Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-5-25, Page 3ALL MUST BE WEIOHE Human Lives and Actions to be Weighed in the Divine Scales. Rey. Dr. Talmage Preaches on Personal Responsibility, Taking His Text From the Handwriting on the Wall of Babylon, Washington, may ni._itx these days , no less, And a religion which does not Take hold of this llfe as well as the life morel awakening the; pointed sermon by to come is no rellgion at all. Dr. Talmage on personal responsibility weitg nrimies. before God will be read witle deep and nilene solenan interest; text, Daniel 3", 27, "Tbou, But. my friends, that is not the style art weighed in the balance and art totted a balances I am to speak of to -day; that wanting." is not the kind of weights end measures, Babylon was the paradise of architeo, I am to speak of that kind, of balances ture, and driven out front thence the which weigh principles, weigh churches, grandest building e a modern times aro weigh men, weigh nations and weigh ouly the evidence of her fell- The site worlds. "What!" you say, "Is it passible having been seleeted for the otty, noun, that our world is to be weighea?" Yes. 000 ewe were emplaned ea the searing of Why, you would think if God put on one tier 'walls and the b lidding of her works, eitle of the balances suspended from tbe It was „cjtv 60 meleeizi eisamenneeen throne tbe Alps and the Pyrenees and There was a trench :di amend the city, the Iiininianns and Mount Washington from whicb the ineterial for the builelug and ell the cities of the earth they Would tbe city' bad been aligned. Them were ernsh Q. 'eel The time win COMO R5 gates, on mei: sine of the city, hetweeuwn.henne t43.seci sit ethe Vitt° avers, two gases a lessee ot &goose melees enroo see tete 'worm we:gneiss Mat ori ing Imo the skies, from eaen gate ,tin tho one side will be the world's opportemities one side a stt eet 'miming straight througn 82.14 On the other side the world's sins, to the correeeending gate on tbe °tiler nieWit will go the sine, end away will go side, so tbat there were 50 street e 10 the opportunities, and Glad witl say to tlie miles loug. Through the city ran a messengers witit the tomb; "Burtwthat branoh of the river Itupbrates, This river world! Weighed and found Wantingl" ilonte times overflowed its banks, and to SO Gad will weigh ohurehes. He takes keep it from ruining the oity a lane Was a great• °harsh, That ehurah, great constructed into widen tbe serving water according te the worldly eetimate, taunt of the river would run during the time ot freshets, and the -water was Itept in tbis artificial lake until time at drought, and then this wart'' would stream down over the city. At either end of the bridge that you -have In this pocket?" "Ob," he rays, "that is Westminster Assembly Catechism." I say: "Very good. What Dave you in the other pocket?" "Oh," be says, "that is the Heidelberg Cate- olitsna." "Very good. What is ebat you bave under your arm standing in this balance of the sanctuary?" "Oh," be says, "that is a church record," "Very good. Wiaat are these books on your side the balances?" "Oh," he eve "those ere "Calvin's Institntes.' "My brother, we are not Weighing hOOkal we are weighing you. It cannot be that you, are depending for your salvation upon your mounted policeman, with a shout clear - orthodoxy, Do you, not know that the Mg the way, and the horse at full ren, creeds and the forms of religion ere naere- attempted te seize those renaway laorses ly the scaffolding f th udin ? Yon --e --g- to save a calamine when Ms owe horse certainly are not going to mistake siet fell and roiled over hina. Be was picked rwaffolding for tbe temple. Do you not up half deed. Wby were our sympathies know that men have gone to perdition se stirred? Became lie avae badly. hurt with a catechism in their peened"' "But," says the man, "I cross myself often." "Ale that will not save you," "But," says the man, "I am sympathetic for the poor." "That will not save you." table." "Time will not save yc,u,” Your hearts touched? That, ayes sacrifice „Bet,„ says the man, oi baye bed my for you and me. 0 thou who didst ride OU the rel lesrse saerifice, come and name on the church record." "That will not awe yOn,,/ Tub bate bean a pros zehi,,(Le.tnlainovuir,g,..li,,,tthis world on tbe white fessor of religion 40 years.." "That will - not wive yous Stand there ou your sine the Weems, and I will give You the ad- vantage -I will let you have all the creeds, all the enurett records, all the "accept bite? Will not this wnele audience say: "I am insufficient, I am a =anon I am lost by reason of my transgressions, but Christ bas paid it all. My Lord and my Go& my life, ley pardon, my hea- ven, Lord Jesus, I hail thee!" We go away off or back into history to get some illustration by eybien we inay set forth what Christ. bas done for us. We need not go So far. I saw a vehicle behind a runaway horse (lathing through the street, a mother and her two ehildren in the carriage. The horse (lathed along as though to hurl thou to death, and a and hurt for others. But tell you to- day of how Christ, the Son of GO, on the blood red 'terse of sacrifice, name for our rescue end rode down the sky and Says the man, "I at the communion red° unto deatU fer reseue- Are net Tee sew-mede Mn. ereat deal of truth is contained in tilts old refrain, but not all tbe truth. Iv is Christian, conventions that were ever well to be self-reliant, aud to have con - held, ell tbe vommunion tables that were fidence in one's ability to (tenement:11 the ever built, cal your side the baltmeas, On labors end. duelee of life, bet the best of the other side the balances I MAO put PS are, to a grecie extent, dependame upon, wbat God says 1 must put them I put the help, support and. comforts of othere. this million pound weight on the other Man, in spite ef oft -boasting, le a Side Om balances. 'Having the form of very belpless aeintal when be attempts gcellinese, but denying the power there- to Stand alone, Prima tlie oradle to the and found, wanting, grave, there are times when even We The eirst Scrutiny. itself lies in hands of our fellowmen, But I asaust go faster and sneak, or tap "I can take care of myself," says one gnat scrutiny. The foot Is, my trloods, starting out in life, Blessed with God- Ege 3/1()Vip MI amid astowndin seen. given bealtb, awl a certain =mint of fl be weigbed. Ile puts It on one Ode the ties, These pulses vbiele are now +Irma- abilitY and Pereeverence, he pushes out balances and the minister and the emir ming the lime% of life may after awbile into the :Aram of life, with coefldenee and the building that cost its buudrects call a halt, We walk on a hair -hung With ambitious etroltee be turas his boat a thountuds of dollars. Ile puts them on bridge over °basins. All mound us are into the current and glides swiftly on side the balances. On tbe other side dangers lurking, ready to spring on us ward' spanning this Euphrates there was a of the seele be Puts what tbat church from ainbusie We lie down at niglit, not His clear intellect and physical force palneeneee one palace a. mile and A bait ought to be, what its consecration ought knowing whether We sball arise in the enable lam to past others less layered. around, the other ntlitiCe 7,4 miles to be, tvbet its sympathy for the pour reaming. We start out for our eceupa, The Praits and admiration of the onloekt around. ought to be, wbat its devotion to all good tion, not knowing wbether we sball come ers reaches bis ears and lie plumes him - The wife of Nebuebtelnezzer bad been ought he be Tbat is on (MO We. That back-erowns being bureishen for tby telt en ills great ahditee While bie beart born and brought up in the eauutt7 and side comes down, and the churcle not brow or bolts forged for tby prison; surely barnens agaiust the woes and For. 111 a InOldritaillOUS region, and, she could being able to stand the test, rises in the angels ot light ready te shout at thy de- rows of hit brother. Ile admires himself not beer this flat di:evict of Ilaylon, and balances. It does not make any difference livereeee or fiends of darkness stretching as "4 -541r-Plade illiall." so, to please Ins we, Nelmehadnezzar about your magnificent machinery, A OUt akeletou hands to Poll thee detyn So the years now on. By tlie world he built in the midst of the eine a MOlintaill church is built for one thing -to save into ruin consummatel is celled. "a SlleettiSfill man." When his 400 feet high. Thie mountain was built souls. It it saves a few souls 'when its Suddenly tbe judgment will be here, ettenti°11 is °ell° to the wreeke that ile out into terraces supported on arches, On , tuigbt aave a multitude of souls, God Tbe taigel, with one foes en the see and on the racks that abound in the river of the top of these etches a layer of flee will spew it out of his mouth. Weighed the other foot on the land, will SWetir by life, be has no word or thought ot pity stones on tbe top at that a Myer of reeds and found wantingl him that livens, forever Mill CVO. that ler the unfertuente" "Tbere's DO use in helping those fel- lows," he answers. "Set them afloat and. put them back into the extrrent to -day, and they'll be back on the rooks to- morrow. Look at um! I had PO One to anchor its roots. There were pumps Side or the settles, aud God weighed the then there le a flash as if from a cloud, help me; I'm a Self-made man." worked by mighty maelliner,v fetobiug French empire, and Nepolcon said: but it is the glitter of Una shMing bal- Bow much better it is to be a Gods up the water from the Flupbrates to this "Have I not eularged the boulevards? amens, and they are boisted. and all nuule mum To be able to say with Paul; hangiug garden, as lt was caned, So that Did I not kindle the glories of the nations are to be weighed. The tinter- "I can do all things through Christ." there were fountaius spouting into tho Champs Elysees? Have I not adorned the given get in on this side the balances, He who relies on self through We surely s Staudine below and looking no it iinds it a poor support in the hour of Tuileries? Have I not built the gilded They) may have weighed themselves and . and bitumen, on the top of that two lay- So we percetve that God estimates Its- time shall be no longer: "Behold, be ors at bricks closely cemented, on the top tionn How many thnes be bas put the meal% with clouds, and every eye shall of that a heavy sheet of lead and on the Spanish monarchy into the senles aud see him." Hark to the jarring of the top of that the Soil pliteed-the nail so found it insufficient and condemned 151 meet:eine Why, that is the setting deep that a Lebanon cedar had room to The French empire was placed on one down of the eeales, the balances. And must bane stemed tie if the °lends Were tonere, house?" Then God weighed the ' pronounced a flattering derision. The in la/Pesoin or as though the shy leaned nation, and he put on one side the scales world May havkweighed them and pre- en the shoulder of a, cedar. .All this the Emperor, and the boulevards, and nouneed them moral. Now they are being Nebuohadnezzar did to please his wife. the Tuileries, and the Clump Eltreeeel weighed in God's balances -the minims Well, she ought to have been pleased. and tbe gilded opera house, and on the that can make no mistake. All the prop - le suppose she was pleased. If that would other side he puts that man's abomina- erty gone, all the titles of distinction ' not please her, nothing would- There was tions, that insans libertinism, that manes gone, all the worldly successes gone, there in that city Ids° thetemple of Bleus, )selfisirom, that nnm'e godless ambition. , Is a soul, absolutely nothing bUt a soult with towers -ono tower the eighth of a TM* last came down, and all the brilli- an immortal soul, a never dying soul, a mile hie), in which there -was aix observ- ancy of the scene vanished. What is that soul stripped ot all worldly advantages-, atory where astronomers talked to the voice coming up from Sedan? Weighed a eoul on One side the scales. On the stars. There was in that temple oneana found wanting? other side the balances are wasted Sab- image which would cost whist would be Personal Application. baths, disregarded sermons, 10,000 oppor- our $52,000,000. But I must become more individual tunities of mercy and pardon that were Handwriting on the Wall. and more personal in tny address. Some cast aside. They are on the other side the Oh, wbat a city! The earth never saw people say they do not think clergymen scales, and there God stands, and, In the anything like it, never will see anything ought to be personal in their religions presence of men and devils, cherubim like it. And yet I have to tell you that address, but ought to deal with subjects and archangel, be announces, while it is going to be destroyed. The king and in the abstract. I do not think that way. groaning earthquake and crackling con - his princes are at a feast. They are all Wbat woald you think of a hunter who nage:anonand judgment trumpet and intoxicated. Pour out the rich wine inte should go to the Adirondacks to shoot everlasting storm repeat it, "Weighed the chalices! Drink to the health of the deer in the abstract? Ah, no! He loads and found wanting." king! Drink to the glory of Babylon! tho gun; he puts the butt of it against All Must be Weighed. Drink 50 a great future! ne thousand bis breast, he runs his eye along the But say some who are Christians: lords reel intoxicated- The king seated barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash "Certainly you don't mean to say that unon a chair, with vacant look, as bites- go the antlers on the rooks! nd so, if we will have to get into the balances? icated Men Will -with vacant look stared we want to be hunters for the Lord, we our sins are all pardoned; our title to at the wall. But soon that vacant look must take sure aim and fire. Not in the takes on intensity, and 15 18 au affrighted abstract are we to treat things in religious look, and all the princes begin to look discussions. If a physician comes into a and wonder what is the matter, and they sickroom, does he treat disease in the look at the same point on the wall. And abstract? No; he feels tho pulse, makes then there drops a darkness into the room the diagnosis, then he writes the prescrip- that puts out the blaze of the golden tion. And, if we want to heal souls for plate, and out of the sleeve of the dark- this life and the life to come, we do not ness there comes a finger -a finger of fiery 'want to treat them in the abstract. The terror, circling around and circling around fact is, you and I have a malady which, as though it would write, and then it if uncured by grace, will kill us forever. comes up, and with sharp tip of flame it Now, I want no abstraction. Where is the inscribes on the plastering of the wall the balm? Where is the physician? doom of the king, "Weighed in the bal- People say there is a day of judgment muses and found wanting." coming. My friends, every day is a day • The bang of heavy fists against the of judgment, and you and I to -day are gates of the palace is followed by the being canvassed, ineneeted, weighed. Here breaking -in of the doors. A thousand are the balances of the sanctuary. They gleaming knives strike into a thousand are lifted, and we must all bo weighed. quivering hearts. Now death is king, and Who will come and be weighed first? he is seated on a throne of corpses. In Here is a moralist who volunteers. He is tllI hall there is a balance lifted. God one of the most upright men in the coun- s ung it. On one side of the balances are try. Be comes. "Well, my brother, get put 13elshazzar's opportunities; on the in -get into the balances now, and be other sicle of the balance are put 13elshaz- weighed." 33ut as he gets into the ban ear's SIPS. The sins come down. His op- ances I say, "What is that bundle you Ortunities go up. Weighed in the ban have along with you?" "Oh," he says, ances-found wanting. "that is my mputation for goodness and There has been a great deal of cheating kindness and charity and generosity and in our country with false weights and kindliness generally." "Oh, my brother. moatures and balances, a,nd the govern- we cannot weigh that; WO me going to inane to change that state of things, tveigh you -you. No stand in the scales appointed commissioners whose business -you, the moralist. Paid your debts?" it was to stamp 'weights and measures "Yes," you say, "paid all my debts." and balances, and a great deal of the "Have you acted in an upright way in wrong has been corrected. But still, after the community?" "Yes, yes." "Have all, there is no such thing as a perfect you been kind to the poor? Are you faith - balance on earth. The ohai.n may break, ful in a thousand relations in life?" or SOlne of the metal may be nipped, or "n -es." "So far, so good. But now, be - in some way the equipose may be dis- fore you get out of this scale, I want to tinned. You cannot always depend upon ask you ttvo or three questions. Have earthly' balances. A pelmet is not always your thoughts always been right?" a pound, mid you may pay for one thing "No," you say, "no. Put down one and get another, but in the balance mark. "Have you loved the Lord with which is suspended to the throne of God ell your heart and soul and mind and a pound is a pound, and right is right, strength?" "No," you say. Make another and Wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, monk. "Conae, now, be frank, and con - and eternity is eternity.. God has a per- fess that in ten thoasand things you have feet bushel and a perfect peek and a per- come short -have you not?" "Yes." feet gallon. When merchants weigh their Make ten thousand marks. Come, now, go B in the wrong way, then the Lord get me a book large enough to make the weighs the goods again. If from the im„ record of the moralist's deficits. My perfect measure the merchant pears oat brother, stand in the scales; do not fly wine pretends to be a gallon of oil and away from them. I put on your side the there is less than a gallon, God knows it, scales all the good deeds you ever did, all and he calls upon his recording angel to the kind words you ever uttered, but on mark it, "So natant wanting in thM naeasure of oil." The farmer comes in from the country. He has apples to sell. Be bas an imperfect measure. He pours out the apples from this imperfect meas- • ure. God recognizes it. He says to the recording angel, "Mark down so many apples too few -an imperfect measure. • We may cheat ourselves, and we may cheat the world, but we cannot cheat Goa, and in the great day of judgment it will be found out that what we learn- ' ed in boyhood at school is correct -that 00 hundredweight makes a ton and LSO • solid feet make a cord of wood. No more, heaven is secure. Certainly you are not going to put us in the balances?" "Yes, my brother, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and on that day you are going ta be weighed. Oh, follower of Christ, you get into the bal- ances! The bell of the judgment is ring- ing. You must get into the balances. You get in on this side. On the other side the balances vve will place all the opportunities of good which you did not improve, all the attainments in piety which you might have bad, but which you refused to take. We place them all on the other side. They go down, and your soul rises in the scale. You cannot weigh against all those imperfections. Well. then, we must give you the advant- age, and on your side the scale we will place all the good deeds you have ever done and all the kind words you have ever uttered. Too light yet! Well, we must put on your side all the consecra- tion of your life, ael the holiness of your life, all the prayers of your life, all the faith of your Christian life. Too light yet! Come, mighty men of the past, and get in on that side the scales. Come, Pay- son and Doddridge and Baxter, get in on that side the scales and make them come down that this righteous one may be saved. They come and they get in the scales. Too light yet! Come, the martyrs, the Latimers, the Wyclifs, the men who suffered at the stake for Christ. Get in on this side the Cbristian's balances and see if you e,annot help him weight it aright. They come and get in. Too light! Come, angels of God on high. Let nob She righteous perish with the wicked. They get in on tlais side the balances. Too light yet! I put on this side the bal- ances all the scepters of light, all the thrones of power, all the crowns of glory. Too light yet! gut just at that point ensue, the Son of God, comes up to the balances, and be puts one of his scarred feet on your side, and the balances begin to tremble from top to bottom. Then he puts both of his scarred feet •on the bal- ances, and the Christian's side comes down with a stroke that sets all the bells of heaven ringing. That Rook of Ages heavier than any other weight! Christ Outweighs All. But says the Christian, "Am I to be the other side the scales I put this weight allowed to get off so easily?" Yee If which God says I must put there -on the some one should oome and put on the other side the scales and opposite to yours •other side • the seeles all your imperfec- t put this weight, "By the deeds of the; tions, all your envies, all your jealousies, law shall no flesh living be justifiedall your inconsistencies of life, they Weighed and found wantingwould not budge the scales with Christ on your side the scales. Go free! There ts no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, Chains broken, prison houses opened, sins pardoned. Go free! Weighed in the balances and nothing, nothing Wanted Oh, what a glorious hope! Will you accept it this day? Christ making up for what you lack. Christ the atonement for all your sins. Who vtill • Balances of the Sanctuary. Still the balances of the sanctuary are suspended, • and we are ready to weigh any who come. Who shall be the next? Well, here is a formalist. He COMCS, and he gets into the balances, and as be gots in I see that all his religion is in genu- flections and in outwzird observances. As he gets into the scales I say, "What is \ Our self-confidence may servo 'us in fair weather, but, wbon the floods lift up their awful voices, when dwelt rides on the gale; then money, populority, re- spectability, cannot save us. Our only hope lies in Him who hushed the storm and said to the angry waters, "Peace, be still." MENU) STOcKMOS. — By Tying Them at the Toe and Cute' ting OA' the End. The young baehelor maid was eluding t tho ziewspaper man, who, for reasons annecessaity to explain,, was a wilier every day 50 the week. She was careless; he was impractical. in;51:ot0sn'pe';,-ks-h ddiod yeoout inaovwe tor ms te4fs fttintnil-g. quite domestic?" "What's up now?" "You see, I'm too extravagant. It's perfectly awful the way I let my teethes go and never mend them. I'm going to reform." "You don't sayl What's the matter- pihnosragairng out?" asked the incredulous ir "Nothing of the kind. I've begun al- ready." She blushed a trifle and time went on, with a candor that might lame been a little startling to any one who nom her less well than Toes. "I began with my stet:kings, I've got them all reeeded up. "I read something in a paper about a man that always wore ladies' stookings, and when they gave out at the toes he tied a string just above the hole and, mit away all below the etring. That's the easiest way I ever beard of to mend stock - tugs, so 1Axed all mine up." When she began this, Tem Iooketlaroaz- ed., When she finished, be seemed ready to collapse, But he restrained himself. "It Was a practical an wno'd think of nena tbiug-who'd dosixeb a thing. 'You ue-ver would, Tom." I wouldn't do it," *aid. Tom, with a gravity that was bard to maintain, "A man like me wanki think that out, write it up, sell it, and buy soMe new ones," Be paused a Millet°, "That'll jnat wbat 1 (Inn" he added, "I got live hairs out of that 'story.' Swallowing a Farm. This paragraph has been toating around in the papers for some time. It contains much for young men to think about, and as it was written by Robert J. Burdett°, one of The BMA's Horn's contributors, it will, no doubt, possess interest to our readers: "My homeless friend -with the chro- matio nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten -cent glass of gin, let Me give you a fact to wash it down with. You may say you have longed for years for the free, independent life of a farmer, but you have never been able to get enough money to buy a farm. But there is where you have been mistaken. For some years you have been drinking a good improved farm at the rate of a hundred square feet at a gulp. If you doubt this statement, figure it out for yourself. An acre of land contains 43,560 feet. Estimatingefor convenience, the land at $43.56 un acre, you will see that it brings the land just one mill per square foot. Now pour down the fiery dose and Imagine you are swallowing a strawberry bed. Now call in four or five of your friends and have them help you to gulp down that 500 foot garden. Get on a pro- longed spree some day and see how long it will take to swallow a pasture land large enough to feed a good cow. Put down that glass of gin. There Is dirt in it -300 feet of good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre" That Was the Question. Sandy Mo----, a Forfarshire farmer, had been spending an hour or two in the evening with a friend a couple of miles away. It was s moonliglat night, and Sandy, after partaking freely of his friend's hospitality, was riding home quietly across the sheep pastures on lais guid auld mare, when they came to an open ditch which his mare refused to cross. "Hoot awat Maggie," said the riner, "this winna dae. Ye maim jist gang ower." He turned back about a hundred yards, wheeled round, and gave the mare a touch of his whip. On she went at a brisk canter; but just as they readied the edge of the ditch she stopped dead and shot Sandy clean over to the other side. Gathering himself up, Sandy looked his mare straight in the face, and said: "Vera wool pitched, indeed, ma lass, but hoo are ye vitt' to get ewer yersel', Buttons and Buckles the Vogue. Buttons and buckles are both worn by women, but must have a' reason for their being, either as objects of use or decora- tion; they are not to be put on at hap- hazard, but given something to appar- ently hold in place. The jewelled buttons may be found to match almost any gown, as they are made to represent amethysts, carbuncles, emeralds, tur- quoises, opals, sapphires, crystals, etc. The one-sided blouse fronts fasten with four swab buttons, and the velvet belt has a buckle to matoh.-Ladies' Home Journal. • An Apt Rejoinder. A meddlesome woman was sneering at a young mother's awkwardness with her infant, and said: "I declare, a woman never ought to have a baby unless she knows how to hold it'!" "Nor a tongue, either," quietly responded the young mother. IV* Chaste roe gooape. Ply "You're the worst looking thbag I ever saw." "Don't blame me; blame the artist" - New York Journal. In tbe menagerie. "Anyhow," observed the philosophic visitor, who was making the rounds of She cages, "this is a community where there aro none of the jealousies and heart- burnings and. enyyings that characterize what we call society in the human faro - "I don't know about that," replied the cynical visitor. "I notice the giraffe looks down upon the rhinoceros, and, the rin• nocoros turns up his nose at the big snake, and the big snake puts out its tongue at the whole collection of curiosities."-Chl- °ago Tribune. A SERIOUS TIME. A Quebec Farmer Buffered Fot Nearly Ten Years. 1 A Lucid Explanation. "Ikly brother, Bill," said the ancient in- habitant, "is jest as old as that 'ere white hickory," "And how old may that be?" "Well, when that tree got its first growth Squire Jinkins wuz rennin fer congress." "And when ViMZ that?" "That," said the anoient inhabitant, "wuz when 'Gray Ben' wuz lynched fer boss stealin 'long erbout mush million time." • Might Easily Hove Been. "Father ill and can't work I Tut, tuti That's a very serious matter for all of you, my little man." "Yessir, but it might have been yrusi." "Worse! Why, be's the breadwinner, isn't he?" "Yessir, but it might have been mother, and she's the rent an oil an tea an clothes an sugar an milk and meat winner." - Pick Me Up. • Not Taking Any. Hostess -Have seine boiled rice, Mr. Penhecker. Penhecker-No, thank you.; I never touch it. Host -I'm surprised at that, Pen. It's very wholesome, and- Penheeker (with a shudder) -It's the associations, dear boy. I've never eaten it since my wedding day. -Ally Sloper. After the Bush. "1 minuet reach his heart," she exclaim- ed passionately. Further, the senorita wept. "That is what comes," she exclaimed some more, "of allowing tnyself to be ea. joled into buying a stiletto at a bargain sale for 19 cents." *ad the Best or medical Treatment nee Tried Hot Springs Without Receiving Bertetit-Dr. Irigk wins name. ntr. John Story, of Maryland, Ponta Co. Que., is well known to all the resi- dents of that section, end his cure frox. an unusually severe attack of rheumatism by the use, of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, atter ell other remedies had failed, Lae, if possible, added to the popularity of thie favorite medicine. tin Story gives the fellowing statement of his suffering end cure. Be says:-"Sotrie ten years ago I was engaged in railroading 00 5110 Lake Superior Roden of the C. P. In I was ex- posed zo all kinds of -weather, and as a. re- sult sustained a severe at tack et rheunme tisra, which all but crippled me. and from wideb, I suffered. Inueli agony. I spent more than a hundred dollars on dectere andfor enedidue, but was gradually get- ting worse and finally bad to quit work. At this juncture the doctor told me that be <lid not think metlielee coule mire inn and advised me to go to some has epriegin took his advice and wen; to the Harries, tea got Springs in liritith Colinxibiee wbere I remaiuen for eight weeks nudes She rare of the Ileum plzyabelau, Met ex- perieueed no benefit. I then went over te Tacoma and took a course at the Green Elver Hoz Springs, but wiela no better re - suit. Completely discouraged I returned to my home in Quebec, end went to farm-, lag, but the -rheumatism bothered me IS much that I colild scarcely do any work. Dr. Pink Bills were reeen naeuded ta rae and I decided to give 'thins a trial. After taking a few boxes I found, they were helping me and I continued their 11S0 until I had taken sixteen boxes, by which time every vestige of the trouble whick bad bothered xne for yearn and lied cost me so much money, bad disappeared, It is now more than a year and a half since I discontinued the use of the pills and during that time I have not had tlat slightest symptom of the trouble, which], regard. as the very best evidence that the euro is permanent." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills arc a specific for all diseases arising from an impover- ished conditiou of the blood or a shattered condition of tbe nervous torces, semh as St, Vitus dance, locemotor ataxia, rben- matism, paralysis, sciaticanhe after effects of la grippe, loss of appetite, laeadache, dizziness, chronic: erysipelas, scrofula, eto. They are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female system, correoting irregularities, suppressions ana all forms of female weakness, building anew the blood and restoring the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In the ease of men they effect a, radieel euro in all caste easing from mental etorry, overwork os excesses of any nature. Protect youreelt against imitatione by insisting that every box you purchase bears the full name -Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. If your dealer di es not have theun they will be sent, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by • addressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. 4 quite %%king. "'You are quite run down," said the facetious cyclist to the man he lind knoek ed over. "Sou ought to take something,. ' "I win," said his victim, jumpiug up "I'll take your napie and address. - And he did, for subsequent police court proceedings. -Pick Me Up. The Xisser. Anna -She says she's never been kissed. Aline -Bold thing! ru wager her gen. Canaan friends can't say that. To Beautify the Complexion. For the complexion and general health,' drink slowly half an hour before break- fast one large tumblerful of water as hot as you can swallow, and once a week in- stead a tumblerful of cold water in which a teaspoonful of common salt bas been dissolved. This is better for the com- plexion than any cosmetic. Another re- cipe is the juice of half a lemon, a pint of warm water and one ounce of rose water. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased te learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to eure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh cuts is the only pnitive cure now known to the medical. fraternity. 0 itarrh being s constitu- tional disease, requires a constitutional treat- ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system, thereby de-troying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by budding up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro- prietors have so much mith in its curative powers. th )5 they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list a Testimonials. Addrest P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. NirSold by Druggists, 76c. 1..osinc Interest. "Dorothy has given up all expectations of getting married." "Has she quit crimping her hair?" "No; but she doesn't save cooking re (Apes any more." An Unhealthy Builineam. "They tell me," said the old friend of the family, "that 13illy is goin to be a writer -like them what prints pieces in the papers?" "He wuz," replied Billy's father. "but I've done steered him in another direction. I don't think the writin business is good fer his health." "That's funny!" "No, it ain't. Leastways, 15 mien% funny to Billy. Yoe know, be j'ined the Literary society, an he came to grief at the fust meetin! While they wile dis- oussin literary matters the president drawed a razor an slashed him on the neck, an the secretary an treasurer bit him over the bead with a heavy copy of Shakespeare, whilst the sergeant -at -arms knocked him senseless with tbe 'History of Georgia.' He wuz laid up fer three weeks, an he jest crawled out yesterday. I don't think the literary business agrees with himi"