Exeter Advocate, 1899-5-18, Page 3I3TI3RNAL DARKNESS
A Glimpse of What the Earth Would be With-
out the Gospels
The Eminent Divine Vividly Portrays the Gloom of an Infidel World
—The Triumph of Atheism Would Mean the
Death of Civilization.
Washington, May 14.—In this sermon
Dr. Talmage gives it glimpse of what the
world would be if the gospel were abol-
ished and the hunman race left without
divine guidance. The text is Acts it, 20,
"The sun shall be turned into darkness."
Christianity i, the rising sun of our
time, and men have tried wail the un-
rolling vapors of skt•ptieism and the
smoke of their bitiepheiny to turn the sun
into darknes.. Suilpe t• the archangels of
malice and horror ',honld be let loose a
little while end be allowed to extinguish
snd destroy the sun in the natural hea-
vers; They would take the oceans from
other world, and prier them on the lava -
Mary of the pj;attetaay system, and the
waters go hissing dawn amid the r'avinee
and the caverns, anti there is explosion
#atter er;palesi:ha, until there are .only n few
peaks of lire left iu the sun, and these
are cooling down and going out until the
vast continent, of name are reduced to a
email ;eine a of fhr, and that whitens
*ad caoie off until there are only a few
coals left. anti these are whitening amend
D• ing out until there is not a, spark left
in all the enema:line of ashes and the
valleys of ash'', and the chasms of ashes.
An oxtin<„uieluel sun! A dead aun 1 A
buried 'tun! Let all worlds wail at the
stupendous &metee's.
Of course tole withdrawal of the solar
light and heat theews our earth into a
'universal chill. and the tropies become
the temperate, and the tempetato becomes
the .Arctic, and there are frozen rivers
and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From
.A.retio to Antarctic regions the inhabl-
tauta gather in towerd the center and
find the equator at time poles, The slain
forests are piled up into a great bonfire,
end around then gather the shivering
ilka$ea and cities. T1te wealth ox the
axil mines is hastily poured into the
furnaces and stirred into rage of combus-
tion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower.
and the furnaces begin to go out, and
the nations begin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesu-
vius, Etna, Stromboli, California geysers,
cease to smoke, and the ice of halletorrns
remains} unmeltcd in their crater. All the
flowers have breathed their last breath.
Ships with sailors frozen at the mast,
and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and
passengers frozen in the cabin, all nations
dying, first at the north and then at the
south. Child treated and dead in the
cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at
the hearth. Workmt'nwith frozen hand
on the hammer and frozen foot on the
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. MI con.
galling winter. Perpetual winter. Globo
of frigidity. Iltjtuiephero shackled to
hemisphere by chains of ice. Universal
Neva aemble. The earth an ice floe
grinding aga]list other ice Roos. The arch-
angels of nui11ice anti Mirror have done
their work, and now they may take their
thrones of glacier and look down upon
the ruin they have wrought. What tbo
dcstruehrion of the sun in the natural hea-
vens would bu to our plhysieal earth, the
destruction of Christianity would bo to
the moral world. The stn turned into
dtrrltness 1
latldetlty a Tragedy.
Infidelity in our time is considered a
great joke, There aro people who rejoice
to hear Christianity caricatured and to
hoar Christ tastailed with quibble and
quirk and misrepresentation and badin-
age and harlequii:ude. I propose to -day
to take infidelity and atheishn out of the
realm of jocularity into one of tragedy
and show you what ithfldols propose and
what if they are successful they will
accomplish. There are those in all our
conunun,ties who would like to see the
Christian rtligiun overthrown and who
say the world would be better without it.
I want to show you what is the end of
this road and what is the terminus of
this crusade and what this world will be
when atheism anti infidelity have tri-
umphed over it, if they can. I say, if
they can. I reiterate it, if they can.
In the first place, it will bo the com-
plete and unutterable degradation of
womar.h.mod. I will prove it by faots and
arguments which no honest man will
dispute. In all communities and cities
and states anti nations whero the Chris-
tian religion has been dominant woman's
condition has been ameliorated and im-
proved, and she is deferred to and honor-
ed in a thousand things, and every
gentleman rakes off his hat before her. If
your essor]alous have been good, you
know that the name of wife, mother.
daughter, suggests gracious surroundings.
Yon know there are no better schools and
seminaries in this country than the
schools and seminaries for our young
ladies. You know that while woman may
surfer injust ice in England and the Uni-
ted etKate, she has more of her rights in
Christendom than site bas anywhere else.
wenraa :".d Christianity.
Now, compare this with woman's con-
dition in lands where Christianity has
made little or no advunce—in China, in
Barbary, in Borneo, in Tartary, in
Egypt, in Hindustan. The Burmese sell
their wive., and daughters as so many
sheep. Tho Hindoo Bible makes it dis-
graceful and an outrage for a woman.tro
listen to music or look out of the window
in the 'absence of her husband and gives
as a lawful ground for divorce a woman's
beginninx to eat before her husband has
finished his meal. What mean those white
bundles on the ponds and rivers in China
in the n:oruina? Iidanticide following
infanticide. Female children destroyed
simply Get ause they are !'male. Woman
harnessed to the plow as an ox. •Woman
veiled and barricaded and in all atylee of
cruel seclusion. Her birth a misfortune.
Her life a torture. Her death a horror.
The missionary of the cross to -day in
heathen lands preaches generally to two
groups—a group of mon who do as they
please and sit where they please; the
other group, women hidden and carefully
secluded in a side apartxnent, where they
may hear the voice of the preacher, but
may not be seen. No refinement. No
liberty. No hope for this life. No hope
for the life to come. Ringed nose.
Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruted
t out, Now, compare throe two conditions.
How tar toward this latter condition that
Y epeak of would wotnan go if Christian
influences were withdrawn and Christian-
ity were destro' ed? It is only a question
fit 4yy431110 ILO MOO tae lifted to
- certain point and not fastened there and
the lifting power be withdrawn, how long
before that object will fall down to the
point from which it started? It will fall
down, and it will go still farther than
the point from which it started. Chris-
tianity has lifted woman up from the
very depths of degradation almost to the
skies. If that lifting power be with-
drawn, she falls clear back to the depth
from which she was resurrected, not go-
ing any lower, because there is no lower
depth. And yet, notwithstanding the fact
that the oxlip salvation of woman from
degradation and woee is the Christian
religion—and the only influence that bas
ever lifted beg in the social scales is
Christianity —I have read that there are
women who releot Christianity, I make
no
marl; In regard to those persons. In
the silence of your own soul make your
observations.
Society Demoralized.
If infidelity triumph and Christianity
be overthrown, It means the demoralize.
tion of soolety. T'bc one idea in the Bible
that atheists and infidels most hate is the
idea of retribution. Take away the idea
of retribution and punishment from
aooiety, and it will begin very soon to
disintegrate and take away from the
minds of men the fear of hell, and there
are a great many of them who would
very soon turn this world into a hell.
rho majority of those who aro indignant
against the Bible because of the idea of
punishment are men whose lives are bad
or whose hearts are impure and who hate
the Bible because of the idea of future
* plinishnaent for tbo same reason that
orirnintals bate the penitentiary. Oh, I
have beard this suave talk about people
fearing nothing of the consequences of sin
in the next world, and I have made up
my mind it is merely a coward's whistl-
ing to keep his courage up, I have seen
nen flaunt their immoralities in the face
of the community, and I bare heard
them defy the judgment day and scoff at
the idea of any future consequence of
their sin, but wbon they came to die they
shrieked until you could hear them for
nearly two blocks, and in the summer
night the neighbors got up to put the
windows down because they could not
endure the horror.
I would not want to see a rail train
with 600 Christian people, on board go
down through a drawbridge into a watery
grave; 1 would not want to see 500 Chris-
tian people go into such disaster, but I
tell you plainly that 1 could more easily
see that than I could for any protracted
time stand and see an infidel die, though
his pillow wore of older down and under
a canopy of vermilion. I have never been
able to brace up any nerves for such a
spectacle. There is something at such a
time so indescribable in the countenance.
I just Iooked in upon it for a minute or
two, but the clutch of his fist was so dia-
bolic and the strength of his voice was so
unnatural 1 could not endure it. "There
is no hell, there is no bell, there is no
hell!" the inan had said for 60 years, but
that night when I looked in the dying
room of my infidel neighbor there was
something on his countenance which
seemed to say, "There is, there Is, there
is, there isl" The mightiest restraints to-
day against theft, against immorality,
against libertinism, against crime of all
sorts—the mightiest restraints are the
retributions of eternity. Men know that
they can escape the law, but down in the
offenders' soul there is the realization of
the fact that they cannot escape God. He
stands at the end of the road of profligacy,
and ne will not clear the guilty. 'fake all
idea of retribution and punishment out
of the hearts and minds of men, and it
would not be long before our cities would
become Sodoms. The only restraints
against the evil passions of the world to-
day are Bible restraints.
If .atheism Triumphed.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and infidelity gob the victory and suppose
they marshaled a great army made up of
the majority of the world. They are in
companies, in regiments, in brigades—the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts
of infidels and atheists, banners flying
before, banners flying behind, banners
insoribed with the words: "No God! No
Christ! No Punishment! No Restraints!
Down With the Bible! Do as You
Please 1" The sun turned into darkness!
Forward, march, ye great army of in-
fidels and atheists! And first of all you
will attack the churches. Away with
those houses of worship 1 They have been
standing there so long deluding the peo-
ple with consolation in their bereave-
ments and sorrows. All those churches
ought to be extirpated they have done so
much to relieve the lost and bring home
the wandering, and they have so long
held up the idea of eternal rest after the
paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the
St. Peters and St. Paula and the temples
and tabernacles into clubhouses. Away
with those churches!
Forward, march, ye great army of in-
fidels and atheists, and next of all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filled with
bright-eyed. rosy-eheeked little ones wbo
are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought
to be on the street corners playing mar-
bles or swearing on the commons. Away
with them! Forward, march, ye great
army of infidels and atheists, and next
of all they will attack Christian asy-
lums, the institutions of mercy supported
by Christian philanthropies. Never mind
the blind 'eyes and the deaf ears and the
crippled limbs and the darkened intel-
lects. Lot paralyzed old age pick up its
own food and orphans fight their own
way and the half reformed go back to
their evil habits. Forward, march, ye
great army of infidels and atheists, and
with your batticaxes hew down the cross
and split up the manger of Bethlehem.
Army of Destruction.
On, ye great army of infidels and athe-
ists, and now they come to the grave-
yards and the cemeteries of the earth.
Pull down the sculpture above Green -
wood's gate, for it means the Resurreo-
tion. Tear away at the entrance of Laurel
Hill the figure of Old Mortality and the
chisel. On, ye great army of infidels and
atheists, into the graveyards and oeme-
teries, and where you see "Asleep In
Jesus" cut it away, and whero you find
a marble story of heaven blast it, and
whero you find over a little child's grave
"Suffer Little Children to Como Unto
Me" substitute the words "delusion"
and "sham," and whero you find an
angel in marble strike off the wings, and
when you come to a family vault chisel
on the door, "Dead once, dead forever,"
But on, ye great army of infidels and
atheists, on! They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill and Polson upon Ossa,
and then they hoist the ladders against
the walls of heaven. On and on until
they blow up the foundations of jasper
and the gates of pearl, They charge up
the steep. Now they Min for the throne
of him who liveth forever and ever. They
would take down from their high place
the leather, the Son, the Holy Ghost.
"Down with them!" they say. "Down
with them from the throne!" they say.
"Down forever! Down out of sight! He
is not God. He bas no right to sit there.
Down with him! Down with Christ!"
A world without a head. a universe
without a king. Orphan constellations.
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A
dethroned Jehovah. An as.;assinated. God.
Patricide, regicide, deicide. That is what
they maul. That is what they will have
if they can. I say, if they can. Civiliza-
tion hurled back into semi -barbarism and
semi -barbarism driven back into Hotten-
tot savagery. The wheel of progress
turned the other way and turned toward
the dark ages, Tho ;look of the centuries
put back 2,000 years. Go back, you Sand-
wich Islands, from your schools and from
your colleges and from your reformed
condition to what you were in 1820,
when the missionaries first came. Call
home the n00 missionaries from India and
overthrow their 2,000 sebools, where they
are trying toeducate the heathen, and
scatter the 100,000 little children that
they have gathered out of barbarism into
civilization. Oblitertate all the work of
Dr. Duff in India, of David Abeel in
China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson
in Burma, of David Brainerd amid the
American aborigines, and send home the
8,000 missionaries of the cross who are
toiling in foreign lands, toiling for
Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the
grave. Toll these 3,000 men of God that
they are of no use. Send home the
medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as well as the souls of the dy-
ing nations. Go home, London Mission-
ary Society. Go home. American Board
of Foreign Missions. Go home, ye Mora-
vians and relinquish back into darkness
and squalor and death mho nations whom
ye have begun to lift.
.t Nefarious Plot.
Ob, my friends, there has never been
suck a nefarious plot on earth as that
which infidelity and atheism have plan-
ned. We were shocked a few years ago
because of the attempt to blow up the
Parliament houses in London, but if
infidelity and atheism succeed in their
attempt they will dynamite a world. Let
them have their full way, and this world
will bo a habitation of throe rooms—a
habitation with just three rooms, the one
a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the other
a pandemonium. These infidel bands of
music have only just beguu their concert
—yea, they have only been stringing
their instruments. I to -day put before
you their whole program from beginning
unto close. In the theatre the tragedy
comps first and the farce afterward, but
in this Infidel drama of death the farce
comes first and the tragedy afterward.
And in the former atheists and infidels
laugh and mock, but in the latter God
himself will laugh and mock. He says
so. "I will laugh at their calamity and
mock when their fear cometh."
From sucb a chasm of individual,
national, worldwide ruin, stand back.
Oh, young men, stand back from that
cbnsm 1 You see the practical drift of my
sermon. I want you to know where the
road leads. Stand back from the chasm
of ruin. Tho time is going to come (you
and I may not live to see it, but it will
come; just as certainly as there is a God
it will come) when the infidels and the
atheists who openly and out and out and
above board preach and practice infidelity
and atheism will be considered as prim •
inals against society, as they are now
criminals against God. Society will push
out the leper, and the wretch with soul
gangrened and ichorous and vermin cov-
ered and rotting apart with his beastiality
will be left to die in the ditch and be
denied decent burial, and men will come
with spades and cover up the carcass
where it falls, that it poison not the air,
and the only text in all the Bible appro-
priate for the funeral sermon will be
Jeremiah xxii. 19, "Ho shall bo buried
with the burial of an ass."
Victory for Christianity.
A thousand voices come up to me this
hour, saying: "Do you really think
infidelity will succeed? Has Christianity
received its deathblow? and will the Bible
become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoke
of the city chimney arrests and destroys
the noonday sun. Josephus says about
the time of the destruction of Jerusalem
the sun was turned into darkness, but
only the clouds rolled between the sun
and the earth. The sun wont right on.
It is the same sun, the same luminary,
as when at the beginning it shot out like
an electric spark from God's finger, and
to -day it is warming the nations, and to-
day it is gliding the sea, and to -day it is
filling the earth with its light. The same
old sun, not at all wornout, though its
light steps 190.000,000 miles a second,
though its pulsations are 450,000,000,000.-
000 undulations in a second. The same
sun with beautiful white light made up
of the violet, and the indigo, and the
blue, and the green, and the red, and the
yellow, and the orange—the seven beau-
tiful colors, now just as when the solar
spectrum first divided them.
At the beginning God said: "Let there
be ligbt," and light was, and light is,
and light shall be. So Christianity is
rolling on, and it . is going to warm all
nations. and all nations are to bask in
its light. Men may shut the window
blinds so they cannot see it, or they may
smoke the pipe of speoulation until they f
are shadowed under their own vaporing, 1
but the Lord God is a sun! This white
light of the gospel made up of all the
beautiful colors of earth and heaven-- 1
violet plucked from amid the spring
grass, and ,the indigo of the southern
jungles, and the blue or the• skies, and
the green of the foliage, and the yellow
of the autumnal woods, and the orange 1
of the southern groves, and the red of the
sunsets. All the beauties of earth and
heaven brought out by this spiritual
spectrum. Great Britain is going to take
all Europe for God. T.he United States
are going to take America for God. Both
of them together will take all Asia for
God. All thrree of them will take Africa
for God. "Who art thou, 0 great moun-
tain? Before Zerubbahel thou shalt be-
came a plain." "The mouth of the Lord
heap �1w1:16 :' . $t►llglulab, lam!
LUMBAGO
1s easy to
GET
and just as easy to
CURE
if you use
St. Jacobs Oil
Water Consutuptlon in London.
Every year the people of London drink
176,000,000 gallons of water and 163.000,000
gallons of ale. It has been estimated that
if this latter beverage were placed in 4 1-2
gallon casks, and the casks placed end to
end, the line would be long enough to ex-
tend more than a third of the way around
the earth at the equator.
Time 1l acted.
"My wife never buys a hat, a gown or
even a pair of gloves without first consult-
ing me."
"Is that so? Well, old man, your wifo's
a wonder. You ought to be able to save
money."
"I could, probably, if she didn't always
go and got what she wanted just the same
as if I had agreed to it."
!Board's Liniment for sale everywhere,
all Regular.
First Passenger (on railway train) —
I have an idea that is an eloping couple.
Second Passenger—No, they're married.
He's been in the smoking car for the past
two hours.
It Was Diluted.
Doctor—Can you get pure water at your
boarding house?
Patient—No, not always; I frequently
detect just a flavor of coffee in it.
8166E88 MHST FOLLOW
The Fair Use of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People.
That Is the Experience of Mrs. Sydney
Drupe. of Deseronto, 'Who Had Suffered
for Many Years with Rheumatism and
Catarrh of the Bowels.
From the Tribune, Deseronto.
Our attention was lately directed to the
wonderful cure effected upon a resident of
Deseronto, which illustrates in a very
marked way the merits of that widely
known health restorer, "Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills." We refer to the cure of Mrs.
Druce, wife of Sidney Druce, caretaker of
the High School building. Being desirous
of giving our readers the facts, a reporter
of the Tribune called at Mrs. Druce's resi-
dence, and is therefore enabled to present
our readers with the following Mote,
which can be vouched for by many neigh.
bors and friends of the family. Mrs.
Druce had from the early age of ten years
been a sufferer from rheumatism and had
endured an untold amount of suffering
from this dire disease. She had tried
scores of different medicines to dispel the
malady, but in vain. Doctors told her it
i was impossible to eradicate the disease
from her system and she had at last be-
come resigned to the belief that rheuma-
tism was incurable. In addition to rheu-
matism, about seven years ago she began
to suffer from catarrh of the bowels, with
its attendant headaehes and depression of
spirits. The pain of the rheumatism and
constant headaches wore her out. The
doctors prescribed opiates, which only
dulled the pain but did not repel the dis-
ease. The two diseases continued to make
steady headway and at times she felt suoh
pain that she could not even allow her
husband to raise or move her. The neigh-
, bora thought she would never get up
again. Ali kinds of remedies were sug-
gested and many of them tried, but all in
vain. Providentially, as Mrs. Druce ex-
pressed it, the use of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills was mentioned. It was not until
the end of the second box that she realized
any benefit. She then began to realize
that she was regaining strength. Before
she mentioned this to others her husband
also observed the change, for he remarked
one day; "Those pills are doing you some
i good; you look livelier than you have for
some time." She continued the use of
Dr. Vieilliatns' Pink Pills until she had
i taken fourteen boxes, with the gratifying
, and almost remarkable .results that she
was completely cured of the rheumatism
1 and catarrh, not a solitary symptom of
either trouble remaining. Mr. Druce was
present during the interview and confirm -
;
ed all that his wife had said and was as
delighted as she in praising the virtues of
; Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mrs. Druce
said that out of gratitude for this wonder-
, ful restoration to health she had told
scores of other sufferers from different
diseases of the virtues of the medicine
which had been the ,undoubtee. means of
prolonging her life. She hoped that others
would follow her plan of giving the pills
a fair and prolonged trial, as she was con-
fident that in the end success would surely
follow as inher own case.
08
Nan, in describing to the family her
new teacher, who lisps, said: "She purrs
awfully funny when she speaks."
A. new back for 50 cents. Miller's
Kidney Pills and Plaster.
The depth of water affects the speed
of steamers very considerably, the ves-
sels moving more slowly in shallow
than in deep water.
About one German wo;maa in every
27 works ill a factory.
BLEDSOE'S BATTERY.
Ville Famous Command Won fraise
Prom Grant and Bcatareigard.
"1 was a member of Captain Hiram
Bledsoe's famous Missouri battery," said
a man who is living in New York. "Ex-
•'ept in the presence of his superior officers
he preferred to have his men call him Hi.
Ile went into the war right at the begin-
ning. Tho men who first enlisted under
hint were his neighbors and acquaintances
In Cass county, where be had lived since
the Mexican war.
"There were five brothers in his first
command. When they presented them-
selves for enlistment, Hi asked them if
they had not better divide and added that
he did not want to have the entire family.
But the boys insisted, and it is a singular
fact that they, with their commander,
fought through the war. So far as I can
now recall no member of the Bledsoe bat-
tery was ever reprimanded. It was a
model organization. Its discipline was
army talk, and when Bledsoe met Gen-
eral Beauregard for the first time Beaure-
gard complimented him on the reputation
of his command and asked him the secret
of it. Bledsoe's reply was that his com-
mand was composed of gentlemen and
that he treated them accordingly at all
times.
"When this superb organization was
decimated and it was proposed to recruit
it with conscripts, Bledsoe refused. He
said the men who fought under him must
bo volunteers, He challenged the admira-
tion of Grant by the way in which be
fought Grant's command at Port Gibson
in 1863. It was when Grant was closing
in upon Vicksburg. Bledsoe held off the
entire advance for one day, and Grant
asked, so I have heard, who was in com-
mand and said if there had been a few amore
as determined as Bledsoe the war would
have lasted longer.
"In 1864 a command of the Federate
moved up near Bledsoe's linos, and the
boys in blue becatno very noisy and did
some miscellaneous firing. Bledsoe was
asleep. The noise awoke him. 'Turning
to the nearest captain, he asked what the
trouble was about. Ana when informed
be said, 'Well, I must stop this, for I want
to go to sleep.' And be shelled the Fed-
erals until they withdrew."—New York
Sun.
Economy Unnecessary,
Ida Nownce—She's so careless in her
use of words.
Sallie DeWitte--I suppose that is the
result of Ler apparently unlimited supply.
—Brooklyn Life.
How He Takes It.
"How does your father like the idea of
taking you all to Paris next year?"
"Every night he prays for another
French revolutions" — Cleveland Plain
Daalaa
Sadly Needed.
Jimmy the Pickpocket—Gee! I orter've
brung a stepladder along!—Now York
Journal
In Japan poor children have labels with
their names and addresses hung around
their necks as a safeguard against being
lost.
Alfred A. Taylor, of MargaI a says
"One bottle MINARD'S LL
cured a swelling of the gamble joint, and
saved a horse worth $140.00.
Thos. W. Payne, of Bathurst, saved the
life of a valuable horse that the Vet. had
RD'S upLINIMENT. few bottles of MIN-
A
Rem in isoe„t.
Mather—I distinctly heard sounds of
kissing in the hall last night.
Daughter (archly)—It must have re-
minded you of old times, mamma.
Do not delay in getting relief for the lit.
tle folks. Mother Graves' Worm Externs•
inator is a pleasant and sure cure. If von
love your child why do you let it suffer
when aremedy is so near at band ?
Tougl. Lack.
"Madam, it is my painful duty to in-
form you that your husband bus been
eaten by a bear."
"That's too bad; he had on his best
clothes.
Miller's Worm Powders for restlessness
and peevishness.
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Fees ARE WEAK.
Niagara Is a Pigmy Compared
With Dodd's Kidney Pills.
No KidneyDiwase is Dangerous if Dedd'a
Kidusy rills be Used—Dir. J. B. Jones
Ira Living Proof of This..
Niagara Falls, Ont., May 8.—The Falls
of Niagara are a stupendous power for the
welfare of mankind. But, right in the
midst 4 our quiet populace another power
a million times greater has been at work
recently. Niagara Falls have destroyed
scores of lives. With all their power and
grandeur they have never saved one life.
The other power we refer to has saved
thousands of fives—it has never destroyed
one. This power is Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Let one of our most respected citizens
tell what Dodd's Kidney Pills did for him,
He says; "I have suffered for seven years
with Bladder and Kidney Disease, and.
tried fn vain to find a remedy that would
cure me until I providentially heard of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. So highly were they
recommended to me by a friend who bad
used them that I bought three boxes at
once. I am happy to say I didn't need to
buy any more. Those three boxes cured
me.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Dia-
betes
irbetes also. Therefore, I contend, I have
good reason to sing their praises. I than
never cease doing 50.—Joh3N B. Jogs."
Niagara Falls, with the strength of a
billion of giants, could not relieve Mr,
Jones of one twinge of pain. Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills banished all his pains for ever.
And, even as they cured Mr. Jones, se
will they cure any person who suffer*
from .Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy,
Lumbago, Bladder and 'Urinary Diseases,
Diseases of Women, and all other Kidney
Complaints.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are sold by t}
druggists at fifty cents a box, six boxes
83.60, or will be sent, on receipt of price,
by The Dodds Medicine Company,Limitede
Toronto.
Ballo Fences In An*.tralla.
In Australia they are utilizing the wire
fences to establish telephonic communit:a-
tion between stations six or eight miles
apart. The instruments are connected to
the wire strands, thus ensuring a "metal,
lie circuit" at no extra expense, for the
fences are agricultural necessities and
already in place. There is no difficulty,
is said, in conversing with a, station full?
eight miles distant through telephone.,
connected as described. Several stations
are so joined.
Bickie's Anti -Consumptive Syrup stands
at the head of the list for all diseases of
the throat and lungs. It acts like maglo
in breaking up a cold. A cough is soon
subdued, tightness of the chest is relieved,
even the worst case of consumption is re-
lieved, while in recent cases it may be
said never to fait. It is a medicine pre-
pared from the active principles or virtues
of several medicinal herb,i, and can be de-
pended upon for all pulmonary com-
plaints.
Commerolal Plants fa Europe.
It is interesting to know that 4.200
species of plants are gathered and 'used
for commercial purposes in. Europe. 01
these 420 have a perfume that is pleasing,
and enter largely into the manufacture el
scents and soaps. There aro more species
of white flowers gathered than of any
other color.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that seionee 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 contain'.
tional disease, requires a constitutional treat.
went. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally,
acting diree;ly upon the blond and mucous sur-
faces of the system, thereby dextroyy-ing tits
foundation of the disease, and giving the pati en
strength by building up the con.,titution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The pro-
prietors have so much :airh in its curative
powers, th i they oiler One Hundred Dollars for
any ease that It fads to cure. Send for list el
Testimonials. Ad fres.
F. J. CIHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
SarSold by Druggists, 75e.
An Ideal Tooth Powder. —�
Four ounces prepared chalk, four ounces
powdered orris root, one ounce pulverized
sugar, one ounce cas, ile soap, made fine as
powder. Mix all together. Flavor with a
fewdrops of wintergreen mixed well into
the powder. Shake until all is of an equal
powdery lightness. This will whiten and
preserve the teeth.
The Public should bear in mind that
Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil bas nothing in
common with the impure, deteriorating
class of so-called medicinal oils. h is
eminently inure and really efficacious—
relieving pain and lameness, stiffness of
the joints and muscles, and sores or hurts,
besides being an excellent specific for
rheumatism, coughs and bronchial com-
plaint&
The Widow'. Mite.
The widow's mite is a coin of copper
issued by Alexander Jannreus (105 to 178
B. C.), hearing a wreath of olives, with
the inscription, "Jonathan the High Priest
and the Confederation of the Jews." On
the reverse are two cornucopias and the
head of a poppy. The mite was the small.
est current coin in the time of Jesus, and
its value was about ono -eighth of 1 cont.
.
Mushrooms as a Medicine.
Mushroom juice is a sure cure against
snake poison, according to an eminent
scientist. He has found that all mush- ;
rooms possess a substance which sots ae
an antitoxin against serpents
The Milkman's R«mark.
The smallest flower known to the botan-"Here's benevolent assimilation for
ism is said to be owhat or theyeastplant. n you,"as the milkman remarked when he
shoved the can under the spout of the
is microscopic in size. pump.
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