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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-5-28, Page 7WORDS TO CONGRESS; REV. DR. TALMAGE ON "BEFORE THEY ADJOURN." He Wants Some Things Done and Some More, Undone—A Grand and Hopeful Sermon of Interest to National Legis- lators. Washington; May; 17. -Never was a timelier or more appropriate sermon than that preached 'by Rev. Dr. Talmage this morning. The subject was, "Be- fore They Adjourn," having reference to - the early dissolution of .congress, and the text selected teach his senators wisdom." v, 22' `And Senators in this text stand dor law- makers. Joseph was the lord treasurer of the Egyptian Government, and,aniong other great things which he did, accord- ing to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom, and if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom it is senators, whether they standin congresses, parlia- ments or reiohstags orassemblies or legis- latures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Lawmakers are sometimes so texte ted by prejudices, by sectional pref- erences, by opportunity of personal ad- vancement, and sometimes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to • be prayed for and encouraged in every possible way, instead of severely criti- cised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the time the ease. The gavels of our two Houses of na- tional legislature will soon fall, and ad- journment of two bodies of men as ta- lented, as upright, and as patriotic as ever graced the Capitol will take place. Tile two or there unfortunate outbreaks which you have noticed only make more con- spicuous the dignity, the fraternity, the eloquence, the iidelity,which have charae. terized those two bodies during all the long months of important and anxious deliberation. We put a halo around great men of the past because they were ' so rare in their time. Our Senate and House of representatives have five such men where once they had one. But it will not be until after they are dead that they will get appreciated. The world finds it safer to praise the dead than the living, because the departed, having a heavy pile of marble above them, may, not rise to become rivals. But before the gavels of adjournment drop and the doors or Capitol hill shut there are one or two things that ought to be done, and let us pray God that they may he accomplished. More forcibly than ever before congress has been implored to acknowledge God in our Constitution. The Methodist church, a church that is always doing glorious things, has in its recent Wilmington conference requested our congress to amend the immortal document, which has been the foundation and wall and dome of our United States government, by inserting the words, "Trusting in Aleeighty Gad." If that amendment is made, it will not only please all the good people of the country, • but will please the heavens. It was only an oversight or a mental accident that the fathers whop/ made the Constitution et did not insert a divinely worshipful sen- tence. They all, so far as they amounted to anything, believed in "God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus. Christ, His only begotten Son." The Constitution would have been a failure had it not been for the divine interference. The members of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Frank- lin's request that the meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord God'was called on to interfere and help, and then the way was cleared, and all the states signed the document, a historical fact that all the rat terriers of modern infidelity cannot bark out of exisatenceI I know that there was an exception to the fact that the prominent men of those times were good men. Torn Paine, a libertine and a sot, did not believe in anything good until he was dying, and then he shrieked out for God's mercy. And Ethan Allan, from one of whose descendants I have received within a few days a continua - lion of the incident I mentioned in a recent sermon, as saying to his dying daughter that she had better take her mother's Christian religion than his own infidelity. As a matter of gratitude to Almighty God, gentlemen of the American con- gress, be pleased to insert the four words suggested by the Methodist conference! N.ot only because of the kindness of God to this nation in the past should such a reverential insertion be made, but be- cause of the fact that we are going to want divine interposition still further in our national history. This gold and silver question will never be settled un- til God settles it. This question of tariff and free trade will never be settled un- til God settles it. This question between the east and the west, which is getting hotter and hotter and looks toward a Re- public of the'Paeifc, will not be settled until God settles' it. We needed God in the 12 years of our past national life, and we will need Him still more in the next 12 years. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates of our glorious Constitu- tion, and let the King of Glory come in! Again, before the approaching adjourn- . ment of our American congress, it ought to be decidedly and forever settled that no appropriations be made to sectarian schools, and that the courtship between Church and State in thiscountry be for- ever broken up. That question already seems temporarily settled. I wish it might be completely and forever settled. All schools andall institutions , as well as all denominations should stand on the same level before American law. Em- peror Alexander of Russia, at his Peter- hof palace, asked me how many iienomi- nations of religion there were in Amer- ica, and I recited their names as well as I could. Then he asked me the difference between them, and there I broke down. But when I told him that no religious denomination in America had any priv ilege above the others he could hardly understand it. The Greek church first in Russia; the Lutheran church first in Germany; the Episcopal church first in England; the Catholic church first in Rome; •Mohammedanism first in Con- stantinople. The emperor wondered how it was possible that all the denomina- tions in America could stand on the same platform. But so : it is, and so let it ever be. Let there be no preference, no partiality, no attempt to help one sect an inch higher than another. Wash- ington and Jefferson, and all the early presidents, and: all the great steatesmen of the past, have lifted their voice against any such tendency. If a school'or an in- stitution cannot stand without the prop of national appropriation, then let that school or that institution go down. On the other side of the sea the world has had plenty of illustration ' of Church and State united, Let us have none of the hypocrisy and; demoralization born of that relation on this side of the ,Atlan- tic: Let that denomination come out ahead that does the most for the cause of God and humanity,men, institutions and religions getting what they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by the favoritism of Government. As you regard the welfare and perpetuity of our institutions keep politics out of re- Iigion. In the war of 1812 an officer came to General Andrew Jackson and said, "There is an unusual noise in the camp; it ought to be stopped." General Jackson `said, "What is the noise?" The officer said, "It is the voices of prayer and praise." Then the general said: "God forbid that prayer and praise should be an unusual noise in the encampment. You had better go and join them." ! Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at Mon- I mouth. Prayer at. Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. "Oh," says some infidel, "the northern people prayed on one side and the south- ern people on the other side, and so it did not amount to anything." And I haver heard good' Christian people con- founded with the infidel 'statement, when it is as plain tome as my right hand. Yes, the northern people prayed in one way and the southern people prayed in another way, and God answered in His own way, giving to the north the re-es- tablishment of the Government and giv, ing to thesouth larger opportunities- larger than she had ever anticipated, the harnessing of her rivers in great manu- facturing interests, until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee are southern Merrimacs, and the enrol• ling of great southern mines of coal and iron, of which the world knew nothing," and opening before her opportunities of wealth which will give 99 per cent. more of affluence than she ever possessed, and instead of the black hands of Amer- ican slaves, there are the more industrious black hands of the coal and iron mines of the south, which are achieving for her fabulous and unimagined wealth. And there are domes .of white blossoms where spread the white tents, And there are plows in the track where the war wagons went, And there aro songs where they lifted up Rachel's lament. Oh, you are a stupid man if you do not understand bow God answered Abra- ham Lincoln's prayer in the White 'House, and Stonewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle, and answered all the prayers of all the cathedrals on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line. God's country all the way past; God's country now Put His name in your pronunoia- mentos; put His name on your ensigns; put His name on your city and state and national enterprises; put His name in your hearts. We cannot sleep well the last sleep until we are assured that the God of our American institutions in. the past will be the God of our American institutions in the . days that ate to come. Oh, when all the rivers that empty into Atlantic and Pa- cific seas shall pull on factory bands;. when all the great mines of gold and silver and iron andcoal, shall be laid bare for the nation;, when the last swamp shall be reclaimed and the last jungle cleared, and the last American desert Edenized, and from sea to sea the conti- nent shall be occupied by more than 1,200,00 0,000 souls, may it be found that moral and religious influences were mul- tiplied ultiplied in more rapid ratio than the pop- ulation! And then there shall be four doxologies coming from north and south and' east and west, four doxologies roll- ing toward each other and meeting mid- continent with such dash of. holy joy that they shall mount to the throne. And heaven's high arch resound again; With peace on earth, good will to men. I take a step farther and say that be- fore the gavels of our Senate and House of representatives and our political con- ventions pound adjournment there ought to be passed a law or adopted a plank of intelligent helpfulness for the great for- eign populations which are coming among us. It is too late now to discuss whether we had better let them come. They are here. They are coming this mo- ment through the Narrows. They are at this moment taking the first full inhala- tion of the free air of America. And they will continue to come as long as this country is the best place to live in. You might as well pass a law prohib- iting summer bees from alighting on a field of blossoming buckwheat, you might as well prohibit the stags gf the mountain from coining down to the deer - lick, as to prohibit the hunger bitten na- tions of Europe from coming to this land of bread, as to prohibit the people of England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Germany, work- ing themselves to death on small wages on the other side of the sea, from com- ing to this land, where there are the largest compensations under the sun. Why did God spread out the prairies of the Dakotas and roll the precious ore into Colorado? It was that all the earth might come and plow and come and dig. Just as long as the centrifugal force of foreign despotisms throw them off just so long will the centripetal force of Ameri- can institutions draw them here. And .that is what is going to make this the mightiest nation on the earth. Intermar- riage of nationalities! Not circle inter- marrying circle,.. and nation intermarry- ing nation. But it is going to be Italian and Norwegian, Russian and'Celt, Scotch and French, English and American. The American of 100 years from now is to be different from the American of to -day. German brain, Irish wit, French. civility, Scotch firmness, English loyalty, Itaalian aesthetics, packed into one man, and he an American, Itis this intermarriage of. nationalities that is going to make the American nation the greatest nation of the ages. But what are we doing for the moral and intellectual culture of the 500,000 foreingers who come in one year, and the 600,000 who came in another. year, and the 800,000 who coins in an- other year, and the 1.000,000 who are cominginto our various American ports? What are we doing for them? Well, we are doing a great deal for them. We steal their baggage as soon as they get here. We send them up to a boarding house where the least they lose is their money.' We swindle them within ten minutes af- ter they get ashore. We are doing a great deal for them. But what . are we doing to introduce them into the duties of good. citizenship? Many of them never saw a ballot box; many of them .never heard of the Constitution of the United States; many of them have no acquaint- ance with our laws. r Now, I say, let the Government of the United States so commanded by one po- litical party or both political parties, give to every immigrant whe lands herea volume, in good type and well bound for long usage —a volume containing the Declaration of Independence, . the Consti- tution of the United States and a chap ter on the spirit of our government. Let there be such a book on the shelf of every ,free library in America, While the American Bible society puts into the right band of every 'immigrant a copy of the Holy- Scriptures, let the Government of the United States, commanded by some political party, put into the left hand of every immigrant a volume in- structing him in the duties of good citizenship. There are thousands of for- eigners in this land who need to learn that the ballot boxis not a footstool, but a throne -not something to pet your foot on, but something to bow before. But whether members of the national legislature or delegates to one of the na- tional conventions or privatecitizens, let us cultivate Christian patriotism, Oh, how good God has been to us as a na tion I Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasura- ble p,rosperities. Navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manufactories and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains, timbered with wealth on the top and sides and metaled with wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles, of coal! One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron! The iron to pry out the coal. The coal to forge and smelt the iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three. days—extreme heat or extreme cold. Cli- mate for the most part bracing and fa- vorable for brawn and brain. All fruits. All minerals. All harvests. Scenery dis- playing autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No English fogs. No Egpytian plagues. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that 'has travelled abroad. For the poor more sympathy! For the industrious more op- portuuity! Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and how good God has been to us and our children! To Him—blessed be His glorious name! To Him of cross and triumph be consecrated the United States of America! Go home to -day in high hopes of • the future. The Eternal God is on the side of this nation. Our brightest , days 'are yet to come. He bath sounded forth the trumpet that will never call retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men be- fore the judgment seat. Be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. A Phenomenon. Although the .respective functions of the two cerebral hemispheres are still but obscurely understood, cases are on record which can only be explained by the hypothesis of independent action. The most curious of these is that of a Welsh- man, lately described by Mr. Bruce in "Brain." This man was subject to ex- traordinary changes in his mental con- dition. While in one mental state he spoke English, was right-handed, and fairly intelligent, wrote legibly from left to right, and remembered things that had happened in his previous English states; in the other condition he spok; Welsh, was left-handed and subject a) dementia. His speech was barely intelli• gible, and he had no knowledge what- ever of English, nor could he remember: anything of his English states. He wrot'' with his loft hand from right to left. These facts led Mr. Bruce to conclude that the man lived two separate exist- ences of which the impressions were re- spectively recorded only on one hemis- phere whose influence was preponderat- ing during the stage it governed.. Only this could explain the fact that the man forgot the impressions received in eao'a stage while living in the other. Such cases are usually the effect of disease, and sometimes of accident resulting in injury to the brain substance. • 'Healing, Not Wounding. The stinging tongue, the cut into the old wound, the unlovely criticism, the acid in life, have no place in one who is "rooted and grounded in love." It is argued that we must fight the evil and oppose the wrong and cheek the evil tendencies. .So we must, but no man burns his house down to get rid of the hornets' nest within it, and there is no necessity to out off an arm because there is a wound on a finger. The Christian's business is to heal, not to amputate; to smother out the tendencies in others to sting, not set them on fire Truth does not get exalted by flinging it at people; it gets exalted whenever it gets really expressed in a man's life and shines out through him. Christ conquers his enemies by loving them. It is a good method to try! Living for Self Alone. The man who lives to himself be- queaths his own folly and poverty and meanness for his monument. He has benefited nobody, while he has dwarfed and warped his own powers, and senseless stone or marble, however lavishly supplied to mark his resting place, does him no honor. He has lived in himself, he has died in himself, and all that he leaves in memory of himself speaks no word of praise in his behalf, no word of justifica- tion. This is no true life. It is the worst of failures. There are glorious opportun- ities in this world for service. He who wisely uses them enriches both his race and himself, and dying leaves a monu- ment which outlasts granite and is brighter than polished brass. A -Worse Experience. "I read the other day," said Mr. Fransktown, "about a lawsuit in which a fortune of $118,000 hung upon the grammatical construction of a single word. Just think of that!" "Oh, that's nothing to talk about," re- marked young Mr. Homewood. "I have had a worse experience.'.' "How?" "Well, I once actually lost a bigger fortune than that by reason of a single word, and there was no doubt whatever about its being perfectly grammatical." "You don't say so 1 Tell me about it!" "There isn't much to tell. The girl said 'no'' "—Pittsburg Chronicle. Reconciled to'' he Loss. One -legged Stranger --Yes. ; I was lucky; I got $1,500 from the railroad company for that leg. ' Bystander—Well, I wouldn't take $15,000 for one of mine. Stranger -Yes, but the foot on'the leg that I lost had the worst chilblain on it you ever saw. Those Brushes. Wingle, of Boston—Why call it a tooth brush? You should say "teethbrush" unless you happen to have but one tooth. Wangle -Nonsense; one does not say 'shoes brush.'' Wingle—No; because he brushes but one shoe at a time. • Wangle—But how about the hairbrush? CAPT. NICHOLSON. The Young Officer commanding England's Forces in Baluwayo, Capt. John Sanctuary Nicholson is Abe officer now in cornrgand of the Brteish forces at Bulawayo, the city in Mata- beleland that is beleagured by the rebels, He is waiting Tor' the arrival of Sir Charles Martin, the new deputy high commissioner. Capt. Nicholson joined the Seventh Hussars twelve years ago, and attained the rank of captain in 1891. When . Gen. Goodenough was the com- mander at. the Cape he, appointed Nichol son successor t9 Col. B, C. O. Plummer, the first commissioner sent to take charge of the forces of the Chartered Oenipany. CAPT. JOHN S. NIOHOLSON. The regiment in which Nicholson is an officer was formerly stationed in India, and arrived at Pieternaaritzberg in October. It is now stationed there. Capt.' Nicholson was at once dispatched to Bulawayo to take charge of all the mins tary stores of the company. The rising of the Mataheles has given his position a gravity and responsibility that were not anticipated. Since his arrival in Rhodesia matters there have assumed such a seri- ous aspect that it has been deemed advis- able to put an older and more experienced man in charge. 'i'he now general will, relieve young Nicholson as soon as he arrives. A. Little Hero. Ruggsby was black, and it would hare been a difficult matter to discern him in the dark tunnel of the mine were it not for the little flickering lamp he carried, and his occasional "Go 'long there, Lazy- bones!" that he addressed to his patient mule, Ruggsby drove a tram car through the tunnels of a coal mine, and all his little life was wrapped up in the mule, the miners, and the click of their picks. But Ruggsby is a hero; and the way he became one is best told as he describes it:— "You see, boss, it wuz jez like this. De mule an' I wuz er workin' up toward de upper gallery on de steep grade when Ise lueerd a rumblin'. Ise knew what dat meant, One of dem trains had slip- ped tie brakean' wuz z er oomin' down de grade mighty fast. Tell yer, boss, Tse wuz er scared little nigger. 'Way down de grade, in de narrow part, der wuz er lot or mon"widenin' de tunnel, an' Ise knew de car wetted be on dem befo' dey could get outen de way. Ise hit o1' Lazy- bones er smash wit de whip, an', be 1 hel dat wuz funny! He nebor felt it dat way befo', yer see. He gib au awmighty kick, an' started pullin' like mad. Yer see, dere wuz a switch 'bout a short bit ahead er me, and or blind sidin' ran often it. If Ise could get dere befo' de train got dero, Ise could throw do switch an' send her plum into de wall at de end o' de sidin'. But, boss, Ise mos' fright- ened; dat "rumblin' was growth' louder an' louder, and Ise speot dat Ise would be too • late, Ise could see it er comin', an' old Lazybones saw it, an' he done en' gone balked, a thing ho neber done befo'. Iso jumped off tie car an' ran as fast as Ise could to de switch. It was stiff, an' Ise tugged at it till de car wuz on me. Ise felt a smash an' Ise knew de switch turned, but somethin' hit me. Say, boss, when Iso come to dey had me up to de surface, an' de whole crowd or miners wuz up dere, too. Dey cheered like dey does 'lection -times. ' I wuz hurt bad, but Ise been a hero eber sence, an' de foreman gib me a job up here in de engine room. "—Harper's Round Table. Anxieties of a Lighting Plan t Manager. The management and control of elec- tric generators often puts a severe strain onthe attention of the electrician in charge. This is especially the case in England where atmospheric conditions are more variable than in this country. In the City of London supply station a i cloud passing over the face of the sky or .; the presence of the least fog, will put on an instantaneous lead, equal to 200 or 300 horse -power, during daylight hours, and an emergency staff of men off duty, but within instant call, is always in readiness to meet such demands. Then there is always a sudden demand for supply of current when large numbers of lights are switched on together, and as sudden a cessation of demand when they are switched atf. The eye of the electrician, therefore, has to be constant- ly on his indicator. The dynamo must be regulatr;d according to the least varia- tion in the call for current, or there would be a serious hitch. In addition to the care and watchfulness required with- in the station, there are outside contin- gencies which may instantly, throw a whole town into darkness. A few weel.'s ago, some men in a town in Westmore- land, had been cutting a drain in a street which intersected the wire conduct- ting the local supply of electric current. Just before leaving they managed to cut the wire about half through, and then covered it up without saying anything about' it.• For awhile all went well, and there was no sign of any interruption. Suddenly the wire gave way, and in a moment every• light in the place went out. The responsibility that rests on the manager of the station under such con- ditions as these can easily be understood, and it need not be.a matter of surprise if many men become nervous, excitable and unhinged under the strain.—Pitts- burg Republican. • Her Master's Home. Mistress—If any one' calls, Mary, say your master is not at home. Servant—Excuse me, mum, • but I know my master is in; and I cannot tell a lie Mistress—But it wouldn't be a lie, Mary This is not your master's home; the club is his home! And Now They Don't Speak. Hill—I didn't see you at the Van Bilson's last night, Bikers --Bosh 1 They aren'tfit to asso- ciate with lunatics, b'ged! Hill -Ah?' I don't wonder you avoid them, then. -1 HIS TIME, WAS LIMITED. A N`F v LEASE; OF LIFE. The Train's Delay Was a ]flatter of Impor• tanee to the Traveler.. - They were holding the west -bound ex.• H4W A CUMBERLAND CO, N.S.; press at Reno for the east -bound to pass, MAN OBTAINED IT. and after a while a tough -looking char- acter came sauntering into the waiting- room and asked of .the ticket agent:— "Wall, how long afore this train leaves?": "Can't tell," was the curt reply. The man went away, but in the course of half an hour he returned to inquire:— "Heard anytbin' yet?" " "No. "Can't you tell when this train will pull out?" "No, sir. If you are here when the train goes you can go with it. .It's no, use coming here to bother me." "I don't want to bother you or nobody else," slowly replied the questioner, "but mebbe you don't understand how I'm fixed, I'm Prairie Sam's partner." . "Well?" "Sam got into a leetle shooting serape uptown this forenoon." "And about an hour ago the boys turned out and pulled Sam up to a limb." "Did, eh? I hadn't heard of that. Why didn't they pull you up with him?" "The blamed limb wasn't stout enough to hold the both of us, and they was too tired to bunt fur another. They gin me two hours to leave town in. One of the hours has gone, and I'm kinder anxus about the other. I kin buy a laoss and ride out if that train won't be here in time, but I'd a heap rayther take the kyars. I don't want to bother you, but under the sarcumstances—" "I see, Well, the train'll be here in half an hour." "Good. That gives me thirty minus to play on, and I won't look fur a boss. Nice weather, this?" "Beautiful weather for a lynching -bee 1" "Of course. That's what I meant. I'll just step up and take one long, lingerie' look at Sam and then ketch the train!" No Wonder He 'Was Ill: Teacher—William, you were not at sohool,yesteday. Have you any excuse to offer? William—I was sick, ma'am. ally send an excuse." - "Parents didn't know it, ma'am," "How is that?" j "Wasn't taken sick until after I left a home." - "And why didn't you return home?" "Was afraid to, ma'am," "What was the matter with you?" "Cigarettes, ma'am." An old Highland sergeant in one of the Scottish regiments - was going his rounds one night to see that all the lights were out in the barracks -rooms. Coming to a room where he thought he saw a light shiying, he roared out: "Put oot that light there!" One of the men shouted back: "It's the mune, sergeant!" Not hearing very well, the' sergeant cried in return: "I dinna care a ticket what it is! Put it oot!" "When you are sick your parents usu- • Put ltOat, Purged With Fire. "This brand of Cain must be wiped out!" be said. The situation was desperate. Some- thing had to be done, and at once. The stigma upon himself and his good name as a soldier and a revolutionist must be removed. ,-- Calling his second officer in command, the Cuban insurgent leader gave orders that all sugar plantations of superior quality be burned at once. "THE BLACK CROOK." What She Discovered. "Charley is so tender-hearted," said young Mrs. Torkins to her husband's friend. "Is he?" " Yes. Last night, when he came home late; I heard him tell somebody � who had walked that far with him that' the kitty was doing well. Just think of a man as busy as he is taking so much , interest in a poor dumb animal!" In the Line of Business. "Isn't Palette, the artist, drinking a good deal?" "Yes; he has been trying to get a case of the horrors," "Disappointed in love?" "Oh, no; it's all in the line of busi- ness. He wants some new poster designs." —Chicago Post. • Wheel and Whoa. "You may talk about your superiority all you please," said the horse to the bicycle; "but you can't go unless some- body rides you." "True!" retorted the machine; "but you never got the girls to wearing bloom- ers, nor did you originate the new woman. I did all that." The Same Thing. , Newels—I'm in doubt whether or not to send my boy to college. Hartley—Oh, don't bother. Just get him a tennis suit, a football, a rowing machine, a college cry, And a box of cigarettes, and ten to one nobody will ever 'know the difference, or he either. No Cause Before. Brown—I am going to challenge that man who ran off with my wife. Jones—Why, that was six months ago. Brown—I know it, but be has sent, her back. • The Difference. Miss Cotillon—Do you always acknow- ledge et when, you leuow you are wrong? Mr. Meanittsll—No. OnlyWhen other her: people know it. A ISiseerer From Acute Dyspepsia and a Complication of Troubles Following an Attach of La Grippe—He Was Eoreed to Quit Business and Was Hopelessly Dia' cooraged Wben Help came. . From the Amherst N.S. Sentinel. ' M . Charles Tucker, who lives about two miles from Lockport, isone of the best known men in that section. He is engaged in business as a lobster packer,'. and dealer in flour and salt, and in addi- ! tion has a fine farm. During the past three years Mr. Tucker has been an al-' most constant invalid, being the victim of a complication of troubles following to severe attack of la grippe. Recently he I has been restored to his old time health and having learned that he gave the en- tire credit to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.' concerning which so much has been said through the press, a reporter interviewed him in the matter, andwas cheerfully given his story for publication. Mr. Tucker said: "About four years ago I had a severe attack of la grippe, which left me in a fearful condition. I had for a 'number of years before this attack been ' a sufferer from dyspepsia, but following the la; grippe it took a more acute form, and to add to my distress my liver ap-I'� peered not to perform its usual functions,l and my heart troubled nee greatly, and, there were as well other cemplications which baffled the skill of four doctors whom I successively called in in the hope,, of regaining nay health. From the knees' down my legs were as cold as ice; my; bowels would bloat and I suffered great pain. My case went from bad to worse despite the medical treatment I was un- dergoing and at last I got so bad that I was forced to give up business. I could hardly eat anything, got but little sleep at night, and as you will readily under- stand my condition became one of de- spair. My father urged me several times to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial, but I was so discouraged that I had no further faith in any medicine. • However, more to please him than from any hope - of beneficial results, I began the use of Pink Pills. The first beneficial effects I found was that the warmth and natural feeling began to return to my limbs, my bowels ceased to bloat, and with the continued use of the pills °my appetite re- turned. I slept soundly at night, and the action of my heart again became normal. I continued taking the Pink Pills until I had used in all fifteen boxes,,andl have not felt better in years than I do now. I did some paticularly hard work last fall, and was able to stand it with a strength and vigor which surprised me. I consid- er Dr. Williams' Pink Pills not only a wonderful medicine, but also in the light of what my other treatment cost, the least expensive medicine in the world, and I strongly recommend Pink Pills to all in need of medicine. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills act directly upon the blood and nerves, building them anew and thus driving disease from the, system. There is no trouble due to either of these causes which Pink Pills will not cure, and in hundreds of oases they have restored patients td health after all other remedies had failed. Ask for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and take nothing- else. The genuine are always enclosed in boxes, the wrapper around which bears the full trademark, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." May be had from all dealers, or sent post paid on receipt of 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. An Original Idea. The latest proof of the value of adver- tising is given by a member of a London firm who says: "We recently hit upon a novel expedient for ascertaining over what area our advertisements were read. We published a couple of half-cohunn ads., in which we purposely misstated half a dozen historical facts. In less than a week we received between 300 and 400 letters from all parts of the coun- try, from people wishing to know why on earth we kept such a consummate idiot, who knew so little about English history. "The letters kept pouring in for three or four weeks. It was one of the best paying ads. we ever printed; but we did not repeat our experiment, because the one I refer to served its purpose. Our letters came from schoolboys, girls, pro- fessors, clergymen, school teachers, and, in two instances, from eminent men wh have a worldwide reputation. "I was more impressed with the value of advertising from those two advertise- ments than I should have been by vol- umes of theories."—The Fourth Estate. Preventing Egg Eating. ` if an egg is broken the hens will eat it, and it is by eggs being broken that the hens learn the vice, as they never eat eggs unless they first find one broken. The only way to prevent the hens from eating eggs after they once' begin is to make a nest with a top, compelling the hen to walk in to reach the nest; and have the box raised ten inches off the floor, so that the hen cannot stand near the box and reach the eggs. When she goes on the nest she cannot do any harm, as she must come off and stand up to eat the eggs. His. Queer Dream, He—I had a queer dream about you last night, Miss Louisa. I was about to give you a kiss, when suddenly we were separated by a river that gradually grew as big as the Rhine. She—And was there no bridge or no boat? Mostiof Them Do. Teacher—What does h -a -mem -e -r spell? Tommy -Don't know, ma'am. Teacher -What does your mother drive nails with, stupid? Tommy -- .4, stove lifter.