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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1901-3-14, Page 2INISTRY An Inaleiring Dis GODWI TEARS11 ioned and upboletered end pillared and *ebbed as thoweit you were TIIE WYDAY SC1-100L ourse by Rey. Dr, Min age. L WIPE WAY ALL TEARS WIte Eminent P/Nine' rats the Innferttnlee or Life in a Cuwertal Lion, ehowieg Thu if 'elate ,lere aurae in the Right S)irit-thee m.;4- nrove Advautaaeous, • Yost, eltarele 10.-A vast au - dim e reseled the Aeadenty of 'Mu- sie in this tate- tu-day to hear Pr. Talmege, nieceeirsing on "'The Mile- istry of Tetersen he put the misfor- Vines ate eUfst ie el:earful light, sliowing' that if thee- were borne in the right spirit they might prove to nothing; else to talie hold of we catch he advent' aeon Cie text was Rev- hold of Cod. Wily, do you know ell, lee "'need Goa' wiPe away who the Lo cd is? He is not an ent- ail tears from. Gene eeaa." ocran i•eated far up in e palace, What see-set:tele a f..!w weeks ago from welch he emerges once a year, and chandellered at such expense, no story cf other worlds could euchant us. We would say: "Let well enough alone. If you want. to die and lueve your)body disintegrated, in the dust and your soul go out on a. celestial adventure, then you call go, but this World is good enouga for me." You might us well go to a man 'who has just entered the Louvre it Par ie and tell him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice or Pkeeeeee• he," he would say. "what is the use of me going there? There are Rembrandts and ltubenses and Titians here theta have not 'tweed at yen" No man wants to go out of this world or out of any house until he has a. better house. It is trouble, my friends. that manes fel our dependence upon God. Wee do not know our own weakne $ er Cogan strength until the LS t plane brealts. It is contempt- iide in us that only 'when there is when tbe max ion -se were in tears! protege d be heralds swinging swords Queen Vietoria 'fated from the te deer tee way. No. Ile is a fath- Ingeest thrors. ein earth to a, throne er wiling at our call to stand by us fteven. Tee eize-er snore often in ...eere- crisis awl predicament of offered then any poieer for the last inn I ten you what, some yot 04 ewers had tree: tiesoWered, and titteiness men mato. nte think of. A. Cod did sa.ve the anwn. An round. the veerhe the lielee were tolling. and the. minute. gun. v.ere booming at. the oi.seguies of - most lumored Voleers Of meshy e...ezies. As neer feet' ;views ege z;• Weeneels anti Am- erients met ante, e tee t;, liamle in con- flret.ttlat ion at tin t eteen's jubilee So in thcae time- uatious shook, berale in seeerniel, eympatby at the Queen's departure. No people out- side (treat Itritinte eti iliterle felt that niighty gel f tee onr people. The Grade S of mete of our ancestors Were rocei.d. is. ti roe Itlit1141- Tht/Se encteitore plane: eitildliood on the • beanie of the Tw. d or the Themes ter leo Slate:awe Tette front our veins the Fennel. Hotel or the Welsh blood or the Ira e 1.1.e id or the Scotch blood and size stream of our woull ite ShalloW. They are over -there time of our bone and ileeh of our Ikea, It is our Wilber- oer Voleyeilee. our Pe eetaineey. oar litoimet Bisons. our ilatitn Wesley. our Joim Krtfet. onr Temeies Cease - beefs, ore- "Nolo e Soot. our Bishop our Leer, our Itidley, *tar Itoteert our Daniel Oleo Our llottee. t I net, our Daniel OeConnell„ our ;tea ..Iteet, our Rus- kin. our teleelo eze, our good and great and gliwieee V int oriel. The lenettete.- le whist we offered the Engle -is stet ;1,44 114ur coselolowe iS the eassie Lawmen- in which John Ilenyen eireeszak ami Milt op. sang ttnd Shakel3eaf fir,Ullatized nd "Xeicbard Beater preyed and George WItitelield thuntli rod. The Prince of Wales. now King. paid reverential visit to Wasbiagiun's tomb at Mount Vernon, and Longfellow's statue adorn:, Westminster Abbey. and Ab- raham Lincoln in bronze looks down upon Seotland's 4:i.pital. It was na- tural that these two nations be in tears. But I am not going to speak Of nationui tears, but of individual tears and Bible tears. Biding acne!, a western prairie, Wild flowers up to the hub of the carriage eteseel, and while a long dis- 'aside from any tht•re comae a. -sudden sittever, awl, while the rain Was felling in -torrents, the sun was shining as brietioly as I ever few it seine, and 1 whine:lit, What a beauti- ful spectacle this! So the tears of the Wilde are not midnight storm, but rein on paneled prairies in God's sweet and golden stmlight. You remember that bottle which I)avid labt•led as containing tears, toad Mary's tears and Paul's tears And Christ's oars. and the hervest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes them; God rounds them; Cod shows them where to fall; Cod exhales them. A certsus is taken of them, and there is •at. recurcl as to the moment when they were born and as to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men , are not ken . Alexander in his sor- row had the hair (-tippet/ from his horses and Joules and made a great ado about his grief, but in all -the vases of heaven there is not one of Alexander's team. I speak of the tears of God's children. Alas, me, they are falling all the time! In summer you soutet Imes hear the gr piing thunder, and you see there is a. storm. miles away, but you know from the drift of the •clouds that it Will not come anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around about you, there is a shower of trouble somewhere all the time. Tears, tears! What is the use of them anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all -the people are well and eternal strangers to pains and aches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual norewes- ter? Why, when a family is put to- • gether, not have them all stay, or, if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then have them all live, the family record telling a story of marriages and births, but of no deaths? Why not have the harvests cbaset each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile or a suc- cess or a congratulation, but come now and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions and help me explain a tear. 4 chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and lime and other component parts, but he misses the chief ingredients -the acid of a, loured life, the viperine sting of a bitter men:tory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell. you what ,• tear is. It is agony in solution, elf,- while I discourse of the Ministry of tears or the practical tt8es of sorrow. , First, it is the design of trouble to keep this world 'from being too attractive. Something must be done to make us wining to quit this ex- istence. If it were not for trouble thie world would be a good enotigh heaven foe us, You and I would be erilling to take a lease of this life for a hundred 'million years if there Were no trolible. The earth. cush- man is tunfortmtate in business. has to ralee a good deal of money, I and Irene it quiettly. He borrows on werd stett sage een. he can borrow. Aft.w a while tak puts a mortgage on his leoza..- After ;twine-, he puts a second mortgage on Isis house. Teen pens a lieu on his furniture. Then he willies over his life insurance. ' man he aseigns all his i•roperty. ' Then he goes to his fittletron-lw end eislis for help. Well, having fatl- et! -eewhere, completely failed. he lege down on his knees one says. -Oh. Lord, 1 beve tried every/mete and everything: slow help use out of 1 bis Si mime al t rot:Mee' Ile Make.; God the last resort instead of the first resort. A, young mart goes off from) home to earn 1 -is fortune. Ile goes with his Mother's consent and benediction. Sae has large wealth, but be wants Lo li1il.140 his oWni (online. HO goes ter away, falle siva. gets out ee Melee". Ile sends for the tweet lima er wilere he is staying. asittrag for len e wee and 1110' OttaWer he gels Se. elf you do not pay up Saturday night. yozill, In removed to the hos- pital." The young men sends to a. voter >tie in the Pere buiellenw No help. lie writes to a baniter who was a feitud of hie deenased father. No relief. Saturdity night C011108,, SISI he is moved to the hospital. Getting Imre. be is frenzied with grief. and he borrows 0 sheet of pa- per and a. poetage stamp. and he sits down, and he writes home, saying: "Dear mother, I am sick unto death. Gonne." It is 20 minutes of 20 Welovit when she gets the letter. At 10 o'clock the train starts. She is five 73111.111t05 from the depot. She gets there in time to have five min- utes to spare. She wonders why the train thot ean go 40 suiles ai. hour cannot go St) miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital. She site,ts.: "My son, what does all this mean? Why did, you not send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward I get for my eind- ness to you aleatee?" She Wailes lzira up, takes hien home end gets hint well very soon, Now, some of you treat, Got; just as that young znan treated his moth- er. When you get into a financial perplexity, you tall on. the Smoker, you call on the broker, you eall on your ereditors, you tall cm your lawyer for legal counsel, you call upon everybody, and when you time not get any help then you go to God. You say: "Oh, Lord tonic) to thee. help me now out of my perplexity." And the Lord . ones, though it is in the eleveath hoes. He says: "Why did you not send fer rue before? As one whom his mot her comforteth, so will I comfort you." It is to throw as back upon God that we have this ministry of tears, Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate us for the office of sym- pathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by hav- ing water sprinkled upon their hands, feet and head, and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set apart to the office of sympathy. When we are in prosperity, we like to have a. great many young people around us, and we laugh when they laugh, and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing, but when we have trouble we like plenty of old folks around. Why? They know how to talk. Take an aged mother, 75 years of age, and she is aliamst omnipotent in com- fort. Why? She has been through it all. • At 7 o'clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that tronble. Fifty years age she felt It. At 12 o'clock of that day she goes over to comfort a widowed soul. She knows all about that. She has been walking in that dark valley 20 years. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon some one knocks at the door, wanting bread. She knows all h,bout that. Two or three times in her life she came to her 'last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she goes over to sit up with some one severe- ly sick. • She knows all about it,. She knows • all 'about fevers and pleurisies and broken. bones. She has beeu doctoring all her lite, spreading plasters and pouring out bitter drops and shaking tin hot pillows and con- triving things to tempt h. poor appe- tite. I Drs. Abernethy ane Rush and Heeack and harvey were great doc- tors, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw is an old Christian woman. Deaf. met Do we not re- member ;her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there ane one who could ever so touch a sore without hurting Jet . And whent she lifted her spectacles against her wrinkled foreheecl So she could look closer at the wound it was three- fourths healed. And when the Lord took her home, although you may have been men and women 30, 4.0, 50 years of age, you lay on the • coffin only 5 o - 1O years of age. Mere clue Paul get the ink with, - winch to Mete his eomforting epis- Leseoloi XI, FIR -8T GOARTeR, INTER, ties? Where did David get the Ma •NATIONAL SERIeS, MARCele'17. to mite Isis comforting psalms? Wbere did John getethe ink to write lUs comfertine Revelation." They got it out of their own tears. Where a i man has gone througli the cerricuban and has %nen a course of dungeons, and imprisonments, he is qualified for the work of sylelarthee I •am an herb doctor I put into the cohlrou the root out of dry ground, without form or comeliness. Ten / put, in the rose of seamn ond the lily el he valley. Then. I put into the caldron some of the. leaves owt the iree of life and the branch that was thrown into the wilclernese era's. Then I pour iti the tears 'of Bethany and Golgotha. Then 1 stir them up. Then I kindle under the caldron a fire made out of the wood of the er05.5, and one drop of that potion will cur o the.wierst sickness that ever afflicted a Inman soul. :Mary and Martha, shall receive their Laearus from. the tomb. The damsel rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning. and God. will wipe away all tears front their eyes. Jesus had enough trial to melte him sympathezie with all trial'. The shortest verse in the Dible tole the story, “Jesus wept." The scar on the back of his either hared, the scar on the arcit of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the beim will exalt all heaven tisineitig. Olt, inlet Great leeeper is just the one to sU- 'n&'c all earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief! Gentle! Whet, his step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not be s tyrant bid - you hush your crying. It wiel te. a father weti will teie you on tis left arm, his face beaming into ;yours. while with the soft tips of the singers of the right band he Shall wipe away all tears Woes your eyes. Methinks it will take us some time to get need to heaven. the fruits of God without one speck1 the fresh pastures without one nettle. the (m- aestro, Without one snapped string, the river of gladness without Ono torn bauk. the solferino and the saff- ron of the sunrise of the eternal day that ticauts from God's fate. Friends. it We could get any appre- eilation of what God bas inreeerve for us it would make us so homesick we would be Unfit for our everyday work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa university. put in ray hands 0 meteoric stone -a stone thrown off 5onte other world to this, How sug- gestive it was to me! And I have to tell you the best representations WO Dave of heaven are only aerolites flung off from that world which rolln on, Leering the multitude of the re - (homed. We analyze these tterolites and find them crystallizations of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven! "God .shall wipe away an tears• from their eyes." have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in heaven? Uow different It. is when they get news there of a elirrstian's death from w hat it is here! It is the difference between em- barkation and coming into port. Everything depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christian's death. If you stand On this side of the river, you mourn mext of the 1..e40.qn., 1346. memory verses,. goazeneoleen. Teen 4..rtl:ei*I'4'.:V.CPC":17.117;ttg'g.A,1:47"43* ed feepyrislit, lee), ey emecieta rrese essocatenta la, 14„ "reload. I. beeleg examen•ed hira before you, have rowel teo.lanit in • tb15 maiz tEnteiliiV these tbiags whereat . ye .accuse leneen* After (be 6:et exane leaden of last' weeks leeeo.u, as etion 115 it was (ley the elders and chief pelests led ittto their council foe a more formal examination (Luke x$U. eiCO, after .avbiels thee toot: Hint to ruat,, tbe Roman gov- ernor„ to to.41.* aim put to (kath. It would seen) thitt leeteee eteene took jelatte berme, tee ferMal couneli eeinnisee tioa, atel after they started with Mat to Pilate Jfulas wept awl Imaged tistieelf. Pilate •yeanfiued Hine. found no faint le Gine toe) seat Him to Herod. hoping to be rid of tbe vase (verses 3-7s. but Herod egtetnottetmle411.8_itunar.d seufr.ThislalLmout gainurjp:4; es to our lesson. 1547. will chastise Him and release Hine" Herod 'could Owl nothing against 11110. and Pilate tfttitied three time -1 thee lie Ousted no fault in Woe yet now Ise says he 'will 'chastise ilut why. le ,lIe bas doge uotbing amiss? Was it with the hope that Ibis would satisfy the people, and that he might thee re- lease 'Jesus? Possibly. for he seemed Of desire to release HIM, awl die mewls to - Ward it. His wife also tirgiel hie* to nave nothing to do with 'that just elan teletb. xe,vii. le). • Give special attention. to our 'Lord's- wards to Mate concerniog LIls Mufelora eot belug of this world. awl Pilatettaving ,rece power 'against aim une less it was given him from above encilm eel% ;eel xlx, 11), the former deelariug 'that TIM 11005 liOt give IIIM the Mug - 401)1. nee tan, man, prevent it; it Wilt te on this •earth, it will be given Hisn ley Me Father awl will ineluile the whole earth. 'rhe latter declares that wiling trans- pires on earth without permission from beaveu, and our Lord recognized that not .Calaphas ,uor Ilona nor tilate, tor fel consbitted, .ceould do one thing beyoud that which Ood Imd lteNre -determined should be dope (Ads- Ir. .27. 25'). Us came to die for the shut of the world: the time had entree for flan to In dews his life, and Ile was calmly going forword 11. to- de 10. "Away with this man, awl re- lease unto us Uarabbas." See our bles.s- ed Lord scourged and crowned with *hems, and coasider it as if you really . • " sea it all and say again. 44V n. or me, you get tilled with real gratitude. It was the euetem for the wrestler to release Unte the people a priemterat this feast, one whom they might choose* aud they had a notable prisoner, named Darabbas, who had committed murder (Math. xvie 10, 10; Mark en '1). Pilate seems to have hoped that they would elates° Jesus rather than 511011 a Man to be released, but he knew not the people nor tbe pur- pose of God. Could our Lora have for- giveness for such as preferred the devil to himself, for ilarahlins and those W130 cried fur his relense were the devil's own (John *HI, 44). anti yet did not Adam and Eve prefer the devil and his W15110111 to God and His love? 20, 21. "Crucify Him, crucify Simi" This is said to be Pilate's sixth atteroot to release *Testis, his sixth intercession for Ulm, but their only respouse Is. "Crucify Hine" Souse count It his seventh inter - that they go. If you stanil on the eesseon; anyway, it is his last. 11 11115 other side of the river, you rejoice this time that he asked, "Mat. shall 1 that they come. 012, the difference do then with Jesus wise is called Christ r between a, funeral on earth and a (Math. xxvii, 22.) Oh, if he had only jubilee in heaven-betiveen requiem asked this question from his heart, know - here and 'triumph there; parting here Ing who Jesus wIte, and bad received and reunion there! Together' Have Him, how good it wetted have been for you ever thought of? They are Pilate! Those who bays heard of Jesus together. Not one of your departed friends in one land and another in another land, buf together in differ - eat rooms of the same bouse-the house of many mansionsl Together! Take this good cheer home with you. These tears of bereavement that course your cheek and of perse- cution and of trial are not always to be there. The motherly hand of God will wipe them all away. What is the use on the way to such a con- summation -what is the use of fret- ting about anything? Ole what an exhilaration it ought to be in Chris- tian work! See you „the pinnacles against the sky? It is the city of our God, and we are approaching it. Oh, let us be basy in the days that remain for us! I put this balsam on the woends of your heart: Rejoice at the thought of what your departed friends have got rid of and that you have a. pros- pect of so soon making your own es- cape. Bear cheerfully the nen;stry of tears and exalt: at the thought that soon it is to be ended. There we shall march up the heaven- ly street And ground our arms at Jesus' feet. Do you not this moment catch a glimpse of the towers? Do you not hear a note of the eternal harmony? Some of you may remember the old Crystal palace in this city of New York. I came in from my. country haute a verdant lad and heard in that Crystal palace the first great music I had ever heard. Jutlien gave a concert there, wed there were 3,000 voices and 3,000 players upon, in- struments, and I was mightily im- pre.ssed with the fact that Jullien controlled the harmony with the mo- tion of his hand and foot, beating time with the one and emphasizing With the other. To me it was over- whelming. But all that was tame compared with the scene and the sound when the ransomed shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south and sit down in the kingdom of God, rep -Inds above • myeites, 'galleries above galleries, and Christ will rise, and all heaven will rise with him, and with his wounded hand and wounded foot he will canduct that harmony, "Lace the voice of many waters, like the Voice of mighty thunderings, worthy is the Lamb that was Slain to receive rich- es and honor and glory and power, werld Without end." Woman's V ersatilitYd Mrs, Nation disproves 'the arga- 'meet against woman suffrage, . de - elates The, Chicago Record, that the fair and gentle sex could not do po- lice and military have either accepted IIhn or re3ected Ilim; the former are children of God, but the letter continue children of the wicked one (John 1. 12: iii, 36). e2, 23. "The voices of them and of tbo chief priests provniled." Iniquity still prevails, the ungodls prosper, the right- eous are oppressed. but the Lord is on the throne, and the tune is conung when "The Lord alone shall be exeited, " "All kings shall fall down befot•e aline all na- tions shall serve Him" (Isa. ii. 11, 17; l's. lxxii, 11). It looks as if the adver- sary bad it all his own way. but the end shall declare the rigbteousuess of God, and the redeemed shall sing. "Just and true are Thy wayst. Tbou King of Na- tions" (Rev. xv. 3). 24. "And .Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required." Mark says that Pilate was willing to eontent the people. There was no question with Pi- late as to whether it pleased God: he knew not God. He, like the Jews, knew no king but Crosier; in n souse he knew no king but himself. Better far to have been the poor beggar who used to lie at the rich man's gate or the poor sinner who washed Jesus' feet with her tears in Simon the Pharisee's house, or any of the maimed or halt or blind who were saved by Jesus' blood than Pilate or Herod or Calaphas, with all their power and a pia eaten which doubtless many envied. 25. "He delivered Jesus to their will." The will of (lod is life and salvation. He is not williug that any should perish. but that allshould come to repentance. This is the will of God, that every one who seeth the Son and believeth on Him May have everlasting life 01 Pet. iii, 9; Johnvi, 89). The will of the devil is death and destruction; he is the, destroy- er and mm•derer, as seen in the death of Abel and all since les death; the death of the Hebrew ehilaren .about the time Moses was born; the "death of the little children in Bet beams] when Jesus was born. and in all the curse of sin sea roes' that has beta on the wire!! since sin first came. Hew desperately wicked the heart must be to cheese Kenn iristead of God and elarlenesoinstead of light! 26. "On him t hey la id the cross that he might bear Reyna. nens," Matthew saystliai they [lin) to bear the armee Simon, ‘-oloitta Out of the country. v-ntild be eontiag into the eity, hut they • .^ taking •.10eirs eye of 010 city; so • ig :meteor, les wii'. turned right ni • •:'•1 'an'd con:poem) ee this service. e oe not believe nen it proved to be 2)3 happy a day tor Sitiloti as it did for Seel of Tarsus when he. on hie way to Daninscuswas turned right about as to all his beliefs and purposes? When you are stoPped and turned about to do some seemingly disagreeable thing, may you see in it the privilege of following Jesus and of bearing the cross with Him and believe that all your steps are ordered by the Lord! A thousand times rather be Simon the Cyreman than those who com- pelled him to do this, or Pilete, who sane - Coiled it all. Jesus wouldnever forget CONDITION OF MILK. y Waym Era W1,t1011. NAY $e To bave wilk in its best conditon care must begie before 'milking vitb the ecev, her surroueilings, ber food and her driuk, "says Texas Farm and Reuel). Milk may be spoiled by being neatly taeen from a healthy cow and improperly handled thereafter. A filthy barn or stable will serve to spoil a without essistanee. But suppose the bars and the cow and tbe milkieg are all as thee should be, the mila luny be spoiled by subsequent nandling. The Mat these', that should be castle after Minting is to- cool tile male Where no ice is cold well or spring water may be'llsed. To get rid or the animal odor common to the 1)051 milk it should be thoroughly aerated. Where there is no improved impleuteut for this purpose It can be sufficiently done by pouring it from one vessel to another. Pouring It through a strainer that will separate the body of the milk into numerous small streams, holding the strainer as high as convenient, is better :than slat - ply pouring from one vessel to another, This process 5120514 be perforMed only In the purest air on the premises. Aft- er this the next important factor le thoroughly clean vessels. A piece oe Unsterilized curd so small as to be in- visible to the naked eye may be the breeding ground of germs sufficient to spoil a large can of milk in a few boom, so rapidly do then growths Every vessel. can, pan. cup. die, per, strainer, sperm or whatever may mile in contact with the milk should. not only be mule scrupulously elont, ; but should be submitted for several minutes to boiling water or, what is better, to steam uuder pressure. The very eteallnoet gestom of pouring a bit of boillug water into a vessel, giving It ' 0, shake and turning It out Is not snails cient. Several minutes' bottles Is re- ; gutted to deatroy many injurious germs of milk. Soap should uot he • used, hut sal soda should take its place and should be freely used at least ouce a week In combination with Dolling water. There Is no organie substance more subject to rapid deterioration thau milk. It Is a rich food substauce for man, animals and Organie germs so luenitely small as to be detected only with the most powerful microscopes. In the hottest summer weather mltk May be kept sweet for 32 hours with- out lee or even cold water IC proper preettutloue are taken. If the patrona of eity milk dealers would test their Milk by this rule, they would then know whether efficient milk Inspection Is needed or not. The See/mane Yeetesome For /Uterine E. L. Vincent of New York, writiug III The Amerlean Agrieulturist, says: 'n The season just ending has tunny les. ' SODS for the thoughtful Man. One of them Is that general fanning is in the tong run most reliable. In many parts of the country dry weather has very materially shortened the hay crop. 'Where men did not foresee the coming trouble anti put In liberal pieces ot eorn to supplement the shortage In hay winter stares them In the face with empty mows and an abundance of ' stock on band.. Thls stock must either be carried through cold weather on grata or turned off at a loss. Tim re- sult is cattle are very low In price. Not once In a lifetime do we sce cown gelling as cheaply as at the present time in those sections whin were most o seriously affected by the drought. Good sows coming into milk in the spring are today worth only from Slfoto $20 , it head, mid maty are selling for even !leso than that. Calves, sheep anti lambs !, go along with cows in price. If we had been a little more cautious 1 about getting overstocked with cows, we would be better off. Tbe pendulum bas been swinging toward dairying for a few years back, and now we are caught. We must get out the best way we can. But should we not firmly resolve that hereafter we will not run SO largely to one branch of farming? Mixed -farming Is the safest. Again, we should learn from the experience of this year that It is wise to be prepared for any kind of a season that may chance to come. It is said that any fool knows enough to carry an umbrel- la when it rains. It is a wise man who takes one along when the. sky is fair. Who could have foretold last spring that the hay crop would be so nearly a failure in 1900? If we bad all known that, we would surely baye planted a good piece of corn. But we didn't know it, reed many of us are sad- ly lamenting the fact now. 4, 1, BIG PRICES FOR PET CATS, Leos erarees teerestorws Siameso Kitten. Aro in nlg Penland. Siamese cats with their miaow markings and loud discordant, voicas. are now favorites witli fashionable women in England. Ixi many rie speets they are unique among eate They follow their owners es (Igo would; they are exceedingly affection Ate and insist upon being nursed and they meow loudly and constant lee as if treting to talk. and to deaf person ea that. They hav more vivacity then usually falls te the lot of oats, and. less- dignity. B color they vary front pale facer through shades of brown ta cacao late. There are two varieties, tie temple cats and the palace cats About the only difference between th two varieties being that the palao breed is darker in color, ' The only secret' -temple eats the. ever left the land of their birth wer, ; given to Dr. Nightingale as a marl at special favor by the King. o; Siam. They were named by theie new owner Home° and Juliet. am are now the property of Lady elar cus Beresford. Tiler are very ex pensive, moderate specimens sellin for $50 gold finely marked otte, bringing from $73 to $300. Now that molly ladies of rank it tiglatid have eatteries, the price o. high bred cats is constantly in creasing,. Champion Lord South ampton. a white Persian, owned in Mrs. Greenwood. was sold for ;eati0 and $2.20 was refused for Zaida. e former cat show champion. And. ix America, of course. as high prices ft, anywhere are obtained. weeehing Petrone. In too many Instances factory men who complain of peer tnilk from their patrons assume it is because the patron Is determined not to do as well as be knows. says-Honrd's Dairymen. We think poor milk Is nearly always from the fact that the patron lacks knowledge of wbat constitutes good milk and lacks it in such a wily that what he does knew has but little effect on him. Get the desired knowledge Into his mind once in a thorough way. and It will bold him in most Instances. At a recent -dairy meeting in Listowel, Can- ada, E. Agur, Brownsville, stated that the patron very often did not take care of his milk, because he did not know how, He gave a personal experience, In which he had shown a patron who had always sent inferior milk, and since that time the milk had always: been excellent. In answer to a question as to the best way of teaching patrons, President Millar stated that the best way was for the maker to go and see the patrons himself and Inseruet them.' Professor Dean thought that the only, way, as the maker could not spare the tirneowas to'emploe a man to go about and glee the necessary instructions. This, he said, was to a certain extent being done in eastern Ontario. Cireu- lars and meetings did not reach the therwanted to fret at. • tat .egett There has been no end in the c mit ! papers of supposed difficulties tiff census takers had irt obtaining Do age of wowten. I•Iere is a. speeirnem Census -raker-What is your ago Madam? Mrs. Neighbor -Did the womat next door give her age? Census Talteiew-Cert airily. Mrs, Neighboro-Well, twt years younger than site is. Another woman would not tell her, age. nut told. how old she was wheu. Married. In answering some othet question. the cePette taker learned that she had Wen married tot years, and thus got at her age. Dut here is 0, rule you can figure Oat yourself: One day there came to the court ot a king a gray-ltaired prefeFsor, wito ; amused the king greatly. He told the monarch a number of things he " never knew before and the king was delighted. Dut finally it, came to a point where the ruler wanted to know the name of the professor; so ; be thougbe of a mathematical prat - lent. "Ahem:" s:sid the Mug. "I have an interesting sum for you: is a trial In Mental arithmetic. eat of the number of the month of your birth.' NOW, the professor was sixty years old, and had been born two days be- fore Christmas, so he thought ol twelve. December being the twelfth mont h. said the professor. "11fu1tip/y it by two." continued the king. "Add five." "Yes," answered the professor, do - Ing so. "Now multiply by fifteen. "Add your age." dyes... "Subtract 005." f eyes..* "Add 115." ABSOLUTE a•F:”..-rurS Genuine tt felevat "Hee Ian re1,:evotorg of "And now," saki the king, "might I ask what, the result is?' "Twelve hundred and sixty," re- plied the professor, wonderingly. "Thank you," was the king's re- sponse. "So you were born in De - cantle*, sixty years ago, eh?" "Why, how in the world do you know?" Cried the professor. "Why," retorted the king, from your answer -1,260. The month of your birth was the twelfth, and the last two figures give your age." "Ila, hal" laughed the professor. "Capital idea, r11 try it on the next person. It's a polite way of finding out people's ages." Bow to Get an Grace Chair Mended. Sir Weenews Reid tells d character- istic story of how they do things at the Treasury. A distinguished public man, when he first entered a certain Govern- ment department as a junior clerk, was the witness of a scene that filled him with amazement. An elderly gentleman who was seated at another desk in the same room suddenly rose from his deslool room suddenly rose from his seat, dragged his chair to the fireplace, and, seizing the poker, attacked the offending piece of furniture with what seemed to be maniacal fury. When he had broken a leg off -the chair his passion seemed to be exhausted. He flung the damaged seat into a corn- er of the room, and, getting another chair, calmly resumed his work as though nothing had happened. My friend on leaving his work that afternoon ventured, 1,0 ask another clerk who had been a witness of the scene what it meant. "Is Mr. X- subject to attacks of this kind?" he risked. "Mr. X-!" was the re- sponse. "There was nothing the matter with him. You see, one of the castors had come off the chair, and the- Treasury won't replace castors; they wile re- pair nothing less serious than a broken' log. So he broke one of the legs, and now he will get the castor put on again." Gold Product of Canada. It is estimated that the Canadian gold fields yielded last year 1,257,- 862 ounces of gold, valued at $26,- 000,000. Compared with the pre- ceding year, 1899, this is an increase in ounces of about 250,000, arid in value of $5,000,000. :Dogs Taxed by Weight In Hamburg dogs are taxed by weight, the heavier the dog the targ- r the ax tht has to be paid for RECarI93. Eqz.ve,tiss, n1nerat?,iwa.;34. nrso FC4il CIMTIFM101,1. CALkeVt1 SEIM II TiliaG0fIrmximi aneeagenzeotese „ eiaeneeneeteen awe* MIRE SION: A Terri EADAMIE, tfr . It people woublclay Cr-; erAis la tune wi Dr V. e l''e Syrup, there waloal Ise fewer homes semest ••,, ten re' is. 1 rl•whitis god creep, 58411 . 4 ..12411. '411 yield reeene ee tho enstel, lunge e.eling muscat'. lend What Mrs Tnee (' 2 a Nortbiart, et .8 es, sIco r nal; eh Et'tt1eil en my th ; pot teeild scarcely n • 6 s. vs'r, eatl t •rrine " E: "4 ^ 1 . "-• , by: genii -me rent, "e .1 e tee P.Onti wee ll.. 1,. W. . 1 1. ,^ 7.7,44 oN 44 "I.' . usiness Len's Backs; Too Intielt re .11 ana, bafite?, 'WAWA arra .rryfall to Cie lob of to.s raga !..). Ie. !nays clan et mil ; t'e f to 1. ter tee . tn11 the .„ 1: weary t • eee.n. wand •). Se me i. 0 ties erel e A neva r.n i 1) le ieneet • 1. 2 erdy• 11 112 bete aches r e Only ono sure it.lver toils- < DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. Take a bint front business men. who have used thorn: "nave taken Diemen Kidney Pills, Which I procured et the Medical Hall here, for rheumatism and pants in the small of my back, with which I have been afflicted for ; the past six years.. They did me somata gooe that I heartily recommend them as an excellentmedicine forrheumatee troubles and backache." Cretnets C. Pretax, dealer in agricultural implements, Orillia, Ont. Doan's Kidney Pills mire backache, lame or weak back, Bright's disease, diabetes, dropsy, gravel, sediment in the urine, too frequent risings at night, rheumatism, and weaknese of the kidneys in children and eel people. Remember the name, Doane', 1 r fuse all others. The Doan Kidney n 1 Co , Toronto, Ont. LA XA- work while you sleep without a gripe or pain, curing bilious. I.1;11VLU ness, constipation, Busk head - Italie and dyspepsiaeand make you feel better in the morning. Price 25o, at all druggietaa. We giveahandsomeopen face, P olishod Nickel Watch, Arneil- can Lever Movement for selling only 12 doz. r 50412)5001., caOckadatTIfaSpwitecektaPgo"'. ago containsaspienaidnainiurcoi•,...^ most fragrant varieties 02 011 10 Orei. You can earn this lino Watch in nu afternoon by setting to work -at 120)1210 0215 advertisement and'wo wiliforware the SaTis. I Sell thein,return tnemoney, and WO guarantee safeao.:-.• e of your Watch at once. 1Vrito to day, nu the season lie, i,ing.oe5inekort. Need SuPply.Co., Zorozdo I'Pre•Aifrr• Woo ds'a Phospbodine, The Great Emilia Remedy; Sold and recommended by all druggists in Canada. Only retie ferule of Sexualp°W7ecetiekesne able medicine, discovered. Mx or excess, Mental Worry, excesstve use of 'To- gs rally/ eo et& coat raebuaslel bacee, Opium or StdmuladtS. Mailed on receipt of price, one package $e six, $ee Giza urdi please, 815 wilt cure. -Pamphlets free to Bey address. :leery 0 7v\Sh,.e. hnlvors:;:iCdriTepioasnrsuyolg‘dViisilltn7Eor;e°tne SOLID GaLD We Rivet his beautihn Solid Gold Iting, set with Pearls,' for selling only 1.5 packages or 1Sweet Peaticeeat 10c.eabh.. Each packagocontainsaeplendidmix. tura of the roost fragrant paric. Mee. ofallcolors. _Mad us this advertisement and w,5111 for- ward tho Seeds. Sell them, re. turn the money. and this bona. out Solid Gold, Poariset4ing willbesentyon,carefdliyriack, 0(1 111 o7018,tUn,01b0L Write tiiday:. Therreasen for init. iniitteditisshort. fieea11111001Y CO** 7°P°4". 41211114