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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-5-11, Page 3LIFE IN RETROSPECT Dr. Talmage Calls the Roll of Many Stirring Memories, Drawing Helpful Lessons From Past Experiences and Vicissi- tudes of Life --Advantages of the Early Home Teachings and. Surroundings. Washington, May 7,—This sermon or ' brow may have gone to his everlasting Dr. Talmage calls the roll of many ' rest, The mother who used to sit at the stirring Du:Inmiea and interprets the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles meaning; of life's vicissitudes. The text : on, her face mellowing With the TIOIssi-. ie Psalms xxxix, 3, "While I was musing ! tudes of many years, may have put down the fere burned." i her gray head on the pillow in the valley, Here is David, the psalmist, with the r but forget that home you never will, forefinger of his rialto hand against his ? I3ave you thanked God for le? Have yom temple and the dor shut against the ° rehearsed all these blessed rerniniscenoes? world, eu.rnged in dontenplation, And " Oh, thank God for Christian father! it would be w' ll for us to take the same Than!: God for a Christian mothers posture often while we sit down in sweet Thank God for an early Christian altar solieude to c•nntenipette. 1 at whleh you were taught to kneel! In a small Wand off the coast of Nova ` Thank Clod for an earls Christian home! Scotia I once ponied a Sabbath in delight- 1, 1 bring to mind another passage in the ful solitude, for I had resolved that I history of your life, Tire day canoe when would have one day of entire quiet before ; you set up your own household. The days T entered upon autumnal work. I thought passed along in quiet blessedness. Yon so have spurn; the day in laying ont plans i twain sat at the table morning and night for Christian work, but instead of that *and talked over your plans for the future, le became a day of tender reminiscence, [ The nest insignifieant affair in your life I reviewed my pastorate; I shook hands bi"casius the subject of mutter consults - tion and dvis .luaus. You ry , s with an obi. delaau^teal. friend, whom 1 a t" a aro o bappy shall greet again when the curtains of, you felt you never could be any happier. Ilfe are weed. The days of any boyhood ; One day a dark aloud hovered over you acme buck,and I was 10 years of age I dwelling, and it trot darker and darker, and I was 8, and I was 5, There was but but out of that cloud the shining rnessen one house all rho island, and yet from ger of God descended to incarnate an Sabbath daybreak, when the bird eluant ! immortal spirit. Two little fees started woke me, until the evening melted Into ; on an eternal Journey, and you were to rho I3ay of Fundy, from shore to shorn i lead them, a gena to flash in heaven's there were ten thouuntl memories, anti the ; eortinet, and you to polish it. Eternal groves were is-hurn with voices that had ages of light and darlineee watching the long ago ceased, etarting out of a newly -created creature. Youth 15 apt too ninth to spend all ate You rejoiced and you trembled at the time it looking forward. Ohl age is apt responsibility that in your possession an too mush to spend ,all its time in looking immortal treasure was placed. You backward, People in midlife and on the prayed and rejaioed acrd wept and apex look look both ways. It would he well ° dored. You were earnest in suppliceition for us, I think, however. to spend more that you alight lead it through life into time in reminiscence, By the constitution the kingdom of God, There was a tremor of our nature we spend most of the aline : in your earnestness, There was a double looking forward. .And the vast majority . interest about that home, There was all of people live fiat so much in the present additional interest why you should stay MI in the future, I find that you mean to there and be faithful, and when in a fete Brake a reputation, you mean to establish months your 'rouse was filled with the yourself, and the advantages that you musio of the child's laughter you were expect to achieve absorb a great deal of struck through. with the fact that you your time. But I see no harm in this, i1 had a stupendous mission, It doea not make you discontented with /lave you kept that vow? Have you the present or disqualify you for existing neglected any of these duties? Is your duties. It is a useful thing sometimes to home as much to you as it used to bet leek beak and to see the dangers wo kava /larva those nntloipations b.'xxn gratified? .escaped and to see the sorrows wo have God help you in your solemn re=in- suffered and the trials and wanderings of iscence, and let his mercy fall upon your our earthly pilgrimage and to suer up soul, if your kindness bas been ill our enjoyments. I mean, so far as God requited. God have mercy on the parent may help rne, to stir up your memory of on the wrinkles of whose face is written the past, so that in the review you may the stogy of it child's sin. God bavo mercy be encouraged and humbled and urged to : an the mother who, in addition to her pray, There is a chapel in Florence with a fresco by Guido. It was covered up with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists wont there, and , after long toil removed the covering and retraced the fresco, And I am aware that the memory of the past, with many of you, is all covered up with obliterations, and I now propose, so far as the Lord may help rue, to take away the covering, shat the old pioturo may shine out again. I want to bind in one sheaf all ;our past advantages, and I want to bind in an- other sheaf all your past adversities. It is ,a precious harvest, and I must be cau- tions how I swing the scythe. One Early surroundlacs. Among the greatest advantages of your • past We were au early home and its sur- roundings. The bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy borne, We are not surprised to find that Byron's heart was a concentration of sin when we bear his mother was abandoned and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat" He who has vicious parents bus to fight every inch of his way if he would main- tain his integrity and at last reach the home of the good in heaven, Perhaps your early home was in a city. It may have been when Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, was residential, as now it is commercial, and Canalstreet, New York, was far up town. That old house in the city, may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilego to you, for there was more meaning in tbat small house than there is in a gran- ite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back, you see it as though it were yesterday—the sitting room, whore the loved one sat by the plain lamp light, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago ,lathered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table, your father with firm voice commanding it silence that looted half a minute. Oh, those were gond clays! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect yon. The year wag ono round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was an April shower, more sunshine than shower. Tho heart had not been ransaeked by trouble, nor bad sickness broken it, and no lamb had n warnier sbeepfold than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up in the conntr'y. You,stanci now to -day in mem- ory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that wasnot quite ripe, because you couldn't wait any longer. Yon hear the brook rumbling along over the peb- bles. You stop again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafters of the barn and take just one egg and silence your conscience by saying they will not miss i . You take a drink again out of `the very bnoket that the old well fetched up. You go Por the cows at night and find them pushing their °heads through the bars. Ofittirnes in the dusty and busy streets you wish' you were .home again on that cool grass or in the rag carpeted hall of the farmhouse, through which there tame the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat, Memories of .Brame.. You may have in your windows now beautiful plants end flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stars in your soul so :much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the. garden walk and the forget-me-nots play- ing hide and seek mid the long grass. The father who need to cony in sain burned from the field and sit down oh: the doorsill s$ wipe the sweat bete bxe. other pause, has the pang of a child's iniquity. Ole there aro inany, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound. that is ever }ward is the breaking of a mother's heart? I find another point in your life his- tory. You found oue day you were in the wrong road; you could not sleep at night; there was just one word that seethed to sob through your banking house or throngb your ofllce or your shop or your bedroom. and that -word vitas "eternity." You said: "I'm notready for ,*erns i" The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. In the breath of tho hill and in the waterfall's dash you board the voice of God's love; the clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness; you came into the house of Good. You remember how your grand trembled as you took up the cup of the communion. You remember the old min- ister who consecrated it, and you remem- ber the church officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at rho close of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulat- ing sympathy, as much as to say, "Wel- come home, you lost prodigal," and, though those hands be all withered away, that communion Sabbath is resurrected to -day. It is resurrected with all its pray- ers and songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. Tai's dray kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven. Start now as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I just put Sham in one great sheaf, and I call them up in your mem- ory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth 1 Praise the Lord, ye orowned spirits of heaven! In tato Shadows. But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago. You are a mere wreck of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But bow shall I do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and ad- versities. Then I will lust take two --the first trouble and the last trouble. .4.s when you are walking along the street and there has been music in the distance you unconsciously findyourselves keep- ing step to the music, so, when you started life, your very lifo 'was a musical a Thewasl of time beat. air full joy and hilarity. With the bright clear oar you made the boat skip. You went on, and life grew brighter, until after awhile sud- denly a voice from heaven said, "Halt!" and quick as the sunshine you halted, you grew pale, you confronted your flrsflintssorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was an nnbealthy flush. Yon said 1t cannot bo anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. 'You did not hear the tread. But after awhile the troth flashed on you. You''; walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer 1 You went to your room, and you said: "God, save my child 1 God, save my child l" The world seemed going out in dark- ness. You said, "I can't bear 1t; I can't bear it," Yon felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, 'never to see them again sparkle. If you could have taken that little one in your arms and with it leaped the grave, bow gladly you would have done 1t! If you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed thorn to depart if you could only beige kept that ono treasure 1 Hut one day there came up a shill blast that swept through the bedroom, and instantly all the lights went out, and there was darkness—thick, murky, impenetrable, sltuddering darkness. But God did not leaves you there. Mercy spoke. As you took up the bitter eup to put it to your lips God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, an- other cup was put into your hands., It was the cup of God's consolation, And as you have soiaaetimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier and poured wine into his lips, so God puts his left arm under your bead and with his right band he pears into your lips the wine of his com- fort and Iris consolation, and you looked at the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight." Ah, it was your first trouble, How did you get over it? God comforted you. You have been a. better min ever since, You have been a butter wornan ever since. In the jar of tbda closing gate of the sepal- ober you heard the clanging of the open- ing ;,rate of 'heaven, and you felt an irre- sistible drawing heavenward. You have been spiritually better ever since that night when the little one for the last tinge put its arms around your neck and said: "Good night, papa; good eight, =enema. Meet me in heaven," But I must eotne to your latest sor- row What was it Perhaps it was sick - mess, Tho child's tread on the stair or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers in the wall paper, Oh, tine wears- nese of exhaustion.? Oh, the burning pangs! Would Clod it were looming, would Gori it were alight, was your fre- quent cry. But you aro better, or perhaps even well, Have you theinced God that to -day you can come one in the fresh air; that you are in your place to hear God's name and to sing God's prat e and to implore God's help and to ask Goth's forgiveness? /31ess the Lord who healeth all our diseases and redeemeth our lives from destruction. Perhaps your last sorrow was a linen- oi1l embarrassment, 1 congratulate some , of you on your lucrative profession or occupation, on agnate apparel, out a eo11- moiliotts resideneu—everything you put ' your hands on seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you who are like the ship ou wbich Paul :tiled where two seats a mot, and you are broken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorse - merit, or by a canjnnetion of unforeseen. ovents, or by lire ur stur;ir, or a sonseieei panic, you have bean Rung headlong, and whore you once diepeueed great char, ales now you }.,ave bard work to war your daily bund. have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity and that through your truth seine of you g have made invesrmem which will con - thine after the last bank of this world has exploded and the ellver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world?. Have you, amid all your losses and die- , couragements, forgot that there was bread ou your table this morning and I that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for 1 your lungs and blood for your heart and light for your eye and a glad and glorious and triumphaut religion far your soul? I Perhaps your last trouble was a bar- eaveuaent. That heart which in childhood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which bas been a source of the qulokest t v sympathy ever since, has suddenly be- ' come silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and with• out'dellberation you say, "I wrll go and toll mother,'' the thought flashes On you, ""I have no nrothe,-," Or the father, with voice less tender, but with heart as lov- ing, watchful of all your ways, exultant over your succuss without saying much, although the old people do talk it over by themselves, his trembling. band on that stair which you now keep as a fain- ily relic, his memory embalmed in grate - fel hearts—is taken Away forever. Or there was your companion in life, signer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the hearb an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place whit% once bloomed like rho garden of God, And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the nave of Maoh- pelah. As you were moving along your path in lite, suddenly, right before you, was an open grave. People looked down, and they saw it was only a few feet wide, but to yon it was a cavern, down which wont all your hopes and all your expecta- tions. But oheer up, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Lard tate that child out of your arms? Why, he is going to shelter it bettor than you could. He is going to array it in a white robe and palm branch and have it all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals! Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates 1 Blessed the weep- ing eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear! The Closing of Lite. Some years ago I was sailing down the St. John River, which Is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled, and while I was an the deok of the steamer a gentle- man pointed out to me the places of in. .,crest, and he said, "All thisis interval land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What," said I. "do you mean by 'interval land?' " "Well," he said, "this land is submerged for a part of the year. Spring freshets come down, and all these plains are overflowed with water, and the water leaves rich deposit, and wheu the waters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is a richer harvest than I know of elsotvhore." And I in - stoutly thought, "It is not the heights of the church. and it is not the heights of this world that are the scene of the great- est prosperity, but the soul over which the floods of sorrow have gone—the soul over which the freshets of tribulation bare torn their way—that yields the greatest fruits of righteousness and the largest harvest for time and the richest harvest for eternity." Bless God that your soul is Interval land! They is one more point of absorbing reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will bel I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminisoenco in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, 20 years after. Napoleon's dying reminiseenee was one of delirium —"Tete d'armee''--'' Head of the army." Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she Dame home from her missionary toil and her life of self saorifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena. was, "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ." And then, too historian says, she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of angels. I place the dying reminiscence of Augus- tus Oeasar :against the dying rerniniseionoe of I. apostle Paul; The dying remin- iscence of Augustus. Cectsar was, address - leg bis attendants, "/lave I played my part web on the stage of life?" and they enswcred in the affirmative, and he said, "Why, then, don't yon applaud nae?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the apostle tans, ' I have fouttht a good fight, I bane finished ray course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousuess, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give nae in that day, and not to me only, but to all themthat lore bis appearing." Augustus G'ae ear died amid pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his (ly- ing reminiscence looking up throogh the wall of a dungeon, God grant that our dying pillow lime be the closing of a use- ftti life and. the opening of a glorious eternity. ' Mats to Housekeepers. Tea and coffee should never be left un- covered., ass their •strength and iluvor evaporate by exposure.. Grease bas the effect of blunting sharp knives, so they should never be allowed to ri lain in this. Lay a little bag of powdered mustard in tho mouth of a pickle jar to prevent the contents turuing mouldy, Damp salt removes stains of tea and. egg from china articles, Coal in the cellar sbauld never be damped, as it generates poisonous fumes. White spots on furniture may bo speed-. ily removed by rubbing with spirits of camphor. Good forks should never be used for toasting purposes. The kitchen in every household, be it big or little, should bo kept perfectly i and l scr eregular pleasant n rho o in by regi cleansing. The sink should be an objeet of special attention, for if not well rinsed and sluiced after washing up it will become the hotbed of disease. The vegetable emitter whiob Is kept in the kitchen should be planed in a covered hamper, and overhauled constantly, and any root which shows signs of decay at ones thrown out, Kitchen cloths must, of course, be washed out daily and hung on the line to dry, instead of beans; thrown together in a dark corner or tub till a washing day is due, ,Meanwhile these sloths are holding grease and harboring smells, The shelves should be scrubbed as often as those of the larder, and occasionally some disiufectant added to the rinsing water. Twice a week a lump of soda sbould be placed on the top of the sink drains and. very hot water poured directly on to it. This is to cleanse the pipe of any greasy matter adhering to it. The walls and ceilings should be wash- ed if pointed, or whitewashed if plain plaster, at least once a year. The garbage pail should never be stood beside the house. for then the contents are thrown in, and ugly splashes on the walls are the result. Medicine stains on ellver may be re- moved by the application of diluted sul- phuric, acid rubbed upon the silver with a soft rag. Finally rinse the article in warm soapsuds. Attacks of sore throat during told weather are largely attributable to in- sufficient exorcise in the open air. Fre- quent sufferers are notoriously lacking in this respect. To make a linseed poultice put the meal into a bag of flannel of the size of poultice required, stow up the open end, and boU, bag and all, in a small quan- tity of water. When the seed is soft squeeze out all moisture, and are the bag instantly as a •poultice. To :freshen a room place a good lump of camphor on an old plate or saucer, heat a poker, and with It burn the camphor. The fumes will thoroughly purify the room, rind the smell of camphor will only last for a short time. This process is useful to get rid of the smell of damp, of a new carpet or in illness. Tender Recollections. The balloon was tugging at its rope and bounding about clumsily in the puffs of wind. A widow stood regarding it with streaming eyes. She was alone, but a crowd gathered about her, attracted by her untimely tears. Sho sobbed for ten minutes, while the crowd restrained themselves, but at last an old gentleman —whose long white hair and saintly face declared bis belief that he was privileged to thrust himself into anybody's business —stepped forward and said: "Madam, why do you weep? Why, oh, why these tears?" The woman snuffled loudly and then replied: "It's the balloon." "But," queried the old gentleman, "why does the spectacle of a balloon cause you to weep? Did a loved son once perish as an aeronaut?" ' "No," replied the weeper, "it wasn't a son—it was my husband." "Ah, your husband was killed while ballooning?" "No, he wasn't; my husband died in his bed, but he weighed 21 stone, and that jumping balloon reminds me of just how Henry looked the last time I saw him a -dancing.. His figure was like that I" and tho widow dissolved in a now burst of tears. mmrarvi r era ti Ywr r m 'Im rtiwr altgill'ilitl�ail�iattftltl+v+t+tdY v ' slravirswfivir / L FOR PAINS RHEUMATIC, NEITRALGIC. 1-CIATIC, LUX/LA-GO), POR HEAD- ACHE, BACKACHE, Too-TIrACHE, USE ST.JACOB8OiL THE GREAT CLJRE, THE SURE CURE, THE CURE .ALL 'HOUND., aMiNWAI I re lIWPNWMMi'tW,WI MY PAMMAPINWAI WAMMWAla s°Jt*,tllt.+t's',We NSWI flow the Trouble f;egan. He had been reading the paper and oo- easionally repeating to her souls item that teemed potrtici laxly beternseleg Thua it happened he finally ran across an item about the invention of a machine for washing horses "They'll have rnaebinesfor washing ba- bias next," he suggested. "Kuhl" she exclaimed indig >aantty. "I'd just like to see my baby washed by a machine 1' "So would 1," he returned. Fie afterward explained to some one at the club that it was en exhibition of the insincerity of woman. for while be had done absolutely nothing but agree with her, she was so displeased that he found it impossible to read his paper ID comfort-- Chicago Post KIDNEY DISEASES Aro Positively Cured by Dodds Kidney Pills, Leaark County .P opt* now Thee—Theitr Experience Ras 'Proved It—Dodd's SCidirey P1I1i. Corsa: Mts. rete (Vitriol* of Kldasy Complaint. Kilmarnock, 11fay L—The poopie of this section aro among the shrewdest and most level-headed people in Canada. They know s good thing when they meet it. And when they "run up against" a good thing they make use of it, That is why Dodd's Kidney Pills have such an enormous sale In this district, That's the reason Dodd's Kidney Pills are used in nearly every household in the county. It is nothing unusual to hear of several cures of .'kidney Disease every day by Dodd's Kidney Pills in this neighborhood. The medicine is in universal use. It has the record of having completely cured every case of Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Para- lysis. Heart Failure, Urinary Disease, Di* eases of Women, or Blood Impurity, in which it has been used. Our people also claim that It is the only medicine on earth that will cure these diseases. .A. still further claim is made by those who have used Dodd's Kidney Pills. They assert emphatically (and, to speak the truth, they bring convincing proof) that Bright's Disease and Diabetes are as ea, ily cared, if Dodd's Kidney Pills aro usual, as Ls a common oold. Mrs. Peter O'Brien, of Smith's Falls, whose cure is the latestroported, has many friends in Kilmarnock, and her complete recovery amazes while it delights thong. Her case was a severe one of Kidney Dis- ease, and Dodd's Kidney Pills worked 1 s wonderfully quick and complete cure. 'Dodd's Kidney Pills are sold by all drug- gists at fifty cents a box, Fix boxes $2.50, or will be sent, on receipt of price, by The Dodds 'Medicine Co., Limited, Toronto, Catching Turtles in the .,Vest Indies. curious mode of catching turtle is practiced in the West Indies. It consists in attaching a ring and a lino to the tail of a species of sucker fish, which is then thrown overboard and immediately makes for the first turtle he can spy, to which he attaches himself very firmly by means of a suckin g apparatus arranged on the top of his head. Tho fisherman then hauls both turtle and sucking fish In. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to leans that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. .Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only po-itive cure now known to the medical fraternity. C tarrh being a constitu- tional disease, requires a constitutional treat - anent. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, aeting directly upon the blond and mucous sur- fareP of the system, thereby de,troying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by bu+ldiug up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro- prietors have so much ,aith 111 its curative powers, th t they otter One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fa•1s to euro. Send for list of Testimonials. >d.lress F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. sa'Sold by Druggists, 75e. She lied Is Lover. Practical Maiden—Of course your bouse is supplied with what wo call a sitting - room. Sweet Sixteen—Certainly. Practical Maiden—How large is it? Sweet Sixteen (ingeniously)—About one lap. A. Soldier's ttlttnket. That tired feeling will disrtpneer and This story, told of Sir Ralph Aber- byusing Milwill bo ler's Compounde to eat well zIronnd le ills` all erombio, the victor of Aboukir, shows that oven in death he did not forget con- sideration for others. After the battle at which he was mortally wounded, he was carried on board a ship, and a soldier's blanket was placed under his head to ease it. He felt the relief, and asked what it was. "Only a soldier's blanket," was the reply. "Whose blanket is it?" "Only one of the men's." "I wish to know the name of the man." "It is Duncan Roy's of the b'orty- second, Sir Ralph." "Then see," said the dying general, "that Duncan Roy gets his blanket this very night." Life on Other Worlds. Concerning _the existence of life else- where in the universe, it is to be remem- bered that the general physical condition of an extra -terrestrial body must bo taken with great caution as the index of the presence or absence of living things. The protoplasm of resting seeds may withstand the cold of liquid air nearly 200 degrees Centigrade below the freezing point, or more than 800 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. 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