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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-02-17, Page 66 THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, FEB. 17, 1882. THE PAPERLESS MAN. ''No, sir, I don't want notbin' of the kind. In the first place, 1 hu'n't gut the money, and to the nest place, if I had the money I woul in't have none of your papers So spoke Titus Obesely, in answer to si ratan who had called to see if he would subscribe far • newspaper, Said man kept a store in the neighboring •illage, and was also the postmaster; and he had sande arrangement. to add to his bri- sas by establishing • newspaperagenoy. "I can furnish you with any paper you like," he sxclais.d to Mr. Closely, 'land I can furnish it cheaper than you eangei it any other way; because by buying of me you will save the postage. I will hare papers devoted to the family; papers for the farmers; papers for the mechanic; papers for both old and young; and in short I may Amur. you that any one of them would be worth tar mon to you than what I propose to irk. Ask your wife what she thinks. You have no idea what a vast amount of val- uable information you will find'' Nancy Closely wanted a paper, but her husband said "Oh, bother ' I don't want it, I tell ye. I've got u much as I can dq to look aster my farm; and if Nancy and the children Want to read they an get i.raots of the minister. "Your neighbor, Deepwater, sub- scribed for two papers," said the agent. "He will take a pleasant, high-toned, hterary paper fur his family, and • paper devoted to art, science, and agriculture for himself." "The inure fool he cried Cleealy contemptuously. "John Deepwater ean't afford it more'n I can. My farm's bigger and better'n his is, and I tell ye flat s'i' eoev-- ', , • t: , dollars to throw away tor .1 iitwat,tper." "Bat TlItss— —." "Shut up, Nosey ! I tell ye I don't want it" And Nsaoy eieeed•'her hpa, and the agent went his way; and Titus Closely went forth to plough his ground with the old wooden plough which be lather and grandfather had used before him. .and time paved on. The newspaper agency was established at the village post ales, but Titus did not patronise it. He felt he had a principle at stake. He had said he wouldn't, and hei wouldn't. But in one thing he was con- sistent; he would net allow hu children to borrow papers of his neighbor Deep- water, if he knew it. One evening Titus Closely and his wife took tea by invitation with neighbor Dispraise. "I declare, Nancy," said Titus on their way home. "Prudence Despwater bests all creation for cooking, don't she 1 I had no idea she was mach • hand at it. I wonder where she 4 them fresh *tea wherries " "She preserved thr -t heeself," an- swered Nancy. "Oh, git •oat ! Them weaa't served They was as fresh as picked." "It is the way dog were &led, Titus." "Eh 1 Can you t it ." "I could if'1 had her paper." "Her paper 7" "Yes, she found the receipt in the newspaper. And that's where she learn- ed how to do most of all her nice cook- ing."• Titus changed the subject of convey mti0 � P sew n. Autumn came, and the Agricultural Fair was held in the adjoining town. Titus went over with what he consider- ed a yoke of very fine oxen,but he found, when the exhibition came off, that he was very far behind the times. New breeds, of which he had heard nothing, had been introduced, and his own ani- mals were not deemed worthy of notice. "Whew whistled Titus, as he ant in ha kitchen, with • crumpled report of the awarding committees in his hand A friend had given him the printed document. "John Deepwater has gat the first premium for sheep fly the hokey ! I'll bet I'll clip more wool than he does next season." "Because you have got more sheep than he has, mid Nancy. "But wait and see. The new breed which he has got is s very valuable one." "Bah: Think what it cost him. Fif- ty dollars for a pair on'm." "And," added Nancy, "he sold two of hia spring Lmh. to, Mr Thomson for eighty dollars. - "(hit anal 7' 'Prudence told me no. .John beep. water saw so many favorable accounts of these sheep in his paper thAt he knew it would he ante for him t., rnveet • Titus referred again to the rep.,rt "Hallo ' I'm bleat if folly Downer hasn't got the first premium for cheese ten dollars." "Yes," said Nancy, "she was telling :tie about her chews. She found out how to make them in her paper. 1 tell yon, Titus, it's a gond thine to heve a goo I newspaper T wish you would --" 'Bah ' ih,n't talk to me' and Titus threw dawn the report and retired from the kitchen in disgust. Tim winter paseed,and the spring s week .0 done. and the time for sheep shear jag Dame Titus Llosely store one hun 11' Ared and fclty .beer and ,.htained theta from not quite six hundred pounds of wool, being suaaethingtsadeefoer pounds of wool to each sheep. John Deepwater sheared his seventy sheep and ontained nearly five hundred pounds of wool, or just about seven pentads per sheep. "Titus, didn't Il tedlyou that 'neigh- bor DeepwNr's sheep would prove by far the most profitable 7 It pmts no mu to keep ens of his tine animals than one oe of oars And thea his lambs are heavier, and the mutton 21*NI1IFIT8 OF HDIIOATION. A Men anima tirsdu.IVs &antenna In • Ms•atle• and its t as1 . A graduate of one of the High schools applies to a gentleman in the commission business for s portion in lis. store, whereulou the following questions oocu• Merchant. --Well, yuuog titan, I un- derstand you aro art applieaat for the position advertised as vacant in my store 1 High School Boy.—Yes, air. M.-- I presume, then, that you can Dome prepared to work bar , and faith- fully in the ioterestof .,our empinyer,be- oume • thorough business man, and have a beainies of you own 1 H. 8. B.—Yes, sir, such are my plans M. —Wbat advantages have you had is the way of schooling. 11. 8. B.—I graduated from the pub Ile school at the age of fourteen, and during the past four years attended the high school, from which I graduated re- cently. "Stop your gab, Nancy ! I know what you're pitohin' at. Let John Deep- water go it if he wants to. I've got more wuol'a be bas." "And you wintered more than twioe as many sheep as he did." "Shot up, will you 7" Nanny was silent. But the end was net yet. After the shearing had been done, Mr. Deepwater and his wife called ever and took tea, and spent the a 'ening with Thus and Nsney. In the anus* of oonversatioa Prudence told to Nano; many new things that she had learned of household mysteries, and Mr. Deep- water talked to his host of the great im- provements which were being made in agriculture. And Titus was interested in spite himself, though he tried to ap- pear otherwise. "By the way, Titus," said John Deep- water, late in the evening ''when you get ready to sell your wool, 1 think Ian recommend you a good market," "Much obleedged, John, but I have sold." "Sold 7 To whom 1" "To Sweetman k Ryder, of Brink - ton." "Did they oome for it 7" "Yee. Old Sweetmsn Daae himself,', "What did he pay you r" "Thirty conte." ' Thirty Dents 7 Thirty cents a pound r "Goodness, mercy, Titus ' Yuu didn't sell your whole clip at that price r "Yes. Why ?" "Whys? Why wool like yours is well worth forty-five oents; and I was author- ised by Mr. Fairfield to offer you that prion for your clip. • You must have had five hindred pounds r "Tee," said Tai gaspingly, "I sold five hundred and seventy." "But didn't you know that wool had rises in value r "No. Kr. Sweetman said thirty cent• was all it was worth." "Mr. Swsitian Lisoaited you. But you should'kwe watched the market re- ports. bids't you notice them in the papas r' "I—I—dee't take no paper." "I declare. Titus, I'm sorry for you. But it -can't be helped taw." Mr. Deepwater saw how badly his friend was feeling, and he said no mon. When the company had gone, Titus Closely took down the old slate from Its peg by the side of the looking glass, and began to cipher. The difference between thirty and forty-five was fifteen; and fif- teen multiplied five hundred and seven- ty gave a product of eighty-five dollars and fifty centa. On the following morning Titus Close- ly went to the village and subscribed for two papers—one for himself, and one for his wife—and in time he came to regard the newspaper as one of the greatest institutions of this enlightened age. Welcome the Strangers. Two law etudents on a certain Sab- bath strayed into • church, where they were strangers, walked its whole length to the pulpit, and not a door of a single pew was opened, or a single seat offered to them. With quiet dignity they turned and walked out again, went about a mile to the school, and then re- turning with chairs made their appear- ance in church again, coolly seating themselyes in the broad aisle. They had no trouble after that time in finding open doors in that church, and, as had been renarked by s leading lawyer ef that town, "That --a the beat sermon ever preached in that church ! We re- member once in Philadelphia, going to morning services with a young man who was not in the habit of going to church, and although there were plenty of va- cant seats, not one was offered to the two strangers. One of them, after help- ing himself to a amt directly under the pslpit, remained • few moments, and them walked out saying, "I've not attend- edch urch before foryears, and I'm certain - geed for mother two years' absence." Are women aachurch members, too often guilty of this inattention to strangers 7 Many of them coma with wary ►ed loae'y besets to the sanctuary, to find rest for die body and •pint and • wel- eome smile. A kindly invitation to its hospitality is a mighty agency to win and attract a noel. A Indy whn presided over • medical dispensary for women in Tedi• says, "not one woman in • thousand in that conn - try knows her age." it is slightly dif- fereat in this enuntry. Rem women always know their ate until they are about 24 Fein old After reaching that point their memory becomes defective and they forget the year they were born. Aare '- l►entsts who bare teed "Tti►- pronnnnre it the fined thing on the Care of this earth for the teeth and breath at rout semen. Tattlers. tvery community is cursed by the premium of a clam of people who make it their business to attend he every body's bumpers but their ora. SEM people are the meanest alwgimesI el depraved humanity which w Ail Tries >?hNiienes penults to este on this earth. It is well known that almost every person is some - tunes disposed to speak evil of offals, and tattling is a sin from which very Caw can claim to be entirely exempt But the object of out. present •rtiai0 is to speak of that distinct clam of tattlers who make the tale -bearing the constant business of their lives. They pey into the private affairs of erery family in the neighborhood; they know the exact state of ens neighbor's feelings towards another; they understand everybody's faults, and no little blunder or misde- meanor ever escapes their vigilant mach- ( ulnae". They are particularly well ponied upon everything connected with courtship and matrimony, know who are going to marry whom, and can gums the exact time when it will take place. They watch every movement of parties suspected of nlstrimonal inteatiop, sad if there is the slightest ebanee to eseabe • disturber's, ciente jealousy, or "break up" a match, they take immediate ad- vantage of it, and do all in their power to keep people in $ constant stat. ot tax- ation. They glide quietly from isale- man to lady, from mother to dsitg�lf,Ora from father to eon ; and in the ears of all they pour their dark, bitter whisper, of slander and abuse, and at the rain• time pretend to be the most sincere friend of bees they talk to Meir Kea and nauseous pills of mali,ious d eader are aegar-costed with mules and honeyed woe& of friendship. Tattlers are confined to no particular clam of society. They belong to all claims and operate in all. W. find them among the eieA and the poor—"upper tea" and "lower million'—in this church and out 1 i1. They are people who have ne Lehi ambition than to be tell informed in regard to other people's pri- nts business, to retail scandal to their neighbour, and exult in fiendish triumph over the wounded feelings and bruised hearts of their innocent victims. Beau- ly leas cid simile sad childless mattes make the midst sineompliabed ae nelal- mongers in the malt They mese to take to tattling from the pr.mpting of a natural iodised, and they prosecute it with an energy that would do infernal houdilr to their great leader—the prince of (*knees himself. Our contempt for sash j/eebm creatures knows no bounds and we can find no words in which to impress its infamy. M.—Have you any knowledge of ac- ouunta 1 H. S. B.—No sir; they do not teach book-keeping in the high seheol. M.—Here is a note due to -day upon which I was calculating the interest when you came in. You will see it has several payments endorsed on its back. Will you lake t pencil and figure the amount due to -day for se. H. 8. B.—I am afraid, sir, I cannot do it, u we do not study arithmetic in the high school The teacher said we finished it in the public wheal. sad it is so long a time since I have studied it that I have forgotten nearly all I knew about it, M. —Will you take a pen and write the address of the firm on this envelope 1 H. 8. B.—I would rather not try, sir. While at the high school we had no in- struction in writing, and I had so many exercises to copy that I was oblired to write fad, and do it all with • pencil,tee 1 do not write nearly u well as when I left the public school M.—We have • great variety of goods in our store, and our young men must Imes the ability to spell eorrestly. Are y)u a good speller 7 11. 8. B.—I can't my, sir, that I as. I did not hays any exercises in spelling in the high school, and don't know how T should do. M.—Here are some papers, s note, draft, bill et eats, 'Invoice, spOiiii4. o! stale, lease, policy, deed, 'mortgage and a letter of credit. Will yam` look over them and name mch as you hand them bark to se. H. 8. B.—Really, air, I have never seen such papers before, and could not distinguish one from the other. M.—Well, young man, what did you study last in the high school 1 H. 8. B.—Chemistry, natural history and French. M.—Oh ! well, let me see, you had better apply to my friend— ---, in th drug business. Your knowledge of chemistry would fit you for that line of business. H. S. B. --I fear, err, that I do not understand chemistry well enough to make my knowledge of any value in business. M.—Have you studied French 7 H. S. B.—Yes, sir. M. --If you understand French, some position in • foreign importing house would be more useful, as your knowl- edge of French would enable you to speak and correspond with foreign coun- tries. H. S. B.--1 did not learn, sir, to speak the language; it was mostly trans- lation that we did. I do not think, sir, that I am competent to be trusted with such duties. M.—What other branches did you study at the high school 7 H. S. B. Algebra, Knglish literature, physiology, ancient history, geometry, philosophy, astronomy, civil govern- ment, rhetoric, and as f said before French and chemistry M. —And you havenot studied reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling and gram- mar since you were 14 years „f age H. 8. B.—No, sir; 1 finished those in the public school, so my teachers said, and I have my diploma from the school' offioere in proof of it. M. I sit afraid, young ratan, that your qualifications are not suitable for the predicts which 1( advertised to W. I want a young eah to begin with us whn can make himself generally useful at first, and rise as o rtaaities, occur and be proves Drtggiststhi oghont the eeuntry tes- tify to the great manta of Dr (]arena's Stomaob anti Coniihpetilon Hitters No medicine they 1.11 sets so promptly in curing Dytpepeta, indigestion, Bilious- ness, Liver Complaint, /Ire Nave you tried it 7 George Rhynes, to agent for Oolerich s rend PIIS c, To have pure water to the hone, every family should have a good filter. the health and comfort de *t the use of 8lie ed ta liver is the truer for the bol sed, nd Burdock Blued tees ken+ the Ryer and all the aeuetory organa��p1 i health enedltima It is the gaud blood peak' ;ng. liver teculating tonic it) .peels* •.+satire Free ef Cs.e. All persons wishing to test the merits of a great remedy -ase that will poatively cure Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, or any affection of the Throat and Lungs—are requested to call at your drug store and get a trial bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, free of cost, which will show you what a regular dollar -sine bottle will do. WILSON'S PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORE. Mittli a NAGiDTIt MEDIC1.TS, s6RRorlt ULOOr SITTERS. fie 4:41.6106. sear MITT'S*. ■ i DIALEIN R 4 aLe ' a a=TIMRlt, MT. JAC•R's OIL. kLOt TIIC s/TTsUA, RREORATSC IMPLIA .TT. And all other leedlog patent medicines. The Great Cleaning Fluid. MRS. WARNOCK Has great oleas•ee b ar le her miry Mends and ystrebe'tr Goderiek vicinity, that she has secured the sole Mint and privilege to manufacture sad sell DR.. LUCYAN'S CLEANSING & RENOVATING e'er+ y i•'i•re For removing seen and soil from earth and everything, from the finest fabric to 11i coarsest retest warn. I� r If the goods here been sMueeyd wlt1 tag or dmtotaar kind, It n i. ger a east, nem* se took ee ppoyw. It cleans all articles without tile Dolor. that would be destroyed by the of wetter. No seed to send to Toronto or where sine to haveour teachers deemed rnrled when Mom be dews for Imps it the la owattown..saOWWA of 1 Hemililtoa a► Yd en iter feamlL Dutra 7lafal Gide! reT Ifaa� Y or Irl rsee, ss C.t dt�,. and mos eegIR tree minuet rine /serna �tna�aesprsedtis me enough tor tbe On an) Directions Sr rte w'hM' tP • iOs�s - Ppsa Dead carom =twill once dre.a, with le esu`. and 7 will mend you a copy, postage paid TMs V not • queries, of Its con it is printed in bath Rnelieh and German If you shrrw&r+a order .weds deduct the Ie its. TIMI *OWN sire the beet In the world The rt.na.t Going will tell you how t.. we and grow them. •WAY newer aced ♦eertame Saran, Its Terre. d n Dred Plant .6 $1 ergot' T ige�eti i1be erik Ornn• ve (`o nes s ■aaaelle�te rel And F.#n to men Nam BLS a esu treat (far dents . * 7 kcal v.I Meals fi t� th sdi! I4W U. neebselgp w. ,�.- tom re -.e••' •--...y..µiwt Flarmers .t .ttex .tiozz ! 1771 *weed room wire contracted for n say quanttrr 51 •cry toe. -et price.. SELL EITHER 2 OR 4 BARBED FENCE WIRE. Wire sad barb itelveaiaed after bens twisted which cannot ssaisoff Vee Barbed Wire for Fences. NO SNOW IIF1S—PO WEDS—NO WASTE LANDS. For sale by G. H. PARSONS, CHZAP 4ARDW A It & OODKRICU. Has tees In nestent w by h K>• ter over Pm" years, and is the boil pre1STstlea oeer,la- veatal Ar REST011tiip alta! HAIR TO ilia TOOT*TwL COLOR AND LITZ. It espptl.e Ube sets - • Owed and .seer be tae bass Ganda trustees efslmlag t1. st1a. 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Remittances should be trade by Peat 05 re Mosey Oarrder or Draft. torment 0188•00N aaoe of s.. Ne aepp,cif the a not to sops this adverts w mad express order of Pt Saran & Address ■ARrSR RRK rKKRa. New To rk. SEEDS FOR 1882. Thanking the public for pest favors, I take pleasure in stating that I have on hand a better stook than ever before of choice Wheat, Barley, Pea*, Om Black and White O. Tare., Clover, and Timothy: also Pes Vine Clover. Abike, Lucerne and Lawn Orem, A fieri class amort meet .r TIKLD, GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDr+ selected with great oars from the beat seed houses In the country. (:a11 and see. ter keep the best and mart Renals@ meed we ewe purchase. COMPTON'S SURPRISE COAL, The beet field corn yet tntreeeeed Ground oil etre kept oonmta&tly oe hand. JAMES McNA IR 71 HwUtoa St CINGALEtSE. .JAIR RENfWFt The crowning gory of or wanes u beautiful asan or ewe Thelma esti be oh Isnot �bper feud ]�BTNashen whldtba• ppR B a..a k]eL3 &IR motes a healthy of rte Irl., readers sift sed risky. its reeet and in 1' vests Its falling out. and sets with rapidity RESTORING GREY NAIR TO ITS NATURAL COLOR. Try It bete? .eytmg any weer Held by &n lrienere. Prieto a e4a. • bottle. l7/11.ly For Pale bel J. it i LSON, Druggist $72 A WEEt 11 • d i� er home esauy �D mad. r cert here ANw nim f re.. AstlN.s•a Braise 414