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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-5-27, Page 3PROPER COMFORTERS DR• TALMAGE TELLS MOW TQ HELP PEOPLE IN TROUBLE. A Better Way of Dealing With Broken Hearts—No Place for Cant and Much Talking —, Happiness Comes Through suffering, (Copy r:rht 1898, by taou erican Press Astocla- Washington, May 2,—The. awkward and imitating mosso of trying to comfort people in trouble in hero set forth by 1)r. Talmage, and a better way of dealing with !Totten hearts isreeommended; text, Job :eel, "Miserable comforters are Ire ail.' The matt of Uz hada great many trials—the roes of his family, the loss of bis property, the loss of his lie:zith---bxxt the mut a ;asperatieg thing that came upon hien was the taxmtaiizing talk ot thee° who ought to have sympathized with him. And looking aroand upon them, mild weighing what they had Said, be utters the words of any text. Weer did God let sin compo into the world? It is a question I often hear dis- sweeter, but never satisfactorily answered, Gori made the world fair and heautiftel at the start. If our first parents bad not sinned iu Eden, they might have gone out of that garden and found 50 paredfsee AU around the eerth—Buropo, Mle, Afriea, North and South America—so many .dower gardens or orchards of fruit, redolent And luscious. I suppose that when God poured out the Gihou and the lliddoltel be poured out at the same time the Hudson and. the Susquebauna. She whale earth was very fair and beantlfui to look 'epee. Why did it not etay so? God had the power to keep bank sin anti woe. Wby did he not keep them book? Why not e'ory cloud roseate, and. every step a ;lay, and every sound tousle, and all the ages a long jubilee of duress znen and sinless women? God can make a rose as easily as lie can make a thorn, Why, then, the predominance of thorns? Ile cam make good, fair, ripe fruit as well as gnarled and seer fruit. Whyso emelt, then, that is gnarled and Sour? Fie can Why, men robust lea health, 1\ hy, thoA, are there so many invalids? Wiay not bave for our whole race perpetual leisure instead of this tug and tail and tussle for a livellhoedl" I will tell you why God let sin sante into the world—when I get on the other side of the river of death. That is tbo place v(here such questions will be answered and such mysteries solved, Ile who this side that river attempts to answer the question only illustrates his own ignorance and ineonpeteucy, All I know is one great faet, and that is, that a herd of woes has coxae in upon tee fair rad neverythingf i a tram lin dq\v p >� beautiful, A sword at the gate of Eden and u sword At every gate. More people oder the g rou t han on it. The graveyards in vast majority. The 6,000 winters have made more scars than the 0,000 summers can cover up. Trouble has taken the tender emu ofthis world In its two rough bands and pinched it until the nations wail with the agony. If all the mounds of graveyards that bave been raised were put side by side, you might step on thorn and nothing else, going all around the world, and around again, and around again. These aro the Pacts. And now I bare to say that in a. world like this the grandest occupation is that oa' giving condolence. The bolt' science of imparting comfort to the troubled we ought all of us to study. There aro many of you who could loot: around upon some of your very best friends, who wish you well and are very Intelligent, and yet be able truthfully to say to them in your days of trouble, "'Miserable comforters aro ye all." I remark, in the first piece, that very voluble people are incompetent for the work of giving comfort. Bildad and Elipbaz had the gift of language, and With their words almost bother Job's life out. Alas for these voluble people that go among the houses of the afflicted and talk and talk and talk and talk. They rehearse their own sorrows, and then they tell the poor sufferers that they feel badly now, but they will feel worse after awhile. Silencer Do you expect with a thin court plaster of words to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently around about a broken heart. Talk very softly around those whom God has bereft. Then go your way. Deep sympathy bas not much to say. A firm grasp of the band, a compassionate look, just one word that means as much as a whole dictionary, and you havo given perhaps all tbe comfort that a soul needs. .A. man has a terrible wound in his arm. The surgeon comes and binds it up. "Now," he says, "carry that arm in a sling and be very careful of it. Let no one touch it." But the neighbors bave heard of the accident, and they come in, and they say, "Let us see it." And the bandage is pulled off, and this one and that one must feel it and see how much it is swollen, and there are irritation and Inflammation and exasperation where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon comes in and says: "What does all this men? You have no business to touch 'those bandages. That wound 'will never heal unless you let it alone." So there are souls broken down in sorrow. What they most want is rest or very careful and gentle treatment, but the neighbors bave beard of the bereavement or of the loss, ' and they come in to sympathize, and they say: "Show us now the wound. What were his last words? Rehearse now the whole scene. Sow did you. feel when you found you were an orphan?" Tearing off the band- ages here and pulling them off there, leaving a ghastly wound that the balm of God's grace had already begun to heal. Oh, let no • loquacious people, with ever. rattling tongues, go into the homes of the distressed! Again, I remark that all those persons are incompetent to give any kind of com- fort who act merely as worldly philosoph- ers. They Douse in and say: "Why, this is what you ought to have expected. The laws of nature must have their way." And then they get eloquent over some• thing they have seen in post-mortem examinations. Now, away with all human philosophy at such a time! What difference does it wake to that father and mother what disease their son died of? Re is dead, and it makes no difference whether the trouble was in the epigrastrio or hypograstio region. If the philosopher be of the stoioal school, ho will Dome and says "You ought to control your feel- ings: You must not ory so. Yon roust cultivate a cooler temperament. You roust have self reliance, self government, self oontrol"--an iceberg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. A violinist has his instrument,` and he sweeps his fingers across the strings, now evoking strains of joy and now (This illeeteeti a shows the tawous ld ENTRANCE TO HAVANA FIARI3OR, t4 th4 right seed the projecting list, la, Punta, on tire} lef t, waste a e 4itary ga ! pefiat,3 z> pancingly coward ieentxyip , and elitening strains at sadness. 1In cannot play all the tunes on ane stria a Thu buuza) soul is an instrument of .► ihon4.11n1 strings, and all carts of onaetioas were made to pity ou ft, Now an anthem, now a dirge, It Is no evidence of weakness when ono is overcome of sorrow. Edmund Butte was found in the pasture geld with bis arms around a horse's netts., caressing him, and mond cava said, "Why, the great lean has last his mind." Net the horse belonged to his son, who bad recently died, and his great heart broke over the grief, It is no sign of weakness that men aro over- come of their sorrows. Thank Goal, for the relief of tears. have you never been in trouble whenou could not wee and y p you would d bava givenanything in for a cry? David did well whn he mourned for .&bsalom, .A.brahanm did well when he bemoaned Sarah, Christ wept for Lazarus, and the last xuan that I want to see tante anywhere near zee when I have any kind of trouble is a worldly phil- osopher. Again, I remark that those persons are Incompetent for the work of comfort bearing who have nothing hut cant to offer. Thera aro those who havo the idea that you must groan over the distressed and afflicted. There are times in grief When ono cheerful face, dawning upon a soul, worth '1 000hint, Do man's ax , is n t a to not Whine aver the sillicte . Ta lo thee promises of the gospel and utter them in a manly tone. Do not be afraid to: smile if you feel like it. zoo not drive any more boarses through that poor soul. Do not tell him the trouble vias foreordained. It to know 1 was willnot bo anycomfort 1,a sv i a million years coming, If you want to find splints for a broken bone, do not take oast iron. Do not toll them It is Gads justice tbat weighs put grief. They want t0 hear of God's tendon mercy. In other words, do not give them aquaforbis when they need valerian. Again, I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had any trouble themselves. A larkspur cannot lecture on the neture of a snow- flake; 11 never saw a snowflake and those people who have always lived be the summer of prosperity Daunt talk to those who are frozen in disaster. God keeps aged people in the world, I think, for this vory work of sympathy. They bave been through all these trials. They know all that which irritates and all that whioh soothes. It there are men and women hero who have old people in the house or near at band, so that tbey can easily reaoh them, I congratulate you. Some of ns have bad trials in life, and although we bave had many friends around about us we have wished that father and mother wore still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would bave been such a comfort to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cherish them; let them lean on your arm, those aged people. If when you speak to them they cannot hear just what you say, the first time, and you have ' to say it a second time, when you say it a second time do not say it sharply, If you do, you will be sorry for it on the day when you take the last look and brush back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they scree( the lid on. Blessed be God for the old people! They may not have ranch strength to go around, but they are God's appointed ministers of comfort to a broken heart. People who have not had trials them- selves cannot give oomfort to others. They may talk very beautifully, and they may give you a great deal of poetio sentiment; but, while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If you have a grave in a pathway, and somebody comes and covers it all over with flowers, it is a grave yet. Those who have not had grief themselves know not the mystery of a broken heart. They know not the meaning of childless- ness, and the baying no one to put to bed at night or the standing in a room where every book and picture and door is full of memories—the doormat where she sat, the cup out of which she drank, the place where she stood at the door and clapped her hands, the odd figures that she scribbled, the blocks she built into a house. Ab, no, you must havo trouble yourself before you can comfort trouble in others. But come all ye who have beam} bereft and ye who have been comforted in sorrows and . stand around these afflicted souls and say to them: "I bad that very sorrow myself. God comforted mo, and he will comfort you." And that will go right to the spot. 'In other words, to comfort others we niust have faith in God, practical experience and good, sound common sense. But there are three or four.00nsidera- tions that I will bring to those who are. sorrowful and distressed and that we can always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first consideration is that God sends our troubles in love. I often hear people in their troubles say,"Why, 1 wonder what God bas against me?" They seem to think God has some grudge against them because trouble and misfortune bave come. Oh, no! Do von not remember that passage of Scripture, "whom the Lord loveth ke ohasteneth?" A child comes in with a very bad splinter in its hand, and you try to extract it. It is a very painful operation. The child draws Wk. from you, but yon persist. You are going to take that splinter out, so you take the child with a gentle but arta grasp, for although there may be pain in it the splinter must comp alt, And it is love that dictates it and nukes you persist, My friends, I really think that nearly All our sorrows in this world aro only the band of our Father extracting settle thorn. If all these sorrows were sant by enemies, I woeld say arm emersolves agatust them end as in tropical climes when a tiger comes down from the mountains and carries off a child from the tillage the neighbors hand together and go luta the wrest and hunt the 'f I sem would bare you, a Duston x monster, thought these mnisfortunos were scut by an Qnoumy, go yon and battle against theme. But zzo, they come front a Father so kind, so loving, so gentle that the prophet, speaking of his tenderness and mercy, arose the idea of a father and says. "".As ouo whom his mother cone - torten), so 'wIU I comfort sou." Again, I remark there is coumtore in the timou;bt that (roti by alt this process is going, to melte yon useful, Do you know that those who accomplish the moat for God and heaven have all been under the harrow? Show me a znan that has done anything for Christ in this day in a publle or private place who bas hall. no trouble, and whose path bas been smooth. Ah, nol t t I once went through an ax factory, and I saw them take the bars of Iran and thrust them into the terrible Tureens. Tbon bcsweated workmen with lone tongs stirred the blaze. TheaChoy brought out a bar of iron and put it in a Crushing machine, and thee put 11 between jaws that bit it in twain. Then they put it on an anvil, and there were great ho,uuuore swung by machinery— each one-half to ton le weight—that went thump, thump, thump! It that irrn could have spoken, it would have said "way all this beating? Why must I be pounded any more than any other Iron?" The workmen would havo said, "We wauttomake axes out of you, keen, sharp axes --axes with whiob to bete down the forest sad build the ship and erect houses and carry on a thousand enterprises of civilization. That is the reason wo pound you." Now, God puts a soul into the furnace of trial, and then it is brought out and run through tbe crushing machine, and then it comes down on tbo anvil and upon It, blow after blow, blow after blow, twtll the soul cries out, "0 Lord, what does all this mean?" God says: "I want to make something very useful out of you. You shall be something to hew with and something to bulla with. It is a practical process through which I am putting you." Yes, my Christian friends, we want more tools in the oburoh of God; not more wedges to split with. Wo have enough ot these. Not more bores with which to drill. We have too many bores. What we really want is keen, sharp, well tempered axes, and if there be any other way ot ];taking them than in the hot `furnace, and on the hard anvil, and under the heavy hammer, I do not know what it is. Remember that if God brings any kind of chastisement upon you it is only to make you useful. Do not sit down discouraged and say: "I have no more ,.reason for living. I wish I were dead." Oh, there never was so much reason for your living as now 1 By this ordeal you have been consecrated a priest of the most high God. Go out and do your whole work for the Master. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all our troubles are a revelation. Have you ever thought of it in that con- nection? The man who has never been through chastisement is iguorant about a thousand things in his soul be ought to know. For instance, hero is a man who prides himself on his cheerfulness of character. He has no patience with any- body who is depressed in spirits. Oh, it is easy for him to be cheerful. with his fine house, his filled wardrobe and well strung instruments of music and tapestried parlor and plenty of money In tbe bank waiting tor some permanent investment! It is easy for him to be cheerful. But suppose his fortune goes to pieces and bis house goes down under the sheriff's hammer and the banks will not have anything to do with his paper. Suppose those people who wore ones elegantly entertained at his table get so shortsighted that they cannot recognize him upon the street. How then? Is it so easy to be cheerful? It iseasy to be cheerful in the bonnie after the day's work is done, and the gas is turned on, and the house is full of romping little ones, But suppose the piano is shut because the fingers that played on it will no more tough the keys, and the ohildish voice that asked so many questions will ask no more. Then is it so oasyP When a man wakes up and finds that his resources are all gone, he begins' to rebel, and he says: to"God is hard; God is outrageous. He bad no business to do this to me." -My friends, those of us who have been through trouble know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have, and how muoh God has to put up with, and how much we need pardon. It,is only in the ligbt of a flaming furnace that we can learn our own weakness and our own look of moral resource. There is also a great deal of comfort in the fact that there will be a family reconstruction in a better place. From Scotland or l:ncl,and .or Ireland a child emigrates to America, It is very hard Parting, but be comes, After awbila writing home as to what a good land It is. Auotherbrother comes, a sister comes, nand another, and after awhile the 'father comes, and now they are all here, and they have a titmie of great congratulation. and a very pleasant reunion. Well, it is just so with our fanzines. They are emigrating toward a better land. Now one goes out. Oh, how hard it is to part with him! Another goes. Oh, bow bard it es to part with bur! And another and another, and we ourselves will after awhile go over, and then we will be t �Hreunion! 170 you together. Oh,what a ro xn A >, � you• a:-aF. h you believe that? YaO , 1 , do not! You do nobelieve it as eon believe other things. It you do, and with tbo same elepha'is, why it would take nine -teethe 01 your trouble of your heart. The fact is heaven to many at us is a great fog. It is away off somewhere, lilted with au uncertain and indefinite population. That is the kind of heaven that many of tie dream about, but it is the most tremendous fact in all this universe-- this heaven of the gospel. Oat dop:mrted friends aro not afloat. The reeidcnce do is o r' • l as the Which live not s Ga wh b spa iv re53danao In which they stay. You , ► re afloat—you who donot know in the morning wbat wI1 happen before eight. They aro ho Sed and safe farov0r. Do not therefore pity your departed friends who have died in Christ. Thoy do not need any of your pity, leou might as well 0 Queen send r of condolencet a tette Victoria on bor obscurity or to the Iiothsehllds on their poverty as to pity tboco.who have won the palm, Do not say of those who are departed: "Poor child!" "Poor father le' "Poor leather]," 'They aro not poor. You aro poor, yon whose homes nave been shattered, not thoy. You do not dwell much with your families In this world. All day long you emote to bustnoss. Will it not be pleasant when you can be together all the while? If you have had four children and one is gone, and anybody asks how many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Say four --one in baleen. Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You go into your room and dress for some grand entertainment, and you come forth beautifully appareled, and the grave is only tbe place where wo go to dress for the glorious resurrection, and we will dome out radiant, mortality having become immortality. Oh, hoW much condoloncethere Is In this thought! I expeot to see ]ray kindred in heaven— I expect to see them just as certainly as I expect to go home to -day. Aye, I shall more certainly see them. Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back of Somerville, and ane will come from the mountains back of Amoy, China, and another will come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras, and 30 will come up from Greenwood, and I shall know them better than I aver knew them here. remain: once more: Our troubles In this world aro preparative for glory, What a transition it was for Paul—from the slippery deck of a foundering ship to the calm presence of Jesus! Whatatransition it was for Latimer—from the etako to a throne! What a transition it was for Robert Hall—from insanity to glory! What a transition for Richard Baxter— from the dropsy to the "Saint's Everlast- ing Rest!" And whata transition It will be for you --from a world of sorrow to a world of joy! John Holland, when be was dying, said: "What moans this 'brightness in the room? Have you lighted the candles?" "No," they replied, "we have not ligbted any candles." Then said be, "Welcome heaven!" The light already beaming upon his pillow. Oh, ye who are persecuted in this world, your enemies will get off the traos after awhile and all will speak well of you among the thrones! Ho, ye who are sick now. No medicines to talee there. One breath of the eternal bills will thrill you with immortal vigor. And ye who are lone- some now. There will be a million spirits to welcome you into their com- panionship. Oh, ye bereft souls! There will be no gravedigger's spade that will, cleave the side of the hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that temple. The river of God, deep as the joy of heaven, will roll on between banks odorous with balm, and over depths bright with jewels, and under skies roseate with gladness, argosies of light going down the stream to the stroke of glitter - in; oar and the song of angels. Not one sigh in the wind; not one tear mingling with the waters. ripply with :a salt sponge, then dry your face with a very soft towel and give. a final touch—not a polish—with a soft chamois leather which will effectually re. move all moisture. For the crow's feet use a little pure fresh cream, and sauteing a little on the first and second Angels, work it well irate the furrows from the eye outward and downward, not upward. Olive all is also an excellent emollient. whieh oan be used iu the same way, as well as for those lines underneath the eyes, which must be smoothed out by a semi-eirouler move- ment of the fingers, comznenelug from the inner corners downward; do this for g five minutes everynight, after Navin o . t f, > 4 5 a Ant t In tepid, them zn. cleaned your face 1 p , o cold distilled water, luta which latter hoe been put a little of the lotiou given alxtve, Those lines which come on either side of the nose must be rubbed toward the cheek, while these across the forehead must be smoothed out from the center of the forehead outward, not up and dawn. An astringent totem, III addition to a oourse at facial maesuge, is of great gene- fit. The foUosvlug is epoeially retom- noended: owdered tannin.................1 Dunes Re owater .... „ . ..0 ounces Glycerine .fl ounces b too,thatugliness lurks in Remember, u„l . es lu 1K smelling salts. Ono of the most beautiful women on the stage speaks of having S I 1: noticed with what rapidity one of her frionds was acoumntatiug wrinkles, and those, too, of unusual depth and size. 'Upon spendintt the day with her she found. that she was addicted to the almost constant use of strong smelling salts, which caused her to wrinkle up her face In a truly remarkaablo manner. The myn• tory was explained. Ladies will do well to beware the :bottle. UGLY CROW'S FEET. with Care and Patience They May Be Chased Away. With the proper amount of time and care much may be done in the way of of oman- combating that natural enemy woman- kind—wrinkles. In the first place never by any chance wash the face be hard water. The hardest can be softened with so little trouble— justeatteaspoonful of ammonia in a pitch- er of boiled water over night, and a bag of oatmeal placed in it in addition This simple wash eased in the morning will keep the faoe in line condition: Pure eldsrflower water 1 pint Borax.. .. . ee ounce Eau de Cologne. 1 ounce SPREAD OF LEPROSY. it Is Extending to the 'united States Prom south America. No physician is entitled to say:, as many are doing, that leprosy is not con- tagious, There aro too many wolf -authen- ticated cases where the disease bas been transmitted from one individual to an- other. le is a well•ltnown fact that this most dreadful of human ills .bas existed in all ages. Although the !amanita has been discovered, it can neither be culti- vated nor Inooulated in animals. Unless some means of doing this be found, lep- rosy is likely to remain incurable. Doses of oil of ohaulmoagra, up to 1300 drops a day, have afforded relief, but recovery is rare. The disease is spreading in Russia, on the shores of the Mediterranean, east- ern Prussia and. Norway. Cases have been observed in England, France and Ger- many. Through the Gulf of Mexico, from South America, leprosy is extending to the United States. One pbysician in New Orleans has bad 18 eases under his ob• servation. Since 1849 it bus been intro- duced into Hawaii by the Chinese. To prevent its spread in this country, prompt legislation should deny leprous foreign- ers admission and isolate those cases now in our midst.—Chicago Inter Ocean. f From the 7 cba, Plattsyilia, Ont, The Echo has read and hanpublished, rnauv statesmnents from people who. have been cored of various ailments by- the ythe timely and judicious use of Dr, 11 xi:iatns' Pink Pills for Pale People, out never before have we had suoli t er oaa fly convincing proof of their eriitacy as in. the case of firs. George Taylor, who with her husband and family reside iu this village. To an Eci,o reporter :irs. Taylor :ave the foliowinn history of her illness and caire, and asked that it be given the tidese publicity, so that others might l e benetitted :---"I am thirty-two years of age," said :sirs, Taylor, " and he 18$5 nay husband and myself were living on a. tem In Perth county, 'gad it was there 1 was beet tafeen sick. The doe- for vvho was called in sand I was suffer- ing from heart trouble. due to nervones debility. 311 his remedies proved of no ay.,"l and 1 steadily grew worse, The doctor advised a diaast"e• and we Crisis in His Career. "Cyrus," asked his wife, "what are you moping about?" "It is 37 years ago to -day, leeturah," replied the gloomy man, who had thrown himself on the lounge, "since I beoame cashier of the bank." "Well, what of that? Are you worn out? Is the salary too small? Have you ever had tbe slightest trouble with the bank? Is there anything wrong with your accounts? Are they thinking of replacing you with another Span?" "No, there's nothing wrong in any way," rejoined the bank cashier, "but the very fact that I bave been the bank's mast trusted official for 37 years, and have never done a dishonest thing in my life, never made an injudicious loan, that my accounts are perfectly straight, and that no man on earth can say a word against me, is making people suspicions, and they are beginning to talk about me." --Chicago Tribune. rooked to. Mc+saet ' Ont. stere I plat royeelf under the charge of another physician, but with no better results. At the least exertion my heart would palpitate violently. I was frequently overcome with dizziness scud fai1ltitmR fits. While in these my limbs would become cola and often ray husband thought I was dying. I tried several medicines advertised to cure troubles like rn.iue, but with no better rsegets, and. I did not erect to recover, in fact 1, often thought it would he better if the end carpe, for my life was ono of misery, We moved back to the farm and then one day I read the statement of a lady who had been cured of similar trouble by the use of Dr. Williams' Pini; fills, so 1 said to ray lausbarsd that I would r this Ila d'C' e i 3' medicine lata and it seerned to ins that it was my last ohanee. Before the vat box was fin- ished I felt an improvement in my ap- petite and felt that this was a hopeful sign. By the time I had used three boxes more ray trouble seemed to las entirely gone, and I have not felt a single reeurrenee of the old symptoms. Since moving to Pumettsvilla Dave used two boxes and they had the effect of toning up the system and curing slight indispositions. To -day- I am a well woman incl owe my life to Dr. Wil- liams' Fink Pills, and to zee my re- storation e- st r ion a at seemsothiII short f cot rt o a miracle. I was like one dead and brought back to life, and I cannot spead too highly of this medicine. or tt o°; . I eL q strongly s I !v those who are+ m - r rr a Qt ed to give it a trial. It has been proved time and again that 2.ir. Williams' Pink Pills curs heart troubles, nervous debility, rhea- matzsm, sciatica, St. Vitus' dance stud stomach. trouble. They make new blood and build up the nerves, rester. ing the glow of health to pale and snow 'faces. Be sure you get the gen- uine as there is no other medicine "the same as" or "just as good" as Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. If your dealer does not have them they will be sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 42.50 by addressing the Dr. Williams'' Medicine Oa, Brookville Ont. Cube. This, the Largest of the West India* Isiandsi is the lust remaining colony s1 Spain in the Western Hemisphere, It we except the neighboring small island! of Puerto Rico. It is governed by a Captain -General, and is represented lea the bps Wish Cortez (or Congress) by thirty Deputies and eisteen Senators• Cuba's area is 41,655 square miles, Its population in 1804 was 1,931,696. Thal population oe Havana. the: capital, in 1E87, was 108,271. 'she greatest part of the people are insulars, or Cubate creoles, descendants of the original Spanish conquerors, who number nearly' 1,000,000 souls. A. very small number represents the peninsulars, comprising the governing class, while of ne;roes and mulattoes there are 675,00D. In eel. dition there are about 50,000 Chinese laborers on the island. Air Cure ter C„rachet ption. Tbere are now six sanitariums in Ger-' many at which consumptives are treated by constant exposure to air at a low tem- perature. Currents of cold air aro allowed to pass through the bedroom at night, and during the day as mach of the time is spentin: the open air as possible, The pure. cold air quiets cough, lessens tem- perature, arrests night sweats, improves appetite and =tittles or 'arrests the worse of the disease. Observations nnade in theso sanitariums have developed the interest- ing fact that it is exceedingly rare, in- deed, that intention of healthy, persons by contact with consumptive inmates is obs served. Japanese Ade er'tising. Even the Japs appresiabe the value of printer's ink. The Mikado's government has appropriated $42,000 to be expended in advertising througbout the 'United States the merits of .f apanese tea. A Cable's Length. A cable's length is one -south of a nee Moat mile. (6,080 foot). The longest mile is the Norwegian, which is within a free - tion of seven times ours.' • $100 Reward, $100. 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