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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-01-07, Page 4• The IndlePensahle Christ. 1 ara so weak, dove Lord, I cannot •stand Otte =meat without Theee But Oh, the tendernese of Thy en. folding, Auct oh, the fialtfuluens of Thy uphold. mg, And of the str ugth of Thy right laud— That Stenth m enough for me. A I am tai •tie dy, Lord, anti yet I knew All fullu4a dwells in Theo; And, hourjby hour, that' nover.failieg trees re Supplies ,a d fills iu overflowiug =m- etre My litet and greatest need and so '.1.1y Geece is enough for me. It is so sweet to trust Thy word aloue; I do not as to see The unveiling of Thy purpose, or the ;shining. Of future light o&l mysterica untwiuing; Thy promise -roll is all my own— Thy Word is euough for me. 'flues were strange eoulelepths, restless, vast, and broad, ff. Unfathoined as the att iufinite craving for Rome infinite stilling; • / But. uow Thy perfect love is perfect fill. kg; Lord Jesus Christ, my Lord, my God, , Thou, Thou art enough for nte. —George Macdonald. A Faithful God. (By O. 11, V etherbe.) laere is vast meaning in these worth; tient toe epistle ot the Hebrews " He is faithful „that promised." Here is much for us to meditate upon. There is a ars at deal more in the possible mean- ing of these few words than I am able to comprehend. But tho simple trath that God is faithful ought to bring in; d. scribable gladness to eery Canistian who inteutly thinks of it. itow very habit. God's promises are! what makes them so? The very fact that He .s faithful. And not only •ep, but the ferther fact that he is abundantly able to completely fulfill all that He has promised to give or to do. All tine Is very different from many of the prom- isee which human beiags make. Some of them make very pleaeang • promises, bet they are unable to fulfill them. But God's promises are never beyond His ability to perform therm Then, toosome of our friends forget some of their promises to us. They have the ability to perform them'but they soon forget to carry them out. Our faithful God never forgets any promlee that He ever made. This is a grand feature of His faithfulness. In all this there is the idea and fact of God's unchangeableness. Ile cannot be fickle in respect to His promises. He does not make a promise to -day and recall it to- morrow. It stands. It is good for all tirne. Dr, A. Maclaren, of England, Ina; writ- ten the. fallowing stirring words: "If we lia,ve a, God immutable and un- changeable to build upon, let us • build upon Him immutability, and unehange- ableness. If we have a Rock on which to build our confidence. let us see that our confidence that we build upon it as rock -like too, If we have a God that eannot lie, let us graspHis faithful Word with an affiance that cannot fal- ter. If we have a truth in the heavens, abeolute and immutable, on which to anchor our hopes, let us see to it that our hopes. anehored thereon, are sure rtna etendfast. What a shame it would be thatwe shouid bring the vacillations and fluctimtions of our own sinceri- ties and changeablenees to the solemn, , fixed analterableness of that Divine Wordi. We might to be faithful, for we build upon a faithful God." When we are tempted to he -unfaith- ful in our dutiee toward G-od. let ue at once think of His mineablg faithful - nes toward us. When we have made e. promiee tn either God or Man, let us think •of His faithful promises. The Trammel:, of Earth. (By A Banker.) If a peason who had given no thought to the /natter were told that he is per: petually sustaining a weight of about fourteen tons, and, that that -stupendous burden is ever varying, sometimes in- creasing, sometimes .decreasing, to the extent of four and five hundred pounds in the course of a few hours, he would probably Consider that his informant was demented. But that prodigious load re- presents the weight of air which every peraoit of average size is always bear- ing; although, as the burden is not only not felt, but, under certain conditions of the atmosphere, when the barometer atands . g indicating that the pres- sure is increased, a sense of invigoration is experienced,. which passes away when he has been relieved of the additional hundredweight or two which he was car- rying. Some idea of the tremendous pressure of the air may be gathered by plaeiug the hand firmly over the receiver of an air -pump and exhausting the air there- from; a large hand measuring eight equate inchee would then, if the air were completely exhausted, have a Weight of exactly a hundredweight preseing upon its upper surface. Only a Samson would have sufficieat muscular force to lift that load and remove his hand from the 3110lith of the receiver. Although our atmosphere is so tenni- parent and so diaphanous, yet its to- tal weight is computed at the enormous total of five thous.and five hundred mil- lion millions of tons! And when this ponderous elemeat is set in violent ino- tion, as in a hurrieane, its weight and density are More readily realized; for theta When in all its fury the unseen ale is madly rushing (thing, or furiously whirling round and round, at the rate of a intidred Miles an hour, nothing ex - rept the most solidly erected structures can withstand its infuriate and fierce on. plaughts. Great trees are felled in a ma - meat; stacks of corn or hay aro scatter- ed to the -*Mae; and even human beings struck by the tornado aro hurled to the ground, or even taught up and whirled through the air like feathers in a gale. But when tinie Anil be no more, and when them who by patient continuanee in well doing have—through the merits; end all prevailing mediation of their Redeemer, who died for them that they might lire eterually—ettained to the gloriem of the hereafter,then shall those beatified (Mee be free from the verses unimpeded by the earth -fetters trammels Whieh so heavily prett down upon them on Nath, attd be able MI angel.wing to roam throughout the 'Mil— with which they are now emir:. mi. : Par From It. "Yo«,. 'Pre Wird of him. /re'e whnt II A lea* shark, Ian% he?" one Ade- ? Not on your life! Ifeos pat Witty Of t empatty in this- town." 4,1141111191811109111101 I! HIS LORDSHIP'S 1 ROMANCE 41theeiealaeeZINAINM=eaaaoommeaaeaaaeirooaaspaaapamesaees . She could not define the pain that Then he etemped, abruptly, for he st.W Made her heart ache. It had been so something like an expression of fa rp- pleaeant to gaze all utseen upon that on the beautifal young face. dark, hatcleome face—to see the eyes "I did hope," be continued snore f'r-re. fixed so intently von Sorrento, and to ly and courteously, "to have the honor know that the wish .to Sae her had of seeingMadarne Mooteleone; bur am brought the gay rum; cavalier there, told he is still an invalid. 1 must wait lt wa,s something to break the dreary for better fortune," monotony of the long wormers' day. A look of great relief showed the Now it was all over, hot tears fell front young nian lie had spoken wisely. the dark eyes, when suddenly she heard, "Do you know Modem Monteleone?" the sound, aot of one horse, but of two, she cried. "I am so glad." coming swiftly along the road from Se. "I do not know her," he replied) "but ville. Both riders paused at the well- I hope to see her as email as she is able known spot, and thee Inez heard a deep, to receive visitors," musical voice saying:. "This Is the place, These few words removed, the where I. eftW her„ and I shall never only shadow that had veiled the forget her. I should lose my reason if 1 brightnees of her joy. He was. thought I was never to see that face to elcilfal, so wary, he would have • deceived a fur nrore worldly-wise girl "Whet was she doing here?" asked his than Inez, who only knew life from friend, books and dreams. He did not e'en go "Looking over the shrubs into the so far as the orange trees, but left her high road,' was the reply. "When I in a few minutes, saying that if he were bowed, she blushed.. Why, to see such a so fortunate as to see the signorina an - blush is worth living for." other evening in the grounds when he "Why do you not inquire what the had more leisure, he should pray to be place is?" asked the one called Luigi. allowed the happiness of speaking to her. "It looks something of a wilderness, but CHAPTER XV1IL a very pretty one," "I have;" replied his friend. "The It was the old, old story—told some - house is further &leen, and both house times under the shades of Italian vinee, and, lands belong to Madame Monteleone, among the myrtle trees of Spain, or in and "she in her turn, as I need not tell the green glades of old England—always you, belongs to one of the noblest Jana the same—full of music, poetry and flies in Spain. I made all inquiries, but romance—always snaking the earth fairer no one knows much of them. They lead and life a golden dream. A very secluded life. This much I was And now the beautiful, gifted, imag- told—that the young granddaughter inative Inez was listening lo the faualiar who lives with her is the most beautifia chime of loving words. Life had grown girl in Andalusia. se bright and clear she wondered at "It was the granddaughter you saw, times if the world could be the same— suppose," interrupted Luigi. had the skis been always as smiling, "I should imagine so," said the othea the sunshine always as bright? What "You must see her, Luigi ---she is match was this golden radiance that had fallen less. I would go barefooted, all eve around her, dazzling her eyes with its 'Spain to find her once more." beauty? Only the glamor of love, that "It is a serious ease, then," said Luigi, had fallen upon thousands of innocent laughing heartily. • hearts before, and will so fall until "Do not plague me," wee the reply human hearts grow cold and beat no "I tell you I love that young creature more. madly, and I will find her and make her There was no monotony now.' The love me, if I die for it." bright summer days were not long enough "Well," said Luigi, "you must try for her dreams. She had to muse over again. You have no chance to -day; slie every loving word, every- sigh, every is not to be seen." admiring look bent upon her. For it had "I will haunt the place," cried his now become a regular and established friend, passionately; "I will stay here . rule, after the great heat of the after. day and night, but I will see her again." noon had passed, for Inez to take her They wont away and left Inez, liar book and read in the orange grove; but heart beating tumultuously, a new, the book was rarely opened, for before vague, and delicious happinses thrilling she had been there long she heard the her. sound of footsteps, and she knew that What romances had she ever dreamed he was come. He sat by her side divine equal to this?—wheie. "fair lady" in the the long summer evenings, and he wootel even loved her. Surely she must her with grace and skill beyond words, be beautiful, if once seeing her He said nothing to her at first of love; could inspire such love as that he talked to her of the peat grandeur How cruel it was that her youth and and chivalry of Spain. of her gay her beauty should be kept prisoners, as knights, her brave cavaliers, and, her It wore, in this gloomy old ruin! Oh, beautiful daughters. He spoke to her if she were but reit in: the world! Love of his own Italy ,the land of music and and happiness, pleasure and riches would song, of the grand old city of Venice, all be hers. All night the music of the where his race, the Montaltis, had lived words she had overheard rung in her and died. They talked of music, of ears and gladdened her heart. Had she poetry' and of flowers of all that was been treated as other girls, had she been fairestand most lovely on earth; but allowed a fair and proper share of girl- ish amusement, this first little romance as yet he said not a word to her of love, would not have produced so deep an fiber that there was anything wrong in n- Inez had long since ceased to remelt - president upon her. As it was, her heart, meeting every day a stranger unknown mind, and. imagination were absorbed in it. to her friends. She forgot that she had Inez did ever fancted it to be ever so slightly When the next evening came, She wtr?ong.h What harm could there be in not go near the "haunted sp could not tell, site i e did not know whether 1 e was happy now—life had some it was timidity, pride orsmaiden bash- nterest; before it had been a living fulness that restrained her—probably an death. Each day now brought its ac - three. He had vowed that he. would see hcomplished wishes, its hap iness its her againlet him discover the means. ; hopes. The time Was gone forever when she dreamed among the trees. The Yet she could not quite give up the pleasure of looting sometimes into :the itc.eaa,hotylv had come, and she welcomed It high road, and she even went in the morning. when it was not likely he would But not. always was Count Rinaldo be passing by. willing to sit by her, to look in her There was a change. in the beautiful beautiful face, and talkof fair cities and restless face that looked over the shrubs; grand poems. He was growing impatient there was a new brightness, a deeper to speak of his love. Yet, imprudent as beauty; the old scornful wearinese had she was, there was sometheug M her passed away.as• a cloud before the sun. child -like innocence that awed him. Day She watched the gayly dressed ladies by day he grew more charmed and fas- now with 11.. smile. Who eanong them had einated with her beauty, and found that won such love as she had done? life without her would be dreary, vapid At that very moment a voice near her and unprofitable. He knew the simple murmured a thousand apologies for the record of her life. .He had heard the intrusion. Turning round, she saw .he. story 'from her own lips; and better fore her the hero of her dreards. There Perhaps than any one else could have was no horse, and i was morning, so done did he understand and sympathize that he ,piusi Sive been watching and with her. He knew that re return to waiting teh see her. that dreary monotony would be simply "I have longal so mur* to see you,. unendurable, that she would never will - signorina," he said, bowing almost to ingly lose sight of one who had given her some interest in living. He laid his plans aeordingly. . From her he heard the history of the English father, who had, to use her own language, "given her away," wt -'t she was a few weeks old, and had i sr seen her since, But she did not tell him—for she did not know face that had enchanted him so lovely, —that the same father was a rich Eng - em radiant, that he wast lost as he look- lish "milord." The count concluded that ed Upon it. The fresh musical. voice Bianca Monteleone had married beneath completed. the charm, and Count Rinaldo her, and that the father, unable and Montaltiaavao had laughed all his life unwilling to support the child, had aban- at love and lovers, found himself en- doned her. Had he known the truth, the slaved by the first emilee of that beau- story of Inez Lynne would never have Uhl face. ' been written. He was .too wise and wary. to alarm Ho was determined to win her; for her. When he had offered ins apology the first and only time in his life Count he said how beautiful ilea grounds of Rinaldo was deeply and. truly in love. Setronto were how much at some Lti.- He determined to win her, evett if he ture Lime he should like to walk down gave up for that purpose ail the most that grove of orange trees he saw in cherished plans and schemes of his life. the distance.'and then, bowing still One bright evening, when they met as more profoundly, he took his leave. She usual among the orange trees, the count saw rib great wrong in it, poor childt looked sad and pensive. He seemed to At firet she did think of telling Madame speak with difficulty, as though Bente Monteleone, her heart wets so full of great grief burdened his mind. Ile triumph. She must tell some one; but sighed deeply, and his dark eyes wore a then, if she did so, 'It would be All end- dreamy look ef sorrow. ed. Instinet told her that this stern "Is anything th matter t" asked Ines, lady would never allow her to speak to gently, "You do not seem cheerful this • strenger in the grounds of Serranto. evening." She Would simply be forbidden to leave He evaded the question, but in a few the flower garden, and her brief, bright inhittes she asked it again • dream of happinese would be over. Xo ine, eount" she Bak, "are you she must not tell. After all, her grand. grievIng or troubled?" mamma was old, she probably knew Then he told her that the deepest sor- nothing of love and romance, she would row of his life was alum hial/ his heart not understand her; and, besides, it wee wais torn, for he found that he must rib barna because he loved her. leave this sunny Spain. 'where he had Ito Made no otology the evening after found his Eden, and return to Venice. that, when, seeing Inez in the diettince, "Leave Spain!" she said, slowly, SS he sprang lightly over the shrubs, and though the idea was difficult of Tenn. good by her side, Re simply bade her ration, # -toe, never to return?" good evening, and asked bier Lf she The c• ,• faded hen the beautiful Would tholv him those beautiful orange young faro, the dark, loving eyes grew treees, dint vvith tears. She could nob bear to She walked by hie side as one in a return to that dreadfully lonely life; blissful dream. Something in his ac. she eould not bear to be left alone; It tent etrught her atteation, and looking was to tweet to be loved and eared for. up at him, she said, "You are not a He watched. her intently as these Spaniard, signor. Youdo not speak like thoughts welled through her mind; one." tornething In that exiquielte downcast Then he drew forth a riehiy embossed fate gave Iui ntcoutage. erted ease, and teking a card offered it "It la bitter grief to me," he contin. to her with a courteous bow. *lid; "for, Ines, yon must know how "I tritest sok permiesion," lie said, "to mud 1 have loved you, Prom, the first introduce rhyeelf. I am an Italia% as ray name shows," moment / saw your tam you have been the star of my Ilfe. Leivingyou is bitter he read the name, end thought to death, for 1 earinot live Without you," hareeif how beautiful and musical it WKS "Are you obliged to go?" &be asked, ...."The Count Rinaldo Montalti." gently, at he for the Bret time elasped "Do you like Spain?" she eked, heir- her hands in his own, "Obliged? Yee," he teplied; urgent • 1t it my Wen," he reared quickit; affaless eall Ins there, Need 1 say that have found here my Eve," IOU let thOM all goe-ility, 1 Would give the ground as he spoke. "I wish to apologise. I fear I alarmed you the oth- er day by My bad horsemanship. I did not know that you were near." She hardly knew, in the confusion of the moment what he said or what re- plies she made to him. He found the daiiiirdirallikiL ' i • my very life itself for one wIrril from, yuu, mmuy beloVed, olie word from these lips would more then repay um for all. Tell me, shall I go or stay ?" He drew her to him, and kissett the beaartifei, girlish hue that dropped up- un"Thie4118114n°e1.1'1'tlitTe. whispered. "Decide for . me. Shall I go or etay?" The breath of the wanner wind was net more sweet than the voice that lour Inured. "Stay." Then he told her how dearly Ire love( her. Surely never diil human lips tell more peselonate or becaltifiel love .stor than those of Count Rinaldo -show he face had 'retorted him in his elm) I>) gattulfitislvi.leett4ree)fr.ausalln lettt le;14.'10, he would be contented to them ewe. smut of her voice never left birnt hor, night and his thoughts by day; elle sea dyepo eition, all his hope* of fit erts;d live only in the sunligh dreaming or waking, th so eloquently told, WWI the soft, south wind wafted to them riel fragrance, end, the ;olden sun seemed t smile upon them,. would, have moved far litu.der heart then that of Inc Lynne. All the poetry and romenee o her gifted nature were erousee. Who ever listened to a first love story an moved? Not tbe beautifal, lonely child wlio had longeet all her life foe love, Ilet heart thrilled with et new and delicious happiness'too vague and, dreamy foi worf4s. She sat in silence, while Its we may luive , to conceal our love' wben end e httd told It, tile dark, love -lit eyes were raised to his face, and a little white hand was laid timiely lit his olvis "You will love me, deapite all, thougb me may have to conceal our toe, and hide it, from all 'human eyed" said the mutt. "You will be true to me, darling while I live?" "I promise," she replied; end in Atte years the words of that betrothal enme back to her with stronger force. "Give me one* more promise, Inez," he continued, "assure me that you Will tell no one this secret of our love," Without the least hesitation elle pledged her word. Torture and death would never tempt her to break it; and so elm took the first step in the thorny path she had to bread. "I shall come earlier to -morrow," said the count, "and stay longer. I have much to say. to you, Inez. Think of me, beloved, until we meet again." There was no need to tell her that. When hacl she ceased to think of him sinee the evening she had seen him first? Now all her dreams weer true, her vise Ions were realized; the handsomest, the bravest, the noblest of cavaliers loved her. HOW tree and disinterested he must be, she thought to love e lonely child, whom all the :world had forgotten. She did not see the other side of the pie. ture; it never entered her mind that there was anything dishonorable in stealing the heart and love of a trusting, innocent child, in so coloring and dire. torting plain honest truths and facts, that what was underhand and deceitful appeared, simply romantic—what was wrong seemed right, and even praisewor- thy. There are men who can so distort trueh. t—and Count 'Rinaldo was one of hni. These things never struck Inez. In her passionate love -dream all was beau- tifal and true; her love was A hero, such as she had read of and dreamed of, but never hoped to see. He loved her as knights of. old loved the ladies who crowned them. What mattered to her now the cold. English father who had "given her away," or the stern gloomy guardian who knew and cared so little for the longings of a young girl's beartt She was indifferent to all, now her life WAS full of a golden light. "I cannot think what has come over that child," saki Madame Monteleone to herself. "She grows mere lovely ev- ery day. I never saw anything like those eyes; something must be done. She cannot lanolin buried here. I will wait two months longer, and then, if I am no better, I will write eto Lord. Lynne." Them two months spoiled the fife of Inez Lynne. , On the morrow Count Rinaldo came. He had so muth-to.say. First of all there was a pathetic history to be given of his family, the Montaltis of Venice— haw in a political crisis that had hap- • pened only twenty year& before, when he WAS a child in his mother's arms, they had lost the whole of their pro- perty. It was confiscated, and given to one of their most hitter opponents.. The blow had killed hie father, and his mo- ther had lived until he was twelve years old. Her email income then became his own, and on that he had subsist, living always in the bop that at some future ady his lost possessions would be restored to him. So far, all was, true; but here Count ,Rinaldo .diverged from the broad line of truth into a narrow lite of fiction. Hie friends, he said, were anxious to bring about a marriage between him ata the only child and heiress of the man who held his estates, the young and beautiful Veronica di Giotto. Here again truth was interwoven with fie-. tion, Veronica di Giotto really existed; but her father would sooner have seen her dead than married to tho Son of one whom he coneidered as a traitor and a. rebel. Such a marriage, ,the count eaid would ultimately restore him to his proper poeition. No doubt of his story crossed the young girl's mind. "And you," she said, looking at him with her shining, love -lit eyes, "you give all this op for me? 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I wish pur love to re - maid a teeret; and yet, Inez—ity• love, my darling—I want you to MVO me from Veroniea di Giotto." "How can 1 do that?" she asked, with it 8"1"Iiiiie. ndinc fast to yourself," he replied, "When my friends renew the stbjeet, let me have it in my power to say that I am married," "But that would ruin your prospects," the said quickly, "Not in that eaee," lustail "Yon mitt understtand, they suppose me to be a stranger to thew intentions; if they hear of My' approaching marriage, they will interfere to prevent ib. If they know nothing of it until they Open these negotiationt with me, they cannot feel either surprise or offeitee if 1 tell them itin married; they will think of Settle other way to serve me," Ile Saw no smile on that beautiful young fare; it wore it bewildered, ex. preitaiett, (Te be eo......._ntirreed.) •14"6413 erAtht etallnythrealtae tttlie de helftairr, theep lives long - 'Steepest Railway in the World. 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When you give your baby or young child Baby's Own Tablets you have 'the .guarantee of a Government analyst that this medicine does tot contain one particle of opiate or narcotic, and therefore cannot pos- sibly do harm—but always do good. Mrs. Geo, M. Keaript, Carleton Place, Ont., says: "I have given Baby's Own Tkasboleldts to my baby sinee he was two wee . He was a very small, thin baby, but thanks to the Tablets he is now a big, fat, healthy boy." Sold by medicine dealers ci?' by inail at 25 cents a box from the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. !- Diplomacy. It was at it well-known sanitarium. A number of frivolously disposed young convalescents were.taking their ease on couches on one of the commodiou.s sun- balconiet of the establishment, and, de- spite the rules enjoining perfect silence upon all, were enjoying a lively conver- sation, mixed in with much giggling. Suddenly, from the darkened depths of a room, the windoWs. of which looked out upon their balcony, there came it plaintive voice "Will you young la.diee be good enough to stop talking so loud?" it said. "3 was tryitg to wake up, and your lovely voices lull mote sleep again every time I get my eyes open."—Harper's Weekly. - • - Minard's Liniment Co„ Llimted: Sirs; --I have used your IelINARD'S LINIMENT for the .past 25 years, and whilst I have occasionally used other liniments, I can safely say that I have never used any equal to yours. If rubbed between the hands and ithaled frequently it will never fail to cure any cold in the head in twenty -Tour hours. It it; also the best; for bruises, sprains, etc. Yours truly, Dartntouth. G. LESLIE, His Pay. "How much?" asked the bridegroom, addressing the Atchison clergyman who had just married them. "Well," the parson replied, "the law allows me $2.t0." Theretpon the groent prodated a half dollar and eaid: 'Here is 50 cents; that will Make it $3."--.Traneas City journal. : Keeping HIM Quiet First Dettf lilute—Who is that fellow over iri the corner of the store with his bands tied behind him? Second Deaf Mute—That is my silent partner,—Harper'e Weekly. • VI110014N fiTRA_Itil.TRZATUISN'T Reins Often Mistaken for Rheum- ikon-410ot tho Qure, A miter:le which has teen etnilned et - tiler by overuss or by use in mews un- treoustomed way Lofton &rho rise to .each eevere symptom a* to lead to a (Nam ale of some ether and More seri- sue trouble. Tide Affection is net tho same nt that veiled royalgia, whiell la. Seed mean* pain in a inneele, but is we- ually of rheumatic or nature. The trouble here nteaet is something less serious, being nothing more than a strain. It is easy to see that any musettlar • pain may be inietaken for rheornatienr or some aente inflanunation, As it may k;ive rise to ereeisely the same peletul eymptome. For example, when it ma itii•s in some muscle on the right hide of the elector:len it has been Jenown to leek for it time exactly like the cello of oppentlields, aria it has tinie and again been treateit uto true rbetimatisin. There are several way e in which the facts may be discovered. On questioning l:, will be found that some muscle or chrtain set of museles has been subjeet- ed to an untieual eti•airi and is in a state of mutiny in consequenee. The pain will be worse at night, and. better in the morning efter the night's rest, proving that it has a basis of fatigue. Further- more, it will yield entirely to a proper amount of rest. in fact thie one thing --rest—comprises the whole of the treatment, When the abdominal muselea are ir- volved there must he rest in bed, with perha.pa some anodyne to deaden thr pain at first—this, of course, to be given only under the order of a physician. 3n ! milder eases the patients can go about their lomat duties if fitted properly with an abdominal belt. When the muscles at the back of the neck are affected it is a great relie Illways to use a hie:backed chair, and • what the pain is in the exin should be worn. When this condition of painful muse] is found in conjunction with a genera loss of tone, as shown by lack of ap petite, pallor and debility, 'then in, at ditiou to local rest to the particula Muscle involvetl. a general Course e tonic treatment should be instituted. When the trouble can be traced direct- lytteo tho daily vocation of the sufferer for it time where this is possible. Unica. tunately -with most persons their daily bread will depend. upon the use of joer, this particular muscle, and in these casee her a ehange should be made in the habits is nothing to do but placate the part with all the rest that can be given It foraouttudliP pitautwoin.thmechanical support YiCe time if thlitr: :s feasible—From th'sont C R S 6URED l herd, soft or bleixiing, by appiril2 ynigil'HIM7aro: You can petnlesely remote hey corn, e son Extreeter, it never bum, kaves tie ennelen no aries lehcarmiesb.eeaueeeouemoesOfhitggla . btIAl4lryrer :t,iresaralraold17airaruaie ha, beam:. Refuse allattitutee, PUTNAM'S PAINLESS CO N_E.XTRACT9F1_ Parliamentary Bulk. Quite meetly All Irish mornber In a speech emmernIng the 11°110'34 question &dared that in Ireland at the present time 5*.(or fewer than 250,000 people live In ono room." Several members sup geeted that "perhaps the honorable member could Provide the dimensions ef the one room referred to," while a general titter wont round the House. In the dientIM some months ago au en. h3uelaetie M. P. made reference to the Boer War and declared "that it was most unfair to send young men to the front, v,liere they got shot, and they ex- pcet them to live on sixpence a day." A certain Welsh member earned notoriety for himself by eereaming into the ears of an excited House: "The right hon- orable member knew the well WU rem- ning dry, and yet he thought that by settieg to work with a pruning knife to bring grist to the raill."—Tit-Bits. THE "CHAMPION" GAS and GASOLINE ENGINES It must give leads - faction or you don't pay for it, . sow ON TRIAL. Is the only Gasoline Engine that you can try before you buy. I know what the "Cham- pion.' will do, and I want you to be fully satisfied with it before you pay for it. The pr co s iow, Pull particulars free, Wm. Gillespie, 98 Front St, E.JOSONTO Diagnosis. 1 Sincerity. Sincerity is just whole -heartedness. means, literally, "without wax." Yo have seen figures put together with eve —they seem entire, uniform, all of piece; artifically put together. At firs sight you may look at then long with out detecting the imposture. If you wish to detect it at once apply heat t them; the fire will try every man! work, of what sort it is. Put heat to your wax figure and it will go to pieces in a moment. The fire will not eo much destroy it, as destroy its deception; i will send it back to its original elements —ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The fire or God does not destroy; it restores things to their normal state. The wax figure is the real destroyer. it breaks the harmony of nature; it takes things out of their place; it joins together what God has put asunder. And the fire breaks the false union. It- annuls the marriage between a saintly impact and a selfish soul. It forbids the bats be- tween rest and selfishness. It. burns the gorgeous raiment of the despairing heat, and tells it that it le despairing. It withers the leaves of the fig tree which deceive by false promise of ma- turity; lb separatesthe beauty and the barrenness which have made their home together.—George Matheson. e r - Unimportant. ' The captain of a certain yaoht had evinced an anxiety touching a mishap to the craft that at once attracted the attention of a fair passenger on board. "Wamt's the trouble, captain?" asked she. "The feet is, ma'am," was the res ponse, "our rudder's broken," "Oh, I shouldn't worry about that;' said the lady. "Being under the Water nearly all the time, no one will notice that it's gone."—Harper's Weekly. • • • Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Valued Advertising. Fifty years ago Mr. Thomas Beecham, who recently died, and who foundedthe faanous pill -manufacturing firm, was sell- ing pills in the market -place of St. Hel- ens. The stall from which he sold them consisted of a fish -tub and a tray which was formerly part ore door. One day a woman dame up to him and said that his pills had. done her so numh good that they "were worth a guinea a box." The phrase gripped Mr. Beecham, and he spent hundreds of thousands of pounds to advertise it, and to point the moral of the pill. The vast business at St. Helens is the result. Mr. Beecham was it model business man, and a great believer In the value of advertising, He onee stated that his firm spent Z100,000 a year in letting the publie Icnow all about the value of Beecham's pills. He 'easel( managed and controlled his advertising department for a great number of years, and no man knew better how to get the greetteat possible value from an outlay on printer's ink. Into a general store of a town in Ar- kansas there recently came A darky • complaining that a ham which he had • purchased there was not good. "The tom is all right, Zepli," insisted ' tho • storekeeper. "No, it ain't, boss," Insisted the ne- gro. "Dat ham's shore bad." "Haw can that. be?" continued the storekeeper, "when it was cured only last week?" The darky seratched his head reflect- -1 ively, and finally. suggested: "Den, maybe at had a relapse."—liar- per's Weekly. BETTER THAN SPANKING. ; Spanking does not euro children of bed-wetting, There M a constitutional cause for this trouble, Mrs. M. Sum - t mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send u free to any mother her successful home treatment, with full instrutions. Send a no money, but write her to -day if your t children trouble you in this way.,Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it, This treatment also cures adults 1 and aged fieople troubled- with urine dit- ° ficulties by day or night. Handsome Is as Handsome Does. Augustus Thomas, the playwright, t told in a recent speech cif a hunting trip he had taken in the south. They were after 'coons and 'possums, but the only 'trail the dogs struck was one will& made them put their tails between their legs and turn for home. . "Just what does a polecat look like?" Mr. Thomae asked one of his negro guides. "A polecat, boss? Why, a polecat's semen:1 like a kitten, only prettier, Yee, a polecat's a heap prettler'n a kitten, ain't it, Sam?" he said, turning to an- other negro for corroboration, - Sam. did not seem so sure. He hest- - tated a moment. "Well," he replied, scratching his wool, ."it's always been mah contention diet handsome is as handsome does."—Every- body's Magazine. PILES CURED 1N8 TO 14 DAYS. PAW OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50o. _7 Too Suggestive. Whubleton—Hello, Simpletonl How did you enjoy your visit' to the insane asylum the other day? - Simpleton—Oh, so, so. It was all right - enough, I guess. .Wimbleton—Well, you don't talk as - though you were much impressed with It. Did you give the stiperitendent my note of introduction? Simpleton—Yes, I gave it to him. Wimbleton—Well, what did he say? „ Simpleton—Oh, he just looked at me 1 - An Elastic Compliment. Could anything eve:led the politeness of the Irish cabby? An old lady, called for re cab and said to the driver: "Help me to get in, my good man, for 31ni,,neagoenisk•ery, wayosuhiiiee." his reply, noo matter what ago ye are ye don't look II."—"Tit-Bit," - To have his memory kept green a. man Mint be true blue. THE FAVORITES EDDY'S "SILENT" HATCHES "boom is the Sphlrot 1's THIL MOST PERFECT MATCHES 1011 EVER STRUM Alio" aterywhwe 1. Callatla, ask for Eddy's Matched and said, "Make yourself at home."— • Lippincott's. To Underwood users throughout the Dominion we extend our very best wiehea for a busy and prosperous New Year. UNITED TYPEWRITER CO. Lamm 9 Adelaide Si. East - TORONTO Haluilton, Montreal, London, Halifax, Winnipeg, St. John, lkimonton. — - Dull Season. TWo men mot on the street. They hadn't seen ezich other for months. One of them had a wife who occasionally fig- ured in the society columns. After they had exchanged VI OWS on things in gen. cral, the other man asked him: "Is your wife entertaining this winter?" ' "Not 'very," (raid he.—Everybody's Magazine. 11 4- Minard's Lltairrtent Cures Distemper. •-t : 1: Doubtful Bargain. "Don't you remember me?" Said the thin chap with the sharp goatee and yellow satchel.. "Why, 1 am the corn doctor that removed your corns last suemer." "Year:, 1 rementber yeou, stranger," mumbled old Bill Sprueeby, as he pulled _1110 chair up (door to the red-hot stove in the back of Jason's dote. "Then, how Is it �U dooet mem glad to see mef Didn't 1 retnove them all for a quarter?" "'rem, but after the came Were gone I had to pay 30 cents for a barometer • to see 'when we were going to have fall. Ing weather. Don't SO much bargain in that, stranger."—Chiceeto News, Don't Dere to Be. Mr. Highbrow—It was Michele% I believe, Who observed that "WOM04.1 Is the salt of a mans' life," Miss Reen—Quite true troung men • areit't half so fresh after they get mar4 ried.—tioston Tratiectipt. in 1111111 ISSUE Mx 14 UO) Ilner WANTED, A 141312191.78 Mei AND *want, WOR X .4 A. home. were alias copying and 01#001(101 our :elver:Wag lareeseitil. Mod Pay. ei44 Weekly: reliable, iWIsti etaln4). Dept. O., SIMP- 10X Mtg. 00 loondott. Pot, LI out 4bilot looking *ample ease, best geed*. and the best terms. Alfred Tyler, Lendorir But* FOR MOPERN HOTEL, FOR SALE. T MOST REASONABLE vitoposrriON A, ever etterzi--a golden oppertuuity to gatna.tr'slagtes,lrig rosts.t7ifeZ: snakes an annual profit of twenty toousand: 11 wil* adIrequire twenty-five thoturand east te. 11)Vilti clin=istrargligterlirex= as part eerment. W. T. MeNeuzie, Royal ba - tel. Weyburii, Sase. 150 OLD TIME SONGS Words Pnd ritual° OoTpleto 110 COMIC itEi,;ITATIONS, THE PRACTIC- AL POULTRY KEEPER. 10 ceets each Or for sa emus and our Catelogue pi 400 Beek ilergalne The It, 0. worn 00., Dept. A., Oef, Talking Post Cards. The talking postal card' is the inven- tion of a French engineer, and hes be- come So ,popular in that country that the American rights have been secured and the device will be pieced in the cit- ies of the United States. The person wishing to send a talking postal card. to a friend, enters the booth and talks into a machine that records the words on the specially prepared postal card. When the recipient receives the card a hundred or a thousand utiles away, he, or perhaps she, takes the card to the nearest postal booth and inserts it in a trachine which talks the message it con- tains. The reeord, on the postal card M indestructible and the exact voice of the sender is heard.—Popular Mechanics. 1 : I A Woman's Sympathy Are you discouraged? Is your doctor'a bill a heavy financial ioa.d? Is your pain a heavy physical burden7 1 know what these mean to delicate women -.-j have been discouraged, too; but learned how to cure newer. I want to relieve 'Your bur- dens, Why not end the pain and stop the doctor's bill? I can do this for 7011 and will if you will assist me. AU Isuellreeemcledy which hats been placed do Is to write for a free In my hands to be given away. Perhaps this one box will cure you—it has done so for others. If so, I shall be happy and you will be cured for 2c (the cost of a postage stamp). Your letters held confi- dentially. Write to -day for my free treat- ment. MRS. P. re CURRA.11, Windsor, Ont. - New Express Classification. A new classification approved by the Railway Commission and governing bus- iness within Canada has been issued by the express compeller to take effeot the first of January, 1909. The old classifi- cation has been in effect since August, 1905, It was the same as used by the express companies in the United States and contained hiany items not applicable to the conditions existing in Canada. The new classification is a modification of the one which was submitted to the board in March, 1907, but to which, ow- ing to press of other business, the board was not able to give its attention until recently. Don't lie awake nights, nervous and feverish. Ten to one youreleepless- mess is causpd by a torpid liver. .A. few days' treat- ment with CeleryRing, the tonic -laxative, will make your nights restful and strengthening. 25 cents, at dealers or by maiL B. C. Wella ,St Co., Toronto. eta Teo 110 The Latest "Hit." The celebrated soprano was in the middle of her solo when little 'Johnny said to his mother, referring to the con- ductor of the orchestra: "Why does that man hit at the woman with his stick?" "He is not lathing at her," replied his mother. "Keep quiet." "Well, then, what is she Siolleriria for?—Success Magazine. • Minard's Liniment Cures Garget Cows. 1 Torteorial Tale. "By Jove, Carl," said Bentley, as the barber rubbed the top of his head, "that feels mighty good, can tell you. The man who invented massage was not only a genius, but a benefactor to the whole human race. They ought to put up a statue to him. There's • nothing lige it when a fellow feels seedy. There's only /One trouble about IL" "Vot iss it?" asked Carl, hoping that perhaps he might overcome the difficul- ty. "Why, its' all on the outside," said Bentley. "If there were only some appa- ratus that would enable you to ger in- side a fellow's head and clear out the pains of theAnorning after, what a bless- ing it would be." "Veil," said Karl, "1 tink that maybe some day dose vacuunecleaner fellers. vill do dot already yet. Vot?"—Har- per's Weekly. ." I MInited's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. - - In 1968. Grandpa (peevishly)—Well, y'ean talk all you like ithout. Rocketships, Monor- ail -fliers and this here neW lino of New York and Loudon night boats, but give mo the good old times. Folks didn't used fo be in such a tearing hurry. Iit my day, if we hiked along at 65 miles an hour, we though it was fast nough for euybody.—Puck. The best way to manage It husband! Is to select orte who doesn't need man. Aging.