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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-5-21, Page 3DIVISION OF SPOILS. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A JOYOUS SERMON. The Earth Will be Made to Blossom and the World Will be Evangelized -Wealth Will be Xillinalized and Poverty be nown No More in God's Kingdom. • Washington, May 10.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage is radiant with coming re- wards for all well -doers. Many of the dis- heartened will rally after reading it. He chose for his subject "The Division Of Spoils," the text selected being Isaiah liii, 12, "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." In the Coliseum at Rome, where per- secutors used to let out the 111%1f -starved lions to eat up Christians, there is now planted the figure of a cross And I eat - joke to know that the upright piece of wood nailed to a transverse piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ, the Cell- • i (nacre; that my text speaks. As a kingly. I warrior, having subdued an empire, ; might divide the palaces and mansions and cities and valleys and mountains i among his offieers, so Christ is going to !divide up all the eerth and all the , heavens among His people, and you and • I will have to take our share if we are strong in faith and strong in our Chris- tian loyalty, for my text declares it, "He . shall divide the spoil with the strong," • The capture of this round planet for Christ is not so much of a job as yen might imagine, when the Church takes ' off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for the • work, as it will. There are 1,600,000,000 of people now in the world, and 450,000,- 000 are Christians. Subtract 450,000,000 who are Christians from the 1,600, 000,00,0, and there are 1,1 o0,000,000 left. Divide the 1,150,000,000 who are not Christians by the 450,000,000 who are Christians, and you will find that we shall have to average less than three souls each, brought by us into the kingdom of God, to have the whole redeemed. Certainly, with the Church rising up to its full duty, no Christian will be willing to bring less than three souls into the king- dom of God. I hope and pray Almighty God that I may wing more than three. I know evangelists who have already brought 50,000 each for the kingdom of God. There are 200,000 people whose one and only and absorbing business in the world is to save souls. When you take these things into consideration and that the Christians will have to average the bring- ing of only three souls each into the kingdom of our Lord, all Impossibility vanishes from this omnipotent crusade. Why, I know a Sabbath school teaoher who for many years has been engaged In training the young, and she has had five different classes, and they averaged seven to a class, and they were all con- verted, and 5 times '7 are $5 as near as I can calculate. So that she brought her three into the kingdom of God and had 82 to spare. My grandmother prayed her children into the kingdom of Christ, and her grandchildren, and I hope all her great-grandchildren, for God remembers, a prayer 75 years old as though it wore' only a minute old, and so she brought t Ir her throe into the kingdom of God and •1 had more than 100 to spare. Besides thee, through the telephone and the tele- graph, this whole world, within a few years, will be brought within compass of ten minutes. Besides that, omnipotence, omnipresence had omniscience are pre- r siding in this matter of the world's bet- terment, and that takes the question of the world's salvation out of the impos- sibilities into the possibilities, and then out of the possibilities into the probabili- ties, and then out of the probabilities into the certainties. The building of the Union Pacific railroad from ocean to ocean was a greater undertaking than r the girding of the earth with the gospel, s for one enterprise depended upon the r human arm, while the other depends p upon almightiness, Do I really mean all the earth will 0 surrender to Christ? Yes. How about the t uninviting portions? Will Greenland be evangelized? The possibility is that after a few more hundred brave lives are dashed out among the icebergs,that great t refrigerator, the polar region, will be given up to the walrus and bear, and that the inhabitants will come down by Invitation into tolerable climates, or those climates may soften, and as it has been positively demonstrated that the antic region was once a blooming garden and a fruitful field, those regions may change climate and again be a blooming garden and a fruitful field. It is proved beyond controversy by German and American scientists that the arctic regions were the first portions of this world inhabitable. The world hot beyond human endurance, those regions were of course the first to be cool enough for human foot and human lung. It was positively proved that the arctic region was a tropical climate. Prof. Hoer of Zurich says the remains of flowers have been found in the erotic region, showing it was like Mexico for climate, and it is found that the arctic was the mother region from which all the flowers de- scended. Prof. Wallace says the remains of all styles of animal life are found in the arctic regions, including those anim- als that can live only in warm climates. Now that arctic region, which has been demonstrated by flora and, fauna and geo- lugical argument to have been as full of vegetation and life as our Florida, may be turned back to its original bloom and glory, or it will be shut up as a museum of crystals for curiosity seekers once in awhile to visit. But arctic and antarctic, In some shape, will belong to the Re- deemer's realm. It is not so now. In this country, cap- able of holding, feeding, clothing and sheltering 1,200,000,000 people and where we have only 60,000,000 inhabitants, we have 2,000,000 who cannot get honest work, and with their 'families an a,ggre gation of 5,000,000 that are on the verge of starvation. Something wrong, most certainly. In some way there will be a new apportionment. Many of the mil- lionaire estates will crack to ;pieces on the dissipations of grandchildren and then dissolve into the possession of the masses, who now have an insufficiency. What, you say, will become of the ex, pensive and elaborate buildings now • devoted to debasing amusements? They will become schools, art galleries, muse- ums, gymnasiums and churches. Tho world is already getting disgusted with many of these amusements, and no wonder. What an impoetation of unclean theatrical stuff we have •within the last feve years had brought to our shores! And professors of religion patronizing such things! Having sold out to the devil, why don't you deliver the goods and go over to him publicly, body, mind and soul, and withdraw your name from Christian churches and say, the world by these presents that I aux patron of uncleannees and a child hell!" Sworn to be the Lord's, you a • perjurers. • If you think these offenses are to on forever, you do not know who t. Lord is. G/od will not wait for the d of judgment. All these palaces of s will become palaces of righteousnes They will come into the possession those strong for virtue and strong f God. "He shall divide the spoil with t strong." If my text be not a deception, but t eternal truth, then the time is comm when all the farms will be owned Christian farmers, and all the commer controlled by Christian merchants, an all the authority held by Christian °filo als, and all the ships commanded b Christian captains, and all the univers ties under the instruction of Christie, professors; Christian kings, Christie, presidents, Christian governors, Christie mayors, Christian common demon. Y what a scouring out! What an uptur rib! What a demo] tion! What a resu rection must precede this new apportin meat! I do not underrate the enemy. Julia -ell tors, richly clad; -Wagon loads of crowns a I and trophies presented by conquered o f I cities, among the captives Syrians) re Egyptians, Goths, Vandals, Sarrnatians, Franks and Zencesia, the beautiful captive ; g° queen, on fool in chains of gold that a he slave had to help her carry, and jewels V under the weight of which she almost In fainted, and then came the chariot of s. Aurelian drawn by four elephants invv of gorgeous caparison and folloed by the or Roman senate and the Roman army, and he , form dawn till dark the procession Was ' passing. Rome in all her history never he saw anything more magnificent. But i g how much greater the day when our by Conqueror, Jesus, shall ride under the CO triumphal arches of heaven, his captives, I d not on foot, but in chariots, all the king- doms of earth and heaven in procession, y the armies celestial on white horses. I- Bumbling artillery of thunderbolts never n again to be unlimbered. Kingdoms in n line, centuries in eine, saintly, cherubic, n seraphic), archangelio splendors in line, et and Christ seated on one great rolling n- • hosanna, made out of all hallelujahs of le all worlds, shall cry halt to the proces- n- Sion. And not forgetting even the hum- blest in all the reach of His omnipresence s he shall rise, and then and there, His work Caesar got his greatest victories by full estimating the vastness of his foes an prepared his men for their greatest tr ample by saying, • "To -morrow Kit Juba will be here with 80,000 horse 100,000 skirmishers and 300 elephants. I do not underrate the vast forces of si and death, but do you know who coin mends us? Jehovah jireh. And the reserv corps behind us are all the armies o heaven and earth, with hurricane an thunderbolt. The good work of th world's redemption is going on ever ,minute. Never so many splendid me and glorious women on the side of righ as to -day. Never so many good. people a now. Diogenes has been spoken of as wise man because he went with a lanter at noonday, saying he was looking fe an honest man. If he /lad turned his lain tern teward himself he might have die covered a'crank. Honest men by the te thousand! Through 'the internationa series of Sunday school lessons the war generation all through Christendom ar going to be wiser than any generatio since the world seood. The kingdom i coming. God can do it. No honsewif with a chainois cloth ever polished silver teaspoon with more ease tha Christ will rub off from this world th tarnish and brighten it up till it glow like heaven, and then the glorious appor- tionment! for my text is re -enforced by score of other texts, 'when it says of Christ, "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." That heavenly distribution of spoil will be a surprise to many. Hero enter heaven the soul of a man who took up a great deal of room in the church o earth, but sacrificed little, and. among his good works selfishness was evident. He just crowds through the shining gate, but it's a very tight squeeze, -so that the doorkeeper has to Pull hard to get him in, and this man expects half o leaven for his share of trophies, and h would like a monopoly of all its splendor, Ind to purchase lots in the suburbs, so that he could get advantage of the growth of the city. Well, little by little he gots grace of heart, just enough to get him hrough, and to him is given a second mud crown, which one of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged for a brighter one as he went on from glory to glory. And he is put in an old house once occupied by an angel who was hurled out of heaven at the time of satan's ebellion. Right after him comes a soul that makes a great stir among the celestials and the angels rush to the scene, each bringing to her a dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what realm on earth was she queen? In what great Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrice? Neither. She was an who never left her oom for twenty years, but she was trnng in prayer and she prayed down evival after revival and pentecost after entecost upon the churches and with or pale hands she knit many a mitten r tippet fur the poor, and with her eon- rivancos she added joy to many a holi- ay festival, and now with those thin hands so strong for kindness and with hose white lips so strong for supplica- ion she has won coronation and en- thronement and jubilee. And. Christ said to the angels who have brought each a crown for the glorified invalid: "No, not those; they are not good enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right hand side of my throne there is one that • I have been preparing for her many a year and for her every pang I have set an amethyst and for her every good deed I have set a pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the promise I gave her long ago in the sickroom, 'Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown.' " What a day it will be! This entire as- semblage would rise to its feet if you could realize it, the day in which Christ shall, in fulfilment of my text, divide' the spoil. It was a great nay when Queen Victoria in the midst of the Crimean war, didtributed medals to the soldiers who had scene homesick and wounded. At the Horse Guards, in presence of the royal family, the injured men were car - Tied in or came on crate:hes—Colonel Trowbridge, who lost both feet at Inker- man, and Captain Sayer, who had the ankle joint of his right leg shot off at Alma, and Captain Curve his disabled limb supported by a soldier, and others manned and disfigured and exhausted— and with her own hands the Queen gave each the Crimean medal. And what triumphant days for those soldiers when, further on, they received the French medal withthe Imperial eagle, and the Turkish medal with its representation of fear flags—France, Turkey, England and Sardinia—and beneath it a map of the Crimea spread over •a gun wheel. And what rewards are suggested to all readers of history by mere mention of the Waterloo medal, mad the Cape medal, and the• 'Gold Cross medal, and the 'medals struck for bravery in our Aaiun otos wars. But how insignificant all thews compared with the day when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall (some in out of the battles of this world, and, in the presence of all the piled up galleries of the redeemed ,and the unfallen, Jesus, our Mug, shall divide the spoils! The more wounds the greater the 'inheritance. The longer the forced march the brighter the - trophy: The more terrible the exhaustion the more glorious the transport. NOt the• gift of a brilliant ribbon or a medal of brass or silver or gold, but a kingdom in which we are to reign for ever and ever. Mansions,on the eternal hills. Dominions of unfacling power.. Empires of unending love. Continents of everlasting light. At- lantic and Pacific oceans of billowing joy. It Was a great day when Aurelian, the Roman emperor, came beak from his vic- tories. In the front of the procession were wild beasts from all lands, 1,600 gladia- y done and His glory consummated. 'pro - 6 ceed, amid an ecstasy such as neither i- mortal nor immortal ever imaginea, to g divide the spoil! y a Severe Critics. It is told of a Scotch clergyman that after making'a quotetion from Scripture in his prayer one 'Sunday, he added, earnestly: "For that, 0 Lord, is the cor- rect translation of the passage." It is assumed that any one who hears a sermon is quite capable of sitting in judgment on it, from either a doctrinal or a literary point of view. Every &etch preacher is eloisely watched by his con- gregation as well as b his presbytery, n and some peculiar evidence is offered in ✓ the ecclesiastical suits which are some- - times carried on. ; 'The charges made against a certain n minister who was to have been settled 1 over a parish in the north of Scotland -indicate the variety of the demands made e by the critical hearers. The parish n schoolmaster declared •that there was s nothing in the luckless minister's man- e ner "to arrest and fix the eye; nothing, a as it were, to build up the mind in a n holy frame." The schoolmaster wanted 6 "burning zeal, and a • warmth beaming s from the eye, the face, and above all, from the intonation of the voice." Another witness objected to the pre- sentee's hands, which he said were very lunch in the way. "At one time they were in In s pockets, and again he was s keeping the line of his sermon with his finger." One farmer said he was a "cauld, dry, n sleepie body," and another said he wanted "more foray preaching," while a third said he could not endure the min- ister's "Silver-gray sort o' eyelashes." Two of the gravest and most frequent charges were those of a lack of "liven - f ness" and the use of unintelligible ex - e pressions; for example, "a series of un- happy coincidences" used twice in one sermon, .and "a concourse of circum- stances." Those charges were considered ample reasons for the non -settlement of the minister in question, and to an uniniti- ated reader it seems as if his life in that parish would scarcely have been a joyous on had he been installed over people with such remarkable gifts for criticism. The Dane at Home. The Dane is a good fellow. One comes, I think, inevitably to this con- clusion after a somewhat intimate ac- quaintance with him. His country also is not the tame, uninteresting tooth of laud one is prone to fancy from the sum- mary of it given by the geographical books. To get in touch with the Danes and Denmark proper it is desirable not to so- journ too long in the ,towns. They are called towns, these little rod -roofed, stork -inhabited, stone -paved settlements of from 2,000 to 80,000 souls. But really they are nothing better than tolerably developed villages. The tone of existence in them is distinctly parochial and bu- colic. Flocks and herds make noises in the streets, the people have mirrors affixed to their windows to give them sly yet exhilarating glimpses of the passers-by, and the stranger within their bounds is marked down in a moment, and becomes a most welcome topic of conjecture and an object for all eyes to fasten upon. They are so very rural, in fact, that the white mist, which in the gay summer season rises about bedtime from the rich geass lands in the neigh- borhood, has no difficulty toward mid- night in covering them with its film and keeping them (storks and all) as cool as it keeps the grass blades in the meadows The one or two high chimneys 'in their midst must not be taken for indications of iron works or factories. Thither night ansl day clatter the milk carts with milk from the farms for miles roamd, and in them butter is made on behalf 'of an ea- ten district for shipment to England. If there is another building of some size in the place you may safely assume that it is a slaughter house. The slaughter house, like the dairy, is clesely connected with England. Wagon loads of carcasses go from its gates periodically toward the nearest railway station, whence they journey at a dismal rate to Esbjerg, the chief port of shipment to Great Britain. Clearly Defined. A contemporary writes: "Lord Water- ford's story related in Canon MoColl's descriptive sketch in the Westminster Ga- zette of the man who accused another of doing him grievous bodily harm," by "calling him names," which "gave him A pain in the eifiside," reminds me of a.n incident in a trial to which I listened many years ago, when a law student iii the Four Courts, Dublin, but who wee noted as a disciple of Mrs. Malaprop, sued the late Mr. Angelo Hayes, a Lon- don artist of considerable eminence, for libelling him by a caricature. The cari- cature was produced in court. In cross examination Sir William swore that it gave him great pain. "Pain?," said the counsel. "Pain of what kind? Was it mental pain or bodily pain?" "My Lord," said the witness, turning to the late Chief Justice Whiteside, who was trying the case,"my -lord, all I can say is that, that drawing gave nee great bodily pain of the mind." Vicarious Knowledge. Woman of the World (to youthful edmirer)—You seem to know a great deal about married life. Are you mar- ried? Youthful Admirer (with a blase air), —Nee -but my father is! And He Probably Would, Satan—Where areeyou from? New Arrival—St. Louis. Satan—You'll freeze to death here. LAYING THE TAELE-CLOTH. Douldiers" of the Twelfth Century Dis- placed hy Two Table Cloths. Most Canadian girls and many of their brothers have had to "set the table" when they would have better enjoyed. doing something else, but the task offered no serious difficulties. If they had had to follow the French fashion, of several centuries ago they might well have felt some dismay. Probably no little French girls of the period from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries could have arranged a fashionable tables cloth without considerable assistance. In the twelfth century the table -cloths Were very large, and were always laid on the table double; for a long time they were called "doubliers" for that reason. The cloth was first placed so as to touch the floor on the side of the table at which the guests eat; then all the cloth that erreamaitaeetable. dwbalee folded so wthat it just cov- dhCharles V had sixty-seven table -cloths, which were from fifteen to twenty yards long and two yards wide. He had one cloth which was thirty-two yards em- broidered on it in silk. • All of these were long, andaed.had the arms of France ems , In the sixtenth century "doubliers," or doable cloths, were replaced by two table -cloths, one of which was small and T was laid just as we lay ours to-day.he other, which was put on over it, was largo and of beautifully -figured linen, It was skilfully folded in such a way that, as a hook of that time says, "It resembled a winding river, gently ruffled by a little breeze, for among very many bubbles." y libttbil., eesfo,lds were here and there It must have required much art and care to make dishes, plates, salt -cellars, same -dishes and glasses, stand steadily in the midst of this undulating sea, and among those "bubbles" and puffy folds. However, the fashion had only a short existence, as is apt to be the case with unpractical fashions, and toward the lat- ter part of the century a single cloth laid flat, and touching the floor on all sides of the table, came into general use. A. Joke on the Jolter. A transatlantic liner had steamed more than a day from New York. A long, thin man was leaning over the rail, contem- plating the surging waters. Not far away was a group of ladies and gentlemen. Suddenly the long, thin man showed signs of excitement. "Didn't I see a man struggling in the water there?" he exclaimed. The other paesengers crowded about, and gazed in the direction in- dicated, hut could see nothing. Presently, however, they heard a pitiful cry, "Help! Help! Savo me! Help!" . In an instant all was commotion. • The shout was raised, "Man overboard!" The cry still caine from the waters, "Help!" The captain chine and listened. Then he ordered the ship put about, and a boat lowered. The long, thin man, much ex- cited, pointed to the place where he said. he had soon the drowning man. The boat pulled rapidly away, and the great steam- ship herself plowed slowly back to the place. Every one on board knew that the trip was a test of speed between this steamer and, a ship of a rival line. Every minute was precious. A "record" was being made. The owners of the ship had ordered the captain to lose not a moment. But in a case of life and death all ethor con- siderations are put aside. The sailors in the small boat found no man in the water, however, nor was any one missing from the ship. At last it was decided that some poor stowaway had fallen overboard in an attempt to escape from his place of hiding, and the steamer proceeded on her way. The passengers were shocked and sad, and the captain was rendered rather glum by the loss of more than an hour. But the long, thin man seemed very gay, under the circumstances. One would have said that the drowning of this poor fellow had pleased him. The fact was, he had perpetrated what he called a great joke on the captain and passengers, and he was too much elated to keep it to him- self. Before long he had confessed to two or three passengers that he was a profes- sional ventriloquist, and had counterfeited the call of a drowning man. These passengers told others, and soon the story was known all over the ship. The long, thin man regarded himself as the hero of the hour. But about this time the captain came to him, and told hint how much had been at stake on the trip. And for that matter, it always costs a considerable amount to stop a great steamship at sea and start it again, just as it does to stop and start a railway train The captain thought that, taking the two elements of. loss into • account, the sum of. several thousand. dollars would about represent the amount that the ventriloquist owed the eteamship company. The ventriloquist stood aghast. "But you can't make me paydamages for a joke!" he said. "Perhaps nfflt," answered the captain, !`and perhaps we can. At any rate we can try. I shall deem it my duty to }lave you arrested. as soon as we reach Liver- pool, and thee you will have an oppor- tinily to answer in court our demand for financial restitution." From that time the voyage had no pleasures for the long, thin man. He was in a state of geat alarm.. The passengers grinned significantly when he passed, for the captain's remarks to him had been overheard. Be' spent most of his time in his room, and did not favor the passengers with any more feats of ventriloquism. Overruled. Wingle—Why call it a toothbrush? You should say "teethbrush," unless you happen to have but one tooth. Wangle—Nonsense; one does not say sh oesbrush. " Wiagle—No, because he brushes but one shoe at a time. Wangle—But how about the hairbrush? —Boston Transcript. FALSE LOCKS. Unbleached %-1 bite Hair Brings the High- est Price. Nearly all the false hair used in this country comes from Paris, or at least, is made up there The supply is drawn from all over the world, but Germany and France furnish the most Paris wig -mak- ers are the most skilful in the world, and the best specimens Dad their way to the Parisian market to be made up into scalp coverings for those who can afford • to pay the prices asked There are many Paris houses which deal in wigs and the like that keep men constantly travelling over Europe buying hair from anyone that cares to sell The blonde locks of the German girls are most sought after, and sometimes big pieces are paid to induce them to part with their crowning glory The poor peasant women of the continent are generally very ready to sell, and, some of them make a practice of selling to the agents of Paris firms whenever their hair Ise long enough to make it worth buying. Each clipping is securely wrapped and shipped with others in a large bale to the workshops at Paris. 'Unbleached white hair brings the highest price if of a length of fifteen inches or more. It is hard to get, and has sold for as high at $85 to $40 an ounce Black or brown is more common, the former bringing $5 to $10 an ounce and the latter $8 to $8 Red hair is rarely wanted except for stage purposes, although there is on record an offer of $1,000 for a shook of ren hair, scalp and all A wealthy Western man whose moustache was of a brick hue and who had lost scalp and hair in an acci- dent, was the author of the offer. An im- pecunious Englishman with an auburn top accepted the offer, but withdrew when the surgeons were almost ready to oper- ate. It is not told whether any other ap- plicant ever appeared. The Sin of Xgnoranee. There are multitudes of people who do not see the importance of any great moral awakening until its principles are brought to their notice through some more popu- lar' and "taking" medium than plain statement of fact The cause and excuse for their unawakened energies in the di- rection of any good cause alike are found. in the fact that there are so many other things constantly demanding their atten- tion in this age of Christian endeavor. If one would secure the liveliest interest of men and women nowadays in favor of any good cause, he must present his case to them in a forcible way, else they will not be likely to take in its full signifi- cance. That the preservation of the Christain and civil Sabbath calls to -day for the whole-sotned support of every person is a proposition as true as any which can be put on paper; yet it is a fact that many thoroughly good people do not give their best energies to the work, simply because nobody has interested them and nothing has started. them into seeing the tremendous importance of this question. This is the fault of much of our "Sabbath" literature. The books which deal with the Sunday question do it in a general way. They fail, many of them, to illustrate by specific and fa- milial, illustration what they try to prove, and so people are not properly im- pressed. But the pressure of various in- terests cannot wholly excuse Christians whom God expects to be as "a watch upon the towers" to guard against the approach of a foe, from informing them- selves upon a question so vital to the in- terests of the nation as this. Every Chris- tian citizen is in duty bound to know whether there are any real perils threat- ening the right keeping of the Sabbath, and if there are, to And out what is the best way to avert thorn, and what is their personal duty and responsibility in the case. The Bug and The Elephant. One day as the Sage was making his rounds among his subjects he was halted by the Bug, who began:— "0 Sage, the _Elephant has abused me in the niost shameful manner, and I cry for justice!" "So Jumbo has been picking on you, eh!" queried the Sage. "State your case" "I was going dome the path and. he was corning up, and. he refused to turn aside when I called to him" "I see" "Farther than that, he insisted on standing in such a way as to hide the aim from me for a quarter of an hour" "Go on" "Then as he passed on, he shook the ground so as to tumble me over," con-. tintioa the Bug "Is that all?" "No, 0 Sage When.I attacked him he paid no attention to me I.don't believe he even knew that I pitched into him" "Sad—very sad What do you propose?" "That you, 0 -Sago, turn all the Bugs into Elephants and all the Elephants into Bugs." "My Buggy friend," said the Sage as. be tickled his left ear, "that would only. be to make the same number of Bugs and. Elephants as now, with the seine complaints, and the world at large would be no better off." MORAL: We'd do just as the other man does if we had his money. Thirty -Nine Languages. A Blenkowski, the newsboy, has an Idea He has retired from the business of selling daily papers, and will enter into competition with the phonograph exhibit- ors After five years of strict attention to his own business, the young man has ac- cumulated enough capital to place him- self in the way to see the world and gather in a margin on his investment. His phonograph will talk in thirty-nine different languages, and he proposes to entertain his patrons with a novel ex- hibition that will give them an idea of the variety of the uses to which the as- pirates and the gutterals and other ex- pressions of the human throat may be put, He has picked up here in cosmopol- itan San Francisco a native of each of thirty -tine countries and induced them to talk into his machine. Now he expects to hear the nickels dropping when he gets his Babel in operation. --San Francisco Cull. PARALYSIS CONQUERED. AT LAST IT YIELDS TO THE AD.' YATliCE OF MED ,CAL SCIENCE. The Strong Testimony of a Man Who Wail a Half -Dead, iled-Riddert Invalid -Ho NOW Rejoices in Renewed Health and Strength -Doctors Admit That Paralysis Is No Longer Incurable. There is nothing in life sadder than to see a strong mart stricken with paralysis. Alive, yet dead to the duties and activities that belong to life, the paralytic, until a comparatively recent period, was doomed to pass the re- mainder of his days • in a hopeless and helpless condition. But since the dis- covery of that wonderful mediae° given to the world under the name of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, those stricken with this formerly incurable diseese have now the means of regaining health, strength and activity. Hundreds in vari- ous parts of the country who were help- less bedridden invalids have been me -tin -ed to health by this incomparable medicine. Among those who have been thus fortunately restored to activity is Mr. Allan X, McDonald, a well-known resident of Nine Mile Creek, P.E.I. Mr. McDonald says: "In the fall of 1898 I • Injured my back, and during the year succeeding suffered great pain. I had no less than four physicians attend me • at different times, but without any benefit. Before the end of the year I was forced to give up all active work and was rapidly falling into a condition .of utter helplessness. On two occasions the doc- tors encased me in plaster of peels, but it did no good. My limbs kept getting weaker and weaker, with a twitching motion and I dragged my feet when I tried to walk. Finally I lost all power of locomotion and absolutely all power of feeling from the waist downwards, and I was as helpless as a piece of wood. In this half dead and half alive condition I lain in bed for eleven months not able to help myself in the least. Physically I did not suffer much, but mentally the agony of those long weary months can- not be described. I was at last told by the doctors that there was no hope for ene, and that I was doomed to pass the remainder of my days a helpless,' half - lifeless piece of humanity. Providentially soon after this I read of a ease similar to snipe cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. It gave me new hope and my friends got me a supply of the pills. After the, use of a few boxes I found that life was slowly returning to my limbs. I continued using the pills gradually getting stronger and stronger, until now, atter the use of thirty-two boxes I am able to walk about smartly and can do light work, and I feel that I am gaining new strength every day. Wards cannot express the thankfulness I feel at again being able to go about actively after passing through that terrible ordeal, and I sincerely hope that my experience may be the Inflials of bring- ing back hope and health to some other sufferer." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills strike at the vont of the disease, driving it from the system and restoring the patient to health and strength. In cases of paralys- is, spinal troubles, locomotor ataxia sciatica, rheumatism, erysipelas, =Dna leas troubles, etc., these are superior to all other treatment. They are also a specific for the troubles which make the lives of so many women a burden, and speedily restore the rich glow of health to sallow cheeks. Men broken down by over- work, worry or excess, will find in Pink Pills a certain cure. Sold. by all dealers or sent by mail, post-paid, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.00, by addressing the Dr. Wil- liam's Medicine Company, Brookville, Ont., or Schenectady, N.Y. Beware of imitations and substitutes alleged to be "just as good." On Brides' mounters. "In the matter of perfume," says a. florist, "I have learned. the importance of what seems a trivial thing by catering to the taste of brides. When a woman is going to be suarrieti she is strung up to a high plash of nervous excitement, and an extra Whiff of perfume will some- times cause her to faint. 'Don't put in any flower with an odor,' is frequently the instruction I get for a bridal bou- quet This is the cause of .the great de- mand for orchids, expensive as they are, for brides' flowers. Even the subtle, hardly noticeable perfume of the lilies of the valley, which are charming for a shower bouquet, is objected, to by some. In Pines orchids, and orchids alone, are used for a bride's bouquet, but such a bouquet as they make there, duplicated here, would cost $100. We generally man- age to put a small spray of orange blos- soms in every bride's bouquet, unless ex- pressly desired not to do so, but the chief place in which orange blossoms are used now is in the newspaper accounts of weddings: The reporters conclude that brides ought to wear orange flowers, if they don't. Bride roses, white and scent- less. are popular for bridal' flowers, but lilies of the valley, tuaobstrusive and del- icate, slipping out of their little green sheaths, with a few orchids grouped with them, to give the whole form and char - eater, are in exquisite tasta"—New York Tribune. The Local Markets for Eggs. It is not always in the large markets that th .highest prices are, obtained for eggs. One reason why so many farmers ship their eggs to a distant market is be- cause it is easier to do so than to sell nearer home. When a lot of eggs can be sent away in a crate to be sold by an agent, the work is done, and when sold. • in the nearest town more time must be given. If the towns were better supplied, prices would be higher in the large mar- kets, and it will no doubt pay to build up a local custom for eggs, as better prices awe obtained in that manner than by shipping to the cities., • Lawns and Chicks. There is no better place for hens with chicks than on a clean, closely mowed - lawn, for the reason that there is no high grass to cause the chicks to become wet and they can see their enemies bet- ter. Cats, rats and hawks connent depre- dations more easily when the chicks run in high grass or weeds. The mother hen will better defend. her brood on a clean lawn and the chicks can also find little dainties that would otherwise not • be seen. It is an excellent arrangement to confine the hon on the lasve and allow the chicks their freedom if she strays away with them. To make the first call upon people in a higher social position, if one is asked to do so or if they are newcomers.