Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 May 1892 — Page 3

1 kWh TPSt; ' -I* : tlW®-, :ic fin* «w among « and the incould not unpossithis mem' nmb spirit abroad TKe fftUowhig sermon by Rev. T. DeWltt Tail Thou dumb cad.deaf spirit, corns oat of Urn.—Set taE, £5 Here was a ease of great guish. The son of the hoi possed of an evil spirit, wl other things, paralysed his made him speechless. W fluence was on the patient say a word—articulation \ hie. The spirit that captor her of the household was a —so-called by Christ—a •[. today, and as lively and potent as in the New Testament times. Yet, in all the realms of sermonolog p, I can not And a discourse concerning this dnmb devil which Christ charged upon in my text, saying: “Come onto!him." There has been much destructive superstition abroad in tb; world concerning possession by evil spirits. Unrder the form of belief In witchcrafts this delusion swept the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit, which mad ‘Item able to destroy others, teenth century, in sons were burned to

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traamci, mm inarwn Luwir .«na, among writers *nd philosophers, Lord it_ i..,!./ . . . i... Bacon. That belief, which has be* come the laugh ng stoqj olTWc^ftalhle i / p«>ple, con.Sed its*" disoipli a amoii£~lhe ■,a^'^l*58.t-a-hd best peonies of Sweden, Germany, England, France, Spain and New England. But, while we reject witchcraft, any man whc believes the Bible must believe that there are diabolical agencies abroad ir the World. While there are ministering spirits to bless, there are infernal spirits to hinder, to poison and to destroy. Christ was speaking to a spiritual existence, when, standing before the afflicted one of the text, he said: “Thon dumb and deaf spirit, come out of him,” ,. Against this dumb devil if the text 1 put you on your guard. Do not think that this agent or evil lias put his blight on those who by omission of the vocal organs have had the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. Among those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and lovely stnd talented souls that were ever inca rnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories of those v$»o never called the name of father mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak the name of God or Christ. Many a deaf mute have I seen with the angel of intelligence seated at the window of the eye, who never came forth from the door of a the mouth. What a miracle of loveline is and knowledge was Laura Bridgman, of New ly without faculty of it hearing and with|ese faculties removed by sickness when two yeais of age, yet, beooming a wonder at needle work, at the piano, at the sewing machine, and an intelligent student of the Scriptures, and confounding philosophers, who came from all parts of the world to

unsafe. came monk; century another dactyloland in our John Braidstudy the phenomenon. Thanks to Christianity for what it ha 5 done for the amelioration of the condition of the deaf and the dumb. Bact in the ages thAwere put to death us having no rig™, with sueh paucity ef equipment, to live, and for centuriss they Were classed among the idioti< But in the sixteenth t Pedro Ponoc, the^Pffl and in the seventeen came Juan Pablo Boi Spanish monk, witl Ogy or the finger alphabe own oentury we have ha. wood and Doctors Mitchel 1 and Ackcrly, and Peet and Gallaudet,w]io have given to uncounted thousands of those whose tongues were forever silent the power to spell out on the air. by a manual alphabet their thoughts about this world and (heir hopes for .the next. We rejoice to the brilliadt inventions to behalf of those who were born dumb One of the most impressive audiences I ever addressed was in the far west two or three years ago—an audience of about six hundred persons, w heard a sound or spoken terpretor standing besid addressed them. I congi audience on two advanta over the most of us—the escaped hearing a great many disagreeable things, and, on the o escaped saying things th for afterward. Yet, aft leviations, a shackled to palling limitation. But\ morning speaking of con We mean those who are of vocalize struck by the the text—the Christ called, i •‘Thou dumb and deaf i thee, come out of him.” no had never i. word, an tome while I atulated that ges they had me that they her fact, they sy were sorry sr all the aligue is an ap'e are not this renital mutes, born wigglg tion, MM evil tomb hen I pirit,

ition of But the nas Deeu. apotmosiza Some one has said silence is and sometimes the greatest is to keep your mouth shut times silence is a crime and 11 result of the baleful influence on the dumb devil of our text There is hardly a man or woman in this house to-day who has not been present on some occasion when the Christian religion beeam i a target for raillery. Perhaps it was over in the store some day, when much going on and the group; or it was in a noon spell; or it was under the trees, while ing; or it was in the cl was in a social-c street, on the way or it was on some remember without ing it. Some one on the Bible, i the profession of hypocrisy, or made a thing that Christ t started and yon joined word of protest did kept you silent? capacity to answer? ■nitty? So. It was douh yon would fius with -an is '' led-up fist, yet, Imre, is our which , has done so ptwah for (SpH I 'take all eternity to ce here was not lerks were in a actory at the the farm, were restb room; or it r it was in the ! from business; ! m which you my describtbe laugh out of some- . The laugh , and not one utter. What sty? No. Jn«v on both align your f husband; up Quick, and ward or And • religion, tor you that it will it, and did not. I 'object “j fleni>

was right?" *)h, friends, heller Wad d£ with afcW intei'rogdtion btddfh Voit e&il not afford to be siiettt wfle.V Cod and the Bible and the things of eternity are ASsaSleit Vottr silence jjiveS consent to the bombardment Of yOA'r father’s house. You hVloW St slur to be cast on yottf toothe?4* dyiiijg pilloW. In behalf of the Christ, Who for yOu Wtedttnfbtigh the agonies Of assassination on the rooky bin# back of Jerusalem, you dared hot face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions, so that next time you will be ready. Say to the scoffer: “My dear sir, will Jlod tell me what makes the difference betweeri the condition Of Women in china add the United state** What do yon think

Of the sermott t* the \nount? How do VW like the golden mle laid down ifi the Scriptures? Are yob fh faVof bf the ten commandments? in your large and extensive reading have you come Across A 1'oVeller Character thin JesuS Christ? Will yob please to name the triumphant death-bed of infidels and atheists? tiSW* rdo you account for the hlet that among the out-And-out believers in Christian^ 'tv Wore such persons as Benjamin .Franklin. John Buskin, Thomas Carlyle, Babington Mccanlav-. William Penn, Walter -Scott, Charles Kingsley, Horace Bushflell, -Janies A. darfleid, Robert B. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Admiral Foote, Admiral Fatra'gut, Ulysses S, dranh John Milton, William Shakespeare, CHief-Jdstiee Marshall, Johd At^Snsi jjaniet Webster, UeorgS Washington? Hoh-cJo tkflfrJhifflnnt .fn^-Ahar fondness fbf ‘the Christian religion? Among the innumerable colleges and universities of the earth, will you name me three started by infidels and now supported by Infidels? LloWll in your heart are yoU really happy ifi the position you Occupy antagonistic tb the Christian dellgtob? Hut then there are occasions when this particular spirit that Christ exorcised when He said: “I charge thee to come out of him," takes people by the wholesale. In the most responsive religious audience have you noticed how many people never sing at all? They have a book and they have a Voice and they know how to read. They know many of the tunes, and yet are silent while the great raptures of music pass by. Among those wlio Sing iiot one out of a hundred sings lond enough to hear his Own Voice. They hum it. They give Asortof religious grunt. They make the lips go, but it is inaudible. With a voice strong enough to stop a street car one block away, all they can afford in the praise of (>od is about half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough altos, enough bassos to make a small heaven between the four walla they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice that ascends from the largest audience that ever assembled ought to be multiplied about two thousand fold. But the minister rises and gives out the hymn; the audience are standing so that the lungs may have full expansion, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend,’when the evil spirit spoken of in my text—the dumb devil—spreads his two wihgs, one over the lips of ofce-half the audience and the other wing over the

ups ot tne otner nan ot the atidience, and the voices roll back into the throats from which they started, and only here and there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power is destroyed; and the dumb devil, as he flies away, says: “I could not keep IsaagMptotts from writing that hyuin^m^Fcould not keep Lowell MAn~'from composing the tune to whnKt is set, but I smote into silence or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods and cities, and then mount the wide-open heavens.” Give the long-meter doxology the full support of Christendoin, and those four lines would take the whole earth for God. During the cotton famine in Lancashire, England, when the suffering was something terrific, as the first wagon load of cotton rolled in, the starving people unhooked the horses and drew the load themselves, singing, until all Lancashire joined in with triumphant voices, their cheeks sopping with tears: “Praise God from whom all blessings flow,” When Commodore Perry, with his war-ship, the Mississipi, lay off the coast of Japan he bombarded the shores with “Old Hundred,” played by-the marine band. Glorious “Old Hundred,” composed by William Franc^of Germany. In a war prison, at 10 Wdock at night, the poor fellows, far friMfc home and wounded and sick and dying, one prisoner started the “Old Hundred, Doxology,” -and then a score of voices joined, then all the prisoners on all the floors took up the acclaim until the building from foundation to topstone fairly quaked with the melodious ascription. A British man-of-war, lying off a foreign coast, heard a voice singing that doxology, and immediately guessed, and guessed aright, that there was an Englishman in captivity to th Alohammedans; and in the small boats^he sailors rowed to shore and bursi®ito the guard house and set the captive free. I don't know what tune the trumpets of resurrection shall play, but it may be the doxology which is now sounding across Christendom. How much more hearty we would be in our songs, and how easily we could drive back the dumb devil from all our worshiping assemblages,

Redeemer's praim, The Rories at mj CM »ud Kin*, The triumphs of Hu grncs. •*" Jeans, the name that calms oar fears. That bide onr Borrows cease; 'Tlte taueife talk sffineF.B Wffl; *Tts il» iftrt tteiithaikd peice. While rttich of the thoden'gu)^ is ft religious doggerel. ft WfiSecfated riofiSeMfee, ft Mcred iribecilitjr, t would iikd loses sorts |real niusioiad lift the llymd,” "Harwell,” "Antioch,” "Mount Pisgah” and “Coronatioii,” with ft few regiments of qiigMty tuiies made ifl odr own tilde, and sloM Asia* Africft find P . ip SPL,-, ..fried Atteihbd w? the kingdom of God. But the first thing to do is to drive out the dumb devil of the text from all our

churches. Do not, however, let us lose ourselves In generalities. Not one of us but has had our lives Sometimes touched bf the eVii; spirit oi the texl—this Awful dUiiih deyiL We had just Ohe opportunity of laying A Christian Wdrd thAt might have led a paah of WbmdU into d Chris* tian life. The qppoHtihity was fairly putbefoW* us. The word of invitation or consolation Of warning came, to the inside gate df the nlodtk, but there it halted Sorbe hindering power locked the jaws together so that they did not open. The tongue lay flat and still iri the hottoni of the mouth as though struck with paralysis. We were mute. Though God had given us the’ physiological apparatus for speeell, Ana odf idiigS were Ailed With dif which, by tlie commabd oi <bir will, coiild have made the laryngeal biuscies niove add the focal organs vibrate, We were Wickedly and fatally silent. For all time ai>d eterhlty wc missed our chAbee. Or it was A prayei’ meetihg, Adi! the Service was thrown bpefi for prayer and remarks, and there was a dead halt—everything silent as a ^grav^-yard at midnight. Indeed, it was a grave-yard ancT'ulttibfck*llk An embarrassing pause took placeput a wet blanket on all the meeting: Meitj hold enough .on biisifleSs ex' chabjfe Of m worldly circles, shut their eyes As thoii^h they were praying in silence, but they were not praying at all. They were busy hoping somebody else would *do his duty. The women flushed under the awful pause and made their fans more rapidly flutteik Some brother, with no eold. coughed, by that sound trying td fill iip the time: and the tweeting was slain;. Hut whut killed it?—the dumb devil; This is the Wajr 1 AccoUht for the fAUt that the stupidest plages Ob earth , Are some prayer iiieetings. Ido not see how a man keeps any grace if he regularly attends them. They are spiritual refrigerators. But do not let the world deride the church because of all this, for the dumb devil is just as conspicuousb'n the world. The two great political parties will soon .assemble to build platforms for the presidential candidates to Htand on. A committee of ettch party will be appointed to make the platform. After proper deliberations the committees will come in with a ringing reports “Whereas,” and “Whereas.” Pronun* ciamentoes all shaped with the one idea Of getting the most votes. All expres* sion in regard to the great moral evils of the country ignored. No expression about the liquor traflic, fbr that Would lose the rum vote. No expression in regard to the universal attempt At the demolition of the Lord’s day. No recognition df God in the history of this nation, foP that would lbfee the Vote Of atheists. But “whereas” and "whereas” and “whereas.” Nine cheers will be given to the platform.

Tue dumb devil of the test will put one wing over the republican platform, and the other wing over the democratic platform, There is nothing involved in the next election except officers. The great convention will be opened with prayer by their chaplains. If they avoid platitudeB and tell the honest truth in their prayers they will say: “Oh. Lord, we want to be postmasters, and consuls, and foreign ministers, and district attorneys. For that we are here, and for that we will strive till the election nest November. Give us office or we die. Forever and ever, amen.” The world, to say the least, is no better than the church on this subject of si-« lence at the wrong time. In other words, is it not time for Christianity to become pronounced and aggressive as never before? Take sides for God and sobriety and righteousness. “If* the Lord be God, follow Him; if Baal, then follow him.” Have you opportunity of rebuking a sin? Rebuke it. Hive you a chance to cheer a disheartened soul? Cheer it? Have you a useful word to speak? Speak it. Be out and out, up and down for righteousness. If your ship is afloat on the Pacific ocean for God's mercy, hang out your colors from mast-head. Show your passport if yon have one. Do not smuggle your soul into the harbor of Heaven. Speak out for God! This morning close up the chapter of lost opportunities, and pitch it into the East river, and open a new chapter. Before you get to the door ou your way out this morning shake hands with Some one, and ash him to join you on the road to Heaven. Do not drive up to Heaven in a two-wheeled “sulky” with room only for one, and that yourself, but get the biggest Gospel wagon you can find, and pile it full of friends and neighbors, and shout till they hear you all upand down the skies. “Come with us and we will do you good, for the Lord hath promised good concerning Jsrael.” The opportunity for good, which you may consider insignificant, may be tremendous for results, ad when on the sea Capt. Haldance swore at the ship's crew with an oath that wished them all in perdition, and a Scotch sailor touched his cap and said: “Captain, God hears prayer, and we would be badly off if your wish were answered.” Capt Haldane was convicted -by the sailor’s remark and converted, and became the means of the salvation of his brother Robert, who had been an infidel, and then Robert became a minister of the Gospel, and under his ministry the godless Felix Neff became the world-renowned missionary of the cross, and the worldly Merle D’Aubigne became the author of “The History of the Reformation,” and will '

ago a meeting of association reply, Shepentire stock of wool being I am almost appears Id the elections be those the Woo*l lence is diiard low 10 uawrence. . . We suspect, fault the decline of the Higher were imposed by the McKinley act Was not Wholly overlooked hy Shepard When Be Began td think dl selling his sheep. He has been disappointed. He was making money by raising wool on land which he leased at four cents an acre, with the help of herders whom he hired at 70 cents day. He wanted higher duties in order that he might make move money. Higher duties were imposed, hut his profits havd fldt Been inShepard tdld the committee that he produced lds.PoP pounds of wool, UUd Only 4; pod pounds of this, was carpet Wool. He had Been urged iiy LiaWrerice to make ah argument in sdppdrt of the proposition that the duties oh carpet wool Should be largely increased. It was his plea that t’ll the coarse carpet wool, Used in this country could be prodhcled here if the “protection” skpilld be “sufficient” Here is a part Of his testimony:" Mr. tjarlisie—What do you “sufficient” or “proper protection?’ Mr. Shepard—Sufficient protecfadn tomake it as remunerative to us to raise that class of wool as to raise fine wool. Mr. Carlisle—What rate of duty dcyou Consider a sufficient protection? Mr. Sh epard—fciiougii td riiake fait price of this wool equal to the other. Mr. Carlisle—In other words, you want a duty which will make your grade of wool sell for as much in the market as the best wool. If I am producing an article worth $3 g £3fil5Sfan5 worth 10 cents, you WdUtfe put oil i autV sufficient to make your article Sell fdr as; much as mine? Mr. Shepard—I think it is the duty of the government to protect me in that industry and make it equally remunerative as all other industries. Shepard was before the committee as the chosen representative of the National Wool fafoWers’ association, to whom the association had assigned the task of making its argument concerning that

part of UM tariff Which relates td coarse carpet wddi:. The average value of the carpet wdol imported—and substantially the entire quantity consumed is imported—is about 11 cents a pound. Shepard and the association asked that the duty should be made so high that . the small quantity of carpet wool grown in this country could be sold at the price of fine clothing wool, or for three times its real value. The committee discovered that he owned ?l'28,000 worth of sheep and land. The duty upon wool similar to the greater part of his clip was 10 cents a pound. Some of his remarks about protection have been published by the committee as follows: Ml*. Mills—You say the tariff protects you to the extent of advancing wool 10 cents a pound*? Mr. Shepard—1 look at it in that light, sir. — Mr. Mills -Precisely. That 10 cents a pound is coming out of somebody's pocket and going into yours? Mr. Shepard—I reckon so. Mr. Mills—The people you are employing at *15 a month are contributing that 10 cents a pound? Mr." Shepard—Yes, sir. Mr. Mills—You are taking that amount from these poor people, who arc not worth *500 a year. You ai*e asking and requiring congress to levy this 10 cents per pound upon these poor people in your favor, who are worth $128,000? Mr. Shepard—It is merely to have my business equal in remuneration with other businesses. Mr. Mills—You are worth $128,000; do you think it is right for you to require us to take these 10 cents from these poor people, which they pay on the goods they wear, and put it in your pocket? Mr. Shepard—I think it is just. The committee increased the duties ot carpet wool from 24X and 30)4 per cent, to 32 and50 per-cent., respectively, but this addition was not enough to raise the selling price of Shepard’s 4,000 pounds of carpet wool to the price of fine merino. The imposition of such a duty as Shepard wanted was discouraged by the American Protective Tariff league, which asserted that “from 50C to 1,000 per cent, of protection would be required,” and remarked that “such conditions of protection would make the business au absurdity.” Lawrence undertook to hold Shepard by increasing the duties surreptitiously by means of tricky clauses inserted in the schedules, ■ but the desired “equality remuneration” could not be attained. Indeed, the prices declined in spite of all the political wool growers could do, and now Shepard has sold his sheep. We must think that ho lias deceived himself as to the real cause of this sale. It was not so much his expectation that wool would be put on the free list as it was his dissatisfaction and disappointment because McKinley and his associates failed to impose a duty high enough to make the selling price of his coarse carpet wool equjkl to the price, oi the finest clothing wool.—N. Y. Times, April 27, 1892. .

—The Chicago Tribune, which is recognized as the leading republican paper in the northwest, appeals to the republicon senate to pass the house bill for free wool and cheaper clothing. It says: “Let the senate meet the issue squarely and say whether it proposes that the American manufacturer shall be put on an equal foe ting with foreign competitors by having mixing wool as cheaply and as freely as they have them, or whether the present system shall, be maintained and he shall be compelled to substitute cotton and shoddy for wool in order that the consumers may have seemingly cheap goods.” It is a rare thing to find so much excellent advice expressed in one sentence. The shoddyites must show their hand.—Buffalo Courier. --Protection to sugar was abundant because after several decades it had proved useless in supplying the country. The same condition exists in wool, and the same argument applies. The tin tax is a repetition of the sugar experiment arid it would better be dropped coot* tod manymilUooa ria (Kan.) Republican, a u paper, says: “There is one of the McKinley law that, rein congress might well coo* repealed, and that 4 th»

erktwenty different 8 membership of rent aei entire 1 and cm£ Wm the falls of Minnel Minneapolis will s cataract there while publican convention felofi by facing pipes to con with the City WiterWorkfe. , A pai.Anck bf three cents claimed by tie New York customs collectors and disputed by an importer, was , collected last Ujeek under tHtedt of placing the clainj in the dtetrict stioni^ hadds. The importer paid it by means of a certified check for the amount. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The greatest fishway in the World .to in the course of construction on the Potomac at the Great falls. When it is completed it will carry fish over a vertical fall of seventy-two feet. A bat attacked a pigeon on the window sill of the upper story of the Boston federal building. The rat bit the pigeon and the latter dropped Its enemy Off the till And it fell tb the pavement, Both are dead. llKKS are said to desert it hive bfl the bccasion of it death in the family Unless they are informed of It by tapping oti the hive while announcing the death. In some places it is said the hives iu such a case should be draped in mourning. The smallest indoor shop in New Kork feitj* is thought to be part of an oldDaip way In Eldridge Street, which is Occupied by a iobacconist. in size it is exactly the square oi the doorway, and the pn> prietor is a woman who spends her time in dewing when there are no customers present._ STRANGE AND TRUE. The gulf oi Mexico has fisendtSF one foot since 1851. On a farm at Palmyra, Me., is a tree utterly devoid of bark .SBnWV*h and’'oF aTight buff color, and the tree flourishes finely. Two Enoush workmen, while sawing a huge, block of stone heat llatll, cut through a nest of live bees ainiost in the center. J. D. Mabtin, of Sangerville, Me., has an interesting curiosity, consisting of limbs of the beech and maple crossed, the maple, which evidently grew the faster, enclasping the beech. It is said that In all the forests of the earth there are no two leaves exactly the sanle. it is also said that amid all peoples of the earth there are no two faces precisely alike.

VARIED AND INTERESTING; There are twenty representatives, iri congress who are under thirty-six years of age. In Chicago there is an admirable legal bureau which gives legal advice free, to the poor. * Deafness Cannot be Cured by loeal applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to care Deafness, and that is by 'constitutional remedies. Deafness 4s caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a running sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and Unless the inflammation can.be taken out and this tubearestored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are caused by catarrh, Which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. tSTSold by Druggists, 75c. The motto of business men is “push.” It is also that of business men’s doors. For Minneapolis Take the BURLINGTON ROUTE from St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Hannibal, Keokuk, Peoria, Chicago and all BURLINGTON ROUTE points. Special trains will be run from all important points for the accommodation of all who desire to attend the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis, June 7th. ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP. Tickets on sale June 2d to 6th, good to return until June 25tb. This will afford an excellent opportunity to visit Minneapolis, St. Paul, and to spend some time amidst the famous summer resorts in Minnesota. “I’d scorn the action,” as the soldier said when he ran away.—London Answers. The Only One Ever Printed—Can Ton Find the Word ? There is a 8 inch display advertisement in this paper, this week, whieh has no two wi.rds alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs or samples free. A little Boston girl complains because she can’t find anything about the dates of the aurora in the almanacs. Beecham’s Pills are a painless and effectual remedy for all bilious disorders. 25 cents a box. For sale by all druggists. A weighty consideration—the salary of the side show fat lady.—Washington Star. Cheap and healthy—The “A. B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of St Louis. The American Brewing Co. make it. “Be oareful of that gun!” “What is the matter with it?” “It isn’t loaded.”—Puck. THE MARKETS.

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!(« tietcrmlned to Thoroughly fie « Snltfect That Is Causing Much ComsMnt, and He * Hu Succeudod. V [H. t. Sun.] IHvo diyS hge otic of the most prominent Sessional men Iti Hew York puiiliaheii a ;r so oui spoken, so httugoal as to cause insiVO tain ""d awaSten much comment. jonfirmeditiuevery respec* H8 lid this but lie also mentioned a nutcSwr (ft unusual cases” which had come under his observation in which little less than a rnira*le had been performed. Sfl important has the entire subject beionie that 1 determined tft Investigate it to the bottom; and accdrdlhgiycalled upon Mr. Albert G. BavO'Sj the" prominent dostutdef jit NS. 63 past Twelfth :Stfe<(i; tbs fetrtfcepan' mentioned id my idterVietlf Wiwt the doctor j-esterday. Mr. Eaves has icddfi juite a name. A complete kuh'wledge of ldstory^an1 appreciation bf •h't, and reliability are essential iu his profession. “Mr. Eaves,’' I said, “I learn that yoiur wife has had a most unusual experience; are fOu willing to describs iti” The gentleman thought a moment and an expression of pleasure passed over his face. “When I think,” he said, “of wliat inf Wife once passed through and the oondition she is in to-day, I cannoj but feel gratitude. Nearly three years ago she was at the point of death. You oan understand how sick she was when I say she was totally blind and lay in a state of unconsciousness. Three doctors attended her and all agreed that her dCatil Was ottly a question of hours, perhaps

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