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CONFUSION OF CASTE. ! I A Mroaf SUIrmra t, Wr.*n Bother puU a Iking ompaatlenlly it i> beuiiM *he know* what *he in talkint Gentility V* Nobility c i about. Mn , s*y : J. V. Harrlg I havti Huntingdon Own Tab arrlgan. II , u*ed Bab/ let* in our holme fur or a year, and I can/ y that they are all that is eUvroed.>flr 5oul. lrg Mrs. Hunt, Dumfries, N. B. *ay : " I am clad to say that 1 have UMM< Baby's Own Tablet* with satisfactory laiulU.' The nc.vs l II All I H X. i b vviio asked Ihe Trelaw- lo <!iiiiier I'lic C.MI.H-K. 'Hid u.i> i;,i..vvn lull) gleal t repi daliou tiy ihe invitation. "How ku.il they arc ! 1'on't > ou Miluk Uit, i. -i. io.-e la very kind and nice '!" :.lie kaid to her husband, 111 ,ulle a ch-.eilul tone, as they went hoaie. .she h..ii .10 bu|>icion, poor child I that to -i.i. 'J u-l.iVM,c> i tie eiili i tmn- ly il must be that : don't you think, so ?" flu- said Anil it U i . such a pity. beOatlM of roui-.o 1 don't xpe.-t them to havu an.-.lliinK tn do ,1-1 III me I shiiiild never think of -.nli |H..|!I- as Mrs. \VcUnrall, or Sim-lair. or e '-n Mi-, lii 1 inviting me, you know, llon'l vou think. il.-.n. you im.lil let th.-m unilei.-t.-iiid thai ? I-'or if Ihey I. Mr*. Walter Brown, Milby. Qne.. " I h,*ve nnver used any modieinM I tliMdid dim a* much good as Utny'a Own Tablets. 1 would not be without tiiem." oil a. ii, K think ' In-y you jui<t I win isc they would hu\o to ..sk me ' by Mrs. H H Fox. Ortngo KiJge. Man *. Ijroiild not be without them in the hotm A tber'* Confer!. " I hav found Baby's Own Tablet* M Wolkr r. !/. ry mother of youag caildrco __ HI *end a* her name and addre*' plain); ritton oaa poital trd, we will - ..i,J fret of a'l chargt; a valuable little fcook on the caro of infantii and young children. ThLt| bunk ha* been pMarM by a physician who ha made the ailmonta of little ones a life tudy. With the book we will iocrf a free wun pie of Baby's Own Tablet.- the be.it mixlicme in the world for tho mn,r ailment, of mfaoU end chi'dron. JUuliG.i tlie ume thi* paper and a<idre*a The Dr. William ediciue Co., lirc-ckrille, Out. * - riKrl.mr~<t !,,. " 1 Ml the mother of nine children," writa Mm. John Haulan. of Mackey'* Station Out., aud hare had occasion to uae much rnedicmefor children, and lean truthfully ay I hav* never found anything to eual Baby'-. < )wn Tablet*. TMy are prompt in ' r actJo* and junt the thing for littl* fmn for 4 .B They are truly a comfort to baby and moth- er'* frijuj. luenl could have bct-n in un> uy a l " . 't 's MH h a mi .luku, and iin.l painful 01. e She chatteu-u happily it \exen mo bo." Nli" was n to him ul>' ut lut.fi - her. the thn.K-s thai she lu'.-i.l.. him. the il tli t had been tuld to . pc-or little hand dinning to his neck, trying lo speak l.iavely. and "I i-iijo; . I It nil so much limn- than 1 bad ihouijht 1 should." slio to keep the tears out of her voice. Hut for a few moments at leust her Hid s .in,..., i'f ioui.se it is much .-rhaps rather ai-noyrd her nicer t' :...- i I.....-, i.i.t ii i- net i-ailful us I had lii-l...i:il than loiicla-il him l-ttv, you ilon't know what you thought U \tt.i. Id U-. ..r UK il would ! ore K...\|I-K This in a matter hav* u-i-n n ii.ne h.id I e. n a p.ulj. cannot interfere with," he answered It w.. , kind of them to have quickly. nobody Hurt- - .'<rt i it und .she looked u|> with an ii|i|.f.il fur yiu|-aih> u.to huaban.l s f i .. that he had not heart, to i.'.'i^e to ni\e her lhu\o he sai. i. . . ,. to him uith her wiBtful. .n vi told her, .1 he I. .i'i nicely o.; UM while f course. at dn i i .1 i . i s e...s And then lull- tl\ N her Ihu he <<. i very in.. !> \ery If .MI ^ t a (ow niinut.-. alunvanU h poke to her mor "You must not think that it anything to me to Rive up th.-.o icoplo," he Bald Hhould hnxe Iwn glad if they had taken notl.o of \.,u. tmt sin.-i- they h < ' lot .1 . i.. it- \\i-M. v.i- .. in hoth Ihe without tin Jl The Thl.g r*r Babf. Mr*. Ed. Jonm,WChri*tie street, Ottawa, ay: "Have u-rfsil llahy's Own Tablet* Mi ami them just the thing for Uaby." Many jittle ones are troubled with euuii- Tuna dangerou* trouble. Mr*. _***. Sylvan Valloy, Onl.say*: nby das been badly troubled with . ation and I have never found any Kcme to equal Itaby'* On Tablet*. Key soon put baby all right." A tircal MI-IP. found Baby 1 ! Own _ tr tay little one*," writer Mm. Jaon-s CiaiTlc, 6) Conwav itrott. Montreal, and I think so much of them that I would adviw, mothers tu keep them io thejiooso all (Treat tho time. nay rr|.lr. nail*. Mm. William Fitzffibbon, Steenburfr. Out. ,y*: T "My little Uiiby, six month* olj, was ~*T~ ~ m f / UMUJ. a** UIVIIll 19 Ulli, W**9 very nick. I gave him Baby'* Ow u Tablt* andwas *urprUed to hu.l the change they MM.!" in Itim in a few hours. I rhall always keep the Tablets in the house after tliu." Ho hud loo little heart for the work to keep n .ip. unil she vv n , |. ( hups too inupl u pupil lo change l.i- 'e for teaching into love <>f it sen her idle. Prolmbly he never con- ' necti-d tin- idea of usc-fuhii su with her' ul all, bm only ihe ideas or ple-a- ! simti.ewi, of oibc. of a certain kind ills to ill.-. til a little of fle.-oriit lull. ki .iwli-dge into her only awaken.*! in in him a fueling of involuntary con- si nr- - ,,f Hi- li.-.in gremlin, in her humility, that she SKI ro\< ful One day. when, in a ;.cai Ling, she .said words lo him rc~ Ihut found tli.- ncipiii uitf of know- ledge sin-h a difficulty . lier | al.enl labor. lli.''-ai| ol .most irritated him. "Hon't vex yoi.i e'f 'I .lo so In Hi- for hin ho .i I. inlied at her I.etty. don't make lroiil>len for rself." he .-uid. "He hajipv-tli.it i-i all I wain. Hum you. L-u\e nil much .u. I Mr. I'enrose it Would have l-i : lei, Ii* s. ad und in future sl.e n. I not cull h.m Mr " No lady - IH-.I a gentleman "sir." It was <| ii ..aural that khe should not know ' - al but for ihe future she must T., io reiiieiubei it lh.it Wa* all lie hu.l to nnd fault with. IIP aid kindly. Her manner to Mrs I'enroke hud la-en very nice indeed . "and you looted very pretty. my Ln-tty." he .:!...! gently, and brut down and ki sod tho anxious little mi t. ike lies in ihinLmi; that I could So continue to go to II, ir house* with- out you. That would ! out of the ion. Lelty." I.etty." he -aid to her on that last the things that worry you niKht. "I will thiiik of some good! Simply be happy und I ahull | book that will do f.ir i to n-.nl t u- rui.'ent." gether. and that will le In-tlei for HI. ki- c-d her as ho spoke : you, I duresM.v. than lo-son-l.-.o n- tho. K ht perhaps lhat he had IHK-" lie found il book thill 1 IIIK- forted her ; he did not know was In- there was something in her uid bo he corn- that heart "Hill why ? should like .Uii'ii-'d e"k;ei You must I shouldn't you to go," mind It. she ex- dear, when not IK- " tuko my word for it. I tell you that It could ' I hen ilo you in-an do you really nioiin," she snid and such u piteous look of hmrow c.nno into the blue ejes "that you IUIM- i>< LU< ip nil \o'ir old frii-mlH lMfin.su you have DinrrifMl mo ?" Ilo tt led to lai.fh at her "It costs me very little tn give I,.- i o- -ill. red ..il.-. I lo I i-r capacity, and f-ir a hltli- while tlu-v had .1 nightly reading frnm il but after a week or two- Mln.i i-. v.i'hoiit a word this .ustoii: ,.K > ci-a-ed. and the unfinished volume, with the mark that a8 ho made his speech that was cry- t my out for mother sort of lion crying forlornly for food he could not K've "You might have married i that A NATURAL MACNKT. A .sc-M-utilic. professor was once lec- II.MIIK in a provincial town on nat- ural philosophy, and in the course of his experiments he introduced a most po-.veriu| magnet, with which he at- tractetl a block of iron from a dis- tance n|' two feet "fall any of you iiiii.-eive a greater attractive povv di-miuided the lecturer, with un air of triumph "I can," answered a voice from the audience. V,t .1 natural. torn-Mi ial ohjii-t?" ' \'-s. inri.-ed." Thu liit'irer. somewhat puzzled, challenged the man who had spoken to name the article. Then up rose an old country man. Said he "I will give you farts. Pro- fessor, .mil vou can judge for your- self When I was a young man there I was a little -piece of natural magnet 1 done up in a neat cotton dress as body who would have been so much ! w s calloil Belsy Maria She could inoio lo you lhan I can he," she ' in it .it 'he place where ho had left ' sadly said. oft re.i.iin stood on hi. sheUes years J think, Letty. the chances afterward* uniouch.-.i tine* th- last , h .. lt j( nad not n, airiw i vou are ni^ht whin I.i-lt>' hard had |.la.--l hould hu\i- murritd no one at all up. Ilon't it. child." trouble yourself l-c told her II in bout fully. lint she could not help troubling It was a kind kiss, but it had lit- tle of a ! i i s w.iin.th in it. and after he had given it to her, and after he bud made his speech, 1 nm flfruld she did not go on i haltering o cheerily to him Of course isstllMrMtt. She struggled with hr-r eiin>- wa. \ery gruteiul to bun lor tellii.g tion for a few inouieiits, und then her IMJ Reiitlv of the miMakes tl^it.the tears ruiiio ho had mint--, only hi* doing it rob- 1 Ho did what lie could to 'console bed her. n e I'.il.K. of I.. pleasure She- had born ruther elat- ed when she came away from vicarage, thlnl.ing that in its way the evening had been a it there. After the evening on which this hapi r-."d. hit iiilciupt* lo t'o on with her education . ! rroiialily Im thought the ground wai loo poor to IMJ worth to i.-puy hmi (or in cult i vat inn U Could he ever Inal.o a rompai mu of her ? I'ould his thonghtN r\er become her thought' 'Ihec- ona or turn occasions in the eaily days of their tmirriuge -vheii he ina-lo an attempt lo talk t > I..T of the Innocent ' her. but the blow had struck heavily things thnt were most in Ms mind nnd who roubl not ho consoled. In the her childish ignorance she hud ninr- mild lilllo triumph and it lul not I..TH a tri- umph. That was all It did i...t matter a rr.-at deal, (irrhaps ; only he shrunk sudilenly into h' with a pitiful feeling that she had tado I i .-I nsii.iiiii >i of h.-r Why i : '.Ir Trelawney's old friends not ask him any loniier their bouses 7 Half puzzled. usplclous. as began to usk to half time this went on. Ij-tty i.o tum to her- self. Her husband had never bpn a Uan who cared to go mm h into so- ciety. but yet thro had always be- fore his marriage beon a few hnuaos at which ho VIM ted ; and now since his murricgc he visited at none ol thrm. Not even the (iibsoiis, since Lx>lly had become his wife, had in- Mi.-d him to dim- with them, nnd yet to the Oibsnns' In former days he had gone frivpienlly. "Mhr do you never K.I thrro now 7" ulio asked him, half heiilnl- ilig. olio day They hud b.vn talking of his Illness and of how kind Mr. i;ii.-.oi, bad b-en nt that time, and then, with her lie.ut beuling a little faster, Lelly suddenly put her question. "Why Hhould I go 7" ho answered vaslvcly. "You used to," sho said. "That wan in the days when I was a b.-ichelor." It t [>i..|.le don't stop going out to dinner when they marry. IV-nr." he K.ud timidly nnd went to him. and with a nervous nm> i-ineni p.a her arm round Ids neck "dear, if It U anythii'K nlmut IIH-, don't let that make a .Inference." "Nonsr-i.sv, Ix.-tty " he said. ' I m nfrnid It's your having mar- ried me thai is t ha citu-w why peo- li-iu si. ID-, fully. not knowing what It would cost him tn make her lii-t wife, and now the lesson she wns sho could i only canni an caRrr. l>cwil<lered, Strnlned look into the childish coming to Lain seemed I i her so as she sliui;i;]td to follow him in his < r .1 1 thai she could not be.ir It e\pl. \n.i t i a look of anxious .!.'- Was he to lie punished for having sire to umlei : t.md, of been ma irond to her "If Ihev were mire thai I didn't not rumo. Wa.s it to bo wondered at ' them lo have anything to do If he ceased lo Npouk to her soon of IISW.-I ed "And that would bav* been better. 1 i-ihaos," she said. Hut when sho said that sho vexed the tilliiiK-th.- Ir -if , am COMtt . llt with yo , " need you disti.- v v oi.iy.-lf " " he an- swered. "I UiDiight when vou bo- ..iiin- mv wife that you were going to bo HO huppy What have I done, T--. or what hs happened to dis- apixtint you '.'" And then she could only cling to him. and cry that he hud done no- thiiiK that il wus only Ihe ihuuglil th. il sho was BO iKlinraiit and u~o- less and that he knew everything, and didn't want her It was n nail repetition of what had happened a score of times be- fore, nnd he was getting impatient Ihe feeble complaint wo* beginning lo we'iry him. n>-c. Ix?lty : you inusi not allow yourself lo fall into '.-. Way of talking. It Is silly It Is child- to explain s .n..-i i::, K i , i.er about bis work and hi* ii-o. .ila i ions- ti.it M.I bim. There draw me fourteen miles on Sunday. over ploughed land; no matter what tho wind or weather, there wasn't no resisting her. That magnet o' yourn is pretty good, but it won't draw so iar j . II. "-v \lai ia." * DKTTF.H LEFT I'XSAID. At a public dinner is the country ^ a farmer, while relating something why to the company about two C hinese Wom--ii said: "I dot-lure Ihey were the ugliest Wonn-n I have sec-n anywhere." There hap|H-ned to be two maiden ladies present of no remarkable beauty. The farmer, who was a lit- tle misty, began to think he had made a mess of it. ami that they WOL..I imagine he was alluding to them, so to put mailers straight as ho thought, he added: "Present company excepted." Hoars of laughter ensued, and in a few minutes both farmer and ladies hud vanished. coi>- | hCiousness that understanding wou'.J i with mo, wouldn't that make n dif- things too grvat for nor, and put her Uh." ho aid to fnrencu ?" ; I ,- 1 Iv. Iho pn-i-ently to n'k gently out of i -i I-, .-id pi'i-.-n-lv !! which he lived, her for a little, very kind- her as some iivitiK to iiink. i her understand lifo. almost as he iniuht regard his own world In i ot.li-nte.i to regard in.-:.- olornineiit of his a Case, but I think she was ton Iv humble lo foci the force of his reasoning She could not ex- pect his fin-lilts to take notice of her, she only answered ; she had never expoi led such a thing ; she, flowor in his garden, n picture on his wall 7 How few things to I e of any kind soon came that it was over and turned from her to his desk with a hasty movement that left her no courage to say more So she went away and loft him. 1 1 was all lK-coming n sad perplexity to her Ilo must be right, she- thought in her humility, and she unreason- able and ungrateful. But yet the The atmospheric pressure upon the surface of an ordinary man is .'!J,- 4tM) pounds, or over 14| tons. The her. half angrily. , *| e J r ' nury ' is " nd fa " ' th ' h " r m - In her power to do for bun ' Somo j weight of her heart would not get few small 1-eiM.innl M-I v ices these lighter though she told herself this. pie don't nsk you isn't It 7"sho said tremulously. made no answer didn't nnilei st.., d And thin, when ho for a moment "I nt lirnt hut sure- nevcr would think il unkind of him ini'i--d she could claim the rn hi to I llor i| lf , heavy vague sense- of loss to have friend* who looked down on perform, hut they were services that her. these were the only replies that she could make : she could not under stand that, as his wife, it was HIII-O. ibln for him lo Ignore Ihc casting of a slight upon In-r 'I never thought of It before wore iii.ii i i'-.l. thought thai I wo If I had only once should do harm to you" she began at lost to say ; nnd then she threw her arms about his neck, and burst out Nobbing With a desolate passion whoso bitterness lie could |"-rhftph scaicely couipiu- heml "When we aro married, 1 will lie your teacher. Ix-tly," Mr. Trelawnoy had said lo her noon after their en- i; in* mi-Hi . and n. cordlngly, a Week or two afti-r tho wedding was over, he told her one day that II was lime they should li.xiii tlieir lesbons to- gether, and that evening, with sl.y happinoKs, she brought her hool.s, and the lesflons were liegun, and went on. irregularly, for perhaps ten days or so ; and then, one night, .in. put the little pile of books together. anyone paid to do them might have done ns well. She nuidp his shirts for him, she dusted his books. Khe kept his room in order Well her aunt hud dorm all these things for ve.ns b. fore she came; Ihc poor i -minion acts had gained no added grace for him because sho did them TO riroTB to ftmj'h-it Dr. ('hvMi< Olntnwnl Uncertain and alMolutu cure (or rrh End rrcrr form of ItrhlnK Immlturitnd !Txrti'l!n [ lln. 'i* manaraotinxrn hare iruimntcvd it. K<v tr .mon'^ln In thn ilaily ITI^SS uivl n-k jour neimrh mm whitthrv think o it. Ymi nan us* U ami irt your nioni-v hack If notrunvl. aOnabex. nt JldwIeraorEDUANSon.lU-nu* C-Q., Toronto. Or. Chase'u Ointment and failure leave her Shu was learning her Inevitable lesson slowly and painfully, learning what it was to have to !>ear her hus- band's kind iiidilli-ieiii-e, to wait in weary silence for u word of recogni- tion, to oflor a love that was noil her ai.eplext nor understood Pa M.MI- al.-ly and faithfully she clung to him and worshipped him. and in re- turn sho gathered only tho kindness a man might give iiis friend, tho cold alf.-ctioii he ml^ht Rive to nny sure by 3,500 pounds. or dix-rmses this pres- and they again. were never brought out now. She sometimes wondered wheth- er ha ever knew that It was b.-i hand, and not a servant's, that busied itself with any one of them. Perhaps ho neither knew nor would have i HI,-. I to know It. It gave him no sense of pleasure to sre her work- ing for him, but rather the reverse of pleasure He ulm.'st preferred to Fell Exhausted and Unconscious A Frightful Cu of I hustod NsrvDs snil Deblllt atd ly*t*m from a More Skeleton, Pal*, Weak, Trambllng and Almost Vflftt With Pain. Mr*, tdwartit) NM Hade Strong and * ky Or. haa*'* Nem* rood. Mrs R. W. Kdwards, flfl Ifesfurray *t., nrantford, Ont., describe* her case as follows: "For five years I hart suffered more than words can tell from nervous headachn, nervous dyspepsia, and exhaustion. The \pains in my head would at times almost drive me craxy. I could not sleep night*, but would walk the floor In agony until I fell exhausted and unconacloua and my husband would have to carry/ me back to bed. Sometimes I could tak* no food for four day* at a time, and experienced terrible gnnwlng sensations ID the stomaih. had bad tasts In the mouth and coated tongue. I was pal*, nervous, irritable, easily exhaustd, was reduced to a uiero skeleton of skin and bone, and my heart would palpitate as though it was about to t*p beating. My greatest Buffering wa* cauaed by th. dreadful pain* in my head, neck and buck, and all this wa* In .plto of the h^t sffort. of thre* leading doctors uf this city "For the past nine munths I have used Dr. Chase's Nerre Food, and for corsidei nble limn I huv not experienced a headarhr. or any of Ike symptom* mentioned above. Prom a mero skeleton this medicine ha* built me up in flash, and weight, ustll now I am strong and wall, do my own housework, walk out for two hour* without feriiug tired, and am thoroughly restorad to health. Is it any wonder that word, fall to ca- Irirss my gratitude for this reniarkahln mre'' You can us* this tesiunonial for the benefit of other sufferers " It would be Impostlhl*. we belUve. ti> produce stronger evMnvce to prove the wonderful power of Br. Ofcsse's Nerv* Food a* a system builder. It contains tho \ery essence of th* moat potent rwttorative* of na- ture, and IN certain to b of kwavsU U you. 60 cent* a b*x, boia* for |J ot). at all alr*. or I' Jms oa, bat*. A Co , Toronl. nn8 DEPRESSION, PEOPLE FEEL WEAK, EASILY TIBED OUT AND OUT OF SOHTS You Must Assist Nature in Over- Coming This Feeling Before th* Hot Weather Month* Arrive. It Is important thai you should be healthy in tho spring. The hot sum- mer is coming on and you need *t length, vigor and vitality to re- sist It The fooling of weakness, de- pression and frehlenes* which you suffer from in spring Is debilitating and dangerous. You have been in-. one Ueforu .she had become his j doors good deal through the win- Wife she had thought tnat such an : *' r months, haven't taken the usual affection would content her. but a | Bmol |". k '?' **fviso perhaps. your the months passed on she came to know thul it gave her torture rather than contentment What was she but an ignorant simple woman, and so only a lilllo loss than nothing to him ? Sho grew gradually shyer li.- I .n ..... re nt ease- with him, US hope grew into fear, and fear passed into a weary yearning and n sick suspense (To Ila Contine- ; ) - f --- A PLKASAXT PUOSl-Ki'T A youni; man named Moonev en- liMe.l iii the army. After he hail IH-.-II in India ..Unit live months he rei.-ived a path. -In- letter irom bis pai .'fits, not .,.!.. I Wniil.l be llliUS'-. The yiu v.liuh said that, if he ili.l them some fori-ed ID n money they I' 1 the work- man sat ilowu and nrl- I the letter as foil. "IVtir Father ;unl Mother Try to out of the workhouse for six vears mill seven months, until I come h.'me. and then the tluee of us will RO In together." TUH UKASON \\1IY He was one ..( I he wisest nnd kind- est of teachers, but now and then his watchfulness mude him suspicious In blood is sluggish and impure and you need a thorough renovation of tho en- tiro system. In other words you need M thorough course of Dr. WIN Hams Pink Tills If you try them .-.on will bo surprised to note how vigorous you begin to feel, how the .lull lassitude disappears, your step becomes elastic, the ryo brightens nnd a feeling of new strength takes the placo of all previous feelings. Thousands hnve proved the truth of these words and found renewed health through the use of Ihese pills in prlng time. One of the many is Mis* Cassie Way. of Pictun, Out., who ay.: "A few years ago I was cured of a very severe and prolonged at- tack of dyspepsia through the use of TV Williams' Pink Pills, after all other medicines t had trlod falle*. Mince that time I have used the. pills in tho spring as a tonlr and blood builder and find thm thu best medi- cine I know of for this purpose. Peo- ple who feel run down at this time of the year will make no mistake In using I>r Williams' Pink Pills." These pills are not a purgative medii-lne and do not weaken as all purit.it i\ i* do. They are tonic in their nature and strengthen from first dose to last . They are the best medi- cine in tho world for rheumatism. I sciatica, nervous trouble*,, neuralgia tin- ,-lass the other day his eye i.-ll . indiceslion. iinaemia. heart troubles upon a boy n ho seomeil to lx> eating j scrofula and something humors in the blood. ] etc. The genuine are sold only in iniv. like boxes. tho wrapper around which r mouth nt hoar* tho full bamo T)r Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People " Sold bj a'l dealers In medicine or sent post paid at AO cents a box or six boxet for 11! .SO by addressi-.* the Dr. Wll, liams Medicine Co.. Uri>rk\ 111*. Ot "John." said he that swevt out onriv" To his astonishment a giirglo wont round the room. and the next |n- noor .lohn niisvvored "I cannot, sir; It's a gumboil." THE POWER OF SILENCE It Is Better Than Any Sarcastic or Bitter Answer. unnnlUc u * of tk rirllMM rn.l ii> tk rwr OA TV mii nhw t Two. bF Wllli'Di Hilly, el Torcnl*. U ' A despatch from Washington savs Rev. Dr. Talmui^e preached from the following text. Kevelalion, viu, 1, "There was silence in heaven about Iho space of half an hour." From all we can learn it is the enly time heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as other citie* for the Ight, for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabitant never says, "I am lick." It does not atop for bank- ruptcies, for its inhabitants never fall It does not stop for impass- able streets, for there are no fallen ynows or sweeping freshet*. What, then, stopped it for thirty minutes? Drotiu* and Professor Stuart think It wa* at the time of the destruction f Jerusalem. Mr Lord thinks it fas in the year 311, belween the close of the Diocletian persecution and the beginning of the wars by which Constantine gained the throne. Put thnt was all a guess, though a learned and brilliant guess I do not know when It was, and I do not care when it was. but th* fact that such an interregnum of sound took plac* I am curtain. "There was si- lence in heaven about the snare of half an hour " And. nrst of all. we learn that Ood and all heaven then honored silence The longest and widest dominion that ever existed is that over wh>cb stillness was queen. For an eternity jthere had not been a sound. World- yu.ikinc was a later d.-iv occupation For nniuiaginable ages it was mute universe. tTod was the only being, and as there was no one peak to. there wa* no utterance But that silence has all been broken up into worlds, and It has become A NOISY UNIVERSE. Worlds ia upheaval, worlds in con- gelation, worlds in conflagration, worlds in revolution In my text heaven spared thirty minutes, but It will never again pore one minute. In worship in earthly churches where there are many to take part we have to coun- sel brevity, but how will heaven get on rapidly enough i let one hun- dred and forty-four thousand get through amch with his own story and then on* hundted and forty-four mil- lion and then one hundred and for- ty-four billion and then one hundred and forty-four trillion? Not only are all the triumphs of the past to b* commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not onfrv what we know of (od but what we will know of Him after everlasting study of the deiflc. If my text had said there was silence In heaven for thirty days. I would not hav*' been starllod at tho an- nouncement, hut It Indicates thirty minutes Why, there will he so many friends lo hunt up, so many of ihe greatly good and useful that we will want to see so many of th* inscrutable things of urth we will lu-ed explained so many exciting earthly experience* we wi'.l wanl to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will want the same, that there will be no opportunity for cessati. How busy we will be kept iti Having pointed out to us the heroes and heroines that the world never fully appreciated the yellow fever and cholera doctors who died, flot flying from their posts: the fe- of the United Slate*, th* half hours between- canal boats lhat made Jamrs A. Uariield president. Th* half hour a day for good books or bad books, the half hour a day for prayer or indolence, the half hour a day for helping other* or blasting {other., the half hour before you go to business and th* half hour after you return from business that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignoramus, between the Christian and thu infidel, between the saint and the demon, between tri- umph and catastrophe, between hea- ven and hell. The most tremendous things of your life and mine were certain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of a country jministAr I resolved to become a i Christian then and there the half hour when I decided to become a PREACHEU OF THE GoSPKL, tho half hour when 1 'first realized that my son was dead ihe half hour when I stood on 1 ihe lop of my house in Oxford street 1 and saw our church burn, th* naif I hour in which I entered Jerusalem. the half hour in which 1 (topped on 1 Mount Calvary . th* half hour in which I stood on Mar* hill and about ten or fifteen other half hour* ar* the chief times of my life. You may forget the name of the exact years of most of the important event* of | your existence, but the** half hours ilk* the half hour of my text, will be Immortal. I do not query what- you will do with the twentieth cen- itury. I do not query what vou will ; do with this year, but what will you ' do with the next half hour ? Upon , that hinge* your destiny, and dur- ing that soms) of you wilt r*ceive th* go.pel and make complete sur- render, and during that others of lyou will make final and fatal rejec- tion of the full and free and urgent and impassioned ofTer of life eternal. Oh. that th* next half hour might I be the moet gloriou* thirty minutes of your earthly existence I Again, my text suggests a way of studying heaven so that w* can bet- ter understand it. Th* word eter- nity" thnt w* can handl* so much is an immeasurable word Knowing 1 that w* could not understand that . word, the llible u*** it only on-. W* say, "Forever and *ver." But 'how long i* "forever and e-.er ?" I i am glad that my text put* under ' our eye heaven for thirty minute*. As when you se* a great picture. ' > j put a aheet of paper into a scroll and look through it or Join your forefinger to your thumb and look through the circle between, and I the picture becomes more Intense, so I this masterpiece of heaven by St .John is more impressive when w take only thirty nitn-ites of It at n time Now, w* have something 'hat w* can come nearer lo grasping, and It is a quiet heaven When w* dis- course about th* multitude* of hea- ven. It rnu.-t t* almost a nervous shock to thosw who hav* a'.l their .live* teen crowded by many people land who want a quiet heaven For the last thirty-five years I have been much of th* time in crowd, and un- der public scrutiny and amid excitc- |ments. and I have sometirr.es thought for a few weeks after I reach heaven I would like to go down in some i quiet part of the realm, with a few j friends, and for a little while try I COIU'AKATIVK SITU I whose h. jor Merritt Explaining to Lord Kitchener the Use of the Cana- dian Pack Saddle. (This has since been ordered for th. Aray in South Africa.) THE S. S. LESSON. Architect of the universe Into home* over the threshold of which sorrow never steps and out of whose win- dows faces. once pale with earthly sickr.ess. now look rubicund with IMMORTAL HEALTH. "Oh, let me go in and sco them I" you say. No, you cannot go in. There are those who would never consent to let you com* out again. You say, "Let me stay here in this plac* where they never sin, where they never sutler, where they never part." No, no I Our time is short, our thirty minutes are almost gone Com* on 1 We must go back to 'earth before this half hour of hea- l venly lilenca break* up, for in your mortal state you cannot endure the pomp and splendor and resonance when this half hour of silence i* elided The day will come when you can see heaven in full blast, but not cause through him some' uncircum- j now. Remember we are mortai yt | clSB u peopl, had received Christ W,- Not in the victor's story. and cannot endure the full roll of ! r *ceiv. Christ when we recolve the- N o t in the t.tfht . result. It Is Not for more empty (lory Du we mis day exult. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AFKIL 27. Text of the Lesson, Acta zi., 1-18. Golden Text, Act* x., 43. 1. The Gentiles also received the word of Ood Tha apostles and brethren that were In J udea heard this, and it . plain from the context that it >1. i not fill them wuu joy. liow unlike our Lord Jesus the most oi His dis- ciples .ire! At one time suine of the. apostles felt like burning *> town be- cau*e some of it* people would not Christ, and now they seam to the) Lord*, svvaat. and it was the Lord whs> wrought all this, a* they mig'.t hu.v xpected H* would haul they believed what H. commanded concerning giv- ing the gospel to every crseturs and the prophecy of Joel concerning pouring out His Spirit upon all flesfc Before Peter and the other six Jewish brethren Ood did for the un- drcumciawd gentile* Just what H* had done at Pentecost for drcumclav ed Jews. IS. When they heard thes thing*. they held their peace and glorified God. saying, Then hath Ood also to the gentile* granted repentance junto life. The promise to Abram wa*> that all families of the earth should be> blessed in him (Gen. ill, 8). and 1* wa* written by the Spirit through Isaiah that Israel should blossom and bud and nil the face of the) earth with fruit (Isa. xxvll. 6V On*> would think that in the blessing- to lltis ifer.tile household through Fetor the Jew the brethren might ha seen f il.'illment of these thing* and not have been surprised at them Yet it la true that many i prophecies still awaiting fulfillment | when fulfilled shall greatly surprise a host of believers. 4- LJ.TTLE HAIlT R1VEU. llarch 31. 100O, Nut in the blood of battle, Not in the rage of strif*. Not in the muskets' rattle fcal somewhat like bluing Petur be- 1 That mingles death with life, heavenly harmonies and cannot *n- word of Ood concerning Hun. ! dur* even th* silent heaven for mor* ' m aimpi. and mot reasonable thing 'than half an hour Hark I The ^ ree .tve with meekness the word of ilock In th* tower of neaven begin* Ooa y-t comparatively f. w do it But becaun* for from our border*. , to strike, and th* half hour 1* ended. Tho .. wmo do ^^ joy ^ our ^,4 Down t b burning line. But how will you spend th* Br*t (JM | 2 1; John xvll. 8). I Canadian lad* took their orders ! half hour of your heavenly cilisen- ^ 8 when p-tar WM cojno to And po , ired oal thttir rhlp after you have gone in to I j^^ lvai ^ ey that w-r . of y,. clr _ , win . .tay ? Alter your prostration b*fore I eumcMion CODlwde d with him Just, off the sea. they mustered. your th* thron* in worship of hun who, ^^ h ^ ^ been for made ,t possible for you to get there , d h ^ b ^ u fll , , at all I thinm the rest o your flrst hall hour in heapen wil b, paw*d ' ifl ' eaBc . o ,"- wno .o,vr ' nor that 1 ^r,clvlng your reward if you hav. . c.rcumcl- I Raw and unused und untried, They lay on lh veldt quiu* unflua. tared, Determined to stay till they died. beautiful book containing U.* pic- I lure* of the medals struck by ihu Fnglish Government in honor of i availeth anything nor uncircvun- .'Islon. but a new creature" (John 111. Irt Oal. vi. IS). The feeling still exist* In *om* quarters that it There all about were the horsemen. Th tireless Boer Ce. :a-r. Bold a* of yore were thu Norsemem Toughened and Masoned in war. casions. the royal family present and the royal bands playing the Cri- mean modal, the medal of th* mu- tiny, the Victoria Cross, th* Water- loo medal. Tn your first half hour denomination. 4-10 Peter rehearsed 1 from the beginning. About th sixth hour Peter felt led to go on the housetop to pray Here wus the whiskered pandivir. tier i South Africa'* fierce hussar. Hatched with Canadian v n r In th* sharp, tierce shock of war. in heaven in some way you will be *" d - *"!> h " n * ry ' ' ould , h V* Z * <r Kn k i 1 A *..> .. A .1 A _. . I.. hi A t^.1 1 hoaorsd for the earthly struggle* In but while they made ready h* in- to m. trance and saw Un* vision \ 9. I'M- At that very time the me- engrri from Cornelius were near to Joppa. and It was necessary that Pet*r should be ren.Jy to r-oive them and go with them, hav for thl. special vision see Ood preparing Tits ser- II. which you won the day. Stand up before all the royal house* of heaven and receive the iiisig-nia while you are announced a* victor over the drafts and freshets of the farm field. victor over th* temptation* of the Stock Exchange. victor oer pro- certainly would not hav dor fessmonal n' urement*. victor over for thl "P*'l vision t H ?>-anti do*M0tic Inf.iicities. victor over me- ful to "* Ood P'P^'n chanlc'* shop, victor over the st^re- I v nt for th ** w ** whllh houa*. victor over home worrlments. ! Prepared for them. Like a dust-Uovil >nrept from wind- ward. Down on the line he rnme. Rein-fre* the steed unhindered. Leaped as if freah to the gain*. M ii th* Met ford bark wa* steady. victor over ph- Peter wns considering the tor over hereditary depressions, vie- !inincanc of the vision th meMcn- to sn\e Ihe selves perished. The multlludes of I jnen nnd women who get no crown on earth we will want to see when they get their crown in heaven 1 telj you heuven will have no more half- hours to spare. tor over * u nnd death and hell. *" fro Cornelius w-re nt the gate Tako the badge that celebrates thoae Inquiring for him. and Instructed by victories through our Lord Jesus the ' h called the men In and ''hrUt Take it in the pr-f*i.ce of lodgwd hem. and the next day he all the galleries saintly, angelic and ntl > Otfcan stinted with tho mrs- divin* While al! heaven chants, ""-tigers for Cuosare* and the home of 'These are Ihey who came out of ureat tribulation and had thr-ir roliea washed un I made whit* in the blood of Ihe Lamb." And tfca gailoping foe were r*adv To rusn in the face .u fate ao% "C!i\e it them, lads," ci iu-d Car- ruthers. And tk rifle* answereil hi word*. As Ih* lessening band of I rot her* Sighted for two hundred >urus. But the last fusilado fairly stopped t!-*n halted. tlia Cornelius This book might, well I* them. Thev m |>ed them." And sank In the spot - 4 ENKMII S ..F SLEEP. the immortality of a half-hour That half hour mentioned In mv text is more widely known than any ether period in tho calendar of henv.-n None of the whole hours of heaven U measured oil. none of the year*, one of the centuries Of the sill- lions of ages past and the millions of ages to con. not one Is Pleasured off in the Bible Uut half hour of my text is MADE IMUOm'AL. The only part of eternily that ; as ever measured by earthly lime- 1 lece was measured by the minute land of my text, oh! the half hours! I'h.-y decide everything. I am not , asking what you will do with the ' rears or months or days of vo'n life, hut whal of Ihe half hours? Tell , lie the history of your half hours I nd I will tell you the story of your j whole life on earth and the story f your whole life In eternity The : tight or wrong thing* you can think hi thirty minutes, the righl or wrong things you can lay in thirty minutes. Iho right or wrong things you can V In thirty minutes are glorious or bnlcVnl. inspiring or desperate Look out for the fragments of time. They are plccen of eternity. It Was the half hours between shoeing horses that mads Kllhu Hurrilt Iho Lamed blacksmith, th* half hours between professional calls as a physician that made Abercrombie the Christian phil- osopher, the half hours between his duties as schoolmaster that made Salraoa Z. Chase chief justice, the half hour, between the shoe lasts uitole lli-i-ry Wilson Hudson. NjY , said nfter hearing me speak uf the mighty choru* of hea- ven. "That must be- a great heaven, but what will become of my poor head ?" Yes. this hulf hour of my text Is a still experience. "There was silence in heaven for half an hour " ' You wifi t.nd the inhabilanls all ai hon.e renter th* King'* pnlnc* and only take a glimpse, for we have only thirty minutes for all heaven "Is that Jesus ?" 'Yes." Just un- der the hair along his forehead is t he mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted brumbies, and his foot. on the throne has on the round of hi* instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on lh* palm of the right hand and a scar on the palm of the left hand. Uut what a countenance ! \\hat a smile.! What a grandeur ' What a loveliness ! What an over- whelming look of kli.dnes* ai.d v;i.n-e ! Why, he looks as if he hud redeemed a world ! Hut come on, for our time is short. I'o you sec that row of palaces ? That is Iho Apostolic row. I'o you see that long tetxch of architectural glories ? That I. Martyr row. I'o you ec that ImmeiiKv structure ? That Is the biggest house in heaven . that is "Ihe house of many mansions " Po you see thut wall ? Shade your eyes against Us burning splendor. for that Is the wall of heaven, jas- per at the bottom and amethyst at th* top. Sec thia river rofling Un-Migh the heait of the great me- tropolis ? That U th* river con- cerning which tho.e who once lived n the hanks of the Hudson or the Alabama or the Rhine or the Shan- non say, "We never aw the like of this for clarity and tdicen." Pas* down those boulevards of gold aud amber and *apphlre and *ee those interminable streets built by th* the acts of the Holy Spirit In the name of the Lord Joans In it : we see Cnd ar.d angel* and men all : working logeihrr lhat men know the ndp of Ood'. grace and . Hi* wonderf'il love. 1.1. II Who shall tell the* words Th* worst enemie. of sleep are whereby thou and all thy house worrying, oveiwork. overeating, in- shall brs.iM-d digestible suppers, and lh* habitual As Cornelius told Peter why he had sent for him this is what he said that the angel vaiil Peter would do; therefore at the time vision neither Cur- his hou.- r de- vout, was saved, and 1'cter huu to --L'p- h* use of stimulants and drugs The cure Includes strict attention to diet, a well-ventilatMl sleeping-room, some light exercise, like a walk after of that the evening meal, and freedom, ol nolius nor cours*. from worry Vip.iienn had r a man but was hit Sin* h:id arrived at their i.iitly," were bk-eding a bit lied, but tln-ir numen are la mortal On glorv's immutable rolls. Far wi'hin death's dark portal We) follow iheso daunllesn HOIUS. n* many cares and perplexities as com* from Joppa lo tell them tli the next man. but arbitirrily shut ocid news concerning Jesiia Christ It is not well K" go to them off. IH-.I A i-'.p of hot milk or a lie. but they -.-irrcnder. Could not Mt-.ireh Canada's name, they might be saved How few I Anf , we w| , o ,,,,. vivc wil , ri>mi . mbe r ,'" ^ d ' 1 ' W !V n !! : Their ileed. their .le.it.h ,nd th.t* light snndwich is advised when that swiJ. "I am debtor both to '.reeks f-ime sensation is felt. Yrt it is necessary a" 1 ' to barbarians, so. as much as , _j o ' nn A. Ewan in Toronto Glob*. | to remember than Insomnia and an in roe is, I am ready lo preach Ihc ov.-rlondeil stomach are closely ac- gospel" ( llom i. 14. 18) iguainted Stimulants and narcot ics in 13 And as I began to speak the ihe end are sleep drntroyera. Whon Holy l>host fell on them a* on us the whole subject is weighed the ut Ib* beginning. Religion makes good armor but it's) main umedv is swn to be good hab- , Chapter x. 41. su.vs. "While P'-lor a poor cioak. its and a tranquil mind. vet svak* these words the Holy' 'i her* is no place too lowly for th* Chost fell on all them which heard display of high qualit .. the word." So it was while Pi-tor \v> never N-coun- . iiiy-ns of th* was still M'''iKitig and just at the kingdom of Oi>d by obedn.-i.ra beginning of hi* discourse that <-id ] v wrought so inarvL-lously Tluie was ' in all this got up by man, he disi-o.iive sor the ML'CH IN LJTTI.t:. 4 THK POPE'S Ll-:i: \l-II.S the Pope over 70O wills as in largest single legacy to His was $.1, <)<'(>. bequeathed to him by a vveallhy Italian manufacturer, and Ihe *econd largest $1O.OOO. 1 She "What was Ihe happiest mo- ment of your life ?" He "Well. Ij Ihe preaching which C'od bids us (Jonah iii. J) the results will be all thnt Cod pleii-ew ( Isn Iv. 11 >. in Then innembened 1 the word of the Lord, how that He said. John ! with water, hut yo shall be baptized with the Holy Ihink it was one evening last week Th.fv ascension words (Acts i. 5> ...id thoiffore only a fultilHtient at when 1 entered the drawn^-room of ,.,.,, t , H . ovf ,, pr ,, ' > amilner flllfll ,_ my boarding- hous-e and sow a. -Irange ,, ,,,, S( , ,, ,. Hnd on the piano " deed ' And the notice "Closed fur repairs." notice on the piano" She "In- (in , ,, lh( . K ,.,, ut fu | (U | mcnt or tl i fuU . He-- "I'd like to know." exclaimed t.he nteiit. of Jen ! ii. L's-;<a. in the near future .Jesus had told them that the Spirit would bring to their re- enraged client, "why 1 ought to fee! tmjmbrance whnt He had said unto Jubilant over the ca-e ?" "Oidn't we outcome of the ohlain a ver- diet for $10.000 ?- the lawyer *k- ed. "Yes; but you got about ail of it. Wh.it good does it do me '.'" "My dear sir. the olher fellow feols ]<ist as bad as If every penny of it vveic going into your pocket." tlw-ui '.lohn xiv. '_>>. and H is now doing this with Peter 17. Kor:imurh then a* God gave them the like uift a* He did unto us. IVa.vr is the pulse uf the Christ- ian's lif" there is no secular, no sa- ,-i.-il. all is Uod. As we are moving down the stream of tMiie let us be -prepared for land- ing at the right haven. If you are on uncommonly good Christian, you can prove It more fasily by your good deeds than by your loud words. God likes the men who choo** hard things, tie give* hard task* as proof of his love to those whom U* trusts and honor. The Christian who count* on th* constant presence and the continu- ous help of Christ is a peraon who hard to discourage. The largest congregation nnd the greatest outward success urn vain If our faith does nnt take ia the "mercy-seat" and the covenoat of God-s promise and law. who believed Christ, what on the Lord Jsu* wss I that I could Peter was in the hand* of the Lor J Seventeen la every 10O Rugllaa doctors live in I.oudon Thu sen la oew so salt at great depth* as at the surface.