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BACKBONE AND OBIT
The Story of a Brave Boy's Struggle with
Poverty.
The stage has gone, sir, but there's a
widow lives here, and she's got a boy, and
he'll drive yet} over. Ice's a nice little fel-
low, and Deacon Ball lets him have ,his
team for a trifle, and we like to get him a
job.seben we can ", - -
It was a hotlayl.in July. Away up
amen . the hills th - make the lower slope
of -the MOnadnoe Muuuteie-a friend lay
very ill In order to reach his temporary
home ono must take an early train to the
nearest station, and trust to the lumbering
old coach that made a daily trip to K-.
The train was late ; the stage, after waiting
some time, was gone. The landlord of the
tritil(C'Wli t � lln ' `"ate'fro'f1G`eetlreitiisehi! seteie "tlL#!
Sometimes I wish I could have sprung all
the way from a baby to a man. Its such
-slow work growing uli, and it was while
mother was waiting for us to grow up that
she worked so hard."
" But, my boy, you cannot expect to be
son and daughter and mother all in one.
You cannot do the work for a whole
family "
"� Yes, I can ; it isn't much, and I am
going to do it and the work my father left
undone: - I'm going to pay that mortgage,.
if I live."
" Heaven grant you may," I said,. fer-
vently, under my breath, " fer not many
mothers hove such a son," -,
" Mother don't know I mean to do it, and
she is very anxious I should go to echool,and
I mean to some time; but I know•justwhere
THE CENSUS RETURNS.
Official Bulletin Issued as to, Ontario's
Population.
THE GAINS AND THE LOSSES.
From these figures the first official data as
to the movements of the farming population
-insthe-4astde 0e-ar•e-obtainable. '1' hi (PD.
,sus was taken on April let, and the hfYst
official bulletin was irisued August 27th It
enumerated the population o� the cities,
towns, villages and electoral districts. The,
more detailed information now furnished
shows the portions of the Province which
have grown in numbers, and the localities
the boys in my class are studying, and I get 1 which have suffered m this resPect.
jgpt s other reads• them to Igor the ur ase of comparison the statis
.-.1.:'x:170:eat,ft�14:..,fi�,�,k�vid..,m�-..3.'^�SS7_-; .•=. •a33L••yi:r.,. en!•_'ns?:.^P`„-x ...-.::"uc The
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me out of -the-book while 1 am wa`s'ting the dorso has grouped the cdithl es 5Ci t rffileg-t0
dishes or doing her work, and we have great
fun. ' I try to remember and repeat it, and
if we come to anything we can't make out I
take it over to the teacher in the evening ;
she is very kind -she tells me."
Very kind ! Who wouldn't be kind to
sleeves,. and leaning his . elbow on the bal-
cony rail dropped down ou the hot and
thirsty traveller what comfort could be
extracted from'the opening sentence of my
sketch.
" Would we not come in and have some
dinner ?" " Yes." " Would he send for
their geographical position, those contigu-
ous to Lake Ontario being called the Lake
Ontario group, those bordering on the St.
Lawrence and Ottawa being denominated
the St. Lawrence and Ottawa group, and so
on. Of the fifty .counties thus grouped,
v : , • - ow increases and twent -one
TOLD BY PERSONALS.
The Pathetic Tale of a Domestio Quarrel
Told in Little Ads,
"4 LO1LGE'tI" AIi'EAL TO "•.dEELIE."
(From leuffalo Sunday News.)
NEW Yours., Oct. 17. -During the past -
ten days a series of peculiar personal.'advcr=
tisemeets has appeared in the J-Vorld ad-
edreesed to -" Julie'' and -signed "-George."
The first appeared on October 7th. It was
this:,
I ULIE-The uncertainty of where you may
be is breaking our hearts ; come back to, a
better home and husband. Geo.
George evidently feared that this appeal
agatelt a?y"i`ir`t 'ser ngea reL-"'b'13'sefeash'atim fc * n
another in the game edition of the World:
ULIE-Do not believe malicious falsehoods.
1 said what.was not so. and can prove it to
your afaction ; do but comeback to the bates and me. Geobreak up our iotno,
boy ? " "Yes." _ '
And the dinner was eaten and the team
came,round-an open buggy and an old
white horse, and just as we were seated the
door of a little brown house across the
• way opened and out Fished the " widow's
boy.'?
- erhis-mouth-was-therlast--inor-seL.of his
dinner ; he had evidently learned how to
"eat and run." His feet were clad in last
winter's ruuclr-worn boote, whose wrinkled
legs refused to stay within the limits of his
narrow and faded trousers. As his legs
flew forward his arms flew backward in
an iheffectual•.. struggle . to get - himself
inside of •a jacket much too short in the
sleeves.
" There he is," said the hostler, " that's
the Widow Beebe's boy. I told' hint I'd
hold the horse while he went home to get a
bite."
The horse did not look as if he needed to
be held, but.the hostler got his dime, and
the boy appreeehed in :time to relieve my
mind as to whether he would congiier the
jacket or the jacket would conquer him and
turn him wrougside out. , •
He was sunburned and freckled, large-
mouth and red -haired -a homely, plain,
wretched little 'Y'' e ' y� ; and yet, as we
rode trough thedeep s inmer bloom and fra-
grance of the shaded . road, winding up the
long bills in the glow of the afternoon sun,I
learned such a lesson from the little fellow
as I shall. not soon forget. .
He did not look much like a preacher as
he sat stooping forward a little, whisking
the flies from the deacon's horse, but his
sermon was one which I wish might have
been heard by all.the boys in the land.: As'
it was I had to spur him on now and then
by questions to get hirn to 'tell about him-
self.
" My father died, you see, and .lef t my
• mother the little brown house opposite • the
tavern. You saw it, didn't you, sir -the
one with thelilac bushes under the window ?
Father was sick a long time, and when . he
could not work he had to raise money onthe
house. Deacon Bali lethim,have it, a little
at a"time, and when father was gone mother
found the money owed was almost three
hundred dollars.
"At first she thought she ',would have to
give up the house, but the deacon said, 'Let
it wait awhile,' and be turned and patted me
en the head, and said : ' When Johnny gets.
'•big, enough to earn something I shall expect
him to pay it. I was only 9 then, but I'm
13. now ; I remember it, and I remember
• mother cried, and said, `Yes; Deacon. Johnny
is my only hope now' ; and I wondered and
• wondered what work I could do. ' I really
• felt as if I ought to begin at once, but I
couldn't think of anything to do:"
" Well, what did you do?"I asked
quickly, for I was afraid he would stop and
1 wanted to hear the rest.
" Well, at first I did very funny things
for a boy.,. Mother used to knit socks to
sell ; and she sewed the rags to make rag
• carpets and I helped."
' ".flow ? • What could you do?"
" Well, the people who would like a car-
pet could not always get the time to make
it. 'So I went to the houses among the
farmers and took home their -rags, old coats
and everything they had, and out in the
woodshed I ripped and cut thein up. Then
mother sewed them, and sometimes I sewed
some, too, and then I rolled them into balls
and took them back to the owners, all ready
to be woven into rugs."
" But did they pay for your work ?"
" Oh, yes, we got so much a pound, and
I felt quite like a young merchant when I
weighed them out with -our old steelyards..
But that was only one way ; we've two or
e. ->threeold a ple,trees out in the back yard by
'. ,w ..• ' W' ,, - les'and sold
the waft; and v"ve ecrief"tlie apfn
them.hen some of the farmers who had
a gooc any apples began to send them to
ue to dry, and we paid them so many pounds
dry and had the rest to sell."
" But you surely could not • do much in
ways like these." ' -
" No,, not muh, but something, and we
had the knitting."
"� Did you knit ?"
Not at first, but after a while mother
• began to have the rheumatism in her hands
and the joints became swollen and the
;fingers twisted, and it hurt her to moue
them:. Then I learned to knit ; before that
I wound the yarn for her. I had to'. learn
to sew a little, too; for mother didn't like to
see the holes without patches."
And be looked half smilingly at the speci-
mens on his knees.
" But you did not mend those ?" said I.
" Yes,(' sir ; but I was in a hurry and
mother 84d it was not done as it ought to
be. They had just been washed, and I
couldn't 'wait for them to dry."
" Who washed them ?"
" I did, arid ironed them; too. I can
wash and iron almost as well as mother
can. She don't mean to lot me, l�ut how is
she going to help it? She can 1*rdly use
her hands at all, and some days shhhhhhe , cannot
leave her chair, so I had to learn to make
the beds and to scrub the floor and wash the
dishes, d I can cook almost as well as a
eyes at sue. a su. , vision o tni
ing girl's work, while his poor old mother
held the book in her twisted •hands and tried
to help him to learu.
" But all this does not earn money, my
y How do you expect to save if you
spend your time indoors ?"
" Oh, I don't do girl's work all day ; no,
Tr -di a cfl rhave ""worked out- our -taxes on -
the road. It wasn't much, but I helped the
men build a stone wall down by the river ;
and Deacon Bell let's me do a great deal of
work for him, and when I get a chance to
take anybody from the hotel to ride,he let's
me have this team for almost nothing, and I
pay to him whatever I make. And I work
on the farm with the men in summer ; and
I have a cow of my own and sell the milk
at the tavern ; and we have some hens, too,
and sell Otte eggs. And in the fall I cut
and pile the winter's wood in the sheds for
the people who haven't any boys -anti
there's a good many people about here who
haven't any boys," he added, brushing a fly
-from the. old -horse .with.-the•tip. of-his_whip.
After this we fell into silence and rode
through the sweet New England roads, with
Monadnock rising before us ever nearer and
more majestic. It impressed me with a
sense of bis rugged strength -one of the
hills, " rocke•ibbed and ancient as the sun";
but 1' glanced from. the mountain to the
little red-headed morsel of humanity at my
side with a sort of recognition of their kin-
ship.: Somehow they seemed to belong
together. I felt as if the same sturdy stuff
were in them both. It was 'only a fancy,
but it was confirmed the next day, for
when I came back to town after seeing my
invalid friend, I called on. Deacon Bell. I
found liim white-haired and kindly -faced.
He kept the village store and owned a
pretty house and was evidently very well
to do. Naturally wo talked of John, and
the Deacon said to me with tears in his old
watery blue eyes :
" Why, bless your heart, sir, you don't
think I'm going to take this, money, do
you ? The only son of his mother and she
a widow, and all tied up into double bow-
knots witji the rheumatics besides ! True
enough, I let his father have the money,
and my wife, she says, says she to me,
'`fell, Deacon, my dear, we've not got a
child, and shall be. just as well off a
hundred years from now if the widow never
pays a cent ; but 'cording to my calcula-
tion, it's better to' let the boy think he's
payin'. She says I. might as. well try to
keep a barrel of vinegar from 5workin' as to
keep that boy from workin'. • It' the
mother in hirn and its got to work. We
think a good deal'of the widow, Mand and
me. I did befgre I ever saw Mandy but
for all that we hold the mortgag and
Johnny wants to work it out. Mandy ,and
mo, we are going •to let him work." •
I turned.away,'for I was.going to sup at,
Johnny's house ; but before I went I asked
the Deacon how much Johnny had already
paid. -
" Well, I don't know ; Mandy knows -I
pass it to her -she keeps the book. Drop
in before you go to the train and I'll show
it to you."
I dropped in and the Deacon showed me
the account. It was 'the -book of a savings
bank in a ,neighboring town, and on its
pages were credits of all the little sums
the boy had earned or paid ; and .I saw
they were standing to . the Widow Beebe's
name.
-I grasped the Deacon's hand. He was
looking away over the house -tops to where'
Monadnock was smiling under the good-
night kiss of the sun.
" Good-bye, sir, good-bye,"' he said, re-
turning my squeeze with interest. " Much
obliged, I'm sure, Mandy and nee, too ; but
en
s.iow c1e"bre"ase:; ... , _ ez am -gm hie
has been the most prosperous, showing an
increase , of 88,031. " Next comes the St.
Lawrence and Ottawa group with a growth
of 38,970. Close after this is the Northern
group, whose population exceeds that o
1881 by 37,784. The Lake Huron counties
have lost 1,444, while the West Central dis-
ti
counties surrounding Lake Erie there has
been a moderate growth of 6,594. The
Eastern Central counties have an increased
population of 7,883, while the counties ad-
joining Georgian Bay have grown by 10,675.
POPULATION OF THE COUNTIES.
The figures given of the population of the
counties of Ontario (including the cities in
them) in 1891 as compared with 1881 and
1871 are as follows :
Counties 1871. 1881. 1891.
Lake Erie Group.
Essex 32,697 46,692 55,515
Kent.... 21,800 29;194 31,431
Elgin 39,220 40.228 50,559
36,598 39,952 37,1E0
..wnease
away se numb, On Oct. 5th M>~ Pay,.
returned home about 10 o'clock at night.
One word led to another •in the conversation '
thatfol1Pw,ed, until Mrs.. Payne accused her
husband of neglect and, not loving here.
He retorted, hotly
" Have it so if you wish."
" If it were not for our children I would
leave you," exclaimed Mrs. Payne.
" I will take care of theca," answered the
husband.
" All right. I will go away so far you
w`�illnevi;r see Hie.
he, " I would make her life so happy she
would nob leas=e. L•It was all my fault
answering her eo roughly as I did,"
Finally. George sent a letter to the General .
Delivery Postoffice in this city for his wife,
and advertised to that effect m the World.
Ile went to Postmaster VanCott and readily
obtained permission to stand near the gen-
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tsl�a?as�? ..fiet;�..w�,r �,:., � �s,-�,-,.�:.:..
morning until late at night he watched. -He
employed a detective to trace his wife's
flight. All that the detective could ascer-
tain
was that Mrs. Payne went to the a
savings bank in Greenwood where she kept
Mother was gone andPthe little babes were a emalI deposit and drew $100. She left -
crying for her. George couldn't soothe them. I $1.15 in the bank. There were several
them and a mother's soft voice to sing them banks, but s ie is nn once °money """""
to sleep. But Julie didn't return. Perhaps All the real estate and bank deposits are
she never read how badly George and the , in Payee's wife's name, and be cannot touch
babies wanted her. la dollar. His business necessitates the use
Twenty-four hours passed ; then George ` of collateral security, and now °he finds he
hurried to the World office and ordered the has nearly $4,000 in notes to pay without
personals republished with this additional any money to pay them. Tho day before
h" ''f left he de osited $2 000 inthe bank,
lts
ret tarifa to- the- extent -61-840: - I -n --the- l-on�e.: -.... . is w i e p
T`7; ti _i ou tae- die-cannint�toueh-- as -rt -ie --
Norfolk
Ilbidimand..' : ...:::--^18-070-, 17,600 •-16,318
14,958 15,' 40 15,31:,
20,572 26,152 25,131
Total 183,942 225,088 '231,582
Lake Huron' Group -
Bothwell 15,722 22 477 25,595
Lambton 31.994 42,615 -47,718
HuronBruce
57,985 1 , 65,218 61,604
172
Bruce,
71onck
Welland
Total.. 154,216 ,197,533 196,039
Georgian Bay Group -
Grey 59,39.5 74,371 76,238
Simeoc M,330 70,026 84,834
Total 113,725 150,397 1(',1,1:72
Wept Central Group -
Middlesex 91,405 104,500 103,039
47,921 49,168 48,552
37,015 38,127 40,352
41,513 48,146 46,311
66,870 78,240• 72,742
16,500 16,770 15,382
40 251 42,740 50,473
376,851
Oxford
Brant
Perth
W cllinart-on
Cardwell
Waterloo
Total - 341,575 •377,691
Lake Ontario group -
Lincoln and Niagara21,242 23,300 21,806
Wentworth .. 57,883 - 67,498 78,613
Halton 22,606 21,919 21,9
Peel 1,6 369 • 16,387 15,47
York .. ........ ' 113,366 149,882 241.32
Ontario. 54,842 61,714 58,51
Durham' 37,380 36,265 32,42
Northumberland 39,086 39,975 36,94
Prince Edward 20,336 21,044 18,89
yULIE-George will be ruined unless you re- . u ns, o e , _ . >
cfi turn ; he has had to close business, as all deposited in his wife's name.
property is in your name. Alfred. ( The financial part of the matter George
Notes are coming due which cannot be ; cares but little about. He has lost his
paid. There is money in the bank ; there , wife. His father, A. 'I'.•Payne, a prominent
are houses and lots, but George cannot la:ry'r of Long Island City, takes a differ -
touch a penny, because it is all iu his wife's ' ent view of the matter. He hates to see
name. _ _ _ _ -his son become a bankrupt, a_ _thing. which_..
Oct. 9 George inserted these two new per- i seems inevitable, unless Julie returns, or
sonals in the World : ) help comes from some quarter. Mr. Flower,
JULIE -The uncertainty of whore you are is ! who has great confidence in Mr. Payne,
e� breaking my heart; can endure no longer; . was informed of the circumstances-, and
baby calls continually for you ; come bank to a promptly sent word to him that he fully.
repentant husband and your neglected babies ;
letter at New Ark Postof ce, general dcliv- ' sympathized with him.
ery G. Ar strange feature of the case is the
Ag ULIE-I told you untruths;
can
say ito 'secrecy with which theafiiir has been kept.
ar snore; am iu,despnir; -.1 am awake -at -last -Ndt--oven I'a.3ne,s next door neighbors know
and find -the world a blank without you ; come that, Mrs, Payne has ran away. They think
back and the future shall be as the first years
of our married life. GL+'O1ttxE, , that she is on a vi t to the country,
Geer"ge's father also, takes a hand. He There were four erks in the real estate
does not want to see George a bankrupt, so` office a few weeks ago, Yesterday there
he inserts this' stern personal, which ' he was but one. Payne himself does not go
thinks will bring Julie home': , near the office.
•
"I shall continue my search for my wife
I neves George has obligations to meet that.. until I find her," he said to a World re -
wishnecessitate 5 our signature at once. Do S ou
to.ruin him -financially and destroy chil- porter:
dren's support ? All property and securities The reporter called at the Payne resi-
are in your name. Father -in -lav, donee yesterday afternoon. • The interior of
• But if Julie could withstand• the piteous , the house is elegantly furnished. The two
appeal of George and the motherless babies, little girls were there. " I want my
the stern command of a father-in-law would mamma," the elder one said.
not move her. ..On Oct. 10 George inserted • . Mrs. Payne is described as tall and stout,
no personals. He went to his wife's family with dark hair and eyes. The Paynes do
and friends. They gave him no hope. Ile not believe she has committed suicide, but
telegraphed to distant' relatives, but their are inclined- to think she has gone into
replies brought no relief. When he re- ervice in some family in the suburbsof New
turned home the babies were crying, The York. -
nextemerning the World contained the.. fol- i .
lowing : .i • A History Behind. Three Lines. -
TULIE-Do.not.believe those malicious false St. Catharines Standard : A three line
V hoods ; I said what was not so and can ' •
nein • yesterday's issue 'of the Standard
prove it to your satisfac ion' do not break up had hidden beneath it a story which is
our home, but come back to babies and me ; 4
am in despair and fear for. my reason ; do not •seldom met with, in real life. Tho item
let me plead in vain, but communicate with read : '
86
2
7
3
8
8
2
Total , • 38,3,160 437,984 526,01
St. Lawrence and Ot-
tawa Group •
-
Lennox 16,396 16,314 14,90
Addington.... 21,312 23,470 - 24,15
Frontenac.... , ... .. 28,717 29,034 32,70
Leeds and Grenville.. 45,723 48,155 48,90
Brockville., .•.. • • 13,345 15,107 15,85
Dundas 18,777 20,593 20,13
Cornwall and.Stor-
mont 18,987 23,198 27,15
Glengarry 20,521 22,221 . 22,44
Prescott 17,647 22,857 2i,17
Russell 18,344 25,082 31,64
Carleton.... 37,225 46,189 69,03
Lanark.., 37,929 37,800 39,1"
Renfrew.... ...... 27,977 33,166 46,'
Total 322,903 368,241 407,2
0
2
1
9
5
2
8
7
3
3
0
977
East Central Group -
Victoria 31,568 37,474 37,.
Peterborough • • 29,105 33,712 -37,7
Hastings-. . .......... 48,361 ' 55,192 59,2
Total .............. 109,037 126,378 131,26
11
304'
28
29
• Northern Group-
3,584 1-7,636 26.5
7,018 24,015. 41,8
1,791 1,959 13,0
Total • .- 12,393 43,610 81,3
Muskoka..
Algoma •
Nipissing..
1
15
23
94
me ; send for letter at New York Postofiice, Miss Galt, daughter of Judge Galt, conducted
general delivery. Geo. • • the meeting of the Salvation ,a.rmy here yester-
T ULIE=I am alone with our babies ; come day afternoon.
e and help me; we have both suffered; Hath- ; That is all.it said, yet it might havegiven
ing is known as yet. Geo, • j the lady's history in columns: She is the
But Julie does 'not answer. Friends daughter of Chief Justice Sir Thomas Galt,
sy
moredhize with him, but George grows and was reared and educated like any other
more despondent. Be tries to end his life young lady of her station: She is still
with his revolver, but his aim is not .sure young, 26 or 27, handsome and refined.
and the bullet is imbedded in the ceiling. Several years ago, while othergirlsofher age
He cannot work, he can only wander about were still thinking of balls and.parties she
the streets -looking for Julie:. rHis clerks ! decided to give herself up to the Master.
are discharged and his office doors locked She at once acted on ,that decision 'and
. the greater part of the time. He abandons entered the ranks of the Salvation Army'
the newspapers for a day or, two and watches t as a soldier. All she had she gave to
the woman's general delivery window at the " the work and ' in the service she had
New York Post -office.. He told bis troubles i entered she labored and lived as those
to Postmaster Van Cott, who gave . the ; more humbly born. She was sent to
watchman orders not to interfere with him. 1 Montreal, and during the cold. winter
But no letter 'from Julie. Newspaper re- Ti following her conversion, she, who had
porters are looking for George, but he i been raised in luxury, lived in a -fireless
employs men. to watch the general delivery uncarpeted room, cheered only by the grand
window and carry his advertisements to work she was doing.And ever dace she '
papers. Hundreds of dollars were spent, , has lived and worked as'sho began, deadly
but George only threw his money away. in earnest in the work of Him whose call
Yesterday the World contained the follow she answered.
ing : . • ,
if ULIE-Send for letter to -day. GEO. -
tl ULIE-Millie and I are alone with the chil-
dren ; cannot stand it much longer. Call
for letter at General Delivery, New York Post -
office.
Here is the story. It is commonp'ace
enough until the denouement is reached of
the bitterness of which the public has been
able to judge by the pitiful newspaper ap-
peals.•
• " 75. Tac orea,venne,- one
1 ��aird, kR �
RF�s.:I.., a � ,
Island City, is a handsome five -story brick
structure'owned by Roswell P. Flower's'son-
in,law. The ground floor offices at 75 are
occupied by Real Estate Dealer George E.
Payne. The offices are the handsomest in
the building, and Mr. Payne employs four
clerks. He is the agent for a large portion
of Mr. Flower's real estate on Long Island
and has a well-established business. The
income from bis per cents, on rentals alone
amounts to $300 each month. Besides this
Mr. Payne is the most prominent insurance
agent in , Long Island City, and speculates
heavily hi real estate.
The latter investments have proved suc-
cessful and M•r. Payne, although only 30
years old, is considered one of the wealthy
business men of the city. Ite is popular, too,
and came very close to being nominated for
member of Assembly on the Democratic
ticket last fall. He was defeated by James
McKenna. ' Besides this, Mr. Payne is an
athlete and has a score of medals and cups
he won as a sprinter several years ago.
.Seven years ago he married Julie Bethert,
the daughter of a wealthy. Long Islander.
Mrs. Payne proved to be a thorough -going
business woman,•and to show his confidence
in her Mr. Payne 'made her his treasurer.
All the deeds to his real e0tate were made
out in her name, and even the bank de,
posits were credited to her. The Paynes
own an elegant three-story brown stone
house at 259 Nott avenue, ' besides several
other parcels of real estate. They keep a
horse and.carriage and live in geed style.
They have two girls, one four and the other
'one year old.
Mr. Pat no's business keeps him away
from home quite frequently until late at
night. His wife eemplained of neglect and
finally toVd her ltusband that, it was not
i business, but female society that kept him
• REASONS ASSIGNED FOR DECREASES,
The reasons given by the statistician for
the• decreases in the 21 counties in Ontario,
which.sggregate 42,800 since last census,
are : 1. 1 he difference in the mode of countr
ing the people. 2. The movement.of popu-
lation along the lines observed in every
civilized country, viz., (a) westward to the
't v u e orriedabout Johnny. When virgin soil, and (b) from the rural parts to
.don � o l? w lel d taw"s 3 't'lte iii.trn�#t��'tion
..:. <_.. n cities -an:• ....... ,,
we s -'e- it we know the real stuff it takes to
make a real man -and Johnny has got
it. 'Johnny is like that mountain over
there -chock full of grit and lots of back-
bone.''" -
Taking the Stump in Ohio.
Texas Siftings " The campaign `must be
pretty lively in Ohio."
" Wify, what's the latest from there ?" .
" More than three hundred men, who
have never been prominently known in
politics, have taken the stump."
" You don't say ! Republicans, are
they ?" /
" No ; dentists."
Sockless Je'tiry's Reform. -
Rochester Herald : Jerry Simpson appar-
ently has joined the dress reformers: In
Ohio the other day he shouted " My
good friends, hurrahing for Sherman won't
put a pair .of pants on your back." The
Simpson dross reform isnot likely to become
popular in civilized communities.
She Didn't Need Help.
Washington Star: " Darn your hose,
madam ! exclaimed the man, as he stum-
bled over the sprinkling apparatus that lay
stretched across the sidewalk.
" No," she answered, as she adjusted her
spectacles, " I guess not to -day. I do all
is es, an my own mending.
girl."
"It is possible ? I shall have to take
supper with you on -my way back to the I If sassafrasibark is sprinkled among dried
fruit it will keep out the Johnnyworms
blushed, andd.I added
City an
test ski" ‘" Coarse and abusive remarks,' that's a
" It's a pity, ipy boy, that you 1ta4en, t a `good phrase. By the way, Mr. Blower is on a
sister." the other side, isn't ho ?" City Editor -Oh,
" I had one," he said. gently, " but she no; hes one of our speakers Editor -So ?
died ; and if she had lived I -shouldn't have Lot, me see. I think you'd better change
wished her to lift, and bring wood and that to "keen and incisive." -Boston. Tran 1
of agricultural machinery, doing away to a
certain extent with hired help. 4. The
denudation of the forest covering. 5. The
opening of new territory by railways. 6. ,
The development of mining' industry.
Arrested 1n Oshawa. .
• William Duplex and Joseph Maroney, two
of Gurney's moulders; were found guilty of
intimidating their fellow -workmen in May,
1890. Duplex and Maroney ran across one
of the jurymen while they were out on bail
awaiting sentence. The juryman, whose
name is John Henl'y, was thrashed -soundly.
Tho affair took place at the corner of Sim-
coe and Adelaide streets. Maroney was
arrested and sentenced to eighteen months
in the Central Prison, but Duplex escaped.
He was arrested yesterday in Oshawa, where
his wife lives, and last night Detective Alf.
Cuddy brought him back to this city, and
locked him up in • No. 1 Police station for
the night. -Toronto Mail.
Salt the hest Moth -Killer. •
For moths salt is the best exterminator.
The nuns in one of the hospital 'convents
have tried everything , else without success,
and their experience is valuable, as they
have so much clothing of the sick who go.
there, and strangers when dying often leave
there quantities of clothing, etc. They had
a room full of feathers, which were sent
there for pillow -making, and they were in
despair, as they could not eetermtrnate the
mothe until they were advised to try com-
mon salt. ,' They sprinkled it around, and in
a week or ten days they were altogether
rid of the ninths. They are never troubled
now. -Chicago Herald.
water, and scrub as poor mother ,,did, seeeee
-The Artie Ocean is yellow.
• Paid in Kind.
•
A Iloosier lad of 12 years was industri-
ously at work 'upon a pile of wood•in his
mother's back yard, when he was ap-
proached by a playmate.
" Hello, Ben," said the youngster, " do
you get anything for' cuttin' the wood ?"
" Well, I reckon I do," replied Ben. "Ma.
gives me a cent a` day fer dein' it."
" What you goin' to do with yer money ?
",Oh, ghee. saw it for me, and -when tea .,
get enough she's goin' to get me a new ax."
-Youth°3 Companion.
The Kid and the Wolf.
A wolf was one day standing high on the
roof of a shed when a kid came' trotting by.
The wolf thought the kid would make a
nice dinner. " I think," said the wolf com-
placently, `«that you may as well say your
prayers.. Come off de roof," . replied the
kid jeeringly. At this,the wolf abandoned
the idea of killing him. " A kid as tough
as that," he reasoned, " would certainly be
very poor eating." Moral : A judicious
impudence is often useful in this wicked
wicked world. -Seattle Soundings.`- .
•
Slight Acquaintance.
Mrs. De Riche (who has been trying to
snub Trotter) -Are you really going to the
Schuyler Van Pelts' dinner? Why, I didn't
imagine that you knew them.
Trotter (carelessly) - Aw-yes - know
them slightly. Going to- marry their
dalughter, you know.
When Queen Victoria's head gardner left
her service recently the Queen presented
him with 'a superb silver tea service as a
token of the esteem in which she hold him.
Great Britain and Ireland lastear drank
567,000,000 gallons of beer, 42,00,000 gal-
lons more than were consumed in Germany.
.An English religious paper recently
printed tl}efollowing remarkable advertise-
ment " A cultured, earnest, godly piing
man desires a pastorate. Vivid -preacher.
musical voice, brilliant organizer. Tall, and
of good appearance. Blameless life. Very
highest references, Beloved by e11. Salary,
x120.
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