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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-11-30, Page 3RUSH OF THE WHEEL. A Thanksgiving Sermon by'Rsv. Dr. Talmage. ALL HONOR TO THE INVENTORS., UPI h�wanti Hat canine a Great Ittevonition-wen Warn or the 117111•11.1, in the araineturee eosins - trial teed Linirary Worlds. Washington, Nov, •26,—Th5 dis- tourse of Dr. laImage is a sermon Soi preparation for the national eh- iservance of this week end ft an un- usual way calls for the gratitude ef the peoPle ; the text, Ezekiel x, 13, A. lor the wheels, it was cried unto them in my Latrine', 0 wheel:" Next Thursday aid, by proclam- lotion of President and Governorn be observed in thaneseieing for tempor- al mercies. With witat spirit shall we enter Imola it? For vearly a. Fear and a, hali this nation has. been Celebrating the -triumph of sword and gun and battery. We have sung re.artial airs and cheered returning heroes and sounded the requiem fur thes1ai in battle, lifetlinans it will be healthful change if this Thenese giving week, in elittich and home- stead, we celebrate the victories of peeve, for nothing- Was done at thin- tiago or Menne, thee 'as Of more importance then that witich in the '411eld and luechanic's shop, and last yeer has been done in fernier's au- thor's study by those who never wore ex epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went a bundred miles front their own doersill. And now I gall enter attention to the wheel Of the tett. Man, a small speck in the universe, was set down in a lee' world, Meet mountains rising Lenge hien deep seas arresting Ifs pathway, and wild beasts cepabla of his destruce *ion, yet he was to conquer. It was not to be by phtsical fere°, for compare his Arm with the ox's horn an4 the elephitet's tusk, and how weak be is I It could ne be bn phyeical speed, for eompere him to tbe antelope's foot and ptarmigan's wing. and how slow he ie! It could not be by physual capatity to soar or plunge, for the eandor nets Win in one direction and the porpoise in the other. Yet he Ives to conquer the World. Two eyes', two hands, and two feet were insullent. Ile remit be re-eaforced, so God sent the Wheel. In tiomestic life the wheel has 1vrought revolution. Deltoid the sewing machine. It hes steered tbe houseartees bondad. e anti prolonged womaine liee and added immeasur- able advantages. Thm•alle for aims had punctured this ees and pierced the eyes and made teirible mas- sacre. To orepare tho garments of a whole household in tile spring for mummer and in the autumn for win - ler was an exhausting process. 4'StitCh. Stitch. S1 i Leh " Thomas Rood set it to poetry, but minions of persons have found it agorneing prose. Main by the sword, we buled the hero with "Dead March in Saul," and nags at hnlf inest. Slain by the needle, no one knew it but, the household that wetted her bealth giving away. The a inter after that the children *were rageed and eold and hungry or in the almelumee. The band that wielded the needle had forgotten its cunning. Sore and body had parted at the Foie. The thim- ble had dropped from the palsied finger. The thread ef lie. hail snap- ped and let a sufferine human life nrop into tbe gray,. The spool was all unwound. Her sepulcher was dig - god, not with sexton's spade, but with a sharper and shorter instru- ment—a media Besides all the sewing done fox the hoesehold at bone, there are hundrees of thousands of seeing wo- men. The tragedy of the needle is the tragedy ofhuneer and cold and insult and homesickne-s and suicide —five acts. But I hear the rush of a wheel. Women puts on the band and adjusts the instrument, puts her foot on the treadle and bogies. Before the -whir and rattle, pleurisiee, consumptions, headaches, backaches, he ,rta.ches, ar Isteitdaches, backaches, heartaches are routedn-The needle, once an oppres- sive tyrant, becomes a cheerful slave —roll and rumble and roar until wardrobe is gathered,and • eve ter is defied, and summer is wel- eothed, and the ardours and severi- ties of the seasons are overcome e winding the bobbin, threading the ethuLtan tucking, re thing, milling, ording, embroidering, underbraid- • ing, set to music; lock stitch, twist- ed hoop stitch, crochet stitch, a elascinating ingenuity. All honors to the memory of Alsop and Duncan and Greenough and 'tenger and Wil- • son and Grover and Wilcox for their °flora:to emancipate woman from the slavery of toil 1 Dun roore than that, let there be monumental commemoration of Elias Rowe, the inventor of the first complete sew- ing machine. What it bas saved of ,eniveat and tears God (Any- can estina- •l ate. In the making of men's and boys' clothing in New York City in •one yea e ;it saved $7,500,000, and in • .Massachusetts, in the making of boots and shoes, in one year it sav- ed $7,000,000. Secondly, I look into he agricul- tural world to see what the wheel ; has accouiplished. Look at the stalks , •of wheat and oats, the one bread lox+, man, the other bread for horses. Coat off and ewith a cradle made out of eve or six fingers of wood and ene of sharp steel, the harvester went across the field, stroke after eitroke, perspiration rolling down forehead and cheek and chest bead blistered by the conetuning sen and lip parched by the consuming August air, at noon the workmen ling half dead under the trees. One of my most painful I oyho o d me: o ries is that of ray father in harvest time reeling from eel, t le on over the door -step , 'too died to eat, pale- and fainting as he sat down. The grain, brought to the barn, the sheaves wore unbotind ani s p re .,.}c1 on a thrashing floor, and two men with tails stood (moose te each other.hour after hour .and day after day,pound- ing the wheat out of the Stalk. Two strokes and then a cessation of sound. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump Pounded once, and then turned over to be ponded again, slow, very slow.. 'The hens cackled and clucked by the door and picked up the loese grain and the horses half asleep and doz- ing over the mangers where the hay had been. But hark to the buzz of weeels in the distance 1 The farmer has talcen his throne ea a reaper, Re ouce waled; now he rides ; once worked with arm of flesh, now with rod of iron. He starts at the end of the weeeteeld, heads his horses to the opposite end petite fel& then rides on. At the stroke of his iron chariot the gold of the grain. is surrendered, the mainline rolling this way and rolling that, this way and that, until the woric which would have been accom- plished in many days is accomplish- ed in a few hours, the grainfield prostrate before the harvesters. Can you imagine anything more beautiful than, the sea island cotton? 1 take up the unmeitecj snow in en/ hand. How beautiful it is But do you know by what painstaking and tedious toil it passed into anything like practicality? If you examined that cotton, you would And it full of seeds, It Was a severe process by Which the seed was to be extracted from the Aber. Vast poptiletions were leaving the south becense they could not retake any living out of this product. One pound of green seed cotten was all that a man could prepare in one day, but Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts Yankee, woke up, got a handful of cotton, and want to constructing 4 Wheel for the panting of tile eber and the eeed. Teeth On eylindere, brushes On ey- Enders, wheels on wbeele. South Carolina gave him $50,000 for his invention, and instead 9f one man taking a whole day to prepare a poued of cotton for the market now be may prepare throe hundred weight, and the south is enriched, and the commerce of the world is revolutionized, and Over 8.000,000 beles of cotton were prepared this year, enough to keep at work In this country 14,300,000 spindles, em- ploying 270,000 hands and enlisting $81,400,000 of capital. When I see coming forth from this cotton production and cotton manu- facture enough cloth to cover the tames of a nation, and enough spool thread to sew every rout garment., and enough hoiSery to warm the nation's feet, and enough cordage to ily the sails of all the shipping, and enough wadding to supply the guns of all the American sportsmen. Thirdly, I look to see what the wheel has done for the travelling world. No one can tell how many noble and self-siterificin,g inventors have been crushed between the coach wheel and the modern locomotive, between the paddle and the ocean s t earner. • I will not enter into the contro- versy as to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton or Thomas Somerset was the inventor of the steamboat. They all suffered and were martyrs of the wheel, and they shall be hon- ored. John Fitch wrote: The 21st of January, 1873, 'was the fatal time of bringing me into existence. I know of nothing so per- plexing and vexatioes to a. man of feeling as a turbuleirt wife and stea.mbpat building-. I experienced the former and quit in season, and had 1 been in my right senses I should undoubtedly have treated the latter in the same manner ; but, for one man to be teased *with both, he must be looked upon as the roost unfortunate man in the world. Surely John Fitch was in a bad predicament. If the steamboat boil- er did not blow him up, his wife would. In all ages there are those to prophesy the failure of any use- ful invention. You do not know what the inventors of the day suf- fer. When it was proposed to light London with gas, Sir ECurephryDavy, the great philosopher, said that he should as soon think of cutting a slice from the moon and setting it upon a pole to light the city. Through all abuse and cgricature, Fitch and Fulton went until yonder the wheel is in motion, and the Clermont, the first steamboat, is going up the North river, running the distance—hold • your breath while I tell you—from New York in 32 hours. But the steamboat wheel multiplied its velocities until the Luc:neje of the Cunard and the Ma- jestic of the White Star line and the liaiser Wilhelm of the North Ger- man Lloyd line cross the Atlantic ocean in six days or less, communi- cation between the two countries so rapid and no constant that whereas once those who had been to Europe took no airs for the rest of their mortal hives --and to me for many years the most disagreeable man I could meet was the man who had •been -to Europe, despising all Ameri- can pictures and American music - and American society beetles° they had seen European pictures and heard European music and mingled in European society—now a trans- atlantic voyage is so coinznon that a sensible man could no more noast of it than. if he had been to New York or Boston. What a difference between John Fitoles steamboat, 60 feet long, and the Oceanic' 704 feet long The ocean. wheelturns swifter and swift- er, filling up the distance between the hernisplieres and•hastening the time spoken of in the Book of • Re- velation when there shall be no moresen. While this has been doing on the water James Watt's wheel has done so much" on the land. How well I remember Sanderson 's stagecoach, running from New Brunswick to Easton, as he drove through Sozner- ville, N.j., turning up to the post -- office and dropping the mail bags With ten letters and try -0 or three newspapers, Sanderson, himself on the box, 6 feet 2 inches and well proportioned, long lash Whip in his hand, tbe reins of six horses in the other, the "leaders" lathered along the lines of the traces, feam drip- ping from the bits I It wee the event of the day when the stage came. It was our hi c hest ambition to become a stage eriver, •ti Some of tbe boys climbed on the great leathern boot of the stage, • and those of us who could not get on shouted "Cut behind I saw the old stage driver not long ago and I expressed to leira my serprise that one around whose head I had seen a halo of glory in my boyhood time was only a man like the rest of us. Between Sanderson's stage- coach and a, Chicago express train what a difference, all the great cities of the ention strung oxi an iron thread of railwaye See the train shove out of one of our great depots for a thousand mile journey AU aboard 1 Tickets clip- ped and baggage checked and pore - ere attentive to every want, under tunnels dripping with dampness that never saw the light, along ledges where AR l/Ach Igt the track would be the difference between a bundred men living and. a hundred dead, full head cd steam and two men in the locomotive Charged with ell the res- poesibility of whistle and Westing*, house brake. Clank! clank echo the rocks. Small villages only hear the thunder and see the whirlwind as the train shoots past, a city mit the wing. Tbrilhing, startling, sub- lime, magnificent spectacie—se rail train in lightning procession. While the world has been rolling on the eight wheels of the rail' car or tbe four wheels 01 Vie Carriage or the two wheels of the gig it was not until 1376, at the Benteonial exposie tion at Philadelphia, that the uiir- acle of the nineteenth century rolled in—the bicycle. The world could not believe its own eyes, and uot until quite far en in the eighties Were the continent, enchanted with the whirling, dashing, dominating ppectacle of a machine that was to do so union for the pleasure, the Imeinese, the health a4 the prat of rations. The world had needed it for 6,000 years. MAWS slowness of loComotion was a mystery, Was ft of more importance that the rein- deer or the eagle rapidly exchanged jungles or crags than that mail should got swiftly from place to place? Was the business of the bird or the roebuck more urgent than that of the ineernated immortal? No. At last we have the oblitere- tiou al distance by pneumatic tire. At last we bave wings. And wbat has this invention done for woman? The cynics and constitutional growl- ers would deny her tide emancipation and say, "Mat bitter exeraise can she have than 4 broom or a duster or a churn or rocking a creinie or running up and dewn stairs or a walk to vetureli with a prayer book under her arm?' ; And thee rather rejoice to find her disabled with broken pedal or punctured tire hell way out to Chevy Chase or Coney Island. 33ut all sensible people who know the tonic of fresh air and the health in deep respiration aud the awakening of disused muscles and the exbileration of velocity will ro- tole° that wife and mother and daughter may heve this new' recrea- tion. Indeed life to so many 15 so hard a grind that I am glad at tile arrival of auy new mode of health- ful recreatien. We need have no anxiety about this invasion of the world's stupidity by tile ViVactiolle and laughing win jubiliant wheel, except that we always want it to roll in the right direction, towards place of business, towards good re- creation, toward philanthrophy, to- wards usefulness, towards places of divine worship, and never i wards inutiorality or Sabbath desecra. Fourthly, I look into the literare world and see what the wheel has accomplished. I am more astounded with this than with anything that has preceded Behold the almost miraculous printing pros! Do you not feel the ground shake with the machinery of the New York„ Brook- lyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash- ington and -western papers? Some of us remember when the hand ink roller was run over the cylinder and by great haste SOO copies of the vil- lage newspaper were issued in one day and no lives lost. But inven- tion has crowded invention, and wheel jostled wheel, stereotyping electrotyping, taking their places. Benjamin Franklin's press giving way to the Lord Stanhope press, and tbe Weshiegton press and the Vic- tory, press and the Hoe perfecting press have been set up, Together with the newspapers comes the pub- lication of innumerable books of history, of poetry, of romance, of art, of travel, of biography, of re- ligion, dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bibles. Some of those presses send forth the most accursed stuff, but the good predominates. Turn on with wider sweep and greater 've- locity, • 0 wheel—wheel of light, wheel of civilization, wheel of Chris- tianity, wheel of divine momentuml And now I gather on an imaginary platforin, as I literally did when I preached in Brooklyn, specimens of our American products, and it seems as if the waves of agricultural, min- eralogical, pomological wealth dash to the platform, and there are four beautiful beings that walk in, and they are garlanded, and one is gar- landed with wheat and blossoms of snow,* and I find she is the north. and another comes tn, and her brow is garlanded with rice and blossoms of magnolia, and / find she is the south, and another comes in, and I iind she is garlanded with seaweed and blossoms of spray, and / find she is the east, and another comes in, and 1 .find she is garlanded with. silk of corn and radiant with Cali- fornia gold, and I find she is the west, and coming face to lace, they take off their garlands, and they twist them together with something that looks hike a wreath, but it is a wheel, the wheel of national pros- perity, and I. say -in an outburst of Thanksgiving joy for what God has done for the north and the south and the met and the west, "0 wheel!" • • • At different times in. Europe they have tried to got a congress of kings at 'Berlin or at Paris or at St Pe- tersburg, but it has always been' a failure. Only a few kings have come. But on :tele imaginary plat- form that I have built we have a convention of all the kings--Ining Corn, King Cotton, Teing Rice Ring Wheat, Ring Oats, Ring Iron, Ring Coal, ening Silver, Ring C;o1c1—they all bow before the Ring of Kings, to whom be all the glory of this year's wonderful production. , • Anecdotes With a Loosen ia Thom. The following characteristic anec- dote is told of Bismarck. When a Yellng man, and lust, beginning to elimb the ladder of fame, he hired a suite of rooms without having per - serially examined them. On taking possession be discovered that the cna,mber he intended to use as a, study was without a bell. Summon- ing the landlord, be asked him to supply the needed bell. "lien" said the 1eudlord, "Herr von Iiisniarck has already taken the rooms the way they are, and it is he who must supply any deeciencies which may seem to him to exist." "So that's your answer, is it?" asked 131s2narck. "Certainly," responded the host, 1)4:Ming low and retiring, About five minutea later the loud report of a pistol shot was beard coming from the new tenant's room. Just as the frightened landlord threw open the door Bismarck rais- ed hie pistol 4 second time and fired point blank at the opposite wall. Then, turning to the astcenshed landlord, he said, coolly; "Oh, it's all right. I am only letting my ser- vant know I want him." It is needless to say tbet *the fu- ture Chancellor had his bell before the sun went down that day. Napoleon I, bad an extraordinary mind. He appeared never to forget anything* he cared to remeMber, and aesimilitted intim:When as the store- ath assimilates food, retaining (Ally the vahleble. An incideut will illulle trite* this reMarkable quality of hil When forming the "Code Napoleon" he frequently astonished the Comma of State byllae skin with whieh he illustrated any point in discussion lay quoting whole pessages from memory of the Joman Civil The Council wondered how .11, man whose life had been passed in eatop came to know so much about the ale Roman laws. FiliaJly one of them asked Wm how he acquired this knowledge. "When I was a lielltellant," Na- poleon replied, "I was once unjustly placed under arrest. My small prison-rooin Contained no furniture except an olel ehair and a eupboard, In the latter was a ponderous vol- ume, -which proved to be a digest of the Romeo low. You C4/1 easily imagine whet a, valuable prize the book was to me. It was so bulky and the leaves were so covered with Marginal notes in manuscript that bad I been confined a hundred years I need never have been idle. When • reeovered my liberty at the end of ten days I was saturated with Jus- tinian and the decisions of the Ro- man legislation. It was thus I ac- quired my knowledge of the civil law." "I was once told," said Anthony Trollope, the novelist, "that the surest aid to the writing of a book was a piece of cobbler's wax on ray chair. I certainly believe more in the cobbler's wax than in. inspira- tion." And by 'Way of explanation, be adds: "Nothing is so potent as & law that may not be broken. It bas the force of the waterdrop that hol- lows the stoma. A. small, daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the la- bors of a spasmodic Hercules. It is the tortoise which always catches the hare." It was hie custom to rise at half - past 5, and write for three hours with his watch beside him. He re- quired of himself 250 words an hour. This, at the end of ten months, gave Fen three three-volurne novels. I •0 matt who everlastingly keeps at a thing is bound to make that thing, wbatever it may- be, a sue - The following incident, which oc- curred iri the early life of Thomas Edison, the wizard, illustrates the wonderful avidity with which ha grasps an opportunity and turns it into a practical advantage. During the Civil War young Edison was a newsboy on the Grand Trtuak Railroad. One morning he chanced to see a proof slip, which told him that the first report of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, giving the killed and wounded at 60,000, would ap- pear in The Free Press. In an in- stant Edison saw his opportunity. He rushed to the telegraph operator and hired him to wire to each of the principal stations along his route and ask the station - masters to chalk up on the black bulletin board the news of the great battle with the number of killed and wounded. Then he made a dash for the office of the Free Press. He had little cash and the superintendent of the delivery department refused to give him cre- dit for the 1,000 copies of the paper he asked for. Nothing daunted, the boy hurried to the ofnce of the pro- prietor, told him who he was, and asked for 1,500 papers on. credit. The proprietor looked at him keen- ly for a moment, then' wrote a few words on a slip of paper, saying: "Take that downstairsand you will • get what you want." At the first stopping place Edison found an excited crowd on the de- pot platform, who took 500 papers ett 5 cents each. The next stop he raised his price and sold 300 copies at 10 cents each. At Port Huron he left the train a .d sold all his re- maining copies at 25 cents each. In referring to this incident, Edi- son said, "You can understand why It struck me then that the telegraph must be the best thing going, for it was the telegraph notices that did the trick. I determined at once to become a telegraph operator." Etow the liestrt Beata at Night. Bed covering is inteadect to give the body the vtra,rnith that is lost by redueed circulation of the blood. When the body lies down the heart makes ten strokes a minute less than when the body. is in ati upright posi- tion. This means 600 strokes in 60 minutes. Therefore, in the eight hours that a man usually spends in taking hisenight's rest the heart is saved nearly 5,000 strokes. As it pumps pig Ounces of blood with each stroke, it lista 80,000 ounces less of blood in the night than it would during, the day. NoW, the body is dependent for its warmth on the vigor of the circulation, and as the blood flows so mach Moro slowly through the veins when one ie lying down the warmth lost in the re- duced circulation must be supplied by extra coverings. WI -01 -WHAMS. A Galaxy of .Tento Culled Far Appro.. elative Reader'. Patience -Wily does Polly like bin liarde? Batrice-Beeause there is kissing It, 1 suppose. Millie-Witere do you suppose, tholit educated seale came from? 1iattie---Qb 1 guess they fouad 'ens he a school. Mrs. ,Styles -You see my ancestors' are ail good looking. Mr. Syies-Yes; you hate the paint- er to tbank for that. Baeon-Can you tell anything about it peraon by the mouth? Egbeia-Why, yes; that's the way to tell everything - Mrs. Crialsonbeak-My husband is A man of quiet tastes. Mrs. Yeast -How, then, did he ever conie to marry you? Bob Stay -Too bad the yachtsmei didn't have any wind. Mull -Yes; it must have been a ter* ble blow to them. • Bacon -I see a Texas WM has sent some good live beea to Agolualdo, Egbert-Why, isn't the relieve run - plug fast enough Already? ••••••••11...1,1 Yeast-lu olden titnea they pied to make their wills on stone. Crimsonbeak-And of course they were brokeu, even then. Patience -Don't you thlek Polly Is spoiling her husband? Patrice -Yes; he had it lovely ellepoal- tlou before she merriest him -Yonkers Statesman, Hood Grounds F'or Ala,roa. Miss Heavytop-I'm afraid TM gee- ing you a lot of bother, but then It's only my first lesson! Exhausted Instructor (sotto voce) - 1 only hope It won't be my lastise Bunch. Iriberited. "Mabel seems to take a deep interest In entehting, doesn't she?" "Yes, she is quite carried away with "And sbe knows all those nautieal terms too." "Well, why shouldn't she? Her fa- ther started in life as a deekhand, you know:: . Gorman Zr.. Eniploynnent Azenedes. In Germany d-aring the year ended July, 1898, out of 887,091 persons looking for employment, 222,595 totted occupation by means of free employment agencies. Miller's Worm Powders the medicine for children. Javan Lake et Boiling Mud. Near Grobogana, Java, there is a lake of boiling mud about two miles in circumference. Immense columns of steaming mud are constantly aris- ing and descending. Wearing' Lace in tbe Hair. Charming scarfs of lace are deftly intertwisted in the hair. This seems to be the thin edge of the wedge, and as time goes on we shall be likely to see more lace worn as a fashion- able coiffure. It is intensely becom- ing, and drooping at the back; hence court and bridal veils often transform a very ordinary woman into a good looking one. Your friend, Mrs.—, is looking much impreeed in health. Yes, she is a different woman. We persuaded her to try Miller's Compound Iron Pills, with .117.22.022serve,_ 4 The Grey Feather. Boa. The gray feather boa, so much in evidence in Paris last spring, has reached New York, where there is a revival of that most becoming of an woman's neck fixings. It seemingly will not down. Nothing ever quite fills the place of these graceful wo- manish affairs, and gray is far and away the very smartest departure' in. them. A sew back for 50 cents. Miller's. /Kidney Pills mead Plaster. KIDNEY DISEASE. Tut. RESLJET IS OFTEN rAix NISBET. Mr. David Crowell, ornforeon. Was An Intone° Seifferer aect Almost Mee peirtet or eluding a Care-Telle the Story of RieRelease, The Acadien, WolIevilIa,IsT, S. Recently a reporter of the Actulien was told another of those triumphs Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, wItiolt are beeoming very common in this vicin- ity. The fortimate individual is M. David Crowell, a nighly respected resident of Rortonville. I3elow is his experience, io stance, as he gave it to use -"About two years ago, for the firet time in my life. I began to realize fully what ill health meant. The first symptom was a feeling of overpowering drowsi- ness which crept over rae at times. Often I would be at work in the field whoa the drowsiness would seize me mad 1 would liod that it required the exercise of all my power to keep awake. In a shore time 1 was attack- ed, by Sharp piercing pains, which shot through the le -ser part of ray back. At lirst this did not trouble me very much during the day, but als night the pain became almost num- durable and often I world not close my eyes throughout the whole night. Gradually a nausea, and loatliiug for .issod. developed. Sometimes I would, sit down to a meal with a keeo appe- tile, but after a mouthful or so had. passed say lips, sickness Sad vomiting would follow. I became greatly re- duced in flesh and in 3 short time 'Wad but a wreck of my former self. The doctor said the trouble was disease of the kidneys, but this treatment did not help me. My mother who was something of -a muse, orged rio to try Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills, and a* last to satisfy her more than from hopes of being cured, I took up their use. After taking ono box 1 seemed better, and I resolved to try mother. Before the seerani ;14 ix was used ray condition was too ;Lived beyond gain- say and I felt sax° the pills were re- sponsible far it. I took two mare boxes and before they were all need the pain in my beet: had wholly dis- appeared, my appetite had returned and I felt like a new man. For ths sum of two dollars I eared myself of a painful disease. There cannot be the least doubt but that, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills was the sole -cause of rar recovery, mid I consider them the best medicine in. existence." Sold. by all dealers in medicine os sent post paid at 50e, a box or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing the Dr. Medieiue Co., Brookville, Ont. Refuse all subsitntes. Don't Want nrunearet. It is evident in many ways tba* managers of large moneyed interests and capitalists are taking up the temperance question practically in do- manding total abstinence of all re- sponsible persous who handle proper- ty. Business managers, resoonsible clerks, partners and persons occupying places of trust are regarded with in- creasing anxiety, particularly if they are clubmen and known to be users of spirits. The firet qualification of an aspirant for a good position is s 'Wliat are his habits? Is he a total abstainer? Often inferior men secure good positions because they are ab- stainers, while men, brilliant. capa- ble talented, who are moderate drikers, fail. They Never Knew Failure. -Careful ob- servation of the effects. of Parmelee'. Vegetable Pills has shown that they net iminealately on the diseased organs of the system and stimulate them to healthy ao- ton. There xnay be cases in which the disease has been lope; seated and does not easily yield to medicine, but even in such cases these Pills have 'been known to bring relief when all other so-called reme- dies have failed. These assertions can be substantiated by many who have used the Pills' and medical men speak highly of theirqualities. Vane and Effect. Short -Your friend Graspit evidently knows tbe value of money. Long -How much did you try to touch him for? -Chicago Record. Something New In Comedy. "Has your new comedy any novel features?" "Yes; it's a funny coniedy."-Detrole Free Press. Secrets. Many a family eloset doe" A skeleton contain; Many a loss lurks beneath Great proipective gain; Many a bland smile corers Ilearts black as coal; /Jelly a gay bit of ribbon Coneeais an ugly mole; • Itany a cheerful countenanco Adorns a Mall forlorn; Many a patent leather shoo Rides an aching corn. -chicane Nava t te2-44i efraika d i4 4 e-esm.e4i 47,u,Zf., .O AS4 of,x;4,,,h7-40 1g iletlienteAr 4071,