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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1904-06-30, Page 6ill 1 11 1 h, ;1 Ii a1 AN ANALYSIS OF LIFE "BEHOLD THEY BERME WHO ONL STAND AND WAIT," unlucky man. klo is 'yourself. To tare unlucky in the fact that just a You were about to go to college your father died and you wore taken out M of school and had to go to Work. You are unlucky in the fact that just after you had saved up a little looney and put it in the bank the cashier became a defaulter and you lost all, You aro unlucky in the fact that just after you had learned to be a good draftsman and had a t fine position about to be offered you fell and broke your arm or had your to :linger cut oft by having them caught a In the cogs of a factory wheel and • you had to start life all over again. You are unlucky because just as you were about to be appointed to a cer- . tain position an enemy lied about • your character as an enemy lied about a young friend of mine who o was about' to become pastor of a prominent church in the east, Though your character in ono sense was vindicated, yet the damage was done. You aro saying to yourself: "Oh, T anti always- unlucky! What is the use .01 my trying any longer?" Discouraged, are you? "Yes," you mutter„ ""fearfully • discouraged!" You, have .conscientiously done your, level best? ""Yes, I have done my level best. I can do nothing more." • .Oh yes, you can, my brother. You can 'let God now come and •do the •rest, •You aro simply "encamped be- fore Pi-hahirotll. between Migdol and the sea; over against I3aal-zephon. " • God going . d is om to open a. way for you b 6 1 through ouglt the •lied Sea to escape .the • pursuing Philistines. 'Iowa • I do not• know. This, however, I do know. • God will rescue you if you • are patient, only patient, He will, if like Job amid the tragedy of a wrecked home and amid a ruined for- • tune and in the agonies of physical as well as mental pain, you can say, and still continue to say, • -"Though he slay ate, yet will I trust hint.'" Clod will show to you a.dit•ectMeaus of escape if you will only stand still just where you are and continue to 'look for the salvation of the Lord,. You may not now think it, •but all things, even amid the greatest dis- couragemonts, all things are work- tng together . for .•good; to them that love the Lord. 'Atter the darkest of nights g there always conies the bright- nest f t c o a light giving dawn. Amici I•tho blackest of troubles there will al - • •itaytD. come a pillar .of fire' to laid (rods children to a promised' land: 1 '!.rust him,: brother.: But there is another class o1` hear- ers I find• to -day encainped,alnong the Israelitish hosts near Pi-hiihiroth. They are the Men and the . wotrlom . wild. aro, not • necessarily struggling ter' a financial . existence,: but • who are unhappy and disssatisfled with the tit•lds . in which God has compelled their' • to labor.: They kitow , they could 'do .butter work amid: other, :surroundings;.'.Or, they are saying to -rthemselves: "I do not, 'know why •-it • is •that•all•Iny labors should• be -miss . eo.nstrued'.• and unappreciated. 1f t.od does: not open. toy: enc anothter field°-of'Work • soon I shall drop ,this. ,. a los t1Un anyhow.. ..• .f. .Cooing • to • give .up your preseut• .position? You .say you are not 'tap- fry in it? Don't you•do it,..rny broth- er: • What you need in :life in tliis • waiting crisis of yours is a.grcat' brig . invigorating. dose •of. patience. Stun(! still just where you .ake, and do your work the best 'way You. Can arid sec the seiVation . of the. Lord. Goct . does • not, as • a' rule, call , his • work=, 'nen, from ' nothing to • :sothetlring great; but: from a • smell position o•(' ::influence ••to a higher position of, in- fluence. When -Christ wanted to' Sete' •ect his cabinot and to. fill the apos- tolic:: positions ; of the "fishers • of • .fish;" he did not go. Into trio 'nark- -a place, where he could find the . loafers idling around.• Ile went down : t0 the •shores of Lake.• Galilee and found two stalwart men casting thefts. nets into the •Stea.• He said • to Peter. :and. '. Andrew • his brother, .."Follow use, •arid. I will Make you Yishers of men:'"• It is• nearly always a hard struggle for at man in.'a email po.• sett on toepi i u n b into a higher ghee• .position But. it is nearly always an; 'almost iinptjssible • struggle for, . a nae out of a job to be called to a fire position.. `Christ .uttered; sound' philosophy when:,hon said in'. his' par- able: • "Taike. therefore • 'the '.talent from hint and give it unto hien who hath ten talents. For unto every. one 'that, hath shall:.be given and he shall have abundance,. but front- him that -hath .not shall be taken' away • even t tat. . winch h It o hath." a h. 'The 'mart • eithollt:a •job -is a man Whose•failure 'is stamped upon his brow; and every. one looks, at' him witii• su.spikion, ire. patient; • l;vei•ything : will come out till right, I•ust be ,patient, • But there Is still another reason •why .• I. do not want yeti' to give up , that, position which semis to fret you. As far as. I can' make ma ut (. o ou' are. get- ting s in •lit ) g e just about as much. as 'you. deserve. Insteadof .complaining,. you blight 'to ;:get .down • on your knees and thank C4od for the position Which he has given to'you. Why should you expect God to'. make you his favorite child and allow'you to rest upon.a bed of •roses? Are you •any different front any of his other• children? Are you se smart or s() good. or so' hutnble that ,you have a .tight • to' expect more than they? In - Stead of geumbling about ,your small p sition,' you should see .men, • in ev- i•ry wary your superiors, physically, mentally:. and spiritually, occupying • smaller Positions than you. Ile pa- tient in • that work God has. given"to you. :attest of us -aye: perhaps all of us -have. all we deserve in life. and The Clinton News -Record u One day .tack comes in and tells us BASEEBALI. ON MONDAY. S he• is going to teach winter school in • SRRMQNTOTIiE DISCOURAGED Easy to Gro Forward, ;Easy to Charge, Bu Not So Easy to '"Sit Tight" is the Day of Strenuous Tr.al-Mog and Wolin Should Uet When. Dearing, and lister mine to Act Just As Duty Calla tutored according coact ofPar1l utentof Van ads, iu the your Uhie, by 'Vifliam li:44,ot 1•p route. at the i)ea't et A lrl'IUultalp. totem'. Los Angeles, Cal., Juno 26,--T the discouraged, to those who have made what the world calls a failure of life as well as to the iutptttiett and dissatisfied, this sermon conveys a practical lesson. '1'lto text is .0/co- 1 duo xiv, 13, "Stand still and see the ' salvation of the Lord." ' To fall back, in order to go for- ward; to retreat, in order to ad- vance; to ovacuatt., in order to -con- quer; aye, that is the course Most great military chieftains have had to take, at least once in life, before they won their ultimate triumphs, lied there been no• retreat frog! Bohemia after the battle of. l(,olin, and nov i p aCUat Utl of Berlin after the n slaughter of plus et• d 1 s of f, there would have been no humiliation •of a Mettle Theresa, and no Frederick the (Treat, whose name has been the Marvel not only of Prussia, but- of all ICurope and the civilized world. .\uthaniel Greene, the mighty Military leader of the Revolutionary war, second only in power to George Washington, was aptly called "Thu Great itetr'eater." Ile never won a decisive bottle in his life. So it has been with other mill- tary chieftains. There is strategy in eluding a foe whose strength is sup- erior. Many a general has kept the field and worn _out the patience of an enemy by avoiding a decisive battle - and in the end has proved victorious. 'There may come times in the bat- tle of life when a Hurn is to light, and tithes when a man is • to runs' n. There also come otliet• times when -at Loan is to bo like a Moses "encamped before ah-hahiroth, between •diigdol and • the sea over against Baal- zephon," On the one side of him was the Rod Sea, on the .othler side of hint were the pursuing hosts -"of the Philistines. • Ile could not run. There was no place to run to. • He could not fight Pharaoh. lie knew he would have been .annihilated in • the conflict. • IIe could do nothing but wait. He had to "stand still and see the salvation of the Lord )!loses was like Sir Henry Lawrence, entrapped in the residency•oF Luck- now during the sepoy rebellion af' 1857. For three long months the tlittlo F9nglish garrison, surrounded' by a hundred thousand murderous des awns, had to ijo nothing• but..wait..' They just kept- on •waiting for. •the. rescuers, •w o fought their way • up- • fiout •Calcutta under the leadership • of that hero of hel•ues, Sir. Henry •Havelock. Dioses was like' -General Charles George Gordon,. who fol' ten long months just had to Wait and continue to wait in' the besieged' city:- of ityof Khartoum, and theft gave up his life only a fait' days before the. Ellg_. fish rescuers hove in •sight. • Moses was like the foreigners; praying. and. hoping and hoping and praying in• the missionary- compounds of Pekin, waiting for the allied troops to -de- liver theme front their inipend'ino'rata during' the Boxer .uprising. of -China' • in 1900. •'They were too. strong - as • a. body to have to surrender.. They- were not tit Yong-enotigil as a• body. to light their way to the English. ships. • And so, hemmed in and `Fiver: in ()g- all sides, they just . stood • their ' ground fightirmg for their existence by day and sleeping on their'• ;guns .by - night. They were waiting; simply waiting. They were stencil ng.still, to seethe salvation t (. of theLc,.•rel • Very easy it• is. for most of Us :to • go forward 'in the battle of life when, • the divine coiuuian(' is` gfveti clearly • and distinctly: "Cburge! Let the whole- line charge!" Easy ,it. is • for. • most of us to retreat when .the com- mand is given clearly and distinctly:' -.Fall .1:oak! Let the whole line fall • back!;' But it is another nmetter to ' patiently wait. Yet Waiting is •a• very great element in spiritual. sue • - cols, as it is in temporal success: • plow annch a factor is "the waiting crisis" in the succusses of life can be • I well lea rnt.d in the words which • 1)i•. • iCuyler taught a few years ago, when Ibe said, "I have been conversant in; any time with thousands of faiturea of. talented men, both in. New York. and Brooklyn, and I can hear testi-: lawn hninety-nine y t ut hundredths of all those failuree were,with ut • doubt, due to the lack of patience, both in a spiritual sense as well •as in a temporal." It is to teach the • 1 important lessons of satnctified pate' I fence that 1. ata preaching this ser • - 111o11. The waiting crisis comes to thou- sands upon thousands of faithful • men anti women in the struggle • for' a financial existence, It comes not to the lazy, good for nothing humnia. beings, who think the ,World • owls•• hint a living, •and, therefoi•e, they dO nothing. It conies Hol to the tramp,, the loafers, the (tea,dheats, who, 'irk • dere] lets on the greu1 hiall way seas. of life, are a immure to will -With whorl they Colne• in touch. Iitit' it `Maes to the young man Who gag up promptly at 0 o'clock and • gees - to the store punctually on time. it' conies to the conscieni sous lawyer and doctor and mechanic who sire striving with all their powor •'t0 do. right. It conies to 11110 and.wolrt(n. • who in every sense mtr4' h01,11 , 11'h (i always seem to be on the 'ergs of making a great success and yet new- er seem to bo quite able to reach the . goal. 'i'r1(•s1 a omut r mot am 1 r 1t and good men, hut tinfoil Ursa to Wren. They are w ha1 worldly people call "unfurl,;'," We know 1het1. is 110 811(41 thing 1(4111c1k, Men are not lucky or umlta't(y,. but. there are some who seers to -Brei`" more misfortunes than others; aim, through no fault of their own, rattan he good things of life; 1`fte strontt -4) ,nan triumphs over tluam, but as' tient world w•itne saes his struggles les under .uccesslve strokes of adverse fortune it calls him "unlucky," Khen old Anselan Mayer Rothschild', the found- er of the famous banking house.of,,.s Frankfurt -on -the -Rhine, watt dying, . • I he called his Children '(bout him and gave to then' this tutting advice: "First, my sons, never plan any 1 great movement without hest con- 1 suiting yotir mother; second, never 1 have anything to do with en unluclty c man. Mark thist Anselm Mayer . Rothschild did not say, "Do not have arty business dealings with a a dishonest ian," .710' took that for t granted, But he did. arty "Ian un- 1 1 ,lucky ntan." lion -know who is that. • ' "1 - more too. If , God wants • us • to .,go higher, ho Will open the way. • If he does •not open the way,• then lot us de what he wants us to do. You .and fare not so important of so brillt- ant or so perfectly sanctified as some of us think We are. - Let the illustrate my thought by drawing a verbal • picture of what we all know to he. true: '!'here are four of us - boys, all brothers, born in a humble • farmhouse away back lm . the country.. Two of 'My brothers, and myself • are just happy-go-lucky.. boys., • Oh, yes, ive Work hard When . we work, but we work just as little at we can, and when we Have a • dol • - Jar We always spend the- whole dol- lar. Ill/lore is a country darteo, ury two- brothers and I always go there, a leisure hour, you can • Always find tas .lying around the village stote or playing pt'unks upon the boys. 14e are 1101. bad: we are just ordinary,• lulppvgo-i0Ulcy, everyday bays.• 11'e are like most of boys. We cit) what vjia, aro told to do and do ntnthitlg 1bit 1 have .a• brothel' Jack: • The arming folks •say he is queer' and ritran and s(htg.. :4otue� people say u' is crazy. 11y brother Ja epi is not azy. lin Works just ns hard as Wu lo, but when: he notices tl dollar, in- trad of apentliirg that doihtt• 88 11" do, he Raven It or goes harp buys oma hooka. J', teal of loafing aboet he village store In the revesting; Jock a always horns ti(udying. 1f he is riot crazy .lack is certuinly Motor • 3 - taste►"I order to go to college. We think then he is crazier still. After awhile Jack, by working all his summers and all winters, gets through college, and then comes home ami tells us that he is going to the law school. We think he is crazier still. After awhile my brothel' J ack pushes his way to the front of the New York bar. What is the result? 1)o we boys praise Jack for his labors? Do we say, "If we had worked as he work- ed we could be where he is?" Per- haps. But that is not .the general rule of the average family. We int - mediately begin to complain, because Jack does not send us. money and help to support us. We take horn him all we can get. And so, when any man honestly tries to snake a success out of life, ho immediately has a lot •of indigent, selfish,. lazy folks about hint trying to live coif the "results of his hard earned toil. i. Some one listening to me says, ' "Yes, that is so." Then you turn and say: "What shall I do about' my drunken brother's fancily? Shall I pay any ntot'e tnnuey to let flim keep on drinking?" "What shall I do about my daughter?" says another. "I do not want her to leave her hus- band, and • yet I certainly • do not want to keep an supporting loth of them in their foolish extravagances." "What shall I do about my wayward boy?" says another. ""Shall I let linh r tgototodos end not support a s U1't n fa 1 hieany l 11' h "What shall I 1 1 do' a in reference to that lazy partner?" says another. "'lie won't work, and yet he expects half of tho profits."' "What shall I do in reference .to my husband?" says a troubled wife. "Ile is always loafing around or entering into wild cat •speculations • which bring sus in nothing to support the family." ""What shall I do in refer- ence to my wife?" says a troubled husband. ?."She spends my money right and left. She is more inter- ested' in' euchre parties than in the •ecoliomy of the home. Shall I Teavo her?" What shall you. do, my friends? Well, I ata not here to tell you in detail; but this I do assert in gener- al: Do not let the injustices of the past blind your eyes to the pressing' duties. of the present. Beltause your .kith and kin and business. partners have been and are now doing wrong .to your do not you do :wrong to ' then'.. Be patttent. Be careful,- and if• you must err, let it be upon the side of nu:rcv. God does not.tell you to weigh The past so much as' to con- scientiously solve • the pressing re sponsibflities directly at hand.. "Stand still" before • you snap the golden cords of affection •which bind. you to that wayward .sister, that wayward brother; :that wayward child, . that wayward • ,husband. "Stand' stilt 'if. you _'do' not know what to _ do. "Stand still and see the salvation Of the Lord."' • Hut When the advancing yeses past :on; and by sickness or old: 'age We poem to be laid away • upon ...the shelf as ' useless. by a. busy : world,. then most of• Us • do not appreciate the petition • •of that song prayer. We .do not -.want to Abe nothing,: nothing " • We. want to. be •.'smuts- .thing,'sonlething;" and have •'that soinething :a very active ""sduiie- thing.. Sometimes. at the funeral of': a •strong. Irian we 'see a 'Suggestive • floral tribute in a broken .column::- That means the''man died in'' his .prince That means most' of us •'say, "is it, plot too, bad that hct . had to • • go when : he had . • so :much ' to , • nee e for. But I do not :think it takes. • nearly as amen' divines grace to "die .in our' h .steal and rental r.' n . Y pY n Dere. as it .takes to live on in physical .invalidism; or in decrepit old,age. In. the••first .instance a. Cliristian. mean like a warrior itt struck. down at a blow. In the second . instance a 'titin is • like 'an aged -veteran in a • • sot- dic'r'Shome, like 'a. Job's War charger ',nu"Iliilg.rho•.battle , froni afar and yet notable to answer• the hligle call for the•:,grand charge: As clod has placed ablile of you upon,the .great "'waiting list a:( physical or::mental inetlectives, be iratieitt, ' '!'rust liiitt. Even in your •retired .field of waiting you have a work• to do.' it will All come out• right: Yee, :sick one . and aged one, it will all sortie out right. :You may not':.b0 able to..understand (e"od'•s ways .now, but .it will, all coupe Out right., .. • _ • •• 'Thus to -day, as the '"waiting les- Ran" es- son"..is the hardest of all. gospel les- sons • to learn, I ant ,going to clots • in the bt"autiful words of one whose poem has been. very near and dear to •.-t 1110:. • I ilii Manning against my owit• Impatience just as I am .against yours 1 know that 'a parent `can never bring his child up tight, finless •he t.eachessthat .child • to learn to, trust him and,wait; therefore "no. `hull of clod can ever trust God uit- leis he 'is at tint`s ready to "stand c ' rt 1' i and se s e the .salvation •• t: o the Lord." d • Safety' Slgttal for streets. , In 'Dresden,' fleeinany, an automatic safety s'igital at . street : car • crossings that . has ret:, iitly• lotion put :into op- t'1'ittion. consists of. a box.. about two feet long suspended above. the•cent►•e of the crossing and 'furnished with 'ele0t►•ic connections, whereby alt • ap- proachil)g cur nn• arriving • within a Cor't11111 distance • causes the word "halt"' to appeal' in conspicuous'red letter's on the opposite. sides of the box,. thus warning •of their danteer all. cars and pc ck•strians tenting to, 'n.,rrf tine crossing; at right angles: The 1'i>viterit Lew-uo. • Provldenee 1 0 1 0 1 a o o x-4 lei woo . 10000000l--2 Firer on errors -Toronto 1. Left ott eases 'Toronto T, Providence 5, Bases on bulls -.01T l'uttnuum 4, of: If'ulkeuhere 1. *truek out -By l'uttunann, by ralkeuberg 13, 'three base hit -Coon. Two nils: hit -- Daly. Sacne:cc. lot -Carley. 8roten bastes --Wagner, Roca. Melee play -Aubrey to Connor to Daly, Carr to Parker to Massey. Passed ball -1 utUrann, 'Umpire ---Egan. 'Time --1.50 At Jersey City-- •1t, if, Ft, Jersey City .,. 80022200 is -1312 1 Jlalitreap ., 0 0 0 2 T'0 0 41 2-•11 11 2 Ilettertes-Pfnnmtller, Tidelneta sad Pit - lou; La1oy and Olbson, Umpire-- •Kerry. Atteudauec-800. At linthintcre- •R, Ii. 10• lia!theore .... 3.0200007x-•lo.10 3 rupture 11000000;1.3 1 3 I andaShaiv, Batteries -I ae1 eflittus4tt ndituec i �-I642, At Newark- R. if. 11. •• New 0060.063ox-11110 0 hoehcater 00000•)000•--0 4 8 IItatterles--Wolfe and Seen;. Leary told McAuley. Untplre-(�1fror•l. National League Snorer. At Brooklyn-- '• KILN. Brooklyn 000000010-110 0 Boston flatteries -Poole and Bergen • • UPittinger and Needham, T3ml)re--Johutttohe, :,t, tendnnee-1500. At New York-•-•' •I.TI.M, New York •;......,04 0 2 0 2 1 4•-10 10 3 Philadelphia .. 0 2.0 0 0.0 0.0 0- 2 4 2 Iiatterles-Tnylor, Wartier mid Bower- . man; Fraser,Dooln.and 'toner. [Tmplros•- lbu,slle and Carpenter. Attend ince -20:9. At Chicago--- P.111:. Chicago ,000000'„02- -4 ae 2 . 1'ittslritra .. r;,,, 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0-6 5 3 Tial e I -- tticg Iu ,r cc ern ('r , . i >uld t, ou and Kling; Lceve and r t l 5un! t t int / • ••- 1 [ It durtre•-•3500.• I e O Day, 1 tten- :American. League Iiettnits, At Detroit-- it.Ti:Pf, Chicago .. , , . , , 0.4 3 0 2 5 1 0. 3•--'13 2•• 0 Detroit .,.. 00000.2112-812 4 Itattertes-Ai�tt•ot•k and MOP:whine:- Lona van, Stoval and Woods, Umpire -Connolly. Attendance -1800.. At Boston • R.TLM, New York ... , 2 0 0 3 1. 0 0 1 1-8 13 2 Boston • 000100030-4 0 1 Batteries --rowel' and ltleGuire•• Tonne -- hill nod Farrell. Umpire ,Sheridan, -At- i"•nditnce- 8753. • At 'Vashington-- It.1111. Watshington .,0:0 0�0 0 0'0 1 1-2 0: 1 Philadelphia ,,, 0 1 0.1 1 0 0 0 0-•3 1► 2 Batten`s-Jaeolts•m and ('lark; Bendier anti Schreck. Umpire -Dwyer. Attendance • .. Wants 1ff Deported. . • Ottawa, ,June 28. -Judge Winches- ter will- sit here on Wednesday morn- ing to: get evidence against the Grand . .Trunk • Pacific ,'employing Anmericans on the .survey work ,in de- fiance of the alien labor laws. • The judge has alto forwarded the . names of five persons who should lie •deport= ed, This will . make fifteen deported in `all.• Japanetiy harming The •ingenuity of the .fanning in •Japan may; bo inferred front the fact that the. 45,0O0;000'•inliahitnnts Jive . almost entirely on the productions 01• a cultfvateci area about'o11ti-thfrd•the. size .of Ontario..• • Carlyle On ,Spencer. . A` •prornineut . T",ngliati ' statesman when a -boy. at school 'vas taken by his father to:see.Carlyle end yt•as bid- den 'to treasu'ri;• in 'the • depths 'of his soul the `words of wisdoirt. ' which would. full froth the. great•.;Llan.. At first Ca •lyle was tacitu, n acid • tlto bol; •by. wiy .of • opening • the ,Cenver- sation•suitably, said:. 'I have been. two `phii•osophers • to.=day, for as • the came •along ;papa pointed out'. Mr. .1lerbort, Spencer in • a bush., With majestic. emphasis 'Carlyle . replied: ""And haat e aeon arorhert Spencei', ladchel 7 he n' , c ve seen the ' most: .iureailing ass .111 Christendont." Author o •'Como Pack tp. Erin. t fr,tt i" rauris W', Brady,. the. author of the version of t'on'e 13uck. to Erin,- which sel•V(ed as 1i•elaltd's. •pau•iing message .10 the king. •. end (;;Keen,• combines.tit'+'ritJter unusual ;li l l u its of:the 4 Mtge and • the. skill- eci•lausiei»ns •1(e ire county f'oi`st .1ticl,,t fur the• count' .:'i, r oiat•, . and still 1tijays. t'Th1 pr(vih•1,1 of pratctie- in(, at the t1uaslt r 10(1. •though: ho is i'.. Judge. _His 'Imam o - Was that lli•t Nichoetts Ili acly, • • Cliaelfan of W illiant -ILI., and •(lutt'n '.1npe,' '• who •wrote, the mn'trieal.. vorsiolf •of the 7'salnis, :which created no small tains ' troytrsy iii 'their Sonic 'T'or iea r(�gair(led them us being. • trio lioeticel; ..rifle- Perin Swift sneered • A Use for the.Dandelion. Our old friend, the datulelion, for crumple, which everybociy is glad to have dug out of his lawn, although it flout -ashes where no other height' flower seems able to subsist, fur- ItiiJws a root of value as a drug- 1t 1s t1 'stroll tap) -root, sc)tn("tintes tWeIt- ty iiielles long, thick and' fleshy, dull yellow ' oi• brownish' on the outside; • but white inside, practically odor- less,. arid bitter to' the taste. it is• .used in diseases of the live,' and Ira dyspepsias; Tho best time for• digging it Is ft•omlt July; to September. It should be thoroughly. .Washed • and dried, 'I'hn• drying process decreases • b eonrricierahly its size and weight, and also its • Medical virtues, hence •it . must not be kept too • long, • aeass.....saaa June 30th 1904 iF tateris t'netal :,;,. A. forton'' of 1'8,1neta1(1) awaits those who can prove that they are the lawful dtseeudatits of Major Sin- clair, of the 12th moot (1st. 13attat. ion of the Seaforth Highlanders), who tliecl 93 years ago. Major Sinclair, it is believed, was a member .of a well-known family at Wick. .At an early age he entered the array, and acco)npanied his regi- ment to India. lie married there,. and had clay daughter, who was sent home to Wick, and who married a farmer of that town, ulso surnamed Sinclair. Major Sinclair had an adventurous •caret's in the bast, and was killed hi a sinall engagement. Ilia estate was never claimed, and, accumulating for oyer ninety years, has now reached the value of 4:1,000,000. An Edinburgh lien' .cif lawyers have recently made investigations, end, if they succeed in tracing the scne- whet numerous descendants, each heir, it Is expected, will receive a legacy of about £03,000. It is NoviOpe'1.. The • Great hair at St. i,ouisand tickets are on sale daily from Clintou Moe, 15 .clays• • f117;56 ' Good 3o days - res3.15 Good 1 fere U( S o season hast .8o i' _ .Ko • t. With stop over privileges at • any intermediate-Calindian stal.ierts, t,.lso at Detroit and Mileage, • • To see ins Fair while. cter''llaing is fresh unci ca.ltibits are' at their hest, the; incrttlts ol'..11aty . and June u-tli ho tl'e tiiue _. For tickets, illy stratcd • literature, regarding , W'orld's Fair. ani other in- formation, apply to V. R. Ilddgens, town a c•rt•; • A. 0. l'altii:on, .depot ticket agent: ' Aumball ana JTICJTI8tft The .:leading car- riage makers. All work manufac- tured. on the ..'.re se p m�.a�es• and guaranteed Repairing .: p ofliptll • attendaai to: RWY!RALL:and' c. � I�iATN" Hut on St. Clinton: MARBLE.0 FLAN ITE O dlMEt l d. 1 Ay� Ln� 'o va Rata at • them.. lr Francis 13rady:s . bar- - eiibtpy Street Works .lift, ''11Mluli'tilli guatanleed. J. ; G. SEALS co. iitietey , is .of ': Mr. Gladst one's crew- tion4 Thc title was'conferred in 1869 on the' Iiresent I3at one i s fath- ei•, Sir Mazere I3r•ads,: who gale Jib - Oat Chancellor of.lroland. tin- der r ill i " co Ad nlnistratlon't i)cttr,cen 1846 and 1866 -or. about eighteen' Years. in all. _ Valuable RontneyPortrait. Humor .is busy m the haunts • of English '.picture . dealers with 'the Story of another Romney "find "• I It appears that . a - a tate "out" sale u a 1st. a Midla un 'Midland. County a'few days d ago' YY h a veryfin R m "Portrait e r • ne I o tl o y sit of a Lady", was bought . under the .. ham- mer for less theta. and that at what the: fraternity' calls `:""the . set tlonient" it 'was carried off for, about £800 to £400 by the man who had the beat -filled purse. • The portrait is said to be a very beautiful • one, • and worth anything from £5,000 upwards.. It need hard- ly be said that if a genuine Romney portrait is not worth more than. £l00 It. is' worth nothing, and that if it is a fine example of the mas- ter's' work' £5,000 ,,h'ould be a• com mercial value, There can bo no „ doubt that there are many brie por- traits •by the early English artiste hidden away in'. obscure country • hotises; the ono great difficulty is to know' where to find thein. • • IImost Crazy Tallith Nervous Headache Profits of the Len(loft Times. A felt years. ago a lawsuit threwan interesting light on the declara- tion of The 'l'imes that money -Mk Ing has never been its chief object: In the rourso of this action it was silown that •onc4tourteenth of two- thit•ds of one -ninth of two-sixteetltlis of a share. In Tho Times wasworth less than £20 a year. in 185)2 the dividend of this shrill share wary £ 24; then carate the report of the Parnell Commission) and in 1893 the dividend fell to £18 10s., and in the following year to :5;17 8s. Ild, That is to say, in 1.802, the profits of The Times were 488,600, and in 1804 only £27,0000, Since then the leeway has been madeup,-Londen Chronicle, Mrs. Edwards was pale, nervous, Irritable, and reduced toa mere skeleton of stein and bong. Kitts. R,"W. LnwAN»s, 33 MfurraySt., Drant- 1re6 Ont„ writes o. -"For five years I sue`red more than words can tell front nervous eadachcs, nervous dytppCpsix and exhnUstlO(1,• T'he pains to my head wouldat tithes almost drive me crazy. I could not sleep nights, but would walk the floor in agony until I fell exhausted and unconscious. Sometimes I could take no food for four days at a trine. I was pale. nervous, irritable, easily exhausted, was reduced to A mere skeleton of skin end eam t would palpit to as thiougl 14411. IDWAltlft3 it was about to stop beat. frig. Per nine months 1 115 al Dr. Cha•:."s Nerve hood, and fora eon. lerable time I have not .experienced a head- he, ct tut" sor any kel,tgnathis medicine fans bei above. ( is fie di and weight, until now I ant strong 1 w.11, do my own housework, walk out for 0 hours without feeling tired, and ane orougley restored to health." Note your increase in weight while using Lr. its'; Nerve Food. Portrait and signature Dr, A. W, Chase on every box, fit, nc Fl nt (tv th Cf: PiERIOIAN '0* MONTGOMERY twang tjl:W ORIOANS. • JACKSONVIlti Through Sleepers and Dining Cars BETWEEN St. Louis and Mobile, St. Louis and New Orleans Ask for tickets sin 3t. & O. R. R. THE Open Door toprosperity . offered those ea Icing business opportunitie IN THE NORTHWEST is nn unexcelled held of investment. The small tradesman, 1 he reel Otani, the capitalist, can ubsln•edly find tt suit- able location Mt A. DUMPISH OI'1"ININ(l• in the cities and tnwns along; the line and tributary to the GIrlli1.T NOitT11ERN RAILWAY SSeft(1 2 (hilts itt stamps for "Busbies Openings," it dt'set iptivlt pamphlet It the bus ':Liss opiate! Mill les of (he; Nor thwest', roe further information ted ti r t'ss arty agent of i h(t tit eat Nor there lttlilvvaly or adarelea 1. W i11l'NEY, 0,y 1'. RCPT, A., St. 1 aul, Minn Max :, .Ins Oenernl palmi r i Ageot,2220S.�Cllti.k St, Uhie*tgo, 111,20 l OUR NEW SCEBEL YO ISG GIRL'S TRUST By Charles.. Garvice author of .A. ii "Better JLd't � , etter ThaY1: �7 "Once 19 Life in a Lie .n .eg a eOent:isSue. off' The pwSaur ecoro.. It' •zs one V tie hest'we yet e � .: 3,e In ;'est ar:ouSe r the .e en in elaa 'tee . bei:n lJ s� Gtr) tint. �. °� �he:L nth. iss he 0 }pear •Rgy y hp x . r e.4,44.4,4-1.44:440.4(1444.40.411.•• 75 cents will pay sub- scription to Theews Record and the Family Herald and Weekly Star to Jan, Ist, 1905. 0 LY 75 CE TS 6.1A►r i;ib v+► .+.Qtr. 4►i►,wlrt t+ # traiasso+Wt• * 11111111 ue--+- .-..-- 1'