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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-7-20, Page 7HUMAN INCONSISTENCE "Ye Blind Guides, Which Strain at a Gnat and. Swallow a Camel." b-rfalmage Makes Use of an Ancient Epigram to Illustrate the Folly of Mankind --Prone to Magnify Small Things, Heedless of the Great. ' Waseington, July 16.—In this dis- foundetron au ancient epigram repeated by Chris, Da Talmage Ales- trates the folly a beieg very particular about insignificant thgt whi1e. negletrae ful of vast concerns. The text is Mat thew xxiii, 24, "Ye blind guides, which strain aea gene sod swallow acamel," A proverb is compact wiadone knowl- edge in chunks, a iibrery in a gentence, the electricity of wally elands distharged in one bola a river put through a min race. Wien Christ quotes the proverb of the text he means to set forth the ludi- ous behe.vior at those who make a vette luster about small sins and live no appreelatiou of greet ones. IG tny text a small insect and a large quadrupea ore brolight iato tomparisou—it goat and a Centel. You base In museum or on be desert seen the 'teeter, e great, feerkword, apriitining creature.. with back two Stories high and stomas:1s beving oollection reservoirs for desert travel, an anima for - to the Jews as fotel and in many aliteraeures entitled "the ship of ehe desert." The gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub foreie, ft is born in pool or read, after is few weeks becomes 4 Ohtr- salis and then after a few deys betimes the gnat as we recognize it. But the in- sect spoken of in the text is in its very sraellest shape, and it yet inhabits the water, for my text is a misprint and ougbt to reed "strain out a gnat." My text shows you the prince of incou- sietenoies, A roan after long observation has termed the sitspicion that in a eUP or Water he is about to drink, the is grub or the grautiperent of 4 gnat. He goes and gots a sieve or strainer. Betakes the 'tester and pours it threugh the sieve In tate broad light He says, "I would rather do anything almost than drink this teeter until this larva be extirpated." Tbis -water is brought wader inquisition. Tbe experiment is successful, tibe water rushes through the sieve and leaves agaixtet the side of the Wove the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the inseet and drinks the water in plaohl- ity. But going out one day, and hungry, " be devours a "eitip of the desert," the camel, Whieh the Jews wore forbidden to eat. Tbe gastrouonter has no compune- tion o conseleuee. Be eaters from no indigestion. Re puts tbe /ewer jaw under the camel's forefoot, and his upper jaw aver the hump of the camera batik, and gives one wallow and tho dromedary disappours forever. He strinued out a gnat, he swallowed 4 camel. cheat »Id Not Flutter. •, While Christ's audience was yet sin11- ilang at the appositeness and wit a his hillustration—for smile they did, unless they were too stupid to understand the bypeebole—Cbriet Imminently suid to them "That is you." Punctilious About minrnll things; reckless about affairs of great inegnitutle. Sao subject ever winced under a surgeun's knife more bitterly than dad the Pharisees under Christ' scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a. human body to pieces and put the pieces under a microscope for examina- tion, so Uhri.t finds bis way to the heart af the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under the glum of inspeotion for all generations to examine. Those Plutri- sees thouribt that Christ would flatter them and eompliment them, and bow they must hem writhed under the redbot words as he said, "Ye fools, ye whited sepulchers, -ye blind guides, which snain out a gnat and swallow u eamel." ' There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this sern.on to sketeh a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. First, 1 remark that all those ministers of the gospel who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion. but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance, are photographed in the text. Ohurolt services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convocation, but there are illustrations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any in- telligent audience. There are men like those blind guides of the text who advo- cate only those things In religious service which draw the corners of the mouth down and denounee all those things whian have a tendency to clraw the corn- ers °rho mouth up, and these men will go to installations, and to presbyterlei, and to conzerences, and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain Ma the gnats, while in their own iihurolies at home every Sunday there are 50 people sound asleep. They Snake their cherishes a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons 'aro a cradle and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some , 'wakeful soul in a pew, with her fan, keeps the ilies off unconscious persons approximate, Now, I say it is worse to 'sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter 'replies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and. the stupidity- of the speaker. • In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching witit the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overptrwer one, but when a zninister of the gospel • bolos off upon an audience and finds • healthy and intelligent people straggling • with drowsiness it is time for him to ; give out the doxology or pronounce the 1 benediotion. T'he great fault of church liarY1000 to -day is not too moch vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may be eaeily strain- ed out, the other is a great, sprawling I and sleepy eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our, Sabbath schools, in all our I Bible classes, In all our pulpits, we need to brighten up our raligioui message with ; such Ohristlike vivacity as we find in the text. i I take down from my library the bio- graphies a ministers and 'writers of the past ogee, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and , I flied that; without a single exception, they consecrated their wit and their humor to Cbrist. Elijah used it 'when he advised the Baalites, as they could not make their god respond, to call louder, as their god might be sound asleeni or ' gone a -hunting. Job used it when be said to his selaconceited comforters, "Whielcen will die withyou." Cheese not only used it in the text, but when he ironically complimented the oor- rupt Pharisee, saying. "The whole twee not a physicatt." and when, by one word, be described the cunning of Herod, saying, "Go ye, and tell that fox." iat thew Henry's commentaries from the first page to the last corruseated with burner as summer clouds with heat lightning, newer ie Religion. • John Bunyan's writings are as full of humor as they are of saving zruth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read "Pilgrim's Progress" vibe does not remember that while reatineg it be smiled As often As he wept. .Chryeostoni, eeorge Herbert, ROM south, Charge Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor, Itowlan4 Hill, Ashael Nettleton, Charles ta. Finney and all the men of the past who greatly telvanced the kingdom of God conseeritted their wit and tbeir burner to the cause Of Ohriflt, So it has been in all the ages, end 1 seer to all our young theological students, Sharpen your wits until they are as keen as scimivers and then take them Into this holy war. Iv is is very abort bridge between a smile and a tear, suspension bridge from eye to lip, and le is moo crossed over, and a smile is ionietimes just as sacred as a tear. There Is as numb religion. and, I think, a little more In a spring )norning then in a starless midnight Religious work wish - out any humor or wit in it is a banquet WItit a side of beet, and ;bat raw, and no condiments, and. no dessert- succeeding. People will not eh down to eitch a ban - gum By all means remove all frivolity and all pathos and all lightness and, vul. garity, Strain them 011a through the sieve of boly diseriniinatiott, but. on the other hand, beware of that inottetor whit% overshadows the Christian church to•day —eonyoutionelity—cotning up from the great 'Sahara deeert of teclesiestielsni, hexing on les back s hump of sanctimon. lone gloom, and vehemently refuse to swalaew that tartlet. Oh, how particular a great ntany, people aro about the infiniteeintals while OW are quite reekless about the inagni. tucked What did Christ ate? Did he nor excoriato the people in hie time who were so eareful to witeh their hauds before a neat, him did not wash their hearts? It Is a bad thing to have unalean burgle It le a worse thing to have an unelean heart. How many people there .are in our time who are very anxious that utter their death vbey shall be buried with their faces toward the east, and not at all anxious that dueler, their whole life they should face in the right direetion, so thet they shall come up in the resurrection of the just, 'whichever way they are burled! How 'many there are Chleily IIIITIOUS that a minister of the gospel, shall come in the line of apostolic mimeo. :don, not caring so much whether he comes from a poetic Paul or Apostle *Imam! They have a way of rnmenriag gnaw mail it is larger than a camel. iii emelt se c si treney. Again, my snbjeot pbotographe all those who are abborraut of small sins while they are reokless in regard to maguilicent thefts. Yon will lbol /name a inerehant who, while be is so careful Mum he would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without pitying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills $5 too meth, would dispatch a messenger in hot haste to re- turn the surplus. yet who will go into a stock company. in which after awhile he gots eonttrol of the stock, and then waters the stock and makes $300,000 appear like $2,000,000 He only stole $300.000 by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men engaged in such un- righteous acts that evening, the evening of the very day when he watered the stook, will find a wharf rat stealing a daily paper from the basement doorway and will go out and carob the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow has no power to say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the disbonest act, but grip the Collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I have been looking for you a long while. You stole lny paper four or Ave times, haven't you. you miserable wretch?" And then the old meek gambier, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out, "Police, police!" That same man the evening of the day in whith he watered the stock win kneel with his family in prayers and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children good night with an air which seems to say, "1 bops you all will grow up to be as good as year hither." Prisons for sins inset:elle in sere. but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins e.uimideule in propor- tion, but great leniency for mastodon in- iquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a market woman a choke pear —awing some one else from the cholera. —and tem smother him in the horrible atinosphere of Raymond Street ,Tail or New 'York Tombs, while bis cousin, .who has been skillful enough to seeal $50,000 from the city, you make a c,andidate for the State Legislature. Gulping Down Camel. There is a good deal of uneasiness and nervousness now among some people in our time who have got unrighteous fortunes—a great deal of uneasiness about dynamite. I tell them that God will put under their unghteous fortunes something more explosive than dyna- mite—the earthquake of his omnipotent Indignation. It is thne that we learn in America that sin is not excusable in proportion as 15 declares large dividends and bee outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition, postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a frnit denier who would not consent to Baal a bushel of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but Who would not scruple to depress the fruit market. and as long as I can remember we have heard every suminer the peath crop of Maryland Is a failure and by the time A roan who would not steal one baeket peaches steals 5,0.000 baskets of peathes. Go down into the public, library. in the reading rooms, and see the news- paper reports of the crops from all parts of the vomiter, and, their phraseology is very moth the same, and the same pee wrote them, methodically and infinnou ly carrying out the hoge lying about th grain crop from year to year and for score of years. After while there will a "corner" in the 'wheatInarket, an men who had a contempt for petty- the will burglarize the wbeat bin of a natio and commit larceny upon the America corncrib. And some et the men s in churches and re.fornatory instit tions trying to strain out the small ,gtaa of scouodrelism orbit° in their grid ir elevators and in thestorehouses the are fattening 13uge camels whieh the expect after awhile to swallow, Seciet has to be entirely reconstructed th subject. We are to And that a sin is i excusable in proportion as it ts great. know in our time the tendency is charge religious friends upon gem) rim They say, "Oh, what a both of fraud you bave in the ohurch of God in th day!" And when an eider of a rhino or a deacon, ora minister anise gospe or a superintendent of a Sabbath mho vurns out a defeulter, whet display bead there are minty of the newspapei Great primer type. Five line pic "Another Saint Absconded," "Cleric.% Scontairelism," " Religion at a Discount, "Shame on tite Churches," while the are a thousaud seoundreis outside th church to one inside the (thumb, and, th misbehavier of those; who never see th aehen.c.tb, as tbetigli a swenow tooti wider eirenit then en al batrossi at. though 41 nettle Were teller than a Lebanon redar. as though a gnat were greeter than a camel, as though a minute were longer ehan a century, as thougb time were higher. deeper. broader then earn- s, ity. So the text which Coiled with ing of wit lei Citrate uttered it is folieW- e ed by the el -tithing thundoss of awful b:l catastrophe M those who make the goes - a it ts is to n. n. s is h, el a. 1 12 re inside of a church, is so great that it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. But in all ciroles, religioes and irreligi- ous, the tendenoy is tio excite° sin in pro- portion as 10 is menintoth. Even John eentoii In his 1. Paradise Lost." while he oonanume tip,to II gives suolt A grand do' seription of hi pie have hard work to withhold year admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats and this gulping down great iniquities liko camels) newt elite. sman Things. The subject does not give the ploture ot ODO or -ewo permits, but is a gamy in which thousands of people may gee their likenesses. For instance, all these people 'Who, while they would noe rob their neiglibors of a farthiugi appropriate the mousy and the ;raisin* of the public', A men bas a house to sell, and he tells bat euetonier it is worth $20.000. Next dee' • the itaPeaSOP Matta itratItid and the owner says it is worth $1O (41) The Govern. moot el the tinite.i States took off the tax from personal Sart:Ulla. ailla»g other reasons because so few people would tell the truth, nod many a man with an in- come of hundreds of dollars a day made statements whieh seemed to imply he was about to be banded over to the over- seer of the poor. Careful t,o pay their misstate front Liverpool to New York, yee smuggling lu eheir Seritt•orta trunk ten silk areeies Oxon Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva. Switzerland, telling "the 01181011)8 house officer on the evinirf. "There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel," and putting a five dollar gold piece in his hand to punotu- ate the statement. Described in the text are ell those who are particular never to break the law of grammar and who waut all their langu- age an elegant specimenof syntax, stralning ouv all the inacouraeles of speech with a line Stare of literary criti- cism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than a hole oaravan of catnels, when they might better frao. tine every law of the language and shook their intellectual taste, and bettor let every verb seek io vain for its nomina- tive, and every »ono for its government, and let every propoeition logo its way in the sentence, and adjectives and partici- ples and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fointh Ward of'New York on election day, than to commit a moral inacouraoy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Wasted Lives. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about tbe small faults of others and have DO alarm about their own great transgres- sions. There are in every community and In every church watchdogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if this man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about the other man. They are always the first to bear of any- thing wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell carrion. They are self- appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exception that those people who have the most limbs tbem. selves are rnore merciless in their watch- ing of others. Front scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and hypercriticisms. They spend their life in bunting for muskrats and mud turtles Instead of hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles, always for something mean in- stead of something graod. They look at their neighbors' imperfections through a miscroseope and look at their own im- perfeobions through a telesoope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so 3nuch as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors' imper- fections are like gnats. and they strain them out; their own imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. But lest too many think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that we all crane under the divine satire when eve make the questions of thee more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, 'Wirer° shall • I live now? greater than tha question, Where shall I live forever? How shall 1 get Inore dollars here? greater than the quest- vion, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question, How shall I pay my debts to man? greater than the ques- tion, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the question, How shall I gain the world? greater than the question, What If I lose my soul? the question, Why did God let sin come into the world? greater than the question, How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? the question, What shall I do with the 20 or 40 or '70 years of my sub -lunar existence? greater than the question. What shall I do with the nililion of cycles of my post terrestrial existence? Time—how srnall it is1 Eternity—bow vast it is! The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat is insignificant •when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said, "That does not name me, and that does not mean toe," and with a ruinous benevoleme we are giving the whole sermon awae. But let us all surrender to the charge hat an ado about things here What or preparation for a great eternity! As moth a minnow eyelet larger than a She orob comes in the misrepreeentation p MAW iffereuee of millions of daligt woes of rime greater than the questions Of the future, tbe oncoming, over- shadowing futnre. 01. Eternity! Etern- ity; Eternity! THE ailfiPtotE. PENHOLDER. SQUIetb,14=a Man 0004P ILO tee Able. tel neer, on His Gefik. There is a tate clever triek pen- Let ne suppose that a gentleman is swated git his desk mad is busily writing wbene neigh- bor conies in. and he jokingly thallenges the latter to targe his signaeure. Ile bands the pen to his friend. whoatrempts to write. intrnedietely there is an exple sion and the eaper reeeives a big ink blot. The writer It. apt to he surprised by the report. whieh is like a pistol shot, and, if a timid pereon. isape to be fright- ened. The noise (vines from the pen it - oaf, as it it so constructed that it cao Tee loaded, and shot oft at will. The Person- al the secret can handle the pen witb safety:. btu, the poor unfortunate will ex- perience a rather unexpected shock to las nerves when be attempts -to write with at. Tbe ilinetr part of the penholder, into which an ordinary writinite pen is thrust. works on a piret aeon beltway dowse itt hingth, Thiv separate part is provided With only lialf a bottom, in order that it rime engage the viatica/ heed at a please rod whites ends in a pluoger, which sete off the cup see ;red in the bottom of the Penholder. The morel peeleiott et the plunger is against the cap of the bolder, but it tan be versed by means of 4 pro- jerting Ian riveted to the rod and paatlna through a plot cut be the side of the lower part of the holder, time, the 0;40 ball of the bottom of the pivoted end enters a notch ceased by the (Ionian head of the phloem and the plainer with les eating is cleave, aS it were by mans of the projecting pin and is held in place by the Ixatout til the pivoted mellow When the pen is preeerti to the paper, the oted mitten 'twinge on the pivot, relees- init the plunger, wide!) is forced down on the exploitive eim ay tile swim:. yr. leareeee °licensor. While drinking whisky was the fashion all about him, AM:0am Lineoln never forgot his Mod mother's request to 'close ids lips atwitter inroxleants. Once, wben he was a member of Congress, o friend eritmizoi Min for hie seeming rudeness' in detaining to frit the awe wipes provided by their Mee, urging as reproof. "There is certeinly es danger of n man of your years and Waite beromingaddicted to it's mot" "I meant no diereepeca John," answer- ed Mr, Lincoln; "tem I promised my previous mother only a few days before she died that I would never use anything intoxicating OA a beverage. and. I consider that promise as binding toolity as the day I gave it." "There is 4 pea; difference between a child surrounded by a rough olass of drinkers and a num he a tome of refine- ment," luststed the friend, "But n promise is a promise forever, John, and wben made to a mother it is binding," replied Mr. Lincolu. A whaky Primmer. A whisky drummer, who bas told the liquid. damnation for e5 yams past, stood In the Globe Hotel the other day and made a speech that oughe to matte every temperance BUM shake hands with him- self, He said; "in this section of the country the sale of whisky is decreasing every year. We sell less and less of it each succeeding year. People have quit drinking. It is no longer cousidered itt goo a form to swill it. A drunken an is a disgrace. A. tip- pler cannot hold a job anywhere that is respectable and progressive. The reilroadi won't have him, neither will anyone else. The sentiment is getting stronger against it all the time. The teacher, the preacher, end the paper are creating; sentiment against hare drinking. In 20 years from now the wbisky problem will have solved itself. Beer, soda water, lemonade, milk shake, and. other light beverages 'lave crowded it out of the saloon and drug store into the medicine °hes; of the doctor." Shakespeare and Insanity. an a work just published in Berlin entitled "The Representations of Insan- ity in Shakespeare's Plays," the author, Da Loehr, demonstrates Shakespeare's wonderful insight into human nature and the phenomena of insanity. He shows how Shakespeare's delineation of the onset of insanity In King Lear is en- tirely in accordance with the knowledge of the medical profession today on the subject, althougb it was entirely misun- derstood by the medical profession of Shakespeare's day. Besides Lear, he selects the case of Hamlet for examina- tion and discussion and he treats bis sube jeet in the masterly way which character- izes the German scientists. blusical Town iu Texas. Near Wiederman's, Tex., is an aban- doned well about 60 feet deep, and over- grown with vegetation, which, a corre- spondent of Popular Science eays, is famous in the neighborhood for its musical powers. In fine weather, particu- larly with a westerly wind, it gives forth a sound like that of an Aeolian harp, swelling and dying away by tnrns. When a heavy northerly wind is blowing, the water rises within a few feet of the tow and strange noises, which some persons think resemble moans, issue from the old well. An attempt to fill up the well a few years ago failed, apparently beesuse of the existence of a subterranean cavity, whioh swallowed up the dirt as fast as it was dumped in. • A *Useful Errand. Berne is a little boy who bad a lad way of saying, "I don't care." One day Aunt Nell said to him, "Bertie, will you do an errand for me?" "Oh, yes, ma'am!" cried Bertie; "what is it?" "Take your eauglity 'don't oare' away up in the garret and hide it." Bertie laughed and then looked sober. Then he said, "I will, Auntie Nell." .And away be ran. I think he Ilitiat have hidden it very carefully, for he hasn't found it yet. • Mortgages in Nebraska. Nebraslia in 1898 added $8,000.000 to its mortgage debt In 1898 that debt was reduced by $6,000,000. oBSOLLiati. ZERO. 11.1'Lk1(1011.11 411.- Onielceti I krezen as tta-ti as Steri. Ti. e Mpf`liments which have re.tsitvi in the lieticfaiscion ot air seem ileely t• oaolutionize oar idea; of heat 5;10 cold Cheries Triplet' of New Yore is turning out liquefied air Or the golian. A deseripeion of hie auhieveinentsappeare in The Century, It certainly is surpris- ing to see ;he liquid sir poured open ice tie- off bissing like water from hot iron; but when one reAects that tbe ice is 344 degrees hotter than the liquid, iv does not neat So strange; or Le sia one's breath, blown into the open eau of liquid sent back instently, its moisture eougeeled into a miniature snowstorm A jet of steam is frozeo as quickly, for steam in the open air is only 114 degrees hozter than the breath. while from elm tempera- ture ef steam to vhav of liquid air is is terrible drop of 524 degrees; In this freezing effect probably is found the greatest °beetle to the use of 150u14 air as a motive power. The moisture of the air as deposited rapidly us ice upon, the machine, especially around the orifice from whieh the jet of extremely cola air emerges. Thie so,on closes tbe orifice coin- pletely iind stops the machine. Another surprise given wlaen the er. pertmenter puts Ids hand directly into the ligotid for a moment. But the sense- eion ta only as ot a r,oft opthion of air Alton& the houd. Sueli is reella is. The beet of the band fonts a iitiver et Toper or sir about the hand, and the liqUid air does not came in ten -atilt with the fiesa, Should rho ligleid Se .,ally touch the Ueda severe injury like it burn results, whlch rioneetimee is months iu beetling. In a few wends an egg is frozen WO thal it re. quirea bard blow of ti haramer TO break it. Probebio ite germ of life is exeitice. Seeds of grains oud vegetables balm been eeseed in liquid air. it'bera were all natives of the temperate zone, She soda of whieh will Imo the Winter In frozen earth 'without loss of vitality, litieh as barley and oats for grelne, and peas, ciationleer aud squash for Yegenthieti !alley ere kept for 110 hours at 812 de- grees below sero, and then slowly thawed for 50 hours. After that treatment they were still olive, On tieing planted, they gernainated and grew. The liquid air' boils 50* dish till it ha,t cooled the dish to hs owu temperature. les boiling point is 312 degree* below sero. After ehis tbe vapor ot air which e'en -era the liquid so retard* evaporetion the; is may be kept eight or ten bours itt eon paced ouiy in Mt. It has in it la way been earned 250 inilee from the place Of taapufacture. The cooling effect ogee the air of the room is very =irked. Tile writer gave two lectures itt OLIO afternoon with liquid air. ttaid a lady of the eecond Audience as she eamriel the lecture -room. "blow cold, your room is!" The tempera. tura had been lowered tea or 12 degrees by tho meaperation of the air usoa in the Arse lecture. MI other liquids are frozen when put into liquid air. alereury becomes like iron, so that it -will drive a nail, hold up a weiglia or serve as auy other purpote as a metal, so long as it is kept frozen. Absolute alcohol soon becomes solid, st. tube of liquid air dipped into a glaSs of water rapidly converts the water into lee. I3y removing the ice from the glass, and the tube from the ice, there remains a dish of lee into which liquid oxygen may be poured. A steel pen tipped with it matob. or an eleetrialight carbon red-hot at its tip, will burn in this with intense heat and light. BPt\Vats12 tilt) liquid oxy- gen and the burning steel are about 8.300 degrees. and yeti the ice -tumbler is not affected. Of course, the oxygen is turned into a gas before combustion begins. Liquid oxygen oanno; support combus- tion. Not iris rarest. Customer -1 don't think these *three are handsome enough. Pbotographer—Well, there Is * face cure establishment across the street,— New York Journal. Some othermay be good, but without doubt Miller's Compound Iron Pills are the best. In Union There Is Strength, Jones—Hello, Smith! How did you get your eye blacked in that style? Smith—Labor 1 rouble. Jones—With the union? Smith—Yes; my wife went on strike. Work and Play. The professional musician His duty never shirks, Yet when he works he always plays, And when be plays he works. It may be only a trifileg cold, but neg- lect it and it will fasten its fangs in your lungs, and you will soon be carried to an untimely grave. In this country we have su.ddea changes and must expect to have coughs and colds. We cannot avoid them, but we San effect a cure by using Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup, the medicine that has never been known to fail in cur- ing coughs, colds, bronchitis and all af- fections of the throat, lunge and chest. Flattened. Flippy—After she had rejected me I told her there were plenty more fish in the sea. Brash—What did she say? - nippy—Said that inig.ht be, but, that they were giving lobsters a wide berth. New life for a quarter. Miller's Com- pound Iron Pills. A Spiritual Joke. The dead. roan and the man "dead drunk," Have. just this difference, grim, One goes, alas, to fill his bier, The other's beer fillithira. The lighthouse at Corunna, Spain, is believed to be the oldest ono now in use. It was erected during the reign of Trajan and rebuilt in 1684. Samuel F. Perry,of Port Maitland, Has Recovered From a Long and Trying Illness, Samuel F. Peru, Port Maitland. N.S., is one of the oldest residents of that town, He is a shipbuilder by trade, but, like many others living along the sea coast, luts also followed, the occupation of o sailor. Owing to an injury to hia back some twenty -Ave years ago he has until latelyled a life of more or less suffering. Mr. Perry tells of his trouble as follows: "About twenty-five years ago I strained my back severely. and the result was that for six months following 014 X could not take a single step without the greateet agony. X doctored for about a year with It Meal doctor. and, while the pain wart eased to some extent, the vooble epresei from ray beek to my hips and legs, and is was almost impassible for me to get argued. I had to exercise the greatest eare wheu walking, else I would fail to the ground. It was net exectla paralysis and yet it was something very nearly akin to it. For about twenty-five years I had suf- fered in this way, and although X doctored more or lese arid tried many renieniet, ettald not get relief. One day 1 mad in ar uewspaper the partimiars of a cure in a case very like ray own atrial& the means of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and X deter- mined to try them I began their use about two years itgo, feeliog that 50404 tizey had done in tbe °neer case they would no doubt de for tete. The trouble had fastened itF,eir so firmly tbat I did not hope for *speedy cure, but as 1 found, the pills were helping um I continued their 140 until I lied talcen some thine' Or =QM boxes, with thegrattrying result that they did for ws wbat long years of other treat., merit failed to do—reaterett lIte to an ea- cellent measure of health, and I can now go about almost its actively as in ma young days. I giadly make known the benefie a /mete eateived and tape ray atatee mew; will give DOW hope to sumo gate, sufferer." Teethe for OirIa. Never mind. about the dimples if there' suushinci in your smile. At leas; ono little act of kindness a del lind au easy pillow at nig,hz. How many thoughts a 414Y for =other's comfore do you give? Neatness of dress Arst, aud style may Come as au afterthought. One frown a day 'when sbe's in her teethe. will wrinkle a girl's fereheed like o Mentes by the time ehe is O. Try making yourself as agreeable to. your brother as it be were 601310 other girVis brother, It will pay to win his boyish eopfidence. Inflaramatitry Rheumatism.—Mr. S. Ackerman, commercial traveler. Belle- ville, writes: "Some reeve ago I used Dr. Thomas' Eciectrie Oil for Inflatutnietora rheuniationi, and three bottles effected a. complete cure. I was the whole of one sumuier unable to mom without crutches, aud every movement caused excruciating Pains. I mu now out on the road and ex- posed to ail kinds of weather, but have never beim troubled with,. rheumatism since. a however, keep a bottle of Da Thomas' a:electric Oil on hand, and I alwaye recommend it to others, as it did so much for ute." surmise. "His success in a financial way has been something marvellous." "Yes, sir. I've often heard hirn tell how when he came to thie country about ilittieri years ago, all he owed in the world was a dollar and a quarte; and ]est week he failed fax's million." Millard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria, Stnoke tinted spectacles are worn by - the cattle which range the snow-covered plains of Rasa& It was discovered that the glue caused by the sunlighe on the snow made them blind, and spectacles -were fitted to them to protect their sight as they plucked the grass whieb sprouted through the earth's white mantle. rrotection Prom Snow. 13y their action an the Stomach, Liv- er and Bowels, Miller's Worm Powder* correct all such troubles as lack 0! petite, Ap- petite, Biliousness. Drowsiness, Sallow Complexion, etc.; nice to take. Big Ball in a Cask. The largest cask in the world is the - Blather cask, of Nuremberg. Germany. It is 105 feet in diameter and 51 feet deep, and its completion a few years ago was. celebrated by a ball, at ' which over 500• persons were on the iloor of the cask. The Sarage Bachelor. "What is an iconoclast?" asked the- . small boy boarder. "An iconoclast," the savage bachelor - explained, "is a man who delights in de- stroying ideals, like the fellow who gete married, for instance."—Indianapolis Journal. • Afore Impressive. Tenderfoot—I suppose you have seen plenty of hailstones that were as large as goose eggs? liooknosed Hank—No; but I seen feller wunst what had a straight Hash against my four aces.—Chicago Times. More War Literature. "Dave Dwiggs thinks he has made se literary success at last." "What is it?" "He is publishing all the letters he and his wife atave written to their sort ba Manila." 'IriCeltAstitee/ .146/ 4) •_ 4. 9e. 4C`CCA "litt)/4 Zfte/ e/n,s •if -t- 44/ 4c4 41, 07t.