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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-21, Page 7.1* THE THREE TAVERNS DR. TALMAGE DISCUSSES THE DISSIPATIONS OF THE DAY. Tho Sailors Who 0011110 .Ashore and Are . Wrecked in flarbor--The College of Deg- radation—Paul SLAW His Exam')le--Tho Mysterious Bar-rooms—nut One Neal Dow. [Copyrigat 1ee7, by American Press Aosocias Washington, Oct. 17.—In a unique way De. Talmage here discusses the dis- sipations of the day and eulogizes the great reformers of the past and present. His text is Aots zxviii, 16, "They came to meet us as far as Appii forum and the three taverns," Seventeen miles south of Rome there Was a village of unfortunate name. .A. tavern is a place of entertainment, atid in our time part of the entertainment is a provision of intoxicants. OM such place you would think would have been enough for that Italian village. No. • There were three of theta, with doors opened for entertainment and obfusca- tion. The world has never lacked stimu- lating drinks. You remember the condi- tion of Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail's husband, Nebel and the story of Belshazzar's feast, and Benbaciad, and the new wine iu old bottles, and whole paragraphs au prohibition enact- ment thousands of years before .Nee1 Dow was born, and no doubt there were 'allele shelves of inflammatory liquid in those hotels which gave the mime to the village where Paul's friends came to meet him—miniely, the Three Taverns. In vain I searoh ancient geography for sortie satisfying account of that village Two roads otune from the sea coast to that place—the one tram Actium and. the other from Putooli, the last road being the one which Paul traveled. There were 160 d011bt in that village houses of mercbandise ac1. metabanics' shops and professional offices, but noth- ing in known of them. All WO klIOW of that village is that it had a profusion of inns—the three taverns. Paul did not choose any ono of these taverns as the place to meet his friends. He certainly was very abstemious, hut they made the selection. He bad enlarged, about keep- ing the body limier, though once he pre- scribed for a young thee:logical student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic dis- order, hut be told him to take only a small dose—"a little wine foe thy stomach's sake." Few Escape the Three Taverna. One of the worst things about these three taverns was that they had especial tempettion for these who had lust come ashore. People who had just landed at Actium or Puteoll were soon tempted by these three hotels, which were only a little way up from the Leach. Those who • aro disordered of the sea—for it is a pieta sited disorattnizer—instetal of waiting for the gradual return of physical equipoise, are apt to take artificial means to brace up. Of the 1,000,000 sailors now on the sea, how few of them corning ashore trill escape the three taverns! After surviving hurricanes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wreoleed in harbor. I evermore that if a ealculation were made of the comparative number of sailors lost at sea and lost ashore, those drowned by the crimson wave of disuipation would far outnumber those drowned by the salt water. Alas that the large majority of theee who go down to the sea in ships should - nave twice to pass the three taverns•— namely, before they go out and after theycome in. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the great sailors' preacher, at the Sailors' Bethel', Boston, and at a public meeting at Charlestown he said: "All the natohinery of tho. drunkard making, soul destroying busi- ness is in perfecbrunning order, from the low grog holes on the docks kept open to ruin aaly poor sailor boys to the great establishments in Still House square, and when we ask men what Is to be done about it, they say 'yen can't help It,' and yet there is Bunker Hill, and you say you can't stop it, and up there are Lexington and Concord." We might answer Father Taylor's remark by saying "the trouble is not that Nve can't stop it, but that we won't stop it." We roust have more generations slain before the world will fully wake up to the evil. That which tempted the travelers of old who came up from the seaports of .Actitun and Puteoli, is now the ruin of seafaring men as thry come up from the coasts of all confenents—namely, the three taverns. In the antumn, about this time, in the year 1837, the steamship Home went out from New York for Charleston. There were about 100 pass- engers, soma of them widely known. Some 'of them had been summering at the northern watering places, and they were on their way south, all expectant of hearty greeting by their friends On the wharfs of Charleston. But a little more than two days out the 'ship struck the rocks. A lifeboat was launched, but sank with all its passengers. A mother was seen standing on the dee& of the steamer with her child in her arms. A wave wrenched the child from the mother's arms and rolled it into the sea, and the mother leaped after it. The Drunken Sea Captain. The sailors rushed to the bar of the boat and drank themselves drunk. Ninety-five human being went down, never to rise or to be iloated.upon the bead) amid the fragments of the wreck. 'What was the cause of the disaster? A , drunken sea captain, but not until the judgment day, when the sea shall give up its dead and the story of earthly dis- asters ehall be fully fold will it be known how many yachts, steamers, brigantinee, men-of-war and ocean grey- hounds have beenlost through captain and•erew made incompetent by alcoholic• dethronement. Admiral Farragut had proper appreciation of what the fiery stimulus was to a man in the navy. An offiber of the warship said to him, "Ad- miral, Nvon't you COASCIlt to give Jack a glees of grog teethe morning—not enough to make him armee, but enough to nrease him fight cbeerfully?" Theadmiral att- swered: "I have been. to sea considerably and have seen ' a battle or two, but I never found that I needed rum to enable me to do my duty. I will order two oups en coffee to each man at p o'clock in the morning, and. at 8 o'clock I will pipe all hands to breakfast in Mobile bay." The three taverns of my textwere too neer the Meniterranean shipping. But notice the multiplicity. What could that Italian village, so sinall that history makes but ore mention of it, want with more' than one tavern? There were not enough travelers coming through that insignificant town to support more than one house of lodgment, that would have furnished enough pillows and enough breakfasts N. The world's appetite is ,Siseased, and the subsequent drafts must ae taken to slave the thirst created by the preceding drafts. Strong drink kin- dles the fires of thirst faster than it puts them out. There were three taverns. That which cursed that Italian village curses all Cluestendom to -day — too many taverns. There are streets in some ef our cities where there are three or four taverns On every blook—aye, where every other house is a tavern. You can take the Arabic numeral of my text, the three, and put on the right hand side of it one cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers, and thatreinforcement of nu- merals will not express the statistics of American =Turneries Even it is were a good, healthy business, supplying a ne- °Easley, an article stmerbly nutritious, it is a business mightily overdone, and there are three taverns where there ought to be only one. The Down Grade. Tbe fact is, there are in another sense three taverns now—the gorgeous tavern for the affluent, the medium tavern for the working classes, and the tavern of the slums—and they stand in line, and many people beginning with the first come down through the seeond and come out at the third. At the first of the three taverns the wines are of celebrated vint- age, and the whiskies aro said to be pure and. they are quaffed from out glass at marble side tables, under piotures ap- proaching masterpieces. The patrous pull off their kid gloves and hand their silk hatsto the waiter and push been their hair with n hand on one finger of whioh is a cameo. But those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not the money that a nian pays for drinks— for winit are a few lambed or a few thousand dollars to a 311011 of large in- come—but their brain gets touched and that unlit:lames their judgment, and they can see fortunes in enterprises sur- charged with tine:ester. In longer or shorter three they change taverns, and they come down to tavern the second, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion, and the small table is rougher, and the caster standing on it is of German silver, and the air has been kept over from the night before and that which they sip from the pew- ter mug has a larger pereentage of ben- zine, ambergris, creosote, henbane, strychnine, prusslo acid, eoeulus indicas, plaster of parls, copperas anti nightshade, The patron may be seen alenost every day and perhaps =try times the same day at this tavern the second, but he is preparing to graduate. Beath, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving, away. Tbat tavern the mond has its dismal mho in his business destroyed and family Scattered and woes that choke ape's vo- cabulary. Time passes on, and he enters tavern the third, a red light outside, a biccoughing and besotted group inside. He will be draggea out of doors about 2 olelook in the morning and left on the sidewalk because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim bas taken the regular cause in the college of degrada- tion. He has his diploma written on his swollen, bruised need blotched physiog- nomy. He is a regular graduate of the three taverns. As the police take him up and put him in the ambulance the wheels seem to ramble with two rolls of thunder, one of which says, "Look not upon the wine whea it is rod, when it moveth itsolt aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and sting- eth like an adder." The other thunaer roll says, "All drunkards shall liave their place in the lake that burneth firs and with brimstone." Panas Good nix:mune. I am glad to find in this scene of the text .hat there is such a thing as deolin- ing suecessfully great tavernian tempta- tions. I can :see from what Paul said and did after ho had traveled tbe following 17 miles of hie journey thatbe had re- eeived no damage at the thren taverns. How much he was tempted I know not, Do not suppose he was superior to tempt- ation. That particular temptation has destroyed many of the grandest, mighti- est, noblest, statestnen, philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apostles of law and medicine fired government ana religion. Paul was not physically well under any oircumstauces. It was not in mock de- preciation that he said he was "in bod- ily presence weak." It seems that his eyesight was so poor that he did his writing through an amanuensis, for he mentions it as something remarkable that his shortest epistle, the °tie to Phil- emon, was in his own penmanship, say- ing, "I, Paul, have written it with my own hand." He had been thrown from his horse, he had been stoned, he had been endangeoned, he had bad his nerves gulled on by preaching at Athens to the most scholarly audience of all the earth and at Corinth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by the Ephesian worsbipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by Festus with being insane; hacl crawled up on the beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and ranch of the time had an iron handcuff on this wrist, and if any lean needed stimulus Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion he got past the three taverns undamaged and stepped into Rome all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which as was sub- jected. Oh, how many mighty men, feel- ing that they must brace up after ex- traordinary service, have called on the spirit of wine for inspiration, and in a few years have been sacrificed on the alter of a Molocb, who sits on a throne of human carcasses! It would not be wise, or kind, or Christian to call their names in public, but you call them out of your own memory. Oh, how many splendid men could ,not get past the three taverns! Notice that profourtd mystery is at- tached to these Italian hostelries. No hotel nester tells the names of those who stopped at those taverns; there is no old account book as to how many drank therea there ts no broken chalice or jug to suggest what was the style of liquid which these customers ooasumed. So an awful mystery hangs about the barrooms of tbe modern taverns. Ob, if -they Would only keep a book upon the coun- tee or a scroll that could be unrolled from the Wall Mini* how many home- steads they have desolated and how many immortal souls they have blasted! You say that 'would, spoil their business. Web, I suppose it would, but a business that cannot plainly tell its effect upon its customers is a business that ought tit be spoiled. Ab, you mysterious bar- rooms, speak out and tell how many sun °ides event oat from you to haleer or pistol or knife or deadly leap from fourth story wipdow; how many young men, started well in life, Were halted by you and turned on the wrong road, dragging after' them bleeding parental hearts; bow many people who promised at the mar- riage altar fidelity until death did them part were brough by you to early and 6 ghastly separation; how many Mad- houses have you filled with maniacs; how many graves have you dug and filled in the cemeteries; bow many ragged and hungry children have you beggared through the fathers whom youdestroyed. If the skeletons of all those whom you have slain were piled up on top of mob other, how high would the mountain be? If the tears of all the, orphauage and widowhood that you have pressed out were .gathered together, how wide would be the lake or how long the river? .Ah. they make no answer. On this subjeot tbe moclern taverns are as silent as the oriental three taverns, but there are mil- lions of hearts that throb with most ve- hement condemnation, mad many of them would go as far as the mother in Oxford, Mass., whose son had been long absent from borate and was returning. and at the tavern on the way be eves Persuaded to dela:, and that one drink aroused a former habit and again and again he drank, and he was found the next morning dead in the barn of the tavern. The owner of the tavern who gave him the rum helped carry his body home, and his broken hearted mother, afterward telling about it, said: "It was wrong, but I cruised him; I did it. Heaven forgive him and inc." . The Plague Is Nighty. But what a glad time whea the world 0031306 to its 'last three taverns for the sale of intoxicants. Now there are so many of them that statistics are only a mare or less accurate guess as to their number. Wo sit with bait closed eyes and auldisttuted nerves and bear that in 102 in the United States there were 1,064 breweries, 4,819 distilleries and 171,660 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures May be truth- fully doubled, The fact is that these establishmouts are innumerable, and the disouseion is always disheartening, and the impression is abroad that the plague Is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and the most of minnow: on this subject *nose with the hook' of La- mentations and not with the book.of Revelation. Excuse me from adopting any :limb infidel theory, The Bible reit- erates it until there is no more power ba inspiration to make it patine'. than the earth is to be not half or three-quarters, hut wholly redeemed. On that rock I take my triumphant stand mil join in the chorus of hosannas, One of the most advantageous move- ments in the right direction is taking this whole subteet into the edueation of the young, On the same sohool desk with the grammar, the geograpby, the arithmetic, are books •telling the lads and lassiee of 10 and 12 and 16 years of age what are the physiological effects of strong drink, what it does with the tissue of the liver and the ventricles of the brain, and whereas other generations did not realize the evil until their own bodies were blItsted we are toe have a generation taught what the viper is be- fore it stings them, what the hyena Is before it rends them, how deep is the abyss before it swallows them. Oh, boards of education, tettehers in sabools, professors in collagen legislatures and congresses, widen and augment that wore and you hasteo the compieto over - Orrery of this evil. It will go down. I have the word of Almighty God for tbat in the assured extirpation of all sin, but' shall we huve a share in the universal victory? The liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into the score of thousands, and then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from the hundreds into the tens, and from the tens to three. The TWo Natural Beverages. . The first of these last three taverns will be where tbe educated and philoso- phic and the high up will take their dram, but that class, aware of the pore or of the example they have been settiug, will turn their back upon tile evil custom and be satisfied with the to natural beverages that God intended for the stimulus of the race—the Java coffee plantations tunnelling the best of the one and the Chines: tett fields the best of the other. And some day the barroom will be crowded with people at the venclu And the auctioneer's mallet will poond at the sale of all the appurtenances. Ths second of these last three taverns will take down its flaming sign and exting- uish its red light and ulose its doors, for the working classes will have concluded to buy their own horses and furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daughters instead of providing the distillers, the brewers and liquor sellers with wardrobes and mirrors and car- riages. And the•next time that second tavern is opened it will be a drug store, or a bakery,or a dry goods establishment, or a sobool. Then there will be only one more of tire three dissipating taverns left. • I don't know in what country or oity or neighborhood it will be, but look at it, for it is the very last. The last inebriate will have staggered up to its counter and put down his pennies for bis dram. Its last horrible adulteration will te mixed and quaffed to eat out the vitals and inflame the brain. The last drunkard will have stumbled down its front steps. The last spasm of delirium tremens caused by it will be struggled through. The old rookery will be torn down and with its demolition will close the long and awful reign of the mighti- est of earth's abominations. The last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly blotted out as were the three taverns of nay text. But One Neal Dow. With these thoughts I cbeer Christian reformers in their work, and what rejoic- ing on eartb and heaven there will be over the consul:au/lateral Within a few days one of the great8S4 of the leaders in this cause event up to enthronement. The world never had but one Neal Dow and may never have atother. He has been an illtuninatioa To the century. The stand he took has directly and indirectly saved hundreds oe thousands from drunkards' graves. Seeing the wharfs of Portland, Me., covoted with casks of West Indian rum—mealy an acre of it at one time— and the city smoking with seven distil- leries, he began the warfare against drunkenness more than half a century The good he has done, the homes be has kept inviolate; the bigh moral sense with which he has infused ten genera- tions are a story that neither earth nor heaven can afford to let die. Derided, belittled, earicatured. realigned, for a quarter of a century as few men have been, he bas lived. on until at his decease universal nowspaperdona speaks his praise and the oulogiunts of his career on this side of tbe sea have been caught rip by tho cathedral organ sounding his requiem on the other. His whole life having been for God and the world's betterment, when at half past 3 o'clock in the after- noon of Oct, 2 he left hie home on earth urrounded by loving rothistries and entered the gates of his eternal residence, I think there was a most mausual wel- Goma and saluation given him. Multi- tudes enter heaven tally because of -what Christ has done for them, the welcome nee at all intensified because of any- thing they bad does for him. Bat all heaver) knew the story of 'that good man's life and the beauty of bis death- bed, where he said, "I long to be free," I think all the reformers of heaven came oue to hail him in, the departed legisha tor who made laws to restrain intern- peranee, the consecrated platform orator wire thrilled the generations that are gone, with "righteousness, temperance and judgrneut to come." Albert Barnes and John B. Gough were there to greet him, and golden tongued patriarch Ste- phen H. Tyag was there, and John W. Hawkins, the founder of the much derid- ed and gioriously useful "Washingtonian movement," was there, and John Stearns and Commodore Foote and Dr. Marsh and Governor Brigbgs and Eliphalet Nott, and my lovely friend ,Alfred Col- quitt, the Christian senator, and hun- dreds of those wire:. labored for the ever - throw of the drunkenness that yet curses the earth were there to meet him and escort him to his throne and shout at his coronation. Great Souls Depaz;ted. God let him live 031 for near a cent- ury, to show what good habits and oheerfulness and faith in the final tri- umph of all that is good can do for a man in this world and to add to the number of those who would be on the other side to attend his entrance. But he will come back again. "Yes," say soma of you, with Martha, about Laz- arus to Jesus, "I know he will rise at the resurrection of the last day." Ab, I do not mean that, 'Ministering spirits are all the time coming and going be- tween earth and heaven the 13Ible teaches it—and da yea suppose the old hero just aecepded will not come dosva and help us in the battle that still goes on Ile will, Into the hearts of discour- aged reformers be will came to speak good cheer. When legislators are decidiag how they can host stop the rum traria of America by legal enactment, he will help them vote fur the, right and rise up undis- mayed tram temporary defeat. In this battle will Neal itow be until the last victory is ;seined and the smoke of the last distillery has curled, on the air and the last tear 'of despoiled bomesteads shall be wiped away. 0 departed non- agenarian! After you have taken a good rest from your struggle of 70 active years, come down again into the fight and bring Nvith you a host of the old Christian warriors who once mingled In the fray, In this battle the visible troops are not so mighty as the invisible. The gospel campaign began with tbe supernatural— the milnight chant that evoke the shep- herds the hushed sea, the eyesight given where the patient had been without the opt° nerve, the sun obliterated from the noonday heavens, the law of gravitation loosing Its grip as Christ ascended, and as the gospel campaign began with the supernatural, it will close with the supernatural, and the winds and the waves and the lightnings and the earth- quakes will come in on the right side and against the wrong side, and out ascended champions will return whether the world sees them or does not eee them. I do not thank that those great souls departed are goiag to do nothing hereafter but sing psalms and play harps and breathe frankincense and walk seas of glass mingled with fire. The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post mortem mission, with faculties quickened and velocities multiplied, and it near have been to that our dying reformer referred when be said, "1 long to be free!" There may be bigger worlds than this to be redeemed and more gigantic abominetions to be overthrown than this world ever saw, and the discipline got here may only be preliminary drill for a campaign in scone other world and per- haps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander acidevements in greater spheres, will not forget this old world where they prayed and suffered and tri- umphed. Church militant and church triumphant, but two divisions of the same army—right wing and left wing. One army of the living God, At his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. Sargent', Portrait of Dam. . When Elennor Duse first went to aot in London, one of the men who admired bet' talents most was John Sargent, the Amerinan artist. He saw her in all the roles she acted and determine if it were possible to paint a portrait of her. Most persons would be very proud of such an honor, but it required some diplomacy to make the Italian actress pose for her portrait. Finally this was accomplished. and one day Mr. Sargent had the satis- faction of seeing Duse in his studio. But her attitude was not encouraging even then. She dropped' into a chair with an air of fatigue. There was not the least pretense of pose in her attitude. She sat as any woman might have done who was weary and ill. "Now paint rile," was the enthusiastic phrase in Nvhich she submitted berself to the distinguished aithist's brush. Duse sat for more than an hour. Thera she left without any particular under- standing as to the time when she would return. Before she left London Mr. Sar- gent received a note in which she said that she was very sorry, but tbat it would be impossible for her to go to his studio again. She was tired, she said, and overworked, arid would have to give up the idea of the porbrant. In a few days she returned to Italy. When she consented to pose for him, These bad very little icicia of Mr. Sar - gent's eminence. She had never been in Landon before and bad bearcl mating about him. Hee contact with thee world outside of her own country had indeed been eliglit until the time she went to the lJnited States. .A. few appearances in Germany, Austria and South America made up the sum of her travels. But after awhile she came to know more about the celebrated people of other countries, and she learned of Mr. Sar - gent's reputation. So when sho got to Itale again he received a note from her. In it she wrote that if be could come to Venies some time when she was not acting she would be happy to pose for him until be finished her portrait. She said that she would have plenty of mint:0 then end that he could have as nmay sittings as he wanted. tle. Sargent was not discouraged by his first attempt:. He bas told his friends that he will go to Venice when he has the time to finish the portrait-, heg,un two years ago in Lon- dun.—Now 'York Sun. SONG AND MUSIC. Pronunciation La Singing Lessons Per Traiuseg the Ear. " America has long been credited with being the land of careless enunoiation in vocal music. Of the chief languages of the world Italian is, of course, the best for vocal use, since it has chiefly open vowels and crisp, clear consonauts. French comes near to it, but has a de- gree of nasality. German falls short of French bee,ause of the gutturals with which it is garnished, and English comes a long distance after German in song, chiefly because of many close vowels (as in "bird" or "world"), of bad combinations of consonants (as in "battle" or "gentle") and terrible nasal effects (as in "singing") in partici p les and participial nouns. Along with this explanation a teacher writing in T.be Etude says: Yet English can be clearly pro- aounced and- made vocally effective if the vocal teacher will but grasp the nettle firmly. In. England the chief 'vocal teaolaers devote a great deal of tirne to exercises in enunciation. They force every advanced pupil to be an elocutionist in some degree. There is a great difference, therefore, between the performance of a ballad in Loudon and the same number in an .American city. In the former every word can be fol- lowed by every auditor, in the latter the American auditor can at times not even identify the language in which the song is given. Another writer in the. same joarnal devotes space to the subjeot of ear train- ing. He says: For a number of years I have devoted ten minutes in each lesson to ear train- ing and have found the benefit result- ing therefrom so great 010.1 consider it now an indispeusable part of every lesson hour. At the first lesson the pupil, who is placed so that she cannot see the keyboard, is required to distin- guisb major and minor seconds by ear. If she does not do this readily, the prao- tice is continued at each lesson till she can quickly determine whether the in- terval be major or minor. When the ear ChB determiue seconds, they are fol- lowed by thirds, fourths, fifths and all other intervals up to the tenth. When all tlaese intervals can be named as soon as beard, major, minor, diminished and augmented triads are explained, and the pupil is required to distinguish them by ear. After these conm chords of the seventh, diminished seventh and ninth, anajor and minor scales, and the legato, demi staccato, staccato, non legato and elastic touches. The principles of good pedaling are than taken up, and the pupil is required to detect the slightest blur caused by slovenly use of tho damper pedal, and also to analyze the pedaling in passages played for her. Further work in ear training will readily suggest itself to the thoughtful teacher. New- Styles In Visiting Cards. The latest visiting card has not changed in size, but it is neither the very thick board of long ago nor the re- cent very thin material. It is of reader - ate thickness and pure white. In call- . mg attention to new styles in cards the New York Sun says: Block type is growing in popularity every day and promises to oust the script, which has held its own so long. Script of a rather larger and heavier style is still good form. Addresses are put either in the lower left or the lower right hand corner, and bolder and larger lettering is also used for this purpose. When the fashionable woman goes abroad, it is necessary, as well as con- venient, that she should carry a travel- ing card. It is of ample size and quite thin. .Across the top of the card is given in black type her full name. Just beneath this her city address in Ameri- ca is given, wbile in the right hand corner is tbe name of her banker in London or Paris, and in the left hand corner her cable address. This iS a lot of information to put on a visiting card, but those who have already traveled in foreign countries readily see the advan- tage of the plan. Cards designed for country use have the name and address of one's country place in the left hand corner, otherwise they are exactly like those for city use. Embroidery on Linen. Bright colored cottons and a frequent intermingliug of washing silks mark the embroideries on linen of the season. One of the greatest novelties this summer consists of delicate traceries running vermicelli fashion all over the linen background and serving as a connecting link between the powdering, whether a gonveutional scroll or flower. In this -)11(tk)) •-.. ...- \ ! ,. 17 sav-4. - 0 , •.:-, -.,„i •? - , n s ....-- 5'",p'.5."%,',451 IV; \)1 (#1)e 'gds. PBBNCli CIISMON. wise a delightfully cool looking onshion is streaked with informal lines of coarse stem stitch and solid spots in yellow silk, against which' bloom ,stately irises in two lovely =ante shades, in contrast with the foliage in several tones of green, both hues being repeated on the double frill et the edge in pinked out silk, the under one extending from the back foundation. Very pretty moires are raade with No. 60 moire or taffeta , ribbon, ruched in the center and edged with a very small frill or a narrow ruche of black or white mousseline de sole at the edge of a black ribbon. IiINGSTON MERCHANT TELLS OF EL k RELEASE FROM THE PAINS OF RIIEUMATISH. It Bud Afflicted Rim for IInwards or Ton Tears and many itemedies Were Tried in Vain—Dr,„ Williams'Exulc Pills Effect. ed Uis Belease. Frora the Freeman, 'Kingston, Oat. Fifteen , years ago Mr. Alexander O'Brien, the popular Princess sbreet taile or, was one of the most atheletio young men in 'Kingston, both as a foot racer and otherwise. Eleven years ago he com- menced business and shortly afterward* was stricken with rheumatism, which caused bite much pain, loss of rest, and neglect of business. Be states that he tried many doctors and many medicines, all to no avail. Over a year ago a friend advised him to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and though he had but little con- fidence in them, or advertised medicine of any description, at the urgent request of his friend he decided to give the pills a trial, and according to Mr. O'Brien it was a lucky venture. After the first box had been taken, customers noticed the change, and when three WM9 had been finished the result was marvelous. His strength had returned, impoverished blood renewed, muscles developed, rheu- matism almost disappeared, barring a slight stiffness in knee joints, wbich is gradually going, and in the last six months he bas done more work in bis tailoring establishment, than he had accomplished in the previous four years. A Freeman representative noticing the chaage in Mr. O'Brien's condition, asked him to what be attributect his apparent good bealth after such a lung siege of ill. tress. Without hesitation he replied, "Well, I have taken no medicine in the past year other than Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, therefore I attribute my presenb condition solely to their use. Tbey had. such a good effect in drivingrheumatism oat of my system and building up my shattered constitution, that ray wife, whose health was not any too good, also tried the pills. A. few boxes rennedied her illness and she, too, is as loud in her praise of them as 1 am. Many of my easterners and friends who witnessed the effect of the pills on my constitution commenced to use them, and they relate the same story as I bave told you. I am as well now as ever I was in ran life." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to the ioot of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from the system. Avoid imitations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed In a wrapping bearing the full feeds mark, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pals People. iinmestio Se,vice oa .1‘e Congo. "Cruelty in the tnortgo Free State" le the title of a. paper made up from the journals or the late E. J. Glave, and it appears in the Ceatury. Mr. Gimes says: Toyo, the boy I engneed of Sims, is more different kinds of an ass than any one I have met for several moons. The other day, after cooking something in the frying -pan, ha placed the sooty side on the drum of ray banjo! I do not. underatand his language very well, but from gestures ana. disgusted look it ought to havo been clear to him that I objected to that sort of untidiness. When I threw off the fryingpan, he took it up carefully, - -wiped the sooty part with a cloth I had given him to clean plates with, and then put it back on the banjo! He has made tea in my ooffee—pot without removing the coffee-grounds. He walks into my room without taking off his hat or remov- ing his pips. He is ugly, slow, and bar no more intelligence than a rock. I found him wearing a hat which I had given him to carry, and wiping his sweaty face on my towel. What service he tumid have rendered Sim's mission I do not know Row to Cook cucumbers. Peel and cut 4 cucumbers in half, re- move the insides and out them into inch sized pieces. Place them in saucepan, corer with boiling water and cook ten minutes. Then drain and lay thorn in cold water. Melt 2 ounces of butter ba saueepan, drain the cucumbers, add them to the buttee, season with half a tea- spoonful of salt, one-quarter of a tea- spoonful of pepper. Toss them for a few minutes over the fire. Add one cupful chicken or veal broth and cover and cook till the cuctunbers are done, evhich will take about 20 minutes. Then mix the yolks of 2 eggs with half a cupful of 9reara and add them to the eueumbers, stirring for 2 minutes, without letting them boil. Remove, add a teaspoonful of fine chopped parsley and serve. Cucum- bers may be stuffed or served With beoba,mel or horseradish sauce, but they should always first be parboiled. • 1?o1Aoned by Rum. George Milne ncott, a lad of 12 years, son of a laborer ia Aberdeen, Scotland, recently died front the effects af alcoholics poleoning. He seouted tenapemry posses sion of a pint bottle of rum and draalt most of the contetts. He was able to wait home, but became uncoascious and died, soon afterward.