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Exeter Advocate, 1899-6-8, Page 3FAVO S EXPANSION Rev. Dr. Talmage Gives a Discourse on an Absorbing Theme. le Points Oot the Way for the American People to Perform MightY Work -,They Hold the Key to the World's Fleciemption. :Washington, June 4.—In thie discourse Dr. Talmage steere clear of the politicel entanglements of om, time ond recant - mends that which will meet the approval of all who hope for the perpetuity of one republic Ana the welfare a other lands; text, Genesis xxvin. 14. "Thou shali. spread abroad to zhe west an to the east: ' Since the .41111Orirono-iiiSPani0 War iS conciuded and the United eltares alliitos- gador is on the way to Madrid mid the Spanish ainbaeninor le on the way to Washington the reeeeeef our country are dividtel into expaneienists and ani- expnson. wen re different stand - genet from that trenally tke 1 dieeues this ali-abeerbing rbeine. I ll=ee the pulitical ;tepees of Otte enbjece ro states- men ;end warreve anti pry Almighty aoel that they nese' he enzinleal to rin.147 settle the queetion avbether the ielatelein controverey ni11y nnexed, or held under preneottnite, or rrSigned themselves, while 1 e1 attentien to the fact diet a ramp:nem a mead anti anti eXpanS1011 oughe IQ IJO immediately opened on witieet anti grandese wale, ett the eloat of title war God NS pnt tuts) the berme or thie country the key to the world's retlemptient. Heretofore the, religious movemene pegan lands had to precede) the emit -adman After in Chita and India and the ielantle a the sea the reiseloneries have lebored over 410 or 7e yeers the printing; went ;ma the secular wheel came in. Now to better atisantano them ever before religioue anti stvelar enlightenmeut may go SidO by side. end se the work be aecomplIshed in shore time and more thoroughly. Starting with the feet that in Celia and POMO Rice end the Philippine Ielande at lease three- fourths of the Teeple can neither read nor 'write, what an oppertunity for eithool Mel printing prose: Within live yeere WIT Inall in Shiliti 14411419 may be tough* eq real' nee wale the Bible. but the Deelaration of Independence and the eon- stituation of the United $`..Pii and the biography of George Watatington and of Abreluien Lincoln. It &MIS tO Ilie flint the government ot the United Statee ought by vote or con. gress afford common sebooliand printing presses to those benighteed regions. Our national legielature by one vote epprze prieted V30,000,000 to give breal and medicine to Cnba. Why not by a similat genereeity give $ana1llU.000 for feedlne sod healing the minds and senile of those ignorant and lei:netted erebipolagoes. Then let the editorial inisoelations of the United Suttee, es many of such orgenizations as there are states, resolve at the next convocation to eetablish in every region oC Gioia 'elands a printing plass, to be supported by people a this count'', until it eau become self-support- ing„ When Cubans and Porto Ricens and Filipinos see the meriting and evening newspapers thrown into the doorwaya and bawked aloug the streets of Havana and Santiago and Manila, those who can. not read by the force et curiosity will lawn tit read so that they may know wbat inlormetion is Mill; smattered, and that whielt nuty be m1esdonat7 effort at the start and carried on by Amerirans *eat forth to do the work will soon ha aone by educated natives. Porto Riven etlItere! Porto Rican reporters! Pore lUtun taTesettere! Porto Rican publish- ers! it, was a gr -,at mercy to take those Islands from under the heels of despot- ism. him it will be a mightier mercy to emaneirate them from ignorance and degradation. The expaneion of the knowl- edge and intellectual qualification of all those islaudy regions is the desire of all intelligent Aniericane. Awake all you sehools and colleges and universitiee and printing presees to our opportunity: Open the neer for Christianity. Still further, here is a wide-open door for Chrletinity. First; of all, we have the attention of those peeple. The heathen nations are for the most pare soporific'. The American missionaries heretofore bad great difficulty in getting heathen- dom to listen. They excited some com- ment by their attire, so different was the eyeing of the hair, and the shape of the at, and the cut of the coat, and the formation of the shoe ot the evangellzers, but the question eonstootly arose in re- gard to the missionery: "Who is he?" "What is he here for?" And then the interrogator would relax into the previ- ous stupid indifference. But that condi- tion of things has passed. The guns of oureAmerican navy have awakened those populations. They do not ask who we are. They have found out. They are now listening to rhat American civilization and our Christian religion have to say on any subject. Now is the time, while their ears and oyes are wide open, to tell them of the rescuing and salvable and inspirit- ing power of the gospel of 'Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. A livlendid Opportunity. Now, church of God, now all Christian philanthropists' is your opportuniey. Nothing like ithas occurred since Christ came. Perbape there may be nothing like it till his seoond ooming. Here is a definiteness of aim that is most helpful and inspiring. The millions of dollars given for the redemption of the world and the thousands of glorious mission- aries who have as volunteers gone forth among barbaric nations, were given and enlisted under a great and immeasurable idea. But when they come to add to the traat end immeasurable idea the idea of definiteness we will infinitely augment the work. More than 800,000,000 of hea- then in India, more than 300,000,000 of people in Caine, and more millions of heathen than can be guessed outside of those countries. sometimes stagger and confound and defeat our faith. But here in these islands of present controversy 'We can faun out the work among the churches, and in five years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suffrage, but prepare them for usefulness and heaven. The difference between the general idea of the world's evangelization and some particu- larized field of evangelization is the differ- ence between the improvement of agricul- ture among all nations and the improveznent of 75 acres put under one's espeoial care and industry. By all means let the gene* work ao It has 'been atimeted that this Anierleo, Snenish •- weir eosn us Sn00,000,000, It would not cost belt of that to proclaim and, ettrry on and consummate a holy wee. thee win renew those arcbipelagoea. from entanie domination. Who •will vol- unteert I beet the drum of a eeereitieg station. Wtio will enlist under • the • one starred. blood -striped banner of Imman- uel? Cube and Porte Rico awl the Phil- ippines are stepping stones for our Amer- ican •Cleristienity a erose over and take the round world for God. We need a new evangelical alliance organize4 for Gals ne parpose. In .tbre e are those with large enough /warts and who bave.:been thorigsghly enctegh eon- yeeted to Join in seelt an advanced, IDQVO^ rant; men who, Wring Aside all miner ilifferencee of opinion, "believe in GO the rather Almighty. Maker of heaven awl earth, and in Jesue Christ, Ida Quin begotten Son." and who would =telt ebonitier to shoulder in such n gespel mpaien. The result would be thet Wee elands, after a scene of gospelizo- n, would assore thenro4ves into, demons- inatieriS to Slii0 themselves end eoree wmild be eprinkled in holv 1):tptlem, and othere would be immersed in those warm river, and some would woreblia in religi- cue assemblage silene as the Qualter meeting house. and otherwould Iteve As loony jnbilant ejaeulations as a back- woods camp meeting. and some of these who prearhed would be gowned and stir- plieed fee the work, awl others, would stand in citizen's apparel or in their shirt eleevee prcteleing that gospel which, is to WO the world. ezeeickeee leotteettore Mark you well that stateimanehip, however Wand it and wise men of the world, however math.. cannou do his wora. Mere et:miler telneation does not moralize, Sew of Ike JIMA thoroughly eineeted men in all the world have been the .itterit, MOM 4415i^RCII a men's Intel - leen while az the awe time yen do wit, make his morals' geoth and you only iittnient hie power tor evil. Geography and inathenettice anti inemphyaice and philtieophy will never qualify a people to govern thernsolvvi. A corrupt printing nrese Is worse than n9 printing press at all. but let loose an open Bible open those islands end let the apocalYptle angel once lay over them and you will prepare them to beeimie either eolonlea of the Unita], States otivernmene or, as I hope will be the enee, independent re- publics. God did not exhauet himself when be built this nation. Those islands will yet here their Thoinite Jeffersons, qualified to 'write for them declarations of intle- pentlence; and George Wasbinutons, cap- able of manes/leg their liberties; and -abrahane Lincoln% strong enough to emanoipate their seritloins; and Long. fellows and Bryant% <lapsible of Putting tbeir hills and their rivers and their hindscapes into potene; and their Ban - crofts and Preece:Ms, to make their his- tories; and their Irvinge write their sketebbeolts; and their Charles O'Conore anti Rufus Choutee to plead in their eourtrooms; and their Daniel Webstere and John J. ttrittendens to move their senates. The day ceoneth—hear it all ye who have no boles for those islandof be - dwarfed and illsoused illiteretes--the day eolnetli wlien those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that whits)) this country now enjoy., while I hope by that thne this country will be as superior to what it now is as to -day Washington and New York are better than Manila and Sanitago. Do yon see by this process of gospelized intelligence those archipela- goes will as a nation be proteoted from the two woes prophesied in regard to this country, the one woe prophesied by the expansionists and the other woe prophe- sied by the anti -expansionists? It is said by those who would have us take all we can lay our hands on as a nation that unless we enter the door now open for the enlargement of our national domaia we will decline the mission which God in his providence has assigned us. But surely no woe will come upon us or upon them if we Christianize them, as we now have the opportunity of doing. The political tech»iealities are nothing as compared with the importance of this movement. 1 implore all political expan- sionists to augment us in this wor]z of moral and religious expansion, for unless those islands are moralized and elevated in intelligence and habits we do not want them, and their annexation would be political damnation. On the other hand, I implore all anti -expansionists to take a band in the gospelleation of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. The only way to prepare them to take care of themselves is to give them the Ten Com- mandments that were published on Morino Sinai and let them bear the groan of sacrifice that was breathed out on the heights of Golgotha. What they most \Vitals the gospel', the pure gospel, the omnipotent gospel, the gospel that helps beal the wounds of the body, and irradi- cams the darkness of the mind and achieves the ransom of the soul. COtaglItiSt of Nations. But on this platform the so-called ex- pansionists and so-called anti -expansion- ists will yet stand side by side, Though I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet, within five years, if this religio- educational work is properly attended to, there will be a Cuban republic, a Porto Rican republic and a Philippine repub- lics, none of Vieth on a large scale, but they will all have their schools and print- ing presses and evangelical churches, their presidents, their senates and houses of representatives, their mayors and their, constabularies, and as good order will be observed in their cities as now reigns on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or Broadway, New York. Christ has started for the conquest of the nations and nothing on earth or in hell oan ;top it. The continents' are rapidly rolling into is dominion, and wby not these islands, which for the most part are only fragtnents broken off from continents, the interval lands hav- ing been sunk by earthquakes, allowing the ocean to take mastery over them? Eash mother continent has aronnd it a whole fetaily, of little ocatinente. If the continents are being so rapidly evangel- ized, why not the islands? If America, why not Cuba apatite Bahamas? If Asia, why not the Plailippines and the alolue- ease If Europe, why not the Azores and the Orkneys? If Africa, wIty not -Mada- gascar and St, Helenat The owe° power that broke ehem off the mainland, MR lift them into evangelization. In the old book, which has become a new boo a by autism ef modern discover-, tea especial attention is called to the islands. "Declare tbe lama's praise in the islands." commands Isaiah. "Lee the multituden et the islands be glad tbere- of," says the Psalmist. ".All tbe island of the beathen shall worship bint," writes Zephaniab. "He shall turn hls face to the islands," prophesies Daniel, "The inhabitants of the tiles shall be astonished at thee," foretells Ezekiel. "Hear it and declare it to the islands afar oa," exclaims Jeremieb. You see from this the islands are not to be neg- lected. Perhaps they are the Lord's fay., ()rites, as in households if there is any favoritism at all it is for the weakest. The islands too small to take care of themselves have the eternal God to take care of them. Let nations lookout bow they zreati on the islands. however small and weak, for they are omnipotently defended They limy not. be able to mars shall large armies or ro send out Davies to sweep the eta, bite lerter than that, they have the chariere of heaven on their side and the drawn swords of the Al- mighty. I bare me much faith in the selvation of the ernalleee Wend of the Falklands. of the Canaries, of the leelronee, of the Carolinee. of the Fiji% ef the uf the Cape Verdes, at the Swim Inande ae I have in the sal- vation of Ainerieo. ilhey Iwo eitel PIO UM, Anne moment W4011111705 IWO only larger lsnds. and the world in which we live is only it still larger Wend, and the solar system is it group of lelande, and the universe is an archipelago stud- ded With ielantle of worlde surrounded by the greet ocean of infinitude and ime mensity, $o you see wheia God planned the universe he diagrammed it into isle ands, and be will look after the interese Q$ ezteh of thaw ielends, however small. and Fingland and Banana need Frame and Germany and America mete not treat the smallest and weekest island that comee under their sway any different from the way they &mat the strongest nation of all the earth. Clod may eldeley dad with kii1ivIIiii1s in the next world, but he dezde with nations only in this world, and when le rsietently it nation praetices inenetlee agolnet other people it Is only a gneetion of time when the offeuder will find hie donne This path of time is strewn with the eereaesee of thine that beettuee of their maltreat - of other radon; perished. Th0 higher Such offending empires rise the harder will be their fall. I believe tho United States government will last as long as the world lasts. I bee Bove the fires of the judgment day will leap on the domes of our IMO and na- tional eapitole wbile yet they aro in their full power. I believe tho last earthquake will put in its explosion under our national foundations while yet they stand firm, 1 baler° that republic arta demo - oriole form of government will be the universal form of government for all zuttiona when they bay° bean evaegelized, for then the nations will bo enable of self-government and will have demanded and secured tl3at right. It will be either that or a theocracy, which will be the direct government of Christ in Ms per - &mud reign on earth, as many Bible stu- dents believe, Yet that jubilant expecta- tion is founded not on the skill of human statesmanship or buinan legislation, but upon the belief that this nation will sub- mit to divine guidance, and obey the divine law, and carry out its divinely imposed Inission, But if WO defy tbe God of nations our doom is fixed. Tbe teationei Duty. By so much as our opportunities have been greater than any nation that ever lived, and the IniSS1011 to WiliOh she buts been ordained is more stupendous than any bestowed by the Almighty upon any people, if we forget our God and enact Wickedness our overthrow will be quicker and more tremendous, and yonder capl- et:aims hill, with its architectural magnifi- cence, will become a heap of gigantio ruins, to be visited by the people of other times and other nations, who will read In letters of crushed and crumbled marble that which David wrote many hundred years ago upon parchment, The way of the wicked be turneth upside down." We concluded a few days ago the an- nual decoration of northern and. southern graves. Three years ago, at this season, in memorial sermon I proposed the twist- ing of two garlands, one to be put upon the grave of the northern soldier and the other to be put on the grave of the southern soldier, but this year we need three garlands, the third to be put upon the graves of those who fell in this Araerico-Hispanio conflict. The third garland needs to be quite as fragrant and as radiant as the other two. Tbese last heroes braved more than bayonets and bombshell; they braved the pestiferous breath of the tropics, whole battalions, whole regiments, whole brigades, whole armies of deathful malaria. They con- fronted those oppositions of the torrid climes which no sword OEM pierce, no agility climb, no stratagem flank, no tor- pedo explode, no courage conquer. 'Under the awful charge of visible and invisible hosts about 6,000 men went down, some to instant death and others through lingering pangs in hospital. If in this third wreath you twist the crimson rose, suggestive of sanguinary sacrifice, and the white calla lily. sugges- tive of glorious resurrection, put in also a few forgetmenots, suggestive of remem- brance, and a few passion flowers, sug- gestive of the love that mourns the slain, and a few heliotropes, suggestive of the fragrance of their memory. Then let the night's dew put the tears into the blue eyes of the violets and all the soldiers' cemeteries be so many censers burning incense before the throne of that God who has been the friend of this nation from the time of Lexington to the time of San Juan hill, from the guns of the United States warships Constitution and Con- stellation, at the beginning of the cen- tury, to the guns of the United States warships Olympia, 'Oregon, Brooklyn and other loaded thunders, at the close of this oentury. Remember here and now that those brave boys opened up the way for a kind of expansion we all believe in. They swung open the gates for the speedy gospelization of islands stupid with the superstitition of ages. They cleared the way for missionaries and Bibles. They set those islands free. Leaving to the United States governinent to decide what shall be the political destiny of those peo- ple% let us all join in a campaign of religious expansionexpansion of affec- tion that can take all the world in, ex - pension of our theologies until none shall reject their broad invitation, expansion Oii /E CT of hope that embracee eteruity as well as . D Rs putiLED O time, expansion of effort that will nos ... till the whole earth is seved and I ehe time arrives when the prophecy shall be fulfilled and"they shall come from the eorth and the south and the (lest and the west and sit down, in the kingdom of God, and the last shall be first mid the tirse lase" TESLA LOVES SCIENCE, Ue Bends At to the Serrlee 01 ktomossitx mid Absistis Others Who ,4r0 Wilting to Work. Whet, aelts The Chicago Times -Herald. Is the marked trait of this nmun, Tezaa• who bee Already harnessed Niagara Failo and who tells us that some day we iiiay connuuniame with Mars? The tribute of, a friend is: love of humanity end his friend- ship for young men who are ambitious to sueeeeil and willing to work. Tesla wants things itecomplisbed. He is jealoui of no mate I believe if be worked on a problem for 20 years and was aftont reidizlut eueeese juss OS another sueeeeiled be would be ite happy as if t e ban. sue- ceeded Be could have been a millionaire if he bad desired to," But lie cares xtiore for science and bumanIty than he does for his material needs. lie itimetif has said with a langh: "If every man who IISVS niy Illa(^21;LIO in electrotherapy alone would give n;e o. quarter I woulkt be it wealthy man. I never received a dollar for it. WI there is no way in which I could. I receive a small sum from my inventions in the rotating iield and I have a small income from twine. All this I spend here. But — "I expvin to be able to Set a machine in the middle of this room anti move ie the elltrIgy of no other agency than the eatelluni in motion around lee" Years before the tisilizasiun of Niagara Falls for the develeputent of eleerrical power and its eietribution to manufzietur- ing and light Mame Was undertaken Tesla sato that there was enflielent eleo. arical power or energy stored ba the falls to furnieh power for every eity itt nor- thern Ntw York, with sufficient left over to light and heat every berme in the cities ef Chitstgo And NeW York. Iris statement was rldieuled and he was sareastieay rererrei to as the "dinanier Tesla." Nevertheless- Teela persisted in his state - mune and 'travelled to show bow tbo ;Niagara energy could be utilized. Ile Went farther, for he produced the appar- atus With Widen the fells could be harnessed. Hie provess, teelmical in deeeription, is the very proeese whiehi eventually was put into use at the faiis and wideli is known the world over to- day as I100 Tesia. motor. W. W. 8, BEACH. ketch of the New Father of the MMus of Commons. W. W. B. Beech, the new "father of the House ot Commens"—that is, the Member of the House who bas filled the longest period of continuous service— represents the Andover division of Hemp - shire. Ire is the typical, bluff, open- handed English country squire, a type of British character that is rapidly disap- pearing, He Is most popular in his eounty, and used to be master of the hounds in the North Hampshire district. Mr. peach is 'widely known as a Fres Mason, and 20 one of the oldest members • NV. NV. li. easeen. of the oraft. Many years ago be filled the game position as that now held by the Prince of Wales as the head of the mark degree. The new father of the House was an old friend and neighbor of Sir John Mowbray. Mr. Beach has sat in the House of Commons since 1867. At that time he represented North Hants, which afterward became part of his present con- stituency. He sat for that district 28 years without a break. In 1835 he was re-elected for the larger constituency. The father of the House will be 73 years old next December. He is immensely rich, and owns more than 7,000 acres of good English soil. He used to be an excel- lent whip, and mulct drive a four-in-hand at break-neok speed. He belongs to the Carlton Club. Japan's Progress. Japan is continuing to advance toward modern methods of government. Three new laws, received here °facially, provide for a general protection of trademarks, the application of copyrights during the lifetime of the author and for 80 years after his deathand an allowance of seven months for foreigners to take out patent after the application abroad. Now, Will You lie Good? The average man is a hypocrite in his relations with his wife, because his wife forces him to be. His wife has a lot of foolish notions about nem, and the bus - band, in his early enthusiasm, tries to live up to them. Be cannot do it and becomes a sneaking hypocrite. After he is charged with being a sneaking hypo- crite a few times and convicted he becomes surly, and trouble results. A wife who expects a lot of foolish things of her bus band is simply putting out a trap in whioh be will surely be caught, and after he has been caught he will be found an ugly cus- tomer. If a woman will treat her hus- band intelligently and fairly, she will find him a good fellow, and he will be of great assistance to her.—Atchison Globe. The Star's salary. "Your salary, I believe, is $250 a week,' said the caller. It so happened that the star was in a oonfidential mood, and she replied: "Well, ow) of them is." "One of theni?" "Yes. The salary I advertise is 8250 a week, but the salary I get—well, that's another store." The Peculiar °Aso of at, Nova • Scotian Lady. The Trouble nezeu in a swelling of the Big Too, Which Spread ta All Parts of the Body—Dootors Could Not Account for the Trouble, sine Their Treatment Did Fier No Good. From tbe New Glasgow Enterprise, Loch Broom is a pieture,que farming bandet situated about three miles from the town of Piens% N.n. In eke hamlet, in a cosy farmhouse live Mr. and Mrs, Hector McKinnon. A few years ago Mrs. McKinnon was taken with it disease that puzzled several docters who attended. her. It was generally known that Mot. ale - Kinnon owed her ultimate recovery to good healtis to the usiti of Dr. Williams' Pink. Pills for Pale People. and a reporter of the Euterpriee beinke in the neighbor - hoed called upon the lady anti asked her if she bad any objections to relitting the partieulars of ber illnese este euro. "Indeed I have net," replied Airs. Kinnon. "1 thine: that thee who are cured owe is to the teed:eine that brine? ;bent boch to beelin elweys to say a good word for it. aly trouble appareeely bad an insignifleant sterling voila. It c•Ainq on with a ewelling in the big toe, eocurn. penied by intentspain. ltredually the swelling extended to my limbs and then to ray whole body. iteecuripenied by pale which inade my life rd ,A. doetm was called in, but he did not help ene Then another and another until I had foul different znedieal men to see me, one el them the most skillea physician in the province. Yet my ea,(5 seemed to puzzle every one of them, and none of them gam me more than the mereet temporary re. lief. One doctor said the trouble was Ia. llitninsauiou of tho bone. Another (Aid it was aggravated sciatlea and stout. Tn. other two called is by other names, but wbatever it was none of them helped me, By this time 1 bad got so low aud weak that 1 could not lift band or foot if it would save my life, and no clue expected to see me get better. In fact the doctor said if 1 sank any lower I eould not live. And yee here 1 usa today as well as ever I was in my life. While I Was At the lowest a minister called to see ine and asIzed why I did not try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills1 bad. tried eo meaty remedies and had. spent So many dollars ie medicine that I hardly thought it worth while to experiment any more. However, I W35 persuaded to try them, and after using a few boxes there was 011ie improvement. By the time 1 bad used a dozen boxes I had left my bed and was able to move around, and after it few more boxes I was again perfectly well and able to do all the work that fella to the lot of a farmer's wife, All this I owe to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I thiuk that after what they have done for me 1 am justified in recommending them to others." Dr. Williarnie Pink Pith give now life and richness to the blood and rebuild ehattered nerves, thus driving out disease due to either of these two causes, and this means that they effect a cure in a large percentage of the troubles which afflict mankind. Some unscrupulous dealers im- pose on the public imitations of this great medicine. The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink are never gold in bulk or by the hundred or ounce, or in any form except in the company's boxes, the wrapper around which bears the full trade mark, "Dr. Williams' Pink 2111s for Pale Pece pie." No matter what the color of any pill offered in any other sbaps—it is bogus. These pills cure when other raedicinee fail. If the chil4 is restless at night, lute coated to.ngue. sallow complexion, a dose of Miller's Worm Powders is what is re- quired; very pleasant and perfectly harm- less. Another Muttony round. According to a despatch from Cairo to the London Daily Mail the director of the Egyptian enuseune has discovered the 3nummy of Thothmes I. of the eighteenth dynasty, B.C.1633, and three other mum- mies in gilt coffins. Ilinard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. She Objected. "Why did that actress horsewhip the editor of the Clamville Clarion?" "Itt making the announcement of her engagement at the opera house he spoke of her as an 'old favorite.' " A dose of Miller's Worm Powders occasionally will keep the children aaalthy. A Social View. Ethel (of Boston)—They say he is eery etch, but intolerably vulgar. Victoria (of Chicago)—Yotere dead right there, ray dear. He's got a load of dough, but he's on the "hog" every other way. New life for a quarter. Miller's Com- pound Iron Pills. "Perkins married money." "How do you know?" "I've seen his wife." linard's Liniment Cures aarget In Con Spatn's Plight. "What do you think of the future of Spain?" 'It will be a long time before Spain has any future. She has got to do suoh a lot of work over her past. "—Chicago Roo- ord. THE HUMOR OF THE SAVAGE. 2. Pad Lands triefaent in Which- tessor iliamah Figured, TO his intimates the. late Priem-1;er Marsh was 'mown not only as 5Selt.11.011.,0 ef great ability and worldwide ri ;in- terim], hut also as a delightful colleen- , quick and witty. with it keen appre- ciation of humor, and a narrator of cepitni etoriee. One of these, which be use{:.' to tell of himself with great effect, (Walt with a small Adventure had many Yaar! ago le the Rooky mountitiee The first month or two of tbe trip heal been spent on the plains of Nebreska and Wyoming, at that time -the hunting grouna of Sioux and Cheyennes, who wero bitterly hostile and signs of wbase presence taw` the command were often seen. Tho' party realized that they were in a danger- ous country, and all hands were calm ean- ly on the watch for enemies and were WOO, ful not to wander far from the command, or if two or three fossil gatherers ilia go off from the main body they took ee ith themri namber of soldiers to stand geara while they worked. After freeing tbie dangerous region the expeditien moved en to the Dee Lands mar Fart Bret -tee, whew there were but few Indiene, and these ere reley oizee, end the work of retie:nee fesees went on. One day Professor Marsh, was barn ot wori on his tutees in tbe bittern ot tbe narrow ravine digging away the eall from a bone which Reek out of the bank. He was entirety abearbed in his task an'h ne- tkcd nothiug of what was going on ahaut hint tarn tint sunlight, as Inch poural newel On himo, was Clit Oa try A dark shadow., end be ioolastl up teties standing Meese him a great, grim Inman warrior, holding his Alia at ready. The profteees heart leapttl into his threat. Ile forgot where) he was. Ile strove to utter a propitiatory "Bow," but hie dry lips refused to form the word, and be eetild only swel low. troths- to get rid of the lamp in his throat staidenly the say.sf.;0 bent teward hint and, spoke. " Bove' the bonen of aedreesipg Professor Othrteil Cheolei Marsh, the eudeeet paleontologist of Yale college?" he inquired. The revulsien al feeling was almost too much fur tho pro- fessor, wbo was now ONTO less able to spealc. tban Ito had been before. It developed that the Indien as a email boy bact been sent east, Christiameni, eaueated, Height the elements of theotegy and sent back to the west to civilize ios trine, but he bed nut carried the eiviheae • tion far.—Ferest and eeream. A CREMATION IN SIAM. 'Festivities Are liarnutot Tharinv ate conflagration. It there is any time when the Siamese may be said to hold tenets 10 15 at a tit ta- ble cremation. Ordinarily the dead' se Siam are buried at a ghat, common to who cannot afford tbe considerableex- pense of a private conflagration, and vixen the wood of the funeral pyre has been con- sumeui the body Is well roasted and the ate tendant vultures are given a chance to clean the bones. Those et ho can afford it build the funeral pyre within their egi• vate wells, where festivities are bold tinn- ing the burning and invitations issued to friends that they come and behold the 'honor paid their dead. The bodies ot Gioia intended for private cremation are tan. balmed and smelly kept for SOTOtt time -- often many months. One Siamese gentlemen'when inviting rae to the proposed cremation of bis broth - en, informed xne tbut the distinguiebed deceased had been awaiting combustion for a year. The extent and charaeter of the festivities on such an occasion depend entirely on the length of puree a the de- oeased's remaining relatives. On the afteruoon or evening of the hp - pointed day the guests assemble and 'wit- ness the simple ceremony of tbe yellow robed priests of Buddha. Subsequently the nearest Inalo releases fires the pyre, and then, while the flames crackle and the late lamented hisses and pops like a, green pippin on a spit, his grieving fatuity end friends grow merry over the cakes arid sweetmeats and wines, while men hated for the occasion perform at several gamete and even on rare occasions do some little running and jumping. The game nearest approaching one of skill is a sort of ffliCe play with short steles fastened to both arms. Once in awhile one secs at thee° human barbecues a kind of boxingthe art of which seems to be in parrying with the am toad open hand the thrusts that never have any serious intention of tend- ing.—Harper's Weekly. Ile Defined the Word. A. correspondent of the New 'York Times, referring to a diecussion on the merits or demerits of the word "trans- mogrified," says a characteristic anecdote concerning the late Rev. Dr. Coxe, father of the late Bishop Coxe of western NOW York, may be a interest. The writeres good friend, the late Rev. Dr. John Ire- land Tucker of Troy, an old Brooklyn man, told him that be was °nee present at a funeral in Brooklyn where Dr. Coxe, although a Presbyterian, used the Episco- pal burial service. After reading the words "we shall not all sleep, but we sball all be changed" the doctor looked up in evident doubt as to whether his beavers unaerstood the sense of that great phrase. After a pause he said, "Transformed, roy brethren," and then, still evidently In doubt, be added, with. great solemnity, "Transmogrified." Not Good Form. "She was determined to be married ilea her bicycle suit." "Well?" "Well, that's why she never hats teen married." Promises! Are Cheaper Tharst Solt. Why should women break their hearts wben men break their promises? It Is al- ways easy enough for women to find snore men who will make more promiense— Somerville Journal.