The Exeter Advocate, 1896-12-24, Page 7WORK AFTER DEATH.
Did. TALMAGE'S IDEA OF EMPLOY-
MENT IN HEAVEN.
A trni nteYlew or the ?Celestial World-.
Employment Suited to the Worker-11tu-
eleians, Soldiers. flistn•fans, Artists; All
Will rind Congeutai Occupation.
Washington, Deo. 13, --Dr. Talmage's
Hermon to -day gives a very unusual view
of the celestial world end is onenf the
most unique discoursesof the great
preaoher..The text is Eieklei i, 1, "Now
it came to pass in the thirtieth year, In
the >,uthrtll mnnth, in the fifth day of
the month, as I was among the captives
by the river of Chebar, that the heavens
were opened,"
Ezekiel, with others, had been ex.
patirated, and while in foreign slavery,
standing on the banks of the royal canal
whiehhe and other serfs had been con-
demned to dig by the order of Nehu-
ohaduezzar—this royal canal in the text
called the river of Chebar=-the illustri-
ous exile had visions of heaven. Indeed
t is almost always so—that the bright-
est visions of heaven Dome not to those
who are on mountain top of prosperity,
but to some John on desolate Patmos,
or to Rome Paul in Mainertine dungeon,
or to some Ezekiel standing on the backs
of a ditch ho had been coinpolled to dig
--yea, to the weary, to the heartbroken.
to those whom sorrow has banished. The
text is very particular to give n' the
exact time of the vision. It was in the
thirtieth year and in the fourth month
end in the fifth day, of, the month, So
you have had visions on earth you shall
never forget Ynu remember the year, you
remember the month, you remember the
day, you remember the hour. Why may
we not have some such vision now and
it be in the twelfth month and in
thirteenth day of the month?
The question is often silently asked,
nigh perhaps never audibly propound-
ed, "What are our deported Christian
friends doing now?" The question is
more easily answered than yon might
perhaps suppose. Though there has conte
no recent intelligence from the heavenly
city, and we seem dependont upon the
story of 18 peuturios ago, still I think
we may from strongest inference decide
what are the present ocnnpations of our
trnnsferrod kinsfolk. After God had
made a nature he never eradicates the
chief oheracteristic or its temperament.
Yon never knew a plan phlegmatic in
temperament to Leeome etanguine in
tatnpernmeut. You never knew a man
sanguine in temperament to become
pbleamatio in temperament. Conversion
plants new principles in the soul, but
Paul. an John are just as different from
each other after conversion as they were
different from each other before conver-
sion. if conversion does not eradicate
the prominent characteristics of temper-
ament neither will death eradicate them.
Paul and John aro asditferentfrom each
other in heaven as they were different
from each other in Asia Minor.
You have, then, only by a sum in sub-
traction and a sum in addition to de.
tide what are the employments of your
departe:1 friends in the bettor world. You
are to subtract from them all earthly
grossness and add all earthly goodness
and then you ere•to come to the conclu-
sion that they are doing now in heaven
wbat in tbeir best moments they did on
earth. The reason why so many people
never start for heaven is because they
could not stand it if they got there if it
should turn out to be the rigid and for-
mal place some people photograph it.
We like to come to ohuroh,but we would
not want to stay here till next summer.
We like to hear the "Hallelujah Chorus,"
but we would not want to hear it all the
time for fifty centuries. It might be on
some great occasion it would be possibly
comfortable to wear a crown of gold
Weighing several pounds,but it would be
sin affliction to wear such a crown for-
ever. In other words, wo run the descrip-
tions of heaven into the ground while
We make that which was intended as es-
pecial and oelebrative to be the exclusive
employment in heaven. You might as
well, if asked to describe a Decoration
day or a Fourth of July or au autumnal
Thanksgiving, as though it were all the
time that way.
I am not going to speculate in regard
to the future world, but I must, by in-
evitable laws of inference and deduction
and common setae, conclude that in
heaven we will be just as different from
each other as we are now different, and
hence that there will be at least as many
different employments in the celestial
world as there are employments here.
Christ is to bo the great love, the great
joy,the great rapture, the great worship
of heaven, but will that abolish em-
ployments? No more than love on earth
--paternal, filial, fraternal, conjugal
love—abolishes earthly occupation.
In the first place, I remark that all
those of our departed Christian friends
Who on earth found great joy in the fine
arts are now' indulging their tastes In
the same direction On earth they had
their gladdest pleasures amid pictures
and statuary and in the study of the
laws of light and shade and perspective.
Rave you any idea that that affluence of
f acuity at death collapsed and perished?
Wby so, w hen there is more for them
to look at and they have keener appre-
ciation of the beautiful and they stand
amid the very looms where the sunsets
and the rainbows and the spring morn-
ings are woven? Are you so obtuse as to
suppose, because the painter drops his
easel and the sculptor his chisel and the
engraver his knife, that therefore that
taste which he was enlarging an inten-
retying for 40 or 50 years is entirely
obliterated? These artlsts,or these friends
of art on earth worked in coarse material
and with imperfect brain and with frail
hand. Now they have carried' their art
into larger liberties and into wider eir-
eumfereuce. They are at their oldbusi-
ness yet, but without the fatigues,
without the limitations,without the hind-
rances of the terrestrial studio.
Raphael could improve upon his, mas-
terpiece of "'Michael the Archangel"
now that he has seen him,and could.
prove upon bis masterpiece of the "Holy
Trinity" now that he, has visited them.
Welted Angelo could better present the
"Last Judgment" after he' had seen its.
gash and heard the rumbling battering
rams of its thunder. Exquisite colors
hero,graoeful lines here, powerful chiaro-
;fouro' here, but I am persuaded that the
grander etu.dies and the brigbter galleries
are higher up, by the winding .marble
stairs of the sepulcher, and that Turner
endialolmaf Hunt and Rembrandt and
Titian and 'Paul Veronese, if they czar -
allied saving faith in the Christ wbom
they portrayed upon the canvas,, aro
th of faculty
but the strength pointing yet, b
multiplied ten thousandfold. 'Their hand
has forgotten its ounninge but the spirit
has faculties as far superior to ' four
tingere and a thumb as the supernaturn
is euiierior to the human. The reason
that God took away their eye and their
hand and their brain was that he might
give them something more limber, more
wieldAy,mnre skifui more multipliant.
I remark again that all our departed
Christian frionds who in this world
were passionately fond of- mucic are still
regaling that taste in the ,world celestial,
The Bible says so much about the music
of heaven that it cariuot all be figura-
tive. Why ail title talk about halleluiens
and (Moire on the 'glass and trumpets
and harps and oratorios and organs?
The Bible over and over again speaks'af
the songs of heaven. If heaven had no
songs of its own, a vast number of those
ou earth would have been token up by
the earthly emigrants, Surely the Christ-
ian at death does not lose his memory.
Then there must be millions of souls
in heaven who know "Coronation" and
"Antioch" and "Mount Pisgah" and
"Old Hundred." The leader of the eternal
orchestra need only onoe tap his baton,
and ail heaven will be ready for the
halleluiah.
If heaven should ever gab cub of mu -
`sic, Thomas Hastings and Lowell Mason
and Bradbury would mut up a hundred
old magnificent chorale, But what with
the new song that John mentions, and
the various doxologies alluded to, and
the importation of subinna harmonies, a
Christian fond of music, dying, will
have an uhundanoe of regalement. What
though the voice bo gone in death what
though tho ear bo fallen in dissolution,
are yon therefore to conoindo that the
spirit will have no power to make or
catch sweet sounds? Cannot the soul
sing? How often we compliment some ex•
quisite singing by saying, "There was so
much soul in her music." In heaven it
will be all soul until the body after
awhile Domes up in the resurrection, and
then there will be an additional hanven.
Cannot rho soul hear? If it can hear,
then it can hear music. Do not therefore
let it be in your honsebold when some
member leaves for heaven, as it is in
some households, that you close the piano
an unstring the harp for two years be-
cause the fingers that use to play on
them aro still. You must remember that
they have better instruments of music
where they are. You ask me, "Do they
have real harps and real trumpets and
real mans?" I do not know. Some
wiseacres say positively there are no
such. things in heaven. I do nut snore,
but I should not be surprised if the God,
who made all the mountains, and all
the hills, and all the forests, and all the
mines of the earth, and all the growths
of the universe—I should not he sur-
prised if he could if ho had a mind to,
make a few harps and trumpets and
organs. Grand old Haydn, sink and warn
out, was carried for the last time into
the music hall; there ho hearts his
oratorio of the "Creation." History says
that as the orchestra calve to that famous
passage, "Let there Le lightl" the whole
audience rose and cheered, and Haydn
waved his hand
toward
heaven and
said, "It comes from thcrei" Over
whelmed with his own music he was
carried out in his chair, and as he came
to the door he spread his hand toward
tho orchestra as in benediction. Haydn
was right when he waved his hand to-
ward heaven and said, "It comes from
there." Music was born in heaven, and
it will ever have its highest throne in
heaven, and I want you to understand
that aur departed friends who were pas-
sionately fond of 21121Rlo hero are now at
the headquarters of harmony, I think
that the grand old church tunes that
died when your grandfather died h tvo
gone with them to heaven. When theee
tunes Bled, and they did not stay on
eartll, and they could not have been
banished to perdition, and so I think
they must be in the corridors of ala-
baster and Lebanon cedar.
for ever, Since they died they have
solved 10,000 gnestione which puzzled
the earthly laboratory. Tney stand on
the other side of the thin wall af eloe
triolty---the thin wall that seems to divide
the physical from the spiritual world;
the thin wall of electricity, so thin the
wall that ever and anon 1t seems to; be
almost broken through -broken through
from ono side by telephonic and tole-'
graphic apparatus, broken through from
the other .side by strange Influences
which men in their Ignoranoe call
spiribualist)o manifestations. All that
matter cleared up. They laughing at us
AR older brotbors will laugh at iaex-
perienoed brothers, as they see ns with
contracted brow experimenting and ex-
perimenting, only wishing they oauld
show tie the way to open all the myster-
ies.
What are our departed Christian
friends who in this world had their joy
tin the healing art doing now? Busy at
their old business, No sickness in hea-
ven, but plenty of sickness on earth,
plenty of wounds in the different parts
of God's doniinio.h to ba healed and to
be medicated; those glorified souls com-
ing down not in lazy doctor's gig, but
with lightning l000motion. You cannot
understand why that patient got well
after all the skillful doctors had said he
must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
him—Abercrombie, who, alter many
years doctoring the bodies and the souls
of people in Scotland wont up to God in
184. Perhaps Abercrombie touched him
I should nos wonder if my old friend
Dr. John Brown, who died inPldiuburgh
—John Brown, the author of "stab and
His Friends," John Brown, who was as
humble a Christian as he was a skillful
physician and old renowned author-•
should not wonder if ho bad been back
again and again to sec seine of his old
patients. Those who had their joy in
healing the siekness and the woes of
earth, tone up to heaven. are acme forth
again for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found
their chief joy in conversation and in
sociality doing now? In brighter conver-
sation there and in grander soctaiity.
What a place to visit in where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens,
you yourselves kingly and queenly! If
they want to know more particularly
about the first paradise, they have only
to go over and ask Adam. If they want
to know how the suet and moon haiton,
they have only to go over and ask
Joshua. If they want to anew how the
storm pelted Sodom, they have only to
go over and ask Lot. If they want to
know more about the arrogance of
Hainan they have only to go over and
ask Mordecai, if they want to know how
the Red sea boiled when it was cloven,
they have only to go over and ask
Moses. If they want to know the pont•
ou)ars about the Bethlehem advent, they
have only to go aver and ask the seren-
ading angels who stood that Christmas
night in the balconies of crystal, If
they want to know more of the partlou-
lars of the crucifixion, they have only to
go over and nsk those who were per-
sonal spectators while the mountains
crouched and the heavens got brook in
the faeo at the spectacle. If they want to
know more about the sufferings of the
Scotch Covenauters, they have only to go
over and ask Andrew Melville. If they
want to know more about the old time
revlvals,thoy have only to go over to ask
1Vhite:Mid and Wesley, and Livingston,
and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney.
Oh,what a place to visit iu 1 If eternity
were one minute shorter it would not
belong enough for such sociality. Think
of our friends who wore very fond of
raising superb fruit turned into the
orchard where each tree has 12 kinds of
fruit at once, and bearing the fruit all
the year round! What are our departed
Christian friends doing in heaven, those
who an eartll found their chief joy in
the gospel ministry? They are visiting
their old congregations. Most of those
old ministers have got their people
around them already. When I get to
heaven—as by the grace of God a am
destined to go to that place—I will come
and see you all. Yes, I will twine to all
the people to whom I have administered
in the gospel and to the millions of
souls to whom, through the kindness of
the printing press, I am permitted to
preach every week in this land and in
the uttermost parts of the earth. I will
visit them all. I'give them fair notice.
Our departed friends of the ministry are
now engaged in that delectable enter-
tainment and undertaking.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who in all departments of use-
fulness were busy finding their chief
joy in doing good—what are they doing
now? Going right on with the work.
John Howard visiting dungeons; the
dead women of northern and southern
battlefields still aboard looking for the
wounded; George Peabody still watching
the poor; Thomas Clarkson still looking
after the enslaved—all of, those who did
good on earth busier since death than
before; the tombstone not the terminus,
but the starting post, What are our de-
parted Christian friends who found
their chief joy in studying Gnd doing
now? Studying God yet. No need of
revelation now, for, unblanohed, they are
face to face. Now they can handle the
omnipotent thunderbolts just as a child
handles the sword of a father Dome back
from victorious battle. They have no
sin; no fear, consequently. Studying
Christ, not through a revelation save
the revelation of the scare—that deep
lettering which brings it all up quick.
enough. Studying the Christ of the
Bethlehem caravansary; the Christ of
the awful massacre. with Its hemorrhage
of head and hand and .foot and side; the
Christ of the shattered mausoleum;
Christ the sacrifice, the Star the Son,
the Man,the God, the God-Man,the Man -
God. But hark! The bell of the cathedral
rings—the cathedral bell of heaven.
Wbat is the matter now? There is going
to be a great meeting in the temple;
worshippers all ooming through the
aisles. Make room for the Conqueror.
Christ standing in the temple. All hea-
ven gathering around hint, Those who
loved the beautiful so to look at the
Rose of. Sharon. Those who loved music
Dome to listen to his voice. Those who
weremathematicians conte to count the
years of his reign. Those who were ex-
plorers came to disoover the height and
the depth' and the length and breadth of
his love. Those who had the military
Spirit on earth sanctified, and the mili-
tary split in heaven, Dome to look at the
Captain. The astronomers come to look
at the Morning Sar. The men at the
law came to look at him who is the
judge of quick and dead. The men who
healed the Oak come to look at him who.
was wounded for our transgressions, All
different and different forever in many.
respects,' yet all:alike in admiration for
Christ, and all• alike in, joining .in ' the
doxology, d Cato, him :whq ,weehed u9
from our sins In his own blood, and
Made us kings and priests unto God;
to him bo glary, to the• Iobu rob through-
out all ages, world without end.' Amen.
Again, I remark that those of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this
world had very strong military spirit
are now in armies celestial and out in
bloodless battle. There are hundreds of
People born soldiers. They cannot help
it. They belong to regiments in time of
peace. They cannot hear adrum or a
fife without trying to keep step to the
music, They are Christian, and when
they fight they fight on theright side.
Now, when these our Christian friends
who had natural and powerful military
spirit entered heaven they entered the
celestial army. The door of heaven
scarcely opens but you hear a military
demonstration. David cried out, The
chariots of God are 30,0001" Mishit saw
the mountains filled with celestial cav-
alry. St. john said, "The armies whioh
are in heaven followed him on white
horses." Now, when those who hnd the
military spirit on earth sanctified entered
glory.I suppose they right away enlisted
in some heavenly campaign; they val.
unteered right away. There must needs
be in heaven soldiers with a soldierly
spirit. There are grand parade days,
when the King reviews the troops. There
mast be armed escort sent out to bring
up from earth to heaven those who were
more than conquerors. There must he
crusades ever being fitted out for some
part of God's dominion -battles blood-
less, groanless, painless --angels of evil
to be fought down and sought ont, other
rebellions worlds to bo conquered,
worlds to be put to the torch, worlds to
be saved, worlds to be demolished,
worlds to be sunk, worlds to be hoisted.
Besides that, in our own world there
nice battles for the right and against the
wrong where we must have the heavenly
military. That is what keeps as Christian
reformers so buoyant. So few good men
against so many bad men so few churches
against so many grog -shops; so many
pure printing presses against so many
polluted printing presses, and yet we
are buoyant and courageous, because
while we know that the armies of evil
in the world are largerin numbers than
the army of truth, there aro celestial
cohorts in the air fighting on our side.
have not so much faith in the army on
the ground as I have in the army in the
air. 0 God, open our eyes that we may
see them -the military spirits that went
up, from earth to join themllitaryspirits
before the throne --Joshua` and Caleb and
Gideon and David and Samson and the
hundreds of Christian warriors who on
earth fought- with fleshy arm. and
now, having gone up on high, are com-
ing .down the hills of heaven ready to
fight among the invisibles. 'Our departed
Christian friends who had the military
spirit in them sanctified are in the celes-
tial army. Whether belonging to the
artilory, or the cavalry, or the infantry,
I know not I only know that they have
started out for fleet service and courage-
ous service and everlasting service.
Perhaps they may come this way to
fight on our side and delve sin and.
meanness and saran from all our hearts,
Yonder they are coming, coming. Did
you hear them ,,as. they swept by?
What aro our departed Christia n n chem-
ists tieing? Following out their own
solebee, following out and following out
A YOUNG LADY'S ESCAPE.
FRIENDS THOUGHT THAT ' THE.
SPAN OF HER LiFE WOULD
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At Lust %Pial But a Grain or x'aftlt Iter
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Tilts and She is Now Cured.
From the Montreal Herald.
This world is full of change, There
are changes that affect the constitution
of the individual, changes that will
come, we cannot avert their coming, brit.
we may parry the unsanitary character of
tlheir influence. Womanhacei in' its in-
ception is susceptible of changes that de
mated the most jndictous uttentlou and
prudential care to ensure portent develop -
mans and happy maturity. These
changes are so vital and so subtle in
their character that unless the utmost
vigilance and discrimination is exercised
in the choice and application of reputed
remedies the worst results may aconic.
The ronetttutlon may he undermined
and the germs of disease fostered. Vigor-.
ons life is fie the basis of all enjoyment
and success. To be weak is to be miser-
able. It is therefore fundamental to every
interest of humanity that life's rod, red
stream be kept pure and henithyt. owing
to neglect of these particulars many
young women have allowed life to be-
come a burden and a wearisome round
of duties. Faint and weak very aptly
describes their condition after venturing
to perform some ordinary household duty.
What can bo done to accomplish the re-
juvenation of these unfortnuate ones?
There 1a a remedy widely known and
loudly applauded, whose virtuoa are pro-
claimed on the house tops and whispered
on the streets. Ten thousand mothers
have recommended it and twice ten
thousand daughters praise it. Read what
one of tbenh has to say. In tho village
of Lancaster there lives Mrs. A. J. Mac-
pherson, widow of the late A. 7. Mac-
pherson. , She is well and favorably
known in the (iamtuunity. Seine four
or five years ago Mrs, Macpherson sent
her elaest daughter to New York, While
there she resided with her uncle and at-
tended school, being then only about
sixteen years of ago, The social life of
her temporary home made rather severe
demands upon her time, and being am-
bitious she was anxious to make rapid
progress in her studies, In each particu-
lar she enjoyed a covetable measure of
success, bus at no small cost. Matey re-
marked her paleness and loss of color.
She began to feel tired and weak after a
little exercise, such as a short walk,
Miss aleepherson's stay in New York
lasted about two years. All this time
she ate and slept fairly well. In the
spring of 1803 she came home, and her
mother could not but remark how
changed her daughter was—pale and
languid instead of being bright and
ruddy. Thinking that nourishing food
and perfect quiet, with judicious exer-
cise, wnuld restore the lost vigor and
ruddy glow, 11 was participated in to the
fullest extent. For a month this was
tried, but still Mies Macpherson was as
pale as before, liable to turns nI weak-
ness with an unsatiable desire for sleep.
At this juncture the family dootor eves
consulted. Iron pills were presoribed and
n trip to rho Thousand Islands taken,
the stay lasting shout six weeks, during
which time everything was done to help
her recovery. The friends with whom
she stayed came to regard her recovey as
extremely doubtful, and when she re-
turned her mother saw nn improvement.
One day while making purchases from a
dealer in vegetables he (the dealer) took
the liberty of making some remarks
anent the health of Miss Macpherson,
which was obviously not promising. He
strongly urged the use of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. Mrs, Macpherson was not
over credulous of the qualities of the
Pink Pills, but they were purchased and
used to the best advantage. Soon after
beginning the use of the pills, says Mrs.
Maopberson, I thought I saw a reddish
tinge upon her cheek and in the course
of n week or so my daughter felt better.
The tired feeling began to vanish and
tho abnormal sleepiness began to yield
to the influence of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, Continuing the use of the Mils
the progress of her restoration was con-
tinuous and complete, and her improved
looks were the subject of favorable com-
ment for some time. To -day her health
is all that could be desired, and both
the young lady and her mother are firth
believers in the medicinal. virtues of
Pink Pills and often recommend them.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills create new
blood,: build up the nerves, and thus
drive elisease from the system. In hun-
dreds of cases they have cured after all
other medicines have failed, thus estab-
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among the triumphs of modern medical
science. The genuine Piuk Pills are sold
only in .boxes, bearing the full trade
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position by refusing any pill that does
Dot bear the registered trademark around
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Keen Sense or Humor.
"I believe that parrot," said a Yonkers
gentleman recently, showing a family pet
to a visitor, "has a' highly cultivated sense
of humor.
"Opposite my residence here, a few
months ago, were some buildings in course
of erection, and the men at the top of the
scaffold were in the habit of calling for the
material they wanted.
"In a very short time Polly learned the
terms by heart, and we heard her crowing
away: 'Mortars' 'More mortar!' 'More
brick!' and the like.
"One Irish laborer she fooled completely.
One day 1 remained at home and sat read-
ing in the roam stere. Polly was uttering
her cries repeatedly, and at Iast I went to
the window and watched. No sooner did
the laborer relieve himself of a load thaathe
everlasting cry, 'More mortar!' assailed his
ears.
"He bore it with exemplary patience till
the mortar board on the top of the scaffold
was piled up, but Duce more the order for
"Mortar, more mortar," was given. This ex-
asperated him, and throwing down his hod
he bawled out to the bricklayer above:
" 'Is 'it mortar mad that yez are? Sure, a
man must have a hundred legs and the back
of a bull to wait on the likes of yez."—
New York Herald.
A Ready Reply.
Gilbert Stuart, the American portrait
painter who has graven the face of Wash
ington upon our memories, learned his art
in the English home of Benjamin .West.
Ono clay he met Dr. Johnson, whose dist
like, of the American colonies was notorious
"Sir," demanded Johnson of youngStuart,
"whore did you learn English?" "GUI of
your dictionary; sit•," 'replied': the quick
SIR KNIGHT JAMES OSBORNE
D
Reported on by the Sick Committee.
His Death Claim a foregone conclusion.
REPORT having been made, February 2oth, 1896, to
• • Tina' a of Maccabees, Hamilton
Barton Tent,Knights t
One.., that Sir Knight James Osborne was very ill, the standing
"sick committee" was instructed to wait upon him. They did so,
and at the next meeting of the Lodge, reported that his disease.
was stated by his physician to be Bright's Disease of the
Kidneys, and that he could not possibly recover; further, that
he would only last a short time. Upon receiving this report the
Lodge expected to pay his death claim, but were surprised a few
months later on when Sir Knight Osborne entered the Lodge
room in apparent goad health. His marvellous recovery is due
entirely to Ryckman's Kootenay Cure, as he discontinued the,
use of all other medicine when he commenced to take that
remedy. He now works -every day, is getting stronger ane
healthier steadily, and appears to be a long way from death as
far as Bright's disease is concerned:
Signed,
GEO. RIACH, Commander. EMORY L. HARTWELIm, R.li
HUGkI SYMINGTON, F.K., Barton Tent, No. 2.
Bright's Disease Yields to the New Ingredient.
• Bright's Disease, that has hitherto been supposed
incurable, fastened itself upon James Osborne so firmly
that his case was considered hopeless by physicians.
friends and himself. All the well marked symptoms
of that dread disease were in evidence. The pains
across the kidneys were so bad that for hours at a time
he could not turn in bed. The skin became pallid,
pasty, dry and hard. Digestion bad, heart palpitation,
shortness of breath and prostrating weakness. So
weak did he become that his strength was like that of
a child. He could not walk. Appetite gone, nervous.
very restless during sleep, awakening several times
during the night with a desire to urinate, which at
times was very painful. Under the eyes the skin was
puffed out, legs and feet were swollen, and he felt the
use of them were gone. Reduced to this deplorable,
helpless condition 'tis no wonder that he exclaimed :
" what is to become of me." To be brought from this
condition to a state of health that enables him to take
up his usual work is marvellous, and proves the far
reaching, curative powers of Kootenay. From head
to foot he suffered, and from head, to foot he was cured
by Kootenay, and by it alone, as substantiated by the
following :
[COPYJ.
PRovlxes OF ONTARIO,I; JAMES OSnORNE, of the City of Hamilton,
COUNTY OF WENTIFORTFr, County of Wentworth, do solemnly declare
that I reside at 6e Catherine St. South, in said
WITd asengineer h
ToS1z employed bythe
City, and , m
y
p
Sandford Manufacturing Co., Hamilton, One,
Some time ago 1 was severely attacked with kidney trouble, and finally had
to leave my employment. I was treated by Hamilton physicians who, after
a consultation, diagnosed my case as " Bright's Disease of the Kidneys,"
and said I could not be cured. Upon this information I gave up treatment
with the doctors, and began the use of Ryckinan's Kootenay Cure. I am
now pleased to state that after taking four bottles of that wonderful medi-
cine I feel entirely like a new man. The swelling has left my. body, my
.kin is a better color, and I am recovering my health and strength steadily.
Knowing the benefits which I received from the medicine, it gives me
pleasure to recommend it to anyone suffering from Bright's Disease or other
kidney trouble. I am now working in my old position as engineer, and owe
my present strength and improved condition to Kootenay Cure.
And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing it to be
true, and knowing it is of the same force 'and effect as if made under ,oath.
and by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act, 1893.
DECLARED before me at the City of Hamilton, in the County of Went-
worth, this 16th day of Sept„ A.D. 1806.
(Signed), JAMES OSBORNi?.
T. F. LYALL, Notary Public.
If not obtainable of your dealer It will be forwarded, charges prepaid
on receipt of price, $1.60 per bottle. by addrese'ng R. B. Ryckman Medi.
01328 Co., Et million, Ont. Rend for " Chart Soak," mailed tree.
141S GREAT IDEA.
go Was a Trifle New In the Badness. tont
Learning Rapidly.
Four or five of us had been discussing
tramps and their ways as we smoked our
cigars, when the man with the flowing red
whiskers pulled afaded old parchment from
his pocket and handed it out for inspection
with the remark:
"Take a look at it and give meyour opin-
ion as to whether it is agood thing or not."
The parchment appeared to be 200 years
old, while the writing was in Spanish and
the seals those used by the crown of Spain.
"What on earth do you call it?" was
asked after we bad inspected the document.
"Do I look like a tramp?" asked the
whiskered man in turn.
"No. Of course not."
"Well, a year ago I was ragged, hungry
and dead broke and belonged to the 'per.
fesh.' I believe I have about $14,000 to my
credit in the bank today. That hogskin did
the business. It purports to be an old land
grant from the king of Spain. I stole it
from a tramp. who had the aid of a lawyer
to fix it up."
"But where and bow have you used it?"
"Almost anywhere. I just walk into a
town, shake that parchment at the inhab-
itants thereof and claim all the land by
reason of this patent Some scare and
some don't. Those who scare buy me off
for a nominal figure. Those who don't
heave a sigh of relief when I disappear to
work the racket elsewhere."
"But how many towns does the decep-
tion take in?"
"Oh, about half of the United States. It
was made broad enough to work on for 20
years. 1 never disturb the widow and the
fatherless, but most of the others have to
come down. There is no going to law
about it, i show my patent, claim the
land and accept, anything from $10 to $500
to quit claim. No excuse for a tramp re-
maining a tramp if he has ambition. Royal
road to fortune is open to all classes."
"But it's a swindles" protested our
spokesman.
• "Diplomacy sounds better, gentlemen.
Observe the flow of these flowing whiskers(
Look me over for flies) Size me up for a
tramp who used to sleep in fence corners o'
nights and skirmish around days for crusts
and bones! 'Something pleasant about the
clink of $20 goldpieces, eh? Just as: easy
to work as failing out of a window, and
I've got so that when I quit claim $5,000
worth of real estate for $200 1,feel that I
ought to be praised for my generous action.
Try some of these '50:'cent cigars, please,
and excuse my not producing a bottle of
champagne' from my grip, 1 was a tramp
for 14 years, and it will take me a year or
two to Catch on to the mannerisms of good
society," -.Detroit Free Press.
Suspicious.
There wasa ball given at. the Clam-.
whooper mention on Fifth avenue, New
witted artist. The old man became gentle 1 York, in honor of Count de Vermicelli,
Gus Snobberly, who is engaged to Mian
Maud Clamwhooper, was also present, and
it did not escape his attention that Maud
never took her eyes off the count. As soon
as Gus got an opportunity he said:
"You seem to be dead gone on that Ital.
ian monkey!"
"0h, Gus, how you misjudge reel My
heart beats for you alone."
"That's too thin," replied Gus, with a
bitter smile. "If I'm your huckleberry,
why can't you look at me occasionally?"
"I'm afraid if I did look at yon for a
minute the count would take advantage of
the opportunity to steal some of the silver-
ware. The last one went off with three o1
the spoons, and ma scolded me for not keep
ing my eye onhim."—Texas Siftings.
"O$ tho Cob."
A Good Bargain.
A prominent lawyer of Buffalo tells eta
compromise he once made on behalf of a
certain railway company with an Erie
county farmer whose wife had been killed
at a railroad crossing. A few mouths after
the terrible bereavement the husband, whe
had sued the company for $5,000 damages,
came into the office and accepted a cont;
promise of $.500. As he stuffed the wad of
bills into his pocket, he turned to the law-
yer and cheerfully remarked: "'Veli,, dot's
not so bad after all. I've got fife hundret
toiler and goot teal better wife as ]: hadbe.
fore,"—Argonaut.
Earnest.
Mrs. Morrie Hill --Why doesn't Professos
Winkeiheimer play at your receptions nowt
Mrs. Swellerby— He's so abominably,
rude. The last time he played he asked
some of my visitors to stop talking. He
said he didn't mind whether they heard
him or not, but unless he could hear him,
self he couldn't do himself justice—Truttb.
Why Ho Wasn't Called.
Proprietor—Did you call the gentleman
in No. 73? Re wants his breakfast et
o'clock.
Bellboy --No, lirdon't. •
Proprietor-et/id he say so?
Bellboy -No. Ile blew out the,, gas last
night.—Chicane inter,0restt'
Ever ' Alu,tiiu..a%.' li..:•axa 'dixil�3, but not
r ,
every 1 ery American,knUivs that. .)318 patents
htave.bbeih tttkeil 'out 'ou the nmachinery
used in mak tug them.