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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-12-7, Page 3TIIE COMING CENTURY A Discourse on a Novel Subject ' by Dr, Talmage., "THE WORLD .AS IT WILL BE," No Alarm pox Glorified spirits. -An Icra of setter II•alth--Oeatit Will Thom R. isaaishod-A. Groat Imorovoteent la Tratio-Tho Extirpation of tile. ewe- Washington Dec. 3.—By a novel anode Dr. Talmage in this discourse shows how the world will look af- ter it has been revolutiouized for good text, II Peter iii, 13, "A new esarth, wherein dwelleth righteous - Down in the struggle to make the world better and ha.ppier we some- times get depressed with the ob- stacles to be overcome and the work to be accomplished. Will it not be a tonic and an inspiration to took at the world as it will be whoa it has been brought back to paradiseical conditioa ? So let us for a few moments transport our- selves into the nature and put mere melees forward in the centeries end see the world in, ite rescued and per - *feted state, as we will see it if in theme times we are permitted to re- visit this planet, as I am sure we will, We ail emelt, to see the world &attar it has been thoroughly gospel - and. sU wrongs have been right- ' ed, We will want to come back, and wie Will come back to look upon the refulgent consummation toward Wh1011 WO have been on larger or smaller scale toiling, elavieg heard the opening of the orchestra on whose. strip some discords travel- ed, we will want to hear the last 'triumphant bar of the perfected ora- torio. Having seen the picture as the einter first drew its outlines, upon canvas, we will want to see it When it is as eoraplete as Reuben's "Deecent from the Cross," or ifficlutel Angela's "Last Judgment." Having seen the world under the gleam of the star of Bethlehem, we will want to see it when, under the full shin- ing of the sun of righteousness, the towers shall strike 12 at noon. There will be nothing in that com- ing century of the world's perfection to binder our terrestrial visit. Our power and velocity of locomotion 'will have been improved infinitely. It, will not take us long to come hers, however far off in God's uni- verse heaven may be. The Bible declares that such visitation is going on now. "Are they not all minister- ing spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salva- tion ?" Surely the gates of heaven will not be bolted after the world is ledenized so as to hinder the re- deemed from. descending for a tour ef inspection and congratulation and triumph. I imagine that we aro descending that period of the werld's com- plete gospelization. There will be Ate petrel ba such a descent. Great heights and depths have no alarm for glorified spirits. We can come down through chasms between 'worlds without growing dizzy and across the spaces of half the uni- stares without losing our way. Down and farther down we come. As we approach this world we breathe the perfume of illithitable gardens. Alighted on the redeemed earth, we are first accosted by the spirit of tete twenty-first century, who pro- poses: to guide and show us all that we desire to see. Without his guid- ance, we would lose our way, for the world is so much changed from the time when we lived in it. First of all, he points out to us a group of abandoned buildings. We ask :this spirit of the twenty-first cen- tury, "What are those structures •whos• walls are falling down and -whose gates are rusted on the hinges ?' Our escort tells us: "Those were once penitentiaries filled with offenders, but the crime of the world has died out." After passing on araid columns and statues erected in memory of those who have been mighty for goodness in the world's history, the highest and the most exquisitely liculptured those in honor of such as have been most effectual in sav- ing lifo or improving life rather than those renowned for destroying life, we come upon another group of paildings that must have been trans- betraed from their original shape need adapted t,p other uses. "What As all this?" we ask our escort. He .anewers : "Those were almshouses and hospitals, but accuracy in 11:making and prudence in running ma- chinery of all sorts have almost abolished the list of casualties, and sobriety and industry have nearly abolished pauperism, so that those buildings which were once hospitals and alnashouses have been turned into beautiful homes for the less prosperous, and if you will look in gou will sea the poorest table has abundance, and the smallest ward- robe luxury, and the harp, waiting to he.vo its strings thrummed, lean - ins against the piano, waiting for its keys to be fingered." And. we believe what our escort •teaye, for as we pass on we find health glowing in every cheek and beaming in every eye and springing in every step and articulating in every utterance, and you and I 'whisper. to each other as our es- cort has his attention drawn to Nome new sunrise upon the Morning sky, and we say, each to the other : 'Who would believe that this is • ehe world we lived in over 100 years ago 1 Look at those men and , wo- men we pass on the road 1 How im- proved the human race! Such beauty, such strength, such graceful - :moo, such geniality 1 Face e with- out the mark of one sorrow! Ceeeke that seem never to have been wet by ono tear 1 A race sublimated! A new world born But I say to our escort : "Did all this merely happen so ? Are all the good here spontaneously good? How did you got the old shipwrecked -world afloat again, out of the break- ers into the smooth seas no I" responds our twenty-first con- tury escort. ''Do you eee those tol,v- are/ Those are the tower. of church- es, towers of reformatory institu- tions, towers of Christian schools. Walk with me, and let us enter some of these temples," We enter, and 1 find that the music is in the major key and none of it in the minor. "Gloria, In Excelsis" rising above "Gloria, In Excelsis." Tremolo stop in the organ not so much used as the trumpet stop. More of Ariel than of .Naolati. More chants than dirges, But I say to our twenty-first core tury escort : "Ican.uot understend this. Have these worshippers no sor- rows, or bate) they forgotten their sorrows ?" Our escort resealed's t -Sorrows) Why, they had sorrows more than you could went., but by. a divine illumination that the eigh- teenth and nineteenth ceneuries uever enjoyed they understand, the uses. oi sorrow and are comforted with a supernatural condolence such as pre. vious centuries never experieneed,". I ask ,again of the interpreter, "leas death been banished from the world ?" The answer is, "No, but people die now only when the phy- sical machinery is worn out, and they realize it is time to go and that they are certainly. and without doubt goiter into a world where they will be infitely better off and are to live in a. mansion that awaits their immediate occupancy." "But how was all this effeeted ?" 1 ask our escort. • Ansm er : "By floods oi gospel power, "You who lived in ine nineteenth century never seen a revival of religion te be compared with what Mitered. in the latter part of the twentieth and the earle part of the • twenty-first century. The prophecy has been fulelled that 'a nation will be born in a day' -- filet is, ten or twenty or forty mil- lion of people converted in 24 hours. In our church 'history we read of the great awakening of 1857, when five hundred thousand souls were saved. But that was only . a drop of the coming showers that since then took into the kingdom of 'God everything between the Atlantic and the Pacific, between the Pyrenees and tla Himalayas.The evils that good pe-nple in the nineteenth century Were trying to destroy have been over- come by celestial forces. What hu- man weaponry failed to accomplish has been done by Omnipotent thun- der -bolts, "0 spirit of the twenty-first cen- tury, will you not show us some- thing of the commercial life of your time?" He answers, "Toexiorrow I will show you all," And on the mor- row he takes es through the great marts of trade and shows us the bargain makers and the shelves an which the goods lay and the tierces and hogsheads in which they are contained. 1 notice that the fabrics are of better quality than anything I ever saw in our nineteenth centu- ry, for the •,actories are more skill- ful, and the wheels that turn and the looms that clack and the en - glees that rumble are driven by forces that were not a century ago discovered. The prices of the fabrics indicate a reasonable profit, and the firms in the counting room and the clerks at the counter and the draymen at the doorway and the errand boy on his rounds and the messenger who brings the niail and the men who open the store in the morning as well as those who close it at night all look as if they were satisfied and well treated. No swallowing up of small houses of • merchandise by great houses, no ruinous umierselling en - til those in the sante line are bank- rupt and then the prices lifted, no unnecessary assignment to defraud creditors, no over -drawing of ac- counts, no east:endings, no sharp practice, no snap judgments, but the manufacturer right in his dealings with the wholesaler, and the whole- saler with the retailer, and the re- tailer with the customer. But what is yonder row of build- ings, inajestic for architecture ?" The spirit of the twenty-first century says, "Those are our legislative halls and places of public trust, and if you would like it I will show you the political circles, the modes of preferment, the styles of election, the, character of public men •in this century." "Thank you," I rop,y. "I can easily understand how gos- eelization would improve individual life and social life, and commercial life, but I would like to see what it can do for political life." "Let me tell you," says the spirit of the twenty-first century, "that I have read about political chicanery and corruption of more than 100 years ago—the nineteenth contury,in which you lived here --but the low political caucus has gone from the face of the earth, and the stuffed ballot box, and the bribery by money and by promise of office, and the jobs got through legislatures and congresses by lobbyists." As in company with our escort we pass down from the heights on which these • buildings stand I see a. disniounted cannon planted on the side of. the hill, and I go to examine it, and I read the inscription, cut in letters of bronze: "This is the last gun that was fired in. the last bate tle of the last war that will ever lie fought. Presented by the iast regie inent of war just disbanding,. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to inen.." Then I look up, and our .escort says: "Do you seo that large structure on our right? That was a fortress, but now it is a college, and instead of guns aiming out of the port holes are looking the studenes of a higher literature and, a wiser science • and a grender civilization than the world over before imagined. And those .studeets are taught by le pro- fessorate of. men as, renowned . for piety as for science Archaeologist's hammer and geologist's crowbar and chemist's laboratory and explorer's journey have .'joined in a, confirma- tion of tho truth .of the Moly Scree - tures until there 'is not an unbeliev- er in all the earth. '"I'he astronomer through his telescope has seen the morning star of the Redeemer, ' and the geologist has found the Rock of Ages, and the geometrician has de- monstrated that heaven is the city which 'lath four square, and the length and the breadth and the height of it are 'equal.' " "What," I say to our escort, no skeptics, no infidels, no agnostics?" Ills reply is: "Absolutely. none. The last fool who 'said in his heart there is no God' was buried half a century ago without any liturgical service," "Well," I say to our escort, "where are Tom' Paine's 'Age of Rea- son' and Ingersoll's 'Mistakes of Moses' and David Hume's and Vol- taire's celebrated tirades against the Bible?" "I never heard of them," says Our escort. "Whet, are you taeking about? A bigger bonfire ' of books than that which in apostolio time was kindled in the streets of Epbesus was lighted in all our cities and the corrupt literature of the world turnecl into ashes many, many nears ago. I saw the last leaf curl up in the flame and scatter." In response to ray question as to what had wrought all this change— obliterated all. the evil and fully in- augurated all the good—our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first cen- tury, tells me that gospelizetion had directly or indirectly done it1t was a. practical gospel that not only changed the heart, but, made the man honest: A practical religion which did not expend all its energy in singing, 'Ply abroad, thou might,y gospel," but gave something to Make it Ile. The good work was helped, on by the fact that it •became a general habit among millionaires and multi- millionaires to provide churches and schools anti institutions of mercy, not to be built after the testatora were dead, hut built so that they might be present at the laying of the cornerstone and at the dedication and leave less intleceineet for the heirs-at-law to prove in Orpheus' court that when the testators made their last will and testament they were crazy. The telegraphic wires in the air and the cables under the see, thrill witn Christian invitation, lehonograPhs eharged with gospel sermons stand in every neighbor- hood. The 5,000,000,V/0 of the world's inhabitants in that century are 5,000,000,mo disciples. "But," I say te our escort, the Spirit cif the twenty-first, century, "you have shown es much, but what about international • conditions'? Mot we lived on earth, it was ta century that bled with Mareugo and Chalons and Lodi Bridge and Luck - now and Solferino and Leipsic and Waterloo and Sau Juan," Our es- cort replies, "Come with me to this building of white marble and glitter- ing dome." As we puss up and on WO are taken into a room where the mightiest and best representatives of all nations are assembled to settle international coutroversies. As we enter I bear the presiding officer opening 1 he eonneil of arbitration, reading the second chapter of Isaiah: "ellen shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword si ea lee t notion, neither shall they learn war any more." Questions winch in our long past nineteenth century caesed quarrel and bloodabed, as when Germany and France were deciding about Al- sace and Lorraine, as when the United States and Spain were deeid- ing ahout Cuba—such questions in this twenty-first century settled • in five minutes, one drop of ink doing more than once could heve been ac- complished by a, river of blood. But we cannot stay long in this hall of arbitration, for it is almost time for us to retrace our way hea- venward. This voluntary exile must soon end. And, passing out of this hall of arbitration, we go throug1i a national musewn, where we are Shown among the curiosities an. En- field rifle, a howitzer, a Hotchkiss shell, an ambulance—curiosities to that age, but, alas! no curiosity to us of the nineteenth ceutury, for some of our own kindred went down under their stroke or were carried off the field by those wheels. "But," I say to our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, and you and I say to each other, "we must go ;meic now, back again • to heaven. We have stayed long enough on this terrestrial 'visitation to se3 that all tee best things foretold in the Scriptures and which we read during our earthly residence have come to pass, and ell the Davidic, Solomonic and Paulinian and Johannean pro- phecies have been fulfilied, and that the earth, instead of being a ghastly failure, is the mightiest success in the universe. A star redeemed. A planet rescued! A world saved! It started with a garden, and it is go- ing to close with a garden. Fare- well, spirit of the twenty-first cen- tury! Thanks for your guidance! We can sta,y no longer away from the doxologies that never end, in temples never closeel, in a day that has no sundown. We must report to the immortals around the throne the transformations we have seen, the victories of truth on land and sea, the • hemispheres irradiated, and Christ on the throne of earth, as he is on the throne of heaven." "In that world we have just visit- ed the deserts are all abloom, and the wildernesses are bright with fountains. Sin is extirpated. Crime is reformed; Disease is cured. The race is emancipated. 'The earth i8. fun of the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea.' 'The redeem- ed of the Lord have come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy, upon. their heads.' 'The Lord God Omni- potent reignethr and the Kingdoms of the world have become the king- • doms of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Let the harpers of heaven strike the glad tidings from, the strings of their harps, and the trueupeters put them in the. mouth of their trumpets, and the orchestras roll them into the grand march of the eternities, and all the cathedral towers Of the great capital of the universe chime them all over heaven."• • But often you and I, who were companions in that ,expedition from heaven to earth, seated on the green bank of the river that rolls through the paradise of God, will talk over the scenes WO witnessed in that 'pa- renthesis of heavenly bliss, in that vacation from the skies, in our ter- restrial visitation—we who were early residents in the nineteenth cen- tury, escorted by the spirit of the twenty-first century, when we saw what my text describes as "a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous- ness." -Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was.rn tbe beginning', is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. DUTCH WORDS. The Beene and &nand of Same Teems Frequently S eel] in hieWdPnOnr MeSpatches. Matters in South Mrica have reach- ed a point where the .average news- paper reader -will need a little more than tbe average knowledge of Dutch words to understand what is going on, and o.f Dutch prommeiations to talk about it without confusion and mutual misunderstanding. • What misleads the English-speak- ing num in the language of the Boers is its similarity in spelliug to Ger- ma,n. The confusion is increased by an oce sional oversight of the Lan- don trausinitters of Transvaal news, sui stitating, e.g., ti German "stein" for "steen,” the Dutch for "steale." It looks as if the Dutch v, -ere philologically akin to German more than to English. The fact is just the reverse, Englisb, Duteli and Flemish belong to one group of the ToutOnic languages (Low Dutch); German is the only surviving writ-. ten language of the other group (High Butch), This once under- stood, it is not very difficult, es- pecially it one has read a little Chau- cer, or even Spenser, to guess cor- rectly the meaning of the 'Transvaal names which will soon All the Euro- pean despatches. "Bloemfontein," for instance—pronounced "Bloom- fon-tine''—is Bloom Spring, or Flower Spring. Laing'a Nele needs no explanation. MO:the—pronounc- ed, of course, Ma-yoo-ba—is not Dutch word, except ,by right of adop- tion and conquest, but Kaffir. a. Boer general is called a "veiclbeer" OY "ileld lord," "The veld" is sim- ply "the lield"—the open country, as when it is said that an army "takes the field." The rural guard Or military police of the 'Transvaal are the "veldwacitteren" or field watchers. The veld in many parts of the Transvaal is much cut up by clefts or ravines, which the newspa- per correspondents are sure to call by the Cape name of "Icloofs"—pro- nounced "klofes." as. by the way, President ICruger's pet name should be pronounced ''Onie Powl," You enust also he sure, if you woulel do the proper thing, to speak of Qom Paul's general, not as if Joubert were a French mune, but with the pronunciation Yow-hert. The mem- bers of the first and second. "Rands," or orders, of the Legislature are called "Seekheerin" pronommed "Yonkbairen"—or ''Young. Lords," ried they assemble in the "Read Huts," pronounced "Raid Hays." The much bandied name of the indi- viduals who are excluded from vot- ing, spelled " 1.1 itl est der, ' ' is pro- nounced "Oytlahn-der." That part of the Transvaal terri- tory which has been found to eon-, tain the wealth of Ophir aid of Gol- conda combined in the "liana"; fte word means "division" or "border iine"—the line that rends or severs one state from another. "Witwaters- rand" means "Edge of the White Water." Many of the Boer names of places end in "dorp," Which is nei- ther more aor less than "thorp," the Yorkshire name for a hamlet; Ger- man "dorf." "Stad" is like the German "Stade" ”ac "Stroom," sometimesprintedity "strora," is "stream," "Berg" means 'enountain,'? but "kapje" ar "little head.' is also used for smaller eminences. One feature of the South African open country cif which ninth is like- ly to be heard is the "mealie field." The English-speaking colonists often, pronounce the former of these two words as it would be in English; the Dutch pronunciation is more like "molly:" it means just what it looks —a field where you get the vegetable material for a meal, which material, in those parts is chiefly what Cana- dians call corn, and Englishmea maze. The unfortunate young Prin- ce Imperial was killed in a mealie field in the Zulu war. He had gone on reconnoissance several miles away flew his "'eager" -- pronounced something like lah-her—which means a camp, or, as it would be called if the host were a host of wild beasts, his "layer," in modern spelling "lair." When hunters or soldiers in the veld are net in "'anger," they are on the "trek" or "making tracks," as the Forty-niners were in the habit of saying. And the Dutch settlers svho made the "Great Trek" across the Vaal River 65 years ago, because the British authorities sup- pressed their "peculiar institution" of slavery, and who have been block- • ing up the "trek" cif. advancing civi- laation ever since, pronounced their distinctive name "Boors," which, like the German "bauer," and the identi- cal English word, means "rustics." It seems a little paradoxical to read of "The Boer burgers," because a "burger.' (bourgeois, or man of the city) is essentially con tradistin- guished front. a "boon" TRANSVAAL MOVING CAMPS, Humours of Pioneer T'ortune Hunters in south .a."rica. The humours of a mining camp in tb,e Transvaal are neatly, and not un- pictureqsue. The miueralogical wealth of the country is, of coarse, stupendous, and, although many mil- lions of pounds of gold. have already been produeed, it is & trite truism to assert that the surface only has been scratehed, compared to the wealth that will some day flow from, the dis- tressful country. The oldest mining camps in the Transvaal are Macmac, Pilgrim's Rest, Lydenburg, and Moodies, Later on came Barberton, Zoutpansberg, Birthday, Mali:am-4, Hierlisdorp, and the great and unapproachable Wit- watersrand, Barberton and the Devil's Hantoor were, perhaps, the most typically "Bret Harte -y" of these, particalarly in what are known as "the early days." There was A well-known pros- pector here who was called "Tati IA FREQUENT SOURCE OF TRE Tack," because he had worked at the XOST l'NTENSE MISERY. Blue Jacket and the Monarch reefs under Sir Zahn Swinburne many itervey Priee. of Memorise Suffered years ago. He was a good euougla for Vetirs reefore Finding a Cure-Dri fellow in his way, but one day he had and Plea Best erred Ulna. to be locked up in "troula" or prison, for alleged obstreperous conduct Re passed a restless night, and put morn - according to the very free -and - easy oustoras of the place, he weat out for a, stroll with tite bead gaoler! • Being flash of money "Teti jack" treated the warder to various "tots" o "squareface" (gin), and the otileial soon became intoxicated. Men. Zack carefully packed hire into a Cape cart, drove him to the prison, locked hira up ia his own cell, and went to the charge office to claim a reward for rescuing the head gaoler from death from. exposure. Us got paid, tool .Another character in Barberton was one Dr. Mathew Wilkins, who dere oribed himself on his ca.rds aud, door - Plate as "Dr, Mathew Wilkins, ILAt. P.C.A.D.N." No one knew exactly what all these imposing letters recant, and for a long -while no one had the audacity to ask, althongh it was gen- erally supposed that they implied seine very high, medical degree. One day, in a raoraent of confidence, the worthy doctor revealed their true signideance. This is what they were intended to convey: "Horse and Mule Physician. Calls Answered Day and. Night" Everyone ]mew another prospector called. "The Only Jones." Ie was an eccentric, illiterate, but useful man, and had. a truly wonderful knack of scenting the outcrop of a. gold reef. Outside his tent he had a board hang- ing upon whieh, was painted this mys- tic inscription: THE ONLY JONES. Mining and Theological Expert. Of course he meant geological ex- pert, but his knowledge of etymology was not equal to his ambition. • There was a wreck once of a large merchant vessel off Delagoa Bay, which is only about eighty miles from Barberton. She was laden, among other things, with serge and an enterprising Portngese bought ap the salvage for a more song. He trekked" over to Barberton and sold his serge on the market place at very good prices. Both men and women bought the serge, which they thought gclod and sound. Then they htui it made by local tailors into suits and. dresses. After a few days the effects of the sea water began to tell, and on. the first Sunday after the aroma in church was so dreadful that the serv- ice came to a sudden stop, and every one fled into the open air. It seems that the rest of the cargo, besides serge, consisted of German cheese, • and dried snoek, which is a particu- larly "high" Cape Town fish with a pungent and afflicting odor. No cheap serge suits were worn in Barberton for a long while after that episode. the ocean transit arrangements, would be upset. Now that the rate to Cape Colony is down to two cents the de- partment maintains that no special hardship will be entailed. This ie the view taken also by the Imperial Government. Prior to the institution a tha penny rate, the Home Government used. to permit letters for the army and navy on service abroad to pass at the penny rate, but since the latter has become, general, soldiers and sailors are on precisely the same footing as tbe gen- eral public. For correspondence to Swath Africa it is recommended that thin or foreign post paper be used, as, if a letter ex- ceeds half an ounce in weight, doable postage will he charged on its arrival, in. Smith Africa. - STOMACH TROUBLE. Girl,, Who Work. Philosophers who study mankind chiefly in books, and view human life through their study windows, sometimes fall into strange errors. One of these lately expressed his as- tonishment that girls should prefer to work ia shops and stores to tak- ing places in households. Be said that a hired girl enjoyed the follow- ing advantages: "A healthy and regular occupation, a home shielded from contaminating ialluences, abundant and regular meals, fair wages and conetane employment all the year round, a kindly care and sympathetic concern for her highest and best interests, freedom to en- joy Sunday and a large part of a week day, a yearly heliday of two or tlwee weeks, and a cousiderate al- lowance for her failings and weak- nesses." Happy man who has had such an acquaintance with families as to lead him to suppose that ',Wee girls generally enjoy these great blessings! When that shall be the case there will not be any social problem left. All will be serene eupstairs and downstairs, and in my lady's cham- ber." Bread and Milk Dict Causes Thick Hair. It is said that rustics 'who live on a bread and milk diet, nearly always have thiek hair to an advanced age, . while people who lunch and dine on meat rarely have thick hair after aa. OUR SOLDIERS' LETTERS. Those who suffer from stomach troubles are truly to be pitied. Life seems a burden to them; food is dis- tasteful, and even that of the plainest; kind is frequently followed by 'nausea, distressing pains and sometimes vona- Stich a sufferer was M. liar - ray Price, a well-known farmer and stock grower livthg ar Bismarle. (bat. To a reporter who reeently iuterfiewe ed him, Mr. Harvey said:—"1 have found Dr, 'Williams' Pink Pills of swat inealeuleble value in l'elieving me of a, long siege of suffering that 1 am not only willing but anxious to say a. good word. in behalf ef his Died - Wine, and thus point the read to health to some other sufferer. For five years 1 had been aftlieted with stomach, trouble and a torpid. liver. 1 doctored and also denied rreyFelf of inana•itinds of feed pleasant to the taste, but neithe.—t.e ruedieal treat - meat nor the diet Ti'illted to help rae to any degree. In January, IStet. the climax of my trouble appeared to be reached. At that time I was taken down with la grippe, and that, added to my other :roubles, placed me in such a precarious pesitimx that none of my neighbors looked for my recov- ery. Iy appetite was almost com- • pletely gouts, and 1 experieneed great weakness, dizziness, vomiting spells and violent headaelies. I was also troubled with a cough which seemed to rack my whole system. I shall never forget the agony experienced. during that long and tedious siekness. Medical treatment and medicines of various kinds had no apparent effect in relieving me. After existing in this state for some months, my mother indaced me to try Dr. Williams* Piuk Pills, In May last I purchased three boxes, and before these were gone un- doubted relief was experienced. Thus encouraged I continued the use of the pills, and with the use of less than a dozen boxes, I was again enjoying the best of health, I eau now attend to my farm work with the greatest ease. My appetite is beter than it has been for years,and the stomach trouble that had so long made my life mis- erable has vanished. . I have gained in weight, and can safely say that I am enjoying better health than I have done for years before. I feel quite sure that those who may be sick or ailing, will. find a cure in a fair trial of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make pare, rich blood, thus reaching the root of the disease and driving it out of the system, curing when other medicines fail. Most of the ills afflicting man - kinds are due to an impoverished con- dition of the blood, or weak or shat- tered nerves, and for all these Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a epecifio which speedily restore the sufferer to heatlh. These pills are never sold in any form except in the company's boxes, the wrapper round. which bears the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Piles for Pale People." All others are counterfeits and should always be refused. Get the genuine, and be made well. They win Itave to Pay the Rate of Two Cents for Half and Ounce. The suggestion that the Post Office Department should allow letters des- tined for members of the Canadian contingent in South Africa to pass free a postage cannot, it seems, un- der the postal law be adopted. The Post Office Act clearly defines the class of letters which may pass through the mails free, but even were any lat- itude allowed to the department in this respect, Dr, Coulter, Deputy Postmaster General, says there would be complications which would be cliff" - cult to surmount. The letters would have to be sent via Southaanpton, and as the bulk of the mail for Southaanp- ton would take the New York route, the territorial charges to which the United States is entitled, as well as Slow Accumulation. "I've been shopping every day thhr week." "Then you must be ready for winter now, Mrs. Miggs." "No; one day I bought a pair of shoes, and the other five days I bought a hat." --Chicago Record. Snow and Itiud Preferred. "Nice weather." "Beastly!" "What's your line Of businessr "Football."—Cleveland Plain Deal,