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Exeter Advocate, 1900-1-25, Page 301J,S111.1110..P.N,,,,911/1,41111.•,111.111:44,1111h "s GI 41, .T ,01, IYIL ,oNGL S Dr. .TaIrriage Portrays Two Kinds of Busybodies. HOW WE CAN TALK OF OTHERS some reoeie ,seena to Be anisPY oni when 1L'alking of the l'aUlt8 of Other WO :t110Uld Take a Benevolent in teross the Alrair8 Of Our NOILinburki eseeeessieseeee defendant 'without allowing him present his side of the case. Furthernsore, we make ourselves a disgusting spectacle when we be- come busybodies, What a d enterprise those undertake who are ever looking for the moral lapse or the downfall of others! As the hu- man race is a most imperfect race, all such hunters find 'plenty of game. There have been sewing societies in churches which tore to pieces more reputations than they made garments for the poor. With their sarcasms • and sly hints and depreciation of • motives they punctured more good names than they had needles. ' With their scissors they cut characters bias, and backstitched every evil re- port they got hold of. Meeting of board of director's have sometimes ruined good businese men by Insinu- ations against them. The bad work may not have been done so 'much by words, for they would be libelous, but by a twinkle of the eye or 'a shrug of the shoulder or a sarcastic accentuation of a word. "Yes, he is 'all rightwhen he is sober." -Have you inquired into that man's history?" "Do you know what bu- siness he was in before he entered this?" "I move that the application be laid on the table until Some inves- tigations now going on are consum- ated." It is easy enough to start a suspicion that will never down, but what a despicable man is the one who started it! There. SS not an honest man in Washington or New ork , or any Other city who cannot be damag;ecl by such infernalism. In a village where, I once lived a steamboat every day came to the wharf: An enemy of the steamboat company asked one day, "I wonder if that steamboat is safe?" The man who heard tile ques- tion soon said to his, neighbor, "There is some suspicion about the safety of that steamboat." And the next one who got, hold' of it said, "rilere is an impression aboard that there will soon be an accident ,on that steamer." Soon all that com- niun ty began to say, "That steamer is very unsafe,'' and as a consequence we all took the stage rather than risk our lives on the river. While I believe enough in human depravity to be orthodox, I tell you that the most of people whom I know are doing the best they can, Faults? Oh, yes. All people ex- cept you and I .have faults. But they are sorry about it, .repentant on account of it and are trying to do better, About all the married peo- ple 1 know of are mart -led to, the one person best suited. 'Nearly all the parents with whom I ant acquainted are doing the best they can for their children. All the clerks in stores, so far as I know, are honest, and all persons in official position, ,city, *tate or nation, are fulalling their mission as well as they can. The most of those who have failed in buSiness, so fa.r' as I knOw, have failed honest - to • Washington, Jan. 21. '— In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how we should interest ourselves in the af- fairs of others for their benefit, but never for their damage; text, I Peter, iv., 15, "A busybody in other men's matters-'! ' Human nature is the same in all , ages. In the second cenEury of the • world's existence people had the same characteriStics as people in the nineteenth centimY, the only differ- ence being that they had the charac- teristics for a longer time. It was 500 years of goodness or 500 years of meanness instead of goodness or meanness for 40 or 50 years. Well, Simon peter, who was a keen obser- ver of what was going on around him, one day caught sight of a man whose characteristics were severe in- spection and blatant .criticism of the affairs belonging to people for whorn he had no responsibility and ' with the hand once browned and hardened ley fishing tackle drew this portrait for all subsequent ages: "A busy- -a, body in other men's matters." A That kind of person has been a ' trouble maker in every country since the world sEood. Appointing him- self to the work of exploration and detection, he goes forth mischief ' making. Ile geherally begins by re- porting the infelicity discovered. I -Ie is the advertising agent of infirmities and domestic inhanmeny and occur- rences that but for him -would never have come to the public eye or ear. He feels that the ecieret ought to be hauled alit into light and heralded. • If he can get one line of it into the newspapers, that he feels to be a noble achievement to start with. But he must not let it stop, He whispers it to his neighbors, and they, in turn, whisper it to their • neighbors until the ,whole town is a- buzz and 'agog. You can no more catch it or put it down than you ean a malaria. It is in the air and on the Wing and afloat. Taken by itself it seeing of little importance, but after' a hundred people have handled it and each has given it an additional twist it becomes a story in size .and shape marvelous. ' First, notice that such a mission is most undesirable, because we all re- quire all the time we can get to take care of our own affairs. To carry ourselves through the treach- erous straits of this life demands that we all the time keep our hand on the wheel of our own craft. While, as „I shall show you before I get through, we all have a mission of kindness' to others we have no time to waste in, doing that which Is damaging to others. - There is our worldly calling which must be looked after or iE will be- come a failure. Who succeeds in any- thing without concentrating all his energies upon that one thing? 'All those who try to do many things, go to pieces, either as to their health or their fortune. They go -On until they pay 10 cents on the dollar, or pay their body info the grave. We cane' not ananage the affairs of others and keep our own afTairs prosperous. While we are inquiring how precar- lous is the business of another mer- chant and finding out how many notes he has unpaid and how soon he will probably be wound up or make an assignment or hear the sheriff's baminer smite the counter our own affairs are getting mixed up • and endangered. While we are criti- cising our neighbor for his poor crops we are neglecting the fertilization of our own fields or allowing the weeds to choke our own corn. While we , are trying to extract the mote from our .neighbor's eye we fall under the weight of the beam in our own eye. If God had given us whole weeks and months and days, with nothing to do but gauge and measure and scrutinize the affairs of others, there might be some ex.cuse for such em- ployment, but I do not know anyone who has Such a surplus of time and energy and qualification that' he can afford much of the tinie :to sit as a coroner upon the dead failures of others. I can imagine that an as- tronomical crank could get so ab- sorbed in examining the spots on the ' sun as to neglect clearing the spots off , his own cha.racter. A very suc- cessful ,rnan was asked how he had accumulated such vast fortune. He • „ replied,. "I eave accumulated about one-half of my property by attending' strictly to my business and the other' half by letting other people's alone,” Furthermore, we are incapacitated 1 for ,the supervisal of others because . we cannot see all sides of the affair • reprehended. •People are generally not so much to blame as we sup - peso. It is never right to do wrong, hut there may be alleviations. There . may have arisen a conjunction. 01 'eircumstancep which would have I flung any one of us. The world gives only one side of the transaction and that is always the worst side. That defaulter at the bank who loan- ed money he ought not to have i loaned did if for the advantage of - another, not for his own. That young /nail who purloined from his employer did so because his mother I was dying for the lack of medicine. That young woman who went wren. i e dice n,ot get enough wages to keep h her from starving t,o death. •Meet t people who make moral shipwreck I would do right in some exigency, but ,'s they have not the courage to say, so. , Better die than clo the least wrong, but moderate your anathema against the wrongdoer by the circumstances which may yet develop. Be econo- mical of your curses when all the con-mina:5.r is hounding some man or Woman. Wait, consider, pause sea All people make mistakes,— say things that afterwards they are sorry for, 'and miss opportunity of slitter- ing ' the right word and doing the right thing. But When they say their prayers at night these defects 1 between the name of the Lord for i are sure to be mentioned somewhere 1 whose. mercy they plead and the 1 amen that closes the supplication. I"That has not been my .observation," says some one. Well, I am sorry for you, my brother, my sister. What 1 an awful crowd you must have got - ton into! intol Or, as is more probable, you are one of the characters that my text sketches. You have not been hunting for partridges and quail but. for vultures. You have been microscopizing the world's faults. "You have been down in the . marshes when you ought to have been on the uplands. I have caught you at last. You are "a busybody in other men's matters." - How is it that you can always find , wo opinions about any one and those two opinions. exactly opposite? I will tell you the reason. It is because there aro two sides to every character -- the best side and the worst side. A well disposed man chiefly seeks the best side; the badly disposed seeks chiefly the worst side. Be ours the desire to see the "best side, for it is healthier for us to do and stirs admira,tion, • which is an elevated state, while the desire to . find the worst side keeps one in a spirit of disquietude and disgust and mean suspicion, and that is a pulling down of our own nature, a disfigure- ment of our own character. I a.m afraid the imperfections of others will kill us yet. If one he cynical about the charact- er of others and chiefly obseryant of defects and glad to find something wrong in character, the fact is apt, to he demonstrated in his looks. How- ever regular his features and though constructed according to the laws of Kasper Lavater, his visage is sour. He may smile, but it is a sour smile. There is a sneer in the in- fla,tion of the nostril. 'There is a mean curvature to the lip. There is a bad look in the eye'. The devil of SarCaSt0 and malevolence. and suspi- cion has taken possession of him, and you see it as plainly as though from, the line of the forehead to the lowest point in the round of his chin it were written: 'Selene! Mine! I, the, demon of the pit, have soused iis visage with my cerse. Look • at him! 1 -le chose a diet of carrion. He gloated over the misdeeds of others. It, took all my infernal engineery to make him what he is—'a busybody n other men's matters.' " ;The slanderer ahnost always at- tempts to escape the scandal he ie responsthle for. When in 1741 John Vesley was preaching at Bristol and showing what reason he bad to trust it the Captain of ifis Salvation, a earer cried out; -Who was your aw- ait' when you hanged yourself? I now the man who sitar you when rou were cut down." John Wesley asked Lite audience to make room and 1 et the slanderer come to the front, nt when the way Was open Lee slan- lerer, ineteed of coming forevardeledi he room. The author or disttibutee f• Slariciera never wants to face hi v,oek.s On the' day of Penteeest "there were eonle. endowed . Ivith whet was d 'the "gift of , tongues'' and Ahoy, pake• for God' in teeny languaeaee', hie there' are peoeie In ow' time who hope that winch is (emceed is a basef e fabrication, Do not be alke 1 jery S who shall render verdict agaieet the seem to have the gi't of evil tongues and there is no ena to their iniquitOn gabble. Every city, village an neighborhood of the earth has had driven through it 'these scavenger carts. When anything is said to you defamatory of the charcater of others imitate Joseph John Gurney of Eng- land, who, when a bad report was brought to him concerning, anYhodY, asked: "Dost thou know any good thing to tell us concerning.. her? Since there is no good to relate, would it not be kinder to be silent on the, evil?' Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity." ' But there is a worthy and -Christ- ian way of looking abroad sipon otlaers, not for the purpose of bring- ing them to disadvantage or adver.. tieing their weaknesses or puttirig itt "great primer" or "paragon" type their frailities, but to offer help, sem-, pathy and rescue, •That is Ohristlike and be who does so wins the ap- plause of the high heavens. Rise look abroad for the people who .have made great mistakes and put a big Plaster of condolence an their lacera- tions. Such People . are reever sym- pathized with, although they need an infinite 01 solace. Domes tic mis- takes_ Social mistakes'. Ecclesiasti- cal mistakes. Political mistalses.:The world has for such only jocosity and gesture of cleplora,tion. There is an unoccupied field for you, my brother. No one has been there. , Tante your CaS0 of medicines and go there and ask them where they aro hurt. and ap- ply divine medicament. Hear it: The more you do busy- ing yourSelves in 'other men's mat- ters the better if you have design of offering 'relief. • Search out the quar- rels, that you niay settle them; the fallen, that you may lift them; the pangs, that you may asstiage them. Arm yourself with two bottles of di- vine madame, the one a tontc and the other an anaesthetic, •the . latter to soothe and quiet, the former to stimulate, to inspire to sublime ac- tion. That man's matters need look- ing after in this respect. There are 10,000 men and women. who need your help and need it right awa..y. OOM PAUL'S IRISHIVIEN, d NinotPlivolcsirtezitte.::trja`il.ixte,10111.SYMPilthi" The following is an extract from a letter written. by an Irishman in South Africa to his relatives in Le land. The letter was published. in the Daily Mail of London: "It is true that in Pretoria, there are a few Irish with Ooni. Paul in all his doings, but very few from having any hatred of England, and more from the fact that they are like hundreds of. others living on concessions given them, or more properly axe receiving a little of the £80,000 devoted last year to secret service. I have an. in- timate ltnowledae of Irishmen all over the country, and have no hesitation in saying that 95 per cent. of them are with the Old Country in this quarrel, and indeed, at all times." Private Francis Burns, Royal Irish Fusiliers, writes from Ladysmith as fol.lows: "We went for the Boers at 5.30. When within a thousand yards shot and shell began to flyabout us. There is no raistalte—they can. shoot! Dead 'and dying were all around, but we lose all feeling in battle. Up the hill We went with fixed bayonets„ but the cowards would not wait for us, but ran like sheep. They put up a flag of truce, and our general would not • let us fire on them, when we and the cavalry could. have slaughtered th.e lot. The dead were on top of each other. It was terrible. The two officers of my company were shot. The papers say the Dublius were first • on the hill, but it was the Royal Irish —it does not matter, anyhow, for we were all Lash. Tell my mother England's first battle was won by the Irish Brigade. "We have had five days and nights of misery. The world will never know what Irishmen did them fear- ful nights. ' We cam.° through a place called the Devil's Pass. All it wanted was some fire, and it would have been hell. We are now in Lady- smith. The Boers fire on our hos- pitals, and do things a savage would not do, but the day of reckoning is coming. We are all looking out for Sir Redvers and the soldiers from home." They do not Sit d0Wn and cry. They make no appeal for help, but within 'ten yards ,of where you sit in chnrch and within ten minutes' walk of your home there are people In enough trouble to make them shriek out with agony if they had not resolved upon suppression. If you are rightly interested in other men's matters, go to those who are just starting in their occupations or professions and give them a boost. Those old physicians do not want your help, for they are surrounded with more patients than they can at- tend to, but cheer those young doc- tors who are counting out their first drops to patients who cannot afford to pay. Those old attorneys at the law sva.nt no help from you, for they take retainers only from the more prosperous clients, but cheer those young attorneys who have not had a brief 'at all lucrative. Those Old merchants have their business so well established that they feel inde- pendent of banks, of all changes in tariffs, of all panics, but cheer those ,s7oung merchants who are making their ffist mistakes in bargain and sale. That old farmer who has 200 acres 'in best tillage, and his barns full of harvested crops, and the grain merchant, having bought his wheat at high prices before it was reaped, ne.eds no sympathy from you, but cheer up that young farmer whose acres are covered with a big mort- gage and the drought strikes thern the first year. Go forth to be a busybody in other men's mutters, so far as you can helping them out, and help them on. The world is full of instances of those who spend their life in such alleviations, but there is. one in- stance that overtops and eclipses all others. He had lived in a palace. Radiant. ones waited upon him. Ile was charioted along streets yellow with gold, and stopped at gates glis2 tening with pearls, and hosammed by inintorta.ls corneted and in snowy white. Centuries gave him not a pain. The sun that roseh' never set. His donlinions could not •he enlarged, for they had no bound- aries, and uncontested was his reign. *Upon all that luster and renown and environment of splendors he turned his back and put down his crown at the foot of his throne, and on a bleak December night trod his way down to a stone house in Bethlehem of our world. Wrapped in what plain shawl, and pursued with what enemies on swift camels, and 'howled at with what brigands, and thrust with what sharp lances, and hidden in what sepulchral crypt, until the sub- sequent centuries have tried in vain to tell the story by sculptured cross, and painted 'canvas, and resounding doxelogies, and domed cathedral, and redeemed nations. He could not see a woman doubled up with rheumatism but he touched her, and inflamed muscles relaxed, and she stood straight up. He could nsit meet a funeral' of a young man but he broke up the procession and gave hint back to his widowed mo- ther. With spittle on the tip of his finger he. turned the midnight of total blindness inte the rnidnoon of perfect sight. • He scolded only twice that I re- member, once at the hypocrites with , elongated visage and the other time when a sinful crowd had arraigned an unfortunate woman, and the Lord', with the most superb sarcasm that was ever uttered, gave permission to any one who felt himself entirely commendable. to hurl the first mis- sile. All for others. His birth for others. 1 -lis ministry for others. His death for others. I -Tis ascension , for others. 1 -Ii s enthronement for, others. „And, nOW my words are to the in- visible multitudes I reach week by week, tritt, yet will never see in this world, but whom I expect to meet at the bar of God and hope to see in the blessed heaven. The last word that Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist, said to me at Plainfield, N.J., and he repeated tile message for me to others, was, "Never be tempt- ed under any. circumstances to give U p your weekly publication of ser-, /Y10 9 thr ."1 t tit " Contraband of 1Var. German and American cargoes con- signed to the Boers of the Transvaal through the neutral territory of Por- tugal have been seized by Great Britain on the high eeas. All the facts are not to hand. The American cargo was flour from Philadelphia, and the German is said to have been a mixed one including munitions of war. The Americans, though they have formally protested, are taking very calmly this invasion of the lib- erty of neutral powers. This. from the English point of view at all events, is one blessing of the new Anglo-Saxon alliance. The Germans, on the other hand, who have probably not heard the American politician's judgment that they too are Anglo- Saxons, are greatly wrought up. Thoughtful Englishmen doubt the wisdom of making flour contrabagd, because it is feared that if Britain were engaged in war with a European nation her food supply might be cut off ander the authority of this pre- cedent by driving neutral ships and cargoes from the seas. It is easy to S00 that England, with only six weeks' food supply stored, might quickly be brought to starvation and surrender. lt is interesting, therefore, to state shortly the law of contraband. The law of contraband is internee floral law, and made by the usages of civilized nations or by treaties be- tween nations. Contraband has been defined'as those articles of • commerce which neutrals are prohibited from furnishing to either of the belliger- ents. Such articles are implements and munitions of war, and also all ar- ticles like sulphur, saltpetre, hemp, and iron, which may be readily con- verted to the purposes of war. While the above are, absolutely, contraband, other articles may be declared contra- band at the will of either belligerent, such as provisions and liquors for the opposing army, money, horses, hay, and the like. Whether the Philadel- phia flour under seizure was destined for the Boer army is not clew:. To shut off food supplies from an enemy's country, whether destined for the army or the civil population, appease to be an extreme pretention. In 1885, France being at war with China, an- nounced her intention to treat as con- traband all shipments of rice destined for the open ports north of Canton. The English ambassador in ,China re- fused to recognize any such right, but his government stated that though it would not resist the seizure of rico by physical force, its legality must be determined by the French prize courts Subject to later diplomatic action. Owing to the conclusion of peace nothing further came of this protest, It stauds, however, as evidence that England was then assorting a liberal view. British Naval Pensioner‚ The naval pension Het of Great Britain consists of 5,027 persons, who re already receiving the regular ser - ice pension, in addition to which here are 2,750 persons who are eligi le, but who luive not yet been award - 'l the pension. These 8,077 pension- rs receive the mull] fiCOIit S11/11 of 10 ents a day, but of this nueuber 4,082 e in receipt of an additional eurn of 8 Cents a day. The total annual cost f all these naval pensioners amounts 'A $504,500. The estimated cost of v.ina snob, pensions is about $1,000. a ar LUUb 1 • solemn charge I will heed as long as o I have stiength to give them and the t newapaper types desire to take them. SOLDIERS' WIVES' LEAGUE What it Proposes to Do for the Wives and • Children of the Second Contingent Members. The equipment of the second con- tingent with the 'various comforts, and as far as possible, with the lux- uries of life, is being undertaken by the Soldiers' Wietes' League. While Canada's sons are absent, aiding the Mother Country to procure .equal righte for all, this League has under- taken to look after their wives and families, who but for this aid might in many cases be in want. The efon- treal Branch of the League, which hat under its care the families of all those who have enlisted in the Mon- treal company, met in the Victoria Rifles' Armory lately, Col. Butler occupied the chair, owing to the ill- ness of Mrs. Gordou, there being also cu the platform Mrs. Minden Cole, secretary; and Mrs. Busteed, treas- urer. A full discussion of the require- ments of the soldiers theinselva while upon their long voyage, was watered into, and it was decided to solicit the assistance of the press in making known the articles deemed most essen- tial. The list vsras as'follows: Books, magazines of every description, games (ch.eckers, dominoes, cards, etc.,) notepaper a.nd envelopes, indelible pencils, pipes, pouches, tobacco, cig- arettes, matches, bandana, handker- chiefs, apples, packages of chocolate, meat tablets, lime juice tablets, socks (woolen), sweaters and cardigan. These latter articles are considered very important, as winter in South Africa begins about March. • It was stated at the meeting that a Montreal gentleman who desired his name kept in the back -ground had promised to supply the whole contin- gent with all the tobacco it would need while at sea. Enclish Walnuts in Niazara County, N. Y. The culture of the English walnut, a fruit usually considered too teuder ' for our climate, came tci my notice during the past summer. In Niagara County, New York, one of our best fruit growing regions, an orchard of English walnut trees is an intersting and unusual feature. This group ef bearing trees and the many young trees on the same farm came from a handful of nuts brought from Phila- delphia in 1873. The owner of the farm was one of the throng of pil- grims to the Centennial Exposition. During his stay in the city he observ- ed an English walnut tree in the yard of his boarding place. It must have been one of the occasional trees cher- ished for their novelty. The enter- prising farmer was much interested in a tree he had never before seen, and carried home with him some of the nuts. These ho pleated on reach- ing horne, and the seedlings grew and thrived until he has a number of handsome trees in beineng and a young orchard of the second gener- ation. The trees are spreading and massive in appearance, and the dense, dark green foliage is not troubled by cater- pillars or other insect pests. In this exemption the raisers of the nut would have a great advantage over the chestnut cultivator whose crop is sure to be more or less imperfect. Everyone knows the quality of the nut. It is universally liked. The one obstacle to its common cultivation has been its supposed lack of hard- ness, but these tacos raised from na- tive grown, not imported, nuts have shown excellent resistance to cold. Last winter the temperature fell to 1e degrees below zero in Niagara county, and some peach trees and grape vines on this very farm were killed, while every English walnut tree passed through the winter safely. The Eng- lish walnut differs from its relatives, the black walnut and the butternut, in bowing every year. It commences to bear at eight or ten years, and from that time on yields from ono to twenty bushels, according to circum- stances. There seems to be no reason why it should not prove a profitable crop, as the demand for the nut is constant at a fair price. Even for those who do not care to go largely into raising the wit, a few trees of this, the thin -shelled walnut, would preve 0,deeirable addition to the home grounds. The tree is a large hand- some ornameet to any dooryard, and the nut would be enjoyed at the table or with popcorn during the long win- ter evenings.--Amorican Agricultur- ist. To Protect FM1111431'4 A.:Z.011st Di,honeqt • Seed ,tg,,,,F*tq. At a -meeting of the reetierimeninl Union at Guelph some startling state- ments were made as lo the extent to Which unclean and adulterated seeds are palmed off on purchasers in On- tario, marl it was suggested as a ineane of remedying the evil that the Gov - 111 eminent provide for the inspection of all seeds before sale. Something is already being clone in the United States on the lines suggested for On- tario. "The Untied States Agricul- tural Depaetraet is." says the Scien- tific American,- "putting the finishing touches on a plant whereby it will be more able to protect itself, farmers, and seeds men generally-, against die - honest or careless persons who /111DOSe 011 their customers bv selling, bad seeds. A seed -testing house is being erected, comprising a store and Pack. ing house 30 x 20 feet and a hothouse 80 x 18 feet, in which germination tests will be made, For years -these ' tests have been made by the botnnists' in various parts of the department's main building; but the work has, so grown in importance and magnitude thet a special building has become necessary. According to Botanist F. B. Colville, `From tests in the pas* it is evident that there is great care- lessness in planting and harvesting seeds, and also, undoubtedly, much, sharp practice is indalged in by deal- ers, who mix seeds of every inferior grade, or of an entirely different var- iety with...good seeds, and sell the stuff as the best quality of seeds.' For ex- ample, 'A lot of meadow foxtail seed from Germany was only 27.5 per cent. pure; it costs thirty-five cents a pound and was adulterated with seed worth only ten cents. Of seeds pur- chased in the open market, the testa showed orchard grass 53 per cent. bad; red -top clover, 73 per cent. ; a lot of crimson clover, 98 per cent. bad; and some Hungarian brome grass that fail- ed to germinate at all.' It is to de- fend American agriculturists against such frauds as this, especially. that the new svstena is being established." Genius In Hard Luck. The Poet's Friend (looking over the manuscript) --It looks as if you had gone out of your way to lug in that uneoutirS word "paragelogram." The Poet --Confound you, can't you see - I've got to have some kind of rhyme fon' "telegram," two lines below?—Chicago- Tribune. One of Her Faults. "Mrs. Bruggs, you have more fault than I ever dreamed of in any woman." "Well, Mr. Bruggs, you have plenty of faults yourself." "There you are again—always changs Ing the subject when I try to talk te you."—Chicago Record. Not Yet Perfect. "I see they hare a new invention whiebi makes it possible to telegraph 155,00Q words an hour." "Still, this contrivance doesn't make.it a bit easier for the average woman to keep her message down to ten words."... Chicago Times -Herald. Nice Distinction. "There's a kind of smoky haze hanging over the city today," remarked the mask who had just landed in town. "A further acquaintance," replied the hardened native, "will satisfy, you that It is a kind of hazy smoke."--Chicaga Tribune. STIR IN KE .MORE. Durham Brown's Letter Pub. lished Last Week Cause of Comment. One of Many Such Cases in Kenmore-. Dodd's Kidney Pills well known there —Unanimous Corroboration of Brown's Statement. Kenmore, Jan. 15.—No little com- ment has been caused here by the publication of a letter signed by Dur- ham Brown, in the papers last week. Mr. Brown is one of the most expert boxinalfers in the country, his cheese boxes, while models of good workman- ship, being turned out in remarkably quick time. He has the reputation of being able to drive one-ancl-a-quar- te.r inch nails at the rate of five hun- • dred in eighteen minutes, and keep it up steadily. Mn, Brown is an enthusiast, about Dodd's Kidney Pills. He emmots ay enough in their favor. And he ineaus every word of it. His brother also thoroughly believes in Dodd's Kidney Pills, having seen how they affected Durham. Durham Brown's letter, as published east week, is corroborat. ed by his broth.er and all who know him. Many other people in Kenmore know from personal experience the value of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Whether fOr the two formerly incur- able and fatal maladies, Bright's Disease and Diabetes, or for any of the other forms of Kidney Disease -- Rheumatism, Heart Disease, Dropsy, Urinary and Bladder Complainte, Female Troubles, Blood Disorders— Dedd's Kidney Pills are considered infallible. Dodd's Kidney Pills is the only medicine that ever cured. Bright's Diecaso or Diabetee, and the people here have a woadarful faith in them.