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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-28, Page 3JieLY 28, 1 SP 9. THE BRUSSELS POST. !THREE GREAT REASON& RSV. Die TALMAGE PREACHES FROM THREE SHORT TEXTS, ^ eteesene for untie n etirlsetet-The ewe experience Weil one or uts merit - wee me. 00 sot weenie (hostile's float( newtons eellu Irmo elle elit 14 'o - NO Good eteason. 'Why People Simnel Not Live eittestion Lire. deeptach from Watilenettin says :--- Rev, Dr, Talmage preachet front the following text: "Why will ye die?" Jerentieti xxvii. 13. "Why will ye diet" Ezekiel eagle. al. "Why will ye die?" Ezekiel xxxiii. 11. Three texts all alike—an interroge- tion appropriate to the people of old - OA times, and just es appropriate foe people of modern. times. Putters and Cheistian leacheie are tile: to talk as though the Impenitent had no reasun for the positiol1 they occupy. They have. Among them, are some of the most intelligent persens in th0 com- munity and those who alwaye act from ▪ a reason. Some of then' are logicians. They eau manage premise, syllogism., conclusion. Some of them have devoted their lives LO the vulture uf their roma-, ening faculties. They stand in the court -room and present an irresistible argument to juror and judge. They stand in the sick -room and examine the sytnptoins end argue out an Un- failing diagnesis. They stand in the uaiversity and they thrill Lhe class with intellectual achievements ad great as those of Dugald Stuart, or Sir Vatilliatu Hamilton., They aro men who are reasuretble, and they always act from a reason.. Judging front what I know of you, and judging from whit I know of them, I declare that you more cereainly have a reason for being Christians than they have rea- sues foe not being Christians. I will fairly ana plainly set before you to - (light what those reasons are, and then you will have an opportunity of judging whether they are good or faulty. All the three texts imPlY tha1 there is p. reason why they die. Reason, the first: We are not set- tled in our ragtime faith. We do not know whether the I3ible is Lrue or not. We do net know whether Cbrist is God or out. We do mil know whether there is a place of future punishment or not. If we believe as you do, we would be Christiane to -morrow morn- iug—yea, before twelve o'clock to -night —yea, just this moment, we .would bow our beads and submit to the Lord; My brethren, bow long have yoa beeu ili that =decided stale? Are you, iu the passage of the years, gettiagany nearer a decision? Wily do Yoa not go into this sebject and go through it? Why not Lake up Bishop Moll- vain's "Evidences of Christianity," or Dr. Paley's "Treatise," and find out Whether this Bible Is a projectioa from the Almighty, or whether It is the greatest sham of all the ages? Why do you not get down on your knees and say; "0 Lord Jesus Chrtst, I know not whether Thou art God. or not. Demonstrate Thy power. lf Thou be merely a man, Thou caust not answer. If Thou be a God, rush upon me this moment with superna- tural influence." If your ohild be sick and you do not know whether it is just a common bold or the diph- theria, you pursue the doctor untilyou find out. If your child be siok and you do not know whether it is ordin- ary influenza or membranous croup, you pursue the dewier until. you find out.. If seated in a deliberaLive as- sembly you get weary of the diseus- same you ory out: "Question! gees- tian I" and the only matter that you leave undeeided is the most important matter to be settled. Now, I do not blame you for not becoming Chris - Liens, but I do blame you, my brother, for taking reeither one side nor the other. Did Darwin, or Tyndall or Herbert Spencer ever help a man to diet When the surges of death rise mountain -high, would you rather be in this staunoh frigate of the Gas - pee a frigate of tea thousand tons, or iu the Leaky yawl of scepticism? I do not at, this point in my discourse ask you ,Lo become Christians; but I do ask you ,to take sides. "If the Lord be God, follow Him; it Beal, follow him." An my friends, you may laugh down all I have 10 503 to -night: perhaps you could beat um in tot argument and try to everthrow a great deal I say; but In the Last great assize you will not be able to argue away the objections and the difficulties. 0 ye men wise for this world, would to God .you would be wise for the world thee is to come! I was reading, this afternoon, of a eoavert in the South Sea island, evbe wan.dered off from• home, and finally/ found hiresele u cemnpany of Enge Salt infidels who were scoffing ea roe ligien; and as he, poor heathen, mine in, a convert reeentty from heathen-) lm, they put questions to him and got the laugh on him. He turned to O 1ttevyer who Was loading in these queetione,11 nan, most severe In hie style, and said to him, "Sir, it is not very strange that I, u poor heathen) convert, Banal not be able to 01104 Wer yoar questions, and it is nob strange that 1, born in another land ehoued net be able to talk very good English.; but there is a day coming when .there will be another group tee gather, a larger group than this, end we all will ee there—it vill be the last day. Aud then they will say to us, 'Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ 0' and I think, sir, I will be able, to leay, Yes. What will you say, sir Thn man was abashed, oonvicted, and converted. "Not many wise, not manY noble" called, but God hath chosen the week things el the world to eonfetted the mighty ; med 13 you, ever male to Goal at all, it will not be es a philosopher but as n 1. tele claad. 1 had a very dear friend who was a sceptic, had preached to him for ;stones,. but made no impression upon him. We had many eimversations, but ho asked me all the time s eternity, ana he risked me how to hernemize eteetien natt free aeency, mud he asked me great many questions I collie no1 aneaVer about the Immortal soul awl about t lu, eternal world, and lot eon - founded nut as ((melt as 1 confounded Tinie pressed along. While WOti living In Philadelphia, having elianged iny charge, I got a 5( 1110 Erten hen one day., in which he said; "What ilt) you think, (sir, of My be - teeming II ( belie la ? 1 t ried 1 (..1111t, 0 tiOd through my reationime facul- ties, tine I waited, and waited, hop- ing al 1 the d 1 frie al I itts wetted be ex- p nee ; but I bare come at last as a little child, and Mend the eientee and the hope of the Gospel. Rejoice with nee Rejoice with me," 0, that Cod would p .rsuade all men in this Midi - elle,: who have beet] reasoning away ehout 11115 and reasoning away about ilea this night to bow themselves at the feet of the fiord who bought. them. I tent= but, in the very elitist of My serinen, make this prayer to God that this may be the hou,r of their eternal emancipation. another reason why Men dO 11012 00n11, Into the kingdom of Cheist. is beeautte fthey are of the opinion that 21)., weave( is of more importance than the /attire. "Aly 11010, my shop, me' sI utlio, eny °Wee, my repel alien, a re of more import ante to MO than this ethereal thiug you call eternity. That whieh I can handle, that width strikes the nplic nerve and the tympanum, that ewhieb appears to my natural mine...Lei—Om I believe to be or more impertenve than this indefinite thing yeti call Goa great future. I take this great, round, heavy world and I put 11 on Line side a scale, and on the other side 1 put your ethereal eternity, end J find that thie world outweighs the other by many millions of tons. 1 puts my life or 40, or 50, or ate or 70, or en years, against the interminable existence or the future -1 put my life here againet that, and I find it is more important than my life there. I put Time against Eternity, and Time Las it," I have noticed that everything depends upon the standpoint you take when you look at anything. We stand so .cleeo down in the "now" that we cannot, see over into the great. "here- after." 13 we cOu.lc1 stand between the two worlds, and look that way and this way, then we might make a more intelligent eomparison es to the value DE these Lwo worlds—this, and the next. In other words: the farthest on we can get in this life—yea, the very last point of our earthly existence— will be the best point in which to esti- mate tbe value of these two worlds. And so, to -night, I call upon all the dying population of Christendom, I call upon all the thousands who are now &everting this life, and I ask them tle give testimony in this matter, You have to listen closely, for their voice ecenes in broken wiespers ; comes off beds tumbled with pain; comes from between the medicine phials and the tapers; comes from white bpi and palsied tongues, and they pannot very distinctly articulate. Lying back they give us their testi- mony, They say,: "Bey head on this wet pillow, I look one way and I look t.he other way. I see Time; k see !eternity'. Hew brief the ono; bow lone the other. I never save it SD be- fore. Band -breadths against leagues Seconds against oyeles. I put my wasted and trembling hand—my left. hand—on the world that I an leaving, eget I pot my wasted and trembling hand—my right hand—on the woad thee/ I nm entering, and for the first time. I see how small is the one and how vast is the other." .1elinutes; min- utes; minutes. Ages; ages; ages. Like the flight of a shuttle on one side; on the other—forever, forever. Thie is like a eager that appears for 0111110 season and is gone. That Eter- nity, ,A.nother reason wby men do not ac- cept the Lord JeSIM Christ and become Christians, is because they are of the opinien that the matters of the soul ure not urgent, pressing, and immba- ent. They do as some of us do who have many Interruptions and more calls than we oan manage—leave pee - pie iu the ante -chamber and receive thane one by one. So they have tbele reception day. They say: "Let Busi- ness eater." Business enters, is inter- viewed, passes out. They say: "Let Pleasure enter." Pleasure enters, is Interviewed, passes out. They say: "Let Worldly Knowledge enter," Worldly Knowledge enters, is inter- viewed, passes out. ,After thirty or eorty yeurs, they say: "Let Religion enter." And they look; but religion Is got tired of wailiug and is gone. That queeu of heaven standing in the ante -chamber of the heart ought to have been received first. Her first tap on the door ought to have brought the eespense: "Come in—come in." Why, judging from the slowness avail whlah peep le act in regard to the matters of the soul, you might slip - pose that a new kind of insurance emu- pany had been formed, and that by paying a oertain premiere you could get assured of the fact that you are going Lo stay in this world believer, So rttr from that—if photographist should to -night take his glace on this plat- form, and he should bring the eamera toward this audience, and it wore pos- sible In the night, as it is in the day, to take a pur icte, and then la he shou pla00 the camera in that gallery and point it at me and take me, end then those pictures should be put by for a few years, and another pholographist ShOld COMO and repeat the proeess, how different the pictures would be; those taken now and those taken then, Al! changed. Another speaker. AnoLher auditory. .21.11, the scenes are all the time changing as this drama' of the ages plunges on toward the last aut. I felt very pereiliar this last week as I was reading William Haslett's 8 leeture on the "Living Poets." Who— the living pease Lord Byron; Walter Scott; TOM Moore; Wordsworth, Lie- 8 ing ? 1 eald. No all gone; and Has - lett. tbe leeterer, as Well. et seems as if a spirit froin the other world eamo 8 upon the platform to -night, and, stand- ing here, announced the departure to other realms of all this audience. Ho drops his fingers in that direction, and he seys: "That soul will go in 11309„ that will go in 1000; that will go M ' 1001, December Iethat Drte will go in August ; that one will go June t that IL would take ine to walk (1.12111 0710 (Old of 1)1(5 111011)10111 to 1 other, deliber- ately, how mn ae settle will go out trona Otte world eau lie great et erne y 1 Six y ! 1). here have they landed . flew leeh heve they risen ? Dow deep have they sunk 11 hie wide ('(41110(2 have they w tiept ? And while I have been 11,7121(1just Gee, '411 111')' eixty have m ge' the elute way, and ell the eaten eter- nity are crowded with emigrant s fetal 1/10 world to tien. The dour id' eter- nity (teed to be shut in an of the time, only occasionally open ; now it is fastened ;men day end night bemuse the proeeseion never halts. Urgent I Why, 11(23 a ju ant the 1, riding with lathered NI end, clinches front general to general and on the eve uf battle, never bad li sueli a mey diepateli 05 that which I unroll to-nighte Num the commander of earth and 110114011 to 7(1(1 P80511110 '(0.1people 14(1(000 I hal the danger la not imminelli„ 11 MI lite neueeitity or religion is only en imag- inary thing, and 11(17adjourn and ad- journ, and that is why they die. 0, My hearers, there le me good reaSon, 00 good reason, The Morn senseless and USelean Lid ng in .1 11 the earth is t hat any man perish. You say sin is a pit. Here is a ladder on wield' yuu may Mirth tett of it. You say that. sin is a jail. Yes, bol here is I lie key of the !muse of Da vid het ran unloale it. 'You sly that sin is Mindless, Yes, but here Is three, the Omnipotent Ocu- list, who ran cure it. You say that sin Is death and burial; but. here is one who oan split the granite slabs of the cemetery. No good reason why you should die. A theueend good reasons wily you should live, Christ wants you to live. He 1(131 done everything for us. Ifit prostrated Himself. He We flat on His facie, anti tells the whole eertb to went over Him from head to foot, while He cries out, "3 am the way." He tells the world: "Shove Me which way yea will, if you will only come into my kingdom; shove Me back- ward and forward as you do a gate," when He cries; "1 nue the door." Then He drops the orook of His staff on our neck, and He armee it very gently, and 52170, "1 am the Good Shettherd." Then He pours out the Medicine, for our soul, reed says, "1 am the Physician." h And ten he cries, " Get out of your 00f340-3 ate the Reaurrectien." After God has done all this, I say, deliberate- ly, 11 11113' man loses his stall, be does so with his ayes open, and is bent upon it, It is as though he grassed through the ranks of all God's mercy, and weed 0211: " Stand. back all attunes of heave eu I Give me full swing. Clear the track for the losi world I Take away. take away that cross of Christ, or I will jos- w tle it don. Take away those prayers of Chriatian parents. Take away those dying beds, Or I will step on the pil- low, Remove met or sight that commun- ion table, or 1. will redden, my feet in tht upturned tankards, Bare I go on the lost way! 0, ehrtsras of dotth, open to receive mel I choose darkness, end banishment, and death, ante bave my way I will, God, and angels, and men notwithstanding; and if you will stop my way to death, and pile up all obstacles. I will get over thorn. Pile them higher, and' higher, and I will step back so as to 'get Ino- ue:alum, and then I will come up with a rush, and I will fall into darkness and wrath eternal." 0, the deLermina- Lion of that man to perish when the Lord God Almighty stands here to- night to snetele him back. Dly friends, there Is no good reason that will stand the test of this hour, and/ there is no reason that will stand. the crucial moment of death. or the great pass of the judgment day. I stand here to -night to try to persuade this whole audience into the kingdom of God. Am I attempting too much —one man against a host? 0, no. I come out alone, but in the surength of God, to urge you to the aoceptanee of Christ's religion, I do not take you in sections, I charge on you in solid. bate talion. 0, Lord, MAY stretch Meth Thy hand tor the dellveraace of these people. Strike down their sins and their iniquities. The world smiled at Burns, the Gettysburgh farmer, when he wont out with his gun to fight for his country indapenaeut of the regi- ntents; but I do not think Lhat Christian ministe.r, however weak he may be, is foolhardy, who, with the sword of the Spirit in his hand, and helmeted of the eternal God, goer? forth to try to capture a whole audi- enact tor Christ. 0 that that might he done to -night, Why not? Why not? Is not the gate of mercy wide open? You know when men first begin to use so it is a very small sweep they make; but after they get used. to it., they can cut a very wide swath. There is a reaper. He is an old reap- er, He has been reaping, for thou-- sands of years. He is the reaper Death, and he will come along utter a while and put his seythei against that wall—the tip of the soythe — and he will swing it around ane take this wlaole 011(11.5000 into the eternal world, But I have to put alongside of t.hat truth, this truth: that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is just as wide in its sweep, and that all wile will may to- night come and. be savea—all, absolute- ly alle Will you come? Is there any one in this house toenight who will r5 .1101 the offer of money which I make in the name 01/ my Lord jesus Christ? 0 wanderer, 001.11) book 1(3 11103' God! I thee. And. 0, if ttenighe all 1110310ea,' lo ee er wrbiltnette end ten multi be raptured., fur Gude it would ntae a ut k - 101134 (elide to 11111 Up tars Lerd's eolorn —1111! half e second. 0 Lord Jesus Chase lift left hands awe right hand, left foot aud right fete, from the jag - g, d, rotigh-hewn cross, and bound Imo 131' midge, of Ode asseinidetee anti tele, them ell as KleT e of hy peg. t.) Tient bleeding, crying, groaning God, Mkt! 1108,510011 of this tighten y Aft Thrtit.. 0, ninite it a Both= foe weeping, a Pen- tecost for tongues of flame, a judg- III tit fur 81)11101)1(1, arousing, 1111)1)33.')'. 11134 itolexemitiee. The flatter! is earning on; 11 le com- ing on very fast. We may back away from it anti try to get (312113'from it ; but 11 is owning on with gleams and (2111((1004'i3,hosanuati and wailing's, Null- ing cornets and shackles, miming with 1)13)911)0.445 ane with evretehtelness; and the ground quake,' With 1 he wheels, and the air etlre with the wings, and Gill night is Fel aghast with eternity tithing into the r001.11, We have got to go forth an.) meet this future, you and 1; as nertainly as you sit there and I stand bare, just so certainly we w1 1 1 have to go forth and participate in the pleasures or the griefs. With 1)10,30 arms we will wave 'orients 01'Pied at chainS. 1Whicli ? When? Why/ There et a supernal hour In every ones history—an huur differ - apt from. all those that went. before it, different from all that will come after IL; and God drawe it. eirele e.round that one hour, tine there are more eyes of angels 0111 devils conoentred on that one hour than all the other hours of a utan's lifetime. What hour is that ? Lt is the hour of salvation; 11 is the hour when the tides of heaven set in on a soul ; it 10 the hour when the Hely Spirit pleads veliemently; it is the hour when a mans own 0)11501- 01108 says, "Now you muse you must, attend to your soul, or lose it for- ever," That hour hi now. With Seine in this 110)1,0, to -night. You feel the Almighty Presence. You experienee a etrange feeling aL the throat. You feel the uneven, unequal tramp or the heart. You: menet nce says you nuts), your Chrietian friends feel that you must, and all heaven cries, "You 'nest l'' Now, suppose test under these circumstances a man just takes this opportunity of salvatiou and folds a up and throws it away carelessly, what will become of him 3 At the ('13,00of the service he will step out from. the Tabernaele; and on his way 110018 he aye'. look up and see a stet? or cloud or meteor; but there is one thing.of higla- er importance 3.0 him than any as- tronomical appearance that he will no! see, namely, the wide-open door of heaven, that has stood open for a gem) many years, closed forever. No jar, no crash, but as the angels of God saw that door go shut, they felt to the tips of their wings a prolonged shudder. My whole limey of preaching has °banged in these last seven years. 13e - fore these seven years, 1 watched, for results, at the and of three months nue at the sue of the year; and then l' was pleased if God gave me evidence p0111111),')),that in what truth I had p0111111),')), I had been successful in bringing souls to Chtiee, and I was rejoiced et tile end of t31.. three months when the cone. tnunion was !mice But since seven yeare ago, I have changed my theory, and 1 tritest look for immediate and in. tantaneous results; and God never dis- apeointect, and I do 1101 believe he will disappoint me to -night. I cannot be alisfied with the Sabbath morning serviee unless I see the result before half -past twelve o'clock, I cannot be atiseied with the Sabbath night 000- 1100 0211088 I see good yestelts before talt-pasi nine o'clock'. 0 'Lord, alsap- point me not to -night. Let Thy grape descend just now upon the (401015 ot all this people. Why, eaten the ightning strikers, in the erash, and ye splinters and lamer fthe crash, and e the bolt of God'e convieting Spirit ells upon an audience, instanely there s a quaking and trembling and eery- og unto God for mercy. Between the minute when the cavalry party cheer the (sharp, and the millet° when hey shout at the victory on the cap- ured, parapets, there le 1101 muesli one will go m May; thne one to -mor- row; this ono to -night," "This night thy soul shall be required of then" Vegeta: 1 Why, there is no word in the language to exprese how meell do- yen& upon your instantoottotel aneept- ratee Of the Lord God. In the Lined that EFFECT OF SMOKELESS POWDER. The Firing Said to be More Terrifying (4) Both Men and Morse% • In the British army the four -legged recruits are drawn up in a ring round an instructor who fires a pistol. Some take the flash and report very quietly and these are very soon passed on to eeverer tria!s, while the othees have les- son after lesson until they are quite a:anvil:iced that there is no danger to theta and before long you might fire a seven -pounder withln a yard of them and they would hardly look around. After this they are taught to face fire— that is to say to gallop fearlessly up Lo a line or square of infantry, blaz- ing away with their 'rifles, and to tharge batteries of quick-Eiring guns. Of course, only blank cartridges are used, and so to a trained horse going into battle for the first time there is no difference between the harmless thunder of the maneuvers and the death -dealing storm which sweeps over the battlefield. The poor brute only learns avhat difMrence really is by bit- ter expatiation 'When smokeless powder came into general use it was found that in many cases horses which would face the smoke of guns using Meek powder with- out flinching, flinched and shied at the flash and roar unaccompanied by smoke. Continental opinion is some- what divided as to the moral effect: of smokeless powder on men and horses, but the general etenolusion seems to be that in daylight it is not mere ter- rifying than black powder, although some hold that to see men and horses struck down by an invisible agency must necessarily be so. Eat it is gen- erally agreed that the use of smokelese powder at night has a much more dis- turbing effect than that of the red powder, because the flashes of the guns, unobsoured by smoke, are a great dea1 more vivid. The fear thus inspir- ed eat, 11.0WeVer, be 0000001110 by train- ing, but there is another fear which must, in the nature tat the ease, be felt for the first time on the battlefield, and that is the often unoontrollable terror produred boil in.men and horns by the whistling of bullete end the screaming and banging of shells. Some authorities have, indeed, said that sinee the introduetion of smokeless powder and the great increase in the range and accuracy et weapons, it would be impossible to keep cavalry in hani under the fire of modern artil- lery but this is probably an exaggera- tion. 1 ( GRAINS OF GOLD, We hate some persons homes° we do not know theln; and we will not know theni because we hate them.— Cotton, Such le the force of envy and ill - nature, that the failings of good men are more published to the world than their gaol deeds; and one fault of a 3(3011 easeeving mon, Seel! Neat. *1,.e. ineee eipreeadies than sIl hts virtuee will With praise.—N. P. Willis, Alas, for the Misery is taus - MI by a long tongue! Tbe quantity oe the gossi.p could not be kept up 13 111 were restrieted to teeth, end so evil inventions are added thereto. These at first are it sort of spice and flay- oring; but le time they beeonie the pritteipal ingrodieut. A Modern es- sayist defines goseip as the putting of two and tWo together and making five of theme Soy filly and you ere near- er the 4n11'k.--S14.urgeon, GARDNER A STRONG MAN HE WAS A GIANT WHO DID NOT KNOW HIS OWN STRENGTH, A NrIll orenewtek Wee' Unity unmet% nble Peale over n CPIttillry .0 go --JI Vitt's the Wonder of the Loll. IS It ceetain that the famous al hIeRis of the proseut day who seek applause by breaking records, are, after all, superior to the old-linee tierformers whose deeds were seldom ehrenteled Are modern cluba eutl college gyre, nasitune sending forth men able to discount the brawn and bene of their fatherti? The modern prufessional strong in= has his seientific Lueileids of training, his apparel u.s, and his 85)e- 01011145 which he has practieed for years, but coule lae vanquish the San - cleave and Samsons of Maine and New Brunswick in the early logging days at their own game, such as lifting with the leuelspike, ehouldering barrel of pork, or ecullime 11 raft of logs oif a lee shore? There are mon still living on the St. John and the Penobeet1 whet see" that there were giants in these days wines eel= of strength have never been equalled. Thee' refer, esPecisay, to one Torn Gerdner, the lion uf Mamtaquate who W108 born on the banks of the St. Jo= in the yeer 179e, and who had such strength thee it was a mai affliction to him by retie= or the clowds who followed him. The 11122e rumor that To wae expected, on his raft, Or that he W110 Up the read with his scull oar and warp ever his shoulder, would line the fences or the river bank with people who wished 10 see su great a prodigy. SOLID WILLS OF 1304)E. Ripon casual 01e12, these people say, no one would suppose that Gardner Possessed mere muscle then an ordin- ary man of ,his inches. He was a enild- mennered, unassuming, flaxen -haired young man, rather sloucbing in his gait, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and usually weighing from 175 to 180 pounds. 'When stripped, however, his power could in pare be accounted for, his chest being finely developed and the muscles of his arms, legs and thighs standing ou1 like the sinews of a bear. la was the popular belief that, insteanof ordinary ribs, Gardner pos- sessed, solid walls of bone on either sida of his chest. t ;1' '111 roo '114mi1:" lo 80044501021. '11,.1S't vni1 for To, 1 have ofMn seen Mrs. Fuller and know latt she had -wonderful strength. Sle. could Mumbler barrel iif flour, 21(14 Tom used 30 tiny that on It 1101d. 011. (Ottld thrOW him 11111080 he put out 1138 entire strength." , Onc oe Gardner's noluble feats wee !performed on- a where 1)1 (40. Jelne ellen!! he leftee aud (ta)ried for hea.-- , era1 stens an anchor weighing 1,850 ' pounds. 'rho 1110. Jacob eicKeen, of ' Kingeoleor, was a witneee of this .1 astonishing lift. A. seem. gamed Jobn Ietwkinte afterward (('("11 le lift I, the tmeher, but failed atol died from ; the efreets of his efforts. Dlr. Me- ' Kettll used to may telt be Mel known Gerdner, wh..311 lifting with ii 11,1114j. !spiloa, to break a stout spruce pole five or six in diaMeler. Also, ; that he had 14e0e0111 limes teem carrying a bamt- of pork, weighing 350 Pounds, under emit' afIll, and tine'. j dew him shoulder a barrel of pork • while standing in an ordinary brandy • box. On one oecasitin Tom was pass- ' Mg through the Meductie Fella un a raft when he saw the er€20 Of the River pecker, composed of three men, vainly entleavoi-ing to pry the pee- , km off :1 shoal. Tom snubbed his teat . in the eddy, waded out so that he could get hie shoulder under the bow of the packet and lifted the ves- ett of (he bar. ILL' LEFT N. 13. Tom's brother John, wee in no way noted for his physicae prowess, but his sister, Matilda, was su strong that uo man was ever able to kiss her in fair, honest play. She declared that she would marry the first man who acicom- plished this feat. IL is said that one of her suitors, Isaac Fuller, was more crafty than the others. He studious- ly refrained trom seeking to capture Matilda's lips until he had Wen her hteart. He cotuted her at long range end' praised her beauty. Then Matilda surrendered. t • SUMS OF HIS FEATS. line of the few stieviving river men of that period, is John Camber, who now laves at Arthurette, on the Tobique River. ele was well acquaint- ed with Gardner, and saw him perform meaty of his amazing feats. "There were no two mem in my time," said Mr. Camber, "who eoutcl lift Tom Garcixter's loaa or nandie tom in a scrimmage. In 1.115 year 1820, which W11.0 right after the great Miramichi fern, I sew him at Grafton, opposite Woodstock, lift a molasses puncheon full of corn, said to be fourteen bush- els, from the bottom of a towboat Lo the gunwale, and then set it down on the beach stones. I saw Gardner do one thing which I LIM satisfied no men in the province coteln now begin to do. This ocourree et Grafton also. He took hold, ,03 a rum puncheon oon- taining at the time seven gallons of rum, lifte4 it tom the ground with- out the Inlet effort and drank from the bunghole. The puncheon was a heavy, iron -bound affair, and must, have Neighed 120 pound.s, not counting the rum. Etl, Wheeler kept a black- smith shop in those days at Ease Floe- eneeville„ I helve seen Gardner borrow a, pair of mitts from 1M. and pull horseslaoes apart with his hands as fast es he could piok them up, I remember his coming home from a dance one morning, all hands pretty well stewed and carrying on, and hauling up by the roots an apple tree, four inches tbich and lugging it all the way home. nes I (11(1 3101 actually see myself, but three neon who were with him, David Good, Solomon Good and GeorgeLang, told, me about it atul the tree was re- planted, on the, shore and called Gard- ner's tree for forty years afterward till it Wan carried away by a big iee freshet. HE KEPT A HOTEL. At one time Gardner kept a kind of hotel Or wayside house, below the mouth of Tobique, and two stout Irish- men, each weighing over 200 pounds, who were anxioue Lo tackle him, raised a rumpus in the kttchen, Tom ple.ked them up, one in each hand, knocked thou heads together, carried them to the back door, and threw them over the bank or the river. One of the Irish- men was named W ill lam Hapenny ; the name of the other I have forgotten. The late Edward Campbell of North- ampton, was au eye witness 03 (13)8 lit- tle fracas. I WaS in St. john one spring when a famous wrestler from Eng- land; came here aud tried to get on a match eyiee 13(1.11 tete vibe eye:el farm him. /the eithenien earl ontotn, who was expeeted to arrive on a raft next day. Tom knew nothing about wrestling, but easily downed the Eng- lishman, throwing bina oollar and el- bow, side hold end back hold. Thc Englishman offered him 4400 a year if he would go to England and wrestle on the stage. Another fttmoue wrestler mune all the way from Nliramichi La Tom's house to try a fall with him. TOM was away down river, but his sister, afterward IVIrs. Fuller, told the etratiger she eeuld, threw han hersele, Getdner left the Maenaquac when about Se years of age, and never re- turned (50 4)43(7 leruntevick. He lived for SOM.' years in Upper Canada. The last heisrd of him by his relatives in New Brunswick was that he bad gone to the far west, beyond Salt Lake City. Tef1 =1CCesi1) 11 Now Y0l'k pap„ r 2— "11 is contraonly reported aud be- lieved that Gardner met. with a sad adventure on board te Wenner. Jt, .heavy Loll was 011 bear( us a portion of the freight, tool the ceptain, a great powerful fellow, was temeerned as tee how he would remove it from its 'there in order to make More room on deck. While the Laetain and passengers were at dinner. TOM, in the presence of the crew, and to their 11(1.512 00)00200101111, 11feesthet bell an'i • ,oetite d bolt. When the cap.e.in returned he aekod how the bell ho,d been peeved, and when Gardner laughingly re- marked that he had clue -led it there, the cuptain gave lum the lie, and as one. word. brought on another, he pre- sently struck Tom in the face. This was too much, and for the first time 11) hia life the strong men gave blow for blow. One blow was sufficient. The captain was knocked down as if kicked by a horse, and never spoke again:. Tom made his escape, went west, and has never been heard of einV7h.:in Mr. Camber was shown this paragraph he said that he had heard about Tone lifting a big bell in the States but etot as to the killing or the captain. He thouglit the latter testament was untrue and had prob- ably arisen from an adventure that Tone had really experienced in Canada. After Gardner removed to Ontario a noted pugilist there, who heard of his fame as a strong man, insisted on hav- ing a. fight. Tom tried to avoid trouble In every way, but finally was insulted and a fight took place in which the fistic champion paid the penalty of his rashness with death. He was knocked senseless by a terrific blow, and died a few hours afterward. Tom then fled to the west. .8-411-40 ITEMS OF INTEREST, A. FOW Cleildiabld Paragraphs From Here, Then, and InveryWhere. It is asserted that India -rubber heels on ?hoes deorease the fatigue of marching. They are to be worn by French soldiers. A Philadelphia optician has this sige displayed in his window: "lf you don't see what you want, you, need glasses, Let me supply theme Over fifty district secret societies flourish in the United States, end they are represented. by 0,000,000 members and 70,000 lodges, Glass doors are placed ie some of the new cooking stoves to enable the cook to watch the food in the oven without opening the door. &law, peessed into blocks and mede hard enough to use ue pavement, is in use for this purpose in some of the streets of Warsaw, Potence Baseball is 0212 01 the Sundty amuse- ments in Havana, instead of bull- fights. Lager flows freely, and the city is rapidly becoming Americanized, ID Holland, where sand. is plentiful and inexpensive, it is lased; instead of bay or slraw ae beds for vows, It keeps the animals perfectly clean, An clot:aria gun invented by a a hale miles in two seemole, The gun is noiseless, and smokeless powder is used, leman in Portland, England, throw,* an explosive projectile eine and Glass pavement has been euccess- fully tested on one of the thorough- fares of Lyons, France. Its durabil- ley is equal to that ot stone, Me does not readily form on it, and it ie ensily cleaned, as diet does not cling to it, A tacky find mon to W. A. Dorsey, fnt•ne hand employed by Mrs. Helen Hardman, 1.1013Cumberlanl, Md. Wbile plowing 0 fteld ho turned. olp an Iron pot whieb contained $1,000 in gold, It Is simposed the treasure was tattled Gime oval fusty yields ago. Three Brooklyn gentlemen agreed to 812 1133 a querter ot a mile for a smell bet, in Indian River, Florida. They swam rather leisurely for about two - third+ 03 /1211 distanre, and then, seeing that auall iga tor Itad joined in t he 0000, put in their best tepurts, evidently bar- b:lg. the alligator would win the stakes, NO BIRTHPLACE. reentrk made b7. a six-year-old boy on a certain 000145100 was the na- tural resul1 of confusion in his small mind, but it caused amusement to the bystanders. The bowie in which he had first seen the light of day had been torn down to make room for a wider street, And the little boy, holding ea,st to his teth- ers, heed, viewed the ruins With grief and amazement. Why, papa,) he cried, sorrowfully. Why, 900, I wasn't born anywhere now, WaS 10 IN THE SULTAN'S IIAREV A very yottng and pretty fermate dentist, nam id Dr. E. Mantafannes, tele/ le at present sojourning in San lermeleco, et the official caretaker of the teeth in the pretty mouths of the Sultan 8 favorite heurie, IL 13 !W1thin:1 Lt 110,r1300 wins the eenfidenee of ilet Sick Man uf Europe to such an extent Gee he is permitted to visit: the harem and feast hie eyes on the leteuty levee revealed, ant this milted th, story to d (ho YiVtiele11:3 young woman all tun nwre interesting. Dr. Want clan u es was born of Greek parents in the 11.111.1 of Scio, but was edtteated ba the American college at Athene, ahe gat ued the Sultan favor al Suites, neeere be hut a palate, by successfully tt.151 1 ng the crumb- ling teeth of 50701 id of the ilareM te311n0/08. iihe was 0,411(1)1111111'd to go to Constantinople, and of Nouse her obedience Wat3 lamellate. It was in the great harem there that Lhe !b1(Ie dentist gained an insight to the domestic affairs of the Sultan. Said she: "My residence at St1M9A had so far educated me in this respeet that I knew about what was expected. I was soon ready, arid found that the ser- val= from the palare Were already waiting with a carriage to drive ene to the most exclusive house in el, Ibis wide world., 1 was a bit nervous at first, but was assured by ona at- tendant that I had nothing to fear. -Fore said. he, 'you are under the pro- tection of tbe great Turkish Govern- nient. Nothing can harm yutte "We then entered the carriage and drove to the Sultan's palace. I can never forget ray feelings upon enter- ing th 3 famous gateway. What might happen/ I had heard all kinds ot stories; I =ow of the bowstring and oblivion in the Bosphorus. taut I con - eluded to take my medicin,, as it came end murmur not': at ail. 21118 ushered into the main recep- tion room, that is the one set aside for the woman of the harem.. I can t begin to tell you how many of tbem were present, nut a great number, and es entered each within reach gently raised the hem of my garment and kissed it in the most delicate and re- spectful mumer. "I soon found these women a ebarm- ear bet of companions, although for the most part very ignorant. They ',mew nothing of the outside world and care less. (They always remind 0113 of a lot of domestio birds whp. have never known what it is to use their wings; they are bappy—happy es the day is lon,g, for their eage is a very large one and also very beautiful, and they enjoy ono great privilege; they are allowed all the sweetmeats Lhey care to eat, and as they are very enteeh like children this little privilege makes them supremely haPPY, They also absorb great quan- tities of grease, of which they are passionately fond. "Now, they are not supposed to drink wine, although I found they did so secretly. You know it is for- bidden by the Koran. 113u11 they smoke incessantly; cigarettes only, but you scarcely find one without O cigarette between her pretty lips. "I was quite mystified for a time at the entire absence of anything in the way of that soft down so common to the feees of dark women, but on learned the secret of its absence, for the lady barber made her appearance O short time after my arrival. Her professional operations are most in- genious, and I was deeply interested as welt as amused by them. "No, she does not use a razor. Her whole kit consists of a bit of twine with which she succeeds in removing every particle of hair that rely grow on the face. To explain this opera- tion. Of course you have seen little children at play with what they tall eat s cradle? Well, just take the first: figure of thee little game and you have Lhe instrument in working order. Now bold the twine against the face of the patien1 jusb where the two lines Gross each other, then proceed with the seesaw movement and you will find that every hair is pulled out, root and branch. This is very painful indeed, and I never had the nerve to try it a, seeond time. But a.s I told you In the beginning, a Turkish women will bear anything in order to beautify herself. They sub- mit to this painful operation about twice la mouth. Hergie isn't itt "They love music, do these women of the harem. Of course it is not the kind or mute we care for, still one soon becomes fond of it, and I must admit that I have heard some of the tritt8'.0 of great composers very well rendered by inmttes of tho harem. but OA a e they meter their netive love songs, and once you have got the idea you rather admire 11. "Although, as I said before, meet of these woMen are very ignorant, some of them speak French quite feeently, but of course Freneh is the court language in motet pines of the world. All Turkish Governmmt papers are in%de out in Freach as well 05 in 'the netive language. "Have I ever ruO tbe eultete Yes, iteleed, And what did I think of him? Well, he is a very ordinery looking man, and would be overlooked it the streets oe New York or San lerancieco. I elways saw 111111 dressed in the very conventional European garb, the only sign of the Turk being the cap, which was th., regulation fez. This article is wont, of courst3, for religious reas- One. 'How many wives has he? Alwaes 2""19s. anything like a real wife in the harem'? 1Vell, in a manner, yes; 'Glut is, there is oue WilO IL,ars that title but really she is only the chief of staff, and hie the peiveege of knock- inee the °there about when she feels 80 ' ' • 4 ! "Aro the Na'0111011 0751' ahused by their misters? Are they ever 13e01e210 Wetl, that is a Meiling questioa that do not ore te answer. 'IN knot r ant Aimee to return to the harem, and it is necessary that I be eery careful how 1 =sever relestione. Howe ever, I can say this nmeh, and you tney draw your term conelteelons that reentry the Man is Mager, elm woman is but hie slave. This ale is absolute. and is elesereed to thet vertt letter