The Exeter Advocate, 1897-4-15, Page 7PRAYER FOR RULERS
REV. DR. TALIV1AGE CALLS THE isIA-
TION TO ITS KNEES.
He Gives Limy Reasons Why We Should
Pray or Those in . Authority -,His Plea
for the High Tido of Nattonal Pros.
• perity. ,
."4Y Washington, April 11.—This discourse
of Dr. Talmage, delivered before a
mighty throng, goes forth from the
• capital, calling the nation'to its knees.
'Before beginning his sermou Dr. Tal-
mage made an eloquent appeal. for
• American aid for the suffering millions
of India, Eighty millions are affected by
the famine, and unless Ameriat gener-
ously comes to the resoue millions of
lives will be eauificed. His text was I
• Timothy ii, 1, "I exhort, therefose, that,
�'i first of all, supplications, prayers, inter-
cessions and giving of thanks be made
for all men, for kings and eer all that
,are in authority."
• That which Lonclop is to England,
Paris to France, Berlin to Germany,
Rome to Italy, Vienna. to Austria, St.
Petersburg to Russia, Washington is to
the United States republic, The people
• Who live here see more of the chief men
• of the nation than any who live any -
Where else between Atlantic and Pacifle
oceans. If a senator, or member of the
• house of representatives, or supreme
court justice or seeretary of the cabinet,
or representative of foreign nation enters
a public assembly in any other city, his
comina, and going are romarked upon,
anti unusual deference is paid to him. In
this capital there aro so many political
chieftains in our churches, our streets,
oar halls, that their ;coming, and goiag
make no excitement. The Swiss seldom
look up to the Matterhoetx or Jungfrau
or Mont Blanc, because these people are
use to the Alps. So we at this capital
are so acaustomea to walk among moue -
tains of officiale and political eminence
that they ore ziot to as a great novelty.
Morning, noon and night we meet the
giants. Bat there is DO place on earth
,'where the importance of the Pauline
injunction to prayer for those in eminent
place ought to be better appreeiated. At
this time, when our publics men have be-
fore there the rescue of our national trea-
sury from appaillog deficits, and the
Cuban question, and the arbitration
(Mester', and in many departments men
are taking impovtant positions which are
to them new and. untried, I would like
to quote my text with a whole tonnage
of emphasis — words written by the
scarred missionare to the young theolo-
gian Timothy, n1 exhort, therefore, that,
first of till supplications, prayers, inter-
cessions and giving of thanks be made
for all men, for Zags end for all that
are in autaority."
-Reasons fm. Prayer.
1 If I have the time and do not forget
some of them, before I getthrough I will
give you four or Sive reasons why the
people of rho United States ought to
snake earnest and eontinuous prayer for
those in eminent place.
rest, because that will put us in
;
• pr per attitude toward. the successful
• men of the nation. After you have prayed
for a man you will do hire justice.
• There is a bad streak in Manna nature
that demands us to assail those that are
more successful than ourselves. It shows
itself in boyhood when the lads, all run-
e ning to get their ride on the back of a
carriage, and one gets on, those failing
to get on shout to the driver, "Cut be-
hindl" :Unsuccessful anen seldom like
those who in any department are success-
ful. The cry is, "He is a political acci-
dent!" or "He bought his way up!" or
"It just happened so!" and there is an
impatient waiting for Min to come down
mere rapidly than he went up. The best
cure for such cynicism is prayer. After
we have risen from our knees we will
be wishing the official good instead of
evil. We will be hoping for him benedic-
tion rather than malediction. If he
makes a anistake, we evill call it a mis-
take instead of malfeasance in office.
And, oh, how much happier we will be,
for wishing one evil is diabolic, but wish -
lag one good is saintly, is angelic, is god-
• like] When the Lord drops a man into
'depths beyond which there is no lower
depth, he allows him to be put on an
investigating committee with the one
hope of finding something wrong. In
general assemblies of the Presbyterian
church, in conferences of the Methodist
ohurcb, ha conventions of the Episcopal
church, in house of representatives and
In senate of United States there are men
always glad to be appointed on the coin-
mittee of malodors, while there are
those who are glad to be put on the com-
mittee on eulogiums After you have
prayed, in the words of my text, for all
that are in authority, you will say,
"Brethren, gentlemen, Mr. Chairman,
excuse me from serving on the commit-
• tee of malodors, for last night, just before
I prayed for those in eminent position, 1
readealeat chapter in Corinthians about
charity which Shopeth all things' and
apsethinketh no evil.' " The committee of
malodors is an important committee, but
I here now declare that those are incom-
petent for its work who have, not in
spirit of conventionality, but in spirit of
• earnest importunity, prayed for those in
• high positiqn1 cannot help it, but I do
like a St. Bernard better than a blood-
hound, and I would rather be a hum
ming bird among honeysuckle than a
crow swooping upon field carcasses.
• Perplexities or Public Lite.
Another reason why we should pray for
those in eminent place is because they
have each multiplied perplexities. This
• city at this time holds • hundreds of inen
who are expectant of preferment, and
United States niail bags, as never before,
are full of applications. Let • me say I
• have no sympathy with either the uttered
or printed sneer at what ase called "office
• seekers," If I had not already received
appothtment as minister plenipotenziary
from the high court ' of heaven—and I
• had at iny back a, family for whom I
• wished to achieve a livelihood, there is
no employer evilest) service I would sooner
. seek than city, state or United. States
government. Those teoveeninents are the
• promptest ill their payments, paying
just as well in haat 1;IMI`N as in good
e times and ethe
ring sunnee vacation as
•during winter work, Elesiiles that, naany
; of as have been mime, taxes to city and
sIsatcand nat ion for years, and while we
'
are ilidebtfel for tin protection of govf1T11-
• men% the government is indebted to us
for the honr-t.t STIpport whisvo rendered
ite So I wish PILE1001,11 to all earnest and
competent men who appeal to city or
state or nation for a planie to work. • But
how many men in high place in city and
e
state and nation are at their wits' end to
know what to do, when for SOME) places
there axe ten applicants and for others a
hundred! Perplexities arise from the fact
that ;citizens sign petitions without refer-
ence to the qualifications of the applioant
for the places applied for.. You sign the
application ;because the applicant is your
friend. ; People sometimes want that for
which they have no qualffication, as we
hear people sing "I want to be an
angel," when they offer the poorest ma-
texial possible for angelhood—boors wait-
ing to be sent to foreign palaces as em-
bass:ale:ma and men without any business
qualification wanting to be consuls to
foreign ports, and illiterates, capable in
one letter of wrecking all the laws of
orthography and syntax, desiring to be
put into positions where most of the
work is done by correspondence. If
divine help is needed in any place in the
world, it is in those places where patron-
age is distributed: In years gone by aw-
ful mistakes have been made, Only God,
who made the world out of chaos, could,
oat of the crowded pigeon -holes of publio
men, develop symmetrical results. For
this reason pray Almighty God for all
those in authority.
God to the Rescue.
Then there are the vaster perplexities
of oar relations, with foreign govern-
ments. For directions in such affairs the
God of nations should be implored. The
demand of the people is sometimes so
heated, so unwise, that it must not be
heeded. Hark to the boom of that gun
which sends from the American steamer
San Jacinto a shot across the bow of the
British merchant steiuner Trent, Nov. 8,
1801. Two distinguished southerners,
with their secretaries and families, are
on the way to England and France to
officially enlist them for the southern
Confederacy. After much pretest the
commissioners, who had embarked for
England and France, surrendered and
were taken to Fort Warren, near Boston.
The capture was a plain invasion of the
laws of nations and antagonistic to a
-prbaciple for the establishment of which
the United States government had fooght
in other days. However, so great was the
exciteanent that the secretary of the Uni-
ted States navy wrote an impleuditory
letter to Captain Wilkes, commander of
the San Jacinto, for hit; " pecinent and de-
cisive :taloa," and the bouse of represent-
atives passed a resolution of thanks for
"brave, adroit and patricide conduct,"
and the millions of the north went wild
with enthusiasm, and all the newspapers
and churches joined in the huzza. Eng-
land and. France protested, the former
demanding that unless the distinguished
prisooers should be surrendered and
apology made for insult to the British
flag within ten days Lord. Lyons must
return to London, talkie".''all the archives
of the British legation. 'War with Eng-
land and Frame seemed inevitable, and
war with England and France at that
time would have made a restored Aneer-
lean nation impossible for a long while,
if not forever. Then God came to the
remise and helped the prosideut and his
secretary of state. Against the almost
uoanimous sentiment of the people of the
north the distinguished Confederates
were surrendered, the law of mitions WAS
kept inviolate, the lion's paw Wi IS not
lifted to strike the eagle's beak, and ler-
haps the worst disaster of centuries w,.s
avoided.
There came another orisis within the
last two years, when niillions of people
demanded that American war veseels
sail into Turkish waters and - stop the
atrocities against the ArmeniatteiLe
people at large have no idea of the pres-
sure brought upon our government to do
this rash thing. Missionaries and other
prominent Americans in and around. Con
stantinople assembled at the office of the
American legation tied dernandea that
our minister plenipotentiary cable to
Washington for United States ships of
wale and they suggested the words of the
cablegram. Had our ships gone into
those waters the gusts of foreign nations,
everlastingly jealous of us, would have
been turned against our shipping, and
our navy, within a few years become re-
spectable in power, would have crawled
backward in disgrace. The proposition to
do what could not be clone was mercifully
withdrawn.
The Right Thing.
There will not be a year between now
and the next 20 years when those who
are in authority will not need the allid.-
• allee of the God of nations. God only can
tell the right time for nations to do the
right thing. To do the right thing at the
wrong time is as bad as to do the wrong
thing at any time. Cuba will one day be
free, but it will bo after she has shown
herself capable of free government. To
acknowledge Cuban independence now
would be to aCknowledge what does not
exist. l'he time may come when the
Hawaiian islands may be a part of our
government. But it will be when they
have decidedly expressed the desire for
annexation. In all national affairs there
Is a clock. The bands of that cloak are
not always seen by human eyes. But God
sees them, not only the hour hand, but
the minute hand, and when the hands
announce that the right hour has coine
the clock will strike, and we ought to be
In listening attitude. "The Lord reign-
eth. Let the earth rejoice; let the multi-
tude of the isles be glad thereof."
You see there are always in places of
authority unbalanced men who want war,
because they do not realize what war is,
or they are designing men, who want
war for the same reason that wreckers
like hurricanes and foundering ships, be-
cause of what may float ashore from the
ruins. You see that men who start wars
never themselves get hurt. They make
the speeches and others make the self -
sacrifices. Notice that all those who in-
stigated our civil war never as a conse-
quence got so xuttch as a splinter under
the thumb nail, and they all died peace-
fully in their beds. I had. two friends—
as thorough friends as old men can be to
a young man—Wendell Phillips and Robe
ert Toombs. They were not among those
who • expected anything advantageous
from the strife, but took their positions
conscientiously. They both had as mach
to do with the starting of tho war be-
tween the north and the south as any
other two men. A. million brave northern
and southern dead were put in the grave
trenches, but the two illustrious and
honest men I have meutioned evert: in
good health long after the ending of
things at A.ppoinattox, esed if those who
ZICIYOCateti (11111-11V14 recently that would
have brought on was between onr coun-
try and Spain or England or Turkey had
been succeeeftil in bringing on the -whole-
sale mirielere they themselves Would now
h been above ground, as I hope they
,i be, to celebrate the birth of the
tv ;ft Il!th century. If God had. not inter -
1,e eJ, we would have had three wars
wlthin the butt two years—war with
1,Setinial, war with Spain and war with
ToeSey, this last it)111(111 by' other nations
teamsti,,bnitie To preserve the peaceful
equipoise which such men are disturbing,
we need a divine balancing, for which
all good men on both sides the sea ought
to be every day praybeg.
• A Mighty Service.
Again prayer to God for those in au-
thority is our only way of being of any
practical service to them, for the most
part, an impertieenoe. They have all
the facts as we cannot have them, and
they see the subject in all its bearings
and we ean be of no help to them;except
through the supplication that our text
advises. In that way we may be infinite
re -enforcement. 'The mightiest thing you
ca,n do for a man is to pray for him. If
the old Bible be true, and, if it is riot
true it has been the only imposition that
ever blessed the world, turning barber -
ism into civilization and tyrannies into
republics—I say if the old. Bible be time,
God answers prayer. You may get a let-
ter, and through forgetfulness or lack of
time not answer it, but Ged never gets a
genuine letter that he does not make
reply. Every genuine prayer is a child's
letter to his heavenly Father, and he
will answer it, and thoughyou may get
naany letters from your child before you
respond, some day you say; "There!
have received ten letters from my daugh-
ter, and I will answer them all now and
at once, and though not in just the way
that she hopes for, I will do it in the
best way, and though she asked me for a
sheet of music, I will not give it to her,
for I do not like the music spoken of,
but I will soad her a deed to a house and
lot, to be hers forever." So Goa does not
in ell cases answer in the way those who
sent the prayer hoped for, but he in all
oases gives what is asked for or some-
thing better. So prayers went up from
the north and the south at the time of
our civil warand they were all answered
at Gettysburg. Yon cann.ot make me be-
lieve that Gut answered only the northern
prayers, for there were just as devout
prayers answered south of Mason and
Dixon's late as north of It, and God gave
wbat was asked. for, or something
as mica more valuable as a house
and lot are worthmore than a sheet of
music. There is not a good and intelli-
gent man between the gulf of Mexico
and the St.. Lawrence river who does pot
believe that God did the best thing pos-
sible when be stood this potion down in
1865 a glorious unity, never to be rent
until the waters of the Ohio and the
Savannah, the Reason mad the Alabama,
are licked up by the long, red tongaes of
a world on the. Yea! God sometimes an-
swers prayers on a large scale.
In worse predicament nation never
was than the Israelitish nation on the
banks of the Red sea, the rattling shields
and the clattering hoofs of an overwhelm-
ing host close after them. An army could
just as easily wade through the Atiantie
ocean, frona New York to Liverpool, its
the Israelites could have waded through
the Red sea. You need to sail on its
waters; to realize how big it is. How was
the crossing effected? By prayer. Exodus
xiv, 15: "And the Lord said unto Moses
Wherefore criest thou auto nse? Speak
auto the children of Israel, that they go
forward"—that is, "Stop praying and
take the answer." And. then the waters
began to be agitated and swung this way
and that way, and the ripple because a
billow, and the billow climbed other
billows, and now they rise into walls of
sapphire, and invisible trowels inason
them into firmness, and the walls become
like mountains, tooped and turreted and
domed with crags of crystal and God
throws an inyisible chain around the
feet of those mountains, so that they are
obliged to stand still, and there, right
before the Israelitish army, is a turnpike
road with all the emerald gates swung
wide open. The passing host did not
even get their feet wet. They passed dry
shod, the bottom of the sea as hard as
the pavement of Pennsylvania avenue,
or New York's Broadway, or London's
Strand. Oh, what a God they had! Or I
think I will change that aud say, "What
a God we have)"
What power puts its hands upon
astronomy in Joshua's time and made
the sun and anoon stond still? Joshua x,
12, "Then spoke Joshua unto the Lord."
Prayer! As a giant will take two or four
great globes and in an astounding way
swing thein this way or that, or hold
two of them at arm's length, so the Om-
nipotent does as he will with the great
orbs of worlds, with wheeling constella-
tions and circling galaxies, singing easily
star around star, star tossed after star,
or sun and moon held. out at arm's
length, and perfectly still, as in answer
to Joshua's prayer, To God the largest
world is is pebble.
• Richteous Selfishness.
Another reason why we should obey the
Pauline injunction of the text and pray
Lor all that are in authority is that so
very muchnf our own prosperity and
)sappiness are involved in their doings.
A selfish reason, you say. Yes' but a
righteous e,elfishness like thatwhich
leads you to take care of your own
health and preserve your own life. Pros-
perous government means a prosperous
people. Damaged government means a
damaged people. We all go up together
or we all go down together. When we
• pray for our rulers'we pray for ourselves,
for our homes, for the easier gaining of
a livelihood, for better prospects for our
children, for the hurling of these hard
times so far down the embankment they
oan never climb up again. Do not look
at anything that pertains to public inter-
est as having no relation to yourself. We
are touched by all the events in our
national history, by the signing of the
compact in the cabin of the Mayflower,
by the small ship, the Half Moon, sailing
up the Hudson. by the treaty of Willies:1
Penn, by the band that made the "Lib-
erty bell" sound its first stroke, by Old
Ironsides plowing the high seas. And if
touched by all the events of past Amer-
ica certainly by all the events of the
present day. Every prayer you make for
our rulers, if the prayer be of the right
stamp and worth anything, ha,s is rebound
of benediction for your own body, mind
and 50111.
Another reason for obedience to my
text is that the prosperity of this coun-
try is coining, and we want is hand in
helping on its coming. At any rate I do.
It is a matter of honest satisfaction to a
soldier, after some great battle has been
fought and some great victory won, to be
able to say: "Yes, I was there! I was in
the brigade that stormed those heights.
was in that bayonet charge that put
the enemy into tight!" Well, the day
will coxno when all the financial, political
and moral foes of tide republic; will bo
driven back and (Irks& down by the
• presperities that are now on their war,
but which come with slow tread and in
"fatigue dross" when we want them to
takel`the double.quick.'' Dy our prayers
we may stand on the mountain top and
beckon them on, maci show them a shorter
cut., Tea, in answer to our •prayers the
Lerd God of Hosts may from the high
heavens 0011111.1ox/c1 them forward swifter
Shan mounted troops ever took the field
at Itylan or Austerlitz.
In 1072 Holland was assailed. Her peo-
ple prayed mightily. The ships of her
enemies waited for the high tides on
which to come in. In answer to the
prayers offered the tide, as never before,
was detained 12 hours, and before that
12 hours had passed a hurricane swooped
upon the enemies' ships and destroyed.
them, and Hollandwas saved. If Garl
detained the high tide in answer to
prayers, will he not hasten it in answer
to prayer? Surely it has been low tide
long enough. 'May the Lord hasten the
high tide of national welfare. American
citizens, our best hold is on God. We
have all seen fanalles in prayer and
churches in prayer. What we want yet
to see is this whole nation on its knees.
• Words of 'Webster.
The most of them are dead—those who
in 1851 moved in that procession that
marched from the city hall of Washing-
ton down Louisiana, avenue to Seventh
street, ana than through Pennsylvania
avenue to the north gate of yonder capi-
tol, to lay the cornerstone of the eaten -
NEW CHEMICALS.
G and 1'om ttncls Lately in Demmer.
elni Use stestrictione.
Seveual mare or less dangerous articles
of chemieul manufacture are becoming so
largely employed for a variety of useful
p trotiees now that some lestrictions as
tneir sale, conveyance and storage are,
in the interest of the public safety, bn-
oor tive. Certein substances that were
p wiraisly regarded as chemical curiosi-
ti,s have ceased to be so, and are now
important eornmerciel commodities and,
made on a very large scale. Thousands
of ge lions of "ligeid" carbonic acid gas
in steel cylindsTs under high compression
may now be seen every day being con-
yed in carts from place to place, and
similarly other teases are stored under
peeesure in "tul'bes," as, for example,
oeygen, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, and so
oa, all of which may expose the public
t danger. Solid brielts of snetallic sodi-
u.n, again (kept under naphtha of course),
are every day carried from port to port
as part of a ship's cargo, and very seri-
sion of that capitol. The president, who ous accidents have occasionally arisen
from the intermixture of various eberna
cols on board ship by the damaging effect
of a rough passage upon the packages.
The trade in clyindors of compressed
that day presided, and solemnly struck
the stone three times hi dedication, long
ago quit eerthle seenes,and the lips of the
maat orator of thtit hour are dust,
the grand master of that occasion long
and gases has elready been placed under con -
ago put down the square and the level tr°Sidll another chemical substance of
and the plumb with which, for the last
time, he pronounced a cornerstone well comparatively recent discovery is now so
laid. But what most interests me extensively used as to have given rise to
now is the necessity of is home office order be -
that inside that cornerstone, in a glass
jar, hermetically sealed, is a document ing reeently issued, We refer to carbide
of calcium, whsch on
of national hapora though in poor pen- shnply becoming
01
It is the penmanship of Daniel moist gives off the exceedingly inflates-
Webeter, which almost ruined the pen- arable ''',11s acetylene. Carbide of calcium
; is usef:71 for a variety of purposes, but
inanship of this country for waxy years,
chiefly because on simply plaeleg it in
because many thought if they had. Daniel water it evolves pine acetylene, whims
Webster's poor penmanship, it might in- ,
' I power;
possesses a remarkably high illuminating
dicate they had Webster's genius, The
The employment of this method,
doeument reads as follovvs:—
of generatina gaseous illuminaot for
"If it shell hereafter be the will of optic lanterns for photoaraPhie Prialmaes
g
God that this structure shall fall from its e'
and for lighting p1:'. ate houses,
base, that its foundation be upturned and bus already
this deposit be brought to the eyes of been tried. It is quite obvi-
ates that some restriation should be
men, be it then known that on this day
placed upon the sale and storage of this
the nation of the United States of Amer- ;
sobstance, whieh is now being menu-
ica stands Dam; that their constitution lectured on is large scale, and which
still exists unimpaired and with all its simply in is moist atmosphere gives off an
°rIginal usefulness and glory, growing inflammable gas, which with air forms
every day stronger and stronger in the ancxplos'1ye maarea.e
affection of the great body of the Amer- 1 Carbide of calcium is 110W to be
i°axi Petililex and aftranting nInre and brought under the fourteenthsection of
more the admiration of the world, and the petroleum stet le71, and, a;lter April
all here assembled, whether belonging ; it will be unlawinl to keen carbide of
to public life or to private life, with calcium except by virtue of a license to
hearts devoutly thankful to Almighty be obtained from the local authority un -
God. for the preservation of the liberty der the petroleum act. Doubtless the re -
and the happiness of the country, unite cent accidents that have been reported
in silicon and fervent pryers that this from time to time by the employment of
hipesit, and the walls and arches, the , acetylene in this way have proinpted the
de,mes
as d towers, the columns and lionai office to issue this order, together
itetehlatit s now to be erected over it with a memorandum showing the ohar-
may motive forever. God save the United ; act" of the risks to be guarded against,
States of Americo! DanielWebster, secre- ,
: and giving suggestions as to the nature
tory of state of the United States." of the precautions likely to be most effect -
A. New consecration. ual for securing safety.—London Lancet.
That WAS beautiful and appropriate at ,
the laybag• of the cornerstoiee of the ex- i Her Little Test.
tension of the capitol A8 years after the ! "Oh, yon dear thing!" cried the girl
cornerstone of the old capitol had been , in the empire jacket as she stepped
laid. Yet the cornerstone of our republic i aboard the cars. "To think that I've just
was first /aid in 1776, and at the re- t heard of yottr mareiage1 I was away at
establishment of our national govern -1 the time, you know, and I just can't fer-
ment was laid again in 1865. But are give you for not letting me know all
we not ready for the laying of the air- about it."
nerstone of a broader and higher national: "Well, you see, it was very sudden,"
life? We have as a nation received so said the young woman in the fur collar -
much from Go& Do we not owe new ette. "I only knew it myself 48 hours
consecration? Are we not ready to be- ' before it happened. You see, I had de -
come a better Sabbath keeping, peace ; emed to be married in the spring any -
loving, et4rtue honoring, God worshiping , how, but I liked jack and Edgar equally
nation? Are we not ready for suoh a , evellaind 1 jest couldn't decide which—e
cornerstone laying? Why not aow let it . "Yes," said the girl in the empire jao-
take plaee? With long processiott of ! ket breathlessly, "and how did you de -
prayers, moving from the north and the ` (Adept
south, the east and the west, let the "I put them both to is test," said the
scene be made august beyond comparison, young woman in the fur collarette,
The God of nations, who hath dealt "and Jack stood it."
with as as with no other people, will pro- "You didn't make them fight a duel,
side at the solemnization. By the square aise your,
and the level and the plumb of the ever- "Mercy, no! That is away behind the
lasting right let the cornerstone be ad- times. I just took each of them out for a
justed. Let that oornerstone be the walk and stopped before is millieer's
masoning together of the two granite window 10-0
tables on whieh the law was written "You clever, original thing!"
when Sinai shoot with the earthquake, "Yes, to admire the hats. I said. to
and inside that conerstone put the Ser- Edgar: T111 tryine to decide which one
anon on the Mount and a scroll contain- of these suits me 'best. I've tried them
ing the names of all the men and women all on, and I can't decide. Give sae your
who have fouglit and prayed and toiled opinion.' "
for the good of this nation, from the first "Yes, yes. Don't stop. I'm dying to
martyr of the American Revolution down hear—"
to the last woman who bound up a sold- "Ile pointed to the one bearing is ticket
ier's wounds in the field hospital. Aad which said, `Marked down to $1.49,' and
let some one, worthy to do so, strike the said: 'Tbat one, by all means. It will
stone three times with the gospel ham- jest mit the shape of your bead!' "
mer, in the name of God the Father, God "Oh, I see! A husband like that would
the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Then •tell you that you looked better in a calico
let the building rise, one wall laved by freak than—e
the Pacific ocean, and the other washed "A silk? Exactly. I rejected him that
of the atlantic, until its capstone shall day. 'The following afternoon Jack and I
be laid amid the shouting of all nations, went for a walk."
by that time as free as our own divinely "And stopped before the same win.
founded, divinely constructed and divine- amp'
ly protected republic, the last throne of "al'hm. Then Jack displayed his real
" oppression baying fallen flat into the nobility. He said, 'lf I bad anything to
dust, and the last shackle of tyranny say to it, I'd select that one.' It was
been hung up in museum as a relic of placarded, Ilse very latest, $22.' I knew
barbaric ages. I'd never find • stush a noble creature
The prayer that the great expounder again. So I married hill] WM days later!"
wrote to be put in the cornerstone at the "And yen were right too. Of course
extension of the capital I ejaculate as the first thing he aid after you were
our own supplication, "God save the married was to bay you that hat! How
United States of America!" only adding awfully roinantic1 Of course you haven't
She words with which Robert South was worn it out itt two months. You must
apt to close his sermons, whether dello- let me see it when I come to call to -mor-
• ered before the court at Christchurch row."
chapel or in Westminster Abbey, at tenni- •A. queer look flashed over the bride's
versary of restoration of Charles II or on fare, and she gasped: "Why, no, he (ba-
the death of Oliver Cromwell amid the nt. I— never once thought of that. Con -
worst tempest that every swept over Eng- ductor, stop the car!"
land: "To God be rendered and abscribed, "Why, athere are young going?" asked
as is most due, all praise, miglit, majesty the girl in the empire jacket.
and dominion, both now and forever. "To .Tack's office," said the bride
Amen." •
firmly. "I—eve have an orraed to do be -
Some Indian Girls. fore I go home."—Chicago Times -Herald.
Among the Indian girls at the Crow
agency school in Montana are the follow-
ing: Clara. Spotted Horse, Edith Long
Ear, Kittle Medicine Tail Lena Old
Bear, Clare Bull Nose, BILoche Little
Star, Nellie Shell -on -the -Neck, Mary Old
Jack Piablait, Bertha Full Mouth, Katie
Dreemer, Fanny Plenty Butterflies,
Bessie Crooked Arm, Martha Long Neck,
Isabel. Lunch,' Flay • Hairy Woll, .Alioe
Shoots -as -She -Goes, Stella Wolfhouse,
Lucy Hawks, Beatrice Beads -on -Ankle,
Louisa Three Wolves, Anna, Medicine
Pipe, Maggie Broken Aatele, Sarah Three'
Irons,. Ida .Wrinkle Face, Jessie ; Flat
Head • Woman, Lottie Grandrnothee's
Knife, Minnie Nods -at -Bear, Daisy
Young Heifer.
Smasllecl Proverbs.
Never my over skimmed milk,
A child can lead is colonel to 3 bar'but
probebly ten amen wonIcl not ask him to
"It is never too late to men," she said
when the ofock struck 1 and George was
still at the club.
After you look it gift horse in the
mouth you will see there is no use to
lacic the stable door. .
Better'count your chickens before they
are snatched—the darkey's hone is just
before dawn.
• Their Silver 'weadfng.
Professor Dr. Friedrich von Esmarch
of Biel university and his wife have just
celebrated their silver weddiag, the
former being over .74 years old, He won
his surgical experience and reputation be
his service for the wounded during the
great wars of 1866 to 1870. At the close
of the Freneo-German weir he bad eetab-
netted himself as frientt aud physician in
the highese circles, and on Fels 28, 1872,
he -married as his seemul wife Princess
Henrietta Elizaheth of Sleswick-Holstein,
wleee, life he had saved by an rmeration.
Sinve his marriage Dr.. vole lesmaaoh,
who was made is hereditary "yob" in
Seta, has lived at Kaa, where the clinical
records show Shat he has personally per-
formed Mare than 14,000 t1PtIrcIti011$1. .The
trineesse hie wife, is ten years his Jupiter.
She is emit both to the preeent Germen
empress fuel to Prince Chrietem, eon -in-
law of Queen Victoria,
Soqtnining. fliiileputatton.
"Is Stamps es close ns he is represente
ed?"
'I'm ble lawyer., you 'krone He's
fighting a doctor bill ei $40 just now.
7t's for doetering Slemps through the
:wimps. Ile events t itci ameunt met in
,«o be,eause he was only affected on one
elde.''
A FARMER'S WIFE
TELLS A STORY OF YEARS OF
PAIN AND SUFFERING.
Doctors utterly railed to Help Her and
Morphine Was continually Resorted to-.
klecame So Weak She could seaectele
Perform. Her Household Duties-
laront the 13eaver, Napalm,
Mn.• awl Mrs. Robt. Stone have been
residetts of the township of Eensestown,
about ten iniles east of Napanee, for a
period of about three years, and in that
time have gained the esteem of all their
neighbors. For six years previous to
this time they bad lived in Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, and it was during
their residence there that Mrs. Stone was
attaeked with an illness that made her
life miserable for years. To a reporter
who recently interviewed her she told
the following story: "During the early
part of our residence in Colorado, my
illness first came on. At the outset every
two or three weeks I would be attacked
with a pain in ray stomach. Later on it
greatly iecreased in severity, and at tinaes
was so bad that I would scream aloud
with the pain, A. doctor was called in,
but the only benefit I ever received from
his treatment was through the injection
of morphine alto my arm, as a result of
which the pain would gradually pees
:may. The medicine which was given
me, however, hali not the slightest effect
and the doctor appeared to be greatly
perplexed, and thereafter continually re-
sorted to injections of morphine when-
ever the attacks came on. These attacks
continued at intervals until our return
to Canada, when they increased in fre-
1 '
quency and intenseness. The result was
that I grew very weak, and my whole
system appeared to be giving out. My
complexion turned. is yellowish hue and
I had little or no appetite. Latte;ly I
would be attacked with fainting spells,
preceded by attacks of dizziness. I be-
canee utterly unable to stand fatigue,
and could with the greatest difficulty
perform iny household duties. A doctor
was called in who treated me for some
time without beneatting me any. Then
he gave me what I now know to be Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and after I had
used two boxes I felt somewhat better.
I then purchased the pills myself and
continued the treatment. I found that
the pain was gradually decreasing. I
could get rest end sleep at night, which
had hitherto been almost impossible. I
continued using Dr. Williams Pink Pills
for several snonths, and the result is that
they have effected a complete cure, and I
am now enjoying the best of health. I
can assure you it is a great relief to be
free front the trouble that made my life
miserable for so many years and I have
to thank Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills for
succeeding when doctors had failed."
Dr. Williains' 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 wbich Pink Pills
will not cure, and its hundreds of cases
they have restored patients to health
after all other remedies had failed. Ask
for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and take
nothing else. The genuine axe always
enclosed in boxes the wrapper around
which bears the full trade mark, "Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills Inc Pale People."
May be had from all dealers or sent post
paid on receipt of 50 cents a box or 6
boxes for $2.50, by addressing the Dr.
Williams ;Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Those Japanase Bicycles.
The daily papers of late have made
much noise about Japanese bicycles be-
ing sold in San Francisco at the low
price of $12.50. With an eye to business,
I have made careful inquiries at 'Frisco
and have been unable to find a single
Jap wheel for sale My correspondent has
taken the trouble to look up the records
in the 'Frisco Custare House, without
finding, however, any importation of
Japanese bicycles. I returned quite re-
cently froin Japan. Foreigners there all
ride Englisb, German or American
wheels, which fact seeras remarkable
when one reads in our papers that our
manufacturers ;have gloomy prospects
before there. The only decent wheels of
Japanese make I saw while in Japan
were 01:awn at the laioto Exhibition last
June. They had been made expressly for
the exhibition, but in spite of this re-
commendation, I doubt if a foreiguer
could be fund in .Tapan who would trust
himself on one of them.
They Don't Mind in En glan d.
It is strictly true, however unintell1.
gible it may be to people in this country,
that the appropriation by one minister
of the sermon of another is, elsewhere
than America, more or less common,
and more or less an accepted usage,
which occasions no remark. An Ameri-
can bishop who was the guest of the
English vicar remarked, on walking
home with him from church, "That
was an admirable sermon yap gaye us
this morning." "Yes," replied the vioar,
"that was a good sermon; it was one of
Archbislum Seeker's." One wonted to
such customs in las own land cam hardly
regard such an act as it is regarded lure.
—Churchmen.;
Unsafe.
Miss alcFlirter—No, Captain, yoa have
not been on every sea; you kuovr you
haven't ventured on the StIft of matrimony.
Capt. Batobelor--That's so, but you
must remember that matrimony's the
hieh sea for which no coinpaes has been
'lawn; etl.
stank of rngrland Notes.
.Bank of :England notes are made from
new wilite linen cettings—never from
nytl dug: that has been worn, So ,essrefully
IN the paver prepared that even the IMID-
1,t1' Of clips into the aulp :made by ascii
worlernan is registered on a dial by ma-
chinery.