint Jesus
knows all about that. Yot1 munot tell
bun anything now in regard to bereave-
Tnent. He had only a few friends, and
when he lost one it brought tears to bis
eyes. Lazarus had often entertained him
at his home. Now Lazarus is dcad and
buried, and Christ breaks down with
emotion, the convulsion of grief shudder-
ing through all the ages of bereavement.
Christ kuows what it is to go through
1 the house missing a familiar inmate.
Christ knows what it is to Kean unoccu-
pied place at the table. Were there not
four of them—Mary and Martha and
Christ and Lazarus? Four of theist. But
where is Lazarus? Lonely and . afflicted
Christ, his great loving eyes filled with
tears! Olt, yes, yes! He knows all about
the loneliness and the heartbreak. Iso
took the vinegar
(nates of the Future.
Then there is the sourness of the death
hour. Whatever elan we may escape, that
acid sponge will be pressed to our lips.' I
sometimes have a curiosity to know how
I will behave when I come to die.
Wether I will be calm or excited,
whether I will be filled with reminis-
cence or with anticipation, I cannot say.
But come to the point I must and you
must. An officer from the future world
will knock at the door of our hearts and
serve on us the writ of ejectment, and
we will have to surrender. And wo will
wake up :after these autumnal and win-
try and vernal and stunmory glories have.
viteished'from our vision. Wo will wake
up into a realm which has only one sea-
son and that the season of everlasting
love.
13 ot yoix say: "I don't want to: break
ora from try present associations. It is so
chilly and so damp to go down the stairs
of that vault. I dont want anything
drawn so tightly over my eyes. If there
were only some way of breaking through
the partition between worlds without
tearing this body all to shreds! I wonder
if the surgeons and the doctors cannot
compound a mixture by which this•body
and soul can all the' time bo
kept
to-
gether? Is there noesca e from this
separation?" None, absolutely none.' A
great many men tumble through the
gates of the future, a9 it were, and wo do
not know where they: have gone, and,
they only add gloom, and 'mystery to the
passage, but Jesus Christ soainightily
stormed the gates- of that future world
that they have never since been closely
shut. Christ knows what it Is to leav
this world, of the beauty of which he
was more appreciative than we ever could
be. He knows the exquisiteness of the
phosphorescence of the sea. He trod it.
He knows the glories of tato midnight
heavens,' for they were the spangled can-
opy of his wilderness pillow. He knows
about the lilies. He twisted them into his
sermon. IIo knows about the fowls of
the air. They whim(' their way thecugh
nis discourse. Ile knows about the sor-
rows of leaving this beautiful world. Not
a draft tlltat set their teeth on edge and.
xa-rasping—1 preach the omnipotent
syn -
k
athSr
of Jes
us Christ, Z
he sister
f
Her-
schel,
yehes rueastronomer, used to spod
much.
of her tilde polishing the teleseepes
through which he brought the distant
worlds nigh, and it is my ambition glove
11116 I;eaur to clear the lens of your spirit-
ual vision, so that, looking through the
dark night of your earthly trouble,, you
may behold the glorious constellation of
a Sextettes mercy, and a Saviour's love.
Oh, my friends, de not try to carry all
your ills alone. Do not put your poor
shoulder under the Apennines, when the
Almighty Christ is ready to lift up all,
your burdens. When y, ou have a tremble
of any hind, yen rush this way and that
IVay'wonderider whathis rail Win
n t 1G you,
wh
at thatmen will say:
about le, and you try this prescription.
and that preserlption and the other pre-
scription. Oh, why de you not go straight
to the heart of Christ, knowing that for
came own 81111111V 6171( sabering race he
took the vinegar?
There was a vessel that bad been
tossed 011 the seas for a great many
weeks and been disables(, and the Supply
of water gave out, and the crew were
dying of thirst, fter trimly days they 1,
A
saw a sail against the sky, They signalled
it. When the vessel came nearer, the pee -
pie on the suffering ship cried to rho
captain of the other vessel; "Send us
some water, We aro dying for lack ot
water." And the captain err the vessel
that was bailed responded; "Dip your
packets where you aim You aro in the
mouth of the Amazon, and there aro
seures of miles of fresh water all around 7
about sou: and hundreds of foot deep."
land then they dropped their buckets
over the side of the vessel and brought
up the clear, bright, fresh water and, put
out the lire of their thirst. So I hail you.
to -day, after a long and perilous vayege, I
thirsting as you are for pardon and
thirsting for cuulfort and thirsting for ;
eternal life, and I tisk you what is the
use of your going in that dearth struck
state while all around you 1' the deep, i
clear, wide, sparkling Ilona of God's aym- I
pathetic;mercy. Oh, dip your buckets
and drink and live forever. "\Fhoseuver
Will, let him come and take of the water
of Life freely."
nlvine Stmoutha•.
Yet there are popple who refuse this
divine sympathy, and try to fight their
own battloi, and think. thelr own vine-
gar, and carry their own burdens, and
their life, iustead of being a triumphal
merch from victory to victory, will be a
hobbling on from defeat to defeat, until
they !lake final surrender to retributive
disaster. Oh, I wish .1 could today gather
ftp in my sinus all the woes of men and
women, all their henetaehes, all their dis-
appointments, all their ohagrius, and just
take them right to the :feet of as sympa-
thizing Jesus. Ile took the vinegar. Nana
Sahib, after he had lost his last battle in
India, fell back into the jungles of lherl
—tangles so full of malaria that no mor-
tal
ortal can live there. He carried with him
also a ruby of great Muster and of great
value He died in those jungles. His
body was never found, and the ruby has
never yet been recovered. And I fear
that to -logy there are some who will fall
back from this subject into the :sicken-
ing, killing jungles of their sin carrying
a gem of infinite value—a priceless soul
—to be lost forever. Oh, that that ruby
might flash in the eternal coronation!
But, no 1 There are some, I fear, who
turn away from this offered mercy and
comfort and divine sympathy, notwith-
standing that Christ. for all who would
accept his grace, trudged the long way,
and suffered the lacerating thongs, and
received in his face the expectorations of
the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and
the discouraged, and the discomforted of
the race, took the vinegar. May God Al-
mighty break the infatuation and'lead
you out into the strong hope, and the
good cheer, and the glorious sunshine of
this triumphant gospel!
\aturai Mistake.
According to a story told on a certain
Mr. Swadleigh, by his nighbors, he had
a mortifying adventure. He has a pheno-
menally large neck, and lately bad occa-
sion to change his laundryman. On the
Sunday morning following this action on
his part, it was noticed that he was an
unusually long time making his toilet.
Re called his wife, and she went up-
stairs. "Maria," he said, "I wish you
would see what is the matter with this
shirt. The sleeves are all wrong, and I
can't find any holes for the collar but-
tons." Mrs. Swadleigh gave one look at
it, and went into a paroxysin of laughter.
Ho waited till she had partially recover-
ed, toed then said: "Perhaps you will be
gond enough to tell mo what you are
langhling at!" "George," she rplied,
faintly,_ "you are trying to put that shirt
on wrong side up! The laundryman
starched the wrong end of its"
Royal' Ilse for the Phonograph..
Nothing pleases a barbario monarch
more than %tome wonderful machine of
liluropeaninvention which seems to have
a touch of magic. Menelik of Abyssinia
has beenenchanted by hearing the.
Queen's message to him in her own tones
interpreted by the phonograph. The de-
livery of the massa
1 ry „o was a most core-,
monious affair, an gar '
tel
le salute
l'Y , being
fired in. honor of the Queen as soon as
the message had been uttered.
Good RoadsDevelop L .vel D Towne.
Three years'ago a little farming settle -
anent in New Jersey was intersected by
good roads. The location was charming
and invited the erection ofs
a summer
utor
homes. With the advent 'of good high-
ways the residents came. and a prosper-
ous village grew up—nrade'possible solely
by the construction of hard and durable
highways.—Good: Roads.
Electricity
In certain conditions of the atmosphere
electricity is so abundant alt the top of
the volcano Mauna Toa, in Ifarivatii, that
an English geologist foutkd tIntt he could
trace electric letters with has lingers on
his blanket
TWEN'1."X-FIVE YEARS OI? CURE, COVERING TENS 01' THOUSANDS OUFED,
MILLIONS OF BOTTLES *50LD.. ST. J„A,COBS OIL CONTINUES AND ALWAYS
WILL BE THE GREAT REMEDY 1'OIt PAIN. ALWAYS USE 'ST, JACOBS OIL.
MATRQN AND MAID.
Mrs. Adelaide 1i. Tooner is president of ,
the Sorosis chili L of Sp
rangfivld, Die. The
club was founded in 11196 and has now 104
members.
Airs, Leonard Wood, wife of the military ;
governor of Santiago, is organizing there
a branch of the Society Per the Prevention"
of Cruelty to Animals,
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison will aceoxlapaaxy
her husband when the ex -president goes
abroad this spring in the interest of the
Venezuelan commission.
"Eldress Dorothy" Durgin, the bead of
the Shaker coraniunity near Concord, N,
wbo died recently, bad been the head F
of the settlement for nearly G.Q years.
Mrs, J. H. R. Bond of Chicago was Ane I
of the first nurses sent out by the British
government on active duty, and has !many
medals given to her for heroic service on
the field of baetie,
Alis, Ann Taylor et Philadelphia, who
has just died at the age of 101 years, was!
the daughter of Jacob I4udwjek wbo fought
under Washington in the Revolutionary
war. Her husband was one of the de= I
fenders of Baltimore in the war of 1813,
Lady Randolph Ohurehill, who was
Miss Jerome of New York, is about to
start a quarterly magazine in London,
which will be something like the yellow 4
beak, enlarged and .amplified with
par-
ticulnrl3 sine illustrations and binding
,
bassador at !Berlin, temporarily laid aside
her mourning, according to custom, the
Other day to attend a. eourt reception by
tbe emperor and impress of Germany.
Mrs. White is in mnouruingfor her mother, '
wife of President McGill of Swarthmore
college, who died last year.
Mrs. DlcCumbeer, wife of the senator
elect, was formerly a resident of Fargo,
where she was employed as assistant man-
ager of the West( rls Talion telegraph otllce.
While still Miss Jennie Scheming, she was
trensferurl from. Fargo to the Wahpeton
office. when? Attorney MvCuzuber wooed
and won her, and she is now the mother
of two children.
A tearh,th said to be highly prized by
Lady Ceram has the names at all her tis
tied London acquaintances embroidered
upon it. It is, of course, of the forest lin-
en,. but Is perfectly plain, with a deep
hemstitched border. Tier friends have
written their names diagonally across the
border, and these she .has had embroider-
ed in white cotton.
Miry Ree J, daughter of the speaker, is
(urns;; her frequent visits to the capitol a
constant visitor at the sessions of the
hous.. over which her father presides. She
always sits in the front row of the mem-
bers' private gallery, and wben adjourn-
ment time arrives is joined by Mr. Reed,
who accompanies her to the family apart
menta in the Shoreham.
SISTERLY CITIES,
1
Each n. mbcr
u is to cost a guinea,
Mrs. White, wife of the Atnerlean em
Just as soon as Canada is annexed Buf-
falo will be put down on the neaps as East
Detroit.—Detroit Journal.
Boston's Old South meeting house needs
a now roof. So do a few of Boston's emi-
nent statesmen.—New York Press.
We infer from the court proceedings
that playwriting and pork packing aro
about neck and neck out in Chicago.—
Washington Post.
The highest structure yet erected In New
York is the latest estimated tax rate. It
fairly looks down on tall towers and sky -
scraping piles.—Boston Globe.
Philadelphia now comes to the front
with a Svengali, but he is not necessarily
a premier hypnotist. It's easy to throw
Philadelphians into a trance.—St. Louis
Republic.
Buffalo thinks she can engineer an ex-
position
xposition in 1900 that will put Detroit com-
pletely in the shade, apossible consumma-
tion which Cleveland will regard with
serene indifference. — Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
St. Louis is boasting about her low
death rate. Of course Chicago claims that
this is duo to the fact that people go away
from St. Louis when they get sick, being
ashamed to bo caught dead in that place.
—Cleveland Leader.
WRITERS AND PAINTERS.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich is said to be the
best groomed literary man in the country.
W. S. Gilbert, the librettist, is said to
have so little ear for music that he cannot
distinguish harmony from discord.
Mlle. Rosa Bonheur, the painter, so
well known as a lover of animals, now
and again holds "receptions" of the pets
of her friend%
Mark Twain was so popular In Vienna
that a young sculptor there modeled a
bust" ot him by stealth, and it is now on
public exhibition in that city.
Novelist Henty has written something
Iike 20,000,000 words during bis literary
career. That means more than 8,000
words. a day 800 days in the ysar for 80
years. '
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m
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Sores, Bruises, Ringworm, Gangrene, Sheet Cuts. Red Lice, Skin Worms and Seat:.
Can he relied ou u1 the worst cases. Mr. G. A. Brodie, Bethesda, One, says;
"1 used it with great success in castrating lambs, toe \\'ash healing the
wound rapidly.. and keepiug the maggots away. I consider it the best
l,repalration of us kind iu the market.
At You Dealers
or from the
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THE PJOKHARCT RENFREW CO. LIMITED
'a�'toixllt'tll1Je, Out.
.Ail Idle Curiosity.
Wiener—The sentence 571 tbe lesson is,
"Iso went there out of idle curiosity,"
:klow would you cul=thio '"idle eurlosity2"
Give an. instance, if (,ne GVlerlrs to you.
Bad Bot —Well, I think a mummy is
about as idle a eurioslty as any I know of,
na t'a1n.--Exchange.
A DYSPEPTIC'S RELEASE.
SfQeted From this 1.1l,cresain.g Malady
for 3,1aaaT ]:months—round Only Oat
toteileiue to Delp Ulm.
The farmiae community at Port Rabin -
eon and many miles aroundere intimately
acquainted with Mr. Harvey Horton. He
is as young man, only a':1 years of age, who
farms in stunnier and follows 61 steam
thresher in autumn and winter. While
yet so young he alas had his snare of pain
era sickness. Our reporter bearing of
Mr. llortou's affliction sought an inter-
view with him. When he learned the re-
porter's errand be readily consented to
impart full l.ctails, which are given prac-
tically in his own words:—"I do not Court
newspaper notoriety,' said he, "yeti am
not atraid to sat a kind sword for Dr. Wil-
lianl's Pink fills for Pale People. In the
summer of 18lii I was sadly afflicted with
stomach trouble, a deranged livor and
general debility. My entire system was in
a morbid condition. I felt es though I
had an oppressive weight on my stoma le
and eating was sometimes followed by
nausea. My nights were made hideous by
unpleasant dreams. I tried a good physi-
cian. He doctored me for liver trouble
and dyspepsia, but without avail, and for
a year I could find no remedy that could
cure me. I felt perfectly worn out, had no
strength, appetite or energy. I was pre-
vailed upon by a friend from a distance to
try Dr. Williams ('ink Pills. I purchased
two boxes in June, 1898. Althoagh I
thought myself beyond cure, yet the first
box had such a surprising effect that I
took courage as my strength began to
grads:ally return. I continued taking the
pills and now after using nine 1 ..xes I feel
as good a man as ever and an in splendid
flesh. I can eat, digest and sleep well,
while before all food soured on my
stomach and caused awful distress. I can
now enjoy Iife and am satisfied that Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills have saved me from
untold suffering,"
1llodern Warfare.
Yeast—I see by this paper that
American pies are being sold in Cavite.
Crimsonbeak—Well, that's a good
move. Those old fashioned rifles are al-
together too slow and uncertain in
their work of destruction. Yonkers
Statesman.
Something Learned.
"As regards pride going before a
fall, observed Uncle Allen Sparks, who
bad made a brave attempt to leap across
a ditch and had landed in the middle
of it, "I find it sometimes goes before
a spring too. "—Chicago Tribune.
Bridging Bering Sea.
Professor V. J. McGee declares that two
slow but interesting changes are taking
place in Bering sea. Tho immense quan-
tity of debris that is borne down the Yu-
kon river from its sources and sides is be-
ing deposited in the sea beyond the mouth
of that mighty stream, and its weight 1
causes the bed of the sea to subside. A
corresponding rise in the earth's crust is
produced along the chain of the Aleutian
islands. Now, not only are the islands
themselves increasing in size in conse-
quence of being lifted up out of the water,
but new islands are being formed in the
gaps between the others. In some in-
stances the new islands are the result of
the rise and in others they are the product
of volcanic action. Most of the Aleutians
aro of volcanic origin, and they mark the
position of a told in the earth's crust that
is predisposed to eruption. In time,Profoss-
or McGee says, there is likely to be a nat-
ural, bridge from America to Asia along
this route, but he admits that nobody now
living is going to see it.—New York Trih-
\Villlam M. Chaco, the snocessful artist, un&
was at ono time so poor as to be able to
eat only bread and cheese. "Even any
canvas and colors," he says, "were sup-
plied by my fellow students."
Fatal Blender.
Squallop (who bas just received bloom -
mission as a justice of the 'pewee)—Misb
e tip, you up your, ani
is not goo for wolna
good an .to be alone I want
the job of marrying you.
D1fsa Woilup—La, Mr, Squailop, how
unconventional
you are( l
e W
and
y Well,
ask papa. --New York World.
W 11 whenmake' di
Sultaan', 1'oran e, in Jewels.
The estimated value of the Sultan's
jewels is ,S40,000, 000. If His Majesty has
any hobby at all it may bo said to be the
purebaising of jewels and witnessing pri-
vate theatricals. No profs, eiorlal of note
--be he aartor;'sin,er•, or conjurer—passes
tie t:eh Con staant,inoele:without an nvi
totiou from the Sultan. Bo always pays
for those; performances in Bank'. of Eng
-
Leal Votes..
'wont Drunkenness, nen De.
"Drunkenness," says one writer on the
vice, "will make a pauper, an invalid, .a
lunatie, It will sand you an empty purse,
an empty wardrobe and an empty shelf.
It gives yours taste for swearing, obscenity
and impurity. It inclines you to choose
begging for a profession rather than inde-
pendence. It qualifies you to become ax
undutiful child, an unnatural parent, a
cruel busband and a disgusting wife.
These are but a little of what drunkenness
does.'"
Mining Notes.
E, Gartly Parker, mining broker, 19
Adelaide Street East, has issued a neat
little booklet containing a comprehensive
description of the Republic mining camp.
Tisa book gives a enaap of the district shove•'
Mg the lueatiou of the different mines.
It will prove a very powerful acquiaitio0
for people iuteres�ted in Republic.
Circumstances Ater Casae,
"My friend," said the clerical -looking
passenger to the traveling man in the
next seat, "do you ever drink?"
"Is that an invitation or only a emo-
tion?" asked the wily drummer.
"Merely a questi .n pertaining to your
future welfare," replied the o. 1, p.
"'then," observed. the other, "I never
drink, sir, noter."
POLITICAL QUIPS.
One reason why the senatorial dead -
looks continue Is that no Ohio men have
613 yet appeared in any of them. --Chicago
News.
There is some good even in a deadlock.
It keeps legislatures from devoting all
their time to making laws.—Norfolk
Landmark.
When the "gentleman from Ohio" to
recognized in the next United States sen-
ate, about a dozen of him will respond, --1
Toledo Blade.
The only way to oure the long winded-
ness of the senate is to compel every .sena -
tor to listen to all cif his fellow senators'
sueeohss.
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