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TIIE STROG SWII1ER
REV* DR, TALMAGE MPLQYS A BOLD
FIGURE FROM THE B1Etsa.
CHRIST THE GREAT RESCUER.
'iia. helpfulness of Religion for Thos*
who Strue.lo. A;;ainst adverse Cir,
cutusitattees,-reuttin;: seeearait '."rest
tt thr. a',ttviont•.
Washington, Oct. 22. --in this dis-
course lir. Talmage employs a very
bold fdg.are of thje Bible tobrine,' out
the 11t•,",irl'kl/ne4s of religion fur all
those ha any }sled of struggle. The
text is hated' xxv, 11, "i i•- d-!iail
spread fi r& his hands ink the nttidst
of them, are he- that tiwinn.dell,
spreatlt ie toile l lei Buie ds.•
In tiss anti:eve-sakee, eaibit.:tii
of pe eg it .vatee ital. t, a l+„d <ei€i
lakes <.. tit .Y;t i::cl y.. te+ [..• eer
goat e . .. eera1St• • < t id I”. in;.
of wise!. is :.i• . r .trt a., e, e. ....-.
yon hate learned tat- sideY'+aaa.• t:.
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each et rat, U0. ,i t. ailed ass
the swierasser a til^;",.i.t•,r .•; i., i• . .
and yt, e f you t.:iti k:: ti
..alit. tavola. .e• it.t'e + tell
the caper' alta let it wok. teaarta
yard e^it a:tai,aoi,slias ill alat.etraster urn
liana. ties sttitemer d*v. 11.... : truiie
caret ikes ars aria 6ik tett ;t:.c• at^x' rd
more le !weed re•.trh. mei ranee of
you may :.+;tui tete :valve ee t [,•.,Si
you had !erre metle to walk the
but rto-.t of you usuaib. eul,t t :it,t
is called the iseetst strof;;t•, pt.kti::e,
the betels ;Oil tlle.tttr[i,
al•4ttla. twee itti.i l rad"ler the titer,
the inside of tire- wrisse touching tile
Ineetst, tlik a pushing the arms for-
w4rd ct,dincident with tlt' t;;roke of
the feet >:t • tick out to the greatest
width poesiblee. and you thus u:teot- 1
Sciousie' illustrate the ett.tdtiug rat
my text, '.Ile shall spread forth his
hands in the midst of them, as ho
that swicuintetll epreadetit forth his
handy tele tut."
The fisherman seeks out unfre-
quented iaoatc:a. You stand all clay
on the batik of a river in the broil-
ing sun anti fling out your lith and
catch nothings. ulaile an expert an-
gler break., tiarough the jutlgie and
goes ha the shadow of the solitary
rock and. in tt place where no fisher-
man has liven for teen years, throws
out his hue and conies home at
night, his facts shining' and his bas-
ket full. I do not kno'cv why we
ministers ref the gospel need always
be fishing m the same stream and
preaching from the saute texts that
other people- preach from. I cannot
understand the policy of the minis-
ter who in Blackfriars, London,
England. every week for 30 years
preached from the Epistles to the
Hebrews, it is an eandlaration to
me when I toms across a theme
which I feel no one else has treated;
and my text Is one of that kind.
There are paths in. God's word that
are well beaten by Christian feet.
When men want to quote Scripture,
they quote the old passages that
every one has heard. When they
want a chapter read, they rend a
chapter that all the other people
have been reading, so that the
church to -day is ignorant of three-
fourths of the Bible.
You go into the Louvre at Paris.
You confine yourself to one corridor
of that opulent gallery of paintings.
As you come out your friend says to
you, "Did you see that Rement-
brnndt?" "No.'" "Did you see that
Titian?" "No." "Did you see that
Rubens?" "No." "Did you see that
Raphael?" "No." "Well," says
your friend, ''then you did not see
the Louvre." Now, my friends, I
think we are too ranch apt to con-
vene ourselves to one of the great
corridors of Scripture truth, and so
much so that there is not one per-
son out of a million who has ever
noticed the all suggestive and pow-
erful picture in the words of my
text.
This text represents God as a
strong swimmer, striking out to
push down iniquity and save the
souls of men. "He shall spread
forth his hands in the midst of
them, as he that swimmeth spread-
eth forth his hands to swim." The
figure is bold and many sided. Most
of you know how to swim, Some
of you learned it in the city school,
where this art is taught; some of
you in boyhood, in the river near
your father's house; some of you
since you came to manhood or wo-
' manhood, while summering on the
beach of the sea. It is a good thing
to know how to swim, not only for
yourself, but because you will after
awhile perhaps have to help others.
I do not know anything more stir-
ring or sublime than to see some
man like Norman McKenzie leaping
from the ship Madras into the sea
to. save Charles Turner, who had
dropped from the royal yard while
trying to loosen the sail, bringing
him back to the deck amid the huz-
zas of the passangers and crew. If
a man has not enthusiasm. enough
to cheer in such circumstances, he
deserves himself to drop into the sea
and have no one to help him. The
Royal Humane Society of England
was established in 1774,. its object
to applaud and reward those who
should pluck up life from the deep.
Any one who has performed such a
deed of daring has all the particu-
lars of that bravery recorded in a
public record and on his breast a
medal done in blue and gold and
bronze, anchor and monogram • and
inscription, telling to future genera-
tions the brevets of the man or wo-
man who saved some one from
drowning.
in order to understand the full
force of this' figure, you need to
realize that our race is in a sinking
condition. You sometimes hear peo-
• .ple talking of what they consider the
most beautiful words in our lan-
,. guage. One man says it is: "home,"
another man says it is the• word
"mother," another says it is the
word "Jesus," but I 'tel'l you the
bitterest word in all . our language,
the word most angry and baleful,
the word saturated; with the most
trouble, the word that accounts for
all the loathsomeness and the pater
and the outrage and the harrowing,
and that word is "sin." You spell
it with three letters, and yet those
three letters describe the circumfer-
ence and pierce the diameter of
everything bad is the universe. Sin
is a sibilant word. You cannot pro-
nounce it without giving the siss of
the flame or the hiss of the serpent.
Sin! And then if you add three let-
ters to that word it describes every
one of us by nature ---sinner, We
have outraged •the law of Cod, not
occasionally, or Iow and then, but
perpetually. The Bible declares it.
Hark! It thunders two claps: "The
heart is .deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked." "The soul
that sinneth, it shall die." \hat the
Bible says our own conscience
f-
1 us.
After Judge Morgans had sentenced
Lady Jane Grey to death his con-
science troubled him so much for the
deed that he became insane, and all
through his insanity he kept saying:
"Tulse her away from nue! Lady
Jane Grey! Take her as',ay! Lady
Jane Grey!" It was the voice of.
eonseieuce. And no pian ever does
anything wrong, However great or
small, but his eonscience brings that
matter before hint. and at every
step of his misbehavior it stets,
"Wrong, wr ong! Sir is a leprosy;
sin is apartltsis; sin is a Coestcu:lt-
tion; sin is a pollution; sink is death.
Give it a fair cl,attee, and it will
s�v. nip you uud ane, body, hind and
soul, forever.
.than What do w•a -want? 4. meta
mor --'-a strong swimmer, a. swift
swimmer: And bh .sed be God, in
fur text the h.ise Irian anuuuneed.
"Ile shall weed forth his haruls in
the midst of them, ns he that swell -
meth stretched forth his hands to
swine." 1'on have noticed that. when
a swimmer goes to rescue any one
he buts off his Waxy Lipptu•'n lIe
must not have any such it,ipeiiinneet
about hits if he is gt.itg to do titis
great deed. And when Christ step-
ped forth to save us he shook oIY
the sandals of heaven, and his fent
were free, and then he stepped down
into the wave of our traesgressions,
and it came up over his wounded
feet. and it carne above the spear
stab in his sidle—aye, it dashed to
the lacerated temple. the high water
mark of his anguish, Thera, - ruling
above the flood. "he stretched forth
his. hands in the Midst of thene, us
he that swhnlneth spreadeth forth
his bands to swim."
If you have ever watched a swim-
mer, font notice that his whole body
is brought into play. The arms are
flexed, the hands drive the water
back, the knees are active, the heats
is thrown back to escape strctug uht-
tion, the whole body is in propul-
sion. And tivhen ('1lrist sprang into
the deep to save us he threw his en-
tire nature into it --all his godhead,
his omniscience. Itis goodness, his
love, his omnipotence, head, heart,
eyes, hands, feet. We were far out
on the sea and so deep down in the
waves and so far out front the shore
that nothing short of an entire God
could save us. Christ leaped out for
our rescue, saying, "Lo, I come to
do thy will!" and all the .surges of
human and satanic hate beat against
him, and those who watched him
from the gates of heaven feared ho
would go down under the wave and
instead of saving others would him-
self perish, but, putting his breast
to the foam and shaking the surf
from his locks, he came onand on
until he is now within the reach of
every one here, eye omniscient, heart
infinite, arm onmiputt:nt, mighty to
save, even unto the uttermost.
Oh, it was not half a God that
trampled down bellowing Gennesar-
et; it was not a quarter of a God
that mastered the demons of Ga-
dara; it was not two-thirds of a
God that lifted up Lazarus into the
arms of his overjoyed sisters; it was
not a fragment of God who offered
pardon and peace to all the race.
No. This mighty swimmer threw
his grandeur, his glory, his might,
his wisdom, his omnipotence and his �
eternity into this one act. It took
both hands of God to save us—both
feet. How do I prove it? On the
cross were not both bands nailed?
On the cross were not both feet
spiked? His entire nature involved
in our redemption!
Behold, then, the spectacle of
drowning soul and Christ tl:e swing-
mer! I believe it was in tS1.S when
there were six English roldie:s o,
the Fifth Fusileers who won: pang-,
ing to a capsized boat—a boat that
had been upset by a squall three
miles from shore. It was in the
night, but one man swam mightily
for the beach, guided by the dark
mountains that lifted their top
through the night. Be came to the
beach. He found a shoreman that
consented to go with him and save
the other men, and they put out. It
was some time before they could
find the place where the men were,
but after awhile they heard their
cry, "Help, help!" and they bore
down to them, and they saved them
and brought them to shore. Oh,
that this moment our cry might be
lifted long, loud and shrill till
Christ, the swimmer, shall come and
take us lest we drop a thousand fa-
thoms under!
If you have been much by the wa-
ter, you know very well that when
one is in peril help must come very
quickly, or it will be of no use. One
minute may decide everything. Im-
mediate help the roan wants or no
help at all. Now, that is just the
kind of relief we want. The case is
urgent, imminent, instantaneous.
See that soul sinking! Son of God,
lay hold of him. Be quick, be quick!
Oh, I wish you all understood how
urgent this gospel is! ' There was a
man in the navy at sea who had
been iteverely whipped for bad be-
havior, and he was maddened by it
and leaped into the sea, and no soon
er had he leaped into the sea than,
quick as lightning, an albatross
Swooped upon him. The drowning
man, brought to his senses, seized
hold of the albatross and held on.
The fluttering of the bird kept him
on the wave until relief could come.
Would now that the dove of God's
convicting, converting and saving
spirit might flash from the throne
upon your soul and that you, tak-
ing hold of its potent wing, might
live and live forever.
New modes have been invented for
resetting a drowning body, but there
has been no new invention fon res-
eutng a drowning soul. Isi 1765•
Lionel Lukin, a London coach build-
er, fitted up a Norway yawlas a
lifeboat and called it the Insubnaergi-
ble, and that has been improved up-
on until from all the coasts of the
round world perfect lifeboats are
ready to put out for the relief of
marine disasters. In 16 years the
French Society For Saving Life From
Shipwreck, by their lifeboats and
gun apparatus, saved 2,129 lives.
The German Association For the
Rescue of Life From Shipwreck, the
Royal National Lifeboat institution
and our United States life saving
service have done a work beyond the
power of statistics to colnmemare
ate. What rocket lines and sling
life buoys and tally boards and mor-
tars
andamu ock
h sand cork mat-
tresses
a t -tresses and life saving stations filled
with machinery for .saving the bod-
ies of the drowning! But let me here
and now make it plain that there
has been no new way invented for
the rn q ral and eternal rescue of a
struggling soul. five hundred at-
tempts at such contrivance have
been made, but all of theta dead
failure. Hear it! "There is none
other name under heaven given
among men whereby we Inust be
saved" than the name of Jesus. The
Mighty swinnmar of my text comes
down off the beach of heaven and
through the breakers, comes buffet-
ed and bruised. and reddening the
wares from his own lacerations, he
cries: "Lay hold of my arm! Put
your he.ul on lay shoulder! hear 1
the beating of my loving Ireartl Be
ye saved, for I am God, and there
is no other!„
I want to persuade you to lay
hold of this strong swimmer. "No,"
you say; "it is always disastrous
fora drowning' plan to lay hold of a
swimmer." Thera is not river or
lake but has a. calamity resultant:'
front the fret that when a. strong
swimmer went out to save a sink-
ing than the drowning man elutched
hint. threw his arms around hila.
pinioned his arms, and they both
went down together. When you are
saving a. man in the water, you do
not want to come up by his fare.
Ycal want to conte up by his back.
You do not want hitt to hold you
while you take hold of him. But,
blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so
strong a. swimmer he comes not to
our back, but to our face, and be
asks us to throw around him the
ants of our love and then promises
to take us to time beach, and he will
do it. Do not trustthat plank of
good works. Do not trust that shiv-
ered spar of your own righteousness.
Christ only can give you safe trans-
portation. Turn your face upon him,
as the dying martyr did in olden
times when he cried out: "None but
Christi None but Christ!" Jesus ]las
taken millions to the land, ata he is
willing to take you there. Oh, what
hardness to thrust hila. back when
be bas bait swimming all the way
from the throne of God, where you
are now, and is ready to swim all
the way back again, taking your re-
deemed spirit!
I hear many saying: "Well, I
would like to be a Christian. I am
going to work to become a Christ-
ian."
hristian." My brother, you begin wrong..
When aman is drowning, and a
strong swimmer comes out to help
him, ire says to hint: "Now be quiet.
Put your arm on my arm or on my
shoulder, but don't struggle, don't
try to help yourself, and I'll take
you ashore. The more you struggle
and the more you try to help your-
self -the more you impede me, 'Now,
be quiet, and I'll take you ashore."
When Christ, the strong swimmer,
connes out to save a soul, the sinner
says: "That's right. I am glad to
see Christ, and I am going to help
him in the work of my redemption.
T art going to pray more, and that
will help him, and I am going to
weep extravagantly over my sins,
and that will help hint." No, it will
not. Stop your doing. Christ will
do all or none. You cannot lift an
ounce, you cannot move an inch, in
this matter of your redemption,
This is the difficulty elfich keeps
thousands of souls out of the king-
dom of heaven. It is because they
cannot consent to let Jesus Christ
begin and complete the work of
their redemption. "Why," you say,
"then is there nothing for me to
do?" Only one thing have you to
do, and that is to lay hold of
Christ and let him. achieve your sal-
vation and achieve it all. I do not
know whether I make the matter
plain or not. I simply want to
show you that a man cannot save
himself, but that the Almighty Son
of God can do it and will do it if
you ask him. Oh, fling your two
arms, the arm of your trust and the
arm of your love, around this omni-
potent ea -framer of the cross!
Have you ever stood by and seen
some one under process of resuscita-
tion after long submergence? The
strong swimmer hassput him on the
beach after a struggle in the waters.
To excite breathing in the almost
lifeless body what manipulation,
what friction of the cold limbs,what
artificial movemont of the lungs,
what breath of the rescuer blown
into the mouth of. the rescued! And
when breathing begins, and after
awhile the slight respiration be-
comes the deep sigh, and the eyes
open, And the blue lips take on a
smile, what rejoicing, what clapping
of hands all up and down the beach,
what congratulation for the strong
swimmer and for all who helped in
the restoration, what shouting of
"He lives, he lives!" Like_ this Is
the gladness when a , soul that has
been submerged in sin and sorrow
is "conning to." What desire on the
part of all to help, and, when under
the breath of God and under the
manipulation • by the wounded hands
of Christ, .the life eternal of the soul
begins to show itself, all through
the ranke of spectators, terrestrial
and celestial,' goes the cryr "He
lives! Rejoice, for the dead is alive
again!" May the living Christ this
moment put out for your rescue,
"spreading his hands in the midst of
you, as. a swimmer spreadeth his
hande to swim I "
A Horne Thrust,
Cobwigger—My wife talks of mov
ing again, but she can't find a house
with enough closets in it. I wonder
why a woman always wants so
many?
Merritt—To keep the family skele-
ton in, I suppose.
e U , al':,itAi t•tiseekencd .
The story of Casablanca is so thor-
ougly popularized by Mrs. Hemlans
that a few particulars of the family
of the unfortunate lad may not be un-
interesting. From an account recent-
ly published in a French journal, it
appears that Luce de Casablanca,
nephew of Count Raphael de Casabl-
anca, and father of the little hero,
himself entered the ,Navy when be was
only 18 years old. He gained his first
successes in the Indian seas; afterward
he accompanied the French troops
which were sent to the aid of the
.Americans in their struggle for liber-
ty,and
distinguished himse1 at Rhode
Island and Chesapeake under -the
orders of Admiral Grasse. Itis pre-
nlotion was rapid, and in 1790 he was
made captain,
Corning of a very old Corsican fam-
ily, he was chosen by his compatriots
to represent them at the National
Convention. Both there and. in tile
Connell of Five Hundred he took a
prominent part in all the diseessions
relative to naval affairs. At the fall
of the Connell he returned to the ser-
vanti was pporux Iof
theice veis%le L'Orieanteinted, which almain ost
immediately started on the Egyptian
expedition.
At the battle of Aboukir, Admiral
I3rneys was killed by a ball and Cap-
tain Casablanca took the command.
Although wounded in the head, he
preferred to be blown up with his
vessel rather than to surrender to the
English. His son, the hero of the
poem, a child. of ten, who served un-
der lxim, threw himself on his fath-
er's body and refll,red to quit him
The sailors tried to get him away;
"No, no, I will die with him," he
said.
At the voice of the son the father
revived.
"Save yourself," be cried, turning
toward the boy; "live for your.
mother." But in vain; the child
would not go.
Soon after a formidable detonation
was heard, and men, cannons and ves-
set, were blown into the air, a mo-
ment after to fall and be engulfed in
the ocean.
In his letter to the Directorate, dat-
ed from. Cairo, 4, Frnctidor, An VI.
Napoleon, then General Bonaparte,
paid, "Casablanca perished with his
vessel. He fell calmly and bravely in
the midst of the fire; his son, a child
of ten, would not leave his father,
and died in leis arms, a prey to the
devouring flames."
On another occasion, Napoleon,
then Emperor, in speaking of the
battle of Aboukir and Casablanca,
said:
"That distinguished officer perished
gloriously. He was blown up with
the Orient, holding the national flag
in his hand, The explosion took
place at 10 o'clock, and it was that
which decided the victory in favor of
the English."
Mrs. tremens is not the only one to
celebrate the heroic death of this
member of the Convention, and the
exquisite sentiment of and
love
which he had inspired in his son,
Lamartine, in his "Vie des Grands
Hommel; Alfred de Musset, in,
"Servitude et Grandeur Militaire ;"
Lebrun, Chenier and many other
French writers have sung the praises
of this noble father and son.
Descendants of Luce de Casablanca
at the present day occupy an honor-
able position in Corsica, and one of
them, like his famous ancestor, repre-
sents the Corsicans in the French
Parliament.
Queen Victoria at Class meeting.
It is a mark of meanness to ridicule
religion or to persecute any one for
his or her piety. No person with any
nobility of mind will ever descend to
it. Queen Victoria's example once
effectually- rebuked the abuse. The
anniversary meeting by J. A. Bow-
ron, of Blackheath.
"Many years ago," said Mr. Bow-
ron, "my father conducted a large
society class at Sloane Terrace Chapel,
Chelsea, and at one time one of the
members of that class was a female
servant at Buckingham Palace. This
servant, however, came in for much
persecution and ridicule on account
of her Methodism and her regular at-
tendance at class. Things went so far
at length that some of the other ser-
vants threatened to leave if the Meth-
odist servant remained, and the mat-
ter in some manner reached the ears
of her majesty,twho immediately in-
quired into it, and on being informed
of the cause of the dissatisfaction
said: 'I will go to the meeting my-
self and see if it is a fit place for a
servant.' "
Much enthusiasm was evoked when
Mr. Bowron went on to say: "Her
Majesty came to my father's class,
and on her return to the palace said
to the persecuted Methodist servant:
'Never neglect your class meeting, I
only wish that other servants would
go also.' "
tendon Places of Amuse,nent.
London places of amusement num-
ber about 550 or 600, including 450
music halls, and provide accommoda-
tion for about half a million sight-
seers. The capital invested is a little
short of £4,000,000, without reckoning
places like the Crystal Palace and the
Albert Hall. Direct employment is
given about 150,000 people, besides in-
direct employment to a host of trades
men and'workpeople. The capital in-
vested in similar places of amuse-
ment in Great Britain is over £6,000,-
000.
6,000,-
000. This gives, employment to about
850, 000 people, and provides accommo-
dation for 1,250,000 spectators.
The Veneznelan Award..
The award of the Venezuela ques-
tion comes like a voice from, the grave
of the past, so completely had interest
in the question been buried by events.
The award appears to befavorable to
Great Britain, Now, surely, we
have received a lesson. At the time
of the ,affiar, Toronto jingoism was
in a flame. Great Britain was urged
to rseist in arms so intolerable an
affront to the dignity of the empire;
furious menaces were hurled at the
Yankees, and cartoons, not only in-
sulting. but filthy and disgraceful to
our manners, were scattered over the
United States and thrust into the
hands of American politicians. . It
was no fault of Toronto jingoism that
there was not an international rup-
ture, followed, as it must have been,
by an invasion of Canada. Lord Sal-
isbury kept his head. The interest
of Great Britain has been secured
without detriment to her honor. The
Americans, instead of learning to des-
pise her, have been anxiously court-
ing her alliance, Illtead of a relapse
into barbarism. as a. war about a
boundary question would have been,
there has been a step forward in
moral civilization.
Lo,.+e. in Sheep by lanes.
An unusual number of sheep seem
to have been ..ills.a by dogs in On-
tario this year, "C'ollingwootl Town- ,
ship at its last meeting paid $107.06
for sll'ep killed in this way," says
The Bulletin, ''while no dog owner
has been charged a single cent, except
the mere nominal tax. We have no
means of knowing the exact amount
eollected in the township for dog
taxes, but are of the opinion that the
whole amount for the year is less
than the sum paid out at this one ses-
sion of the couneil. Not only in Col-
linwood Township. but generallte.
the matter calls far investigation and
readjustment. Especially should 1
some method be adopted to compel
the owners of the clogs to bear the
burden of the damage done."
Henry "Wesley of Nemarket, The 11
Express says, had two sheep killed by
dogs last week.
The amount which the Esquesing I
Council paid for sheep killed by dogs
in 1807 was $148.40, and in 1898, $147.-
00, says The Milton Champion.
An Ontario Cnntundrum mine.
What is claimed to be the richest i
deposit- of corundum in the world has
been located in the Townships of Dun -
=non, Monteagel, Carlow, Raglan
and Brudenell, A syndicate of On- !1
taric capitalists has been oragnized to
work the deposits. In addition to
paying the annual rentals as fixed by
the Ontario mines' act, the makers
of the agreement are under penal
bonds to spend $25,000 before Septem-
ber 15th, 1900, $50,000 within the next
eighteen months and $100,000 within
the next three years. Of these sums
it is provided that $8,000 shall be
spent on experiments looking toward
the production of aluminum from the
rock in these locations, and a mini-
mum of $25,000 on a plant for the
manufacture of abrasive goods from
corundum.
A Aindly Prino,ss.
A rather pretty story is just now
current about the Princess of Wales.
A few -weeks ago, when at Sandring-
ham, an old lady-in-waiting of the
late Queen of Denmark lay dying in
the royal palace at Copenhagen. She
had known the Princess of Wales
since the latter's infancy, and was
deeply attached to her. King Chris-
tian writes every week to his daugh-
ter in England, and in one of his let-
ters mentioning the illness of the old
Countess, declared that her one dying
wish was to speak with the Princess
before she expired. The Princess was
quite unable to leave England at the
time. But she spoke a tender and
sympathetic message into a phono-
graph and despatched it to Copen-
hagen by special messenger. The lat-
ter arrived only just in time. Al-
ready the dimness of death had veiled
the old lady's eyes, when the phono-
graph gave out its message of love
and hope, and as the last words died
away, and only the vibrations of the
phonograph lingered on the air, she
sighed happily, and with "God bless
you, dear," on her lips, passed away
to another world.
Chanse in Horseshoe Falls.
A fall of rooks from the centre of
the Horseshoe Falls has had the ef-
fect of restoring it to the shape from
which it derived its name. Of late
years the fall has been "V" shaped,
and this resulted in the greater part
of the water plunging over the pre-
cipice near the centro. In 1819 the
crest of the falls was acute, in 1342
it was obtuse, and in 1536 was
acute, but in 1.890 it began widening
out. The present fall of rock is but
one of the stens in its slow retreat.
EXCRCIAT1NG PAINS.
THF VICTIM A WELL, -KNOWN MID
I'01 VLAlt HOTEL MERL
After Other Medicines Failed Me Was
Cured by Dr. Wyoming Pink Pills-*
Every Dose Counted 1n the Battle
.against Pale.
From the News, Alexandria, Ont.
There is no more popular hotel clerk
in Eastern Ontario than Mr. Peter
McDonell, of the Grand Union
Rotel, Alexandria, At the present
time Mr. McDonell is in the enjoy-
ment of perfect health, and a stranger
meeting him for the first time could
not imagine that a man with the
healthy glow and energetic manner of
Mr, McDonell could ever have felt a
symptom of disease. There is a story,
however,' in couneetior, wit. the
splendid degree of health attained by
flim that is worth telling, It is a
well Imown faet that a few years ago
he was the victim of the most exerts -
elating pains of rheumatism. Know-
ing these facts aNews reporter called
on Mr. McDonell for the purpose of
eliciting further part.' niers. Without
hesitation he attributed his present
sound state of health to the use of
Dr, Williams' I'iuk Pills for Pale
People. "I am," said he, 33 years of
age, but three years ago I did not ex-
pect to live this long. At that time E
was connected with the Commercial
here and as part of my duties was to
drive the busses to and from the C.
A. R. station, 1: was exposed to alt
kinds of weather and subjected to the
sudden extremes of heat and cold.
Along in the early spring I was sod-
denly
oddenly attacked with the most terrible
pains in my limbs and body. I sought
relief in doctors and then in patent
medicines, but all to no purpose ;
nothing seemed to afford relief. Fax
two months I was a helpless invalid,
suffering constantly the most exernoi-
ating pains. My hands and feet
swelled and I was positive the end
was approaching. My heart was
affected and index•: I was almost in
despair, when fortunately a friend of
our family recommended the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I began
using them in May. 1890, and had
taken throe boxes before I had noticed
any change, but from that time every
dose counted. The blood seemed to
thrill through my veins and by the
time I had finished the fifth box every
trace of the disease had vanished.
Ever since then I have been working
hard and frequently lona overtime,
but have continued in excellent
health. Whenever I feel the slightest
symptom of the trouble I use the pills
for a day or so and soon feel as well
as ever. I feel that I owe my health
to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and never
lose an opportunity of recommending
them to others suffering as well.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by'
going to the root of the disease. They
renew and build up 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 full trade mark, Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. If
your dealer does not keep them they'
will be sent postpaid at 50 cents a box,
or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing
the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
Minard's Liniment Lumaerman's Friend.
Doubtless Remembered.
The Advocate of India tells of a
curious way of rejoicing. The nawab
of Rampore being blessed with a
daughter, rejoicings were taking
place in his state, and a week's pay
was deducted from every state official
in commemoration of the event.
Why a Ship is Called “,be."
Perhaps it would not be an error to
trace the custom of calling a ship
"she" back to the Greeks. who called
all ships by feminine names, probably
out of deference to Athene, goddess of
the sea.
Nervous people should take Miller's
Compound Iron Pills.
Se Certainly Had.
Friend—I hear that you recently drop.
ped into poetry.
Amateur Bard—Well, the editor fired
nie into the wastebasket, if that's what
you mean.—Syracuse Herald.
The Primrose Path.
"Cousin Martha has got tired of phys-
ical culture."
"How do you know?"
"She's gone back to walking pigeon
toed."—Chicago Record.
Proof Positive.
Judge Scroggs—What is your proof
thet ole Aunt Dosb stole ther chickens?
Policeman Peleg She wuz single
loudes' at ther revival meetin las' night.
—New York Journal
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