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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-16, Page 7LIVE WORTH LIVING, IT IS A LIFE FOR GOOD AND A LIFE FOR OTHERS. Ansa res Talmage shows Row a Money Get- ting. and a worldly Lire es a Lamentable Failure — nue Lire Thee Opees Into Eternity, 'Washington, Sept. 12.—In this sermon Bev. Dr. Talmage discusses a subject vital to all, and never more timely than now, %sten the struggle for power, posi- tion, wealth and bappiness is so absorb- ing, Tbe text is James iv, 14, "Wbat is your life?" If we leave to the evolutionists to guess where we came from and to the theolo- gians to prophesy wbere we are going to, we still have left for consideration the ituportant fart that we are bore. Tbere may be some doubt about where the river rises and same doubt about where the river emptles, but there can be no doubt about the feet that we are sailing on it. So I am not surprised that everybody ass the question, "Is life worth living?" Solomon in his unheinsy431-ionaents says It is not "Vanity," 'vexation of spirit," "no goad," are his estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at one time a polygamist, and that soured bis disposition. One wife makes a xuan hap- PYt niere than one snakes him wren:bed. But Solomon was converted from poly- gamy to monogamy, and the last, words he ever wrote, as far as we tau -read tbena, were the words "mountains of spices," But Jeremiah says life is worth livIng. In a book supposed to be doleful and lugubrious and sepulchral and en- titled "Lamentations" he plainly Inti- mates that the blessing of merely living is so greau and grand a blessing that thougb a man have piled on him all mis- fortuoes and disasters be has no right to compleiu. The ancient prophet cries out in aliening Intonation to all lams and to all centuries. "Wherefore doth a living anal) complain?" Conflicting Ey idenece diversity of opinion in our time as well as in olden time. Here IS a young man of light hair and blue eyes and sound digestion, and generous salary and happily afilauced and on the way to be- come a partner in a comitterelal nrm of winch he is an important clerk, Ask bins whether life is worth living, Ile will laugh in your face and. say, "Yes, 705, eesi" Here is a man win) has come to the forties. Ile is at the tiptop of the hill of life. Every step has been a stum- ble and a bruise. The people be trusted have turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made be has been °beaten out of. His nerves are out of tillIO. He has poor appetite, and the food be tines eat does not asebnilate. Forty miles climbing up the hill of life have been to biro /Ike climbing the Matter- horn, and there are 40 miles yet to Am down, and descent is always more dan- gerous than ascent. Ask him whether life is worth living, end he will drawl Out in shivering and lugubrious and ap- palling negative, "No, no, no!" How are we to decide this matter righteously and intelligently? You will find the same man vacillating, oscillat- ing in his opinion from dejection to ex- uberance, and if he be very- mercurial in bis temperament it will depend very much on which way the wind blows, If the wind blows from the northwest and you ask him, he *will say "Yes," and if it blow from She northeast and you ask him be will say "No." How are we then to get the question righteously answered? Suppose we call all nations together in a great convention on eastern or western hemisphere and let all those who are in the affirmative say "Aye" and all those who are in the negative say "No." 'While there would, be hundreds of thousands who would answer in the affirmative, there would be more millions who would answer in the negative, and. because of the greater number who have sorrow and misfortune and. trouble the "Noes" would have it. The answer I shall give will be different from either and yet it will commend itself to all who hear me this day as the right answer. If you ask me, "Is life worth living?" I answer, "It all depends upon the kind of life you live." In the sant place, I rematk that a life , of mere money getting is always a failure because you will never get as much as you want. The poorest people in this country are the millionaires. There Is not a scissors grinder on the streets of New 'York or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money as these men who have piled up forbunes year after 'year in store- • houses, in government securities, in tene- ment houses, in whole city blocks. Yon ought to see them jump when they hear tbe fire bell ring. You ought to see them In their excitement when a bank ex- plodes. You ought to see their agitation *hen there is proposed a reformation in the tariff. Their nerves tremble like harp strings, but no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall street in the morning with a concernment that threatens paralysis or apoplexy, or, more probably, they have a telegraph or a tele- phone in their own house,so they catch every breath of change in the money market, The disease of accumulation has eaten into them—eaten into .their heart, into their lungs, into their spleen, into their liver'into their bones. s Chemists have sometimes analyzed the human body, and they say It is so much magnesia, so much lime, so much &aer- ate of potassium. If some Christian • chemist would analyze one of these finan- cial behemoths, he would find he is made up of copper and gold and silver and zit° and lead and coal and iron. That is not a life worth living. There are too many 'earthquakes in it, too many agonies in it, too many perditions in it They build their castles, and they open their picture galleries, and they summon prima donnas, and they offer every in- ducement for happiness to come and live there, but happiness will not come. They send footmaned and postilioned equipage to bring her. She will not ride to their door. They send princely escort. She will not take their arm. They make their gateways triumphal arches. She will not ride under them. They set a golden tbrone before a golden plate. She turns away from the baneuet. They call to laer from upholstered balcony. She will not listen. Mark you, this is the failure of those wbo have had large accumulation. And then you must take into consideration that the vast majority of those who make the dominant idea of life money getting tall far short of affluence. It is estimated that only about two out of a hundred business men have anything worthy the name of success. A man who spends his life with the one dominant Idea of financial accumulation spends a life not worth living. worldly Vatter°. So the idea a worldly approval. If that be dominant in a man's life'be is miser- able. Every four years the tsve sliest un- fortunatecl men in this country are the two MOD nominated. for the presidency. The reservoirs of abuse aud diatribe and Malediction gradually fill up, gallon above gallon hogshead above laogsheacl, and about midsummer these two reser- voirs will be brimming full, and a nose will be attacned to ettob one, and it will play away on these noininees and they will have to stand it and take the abuse, mad the falsehood, and the caricature, arid. the Anathema, and the caterwauling, and the filth, and they will be rolled in it and rolled over and over in it until they are ohoked and submerged and strangulated, and at every sign of return- ing consciousness they will be barked at by all the bounds of political parties from ocean to ocean. Abd yet there are a hun- dred men to -day struggling for that priv- ilege, and there are thousands .of men who are helping them In the struggle. Now, that Is not a life worth living. You can get slandered and abused cheaper than that. Take it on a smaller scale. Do not be so ambitious to have a whole reservoir rolled over on you. But what you see in the matter of high political, preferment you see in every community in the struggle for what is called social position. Tens of thousands of people trying to get into that realm, and they are 'ander terrific tension. What is social position? It is a difficultr thing to define, but eve all know wbat it is. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary, but Wealth, or a show of wealth, is absolute/y indispensable. There are men to -day as notorious for tlaeir libertinism as the night is famous for its darkness who move in what is called high social position. There are hundreds ot out and out rakes in American sotaiet7 whose names are mentioned among the distinugished guests at the greab levees. They have annexed all the known vices and are longing for other worlds of dia- bolism to conquer. Good morals are not necessary in ninny of the exalted circles of society. Neither Is intelligence necessary. You find in that realm men who would not know- an adverb from AD adjective if they met it a hundred times in a day, and who could not write a letter of ac- ceptance or regrets without the aid of a, secretary. They buy their librarles by the square yard, only anxioue to have the binding Russian. Their ignorance is positively sublime, malting English grammar almost disreputable, and yet the finest parlors open before them. Good morals and Intelligence are not necessary, but 'wealth or a show of wealth is posi- tively indispensable. It does ect make any differenee how you got your wealth, if you Oily got it. The best way for you to get Into social position ie for you to biles a large amount on credit, then put your property in your wife's name, have a few preferred creditors and then make an assignment. Then disappear from the community until the breeze is over and come back aud start in the same busi- ness. Do you not see how•beautifully that will put out all the people who are In competition with you and trying to make an honest living? How quickly it Will get you into high spend position! Wbat is the use of toiling 40 or -50 years when you can by two or three bright strokes snake a great tortune? Ah, my friends, wben you really lose your money hoesr quickly they will let you drop, and. She higher you are the harder you will drop. Torture at a Premium. There are tbousands to -day na that realm who are anxious to keep in it. There are thousands in that realm who are nervous for fear they will fall out of it, and there are changes going on every jsear and every month and every hour which involve heartbreaks that are never reported. High social life is constantly In a flutter about tbe delicate question as to whom they shall let in and whom they shall push out, and the battle is go- ing on—pier mirror against pier mirror, chandelier against cbandelier, wine cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against wardrobe, equipage against equipage. 'Uncertainty and insecurity dominant in that realm, wretchedness enthroned, tor- ture at a premium and a life not worth living. .A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of indulgence, a life of worldliness, a life devoted to the world, the flesh, and the devil, is a failure, a dead failure, an infinite failure. I care not how many presents you send to that cradle or how many garlands you send to that grave, you need to put rigbt under the name on the tombstone this inscription, "Better for that man if he had never been born." But I shall show you a life that is worth 'living. A young man says: "I am here. I am not responsible for my ancestry. Others decided that. I am not responsible for any temperament. God gave me that. But here I am, in the evening of the nineteenth century, at 20 years of age. I am bore, and I must take an account of stook. Here I have a body which is a divinely constructed engine. raust put it to the very best use% and I must allow nothing to damage this rarest of machinery. Two feet. and they mean locomotion; two eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out my own way; two ears, and they are telephones of commu- nication with all the outside world, and they mean capacity to catch sweetest music and the voices of friendship, the very best music; a tongue, with almost infinity of artioulation. Yes, hands with which to welcome or resist or lift or smite or wave or bless—hands to help myself and help others. Here is a world which after 6,000 years of battling with tempest and accident is still grander than any architect, buntan or angenc, could have drafted. I have two )amps to light me, a golden lamp and a silver lamp—a golden lamp set on the sapphire mantel of the day. a silver lamp set on the jet mantel of the night. Yea, I have that at 20 years of age wbich defies all inventory of valuables— a soul, with capacity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to stiffer, to love or to bate. Plato says it is immortal. Seneca says it is immortal. Confucius says it is ire, mortal. An old book among the family relics—a book with leathern cover al- most worn out and pages almost obliter- ated by oft perusal --joins She other books in saying I am immortal. I have 80 years for a lifetime, 60 years yet to live. I may not live an hour, but, then, X must lay out my Plans intelligently for a long life. Sixty year added to the 26 I have already livecl--that will bring nae to 80. I must remember that these 80 years are only a brief preface to the five hundred thousand millions of quintil- lions of years evhieth will be my chief residence and existence. Now, I under- stand my opportunities and my responsi- bilities." If there Is any being in the universe all wise and all beneficent who can help a man in such a juncture, I want him. The old. book found among the family relics tells me there is a God, and that for tbe sake of bis Son, one Jesus, be will give help to a man. To biro I appeal. God help mel Here I have 60 years yet to do for myself and to do for others. 1 must devise:in this body by all industries, by all gymnastics, by all sunshine, by all fresh air'by all good habits, and this soul I must hean mint and garnished and illumined and glori- fied by all that 1 can do for it and all that I can get God to do for it. It shall be a Luxembourg of fine pictures. It sball be an orchestra of grand harmonies. It shall be a palace for God and righte- ousness to reign in. I wonder how many kind words X can uttering the next 60 years? 1 will try. I wonder how many good deeds X can do in the next 60 years? I will try. God belp mel The Right nirection. That.young roan enters life. Be is buffeted, he is tried, he is perplexed. A. grave opens on this side, and a grave opens on that side. He falls, but be rises again. He gets into a hard battle, but he gets the victory, The anain course of his life is in tbe right direction. He blesses everybody he comes in contact with. God forgives Ids mistakes and makes everlasting record of bis holy en- deavors, and at the close of it God says to him; "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of thy Lord." My brother, my sister, I do not oare whether that man dies at 80, 40, 00, 60, 70 or 80 years of age, You canchisel right under bis name on the tombstone these words z "His life was worth living." • Amid the hills of New Efaropshire in olden times there sits a mother. There are six children in the bousehold—four boys and two girls. Small farm. Very rough, hard work to coax a living out on It. Mighty tug to make tbe two ends of the year meet. The boys go to wheel in winter and work the farm in summer. Mother Is the chief presiding spirit. With her hands she knits all the stockings for the little feet, and. she is the mantua maker for the boys, and she is the mil- liner for the girls, There is only one musical instrument in the house—the spinning wheel. The food is very plain, but it is always well provided, The Win- ters are very cold, but are kept out by the blankets she quilted. On Sunday, when she appears in the village church, ner children around her, tbe minister looks down and is reminded of the Bible description of a good housewife, "Her children arise up aud call her blessed; ber busband also, and he praiseth her." Some years go by, anti the two oldest boys want a collegiate education, and tbe household economies are severer, and the ealculations are closer, and until those two boys get their education there is a hard battle for bread. One of these boys enters the university, stands in a pulpit widely influential and preaches righteousness, judgment and temper- ance, and thousands during his ministry are blessed. The other lad who got the collegiate education goes Into the law and thence into legislative halls, and after awhile he commands listening sen- ates as he manes a plea for the down- trodden and the outcast. One of the younger boys becomes a reerebant, start- ing at the foot of the ladder, but alba:th- ing on up until his success and his phil- anthropies are recognized all over aim land. The other eon stags at home be cause be prefers farming lifo, and then he thinks he will be able to take care of father and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters, when the war broke out one went through the hospi- • tals of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheering up the dying and the homesick, and taking the last message to kindred far away, so that every time Christ thought of her he said as of old, "The same is my sister and mother." Tbe other daughter has a bright home of her own, and in the afternoon, the forenoon having been devoted to her household, she goes forth to hunt up the sick and to encourage the discouraged, leaving smiles and benediction all along the way. But one day there start five telegrams from the village for these five absent ones, saying: "Come. Mother is danger- ously ill." But before they can be ready to start they raxteive another telegram, saying: "Come. Mother is dead." The old neighborhood. gather in the old. farm- house to do the last offices of respect, but as that farming son, and the clergy- man, and the senator, and the merchant, and the two daughtrars stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look or lifting their little children to see once more the face of dear old grand- ma I want to ask that group around the casket one question, "Do you really think her life was worth living?" A life for God, a life for others, a life of un- selfishness, a useful life, a Christian life, is always worth living. ; The Door of Eternity. I would not find it hard to persuade you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making .glue for a living and then amassing a great fortune until he could build a philanthropy which has bad Its echo in 10,000 philanthropies all over the country—I would not find it hard to persuade you that his life was worth liv- ing. Neither would I find it hard to persuade you that the life of Susannah Wesley was worth living. She sent out one seri to organize Methodism, and the other son to ring his anthems all through the ages. I would not find it hard work to persuade you that the lifetof Frances Leere was worth living, as she established in England a school for the scielatific nursing of the sick, and then when the war broke out between Fiance and .Ger t many went to the front, • and with her own hands soraped the mud off the bodies et the soldiers dying in the tren- ches, and with her weak arm --standing • one night in the hospital—pushing back a German soldier to his couch, as, all frenzied with his wounds, he rustled to the doer and said, "Let me go, let me go tb my Reba mutter," •major generals standing back to let pass this angel of I mercy. I Neither would I have hard work to t persuade you that Grace Darling lived a life worth living—the heroine of the lifeboat. You are not wondering that the Duchess of Northumberland came to see herand that people of all lands asked for her lighthouse and that the proprie- tor of the Adelphi theater in London offered her $100 a night just to sit la the lifeboat while some shipwreck scene vsas being enacted. neleut I know the thought in the minds hundreds of you to day You say, "Whileal know all these lived lives worth living, I don't think iny life amounts to muck." Ah, nay friends, whether you live a life conspicuous or inconspicuous, is is worth living it you live aright, and I want my next sentence to go down into the depths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded, not according to the greatness of your work. but accordieg to the holy industries with which you ern ployed the talents you really possessed. The tisane/thy of the crowns of heavens will not be given to people with ten tal- ents, for most of them were tempted only to serve theinselves, The vast n:ajor- ity of the orovnas of heaven will be given to people who had one talent, but gave it all to God, and remember that our life here is introduetory to another, It is the vestibule to a palace, but who de- spises the door of a Madeleine because there are grander glories within? Your life if rightly lived is the first bar of an eternal oratorio, and who despises the first note of Haydn's synaphouies? Ad the life you live now is all the more worth Hying because it opens into a life that shall never end, and the last letter of the word "time" is the first letter of the word "eternity I' INDOOR LIGHTS. How Japanesit Lanterns and Electricity Are third With Good Effect. The luxurious and luoky country house owners who enjoy the privileges of electricity have all their table lIglat now shed from above—the green electric wires dropped from the ceiling over one table and ending in a globe of glass con- taining the lights. Upon this globe fits a oesiug of rosy silk and a network of gilt cords, from which, just above the center of the beard, hangs an aeronaut's basket of gilded winker filled not with miniature balloonists, but flowers and vines that fall out and trail over the cloth, Japanese lanterns are also suspended from the ceiling by cords or to wall brackets with protruding arms. These lanterns are a trine more ex- pensive than the cheap ones used in out. - door illumination'. They are made of paper, decorated as formerly, but are lined with mica, and the oandle socket - 18 fact, tin.the eatire bottom—le made of Hung in the hallways along the stairs. In the drawing room or wherever a WM1 mild, light is needed, these lanterns are delightful, The candles within them are cheap, throw out a naillinP1111 of heat, and do not attract inmate, all of whioll are high recommendations for service on warm evenings. Attention and conse- quently vast improvement has been given to the humble bedroom candle we are all advised to use in place of gas or lamps, when the mercury climbs very high, and. instead of turning on the gas one will be enabled to read musio at the piano by cool candlelight. For the piano, too, light bracket, easily fastened to any instrument, jut out from either side of the music rack and hold a candle eaoh. Their shades are made of silk on strona frames and are out open on that side turned toward, the music sheet, but away from the musician. Under the silk- screen is also fastened a small reflector. so distributing light and shade wbere it is needed. The bed- room candles, which fasten into brackets at either side the dressing table mirror, are similarly equipped, throwing broad rays on the looking glass, but thadows into the room. • • Two Types of Christian womanhood. There are two Christian women. We know them both. They are good, true and faithful, each to her spbere. • One attends conventions, makes missionary addresses, manages societies and collects a vast amount of money for missionary and church enterprises, She is doing a great work for God and humanity, and. many heathen .homes are transformed -through her labors. I know another woman, tinaid and shrinking from public: gaze. You never see her name among the delegates to religious conventions, nor see an account of an able paper that she has read before some religious body for the simple reason that she hasn't read any papers; but I have met her many a time by the sick -bed of the poor and destitute, sitting up with the siok who had no friends, night after nigbt, and out of ber own slender means pro- viding food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, clothing for half -naked children. No one except her pastor knew anything of it, yet she also was doing a great work for God and for humanity. Not Prom Heaven. Thirty years ago a steamer which was about to make its first passage from one Southern city to another was the scene of an evening reception, at which a cal- liope played an important part. It was the first instrument of the soit which bad ever been heard in that region, and. as its peculiar, far-reaching notes floated out on the evening air, the breasts of a large part of the colored population were filled with alarm. Many were the conjectures as to the source from which the unearthly sound proceeded. One old darks, stood listening in silence for seine time in his doorway, not far from the scene of the festivities. At last he spoke in encouraging tones to the frightened group gathered near the little house. • "I tell you what," he said, slowly, I don' b'lieve dat am Gabriel a-playiza on his tromp; but if it a.m Gabriel, he's playing Wait for de Wagon, sure's dis chile's got ears!" WONDERFUL INVENTIOA, The Marconi system of Tel egr.+P h leg without wires. There is great interest throughon 1 Eu- rope In tbe approaching experiments in the transmission of telegraphic messages through the air, without wires, from St. Paul's cathedral in London to the Eiffel tower in Paris. Tbe discoverer of ibis system of wireless telegraph is Guglielmo nlareonl, an Italian only 28 years old. It ,,isfelared by some that this will prove one of the most important inventions of the centray when perteeted, for it will save hell the cost and bait the difficulties of telegraph lines, and thus make possi- ble the introduction of electrical commu- nication to itianY parts of the earth now shut off en, expense or by stretches of impassable territory. The importance • attaohed to young Marconi's invention is shown by the fact Shat the Italian government has been ex- perimenting at a ost of $600 a day for weeks, and has secured, patent rights for Italy, all other rights being owned by Xarconi and 55qe,-1 In his company, The Real Work. Tbe real work before the Christian church to -day is to show that, nhile the gospel of love has displaced the gospel of fear, it has done so in the interest of higher fahristian living. In the past the gospel of fear restrained men and some- how at the same time produced men whose lives were filled with reverence and hope and holiness. The gospel of love, if rightly proclaimed, must lead to a profounder reverence, to fuller and purer hopes anti to greater holiness. Otherwise it were better to return to the old gospel of fear. The freedom of this new gospel is not a throwing off of the restraints in life, but a putting of im- pulses to right in their place; it is the freedom of the sons of God. The call is to a freedom in which we can honor God best by serving man most. • 6 A Timely Suggestion. Daughter—=Pa, yon haven't told me how you like my latest attachment. Pa --Do you refer to that young breker, Mr. Hopewell? Daughter—Yes, sir. Pa --Well, to tell the truth, I don't think there is much push in him. Daughter --Indeed I Well, I will agree with you. A little more push would im- prove him, Pa—So I thought, and I'll take the occasion to administer it • at 10 o'olook to -night. • Of Courge, He Was Not. Mrs. Wellment—Are you married? Weary Willie Ondignantlyi—WatI D'ye t'ink I'd be reIyin' on total strangers fer support if I had a wife?—Judge. GUGLIKLMO INIARCONI. which has already paid him over $60,000. Experiments made by the German gov- ernment are laughed at by German sci- entists, but in Berlin itself Prof. Slaby carriect out the most successfol experi- ments by passing a current, without Wires, through Mick walls and other obstructions believed to be insurmount- able by his skeptical colleagues. He had been present at experiments carried on by Preece, the chief engineer of the govern- ment telegraphs in Great Britain, in London, and had made his own instru- ments. and is now carrying on public experiments daily to shove that no known body has any effect on the passage of the current from sending direct to receiver. Most of Europe's great scientists give the boy as much credit for the discovery of the value of the vertical wire in con- nection With existing radiators and co- berers as they would give him it he had created the whole elctrical seheree util- ized in new instruments. Rill Was at Home. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon that the Sheriff of 13ucks County rode U p to 13111 Hooper's cabin at the foot of the mountain to arrest the naan on a warrant charging him svith stealing corn. Bill's wife sat ba the open door with a pipe in ber mouth, and as the officer ettme along up she inquired:— "Sam Davis, you are just the man I wanted to see. I've heard eau talk a heap about the Bible, and I want to as you if Ton really believe that story about Saner and the whale?" "Of course I do," was the reply—"of course. Is Bill around home to -day?" "How big a Man was joner?" persist- ed the woman. " 'Bout as big as I am, I reckon. Did you say Bill was off huntin'?" "And did thlt whale mailer him head - fast or feet-fust?"continued the woman, as she crowded some fresh tqbacoo into the pipe. "Inead-fust, I reckon, though I ain't disputin' 'bout it and raisin' a row. Eider Dickman says it was feet -fust but he wasn't thar no raore'n me. If )3111 is around home I'd like to see him a min - "But how did joner live down thar in that whale till he was out out?" "Dunno; but he went right on Union I can't say why the airth goes 'round, but I know that she do. Isiebbe Bill is in bed and asleep, Mrs. Hooper?" "What gits me," continued the womae calmly ignoring all questions about her husband, "is why that whale didn't hang on to Joner when he had him. What did he oast him up fur?" "Can't sav," replied the Sheriff, "but I reckon the Lord wanted things the way they was, and so they turned out as they did. I was speakin' to you about Bill--whar is he?" "Bill? Oh, Bill is to hozne to -day?" "Kin I see him?" "Fur suan. When you rid up be was cleanin' hts gun out back o' tho house. but I reckon he's ready fur you by this time. Jest step around the co'ner, The Sheriff steppect and ran against the muzzle of a shotgun held in Bill's hands. As he recoiled a step or two Bin asked:— • "Was you lookin', fur me, Sara?" "I was," replied the officer. "Yes, I Inst stopped a mina to say howdy and to remark that your ole woraan ain't no fule, and hevin' said it I'll be goin' back to town. Nice day, Bill—good event:a' to you, Mrs. Hooper I" Danger in Ham Sandwiches. It is said that ham sandwiches may be blamed as -often as ice cream for cases of poisoning at picnics. Ptomaines nee pro- duced by putrefaction and are often but not alWays poisonous. • In cases of ice cream poisoning it' has been suggested that proper care was not taken to cool the milk immediately after it was taken from the cow. Chemical changes will sometimes take place under such eirctins- stances which do not betray themselves to the taste. Ham, and. in fact, all albu- minous foods are frequently rapidly changed by high temperature, increased atmospheirie humidity and certain elec- trical conditions of the air. These changes are often unaccompanied by any unusual odor or taste. The presence os ptomaines is in some cases temporary. They somethnes evaporate Meat may be poisonous orte day and harmless the next. Milk t and meat should be rearefully guarded at this season of year. His Reservation. A THRESHER'S LIFE ONE OF EXPOSURE TO TOLE ItElfjf A,.ND CHANGEAOLE WEA.TIIER. • George—I' just saw you canting from the conservatory with Miss Goldie. Esther handsome girl, but too reserved for me. Thomas—Yes, I've just reserved her tor life. • , He Easily rauo a Prey to Disease—intone matiera One of the Nat ti. al Res tits—one Who Suffered ror upwarcis of It'll° Year* GIVEIA 11 is Experience. From the Intelligeucer, Belleville, Ont. It is doubtful if there Is any other oo- °Westin more trying to the coostitution than that of the thresher. Exposed to the rains and storms of the autumn sea- son, and at the same time choked with the dust conSequent upon threshing, he easily falls a prey to disease. Mr. Jos. IL Davis, a resident of the townsnip of Wicklow, Hastings county, follows the threshing machine for some menthe every fall. For eight or nine years he was subject to attacks ef inflammatory rheumatism. The disease usually nnade its appearance in the nal, and continued throughout the winter, causing nos only mach suffering but great anoonverdemes. Mr. DAvis' roost serious etteolts occurred during the winter of las. It first made itself manifest by the swelling of the right hand, and before twenty-four hours had passed the disease appeared to have gone through the whole system, and the legs were swollen to an abnormal size, so ranch so that the joints were not visi- ble through the swellings. Par ten months the trouble continued and dur- ing that period Mr. Davin was unable to put on hie own clothes, end the pain he endured almost passed comprehension, One doctor after another was tried but without any bettenoiaI results. Then ad- vertised medicines were tried but with no better success. "1 eau batelly say," sale Mr. Davis, "now much roomier I spent on doctors and medicine, but it amounted to a considerable sum, and yet 1 would anost willingly have given my farm to be rid of the terrible pain I was forcedto endure, But nil my (=- pandit -ruses seemed of ns avail, and I be- gan to despair of a cure, .At this junc- ture, acting on the advice of a friend, I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The first six boxes I used seemed from, outward appearances to have had ter effect, and I felt almost like giving un In despair, I thought, non/ever, that possibly that was not a fair trial for one in nay condition and 1 procured a Rather supply. By the time I had used three boxes more there was a considerable im- provement noticeable, and from that out each day found me growing better, I continued using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills uutil I bad taken eighteen %saes by which time every vestige of the pain had left me, and I was feeling in every respees a new man. I'relieve, too, that the cure is permanent for 1nave not known what it is to suffer with rhep- matism since." 15 will thus be seen that Dr. Williame Pink Pills xeleased Mr. Davis from the painful thraldom of rheumatism at a comparatively small expense after doc- tors and other medicines had utterly failed to give him even a fair.measure of relief. It is obvious therefore that if Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are given a fair trial they are sure to bring relief end a pure. Every bon. of the genuine Pink Pills has the trade mark on the wrapper around the box, and the purcbaser can protect himself from imposition by refus- ing all others. Sold by all dealers at cents a box or six boxes for $2.50. To Fall Back On. "Simplex ausvvered an advertisezneet In which soniebody offered to sell him the sweet for preventing trousers from getting fringes around the bottom." "What did they tell him?" To wear kniokerbockers." A. Meeting; at Sea. It was a strange scene. The vessel was speeding along among dangerous carrents eff a rock-bound. shore, and in spite of tee fact that they knew the ship's commander to be a, thorough and capable seaman and navi- gator, the passengers hal, with one so - cord, demanded that the steevaed's col- ored subordinate take immediate charge of the captain's deck. Their safety depended upon it The cards were marked. There never was, and never will be, a universal panacea, 10 one remedy, for all ills to which flesh is beir—the very nature of many euratives being such that were the germs of other and differently seated diseases rooted iu the system of the patient—what would relieve one ill in Sons would aggravate the other. We have, however, in Quinine Wine, when obtainable in a sound unadulterated state, a remedy for many and greyirms By its gradual and judicious use, the frailest systems are led into convalescence and strength, by the influence which Qui- nine acne ou Nature's own restoratives. It relieves the drooping spirits et •those with whom a chronic state of morbid des- pondency and lack of interest in life is a disease, and, by tranquilizing the nerves, disposes to sound and refreshing sleep— imparts vigor to the action of the blood, which, being stimulated, courses through- out the veins, strengthening the healthy animal functions of the system, thereby - making activity a necessary • result, strengthening the frame, and giving life to tbe digestive orgens, erbich natnrally demand increased substance—result, inn proved appetite. Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given to the public their superior Quinine Wine at the usual rate, and, gauged by the opinion of scientists this wine approaches nearest perfection of any in the market All druggists sellit. There is no doubt about the features being a great aid in estimating chime - ten For instance, we can tell a great deal about a man by the ear. Not his ear but ours. Cook Scalded, A F. Hunt Esq. of Weston glint & Son, merchants, Quebec: "The cook itt ray employ scalded her arm severely with boilbag gravy. 'Quicketnes' on a piece of linen was applied and the pain oeased In about ten ininutes, in a week new skin had grown and the cure was. complete."