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Exeter Advocate, 1901-11-28, Page 2BSTRI:CTIONS I\ TILE bloss every cup you drink out of every couch you rest on, every does way you enter. I will consecsat your tears when you. weep, you sweat when you toil, and at tile las will hand over your gi* ONO into 1:1 hand of the bright angel of a Chris The Rev ]Jr.Talliaage Tells What They Are tian resurrection. I have been ,,en. of the Lord to, be groin' guardisi o 13. Hob. xiii 21) IT all . , . IVOI ✓ things accosding to the counsel of t owa will (Epli. i, 11), and faith. , I Will send thee unto i'llasaoll that thou mayest bring forth My people e Clcid had just said that He 'would do L it, and now /1:0 says Mesas will do t it, for Efa Will do it in and through c Moses, andthis is the lesson we ore - So slow to leorn—that "it is Cod whoworkeiliin us, both to will .ttild to do of His good pleasure"(IMI.11, arid How to Combat Them A despatch front Washington says; —Rev. Dr. Talmage pseached front the following text; --Proverbs 35: "When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'' With an insight into human nature such, as no other man ever liad, Sol- omon in sliese words is sketching the moutat processes Of a man who has Stepped aside froni the path of recti- tude and would like to return. Wish- ing for something better he says: "When shall X awake? When shall • get over this horrible, nightmare of iniquity?" But seized upon by une- radicated appetite and pushed down hill by his passions he cries out: "1 will seek it yet again. I will try it yet once more." About a mile from Prioceton, N. J., there is a skating pond. One Winter day, when the ice was very thin, .a farmer living near by warned the young men of the danger of skat- ing at that time. They all took the noir/ling except one young man. He in the spirit of bravado said, "Boys, one round more." He struck out on his skates, the ice broke, and his lifeless body was brought up. And in all matters of temptation and al- lurement it is not a prolongation 1 that is proposed, but only just one more indulgence.. just one more sin. Then comes the fatality. Alas for the one round more! "I" will seek it yet ugain." OUR LIBRARIES Are adorned with elegant literature addressed to young- men, pointing out to them all the dangers and perils of dife. Complete map of the voyage of life—the shoals, the rocks, the quick- sands. But suppose a young man is already shipwrecked, suppose he is al- ready off the track, suppose he has already gone astray—how can he be got back? That is a guestion that remains unanswered, and amid all the books of the libraries I find not one word on that subject. To that class of pet -sous 1 this day address myself. • You compare what you are now with what you were three or four years ago and you are greatly dis- spirit, Come with me,'' said th good angel in a voice of unearth!. symphony. It was music like tha , wnicn drops from a lute of heave' when a .seraph breathes on it, illusion and what, kind of a chui•ch 011, young man, will the Om/ an 110 35 techiontgoio tittnangid- tct: )pa e ,ibttyutiresgrilLetLaP°a0.:ad'o' gtaQ•enil.g;sieci)stvte. 042.1f, to iityolpil, ttittity by y00 t T,eoitlhe trillel olime w ing Methodist love roosts and Baptist are interlocked this moment abov immersions wben a man is about to you contending for your soul, a come out of the darkness of sm id - .7 to the glorious light of the gospel. Now, 1 have showa You these ()b.' staeles because.1 want you to un - dors t and I knowtOtil the difficulties in the way. But am now going to. tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps and how the sha,ckles may be unriveted and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all, throw yourself on God. Go to him frankly and earnestly and tell Him these habits you have anl ask him if there is any help in all the resources of, omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not go on with 1. 'lie led the flock to the'ha.ck a long rigmarole, which some people side of the desert and came to the call prayer, made up of ohs and mountain of God, to Horeb." Ae- olis arid forever and forever amens. cording to Acts vii, 23, 30; Moser Go to God and cry for help, was now 80 ears of are, ha lin The, also, I counsel you, if you spent 10 years in Egypt and 40 Want to get back, quit all your bad years with Jethro as shepherd., , 1 -lis associates. One unholy intimacy will shepherd life reminds us of Abel and 1111 your soul with moral distempes Jacob, David and other shepherds of In all the ages of the churdh there the Bible, each of whom in Some way las not been an instance where a suggests to us the Good; Great man kept one evil associate and was -Chief Shepherd (John x; 11, 14; reformed—among the sixteen hail.- Heb. xiii, 20; I Pet. V, 4), who saves lred million. of the race- us, works in us His will and will re - NOT ONE INSTANCE. ward us at His appearing.. The Give up your. bad. companions or shepherd life is of necessity a lonely give up heaven. It is not ten bad life, a lifo apart from the world and companions that destroy 0 Irian, nor its ways and gives great opportunity five bad companions, nor three, but for fellowship with God. Horeb is one. I again called the mountain of God in What chance is there for thot I Kings xix, 8, in ,connection - with young mau I saw along the street, Elijah's visit to it. It is -mentioned four or five young men with him, in in Mal. IV, 1, as the place *here God front of a grogshop, -urging him to gave Moses the law, the statutes and 'o in, he resisting—violently re- judgments and,in Ex. xix is called sisting — until after awhile they Sinai. In verse 12 of our lesson. forcetl him to go ? It was a sum- God told Moses that after he had mer night, and the. door was left brought the people out of Egypt open, and I saw the process. They; they would serve God upon that held him fast, and they put the cap mountain. In Ex. xvii, 6, we read to his lips, and they forced down that there Jehovah gave them water the strong drink. What chance is front the. rock that they might drink. there for such a young man ? The events associated with Horeb Some of you, like myself, were and Sinai give us a most profitable orn in the country._ And what Bible study, as do all the mountain lorious news might these voting roeu stories of the Bible, such as Carmel, homeInd o mit parents t Olivet, etc. fternoon they had surrendered them -I 2. "And the angel of the Lord ap- elves to God and started a new peaged unto him with flame of tire fe T know how it is in the coup- out of the midst of a bush." The ry. The night comes on. Ihe cat- Lord our God is a consuming firc le stand under the rack, through (Deut. iv, 21). He desires His peo- ) just allows God to work and quietlY abides with Him for His pleasure. - Whitt an honor is conferred upon us 1 when Ile select:3 any one of its to - work through, s 11, 12. "'Certainly I will hc5 with o thee. I have sent thee." Moses did s not understand, Tie has his slices on. - at once and asks, "Who am I that 1 - should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children. of Israel ?" See him also in Num. xi, 22; xx, 10, and srou see at a oiling° that his shoes are on. He is think- ing of himself, not of God. The three signs given him, as recorded in the beginning of the next chapter, should have shown him his import- ance and the power of God, yet WO hear him ohjeeting and refusing, al- ' though God said, "I wilt be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say" (iv, 1.), so that finally God gives him his brother Aaron to be his spokesman or prOphet (Iv, 14- 16; vii, 1, 2). r know nothing groat- , er in the Lord's service than the as- surance of the Lord's prosence and that He sent us. As to the 'first, see Joshua i, -5; Judg. vi, 11, 16; Isa, xli; 10. 13; Jos, I, 8, 19; 'Hag. 3; ii, 4; Math. xxviii, 20, and others as you may find them . SECRET OP LONG LIVING. above the Apennines eagle and con dor fight midsky.. This ,•hour de cides eternal destinies., 4 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. I. Text of the Lesson, Ex, 1-12 Golden Text Ex. iii maitened. You are ready with ev- ery passion of your soul to lis,ten to a a discussion like this. Be of good s cheelo your best days are yet to come. , I offer you the hand of wel- t coma and rescue. I put the silver t trumpet of the gospel to my lips and blow one long, land blast, say- ing, "Whosoever will, let 'him come, 0114 101 him come .now," The church which -burst the trusses 'of hay. The pie wholly'H for imself that He May horses have just frisked up from the' bless them the full: , He consumeS meadow brook ,at the nightfall. and', in .11ip people 'only that , which hies stand,nee deep in the bright ,straw ders their true happiness: They, like of Clod is ready to .spread a, banquetthat invites them to lie down and the bush are not .00nsinnedsariSr More upon your return and all the hies- t • • , p v is than Daniel s friends were consumed _ areas of heaven fall into line of ban- of fowl, their feet warm under their 1. the furnace, whiclj burned only nered procession over your redemPs foa.thers. When the 'nights get cold, their bonds and set them free to tions the flames clap their lands above the walk with the Son of God. The Suppose a man of five or ten or great backlog and shake the shadow phrase in the blessing upon ,ToSephni twenty years of evil doing resolves of the group up and down the wall. "the good will of Him that dwelleth to do rig -ht. Why, all the forces of Father and mother sit there- for half in 1110 bush" (Deut.xxxiii, 16), may darkness are allied against him. He an hour, saying nothing. I wonder suggest that Joseph, like others who gets down on his knees at midnight what they aro thinking of. After have, come through great tribulation: and cries, "God help me!" He awhile the 'father breaks the silence are burning bush saints, never biteshishis lip. He grinds his teeth. and says, "Well, I wonder, Where sumed because God is in them (Isa. He clinches his fist in a determina- our boy is in town to -night." . .And xUii, 1, 2). , tion to keep to his purpose. He the mother answers : "In no had [ 3, 1. "When the Lord saw that he .dare not look at the bottles in the place, 1 warrantyou. We always turned aside to see. God. called unto „window of a wine store. It is .one could trust him when he was at, hint out of the, midst of the bush and long, bitter, exhaustive, hand to home, and since he has been away 'said, "2Ioses, Moses." Observe the hand fight with inflamed, tantalizing there have been so many prayers of --t double call in Gen. xxii, 11, and I. merciless habit. When he thinks he fesed for hint we can trust him " Sam. ill, 10, to Abraham and Sam - is entirely free the old inclination Then at 8 or 9 o'clock, just before lien Joseph told Pharaoh that pOunces upon him like a pack' of they retire, for they go early to bed. :doubled meant established by or pre - hounds, all their muzzles tearing they kneel down and commend you pared of God (Gen. xli, 32 and mar - away at the flanks of` -'to that God who watches in country sen). We think os the , Lord's 25. ' • ONE POOR REINDEER. iand in town, double amens of' John's gospel and How Signor Crispi Lengthened His Days.—His Simiele°Ta.stes. Whon Signor Crispi, an. old man of eighty-two, was astonishing the whole world by his extraordinary, re- sistanco to death, raany reasons were put. forth to account for the phenomenon which, after all, accord- ing to his owntestimony, is a very simple .one. To great natural vigor of body was added a We of absolute sobriety and regul arity. Whether this obstioence was natural to him is not known., but it is certain that through years of great poverty it became second nature. While in Malta, for some time he I slept on straw and fed on bread and salad, while wine never passed his lips. To a newspaper friend during his days of exile in Piedmont; ho said : "To live I must labor ; give I me work," and afterwards for a long 'time thought himself lucky to have. ,political articles to write at night each. In later life he was an absolute . enigma to his friend Pribe' Dis- Imarck when he visited him at Pried - the capacity of the lattel !for beer and tobacco being well known. A. man who never smoked at table, only just tasted 0110 or two of the most, simple dishes, mid drank only a glass of one kind of Wine, always mixed with water, and neves. took a glass of beer between sneals, was a study worthy of some atTeltion and much admiration. In his own house his cook bad as much trouble to prepare siropla dishes that he would eat as he would have had to concoct rich dishes for another person. Many days, dm•ing times of political stress, he hardly ata at all, but was alwa.ys regular in his times of going to meals. ''Regularity and abstinence are the secret o, life," -he has been heard to say ; and. truly he seen's to have proved it so: 4 -- THE COSTLIESO.' PAINTING. 1 have xis° to say a man vimits ON THE LAND AND ON TI.IE SEA. of -the special attention we, should to return from evil practices society ! Oh, despise not paternal anxiety ! give them. If Moses had not turned repulses him. The prodigal, wish- T ing to return, tries to take some h .professor of religion by the hand. Y The professor of religion looks at th him, looks at the faded apparel, ti and_ the marks or dissipation, - and Ir instead. of giving him a firm grip of ne the hand offers him the tip end of gi ..X.he longer fingers of the left hand, in Svhich is equal to striking a man in s ,the face. Oh, how few Christian or people understand hovr much gospel th there is in a good, honest handshake Ju ingl. Sometimes when you have ss felt the need of encouragement and fa some Christian man has taken you ti heartily by the hand have you not h felt thrilling through every fibre of ai your body. mind and soul an enfl - couragement that was just what you d needed? , I The prodigal. wishing to get into bi good society,. enters a prayer meet- nt ing. Some,good man without much h sense. greets him by saving: "Why te are you here? You are about the B last person I expected to see in a prayer meeting. Well, the dying thief was saved, and there is hope for you." You. do not know any- thing." about this, .unless that you have learned that when a man tries to return from evil courses of con- duct ha runs against repulsions in- nuinerable. How these dainty, fastidious Christians in all. our churches are he time will come when you will aside to.see, think what he might ave neither father nor mother, and have missed. ... ou will go around the 'place where. ' 5. "Put off thy shoes from ott thy, e„fy* used to watch you_ ana rind feet, for the place whereon thou tem gone from the house and gone standest is holy ground." Compare om the field, and gone from the the same ,ihstruetten m Joshua v, ighborhood. Cry as loud for for-, 15, which, 'I think, is found' in veness as you may over the mound l these two pla,ces—to_Moses as he was the churchyard, they cannot an -or about to load Israel out of Egypt *or. Dead ! Dead 1 And then you and to Joshua, as he was about to ill take out; the white leek of hair lead . them into the promised lan4. at was cut from mother's brow ,To tread upon a place meant that sI before they buried her, and you 'the place was given that person ill take the .cane with which your (Joshua i, 3),„ So when a person ther used to walk, and you will Sold a piece, of land he -took MI Isis link and think and wish that you shoe. and gave it to the purchaser ad done just as they wanted you (Rath i.V, 7 ) . 'It seems to me that id would give the world if you had God says to Moses and Joshua in ever tlunist a pang through their these words something to this effect: ear old hearts. This whole, matter is Mine, not 1 God pity the. young- man who has nyours. 1 will see it through, You -ought. disgrace 00 his father's come with Me and rely upon IVIe yawl God pity the. young man who as broken his mother's heart! Bet- s that he had. never been born. ett r 'f ' tl fi • hour of ' ' instead. of beino laid against the (Jgh xlii 5,6; Is% vi D - • Luke v, 8; Rev. i, 17). God revealed Himself to Moses as the Clod of Abraham. Isaac. and Jacob, the God not of the dead.. but of the living (Math. xxii, 32). He told Moses to say to Israel. "I am bath sent me. unto you" (verse 14); I 'am that I ams He is Jehovah_ who Changes mit; jesus Christ , the same to-dayyester- d,,d • (Mal. iii, 3, Heb - :sin, 8). Men paSs away from earth and great changes come, but Hes continues, and every' purpose of His 8111111 be performed at His • up- P°7i,lit8e,(1 ‘tr,leia:.ve surely 'seen,and have heard, for .I know their sOsrows and t am come down to deliver them arid. to bring them unto Um good land.", Note carefully ' 'the whole of these two vases, that which ITe sees and hears and knOws and that which He will do for :His naine's sake. Evelor 6. "Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God." A. deep, senso of unworthiness is an accom- e 1 in ie 1st lour or his 1110, pamment of a. revelation of God warm bosom or maternal tenderaess,„ he had beets coffined and sepulchered. IThere is no balm powerful enoughto heal the heart Of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave and who wanders about through the dfsmal e,emetery rending the air and Wringiug the hart& and cr.vi rig , "Mother Mother!" Oh, thaLto-day ,bys all the memories' of the paSt and know unless they have an especial would yield your heart to God! May going- to get into ' heaven I do not :by all the hopes of the future, you train of cars cushioneo and upholst- your lather's God and your mother's eyed: each one a car to himself. They . God be your God- foreyer ! • , I cannot go, with the great herd of ) --Thishour the door ' of . mercy -1,, publicans ,and sinners. • 0 ye wilo ,swings wide open. Hesitate not a, i ', c.url yotir:lip' ,of . scorn on. the fallea. -inonient, ln • many a, b-c.sjta,tion• is , 'I tell you 'Plainly tha.t if 'you had. ,the" '1058 of An ., ' At the 'corner of, been, surrounded , by the sa,xne infitt-',a street -I• saw a tragedY.• A Young,: . . enCeS instead 61 sitting to -day amid .?-nall,' evidently doubted as to Whicho the cultured and, refined. and the ;direction IM had , better take. His ' Christian you might haVe been hat was 'lifted high enough so you I ' !could see Ile had an intelligent fore- ' , A. CROUCHING \ V HET CR. , 'head He had a' stout chest and a in stable or ditch CoVered with filth. , ' • . I obust developnunt. , and abomination! It is not ,bocatise we are nattlrallY any better, but be- 1 . SPLIDNIDID Y°U,NCI 'raT4N 1 eause tile inercY of God Ints Proteeted ,Cultured young 'man 1 Why did he no, Those that are brought tip hi ;stop there while -So 1..iany were going Christian circles and watched by ;tip and down; ? 'Pile fact is that , Christian pal'elitage should not be every yourig'man has a good angel. i i so hard,on the fallen: . and a bad angel cOntending for the, I think also that Men are often triastery of his spirit°, and there was.': . ndered from returning by the fact a good angel and a bad angel. strug-i that churches are anxious abotft 'gling With thet young, inan's 80 111 01,, t heiV MOW bership., too anxious about l',hi..1 corner of the. street,. `'Come their denoMinations, and they rush along with me," said the good angel ; out when they see 0, man about. to 1"I will take yeu home. I will sore0,8 give up sin atid return to God and dny wings °Yes your pillow. I will.' ask hint how he is 'going to be hop- ,l.e-yingl',,v 08001.1 you all through, life tized,Whetiler by ' fdirdikiing or 3111- Iliale•I'' supernatural protection. 1 The Duke ,of Marlborough is belies -- ed. to besthe possessor of the costli- est painting in the world, which waS the property of the first Duke of Marlborough. The picture is known as the "Blenheim Madonnas" paint- ed by Raphael in 1507, and now val- ued. at.no less than S350 000. it is 8f1. high, and represents the Macron - 'ha' and Child seated on a throne, witha, figure of St. John the Bap- tist on the 'left and that of ,St. Ni - 'cholas Of 'Pail" on tha right.:_11S most. fabulous. value. is due to the fact that it is one Of the bestepre- sesved of the artist's works la eX- istence. HUNTING roa MAHOGANY. Mahogany -hunting is precarious work. Sin Central and South Ameri- ca the mahogany trees do not, grow iri groups ; much less are there whole forests of them. They are scattered, usually ,concealed in thickets. It re- quires skill dud experience to find them. To' fell a tree involves the work of two men for a whole day. On account of a thick, thorny growth Pear the base of the tree. a scaffold is erected around it, and above this, , at a height of from 10 feet to 15 8 feet, the tree is cut, so that the best iN is then freed of branches and hauled part, is really" lost„ 'She felled tree.lw on a rough waggon by oxen to the .h nearest river, where rafts are made and floated down., T THE QUACK'S CURE, EXILES, IN STERIA TO DA ENG•LISHM, AN'S ACCOUNT 0 SOME RUSSIAN PRISONERS id for Privileges ,of Flex' 13anisl e Political Reasons — A Wo- inan.'s Prison. Y surclity of sae p it lace as a Pelson so j lar as we tindei'stand prisonS. " 1 dentancied, 'do you p Mean to' hay these women don't go alv"t''Y'?\V'ell,' 1 was told, 'o110 went away in the sl)ring. Tlie usual roll- pcic si vos air.:1111.1:sdeweili the o ' days 101011'.:10:1g)48,1.1aiirelPladl'iss11011:1 at her. going, but we were luore stir- teLoi 11sweeblaicell•c-lover, and as Men aro " `Sim explained that she wasited 110)1 ,allowetison Sunday, which is the vis- itors' day, she lust \vent 011, and af- ter seeing .nint. came back " A correspondent • writing 'to the London 1')il.3r News gives some in- teresting information about the mo- dern conditions under which Russian exiles, honlisal and criminal, hive He says : 'The exiles may be divided irtto three per : first,' the political of- fenders, in a minority and banished for strong insurrectionary or religi- ons opinions ; secoadl,y, criminals, mostly foroers and thieves who are sent to the big prisons in the inter- ior. and thirdly, murderers who are sent to Saghalien, where, even IN:must spend the remainder of- then vliee: the sentence is finished, they "The political prisoners have the best parts of the country to'dive in —namely, in the wek. Other pris- oners are. exiled"rtearer to the icy regions according to the gravity of their offence. tie"eT 111 tetrilcVi. and,Pri5° 11/1 eYrsSPlieleaiYal 'ae mission, medicine. 'A 'political' is not identified with the eshninal any more than a debtOr is with a felon in England. Stich. offenders do not travel with others in a gang, "Politicale get 21 16s a month from the Government, but this var- ies according to the districA to which they are sent: Wives who accompany their husbands are allowed thirty- six 'pounds of bread a month, but must submit to the -regulations of the eta.pe. "If all goes well with a 'political' he gets permission to settle in some Siberian town with his family, but any allowance from the Government then ceases. He is just the same as any other resident, save tha.t he CAN NEVER LEAVE SIBERIA. 'If he wishes to farm the Govern- ment will give him a plot of ' land and money to work. Rut this money must be paid back by instalments. "Of the criminals, there are those dead to the outer world, who lose everything—wife, children,. property and all—and those who retain wife and property; and can: return Lo their own when the sentence is com- pleted. If these second-grade con- victs behave well the,y are allowed to live near a prison and work for their living on condition that they give so much work daily to the Gov - eminent. "The chains worn are five pounds weight for the legs, and two for the wrists. A convict with a life sentence wears chains for eight years., If the punishment is twenty years' imprisonnient chains are worn for four years. 'The use - of the knout is absolute- ly abolished. A 'Piet' is, however, used, and is worse. It weighs eight pounds', with a lash of solid leather, tapering froru the handle to three circular thongs the size of a finger. "Capital punishment does not ex- ist in Russia, but a flogging with a `plet,' is equivalent to a death sea- tence- 'The skilful flogger will kill a rnan with six blows. "Women, are neveix, now Set to work' ia the mines as the men are ; they are. never flogged." The Same correspondent gives description of' a visit to THE FEMALE PRISON at Irkutsk, which -is very different from the general idea people have of Russian jails. "We walked through, a village of shanties,." says the writer,-. ``to what lo'biced. the best' house in the place. The Governor turned. the, han- dle of the ate. be went into the yard—a higgledy-piggledy place lit- tered with old bricks and the rub- bish of some "house that had .been demolished—and-I 'saw some rather some children playing With a kitten. the; Governor: , slatternly women ,s•:„,tt,i,ng about, and '1.1 I send for the.. inatron,' said . " 'Tsthis the Prison ?' I asked in some .amazement. " 'Yes, this is the Only prison we have in it•kutsk for women.' ' "It was just a large sized ordinary house abutting on the ,street, but not a single- soldier to see that no Om opened the gate and made off. I couldn't help laughing. "The matron was a large -honed, commanding woman—most suitable for the post --and. was a little flus- tered at this unexpected visit. With- outado 'We walked into a big lower "There was not a pleasant atmos- phere. It was a scorching hot day, nd, there were no windows open. "There were thi•ee long, slightly loping shelves running along either vall. 'hese did duty as beds. I'llere ere . WOM,EN SPRAWLING Al3OUT z11 of tliein. svitli children. "The scene rernintied tile of a visit once made to 0 cheap lodging Ouse, for W011aeb in the East End of London. The place --was far behind the men's prison for cleanliness. r.Phe smelt was indeed sickening. "There seemed. to be a lot of un- 'Ilrelfoesclothing lying, about, ,s:%IvroYro0telSc,1 w1io w01'e silting in groups when we disturbed' theta, Were unkempt,„aM",1. moSt of the children would hare benefited, bY- • "You iniglit just as welt have give 77„, the ,,aurora borealis," said a theIcn°dIa'°dileq,1,...YOur ben•or, and- • ( just what I should Im.ve given. 111111 next i lie hadn't (110(1.'' 21 o _ A LITTLE .1,00 1101', 01 It is one mark of a quack, , what- ever school he may belong to, that lie.. never atImi s Ills own ignorance. A ,'`hedge doctor,'' a kind, of..o. quack lit. Ireland, was ..1)e ing .exanii tied at an inquest oh his own .trea,tnient of a ,patient wlio ha,d - e`I,gaVe , ipeca,etutalia," he ,said. child of God inay take conifeet from these assurances : Whatever be your, sorrows' or your circumstances Ffe sees ancl hears and knOwt, and if permits littrd things to contirme it is because the best time for 'MS deliverance '11a8 not yet come. for God His. Nvay is perfect, and iTe inal:eth, our way perfect" (Ps. sviil, 30, :32), tttid ife will never be too late in anything that He does, hut WC need patidnco 0.110 must, be con- tent, with John to learn the signifi- cance of the kingclont ond 1.).t1ie11ce of jesits' Christ Clreb• Xy 36: • new. 1, • 0, ('1)110 -now therefore, Ond ash. 'Tliere were forty women 'and llou t,wenty child ren. `I'Vlutt tire these Avolnen. here for?' , , , sked. , • `I]verytliitig from 1)e1l37 theft tct girder.' , " 'Show nie sonic of your intirder- '5.' "The matron cqtllecl on five or six omen to stand 011 one side. ri'liere as nothing to distinguish them -.0111 the orditutr,y slothful peasant anion, '0210, however, wits taller and het - et' looking. Tier featUres wet•e clear it and ltee hair dark. There, Was a nister, angry t.,,leitiu 10 tier eyes as lough slie 2020)) 10(1 oUr presence. " said 1,11e inateort ",is our cent 06111e1s Slie is 'a Jewess. and ie is Imre' because site poisoned llet• usbart(1.`', , "PJi thang, howe'c et tl)at would pt get ou1 cu` rey sailiti was the als-' Little Janet, aged four, noticed the other day at dinner the rest of tile family helping thmaselVes liberal- ly to the -mustard. -'Nobody offering lier, any, she waited until sonic tif,ing drew away the catention of the oth, ers, when` she I fted the inns rd spoon) liberally datibe4 a piec0,. of bread Wi(J), 1; and took a, great hi Le. , 'Her hand immediately 'went up to 'her "MOO TI1 , but barely stm- 11 ' w si ti re "pressing 00 ofitcry, she p'ut "the sl broad- awoy TrObfl her.' renia,rking, think wtst 181 that iLlls gets eoid." • r21 ROYALTY'S 11-011I1\Lr' TEETH THEY ARE KING EDWARD'S' CHIEF ANERsioN. ,The Crowli'Phince of Norway and Sweden. a Martyr to Toothache, • Old world royalty is decidedly weak in the matter of teeth. 'Ilia moment thatthe -Duke of Cornwall and York landed. in Australia he Was obliged bo place,himself-in.the hands of the dentist, 11114 was afflieted such an extent With the agonies of the toothache that , lie was unable to appear at sevel'al "reeeptions or- ganized in his holiOr',, ....Ind at which the Duchess was -obliged' ,to figure alone. On the Opliir .arriving in the St. Lawrence 'almost the first per- son to be summoned on board was ,a Quebec dentist, for the purpose of affording relief to the Duchoss, whose entire, trip across the Atlantio,' had been spoiled by -a - torturing tooth. We all remember how King Ed- ward, when asked to describe, his ' -chief aversion, declared that it was the obligation to look pleasant and to make civil speeches -to people when suffering from a' raging tooth- ache, and the late Dr. Thomas Ev- ans, of Paris, was frequently sum- moned across the Channel to Sand- ringhain to attend to the •teeth • of the Ring and Queen and of their children, who would never pass through Paris without submitting their molars to •011 inspection by THE FAMOUS DENTIST. • Both Napoleon III. and Empress. Eugenie had constant recourse to the medical services of Dr. Evans, and notoriously- took .advantage of the fact that he was continually being called, away to attend this or that foreign sovereign to intrust him with . the. delicate duty ,of repeating to his illustrious patient matters which could not well be communicated , ei- tiler in writing or verbally through official channels. There 'is no royal persouage -in all Europe who -is' a greater martyr to toothache than the Crown Prince of Norway and, Sweden, whose teeth are barred, .owing to 'which none of them cart be removed without having been previously crushed'," so as to 'admit of their being taken away piecemeal. That the queen of Rau-, mania, ha.s frequently stood 10 need of medical attendance to her teeth is' shown by the fact that when, after the failure of her Majesty to carry through .her net project of a mar- riage between herr nephew, the Crown Prince; and her favorite maid of honor, Helene Vacarescu. she with- drew to Venice and established a sort. of court of hen own there, her American dentist figured along with her preach private secretary, Robert Schaeffer, and Mlle. Vacarescu among shose of her familiars whom her -hus- band, the King, summarily dismissed" from his wife's service at the time when he confided her to the care of her mother and brother in Germany, where she was virtually under RESTRAINT FOR A TIME. Among .the persons distinguished by Queen Isabella of Spain with hei• favor was an American dentist, who, in the latter part of the '50s, 0114 10 the early '60s, played a great role at Madrid, being alleged by many peo- ple to have been parentally.related to the late ,Ring Alfonso; and' again it wits,toOthache that 'brought. theIats, Ring of Wurtemberg into continual. cation with that other dentist whom be loaded with favor, and who ac- quired. such an influence over him that the monarch was ultimately asked by his' gevernment and his pee- ple to choose between abdication and the banishment from thc kingdom or ins trans-Atlantic dentist and friend. Almost the first appointment made 10' the household of the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, and which was' gazetted as, such, was that of a "dental' surgeon to their royal highnesses," while' Don Carlos of Spain .uses artificial be enothing- etbeitiniet othrs to that ioy- alty, far from being exempt from this partieular form of human ills, is perhaps more„ prone, thereto than the average people of less exalted rank, A PUZZLING CASE. The Ihrench courts were puzzled some time ago by the case of a man who lost a bank -note uncles remark- able circumstances. • binini on the terrace of 0 Narbonne restaura,nt, he Id t the bank -note fail into his soup: fie 'laid the note on the table todry, and a gust of wind carsied it away. A paSsing :dog swallowed it, and `the gentleman detained tlie -animal. -who,se collar happened to bear,' his mastar',,s,•narne, „ Theowner' of the note sued the 'owner 01- the dog for it. hundred francs: the' value, of the note. There was much legal hair splitting-, but. at length the court arrived at a deeision which surprised most'peoplo, ordering the °Nonce of the dog to Te - 11111d the' hundred francs. WHEN HE IIAD SENSE. Ile: "Ethel, what . can it mean ? Last night 1 dreamed that 1 propos- ed to you." Site; ,“1. 81101110 say it meant that you were itiore sensible asleep than awake." lialle is r-,ald to ito.,,sess the 211051 va Ina ble victi in. 11 (Pc world. 11 is a Ktradivarins which forinetiy 1)alonneil to hirlist, aild 18 valuable, It t $10,000.