DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON The Fragrance of the Gospel. “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, 3nd cans, out of the ivory palaces.” —FPsa. AMONG the grand adornments of the city of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame, with its great towers and elabor- ated rose windows, and sculpturing ef the last Judgment, with the trumpet. ing angels and rising dead; ils battle- ments of quatre-foil; its sacristy, with ribbed ceiling and statues of saints, But there was nothing in all that build- ing which more vividly appealed to my plain republican tastes than the COSTLY VESTMENTS which lay in oaken presses—robes that bad been embroidered with gold, and been worn by popes and archbishops on great occasions, There was a robe that had been worn by Pius VIL at the crowning of the first Nupoleon, ‘'Lhere was also a vestment that had been worn at ihe baptism of Napoleon II. As our guide opened the oaken presses, and brought out these vestments of fabul- ous cost, and lifted them up, the frag- rance of the cungent aromatics in which they liad been preserved, filled the place with a sweetness that was almost op- pressive, Nothing that had been done in stone more vividly impressed me than these things that had been done in cloth, and embroidery, and perfume. But to-day 1 open the drawer of this text, and I look upon the kingly robes of Christ, and as I lift them, flashing with eternal jewels, the whole house is filled with the aroma of these garments, which sme: 1 of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.” In my text THE KING STEPS FORTH. His robes rustle and blaze as He ad- vances, Ilis pomp and power and glory overmaster the spectator. More brilliant is He than Queen Vashti, moving amid the Persian princes; than Marie Antoinette, on the day when Louis XV IL put upon her the necklace of eight hundred diamonds; than Anne Boleyn, the day when Henry VILL in the presence of this imperial glory, King of Zion, King of earth, King of Heaven, King forever! not worn out, not dust-bedraggled; but radiant, and jewelled, and redolent, IL heaven. The wardrobes from which sweet with clusters of camphire, and frankincense, and all manner of preci- ous wood. Do you not inhale the odors? Ay, ay. They “smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.” Your first curiosiéy 1s to know why the robes of Christ are ODORSUS WITH MYRRIL This was a bright leafed Abyssinian plant. It was tnfoliated. The Greeks, Egyptians, lomans, and Jews bought and sold iL. high price. The first present thal wus ever given to Christ was a sprig of myrrh thrown on His in- fantile bed in Bethlehem, and tbe last gift that Christ ever bad was myrrh pressed into the cup of His crucifixion. bruise the tree, and then it would exude a gum that would saturate all the ground beneath, This gum was used for purposes of merchandise. One piece of it, no larger than a chestnut, would whelmm a whole room with odors, was anywhere near it, text 1 read that Christ's garments smell of myrrh, I immediately conclude the exquisite sweetness of Jesus, any historical person; another John Heward; another pilanthropie Oberlin; a painting; a heroic theme for a poem; a beautitul form tor a statue; but to those who have heard His voice, and felt his pardon, and Warmth, and thrill, and ETERNAL FRAGRANCE— sweet as a friend sticking to you when all else betray; lifting you up while others try to push you down; not so much like morning-glones, that bloom only when the sun is coming up, nor like ‘‘four-o’clocks,”’ that bloom only when the sun is going down, but like myrrh, perpetally aromatic—the same morning, noon, and night; yesterday, to-day, forever, It seems as if we can- not wear Him out. We put on Him all cur griefs, and set Him foremost in all our battles; and yet He 1s ready to lift, and to sympathize, and to help, We have so imposed upou Him that otie would think in eternal affront He would quit our soul; and yet to-day He addresses us with the same tenderness, dawns upon us with the same smile, pities us with the same compassion. There 1s no name like His for us, It is more imperial than Cwesar's, more musical than Beethoven's, more con- quering than Charlemagne’s, more elo- quent than Cicero’s. It throbs with all life. It weeps with all pathos, It groans with all pain, It stoops with all con- desceusion. 1t breathes with all per- fume. Who like Jesus to set a broken bene, to pity a homeless orphan, to nurse a sick man, to take a prodigal back without any scolding, to illunmiine a cemetery all ploughed with graves, to make a queen unto God out of the lost woman, to catch the TEARS OF HUMAN BORROW in a Jachrymatory that shall never be Loken? Who has such an eye to sée our need, such a lip to kiss away our sorrow, such a to snatch us out of the fire, such a foot to trample our enemies, such a heart fo embrace all our necessities? I strugele for some metaphor with which to express Him, He is not like the bursting forth of a full orcliestra; that is too loud. Hels not like the sea when lashed to rage by the tempest; that is too boisterous; He is not like the mountain, its brow wreathed with the light: ; that 1s too solitary. Give us a type, a tler comparison. pn Him with gurives, and. to heat Him with our ears, our Oh that to-day He ht appear to some other one of our Jes 30s he ofits, dh i five senses! Ay, the nostril shall dis cover His presence, Ile comes upon us like spice gales from Heaven. Yea, His garments smell of lasting and all- pervasive myrrh, Ob that you all knew His sweetness! how soon you would turn from your novels, If the philosopher leaped out of his bath in a frenzy of joy, and clap- ped his hands, and rushed through the streets, becauss he had found the solu- tion of a mathematical problem, how will you feel leaping from the fountain of a Saviour’s mercy and pardom, wash- ed clean, and made white as snow, when the question has been solved: “How can my soul be saved?’ Nak- ed, frost-bitten, storm-lashed soul, let Jesus this hour throw around thee the “garments that smell of myrrh, aud aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.” Your second curiosity why the robes of Jesus are ODOROUS WITH ALOES, There 18 some difference of oplmon about where these aloes grow. what is the color of the flower, what is the par- ticular appearance of the herb, Sufiice it for you and me to know that uloes mean bitterness the world over, and when Christ comes with garments bear- ing that particular odor, they suggest to me the bitterness of a Saviour’s sul- ferings. Were there ever such nights as Jesus lived through—nights on the mountains, nights on the sea, nights in the desert? Who ever had such a hard reception as Jesus had? A hostelry the first, an unjust trial in oyer and termin- er another, a foul-mouthed, yelling mob the last, Was there a space on His back as wide as your two fingers where He was not whipped? Was there a space on His brow an inch square where He was not cut of the briers? When the spike struck at the instep, did it not go clear through to the hollow of the foot? Oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimagel Aloes! aloes! John leaned his head on Christ, but who did Christ lean on? Five thou- sand men fed by the Saviour; who fed Jesus? The sympathy of a Saviour’s heart going out to the leper and the adulteress: but who soothed Christ? DENIED BOTH CRADLE AND DEATH- BED, is to know lace neither to be nor to die. A poor babe! F.ven the candle of the sun snuffed out, Ob, was it not all aloes? All our sins, sor- agonies of earth and bell picked up as bitter draught distorted count. {to the acrid, nauseating, and aloes! foot, Aloes! a gurgling Nothing butaloes. All All this to get the of stubbornness, be- Nol nol me and you from hell, wanted to raise me and you to heaven, Because we were lost, Because we were blind, and wanted us to see, Decause we were serfs, and He wanted us manu- the saccharine has predominated; oh, beverages, how do you feel toward Him who in your stead, and to pur- ihe unsavory aloes, the bitter aloes? Your third curiosity is to know why these garments of Christ are ODOROUS WITH CASSIA, You do not of a flower it it is en- care to hear what kind had or what kind of a stalk, medicinally. In that land and in that age, where they knew but little about pharmacy, cassia was used to arrest forms of disease, So, when in my text we find Christ coming with garments that smell of cassia, it sug gests to me the healing and curative “Oh,” you say, “now you have a superfluous idea.) We are not sick, Why do you want) cassia? We are athletic. Our respir- ation is pertect, Our limbs are lithe, and in these cool days we feel we could 1 beg to differ, my brother, from you. None of you can be better in physical health than Ii am, and yet I must say we are all sick.| I have taken the diagnosis of your case, and have examined all the best auihori ties on the subject, and I have come now to tell you that you are full of] wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, which have not been bound up, or mollified, : THE MARASMUS OF SIN is on us—the palsy and dropsy, the lej The man that is expiring *& night in Fulton street—the allopathi and homeopathic doctors having giv him up. and his friends now standing around to take his last words—is no more certainly dying as to his body than you and I are dying unless we have taken the medicine from God's Apothecary. All the leaves of thi Bible are only so many prescription from the Divine Physician, written, not in Latin, like the prescriptions of] earthly physicians, but written in plain English, so that a ‘man, though fool, need not err therem.’’ Thank God that the Saviour’ garments smell of cassia! Suppose a man were sick, was » phial on his mantel-piece witl medicine he knew would cure him, and he refused to take it, what would y say of him? He isasuicide, And wha do you say of that man who, sick i sin, has the healing medicine of God" grace offered him, and refuses to tak it? If he dies, he is a suicide, Peopl talk as though God took a man and him out to darkness and death, though He brought him up to the cl and then pushed him oft. Oh, no When a man is lost it is not because God pushed him off; it is because he jumps off. In olden times a suicide was buried at the cross-roads, and the people ere accustomed to throw stones upon his grave. So it seems to me there may be in this house a man who is DESTROYING HIS SOUL, and as though this angels of God were bere Yo but) him at {hs polit Where the io roads of life and death cross each other, throwi upon the grave the broken law and a great pile of misimproved rivileges, so that those going by may ook at the fearful mound, and learn what a suicide it is when an immortal soul, for which Jesus died puts itself out of the way. When Christ trod this planet with foot of flesh, the people rushed after Him-people who were sick, and those who, being so sick they could not walk were brought by their friends. Here see a mother holding up her little child saying: **Cure this croup, Lord Jesus! Cure this scarlet fever!" And others: Cure this ophthalmial GIVE EASE AND REST to this spinal distress!Straighten this club foot!” Christ made every house where He stopped a dispensary. I do not be- lieve that in the nineteen centuries that have gone by since, His heart bas got hard, I feel that we can come now with all our wounds of soul and get His benediction. © Jesus! here we are, We want healing. We want sight, We want health, We want life, *‘The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” Dlessed be God that Jesus Christ comes through this as. semblage now, His *‘garments smelling of myrrh”’—that means fragrance; **and aloes” —they mean bitter sacrificial memories; “and cassia’’--that means medicine and cure, According to my text, He comes “out of THE IVORY PALACES.” You know, or if youdo not know, I will tell you now, that some of the palaces of olden times were adorned with ivory. Ahab and Solomon had their homes furnished with it. tusks of African and Asiatic elephants were twisted into all manners of shapes, and there were stairs of ivory, and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and floors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and windows of Ivory, and fountains that dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms that had ceilings of ivory. and overmastering beauty! Green tree branches sweeping the white curbs, Tapestry trailing the snowy floors, Brackets of light flashing on the lustrous | surroundings, Silvery music rippling | on the beach of the arches, The mere thought of it almost stuns my brain, and you say: “(Oh if 1 could only have walked over i such floors! If I could have thrown my- i self in such a chair! If I could have Y ou shall have something | ter than that if you only let Christ it i troduce you, From that place He came, and to that place He proposes to { transport you, for His “garments smell { of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.’ WHAT A PLACE HEAVEN MUST BE! | The Tulleries of the French, the Wind. {sor Castle of the English, the Alhambra, the Russian Kremlin, geons comparsd with it! Not so many | castles on either side the Rhiue as on | both sides of the nver of God-—the ivory palaces! One of the angels, in- sufferably bright, winged, fre-eyed, tempest-charioted ; one for the martyrs, | with blood-red robes from under the altar; one for the King, the stops of His palace the crowns of the church mili. tant: one for the singers, who lead the | one hundred and forty and four thou. | sand; one for your ransomed from sin; { one for me, plucked from the burning. i Ob, the ivory palaces! i To-day it seems to me as if the dows of those palaces were i | for some great victory, and I look and { 00, climbing the stairs of ivory, and i walking on floors or ivory, and looking | from the windows of ivory, some whom we knew and loved on earth, Yes I know them. There are father and tains!” j= ~Spanisa t Guli- Wi $ w Hiumine | ty-nine years, as when they left us, but | blithe and young as when on their mar- | riage day. And there are brothers and | sisters, merrier than when we used to | romp across the meadows together, The | cough gone. The cancer cured, The | erysipelas bealed. The heart-break lover, Oh, bow fair they are in Lhe | ivory palaces! And your dear little | Christ did not let one of them drop as | He lifted them. He did not wrench {one of them from you. No. They | went as from one they loved well to {One whom they loved better. If I { should take your little child and press | its soft face against my rough cheek, I might keep it a little while; but when you, the mother, came along, it would struggle to go with you. And so you stood holding your dying child when Jecus passed by in the room, and the little one sprang ont to greet Him. That is all. Your Christian dead did not go down into the dust, and the gravel, and the mud. Though it rained all that funeral day, and the water came up to the wheel's hub as you drove out to the cemetery, it made no difference to them, for they stepped from the home here to the home there, right into the ivory palaces. All is well with them. All is well, It is not a dead-weight that you lift when you carry a Christian out, Jesus makes the bed up soft with velvet yromises, and He says: “Put her down pros very gently. Put that head which will never ache again on this pillow of hallelujahs. Send up word that the prosessios is coming. Ring the bells, ting! Open your gates, ye ivory palaces!’’ And so YOUR LOVED ONES ARE THERE, They are just as certainly there, having died in Christ, as that you are here, There is only one thing move they want, Indeed, there 18 one thing in heaven they have not got, They want it What is it? Your company, But oh, my brother, unless you change your tack you cannot reach that harbor, You nught as well take the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, expecting in that direction to reach Toronto, as to go on 1m the way some of you are going, and a expect to reach the ivory palaces, our loved ones are looking out of the windows of heaven now, and yet you seem to turn your back upon them. You do not seem to know the sound of their voices as well as you used to, or to be moved by the sight of thelr dear faces. Oall louder, ye departed ones! Call louder from the 1 palaces! When I think of that , and think of my entering it, 1 awkard; I feel as sometimes when I have been to the weather, and my % 1% 0 EL Eh . bemired, and my coat is soiled, and my hair 1s disheveled, and 1stop in front of some fine residence where I have an er- rand, I feel not fit TO GO IN AST AM and sit among the guests, So some of us feel about heaven. We need to be washed—we need to be rehabilitated before we go into the ivory palaces, Eternal God, let the surges of thy par- doning mercy roll over us! I want not only to wash my hands and my feet, but, like some skilled diver, stauding on the pier-head, who leaps into the waves and comes up at a far-distant point from where he went in, so I want to go dows, and so I want to come up. O Jesus, vash me in the waves of Thy salvation! And hete I ask you to solve a mys- tery that has been oppressing me for thirty years. I have asked it of doctors of divinity who have been studying theology tnlif a century, and they have given me jo satisfactory answer, I have turned ovir all the books in my library, but got nasolution to the question, and to-day I c¢me and ask you for an ex- planation,! By what logic was Christ induced td exchange the Ivory palaces earth? I#all take the [irst thousand million yérs in heavengto study out ing 1t as tip tenderest, MIGETIEST OF ALL FACTS that Chrig did come, that He cama with spikes in His feet, came with thorns in Eis brow, came with spears in His hart, to save you and to save me. ‘God so loved the world that He in Him should not perish, butt have everlasting life.” compassiofl Mow them down like gain with the harvesting sickle of hy grace! Ride through to- day the konqueror, Thy garments aloes, cassia, outibf the ivory palaces!’ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Sespay Decessen 25, 1888, Ruth's Cholce, LESSON TEXT. WJudg. 1: 16-22, Memory verses, 16, 18) LESSON PLAN. Toric oy THE QUARTER: Promises Fulfilled, God's GoLpex TEXT vor THE QUARTER: There railed not aught of any good hing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel ; all came to pass, —~Josh, 21 : 45. Lessox Toric: Preferring Pople, God's t 1. Muth's Preference, va, 1A, 17, % Naomi's Ass nt, v8, 18, 22 8 pethiehem's Sympata y, va 19, 21, GOLDEN TEXT: my piovie, and thy God my God. — : 16, Lexson Outline: ° uth Dairy Hoxe READINGS: M.—Ruth 1 16-22, God's people, T.—Ruth 1 history. W.—Ruth 2 ing T.—Ruth 3 : of Boaz. F.—Ruth 4: to Boaz, S.—John 15 : 1-17, brotherly love, 1John 3 : 1-24 (iod's children. Preferring 1-15. Ruth's early 1-23. Ruth glean. 1-18. The 1-17. Ruth married The duty of a A S————————— LL. ENSON I. Rl ANALYSIS, I'I1’8 PREFERENCE, L Diversion Deprecated : Intreat nw | God forbid that we should Lord (Josh, fol to leave thee (16). 1OrsaKs and take Christ! Take Him now to-morrow; During the night be an your dwelling, and wiring out of drops from an § ¥ y . i aflfrighted hand, al not follow- in unsteady may be gue, EE a v—— To a Cougher. ine ang Y ou encourage youl cough to ugh. You whateverin your wind to put It down, to the lst bit of irritation in your throat The Lord do part thee a I will give thee to keep & off for four, and then eight, aig get rid of the whole much sofer. ing. } the mordthat part of you that coughs will wan to cough, ment. on first ping out, *‘I'm not going Ww cough sq much to-day. stop thignonsense, I'm going mine ors it to rale me and make me all, Onthe contrary, you nurse ic, door of jour throat, knocking with iis vexalioss Irritation, you give way lo it, openthe door and let it have its own Way. you male way down your throat. Does with por success, Now, you are not turban in your larnyx. EE —— A Ws bmsnsions Different Kinds of Conrage. Illusthtive of the different kinds of couragd observable in different races, Lord Iseley tells us that at the storming of Lucknow our troops found themselles in presence of a gate house, from: thi upper stories of which a severe fire watkept up on them. The only the upper stories was by some very nafow winding staircase, hardly one man at a time. The sidiers stirank for a moment t seemed certain death, But rushed in, went up the stair- hout a moments hesitation, ¢ minutes had thrown every of the windows, Yet the 1ld not have stood up man to t English infantry. There tourage peculiar to certain individulls and certain races which contempt for death and the belief thit it only leads to a better and happier fe. This was Gordon's cour- age. THs was the courage of the Iron- side. Add this is the courage of the oe s Arka, “15 AlY body waiting on you,”’ sald a polite salesman to a girl from the country. “Yealir,” said the blushing damsel, “that’s hy feller outside. He wouldn't come ing —————— IT Wivrp Last. —"1s the material good,” Asked a German student, who was bung a coat. “it wil last a long time, almost un til you jpay for it. Ii1s very durable indeed,” AYIA DTN, The bist way to ventilate the stables Hay Do nol turn cattle on fields that are 18 to leate the doors and windows open Suting ike of the barn Toft m: 3 EE r Yator ou fowls, as they injure the grass by tramp- J fone py . 1005 Noami’s ac “Whither The Chose £1 vi } % 1 Lia ir unknown desting HI pano $ complete dedi 43084 sir hs hart dont ’ $ i ight but death part Pe II, NAOMI'S ASSENT. I. The Steadfast Mind: She Was her (18), steadfastly minded to looking back, is fit kingdom {Lake 9 : 62), He would not 21 : 145 We ve steadfast, 15 : OB). A doubleminded man, unstable his ways (Jas, 1 : 8). be persuaded unumpovealue When she ¥ 4 Ww unto her SAW, she left speaking 18). yon the Lord (Josh, 24 22). Bid me come unto thee... . And be said, Come (Matt, 14 : 28, 29). Come and ye shal s:¢ {Johnl : 3M, We ceased be done Acts 21 : 14), So Noami returned, and Ruth the Moabitess (22). How good and how pleasant. . . . to dwell together in unity! {Psa 133 : 1). Was not our heart buming within us .+«in the way? {Luke 24 : 32). They brought him on his way unto the ship (Acts 20 : 38), The Lord stood by mae, and strengthened me (2 Tim. 4: 17). 1. “She saw that she was steadfastly minded.” The stedfast mind: (1) Its characteristics; (2) Its manifes- tations; (Its fruits.) 2, “She left speaking unto her.” (1) A time to speak; (2) A time 10 be silent.—{1) Testing by words; (2) Approving by silence, 3. “lbey came to Bethlehem.’ Who? (2) (4) Why? HL BETHLENEM'S SYMPATHY, i. Bethlehem: They came to Beth-lehem (19). And Samuel, ...came to Bethdehem (1 Sam. 16 : 4). Jesus was born in Bethichem of Judea (Matt, 2:1). Let us now go {Luke 2 : 15). The seripture cometh... . from 7 142), 1h Sympathy: All the city was moved about them 19). Qi the city was stirred, saying, Who is this? (Matt, 21 : 10). She was a widow: and much of the city was with her (Luke ¥ : 12). Weep vn them that weep (Rom, 12: Beat ye one another's burdens (Gal 12). Il. Sorrow! The Alsi ty hath dealt very bitterly me was in bitterness of soul, and prayed (18am. 1:10) The Lord hath taken away (Job 1 : 21). (1) Whence? (3) Whither? even unto Dethlehem said that the Christ Bethlehem (John » Bo... filets me with bitterness . RSA AS —————————— LLL LLL. LLL EH LG Another dieth in bitterness of soul (Joe 21 : 25). 1. “All the city was moved about them.” (1) In surprise; (2) In sym pathy, —(1) Naomi’s sorrowful con- dition; (2) Bethlehem’s kindly con- cern, “Call me not Naomi, call me Mara.” (1) The name “Pleasant’ renounced; (2) The name “Bitter®’ preferred. —{(1) Naomi's changed condition; (2) Naomi’s chagged de- signation, , “The Almighty hath aflicted me. ”’ (1) The source of affliction; (2) The forms of aMliction; (3) The reci- pients of affliction; (4) The fruits of affliction, LESSON BIBLE READING. MAKING CHOICE OF GOD. , Demanded : Under Moses at Sinal (Exod, 32:26). Under Moses at Horeb (Deut, 30:19). Under Joshua at Shechem (Josh, 24 : 15, 22). By Naomi of Ruth (Ruth :14, 15). Under Elijah at Carmel (1 Kings 18 : 21). Jy Isaiah of Israel (Isa. 1: 16-20). By Ezekiel of Israel (Ezek, 20 : 39). By Jesus of his followers (John 6:67). . Hinstrated : By the Levites at Sinai 97 ORY ly «) (Exod. 32 : By Israel at Shechem (Josh, 24 : 18, 21, 24). 3y Ruth (Ruth 1 : 16.18), By the people at Carmel (1 Kings 158 34, 401, By Christ's hearers (LL | By Mary (Luke 10 : 33-42), i By Paul (Acts 20 : 22-24; 21 ; 13). dy Moses (Heb. 11 : 24 26 | 3 Enforced : (Prov. 1 ;: 24-28). ——————— . LESSON SURROUNDINGS, The position of the our Bibles differs from that given it in ! the Hebrew Bible, jul our versions agree with the Septuagint in placing next to the ook of Judges. The events occurred during the time of Ruth 1:1), probably at vy before Saul became nite date can be assign- 16. ike 9 ; po phi viz. Book of Rutt Ory seems to bel 1 of repose ki the history spoken of David, a before the oppres The wk of Judges inch that belong to a * Israel's history under as th } th tines, clos. chaplers 17-21) relate an early part of the “judges.” This book opens rative of land Fy. with the simple nar Elimelech’s sojourn in the Moab in consequence of a is death, then of the death of his two sons, then of the return of the land of Israel with her two daughters-in-law, On the way, at | some unknown place, probably on the | east side of the Jordan, on the borders of the land of Moab, the touching scene { depicted in verses 6-18 occurred. One | daughter-in-law turned back at Naomi’s | suggestion. The lesson tells | other one said and did, of we, of bh what the ————— es AIA Visit to a Repairing Factory | The place looked like a ghastly cari- | eature of a butcher shop in the land of the cannibals, but it wasonly the inner | sanctum of a manufacturer of artificial limbs, Arms, legs, hands, feel—what you will—hung on the walls, screened in glass casas or laid about in heaps, There were audacious pictures of gen- temen In vanous active employments, who, having “tried your valuable leg | would have no other.” One of these graceful men was pictured in the act of Another bore his plying a miner’s pick at a mass of rock {over his head. Still another stood on | his sound leg and with the artificial | leg drove a spade deep luto the soli-of {a garden plot. Three were farmers | following the plow, blacksmiths sheer- | ing horses and a pedestrian without a | nose—all with at least one artificial i log. “Do they really do all that?” inquired | the reporter. “Pereaps not quite as well as you'd | suppose from the cut, but it 18 true { that there are & good many thousand | men with artificial legs doing work | that one would think likely to require | the aid of sound limbs.” { “Then you come preity nearly sup- | plying any natural loss?” | ‘Pretty nearly. The war gave & | great impetus to the manufacture of | artificial limbs, and we are still making { limbs for the veterans.’ | “How long does an artificial limb [ last?” | “That depends upon whether It is an arm ora leg and upon various other | considerations. I’ve known an arti- | ficial leg to be in use twenty-five years. { The more elaborate attempts to coun- ierfeit nature, the more liable the member to get out of order and require renewal. We make arms and hands with which the wearer writes, uses kuife and fork at table and performs many operations that one mgat think impossible. ’ Ma Did Not Triemph. “You look very much excited, dear,” he said, when she entered the parlor where he was waiting for her, “Well, I should think I ought to losk excited,’ she answered. ‘I’ve just had the most { awful argument with ma.” And she began to weep hysterically. “Why, what is the matter, my darling?" be in- quired, as he slid an arm around her wile and endeavored to soothe ler; “what was the pent?” “0, how can 1 tell you? She said you were only trifling with me, and that you would never the q ; and Itold her she did you a great lieved would
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