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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-4-27, Page 3A GREAT MAN'S LIFE Stephen J. Field the Subject of a Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage. His Religious Training maid the Foundation of His Sterling Char- acter—The Great Divine's Tribute to a Departed Friend.. Washington, .April 23. --Ono of the most notable ohenteters of onrtime is the subject of Dr. Talmage's discourse, and the lessons drawn are inspiring; teat, Il. Samuel iii, 38, "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" Here is a plumed catafalque, followed by, King David and a funeral oration which he delivers at the tomb. Concern- ing Abner; the great, David weeps out sit the test, ;dare a;tppropriately than when originally tzttereal we may now utter this resounding lamentation, "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" It was 30 minutes after 6, the enact hoar of stoma, of the Sablottit day, and While the evening lights were beteg kindled, that the soul of Stephen J. Field, the lawyer, the judge, the patriot, the statesman, the Christian, ascended. It was suntlawn, in the Janie on yonder Capitol hill, as It was sundown on all the surrounding bins, but be both cases the sun set to be followed by a glorloas sunrise. Bear the Faster asthmas stili lingering iu the air. "Tho trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise," Our departed friend came forth a boy: from n inlnister's home in NewEutrlaud, Ho knelt with father and mother at morning and evening prayer, learned from materna] lips lessons of piety which lasted bila and controlled him amid all the varied and exciting scones of e. life- time and helped him to die in peace an octogenarian. Blot out from American history the naives of those ministers' sons who have done honor to judicial bench aid commercial eirele and national legislature and Presidential chair, and you would obliterate many of the grand- est chapters of that bistory, It Is no small advantage to bare started from a Tome where God le honored and the sub- ject of a world's emancipation , from ale and sorrow is under constant discussion, The Ten Commancmnents, which aro the foundation of all good law—Roman law, German law, English law, American law —are the best foundation upon which to build diameter, and those which the boy, Stephen. T. Field, so often heard in the parsonage at Stockbridge were bis guid- ance when, a half century after, as a gowned justice of the supreme court of the United States, he unrolled bis opin- ions. I3ibles, hymn books, catechisms, family prayers, atmosphere sanctified, are good surroundings for boys and girls to start from, and if our laxer ideas of re- ligion and Sabbath days and home train- ing produce as splendid men and womon as the much derided Puritanic Sabbath eand Puritanic teachings have produced It will bo a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving. Do not pass by the fact that I have not yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. eld. was a minister's son. Notwith- standing tbat there aro conspicuous ex- ceptions to the rule—and the exceptions have built up a stereotyped defamation on the subject—statistics plain and un- deniable prove that a larger proportion of ministers' sons turn out well than are to bo found in any other genealogical table. Let all the parsonages of all denomina- tions of Christians where children aro growing up take tbe consolation, See the star of hope pointing down to that manger] Notice also that our departed friend was a member of a royal family. There were no crowns or scepters or thrones in that ancestral lino, but the family of the Fields, like the family of the Now York Primes, like the family of the Princeton Alexanders, like a score of families that I might mention, if it were best to men- tion them, were "the children of the King," and bad put on them honors brighter than crowns and wielded influ- ence longer and wider than scepters. That family of Fields traces an honorable lin- eage back 800 years to Hubertus de la Feld, coadjutor of William the Con- queror. Let us thank God for such fami- lies, generation after generation on the side of that which is right and good. Four sons of that country minister, known the world over for extraordinary usefulness in their spheres, legal, com- mercial, literary and theological, and a daughter, the mother of one of the asso- ciate justices of the supreme court. Such fapoilies counterbalance for good those 'lies all wrong from generation to naive neration — fainides that stand for wealth, unrighteously got and stingily kept or wickedly squandered; families that stand for fraud or impurity or male- volence;• family noses that immediately come to every mind. though through sense of propriety they do not come to the lip. Among the most absorbing books of the Bible is the book of Kings, which again and again illustrates that though piety is not hereditary the style of par- entsge has much to do with the style of descendant. It declares of King Abijam, "He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him," and of King Azariah, "He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done." We owe a debt to those who have gone before in our line as certainly as we have obligations to those who subsequently appear in the household: Not so sacred is your old father's walking staff, which you keep in his memory, or the eyeglasses through which your mother _studied the Bible in her old age as the name they bore, the name which you inherited. Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it suggestive of something elevated in char- acter. Trample not underfoot that which to your father and mother was dearer than life itself. Defend their graves as they defended your cradle. Family coat of arms, escutcheons, ensigns ,armorial, lion couchant, or lion dormant, or lion rampant, or lion combatant, inay attract attention, but better than all heraldic` inscription is a family name which means from generation to generation faith in God, self-sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died, and. a heaven gloriously won. That was the kind of name that Justice Field augment• ed and adorned and perpetuated -a 'name honorable at the close of the eighteenth century, more honored, now at the 'close' of the nineteenth, A ;Great ,Dissenter, Notice also that our illustrious friend was great in reasonable and genial dis- sent. Of the 1,04e opinions he rendered none was more pom et or memorable than those rendered while be was in small minority and sometimes in a min- ority of one. A learned and distinguished lawyer of this country said be would ratites. be the author of Judge Field's dissenting opinions than to be the author of the constitution of the United States. The Declaration of American Independ- ence was a dissenting opinion. The Free Church of Scotland, under Chalmers and his compeers, was a dissenting znoventent, The Bible itself, Old Testament and New Testament, is a protest against the theories that would have destroyed the world, and is a dissenting as well as a divinely inspired book, The Decalogue on Sinai repeated ton times "Thou shalt not." For ages to coarse will be quoted, from lawbooks is courtrooms Justine Field's magnificent dissenting opinions. Temporal by lienIships. Noticethat our ascended friend had sueb a obaractor as assault and peril alone can develop, Ile had not' come to the soft cushions of the supreme court bench stepping on cloth of gold and saluted all along the line by handclap - ping of applause. Country parsonages do not rock their babes in satin lined credit) or afterward send thein out into the ' world with enough in their hand to pur. chase place and power. Pasters' salaries in the early part of this century hardly ever reached $700 a year. Economies that soaomttmes cut Jute the bone character- ized many of the homes of the Now Eng- land clergymen. The young lawyer of whom we speak to -day arrived in an Francisco in 1849 with only $10 in his. pocket. Williamstown College was only Introductory to a postgraduate course, which our illustrious friend took while administering justice and halting ruffian- ism amid the mining camps of California Oh, those "forty-uiners," as they were called, through what privations, through what narrow escapes, mold what expo- sures they. moved! .d.dmiusstering and exeoutiug law among outlaws never has been an easy undertaking. Among moun- taineers, many of whom bad uo regard for human life, and where :the snap of pistol and bang of gun ware not unusual responses, required courage of the highest metal. Behind a dry goods box, surmatlnted by tallow candles, Judge Field began his judicial career. shat exciting scenes he passed through! An infernal machine was handed to him, and inside the lid of the box was pasted his decision in the Pueblo Dasa, the decision that had balked unprincipled Apecailators. Ten years ago his Me would have passed out bud not an officer of the law shot down his assail- ant. It took a long training of hardsbip and abuse and mnislnterprotation and threat of violence and Bash of assassin's knife to fit him for the high place where he could defy legislatures and congresses and presidents and the world when he know lie 'was right Hardship is the grindstone that sharpens intellectual. faculties and the sword with which to strike effectively 'for God and one's coun- try. Why Many Full. The reason that life to so inany is a failure is because they do not have oppo- sition enough and trials enough or be- cause they ignominiously lie down to be run over by thein instead of using them for stairs on which to put their foot and mount. Those "born with a gold spoon In their mouths" are apt to take their last medicine out elf a pewter mug. Op- position develops courage. I like the ring of Martin Luther's defiance when he said to the Duke of Saxony, "Things are otherwise ordered in heaven than they are at Augsburg." Notice also how much our friend did. for the honor of the Judiciary. What momentous scenes have been witnessed in our United States supreme court, on the' benoh and before the bench, whether far back it held its sessions in the upper room of the exchange at New York or afterward•.for ten years in the city hall at Philadelphia or later in the cellar of yonder capitol, the place where for many years the Congressional library was kept, a sepulcher where books wore buried alive. the hole called by John Randolph "the Cave of Trophoniusl" What mighty men stood before that bar pleading in im- mortal eloquence on questions of national import! Edmund Randolph and Alex- ander Hamilton and Pinkney and Ter- miah Mason and Caleb Cushing and the weird and irresistible Rufus Cbeate and George Wood and Charles O'Conor and ,Tames T Brady and Francis B. Cutting and teen now living just as powerful. How suggestive the invitation which William Wirt, the great Virginian, wrote his friend inviting him to yonder supreme court Leon,: "To -morrow a week will corse on the great steamboat question from Now York. Emmett and Oakley on one side, Webster and myself on the other. Come down and hear it. Emmett's whole soul is in the case, and he will stretch all his powers. Oakley is said to be one of the finest logicians of the age, as much a Phocion as Emmett is a Themistocles, and Webster is as ambitious. as Caesar. He will not be outdone by any man if it is within the compass of his power to avoid it. Come to Washing ton: It will be a combat worth witness- ing. Tho supreme court has stood so high in England and the United States that the vices of a few who have occupied that important place• have not been able to disgrace it, neither the corruption of Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sir George Mackenzie, nor the Sabbath dese- cration of Lord Castlereagh... Field 'Vas Never Profane. To that highest of all tribunals Abra- ham Lincoln called our friend, but he lived long enough to honor the supreme court more than it had ever honored him. For more than 34 years he sat in the preseneeof this nation and of all nations' a model judge. 'Fearlessness, integrity, devotion to principle, characterized hint. No bribe ever touched his ]rand. No pro - fano word ever scalded his tongue. No blemish of wrong ever marred his char- acter. Fully qualified was he to have his name associated in the history of thite. country with the greatest of the judiciary, As at 12 o'clock day by day on yonder hill the gavel falls in the supreme court room, and it is announced that the chief justice of the United States and the asso- ciate justices are about to enter, and all cininselers at the bar and all spectators tie, to greet them, and the officer with, the words, "Oyez, oyez, oyes.i" an- flounces that all is now ready for a hear* ing and .exclaims, "God sem the United States of „America," so I wish we could. in imagination gathertoget'ber those who have occupied that high judicial place he this and other lands, and they might enter. and after- the falling of ,some mighty gavel bad demanded attention we could look upon them...—Marshall, the, giant of American jurisprudence, and. John Jay, of whom Daniel Webster said in commemoration, "When the spotless. ermine of the judicial robe fell on .Tohn Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than, itself, and Rutledge and Cushing and, Ellsworth and Joseph Storey, called the Walter Scott of common law, and Sir Hatthew Hale and Lord, Eldon and Lord Tenterden and Sir James Molntosb and Mzsnslield and the long line of lard chancellors and the great judges from both sides the sea, and after they bad taken their places in our quickened) imagination the distinguished msec of centuries which they deeided might agent be ealled on, after the assembled nations had ejaculated, "God save the United States of America," "God save Great Britain, "God save the nations," A Tribute to Lew. Ah, how the law honors and sanctifies everything it touches/ Natural law, Civil .law. Social law. Commercial law. Coin- anon law Moral law. Ecclesiastical law. International laaw. Oh, the dignity, the Impressiveness, the power of law! It Is the only thing bctore which Jehovah bows, but be bows before that, although the law is of itis own making. The )awl By 1t 'worlds swing. By it the fate of centuries is decided. By it all the affairs of time and all the cycles of eternity will be governed. We cannot soar so high, or sink 80 deep, or reach out so far, or live to long as to escape it. It is tbe throne on which the Alutii hty sits. To interpret law, what a profession l What a re;,ponsi- bili ty 1 In passing let me oey that for title cbiet tribunal of our oouutrw congress should soon provide a better place. Let some of the moneys voted for the im- provement of rivers which aro nothing but dry °necks and for harbors which will never bavo any shipping and for monuments to seine people whom it is not at all important far us to remember bo voted for the erection of a building worthy of our United States supremo court. John. Ru,kin, In "Stones of Venice," calls attention to the pleasing fact that in the year 813 the doge of Venice devoted himself to putting up two. great buildings—St. Mark's, for the worship of God, and a palace for the ad. ministration of justice to man. In its appreciation of whit is best let not 1809 bo behind 813. With such green° In our quarries and sneh architects capable of drafting sublime° etructtno and such. magnificent sites on which to build let not another year pass before we bear the trowel ring on the cornerstone of a tein- ple to bo occupied by the highest court of the land. Justice Will Plead. Have you ever realized how much God has honored law In the fact that all up and down the Bible be makes the judge a typo of bimself :and employs the scene of a courtroom to :at forth the grandeurs of the great judgment day? Book of Genesis, "Shall not the judge of all the earth do righty" Book of Deuteronomy, „'The Lord shall judge his people." Book of Psalms, "God is Judge himself," Book of the .Acts, "Judge of :quick and dead." hook of Timothy, "The Lord the righteous Judge." Never will it bo understood how God honors judges and courtrooms until the thunderbolt of the last day shall pound the opening of the great assize—the day of trial, the day of clearance, the day of doom, the day of judgment. The law of the case on that occasion will be read, and the indictment of ten counts. which are the Ten Com- mandments. Justice will plead the case against us, but our glorious advocate will plead in our behalf, for "we bavo an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the righteous." Then the case will bo decided in our clearance, as the Judge announces. "There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus." Under the crowded galleries of cloud on that last day and under tho swaying upholstery of a burning heavens and while the Alps and Himalayas and Mount Washington aro falling fiat on their faces we will be able to understand the significance of those Scripture pass- ages which speak of God as Judge and employ the courtroom of earth as typical of the scone when all nations shall be brought into tribunal. To have done well, all that such a pro- fession could ask of him, and to have made that profession still more honorable by his brilliant and sublime life, is enough for national and international, terrestrial and celestial congratulation. And then to expire beautifully while the prayers of his church were being offered at his bedside, the door of heaven open- ing for his entrance as the door of earth opened for his departure, the sob of the earthly farewell caught up into raptures that never die. Yes, he lived and died in the faith of the old fashioned Christian religion, Relieved in the 'Bible. Young man, I want to tell you that Tustico Field believed in the Bible from lid to lid, a book all true either as doc- trine or history, much of it the history of events that neither God nor man ap- proves. Our friend drank the wino of the holy sacrament and ate the 'bread of which "if a man eat he shall never hun- ger." He was the up and down, out and out friend of the church of Christ. If there had been anything illogical in our religion; he would have scouted it, for he was a logician. If there had been in it anything unreasonable, ho would have rejected it, because he was a. great rea- soner. .If there had been in it anything that would not stand research, bo would have exploded the fallacy, fpr his life was a life of. research. Young men of Washington, young . men of America, young men ' of the round world, a religion that would stand the test of Justice Field's penetrating and all ransacking intellect mast have in it something Worthy of your confidence. I tell you now that. 'Christianity has not wily the heart of the world . on its side, but the brain of :the world also. Yo who have tried to represent ,the religion of the, Bible as something pusillanimous, how .. lin you account for the Christian' faith el Stephen J. Field, whole shelves of the law library occupied with hie magni- ficent decislonst Farewell a Goodbye, my dear old friend of more than 30 years. Your words of personal encouragement and good °beer give me the right to infer words of commemora- tion. But I must leave to others bis place of burial. This city might choose Rock Creek and Oak Hill. and. San Franoisco might choose Ione Mountain, yet 12 I had my choice I would say let It lie the cemetery at Stockbridge. He would be at home there, and It would be a family reunited. But, whatever be the place, let me sprinkle over the newly- made grave this handful of 'heather -from the Scotch .highlands. in the hymn whsoh the people of that land of Andrew Mel= ville and John Knox are apt to sing on their way to the grave of some one great- ly beloved; Neighbor, .accept our parting song. The road Is short, the rest is long. The Lord brought here, the Lord taken hence; This is no houseof permanence, On bread 'of mirth and bread of. tears The pilgrim fed these checkered years;. Now, landlord world, shut to the door; Thy guest is gone forever more. Yea, village bells, ring softly, ring, And in the blessed Sabbath bring Which from this weary workday tryst A,waita God's fails through Jesus ChrI$ WHITE MAW'S DOTY. What the Typ1caa 4nglo-Saxuu Seeau Thiel; it .Is. The duty of the `shite mare Is to con- quer and control, prnbably for a couple of contralto, all the dark peoples of the world, laps for Ills own goad, bet for theirs; to give thein the change of developuaene which comes with a staple and well ordered peace; to break forever, if small breaking be posslble, that strange arrest of progress which .for so many cen- turies has beeuuabed their powers, and which leaves two-thirds of the world sueb hells upon earth: that if the white roan ruralized the truth all the strength of the good would be absorbed inone great effort to aiuelipratei their condition. To Asia the world owes all the greas creeds it hats, yet no Asiatic untaught by ea European believes a reef>oneble orecd; while in Africa the millions wiz° bare thought of nothing, intimated nothing, built nothing and founded nothing live on more like evil children or animals 'with busman form than like men with intellects and souls. it is surely the duty of the white Ivan, who bas advanced so tar that he Is tiltuout bewildered by the rushing multitude of bis acquirements, who bait uredo of himself through the favor of God a restrained and self-eontrol- ltng hureen being, and who can put on at will for any task the enchanted armor of science, which no barbarian force, however vast, may pierce, to try at least whotber h° cannot terminate this arrest, and set the whole race of man free to work out the destiny intended for him. We all admit that duty within our own narrow lands, and try to perform it to- ward aur own savages, and the extension of our work, if we can extend it over the whole world, cannot but be good. Only we must perform it in the right spirit, taking it up, as Mr. Kipling sings, as "the iwhito roan's burden," seeking no profit beyond fair nay for honest work, shrinking from no accusation except that of wilful oppression, and, above all, ex - putting no gratit.dne from those whom we may help to redeem. If we fail, and we may tail yet, for we aro not yet sure that our patience will bold out under the necessary self -sacra flees, elf:sacri- flees, "the now -caught, sullen peoples, hall devil and half child," will ourso'ae by all their gods; while, if eve succeed, and wo may succeed, for we are slowly succeeding at home, they will but bid ns begone unthanked, perhaps use their now powers, the discipline unforced on them, the knowledge by degrees poured into them, to inflict on us untold miseries. If Asia acquired but balf our science with- out acquiring our character and creed, and could lead Africa as Arabs even novo lead negroes, she could extirpate tho white roan, and would do it with the glee of au evil child as 1t tears a mouse or crushes a butterfly into powder. Nev- ertheless, there is our duty clear before us, and Mr. Kipling, in this instance humbly following the Providence which is clearing the path, and compelling us all, even against our wills, to enter on it, bids us perform it though we do but "reap the old reward, the blame of those we better, the hate of those we guard." —London Spectator. :O The Clayman. in a scientific Education'. It can baldly be denied that generally throughout the country, even although the literary side of education still main- tains its pre-eminence in our public schools and universities, it is losing ground,, and that every year it occupies loss of the attention of students of science. The range of studies which tbo science examinations demand is always widening, while the academic period within which these studies must be crowded undergoes no extension. Those students, therefore, who, whether from necessity or choice. have taken their college education in science, naturally experience no little difficulty in finding time for the absolutely essential subjects required for their degrees. Well may they declare that it is hopeless for thorn to attempt to engage in anything more, and especially in anything that will not toll directly on their places in the final class lists. With the best will in the world, and even, sometimes, a bent for literary pursuits, they may believe themselves compelled to devote their whole time and energies to tho multifarious exactions of their science curriculum.—Froin Science in Education, by Sir Archibald Gieltie, in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly. Indian Names. Poor Lo I he bas all but passed away. Teepee City, Squaw Valley and Sachem's Head show that be was once among us, as do also Indianola and Indianapolis,. Indian Bay, and Indian Bayou, Indian Bottoms, Camp and Creek, Indian Dig- ging, Falls, Gap, Gulch and Head, Indian Mound, Neck, Ridge and River, Indian Rook, Run, Springs and Town, Indian. Train and Indian Valley. He bas left behind ..him his Kinnikinniok that ho used to smoke, his Mooassin that ho used to wear, Medicine Lodge that he used to visit, and the Wampum for which he bartered his pony or his beaver skin's. Ho has left behind. him also the Indian names of many familiar objects, though, the memory of these meanings: have but. been forgotten. Mbndamin means corn; Wawa,' wild goose; Opeechoe, the robin; Dahinda, tho frog•, Roanoke, a seashell; Chicago, the wild onion; Orneeme, a '. piegon; Wawbeek, a rook, eta, THERE ARE. N0 ST. JA QBS OIL EXCUSES NOT To USE FOR SPRAINS AND BRUISES A Prompt and Certain Cure No One Refuses. VULNERABLE. When uns 'mmetric .chaos in its might Ruled the dim, desolate earth end held, it bare,, In gloomy eaves there wandered everywhere .Amorphous monsters, larva of a5rigbt. Deep in the vast, impenetrable night They lived and loved, dreading no future care Until their souls were fired to strangederpair When God, to dazzle them, created light. Groping, like tizem, through sin and euaul's gloom, 1 hued in callous simper strangely dumb, Pleased with a ehaugeless lot as doll time diva. 0 pardoning woman in thy summer's bloom, Why to illumine my (lark soul did'si thou wine. To heats rise with the Splendore of thine eyest —Prelate 5. Sabine in Courteeticut Magnate. GENTLEMAN JACK. A $bort Story of a Atlanta Comae In neve fia. They called trim "Gelation it Jack," He came to the ruining camp at Vir- ginin City one suininer's day and asked the superintendent for wont. The miner looked at his questioner's )white hands, frail figura and neat iltting clothes rind smiled. But the man insisted, and finally the superintendent consented to allow him to a'cinalu. That night, when the =leers returned to camp, the newcerner was introduced to them as Jack, the onlyeame he gave. His companions mailed as the superintendent bad smiled, and one, taming to his fel. lows, said, "Gentleman Jack," deck, took his place in the mines and perforatedOle share of the labor. His comrades gradually' came to respect the mean who, evidently unaccustomed to the life they lea, yet adapted himself to the conditions as they knew them. Time and Limo again they sought to assist bits, but bo would not permit it. Neither did he talk of bianself. Once they happened to hear him refer to Cbicoga, and It was un- derstood It was his former home, Six months passed. Tho miners were one day using dynamite to remove the rock. After the explosion Jack was found lying on the ground, crushed by the weight of a hugs bowlder. Tenderly they born hits to the hillside. They thought him dead. Tho blood oozed down his pallid farce. Hie oyes were closed. As they stood about ihimthe eyelids raised, and a smile spread over anis features, fol- lowed quickly by a terrible look of pain. His lips quivered, and, bending low, ,his comrades heard a murmur of words.. "Mather, I have not forgotten," was what he said, and then, in long drnwn, suffering sounds follow cd the words, "Our Father—which art in heaven—hallowed bo thy name—thy will—be—done—on— earth—as"— And thou, though the lips continued to move, no sound was audible Those who watched knew, however, that the prayer was finished. The oyes again closed, the stained, bruised lips smiled—Gentleman .lack was dead. Who be was his comrades did not know. But somewhere a wautliig mother may understand as she reads.— Chicago Journal. Her Husband Was a Drunkard. She Finally Adininisterod a Remedy.. Without His Knowledge. and Cured Iiia. A pathetic story is revealed in the fol- lowing letter : "For several years my hus- band has been a confirmed drunkard. Ile could not hold a position, although he was an expert bookkeeper. I vainly en- deavored to induce him to take a liquor cure. Last fall we were dispossessed for non-payment of rent, and the exposure caused the death of our only child. It sobered him for a few weeks, but then he took to drink again worse than ever, An old friend of our prosperous days recom- mended me to try your Samaria prescrip- tion, and I gave it to my husband in his coffee without his knowledge. It seemed to make liquor distasteful to him. He soon stopped drinking altogether, but 1 continued to administer the remedy until his system was entirely free from the ef- fect of alcohol. Lust week he secured a good position and now we are as happy a couple as ever lived," This marvelous remedy will be mailed in ricin wrapper to any address by send- ing *3.00 to The Samaria Remedy Co., Toronto., Ont Bard on the Children. Korean school children have a hard time. In tho first place, their punishments differ from those of other youngsters. When a child deserves chastisement, the white robed schoolmaster whips theoffcnd- er on the calves of the legs, the victim standing, or rather hopping, while the operation is in progress. ) j,essons are taught from "The Book of the Thousand Characters," the children studying the Korean tongue through the medium of Chinese. Scholars must first learn the Chinese characters and then the Korean meaning of these charactors. The master sits on the ground, his class around him. They are obliged to remove their shoes on entering the schoolroom. Tho rain falls on the just and unjust, ant the latter nearly always have the for- mer's un.brollas.—Tc,wn Tonics. The Betel Nut In Siete. Everybody in Siam chews the betel nut, with the result that the teeth become a bright bleta like that of patent leather boots, White teeth are considered as re- pulsive as black teeth are with us, and de- civ is unknown among betel chewers. Another efleet of the habit is constant spitting, which covers all the floors and streets of the coontey with chisk red stains reseetbing splasues of blood. TIRED AND LAGUiD The Experience of an Est a>xlabie Young Lady. tier Mood Wes Poor and Weter7--Half e ad From sick Headwalls* and. naiades Spell* — now She Regelnld neaiflq'i It1 cum, The Recorder, Bronkville. On one of the finest farms in Wolfer+d township, Grenville county, resides Mi and Mrs. Alonzo Smith and family. MAT Smith is perbaps one of the best kuuovini oxen in the county, as in addition to Yuan a praotleal farmer he represents sever agricultural implement companies, 1110 faultily consists of two estimable daugbtere, the eldest being seventeen years of age, To a correspondent of the Brockville Re- corder, wbo recently called at Mr. Smith's,. Miss 3tinnieE. Smith, the eldest daughter, related the following story:—"About two years ago I was tenen quite ill. I became. pale and languid, and if I undertook to do any work about the house would castle' become terribly fatigued. I became sub' joct to terribly sick headaches and my stomach because so weak that I loathed foots. My trouble was further aggravatedi by 'weak spells, and nay feet, winter an summer, were as Cold as ice; in fact, II seemed as if there was no -feeling in thein, I tried several kinds of medicine, but In- stead of belping me I was growing weaker. One day in. March,1898, my father brought home a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I immediately discontinued the other medicine and began taking the pills. X found that they belpod zoo and four more boxes were procured, and by the time I bad finished them I was entirely well. I bavo never bad better health in my life than I am now enjoying. My appetite is now always good and I have increased In weight. All this is due to the efficacy of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I would ad- vise dvise any other young girl troubled as X was to use them, and they will certainly cure if the dirootions are followed." The facts above related erre important to parents, as there are many young girls just budding into womanhood wbosecon- dition is, to say the least, maro•critical than their Parents imagine. Their com- plexion is pale and waxy in appearanoi7, troubled with heart palpitation, head- aches, shortness of breath on the slightest •exercise, faintness and other distressing symptoms. which invariably lead to a pre- mature grave unless prompt steps are taken to bring about a natural condition of health. In this emergency no remedy yet discovered can supply the place of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, whioh build anew the blood, strengthen the nerves and re- store the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. They aro a certain ours for all troubles peculiar to the female system, young or old. These Pills also cure such diseases as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus dance, nervous headache. nervous prostra- tion, tion, the after effects of la grippe, influ- enza and severe colds, diseases depending on humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. Do not be persuad- ed to accept any imitation,(no matter what the dealer may say who offers it. Imita- tions never cured any one. See that the full name Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People is on the wrapper around every box you buy. Compensation. The Czar of the Russets, or so they say, Gets twenty-five thousand dollars a day; The writer of these lines doesn't get That much, but he has more fun, you beta "I was weak, scarcely able to drag ray. self about, easily worried, and quite dile couraged; Miller's Compound Iron Pills rapidly brought about a change; I never felt better in my life than I do now;" this is frequently heard. Sol. 1iankiu's Preaohtnq. A feller hadn't ought ter kick When trouble tew him comes; %ife's bill-er-fare might make us mica If't was all sugar -plums. l4inard's Liniment Cures target In Co113.— Quite a limp. Mrs. Yeast—Do you think my visits to your wife do her any good? Mr. Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes; she says she always feels better after you've left.