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MATHEMATICS.
An Interesting Disc9urse by Dr. Talmage
the Numeral Seven.
. black horee, which in all literature Means
leonine, oppression and taxation, and so
' it really came to past Christ went on
until he broke all the seven seals and
opened all the scree', Well, the future of
all of us is a sealed eeroll, and I am glad
that no one but Christ can open a. Bo
not let us join that °lase of Christians in
an our day who are trying to break the seven
seals of the future. They are trying to
oewiettelLinto thirtge they /MVO businese
A Favorite Number With the Divine Mind -,:rake Care of the Pre.
sent, Says the Great Divine; God Will Surely
Take Care of the Future.
Washington, Jute 25.—Maray of the
important doctrines a tbe Bible are by
Dr. Talmage presouted In this sermon itt
a very unusual way. Geneeis ii, 3, "God,
blessed the seventh day."
Tem naatheroatice of the Bible is notice..
able; the geometry and the arithmetic,
the square in Ezekiel, the circle 'Token
of in Isaiah. the curve alluded to in Job,
the rule a fractions mentioned in Daniel,
the rule of loss and gain in Mark, where
Christ asks the people to eipneo out by
that rule what it would "profit a man if
be gain the wbole world and lose his
soule" But there is one mathematical
tigure that is crowned aboveale others in
the ihible. It is the numeral seven,
Which the Antietam got from. India and
all following ogee have taken from the
Arabians. It stands between, the figure
six and the figure eight. In the Bible all
the other nillnerals bow to it, Over 800
thine it is mentioned in the Scriptures,
either elope or compounded with other
Words, In GeDeSiS the week Is rouuded
into seven days, and I use my text be-
cause there this numeral is for the first
time intooduced in a journey which bait%
not until in the elose of the book of
Revelation its monument is but nuo
the wall of heaven Inehrysolite, whicb in
tile Matta of precious stones is the
sevenzli.
In the Bible we find that Jacob had to
serve seven years to get Rachel. but she
was well worth it, and, foretelling the
years of prosperity and famine in Phar-
aoh's time, the seven fat oxen were eaten
up of the towen lean oxen, and wietiom is
said to be built on seven pillars. and the
arle was left with the nbilistinee seven
years, and Naarnan, for the cure of his
leprosy, plouged in the Jordan seven
times; to the house that Ezekiel sew be
vision there were seven steps; the walla•
of Jericho, tonne, they fell down. Were
corepaised seven days; Zeeharlah desoribes
stono with seven eye.); to (noose a
leprous house the door lutist be sprinkled
with pigeons' blood teven tieues;
Canaan were overthrown Revell nations;
on ono °omelet Christ cast out seven
devils; on a mountain he fed a multitude
of people with meet loaves, the fragments
left tilling seven baskete, and the (nosing
passages of the Bible are magnificent and
overwhelming with the imagery :undo
up of seven alio:bee, seven stars, seveu
candlesticks, seven seals, seven angels and
seven heads and seven crowns and seven
horns and seven spirits eon seven phials
and Bowen plagues and seven thunders,
Favorite With the Diviu• Mind.
Yea, the numeral seven seems a favor-
ite with the divine mind outside as well
co inside the Bible, for are there not
seven prismatic colors? And when God
with the rainbow wrote the comfortiog
thought that the world would never have
another deluge he wroce it on the serail
of the sky in ink of seven colors. He
grouped into the Pleiades seven stars.
Rome. the capital of the world, sat on
seven hills. When God would make the
most; intelligent thing on earth, the
human countenance, he fashioned it with
seven features—the two ears, the two
eyes, the two nostrils and the mouth.
Yea, our body lasts only seven years,
and we gradually shed it for another body
after another seven years, and so on, for
we are as to our bodies septennial ani-
mals, So the muneral seven ranges
through nature and through revelation.
It is the number of perfection, and so I
use it while 1 speak of the seven candle-
stieks, the seven stars, the seven seals
and the seven thunders.
The seven golden candlesticks were and
are the churches. Mark you, the churches
never were and never can be candles.
They aro only candlesticks. They are not
the light. but they are to hold the light
A roam in the night 'night have in it
500 candlestieke and yet you could not
see your band before your face. The
only use of a candlestick, and the only
use of a church, is to hold up the light.
You see it is a dark world, the night of
sin, the night of trouble, the night of
superstition, vhe night of persecution, the
night of poverty, the night of sickness,
the niglit of death; aye, about 50 nights
have interlocked their shadows. The
whole race gnee stumbling over prostrated
hopes and fallen fortunes and empty
flour barrels and desolated cradles and
deathbeds. How much we have use foo
all the seven candlesticks, with lights
blazing from the top of each one of them!
• Light of pardon for all sin! Light of
comfort for all trouble! Light of encour-
agement for all despondency! Light of
eternal riches for all poverty! Light of
rescue for all persecution I Light of re-
union for all the bereft! Light of beaven
for all the dying! And that light is
Christ, who is the light that shall yet
irradiate the hemispheres.
God's Candlesticks.
But mark you, when I say ohurohes
are not candles. but candlesticks, I oast
no slur on candlesticks. I believe in
beautiful candlesticks. The candlesticks
that God ordered for the ancient taber-
nacle were something exquisite. They
were a dream of beauty carved out of
loveliness. They were made of hammered
gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six
brienehes of gold blooming all along in
six lilies of gold each. and lips of gold,
from which the candles lifted their holy
Are. And the best houses in any city
ought to be the ohurches—the best built,
the best ventilated, the best swept, the
best 'windowed, and the best ohandeliered.
Log oohing+ may do in neighborhoods
where most of the people live in log
cabins, but let there be palatial churches
for regions whore many of the people
live in palaces. Do tot haves better place
for yourself than for your Lord and
Xing. Do not live in a parlor and put
your Christ in a kitchen.
These seven candlesticks of which I
speak were not xnade of 'Pewter oe iron.
They were golden candlesticks, and gold
is not only a valuable, but a bright
metal. Have everything about your
ohurob bright --your ushers with smiling
faces, your musio jubilant, your band -
shaking cordial, your entire servloe
iettractive. Many people feel that in
church they must look dull, in order to
be reverential, and many whose faces in
gSher kindg a assemblage sho'w. all the
differat phaseof tonoeiot have in cloarolt
no mere expressiou than the back wheel
of a hearse. Brighten up and be respons-
ive. If you feel like smiling, smile. If
you feel indignant at some wrong assali-
ed from the pulpie, frown. Do not leave
your naturalness and resiliency home
because le Is Sunday inorninh. If as
ofdeers of a church, you neeet people at
the °bora dooe with a black look, and
have the music) black and tbe minister in
black preach a black sernaon, and from
invocation to benediction bare the im-
pression black, few will come, and those
who do come will wishlthey had not come
eke all.
worldly oh-erg:nets.
Golden candlestieksl Scour up the six
lilies MI mei brawl' and know that the
more lovely and bright they are the
mere fit they are to hold the light. But
Cluistless light in a detigis to the
world rather than a good. Cromwell
rtobled his cavalry norses in St, Paul's
Cathedral, and, nanny now use the church
in evialeb, to stable vanities and worldli-
ness, A worldly allrell is a candlestick
without the ()audio, and it had.its proto-
type in St. Sophia, in Constantineple,
built to the glory of God by Coostantine,
but transformed to base uses by Moham-
med the second, Built ()lit of colored
marble, a cupola with 24 windows soar -
Inn to a height of 180 feet, the ceiliog
one greas bewilderenent of mosaio, galler-
ies supported. by eight columns of por-
Phyey and 07 colOrane of green jasper,
nine bronze doors with alto relieve) work
fascinating to she eye of any artist, vases
and vestenents inerusted with all manner
o procious stones. Four walls on Aro
with indescribable splendor.
Though labor was eheap, the building
cost $1,0‘100,000. leceleelastleal structure,
almost supernatural in romp and majes-
ty. Buz Mohammedanism tore down
from the walls of that building all tlee
stoutly and Chrietly images, and high r,p
in the dome the Inoue of the croei wale
rubbed out that the ereseent of the tor -
nevem Turk might be substiturod. .A
great aura, but litt Christi J. gorgeous
ebotilesolok, but no yeaulle I
To Gestroy Error.
Turn now in your Bible to the seven
stars. We are distinetly told that they
are the ministers of religion. Some nie
large stars, Boole of them small stare
some of them sweep u wide eireuit and
some of them a smell elle:tilt, but so far
as they are genuine they get their light
trona the great central eon around whom
they make revolution. Let each ono keep
in his own sphere. Ihe solar system
would be soon wrecked if the stars, in -
need of keeping their own orbies,
ehould go to hunting down other suers.
Ministers of religion sheuld never clash.
But in all the oeneuries of the Christian
ohurch mono of these stars have been
hunting out an Edword Irving or a Hor-
ace Bushnell or an Albert Barnes. and
tbe .stars that were in pursuit of the
other stars lost their own orbit, and some
of them could never again And it. Alas
for the heresy hunters! The best way to
destroy error is to preach the truth. The
boat way to scatter darkness is to steike
a light. There is in immensity room
enough for all the stars and in the church
room enough for all the ministers. The
sninisters.who give up righteousness and
the truth will get punishment enough
anyhow, for they are "the wandering
BMWS for whom is reserved the blackness
of darkness forever."
I should like, as a minister. when I
am dying to be able truthfully to say
what a captain of the English army,
fallen at the head of his column and dy-
ing on the Egyptian battlefield, said to
General Wolseley. who came to condole
with him: "I led them straight. Didn't
lead them straight, General?" God has
put us ministers as captains in this bat-
tlefield of truth against error. Great at
last will be our chagrin if we fan leading
the people the wrong way, but great will
be our gladness if when the battle is over
we can hand our sword back to our great
commander, saying: "Lord Jesus! We led
She people straight. Didn't we lead them
straight?" Those ministers who go off at
a tangent and preach some other -gospel
are not stars. but comets, and they flash
across the heavens a little while and
make people stare and thrown down a
few meteoric stones, and then go out of
sight if not met of existence. Brethren in
the ministry, let us remember tnat God
calls us stars, and our business is to shine
and to keep our own sphere, and then
when we get done trying to light up the
darkness of this world we will wheel into
higher spheres, and in us shall be ful-
filled the promise, "They that turn many
to righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and ever."
A Mighty Number.
I pass on to another !nighty Bible
seven, and they are the seven seals. St.
John in vision saw a scroll with seven
seals, and he heard an angel cry: "Who
is worthy to loose the seals thereof?" Take
eight or ten sheets of foolscap paper,
paste them together and roll them into
a scroll and have the scroll at seven
different places eealed with 'sealing wax.
You unroll the scroll till you come to
one of these seals, and then you go no
farther until you break that seaL Then
unroll again until you come to another
seal, and you ean go no farther until you
break that seal. Then you go on until all
the seven seals aro broken and the con-
tents of the entire scroll are revealed.
Now, that scroll with seven seals held by
the angel was the prophecy of what was
to come on the earth. It meant that the
knowledge of the future was with God,
and no man and no angel was worthy to
open it, but the Bible says Christ opened
it and broke all the seven seals. He broke
the first seal and unrolled tho soroll, and
there was a picture of a white horse, and
that metent prosperity and triumph for
the Roman Empire, and so it really came
to pass that for 90 years virtuous emper-
ors succeeded each othor--Nerva, Trojan
and Antoninus. Christ in the vision
broke the second seal and unrolled again,
end there was a plotore of a red horse,
and that meant bloodshed, and so it
realty came to paste and the next 90 years
were red with assassinations and wars.
Then Christ broke the third seal anti un-
rolled it, and there war a picture of a
Tak• Care ef this Fresept.
DO not go eo some necromancer or
spiritualist dr soothsayer or fortune teller
to And out what Is going to happen to
yourself or your family or your friends.
Wait till Christ bresks the seal to And
out whether in your own personal life or
the life of the nation or the life of the
world is is going to be the white horse of
prosperity or the red horse of war or the
black horse of famine. You will Seten
enough see him pow and hear him neigh,
Take care of the present, and the future
will take care of itself. If a man live '70
years, his biography is int a soma having
at least seven seals. ,Aiad let bim net
during the first ten years of bis life try
to loolg into the twenties, nor the twen-
ties into the thirties, non the thirties into
She forties, nor the forties into the illeinee
nor the Attlee Mee the sixties, nor the
sixties into the seventies. From tbe *ay
the years bay° got the habit of racing
aloug I guess you will not have to wait flo
great while before all the seals of the
future are broken. 1 would not give two
(=tato know home long 1 WM going to
llve or in what day of what year the
world is going to be demolished. I would
rather give 81,000 not to know. Suppose
looms Tine could, break the next seal in the
scroll of your personal history and (Mould
tell you that on the next 45h ef July,
1901, you were te dbs, tbe summer after
next, Inite7 much avenhl you be glad for
between this and that It WOTA frOM
now until then be a prolonged funeral.
You welled be counting the mouths and
the days, and your family and friends
Ivoteld bo countiog them, and next 45h
of July you would rub your bands to-
gether and whine; "One year from to-
day I AM TO go. Dear inel I wish no one
bad told me so long before, I wish tbat
neeramancer bad not broken tbe seal of
the tuture," And meeting some under-
taker, you would say; "1 hope you will
keep :Yourself free far an engagement the
dele of July, 1901. That, day you will be
needed at nay house. To save time you
might as 'well take nav measure now.
5 feet 11 Inches." 1 UM glad that Christ
dropped a thick veil over the hour of our
demise and of the hour of tbe world's
destruction when he said; "Of that day
and bour knoweth no man; no, not the
angels, but my Father only." Keep your
hande off the seven seals.
he seyet, enders.
There is another mighty seven of the
Bible—namely, the seven thunders,
%not those thunders zneont we are not
told, and there bus been lona guessing
about then". Bet they aro to come, WO
are told, before the end of all thinga, and
the world cannot gee along without them
ThModer is the speech of lightning.
There are evils in our world which must
be thundered down end which will re-
quire at least seven volleys to prostrate
them. Tbere is drunkenness backed up
by A capital mightier than in any other
business. Intoxicating liquors enough in
this country to float a navy. Good grain
to the amount of 67,4)50,000 bushels an-
nually destroyed to /oak° the deadly
liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin shops,
rum palaces, liquor associations, our
nation spending annually 8740,000,000
for rum, resulting in bankruptoy, disease,
pauperism, Alth, assassination, death,
illimitable woe. 1Vbat will stop them?
High license? No. Prohibition laws? No.
Churches? No. Moral suasion? No.
Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else
Will. Seven thunders!
Yonder are intrenohed infidelity and
atheism, with their magazines of litera-
ture soofflug at our Christianity, their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are their blaspheming apostles,
their drunken Tozn Paines and libertine
Voltaires of the present as well as the
past, re -enforced by all the powers of
darkness, from highest demon to lowest
imp. What will extirpate those monstere
of infidelity and atheisen? John Brown's
shorter catechism about "Vette made you"
or Westminster catechism about "What
Is the chief end of man?" No. Thunder-
bolts! The seven thunders! For the im-
purities of the world, empalaced as well
as cellared, epa,uleted as well as ragged,
enthroned as well as ditched; for corrupt
legislation which at times makes our
state, and national capitals a hemis-
pherio stench; for superstitions that keep
whole nations in squalor century after
century, their juggernauts crushing, their
knives lacerating, their waters drowning,
their funeral pyres burning, the seven
thunders!
The heavenly Wall.
Oh, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you
not a rumbling down the sky of heavy
artillery, coming in on our side, the
seven thunders of the Abnighty? Do not
let us try to wield them ourselves. They
are too heavy and too fiery for us to
handle, but God can and God will, and
when all mercy has failed and all milder
means are exhausted, then judgment will
begin. Thunderbolts! :Depend upon it,
Shat what is not done under the flash of
the seven candlesticks will be done by the
trampling of the seven thunders.
I have sometimes been saddened at the
thought that this world, according to
solerme and revelation, is to be blotted
out of existence, for it is such a beautiful
world. But herein this layer of the hea-
venly wall, where the numeral seven is
to be imbedded, this stratum of green is
to be photographed and embalmed and
perpetuated, the color of the grass that
covers the earth, the color of the foliage
Shat fills the forest, the color of the deep
sea. One glance at that green chrysolite,
1,000.000 years after this planet has been
extinguished, will bring to mind just
how it looked in summer and spring, and
we will say to those who were born blind
on earth and never saw at all in this
world after they have obtained full eye-
sight in heaven, "If you would know
how the earth appeared in June and
August, look at that seventh layer of tiao
heavenly wall, the green of the chry-
solite."
And while vve stand there and talk,
spirit with spirit, that old color of the
earth, whieh had more sway than all the
other colors put together, will bring
back to us our earthly experiences'and,
noticing that this green chrysolite is the
seventh layer of crystallized magnificence,
we may bethink ourselves of the domina-
tion of that numeral wren over all other
numerals and thank God that in the dark
earth we left behind us we so long et-
joyed the light of the seveu golden can-
dlesticks ante veere all of us permitted to
shine among the seven stars of more or
"oVevvosoo
lets magnitude, and that all the seveo
ge,als of the neysterions future have beers MINE MULES.
broken wide open for us by a loving
Christ, and tlaat the eaten. thunders,
having done their work, hove ceased
reverberation, awl that the numeral
seven, whith did such tremendous work
in the Ilietory of naetioos on earth, has
been given such a high place in that
Niagara of colors, the wall of beaven,
-the first foondation of which is jaeoerz
Am second, sapphire; the third, a chal-
cedony, the funrth, emerald • the Web,
sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh
ebrysollte,l'
When shall these eyes thy heaven built
wells
A.nd pearl" gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
NEXT TO ENGLAND'S.
Germany's Merchant Morino Second—
Ships :Number 3.693.
Germany's fleet is now second only tee
that of England. In 1875 Germany's
merchant mantle numbered 4,062 ships,
with 1.0e8.000 registered tons hes; in
1895 she had 3,665 ships, with 1,444,000
tons; in 1898, 3,693 ships and 1,555,000
Sons. While the number of ships is
smaller, the number of tops, compared
with 1875, has increased 50 per cenz.
The falling off is in sailing ships, In
1873 there were 4,803, with a cepaelty ot
878,385 tons, aud 899 steamers, with
189,995 tone; in 1884 there were 8.607
selling ships, with 830,845 tons. and 650
eteamem, with 413,943 tons; 5» 1895,
2,622 wiling vessels, with 660.806 tons,
and 1,043 steamers, with 893,046 tons; in
1898, e,522 salung vessels, with 585,571
tone, and 1,171 steamships of 959,800
In tons.
general a steamer is ehougbt to he
abler° carry three $111105 as 111111)11 as 11
sailing vessel of the same Rise. The fall-
ing oir in sailing ships trona 4,8035» 1875
to 2,6e2 in 108 was more than roade up
for in the inereose of steamers from 299
in 1875 to 1,171 in 1898. The regular
crows numbered in ]s11842,498 ma. The
average was six men to a sailing thin
and 24 to a. steamer.
German welters point with pride to the
fact that, whereas formerly it good teeny,
if tot quite all, of the Noe ships were
built aneread, they are now built in Ger-
rano shipyards by German meattnies
with German inoterials, etc, All that le
now rietelen, they sex. is a powerful fight-
ing marine. Tim empire's interests are In
every part of the world. Tbeee must be
protected. Germany will probably give
uetentien to building a largo and power-
ful item
A Promoted Person.
areluleacon of the Church of Eng-
land has beet Premier of Tasmania and
ROM1111 CaTbeile priest has been Attor-
ney -General of another colony. The Hon.
Arthur lentledge, the new Attorney-
Geueral of Queensland, is an ex -Wesleyan
minister, and these and other analogous
cases go to show tbat reverend gentlemen
hove more chances for political distinc-
tion in the colonies than they have at
bona°, Mr. Rutledge became a barrister
at the mature age of 35, and eimultane.
molly entered the Parliament of Queens-
land as a colleague of the present Premier
(Mr. Diokson) in tho representation of a
double.seated ootstituency with an un-
pronounceable abotiginat name. In a
year or two he became Attorney -General
In the Ministry of Sir Samuel Griffith.
He has been out of Parliament for some
years, but the late general election
brought him back again, and has once
Imre made him Attorney -General. An-
other incident of the Queensland general
election is the return of the veteran Mr,
Groom, who had been elected by the
same constituency for 40 years without a
break, thereby constituting a record for
the southern hemisphere, and one only
beaten in the northern by Mr. Beach, the
father of the House of Coiniuons.
The Late Carloita
Carlotta Geese, whose death at the age
of 80, is reported iron' Geneva, was the
cousin of the more celebrated Giulia
Grlsi, wife of Mario, who died nearly 80
years ago. She was one of it group of
bright stars of the ballet, including
Fanny Ellsler, Marie Tagnoti and Fanny
Cerito, in company with whom she elec-
trified London in the early forties with
"pas de quatre." Carlotta was born at
Visinida, a villa in the district of Man-
tua. She began her stage career at the
early age of 5 at La Scala, Milan, and
was for some time undecided whether to
study dancing or singing. She studied
the latter with Malibran, and the former
with M. Perrot, whom she afterwards
mended. In 1841 she went to Paris, and
appeared at the Theatre de la Renaissance
in a ballet melodrama called the "Zirt-
gari." She achieved so much success that
she was soon engaged as a leading dancer
at the Grand Opera, where she created
She principal part in the ballet of
"Giselie." She achieved her greatest tri-
umphs in London, however. Mina. Grisi
retired from the stage many years ago,
and has resided of late years at Geneva.
Proper Care of the Finger Nails.
Soft white bands are always one of the
principal points of a refined appearance,
and for that reason women of all ages
have most carefully attended to their
hands. The care of the hands cannot be
said to be neglected nowadays, when so
many persons employ the manicure, who
serapes the nails and make them of love-
ly pink, pushes back the skin from the
little white half-znoons at the base, cuts
the nails in a crescent which exactly fol-
lows the outlioe of the half-moons, and
ends by washing the bands in a prepara-
tion that makes them both smooth and
white temporarily, if not permanently.
The hands look extremely well after the
manicure's task bas been finished, al-
though Erasmus Wilson says that the
nails should never be scraped nor cleaned
with any instrument save the nailbrush.
The only other implement needed is the
small ivory presser.
Tattooing, and i.nake
It really begins to look as if there were
nothing tow -under the sun. While sala-
ble° Minds are discussing the anti -toxin
serum treatment of disease as if It were
a new thing, the people of ancient Bur
-
male are calling attention to the fact that
for centuries the material they have used
in the common custom of tattooing has
been an efficient anti -toxin for snake-
bites. The tattooed Burmese regard the
bites of poisonous snake a,s harmless.
This, at least, is the stateraent of a gen
-
Omelet tram 33tunuah., who brings testi-
mony to bear in corroboration of his
singular statement. Scientists might well
give this matter their attentiom
nig eteert.
The Greenland whine has a heart a
yard in diameter,
One MASA 'Who Thinned Ther Ay. Wis.
Nero n d Their teen era t on.
Min Smiley has etndied the charoote,
end idlosytertisies of the coal mine, eliftt
iolowee ar, old mine mule bee more than
horse *tense and in some cases is gireed
with second sight. Jim drove a went*
mule for Captain W. B. Rodgers of the
Tide Coal °emptily that had this faculty,
and owing to his exercise of it Jim is sine
to relate some of his wondrous experiences
with mine mules. The mole, Jix» says,
haa Scriptural authority for sin:ling things
thot his drivers cannot see, awl vites the
story of Balaato and the mule ancestor,
in corroboration of his theory.
The particular mule that Captain Rodg-
ers owned was noted for his light heeled
proclivities and his general objection he
going the way he was directed. One
morning Jim Smiley Wa$ toning a, trip of
ears into it cross entry that bad some of
the pillars "ribbed.' This sligielty weak-
ened the roof, and, although, timbers bad
been put in to support the roof, it had be-
gun to "creep." Jito shouted a few
"cuss" words at the mule, and, calling
him by on opprobrious ammo, inniteel bine
to "gwao." fie started off In good style
mitil the cross entry was reached. Here
be stopped. Jizo insisted that the mule
proceed. The tittle switched his tail.
Jim applied his block snake whip, which
he unwound front his shoulders for the
purpose.
Force and persuasion were unavailing.
Jim got behlod the mine VFW sad pushed
it atgoiest the mule. The Animal held
intek„lim pushed herder, end the mule
toppled over into the ear. Jim could not
get the mule out of the cry ansi wass fumed
te get auother mule and pull the Wise
mule to the aide traek, where it was high
enough to jump him ont of the pit car.
,Tim took the borrowed mule and went
hack into the (Tepee entry, and when he
arrived ot the point where the wise mule
bad stopped he lomat that it fall of roof
had mmurred in hie absence, eempleteln
closing the entry. Had Jlen euceeetled
driving the mule beyond the piteee of the
"bold up" both he and, the mule would
have been entombed Jim says no man
knows AS 11111011 usa pit mule, and they
don't talk so much either.—Pittshurg
Nowa.
ANTIQUITY OP SAWS:,
Thew Waren the Centuries Before
the Chrtetion Era.
Saws were used by the ancient Egyp-
tians. Coe that wan (Uncovered with sev.,
al other earpenteees tools in A private
tenth at Thebes is now pre -served lu the
British museum. Tbo blade, which ap-
pears to be Of brass, is 10% inches long
and Ile inches broad at the widest part,
The teeth ore irregular And appear to
bave been formed by striking a blunt
edged instrument against the edge of the
plate, the bur or rough shoulder thus pro..
duced not being removed.
A painting copied in Rosellinhs work
on Egyptian Antiquities represents a man
using a similar saw, the piece of wood
wbieb be is cutting being held between
two upright posts. In other representa-
tions the timber is t ound with ropes to a
single post, and in one, also copied by
RosellIni, tbe workmate is ougaged in
tightening the rope, havidg left the saw
stieking in the out. In an engraving
given In the third rename of Wilkinson's
'Manner' and Customs of the Ancient
Egyptians" a saw is represented oneiruch
larger dimensions, its length bang by
comparison with the man not leee than
three or four feet. It does not appear that
the Egyptians used saws worked by two
men.
The invention of Saws was variously
attributed by the Greeks to two or three
individuals, who are supposed to have
taken the idea from the jawbone of it snake
or the backbone of a fish. There is a very
curious picture among the remains dis-
covered in the ruins of Heroulaneungrepre-
sating the interior of it carpenter's work-
shop, with two genii cutting a piece of
wood with a frame saw, and on an altar
preserved in tbe Capitoline M119011111 at
Rome there is a perfect representation of
a box saw, exttetly meembling, in the form
of the frame and the twisted cord for
tightening it, those used by modern car-
penters. From these remains it is evident
that these forms of the instrument were
known to the atelents.—London Archi-
tect.
An Ink wiper.
Query—Do all knee breeched pnblio
school boys wipe their pens on their stock-
ings? The practice seems startlingly gen-
eral. Can public opinion carry the fas-
tidious teacher here whither she would?
It is a study hour; an ink vrell is closed;
a notebook pushed aside, down goes a pen
to take a turn or two about a stocking
leg I
"Garvin, is that a nioe thing to do?"
This from the teacher, (Men, loud enough
to be heard by a selected ndiqhbor or two,
"It don't show" (stolidly). Was there
ever a better example frona ancient Sparta
to modern America of that widespread,
deep rooted belief that a crime is not niore
than half criminal till society's ears have
been shocked and aggrieved by its publi-
cation?—Teaohers' Magazine.
The Ideal Feminine Figure,
The feminine acrobat, trapeze performer
and popular danseuse give us some idea of
the ideal feminine figure in the bountiful
curves and outlines where difference of
sex is mose marked. If an object lesson
is sought to prove that muscular develop-
ment tends to emphasize the evolution of
sex differentiation, it can be found in suoh
shows as Barnum & Bailey's in the beau-
tiful bodies of both male and female acro-
bats. While if another is needed to dem-
onstrate that want of muscular develop-
ment produoes an Approximation to the
type masculine, it can be found, alas, all
too easily among women who either can-
not take exercise (as overewo ked teachers
and soanastresses) or who Win not.—Mrs.
Onniston Chant in Nineteenth Century.
CH118 'MOWN MAI
The Remarkable Case of a Yount!
Girl in Walkerton.
Jar Three Years film iui& Oely fie Alemiell
Wth the Aid et Cretehei-nted te. 100
Helloed in and Oat of ised.-110hr Steiger.
&Oen to health Was Unleeiced Fee,
Front the Walkerton Telescope.
A, couple ot Walkerton ladies Were to,
centio diseuseing tee case ot a mutual
friend who, owing to the Budder, deoelorn
merit of it bml attack of sciatica, had been,
00111;141es' to Take te her bed, when a third
lode' present. but veho was a stranger to
the young wonean 5» question, made the
remark, °I would advise your friend to
Sabre Dr, Williams' Pink Pills." Asked
to give her reasons for looking this, ra-
eoinneendation, she preeeeeed to give the
details or a most rentarkoble MTV that
had been effected by Dr. Williams' Pink
Bills en the daughter of hex' nearest neigh. -
bee'. o Miss Between Greenhow, and the
e5027, as told by this huly, basing mime -
queenly been repeated lei the hearing of
tbe editor of this paper, we decided to lo-
vestigate and find one from personal in-
quire' tell the ciremeistaneee of ehis eeerete
ing remarkable inetenee of the power of
Medicine over disease. Time evening we
coiled at Greenhow's residence. Roth
Mr. and Mrs. Greenhew were at home,
but their daughter had gone down town.
"Yes," replied Mrs. Greenhow in answer
to
it qneatien in regard to the mended
euro, "A17 daughter has been cured; I he.
lieve Dr, Williams' Pink Pills saved her
life." She Men gave the eircumetoneee
of her noughter'e illueett And mere as fol.
lows:
"Rebecca is n ,w seventeen years of age.
When elm was eleven she was attacked
with tonsilias and following tine for the
next three yezie a she neer had a monmiat
free from. pain. She began to complain of
pains all over her body, but chiefly in her
leach. She beearae se weak and run clown
that the was unoblo to wall; withoue the
aeeiatonco of a crutch. The do'tor said
he was suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism, brought on by au impover-
ished vondition at the *Totem He pre-
scribed various remedies, but nothing
seemed to do her any gooll, and finally ws
decided to try Another doctor. He oleo
pronounced the trouble to be rheumatism,
but though he gave her bottle after bottle
of medicine the still combined to grow
weaker. 137 the end of the second, Ieor
she was unable to leave the room and
could only move from one roora to an.
other by the use of her crutches. We
were advised to get her an electric, belt
and did so, but though the wore it for 4
long time it did her no good whatever.
During the third winter site became so
bad that she had to he assisted into and
out of bed, and could n t evert raise from
a chair without assistanee. We had given
up all hope of her recinery 'when a Mr.
John Allan, who had himself been similar-
ly afflicted, but who had been cured by
the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, acl-
'deed us TO give them a trial. We had
tried so many things without enecess that
'we hesitated to accept his advice, but he
insisted so strongly that we finally yielded,
The first Ave boxes seemed to produce no
change, but before she bad finished the
sixth box we -were sure we could notice
some improvement, and we felt encourag-
ed to continue their use. From that on
she continued to improve steadily and by
the time she had taken eighteen boxes
every trace of pain had left bor. She
threw away her crutches and soon forgot
that she had ever needed them. For
months past she has been filling a position
in the rattan factory and cart work as
well as anyone. Indeed I do not believe
that there is to -day it healthier girl in
Walkerton."
Such is Mrs. Greenhow's story of the
cure of her daughter through the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills after years of
great suffering.. We may add that a day
or two later the writer called once more at
the Gr enhow abode, in the hope o. seeing
the young lady herself. This time she
was at home and came into the room. She
repeated the story of her sufferings in
substantially the RaMe terms as her
mother had done, and, like her mother,
gives all the credit to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills.
Rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, partial
paralysis, locomotor ataxia, nervous head-
ache, nervous prostration, and diseases
depending upon humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, ehronie erysipelas, etc.,
all disappear befo e a fair treatment with
Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills. They give e
healthy glow to pale and sallow complex-
ions. Sold by all dealers and post paid at
50e. a box or six boxes for e53.50 by address-
ing the Dr, \Tinian& Medicine Co., Brook-
-vine, Ont. leo not be persuaded to take
some substitute.
The Only memento.
Tile proud firecraeker met The spark;
Where is that cracker now?
It Iraves no vestige Nave the mark
Oa little Willie's brow!
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