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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1896-10-07, Page 3E' BAY IS AT HAND. %EV. DR, TALMAGE PREACHES UPON A RAPTUROUS OUTLOOK. Fie Says It Should Stir the World to Gladness—Arbitration Is Better Than Battle --Rays of Dawn in the Day of Progress. Washington, Sept. 27.—If the clarion note of this sermon delivered at the na- tlonai capital would sound through Chris- tendom, it would give everything good a new start. Dr. Talmage's text was Romans x111, 12, "The day 1a at hand." Back from the mountains, and the 1 seaside, and the springs, and the farm - bowie, your cheeks bronzed and your spirits lightened, I hall you home again with the words of Gehazi to the Shunam- mlte ; "Is it well with thee ? Is it well with thy disband ? Is It well with the child ?" On some faces 1 see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears I see the story of resurrection and reunion when all tears are done, the deep plowing of the keel, followed by the flash of phosphorescence. Now that I nave asked you in regard to your wel- fare, you naturally ask how 1 am. Very well, thank you. Whether It was the bracing air of the mountains, or a oath in the surf of Long Island beach, or whether It is the joy ot standing in this great group of warm-hearted friends, or whether It is a new appreciation of the goodness of God, I cannot tell. I simply know I am happy. It was said that John Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, occasionally got fast In his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry, "Halleluiah 1" I am In no such predicament to -day, but I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year. I want to give you the keynote of my next 12 months' min- istry. I want to set It to the tunes of "Antioch," "Ariel," and "Coronation." I want to put a new trumpet stop into my sermons. We do wrong if we allow our personal sorrows to Interfere with the glorious fact that the kingdom is coming. We are wicked 1f we allow ap- prehension of national disaster to put down our faith in God and in the mis- sion of our American people. The God who hath been on the side of this na- tion, s ce the Fourth of July, 1776, will se tit that this nation shall not com- mit suicide on November 8. 1896. By the time the unparalleled harvests of this summer get down to the seaboard we shall be standing in a sunburst of na- tional prosperity that wit paralyze the pessimists who by their evil prophecies are blaspheming the God who hath bless- ed this nation as He hath blessed no other. NOTES OF GLADNESS, In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man had a right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that he was glum at the wedding in Cana of GalJlee ? Do you suppose that Christ was unresponsive when the children clam- bered over his knee and shoulder at his own invitation ? Do you suppose that the evangelist meant nothing when he said of Christ, "He rejoiced in spirit 7" Do you believe that the divine Christ, who pours all the waters over the rocks at Vernal Falls, Yosemite, does not be- lieve in the sparkle and gallop and tu- multuous joy and rushing raptures of human life 7 I believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic and assay them, and test them, and analyze them, and you will often find as much of the pure gold of religion in a laugh as In a tear. leeep spiritual joy always chows 1, self in Iacial illumination. John Wesley said he was sure of a good religious im- pression being prodyced because of what be calls the great gladness he saw among the people. Godless merriment la blas- phemy anywhere, but expression of Chris- tian joy is appropriate everywhere. Moreover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness. Astrono- mers disturbed many people by telling them that there was danger of stellar collision. We were told by these astro- nomers that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults and per- haps the world's destruction. Do not be seared. If you have ever stood at a rail- road center where 10 or 20 or 80 rail tracks cross each other and seen that by the movement of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that without colliding, then you may understand how 60 worlds may come within an inch of disaster and that Inch be as good as a million miles. If a human switch tender can shoot the trains this way and that without harm, cannot the hand that for thousands of years has Upheld the universe keep our little world out of harm's way ? Christian geologists tell us that this world was millions r,f years in building. Well, now, I do not think God would take ml lions of years to build a house which was to last only 1,000 years. There is nothing In the world or outside the world, terrestrial or astronomical, to excite demos,. I wish that some stout gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria of human fore- boding. The sun rose this morning at about 6 o'clock, and I think that is Just about the hour in the world's history. "The day Is at hand," VICTORY FOR PEACE. The first ray of the dawn I see le the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. Within the last 26 years there have been interna- tional differences which would have brought a shock of arms In any other day, but whirh were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking the place of the sword. The Venezuelan controversy In any other age of th- world would have brought a shock of arms, but now le being so quietly adjusted that no one knows just how 1t Is being settled. The Alabama question In any other age of the world would have caused war be- tween the United States and England. How cart it settled ? By men-of-war off ablk • the Narrows or off the MerseY T BY tate toarirl t8ee #4 tWlr MI" the Plat Neil d(i' gulf stream of the ocean crossed by a their work ill 44 hours. The WIWI, seines atilt stream of human blood? By the times derides. the church for elownstea or pathway of nations incarnedlned ? Na movement. 716 egience any quickeiKf l7iltt1t A few wise men go into a quiet room not take`let,I en$e 4,062 Year, to find oat so at Geneva. talk the matter over and tele- simile a thing illi the Circulation ot the graph to Washington and to London, human blood? With the earth and the sky "All settled." Peace, peace 1 England Lull of electricity, science took 6,800 years pays to the United States the amount before it even gueeeed that there was any awarded—pays really more than she ought a tUteiclee t emthat mightelement. be madeWhen of this to have paid. But still all that Ala - barna good barna broil is settled—settled forever. Ar men possession of all these sctentltic Wtratlon instead of battle. forces telco and all these agencies of invention, So the quarrel about the Canadian I do not know that the redemption ot the fisheries in any other age would have world will be more than the work of bolt caused war between the United States a day Do we not read the Queen's speech and England. England Bald : "Pay we at the proroguing of Parliament the day tor the Invasion of my Canadian fish- I More In London? If that be so, to it any cites." The United States said, "1 will , thing marvelous to believe that in 24 hours not pay anything."Well, the two mer . a divine communication can reach the whole earth ? Suppose tions say, "I guess we had better leave I Pp a Christ should de the whole matter to a commission," ' The 'acetic' on the nations—many expect that commission is appointed and the corn- Clint will come upon the nations per- 1 mission examines the affair, and t1 .. com- mission reports, and pay we ought, pay we must. pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned, no one hurt so much as by the scratch of a pin. Arbitratlon In- stead of battle. So the Samoan controversy in any other an would have brought Germany and the United States into bloody collision. But all is settled. Arbitration Instead of battle. France will never again. I think, through the peccadillo of an ambassador, bring on a battle with other nations. She sees that God, in punishment at Sedan, blotted out the French Empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of ex- pectation dies in a war that has not even the dignity of being respectable. What is the leaf that England would like to tear out of her history ? The Zulu war. Down with the sword and up with the treaty I We in this country might better have settled our sectional difficulties by arbltra- tion than by the trial of the sword. Phi- lanthropy said to the north, " Pay down a certain amount of money for the pur- chase of the slaves, and let all those born after a certain time be born free." Phi- lanthropy at the same time said to the south, " You sell the slaves and get rid of this great national contest and trouble." The north replied, " 1 won't pay a cent." The south replied, " I won't sell." War war t A mllliom dead min, and a national debt which might have ground this nation !to powder I Why did we not let William H. Steward of New York and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia go out and spend a few days under the trees on the banks of the Potomac and talk the matter over and settle it, as settle it they could rather than the north pay in cost of war $4,700,000,000 and the south pay $4,750,- 000,000, the destroying angel leaving the birstborn dead in so many houses all the !way from the Penobscot to the Alabama ? Ye aged men whose sons fell in the strife, do you not think that would have been better 7001). yes I We have come to be- lieve that, I think. in this country that arbitration is better than batle. TOO DEAR A PRICE. I may be mistaken but I hope, that the last war between Christian nations is end- ed. Barbarians may mix their war paint and Chinese and Japanese go into whole- sale massacres and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian 'nations have gradually learned that war -is disaster to victor as well as vanquished. and that almost anything bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. I wish to God this nation might be a model of will- ingness for arbitration. No need of kill- ing another Indian. No need of sacrific- ing any more brave General Custers. Stop exasperating the red man, and there will be no more arrows shot out from the am- bushments. A general of the United States army in high repute throughout this land, and who perhaps had been In more In- dian wars than any other officer, and who had been wounded again and again in be- half of our Government in battle against the Indians, told me that all the wars that had ever occurred between Indians and white men had been provoked by white men, and that there was no exception to the rule. While we are arbitrating with Christian nations let us toward barbari- ans carry ourselves in a manner unprovo- cativo of contest. Let me put myself in their place : I In- herit a large estateand the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are songful with birds, and my cornfields are silken and golden. Here !a my sister's grave. Out yonder under the large tree my father died. An invader comes and proposes to drive me off and take possession of my property. He crowds me back, he crowds me on, and crowds me into a closer corner, until after a while I say, " Stand back I Don't crowd me any more, or I'll strike. What right have you to come here and drive me off my premises ? I got this farm from my father, and he got it from hie fa- ther. What right have you to come here and molest me ?" You blandly say, " Oh, I know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter than you do. I could put this ground to a great deal better use than you do." And you keep crowding me back and crowding me on Into a closer corner and closer corner, until one day I look around ufon my suffering family, and, fired by their hardships, I hew him In twain. i Forthwith all the world comes to your fu- neral to pronounce eudoglum, comes to my execution to anathematize me. You are the hero. I am the culprit, Behold the United States Government and the North American Indian I The red man has stood more wrongs than I would, or you. We would have struck sooner, deeper. That whirl, le right In defence of a Washington home is right In defence of a home on top of the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwin- dling red race dies completely out I wish that this generation might by common justice atone for the Inhumanity of Its predecessors. In the day of God's Judg- ment I would rather be a blood -smeared Medoc than a swindling United States of- ficer on an Indian reservation. One was a barbarian and a savge, and never pre- tended to he anythtng but a barbarian and a savage. The other pretended to he a representaflve of a Christian nation. Not- withstnnling all this the general disgust with war and the substitution with (tiplo- matir skill for the glittering edge of keen stere 1s a sign unmistakable that " the day Le at hand-" TFIE WORLD'S NEARNESS. I Lind another ray of dawn In the com- pression al the world's distances. What a slow, snaUlIke, almost impossible thing would have been the world's rectitiratbon with 1,400,000,000 of population and no facial means of communication, but now, through telegraphy for the eye and tele- phonic intimacy for the ear and through eteamboating and railroading the 21,000 miles of the world's circumference are shriveling up into sfgnlcant brevity, Hong Kong le nearer to New York than a few years ago New Haven was, Bombay, Morrow, Madras, Melbourne within et -wak- ing dletance. Purchase a telegraphic chart. and by the blue lines see the telegraphs of i the land and by the red lines the rahles under the ocean. You see what opportunt- ty this is going to give fort he final move- ments of Christianity A fortress may be months or years in building, but atter It 1e constructer] It may do all its work In 20 minutes. Chris- tianity has been planting its batteries tor 19 centuries and may go on in the work through other centuries, but when those batteries are thoroughly planted. those acutelly ; suppose that to -morrow morning the Son of God from a hovering cloud should descend upon these cities. Would' not that tact be known all the world over in 29 hours ? Suppose he should present I his Gospel In a few words, saying i " I am the Son of God. I came to pardon all your eine and to heal all your sorrow. To prove that 1 am a supernatural being I have just descended from the clouds. Do you believe me, and do you believe me now ?" WILY. ell the telegral.h statl:ins on the Earth would be crowded au none of them were ever crowded after a shipwreck. I tell you all these things to show you it is not among the impossibilities ur even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do It in- stanter when the time comes. There are foretokenings in the air. Something great is golrig to happen. I do not think that Jupiter is going to run Us down or that the axle of the world Is going to break, but I mean something great for the world's blessing and nut for the world's damage is going to happen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough the famines and plagues. Enough the Asiatic choleras, Enough the wars. Enough the shipwrecks. Enough the con- flagrations. I think our world could stand right well a procession of pros- perittes and triumphs. Better be on the lookout. Better have your observa- tories opdn towards the heavens and the lenses of your most powerful telescopes well polished. Better have all your Ley- den jars ready for some new pulsation of mighty influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to set up some astounding good news. Better have some new banner that has never been carried ready for eudden pro- cessions. Better have the bells in your church towers well hung and rope with - In reach, that you may ring out the marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your courthouses, for the Judge of all the earth may appekr. Let all your leg- islative halls be gilded, for the great Lawgiver may be about to come. Drive off the thrones of despotism all the oc- cupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about to reign. The dark- ness of the night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of morning cloud and the UUlfess reddening into the roses of stronger day—fit garlands, whether white or red, for him on whose head are many crowns. "The day is at hand." RAYS OF DAWN. One more ray of the dawn I see in facts chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we have settled one matter. What 1s going to be the final issue of this great contest between sin and righteousness ? Which is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Dia - bolus ? Is this world going to be all garden or all desert ? Now, let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Hosea and Micah and Malachi and John and Peter arad Paul and the Lord himself, we believe that it 1s going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether we are workng on toward a success or toward a dead failure. 11 there 1s a child in your house sick and you are sure he 1s going to get well, you sympathize with present pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast and the captain assures you the vessel is staunch, and the winds are changing for a better quarter, and he ter sure. he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present distress with the thought of safe arrival. Now I want to know whether we are coming on toward dismay, darkness and defeat or on toward light and blessed- ness. You and I believe the latter, and 1f so every year we spend is one year from the world's woe, and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy con- summation, and by all that is Inexora- ble ht chronotgy and mathematics I com- mend you to good cheer and courage. If there Is anything In arithmetic, 1f you subtract two from five and leave three, then by every rolling sun we are com- ing on toward a magnificent terminus. Then every winter passed Is one Severity 1 less for our poor world. Then every sum- mer gone by brings us nearer unlading aborescence. Put your elgebra down on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If it Is nearer morning at 8 o'clock than It 1s at 2, if 1t is nearer morning at 4 o'clock than ft Is at 9, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's de- liverance. God's clock seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings, and the hands move, and It will yet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood tette once. They will never stand still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as well ate your Bible, you must believe we are nearer the dawn. "The day is at hand." There Is a class of phenomena which makes me think that the spiritual and l heavenly world may after awhile make a demonstration In this world which 1 will brIn. ell moral and spirituel things to a climax. Now, I am no spiritualist, but every intelligent man has noticed that there are strange and mysterious things which indlcate to him that per- haps the spiritual world Is not 80 far off a5 vomrtlmes we conj elute, and That after awhile from the spiritual and hea- venly world there may be a demonstra- tion upon our world for Its betterment. We call 1t magnetism, or we call It mes- merism, or we call It electricity, be- cause we want some term to ccover up our Ignorance. I do not know what It Is. i never heard an audible voice from th" other world. I am persuaded of this, however : That the veil between this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner, and that perhaps after awhile at the call of God—not at the call of the iDavenport brothers or Andrew Jar -k- een lavia—some of the old Scriptural war- riors, Forty, of the spirits of other days, mighty men for God—a Joshua, or a Catch, or a David or a Paul—may come down and help us in the battle against unrighteousnesa. Oh, how 2 would like to have them here—him of the Red Rea, him of the valley of Ajalon. him of M hill 1 English history says that Robert Clayton of the English cavalry, at the close of the war, bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgery and hard work and bought a piece of ground at Knaves - mire heath and turned out these old war- her i0e, into 1"iie tiiiCltQE ( b 00), ?G' ' 1 tore to spend the rept 04 their tlitya compensation tor what they ne4 done in other dams. One day a tbonderetorin came tillh and these warhorses mlatook the thunder of the ekies for the thunder of battle and they wheeled Into line, no riders on their backs—they wheeled into line ready tor the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder ot this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens. the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring 1ne to the fight and exchange crown Dor hel- met and palm branch for weapon and come down out of the King's galleries Into the arena, crying: "Make room 1 1 must fight in this great Armageddon!" The old warhoreee mingling in the fight. IN THE SUNLIGHT. Beloved people, I preach this sermon because I want you to toll with the sunlight in your faces. I want you old men to understand before you die that all the work you did for God whlle yet your ear was alert and your foot fleet is going to be counted up in the final victories. I want all these younger peo- ple to understand that when they toll for God they always win the day ; that all prayers are answered and all Chris- tian work Is In some way effectual, and that the tide is setting 10 the right di- rection, and that all heaven is on our side—saintly, cherubic, archangelle, om- nipotent, chariot and throne, doxology and procession, principalities and domin- ion, he who hath the moon under his feet, and all the armies of heaven on white horses. Brother, brother, all I am afraid of is not that Christ will lose the battle, but that you and I will not get into it quick enough to do something worthy of our brood bought immortality. Oh, Christ, how shall I meet thee, thou of the scarred brow, and the scarred back, and the scar- red hand, and the scarred foot, and the scarred breast, if I have no scars or wounds gotten in Thy service ? It shall not be so. I step out to -day In front of the battle. Come on, ye foes of God, I dare you to combat. Come on, with pens dipped in malignancy. Come on, with tongues forked and viperine. Come on, with types soaked in the scum of the eternal pit. I defy you! Come on ; I bare my brow ; f uncover my heart. Strike 1 I cannot see my Lord until I have been hurt for Christ. If we do not suffer with Him on earth, we can- not be glorified with Him in' heaven. Take good heart. On, on, on 1 See the skies have brightened! See the hour 1s about to come ! Pick out all the cheer- iest of the anthema Let the orchestra string their best Instruments. "The night is far spent ; the day is at hand." CHARACTER IN FINGER RINGS. The Ethics or Finger Rings are Interest- ing and Slake an Interesting Study. There ie a peculiarity in rings which many people must have noticed, although it is likely that very few have considered it far enough to dis- cover its cause. That is the tendency which some rings have to shape them- selves to the finger around which they are worn. This condition does not ap- ply only to delicate, pliable rings, or rings worn thin by use, any of which may be bent by the pressure while tak- ing on and off, but it is true also of heavy rings, solid rings, thick bands of gold, whose strength and compactness are well able to resist any tension that may be put on them in the ordinary way of their wear or handling, Many of these rings, it will be found, al- though perfect circles when originally purchased and placed on the finger, will I after a time shape themselves almost exactly to the lines of the finger around which they are worn. And these rings being often heavy, broad, thick gold bands, it seems difficult to understand how such a condition of things can take place. "And ea you think you have bit on something extraordinary, do you?" ex- claimed a jeweler to whom I had shown a ring that bad displayed this peculiar tendency. "Welt, you have— and yet it is a thing that is quite com- mon, too. By the heat of the blood the rings are softened, and around the anvil of the finger, the muscles and surface of the finger acting as the sledge, they have been shaped into what you see are their peculiar forms." "One would judge from this then," was suggested, "that you ought to be able to read character, in a manner, in rings." "1 should say so," was the reply, bet- ter than by anything elee. Now, take this ring right here, for instance, this one that the lady claims is misshaping her finger. See the peculiar curve in it on the right side—this is the front —and the corresponding straigtening out and loss of curve on the other. It means ease, carelessness. It means that the woman who wears it has no worry, no care, and indulges in no ef- fort. She is a beautiful, dark -eyed woman of the languid and yet alert southern ty, , and her husband does everything fo her. Even her pleasures are brought to her, and she does not have to foreshadow them. 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FACTORY—corner Huron and Orange Streets, Clinton. type. One would think that these sort of women had no blood, but these rings prove .they have. The fact Is their blood, and the blood of all the wiry -looking people, is the beet of all and is the best distributed through the syetem. Obese people seldom have ill - shaped rings, and their fingers are not round. Their blood fent that strong and warm is the reason; it is exhausted by having to do too much duty. "Yea, I could go on all the after- noon citing instances to you and calling off characters from rings. Now, this ring here is worn by a woman with cold blood. You see it is of fine, soft gold, and has been worn long, and yet is perfectly round. That woman's fingers are very soft and have no blood in them. She is dull. Her tem- perament is sluggish and indifferent. She may have a well -shaped face, but has little personality. She is dead in the cells that ought to contain her life. It is right here in connection with this fact that we can judge so well. It is but another form of the cold hand in- dicating the bloodless woman. When we see a gold ring that bas been long in use on a certain finger and is still perfectly round then we know that that finger lacks blood and can rate its possessor accordingly. When we find that it takes the shape of the finger then we know that blood is there, and to the degree in which it changes its shape to that degree also do we judge of the degree of heat in the blood and the corresponding vitality and vi- vacity and personality of the wearer. This is a standard which I have adopt- ed, and I have found after a long ex- perience and close observation that it seldom fails. "The ethics of finger rings are inter- esting and make an interesting study. And an important one, too, eepecially for young men who are contemplating matrimony." A WELCOME CHANGE. Caller—Mr. President, I have long held the opinion that the office should seek the man, and not the man the of- fice, and I cannot adequately express my detestation of the hutngry horde who are worrying you night and day. I simply call to pay my respects. The president—Myl myl Come in, sir; tat down. Won't you stay to dinner? Caller—Thank you, but time is very pressing. As I said before, I simply called -to pay my r ects; but while here I might as well leave these rec- ommendations, and my address, so in oase any offioe starts on a still hunt it will know where to find me. TO CONSUMPTIVES. The undersigned having been re,tored to health by simple means, .Per suffering for several years with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease Consumption, is anxious to make kn,,wn to his fellow anffrrers the means of ante. To those who desire it, he will che,rfuily send (tree of charge) a copy of the presc,iptlnn used. ehlrh they will find a sure cure for Consumption, .istfura. Catarrh, Brownchitis an all th,o,t and Lung Maladies. lie hopes all guff, rers will try his remedy, as it is invalu- able. Those deeiring the prescription, whichwill cost th,-m nothing, and may prove a blessing, will please add res., Rev, EDWARD A. WILSON,Brookiyo,New York. W.EAT IT DENOTES. You have heard her sing? Oh, yea Well, what do you think her method de notes? A total lank of sympathy and consid- eration for others. ONE HONEST MAN. Thar ,Editor:—Please inform your readers, t hat if writteu to confidenti- ally f will mail in a sealed letter, par- ticulars of e. genuine, honest home Cure, by which I was permanently re- stored to health and manly vigor, after years of suffering from nervous debility, sexual weakness, night losses and weak shrunken parts. I was robbed their rings become, shaped the same and swindled by 1 he quarks until i near - way. It is the indication of carelessness, ly lost faith in mankind, but thank just like the weariog down of the nut- heaven, I am now well, vigorous and side of the heel is. strong, and wish to make this certain "Now, here is a ring that is worn means of cure known toallsufferers. I by a type -writer. See, it has been con-; have nothing to sell, and want no verted into a long ellipse by the strain- 1 mmley, but being a firni believer in ing of the fingers up and down on the the universal brotherhood of mien, I keys. And the type -writer is a rapid am desirious of helping the unfcit'tiin- one, as is evident from the speed that ate to regain their health and happi- is required to put the ring to such a Hess, I promise you perfect secrecy and tension. las 1 do not wish to expose myself "llere in one that belongs to a rath- either, address, simply : P. 0. Box er clever girl of ease and culture, iLondon, Ont. whose only work is an occasional strum- ming on the piano. You will note that it is somewhat flat and broad, which 1 THE LAW'S MAJESTY. peculiar shape is caused by the expand- uig in width of the muscles of the fin -i Justice—You are nharged, sir, with Fars, the result of the strain in reach- failing to provide for your motherless ing the octave while playing difficult children, who are at this moment. pieces. Now. here is a ring of 80111P- starving in your mi5erahle home. Flow what the vame shape, but it denotes much money have you in your pockets? an altogether different kind of wearer. prisoner—Ten dol lane. It is the property of a servant girl who Justice—I fine you ten dollars. Next is both coarse and slipshod. Her fingers sass, are broad and pudgy, denoting a coarse., phlegmatic temperament, and them - nicks you see in the ring are the result IFor Over )Piny wean of washing dishes without taking the r Off. Mas. WINSLow'S Boorman Amor has been need by ('his ring here is worn by a woman Otlidtrs o1 motkere for tbrir children while teethingg'� of giro character. You will notice I if disturbed at nfehtand broken of yonrreet bye eiek ' ahlid suffering and erring vetch pato of Ontting Teeth that it iA square almost to a perfect ree send at once and get • bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's tangle. That means that the woman's soothing Syrup" forOhildren Teething. It will relieve fingers are of that shape. They are the poor 110 -le sufferer Immediately. Depend anon It, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It (lures Diar- rheas, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, ewes Wind Onlbe, softens the Gums, redness Inflammation and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow', Soothing Syrup" for ahildren teething is pleasant to the taste and is the presertptton of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses ;n the United States. price twenty By. (rents a bottle. Bold by all druggists tbroughont the world. Be Imre and ask for "Mas. Wnsawove Boornnro BynnP." long and square and bony. And that is the way the woman is in stature. And that is the way she is in tempera- ment. Her features are homely, de- 'oidedly so, but her mind is well develop- ed. She is evidently a school -teach- er. a literary woman, or poasihly a new woman of the woman suffragist SMALLPDX KILLS ! DOES TOBACCO Road the strong endorsement given nele SaM's Tobacco Core. In the Interest of the mamma, for whom these re. porta are compiled, the UNrrsn STATER USALTH Bs' emirs have examined and investigated many prepare tione having for their object the cure of the tobacco habit, bot among them all we have no hesitancy in glying the editorial and official endorsement of then Repose to the remedy known as "UNOLm SAM'S TOBACCO CURE," manahctured by the Keyetooe Remedy Company, at 218 IA Sall street, Chicago. 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IFMEN (young or old) who sale( from `LNervous DebilitY1 SexeaWeakness and the results of Sept Abuse, etc„ will write us confidentially a plain statement of their case, and promise to use our Remedy according to directions, we will send prepaid by mall or express, a careful) p epared course of Two Months' treatment,, for which we will make no charge if it fails to cure, Avoid Yankee frauds and Canadian quacks. Write us at once for a Remedy which is guaranteed to cure or cost nothing Address N. S. M. COMPANY, Lock Box a9D, .Piston, Ontario, Canada. FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS DUNN'S ligPOWDER THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND LARGiST SALE IN CANADA. PERSONAL POINTERS. Notes of Interest About Some of the Great Folks or the World. Ex -Empress Eugenie bathes in milli every mourning. The Rev. A. Robbins, the chaplain -in - ordinary to the Queen, has just preached his five -thousandth sermon. Henceforth the Ameer of Afghanis- tan is to he known as the "Light of the World." His Majesty is having a gold coin struck to commemorate his new dignity. I The 100th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth will be celebrated next year in Vienna by an exhibition of objects connected with the compos- er, and a series of performances of tis) s work. Kaiser Wilhelm has designed asilver oup which he will offer as a prize for ayacht raoe from Dover to Heligoland next year, after the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of his grand- mother's Recession to the throne of Great Britain. The cosnurittee of the Sir Walter Scott Memorial in Westminster Abbey have selected from various copies of the Chantrey bust in Abbotsford one submitted to them by Mr. John Hutch- inson, It.S.A. It has since been ap- proved by the dean. Lord Chief Justice Russell comes of a family that ie very devoted to the Church. Two Of his brothers are in the priesthood,, hie sisters have taken vows in varicule sacred orders, opieof them, the elder, being the directress of a San Francisco hospital. The younger Dumas did not smoke. When a young man he accidentally puked up a medical work and opened it at the chapter devoted to the ravages of nicotine on the human system. He had justlighted a cigarette, but threw it away, and never smoked another. Mme. Mori jeska he.s fi00 hives of Ital- ia.n bees on her (ktlifornia ranch. They collect their stcrrr from the flowers of the exquisitely scented white sage. which grows abundantly in the moun- tain meadows of that State. Mme. Mod jeska t hinks these flowers are pro- ducing the finest honey in the world. There are some almost priceless fur cloaks in existence, moat of them be- longing to me.mi esrs of the Russian nobility. Mrs. John Mackay has a sable oloak, valued at $16,000 which oonsista of 10,000 small eking. The most costly wrap of this kind is a ftnr cloak gent to the Empress Dag mar an her coronation. It cost $80 000. and weighs only sixteen ounces. Agile was a pareaent from the city of 11' kutek, in Siberia. A