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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-5-4, Page 3WOES OF DRUNKARDS. Rev. Dr. Talmage's Strong Denunciation of the Evils of Intemperance. W0fS0 Than Any of the Ten Plagues That Befell Egypt—Its Victims Are Countless—ft Biteth Like a Serpent—God's Grace the Sure Remedy. Washington, April 130.—At this time, for 54 les 20, 40 years willonly.strengthen. when the evils of the drink traffic are be- him in his position. So that all you have ing widely discussed, and the moveneent to do is to been Yourself right. Never for tbe abolition of the degradiug and mind the world. Let it stay 'what it wilL brutalizing canteen In our military It can do you no damage. But as soon AS =ups ls gaining many supporters, this It is whispered. "He drinks," and, it can sermon by In. Talmage, dealing with the , be proved, he begins to go down. Wiest broader aspects of the plague of intern- clerk can get a 'sodden with such a repo,- peranee, abOditi cheer and Inspire the tation? Wbat store wants him? What friends of reneperence everywhere. His text is „Exodus xi 6, "And there sball be a great cry throughout all the land of Bever " This was the worst of the ton plagues. The destroying angel eV midnight flapped their reputation as their only capitai his wing over the land, and there was Your father gave yen a good education one dead in each house- Lamentation. and or AS geed all education be could. afford mourning and woe througla all Egypt, to give you, He Martel you in city life. That destroying angel, has fled the earth. He could. fernieli yeu Po means, but he but a far wore has come. He sweeps through these cities. It is the desteoying augei of strong drink. Far worse devasta- tion wreuglit by this second than by the fixot. Tie calanatty in America worse dean tbe calamity in Egypt. Thousands of the slain, millions o tbe slain. No arithmetic can calculate their litimber. Once upon a time four fiends suet In the lost world. They resolved that the chorale of oo� wants him for a member? What dying man wants him for an exe- cutor? "He drinks!" I sand before buns dreds of young men—and I say it not in fiatteres—splendid young men, who have bas surrounded you wads Ohrisdan infixes epees and a good memory of the past. Now, young man, under God you are with your own right arm to achieve your fortune, and as your reputation Is yeur only capital do not bring upon it suspi. don by going in end out of liquor estale lisliments or by an odor of your breath or by any glare of your eye or by any umutterail flush on your cheeks. You lose people of our earth were too happy, and Year T01)104100E1 arid YOn lose Your (Anita. these four internale came forth to our wab on embassy of misehlet. The arle fiend said, "I'll mite charge of the vine- yards." Another said, "Ili take charge of the gminfields." Another said, "I'll take charge of the dairy." Another sold, "I'll take charge of the music." The our fiends met in the great Sahara desert, wise. The fact is, that span cannot stop, with skeleton fingers alutched each other or he would stop now, He le bound hand In handsbake of Sidelity, nissed %tab other and foot by the Pbilstines, and they hove goodby wish lip of blue flame and parted shorn his locks and put his eyes out and on their mission. made him grind. In the mill of a real The fiend of the vineyard came in one horror. After be is three-fatutbs goue in bright morning amid the grapes and sat this slavery, the lirst thiug he will be down on a root of twisted grapevine in anxious to impress you with is that he sheer discouragement. The fiend knew can stop at any time be wants to. Hill not bow to damage tbe vineyard on family intorno alarmed in regard to him, through it, how to damage the world. 1h • "N d . . hi . Afte The grapes were so ripe and beautiful awhile it win get the mastery of you." and luscious! They bewitched the air eon, man he says, ,41 eon step at any with their sweetness. There seemed to be time. I can stop now, I can stop to - so much health in every bunch! And morrows" His most confidential Naiads while the fiend sat there in utter indignas say; "Why, I'm afraid you are losing tion and disappointment be clutthed a your balance with that habit. You are cluster and squeezed it in perfect spite, going a little further than you can afford ila/11 10. his hand was red with the blood to go. You had better stop " "Oh, no," of the vineyard, and the fiend saki: he says, "I can stop at any time. I ean "That reminds toe of the blood of broken stop now." He goes on further and fur. hearts. I'll steep the vineyard, and I'll ther. He cannon stop. I will prove it. He squeeze out all the juke of the grapes, loves himeelf, and. he knows nevertheless and I'll allow the juices of the grapes to that strong drink is depleting him in stand until they rot, and I'll call the pro- body, mina and soul. Ile knows he 11 cess fermentation." And there was a going down, and be ha e less self control, great vat prepared, and people came with les e equipoise of temper than he used to. their cups and their pitchers, and they Why does he not stop? I3ecause be cannot dipped up the blood of the grapes, and stop. I will prove it by going still fur - they drank and drank and went away ther. He loves his wife and children. He drinking, and they drank until they fell sees that bis habits are bringing disgrace in long lines of death, so that when the upon his bonne The probabilities aro they fiend of the vineyard wanted to return to will ruin his wife and disgrace his chin his home In the pit be stepped froin car- dren. Ile sees all this, and he loves them. cass to carcass and walked down amid a Why does he not stop? Re oannot stop. great causeway of the dead. Again, the man suffers from the loss Then the second fiend came into the of usefulness. Do you know some of the grainfield. He evaaed chin deop amid the men who have fallen into the ditch were , barley and rye. Ho heard all the grain once in the front rank in ohurahes and in talking about bread and prosperous bus- the front rank in reformatory institu- bandry and thrifty homes. He thrust his tions? Do you know they once knelt at long arins into tbe grainfield and he the family altar and once carried the pulled up the grain and threw it into the chalice of the holy comniunion on sacra - 'water, and he made beneath it great fires mental days? Do you know they once . —fires lighted with a spark from his own stood in the pulpit and preached the • heart—and there was a grinding and a gospel of the Son of God? We will not mashing and a stench, and the people forget the scene witnessed some years ago came with their botdes, and they dipped in my Brooklyn church when a man rose up the 110.7 liquid, and they drank, and in the midst of the audience, stepped into theyblaspbemed, and they staggered, the aisle and walked up and down. I and they fought, and they rioted, and Everybody saw that he was intoxicated. I they murdered, and the fiend of the pit, The ushers led him out, and his poor • the fiend of the grainfield, was so pleased wife took his hat and overcoat and fon! with their behavior that he cbanged his lowed him to the door. Who was he? He residence from the pit to a whisky barrel, had once been a mighty minister of the and there he sat by the door of the bung- gospel of Jesus Christ in a sister denora- hole laughing in high merriment at the )bought that out of anything so harmless as the grain of the field he might turn this world into a seeming pandemonium. The Fiend of the Dairy. The Loss of Self itesnect. The inebriate suffers alai in the feet that he loses Isis self respect, and when you destroy a man's self respect there 15 not luuch left of Wm, Then A man will do things be would not do otherwise, he will say tbhigs he would hot say others The fiend of the dairy saw the cows coming home from the pasture field full tuldered, and as the maid milked he said: "I'll soon spoil ell that mess. I'll add to It brandy, sugar and nutmeg, and I'll stir it into a milk punch, and children will drink it, and sortie of the temperance , people will drink it, and if I can do them no more harm I'll give them a headache, and then I'll band them over to the more vigorous fiends of the satanic delegation." And then the fiend of the dairy leaped upon the shelf and danced until the long row of shilling milkpans almost quaked. • The need of the music entered a grog - shop, and there were but few customers. Finding few customers, he swept the cir- cuit of the city, and he gathered up the nmsiceal instruments. and after nightfall he niarshalled a band, and the tronabones blew, and the cymbals clapped, and the drums beat, and the bugles called, and tbe people crowded in, and they swung around in merry dance, each one with a wineglass in his hand, and the dance be- came wilder and stronger and rougher until the room shook, and the glasses cracked, and. the floor broke, and the crowd dropped into bell. Then the four flends—tbe fiend of the vineyard and of the granifield and of the dairy and of the musk hall—wont • back to their bones, and they held high carni- val because their work had been so well done, and Satan rose from his throne and announced that there was no danger of the coath's redemption so long as these fonr Den& could pay such tax to the diabolic. And then all the demons and an the fiends filled their glasses and clicked them and dried: "Let us drink— drink to the, everlasting prosperity of the liquor traffic:. Hero's to woo and darkness and murder and death I Drink! Drink!" But, whother by allegory or by appall- ing statistks this subject is presented, u la know as well as I tbat it is impos- 'globle to exaggerate the evils of strong drink. A plague! A plague! In the first place, the inebriate suffers from the lOSS of a good name. God has so arranged it that no man loses his reputation except th his own act. The world may assault a man and all the powers of darkness may assault bim—they cannot capture him, so long bis heart is pure and his life is .as .A.11 the perWers of earth and hell Pent)3° t take that Gibraltar. If a man is se -11#),bombardment of the world ination, had often preached in this very , city. What slew him? Strong drink! Oh, I what must be the feeling of a man who has destroyed his capacity for usefulness/ Do not be angry with that man. Do not lose your patience with him. Do not wonder if he says stannge things and gets irritated easily in the family. He has the Pyrenees and the Andes and the Alps on him. Do not try to persuade him that there Is no future punishment Do not go into any argunthnt to prove to him that there is no hen. He knows there is. He Is there now! But he suffers also in the loss of physi- cal health. The older people in this audi- ence can remember Dr. Sewell going through this °nanny electrifying great audiences by demonstrating to them the effect of strong drink upon the human nomads. I am told he had eight or ten diagrams wbich he presented to the peo- ple, showing the different stages in the progress of the disease, and I am told tens of thousands of people turned back from that ulcerous sketch and swore eternal abstinence from all intoxicants. God only knows what the drunkard Buffers. Pam files on every nerve and travels every muscle and gnaws on every bone and stings with every poison and pulls with every torture. What reptiles cratvl over bis shivering limbs 1 What specters stand by his midnight pillowsl What groans tear the air 1 Talk of the rack, talk of the funeral pyre. talk of the Juggernaut. He suffers them all at once. The Inebriate's Death. See the attendants stand back from that ward in the hospital 'where the ine- briates are dying. They cannot stand it. The keepers come through it and say: "Hush up now! Stop making this noise! Be still! You are disturbing all the other patients. Keep still now." Then the keepers pass on, and after they get past then the poor creatures wring their hands and say: "Oh, God I Help, help! Give me rope, give me rum! Oh, God! Help! Take the devils off of me! Oh, God; oh, God!" And thy shriek, and they blas- pheme, and they cry for help, and then they ask the keepers to slay thorn, saying: "Stab me, strangle me, smother me. Oh, God! Help, help! Rum! Give me rem ! Oh, God! Help!" They tear out their hair by the handful, and they bite their pails into the quick. This ie no fancy picture. It is transpiring in a hospital at this moment. It went on last night while you slept, and, snore than that, that is the death some of you will die unless you stop. I see it coming. God help you te • stop before You go so far that yoti cannot], APP. But it plagues a man also tia the loss of home. I do not care how much he loves his wife and children, if thie habit gets the mastery over him be will do the most outrageous things. If need be, in order to get strong drink he would sell them, all into everlasting captivity. There are hundreds and thous:olds of homes that bave been utterly blasted of It, I am speaking of no abstraction. Is there anys thing so disastrous to a man for eats life and for the life to come? Do you tell me that a man can be happy when he knows be is breaking Ms wife's heart and cloth- ing bis children with rags? There are little clindren in the streets to-dav bare- footed, unkempt, uncombed, want writ- ten on every- patch of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their premature- ly old countenances, who would have been in the house of God,. this morning as well clad as you had it not been that strong drink drove their parents down into penury and then down into the grave. 0. rum, rum, thOU despoiler of homes, thou foe of God, thou reeruiting officer of the istb, I hate thee! Hut nor subinet taken A deeper One when It tells you that the inebriate smilers the loss of tbe soul. Tbe Bible intimates that if eve go into the future world unforgiven the appetites and pas- sions which were repugnant here will torment us tbere. 1 suppose when the Inebriate Wakes up th the lost Weeld there will he an infinite thirst clawing Upon hien In this World be could get strong drink. gewever poor he was in this world, he Mid, beg or he could steal five cents to get a drink that would for a little wbile slake his thirst, but in etern- ity where will the rum cosuefroin? Dives wanted one drop of water, but could not get in Where will tbe inebriate get the draft be so Inueli requires, so remelt. de - Sounds? No one to brew it, NO °DO tq raiz it No one to, Pour it. No one to fetal), it, Million% Zif worlds now fax the dregs that were thrown on the sawdusted floor of the restauraut, Millions of worlds now for the rind fluog oat from the punch bowl of an earthly banquet. Dives called for Water, Tim inebriate calls for rum. 1.s. Buren Mee Serpent. If a fiend from the lost world should come up en a miselon To A gropshop and, Inning finislied the mission in the grog. shop, should muse beck, talking on tbe tip of his wing one drop of olcoholle beverage, what excitement it would snake all through the world of the lost, and, If that ono drop of alcoholic beverage should drop from the wing of the Send upon the tongue of tbe inebriate, how he would spring up and cry; "That's iti That's eel Ram] Rum 1 That's IV' And ail the caverns of the lost -would echo with the my: "Give it to inel Rum! Ruin!" Ah, my friends, the inebriate's sorrow In the next world will not be thealnence of God or holiness or light. It will be the absence of rum. "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it nsoveth iteelf aright in the cup, for at the Jest it biteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder." When I see this plague in the land and when. I see this destroyieg angel sweep- ing across our great cities X am some- times indignant and sometimes huraill- ated. When a man asks me, "What are yon in favor of for tbe subjugation of this evil?" I answer, "I am ready for anything that is reasonable." You ask me, "Are yell in favor of Sots of Tem- perance?" Yes. ".Are you in favor of good Samaritans?" Yes. "Are you in favor of Good Templars?" Yes. "Are you th favor of prohibitory law?" Yes. "Are von in favor of the pledge?" Yes. Com- kne all the influences, 0 Christian res formers and philanthropists] Combine them all for the extirpation of this evil, Thirty wainen in one of the western States bended together, and with an especial ordination from God they went forth to the work and shut up all the grogshops of a large vintage. Thirty women, with their song and with their prayer. And if 1.000 or 2,000 Christian men and women with an especial ordina- tion from God simuld go forth feeling the responsibility of their work and dis- charging their mission they could in any city shut up all the grogshops. 33ut I must not dwell on generalities. I must come to specifics. Are you astray? If there is any sermon I chalice, it IS a german on generalities. I want personali- ties. Are you astray? Have you gone so far you think you cannot get back? Did I say a few inoments ago thee a man might go to a point in inebriation where be could not stop? Yes, I said it, and reiterate it. But I want you also to understand that, while the man himself of his own strength cannot stop, God can stop any man. You have only to lay hold of the strong arm of the Lord God Almighty. He can stop you. Many sum- mers ago I event over to New York one Sabbath evening, our church not yet being open for the autumnal services. I went into a room in the Fourth Ward, New York, where a religious service was being held for reformed drunkards and I heard a revelation that night that I had never heard before -15 or 20 men stand- ing up and giving testimony such as I had never heard given. They not only testified that their hearts had been changed by the grace of God, but that the grace of God had extinguished their thirst. They went on to say that they had reformed at different times before, but immediately fallen because they were do- ing the whole work in their own strength. "But as soon as we gave our hearts to God," they said. "and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ has come into our soul the thirst has all gone. We have no more disposition for strong drink." It was a new revelation to me, and I have proclaimed it again and again in the hearing of those who have far gone astray. and I stand here to -day to tell you that the grace of the Lord Janus Christ cannot only save your soul, but save your body. I look off to -day upon the desolation. Some of you are so far on In this habit, although there i•aay be no outward indications of it—you never have staggered along the street—the vast majority of people do not know that you stimulate, but Goa knows, and you know, and by human calculation there is not one chance out of 6,000 that you will ever be stopped. Beware! There are some of you who are my warm personal friends to wbom I must say that, unless you quit this evil habit, within ten years, as to your body, you will lie down in a drunk- ard's grim and, as to you immortal soul, you will lie down in a drunkard's hell! It is a hard thing to say, but it is true, and I utter the yearning lest I have your blood upon my soul. Beware! As to -day you open the door of your wine closet let the decanter flash that word upon your soul, "Beware!" As you pour out, the beverage let the foam at the top spell out the word, "Beware!" In the great day of God's judgment, when a hundred mil- lion drunkards shall come up to•get, their doom, I want you to testify that this del', In1yeofyeur soul and in fear of teO'1, I gave you warning in regard to that influence which bate already been fele IA your home, blowing out some of ite lights—premonition a the blackness of clerkness forever. Oh. if you could only loon lutemper- Slake with drunkards' bones drumaseing on the top of the wine cask the "Dead Mamie" of immortal souls, you would go home and Iteeel down and pray God that rather than yoga, children Slitallei ever become the victims of this evil habit you might carry them out to the cemetery rod put them down in the last slumbers waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave—sweee propbeclea of the resurrection. Gee bade o balm for sueli but what flower of comfort ever grew on the biastea heath of a drunk- ard's eeptileber? CREOLE BELLES' SOCIAL DEBUT. Dust D• Introduced to NoW Orleans Society at the Opera, "Society goes to the French opera on Saturda,y night because its great-grand- fathers handed the oustom down to it," wruee Harrydele Hallmark in The Ladies' Home Jetarnal. "So established is this custom that no social tune -dors is ever prepared for Saturday evenipg during the seasen. Tim family that gives out en, invitation for that night is immediately Classed as not versed in the usages ef society and net worthy to be known. Trate is so deep-rooted in Crook, life tbat Such an inv13atlon would, be eerea at aa if coming from a barbarian. "The best singers save tbeir YealeeS ter this crowniug night, and the house is like a private ballroom, where the guests visit and I:11mb and ebat from thelealcone lee of the boxes as they do from the little Iran beleouiee that connect their houses. If OM dees not go to the opera on Satur- day night through leen of invitetion or motley one is very careful not to be seen eliewbere giviog out the suggestiou that siokuess or trouhle impelled one's absence. Tim proud Creoles of the .French set, woo of them in grinding poverty, ignore all the Mardi Gas festivities, ignore all that costs a pleayune, in order eo save the amoune to appear at the opera on Satur- day night "No debutante of New Orleana enters soelety in the eorreet and approved man- ner uplese she nseke her debut in a bon on this lenticular evening. If the soda aspirant has sufficient money and tact to secure the goodswill of a leading tamily to invite her debutante daughter into its box, this daughter has received the moose precious hallonark cat society. If a man Who owes a social call pays the can to his friends in tlieir bon at the opera it Is just the sense as if he called at their bouse, The centre boxes are reserved for the tlebutantes. There they reeelve the homage due them; there they are wooed and sometimes won, but certainly there they wake or mar their chances for belle - Ask the U!NDI�N Rider what he thinks Obis wheek, and we will abide by what be says. AlWaYS reliable1 the handsome easprunning Qendron again leads the proeesolon for 1899. Genclron Artvg co„ Limited TORONTO, ONT. Send for a V.atalogrte Wee. .Vipond & Co. FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Oorrespondence Solicited. Advances 2.‘inde o Oonsigranents. MONTREAL. artly ar er Standard Mining Allan er of the Exch. 113 Adelaide St. E., TORONTO. ange Anis STANDARD JORITIlft VAIllatina,,,csiailseBAND ItEPISDIJO STOCKS I am °newton ammo attraetive money making siteeks juet new, It wIn pay Eon te keep tolatee With me. (101)K5 ; Redford Aletieline, Clean -elan. aloreing ''hie Wbolo Thing. Tourist—What part of the United State* do you came front? Wabesh—From all of it. Tourist—I don't mulereland you. Mr. Wabash—Why. I Live In Chicago. New York, Journal. Proof Postrive. Conjurer—Now, my little mini, are you quite sure there is nothing in yourpocket? Tororay—Yes, sir; positive. The rabbit you put there before the performance got away.—Idotropolitan. ----- hood. Some of the debutantes may -wear T the simplest of muslin gowns, but the E in, 0 Is i simplicity of their costumes never counts against the feet that they are there." ramenitag. "I am greatly indebted to you 1" ie a polite remark that a great many men could truthfully make to the grocer and the provision dealer. The uusuccessful man never lays any- thing, except possibly a grudge, against the world. It is easy enough to manage a wlie provided she isnstyours. It won't do for sportsmen to talk to the returned soldiers about the delights of camping out. The man who is always punatmal never gets to a place a minute shoed of time. Even so, he usually bas to wait for some one else. How does it bappen that the summer girl never sarcasms until after sho has been kissed? When other people take their outing the summer resort man bas his Inn.ing. You can't offend a 14 -year-old girl by estimating her age two years too bigh, It is all right to look before you leap, but don't look so long that you lose your thence of leaping. The girl who leaves the point of a pin sticking out of her belt behind doesn't deserve to be hugged It is generally safe to say that the man who bears the clock strike at 3 o'clock every morning isn't successful in his business. The pessimist judges tbe world by himself, and so does it an injustice. The most popular luau in town is the man who can express his sympathy with your misfortunes as if he really meant it. ..11. Model Stable -Keeper. Not long since I was spending a night with a friend in New York, and was in- vited to an early ride In Central Park. The offer was gladly accepted, as I knew he had a number of valuable blood -horses, which were kept at a public) stable. When I expressed surprise at his willingness to entrust such valuable horses to the care of anyone but his own trained groom, be said: "The man who keeps this stable Is a born stable -keeper and a gentleman. His men are carefully selected, and the following are bis rules: First, no man will be employed who drinks intoxicating liquors. His men, like his horses, must drink water, cold water only. Second, no man must speak loudly to any of the horses, or in the stable where they are. Horses of good blood are nervous, and loud, excited conversation is felt by every horse in the stable wbo hears it. Excited words addressed to one horse are felt by every other horse who hears them, and keep them all nervous and uneasy. Third, no man must use profane language in the hearing of the horses." I was not surprised after that that my friend was willing to leave his horses in such hands. eau -Control. A man who lately came over from Canada told the writer that on board the steamer one of the passengers went up to another in the smoking -room and ashecl him to have a drink with him. Tbe num thus invited continued reading a news. paper and made :ao reply. The other man again asked him to drink with him No answer again. .A, third invitation was tben given in these words: "Sir, I have asked you in as friendly a way as possi- ble to drink with inc, and each time you went on with yonr reading, and had not the civility to answer rne. Now I ash: you for the third tiMe if you will drink wane, whisky or anything else with me?" The man then put aside his paper and an- swered very gnietly: "Do you see that glass, sir. Well, if I were to take even a quarter of it I could not leave off ;Intl] I had drunk all the liquor on boara. This Is why I would not drink with you," All present admired the man's self- control, and learned a striking lesson on the danger of putting temptation in a brother's way,—From The Quiver. , This Lady Suffered Terribly From Rheumatism. labor Joints Dugan to Swell and Twist Ont of All Shapet—Death Would Have Beau Itellef—Dr. Williams' rink Pills Ite- atoz'o,i Efer te Health. From tbe Harriston Tribune. After long consideration nude:at:1th hesi- tancy about having her name Ina,de pub- lic, Airs, John A. Copland, wife of the editor an proprietor of tne Harriston Trib une, has resolved that tlae world should know how wonderfully her health was re- stored by the timely use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills tor Pale People, Our repre- sentative interviewed Mr. Copland and the following is his statement of the ease: "Whilst we were living in Toronto at No. DO McGill street my wife took ill in the autumn of 1894, and had such ranking palns that she could. hardly stir. One of the best specialists in Toronto was called In and he diagnosed the case one of acute inflammatory rheumatism. His prescrip- tions were given and he said that the ease was a very severe one and it would. be a wonder if ber joints did not become mis- shapen: Wbat this eminent physician predicted came true. At the end of a month my wife was worse than ever, and her wrists and knuckles were twisted greatly out of shape. She was so dis- heartened that she would weep at the sligbtest provocation. She was loth to stay in bed, and had to be assisted to arise and dress, every movement giving her in- tense pain. During all the ensuing win- ter this state of things continued, she gradually becoming worse in spite of the strong medicines and the lotions that the doctor prescribed for her. We tried in vain the massage treatment and the elec- trical treatment. My wife would moan nearlyall night with the pain. She was unable to hold, the baby, and. even could not bear to have a person point a finger at her. I feared that the spring would see my wife under the sod. and. you may be sure I was terribly affected by it. All this time we continued to give her the doctor's treatment and medicines, until finally my wife stoutly refused to take any more of the drugs. From that out she began to improve, and one evening I was astonished to see her coming to meet me when I ar- rived home from the office. 'Why,' I said, 'the doctor is doing you good after all.' Not at all' she said and smiled. Then she produced a little round wooden box and held it up. have a great secret to tell you,' she laughed. 'Unknown to you I have been taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and this is the seventh box. They are rapidly curing me." Naturally I was overjoyed and. ahnost wept at the thought of how very near I came ts losing her. She continued talting Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and before she had finished the eleventh box ehe was quite well again and today her wrists arid knuokles are as shapely as ever. "Several of our neighbors in Toronto knew how sick she was and ean corrobor- ate every word I have said. Either myself or nay wife are willing to swear to the truth of these stateinents." Mr. Copland has been laughed at for the enthusiasm with which he has sung the praises of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, but he believes that anything so valuable to mankind should get all the praise it Mrs. Copland was seen at her residence on King street, Efarriston, and she corro- borated every word her husband has said. She reluctantly gave consent to have her name published, but said that she thought It proper that the efficacy of these pills should be made known. She was led to u.se Dr. William's' Pink Pills through see- ing the accounts of cures in the news- PaPere. Her Husband Was a Drzuikard,. SheFinally Adnaltaleterea a Remedy, Witiseut Ma Knowledge, and Corea Itim. A pathetic story Is revealed in the fen owing letter : "For several years my hue - band bas been a coy firmed drunkard. Ile could not bold a positiou, although he was an expert bookkeeper. 1 vainly en- deavored to induce ban to take a liquor cure. Last fall eve were dispossessed for non-payment of rent, and the exposure mused the death of our only ehild. Is sobered him for a few weeks, but then be took to drink again worse then ever. An old friend of our prosperous days recome mended me to try your Samaria preeeripe don, and I wive it to ruv husband in his coffee without his knot,. I elate. It seemed to make liquor distasteful to him. He soon stopped drinking altogether, but I continued to administer the remedy tend/ ills systent was entirely free from the efs feet of eleohol. Last week be secured a good position and now we are as happy * coulee as ever lived." This marvelous remedy will be mailed In plein wrapper to any address by send- ing $8.00 to The Samaria Remedy Co., Toronto, Ont. nut Yet n 'Woman. "My wife never buys a hat, a gown or even a pair of gloves without 33.rst =sults, ing too. "Is that so? Well, old man, yarn wifo's a 'wonder. You ought to be able to save money." "I could probably if the tlidn't always go and get what she wanted just the same as if I had agreed to It."—Chicago News. Worth It All. "Yea, we pay tbat girl six dollars a week, but she's worth every cent of it," said the experienced housekeeper. "Six dollarsi" cried the novice. "Why, you can get as good as you want for $4 or "Oh, I don't know," returned the ex. perienced housekeeper. "I think this one saves me more than the excess. Shade been flirting with the pluraber all winter, and now she's just beginning to senile on the iceman." 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