The Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-22, Page 75'
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THE LORD'S 011 TUE LANDLORDS' ?
The eseseutiaie to oixistenee—atave Not
Ati /tight to .e.'hem Q5C81,1011
of seitie—Giseovery and ownership --
Sante 1aet.s of History.
Mall PAPE%
The topios treated of in preceding tapers
have doubtless great interest in any con -
adoration of the pressing question ot
eoolologioal reform, but they all pale into
insignidoenoe leefore the: root evil with
whioh we have to deal—the land question.
Of course there are people who are ready
to cry out, Land question! Isn't there
land and to spire in this great country for
unborn millions ?" ' Now, with all due
.reepeot to these people such a query in no
way tonal:tee the vital question. It is, in
the first place, an 11170i31,11108 of the issue as
to the righteousness of the existing
land system; in the eeoond place it BIB.
Flumes that, because there yet remains
land in other parts open to settlement and
appropriation, no evil results from the
systemin use,width I deny; and in the
third place it is, in a degree, an admission
-that were there not unappropriated land
the subjeot would at least be a debatable
One. Now we have evidences all around
ne--particulerly where the population is
dense—that the effects of our land aystent
differ only in degree froru those in Britein,
in Franco and in Germany; and the
dif-
feronoe in our favor is due, not to any lupe-
periority in our people or country, but to
the fad that the large areas of new terra
tory have served as a safety -valve to
relieve the pressure. The principles we
proceed upon are practically those which
have prodaoed in the old lands an ads-
tooraoy of landed barons and a population
of savagely competing serfs who remain
in the country by their landedness'
permission and live on the ragged margin
of subsistenee rent day leaves to them.
The oraer of progress will not be different;
and ea moot economic:movements, whether
good or evil, progress more rapidly than in
past times, we will, considering our condi.
dons, reach the period of pressure more
rapidly than our European ancestors dia.
Wise men look eihesse and profit by the ex•
perience of others. Why should we wait
until the evil is an oppressive one and peo-
ple are in no:humor to reason or to adopt the
.gradual methode eo advisable in bringing
about great economic changes? Why not
consider wall what we are doing and steer
dear of the rooks ahead P Why should we
do wrong at greet cost to ourselves and in.
fliot an evil on posterity, when it is easier
to do right and when peace and prosperity
are to be promoted by a proper course
Why, indeed!
Three conditions are essential to life on
this planet—access to earth, air and water.
Without these life cannot be supported. In
the economy or creation these are so well
balanced to fit our requirements that life
is fairly enjoyable in most parts of the
.globe. Water and air beoome matters of
proprietary interest only under special dr-
eamt:tames involving peculiar personal
exertion in supplying them. When a diver
is at work the supply of a sufficient air
pressure by artificial means becomes an
object of Rio:chase. When a village (as
some villages do) suffers from extreme
* drought water -healers sell water, but, as in
the ease of the air furniehed the diver, the
recompense is for the labor involved—the
.artificiality employed (if I may use the
term) rather than for the natural gift of
water itself. I have no doubt, however,
that were some means dieeovered to corner
the air and water of the world we would
soon me these elementary gifts of nature
monopolized by " private owners," and by
thetaxes derived from the sale of rights to
breathe and drink, a race of plutocrats
rivalling the Westrainsters and Rockefel-
lora would soon aggrandize all tbe wealth
of the world.
To speak of " owning" a: certain given
proportion of the Water that flows down
our rivers, rises in vapor and descends in
rain, and charging mankind for using it ;
or to olaim a title to a cubic mile of atmos-
phere with the right to tax those who
breathe it, would be to mixt suapioions of
insanity. Can anyone tell me why the
other element necessary to existence should
be platted by human enactment on a dif-
ferent basis Oen anyone tell me why-
-apart from the fact that conditions have
rendered it possible to fence it in, and the
mighty have done so and by the laws they
have enforced and long posseesion have
sweated a right to it—a man should own,
and be entitle to exclude others from, the
earth any more than from the air or the
water
Bought ima paid for it? Whom aid
they buy it from? No inset can sell what
he does not own. A cannot sell a lot that
is owned by 13 and give me a good title to
it. Whose is this earth, anyway Is the
earth the Lord's, or the landlords' I only
rectal ono instance in which the owner of
the planet gave any speoifio instructions to
a people in regard to their dealings with
each other in land and the reoord orsish
d The land shall not be sold forever ; for
the land is mine." The system in vogue
did not therefore come from Him. He
who planned a universal brotherhood of
Man no more calculated that one man or
one million men should own the earth and
thee be empowered to treat the reat of
mankind as slaves, than He ordained that
universal peace and industriel happiness
should be achieved by Krupp gime smoke -
Reed powder and a war of tariffs. The pro.
fessing Christian who advocates them is
either an ignoramus or a hypocrite; he
either fails to appreciate the meaning of
into corning under hie own obeervation, or,
appreciating it, is satisfied with a mere
profession of a religion to which the course
ho approves 18 a disgrace.
I think that anyone who tithes the
*rouble to trace back these take to abso-
lute ownership of the earth will find that
they red in force and fraud to which long
ago of possession and tho lawa, made
and enforced by the benefit:lariat: of that
force Eina fraud and their devisee and
nudge% have given a certain kind of
eandity. I say " sanctity," because with-
out that feeling on the part of the people
who paid tribute to these men for the right
of remaining on the earth, these lavve
contd. not bave been enforced. Might can-
not properly be said to rule now; once lot
-the masses frilly comprehend that they are
oppreseed, wronged, and they will find
remedy, constitutional or otherwitio. It
+has always been felt to be ad-
vietthie to give the laws, at least
an appearance of right, to mat-
-her hove bad the law or the rdotive
.of ifs enactors. But there havo beep time
When religion had more power in this
respeod—to make men submit tamely to
bad lawa—than ies has to -day ; and ono of
thee° daya it will got backbone enough to
deny theauthority of any kw not founded
in natural right. In the past, however,
it cannot be gaineeid that the suffering
mance have endured oppressive lawa
rather from the oonfosed idea that unequal
as was their hearingthey had in thorn
something of divine right, and the hard.
thipa they endured were ordained of God,
than that they did not feel that they were
numerous enough or strong enough to
unite in resisting such lame Tili8 was
the menu of whet oertain politicians et
to day eulogize as loyalty, and lament its
decay. There are those who have reason
to fear the light that le breaking in open
the masees. But even light brings its
responsibilities to those who see.
If we go back to the Norman period in
England we will find that when William
wrested the kingdom from the Saxone he
posseased himself of their- lands and par-
titioned them, in great measure, among his
followers. 'Ihat was title obtained by
force and conveyed by fever. I am aware
that it might be claimed that he gave color
to a title to the throne by an alleged pre.
edema will of Edward the Confessor, and
also by a form of eleotion ; but this wee
laughed to aoorn by his own followers who
eleimed their titles by virtue of sharing
with him the haztirde of conquest; and
moreover were the °him aonceded it would
but remove the foundation by force one
step further beck. It was not, however,
until the Tudor period that our present
system took shape; and even the the land
was burdened with feudal charges whittle
rendered the olaino of the following sttetute
of Edward III., and which has never lance
been repealed, at least nominally effective :
That the Ring is the universal lord and origi-
nal proprietor of all land in his kingdom ; and
that no man doth, or can possess any part of
it but what has medi
iatolv or narneclis,tely been
delivered as a gift from him to be held on /Dodd
service.
In the reign of Charles II., however, a
land -holding parliament relieved itself of
this "service" or return for the 000upanoy
of the lands of the nation'and from that
till18 forward the men who held the land
and made the laws took care to legislate in
their own interest; to keep up a dearth
that taught respect for law without being
hypercritical about its jastioe or right to
• bind them; and to enclose for their own
use the large commonages that were used
by the general public. I find that from
Queen Anne to William IV., inclusive,
3,954 enclosure ads were passed, appro.
priating to private use 4,207,883 acres of
landa belonging to the whole people; and I
do not wonder that, taken with the other
enactments of a landlord tarlitarnent, the
coat of paupers has aggregated as mufti as
£8,000,000 in a single year in England!
Turning to newer parts of the world, we
find force and fraud as usual, complicated
with a claim of " disoovery." It we shut
our eyes to the fad that admitting diecov-
ery as a title the aborigines owned the
country, we are yet entitled to ask whether
the discovery of Atnerke by Columbus
could give Spain a good title to America.
How much are we to concede to disoovery 2
The acre landed on The territory
bounded by the horizon of the discoverer
All ho travelii over or around Would
Crusoe have it right as discoverer to for-
bid other people to land on his island, if he
°hue to do so, if its area were a Rewire
mule? or if it were a million square miles
"If ha could enforce his refusal 2 " Ali 1
Now we got back to the doctrine of force,
and on force and fraud will, I think, be
found to rest all titles to absolute owner-
ship of the land whioh God said, "shall
not be sold forever, for the heal is mine."
If the natural opportunities are owned by
the few, how can it be said that all men
are equal before the law? If the many
are deprived of theirbirthright, yet heavily
taxed to enforce that deprivation, how can
competition—the natural condition—be
fair? Is it any wonder that starting to
build on such a fabric our mocha and
political economy should be a thing of
props and braces most unlovely to contem-
plate, and whose safety we feel alarm for
in every industrial breeze; that in an
enlightened age like this we should witness
the anonaoly of idleness taking the wealth
and honors of the world while industry
struggles and starves, and the exponents of
the gospel of the Teacher of Truth and
Justice patronizingly counsel contentment
and prate about the "will of God "2
We must help ourselves. If we put our
shoulders to the chariot wheel Hercules
will be there. It won't hurt the store:e-
tc:seed boatman to pray, but he will ftud
good pair of oars and ability to handle
them very usefal in reselling a see haven.
This world has been much abused, indeed
sometimes it has almost been presented as
a malevolent creation ; but I am of opinion
that it would bo a pretty good place to
spend a few years in if we only put our
abilities to the uses for which they are
adapted by nature, cultivated self•relianee
and acted tm to our best knowledge.
ILISQUBTTE.
A woman's Expellent:to Jumping, ofr a car
"I never tried but once to jump off a
moving street car," said a Dation bider in
conversation with a friend.
"Did you get a fall ? "
"No. I had heard my buebend say
that you must jump off in the direction in.
which the oar is going, and as ih ranched
the place where I wanted to stop I just
skipped ont as if I had been acouetomed
to it:"
"Was it as -difficult as you maimed? "
" It was ten times harder. I ran a few
steps and it seemed to me flea the vihole
phenol; was turning round. I sere:Med all
over to keep from falling, and when I
struck the sidewalk I nearly knocked two
men down who were passing, in my mad
attempt to preserve an equilibrium. As I
reekd away I heard one of them excitant t.
"It's a shame to see a woman in such fe
contlitiou on the pnblio streets—she eaglet
to be arrested." I could not ran after Wpi
to explain matters, but I have never haIdl
the slightest ambition to jump off a stre ei
car in motion since. Yet it does look ile
+
eaey when John does it." 1
But at Was e citypot."
Mrs . Albert Shugg, of Mattoh Chank,
called it " dajpot." Her husband said it
was "depot.'They disputed. She re
fused to get supper and he went out tor the
evening. When he teturned oho watt hang-
ing by the neck and on the table wee a bit
of primer on which she had written : "It's
daypot—daypot--eaypot 1"
AMONG TILE FARMERS.
Useful Ilint s For All Tillersof
The Soil,
A COLUMN EOR TBE COUNTRY r0EK
(axe of woutig Lambs.
Great care lawn be taken not to let the
larnbe out from under cover on raw, damp
days, or when refit is felling ; they are
very apt to get dallied and then die quite
unexpectedly. It the sheep must gee out
for early exereiee end a mouthful of grass,
it 18 better to keep the lambs at home in
the 8heas until the weather gets quite
comfortable and the soil warm, as they are
many chilled, even by lying on the odd,
domp ground in the fields:. Chilled Jambe
ratty 6 restored, in takeu up in time, by
bems
I
immediately placed in a bath of
watt: made as hot as the hand will bear.
As figRI AB ' It revives and gets lively it
sho a be rubbed thoroughly dry. It it
wireehen stook the darn the risk is over,
buitAhould it appear week a smell dose of
eptrief3—say a teaspoonful of whiskey
mixdlewitla sorne warm milk—shoule be
given bydegoit4zinds* down its throat. Then
wrap the la p in an old blanket, and keep
it in a room °comfortably warm till it
recovers. Lambs can be restored by these
means when se far gone that they appear
almost or quite dead says Rural Home
, . .
A. Good Tool in the corn maid.
Last spring, after working my corn with
a two.horse cultivator one way (it being in
drilli), 1 wished for a tool to cross the rowa
and bteak the crust in the rowe. After a
little study I concluded that a stub toothed
hay rake would be just the thing. So I
hitched on to try it. It is far ahead of
any drag I ever saw. Instead of covering
and tearing out the corn, it 'uncovers it and
leaves the oorn and also the ground in the
best possible shape. Now I do not claim
that it will kill the grass after it gets a
few inches high, but it destroys the young
plant when it first cornea up. The kind of
rake that I used was an independent tooth,
weighted down with a stick of timber; but
any rake will do that 0511 be set low enough
to catch in the ground. I would advise
farmers to try thie simple tool.
Handling manure.
Ort the subject of improving manure by
handling or measurement Sir J. B. Lewes,
the great English experimental agricultur-
ist, says he is just as ignorant as the :nest
old fashioned farmer, and that there is n
ii
use in trying to fix ammonia where there i
little or none to fix. You cannot handl
Manure without doing 80 at some °onside;
able expense, and he therefore thinks
more economical to let it alone. It is ce
tale that all the labor expended upon
adds to it cost, but it is not equally eert
that it adas in the same proportion to s
value. Many of our best farmers hanl t
their barnyard manure as eoon as co
venient and apread it on the land whe
is to be used. On lands aubjeot to wash
and draining the application is better it
bayed until cultivation begins.
e
mower Hedges.
Division lines are sometimes deeirabl to
seperate ornamen.tal grounds and limns
from vegetable gardens, and for this it I r-
,
pose Gardening Illustrated recommends he
planting of flowering shrubs for he
brilliant and beautiful display which hey
afford daring the 8858011 of bloom. e'or
this purpose strong growing and hiXdy
roses are to be chosen, snob for inseuce
OS Stench briar, cabbage. Among flowing
shrubs are the, crimson currant, the pink
and white weigelas, the penioled hyiran.
gea ana Philadelphns. We havinsee:a
beautiful ornemental lines of the eirple
Barberry. The white and crimson arum
quince make an early display of brllis,nt
flowers.
:
coloring natters in cheese. ,
e.
Cheese is one of the very few dodern
food substancee which are never 'ready
adulterated. Its only adulterant, id fact,
at the preeent time is its ooloring roiterial,
which is usually cornett°, saffron cc cora-
mon carrots. .The first is more gaterelly
used than the others, but all Wh813 /amine
are perfectly harmless. Occadonally,
however'when the annato (the proiuot of
an Heat Indian plant) is of an infellor de-
scription, red lead, whioh is a dsUgerons
slow poison, is added to bring out d greater
depth of color.—New York Telegrari.
Farm and Garden.
The thea -pest way to kill ve y young
weeds is to harrow the ground.
Plant the garden eo you may hve a reg.
ular succession of vegetables. P ne small
fruits on the 118.010 plan,
It requires time to produce a good sod for
lawns and for shrubs and evergreens to
grow, and to fit the soil for the reception of
flowers.
In the deake to secure size in the straw-
berry the more desirable qualities: of hard.
nese of vine and flavor of the fruit are being
overlooked.
For feeding purposes it is estimated that
100 pounds of beets are worth 19 cents ;
100 pounds of rutabagas, 15 cents, and 100
pounds of fiat turnip, 11 cents.
When proonring a thoroughbred nestle
aim to secur one that is better than the
stook he is
tion oitnno be given the matter of seleotion
i improveToo rauth atten-
.
of the Toole.
• If you would lesiva a new asparagus bed
dright away" purchase two roots
and plant them in rows three by four feet,
in holed four by six inohee deep, in any
good, well -manure(' garden soil.
Every weed that ie allowed to secure a
stand will deprive the crop of a certain
tion of plant
propor food and oietur • RI O.
Every weed that IS allowed to go to seed
inareasee the work of eradication a hundred
fold.
At tlae Amherst (Mass.) station it costs
6118 to raise an acre of onions, not reckon.
ing the value of the land, and from 400 to
650 bushels per acre are deemed rt fair crop.
The onion requires full quotas of both
potash and nitrogen.
As the roots of trees extend a great distance from the trunk, the proper mode of
epplying manure to trees re to aprette it
over the surface of the ground for a dis-
tance around the tree, and not apply it in a
compact RIMS cloae to the tree.
The " selling " o cattle, especially in
time of green pasture, is waemly recom-
mended. Where practicable a lump of
rock snit, sheltered by a cheap, rough shed,
where the cattle can get at it readily,
shoeld be kept in every grass Bela used for
asture.
A Regard for Appearances.
She —The divorce lawe in the 'Rost are
very lootee are they not?
He--(fronit Chicago.) Very.
She --Are there any rostrictiona what-
ever /
He—No ; Though it ie not considered
good forrn to be divorced until one's holley-
moon is over.
It ie said that it large number at the
plumes wort by the lailiee who attend the
Queen's dratvieproome are hied from a
oh* which makee a bueinede of renting
out plumed. Tho featherd aro worth from
$4 to e10, and the rent of them in $2.50 or
eaeb to:oar:ion.
The hugest parted diamond in the world
is the Imperial °Wawa by a synclicete 10
Pada. 1*10 Wafted at 6/$000,0004
Bural Notes and News.
Next --May manor afield 1
Yes, get a good grindstone.
A gee(' hired man is a tteannre.
Lead, not follow, your Nia force.
How mmay trees have you planted?
The Cory it a Very early sweet cora.
Method and system pay on the farm.
Amber it good variety of aorghtim.
Woek and pluck are suret thine luck.
Ignore teirube ; take More good stOok.
The WOrat Ind on the farm—alcohol.
repere gor the great oereo,l crop, corn.
oming—iikeep•ehearing and big clips.
oland.Chint swirl° " take " in the
wet. . .
atronize pree•paying pigs and poultry.
rovide good watering-plea:is for stock.
dive the boo and gide plots to elate.
VII.18.
lepair took, banana, ette, on rainy
all'
ye the boy: a chance with good toole.
loilow good ieed with thorough culture.
emember that flat culture is beet for
dr soils and ridging for wet,
pays to taki good oare of your "farm
he ' —that at, your tools.
you want pod, vigorous Stook of any
kiql, breed to a mature sire.
strt earlani rest late. It is better
thi existing early and stertineblate.
ve your ieeons a ohmage of diet. You
lik it yourstif arid tio do they. It is app.
tizi g. —Ideally 1Vitness.
zletue Feints in summer.
erhether goenhouse and window plants
in estersil shield be kept in their pots or
tended into to open ground for the Kim-
mel: dependanpon what is deeired of them.
Pdbably mist plants clan be trained into
hater form in pots them in the open
grqiud, and if one does not care for the
labor, but seers the best results in the form
Of Ii11 plants continuoue pot culture le
beie. Bat t: lessen labor most gardeners
no urn thar greenhouse plants out of
and. intohe open border for the sum-
, and repo about the Ist of September.
A a rule, plints are out back when BO
t ned out. ezaleas may need attention to
sluing somelittle time before they are
pit out. We ?refer to plunge the pots of
atalees in Bald in the garden, and not to
ttrn them oat, though some gardenersido
Bi. Before Hese plants are tamed out
add when thei have done blooming, the
leak wooa cat be out out and the shoots
slortened, and t top•dressing of about an
ilich of fresh ioil be given.—Vick's Maga.
re for April.
100
na
New C ire for the Insane.
During the prtvalence of the grip quite a
nnaber of persom were reported to have
eaorne insane frim the effects of the die.
ase. Now tin statement is made on
xoellent authority that several insane per.
le
sons were cured by the same malady. Dr.
N. E. Payne, of the state insane asylum at
es oro, Mame says that seven of the
eighty-six patien-s attacked by the influ-
enza appear to lave recovered. He adds
that five of the avert would never have
recovered if the epidemic had passed by
without entering the hospital. Now, if
Mr. Pasteur, or sone other medical gentle-
man, will devise eome method by which
patients in insane asylums can be inocu-
lated with the influenza germ, or miorobe,
O great blessing nay be conferred upon
humanity.—Chicags News.
A Breathing Exercise.
To expand the lunge: Go into the open
sir, stand erect, throw back the head and
shoulders, and draw in the air through the
nostrils as muokt as possible.
After having thus filled the lungs through
the nostrils, raise your arms, and, while
they are extended, suck in the air. When
you have thus forcee the arms backward
witlathe chest open, change the prooess by
whioh you drew in your breath till the
lungs are emptied. Go through this pro.
cess several times a day and it will enlarge
the (east, give the lungs better play, and
serve very muola to ward off consumption.
—Christian Union.
•ey Sang " God Save tho <1.tmen.'•
St. George's Day was celebrated yester-
day afternoon by St. George's Society, of
the city of New York, at the Church of the
Heavenly Rost, at Fifth avenue and Party -
fifth street. About three hundred mem-
bers of the society attended and the Rev.
Dr. Morgan' '
ohaplain conducted the Ear-
vicee, whichfollowed the Episcopal ritual,
in addition to the singing ot "God Same
the Queen " by the choir and congregation.
—New York Herald.
• Prohibition for New York.
Prohibition of the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquor is to be submitted to
the test of a popalav vote in the State of
New York. It Will be presented iu the
forth of a question of placing a prohibitory
enattneent in the constitution of the State.
Th ie question will be decided by a special
election to be held next April, when the
ballot will be for or against prohibition.
1
Not Dismayed.
• elramantha (to her lover, who has just
preposed)—Before I give you an a,nower I
hale a aeoret to impart.
lover—What is it, dearest?
itramantha (blushing and stammering)
--Tly—my teeth are false.
over (heroically)—No matter; I'll
mrrry you in spite of your teeth !
Satiated With Ells Pew.
There's only one fault I have to find
wide Dr. Pulpit's sermons
' " said Mrs.
Pots,, whose pew ia in the book part of a
late and fashionable church.
1 What's ihat ? " asked Mr. 1'.
I can't hear ono word he says."
Humph! That's just what I like about
'en," grunted Pods.
A Cry Against Injustice.
3obby—Say, paps, I with you would
hdp me with my lesson.
kir. Post—I can't Debby ; whet you
meth you should learn for yourself.
Bobby (dispastedly)---And there you sit
wth your newspaper, elicking up your
°onions from the editor 1
1
An omelette with strawberries in the
hart, and sugar over it all, is the latest
mndity.
The frook ooat will reign again during
tle London season. It is " worn open,
rude of very Iron& cloth, oftenest very
wooly dark gray, and silk lined. The waist.
cat is double-breasted end cat low."
The new Menials of Normandy, who has
jest cora° into possession of hi a title and
eitatea, is Rev. Lord Melgrave, one of the
herded worker a and most popular men of
tle clergy, ha the North of England.
Be careful of the horse's mouth. Men
tho jerk the reins became they are too mad
ti be tunable nod humane, ehould
lave a Int placed in their own menthe and
lave it jerked by some brutal follow who
trouia enjoy giving pain.
A lost night'e Montreal despatch says :
dael will take place to -morrow morning
it 5 o'clock between two Belgiane on
efount Royal. They quarrelled over o
hay at the Albani concert this evening.
he would-be suicides are *too Belgiane of
noble birth i and hitherto have been con-
iidered very fast friends. Pistols have
leen ohoseo by the thallenget1 individuate
111d. BOMB deadly insteksmanehip may be
ookelt for, ao both Of the combetante are
itsmarkehly devise sleets.
The lefiluenze it an acute form has reaps
eesteed in Poland, end London phyeiciane
ire diebutsing the question whether the
Intereational ourse is about to start on a
new rotind.
feROW mis WRIST.
It s Eine Line s Add Vastly to the Eirsot of a
Do you know, Amity, 1 have quite come
to the oonolueion that it woman's toilet is
never quite enceeesful unless it ebowe two
or three lathes of slender wrist, whether
gloved or very tightly sleeved. I noticed
one or two women in the park last week
who looked better deemed than the rest,
and after puzzling over the matter for
some little tune, I settled in nay own mind
that it was beoeuee the prettily shaped
wrists were not wrapped up in far or hid.
den in rauffe. I paid as much to Charlie,
and he weiat lurther than I did. "
he geld, "and ankles, too. Just think
what a horse would look like if his legs
were roiled up and swathed and hidden up!
What a thoroughly clumsy animal he would
seem to be 1" I dropped the anbjeot, dear,
but continued it in my thoughts. For in-
stance'how natioh nicer man loolts in
riding breeches thet are tight to the legs
than he does in the ordinary trousers !
And the former must be warmer, too. We
all appear to conceit' with care the fine
lines of wrist sod ankle, in fashioning
whieli nature seerna to have taken particu-
lar pains.—" Madge," in London Trutls.
Choosing a Sweetheart.
Choose your eweetheart, carefully, wisely
and tenderly, my dear girls, says a writer
in the Ladles' Monte Journal. Remember
he is to be more than even this to you some
day—he is to be your husband, for surely
you are not one of the girls who have a
sweetheart here e.nd one there, and gives a
little love to this one and a little love to
that one, until when the real one appears
the perfect bloom is gone from the peaoh
and she cannot give him what he offers
San. You gide know very quickly when a
man means more than ordinary friendship
for you. You have an instinot that tells
you that this big, good-looking fellow has
come sweethearting, and that that is the
time for you to study him a little bit.
Think out it his temper end yours are cer-
tain to agree well together; think out if his
tastes and yours are alike, or if they oan
grow to be so, for you know, little women,
if you want to be happy in your married
life, you must learn the great and wonder-
ful virtue of adaptability. You must
choose your sweetheart as you do a UOW
gown, so that he will wear well; but you
want him for longer than a winter; he must
bast through the long summer days and
through the winter ones, and before you
pat your hands in his and tell him that you
are willing to fight out the battle of life
together, think it all over well and remem-
ber that you are choosing your sweetheart
not for a day or a year, but for all through
life and, please God, if you love each other
ienougb, for after death.
Sketch of Senator Beck,
Senator James Burnie Beds, of Lexing-
ton, Ky., who dropped dead in the vestibule
of the Pennsylvania Railroad depot at
Washington on Saturday, was born in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Feb. 13th, 1822.
He received an academic eanoation in
Scotland, and graduated as a lawyer from
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.,
in 1846. He practiced law in that city,
never holding office until sleeted to the
Fortieth Congress. He was re•electea to
the Forty-first, Forteasecond e.nd Forty-
• third Congresses. In March, 1877, he took
his seat in the Senate, lowing been elected
to succeed John W. Stevenson. He was
reielected to the Senate in 1882 and in
1888. Hie term would have expired in
Marob, 1895. Senator Beck was an earnest
Democrat, ond WWI extremely popular. Ho
had many friends on both sides of the
• Senate and no enemies. Be was admitted
to be the Denaocratio member of the Senate
who was best inforraed on the tariff ques-
tion. He was always a leader in debates
upon silver questions.
The Baby Was Dead.
"1 had a strange experience the other
day," said Mr. Friend, the Woodward
avenue photographer. "A woman came
in here carrying a baby in her arms and
said she had an engagement for a pic-
ture of the child. I said all right and
told her to get it ready. Then she went
to the dressing room end I asked my
operator if he bad made an engagement
for that hoar. He saia ho had, and I
told him it was all right, to go ahead. I
let him attend to it and sat down to read
my morning paper. I could see the
woman from where I sat in a mirror that
hung oppositite, and as she placed the
baby in the chair tend attempted to pose
it I noticed something was wrong, as
neither she nor the operator could han-
dle the child. I went to their assist-
anoe, and then I saw that the baby was
dead."
• "Was it dead when shs brought it
there ?"
"'!ea, and she carried it in her arms,
taking the street oar to our door. She
had no one with liar end did not seem
to think it was anything out of the
way. Dat excuse me. I don't want
another such experience as that." --Ex-
change.
Safe For the Night.
The winter palette, 10 p.m.
The Czar—Have yea looked well under
the bedovitole ?
The Czarina—Yes.
• The Czar—And in the closets?
The Czarina—Yes, dear.
The Czar—Then give me my steel linen
night-gown, set the man trapsky, give me
the dortble-barreled pistiloviteh and turn
the gas off. I shall seek plearlant dreama
wherein I may see that blsoltiand-tanavich
reacel, Georgeoff Kennanski, breathing the
sweet air of the Kara prison.
The Earth.
"Do you want the eartla 2" inquired the
haughty hotel teeth of a meekly complain-
ing guest.
"No," was the reply, "you °an keep it
awhile longer till I ask for it,"
It is thoright that the bill of the
Imperial Parliament regulating merehant
shipping will not apply to Canadian
vessels, provided Canada satisfies the
Home Government that she will legislate
on the loreiline herself.
4. STORX OrME DAT,
Lord Geezer° Jeffreys sie he Appeared Bur -
lug the Bloody maize:se'
Who is not acquainted with the blood-.
etained and enfamoue record of Lord
George Jeffreys, of England? The story
of the" bloody aasizea, in whioh he is the
central figure, will continue to be read with
horror and amezement to the end of time.
It has no parallel. Perhaps the best
account of it le given by Macauley in hie
history of England, though every writer of
nate who has had =melon to touola upen
it has grown eloquent in describing its
horrors. The author of the brief sketoh of
Lord jeffreye in the British Encyclopedia
siva It was in this: bloody assize' that
he was to deepen tko stain that already
tarnished his fame, and to make the name
of Judge Jeffrey's a synonym for 5 natMeter
of bloodthirsty cruelty, blesphemona
rage, and brutish intemperance. In
the ' campaign he gave rein to
his ferooity ; he was maadened with
slaughter; and his eppotite for blood grew
with what it fed on. The horrible glare
of his eye, the :savage lines of his face, hia
fierce shouts of wrath, terrified and 0012 -
fused guilty and innocent alike. Wide
hateful cunning he let it be bruited that
the only hole° of raeroy lay in pleading
guilty, and by this oold.blooded artifice
lightened his labors. He had a powerful
incentive to active butchery; tlae vacant
pod of lord ohancellor was to be won by
good eervioa. The estimates of the number
of his victims vary: the official returns to
the treasury was 320; Lord Lonsdale gape
700, and Burnet 600. Upward of 800 were
trenaported to the West Indies 58 slaves,
while others only escaped by purchasing
their pardons from the judge at most ex-
orbitant rates." When King James fled
jeffreye made an attempt to escape to
Hamburg, but was captured, and after
narrowly eseaping death at the hands of an
infuriated mob, was thrown into the tower
of London. There he lay for some
months, tortured by anguish of mind and
body, dying miserably on tlae 181h of April,
1689. •
When you feel your strength is failing,
Insome strange, mysterious way;
When your cheek is slowly paling,
And, "Poor thing," the neighbors say,
As they look at you in pity,
To the nearest drug store send,
At the earliest chance, and get a
Bottle of the Sick Illan's Friend.
You will get what you want by asking for
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
This medicine tones up rind invigorates the
weakened aystera by purifying the blood
and restoring lost vigor. It is the only
medicine of its: class, sold by druggists,
under &positive guarantee that it will benefit
or cure in all oases of disease for which it
is recommended, or money paid for it will
be refunded.
After the Introduction.,
Mrs. Van Twiller (who mistakes Dr.
Jovial for a physioia,n)—And where do you
practise, doctor
The Rev. Dr. jovial—Ah, madam, I do
not practise; I only preach.
Doomed to die, and oh, so young.
Is there nothing that can save
TI1i8 poor, hopeless sufferer
From the dark and cruel grave?
Comes an answer: "Yes, tnere iFi:
'Favorite Proscription' try:
et has saved tho lives of thousands
Who were given up to die."
For all "female diseases," Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is the standard
remedy, e.nd no woman should despair Of
recovery until she has given it a trial.
A steel splinter front a chisel buried it-
self in the eyeball of James Threadgall, in
an Albany boiler alaop, a few days ago. A
powerful magnet was applied to the wound
and a splinter of steel one.sixteenth of an
inch in width and three-eighths of an inch.
in length was drawn out.
To regulate the Stomach, Liver and
Bowels, Dr. Pierceee Pellets excel. 25 town
O vial; one a dose.
Choked Him Oil.
Tramp (to lady of the house)—I used to
be rioh ana handsome.
Lady (presenting him the wood. saw)—
Say nothing, but saw wood.
A remarkable trout died recently near
Kelso, Scotland. Its dead body was found
in a covered well only a few feet in depth.
The tradition is that, Some 32 years ago,
this fish was taken from the Tweed, placed
in the well and dived there until its death.
A bill to abolish suits for breach of
promise of marriage has actually been in-
troduced in Parliament.
Opticians and oculists say that belfry
and steeple clocks are absolutely useless to
at lemst a third of those for whose benefit
they are set up. '
Miss Magill, daughter of President
Magill, of Swarthmore College, is about to
enter the iihristian ministry.
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"Won must go to Bermuda. If
you do not it will not be responsi-,
hie for tine consequences." "But,
doctor, mi can afford neither the
time nor the money." "Well, if
that is innpoSSible, try
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