Exeter Advocate, 1900-6-7, Page 3A Sermon on Common Duties
and 9ewards.
SICKNESS„A TEST OF CHARACTER
Dr. Talmage' Gives 11. ords of TlneOuragn.
went and Cheer to Those Who.Toll
and Struggle—Deroes of SiChuiss and
Deraestic Injustice.
Washington, Jive Tal-
mage, who is now preaching ,to
large audiences in the great cities of
England and Scotland, sends. this
discourse, in which he 'shrrefs that
niany who. in this world pass: as of
`little importance will in the day of
final readjustment be crowned with
' high honor; text, II ,Tiraothy ii, 8,
"'Thou therefore ,endure hardness."
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Historians are not slow to ac-
knowledge the merits of great milttary ' chieftains: We have the full
length portraits of the Crow:Wells,
the Washingtons, the Napoleons and
the ,Wellingtons of the world. His-
tory is not written in black ink, but
red ,ink of, htussan blood. The gods
, human " ambition do not drink
from 1,?Owls n -lade oateof elver or
gold or precious stones, but out of
the bleached skulls of the fallen.
But 1 am now to enroll before you
a scroll of heroes that the world has
never acknowledged ---those who fac-
ed to .guns, blew no bugle blast, eon-
' qbered, no cities, chained no captives
to -their chariot wheels, and yet in
the great day of eternity will stand
higher than some of those whose
names startled the nations, and ser-
aph and rapt spirit and archangel
willtell their deeds to a listening
universe. tI mean the heroes Of com-
mon; everyday life; .
In thisroll, in the , first place, I
.find all the heroes of the sick room.
When Satan had 'failed' to overcome
Job, he said to God, "Put forth thy
, hand and touch his bones and his
flesh, and he will curse thee to thy
face." Satan had found out that
whieh we have all 'found out; that
eickness is the greatest test of one's
'character. A man who can stand
that can stand anything. To be
shut in a room as fast as though it
were a bastile; to be so nervous you
cannot endure the ,tap of a child's
foot; to ,have luscious fruit, which
tempts the appetite of the robust
and healthy, excite our' loathing and
disgust when it first appears on the
platter; to have the rapier of Pain
strike through the side or across the
temples like a razor or, to put the
foot into a vice or throw the whole
body inx0 a blaze of fever, 'yet the
have been men and women, but more
women than men, who have cheer-
fully, endured. this hardness. Through
-years .of exhausting rheumatisms
and excruciating e neuralgias they
have gone and through bodily.. dis-
tresS, that rasped the nerves and
:tore, sthe muscles and paled the
cheeks and stooped the shoulders.
By the dim light .of the sick room
taper they saw On their wall the
picture, of that land where the in-
habitants are never . sick. Through
the dead silence .of 'the night .they
heard the chorus of the angels.
The cancer ate away her life, from
week to week and day to day, and
she became weaker and weaker,and
every "good -night" was feebler than
, the "good -night" before, yet never
- sad. ' The children looked up into
her face .and saw suffering trans-
formed into a heavenly smile. Those
,who suffered on the battlefield amid
shot and shell were not more heroes
and heroines than those who,in the
, field hospital and in the -asylum, had.
'fevers which no ice could cool :and
no surgery cure. No shout of a com-
rade to cheer ,thein, but numbness
and aching and homesickness—yet
willing to stiffer, confident in God,
hopeful of heaven. Heroes of rheu-
matism. Heroes . of neuralgia. Her-
oes of sick headache. Heroes' of life
long invalidism. Heroes and hero-
ines!. They shall reign forever and
ever. Hark! 1 catch just one note
Of the eternal anthem, "There shall
be - , More pain!" Bless God for
that!
In this roll I also find the heroes
oftoil who do their work uuncom-
. plainingly. It is comparatively easy
,to leada regithent into battle when
you know that the whole nation .will
•a,ppland the victory; it is compara-
tively easy to doctorthe sick when
you know that your skill will be ap-
'preciated . by a large company ' of
'friends., and, relatives; . it is compare:
ytively easy to address an eaUttitsurfes
when in the 'gleaming eyes and the
flushed .,cher.fg-ffttlth know ,that your
eendidnnesSUfeshare adopted. But to do
eswing when you expect the eniploy-
'see ' will come and thrust his thumb
throughthrough- the work to 'show how int:
perfect- it is Or ,to have the , whole
.garment thrown backon you, to be.
done over again; to build a wail
and know there will be no , one to
say you did it wall, but only a
swearing employer howling across
the scaffold; to work until your eyes
are dim and -your, back aches and
yOur heart faints, and tie know that
if you stop before night your
cliil-
clren iil1 starve—ah, • the sword has
note slain. so )nanyas the 'needle.
The greet battlefields of our civil
war were not Gettysburg and Shie
lob and South Mountain. The great
battlefields were in thn arsenals and
in the shops and in the attics,' where
women made army jttckets for a 'six-
pence. They ' toiled; on until they
died. They had ne funeral eulo-
glens, but,' in thename of my. God,
this day, 1 enroll their 11A.MOS among
those of whom the world was not
worthy. " Heroes of the needle!
Heroes of the eawing machine! Her-
oes of the attic! Heroes of the cel-
lar! Heroes and .heroines! Bless.
, God for them!
In this roll 1 lse , find the 1oroe
who h aye lumen. plat e iogly end tired
domestic injustice. There are 150
who, for their, toil and anxiety, have
10 syinpathy in their ,hoinee, Ease,
haueting epplitatien to business gets
thera 'a livelihood,' but tte stinfriesel
wife scatters it Ile is fretted at,
from the moment he enters the door
until he cossies out of it—the exas-
.,
peratioas OX 1.11.SijleSS life augmented
by the exasperations of domestic
life. Such men etre laughed at, but
they have a heart -breaking trouble,
arid they would have long, ago gone
intoappalling dissipation but for the
. ,
sfraes ot God, ,
Soeiety to -day is strewn with the
wreck .of mon who, under the north-
east storm of CIOITIOStie
have been driven en the rocks, There
are tens Of thousands of .druisharda.
to -day, ,made Such by their Wives'.
That is not poetry; that is Prose.
But the wrong is generally in the
opposite eiirection. You would not
have to go far to find a wife Whose
1 he , is aperpetual mar tyr de ome-
Ching heavier then”a stroke, of ,the
flea unkind ;garde; staggering home.
at midnight and constant maltreat-
ment; , which baSfe left .her Only a
wreck of what she was , on that claY
when in the midst di a, brilliant, as-
semblage the yews were taken, 'and
' full organ played the wedding march,
and the carriage rolled away with
thesbenediction bl the people. What
WAS the burning of Latimer and Rid-
ley at the stake compared with, this?
Those men. soon became enconscious
In the fire, but there is a 80 years'
martyrdOnl, a 50 -yeasts' putting to
death, yet uncomplaining. No bitter
words wheu the rollicking compan-
•ions at 2 p'OlOck in, the morning
pitch the husband daed drunk into
thefront eedry., No bitter words
when wiping from the swollen beour
the blood struck out in a midnight
carousal. ' Bending over the battered
and bruised form of him Who .whefl.
he took her from her lather's home
proMised love and kindness and pro-
tection, yet nothing but sympathy
and.. • prayers and forgiveness before
theY.are asked for. No, bitter words
when the fairilly Bible goes for ruin
and: the 'pawnbroker's shop gets the
last''decent .dress. Soule day, desir-
ing to evoke the story of her sor-
rows, you say, Well, how are you
getting along now?"' and, rallying
hera trembling -voice and quieting, her
,quiffering lip, she says, "Pretty well,
I thank you; pretty, Wells" , She nev-
er will tell you. , In the (lethal's): of
her Sast sickness she may tell all the
othen secrets of her lifetime, but, she
will not tell that.. Not until the
book e of 'eternity are opened on the
throne of jvidgment will ever . be
known, what she .has suffered. .0h, ye
who are twisting a gorland for the
victor, ' put it on that pale, brow!
When she is dead,' the neighbors will
bog linen to, niolsetsbefott, shroud, and
she will, he carried out in a pldin boa',
with no silver plate to tell her years,
for she has lived a thousand years of
trial and anguish. The gamblers and
swindlers who destroyed her husband
will not conie to, the ,funeral. One
carriage will be enoughfor that fu-
neral ----, one carriage to carry the
orphans and the two Christian wo-
men who presided over 'the obsequies,
But there is a flash, andthe open-
ing Of a celestial door and a shout,
"Lift up your head, Ye everlasting
gate, and let her, come. in!" And
C,hriet Will step •forth and say: ..i.Coirie
in. Ye suffered with me on earthabe
glorified withrne in heaven." • What
is the highest' threne in heaven? You
says "The throne .of the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb." No doubt
about it. What is the 'next highest
thircine in heaven? While I speak it
seems to me it will be the throne of
the drunkards wife, if She with cheer-
ful patience endured all her earthly
torture. Heroes and heroines!'
•3, find also in this roll the heroes of
Christian. charity. We all admire the
George Peabodys and the James Len-
oxes of the earth, .who give tens and
hundreds of thousands of ,dollars to
good objects. But I am speaking now
of those whO out ofatheir pinched
poverty help others—of such men as
these Christian missionaries at the
west who proclaim Christ to the peo-
ple, one of them, writing to the
secretary In New York,. saying:, "I
thank you, for that $25. Until yes-
terday we have had no Meat in our
house for three Months. We have
suffered terribly. My children have
no shoesethis winter." And of those
people who have only half a loaf of
bread, but give a piece of it to others
who are hungrier, and of those who
have only a scuttle of coal, but help
others to fuel, and of those ,who haver
only a dollar in their pocket aed give
25 cents to somebody else, and of
that father who wears a shabby coat
and of that mother who 'Wears a fad-
ed' dress, that their children, may be
Well appareled. You call thous. pau-
pers Or ragamuffins or emigrants. I
caL them heroes and -heroines. You,
and I may not know 'where they live
or what their name is. God knower,
and they have more angels hovering
over them than you and I have, and
aihey
will have a, hieaser seat in hea-
ven.a
. They May have only a cup of
cold waterato giV4e a Poor -traveller
or, may have 'only picked a- splinter
- from under the nail of .a child's fin-
ger or have put only two .mites into
the treasury,' but the Lord knows
them.Considering what they had,
they did more than we have ever done
add their faded drees will become a
white robe, and the small room will
b,e an eternal inausion, sand the old
hat will be exchanged' for. a, coronet
of victory, and all applauseof earth
and all the -shouting of heaven wili
he drowned out when God rises up to
givehisreward to those humble
workers in his kingdom and say to-
th,em, "Well done, geed and faithful
servant."
Who are those who are bravest and
deserved the greatest monument, Lora
Cla,yeehouse and his burly soldiers or
John Brown, . the Edinburgh earlier
-
and his wife? Mr. ALisies, the perse-
cuted minister of J,estis Christ, in
Scotland was secreted by John Brown
and his wife, and CIaverhouse 'rode
up one tiny with his armed esteri ,ased
,Shouted in front of the house, John
Brown's little, girl carne out. lie
'said to her, ''Well, miss,. is Mr.
Atkins here?" She made ho answer,
for she Could riot betray the minister
of the gospel, 'tilt!" Claverhouse
'said, "then you are a chip of the
wag in ray poehet for YOu. is
old block,. are yon'? box° same,
nosegay, . Some people cell it a
thihnisserew, but 1 call it a
nosegay," And he got off hie horse
3.1 d he put , it on the little girl's
bald 'and bcPSah tP turn :it 'MAT the
. ,
bones cracked and she cried lie
said: "Don't cry don't cry. This
isn't a thumbscrew, this is a nose-
gay." And they heard the child's
cry, and the father and mother came
out, and Claverhouse said: "Hal it
seems, 'that you three have laid your
holy heads together, determined to
(lie like ,all the rest of your hypocrit-
ical, canting, sniveling crew. Rather
than give up good Mr. Atkins, pious
Mr.. Atkins, you would, die. I have a
telescope with me that will improve
your vision," and he pulled out A.
pistol. "Now," he said, you old
pragmatic, lest you should catch cold
in this cold morning of Scotland and
for the honor and safety of the
king, to say nothing of the glory of .;
God and the good of our souls, I
will proceed simply and in the neat-
est and most expeditious style possi-
ble to blow out your brains."
John Brown fell opon his knees and
began to pray. "Ah," said Clavers
houses, "look out, if you are going
to pray; steer clear of the king, the
column and Richard Cameron.' ''0
Lord," said John Brown, ``since it
Seems to .be thy will that I should
leave this world for a world Where 1
can love -thee better and serve thee
more, I put this poor widow woman'
and these helpless fatherless children
into thy hands. We have been to-
gether in peace a , good while, but
itow we muet look forth to a better
meeting in heaven. And as for these
poor creatures, blindfolded and infat-
uated, that stand before me, convert
thembefore it be too late, and may
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,IJOINGS OF T11E INEE1(
TEMS OF INTEREST FROM AROUND,
THE WORLD'
Pruned, l'unctuated and Preserved In
Pithy Paragraphs for the Perusal of
-Practical Pedple — Personal, Political
and Profitable.
UNCLASSIFIED.
The German Reichstag, Voting by
roll call, has adopted the meat bill
by 163 to 123 votes.
they who have sat in judgment 10,
The Princess of Wales, at liensing-
this lonely place on this blessed miorni-
'ton, Thursday afternoon, opened the
ing upon me, a poor, defenseless fe
Great National Bazaar in aid of suf-
ferers from the war.
The earnings of the C.P.R. for the
tz'allie week ending May 23_ were
.$o91,000. For the same week last
low creature may they in the last
judgment find that mercy which they
have refused to me, they Most un-
worthy but . faithful Servant, Amen.
He arose and said, "Isabel, the hou • .,
year the earnings were $529,000.
has come of which I spoke to you ,
The New York State Board of
on the morning when 1 proposed Health reports mild cases of • small -
hand and heart to you, and afe. you pOX at Oneonta, Tarrytown and
willing now, for the love of God, to .Haverstraw, one case in each vil-
lage.
William Waldorf Astor has sent a
cheque for 410,000 (550,900) to the
Maidenhead Cottage Hospital, Lon-
don, in celebration of the coming of
age of his eldest,' son.
The U.S. Government corral at Ma-
nila has been quarantined. There are
fuur suspected cases of bubonic plague
let me die?" She put her aints
around him and said: ,."The Lord
gave, and the Lord hath taken away,
Blessed be the name of the Lord."
"Stop that sniveling," said Claver-
house, "I have had enough of it.
Soldiers, do your worlc. Take .aine!
Fire!" And the head of John 13ro-wri
was scattered on the ground. While
.
heacl--gathering them up for burial
the wife was gathering up in her
. abpinronteigd.the teamsters, who are living
apron the fragments of her husband's' in filthy dwellings, which will ' be
and said, "Now, my good woman,
--Claverhouse looked into her face
how do you feel noev about your lopiorlift.ltiheorlfratanhritehry,n ninecasesl jcuaadilienesas , octf%ovsnommame lele,pmojlbx?Pri ns.
Lhaelol.iilriai3le,:rnitsTiale.onol?io'g'dlytt:'.‘•::.2.‘0,n:rhi,eja,sei, : l'ori,1:,s hhhbeaildnstianiohd.e, rcei:il'a. s' Is_ IfrIari.iii:nii nioal itynisj.de g . Th lai evree areroi r e s iri, e pcases
cui yn
on for tiii-nlsifiga ÷ ' s I wed of • occurred
also members of the Whalen
him, and I think better of him sref.' ,. 'within the last few days at Stoib,
Ohavhat a grand thing it will be if -stein. ttse,.. Province of Pomerania,Prus-
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the last day to see God pick out his sia. The cavalry - Woes_ eummoned,
heroes and heroines. Who are those and attacked the crowd, arid's/ -aeore
. . --....._
'aupers of eternity trudging off from of persons were injured.
the gates of heaven? Who are they? The steamer Ameer from Ska,guay
The Lord Claverhouse and the isTerods5 brings news that the Yukon is open
and those who had scepters and from Bennett down, excepting on the
crowns and thrones, but tItcY. lived Lebarge River, which is still filled
for their own aggrandizement, sand with ice. Five steamers reached
they broke the heart of nations. Dawson and are bound up.
Heroes of earth,- but paupers of eter- It is asserted that considerable
nity. I beat -the drums of their eter- money is being spent at Rio de Jan -
nal despair. Was, woe, woe! eiro by agents of the Spanish, French
But there is great exciteMent in and German Governments to cause
heaven. Why those long processions? to be published articles against i.he
Why thenbooming of that great bell Government of Great Britain and the
in the tower? It is coronation day United States.
in heaven. ritho are those rising on. The German steamer Albane, which
the thrones with crowns of eternal arrived Thursday night from Ham -
royalty? They must have been great burg and HEtvre, is detained at quar-
people on the earth, weeld, renown- antiee with two cases of smallpox
-ed people. No. They taught in a among the passengers. The patients
ragged school. Taught in a ragged are Passel 11Salcunas, aged 22 years,
school! Is that all? rlfhat is all. and Osip Rodkanis, ag,ecl 23 years,
Who are those souls waving scepters both Russians.
of eternal dominion? Why, thee, are The Boer envoys in the United
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little Cifildren who waited on invalid States have issued a notice from
mothers. That all? That is all. Washington that they will visit Bal -
She was called "Little Mary" on timore, Providence, Philadelphia and
earth. She is an empress now. Who Boston Within a week, and that if
are that great multitude on the high- Possible they will extend their stay
est thrones df heaven? Who are theesi to ,visit other cities that have ex -
Why, they fed the hung -y; they %pvia'eredsesdthaeysvirsehtutio.nhhaoome eth.sp,ima .E,Airiotpere-.
clothed the na,ked; they healed the
An unsuccessful attempt eves lead°
to rob the Canadiaa Derek of Com-
merce at , 1)undas early on Friday
morning. Tim ledger keeper scared
them off by firing through the grat-
ing in the does'. They left their
tools and got nothing,,
J. D..13rosvn's general store at Dun-
dalk, Ont., was broken into on the
night of the 23rd and the money left
iri the safe, amounting to $70, was
stolen as well as several articles of
wearing apparel. A man has been
captured and taken to Elora Jail on
the charge, but denied the chaege and
refused to give his name or say where
he had been.
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
The handsome Methodist church
just finlsherl at Petrolea, Ont., was
Opened on, Thursday.
Philadelphia, has been selected as
the meeting place of the Presbyterian
General 'Assehibly in 1901,
The 3,Tethodist eueral Conference at
Chicago has voted to adjourn sine
clie at 12.30 o'clock Tuesday, May
29,
On Friday Mr. O'Meara's argument
on beh,alf of the Attorney -General in
the Lord's Day Act; matter svas con-
cluded. He had spoken. for three
clays syhen he closed.
The Methodist General Coaference,
In session at Chicago, by a vote of
433 to 238 abolished the time limits
of pastorates, which will now only
be limited by the mutual preferences
of preacher and congregation.
The beautiful new white brick R.
C. Church of St. Agatha, at Berlin,
Ont., was on Thursday dedicated too
divine service In the presence of more
than 1,000 spectators by His Lord-
ship Right Rev. T. J. Dowling, Bish-
op of Hamilt'on.
By the laying on of the hands of 12
bishops, and in the presence of 3,000
persons at the Chicago Auditorium,
four new bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church were 'consecrated
Sunday a,fternoon. The newly -conse-
crated bishops are David Hastings
Moore, assigned to the Shanghai Dis-
trict; John William Hamilton, assign-
ed to the San Francisco DistricteEd-
win Wallace Parker and -Frank Wes-
ley Warner, missionary bishops, as-
signed to India and Malay, Asia.
The ceremonies were brief and aim -
Pie.
THE FIRE RECORD.
Lakeview, Ore., was pra,ctically 'des-
troyed by fire which swept through
the place Thursda,y night.
The Gananocsue Harness Works
were badly damaged by fire Friday
morning. Loss about $5,000.
West Shore Lumber Mills at Port-
ville, see en miles frona Olean, N. Y.,
were burned Sunday afternoon. Loss
will be between $15,000 and $20, -
Sunday morning the clothiug estab-
lishment of E. Budge & Son, Port
Hope, was discovered to be on fire.
The stock was badly damaged by
wateuesaetit smoke. ' •
The $2,00b "fasidence of Elliott,
Kingston Junction, Wage hurned. to
the ground on Queen's Birthdaysiselret
ing the absence of the family in
Kingston celebrating the day. -
The Julius Brackwold sounding
board factory at' Dolgeville, j.,
was totally destroyed by fire last
week, entailing a loss of- $50,000
and throwieg 80 men out of work.
Whitby had a $3,,000 fire on
Queen's Birthday. The sufferers were
Mrs. William, Gold, Messrs. C. Tod -
Gullets, Smith Campbell, Thos. Rece,
E. R. Blow and Mrea Joseph Blow.
THE DEAD,'
Chriatophe,r Daly, while walking. be-
hind a harrow in the field of John
Donnie, near Sealoath, dropped dead
Thursday afternoon. Heart failure
was the cause.
Signor Guiseppe Del Puente, the
widely -known baritone, died sudden-
ly., on Friday at his home in Phila-
delphia. Death was due ' to apople-
xy. He was 60 years old.
The Rev. Richard Lea, the oldest
Presbyterian minister in Pennsylvan-
ia, and probably , in the United
sick; they comforted' the hea,rthrokenJ 1 With an armed body of twenty States, is dead att New Alexandria,
They never found any rest until they men, two rapid fire guns and some Pa. Dr. Lea was 90 years old.
put their head doivri on the pilloW barbed wire for making entasigle- sfaciDEs,
of the'sepulcher. God watched them. inents Capt. George Streeter on Sat- Louis Lewiths at one time a re -
God laughed defiance at the enemies urday took possession of 180 acres porter on the Staats Zeitung of New
th h Is hard down on of land in Chicago. He claimed it
these, his dear children, and one day under squatter's rights, and if suc-
the Lord struck his hand so ,hard on cessful would have been worth be -
his thigh that the oismipotent sword tween thirty and fifty millions of
rattled in•the buckler as he said, "I dollars. But the police carefully
am their God, and no weapon form- considered, and shortly after
ed against them shall prosper." the force moved on the poSi-
What harm can the world do you tion- a surrender was made, the ras
when the Lord Almighty with un- Pid fire guns never being once fired.
sheathed sword fights for you? 1 CASUAL'FIES.
Preach this sermon for comfort. Go Clayton Ford Stanley, the 7 -Year-
.,
home to the place just where God old son of Arthur Stanley, New York,
has put you to play the hero or the was drowned in a pool on his lath -
heroine, Do not envy any, man his er's country place at Northerevood,
money or his applause or his so- Duchess County, N.Y., 'I'hurscray ev-
clad position. Do not envy any evo- ening. -
man her wardrobe or her exquisite Three men were killed and a num-
appearance. Be the hero or the her- 1 ber of others seriously injured as a
`oine.. If there be no flour in the result of an accident to a 'work train
house and you do not know where early on Friday on the Akron, 0.,
your children are to get bread listen,
and you will hear something terming
against the window pane. Goto the
window, and you ,evill find it is the
beak of a raven, and open the winstation platform about 10 o clock
dow,and there will fly in the niessens Wednesday night, fell on his face on
ger that fed Elijah.. Do you think the track, and before any person no -
that the God who grows the cotton ticed him theshunter passed over
of the eouth wihl let' you freeze 1014 his body, cutting it, in t-wo. The
lack of clothes? Do you think that young man was subject to fits.,
God who allowed his disciples of S. B. Coleman event 113 the river"
Sabbath morning to go into the at Oxford Mills fishing on Queen's
grainfield and then take the grain Birthday. When he did not return for
and rub it in. their hands and eat---. supper his wife became anxious, and
(lo you think God will let 3,od a searching party was organized. The
starve? Did you ever hear the experheat was found upside down, with
ience of that, old man, "I have been the paddles floating near by. The
and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit
(electric suburban line).
A young man named Brazer, while
walking along the. Carleton Place
young and now am old, yet I have body was not found until Friday
never seen the righteous forsakeu or morning,
11 seed begging bread!' Get up At midnight on Wednesday fire
out of your discouragement, 0 troutsbroke out in the residence of Elisha
lecl .soul, 0 sewing wornan, 0 man Newton, Arden, near Kingston.' The
kicked and cuffed by unjust employ.- house was, totally destroyed, and two
ere, 0 ye who are hard beset in the children; 'aged 6 .and 8, were burned
battle of life and knoW licit which to death. , Both were girls,. The
way to turn, 0 yeti bereft one, 0 :rest Of the family barely escaped with
you sick one with complaints you their lives. kr. Newton, a driver on
have told to. no one, ceire and get the Rathbun Company's 'logs, ws
the comfort of' this ,, subject, Listen away at the time.
to our great Captain's. . .
cheer. "'Ph Searchers who Spent the night look -
,s
Min that ov,ercometh will I give trs ing ,1 or 2 -year-old Poster ilowe, son
eat of fruit of the tree of life of Michael Rowe, at the Cornwall ore
which is in the midst of the para- banks, at Lebanon, Pa,, Sunday
die° of God," morning found the little felloso lyi»g
On his back, smiling, at the bottloln
Excel c f..tove .a mine. The child had fallen
about lea feet doss n the almost pet
Mix turpentine With stove blaCking
pendieular side of a cut, There were
if you wi,ed.,
to ease a good polish to bumps, and cuts on 1111! head and
it titswe that has become rusty,
baek.
York, shot and killed hunself in Cen-
tral, Park Thursday night.
The body of Neil McKillop was
found in the Assinaboine River, Man.,
on Friday. He went there from In-
gersoll, Ont., and the police think,
as the man was a drinking man, that
it was a case of suicide.
A Hardship.
"The men's wear is very loud this
spring," said the salesman soothingly.
"I should say so. A. man can't get a
necktie or a colored shirt any more that
doesn't look as if his wife had bought it
for him." -Washington Star.
THE FORCE OF HABIT.
Showing llow Coutpletely One Xiabfr
May Supplant Another
"Efilla is a curious ttieg," enfd
%.10
‘,1fret0iiaoli0111,
10 tlithit he c
iln lo)enti,$)iteut;;:nseltvxisv
an.,(,)Itiehein'dseeaffic5121:111iOrretlellitiLl'101US111,Satiiillstma
years and which as 1 was firrela gees-
fvohritcallie we' nhsa ihrye%,locril.gmeaditiles. thAallineerfsttaf%;14k•:
fast, when I read tile paper, I used t.9
in that chair, and after dinner sit night IL
settled down into it with a cigar, in s
peace and happiness and thought there.
never svas a chair that combined se snarler
good points as to height and pitch of auage.
and slope of back and all tiutt, f had s
nejieeceua edhlaytiii
irth:t su1ld inc so
nt.itone
over or something or other liappeeed to -
it I don't know what but someiblra tee
serious that it svas put out of conunTessioas.
With our usual conservative slownese we
put off from any to day and from week to
week getting that chair repaired, and, as,
a matter of fact, it was two or thre5
years before we bad it fixed up andi
brought into use again, 'Meanwhile 1 haa
singled out another chair which 1came
commonly to occupy. This didn't begin
to be at first so comfortable ,as the old
one had been, but gradually its objectiooe-
able points disappeared, and I'm hlessed. •
if it didn't begin to develop good points
that I had never suspected in it, arid &
came at last to look upon it as a very
comfortable sort of chair indeed. But at
last the old chair -the good old elsa3r-
was Es:est up again and brought back hate
use, and the day it appeared I looked fee.
ward to settling dosvn in it at night with -
all the 'old time comfort.
"But -when, with all those pleasaut rea-
ticipati,ons, I came to sit in it again Idiot,.
not find the pleasure that I had expecte&
It was too high or too low or the seat':
sloped too much or something, I don't.
know what. It wasn't as it used to be --
to me. I tried it once or twice more afters
that and then gave it up and went back
to the new chair. Illy new habit bad be-
come firmly fixed. I liked the neiv chair
better, and now as I settled,downin it its
good points were at once emphasized and
softened and rounded into completeness,
and I accepted it in full as the chair ot
satisfying comfort and wondered as IE
looked across at the Other what I ever
could have seen in it to make nee like it
so much
is the force of habit." -Ness.
York Sun.
TWO LADS WHO STARTED EVEN;,_
Years When One Prospered Whilfs
the Other Stood Stili.
Thirty years ago Mr. H., n nureeryinaa
in New York state, left home for a day
or two. It was rainy weather and not a
seaeon for sales, but a customer areived
from a distance, tied up his horse and
went into the kitchen of a termite=
where two lads were craelsing nuts.
"Is Mr. II. at laonse?"
"No, sir," said the eldest, Joe, hammer-
ing at a nut. as
"When will he be back?"
"Dunn.), sir. Melsbe not for a week.g•
The other boy, Jim, jumped up and tea.
lowed the man out. "The mtm are net
s
hefas but I can show you the steels," he
said, \vith such a bright, courtemis man-
ner t at the stranger, who was a little
through the
theenuetmin
stplpieldyT,eainadfoinllu
got-riecel trheehrx„
and left his order.
"You have sold the largest bill E have
had this season, Jim," his father, greet1s..
pleased, said to him on his return.
A few years. later these two boys.were
left by. theia father's failure and d'eatit
with 5200 or 5300, each. Joe bought an
acre or tsvo nearhome. He has svoeke4.
hard, but is. still a poor, disconteated
man. Jim bought an emigrant's ticket tor
Colorado, hired as a cattle driver fot
couple of. years and with his wages.
bought land at 40 cents an acre, built
himself a house and married. His her&
of cattle are numbered by the thousands
his land has been cut up into town fetes
and he is ranked as one of the wealthiest
men in the state.
"I might have done like Jim," hit
brother said lately, "if I'd thought is
time. There's as good stuff in me as is
him."
"There's as good stuff in that loaf of
bread as in any I ever made," said his
wife, "but nobody can eat it. There's not
enough yeast in it." The retort, though
disagreeable, was true. The quick, wide
awake energy which acts as .leaven to
character is partly natural, but it can be
pinculcated by parents. -Industrial Enter -
Hits Deficient Ear.
"I give it up,", said Mr. °unisex as ha.
put on his hat. "I'm. not going to star
here to be harrowed by false alarins Ear,
longer." ,
"What's tho matter?"
f...an't tell whether' Dolly is practic-
ing d3 aria from a grand opera or whetiv
er she has seen a mouse and is scared.".*
Washington Star: '
Dr.
For the Dominion Government was unable, to find a cure fov
ftChitig Piles --After 9 years of torture he was positively
cured by
Chase s 11ntmenL
Mr. 0. P. St. John, the'Dondnion kispector of steamboats, residing
at No. 246 Shaw street, Toronto, was for many years chief engineer 01
the lake steaniers, and is a prominent citizen.
In the following voluntary letter Mr. St. John tells of his efforts .10
rid himself of the misery of Itching Piles, and of his final success by us-
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sleep on account of the annoyance caused by them. After trying almost
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