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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-6-3, Page 3WINDS THAT HINDER REV. DR. TALMAGE TO THE WEARY .AND DISCOURAGED. • • He Gives Words of Comfort to Ali Who Tabor Under Adverse Circumstances, Aloth l'hysical and Mental—The Over- burdened awl Overworhed, Washington, May 60.—Dr. Talmage's sermon this week is ono a good (sheer. It will give eacouregement to many struggling souls. T10 subjeet is "Con- traier Winds," and the text NiatthOW xtv 24, "The wind was contrary." Ae1 well know by experience 'on Lake Galilee, one hour kill may be calm anl the next hour the winds kind waves will be so boisterous that you are in doubt as; to whether you will bend on the shormor on thti bottom of the deep. The diseiplee in the text were caught in such a stress of weather 'and the sails beat and, the ship plunged, for "the wind was cen- trary." There is in one of the European straite a piece, where, whichever W57 you sell, the winds are opposing. There are people who all their life seem sailins, in the teeth a the wind. All things seem against them. It may be said of their condition as of that of the disciples in nay text, "the wind Mg contrary. A Divine Physician. A great mittitude of people are under eta:Ming disadvantagg, and I svlli to -day, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that 1 can manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse collate out eight or ten drops of a, pre- scription and stirs them la a half glass of water, but as when a MOM has by a mistake taken a large timount at strych- nine or paris green or belladonna, an 1 the putout is walked rapidly round the room and shaken up until he gets wide awake. Many of you have taken a large draft of the poison of discouragement, and I mane Out by the order of the diviae Physici tit to rouse you out of that leth- argy. First, many people are under the dis- advantage of an unfortunate name given them Ly parents who thought they were c101eg a good thing. Sonietiales at the baptisin of children while 1 hose held up (me hand in prayer I have held up the Other head in amazement that parents should have weighted the babe with such a dissonant and repulsive nomeacla- tare. I have not so much wandered that Soma children should cry out at theehris telling font as that others with such smiling face should take a title that 'will be the burden of their lifetime. It is out- rageoue to afflict children With an un- tie:41101h+ name because it happened to be posses:ad by a parent or n rich untie front whom favors are expected or 80551 proanineut man of the day who moy end his life in disgraee. It is no excuse, be- mate- they are Scripture mimes, to call a child .lenoialcim or 'riglatialdleser. baptized .ne by the name Bathsheba! Why, un. or all the vircuntabient heaven, any parent :should want to give to a ehild the Milne dna 1,018V ereature of Scripture tiniee1 eennot imagitua I have often felt at the leteeismal altar, whon names were 111)I1t)U11( 1 to ine, like seeing, as did. the Rev. lir. Rieharas of 'Morrietown, N. .1.. wben amind wee handed hint for baptism and the :nate given, *Hadn't ,yott better eall it a aethiug elsee" Demo", not upon that bate' u name' sumeesth ot ilippaney or meanness. There is "to exteuse fer suell assault and Stately tet the eratlie when our languaer ie opium- with name,: mashed and ,eiller meth •a. meaning, such as John, mean- ie t "al: • ea:violas gilt of God," ta Ifeatea., exiling "the thief Of a house - holt:, ta Alfred, meaning "good Conn- JOS11110,2 meaning "God, Otto SO t ' or elinbroee, meaning `'ina krthl.'' Or Andrew, meaning "manly," or lather, meaning "star," or Abigail, 311" tning "my father's joy," or Anna, snesning "grave," or Victoria, meaning "vietory," or Retitle, meaning "beauti- ful as a a ose," or Margaret, lamming "a ataarl," oe Ida, meaning "godlike," or Clam neeening "illustrious," or Amelia, meaning “busy," or Bertha, meaning "b and hundreds of other name, just as good that are a help rather .a a The Family Name. But sometimes the great hindrance ia life is not in the given name, bait in the family name. While legislatures are will - 1 *) lift such incubuses, there are fain- ilits that keep a mune, which mortgages all the generations with a great disad- vantega. You say, "I wonder if he is any relatiou to So-and-so," meaning some ' family celebrated for crime or deception. It is a wonder to me that in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, sieving to his brother and sisters, "If you want to keep this nuisance or scamitilietion of a name, I will keep it no linger than until by quickest course of law I ean slough off this gangrene." 'The city directory has hundreds of names the MOre pronunciation of which has been a life lone obstacle. if you have started life uneer a name which, either througa ridiculous orthography or vicious seggeslion, has been an lumen:be:taco, resolve that the next geaeration shall not be so weighted. It is not demeaning to 'chum° 11 name. Saul of Tarsus became Pratl the .Apostle Hadessah, "the nayr- tie," became Esther, "the star." We have in Anierica, and I suppose it is so in all countries, names which ought to be abolished, and oan be and will be ,abolished for the reason that they are a libel and a slander. Bile if for any reason you are submerged either by a given name or by a family name that you must bear, God will help you to overcome the outrage by a life conseerated to the good and useful. You may erase the curse from the mane. If it once stood for meanness, you can make it stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can anak-e it stand for humility. If it once steed for fraud, you can make it stated for honesty. If once it stood for wicked- ness':7cm can make it stand for purity, There have been multitudes of instances where men and women have magnifi- cently conquered the disasters of the names iufiicted upon them, Again; many people labor .under the misfortune of incomplete physical equip- ment. We are by our Creator so economi- cally built that We canuot afford the • obliteration of any physical faculty. We want our ewe eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two feet,our eight fbagers and two thunabs. Yet what multitudes of people have but one eye, or but one foot! The , ordinary casualities of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, sox- ' tupled, aye, centrupled, in our time by e the civil war, and at the north and south a groat multitude'are fighting the battle of life with half, or less than half, the needea physical arnaaments. 1 de; not wancler ab the pathos of a soldier during the ever, who, whepas told that he must have his hand amputeited, said, "Doctor, . can't you save It?" and when told that it waa impossible, said, with tears rolling down his cheeks: "Well, then, goodby, old hand. I hate to part with you. You have (loam me a good service for many years, but it seems yo1,1 must go. Good- by.,t A celebrated surgeon told rae of a scene* in the clinical department of one of the New York hospitals, when a poor man with a wounded leg was brought in befere the students to be operated on. The stugeon was pointixag out this and that to the students and handling the wounded leg, and was about to proceed to amputation when the poor man leaped from the table and hobblea to the door, and said, "Gentlemen, I am sorey to disappoint you, but by the help of God I will die with my leg on." Vbat a terrific loss is the lees of our physical faculties! I The way the battle of Crecy was de- cided against the French was by the Welshmen killing the Premix horses, and that brought their riders to the ground. Ad -when you cripple this body, which is merely the aminuel on which the soul rides, you may sometimes defeat the soul. • Physical Ins. Yet how many suffer from this physi- cal taking off! Good. cheer, zny brother! God will make it up to you somehow. The grace, the sympathy of God will be more to you than anything yon have lost. If God allows part of your resources to be cut off in one place, he will add it on somewhere else. As Augustus, the em- peror, took off a day from 1"ebruar3a making it the shorten month in the year, and 'added it to August the month named after himself, so advantages taken from out: part of your nature will be added on te apethen it.ts amaelng.how Inuah of the world's work has been done by men of subtracted physical organization. 8, 8, Preston, the great orator of the southwest, went limping all his life, but there was no foot put dowie upon any platform of his day that resounded so Lar as leis club foot, Beethoven was so deaf that he could not bear the crash of the orchestra rendering his oratorios, Thomas Carlyle, the dyspeptio martyr, was given tha commission to drive cant out of the world's literature. Tile Rev. Thomas Stockton, of Philadelphia, with one lung raised his audience aearer heaven than most ministers can raise them with two lungs. In the banks, the insurance companies, the commercial establishments, the reformatory assoola- tons, the churehes, there are tens of thousands of men and women to -day doubled Up with rheumatism, or subject to the neuralgias, or with only frag- meats of limbs, the rest of which they left at Chattanooga, or South Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they are worth mare to the world and more to the church and more to God than those of us who have never so much as had a finger joint stiffened by a felon. Pot to faill use all the faculties that remain and charge on all opposing cir- cumstance:: with the determination of John of a:bowleg who was totally blind and yet at a battle cried out, "I pray and beseetth you to lead me so far into the fight that I may strike one good blow with this sword of mine." Do not thbeit so suutila of what faculties you have lost as 01' what fatalities remain. You have enough left to make yourself felt In 'three worlds, wbile you help the earth ana balk hell and win heaven. Arise from your discouragements, 0 men and women of depleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, by the tmeoial help of God, you can annomplish! The Fkillea horsemen stood around 13ucephalus, unable to mount or manage Wm. so wild was the need. But Alex- ander noticed tbut the sigit of bis own shadow seemed to disturb the horse. So Alexander clutched lam by the bridle and turned his head away from the shadow and toward the sun, and the horse's agitation was gone, and Alexander mounted him and rode off, to the aston- ishment of all who stood by. And what you people lima is to have your sight turned away from the shadows of your earthly lot, over which you have so long pondered, and your head turned toward the sun—the glorious sun of gospel con- solation, and Christine hope and spiritual triumph. A. New Outfit. And then remember that all physieal disadvantages will after awhile vanisb. Let those who have been rheumatisnaed out of a foot, or cataracted out of an eye, or by the perpetual roar of our cities thundered out of an ear'look forward to the day when this old team:mat house of ilesh will came down and a better one shall be builded. The ,resurrection morn- ing will provide you with a better outfit. Either the unstrung, wornout, blunted and crippled organs will be' so recon- structed that you will not know them, or an entire new sot of eyes and ear's and feet will be given you. :fast what it moans by corruption putting on lacer- zuptiora ViTO do not know, save that it will be glory ineffable. No limping in heaven. no straining of the eyesight to see things a little way off, not putting of the band behind the ear to double the capacity of the tympanum, but faculties perfeot, all the keys of the instrument attuned for the sweep of the fingers cat eestacy. But until that day of resunaption comes let us boar eaela other's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Another form of disadvantage under which many labor is lack of early educa- tion. Them will be no excuse for ignor- ance in the next generation. Free schools and illimitable opportunity of education will make ignorance a crime. I believe in compulsory education, and those parents evho neglect to put their children under educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the peniten- tiary. But there are multitudes of men and women in raidlife who have had no opportunity. Free schools had not yet been established, and vast multitudes had little or no &Shoot at all. They feel it wimp as Christian men they come to speak or pray Ise religious assemblies or public; occasions; patriotic, or political, or educational. They are silent because they do not feel competent. They owe nothing to English grammar, or geography, or belles lettres. They would not kaow a participle from a pronoun if they met it many tirnes a day. Many 94 the Illett in high political plaoes cannot write an accurate letter on any theme. They are completely dependent upon clerks and deputies and stenographers to make things right. I ',Mew a literary rnan Who in other years, in this city made his for. tune by writing speeches for oongressneesa or fixing them up for The Congression Record after they were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy of this country is beyond measurement , Now, suppose a man finds himself in midlife without education, what is he to do? ,Do the best he can. The 'most effective layman in a former pastoral charge that I ever heard speak on religious themes could within five min- utes of exhortation break all the laws of English grammar, eyed if he left any law unfractured he would complete the work of ligual devastation in tbe prayer with whieh he followed it. But I would rather bave him pray for me if I were stole or in trouble than any Christian man know of, and in that church all the peo- ple preferred him in exhortation and prayer to all others. Why? Because he was so thoroughly pious and, had such power vitt God he was irresistible, and as he went on he his prayer • sinners to- pentecl and saints shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to get back their dead in celestial companionship. And when he bad stopped praying and as soon as I could wipe out of any eyes enough tears to see the oloseng hymn I ended the meeting, fearful that some long winded. prayer meeting bore would pull us down bora the seventh heaven. Opportunity. Nab a word have 1 to say against aecturacy of speech or fine eloeution or high mental culture. Get all these you can. But I do say to those who were brought up in the day of poor ;wheel- houses and ignorant schoolmasters and no opportuniey: You may have so much of good in your soul and so much of good in your soul and so much of heaven in your everyday life that you will be mightier for good. than, any who went through the curriculum of Harvard or Yale or Oxford, yet never graduated in the school of Christ. When you get up to the gate of heaven, no one will ask you where you can mato the first chapter of Genesis, but whether you have learned the Deer of the Lord, which is the begin- ning of 'wisdom, nor whether you know how to square the circle, but whether you have lived a square life in a round world. Mount Zion is higher than Mount Par- nassus. But what other multitudes there are under other disadvantages. Here is a Christian wonaan whose husband thinks religion a sham and while the wife prays the MARI= one way the husband swears them another. Or here is a Christian man who is trying to do his best for God and the ()Isaiah, mad his wife holds him batik and says on the way home from prayer meeting, where he gave testimony for Christ: "What a fool you made of yourself! I hope hereafter you will keep still." And when he would be benevolent and give $50 she criticizes him for not giving. 50 cents. -1 must do justice and publicly thank God that I never proposed at house to give anything for any cause of humanity or religiou but the other partner la the domeetic firm approved it. And when it seemed beyond any ability, and faith in God was necessaay, she had three-fourths the faith. But 1 know raen who when they contribute to charitable objects are afraid that the svife shall fiad it out. 'What a withering curse such a woman must be to a good man! Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to get things cheapest? You say those who have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the bucket. You buy flour by the barrel; they buy it by the pound, You get ap- parel cheap, because yon pay cash; they pay dear, because they have to get trust- ed. And the Bible was right when it said, "Tim destruotion of the poor is their poverty," • Then there are thee° who made a mis- take in early life, and that overshadows all their days. "Da you not; know that that man was once in prism?" is whis- pered. Or, "Do you know that that man ono attempted sulaidet" Or • "Do you know that that anan once absconded?" Or, "Do you know that that man was orate dscharged for dishoneery?" Perhaps there was only one wrorar deed in the anan's life, and that one aot haunts the subsequent hall etintury of his existence. Others have unfortunate predominance of some mental ha:ratty, and their rash- ness throws them into wild. enterprises, or their trepidation makes them deoline great opportunity, or there is a vein of melancholy in this disposition that de- feats them, or they have an endowment of overmixth that muses tho impression of insincerity. Other nill d ran ces. • Others have a enighter obstacle in their personal appearance, for which they are 'not responsible. They forget that God fashioned their features and their com- plexion and their stature, the size of their nose, and mouth, aud hands, and feet, and gave them their gait and their ganeral appearance, and they forget that much of the world's best work and the church's best work bas been done by homely people, and that Paul the Apos- tle is said to have been humpbacked and his eyesight weakened by optlaalmia, while many of the finest in appearance have passed their time before flattering looking glasses, or in studying killing attitudes, and in displaying the richness of wardrobes—not one ribbon, or vest, or saok, or glove, or button, et shoestring of which they have had brains to earn for themselves. Others had wrong proclivities from the start. They wore born wrong, and that stick's to one even after he is born again. They have a natural crankiness that is 075 years old. It came over with their great grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. It was born on the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde'or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has survived all the plagues and epidemics of many generations, and is living to.day on the banks of the Potosnao, or the Hudson, or the Androseoggin,or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when a man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids of Niagara, Molding on ' with a grip from wheels the swift currents are trying to sweep him into the abyss beyond. Oh, this world 0is an overburdened world, an overworked world! It is an awfully tired world. It is a dreadfully unfortunate world. Scientists are trying to glad out the cause of these earth- quakes in all lands, cisatlantic anel trans- atlantic. Some say this and some say that. I have taken the diagnosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has so many burdene on it and so many fires witlain it, it has a fit. It cannot stand such a circumference and such a diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or Stromboli or Vesuvius will open, and then all will be at peace for the natural world. But what aboat the moral woes of the world that have racked all nations, and for 6,000 years science proposes nothing but knowledge and many people who know the most are the most uncomforted? A Cheering Voice. In the way of practical relief for all disadvaritteges and all woes, the only voice that is worth listening to on this subject is the voice of Christianity, which is the voice of Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the particular disadvant- a,ge under which you labor or nob, I din. tinetly declare, in the name of my God, that there is a way out and a way up for all of you. You cannot Ls any worse off than that Christian young wonaan who was in the Pemberton mills when they fell some years ago, and from under tae fallen timbers she was heard singing, ,"I am going home to die no more." Take good courage from that Bible,ttlI of whose promises are for those in 1t predicament. There are better (lays la you, either on earth or in heaven. 1 pat my hand under your ohin and lift your face into the light of 'the coming dawn, Have God, on your side, mad then you have fox' reserve troops all the Al'IlaieS of heaven, the smallest company of evbieh is 20,000 chariots and the smallest; bri- gade, 144,1100, the lightnings of heaven their drawn sword, An ancient, warrior saw an overpower- ing( ht mine down upon his small com- pany of arinea men, and, mounting his horse, be threw a handful of and in the air, crying, "Let their faces be covered Wath nonftrion!" And both armies beard his voice, and history says it seemea as theugh the dust thrown in the air had become so many angels of supernatural cleliveranee, and the weak overcame the anighty, and the immense host fell back, anti the stnell number marched on. Have faith in Clod, and though all the allied forces of discouragement seem to come against you in battle array, and their laugh of defiance and contempt rosounds through all the volleys and mouatains, you might by faith in God and 'importun- ate prayer piek up a handful of the very dust of your humiliation mad throw it into the air, and it shall become angels of victory over all the armies of earth and hell. The voice4 of your adversaries, banana mai satanic, shall be covered with confusion, while yea shall be not only conqueror, but more than conqueror, through that grace vthich has so often made the fallen helraet of an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a Christian victory. PARISIAN LAWYERS‘ Their Life is very /Atlanta Prom That of American A.ttorneyS. Lawyers in France, acoording to a Rochester gentleman, who has just re- turned from a three years' sojourn in Paris, do not have suds an easy time as they do in this country, says the Union mod Advertiser There, far from encour- aging the bright young men a the land. to enter hate the legal profession, it would seem that they are discouraged and every obstaole thrown in their path, the result generally being that it is only a rich man who can be a lawyer. "Under the regulations ttt preseut in force," says this Rochester gentlemman, "barristers, after they have kept their terms and passed a sort of three years novitiate, during which they have the title of advocate, but have no voice in the deliberations of the Council of Dis- elplino, are not inscribed on the nails. They can plead during the three years' probation, but it is a sort of empty privilege in nine oases out of ten. When an eminent barrister in France employs a junior it is generally some one inscribed on the rolls; should he employ the probationer, the honor thus accorded him must suflice. He does not pay him "Bet he must live, and here is where the problem comes in, which is much more ;easily solved by the American or English young, lawyer than it is by his Parisian brother. In the first place there is the outlay for his gown, or bretta, whieb vonat elote to e0 francs, unless Ito prefers to hire it at the rate of ton cents aer day. Then he must engage someone to tach him deportment, for this is an essential qualification in this Ituad, where King Etiquette rules with 511 Iran nund. The services of a protessor of the conservatcaa- must also be called in to train his voice, unless nature has been kind to him in that respect. But these expenses are mere incidents. He must, above all, not five la small cham- bers ae.d rent dingy offices. Poverty is a poor koy ti open tha pockets of clients. Warned by Rats. The conditions favoring plague are sirailar to those favoring typhus fever, namely: crowd poisoning, bad ventila- tion and drainage, impure water supply, famine or imperfect nourishment, and inattention to sanitary requirements. It is probable of this disease'as of yellow fever, that human ha,bitations and the ground may become so thoroughly in- fected as the establish endemicity. The bacillus may infect food and water, though how long it will retain its vir- ility in water is as yet undetermined. Clothing and other personal effects, bedding, etc., may be infected through the discharges. The bacillus is not killed by drying, as is the case with the cholera bacillus, and may be carried in the dust arising through the cleansing of dwell - ng houses which plague patients have occupied. A very important element in the spread of plague in houses and lodalities are rats and other animals. It has been found that rats, miee, snakes, beetles, bugs, flies, dogs, and jackals are infected during an epidemic. It is significant that the purely herbiverous animals—horses, oxen, sheep, goats and rabbits—axe ex- empt. Rats die in large numbers, and generally this phenomenon is observed in advance of 'tee appearance of the plague among human beings. The cause of their infection is still a subject of discussion. The soil becomes infected, and a very common belief in Oriental countries is thatethe rat contracts the disease frona miasmatic emanations from the toil, but this has never been scientifically demon- strated, and is probably incorrect. The fact that mortality among rats precedes an outbreak of plague among Inunan beings is explained by Lowson by the fact that rats have their snouts about an inch above the floors of houses, and are more liable to .inspire plague -infected dust there are human beings.—infeneral WalterBe- view. mm Wyman, in North American Re- ie An All -Sufficient Reason. "No, lady," remarked Mr. Waggles, as he dexterously 4ipped the remainder of the pie into hit pocket unobserved, "I kin trolly say that I never touobes cards now in any form wotever—they're dangerous." `that is right, my good man," said Mrs. Easything, earnestly. ".A,nd what caused you to give them rip? Did you realize that they were leading you to per- dition?" "Worse than that, lady. The last time I played it game of cards I found a spade 2V9, hand." Test for Sea -Sickness. Many people have a genuine curiosity to know if they would be sea -sick in ease they should take an ocean voyage. An easy way to put the matter to a test is to stand beforethe ordinary mirror that turns in its frame, and let some one move it slowly and slightly at East, and gradually growing faster while you look fixedly at your own refieetion. If you feel no effect whatever from it, the chances are that you can stand au ordinary sea voyage without any qualm. GRENADIER , AN UJTCHER...- A Mililary Bm:lisman of 50 Years Standing'and a Young Butcher Experience the Marvellous Curative Powers of Dodds Kidney Pills. A NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION. In the Case of Mr. Henry Ile Diabetes Had Brought on Paralysis—Two Doctors Said Wm. Wade Was Dying of Bright's Disease. ey Filis hem. Each of them tells an interesting story to a newspaper Reporter -- Mr. Pye played in the, Marine Band at the Duke of Wellington's funeral --In the Royal Grenadier's Band. for 20 years--Beb,ad given up hope when Dodd's Kidney Pills cured hini--Wm. Wade, after being sick for years with Bright's Disease and his Life despaired of, fests the power of Dodd's Kidney Pills and is now in good health., From Mail and Empire. .as getting worse evegy day. My son -in - The reputation which Dodd's Kidney law said he had hoard of several women m Pills enjoy to -day must haw been buile in Parkdale who had been cured of kid - upon a broad foundation of suet) curatiye 12°- v a man PIUS. So he got a box for me, and I qualities. To verify this view, and Empire representative yeeterday in- started taking them. Before two days I vestigated two wonderful began to feel better. I took that box and cures that liave been much talked of in the East Eni of the city, and the results of the enquiry are worth recording. I still take the pills, off and on. The firet man interviewed was Mr. "Last winter I played stray nights at Henry Pye, 115 Pape avenue. He is a the rink withotit the least inconvenience. genial, happy, prosperous -looking man Yesterday I walked ten miles. Lest sum - of sixty-five years, and NVtiS very pleased aner I could no more have done that than to see anyone who ulehed to talk about fly. Really, I feel 21)76e12 getting stronger every day. I can rup up the four flights of stairs to the leind practice -room easier than I could crawl up them last summer. I'm just about my healthy weiglit, and lit as a fiddle. "I tell you Dodd's Kidney Pills are all a great Methodist, was cured by them, right. I've started a dozen people taking thena since I was cured. My daughter, and she calls theno God's Kidney Pills. "Ba you want to hear my story. I'm who has been sick and doctoring for a a bandsman, you know. By trade I'm a long time, has begun to take the Tablets, shoextakex, but six years ago 1 laidaway ' and she says they help her/ as nothiag my last, and since then have given all my time to anusic. I've been a member of the Royal Grenadiers' band for twenty years. It's just fifty years ago lastmonth since I joined the Marine Band in Eng- land. I played at tbe Duke of Welling.: ton's funeral, i5 1852. "For thirty-five years I have lived in Toronto. "La the winter I play at the rinks. Two years ago the first night was very cold, and I got chilled through. That ten others. By that time I felt so well that 1 stopped taking them, exeopt mese siorailly. My health le now firer -rate, but Dodd's Kidney Pills. "Why shouldn't 1 talk about Doilti's Kidney Pills" asked Mr. Pere. "In the first place, they saved my life—no doubt about that—and in the second place, if it hadn't been for them, I couldn't bave kept nay situation. A neighbor of mine, Mrs. Farrell, she's was tbe beginning of any sickness. Last summer, when the Greaadiers event to Berlin, I could hardly get through the else has done." William Wade, the nineteen -year-old son of Mr. Henry Wadethe well-knowia East End butcher, 040 Queen street east, was another who it was reported hid been marvellously cured. Whea seen by a Mail and Empire representative, he was in tha act of hoisting a hundred -and - forty pound quarter of beef to his shoul- der and carrying it into the shop. "Are you the boy -that was thought to be dying of Bright's disease a year and a half ago, and had been given up by two doctors?" asked the newspaper man. "I ani, and it was a pretty close day. The next morning I got up feeling shave I had." pretty well. 0 But after breakfast 1 was "Well, you don't look mach of an 'a - taken with frightful pains in any back. fent or invalid now." I had to send for a doctor. He gave me "You saw what I was doing. Well, I morphine, and pronounced it a very bad was as good as a corpse a year and a half case of diabetes. In a week I lost forty pounds of flesh. I would drink so much water that I would go out and vomit it. But I would come in with just as great . a thirst as ever. I must have ilrank went hunting, and got a relapseKidney lens of it a day." gal - trouble set in. It would come back every ‘But could you still get round all sprang and fall for three or four weeks. a Of course, the attacks became more severe, and in the interval I was of little USO to myself or anyone else. "A year ago last fall I got so bad that two doctors wore attending me daily. It was Bright's disease, they said. They said, too, that if I got over that attack ago. It'll just take a minute to tell you about it. "Six years ago I had it bad attack of diphtheria. I was just over it when I righ t?" "Well, no. My right leg began to be paralyzed. mad at times my foot would swing about as if I had no control of it. I was Tiring on Grant street then, but as I couldn't walk, I thought I might as well ride it bit farther and came out here to got the country air. would not be able to work for six years.. . "I have been accustomed toplay in the Before long theer gave me up altogether, band at the Exhibition, and last year, as and said my death was but a matter of a the Exhibition time drew near, I was few weeks. It was then that some one anxions to stick it out for that engage- brought rne a box of Dodd's Kidney anent, thinking it would be my last. 1 Pills. I took fifteen boxes, and was curect was beginning to feel the paralysis in "I continue to tel the pills occasion - my fingers, so that I maid scarcely work ally, espeoially after heavy lifting. Now the keys. 111iy friends, too, thmeght it I Paz do it heavy day's work and feel was Dal up with Inc. first-rate after it. I reconamend Dodd's "During the Exhibition 7 stayed with Kidney Pills to everyone that I know I2) y daughter, who lives in Parkdale. I has kidney trouble." Dimension's of Noah's Ark. At a recent meeting of the Bristol Cannel catter of the Institute of Marine Engineers M. Aisbitt gave a comparison of the dimensions of Noah's ark with vessels of the present day, and stated that Lor sailing ships the dimensions of the ark could hardly be excelled. For steam- ers, if one or. two breadths were added to the length for machinery space, they would, he said, arrive at some of the best proportions acknowledged for present transatiantie steamers. ,As to the ark, there is no doubt that Noah must have been an exceptionally good naval milli - tea, as we are at the end of the nine- teenth century bulling vessels of prac- tically the same dimensions, it having been demonstrated that they are better sea boats than and have superior sailing qualities to vessels of different proper- tortsit is a matter of history that in the early part of the seventeenth century a naan of the name of Peter Hans of Home built two ships after the model or proportions of the ark. These vessels Were, as anight be imagined, objects of ridicule and sewn at the tixne, but ex- perience demonstrated that they carried more cargo than vessels of similar ton- nage raeasurexnent bat different dimen- sions, and ill addition made quicker passages.—London TiaBits.