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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-01-23, Page 6The Pure in Heart, I asked the engine in my mem With bitter tears one pains, To shiny mine (ves the I:login:in where The Lord et Glory reigns. . I saidemy way with doebt is dim, My heart is sick with fear; Oh, come, end help me build to Mai A tabernacle Imre. The storms a sorrow wildly beat, eloods with death are chili; long to hear the voice so sWeet, Who whispered, "Peace be still!" The Angela sale, -God giveth you His love—wnet more is ours? And even es the gentle dew Descends upon the flower% • His grace deseeods; and„ as of old, 1:Te walks•with man apart, ICceping the promise as foretold, With all the pure in heart Theo need not ask the angels where His habitations bel ICeep thou thy spirit clean Rue fair, And Be shall dwelt with, thee. —Alice Carey. • God's Promises. (Theodore L. Outer., D. D.) The solvency of a batik or the strength of a government gives their value to the notes they issue. So it is the infin- ite solvency of the Divine Relev that Anakes Godes. promises to be 'exceed- ing great and precious.' And. on them tests the :true Christian's assurance and his peace of mind in the darkest hours. It was happily expressed by an ole negro on a Virginia plantation, whom a friend of mine once asked: "How is it, Citesar, that you are always the happiest men on the plantation?" "Because, sale I al- ways lays flat down oe de, promieee, 1 prays straight up." • Humble, happy soul, he was net the first inan who hid eased ..en ,aehion heart by laying it on God's Plaines, •or the first who hae rieen up the stronger for a repose on theetue changeable words of the infinite love. God's promises are as great as their giver. Open thy casket, my brother; pour out the golden ingots stamped with the image and superaeription of the. '<int Count over the dianionds filet flash in thy hands like stars! Compute, if you can, the worth of this single Jewel, "Ile that 'believeth on Me shall have everlastieg life," or this other ene, "Ask and ye shall :receive,. seek and ye shall findekeoek and It shall be openee unto you." Then remember who it is that made these promises and to what poor, puevertny ceentures they are given. Men Julius Caesar onee gave a num a great gift the man said, "This is too great for me to receive." And the nolle Roman replied, "It is .not too great for me to give," The smallest promise in our Bible casket is' too much for us poor sinners to deserve; yet the largest prom- ise is not too large for our Reanenly Frei ther to make good. ell seems to act meanly by His children, and wondere thet we so often act meanly toward Him, Many people eommit the ereivons mis- take of forgetting that nearly. all of the Divine peomises tire eonditionat God n sovereign hae a right to preseribe the terms on which he will bestow his priceless blessings; The Bible sparkles with pronnees Pf salvation; but- to whom? Are they made to any man un- conditionally? Not that I eau 'discover. God commandeth all men everywhere to repent, and Makes repentance of sin one condition of salvation. Another condi- tion ie—faith on the crucified Sen of God. '.'He that believeth on the Lore Je.sus Christ bath everlasting life; he that believeth not is condemned abteady, because be bath not believed on the only begotten aoca of God; he shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." These terms are explicit enough, It is not strange that an yone should expect to be saved who is minify- ing all God's promises by refusing to comply with God's terms? As the promisee of salvation lie be- side the cross of the atoning. Jesus, so it may•be said of the promises in re- gard to prayer, that they are to he found. beside the mercy seat. "Ask and ye ehall veceive." There is no reeeiving without the right seeking, uo .opening to us unless we knook with the right spirit. If y.ou have ever gone to, that mercy seat and come away empty, it was became you asked amiss. God makes His own conditions. To penitence and faith. He gives liberally, to eelfish- nees or unbelief, nothing. He loves 'to give -when we will let Him give, and is never better pleaeed than when we im- portune him with his owu words, and plead Wore Him His own promises. Yet there ia a. fearful emonnt of seeptism, even with many professed Christians, in regard to the answering of prayer. Good people often forget that there are many sincere and proper petitions that we cannot expect to one answered at once, Many a faithful' mother's pray- ers for Mr children have brought down precious hie:ninon upon them long efter the sod has grown green over ber slum- bering dust. The first martyv, Stephen, prayed during the agonies of death for els persecutors; when he was ht para- diee the young bigot who was an :teem- pliee in his murder became n trophy of zedeeming grate...Let &vending par- ents and deeponding churches remember that God often puts perseverance to the test, and delay does not mean denial. God sometimce pots a long date to His promises. David doe,s not'earie into Hie promised kingdom foe many a. year, and .Abraham does not see Hisrprornised son until erf old man, The young grain gladdening the fel& with green slept under the snow and frozen eolde through the long winter. How often I think of the reply of the eimple-heart- ed old nurse to the mother who was worrying over her siek child: "Ma'am, - !you just trust God; He's tedious, but lien sure," eLon't believe. that there ts fur& a- Oleg hi the hietory .C4Nrs Xingdom ae a right. prayer offered in the right spirit that he for ever left nee answered. God Works on long Mien, but with an unerring bend; in this life we look at the weaving topestry of His provid- ewe on the ravelled side; ht eternity we shall see the tapestry beautifully finish- ed without one threa4 of Hie Promises broken. Peayee. 0 Thou who art the Son of man and who, in human form, didst dwell upon our earth, we pray to Thee be- eause Thou ad the Son of God. A Son a man, remember us in onr frailty; 0 Son of God, grant glis Thy salvation. 0 Lamb of God,. who talo. est away the sin of the world, set free from guilt and cleanse our lives from evil. 0 King of Truth and I Love, establish Thy liattgdom thr,oigh. out the world, bring the heart. of the people into mtbjection to Thy- self Let all men become Thy ttue disciples and live es Thou ilidst live, Aerving God with the whole heart, and doing good tontinually. Hear , our prayer, and aruiwtr US, for Thy rariae's sake. Amen. .0004.04.0.10.1,10,01,10P.4 • , 1111731MMIMEMZUMWZ.VOOMMXt3 and True he F Ise 4 eacznoszcznummumuckszmonucazi% "My dear child. must not move in this matter at all. it does not become her to do so, Besides, it would do no good: my love- it would do balm. Falconer meet be 'left to muffer some of the palw ful cousegnences of his own mild passions and rash uete, before he will ever think it necessehy to bring them, into subjec- tion to hie reason and conseience. It will not de alwaYs te interfere to coun- teract the wholesome discipline of suf- fering," "But, oh, mammal is not this a dan- gerous ehing? He is so. wretched! What if in his anguish and despair be should ruin himself, as 1 have heard. of others doing? What if he should be lost to us forever?" "lie will not! Your father, love, watches over him with the affectionate interest of a parent. Your father will preveut coming to evil, and ensure his coming to good." ".1Nly dearest, dearest father! Ohl mamma; my undivided heart—my whole life, devotee solely ho him, woeld not repay him for all we owe him!" "Hush, love! It is irreligious even to talk of repayiug Cau we repay eur Heavenly. Father for all we owe Hien?" "And the greatest blessing our Heav- enly Father has given us, mamma, is my earthly fatherl" "Yes, Maud! Yes, love, for there is none like him in the world. Daniel 'Hunter was always good and great be- yond other men, Arid every advancing year he has grown better and greater. When we were young Maud, I loved him • as much as I thought it was possible for heart to love. And every advancing year I have loved him better and bet- ter. And now that we are growing old; I. love him best of all!" said Augusta, with tears of deep joy welling up in her eyes. " , Then ,after a little while, she said: "We have had trials and soirowe, Maud; who hes ever escaped them'? We have had. bitter political enemies; we heve been envied, hated, slandered; our best actions ascribed to thenvorst mo- tives; our most earnest purposes often thwarted, our brightest hopes often darkened, And we have had. domestic- sorrows—crushing, heart -breaking sor- rows. Your loss was such an one. Yet, 3till, still I have been so' blessed in him, Maud! so blessed in him. That is the reason I want my .dailing to be blessed in her .husband—then ail the joys of her life will be multiplied, and all the sorrows of her life will be comforted, And . I feel confident my child will be blessed. I feel such faith in Daniel Hun- ter, that I am sure he will convert and redeem her Falconer, and make him worthy to be his son. My darling, hope Ind be. comforted!" • , CHAPTER XXVIII. While the March winds were still piping, Daniel Hunter and his family onde more sought their too Often for- saken home at Howlet Hall. Mr. Hulk ter immediately turned his attention to- ward the carrying on of those Meow- piete works of improvement that years before, under his favorable auspices, had been commeuced in that section of country. The new parsonage, designed andbuilt by Air. Hunter at the Summit for the Levels, was now completely finished and comfortably furniehed, and ready to re- ceive its tenants. And croiy in May the young pair, with their infant brood, migrated thither. Letty Hanter acoompanied them, bo help take care of the children, she said. Had Letty only consulted hee own com- fort, convenience and happiness she would certainly have preferred to remain with her almost adered brother and his be- loved wife and daughter at Howlet Hall; for, th.ougla of all his sisters and broth- ers, Letty, in character and disposition, least resembled Daniel Hunter, she had the truest appreciation and. highest ad- miration of his character, and the warm- est sympathy witla his thoughts, feelings and purposes, and she was always hap- piest when forming one of his blessed houeehold. But from 31.- youth up Letty Hunter had been the cheerful libtle Cin- derella—the siuging little goody -two - shoes of her family—and had always merrily resigned her own interests and inciinatione to the neceseities or the 0:t- actile:is of ()theta as if stick self erterifiee had been the most natural thing in the world, and the finest fun "alive." I hinted before that Letty, like everybody else in the world, had hal her own par- ticular trial, and it 'was brielly this: About the time that Mr, Level eame courting her sister Lucy, Lefty &leo had a lover, in every way most worthy of the love which she gave without. measure. He was a poor and struggling son of the people, Thet did mit matter to Letty, except that it made her love him all the more. His small business lay in a distant western village—that did not :natter, either; Letty would have gone with him to Kanischatka, or Terra-del- fuego. But, alas, alI her beothers end :deters ivere married and gone except Lucy and herself, and if they also inar- Tied, their old parents would be left alone; end es the idea of meking a sac - elfin for others had never once entered the brain of the petted beauty, Luey, nothing rerardnee but for Lefty to re- sign her lover, which elle quietly aid. And, disappoittted and bladed, he de. period for his western home, while the remained the light and warmth and corn - fort of her father's mid her motherhi fireside. And she. jested and sang as muelt en ever, though fcir time shc grew thin and pale; and. when they pro- seribed honeset and wile elterry as a good nervous Untie, she laughed and took it, For years no one ever knew the sae- rifiee that T..etty luttl made. And tO. the duy of' their death, her ,aged parents never enspeeted it. .And when the ven• treble pair were gathered to their frith Letty found great emrifort in the thmight that she had reinained with them, and had cherished and supported them to the very Net, , and that. they never had imegined hoW lunch it had cost .1ter, Lefty Was TIM thirty-three Vitra of age, and looking older and Tiro - sing older,.yet not feeling older than that. The love of her youth still IiVecl In her heart„ and kept it young. That la eennetimes A IdePeing, but oftener a Mtge to its eubjett. It is a blesed»g witeu joined with a Atrong MUM \Ain Bilked with it weak elle. In the -former, relle it Will inalte its subjeet sympathe- tie and atiraetive—in the latter it will Melte hint or her -only effetted And rid- lettlons, it ntade telly wiser, more lov. ine„ more empathizing with the yang. 'while it reigfel her into no youthful rtf- feetiotie. Thtrieg all them yeare :Ind since 'her parents' th.1.•th, tetty liad had SeVeral very eligible offers of marriage, but she pelitely end tlienkfully deellaed them all. "Her heart etill clung to the mouldering past." Many hived. Letty, but few understood her, and none goos- ed thet undoubtedly that quaint, quiz - sing countenance—below that queer fun- ny, eornieal, ever-changing, ever -varying smile and glance—in that heart that seemed to be an ever -springing, ever - varying smile and glance— in that heart that seemed to be an ever -springing, ever- sperkling font of Merry wisdom, wit ane humor—there lived and burned an eternal passionate longing, unquenchable by time and ebsence—yea, by death and the grave. To sae him once more, to hear him talk, to diecover what it was that had kept them apart these many, many years, that they might otherwise have passed together—to he reunited — th spend the noon and eveniug of life with him she had missed, in the early morning—this was the decire that in its intensity caught her breath away, when she dared to think of the possibility of its fulfillment. Since their sad parting she heel never once heard direetly from the lover of ner youth, thee ole friend, as in her heart she gingerly ealled him, for Letty, at times, was thoroughly ashamed of the secret passion tbat would not yield to eithee yeare or bo reason.) She knew notbing about him, except that the little western vil- lage to which he had emigrated was now a thriving town; that he himself was a prosperous merchant, and that he was unmarried, and she felt that he loved her still; she felt it, without fully believing it, for the spirit often diseern.s the truth that the intellect refuses to acknowledge, and the phoude hetut often leughs te scorn. the simple wisdom ef the heart, until time, the final umpire, decides be- tween them. So "Jetty, against all cir- cumstantial evidence to the contrary, and against her 'own reason and judg- ment, felt that her old friend cherished her memory still. But if so, why had he not sought her? All there was some misconception, some misunderatanding, And sometimes, when the desire to see him again became so strong, so impor- tunate, such a silent cry wrung from her heart, she would feel an almost ine- resistible impulse to write to him, Bat something would always restrain her; something would always oblige her to crush down the impulse, to stifle the cry, and go on in silent, cheerful en- durance as before. And so the weary years passed, end Letty 'became an old maid. Yet she was never without a snitor—the present one being Mr. BilL Ipsy, whom Letty's blended chruneteris- tics of fun, frolic, wisdom and goodness had amused, attracted and completely won. But Letty would none of him, any more than of anybody else. She langhed et him and said that she meant to be "an olh- Maid governess" to her little nieces and nephews. Her friends never surinised the true. reason Why Letty remained single, for the very neme and existence of her old friend, Joseph Bar- ton, was forgotten by them. She was an enigma, beyond their solving. They said she was entirely too hard to please in, a husband—too fastidious and partic- ular for a world like thos, and a life like ours. They said that she was cut out for an old meld Well, it might have been so; but if to have a constant, integral heart, and to lack the facility of shifting her affections to any object that chance might throw in her wapy, was to be "mit out for an old maid,' it was a right sorry compliment to her sisters, who were cut out for anything else. But this is a digression, for why should we con- cern ourselves with the past history of Letty, whe was one of those persons whose outer life is eneirely devoted to others, ahd whose inner life is a secret to all, To resume: I said that she would gladly have remained with her favorite brother and his 'family at Howlet Hol- low, but' she saw a young brood of babies, having a fond mother, yet sadly needing a mother's care, and she resigned the beloved companionehip, intellectual pursuits and elegant ease in her bro- ther's hozne, and went to the village with the Levels, to aseist her preety, frivoloue Lucy in brineoln.g up a nursery full of infante. In doing this Letty never thought that she was making any unreasonable sacri?ice, or doing anything more than the plath duty required of her. And to Daniel Hunter's earnest ex- postulation, and entreaty that she would make his house her permanent home, she replied: "Not where I should be ha.ppiest, dear hrother Dan, but where I should be most useful, must I live," And so she departed. And Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, with their daug.hters, and their relative, Sir /leery Percival, remained together at the Hall. Sir Henry Percival was certainly as deeply smitten with the'beautifte Maud Hunter LIB it was possible for him to be, and yet he passed the whole of his time in attendance upon Honorial it is difficult to explain exattly how this hitp- pelted, It might have been neces,sity, habit or fatality—the compideion of sur- rounding eireunistences and of people's expectations—the obligation enforced upon him by his ahtebedents—the tyr- anny of the past over the present; or it might have been only the young lady's own exantion, which in common gal- lantry the young gentleman could not resiet. 'At all events, they were alvea.ys together—in their early morning ride, in theft' forenoon readings in the library, in the afternoon drive; in the evening loutige in the drawing-toont, etteryWhere, at all houre of the day, they Were togee ther, And the limiters- looked upon their engagement as a settled thing, and Won- dered how anymie could have been to misteken as. to have given him Maud— :gaud, who w,ms now th.e inseparable cone- panion of her parents, And Daniel Hunter continued to occu py himself with the improvement of his neighborhood. New stone.quarries were 9pened in the reveler, and new atial and iron mines were searehed for and discovered in the Ridge. A 'woollen. factory, aud an iron foundry, and sawemille were erected et the Runt - mit. And good and reliable indueements were held out to mechanies and laborers, from the over -stocked eity, to 'come and gettle there. A eounty paper WAS •estab- Hailed, and a high school for boys pro- jeeted. And private buildinge went up tepidly At the &limit. And new tondo were eut, and a railroad was contem- plated. Bet these plans of improvement required time to realize them, Iiiven with Daniel Hunted "to the fore" a nd his strong "shoulder to the tvheel," ,titcy could not be perfested in a year.. Dtiniel Minter, with his t onetitutiolt- ally affeetionate though unimpassioned Al • , R . . nature, en nis:11 his habitual enilaavor to„tinite uni itartituame his piddle, envie] cleinestie - had drawn nig wife anti :laughter deeply into all hig wishes and imipolek, for the good of the ueiglibor- Maul. Anil Mrs. Bunter end Maud, when, ilti urgent houeehold duty compelled their presenee hotue, were ever to be foutid with blot upon his svene of labor. And very often ite appealed to the taste and judgment, of wife and daughter to em- bellish the design of some buildhlgi or decide the bend of Sollie road Time were theightful doe*. to the three. To he thus laboring for the welfare of their neighborhood, and Actively employ- ed out doors during all the 'beentiful . spring and summer weather, brought them vigorous health and elieerfulnese, Maud found herself full of holm and joy, for she had perfect faith in lier father's. power to bring her early trials to a 'nippy issue, and through him she often. heard that Falconer Was Salt itt cirlooihnzgotsii.stRdio, and in a fair WILY PI Mrs. Ihurter was happier than ever before—happier in heron', and happiest in nor husband mid daughter. El yen Danieleilunter had Jost thet lude itually pondering, careworn, enxioas ex- pression that seemed to have permanent- lirowsettled on his eountenanee, And lie looked younger, stronger, and in better health than for yoars before. And his wife thankee God- in her heart as. she said: "Yea! this active, useful life of a country gentleman hi exactly wbat be needs now—it is exactly the life that - will unbend and refresh and recreate his health ane energiee." Yes! this was a delightful regenerating ' life for him- would it might heve lasted longer! Bul Daniel Hunter was, ebove all things, a statesman end pelitician, and he coold not by auy possibility divide himself from the political interests of his eountry—they attracted him with an irresistible force. And now a• new question, of national policy. arose, of a natnre 80 important and exciting, comprising in itself so many bitterly conflieting *tercets, that the two great 'political parties of the eoune try were shivered into frictions, and the old boundary lines of politics destroyed in the new storm. Daniel Hunter's old party was .split by the maddest of radical frictions, who dubbed themselves the "Out and Outers," while the conservative half were hon, ored with the name of the "Old Guards." - The State election for representatives to Congress was approaching ,and this stormy question Was shaking 'the Com- monwealth te its very centre. Convere tions were called and then violently broken up. Mess meetings were sum- moned to deliberate, but met only to fight. Stump orators went abroad, and sometimes got praised and feasted, and carried in triumph, and sometimes mob- bed and half murdered, And the 014 Guards and the Out and. Outers never met singly, or in numbers, without pitch- ing into a battle of words or blows— a outrance. This desperate state of affaire, with his party divided against itself, as well as agaiest all other parties, gave , Daniel Hunter the greatest pain and anxiety—trouble that was soon augmented by a letter from Donzoni, in- forming him that his protege, Mr. Fal- coner O'Leary, had left his studio, left incomplete two or three very promising worke of art, and that he had gone "to parts unknown." • The simple fact was this: At.the very first note of alarm, at the first sound of the trumpet leeraisling a fierce, political strife, Falconer had thrown down chisel and hammer, model and copy, rushed froin the studio, and hurled himself, body and sonl, pell- men into the very thickest of the fight. And when gentle Maud was weep- ing over Ida disappearance, Danno Hun- ter soon heard of him, sturnpin,g the district fron: one mid to the other, and attracting to him all the fierce, -politi- cal incendiariee and 'maddened. malcon- tents that comprised the radical faction of the old party. According to the State Constitution, Falooner O'Leary was act yet not of an age to become the candi- date for their Representative in Con- gress; but a.s they° is no statute- of line itatioo to the combined power of a re- eolute will, fierce ,pansions and over- whelming eloquence, Falconer O'Leary was ,certainly the most powerful cham- pion they had in the field—the very Achilles of the Out and Outers. It is not to be supposed that Daniel Hunter was forgotten in this contest. Some time before the electioneering war, had reached its highest 'point of excite- ment, Mr, Minter had been repeatedly, and by many voices, summoned te the rescue of the Old Guards. He waa called to the field of political action by appeals made to him through tOe•colunine of newspapers, by letters from personal and political friends, and finally by it vim- mitthe from the Old Guard Convention who travelled from the distant .elty in which it was in session to solid Mr. Hun- ter to beoome their candidate for the House of Repreeentatives and to show linn the opinion of the eenvention that ha was the only man cettain to win over the votes of the majority of the faction, and thus reunite and consolidate the party. Thus argued, Daniel Hunter consented once more to enter the arena ef political etrife. And the committee departed with hie a.n.swer. This determination of Mr. Hunter Was exeessively- distasteful to all his family; but it was from various ,and 'apposite reasona that they (Baked. it. Miss Honorin was extremely vexed, be- cause as the corfaed to her friend, Mrs. TA);s7.`Mely': father can win no new fame front an electioneering victory over a—village stone-eutter—who is, as I am Woe:tied, the nominee of the Out and Otitere. And then prey- to think of it Man like In yfa.- ther, who bas filled the highest offices in the State—who has been years in the' Seautte—who has been resident Minister at the highest courts of Europe—has been in the Cabinet at Writhing- ton—who bee been tWice the Governor of M—.; I say note just think of the erairtifiention it is to me to have ,him dune down been filet position, US run against a, village stone -eater, and take hie seat in the House Representativee by the side of the newest men therr4-." village inethanies, tto lazy to work, though not to make stomp etutechee, aod country pettifogging lawyere, too worthless fen their legitimate besinese, end who Vote taken• to polities." Mrs. LoVel coineided entirely with NESS Hatioria's sentintente, sympathized 'with her feelings, end said she wished her brother were not se—apecullar." lTo dontinued3 Gas Prom Cinders. Smokestack cinners from locontotiene are being used for making gas at two plaees In Germany by the railway ad- ministration. The plant at Koenigsberg hes three generators and thtee double - fitting gee engines, each 180 hove) pots-, er ettpacity.• The OriglItell are airectly eonneeted to eleeteic generator's, The other plant liga tWO gas generator* And two single-Aeting gAs engines, eteli of horee power, Both plants Are said bcr Os:big Pfttistnetiott,`tha donstiritli• tio» of cinders being' reported froth 1,1 to Z4 pounde per horse power, veiling with the load, • I; . VALUAUE FIND 01 INTERODLONIAL RAILWAY, While travellue on the 1. -0. R., Mr. Ulu' vey W. Towers, residing at Ne. 7 St. Paid street, Sc. John, 11. It. mode veleehle die- coven-. 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It cures ulcers, festering sores, ringworni, cute, bruises, chaPpcx1 hande, boils, eczema, Piles, rheumatism, feta), 2coorlIdts abyboaxliorpprousgtvistteld rarnocira sttho4rezams a.t Suit Co., Toronto, on recelPt of Prices. Three boxes tor $1„x... .4 I - The Rich and the Poor. De Lewd hear de po' man eryin', An' he ax him why an' how, An' de pee man say; "Hit's de rich men s day, An whar is de• po' man now? "Whar is de po' man now -- Tinier is de pre man new? Too po' ter stay, Or ter move away— Oh, whar is de pen man now?" De Lewd hear de rich man oryinn An' Ile ax him why and how, An' de rich man say: "Dar's my fine to pay, An' whar is de rich man non'? "Whar is de rich man now— Oh, whar.is de rich man now? Kin I rise an' shine Wid de Gover-miet fine? Oh, whsr is de rich man now?" Den de angel come Pune glory Ter take 'um ter de worl' dat's new, But de rich man say, Bat he reckon he will stay, An' del pte man sesso, tool Dey ain't in a hurry fer to go— Oh, deer ain't in a hurry fer to go -- De worn is a trial, An' a big self-denial, But (ley ain't in re hurry fer to go! —Atlanta. Caroni+ ution, Iginard's Liniment Co., Lizaited, Gentleemn,—I have need MINARD'S LINIMENT from* time to time for the past twenty years. It was recommended to me by a prorainent physician of Mont- real, who called it the "great Nova Sco- tia Liniment." It does the doctors' work; it is particularly good in eases of ,Rheumatism and Sprains, Yours Oily, G, G. DUNSTAN, Chartered Accountant, Halifax, N. S., f3ept. 21, 1900. New Roads in Dalmatia. By the construction of new roads in various districts of the Dalmatian Ri- viera a magnificent stretch of country from Zara to the Montenegrin frontier will be opened up for travel. Many roads already exist in places, but with gaps preventing continuous travel. It is intended now to bridge these gaps and make one great highway, linking to- gether the most picturesque spots along this past, The work which is being done 6y the Government and the local authorities together is only part of a general plan for developing the natural resources of this part of Austria.. The country is remarkably beautiful, with many picturesque features, a mild cli- mate and numerous fine bathing places. It is proposed to build first class modern hotels and provide other attractions for tourists and autoraobilists.—Pall Mall Gazette. 1 - • Minard's Liniment Curet Colds, etc. Hooke.d a Big Shark. The offieers of the steamer Limon, which reached her berth at Long Wharf yesterday afternoon, told a /tory of the capture of a man-eating shark while the big fruiter wail taking on a cargo at Port Limon, Costa Rica. One of the iiegro fruit handlers was fishing over the side. He had thrown out a small hook bitted with meat and almost immediate- ly it wee snapped up by an exceedingly voracious man-eatee. Every one on ship board ran to see the fun, ,The neve played the shark un- til it was exhauseed, and thou one of the crew went down the ladelent ladeler and slipped a hoose under he rine.' The monster was hauled to the deck, but be- fore it was killed it knocked one xiegro down, Two of the sailors killed it with a heavy club. The shark measured 12 feet and weighed 500 hundred pounds, It was the largest of its species ever seen at Port Limon.—Boston. Globe. ; 1 Hint to Chinese Editors, In consequence of the severe and pro- vocative criticisms which have been aP- peering in the native papers relative to the proposed foreign loan for the Soo - chow, Hangellow and Ningpo Railway and the Thibetan negotiations, the Pekin Government has instructed the Governor of Kiangsu and the Viceroy of the Liang- kiang to order the editors of' those pa- ' pers to obey the Chins() press laws, oth- erwiee the editors will be arrested and puriished.—Shanghai Mercury. _ 00011011140 lot - mar rawunia 4<t4,111-1111 • n111n ,/toPea..1". 1V it 1 3nrow• "lio sale no% fot any but St. Goorge°6 Bracing Powder ma of it, tool don't get any mote cOrepletiots*-but lots of tednplittients. 80 out With these old lines." • Write 'rho 'National ritug & themlool ; to. of trtnedit, Unified', for their new free Cook -took. 04. WAY 4.0. il/100BRN ITALY• Beauty Qt Peel,11510,'S FAMOUS Watery tO be Marred by a New Building. beltoeumrrecteLearlsueS4,?414itta)1Yt '164 eiruttet4rdeceasutroceibwmil a Medern heuse in the ontall pkokarkukque equine teaming k0 Use counted oratory et *Mint Bitenerdine Of Sienna ill Perugia, itlal Lust Wikk sk140 111 park the ittOW 0/ Rs Omutiall Mahe. This eraiory Wag bunt 111 liet) by the Magisatitea of Perdstat Wite Were tti waVo te their Imam city setae esidering meek of the Wail wa0$0 In- fluence ni a ewe of extreme moral deem- Ity and conatant party stai.e tate 14en pimp- ly one Of good to tne Winne of Perugia. The isre of St. Herm:trona Of blenna is te Meat people. 1..pnie St, Francis he exercised an eXtraereinary power Over the Minds et knell in toe Aucidie Ages by tee mere eXample Imre ana Were ot character, but perhaps his Power lay a little mere in crooning tind milaring men to action time that 01 the learnt at AS8481, wiles° 1144tience Was eesentiany peaeeful. Whole life was a struggle for light in veil, dark Age, He was nur of unoutishoess and reihrastritlysionatned irstestatliciorthApt4 wthirt e wd tt still Oxiskii et Perugia. 1:110 Mame ot tue oratory is the work et a Florentine settiptor, Agostino Hum', And Is an interesting work of art. It is built of the pink colored marble of the country, de.• commit wkh terra cotta figures, which etaud '.010r44tieuatutidililityp,litesrser, Purity, Iteligien, Pa - The facade is elaborately decorated nnd is considered a masterpiece of Olivier beauty. It is not clear why thls particular spot was elloseti On wIlielk to build tlie Wa- tery, but probably the reasOrt WaS its cloRe proximity to the Convent Of St. Fratteie of Prato, whore the saint lived while nt Far - Thera le something touching in the asee, Mations of the Oratory of St. Sernardino, and the thought of marring its beauty in any way seems nothing short of deseration. But the spirit of the present clay is distinct+ ly material, A well paying hotel ie consid- ered far better than the unobatructeel view ot a celebrated facade, end the Quit of preeerving the surroundings of works of art seems gradually disappearing in Italy. SHILOH'S' Quick ease for the worst cough—quick relief to the heaviest cold—and SAFE to take, even for a child, 4.-1 That is Shiloh's Cure. 1-oures Sold under a guarantee Coladll$ to cure colds and coughs fp,k, quickor than any other 101, Uolds medicine—or your money back. atyears of success commend Shiloh's Cure, 26c., 60c., $1. QUICKLY! What tho Whistle Was For. "I was counsel ror a railway company in the We•st," says a prominent New York lewyer in Harper's Weekly, "in WilOse employ a aection hand had been killed by -an express train, His widow, of couree, sued for damages. The princi- pal witness swore positively that the locomotive whi.etle had riot sounded un- til alter the entire train had passed. over his departed. friend, "'You admit that the whistle blew?' I sternly demanded of the witness. - "'Oh, yea, it blew.' "'Nota' I added, impressively, 'If that whistle sounded. in time to give Morgan warning the feet would be in favor of the company, wouldn't it? "`I• suppose so/ mid the witness. "'Very well. Now, for what eerthly purpose would the engineer blow his whistle after the man bad been struck?' "'I presume,' replied the witness, with great deliberation, 'that the whistle was for the next man on the track.' " r , Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. , Persistence of the Russian Police. The persistence with which the Rus- sian police follow up a revolutionist is illustrated in .ne ease of Nicholas Tsehaikovsky, who, a short time ago, was arrested at St. Petersburg. Tschai- kovsky was the founder of the first re - voluntary circle in St. Petersburg, dur- ing the reign of Emperor Alexander II. was-arested in 1875 and was to have been sent to Siberia but escaped and went to England, wiere he had lived ever since, aiding the patriots as well as he could from sueli a distance. Some months ago he visited the -United States in the interest of the patriot movement in Russia. After his return to England he becanie convinced that it was his doty to return to Russia to work for the cause. He entered the .Czar's do - miens well disguised, as he supposed, but it seems that he had been dogged by government spies all the way from Lon- don, and as soon as he crossed the Russian border he was taken into Cus- tody. • It is feated that he will now either be put to death or exiled to Si- beria. The old patriot's misfortune has excited pity for him among all friends of 1:abinera trYd.'s Liniment Cures Diplitlaeria. r- e leBOBT LEPERS. "Leprosy Not So Bad," Says Sack London. "If it were Oyez' Me to choose be- tween. being compelled th liye Moto - gat for the rest of my life, or in the East End of London, the East Side of New York, or the Stook Yards of Chicago, I would rielect Molokai without debate," • Thus mites Jack Loudon in the Wo- man's Home Companion of his visit to the Haivaiian leper colony of Mololoal. "In 'Molokai the people are happy. I shell never forget the celebration of the Vourbh of July witnessed there. At six o'cloek in the morning the horribles' were out, dressed fantastically astride horse, neuters end donkeys ntlieir own property), end cutting salters all over the settlement, Two brass bands were out as Well. Then there were the pau riders, thirty or forty of them, Hawai- ian women all, superb horsewomen, dressed gorgeously in the old, native rich big costume, and, dashing' About in t'yos and threee and groups. In the afterhoon Mrs. London and I stood in the judges' stand and award the prizes for horse- manehip and costume to the pa -u riders. All about were the hutdreds of lepers, with wrentlis of flowers on heads ani necks end shoulders,, loeking on and making Itterry. And always, over the brows of oral across the grassy level Ertntelies, appearing and disappeating, Were the groups of men and wonten, gaily dressed, oh galloping horsee, horses and riders fiewer bedeeked and flowee garlanded, singing end laughing and rid- ing like the wind. And as I stood in the judges' stand 4nd looked at all this, there came to my reeolleetion the law house of Havana, where bed mice be- held some two hundred leeprs, prisonere inside four restricted walls until they died, No, thee° are a few thousand pleetis Wet of in this world oVer t would /tied hfolokai As a place of perniattent residence." The Spider's Appetite. The spider has a, tremendous appetite. Well defies Ali human competition. A scientiet who eitrefully noted ft 'spider's emieumption of food in 24 hours 00n- Cluclei that if the spider were built pro. portionatety to the 'human Rolm he would tat at daybreak a ritinoeoros, by seven kink by nine a. young mettle - PAM. by one A sheep. and would finish up with a pie of two hundred birds. Ram' far t Tears to Come* juit one root. is otieexterinin 14 writing* to bepood for25 years and is reallyeeoillor it bemired. 'That's it roof of 00$1.1AWA" GALVANIZED STEEL SHINGLES Put tbein on yourself.-ommon sense and a hammer anti anips does. it. The building they corer is proof .agemst lightning, fire, wind, rain and snow. 'they cost less because they're made better, and of better matirial. Write us and learn about R 00 VINO. - I tit II 1', Address sos 7 The PEDLAR People Mt Ochswa lawarcat Ottawa Toronto Iwuton Wieelpes , I . , Saved Lincoln's Life. Harry Fletcher 'Kenney, former super- intendent of the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Ilailroad Company, who is credited with' having saved the life of President Lincoln, when there was a plan on foot to assasainate hint in this eity, is dying of pneumonia. The day after President Lincoln raised the flag over the State House he started on his journey beck. to Washington, Rumors of threats to kill Mr. Lincoln had been rife for several week.% previous and extra precautions were taken t,o pre- vent any injury to him, Wheu all was ready for the train bear- ing Mr, Lincoln, to start, Kenney ordered the telegraph wires between this city and Washington cut so that no commune cation could be had between the woald-be murderers. Then, euspeeting that possibly the engineer of the train which was to carry. the President might be in league with the assassins, Mr. Kenney called him into his Office. He told the engineer that the first coach contained a number of important State papers, which were to be delievered intact at Washington, and ordered him to see that no one en- tered the ear. Thies precaution was taken, and when Washington was reached; out stepped Mr. Lincoln from the firet coach. In a few minutes he was safe in the White House,—Philadelphia North American. r ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT Removes all hard, aoft and ealloueed isupinavinps ,fienurd bbsl,eraspiiishnets„, frrionmirbohnoer,sessw, ebelnoeoyd, sgtisiftlse.s, sprains, sore and 'swollen throat, coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle, Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by drag- - Bungle's Bad Break. Mr. Bungle always takes a cleep and sympathetic interest in the welfare of thuisith frel, low -man. While out for a stroll one day, he met a friend who seemed in a great hurry. "Hold on, Jones," said Bungle, grabbing hie friend'a arm, "why this "Bungle," said Jones, removing his hat and wiping his brow, "I'm hot- footing it to a specialist; I believe my brain is affected." Mr. Bungle, to allay the fears of hii friend and show the customary oommiseration, said jovially: "Pshaw, "'ones, you shouldn't worry* about suth a little thing as that." IW hm-ae atPn." you shouldn't let such a little thing as your brain --that is, Mr. Pines, you shouldn't get so ex- oited over nothing—of eourse—ah, good day, Mr. Jones !"—From the January Bohemian. A Toilet Luxury Mira Skin Soap is a delight to every woman who values a soft, beautiful skin. Mira Skin Soap takes away all skin irritations—cures skin troublea—and keeps the skin clear, ahd smooth. Elegantly perfunied — refreshing — unsurpassed for toilet and bath. 230 cake—at druggists or sent oh receipt of price. The Chemists, Co. of Canada, 1,imited, Hamilton. .0001-441114:•Itioli,A., ;1 TRADE MARX REGISTERED. SIGN SOAP 22 THE MAORIS. If all the native races in the world were paraded in may country it is the Maori that would win the most a Inn for physique, for character, for history. We can respect and admire them for their bravery and sterling virtues. We have fought against them and have found them worthy foemee; they have fought with us and have proved loyal comrades. Obstinate and self-willed, proud and superstitious, warlike and poetical, at one tirae recklessly brave. at another time helpless nn e panic of fear: royally liberal to -day, shamelessly mean to -morrow, they are withal light- hearted, good natured and capital com- pany, They have been likened to our savage forefathers, and in many respects they have similar characteristics, but where our race was doggedly persistent the Maori is erratic and uncertain; and whereas tier eau proved their capacity for &vett:intent and advancement in the march of eivilization the Maori has been left behind and in many things shows that he belongs to a clecadent race. Out of the darkness they came, an. unfortu- mare fateful -race driven by strange des- tiny from their birthplace, doomed be- fore time to annihilation, asking not whenee they tame or whither they Went, or, if asking, answered only by gloomy parable and suptic sayings, The old chiefs tattao their face in the most gruesome manner because such or- namentation is deemed necessary to man- hood. The lines are deseribed with char- ted, the ekin ie then punctured by a sharp instrument of bone or steel driven by a small mallet. A pigment prepared from a vegetable substance is dropped into the wound, Although the subject is writhing in agony, no ery of pain will escape him. Those around make a terri- ble noise -with their songs during the ordeal. Only a small portion can be done at a time. N'illen the inflammation has snbsided and the excotiation healed, the operation considered complete. IN 2910. Rev/oil—Row did Rowell dieP Pow, IJ -1-10 took a drop too inu..h. )n c11.4 didn't know he &mit. Fou (11-1. didn't say ho did; ha g t put off an airship for not paying his fare. ISSUE NO. 4, ,1908. CISTERN HOT INATER, NI Lure Curioolty tho Plain, Neer Heber City, Utah, Of ev.er inereaeing ferterest'' to natural =doll tY seekers ars the Mt Iheae, about thoe MI104 front Ifeber City, Utah. Thi,s region is a .101701 *63, upon the surface of whitsb. euise Orange mansion numbers of eonioal shaped cis - 50 feet in he t, 100 feat in 4iameter terxts, the Iaormirt of them being all of at the top twice timt art the base and *Cabe -ming In their dark deptilis mense voinmes of water heated to a, high teropereenre in the furnaces of the earth. The waters contain the usual chenaleal propertiee of thermal springs and are used for bathing and drinking, These POtt3 eVidVetir halre been form- ed by the slow deposition through oountleas centuries of the alliea and soda which enter into the composition of the watera, They grew in height steadily with yeare and. present a most interesting spectacle of nature's estrange creative methods, The got Pots are found in the midst of 01dt/rated Beide and thriving orohardn, notwithstanding the peculiar rock -like eoll composition. One of the marked pemiliarities of the region is the hollow rumbling sound caused by carriages and horses as they move over the roadways for miles around. 'Is til3ere enormoue e,averee just below the surface and will it ever cave in?' is the anxious enquiry of ev- ery visitor alarmed at the strange Un- derground sounds.—Kansaa City Star. 131ach Watch Chewing Tobacco Rich and satisfying. The big black plug. 2200 Lord Kelvin's Romance. There was an element of romance in the late Lord Kelvin's second marriage. It was at the Canary Islands that the greal scientist met his bride to be, arid, her apparent interest in scientific pur- suits drew them quickly together. The scientist went to greet length to unfold a new system of signalling, and as he said good-bye to the Iady on the bridge of his yacht on leaving he looked at her and smilingly seed: "Do you think you understand the system now?" "Oh, yes," replied his lady friend, "I am sure I understand." "Then," said the :scientist, "watch the vessel as It'disappears from view and will flash you a message." • The meseage was, "Will you be my wife?" The lady's reply the world knows. —Westminster Gazette, rinom mange, Prairie Soratohes and every form ot contagious ItCh On human or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. It paver tails. Sold by druggists, _ Rockefeller Waistcoat the Latest. Mr. John D. Rhelrefeller has set the fashion, for wearing paper waistcoats in winter for protection against coil& For many Years Mr. Rockefeller has been wearing a paper waistcoat under his outer waistcoat, but only recently did. his friends become,aware•ig it. Some enterprising merchant heard of itcalso, and the result is that the market is now flooded with neat paper waist- coats made of yellow tissue paper, to be worn over the stomach and chest in cold weather, They are very inexpensive af- fairs. Paper as a protection against cold is not really new, though it raay be -novel to this generation: The troops of Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War used paper to keep them -warm, by put- ting it in their shoes, and were thus oft- en saved frostbitten feet. To many it does not seem reasonebie that paper could be any protection against cold, but no doubt many Ivin re- member the experiment made in senool of taking a piece ef paper in both hands, holding it taut and trying to tear it. In many instances the children have not strength enough to do it. Thie shows how olosely kuit paper is. Its particles are so adhesive that no air ean pass through, and this in a measure explahis its use in cold weather. : • Infinard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. . One Girl's Hour .of of the year to The hour of triatoe,aunmge (Taoryonto Star.) laWdlythotahothfeirstteacdahy. ing staff of the Toronto public schools. Back at the old farm holm for the holi- days, and with no thought beyond the en- joyment OM a period of relaxation and plea- sure, she was suddenly confronted by the sight of her father rushing from the barn, his hand cruelly mangled by the knives of a cutting box. The vision of torn flesh and crimson stream was follOwed neither bY fainting or frenzied rush for help of neigh- bors. There was instead a euiek movement of deft hands, In a moment the flow of blood was staunched by a fragment of dress applied with the skill of trained nurse, and then firm support of faltering steps to the shelter of the house. Arrival under the roof- tree was not the ending but rather the be- ginning of the real strain, There WAD no hall telephone with a surgeon in the next street. Assistance could be summoned only by me:monger, and an hour and half passed, each minute seeming an age, before the doc- tor came, During all that weary wait, a young girl, with touch of velvet but nerves of steel, held the bloody bandage in Plase and with gentle firmness soothed and ectinied a patient in Whose ease the moat acute suf. feting was accentuated by mental anguish due to the know -lap of the fact that a hand which had merved for sixty yeara was ter - ever gone, Even the arrival of the long- IoOked-ior aid did not bring Immediate re- lict: the final ditty a assisting at the pre- liminary operation renderett necessary by the Wound Still remeined. An historic phrime, slightly changed. may Well be Applied: "/t WEE not war, but it waft magnificent. A Sleek and Blasted Spot. rortY years ego there eould be seen on a farm in Lesatabagew perish a *Weider *Met &bent 'eight feet in dianieter, on which neither grebe, weeds nor green blades of any Bart Weuld grow. Aceording +0 trit- dition, a renUted witch had In bygene days lxlen burned on this spOt, and, protetting her Innocence to the last, called upon thole Oresent to witness »ant, as proof of tier in. neeence, nothing green wouhi grow ou the place where silo suffered; that it would re- main a blaek and blasted fleet for eter. Darren and bare the ;nave has remained In the lifetime ot the °West netivee of the beality; no matter WIlethOr SoWn or planted, nothIng wonie grow, while vegetation oe eropti Would thrive luxuriently nit around. Most of these natives Were eltriviir bUt mutely .1 decreasing, and possibly thip reputed link with a more superstitioua past may soon di Appear