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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-7-6, Page 3SINS OF GOSSIPING. , , , . Rev. Dr, Talmage Strongly Denounces the 1 Wnispering of Evil. I I ! It Is Classed Among the World's Great Villainies --More Harmful Than Open Slander --Destroying Good Names fthe Worst of Crimes. Washington, July 2.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage vigorously atraiges one of the great evils that Wive cursed the world and urges generous interpretation of the characters a others; text, Romans 1, 29, "Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity—evbisperers." Paul was here canine the long roll of tbe world's villainy, and he puts in the midst a this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as erthisperers. They are so called because they generally speak undervoice and in a con13,dent2a1 way, their hand to the side of their mouth acting as a funnel to keep the precious information from wandering itito tlae wrong ear. They speak sofely aot because they have laek of lung farce or because the ere °M- imed with the spirit of' gentlenese, but muse they want to escape the conses quences o defamation, If no one hears but the person whispered unto and the offender be arraigned, he can deny tbe Whole thing, for whisperers are always firsaelese liarsi Soule peeple evbieper because they are hoarse free a cold or because they wish to pewee some useful information with- out disturbing others, but tbe enflames photographed by the apostle in my text give muffled, utterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you eau only bear the sibilant sound as the ietter "S" drops nem the tongue into the listen- ing ear, the brie hiss of thetserpont as it projects its venom. Whisperers are masaulme and feminine, With a tendency to inajority on ehe side ot those who ere called "the lords of creation." Whisperers ere heard at every window a bauk casbier and are beard in • countleg rooms as well as in sewing moieties and at meetings of asylum direc- tors and managers. They aro the worst foes of society, responsible for miseries innurnereble; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through. every community, aud to -day I hold up for your holy anuthetna and execration these whisperers. From the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles I coztolude that be must have suffered ✓ onaewbat from thence Ills personal pres- ence was very defective. and that made hire perhaps the target of their ridicule, and besides that he was a bachelor, per- sisting in his celibacy down into the e ixties—indeed, all the way through— and, some having failed in their mann. bial desigps upon him, the little mission- ary was put under the raking fire of tneso wbisperers. He was no doubt a rare morsel for their mandalization, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, and he lays hold of these miscreants of the tongue anti gives them a very hard set- ting, down In my text among the scoundrelly and the murderous. "Envy, inurder, debate, deceit, malignity—whis- perers." more Harmful Than Slander. The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should in a, plaits way, calling you by name, charge you with fraud or theft or mueder or un- uleanness, m-ntorrow morning SI might baro peremptory documents served on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for the daxnage 1 had done your character. But these creatures spoken of in my text are so small that they escape the line tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escap- ing the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney can- not find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy, and they start on another. You cannot by. the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They are to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about 1,000 or 2,000 people where everybody knows everybody, but they also are to be found in large quantities in all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look into the basement windows at the tables of their neighbors and can tell just w hat they have morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a key- hole as other people can see with a door „`i wide open, They can hear conversation on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gal- lery. They always put the worst con- struction on everything. Some morning a wife descends into the street, her eyes damp with tears, anu that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "I guess that husband and wife don't live bappily together. I won- der ifehe hasn't been abusing her? Its outrageous I He ought to be disciplined. He ought to be brought up before the church. I'll go right over to ray neigh- bors, and I'll let them know about this matter." She rushes in all out of breath to a neighbor's house and says: "Oh, Mrs. Aileen have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, oame down off the steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, bee just as I expected. I saw film the other afternoon very smil- ing and very gracious to some one who miles back, and t thought then I would just go up to him and tell him he had better go home and look after Ms wife and family, who probably at that very time were upstairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear, do have your husband go over and put an end to this trouble! We simply outrageous that our neigh- borhood should be disturbed in this way! I's awful!" The fact is that one man er woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a -boil. It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisite is that the woman have a small family or no family at all, because If she have a large family then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that she be single or bave no children at all, and then she can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all the thee. A woman with a large family makea very poor •whisperer. 'nenees...e.,.....eleeseenteestee EVD Words Trainsl aSt It le astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know every- thing that happens There are teleplsone and telegraph wires reaching from their ears to all the houses in the neigbbor- hood. They have no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day' when there is a new scandal In the newe- papers they have no time to go abroad. On the day when there are four or five columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case she stays at home and reads and reads aud reads. aSo time for her Bible that day, but toward night, pereaps, she may nue time t run out a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satan does no have to keep *very sharp lookout for his evil dominion In that neighborhood. Efts has let out to he the whole contraet. The gets busbande and wives into a querrel and brothers said elsters into aptagonism, and she dis- gusts the pastor with the flock and the noels with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly dies posed toward each other oversuepielams mad critical, so wheu (meet the neighbors passes by in a carriage they hiss through their teeth and. say, "Ale we could all keep carriages if we never paid, our debts!" When two or three whisperers get to- gether, they stir a oaldron of trouble, whieb makes me think of the three wItehes of "Macbeth" (lancing mowed a boiling caldron in a dark cave: Double, double, toil aud trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake La the caldron boil and bake; Eye to newt end too to frog, Wooi of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing For a Charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell both boil and bubble. Double. double, tell and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble, Scale of drawee tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger's ehaudron For tbe ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toil and trouble; Piro burn and caldron bubble; Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm ls firm and good, I world only change Shakespeare in this, that where he puts the word "witch" I should put the word "whis- perer." An, what a cauldron I Did you ever get a taste of it? I have more re- speot for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight evith no home and no God—for she deceives no one as to what she is—than I have for these hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with a fine shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin. The Masculine Whisperers. The work of snasculine whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of bust. nese. Now, I suppose there are hundreds of men here who at some time have ben in business trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result of some whisperer's work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in re- gard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you bad no use for them, and the whisperer said: "Sold bis horse and carriage because he had to sell them. The fact that he sold his horse and earriage shows he is going down in busi- ness." One of your friends gets embarrassed, and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: "X wonder If be ca,n stand under all this pressure? I think he is going down. I think he will have to give up." You borrow money out of a bank, and the director whispers outside about it, and after awhile the suspioion gets fairly started, and it leaps from one evhisperer's lips to another whisperer's lips until all the people you owe want their money and want it right away, and the business circles come around you like a, pack of evolves, and, though you had assets four times more than were neces- sary to meet your liabilities, crash went everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much business Men have suffered! Sometimes in the circles of clergymen we discuss why it is that a great many raerchants do not go to church. I will tell you why they do not go to ohureh. By the time Saturday night comes they are worn out with the annoyances of business life. They have had enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous system a -twitch. Destroying Good Names. Bather than the defamation of good names it metes to me it would be alinost as honorable and useful if you just took a box of matches in your pocket and a razor in your hand mad g� through the streets and see how many houses you can burn down and how many throats you rem out. That is not a much worse busi- ness. The destruction of a man's name is worse than the destruction of Ms life. A woman came in confessional to a priest and told him that she had been slandering her neighbors. The priest promised her absolution on condition of her performing a penance. He gave her a thistle top and said, "You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field." She went and did so and came back. "Now," said the priest, "gather up all those seeds." She said, "I can't." he said, "I know you can't. Neither can you gather up the evil words you spoke about your neighbors." All good men and all good women have sometimes had detractors after them. John Wesley's wife whispered about him, whispered all over England, kept on whispering about that good rnan—as good a man as ever lived—and kept on whispering until the connubial relation was dissolved. Jesus Christ had these whisperers after him, and they charged him With drinking too much and keeping bad com- pany. "A wine bibber and the friend of ublicans and sinners." You take the at man that ever lived and put a detect- Sirs on his track fer ten years, watching where he goes and wben be comes and with a determinatioa to miscantrue every- thing and to think be goes here for a had purpose and there for a bad purpose, with that determination of destroying Itim, at the end of ten years he will be held despicable in ehe sight e a great many people. If it is an outrageous thing to despoil a mann; °berme); how "lurch worse la it to damage a woman's reputation? Yee that evil grows from century to venturYi and it is all done by whispeeers. .k sus- picion, is started, The next whisperer wlso gets bold, of it states the suspicion as a proven fact, arid many a good Woman, as hoz:Wahl° as your Wife er your another, bas been whispered out of all kindly assoeiations„ and whispered Into the grave. Some people say there is no hell, but if there be no bell for such a despoiler of womanly character it is high time that some philanthropist built one. But there 13 suth a plaste establish- ed, and tvbat a time they will have when all the whisperers get down there to- gether rehearsing things! Everlasting carnival of mud. Were it riot for the un- comfortable surroundings you eniglit suppose they would be glad to get there, In that region wlaere they are all bad What opportunities for exploitation by tbese whisperers. On eareh, to despoil their neighbors sometimes they bad to Ile about them, but down there they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors mad tell the truth. Jubilee of weisperers. Ferni-beaveu et mandate mongers stopping thelr gabble about their diabolieed Ueighbere only long enough to go up to the iron gate and as some newcomer from the earth, "What IS the last gossip in the city on earth where we usedt:41i'Vee:" urses ry Comernsaitae Now, how nee we to war against tide iniquity wt. ice, ursee every community on earth? i•1 n oy refusing to listen to or believen wia Loser. Revery mureof the land has for a Ia,\Y Allaall decent com- munities have for a law that you must hold. people innocent until they are proved guilty, There is only oue person worse than the whisperer, and that is the man or wortatin who listens without pro- test. The trouble is, you bold the Peek wbile they 11 it. The revolver of the stolen goods is just ai bad as the thief. .A.n ancient 'writer deolares that a slander- er aud a man who receives the slauder ought both to be hanged—the one by the tougue and the other by the ear—and I agree with him. When you hear ennething bad about your nelgbbors, ((e ot go all aver and ask about it, w(e.her it is true, and scatter it and spleact it. Von might as well go to a smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him all through the community asking people if they really tbought it, a i•ase ot smallpox. That would be very bad for the path= and for all the neighbors. Do not retail slauders and whisperiegs„ Do not znake yourself the inspeeter of warts, and the supervisor of carbuneles, and the commissioner for street gutters, and the insider of stakes for a dog fight. Can it be that you, an immortal man; that you, an Immortal woman, can find no better business than to become a gutter inspector? 13esiaes that, at your family table allow no detraction. Teach your ohildren to speak well of others. Show them tbe difference between a bee and a wasp—the one gathering honey, the other thrusting a sting. I read of a faintly where they kept what they called "A Slander Book," and when any slanderous words were uttered in the house about anybody or detraction uttered it was all put down in this book. The book was kept carefully. For the first few weeks there were a great many entries, but after awhile there were no entries at all. Detraction stopped in that household. It would be a good thing to have a slander book in all households. Are any of you given to this habit of whispering about others? Let me per- suade von to desist. Mount Taurus was a great place for eagles, and cranes would fly along that way, and they would cackle so loud that the eagles would know of their coming, and they would pounce upon them and destroy them. It Is said that the old cranes found this out, and before they started on their flight they would always have a stone in their mouth so they could not cackle, and then they would fly in perfect safety. Oh, my friends, be as wise as the old cranes and avoid the folly of the young cranes. Do not cackle. Detraction Changed tn. EulegF. Let me charge you, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. It is loose at one end and can swing either way, but It is fastened at the other end to the floor of your mouth, and that makes you responsible for the way it wags. Nanthus, the philosopher, told his servant that on the morrow he was going to have some friends to dine, and estold him to get the best thing he could find in the market. The philosopher and his guests sat down the next day at the table. Tbey had nothing but tongue— four or Ave courses of tongue—tongue cooked in this way and tongue cooked in that may, and the philosopher lost his patience and said to his servant, "Didn't I tell you to get the best thing in the market?" He said: "I did get the best thing in the nsarket. Isn't the tongue tbe organ of sociality, the organ of elo- quenc& the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?" Then Nautilus said, "To -morrow I want you to get the worst thing in the market" And on the morrow the piffles- opher sat at the table, and there was nothing there but tongue ----four or five courses of tongue—tongue in this shape and tongue in that shape, and the philos- opher again lost his patience and said, "Didn't I tell you to get the worst thing in the market?" The servant replied, "I did, for isn't the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defamation, the organ of lying?" Ob, my friends, employ the tongue which God so wonderfully created as the organ of taste, the organ of deglutition, the organ of articulation to make others happy and in the service of Godl If you whisper, whisper good—encouragement to the fallen and hope to the lost. Ali, my friends, the time will soon come 'when we will all svhisper! The voice will be enfeebled in Coe last sickness, and, though that voice could laugh and shout and sing and halloo until the forest echoes answered. it will be so feeble then we can only whisper consolation to those whom we leave behind and only whisper our hope of heaven. While 7 speak this very moment there are hundreds whispering their last utter- ances. Oh, when that solemn hour comes to you and to rue, as come soon it will, may it be found that we did OW lsest to serve Christ, and to cheer our comrades in the earthly struggle, and that we Oen- seoratod not only our hand, but our tongue to God. So that the shadows that fall around our dying pillow shall not be nee._ the evening twilight of a gatheringrr lout ehe morning twiligbt of en se,11 1LD S Sit FFER l1.1,‘ y( everlasting day. `ibis morning ae half past 4 o'clock I ----- looked out of my window, and the stare were very dim. I looked out a few Mr. Wm. McKay, Clifford, NS., rooreetits after, and the stars were Almost Tells of His Daughter's Cure. invisible. I looketi our an hour or two afterward, Not a star was to be seen What was the matter with the stars? Had they melted into darknesat No. They had melted ieto the glorious light of a Sabbath morn. "'Only Three." Many a man has gone to a drunkard's grave bemuse he could not say "No." Daniel and his associates dared to say "Ng," and would not drink a glass of wine to plecise the mightiest king on earth, though tbey were caposes, depend- ent on bis mercy and, bis bounty. What was the result? They were blessed and bonored, and %heir names are known through the ages, while tbe time -serving winebibbers are forgotten long ago. Be who stands for the right need not fear what man can do tante him; and honest men will respect honeety and consistency. When, as a brigadier -general, Clinton B. Fisk eves in command of the Militia"' district of St. Louis, it became bis duty on elle oeeasion to officially receive tied welcome to that city an mittens major - general corning to take command of the military departmena Gen. Fisk, accom- panied by an aide-de-camp, met ins cella- usaneer on the ea•it side of thoraces' (there was PO bridge then) and, escoreed him, with bis eide-de-eamp, Wen* the river by :erre' and to the hotel in whith be bad engaged a suite ot roma fee him. As soon as they were within the parlor at once assuming the Piave or best awl ready to treat the ether officers as hie guests—the major -genera Ordered it sena ane to bring four whisky punches. "Only three, if yell Owe, General; excuse me," promptly and courteously spike Core Fisk. "You'll not refuse to drink with me, will you?" said the superior oflicer. "If I should drink now it would be the first time. You would not advise me to begiu maw, would you, General?" "No, God bless you! Long may you wave!" was the gracious and gallant res sponse. Long, has he waved since then, and long will generale and governors and anercbants and ministers and bootblacks and Ictuncitymen—men and women awl children of all sects ;and eonditIons— thank. Owl for the genial and helpful naluenee which Gau. Fisk's bright, cheery words stud ways have shed upon them. Stenography. The most extraordinary stenograpbio feat eve bur° ever heard of was performed last year by Mr. Reed, an Bnglishman. In the sittings of the opium commission In India, he recorded accurately, and afterward.; read over, the evidence of two Brahmans of whose language he knew nothing, aud Neiman he had never seen before. no took down the sounds as they came from their lips, representing each sound by its intonate character. The New York Christian Aelvocate, advising young men and young women to learn this art in order to save time and labor in putting dawn things that are worth preserving, says; .A.t a recent commeneeraent of a sabool in England—not of stenography—Sir Henry Howorth, in responding to the president's invitation, said he was one of it class who deplore the fact that they were not taught shorthand when they were young. In writing his books his great difficulty had been in copying ver- batim, in ordinary longhand, the material pertinent to the subject. He felt so strongly on. the subject that he was in- sisting on having his own boys learn the art. He had travelled in dangerous and clin3oult countries where he found that one of his greatest diflaculties was our cumbrous writing. We urge parents to consider the propriety of adding steno- graphy to the educational course which they mark out, especially for their boys. and indeed, it wauld be a valuable accom- plishment for girls. Pitiful cases of application to do copy- ing have come under our notice here, where employment could have been made promptly if the applicants bad been accomplished stenographers; but they wished to do the work in longhand. No one has arty work of that kind unless it be the copying of legal papers into the public records. One of the leading banks of the world has recently decided that all boys who desire to enter its service must make shorthand a part of their preparation. Financing zt Church Debt. There was a debt of $15,000 upon the church property. There was rather more than 600 members upon the roll. Some were wealthy, the majority were in com- fortable circumstances, none were desti- tute or even poor. It was at the close of the annual meeting of the congregation, when the last item of business bad been disposed of, and already a movement to arrange wraps had commenced. There was a self-satisfied look upon all faces, for the year bad been a prosperous one, and there was a comfortable surplus. The pastor rose and quietly mid: "I have a word to say before we dismiss the meet- ing. I am about to propose a scheme for clearing off the entire church debt in three years. I want you to pledge $8,000 of it before you leave the building to- night." A silence of painful intensity settled over the meeting, and amazement, incrednlity, and latent pity looked out of the eyes now focused upon the pastor. After A moment he went on again: "I am not asking much of you, just a pledge that, over and above your usual giving, you shall each pledge ten cents per Sab- bath towards the extinction of the church debt. There are more than 600 members. Ten cents front each will raean $60 per Sabbath. In five years this will reach $15,600, and our church would be cleared from debt." Than he dismissed the peo- ple that they might think over it. We give the incident that others may be set thinking. The secret of financing your church debt is to secure regular contri- butions in small sums from each member and adherent, rather than to depend upon large contributions from all. The German Empress" Costly Silk. The most expensive material ever pro duced for a dress is said to have been purohmed by the German Empress •last year from Lyons, It was white silk bro- cade, having flowers, birds and foliage ill relief, and cost A25 a yard, the actual value of the raw silk, it is said, being 220. The Empress was so struok with its beauty that she had not the heart to cut It up, amid it was eventually turned into ourtains. The priee paid far this material is about double as much as the famous cloth of gold that Louis XVI. had made into a droning gown. • I • • ehe 'was nivel Alteoked Willa dents lithouleatism. Followed by dig. Titus" Pence to a Severe Remo—nee Tevente Thought She Could Not itecovers From the Enterprise, Bridgetown, N.S. Wm. McKay, Esq., a well, known, and Much respected farmer and mill man at Clifford, Lunenburg Co„ N.S., relates the following wonderful care effected in his family by the use eif Dr. Williams' Pink Pills:—"About three years ago my little dauseleter Ella, then a child of ten years, was attacked with acute rheumatism. It was a terribly bad case; for over it raonth she was conflaed V) her bed, and during most of the time was utterly helpless, be, ing unable to turn in bed, or in fact to move at all without help. She could riot even hold anything in her hand. All poets t or use of her limbs had, eneirely gone end the p,ein she suffered was fear- ful. By eonstant Attention aftera mnth or so she began to gam it little strength, and atter a while improved enough to be mken out of bed and even walked around a bit, atter a feeblest, by means cif a eup- port. But uow tbe woe seized WW1 a worse allimene than else theurneeisen. Her raervoue system gave way, appeared com- pletely shattered. She shook violently all the time, would tumble down in wing to walk, In attempting to drielt from a cup her hand thook soits to spill the contents all ever herself. .‘4110 was a pitiable els- jece 'Vie doctors were called to tler agate Wed said elle had ist. 'Vitus' -dame in the worst form. She rook the raedieina pre- seribed and followed. the instructions of her physician for some time, hut without Apparent benent. be tvested away al- most to a skeleton and we gave her up for lose About this time I read in a paper an account of a great cure of nervousness effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and resolved, to txy them. The geed effects of tbe first box were quite apparent, and when four boxes were used sbe seemed so rauela improved tbet the pills were die - continued. She kept on improving and after a few weeks was as Well as ever. We were told diet the cure would not last, that it was ouly some powerful ins gredieut 111, the pills which was deceiving us and that after a time the child eyelid be worse than ever. All this bas proved false, for now nearly three years sbe has had, unbroken good health, nervee as among as they are made, and stands !school work and household tverk as well as a mature person. We bave no doubt about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills restoring to us our little girl, whom Ivo looked upon as doomed to an early grave," Dr. Williams Pink Pills are a epee& for diseases arising from an Impoverished conditioa of the blood or shattered nerves, such, as St. Vitus' dance, locomotox ataxia, rhetunatism, paralysis, ociatica, the after effects of la grippe, headache, dizzieess, erysipelas, scrofule, eto. They are also a specifics for the troubles peculiar to the female system, building anew the blood and restoring the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. Protect yourself against imitations by insisting that every box bears the full name—Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. If your de,alot does not have them they will be sent, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for a2.50, by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. PossIblr It Is. She—What do you think now, John? He—What? "Why, the children both want bicy- cles." "Where did they get that idea from?" "Their schoolteacher. I wish she'd mind her business." "Perhaps she thinks that is her busi- ness." "What?," "Putting ideas into children's minds." —Yonkers Statesman. Stirring Up Unpleasant Facts. "Yes, the velvet gown was an heir- loom in ituatie's family." "Yes, I know. Your aunt kept a mas- querade establishment." "You're too provoking. And this ring eves in uncle's family far generations." think I understood your uncle was a pawnbroker." English brook trout grown in the New Zealand rivers is now exported back to England in cold storage. There never was, and never will 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 in the system of the patient—what would relieve one ill in turn would aggravate the other. We have, however, in Quinine Wine, Nelsen obtainable in a sound unadulterated state, a remedy for many and grevious ins. By its gradual and judicious use, the frailest systems are led into convalescence and strength, by the influence which Qui- nine execson 'Nature's own restoratives, It relieves tbe drooping spirits of those with whom a chronic state of morbid des- pondency and lack of interest in life is a disease, and, by tranquilizing the nerves, disposes to sound and refreshing sleep— imparts vigor to the action of the blood, which, being stimulated, courses through- out the veins strengthening the healthy animal functions of the system, thereby making activity a necessaryresult, strengthening the frame, and giving life to the digestive organs, which naturally demand increaseed substance—restdt, im- proved appetite. Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given to the public their superior Qninine Wine at the usual rate, and, gauged by the opinion of scientitts, this wine approaches nearest perfection of any in the market. All druggists sell it. MINING TERMS. !Dome Words Which Crop hp nemaitsitly meet Are lint imperfectly Under, stood by the General norolie. Ledge—A lode or vein. Petering—.1.he driving out of an ere body. Flume—Boxing or piping for convey. beg water. Blind Lode—One that thews no $11000. croupings. Placer—Alluviel deposits; earth con- taining gold dust, Foot Wall—The lower wall On side of it lode or vein. Cap-rock—The fornaation overlaying the pay dirt or ore. Wall—Beundary of vein, lode or ledge and inclosing the stone. leree Gold --Gold easily ileetteaated font the quartz or dirt. 9 Breasting—Taaing ore from the fates of ap aline or bead of a drift. Adit—A tunneb of a vein or lodensa passage for water underground. Pan or Panning—Mo./ally to was the dirt froni the free gold with A pan. Dump—The place iv -here ore is deposits - ed afrer being telten from the znitle. Shaft—A vertical or Menne excavation for prospecting or working Mines. Banging Wall—rhe upper went the rock or wall resting an the lode or vein- Depoalt—A body of ore distinct froze a ledge; a pocket of gravel or pay dtrt. Croppings—Ledge matter lying upon the strrfaeo, or the outeropping of a vein. lIureise—Runeing a drift upward or rising above a theft or level, instead et sinking. Winee—A. theft connecting one drift level with another, hat nor reaching to zhe ourtece. Chute—An luoline or opening front one level to another, tbrough which ore Is passed. Stoping—Brestking are from a stepe at section of ground in a mine; between or above levels. Cage--Tbe elevator used for hoistime or lowering tbe ore ears, men and mater. leas of a mine. Porphyry—A. barren roek, stratified reddish. purple or green rook, in wbiele errata's are leibedded. Horse—A, IllaSS of wall or reek or other heaven metter obtruding into an unbear- ing lode or flesure. Contact Lode—A lode lying betweau two different kinds of reei, as, for ex- ample, porphyry and slate. Drifts—Tunnele leading off from tbe main shaft, or from other tunnels or levels throueti and along time vein. Bed-rock—Tbe bed of a metalliferous deposie commonly applied to the slate underlying auriferous gravel. Dead Work—Work, of putting a mine in order, and driving shafts and levels in search of "pay," or to open up a ll31140. Reduciug—neparating from foreign substances; the reduction of ore consists In extricetiug them from the metals they contain. Lode—A louptutlinal Assure or °basun fined vrith ore -bearing 'matter and having weil-defined sidoewalls; aide, lead, vein and ledge are synonymous. Reserves—Ore reserves are the vein material still standing In the mine bes tweet!, the shafts and levels that boys been driver( in or througb the vein. Tailings—The auriferous earth that has been washed and deprived of the greater portion of the gold it contained; tbe sul- phurets and slimes that escape from the Cross -out --A draft run at right angle to the ledge far the purpose of ascertain- ing its width and to otherwise prospeot It; also an opening or level driven across the ground from one vein to another. Garnished Zags. Garnished eggs are a good supper viands. Boil four or five eggs until quite hard. Lay there in cold water, shell, and cue them in halves crosswise. Carefully re - more the yolks and out the tips off the whites, so that they will stand in a dish. Put the yolks in a basin and rub up with them a small piece ot bread eruneb slightly soaked in milk, some chopped capers and two washed, boned and finely minced sar- dines. Add a very little oil, vinegar pepper and salt; mix all well together. Fill the whites with the mixture'garnish the dish with aspic jelly and keepin a cool place until wanted. Tested by Time.—In his jastly cele- brated Pills Dr. Parmelee has given to the world one of the most Unititte medicines ofEered to the public in late years. Pre- pared to Meet the want for a pill which could be taken without:nausea, and that would purge without pain, it has met all requirements in that direetion, and it is in general use not only because of these two qualities, but because it is known to possess alterative and curative powers which place it in the front rank of medi- cines. Th. Dancer's Big Toe. Nothing is held sacred by the X-ray. It has been turned loose upon the foot of Miss Marie Kink, one of ;he best-known professional dancers. The result was to show that the whole weight of the body of an expert toe -dancer rests upon the big toe. In has always been a problem just what portion of the foot it was that sup- ported the entire weight of a dancer'a body. The X-ray has now solved thaii momentous question. Empty Fame. 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