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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1897-12-16, Page 2P r, ­ t E� , .. .. • .. • .:j _.n„p.v..., r .... 'own �a ...-:r•--•'�•+oT`_ - ... - n ._,,•,.._: _ -7777777----- 7__ 4..__. - TREASURE TROVE. 'the whole story out of me, and they be I `�' T�, laalYa.!►..tii..a....Y..O®.el.bOa that chattorbosea they can't help talking, A CHRISTMAS STORY UY S. RARING -COULD. ' and she'd blab about it to everyone in the l Ii c•t •+• ' __ place. Then I'd have the crown, and the duchy, and the lord of the manor, and the The forest of Dartmoor is surrounded on , = I parson and the 148 commoners down on i-tI} every side by wide stretches of moorland n►o demanding their shares. Be hanged if al t �1 ati�;ad i� I • I that belong to the several contiguous par- I'll. risk Its Women is terrible dauucrous (> ✓, i �'' -'may t lshos, and every householder in each of animals with their tongues, never Co -be. C N� f 11 � � � + �I , , a•,,,�t , ,; I, � these parishes vlailns rights on the coni- trusted. " 'Phan in want all the treasure (I +• :' ~ +i mon of his parish, over which, moreover, the manorial lord asserts paramount au - and into the coffin that; had contained l and preserved it for 4,000 years. e thurity and enforces it when he can. The "I know what I'll (lo," said Jos. "I'll duchy of Cornwall, howedh•er, to which the build my new take wall right over this forest belongs, professes a sort of sover- old grave and then no one can get at the eignty over all these eounuins• treasure without pulling down the wall.' Now, there lived In the parish of South p g s••' P Little did Jos sue eat that he was beim v ... " p ., Tawton, in the curious old village of :Deal, watched, and that his every word was where every house is an archalelogical eu- >,. \,,,':•J ,•'r: <dr,� overboard by Dolly herself, who was 60- +Y4 riosity and every householder is Independ- hind the rook hard by, where she had A ent, a poor young Maur of the name of Jo- picked up that chips and (hakes. °F n`�'� sinh Day, commonly kaluwn as young Slowly, painfully, Jus Day Worked at •yyl "S a t� 'I) 1-iltinydtt,V. his wall. lie succeeded in carrying it over ( 1 �/ `' Phi, nickname !vita acquired by hint the cairn, and thus he scoured his, treasure l f.�,3-Ca through hitt excessive caution.frons being (Itsturbod, tend thus wits it ^f Jos wits not a 1 luau, yet his exalt nladu fn,t agnin,t the rainy clay gcratcd prtulanr.r td to much the saulu re, In the coarse of the tlext three months lY 'tl` ' `•'•' gib'`' SillG5 tiH 'IS lllet't , he had completed tithe inclosure acid had Ile was iturking on the common, out- taken front the eoninien a tract of good g u th to con- ++ * •:. v'`v..,> ` tin granite blockhi e s l,; y ,..z.•.. i J s, werewland of live and twenty acres in extent. >i; l•' `}t. struct it "new take" wall. While thus "Now, thou," said .los to hLnsglP. "my engaged .Jos came on n pile of small stories. I r ell t , P way is to be as still as a mouse. The � •S,I; •�y'„(;);'.,r---�' e clr` .r ` lie cleared away these as too small. to luetic won't know nothing about it. The a,, •(�serve•his purposeanddiscovered boneathT p lord of the manor lives far away, and his ® Client a granite slab. This he levered agent is a sieopy chap. If he squalls, then t' aside, without much difficulty, and to his 1.nv;,N,� , . I'll claim rights under the duchy or as a r: ',• N I corunioner, and if the duchy squeaks I'll �, /� � �; `�`�,�1;. •, �• �I : - ; claim under the lord of the manor. ” 4 I About this time Mary Aggett's mother dtgcl. Jus pitied her greatly, the cottage was so lonely for the girl.. Itis heart grew soft when he saw her in black. "Bless a'^ ' me I" he said. "IP I lived in that cottage, m • :. t i I it would save me half my journey every a da But I won't risk it. - y. °� �• �'� y ��' ` ' Shortly after this a great surprise came on him. One morning he found in his "nett' take" a flock of sheep all branded "Al. A. ,yam S'lr n'4��fF, - ''.i�.' y3'• - �"'; t%�y Y- / Gracious bless usl" exclaimed .fes. iy� � I ..However came the sheep there? I'll run r ` \ / „a z i ask Polly. She may know. She must have seed some one drive 'em this way." Ile wont to the cottage and spoke in hent: "Mary, some owdacioua radicals ('4 % have been turning sheep into my nl'Atall sol f �- ' '•� during the night. They are all marked / "They are mine, .Jos." "CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ON(*E A 'VEAR." � "!;ours, Polly?" HE rr:rtna) CAUTIOUSLY ABOUT HIM. "Yes It was very kind and consider. -- - ----' �' - surprise discovered a stone cast or coffin I ate of you, .Jus, to inclose so many acres THE CHRISTMAS MORN. I Basion of the festivities of his oldest son, constructed of rude blocks. He crept in for tile. I thank you with all my heart." Thor, distributed universal gifts, the fa- and was, still further surprised when he "Inclose for your It is my new take n°' ov Jots , BENTON.� ther of (ae.h family being his special agent found within a pot containing charred "There is some mtsundorstanding," an- te the uuttfer As Odin. or Wuden, became bones and ashes, and near it it cup of yel• swered the girt. "The now take is car- Shining in tho Christmas sky, lit later myths rho mighty huntsman who low metal and some rings and hoops, some tainly mine. I have been to the lord of "o,nutlnie+ niueta thr hunlnn eye, ranged the Purists, the see bow the Christ- woighing ti, others 10 and 15 ounces apiece. ( tine nianorand have bought it -25 acres at While the church belly, sweet and slow. nlas tree anti evergreens found their places. Ile hastily scrambled forth, and as the so much gold per acre. I Lave the papers Peal their joy out down below Why, however, the functions of Odin setting sun gleanied out he examined his � all drawn out. On the far hurtzon'g haul should have specially been finally transfer- find by its light He rubbed the cup and "Yours) Whoro (lid you get the money?" A hint of I!M,off Bethlehem red to St. Nicholas out of all the Christian the rings on hiq sloove and "By gingerl" That was a question Mary did not- ani canon roll, unless from the fact that this said ho. "I'm darned if it ain't all solid sw•er, 'Tis one softly luminous star, I fine old Saint was the special patron of gold Come, I'm in Luck's way This I After much consideration Jos said faf Lilco that the magi saw afar. I children and schoolboys, it is not easyto shall stand over against a rain da I torin 1 This is a pretty of How am I twit Y Y•" g Ye: P Y g Bright holly and the mistletoe divine The.io things go to show what a Such was tits first thought; the second to be paid for the -walling'?" Join as Ili the fireside glow, p. curiously tangled coriposite, our Christmas was this: "If It he k'hown that i bave I'm sure I can't think, Jos. . And presents by the chimney side I is and how lustily it has grown out of di- found it treasure, then I shall have the I "But it has engaged me off and on for „Make lovely all the Christmastide, verso elements till it has become the most duchy putting its fist down on it, the 18 months Fifty pounds wouldn't repay Today the hurrying world must pause. i significant and hallowed of holiday sea- lord of the manor donianding it, the I my labor. I can't afford" - The children look for Santa Claus, I sons, !narking really an epoch of the year. crown ex, it, the parson holding out I really am sorry for you." While in the air the silver chines - Among the causes which haveenshrilied his hand for a teuth and every householder "BY ginger!" exclaimed .Jos. "There is Recall the old Judssan tmnes this day so deeply to the heart.of the world In the parish, as this is co11mon land, only one way out of it that I can see, and the fact that it is peculiarly children's day clamoring for his share, and there be 143 that is by changing the brand on the sheep n D n lumping to her m The ringing bells and tokens any is probably the most fetching in its magic. hul•c rights There'll be naught left for front A to and by get y That in a stable, dim and gray, Thu young people everywhere among' unci but the disappointment of having wall and your hind." The Light of All the World was born, Christian peoples constitute the factor found and lust tr(nsurc." "Well, I'm not particular," answered His bed a manger, rough, forlorn, which dominates the social observance of Josiahstoarl turning over the gold cup Mary 1I ary, and ( s0 the matter to was settled. Where meek eyed oxen, with their hay, the season'. Rich wassail at the dinner ami rings Thin he peered CUIWOnsly Th(;y were married, and Jos found that Stood in a trance almost of grace board, seraphic anisic and pomp of church about hitu to make, Sure that he wits uuob. he had secured not only a very capital bit Before the sweet Madonna taco, service, oven the giving of rich gifts se•t ; etl, of land, but with it n thrifty, witty and And. halt in awe and half in prayer, among the elders, were these all, would '1'N -on the young man replaced tho cover- I wise wife. Seemed to suspeet sonio god was thele. leave Christinas but little different front ing block, th(n houpod t.hu suint] stones j At the close of the first twelvemonth other holidays, notably so in the case of and earth over it and dlt:gliised the fact there were three to the house in the ptatc•c This world will never cease to know, Easier, when present giving aniong the that ill(, place linen bac» disturbed, of two At the end of the second year the Though centuries conte and centuries go, rich ling become socounlion. The 13autbino, Ile rgturnctt !some very satisfied with number had inounted to f1vo, for the sec - he story of hose ancient times addition to he fannll on,isted In T y t ci � or idol of theocragion, himself and with his prospects. Now hu .'Onst y C The meaning of those Christmas chimes vro uld then have but little Significance, could look forward wvithout, blinking to ! twins Which coin with thrir poreiuual grace but when the juvenile world declares that the in(vituble rair3i'clay At pre..ent hu But the conntience of .Jos was uneasy With blessing for the human race. it rules the jubilee the keynoto is struck 11nd henlih, strengah mud youth, anti with Souethiug stood botwoon hlin and Polly. to i • nowringingI •- r - ,+i+ • ( secret from her, and the is ever So rebut us are (cl and a tt•hich Sor(Ls its thrilling niusiu these he (xiu[tl Darn hi.;.; .ni ,..u,ud. ' I;nt," � lie had it . a t And all the wintry blasts that blow througbout"humanity. flow Charles, Dick as .Jus pttt it, "I c an't rrekun un thr .(: Jost- a barrior to cuuuubiat unity" Christmas If on the sky's horizon hcin ens, the prose poet of Yuletide in fletion, in;, I icm,wg yc•vvial young (burs as has way nlipron• Itin;t. .Jos resolved to make n We sec the star of Buthiehtm7 has spun"this pregnant fact into exquisite I had tolyls s:eltted uu their chest+•ssr: and clean breast of it and toll Mary every eptsodes is probably the highest nneasuro Nov. died of it decline And, 'runt Emil- thins; A CHRISTMAS HOMILY. of his success in imaginative work. The Cott, hu dislocated )it, till) and now c:ul't i Chri,itnlns nrrivcil, and Jos put off Ills images lie hes created will live forever in 1101)1)1(1 •up oil to the nuwr nl*ior granite lie i ,t`11r1day coot and Ilul(•ere(i "weskit," tool, The Social avo Secular Signifieauce of the Christmas procession far niore than ,Ptoro, im'd as to old age and (k'erepitudc- his lurvi• mnd went forth "fully," sit!(] the Day. puppets to the NvIli'm hearts or lintiegs th(ire's no denying it, every dny and hour he, "conic alona. I >e n surprisefut•,you." The establishment of tine Chrigtinas fes- reudcrs And it, is not_*AT9 iTe children I and minute 1)1-illg8 life nigher to it." I Do dclibcruciR 111, ••.c dntcn at portion of „ v• I •c 'oro 1' ci rival, now the most joyous of rho yciu•lq of the rich that Chrtsttuos must diii'uses :\(an•dluhlt• anti trent un brcalctn.up big noir t.ukc t „I , , r n d the id I „, holidays throughout the civilized world, its ftdiuity in real life any nu>rc than ! Stena mid fuc•losinfl andinstinctiv(ly h .. o the h .n, c ht. t, It•ct•red it a. ids and tiler is the most recent in datoof' the great aniong the offspring of the great Christmas I cxtendrd hfs•'nety take"w-all Ili thedirec- I junipt-d Into the box Next nauuent lit church days Its social and seculdr sig- rohiancer I don of the cairn and stone (:hest that con. rose out of it libink with despair, trem• nificauce, of course, followed its reli!„i nis It is aniong the poor and the lower niid- tahiod Ills trc.'tsure, I Ming with disappoinhuent Isis trea.sur( adoption Yet,, curiously enough, it do- dle classes that Christmas ,jpy reigns with I It ,oust not bo suppnc(d that .1'os 'w•as 1 was gone. rived its rites of merry making not from most potency Tho trifle spent to secure s, not. tempted to realize, hut. fenr of discov- .13y the sides of the cairn and,overthrovvr 'brisfianity so T»uch as from the customs Christmas tree with its burden of cheap cry and the consequent con(iscation of the wall stood his wife tvamf ;ling hien with I the heathen world. Thu riders of the toys and sweets in the tenement )louse rep- gold, above till, Ills provailin'g dominant sin It(,- nil her cherry lips and a twinkle br :rly church, front Constantine down, resents vastly more than the correspond- passton of caution against a future unpro- her bright eyes A toddling child clung :ere Shrewd politicians: They know how ing Splendid show tuuong the affluent. videdl for, prevented his doing so to her skirts and she held one of tho.iw•ini .mportant it was to include as runny as The story of the little cripple, "Tiny On the verge of the moor lived a girl in each arm. possible of the old pagan usao mud bo Tfin, " sets its canticle to 11101.0 resound- named hlary Ag•gett with her bedridden "Poll I" he gaspers. "icy grim, I' In c vbr4' ,to,'Vt h, !Ti-'"tiie jiuit1iTe oiv`il10 1'ti01nn%k arra strains-af• harp, rand- cymbal thair can mother She uiudo a livelihood out of rulned man t I've lost everything . I'v( empire had • been attached in the observ- ever attend Cho fustival music of a palace. some poultry she kept, out of flint arrow. been robbed, " atnees of the new faith Thu true "Chrissom child" was found in pends, which by searching she found on Then silo langhecl, and when she laughee .Just why "Dec .25 was selected ns the the humble mangdr, the moor and which she disposed of to an the child holding her skirts laughed} also, natal clay of Chu Saviour of the world no- 'fine feeling that Christmas day ispeeul- archwoiogist She also (lid some needle• and the babes fn her arms chuckled ani crowed tile r u ! ++ able Carl consecrated to icor as well as to body has ever pion tib (, to tell Certa.nly yt 1 j worn: there is no historic reason nor the slightest the children has always been quite char- I .los passed the cottage twice daily on Ills "No, Jos Rainydiy," she said, "yet nutihenttc clew, and it is well known that actoristic of the usages of the day The wily olit and on big tray hone, atnd Crory have hist nothing, you have gained much, December is the rainy season in .ruiltea, lowest classes in ui(diteval times were frequently he saw iblary at her door, and ` when neither shep1�herds nor flocks brave made to share fully with their superiors in they never nict without exchange of salu41 - the open, sky Itis more than probable feasting and itnerryrmiking At the Pres- taticnls On ono occasion when overtaken that the celebration of Christ's birth, ent period we see !til over increasing bene- by it hailstorm he had been invited into which up to the fifth century had not been faction in the wily of helping the poor to the cottage and had been given a cup of observed at all, got them to be recognized en76y Christmas more generously -the tea that wa'hulod fits heart as If it had berm �" I as not less worthy of holiday consecration I turkey or goose for the home table, toys l,oppermint and got into his head its if it than B;astcr and Whitsunday It w•as e and clothing for the younTstors, and public had boon whisky. i } A'y happy thought to make this as n(,tVly dinners, often supplumentod by substall- On leaving the cottcl;o he said to him - h ; I; l I „ x• 'id a; identical as might ha with the old Bahian Chit presorts for the o icless waifs. On self: "I might go farther and fare worse saturnalla, vilhich still survived in soba of this special occasion such philanthropy The old mother is well cared for, the house its forms, and with the annual feast of show's its must sweeping and liberal form, neat, the maid is pretty and bright and ` l Thor, observed among till the Teutonic and the humin huart is softened to the pleasant. But" -ho shoots hill head -"It races, even those which tinct itce(iptcd the thought that in spite of earthly distiuc• don't do to marry early; that uu+ons it w ito Christ It wits the more, apposite, tions all mon are equal before Win whose fondly coming fast and nothing drags a to as the lionutn 1'cstivnl and the 'rcu• natal day as man Is thus observed. Thu man's head under water like a lot of ha• Conte alike had synibmlie reference to the democratic Inituun(w of Christmas thus bids clawing hold of it If folly ,fig{+eft stands out it rear social factor ( c th(tr matter grrat'natura! fact that the syn at or about S hticl money, thin would bio nn 1 that date rises out of the decadence of his When classes aredriven I)y so many nth altogether. Tbon it might be worth cont power to augmenting heat and Splendor (r m(luences to heconie hostile„ it isapmg sideration.' This was easily applicable to the first ap- mint thought that more and more should One day when they inct on the moor the ,1 pearance of the :ion of God and the Sun of bo (toile to intensify rho Spirit and tendon northeast blast was sit (vetting that they the World among moil otos of the Christmas season as un object reared together under shelter of a rock to ' So we see Imported into the observance lesson ul kindly sympathy between rich silt their lunch Considering how cold the ` of the Christian holiday from the first on and pour \Phut w•ealriP does for poverty wenther was Jos 'put his arm round Polly, "YOURSI WHRIIE mIU YOU OST THE MONRYP its social side the time honored heathen is sousetiines turned from blessings to bane and. having an over -nat, he throw one usages and ceronionies The universal by it haagr,hty and pittronizing ah' in the aril; of it over lier shoulder Ifound yourtreagnrenndIdisposedof itt( present gicingof the saturnalia, especially giver The Christnitts spirit Iv that of the 1 The onsuing night was one of sorntemp- the antiquarian gentleman who buys Ch( to children, and the dmnocratbo equality fortunate span, who cordially holps tits I ration to .los Ile tossod on lits bad. He arrowheads With the money I bough which abolished distinction of rank at unluckV• brother the spirit of the good could nettSle(p Ile sallied very early the land, the sheep, the cows -and you." that` period were at once followed by the SnInatitan The habitual exercise of this I frons his house and went to the moor, ro- ThenJos scrambled out of the grave ane Christian rnorryntakers From the old ruling on one day when tin tradition and f so!ved to raise his treasure, tlisposo of it, fell aclaughing and he laughed till tho Norse usages the (lav bortuiwed the etls. religious acntbuent turn toward it helps ' (lau•e fortune and marry tears run down hlg checks. Innis of the huge bonfires, the Yule log of t1i•extend it to other clays, and that is the i As he passed the cotratgoof Mary Ag;gett Hy ginger l" said he, "Wotnan'a vht holy ash or onk to be burned indoors, the true function of Lhrist's natatl festivity. ho did not solo her Ile wns glad of this, outweighs man's wisdom. My true trgas symbolism of the holly and mistletoe Uholcaz T. FERitis. + lest she should have asked hhn why he ure trovo Is hero" -ho clapped his wife boughs, alike sacrod to the deities, the wont to his work two hours earlier than on the shoulder -"and it's one uetthe, great boar's head served its the piece de ra• The Date of Christmas. I usunt crown, nor duchy, nor lord of the manor sistance of the Christmas feast and the Chrjstmas gtets it's name Prone the mass • Ile proceeded to the cairn, removed the nor parson, nor the 1:48 commoners hav general bacchanaiknnism of the occasion celebrated in the early clnys of the Chria- stones, heaved the covering slab aside, got one particle of right over no more nor c The latter, however, was also typical of Clan church in honor of the birth of Christ, into the. " chest and brought out the gold pin's head, but is all -all and undivide.( .the old Roman .festival Santa Claus (St its first soloininbzation being ordered by rings and cup Ile furbished them up• my own And by gum I' -he kissed Mary Nicholas) eaino by and by into the rich Pope Tolesphorus. Thfs muat have boon and th(y Sparkled in the morning sun. then tho'child in each aria, then the chih symbolism of the Christmas show as the some time prior to the year 188, for in that ` When all were ranged before him, he ab her -kir p•-" this treasure of mine Is, oni successor of Odin, the all father and all year Pope Telesphorus died,-Philadel- I shook his head. "It would he madness to ; bearing annual Interest. ,giver The Soandinavian god on the oe` phis, Times. I risk it." said lie "If 1 married Polly, i And, Jos -an interest that will grov 11 women be them corkscrews, she'd have and make loving provision for you as fa. Ime, when cornea the rainy day, " 0 Christmas ®QDtBO b®r,D®®OdCQD®a4i©®t90^d 39®®®Om®O YO.®.. LADIE10.3"'- A, 1)ottle of Good P'l-ftzme 25e. to 5300 A P rf•uijia Atomizer - - 25c. to $2.00 A Purse _ � '35c. �c, to $3,00 :1 1Vritino Portfolio, complete with lock tend . key - - 4., - - $1.50 to $7.50 A 13ruab, Comb or Manicure -Set - 51.00 to $8,00 A Work 13ux or 13a8ket - - .50e- to X3..50 A Jewel Casco 75c, to $3.50 A Photo Holder, Frame or Alburn 15c to $5.00 A hii-nd Mirror - - 25c. to 151,50 A (xardilliere - 40c, to $2,00 A choice of innutnera,ble Novelties in our store - 2,5c FOR GENTLEMEN. ,7 �> ' f A Hair Brush - 25c to $4.00 Au— 6 A G'611ar and Cuff or Necktie Uox $1 to '$3.50 6 ASllftvinb `etin Celluloid Case St,.50 toil 50 j s 1' A Good Pipe - 25e o X3.50 � 3 A box of Ui tlra--it box of 25—lOc, cis -"= J. SR1'8 82 A i,ox of 50, 5c, ('i ;ars - - s,2. 00 to 52.50 Foil .doth er or Father, ,A pair of Spectacles, $1.00 to $10.00. Buy on approbation now, ^ We 'will test their eyes after Xmas and if the lenses are not right we will make them right, For Anybody and. Everybody. We have a tableful of good useful -Novelties from which you may have your choice for 1. 5c. though many of them are worth 35c. and 40c. and some even 50c. It is impossible to give but a bare idea of our Stock: in the space at our disposal ,liere,,therefo•e we would ask.you to come in and see for yourself wbat'we have. You will find that our Goods are hew, up-to-date and MODERATE IN PRICE and that most likely we have just what you want. Come as soon as you can and if you see what you wan t,have us Saye it for you. AA Q WILSONN, 7 Druggists and. Opticians, - CLINTON.' NEW M u MAE3". It71E'i�:7Ct$SCt6L�l:. . 'I'i e besthrnnds of Hasins, Currants Prunes and Figs. (s. B('st-En lash Ii, mo + fi Lemoll, Oran,to and Cif:on Peels, Cocott and Chocolate Icings. Pure :apices, .hxttacts � acro 1'asselicc s, t.ltennble 1`,'aiuuts, ti. S. Almonds; Filberts and,Caudies. 'The deserve( l,y popular brands Of lJtgh Grade Tens, including the Noted lill)NSODN and BIXE, it XBON varieties. -It is never peddled. - ? +�,gg rn a s^� ,rpt g a■q } I II:Im1soniv Tinier Set.. }retie 82.a9 to $8.00, i :,3"•il •inJ'S•'s ;v} t,9 1�� 1€' f17 1'irrc lJiuuer Sets frunl ?jt;.:pU toy's+i.l'NI. ' • , �. P `� i i�� V11'9 ocle5 Albert St., Clinton 1897 17s"elv' Dried Fruits-- HOT Srvil,jsins—a. lUll,l ''Il, Valencia and Sultanas. Cu.rrants•,- 1'lliatras alit) F1t;(l Vostl/./.inti. Cali ornia Prunes and �' �, i71 O Figs. a i i . gs� CI.OSSE and BLACKWFLI, PEELS, Loniou, Orange and Ciuvu. N 1;T8-Filhnits, S. S. Almonds and Wallnuts. COOKING FIGS for 5c. a Ib. • NICE OLI) RAISINS for tic a Ib. --Ilradquilrlers fur- , TEAS, SUGARS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND LAMPS, McKay, Block, J. m IRWIN, �C.;linton. .A -.re you a Sulbscrilaer t® The News -Record P The 91arria lire iltealster. Richmond Fire dull, It is stated by Dr. 13ryce that nnany Toronto, 26th Fob., 1897. rlerg;ymell 11111)(`:11 to 1d(*. lillaware of Deal' lairs—Constipation furyears has that provision Of the I:tty respeetill.9 ill(- solelf marriages lt'lliell b3en ni y".Chit'} Atldnenfj 16 soelilP.d co Ie(jufre:.i.h(in toleavethe register hook eonle oftetler in Spite of all I could do. Ili the chutch to which it hel(mg;s. llowever,some time ago I was told to i4fnnv clergymen teem to regard the use Dr. Chllse's Kidney -Liver Pills, register its their private. property' wileleas by law it belont;il too the which I have done, with the result of church, 13v carrying it away with what now nppeais now to be a perfect theca upon leaving; the pnsroratr of a j cure. -Truly yours, church they increase the dif8cali'•y of T. IIaBltts. keeping till, record of niarriap;e. _---- - ' 1O ]; �ViIO ENDUE The Flowery Preneer. e The pains of rlfoeumatism should be re- A flowery young preacher was sent to miude(1 that n cure for this disease ntay a vacant city church to preach. His he-fonnd in Ilood's Sarsnparilla. The eloquence dazzled tile, younger members experience of those who have taken of tho congregation, and the elders of Hood' 'Saraararilla for rheumatism,and the church were besieged to have him have been completely and permanently this down again. They at length consented; cured, provo tha power of medi- cine to rent and conquer this disease. Hood's Sarsparilla is the One True they wrote to one of the seminary pro. fessors, saying: "Please send us that Blood Purifier and it nutrilizes the floweret, streamlet, rivulet, starlight acid which causes the aches ane. pains man to preach for us next Sabbath. of rheumatism, 'rhis is why it abso. We have forgotten his name, but we Imply cures when liniments and other have no doubt you will be able to recog- outward appliances fail to give per. nize him." IIB was recognized. Ile was sent. Ife became minister of the manent relief. Be sure and get- Church; Hoods. =4 , , I. A,