The Terrible Experience of al Nova Scotia Gentleman, and How he was Cured.' Afr. B Such a luon of guffering e is Entt Sg ere Good Ssaith by Deal's Kidney Filis--He is Very Grateful. Bridgewater, N. 8., Jan. 27.--(Spe- sent years, but no Sie Shaeratiiations of his en his soe and satisfactory recover To look Rs Mr. Morgan to-day one id suspect that' he had been the. Molin of so much torture and for such a lo time; and yet from his own statement the pain he has ehdured must have been @gomething awful. He says 'For eight years I have "guffered tthe most severe pain in my back I se gradually grown woree tillat was completely crippled up. ri heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills as @ remedy for Lame Back, but as I peal ried so many things. without any Sen efit I was beginning to lose all faith 'in anything. However, I decided to try them, and [I can truthfully say 1 am heartily glad I did so,.for they cured me. down in weight to pounds, but during the 'time I was using the pills (I used in all about*twenty boxes) I regained about 23 ds. - "Of course I realized my danger, and when I found that Dodd's Kid- ney Pills were helpi me I stuck right close to them after commenc- ing till I was per¥ectly well again." eryonpe who knows Mr. Morgan knows that he means every word he says, and much interest has been aroused Bd the publication of his temen Dodd's Sxlaney Pills are well t a sure cure for all Back and Kidney CHECKS THE BABIES. This Pastor Has a Scheme to Bring Out Mothers. Parson 'Tom Uzzell, whose new chure}, will be opened on Wednes- day, has adopted the check system ng babies, and purposes no longer to listen to the excuses of his peo- ple that they were prevented from attending service by necessity of earing for the baby. He has engag- ed -- negre nurses and cick lished a ve hg in the basem with = ample supply of encase and good attention Toe the little ones. He will have an abundance of pre- pared foods, so that every! require- ment of Nature ma met with- eut any way racic the con- @regation or paren The check is a nd brass tag that is attached to the baby and a counterpart given to the mother. The plan 'will apply to all children under five years of age. A nursery, with games hci for the elder babies, will feature.--Denver correspondent Cincinnati Enquirer. THE CARE OF LITTLE ONES. Some Sound Advice as to the Best Method of Treating Infant Iudigestion. Nothing is more common to child: hood than Indigestion. Nething is more dangerous to proper growth, more weakening to the constitution. or more likely to pave the way to dangerous disease. Among the symp- toms by which indigestion in in. fants and young children may be readily recognized are loss of appe- nausea, eructations, coated tongue, bad breath, hiccough and disturbed «sleep. Indigestion may be liy ec and Mrs. F. ' Ont., points out how may "baat be dome. She says: "When my baby was three nets old she had indigestion, very badly. She would vomit her food just as soon As she took it, no matter what I gave her. After feeding she seemed to suffer terribly and would ream with re She seemed always hungry, but er food did her no good, and she kept thin and delicate. She was very sleepless and agen also from con- stipation. tried several medi- cines recommended for these trou- bles, Dut they did her no good.. Fin- ally 1 saw Baby's Own Tablets ad- vertised and got o box. After giving them«io her she began to improve n abotit two days, and in a week's time I considered her well. She could sleep well, the vomiting ceased, her boweiy became regular and she be- gan to gain In weight. Sho is now a fat, healthy baby, and 1 think the eredit Ig due to Baby's Own Tablets, and I would not now be without them in the honse." Baby's Own Tablets is the only medicine soki under an absbdiute guarantee that it contains neither oplates nor other harmful drugs: These tablets are a certain cure for all the. minor ailments _of childhood, euch as sour stomach, indigestion, constipation, simple fever, diarrhoea. They break up cokis, prevent' croup ard allay the irritation accompany- bas Mi the ee of t a& box Bepad Dr. By mall poet pai id. Motiaine Co., Broce ville, Ont. We are told that wealth doesn't contentment--and many people sure that poverty. doesn't. 10 FEBRUARY D, 1902. The Sin of Lying. --Acts 4: 32-4: 11., Commentary--32. Multitude -- The and probably many others, who had been converted by the ministry of Clarke. Of one heart--Though of dif- ferent ages, dispositions and ae tions before they believed, and per- fect strangers to one another, yet, whea they met in Christ, bia were intimately uainted.-- mi. Neither said any of thers There was not a dissenting member. No such as discord existed among them. All things common--'"'There existed guch confidence in each other, and guch loyalty to truth, that none feared that another would take ad- ~vantage over him, and they assisted each other as members of one family. u8. With great power--With no dif- floulties among themseives to absorb any of their time, the apostles were encouraged by a spiritual, praying pata ag mcr preach with great vigor, Witness--The wire. " arithadacs to what they had seen and heard. This is a most effective way of preaching: Of the resurrection--Ali knew of the death and burial of Jesus. But the enemies of Jesus, the Jews, would not belleve in the resurrection of Jesus. 84. That lacked--Thise was one rea- gon for their favor among men, for all could see the hilar a re spirit that actuated them Sold them--It seems clear that ail the eee of real estate who longed to the church sold moet autos that were sold--The . la h ex- prepely avoids saying that these men sold all they had. 85. At the apostles' feet--To be disposed of as they should direct. They would better able e there was a relief fund, the apostles could draw upon it with- out making every ae public. 86. Joses--or Jose He is the well-known Barn hai who Is af- terward frequently mentioned asan associate of the aposple Paul. That he was a Levite, is a remarkable circumstance; we are soon after- wards Bg that even many priests beer Having land, sold it--'He com- rovtea by his gifts as well as his words." He certainly proved his sin- cerity. 1. But--"'The little word 'but' the hinge on whith great issues turn."--Arnot. Ananias--The mean- ing of the word is "Favored of the Lord," o "Jehovah is gracious," Sapphira--'Beautiful," Their char- acters were in sharpcontrast with their names. "Here is a contrast between 'tthe honest liberality of rnabas and the hypocrisy of An- aniag and his wife," EK back part of the price-- Wille they pretended to make an offering of all. and is called wife--This sin was premeditated by both parties. 3. Filled. thine heart--Satan, the father of lles, a liar from the be- ginping. Peter traces the sin back to its source--the heart into which Satan had been admitted; his ques- tion recognizes Ananias' power to resist these evil influences. tan knocked; Ananias opened his heart. --Har - To lie to the Holy Ghost --The apostles disclaini any power in themselves. It is Christ who oe the miracles; the raham who isin the power of goed tea and the y Spirit whois ie by sins ue That of Anan- is *"L Thine own--He might. have kept it without incurring the displeasure of the apostles or the Lord. In thine own power--These questions show that the bestowment of goods was perfectly voluntary and not a law, and that the crime. was a free and deliberate act.--Whedon. Annnias was not censured because he had not surrendered his entire property, bnt for falsehood in professing to haye done so when he had not --Hackett svhole 6,000 mentioned in verse 4,} the other aposties since that time-- | 'white lies?" not sin we must close our ears to _Yoice"of the tempter. gome- mses severe measures wpon sin- erc. church, to protect them from greater defections. ; PRACTICAL SURVEY. It is doubtful if such perfect har- mony and unity in the church, on so large a scale, has ever been realized since the remirkable events recordel in thie Jesson. It was the direct ef- fect of the Holy Ghost, and cannot be necessarily an Mintel ectual oneness; there may have been dif- ferences of nion in some things, tmt there is no difference in their moral and spiritual mood. It is a time of tremendous spiritual snere ys everything is on a scale of immen greatness, even the testimony of the apostles to the resurrection of Christ is "with great er," and in harmony witthi this scale of mag- aor. 'great grace was as them There seems be no 'excess at all for «thie Sainerate falsehood told by Ananlas and Sa The salle of thair sey and the turning of the proc nto a com- mon treasury was SSE ahouly voluntary. There is nothing all the record of it to lead us to suppose that there those entecdetal days this holy im- pulse Bloke. This man and wife are equally in- volved in this deception, and both are punished with equal swiftness and severity. No doubt this instant vengeance is 'to show God's dis- pleasure with lying and to give solemn warning aguinst this sin, a sin which may be committed some- times by just a look, a wink, a nod, or even by our silence. And is there not dangey of yielding to this spirit of lying in comparatively small umatters, and looking lightly upon it, and at most considering some things we may do or say, as only Especially where «a little money is involved, such as falsifying as to the amount of pro- perty possessed, to save a _ little taxes, Ly as to the age of a child to save car fare, or may not even euiniaters of the gospe! crowd close over the danger line in 'giving out exaggerated reports of their re- vivals? It is worth noting that the once cowardly and lying Peter has met with sach a mighty chamge at Pen- tecost} that he is commissioned to act in God's stead, and easily reads the secrets of the hearts of Anan- jas and Sapphira; just as Elisha so easily and surely det ected the lie. of Gehazi. H. Kings v. 25, The spirit of Christ is a spirit of truth. There is an experience, a state of grace that! saves ws from deceitful foarte and lying tongues. ave you ob- tained it? Lanson H. Mulholiand. GETTING RICH QUICK Some time ago an_ unprincipled sharper advertised extensively: "How to Double Your Money--full particulars for - No doubt many applied. One vietim peached and gave,away the game. The ans- wers to the ad. came on a plain card, in this shape: *Tis an excellent plan, free from trou- or loss-- Better > a banking, leas! Take a 'new banknote and fold it across, And then you will find your wealth in creases. trades or h a {rl Unto God--The offense was chiefly against God. 5. Gave up the ghost--The imme- diate fall and death of Ananias, when Peter had addressed him, must be direct act of God.-- Great fear came--This effect Christian community , is thought to be the chief design of so startling a judgment.--J. F. & B roung men--The earliest church was not without young men and young women. Acts xii. 1%. Carried him out--Just beyond the walls of the city.--Cook. That the body was not taken to his home Is indicated by his ie ignorance of what had conte rec 7. After three hotite--Probably at the next honr of prayer. Under the shock of the death of Ananias they had not dispersed.--Cook 8. Tell . The verti was Sap- ohira's - plac for repentance; the Holy Spirit ainore with her In Peter's words, but she resisted his strivings." So much--Perhaps Peter pointed to the money still lying where Ananias had placed it. V.2. Yea--It had been in her a word of warning protest; it was now in her power to clear her own conscience by confession.--Plumptre. Agreed--Sna pphira's answer prov- ed 'to Peter that their sin had- been' premeditated, and not one of haste or ignorance. She was equ n sin with her Paden tage hs ques- tion gare nowledge ered, but er that. thelr. eutit wae disc wer to save her husband by |. plan, without danger or - Keeps your cash in your hands with nothing to trouble it, And every time that you fold across, 'Tis plain as the sone on 'your face that you double it. it The Sunday Question. Mammp--You mustn't bowl hoop in eo front on antay. must go into the back garde Tedny ten" t it Sunday In the back garden, mamma ? your You Ignorance ts the mortal enemy of thrift.--Marden "and! More. Common Than Country Kind the BUT THEY DON'T SQUEAL. {Chicago Chronicle.) A saloon-keeper who recently, was swindled out of a small sum of money by means of an ancient device felt much more keenly the disgrace than he did the Joss. In bis embarrassment he explained to the police officer to whom h¢ confided hi» troubles, "I have been here. forty years, and to think that this should happen to Ibe--me a mark; me a sucker.' It ls clear that the saloonkeeper's indignatioa was increased to a lurze extent by wls vanity. ce had lived in a great city a luetime, and it was difiicuit for smm toO-reuhze tuat one m slrudted could be a uscker und a mark. Yet if the truth were kuown und acknowledged it would be found tihat there ure a8 Many marks anu suckers im the grealc cities as there cre Foe the couwwry, and. provavly varie unsophisticated countryman is a@ Very shrewd inaividual ia compari- son with many of the inhabitancs of the cities. He sometimes falls into temptation, and not inirequently he is sepurated irom a smalifsum of mouey, but as a rule his losses are confined to a few games which excite remark chicfly pecayse_ they are so transparent that his folly be- comes laugiapie even to hunself when at jength he compreheuds -- is probable that the very sim- plisity Ol these devices is What makes them attractive to the countryman of a jovial and sympathetic turn. He is disarmed by their apparent reason- ableness. Less suspicious than his 'city {rlend. He is more inclined to favor a stranger, and it is this pro- pensity, in the main, which leads him into trouble. Leaving ont of the question the unfortunates who get into scrapes as a result of too much conviviality, the man whose senses are gone with drink be n no condition to ex- ercise his laculties in any emergency, it is the usual experience that the countryman who becomes a victim to thé wiles of sharpers is approached om the side of his generosity and humanity. He holds 'a aby cashes a check. he changes a bill, ~ oe to the relief of some one in 'dis- tress, he takes an interest in some alleged disaster, he finds\ an ac- quaintance of an old friend, and oc- casionally he jos in a sociable game, but. as a rule he is not.led into temp- tation in the hope of beating some- body else out of money or of acquir- ing la any irregular way money or property : tag he knows does «sot belong to So much 'eaneck be said in. behalf of the city man who fiads himself eee in the great fraternity of arke. Generally speaking, he is top wise to be caught with any bait which appeals to his sympa- thy. or his humanity. He is well in- formed as to all of these games. He has read about them in the news- papers, and, even he not, his training and his familiarity with the false pretenses of city life would put him on his guard against them. Where he generally fails is in cases prom- ising large and immediate gains without too much consideration as to the means to be employed to that If it were possible to secure a list of all the confidence games that are successiully played in this town for nth it would be found that the victims would comprise ten city mento one countrymun. The city man who Is taken in by some appar- ently clever device ls something more than a mark and a sucker. He swal- lows everything io sight. He mort- gages his home and pawns his wife's jewelry. He risks money that-hé can- not afford to lose, and, y anhanGlly, he sometimes risks money that does not belong to him There is another difference between the atey mark and the country mark. The former knows when as been swindled. He generally suspects it be- fore the job is complete. He is so well aware that he has made a fool of himself that in most cases he never tells anybody about it. He ne no advice and he does not crave-any sympathy. He simply makes up his mind to be moré careful in the future and to get even if poss The countryman, on' the other hand, Is never quite sure'that he has been 'swindled until after he has seen nn account of his experiences in the newspapers and has had repeated in- terviews with the police. Even then police, they ma}; Fone some very obvi e her the ¢ et possession of syiteg e not prepared to or at ite true value. In Hintever guise the tempter may. arpear, the city man who does not become a mark octa- nally is an exception.an dit is pro- bable that not a few work overtime at the business. saloon-keeper who was 50 as&- tounded by the discovery that he had become a sucker and a mark -- need mot take on 80 outrageously about it. A sucker is born every min- ute in the city as well as in the coun~+ try. By eency, he was foreordained to play the NOT HASTY, But the Getort Was None the Less a Stinging One. A lady recently entereda smoking compartment of a suburban train, in which several gentlemen were enjoy- ing the fragrant weed. Her looks of annoyance were soon evident, and one by one the discomfited smokers laid down their pipes with a single exception He, in his corner, smoked comp: 'acently 'on,. at. peace with himseu and ail creation. The lady, however, was not satis- fied with having deprived her * fel- fow-passengers of their enjoyment and evidentiy made up ber mind that, by continuing hie pipe, the gentle- man in question was acting very rudely. Bhe, . therefore, turned her very particular attention to him, but finding that most severe looks and demeanor failed to make any impréssion, she could restrain her- self no longer, and in tones of wrath burst forth: "Sir, if 1 were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee to-morrow mor To her evident surprise this thun- derbolt apparently produced no ef- fect, as no rep!y was made, and the pipe was smoked on intranquil en- joyment.-A few stations further on, however; the smoker got out, and then came the rejoinder in the blAndest of cca "Madame, if I I wonld aoarteialy don Tit-Bits. BEAUTY AND BREATHING. With an Incidental Sa to a Cure for Wo Dr. L. F. Bryson, wits in Har- per's Bazar, 'suys: Correct breath- ere sot: pare drink --Lon- ing is the first art to cuitivate in the pursuit of beauty, just as it is the first step toward improvement In health As a woman breathes,.so 189 is; for the poise of the chest is the key-note ta-the whole figure, When the chest isj fn proper position the fine point of artistic wearlng- apparel and afi the little frilis of fashion are seen to best advantage. Even humble materials assume. a cer- tain elegance hitherto unknown. But if it is carried badly the figure. droops and falls into ugly angles. Nothiag sets well; no garment seems right. It is always wrong to make the bone structure do most of | the work in keeping the body upright. The muscles. should hold it in position, otherwise grace is out of tion and good health difficult. To breathe correctly, keep the chest up, out, forward f pulle b button. Keep the chin, the lips, the chest on a Hine. Hold the shoulders on a linge With the hips The observ- ance of these directions will insure to golf skirtstand rainy-day costumes a real dignity and picturesque effect. Breathe upward and outward, as if about to fly, drawing in the air with siow deep breaths and letting it out gently. This conscious deep breath- ing repeated ten or twenty times at intervals during the day tends to expand the chest permanently, to give it classic poise and style. iRe- preated forty times, it is said to be a cure for worry. DISTRESS OF SLEEPLESS NIGHTS Is Too Well Known to Hosts of Nerve-Exhausted Men and Women--The Fatal Error of Using Opiates. Cured by Using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. awake night after night, To ile the mind in never-ending v suc) hts nerve. forc consu restored and rb-lavigarated for another and the mind is unbalanced by this terrible out. 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