The Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-2, Page 3ij
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Rev. Dr. Talmage Says That They Were Men
Who Understood the Times.
That Is Where They Differed From the Incompetents of To -day --
We Should Prepare For Stirring Events --
Spread of the Gospel.
Washington, Nov.. 27. --•This sermon of
Dr, Talmage is an anticipation of things
near at head and urges preparation for
;taring events; Text, I. Chronicles
12, "The children of Issaohar, which
were men that bad understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do."
Great tribe, that tribe of Issaohar, When
keit took the census, there were 145,600
of them. Before the almanac wad born,
through astrological study, they knew
from stellar conjunotions all about the
reasons of the year. Before agrleuiture
became au art they were skilled In the
raising of crops. Before politics became a
science they knew the temper of nations,
Ind whenever they marched, either for
pleasure or war, they marched under a
three colored flag—topaz, sardine and
sarbtrnolo. But the chief characteristic of
that tribe of leeaubar was that they un=
de'etood the times. They were net like
the political and notal incompetents of
aur day, who ere trying to guide 1898 by
the theories a 18«8. Tbey luokecl at the
divine indic'ttions in their own particular
century. So we ought to understand the
times, not the times when America wan
12 cai.onles huddled together along the
Atlentio coast, but the tizuea when the
nation dips one band in the ocean on one
ride the cananet3t and the other hand In
the ocean on the other side the =tin.
stet; times which put New Yorie Narrows
end the Golden Horn of the Pacific
within ono flash of eloetrlo telegraphy;
limes when God le as directly, as posi•
lively, as solemnly, as tremendously ad-
dressing us throutell the daily newspaper
and the quiet revolution of events as be
seer addressed the ancients or addressed
as through the Italy Sotiptures, The
voice ot 'Gad in Providence is as imports
int as the voice of God to typology, for
la our own day we have had our Sinais
With thunders of the Almighty, and Cal-
varies of saorifioe, and Gethsemanes that
sweat great drops of blood, and Olivet*
of ascension, and Mount Pisgehs of far.
reaching vision. The Lord who rounded
this world 0,000 yours ago and sent his
Son to redeem it near 1,900 years ago has
yet much to do with this radiant but
agonized planet. May God make us like
the children of Issaohar, "which were
mon that had understanding of the times,
to know what israol ought to do,"
The grave of this oentury will soon be
dug. The cradle of anotbor century will
loon be rooked. Tore is something mov-
ing. this way out ot the eternities, somo-
thing that thrills mo, blanches me, ap-
pals mo, exhilarates me, enraptures mo.
it will wreathe the orange blossoms for
millions of wedtiiugs. It will beat the
dirge for millions of obsequies. It will
carry the giblet' banners of brightest
mornings and the black flags of darkest
midnights. The world will play the
grand march of its heroes and sound the
rogues' march of its cowards. Other pro-
cessions may halt or timid: down or fail
bank, but tho procusaion led by that lead-
er moves sweatily oa and will soon be
here. It will preside over coronations
and dethronemonts. I hall it! I bless it!
I welcome 1t1 The twentieth century of
the Christian era.
What may we expect of it and how
shall we prepare for it aro the momeut-
ous questions I propose now to discuss.
As in families hntuan nativity is antici-
pated by all sanctity and kindliness and
solemnity and care and hopetu]ness, so
ought we prayerfully, hopefully, indus-
triously. cunfidently prepare for the ad-
vent of a new century. Tho uinoteonth
century must not treat the twentieth on
its arrival as the eighteenth century
treated the nineteenth. Our century in-
herited the wreck of revolutions and the
superstitions of ages. Around its cradle
stood the armed assassin of old world
tyrannies; the "reign of tenor," be-
queathing its horrors; Robespierre, plot-
ting his diabolism; the Jacobin club,
with its wholesale massacre; the guillo-
tine, chopping its boheadmonts. The
ground quaking with the great guns of
Marengo, \Vagram and Badajos. All Eu-
rope in convulsion. Asia in comparative
quiet, hut the quietness of death. Africa
in the clutches of the slave trade. Ameri-
can savages in full pry, their scalping
knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty
struck people of America sweating under
the debt of $900,000,000, which the
Revolutionary war had left them. Wash-
ington just gone into the long sleep at
efouiat Vernon, and the nation in be•
reavernent, Aaron Burr, the champion
liaertine, becoming soon after the vice-
president. The Government of the Uni-
ted States only au experiment, most of
the philosophers and statesmen and gov-
ernments of the earth prophesying it
w.nild be a disgraceful failure. No poor
foutalliug laid at night on the cold steps
of a mansion, to be picked un in the
morning, was poorer off than this cent-
ury at its nativity. The United States
Governinent had taken only 12 steps on
Its journey, its constitution having been
formed in 1789, cud most of the nations
of the earth laughed at our government
In its'first attempts to walk alone.
The birthday of our nineteenth century
occurred in the time of war. Our small
United States navy, under Captain
Truxton, commanding tho frigato Consti-
tution, was in collision with the French
frigates La Vengeance and L'Insurgente,
and the first infant cries of this century
were drowned in the roar of naval battle.
And political strife on this continent was
the hottest, the parties rending , each
other with pantherine rage. The birthday
present of this nineteenth century was
vituperation, public unrest, threat of
national demolition and horrors national
and international. I adjure you, let not
the twentieth century be met in that
awful way, but with all brightness of
temporal and religious prospects.
First, let us put upon the cradle of the
new century a new map of the world.
The old map was black with too many
barbarisms and red with too many
slaughters and pale with too many suffer-
ings. Let us see to it that on that map,
so far as possible, our country from ocean
to ocean is a Christianized continent--
schools,
ontinent-schoolss, colleges, churches and good
homes in long line from ocean beach to
ocean beaob. On that map Cuba meet be
tree. Porto Rico must be free. The archi-
pelago of the Philippines :mustbe free.
If cruel Spain ezpeets by procrastination
BUB intrigue to got hack what the bas
surrendered, then the warships Iowa and
Indiana and Brooklyn and Telae and
Vesuvius and Oregon must be sent bao#c
to southern waters or across to the coast
of Spain to silence the insolence, as de-
cidedly as last summer they silenced the
Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria
Teresa and Vizcaya. When we get those1
islands thoroughly under our protector-
ate, for the first time our missionaries !n
China will be safe. The atrocities imposed
on thesee good- men and women in the
so-called Flowery Kingdom will novel, be
returned, for our guns will be too near
Hong Kong to allow the massacre of mis-
sionary settlements,
On that mapr beput i
must the Isthmian
eanae, begun if not completed. No long l
voyages around Cape Horn for the world's:
naerehantlise, but short and obeap cont,
auunieation by water instead of expensive
con►muutcation by rail train, and more
millions will be added to our national
wraith dna the world's batterment than
I base capacity to celeuiate,
On that neap it Must be made evident
that America is to be the world's oivilizer
Mid evengelizer, Free from the national
religions of Europe on the one sine and
from the superstitions of Asia on the
other side, 11 will bane frreillties for the
work that no other coutineut pan pos-
sibly pennon
The work of this century has been to
get ready. Alt the earth is now free to
the gospel except two little spots, one tat
,Agfa and one in Africa, while at the be-
ginniug at the century there stood the
Chinese wall and there flamed the fires
and there glittered the swords that for.
bade entrance to many ieleuds and large
reaches ot continent. Boresta Cruelties
and Fiji Island oanuibalisra base given
way, and all the gates of ail the contin-
ents are *weing open with a clang thea
baa beep a positave and glorious invite.
Con for Christianity to enter. Telegraph,
telephone and photograph are to be con.
secreted to gospel dissemination, and,
Instead of the voice that ,gonna the atten-
tion at a few hundred ar a few thousand
people within tho church walls, the tele.
graph will thrill the glad tidings and the
telephone will utter them to muny mil-
lions, Oh, the inflnite advantage that the
twentieth century has over 'what the
nineteenth century had at the .ttartingI
In preparation for this taunting century
wo have time in the intervening years to
glvo some decisive strokes as the seven
or eight great evils that curse the world.
It would be an assault null battery upon
the earning century by this ceutury it we
allowed the full blow of omelet evils to
fall upon tho future We ought somehow
to cripple or minify some of these Abom-
inations. Alcoholism Is to -day trium-
phant, and aro wo to let the all devour-
ing monster that has throttled tbls cent-
ury seize upon the next without first
having filled his nccursed hide with
stinging arrows enough to weaken and
stattger him:' Wo have wasted about 26
years. }low so? While we have boon wait-
ing for the law of the Iand to prohibit
intoxicants we have done little to quench
the thirst of appetite in the palate and
tongue of a whole generation. Where are
the public and enthusiastic meetings that
used to be hold 80 years ago for the ono
purpesa of persuading the young and
middled agoa and old that stroug drink
is poisonous and damning? \Won will
we loern that wo must educate public
o;•inion up to a prohiuitory law or such
a law will not bo pasted or it passed will
not bo executed? (led grant that all state
and national legislature may build np
against this evil a wall which will be an
impassable wall, shutting out the alco-
holic abomination. But while we wait
for that let us, in our homes, in our
schools and our churches and on our
platforms and in our new.papers, per-
suade the people to stop taking alcoholic
stimulant unless prescribed by physi-
cians, and then persuade physicians not
to prescribe it if in all the dominions of
thlrapeutics there may be found some
otrer remedy.
Seven or eight years ago on the anai-
versary platform of the National Temper-
ance Society. in New York, I deplored
the fact that we had left polities M1 to do
that which moral suasion only could do
and said on that occasion, "If some poor
drunkard, wandering along this street
tonight, should see the lights kindled
by this brilliant assemblage and should
come in and, finding the character of the
meeting, should ask for a temperance
pledge, that he might sign it and begin a
new career, I do not believe there is in
this house a temperance ',ledge, and you
world have to ttslce out a torn letter en-
velope or a loose scrap of paper for the
Inebriate's signature." I tound out after -
e aril that there was one snob ,.omperanoe
eleden in the audlouce, but only one that
I meld hear of. Do not leave to politics
that which can be done now in 10,000
reformatory meetings all over the coun-
try. The two great political parties, Re•
pnhliran and Democrats, will put a pro.
11ibitere plank in the platform the same
clay that Satan joins the ohuroh and turns
perdition into a camp meeting. Both
parties want the votes of the traffickers
in liquid death, and if you wait for the
ballot box to do the work, first you will
have local option, and then you will have
high license, and then a first rate law
passed, to be revoked by the next legisla-
ture.
Oh, nave the young man of to -day and
greet the Doming century . with a tidal
wave of national redemption l Do not put
upon the oradle of the twentieth century
la mountain of demijohns and beer barrels
and rum jugs and put to its infant lips
wretchedness, disease, murder and aban-
donment in solution. Aye, reform that
army of inebrtater. "Ab," you say, ""rt
Cannot be done!" That shows that you
will be of no use in the work. "0 ye of
little faith!" Away back in early times
President Davies of Princeton College
one day founda man in utter despair
because of the thrall of strong drink. The
president said to him: "Sir, be of good
cheer. You pen be saved. Sign the
pledge." "Ab," maid the despairing vio-
tim, "'I base often sigued the pleige, but
I have always broken my pledge."
"But," said the president, "I will be
year strength N keep the pledge. Twill
shield to you. All that I can t:o for you
with my books, m7 sympathy, nay expari-
enoe, nay society, zny love, my money, I
will do,. You sball serge, your appetite sal peace naw attained those two nations,
and master it." A look of hope glowed
on the poor man's face, and he replied, Spain and Turkey, do not atop their
"Sir, will you do all that?" ' Surely I cruelties, let the other nations, banded
will." "Then I will overcome," Fie together, extemporize a police force to
the pledge and kept it. That plan wipe those countries. off the map of De-
signedof President Davies wbioh saved one tions as a wet wpouge wipes from a boy's
man, tried on a large scale, will save a ( elate at school a bard sem in arithmetic.
million men,
Alexander the Great made art imperial
banquet at Babylon, and, though he bad
been drinking the health of ruestsall one
night and all next day, the second night
he had 20 guests, and he drank tha hernth
of each separately. Theo, calling for the
amp of Hercules, the giant, a monster
cup, be filled and drained it twice to
show his endurance; but as be l2nished
the last draft from the pup of Hercules,
the giant, be dropped in a fit, from
And testament. 1 give and bequeath to
my heir, the twentieth century, peace of
nationd; swords, which I direot to be
beaten into plowshares, and spears, which
most be turned into pruning hooks; arm-
ories,.to be changed into schoolhouses
and fortresses, to be rebuilt into churches,
and I order that greater horrors be put
on those who save life than upon those
who destroy it, And if amid the union -
This last will 1 sign and seal and deliver
on the Elst day of December, in ties year
of our Lord 1900, all the oivilized nations
of the earth and all the glorified nations
of heaven witnessing"
Conscience sad Reform.
The real battle of reform Is always
fought out on the field of tee mind and
soul of the individual. The contestants
are conscience on the ono side and some
more or lees refined form of self-indui-
which he never recovered. Alexander, Once on the other. The self-'nduigence
who had conquered Sardis and conquered' !nay be anything froze actual pandering
Halicarassus and conquered Asia and to a vicious appetite to dislike to do a
conquered the world, could not conquer oonsmouousand inmates], thing. The first
himself, and there is a threatening geril stage of reform is the awakening of can..
that this good land of ours, baying eon- sgionce, which alway* follows the percept'
quered all with whom It has ever gone tfan of wrong conditions. Conscience
ken.
into battle, may yet be overthrown by thus awakened ea imperatively dem'lnde
the eup of the giant evil of the land.- that something must be done. What?
that Hercules of infamy, strop, dein$, The attelupt to answer that question is
Ile. nae, let the staggering and bloated to the second stage, Selt•indulgeneo en-.
and embruted hose of drunkards gel into lists ingenuity on its side, and there fon
the neat century looking for insane asy- lows a series of attempta to stifle or sat -
loins and airy►shota+es and tlolirium tree. 1efy conscience by pailatives or camprom-
notes and dishonored graves, lees, attempts to perform the impossible
),uother thing we meet get hied is a feat of serving God and znanoton. But
Panetta! law concerningdisorce, William the history of the world bas yet to stem
B. Gladstone asked sue Willie Walking in the first Instance of the success at such
hie grounds et Hawarden, "Do you net attempts. ;the bunlan conscience -Once
think that your country is in peril from aroused by a v1sI9n of wrong will never
wrong notions of divorce?" And t'efare I, be quiet again till that wrong is Abel -
had time to answer he said, a"Tho only' iahed, utterly and finally,
need law of divores that you have in The temperance question is to.day In
America is the law 111 South Carolina." the second of these stages, The moral
The tact is that Indeed of state !awe on iniquity and the economic !dicey of al.
this subject we need a national law lowing things to go on as they are base
passed by the Senate of the United States become evident, and conscience is demand -
mud the House of Representatives and lug a change, Interest and relf•indul-.
plainly interpreted by the supreme court gene are misleading many good and
Of the country. helmet people by the suggestion of plans-
Ibis eompromlsea which shall enable the
h b drinker to drink: and the seller to sell,
and shah yet, ►somehow er other, prevent
any harm from resulting. The air le
fall of plans; License ]nigh and low, the
Gothenburg system and Its Amarlcaa
aaa*in, nationalization, and tba rest, all
of them attempt to legislate in such wise
that two and two shalt make three. A
,great many people, whose ths honesty
and good latch wo would bean the very last
tel question, are being minted by tbete
ingenious attempts to satisfy conscience
by spoeioua argument and empty prom-
ise. The ultimate collapse of ail those
schemes cannot be for an instant doubted.
This question is a moral and economist
question of the first rank. It is open. It
can never be closed till it is closed right
and forever.
There are thousands of !parried people
who are uo appy andOught never to
Kase been wedded. They were deceived,
or they were reckless, er they were foals,
Or tbey were caught by (Urania. or hung
by a curl, ar married In joke, or expected
a fortune and It did not come, or gaol
habit;, turned to brutality, and hence the
domestic wreck, bee snake divorce Use
easy and you mike the human race mare
cautious about entering upon iilotime
alliances. Let people underarand that
marriage is not au accommodation train
that will let you leets alwast anywhere.
but a through train, and then they will
not step on the train unless they expect
to go clear through to the last depot.
One brave man this morning winter, ris-
ing amid the whits marble of yonder
Capitol hill, could offer a resolution upon
the subject of divorce that could keep
out of the next century mucb of the free
lovism and di*solntenais which been
cursed this country.
Another thing that we need to got
fixed up before the ciook shalt striko 12
on that night of centennial transition is
the expulsion at war by the power of
arbitration. Within the next three years
we ought to have, and I hope will have,
what might bo called "a jure of na
tious," which shall render verdict on all
controverted international questions All
civilized nations aro ready for it. Great
Britain with a standing. array of :310,-
000 neon, Franco with a standing army
of 580,000 men, Germany with a stand-
ing army of 000,000 nmu, Russia with a
atantaing army of 900,000 mon, Europe
with standing armies of about 0,100,040
mon, the United States proposing a
stranding army of 100,000 mon. What a
glorious idea, that of disarmament! What
an emancipation of nations and centuries!
The Czar of Russia last summer proposed
it in world resounding manifesto. Dis-
armament! What an inspiring and boa -
von descended thought! In some quarters
tho Czar's manifesto was treated with
derision, and we were told that he was
not in earnest when he made it. I know
personally that he did mean it. Six years
ago ho expressed to me the same theory
in bis palace at Peterhof, he then being
ou tho way to the throne, not yet having
reached it. His father, Alexander 11I.,
than on the throne, expressed to me in
his pnlneo the same sentiments of peauo,
and his wife, the then Empress, with
team in her eyes, said, in reply to my
remark, "Your Majesty, there will never
be another great war between Christian
nations." "Ab, I hope there never will
be! 11 there sbould ever be another creat
war, I am sure it will not start from this
palace."
What a boom to the world it Russia
and Germany and England and the Uni-
ted States could safely disband all their
standing armies and dismantle their fort-
resses and spike their guns! What un-
counted millions of dollars would be
saved. and, more than that, what a com-
plete cessation of human slaughter! What
an improvement of the morals of nations!
What an adoption of that higher and
botter manifesto which was set to music
and let down from the midnight heavens
of Bethlehem ages agol The world has
got to come to this, Why not make it
the peroration of the nineteenth century?
Are we going to make a present to the
twentieth century of reeking hospitals
and dying armies and hemispheric grave-
yards? Do you want the hoofs of other
cavalry horses on the breasts of fallen
men? Do you want other harvest fields
gullied with wheels of gun carriages? Do
you want the sky glaring with conflagra-
tion of other homesteads? Ah, this Mee-
teenth century has seen enough of war.
Make the determination that no other
century shall be blasted with it.
During the first half of this century
we expended $8.000,000 to educate the
Indians and $400,000,000 to kill thein.
According to a reliable statistician, dur-
ing this century we have had the Crim-
ean war, which slew 785,000 and cost
$1,700,000,000, and our Amerfoan civil
war, which slew 1,000,000 men, north
and south, and cost $9,000,000,000, dig-
ging a grave trench from Barnegat
Lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lone Moun-
tain cemetery at San. Francisco. And you
must add to these the Zulu war, and the
Austro -Prussian war, and the Danish
war, and the Italian war, the Franco:
Prussian war, Chino-.Tapanose war,
Napoleonic war and the Americo -Spanish
war. What a record for this boasted nine-
teenth century! It makes all pandemon-
ium chuckle.
Will it not be grand if on the first day
of the twentieth century the last will
and testament of the nineteenth cenitary
shall be opened and it shall be found to
read: "In the name of God, amen. I, the
dying century, do make this me last will
A Little Surprise for the 13rideeatatd.
Two girl friends met in the street and
stopped to shake halide.
"50 glad to sea you, Grace," said the
tailor made Alice. "Was juat on the Ivey
to ask you, as my oldoat friend, to be
one of nay bridesmaids."
"Bridesmaid! How lovely! I did not
know you were engaged," replied the On
de steno Grace.
"Is's sudden—very sudden—but he's
just too lovely to live and is awfully in
love. Will you act?"
"Act? Of course. I'lI bo charmed.
But," moving forward and speaking in
an undertone, 41t10 come around the cor-
nor and tell mo all about It. Hero comas
that idiotic, irrepressible donkey, Will
Moron. He's grinning as though he
meant to stop, and I don't caro to be seen
talking to hien,"
"Will Merton? He's the man I'm go-
ing to marry."
Don't snood Over Trouble.
Won trouble Domes it is folly to sit
down and brood over it. No situation
was ever improved in that way. Groat
emerreenoies call for great strength of
spirit and for great activity. The harder
the pressure the more is the reason why
you should play the man. If you once
give up and waste in idle repining the
energy that ought to be spent in courage-
ous effort, then you may as well d;e.
Your case, let it be as difficult as it may,
is no worse than that of thousanes of
others who have, nevertheless, kept a
stout heart and won the day. God is sim-
ply putting you to the test in order to
determine the qua;ity of your manhood.
Ho bas no evil designs against you. All
that) he sends or suffers to come will turn
out for your good, if you will only accept
it in tine right spirit.
The Elephant's ltotrot.
A. woman of tremendous avoirdupois
entered a Broadway cable car breathless-
ly and selected eight or nine inches of
space nett to the man with the newspap-
er in the corner.
As she sank firmly down and he began
to suffer from the wedging process the
passengers heard him remark quite audi-
bly that he was not aware that "ele-
phants" were allo.ved on this line.
The fare conductor was vainly endeav-
oring to conceal his delight ' when, after
an embarrassing pause, there came a
voice, deliberate, dignified, impressive:
"Conductor, stop the oar! There is an
elephant and a hog aboard, and the ele-
phant wishes to get off."
A New Type of Minister in rietion.
Caroline A. Mason, whose "A Minis-
ter of the World" brought her so much
fame as a novelist, has written a new
novel, which she bas named "The Minis-
ter of Carthage," and the opening chap-
ters are published in the Ladies' Home
Journal. A minister's love affair is the
chief motif of the story, but the author
takes occasion to point out the evils that
arise from the observance of the "candi-
date preacher" custom in many churches.
While this is admirably done, it is as a
pure, sweet love story that The Minister
of Carthage" will be appreciated
Boston Brown Bread.
To make Boston brown bread, mix
Yaukee rye, whole wheat flour and In-
dian meal in proportions of one cup each
with a cup of molasses, to which is add-
ed a teaspoonful of dissolved soda and a
pint of. buttermilk. This bread is boiled
for five hours. --Ladies' Home Journal.
The Blessings of Poverty.
Why pity the ragged peon? In Austria
rich people are f loeking to a "cure" where
the first article of faith is to go naked.
And they are benefited marvelously there-
by.
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SOVEREI3NS BOW.
Set an. Example. to the World for Regan
larity of Cltgt•t:lt A ttrndauce--t
Repent Sunday's Recur.!.
The rulers ot Europe spent a recent
Sunday as follows:
First of all was Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, who, with the Empresa 1Greder-
iok, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught,
with, their cbilaren, and, others of the
royal family, attended service at thenri-
vate chapel at Windsor in the morning
The Vicar of Windsor preached from
Isaiah, !viii„ 8: "For my thoughts are
not your thoughts. neither aze your ways
my ways, saint the. Lord." In the even-
ing Queen Victoria read prayers pri-
vately,
Francis Joseph of Austria, with iris
daughter, attended mass at Budapest in
the morning. lee priest read from
Matthew, chapter 24, beginning: "And
Jesus went ant and departed from the
temple and His disciples carne to Him
for to show Him the buildings of the
temple,"
Ring Leopold. IL of Belgium attended
mass in the private chapel of Laeken
Palace at 9 eon., with the Queen and
Princess Clementine. These was no ser-
mon.
President Faure of France didn't an
tend church. Fie spent all Sunday hunt-
ing at Nangis.
`i Czar of Russia,t
The :1 !cholas II and
the Czarina attended morning service at
the private chapel at Yalta, There was
no sermon.
King Christian IX, of Denmark at-
tendee service at noon with the Cumber-
land family at the 1'umberland Castle,
at Gouuden. The text was taken from
the 147th Psalm.
Alphonso XIII, ot Spain heard mass
With his mather in the private oratery
at Iiadrld. There was no sermon,
King Oscar I1, and family of Sweden
attended oburoh in the Palace Church at
Stockholm. The court pastor took his
text trete Matthew, 26th chapter
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, at-
tended private mass in the Royal Chapel
at Lisbon. There was no sermon.
Wilhelmina, the newly crowned ruler
at the Netherlands, attended morning
service in the private chapel at Tito
Hague. The text was Luke vi, 81.
The Sultan of Turney heard the Koran
read. The words were those of chapter
114: "I ily for refuge unto the Lord ot
men that Be may oelleer 'me from the
mischief of the whisperer, who whispere
eth evil suggestions into the breasts of
men""
Prestdant McKinley of the United
States stayed at home in Washington.
ENGLAND A CENTURY AGO.
These "Good Old Times', Were Fearfully
Wicked and benighted.
The pessimist, regarding only the
iniquities and injustices of the present
day, bas only to tura back one hunared.
years to find tbat the world really does
move on, that our to -marrows will surely
be brigbtor than the yesterdays. A writer
in Chambers' Journal says of "One
Rundred Yearn Ago in England:" Eng-
land war at war with France. To furnish
food for pew•Ior the recruiting sergeant
was assisted by the press gang. In 1798
Nelson won the battle ot the Nile and
broke the ocean power of Napoleon. Tbo
land campaigns of Wellington bad fr • 1
the Peninsula, But the slave trade in
our colonies flourished. The printing
machine was a mere band press. There
were no cabs or omnibuses. Steam loco-
motion belonged to thirty years after date.
There was no voting by ballot. Pocket
boroughs flourished; political debauchery
was rampant. There was no police farce.
Superstition reigned supreme; every vill-
age had iia "wise woman" and fortune
teller. Duels were common; so worn dia-
bolioaa outrages at sea. Men were exe-
euted for high treason, forgery and horse
stealing. Hanging, drawing and quarter-
ing wore the ohmriibed punishments of
the criminal code. The hemp orop was
the most flourishing and fruitful of har-
vests. The gibbet post oast its baneful
shadow over the lane. Public executions
wore a popular outdoor entertainment
provided by the stuto for the edification
of the people. Suicides were buried with-
out the otlices of religion at the meeting
of four cross roads, with a stake through
their hearts.
Women were openly flogged. There
was a public brand for scolds. Whipping
posts and stooks were prominent in every
town and villge. Women were paced in
the pillory and pelted by tine populace
with rotten eggs, putrid vegetables and
the like. Flogging was of frequent occur-
rence in the army; deserters were incon-
tinental shot; seamen were summarily
banged at the yardarm for mutiny. Even
penny newsrooms had their persecutions
and martyrs, On the 6th of September,
1798, six informations were heard before
the magistrates at Bow street and laid by
the stamp office against a Mr. Williams
for suffering in his room in 01d Round
Court sundry persons to read the Daily
Advertiser and other newspapers for the
consideration of ono penny each. The
offense being held to be clearly made
out, the infamous \Villiams was convicted
in the penalty of 15 on each information.
True Hospitality.
In a New Hampshire village many
stories aro told of a former resident wbo
had a warm heart, but a tongue that did
not always utter his real meaning.
One cold winter day he opened his door
to see the minister, looking chill and
tired, wading home through the snow
atter an hour spent with a needy but
unpleasant parishioner.
"Colne in, parson, come right in 1" bo
oalled cheerily, waving bis arms with
hospitable intent, "My wife will snake a
rousing Piro to warm you up. It's well
started already, parson. She'll make 11
so hot you can't stay in the house fifteen
minutes 1"
Traveling Suits for Economical Brides.
Neat traveling suits for brides not
blessed with an abundance.. of riches are
of cloth, Venetian or broadcloth, with
the jacket warmly interlined. With a
jacket suit a silt: shirtwaist lined with
percaline is worn. .A more expensive cloth
costume would be combined with velvet
Ind fur, and with it would be worn a
silk or cloth blouse if a jacket is worn.—
Ladies' Home Journal.
Told Xt to the %Viola= Person.
"What was that Dawson story you.
!old the other day, hicks?"
"Why, I pleased thirst' Dawson very
much by asking her if she was herself or
her daughter. Couldn't tell 'em apart."
"Well, it's strange, but I worked the
lame scheme on the daughter, and she
!inn's like it a bit."
A NOVA 8GOTA FARMER
Tens How He Was Cured of Salt
Rheum.
Fingers, Hands asd Wrists Wer. a
!lass of Cracks and a.rom, by Reason et
Which 155 Was Unable to. Work.
To the Editor of The Enterprise:
I have read from week to week in
your paper testimonials from those who
babe been cured 'through using Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and as I have ex-
perienced mush benea5t from the use of
that medicine, I believe it my duty to
let others know they can be relieved
from a very painful malady. I am now
75 years of age, and am at the present
time, and in fact ever since I took a
course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
about two years ago, have been enjoy-
ing excellent health. Before that time
I lead been ailing for some mouths, fin-
ally I wag ataeked with salt rheum,
which eame out mostly on my bauJe-
It was not long after its first appear -
=lee before I was unable to do any
work all i hands. at with my I resorted
to all the dom stie cures I could hear
of, but the disease kept on its course,
getting worse and worse,until the palms
of my bands and my fingers were a
mass of era.cits, open sores and hideout
st'atbe. I then got medicine from the
doctor, which I used for eeveral weeks,
with no ber"elit whatever,—any hands
still becoming more and more crippled
with the disease. My general health,
too, at this time was poor, and I got
discouraged altogether, believing there
was no help for the terrible complaint
that was gradually spreading over men
hands and up my wrists towards my
arms. It happened one day in cleaver".
sation with an acquaintance that Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills were mentioned in
connection with some other case in the
neighborhood, and it was suggested that
I try them for salt "rheum. I bad. not
much tante in the trial, but concluded
to get a box and see whatgood they
might do. To my great delight, after
using the box. I found an improvement
in the condition of my hands and I got
aix boxes more. I did not use all these,
for before they were gone the disease
had vanished and my hands were as
round as even The new skin came on
as smooth and fresh as if nothing had
Leen the matter. I took no other medi-
eine while using the pills, and the whole
praise of the euro is due to them. My
general health was also greatly benefit-
ed
enefited by their use, and I attended to my
work with more energy and in better
spirits than I bad done for a number of
years. I have been in excellent bedth
ever since for a man of my years, and
no sign of salt rheum has since appear-
ed. The box or two of Pink Pills
which I left unused were taken by ml,
wife and did her much good. I cannot
speak too highly of Dr. Williams? Pink
fills and am pleased to give n,v testi-
mony to their merit, hoping others may
thereby be induced to nee them in cases
like mine.
HENRY CHESLBY.
The editor of The I17nterpruse can odd
that Mr. Chesley is a representative
farrnr.r living about three miles from
the town of Bridgewater, N.S., and the
utmost reliance can be placed on his
statement.
Dr Williams' Pink Pills create new
blood and in this way drive d3,sease
from the system. A fair trial will con-
vince the most ekeptieai. Sold only in
boxes the wrapper around whiteh bears
the thin trade mark "Dr. Williams"
Pink Pills for Pale People." If your
dealer does not have them, they will be
sent post paid at 50 cents a box or nix
boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
Sleeplessnesss clue to nervous excite
ment. The delicately constituted, the
financier, the business mall, and those
whose occupation necessitates great men-
tal strain or worry, all suffer less or more
from it. Sleep is the great restorer of a
worried brain- and to get sleep cleanse the
stomach from all impurities with a few
doses of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills, gela-
tine coated, containing no mercury, and
are guaranteed to give satisfaction or the
money will be refunded.
Napkins for the Children.
"Children," says a physician, '"should
be taught the use of a napkin, to wipe
the mouth frequently while eating, for
hygienic as well as tidy purposes. Cold
sores, common with some children, are
often the result of careless eating more
than anything else. A trained nurse
understands well the necessity of keep-
ing the corners of a patient's month
clean while feeding—children ought to
be taught how and why they should do
likewise."
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
World's Largest Library.
The largest library in the world la
that 01 Paris. It contains upward ad
two million printed books and one hun-
dred and sixty thousand manuscripts.
The British museum contains about one
and a half million volume's, and the Im-
perial library at St. Petersburg about
the same number. These are the larg-
est libraries in the world.
-Abysriniao :Murder Law.
In Abyssinia it is the law that the
murderer be turned over to the rela-
tives of the dead person. they, if they
please to put him to death in the same
manner in which the murdered person
was removed.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc..
}Birds :dudClaws.
The reason given that birds do not
fall off their perch is because they can-
not open the foot when the leg is bent.
Thus a hen while walking will close its
toes as it raises the foot and open them
as it touches the ground.
Cutts ratedr r.a,u;:mage.
Mies Sarcastic --That. was a bright
speech you made a' few, moments ago.
How did you manage to raise it?
Mr. Accident -Grew it from te ilIp al
the tongue.