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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-28, Page 3CALL TO OUTSIDERS, Sern>ton by Itov. T. De Witt Tallntage, D.D., at New York Academy Of Nude. NEW Y011le, Feb. 1.7;—Three thousand persons were turned away from the Academy of Music this afternoon, being unable to gain admission. A few min- utes after the doors were opened the auditorium and doors were densely crowd- ed. Rev. Dr.Talmage's sermon for the day was, "A. Call to Outsiders," the text chosen being John, 10: 16:—"Other sheep I have which. are not of this fold." There is no monopoly in religion. The grace of God is not a little property that we may fence of and have all to our- selves. It is not a king's park, at which we look through barred gateway, wishing g g yt that we might go in and see the deer and IP statuary, and pluck the flowers and fruits in the royal conservatory. No, it is the Father's orchard, and everywhere there are bars that we may let down and gates that we may swing open. In my boyhood, next to the country schoolhouse, there was an orchard of ap- ples owned by a very lame man, who, al- though there wereapplesin the place perpetually decaying, and by scores and scores of bushels, never would allow any of us to touch the fruit. One day, in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from our first parents, we were ruined by the same temptation, some of us invaded that orchard; but soon. retreated, for the man came after us at a speed reckless of mak- ing his lameness worse, and cried out: "Boys, drop those apples or I'll set the dog on you." "Well, my friend, there are Christian nien who have the church under severe guard. There is Trait in this orchard for the whole world ; but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of accosting out- siders as though :they had no business there, though the Lord wants them all to come and take the largest and ripest fruit on the premises. Have you an idea that because you were baptised at thirteen mouths of age, and because you have all your life been under hallowed influences, that therefore you have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table, spreading yourself cut and taking up the entire room ? I.tell you no. You will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall place on either side of you those whom you never expected would sit there ; for, as Christ said to His favored people long ago, so he says to you and to me : ' "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." McDonald, the scotchman, has four or five dozen head of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather, some of them are lying down under the trees, some of them are in his yard ; they are scattered around in eight or ten different places. ' Cameron, his neighbor, comes over and says, "I see you havo thirty sheep ; I have just counted them. "No," says MacDonald, "I have a great many more sheep than that. Some are here, and some are elsewhere. They are scat- tered all around about. I have four or five thousand in my flocks. Other sheep I have which are not in this fold." So Christ says to us. Here is a knot of Christians and there is a knot of Christ- ians, but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the b Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the Baptist and the Pedo-Baptist fold, the only difference between these last two being the mode of sheep -washing; and so they are scattered all over ; and we come with our statistles, and say there aro so many thousands of the Lord's sheep ; bat Christ responds, "No, no ; you have not seen more than one out of a thousand of my flock. They are scatter- ed all over the earth. `Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.' " Christ, in my text, was prophesying the conversion of the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were al- ready converted, and He is now, in the words of my text, prophesying the coming of a great multitude of outsiders that you never supposed would come in, saying to you and saying to me: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." In the first place, I remark that the heavenly Shepherd will find many of His sheep among the non -church -goers. There aro congregations where they are all Christians, and they seem to be complete- ly finished, and they remain one of the skeleton -leaves which, by chemical prep- aration, have had all the greenness and verdure taken off them, and are left cold, and white, and delicate, nothing want- ing but a glass case to put over them. The minister of Christ has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a week, and with ostrich feather dust off the accumulation of the last six days, leaving them bright and crystalline as before. But the other kind of Church is an armory, with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of hosts. We say to every applicant : "Do you want to be on God's side, the safe side and the happy side? If so, come in the armory and get equipped. Here is a bath in which to be cleansed. Here is a helmet for your brow. Here is a breast- plate for your heart. Here is a sword for your right arm, and yonder is the battle -field. Quit yourselves like men ! There are some here who say : "I stop- ped going to church ten or twenty years ago." My brother, is it not strange that l ! you should be the first man I should talk i) to to -day ? I know all your case ; I know itvery well. You hav e not been act us - tamed to come into religious assemblage, but I have a surprising announcement to make to you; you are going to become one of the Lord's sheep. "Ah," you say, "it is impossible. You don't know how far I am from anything of that kind," I know allabout it. I have wandered up and down the world, and I understand your case. I have a still more startling announcement to make in regard to you }• of tobeoom e one not only going you are y the Lord's sheep, but you will become one to -day. You will stay after this service to be talked with about your soul. Peo- ple of God, pray for that man ! That is the only use for you here. `I shall not break off so much as a crumb for you,. hrietians, in this sermon, for I am go - i to give it all to the outsiders. "Other sheepThaw which are net of this fold,' Wen the Atlantic went to pieces on Mars' Rock, and the people clambered upon the beach, why did not that heroic Minister of the Gospel, of whom we have all read, sit down and take care of those i.ion en the boaeb,wrapping them in flan- nels, kindling fire for them, seeing that t of food?' Ah, he knew 0 t len t y �e y8 p i:'.. at there were others who would do that. a: s : "fonder are men and women IDs y . i o f that w rock. IC ri n . t an "n g i'e ezi g g s launch the boat !". And now I see a y t. ilhe oar -blades' bend. under the strong till; but before they reached the rigging woman was frozen and dead. She was washed. of, poor thing t Buthe says "There is a man to save ;" and he cries out : "Hold on five minutes longer, and I will save you. Steady ! Steady ! Give me you hand. Leap Into the lifeboat. Thank God, he is saved P' So there aro those here to day who are safe .on th shore of God's mercy. I will not spend any time with them at all; but I see there are some who are freezing in the rigging of sin, and surrounded by perilous storms. Pull away,,my lads ! Let us reach thein! Alas ! one is washed off and gone, There is one more to be saved. Let us push out for that one. Clutch the rope. Oh ! dy- ing man, clutch it as with a death -grip. Steady, now, on the slippery places. Steady. There ! Saved ! leaved ! Just as I thought. For Christ has declared that there are some still in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Christ commands his ministers to be fishermen, and when I go fishing T do not want to go among other churches, but in- to the wide world, not sitting along Ho- bokus Creek, where eight or ten ether persons are sitting with hook and line, but, like the fishermen of Newfoundland, sailing off and dropping net away outside forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are non -church -goers here who will come in. Next Sabbath they will be here againor in some better church. They are this moment being sweet into Chris- tian associations. Their voice will be heard in public pray,: r. They will die in peace, their bed surrounded by Christian sympathies, and to be carried out by de- vout men to be buried, and on their grave be chiseled the words ; "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." And on resurrection day you will get up with the dear children you have already buried, and with your Chris- tian parents who have already won the palm. ` And all that grand and glorious history began this hour. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." caricatured religion,iont step op ashore from, that rocking and tumultuous Bea, If you go home to -day adhering to infidelities, you will not sleep one wink, You do not want your children to come up with your scepticism. You cannot afford to die in that midnight darkness, can you? If you d I not believe in anything else, you believe in love—a father's love, a moth- er's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then let me tell you. God loves you more than them all. Oh, you must come in, Yoii will come in. The great heart of Christ aches to have you come in, and Jesus this very moment—whether you sit or stand—looks into your eyes and says : "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold. Again I remark, that the Heavenly Shepherd is going to find a great many sheep among those who have been flung of evil habit. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal aslost. Tore are those who talk as though the grace of God were a ehain of forty or fifty links, and after they had run out there. was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. if they were hunting, and got. off the track of the deer, they would look longer among the br-kes and hedges for the lostame than they have been look- ing for that lost soul. People tell us that if a man have delirium tremens twice he cannot be reclaimed ; that after a woman has sacrificed her integrity she cannot be restored. The Bible has distinctly inti- mated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon 499 t pies; that is, seventy times seven. Tnere are men before the throne of God who have wallowed in ev- ery kind of sin; but, saved by the grace. of Tesus, and washed by his blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those who plunged into the very lowest of all the hells of New York, who have for the tenth time been lifted up, and finally, by the grace of God, they stand in heaven gloriously rescued by the grace promised to the chief of sinners. I want to tell you that God loves to take hold of a very bad case. When the church oasts you off, and when the club -room casts you off, and when society casts you off, and when business associates casts you off, and when father casts you off, and when mother casts you off, and when everybody casts you off, your first cry for help will bend the Eternal God clear down intothe ditch of your suffering and shame. The Good Template cannot save you, although they are a grand institution. The Sons of Temperance cannot save you, although they are mighty for good. Signing thetemperance pledge cannot save you, although believe in it. Noth- ing but the grace of the Eternal God can save you, and that will if you will throw yourself on it. There is a man in this house who said to me : "Unless God helps me I cannot be . delivered. I have tried everything, sir ; but now I have got in the habit of prayer, and when 1 come to a drinking saloon I pray that God will take me safe past, and I pray until I am past. He does help me." For every man given to strong drink there are scores of traps set ; and when he goes out on busi ess to -morrow he will be in infinite peril, and nq one but the everywhere present God can see that man through. 0 ! they talk about the catacombs of Naples, about the catacombs of Rome and the eatacombs of Egypt—the burial places under the city where the dust of a great multitude lies ; but I tell you New York has its cata- combs, and Boston its catacombs, and Philadelphia its catacombs. They are the underground restaurants, full a f dead, men's bones and all nneleanness. Young man, you know it. God help yon. There is no need of going into the art gallery to see in the skilful sculpture that wonder- ful representation of a man and his son wound around with serpents. There are families represented in this house that are wrapped in the martyrdom of fang and scale and venom—a laving Laocoon of ghastliness and horror. What are you to do ? I am not speaking into the air. I am talking to hundreds of men who must be saved by Christ's Gospel or never be saved at all. What are you going to do ? Do notrput your trust in bromide of potassium, or in Jamaica ginger,• or any- thing that apothecaries can mix. Put your trust only in the Eternal God, and He will see you through. Some of you do not have temptations every day. It is a periodic temptati. n that comes every six weeks, or every three months, when it seems as if the powers of darkness kin- dle around. about your tongue the fires of the pit. It is well enough, at such a time, as some of yon do, to seek medical counsel ; but your first and most importunate cry must be to God. If the fiends will drag you to the slaughter, make them do it on your knees. 0 God ! now that the paroxysm of thirst is com- ing again upon that man, help him ! Fling hack into the pit of hell the fiend that assaults his soul this moment. Oh! my heart aches to see men go on in this fearful struggle without Christ. There are in this house those whose hands so tremble from dissipation that they can hardly hold a book ; and yet I have to tell you that they will yet preach the Gospel, and on communion days carry around consecrated bread, accept- able to everybody, because of their holy life and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to save you. Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your physical health has got to be restored. Your worldly business has got to be reconstructed. The Church of God is going to rejoice over your discipleship. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." I remark again, the Heavenly Shep- herd is going to find a great many of his sheep among those who are po-itive re- jectors of Christianity. I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It inay have been through hearing Theo- dore Parker preach, or through reading Renan'srLife of Jesus," or through the in- fidel talk of some young man in your store. It may have been through the trickery of some professed Christian man, who disgusted you with religion. I do not ask you how you became so ; but you frankly tell me you do reject it. You do not be- lieve that Christ is a Divine being, al- though you admit he was a very good man. You do not believe that the Bible was inspired of God, although you think there are are some very fine things in it. You believe that the Scriptural descrip- tion of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I believe that you do not believe. And yet you are an accom modating man. Everybody that knows you says that of you. If I should ask you to do a kindness for me, or if any one else should ask of you a kindness, you would do it. Now,_I have a kindness to ask of you to -day. Itis something that will cost you nothing, and will give me great de- light. I want you by experiment to try the power of Christ's religion. If I should come to you, and you were very sick, and doctors had given you up, and said there was no chance for you, and I should take out a bottle and say, "Here is a medicine that will cure you; it has cured fifty peo- ple, and it will erre vou." You would say, "I have Da confidence in it." I would. say, "Won't you take it to oblige .me?" "Well." you would say, "if it's any ac- commodation to you, I'll take it." My friend, will you be lust as accommodat- ing in matters of religion? There are some of you who have found out that this world cannot satisfy your soul. You are like the man who toll me one Sabbath after the service was over, "I have tried this world and found it an insufficient portion. Tell me of something better." You have Dome to that. You are sick for the need of Divine medicament. Now I come and tell you of a physician who will cure you, who has cured hundreds and hundreds who were sick as you are. "Oh," you say, "I have no confidence in Him.", But will you not try Him ! Ac- commodate me in this matter; oblige me in this matter ; just try Him. I am very certain He will cure you. You reply,"I have no special confidence in Him, but if you ask me as a matter of •accommoda- tion, introduce Him." So I do introduce Him—Christ, the Physician, who has cured more blind eyes, and healed more ghastly wounds, and bound up more broken hearts than all the doctors since the time of-dJsculapius. That Divine Physician is here. Are you not yeady to try Him ? Will you not, as a pure mat- ter ofexperiment, try Him, and state your case before Him this hour? Hold nothing back from him. If you cannot pray, if you do not know how to pray any other way, say, "0 Lord Jesus Christ, this is a strange thing for me to do. I know nothing about the formulas of re- ligion. These Christian people have been talking so long about what Thou mist do for me, I am ready to do whatever Thou commandst me to do. I am ready to take whatever thou Dommandestme to take. If there be any power in religion as these people say, let me have the ad- vantage of it." Will you try that experi- ment now ? I do not at this point of my discourse say that there is anything in religion ; but I simply say, try it—try it. Do not take my counsel or the counsel of any clergyman, if you despise clergymen. Perhaps we may be talking professional- ly ; perhaps we may be hypoorital in our utterances; perhaps our advice is not worth taking. o Then take the. counsel of e some respetable layman, as John Mil- ton, the poet ; as William Wilberforce, the statesman ; as Isaac Newton, the as- tronomer ; as Robert Boyle, the philoso- pher ; as Locke, the metaphysician. They never preached or pretended to preach ; and yet putting down, one his telescope, and another his parliamentary scroll, and another his electrician's wire, they , apthe adaptedness sof Christ's st s re- ll declare es of the ligion to the wants and troubles world. If• you will not take the recom- mendation of ministers of the Gospel, then take the recommendation of highly respectable laymen. Oh men, skeptical and struck through with unrest, t, would you not like to have some of the pea cc which broods over our soul to -day ? I know all about your doubts. I have been through them all, I have gone through all the curriculum. I have dout.ted whether there is a God, whether Christ is God. I have doubted whether the Bible was true. I have doubted the immortality of the soul. I have doubted my own existence. I have doubt- ed everything, and yet, oat of the into hot desert of doubt I have • come iuf in the broad, luxuriant, sunshiny land Gospel hope, and peace; • and comfort ; and so I have confidence' in preaching to you anti. asking you to wine in. how- ever often you may have spoken against the Bible, or however much you may have there isalways a sigh in the wind before e the rain falls, There are those here who would give anything if they could and relief In tears. They say : "Oh, my wasted life ! Oh ! the bitter past ! Oh ! the gravesover which I have stumbled ! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! Everything is dark—so dark , so dark. God help me , God pity me !" Thank the Lord for that last utterance. You have begun topray, and when a roan be- gins to petition, that sets all heaven fly- ing lying this way, and God steps in and -beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel, and around about the poor wounded soul put the covert of His pardoning mercy, Hark ! I hear some- thing fall. What was that? It is the bars of the fenee around the sheep fold. The shepherd lets them down, and the hunted sheep of the mountain bound in ; some of them, their fleece torn with the brambles, some of them their feet lame with the dogs ; but bounding in, Thank God ! "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." TIRED OF OALENDARS. He Would Try the Company That Sent Out None. A. long, lean, lank man, apparently laboring under some strong motive for excitement, stepped into a prominent in- surance office on King street the other morning, and asked : "Do you give away calendars for 1895 here?" "Yee, sir," answered the agent. "Are they printed with great big black letters, with red letters for Sundays and little birds flying all over them ?" "Yeses "Is there a string tied to them so they can be hung up in front of you?" uYesei "Got plenty of them ?" "We have any quantity of them, sir. Want one ?" "Are there mottoes at the bottom tell- ing you about watching out for fires and where to get insured and all that?" "Certainly." "How many companies de you repre- sent ?'' epresent?" "Six or eight. There's the old reli—" "Never mind. Do all of them send out calendars?" •`Yes, sir; all except one, but—" "Do you mean to say that youhave one company that doesn't send out calendars end doesn't intend to send out any for 1895 ?" ,,Yeses "Then," cried the long, lean, lank man, feverishly, "that's the one I'm looking for. I want to insure my life for $50,000 in that company. I've had forty-seven calendars for 181+5 from forty-seven dif- ferent companies stuck on my desk since the beginning of this week, and the worm has turned, sir ; the worm has turned." That fine woollen shirts, which havo grown too short from washing, may be lengthened and at the same time beauti- fled by adding a deep frill of woven lace. Or the ekirt may also be taken off the band and sewed to a cotton yoke, which should fit smoothly- across the hips. That the chafing dish needs especial, care to 'keep it looking nice and new enough for the table. The pans should', not be put in water when washed, but the water put in them, and the nickel surface earefully wiped and poliehed with a chamois. If.partioles of whatever has. been cooked in it, adhere to the pan clean them off with grease and salt, then wash with Olean, hot soap suds, rinse and dry thoroughly. That boiling milk will remove white stains. The Great Destroyer.. The lose of the Elbe, with more than 800 souls, has just struck terror into the hearts of our people, as only a great ocean disaster can. No other calamity to which citizens of this country are ordinarily liable is so cruel and so wholesale in its destruction of human life as the sinking of an Atlantic liner. A list has been compiled here of the great shipwrecks of the past half century. The disasters to men-of-war and t river and lake craft are not included, for they would swell the list beyond handling. Most of the accidents recorded occurred on the Atlantic. Since the foundering of the President, fifty-four years ag ', about 100 large passenger ships have been lost in the Atlantic. In the Amazon, burned in e bay of Bisoay in 1853, 104 lives were lost; in the Anglo Saxon, wrecked off Cap e Race in 1863, 237 lives; in the Atlantic, wrecked near', Meagher's Island, Nova Scotia, 323 lives; in the Austria, burned a great many' well-known New Yorkers in mid Atlantic in 1858, 47.1 lives ; in the city of Bost- n, lost at sea, 181.1ives ;; in the Borussia, 200 G lives ; in the ,mbria, bound from Ham- burg to New York, sunk by the Sultan in 1888, 454 lives ; in the Central America, 1 st on the way. from Havana to New York in 1847, 400 lives ; in the Evening Star, foundered bet•een New York and New Orleans in 1866, 254 lives; in the George Canning, bound f r New York, wrecked off the Elbe in 1866, 96 lives ; in the City of (Glasgow, f undered in the Atlantic in 1854, 480 lives; in the Hun- garian, wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1860, 205 lives ; in the Metropo lis, from Philade phia, for Para, Bras 1, wrecked in 1878, 200 lives; in the Narenie, lost in the Atlantic in 1893, 70 lives; in the Pacific, Collins liner, bound from .Liverpool to New York, in 1856, 186 lives ; in the Pommerania, of the Ham- burg line, sunk off Dover in 1878, 88 lives; in rhe Schiller, bun for New Y rk, lost off the Scilly Island in 1875, 300 lives ; in the Geiser, run down by the Thingvalla in 1888 off Sable Islam, 105 lives ; in the Sud -America, sunk in a collision off the Cansry Is ands in 1888. 105 lives; in the Vi 1 k du Havre, sunk in collision between Havre and New Y.rk in 1873, 226 lives. New Leaves. After the plastic peri d of childhood and early youth there can be but little turning over of new leaves. The mold of cha atter is shaped. growth or decadence progresses on certain fixed lines. Indi- vidual cases may occur, but they are rather rare. It isfrightful to see that the milestones of years show a certain rate of progress or a subtle retrogression and falling back. There is no such thing as standing still. The inward loss of moral power attended by outward pros- perity is the saddest indication. It is se - less to wait for any fixed day to repent of our sins. We are already in eternity, so far as they are concerned. It they are accidental or purely impulsive, we may assoil ourselves at any time before God. (f they are generic, the poisonous flowers of character, an e ternal application will do no good. There mustbe thorough un- derground work, a digging out of the evil root, that no tingle day can accomplish. Well will it be if long years can bring it to pass ! When we think how long it takes +o exterminate a single bad habit— something venal, not criminal—it is sur- prising we should have faith in the re- solves of a day. Years are nothing. They melt silently into the great whole, as ,a drop in the ocean. It is the sense of continuity we need—the feel ng of progression in life and time. If, we cannot change tenden- cies when once established, we can look into ourselves. Introspection is medici- nal. Those who say look out, and not within, make a great mistake. There may be a healthy as well as a morbid looking inward. We must at times take "stock" of ourselves and find how our spiritual ledgers balance. The exercise is most wholesome, for, if it does nothing else for ns, it will lead us to a great sense of humility. We can gazeback upon the poor accomplishment, the failure, the slip, the loss of moral footing, and the re- gret that comes from such introspection has a purifying touch. It is perhaps the most acoeptable prayer to God, and, whenever it comes, it makes for us a new year. While I have hope for all prodigals, there are some people in this house whom I gave up. I mean those who have been church ;goers all their life, who have maintained outward morality, but who, notwithstanding twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian advantages, have never yielded their heart to Christ. They are Gospel hardened. I could call their names now, and if they would rise up they would rise up in scores. Gospel hardened ! A sermon has no more effect upon them than the shining moon on the citb pavement. As Christ says "The pulians and harlots will go into the Kingdom of God before them." Th y have resisted all the importunity of Divine mercy, and have gone, during these thirty years, through most p'wer- n 'a• and fell earthquakes of religious feeling, they are farther away from God than ever. After awhile they will lie down sick, and some day it will be told that they are dead. No hope ! But I turn to outsiders with a hope that thrills. through my body and soul. "Other sheep I havo which are not of this fold. You are not Gospel hardened. You have not heard or read many sermons during the last few years. As you come in to- day everything was novel, and all the services are suggestive of your early dais. Haw sweet the opening pin hymn inn sounded. an ,your ears, and how blessed is this hour. Everything suggestive of heaven. You do not Weep, but the shower is not far off. You sigh, acid you have noticed that The Sexes as Church Goers. Unless there are many men, who though not members of the visible church, are in their own hearts within the pale e of salvation; or many women who, though in the visible ranks, are not to be In- heritors of the kingdom, there will be a very badly balanced company in the next world. so far as sex is concerned. Our church services each Sunday are a con- tinual testimony on this point. and there are not wanting observing people who say that there is a continual growth in the disproportion between the numbers. It is not only true of the Protestant church, bnt of the Roman Catholic as well, though h in the latter it is not nearly so manifest. If it is- possible that the reader has never observed the fact, let him take a ,glance at the occupants a half dozen pews m any ehureh. Let him see of what sex the Sunday school teachers are, and if in the young peoples' societies, or their great annual conventions, the young men are not outnumbered almost three to one. to , far for a not neves, ane it is Perhapsy p an explanation of the phenomenon. The woman has always represented the moral side of the family, Lady Macbeth and Herodias notwithstanding. 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Many of them are as beautiful, and, to all in- tents and pure ses, as durable as the whol , articles of the same kind, and the price is within the means of persons who would not think of buying them from the importers. Every important trade in the city has its buyer of " seconds" and sam- ples, and there is a host of merchants :hat pretend to have such articles. A m n. in Bremen has invented a kind of " oil b mb" for calming the waves, which can be fired a short distance. There are small holes in them, al owing the oil to ren out in about an hour. The earth's attraction -• of gravity—is stronger in oceanic islands than in the interior of continents, a result, it is sup- posed, of the great cooling of the crust! under the seas, the average density being thus made greater than on land, notwith- standing the lightn. ss of water. Russian engineers are studying a route for a waterway to connec, the `White Baia. with the Saltie. The total distance to be covered is about 18.) miles. Part of the route is altogether navigable. It is esti- mated that s uniform depth of 30 feet can be obtained along the entire route at a cost of $6,000,000. Coffee has been .found by a German in- vestigator to possess marked germicidal properties. Pure coffee of ' he ordinary strength in which it is utilized as a bever- age killed cholera bacilli in three hours and typhus bacilli in 24 hours. The anti- bacterial su'stances seem to be developed in the coffee bean by the roasting process. LAKEHURST SANITARIUM, OAKVILLE, ONTARIO. For the treatment and cure of ALCOHOLISM, THE MORPHINE.i3AB1T, TOBACCO HABIT, AND NERVOUS DISEAts r 8. The system employed at this institution ution is the famous Double Chloride of Pend System. Through its agency over 290,- 000 Slaves to the use of these pois,ws have been emancipated in the last fu^r- teen years. .Lakeburat Sanitarium is thg oldest institution of its kind in Canal,;,, and has a well-earned reputaiit•n 'o maintain in this line of medicine. In its whole history there is not an instance of any after ill-effects from the treatment. Hundred of happy homes in all parts of the Dominion bear eloquent witness to the efficacy of a course of treatment with ns. For terms and all informaticnwrite THE SECRETARY, 28 Bank of Commerce Chambeas, Toronto. Ont:. The Atlantic st ame•s, which must make the s oyage in seven days or under, burn from 200 to 300 tons of coal daily, making this item:of expense over $1.500 every 24 hour,. The Umbria burns 12 tens of coal per hour, and on every vessel rip of 1 bearing e a the journals h 0 f her size g the machinery require 180 gallons of lu- brieating oil per day. The larges ; copper smelting property in the world is at Anaconda, Mont. During the past 11 years the magnitude of the plant and its re-tults have been steadily increasing, till now the employees are Know I Do You That a white felt hat may be cleaned with pipe clay. It should be applied with a soft flannel. numbered by the thousand. and the busi- ness aggregates . over $1,000,000 a month. l ARMSTRONG'S About 4.000 tons of ore are daily treated at the smelters, which are in continuous n. o xatio Pe Do you Want wing eeds 2 See our Catalogue or write us .. . All enquiries answered. The Steele, Briggs, Maroon Seed Co, (Mention this paper) swimm r°. Note—All enterprising merchants in every town In Canada seU our seeds. Get them sure or send direct to as. A. H. CANNING, NOV ha!e Ie Grocer 57 Front St. East. Toronto. Sells goods direct to consumers ana he pays the reigltt to your nearest railway station. Send 82.50 for a Ten Pound Cad of his 25e. Tea It will please you and he will pay the freight. TIC CUM CXOMB.[An Atari roam. Nov .ur..ue•oo .e o, -� Three Christy Knives for $i (Including Bread. Caning and raring Nygren) Sent anywhere,,pos- paid, on reaeapt aA price. 'Men at women mets Os a day selling thane Won,erralChrlstyrntten Agents wanted. Wrtbfor lerritorl stone. CHRISTY KNIFE CO. 70 WEU.INNTON ST.EA3T TORONTO c.),#)/5 Learn. .P/ace to Bhuorintheassnanud TypevitiaTneh,feoNrcro. rCtgh,,•• FLEMING, Frin'iOwenrsSourend, Oar t.BnsinessCollcg.oeGiatl For NnRVOUS PnoseneT10N, BRAIN Ex HAUS TION, and DEPRESSION or SPIRITS resulting from undue Strain upon the Mental or Phy- sical Fnergies. MALTINE --WITH WITH - 0000A 0 WINE G A Blest Effective Nutrient Tonle and Stimulant. In this Preparation are combined the nutrient 1 and digestive properties of MALr7NS with the powerful tonic and stimulant action of Cocoa. ERT TAIL OXYLON. The preparation has been very largely and sueceasfuliy used for relief of morbid conditions due to nervous exhaustion. • and depression of spirits resulting from undue Strain upon the mental of physieal energies. es. It vine found a valuable recuperative alkene )rev t en .n • liscases frem wasting c 1 convalescence fy in int the appetite and protnoting digestion—and- being Verypalateble, Is acceptable, to the most sensitive stomach. FOB SALE BY ALL U1.EU4 G1S1S. CROUPSAVES CI3ILDREN'S LIVES Cures Croup. Whool.1ng Cough Bronchitis lrnd alt throat and 2 uta. lu n diaeaaee. Yrica 3 to RUMP g &SIC YOUR DEALER FOR IT. A Pail or Tub of Fibi'eware will out- last any other kind foul' to one. Besides, they are much lighter and have no hoops' to rust or drop off. E R. EDDY'S 5+ Indurated ' ibtetvare.