HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1897-8-12, Page 6Tansduar,
THE FUNDAIWftITAL •
�a. PRiNCiPtE
. '
ng better for
g our selling
PRICE, THE SHOEMANN
8uooeos to H. B. POLLOCK.
for We do repairing that gives satisfaction. ,,so
sIIII ,tl,I,''
sooss..do
•
on which our shoes are built is Mawr. They mast
be worthy. We have thew made so. Not oontent
with things as they are, we go our dol
you day by day, increasing our facilities for nerving
you, bettering our buying and betterin
methods. Out of It comes good Footwear at better
prices than you havereverknown.
OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
are opposed to the High Sohools, it must be
admitted that, they nevertheless take full
advantage of them, tor of the 24,662 pupils
stteodiog the High Soheole and Collegiate
They ally Needed in Canada. the
to 1895, nearly ooe.third were
the children of parents connected with agri-
culture.
-- To hear the persistent cry about boys
hsee 127.0' fes, Mnng, Ir1s leaving the farm and crowning Into the
cities and towns one would Imagine that
such • movement is peculiar to this Prov•
ince and this generation. Indeed, • stranger
might be led to suppose that there are farms
by the dozen in different parta ot the Prov•
moo lying unoccupied for want of young
meo to work them, sod that it Is only the
prote.sions that are overcrowded. The sapi-
ent editor of The Ceuadtso Magazine actu-
ally thinks Ott more merchant ore wooded,
tor he talks •bout our tailing boys away
from the counter, and claims as so advant-
ani of • change he propane that among
other things it would give us more merch-
ants. Is there no overcrowding and driving
to the wall and to dishonest prsctione in the
mercantile and industrial world, ea well as
in tete professional ? Are there no towns in
Ontario where the oompetition between the
merchant*, the tradesmen, and the mechaa•
dos is just as keen as that betwea the law-
yeri and the doctors, and are the High
1s to tie holdsfbpon*tble for thli dti r -
whether we can suggest Buy mans of'rem- °rowdmv also?
tidying the detects, , if such [hers are, in oWe are charged with "1eaosi W boys away
system ; if not, whether we should not en- from their legitimate callings." Who, 1 ask,
deavor in some way to repel the onarges,lrt ahs looks throughchq tfinks of the pomtu-
1.eaag eft rep -•ted Wt.y'ems eo be geoenh sot men of the Dominion today, whether
ly beheved,au l serious injwy. be done to the politicians, m o,bills, prof ake to men, or
°Base at secondary edvo•tiou ill this Pray- business men, will undertake to say what
ince. I thought, therefore, mdre espeolBll proper w t ►t&tlon in fieJr f I Are
w to oo inferwog our
or
Si one of the most active and out -"poke° oriatos thick the time �hoe roometwhen pro -
0I1105 Is • gentleman of my own town–I fesalous and positions that are commonly
refer to Ernest Poston, whose 000tributiotte looked on by young men as rizes to be
La the press oa thy". lyeot moat of you bays P
ea
Canadian w
ucsd ..sd as Phe "tri e for should he kept for Who woe
no doubt aat-
Magazane bas seen tit to join editorially in I fhe wealthy,ped leisure classes Who core Bt
dPsi et eiedertek Coltrtl•te 1a-
eMaee–A Plain Talk 1■
'mats Terms.
FOLLOWING is the text of a paper
uehyered by H. 1. Strang, Principe' of the
Oodertoh Collegiate Institute, beton the
Teachers' Aromatic a et (stem, 'soapily
held :
The most careless ' reader of the
new.pepers cap hardly have tailed to notice
that within the last few years there has
been • dispi,sit ion in certain quarters to find
fault with of Tligb Sohoole,and that of late
the attack. i .ve been growing ',older and
more numertus. It may be well, then, for
us to take • little time to ooneider
"___wbetb.r there it soy valid .Inundation for
thew attacks. It so, it is for us to say
,1
. the outcry, that I should be Justified in
ford to send them to distant and expensive
I "ohoob like Upper Canada College ! Are
drawing your attention to the matter, Inv-
theit to you to viva is further oousidanttoti if children of fernier§ and parents belong.
you think fit. fav to the industrial ol•'"os henceforth to be
That • ventlemen like Mr. Heaton, of content with a Public School education, ex-
Eogluh birth and eduo•tion, should have cent in •few "penial WNW where poor boyo
of more than usual promise are to be select -
brought with him and should still renin
ed by examination, and enabled by @choler-
.ome notions that are hardly In sympathy_ ships to attend these Upper ClamSohools ?
nil♦ Preva to ot.with the more r�o'uticis hot to"be wondethat � I have no wish to misrepresent anyone, hat
to me it seems plain that this is a fair infer -
d .t ; nor is it strange that from want of once from Mr. Heaton's articles. If so, it
practical acquaintance with the details and I to hardly worth while discussing the matter
the working of oor educational system ne for soot •leo
should tall into serious errors of toot, and Po y. when rightly understood,
will, Lam 000tl
should draw some hasty and illogical infer-d.ot, Sod latus support in
O°
.noes. That the editor of Th. CanadtOntario aooetilaenoiee. I have no ohjso-
Magazine, however, born and brought opts an
tion to soholanhips in themselves, but apart
the Provinoe, • graduate of one of our Col• fes°rte the feat that experisnos has shown
lewiete Institute" and also of our Provincialthat examinatipns are by no •sroaos • 'nese
University, should indult' in such foolish test by which to "elect the boys that are
and enumerated statements regarding, not most likely to repay the net of their edn-
merely the High Schools, but the High °•tion, rheas Is •strong objeotino,that such
School teacher", as are to be found in the s ayatem world grant as r favor to •few
January number, wee to m•, a. 1 have no
what we in Ontario are accustomed to re-
doubt to many ot you, a matter of equal Vard as the right of all, viz. : the opportan•
surprise end regret. ity to obtain • good se000daiy education
What then are the oharges most frequent- °Nr •1 home, and at •moderate cost.
• ly made! In brief they seem to be them : Acaio,we are charged with driving boys to
(I) That the .Schools are drawing away the Uotted states. Now,no one knows bat-
boys from the farm,the hooch. the shop, and ter than I that many of on brightest boys
making them discontented and unwilling to do find thei• way to the United Stites, for
remain in what some of on orittos aro there are laterally soores of our Goderioh
Pleased to oall " their proper stations in ex -pupils settled. mid as • rule, doing well,
life." in various parts of the Upton, bot chiefly an
(2) That the are 8111n o tow • the Western States. Amon t ate
ft t
–orstaT'wv gpro esT i o• meo •w- - . ' oo "n an teacher", but
yen, dootors, teachers, moil engineer", etc. while the.ifelenity of finding employment
, (3) That they are driving hundreds, if not in Ontario may in some cases have influenoed
thousands, of the brightest and beet ot our their onune, 1 know that much more fro -
youth aorow into the state. because the sat• quently the easter examination", the shorter
ter, having been educated beyond their abd lege expensive professional ooursea, the
proper callings, annot find employment at wider Bald and the hater pay were the im-
bome /n these which they wish to follow. pelting motives, and surely thew are causes
Back of these, however, there evidently beyond the influenoe ot our High Schools.
lies another grievance, one which is not sl- Moreover, in the list of ex -pupils referred to
ways openly avowed, but whioh bas, I sus- are to be found farmers, clerk", 6°4-kno-
t/soot, had much to do with the protonic oat- en, and representative" of varloua meohan-
ory. Why, it is asked, should • man be bat and industrial pursuits. Then what
oompelled to pay for • syet.m of higher ed- about the laborer" and sailors that for lack
uation from whioh he doe" not feel that he of employment arose the line, or the farmers
reosives any cantonal benefit ? who were tempted to move to Kansa and
Before dealing with the charge" let me Dakota. Why should the high sohoole
esy • few words with regard to the souroee le blamed In the one ease more than
from whioh they oomtt. 11 has he's sought in the other ? Situated and oireum-
to take it appear that then 1. • widespread staaad ea Ont•rto is with reference
dlesatisfeottoo with our High Sohoot syn- to the Matted Sates, is anything
tem ; that there is • very general bele(, more natural than that just w England hs
among the farming oommuoity is particular sa•diy drawn trom Soolland, so the wider
that the High Sohools are natty sad nom- Sold and treater wealth of the union "honed
parativly useless the in"titotioos ; that all . always have • tendency to draw number" of
great h y of the people needor wish ho oar •e hltietn and rrttet* youth within its
good Public Schools, and that, therefore, 'orders. If even the Netiooal Policy oonld
higher education msy be left to be takes not prevent this natural and inevitable re
are of by those wish it and who are willing salt, !ray eboold the High Rohool. be
bo pay for It,with the addition, perhaps. of blamed? Surely ft is ne part of their tune-
s few promising Doer boys. when deati°s tion to end employment ea well se to for-
st may pay the Sate to prones for by • Welt "duan'.. Let es rather. while regret•
system of soholanhip.. For my part, i fed trout the lens of Melo voting people, find oen•
rather "osptiosl on this point. From all selatlea, sed cyan matter for pride, in the
that 1 have seen and heard I am inolind to fact that they. se • rale, oo oredtt to their
believe that the niamonr has come oftener Gantry, sad that In the opinion of those
from professional mos than from farmers or who are well qualified to judge, their sum
meoh•eio,•nd that it the truth were known ossa is largely doe to the hotter doatioe
the imp.Iltoq motive to most oases has hose and hog" graining they r.oelyd in Ontario.
not to mhoh • ¢soar") regard for the vel- It is se sbenrd, as It Is nnfalr,i Ignore thea
fare et the farmer or the good of the one- 'hanged tndustnal and social condition of
try, w • wish to narrow the entrance to the modern life, and to holo the High Schools
professions, and oraotially to keep them for responsible for the erewdlag 1.e*, the 'nest•
• favored few. Daring the quarter of a oen• try into towns and cubes, and into profes-
tivy I have held ley pretest position i have 'Meal and meroentfte lifer. Hundreds of
had. more or.lese direedy, tinier my shares b,ye leave the farm" every pier imply he -
hundreds of termer,' heys and girls. I have au". there 1. neither room nor work for
known and talked to the parents ot thous- them at home, and herons* ander protest
ands of these, and while the great majority oosditlon. It i. meth °haver and rosier for
of thee boys and rials did not rlerie to the their fathers to help them to make a start
farm" I cannot reoalLop leet•nos 1° whioh in sane other oceapstion thea to plan theta
the parent" blame.) adi school or the teach- ma forme of their own. That in addition is
set for the Net. Oe the other had. I an, those, many tamps' boys de get • dislike
and do moll with gratitude the kind way for farm lib, cad that this, templed wit\
to whioh meny of them bays "pokes of what she set?, variety sod seaming sdveat•ges of
the wheel It.. dose for their obi/tires in town sad sit lite, impel" tbola to lave
helping to give them • start la life. Far- hese sad seek fortes* with the throng
corneae they, t have nodose! that the peae wke perfeelly treo too this dislike, however,
have been most ready to ennobles% the estrt the tanner" have themselves Iarply to
of the.nheel have bees these wise are lean biome. 1e it "/rante that boys whe have
fitt.d on jolts of the valise of the eines- bad their Amain for kssvl.dge gelokesd
tion Is afforded, via. them who had ewer sad an Internal 1. the world of today
had any ehtleres etteadibg 1t, or whose awakened Ie them at ss\eel, should Sod It
.1 114x.. had ions .5... gr.w .p, sed that dell anti dreary h • bcase where Were are
*0. sebeol has alw.v* samherd •.•meat Its melthwr kooks..ssggbes nor paters. Katal
perhaps s wooer' 'telae oelt•r ? Is bklallrf
weeder that boys who ere kept sl ttef
E
f!reE .relog to eight sad freak K flit
heat seppert.re t,"smly re •tyre
eniteral, .ereantil., Wad hall nat-
ive UssWaly. U tis lot kis es • dam
•
Saturday, who are scarcely allowed to este
or own a•vehleg, who hear tlelr lethal
uetantly grueubliag about bard times Ma
-
unprocesuni that farming don not pay. de
sot regard (arm life, either actual or pro-
spective, with ea.isteouoo ? Need we be
eutprieed If these boys, ening sad bearing
former" held up to ridicule as " hayseeds "
and " wayback.," and theauelvss too often
treated as the moral Inferiors of the oily
and sews youth, encouraged moreover, by
the 'nooses of other lermeri wee whom
they bear "poked of ea nidus berrf.t re and
womio.nt physicians, should dooide to
leave the farm end eater • profession?
Let the termer" respect th.mselves and
their calling. Let them show that t•rmlag
ons be made to pay, sod that farm life is
nth incompatible with education and Cal-
ton, .pd is not • beerier to politioal sad
"wird advanosment, sod there wall be so
Ink of boys willing to stay on the farm. In
short, what our farmers ord t" pot less but
mon education, out manly tsohniost,eduos•
tion to enable them to treat farming as a
soientttla pursuit, but • broader and better
general eduostioo. whioh will give them it
taste for books and reading,wbiob will leave
them leas at the meroy ot glib -tongued
•genu a.ad poliuo•I oharl•tsn., and wil'
enable them to till with credit sty position
to which they may be chosen, isim school
trustee to Mtdister of Agriculture.
Meanwhile if our Hiph Sobool" are not
what they should be, let us try to improve
them, not, however,by addteg to ea already
overburdened programme a smattering of
teohoiosl subjects which can be dealt with
✓ stisfactortly only in separste institutions,
but rather by insisting on • more thorou¢b
koowledire ot the essentials, and, above all,
oo • readier end more accurate command by
all our studenta of good. English in both
. peaking and writing.
HOT CORN.
Children are often born with tolyioo jnfos
and whiskey in their veins
A child's rsep.ot for its parent is net .s-
oured by over -leniency any more than by
over-eeventy.
•
Her Choice–A. between Dick and
Harry, who do you like -hear
" Jack."
Teacher.–whet is heroism in
Boy.–Lsm11S M.jekool flint a mails on
year ftree:° – -
The turns of • senionoe has decided tho
fate of many • friendship, and, for angel
that we know, the fata of many a kingdom.
' • Oh ! Mr. Porter, doesn't that twain step
here!" said an old lady, ss tis
Med through the stat —
" No mom," said the :toner, blandly ;
•' it don't even hesitate_
Mr. City Ways–Have you heard of those
hornless carriages down in New York.
farmer ?'
Fernier–No, bat f have hard of the
oowlees milk down that."
A policeman was s eked by • coroner
whether he had taken any stepe to attempt
to reaueoltet. • mea on whom an iogoest
was being held. " Yee," said the oowt•ble,
"1 ".•robed hitt pockets"
" Don't your father and mother go to
church!'
Boy–They can't go terd•y, der mother
sprained her back chuck in father-Sown-
stairsand be rot his leg broke. See "' .
Mrs. Dix–I wonder what present my
husband will bring me tonight?"
Mn. Htoks–What makes you expect
one? 1s It your birthday!"
Mrs Dix–Nmo ; we quarrelled this
morning."
Yolk. S.arg.ant.–Ie the mad dangerous-
ly wounded !"
Irish Polios Surgeon–Two ct the wounds
are mortal ; bat the third oan be cared'
provided the man keeps psrfeotly quiet for
at lent sax weeks"
Nervous debility i" a common complaint,
especially among woman. The beet medial
treatment for this disorder i. • persistent
course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla to meanest and
invigorate the blood. This betaL-iNsm-
plubed, nature will do the re.t._„--
May Belay–And if you think the other
party le bluffing of oouree you may bet
Jack. Potts --Well, that is the canal
course, but I've found that that is usually a
good time to dam sob"
" Come and dine with me tomorrow,"
said • man to • friend.
•' Afraid I must decline. I'm going to
eels ' Hamlet ""
' Never mind," was the sahlushl.g re -
pt. ; bring him with you."
A oroseing•ewe.per begged something of
• gentleman ; the latter told him be would
give him ecmething as he same back.
" Your honor," replied the boy, " you
would bs surpri.ed if you knew how mash
mousy I loos by giving oredit that way."
Sade–Now, papa, I know della Jaok 1e
just like you."
Paps–Humph 1 Why do The 'say that T'
Sidi -1 beard you say the other nitrite
that wba you married mamma you hadn't
• penny. Jack wanly to marry me and he's
is the mime oeoditfoa."
A young lady, naming for the first time
in the 000ntry,waa alarmed at the approach'
et a sow. She was too frightened to run,
sed, shaking her parasol at the animal, she
said. is • very stern tone :
" Lie down, sir, lie down 1"
Dr, Pillem–Did you edmini.ter the
opiate at nine o'clock, as I dlsvtted '"
Mn. Clamp (with • sniff)- That I did,
ret, bat it sesemed • pity to have to woks
the poor man out of the tint sound sleep
he's had in four drys to give it to kink !"
Mies Orey–Mn, Handsomehad sash
se .opener"'', p• 1 Arrested Reoboe4e1-
' Ail s stelaks, of eeurw tea
Mr. Or.y–I suppose she was very 1#sA
aanoyd ?"
Mor trey–Not .s all. The papers mid
she was e1 prsposnesdeg appearance."
• n is 1s trees, craws," sighed the besets.
f11i ilrl, ea shit pad at the mu wb. had
Jost prepossd–" is is true that you ae pat
the hake tato your as" without losing your
(eneper
"Ii ho." a{1 Georg., loudly.
" Well, then," said the proud girl, ador-
ingly. " Take sae. I am teem"
Revision old Memerles-.,M. (.iter • tory
boobs esII)– WM. and *evens."
Ott. --deed ...,u , by the way, didn't
yea popes N As acv asap ]N ams lis !e
H.(star iMd)..-Wks yrs, of Mures "
She (pp�1sss�l�1.� e�-s.1 . Mil hs. Oki °
eitgrw. saMhw I cawed er rejevhd
W. C. T. U. D PARTI[ENT.
„ite>rer assfr nervy.
Mei R Y. Brion, • Ycale
adta•vs worts
at the W:C.T. C. oouventloa, said :ed
' 1 repressbsaoufal Norway, the
motoar of the vikinge : It was oar country-
men that discovered Atnerto•,Lslt Krtokson,
nine hundred years ago, and another of my
oountrdiens-
oradeo, Dr. Nenoeu, boo almost diens-
orad tbs North Pole : he did not lake any
sibiskry with bin, not • drop. Attachesthing, friend*, you know • thot•isod yt ars
ago we used to be • savage people up there
is Norway, sed you itegiieh people used to
be awfully soared of us, and used to prey to
the uhtuoun, "Good Lord. deliver us from
the fury of the Hammon.".ad we ooayuir-
ed ltnmland twine and we 000quered it the
tb'•d tun in the obaraot.r of Normane.But
I tell you, friends, you ounqu.red ns by the
Spirit when you obruuania.d Norway. Our
heathen kluge went over to England sad
they cam" over rod conquered Norapy, rod
that u w1.4w1.4we are Canadian propos to-
day.
Now, friends, we aro ahead of you, bo-
nus. we are voting out the saloon' to Nor-
way. loon: weeks last fall we voted out aidesthe saloons in eleven aidesNow 1 tell you
wbv we oan do that. It is because the woo
mea are allowed to help the men. Every
women that is twenty.tive year" old can go
out and vot .egaiset the saloon, sad they do
it. And 1 tell you it you want to vote the
saloon out here you must not depend upon
Oho men aloes 'the mer in Norway are not
any more sensible than the men here, feat
tb.y have the soap to see if they °anent do
• thing themselves, tory will allow the wo-
men to help them."
test seer.
Beware of the wily rot beer advertise-
ments that now flourish in the warm
months. When your roota are treated ao-
oordiog to directions alcohol is formed. Last
Seemlier we were on a street tar when • pec•
n eo party boarded a oar for oaeof the parks.
Otte old lacy had • bottle of root beer. The
warm weather and the shaking of the oar
stirred the spirits of the Neer. It fizzed and
fumed and fumed rad rax over till it benne
e mbarneinir indeed to the lady who oarned
it It Mas worse thole the for that ate out
the vitals of the Spartan lad– than could
not_ be oonowled. Good oold water and
homemade lemonade are good safe drinks
that will satisfy those of simple sates, and
If we are not satu8ed with thew it a time
we simplified our tastes to suit the bard
times to whaoh we live. •
lake\ant Institute, Oakville
has ei ndeurptwed mooed ot five year 1U
the treatment of aloobolf•m, opium, mor-
phine and toba000 addictions. Everyone
attending tot *reitment ta aefured of priv-
acy (S deetr.d),- comfort, •Biro. of rw-
etreiat, and, what of of greatest importance,
be goes to Lakebent Institute with oen6-
de°oe in the treatment always inspired by
knowledge of its unvarying success in the
p�
The majority of ita patrons have ottani-
ed on the reoommendattos of show vie
have been oared.
Those interested are invited to oorres-
ttond with th.t Medical Superintendent, Box
215, Oakville.
('• Prevention u better than oars" II
al0000liem, opium and tobacoo addictions
become in nob case a disease better remove
the cause and never begin any habit which
will become so hurtful sato make it- ones.
awry to undergo treatment which u, especi-
ally in inebriate asylum., very expensive,
sod in some casae doubttuL One one is
known to the writer when the system of
the poor victim of into:moanta was so weak-
ened he Ras not able to undergo the treat-
ment and was brought home • oorpes
Cel. sal.'. Warning.
I oan drink or leave it alone."
So has said every man who has died a
miserable drunkard.
That ia the oo°6deot statement of in
moderate drinker.
We see the bloated, miserable, God -for-
saken wrecks ell about us every day,•ad yet
that smile of aseoraao in your owe will
nes ggme,ASP_ an98 . ••
re gendove
,001 dov, a1 1–d.Y .
Colossi thorns W. Bain, the well-knetws
Southern orator, speaking e. this subject,
says :
There was Edgar Allan Poe,the author ot
The Raves. " Take thy beak from out my
boast–gent\ the roves, monomers. ' f�
was the evil spirit of liquor that killed tum.
Then was Tom Marshall. I saw him ad.
drew as midtown of 5,000 people, whom he
swayed with hip eloquence as a giant oak is
swayed by • storm. Tens Marshall went
down to the grave • Elwraf*a drunkard.
The last time I saw him he was leasing
against • lamp post for support. His hair
was matted and his face and body dirty
from debaaoh.bIa clothes ragged mad worth•
lees sod his oons phoned anode his breast.
He was • miserable wreok,y.t with still the
trans of att.Socr•ray upon him, He would
ell steads' for drinbs, • story • drink, and
so he went on.
You say : ' Why didn't Tom Marshall
quid ? Hs didn't want to quit, or be ootid."
I say Tem Marshall did want to quit. He
stood at the door of • b1a kamith "bop ens
day and said, " It by holding that bar of
hoe iron to my diode snail It cooled I could
get rid of this baring appetite for drink, I
would bold it.
He could not quit
There was • preacher in Louisville, one of
the moot eloquent men 1 have over beard,
married to • wealthy lady. He was fond
ot the bottle. He own home one night
the worse of liquor. Hie wife said to him
the next day, " Rusbeed, von were the
wore& for liquor last night." He left hie
hogs*, hie oharge, he holt ibis some of hos
tall. H. dnok deeply. Hie wife and fam-
ily left him. She treat to live on • little
passe of property–all she bad lett ot oat
of her fortune. He signal the pled¢e and
became sober for • time. He bottomed brit -
lastly against the drtek, and wee 'suited
to Louisville to speak. He hesitated, and at
Int went, and In hie Nature said • "i am •
preaoha without a charge, • father without
children, • husband without • wife, and all
evil" have Dame aeon me on soprano of the
drink. I wiU sever tote it sesta." And,
otter all, \e did at the ad M • droaken
debeaab.
It would take a too ley to tell of
others I have karma. TO... was yearn
Hoary Clay, gra°d.on et the tress Boma...
sr of the same none, shoe in • drenkes
brawl. Then were CriMad.e, PsuNok
Mary, 8. S. Curtis and Nero D. Prus-
Pea, all of whom sump is drvskarda rater
There was the brilliant Dank Tsar. elks
owe. simile • shore fistaaq lei Ming 'w-
idest et the Stales
•
Yam •
Aathesy olri � , 1a of
wore Wm we is elks WWI Sselr%
speakfag at she W.C.T.U. eeiarasttea at tit
Loa., la Nerember Isss. said : "I shook
yos for this .axpreseisa of Wenn in the
work of the oei,Ws wkieh t knee the kosor
of rep/mouthy:, the New York, hit Louie
mid Weston' Societies tot Sapp -nein of
Vlos, end nue regret that 1 bays 'Sandlot
here t" that one of the noblest, br•veet,
most oonaeor•ted, and most faithful men
that 1 have ever keuwn 1. sot here to stood
cede by side wish me and receive an equal
share of all the oowiderstion "hove me --1
mean R. W. UoAfee, of be. Lexis, s moa
who, daring the past year, In order to de -
lend the home' 'ed the tooth watts' of learn
in end the youth m thin tsetltatioss and
these bonus, bee spent one handred and
sixty soiree nights upon the aleepuog-oar,
away from his home sod his family. One
of the members of tete society calling o n
me at the -tool today, aid : "Ob, If be
only arouses the women of St bate atsioet
this evil, this evil will have to leave lit.
Louis, for if they get atter an evil it has to
go.' 1 thought there was no prettier oomp-
imam ever spoken than this. a This is the
estimate the men in other hoes have ot the
W.C.T.U.
"1 wk you, sonnet workers ot this non.
y'ea's, to remember one foot ie your de-
liberations here are thirty•three mahout
of boys and girls in the United States of
Amerioa, a000rdi°g to the last cones.
Many of them have Dome foto lite with bac.
edat.ry evils, a tendency to wrong -doing.
That same authority says there are one mil-
lion habitual druukarde in the United
Stein, sod one hundred thousand ot these
graduate from the back door of the saloon
Into the portal" of perdition every year.
There are three great evils which cilia ono
venttos le patted against – intemperasom
gambling sad the results of evil roadintrkled
.11 three of .these evils .trek" at the wows
in the home ; strike at the mother bi the
fireside ; sink i at the obildren to the drunk-
ard's home. in the gambler's home, in the
home of the libertine.
'' 1 have for twealy•8ve• years stood for
the moral parity of -the thirty-three mullion
children in this oouatry as • representative
of the society which I have the honor of
representing today at this convention. We
have made mon teas twenty-one hundred
anew, not oo°nttnt what brave MacAfee
hoe does here, cad have gathered up more
than sixty-eight tone of ooatraband mailer
which hove hen 'Need with then hands.
Dose not this argue something for the
purity of our children ? the, mother", you
who are sitting here secure, how little do
yop know what sersL tefuenoes come Into
your home sed into the school, seminary
sad oollege, through the greet avenue of
oommunicatun, the Caked Stakes Emits.
I want to impress upon your minds** se-
os.sity of guarding your own bomM,
tug your own beloved ebtidren. Thesis
known the danger ; I have knewa It by be-
am atter leases and ssp.rieaee oiler
once for this quarter of • 'eatery that I
have stood t. defence ot the panty of the
obildren of this wrest nation The flood
gates are open tato our homes through the
Uotad .,ares ma* sad what ere want is
that you (hrieeya woman, . with your
thought sad will year prayer", ay stand
by us, eo that through the efforts ot then
societies we may 'hoan legislation. both
national sod state, that we may have the
weapon" of defence for our obildren in our
bomea end in our tost'tutions of tannin."
A Pii&v idea
A oxrrrtgr .x allowed • poor Ess on hie
estate, who was oat of health, • certain
quantity of milk • day, which was fetched
from the hall
The man died, still the milk wee mount),
applied tor. Meeting the deceased's brother
one day- 'n the act of oarryanw it home, the
act o1 carrying et home, the donor asked
for an explanation.
Touching his oap, the man replied:
" Please, sir, It belong" to me now ;
my brother lett it to me as his will l "
A. Illaberasa Joke' /
Leaning on the arm or his chaplain, Arch-
bishop 11'ha1sly woe ones met by an old
friend with :
•' I hope your Greco is very much tetter
today 1'
"Olt, I a very well indeed, if ,1 weld
only perausde some strong fellow like you
to lend me • pair of I.p, was the reply.
" 1 shall only be too happy to lead you
my lege if your Grace has oo objection to
to ire me your bead la exobange."
hE_404bybop l�rgbteoed.--ast,at. iJiie.
diff wit, and exclaimed : " What,
Mr.—, you don't mean to say that you
are willing to exchange two uadentaodtngs
tor on
CURE FOR DROPSY.
Only • Positive Symptom–Not a Dumps
of it.N/–Cured by Dodd,. PUL.
CAtervet.troan (snort.) Aug 9–An no
looked for and remarkable rwoevery from
sdva°osd stage admits! is jest made pehIto
here. Is is the oase of Mrs. John Weese,
wife of the widely knows veteran stags
proprietor, whom life, for months, had
been despaired of. From she aooesiulated
water: paellas to this disease she became
so helpless as to be unable to drag ene foot
afar the other. She now apeman en she
street and al s she is as well as ever in her
Hie. And olafine that afar all other meaty
had failed. see sbsaks Diff'. Kidney Pills
for her unexpected our.
-
TRUTHS TOLD IN A FEW WORDS.
Preventable misfortunes consist, ohi.8y,
of manifold things, little to do, bat intone°ee
things to have done.
Parente generally reoeve that measure of
811a1 reepeot they deeerve–not always, per•
haps, but very generally.
A daughter should never reek to nor he
allowed to " mattress " her mother. Is
every family the mother should he the bat
dressed rember
A true pruoeption of the Gospel is the en-
tire forgetfulness of ,.If, atter •beetles of
any pretentlon, and the esa$s4 Clad so -
tire refusal to aoo.pt the world's praise or
j internee t.
The man who earns east dollar end spends
two, and the man who earns two and spends
on., stand on either side of the hair line be-
tween heedlewes" and disoretio°, between
role and salet y.
When • mother allows her daughter to
appropriate her wraps, glwe.,vdle, or other
arttolee of personal kilts, she begins • pelby
of farmlarlty whioh eroser or hoer breeds
contempt. A napes* tor one's bdesgistpa
'reader" a raspeet for their pospaaoer.
" Cabot thou minister to a mind di.sndr"
asks Maol.th. Certainly. my hod; els
oadltla of the nand deposdsN
set pokily, ea the oondittnn of theaeh,
Ilveg, enc Newels, der all of whioh oompMelews
Anger's Pills, are " the se+weigne.a bbtag
ea sank."
The dimarded Seery of • d•aghtur should
Seset eetlttlete • mother's werdrabs Ito
ad
ass ►Ebb'.pedally digelesd hi Ns
oft ens w\w elf amen els hl .
at� ews b S'kad
km kr emu
OVERWORK
w.liToaw_
Nervous Prostration
Osoillses 3 s ._ AM Vas of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
"Some yew ago, as a result of too
slow attention to Duaineas, my health,
felled. I became weak, nervods, was
'-Js to look atter my interests, and
fasted all the Iymptoms of a de-
cline. I took three bottles of Ayer's
Sarsaparilla, began to improve as oaoq
and gradualiy!>lereseed my weight front
one hundred and twenty -Sere to two
hundred pounds. Since then, I and my
family have used this medicine when
nelded, and we are all In the beat of
health, a fact which we attribute to
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I believe my chil-
dren would have been fatherless to -day
had it not been !ores Sarsaparilla,
of which prepar•tiss I cannot say too
mach."–H. O. Humor, Postmaster and
Planter, Kinard's, 8. C.
Ayer's =Sarsaparilla
ItCOVMO MEDAL At 1110RL!'= ►AM.
..ate-..-
AYtR'$ Pills Save Doctor's eel&
ATnt.rrtu £iIust.1INT–Krisyibaug an
Nature indulges is •mammas". £be twin-
ing plays The wthol whistles. The thunder
rolls. She assn. flies. • -TM assns- b•,p-
The field. "mile. osis Shit kayo shoot, sad
the river tams.
Fors' TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS
DUNN'S-
BAKINC
POWDER
T11,12O15SBEERIFND
1887... .
Announcement.
New Goods and Best Valves
in the Tailoring liise at the
old -established and reliable
West-st Emporium- Satisfac-
tion guaranteed in Quality
Style and Price.
HUOR DUNLOP
GODTETE�I�CH '
IMAM_ ,B.OILR _
A. S. CHRYSTAL,
60roeaeor Chri tai a $Incl,
manufacturer of all klads of
BOILERS,
Smoke Stooks, Salt Fans, Sheet LW
Works, etc., etc.,
And Healer in–
Eaglee', Machinery Castings, As.
All 'eta of Pipes cad Pipe THMiespe
Steam and Wates Dari.. Globs Valve.
Ch.ok Valves, Inwpirators, Ejectors and le-
lectors
Censantly oa Head at Lowe.
A "penial line of Steel Water and Hag
Troughs for too of farmers sad others.
Repairing pt meskar*ds$ to. -• 11
A. S. SEITTraL
SIN-ly P. 0 Be: 11, tiderteb.
Cartage & Fuel Co.
are prepared to handle Bag-
gage Freight and Household Ef-
fecttt with Dispatcih at reasonable
retell. Dealers in all grades of
v
HARD
SOFT
cad' Smithing Ooal
Wood and Kindling
eat to' suit customers and deliv
ered with promptness. Order so-
licited.
Telephone eat
ieteev bees *Ass
t1ilt tw•otirw *overjoy ift
C. da F. 43o.
e
D. V Wiwi**
BArretary