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, Massrortnne by the Sword of the
• Opirtt. ,
Continued wintee storms seems to have
no oiled in diminishing the great audi-
ence that gather every Sunday ia and
around the A.cadenay of Music, .Dr. Tal-
mage t ok for his subject, "A. Snowy
," the text selected being I. Chroni-
-ales, 11: 22: "Re went down and slew a
O lion in a pit in a snowy ,day."
Have you over heard. of him. His
name was Benaiah. He was of man of
stout muscle and of great avoirdupois.
His father was a hero, and he inherited
• prowess. He was athletic and there was
iron in his blood, and the strongest bone
in his b dy was backbone. He is 'known
for other wondere beside that of the text.
An Egyptian five cubits in stature, or
about seven feet nine inches high, was
mos ing aroun.d in braggadocia and flour-
ishing a great spear., careless as to who
.. he killed, and Benaaah of my text, with
nothing but a walking -stick, came upon
snatehed the spear from the Egyp-
tian, and with one thrust of its sharp
edge, put an end to the blatant bully,
-which makes us think of the story in our
Greek lesson too hard for us if the
smarter boy on the same bench had not
helped us out with it, in which Horatius
the Macedonian, and Dioxippus the Athe-
nian, fought in the presence of Alexander,.
the Macedonian, armed with shield and
sword and javelin, and the Athenian with
uothing bat a club. The Maeedonian
hurled tt e javelin, but the Athenian suc-
cessfully dodged. it, and the Macedonian
lilted the spear, but the Athenian with
the club broke it, and the Macedonian
tire w the sword, but the Athenian tripped
him up before he could. strike with it, and
then the Athenian with his club would
have beaten the life out of the Macedon-
ian, fallen among his useless weapons, if
Alexander had. not commanded,. "Stop!
Stop !" But fienaia,h of the text IS about
to do something that will eclipse even
that. There is trouble in all the neigh-
borhood. Lambs are carried off in the
night, and children venturing only alit -
tie way; from their father's house are
foun.d. mangled and dead. The fact is,
th.e land is infested with lions, and few
people daret meet one of the grizzly
boasts, much less corner or attack in As
a good Providence would have it, one
morning a footstep of a lion was tracked
in the snow. It had been on its devour-
ing errand through the darkness, but at
last it is found. by the impression of the
foux paws on the white surface of the
growacl, wieldh way the wild beast came,
and which -way it had gone. Perilous
undertaking ; but Benaiah, the hero of
the text, arms himself with such weap-
ons as those early days afforded, gun-
powder having been invented in a far
subsequent centuryby the German monke
Bertholdus Schwartz. Therefore with-
out gun. or any kind of firearms, Benaiah
of the text no doubt depended on the
sharp steel edge for his own defence and
the slaughter of the lion as he followed
the track through the snow. It may
have been a javelin., it may have been
only a knife ; but what Benauth lacks in
weapons he will make tip in strength of
arm and skill of stroke. But where is
the lion? 'We must not get off his track
in the snow. The land has many cisterns,
or pits, for catching rain, the rainfall be-
ing very seaxce at certain seasons, and.
hence these cisterns, or reservoirs, are
digged here, there and yonder. Lions
have an instinct which seems to tell them
when they are pursued, and this dreaded
monster of -which I speak retreats into
one of these cisterns which happened to
be free of water, and is there panting
from the long run, and lieking its jaws
after a repast of human fiesh, and after
quaffing the red. vintage of human blood.
Bauma1 is all alert,and. comes cau-
tiously on toward. the hiding place of this
terror of the fields. Coming to the verge
or the pit, he looks down at the lion, and
the lion looks up at him. What a mo-
ment it was when their eyes clashed.!
But While a modern Du Chaillu, Gordon
Comming or Sir Samuel Baker or David
Livingston would have just brought the
gun to the shoulder, and held. the eye
against the barrel and blazed away into
the depths and finished the beast, Ben-
aiah, with only the old-time -weapon, can
do nothing until he gets on.a level with
the bi est, and so he jumps into the pit,
and the lion, -svith shining teeth of rage
and (news lifted to tear to shreds the last
vestige of human life, springs for the
man while .13enaia,h springs for the beast.
But the quick stroke of the steel edge
flashed again, and again, and again, un-
til the snow was no longer white, an the
right foot d triumphant Benaisih is half
covered with the tawny mane of the slain
horror of Palestine.
Now yen see how emphatic, and tragic,
and. tremendous are the words of the text
—"He went down and slew a lion in a pit
in a snowy day." Why: put that in the
Bible? Why put it twice in the Bible,
oace in the book of Samuel and here in
the book of Chronicles? • Oh, the practi-
cal. lessons are so many for you and for
me, What a cheer in this subject for all
those of you who are in conjunction of
hostile cireimistances. Three things were
against Benaiah of my text in the moment
of combat, the snow that impeded his
movement, the pit that invironed him in
a small space and the lion, with open jaws
and upltfted paw. And yet 1 hear the
• shout of •Benaiah's victory., "I could
stand one, and 1 think I could stand. two,
but three are at least one too many."
There is a man M business perplexity,
and who has sickness in his family and
old age is coming on. Three troubles—a
lion. a pit and a snowy day. There is a
good -woman with failing health, and a
dissiptted husband, and a wayward. boy
• —three troubles 1 There is 0 young man,
salary cut down, bad. cough, frowning
future—three troubles! There is a maid-
en with difficult school lessons she cannot
get, a face that is not as attritetive as
some of her schoolmates, a prospeet that
throngh hard times she must quit school
befote she graduates—three tronbles
There is an author, his manuseript re-
jected, his power of origination in deca-
dence; a numbness in forefinger and
thumb, whieh threatens paralysis—three
troubles ! There is a reporter of fine taste
sent to report a pugilism instead of an
oratorio, the copy he hands hi is rejected
beamse the papeh is full, a mother to
support on small income—three troubles!
I could march right off these seats and
aeross this platform, if they wohld. 4eome
at my call, fi,ve hundred people with. thew
troubles. Thie is the opportunity to play
the hero or the heroine, not on a Small
stage with a few hundred people to dap
their approval, but with all the galleries
of heaven fined with eympathetie and
applauding spectators, for -we are "sure
rounded by a great cloud of witnesses,"
Ally brother, my sister, peer father, eny
mother, what a chance you have 1 While
you are in the struggle, if you. only have
the grace of Christ to listen, a voice parts
the heavens, saying, "My grime ie stiffie
dent for thee ; " Whom the Lord lov-
etla He chastenether "You shall be more
than dOn merors." And that reminds me
of a letter on my table written by some
one whom I suppose to be at this moment
present, sayine: 'My dear, dear Doctor ;
You will please pardon the writer for ask-
ing that at some time when yea feel like
it, you kindly preach from the 30th
Psalm, 5th verse, Weeping. may endure
for a night, but joy cornetts in the morn-
ing and much oblige a downtown bu;i-
ness man." So to all downtown bash
nese men and to all uptown business men,
I say, if you have on hand goods that
you cannot sell, and debtors who will not,
or °genet, pay, and you are aeso suffering
from unceetainty as to what the inetecile
.Aanerica,n Congress will do about the
tariff, you have three troubles, and
enough t , bring you within the range of
the consolation of my text, where you
find the triumph of Benaiah over a lion,
and a pit, and a snowy day, If you have
only one trouble, I cannot spend any
time with you to -day. You must have
at least three, and then remember how
many have triulaaphed over such e train
of raisfortune. Paul had three troubles;
Sanhedrin demenecing him—that was ene
great trouble ; physical infirmity, which
he called, "a teorn in the flesh,' and al-
though we kno w not what the thorn was,
eve do know from the figm•e he used that
it must have been something that stack
hira—that was the second trouble; ap-
proaching martyrdom—that made the
three troubles. Yet, hear what he says
"If I had only one raisfortune, I eould
stand that; but three are two too many."
No; I misinterpret. He says; "Sorrow
fol, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet mak-
ing many rich; having nothing, yet pos-
sessing all things." "Thanks be unto
God, who giveth ets the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ."
David had three troubles; a bad boy, a
temptation to dissoluteness, and dethrone-
ment. What does he say? "God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help
in time of trouble. Therefore, will not,
we fear, though the earth be removed, at a
though the mountains be cast into the
midst of the sea."
John Wesley had three troubles—de-
famation by mobs, domestic infelicity,
fatigue from more sermons preached and
more miles travelledthan almost any
man of his time. • What does he say?
"The best of all is, God is with us." And
when his poet brother, Charles IN esley,
said to him, "Brother John, if the Lord
were to give me wings, I'd fly," John's
reply was, "Brother Uhaxles, if the LEA
told. me to fly, l'd do it, and leave Him to
find the wings."
George Whitefield had three troubles:
Rejection from the pulpits of England, be-
cause he was too dramatic—that was one
trouble; strabismus, or the crossing Of his
eyes, that subjected him to the caricature
of all the small wits of the day; vermin
and dead animals thrown at him while
he preached on the commons—that made
three troubles. Nevertheless, his sermons
-were so buoyant that a little child dying
soon after hearing him preach said in the
intervals of pain, "Let me go to Mr.
Whitefield's God." Oh, I ma so grad that
Benaiah of my text was not the only one
who triumphed over a lion in a pit on a
snowy day.
Notice in my text a vietory over bad
weather. It was a snowy day tehen one's
vitality is at a low ebb, and. the spirits
are naturany depressed, and one does not
feel like undertaking a great enterprise,
•
-when Benaiah rubs his hands together to
warm them by extra friction, or threshes
his arms around him to revive circula-
tion of the blood, and then goes at the
lion, which was all the more fierce and
ravenous because of the sharp weather.
Inspiration here admits atmospheric hin-
drance. The snowy day of Valley Forge
well nigh put an end to the struggle for
American independence. The snowy day
demolished Napoleon's army on the way
from MoECOw. The inelemeney of Janu-
ary and February weather has some years
bankrupted thousands of merchants.
Long succession of stormy Sabbaths has
crippled innumerable churches. Light-
houses veiled by the snow on many a
coast have failed to warn off from the
rocks the doomed frigate. Tens of thous-
ands of Christians of nervous tempera-
ment by the depression of a snowy day
almost despair reaching hest -ewe Yet,
in that style of weather Benaiale of the
text achieved his mod celebrated victory;
and let us by the grace of God become
victor over influences atmospheric. If
we are happy only when the wind blows
from the clear northwest, and. the ther-
mometer is above freezing point and the
sky is an inverted blue cup of sunshine
paired all over us, it is religion ninety-
five per cent. off. Thank God there are
Christians, who, though their whole life
through sickness has been a snowy day,
have killed every lion of despondency that
dared to put its cruel paw against their
suffering pillow. It was a snowy day
when the pilgrim fathers set foot,
not on a bank of flowers'but on the cold
New England roe,k., and from a ship that
might have been more appropriately
called after a December hurricane than
after a "Mayflower," they took posses-
sion of this continent. And amid the
more chiller worldly circumstances many
a good man or a good woman has taken
possession of a whole continent of spirit-
ual eatisfaction, valleys of peace, and
rivers of gladness, and mountains of joy.
Christ lannecl in our world not in the
month of May, but in the stormy month
of December1 to show us that we might
have Christ m winter weather, and. on a
snowy day.
Notice everything down in the pit that
snowy day dep4encled upon Benaient's
weapon. 'There was as ranch strength in
one rausele of that non as in all the mus-
cles of both arms of Benaiah. It is the
strongest of beasts; and has been known
to carry Off an ox. Its tongue is so
rough that it acts as a rasp, tearing off
the flesh it licks. The two great canines
at each side of the mouth make escape
impossible for anything it once seized,
Yet Benaiah put his heel on the neck of
this "kingof beasts." Was it a dagger?
Was it a javelin? Was tt a knife '?
eannot tell, but everything depended 00
it. But for that, Bengali's body under
one craunch of the monster would have
been left limp and tumbled in the snow,
And when you and I go into the fight
with temptation, if we have not the right
kind of weapon, instead of our slaying
the lion, the lion will slay us. The sword
of the spirit? othing in earth or hell
am stand that Victory with that, or no
victory at all. By that I mean pt•ayer to
God, confidence in His rescuing power,
saving grace, Almighty deliverance. I
do not care Whet you call it; I del it
"Sword of the Spirit." And if the) lions
of all the iungles of perdition should at
once spring upen your soul, by that weep -
on of heavenly metal you eau thrust
theme beck, and eut them down, and stab
them through, and leave them pewerless
at your feet. Your good resolution wield --
ed against -the powere which assault you
in a toy pistol against an .Armstrong gen;
is- a pen knife held out against the breadished sabres a a Hitintzelman's cavalry
charge. Go inte the fight against sin on
your own strength, and the result will be
the hot breath of the lion in your blanein
ed. face, and hie front paws, one on each
lung. Alas! for the Inan not fully
armed, down in the:pit, on a sump day,
and before him a lion.
A.11 my hearers and readers have a big
fight of some sort on hand, but the big-
gest and wrathiest lion whieh you have
to fight is what the Bible calls "The
roaring liou, who walketh about seeking
whom he may devour." Now, you have
never seen a real lion ended you have
seen him in India or Africa, just after
capture. Long caging breaks his spirit,
and the presence ot human beings tames
him. But you ought to see him spring
against the iron bars in the Zoological
Gardens of Calcutta, and hear him roar
for the prey. It makes one's blood cur-
dle, and you shrink back, although you
know there is no peril. Plenty of lions
in oldeii. times Six hundred of them
were slaughtered on one occasion iu the
presenee of Pompey in the Roman AI12-
phithea ter. Lions came out and destroy-
ed the camels which carried the baggage
• of Xerxes' army. In Bible times there
were so many lions that they are fre-
quently alluded to in the Scriptures.
Joel, the prophet, describes the "cheek
teeth" of a great lion; and Isaiah men-
tions among the attraetions of heaven
that "no lions shall be there ;" and Amos
speaks of a shepherd taking a Iamb's ear
out of the mouth of a lion; and Solomon
describes the righteous as "bold as a
lion;" and Daniel was a great lion tamer;
and David and Jeremiah and St. John
often speak of this creature.
But. most am I impressed by what I
have quoted from the Apostle Peter,
when he calls the devil a lion. That
means strength. That mean bloodthirsti-
ness. That means cruelty. That means
destruction. Some of you have felt the
strength of his paw, and. the sharpnes of
his tooth, an4 the horror of his rage.
Yes, he is a savage devil. He
roared at everything good when Lord
Claverhouse assailed the Covenan
ers, and at Bartholomew against
the Huguenots, one August night
when the bell tolled. for the butchery to
begin, and the ghastly joke in the street
was, "Blood letting is good in August,"
and 50,000 assassin knives were plunged
into the victims, and this mender has
had. under his paw many of the grandest
souls of all time, and fattened -with the
spoils of centuries, he comes for you. But
I am glad to say to all of you who have
got the worst m such a struggle that
there is a Lion on our side, if you want
Him: Revelation, 5: 5, "The Lion of Ju
dah's tribe." A Lamb to us, but a, Lion
to meet the other lion, and you can easily
guess who will beat in that fight, and
-who will be beaten. When two opposiaag
lions meet M a ;tingle in India you can-
nel; tell which will overcome and whieh
will be overcome. They glare, at each
other for a moment, and then with full
strength of muscle they dash against
each other like two thunderbolts of wi-
ndbag storm -clouds, and with jaws like
the crush of avalanches, and with a re-
sounding voice that makes the Himalayan
tremble, and with a pull, and tear, and
clutch, and trample, and shaking of the
head from side to side, until it is too
much for human endurance to witness,
and though one lion may be left dead,
the one which has conquered crawls away
lacerated, and gashed, and lame'and eye-
less, to bleed to death in an adjoining
jungle. But if you and I feel enough
our weakness in this battle of temptation
and. ask lor the Divine help,. against that
old lion of hell, described. in St. Peter,
will go that stronger Lion desetibed in
Revelation, and it will be no uncertain
grapple, but under one Omnipotent stroke
the devouring monster that would slay
our soul, shall go reeling back into a pet
ten thousand. times deeper than that m
which Benaiah slew the lion on a snowy
day.
when the sning-frame of a piano was
fradured the above statement a ill re-
quire no confiernatiou. A thunderbolt
scarcely makes 0 greater uproar, au
earthquake wilds little more destruction.
The writer happened tie bo playing on.
one oceesion, with what, in his conceit)
he imagined to be great effeet. He felt
he was being allured by the men and
worshiped by the women, when, as he
brought his Angers down for a magnifi-
cent finale, he instantly found himself
upon the floor with the mano stool on his
stomach, while the piano itself presented
O wreak of keys, lids, reechamene and
serpent -like wires. Steuggling to his
feet, dazed, hie stuttering questions as to
what in the name of all the gods and de-
mons had happened was answered by a
fuager pointing to the ruins of what had
once been a very fine parlor -square. --
From "Bow to Play the Piano 'Without
a Teacher," ha Demorest's Magazine for
March
WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS.
from the agonies of locomotor ataxia, in
the following vivid, language --
"In the year 1880 I was thrown frona a
Scaffold, falling on my back on a stone
pile, I was badly hurt, end narrowly
°soaped. death. Plasters am. liniments
Were epplied, and I seemed to get some-
what better, 13ut the apparent improve-
ment was short lived. My feet began
to get unueualy cold; ad nothing that
c,ould. be done would warm them. The
trouble then spread. to nay lege, and
from the •waist down I was attacked
with shooting pains flyeng along the
nerves in bhonsands, and musing
the most terrible torture for days and
nights at a time, 1eould get no relief
save from the injeetions of morphine.
Six physicians treated. me at different
times, but appeared only to faintly un-
derstand my trouble, and could do noth-
ing for my relief, Some of the dodoes
deelared my trouble was rheumatism,
but two of them said it was a disease of
the spinal cord, that the teouble wou
No Natter How Son sitle the Woman She
Will Believe in These.
It seems almost ridiealous in these
times of higher education, wornan's
right's, etc., to mention superstition. It
is noticeable, however, that tbough every
other superstition and hearsay may be
hooted at, yet when it touches upon LI,
girl's wedding day there is sere to be be-
lievers, and not a few. It is -anon this
subject if upon no other that a woman
will be superstitious. And, indeed, will
claim a right to be,
One seldom, if ever nowadays, hears
the old superstitious sayings that our
grandmothers held sacred, e slept it bear
upon this one most important event.
Here some one of the girls is sure to say,
"Oh! don't do this or that for it is -un-
lucky," just as soon as May gives them
the first inkling that she is going to make
Charlie happy, and the eventful day has
been appointed and is near.
First of all, every girl believes to a
more or less extent in the love charms of
flowers.
In New England when a young lady
expects a visit from her lover she will
pluck a marigold, take it in her hand
when he arrives and carry it until the
end of his visit, when from its fresh or
faded condition she will iudge the strength
of his affection.
A superstition of the same kind is shown
by the East Indian. girl, who places a
poppy in her hair.
In France a girl desiring to ascertain
the extent of her lover's affection takes
the common daisy, and pulling off its
leaves one by one asks the questions:
"Does he love me? Does he love me a
little? Does he love me much? Does he
love me with all his soul?" Marguerite
in "Faust" uses the common blue bottle
with similar questions.
And so the Spanish maiden wears the
mess rose, the English girl the primrose,
the Irishputs a shamrock in her sh,oe,
the flower differing only in personality,
not ability, according to the country in
which the lees may live.
When. these queries have been satisfied
and the momentous day is in anticipatilen
she believes that the day itself must be
clear and sunshiny, for "Rain on the
wedding day means tears within a year,"
and "Happy is the bride whom the sun
shines on.'
White, of course, is the luckiest color
to be married in, though a widow may be
married in anything she pleases, even in
black if she likes, and no harm will come
of it. A widow may also, if she chooses,
keep both gloves on dating the ceremony,
a thing vrhich is very unlucky for a
maiden to do, it being almost equally un-
fortunate for her to drop her glove after
taking it off.
If the ring fails to slip on the finger
easily the omen is of the worst.
Breaking or losing the wedding ring is
the most -unlucky accident that can be-
fall a woman who has been but recently
married. This is why the plain, thick,
and consequently strong gold band is
given preference to a more fragile, even
though more beautiful and costly ring.
I have known. those' who have said
they would positively turn back should
they happen to meet a funeral on the
way to churcb. on their wedding day.
And there are others who would be al-
most as greatly shocked on seeing a black
cat or a crow.
For Tleri4vs. ponA174114, Itte
liallieriorte and. DrAnteijICR7r3:errtf'lle
resulting from undue Strain
-upon the Mental or
sisal Enereriers.
ALTINE
COCOA WINE.
A Meet Effective Iutiieut TOON Alit
Stimulant.
In this preparation ars combleed the nutrient
arei digestive preperties of MALT INA 'with the
powerful tenic and stimulant action of COCOA
aniCTAROXLON, ITO preparation has heel*
very inertly and suceessfally used for relit!' of
morbid conditiohe due to nervous exhaustien,
t ni that sorter
or later my and depreesioe a spires resulting trent uneue
worse a
arms would become affected. This pre-
dietion proved true. MT left hand drop-
ped at the wrist joint and hung dead. and
cold, and 1 had ito more control of it
than if the hand were not on me, Fly
blisters and eleetricity were resorted to
without ,avail. My- stomach was neat
atta,oked with burning, achingtnauseet-
ing pain, causing the most distressing
vomiting and I often thought I would not
see morning, I have vomited almost
continually for thirty-six hours, and no-
thing but morphine or chloroform could
deaden the anguish. I suffered. But worse
trouble was in store for me. I lost eon-
trol of my bowels and wat r, and. my
'condition became meet horrible, necesse-
tating constantly the greatest care and
watchfulness. I was now suffering from
the top of nay head to the -point of my
toes. I saw double, and had to
keep my eyes fixed steadily on the
ground to make a step at all, and
the moment I raised my eyes I
would stagger and fall if I were
not grasping something. I co-uld not take
O single step in the dark. For nine long
years 1 suffered all the horrors of a living
death. In 18891 was admitted to the To-
ronto General Hospital, -velem I was
treated for four months. I was told tbat
my trouble was locomotor ataxia, and in-
eurable, and I returned home no better.
After returning home I had further :medi-
cal treatment, but with no better results
than before. Finolly I was given the fol-
lowing certificate of incurability :
•
Oerunoratm, July 27th, 1893.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that James Mc-
Lean has a disease of the spinal cord (10 -
curable) that renders him unfit to obtain
a living.
A.. T. LITTLE, M.D.
strain upon the menial or hysical e• ergieS
It will be ftund value)) e recuperative .gen
in convalesence ft.( nwasth g diseases, improv-
ing the apl etite and prcmoting di5estion-43rd,
beingvery palatatile, is acceptable to the motit
sersitive stornach.r" '
rriYit ‘AAIE BY ALI 11UGGISTS.
TO THE PEOPLE!
VIITIE ORE, Ntier and 3,er,ce Tontoeture's Illood Puri -
di kt!c-vr rf tIhy Protesecr eel Gel hpist, of Chi-
cago is Itlanetic Mineral Beek, Yard as ada-
HOW TO BY A HORSE.
An Old Rand Warns the Inexperienced
in Such Affairs.
11 you want to buy a horse don't believe
your own brother. Take no moans word
for it. Your eye is your market. Don't
buy a horse in harness. Unhitch him
and take averything off but his halter,
and lead hun around.. If he has a corn or
is stiff, or has any failing, you. 000 505 it.
Let him go himself away, and if he walks
right into anything you know he is blind.
No matter how clear and bright his eyes
are, he can't see any more than a bat.
Back him, too.
Some horses show their weaknesses or
tricks ire that way when they don't in
any other. But, be as smart as you can,
you'll get caught some turns, says an oli
horseman. Evexi the expert gets stuck.
A horse may look ever so nice and go a
great pace, and. yet have fits. There
isn't a num who could tell it until some-
thing happens. Or he may have a weak
back. Gi- e him the whip and off he goes
for a rano or two then all of a sudden he
stops on the road.. After a rest.he darts
again, but he soon stops for good, and
nothing but a derrick can start him.
The weak points about a horse can better
be discovered while standing than while
moving. If he is sound he will stand
firmly and squarely on his limbs without
movingthere, with legs plumb and natur-
ally poised.; or if the foot is taken from
the ground, and the weight taken from
inedisease may be expected, or, at least,
tenderness, which is the precursor of dis-
ease. If a horse stands with his feet
spread apart or straddles with his hind
legs, there is weakness in his loins and the
kidneys are disordered. Heavy pulling
bends the knees, Blueish, milky cast
eyes m horses indicate moon blindness or
something else. A bad tempered one
keeps his ears thrOW11. back; a stumbling
horse has blemished knees. When the
skin is rough and harsh end does not
move easily to the toueb, the horse is A
heavy eater and, digestion bad. N'ever
buy a horse whom breathing organs are
at all impaired. Flaw your ear at the
heart, and if a wheezing sound is heard
it is an indication of trouble.
The Power Inside a Piano.
About this time I was strongly urged
to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and oh
how I wish I had known of ails great
remedy years ago'! What anguish and
torture I would have been spared. 1 Soon
after' beginning the use of Pink Pills I
found. myself iraproving. The pains left
me and I was able to discontinue the use
of the morphine. I regained control of
both bowels and bladder'and gradually a
feelir_g of life returned tie my legs and
arms. I can now walk -without the aid
of either crutches or sticks, and. can take
long strides. My stomach trouble has
all left me, and I can eat as heartily as
ever in my life. My friends, who never
expected to see me about again are as-
tonished at the wonder Dr. erieilliams'
Pink Pills have -wrought in rae. 'When
I began the use of the pills my weight
was reduced to 136 pounds, and it has
now increased to 165. I a,m a new man
and it is not possible for me to say
enoughin praise of your marvelous
medicine. My wife also joins me in
thanks, and says it was a happy day for
her when I began the use of Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills, as since then she has
been able to get rest at night which she
had not done for so many long years be-
fore. I hope Heaven may direct this into
the hands of some other poor sufferer,
who may find as 1 did, release from a
living death through your great life sav-
ing remedy. Trours very gratefully,
JAMES MCLEAN,
mentor WO by blasting SI cm the bowels of the
earth, wb en beccmingoxydized, and a fter n• any
tests p tole ical and chemical. the Professer,
ending out its great curative properties, and
combining nem e with experlene 6 PrePaTf d
in the E61,cral f orins 13 now rt as V. 0 Elixir, V. 0,
Pills, V, 0, Suppositcri es, V. 0, Ozo-Bacteria d e
and V. 0. Danionia. These several perorations
from the fixed, umelianging and Double
Compound Oxygen panne of the Ore he -
cc rues N'atore'o, own n oat • Ificacious Life-
giving A ntise ptie, Germ -MDR. g Con sti-
tuti ai Invigoratirg Tonle ever before
known to man enriching the Moe d (11108 foun-
tain), enabling -the vital organs (liver, kidneys,
sn amain ete.) to perform their functions. tirs
making life pleasurable arg4 worth living.
VTirifir oBE nrerarations eure Catarrh,
.ww.......Www.•33w.o-3 'bronchitis, Conetunplien,
will cure Diphtheria while there is life n. the
body; mires all Throat Diseases. Burns, Scalds,
Old Sores of every description. Dysentery Obo-
lera Morbus, Dim rb cea, Cramps, Piles, Deafness,
Female Weakness and all Female Complaints,
Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Nervous Debility.
Sleeplessness, ete.
VITAEsufficient to make one quart
of the Elixir sent safely
sealed to any part of the globe by mail, postage.
paid on receipt of price, S1.00 each package,
or three for 1112.50.-
A44."—../TrriiinN unreptesente
°alines. Send stamp
for garticulars. No attention given to postale.
Ad ress THEO. NOEL. Geologist, Toronto.
ARMTEK'S
CROUP
SYRU
When the party is On00 assembled in
the church there must not on any ac-
count be a delay. If such is occasioned
by any important xnatter the organist
must have the tact to fill in with music,
or there ehould be some extra servece.
The organ must not delay one note or
there will be discord in all the future
years.
Dropping the wedding favors, or any
aocident cuttina the wedding cake is
considered. to be indicative of ranch ill -
luck. Should the bride by any accident
cut her finger when slicing the cake, a
divorce case is sure to follow.
Varioas omens are also drawn from
incidents and attending the entry of the
newly married to their future home, and
some women attach a deal of importance
to the article first touched or picked -up
by the bride. A curling iron or any
article of metal must be allowed to re
main just where it is if thee.° is not a
maid -near to move it,nomatter 12 13 hap-
pens to have been laid on the most ele-
gant gown in the trotisseau
You need not hesitate girls to begin a
n.ew gown on. Friday ; all the fudge is of
the past, but be sure to have Charlie wait
until Saturday for his answer should he
ask the all-important questiofl on a Fri-
day.
He may come in at the front door and
go out at the side door, or even the win-
dow if it is more convenient, on every
other night but this one, Should he go
out by any other than the door by which
• he entered on this night he vrill never re-
turn to claim his bride.
Saves childrenis 'lives,
Cures Croup, Whooping
Cough, Bronchitis and
all throat and lung dis-
eases. Price 25 cents, ASK YOUR
BRA LER Ffet IT.
Lakehurst
Sanitarium,
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a certain
cure for all diseases such as St. Vitus
dance, locomotor ataxia, rheumatism,
paralysis, sciatica, the after effects of la
grippe, loss of appetite, headache, dizzi-
ness, chronic erysipelas; scrofula'etc.
'rhey are also a specific for the troubles
peculiar to the female system, correcting
irregularities, suppressions and all forms
of female weakuess, building anew the
blood, and restoring the glow of health
tipale and sallow eheeks. With men
they: effect a, radical cure in all eases
arising from mental worry, overwork, or
excesses of any nature. Sold only in
boxes bearing the tuna's trade mark and
wrapper (printed. in red ink), and may be
had of all druggists or direct by mail
from Dr. Willia,ms' 'Medicine Company,
Brockville, Ontario, or Schenectady, N.
Y.. at 50 cente a box, or six boxes for
The general notion. of what happens in
the interior of the piano when the finger
presses a key may be conveyed in the
simplest tetras. Would you believe that
the power developed when the strings of
your plane, are turned to the proper pitch
equals energy sufficient to raise twelve
tons one foot from the ground? If it has
ever been your miefortatte to be preseut
weelib7
MOM
OAKVILLE, - ONT.
For the tr men tsand care of
eat—
Alcoholism,
The Morphine Habit,
Tobacco lEtabit,
AndNervous Disease°.
The system emyloyed in this institution
is the famous Double Chloride of Gold
System. Through its agency over 200,-
000 slaves to the use of these poisons
have been emancipated in the last four-
teen years. Lakehurst Sanitarium is the
oldest institution of its kind in Canada,
and has a well-earned reputation to
maintain in this land 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 Domnion bear eloquent -witness to the
efficaey of a course of treatment with us.
For term and full information write
THE SECRETARY,
28 Bank of Commerce Chambers,
Toronto, Ont.
me -gen,
Omens of the Mirror.
The Swedish girl who looks into her
glass by candlelight risks the loss of her
lover. A universal superstition, which
has found its way even to our own prosaic
times and country, forbids a briee to see
herself in a mirror after her toilet is com-
pleted. In Warwiekshire and other parts
of rural England it was long the custom
to cover all the looking glasses in a house
of death, lest some affrighted mortal
should behold in one the pale, shroud-
ed corpse standing by his side. Supersti-
tions of a less ghostly character chaster
around the mirror and are familiar to us
all. To break one is everywhere an evil
omen. "Seven years' trouble, but no
want," follow fast upon such a mishap in
Yorkshire, and in Scotland the eracking
of a looking glass, like the falling of the
doomed man's picture from the wall, is a
presage of approaching death.
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA.
A DISEASE LONG HELD BY PHYSI-
CIA.NS TO BE $NC1JBAIILE.
It, Horrors are Th0130 of a Living Death
—The Victim. Helpless, His Torture
Intense—Loses Control of Rowels
sand Bladder and is a Source of Con-
stant Worry to Validly and Fr1ends—
,A. Remedy for the Dil6ease D1soor.
°red.
A Pail or Tub
---
Mr. James Mclean, 0, resident of Le -
fray, Simeoe Comity, Ont., is known to
every meet, woman and child for Tulles
around tlie viciniter of his home, and all
know of the long years antito which his
condition has been that of a lening death,
Mr. McLean tells of his injury, his years
of torture, and his subeequent release
taffIlen or women make
dal them"
Wonderftalehrlstr %nixes.
Agents wanteaL Writo for
territory at owe,
CHRISTY KNIFE Cs.
%SELIUNSTON 3T.EAST
7323313t471
o Fibreware will out-
last any other kind
ow. to one.
Besides, theT are
raueh lighter and have
no hoops to rust or
Do
Want
you
Three Christy
Knives or $1.1
(including Bread, cara04
and Paring tutro,!,
Sent anywhere, prot-
paid, on reoelpie
prtee.
nfing
eeds
E. B. EODIto
ImIurated tibreware
See our Catalogue
or write us
All enquiries answered.
The Steele, Briggs, Maroon Seed Co.
(mondon thIs paper) voltooisriv.
n&
Nota—All enterprising merchants in every tow*
In Canada sell our aeeds,
illea then% sure or send direct to
TO ATTEND THE NORTHERN BUSINESS OOLLEM
Pot' either a 13usicess or 0 Shorthand. Courte, No one
should expect to :ruccekt withrett a good inewlew trait.
Annonacerrwat A. Fleming, ()Wen Sound
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A,. R. CANNING;
Whciesele Grocer
67 Front Street East, Toronto,
Sells goods direct to cream ete and he ), aye the
freight to your, nearest railway station. Send
$2.5o for a Ten Pohnd Cad of his 256.
Tea. It will pleass yeti and he will play the