The Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-14, Page 711
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DANGERS 01? PESSIMISM.
SERMON ET ION, T. DEWITT TAlcs
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When Rev. Dr. Talmage (same lipoi
the stage in the Academy of Music,New
Toxic, on Sunclayehefotesa before him an
audience st Melt is seldom Seeli iuany
pain building in .America, The vast
epees was crow ed from auditorium to
topmost gallerte and the aisles and corri-
dors literally blocked, while many thous-
ands who had come to hear him preach
crowded 1.4th skeet and Irving Place, un-
able to gain, admission. He took for his
alibied, "The Dangers of Pessimism,"
the text selected being, Psalm 116 :11, "I
said in tny,haste, all men are liars."
Swindled, betrayed, persecuted David,
in a paroxyism of petulance and rage,
thus insulted the human, race. David
himself falsinea when he said., "All men
are liars." He apologizes and said he was
unusually provoked, and that he was
baster when he hurled such universal de-
nunciation. "I said in my haste," and
so on. It was in him only a rnoraentaxy
triumph of pessimism, There is ever and
anon, awl never more than now, a dispo-
anion. abroad to distrust everybody, ancl
because some bank employes defraud, to
distrust all bank employes; and because
some police officers have taken bribes, to
believe all policemen take bribes ansl
because divorce eases are in court, tO. be-
lieve that most, if not all, marriage rela-
tions are unhappy:. There are sten who
seem rapidly coming to adopt this creed.
All men are liars, scoundrels, thieves,
libertin s. When a new ease of perfidy
comes to the surface, these people dap
their hands in glee. It gives piquancy to
their breakfast if the morning newspaper
discloses a new exposure or a new arrest.
They grow fat on vermin. They join the
devils in hell in jabila,tion over recreancy
and pollution. If some one arrested is
proved. innocent, it is to them a disap-
pointment. They would rather believe
evil than good. They are vultures, pre-
ferring carrion. They would like to be a
commit ee to find something wrong.
They wish that as eyeglaoses have been
invented to improve the sight and ear
trumpets have been invented to help the
hearing, a corresponding instrument
might be invented for the nose, to bring
nearer a malodor. Pessimism says of the
church : "The majority of the members
are hypocrites, although it is no temporal
advantage to be a member of the church,
avid therefore there is no temptation to
hypocrisy." Pessimism says that the in-
flueuce of newepapers is only bad, and
that they are corrupting the world, when
the fact is that they are the mightiest
agency for the arrest of crime, and the
spread of intelligenceeand the printing
press, secular and religious, is setting the
nations free. The whole tendency of
things is towards cynicism and gospel of
Smash-up. We excuse David of the text
for a paroxysm of disgust, because he
apologises for it to all iiste centuries, but
it is a deplorable fact that many have
taken the attitude of perpetual distrust
and a,nathematization. There are, we
must admit, deplorable fads, and we
would not hide or minify them. We are
not much encouraged to find that the
great work of official reform in New York
City begins by a propoaition to the liquor
dealers to break the law by keeping: their
saloons open on Sunday from 2 in the
afternoon to 11 at night. Never since
America was disc ,vered has there been a
worse insult to sobriety, and decency,
and religion than that proposition. That
proposition is equal to saying: "Let law
and order and religion have a chance on
Sunday forenoon, but Sunday afternoon
open all the gates to gin, and alcohol, and
Schiedam schnapps, and. sour mash, and
Jersey lightning, and the variegaeed swill
ef breweries, and drunkenness, and crime.
amaseerste the first balf of the Sunday to
God, and the last half th the devil. Let
the children on their way th Sunday
schools in New York at 3 .o'clock in the
afternoon meet the alcoholism that does
more than all other causes combined th
rob children of their fathers and mothers
and strew the land with helpless orphan-
age. Surely strong drink can kill
enough peeple and destroy enough fam-
ilies, and , sufficiently crowd the alms-
houses and penitentiaries in six days of
the week, -without giving it an extra hall
day for pauperism and assassination.
Although we are eot very jubilant over
a inuincipal reform that opens the exer-
cises by a doxology to rum, we have full
faith in God, and in the Gospel, which
will yet sink all iniquity as the Atlantic
ocean melts a flake of snow. What we
want, and what I believe we will have, is
• a great religious awakening that will
moralize and Christianize our great pope.-
lations, and make them superior to temp-
tations, whether unlawful or legalized.
So I see no cause for disheartenment.
Pessimism is a sin, and those who yield
to it oripple themselves for the war, on
one side of which are all the forces of
darkness, led on by Apollyon, and an the
other side of which are all the fora s of
light, led on. by the Omnipotent. I risk
the statement that the vast majority of
people are doing the best they can. Nine
hundred and ninety-nine out of a thous-
and of the offidals of the municipal and
the 'United States governments are hon-
est. Out of a thousand bank presidents
and cashiers, nine hundred and ninety-
nine are worthy the position they occupy.
Out of a thousand merchants, mechanics
and professional men, nine lauxtdred and
ninety-nine are doing their duty as they
understand it. Out of one thousand engi-
neers and conductors, and switchmen,
nine hundred and ninety-nine are true to
their responsible positions. It is seldom
that peeple arrive at positions of responsi-
bility until they have been tested over
and over again. If the theory of the pes-
sirnist were ametrate, society would long
have gone to pieces, and civilization
would have been submerged with barbar-
ism, and the wheel of the eenturies would
have turned back to the dark ages. A
wrong impression is made thet because
t•wo men falsify their bank meows -be,
these two wrongdoers are blazoned before
the world, while nothing is said in praise
of the hundreds of bank elerks who heve
stood at their desks year be and year out
until their health is evell iligh gone, tak-
ing not a pin's worth of that whieh be-
longs to others for themselves though
With a single stroke of pen they saight
have enriched themselves, and built their
&sultry seats on this banks of the Hadson,
or Rhine. 11 is a meat thing it human
nature that men and women are not
praised for doingwell, but oily exeoriated
when they do wrong. By Manus arrange-
ment the mod of tho families of the earth
are at peace, and the most of those united
in marriege have Thr each other affinity
and Oedema They may have oocasioal
differences, and here and there a Beeson
of pout, but the vast majority of thine in
the coupgal relation, chose the most ap-
peopriate oompanionship, and aro happy
in that relation. You hear 'nothing of
the quietude and happiness of euch homes',
though nothing last death will the part,
But one sound of merited discord makes
the ears of a contineet, wao perhaps of a
het:00010re, alert. The este letter that
ought never to have been written, print-
ed m a newspaper, makes more talk than
the millions of letters that crowd, the post -
offices, and weigh down the mail earners,
with expressions of honest love. Tolstoi,
the great Russian author, is wrong when
he prints a book for the depredation of
marriage. If your observation has put
you in an attitude of deploration for the
marriage state, ono or two things is true
in regard to you ;, you have either been
'unfortunate in your acquaintanceship or
you youxself are morally rotten. The
world, not as rapid as we would like, but
still with long strides, is on the way to
the scenes of beatitude and felicity wisich
the Bible depicts. The man who cannot
see this is Wr0310'°, either in his heart, or
liver or spleen. Look at the great Bible
picture gallery, where Isaiah has set up
the picture of aboreseence, girdling the
world with cedar, and fir, and pine, and
boxwood, and. the lion led by a child;
and St. John's pictures of waters and
trees, and white horse cavalry, and tears
wiped away, and trumpets blown, and
harps struck and nations redeemed..
While there are ten thousand things 1 de
not like, I have not seen any discourage-
ment for the cause of God for twenty-five
years. The Kingdom is corning. The
earth ie preparing to put on bridal array.
We need to be getting our anthems and
grand marches ready. In our hymnology
we shall have more use for Autioch than
for Windham; for Ariel than. for Naomi.
Let "Hark ! from the Tonabs a Doleful
Cry," be submerged with -ley to the
World, the Lord lias come !" Really, if
I thought the human race were as deter-
mined to be bad, and getting worse, as
the pessimists represent, I would. think it
was hardly worth saving. If after
hundreds of years of Gospelization no
improvement has leen made, let us
give it up and go at something else
beside preaching and praying. ItIy opin-
ion is that if we had enough faith in
quick results and could go forth rightly
equipped with the Gospel call; the battle
for God and righteousness would end with
this nineteenth century, and the twenti-
eth century, only five or six years off,
would begin the milennium, and Christ
would reign, either in person on some
throne set up between the Aleghanies
and tbe Rockies, or in the Institutions of
mercy and grandeur set up by His ran-
somed people. Discouraged work will
meet with defeat. Expectant and buoy-
ant work will gain the victory. Start out
with the idea that all men are liars and
scoundrels and that everybody is as bad
as he can 'be, and that society, and the
Church, and the world are on. the way to
demolition, and the only use you will ever
be th the world will be to increase the
value of lots in a cemetery. We need a
nate cheerful front in all our religious
work. People have enough trouble al-
ready, and do not want t , ship another
cargo of trouble in the shape of religios-
ity. If religion has been to you. a peace,
a defense, an inspiration, and a, joy, say
so. Say it by word of mouth; by peu in
your right hand; by face illuminated
with a Diyine satisfaction. If the world
is ever to be taken for God; it will not be
by groans, but by hallelujahs. If we
could present the Christiau religion. as it
really is in its true attractiveness, all
the people would accept it, and accept it
right away. The cities, the nations would.
cry out : 'Give us that! Give it to us in
all its holy magnetism and. graeious
power ! Put that salve on our wounds!
Throw back the shutters for that morn-
ing light ! Knock of these chains with
that silver hammer! Give us Christ—
His pardon, His peace, His comfort, His
heaven 2 Give us Christ in song; Christ
in sermon; Christ in book; Christ in liv-
ing example."
then she puts ,her head en the pitlow far
the aight, and the angels ' of eafety and
pettee stand sentinel behind that eateeh
in the farm house ; and her face ever and
anon shows signs of dreams about the
Heaven she read of before retiring. In.
the morning the day's work has 'begun
down stairs, and seated at tte table the
remark is made; ',Iliother ariuet have
overelept herself.' And the granachin
dem also notice thet •grendutetter laeb-
sett from her usual place at the table.
One of the grandinsildren goes to the foot
of the stairs ancl ories, "Grandmother I"
But there is 310 auswer. Fearing some-
thing is the matter, they go ap and see,
and all seems right. The spectacles and
Bible on the stand, and the eovers on the
bed are smooth, Old the fame is calm, her
-white hair on the white pillow case like
snow on snow already fallen. But her
soul is gone to look upon the things that
the night before she had been reading in
the Seriptures, Whet a traneporting
look on the dead old wrinkled face! She
has seen the "Ring in His beauty." She
has been welcomed by the "Lamb who
was slain." And her two eldest sons,
having harried up -stairs, look and. whisp-
er, Henry to George, "That is religion 2"
and George to Henxy, "Yes, that is re-
ligion !"
e
There is a New York merohant who has
been in business I should say forty or fifty
years. During an old-fashioned revival
of religion in boyhood he gave his heart
to God. He did not make the ghastly,'
and infinite, and everlasting mistake of
sowing "wild oats," with the expectation
of sowing good wheat later on. He realized
the fact that the Eirost of those who sow
"wild oats" never reap any other crop.
He started right, and has kept right. He
went down in 1857, when the banks fail-
ed, but he failed. honestly, and never lost
his faith in God. Ups and downs—he
sometimes laughs over them—but whether
losing or gaining, he was growing better
all the time. He has been in many busi-
ness ventures, but he never ventured the
experiment of gaining the weed and los-
ing his soul. His name is a power both
in the ehureh and in the business world.
He has drawn more cheques for contribu-
tions to asylums, and churches and
schools than any one except God knows.
He has kept may a business man from
fall lig by lending his name on the back
of a note till the crisis was past. All
Heaven knows about' him, for the poor
woman whose rent he paid in her last
days, and the man with consumptien in
hospital to whom he sent flowers and the
cordial juse before ascension., and the
people he encouraged in many ways,
after they entered heaven kept talking
about it ; for the immortals are neither deaf
nor dumb. Well it is about time for the
old merchant himself to quit. earthy resi-
dence. As it is toward evening, he shuts
the safe, puts the roll of newspapers in
his pocket, thinking the family may like
to read them after he gets home. He
folds up a five dollar bill and. gives it th
the boy to carry to one of the carmerewho
got his leg broken and. may be in need of
a little money; puts a starap on a letter
to his grandson at college, a letter -with
,,sood advice and. an enclosure to smalte the
holidays happy; then looks around. the
store or office, . and says to the clerks,
"Good evening," and .starts for home,
stopping on the -way at a door th ask how
his old friend, a deacon in the same
church, is getting on since his last bad
attack of vertigo. He enters his own
home, anti that is his last evening on
earth. He does not say mech. No last
words are neoessarv. His whole life has
been a testimony for God and righteous-
ness. More people would. like to steered
his obsequies than any house or church
wo-uld hold. The el:fit:eating clergyman
begins his remarks by quoting from the
Psalmist : "Help, Lord, for the godly
man ceasethfor the faithful fail from
anamag the children of men." Every hour
in heaven for all the million years of
eternity that old merchant will see the re-
sults of his earthly beneficence and fidel-
ity while on the street where he did
business, and in the orphan asylum in
which he was a director, and in the
church in which he was an officer, when-
ever his geniality, and beneficence, and
goodness are referred to, bank director
will say to bank director, and merchant
to merchant, and neighbor to neighbor,
and Christian. to Christian., "That is re-
ligion. Yes, that is religion."
As a system of didactic,s, religion has
never gained one inch of progress. As a
technicality, it befogs more. than it irra-
dicates. As a dogmatism, it is an awful
failure. But as a fact, as a reinforce-
ment, as a transfiguration, it is the
mightiest thing that ever descended from
the heavens, or, touched the earth. Ex-
emplify it in the life of a good man or a
steed woman, and no one can help but
like it. A city missionary visited a house
in London and found a sick and dying
boy. There was an orange lying on his
bed, and the missionary said, "Where
did you get that orange?" He said., "A
man brought it to me. He comes here
often, and reads the Bible to me, and
prays with me, and brings me nice things
th eat." "What is his name?" said the
city missionary. "I forget his name,"
said. the sick boy, "but he makes great
speeches over in that great building,"
pointing to the Parliament House cf Lon-
don. The missionary asked, "Was his
name Mr. Gladstone?" "Oh, yes," said
the boy, "that is his name; Mr. Glad-
stone." Do you tell me a man can see
religion like that and not like it? There
is an old-fashioned mother in a farm-
house. Perhaps she is somewhere in the
seventies; perhaps seventy-five or seven-
ty-six. It is the early evening hour.
Through spectacles No. 8 she is reading a
newspaper until towards bedtime, when
she takes up a well worn Book, called the
Bible. I know from the illumination in
her face she is reading one of the thanks-
giving Psalms, or in Revelation the story
of the twelve pearly gates. After awhile
she closes the book, and folds her hands,
and thinks over the past, and seems whis-
pering the names of her children'some of
them on earth, and some of them in
heaven. Now a smile is on her face, and
now a tear, and sometimes the smile
catches the tear. The scenes of a long
life some back to her. One minute she
sees all the children smiling around her,
with their toys, and sports, and strange
questionings. Then she remembers seve-
ral of them down sick with infantile dis-
orders. Then she sees a short grave, but
ove it out in marble: "Suffer thern to
003310 to Me." Then there is the wedding
hour, and the neighbors in, and the pro-
mise of "I will," and the depeature from
the old homestead, Then. a scene of hard
times, and scant bread, and struggle.
Then she thinks of a few years with gush
of sunshine, and flittings oadark shadows
and vicissitudes. Then she kneels down
slowly, for many years have stiffened the
,ioints, and the illnesses of a lifetime have
made her less supple. Her prayer is a
mixture of thanks for sustaining tame°
during all those years.; and thanks for
children good, and Chructian, and kind;
and a prayer for the wandering boy,
whom she hopes to see some home before
her departure. And then her trembling
lips speak of the land of retinion, where
she expecte to meet her loved cn.es already
translated; atd after telling the Lord 111
very situate language how miich she loves
Him, and trests Him, and hopes te see
Him soon, I hear her aronourtce the genet
"Amen.," and she rises up—a little more
cl Micah effort than kneelnag dowt. And
religion 1" My lord and My Gisd, give no
more of it !
• Why, mY hearers from all parts °Me
earth, do yoa not get this brigist, and
beautiful, and radiant, and blissful, and
triumphant thing for yoarselves, then go
home telling all your neighbors onethe
Pacific, or in Neva Scotia, or in Loaise
loam, or Maine, or Brazil, or England, or
Italy, or any other part of the vend
world, that they may have it, too; have
it for the asking; have it not ? Wad
you, I do not start from the pessintistie
standeoint that David did, when he
got road and said in his haste,
"‘Allenext are liars !" or front the 'creed of
others that every man is as bad al he 013X).
be. I rather think from your Id ks that
you are doing about as well as you can in
the circumstances in, whicb yon are plac-
ed,. but I want to invite you up into
heights of safety, and satisfaction, and
holiness, as raucia higher the n those
which the world afforcs, as Everest, the
highest mountain in all the earth, is
hi her then, your front doorstep.
Here Be comes now, Who is it?
might he alarmed and afraid if I had not
seen Him before and heard His voice.
thought He would some before I got
through with this sermon. Stand back
and make way for Him. He comes with
scars all around his forehead; scars in
both hands stretched cut to greet you;
scars on the instep of both the feet with
which He advance; sears on the breast
under which throbs the great heart of
sympathy which feels for you. I an-
nounce Hiro. I introauce Him to you :
Jesus of Bethlehem, and Olivet, and Gol-
gotha. Why comest Thou hither this
winter day, Thou c1 the springtime and
sumraexy heavens? He answers: To give
all this audience pard n for guilt; eon-
dolence for grief; whole regiments of
help for day of battle; and eternal life for
the dead? 'What response shall I give
'him ? In your behalf end in my own be-
half I hail him with the ascription:
"Unto Him who bath loved us, and et ash -
ed us from ow- sins in His own blood, and
hath made us kings and priests into God
and His Father; to Him be g'ory and
dominion. °rover and ever. Amen."
There is a naval seated or standing very
near you. Do not look at him, for it
might be unnecessary embarrassment.
Only a few minutes ago he came down off
the steps of as happy a home as there is
in this or any other city. Fifteen years
ago, by reason of his dissipated habits,
his home was a horror to wife and chil-
dren. What that WOULA12 went through
with in order to preserve respectability
and hide her husband's disgrace is a
tragedy which it would require a Shakes-
peare or Vietcr Hugo to write out in five
tremendous acts. Shall. I tell it? He
streck her! Yes, the one who at the
altar he had taken with vows so
solemn they made the orange blossoms
tremble! He struck hen! He made the
beautiful holidays "a neigh of terror."
Instead of his supporting her, she sup-
porting him. The children had often
heard hixn speak the name of God, but
never in prayer, only in profanity. It
was the saddest thing on earth that I can
think of—a destroyed home! 'Walking
along the street one day an impersona-
tion of all wretchedness, he saw a sign at
the door of a Young Men's Christian As-
sociation: "Meeting for men only." He
went in, hardly knowing why he did so,
and sat down by the door, and a young
man was in broken voice and poor gram-
mar telling how the Lord had saved him
from a dissipated life,andthe man beak
by the door said to himself, why cannot
I have the Lord to do the same thing for
me, and he put his hands all dremble
over his bloated face, and said, "0 God,
I want that! I must have that !" and
God said, "You shall have it, and you
have it now P' An.cl the man came out,
and went home a changed man, and
though the children at first shrunk back,
and looked to the mother, and began to
cry with fright, they soon saw that the
father was a ehanged man. That hottie
has changed from "Paradise lost" to
"Paradise Regained.", The wife stegs all
day long at her work, for she is so heppy,
and the ehild.ren rush out luta the hall at
the first rattle of the father's key in the
doorlateh to welcome him with caresses,
and questions of, "What have you
brought me." They have family prayers.
They elm 'altogether on the road to
Heaven, and when, the journey of life is
over they will live forever in eaela other's
companionship. Two of their darling
children aro there already, waiting for
father and mother to come up. Witt
ehanged the man? What reconstructed
that home ? What took that wife who
was a slaveof fear and (Imagery, and
made her, a queen on the throne of &taw-
tiou. 1 hear a whispering all throtlgh
thie assemblage. I know what you are
1"That's religion Yes, that's
Study of W mantled.
The poet says : "The study of mankind
is man, and it seems that the most in-
teresting study cf womankind is woman,
not because they like -women better than
men, but because they are more difficult
to understand. Yet one of the constitu-
tional opinions of the average man is that
women are all alike. It is p rpetually
heard when he is speaking, sometimes in
the way of sympathy and kindness, but
oftener in the way of derisi, n nd con-
tempt. There are doubtless many types
of men, but all have certain qualities in
common., a vein of worship and a vein. of
disdain fcr women running side by side
in their mental make-up. When a wife
has elute to her husband—a scoundrel—
losing all her frieia 's and hopes hr bap-
pitess ; when a mother has sacrificed her
life th save a child; when a girl hasgiv n
up what she holds dearest 111 life Jose-
phine -like, to advance an arnbitiou;lover,
we hear our brothers 2 eraark : "It• is just
like a woman." We hear the same re-
mark if a woman has involved her father
in debt, if a -wife has proeen'false to her
husband, if a girl, by her inconstancy,.
has wrecked some man's life. This dis-
sent is due to the fact that some men are
sentimentalists and some men are cynics.
The former are always making honeyed
speeches about women; the latter are
generally sneering at or It crying her, if
they are not ign.oring her existence. Both
agree in thinking that she has only one
nature. One believes her to be good, gen-
tle, loyal, self-sacrificing, truthful under
every circumstec os; tb e other pronounces
her bad, harsh, inconstant, hypocritical
on instinct. Neither is wholly light or
wholly wrong. Different women pos-
sess these different qualities, and in
some the good and bad are blended. Her
qualities depend. largely on the indivi-
dual, and the individual varies with mood
and surroundings. No woman is perfect,
neither is there one altogether base. In
first place she is human just as her bro-
ther es—a compound of brain and body,
of strength and weakness, of generosity
and selfishness, of charity and prejudice,
of affection and hatred. Some women
are immeasurably better, so tr e immeasur-
ably worse than the mass, but whether
good or bad, they are altogether unlike
one another.
Who is responsible for the average
man's opinion. of women? Are not poets
and novelists to a great degree? The
'poets havegenerally depicted her as a be-
ing of passion and romance; an embodi-
ment of virtue to set off the darkness of
men's sins. She has been portrayed as
their good angel, turning them from vici-
ous habits and comforting them in illness
and affliction; blessing them after all
their trials with unalterable love. All
this many women do, though she fre-
quently does the opposite. We rarely
read it in poetry though. When they
do present a really wicked women they so
overdraw her character that she appears
unreal and impossible. They do not try
to delineate a woman—a human being --
in whom good and evil are struggling for
the mastery or one full of noble impulses
whose destiny is deckled by the malign
balinence of her environmeuts.
The novelists err in the same why, and
their effect on the reader is, perhaps
greater beeause they presume to paint
life as it is, while the poet strives to por-
tray the ideal. Many of the greatest
novelists have but two kinds of women,
the amiable but insipid, and the clever
but wicked—as if goodness were incongru-
ous with force and mtenect. Very often
these saints degenerate into great sin-
ners,and the sinners are transformed in-
to saints. Such is not the case in real
life. The sentimentalists accept the
pleasant personages as true; the eynics,
rejecting those, accept the unpleasant as
true, and thus the opinion that ell wo-
men are alike is strengthened. Nature
and tar tell two different stories.
TRIALS) OtaniOVERTICS.
One of Teens liroustt to leight ln the
, Vase sit' ants,
: 'The writer can. vbeeli: for 'the atithenta
city of this story. 'In an eastern state
there has beets a aeries of barn burniags,
which had nestreyed thadsends of dal -
worth of property. Insome ciises
residences and. sta. es had caught fire and
there was leo end to the damage. Fite
heroes and vehicles, hay, grain of esseey
KO and. the odds and, ends of property
which is generally stored in berns • all
.weut, The citizees of the little village
eseregaeatly Meet sed ad left no means
untried to eatch the offender. Finally
during the thirteenth fire the guilty man,
and hie confederate were caught. Pepin
lar indignation rasOso high that had the
crime °marred in Rentucky or the west,
the men would have been lynched, and
as the popular novels say, 'aids story
would never have been writtea," But
they were thrown into jail to await trial.
The day before the trial a prominent
man eelled upon the chief offendser'
wife and a -and ber crying bitterly.
He looked about in vamn. for some means
of comforting her, but could only pat her
ort the shout or and. say:
. "There Mrs, S., don't take rn so. May-
be they'l ()leer him," thoegh down Mists
heart he hoped they evcculdn't. But stte
only wailed louder,
"Oh, it isn't that. But to think Jim's
to be tried to -morrow before a big crowd o
people and he hasn't got any steckpin for
his necktie. He is awful proud, Jim. is,
and e ben he was arrested he told nie t
get him, a stickpin if I could, but, I haven'
been. able to says a cent. Oh, its awful t
be so poor."
And this kind -hese -tea man Bothell
took out a dollar and told her if she °mil
find a etickpin at that price to get it fox
Jim to wear at court and save She famil
pride.
Wit and Humor.
A gentleman enters a telegraph office
"I beg pardon, but as Iwas coming alon
this afternoon I saw myriads of flies se
tied on your wires. Can you suggest a
explanation ?"
"About wbat time was it, sir?"
"About 4 o'clock."
' ".Ah, that accounts for it ; that's th
time I send quotations for sugar an
honey."
Jasper—I have noticed a peculia
thing about men who claim to believe i
nothing.
Jumpuppe—What is it ?
ran
Jasper—Tbey always hereon tinspe&k
able belief in themselves.
Mrs. Young love—Y-you didn't give 11
me any b -birthday present—and kne
you w -wouldn't (Weeps,)
Younglove (soothingly)—There, there
my love -,. since you had the gift of pro
phecy, what other present did. you need
Willis—When my -wife makes me
present, it is sure to be something tha
will last.
Wallace—My wife is just like her
Five years ago she made me a present o
100 eigar.s, and I have ninety-nine of the
yet.
• Guest—Will you not give me a kiss
beauteous creature?
Waiter girl—Not mush do I give yo
any kiss.
Guest (resignedly)—Well, then, vo
might as -well bring me a portion
Schweitzer cheese and a glass of boe
beer.
Young housekeeper—Have you a sma
hand bellows for blowing the re?fi
Dealer—Something like that, madam
Young housekeeper—Yes, that will d
If you will fill it with wind and put a con
in the end I will take it with me.
"Begorry, this business UT oarryi
bricks up three fioights uv laddhers
ha,rrud on the constreushon. The oide
uv me dein' th' woorruk an' another mo
gittin' th' baildin' makes me thin
there's something the matter wid t
government."
A Well -Nigh Perfect She.
She has just read "Trilby," and has
the ecourage to tell just what she thinks
of it.
She goes to the opera and does not talk
while the music is going on.
She goes to the n atittee aud is not dica
turbed by other women's 6,0stumes.
She removes her hat at the theatre as a
matter of principle, tot because it is a
gaining "fad,"
She does not cotisidee every man a boor
who does not offer herlis seat in a crowd-
ed car.
She believes that the best 'Women of to-
day and of days past will rank quite as
high in the world's history and affections
as any "cotaitgWoman."
She has a smile for the happy, sym-
pathy for the sad, a hand for the help-
less, a mind worth interesting, a heart
worth -winning,
Who is she ?
The blithe girl laroghed. "Yes," s
prattled, "I reet him on the street."
The languid being sighed. "Did yo
catch his eye?" she asked.
"I'll-- (the la -ugh had died from It
lips) see." Hastening from the room s
closely examined the prongs of her par
sot.
HAITOINtir PICTURES.
The Middle of the Painting Should
on a Level Ninth the Eye.
In hanging picas/es it is well to avo
too much uniformity. Give the piet
the best position possible as to light, a
above all things do not hang it too hig
Pietures must sometimes be skied. in g
leries, but they never need undergo t
humiliating treatment in the drawix
room.
The middle of the picture should be
a level with, or a trifle above, the ey
that look upon it. In a beautiful roo
benat variety may be displayed in t
disposition of the various pictures. Fax
ily pictures shoeld uot be on exhibiti
in those rooms of the house which are set
apart. for occasions of ceremony.. These
may be appropriately used in bedrooms,
or even in little studios, or dens which
people have to bb emeetves
Many walls are very trying to pictures,
and it not infrequently happens that a
really beautiful engravin,s, or water color
loses its charm beeause of an ineffective
or discordant background. One may re-
ceive hints or suggestions as to the pro-
per hanging of pictures by an occasional
'Slat to studios or galleries, where fre-
quently the tones of the wall are effect-
ively treated so as to brines,- out the best
points in the picture. Not long ago in a
country house a woman of taste bit upon
the Plan of hanging a bare white wall
drapery laid on smoothly rf rich -toned
olive plush. Against this her pictures
xnd engravings stood out in greatly add-
ed beauty. I3lue denim makes a cool
and effeetive baekground for some pie -
tures.
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Many persons to whom Cod Liver 011
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Sells goods direct to consumers and he pays the
freight to your nearest railway station. Send
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Tea. It eill please you and he will pay the
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DEALER FOR IT.
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Saves children's lives.
Cures Croup, 'Whooping
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For living a white life.
For doing your level beet.
For being kJ...a to the peon
For Iookingbefore leaping.
For your tath in humanity.
Vox heariag before itself:01g.
For beieg candid and hank.
For rhitking before speaking.
For harboring clean thought.
For boine loe al to the preacher.
F, r stopping your ears to geesip.
For standing by your priticiples.
For bridling a slaedetous tc saps.
For the inftuence of high motives,
Fot being as courteous as se duke.
For steal g pardon when in error.
For being genrrous with an enemy.
• For being square in bus ness deals.
For discountenancing the tale -bearer.
Por sympathizing with the oppreesen
Lakehurst
Sanitarium,
OAKVILLE, - ONT.
For the treatment and cure of
Alcoholism,
The Morphine Habit,
Tobacco 'Habit,
And Nervous Diseases.
ap.o•mm,
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is the famous Double Chloride of Gold
System. Through its agency over 200,-
000 slaves to the use cf these poisons
have been emanelpeted in the last four-
teen years. • Lakehurst Sanitarium is the
oldest institation of its kind ia Canada,
and has a well-earned reputation to
maintain in this land of reediest°. In its
whole history tbere is not an instance of
any after ill-effects from the treatment.
Hundree of happy homes in all parts of
the Domnion bear eloquent withese to the
enaeacy of a course of treatment with ue.
For term and full itforraation write
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28 Bauk of Commerce Chambers,
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