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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
%UPPER AND NETHER SPRINGS.”
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Uses
an Old Testament Story as a Parallel to
Illustrate the Great Blessings We Re-
ceive From Our Heavenly Father,
/NEwW York Crry.—The following ser-
repared some time
by the . Wilbur Chapman,
the distinguished evangelist. It is entitled
‘The Upper and the Nether Springs,” and
gave
her the upper springs and the nether
non is one of a series
since by the Rev. Dr.
was preached from the text “And
springs.” Joshua xv.: 19.
-Half way between Hebron and Beershe-
ba there once stood the ancient city of
Debir. It was the city of brains and books
and the centre of intellectual culture of the
At the same point now may
e seen a rude assemblage of stone hovels,
many of which are half standing, but the
olden days.
pthers are entirely broken down.
One of the names given to this city
being translated, means the City of Brooks
or gf Nornipgeynnt Athens was to Greece
ebir was to Southern Pales-
tine. 1t was supposed that all the records
pf antiquity of the nation were stored
the city of
there. 1t was, indeed, a famous place.
Caleb, the son of Hezron, of the tribe of
Judah, was very anxious to secure posses-
sion of the city. It is this fact which gives
His name is very familiar
He was one of the twelve spies
sent by Moses over into Canaan, and he
and Joshua were the only two born in
Egypt who were given the privilege of en-
tering Canaan, with the possible exception
of the Levites, and that, not only because
they had brought a truthful report of the
land they had explored, but were also ywill-
ing ‘to take God at His word, and put all
rise to the text.
to us.
their trust in Him.
Forty-five years after, when the wander-
ings were over, ‘Caleb applied to Joshua
which had been
promised him, and among other portions
there was granted to him Debir, the city of
t was still, however, the strong-
iants of Canaan, and must be
for the share of the lan
learning.
hold of the
espimed to be possessed.
aleb then made the proposition that he
v in mar-
riage to any one who was able to take the
city, and one Othniel, whe had been much
would give his daughter Achsah
of a warrior, for he had delivered the chil
dren of Israel from the King of Mesopota-
After a great
struggle the gates were broken down, the
giants were captured or driven away, and
the City of Books lay at the feet of the
When the victory was won
was as good as his word, and his
daughter was given in marriage to the sol:
mia, marched against Debir.
con.
Cale
ueror.
dier. With her he also
ance, a peculiar piece o
as cl
ave as an inherit
_ ‘southward toward the deserts of "Arabia
the hot winds of which again and again
Before Achsah left her
father’s house she besought him for his
blessing. The south land was not enough,
she would also have springs of water, and
Caleb responded at once, and gave her
more than she had asked, for we read in
the text: “He gave her the upper springs
From an exceed-
swept across it.
and the nether springs.”
ingly fertile territory: the land was chosen:
It contained no less than fourteen springs.
The valley was beautiful, for look which:
vay you would you could see them gushing
forth. Their presenee in the field meant
‘not only a Dlessing Jor the field in which
t for all the country
‘they were found,
around them.
I find in this beautiful story a good illus-
tration of all that we receive from our
Father. g
i+ All that has been bestowed upon us is as-
sociated with victory, and that was won by
Him whose name was called in the pros
It was for Him a
came off more than
ed
7 to
ith Him we have ze-
i the gift of salvation, but in
Him we are also blessed with all spiritual
Paul gives us this when he
writes to the Ephesians, “Blessed be the
hets the Conquerots
erce struggle, but He
conqueror. Then, after that, He was ca
‘he bridegroom of the church, which is
tbe His bride, and with Hi
ceived not onl
jblessings.
God and Father of our Lord Jesus. Christ
who hath blessed us with all spiritua
Jesus
& I. God starts His children in this world
as Caleb started his daughter, with an in
-theritance. No one is so poor but God has
given him something.
+ Some have taken the inheritance and
#reated, it as the man with the five talents
hey have gained
world with all its beauty, its green pas
ures, its still waters, its rivers and its seas
ts ‘starry canopy stretching out above
The werld is filled with forces of all kinds
em, until to-day he stands himself like
the midst of them all.
E man has seemed to gain control over
conquerer in
But the inheritance is better than that.
e has given us all the faculties of mind
nd all the powers of body. The mind, the
eart, the hands, the feet—mo one is sent
into the world a pauper.. God
hild of His.
take hold of the thought of the Eterna
he science of geomet
and Archimedes, by pure reasoning out o
their minds, and on the sands of the floor
of the room where they were studying
Archimedes traced the curves in which, ac-
cording to science, the heavenly bodies
ust move. And long after, when the tele-
scope was invented, the Galileos and the
Newtons beheld with reverent wonder tha
the heavenly bodies were sweeping along
in the same curves described so long ago by
Tt is, indeed, a
the great Mathematician. Ti
wonderful thing to have a mind.
But if these things which I have men-
tioned as our natural inheritance are all
avhat we possess, then, with the succes
that may be gained by means of them we
may still be of all men the most miserable.
For they are like the south land of Ach-
.gah, they stretch off toward the deserts of
EOTTOW and care and darkness, and the ho
svinds of despair come sweeping past u
.again and again. The most miserable peo-
‘ple in the world, sooner or later, are those
who have just the world and nothing else.
“Men are born unto trouble as the spark
“fly upward, and this south land of the
world is a poor portion. It is beautiful; i
fs the handiwork of God. But we mus
have more than that if the soul be satis-
“The stars are beautiful, but they
pour no light into the midnight of a
The flowvers are sweet, but
they pour no balm into the wounded
“héhrt.” There are times when the hungry,
‘fied.
troubled soul.
thirsty, fevered soul must have what th
natural inheritance can not give, and God
has made provision for that.
Man sighs with groanings which can not
be uttered for the infinite. If vou pat :
seashell to your ear you will find in it
reminiscences of its ‘original home. the roa
of the sea, the wail of the wind, the groan
of the dying wave, all discernible therein:
It has the witness in itself that it belongs
deep. And if you listen at-
tentively to your own heart you will find
to the mighty
constant proofs of its destined abode. T
sighs, the yearnings, the dreams, the tears,
the sadness, the music, all testify that wi
are made for God, and that only God can
) And God knew this.
and so, as well as giving us the south land
He has also given us the springs of water
from which we may drink and be satisfied.
God pity the man who has failed to accept
satisfy our wants.
-the proffered gift. :
. The springs of water were given t
Achsah because of her marriage with Oth-
~niel, and they are a perfect illustration of
that which comes to us because of ou
union with the Son of God. The springs
property, known
e South Land,” valuable for some
reasons, but it was mountainous and sloped
blessings in heavenly places in Christ
! other five also; others | ner, with all the assurance of a
ike the man with one talent, have wrapped
it in a napkin, and so they leave the world
as poor as when they entered it. Ged has
fbeen very good to us. He has given us this
has thus
placed a fortune in the grasp of every
It is such a great thing to
ave a mind, for with it man is able to
search the deep things of God and really
was worked out
rom a few simple principles by Euclid
were a free gitt, and so is the nether spring
of the gospel, which has come to us. ‘For
py. giace are ye saved through faith, and
a a} , Dob of yourselves: it is the gift of
And never a spring bursting from the
lains of Gerar, or from the mountains of
banon, or from the valleys of Canaan,
perform such a mission as this nether
spring of the gospel which is the gift of
our God.
We have seen the fields in the time of
a drought looking parched and apparently
dead and te and then suddenly,
almost in the night, the meadows were
clothed with green, and the grain lifted
up its head rejoicing, all because the rain
had fallen. But in this nether spring of
the gospel there is a more marvelous
power than that—he who comes to drink
of its waters goes away with new life, and
his whole nature is changed. The an-
cients believed in the existence of a prt
in which, if a person bathed, he woul
renew his youth and live forever. We
have found that spring to-day in the text,
for “The gift of God is eternal life.” “The
Bible is all a- Sparile with wells and
springs, rivers and seas. They toss up their
, | brightness from almost every chapter. And
, | water is many times the type or figure of
that which enlivens; beautifies and gives
new life.”
Solomon, refreshed by the story of
heaven, exclaims, “As cold water to a
thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.” Tsaiah, speaking. of the blessed-
ness of the children of God, writes, “They
shall spring as willows from the water-
courses.” The prophet, glowing with the
thought of the millenium, says, ‘Streams
shall break forth from the desert.”
The mission of water in this world is to
bless and satisfy, refresh and help. “But
all the waters that ever leaped in the tor-
rents, or foamed in the cascade, or fell in
the summer shower, or hung in the morn-
ing dew, have given no such comfort to the
troubled heart, no such rest and refresh-
ment to the sin-sick soul, ‘as that which
may be drawn by you and by me from the
nether spring of the gospel.”
It is a good type of illustration of the
gospel because of its brightness. Yet here
it fails of giving us perfect description or
idea, for where can you find such bright-
ness as gleams in this nether spring?
“David, unable to put it into words,
plays it on his harp. Christopher Wren,
unable to put it into language, springs it
in the arches of St. Paul’s. Bunyan, fail-
ing to present it in ordinary story, put it
- | in the form of allegory, which lives on to-
day with constantly increasing power.
Handel, with ordinary music unable to
reach the height and sound the depth of
the theme, thrills us with his oratoro.”
0, the gladness, the brightness, the joy un-
utterable in that life which 7s hid with
Christ in God. And this I may drink in
as 1 come to the nether springs.
- There is no life on earth so happy as
the Christian’s. Take the humblest child
of God you know, and why shouldn’t he
be happy? According to the Bible he is
, | all the time under the shadow of God’s
wings. If he walks the angels bear him up;
if he sleeps they let down ladders from the
skies, up and down which the angels go
to and fro. bringing down blessings of
God, and bearing away his heavy burdens.
Why, to get within the door of the king-
dom, to have a plaee, not the nearest, but
on the very outer eircle, to bear the lowest
title of all the redeemed, to be the weakest
| child of all the family of God, to be the
dimmest jewel in His erown of rejoicing,
to be the least, yea, less than least of all
the saints is a hope which sets the heart
a-singing. All this I find and more, a
thousand times more, as ¥ stoop and drink
at the nether springs.
Water is also like the gospel in its power
to refresh. I remember the River Jordan
the day when Naaman eame to its banks
with his leprosy. I see him going down
into its waters, once. twice, three times,
and then on until he had, according to the
instructions of the servant of God bathed
seven times, and then, marvelous change!
his h became as it were the flesh of a
little child.
: But here is a greater change for the sin-
ful soul: yho will {ome to the er
Ting e came: Newton, and left be-
nd im Mis sins which were as scarlet.
Here came Bunyan, cursing with every
step until lewd people: rebuked him, and
4 he went away, so changed that he gave to
the world the book that stands in the esti-
mation of some next to the Bible for sweet-
ness and power. Here came Magdalen and
the Pippin jailor, Zacchaeus, and the
- | poor trembling thief on the cross, and they
drank of the waters and stand to-day in
the company of the redeemed.
T stand by the side of the waters to-day,
, | and with all the tenderness of a saved sin-
ardoned
child of God, with all the alarm of a friend
who sees his friends and neighbors going
down to death, away from the living wat-
ers, I bid you come, come, come; “Whoso-
- | ever will, let him come.”
s It is a marvelous spring of which I speak.
. | I recall the fact that when the Master met
, | the man who was blind from his birth He
anointed his eyes with Jay and spittle and
then told him to go wash in the pool of
Siloam; and when he had washed he came
seeing. I imagine that first of all he saw
the face of the Master Himself. This is
the power of the nether spring of the gos-
pel. The touch of its waters will cause the
scales to drop from our eyes, and we shall
be able to see the wondrous things written
in the book of God, and not only so, but
we shall have given unto us the vision of
the face of the Master Himself. It is not
. | strange that we are unable, in our sinful
condition, to see things as they are in the
kingdom of God, for we are blind. But if
f | you will only come with your blindness to
the nether spring you shall go away re-
joicing. It is like the pool of Bethesda.
t has healing power, and we are not only
saved from the guilt of sin, but we may
likewise be saved from its power. The
only difference is that in the pool the sick
t | people must wait until the waters are
troubled before they may step in and be
healed, while in this nether spring the wat-
ers are always ready. This is no new idea
so to represent the gospel of Christ, for I
read in the gospel of John these words:
“But whosoverer shall drink of the water
s | that I shall give him shall never thirst.
But the water I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water, springing up into
everlasting life’ And in the Snoselynss
these words are:found: “I am the Alpha
t | and Omega, the beginning and the end. I
s | will give unto him that 1s athirst, of the
fountain of the water of life freely.” O
thirsty souls, come and drink!
I know what springs of water have done
ad for the world. Found in Gerar by Isaac,
they make the field fruitful in abundance.
t | Bursting forth in Lebanon, they send their
t | waters down the mountain side, and as
they go through the valley they make it
the very synonym of fruitiulness. Closely
akin to that is what the nether spring of
the gospel does for us. No one knows the
fulness of his own being until he is filled
with the influence and power of the gospel.
e | You walk, in the month of January, over
the most fertile place in a field or through
the forest, and you will see the illustration
of what man is in his natural state. The
a | earth is full of rdots and the trees are full
of buds, all of which are closely bandaged
r | so that they can not expand, but when the
spring time comes the roots in the earth
commence to push forward and the buds
on the trees begin to unfold, and in a very
little time all nature is rejoicing. What a
marvelous change, simply because the roots
e | have been warmed by the sun and kissed
by the light! and yet it is not worthy to
e | be compared with a change which might
be wrought in you, if you will but come to
the nether spring and drink of its life-giv-
ing waters, for there you will meet Him
who has said: “I am come that you might
have life, and that you might have it more
abundantly.”
I I wish I might be able to make
o | plain to you all that there is so much
more to the Christian life than simply
being saved. That is only the beginning.
r | The whole experience stretches away from
that point, and gets brighter and brighter
| of heaven.
| a_ distant city a fire was raging.
| thought that all the inmates had been
| third-story window.
as the days go by. With the hope that we
might learn the lesson together to-day I
have brought before you these two springs.
Whether the strict exegesis of the text will
allow the interpretation or not, I am very |
sure that all will agree that it is a perfect
illustration. To drink at the nether
spring is salvation, but to drink at the up-
per spring is a high privilege that is of-
ered to every child of God. I could bring
so many passages of Scripture to you
which would serve as an illustration of
what I mean. Take Ephesians i: 3:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us
with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus.”
Or, Col. ii: 12: “Buried with Him in _bap-
tism, wherein also ye are risen with Him,
through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised Him from the dead.”
Or, take Col. iii: 1-3: “If yethen be risen
with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. For ye
are dead, and your life is hid with Christ
in God.” Or, take Phil. iii: 20: “For our
conversation is in heaven, from whence
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ.”
I would that we might all drink at the
upper spring. What peace would then fill
our hearts! When we drink at the lower
spring we come to be at peace with God,
but when we learn to drink also at the
upper spring we have the peace of God,
and there is a great difference between
the two. It is something like the differ-
ence between a microscope and a telescope.
With the first we can see things near, and
in a bulk not larger than a grain of sand I
can find a thousand million animalculae,
but with the latter I can see things afar
off. I can actually study the Milky Way,
which is removed from me thousands and
thousands of miles. At the nether spring,
first of all, I see myself and all my it
ness; then I see Christ in all His righteous-
ness; then I hear Him say that though
my sins be like scarlet they shall be as
white as snow, and there at the nether
spring I am made whole, but with the up-
per spring it is different. Like the tele-
scope it is all about the things which are
above, and as I drink at its waters I find
myself being lifted above this world, and
my conversation, not only, but my very
life, may be in the heavenlies.
And the way to this upper spring is-
pointed out very plainly to us. remem-
the dream of Jacob as he was going
from Beersheba to Haran. It was of the
ladder which was set upon earth, the top
| of which reached up to heaven.
This ladder is set for us. It reaches to
the very brink of the upper spring. The
ladder is Christ; His feet rest upon the
carth. His brow is bound with the glory
2 The events of His earthly life
are the earthward end of the ladder; His
divinity, His finished Messiahship, His:
perpetual priesthood the topmost end. Im
i It was
saved, when to the horror of the bystand-
ers two children were seen standing at a
i It was before the
days .of the.almost perfect appliances for
the saving of lives. T'wo' ladders were
hurriedly spliced together and lifted to
the side of the building. There was a:
shout of terror when it was found that
the ladder lacked six feet of reaching the
children. In a moment a brave fireman
was mounting the ladder; he reached the
topmost round, and then stood for a mo-
ment balancing himself until he had caught
the window sill with his hand, and then
over his body, which supplied the gap be-
tween the ladder and window the children
came slowly down until outstretched hands
reached them in safety. And this is what
the Lord Jesus Christ did for you and for
me! There was no way for us back to
heaven. We were estranged from God.
And then He came in His incarnation; and
on the platform erected by the patriarchal,
legal,and prophetic dispensation, He stood,
as it were, in His own body, reaching up
His hands, He took hold of God, and the
way was made complete. And so it has
come to pass that not only in Chrst we are
saved, but it is also true that we mount by
Him into the very secret place of the Most
High. And this is drinking at the upper
spring. :
Thus the secret of this great bigssy is
or
‘to be found by abiding in Christ. Dr.
don used to tell a little circumstance which
came beneath his eyes in New England,
which presents to us a figure of it all
Two little saplings grew side by side.
Through the action of the wind they
crossed each other. By and by the bark
of each became wounded and the sap be-
gan to mingle, until in some still day they
became united to each other. This pro-
cess went on more and more until they
were firmly compacted. Then the stronger
began to absorb the life from the weaker;
it grew stronger while the other grew
weaker and weaker. until finally it dropped
away and then disappeared. And now
there are two trunks at the bottom and
only one at the top. Death has taken
Zyay the one, life has triumphed in the
other.
Massillon’s Secret of Power.
It is said that after Massillon, the great
court preacher of France, had finished one
of his sermons, Louis XIV. summoned him
to his side and said, “Massillon, how is it
you impress me as you do?
many great orators preach. They nearly
always please me. But when you preach,
instead of being pleased with you, I am al-
ways discontented with myself. I always
feel that I want to be a better man, as well
as a better king.” “Well,” answered the
great preacher, “the only way I can ac:
count for it, Your Majesty, is because I
am always preaching against myself. When
I am about to make up a sermon I say to
myself, ‘Massillon, what is the sin which
you have hardest work to battle to-day?
And when I preach against my own sins I
generally find that there are similar sins
in other hearts which I am also preaching
against.”
I have heard
The Xdeal Home.
If from being tossed about in the Togs
and storms which surround and overtake
us we can come into the home as into a
beautiful lan&-locked harbor; if husbands
can come from their offices and business
perplexities into a peaceful, sunny atmos:
phere, bringing with them the spirit
which shall exercise care and make home a
refuge to them, and if wives and mothers
welcome them into such homes where the
very air as the doors are opened seems
fragrant with love and restful sympathy,
and pure and refreshing with cheerfulness,
such a home is ideal and a refuge for all its
inmates. It is such homes that keep the
church alive and develop the same old rev-
erence and faith and hope and love which
have blessed the world ever since Abraham
built the first altar to Almighty God in
the long .ago.—Dr. Lyman Abbott.
Creeds and Doctrines.
Creeds and doctrines are the attempts to
explain existing facts. Creeds do not pro-
duce the life. The creeds and opinions
may change, but the realities remain and
are unchangeable. They are the phenomena
to be explained. The creeds and doctrines
are the varying explanations. The events
and active forces are the evidences of the
life. force. It is an intelligent personal
agency. He lives. He is the life of His
cause. By Him any man may come into a
new life. Through Him millions have
brought their lives ‘into tune with the uni-
verse.” If we are wise we shall pay more
regard to Him, to His teaching, to His
work and His personal fellowship. — A.
Wheaton.
Luxury.
We do not need to go to ancient times
for examples of luxury. Luxuries are a
prominent part of American life to-day.
here are some things that may be said
with certainty about it. First, it is the
pride of living and ostentation and exalts
inordinate self-satisfaction. Second, a life
of luxury contradicts Christ and Chris-
tianity.—The Rev. T. E. Cramblett, Pitts-
burg, Pa.
HEALTHY WOMEN
Praise Pe-ru-na as a Cure for Golds
re
MRS. M.J.BRINK
FIRST STAGE OF CATARRH.
A Serious Mistake Which Thou-
sands Are Making.
The first stage of catarrh is what is
commonly known as ‘“‘catching cold.” It
may be in the head, nose, throat or lungs.
Its beginning is sometimes so severe as to
cause a chill and considerable fever, or it
may be so. slight as to not hinder a person
from his usual business. In perhaps a
majority of cases little or mo attention
is. paid to the first stage of catarrh, and
Hence it is that nearly one-half of the peo-
ple have chronic catarrh in some form.
To neglect a cold is to invite chronic
catarrh. As soon as any one discovers
the first symptoms of catching cold he
should at once begin the use of Peruna
according to directions on the bottle,
EXPENSIVE AUTOMOBILING.
Owning a: Horseless Carriage Is Not a
Poor Man’s Sport.
If a man’s horse should cost more
for veterinary fees that for oats, that
man would begin to scratch his head
and wonder if he wouldn't better sell
the animal and charter a special train
or some other cheaper mode of travel,
particularly if oats were expensive,
and the horse’s original cost had been
several thousand dollars, not to men-
tion the slight faet that the horse was
given to periodical runnings away,
adding heavy damages to his owner’s
liabilities. And if in these little ses-
sions of capering over the prostrate
heads of a frightened populace he
should kill or maim for life a few citi-
zens, there naturally would be still
greater doubt in the owner’s mind as
to the advisability of keeping so trou-
blesome a carrier. Yet that is the pre-
cise situation of the fast speed auto-
mobilist. The wear and tear on the
tires of a heavy automobile is reck-
oned by experts to be equal to four or
five cents per mile, which is more than
the fuel to run it costs. Then the
fines for exceeding the speed limit
mus. be added to the damages for ac-
cidents, caused by runaways of fright-
ened horses, or, worse still, the runa-
ways and explosions of the machines
themselves. Taken altogether, it would
seem to an onlooker who hadn’t yet
caught autocitis that Pucks’ hill-old
exclamation might be apropos—‘“What
fools these mortals be!”
Water Before Meals.
While the general opinion of those
supposed to be authorities on the mat-
ter has been that the habit of drinking
water at meals is a deleterious one, it
is now stated, according to recent in-
vestigations, that a little water, if not
too cold, is beneficial, as it assists in
the digestion of food. A too copious
supply of water dilutes the gastric
juice, and if too cold lowers the tem-
perature of the stomach below normal,
thus impairing digestion. If, however,
water is taken in limited quantities
the gastric juice on food will be wash-
ed aside, thereby facilitating absorp-
tion. By this means the undigested
food is laid bare and is more suscepti-
ble to further action of the gastric
juice. During the period of rest
phlegm, being very tenacious, pre-
vents the free flow of gastric juice for
some time, hence delays digestion. A
drink of water before meals is recom-
mended, because it loosens and
washes away this deposit of mucus,
thereby permitting the gastric juice
to attack the food as it enters the
stomach.
Slept Seoundly.
Paul Kruger, in his memoirs, tells
the story of a secretary whom he
punished for being drunk by tying
him to a wagon wheel. During ihe
night 3,000 Kaffirs and about 4,000
Zulus attacked the Boer camp and
were not driven off till daylight. The
secretary slept so soundly that he
noticed nothing of the fight, and the
next day, when he at last awoke, he
looked around in astonishment and
asked: “Have you people been fight-
ing during the night?”
and a Preventive of Catarrh,
oid Sym
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and the cold is sure to pass away
. without leaving any bad effects.
Unless this 1s done the cold is al-
most sure to end in the second stage of
catarrh, which is making so many lives
miserable. If Peruna was taken every
time one has a cold or cough, chronic
catarrh' would be I an un-
known. disease.
Miss: Elizabeth Uber, No. 57 Bassett
street, Albany, N. Y., writes:
“I have always dreaded unsettled
weather because of my extreme liabil-
ity to catch cold, “when a catarrhal
trouble would quickly develop through
my entire system, which it would take
weeks to drive away. I am thankful
to say that since have taken PE-
RUNA I do not have any reason to
dread this any more. If I have been
at all exposed to the damp,wet or cold
weather, I! take a dose or two of PE-
RUNA, and it throws out any hint
of sickness from my system.”—DMiss
Elizabeth Uber:
Mrs. M. J. Brink, No. 820 Michigan: ave-
nue, St. Joseph, Mich., writes:
“This past winter during the wet and
cold weather I caught a sudden and severe
cold, which developed a catarrhal condition
through my entire system, and so affected
my general health that I' was completely
broken down, and became nervous and
hysterical and unfit to supervise my home.
My physician preseribed for me, but some-
how his medicine did me no good: Read-
ing of PERUNA 1 decided to try it. Af-
ter I had taken but three bottles I found
myself in fine health.”—Mrs: Mi J. Brink.
Sibyl A. Hadley, 26 Main street, Hunt-
ington, Ind. writes: ‘‘Last winter after
getting my feet wet I.began to. cough,
which gradually grew worse until my
throat was sore and raw. Ordinary reme-
dies did not help me and cough remedies
nauseated me. Reading an advertisement
The First Newspaper...
There has been considerable contro-
versy of late years as to which country
should be conceded the honor of print-
ing the first regular newspaper. Claims
have been successively put forward
for Italy, France, Germany, England
and Holland, and all with some degree
of plausibility, but it "appears from
recent researches that neither one of
these is entitled to the distinction, and
that precedence should: be. given to
Belgium. It has been established by
the antiquaries that a certain Abra-
ham Verhoeven, of Antwerp, obtained
from the Archduke and Duchess Al-
bert and Isabelle the privilege of print-
ing a news sheet. As the first German
paper appeared in 1615 at Frankfort,
the first Dutch paper in 1617, the first
English paper, the Weekly Gazette, in
1622, and the first French paper in
1631, it would seem that Antwerp’'s
claims have some foundation, and that
the Belgian city initiated what has be-
come one of the most influential fac-
tors in modern life and progress. On
the strength of this it is proposed to
hold a great tercentenary celebration
in Antwerp some time during the year
1905.
New Chinese Minister.
Although the diplomatic circles at
Washington lost a treasure in Wu-
Ting-Fang, the late Chinese: Minister,
his place is likely to be well filled
by his successor, Sir Liang-Cheng.
That distinguished Oriental will soon
marry the daughter of Yu-Keng, the
Chinese Minister at Paris. The wed-
ding will take place at Peking before
the Minister leaves for Washington,
arriving early in January. Sir Liang’s
fiancee is described as a perfect type
of Celestial beauty and as unusually
accomplished. She is 22 years old and
has lived for the last three years at
her father’s legation, being almost as
well known in Parisian society as
Madame Wu was in Washington.
Waterproof Briquettes.
Consul B. H. Warner reports from
Leipzig: All briquettes which have
hitherto been manufactured by means
of soluble cements (such as dextrin
molasses, lixiviated cellulose, oxidized
lignine, resignate of ammonia, ete.)
dissolve in water. Richard Bock, an
engineer of Merseburg, province of
Saxony, has found a method for mak-
ing briquette which are entirely water-
proof. He heats the finished briquettes
until the cement is wholly or partly
carbonized, which makes them indis-
soluble, In ease the ignition temper-
ature of the cement is likely to be at-
tained the heating must take place in
an air-tight case or by means of hot
gases.
The Power of Liquid Hydrogen.
Every gaseous substance now defin-
itely known to the chemist, with the
single exception of helium, may be sol-
idified with the aid of the low tempera- |
tur® furnished by liquid hydrogen.
Professor Dewur, of London, to whom
the world is indebted for nearly all the
discoveries of tnis kind, expects to suc-
ceed in solidifying even helium, and is
now making a series of experiments
to that end at the Royal institution.
Liquid hydrogen has a temperature of
436 degrees helow zero,
MISS. SARA MCGARAN.
.of what PERUNA could! do, I decided to
try a bottle, and you: can imagine how
glad I felt when it began to relieve me
in a very short time. In less than two
weeks I was completely cured.””—Sibyl A.
Hadley. .
Miss Sarah McGahan, No. 197 3d street,
Albany, N. Y., writes: .
“A few months ago I suffered with a
severe attack of influenza, which nothing
seemed to relieve. My hearing became
bad, my eyes became irritated and feverish.
Nothing seemed right and nothing I ate
tasted good. I took PERUNA and within
two weeks I was perfectly well.”—Sarah
McGahan. E
Ef you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruma
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving ‘a
full statement of your case, and’ he will be
glad to give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, :
THE BAKER’S OVEN.
How Bakers Themselves Determine
It by Mere Touch of Hand.
“Bakers have a curious way of tell-
ing just what the temperature of the
even is,” said a downtown baker who
has been in the business for more
than a quarter of a century, ‘and they
can tell, too, with almost marvelous
accuracy. You take a man who i$
an expert in the business, and he can
tell what the temperature of the
oven is by simply touching the han-
dle of the oven door. In nine cases
out of ten he will not miss it the frac-
tion of a degree. Bakers have other
ways, of course, of testing the heat
of the oven. For instance, when bak-
ing bread they sometimes throw a
piece of white paper into the oven,
and if it turns brown the oven is at
the proper temperature, or, when bak-
ing other things, they will throw a
little cornmeal or flour into the oven
in order to test the heat. But the
baker's fingers are the best gauge and
when you come to think of the differ-
ent temperatures required in baking
different things, it is no small achieve-
meht to even approximate the heat
of the oven by touching the handle
of the oven door. Bakers figure that
during the rising time of a loaf of
bread, after it has been placed in the
oven, it ought to be in a temperature
of 75 degrees Fahrenheit. During the
baking process, in order to cook the
starch, expand the carbonic acid gas,
air and steam, and drive off the al-
cohol, the inside of the loaf must reg-
ister at least 220 degrees. In baking
rolls, buns, scones, tea biscuits, drop
cakes, fancy cakes, New Year’s cakes,
muffins, puff cakes and things of that
sort, the oven must show a heat of
450 degrees higher. When the oven
is at 400 degrees, it is fit for cream
puffs, sugar cake, queen cakes, rock
cakes, jumbles, lady fingers, rough and
ready jelly rolls. At 350 degrees wine
cakes, cup cakes, ginger nuts and
snaps, pies, ginger bread, spice cakes,
such as raisin, eurrant, citron, pound,
bride and so on, may be baked. It re-
quires a still lower temperature to
bake wedding cakes, kisses, anise
drops and things in this class. But
whatever temperature the old baker
wants, he can tell when he has it by
simply touching the handle of the
oven door.”
Takes No Food But Milk.
Four quarts of milk daily, or there-
abouts, for 20 years has been the sole
| diet of Thomas FF, Laubach, of Hazel-
ton, Pa. ‘'Lt'wo decades ago Mr. Lau-
{ bach, being then 51 years old, was in
very bad health, and his physicians
gave up his case. Then he decided to
doctor himself and has done so ever
since, absolutely confining his diet to
milk. Now he is one of the healthiest
and soundest men in town.
The Wheat Area.
The statistician of the Department
{ of Agriculture estimates the newly
| seeded area of winter wheat at about
34,000.000 acres, an increase of 5.1 per
| cent. upon the area estimated to have
| been sown in the fall of 190i. The
| condition of winter wheat on Decem-
| per 1 was 99.7 as compared with 86.7
{in 19691, 97.1 in 1900 and a nine-year
| average of 91.4.