HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-4-20, Page 7WARNING TO PARENTS.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Protests Against Parental
Heedlessness.
Find* a Timely Lesson in the Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter
-.Thousands of Children Educated Into .imbecility--
--Body and Brain Weakened.
Waslsdr'gton, April 16.—In Ms sermon
today D. Talmage lodges a protest
against the parental beedlessness and
worldly ambition which are threatening
the sacrifice of many American obildren;
test, Judges xi, 30, "I iy father, if thou
hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord,
do to ere according to that whicb hath
proceeded out of thy mouth." 1
Jephthah was a freebooter. Early
turned tills from a home where be ought
to have been carol for, he consorted with
rough men and went forth to earn his
living as best be could. In those times it
was enrt,i<leretl right for a man to go out
on independent 'niliteryexpecl!tioas.
d'ephthah was a good ntan encircling to
the light of his dark age, but through a
weutiering and predatory life he bceaxame
l a>•Q C Thegrace ret 1.1 and t i uta e, c of
l'r 1
fl
God changes a luau's heart, but never
reverses his natural temperament. The .
ferarelites wanted the Atnnaonites driven
on of their country, so they sent a dale-
getion to depbtdhah, asking ]aim to be-
come commanclereu•chief of all tbe
bave said, "You drove
bead no use for mound,
trouble. you want mo
not say that. He takes
�, ca;c era
aInnen. ands na ng
to tell them to vacate
tbe country cold getting no favorable re- But this timeline, of great multitudes of
sponse, marshal, his troops for battle. ' children in ill ventilated schoolrooms
Before going out to tbe war Jephtbah and poorly oquipprd 11 L11s of instruction
makes a very solemn vow that if the is making many of the places of ',mewl -
Lord will give him the victory, then, on edge in this country a huge holocaust.
his return home, whatsoever first comes Politics in many of tato eitiea gets into
out of his doorway he will offer in sae* educational affairs, and while the two " To have a thankless child!
ilea as a burnt offering. The battle political puttee aro scrabbling for the Itoelut to Avoid.
opens, It was no skirmishing on the honors Jephthaah's daughter perishes. It But, on the other hand, too great rigor
edges of danger, no unlimbering of bat- is so much so that timmi aremany schools must bo avoided It is a sad Bain„ ben
series two miles away, but the hurling in the country today which are limper- domesthe government beeau es cold In111- .
of men an the points of swords and int tens of thousaud of invalid teen and tart' despotism. Trappers on the prairie
spears until the ground could no more women for the future; so that, in many fight Pira with Are, but you cannot suc-
drink the blood, and the horses reared to pla+'es, by the time tho chid's ethhhtion ceaa-fu11y with your child's baa temper
jeep over the pilo of bodies of the slain. is flnisbed the child is finished! In many with your own bad temper. Wo must
In those old tithes opposing forces would places, in ninny cities of the country, not be too minute in our inspection. We
fight until their swords were broken, there aro largo appropriations for teeny -
forces. He might
me out when you
note you aro in
back," but he did
rtla c cf"the
command
to rho Amnaonitee
question when I tell you that the saorl-
flce of Yephtleah's daugliter was a type of
the physical, menial and spiritual sacri-
fice of 10,000 children in this day, There
aro parents all unwittingly bringing to
bear upon their children.a class of influ-
ences which will as certainly ruin them j and the driving rains that drip through
as knife and torch destroyed Jepbthah's the roof of the sepulcher aro sweeter
the throne, and the rattleIs the scepter,
and the other children make up the
parliament where. father and mother
bave no vote! Such obildren .come up to.
be miscreants. There is no chance in
this world for ar child that has never
learned to mind. Such people become the
botheration of the church of God and the
pest of the world. Children that do not
learn to obey human authority aro un-
willing to learn to obey divine authority.
Children will not respect parents whose
authority they do not respect. Who are
these young men that swagger through
the street with their thumbs in their
vest talking about their father as "the
old roan," "the governox," "the squire,"
"the old chap," or 'their mother as "tbe
old -woman?" They are those who in
youth, in childhood, Peva loaned to
respect authority. Eli, having heard that
his sons had died in their 'wickedness, fell
over backward and broke his neck and
died. Well be might. What is life to a
father whose sons are debauched? The
dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste,
daughter. While I peak the whole
nation, without emotion and without
shame, looks upon the stupendous sacri-
fice.
Children Overtaxed.
In the first place, I remark that much
than the wines of Ilelbon.
There must be harmony between the
father's government and the mother's
government. The father will be tempted
to too great rigor: The mother will be
tempted to too great leniency. Her
of the system of ehueation in our day is 1 tenderness will overcome her. Her voice
a system of sacrifice. When cbildren is a little softer, her band seems better
spend six or seven hours in school and flitted to pull out a thorn rand seethe a
then must spend two or three hours in 'lig. Children wanting anything from
preparation for seboal the next day, will
you tell me how much Untothey will
e a
have for sunshine and fresh sh air nd the
obtaining of that exuberance which is
neee .,awry for the duties of coming life?
No one can feel mare thankful than I do
for the advancement of common school.
education. The printing of booke appro-
the mother, cry for A. They hope to dist
tiptoe herwith tears. But the mother
must notinterfere,mu.aGnot coax off,
beg Y
a not
must or the child when the
hour comes for the ass
artio
n of parental
supremacy and the subjugation of a
child's temper. There comes in the his-
tory of every child an hour when it is
lariats for schools, the multiplication attestes whether the parents sball rule or
• philosaphicel apparatus, the establish -1 i the ehild shall rule. That is the crucial
ment of norrnaai echeole, which provide hour. If the child triumphal in that hour,
for our children teachers of largest then he will some day make you crouch.
calib:r, are themes on v
lch e
vtrt'
It is a horribio scene. I have witnessed
phihuttluopist
ought to be congratulated. it. A mother come to old ago. shivering
with .error an aha presence of a son who
cursed her gray hairs and mocked her
wrinkled face and begrudged ber the
crust she paunched with her tootblese
Vans I
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it la
and then each one would throttle bis man thing elect and clic:glut appmprlations, cannot expect our children to be perfect.
until they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip but as soon as the appropriation is to bo
to grip, death staro to death stare, until made for the educational or moral
the plain was ono tumbled mass of interests of the city wo are struck
corpses from which the last trace of man- through with an economy that is well
hood had been dashed out. nigh the death of use
a mention
nese Itis t] is I rn nt
Jeiil:thaa, K Maur:firer. In connection Sv
Jephthah wins the day. Twenty eitiea
lay captured at hie feet. Sound the vie -
tory all through tilt mountains of Gilead.
Let the trumpeters call up the survivors.
liomowaarcl to your wires and ebildron.
Homeward with your glittering treasures.
Homeward to have the applause of an
admiring nation. Build triumphal
We must not sue everything. Since we
have two or three faults of our own, we
ought not to be too rough when we dis-
cover that our children have as mann If
tradition be true. when we were child-
rennota little Samuels and
e we were11 i is
Sa
what I might.esall the °ratunting system 'uldarnots rate usere tbecausellest of our pro-
of
the common schema and manly of the mature goodness. You cannot scold or
academies; children of delieaato brain pound your children into nobilityof
compelled to tasks that might appall a character Tao bloom of a ehlld'v mart
mature intellect; children going down to can never be seen under a cold drizzle.
school with a strap of books half as high Above all, avoid fretting and scolding in
as thelnselvee, Tile feet is in solo of the the household. Better than ten years of
cities parents do not atilow their children fretting at your u1 ildran is ono goad
arches, awing out flags all over :tiizpah, to graduate for the simple reason, they mond, old fashioned application of the
open all your doors to receive the captur- say, "We cannot milord to allow our slipper! That minister of the gospel of
ell treasures, through every hall srnrad children's health to be destroyed in order whom we read in the neve apers that he
the banquet, pile up the viands. 1111 high that they may gather the honors of anhe
the tankards. The nation is redeemed, institution." 'retie of than -ands of child- wounds not sayth is to death will
never er
ren educated into imbeelllty, so that con- prayers will never
the invaders aro routed and the national come to canonization. The arithnleties
honor is vindicated. meted with many steel literary establish -
(cannot calculate how many thousands of
Hazen for Jephthait, the conqueror! ; meets there ought to be asylums for the children bave been ruined forever either
Jephtbah, seated on a prancing steed, ; wreck:eh It is push and crowd and cram through too great rigor or too great leni-
aitvancca amid tho acclaiming multi- and staff and jam until the ebild's Intel- sect' The heavens and the earth are
tudes, but his eye Is not on the excited beet is bewildered, and the memory is wiled with the groan of the sacriwaed.
ulnae. Rememberin that he had ruined, and the health is gone. There are
In tills important matter seek div
feed() a solemn vow that, returning from children wile once everts full of romping direction, 0 father, 0 another.
victorious battle, whatsoever first came and laughter and had cheeks crimson Some one asked the mother of Lord
out of tbo doorway of his home, that with health who are now turned out in Chief Justice Ilansfield If she was not
should bo sacrificed as .a burnt offering, I the afternoon pale faced, irritated, proud to have three such eminent sons
ho has his anxious look upon the door. I asthmatic, old before their time. It is and all of them good. "No," she said,
wonder what spotless lamb, want brace one of the saddest sights on earth, an old "1t is nothing to be proud of, but some-
thing for 'which to be very grateful."
Again, there aro many who are sacri-
ficing their children to a spirit of world -
heart. His daughter, his only child, l ed, with their mother tongue crying over liners. Some one asked a mother whose
rushes out rho doorway to throw herself their Latin, French and German lessons! obildren had turned out very well what
I All the vivacity of their nature beaten was the secret by which she prepared
in her fathers arms and shower up on them by the lea beetle of a them for usefulness and for the Chri.etiaan
him more kisses than there wore woundout of _ vy life, and she said; "This was tho secret.
on his breast or dents on bis shield All' Greek lexicon! Andyou doctor them for
of doves will be thrown upon the sires of mannish boy or an old womanish girl.
tba blunt offering. 1 Girls 10 years of age studying algebral
Oh, horrors! Paleness of death Boys 12 years of age racking their brain th
blanches his °heel:. Despair seizes his over trigonometry! Children unacgnaint-
When in the morning I washed my child -
the triumpbal splendor vanishes. Hold -1 this, an yon give em a tittle medicine ren, I prayed that they might bo washed
Ing back this child from his heaving • for that, and yon wonder what is the , in the fountain of a Saviour's mercy.
breast and pushing the locks back from I
the rent matter of them. of them. I will tell
are twhet is •
wnishing i When I put on their garments, I prayed
the fair brow and looking into the eyes that they might be arrayed in the robe
their education!
of inextinguishable affection with choked
utterance he says: "Would God I lay
stark on the bloody plain. - My daughter,
my only child, joy of my home, life of
my life, thou art the sacrifice!"
The whole matter was explained to
her. This was no whining, hollow heart-
ed girl into whose eyes the father looked
. All the glory of sword and shield vanish-
ed in the presence of the valor of that
girl. There may have been a tremor of
the lip, as a roseleaf trembles in the
sough of the south wind; there may have
"keen • the starting of a tear like a rain
f• drop shaken from tbe anther of a water
lily. But with a self sacrifice that man
may not reach and only woanan's heart
can compass she surrenders herself to fire
and to death. Sho cries out in the words
of my text, "My father, If thou hast
opened thy mouth unto the Lorddo unto
me whatsoever hath proceeded from tby
mouth."
Innocence Sacrificed.
She bows to the knife, and the blood,
which so often at the father's voice had
rushed to the crimson cheek, smokes in
the fires of tho burnt offering. No ono
can tell us her name. There is no need
that we know her name. The garlands
that Mizpah twisted for Jephthah, the
warrior, have gone into the dust, but all
ages are twisting this girl's chaplet. It is
well that her name came not to us, for
no one can wear it. They may take the
name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam,
but no one in all the ages stall have the
title of this daughter of sacrifice.
Of course this offering was not pleasing
to the Lord, especially as a provision
Was made in the law for such a conting-
ency, and Jephthah might have redeemed
his daughter by the payment of 30
shekels of silver, but before you hurl
your denunciations at Jephthah's cruelty
remember that in olden times when vows
were made men thought they must exe-
cute thein, perform them, whether they
were wicked or good. There were two
wrong things about Jophthah's vow.
First, he ought never to have made it.
Next, having made it; it were bettor
broken than kept. But de not take on
pretentious airs and say, "I could not
have done as Jephthah did." If in form-
er days you had been standing on tho.
banks of the Ganges and you had been
born in India, you night have thrown
your children to the crocodiles. It is not
because we are naturally any bettor, but
because wo have more gospel light.
Now I peke very practical ujo of this
of a Saviour's righteousness. When I
gave them food, I prayed that they might
laody and 19raln Weakened. ' be fed with manna from heaven. When
In my parish in Philadelphia a little I started thein on the road to school, I
child was so pushed at school that she prayed that their path might be as the
was thrown into a fever, and in her ; shining light, brighter and brighter to
dying delirium all nlgbt long she was 1 the perfect day. 'When I put them to
trying to recite the multiplication table. sleep, I prayed that they might be in -
In my boyhood I remember that in our folded in the Saviour's arms." "Oh,"
class at school there was one lad who
knew more than all of us put together.
If we were fast in our arithmetic, he ex-
tricated us. When eve stood up for the
spelling class, he was almost always the
head of the class. Visitors -came to his
father's house, and ho was always
brought in as a prodigy. .At 18 years of
ago ho was an idiot. Ile lived ten years
an idiot and died an idiot, not knowing
his right hand from his left or day from
night. The parents and the teachers
made him an idiot.
You may flatter your. pride by forcing
your child to know more than any other
chile:cl. hut you aro making a sacrifice
of that, obild if by the additions to its
intellige:uce you are making a subtrac-
tion from lea future. The child will go
away from such maltreatment with no
exnb.'ra,nee to fight the battle of life.
'Such eldhlreu may get along very well
while you take care of them, but when
you tore old or dead alas for them if.
through the wrong system of education
which you adopted, they have no swarth-
iness or force of character to take care of
themselves. Be careful how you snake
the ebild's head ache or its heart flutter.
I hear a great tical about black man's
rights, and Chinaman's rights, and
Indian's rights, and woman's rights. The
Carthaginians used to sacrifice their'
children by putting them into the arms
of an idol which thrust forth its hand.
The child was put into the arms of the
idol and no sooner touched the arms than
it dropped into the lire. But it was the
art of the mothers to keep the children
smiling and laughing until the moment
they died. There may be a fascination
and a hilarity about the styles of educa-
tion of which I am speaking, but it is
only laughter at the moment of sacrifice.
Would God there were only one
Jephthah's daughter!
Discipline of the Young.
Again, there are many parents who are
sacrificing their children with wrong
system of discipline -too great rigor or
too great leniency, Tbere are children in
families who rule the household. The
high chair is which the infant site is
take the vows before her departure, and
when the minister said, "Wilt thou be
faithful unto death?" with her dying
lips she sold,, "I will!" and in two hours
she had departed. That was the slaughter
and the sacrifice of the body, but at
thousands of marriage altars there aro
daughters slain for time and slain for
eternity. It is not a marriage, It le a
massaere. Affianced to some ono who is
only walling until bis father dies so he
can get the property; then a little while
they swing around. In the circles, bril-
liens eirelon then the property is gone,
and, :butvin; no power to earn a liveli-
hood, the twain slink' into some eorner of
society—the husband an idles' and a son
the wife a drudge, a slave arid a sacrifice.
Ah l Spare your .denunciations from
Jeplitbnh's head and expend them all on
thin wholesale modern martyrdom!
A ni;eh ty influence.
I lift up my voice against the sacrifice
of children.. look out of my window on a
Sabb ith, and I see a group of children
unwashed, uncombed, un-Cbristianized.
Who cures for them? Who prays for
them? Who utters to them one kind
word? When the city missionary, passing
along tate park in New York, saw a
ragged lad, and heard him wowing, he
said to him: "slay son, stop swearing!
Yon ought to go to the house of God to-
day. You ought to be good. You ought
to be a Christian." The lad lookedin
his face and said: "Ab, it is easy for
you to talk, well clothed as you are and
well fed. But we chaos bain'tt got no
Chancel'" \the lifts them to the altar for
aa t!ti
am? Wha goes to snatch ohti
en
upfrom crime and death and woe? Who
teedav will go forth and bring them into
schools and churches? No; heap them
Up, great piles of meas and wretabedncss
and filth. Put underneath them the fires
Of caeriflce, stir up the blaze, put an
More fagots, and while we sit in the
churches with folded arms and indifiere
once crime and disease and death will go
on with the agonizing sacrifice.
M
During the early French revolution at
Bourges tbere was a company of boys.
who used to train every day as young
soldiers, and they carried a flag and they
had on the flag this inscription,
"Tremble, Tyrants, Tremble; We Are
Growing Hp." Mightily suggestive! This
generation is peeling off', and a mightier
generation is coming on. Will they be
the foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and
the foes of death, or will they be the
foes of God? They are coming up! I con-
gratulate all parents who aro doing their
best to keep their cbildren away from the
altar of sacrifice. Your prayers aro going
to be answered. Your children may
wander away from God, but they will
come beck again. A voice comes from the
throne today, encouraging yon, "I will
boa God to thee and to tby seed after
thee." And though when you lay your
head in death there may be some
wanderer of rho family far away from
God, and you may be 20 years in heaven
before salvation shall come to his bears,
he will bo brought into the kingdom, and
before the throne of God you will rejoice
that you were faithful. Como at last,
though so long postponed his coming.
Como at last!
I congratulate all those who aro toiling
for the outcast and the wandering. Your
'work will soon be over, but the influence
you aro setting in motion 'vial never
stop. Long after yon have been garnered
for tbo skins your prayers, your teaebings
and your Christian influence will go on
and help to people heaven with, bright
inhabitants. Which would you rather
see, which scene would you rather mingle
in in the last great day, being able to
say, "I added house to house and land
to land and manufactory to manufactory;
I owned half the city; whatever my eye
saw I had, whatever I wanted I got," or
on that nay to have Christ look you full
in the face and say, "I was hungry, and
yo fed me; I was naked, and ye clothed
me; I was sick and In prison, and ye
visitedmo; inasmuch as yo did. it to the
least of these my brethren, ye did it to
me?"
you say, "that was very old fashioned."
It was quite old fashioned. But do you
suppose that a child under such nurture
as that ever turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with no
idea, higher than the all encompassing
dollar. They start in an age whioh boasts
it can scratch the Lord's Prayer on a
10 -cent piece and the Ton Command-
ments on a 10 -cont piece. Children are
taught to reduce morals and religion,
time and eternity, to vulgar tractions.
It seems to be their chief attainment that
10 cents make a dime and ten dimes
make a dollar. How to get money is
only equaled by the other art, how to
keep it. Tell mo, ye wlio ].now, what
chance there is for those 'who start out in
life with such perverted :sentiments.
The money market resounds again and
again with the downfall -of such ,people.
If I bad a drop of blood on the tip of a
pen, I would toll you by what awful
tragedy many of the youth of this coun-
try are ruined,
Fashion's Hollowness.
Further on thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They aro
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artificialties of society. They are inducted
into all the hollowness of what is called
fashionable life. They are taught to be-
lieve that history is dry, but that 60 -cent
stories of adventurous love aro delicious.
With capacity that might have rivaled a
Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis -
tales or made the father's house glad
with filial and sisterly demeanor their
life is a waste, their beauty a curse,
their eternity a demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during out
civil war, a lieutenant of the army stood
on the floor beside the daughter of the
ex -governor of the State of South -Caro-
]ina. They were taking the vows of mar-
riage. A bombshell struck the roof, drop-
ped into the group, and nine were
wounded and slain. among the wounded
to death the' bride.' While the bridegroom
knelt on the carpot trying to stanch the
wounds the bride demanded that the
ceremony be completed that she might
TRAINING THE VOICE.
Beauty of Utterance in Speech or Song
Is a Mark of Culture In A.11
Good Society.
Aristotle said: "It is not only neces-
sary to have something to say, it is also
necessary to know how to say it." A
well-trained voice is a mark of culture in
all refined society. This is as true in
speech as in song; the same principles
govern both, but are even more import-
ant in relation to speech. Song implies a
distinct art, whereas speech is universal
Modern civilization exacts. purity of
speech and distinct articulation, but—
'Tis not enough the voice be sound and
clear,
'Tis modulation that most charms the
ear.
Sir Morrell Mackenzie says: "It is t,
mistake to think that speaking requires
no special training and exercise. Even in
ordinary conversation speaking is an
art, and a difficult one." For the club
woman and the woman of society not to
specially cultivate the speaking or con-
versational voice is to handicap them
with a defeot wholly unnecessary. A
well -modulated voice may be acquired in
adult life, but tho preferable period of
acquirement is in childhood and youth.
The ;-:morality of mothers are not
awake to the beauty of utterance. If they
were they would consider acquisition of
a well -modulated speaking or conversa-
tional voice should go hand in band with
piano -playing and singing. If the culti-
vation of the everyday speaking voice
bad been given the attention. and study
that piano -playing has received, the dis-
agreeable element so often complained of
in the American voice would have disap-
peared long ago. -
Spurgeon said: "°I believe that every-
one should train his voice and body
under some system of elocution. First,
for the health it 'affords; second, for its
educating effects; third, for the advant-
age it gives over others for usefulness."
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rates. It is a waste of labor mostly, for
the hand diggiug of trenches does not fit
the soil any better for crops than will
the subsoil plow, which merely follows
the surface plow, pulverizing the subsoil
without bringing it tap. In fact, the sub-
soil plow, except on the very richest
land, does better work than can be done
by trenching. In band digging much of
the subsoil is pretty sttre to be.lnised
with surface soil. Only very rich soil can
bear such mixttuewithout injtuy to the
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leak out a statesman can generally hold
his job.
Wan Touched.
He kissed her rather suddenly,
And though surprised was she,
She only blushed a little bit,
And said "That's one on me."
SPRING MEDICINE. -
It Is Absolutely Necessary to Give Some
Attention to the Blood at this Season.
In tho springtime the blood needs atten-
tion. The change of the year produces in
everyone, whether conscious of it or not,
some little heating of the blood.
Some people have pimples, a little ecze-
ma, or irritation of the skin; others feel
easily tired and depressed and have a poor
appetite. A tonin is needed, and the best
tonic—the best spring medicine for man,
woman or child is Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People. These pills do not
purge and weaken like other medicines.
They make rich, red blood, build up the
nerves, and make weak, depressed and
easily tired people feel cheerful, active and
strong. No other medicine in the world
has offered such undoubted proof of merit
and what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have
done for others they will do for you if
given a fair trial
Miss Ella M. Kelly, North-West Harbor,
N.S. says: "I can cheerfully recommend
Dr. Williams's Pink Pills to any person
suffering from any form of weakness, as I
have proved their worth in my own case."
Remember that pink colored pills in
glass jars or in any loose form or in boxes
that do not bear the full name "Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People" are not
Dr. Williams.' No one was ever cured by
a substitute. Sold by all dealers or direct
from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont., at 60c. a box or six boxes
for $2.60.
Unp odua ire Money. ' J
It is estimated that fully two-thirds of
,the whole amount of public money held
by the London (Eng.) banks does not bear
interest.
Hens Too Fat to Lay.
At this time of the year farmers whe
allow bens to run with the fattening hogs
will find that they steal so ranch corn that
they will eat their heads off. The worst
of it is that such feeding makes the hens
too fat to produce any eggs all the winter..
If the hens aro cooped and their wings
clipped :o that they can be confined in u
yard, the matter of feeding can be entirely
regulated by the poultry owner. Feeding
more whole wheat than any other grain.
giving for variety a loose cabbage that has
not come to head and is good for nothing
else. Some $Hely-chopped clover is also
excellent a!terthe grain is fed. Too much
clover is injurious.
Something More Than a Purgative.—
To purge is the only effect of many ppills
now on the market. Parmelee's Vege-
tablePilis are more than a purgative.
They strengthen the stomach where other .
pills weaken it. They cleanse the blood
by regulating the liver and kidneys, and
they stimulate where other pill com-
pounds depress. Nothing of an injurious
nature, used for merely purgative powers,
enters into their compositions.
Women to 111 Approve of This.
An improved telephone instrument has
been brought out by a Frenchman, M.
Pierre Germain. Tho invention has at.
tracted much attention, and will, it is said.
be of incalculable use in offices, since it is
not necessary to approach the instrument,
in order to carry on a oonversation, nor
,docs the tone of voice become altered or
nasal even when transmitted a great dis-
tance.
Protection for rilcyellsts..
A cycling firm in Cologne has patented
a new bicycle bell, in which is concealed a
kind of revolver which is to servo the
double purpose of frightening away viol -
ons dogs and cheeky tramps. By merely
pressing a button attached to the side of
the bell ten cartridges can be fired off in
succession, these giving snoh a loud report
that obnoxious persons andanimals world
not think twice before beating a hasty re •
-
treat,
For the Overworked: What aro the -
causes of despondency and melancholy ?
A disordered liver is oue cause and it prince
one. A disordered liver means a disor-
dered stomach, and a disordered stomach
• means disturbauce of the nervous system.
This brings the whole body into subject
tion and the victim feels sick all over.
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills area recog-
nized remedy in this state and relief will
follow their use.
If the children require physio none acts'
so nice as Miller's Worm Powders; very
pleasant to take.
Is there anything more annoying,than
having your corn stepped noe? Is there
anything more delightful than getting
rid of it ? Holloway's Corn Cure will do
its. Try it and be convinced.
Awful.
Sadie—They're awfully afraid of small-
pox in society, I guess.
Tommy -What makes you think so?
Sadie—Well, mamma let me„go• with
her to a party the other night, and every
lady there had to be caressed so as torshow
her vaccination, mark.
If your child is pale, peevish, and does
not thrivea dose, of Miller's Worm Pow.
den occasionally will owes. .
Canadian Patentees.
Toronto, April 12, 1S90.—The following
Canadians, as reported by Charles B.
Riches, Patent Attorney, of the :Canada
Life B']d'g, Toronto, have this week ob-
tained patents : I. K. Tenney, boot a and
shoe cleaner ;- he. Sparrow, slice box ;
Smith, medicinal composition ;11.F. For-
rest, telepbone desk rand register; H. ,Aye
mer, drill; G. Beacoek, bicycle wheel rim;
A. A. Dickson, ntanttfacturing peat into
blocks of fuel; J. Duncan, gats regulttcr ;
J. A. Hopewell, spike -puller; J. R L vi-
gueur, combined door stop and catch ; the
Macdonald, duplicate -design tdisplayer; J. .
H. McCollum, air valve ; McOnsl.er, snow
clearing machine; .A.,;E. Sourd, game
bosom (design), _