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SMALL ANNOYA1\CES. pnliaa•irne, fi::‘,„..atbitt, ea"chied Tatt
the young men yesterday." I said,
"Yes." He said: No use, no use.
Man's a failure."
REV. DR. TAL,MAGe DISCOURSES ON The small insect annoyances of
A UNIQUE SUBJECT, life sotnetimes come in the shape of
local physical trouble which does not
HORNET1 amount to a positive prostration,
THE MISSION OF THE
The 31nO oUb1e of 1.ife which .T.F,c
obrietiee 1Or4iLUdif Au4 Patience..
Drawe ',rctee
Irritations,
Wasbington, Oct. S—he sermon
by Dr, Talmage deals with A. sub-
ject malice appeals to all classes and
conditions i„if men. His text is Deli.,
teronomy vii, 20, "The Lord thy
God wilt send the bornet."
It seems as if the insectile world
were determined, to extirpate the au -
man race. It Omni/arca the grain.-
eelds and the orchards and the vine,
- yards. The Colorado beetle, tee Nee
braelia grasshopper, the No v Jerses
locust, tbe eniversal potato teetle,
Seem to &maw on the, wee; Nctich,
was beet t Ages ege wheu the
ii-
evtS buzzsd out oi Neah's at its .ite
door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on
its mission. It is species cif wasp,
SWitt in its :motion, and violent in its
eting.
It touch is torture to 141A11
or beast We have all seen the at
tie run bellowing under the cut of
Its leneet. In boyhocal we used to
*tend cautiously loolciog at the
,eglobular pest. bung from, the tree
'branch, and while we were lc:Kering
et the woneerful covering we were
etruck with something tint sent us
ehrieking away. The bornet goes in
o warioe. It has captains over bun-
drede,
and 20 a them aligliting
QUO man will produce certain death.
The Persiens attempted to conquer
e Christian city, but the elephanta
e.nd the beasts on whites the Vere
Siena rode were assaulted by the hor-
ret, so that the u'hole army IN as
broken up, and the besiegeci city was
rescued. Tbis 'awning and noxious
ineeet stung out the Hittites and the
Canaanites from their countre. Witat
gleaming see ord and vbariot of war
could not accomplielt was done by
the puncture of an insect. 'lite
Lord sent the bornet."
My frienas, when xve are assaulted
by great behemoths of trouble we
become chivalric. area we assault
them We get on the bigh mettled
Steed of our courage, mei we make
a cavalry charge at them, and it God
be with us we eotue out stronger
and better than when we went in,
But alas for these inseetile annoy-
ances of life. these foes too small to
shoot. these things without any
avoirdupois weight. the gnats and
the midges and the flies and the
weeps awl the hornets: In other
words, it is the small stinging an-
noyances of our life which drive us
out and use us up. In the best con-
• clitiomed life for some grand and
Iglorious purpose God lias sent the
hornet.
Again. tile small insect annoyances
may come to us in the shape of
friends and acquaintances who are
alWays saying disagreeable things.
irlierc are some people you cannot be
with for bait an hour but you feel
eheered ittni comforted. Then there
aro other people you cannot be with
for five minutes before you feel mis-
erable. They do not mean to dis-
turb yo, but they sting you to the
bone. They gather up all the yarn
'which the gossips spin mid retail it.
They gather up all the adverse criti-
cisms about your person, about your
business, abou.t your home, about
your church, and they make your ear
the funnel into which they pour it.
They laugh heartily -when they tell
you, as though it were a good Joke,
and you laugh, too—outside..
These people are brought to our ate
tention in the Bible, in the book of
Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful
and with the finest worldly pros-
pects into another land, but after
awhile she co.me back widowed and
sick and poor. What did her friends
do when she came to the city? They
all -went out, and instead of giving
her common sense and consolation,
what did they do? Bead the book
Of Ruth and find out. They threw
up their hands and said, "Is this
Naomi?" as xnuch as to say, "How
awful bad you look!" When I enter-
ed the ministry, I looked very pale
for years, and every year, for four
or five years, many times a year I
was asked if I had not consumption,
ould sometimes hear people sigh
passing thropgh the room, I
and say, "A -ah, not long for this
world!" I resolved in those times
that I never in any conversation
would say anything depressing, and
by the help of God I have kept the
resolution. These people of whom I
speak reap and bind in the great
harvest field of discouragement.
Some day you greet them with a
hilarious "Good morning," and they
-come buzzing at you with some de-
pressing information. "The Lord
sent the hornet."
It is astonishing how some people
prefer to write and to say disagree-
• able things. That was the case when
Ilenry M. Stanley returned after his
a--Magnificeet exploit of finding David
• Livingstone. When Mr. Stanley
stood before athe savants of Europe
• and many of the small critics of the
day, under the pretense of getting
•-geographical information, put to
hini insolent questions, he folded his
• arms and refused to answer. At the
very time when you would suppose
• all decent men would have applaud-
ed the heroism of the man there
were those to hiss. "The Lord sent
• the hornet." And when afterwards
that man. sat down on the western
coast of Africa, sick and worn out,
with perhaps the grandest achieve-
ment of the age in the way of geo-
graphical discovery, there were small
critics all over the world to buzz and
buzz and caricature and deride him,
arid -when after awhile he got the
London papers, as he opened them,
out flew the hornet. When I see that
there are so many people in the
world who like to say disagreeable
things and write disagreeable things,
X come almost in my weaker mo-
ments to believe vhat a man said to
me in Philadelphia one Monday
eaerning. I went to get the horse at
but which bothers yon when you
want to feel the best. Perhaps it is
a sick headache which has been the
plague ot your life, and, yoU appoint
some occasion of mirth or sociality
•or usefulness, and when the clock tle
strilats the hour you cannot make Isytroke—cliele, click, click! I say,
s tag don't you strike harder?"
your appearance. Perbaple between thear and the.e"Oh." he replies, "thAt would sleet-
troabter the statue. I can't do it that
Inrelwad in the shape of a neuralglo way. I must do it the other way."
twinge. Nobody can see it or syret So he works •on, and after awhile
pathize with it, but just at the the features come out, and everybody
throe when you want your intellect that enters the studio is charmed
clearest and your dispositioa bright-
est you feel it sharp, keen, (mem_•And fascinated, Well, God has your
soul under process of development,
certing thrust. "The lard sent the and it is the little annoyances and
hornet." vexations of life that are chiseling
Perhaps these small insect annoy- out your immortal nature. It is
ances will come in the shape of a click, click, click! I wonder why
domestic irritation. The parlor and some great providence does not come
the kitchen do not alWq37S harmon- and with one stroke prepare you for
ize. To get good service and to heaven. A., no! God says that is
keep it is one of the great questions
of the country. Sometimes it may
be the arrogance and inconsiderate-
ness of employers: but, wliatever
be the fact, we all admit there are
these insect annoyances wieging
their way out from the culinary de-
portment. If the grace of God be
not in the heart of the bousekeeper,
sho eannot maintain her equilibrium.
These small insect disturbaneee
may also come In the shape of haste
Pese irritation. There are men here
who went through the 24th of Sep-
tember, 1869, and the panics of
1873 and 1803 without losing their
balaece who are every clay lluliOrSed
by little annoyances—a clerk's ill
• manners, or a blot of ink on a bill
lading, or the extravagance of a
pariner who overdraws his n-
ouut, or the underselling by a busi-
ness rival, or the whispering of
ore eonfleences in the street, or the
eking of some little bad debt
which was against your judgment:
nit you wented to please somebody
cIsc.
bare noticed in the history ot
some of my congregation that thei
annoyances are multiplying and that
they have a hundred where they
used to have ten. The naturalist
tells es that a wasp sometanes has
a family of 20.000 wasps, and it
does seem as if every annoyance of
your life brooded a million. By the
help of Gad, to -day I want, to show
you the other aide. The hornet. is of
no use? Oh, yes! The naturalist
tells no they aro very important in
the world's economy. They kill spi-
ders, and they clear the atmosphere.
And I really believe God sends the
annOyanees of aur life upon us to
kill the spiders of the soul and to
clear the atmosphere of our skies.
These annoyances are sent on us,
I think, to wake us up frorn our
lethargy. There is nothing that
makes it man so lively as a nest of
"Yellow itteaets," and I think that
these annoyances are intended to
• persuade us of the fact that this is
not a world for us to stop in. If
we had a bed of everything that was
attractive and soft anti easy, what
would we want of heaven? We think
that the hollow tree sends the hor-
net, or we may think that the devil
sends the hornet. I want to cor-
rect your opinion. "The Lord sent
the hornet."
Then I think these annoyances
come on us to cultivate our pa-
tience. In the gyninnelum you find
upright parallel bars with holes over
each other for pegs to be put in.
Then the gymnast takes a peg in
each hand, and he begins to climb,
one inch at a time or two inches,
and getting his strength cultivated,
reaches after a while the ceiling.
And it seems to me that these an-
noyances in life are a moral gym-
nasium, each worriment a peg witb
which we are to climb higber and
higher in Christian attainment. We
aft love to see patience, but, it eau -
not be cultivated in fair aetither.
Patience is a child of the storm. If
you had everything desirable and
there was nothing more to get,
what would you want with patience?
The only time to cultivate it is
when you are lied about and sick
and half dead.
Nothing but the furnace will ever
born out of us the clinker and the
slag. I have formed this theory in
regard to small annoyances and vex-
ations. It takes just so much
trouble to fit us for usefulness and
for heaven. The only question is
whether we shall take it in the bulk
or pulverized and granulated. Here
is one man who takes it in bulk.
His back, is broken or his eyesight
put out, or some other awful calam-
ity befalls him, while the vast ma-
jority of people take the thing piece-
meal. Which way would you rather
have it? Of course, in piecemeal.
Better have five aching teeth than
one broken jaw; better ten fly blist-
ers than an amputation, better 20
squalls than one cyclone. There may
be a difference of opinion as to allo-
pathy and homeopathy, but in this
matter of trouble I like homeopath-
ic doses, small pellets of annoyance
rather than some knockdown dose of
calamity. Instead of the thander-
bolt give us the hornet. If you have
a bank, you would a great deal ra-
ther that 50 men. would come in
with checks less •than $100 than to
have two depositors come in the
same day, each wanting his $10,-
000. In this latter case you cough
and look down to the floor and you
look up to the ceiling before you
look into the safe. Now, my friends,
would you not rather have these
small drafts of annoyance on your
bank of faith than some all stagger-
ing demand upon your endurance?
But remember that little as well as
great annoyances equally require you
to trust in Christ for succor and for
deliverance from impatience and ir-
ritability. "Thou wilt keep hire in
perfect peace whose mind is stayed
on thee."
' did
H touches
ow many M
it on In one dash?" "No," says ¥r,
Churelq "I know how to make a
peinting. It will take 50,000 oi
these touches." And I want you,
my friends, to understand that it is
these ten thousand annoyances
which, under God, are malting up the
picture of your life. to be hung at
last in the galleries of aeaven, fit
for angels to look at. God knows
how to make a picture.
I go into a. sculptor's studio and
see him shaping a statue. He has a,
ehisel in one band and a mallet in
the other, and he gives a very gen-
not the way, and so he keeps on by
strokes of little vexations until at lwrel between these ends, well be
last you shall be a glad spectacle for built by next January, and the con-
amgels nd for men.
nection will be made through Jan-
Youa know that a large fortune nary, 19.01. .&t the present titne 1,500
CANADA'S BIG RAILWAY PLANS.
Sew Moe Prom, Quebec to North 'Pacific in
Five Years -Several Seetione Built -
Work In Progreso.
, Deming the coming winter there
will be great activity in raileva,y con-
struotiou in that part of Western On-
tario and Northern Minnesote lying
between Lake Superior geld the capital
of Manitoba, One of the ehief links
in Canada's rival transcontinental
line, which is expected to reach from
Quebec to the North Paciac within
five, years, is to be built there immed-
iately.
The distance from Lake Superior at
Port Arthur, Canada's western lake
port, to Winnipeg is about 450 miles
by this line, and 140 miles are already
under rails. 02 this, 20 miles are at
the east end, being a portion of the
old Port Arthur, Duluth and Western
road, which bas beela bought by the
Canadian syndicate back of the great
enterprise, and the remainder -120
miles — reaches southeasterly from
• Witmipeg iuto Minnesota south of tete
Lake of the Woods. Nearly 150 miles
r.
Church give to his picture of "Coto-
paxi" or his "Heart of the Andes?"
I suppose about 50,000 touc.hes. I
hear the canvas saying: "Why do
you keep me trembling with that
pencil so long? Why don't you put
may be spent in small change, and a.
vast amount of moral character may
go away in small depletious. It is
the little troubles Of life that are
having more effect upon you titan
great ones. • A swarm of locusts Win
hill a grainfield sooner than the in-
cursion of three or four cattle. You
say, "Since I lost my child, since I
lost my property, I have been a dif-
ferent Mall." Ilia you do not recog-
nize the architecture of iittle aimoy-
aticeS that are hewing. digging. -Cut-
ting. shaping, splitting and inter-
joinieg your moral qualities. Rats
nay sites, a ship. Gee luelfer match
may send destrifetion through a
block of storehouses. Catherine de'
Medici got her death from smelling
poisonous rose. Coloaibus, by stop-
ping and asking for a piece of bread
end a drink of water at a Francis-
can convent, was led to the discov-
ery of a. new world. And there Is an
intlmate connection between trifles
and immensities. between nothings
and everetbings,
:goer, be careful to let none of
those annoe-anees go through your
soul unarraigned. Compel them to
administer to your spiritual wealth.
The match ix
of a sixpenny nail some-
times produces leekiew, and the clip
of n. most infinitesimal Annoyance
now damage you forever. leo not
let any 1111110YailVt. Or perplexity
come across your soul without AS
making you better.
A returned missi on n ry told me
that a company of adventurers row-
ing up the Ganges were stung to
death by flies that infest that region
at certain seasons. The earth had
been strewed with the coreasses of
men slain by insect annoyances. The
only way to get prepared for the
great tronbles of life Is to conquer
these small troubles. What would
you. say Ot a. Saiditl Who refused to
load his gun er to go into the con-
flict because it was only a. skirmish,
saying: "I am not going to expend
my ammunition on a skirmish. Wait
until there is a general engagement
and theu you will see how courage-
ous I am and INilat battling I will
loa" The general would say to such
man, '"If you art: not faithful In a
skirmish, you would be nothing in a
general engagement." And 1 ha,ve to
tell yon, 0 Christian men, if you
cannot apply the principles of
Christ's religion on a smnll scale you
will never be able to apply them on
a larger scale. If I had my way
with you, I would have you possess
all possible worldly prosperity. I
would have you each one a garden,
a river flowing through it, gera-
niums and shrubs on the sides and
the grass and flowers as beautiful
as though the rainbow had fallen.
would have you a house, a splendid
mansion, and the beds should be cov-
ered -with upholstery dipped in the
setting sun. 1 would have every hall
in your house set with, statues and
statuettes, and Then I would have
the four quarters of the globe pour
in all their luxuries on your table,
and you should have forks of silver
and knives of gold, inlaid with dia-
monds and amethysts.
"Not each one of us?" you say.
Yes, each one of y011, "Not to
your enemies?" Yes. The only dif-
ference I would make with them
would be that I 'would put a little
extra, gilt on their walls and a little
extra embroidery on their slippers.
"But," you say, "Why does not God
give us all these things?" Ah! I
bethink to myself. He is wiser. It
would make fools and sluggards of
us if we bad our way. No man puts
his best picture in the portioo or
vestibule of his house. God meant
this world to be only the vestibule
of heaven, that great gallery of the
universe toward which we are as-
piring. We must not have it too
good in this world, or we would
want no heaven.
Polycarp was condemned to be
burned to death. The stake was
planted. He was fastened. to it.
The fagots were placed around him,
the fires kindled, but history tells us
that the flames bent outward like
the canvas of a ship in a stout
breeze, so that the Eames, instead of
destroying Polycarp, were only a
`wall between him and his enemies.
They had actually to destroy hixn
with the Poinard. The flames would
not touch him.. Well, my hearer'I
want you to understand that by
God's grace the Baines of trial, in-
stead of consuming your soul, are
only going to be a wall of defense
and a canopy of blessiug. God is
going ,to fulfill to you the blessings
and the promises, as he did to Poly -
carp. "When thou weakest through
the fire, thou shalt not be burned."
• Now you de not understand, but you
shall know hereafter. In heaven you
will bless God even for the hornet.
Value of Railways.
raen and 1,000 horses are a work, and
thie number will be doubled before
cold weather. There are 3,000 tons of
supplies et Rat Portage waiting ship-
ment to poillts on the liue, as much
more at Fort Franois, and, twice as
=vole more at stations along the line
of the Canadian Pacific. Warehouses
are being built at a dozen points along
the route.
Near Rainy Lake the work ef eon-
struotion is very heavy, and crossing
that lake there will be one of the
longest bridges on the American con-
tinent. The Comedian Government is
interested in the construction of the
line to such an extent that it has re -
toady given a bonus of $10,400 per
mile for the entire distal:toe, exeept
for a few miles that will cross Ameri-
can soil in Mienesota.
From the main line of th.eCanaelian
Paeite road on tae north and from Lake
Superior an the east to the Red Raver
on the west, there is no railroad.
Tills is a territory of from 150 to 180
miles norta and south and 850 miles
east and west, It contains over 50,000
square miles. The new lite will bi-
sect it, and will run through a gold -
bearing area larger than the State of
Colorado. It -Neill tap the new and
probably important ..atiltokan iron
range; it will opezi up more pulp
wood to the axe than there is in the
State of Maine ; it will tap the outlets
of streams flowing through the only
white pine forests of the United
States, and will open to cultivation a
tremendous area of wheat and other
farming lands of good climate aad
ricb. soil. By extensions of from forty
to seventy -ave miles, roads ruxming
north from Duluth can connect with
the line, and a new and important
railway system will converge at this
point, adding greatly to the commer-
cial importance of the head of Lake
Superior.
The new transcontinental line of
which this road will f oam a part is
already built from Quebec to the east-
ern shore of the great lakes, -at Parry
Sound, Georgian Bay. For the pres-
ent the lakes will form the only oon-
necting link thence westward as far
as Port .Arthur and Duluth. The On-
tario and Rainy River will be the
link to Winnipeg. Westward to the
foothills of the Rockies there are
now in operation for a great part of
the distance colonization and other
independent roads under Government
grants. These will form portions of
the road. A link 450 miles long run-
ning due west from Winedpeg will be
in operation next season, and will
carry passengers clear to Prince Al-
bert, on. the Upper Saskatchewan
Valley. Over the mountains and to
the Pacific south of Sitka a line will
be under construCtion within a year.
From Winnipeg east to Quebec
these roads will form a trunk line of
modern construction, with low grades,
easy curves, and heavy rails, bridges
and equipment, and capable of carry-
ing- freight at the lowest rates. •In
the bounty contracts for the building
of these lines there are government
restrictions as to grades and curves
and. as to the rase -imam rates of
traffic, which will cut in two the ex-
isting freights from Western Canada
to the sea.
Be Neat.
AU well bred women will strive to
look neat and tidy about the house
while attending to their domestic
duties. The one garment which should
be rigidly tab,00ed is the Mother Hub-
bard wrapper, that loose affair which
hangs about a woman in ugly folds,
and gives her sucb. a slovenly appear-
ance. A wash dress of gingham or
cambric whioh is neatly belted. in to
the figure or a Short, dark waist made
as a blouse or shirt waist, but always
belted, is what the best dressed wom:
en wear in the morning. Aprons are
a great convenience and are worn by
some of the best dressd women during
the morning hours of household occu-
pations. A custom which, should be
encouraged is to change one's gown
for dinner, or at least te wear some
sort of lace Balm or neck adornment,
which dresses one up a little. If you
are it mother, it is a good example to
your children, if a wife, a corapli-
ment to your husband. Make some
radical change in your dress as well
when you spend the evening quietly
at home as when you go out to spend
it with friends. The idea that some
women have that "anything is good
• enough for home" it a sad mistake.
Railways represent an eoormous
addition to public wealth. The
vatue of the railways of all coun-
tries is something like S5,556,000,-
000.
The Witch Influence.
That witch influence, says the Paris
correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph, is not yet on the wane in
some parts of France is proved by the
horrible ease of desecretion of a grave
reported from. Pouzanges, In La, Ven-
dee. One 13rochard, a small faxmer,
took a shovel, hanuner aud chisel iuto
a cemetery, in the place .mentioned,
the oth,er night, and dug up a coffin
from a week old grave. Then he
plied his aanuner and oaisel on the
casket, which contained the corpse of
a woman, broke it open and with a
large clasp knife cut off Some flesh
from the body. Tile noise attracted
the attention of the caretaker of the
cemetery, who went to the epot and,
believing the grave opener to be a
Madman 'with whom it woad be dan-
gerous to interfere ebagle Landed,
went for the gendarmee. Taese, on.
approaching Broclaard, had to beat a
temporary retreat, as he threatened
them with his shovel; but, returning
20 the °berg° again, they Overpowered
the man and carried him away.
33rocleard was found. to be sane
enough. He defended his ghoullike
doings in. the graveyard on the
ground that a vital), had told him to
get as it remedy for an abscess in the
amid wleich the doctors could not ewe
some "deed man's quinine." Tlais
was to be obtained from the head,
heart and oue of the fingers of a
corpse. He accordingly started for
the cemetery, inteuding to get part of
the bedy of an old employer who was
buried at Peuzanges. Not being able
to find the grave of his former mas-
ter, he opened that of the lately
baried woman. Broelaard is kept a
prisoner by the police, who SO far be-
lieve that he is thoroughly responsible
for his action.
A CITY CASE.
One of a Thousand Such Come
to Light in the Queen City.
.11.r. John Blow, 67 PrIncese $t., Toronto,
Cured of Lumbago and 1 dabetes-An
Interesting Lotter -Sigh Praise
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healthy, 'hearty, *vigorous man, where-
as before I started to use your Dodd's
Kidney Pills I was a constant and
miserable sufferer. I cannot find words
to express my entire confidence in
Dodd's Kidney Pills."
Separate Towols for Children.
TWo or more children should not be
permitted to use the same towel.
Each child should have a separate
one, and be taught to regard it as per-
sonal property. Towels may be bought
with initials woven in them, which
makes it easy for the owner to distin-
guish his own. Diseases of the eye
and skin diseases are easily communi-
cated by the indisc,riminate nsie of
the same towel by different persons.
If carefuln.ess in this matter be in-
culcated in chilclhoo'd it may save
much suffering.—Ladies' Home jour-
nal.
The main muecuihr supports of
the body weaken and, lee
go. under
BACKIICHE
DITitillik.GO. To restore,
strengthen, and straighten
up, use
Salt to Laoteed.
We are not in the, liabit ot counting
salt among luxuries, but to the dwea
leas in Lapland it would be it very
great luxury indeed, These people
have no salt, and their substitnte for
ibis raanufa.otared in so laborious a
manner that it must be used very
sparingly. The foundation of it Is
the bark of the iir.treet but ie tom ee
undergo autuy processes before it is at
for use. First the bark 1 peeled
from. the tree, and the inner bark,
whicb, is the part used, carefully sep-
arated fr,nn the outer. Tlais iimer
bark is then divided into Olin layers,
and during tlee excessively hot Lap-
land summer is exposed to the stue
until thorouglily dried. The next
process is a peculiar one. The layera.
of bark, torn WO narrow strips, are
placed in. boxes made ef fresh bark
from other trees, and the bark boxes
and their a:ataxia, ;ere buried b. deep
holes dug in the p.,and. For a day
they are left to the influence of the
sand alone, but on the second day
Ares are lighted above the pits, and.
kept burning briskly for several
hours. The effect of the fires is tit
beat the sand far down, so that it may
act om the fir bark. This it does by
turning it a red color and giving it a
pleasant teste and odor. After three
days the boxes are unearthed and the
fir strips removed. Then comes the
final process, the pounding and grind-
ingi nto a course powder. The people
use the powder as we do salt, but
they are never so extravagant with it
as we are. b.as cost them so much
trouble to prepare it that they lase it
sparingly.
Row to Whiten the Neck.
When the neck or throat have be-
come brown or yellow looking they
may be whitened by the persistent
application every night of the follow-
ing paste, spread on a soft rag and
wrapped around the neck: Honey,
one ounce ;lemon juice, one tea spoon-
ful; oil of bitter almonds, six drops;
the -whites of two eggs. Add enough
fine oatmeal to make a smooth paste.
Application for Sunburn.
A good lotioxt to be applied to the
face and hands after exposare to the
sun is one pint of butterinille, in
which one ounce of freshly scraped
horseradish has been steeped for two
hours,
Waller's Worm Powders are a wonder..
fel medicine for the ailments of ohildren,
Prevent Disorder„—At tbe first symp-
toms of internal disorder, Parmelee's
Vegetable Pills should be resorted to im-
mediately. Two or three of these sale-
tary pellets, taken before going to bed,
followed by doses of one or twopills for
two or three nights in succession, will
serve as a preventive of attacks of dys-
pepsia and all the discomforts -which fol-
low in the train of that fell disorder.
The means are simple wben the way is
known.
Winter waists and Boller'.
Odd waists and bodices have come
to be an accepted and essential. part
of every W0131811S wardrobe, so it is
well to bestow a thought upon the gen-
eral effect, and in selecting material
and trimming to have those which
match the skirt in color. This ap-
plies to th.e dressy bodice. A ehirt
waist in winter is usually made to
wear with jacket suits, and should.
contrast prettily. October Ladies'
Home Journal.
New life for a quarter. Millers Cons -
pound Iron Pills.
P1 gni.r Camels in Persist.
The western part of Persia is inhab-
ited by a species of camel which
is the pigmy of its kind. They are
snow white and are on that account;
almost worshipped by the people. The
shah presented the municipality of
Berlin with two of these little wond-
ers. The largest is 27 inches high and
weighs 61 pounds. The other is four
inches less, but the weight is not
given.
Keep lilinard's Liniment in the House.
She Changed Box Name.
An exchange describes evolution as
follows: A girl named plain "Mary"
at her birth dropped the "r" when
she grew up and became Miss May.
As she began to shine itt a social way
she Changed the "y" to "e" an.dsign-
ed her letters Mae. About a year ago
she dropped the "e" and. it's just
plain "Ma." That's evolution.
Ity -wife is having the best of health
now. Miner's Oompound Iron Pills did it.
A Woman's Con elusion.
"They say she has never looked at
her wedding gown since the man to
whom she was engaged failed to ap-
pear ott the evening set for their mar-
riage."
• "Well, she must be pretty sure that
there are no moths itt the bowie."
Miller's Worm. Powders cure all elle
nenite of children. 1iIi raagio.
Should Have eell That.
Mrs. Lightly cc Why, Dick, that
great, big horse hag been drinking
at that trough for five iniutites.
Mr. Lightly—Well, don't you gos
b., is a draught horK?
Mhtard's Liniment Lumberman's frieut
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