Exeter Advocate, 1899-6-1, Page 3PERILS THAT T REAMS
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses the Destiny of
the Arnerfcan
Monopoly the Overshadowing Curse of the United States -46W
ism Also an Evil Power—infidelity a Qret
Source of Weakness
Washington, May 28.—In this discourse
Do. Talmage speaks of soma of the porila
that daemon our American institutions,
and points out the path a sefety; text
Isaiah lxii, 4, "Thy land shall be mar -
As the greater includes the less, so does
the circle (4 future Joy around our entire
world include the epicycle ot our own
republieOI& exhilitnent, unique, divine
iroagery a the text At the close a a
week in eehieb for three days our national
capital was a pageant an all thee grand
review andi baunered proeeesion and
national anthems could do, celebrated,
peace, it may eare be inapt to anticipate
the time When tile Pine of Peace and
the heir of universel aosuinicat Shall tAke
pOSSOSS1011 o ide nation. OW "thy land
shall be married,"
In diseueeing the iinel destineof Ole
nation it makes all the difference in the
World whether we are op the way to a
fimerel or zwe1ding, The Bible !roves
no doubt an this eubjeete In pulples And
on platforme anti in places of public)
concourse, I hear so many a the muffled
drunis a evil prophecy sounded, AR
though we were on the way to rustles:al
interinent, and beside Thebes Ana Beby.
Ian and Tyre in the cerneterY of dead
nations our republic wee to be entombea,
that 1 wish you to uuderstand it is not
to be obseepties, but nuptials; noe mate.
soleuro, but carpeted altar; oat cypreee,
but orauge blooms; not requiem, but
wedding much; for "thy Mud shall be
married."
I propose 'ea nom 601110 of tbe suitors
who are eleiming the band of this reptile •
lice Tills laud is so fair, to beautiful, so
affluent thee I bas many suitor*, and it
will depend much upon your advice
wbether this or On shall he accepted or
rejected. Iu the Arse place, I remark;
There is a greedy, all grageing monster
Who coulee in as suitor seeking the band
of this republic, and thau monster is
known by the name of monopoly. His
scepter is: mode out of the iron of the rail
track, anti the wire a telegraphy. Ho
does everything for his own advantage
nud for the rohliery of the people. Things
it on from bad to worse until in the
term legirdaturee of Now York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania far a long
elute monopoly divided everything. If
monopoly favor a law, it passes; If mon.
opoly oppose a law, it te rejected. alone
°poly stands in the railroad depot putting
into his pockets in one year $40,000,000
In excess of all reasonable °barges for
services. Monopoly holds in his one band
the steam power of l000motion and in •ihe
other the electricity of swift communica-
tion. Monopoly has tho Republican pow
in one pooket and tho Democratic parry
in the other pookeit. Monopoly deoides
nominations and Plecelons—city elections,
state elections, national elections. With
bribes he secures the votes of legislators,
giving than free passes, giving appoint -
molts to ueedy relatives to lucrative
positione, employing them as attorneys
if they aro law:yore, carrying their goods
15 per tont. loss if they aro inerehants,
and if be ilud a case very stubborn tts
*well as very important puts down before
bins the hard eaelt of bribery.
Power of Monopoly.
But monopoly is not so easily cauglit
now as when during the term of Mr.
Bnohanan the legislative committee in
one of our states explored and exposed
tho manlier in which a certain railway
company had obtained a donation ot pub.
lie land. It WAS found out that 13 of the
Senatorof that state received $175,000
among them 60 members of the Lower
House of limit state received between $5,-
000 and $10,000 each, the Governor of
that ante received $50,000, his clerk re-
ceived $5,000, the Lieutenant -Governor
received $10,000, all the clerks of the
Legislature received $5,000 each, while
$50,000 was divided among tho lobby
agents. That thing on a larger or smaller
scale is all the thno aoing on in some of
the elates of the Union, but it is not so
blundering as it used to be, and therefore
not so easily exposed or arrested. I toll
you that the overshadowing curse of the
United States to -day is monopoly. He
puts his band upon every bushel of
wheat. upon every sack of salt, upon
every ten of coal, and every man, woman
and child in the United States feels the
touch of that moneyed despotism. 1 re-
joice that in et states of the Union
already anti -monopoly leagues have been
establishea. God speed them in the work
of liberation.
I have nothing to say against capital-
ists; a man has a right to all the money
he can make honestly. I have nothing to
say against corporations as such; with-
out them no great enterprise would be
possible, but what 1 do say is that the
same principles are to be applied to cap-
italists and to corporations that are ap-
plied to the poorest man and the plainest
laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong
for great corporations. If I take from you
your property without any adequate com-
pensation, I am a thief, and, if a railway
damages the property of the people with-
out rnaking any adequate compensation,
that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong
on a small scale is wrong on a large
scale. Monopoly in England bas ground
hundreds of thousands of her best people
into semi -starvation, and in Ireland has
driven multitudinous tenants almost to
madness, and in the United States pro-
poees to take the wealth of 60 or 70
millions of people and put it in a few
silken wallets.
Monopoly, brazen -faced, iron -fingered,
ytature-hearted monopoly, offers his hand
to this republic. He stretches it out over
the takes and up the great railroads and
over the telegraph poles of the continent
and says: "Here are my heart arid band.
Be Mille forever." Let the millions of
the people, north, south, east and wese
forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid
them at tile ballot box'forbid them on
the platforna, forbid them by great
organizations, forbid them by the over-
wbebning seetiment of an outraged
nation, forbid them by the protest of the
church of Goa, forbid them by prayer to
high beaven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail. It shall not be to all -devour -
Ing monopoly that this land Jet to be
married.
Nihilism a Monster.
Another suitor claiming the hand of
this repulaio is nihilism.
He owns nothing but a knife for uni-
versal outthroittery And a, nitroglycerin
bomb for universal explosiom He believes
In no God, no government, no heaven
Awl no hell except lobo he cars make on
earth- Ha slew the Czar of Russia, keeps
many a king practically bnprlsoned,
killed Abraham Lincoln, would put to
death every king and president on eartb,
and, if he had the power, would climb
up until be could drive the God ot bean=
from his Gagne aud utke it himself, the
umversal butcher. In France It is called
communism; in the United States it is
oiled aoarehisin; In Russia it is called
nihilism, but that last le the moot itraltbio
and descriptive term. It means oomplan
nod eternal toneshup. Ib would Inn140
the bolding of property a crime, and it
would drive A dagger through your boort
and MO a Koch to your awelling and
tin'n Over thie Whole lsod into tbe posses-
sion oX theft and. lust and rapists and
murder.
Where does this monster live? In all
the Towns and eitiee of this land, It effere
its hend to this fair republic,. It proposes
tor tear to pima the ballot box, the legle-
hstive hall, the congressional assembly.
It would. take this laud and divitte it up,
or ratherIdivide it dollen. It would give
as much to. the idler as to tbe worker, to
the bad as to tho good. Nihilism! This
wither having prowled across other
lauds has set its paw on our sail, and it
is 'ply waiting for the time in which to
spring upon ite prey. It woe nihilism
that burned the rAilroad property at
' Pittsburg (luring the great riots; it was
nihilism that *dew black people in our
northern cities during the war; it was
nihilism OM naauleti to death the Chi -
nee° immigrante years ago; it is nihilism
thee glares out of the windows of the
drunkeriee upon sober people as they go
by. Ali, its power bits never yet been
tented, I pray God its power may never
be fully toiled. It would, if it bad the
power, it4tVti every ehureb, chapel, claim -
Oral, richoolhouse anti college: in mime.
J.et zoo say it is the worst enemy of
the laboring °lessee in any country. The
honese ery for reform lifted by oppressed
laboring num is drowned oat by the
vociferation for anareity, The criminals
and the ottetabonde W110 range through
our cities talking about their rights, when
their Bost right 14 the penitentiary -4f
they could be bushed up, and the down-
trodden laboring men of this countig
could be heard, there would be more
bread for hungry children. In this Maui,
riot and. bloodshed never gained any
wages for the people or gathered op any
prosperity. In this land the best weapon
is not tho club, pot the slalielah, not fire-
arms, but the ballot. Let not our op-
pressed laboring men be beguiled to
coming under the bloody banner of nibil.
ism. It will make your taxes heavier,
your wages smaller, your table scantier,
your children hungrier. your sufferine
greater. Yet this nihlllsm, with feet red
of slaughter, comes forth and offere its
bend for this republic. Shall the banns
be proclaimed? It so, whore shall dm
marriage altar bee and who will be tire
officiating priest? and wliat wiU be the
musie? Tbat altar will have to be white
with Mei:oiled skulle, the officiating
prlest 11111St be it dripping assasein, the
music must be the smothered groan of
tatitudinous victims, the garlands must
be twisted of night shade, the fruits smut
be apples of Sodom, the wino must be the
blood of St. Bartholomew's massacre.
Nol It is not to be to nihilism, the stengu-
inaryi monster, that this land is to be
married.
Intldellty's Threat.
Anotote suitor for the hand of this
nation is ao 'elity. When the rnidnight
ruffians dose., 1 rho grave of A. T.
Stewart in St. t. e' oburchyard every-
body was shookeue but infidelity pro-
poses something worse than that—tho
robbing of all the graves of Christendom
of the hope of a resurrection. le proposes
to chisel out from the tombstones of your
Christian dead the words "Asleep in
.Tesus," and substitute the words,
"Oblit-
eration—annihilation." Inildelity pro-
poses to take the letter from the world's
Father, inviting the nations to virtue and
happiness, and tear it up into fragments
so small that you cannot read a word of
it. It proposes to take the consolation
from. the brokenhearted and the soothing
pillow from the dying. Infidelity pro.
poses to swear in the President of the
United States, and the supreme court,
and the governors of states, and the wit-
nesses in the courtroom with their right
hand on Paine's "Age of Reason," or
Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." It
proposes to take away from this country
the book thau makes the difference be-
tween the United States and the kingdom
of Dahomey, between American °bonze -
tion and l3ornesian cannibalism. If infi.
delity could destroy the Scriptures, it
would in e00 years turn the civilized
nations back to semi -barbarism, and
then from sezed-barbarism into midnight
savagery, until the morals of a ntenagerie
of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees
Would be better than the morals of the
shipwrecked human race.
The only impulse in the eight direction
that this world has ever nad has come
from the Bible. It was the mother of
Roman law and of healthful jinesprud.
onto. That book has been the mother of
all reforms and all ollaritles—mother of
English magna °harts and American
declaration of independence. Benjamin
Franklin, bolding that holy book in his
hand, stood before an infidel club in
Paris and read to them out of the propbe.
cies of Habakkuk, and the infidels, not
knowing what, book it was, declared it
was the best poetry they had ever heard.
That book brought George Washington
down on Lis knees in the snow at Valley
Forge, and led the dying Prince Albert
to ask POMO one to sing "Rook of Ages."
I tell you that the worst attenapted
orime of the centuty is the attempt to
destroy this book. Yet infidelity, loath-
, , ,
some rite/toilful, leprous pestiferous
rotten monster, stretches out its band,
Mimeo with the second death, to take
the hand of this republic:. It stretches it
out through soductite magazines, and
through lyceum lectures, and through
caricatures of re1ig1o.0 It asks tor all that
pert of the oontineut already fully settled
and the two-thirds not yet counted, It
says: oGive me ail east of the IdisSissiliPir
with the keys of the church end with
the Christitto printing presses. Then give
nue Wyoming, giye me Alaska. give me
Montana, give me Colorado, give um all
the states west of the Mississippi wed
wtil take those placee and keep them by
eight of possession long before the gospel
con be fully intrenched."
And this suitor presees his case appal-
lingly. Shall the banns of that marriage
be protileineed? "Nor say the home
adesionaries of the wesa a xpartyr band
of whom the world is net Worthy, toiling
amid Ottigues and malaria And starva-
tion. "No. not it We con help it By
evhat we and our obildren hove suffered
ever forbid the banns ot that marriage!"
"Nor say all patricide voices, "Our in-
siiturions were bought at too dear a price
aud were defended at too great a sacrifice
to be so cheaply surreodered," "No!"
Fay's the Goa of Bunker Hill and Inde-
pendence Hall and Gettysburg. "I did
not start this nation for such it farce."
exer 10.000 voices., "To infidelity
this land shall not be married!"
riedeed io Chrlat.
But there is another suitor that pre-
senthis chine for the hand of this re,
pubbe. He se mentioned in the Terse foie
lowing my texs where it says. "As the
bridegroom rejoiceeli over the bride, so
shell thy God reioice over thee," It is not
eny Agure. It is the figure of the 13ible.
Ghrise le so clesiroo to have this world
Mee itim that he etops at no humiliation
of simile. He comperes his grace to spit-
tle on dm eyes of the blind mao. He
comperes himself to it ben gathering the
chickens, and in my text he eornparee
biloselt to a. suitor beggiog ti band Iri
marriage. Does this Christ, the King,
deserve this land? Behold Pilate's heel,
asid the insulting expectoration on the
bare of Christ, Behold the CRIPATORU
messecre end the Awful bemorrbage et
five wounds. Jacob served 14 years for
Rachel, but Quest, my Lord, the King,
suffered in torture aa years to win the
love of this world. As often princesses at
their very birth are plselged in treaty of
marriage to priteCes or langs of earth, SO
this Dation ot its birth waa pledged to
Clain for Blythe merriage. Bekaa Col-
=luta aud his 120 men embarked on the
Santo Muria, the Pinta and the Nina for
their wonderful voyage. wbat was the
last thing they did? They sat dowu and
tool.: the holy sacrament ot the Lord .7estts
Christ. After they caughe the first
glimpse of this country rued the gun of
one ship had announced it to the other
vessels tbat land buil been discovered,
what was the song that went up from all
the three decks? "Gloria in excelsis."
After Colusnbus anti his 120 men bad
stepped from the ship's deck to the solid
ground, wbat did thee. do? Tbey all
knelt and consecrated the now world to
God. What did the Huguenots do after
they honied in the CetrolinasY What did
the Holland refugees do after they bad
landed in Now York? What did the Pil-
grim Fathers do after they landed in
New England? With bended knoo and
uplifted taco and hatvett-besieging prayer,
they took possession of this continent for
God, How was the first American con-
gress opened? By prayer. in the name of
Jesus Christ, From its birth this nation
was pledged sor holy marriage with
Christ,
A UlOISPd. Country..
And thensee how good God bas been
to us: Just open the map of the continent
and see how it is shaped for imaneasur-
tible prosperities. Navigable rivers, more
in number and greater than of any other
land, rolling down ou all sides into the
sea. prophesying largo manufacitures and
easy commerce. Look at the great ranges
of mountains timbered with wealth on
the tops and sides, metalled with -wealth
underneath, One hundred and eighty
thousand squeal) miles of Iron. The laud
so contoured that extreme weather hardly
ever lasts more than three days—extreme
heat or extreme cold. Climate for the
most part bracing and favorable for
brawn end brain. All fruits, all minerals,
all barvests. Scenery displaying an
autumnal pageantry that no land on
earth pretends to rival. No South. Amer-
ican earthquakes'. No Scotch mists. No
London fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No
Germanic divisions. The people of the
'United States are happier than any peo-
ple on earth. It is the testimony of every
man that has travelled abroad. For the
poortmore sympathy; for the industries,
more opportunity. Oh. bow good God
was to our fathers, and how good be has
been to us and our children. To him—
blessed be his mighty name—to him of
cross and triumph, to him who still re-
members the prayer of the Huguenots
and Holland refugees and the Pilgrim
Fathers—to him shall this land be mar-
ried. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your
contributions and your prayers hasten on
th e fulfillment of the text.
We have been turning an important
leaf in the mighty tome of our national
history. One year at the gates of this
continent over 500,000 emigrants arrived.
I was told by the commissioner of emigra-
tion that the probability was that in that
one year 600,000 emigrants would arrive
at' the different gates of commerce.
Room Per All.
Are you afraid this continent is going
to be overcrowded with its population?
Ah, that shows you have not been to
California, that shows you have not been
to Oregon, that shows you have not been
to Texas. A fishing runitok to -day on
Lake Ontario might as well pe afraid of
being crowdedtby other shipping before
night as for any one of the next ten gen-
erations of Americans to be afraid of be-
ing overcrowded by foreign populations
in this oountry. The one state of Texas is
far larger than all the Austrian empire,
yet the Austrian empire supports 35,000,-
000 people. The one state of Texas is
larger than all Franoe. and France sup-
ports 36,000,000 people The one state of
Texas far surpasses in size the German
empire, yet the Germanic empire supports
41,000,000 people. I tell you the great
want of the western states is more popu-
lation.
While SOme people may stand at the
gates of the city saying, "Stay pack!" to
foreign populations, I press out as far be-
yond those gates as I can prose out be-
yond them and beckon to foreign nations,
saying, "Come, come, all ye people who
are honest and industrious and God toy-
ing I" But say you, "I am so afraid that
they will bring their prejudices for for-
eign governments and plan t tberri herb."
Absurd. They are sick of the govern-
ments that have oppressed them, and
they veant free America I Give them the
great gospel of welcome. Throw around
them all Christian hospitalities. They.
will add their industry and hard eariust
wa,,,,,es to this country, and then we will
dedicate all .to Christ and "thy ?end
f..thall be married." But where shall the
marriage altar be? Let it be t.ht 1eeicy
Itilountains, whorl, through artifloial amci
mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be
covered. as they will be, with vineyards
aod orchards and vain fields. Theis eles
the Bosons and the New Yorks and. the
Oharlestone of the PhCiad coast come to
the marriage alter on one side, and there
lee tbe Bostons aud the New Yorks and
the Chariestons of the Atlantio coot came
to the marriage altar on the other side.
Anti there between them let this brlde of
nations kneel, awl then it OW orgitu at
the louden thunders that ever shook the
Sierra Nevadas on the one side or =Wed
the fonuelations of the Alleghenies on the
other eidee should open full (1131)3%0 02
wedding luarch, that organ of thundere
omit" not drown the voice of him who
would odie the band of this bride ot
nations, saying, "as it bridegroom re-
joiceth over it bride, so thy God rejoicede
eve' thee." At that marriage banquet tbe
plarters Aran be ef Nevada tavRP. And th°
chalices of Califoroio gold and the fruits
of northern orenarde and the spices of
southern groves and the tapestry of
Amerieen manufacture and the congratu-
latione from the free nations at earth and
from all the triampluatt armies of heel -
'veto And so "thy land shall be married."
SO( Pralsr.,
A man once walked alongthe banks of
the mighty Euphrates River. Its waters
moved eoftly and silently along, "Why
do nee the waters surge and roar?" asked
elle man. And the rirer replied, "I ueed
not shout aloud; illy elapse is known
widely enough. The green meadows
which I water and the loreo trove upon
my biotite—these tell who 1 ars."
The roan CAIlle AfterWited3 to the Tigria
River. Ire waves (leshed along 'wildly
With donde of foam. "Kolloa, how /014
Your are," said the man. "Ab, said the
river, "my shouting does not belp rne ot
AIL T still am not praise(' like either
streams, however loudly I preciAire 0444
ane sousethiog in the world."
The MAU went iumber, Ile SAW trete:
with elle cosdiest and meet beautiful
fruit, "Wity so still, good trees?" he
asked. "Why not rustle like yew cam -
pentane in the wood?" "Wo aro Onown,"
they replied, "by the fruit we bear, how.
ever silent we are," Soon the man came
to a woad whose trees towered, to the sky,
and whose empty crests kept up a can.
Wan roan "Ab," they retailed, "eve hove
thorned, loud And long, and, yet we are
not treated as we deserve,"
Sinn a link AccoUnt.
A busines,s woman, whose experience
has been long mail successful, said to me
tbe other day:
"It I were asked to give the best advice
I could think of for young women wbo
are earning their mon living, or who baize
the cares and. expenses of it household to
look after, and if I bad to confine myself
to am four wards, I Amid say; 'Start
it hank account.' It Is an easy matter to
do se nowadays, when both the savings
banks and others offer women eying- pos-
sible convenience and inducement
Besides, it is a good thing to do, for
several reasons. It fosters a feeling of
Independence and develops businesslike
habits, two essentials for a successful busi-
ness woman. Then, too, it Is a convenient
and desirable thing to pay bills by means
of cheeks where it is possible to do so, It
preserves a record of the transaction, and
frequently prevents annoyances and mis-
takes. To my way of thinking, a bank
account, even though it be a small ono,
should be looked upon as a necessity
rather than a luxury, by every woman
who has business affairs of any conse-
quence wbatever."—Demorest's.
It Pape to Ile Concerned..
Young men who have no concern for
the welfare of their employers bave not
enough concern in regard to their own
affairs to make their own life a success.
A clerk, behind either the counter or
the desk, is only of value to his employer
when be exerts hinrself in behalf of that
employer, and the measure of his value
Is the measure of his exertion.
Therefore, the more a young man does
for ids employer directly, the more be is
doing for himself indirectly.
By honest effort—and honest effort is
doing all ho can—the young enan not
only becomes entitled to bigher wages,
but be is at the same time acquiring
snore knowledge and skill, 'will& shall
111 him the better to carry on business
on his own accoune when opportunity
offers.
It pays to be concerned'about your em-
ployer's business; it does not pay to be
unconcerned.
Sharks Afraid. of Noise.
The cowardliness of sharks is well
known anaong men who have been much
to sea in southern waters infested by man-
eaters. The fiercest sitarlt will get out of
the seaway in a very great hurry if the
swimmer, noticing its approach, sets up
a noisy splashing. A shark is in deadly
fear of any sort of living thing that
splashes in the water.
Among the South Sea Islands the
natives never go to sea bathing alone,
but always in parties of half a dozen or
so, in order that they may make the
greatest hubbub in the water, and thus
scare the sharks away. Once in it while
a too venturesome swimmer among the
natives foolishly detaches himself from
bis swimming party and momentarily
forgets to keep up his splashing. Then
there is a swish, and the man-eater comes
up beneath him like a, flash and gobbles
him.
Every Man Hit Own Soda, Fountain.
A Mr. Stemma of Zurich, Ill., bas
obtained a patent for reducing carbonic
acid gas to liquid form, and ho proposes
to sell it to the public in Melo steel cap-
sules, small enough to be carried in the
vest pocket. By this invention every man
can have a soda fountain with bit wher-
ever he goes, for by unsorewing the cap-
sule and dropping its contents into a
pitcher or bottle of water the liquid dis-
solves Into gas again and charges the
water like apollinariseor soda in a foun-
tain or siphon. A company is being
formed for the purpose of making cap-
sules and °barging them with the liquid
gas. It is proposed to put them up in the
little boxes to be supplied to the public
through druggists and grocers and furn-
ish tbona to hospitals, steamships armies
and navies itt quantity.
Little Clarence (after a season of cog*
tation)—Pa, why are parlor ornaments
called ornaments?
Mr. Callipers—My son, I cannot tell a
Ile; I do not know.
When Genius Gets n Show.
"Why is it the mind is brighter when
a man is past 40 ;" '
"After that age the inan gets sense
enough not to eat too muoh."
THIEF TAKING IN ZANZIBAR,
A )tedteine Man's Way of workteter
the Third Degree on, suepeete.
This story of thief taking in Ztunibar
was told by & woman who was one of the
„guests at a luncheon.
"The English consul," she said, "wag
robbed ot a silver dinner service, and the
police advised him to Pall be a medieine
loan if be wanted So get It bitok. Sob.
Met for the medicine man and. inviesal hia
friends IA to see the fun,
"The day came and with it the medielne
man, who ETAS a little, old, squat, repule
eige looking negro, so mail as barely to
escape 'being a d'weefi The °WY things
that the medicine man brouglat with him
were four little stices 12 or 16 inehes long
and as thick through as my little finger,
fle asked for a small low table, squatted
down before it Turk fashion, held two of
the sticks, One in either hand, and ordered
the eonsol to sit opposite him and hold the
other two sticks, allowiog the tips to rest
gently oa the table. All the servants were
in the next room, with the door closed.
The medicine man rolled bis eyes ceiliog-
ward and began muttering some gibberish
that we took to be an incantardon.
"I soon noticed that the consul looked
distressed and uneasy, and, berding over
him, I asked him tbe reaeen. ITt
'Why, 1 ean hardly bohl these sticks.
They tug as If some one had bold of bbs
other end and was trying to pull there
away from me.' is was toketl a bit
abolet his 'vivid imagination. One of tha
men offered to wed did relieve him, only
to find that it was no joke. Vie magic,
power of the medicine mail's incantation
made holding the «doles a real physical et.
fort. Did I try bobling them. znyself?
Yes, blle I can tell you very little of that
satisfied me, What do I think #0 is? Oh,
I don't know—devil worship or some-
thing else. But let rae go back Sacra -citing
the tbief,
"One of the eervaots was admitted and
ordered to place his two hands on the tas
hie. Ho did it. Nothing happened. The
rewelicheeman kept 911 bis 'recantations for
a 111/11Ufii or more, then said to the ser-
vant; 'You can go. It is wit you.' One
after another was called, with 'to result,
The performauce was beginning to grow
monotonous, when in came thecoacbman,
a roan who bad been in the consul's ern -
ploy tor years. Scarcely bad he put his
halide gii the table 'where the sticks beta by
his master geoe it mighty tug and closed
around one ot his wrists, while the two
sticks in the medicine man is htuad snapped
hold ot leis other wrist. The coachman
did not wait to be accused, but blurted
right out: 'I di(' not do it alone! There
are others In it too.' Well, sure enough,
there were others in It, who ae truce con-
fessed. The dinner eet was recovered. --
New York Sun.
THE PUGS OF SCIATICA
Mrs. Palmer, of Fenlon Falls.
Tells How She Suffered.
..oftned to Her Bed for Weekt-aribe
Limbs Became Se Numb That a fled Hot
Iron Could be Placed Upon It Without
Her Knowledge.
Only those who have felt the agonizing
pains of sciatica can form any conception
of the torture which the victim under-
goes. The MSC of Mrs. job Palmer, of
Fenlon Falls, was one of unusual ob-
stinacy and severity, and she makes the
following affidavit in reference to her cure
for the good of huraanity: 'Tam 29 years
of age and have lived in this vicinity all
my life. I had always enjoyed the best of
health until 'November, 1697, when I took
a stinging pain in my right hip. which
seemed to be ill my yery marrow. as it
affected every muscle and joint.
"I kept up for several weeks, although
suffering the most intense pain, freely
using liniments and many other internal
and external preparations that sympathiz-
ing friends would suggest. I was then
compelled to stay in bed, as I got so weak
and run down that I could sit up no
longer. I received several courses of medi-
cal treatment, such as electric batteries,
poulticing, etc., but got no ease from the
excruciating pains which would shoot
down through my leg into my very heel,
where it caused a, bursting feeling. Often
I prayed that my heel would burst, think-
ing this might give relief. The limb at
last became so numb that a hot iron could
be placed upon it without ray having- any
knowledge of it. The closing or opening
of a door or anyone entering or =oving
about in my room seemed to increase tlie
pain. For weeks I could not move any
part of any body and had to lie in one
position all the time. My brother was
cured of rheumatism, after every other
remedy had failed, by taking Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills,
so I thought as a last
resort I would try them. As the direo-
tions said that in severe cases three pills
could be safely taken at a dose, I took this
lauxnber three times a day for about a
week, although I got the relief I so long
had prayed for in three days after taking
the first dose. Then I kept on taking the
pills two at a dose, In a week after com-
mencing the pills I was able to get out of
bed and dress myself, and. a few weeks
later, when I had gained strength enough,
I was able to attend to all my household
duties, and I have ever since enjoyedthe
best of health. Friends and neighbors
who were conversant with may case can
also tell you of my terrible suffering and
the remarkable euro effected by Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills.
"Mits. Sum PALMER."
Taken and declared before me, at Fen -
ion Falls, in the County of 'Victoria, this
lith day of May, A.D. 1898.
.TAKES DIMON, 3.P.
JEWELLER'S CASE.
Mr. R. F. Colwell, of Windsor,10*
How Dodd's Kidney Pills
Cured Him et Oright's Wee& * e. Alio!
Mau,. Other Remedies Ked Utiorip
Valied—Dodd'i Kidney Pnle
ed Mira Prom. this Siert.
wrs-mon,btair-22.--In no city be Canada
bets that celebrated it ediebne, Dotid's Keel -
nay Pills, won O brighter record tome in
Wiodsor„ The number of persoos cured
of dewily Kidney Diseases by Doddis Kia-
ney Pills in This city is surptisingly large
and increases deny.
One of the latest to testify to the magi*
power et Doders Kidney P111s is Jeweller
R. F. Colwell, No 9 Ouelette street. Us
says:— 'I have endured, for two years the
greatest torture frour back -ache and reins
in the loins: A puffiness appeared uneee
my eyes, uy linebs bloated, And soy urine
was 91 it dark, unnatural color and bad
(dor.
"I tried many remedies. hut all failed tio
. help me. When I eeeertained tiro 1bed
Bright's Disease I became thoroughly
alarmed. I was it Id of the efficacy of
Doda's Kidney Pais in ail diseases. aud I
began to use thine
"After the firse few doses I began to izza
prove. The pains left roe, iny sleep bo-
wie -re emind, puffiness Awl bloating van-
ished, my oriole resumed its oersted cote,
dition, and ray herath gradually beeitide
II I could wish it to be. 1 mod enly
few boxes of liodd's Kielvey Pills, but
they cleaned my system thoroughly of
that dread curse—Bright's Disease."
There is 40 ease of Bright's Dieertee, Dia -
hetes, Dropsy, Gout, Gravel, Stolle iu the
131434(1er, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Diseesee
of Women, or any other Kidney Disetase,
that Doddes lea4oey Pelle will nee cure,
Dodd's Kidney Pills Arti sold by ail drug-
giste at fifty cents a box, six boxes 2e0,or
sent, on receipt of price, by The Dodd.
Medicine Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Anitnala NM Sentinel. pat,.
It Is well kuown tho snotty :tunnels) ap-
?eine one or more of their number to not
as sentinela to guard against eurpriat
while the rest are asleep or feeding or at
play, .Among the animals—using the
word in its widest sense—that ore thus
prudent nuty be named the following;
Wasps, ants, chamois and. other autelopea
prairie dogs, wild horses, rooks, swans,
Anstrolian cockatoos, zebras, quails, cer-
tain monkeys, fiamingotes, New Zeal:aid
silver eyes, tahags an, other birds, mar-
mots, mention and other theep,
African wild cattle. Intent:ones, elephosite
eta. These watcherhave been fitly collet
real guardians of the safety of their lel.
lowe.
How's This
We offer One Hundred Milers reward for
any ease of Catarrh that e,t met be cured by
Halni Chttarro Cure.
J. CHENEY es CO., T01011(40,
We, the underpinned, 'have known P.
Chaney for the List 15 years, and 1 ellove him
perfectly botiorable.in all boldness trensactione
and finencially able to awry out any ohnges
eons rode ey their Arm.
IV= & Taeux,Wholeeakenroggests, Tolede,
WAL91:19, gttiliAN fr. Htirelh, WhoL eale, Drug-
gists, Toledo, 0.
Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, :Kiang
directly upon tbe blood and 'mucous surfaces or
the system, Testimonials sent free. Price 76a,
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Quite Used to ht.
Lady (engaging a new housemaid)--Da-
phnel That is much too romantic a name
with young men in the house. I suppose
you would not object to be called by your
surname?
Applicant—Oh, no, ran'ata; in fact I'm
quite used 10 11.
Lady—What Is your surname?
Applicant—Darling.
Excellent Reasmis exist why Dr.
Thomas' Eclectric Oil should be used by
persons troubled with affections of the
throat or lungs, sores upon the skin,
rheumatie pain, corns, bunions, or ex-
ternal injuries. The reasons are, that it
Is speedy, pure and unobjectionable,
whether taken internally or applied out..
ws.rdly.
Circumstances Atter Caxes.
Lady (excitedly)—Have yoai filed nay ap-
plication for a divor e yet?
Lawyer—No, madam; but I am at work
on the papers now.
Lady—Thank fortune, I am not too late.
Destroy all papers and evidence at once,
please.
Lawyer—A reconciliation has been
brought about between you and your hue.
band, I infer!
Lady—Gracious, no! Ile was run aver
and killed by a freight train Ibis morning,
and I want to retain you in my suit
against the company for damages.
Mild in Their Act ion .—Parmelee's Vag-
etable Pills are very mild iu their action.
They do not cause griping in the stomach
or cause disturbanoes there as so many
pills do. Therefore, the most delicate
can take them without fear o.f unpleasant
results. They can, too, be administered
to children without imposing the penal-
ties which follow the use of pills not so
carefullyprepared.
_ _
A True IA
The local or natiot
British regiments a
their actual compost
trated the other day
house of commons
dote: When Lord
tenant of Ireland, b
Grays in the Pliceni
before the tallest ma
said, "My good mar
you belong to?" "
was the reply. X
asked, "What part
come from?" "Tip
ewer —Household te
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