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Exeter Advocate, 1899-9-21, Page 3d it `.t _ eese .,,Aga,.;_^ex— ,".'e!!or'e..nynne` ....-mm„'." `-- ,- t'T DIVORCE CONDEMNED. Rev. Dr. Talmage Deplores the Ease With Which They Are Obtained. $ A Timely Discourse on the Marital Relations and Frequency Wi'h Which Marriage Vows Are Broken --Un', form Divorce Laws Needed. Washington, Sept. 17.—Dr. Talmage ha divorce," Well, before we yield -to fhuk this discourse discusses a question of na- cry let us find out how easy it is now. I Minna importance, which is confessedly have looked over the laws of all the as difficult as it is urgent. The text is States, and I find that, while in some Matthew xix, 6, "What therefore God States it is easier than in others, in every bath joined together let not man put State it is easy. The State of Illinois, a sunder." throngh its Legislature, recites a long That there are hundreds and thousands list of proper causes for divorce and then ot infelicitous homes in America no one closes up by giving to the courts the will doubt. If there were only one skele- right to make a decree of divorce in any ton in the closet, that might be locked case where they deem it expedient. After up and abandoned, but in many a home that you are not surprised at the an- there is a skeleton in the beltway and a nouncement that in one county of the skeleton in all the apartments. "'Cabala pity married,> are two words descriptive of many a homestead. It needs no ortho- dox minister to prove to a badly mated pair that there is a hell. They are there now. Sometimes a grand and greeious woman will be thus incarcerated, and leer life will be a crucifixion, as was the case with Mrs. Sigoaarney, the great poet- ess and the greet soul- Sometimes a con- secrated man will- be united to a fury, as Ras John Wesley, or united to a vixen, AP was John Milton. Sometimes, and Tenerally, both parties are to blame, and homas Carlyle is an intolerable grum- bler, and bis wife bas a pungent retort :always ready, and ].monde, the historian, Pledged to tell tbe plain truth, has to pull aside the curtain ]rain the lifelong squabble at Craigenputtook and 5 Cheyne TONY. Some say that for the alleviation of all these domestic disorders of which we hear easy divorce is a good prosoription. God sometimes authorizes divorce a$ cer- tainly as he authorizes marriaua. 1 have marriages celebratesi was in one year 1 just as much regard for one lawfully to 11; in Rhode Island, 1 to 13; in e'er - divorced er- divorced as I save for one lawfully roar- moat, 1 to 14. Is not that easy enough? rled. But you know and I know that I want you to notice that frequency of Wholesale divorce is ono of our national (livoro3 always goes along with the ditto - scourges. I ant not surprised at this when lateness of soolety. Rome for 500 years X thick of the influences which have hem bad not one ease at divorce. Tltuse wore abroad militating against the marriage her days of glory and virtue, Then the relation. For many years the platforms reign or vice began, and divorce became of the country rang with talk about a epidemic, If you want to know how free lore millennium. There were meet- rapidly tho empire went down, ask Gib - Ings of this kind bold In the Academy of bon. Do you know how the reign of terror eduslo, Brooklyn: Cooper Institute, New was introduced In Frances By 20.000 York; Tremont Temple, Boston, and all eases of divorce in eve year in Pans, over the land. Same of the womon who What wo want in this country and in all were insist prominent in that movement lands Is that divorce be made more and have since been distinguished for great inore difficult. Then people before they enter that relation will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it except through the door of the marriage relation, wainou's rights and sepulcher. Than they will pause on tho tbo affinities. Prominent speakers were verge of that relation untll they aro fully women with short curls and short dross satisfied that it is best, and that it is and very largo tongue. everlastingly at right, and that it is happiest, then wo war with God because they worn mated shall have no morn marriages in fun, women. while 012 the platform sat meek then men and women will not enter the mon with soft accent and cowed demean- relation with the idea it is only a trial or, apologetic for masculinity and hold- trip and if they do not like it they can ing the parasols while the termagant get out at the first landing, then this orators went on preaohing the gospel of whole question will be taken out of the free love. That campaign of about 20 frivolous into the tremendous, and there years sot more devils into the marriage will be no more joking about the blos- relution than will be exorcised in the soma in a bride's hair than about the next 50. Men and womon want home cypress on a collln. from such meetings so pormanonthy con- Uniform Law Required. fused as to who were their wives and What we want is that the Congress of husbands that they nover got out of tho the United States more for the changing perplexity, and the criminal and the of the national constitution so that a civil courts tried to disentangle tho Iliad law can be passed which shall bo uni- of woes, and this one got alimony, and form all over the country and what stall tha; ono got a limited divorce, and this be right in ono State shall bo right in all mother kept the children on condition the States and what is wrong in one that the father could sometimes come state will be wrong in all the States. and look at them, and those went into How is it now? If a party in the mar - poorhouses, and those wont into an insane ridge relation gets dissatisfied, it is only asylum, and those went into dissolute necessary to ,novo to another State to public life, and all wont to destruction aehievo liberation from the domestic tie, The mightiest war ever made against the and divorce is effected so easily that the marriage institution was that free love first ono party knows of it is by seeing oampaign, sometimes under one name it in the newspaper that Rev. Dr. Some - and sometimes under another. body a few days or weeks afterward in- Tbe System of Polsramy. troduced into a new marriage relation a Another influence that has warred member of the bonsehold who went off on a pleasure excursion to Newport or a upon the marriage relation has been business excursion to Chicago. Married polygamy in Utah. That is a storeotyed at the bride's house;, no cares. There aro caricature of the marriage relation and States of the Union which practically bas poisoned the whole land. You might put a premium upon the disintegration as well think that you can have an arm of the marriage relation, while there are in a state of mortification and yet the other States, like tbe State of New York. whole body not be sickened as to have whish has the pre-eminent idiocy of any Territories or States polygamized making marriage lawful at 12 and 14 and yet the body of the nation not feel years of age. thee putrefaction. Hear it, good men and The Congress of the United States women of America, that so long ago as needs to move for a change of the na- 1862 a law was passed by Congress tor- tonal constitution and then to appoint a bidding polygamy in the Territories and committee—not made up of single gentle - in all the places where they bad jurisdic- loan, but of men of families, and their tion. Thirty-seven Years have passed families in Washington—who shall pre - along and nine administrations, yet not pare a good, honest, righteous, compre- until the passage of the Edmunds law in hensive, uniform law that will control 1 2 was any active policy of polygamic everything from Sandy Hoof: to the pression adopted. Armed with all the Golden Gate. That will put an end to wer of government and having an brokerages in marriage, That will send army at their disposal, the first brink divorce lawyers into a decent business. had not till then been knocked from that That will set people agitated for many fortress of libertinism. Every new press- years on the question of how they shall dcnt in his inaugural tickled that mon- get away from each other to planning star with the straw of condemnation. and how they can adjust themselves to the every Congress stultified itself in propos- more or less unfavorable circumstances. ing some plan that woula not work. More difficult divorce will put an estop - Polygamy stood in Utah and in other of pal to a great extent upon marriage as a the Territories more intrenohed, more financial speculation. There are men brazen, more puissant, more braggart who go into the relation just as they go and more internal than at any time in into Wall streeet to purchase shares. The its history. James Buchanan, a mush female to be invited into the partnership abused man of his day, did more for the of wedlock is utterly unattractive and in extirpation of this villainy than all the disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Every - subsequent administrations dared to do body knows it, but this masculine can- np to 1882. Mr. Buchanan sent out an didate for matrimonial oraers, through army. and, although it was halted in its the commercial agency or through. the ,work, still he accomplished more than county records finds_out how mush estate the subsequent administrations, whish is to be inherited, and he calculates it. did nothing but talk, talk, talk. Even at He thinks out how long it will be before this late day and with the Edmunds Act the old man will die and whether heecan in force the evil has not been .wholly ex- stand the refractory temper until he does tirpated: Polygamy in Utah, though out- die and then be enters the relation, for cawed, is still praotioed in secret. It bas he' „ warred against the marriage relation through says, If I cannotla stand ill ck throughout the land. It is impossible to the divorce law I will back out.",That..process is going on all the awful sewer of intuit have such aniniquity time, and men enter ,into the relation sending np its miasma, which is wafted without any moral principle, without by the winds north, south, east and west, any affeotion,; and it is as much a matter without the whole land being affected of stook speoulation as anything that by it, was transacted yesterday in "Union .Another influence that has warted Pacific, Wabash and Delaware do Lexica - against the marriage, relation in this .wanna. Now, suppose a man understood, country has been a pustulous literature, that if he goes into that relation there is with its millions of sheets every week no possibility of bis getting out or no choked with stories ofdomestio wrongs probability. He would be more slow to and infidelities and massacres and out put bis neck In the yoke. He should say rages, until it is a wonder to me that to himself, "Rather than a Caribbean there are any decencies or any common whirlwind with a whole fleet o! shipping sense left on the subject of marriage. in its arms, give me a zephyr off fields One -bait of the news stands of our great of sunshine and gardens of peace." oities reek with the filth, iiarriece to ituform Men, Easy Divorces Condemned. Rigorous divorce law will also hinder "Nowa" say some, "we admit all these women from the fatal mistake of marry - evils, and the only way to clear them fag men to reform ;their;. If a young out or to correct them is by easy Stare of Illinois in one year there were 833 divorces. If you want to know bow easy it is, you have only to look over the records of the States—in Massachusetts. 600 divorces in one year: in Maine, 478 in one year; in Connecticut, 401 divorces in ono year; in the oicy of nen Frauoisea, 333 divorces in ono year; in New Eng- land in one year, 8,1.141 divorces. and in 20 years in New England, 20,000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio con- tinues, the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce, we aro not -far from the time when our courts will,have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will bavo to prove against a nun will be that he left his slippers in the middle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a Woman will be that her husband's over- coat was buttoulesa. Causes of divorce doubled in England and doubled in the United Stator. To show bow very easy it is, I have to tell you that in Western Re- serve, Ohio, the proportion of divorces to promisouosity of affection. Popular themes for moth occasions were the tyranny of man, the oppression of the e age, have the habit of strong drink laxed energy, twice the courage, twice the boly on, him, he is as cel fainly bound for a ambition twice the probability of 'world - drunkard's grave as that a train starting ly success twice the prospects of heaven. out from the Grand Central depot at 8 Into that matrimonial bower:God fetcbee o'clock tomorrow morning is bound for two souls. Outside the bower, room for Albany. The train may not retsina Al- all controversies, but insidethat bower bany, for it may be thrown from the there is room for only one guest—the track: The young man may nob reaoh a angel of lore, Let that angel stand at drunkard's grave, for something may the floral doorway of this Edenic bower throw him off the iron track of evil with drawn eword to hew down the habit. But the probability is that the woree foe of that bower—easy divorce. train that starts, to -morrow morning at 8 Andfar every paradise lost may there be o'oicck for Albany will get there, and the a paradise regained. And atter we quit probability is that the young man who oar home here may we have .a brighter home in heaven. at the windows of tivhioh, this Moment, are familiar faoos watohing for our arrival and wondering why so long we tarry. has thee habnt of strong drink fixed on him before 25 or 30 years of age will arrive at a drunkard's grave, She knows be drinka, although he trite to hide it by chewing cloves. ib-erybody knows be drinks, Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn. She will marrn num; she will reform him. If she is unsuccessfuj in the experiment, why, then, the divorce law will emaneipato her, because habit- ual drnukenness is a cause for divorce in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecticut and nearly all the States. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If you will show me the poverty struck streets in any city, I will show you the homes of the women who married men to reform them. In one vaso out of ten thousand it may be a successful expert - Iamb. I never saw tbe successful experi- ment But have a rigorousdi orce law, , and that woman will say, "If I am affianced to that man. it is for life, and if now, in the ardor of bis young love and I this prize to be won, bo will nos give np his ones, when he bas won the prize surely he will not give up his oups," And so that woman will say to. the man: "No, sir: you are already mar- ried to the club, and you are married to Haat evil habit, and you are married twice, and you are a'4lgamist, Oct!" A. rigorous divorce law will also ao much to hinder hasty and inconsiderate marriages, Under the impression that one can be easily released, people enter the relation without Inquiry and without retiootiou. Roulette() anti impulse rule the day. Perhaps the only ground for the marriage compact Is that she likes his looks. and he admires the graceful way she passes around the ice dream at the menial It is all they know about eaolt other, It is all the preparation for life, A man not able to pay bis own board bill, with not; a dollar in bis possession, will stand at the altar and take the lov- Ing hand and say, "With all my worldly goods I time endow." A woman that could not maks a loaf of bread to save her life will swear to love and keep him in sickuess and in health, A Christian will marry an atheist and that always makes conjoined wretchedness; for if a man does net believe there is a God he is neither to be trusted with a dollar nor with your lifelong haupinesa. Having read mum abort love in a cottage, peo- ple brought up in ease will go and starve in a hovel. Runaway matohea and elope, ments, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand of which mean death and hell, multiplying on all hands. You see them in every day's newspapers. man, by lea years of age' or 30 years of 14,.ror.nan,; 44(,Yis. Chauncey Dopew always wears an opal, thinking it a aort of lucky stone. He also admires the gem for its owns sake. Russell Sage has worn an opal for years. He once Bald he wore the stone because 11 was the black sheep of the jewel family, and he had always found what was bad for the mob was good for the chosen few. Few stage people can be induce;] tv wear an opal or anything else that is considered unlucky'. However, there are seine exceptions. Lillian Russell isfond of opals, and Della Vox likes thew so well she buys them by the dozen. Isadore Rusbis another actress who is not afraid to wear this gem. During the past two years more opals have been sold and worn than for the previous 25 years. Moat of the stones now come from Australia. because the beautiful Hungeriata variety Is apt to crook. It improves opals to be put in an occasional alcohol bath. In spite of their beathy, opals are not ranked among the costly gouts. for, while occasionally as much as 1100 a keret has been ;saki for them, the price is usually amen lege. Clerrrmen Left Defenceless. Our ministers in some regions bare no defense such as they have in other regions where the banns roust be previ- ously published and an officer of the taw must give a certlllcato that all is right, so clergymen are left defenseless and unite those who ought never to bo united. Perhaps they are too young, or perhaps they are standing already in some domestic compact. By the wrack of ten thousand homes, by the holocaust of ton thousand sacrificed men and women, by the bearthstono of the family, which is tbe cornerstone of the state, and in the name ot that God who bath set up the family institution and wine hath made the breaking or the marital oath the most appalling of all perjuries, I implore the Congress of the United States to make some righteous, uniform law for all the States and from ocean to ocean on this subject of mar- riage and divorce. Let me say to all young people, before you give your heart and band in holy alliance, use all caution. Inquire outside as to habits, explore the disposition, scrutinize tho taste, question the ancestry and find out the ambitions. Do not take the heroes and the heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do not put your life- time happiness in the keeping of a man who has a reputation for being a little loose in morals or in the keeping of a woman who dresses immodestly. Remem- ber that while good looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Remember that Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Remember that Absa- lom's hair was not more splendid than his habits were despicable. Hear it! Hear it! The only foundation for happy mar- riage that ever has boon or ever will be is good character. .Ask the counsel of father and mother in this most important step of your life. They are good advisers. They are the best friends you ever had. They made more sacrifices for you than any one else ever did, and they will do more to -day for your happiness than any other people. Ask them, and, above all, ask God. I used to smile at John Brown of Hadding- ton because, when he was about to offer his hand and heart in marriage to one who became his lifelong companion, he opened the conversation by saying, "Let us pray." But I have seen so many ship- wrecks 012 the sea of matrimony I have made up my mind that John Brown. of Haddington was right. A union formed in prayer will be a happy union, though sickness pale the cheek and poverty empty the bread tray and death open the small graves and all the path of .life be strewn with thorns, from the marriage altar with its wedding march and orange blossoms clear on down to the last fare- well at that gate where Isaac and Re- becca. Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, parted. And let me say to you who are in this relation, if you make one man or woman happy you have not lived in vain. Christ says that what he is to the church you ought, to be to each other, and if sometimes, through the difference of opinion or difference of disposition, you make up your mind that your mar- riage was a mistakepatiently bear and forbear, remembering that there is glory in the patient endurance of a sad yoke. Life at the longest, is short, and for those who have been badly mated in teals world death will give quiok and final bill of divorcement written in letters of green grass on quiet graves. And, perhaps, my brother, my sister, perhaps you may appreciate each other better in heaven than jou have appreciated each otber on earth. • Fellow-oltizens as well as fellow -Chris- tians, let us have a divine rage against anything that ` wars on the marriage state. Blessed -institution 1 Instead of two arms to fight the 'battle of life, four; in- stead of two eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four; instead of two shoulders to Mille burden of life, four; twice tt�i 1)anrer lu CI,a:t,. '. ectreios. A surprising number of people buy their glares from venders on the streets, says The New York Evening Post. They get glasses for 50 cents which seem to thew just as good as a pair they would pay 15 for baying made op an oculist's prescription, and they thine; they have saved money, Glasses acquired In all sorts of ways, by inheritance or oxehange from a friend, or even glaasoa found on the streets, are us'ti to the detriment, mean to the destruction, of the- wearer's sight. "'People seem to think glasses ata like clothes," said an outrina5 the other day, "and if they are fairly comfortable and look well they asl; nu farther questions." Another way in whish people damage their eyes is through carele€sness in try- ing to remove duet or cinders from them. They try themselves. a friend trios a rub, tbe nearest drug store, and the near- est opttclan aro called ou, all before an oculist is consulted. The result is that tho eyeball is often badly rubbed and surnped, and in many instances perman- ent Injury is dons. .►,astral aa„ Borman. Au Australian colt, bred upon any wall•i:rassed run, owned by any capable breeder, is an animal rubbed up, well boned and barrelled, seek as might hold his own for lino and symntetory and gameness of eye in almost any English meadow. Every drop of his bright blood is l,ntriish, or maybe there Is a dash of liner fluid still—the Arias strain. But your bush -bred 2-year•old has yet to meet his master, t e knows nothing of the sheltered life of Ibis English kinsman. Born and begotten under the open sky. he has never stood beneath a meaner rr i., Be has found and tried his strewth in a free and 'entailed earth, and has thriven and hardened upon what it gave hien. Once, and only once, the band of man has boon laid upon him. when In a rage of terror ho was roped and thrown, and felt the station brand sizzle and sting on his shoulder. what ,r act -nee? "Trained and organized common sense," is Professor Huxley's definition of science. There is probably no batter. Tho popular mind persists in thinking that there is a wide difference between science and knowledge in general. Yes. there is a wide difference, but it is just the difference that there is between a trained and organized body of men for the accomplishing of some great work, and a crowd of men unorganized and undisciplined. What unscient,fio knowl- edge has accomplished may be roughly seen in the condition of savage races to- day; while the changes wrought by knowledge trained and organized, in 'en- larging the sum of knowledge, in extend- ing men's power of perception, and 1n increasing the facilities not merely for living, but for living well, are changes in comparison with which all others recorded in history are trifling. Prehistoric Aa.yriology. A correspondent of Tho London Times, writing from Bushiro, Persia, states that excavations at Susa have produced in- soriptions and relics of a very interesting character. Susa was probably the most ancient and important city in the world's history, compared with whish both Babylon and Nineveh were modern cities. Tho excavations, which are being con- ducted by French scientists, have already given us the names of 11 kings at Susa hitherto unknown to history. A new cuneiform inscription is now being de- ciphered. The data are supposed to be- long to a period when Egyptian civliza- tion was in its infancy. Some fine speci- mens of the Flint Age have been found. Susa, it is stated, was at one time the capital of the Chaldean Kingdom. OCEAN CABLES IN WARTIME. Talk of Their Neutrality 'which ]las Never (leen Acted iipon. During the late war the Americans cut the cable eannectfons with Hong,- kong and the French cable in Cuban raters off the port of Caizuanera. This was at once denounced, by the Freneh press especially, as unwarranted by the law of nations and as being a positive violation of the rules of mod- ern warfare. The eilaz'ge is absolutely groundless. A belligerent certainlycann.i vent his eon etny r he di from communicating enied the right to �ewt with the outside world. The suggestion Inas been often wade that ocean cables should not be interfered with in time of war, but should be neutralized by agreement of the nations. President Buchanan wade such a suggestion as early as 1S38, when the first Atlantic table was laid. is his reply to .Queen Victoria's message of good will Mr. Buchanan said, "Will not all nations of Christendom spontaneous/sr unite in the declaration that it (tile cable) shall be forever neutral, and that its com- munications shall be held sacred in passing to their places of destination, even in the midst or hostilities?" But this agreement, which 4r. Buchanan 40 years ago supposed the nations would so spontaneously enter into, does not yet exist. The war with Spain Is the first war, iso far as the writer Is aware, In which a belligerent has found it necessary to crit an ocean cable. That the cables were likely to be so interfered with appeared probable at the very eat - break of hostilities. Mr. Balfour was questioned on the subject In the Brit- ish house of commons as early aa April 20, the day after the United States declared war. He replied that he was not prepared to deny that bel- ligereaats. en the ground of military exigencies, would be justified !n in- terferin; with the cables. A few days later, on May 2, Dewey had out the Manila cable. The nations have a convention for the protection of submarine eables, which was entered Into In Paris In 1884 and ratified and proclaimed in 18S5. The United States and Spain are among the signatory powers. That eonventlon, however, ,simply provides protection for cables In time of peau In article iii It is expressly stated that "It is understood that the stipula- tions of this convention shall in no wise affect the liberty of action of belligerents." But It is interesting 1.n this connection to recall that in 1809 the United States proposed the neu- trality of cables in time of war and called a conference to meet at Wash- ington. But before the conference could be held the Franco-Prusslan war occurred, and the meeting had to be abandoned. The Italian govern- ment subsequently sounded the pow- ers, anti it was found that it would be Impossible to secure their assent to neutralization. In 1804 an attempt was made to lay an Atlantic cable, and at that time Prance, Italy, Portugal and one or two other states actually en- tered Into an agreement for its pro- t,•etion In war as well as peace. The effort to lay that cable failed; with the faIlure the treaty lapsed.—I+ arum. Uncial Carrnption in China. .cord Charles Beresford gives several rather striking illustrations of a few of the causes .which have brought China into her present condition. He mentions a general who is supposed to leave 10.000 soldiers under his command. Eight hun- dred is the ordinary number he keeps in service, but upon inspection days thou- sands of coolies are .hired at 11 Dents per diem, so that full lists can be returned to Pekin and pay obtained for the larger number. A mandarin, with a consider- able appropriation, bas charge of 'the street fighting of Pekin, yet only six lights can be fours] there, Officials froth the lowest to the highest are paid very small' salaries, with the result that a vast system of peculation has developed. Corp i,. Wonderfully Made. People marvel at the meohauiana of the human body, with its 402 bones and 60 arteries. But roan is simple in this re- spect compared with the carp. That re- markable fish moves no fewer than 4,886 bones and'rnusele5 every time it breathes. It bas 4,320 veins, to say nothing of its 19 muscles. Te Prevent Counterfeiting. The .art of engraving by means of photographing and kindred aids has now reached such a degree of perfec- tion that the government has been forced to redouble its vigilance to pre- vent frauds in that direction. An old engraver said yesterday, in speaking of this matter: "The exposure of the re- cent big counterfeiting conspiracy has workeda change already in the sys- tem by which the government bas heretofore kept track of dangerous counterfeiting methods. "Chief Wilkie, I see, says that Tay- lor and Bredell employed a new sys- tem in imitating the $100 Monroe head counterfeit. He is wrong. The sys- tem has been in vogue for many years, and is common to all experts in our line. There are, no doubt, hundreds of engravers who would scorn to do a dishonest act who could make coun- terfeit plates far better than the ones turned out by Taylor and Bredell. As a matter of fact, the plate that was used to print the counterfeit internal revenue stamps was a very imperfect piece of work, and there are appren- tices I know of who could do better. However, they were good enough to fool the ordinary person. "In the near future the government will require all engravers- and those connected with engraving establish- ments to register at least once a month and to present a list of the work per- formed by' them."—Philadelphia Rec- ord. Too Mach Far Human Nature. "How is It that you and Jones haven't spoken for years? I can re- member when you were inseparable friends." "We agreed to correct each other's errors in grammar. At the end of the third day the same house would not hold us both, and we have never be- come reconciled since."—Detroit Free A PIONEER'S STORY. WILLIAM HEMSTREET'S HEALTH REN.EWE AT SEVENTY. IIB was Afflicted with Illness for a Long Period, and T hortght His Days of Usefulness were fast --ire is, Again as 3learty aced. HO/404 Ito Was *0 ]'ears. Ago, From the Acton Free Press, leo man is better known to the peo- ple of the counties of Halton and Wel- lington than William liemstreet, >t pioneer and snuck esteemed resident of Acron. Mr. Heanstreet is a native of this county, having been born in Trafalgar township in 1811. In his younger days Mr. Hemstreot conduct ed a tanning business. He subsequent- ly engaged in the droving and butch- Bring business, and some twenty-five years ago, owing to his superior knowl- edge of the value of live stack, he took out a license as an auctioneer. In this calling he be..arne at once t popnflar and he was constantly on the road, driving in all kinds of -weather, holdiug auction sales several days a week. Although possessing as Strang beaaltlay constitution. the continued exposure and hard work selling Some days for six or eight hours at a stretch, he gradually lost his strength.. and vigor, and about three years ago found himself a collapsed and worn out -man. Int conversation with a re- porter of the Free Press he said se -"I felt that any days of usefulness were corer. My strength had departed, guy voice was gone, I was too weak to do work of any kind and I was undeni- ably useless to myself or anyane else, My symptoms were peculiar atad, baffled several of the best local physic. fans. who differed very much in their diagnosis. I took. their naedlcinei faithfully but no improvement result- ed. I did not suffer munch pain but was a. very sick Ian. Iiad no appe- tite, no strength, could net sloop, and both myself and my friends concluded Haat any days on earth were numbered and that any wore. :Jet system would in a very short time iia down in eter. nal rest. I had to give up all any bust- ness interests.' When Mr. Ilemstreet's condition was most serious his atten- tion was attracted by the published testimonial of Rev. Mr. Freeman, a minister with whom he was personally acquainted, relating to his restoration, to health after using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He was particularly im- presed with this testimonial, and con. eluded that these pills must possess singular merit and healing power or Rev. Mr. Freeman would not lend his name to their approbation. Mr. Hemstreet then decided to give them a, trial; he first got one box then three. then half a dozen, and took them regularly. No very marked effects, hrt says, -were noticeable but with char- acteristic persistence he purchased a further supply. Illi the time twelve or thirteen boxes had been taken, he felt that BOW blood Was coursing through his veins; that he possessed new vigor and was table to perform all tho duties his busing calls demanded. "For a year I continued to take the pills," he said. "I knew I was re- gaining my old time strength and good health and I was determined the cure should be complete and perman- ent. and I give them the credit for making me the now man I feel myself to be today, As evidence that my re- covery is complete I have only to state that this spring I have condnot ed a number of auction sales in the open air with perfect ease and with entire satisfaction to my clients. "1 am as much averse to making personal matters public as any one could possibly be, but my long con- tinued illness was so widely known and my recovery has been eo marked and satisfactory that I feel that I owe adebt of gratitude to the simple but effective remedy which cured me, and this is why I thus acliaowledge it, as well alto show to those who are up in years and in ill-healtla what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cured by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build np the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from the system. Avoid imi- tations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the fall trade mark, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. A dose of Miller's Worm Powders occa- sionally will keep the children healthy. Good Neighbors. Brooks—How do you like our new neighbors by this time? Mrs. Brooks — First rate. They , haven't refused me a single thing yet' that I have wanted to borrow.—Ohio State Journal. d4J 4.4 ac ,9;