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THE SIGNAL : CODERICIJ. ONT. THURSDAY JUNF '30, 18$2.
aisle fastened to the 1)unushe- wipe(.tea.
1 may add whet 1 hem it trues • eestiemas
who has been • bile -Mag Wbrmese and
Whose chareeter rod hos entitle him es
oessared Mr. Mowat'. respect, that is a
.istt to W uo& ilarek the other be Mena
ad that the fesita' &moosg the is
that vieletty were at mows indigenes at
um esoneen Mr. Mown& wee merely roper'.
ad to base eaeseised wise" thew whit re-
gard themsslvat se the only needless wbo
are truly _loped to their eeaasty and their
own continent. Ooe of Ilia iaformaste was
ow of W utxletook's most prominest said io •
fluenual ciusew, who alai owmmasds Mr.
Mowas'e twetidenoe and respect, sod who
was equally pruoouttced to his tudeptatton.
For myself, i am, sad always have been •
Retuvaer, had have the Interests of the
Mowat l:uvsrument as utueh as any nor w
ltut•rn.. The .seeetiuu of (elemental
Unum is ow which does not meows Pro-
vincsel affairs, and no one would regret
more than I du to hoe the whole budy of
Lustieentat Unionists forced against their
will into a position of opp eit•ow and antag-
onism to the thitario Government. If they
are it m Ill nut be thou fixate. As for myself,
as the personal recipient of favors frum that
Government od from its leader, it ceases
me dearer more time 1 care to express to
run owunter to the desires of the Attorney•
General, even us a matter of private con-
cern, but at the risk of being misconstrued
and muundeestool. I say that it e a mat-
ter of principle with me, and however poor
my ability and small my influence, both
will, during the rest of my life, be exerted
to give my native country • position when
it will a.mneud respect, and become the
home of independent milltooa
1 em yours sisosrely,
tSigmedl ELGIN Mvsw.
Toronto, 20th May, 1892.
1)EAs Silt,. I submitted your letter to
ALWrneye:merwl. He regrets that you see
no objection to settee endeavors to induce
the l median people to withdraw their al.
legiance• to her Majesty, .od to transfer
Canada to a foreign nation, being made by
an officer of the Crown, holding • respon-
sible position in oomnection with the admin-
istration of justice, sad who hes token the
oath of allegiance to bee Majesty to order
to obtain the office which be holds. Yours
truly, (Signed) S. T. Borneo.
Elgin Myers, Kee, Q.C., Orangeville, Out.
Orangeville, May 27, 1892.
P. T. Hastedo, Ilei, Toronto. 0.1.
My Dear Sir, --Referring to yours of the
20th lust., although I am not one who wish-
es to intrude my reamous where they &repot
requested, yet it seems to me that simple
justice to myself requires .n explen•tion
of my views. There is an intimation in
your letter that I took an oath of allegiance
to her Majesty, In order to obtain the office
which 1 hold, and that in advocating else
re•nmioo of the colony with the Eugbsb-
speaking nabs of the oontment, which is
°imposed of our own kin.rnen, I am pur-
suing a course inconsistent with my oath.
and that 1 should resign my opinion if 1
purpose advoc&tiog my views. For I ow -
sot be expected to renounce them ; for op-
inions are not like old garments, to be oast
off and put on at wilL Nor am I writing
under the delusion that 1 can convince Sir
Olive.: Mowat of the correctoem of my
• sews, but simply to stow that I ant not,
cone:lousiy at all events, occupying an in-
000sistent position or pursuing • dishonor-
able course. The views 1 take are shortly
these- that in taking the wee of allegiance
to her Majesty I was taking the oath to ber
simply as the embodiment, or at lest the
representative of the Canadian people. In
s country where • ropaWican form of
government prevails the oath is une of
allegiance to the people. In the
the country • crowned head, who, by the
way, dos not rule, but simply reigns, is
interposed, and no Due can serve his coun-
try, which means his own people, in • poke
liecapacity without'first taking an oath of
•llegi*nce in which the name of the Queen
is mentioned as representative of the people
merely. That this must, in my view, be
trite is clear from the fact that if the pres-
ent Governments of Ontario or the Domi-
nion ware to seriously proclaim and main-
tain by their acts that they would con-
duct public affairs in the interest of
her Majesty and •grist those of the Cana-
dian people when they conflict, their ten-
ure of office would he short. In this sense,
it seems to me, the statesmen of England
from the time of the Stuarts downwards
have construed the oath of allegiance.
Otherwise Cromwell, William the Third an 1
multitudes of Lesser men who are now re-
garded, especially by men calling them-
selves Liberals, as true patriots, were noth-
ing but rebels. Nor Dan the wrong consist
in publicly advocating these views. If there
is anything treasonable or disloyal it ooe-
e iste in entertaining the views I do, and not
in propagating them. If the bo not so, the
distinction between • loyal and disloyal mut
is one of courage and cowardice merely. I
take it that the Christian dispew&tion un•
der which we live, ushered in a new doctrine
which is one of its moat dtstinvuehed
characteristics s compared with the old,
viz., thi.t all sin or wrong depended on the
condition of the heart and mind, and did
not consist solely in the expreasirm of the
though j� or in seta. " If thou look aeon •
womw.•tlo lust after her thou has committed
adult with her already in thine heart,"
and kindred passages amply illeserate the.
The being the case, where would the doc-
trine that I should resign my office leaf to!
for it is by the reductio ad absurdum that
the fallacy of the argument is frequently
detected. If • judge of the Supreme Court
were to hold unionist views, whether he
publicly propagates them or not, he is dee
load, end should resign. This would also
apply to all the minor office holders in the
and, and the result w'male be that the
public officers of our country would be filled
by men whom we regard as not laboring in
the interests of their own country Mut in site
interests of a coonection with Imperil
Europe. 1 ant quite prepared to admit that
a oon.oleration of the coneequenoes should
not weigh with anyone in the declaims to do
what is right. I am peepared to carry the
doctrine fat pietitia rust clam to its ex-
treme limit in this case, and if 1 eowidered
myself in advocating unionist views se viol-
ating my oath of allegiance i would resign
my office .t once, but 1 simply mention the
logical consequences that would ensue from
an enforcement of time principle; and the
serious comes uenrme of such • step if car
ried to their logical result, naturally make
one carefully consider the ground before
taking it. Nor do those whose view. &re
similar to my own on the subject of our
coeatry'. futon. &drones* anything Mime
aur to her Majesty. le fact, they are firm-
ly convinced that • sever&ats of fire aware -
tion with the empire would not only be of
immense benefit to (aMdl.w, but thin to ,
the empire : bent be that as it may, we also
advocate the change re relations hy appeals
to the romans of the people, ata& by other
ennstitetioas) meas, • right which sorely
'belongs to every British subject, Iron the
highest Menial to the lowest privet* eitisen
in the 1•sd. HnMing the views, therefore,
that I in, that the poidtien i sow take on
the subject of our onentrye welfare is net
in oate:44mt with the meth of allegimee., I
&m fenced into • pneitiu wheel 1regretof
opposition to the views d oma wive of
wmrthily pined the moppet and admin the
el the wksls Comedies potpie, saad who bee
.r. sweeney meshed • rwougmtws .a the
heeds .f her Ma jest . 1 em mitbied that
hs le the Iasi use who would &.sire any per -
ma
ermasa &bids• views honestly est rtaiw&.
e ves tepality sass whom be rrepecte so
▪ rating Oats$11 meg sun he el meek
saim • ) Roush ours Ates.
Tureens, 16th June, !8O&
Sir, -1 am lash uoted to Worm you thee it
is deemed impassible for the tiuver&atest to
overlook your costumed public advocacy of
the trawler of ('aesda and 01 the aflegiaoee
of Cenadiw to the United States, you be
tag an Otiose of the Crown, and holding the
important poeiums of Crown •tt rncy and
clerk of the pesos in your .an
.uty. The At-
torney-1:moral bed loped that after you
hal bora made aware 0t the views cont-
uumcated to you through his private es -
mousey you would have respected the same
while huldmg these offices. As you have
not done w, and have saute addressed •
uueung .t W iodsur in the same direction,
1 ami to request you to send In your re -
.Ignatius of these otticsi by the first owl.
It you have been under any mlapprebenauu
In Me matter, and prefer dtsoonttnuing the
offence oomphined of, your letter to that ef-
fect will be 000sidered iu Council, though
with what result I am unable to state.
Your obedient servant.
(Signed) J. it l'A•T%atdxT,
Iteputy Attorney -General.
Orangeville, June 17, 1892.
J. R. Cartwright, bete, Deputy Attorney.
General, Toronto, Out.:
Sir,-Rsplyiug to yours of the 16th int.,
1 desire you to understand that I would be
guilty of • dereliction of principle if I sent
in my resignation. 1 can only expresso niv
surprise at your suggesting that 1 should by
such an act become a party to my own con-
demnation. I will leave to the (:overmmeot
of Ontario, which professes to be • Liberal
Government, representative of Liberal sen-
timents, and the upholders of free speech,
the full odium of dtantisstng Doe of its of-
ficials for expressing his opinions on a mat-
ter which the Government has no mon
right to interfere with, than mt has with the
expressions of his religious views. The
owuotry will now have au opportunity of
judging what professions of liberalty on the
part of • Liberel government meas It is
plain from the instances 1 have &lrraly
quoted in my correspondence with the
private secretary of Mr. Mowat, that even
the most violent expression of political
opinion, If it is such that the Government
approves, is not considered a disqualification
for even the bench of Justice. From the
first letter of Mr. Slow&t's private secretary
it appears that a part of my offence is that I
presume to criticize a manifesto of the At-
torney -Genets!, which, as it had no rotation
to anything connected with his office, was
plainly not official It can hardly be neces-
sary to state, what will appear on the face
of all I have written, that I have never
harbored the slightest intention of seeking
the re -union of the English-speaking race on
this continent by any but strictly conati-
tutiomal means. 1 always assumed, in cone
time with those who hold the same views,
that the measure would have the consent of
her Majesty and the Parliament of great
Britain. A Government which condemned
me for exposing my views because they
happen to differ from ita owe will he guilty
of pm.ecution more worthy of Ruses titan
of a country possessing ilritish ;einem Mrs
which it professes to admire so m• -^h. It
will be an act of tyranny so utterly un-
justifiable that I for one, cannot see my way
clear to ted it in its coudemnation by re -
ageing my office. Yours truly.
(Signed) Rhea?: Mikity:.
C. ('. letrie es a Co.
Gases' -I sprained may leg so basely that
1 had to he drteen nose in • carriage. I
immediately applied MINARlee LINI-
MENT freely and in 48 hours could use my
leg again as well as ever.
J.wnt'A WYSAt'0NT.
Bridgewater, N. S.
That string on your finger means .. tiring
home a bottle of MI\ARD'S LINIMENT."
lm
%es Womb the Candle.
Phrases and slog terms are frequently
born of interestinv episodes, as witness the
following : --Peter the 1;rest, while oft driv-
ing in the neighborhood of Moscow on we
omission, was seized with the pangs of
hunger. "What have we in the hamper!"
he asked of he aide. "There is but one
candle left,y-our Majesty," replied the aide,
"but I think I can exchange it for a fowl
at the next farmhouee, if you wish." e1)o
so," replied the Czar, "for I am tarnished,
and do not Dare for a light luncheon." The
aide laughed, and, as he had surmised man-
aged the exchange ; but the bird was found
to be unusually tough. "I do not think,
Vosky," said the Emperor, later --"I do not
think the game was worth the caudle."
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%M KISA l' 1N•mrgLM01.
The govnir ginral in the king of Cowls
and geta pale bout 100 thousand $ • yore
there is sum men wot we he ain't worth he
salt and don't do nothing for the munny Mut
he gets pale all the Name if they was to
stop his w-agu there wild be war with F
land ors he is & lord and Lords hs got W be
pada some people think the govnrr gine)
ewe have ont.him to do hot he he has got W
go fishing and this is tuff work fish is good
for brsnme anti the govnir ginral has got W
have fish he don't like the kind they will is
Ottaway so he has got W go an ketch them
for heeelf an wee can't be round tome mot
is going nn in Parliament house 1 would like
to be then to ase wot is going on and if 1
stet to be govnir gmee yogi bet i will may
in Ottaway Mt f guess 1 can't get so fat •
sit os 1 ain't a lord only jest a plan. com-
.moa Onm.di•n en when there is anything
for the gevmir ginral to do he gets snmeMdy
else to do it for him and goes weeks on the
salary 1 1 would like to be • lord
.pd get 100 thousand dollars jest for doing
washing hot jest going fishing my pop w
it. • freed se ort W he don away milt bot
1 think its • bait' shhtg tar the novnir gin -
rel. -Grip
As an Rnssstiesey Metes, for saddest
ankle, Ayer's I'harry f eoblrl tats the leurl
of all remedies. a tone or awe fenerally
milking to stop ordinary roughs .aid eons
the worst Per the erre of threat &ad Inns
disorders this preparation is osqehlled. 1
1 ILL() 11.111a.
tine aeeeebeld
IAM A QUIKT, PATIENT, KASV
tempt -red Matt ; said 1 .n. a Mesa to en -
,lure almost icy diolmito tut pdosoo4
Liss metier them Lave a lees is the Mindy.
j ulnas them facts dutiectly uedsr.o»d, (w
*Mem tact.• ea aril oust sin•, kuuws ens
Will admit.
Becky says my pstieoos is may another
erne lot Ixdul vcs ; that l will put up with
almdat au) bury ratter teen hat. any
trustee &I.wt It. It may he s. ; 1 eat ten
years older than ilseky', eel she ha* energy
euoujh ler hail a deem, e. 1 feel .. if my
displev of that %urtile et 1 ) I..it weu'.I Ise
superttuents.
i gat o Becky her own way ellen 1 court-
ed her, and .hoe leek it ..iter we were oar-
ed. Sas dell exactly) m she plcesed while
the girl -•ser Hires, d.sujhters were leve,
stud oho cunt the .tete, a" ter ...: h, y wlWld
lot her, after they mete grown up. '1 ney
.era married and I;oue now, and we u►k:,r.-
ted our silver we-idtug, Reek, and 1, tau
year* ago ta.t til,-• •,, upon the win .lay
our yeuogmel gel was married. W.- have
settled .luwx mer, for a quiet, wnifvrtable
old age, or, at least, 1 uatc; 1 don't leaf
.0 sure about Becky.
We live in a snug little house tet our own,
on am ludxame each, if .mall. to sutticisut
fur our elude, for thine oro few, and Becky
s • weld.' manage.
There aro • great Dotty unitise that Reeky
and I don't &grew upon, .at as she is a nowt
remerkaWy energetic petson eu could mover
have lead happily t.•geti.er if 1 lied mut
long ago hit upon a happy t•.mtpron.ee. A
proper self-respect fen bete tete to sacrifice
my opinion to hero ; as a natter of principle
I love always leen tins i.a ass rtIug net
my way was the right way ; I west epee
thinking as 1 plow. Let 1 let Becky de as
she pleases, and thus •ee are both c..uteu(-
ed.
The arrangement is, perhaps, • fairer cue
than, at • casual glance, It might seem to
be. The fact is, L, the realm of practio•1,
troublesome, every -day motet s, which
Becky undereta ds as well as 1 do, I very
much prefer that she should u.ouofohw the
,nena eu.ent and the responsibility--tbiegs
that I detest acrd .he enjoys ; so she takes
all the trouble.ud does all the work, enol I
swain • proper martial authority by criti-
ciung it after It is done ; and upon ary
punt upon win. is, It the beginning, I have
advanced an opinion adverse to I:ecky's, 1
sustain test amyerme opinion in any event,
upon principle. es I said.
1 don't thwk Becky always has the best
of the hargaut , for she i. so constituted
that the cannot altogether enjoy even her
own w.y, unless she eau make everybody
&dlxit that ler way is the last.
Becky likes to argue, too ; I do not ; but
Becky knows very well that to silence me is
not to convince me, anti it is a curious fact
that she will expend more words and more
arguments test me, who made no attempt
whatever to refute ler, than she would up-
uu Rosa or Emma, our oldest gtrls, who .re
exa:Uy like their mother w their love for
the last word.
Leen, our youngest, wbe is five years
younger thou Emma, is a thorough shoe-
maker, her mother says, and I think my-
self, she is more 'Ike me than our
other children are; she is quiet and indol-
oot, lout she is the only one who ever got
the upper hand of Beck).
So longs Leua was at home Becky's will
was not always law, and as Leta &ted 1 gen-
erally thought about alike on most subjects,
1 die use to enjoy a dtllerence of opiniou
between Lew and her another, because Lena
invariably came off conqueror. Bat Leta is
married and rules In her own home now,
and Becky does as she pleases in outs,
I (eared that the realer would hardly ap-
preciate the little faintly episode I am
.bout to relate, without this preamble.
The little analyse 1 have given of Mrs.
Shoemaker's character was neoerwry, I
thought, :o make My story? credible.
Among many little keepsakes and testimon-
ials of affection which were presented to
Becky, last Christmas, were two which af-
forded her special stisfaction. The tint
. as a pair of r - arkable pillow -.hams, pre-
seutevl by a sister of mute who lives in Bos -
ten, and whom we kuow to Ie wealthy and
..•stheuc.
I am not going to try to describe those
pillow shams ; there are ruffles and tucks,
Iunl 1 know not what besides, ot a decora-
tive nature, crowned by an embroidered
hieroglyphic which my wife said was • mono -
greet of L R. S." -Lemuel and Rebecca
Shcem.ker.
i was rather sla,ned of myself, as .he
said I ought to be, when 1 !nota that by no
effort either of mind or imagination, could
I diacuver any resemblance to those letters
in the so-called monogram. 1 telt Letter,
afterward, when 1 found that none of
Becky's friends to whom the articles were
shown, profuse though they might be in ad-
miring adjectives, were any wiser comoern-
img the hieroglyphic than 1 was, until Becky
eulighteneel them.
Pillow shams ers'tme of the -pair is upon
which Reeky and 1 do not agree, she thinks
them tasteful and elegant . I consider them
foolish, useless and encumbranI,s. As us.
nal, i keep my opinion, and Reeky her
shams.
Our spare -room bei hail long been decor -
Med with a pair made by Lena before her
marriage, which her mother hal hitherto
thought too fine Inc ordinary use. This
pair was now to be used upon our oven bed,
. and the span room was to be honored with
those from B..s'on ; but, when the chanes
came to be made, it was found that the
shams did not fit the pillows.
Our ;pillows were oblong, the .hams were
square ; our pillows were big, 'oft, luxuri-
ous, fitted by years of comfortable, familiar
use to the heads that dept upon therm.
Becky shook, pounded and humped them
vainly morning after morning, tit• bring
them to the props. pprnncu.hion.like oonsi-
st.ncy nsoessery to dophhy properly that
monogram and its accessories, but. it was
not in the soft, comfortable nature of those
good ol.l family friends to sssunme the re-
quire.l shape, and Becky was unhappy.
The other present to which I have allud-
ed, which Becky received that Christmas,
was • ten dollar bill from • kind old uncle
of hen, who hal paid w • brief visit in
Dsosenher,and,upon leaving, pre Becky this
gift " to buy herself • Christmas box with.'.
It was not often that Reeky had ten dol-
lars over std abate our weemary income
and unreckesed on before it ase, anti, con
sequently, it wastome time before she meld
mettle open the meaner is which it could he
moat strtactorily expended At last, one
evening. es we eat upon either side of oar
domsue hearth, she, with her stockist
basket, and 1. with my magsiw, .b. sed -
deftly exclaimed
" 1 know new what 1 sin going tad* with
uncle dew. ten driller1 will "et • new
pair of Follows to fit theme .hams
' What will you do with your old ons!"
sndi.
" i'll ase teem to fit up the other pillows;
we haven't • pair ie the home that will
stead up as they ought to do os the below,
they are all flabby, and need renovating, 1
eau get Dae sew pair, large •aid headnsme,
and issue loth. elsneh W 1x up &B the
ethers. Wa ddle% yoeT rhe addled, sedseg
that 1 was about to resents my reading
without seeking any seemesats epos her
miss
•• The pillow mitt w very w.-11 as they
us," said 1. ' but please yearalf."
Neat d.y Ilia went .Iota Iowa and
louwght her feathers and anklet. When
the brindles were deer /wed 1 said . " Why
didn't you knee your sneers made sad SU -
ed at the upholsterer* . Yss dert know
what • trouble sow task yeti will bare it
yen sadertake to fill them yourself.,.
1 should have had to pay kite wrote el-
trv, had • pansy caved s j•. -t as used as •
petty earued," ate replies., is a tone which
& iw&)• a,leuees me et:Meetly ; thou she
wuuuuesl, twelve, 1 ease's{ to vbmi ,e
the ether pal.,,.., w. 1 shut i have to 1-».s
Um twos owlet ..nay Low. . e:..n't 11.sa.i the
work."
•• Whose » ill you do it J " 1 asked " it
Is tuo told to g., out of duet es, .-nd Il you 611
pill ens 1u the hews you w1.1 have due'.. on
you; carpet•, mut everywhere else, for s
mouth to some. '
Sime meditated • moment : " 1 guess 111
tab up the spare -room carpet and do it
there ; 1 want to uake some chamges there
when you put the ices :bans In, and It I
clean the room now, 1 don't lave at to du
m the Swum."
.-cud if you'll believe me, that euergetic
creature dial. in the dead winter, tear to
puts her nest, comfortable aware -room, for
au earthly memo than to snake • fair ul pil-
lows she diel not nee.!. upon which to ins
play those shams
Of course, the cupet, as it was token up,
bad to he bee' en before it was put down.
Becky paid • half -dollar to haee that done,
for she coulafu't du it herself, sod 1 puutive-
ly de lined going out of dorm, with snow
un the grouud, to lend • huts in the opera-
tion. It will, I trust, l.c considered •
proof of the forbearance ref which 1 hove
boasted, when 1 state that 1 never °see mttg-
goted to Becky that the mousey thus spout
would have been much more utufactunly
earned by the uphulrterrr.
Becky soon stitched up her ticking into a
shape modelled upon that of tl.e uea shams
and after having devoted oto day to empty-
ing her span room of all its u•ov&ble awn -
tents, devoted another to her work with the
feathers.
Sbe sat hour after hour over her seUeu -
posed task, emerging when household dut-
ies called her forth, like • stung hen from
her nest. flutfv and feathery, the down that
hew front her as she usoved around settling
everywhere and upon everything, a stub-
born, impalpable annoyance that she did
not succeed in getting rid of for • week ef-
terwards.
lint Becky hal her way. l:y supper time,
in high spirits she brought forth to display
before my eyes • per of huge, square, un-
yielding cushions that, combined, would
have made .quite a comfortable bed for •
singlepersue •tab, in addition to these, our
own old-faahmon.d, familiar pillows, now
plump and firm as their aristocratic congen-
ers.
•' Aid I had feathers enough left to fill
up the pillows on the girls' bed, too," she
cried triumphantly. " 1)oiet you Dail that
• pretty good day's work, Lemuel •"
• 1 certainly should if I had it to do," 1
replied.
• Bat don't you thinkit jays, now, real-
ly ! " ` she persisted. • Every pillow we
have is u good es new, and I can fix up all
the beds so much letter than i ever could
before ; I du thunk there is nothing looks
n icer than • handsomely dressed bed, nab
if your pillows are soft you just can't make
• bed look nice.'.
" Very we;l, my dear," said i, " it you
are satisfied I ought to be."
And I was -until 1 went to bed. My
head had no sower touched the pillow than
I knew that comfort Ind va:tuhed ; too
hard, too big every way.
1 had not been Reeky', husband for over
• quarter of a ossuary without becnming as
well acgwinted with her ides of comfort
in • pillow se 1 was with my own, and I
was satisfied tout the new arrangement
suited her as little as it did cru; but, poor
soul : she had had such • hard day's work,
and had taken such solid cnmf.ort in the re-
sult of it, that 1 had not time heart to con-
firm by a word the misgivings which 1 knew
she must be beginning to feeL
I did my Let to endure the discomfort
dye had brought upon me, without corn
plaining. but finding that it was impossible
to get to deep In what was almost a sitting
posture, I at last tossed the pillow to the
foot of the hcd. saying, apoloeetioally :
"It is rather higher than 1 like."
"• Vs, they are • little too high. sow, -
Becky conceded, " but they will soon weer
down."
By dint of doubling up my end ofthe
bo:ster 1 succeeded in raising my head to its
accustomed altitude, and I got through the
night without serious inconvenience. Becky
like the heroine that she is, slept on her
pillow, and did her best to effect the desired
• we.rimr down.'.
The next night the same incideota were
repeated, but this thne her forbearance en-
dured less well the trial that was put upon
it, and as I tossed the umlaut pillow to the
flour, i asked, • little testily. "Are none
of Dv: other pillows softer then these!"
"No they are all alike," said Becky,
meekly.
i tried again at doubling up the bolster,
but the result upon the preoe.ting night had
not been such as to make me very hopeful
at present, and finaily, after an hour or so
of restless disc omfort, I arose, groped my
way down stairs in the dark, and loon re-
turned bearing with me an old chintz
covered lounge cushion time in spite of the
duck feathers that filled it, hail been worn
down in the course of a generation of hard
service to • soft, oomfortable, shapeless
muss.
"If you just would have • Little patience,"
was Becky's remark, as she saw ane die
posing myself comfortably to sleep ups
this, "it would be all right in • few nights,
the stiffness would get worn out of the new
pillows, and we should get used to sleeping
with our heads high."
"Well, when you wear yours soft, you can
wear mine down, too," sol i ; "meanwhile,
I will use the lounge cushion."
The next evening, wham ws retired, I
Wok Iny pillow up with me, and so i did
every succeeding night. except when i for-
got it, and had to conte down in the dark
te get 11 ; and upas these occasions i am
afraid 1 was cress to Becky
At other times 1 wee magnanimously
silent ; the lounge pillow was very ,xtmfort.
•lie, and as 1 had betxone thoroughly con-
vinced Ass, in the matter of pillows, .t
least, "handwrite is tau hamisntne doer,"
i really had net much W complain of. Bat
my lounge pillow was • groat eyesore to
Reeky, whom morels& remark wee, ae she
married it down stairs, "(;rasion., Lemuel
I do wish ywouldn't um that horrid old
deists eushios'"
Meanwhile, night after night she
resolutely propped herself tap against her
own pillow, though the prophesied "wearing
dews" was still imperespthle to either
sight or feeling.
At last there Dune a sight when Becky
went tri hod with a heart mho. She had
Isla epos tie lounge with my pillow slider
her Rend all the remiss. and whee we re-
tired I teak it up with me, as usual.
'Tate the louvers pillow, Beek 1•I
1• 1 oma
fist Limo eery men without it," said I. west
"Week I w'es't," wen bar .newer.
"Lige Magio,"
1 r.e(.meL dbal" by afillift Morey
Gids, Coughs, Oros*.
and Nass Throat ere, in most ensu, In►
uteteately relieved
by the use of this
•siesderttt remedy.
It etrengtiew the
vocal organs, says
Irrttattoa. and pre-
vents the Inroads et
Consumption; le
every .logs ot try
dread d1
Ayer'a Cherry Pee.
lent relieve, mech.
!mg had Iadaoss
ng rest
" I have used Cherry Pectoral
in my family for sassy years and have
always found it the beet remedy for
croup, to which complaint me cbf�ldryeay,
have been subject." -Capt U.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
"From an expertise' of over thin
years in the sale of proprietary medi-
cine', 1 feel justified in recommending
Ayerza Cherty Pectoral. One of the
best recommendations of the Pectoral is
tM esdwrirg quality of Its popularity, It
being more salable now than 1t was
twenty-five years ago, when its great
sues.. wen considered marvelous." -
R. fly. Drake, M. I)., ltellot, Kans.
" My little sister, four years of age,
was eo 111 from bronchitis that ws had
almost given up hope of bet recovery.
Our family physician, • skilful
man it end
of large experience. pronounced
less to give her anymore medicine ;
saying that be had one all tt was pos-
sible to do, and we most prepare for the
wrest. Al • last resort. we determined
to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and I cea
truly say, with the most happy results.
Atter taking • few doss she seemed to
breathe easier, and, within • week, was
out of danger. We continued giving the
Pectoral until asti.Oed site was entire)
well. Thls has gives me unbounded faith
in the preparation, and I recommend It
confidently to my ctmWWmers- I 0.
Lepper, Druggist, Tort
For Colds and Coughs, take
Ayer's Chem Pectoral
enemas au
b1►. 4. C. Ayer L Co., Lowell. Mass.
Pease Ill ; ea boobs. (tt Werth M • beets,
No farther .ugttestioIIs occurring t.. me, 1
was obliged to let her hear her owe Imr.lens,
though 1 could not myself sleep w1.10 1
knew from her rest:eesmess,the pain and de -
comfort she was enduring.
About lalf an hour after we had gene to
bed, Becky's pillow alighted upon the tlnor
with emphasis, and a very emphatic expres-
sion Issued from her long eudunnv
Repeating the experiment l hae male be-
fore her, she tried for Dote time, 1•v lottl.
ling the boleti[, to obtain the comfort .he
deere•b and -as 1 also had durst -aha found
the experiment • failure. Al hast elle rose
from her bed and taking the Len/. with her,
left the room. 1 heard her gang up tae
cold Rain into the will colder attic.
A little Later she returned, the oLject of
her Journey in her hand : • little flabby. di'
colored, half -yard equate pill", that had
lain unused for long, leg years in the
cradle it was made for. 1t was soft and
comfortable • ld without • wee as it was,
poor, fastidious Becky placed it beneath her
aching head, and at last fell placidly to
Bleep
next day, when I came home to &•n-
eer, I found her making pillow cases t.. tit
the lounge -pillow and the erad. '-pillow.
" 1f we have to sleep on old pillow. they
shall he white and clean ones, anyhow," she
avid with emphasis.
.. tf by don't you alter the Leal pillows --
take a few of the feathers out again :" i
suggested ; and wit hem w smile'
" Ito you think I'll take • carpet up.agai-h
this winter to fuss with feathers!" she re•
plied. sternly.
" Thea why don't yen buy a phi: armee
pillows that will be handy and comfort-
able!"
.1nd Becky replied again, " 11. yon think
I'm gmng t.. sprite any more money don pile
lows, when I have three pair now that I
can't nee! '
No the cave stared.. Night after right 1
tarry up my lounge -pillow a,d Ha ky draws
forth from some *eerie lidieg-place her
cradle -pillow• ; end tee repose upon those
which, aiming not at style, are content
fulfil the purpose for which pillows wee
constructed.
Til &ND.
saws Meeh Maepsstiess.
Zion': l lerdd.
If some people had the faith to move
mountains they Would snots make all their
neighbor's land very hilly.
Unless a mar's walk correspe•n.l• with his
talk, the lees be has to say in prayer meet-
ing the better.
Never did any harm, eh : The h1 tree
was not condemned Inc bearing evil fruit,
but for hearing no fruit.
Occasional doses of • good cathartic like
Burdock Pills are necessary to keep the
Wood pare and the body healthy. lm
Sometimes the pastor is Memel for a poor
prayer -meeting by • mum whose wife told
hien that he was eating to, many pickles
for supper.
if moderate drinking is allowable and re
speetsble, what's the reason that mn.lerate
stealing or any other kind of .qualified mean-
ness isn't commendable !
There are people who seem to have an
idea that they attract attention in Heaven
for their piety every time they bey a ei.k
of ice cream .t • church festival.
A Cary fie tt'esstlpetten and Madame.
I)r. Silas Ione, while in the Reeky Moun-
tains, discovered • root that when combined
with other herhe tnakss an easy and certain
rare for conatipatior It it in the form of
dry now and leave*, it lie known as Lane's
Family Medicine. It will cure see. headache
For the Wood, liver amd kidneys, and for
clearing op the completion it dos wonders.
I)r ggista sell it at We. • package --enough
for five weeks. [Ironer
M Got • Tip fres tel. Wainer.
A fourteen veer -old by at sihonl wrote
this sentence in en 'termite . '' Ten men
and four woman." His teacher pri iced nu'
to him the .entenne, with the remiss k
" Is it possible that you do not know, af-
ter .11 these years at wheel, that the plur-
al of wrwn.n is women • "
The hey serateheel hie head to a some-
what dieevuneertad wa
• Well," he ssid. y. ' Inc often heard my
father say that wnnen is • "Jugular mes-
tere, sad 1 Sen he beware e "
Raghsh Spiels Liniment renweree all
herd, soft nr millleees4 lamp and blemishes
from horse, bleed ep•tia,earbs,appinu, riw�
bone, sweeper, stifles,sprains, anew toad
swaths throe pry
w of ens hook. Werromsd OD
wasderfsI blsmi ver keown. f(rtlg
by F. Jades 4S.ly
The Signal
edea mere cal= &Mentes le es
Jeb prim," wish& aro •awes,
passed ouzartie the shite for the peons
and proper assoafiea et aL classes. at
pneusg A perusal et this &nauseam
sent may euguest seemetahg you My
be to treed of, and in seek am we self.
sit your pst.rooge. foam ognisdimthat ouefforts to please win meet with
the &ppKova' of our patrons
Letter i‘eIM is
in thin linos we !rave a vary largr
stock of tine writing papers suit,
able for every class of busmen,
represented in this locality, wile
priece, laid and wove, linens
quadrille and other papers, niter;
or unruled, as may he requited
•0te i‘1Ll*&tS
This useful size is kept i:: the fyl,
range of dualities same se letter
heat while
arse not so generally used, they fill
an important place in c umierc1.1
correspondent*. Sleet what we've
got under the above heals.
INA k141.0.&••
If the " pay -se -you -go " plan ea,
the order ot the day the demand
for account paper would not be
so great ; but there ere *Ohm toren
who get so many dunnen that
they wonder if the stock will ever
run out. We don't intend it to,
and at present our stock is cam
plete in this line with four tines
Goofs paper and neat ruling.
ttatetlne\ats)
Both single and double dollars
and cents columns. They come
cheaper than bill heads, and ate
the proper thing to send after •
delinquent once a month. They
are surf to fetch hint round -
sometime.
Vi xottkores
Now, it would be Lard to get
along without envelopes, and to
keep up with the .demand for
them we keep a large stock on
Lund We have now about •
hundred thousand in stock, and
the prices will range from T5c. k
.'2.0O per M. We handle com-
mercial and legal sizes exclusively
C.\rettX.ar s
We aim to excel in all the differ
eat kinds of work we turn oat
but especially in this, and keep
in stock plain and fancy paper,
suitable for all requirement&
of entertainments and nestinp
promptly turned out, from the
plain but nest to the most elegant
with coni and pencil attached
: ay as woo. C•teNe els
This heat! trovers 11 large range to
work, from a bread or milk ticket
to a neat calling card, from an or
s'inary admission ticket to a tasty
business earl or a handsomely
p iuted membership ticket
Otttrs
Our facilities for turning out tkte
chum of work are evidenced by to.
fact that the great hulk of it i.
done by tut. This line also in
cIodes
otl►gfers
which our three fast -running job
preasea •reable to tuns out in a
surprisingly short time.
V\Ahs
belong to the !roster department
also, and we make a specialty of
them -promptness being our atm
in this respect. A notice of sale
will appear in Tnz SIGNAL free of
charge when hills for same ars got
here.
Z \xti,:Ao errs -
to an "At Home" or • wedding
require considerable taste in selec-
tion
election sometimes, but we make it
an easy matter by keeping in
stock the very latest end best
samples to be lied. Call and rite
oramere•.aaZ'•••••••.‘s
has already been partially emus
prated in wine of the heads above
There is, hmwh'er, a vast amount
of work under this head that to
enumerate would more than take
up the entire space ocs•upied by
this adv't, belt we do it all at Tu
SlowA L
Kknt,s oS W ark
in the typographical printing lis'
can he done 113 this eartablishmest
in an expeditious end .nista'
manner and
O\►r V nets 4\\l be Soused
*try recksonab\t.
We entered our
on and solicit •
tea0a, T iAl2.
thanks foe past by
000ntiinuamoe of the
01111‘1,..
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