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A Mighty Agent for the Elevation and Salva-
tion of the Human RacE..
Rev, Dr.. Talmage Preaches on the Influence of Pleasant Pictures
in the Development of Christian Character --
Encouragement to Artists.
Wathingtaii, June 18.—Dr. Tahnage
shows be this discourse bow art may be-
come one et the migitelest agencies for
the elevation and salvation of the hunian
race. Tbe text is Isaiah 11, 12, 16, "Ti
day of the Lord of hosts sball be * * *
upoie all pleasant plotures,"
Tectures are by some relegated to the
realm of the trivial, accidental, senti-
mental or worldly, but my text shows
that God serutinizes pictures, anti whether
they are gocal or had, whether used for
right or wrong purpose, ts a matter of
elivine observation and arraignnaent. The
divine rniseion of pictures is my subject.
That the areist's pencil and the engraver's
knife bare eonsetimes been made subservi-
ent to the kingdom of tlas bad is frankly
selmatted, After the ethos aud seoria were
removed from Heraulaueum and.Pompeil,
the walls of those Metes discovered to the
explorers a degrailation in art which can-
not be ezaggerated. Satan and all his
Swies have always wanted the ileagerIng
of the easel. Tiny would rather hone
posseesien of that 'Goan tbe at of print -
lag, for types ore not sit potent and
quick for evil as piotures, The .powers ot
darkness think they have gamed A
ntienb, end they base when in SOMAS re-
spectable parlor or publio art gallery they
can bang a cenvas emberraseing to the
good, but faicintaing to the evil.
It is not in a spirit of prudery, bat
backed up by God's eternal truth, wlien
I etty that yon have no rieht to bang in
your art rooms or your (levelling /Muses
thee which would be offensive to good
people if the figure,piotured Were alive
irt near parlor and the guests of your
housebold. A picture that you have to
bang its a i,ozuewbat seolutied plaea or
that in a public bail you eannot with a
group (if friends deliberately stand before
and distuss ought to hgsve A knife stabbed
into it at the top and cut clear through
to the bottom tied a stout linger thruit
in on the right side. ripping, elearthrough
to the left. Kiln,- the elder lost his life
by going near enough to see the inside of
Vesuvius, and the farther you eau stand
off from -the burning crater of sin the
better. Never till the books of the last
day are opmed shall we know what has;
been the dire harvees of evil pictorials
and unbeemaing art galleries. Despoil
nten's imagination, and he becomes a
mere carcass. The ehow windows of Eng-
lish and Amerlean cities, in 'which the
low tbeetreis have sometimes hung long
lines of brazen tuners and actresses in
style insulting to all propriety, base
Made a broad path TO death for multi-
tudes of people. But so bemoan the other
arts been at times suborned of evil. How
has natisie been bedraggled? Is there any
Owe so low clown in dissobeteuess that
into it has not been carried David's barp
and Handel's organ. and Gottsoluak's
piano, and Olo Bull's violin, and the
flute, which, though earned after so in-
significant a thing as the Sicilian eel,
'which has seven spots on the side, like
flute boles, yet for thousands of years
bas bad an exalued mission? Architec-
ture, born in the heart of ban who made
the worlds, wader its arches and across
its floors, whet bacchanalian revelriee
hare been enacted! It is not against tiny
of these arts that they have been so Ied
into captivity!
painitias node Pictures.
'What a peer world this would be if it
were not for what my text calls "pleas-
ant pictures!" I refer to your memory
and mine when 1 ask if your knowledge
of the Holy Scriptures bas not been
mightily augmented by the woodcuts or
engraving.; in the old fandly Bible which
father and mother read out of and laid
on the table in the old homestead when
you were boys and girls. The Bible
scenes which we all carry in our minds
were not got from the Bible typology,
but from the Bible pictures. To prove
the truth of it in my own case, the other
day I took up the old family Bible which
I inherited. Sure enoagia, what I have
carried in my mind of Jacob's ladder
was exactly the Bible engravings of
Jacob's ladder, and so with Samson
carrvieg off the gates of Gaza, Elisha
restoring the Shunanamite's son, the
massacre of the innocents, Christ bless•
Ing little children, the crucifixion and the
t last judgment. My idea of all these is
that of the old Bible engravings, wino!' I
scanned before I could read a word. That
Ir true with nine -tenths of you. If I could
swing open the door of your foreneads, I
'ould find that you are walking picture
generic's. The great intelligence abroad
about the Bible did not come from the
general reading of the book. for the
majority of the people read it but little,
if they read it at all. but all the sacred
scenes have been put before the gran
masses, and not printer's ink, but the
pictorial art, must have the credit of the
achievement. First, painter's pencil for
tbe favored few and then engraver's plate
or woodcut for millions on millions I
What overwhelming commentary on
the Bible, what reaitiforcement for patri-
archs, prophets, apostles and Christ, what
distributions of Scriptural knowledge of
all nations in the paintings and engrav-
ings therefrom of Hohnan Hunt's
"Christ In the Temple," Paul Veronese's
"Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ,"
Raphael's Michael the Archangel,"
.Albert Durer's "Dragon of the Apoca-
lypse," Mithael Angelo's "Plague a the
Fiery Serpents," Tintoretto's "Flight
Into Egypt." Rubens' "Descent From
the Cross," Leonardo Da Vinci' s "Last
Supper," Claude's "Queen of Sheba,"
Bellini's "Madonna" at Milan, Oroagna's
"Last Judgment" and hundreds of miles
of pictures, if they were put Inline,
illustrating, displaying, dramatizing,
irradiating liable truths until the Scrip-
tures are not to day so ntuch on paper as
on canvas, not so much in ink as in all
the colors of the spettieina. In 1833 forth
from Strasburg, Ge any, there OiSMO a
child that ewes to eclipse in speed and
boldness anything and everything that
the world bad ever seen since the first
color appeared on the sky at the creation,
Paul Gustave Dore. At 11 years of age
be published marvelous lithographs of
his own. Saying nothing of what he did
for Milton's "Paradise Lost," emblazon-
ing it on the attention of the waled, he
takes up the book of' books, the monarch
of literature, the Bible and in his pie
-
twee, "The Creation of Light." "The
Trial of Abraham's Faith." "7TIS.e. Burial
of Sarah," "joseph Sold by Hie Breth-
ren," "The Brazen Serpent," "Boaz and
Ruth," "David and Goliath." "The
Transfignration," "'The Marriage in
Cana," `Babylon Fallen' and 205 Scrip-
tural scenes in all, with a boldness and a
grasp and almost supernatural afflatus
that make the heart throb and the brain
reel and the tears start and the cheeks
blanch and the entire nature quake with
the tremendous things of Gotland, eternity
and the dead, I actually staggered, dowa
the steps of the London Art Gallery
under the power of Dore's "Christ Leav-
ing the Praetoritun." Profess you to be
Christian, Men or woman, an4 see no
divine miselon in art, and acknowledge
you ea abligatien either in thanks to God
or man?'
The 'Lessees of Art.
It is no more the word of God when
put before us In printer's ink than by
skillful laying on of colors or deeigus ou
meta through iucision or coraosion.
What a lesson In morale' was presented
by Hogarsh, the painter, in his two pia
-
tures, "The Rake's Progress" and "The
Miser's Feast," and by Thomas Cole's
engrevings of the "Voyage of Human
Life" and the "Course of Empire" and.
by Turner's "Slave Slap!" God in arta
°twin in. art! Patriarceis, prophets oud
epistles in art! Ample in art! Reaven
in art!
The world and the ehurch ought to
come to the higher appreeiation of the
divine mission of pictures, yet the
authors of them have generally beau left
to semi -starvation. West, the great
painter, toiled in unaPpreelation till, be-
ing a great skater, -while on the ice be
formed the awl:tall-name of General
Howe of the aluglieli army, who, through
owning to admire Weet as a clever skater.
grtalualle Caine to appreeiate a much
elute 'which be accomplished by his hand
ae by his heel. Poussin, the mighty
painter, was pursued and had nothing
with winch to defend himself upbeat the
Mob bus the artist's portfolio. white% he
beld over his head to keep off the stoma
burled at him. The pictures of Richard
Wiesen of lenglaml were sold for fabulous:
sums of money after his death, bus the
Jiving painter Was glad to get for his
"Alcyone" le piece of Stilton eheese.
From 1040 to 1043 there were 4,000 pie -
tures wilfully destroyed. In the reign of
Queen Elizebeth it WAS the habit of scone
people to spend much ot their tinui in
knocking pictures to pieces. In the reign
of Chariest L it was* ordered by Parlia-
ment that all pictures of Christ be burn-
ed. Painters were so badly treated and
humiliated in the beginning of the
eighteenth century that they were haver-
ed loar down out or the sublimity of
their art and obliged to give accounts of
what they did with their colors.
The oldest picture in England, a por-
trait of Chaucer, though now of great
value, was picked out of a lumber garret.
Great were the trials of Quentin latateys,
who toiled on from blacksmith's anvil
till, as a painter, be won wide reeogni-
ton. The first missionaries to'
Mexico
made the fatal mistake of destroying
pictures, for the loss of which art and
religion rause ever lament. But why go
so far back wben in this year of our
Lord to be a painter, except in rare es-
ceptious, means poverty and engine,
poorly fed, poorly clad, poorly boused,
because poolay appreciated? When I hear
a man is a painter, I have two feelings
—one of admiration for the greatness of
his soul, and the other of commiseration
for the needs of his body. But so it has
been in all departments of noble work.
Some of the mightiest have I een hardly
bestead. Oliver Golcisinith had such a big
patch on the coat aver bis left breast that
when he went anywhere he kept his bat
in his hand closely pressed over she patch.
The world-renowned Bishop Asbury bad
a salary of e54 a year. Painters are not
the only ones who have endured the lack
of appreciation. Let men of wealth take
under their patronage the suffering "nen
of art. They lift no complaint; they
make no strike for higher wages. But
with a keenness of nervous organization
whith almost always characterizes genius
these artists suffer more than any one
but Goa oan realize.
Encouragement of Artists.
There needs to be a concerted effort for
the suffering artists of nenerica, not
sentimental discourse about what we owe
to artists, but contracts that will give
them a livelihood; for I am in full sym-
pathy with the Christian farmer Who
was very busy gathering his fall apples
,and some one asked him to pray for a
poor family, the father of which had
broken his leg. and the busy farmer said:
"I cannot stop now to pray, but you cart
go down into the cellar and get SWIM
OOrtled beef and butter and eggs and
potatoes; that is all I can do now."
Artists may wish for our prayers, but
they also' want practical help from men
who can give them work. You have heard
scores oC sermons for all other kinds of
suffering men and women, but we need
dOrMOTIS that make pleas for the suffering
men and women of American art. Their
work 13 more true to nature and life
than some of the masterpieces that have
become immortal on the other side of the
sea, but ft is the fashion of Americans to
mention foreign artists and to know
little or nothing about our own Copley
and Allston and Inman and Greenough
and Kensett. Let the affluent fling out of
their windows and into the back yard
valueless daubs on canvas and call in
these splendid but unrewarded men and
tell them to adorn your walls not only
with that which shall pleage the taste,
but enlarge the minds and ifisprove the
morals and save the souls of those who
gaze upon than. All American cities need
great galleries of are not only open an-
nually for a few days on exhibition, bilt
which shall stand open all the year
round, and from early morning until 10
o'clock at night, and free to all whe
would come and go.
What a preparation for the wear and
tear of the day a live minutes' look in
the 'morning at some picture that will
open a door into some larger realm than
that in which our population daily
drudges. Or what a good thing the loaf
bane tsf artistio opportenit7 on the way
!kerne in the evening frona exhaustion
that demauds recuperation for mind and
soul as well as body! Who will do for the
city where yoa live what Ws W. corcoran
did for Vi'ashington and what other,'
have done for Philadelphia and Boston
and New York? hien of wealth, if you
are, too modest to build and endow such
a place during your liretime, why not go
to your iron safe and take out your last
will mid testaineut and make a codicil
that shall build for the oity of your resis
denee a throne for American areTake
some of that money that would otherwise
spoil your children anti build an art gal-
lery that shall anooiate your pinue for-
ever not only with the great Masters of
painting who are gone, but with the
great masters who are trying toi live, and
also wilt the admiration ad love of teas
of thousands of people, who, unable to
have fine pictures of their own, would be
advantaged. By your benefactions build
your own monuments and not lea -se it to
tbe whim of others. Some of the best
people sleeping in Greeuwood bave no
monunients at all, or SOMO crumbling
stones that in A fow years, will let the
rain wash cum name ana epitaph, while
some men, whose death was the abate-
ment of a nuisance. Itave a pile of Aber-
deen granite high enough for a king and.
eulogies exsough to arnbarrass a seraph,
Oh, map of large wealth, instead of
leaving to the whim of others your
monumental commemoration and epie
taphology, to be looked at -when people
are going to and fro at the berial of
others, Wile right down in the beart of
our great eity, or the city ultere you live,
an immense free reading FOOTur. or a free
musical coneervatory, or n free arc gal-
lery, the niches for etmlptureana The
Walla ablOOM With the rise and fall of
eatioes, and lessons of courage for the
disheertened, and rest for the weary, and
life for the deed; and gill years from POW
you will be wielding influences in this
world for good. How mutt better than
white marble. that chills you If you nut
your baud on iv when you touch is in
the cemetery, would be a monument in
colors, in beaming eye, m liring pesses'
stoat, in splendors wanes under the eban-
delier would be glowing and warm, and
iooked at by strolling group; whit Nina
logne in band on the January night
when the necropolie where the body
sleeps is all snowea under!
rower et restures.
The tower of Davie WA^; bung with
1,0110 dented shields of battle; but you,
oh man of wealth, may ba.ve a grander
tower =Intel after you, one that shall be
hung nos with the syn.') al of carnage,
but with the vesture -8 of that art se hich
was so long ago reeesseneeti in my ten as
"Pleasant lamina," Oh, the power ot
pretures: I cannot deride, as some bave
done, Cardinal Mitearin, who, when told
that he must tile. took his Ian walk
through the art gellery of his palaue say -
Ing: "Must 1 quit ell this? Look at that
Titian! Look at that Correa:40l book at
thee deluge of Caramel Isarewell, dear
pictures!"
As the day of the lord of hosts, accord-
ing to this text, will scrutinize the plc -
tures, 1 implore all parents to see that in
their households they have neither in
book nor newspaper nor on canvas any-
thing that will deprave. Pictures are no
loner the exclusive possesslon of the
affluent. There is not a respectable home
in those cities that has nos spaaimens of
woodcut or steel engraving, if not of
painting, and your whole family will
feel the moral uplifting or depression.
Have nothing on your wall or in books
that will familiarize tbe young -with
scenes of cruelty and wassail; have only
those sketches made by artists in elevated
moods and none of those scenes) that
seem the product of artistic delirium
tremens. Pictures are not only a strong
but a universal hiuguage. Tbe human
moo is divided into almost as many
languages as there are nations, but she
pictures may speak to people of all
tongues. Volapult many lave hoped,
with little raison, would became a
worldwide language; lint the pictorial is
always a worldwide language, and print -
ere' types have no emphasis compared
with it. We say that children are fond of
pictures; but notice any anan when he
takes up a book, and you will see that
the first thing that he loole.s at Is the
pictures. Have only those In your house
that appeal to the better nature. One
engraving bas sometimes decided an
eternal destiny. Under the title of fine
arts there bare come here from France a
class of pictures which elaborate argu-
ment bas tried to prove irreproachable.
They would disgrace a barroom, and they
need to be confiscated. Your children will
carry the pictures of their father's house
with them clear on to the grave. and,
passing that marble pillar, will take
them through eternity.
Furthermore, let all reformers and all
Sabbath school teachers and all Christian
workers realize that, if they would be
effective for good, they must make pic-
tures, if not by chalk on blackboards or
kindergarten designs or by pencil on
canvas, then by words. Arguments are
soon forgotten, but. pictures, whether in
language or in oolors. are what produce
stronger effects. Christ was always tell-
ing what a thing was like, and his ser-
mon on the mount was a great picture
gallery, beginning with a sketch of a
city on a hill that cannot be hid," and
ending with a texemest beating against
two houses, one on the rock and the
other on the sand. The parable of the
prodigal son, a picture; parable of the
sower, who went forth to sow, a picture;
parable of the unmerciful invent, a pic-
ture; parable of the ten virgins, a pic-
ture: parable of the talents, a picture.
The world wants pictures, and the
appetite begins with the child, who con-
sents to go early to bed if the mother
will sit beside him and rehearse a story,
which is only a picture. .
When we gee how much has been
accomplished in secular directions by
Pictures—Shakespeare's tragedies, a pic-
ture; Victor Hugo's writings, all
pictures; John Ruskin's and Tennyson's
and Longfellow's works, all pictures—
why not enlist, as far as possible, for our
churches and schools and reformatory
work and evangelistic endeavor the power
of thought that can be put into word
pictures, if not pictures in color? Yea,
why not all young 'nen draw for them-
selves on paper. with pen or pencil, their
coming career, of virtue if they prefer
that, of vice if they prefer that? After
making the picture'put it on the wall
or paste it on the fir leaf of sorne favorite
bpok, that you may have it before you
I read of a man who had been executed
for murderand the jailor found after-
ward a picture made on the wall of the
cell by the assassin's own hand, a picture
of a flight of stairs. On the levees': seep
he bail written, "Disobedience to par-
ente;" on the second, "Sabbath break-
ing;" on the third, "Drunkenness and
gaznbling;" on the fourth. "Murder,"
and on the fifth and top step, "A gal-
lows." If that man had made that picture
before be took the first step, he never
would have taken any of them! Oh. man,
make another picture, a brigat picture,
an evangelical pietare, and I will help
you make it! I suggest six steps for this
fieght of stairs. On the first step write
the words, "A Patera changed by the
Holy Ghost and wasbed in the bloed of
the Lambe' on tbe second step, "'Indus.,
try and good cornpanionship;" on the
third step, "A Christian home with
family altar;" on the fourth step, "Ever
widening usefeluess;" on the fifth step,
"A glorious departure from this world;"
on the sixth step, "Heaven, heaven'hen-
veal" Write it tbree nines, and let the
letters of the ene word he made up ot
banners, the second of cereneks and the
third of thrones! Promise pie tbat yea
Will do that, and I will promise to meet
Ydil an the sixth step. lf the Lord will
through his pardoning grace, bring me
there too.
A Remarkable Ring,
4. schoolboy is said to have writ -text as
a serious composition the story given
below. That boy will make a great mark
its the world as a humorist end will per-
haps outshine Mark Twain and Bill Sere -
Boys that are timid about their bistoria
knowledge may take eourage and ebeee
u.p. The mania is clipped. from Boys and
is as follows:
"King Henry VIII. was the greatest
widower that ever livee. He wile born at
Anne Domini in the year 1006, He had
WO wives, besides women and children.
The Arse was beheaded, and afterwards
exeented. The second Was raiVeksid, She
never smiled again, but said the word,
'Canes' Would be found written on her
heart after death, The greatest MAU in
this reign was Lord Sir Game Wolseley,
Be Was surnamed the Boy Buebelor, be-
ing born at she age of 15, unniarriea, He
often Rad if he had served his wife as
well as be had served hie king the would
not halm deprived lam of his gray bairn
In this reign the Bible WAS translated
into Latin by Titus Oates. who Was
ordered by the icing to be ohained up in
the church for greater security. It was in
this reign that the Duke of Wellington
discovered Anseriea and ineented the
Curfew Bell to prevent fires—most of the
houses being built of timber. Henry
VIII. was succeeded on the throne by bis
grandmother, elle beautiful and ACOO111.
'Isbell Mary Queens of SCOTS, sornetimea
known as the 'Lady of the Lake,' or the
'Lay of the Lass .N1111STI`OL' He died ill
bis bed in the last year of his age."
Wen,lerft* Cis or Flies -
A fly's eyes are bard, immovable and
retain their form after death.
Flail of the eyes of a Uy 34 a lens and ,
pliotographs bare been taken through
'them. Tho lensee are of varying kinds—
some suitable for looking off at a distance,
others for things don at bend.
To move there is nothing extraordinary
;, diee having 0,000 eyes, it is known
that a certain beetle owns 50,010 eyes;
a certain butterfly 34,710, it Common
dragon fly 26,088, and a silk-wortn moth
12,600.
ses A fly cannot turn its head It has
eyes in all direnlone. So mall are these
eyes that 1,000.000 would not cover the
surface of a square Mob. Each eye meas-
ures a thousandth part of an inoh, and
the color is almost always red.
Occasionally with his thousand eyes a
fly is diaeived. This is evidenced when a
bluebottle inside a room heads for the
open country. He does not see the win-
dow glues and the thump with which he
strikes and the angry buzz which shows
Isis discomfiture shows how mistaken he
was.
When a fly comes from an egg, one of
a family of tbousands, it is soft, pulpy,
white, eyeless, legless. When mature it
affords the student One of the most mar-
velous fields in all nature, with its nerve
clusters and brain, its feet like the hoofs
of a rhinocerous, a thousapd hollow hairs
on etioh footpad, the wings, 'which make
15,000 vibrations a second, and the eyes,
There are 8,000 of these, each a perfeot
tense.
Politics in an Indian Stnte.
Happy state, you ory. You will say so
still more when you hear that there are
only two acute questions of party polities
at present before it: (a) Whether is cer-
tain member of the royal family ought
to be allowed to shoob pigs, instead of pre-
serving them for sticking, and (b)
whether a nilghai is a cow. A nilghai,
as you know, is not a cow, but an ante.
lope; it destroys crops, and the Opposi-
tion press a bill to legalize the shooting
of it. But, on the other band, urge the
Governinent, it looks like a cow, and
there is a strong body of tradition in
favor of regarding it as such, and there-
fore holy. So the matter has been referred
to arbitration. A college of saints at
Benares bas ruled that a ni)gbai is not a
cow, but it is quite capable of ruling, on
—And for—a sufficient consideration,
that, though not a cost it is as it were
a cow. Meantime party feeling runs
strongly—as does also the nilghai.—Lon-
don Mail.
AN Unsuitable Room.
A German lady, arriving for the first
time in England, drove to a first-class
London hotel, asked for a room, and was
shown into a very small, scantily furn-
ished one. She said in a determined man-
ner, and in very broken English, "I will
not have thie room."
"No, ma'am
,
" said the porter, and
brought in the first box.
"Man I" repeated the lady, emphatic-
ally, "I will not have this room!"
"No, ma'am," said the porter, and
brought in the seoond box.
The lady thought her faulty gram.
roatioal construction was the reason of
the porter's continued obstinacy, and
repeated, with a stern distinctness:
"Man, I will have this not have!"
"No, ma'am," said the porter, and
brought in the third box, whereupon the
lady left the room indignantly, but the
porter drew her hurriedly back across the
threshold, masa a rope and to her
intense astonishment the elevator went
up.
wieptieee.
We are pleased to learn of the new and
complete life of Alexander the Great. At
the same time it will be hard to improve
on Artemus Ward's last days:
"Alexander the Grate was punkin!,
but Napoleon was pniakinser I Alio wept
begause there was no more worlds to
!mope, and then he took to drinkine He
drounded his sorrows in the flowin' bole,
and the flowin' bole was too ranch for
him. He undertook to give a snake exhi-
bition in his boots, but it killed him.
That was a bad joke on Alio!"
One chapter, at least, should be devoted
to the origin of the phrase, "Sinart
Alio," and ite first appearance in polite
literature.
01)[{ifl.0101 EVALI
Mr. R. A. Size, of Ingersoll, Ont.,
Tells How it Was Done
sent/tens 0 appeedleitee wen wee
aitety Were Roliorod -Tha SairoTar Now
Woil end Werittatt Eittkr7 Per,
Prom the Chronicle, Ingereoll. Opt.
in February, 1895, Mr. 11. A. Size was
takeo very and was confined te bie
room for nverel weeks. We beard thee
he was tes go to the hoseami 19 have an
operation performed, but the operation
never took place, and as be has started to
work again and apparently ip good health,
we investigated the ease and found *bat
be had been using Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People. alr. Size is a bighly
respected einzeo of Ingersoll, having re,
raded here for over thirty Tears, and has
been it faithful employe at Messrs. Pardo
SOO'S desiring mills for over nineteen
years. When asked by A Chute:tele re-
porter whether he wetted give AA ieter-
view for publication, teSiltig the nature et
his unease tied Ms cure. he readay con- ,
seared. Mr. Size gave the detaile of lab
Mates and cure es lollowe:
"4n 1stbruary I caughe A heavy veld
which eeetned to settle in my left side.
The doctor thought it wee neuralgia ol
the nerves. it remained there for some
time and then moved so my right side, lo
the region of the Appendix. We applied
everything anti had 0y -blisters en for 411
hours. They never even caused a blister
end did the plin ma geed. The doctors
mule zo the conelusion the* the appendix
was dieetteed and multi have to be re,
moved. Vie pain was very great at tames
ti there wee emit a tiffnesz ia
Ankle*, AISO ixi Illy band, and pain all ovex
nay body. Tile etty and date was set fox
an operatioa and I Was reconciled to its
About is week before I was to go to ths
hospital my wife SS'AS reading the Citron -
tele. She reed an account Of a man Who
bad beep curea by the use of Dr. Waliaine'
Pink Pills. ibe eymploine 9f the disease
were FQ muck Ma mine that the beeame
interested and wanted me to give the pill.
a trlisl. I had little fait h iu ebe pills, bus
es rue wife teemed eel be anxious that I
should take them I consented. The dee
Lor the operotiou had now errived. and 3
told the doctors throe I did not think 3
would go to the bospital for a while, as I
was feeling began I continued the pilit
and was greatly eurprietei and pieneed
wib the result. 1 cauthated so improve
mid bare long Once given up all ides
of an operation. Wit n I legated to tin
the 'pills I was unable to walk and &offered
eoniethina awful with the pain in my
side. It was jun five weeks from the time
thtst I started the use of the pills until 1
was able to walk again, and I bad been
doctoring three paoaths before thee and 3
have been working over since. „Altogether
I have token sixteen boxes of the pine and
they bare done me more good than all the
doctors' medicine I ever took In my life.
ha.ye now every confidence in Dr. Wit
liams' Pink Pills and think that they art
the best medicine la the world to -day.
Certainly bed. it not been for them 1 would
have had to go through the ordeal of an
operation and perbeps would not have
been living now. I hope that by making
this public it will be of benefit to other-,
as it was through one of these articles
that I first learned of tbs unequalled
qualities of the pills."
The publio is cautioned against numer-
ous pink colored imitations of these fa-
mous pills. The genuine are sold only in
boxes, the wrapper around which bears
the words "Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People." If your dealer des not
have them they will tie sent post paid at
50 cents a box, or six boxes for V.60, by
addressing the Dr. 'Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
.A. woman hates to spread scandal the
way a cat doesn't hate to drink milk.
If men would adrait who did the pro.
posing most of the time the novels would
be different.
Maybe so many husbands are brutes be-
cause if they weren't their wives would
be something worse.
When you hear a woman always tearing
other women's husbands to pieces you can
be sure there is something mighty wrong
with her own.
HIS OWN FREE WILL.
Dear Sirs,—I cannot speak too strongly
of the excellence of IIINARD'S LIN'.
MENT. It is THE renaedy in my house.
hold for burns, sprains, etc., and we would
not be without st.
It is truly a wonderful medicine.
JOHN A. lefacnonew.
Publisher Arnprior Chronicle,
The Fly Was Fooled.
A fly was found by a companion rolling
about in agony. "What ails you?" in.
quired the companion in a sympathetic
tone of voice. "I have elle painters' colic,"
groaned the sick fly, as an soprani= of
agony swept over his features. "I thought
I would take a bit off the bright red
cheeks ef that woman over there, and thie
Is the result."
wearied.
"And is Yungster still in the blissful
intoxication of love?"
"No; I think he has reached the head-
ache now."—Indianapolis Journal.
A. DARK SHAPOSN.
I never saw my enoteere fan;
ant drew ei ebeclow Wer lay baby OM
tad there it lies„
Unchanged by time or piece;
But 1 beve felt her loving ereast
Breathe heart sore sighing for the Jeri 1Ws
And. 1 elt her kiss
Upon ray eyelids pressed.
I never saw Ood'ei lovely world.
But I letwe listened to the whispering trent
And felt the breeze
That spring's sweet batten uncrirleta
I never gene epon a rose,
ant 1 neve laid ste flower against sey chesh
And beard God speak
And taTetertee inmates -
Med be bas made aie enderstands
Then& dark the thedow that now holdeleit
blind,
God is behiwei
teratzeu I feel Ms land
Ana knew thee from my deekeeed
The lifelong thetlow wiU be, relied away
One nines' day.
Oh, rapterces surerisel
My happy lire e'en yew must sing.
These eyes, eiselesteg in tee sneer:a of gelle.
Will a rst behold
'neonate of eltrist. my Kam.
—Ptodtrit Beis irs Goad weeds.
REPARATION.
Waage ColOCI4eace In the I-Alet 1141
Pirermim„
"Sean after 1 entered the fire depa*
meet," remarked a hostler a the city
Ore department, "it was my hard luck
in responding to au alarm to run over
and terribly injure a email br.y, wlio
was playing in the street. It was an
unavoidable accident, but jnet the vents
it bad its effect upon me, and for it
time it preyed heavily on my mind and
probably vo,irild have dyne so until tee
day bad it not been for the eequel,
which righted up matters eoznewhat.
"I kept myself pretty well informed
as to the condition of tbe boy, and was
extremely happy when I maw bite on
tbe streets again an(' tool] appearazicei
fully recovered from the injury which X
had inflicted upon hini. Well, time
rasse4 alongand. the hay's family hav.
ixut moved from the house where he re,
and where we too k bittl after the
njury. fax awhile I did net ere Linn
though I occasionally heard frOm
"Olte rather rough night hxisxt *
year afterward our company responded
an alarm in the northwestern part at
fly. On arriving at the Ere 1 TvEle
sent to one of the upper roma cl the
burning building to resole some an.
dren who were in the mon and who
were terribly frightened, as they bad
good reasons to be. fax they were in
considerable dauger. There was a light
burning in the room. and the moment
I entered it I recognized the little fel-
low that 1 lind driven taw and injured.
If there ever was 4 Wile fellow who
was carefully wrapped up in bedclotheS
and with his little sister taken down
stairs and to a place of safety, you can
bet it was that boy and girl. The same
look of fright was upon his face, which
I had not forgotten, but I don't think
my face looked as had as when I had
pickNI him up in my arms before. I
was supremely happy in being able to
return some Pood for the ill I bad done
him,"
Tie Walked,
Time, 11 p. in. "They tell me pine
gait was esteemed one of the finest in
the regiment."
"Yon flatter me."
"No; Lien tenant Wagstaff said you
marched magnificently.
"The lieutenant may not be a good
judge."
"I fancy Ile is. To tny mind there is
nothing that makes a man more pre-
sentable and really attractive than a
graceful walk. My curiosity is greatly
aroused. May I ask a favor of you i"
"Certainly."
"Then I would like to see yottwalk."
And she handed bim his hat —Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
The Same Finale.
We have known a man and Woman
to marry from mercenary motives and
be quite as discourteOus to each other
as a man and woman married from mo-
tives of sentiment.
There never was, and never vrill be, a
universal panacea, in one remedy, for all
ills to which flesh is heir—the very nature
of many curatives being such that were
the germs of other and differently seated
diseases rooted iu the system of the
patient—what would relieve ono ill in
turn would aggravate the other. We
have, however, in Quinine Wine, *when
obtainable in a sound unadulterated
state, a remedy for many and grevious ills.
By its gradual and judicious use, the
frailest systems are led into convalescence
and strength, by the influence which Qui-
nine exerts ou Nature's ovrn restoratives.
It relieves the drooping spirits of those
with whom a chronic state of morbid des -
pendency and lack of interest in life is
disease, and, by tranquilizing the nerves,
disposes to sound and refreshing sleep—
imparts vigor to the action of the blobs%
which, being utimulated, courses through-
out the veins, strengthening the healthy
animal functions of the system, thereby
snaking activity a necessary result,
strengthening the frame, and giving life
to the digestive organs, which naturally
demand increased substance—result, im-
proved appetite. Northrop & Lyman of
Toronto, have given to the public their
superior Quinine Wine at the usual rate,
and, gauged by the opinion of scientists,
this svine approaches nearest perfection oi
any in the market. All druggists sell it.
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