HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-12, Page 3f
The Beirut at flush..
'When milkieg time is doe°, and over all
amis quiet tetuadlau iulaud foetionhome.
And setae rough pesturedets the eliadowe
come,
And bps, with peace and twiliglet voices
Prom Awn -cooled watering -trough to toddered
stall
The tired plouginnorsee turn—the barnyard
loam
Soft to their feet—and in tete seses pale
tike Ic'eToiletet eliords the swooping nighteare
ean,
Than, while the exickets pipe, and nowt are
About the elow brook's edge, the pasture bays
Down clatter, and the cattle minder througe—
Vague pallid shoes amid the thickets—tin
Above the wee gray wilds emerge the stare,
And tiaras& the dusk the farneetead fades
from VlOW,
roath's 00)712/COrtea,
The Pirect of Japanese Acting.
It is my genuine oonviotion that the
japaneee eaters are felly entitled to the
credit they receive for the delineation a
sentiment and passion. Few spootatore,
however hardened by experience, could
witnese unmoved, the masterly exhibitions
of fortitude under suffering, filial devotion,
aonjagal tenderness, and patriotio ardor
which are oonstantly presented for the Ad-
miration of the theatre -going multitude.
And really oar audiences are sometimes
more than moved. In the season a 1857,
Ichikawa Ichiso wan playing the pert of a
pirate °hid who treats hiu father
with great cruelty and exposes label
to shame as well os grief. The
performance was one day interrupted
by a samurai from a distant province, who
euddenly sprang upon the stage and
attetaked Ichikawa with a dagger, inflict.
ing swami wounds before 1e oould be
owed and disarmed. He had been so
carried awns by the actor's truthfulness
that he attelbuted to the man himself, and
not to the ideal character, the acts of
filial impiety. The brilliant romantic
actor Yebizo was menu egad in repro.
senting a treatherous foaming master, who
first assassinatee a rival eveordeman
and afterward murders, under drawn.
stances of unparalleled atrocity, the
two sons of hie vie:aims Daring
this latter scene of inhuman slaughter
spectator in the pit flung a heavy
tobacco box at the actor's bead,
severely bruising him, and for a short
time suspending the progress of the play.
Immediately after the curtain was drawn,
at the ohne of the aot, Yebizo presented
himself before the audience, with the
tobacoo-box fastened upon his head in
place of the cap he had worn during the
performance. In a few lively brit eine
plastic words be declared hianself grateful
for so unmistakable &proof of appreciation,
notwithstanding the extraordinary manner
in which it had been manifested, and pro -
lemma hia determination to make himself
worthy, forever after, ofn taitiraonied the
sincerity of whith was beyond suspielon.—
Front "The, Theatres of Japan," by T.J.
Arakagawa, in May Scribner.
Why Sadmon Take Mies.
Diem:melons are going on all the time in
regard to the reasons for the salmon taking
the fly. All the booke printed for several
centuries almost universally assert, they
take it in sport, play with it. It is Raton.
tilling how little is known of the habits of
a fieh seen daily by thousands during the
weeks and months it is ranning up the
fresh water rivers. If any one will it on
a rook and cast a fly, and bring a seaman
to his feet, he will see that he takes it in
anger, that his eye will be like a coal of
fire, and a tiger ready to strike his prey
will not indioate more fury. His appear-
ance is precisely that of a rattlesnake
in the act of defending himself. His
gills, and eyes alike, a burning red, I have
often brought one to my feet, so that my
Indian could gaff him, before he struck the
fly, and have seen this exhibition of anger
again and again, and so intenee that be
• never noticed me or my rod till the fly
pricked him. The knowledge of this fact
will account for many peculiarities about
fly fishing. Any one not ekilfulienough to
entice a Ash to his feet can easily verify
this by watching a salmon while his own •
.panion oasts a fly at him, and wie the
indifference he may show to it for a time,
and finally be provoked into making a rush
at it in a state of absolute frenzy. This
le why they so often come short of the fly,
but when they are excited and angry it will
take a smart angler to get his fly away.--
.Farest and Stream.
Two Millen Plants.
The ohief gardener of the city—he has
about 400 other gardeners undet his in-
atruotione—telle me that the total number
of plants employed for the toilet of Paris
is about 2,000,000. The nurseries which
produce them ore situated in verioue
parts of the city. In the Bole de Boulogne,
near the racecourse of Longclutmps, are
the nursery grounds of tree e with caduceus
'bawl. At enteral, on the borders of the
Boulogne route, ire e, sandy soil excellent
for their prorogation, are placed a collec-
tion of resheoue Mesa, plants with per-
sistent leaves and headnmeld plenta ; on
the banks of the river Marne, ail a village
called Petit -Buy, the plane trees that are
planted along the boulevards of Paris are
eaultivated, and finally, out at Vincennes,
near the 'Mildly barrier, jest beyond the
fortifications', a large assignment of land
is reserved for ornamental planta.—Paris
Letter.
Doubtful.
• Do yon think your father likes mo?"
he inquired.
"Ob, yes," she answered. "He said he
was going to wait up tonight to seeiyou."
Maoism Wide,
The lady who wore a low neck dress and
forgot to take the porous plasbee off her
hook abtre,oted much attention.—Burlington
&Se Press.
—Responsibility is something we aro all
anxione to assume until we find out what it
meets.
During a baseball game at Soranton;
the other day, Everett Phillips wee acci-
dently struck in the face with a bat, com-
pletely &Meting his noes. The dootor
pulled the member In& into position,
plena a tin cornucopia over it to keep it in
form, end. Everett ie n.ow known among'
• hie fellowas " the man with the tin nose."
The groat cantilever bridge at the
Needlea,Cal., in finished. In its construction
40,000,000 poutdd of doel ana iron were
need, end the oentte span -360 feet—is Wee
lortgeet in elle wotld. Three men were
kine. and 25 injared auriug the work of
building.
Sohn P. Clow, emprigilist, and Garret
Hughett quarrelled in a saloon in Deemer
yeaterday ovee money mottere. Ciow
knocked Hughes down, and the latter.hot
(now in the groin. The wound is thought,
to be fatal, litighte in conneoted with
one of the moot weemitient fernlike of
dolorodo. -,
The largest grelonbank . extant 19wotel I
$10,000 mid there 19 only one ouch Mate I"
oxietence, Of five thaeleand dollatinot
1"' there tare raven ; and When yoa three (IOW
to tho ordinary eneeyday thew:mad doll
o t o " there'd Militate in it."
THE PEOPLE'S BIRTHRIGHT,
its Restoration Urged as the Antidote
to Socialism.
iff10 PAYS THE LAND SPECULATOR ?
Who fla a i1giit on the Earth ?-11 ur-
dens for Weak Shoulders—Too Much
Bleddlesome Law—The ineform Ncces-
sary—ls it Xust
soma PAPEa.
Continuing our inquiry Into the land
question we will be forced to the concha -
Won that if the earth is, in any- reasonable
Senee, intended, for the children of men,
and not for the opeoulative purposes a a
few of thetas; if the Creator is the " father
a the sprite of all fleth " and the world
is the work of His bander, then multitudes
of men have been cheated out of their
birthright and have not received even the
fool's mess of pottage. They tame boon
lean into a world belonging not to the
Lord for the uses of all the children of men,
bat into a world owned by the landlords
and in which they find theraselvee tolerated
only on condition of liming tribute in the
shape of a oonsiderable proportion of their
earnings. Not only are they forced
to pay to the landlord for the privi.
lege of living and working on the
earth, but they are further required
to pay taxes on almost everything they
consume, for support of Government
and whatever sehemes, wise or otherwise,
it num undertake. It even mum that the
owners of the soil are privileged to vote
heavy taxes upon them while they are
denied the franchise, and the money thus
taken from them is taken to make a gift
to some man or company about to engage
in some private enterprise w3aieh the land.
lords expect will enflame the speouletive
vedue of their properties, and by to doing
increase rents and. make narrower the
worker' margin of enbsistenoe. They
cannot vote; they must pay. A new fac.
tory locates in a neighborhood, or a new
railway is built; capital and labor are
expended; but do capital and labor roan
the full reward of thele investment moil
expenditure of energy? No. Mr. Land.
lord may not have expended a cent or a
day's work, but he takes advantage of the
improvements and turns on the rent sorew
and rases the speculative figure. The
result is that the landlord and speculator
obtain money without laboring. Where
did it come from? Who earned it?
Nature requires; perfeot compeneation.
Somebody earned it, and the lemel thank
pooketed it; somebody is out exhaly the
amount of the increment thus appropri-
ated. Figaro it out at your leieure, and
justify it if you oan.
Tako the case of ea new town, se one in
which a siraple illustration can be briefly
outlined: Bay one hundred settlers locate
a town site, survey it, pith out their lots
and go to work. Ninety-five of them build
houses and business places and live on
them. The other five may have other em-
;dun:lent or they may be unemployed, but
they do not build but leave their lots in a
stale of nature. Business ateraets busi-
ness, and our little town in a few years
grows to be a city. The five lots held by
the con -improvers have grown immensely
valuable owing to the concentration of
population in their locality aged the desire
of many to possess them, and having paid
only a vacant lot tax and expended not a
dollar in improvements, their owners after
a few years aro able to unload thorn at
prices that make them comparatively
wealthy. Somebody earned that mousy;
what did them five men do that they should
be enabled to take it as the prioe of their
permission to nee them?
They had done nothing, expended noth-
ing. The price they obtained represented
what is known to economists as "unearned
increment "—unearned to them it certainly
was; it was the product of the labor of the
community, which was, to the extent that
they profited, crippled and impoverished.
They were purely and solely land epecula-
tors, and land speculation is rendered
possible only by our system of land owner-
ship, which serves no other useful (?) pur-
pose.
And here let me remark that land seaman
ion never added a dollar to the value of
ot orno the wealth of the world; never
ado crops grow better ; it never improved
O roads or bridges or eanitation of the
rid; so far as land dealing is speculation
is gambling in land values as much as
e the deals of the bucket Shope and stook
changes gambling in grain futures. Lend
nnot properly be said to represent mean
, although improvements (pro -Mots of
or) do. Nor does a man, ewe:hotly
eaking, buy land, but rather the Hetet of
osession. In the transfer no capital is
Mel up as far asthe nation is coneerted ;
s the taking of the earninge of a
mmunity without the return of an
nivadent in. productive energy or its
resentative is evil and only evil. Its
m total is the abstraotion of money from
me who /matinee/ the wealth it sepre-
ts without giving an equivalent. The
dition of 01,000 epeoulative vain° to the
ee of a pine of land =km it worth not
o cent more as a place of residence or no
arm. The city lot that sells for e250
all nailer eineiler conditioutf he just ae
urtbIe for a residence or a Itheinees piece
if it coat 0,500. If we destroy spent-
ive values the world will not be e dollar
orer, bat sotne who have arattesen wealth
1 be prevented from chemise; their
owe toll on the bounties of nature.
Nor is it alone in Mlle way thud we
ourage speoulation at the cosi; of pro -
Mien, If we turn to onr system of masa
the large sums of money neceseary to
duct our somewhat elaborate and
ddleeome system of government, we will
d that the producers' candle ie burned
both eade, Instead of taking into con.
(nation the fact that the earth is owned
the few, who are thus- enabled to possess
mselvee .of much of the prodnet of
mere sojourners upon it, and
ing the tax on therm we adopt
absurd principle of taxing men in 00.
agnee with their diligence and otmability
repreeented by their pottemeiene and
enditures. We fine industry and allow
nose to ammo. The meta who lime in
ovel, or whose house is an eneeore in a
lity, yet echo may owna snimens hoard,
apes with a small tax while ho who
ke productively and emote a good house),
o or twenty s levied upon foe te largo
• We catty tide idea of treeing incites
into tho little things of life, end the
n who speedo five donate on hie lawn or
t Renee can mutiny depend on finding
noted in hie next aseeeeraent. Then
ernment, nob Maisfied with texieg pro.
tion, levied °dime and herb/attune
MI on canunevem evieiele haVo the effect
Well 6g. orlabling home dealote to elmege
ettinerhigh, flgatee for peer geode atof
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bear the labor masa. Ana men
ore found who from ignorance
end a eupereiltion )rzisealled " loyalty,"
think there is nothing wrong in all this,
• Woncler they ere poor, that work is eoaroe
and rellanneratiOn anal!, that while thore
a ory of " ovorprodnotioe " they have
scarcely the neoneseries of bfe, yet support
and join in combirsatione to limit the emir-
ates of produotive ensrgy and melte 'mercer
the very good thiuge they so meth desire.
The remedy in not to be found in high
taxer! On pm -Amnion Or prOdnOtE ; combines-
tione to restrict rroduotion are enenotnie
sins which bring swift and sure punish-
ment as tbeir natural coxisequence. Com.
bimetions of ieber are necessary only in an
unnaktnal condition consequent on a viola-
tion of funaareontel economic • laws, and
induetrial 00 economio heppinees and
prosperity will never be realized in a high
degree or on an endaring basic until we
restore to the children of men the birth.
right of which they have beee deprived
—until we fennel our wiedety and
our principlee of property on a
correot basis. No pion which rob-
bers can detine, except the giving
ap of the plunder to tbe last farthing, will
undo the wrong committed. The land of
the mation belooge to the people of ' the
nation Zia a natural right; it alio belongs
to them as 0 right in British law ; let Tee
give that hew effect e,nd assert that right.
• Bat would you disposecus men of their
farms and kite ? Softly. No; that would
he neither jut nor neceseary for our object.
We do net want to Koalas wealth ; we do
not want to equalize the posseeeion of
land ; wheat we do ask is to equalize the
obsolete property in it and the oppertuni.
ties such property gives. If it be con-
ceded, that the imam/lenity has made any
part of the value of leedi apert from and
above Matte made by the expenditure of
labor and capita/ upon 1e by the owner,
it menet be an noreesionahle primed.
time that snob value should belong
to the coruinunity. It is not a very
revolutionary proposal, yee that is all
there is in the theory of land titin
Mien known as Lend Netionelimation or
the Single Tax Theory. What it contem-
plates is the absolute removal of all taxes
upon inaprovemente, produce and
commerce, and the support •of the
Government by taking in taxation the
value added to land by the natural increaee
of the population. It aims to exerapt the
product of industry and take instead
hereof that unearned Morement whittle
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now goes. into the pookets of those who
pend )aot an hour in producing it, It
ims equeezing out the cing.in.the-
anger who improves not yet demands a
Hoe for permitting otlaers to improve.
ts result wenid be to eneourege industry,
aultiply openings for the exertion of skill
nd muscle, theapen goods and give to
hose who earn it the product of their
sileor unto/led by athiefyoe bloodomokere.
t would solve the labor problem and strike
he thenkles from coral:nem ; it would
levate the producer—the worker—to his
roper plena, and thus bring us muoh
earcr that time when the brotherhood of
an is a conceivable condition and not a
eere rhetorical eardiokler ; it would be a
ecognition in fact and action of what we
ow preach and profess but deny in pram
ice—the Divine Paternity.
"Bub how le a simple ohange in the
mode and direction of imitation to do so
mutate ?" it is the aseerbion and adoption
of !natural lave as our golden Native
never errs, and she remoineleesly panishes
violators of her laws, If She earth is for
all and oath ben a right here, we are now
doing a erean wrong; everybody cannot
be given an equal area of it Etna if
they could the advent of a new part -pro-
prietor would he s, dieturhing factor.
Moreover, all do not wieh to possess land.
Now, by taking in *swami, to be used in,
lieu of all other :tease that aro, or might be,
levied on mankind, tbe sum of the value
added by the pzese.nre of the population
there is paid into the common treasury of
the nation the annual worth of the aghe of
each to the soil of the nation. There is no
levy upon the produota of labor, no penalty
upon improvement, and Le Who noes not
use the land is not taxed (his share of the
land paying hi o proportion) and the land
user pays no tax on his improve-
ments or produce but only for the
land velem witiela he monopolizes to
the exclusion of all °thee men. No
one would be dispossessed; men would buy
and sell and bequeath as they now do-, and
they could and would improve to a much
greeter extent 17711SEI they knew that no
matter how remota they improved they
would nob be fined therefor by the aesessor.
"Bub how would you get al men who
have already made money, Borne of it by
speculation in land, and who have it in
house s or improvements or produce, in
cash or mortgages 2" Some of it might
escape. But lb will be diseovered that if
the epeculative value of lend were de-
stroyed, much money now plaeod in mort-
gages would be turned ibto active thermals,
business would be given a healthy stirnu-
Ins and the mere assurer would he discour-
aged. And were it even shown that the
past evils could not be uadone, that would be
no good reason for tioutinning an evil
course. That we have had the contents of
one zoom deetroyed is no reason why the
hem should not play on the fire and save
the rest of the home.
The sweat reduction in taxation that
would follow the adoption of snoh slaystent
weal in itself be a boon to the people ol
any actuary. An indirect tax is always an
nnequal tax, paid in large roeasnre by thoee
who are least able to bear it. It is it costly
tax to collect, and fraud is difficcdt to pre.
vent. It costs ire our own country millions
mentally to collect, besides the neknovvn
auras hypothecated in ono way and another
between the foreign shipper and the ex-
chequer; and it permits the oonsunaer to
be bled iv rings and combines on every
hand. The improvements and income taxes
are equally reprehensible. A land tax is
an easy tax to levy; an easy 000 to col-
lect. A. direct tem, while it tvonld save
milliongin collection, would save more mil-
lions in its expending over an indirect one.
If a mem knows exactly how much he pays
and for what he page hie money he will
take neon interest in seeing that it le prop-
erly expended. We would have more
thertorracal and honest government, and
, housands who now five by commercial
piracy, would join the land sharks in melt-
itg honeett productive the/doyenne instead
of reitutioing an ixiortbrie on moial prod
grain.
Here, then, 10 a ready remedy for the
oenkor of tied:dial() paternaligun whith
threatems to crush out individnall liberty
and ;mike of the melon One huge penitert-
fiery in Which every nuenni ovory act will
be governed by arbithery legal emotruente
mud whore all inceetives to excel in any
&motion wive that of shirking are de.
strayed, The emialieeie thou at paternal
g,overnmene is betiod on tbo inenebrate es.
stemption tlaet emir governors will 'be
always wirier and bettet than the massed
by Whom they aro pieced in owee---a wash
neenneption and ono wialoit °errata with it
enetotial for lie own overthtom Can the
Memel rise higheit than lto theme Win
not a denieeratio goverreeent .uqually ro
fled in goat eneentiro the exeollenthie and
frailties of thoed whom it topreeente 2 And
IS the indivednam •ooniperung It OentiOt
under free conditions direct their eocial
concerns with Burmese how can it lie pre.
awned that they will in the oonorete, in
violation of natural Iowa, succeed in eo
doing?
It is not more reetactive laWa to repress
individual effort and take away nature's
reward for intelligence, industry and ski/1
that aro required. Mee need not to have
our natural rights further curtailed; we
need no more manacles or chains. We
want to quit talking about liberty and try
to realiza it; we want to have more
freedona ; we want lose of meddleaome law;
we want the restoration of our natural
rights in thie plumb. We must found
our eyetern on the rock of Universe! Right
and we mu burn the rotten props, the
maintenance of which now ooneumes maul
• our substance.
"But," says the traditioniet with a tone
of stage horror, "*0 oompensiste these men
would be beyond the paying power of the
nation." Who tslks of oompensation
Who ha e any vend claim to such 2 Cots). -
pulsation ' for something that never
existed, that 13ritisla law affirms never ex-
isted; and that in the nature of thieve
oannot exist ! "King William I. gave
certain lend to hie followers, and as he
represented the nation tlae nation le bond
by . his act." Yes, I know Burke
fell into a similar abeurd worship
of loyalty and denied the right
of posterity to revoke allegiance
sworn by former generedione, Bet this age
is well over the nightmare of that so-
called "Myalty euperstition whiele made
then:teases the slavea of their "superiors."
They are rapidly getting over looking upon
people of other countries as natural
enemies. But even had William I. given
away all the land of Britaite absolutely he
would have done what no man or body of
tnen can have any right to do. As a
matter of natural right he raight just as
well have determined that the present
people of 13rita1n should not dig coal out of
the earth. But even this terror is not
available to the opponents of reform. The
right of the whole people as represented by
the Crown in the lands of the British
realm has never been abrogated by law, as
it cannot be in fact, and the way to enforce
that right is to cease burdening labor,
production and extheinge with taxes', and
use the publio's part of the land value, as
represented by the unearned increment, to
support government instead. It is eau,
is honest, ilia equitable; only the idler and
speculator need fear the outcome.
MASQUETTE.
Flowers For hiother.
Those who live in crowded communities
have no need to seek the pathetic in fiotion.
Real life is ever ready to draw tears from
the eyes and help from the friendly hand.
The Detroit Free Press says that a lady re-
siding in Meet city one day answered a ring
at her door bell and found a little girl shiver-
ing on the step.
" Please mean," said the waif, lifting
her shy, beautiful eyes to the face above
her, "will you give me a flower ?"
The request was suolt an unusual one
that the lady hesitated ha =prise.
"Just one little flower I" pleaded the
child, looking as if ehe were about to eery.
"Wby of comae you shall have a flower,
child! Come in. Yea shall have a pretty
red rose," and the good woman looked for
her solemn and stepped to the window
where the flowere grew. Before she had
cut one a light touch fell on her arm.
"Nob that one pleene; not a red one;
that white one. Oh, won't it be just
boofull" and the little girl pointed to a lily
just unfolding its petals.
"Thatr ''The mistress of- the house
shriek' be 'holid. "1 cannot out that one,
ohild. Why txtnet you have a white one
Why won't any flower do 2"
"Oh, because—because—because it's for
poor mamma 1" and the olaild burst into a
violent fit ol weeping. "Mamme is dead
and I runned away to get her some
flowers."
The next moment she was sobbing on
the bosom of a new friend; end wben the
went away she carried the precious lily
with other flowers to the home where
aeath had been.
Trial by combat.
Trial by combat was not abolished by
Parliament in England until 1819. Though
no part of Great Britein or Ireland wasthe
emene of an aetned judiezed ocembet later
than 1597 yet in Ireland in 1815a murderer
named Clancy avoided the gallows by a
sudden offer of battle which was not ac-
cepted, and in 1817 ill England, Abraham
Thornton challenged the brother of Illary
Ashford, whom he was ancueed of murder-
ing, and thus escaped the death penalty.
It was this last crime that caused Podia-
ment to not. Mr. George Neilson has col-
lected a great many interestiug foots about
snob legal appeals to the duel by combat in
" Trial by Combat," a new book. 'When
trial by combat came into existence is un-
certain, bat Mr. Neilson tram it beak
among the tribes of Northern Europe
before their written history began. The
practice held its ground firualy both in Eng-
land and Scotland for centuries, being
fostered in the eatly feuded ages and by
the later thivelry.
Sunday Spooning Punished by a Fine.
Jackson Garnet and Minnie Smith,
colored, charged with kirsing and hugging
in Hui= span Standee, night, were sixth
fined 1/5 and costs yeetetday by Justice
Hebb. Garnet was dreamed in his best
Sunday clothes, and the young woinan, a
bright mulatto, was silso neatly attired.
The couple did not deny they bed kissed
and hugged each other, but pleaded that
they did not know they were violating the
rules of the square until they were arrested
by Patrolman Henry.—Baltimore Sun.
Inuuls Mire Little Flossy.
Little Flossy tofoppisla 1=w/ski—Where
is your hand -box Mr. Welldreese 2
Mr. W.—What on earth do you moan,
Flossy ?
Why, mamma mem yon always look
net as though yen had come orittof a band-
box 1"
Only six mon are living who were
member; of a Presidentve Cabinet before
Lincoln's time. They are George Benorof
Secretary of the Navy under Polk; .6.. H.
H. Struve, Secretary of the 'Metier under
Tayior ; anales Ceraphell, Piero' i Post -
anteater -General; Jimaph Holt, Hotatio
Xing (each of whom wad a Peen/meter.
General), and P. F. Thoma, Seoretaty of
the Treasury in Buohanode's day.
Judge—The jury has farina you guilty
end yam' sentence is death.
' Prisoner—Well, be hanged 1
" What are yeti pondering about,
Charlie 2" "Oh, old Proser bos beth hold-
ing forth to me on the Saperstitioes of the
Dards Ages 1" " lAdeoat aid 1700 notice
Mant his bode wove muddy ?" 'Yeo"
• "Thai, mono from walking itt the gutter
Morning th avoid gentle middle a lad-
• Lloyd George, a new reembet of Perna.
meat, ie 0 900 of a ehoomeker. En was
•efireet pygoelohok at fifteen end °dueled
hinteelft
ceauee OP 4O1,01.13/aill.
Mots for Ineeping tt in Good Shape and
Making it Lust
White gowns grow Well9W if fen to hang
uneovered. Make bage for them, and for
your silks and velvete as well. Sealskin
!team its beauty for it greater length of
time if kept in the clerk free from dust.
To make the roost succusefal bags for these
purposes, um light calico whir* hate no
twee and warittes eardly. Sew the breadths
together, leaving the top end bottom open,
Sew hooks and eyes on the bottom and run
a thin string ia the top. The gown should
tint be put On a wire term, and the bag
drawn over it mud fastened at the bottom
with the hooka and oyes; then draw the
string over the arm, leaving the loop by
whioh it id hung up uncovered. if the
garment is white or delicate in color, put a
oak° of white wax in the bag to prevent it
turning yellow, To keep steel and all
oriental embroideries' from tarnishing, fill
a small bag with camplaor-gulla and bong
in the larger bag. If left uncovered, it
stains whatever it comae in contact with.
On the paneled° that "ell's well that
ends well, the appearance of a woman's
test is a supreme importance. Treat
your shoes tenderly. Have one pttir
sacred to reirey weather, for tit/3)mm rum
fine leather. Avoid varnish and, blaokin
of all kind, and eubeeitute vaseline. First,
rab your ohms with a piece of old, black
silk, then apply the veseline with a Mat
black kid glove. If yon inailit On 7000
dr0Sernaker facing your gowns with velvet
or velveteen instead of braid, you will
lemon your shoemaker's' bills, and be Bayed'
from the pimple blenaish on the image;
eaused by the movements of the skirtis in
walking.
When buttoncome off don't hunt up old
shoes and use the ehabby buttons, but
invest 5 cents in a card of shining blaok
beauties and have them ready for emer•
genoies. One old button spoils the style of
a shoe. Gaiters are charitable things and
elver a multitude of defects. Efalf-worn
shoes will last a long time tinder their
kindly proteetion. Now is a good time to
buy them, and in most shops you can get a
pair for 61 05.
To save your evening shoes and shaman
invest in a pairj of white.fleeoe.lined arctic
boots, which will oast 02, but save ten
times that amount in carriage hire and
medicine, not to mention the shoes them.
selves. After removing your shoes put
them in oorreot position by pulling np the
tippers and lapping the flap over and
Weaning one or two buttons. Then pinah
the instep down to the toe,bringing the
fulness up instead of allowing ib to sag
down into the sloveniagly breadth of half -
worn foot gear. A. boot that is Molted off
and left to lie sphere it falls, or is thrown
into the oloeet, will soon less shape and
gloss.
Black straw and ohip hate, w'nich promise
to be worn so much this season, can be
wept in shape and color by brushing, when
well dusted, with shoe polish. Every hat
and bonnet should have its separate box,
and be covered with a silk handkerchief to
protect from the dust and light.
• Gloves should never be rolled into a wad
or left lying inside out. Pull off slowly and
stretch each finger to its full length. Mend
every minute rip with glove thread and
needles whiele come especially for the
purpose. Wrap mile pair in tissue paper,
and keep in a long box, without folding.—
Ladies' Home Journal.
Day and Night on Mercury.
La the regions, covering three-eighths of
the planet, where the aro is all below the
horizon, the sun . will never be aeon, and
the derkness will be perpetual. Thick and
eternal night will reigd there, except per-
haps from the theidental appearance of
some light produced by refraction and at-
mospheric glows, or phenomena like the
aurora borealis; together with the light
emitted by the stars and planets'. Another
phrt of Heronry, inoluding also three-
eighths of its surface, will hove the aro of
oscillation all above its horizon, and will
be continually exposed to the rays of
the sun, without any other change
than the variations in the obliquity of the
ra73 through the differentiphases assumed
duringthe poriod of eighty-eight days.
Nightis absolutely impossible. In other
regione, covering a quarter of the planet,
in which the aro of osoillation is partly
above and partly below the horizon, there
will be alternatione of light and darkness.
In these privileged regions the period of
eightemeight days will be divided into two
intervals, one tharaoterized by a oontinu-
ous light, the other by darkness; the two
intereals will be equal in some plaoee, of
different length in others, according to the
position of the piece on the surface of the
planet, end the length of the part of the
eolar aro vehicle lemmas above the horizon.
—Prom Scenes on the Planet Mercury, by
G. V. Schiaparellf, in the Popular Science
Monthly for May.
In Original Packages.
Farmer—Come ott her to the hers,
MOS Bowen Street; I want to show you
my new Jersey oaf.
Miss Beacon Street (enahanted)—Oh,
what a lovely little cow I Now, I Suppose
that it is the kind that gives the condensed
mills, isn't it
—The real long veils of fifty years ago are
to be revived.
Faint heart never won fair lady, but it
has won the everlasting gratitude of many
an admirer subsequently.
The magisteettee of the condo of Ghent
Belgium, recently demanded increased re•
numeration, and beaked their claims with
a strike. The workingmen of the town
enjoyed the 000OaSiOn.
Arabi Puha a few years ago wan a
handsome, black -hared ;man with a fine
military bearing; now he 10 quite gray, is
often ill and complains that he Gaffers
intioh from the hot and hrimB climate of
Ceylon. Nobody would think of calling
him Arabi the Blest'.
Dirs. Vilannemaker has introduced a new
fad in Washington, and has a class of
young women meet at her residenoe twice a
week, where a professor of physical gem
from abroad teethes them how to week, to
go up and down stairs, to bow, to °mile, to
dispose of the Imam
The pilganam who have visited the pope
reoeutly, have carried to his holinefie Mama
£39,000.
maarips mow A Milani/.
!••••••••••
tgeeme Awful Queer, But There's Ni
•Getting Armuld Zt.
She Mietnuthin' eut 6, baby t
• 'Twarn't but yis widest—I swow
MOO seem iso—sinee teem blue eyes,
• ;Be' eelshle es they be now,
• rust looked up in her old dad's' here
Prom her mother's bosom 1 Pilot
tow now—'tain't in nattie--
T.12hat our baby's got A beau I
Why, we've alluz o Alled her" babY"
Me and mother. Toenty tot I
Land alive 1 She is the baby
UV the big ate bloomiu, lot
T'otliers tloey'd growed. up, an' mostly
Lighted out,,when one day, lo 1
Vier she wus m their ole cradle;
An' nOW baby s got a beau 1
WhY. 'Min't no time since 1 see ter
Lay a-playiu' with her toes 1
Gals will grow up inter wiramin—
Illine's,like all the rest, 1 s'pose ;
Mighty sueer, the', when I hear her—,
Or still think I hear her—crow
From ber cradle e.t my comin',
To think baby's got a beau!
o kin see her gettin' bigger,
Bee her toddlin' at my eider
Jos' the cutest little critter,
Teasin' " papa " for " a rlde."
I kin see her gettiu,' bigger—
Can't help seein' baby grow;
I3ut 1 meet gee how it (tomes ter
This—that baby's got a bead!
Course I wouldn't keep horsing/a
• When she really is growed up;
Mother 'n mo hey been too happy
Not to wan't the same sweet ouP
Uv good married love to sweeten
Rey life too; but it's a blow—
An' there ain't no gettin' round it—
To think baby's got a beau t
—/lf. Z1, B„ in Boston Globe.
Temperance Notes.
The White Ribboners of Canada are very
much pleased at heaving one so worthy: MEI
Mrs. Judge Steadman, of New Brunswick,
oilmen as their repreeentative at the
World's W. C. T. U. Convention now being
held in London, Eng. '
The W. C. T. Ed of this city will be glad
to weloome all le.dies who may wish to join
them in their work "for God and home
and native land" at their regular weekly
meeting at the Y. M. C. A. rooms every
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'olook.
According to Dr. Norman Kerr there are
at least 4,000,000 tipplers in the U. S.
5,000,000 in England, 3,000,000 Or more in
France and an equal number in Germany,
besides a vast hose throughout the rest a
the world.
A peouliar and dangerous malady has
reoently appeared among smokers. Its
symptoms are dimness and a filrn•like gath-
ering over the eyes, which appears and
disappears at intervals. After careful,
investigation the best authorities have
traced its origin to thO nile of cigarettes. It
is now known as the "cigarette eye" and
0041 be oured only by long treedment.
When Before the camera.
Look as you always do. The attempt to
• put on an extraordinary expression for the
000asion has spoiled many a pieta:ire. The
instantaneous plate is a grand thinabin the
hands of the operator of judgment; he can
snap the shutter when he sees the natural
expression, and before his • sitter hare
assumed an expression for the ocoasion.
This is desirable, and, to a person of good
i .
sense, s satisfactory. .
Remember, the pbaographer is not to
make your looks; he is to copy your looks.
He will endeavor to execute it to the beak
advantage; but it must be as you are, and
not as you would like to be.
Complaints by women of their pictures
being "too old" are numerous. I only
remember one when the complaint was
"toe young."
I cannot conclude these few -words of ad-
vice to women when sitting for their pore
traits better than by saying briefly:
Dress simply and becomingly.
Act in your natural manner.
Be yourself.
Then, if the operator be a good one, you
will get a satiefactory plotare.-4. Bogardus.
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Picnic Joys.
Colonel Yerger—Well, how did you like
the pieties 2
Gihooly—I was so glad to get home
again that I was glad I went.
The Duke of Connaught arrived yester-
day in Winnipeg, end was presented with
an address, to which he made an oppro.
priate reply, in which he extolled the great-
ness of the country, and wished for lie
future success.
To keep the bright, green color of sum-
mer cabbage and some other vegetables,
boil fast in plenty of water in which has
been diseolved a piece of washing soda tem
size of two peas; cover until the water'
boils eta then take off the lid. If the
steam is shut in the cabbage will be yellow
and unsightly.
D. 11 N. L. 24. 90.
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