HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-11-9, Page 3OUR FATHER'S HOME.
Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Glories of Heaven.
ROOM FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN.
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Washington, Nov. 5r. In a unique
lway the heavenly world is discours-
ed upon by Dr. Talmage in this ser-
mon under the figure of a home;
teat, John ails, 7, "In zny Father's
house ore many rooms."
Here is a bottle of medicine that
is a eure all. The disciples were sad,
and Christ offered heaven as #fin al.-
ternative, a stimulant and a tonic.
He shahs thein that their sorrows
are only a dark background of a.
bright picture of coating felicity. Ile
lets them, know that, though now
they live on the lowlands, they shall.
yet have a house on the uplands.
Nearly all the Bible descriptions of
heaven may be figurative, I am not
positive that in all heaven there ia.
a literal crown or Bare, or pearly
gate or throne er chariot. They May
he only used to illustrate the glories
at the place, but how well they do
iti The favorite symbol by which
_±'the Bible presents celestial happi-
Mee hi, at house. Paul, who izever
owned a house, although be hired
one for two years hi Italy, speaks
of heaven as a, "house not made with
bands," and tzarist in our text. the
translation of twhfeb is a little
changed, so as to give the more ac-
curate meaning, says, 9n wy Fath-
er's house aro many rooms.'"
This divinely authorized compari-
son of heaven to agreat homestead,
of large accommodations I propose
to carry out. In some healthy
neighborhood a man builds a very
Commodious habitation. Ile must
have rooms for all his children. The'.
rooms condo to be called after the
different members of the family.
That is mother's room, that is
George's room. that is lleaary's room,
that is Flora's room, that Is Mary's
room, and the house is all occupied.
But time goes by, and the sons go
out into the world and build their,
Owen homes. and the daughters are!
married or have talents enough sin- i
gly to go out and do a good, work
in the world. .and, after awhile the
father and mother are almost alone
in the big house, and, seated by the
evening strand, they say, "Well, our
family is no larger now than when
we started together 40 years ago."
But time goes still farther by, and
some of the children aro unfortunate
and return to the old homestead to
livo, and the grandchildren conte with
them and perhaps great-granddad-
dren, and again the house is full.
Millennia ago God built on the hills
of heaven a great homestead for a
family innumerable, yet to he. .At
first he lived alone in that great
house, but after awhile it vas occu-
pied by a very large family, cherubic,
seraphic, abgelie. The eternities
passed on, and many of the habitants
passed on, and many of the inhabit-
ants
nhabitants became wayward and left, nev-
er to return, and many of the apart-
ments were vacated, 1 refer to the
seraphic, angelic. Tbe eternities,
are filling up again. There are ar-
rivals at the old homestead of Hod's
children every day, and the day will
come when there will be no unoccu-
pied room in all the house,
As you and I expect to enter it
and make there eternal residence, I
thought you would like to get some
more particulars about the many
roomed homestead, "In my Father's
house are many rooms." You see,
the place Is to be apportioned off in-
to apartments. We shall love all who
are in heaven, but there aro some
very good people whom we would
not want to live with in the same
room. They may be better than we
are, but they are of a divergent tem-
perament. We would like to meet
with. them on the golden streets andi
worship with them in the temple and
walk with them on the river banks,
but I am glad to say that we shall
live in different apartments. "In my
Father's house are many rooms."
You see, heaven will be so large that
if one wants an entire room to him-
self or herself it can be afforded.
An ingenious statistician, taking
the statement made in Revelation,
twenty-first chapter, that the hea-
venly Jerusalem was measured and
found to be 12,000 furlongs and that
the length and height and breadth of
it are equal, says that would make
heaven in size 948 sextillion 988
quintillion cubic feet, and then, re-
serving a certain portion for the
court of heaven and the streets and
estimating that, the world may last
a hundred thousand years, he ciphers
out that there arc over 5,000,000,-
000,000 rooms, each room 17 feet
long, 16 feet wide, 15 feet high. But
;I have no faith in the accuracy of
tthat calculation. He makes the
,rooms too small. From all I can
, read, the rooms . will be palatial, and
,those who have not had enough
room in this world will have plenty
'of room at the last.
Carrying out still further the sym-
bolism of the text, let us join hands
and go up to this majestic home-
stead and see for ourselves. As we
ascend the golden steps an invisible
guardsman swings open the front
door,. and we are ushered to the
right into the reception room of the
old homestead. That is the place
where we first meet the welcome of
heaven. There must be a place
where the departed spirit enters and
a place in which it confronts the in-
habitants celestial.. The reception
room of the newly arrived from this
world—what scones it must have
witnessed since 'the first guest ar-
rived, r the victim ctlxn of the Brat fratri-
cide, pious Abel! In that room Christ
lovingly greets all new -comers. He
redeemed them, 'and he has the right
to the first embrace on arrival. What
s minute when the ascended spirit.
°Soret sees the Lord! Better than all
iwe ever read about him or talked
about him or sang about him in all
the churches and through all our
earthly lifetime will it be, just for
one second to see him. 'The most
rapturous idea we ever had of him
on sacramental days or at the height
of some great revival or under the
uplifted baton of an oratorio is a
bankruptcy of thought compared with
the first dash of his appearance in
that reception room. At that mo-
hent when yon confront each other,
Christ looking upon you and you
looking upon Christ, there will bo an
ecstatic thrill and surging of Rana
dols that beggar all description.
Look! The;, need no introduction,
Longago
Christ
chose Lhat rep
acs
tri
ant sinner, +.nd that repentant sir -
tier ehose Christ, Mightiest moment
of an immortal history ....the first
kiss of heaven! Jesus and the soul!
The soul and Jesus!
But pow into that reception room
pour the glorified kinsfolk, enough of
earthly retention to let you know
them, but without their wounds or
their sicknesses or their troubles--
see
roublessee what heaven bas done for them—
so radiant, so gleeful, so transport-
ingly lovely! They call you by name,.
They greet you with an ardor pro-
portioned to tbe anguish of your
parting and the length of your sepa-
ration Father! Mother! There Is
your Child. Sisters! Brothers;
Friends! I wish you joy. For years
apart, together again in the recep-
tion room of the old homestead. You
see, they will know you are coaling.
There are so inauy immortals falling
alt the spaces between here and hea-
von that news Ulm that files like
lightning. They will be there in ton
instant. Though they were in some
other world on errand from God, a
signal would he thrown that would
fetch. them. Though you might at
first feel dazed and overawed nt
their supernal splendor, all that feel-
ing will be gone at their !first touch
of heavenly salutation, and we will
say; "Oh, my lost boy!" "Oh, lay
lost companion'," "Oh, my lost
f'rie'nd! Are we here together?"
What scenes in that reception room
of the old homestead have been wit..
messed! There met Joseph and Jacob,
finding it a. brighter room than any-
thing they saw in Pharoah's palace;
David and the little child for -Munn
he *rico fasted and wept; Mary and
Lazarus after the heartbreak of
Bethany; Timothy and grandmother
Lois: Isabella. Graham and her sail-
or son; Alfred and George Cooktnan,
the mystery of the sea at last trade
manifest: Luther and Magdalene. the
daughter he bemoaned: John `Howe
and and the prisoners whom be gas-
pelized, and multitudes without pant-
her who, once so weary and so sad,
parted on earth. but gloriously met
inteaven. Among all the rooms of
that house there is no one that more
enrapiutcs my soul than that recep-
tion room. "In any Father's house
are many rooms."
Another room in our 'l'ather's
house is the throne -room. We be-
long to the royal family. The blood
of Icing Jesus flows in our veins, so
we have a right to enter the throne -
room. It is no easy thing an earth
to get through even the outside door
of a king's residence. During the
Franco-German. war, one eventide in
the summer of 1870, I stood study-
ing the exquisite seuipturing of the
gate of the Tuileries, Paris. Lost
in admiration of the wonderful art
of that gate, I knew not that I was
exciting suspicion, Lowering my
eyes to the crowds of people, I found
myself being closely inspected lay the
government *Ingalls, ls, who, from my
complexion, judged me to be a Ger-
man and that for soma belligerent
purpose I might be examining the
gates of the palace. My explanation.
in very poor French did not satisfy
them, and they followedme long dis-
tamces until I reached lay hotel and
were not satisfied until from my
]andlard they found that I was only
an inoffensive American. The gates
of earthly palaces are carefully
guarded, and, if so, how much more
the throne -room! A dazzling palace
is it for mirrors and all costly art.
No one who has ever saw the throne -
room of the first and only Napoleon
will ever forget the letter N em-
broidered in purple and gold on the
upholstery of chair and window, the
letter N gilded on the wall, the let-
ter
etter N chased on the chalices, the let-
ter
etter N flaming from the ceiling. What
a Conflagration of brilliance the
throne -room of Charles Immanuel of
Sardinia, of Ferdinand of Spain, of
Elizabeth of England, of Boniface of
Italy! But the throne -room of our
Father's house hath a glory eclips-
ing all the throne -rooms that ever
saw scepter wave or crown glitter
or foreign embassador bow, for our
Father's throne is a throne of grace,
a throne of mercy, a throne of holi-
ness, a throne of justice, a throne of
universal dominion. We need not
stand shivering and cowering before
it, for our Father says wo may yet
one day come up and sit on it be-
side him. "To him that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me in my
throne."
The crowns of the royal family of
this world are tossed about from
generation to generation, and from
family to family. There are men
comparatively young in Berlin who
have seen the crown on three emper-
ors. But wherever the coronets of
this world rise or fall they are des-
tined to meet in one place. And I
look and see them coming from north
and south- and east and west, the
Spanish crown, the Italian crown,
the. English crown, the Turkish
crown, the Russian crown, the Per-
sian crown—aye, all the crowns
from under the great archivolt of
heaven—and while I watch and won-
der they are all flung in rain of dia-
monds around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from *shore to
shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Another room in our Father's
house is the music room. St. John
and other Bible writers talk so much
about the music of heaven that there
must be music , there, perhaps not
such as on earth was thrummed h mmed from
trembling string or evoked by touch
of ivory key, but if not that, then
something better. There are so
many Christian harpists and Christ-
ian composers and, Christian organ-
ists and Christian choristers and
Chrietiaa hymnologists that have
gome, up from earth, there must• be
bit
asaaaist-
Rome place of especial delectation.
Shall we have music in this world
of discords and no music in the land
of complete harmony? I cannot give
you the notes of the first bar of the
new song that issung in heaven. I
cannot imagine either the solo or the
doxology. But heaven means music,
and can wean nothing else. Occas
*tonally that music has escaped the
gate. Dr, Fuller, dying at Beaufort,
S.C., *aid, "Do you not hear?"
"Hear what?" exclaimed the by-
standers. "The music! Lift me up!
Open the windows!"
Another room in our Father's
use
lao will be the family room. It
may correspond somewhat with the
family room on earth. At morning
and evening, you know, that is the
pace we how meet. Though every
member of the household have
separate room, in the family room
they all gather, and joys and sor-
rows and experiences of all sty 1 _.
are there rehearsed. Sacred 'morns in
all our dwellings, whether it he lux
urieus with ottomans and divans
and books in Russian lids standing
in mahogany case or there he only a
few plain chairs end a cradle. So
the family room, on high will be the
place where the kinsfolk assemble and
talk ever the family experiences of
earth, the weddings, the births, the
burials, the festal days of Christmaa
and Thanksgiving reunion. 'Will the
children departed ren .iaa children
there? Will the aged remain, aged
there? Qh, not Everything is pees
fect there. Tba child will go ahead
to glorified maturity. and the aged
will go back to glorified maturity.
However muck we love our children
on earth, we would consider it a doe
zuestie disaster if they stayed chit,
dren, and so we rejoice at their
growth here. ,And when we meet in
the family room of our Father"a
house we will be glad. that they
have grandly and gloriously rootur-
ed, while our parents. who were aged.
and infirm here, wo shall be glad to
find restored to the most agile and
vigorous immortality there, If 40
or 45 or r0 years be the apes: of
physical and. mental life on earth,
then the heavenly childhood will ad -
'Once to that, and the heavenly old
ago retreat to that. When We join
them in the family room, we Shall
have much to tell them. We shall
want to know of them, right away,
such things as these: Did you see us
in this or that or the other strug-
gle? Did you know when we lost our
property and sympathize with us?
Were you pleased when we started
for heaven? Aid you celebrate the
Hour of our conversion? And then,
whether they know it or not, we will
tell them all. But they will have
more to tell us than we to tell them.
Ten years on earth may be very
eventful, but what must be the bi-
ography of ten years in heaven?
They will have to tell us the story
of coronations, story of news from
all immensity. story of conquerors
and hierarchs, story of wrecked or
ransomed planets, story of angelic
victory aver diabolic revolts, of ex-
tinga:ished suns, of obliterated con-
stellations, of new galaxies kindled
and swung, of stranded comets, of
worlds of fire, and story of Jehov-
ah's reign. If in that family room
of our Father's house wo have so
much to tell them of what we have
passed through since wo parted,
how much more thrilling and arous-
ing that which they have to tell us
of what they have passed through
since wo parted: Surely that family
room will be one of the most favor-
ed rooms in all our Father's house.
What long lingering there, for wo
shall never again be in a hurry!•
"Let me open a window," said a
humble Christian servant to Lady
Rallies, who, because of the death of
her child, had shut herself up in a
dark room and refused to see any
one. You have been many days in
this dark room. Are you not
ashamed to grieve in this manner
when you ought to be thanking God
for having given you the most beau-
tiful child that ever was seen, and,
instead of leaving him in this world
till he should be worn with trouble,
has not God taken hien to heaven in
all his beauty? Leave ori weeping
and let me open a window."
How would it do for any person
to leave you in that family room
to -day? I am sure there is no room
in which you would rather stay
than in the enraptured circle of
your ascended and glorified kinsfolk,
We might visit other rooms in our
Father's house. There may be pic-
ture galleries penciled not with
earthly art, but by some process un-
known in this world, preserving for
the next world the brightest and
most stupendous scenes of human
history, and there may be lines and
forms of earthly beauty preserved
whiter and chaster and richer than
Venetian sculpture ever wrought --
rooms beside rooms, rooms over
rooms, large rooms, majestic rooms,
opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms.
"In my Father's house are many
rooms."
I hope none of us will be disap-
pointed about getting there. Thera
is a room for us if we will go and
take it, but in order to reach it it
is absolutely necessary that we take
the right way, and Christ is the
way,. and we must enter at the right
door, and Christ is the door, and we
must start in time, and the only
hour you are sure of is the hour the
clock now strikes, and the only sec-
ond the one your watch is now tick-
ing. I hold in my hand a roll of let-
ters inviting you all to make that
your home forever. The New Testa-
ment is only a roll of letters invit-
ing you, as tho spirit 'of them prac-
tically says: "My dying yet immor-
tal child in earthly neighborhood, I
have built fore you a great residence.
It is full of rooms. I have furnish-
ed them as no palace was ever fur-
nished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds
aro nothing, chrysopt;asus is nothing,
illumined panels of sunrise and sun-
set nothing, the aurora of northern
heavens nothing, compared with the
splendour ' with which I have garni-
tured them. But you must be clean
before you can enter there, and so
I have opened 'a fountain where
you may 'wash all our sins away.
Comae now f Put your weary but
cleansed feet on the upward path-
way. Do you not see amid the>
thick foliage on the heavenly hill-
tops the old family homestead ?"
"In my father's house are many
rooms."
FRESH STYLES FOR FALL
!Isar New 'Shings WhiCh l vepy Wel
m5* Warrl,l. to LCnow.
Hints on the fashions of the coming
! winter which Will assist in the early
preparation of "sonnething at to wear"
are given as follows by a writer in the
►
New 'York Herald, to wbone an oppor-
tune privilege has revealed Sonne of
thes lend_ ors n
.p . awl luxuries of coming
Modes as brought over by a returned
f foreign buyer for .a swell shop;
This. year's Styles falai a twofold
misslorr, "!.'bey *lake tbe stout woman
look thinner, and the slender woman.
• beeolues a dream of loveliness and
shapeliness when she dons a princees
effect gown, o Russian pelisse and a
directoire bat. Every shirt is tight itt-
ting about the hips and very much Oar -
;
ay
; ed around the bottom, sleeves are
es. simail, collare are high, some basques
are shown, and fringe is the deme of
novelty.
The favorite model In Skirts will be
a seamless cireular shape, fitting like a
glove over the bips and back and Oar-
ing at the bottom to the width of trout
4t to 5 yards. This fare le very per-
ceptible as the skirt is held up. with
ode hand holding the bottom and one
the belt. The front breadth, which
used to be Rut perfectly straight In ore
der to insure a "good hanging skirt,"
is now perceptibly flared in the Skirts,
whicb are wade an the gored pattern,
which will also be very much worn,
Of course the ecawless skirt Is salt-
' able only for very slim tigsres, as It
outlines rite shape too plainly, to be
worn by a stout woman. The perfect
lit and cut at this slstrt to make It
hang properly will insure its exclusive-
ness, It could not be copied in ebeap,
ready Made skirts and bane any kind
of style to It.
Tbe shaped Spanlsb Bounce le also
very much in evidence and will be
more popular lt, iintns than the seam-
less eut, as it is suttee Imost any
figure. The upper port w..: still tit
closely, but the flounce, ailowlug of 40
ST88$T DIIESS'PIi'H THE NEW nausea,
much more of a flare, makes on tbe
wbole a more graceful fullness around
the bottom.
Tbe skirts are just as long in front
and train in the back as much as they
have all summer. They may be disease
breeders and microbe gatherers; but,
for all that, lovely woman goes on her
way serenely, and her gown trails be-
hind her.
Most of the long coats have very
sloping shoulders, with the sleeves cut
in one piece with the body of the gar-
ment. All the collars, whether of fur,
velvet, satin or silk, are soft and full,
failing in crushed jabots from the neck.
In fact, this softness and flimsiness
are new features of the coming season.
Everything -the cloths, the silks, the
satins -is just as flimsy as it can be. To
rustle is to be out of the fashion. To
be that is to be out of the world. There
are no stiff taffetas either for linings
or petticoats. The woman who rustles
is either wearing an old gown or is not
up with the styles. All the new gowns
are lined with oriental satins, taffetas,
mousseline and all the newest weaves
of soft finished silks.
Brown tan and pastel shades are
mentioned as being the most in favor
this coming winter, though there are
some reds and a few blues.
Fringe is the very latest in novelties
and will be the rage tbis winter. Lt
will be made to order in colors to match
the gown and will be used profusely.
One of the simplest yet smartest gowns
shown to the writer was a costume of
shepherd's plaid in a blue and white
check. The lower skirt was devoid of
any trimming, but flared considerably..
The overskirt was a long, pointed a!
fair, fitting like a glove over the hips
and finished at the bottom by a 12
inch woolen fringe of the same color.
lugs as the gown.
Fashion's Echoes.
Alpaca is to make morning gowns in
all colors from light to dark. This
hardy annual is never long out of fa-
vor, for it is an evergreen for wear,
resisting dirt and emerging scathlesat
from every ordeal
Many of the new dresses have tab -
Hers distinct from the front of the
skirt or simulated by trimming. They
are pointed or oval and reach almost
to the hem of the dress.
Fur collars for the coming o sson'
gea
Will be built very tall, and muffs, large
or small according to your fancy, will
be worn on chains and cords.
No more belts of any kind for men,
says Paris fashion. They are not now
chic. When no waistcoat is worn, the
jacket is buttoned up.'
SHE WAS-
So
ASSo ]Eie Estella Imposed on tlhe Poor,
Deur Girt,
They were looking up at the men at
work on the highest story of the COM"
in g Williamson building.
"It's wonderfui," she said. "that
those laborers cao walk about So reck-
lessly at that dizzy heigiat,"
"Yes,' he said, "it seems reckless un-
til you know how ale it is."
"How eau it be safe:"' she cried In
atnazemeni..
"Simplest tbing you ever beard of,"
be answered. "Zee)/ of those men up
there has a powerful magnet fitted into
the soles of bis shoes: The magnets
cling like death to the Iron crossbeams.
They cling so tightly thail a man
couldn't fall oft if be wanted to. Some-
times tate ntaguets pull so bard that lit-
tle men who baveu't nlneb leg muscle
feud it ditiicuit to lift their feet to walk
Along.
"The other morning 1 was strollin;
by in the street below the building
when a pocketknife suddenly clattered
an the pavement in front of rite. A ell-
ver quarter and a couple of dimes staid
a key gelidity followed it.
"Then 1 heard laughter up above and
hastily looked up. One of the work-
men bad slipped from a long cross -
beim awl. was hanging up there at the
sixteenth story, feet up and head down-
ward, supported by the magnets in his
soles. It was his pockets that gave
•fertb the sliver shower. Oh, no, bless
you. there Is really no danger about It
paw."
And tate poor girl believed every
word of bis outrageous yarn. •-Cleve•
land Plain Dealer,
Cola Times in Dirtying.
Don't forget -ea load of wood will
give you the paper for six mouths.
Please see that It is cut store length,
as we base no ax.
Tlhanks to Colonel Jones for a gallon
of maple sirup. As soon as we cats get
a loaf of bread we will be able to
utilize tt,
We bare padded our Ibsen duster
with ala a:tz ay blauhet and stuffed alt
the broken window panes with last
year's newspapers. Let the cold wave
came;
Our relatives in the Redbone district
bad no almanac and, mistaking the
COM vasa for Cbrtetulas, have come,
15 strong, to spend the holidays with
us.
Our paper how circulates In five
counties, for five families, having made
enough money to leau'e town, carried
copies with them. -Atlanta Constitu-
tion,
Pate.
"Oh. George:" wailed the maiden as
sbe met Iran in the darkened hallway,
"we can't be married tomorrow: It
will bays to be postponed:"
"What is the matter, darling?" said
George, his knees trembling under
him. "Is any relative dead? Rae your
Uncle Hiram failed in business?"
"W -worse than that!" she sobbed.
"There's a b-b•boll coming on the end
of my nose!"
A. Disturbing Suggestion.
"'What Is the matter witb his majes-
ty?" said the European official, "Ile
seems very uneasy and annoyed. Has
some one been telling him that a fight
is imminent?"
"No. Some meddlesome person bas
been representing to biro that Asiatic
and African complications will be
diplomatically settled and tbat Europe
is on the verge of peace."--Wasbington
Star.
Troubles of Society.
"Let me see, whicb was It your
cousin married -a duke or a count?"
"Neither. She is a princess."
"Oh! 1 have so many friends with
titles now that I really can't keep them
properly classified any more without
my visiting list," -Chicago Times-Fler-
ald.
The Purse SV,. Carry.
The latest pocketbook novelty is
nearly square and very large. It has
courses, and an edge, if one can afford
it, of heavy Russian gold. Some have
an edge of plain gold with a beading
about the inside, and others have this
edge of sterling gilt. Advance styles
in midwinter purses are of seal, edged
with gold, on which forget-me-nots
of turquoise appear at regular inter-
vals. Another is entirely covered
with a delicate tracery of silver.
Health for the children. Miller's
Worm Powders.
A Truly wonderful Gown.
Princess Czartoryski has just had a
remarkable gown made in Paris on
which her coat of arms is produced in
jewels on a white satin ground. For
this purpose the stones had to be
pierced, andthough their value is
thus deteriorated, thecostume as it
stands is reputed to be worth $75,000.
Enterprising English Rees.
A swarm of bees recently took pos-
session of a house at Teddington,
England, after driving the occupant
out.
TIIE SALYAT1ON ARMY
THE LIFE OF TKKESE SEL1 :SAORI•
MING WORKERS OFTEN
ONE OF itAilasfite,
While en Duty Capt. Ben. Bryan Was
Strickan.'titi itis. a Supposed Iaeurabl•.
latseaseAna Forced. to l elindaieit the
Wort -Ile Ilea Now iteoover d 11.s
ieeltia.
FAUX the News, Alesadrii, Out,
The life of a Salvation Areal
worker is very far from being a sine-
cure. Their duties are not may argue
ons, but they are sailed nport by the
regulations of the Army to conduct
out -of -.door meetings at all seasone
and its all kinds of weather. This
being the rase, it is little wonder
1 that the health of these self-seeriac-
G ing workers frequently gives way.
Capt. Ben. Bryan, whose home is at
Mayville, Ont., is well knout+. through
his former connection with the .Army,
having been stationed at such iinpor-
i taut points as Montreal, Toronto,
1 Kingston, Guelph and Brockville. is
Canada, and at Seltenectady, Troy
and other points in the t"ztited States.
• While on duty be was attaehed by a
so-called incurable disease, but having
been restored to health tbrough the
use of I)r, Williams' Pink Pills, a
zepre: enntatire of the .A.lexalidriahlewa
thought it worth tulip+ to procure
from itis own lips n siatsuwut of Hitt
illness and reeuverr. He Praia Mr.
Etyma at worry. a healthy, robust
man, Isis appearew°e giving tea indica-
tions of his root'; '-afferiugs,
Thc� story 01 his illness and eubee-
quent cure by the nos of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pille reads like a miracle, and if
given in his snvn words as follows t-►
"While stationed at Deseronto, in
July, 1597, I was Winched with what
the doctors called ."Clarorde Spinal
Meningetis." The symptoms were
somewh,:' similar to those preceding
a pleuratie meek, but were accom-
panied by sial, "e wideb, when the
pain became too see. •O, rendered me
unconscious. The length of these un-
conscious spells increased as the dis.
ease advaneed. After spending four
months in the Kingston (Genera' Hos-
pital, and an the nlvation farm, Toe
route, I regained some of my former
strength and returned to my work.
The second attack occurred when I
was stationed at Schenectady, N. Y.,
in October, 1895, and was more severe
than the first. The synY.ptoms of the
second attack were very similar to
those which preceded the first, the
only apparent difference being that
they were more severe and the after
effects were of longer duration. Ow-
ing to the precarious state of my
health, I was compelled to resign my
position after the second attack and
return to my home at MaYcville.
While there a friend advised me to
try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I
began using them in March, 1899. I
have used only a dozen boxes and am
once more enjoying perfect health. I
feel that I am perfectly well and can
cheerfully say that I attribute my
present state of health to the effects
produced by Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills.
Mrs. Bryan has also used the pills
and has benefitted very much there-
by."
Women and Their Wheels,
Jane C. Yatman has beaten all bi-
cycle records for women, having rid-
den 700 miles in 81 hours and 5 min-
utes. For three and one-half days she
slept less than two hours. As against
this we can point with pride to over
5,000 women in Toronto who make no
such fools of themselves; they ase
the wheels rationally, bless the mem-
ory of the man who iuvented it, and
get eight hours of refreshing sleep out
of every 24."
. If the children require physio none sets
so nice as Miller's Worm Powders; very
pleasant to take.
Noncommittal.
Reporter (who has "interviewed" ev-
erybody but the laundryman in his
block on the Dreyfus verdict) -Well,,
John, wbat is your opinion about thia
wretched travesty on justice known as
the Captain Dreyfus case?
John -Colla' 2 cen', towel to' cel',
shultee 8 cen'. Pay money when get
washee. No cledit,
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