Exeter Advocate, 1900-1-11, Page 7ia
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IIF, S()LL'S VACATION
A sermon ror Poor Sieeoers by
Rev. Dr. Talmage.
SLEEP THE DIVINE NARCOTIC.
weeds of coneteetion to :rhos° ivao Are
areoa ea 'wink steeps esSieds or in -
some io -The 'worries 9f ramie Life
ewes liuiit1ied.
.Washington, Jan. - this diSt
coarse Dr: Talmage treats of a style
of disorder not much discoursed, upon
and unfolds what must be a, console,-.
1.xxvii, 4, 'Thoe. holdest mine eyes
tion to many people; text, Psalms
waking."' ,
Sleep is the vacation of the soul. It
'is the mind gone into the playground
of dreams; it is the relaxation_ '• of
Traisclee ancl the solace of the nerves;
it is the hush of activities; it is the
curtaining- of the eyes; it is a
trance of eight .hours; it is a calming
of the pulses; it is -a breathing much
slower, though far deeper; it is a
temporary oblivion of all carlsing
cares; it is the clOctor recognized by
all SchOOIS Of DaediOD10; it is a divine
narcotic; it is a complete anaesthetic;
it is an angel of the night; at, is a.
great mercy of God for the human
raCe. Lack. of is puts patients on the
rack of torture or in the madhouse
or in the grave. 'Oh, blessed eleep!
ISTo WODCier the Bible makes Much of
' it. Through sleep so sound that a
surgical, incision of the side of Adam
did not 'waken him COMO the best
temporal blessing 'ever afforded to
inan—wifely companionship. While in
, sleep on a .pillow of rock Jacob saw
a ladder set up, with angels coming
down antl, climbing. So "Itc. giveth
his beloved sleep," soliloquized the
psalmiet.' , Solomon listens at the
door of a tired workman and eulo-
gizes his pillow by saying,' "the sleep'
of a laboring m.an is, sweet.'! Peter
was calmly sleeping between the two
constables the night befere his ex-
pected assassination. Christ was
asleep in a boat on Galilee when
tossed in the euroclydon. . The 'an-
' nunciation was made .to joseph in
sleet), and death is described as only
a' sleep and the resurrection as a
glorious wakening out of 'sleep. t,
On the other hand, ,insomnia, or
sleePlessness, is, Cm old disorder spok-
en of again and again .in the Bible,
Ahasuerus suffered from it, .'and we
read, "In that night could notthe
king sleep." Joseph Hall said of that
ruler, "He that could command a
hundred and seven and twenty pro-
vinces could not command sleep."
Nebuchadnezzar had insomnia, and
the record is, "His sleep brake from
him." Solomon describes this trouble
and says, "Neither day nor night
seeth he sleep with his eyes." Asaph
was its victim, for he complains t
my text that 'his eyes are Wide. open'
rit midnight,' ,soate mysterious power
keeping the upper and. lower lids from
joining,' "Thou holdest mine eyes
waking."
Insomnia, which has troubled all
nation's 'and all nges, has its ..widest
. swing in our land, ,because of., the
pueli and speed of all styles of ac-
tivities, as in ao other land. • Where
there is one, ,man or , woman with
-equipoise of nerves there are, a dozen,
• with overwrought and tangled gan-
glion. , At some time in life almost,
' every one has had a touch 91 it. It
has been called '"Americanitis."" 'Last
night there were, as there will be to-
night, ted'iiens of people to whom the
words, of the text. are appropriate ut-
terance, "Thou holdest mine eyes
waking."
Wonderful Is -that law which Ralph
Waldo Emerson called the "law of
compensation," and it has been so
'arranged, that, ,while . the harclwork-
big populations' of the earth are de-
nied many of the luxuries, they have
at least one luxury which many of
.the affluent' of the earth are denied
, and for which some of them would
give millions of dollars in cash down
--namely, capacity to. sleep. The
most of ..these who toil with hand
and foot do not have to send out in-.
vitations to sleep. They require no
bromide ,or valerian or sulplien,a1 or
triavol td ,put them to nightly un-
conscidusness. In five minutes after
,
their, heads touch the pillows they
are ,as far Off from the Wall they were
building or the ditch they were dig-
ging, or or the anvil they were pound -
Ing, or the wheels they were control-
ling, ns heaven is from earth. About
.3 o'clock in the, morning, the body
at lowest temperature and its fur-
naces nearly out,, what a complete
qUietucle for the entire, physical and
mental structure! ' All night twig,
• 'for such, sleep is busy' with its en-
chanted anointing of ,every coepuscte.
of the arteries and every molecule of
the eutire physical , organ_ isin, and
the morning finds the subjects of such
rebuilt, reconstructecl'. and
touched of .God into 'a new life.'
01. course there is . an unrighteous
sleep as when Jonah, trying to es-
cape from duty, slept in the sides of
the ship while the Mediterranean was
in wrath 'because of that prophetic
,passeriger; ea when Columbus in . his
• first voyage, exhausted from being up
many nights, gaite the ship in. charge .
. of the steersman ,and the crew, who,
tateeeleele-deaving the Management of the vessel
Ato boys, went asleep ,and allowed the
ship to strike en the banks of St.
add -mins:, as when the sentinel goes to
sleep at his post, endangering , the
whole .arrny; as when the sluggard,
who accomplishee,n,othing the day Pc -
fore' he went to sleep and will will accom-
', plish ,nothing' the day, after ho,ava.kes,
ii tills up ,5oloinon's picture' of him as
he yawns out, "a little sleep and a
little slumber lead a little folding of
the,„ hands to SleeP-." 1,3,ut sleep at
the Tight time and amid , the right
icirciinistances----can' you imagine a.nyr
thing more.blesse If, Sleep, accord- ,
ing to sacred and profane literature,
Is 'an emblemof death, the MOrDitit,
,t,0 all refreshed slumbers. is a restate
rectiOn. '
,Remark the first: If you have Ce -
coped the .insonenta, spoken of in Tay
text, thank God. 'I-Tere and there one
can command, sleep, and it conies the
minute be Orders it and departs at 1
the „minute he Wishes' It to go; as, Nae
poloon when he wrote: "Dififirent
a.....4ritoralsileumeru
eee.semeseeee'maree
fairs aro arranged in my head as In
drawers... 1Vben I wish to interrupt
one train of thong' t, 1 clese the
drawer which contains that sub,iest,
and open ,that which contains an-
other. 'rhey do pot mix together or
inconvenience me. I have DeVer been
kept alvake by an involuntary pre-
occupation of mind. Men I wish for
repose, I shut up all the drawers, mid
1 am asleep. I have always oleat
when I wanted rest and almost at
will." But I think in most cases lve
feel that sleep is not the result of a
resolution, but a direct gift fromi
God. You cannot purchase it. A
great French financier cried out:
"Alas! Why is there no sleep to be
Do not take this divine gift as a
matter of eourse. Your seven, or
eight holies of healthful ueconscions-
ness 'is a blessing Worthy of cootie-
uous and emphatic recognition. Praise
the Lord for 365 resurrections in a
Year!' Artidcial slumber can be Made
up by the apothecaries, but natural
sleep as a balm, a panacea, a -cathol-
icon that no one but 'God can mix.
Remark the , second:, Consider
among the worst crimes the robbery
of ourselves or others of this mercy
of slumber. Much ruinous doctrine
has been inculcated on thie subject.
Thomas Moore gave poor advice when
he said, "The 'best way to lengthen
our days is to steal a few hours from
the night.'' We are told that,though
they did their work at night, Coper-
nicas lived to be 78 years of age and
Galilei 7S years and Herschel 84
Years. Yes, but the reason was they
were all star 'hunters, and the ord'y
time for hunting, stars is at. night.
Probably they slept by day.. The
night ,was made for slumber. The
worst lamp a student can have ,is
"the midnight lamp." Lord Iirougs
ham never, passed' more than four
hours of the, night abed, and Suet in-
lan,, after one hour. of sleep', would
rise from his couch. But you are
neither a Justinian , nor a Lord
Brougham. Lee not the absurd apo-
theosis' of early rising induce you to
the abbreviation- of sleep. , Leek of
sleep assassinates social'. life., A re-
formation is needed, and 'if the cus-
toms of the world could be changed
in this matter , and the curtains of
social life could be rums down at a
reasonable. hour 'of the night .20 per
cent would be added to the world's
longevity..
,Remark the third: All those ought
to be comforted who by overwork
in right directions , have coine to in-
somnia. • In all occupations and pro-
fessions , there are times ' when a
special draft is made upon the ner-
vous energy. There are thousands of
men and women who caunot sleep be-
cause they 'ttrere injured by overwork
in some time of domestic or political
or religious exigency. Mothees who,
after taking , a 'whole family of •chil-
dren through the disordees that are
sure, to etrike the nursery, have been
left physical wrecks, and 000 .entire
night of slumber is to them a rarity,
if not an impossibility. The attorney
at law who through a long 'trial in
poorly ventilated courtrooms has
stood , for eveeks battling for the
rights of widows and orphans or for
the life of a 'client in whose inno-
cence he isconfident, though all the
circumstances are unfavorable. In his.
room he tries the case all night long,
and every night, when he would like
to be shateldering. The physician, in
time of epidemics, worn .oat in sav-
ing -the lives of whole families and
failing in his attempts 'to sleep at,
night between the 'janglings of his
door bell.' The merchant who has
experienced 'panics, when the banks
went down 'and Wall street 'became a.
pandein.onium, and there was a possi-
bility that the next .day he would be
penniless—that night with • -no more
possibility of gaining sleep than i1.
such a blessing had never touched our
planet. • Ministers of the gospel, in
time of great revival, all their pow-
ers of endurance drawn upon day by,
day and week by week and month by-
month—sermonic preparation neigh-
borhood visitation, heartbreaking ob-
sequies, sympathetic help for the an-
xious, the despairing and the dying.
It is wonderful that ministers of the,
gospel have any nerves left and that
the angel of sleep does net quit their
presence forever. .
Butl hear and now pronounce high-
est consolation for all those who in
any department have sacrificed thc-ir
health to 'duty. Your sleepleSsness is
as ranch a wound as you can find
on any battlefield and is an honor-.
able wound.. We all look with rever-
ence anal admiration upon one who
has lost an eye Or an arm in the ser-
vice of' his country, and we ought to:
look with admiration upon ethose
who, through .extreme fidelity to
their life work, have lost capacity.
for slumber. '
Remark the fourth,: Insomnia is no
sign , of divine displeasure. Martin
Luther' had distressiug insomnia and
wrote; "When I wake .up in 'the
night; the devil immediately conies
and disputes with, me and gives me
strange thoughts, until at last .tt
grow enraged ,beyond , endurance and
give 1in1 ill -words." That. eonse-
grated 'champion of everything good,,
Dr, Stephen. IL' ',Tyrig, Sr., in. his
autobiography; says ' that ,the only
encouragement he had to • think he '
would sleep at night was 'the , feet
that he bad not slept the night
fore. One of the greatest English
clergymen had a gas jet 00 either
side of his bed, 'so that , he' might
rea4 nights when, ho, could not sleep,
Horace Greeley .told:me, „he,
not had -a sound 'sleep15Yearg
Charles, Dickens under:0;00d 1acrdon
by night better .than ;tettate,oilier
writer; because, not ayjiti'' tie
slee'p hd spent,:that
the city. ,;;, • ,
Wakefulness may bo an cififiortnivity
for 11rayeropp0rta1i1ii3ii-'p1ofitable,
fl t'o oPpOrtunitv' for kincllin,
bris-ht- cpcctatiOns of the world,
where „there, .is no night 'and whrc
,haVe no use,S. , God
thinks hist ,a.s lunch 01 you when
youIget tli,:tee Or ,1:ettr_ Ot
5.1001 night 'yoit, get
ei 0,11.0 of the
ereatet`', prayer' Pieeti rigs , 000) ]wld
was in a penitentiary' at, 111 'o'clock
at night, Where Paul ancl:SilaS011)1111
liberty, but not of tl,'(;tr psalmody,
leave you ever thought that siceP-
lessness may be turned into a' rap-
ture, 0. communion With God, a Pre-
paration for heaven
Remark the fifth: Pet all incoms
Islets know for their consolation that
some people sleep more raPidly tha
others, as much in one hour a
others do in two, and hence do ;no
require as long a time in uncon
schausness. In a book on the subje,c
of health years ago I saw this Inc
stated by a celebrated medica
scientist: Some people do everythin
quick: they eat quick,' they wall
quick, they think quick, and
course they sleep quick. An expres
train can go as far in 30 minute
as a way train in 00 minutes. Peo
ple of rapid temperaineuts ought no
to expect a whole ,night to do th
work 9f recuperation which slot
temperaments require. Instead o
making it a matter of irritation an
s GOLD ANDSALT WATER.
t _
now A.Isiska,so Illack Sand May De
Made, to Tieta. Up Its Wealth.
t "1.‘here's millions of gold in black
I sand," said H. A. Frederick, a Seattle
g man of experience in the Klondike,"and
I believe I have bit upon a plan to get
it out. You knew this black sand is
s about as heavy as the gold, and in
_
panuing, as ordinarily done with cold
\\liter, the gold and the sand either 'go
• out of tile pan together and are lost or
f they stay at the bottom and are of no
• more use than if they were lost On
11
alarm be a Christian, philosopher an
set down this abbreviation of som
nOlence as a matter of temperament
An antelope ought not to complaii
because it • was not an ox ' nor ai
eagle because it can go faster Cud
a barnyard fowl. •
Remark the sixth: The ,aged insom
'nists should understand that if thei
oyes are held waking they do no
, require as' Much sleep as once they
did..Soloinon, who, hi knowledge wa
thousands Of years ahead` of hi
time, in ' his 'wondrous descriptim
of old 'age recognizes this fact. II
not only speaks of the difficulty o
mastication on the \part of the aged
when he says, •"The grinders ceastitbecause they are few," and of t
octogenarian's caution in getting up
a ladder or standing on a scaffold
ing, saying, "They shall be afraid
of that which is high," and speaks
of the :whiteness Of the hair by 0001paring it to a tree that has whit
blossoms, saying, "The almond tre
shall flourish," . and speaks °of the
spinal cord, which is of the color
of silver and which relaxes in old
age, giving the tremor to the head
saying, "The silver cord be, loosed."
But, he says of the aged,' "3: -Ie shal
rise up at the voice of the bird"—.—
that is, about half past 4 in tho
summer time, an appropriate hour
for ;the bird- to rise, for he goes to
his nest or bough at half past 7 in
the evening. Bat the human .mechan-
ism has been so arranged that after
it has been running a good win. e
a change ta,kes place, and instead. of
..1.1e almost perpetual sleep.. of the
babe and the nine hours requisite in
midlife six hours will do for the
aged, and "he shall rise up at the
voice of the bird."
:Remark the seventh: Insomnia is
probably a warning ;that you had
better moderate . your work. Most Of
those engaged in employraents that
pull on nerve and brain are tempted
to omit necessary rest, and sleep-
lessness calls a halt. Even their
ple.asurieg turns- to work, as Sir
Joshua lieynolds, the great ..painter,
taking a' walk With a friend, met, a
sunbrowned peasant boy and said,
"I must go home and deepen the
coloring' of my infant ''arercules."
The suribrowned boy suggested an
improvement in a great picture. By
the time most people have reached
unidlife, if they have behaved Well,
more doors of opportunity open be-
fore their', than they, ought' t °tenter.
Power to decline, power to say
"No," they should now cultivate.
When at imaa is deternained to be use-
ful and satan cannot diesuade him
from that course, the 'great deceiver
induces him to overwork and in
the t way get rid of him.
Remark the eighth: All the vic-
tims of insomnia ought to ,be 000-
sled with the fact that they will
have, a good , long sleep after
awhile.. Sacred and profane literature
again and again ,speak of that last
sleep. God knew that Khe human race
would be disposed to make a great
ado about exit from this world, and
so he inspires Joab" and . David and
Daniel and John and Paul to call that
condition ''sleep.'' When at Bethany
the brother who was the .sppPort of,
his, sisters .after their father , and
mother were gone had himself expir-
ed, Christ cried out in regard to him.,
"He is , not dead, but sleepethd'
Cheering thought to all poor ele,ep-
ers, for that will b'e a pleasant
sleep, induced by no narcotict dis-
,turbed. by nO frightful dream,inter-
rupted by, no harsh sound,, .Better
than any sleep yeti ever. , took, 0
child of God, will- be the last sleep.
Most people are tired.eThe nights
do not repair the day. Sc,lentists, by
minute calculation, say. ,that every
night comes...a little Islipn; of restor-
ing the body to where it ' was the
day' before, and eq seventh -day
,was putein Stir ceatite rest, to make
up in reparation or .what the nights
could, not do. ,Buf, so restful will be
.the lust sleep that you Will rise
from -it without ,•one sore nerye,witli-
out ,,one tired limb—.rested,, forever
rested, as only ttiod can rest you.
0 ye tired folks all up, and dawn
tile world, tired with, work, or tired
with persecutions, or tired with ail -
rants, or 'tired wi bereavements,
or tired in ,the 'struggle against
tempt-at:it:1'nd; clap your bands , with
eternal in .'expectation of • that
sleep frood•Which you, Will ,yeake up
so rested 'that you, will never need
anothOr'.."Sleep Or even another night,
"TligO' shall Pc 110 night there," be,
cause 'there ,will be no need of its
- • e
ditieting influences,. ,
tiriy hearer, my, reader, "Geod.
night!"May God give you Such sleep
to -night as is bes'f, for you, and if '
you wake too' soon may he fill your
soldd
, with reminiscences an' ,expecta-
tions that 'will be better than slum-
ber. Goodnight! Having in. prayer,
kneeling, at, the bedside, 'committed
yourself and. all yOttrS to the keeping'
of the shimberless God, fear no thing.
The pestiletico. that walketh in dark-
ness not cross ;,vour doorsill,and
you need not be afraid of ,
,
°6 Good Good n ight ! May you have , no
mail" experience as Job had, when he
said; '`Thou searest ,w 61 dreams
and teintics me -irougb \.isions. If
yoa dream at all; may it be a 0151011of, reunions anc nt;tatulations, 0116,wakinq, may you find some of, 1.110111
true.
true. Good night! And when r you
d. a claim I had in the Yukoa country we
only got $32 out of the. black sand for
• a whole season, and I knew that we
I were losing a whole lOt mid that there'
1 ought to be some. way ;91 getting at it
So 1 ex.perimented With hot water,
Which was net unusual, but I added
some salt to it and found an improve -
t
ment. I took. an iron bucket holding
s : two gallons, 'filled it about one-third
s full of sand, put in a double handful Of
• salt, filled it with water and, set it on
e the fire to boil. As it boiled I stirred
f It, like you would stir apple -butter or
aS We stir 'dog feed' in the Klondike,
eo and then poured it off Into the pans. I
don't know what effect the salt had,
but when I put a little quicksilver into
the pans I'll be blamed if I didn't get
every particle of gold there was.
-I "Then I went at it on a larger scale,
e and with the sand that was before
o 'practically valueless I got 52 ofinces,
for one day's work by three men. This
gold was worth about $850, or say $16
'an ounce. I'm going to Cape Nome In
' the spring, where there are tons and
1 tons of this black sand that cannot
be or has not been worked, and I'm go -
log to utilize the salt sea water and
get rich. You see if I don't. At the
same time I want to tell you that the
Klondike country Is just beginning
to be worth looking after. So far
there have only been scrapings along
the surface by individuals tvith poor
appliances, but when the rich com-
panies that are organizing go to work
with big hydraulic machines and the
right kind of mining tools the gold will
fairly run out in streams. I)Irt that is
only worth 6 to 7 cents a pan won't
pay a single miner to fool with, but a
big hydraulic on that kind of dirt can
make a, million a day. It is estimated
that there are 35 claims around Daw-
son that will have produced a million
each as now worked, and there fire
hundreds thafare good for any amount
from a hundred thousand to half a
millicni."—New 'York Sun.
come to the, 1)est , sleep, 11110 1)lisSfial
not sleet), The record Sa,:c`a they' s
31116 sang, Prajcs to GodalleY
la d en red art idiotic girl of lier c
trouble, arfd for that :they were I
prisoiled. They, NVOrO rOilDed, Of their
leer), tile hist steel) may r on Pc
able to .turn and ;say 'to ,a,11 ,tite
, 4
n,ron' and 'fati.r....,nicg and Der,eavernents,
ind pangs "of a lifetime,
night!" '
President Steyn.
President Steyn. of the Orange Free
State !snot ashamed of his humble orl-
, gin. "My father was a wagon maker,
I and I" at:e'en:owl to think be was a good
I one," be declared on oue occasion after
Pc bad been raised to the presidency.
When he was 19 years of age, JuStice
Buchanan paid a visit to the family
homestead of the Steyns, not far from
Bloemfontein, and was so strudit with
the future president's possibilities of
greatness that he urged his father to
allow him to proceed to Europe for
training in the legal ,profession. For
six years he studied law in England
and Holland and returned to his native
cOuntry in 1882, when he was 25 years
of age. From that point he never look-
ed back. He was raised to a judgeship
when he was only 32 years old, and a
.year before that he had been appointed
-attorney general, and a year before
that he had declined, the mayoralty
'of Bloemfontein. Ire had a bril-
liant career on the bench, and when
the president, Mr. Reitz, now the chief
adviser of President Kruger, resigned
Mr. Steyn was elected by a large ma-
jority.
Bucks Dead With Locked norms.
There was a battle royal between
two, lordly bucks in the Canterbury
Woods. A sportsman from that vil-
lage was famished with ample evi-
dence of the battle when he drew a
bead on one 01 the combatants and
saw him fall as a result of the shot.
He hurried forward to claim his prize,
when he was astonished to find that
tbe horns of the wounded buck were
interlocked with the antlers of another
and that be had dragged his foe to the
earth with bin). The sportsman killed
the remaining buck, which was thor-
oughly exhausted from the life and
death struggle lie had been engaged M.
The hunter cut off the heads and
brought them to McAdam with the
horns locked so securely together that
no one could separate them unless by
destroying one or other Set of antlers.
—St. Andrew's Beacon.
'Weer .G1e41, Sietnent,
..Aetother revolution bee arrived. Ev-
erybody knows glass is made ter' Part
:of melted 'spud. The other day at An-
alersom Ind., a Chimney manufaeturer
'passing , through his 'shop aoticed`
globe OD OD are ligbt break and, a piece
of the glass hitting .on a carbon, in-
stantly melted. pfere was an. Idea, Re
built a vat with sides and bottom.
'composed of carbons and forced sand
through it. The result exceeded his
expectatiofls. ytIn made glass in as
Many seconds' as he bad madc in ,hours
before. it P1 ,b,ound toclean out the
old methods,
maanserinte In Vg,$1n Lflrnry.
A few tIatidd ago tlie manilscrip,
treasures In the "Vatican library 'were
practically, inacessible. Since then one
barrier after another has been 'MD 00 -
arid now the -present director,
.
Ehrle, dieeided 'to have, duplicates
rna,de of many of the .moSt valinablo
and. Oldest' manuscripts, with, all 'their
Illuetr akin 1 '1 t
librarleaae-Cbitiage Inter oesta.
Winter is a trying irne f formos. t
people—especially so for delicate
ones: Colds; la grippe and pneu-
moniafirkl theni easy victinns.
shoDwos you
ut ycoautrchsysctoetrild isnot ? It
in
condition to resist disease. You
. .
wlliia.
lbefortunate if you escape Pneu
niol-
Nature is always fighting against
disease. The right kind of rnedi-
cirie is thekind that helps Nature by toning: up the system
and enabling it to resist disease. Such a tonic is only found
in Dr. Williams' Pink Pill for Pale People. By building up
the blood and strengthening the nerves these pills reach the
root of disease, restore health, a.nd Make people bright, active
and strong.
Isles, Reariegseeeefeeeeaurst, Ont., 'rtes —"I believe. that Dr. Wu.
llams' Pink Pills saved iny life. When I began their use I was so weak
that I Was scarcely able to be out of nip bed, and Showed every symptoin
of going into a'decline. I was pale. emaciated, suffered from headaches,
and nerve exhatistion. I used,Dr, Williams' Pink Pillsfor a couple of
months, aud they have completely teetered me."
Sold by all dealers or post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for
$2.50, by addressing the Dr. Medicine Co., Brockville.
A Persian riontance.
A Persian plailue in the South Ken-
sington museum, London, bears by
means of clever relief and brilliant col-
or a romantic tale, part legend and
part history. Nobody knows the pro-
portion of each.
At all events, it Is declared to be an
incident in the life of Baharam V of
the Sassanian dynasty. Baharam, ac-
cording, to legend and plaque,' was a
wonderful archer. During one of his
hunting expeditions, on which his fa-
vorite wife had accompanied hini, he
shot a sleeping antelope with such pre-
cision as to graze the animal's ear.
The antelope awoke and, believing
himself annoyed by a tly, put his hind
hoof to his ear to strike off the fly. A
second arrow sent by the royal hand
Exed the antelope's hoof to his born.
The king's wife merely said, "Prac-
tice makes perfect," which touched the
pride of her royal spouse.
,Indeed, as the penalty for her plain
speaking, she was sent out Into the
mountains to perish, but instead found
shelter in a village. Here she lodged
In an upper room ascended by 20 steps
and, having bought a calf, carried it
up anti down every day. The king,
passing by four years later, was amaz-
ed at seeing a young woman carrying
a cow up a fligbt of 20 stePs: The lady
again took °erasion to remark "Prac-
tice makes perfect," whereupon she
unveiled, was recognized and restored
to favor.
An Insult Wefl rdandled.
You can always trust the American
woman to take care of herself. The
friends of a girl who lives in Eigbt-
eenth street are telling these days of
an adventure which befell her one aft-
ernoon within the fortnight. ' She was
standing, this Eighteenth street girl, at
the corner of F and Eleventh streets
waiting for a girl friend. A very dap-
per young man. a stranger doubtless in
the town—for most Washingtonians are
too well aware of the girl's social emi-
nence to venture on any impertinence
to her—stepped up, bowed and said
airily: ,
"Waiting for somebody?"
The girl turned to look at him.
"Guess you've forgotten me," he
went on with growing familiarity. "I
saw you at a dinner last week."
The girl looked at him steadily for a
moment.
"Oh, I remember now," she said. "It
was at Colonel Blank's. You are Colo-
nel Blank's butler, of course. No, I
don't know of anybody who wants a
butler. Have you tried the employ-
ment agencies?".
Atid then, slowly and calmly, she
walked away,
Tallersv Candles tte Medicine.
In France the peasantry still stick to
medicines calculated to turn the aver-
age doctor's hair gray with horror.
Wine is an ingredient of every pre-
scription. In ferer cases it is always
the predominant one. The French
peasant's faith in fermented grape
juice is truly beautiful.
If his children are stricken With the
measles, he gives them wine well
Sweetened with honey and highly spic-
ed with pepper. For a severe cold he
administers a qnart of red wine and a
melted tallow candle mixed. For scar-
let or brain fever he gives eggs, while
wine and soot well beaten together.
Not all their superstitions are curi-
ous. Some are pathetic. A mother, for
instance, often buries, ber dead child
with its favorite toy or a lock of her ,
own hair in the coffin, "that it may not
feel quite alone."
The Wrong Day,
The heartless landlord bas come' to
evict the 101110 10 With 18 Children,
ienny of whom tire teething.
But at the threebeld the woman
wares lihn heel( iMperiouslet
"Nol: todayi" 5130 Nice. ,
"Why not,?" aSks the landlord, with
pardonable curiosity.
"Because.," .the' woman replied, "no
pitiless' storni of rain mingled With icy
sleet rages , •
The landlord grinds his teeth In im-
potent rage. fie DI 0 y traiii le under
foot the prondelings Of his better na-
ture, but not the Con'veetionalifies es -
1..)y long usag,e.—Detroit Jour-
; or. t t other „
Filled the Requirement:
,.A primary teacher was hearing a
recitatimain grammar, and the class
was composed largely of the smallei
students. The teacher wrote the three'
words: "Bees, bear, boys," tin the
board and asked the pupils to -mite a
sentence containing the three words.
She was quite taken back a few min.
utes later when. one of the bright boyI
in the class hauded inthe followings
"Boysbees bear when they go bs
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Not` Hire Destination.
A steamer was stopped In the month
of the river owing to a glense sea fog. ,
An old lady inquired of the captain the
cause of the delay.
"Can't see up the riyer," replied the,
captain. ,
"But I can see the stars overhead,"
continued the old lady. •
"Yes; but until the boilers bust we
ain't a -going that way."—World's Com-
ic.
Map -pines&
Human happiness, according to the
most received notions, seems to consist
of three ingredients, action, pleasure
and indolence. And though these In-
gredients ought to be mixed in differ-
ent proportions, according to the par-
ticular disposition of the 'person, yet no
one ingredient can be entirely wanting
without destroying in some measure
the relish of the whole composition.
A BULLET IN THE HEART
Some Conditions that Induce
Similar Consequences.
Toronto, Dec. 27—A bullet in a
man's heart causes death. So does,,
grain of sand, or anything else that
should not be there. So with the
other organs of the human body.
Take the bladder for instance. Thous, -
ands of persons suffer from the disease
known as ' Stone in the Bladder,'
while it lingering death,ends the agony
of thousands more.
That this peed not oe) is proved by
the following letter :-
844 Queen St. East,
Topnto, Nov. 24, 1829.
Dear Sirs,—Rive months ago, and
for ',three years previous to that date,
I was enduring sufferings as severe au
man cau boar. I endured torture*
such. as I camiot describe, or you can-
not understand. My trouble was
Stone in the Bladder. I used one
kind of medicine after another, lgat
without getting the slightest relief. 1
thought I could never be cured, and
'd'eatll would have boon prefetablo to
my agony. I was pereuaded,,hodteveri
to try, Dr. .Arnold's English Toxip
Pills. Before 1 had used three boxem
Ike stone was dissolved and expelled,
without the len,st pain, 1 m now
thoroughly cured, tliaulzs to Dr. Ar-
nold's English Toxin Pills, which did
what no other medicine in tile world
could do for me 1 `
A. Stinson. '
Dr. .Arnold's En&T,Iish Toxin Piths,
the only medicine on (Nth that cares
disease by killing the spans that ;musa
it, aro sold by nil druggista at 75e. a
box; sample size, 125c., or sent post -
'paid on receipt of miee, by The krt,
nold Chemical Co., ,Limited, dalladS,
Life, Building, 42 King Street West,
Toronto.
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