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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-11-25, Page 7SPRINGS OF WATE Or. Talmage Draws inspiration From an Old Oriental, Story. Caleb's Wedding Present to His Daughter of the Springs of Water --Wealth Without Religion is Worthless -- God's Gift to Mankind. Witehington, Nov. 20.—Taking for ti $ext au °ramie' scene seldom noticed, Dr. Talmage casousses the supernal ad - Vantages of religion for this worlil and the next; text, destine xy, 19: "Thou thee given me a sleuth land; give ins elm springs of water. And :ae gave her the Upper springs and the nether springs." The city a Debir was the Boston of antiquity --a great Mace for brain and books. Caleb wanted it, and he offered his daughter Aohsah as a prize to any one win) would capture that city. It was a stritnge thing for Caleb to do, aitil yet the loan thee could take the city would have, at any rate, ewe elinaents ot man- hood—bravery and patriotism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb was as foolish in offertng his daughter to the conqueror of Debit aa thousands in this day who seek eilitinces for their children 1Vieh those who have large tweets without any vefer- seat Zo 'newel or mental acquireluents. Of two evils 1 weald Tether meatiure happiness by the length ot the sword than by the tenth of the pooklatimoke In Quo OM there is auto to be one geed element of character; in the other there may be none 45 all. With Calebe daughter as a prize to light for General Othalel retie into the Wade. The gates of Debir were thuedered into eliti dust, and the eity of betake lay at the feet at the conqaetera The woxit done, Otbniel COMOS batik to teethe his briefs. Having conquered the city. It is no groat job for hint to couquer the girl's beart, for, bowman: faint heart- ed a woman bonelt may be, she always loees courage in a iean. I never Raw an exception to that. The wedding festivity having gone by. Othiniel and Achsah are eboue to go to their neer home. However loudly tile cymbals may clash and the laughter ring, perents are alweye eati wben a fondly oberishee daughter got* oft to stay, and Asheall, the isaughter of Caleb, knows that now is the time to ask almost any- thing she want e of bet father. It seems thsit Caleb, the good old man, bad given a* a wedding present to Ins daughter a, piece of land that was mountainoua and eloping southward toward the deserth at Arabia, swept with mine very hot winds. It was ealled "a mufti land," bue Aths web wants an additiou of property. She wanes a piece of land that is well water- ed and fertile. Now, it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, Ms oyes so full of tears because the was going away that he could hardly see her at all, gives her more than she asks. She saiu to him: "Thou bast given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs." A Worthless Portion. The fact is, that as Caleb, the father, ewers Aohsah, the daughter, a south haul, ate so God gives to us his world. I am very thankful ho has given it to us, but I sup like Aohsah in the fact that I am not satisfied with the portion. Trees and flowerand grass and blue skies aro very well in their pluges, but he 'who has nothing but this world for a portion bas no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloeing off toward the desert of sor- row, se apt by fiery siroccos. It is "a south Leal," a poor portion or any man that tries to put his trust in it. 'What has been yr,ur experience? What has been the experieece el' every man, of every woman that has tried this world for a portion Queen Elizabeth, amid the surrounding. of pomp, is unhappy because the painter sketchee too niinutely the wrinkles on ber Noe, and she indignantly cries out, "You must strike off my likeness with- out any shadows!" Hogarth. at the very height of his artistio triumph, is stung ahnost to death with chagrin because the painting be had dedicated to the king does not seem to be acceptable, for George II. cries out: "Who is this Ho - earth? Take his trumpery out of ray pres- ence!" Brinsity Sheridan thrilled the earth with his eloquenee, but had for his last words, "Inns absolutely undone." 'Walter Scott, fumbling around the inkstand, trying to write, says to his deughter: "Oh, take me back to my room! There lino rest for Sir Walter but in the grave!" Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day, or, at any rate, only second in wealth, says: "I live the life of a galley slave. When I arise in the orning, my one effort is to work so eel that I can sleep when is get. to be r ebb." No Joy In Wealth. Pick me out ten successful woridlings —and you know what I mean by thor- oughly successful worldlings—pick me ent tan successtui worldlings. and you cannot find more than one that leeks happy. Care drags him to business; oars drags him back. Take your stand at 1 o'clock at the corner of the street and see the agonized physiognomies. Your high akin's, your bankers, your insur- ance men, your importers, your whole- salers and your retailers, as a elass—as a clam are they happy? No. Care dogs their steps, and, making no appeal to God for help or comfort, many of them are tossed everywhither. How has it been with you, my hearer? Are you more con- tented in the home of 14 rooms than you were in the two rooms you had in a home when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment 91/100 you won that $50,000 than you did before? Some of the poorest men I have ever known have been those of great fortune. A mean of small means may be put in great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit euloide because of monetary losses are those who cannot bear the bur- den any more, because they have only $50,000 left. On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house vrhore Talleyrand used to go. He was a favored man. All tho world knew him, and he had wealth almost unlimit- ed; yet at the close of his life he says, "Behold, 83 years have passed without any practical result, save fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, great discourage - merit tor the future, and great disgust for the past," Oh, my friends, this is a stizoixth land," and it slopes off toward deserts of sorrows and the prayer which .A.ohsah made to her father Caleb we make this day to our Father God: "Thou bast given me a month land; glee me also springs of water. And be gave her the upper springe and the nether spriuga" PleiktIere, sif Where shall I and vrords enough threaded with light to set forth the ' are of religion? David, unable to &webs it in words, played it u* harp. Mrs. Barnum, not ending enough power in prose Sill a that praIi�ila a 001450, Ch is topher Wren, unable to desorihe it in language, sprung it !Moths arches of St. Paul's. John Bunyan, unable to present it in ordinary phraseology, take* all the fasoinatiou of allegory. Handel, with ordinary Inusie Unable to reach the height ot the theme, rouses iv up in an oratorio. Oh, there Is no lite on earth so happy as a really Chrietian life! I do not ineau a sham Christian life, bilh a reel Otrietian life. Where there Is a thorn, there is a Whole garieml of roses. Where elleto Is ono groan, there are three doe- ologiee. Where there is tate day of demi. Mune is a whole season of inInshine. Tette the Itemblest Christian mati that you know—angels of Goa canopy him with their wbite wings; the lightnings at bea- von are hie termed allies; tbe Lord is bis Shepherd, picking out for him green isastilres by still teeters. If he walk forth, beaven le his bodyguard; a he lie down to sloop, ladders of light, aegel blossom- ing, are lot into els drams; if he be ehirsty, tbe potentates of heaven are his oup bearers; If he sit down to food, his plain table blooms into the King's bail- quet. Men say, "Look at that good fel- low with the wornout main" the angels of God ory, "Lift up your beads, Ye ever. lasting gates, and let blat come MI" Fastidious people ivy, "Get off my frorie *tepee' the door imperil of heaven cry, "Gorne, Ye blessed of ray Father, le - halt the kingdensi" When he 4011Ciell tis die, thoeeh be may be carried out in a pine box to the potter's field, to thee potter's field trio chariots of MOO will eame down, and the oaveleade will footed all the boulevards of beam. I bless Chrism tor the teresent satisfae- leen at religion. Is makes a roan all eight with reference to the past, makes a man all right with reference to tho future. Oh, these nether aprings ot oomforti They are perennial. The found- ation of God atandeth sure having this Neal, ''The Lord knowetb them that are his," "The mountaies shall depart and the bilis be removed, but my kindness sball not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, wbo bath moray upon thee." Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnisbed gold! Oh, nether springs ot comfort bursting through all the valley's ot trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what satisfaction there Is on earth In religion, do you not thirst aftir it as the daughter of Web thireted after the water springs? It is no stagnant pond, seummed over with malaria, bue springs of water leaping from the Rook of Ages! Take up one cup of that spring water and across the ton of the chalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly well, the yellow of jasper, the green of emerald, the Mee of sardonyx, the fire of jacinth. Springs of Comfort. I Wish I could make you understand the joy religion is to ammo! us, It makes a man happy while he lives and glad wheu he dies With two feet upon a chair and bursting with dropsies, I beard an old man in the poorhouse try out. "Bless the Lord, oh, my soul!" I looked around and saki, "What has this man got to thank God for?'' It makes tho mine xnan leap as a hart and the dumb sing. They say that the °l,1 Puritan religion is a juiceless and joyless religion, but I re- member reading of Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan,, who in his last Ince ment said: "Is this dying? Why, iny buir abides in strength! I am swallowed up in God!" "Her ways are war; of pleas aptness, and all Mar paths are peace " Oh, you who have been trying to satisfy yourselves with the "south land" of t tits world, do you not feel that you woula this morning like to have access to the nether springs of spiritual comma? Would you not like to have Jesus Cririst bend over your eradle and bless your table and heal your woundand strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your dead? 'Tis religion that oan give Sweetest pleasures while we live. 'Tie religion can supply Sweetest oomfort when we die. But I have something better to tell yen, suggested by this text. It teems that old Father Caleb on the weaaing day of his daughter wanted to make her just as happy as possible. Though Othniel was taking her away, and his heart was almost broken !emuse she was going, yet be gives ,her , a "south /and.' Not only that, but the nether springs. Not only that, but thaupper springs. 0 God, my Father, I thank thee that thou hest given me a "month land" in title world, and the nether springs of spiritual cow - fort in this world, but more than all I thank thee for the upper springs in heaven! Glimpses of Heaven. It is very fortunate that we cannot see Maven until we get into it 0 Christian man, if you could eee what a place it is, we would never get you baok again to tbe office or shop, and the duties you ought to perform would go neglected. I am glad I shall not see that world natil I enter it. Suppose we were allowed to go on an excursion into that goal land with the idea of returning. When we got there and beard the song and looked at their raptured faces and mingled in the supernal soolety, we would ory out: "Lets to stay! We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble of going back again to that old world? We are here now. Let ne stay." .And it would take angelic Yi0- 1131100 to put us out or that world if Mee we got there. But as people who cannot afford to pay for an entertainment some- times come around it and look through the door ajar or through the openings in the fence, so we come and look through the crevices into that good land which God hag provided for us. We can just eatoh a glimpse et it. We come noir timing's to hear the rumbling of the eter- nal orchestrathough not near enough to know who blows She cornet or who Eng - ars the harp. lidy soul spreads out both wings and clasps tisena in triumph at the tbought of those upper springs. One of them breaks from beneath the throne, another breaks forth from beneath tbe altar of the temple, another at the door ot "the house of many mansients." UP per springs of gladness! Upper springs of light! Upper springs of love! It ie 00 fancy of mine. "Tee Lamb wheel is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fouotaine of Water." 0 Savietar Toll in hiezei our efeuls one of those anticipated raptures! Pout around the rooth ot the parehed tongufs one drop of that liguiti life! Toss before our vision those fountains of God, rainbowed tvith eternal victory! Heim it! They are never sick therenot so much asp headache or twinge rheumatic or ternst eeureigio, The inhabitant never tare "I am sick." Thee are never tired there. Flight to farthest world is only this play of a holiday. They netar sin there. It Is as easy for thew to be holy as it is for us to sin. They never dm there. You might go through ail the out- skirts of the great city and find not one place where the ground was Lrokoinfor a grave. The eyeaight of the redeemed is never blurred with team. Steere is health in every obeek. There is spring in every foot.. There is maiesty on every brow. There is joy in every aeart. There I* hosanna or. every Hp. ROW they Miliet pity us as they look over and look deem and see us, and sae, "Poor things, away down in that world!" And when some ObrIstian is herbed, into a fatal acoldent, their cry, "Good. comtegi" And ether& we stand arouild the emob of some love Quo whasa strength ie going awae and we shake our heeds forebodingly, they cry: "I'm glad he is stores He has been down there long egieugb. 'aerie he Is deed. Ceine home, come home!" Oh, if we mild Only get our icleali about that future \eerie untwieted, our thougbt of tranater from bere to there would be tie nleafietelt to MI It was 50 a little °bile that was dying. Site Reid, "Pape When Will 1 g0 boater And be said, "eceday, Florenee." "To -day? So soon? I ens so gladi" Choose our Portion. web I could stimulate you with these thonghts, 0 Christian wee, to the highest passible exhilaratian. Tho day 01 your deliverance le coming, is coming rolling on with the shining Wheels of the day, anti the jot wheels ot the teethe. Every thump of tbe beert is only a hem- mer stroke striking off another ehaiu of ley, Better scour the (leek and coil the rope, tor bather is only six ninth away. Jaime will 001110 down in the Narrows to melte Tem "Now is your salvation tomer tban when yap believed." Mau of the world, will you not to -day make a choice between these two por- boas, betWeen tbe "sontit land" of this world, whioh slopes to the desert, and this glorious land which thy Father offers thee, ruuning with eternal water course? Why lot your tongue be mut sullied 'with thirst when there aro the nether swinge and the 'upper aprings, oomtort here and glory bereafter? You and I need something better than this world can give us. The feet is that it catinot give us anything utter Is is a changing world. Do you know that even tbe mountainon the back of a thoultanti streams are leaping into the valley'? The Alleghenies aro dying. The dews with crystalline mallet aro banana, Ina away the rooks. Frosts and showers and lightnings are sculpturing Mount Washington end the Catskills. Niagara every year is digging for itself a quicker plunge. The Sea ail around the earth on its shifting shores is making mighty changes in bar and by and frith and promontory. Some of the old seacoasts are midland now. Off Nantucket, eight feet below low water mark, aro found now the stumps of trees, showine that the waves are conquering the land. Parts of No Scotia ars ainking. Ships to -day sail over what only a little while ego was solid ground, Near the mouth of the St. Croix _River Is an island which in the movements of the earth is slowly but certainly rotatinte. All the face of the earth is changing—changing. In 1831 an island springs up in the Mediterranean sea. In 1860 another island oomes up under the observation ot the American consul as he looks off from the beach. The earth all the time changing, the columns of a temple near Bizoli show that the water tas risen nine feet above the place it was when these columns were put &Nen. Changing! Our Colorado river, once vaster than the Mississippi, flowing through the great American des- ert, which was then an Iaden of luxuri- ance. has now dwindled to a small stream creeping down through a gorge. TM, earth itself, that was onco vapor, after water—nothing but water—atter- wards molten rook, 000ling off through ages until plants might live, and ani- mals might live, and men might live' changing all the while, now crumbling, now breaking off. The sun, burning down gradually in its socket. Changing, changing, a intimation of the the last groat change to come over tho world even infused into the mind ot the heathen wbo hae never men the Bible. Sleepless God. The Hindoos believe that Brahma, the creator, once made all things. He created the water, then moved over the' water, out of it lifted the land, grow the plantu and animals and men on it. Out of his eye went the sun. Out of his lips went the lire. Out of his ear weut the air. Then Brahma laid down to sleep off 4,- 820,000,000.years. After that, they say, he will wake up, and then the world will be destroyed, and he will make it over again, bringing up land, bringing up creatures upon it; then lying down again to sleep 4,820,000,000 years, then wakiug up and destroying the world again—creation and demolition following each other, until after 820 sleeps, each one of these slumbers 4,820,000,000 years long, Brahma will wake up and die, and the universe will die with him, an in- timation, though very faint, of the great change to come upois this pilysioal earth spoken of in the Bible. But while Brah- ma may sleep, our God never slumbers nor sleeps,* and tbe heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the ele- ments shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all things' that are therein shall be burned up. "Well," says some one, "if tbat is so, it the world is going from one change to another, then what is the use of my toil- ing fax its betterment?" That is the point on which I want to guard you. I do not want you to became misanthropic. It is a great and glorious world. If Christ could afford to spend 33 years on it for its re- demption, then you can afford to toil and pray for the betterment of the nations, and or the bringing on of that glorious time when all people shall see the salva- tion of God. While thrrefore I want to guard yeti against misanthropic not,ons la ;ewe; to this subject I have present, - ed, I want you, to take this thought borne with you; This world is a poor foundation to build an. It is a changiug World, and it is a dying world. The shifting scenes auti the ehanging seeds are only emblems of all wetly expeette don. Life is very much like this day through white' we have passed. To many of tts it is storm and darkeese, then sunshine, storm and deritness, then after- wards a little sueshiee, now again dare - noes awl storm. Oh, build not your hopes upon this uncerteln world1 Build on God. Confide in Jesus. Plaza for an eternal residence at Christ's right head. Then, twine sioknese or health, ciente joy or eor- row, corn§ iffe or death, all is well, all is well. In the name of the God of Caleb and bts daughter Actual], I this day offer you the "upper springs" of tiptoeing and everlasting rapture. (wino !tow a Little.. The English Family Herald has the following: "The members of a New York rowing olub once found theneselees man abort in a boat'. mew. A stranger stood by the landing stage and was hailed by the coxswain, "Say, mister, Cali you row?" "A little," replied the stranger. Then, the *newer came from the cermet/se "It you like to take an oar we'll oath you up the stream." "Don't mind if you take it slowly." Tha or took teoh the seat offered, and did his fair share ot the work. The coxswain, un- willing to let the crew appear too easily matisfied, gave the word to quitiken the eteohe, the men, reepoutied atheir- male. At the wad of the afternoon, the ceptatn said, aa the grew ateppea one of Vie beet, "Yeo gat cia very well, sir. If you come down again, we'll give you another leason," "Thanks," replied the Wormer, "Ill be very Pleased. If you bet Me have a line I'll be sure to come," and he handed the captain a card wblah re - reeled the feet that the avenger was no other than the then champion smaller Hanlon." When confronted with the artiole yes- terday Aid, flanian leeonically replied. 'Yes, it happened just like that, but it was in San Francisco "—Mail and Empire. Weights and Ataaanrah Ace The Dominion Weights and Measures Act, Stettin 16, which was astheted 50 AM* tath, 1888, le as below: In =streets for the sale and delivery at any of the underneentioeed artieles, the huahel shall be determined by weigh- ing, 'unless a bushel by zneasare is sped - ally agreed upon—the weight equiesilent he a brothel being as follows: What, sixty pounds. Lime, eighty pounds. baleen cern, fifty-six pound*. Rye, afty-six pounds. Peat, sixty pounds. Barley, forty -oath. pounds. Male thirty-six pounds. Oats, thirty,four pounds, Beane sixty pounds. Glover Heed. sixty pounds. Timothyseed, forty-eight pounds, Buokwheat, forty-eigtal pounds. Fax seed, lorty-four pounds, Blue grass seedfourteen pounds, Castor bonus, forty pounds. Potatoes, turnips, oarrote, itarsnips and beets, sixty pounds. Onions, fifty pounds. Bituminous coal, seventy pounds. Every person who violates any provi- sion of this seetion shall be liable, for a first offence, to a penalty not exceeding tWenty-five dollars, and for eaoh subate quent offence, to a penalty not exceeding fifty (lettere The Sias of Om Sea. Here are a few facts about the sea for your scrapbook: The Pacific covers 68,000,000, the At- lantic 80,000,000 aud the Indian Oiteen, Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000 Rears miles. To stow away the contents of the Pa- cific it would be necessary to fill a tank one mile Iona, one mile wide and one mile deep every day for 440 years. Put in figures, the Pacific holds in weight 948,- 000.000,000,000,000,000 tons. It would take about 1,000,000 years for all its water to pass over the fails of Niagara. The average depth of the Atlantic to not quite three miles. Its waters weigh 25,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and a tank to contain it would have to have each of its six sides 230 miles long. The figures of She other oceaus aro in the same startl- ing proportione. It would take all the sea water in the world about 2,000,000 years to flow over Niagara, A tank to hold it all would have to measure nearly 1,000 miles along each 01 11. sides. The licart's Life Work. The !Inman heart is so quickly respons- ive to every touch of feeleg in the mind that the people of ancient times thought that it was the abiding place of the soul, a,nd all literature, both ancient and moaern, contains many poetio references to this interesting fact. The amount of work performed during the lifetime of a 'Ninon living to the limit of human life prescribed by King David—threesoore and ten years—by this small but powerful engine is almost in. credible. It is six inches in length and tour in diameter and beats on an average 70 times a minute, 4,200 times an hour, 100,800 a day and 33,792,000 in the course of a year, so that the heart of a man 70 years old had beaten over 2,600,- 0001000 times. Curious Calendar Facts. There are Rome eurioutt facts about the calendar. No century can begin on Wed- nesday. Friday or Saturday. The same calendar can be used every twenty years. October always begins on the same day of the week as .7anuary, Aura and July; Septem het as Decem ber. Fe brua Ty, March and November begin on the dame dam May, June and August always begin on different days from each other and every month in the year. The first and last days of the year are always the same. These rules do not apply to leap year, when comparison is made between days before and after February 2950. moody'Methods of Getting subscriptions As is well known, Evangelist Moody bas a wonderful fatuity for getting money, whether it be a simple collection to meet some current expenses or some large subscriptions with which to erect a new school building. Asked onee as to the seoret of his success in this particular line the great preacher replied: "I urge people to give until they feel it, and'then to keep on giving until they don't feel it."—Ladies' Home Journal. Gold and False Teeth. About 4,000,000 false teeth are manu- factured annually in the 1Julted States, while one ton of gold, three tons of silver, and platimlui to the value of $100,000, are used in !Ming testis. n'tfys. USO your handkerehief ugoietrusively always, Alwaya knock tet any private room. door. Keep step wale anyone you walk with. In the parlor stand Until every lady le seated. Ntever play with your kuite, fork or spoon. Do not taiyour napkin in a b.unels In your baled. In the dining -room take yaw wee lifter Iodate and eiders. Let ladies pass through a, door first, ettehline aside for them. Let a lady pa:4S firet always. stalest" elle asks you to preetele her. - Eat as fast or as slow as *there and finish the courise when they do, Look people straight in the face when speaking op being spoltea to. Cover the mouth with hand or nap- kin whet), obliged to reit-gem anything from it - Hat off the moment you enter * street door and when you step into a Private hail or (ghee. Special rules for the mouth are that all noise in eating and smacking of the lips should be Wielded. Alwaye precede a lady upettaire and stek her if you limy precede her in paw, ing through a crowd or public place. Lift your hat ia saying "goodsleye" or "bow do you dor ale* when offer. 'leg a seat in 4 ear or acknowledging a favor. Rise when Indies leave the room aed stand till they are out. Xt all go to- gether, gentlemen stand by the deo/ till ladiee pass out.—Goidea Days, BUMBLE AGONY Endured by Mrs, Ellen Fox of St, Matthias St, Toronto, SVP140 le the 'Bladder nee* Info, Itthie sible.-4.Sergical Operation et tee (ie4erial. temente' roiled tto nee Jessie Jeer noddieeeldeer Vine leered Her, Toronto, Nor Ellen Foe, of No. 3 St. Matthias St., die eitIn le a lady well knsieWn end 1ighby esteemed hy a large and constantly increasing ac- quaintaneesbip. For a long time the was a victim of illesealtb, which pre- vented aer from performing her tatelal and domestic duties, greatly to the re" eret of her enapy friends. Now, bowever, she is enjoying the Most robuat 'health, and the story ot how she escaped the elutches of the disease that held her a victim is unusu- ally interesting, affording, as it does, one other instanee of how e temani remedy—Dead's Kidney Pills—banishes suffering, wipes out thee:tee, and brings 'health, strength tied happiness to arm' hems wherein it is used. :qrs. Fox writes of her ease thus: "I endured agonies that neither tongue nor Pen Can describe, and that racked my body night and, day. My trouble was Stone in the Bladder. "I was for a time under treatment at the Toronto General Hospitah but no relief was afforded me, watch less a cure. I underwent a painful surgical omira.tion, but still my disease continu- ed to grow worse and worse. "My sufferings were simply awful, and at times were enongb to turn tbe brain. I had almost abandoned all hope of ever getting better. when I tens persuaded to try Decide' Kidney Pills. I got relief from the eery tint, and a continued use of this Heaven-sent medicine cured me absolutely nee per- feetly. I can never be thankful enmigh for ray release. which was due wholly and solely to Dodd's Kidney Pills." Dodd's Kidney Pills bave cured thou - sends of mese of Stone in the Blad- der. and of Gravel. Teo, have never failed to cure- They are the only posi- tive and unfailing cure foe these dis- eases. Price fifty tents a box. ea all druggists'. or. by mail. on receipt of price, by the Dodds efedicine Co., Lim- ited, Toronto. enere are so many cough medicines in the market, that 15 15 sometimes difficult to tell which to buy; but if we had a cough, a cold or any affliction ot the throat or lungs, We would try Bickle's Anti - Consumptive Syrup. Those who have used it think it is far ahead of all other preparations recommended for such com- plaints. The little folks like it as it is as pleasant as syrup. The Riser's Flying Trip. Never again let foreigners laud, at American tourists for rushing through reaowned picture galleries and boasting of' having "done Egypt" in eight days! The German Emperor and Empress beat the band in the rapidity with which they are doing Palestine. Five- minute stops are made at the holy places, and the Kaiser makes a speech and the Haisorin snaps a kodak, and teen on they pa se like a sight-seeing whirlwind. $100 Reward $100, The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu- tional disease, requires a constitutional treat, merit. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly ur.on the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system thereby destroyeug the foundation of the disease, and giving the pailent strength by buildingup the constitution and assisting nature in tieing its work. The propr eters have so much faith in its curative powers, that they oiTer One Hundred Dollars for any ease that it falls to cure. Send for list 0ftescitidal('sikial'. stresF. 1. CBENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. ai'Sold by Druggists, 75c. Tangled. "You know and I know," shouted the attorney for the accused, "that it is better that nine innocent persons should eseape than that one guilty man should be punished." "L cannot permit such a statement to go to the jury unchallengeel," smiled the court. "Note an exception, Mr. Stenograph- er," roared the attorney. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. Mr. Singel—Did your poor bushand have any thing valuable behindhim. The Widow—Yes, he left nue , TOLD BY THE EDITOR, During a Holiday Ramble fis Visits the Oki Homestead. us round ebaeges That aetoisished Siete Gres or Which Deserves Sim Wide** rig:1,- 110400e ler the Beoslit 18 May lerol• 0. Other* From The Leader and Recorder, Tr Nato Junction. The editor of Tee Leader awe Bee corder, during a reeent holdiday 14.1) through the conntiett of York, Peel. leifferie and GM. spent & few days at the old parental homestead 'here ki was bora SAW *pent mane lied97 yeare. The old homestead is in the township et Euphrasia, Grey eoutatee abotlt one and a taalt mile* *meth ot the village Of Heatheote, end about ten miles from the town of Meatord. occupied by the writer's youngest bro- ther, George J. Fawcett, Tbe latter was the pie:tem of healtb, and, reaverot tiering that *bee he eon, from De. ereit, where be had been living for ear - era' years„ and took passeesion of the homestead, be was ie inch feeble health that his life was despaired o11 the writ. sr suggested that the bracing climate of the northern region" must be the bait medicine in the world for a shattered constitution, The reedy rea4ss contain- ed statements so remarkable thee wle onelder it a pleasure as well as; a dotY o give theta as wale publicity se peas n'bic through the columns of The Tea* Or and Recorder. A, /averts Attack (if malaria vontracted whilst in Detrot. hrougbi tia• writez'a brother ipe 404041 deo; linone Whieh ke rouvrered only ta nd himself the vietint of s compil*. tiou of troubles which undated him fret work. Ile Was attended by *nue id the most emineat physician* in Detroit, but he reeeived little or no benefit from their treatment. Change ot air was fine ally reeoromended.and ha terrax. his family to the county, of Grey, * blight change for the bettor was notice. ablo at Ant, but he aeon relapsed lute the old condition, and again sought from the leading doctors of the distsiet In turn, Sleeplessness took possession of him, and soon he was wasted to a raere skeleton. Then the doctor); declass, ed they eouid do nothing more tor WM, and advised him to go to California, Tinting all these weary menthe be real in the papers from time ,to time, and laughed at what be termed the "mir- acles" wrought by Dr, Phog P2113. Ile bad ne faith in nett reale- &es, and it was only when the Ova - ethos told blue that they could do ire more tor him tliet, like the drowning mall view retches at a etrawtbe thought he would try a box or the pills. To his great astonishment. hie sleeplessness had vanished before be ha.d been using the pills a week, and he +slept like an infant. Gradually his strength return- ed and his appetite improved, and soon he felt like a new man. A few months atter taking the first dose he was es well as ever. For more than, two years past be has not taken any medicine whatever, and to -day you will not find is sturdier specimen of mankind in Grey than Geo. .T. Fawcett "What do I think of Pink Pills?" he queried with a smile; "why I think there is moth -hell like them an earth ter building up the system; but for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I do not think I would be alive to- day." The years of experience tuts proves that there is absolutely me disease due to a vitiated condition of the blood or shattered nerves that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will not promptly cure, and those who are suffering !rem suck trembles would avoid much misery and save mu& money by promptly resorting to this treatment. Get the genuine Pink Pills every time and do not be per- suaded to tali* ant imitation or some other remedy from a dealer, who, for the sake of the extra profit to himself, may say is "just as good." Die Wil - hams' Pink Pills cure when other me& eines fail. rieler,t t..Arnm. Recently at the Tower ce London A visitor who was admiring one of the suite of armor remarked to an attend- ant that the Englishmen of the middle ages must have been a robust lot "0,h, no, sir," replied the guide, with the cheery and rising emphasis an the "Six." "The armor looks large, sir, but you'll find that the waist measure on nearly all these suits is only twenty- eight or thirty inches sir. That's a very small man, air. My word for it, there isn't it suit in the room that would be large enough for one at the Queen'e Guardsmen." Kurd's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. Ancient Itomnit Reads. The Roman roads were built on the Telford plan, with a substratum ot heavy blocks of the stone most abuta ant in the neighborhood, covered with it layer of smaller stones or gravel. They were highest in the middle, with a trench on each !tide to carry off the water, and WO bane or shrubs were al- lowed th grow within 100 paces ott ther hand. The population of the dis- tricts through whieh these highways passed were required to keep them in older and to eut down weeds and shrub- bery within the peoscribed distance. No family living in a bilious country should be without Parnselee's Vegetable Pills. A few doses taken now and then will keep the Liver active, cleanse the stomach and bowels from all bilious mate ter, and prevent Agne. Mr. J. L. Price, Shoals, Martin Co- Ind., writes: "I have tried a box of Parmelee's Pills and find them the best medicine for Fever and Ague I have ever used." Oldest of the Two. "She says she has known you all her life." Oh, no," replied the brutal man; "all oi my life, possibly, but not all oft hers. That would be imposible." "Does she sing?" "Wellthe answer to that depende upon whether you ask her or Ur neigh, bora" eietie