Exeter Advocate, 1901-3-7, Page 7The Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks
Elijah's Petition.
IA despatch"from Washington says;
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the
following text :-"And there woe a
great rain." --1. Kings, xviii. 45, :
A long, coneunaing drought had come
upon the land. The leaves crumpled;
the eaerah brake opcm ; the buckets !
camo. down on the stony bottom of the
svell, and foundono water ; the cattle
bellowed with thirst on the banks of
'he ravine, that waa once all a -rush '
:kith liquid brightness.• Alas! must I
the nation die? ' Up the eiele'of Mount
Carmel go Elijah, his eerve.nt, and
king Ahab. There ia a magnificent'
4Prospeet from the top of Mount Car -
'mel. You can look off upon the Med-
iterranean and see yeasels" moving up
and down, carrying the conanaerce of
'great nation. It is a very conspicu-
'one point.: The sailor to this day, calls
it Cape Carmel. But Elijah clid not go
,tnthe top of the mountain for the fine
'prospect. He went up there to pray
,for rain and the Bible saye he oast
hirneelf down on the ground and put
'bie face between his knees, and cried
mightily unto the Lord that the land
• might not perish, but that the show-
ers might come. As soon as he had
finiehed the first prayer, he sent his
servant t� the outlook of the moun-
tain to see if there were any .eigns
of rain. The servant came back and
said:" No eigns of Min." Again, Elijah
prayed and again the servant Went to
the outlook and •came back with the
same information, and the third time
ancl the fourth, eand no rain, and, the
fifth time and no rain, and the sixth
time and no signs of rain. And then
Elijah threw himself into a more im-
poetunate petition, and for the eeventh
, time he cried unto the Lord, and for
the seventh time he aent his servant
to the outlook. Lo the young naan
came back eaying: "1 see a little
cloud five or six inches long, about the
size of a man'a hand." Elijah leaped
from his kneee and said to the serv-
s.aat: "Run and tell king Ahab to
get down out of the mountain; the
freshets will come, and unless he flies
now, he vvill never get home." The
servant etarts for kintg Ahab. Ahab
• gete en the chariot and speeds dowia
the mountain, and Elijah, more Swift
-
footed than th'e horse, leads the char-
• iot clown the hill. The cloud that was
only five or six inche,s long, expand§
until the whole heaven es filled with
gloom, and the wind blows up from
the eea to the mountain and from the
mountain to the aea, and
THE THUNDERS 'BOOM
and 'there is a wild, overwhelming
dash as the clouds buret, and the for-
ests are drenched, and the earth sings
-"And there was a great rain."
"Well,' you say, " what is that to
us? It is an incident lOng. ago past.
The last drop of that ehower is exhal-
ed, the very last leaf that was washed
by it, has gone into dust, and why do
you preeent it thie morning ?" For a
rnOst practical purpose. I want to
send this whole -church to its knees'.
I avant to have yen understand that
if you ,will only go up to the Carmel
of prayerful expectations and look off,
you can behold already'vapors gather-
ing into a 'cloud of mercy which will
burst in torrente of salvation upon the
people. I have to tell you three • or
•'tear things about that wonderful
erayer of Elijah • which resulted so
narvelously.
First: it was a humble prayer. Mark
:he language of, the Bible: "He 'cast
nimself on the earth and put hie face
between his knees." " Oh," you say,
"the posture of the body doesn't de -
aide the'ealrnestnese of the soul."
know that, hut the feeling of the soul
, very often indicates what; shall be the
position. Of the body. There was sor-
row in your house. Clouds of bereave-
ment hovered. You were afraid you'd
lone that loved one. You went to your
room; you locked the door; yea pray-
ed for thcrecovery of that eick one.
What position did you take ? Did you
• eft upright? Did you stand.? No; you
• either knelt, or-yeou threw yourself on
• your face before God. You had no idea
position would have any efface with:
God, 'but the position you took was
. nee result of your feeling. No wonder,
e....then, abet Elijah, with his own sins to
confess, and the sins of a nation, took
that launable posture, and it is most
appropriate to -day for as. How tine
we living? Within a few years -yes,
perhaps within a few hours, of Our
last account; yet, cold and, worldly
nod selfishand proud. Where is the
inerey-seat ? How little we pray.
Where is Jesus? How little vie seek
: his society, Where are the impenit-
ent ? llota little we do for their res-
' cue.
on
expreseable pain the price that was
peed for our rescue? Look over the
peat five, ten, fifteen years of our
life' how renieh wasted opportunity 1
Profeesing to live or God and eter-
nity, has not .our. profession some-
timebeen a lie, and our position a by-
word? 0 my brethren and sisters, we
must come down out of this pride.
We must humble oserselveS before
God, as Elijah did. Church of God,
repent! repent! To Lhe dust. Put
on, eackclotth! Weep aloud for thy
eisa! Wail for the dead
I xe,raark again in regard to the
petition of Elijah: It was a definite
prayer. - There were fifey things
that Elijah worulcl have liked to have
had for himself. There were fifty
things he would have liked to have
laa,d for the people; but he goes there
and asks or jut one thing, and that
is. rain. e
My friends, there are too many
glittering generalities in our prayers.
I think that is the reason they ido
do nlot amount to touch. We must
before God with some specific er-
rand, and say: "Here are my children,
strangers to the obvenant of grace
having no part or lot en the matter.
0 Lord, eiave my children!" and just
call them byname. yen ha.ve'been
asking that the coanniercial world be
consecrated to Christ, and that wag
a glittering generality. Why do you.
not say; "Here is my partner in busi-
ness, all abeorbed in the world; 0
Lord, c,onvert him by thy grace, and
show him that there is something
better for his soul than this world."
I with I could make yen feel that you
are responsible
FOR SOME, ONE SOUL.
Do you not suppose that when: you
come before God in judgment, he
will ask you about those over whom
you had a,n influence? :Will h.e not
ask you about your own children?
will he not say: "Where is John, or
George, or Mary, or Sarah, or Han-
nah? Where are they?" And if, in
that hour, you say: "I don't know, I
don't know," perhaps God will point
anal say: "There, do you see that? Do
you knolv what that is? Why, that
is the blood of their souls; on your
garment!"
I ;remark again; that this prayer of
Elijah • was a confident prayer.
There was no "mase -bees" about it.
Why was it that, when he -was 'ray-
ing, he sent his servant to the out-
look? It was because he knew rain
was going to come, and he wanted to
know the first moment of its arrival,
so that he could get down the Imoun-
ta.ba. • He knew that the raLn would
come, just as certainly ag, Carmel rose
above him, and the Mediterranean
lay beneath him. Have you the same
positiveness of expectation? Do you
believe God really means it when he
says: "Ask, and it shall be given
you; see,k, and ye shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened unto you?" or
is your imploration a mere matter of
indefinite "perhaps?" Then away
with your prayers; they will die on
your lips. Coming to God with such
• an insulting unbelief, he will spurn
you away from him. 0 my dear
brethren and siaters in Clarst, ,how
can we halt and stagger adid doubt
with the Bible flail of promises, and
heaven full of glories, and God full
mercy and ,salvation for all the peo-
ple.
I remark again in regard to thrtt
prayer of Elijah: It was a successful
prayer, that is, got what he
wanted, which was rain -not rain
only for Lhe trough of the camel;
not rain just enough to settle the
dust; not raia enough to wet the
cornfield, but enough to drench the
forests and soak the fields, and slake
the, thirst of a whole nation. Rain
for, the Mountains, rain for the
trees and rain for the cattle. it was
a great rain I Now are we making
the prayer that will bring the same
success? We do not want rain so
much on the field,s, but it is rain on.
the tender heart of childhood and the
weary spirit of the old man that we
need; it is rain on the heart, hard
with the drought of sin or wilted
under the sun -stroke of worldliness,
it is spiritual rain that we need, :How
to get it? The way Elijah got it. All
our Preaching about it .and' talleing
about it will not bring it.
WE MUST PRAY AND PRAY.
We must go on the Carmel of Chris-
tian expectation and bow ourselves be-
fore the Lord, and then it will come.
It always has come when the right
kind of prayer • went up. - It will
come as certain as there is a Lord,
and you have a eoul immortal to be
set On trial On tile last day, Prayer
now; prayer perpetually,
I see flats morning some who have
been back -sliders from God. They
atice sat at the communion table;
they sit there no more. Onee they
prayed; they pray no more. Once np-
on their eyes there came the vision
of ta pardoning Jesus; but nowthey
een'
e,
le
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• WIIERE IS HEAVEN ?
liow little its raptures kindle our soul.
Cold and. hard, ,ought we ,flot to -day,
.you in thc pew an.d I on the platform,
,to take before God the:segue posture
that Elijah took? Tell mee are we all
Sons and daughters of the Lord A1 -
nighty? Are we the souls that have
been retisomed ? Wag that cross of in -
eland, with both their foot on the
bleeding hear of the Son of God.
wanderipg brother, you. east Goct off,
do you? Will it be strange if Go('
caSt4 you offi it will he harder for
you at the last than fur those who
never took the first stel,) heavenward.
You showed that you knew your duty.
How aboult all these precious scenes
in which you once conamingled? 'Where
are they now? 'low can you' meet
Ohrist at last -that Jesus whom you
nave been persecuting by a wandering
life? LinW can you look him in the
face at • the last? Are yoa happy,
hack -sliders? No, no; you have not,
seen an hour of happiness since -you
gave up your „hope and wandered off,
peshaps, to please a skeptical com-
panion. You say; "Oh, if I could only
get back to these good old timeswhen
I did serve God!" The most wretch-
ed condition in all, the world is that
of a man who once was a member of
the church and sat at hdlY cortirriure-
bon, who has gone back. But Jesus
will be just as,' glad to have you, come,
now as he was the first time you
started for him. He waits to, be
gracious. Trust him. He will say
nothing about what you have said
against him. He will hay nothing
about the days of your wandering.
He will say nothing about the fact
that yoei have been sitting in the -seat
of the scorners and laughed at
Christianity, and despised that which
,
you once loved. He will not throw
that uP to you at all, no more than
did the father when the prodigal
came back. The father did' not say
anything to the 'prodigal about his
poor clothes or his hungered face,
but he went right away to clothe him
and to robe him and to feast him.
And Clarist will not say anything
alaout what you have been doing
sol long, if you will only come to him
to -day, -and do •your works over
again.
To have been warned and not to
have heeded; to have been invited by
all the pleading wounds oftChrist and
nolt to have accepted them; to have
had glorious Sabbaths of niercy like
this, and yet not to ,have improved
them; to have come so near heaven,
yet to have missed it! There will be
LWO things that will be •said
an Sleet • day. You, will say one
be said on that day. You will say one
and God will say the other, if without
repentance you appear before him,.
Two things, one by you and one by
the Lord. You, looking back on the
wasted -say; "How have That -
ed instruction and my heart despis-
e,d reproof. ,The harvest is past, the
summer is ended and, I ana not sav-
ed." The other thing will be said by.
the Lord; "Because I called and ye re-
fuseel,eand stretched out my hand and
no man regarded, therefore I well
tau,gh at your calarnety and mock
when your fear cometh."
TWELVE BUSINESS MAXIMS.
The president of the London Cham-
ber of Commerce gives twelve maxims
which he ha e tested through years of
businesg experience, and which he .re-
commends as tending to insure suc-
cess :
1. Have a definite stns
2. Go straight for it.
S. Master all details.
4. Always know more than you are
expected to know. .
5. Re.member thee' difficultie,s are
only made to overcome.
6 Treat failures as stepping -Stones
to further effort. .
!T. Neves' put your hand out forth-
er than you can"drave it back.
8. At times lee bold e always pru-
dent
'7. The minority- often beats the
majority in the end
, 10, Make good use of other naen's
trains
11, Listen well answer eautiously,
decide promptly.
12. Preserve, by all means in your
power. a sound mind in a sound 'body.
THE RATS TI-IEY EAT.
The current impression that China-
men eat rats -1 Mean ordinary Ameri-
can rats -Lis all nonsense, said Dr.
James J. MaSOn, a well known Chinese
missionary, chatting abut his expert -
0000 in the Flowery Kingdon:
The truth in regar-d to it is this:
There is a small animal oin China
knotan colloquilly as ',the tsui-choev.
that is often bred especially for food.
It infests the. rioefield,se and is' about
the size of an ordinary rat, but r.haa a
longer body and o hertd alaaped seme-
t,hing like that:. of a ferret,. It is a
very prolific creature and is sold in
enormous numbers in all the markets
of tho g, eat cities -neatly cleaned and
sk.swerejoipart. and s:rungs in bunches
of tvventy or thieety on bamboo reeds.
The tsui-chow is strictly an eglilele
aniinel, and, feeding entirely on rice, it
naturally has very delicate and savory
flesh, I have eaten them, and if I had
been able to get the rat idea out of me:
mind would have relished the -dtsh.
They taste something like young squir-
rels, and alive or dead are certn hely
much tress repulsive that many things
e commenly es1eem. delecacie-eels
and frogs, for example.
cheerfulness of tetnper arises half
front personal goodoess, half from a
bellet so tlae personal goodness of oth-
era,
THE SUNDAY
asae "Aesuredly am " POAer leere
SCITOOL "
Stands for the leteenal 04E.
65. The high pelest root hiselothes.
"A formal ace expreeeiug a sudden
and ovel.poweging sense of horror at
sahat he called blasphemy ; but hypo-
critical, ani used to disguise hie mal-
ice. The judges in a Jewish trial for
blaepliemy were bound to rend their
clothin twain when the blaephem-
aus words , were uttered, and the
elethee eo torn were never afterward
to be nice:vied." Be hath spoken blae-
plieiny. And lildel1d OUT Lord's words
were either blaepheinuue, or insane, or
true. What further need have we of
witneeees? Here ie. a nrafty 'stroke.
If he got any more witnesses they
might contradict those already heard;
uit rerew the entire council had heard
his bla.eplaenay, and ie all witnesses
were.falee the aeottsed, had prorved his
dean
66. ,Whait think ye? Not so mach
a question concerning their opinion
as a call upon them for their verdict.
He: is ,guility f death. S:o far a,s this
nseeting'wa.s concerned our Lord •wee
now destined to death, but "the Jews,
or at Least their rulers, who courted
the fav'or of Rome,ostentatiously
desclaimed the power of punishing
capital offenses." So new, charges
must be pressed before the Roman
geivernor.
67. Buffeted hem. Struck him
with clenched fists. Others smote
him the palms' of their haIcl.s.
I;t1 was not the dignified roembers, of
the Sanhedrin, bat the eoffieers,"
,
who have appeared so oaten in this
story, the servants of the temple,
who during the perforraa.n:ce of their
brutal duties "bad fun" with their
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 10,
"Jesng, ad Cataph4s." Matt.
Golden Text, Mat. 10. 110.
P NOTES.
Vea'se 57. And they that had Mid
hold on Jesus led him eiwaY to Oaia-
1hi5 the high priese. This1 was af-
ter the examdnation by ,;\onas. Cala-
plitte had aLready committed himself
to Vile Policy of kiilirig Jesus. There
.1i3 no indication in the Scripture that
any of tiro fpriests svcre friendly to
Jesus. Some defenitere in the San-
hedrin ate ineplied but we may con-
jecture them to have been. JosePh
and Nicoeleneus. The tscrifbeg and the,
elders. The Sanhedrin. Almost
every class represented in the San-
hedrin heel 'been criticised by 'Jessie
for hypocrisy, greed, ignorance OT
skepticism. Were assembled. Jew-
ish law prohibited the Sauahedrin
from holdeng formal sessions`at night.
'Apparently this informal gathering
continued until daybreak, whe,n it
formed itself into the regular court
and pa'ssed judgment on Jesus. The
unseemly and illegal haste wa.s due
to IoaT of an atteseePt at rescue Pee'
our Lord's friends.
58. Peter follewed him afar off un-
togthe Isegh priest's palace. Another
disciple went with Peter, who is of-
ten assumed to haye been„ John, but
whora many schgars are inclined to
think was ludas. • By the influence
of this other disciple Peter found ad- 1
mission. See John 18. 16. He went
ers to the court of the palace, and Sat
with thc servants, that is, the "offi-
ees'i," who had jaist arrested Jesus.
vTilitese isa the chill of the early elawn
had lighted a charcoal fire. Edwin
women who actesi as gate keepers
were passing to .and fro. The cold
night air had told on Peter, and be
too', weary and chelkd, drew neari the
1ir0 to w.arna, laimeelf." '.no see the
end. The last proof of affection.
Each word indicates a crushed but
loving heart.
59. Sought false, wit/lees. 'Chat
the had been thus seeking for Some
three is made plain by the tense iof the
Greek verb; but they had not now
time to harmonize the false testi-
mony. Apparently, Judas's treasen,
unexpected by the priests, had hur-
ried their plans.
60. Though many • false weinesges
carnse yet eouincl they none. The mul-
titude of false witneeses does not in-
timate any widespread dislike of
Jesus. Proceedings in modern courts
and Christian countries have shown
that it is not difficult evesi now to
procnre false testimony.
R.. I
an able to destroy the tem-
ple of God. John 2. 19: "Destroy this
temple and in" rehnee days Iwill raise
it up." These witne,sses were near-
er the truth than Lhose who had gone
before but they lead corrupt motives,
and Mark tele us that their testimony
did not agree.
62. Answe-reist thou nothing? what
is it which these witness against
thee Or. "Answerest thou nothing
to What these witness against thee ?"
One after another had come forward
with prejudicial statements against
Jesus, and be steel "held his peace."
Of this :eileince Tea- 53. 7 is a pro-
phecy; 1 Pet. 2. 23 is a most instruc-
tive and touChing coramentary.
61. I adjure thee by the -living God,
that thou tell us •whether thou be the
Christ, the Son of God. The law em-
powered the chief priest in certain
casee to administec an oath. Our Lord
could not refuse to answer this chal-
lenge, and it was 63 worded that he
must have , either denied himself or
have uttered what seemed, to be blas-
phemy to the Sanhedrin.
64. Thou has said. This expression
wee a ,Jewish idiom of the strongest
victims.
68. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ.
Who is he that smote thee? From
Mark, 14. 65 and Luke 22. 61 we get
the full force of this ibla.sphornous
mockery; they had blindfolded our
Lord, and had both struck his face
and spelt upon it. "They knew not
what, they did."'
TO FIT SHOES.
People: would fend less dillictilty
with ready-made ehoes, says an experi-:
enced salesman if they Would standup
to fit there on, instead of sitting down.
Nino persons out of ten, particularly
ladies, want a comfortable chair while
they are fitting a shoe, and it is with
the greatest difficulty you can get
them to stand for a fewi minutes even
after the shoe is fitted. The,n, when
they begin walking about, they wonder
why the shoes are not so comfortable
I as they were at first trial. A wo-
man's foot is considerably smaller
, when she sits in a chair than when she
1walks about. Exercise brings a large
blood into
A BARBARIC FASHION.
French schilciren are ridiculously
dressed as far as the, laws of hygienics
are concerned, for, . even in cold
'weather, when furs and velvets attest
to the taste and money lavished upon
little girls' attire, their legs are
wretchedly exposed to the weather,
not only by the eooks, which leave
their knees entirely bare, but by ex-
tremely abort underclothes.
A GERMAN DILEMMA.'
I see that at the Gerroan antler ex-
hibition a Teutonic ,gentlernan with-
out a tette was .given the first prize
oven Etoaperor
Whew! Say, that board of judges
must have been in a painful dilem-
ma for a while.
A dilemma?
Yes, they didn't know which horn
to take.
PERSONALITIES.
Pepe Leo XIII does not speak Eng -
lisle though he began to learn it more
than 50 years ago in Brussels.
In he days of their geentest prosperi-
ty Gilbert and Sullivan are said to
have divided between them *200,000 a
year.
Charles S. Francis, the new Ameri-
can minister to Greece, 16 a graduate
of Cornell, but before going to college
learned the printer's trade in Troy,
N. Y.
Robert Dick Douglas, a grand son of
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, bas
been -appointed by Governor Russell to
the office of attorney general of North
Carolina.
Frank Svoboda of New York has re-
turned from the Klondilee world. He is
12 years old and made the trip on foot
vvhere often, the temperature was 601
degrees below zero.
The Geographical Society of Phila-
delphia has presented the Elisha Kent
Kane medal to Dr. A. Donaldson Smith
of that city in recognition of his recent
explorations in Africa.
Secretary of tbe Navy Long denies
•the report that he is going to Colorado
to live. His daughter is going to that
state on account of her health, but Mr.
Long says he will always consider Mas-
sachusetts his home.
Sir Richard Webster, now Lord Al.
verstone, the English lord.chief justicet
when called to the bar made 1,500 in
the first year of his practice and $5,000
the second. Before his latest promotion
he was making $100,000 a year. `
Professor Schiaparelli re..tired on Nov.
1 from the directorship of the observa-
tory of Milan, where he had been at
work for the last 40 years. He has
been one of the most conspicuous fig-
-tires in Italian science. His successor'
Is Professor Celoria. '
Mr, H. N. Goddard -of Clyffe Manor,
who died recently on his ninety-fourth
birthday, was one of the old order of
English co-untry squires. His family
bad been settled in Wiltshlre'ever since
the reign Of King John, and the estate
of Clyffe-Pypard had descended to him
in a direct line from 'father to son for
The German emperor recently pre-
sented a marble bust of himself to
Baron Beck, chief of the staff of the
Austrian army. The bust is on a large
scale and weighs 1,800 pounds. Bare.
Beck is having his house thorougt.
overhauled by military engineers to aS:k
certain if there be any spot in it capae
ble o.f bearinignseoyenormouthus ps.a weight.
: ed to a tele.
gram asking if there was any foundas
tion for the newspaper report that he
was engaged to Lillian Russell: "If
j you apply to the lady, you will ascet
tain what is true. That she has neve
spoken to me in her life and would toe
know me if we should chance to meet
Is a pleasant illustration of the liberty
press.00
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
Keep all dead and faulty limbs en_
off the fruit anti ornamental trees.
In manuring the orchard the whale)
surface should be equally enriched.
, The mulberry is one of the best of
fruiftrees to grow in tbe poultry. yard.
As soon as the ground freezes suffi-
ciently hard to bear up a wagon apply
the mulch.
When selecting shade trees for plant -
Ing. hardiness of the 'trees should be
given preference over rapid growth.
Whenever bushes or suckers are seen
growing around the apple and peaa.
trees you may know that the orchard
does not pay.
• One advantage of good drainage in
the orchard is that the fruits will usu-
ally come to maturity earlier than on,
endrained land.
A FLESH REDUCER. IP the fruit trees are split by frost,
Stout Lady -Does a bicycle reduce S;arot griaslin afting plwax,acesPirreuavderitthoon wound, opuieucde,
lan ' I
tying it to leeep in place.
Mr., Slimpurse, wearhy-If you
When pear trees refuse to grow and
b it th in b 11 ant pran d
buy . on . e s a m p a i . oes.
-------- - eppear dormant, cultleate them well
•and apply plenty of wood asees around
seases 0 th
• them. The liatchingof the tent cater-
. ..
pillar can, in a great measure, be pre-
vented by going through the orchard
now and pickino off the clusters of
eggs.
hroat and Lu
Lea.d to Pneumonia and
Syrup of L.inseed an
Aliments.
To -day et is eni,y a cough; only, a
tickling in the throat. To -morrow
will comer the pains and soreness in
the chest, the bronchial tubes and
langs. Once again: is repeated the old
story of eonsumption or pneumonia
developed from a neglected cold.
There is no LISS giving up and saying,
"What is to be will be," for you -can
relieve and, loosen any cough and
thoroughly cure the cold by using Dr.
Chase's Syrap of Linseed and Turpen-
tine, which for nearly a third of a
century has bee,n Abe "stand-by" in
thousands of Canadian homes, as
safeguard against pneumonia, con-
sumption, and serious lung troubles.
• Though turpentine bad long been
censidered invaluable as a remedial
agent for inflammation of (he air pas-
sages, le remained for Dr. A. W. Chase
to so, Combinc it with linseed, 1 icor ice,
and half a dozen other ingredients as
e.o make a pleasant tasting and re-
ana r kably ef f eetiv e pr e po r t ion for
coughs, colds, and kindred ailments.
Dr. Chasets Syrup of Linseed and
Turpentine' is dif ferent trent: any
throat and lung treatment you ever
Consunnptio --Dm as s
d Turpentine Cures These
it'd. When tired at new-fangled
I mixtures ol uncertain merit you can
turn to Dr. Chase's Sterop of Linseed
and. Turpentine with [thee:lute assur-
ance that it ies the safest, surest:, and
tu,ost thorough cure for coughs and
colds that was ever discovered. .
Mrs. F. Dwyer, of Che,stervelle,
saY•ts1-"My little :girl of three years
had an attack of bronchiol pneurnoffia,
My hostsa,nd and 1 thought she was
going to leave the waled, as her ease
reseeted the doctor's ereatment. 1
be;u:ght a 'bottle of Dr. Chase's Syrup
of Linseed ancl '11iorpentitie freest our
popular druggist, W. 0. Boleeer. Af-
ter the first twei or three doses the
chiild began to get better, and 11.11c are
thankful tee say is all right to -day at -
ter seven weeks' eieleness."
Nearly every druggist bete some
sort of a cough miXturc to offer 3 -ea
en place of what you a,sk for, but if
you wane to be, eured insist on hav-
ing' Dr. Chase's. It has etooel the test
and has no woreby rival. Dr. Chace'l
Syrup of Lineoed asad Turpentine, 25
Conte a bottle; fansily' size, Vanes
times as ,rnueb, 60 cents. All deals
ers. or Eetmanson nate and 00m4
pasty, Toronto
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
When a French newspaper is not sure
of itS news it does not say "it is ru-
mored," but simply adds "under re-
serve."
• i
A curiona custom prevails n Mexico
of paying afternoon calls on New
Year's day attired In full evening dress
white ties and gloves. '
Relic bunters are the vandals to evhoni
nothing is sacred.' These pestiferous
destroyers are now defacing the ean-
opy over -Plyirenth rook.
The Belgiap ,chamber has resolved
that every M. P, shell be a total ab,
stainer, 'at least during the hours when
he is officiating as a legislator.
The valtie of the chicle, the basis of
CbeWing guns, that is produced in Idea -
leo Is tliteo times as great as that of the
country's present rubber product.
The Chicago c1rainag4, canal haa
permanent tile line consisting of it
strong wire cable stretched along its
antire distance of 84 tniles. It is there
for nee and safety In case of an acei-
d en t.
A writer on lake navigation says it Is
easeless to anti-( of keeping a winter
channel open with strongly built ice
crushing boats, beenuee the gales tare
Mo severe ;Intl the cost et maintaining
the boats in motion would be too great.